A lifelong love of theatre and decades of dedicated service to the University have resulted in the establishment of the David and Rebecca Pardue Distinguished Professorship in Technical Theatre and Production Management and the Courtnay Arpano and David Pardue III Graduate Fellowship Fund. The two new endowments, totaling $1.4 million, will provide a great boost for the department of dramatic art and PlayMakers Repertory Company.

Jan Bardsley knew just what to do with surprise funding from the dean’s office.

A stipend for a graduate student to oversee logistics for a major Asian studies conference on campus? Yes.

Funds for faculty who elevate the department’s profile by editing prestigious academic journals? Yes.

When Bill and Elizabeth Taylor’s paternal grandfather, William Woodruff Taylor Sr., grew weary of dentistry and decided to become a lawyer, he set an example of never stopping one’s education. He practiced both disciplines in Warrenton, N.C., for years. On the other side of the family tree, these siblings’ maternal grandmother, Kate Barden Winstead, moved