
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 14, 1994                   TAG: 9406160052
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY STAFF WRITER
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MCLELLAND SCHOLARSHIP EXCEEDS GOAL

Upon hearing a committee was hoping to raise $100,000 in memory of longtime Roanoke World-News sports editor Bob McLelland, Roanoke College president David Gring was skeptical.

``I remember saying, `The committee needs to understand that fund-raising professionals say what you're trying to do is impossible,''' Gring said Monday night.

Nevertheless, after a short but successful campaign, committee members Bill Stephens and Paul Dotson presented Gring with a commemorative check in the amount of $109,410 that will endow the Robert ``Guts'' McLelland Scholarship Fund.

Nearly 250 donors contributed to the fund, which went over the $100,000 mark with a $25,000 gift from the Roanoke Times & World-News.

McLelland, who died March 3 from cancer, was a well-known Roanoke sandlot football coach who also was remembered Monday night at a reception for his religious beliefs, love of family and unique brand of journalism.

Speakers included Sam McNeil, with whom McLelland helped form a chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in 1963; Roanoke City councilman John Edwards; and McLelland's wife, Barbara.

by CNB