Jessie founded Jessie and Jessie in 1980 with his brother, Chris, after previously working for their father. Jessie and Jessie is an accounting firm in Williamson, West Virginia, offering accounting and tax preparation services to customers and small business owners.
Jessie said his decision to endow this scholarship through the bequest of his estate came from a decrease in resumes over the years to his business from accounting majors and he hopes to energize undergraduate students in the accounting department at Marshall.
“I would like to encourage more graduates and more college students to get involved in the accounting profession,” Jessie said. “I want to help these students to encourage them to take business courses and get into accounting with the long-term goal of becoming a CPA. We need to get more CPAs into our field.
“I want to help the business school as best I can the way it helped me.”
The scholarship recipient will be a full-time student majoring in accounting in the Lewis College of Business and Brad D. Smith Schools of Business and is a West Virginia resident.
The award will be renewable up to four years, or eight semesters, if the recipient maintains good academic standing of 3.0 GPA or higher. The dean of the College of Business, or at their discretion, the Department of Accounting, will select the recipient and renew the award in cooperation with the Office of Student Financial Assistance.
For information regarding the Julius Gregory Jessie Scholarship, please contact Marshall University’s Office of Student Financial Assistance at 304-696-3162.