J. Douglas Craddock was retired chairman and CEO of Horace Mann Insurance Company who also served as SSU treasurer and president. Mr. Craddock was named chairman of the SSU Foundation Board of Directors in March of 1985, but died on Labor Day of that year. The J. Douglas and Helen Craddock Memorial Scholarship was established as a memorial to his memory, and later to his wife, a graduate of SSU, who passed away 8 years later.