The Foundation

Reunion Classes Celebrate 2019 Homecoming with Significant Gifts

At Homecoming, four classes celebrated their milestone reunions in remarkable ways. The classes of 1969, 1979, 1994, and 2009 returned to campus to present General Walters and The Citadel with current and future gifts totaling over $13 million to support the college, representing the culmination of their three-year class reunion fundraising campaigns.

Jay Dowd Chief Executive Officer

Contact Information

Phone • 843-953-5297 Toll-free • 800-233-1842 FAX • 843-953-7689 foundation.citadel.edu

Location 2 nd Floor, Holliday Alumni Center 69 Hagood Avenue Charleston, SC 29403

U.S. Mail The Citadel Foundation 171 Moultrie Street Charleston, SC 29409

Foundation Board Officers

Stephen L. Davis, '85 Chairman

Gerald V. Baysden, '71 Vice Chairman

Tracy T. Hardaway Secretary-Treasurer 50th Reunion Campaign – Led by Class Reunion Chairman COL Joseph W. Trez, Sr., USA, Ret., the Class of 1969 raised a total of $5,813,207. With their reunion campaign gifts, they have chosen to support the Class of 1969 Capers Hall Auditorium and the Class of 1969 Scholarship.

40th Reunion Campaign – Led by Class Reunion Chairman Col Thomas L. Hendricks, USAF, Ret., the Class of 1979 raised a total of $6,084,470. Their reunion campaign gifts support the Class of 1979 Capers Hall Quadrangle and Fountain, along with the Class of 1979 Leadership Day.

25th Reunion Campaign – Led by Class Reunion Chairman Mr. Jay B. Medlin, the Class of 1994 raised a total of $965,898. Their reunion campaign gifts support the Class of 1994 Scholarship.

10th Reunion Campaign – Led by Class Reunion Chairmen Mr. L. Richard Doelling, Jr., and Mr. R. Tanner Jordan, the Class of 2009 raised a total of $167,303. Their reunion campaign gifts support the Student Success Center.

America's Band Returns to Scotland for 2020 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

The Citadel Regimental Band and Pipes will proudly represent the United States as the country's designated military band performing at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland in 2020. The band will represent America for the fourth time, and remains the only U.S. military college band to have received the coveted invitation to perform on behalf of the nation in the world's most famous military music festival.

The Citadel's band will perform on the esplanade of the medieval Edinburgh Castle from August 7 through August 29, 2020, as part of the month-long festival of music and pageantry featuring military organizations from around the world. Broadcast to 30 countries and approximately 100 million people annually, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the largest production of its kind.

As in years past, The Citadel Regimental Band and Pipes needs the support of its fans to make the return to Tattoo possible. The Citadel Foundation is managing donations for America's Band 2020. To make a gift or learn more about the trip, please call Bill Yaeger at (843) 953-3842 or visit foundation. citadel.edu/tattoo.

By G. Mackay Salley, IV, ’63

Much has been done on the organ restoration project since our last update. The pipes for the north chamber have been restored and are being tuned at Cornell Zimmer Organ Builders’ facilities. They are scheduled to be installed this winter and will undergo a final tuning in the chapel, a process that could take several weeks. The contract for the final set of pipes in the south chamber has been signed, and the restoration of these pipes is underway. If everything goes according to schedule, those will be installed by the end of 2020.

We are very fortunate to have been named in the will of Dr. Thomas, a Charleston physician, a member of a previous organ restoration committee years ago. This effort was not successful, but

Thomas kept his commitment to restore the organ, if certain conditions were met. These conditions, to ensure that a serious commitment to restore the organ was underway, have been met by current efforts and Thomas’ estate provided the funding to complete the restoration project.

The restoration of the Summerall Chapel organ started in earner in 2013. The project involved restoring the pipe chambers, rebuilding all of the wind chests that the pipes rest in, and rebuilding the huge blower motor that resides in the basement of the chapel. When complete, some 3,900 pipes will have been restored, and a new trumpet military set of pipes, 64, have been installed above to the chapel. When the work is complete, hopefully by the end of 2020, The Citadel will have one of the most outstanding organs in the Southeast. The magnificent acoustical chamber in the chapel makes for an outstanding sound chamber for the organ. This restoration will give Summerall Chapel an organ that will serve The Citadel for many years to come.