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OXFORD, Miss. – Mitzi Whittington fondly remembers her childhood best friend Morris George – his bright red hair and freckles, his love of learning and their good-natured competition for grades at Coffeeville High School in their hometown.<\/p>\n

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Now, thanks to a scholarship Whittington and her husband, Lynn, have created in his name at the University of Mississippi, Dr. Morris George won’t be forgotten.<\/p>\n

George, an emergency room doctor in Memphis, died in January 2007 due to complications from Type 1 diabetes. His legacy is ensured through the Dr. Morris George Jr. Memorial Scholarship, established with a $25,000 gift from the Whittingtons of Montgomery, Ala.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to do something to memorialize him,” Whittington said. “Morris was always going, really brilliant, very smart. He had a passion for learning, and I think he would be honored to know there is a scholarship in his name.”<\/p>\n

George and the Whittington couple are all Ole Miss alumni.<\/p>\n

“We also thought this was a good way to support the university … and a good way to help students from Mississippi,” Whittington said.<\/p>\n

George graduated from Ole Miss in 1978 with a degree in music. He earned a Taylor Medal, the university’s highest academic award. He later received a medical degree from the UM Medical Center in Jackson. An accomplished pianist, he played the piano in the Whittingtons’ wedding.<\/p>\n

“I knew Morris all my life,” Whittington said. “He was my best friend and is dearly missed.”<\/p>\n

Recipients of the Dr. Morris George Jr. Memorial Scholarship are to be full-time incoming freshmen at UM, with first preference given to residents of Grenada and Yalobusha counties.<\/p>\n

The Whittingtons’ gift is part of the university’s MomentUM campaign, a four-year initiative to raise $200 million. The campaign, which ends in December 2008, already has raised more than $180 million for scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty support, a basketball practice facility, residential colleges and a new law school on the Oxford campus. Also in the plan is a cancer center at the UM Medical Center in Jackson.<\/p>\n

For more information about the UM Foundation, go to<\/p>\n


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To make a donation to the Dr. Morris George Jr. Memorial Scholarship, contact Cody Giles at 662-915-6967 or wcgiles@olemiss.edu.<\/p>\n

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