{"id":159943,"date":"2022-05-30T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=159943"},"modified":"2024-03-14T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:08:23","slug":"shidler-endowed-scholarship-honors-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/30\/shidler-endowed-scholarship-honors-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"1st gen Shidler alumna endows $100K<\/abbr> scholarship to honor parents"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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From left, UH<\/abbr> Foundation CEO<\/abbr> and UH<\/abbr> VP<\/abbr> for Advancement Tim Dolan, Dao Pham, Hy So Duong, Cindy Doan, Shidler alumna Linh Pham, Shidler College Dean Vance Roley (Photo credit: Scott Nishi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new scholarship for full-time undergraduate business students has been created at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa’s Shidler College of Business<\/a>. The UH<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a> announced that Shidler alumna Linh Pham<\/strong>, BBA<\/abbr> \u201800, and her husband Dao Pham have contributed $100,000 to establish the Cindy Doan and Hy So Duong Endowed Scholarship.<\/p>\n

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Cindy Doan and Hy So Duong in front of their small gift shop business at Duke\u2019s Lane in Waik\u012bk\u012b in the 1980s. (Photo courtesy: Linh Pham)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The gift was officially commemorated at a signing ceremony on May 26. Named in honor of Linh Pham\u2019s parents, preference is given to individuals who are the first in their family to attend college.<\/p>\n

“My parents\u2019 bravery, love and sacrifices gave me the opportunity to pursue a higher education, which is something that was never available to them while they were in Vietnam,” said Linh Pham. “Despite the many challenges they faced—including 15-hour-plus workdays, and not speaking English—my parents worked relentlessly to provide for our family and future. From a young age, my parents instilled in me the importance of hard work, self-sufficiency and grit. As a Shidler alumna, it is a truly humbling experience to honor my parents by giving back and providing students the same opportunity they have to me.”<\/p>\n

Linh Pham\u2019s parents, Cindy Doan and Hy So Duong, arrived in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in 1980 from a refugee camp in Vietnam. With nothing more than some clothing in a bag, the couple worked to learn English and eventually saved enough to start a small gift shop business at Duke\u2019s Lane in Waik\u012bk\u012b. Their hard work and perseverance allowed them to fulfill their American dream and provide their children with the opportunity to pursue a higher education.<\/p>\n

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Hy So Duong, Cindy Doan and Linh Pham (Photo credit: Scott Nishi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It is truly inspiring to see how the story of this family has come full circle,” said Shidler College Dean Vance Roley<\/strong>. “We commend Cindy Doan and Hy So Duong for their tireless work to send their children to college. As we can see from their family\u2019s journey, education can make a great impact on one\u2019s life and we are extremely grateful that Linh and her parents are committed to helping to educate the next generation of students.”<\/p>\n

Linh Pham earned her bachelor\u2019s in finance from Shidler College. She and Dao Pham reside in Texas with their three children. Dao owns his own dental practice, which Linh manages.<\/p>\n

For more information on how to support the Shidler College of Business, contact Kristi Bates<\/strong>, executive director of development at (808) 956-3597 or email Kristi.bates@uhfoundation.org.<\/p>\n

This gift supports UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scholarship will be awarded to full-time undergraduate business students with preference to individuals who are the first in their family to attend college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[498,1466,572,146,319,9,1626],"class_list":["post-159943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-business","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-scholarship","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159958,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943\/revisions\/159958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}