A new scholarship fund that benefits UAlbany students also memorializes a World War II veteran and New York State College for Teachers graduate.

Peg Pfaff endowed the Curtis Pfaff Memorial Scholarship with a $25,000 annuity. The fund honors her late husband, who put his studies on hold in the early 1940s to join the Army Enlisted Reserve Program and later served with the 10th Mountain Division. Wounded in the Philippines in 1945, he was discharged early the following year and returned to State College to complete his degree.

Pfaff earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948 and a master’s in 1950.