Miriam Arsham Endowed Scholarship Fund Support
The Miriam Arsham Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Purchase College Foundation honors and remembers the excellence of Purchase College Professor Emerita of Film Miriam (Mimi) Arsham.
An award-winning film editor and longtime professor of film, Arsham passed away on June 23, 2023, a few months shy of 103 years old. Demanding and nurturing, Arsham taught a generation of Purchase film students the art of telling stories through moving images. Her enthusiasm for teaching and love of filmmaking was infectious and inspired all who studied with her. She lived a life filled with music, film, travel and friends. (Read more)
About the Endowed Fund
On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Purchase College Founding Film Professor Thomas Gunning, former student and current Purchase College Professor of Film Iris Cahn ’76, and award-winning alumni Chris Wedge ’81, Hal Hartley ’84, and Tom Cross ’93 rallied fellow Purchase alumni to endow The Miriam Arsham Endowed Scholarship Fund. Awarded to a full-time rising undergraduate senior with extraordinary promise in Film and Media Studies, the scholarship can be used for tuition and, in special cases, on-campus housing. A preference will be given to students who are underrepresented and about to undertake their senior film thesis.
Give in Memory of Miriam Arsham
All gifts made using the secure form on this page will be to The Miriam Arsham Endowed Scholarship Fund in honor and memory of Professor Emerita of Film Mimi Arsham.
Gifts will be acknowledged to the Arsham family unless you choose for the donation to remain anonymous. Any additional comments to the Arsham family or to the Foundation can be included in the accompanying text field.
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Gifts made via check should be payable to
the Purchase College Foundation with “The Miriam Arsham Endowed Scholarship Fund ” in the memo and mailed to:
The Purchase College Foundation
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1402
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Thank you for your donation in memory of Mimi.