Dr. Charles S. Swope
As president of West Chester University for a quarter of a century, Dr. Charles S. Swope recognized that the world is shaped by the great minds of the future. Now in its fourth generation, this vital scholarship continues to award much needed scholarship dollars to West Chester University’s highest achieving students.
The Swope Family Legacy
With the strategic transition of the Foundation into a memorial endowment, Dr. Dawn Swope Apgar and Charles (“Chuck”) E. Swope, Jr. have cemented their family’s mission to give back.
Their grandfather, Dr. Charles S. Swope and their grandmother, Edna Swope were both graduates of West Chester State Normal School in 1921. They donated to the church, supported their families who had fallen on hard times, and gave all the produce from their garden to neighbors and friends in West Chester. The family ethos has always been to work hard and save so that gains could work for family members, friends, and be used to help others. Dr. Swope served as president of West Chester State Teachers College for a quarter of a century.
Edna and their own fathers, Richard M. Swope and Charles S. Swope, formed The Swope Foundation in 1960, which has provided more than one million dollars in scholarship funds to West Chester University students.
