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Paying It Back by Paying It Forward | Your Giving Matters

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Grateful for their Harvard journeys, Edwin Lin AB ’97 and his brother, Alfred AB ’94, are honoring their late mother’s hard work and sacrifice by establishing undergraduate scholarships in her name Edwin Lin AB ’97 doesn’t remember posing in front of the John Harvard statue when he and his brother were children, but he’s always known that his parents hoped he and Alfred AB ’94 would go to Harvard. For Lin and his family, Harvard was part of their dream for a better future—a dream reflected in every carefully saved tuition check that he found among his mother’s things after she passed away in 2023. It’s one of the reasons why he gives back to Harvard, including providing support for financial aid and serving as a volunteer for the Harvard College Fund Executive Committee. He and his brother recently made a joint gift to establish an endowed undergraduate scholarship fund named for their mother, Shu-Nuan. “Our mother always felt that our most important duty to the world is to leave a las

March 24, 2024 Edwin Lin AB ’97 doesn’t remember posing in front of the John Harvard statue when he and his brother were children, but he’s always known that his parents hoped he and Alfred AB ’94 would go to Harvard. For Lin and his family, Harvard was part of their dream for a better future—a dream reflected in every carefully saved tuition check that he found among his mother’s things after she passed away in 2023. It’s one of the reasons why he gives back to Harvard, including providing support for financial aid and serving as a volunteer for the Harvard College Fund Executive Committee. H

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