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UM’s Ford Center Turns 20

Stars will be shining brightly March 25 when the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi celebrates its 20-year anniversary with a gala hosted by Oscar winner Morgan Freeman. The evening will honor Ole…

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Endowment Honors Memories of Three Friends

A scholarship endowment paying tribute to the lives of three University of Mississippi students has grown to more than $480,000, and three new recipients say they feel honored to represent the men for whom the scholarship is named. Continuing gifts…

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Building the Future of Accounting

The Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi is a step closer to having a new home on the Oxford campus thanks to a $100,000 gift from one of its own. “I’ve given to Ole Miss every year…

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Supporting Children’s Health

After helping make the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower at Children’s of Mississippi a reality, Priscilla and David O’Donnell of Ridgeland have made a $1.5 million gift toward the renovation of the Blair E. Batson Tower. The couple’s 2017 gift…

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Fielder Scholarship Created

Walker Allen Fielder loved devoting his time to people — whether ministering to children in Honduras or rallying friends for lake days, relationships were important to him. Maybe that’s why everyone loved the University of Mississippi student and looked forward…

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Educator Provides for Others

Teaching and learning were Dorothy Wayne Blackwell’s lifelong passions. The daughter of educators, it came as no surprise that Blackwell pursued a teaching career. Neither was it a surprise that she ultimately chose to leave an estate gift of more…

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Giving Back to Business

John Shanahan, who graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1969 and 1970 respectively, recently added an additional $100,000 to a scholarship endowment he established in 2019. The John and Janice…

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Benefiting Health Care

Sanderson Farms Championship host organization Century Club Charities donated $1 million from the golf tournament to benefit Mississippi’s only hospital for children. The donation from proceeds of the state’s only PGA TOUR event to Friends of Children’s Hospital was announced…

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Major Gift Supports Athletics

When football players at the University of Mississippi leave the locker room for practice, they’ll soon pass through a foyer honoring one of many donors to CHAMPIONS. NOW., the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation’s fundraising campaign focused on improving facilities for…

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Silver Gala Planned

The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi is celebrating its 25th anniversary this academic year, with a Silver Gala planned March 4 on campus. Tickets to the event can be purchased for $125 per person or…

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