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4-March-1997 
97105 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
RALEIGH, N.C.--Peace College has announced the undertaking of the public 
phase of its "Pathways to Excellence Campaign" to raise $14.5 million. The 
campaign seeks to raise significant funds for scholarships, professorships, 
academic programs, enhancements, annual funds and capital initiatives. 
Support will be sought from alumnae, friends, organizations, foundations 
and from various governing boards of the college. The silent phase of the 
campaign has already reached a total of $4.5 million, according to college 
officials. 
 
BRISTOL, Tenn.--King College was recently awarded a $30,000 scholarship 
grant from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc. The fund will be used 
for general scholarships during the 1997-98 academic year, marking the 
fifth consecutive year King has been awarded a grant from the Whitehead 
Foundation.  Chartered in 1946, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation is a 
charitable private foundation in Atlanta dedicated to the support of needy 
women in nine southeastern states. Grants are awarded annually to selected 
accredited educational institutions. More than 200 institutions participate 
in the scholarship program. 
 
WOOSTER, Ohio--The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles has renewed its 
support of the Keck Geology Consortium with a grant of $900,000 to the 
College of Wooster and 11 other national liberal arts colleges for 
continued support of programs to foster cooperative student-faculty 
research projects during the next two years. Foundation funding, which 
totals $4.4 million during the course of the past 10 years, allows the 
schools to share geology research, equipment and ideas through 
student-faculty symposia, workshops and four-to-six-week summer research 
projects conducted all around the world. 
 
CLINTON, S.C.--A 1996 series in "The (Columbia) State" newspaper on church 
burnings in South Carolina has been awarded the 1997 Hammet Award, 
presented by Presbyterian College.  The Hammet Award, first awarded in 
1993, recognizes responsible, ethical and courageous work in broadcast or 
print journalism and is open to journalists in South Carolina and Georgia. 
A $2,500 cash award is presented to the Hammet Award winner by the 
college's Russell Program, an endowed program that examines the influence 
of media on society. 

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