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Hundreds Give to HHR Memorial FundBy Todd Copeland
Following the death of former Baylor president Dr. Herbert H. Reynolds
in 2007, the Reynolds family designated the Baylor Alumni Association
as a beneficiary of gifts in his honor. In the months since then, more
than three hundred people have made donations ranging in size from $10
to two gifts of $50,000 each.
To honor Reynolds's legacy of leadership, the association renamed its
Sesquicentennial Campaign endowment fund the "Herbert H. Reynolds - BAA
Sesquicentennial Endowment Fund." Memorial gifts will be placed in this
fund, helping the association sustain its representative voice for all
alumni in supporting Baylor.
"It's not possible to fully state the impact of Dr. Reynolds's
leadership on Baylor University or his contribution to our
association," said Jeff Kilgore, executive vice president and CEO of
the Baylor Alumni Association. "A steadfast champion of religious and
academic freedom and a bold leader, he had a deep faith and unshakable
integrity. He exemplified servant leadership and will continue to serve
as an example to us all."
Reynolds was one of the three chairs of the Sesquicentennial Campaign,
along with Babs Baugh and former U.S. ambassador to Sweden Lyndon Olson
Jr. After Reynolds's death, the alumni association's leaders designated
Reynolds as the memorial chair of the campaign, and his wife, Joy
Copeland Reynolds, is serving in his stead.
Those two gifts of $50,000 resulted in the full endowment of two of the
alumni association's awards programs, each of which were goals of the
Sesquicentennial Campaign. As a result, those awards were renamed in
Reynolds's honor.
The gift that endowed the Herbert H. Reynolds Outstanding Young Alumni
Award was made by the Christ Is Our Salvation foundation, established
by Paul and Mary "Katy" Piper. Former Baylor business professor Dr.
Nancy Bowman Upton '82, MBA '83, PhD '92, provided the other gift, to
endow the Herbert H. Reynolds Retired Faculty and Administrators Award.
"I thought a gift to endow the award for retirees would be particularly
apropos of Dr. Reynolds's leadership because he held the faculty and
staff--especially retirees who had given their lives to Baylor--in high
esteem and treated them with great respect and dignity," said Upton,
who now lives in Kenedy and helps run the family's oil and gas
business. "Plus, I am a retired faculty member, so endowing this award
means that someone like me will be recognized in perpetuity."
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