Tock Family Endowed Scholarship

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This scholarship was established by Theron and Kalee Tock in order to provide assistance to freshmen entering the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

Theron Tock entered the University of Washington in 1984 as part of the Early Entrance Program, which prepares gifted young students for entry into the university before high school. He gained admission to the Department of Computer Science in 1987 and graduated in 1990. Theron worked for several years in Boston, attended graduate school at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and then moved to the San Francisco Bay area to work for Sun Microsystems. Later, he joined a start-up focused on streamlining healthcare back-office operations using the internet. The success of that company gave Theron the independence to co-found a company in 2000, which took off a year later and went on to be quite successful.

Kalee Tock entered Harvard in 1991 and graduated in 1995 with a degree in Chemistry. She spent one year teaching in Italy and then attended graduate school at Stanford. During her graduate studies, Kalee switched interests from chemistry to education, receiving degrees in both programs, and then joined Stanford as a researcher at the Educational Program for Gifted Youth. She and Theron met at Stanford through a common interest in dance.

Theron and Kalee established this scholarship in recognition of the importance of education in both their lives. Their goal is to have a scholarship that benefits individual students the most by allowing them to receive an education that might otherwise be out of their reach -- especially if, as in Theron's case, such students have non-traditional educational backgrounds and could excel if given the chance. Theron and Kalee hope that the students who are selected for the scholarship will be ones who later look back at the time at the University of Washington as pivotal in their lives.

This scholarship will be awarded to incoming freshmen with demonstrated financial need, as determined by the Office of Student Financial Aid. The award amount varies depending on the individual need of the recipients.

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