Browns give scholarship recipients clean slate
Fred and MariAnna Brown of Roswell, Georgia, are staying connected to their university and honoring their commitment to higher education in their home state of Mississippi. A recently established deferred gift from the couple will further their support of Mississippi State University, primarily through student scholarships. The Browns earned degrees from Mississippi State with the assistance of student loans and through their philanthropy hope to help make an education possible and help alleviate debt for future students. The couple’s gift will create
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three academic-based endowed scholarships and provide support for the university’s music department in the College of Education. A portion of the couple’s support places emphasis on veterans’ education. The Col. Fred N. Brown Jr. Endowed Scholarship will honor students pursuing undergraduate degrees in the College of Business. Recipients of the scholarship must be veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces with a minimum 3.0 GPA, among other criteria. An ROTC student at Mississippi State, Fred Brown earned a 1967 bachelor's degree in
