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Alumnus Creates Scholarship to Honor Father
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| William Paul Rowell |
08/19/2008
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumnus Stephen Rowell has honored the memory of his father by creating the William Paul Rowell Scholarship Endowment with a gift of $100,000.
Rowell said Read more . . .
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Alumna Creates Scholarship to Honor Mother and Sports Hall of Fame Inductee Father
08/18/2008
OXFORD, Miss. - Diana Day-Cartee said that creating the JoAnne and Eagle Day Ole Miss First Scholarship at the University of Mississippi is allowing her late father's "mission on earth to live on" while also fulfilling one of her mother's longtime desires.
Named for Day-Cartee's parents and seeded with a $25,000 gift to UM, the scholarship will provide assistance for deserving undergraduate students to attend Ole Miss.
"Since his retirement from pro football, my father's passion Read more . . .
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Renasant Bank Supports Ole Miss With $100,000 Gift
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| Robin McGraw, Renasant Bank Chairman and CEO |
07/24/2008
OXFORD, Miss. – Renasant Bank has committed $100,000 to create a new type of scholarship for the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi.
“Renasant Bank is proud to support the University of Mississippi through the Ole Miss First scholarship fund and the Renasant Bank Fund for Business Excellence,” said E. Robinson McGraw, Renasant Bank Chairman and CEO. “This is a tremendous opportunity to invest in and mentor Mississippi’s future business leaders, and we look forward to helping our state’s best and brightest learn the fundamentals needed for successful business careers.”
Of the Read more . . .
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Alumnus Gives $100,000 to Create Scholarships for Deserving Students
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| Creighton Wilson Jr., from the 1951 Ole Miss yearbook |
07/11/2008
OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi alumnus Creighton Wilson of Gainesville, Fla., has created the Dr. Creighton L. Wilson Scholarship Endowment at UM with a gift of $100,000.
"I wanted to repay Ole Miss for all it has done for me," Wilson said. "Although I don't get back to Oxford much, I still have Ole Miss blood in my veins."
The endowment promises to provide a permanent source of scholarship support to deserving Ole Miss students.
"I hope this scholarship will help students who need it most," Wilson said. "When I think back, I had to Read more . . .
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Business Professor Honors Parents with Endowment for Faculty Support
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| Chancellor Robert Khayat (right) presents Larry Cox and his mother, Ruth Cox Pogue, with a certificate for the 1848 Society. |
06/27/2008
OXFORD, Miss. - The chair of the Risk Management and Insurance Program in the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi has honored his parents with a bequest that will create an endowment to support faculty in his department.
Larry Cox, who also holds the Robertson Chair of Insurance, has established the C. Robert and Ruth A. Cox Endowment in Risk Management and Insurance with a testamentary gift of $50,000.
"My father spent most of his career in the life insurance business, both of my children graduated from Ole Miss - with my daughter earning Read more . . .
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