Memorial Gift Will Provide Educational
Opportunities for Tri-County Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/8/05
CONTACT: LINDA ELLIOTT, 646-1807
(By Lisa Garrett)
PENDLETON --- The late Nancy Garrison identified with the kinds of
students Tri-County Technical College serves and wanted to provide them
with opportunities to prepare for good jobs that would improve the
quality of their lives.
Ms. Garrison's memorial gift of $115,200 to the College will enable
its
Foundation to award five scholarships each year, in addition to the
scholarship jointly endowed by her; her brother, Senator T. Ed
Garrison, of Anderson; and her sister, Sara Cox, deceased. The
Garrison siblings endowed this scholarship in memory of their cousin,
Donald McPhail, who was a command sergeant major during World War II,
served in the Seventh Armored Division and was part of the Battle of
the Bulge, December 1944 ? January 1945.
"Nancy recognized the role that Tri-County plays in our community,"
said Linda Elliott, vice president of Institutional Advancement. "Her
bequest will provide educational opportunities for students who will
continue to live and work in the community where Ms. Garrison was born
and reared. The scholarship is evidence of her love of this
community."
Born April 16, 1923, on a farm in Anderson County, Nancy was the
youngest of four children. She left home following high school
graduation to attend Winthrop College and graduated in 1943. She moved
to Tennessee, where she worked for Tennessee Eastman Corporation in
Oak
Ridge. Her job was tracking inventory that she later discovered was
a
top-secret project that involved the processing of the material to make
the atomic bomb. She retired from her job in Oak Ridge in 1985.
"Before and after retirement, Aunt Nancy traveled and enjoyed
politics," said Gaye Garrison Sprague, her niece. "She cared
about her
community, her country, and the world and was a generous donor to many
causes. Her careful study of the stock market allowed her to build an
estate from which several charities and colleges benefited," said
Mrs.
Sprague.
"Tri-County's vision is to become the role model for all community
college education," said Mrs. Elliott. "As our president,
Dr. Ronnie
Booth, has said, the College will work to create the kind of legacy
that will make those who come after us proud and grateful for the work
we have done.
"Supported by a strong Commission and Foundation Board, the College
is
creating a legacy every day through the work it does to improve lives
and the community. The College's donors, like Ms. Garrison, are
assisting in this legacy building, touching individually students and
academic departments. Donors are making their mark on tomorrow's world
through naming Tri-County as a beneficiary in their wills or through
planned gifts, trusts, insurance policies, retirement plans and other
estate planning instruments."
"Ms. Garrison's generous bequest is a way to make a tangible and
lasting gift to the College," said Mrs. Elliott. "Her generosity
will
play a role in the lives of students for years to come."
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