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Recently a project' arose that should be interesting to you as a former student who struggled to clear the financial hurdle of education. We were generously offered $1,000 toward the establishment of our Department's first scholarship program.
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We thought that you would be interested to know our department was generously offered $1,000 toward the establishment of our first scholarship program.