Helping students become LifeReady These generous alumni and friends made LifeReady Campaign gifts, pledges, bequests and estate commitments of $10,000 or more from April 1 through Aug. 31, 2015. We thank them sincerely, just as we thank everyone who gives Berry a vote of confidence each year through a gift, regardless of amount. It is our pleasure to recognize all donors annually in the online Berry College Honor Roll of Donors (www.berry.edu/honorroll). Anonymous, $12,500 for the Dr. Harlan L. Chapman Endowed Gate of Opportunity Scholarship funded by the Class of 1958C Anonymous, $10,000 for the Robert L. Frank Endowed Legacy Scholarship Randy and Nancy Berry, $12,500, with $10,000 going to the Berry Information Technology Students (B.I.T.S.) program and $2,500 to the Silver & Blue Save a Student Scholarship Callaway Foundation, $30,000 for the F.E. Callaway Professorship Dan and Rhonda Cathy, $250,000 for the Welcome Center Alton (61c) and Rebecca Browning (61C) Christopher, $10,000 for the Selma Hall Browning Memorial Gate of Opportunity Scholarship Joe (88C) and Leanne Hand (87C) Cook, $20,040 for the new theatre and Blackstone Hall renovation John (62C) and Sandy Midkiff (60C) Cooper, $50,000 bequest to support the college’s greatest need Mike (92C) and Margaret T. Crego, $25,000 for Valhalla Christopher Edwards Foundation, $109,000, with $43,838 to convert an existing scholarship into the Thomas H. Edwards Gate of Opportunity Scholarship and $65,162 to create the Carolyn Denise Edwards Scholarship Georgia Independent College Association, $25,662 for student scholarships
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Georgia Power Foundation, $15,000 for the Georgia Power Endowed Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellowship Christopher A. Goeckel (84c), $25,000 for the Pearson Soccer Field project Dale A. Jones (71C), $12,000, with $10,000 going to the Dale Jones Expendable Gate of Opportunity Scholarship and $2,000 to the Dale Jones Expendable Scholarship R.F. Knox Co., $11,875 for the R.F. Knox Company Scholarship Henry and Norma Kummer, $75,000 charitable gift annuity to ultimately support student scholarships Roger Lusby III (79C) and Candy Caudill Lusby (82c), $13,000, with $10,000 for the Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Lusby III Scholarship, $2,000 for the general fund and $1,000 for the Silver & Blue Save a Student Scholarship Paul C. and Velma Smith Maddox Foundation, $15,000 for the Paul C. and Velma Smith Maddox Scholarship Lester Joel Martens Jr. (86C), $10,000 for Valhalla Ruby Vestal Mills (61C), $10,000 for the Class of 1961C Endowed Gate of Opportunity Scholarship National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, $32,000, with $12,000 for the NSDAR Expendable Gate of Opportunity Scholarship, $8,000 for the historic marker project, $6,000 for the NSDAR Junior Expendable Gate of Opportunity Scholarship, and $6,000 for the Martha Berry Digital Archive Nichols Trust, $10,000 for the Rudge Nichols Professorship James J. and Janice Owens, $25,000 for the Jane Anna (Hopp) Tola Endowed Service Scholarship Joanne Owens, $25,000 for the Ted Owens Integrity in Leadership Endowed Faculty Development Fund
Dallas T. Reynolds Jr. (65C) and Judi Reynolds, $25,000 for the Class of 1965C Endowed Gate of Opportunity Scholarship Frances Esther Richey (83A, 87C), $25,000 for the Ford Auditorium renovation Donald R. Slater (77C) and Deborah Elyse Poss (78C), $10,000 for Valhalla The William B. Stokely Jr. Foundation, $10,000 for the William B. Stokely Jr. Scholarship Robert L. (63C) and Gayle Miller (64C) Sumner, $25,000 for the Judge Thomas A. Clark Endowed Scholarship Larry J. and Betty Jane Taylor, $43,625 for the Larry J. and Betty Jane Taylor Gate of Opportunity Scholarship Michael Lewis Tidwell (98C), $20,000 for Valhalla Tull Charitable Foundation, $100,000 for the animal science labs Daniel L. White (66C), $35,000 life insurance policy to ultimately support the Class of 1966C Assistant Gardener Endowed Work Position Leonard C. (70C) and Martha S. Willingham, $10,000 for the Ford Auditorium renovation Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, $20,000 for the nursing program R. Earl (52C) and Esther Worthington, $25,000 for the Pfc. Robert Adrian Worthington Endowed Scholarship C.B. Wright III (73C) and Janice Bracken Wright, $124,000 for the Cecil B. Wright III Integrity in Leadership Lecture Series
Bequests The estate of Marie L. Barlieb, $128,884 unrestricted bequest The estate of Elizabeth Nesbitt Krupa (44c), $30,000 unrestricted bequest The estate of Joseph M. Shiflett (48C), $20,000 unrestricted bequest