When Evaleen Jaager Roy joined Emily Carr’s Board of Governors - first as Director and then as Board Chair - she brought with her expertise and enthusiasm for business, philanthropy and higher education.

But it is Evaleen’s love and respect for her family, combined with her commitment to the university, which inspired her, together with her husband Peter Roy, to create a scholarship in her father’s name earlier this year. The “Walter Jaager Excellence in Painting Scholarship” will provide an annual $1,000 scholarship to the student with the highest academic placement within the painting program.