--- title: "Legacy of Hart: Abby Hart Gives Back" description: Hart’s endowed scholarship will support both the general first-year student scholarship fund at Mines and second-year industrial engineering and math students. image: https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hubfs/Heart2.jpg --- [![Hardrock_Logo_White](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hubfs/Hardrock_Logo_White.svg "Hardrock_Logo_White")](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/winter-2022) [![Hardrock_Logo_White](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hubfs/Hardrock_Logo_White.svg "Hardrock_Logo_White")](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/winter-2022) - [Class Notes](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/connect/class-notes) - [Alumni Events](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/AlumniEvents) - [Archives](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/archives) - [In Memoriam](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/inmemoriam-1) - [Give Back](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/donate) ## [![Hardrock_Logo_White](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hubfs/Hardrock_Logo_White.svg "Hardrock_Logo_White")](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/winter-2022) [✕](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/legacy-of-heart-abby-heart-gives-back#atbs-keylin-offcanvas-mobile) - [Class Notes](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/connect/class-notes) - [Alumni Events](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/AlumniEvents) - [Archives](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/archives) - [In Memoriam](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/inmemoriam-1) - [Give Back](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/donate) [Spring/Summer 2022](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/spring-summer-2022) [Exemplary Hardrocker](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/exemplary-hardrocker) # Legacy of Hart: Abby Hart Gives Back [by South Dakota Mines](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/author/sd-school-of-mines) May 22, 2022 at 11:21 PM ![Abby Hart (left) and her family](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hubfs/Heart2.jpg) Abby Hart (left) and her family Most students don’t start giving back to their alma mater immediately following graduation. But Abby Hart (IE/Math 12) of Sidney, MT, isn’t like most students. Right after starting her first job, she started supporting scholarships at South Dakota Mines. Now, ten years later, she decided to move from an annual scholarship gift to an endowed scholarship fund. “It’s a choice that depends on your personal situation and financial state, but I think when most people reflect on their time at Mines– the highlights and all the great things they gained from being a student here – they will realize the value of giving back,” she said.  Abby, a material flow engineer with John Deere in Horicon, WI, has many great memories of friends and a lot of gratitude for her professors, but one thing she’ll never forget is how helpful it was to receive many scholarships.  “Those kinds of things I remember and am very grateful for,” she said. “That’s why when I left school, I thought ‘I have a really good job now, so why not? I was given these opportunities as a student, so because I can, I should give back.’” Her decision to start an endowment stemmed from conversations with her husband and with Leah Mahoney, director of planned giving at the Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement. An endowed scholarship will continue to give back to the university in perpetuity, providing important scholarship funds not only during Abby's lifetime, but continuing indefinitely thereafter.  “It was a very smooth process setting it up,” she said. “It’s more a matter of whether you can financially make it happen.” It also helped that her employer has a matching program in place.    Abby's endowed scholarship will support both the general first-year student scholarship fund at Mines and second-year industrial engineering and math students. She hopes that providing scholarship funding will help ease concerns for those students and encourage them to keep going.   “I hope everyone can find their niche within the school and really enjoy it because I know I did.”   *If you have questions about endowed or non-endowed scholarship gifts, contact* [*Leah.Mahoney@sdsmt.edu*](mailto:Leah.Mahoney@sdsmt.edu)*. * [Spring/Summer 2022](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/spring-summer-2022) [Exemplary Hardrocker](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/exemplary-hardrocker) [Follow my website](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/) [Send me an email](mailto:cara@sdsmt.edu) Print [Share this blog post on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+found+this+interesting+blog+post&url=https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/legacy-of-heart-abby-heart-gives-back) [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/legacy-of-heart-abby-heart-gives-back) [Share this blog post on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/legacy-of-heart-abby-heart-gives-back) [Previous Article](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/empowering-the-best-rich-trudy-wells-step-up-to-help-mines-students) [Next Article](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/an-engineer-on-wall-street) #### You may also like [![](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Gowen1-1.jpeg?width=600&height=450&name=Gowen1-1.jpeg)](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/richard-gowen-a-legacy-of-excellence) [Stories](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/stories) ### [Richard Gowen: A Legacy of Excellence](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/richard-gowen-a-legacy-of-excellence) [![](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Beyond-The-Game-2022.jpg?width=600&height=450&name=Beyond-The-Game-2022.jpg)](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/hardrocker-ally-students-launch-new-charity-fundraising-campaign) [Stories-Winter-22](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/stories-winter-22) ### [Hardrocker Ally Students Launch New Charity Fundraising Campaign](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/hardrocker-ally-students-launch-new-charity-fundraising-campaign) [![](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Rich-Trudy-Wells.jpg?width=600&height=450&name=Rich-Trudy-Wells.jpg)](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/empowering-the-best-rich-trudy-wells-step-up-to-help-mines-students) [Spring/Summer 2022](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/tag/spring-summer-2022) ### [Empowering the Best: Rich & Trudy Wells Step Up for Mines Students](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/magazine/empowering-the-best-rich-trudy-wells-step-up-to-help-mines-students) - © 2022 South Dakota Mines - [CARA](https://cara.sdsmt.edu/) - [Our Team](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/our-team) - [Careers](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdsmt.edu%2Femployment%2F&data=05%7C01%7CCharles.Ray%40sdsmt.edu%7C8483aa9ee6614b37a84908da4edcce57%7C867083e60b14435f9b4e8be26f01d84e%7C0%7C0%7C637909007520476021%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9HWtMdRYeueqsDPaSL%2BtXRINxBClcGXKNq%2BzZmnKHKQ%3D&reserved=0) - [Refer a Student](https://www.sdsmt.edu/Alumni-Referral-and-Recruitment/) - [Privacy & Legal](https://hardrock.sdsmt.edu/privacy-legal) [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/SouthDakotaMinesCARA) [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.linkedin.com/in/south-dakota-mines-center-for-alumni-relations-and-advancement-83737147/) [Follow us on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/southdakotaminescara/) [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJGlRDOdxBjCXUNP6jmQxw)