Carolyn Craig Franklin; Raised USC Scholarship Funds

Carolyn Craig Franklin, 73, a major fund-raiser for USC scholarships. Mrs. Franklin, who served as president of Town and Gown from 1980 to 1982, helped build the organization’s scholarship endowment fund from $175,000 in 1970 to more than $12 million in 1993, increasing the number of scholarships from four to 190. The organization named Franklin Fountain in honor of her and her husband, Carl M. Franklin, a former USC vice president and law professor. Mrs. Franklin served as president of USC Faculty Wives from 1970 to 1972. In 1987, the USC Law Center, for which she also raised funds, established the Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law in her honor. Born in Washington Court House, Ohio, Mrs. Franklin earned degrees in library science from Denison University and Simmons College and served as a librarian at LaSalle Junior College. As a Navy WAVE during World War II she was a communications officer in San Francisco. She died April 1 aboard the liner Sea Goddess II in the Indian Ocean, of natural causes.