NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Leah Jackson (jacksonl@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

4/6/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -A Natchitoches couple has established a scholarship through the Louisiana Baptist Foundation to benefit a student at Northwestern State University.

The Rev. Doyle and Barbara Bailey Family Scholarship is endowed to the Northwestern State University Foundation in the amount of $1,200 per year for a third year student. Recipients are selected by the NSU Foundation in association with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Northwestern.

Recipients can receive the scholarship for up to two years and must maintain a 3.0 grade point average. Applicants must be recommended by the director of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry. First preference will be given to a student affiliated with a Baptist church.

"Education is important to my family," Rev. Bailey said. "My parents did not finish high school but it was important to them that I get the best education possible. They sacrificed and worked hard to help make this happen." This scholarship recognizes those sacrifices and are a tribute to the faith community that helped them, Rev Bailey said.

The Rev. and Mrs. Bailey were missionaries to Argentina for several years before returning to Louisiana. Rev. Bailey taught at Louisiana College for two years and worked as Director of Stewardship for the Louisiana Baptist Convention for 20 years. He is a trustee for the Rapides Foundation, an organization that works diligently to improve education, health and the arts in the central Louisiana area. Investing in education and well-being of the community is important to the Bailey family.

The Rev. and Mrs. Bailey named the scholarship for their family to include their children and grandchildren. Those family members are Edgar and Amy Bailey Henao and children Ryan, Daniel, Steven and Allison of Suwanee, Ga.; Jeffrey and Tina Bailey and daughter Meagan of Ft. Myers, Fla., and Denis and Beth Bailey Molina and children Steven Kristoff, Halden and Natalie of Sugar Hill, Ga.

"Our children are all college graduates," Rev. Bailey said. "Barbara and I were both fortunate enough to complete post-graduate degrees."

Rev. Bailey said that establishing this scholarship gave him and him and his wife "the chance to give back because we have been so richly blessed by God." Their hope is that students "will stay in school, learn, be blessed and in turn bless their world," he explained.

Last year the Bailey's created the Armand and Docia Lestage LaCour Scholarship to benefit a Northwestern State University nursing student. That scholarship is named for Mrs. Bailey's grandparents.

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