The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation of Atlanta, Ga., announced Jan. 31 a grant of $60,000 to Judson College. The grant will be used to provide scholarships for students during the 2003-2004 academic year.
The foundation was chartered in 1946 by the son of Joseph and Lettie Pate Whitehead as a memorial to his mother. It was founded with the specific purpose of providing aid to needy Christian women in nine Southern states.
Most of the foundation’s resources are used for undergraduate higher education scholarships in more than 200 institutions.
Lettie Pate Whitehead was born in Bedford County, Va., in 1872. Her husband, attorney Joseph Brown Whitehead, approached the Coco-Cola Company in 1899 with the idea of bottling the popular fountain beverage. Whitehead and an associate secured a contract and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Atlanta.
Generous gifts
Mrs. Whitehead assumed responsibility for the company’s business affairs after the death of her husband in 1906. She gave liberally from her business profits to many American colleges and to British and French war victims during World War II.
Judson’s Interim Vice-President for Advancement, David Vogelgesang, noted that Judson has received a grant from the Whitehead foundation every year since 1976. “Many, many deserving students have been helped in their pursuit of degrees because of the foundation’s generosity,” he said.
Judson President David Potts concurred with Vogelgesang, saying, “We remain ever grateful for the Foundation’s support of Alabama’s only women’s college.”
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