Bettie Pierce often told her daughter Susan that when you are given a gift, you should return the kindness, and the spirit of the gift. Alumna Susan Pierce of Mandeville, Louisiana, is following that advice by creating the Bettie C…
A $150,000 gift to the University of Mississippi’s Arch Dalrymple III Department of History has better positioned the department to embrace long-range opportunities, such as supporting faculty with their research and teaching goals. The unrestricted gift, for example, may be…
The University of Mississippi’s alumni and friends contributed approximately $103 million in private support during FY19, a year that saw the university’s endowment grow to $736 million – the largest in the state at a public university. For the eighth…
Thanks to a grant from the Freeman Foundation, scholarship recipient Carter Diggs – a junior in the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media – had the rare opportunity recently to work as a professional journalist during an internship in Tokyo,…
Chip Crunk is no stranger to the University of Mississippi campus. “I’m up here at least once a month trying to give back, trying to do the right things and help young people better themselves,” said Crunk, president and CEO…
When children being treated at the state’s only children’s hospital play as part of the healing process, it will be in memory of Sidney P. Allen, the Friends of Children’s Hospital board chair who died Nov. 10, 2018, after a…
The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy accomplished an ambitious goal during the 2018-19 fiscal year as it surpassed $1 million in private support. Supporters contributed $1.1 million in gifts and commitments, marking the fifth time since 1982 the school…
“Hope lifts her maiden finger pointing to the eternal Home on whose portals they linger looking back for us to come.” Though that’s the epitaph on a headstone marking the grave of the late Patsy Moore Bogen’s great-great grandfather, friends…
A new Walk of Fame for supporters of the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts provides a path to the successful conclusion of the Celebrating the Arts campaign, funding a $3 million endowment for the University of Mississippi…
Jonathan Fox wears a locket engraved with his daughter’s left thumb print; inside are some of her ashes. “I carry her with me everywhere,” said Fox of Newton, Mississippi. “She always said she wanted to go to work with me…