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The winning foursome helped raise more than $2,500 for the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship. The annual outing honors the memory of Jackson, a journalism student who died during his senior year.

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The July 18 Take It Easy Open raised more than $2,500 for the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship as well as provided a day of golf for alumni and friends.

The winning foursome included Stan Watts, Brad Watts, Joe Jackson (John’s brother) and Greg Bardonner.

The golf outing benefits the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship established in honor of Jackson, an IU student who died in 1996 of a brain aneurysm. The IU senior had been IDS editor-in-chief the summer before his death.

Alumni, including JR Ross and other friends, started the outing in 2001 to keep Jackson’s memory alive. The outing in Jackson’s hometown of New Palestine has since raised more than $45,000 for scholarships.

This year’s scholarship winner is Sarah Brubeck, whose hometown also is New Palestine.

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