Far left: Jim Melvin, president of The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro and former Greensboro Mayor, received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Elon in 2006. Left: Maurice N. Jennings ’57 and Burney Jennings ’87. Maurice Jennings was awarded the Elon Medallion for outstanding service to the university in 2006. Bottom left: Leading Greensboro philanthropist H. Michael Weaver received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Elon in 2006. Below: Elon University trustee and law school donor Gail M. Drew Lane was awarded the Elon Medallion for outstanding service to the university in 2004.
Katherine Stern and family established the Sidney J. Stern, Jr. Endowed Scholarship. Sidney Stern was a longtime Greensboro, N.C., attorney and business, civic and religious leader. Recipients of the scholarship are selected on the basis of integrity, intellect and leadership, qualities that defined Sidney Stern’s life and career.
served for 19 years as coordinator of special events at Elon University. Her husband, Robert Ellington, was formerly Elon’s physician. They have been loyal donors to Elon for years. The Banks Arendell Scholarship honors Helen’s father, who served with distinction as an attorney in Raleigh from 1924 through the mid-1960s.
The Weaver Foundation of Greensboro made a gift to provide funding for The Center for Engaged Learning in the Law, helping Elon to promote the national exchange of ideas and information between law school faculty about fresh, innovative approaches to teaching the law.
In 2010, Michele “Shelly” Skeens Hazel, a 1979 Elon College graduate, and her family, including daughter Alix Hazel ’09, established The Skeens-Watson Visiting Professor of Law fund through a $500,000 gift.
In 2009, the McMichael Family Foundation made a $2 million gift to Elon Law, establishing the largest scholarship endowment at the school. The gift continued the McMichael family’s rich philanthropic tradition at the university. Dalton L. McMichael’s daughter, Gail M. Drew Lane, of Durham, N.C., is a university trustee and law school donor. Her annual gift to the law school’s scholarship fund supports annual Drew Scholars. In 2009, Greensboro philanthropists and members of Elon Law’s national advisory board Bonnie McElveen Hunter and Robert E. “Bobby” Long, Jr. gave $250,000 each to create the endowed Sandra Day O’Connor Professorship. The professorship serves as a tribute to Justice O’Connor’s service to the nation, encouraging law students to follow her example by becoming exceptional lawyers and effective community leaders. Also in 2009, trustee Vicky Hunt and her husband, Sam, of Burlington, N.C., made a $100,000 gift to to endow the scholarship that bears their names. The Hunts received the university’s Frank S. Holt Jr. Business Leadership Award in 2005 in recognition of their contributions to civic and business communities. In 2010, a $100,000 charitable remainder trust from Helen Ellington established the Banks Arendell Scholarship. Ellington
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