Mother Goose endowment campaign raises $101K
In April 2013, Friends of the Library for the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library kicked off an endowment campaign to support the library’s children’s programs.
Gift from MUW alumna creates endowment
A gift from alumna Connie Kossen and her husband, Tom, will create the Kossen Teaching and Learning Endowment which will support faculty and innovative teaching approaches at Mississippi University for Women.
JSU raises nonblack enrollment, gains control of endowment
Jackson State University will become the second of Mississippi’s three historically black universities to gain control of an endowment set aside in a desegregation lawsuit.
Youngsters can add their ‘two cents’ to Mother Goose Endowment
The Mother Goose Endowment for Literacy and Advancement at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will soon benefit from the generosity of the community’s youngest citizens.
An artistic life: A retrospective and new endowment fund celebrate a life well-lived
Larry Feeney could write a book. But he would probably much prefer to draw one. It could illustrate the history of Mississippi University for Women’s art department and the community of visionaries who grew it during his 37-year tenure as a full-time instructor. The pages would be filled with the finely-drawn images he is known for, compelling images of luminous beauty and strength.
It’s ‘onward and upward’ for the Mother Goose Endowment fund
Edwina Williams sat down at the piano in the antebellum home Errolton the evening of April 1 to entertain, she thought, for a surprise birthday party. The surprise, as it turns out, was on her.
Library reveals ‘Mother Goose’ endowment drive
For a half-second Monday night, Edwina Williams was speechless. Known by everyone in Columbus as “Mother Goose,” she is usually found in costume (with her goose by her side), reading to children, or singing, playing the piano or performing as one of her other incarnations — Miz Claus or, most recently, Mrs. Easter Bunny.