Endowed Chairs and Professorships Dinner

The Endowed Chairs and Professorships Dinner is held each year to celebrate one of the most revered traditions of higher education: endowed faculty positions and the generous and visionary donors who created them. Endowed faculty positions are among the most prestigious and enduring investments a donor can make, helping us prepare our Horned Frogs to take the lead on becoming a force for the greater good.

This year’s dinner was held February 20 and featured a panel discussion on Vision in Action: Lead On. The following newly-established positions as well as the donors to those positions were honored: the Andrews Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the John V. Roach Honors College, founded by Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Andrews,Jr.; the Andrews Chair of Mathematics & Science Education, founded by Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Andrews Jr. and the inaugural holder, Dr. Molly H. Weinburgh; the Don L. Smith, MD, Endowed Chair of Pre-Health Professions founded by Dr. Philip C. Bechtel; and, the Paula R. and Rondald C. Parker Endowed Professorship in Nursing founded by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Parker.

The evening also introduced Dr. Mary J. Waller as the new M.J. Neeley Professor in Management, established by Dr. M.J. Neeley; Dr. Darren J. N. Middleton as the new John F. Weatherly Professor in Religion, established by the Weatherly Family; and, Dr. Michelle M. Bauml as the A.J. and Edna Pickett Endowment for the Clotilda Winter Professor of Education Chair, established by the estate of Clotilda Winter.

Prior to the dinner, the students of the Andrews Institute of Mathematics & Science Education provided interactive science and math stations where guests had the opportunity to learn and enjoy.