Sarah Ramsey '12 Strong Endowment Established at Champlain

Ramsey and Phillips Family

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Champlain College today announced a new endowed scholarship fund established in memory of Sarah Elizabeth Ramsey, Class of 2012.

The Sarah Ramsey '12 Strong Scholarship Fund was established by gifts from family and friends of Sarah Ramsey. The scholarship will support third or fourth year marketing students who have demonstrated strong academic performance and wish to expand their professional and international experiences while attending Champlain College. The scholarship will be awarded annually at the Stiller School of Business Honors event.

As a Marketing major with a specialization in Integrated Advertising, Sarah Ramsey studied abroad in Lima, Peru during fall semester of her junior year at Champlain. She embarked on a promising advertising career with internships with Cloud 9 Catering in Burlington and the Blue Hive Agency in Shanghai, China. Earlier this year, Sarah died tragically after being struck by a car in Brooklyn, NY.


Friends and family of Sarah Ramsey chose to announce the Fund at the Oct. 1 film premiere of Captain Phillips, with all proceeds from the public showing of the Sony Pictures film  benefitting the endowed Fund. Cloud 9 Caterers and the Hindquarter catering truck were on campus Saturday for Family Weekend with proceeds going to the scholarship fund.

"Thanks to the generosity of Sarah's friends and family, we're excited to offer this scholarship opportunity to Champlain students," said the Ramsey family. "Our hope is that scholarship recipients will help honor Sarah's creative vision and drive by pursuing internship opportunities they otherwise could not take advantage of as part of their college experience. We look forward to learning more about their marketing and advertising career experiences when they return and share them with the Champlain community."

For more information about the Sarah Ramsey '12 Strong Fund or the Marketing program at the Stiller School, call or email Prof. Elaine Young, (802) 865-5413, eyoung@champlain.edu.

To contribute securely online to the Ramsey Fund, go to https://secure.champlain.edu/annualfund/.


Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 90 residential undergraduate and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 384 Colleges: 2019 Edition. For the fourth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 "America's Best Colleges,” and a “Best Value School” and is ranked in the top 100 “Regional Universities of the North” and in the top 25 for “Best Undergraduate Teaching.” Champlain is also featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2019 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain and is a 2019 College of Distinction. For more information, visit champlain.edu.