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Shaping the Future Through Support

This story is an excerpt from the Fall 2007 Plymouth Magazine.  The full article is available in PDF format. 

Anna Grace and Paul J. Holloway are known throughout the Granite State for their records of community service and their generosity., Today, the focus of their attention and their principal interest is education.  They believe New Hampshire's educational institutions of higher learning are among the state's most precious resources, and they support this belief with consistency and determination.

The Holloways recently donated funding that enabled the creation of the 268-seat state-of-the-art lecture hall in the Boyd Science Center at PSU.  The Holloway Auditorium is named in their honor, but the real pleasure for the couple is publicly demonstrating their support of Plymouth State University.  "Students from Plymouth State have a great work ethic," said Paul adding that Plymouth State students are well trained, eager to prove themselves, and know how to work.  He laments that too many university business-school graduates expect to start their first job as senior executives, whereas PSU graduates have a different "can do" attitude.  "We'll take a graduate of Plymouth State University any day," he said.

"We'll take a graduate of Plymouth State University any day."

Anna Grace and Paul Holloway have set a high standard, but they lived according to principles long before they had the means to make substantial contributions in support of their beliefs.  The couple hope their examples of civic engagement and philanthropy will inspire others.  They also hope more people in New Hampshire will look carefully at the quality of higher education in the state and conclude what so many others from outside our borders know: "We have great schools in New Hampshire that do a great job and that are the envy of many other states."             

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