JOSH DARDEN Friends Honor Their Mentor BY HELPING STUDENTS ATTEND COLLEGE
Paying for books and tuition is something college student Anthony Sutton doesn’t worry about. That’s not because he’s wealthy but because 40-plus people banded together to thank their mentor, Josh Darden. Their generous gesture in 2009 created the Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr. Scholar- ship at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Darden is one of Hampton Roads’ leading philanthropists, a long-time champion for education and a member of the Foundation’s board of directors. Sutton, a Booker T. Washington High
School graduate, was among the first three Darden Scholars in 2010. The Norfolk computer science major has just finished his freshman year at James Madison University and is eligible for three more years of help from the Darden Scholarship. Sutton dreams of becoming either a video game designer or a computer science teacher. The Darden Scholarship originated with friends who consider Darden their mentor. Many of the contributors are former employees of Colonial Auto Group, which Darden once headed. He helped many of them get their own auto dealerships. By the end of 2010 the Darden Fund had a value of $734,716 and was helping three Hampton Roads public school graduates attend college. Anthony Sutton, the JMU student, is thankful for the Darden scholarship and the people who created it. “A lot of my friends worry about how they will pay for college
Car dealers influenced by Josh Darden are among the donors to a scholarship fund in his honor.
Since 1959 Josh Darden has sup- ported great causes in our region. In 2011 he won the Frank Batten Community Philanthropist Award from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. The late Perry Morgan received the first award in 2000.
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next semester,” he says. “This scholarship allowed me to not have to stress about that.” Instead, he can
concentrate on his studies and prepare for the future. This fall the three original Darden Scholars will be joined by four new Darden scholarship recipients, and many others will follow in future years. The Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr. Scholarship is among 65 permanent scholarship funds administered by the Foun- dation. Together the scholarship funds help more than 335 college students every year achieve their dreams. Each scholarship fund has its own story of what inspired
its start, but the results are the same – deserving students given a boost in life by generous people they’ve never met.
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