The Dr. Marshall Bishop Memorial Scholarship, honoring the legacy of Southwestern Michigan College’s sixth president, has been established with a $10,000 endowment.
Scholarships will be awarded to math/science degree-seeking students.
President Bishop, who lived in Portage, passed away June 4, 2023, at 80.
He came to SMC in 1975 to teach chemistry, became dean of arts and sciences in 1985 and was vice president of instruction when he has tapped to succeed the retiring David C. Briegel effective July 1, 1998.
He served until 2001 when he retired and was succeeded by Dr. David M. Mathews.
Dr. Bishop, who returned to campus in 2014 to attend SMC’s 50th-anniversary celebration, was born in Amsterdam, N.Y., on Aug. 3, 1942. His family moved to Michigan and President Bishop graduated from Pontiac Northern High School in 1960 and from Oakland University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1964. He also earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Oakland in 1967.
In 2003, Oakland’s Chemistry Department named President Bishop recipient of its Distinguished Alumni Award.
