Bill Dabney

Anew $100,000 Ole Miss Women’s Council Scholarship comes from an unlikely source: a senior engineering major who has paid her own way through college. Usually considered out of range for a typical college student, this philanthropy is possible for honors student Margaret Bardwell through the option of a life insurance policy naming the university as…

When Nancy Harrelson Stumberg talks about Ole Miss, it is with incredible confidence, optimism and above all, gratitude and affection. The 1975 graduate demonstrates her understanding of the mission of the University of Mississippi Foundation and the vision established by Chancellor Khayat. “Ole Miss is one of the most meaningful places in my life,” says…

W hen Prescott “Peck” Sherman attended Ole Miss during the Depression, he held down several jobs: one, a morning paper route, which was early enough not to interfere with his classes; and another at a local clothing store that enabled him to buy his own clothes. The third job, which was cleaning the cement lab…

R ecognizing the need for talented young people in today’s high-quality and complex field of health care, Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation of Memphis has become the first corporate sponsor of an Ole Miss Women’s Council Scholarship. The foundation’s $125,000 endowment produces the Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. Council Scholarship designated for students interested in…

Four years ago when the idea of involving women more directly with the University of Mississippi Foundation was first conceived, it was merely a dream that major corporations would ultimately play a part in the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy. Recently the FedEx Corp. of Memphis established the Fedex Council Scholarship Endowment fund with…

Dinner conversations at the home of Rosa Healy Hester and William E. “Slew” Hester, Jr., of Jackson were monopolized by lively discussions on current events. Education and knowledge were not only to be admired but also to be attained. “Mother and Daddy emphasized excelling in school,” said attorney and Ole Miss graduate Kathryn Healy Hester,…

Dr. Gloria Dodwell Kellum’s indomitable spirit is synonymous with the renaissance occurring at The University of Mississippi. In countless planning sessions with different student, faculty, staff, and alumni groups in conjunction with the University’s recent Sesquicentennial and the Commitment to Excellence Campaign, and now in other forums, Kellum asks people not just to dream—but to…

Shovels turned in the rich soil, and red roses—a metaphor for both students and the vision of the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy—were planted at the March 28 dedication of the Rose Garden outside the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Each of the 28 rosebushes represents a scholarship endowment of $100,000…

Jennie Mosby Cochran, a well-known figure on the Ole Miss campus and around Oxford during the 1940s and ’50s, served as an unofficial mentor for many college students. Her official title was house director for the Gamma Delta Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity, but, to her “girls,” she was lovingly known as “Aunt Jennie.”…

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — Jim Bennett met Faye Evans at church in the early 1940s. She offered to fix him up with a blind date, but instead, they dated and later married. Today, she is being remembered with a University of Mississippi scholarship by Bennett, his second wife and two daughters. "Helping other people is part…