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Ole Miss Alumna Supports UM’s School of Business

OXFORD , Miss. – When University of Mississippi alumna Donna Ruth Roberts moved back to Oxford eight years ago, she knew she was home to stay. Roberts, who graduated from Ole Miss in 1965, grew up in Yazoo City and lived much of her life in Memphis, Tenn. But no matter her whereabouts, her love…
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Pharmacy grad pays it forward

In his second year of pharmacy school at Ole Miss, Stan Williams remembers walking into associate dean emeritus Joe McCaskill’s office. Williams was paying his way through school and had simply run out of money. When he told McCaskill about his situation, McCaskill pulled out his checkbook and wrote him a $200 check, right then…
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Gifts Support Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, Ole Miss First

OXFORD, Miss. – For James “Joc” Carpenter, helping make possible the $1.5 million gift to the University of Mississippi was a little bit like playing Santa Claus.                            Carpenter, an Ole Miss alumnus who lives in Port Gibson, is one of a handful of members serving on the board of the Madison Charitable Foundation, a private…
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Gift Completes Information Commons in Williams Library

Thanks to a recent gift of $100,000, the final phase of the Information Commons, a new technology-driven lounge and study space in the Williams Library, will soon be complete. “We are incredibly excited about the completion of this much needed-new space for our students and other library patrons,” said Dean Julia Rholes. “There is a…
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Alumnus Establishes Scholarship for Pet Lovers

OXFORD, Miss. – “Recognizing and rewarding people who are kind to animals” is the aim of a new scholarship endowment at the University of Mississippi, said alumna Miriam Wilson Weems, who established the fund. Weems, who holds degrees in French and art from Ole Miss, recently pledged $25,000 to create the Miriam W. Weems Pet…
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Estates of Carl and Olivia Nabors Fund Multiple Initiatives

OXFORD, MISS. —  A longtime University of Mississippi faculty member and his wife have left a final, transformative gift to the institution they supported for decades. More than $1 million was recently received from the estates of Carl and Olivia Nabors to support several areas of the university: the University Museum, J.D. Williams Library, Basketball…
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Alumnus Leaves $1.4 million to Ole Miss

OXFORD, Miss. – Throughout his life, University of Mississippi alumnus Clarence Thomas Hill, Jr., had a hunger for knowledge and a dedication to education. That dedication continues to live on through his bequest of $1.4 million to the university.   Hill’s nephew, Julian Hill, Jr., an oncologist in Tupelo, remembers his uncle as a man who…
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Alumni Support School of Pharmacy

Two loyal pharmacy grads, Jim Ainsworth and Keith Shelly, have each committed $50,000 to support the School of Pharmacy. Ainsworth, who graduated in 1967, is vice president of regional operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care based in Memphis, Tenn., and also currently serves as CEO of Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. He has…
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CNE Establishes Scholarships to Aid Nurse Professional Training

  A student’s financial need and an untimely family death led Janet Harris to think about how she could leave a legacy and impact the future of her profession.   Harris, chief nursing executive at University Hospital, said she mentored a graduate student in the nursing executive track who was a single mother and needed…
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Online gifts for the 2024 calendar year should be made no later than noon on December 31, 2024.  Checks by mail will need to be postmarked by December 31 to be counted in the 2024 calendar year.