Endowments

Since 1838, 51茶馆 has benefitted from the foresight of generous donors who have understood that permanent endowment funds are an important investment in the continuing success of the College.

Endowments are permanent funds: the College鈥檚 investment portfolio. The corpus of these funds is never spent; however, the earnings provide crucial annual resources.

Earnings from 51茶馆鈥檚 endowment help fund scholarships, academic and extracurricular programs; faculty salaries and professional development; preserving our beautiful campus and more.

The following is a list of 51茶馆鈥檚 permanent endowment funds.

Endowments as of June. 7, 2024

Endowment Fund Description

Class of 1933 Fund
Class of 1934 Fund
Class of 1939 Fund
Class of 1950
Class of 1953 Scholarship Fund
Class of 1955 Fund
1958 60th Reunion Scholarship
Class of 1959 Endowment Fund
Class of 1960 Scholarship
Class of 1965 Finch Chapel Endowment
Class of 1980 Scholarship Fund
Nell Davis Abels Organ Scholarship Fund
Sallye Joyce Via Anderson ’55 Education Scholarship Fund
Carey Atkins Andes Endowed Fund
B Ross Angel Endowed Scholarship
Katherine Boyd Anthony Music Scholarship
Hannah R. Bagwell Music Scholarship
Paul M. Barringer Scholarship
Madeline Boren Music Scholarship
Martha Foster Bradberry and Dr. Olena Bunn Scholarship Fund
Bradshaw Scholarship
Kristin Brady ’13 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Mark Steven Brealey Scholarship
Letha Brock Scholarship
Brock Museum Endowment
Broome Family Scholarship
Clara D. Brown Art Award
Bryan Faculty Development Endowment
Joseph M. Bryan, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Blanche Burrus Piano Scholarship
Irving and Lorraine Busack Memorial Fund
Guy L. Byerly Scholarship
William D. Caffrey Scholarship
W. C. Calton Scholarship
The Beulah B. Cameron Scholarship
Campbell Chair of Writing
The Kevin N. Childers Scholarship Fund
Mary Jewel Cilley Music Endowment
Crissie Brown Clark Scholarship
Mary Jane Clement Scholarship
Coley Family Scholarship
Mary Hearne Compton Memorial Scholarship
Marion Covington Scholarship
Hazel Brookshire Crawford Scholarship Fund
Decatur Cunningham, Jr. Golf Program Endowment
Lucy and Letitia Evans Curtis Scholarship
Myrtis Davis Scholarship
Enzer Smith Dean Scholar
Margaret Andrews DeHaan Fund
Dilts-Newton UMC Scholarship Fund
Dr. Fletcher and Mrs. Juanita Dorsett 1936 Scholarship
Mary Herring Duncan Endowed Scholarship Fund
Judith Harris Eason ’65 Scholarship
Eva Marie Kramer Edwards Scholarship
Sayde Ripple Edwards Scholarship Fund
Gwendolyn Mitchell Farrell Presidential Scholarship Fund
Richard Scott Fee Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Frances and Ernest Fitzgerald Presidential Scholarship Fund
Michael B. Fleming Scholarship
Irene Fowler Gambill Endowed Scholarship Fund
George Faculty Development Fund
George Honors Program
Gibson Scholarship Fund
Ginn Excellence in English Award
Daphne Smith Ginnings Award
Virginia Clarke Gray Teaching Award
Joann Gaddy Grimes Scholars
Grimsley-Beaman Memorial Scholarship
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Haley Scholarship Fund
Hardee Christian Service Award
Thomas & Susan Harrell Scholarship
Olivia Johnson Harris Scholarship Fund
William Randolph Hearst Scholarship
Josephine W. and William H. Hickey Presidential Scholarship Fund
Anne Exum Hinnant Scholarship
Historical Book Club
Margaret Umberger Holton Scholarship
Dr. JoAnn Padley Hunt ’56 Scholarship Fund
Harold H. Hutson Award
Jefferson Pilot Professor
Jefferson-Pilot Scholarship
Linda Jennings Scholarship
Beatrice and Dillard Jones Presidential Scholarship Fund
Beatrice & W. Dillard Jones Scholarship
Kearns-Watson Scholarship
Luella P. Knott Music Award
Knowles Scholarship
Horace R. Kornegay Political Science Scholarship
Lynn Lewis Lane & Patrick Lane Scholarship Fund
Ora Lee Thompson Lane Class of 1923, John Haywood Lane Sr., and Family Scholarship
Julia Cherry and Estelle Lawing Presidential Scholarship Fund
Laws & Esten Parks Award
Alia Ross Lawson Music Endowment
Gordon Graves Lea Memorial Scholarship
Levy-Loewenstein Holocaust Collection Endowment
Likins Lifelong Learning Award
Helen and Al Lineberry Presidential Scholarship Fund
Donna Llewellyn Memorial Scholarship in Education
Ann P. Lojko Staff Awards Endowed Fund
Linda Gray Greene Magruder Scholarship
Barbara Mason Endowment Fund
The Molly McConnell Micah 6:8 Scholarship
Harriet Darlene Medina Scholarship
Eva Moore Scholarship
George and Minnie Moore Fund
Moring/Craven Scholarship
Ruth Balsam Morton Scholarship Fund
George Norman Memorial Scholarship
Mary Alice Foard Paddison Endowed SF
Angela Ward Pate Endowed Fund
The Odelle Peacock Marsh 1922 and Dr. Dred Peacock Scholarship Endowment Fund
Mark L. Pollard ’66 and Carol S. Pollard Fund for a Person of Color Scholarship in Business and/or Accounting
Jessie Simmons Pope Scholarship
Hazel Carlyle Powell History Scholarship
J. Hampton & Sallie H. Price Scholarship
Fred Proctor Chair of Business
Proctor Family Trust – Special Education
Fred & Myrtle Proctor Scholarship
Charles E. Pugh and Anna Hancock Pugh Scholarship
Kathryn Thompson Remmey Scholarship Fund
Royce & Jane Reynolds Faculty Development Fund
Reynolds Religious Life and Ministry Program
Helen Rudisill Ridenhour Scholarship Fund
J. Marcus Ritchie Scholarship
Lucy Robertson Chair of Religious Education
Hannah Washburn Robinson Scholarship
Will and Sarah Condon Rodgers Memorial Scholarship Fund
C. Edward Roy Scholarship Fund
Linda and Alton Russell Student Biology Fellowships
H. E. “Nick” and Dorothy “Dot” Steedman ’49 Shoaf Scholarship Endowment Fund
Mary Ann Mitchell Sikes ’47 Scholarship Endowment Fund
Elizabeth Wagg Simons Scholarship
Marvin Skaggs History Award
Nannie Lee Smith Scholarship
Dr. Raymond A. Smith Scholarship
Smith-Thomas Endowed Scholarship
Margaret Boylan Smoot Scholarship
Sociology Award
Majelle Morris Soles Presidential Scholarship Fund
Marshall T. Spears, Jr. Presidential Scholarship
Sarah Anne Stafford Scholarship
Elizabeth Newton Day Steagall Memorial Fund
Robert and Maggie Stout Endowment Fund
Freda and Elizabeth Strong Scholarship Fund
Leah Louise B. Tannenbaum Scholarship
Dr. Willie Taylor Student Leader Scholarship Fund
Betsy Thomson Memorial Scholarship
Margaret ‘Tosie’ Moser Thomson SF
Patricia Hughes Troxler ’60 Scholarship Endowment
Virginia Carter Tucker Scholarship
Annie Pitts & G. W. Vick Scholarship
Visiting Writer-in-Residence
Lucy Carr Voliva Scholarship
Wallace Family Scholarship
Joseph Paul and Miriam Mckenzie Wallace Scholarship
Jean Fortner Ward Lecture Series Endowment Fund
Margaret and Wilson Weldon Presidential Scholarship Fund
E L Williams Music Scholarship Fund
Judith Williams Scholar Artist Award
Susan Ashby Wolfe Scholarship
Women in Philanthropy and Leadership
Robert & Bessie Wood Scholarship
Stephen S. and Mary Lena F. Wyatt Scholarship Fund
The William P. Zink and Mildred Whitener Auman Scholarship Fund