Major Gift Benefits Batson
Children do tend to leave fingerprints here and there. After raising three children and now welcoming five grandchildren as regular guests, Sanderson Farms Chief Operating…
New OMWC Chair, Members Named
Influential female leaders who compose the Ole Miss Women’s Council (OMWC) for Philanthropy at the University of Mississippi have named a new chair and welcomed three new…
Gift Creates Women’s Council Scholarship
Mike and Cheryl Ducker established the Phyllis Shane Ole Miss Women’s Council Scholarship Endowment in memory of Cheryl’s late mother with a gift of $125,000. While…
New Chair, New Programs, New Era
A $1.5 million gift and two new master’s degree programs are expected to increase both the prestige and enrollment of the highly ranked University of Mississippi’s…
Stinson’s Support Helps Engineering
By the time Wade Stinson (BSCE 78) received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, he had already decided he would be a lifelong supporter of the University of…
Giving Back, Impacting Students
Mississippi has always owned a piece of Margaret Pryor Barker’s heart, inspiring her to give back to a place and a university that have given her so much. Barker, of…
Whitwells Support Ole Miss Students
Ginger and Quentin Whitwell have found that living in Oxford, Mississippi, the home of the University of Mississippi, gives them the opportunity to see the needs of college…
University Launches Flagship Society
The University of Mississippi has launched the Flagship Society – its first campuswide leadership annual giving program – to recognize annual donors, share the impact…
Carrying Forward a Legacy
On the first day of every month for 46 years, Ann McCully Jones and her husband, Frank, repeated their wedding vows. After he lost his partner in life, Jones carried out what the…
Giving in Perpetuity
Lynne Ann DeSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland of Capitola, California, have partnered on many projects throughout their lives and someday, even in death, their collaboration will…