Bess Littlefield, Executive Director, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation;
Dr. Paula Pando, Reynolds President;
Sabine Neumann; Mitch Haddon, Foundation Board President
Richmond
– The Virginia Community College System and Chancellor Glenn DuBois presented Mitch Haddon and Sabine
Neumann, of Richmond, Virginia, with the 14th Annual
Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy. They were nominated for the
award by Reynolds Community College.
Mr.
Haddon and Ms. Neumann were recognized along with two dozen other individuals,
families, and businesses from around Virginia for their exceptional support of
Virginia’s Community Colleges. The awards were presented at a luncheon sponsored
by the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education in Richmond on
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019. As part of the award, each college will be given
funds for the Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship, to be named in honor of the
college’s 2019 Chancellor’s Award recipient.
Now in its 14th year, the Chancellor’s
Award for Leadership in Philanthropy recognizes outstanding leaders who have
helped support Virginia’s Community Colleges and their respective foundations.
This year, among those to be honored are four members of VCCS faculty, all of
whom have made contributions that have helped their colleges and their students
grow. This year’s class of distinguished philanthropy leaders has contributed a
combined total of more than $18 million dollars to Virginia’s Community
Colleges.
The CEO of ColonialWebb, Mitch Haddon serves as the President of the Educational Foundation Board and is an alumnus of Reynolds. He and his wife Sabine established a nursing scholarship
and have been instrumental in fundraising for The Kitchens at Reynolds.
Donald Graham,
keynote speaker and Chairman of the Board at Graham Holdings Company and
Co-Founder of TheDream.US, spoke about the importance of Virginia’s Community Colleges
and the ways that the philanthropists have contributed to the Commonwealth.
“We are in this room today to tell you,
whether you work for one of the colleges or have given to one of the colleges,
that what you are doing is absolutely right,” Graham said during his remarks.
“I am so proud of this crowd for what you’re doing, and I hope you are proud of
yourselves and your fellow donors and of the leaders and teachers at the
community colleges you serve.”
Recipients of the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in
Philanthropy:
BLUE RIDGE Dr.
and Mrs. Kenneth D. Bowman
CENTRAL VIRGINIA Donna Schewel Clark
Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
DABNEY S. LANCASTER Stephen and Donna Vaughn
DANVILLE Danville
Kiwanis Club Foundation
Lions
Club of Danville Foundation
EASTERN SHORE Tom and Page Young*
GERMANNA Mary Jane
Pitts O’Neill
J SARGEANT REYNOLDS Mitchell F. Haddon and Sabine Neumann
JOHN TYLER Amsted
Industries
LORD FAIRFAX The Jenkins Family – Russell, Elta Rae,
Rodney and Karen
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE Ralph T. and Shirley M.
Fisher
NEW RIVER Dr.
and Mrs. Lee Wheeler
NORTHERN VIRGINIA Dr. Glenn Fatzinger
PATRICK HENRY The Harvest Foundation
PAUL D CAMP Charles R.
Henderson, Jr., Bank of America Foundation
PIEDMONT H. Gordon*
and Mary Beth Smyth
RAPPAHANNOCK Rick and Sue Farmar
SOUTHSIDE VA Microsoft
SOUTHWEST VA Mary W. Lawson
THOMAS NELSON Newport
News Shipbuilding
TIDEWATER Stanley
Black & Decker
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS David and Schéry
Collins
VIRGINIA WESTERN Maury and Shiela Strauss Family
WYTHEVILLE Floyd and Hilda
Jonas
VFCCE The
Petters Family Foundation
*honored posthumously
About Virginia’s Community Colleges: Since 1966,
Virginia’s Community Colleges have given everyone the opportunity to learn and
develop the right skills so lives and communities are strengthened. By making
higher education and workforce training available in every part of Virginia, we
elevate all of Virginia. Together, Virginia’s Community Colleges serve more
than 241,000 students each year. For more information, please visit www.vccs.edu.
About the Virginia Foundation for
Community College Education: Working hand in hand
with Virginia’s 23 community colleges, the Virginia Foundation for Community
College Education seeks to guarantee financial assistance to all students who
dream of attending college. The foundation is building an endowment that is
already generating interest to provide full scholarships to selected community
college students; helping more Virginia foster youth pursue and complete higher
education through the Great Expectations program; and leading a partnership to
improve rural Virginia’s education pipeline through the Rural Virginia Horseshoe
Initiative. Learn how the Virginia Foundation for Community College is building
the future of Virginia. Visit VFCCE.org.
