Walkway of Champions
The College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni
and Friends Society has launched a new bricks and mortar campaign
for the College — literally! It’s the Walkway of Champions,
a sidewalk full of engraved commemorative bricks laid in front of Patterson
Hall at N.C. State. Wesley Wyatt,
field crops technology 1979; Norris Tolson, crop science 1962; and Dr.
Dennis Osborne, crop science, conservation and soil science 1972, are
the Society Advisory Board members who are leading the campaign.
The bricks
became available for purchase in late spring. That’s when the College
began offering 3,300 engraved bricks — 3,000 red at $75 each and
300 white at $150 each. Donors inscribe the bricks with three lines
commemorating a specified name, degree and graduation date, or approved
text variations.
Alumni and
friends of the College, other N.C. State graduates, graduating students,
parents and grandparents of students and organizations that support
the College are invited to purchase and personalize the bricks.
“The Walkway
of Champions will honor our greatest assets — graduates, students
and friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,” Tolson
said. “Proceeds from the brick sales will help us grow and enhance
this college’s ability to continue major contributions to the future
of N.C. State and America.”
Proceeds will
benefit scholarships in the College, as well as Alumni and Friends activities.
For order forms, please call 919-515-7222, e-mail calsalum@ncsu.edu,
or go online to www.cals.ncsu.edu/alumni/brick.html.
—Terri
Leith
