Joslyn Ewart, a former music teacher and founder of Wayne-based Entrust Financial, has gifted $3 million to Temple University to name a deanship for the arts at the college, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Ewart will be the namesake of the deanship at Temple’s Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts, the first endowment position of its kind at the university’s non-professional school.
Temple’s Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts, which includes the Boyer College of Music and Dance and the School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts, has been led by Robert Stroker for over a decade.
According to Ewart, Stroker’s longstanding leadership, along with first-year President John Fry, “was certainly a big motivator” in providing the gift.
Ewart, who has a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University, started her career as a music teacher in West Philadelphia in 1974. After hosting student teachers from Temple University, she then chose to pursue her master’s degree in education at the Philadelphia school.
After spending two decades as a teacher, she made a career change and launched her own financial planning firm in the early 2000s.
Read more about Joslyn Ewart donating funds to Temple University in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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