John L. Grove

Grove served as president of the Shippensburg University Foundation from 1981 to 1985. During that time, he oversaw the first capital campaign in the university's history, which was also the first capital campaign ever undertaken within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. As a result of his leadership, Shippensburg University's endowment grew from $800,000 to more than $10,000,000.

Director of the First Maryland Bancorp and its subsidiary, the First National Bank of Maryland, Grove was also a member of that bank's Western Maryland regional advisory board, the boards of directors of Falling Spring Corporation, National Equipment Services, Sentry Trust, Truckcraft Corporation, and United Telephone's eastern group, and was also the founder of, and first to endow, the Greencastle Antrim Foundation.

In 1993, Grove became one of the first ten people inducted into the Construction Equipment Hall of Fame.

The John L. Grove College of Business at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania was named in his honor in 1993, following the donation to the university, by Grove and his wife, of two million dollars.

In 2002, Grove was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by Greencastle-Antrim Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Grove and his wife, Cora I. (Wagner) Grove, provided financial support for the construction of the John L. Grove Medical Center in Greencastle, and donated land to the Boy Scouts of America, which later became Camp Sinoquipe.