Phillip C. Watkins, of Birmingham, has established The Elizabeth Dean Watkins-Blount Undergraduate Initiative Endowed Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is creating the scholarship in memory of his late wife, Elizabeth Dean Watkins. Phillip Watkins received his bachelor of science degree from the College in 1963 and his doctor of medicine from The University of Alabama Medical School in 1966. He is a cardiologist in private practice in Birmingham.  He is also a member of the President’s […]

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Edward O’Neil and Gayle Saldinger, of Alameda, California, have contributed $10,000 to establish the Slosberg and O’Neil Endowed Student Support Fund in New College. 
The fund honors the memories of Gayle Saldinger’s grandmother Irene Slosberg and Edward O’Neil’s parents, Edward and Inez O’Neil. It will be used to promote the education of students pursuing degrees through New College. Uses of the contribution may include funding students’ expenses associated with educational travel, conference attendance, service activities, research, and other learning endeavors. […]

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Elizabeth Crump of Montgomery has made a gift to create the Elizabeth B. Bashinsky Endowed Art Scholarship in honor of her maternal grandmother. Her gift of $17,180 will be matched by the Windgate Charitable Foundation of Arkansas. Bashinsky was born in 1867 in Dixon Springs, Tennessee. After graduating with honors from Columbia Institute in Tennessee, she moved to Troy, Alabama, where she was an elementary school teacher. She later married Leopold M. Bashinsky. They had three children, Helen, Leo and […]

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Through her $51,000 gift, UA alumna Farley Moody Galbraith of Anniston, Alabama has established The Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Art Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences. Selection priority will be given to students who are enrolled in the Department of Art in the College and who are pursuing degrees with concentrations in ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, or painting. Galbraith earned a bachelor of arts degree in history in the College in 1941. She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to […]

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University of Alabama graduates Stephen Alvin and Beverly Crawford Davis have established a support fund for the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. Support funds, which may be established for units of the College with a minimum of $10,000, provide for faculty academic needs including travel, conference fees, scholarships, and special equipment purchases. The Mobile, Alabama residents are both graduates of the College. 
Stephen Davis earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from UA in […]

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An endowed scholarship has been established in the name of Chris Hainsey, a student member of the Million Dollar Band, who, after a long battle with cancer, passed away in the fall of 2005. Hainsey’s parents, Brenda and Mike Hainsey of Columbus, Mississippi and his aunt and uncle Carol and Dennis Hainsey made a gift of $20,000 to establish the scholarship. Hainsey, who majored in secondary education with an emphasis in music in the College of Education, was from Columbus, […]

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An anonymous benefactor has given $12,000 to recognize the contributions of Anthony J. Arduengo III, Saxon Professor of Chemistry in the College, and to promote academic excellence in the Department of Chemistry. The gift will be used to establish and support a visiting lecture series that addresses a topic of relevance and importance to the area of physical organic chemistry. The intent of the lectures is to recognize contributions in these areas at UA. The Arduengo lectures will be held […]

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The late Robert H. Meier of Victor, Idaho provided an estate gift in memory of his wife to establish the Bettye L. Kerr Meier Endowed Student Support Fund in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education. He pledged $11,000 before his death in to support academic excellence in both colleges. Half the endowment earnings will be used to provide academic support to female undergraduate students enrolled in the School of Music, with preference given to members […]

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The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Summer Intensive program at The University of Alabama has established the Edith Barnes Endowed Scholarship with a $20,000 gift to the University.  ABT endowed the scholarship to pay tribute to Barnes’s role in promoting the education of students in the dance program, which is part of the Department of Theatre and Dance in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences.  
Priority will be given to full-time undergraduate students majoring in dance. Barnes served as director of […]

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Everett S. and F. Dianne Havard Jr. of Pensacola, FL have established the E.S. Havard Family Endowed Scholarship to honor Everett Havard’s father. The scholarship will provide support to incoming freshmen students enrolled full-time in the College. The scholarship may be renewed for subsequent years provided a student maintains a minimum “B” grade average and remains enrolled full-time in the College of Arts and Sciences. Everett S. Havard, Sr. was born in 1911 in Perdido, AL. He attended and played […]

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