Germanna thankful for Culpeper Regional Health System, Bill and Pat Price, Butch Davies, Steve B. Jones, Rev. Lawrence Davies

Madison County husband and wife John W. “Bill” Price III and Patricia Adams Price have been named Germanna Community College’s 2013 Philanthropists of the Year.

They were honored at the 2012 Germanna Educational Foundation Annual Dinner and Celebration of Philanthropy Nov. 16 at Stevenson Ridge Lodge in Spotsylvania County.

Culpeper Regional Health System President and CEO Lee Kirk presented the college with a $40,000 donation at the event. Germanna President David A. Sam thanked Kirk and CRHS. "For your continuing support of Germanna. When you invest in Germanna, you're investing in people--our students--and in our community."

Culpeper Regional Health System's Lee Kirk presents Germanna Educational Foundation with $40,000 donation at GCCEF's Annual Dinner. Left to right: GCCEF Executive Director Mike Catell, CRHS President and Chief Executive Officer  Lee Kirk, GCCEF Board Member  Connie Kincheloe,  GCCEF Board member Butch Davies, GCCEF President Jane Wallace and Germanna President David A. Sam.

Bill Price, an employee of Madison Wood Preservers, Inc. since 1972 and currently the Chief Executive Officer, is a life-long resident of Madison County. Pat Price is from Carrollton, Al.  They met while attending the University of Alabama.  After college, he taught at Madison County High School for three years and she was a substitute teacher.

 He went to a junior college in Texas for two years before transferring to the University of Alabama, “So I know how important community colleges are, especially today, a lot of kids just cannot afford to step right into a four-year school. The expense has just gotten out of hand.

 “Having taught in Madison, somewhere along the line, Pat and I developed the philosophy that there’s one thing you can give your children that they can’t lose, they can’t throw away and they can’t sell--and that is a good education.”

He served on the GCC Educational Foundation board for 17 years and was president of the foundation for two years. Pat Price is on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Virginia in Charlottesville.

"The Foundation greatly appreciates the Prices' generosity--their gifts in terms of time and energy as well as  donations, over many years," said GCCEF Executive Director Mike Catell.

 Other honors conferred at the GCCEF Annual Dinner:

·         John J. “Butch” Davies, III, a Culpeper attorney and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, was named the GCCEF Board Member of the Year.

·         The Rev. Lawrence A. Davies, who recently retired after 50 years as pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) in Fredericksburg, and was that city’s first African American mayor, was honored as GCCEF Community Member of the Year.

·         Steve B. Jones of Spotsylvania County was named GCCEF Alumnus of the Year. He graduated from Germanna in 1979 with an Associate Degree in Business Management. He is President and Chief Operating Officer of the Fried Companies, Inc. a regional residential and commercial real estate development firm located out of Fairfax County with offices in Springfield, Spotsylvania and Greene County.

Source: The Culpeper Times