While studying at Cornell in the mid-1930s, Beatrice Mayhew Moore was a dean's list student who studied French with Cornell historian Morris Bishop and German. She graduated in 1937.

In 1939 she married Duane P. Stump, and the couple eventually opened an antiques business in Bucks County, Pa. In later life the couple often went on long antiques buying trips to Europe, where "Bea" Stump's language training served her well. She often remarked on her strong lifelong attachment to Cornell.

Failing in health, she was unable to attend her 70th reunion in June. She died in September.

Through the Beatrice Moore Stump Endowment of $6.5 million, the alumna's fond remembrances of Cornell will bear perennial fruit by supporting "worthy, needy" College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates with $3.25 million in scholarships. A further $3.25 million will give the college itself unrestricted support. (In addition, $500,000 was bequeathed provide scholarships to Cornell students who are members of her sorority, Delta Gamma.)

"It's wonderful that an alumna from the Class of '37 would think back so positively about her Cornell experience and remember us in this very substantial way," said Peter Lepage, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

"Whenever I visited Bea, she always told me, 'Give my love to Cornell,'" said Linda Kabelac of the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development.