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Extracted Content: The $3 million gift from Thomas R. Watjen (MBA ’81) and Nanette Watjen, matched with an additional $1.5 million from the UVA Bicentennial Scholarship Fund, will create the $4.5 million Edward A. Watjen Bicentennial Scholarship Fund. This new fund will be incorporated with an existing military scholarship fund established by Watjen several years ago, the Edward A. Watjen Military Fellowship Fund, for a total impact of nearly $6 million.
The fund will support scholarships for students who come to Darden with a military background, with a preference for those who graduated from the Virginia Military Institute. The fund is named after Watjen’s father, who was a first-generation college graduate and served in the U.S. Navy as an aircraft mechanic. He obtained his bachelor’s degree after returning home from World War II and went on to be an engineer.