Mrs. Homozel Mickel Daniel
The largest gift Wofford has received, totaling more than $14 million, came from the estate of Mrs. Homozel Mickel Daniel, distributed during 1993-1995. Mrs. Daniel, of Greenville, was the widow of Charles E. Daniel, who built one of the largest and most successful construction firms in the world before his death in 1964. Mrs. Daniel was a great friend to higher education and she left more than $55 million in bequests to charitable organizations.
The Daniel Challenge for Endowed Scholarship Funds was created in 1995 when the Wofford Board of Trustees approved a plan to use a portion of the bequest from the Estate of Mrs. Homozel Mickel Daniel as a challenge to encourage the creation of new endowed scholarship funds. In response to the commitments of at least $250,000, either to start funds or to add to existing funds, the college has created from the Daniel bequest new scholarship funds in $250,000 increments. The new scholarships from the Daniel gift bear both the Daniel name and the name of the donor making the new commitment. The scholarship funds listed below were created with the Daniel gift:
• Daniel/ Avant Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ BB&T Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Bank of America Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ J. Harold Chandler Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ LaFon C. and Winston C. Dees Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Michael E. Edens Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Harvey Stafford Floyd Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Robert E. Gregory Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Cleveland S. and Curtis H. Harley Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Elmore G. and Dorothy C. Herbert Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Douglas H. Joyce Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Russell C. King Sr. Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Ruth O. and Joab M. Lesesne Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund (2)
• Daniel/ Robert W. McCully Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Harold M. McLeod Sr. Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Joseph B. Miller Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Walter S. Montgomery Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ M. Stewart and Steven W. Mungo Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Jack E. Peterson Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ J. E. Reeves Jr. and Family Endowed Scholarship Fund (4)
• Daniel/ Molly Sessoms Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Walt Sessoms Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Daniel/ Switzer Family Endowed Athletics Scholarship Fund
• Daniel Joe E. Taylor Endowed Scholarship Fund
