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12-January-1999 
99010 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Eckerd College announced in November that it had 
received an unexpected 
gift of $870,976 from the Fred L. May trust. The bequest was recommended to 
the General Assembly last June by a General Assembly Council task force 
created to distribute the proceeds of the May estate. The funds will be 
used to endow scholarships for Presbyterian students who are nominated by 
pastors of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for Eckerd's prestigious Church 
and Campus Scholarships. Eckerd College  founded in 1958, is a private, 
co-educational college of liberal arts and sciences related by covenant to 
the PC(USA). 
 
MARYVILLE, Tenn.-Maryville College has announced a successful start of its 
$16 million fund-raising campaign, "The MC2000 Campaign, a Vision for the 
Year 2000 and Beyond."  The campaign has already raised more than $10 
million toward its goal, according to Dr. Gerald Gibson, the college's 
President.   The MC2000 campaign is an outgrowth of  the MC2000 Strategic 
Plan, which was authorized by the school's board of directors in 1994 to 
establish the goals of the college and to keep it on course as it enters 
the 21st century. 
 
MONTREAT, N.C.-Internationally known fresco artist Ben Long has joined the 
staff of Montreat College as the Hamilton Gallery artist in residence. 
Long will begin teaching courses on Jan. 12. The artist, born in Texas in 
1945, grew up in Statesville, N.C., and attended the University of North 
Carolina in Chapel Hill. He studied painting at the Art Student's League in 
New York City. In 1970 he went  to Florence, Italy, where he spent seven 
years as an apprentice to the master artist Pietro Annigoni, mastering 
techniques, including oil, tempera and fresco. Long will teach two classes 
- Anatomy & Figure Drawing, and Technique & Portraiture. 
 
SWANNANOA, N.C.-The Environmental Leadership Center at Warren Wilson 
College has been awarded a $30,000 grant by the Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Professional Development program  to develop a model partnership with 
Asheville and Buncombe county public schools. The grant will be used to 
help establish a model program designed to strengthen science and math 
instruction in middle and high schools. The program, Global Learning and 
Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), comprises a worldwide 
network of students, teachers and scientists working together to study and 
understand the global environment. An educational program and a research 
project, GLOBE is a collaboration that includes NASA, the National Science 
Foundation, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association and the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

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