LaNay F. Davis

LaNay and Gordon graduated from Idaho State College in 1955, LaNay with a degree in Home Economics and Gordon with degrees in Political Science and Accounting. Dr. LaNay F. Davis began her career as a middle school home economics teacher in Mountain View, California. She went on to earn a Master of Social Work and a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota. She built a busy private practice around her specialties of marriage and family therapy.
Dr. Gordon B. Davis earned both a Master of Business Administration and a Doctor of Philosophy in business from Stanford University. He later became the Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He is recognized as one of the founders of the academic discipline of Management Information Systems (MIS), he was a Certified Public Accountant and held honorary doctorates from the University of Lyon in France, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. In 2006 he received the ISU Distinguished Alumnus award from Idaho State University. The original intention for this scholarship was to give preference to first-generation female college students.