A new scholarship fund has been established to support students in the Real Estate Program at the University of Mississippi School of Business.
The Charles H. Walker Real Estate Scholarship Endowment, created by Oxford lawyer and Ole Miss alumna George Haymans, is in honor of Charles H. Walker. Haymans said the scholarship allowed him to support both the university and a man worthy of recognition.
“My wife and I thought it would be a great way to give back to the university and honor a great and well-known man,” Haymans said.
Walker, also an Ole Miss alumnus, was a longtime professor of real estate in the business school. After receiving his degree in business administration in 1967, he enrolled in the School of Law to pursue real estate law and land matters. Walker graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1970 and went on to practice law in Houston, Miss. for a year before returning to Oxford to join a private law firm.
Walker had a lifelong dream of teaching and mentoring students, which came true when he was invited to be an adjunct faculty member in the School of Business Administration. He would become a full-time faculty member in 1977 and was later awarded tenure in 1984.
Walker was also known for serving as the university’s public address announcer for football games in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium from 1987 until 1997.
-Pete Porter
tjporter@go.olemiss.edu
