John Griggs of Bank of America (center) with (left to right) Wall Fellows director William Woodson III and Wall Fellows Georgette Timmons, Beth Martin, Dario Grassini, Eric Quimby, David Serrano, Hana Artz. At far right is David DeCenzo, dean of the Wall College of Business Administration.

The Wall Fellows program was initiated in 1995 by the late Conway businessman E. Craig Wall Jr. to develop business graduates with stronger leadership, critical thinking and interpersonal skills.
Each year, up to eight students are admitted into the program, which focuses on communications skills, ethics, personal health and appearance, business and social etiquette, foreign languages and cultural skills.

“In many ways, business becomes more of an art than a science the further you progress,” said Griggs. “Through this program, students learn what is demanded from top management in the world’s premier firms.”

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Legacy Society Established
A Legacy Society to recognize donors of planned gifts has been established.
Special recognition will be given to those who have made commitments to the university through wills, trusts, gift annuities and life insurance policies.

Legal and financial professionals are being invited to participate in a Planned Giving Council and serve as advisers in the establishment of new members in the Legacy Society.

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Gift will promote classroom technology
The Ocean View Memorial Founda-tion has made a $15,000 donation that will be used to develop and promote the use of technology in classroom instruction. The donation will fund the development of instructional models designed to increase faculty usage of modern communications technology.

The gift will provide for the development of a program of six instructional modules focusing on the application of technology in instruction.

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We’re getting a Dell…40 of ‘em
Dell Computers has donated 40 desktop computers to the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration. The computers will be housed in the “Dell Classroom” and used in business statistics courses.

Other noncash gifts to the university during the year have included a forklift for the Department of Marine Science in the College of Natural and Applied Science; clothing to be used for costumes in theater productions and supplies for art classes within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts; and items to be given away as prizes for the College of Education’s Community Spring Festival. Many gift items were also donated to the CINO Club for the annual auction in support of Coastal’s NCAA Division I athletic programs.

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Coastal donors eligible for annuities
The Coastal Educational Foundation has approved the offering of Charitable Gift Annuities to Coastal donors.

Gift annuities are designed to benefit both the donor and the university. The donor receives assurance of a fixed rate of life income from the donation and the remainder of funds in the annuity will support the university. Gift annuities are offered to donors aged 55 or greater. The higher the age of the person receiving life income, the higher the rate offered.

Donations of at least $10,000 are necessary to establish gift annuities. The gift is invested by the university to provide income for the payments. In most cases, part of each payment made to the donor is tax-free, increasing each payment’s after-tax value.

For more information about charitable gift annuities, contact the Office of University Advancement.

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Phonathon successful
Every week night except Friday, September through December and February through April, a group of Coastal students gather in University Hall to work the phones, asking alumni to participate in Coastal’s Annual Fund.

The results of their labor is reflected in some very impressive statistics.
The phonathon pledge rate for the academic year 2002-2003 increased 323 percent over the previous year. The number of Coastal alumni who give to the Annual Fund increased from 7 percent to 21 percent. The phonathon has been a key element of the annual fund for more than a decade.

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