Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2000

About Lois McClure

Lois McClure has built a legacy of generosity and caring over the decades. She began giving with her late husband, J. Warren, the former owner of the Burlington Free Press. The McClure name can be seen on buildings throughout Burlington and the surrounding area speaking to the long record of giving for which this couple has long been known in this community.

Lois McClure carried on the work after her husband’s death in 2004, and clearly made her own mark on her friends and neighbors, as well as people who may never have heard her name. She continues to serve as a director of the J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation founded in 1995, which focuses on improving access for Vermonters to higher education and life-long learning.

She is a major benefactor of the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center - Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on the Burlington waterfront, a wonderland to children, especially, who explore what lies beneath the waters of the lake.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum named its schooner Lois McClure in honor of her support for the effort to build a replica of a sailing canal boat that plied the Broad Lake in the early 1860s.