Former students and friends of the Department of Construction Science have created the James C. Smith 70 Endowed Professorship in honor of the outgoing head of the department. Income from the $150,000 fund will support the teaching, research and professional activities of a faculty member in the department whose work reflects the importance of relationships between academic programs and the construction industry. Initial donors to the professorship are Leslie Feigenbaum 80, Ronald J. Gafford 72, Charles L. Greco 78, Herbert C. Hale, Jr. 52, R. Stan Marek 69, Bryan Mitchell 70, Jack Morris 52, John R. Richardson 68, and James R. Thompson 68.
Similarly, George W. Seagraves 80 of Alexandria, VA, has established a $25,000 endowed scholarship in the name of Michael D. Murphy 61, of one of his former professors in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Seagraves notes that Murphy, who joined the faculty in 1969, continues to have a positive influence on each succeeding generation of landscape architecture students.
Larry Zuber, director of development for the college, said the positive influence of a faculty member is the reason many former students donate to the college.
What a faculty member did for a person when they were in college, and what faculty members continue to do for their students and their disciplines, are tremendously important factors in someones decision to make a gift, he said.
For more information on honoring a faculty member with an endowment, contact Zuber at (979)845-0939 or l-zuber@tamu.edu.
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Michael D. Murphy
James C. Smith
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