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Friends of CCU pledge toward stadium field house
Charlie Hodge |
Funding for the proposed athletic field house has received
a major boost from pledge commitments made recently by
longtime friends and supporters of the university. Charlie
Hodge, chair of Coastal Carolina University's board of
trustees, has made a $100,000 pledge toward the construction
of the facility. Strand Orthopaedic Associates and Coastal
Orthopaedic Consultants have jointly committed $150,000
to name the field house training/rehabilitation area.
Dr. Richard Ward of Strand Orthopaedic is chair of the
steering committee for athletic fundraising. Since 2000,
both Strand Orthopaedic and Coastal Orthopaedic Consultants
have provided professional medical services and support
to Coastal's Department of Athletics.
Hodge, a Spartanburg attorney, has served as board of trustees chair since July 2005. He is active in civic affairs in the upstate region of South Carolina, having served on the Spartanburg Red Cross Board and on the Salvation Army Advisory Council and as a Hospice volunteer. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1978 and a law degree in 1980 from the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Bar Association and American Bar Association. Hodge is board certified as a civil trial specialist.
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Coastal Educational Foundation receives grant from Target
More than 2,100 area children enjoyed the Junie B. Jones production this spring. |
The Coastal Educational Foundation received a $2,000 grant from Target to support
the presentation of the musical Junie B. Jones, on Thursday, February 2 and 3
at Coastal Carolina University for school children from Horry and Georgetown
counties.
The musical by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich and produced by Theatreworks USA is adapted from the series of children's books by Barbara Park. The series chronicles a girl entering the first grade.
The play was seen by approximately 2,100 students, ages kindergarten to sixth grade, from 15 area elementary schools.
The Coastal Educational Foundation is a nonprofit corporation that receives
and disburses charitable gifts in support of Coastal
Carolina University. The foundation was established
in 1954 for the purpose of advancing higher learning
in Horry County and was instrumental in the creation
of Coastal. The foundation meets quarterly.
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Good neighbor remembers Coastal
A Conway woman left a bequest in her will of more than $151,000 in scholarship money to Coastal Carolina University. Mildred "Millie" Carter Petrey, who died Feb. 15, 2005, left the university roughly 18 percent of her total assets, which will be used to provide financial help for students from Horry County high schools.
The gift establishes the Mildred Carter Petrey and Lawrence H. Petrey Endowed Scholarship, which will be awarded annually to graduates of Horry County schools. Coastal Carolina's Scholarship Committee will judge applicants yearly before awarding the scholarships.
Although neither Mildred nor Lawrence Petrey were officially associated with Coastal, a longtime neighbor said their involvement with the institution was very meaningful to them.
"I think they always had a great interest in the university," said Coastal professor emeritus Bob Squatriglia, who was a Quail Creek neighbor to the Petreys for 27 years. "They participated in various campus events and several of us employees kept them abreast of what was going on. They didn't have any kids, but they were always interested in youth. They were very generous to the college and to their church, First Baptist Church in Conway."
Squatriglia said the couple migrated from Silver Spring, Md., where Lawrence worked for the U.S. Defense Department and Mildred served as a civil service employee.
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Barrs establish endowed psychology scholarship
 Peter and Elizabeth Barr |
Coastal Carolina University Provost Peter B. Barr and his wife, Coastal professor Elizabeth K. Barr, have donated $50,000 to create an endowed scholarship for psychology students in Coastal's College of Natural and Applied Sciences.
The Elizabeth K. Barr Psychology Research Endowment will provide opportunities for undergraduate psychology students who wish to engage in research in psychology or other related fields. The endowment can be used to offset the costs of undergraduate research and can also be used for travel expenses to present research results at various conferences.
Potential recipients will be recommended by the chair of the Department of Psychology before the dean of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences reviews the candidates.
Elizabeth K. Barr, professor emeritus of psychology at Coastal, joined the school's faculty in 1974. She was named dean of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences in 1986 and served until 1996. She received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1965 before receiving both her master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her master's degree in education was awarded in 1970, and she earned a Ph.D. in counseling education four years later.
Peter B. Barr is provost and senior vice president of Coastal Carolina. The Marshall University alumnus served as dean of Coastal's E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration from 1992 to 2000. Barr joined Coastal's business faculty in 1987. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Marshall and a doctoral degree in the same field from Louisiana Tech University. From 2000 to 2002 he was a senior vice president at Burroughs & Chapin Company Inc.
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| Powers' gift supports special education program
A generous gift from Delton and Juli Streater Powers of Murrells Inlet has established the Juli Streater Powers Special Education Initiatives within Coastal's Spadoni College of Education.
Juli Powers, a Coastal alumna and former member of the university's board of trustees, and her husband Delton designated that their gift be used for seed money for Coastal's special education major, which began in 2004. The gift will purchase teaching and testing materials and equipment for the program.
"Special education is a program that requires a vast array of teaching aids and materials," said Gilbert Hunt, dean of the Spadoni College of Education. "This gift will meet a very immediate and important need in helping us prepare our students to teach children with special needs."
A native of Cheraw, Juli Powers earned a bachelor's degree from Coastal in 1979 in health and physical education. She was active for many years in civic affairs in Marlboro County and was director of the Marlboro Area Arts Council. She has been a teacher in the Chesterfield and Horry county school districts.
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| Scholarship honors slain officer
A scholarship in honor of Joe McGarry Jr., a police officer killed in the line of duty in Horry County, has been established at Coastal Carolina University.
The scholarship was established by the Rhode Island Police Officer's Emerald Society. Fundraising, golf tournaments and individual donations provide funding for the scholarship.
The scholarship is to be awarded to children of police officers with preference given to those who reside in Horry County.
McGarry, 28, was shot and killed while working as a Myrtle Beach police officer in 2002. He was a four-year veteran of the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
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| Ocean View Foundation gives scholarships
Forty students from the Grand Strand area have been awarded scholarships totaling $60,000 from the Ocean View Memorial Foundation Inc.
The Ocean View Memorial Foundation was organized in 1976 to provide grants and tuition scholarships to recipients in the Myrtle Beach area based on merit and need. For the past 25 years, the foundation's tuition assistance program has granted four-year scholarship assistance to deserving students in the Myrtle Beach area. The foundation currently provides $1,500 tuition assistance grants to 40 students, totaling $60,000. In the past five years, 18 scholarship students chose to enroll at Coastal.
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CCU alums give major gift for athletic field house
 Coastal alumni Mark Adkins, (left) and Will Adkins, (right)
pictured with head football coach David Bennett. |
Twin brothers Mark and Will Adkins, members of Coastal Carolina University's Class of 1989, have made a pledge of $300,000 to the university. Their pledge is a major contribution toward funding Coastal's proposed athletic field house and to the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration. It is also one of the largest pledged gifts the institution has ever received from alumni.
Originally from Huntington, W.Va., the Adkins brothers own a land development business, Adkins Land Group, based in Charlotte, N.C. The company, founded by the brothers in 1993, employs 120 people and conducts projects throughout the Southeast.
"We were at Coastal Carolina from ages 18 to 22," said Will Adkins. "These are the formative years of your life. We made great friends here, and we feel that Coastal helped 'mold' us."
The proposed athletic field house, a $6.5 million project, will be located near the end zone of Brooks Stadium on the Coastal campus. The facility will house locker rooms for football, baseball, softball and men's and women's soccer. It will have a weight room, medical training facility and office space. The Buddy Sasser Hall of Fame will also be a prominent feature of the building.
"The athletic program at Coastal, particularly football, has been a major factor in the growth of Coastal over the past few years," said Mark Adkins, "and it gives us a feeling of pride to be able to help, and to be a part of that growth."
The brothers, who both majored in business administration, live in Cornelius, N.C., where they are next door neighbors.
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Waccamaw Brick contributes to construction of bell tower
Graham Family Bell Tower construction completed with a donation from Waccamaw Brick. |
Waccamaw Brick, a division of Palmetto Brick Company, donated bricks used in campus construction projects that were initiated as part of Coastal's 50th Anniversary Initiatives.
The bricks were used in finishing work on Coastal's Charles L. Watson baseball stadium and on the Graham Family Bell Tower. Both projects were made possible by gifts the university received through the recent fundraising campaign. Improvements to the baseball field are the result of a gift from retired CCU faculty member and coach John Vrooman. The installation of the bell tower on campus was made possible by gifts from the family of Harvey Graham Jr. of Loris and from Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T).
"This generous gift from Waccamaw Brick allows Coastal Carolina to put the finishing touches on these projects," said Danny Nicholson, Coastal's vice president for University Advancement.
Coastal's 50th Initiatives, which had an original goal of $10 million, brought in just over $14 million. The campaign, the largest in Coastal's history, raised private funds to support the academic, physical and athletic needs of the university.
Headquartered in Cheraw, Palmetto Brick Company is South Carolina's largest family-owned and operated brick manufacturer. The company has five divisions: Roger Moore Division in Wilmington, N.C.; Union Masonry Division in Monroe, N.C.; Florence Division in Florence; Waccamaw Brick in Myrtle Beach; and Palmetto Brick in Cheraw.
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