$1.3 million scholarship gift to WSU Vancouver

Published 8:37 pm Tuesday, November 15, 2011

VANCOUVER, Wash.— A Camas woman who couldn’t afford college left $1.3 million after her death to scholarships for Washington State University Vancouver.

The Columbian reports the gift from Kathy Sinclair is designed to help middle-class students from the community who are working their way through college.

Sinclair died in February at the age of 89. Her husband, Glen Sinclair was a former Camas police chief who died in 1991.