{"id":148,"date":"2009-11-13T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:35:55","slug":"funds-supports-southern-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/funds-supports-southern-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"$200,000 Fund to Support Research of Southern Studies Faculty Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\u00a0Leila Wynn provides challenge grant matched by university<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nOXFORD, Miss. – A new $200,000 fund at the University of Mississippi’s
\nCenter for the Study of Southern Culture is the result of one woman’s
\nbelief that faculty members must have resources to pursue a wealth of
\nresearch and scholarship.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"wynn.jpg\"<\/p>\n
\nPhilanthropist Leila Wynn (right) talks with Ted Ownby, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.<\/b>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


Philanthropist Leila Wynn of Greenville recently provided a $100,000
\nchallenge grant that has been matched with $100,000 in funds from
\nseveral sources, including a final push from members of the CSSC
\nAdvisory Committee. Center officials said the fund will enhance
\nresearch on the American South, as well as impact faculty recruitment
\nand retention.<\/p>\n

\n“Leila Wynn has been a great supporter of the
\nCenter for the Study of Southern Culture and the University of
\nMississippi for some years,” said Ted Ownby, CSSC director. “She
\nstudied Faulkner here, and she knows the needs of scholars from her
\nwork with UM and other colleges and universities. She knows that
\nscholars need time to research, think and write, and this gift will be
\na wonderful way to allow our faculty the freedom to do that.”\n<\/p>\n

\nSouthern Studies faculty members have ongoing research projects
\non such topics as religious history, literature and globalization, race
\nand museums, the blues and the devil, the contemporary small-town
\nSouth, and African-American identity in the contemporary urban South.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Mrs. Wynn’s gift represents a significant improvement in the
\ncenter’s support for faculty scholarship,” Ownby said. “Over the next
\nfew years, it will be exciting to see the results.”\n<\/p>\n

\nWynn, who has supported the CSSC since its founding in 1977,
\nsaid she believes in the study of Southern culture and the center’s
\nwork.\n<\/p>\n

\n“History gives people an insight into the region’s potential
\nand its problems,” she said. “It also gives us a sense of pride and a
\nbelonging to a place.”\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter helping organize the Friends of the Center organization
\nand serving for many years on the CSSC Advisory Committee, Wynn said
\nshe turned her attention to faculty support when her grandson, Charlie
\nWeissinger of Rolling Fork, was earning a degree in Southern studies at
\nUM.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Faculty members are absolutely essential to a strong program,”
\nWynn said. “I feel that really worthy faculty members should be
\nsupported in order for them to more actively pursue their work. I was
\nvery impressed with the education my grandson received.”\n<\/p>\n

\nWynn also has made significant contributions to the William
\nFaulkner Collection and other Southern studies sources at the
\nUniversity Libraries, including many first- and limited-edition
\nmanuscripts.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Mrs. Wynn has been a wonderful longtime supporter of the
\nDepartment of Archives and Special Collections in the J.D. Williams
\nLibrary,” said Jennifer Ford, head of the archives. “Through her help,
\nwe have been able to complete several projects and add significant
\nholdings to the department.”\n<\/p>\n

\nWynn supports an array of religious, educational, environmental and
\ncultural institutions throughout the state of Mississippi and on the
\nnational level. A native of Austin, Texas, she settled in Mississippi
\nmore than five decades ago after earning an undergraduate degree from
\nSmith College and a master’s degree in English literature from the
\nUniversity of Texas. She also studied at Ole Miss and Delta State
\nUniversity. In recent years, Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in
\nAustin presented Wynn with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree,
\nand Millsaps College recognized her with an honorary doctor of public
\nservice degree.\n<\/p>\n

\nNamed Philanthropist of the Year in 2000 by the Mississippi Chapter of
\nthe National Society of Fund Raising Executives, Wynn is a life trustee
\nof Millsaps College, where three of her four children graduated, and
\nhas served as board chair of the Straddleford Foundation, a private
\nfamily foundation. Among her many leadership commitments, she served on
\nthe boards of the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin,
\nUniversity of Texas’ Humanities Research Center, Garden Club of
\nAmerica, and King’s Daughters Hospital and Community Counseling Center,
\nboth of Greenville. She continues to serve on the board of the
\nMississippi Fish and Wildlife Foundation and is an active, longtime
\nparishioner of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Greenville, where she has
\nbeen a vestry person and warden.\n<\/p>\n

\nWynn has served as board chair of First National Bank of San Augustine,
\nTexas, as well as vice president and director of Weissinger and Wynn in
\nGreenville, a cotton, soybean and corn farming operation. She also is
\nactive in management of family timber holdings in Texas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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