Ronald E. Cooper

This scholarship was created by Ron and Sharon Cooper, both MSU alumni. Ron graduated in
1973 and Sharon in 1974. Ron earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a
Computer Science option, and Sharon earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a Business
Education concentration. Ron, a native of Milford, Ohio, and Sharon, a native of Louisville, Kentucky,
met at MSU and married in 1973.

Ron worked in Computer Technology and Telecommunications for Hoover Universal, Island Creek
Coal Company, Ashland Oil, Sprint, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky before retiring in 2015. He
now volunteers at Blackacre Nature Conservancy and enjoys hunting and fishing. Sharon was a
business and computer teacher for over forty years before semi-retiring in 2010. She continues to
teach computer and crochet/craft classes for Jefferson County Public Schools and for the Needle
Arts Center. She enjoys traveling and reading.

Ron and Sharon have two daughters with seven grandchildren in Kentucky, two daughters, and a
son with six grandchildren in Denmark.