Belmont University has surpassed its $300 million fundraising goal as part of the multi-year We Believe campaign, school officials announced Monday.
According to a release, Belmont has raised more than $326 million as part of the campaign, which launched five years ago. The announcement comes as Belmont President Bob Fisher enters retirement later this month. Â
âWhen we launched the We Believe Campaign in 2016, we did so with five fundraising priorities identified that are critical to us living out our mission in even greater ways,â Fisher said in the release. âWe set our sights on the most ambitious fundraising goal in Belmont history and never looked back. Not surprisingly, our Belmont family â students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, trustees and other supporters â heard the call and responded in record numbers. As a result, our endowment has grown more than 233 percent from $102 million to more than $340 million, ensuring our Christ-centered missio
The last living spouse of a Civil War veteran has died
In strange-but-true news, the last known surviving spouse of a Civil War veteran just died last month.
How is that even possible? The U.S. Civil War took place from 1861 to 1865, and no one who survived the war is still alive. However, there are two things that make it possible: 1) As much as we might like to imagine that Americans fighting over the right to own Black people was super ancient history, the Civil War was just 160 years ago. That s two 80-year-olds living back to back. 2) Some people live long lives and have unlikely marriages, which makes for fascinating historical stories like this one.