BURROUGHS SCHOLARSHIP
Three Hampden-Sydney Alumni MAKE T HEIR MARKS AT HOME
Charles F. Burroughs Sr. never Charles F. Burroughs Sr.
attended college. But he’s managed to send 188 students to Hampden-Sydney College through the scholarship he started at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation 51 years ago. The tool he used to accomplish this was a bequest he put in his will. Burroughs had one special tie to
Hampden-Sydney: Frank Moore, a company vice president he hired who graduated from the all-male Virginia college in 1957. Burroughs headed the Royster Fertilizer Company in Norfolk, and Moore was one of his valued employees. “My grandfather always said one secret of success is hiring people smarter than you,” says Richard C. Burroughs, president of Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate. Before his death in 1960,
The Burroughs Fund is among 65 different scholarship Funds that have provided more than $15 million to help 3,600+ students attend college since 1950.
Burroughs arranged for his estate to donate Pembroke Farm in Virginia Beach to the Foundation. The farm became the site of Pembroke Mall and the money generated from its
sale created the Charles F. and Mabel C. Burroughs Memorial Scholarship Fund. Among the schools Burroughs named for scholarships was Hampden-Sydney. By 1963 the first Burroughs Scholars were enrolled in college. Among the beneficiaries of Burroughs’ generosity are these
three graduates of Norfolk’s Maury High School – Shep Miller, Craig Reilly and Billy Ekofo. After graduation all returned to Hampton Roads to live and work. The Burroughs scholarship was a huge help to Miller, a
1979 Hampden-Sydney graduate who worried about paying for college. “My dad lost his lumber business in Hurricane Camille and died while I was in college,” Miller says. The scholarship made it possible for him to attend the all-male liberal arts college. He earned a degree in government and foreign affairs and today is chairman of KITCO Fiber Optics, a Virginia Beach company. This summer he will join the Hampden-Sydney board of trustees. Miller chairs Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s board and is on seven other boards including the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Craig Reilly, a 1997 Hampden-Sydney graduate, recalls that “as soon as I entered the gates of Hampden-Sydney College, I immediately fell in love with its beauty and prestige, and I knew this was the college I wanted to attend.” The cost of a private school was daunting and “would have placed a financial burden on my family.” Reilly says. “Luckily, with the help of the Foundation we were able to bridge the gap and my parents were able to send me to my dream school.”
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hamptonroadscf.org/scholarships Today Reilly is Monarch Bank’s Virginia Beach president and
is president of The Maury Foundation board. He is involved in other community organizations and has been honored by Inside Business as a Top 40 Under 40 business leader. Reilly studied managerial economics at Hampden-Sydney
with help from the Burroughs scholarship and a second scholarship from the Foundation. He was among the first recipients of the Joseph A. Leafe Scholarship started at the Foundation in 1992 to honor Leafe, a Hampden- Sydney alumnus, for his service as Norfolk mayor. The Leafe Scholarship is for Hampden-Sydney students who graduated from Norfolk Public Schools. Ekofo, a 2004 Hampden-Sydney graduate, fled war-
ravaged Congo at age 17 with only his passport, three changes of clothes and some family photos. He lived with a Norfolk minister’s family while attending Maury High. The Burroughs scholarship let him study economics at Hampden-Sydney where “I loved everything – especially the camaraderie.” Today Ekofo is director of business development at Re:Act Media, a Norfolk firm specializing in multi-media projects for nonprofit organizations. This fall he will begin work at the College of Wil- liam & Mary on a master’s degree in business administration. Burroughs’ generosity continues today at Hampden- Sydney with 11 Hampton Roads students on scholarship. His scholarship fund is among the 65 different funds the Foundation administers on behalf of generous donors like Charles F. Burroughs Sr. who want to give students the gift of higher education.
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Craig Reilly (left), Shep Miller and Billy Ekofo all benefitted from Charles Burroughs’
generosity.
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Courtesy of the Burroughs family
Photo by Glen McClure
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