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Gift means no tuition worries for 2 students

Yvonne and Clyde Edwards
Yvonne and Clyde Edwards
06/15/2009

OXFORD, Miss. - Meeting four students who were University of Mississippi scholarship recipients several years ago proved to be a seminal event for UM alumni Clyde and Yvonne Edwards. As a result, the Edwardses recently created two Ole Miss First scholarships and provided further funding to supplement existing scholarships.

“Meeting those four young people gave us insight into how much scholarships can help when you can’t afford to go to school,” said Clyde Edwards.

The Clyde and Yvonne Edwards Ole Miss First scholarships will award full tuition for four years for two students  




Alumnus Reconnects with Childhood Friend Through Fourth UM Scholarship

Jahmai Hodges with parents Eddie and Lisa Hodges
Jahmai Hodges with parents Eddie and Lisa Hodges
05/19/2009

OXFORD, Miss. - When University of Mississippi alumnus Larry Johnson created a new scholarship to honor his parents, he had no idea it would also reconnect him with a childhood friend. But that’s just what the Landmark Foundation Ole Miss First Scholarship in Memory of Swede and Alleene Johnson has done.

A 1960 graduate of UM’s business school and a 1962 graduate of the law school, Johnson said that Jahmai Hodges, the recipient of the four-year, full-tuition scholarship “turned out, to my surprise, to be the grandson of a childhood playmate, Prentiss “Sonny” Robins, whom I’ve not  



Gifts Support Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, Ole Miss First

Chancellor Robert Khayat with Joc and Leigh Anne Carpenter
Chancellor Robert Khayat with Joc and Leigh Anne Carpenter
10/15/2008

OXFORD, Miss. – For James “Joc” Carpenter, helping make possible the $1.5 million gift to the University of Mississippi was a little bit like playing Santa Claus.                           

Carpenter, an Ole Miss alumnus who lives in Port Gibson, is one of a handful of members serving on the board of the Madison Charitable Foundation, a private organization created and funded by his long-time friend Wiley Hatcher of Houston, Tex.                                

Hatcher’s motivation for giving the money away?                                                                            

“He said he wanted to help people in need,” Carpenter said. “That was the instruction. It was that  




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