As president of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois, I recently signed 134 scholarship checks totaling $196,097. It is also humbling to know that all of these scholarships would not exist without the generosity of donors in this community over the last 63 years.Three of the checks I signed were for Colman Scholars. Each of those students received a $2,500 scholarship in their freshman year and $10,000 per year for the remaining three years of their undergraduate education.The Colman Scholars are students in engineering, computer science and technology. Louis and Violet Rubin endowment to match an equal amount raised by the colleges.Together, the $8 million in permanent scholarship endowments will make an additional $320,000 worth of scholarships available for local students every year. mainImageContainerInnerHTML += ”+htmlencode(mainImageData_caption)+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);