Kelley School to honor scholarship donor

The Kelley School of Business will remember longtime supporter William R. Fry today.

Fry died Sunday at age 72.

Fry recently gave the Kelley School $15 million for an undergraduate scholarship program for financially challenged students from underrepresented areas of society.

"Mr. Fry represented all that we value at the Kelley School," said Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School, in the press release. "He was an inspirational entrepreneur, a person of great vision and integrity and a man who generously gave back to help others who were less fortunate. He will be missed greatly, but his spirit will live forever through all the lives that he will change as a result of his support of our students."

The scholarship program will help the Kelley School pursue a major initiative toward increased inclusiveness, according to the press release.

Fry attended IU and was president of his senior class in 1958, president of his fraternity, Sigma Chi, and a member of the campus' ROTC program.

In lieu of flowers, his family suggests that donations can be made in Fry's honor to the IU Simon Cancer Center's Multiple Myeloma research efforts. Checks can be made payable to "IUF Myeloma Research Fund," Simon Cancer Center, care of the IU Foundation, P.O. Box 660245, Indianapolis, Ind, 46266-0245.