From my experience, I have learned that Meredith is a first rate liberal arts college that prepares young women to face the challenges of life. At Meredith, students are instilled with a love of learning and a sense that they are to serve humanity.

My wife, a Meredith alumna, was as elegant and as well educated as any woman I have ever known. Following her graduation from Meredith and inspired by her Meredith mentor Dr. Ellen Black Winston, she went on for graduate study in the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill.

Among her suitemates at Meredith who went on to graduate school there was one who became a physician, one who became a lawyer and judge, one who became a graduate nurse after studying at Yale and one who joined the C.I.A. after obtaining a PhD at Columbia.

Several years ago my wife and her cousin Sylvia Maynard O’Kelly, and other family members established a scholarship at Meredith in honor of their grandmother, Anna Elizabeth Liles Maynard. Although Mrs. Maynard did not attend Meredith, she was a well-educated woman for her day and was a staunch believer in the need to educate women. Many of her descendants have attended Meredith.

All hope that the funds in the scholarship will continue to grow as time goes on, making a Meredith education available to even more young women.

Robert L. McMillan, Attorney and Meredith donor