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14-November-1997 
97432 
 
    College News 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
STAUNTON, Va.--The Sara Lee Foundation has announced its Frontrunner Awards 
for 1997 in celebration of the achievements of women. The honorees are Rita 
Dove, Sarah Brady, Katherine Graham, and Sandra Day O' Connor. The 
Foundation is contributing $50,000 in each frontrunner's name to a 
nonprofit organization. Dove has designated that her donation go the 
Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College, in particular 
for minority recruitment for that program. The four women were honored Nov. 
6 at an event at the National Museum of the Arts in Washington, D.C. Dove 
is the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She 
served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, the 
youngest person and the first African American to receive the highest 
official honor in American letters. 
 
SWANNANOA, N.C.--Two $25,000 scholarships in the names of William S. Lee 
III and Elizabeth A. Harkey have been presented to Warren Wilson College by 
the Myers Park Presbyterian Church of Charlotte. The endowed scholarships 
came out of the church's Linking God's Children Campaign, co- chaired by 
Lee and Harkey, which raised $3.5 million for the education of local and 
international students. Bill Lee, who died in 1996, was chief executive 
officer of what is now Duke Energy Co., where he worked for 40 years. He 
served the Myers Park congregation as a ninth-grade Sunday school teacher, 
a deacon and an elder. Lib Harkey, a member of the Church Relations Council 
of Warren Wilson College, was one of the first women to be elected an elder 
at Myers Park Presbyterian Church. She has served as board chair of the 
Florence Crittendon Home and Sharon Towers, and as the president of the 
Charlotte YWCA. 
 
ELKINS, W. Va.-A $50,000 trust fund to ensure the continued upkeep of 
Halliehurst Mansion (circa 1890) at Davis & Elkins College, has been 
established by Ralph and Mary Frances Shepler, both former trustees and the 
principal benefactors in the restoration of the mansion. Halliehurst, the 
former summer home of U.S. Sen. Stephen B. Elkins, a Davis & Elkins 
founder, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 
1982, was restored solely with private funds, and local workers were hired 
to complete the work over a period of several years. 
 
KERRVILLE, Texas--The executive committee of the Schreiner College board of 
trustees recently chose Century Development of Houston to build its new 
200-bed campus housing complex. The complex is projected to cost 
approximately $4.4 million. The facility at Schreiner will be managed by 
the college and will consist of six buildings on the northeast edge of the 
campus. One building will comprise two four-bedroom, two-bath units and 
eight efficiency units, geared toward students who are married and/or with 
families. Students who are upperclass persons will have first choice of the 
remaining units. Construction is expected to begin as early as mid-January 
1998 and the complex should be completed by the fall semester of 1998. 

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