NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 21 number 3 - Spring 2001
Library Friends Inducted into Pullen Society
By Tony Reevy, Library Development
During a ceremony at the NCSU Libraries on October 13, 2000, William A. (Bill)
and Jacqueline M. Jackson and Micou F. Browne were inducted into North Carolina
State University's R. Stanhope Pullen Society for their gift commitments benefiting
the library. The Pullen Society recognizes alumni and friends who make deferred
gifts to NC State.
The Jacksons made a planned gift commitment to the library that could increase
the principal in the Arnold Addison and Mildred Barner Jackson Library Endowment
(see Focus, vol. 20.2, page 15, and vol. 16.3, page 5). The endowment,
which produces income to support the library's collections in all subjects
and formats, is named for Bill Jackson's parents. Jackson is the William Neal
Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Soil Science at NC State and received his Ph.D.
from this university.
Browne made a planned gift commitment to the library that will eventually
expand an Incubator Endowment account into the Micou and Katharine Browne Library
Endowment. Browne's son Micou M. Browne created the original incubator account
in honor of his parents and to produce income supporting the library's management
collections in all formats. The younger Browne, who is a life member in the
Friends of the Library, accepted the induction certificate and medal on his
father's behalf. The Browne family has a long history of supporting the NCSU
Libraries and NC State. Micou F. Browne's late wife, Katharine M. Browne (1916-1993),
served as president of the Friends of the Library from 1969 through 1970. His
father-in-law, Zeno P. Metcalf (1885-1956), was an NC State faculty member
and administrator who built an outstanding entomological collection now held
by the library. Browne's father, Thomas Everett Browne (1881-1965), also was
an NC State administrator and teacher. The Pullen Society is named for R. Stanhope
Pullen, who donated the land used for the original campus of the North Carolina
College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts.
More information about the Pullen Society is available from NC State Director
of Gift Planning Joan DeBruin at (919) 515-9076.
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