Charles Wilson receives Rigelhaupt Pre-Law Scholarship at Youngstown State University

2014 Jun 20

Congratulations to Charles Wilson of Warren, Ohio, for receiving the 2014-15 Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt and Attorney Bert Rigelhaupt Pre-Law Scholarship at Youngstown State University

Charles will be a Senior this coming fall semester and is majoring in Political Science at YSU.

The scholarships are funded by a $1 million trust held by the Farmers Trust Co. and are intended to help YSU students who plan to attend law school after earning their undergraduate degrees from YSU. More than 60 students have benefitted from the scholarship since its inception in 2007. In that time, nearly $350,000 has been awarded.

"Many Rigelhaupt Scholarship recipients have gone on to distinguished law school careers," said Paul Sracic, chair of the YSU Department of Political Science and director of YSU Rigelhaupt Law Center "The amazing generosity of the Rigelhaupt brothers continues to help those YSU students who aspire to become lawyers to take the first step to fulfilling that dream by obtaining an undergraduate degree."

The trust is the result of a gift from the late Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt and his brother and law partner, the late Attorney Bert Rigelhaupt. Both Rigelhaupt brothers were graduates of the former Youngstown College of Law.