Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, June 11, 1994 TAG: 9407060004
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Hollins College has announced that it has met the first milestone in a $1.5 million challenge grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust of Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Kenan Trust challenged Hollins to raise $1 million for its permanent endowment for each of three years. If raised, the Trust would award $1.5 million for endowment purposes.
Hollins President Jane Margaret O'Brien announced recently that the college had topped $1 million and was close to reaching its second million.
The Hollins endowment funds 13 scholarships, the Wyndham Robertson Writer-in-Residence program, a partially funded artist-in-residence program, and the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writing Semester, which offers creative writing and contemporary literature programs for undergraduate women at other colleges.
Drum and bugle corps
The Summer Music Games of Southwest Virginia, which hosts top drum and bugle corps from throughout the United States, will be on Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Salem Stadium by the Salem Civic Center.
Participating corps are the Phantom Regiment of Rockford/Love's Park, Ill., making its premiere Virginia performance; five time world champions the Santa Clara Vanguard of Santa Clara, Calif.; the Colts of Dubuque, Iowa; the Boston Crusaders of Boston, Mass.; the Troopers of Casper, Wyo.; the Marauders of Longview, Wash.; and the Knights of Rock Island, Ill. The drum corps competition is affiliated with Drum Corps International.
Reserved seat tickets are $12 and are available through the civic center box office (375-3004 or 800-288-2122) or through any Salem Band Booster.
by CNB