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28-July-1998 
98237 
 
    College News 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
ELKINS, W. Va.-G. Thomas Mann, a long-time faculty member and senior 
administrator in higher education, assumed his duties as president of Davis 
& Elkins College July 1 upon the retirement of president Dorothy I. 
MacConkey, who had served as chief executive officer since 1984. Mann joins 
the college after serving since 1991 as vice president for academic affairs 
and dean of the college and as interim president (1994-95) at West Virginia 
Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. He is an elder at First Presbyterian Church 
in Buckhannon. 
 
LAURINBURG, S.C.-St. Andrews Presbyterian College has received a $1 million 
pledge from a generous benefactor who wishes to remain nameless. The pledge 
comes less than a month after the college raised more than $1 million 
through the highly successful Laurinburg Area Campaign. The million-dollar 
donor is from North Carolina, but did not wish to be otherwise identified. 
The campaign, which ended May 31, easily surpassed its half-million-dollar 
goal, raising $526,191. The Morgan Foundation of Laurel Hill then presented 
a matching gift of $560,000, propelling the local campaign above the 
million-dollar mark. 
 
GREENEVILLE, Tenn.-Tusculum College has received a $35,000 scholarship fund 
grant from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation of Princeton, N.J. The 
money will be used for economically disadvantaged and/or minority students. 
Twenty thousand dollars of the scholarship fund will be used in the 1998-99 
academic year, while $15,000 is a challenge grant to encourage other donors 
to build the Charlotte W. Newcombe Endowed Scholarship Fund, part of the 
college's permanent endowment, which the foundation established at the 
college in 1988 in memory of Mrs. Newcombe. The college has to match the 
$15,000 with $30,000 in endowment monies for the Fund in order to claim the 
challenge. A native of Philadelphia, Newcombe was a lifelong Presbyterian 
and supportive of Presbyterian-related causes. 
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Queens College recently announced that Florida businessman 
John H. Sykes has made a $5 million commitment - the largest gift in the 
college's history - to the McColl School of Business at Queens. Sykes' gift 
will provide the needed funds to construct a state-of-the-art addition to 
the Dana Building, which houses the McColl School of Business. The new 
facility will be named the John H. Sykes Business Learning Center and will 
offer additional space for new programs in the McColl School. "I have been 
truly blessed throughout my life," said Sykes, a Charlotte native who now 
resides in Tampa, Fla. "My wife, Susan, and I are delighted to have this 
opportunity to give back to Queens College in support of this important 
project and to further enhance the Charlotte community we love so much." 

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