Merry Jo and Gary Brandimore

Merry Jo Brandimore served SVSU for over 30 years, and was the Associate Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at the time of her retirement from SVSU in 2016. Merry Jo and her husband, Gary, have supported the Abou Traore Student Scholarship, in addition to establishing two scholarships of their own: The Curran-DeSautel Family Scholarship and the Merry Jo and Gary Brandimore Military Student Scholarship. Recently, they combined their two scholarship funds under the Curran-DeSautel name to assist both students from the UP and veterans.