Donald Lee Eagles Memorial Scholarship

Open to full-time students enrolled in year 1 of the Business Administration program at the Kingstec Campus.

Application assessment will consider

• Financial need
• Career aspirations
• Good academic standing

About the award
Donald Lee Eagles was born in Port Williams on October 19, 1923, the oldest of six children. In his life, Donald embodied the values of discipline, hard work, independence, honesty, and integrity. These values, together with the love and support of his wife, brought him enormous success and happiness. In this way, Donald Lee Eagles represented the finest traditions of generations of Nova Scotians.

Donald was raised on the family farm in North Grand Pre (Long Island). He left home to work in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at the age of 15 to help his family meet its expenses. After his service in the air force during WWII, he worked for the bank in Trinidad in the West Indies for two years, after which he was posted to the bank’s international branch in Montreal. Early in the 1950s, he decided to return to Nova Scotia and marry the love of his life, Ethel Grant, a nurse from Dominion, Cape Breton. Together they raised four children in Kingston, NS – Robert, Munroe, Annalee, and Lorna. Donald worked for several firms in Kingston and managed the Greenwood Credit Union. In the late 1960s, he returned to school to earn his teaching credentials and took up a teaching position in the business program at the Kings Regional Vocational School (now the Kingstec Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College) in Kentville. He taught there for more than two decades, retiring in 1988.

This Fund was established by his wife of 56 years, Ethel, with the support and love of their four children, to honour Donald by ensuring with this scholarship that his dedication to, and love of, his home in Nova Scotia, continue on forever in his memory.