The check wasn’t in the mail. This time, the check was in the handshake, when Catamount Club president Tobe Childers ’61 recently accepted a gift of $25,000 from E. Jerry Coleman III, executive vice president for private wealth management with SunTrust North Carolina in Charlotte.
Two WCU faculty members contribute to a new Highlands Biodiversity Scholarship to help WCU students afford to research at the nearby interinstitutional Highlands Biological Station.
When Mark Holliday, professor of computer science, pondered how to participate in The Campaign for Western, his thoughts turned to John Proffitt, one of his first students at Western. Proffitt started a scholarship fund two years ago to benefit computer science students.
Marty Ramsey, alumni affairs director and 1985 WCU graduate, wanted his participation in The Campaign for Western to help academics and athletics, so he is directing his gifts to the Alumni Association Scholarship, the Loyalty Fund and summer school scholarships for student-athletes.
When Susan Parrot Ward and her husband returned to Western recently for the dedication of a ceramics studio in their names, it was only the latest development in a long and rewarding association with Joan Byrd, professor in what is now the department of art and design.
Those who worked with the late Malcolm Loughlin miss the Wales native’s “Bye, love!” and how he went the extra mile – no, miles – for others and for education. To honor him, Pat Brown, dean of educational outreach, chose to participate in The Campaign for Western through supporting the Malcolm J. Loughlin Scholarship Fund.
