Students, faculty and staff gathered for morning biscuits and a lunchtime cake on March 7 as part of #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay, the single-largest day of giving in Â鶹ÊÓƵ history.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law community celebrated this month with biscuits, cake and T-shirt sales as dozens of people made gifts in support of Greensboro’s downtown law school.
The fourth annual #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay – which was timed during Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s anniversary week – has become the single largest day of giving in each successive year. The university received 44 gifts totaling nearly $4,000 on March 7, 2017, in support of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students purchased T-shirts with proceeds that benefitted their school.
Danielle Prongay ’14 L’17, who earned her political science degree from the university before attending Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law, said #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay is an opportunity for the university and alumni body to come together to celebrate and recognize what makes Â鶹ÊÓƵ great.
She said that her #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay contribution to the 3L Class Gift Campaign is a special token of thanks to what Â鶹ÊÓƵ has taught her and a message to the law school of what she thinks are important priorities moving forward.
“As a community, we celebrate achievements of the past year, milestones, and advancements that make Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law a place of engaged learning, personal development, intellectual curiosity and formation of global, lawyer-leaders,” Prongay said. “In addition to gifts a make to the University throughout the year, I take most pride in my gift I make on #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay because it is an important symbol of my dedication to Â鶹ÊÓƵ and our success, my appreciation of my experiences and support, as well as commitment to future developments and strategic plans that make Â鶹ÊÓƵ better for a generation of students to come after me.”
Hundreds of Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni participated in #Â鶹ÊÓƵDay events hosted by the university’s regional alumni chapters. The events took place in 38 cities spanning the globe from London to Los Angeles.
The North Carolina legislature issued a charter for a four-year co-educational institution to be located near Burlington, N.C., on March 11, 1889. Seventy-six students enrolled in the first class of the new Â鶹ÊÓƵ College, a school whose Hebrew name for “oak” was inspired by the grove of oaks its founders discovered on the land chosen for their project.