Gift Campaign To Fund Veteran’s Memorial At NEMCC

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (PRESS RELEASE) – In the late 1940’s when construction began on the original buildings that would become the Northeast Mississippi Junior College, work crews were made up of United States military veterans having just returned home from World War II.

To recognize those and all US military veterans, a memorial statue and flag pole will be erected in the landscaped area near the east end of Cunningham Boulevard at the turn-around near Ramsey Hall on the Northeast campus.

Currently, the Northeast Development Foundation and Alumni Association is coordinating a fundraising effort in support of that project.

“We’re calling it our Veteran’s Memorial Campaign Project,” said Patrick Eaton, vice president of institutional advancement and executive director of the foundation and alumni association.

“Each gift of $100 or more will be displayed in a marker recognizing your partnership with this campaign project.  It is our privilege and honor to be a part of this project that will forever change Northeast campus.  Our goal is $30,000.”

An initial gift to campaign was given by the Prentiss County Veterans Fund.

For more information or to make a gift contactTiffany Johnson at the Northeast Development Foundation at 662-720-7185 or by email at tsjohnson@nemcc.edu.

Checks may be brought to the Foundation office in Patterson Hall on the Booneville campus or mailed to the Northeast Development Foundation, c/o Tiffany Johnson, 101 Cunningham Blvd., Box 4, Booneville, MS  38829.

Northeast’s Foundation offers a comprehensive program of giving opportunities and is specifically responsible for gifts to the college involving estate planning, real estate, insurance, endowments, annuities, trusts, pooled income funds or other special donations that require ongoing management or binding agreements. It exists to serve Northeast by providing programs and benefits not fully provided by other sources. For more information about Northeast’s Foundation contact Eaton at 662- 720-7165 or dpeaton@nemcc.edu. Visit the Northeast web site at www.nemcc.edu.