Paulette and Richard Hildreth Counseling/Psychology Scholarship

Eligibility: AllGraduate
Area of Interest: PsychologyCounseling

Criteria:

The recipient shall be majoring in the area of Psychology or Counseling. He/she shall have maintained a high school or college GPA of at least 3.0. The recipient shall be determined by CSC Psychology/Counseling department faculty.

Richard A. (Dick) Hildreth and his wife Paulette (of 50 years) currently reside in sunny Orlando Florida. He met Paulette while liberating her French town from the Nazis during WWII. After the War he returned home to Nebraska with his new bride and graduated from Chadron State College in 1946. Richard has taught at schools all over the west including Hot Springs, South Dakota, Hutchinson Kansas Junior College and California State in Long Beach. He and his wife later moved to Denver, Colorado where he helped found Metropolitan State College of Denver. There he was a professor of Speech before founding the Hospitality, Meeting and Travel Administration Department. During this time he was also president of Meeting Planners International (MPI). Richard retired as Professor Emeritus in 1998 to finish his book Elements of Meeting Management (Prentice Hall 1990) which is still considered a landmark must for meeting planners and professors alike.