PRINCESS ANNE — (June 30, 2011) — A seven-year effort to raise $14 million for endowed scholarships and educational projects at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore ends today roughly $1 million ahead of its goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We’ve done very, very well,” said Veronique Diriker, director of development. “We’re very grateful to the community at large.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the Campaign for Excellence started in 2004, the university’s endowment was $7.6 million. Now it is $18.6 million — a $9 million gain in spite of drops in the stock market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the gifts was the largest ever made to a historically black college in Maryland — $3 million from the late Richard Hazel to fund teacher-education scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UMES also received $1.5 million from the Richard Henson Foundation for endowment for scholarships to assist entrepreneurial-minded students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the campaign benefited from large donations such as Henson’s and Hazel’s, the largest donor category was alumni, said Kimberly Dumpson, director of alumni affairs and planned giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UMES graduates made gifts ranging from small annual amounts up to $355,000 from Allen Singleton from the Class of 1959, the largest single alumni donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“They really helped energize the campaign,” Dumpson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOther UMES alumni made $10,000 donations to establish endowed scholarships, including retired Wicomico County educators Loretta and Daniel Savoy of Salisbury, and former WBOC news director and anchorman Bill Jones<\/strong> of Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another scholarship was recently established in memory of the late Del. Page Elmore<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> who was instrumental in bringing a pharmacy program to UMES. The scholarships in his name will go to Eastern Shore residents accepted into the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “That was something he strongly believed in,” Diriker said of Elmore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to donations, thousands of dollars for the campaign were raised during the annual UMES Gala<\/strong><\/a>, which has attracted Hollywood stars such as Sharon Stone and Lou Gossett Jr. and Grammy Award winners B.B. King and Dionne Warwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The money donated to the campaign goes to help students like rising sophomore Breonna Evans<\/strong><\/a> of Melfa, who has a 4.0 grade point average and plays on the women’s basketball team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evans, who just finished her freshman year, attends UMES on a full academic scholarship — something she doesn’t take for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It makes me even more motivated,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A final feather in the cap of retiring University of Maryland Eastern Shore President Thelma Thompson comes in the form of good news on the fundraising front. A seven-year effort to raise $14 million for endowed scholarships and other educational projects at the Princess Anne campus has, despite the interruption of a major economic recession in the past few years, reached an end with $1 million more than its goal. In 2004, when the Campaign for Excellence was launched, the school’s endowment fund was $7.6 million; today it is $1<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Nearly $15 million raised for UMES Money to go toward scholarship fund By LIZ HOLLAND, staff writer, The Daily Times PRINCESS ANNE — (June 30, 2011) — A seven-year effort to raise $14 million for endowed scholarships and educational projects at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore ends today roughly $1 million…Read more Nearly $15 million raised for UMES<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}