Created in July 1959, with a bequest from Roy in memory of his mom, Bertha Louise King and his sister, Stella Peterson King. This scholarship is awarded to mechanical engineering students, with preference to students that attended high school in Greene County, Ohio. 
Fund namesake Roy Stevenson King was born in Xenia in 1876 and graduated from Xenia Central High in Greene County. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State in 1902. Roy became the construction foreman for the Aetna Powder Co. and later worked for the National Cash Register company in Dayton, where he assisted in the production of an addition to the power plant. He then transitioned to academia where he became an instructor in mechanical engineering at several large institutions including Ohio State. He joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1917 as head of the department of mechanical engineering. Roy was an avid Buckeye and was a member of the Ohio State Alumni Association.
Top Picture: Roy King’s photo as a senior at Ohio State in 1902.
Bottom Picture: Roy King in 1946, when he served as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
