Among festivities planned for the sixth annual Giving Day 2025 at the University of Mississippi, donors can name a squirrel, students can join a scavenger hunt or scrawl their name on an iconic building, and schools can battle each other to…
For their decades of service to others, Lydia and Dan Jones of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, will be honored at the University of Mississippi on April 4 with the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy 2025 Legacy Award. The Legacy Award ceremony…
A former student-athlete at the University of Mississippi hopes his gift will show current and future Rebels that alumni are fully committed to their success in sports and in life after college. A four-year UM cheerleader from 1988 to 1992,…
At a March 21 dedication ceremony, the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation (OMAF) recognized Debbie and Andy Prefontaine for their recent $750,000 gift by naming the track and field stadium in their family’s honor. “My wife, Debbie, and I had two…
Families came from Bogue Chitto, Fulton, Meridian, Laurel and other cities around the state to the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower last week with one goal in mind: to support of Children’s of Mississippi during the Mississippi Miracles Radiothon. The…
Every time an Ole Miss baseball player hits a home run or a football player makes a touchdown, Rebel fans are dazzled by strobing stadium lights that seem to dance in celebration. This particular part of the University of Mississippi…
Located on a campus that offers more than academics; an ever-changing, evolving curriculum; easy access to faculty and staff; and national prominence — those are the qualities University of Mississippi alumnus Kit Williams loves about his alma mater’s Patterson School…
From the time she was a teenager, Dr. Diane Beebe gave much of herself to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and it gave back to her. Now, in retirement, she is still giving. Beebe and her husband, Bill King,…
The Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia Center, commonly known as The MIND Center, is making significant progress in its plan to build a new centralized facility with a $1 million donation from longtime supporter Michael E. Johnson of Madison. His…
Jenny and Lee Atkins hope to help sustain the practice of independent, community pharmacy with a new scholarship at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. The two pharmacists of Madison, Mississippi, made a $100,000 gift to create the Burgess…