August 19, 2002
___ Healthcare foundation names Alvarez. Albert Alvarez has been named president of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation. Since 1996, Alvarez has been executive director of the three Swedish Medical Center Foundations in Seattle. His father was pastor of Primera Iglesia Bautista in El Paso in the early 1950s before appointment as a home missionary in Harlingen. Under Alvarez's leadership of the three Swedish foundations, fund-raising grew from under $2 million in 1995 to more than $16 million in 2000. He also previously served Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage; Northridge Hospital Foundation in Northridge, Calif.; Providence Healthcare Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska; and Poudre Hospital Foundation in Fort Collins, Colo.
___ UMHB's Shipp comes in. Ben Shipp has been named vice president for athletics at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. A 1980 UMHB graduate, Shipp served as assistant vice president and director of athletics since May 2001. Previously, he was director of the athletic department and head baseball coach. Under his leadership, the university has increased the number of student athletes from 136 to more than 400. In 1998, the university moved from NAIA competition to NCAA Division III and the American Southwest Conference.
___ UMHB receives $300,000 gift. Marjorie Hamilton Gillies has donated $300,000 to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor to establish three Tomorrow's Leaders endowed scholarships. One scholarship, named in memory of her art professor, Lucille Land Lacy, will be awarded to a student majoring in art. Another will be awarded to a student majoring in journalism and is named in memory of Roy Hamilton, her brother. The third, awarded to an education major, memorializes Eunice Howell.
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