{"id":5403,"date":"2009-08-24T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2019-09-23T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:55:30","slug":"one-familys-commitment-to-support-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/one-familys-commitment-to-support-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"One Family&#8217;s Commitment to Support Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal experience with serving in the military and working for the government-led Emile Skura and his wife Hallie, along with their children Robert, Catherine &#8217;82, and Maureen &#8220;93, to establish the Skura Family Endowed Freedom Scholarship, a $1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/finaid.ucf.edu\">endowed scholarship<\/a> for children of Gulf War <a href=\"https:\/\/varc.sdes.ucf.edu\">veterans who attend UCF<\/a>.\u00a0&#8220;I served six years in the military in Canada and left the service in 1955.\u00a0 Later I also worked for the federal government. Because of these experiences, I have always followed the war, and feel strongly that we need to reward our veterans and their children for what they are doing for us,&#8221; said Emile.<\/p>\n<p>Since immigrating to Florida from Canada in 1968, Emile and Hallie have been committed to the Central Florida area; their three children attended UCF and family business ventures have all been local.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their parents&#8217; assistance, the Skura children finished their studies debt-free but Emile understands that there are many graduates not as fortunate. &#8220;I believe strongly in education and I believe we should help those people who might not have the opportunity to study because of financial need.&#8221; He focused the endowed scholarship on the children of veterans because, like their parents, they have also made sacrifices in their lives. Most have experienced numerous relocations due to their parents&#8217; military careers, or have spent long periods of their lives without one or both parents present.<\/p>\n<p>Emile is also considering an extension of the scholarship to provide support to veterans, &#8220;I feel it is important to support our young veterans who might have interrupted their studies to go to war, or who came home injured,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Emile and Hallie hope their three children, and later their eight grandchildren, will continue to be committed to supporting education and our war veterans. &#8220;I feel that we have an obligation to look after our veterans and their children,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Personal experience with serving in the military and working for the government-led Emile Skura and his wife Hallie, along with their children Robert, Catherine &#8217;82, and Maureen &#8220;93, to establish the Skura Family Endowed Freedom Scholarship, a 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