Gift from KU Alumni Creates Scholarship For Hometown Students
Retired automotive chairman Robert Eaton and his wife, Connie Drake Eaton, both KU alumni, established the Eaton Scholarship at KU with a $1 million gift. The scholarship is awarded to students from their respective Kansas hometowns, Arkansas City and Burlington.
After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from KU in 1963, Robert Eaton went to work for General Motors. After 29 years with GM, he became the chairman of Chrysler and then the chairman of DaimlerChrysler AG after a merger with Daimler-Benz.