Southern Announces Major Gifts Campaign, Vison 2020

Southern President Joanne Jaeger Tomblin was presented with a check for $500,000 from James
H. "Buck" Harless, the campaign's honorary chair, during a kickoff celebration held on
September 7, 2006.

The campaign has already raised $3.6 million toward a goal of $20 million by the year 2020.

The announcement of the new Academy for Mine Training and Energy Technologies was also made to a crowd of nearly 200 people. The academy is set to open this fall, according to Allyn Sue Barker, vice-president for Economic, Workforce and Community Development.