A Couple’s Love for Albright Will Impact Future Lions

Growing up blocks apart, Roy Fauth ’70 wrote love letters to Linda (Cooper) Fauth ’70 in second grade and kept his eye on her all the way to Albright. He said he knew what he was doing in college when he kept loaning her his steel blue 1965 convertible Mustang so she could buy groceries as a home economics major.

“Our four years at Albright certainly changed our lives,” said Roy, a first-generation undergraduate who studied religion and completed his graduate education at Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Having been encouraged by their church ministers to attend Albright, they look back with appreciation at how their education formed the foundation of their personal and professional lives. Roy, a United Methodist and United Church of Christ pastor for 40 years, and Linda, a family and consumer sciences teacher for more than three decades, drew upon what they learned from their alma mater to serve their respective flocks.

“Professor Agnes Ronaldson encouraged me to draw on my personal experiences to express myself,” said Linda, who earned a master of education at Pennsylvania State University. “That taught me to realize where my own students were coming from, so I could figure out how to help them. It made me a better teacher.” 

Both Linda and Roy are grateful that their parents paid for their Albright education. Recently updating their will, they chose to help students who are not as fortunate.

“At our age, it was a good time to establish where some of our resources would go,” said Roy. “We want to support future generations at Albright.”

Allocating part of their estate to the Class of 1970 Advancing Lives Endowed Scholarship, Roy and Linda know that their gift will help sophomores, juniors, and seniors who face financial hardship stay in school. Annual donors for 35 years, Roy and Linda’s decision to plan part of their legacy to benefit Albright will forever impact future Lions.