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Scholarship program established

A college scholarship program has been established for Cincinnati Public Schools students in honor of William P. Sheehan, who retired from Knowledge Works Foundations board of directors in September.

The program will funded by a grant from Knowledge Works Foundation. It established in recognition of Sheehans contributions to the community, to Knowledge Works Foundation and to its predecessor organization, Student Loan Funding Corporation, which he joined in 1981.

Sheehan is a retired chairman of the Ohio State Employment Relations Board, a former executive secretary of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council and president of the Cincinnati Hotel Employees Council, and former chair of The Ohio State University Labor, Education and Research Service. He has also served on the boards of other nonprofit groups, including the Cincinnati Civil Service Commission and Cincinnati chapter of the American Red Cross.

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