Grout Family Psychology Scholarship

Three generations of the Grout family were involved with California Lutheran University from its very beginning. In the early 1960s, the Rev. Floyd L. Grout, Jr., was serving as pastor of King of Glory Lutheran Church in Newbury Park as he witnessed the fledgling college take shape. He and his family were supporters from the time that CLC was just an idea. In 1982 that support came full circle when Rev. Grout’s daughter Mary received her baccalaureate degree from CLU in psychology.

The support from the Grout family did not start as a scholarship but as a memorial fund to three family members who had died—Floyd Grout, Sr., his wife Gladys and Floyd Grout, Jr. Their survivors designated the memorial gifts for a much-needed psychology laboratory in what was known as F Building, a structure that had been one of the original chicken coops on the Pederson Ranch. The lab served its purpose well until it was eventually replaced by a modern psych lab in the Swenson Center.

Long after the psychology lab project was completed, there was still money remaining in the memorial fund. And so, a plan was developed to create a psychology scholarship honoring the Grout family. With help from Floyd Grout, Jr.’s wife Marie, the scholarship became a reality, and the original intent to support psychology was preserved.

The Grout Family Psychology Scholarship is awarded annually to an undergraduate psychology major in any class level. CLU is grateful for families like the Grouts who have remained faithful to the institution’s mission all through the years.