PowerSouth CEO Gary Smith, center, with Troy University Senior Vice Chancellor Walter Givhan and Associate Vice Chancellor Rebecca Watson.
For almost 80 years, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative has played a major role in providing power to people and businesses across the state of Alabama and within the northwest region of Florida. Now, PowerSouth and its CEO, Gary Smith, are providing the power of support to Troy University in the form of a generous donation for the TROY IDEA Bank.
An initiative of TROY’s Sorrell College of Business housed…
Alumnus Bob Butterworth has made several planned gifts to support TROY and endow scholarships.
Bob Butterworth, known as “Troy Bob” among the alumni community, has been an avid donor and supporter of Troy University for many years—but if you ask him, it’s the least he could do.
“The way I look at it, I owe TROY something because of what they did for me,” he said.
Butterworth is a…
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…
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…
