Phyllis Combs Leet graduated from Northwest in 1949 and will receive the Turret Service Award, which acknowledges "significant contributions of time and talent on behalf of the University and the Alumni Association," according to a posting on the school's Web site. As a member of the Northwest Foundation Board of Directors, Leet is involved in the board's education committee as well as the Centennial Society. The posting says she also assumed the lead role in overseeing the creation of the centennial sculpture located on the east plaza of the J.W. Jones Student Union.
Leet has established a scholarship at Northwest that gives aid to students in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and she remains active in the Northwest Alumni Association by hosting events, with her husband, Dick, at their Gainesville home.
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