A Kansas University alumna’s positive experience as a graduate student prompted her to establish a $100,000 endowed scholarship for graduate students studying voice and opera at KU. Sue Wilkie Snyder, who earned her doctoral degree in musical arts performance at KU in 1988, named the new scholarship in honor of retired KU professor Phyllis Brill Munczek. The first scholarship will be awarded in fall 2008. Snyder lives in Washougal, Wash., with her husband, Drew Snyder. She described Munczek as a mentor, friend and guide. “She was everything I could have asked for in a teacher,” Snyder said. “She was such a strong supporter.”