Wade and Elsie Marler Plymell Scholarship
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Alice Plymell, J.D. ’63, a Eugene attorney with cerebral palsy, established the Wade and Elsie Marler Plymell Scholarship in honor of her parents. “I thought about it for many, many years,” she says, “and I asked ‘What can I do from where I sit to make the world a better place for the disabled?’ And it always came back to education.”
“I knew I wanted to be an attorney in the eighth grade, and I never wavered,” remembers Plymell, who grew up on her family’s farm north of Ontario, Oregon. “I thought it was something I could do using my brain, using my mental capacity, as opposed to my physical capacity, which wasn’t very great.”
