FARMVILLE, Va., July 7 -- Longwood University issued the following news release:
Linda Holt was born in Texas, graduated from the University of Hawaii and built a successful business in Maryland. Despite her nationwide travels, though, by the time she retired in 2014, she had never set foot on Longwood University's campus, and all she knew about one of the nation's hundred oldest colleges and universities came from passing conversations with an alumnus she had befriended decades prior.
But Longwood graduates tend to wax poetic about their university, and when Holt began considering where to make her legacy gift in support of leadership education, the anecdotes her colleague-turned-friend Drew Hudson '90 shared about his alma mater had piq...