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Ken Cyree, dean of the business school, expressed gratitude for the family\u2019s gift. \u201cWe greatly appreciate these siblings\u2019 foresight in desiring to provide support to our students, many of whom would find it difficult to attend college without financial assistance,\u201d Cyree said. \u201cPrivate gifts like this give students the opportunity to have a more enriching college experience and focus on completing their degrees with significantly less financial stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n John Reed Holley graduated from Ole Miss in 1946 with a degree in business administration<\/strong>. The Oxford native saw active duty on the Italian battle front during World War II. He and his wife, Regina Moore Holley, made their home in Oxford, where he worked as the business manager for the Ole Miss Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The John Reed Holley Scholarship Endowment is open to support from businesses and individuals. Gifts can be made by sending a check, with the fund\u2019s name noted on the memo line, to the University of Mississippi Foundation, 406 University Ave., Oxford, MS 38655, or by giving online at https:\/\/give.olemiss.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For information about supporting the School of Business Administration, contact Benji Stewart, annual gifts officer, at brstewar@olemiss.edu<\/a> or 662-915-1122. For information about supporting the School of Accountancy<\/strong>, contact Jason McCormick, executive director for development, at jason@olemiss.edu<\/a> or 662-915-1757.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Family\u2019s endowment benefits Ole Miss business, accountancy students by Bill Dabney A recent gift to the University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":141116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25263],"tags":[27970,29558,5,29559,7067,29328,4,16634,18707,29557,20196,655,12931],"class_list":["post-141112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-news","tag-daniel-c-hughes-jr-school-of-business-administration-scholarship-endowment","tag-john-reed-holley","tag-mississippi","tag-now-and-ever-fund","tag-ole-miss","tag-ole-miss-gives","tag-oxford","tag-patterson-school-of-accountancy","tag-scholarship","tag-school-of-accounting","tag-school-of-business-administration","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-veteran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/RKJ_2633-B-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141112"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141145,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141112\/revisions\/141145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Reggie Holley, of Oxford; Claire Tutor, of Saltillo; and Joan Yarber, of Belden\u2014the children of the late UM alumnus John Reed Holley\u2014made the gift as an additional donation to a scholarship endowment established to honor their father in 1982.
\u201cMy sisters and I hope that the John Reed Holley Scholarship will help deserving young men and women realize their dreams of attending college, giving them the educational foundation they need to succeed in business and accountancy-related professions,\u201d said Reggie Holley, a 1973 graduate of the School of Business Administration<\/strong> and former CEO of Oxford University Bank<\/strong>.
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