Everett Gabriel ’71 & ’77G has established an endowed scholarship fund to assist students who have lost a parent or who have a parent who is disabled. The Gabriel Family Scholarship Fund also will offer assistance to business and accounting majors, reflecting his career and educational background.

For the past six years, Gabriel has been employed by Gilbane Company in Providence, where he is assistant treasurer and tax manager. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA degree from PC, and also earned a master of science degree in taxation from Bryant University.

Gabriel said he established the scholarship fund to honor his mother and his father, as well as to thank PC for the education and the direction it gave him during a difficult time in his life. His father, also named Everett, died suddenly in 1966 when Gabriel was 16.

"Any success that I have achieved in life," he said, "I attribute to my Providence College education."

After his father died, Gabriel said PC provided support for his mother through a Post Cana group, which provides companionship, counsel, and social and spiritual activities for widows and widowers.

This past April, he received the Dr. William P. McDonnell Award at the 2007 Mal Brown Awards Night sponsored by the Greater Providence Chapter of the Providence College Alumni Association. The award recognized Gabriel’s continued generosity in support of the College and his many volunteer activities, which include the following:

• class agent, acting as a liaison between the College and his class, planning reunions, and recruiting volunteers to conduct phonathons;

• member of the President’s Circle (donors who contribute $1,000 or more to PC);

• phonathon volunteer; and

• sponsored a job shadowing program at Gilbane Company in which an alumnus or alumna invites a student to his or her place of business to observe office functions and provide exposure to a particular career.

"Through his generosity, Everett is ensuring that the family name will remain in perpetuity at PC. He has created a living legacy," said Ted DeNicola ’74, senior major gifts officer in the Office of Institutional Advancement.