

When Leslie Setterholm Curtis thinks about the importance of supporting education, she thinks about her father. A child of the Depression, her dad believed in both vocational education and higher academic studies. Those strongly held beliefs helped shape Leslie’s passion for philanthropic giving, along with practical considerations.
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