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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN,
WHERE
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Anheuser-Busch professorship for rice genetics
Jewel Minnis Trust provides endowment
Sealed Air donates equipment and scholarship money
Seed dealers and Talberts endow scholarship
Wilda McMurry endows fellowship fund
Student research grants awarded
Division hosts national spinach conference
Haggard named ARS Scientist of the Year
Grad students will study in Belgium
ASID students host national officer
Interior Design builds shelters
Horticulture honors alumni and friends
Discovery student journal published
David Pryor keynotes POSC program
Endowed chairs and professors honored
Alums help launch Pioneer Biofuels
Patent issued for herbicide-resistant rhizobia
Faculty and staff photo
to go in centennial time capsule
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Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
A newsletter for faculty, staff and students
November-December 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 6
Jewel Minnis Trust endows scholarship fund
The Jewel Minnis Trust has endowed a fund to provide full-tuition scholarships for Bumpers College Honors Academy students. The Trust was created in 1964 as a bequest by Jewel Minnis of Roe, in southern Monroe County.
The Trust is providing $200,000 to be matched by the University’s Matching Gift Program for a total endowment of $400,000.
The Trust has awarded over $2 million in scholarships for students at the Fayetteville, Little Rock, Monticello, Pine Bluff, Medical Sciences and Law School campuses. Trustees are J. Baxter Sharp III and Lehman Fowler, both of Brinkley, and Dave Lee of Clarendon.
Jewel Minnis, who taught third grade in the Brinkley public schools from about 1926 to 1940, inherited extensive land holdings accumulated mostly by her mother’s first husband, Civil War veteran Capt. L.N. Williams. In her will, she designated that income from an 800-acre farm be used to provide scholarships and for other charitable purposes.