Tag Archives: Giving

Cervera credits life-changing TROY experience with desire to give back

January 28, 2019
By Matt Clower
Nick Cervera, left, and wife Carmen Cervera. Cervera has worked at Troy University for more than 50 years.

In the spring of 1961, when Nick Cervera and his best friend Al Sansone arrived in Troy, Alabama, to study at then-Troy State Teachers College, they found a very different world than the home left behind in Brooklyn, New York.

Cervera jokes that when they arrived at Troy’s only blinking traffic light they thought perhaps…

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Fred and Debi Green create scholarship for sport management students

January 17, 2019
Troy University professor Dr. Fred Green and wife Debi are working to endow a scholarship for sport management students at Troy University.

When Troy University professor Dr. Fred Green and his wife Debi began looking for ways to give back to the community, they had two goals—to feed people and to educate people.

They are working to feed people through involvement in the Salvation Army’s Empty Bowls program. To educate people, they turned their attention to the…

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Donors come together to make golf sprinter vans a reality

January 16, 2019
By Matt Clower
Members of the men and women's golf teams pose with their new sprinter vans, purchased with the help of a group of donors.

The Troy University Golf Team is riding in style thanks to the combined efforts of a group of alumni.

This past fall, the team received a donation of two state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Vans which will be used for recruiting and team travel.

The vans can each hold up to eight passengers and storage units for…

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November 2, 2018
Giving creates opportunities for students at TROY’s Johnson Center
October 3, 2018
Alumnus McKinney makes matching gift in support of TROY Giving Day
October 1, 2018
Dodds’ matching gift sets Giving Day challenge