COLLINSVILLE - National Academy of Science Member and renowned plant biologist Dr. Elisabeth Gantt has honored her late husband Dr. R. Raymond Gantt with a $2 million gift to Blackburn College. The gift to Blackburn College's Gantt/Rohatsch Scholarship will benefit students who have financial need and demonstrate significant academic promise.

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Ray and Elisabeth Gantt graduated from Blackburn in 1958 before relocating to Bethesda, MD where he was a biochemist at the National Cancer Institute and she became a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland. Additional details can be found in the release below.

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