Alum fully funds endowed scholarship in memory of Joe and Bettye Salter

  • Members of the Salter family were honored Dec. 5 during the announcement of the Joe and Bettye Salter Scholarship funded by a donation to the NSU Foundation from Robert “Skeeter” Salim. Pictured from left are Tammy Salter, Riley Salter, Brantley Salter, Bettye Salter, Salim, Billy Gibbs, Mandy Gibbs and Tyler Gibbs.
    Members of the Salter family were honored Dec. 5 during the announcement of the Joe and Bettye Salter Scholarship funded by a donation to the NSU Foundation from Robert “Skeeter” Salim. Pictured from left are Tammy Salter, Riley Salter, Brantley Salter, Bettye Salter, Salim, Billy Gibbs, Mandy Gibbs and Tyler Gibbs.

    The late Joe Salter, a distinguished alumnus of Northwestern State University and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and his family were honored during a scholarship celebration Dec. 5 in which University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors Member Robert “Skeeter” Salim announced the Joe and Bettye Salter Family Scholarship created and fully endowed at $100,000 through the NSU…