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Wendell P. Dabney’s Lifelong Efforts To Preserve The History Of Black Cincinnati
Anyone who studies Cincinnati’s history owes a debt of gratitude to Wendell Phillips Dabney. Nearly one hundred years ago, Dabney published one of the most important books ever written about the Queen City.
“Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens” appeared in 1926 and is still essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the rich history of our city. At a time when Black people faced unrelenting persecution and segregation, Dabney compiled an exhaustive and almost encyclopedic record of African Americans in Cincinnati. His book highlights the accomplishments and points of pride of a thriving community derided and stereotyped by the majority power structure.
On page after page, Dabney documented hundreds of Black citizens raising respectable families, owning solid and profitable businesses and residing in homes better than those occupied by many of Cincinnati’s white residents. He demonstrated that Black professionals thrived in Cincinnati despite legal and societal prejudice, and he showcased charitable institutions created, constructed and funded by Black generosity, including an orphanage, social clubs, churches, schools and homes for the elderly. Almost a century later, Dabney’s book is the only available source for information about Black Cincinnatians before the civil rights era.
Dabney promoted his personal political agenda through his own newspapers. Dabney’s were Cincinnati’s first newspapers aimed at an African American audience. He published the inaugural issue of The Ohio Enterprise in 1902, changed the name of the paper in 1907 to The Union, and single-handedly published that paper until his death in 1952.
A big fan of Dabney’s was Alfred Segal, the Cincinnati Post writer known by his byline as “Cincinnatus.” Segal often shared items from Dabney’s columns with his own readers. According to Segal [27 August 1950], The Union was less a news medium and more of a lectern for the irrepressible Dabney:
“It hasn’t been really a newspaper in the sense of handing out the latest news; it has been more of a reflection of Wendell P. Dabney himself and how he thinks and feels about everything. It is a paper for colored citizens but many white ones read it just to get the flash of Mr. Dabney’s mordant humor.”
While it is true that his newspaper published many wry examples of the editor’s humor, Dabney was an untiring opponent of segregation. For much of Dabney’s life, integration was a controversial position among Blacks as well as whites. Many in the Black community believed that segregated schools, hospitals and other institutions provided protective environments for African Americans. Dabney would have none of it. He wrote [30 December 1922]:
“This drawing of the color line in public institutions and establishment of ‘jim crowism’ is largely done by Negroes themselves, either through ignorance or desire for money. Civic rights legally belong to all citizens. Segregation of people is not necessary to fit them for civic duties. We have here and in other cities, colored people in nearly every profession and department of public life. ‘The Caste System’ has never done anything but degrade.”
Dabney’s health began to fail as he reached his eightieth birthday in 1945 and made noises that he would soon give up publishing The Union, but soldiered on. Soon after achieving that eight-decade milestone, Dabney hopped up from his sickbed and demonstrated that he was still capable of the old buck and wing as well as some clog dances. A celebration of Dabney’s 84th birthday in 1949 attracted more than 350 guests. The Union maintained its weekly publishing schedule until Dabney died in 1952. In an obituary of sorts, Al Segal of the Post [4 June 1952] observed:
“He never made any money out of being a publisher; it was pay-off enough for him to hear people laughing with him.”
Wendell Dabney was born in Richmond, Virginia just after the South surrendered in defeat to end the Civil War. His parents, John M. Dabney and Elizabeth Foster Dabney, had been enslaved but built a successful catering business after achieving freedom.
Dabney graduated high school in Richmond and began appearing on stage, sometimes with tap-dance legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a childhood companion. He later attended Oberlin College in Ohio and performed in that school’s orchestra.
After teaching for a couple of years in Virginia, Dabney relocated to Cincinnati to manage property inherited by his mother, including the Dumas House, the only Cincinnati hotel that accepted Black guests.
Intending to stay in Cincinnati only long enough to stabilize his mother’s properties, Dabney was introduced to a young widow with two children, Nellie Foster Jackson. They married in 1897 and Dabney credited Nellie with his later accomplishments. In Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, he wrote about her:
“The loyalty and courage of his wife through twenty-five years of storm and stress engendered that domestic harmony and inspiration to which whatever success he may have attained is indebted.”
Dabney integrated himself into Cincinnati’s social and political fabric and excelled at several endeavors. He was an accomplished musician who composed and published songs and melodies and offered lessons through Cincinnati’s Wurlitzer emporium. He published a biography of his friend, Maggie L. Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president. Dabney was the first president of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was, for many years, a stalwart in the local Republican organization. With the rise of the progressive Charter Committee in the 1920s, Dabney switched his allegiance to that organization.
For 26 years, he served as paymaster for the City of Cincinnati. Dabney noted dryly that, although he had been entrusted with dispersing a total of $80 million over the course of his career, his personal salary was only $150 a month. Such was the nature of political appointments under George Barnsdale “Boss” Cox. As founder and leader of the Douglass League of Negro Republicans, Dabney was an essential factor in getting out the Black vote. The Cox machine rewarded key influencers like Dabney with spots at City Hall.
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Wendell Phillips Dabney (November 4, 1865 – June 3, 1952) was an influential civil rights organizer, author, and musician as well as a newspaper editor and publisher in Cincinnati. He was a talented musician and graduated from Richmond High School in the first integrated graduation ceremony. In 1883, he was enrolled in the preparatory department at Oberlin College. While there, he was the first violinist at the Oberlin Opera House and was a member of the Cademian Literary Society. He was born in Richmond, Virginia to former slaves John Marchall Dabney and Elizabeth Foster. He worked as a waiter and teacher before moving to Boston where he opened a music studio. He taught in Richmond schools from 1886 until 1892. He wrote several books and pamphlets including one about leading African Americans in Cincinnati, a biography of his close friend Maggie L. Walker, and published a collection of his newspaper writings. Walker hired him to write her biography. He composed songs. He objected to laws restricting marriage between African Americans and whites. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CkiZGdJLz1T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Wendell Phillips Dabney was an accomplished musician, author, teacher, newspaper editor, civil rights leader and political activist.
Born in Richmond Virginia at the end of the Civil War in 1865, Wendell Phillips Dabney first came to Ohio to study at Oberlin College, where he pursued his musical and literary interests. Dabney arrived in Cincinnati in 1894 after operating a music studio and working as a schoolteacher in his hometown. He soon married and opened a music studio here. It was during this time that Dabney became the first black paymaster for the city of Cincinnati, eventually resigning from the position for being denied fair payment. Mr. Dabney was also the first president of Cincinnati branch of the NAACP when it was established in 1915. He used his position to speak out against the injustices of segregation and inequality, and helped organize a political coalition, The Douglass League, to fight racial bias.
Read more about Dabney’s life in “100 who made a difference: Greater Cincinnatians who made a mark on the 20th century “, by Barry M. Horstman
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Wendell P. Dabney. Le 13 février 1907, Wendell P. Dabney fonde "The Union", le plus ancien journal noir publié à Cincinnati dans l'Ohio. La devise du journal était: "Car aucun peuple ne peut devenir grand sans être uni, car dans l'union il y a de la force." https://www.instagram.com/p/CTdIShopAf6/?utm_medium=tumblr
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February 13, 1635 America's first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black students were excluded from attending. February 13, 1892 The first African American performers, the World's Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall. February 13, 1907 Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union. The Cincinnati, Ohio paper's motto is "For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength." February 13, 1923 The first Black professional basketball team "The Renaissance" organized. February 13, 1970 The New York Stock Exchange admits its first Black member, Joseph Searles. #TheMoreYouKnow #BlackExcellence #BlackHistoryMonth #ThisDayInHistory
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Save the dates: Spring design calendar filled with home tours
Save the dates: Spring design calendar filled with home tours
By Diane Cowen
Spring weekends in Houston are filled with home-related events, from home and garden shows to architecture and history tours and shopping events.
Design in Bloom brings a panel of national speakers to talk about architecture, design and, of course, floral design March 24. The following weekend is filled with home tours, ranging from modern homes to downtown lofts and more historic homes in Woodland Heights. Texas Antiques Week in Round Top is a shopper’s delight, and the April and May bring more home tours.
Get your calendar out; it’s time to save a few dates.
Home and Outdoor Living Shows
The TexWoods series of home and outdoor living shows is underway, with a new HTown event at Silver Street Studios in First Ward. Hours are 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Sundays. (Note: I’ll be a speaker at the HTown and Lake Houston shows, speaking about design styles each day at 12:30 p.m.) At all shows, admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and children 12 and under are free. Here’s the spring lineup:
HTown: March 7-8 at Silver Street Studios at Sawyer Yards, 2000 Edwards. Speakers include Laura Dowling, who was the chief
Cy-Fair: March 21-22 at the Berry Center, 8877 Barker Cypress. Events include floral design workshops by Ashley Wallace of The Tallest Tulip.
Lake Houston: March 28-29 at the Humble Civic Center, 8233 Will Clayton Parkway. Speakers include Dr. Lori’s Antiques Appraisal Comedy Show.White House floral designer for six years of the Obama administration.
Design in Bloom
This year’s Design in Bloom event, in conjunction with Texas Design Week, brings Flower magazine editor-in-chief Margot Shaw, Nashville interior designer Ray Booth, Atlanta architect Bobby McAlpine, Lexington, Ky., landscape architect Jon Carloftis and New York floral designer Lewis Miller together for panel discussions, book signings and floral demonstrations.
When: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. March 24
Where: Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road (in various showrooms)
Tickets: $10-$100; DesigninBloomHouston.com
Downtown Houston Home & Lifestyle Tour
The Houston Downtown Management District will hold its second annual home tour on March 28. The self-guided tour takes you into residences in Bayou Lofts, Commerce Towers, Camden Downtown, Franklin Lofts, Kirby Lofts on Main, St. Germain Lofts and Condos at The Star. Park at One Market Square Garage (800 Preston) for $5 and a courtesy shuttle will take you to participating properties. There will be live music 11 a.m.-2 p.m.at Market Square Park, a lobby tour of the Niels and Mellie Esperson Buildings from noon to 3 p.m. and pop-up art shows by Rachel Schwind Gardner and Felipe Lopez all day at Franklin Lofts.
When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 28
Where: Start from Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene in the W.L. Foley Building, 214 Travis
Tickets: $25 in advance, $35 tour day; livedowntownhouston.org
MA+DS 10th annual Houston Modern Home Tour
While there’s plenty of traditional home construction under way, contemporary and modern homes are increasing in popularity and the Modern Architecture + Design Society’s annual tour will open six new examples of cutting-edge residential architecture to the public. Showcased architects include 2Scale Architects, studioMET, Intexure Architects and Boxprefab, On Point Custom Homes and Fifty Seventh + 7th by Carnegie Homes. It’s a great chance to meet the architects and designers who worked on the homes.
When: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. March 28
Where: 1129 W. Pierce (2Scale Architects); 4038 Falkirk (studioMET architects); 5612 Blossom (Intexure + Boxprefab); 2514 Avalon Place (Fifty Seventh + 7th by Carnegie Homes); 2300 South Boulevard (On Point Custom Homes); and 2235 Colquitt (Scott Ballard Architect)
Tickets: $15-40 in advance, $50 at the door on tour day; mads.media
Woodland Heights Home Tour
Homes built from the 1910s through the 1920s plus a few more current construction will be among the eight open to the public on the annual Woodland Heights Home Tour. The neighborhood began in 1907 as a streetcar suburb to Houston’s downtown and was valued for its easy access to Highland Park — now called Woodland Park. The neighborhood is busier now, but retains much of its century-old charm.
When: noon-6 p.m. March 28-29
Where: 619 Bayland, 505 Byrne, 3324 Morrison, 628 Omar, 3524 Pineridge, 715 Ridge, 1611 Sage and 621 Wendel
Tickets: $10 for single homes, $25 in advance, $30 starting March 26; woodland-heights.org
Texas Antiques Week
Round Top and surrounding small towns fill with visitors for Texas Antiques Week shopping that now lasts much longer than a week. Stalwarts such as the Original Round Top Antiques Fair and Marburger Farm Antique Show stagger their dates from March 30-April 4, but other shops, Excess Fields and pop-up tents open at least a couple of weeks prior. Head there early to avoid long lines of cars on Texas 237. Wear sunscreen and comfortable shoes and take cash since WiFi there is sketchy and vendors’ credit card apps don’t always work.
The Original Round Top Antiques Fair: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. VIP admission, 1-6 p.m. general admission March 30; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. March 31; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 1-4. VIP early shopping pass, $20, general admission $10; includes entry to the Big Red Barn Event Center and the Continental Tent; roundtoptexasantiques.com; 475 S. Texas 237, Carmine
Marburger Farm Antique Show: Early buying 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and general admission 2-6 p.m. March 31; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 1-3; and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 4. Early buying $25; general admission $10; roundtop-marburger.com; 2248 Texas 237, Round Top
The Compound Antique Show: 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. 2550 S. Texas 237, Round Top; admission is free; roundtopcompound.com
Rice Design Alliance Architecture Tour
Rice Design Alliance is still firming up its roster for the 2020 Architecture Tour, themed “Upwards.” This tour is always highly anticipated, featuring some of the most interesting homes in the city on timely topics. The alliance will share more information on homes and tickets soon, but for now you can set these dates aside.
When: 1-6 p.m. April 25-26
Tickets: Information coming soon.
Milieu Designer Showhouse
Milieu magazine is hosting its first Designer Showhouse, a 7,400-square-foot Edwin Lutyens-style home built by Jennifer Hamelet Mirador Builders. Top designers from the U.S., Canada and Europe — including Kathryn Ireland, Lisa Fine, Carol Glasser and Jennifer Vaughn Miller — will design the interiors. Milieu, a luxury shelter and lifestyle magazine, was founded in 2013 by Houston interior designer Pamela Pierce. The showhome event will benefit Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer, a group that provides assistance to families with children who have cancer.
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 25-26 and May 2-3
Where: 3736 Del Monte
Tickets: $200 in advance ($250 day of); tour admission $35; milieu-mag.com or at the door
Galveston Historic Homes Tour
The Galveston Historical Foundation’s annual home tour is must for history buffs and for newcomers to the area who want to learn more about the Gulf Coast’s architectural history. Galveston is a tourism city now, but it was once a thriving port city where merchants built beautiful Victorian and Queen Anne-style homes, grand examples and bungalows, too. The 2019 tour had eight homes and the 2020 lineup should be announced soon.
When: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. May 2-3 and May 9-10
Where: Tour homes to be announced
Tickets: $30; galvestonhistory.org
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Deandre Kidd (left) and other students in the UM call center reach out to prospective donors while earning money to offset college expenses. Photo by Bill Dabney/UM Foundation
Each week, students in the call center at the University of Mississippi seek support for Ole Miss while also gaining income and valuable experience for themselves.
Five days a week, 40 students reach out to alumni and friends, engaging them in conversations that frequently lead to financial benefits for UM schools and colleges, departments, faculty, programs and scholarships. In the fiscal year 2017, callers raised more than $560,000 in pledges and gifts for Ole Miss; the center was recently named Call Center of the Month by Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a provider of fundraiser management services and software.
While the university depends on private support to ensure the margin of excellence expected of prominent educational institutions, students such as Deandre Kidd depend on the $8.15 per hour and an opportunity to earn a bonus at the end of the month.
“I can honestly say if it wasn’t for my job at the call center, I wouldn’t be able to have a car or phone on my own,” said Kidd, a senior exercise science major from Hattiesburg who also uses his salary from this and a second job to offset the cost of books and rent.
Kidd works two jobs to relieve his parents’ financial pressure; his father is a restaurant kitchen manager and his mother is a homemaker who takes care of his sister and brother as well as her grandchildren.
“The job is really a form of financial aid, similar to a scholarship because it provides an opportunity for students to earn money while they get an education,” said Wendell Weakley, president and CEO of the UM Foundation. “It really gives them a great deal of support.”
Timber Heard, a senior anthropology major from McComb, likes that the call center pays more than minimum wage.
“I needed a higher paying job,” said Heard, who was a fast-food employee when she applied at the call center.
Heard took the job as a steppingstone, hoping to gain experience that will help her grow professionally. A year-and-a-half later, she feels the experience has been invaluable and enjoys talking to potential donors.
“I like getting to know people over the phone, hearing their different stories and learning about where they’re from,” she said. “I like people who have a sense of humor like me; that makes it fun.”
Like Kidd, Heard works a second job while balancing classes. She uses the income from both jobs, as well as student loans, to pay for rent, utilities, food and clothes.
Similarly, Lakia Taylor, of Brandon, depends on the call center job to pay rent. The sophomore marketing major covers other expenses with income from an online personalized jewelry business she founded.
Taylor said the Ole Miss job fits her busy 15-hour class schedule and provides valuable networking experience.
“This past Thursday, I was talking to one of the alumni about his experiences in school, and he recommended that I go meet a professor he knows on campus, so I’m planning to go meet him,” Taylor said. “You never know where opportunities like that could lead.”
For information on making a gift to UM, contact Wendell Weakley at 662-915-3845 or visit http://ift.tt/2gpPPFxmakeagift/.
By Bill Dabney
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#Repost @mr.oribhabor with @repostapp ・・・ Today in American History we celebrate the publisher and editor-in-chief of the oldest Black newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio: Wendell P. Dabney Wendell Phillips Dabney was born on Nov. 4, 1865, seven months after the end of the Civil War, to former slaves John and Elizabeth Dabney. Young Wendell Dabney would learn about entrepreneurialism early from his father, who used his skill as a cook to start a successful catering business. In 1894, Dabney came to Cincinnati to settle some business regarding property willed to his mother. He intended to stay only for a few months. During a trip to Indiana, however, he met Nellie Foster Jackson, a widow with two sons, whom he eventually married in 1897. Dabney decided to settle in Cincinnati, so he improved the property left to his mother and established a music studio. He began teaching music to many prominent Cincinnati families and eventually became involved in politics. Dabney served as the first African American city paymaster and was the first president of the local chapter of the NAACP. Dabney knew how important it was to address the needs of the Black community in the press. In an attempt to increase attention to issues of the African American community, Dabney entered the field of newspaper publishing. In 1902, he started his first paper, The Ohio Enterprise. On Feb. 13, 1907, he launched the Union. Its motto was: "For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength." For the next 45 years, the Union would be the strongest and most influential voice for Cincinnati's Black community, shaping the political and social scene and enjoying the longest run of any Black edited or published newspaper in the city at that time. #blackexcellence #blackhistory
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Cincinnati History Resources
Wendell Dabney’s 1926 Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens is the mandatory beginning for any research on Black history in our town.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cincinnati_s_Colored_Citizens/iRXtwAEACAAJ
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Wendell Phillips Dabney (4 November 1865 – 3 June 1952) was an influential civil rights organizer, author, and musician as well as a newspaper editor and publisher in Cincinnati. Hw was a talented musician and graduated from Richmond High School in the first integrated graduation ceremony. In 1883, he was enrolled in the preparatory department at Oberlin College. While there, he was the first violinist at the Oberlin Opera House and was a member of the Cademian Literary Society. He wrote several books and pamphlets including one about leading African Americans in Cincinnati, a biography of his close friend Maggie L. Walker, and published a collection of his newspaper writings. Walker hired him to write her biography. He composed songs. He objected to laws restricting marriage between African Americans and whites. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CV2n-QLLoH-VRc4O33-M5o17i_8WQsU29wfY5Y0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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On This Day In Cincinnati History
Wendell Dabney published the first issue of his newspaper, The Union, on 13 February 1907. The Union, a weekly newspaper aimed at an African American audience, published until 1952. #CincinnatiCuriosities
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Wendell Phillips Dabney (4 November 1865 – 3 June 1952) was an influential civil rights organizer, author, and musician as well as a newspaper editor and publisher in Cincinnati. Wendell Dabney was a talented musician and graduated from Richmond High School in the first integrated graduation ceremony. In 1883, Dabney was enrolled in the preparatory department at Oberlin College. While there, he was the first violinist at the Oberlin Opera House and was a member of the Cademian Literary Society. He wrote several books and pamphlets including one about leading African Americans in Cincinnati, a biography of his close friend Maggie L. Walker, and published a collection of his newspaper writings. Walker hired Dabney to write her biography. He also composed songs. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gnM4tHALZpzP612wKYaPQ4QHrs-MJQU579CU0/?igshid=12dus3iat08v8
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UM Foundation President and CEO Wendell Weakley (center) presents Mike Overstreet (left) and Larry Overstreet with a plaque, recognizing their mother’s generous estate gift to the Ole Miss Opportunity Scholarship program. UM Photo by Bill Dabney
An estate gift provided by the late Katie Mae Overstreet, of Oxford, will help give lower-income Mississippians an opportunity to attend the University of Mississippi.
Overstreet’s gift was designated by her sons, Mike and Larry Overstreet, both of Oxford, to support the Ole Miss Opportunity Scholarship program, which provides financial aid for tuition, housing and meals. Recipients must be residents of Mississippi, incoming freshmen, enrolled full-time, with a family adjusted gross income of $30,000 or below and a high school GPA of 2.5 or higher.
“We are especially grateful for this gift to the Ole Miss Opportunity program – what a wonderful way to honor Katie Mae Overstreet’s legacy of generosity and commitment to helping others,” Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter said.
“The OMO program was the first of its kind in Mississippi, and the Overstreet gift will have an integral impact on our ability to extend a quality education to the broadest range of deserving students, regardless of circumstance, embodying the OMO program motto, ‘From here, it’s possible.'”
“Mother and daddy believed in what education could do for kids in our state,” said Mike Overstreet, a 1970 graduate of the UM School of Business Administration. “They wanted us to get an education, and I know they would approve of this gift.”
Larry Overstreet, a 1974 graduate of the College of Liberal Arts, agreed: “Mother would be proud to know that her gift is helping kids have an opportunity to get an education that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get because of a lack of funds.”
Since its inception in 2010, 931 students have benefited from Ole Miss Opportunity scholarships. The program is expected to assist some 150 more student this fall, said Laura Diven-Brown, director of financial aid.
The Overstreet brothers said their parents’ philosophy of giving is based on their upbringing.
“They came from middle-income households,” Mike Overstreet said. “Dad was one of 11 children. Mother was an only child. I think just seeing needs out there and realizing how hard people had it caused them to be generous in helping others who are less fortunate than they were.”
“They just learned the value of a dollar and not to waste it,” Larry Overstreet added.
The Overstreets’ parents met on the Square in Oxford; then-Katie Mae Wallace was a secretary at a law office and Edgar Overstreet drove a cab. Edgar Overstreet later joined the Ole Miss campus police force and worked his way up the ranks to chief.
After 16 years on the force, he began to invest in real estate and long-term health care facilities in the Oxford area. Through these investments, the Overstreets accumulated the wealth that they’re now paying forward.
“They cared about people and wanted to give back, and this is a way they can give back after they’re gone,” Mike Overstreet said. “This will honor my mother, and it will be used for a good cause.”
The planned gift awards the estate of Katie Mae Wallace Overstreet membership in the 1848 Society, named for the year the university welcomed its first students. The society recognizes generous donors who thoughtfully provide for the university through planned and deferred gifts.
“We are very appreciative to the Overstreets for their generosity, which will play an important role in strengthening Ole Miss Opportunity’s mission to make college affordable for everyone,” said Wendell Weakley, president and CEO of the UM Foundation. “It is gratifying that this gift will honor Mike and Larry’s mother while also creating a lasting legacy to help others realize their goals.”
Individuals and organizations may make gifts to the Katie Mae Overstreet Ole Miss Opportunity Scholarship Endowment by mailing a check with the designation noted in the memo line to the University of Mississippi Foundation, 406 University Ave., Oxford, MS 38655; visiting http://ift.tt/2eBosW5makeagift/ or contacting Sandra Guest at 662-915-5208 or [email protected].
By Bill Dabney
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