Supporting the Campaign for Millsaps College

Designated Gifts and Naming Opportunities
Donors at every level may wish to consider designating a particular facility or program for their gifts or endowing a specific program of personal interest.

A limited number of naming opportunities are also available. Facilities or programs may be named for the donor or the donor’s family, or in honor or memory of loved ones or admired faculty members. Naming offers a unique opportunity to create a lasting, visible legacy at Millsaps College.

For more information on specific giving opportunities and naming opportunities, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at (601) 974-1023.

A Five-Year Pledge Period
Millsaps College understands that it may be a challenge to make a substantial gift as a lump sum. To accommodate the generous levels of giving necessary to make the Campaign a success, the College has established a pledge payment period of five years for outright gifts. Depending upon your preference, payments may be made monthly, quarterly, or annually.

A Legacy of Awakening
When alumni are asked to name a professor who was deeply admired—and occasionally dreaded—many respond without hesitation, “Dr. T. W. Lewis.”

A 1953 graduate, Dr. Lewis returned to Millsaps as an instructor in the Religion Department (now known as Religious Studies), serving on the faculty from 1959 until his retirement in 1996.
“If I were to sum up the Millsaps ‘legacy’ in one word, I think it would be ‘awakening,’” Dr. Lewis says. “There are always dimensions of the self waiting to be enlivened. Over the years, the dimension that’s often been awakened is that of one’s calling. I hope my legacy to Millsaps will be in some measure an awakening in the lives of students I was fortunate to have in my classes and those with whom I became friends.”

Dr. Lewis is but one of the many Millsaps faculty members who have helped awaken the calling within each of our students. More than simply sharing their knowledge, these gifted instructors help define the individual paths to success and fulfillment that each student will continue to pursue long after his or her last class is dismissed.

“The most powerful legacy I’ve left Millsaps with is the concept that my education continues. Millsaps taught me how important it is to keep learning. The educational process doesn’t stop at graduation, because at that point, you’ve been conditioned to remain curious.”                       —Nicole Bradshaw, Class of 1999, Internal Communications Manager, Entergy Mississippi