University of Arkansas announces $10.8M estate gift

FORT SMITH, Ark.—Myles Friedman liked to challenge himself, and his $10.8 million estate gift announced last month will give honors program students at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith the opportunity to do the same for themselves.

University Foundation chairman Mark Moll announced before about 100 people, many of them honors program students, that the $10.8 million will be added to the Myles Friedman Scholarship Endowment that Friedman established at the university before he died on Sept. 1, 2017, at age 78.

Friedman's wife, Deanna, and stepdaughter Elizabeth Roberts of Bremerton, Washington, attended the announcement, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

The university has awarded 20 Myles Friedman scholarships since the endowment was created, Moll said.

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