2024 WISH Grant Award Reception
The 2024 WISH Grant Award Recipients pose for a group photo. First Row (l to r): Michelle Sudduth, Executive Director of CASA of the Eastern Panhandle; Sherri Janelle, Shepherd University Foundation Executive Vice President; Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD, Shepherd University President; Madison Wolff; Lisa Wolff ’87, sponsor; and Dr. Jacquelyn Cole, Co-Chair of Department of Natural and Physical Sciences Second Row (l to r): Carol Kable, Co-Chair WISH Grant Committee; Stacie Rohn, Chief Executive Officer of Boys & Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle; Marianne Howard, Board Director of Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Beth Ayling, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Holly Robinson, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Carrie Tiffner, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Harriet Pearson, Co-Chair WISH Grant Committee; Holly Morgan Frye, Vice President of Student Affairs; Jessica Anders, Director of Accessibility Services; and Rachael Meads, Student Affairs Back Row (l to r): Meg Patterson, Shepherd University Foundation Director of Donor Engagement and Strategic Initiatives; Jennifer Donaho, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Vanessa Clay, Board Director of Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Teresa Schwarzhoff, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Panhandle; Liz Oates, WISH Advisory Committee; Carolyn Fleenor ’78, WISH Advisory Committee; and Bev Hughes ’71, WISH Advisory Committee
WISH Grant Committee Co-Chairs Carol Kable (l) and Harriet Pearson (r) pose with Boys & Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle Chief Executive Officer Stacie Rohn (c). Boys & Girls Club of the EP was a 2024 nonprofit recipient.
(l to r): WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Carol Kable, CASA Board Director Kim Himes, CASA Board Director Marellen Aherne, Michelle Sudduth, Former CASA Board President Pam Curtis, and WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Harriet Pearson. CASA of EP was a 2024 nonprofit recipient.
(l to r): WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Carol Kable, Board Director Beth Ayling, Jennifer Donaho, Marianne Howard, Holly Robinson, Board Director Vanessa Clay, Cassie Tiffner, and WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Harriet Pearson Literacy Volunteers of the EP was a 2024 nonprofit recipient.
WISH Grant Committee Co-Chairs Carol Kable (l) and Harriet Pearson (r) pose with Accessibility Services Director Jessica Anders ’23 (c) Accessibility Services was a 2024 Shepherd project recipient.
WISH Grant Committee Co-Chairs Carol Kable (l) and Harriet Pearson (r) pose with Dr. Jacquelyn Cole (c) The chemistry program was a 2024 Shepherd project recipient.
(l to r): WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Carol Kable, Holly Morgan Frye, Student Affairs representative Rachael Meads, and WISH Grant Committee Co-Chair Harriet Pearson The Little House, overseen by Shepherd University Student Affairs, was a 2024 Shepherd project recipient.
Shepherd University Executive Vice President Sherri Janelle addresses WISH members and grant recipients in attendance
Shepherd University President Mary J.C. Hendrix ’74 gives a memorial tribute to John Wolff ’88, who sponsored the event along with wife Lisa ’87. John passed away on August 19, 2024.
Carolyn Fleenor ’78 gives a membership update
Grant Committee Co-Chair Harriet Pearson introduces each of the 2024 grant recipients
Nonprofit Recipient Boys & Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle
Executive Director Michelle Sudduth speaks on behalf of nonprofit recipient CASA of the Eastern Panhandle
Board directors Marianne Howard and Vanessa Clay accept a nonprofit grant award on behalf of the Literacy Volunteers of the Eastern Panhandle
Director Jessica Anders ’23 accepts a Shepherd learning project grant award for the Accessibility Services office
Dr. Jacquelyn Cole receives a Shepherd learning project grant award for the chemistry program to develop a forensics science lab
Holly Morgan Frye, Vice President of Student Affairs, receives the third Shepherd learning project award to remediate and renovate the Little House in Shepherdstown
The 2024 WISH Grant Committee Seated (l to r): Bev Hughes, advisor; Harriet Pearson, Co-Chair, and Carol Kable, Co-Chair (l to r): Gillian McPhee, Kim Himes, Carolyn Thomas, Hap Becker, Heidi Johnston, Sheila Vertino, Barb Gibson, Pam Curtis, Karen Hensell, Meg Patterson, advisor, and Susie Davis
