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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A longtime Jackson, Mississippi, physician and his wife left an estate gift of $640,000 to the University of Mississippi and the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) to provide library resources, support the training of pediatricians and strengthen allergy-immunology education,…
A $1.5 million gift from the grandson of a University of Mississippi chancellor will help recruit faculty for the School of Business Administration, support the construction of the new Triplett Alumni Center and improve facilities for Ole Miss student-athletes. “My…
John Johnson was 13 years old in 1983 when he witnessed a miraculous event that gave the Ole Miss Rebels a victory over the rival Mississippi State University Bulldogs, salvaging a 6-5 season record and keeping the team’s postseason bowl…
Ed and Barbara Krei of Edmond, Oklahoma, have a long, generous history of supporting the University of Mississippi, especially the Patterson School of Accountancy. In recent years, they established an accountancy lectureship endowment that was later elevated to the chair…
For its $500,000 gift to the University of Mississippi, one of the nation’s top public accounting firms, FORVIS LLP, will be honored with the naming of the undergraduate and master’s programs suite in the new Patterson School of Accountancy. “The…