This fall, Birmingham-Southern parents and families can join together to provide more outdoor classrooms, dining areas, and social spaces for current and future students.

Over the past three years, parents and family members have supported several key projects, such as residence hall renovations, campus safety enhancements, and last year’s furniture upgrades.

The Hilltop Parent & Family Fund has selected a project that will benefit commuter and residential students as well as faculty and staff: the purchase of 50 Adirondack chairs to place across campus. Each chair will be personalized with a plaque, offering the chance to honor your family, your student, or someone in the BSC community who is important to you.

“The chairs will be great for students to have more outdoor classroom space, especially in this current situation,” says Rich Gory, whose son, Trey Gory, is a sophomore at BSC.

For our spring Hilltop Parent & Family Fund project, 131 parents, along with support from SGA, provided new chairs, tables, and umbrellas for the Alumni Fountain Plaza outside of Norton Campus Center. The furniture has been a favorite campus improvement with more students eating and studying outside than ever before.

Each Adirondack chair is $250, and gifts can be made individually or as a group. Chairs will be purchased and placed on campus as gifts come in during the year, so even our senior students will experience the impact of this project.

Each Adirondack chair will have a plaque like the one pictured.

Rich and Tracy Gory made a lead gift of four chairs, one of which they’ve named in honor of Head Football Coach Tony Joe White, one of Trey’s BSC mentors. They are looking forward to visiting the Hilltop in the future and reading the plaques, a mini-tour of the impact BSC has had throughout our community.

As BSC parents and families look for ways to be involved on campus, the Hilltop Parent & Family Fund provides a great opportunity to invest in the College and make a difference for years to come.

“College is a huge step in our children becoming independent adults, but they still need their parents’ support,” Tracy says. “Knowing what’s happening is crucial for parents to know how to support their students.”

Participation at any level will help reach our goal of $12,500 from parents and families this fall. Please visit www.bsc.edu/give/chairs to make your gift, and learn more about the project from Director of Annual Giving Sarah-Kate Roberts ’11 at (205) 226-4979 or [email protected].