LDR Lt. Daniel P. Riordan Scholarship Fund Faith, honor, service

Modern website direction

Remembering Lt. Dan. Carrying forward faith, honor, and service.

A refreshed website should preserve Daniel P. Riordan's story, make the scholarship clear on modern devices, and keep the path to support simple and trustworthy.

View site structure Donation path

Core tone

Preservation first. Modernization in service of the story.

This should not feel like a campaign site or a glossy nonprofit template. The design should feel steady, warm, and personal: a memorial that helps a living scholarship remain understandable and accessible.

Human

Lead with who Dan was: brother, son, friend, Vianney graduate, soldier, leader, and someone remembered for uncommon care toward others.

Clear

Visitors should quickly understand what the scholarship supports, how it connects to Vianney, and where donations or questions should go.

Enduring

The visual system should be simple enough to age well: strong type, restrained color, real photography, and a quiet archive for older material.

"Lt. Dan" was a man who loved his family, his God, and his country.

Existing scholarship language

Visual system

A restrained palette with military, school, and memorial notes.

The colors should support old photographs, scanned newsletters, school references, and memorial copy without forcing everything into a single mood.

Service Navy#1F3348
Field Green#4D624B
Memorial Gold#B8893D
Quiet Red#8C332F
Archive Paper#F7F3EA

Typography

A memorial site should sound like family history, not a brochure.

Use a classic serif for headlines and body copy. Pair it with a plain sans serif for navigation, labels, buttons, and dates.

Interface sample

Links and calls to action

Donation and contact links should be direct, practical, and never buried. The site itself should not process payments.

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Proposed site shape

Three major lanes: memorial, scholarship, archive.

The old site already has the right ingredients. The refresh should reorganize them so a first-time visitor can understand the story in a few minutes and still dig into the full history.

Dan's Story Scholarship Give Events Archive Contact

Homepage priorities

  1. Open with Dan's name, service, and a warm one-paragraph memorial introduction.
  2. Explain the scholarship in plain language: Vianney, financial need, faith, honor, and service.
  3. Make donation routing obvious and off-site through the trusted Vianney page.
  4. Preserve newsletters, photos, press, and events as a dignified archive.

Content map

Existing history can become an organized archive.

Memorial About Dan, biography, service, family remembrance, and selected quotes from existing copy.
Scholarship Purpose, Vianney connection, recipient qualities, annual events, and current administrative contact.
Support Clear link to Vianney's secure donation form, plus product/service donation contact if still current.
Archive 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 newsletters; photo galleries; press releases; event history.