Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 15, 1990 TAG: 9005150474
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER SOUTHWEST BUREAU
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE LENGTH: Medium
When it is received, the money will be used to establish scholarships.
College President William F. Snyder announced the gift at the college's Honor Convocation. The college will receive the gift upon Sanders' death.
He gave Sanders, already on stage to present a scholarship during the program, a plaque and a membership in the President's Club of donors. "When the time comes," he said, "the Carolyn F. Sanders Scholars Program will be a significant one for WCC because of your generosity."
Among the nearly 30 awards presented were two established in memory of Nathaniel W. Pendleton and presented for the first time: the Distinguished Teacher Award to Yeu P. Hwu, who teaches physics and electronics at the college, and the Distinguished Service Award to Raymond K. Fulton, a Wytheville businessman who helped established the college here and has continued to work with it.
Both recipients returned the cash awards to the foundation.
Snyder quoted Sanders as saying she had not been educated and "haven't done a darned thing with my life" but he disagreed with both statements. "In my mind, she has a university of life degree in thoughtful living," he said. "She has made a difference in the lives of others as she has worked and volunteered and contributed."
Sanders was a volunteer with the Department of Human Services in its Foster Care Division in Washington, D.C.; a volunteer with nursery school children in Charlottesville; and lived with an indigent family for a year helping with child care and other responsibilities so the parents could get jobs and training.
Since coming to Wytheville in 1981, she has been a volunteer worker at the Wythe County Public Library, Birdmont Manor, Malin Hospital the Southwest Virginia Enterprise, and Chautauqua Festival where she will chair next month's outdoor arts exhibit committee. She has taken art classes since 1985, paints with local artist Elsie Stephens, and has commissioned Stephens for a series of paintings of local buildings to be donated to the town of Wytheville and displayed in its municipal building.
Snyder said she had explained that her gift was "so that other people can be educated because, in today's world, no one can make it without an education. A gift of an education is the greatest gift that I can give because it is a gift that no one can ever take away and, once given, gives opportunities for an entire lifetime."
by CNB