Hilda and Roy Bergmann Scholarship for Literature

Roy W. Bergmann was a founding member of the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 1963. Known as the “Committee of 28,” this visionary group saw the grounds of the former Bellerive Country Club as a potential opportunity for an institution of higher learning. A practicing attorney, Roy had an interest in writing. Though never published, his essays and poems are included in the Roy W. Bergmann Papers, 1932-1996. These are archived in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. His late wife, Hilda, had a passion for water color painting, especially for natural subjects.

Scholarship Criteria

1. Recipients must be undergraduate students at UMSL who are majoring in English literature with a demonstrated interest in historical and fictional writing.
2. Recipients may be sophomore-, junior-, or senior-level students.
3. Recipients must have a minimum GPA of 2.7 on a four-point scale.