This post was written by Kathleen Collins.

Our Library colleague Jeffrey Kroessler passed away in February 2023, and his wife, Laura Heim, established the Jeffrey Kroessler Memorial Scholarship in his honor. There is still an opportunity for it to be awarded this Spring and the February 28 deadline is fast approaching. The parameters are broad, so if you are aware of any students in your classes or advising groups who are interested in New York City history, historical preservation, and/or graduate studies in history or library science, please encourage them to apply.

John Jay College undergraduate students with a GPA of at least 3.0 and with 60 credits are eligible. The award provides $2,500 per year for tuition, fees and other educational expenses. On the Scholarship Search website, search for the name “Kroessler” to apply. Please direct any questions about the scholarship to Stephen Dercole, Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving: [email protected]

Please help us to get this money to a student this semester! It is especially effective to approach specific students, but even forwarding this post to anyone you think might be interested and eligible would be appreciated.

If you would like to donate to the scholarship fund to benefit more students in the future, please visit the scholarship donation form.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Kroessler was a professor, librarian and director of the Justice in New York Oral History Project at the Lloyd Sealy Library. Dr. Kroessler was the author of Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb (Fordham University Press, 2021), The Greater New York Sports Chronology (Columbia University Press, 2009) and New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis (NYU Press, 2002).