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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 $540,000, and three new recipients say they feel honored to represent the men for whom the scholarship is named. Continuing gifts…

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Women’s Council Founding Chair Gives Back

Edith Kelly-Green – the 2011 University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy Hall of Fame inductee and first African American woman to become a FedEx vice president – credits her accountancy education for much of her stellar success. “I stumbled…

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Supporting Future Mississippi Teachers

A thank you note from a scholarship recipient inspired University of Mississippi alumni Phil and Emily Bailey to create a scholarship to support future teachers. The Phillip J. and Emily G. Bailey Education Scholarship will support entering freshmen in the…

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Engineering the Future

With a $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, Stephen and Patty Foose want to provide scholarships to civil engineering students whose background, achievements and experience demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the advancement of women in…

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Giving Back to Business, Athletics

After a career spanning more than 30 years across the telecommunication and information technology industries, including leading four companies as CEO, Dean Douglas is giving back to the university he credits for his success. With gifts totaling $250,000, the 1978…

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Caring for Children

The host organization of the Sanderson Farms Championship made a record-breaking $1.5 million donation to benefit Mississippi’s only hospital for children. Century Club Charities made the donation from proceeds of the state’s only PGA TOUR event during a news conference…

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Remembering a Mississippi Leader

A generous gift from an anonymous donor will provide the University of Mississippi African American Studies Program with an endowed scholarship that honors a Mississippi civil rights leader. The $100,000 gift establishes the Fannie Lou Hamer Scholarship Endowment to help…

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A Friend of the Library

University of Mississippi alumnus Wayne Drinkwater is eager to see his alma mater attract the nation’s top educators to its faculty — a goal he believes begins with enhancing UM libraries. “To attract faculty members and graduate students who are…

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