The National Alumni Association honored 32 new endowments and one deferred donor at the Alumni Scholarship Recognition dinner in September of 2023. These scholarships will be available to be awarded to students for the 2024-2025 academic year:  

IN-STATE CHAPTERS 

Chilton County Chapter    
The Giles/Graves Family Endowed Undergraduate Nursing Scholarship  

Choctaw County Chapter    
The Dr. Robert Douglas Land Endowed Scholarship  

Covington County Chapter    
The Katherine Carlene Wells Memorial Endowed Scholarship  

Dale County Chapter    
The Ozark Presbyterian Church Endowed Scholarship  

Dallas-Wilcox Counties Chapter    
The David & Jenifer Saylors Endowed Scholarship  

DeKalb County Chapter    
The Hurtt/Killian Endowed Scholarship  

Houston-Henry Counties Chapter    
The Michael and BB Saunders Endowed Scholarship  
The Linda Lane-Overton Endowed Adapted Athletic Scholarship  

Jefferson County Chapter    
The Greg Maxwell Memorial Endowed Scholarship 
The Clyde W. Pearce, Sr. Emerging Teacher Endowed Scholarship  
The Dolly and Jim Walker Pre-Med Endowed Scholarship  
The Dale Scivley Emerging Entrepreneur Endowed Scholarship  

Lauderdale County Chapter    
The Rachel and Bill Cadenhead Memorial Endowed Scholarship  
The Mims and Jeannie Rogers Endowed Scholarship  

Chattahoochee Valley Bama Club Chapter    
The Roy and Miriam Lane Endowed Scholarship  

Shelby County Chapter    
The Mike C. Brooks III Memorial Endowed Scholarship  
The Frank L. Treece Memorial Endowed Scholarship  

Tallapoosa-Coosa-Clay Counties Chapter    
The Dedie and Bill Hendrix Endowed Scholarship  
The Elaine M. Gwaltney Endowed Scholarship  

Tuscaloosa County Chapter    
The Wylo Dene Toxey Memorial Endowed Scholarship  
The Luke Jackson Whetstone Memorial Endowed Scholarship  
The James C. Bambarger Memorial Endowed Scholarship  

OUT-OF-STATE CHAPTERS 

Tucson Arizona Chapter    
The Tide in Tucson Endowed Scholarship  

Atlanta Georgia Chapter    
The McLain-Cole “Make A Difference” Endowed Scholarship  

Chattanooga Tennessee Chapter    
The Richard L. Collins & Terry S. Nida Memorial Endowed Scholarship  

Knoxville-East Tennessee Chapter    
The Zachary J. Veum Memorial Endowed Scholarship  

Nashville-Middle Tennessee Chapter   
The UA Nashville Alumni Endowed Scholarship  
The Van Cleave Family Endowed Nursing Scholarship  

Austin Texas Chapter    
The Austin Texas Alumni Chapter Endowed Scholarship  

Dallas-Fort Worth Texas Chapter    
The Weiss-Willingham Family Endowed Scholarship  

Houston Texas Chapter   
The Kip Altstaetter Endowed Scholarship  
The Houston Emerging Leader Endowed Scholarship 

Planned Giving

The National Alumni Association and The University of Alabama are extraordinarily grateful to the generous alumni and friends who remember the University through a will or other estate plan. These visionary gifts assist deserving students through scholarship awards and enrich their educational experience by supporting a multitude of campus programs. Gifts such as these enable the University to remain the Capstone of higher education.

Deferred gifts can be a bequest gifts of a set amount or as a percentage from your estate. If you are interested in establishing a scholarship with the National Alumni Association through a deferred gift, contact Deborah Parr, Director of Scholarships and Endowments via email at dparr@alumni.ua.edu or 205-348-7398.

Deferred Gifts for Scholarships 

Listed below are donors who have directed a deferred gift to the National Alumni Association for scholarship purposes through generosity in their estate planning. 

Mary Sue Cain 
Ginnye Ansley Capps 
James G. Carroll 
Melanie Walthall Chambliss 
Marilyn Green Douglass 
Robert C. Douglass, Jr. 
James W. Ezell, Jr. 
Walter A. Griess 
Marshall H. Groom 
Louis Mays 
Ronald Q. Patterson 
Nancy Richeson Siniard 
Jimmy and Emily Warren 
Pat and Joyce Whetstone 
Eric White 
David and Liza Wilson 
Carolyn Walker Wood 
Denise Smith Woods 

Capstone Alumni Legacy Society 

This scholarship endowment program allows alumni to make contributions to the NAA through annual payments on life insurance policies.

Clyde A. Blankenship
John Marcus Cassimus
Lawrence R. Clark
Patricia C. Clark
Alan Thomas Crafton
Scott Crafton
Charles (Ronnie) Dixon
Alex O. Gatewood
Marshall S. Ginsburg
Susan S. Ginsburg
Charles Ingalls
Dennis Morgan
Charles A. Norwood
Fredrick L. Richards
Boyd M. Thames

Not all deferred-gift donors are listed; some wish to remain anonymous. The National Alumni Association expresses its sincere gratitude to all donors for their generous support.