Robert Edward Eberly (July 14, 1918 – May 19, 2004), son of Orville and Ruth Eberly, served as Chairman of the Board of Eberly Natural Gas Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and production firm. He was also a director of Gallatin National Bank (retiring in 1990). Eberly graduated in 1939 from

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with a BS in Commercial Chemistry. On March 17, 1990, the College of Science at Penn State was renamed the

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in recognition of the support of the Eberly family. The Eberly family has also made donations to help build the Paterno Library addition and the

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at University Park campus, endow scholarships for

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Campus students and support higher education at Penn State and

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. Robert Eberly's sister, Carolyn Eberly Blaney and her husband W. Gerald Blaney, serve as trustees of the Eberly Family Trust, as did Eberly's sister Margaret Eberly George (d. 2000). His wife, Elouise R. (née Ross), is an honorary alumna of Penn State.

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