Carson fund to learn U of Nebraska students

And here's Johnny's scholarship The John W. Carson Foundation, named for your "Tonight Show" host and U of Nebraska alum, has gifted $millions of for the U of Nebraska Foundation to create the Johnny Carson Chance Scholarship Fund. Gold gold coin aims to assist students who graduated in the Nebraska secondary school and so are presently registered for UN's Hixson-Lied College of a good and Undertaking Arts. Preference will be provided to students inside the School of Theater and Film, which was re-named for Carson after his dying in 2005. In 2004, Carson themselves led greater than $5 million to assist film and theater programs within the college, also to renovate and expand the Temple Building that houses Hixson-Lied's theater program. Carson's estate gave yet another $5 million in 2005, carrying out a TV icon's dying. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com