Endowed Scholarship Fund - Women's Soccer

CHARLOTTE AND GIL MINOR '63
WOMEN'S SOCCER SCHOLARSHIP
Represented by Mr. and Mrs. G. Gilmer Minor III '63

The Charlotte and Gil Minor '63 Women's Soccer Scholarship was established in 2005 to provide grant-in-aid to one cadet-athlete on the Women's Soccer Team.

Charlotte Major Minor was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from Mary Washington College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history. A former contemporary arts gallery owner, she is currently president of the board of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

 G. Gilmer Minor III matriculated at VMI from Richmond, Virginia, in 1959 after graduating from St. Christopher’s School. As a cadet, he played football all four years of his cadetship, and co-captained the 1962 Southern Conference championship team. He played baseball all four years of his cadetship, was named all-conference catcher in his Second Class year, and co-captained the team his First Class year. He also played Rat basketball. He served on the Athletic Council for two years, and was president of the Monogram Club.

Cadet Minor also helped found the Pioneer Investment Club, served on the Ring Figure Committee and was a member of the Political Science Society.

He graduated from the Institute with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

Minor is chairman and chief executive officer of Owens & Minor, Inc., a $4.5 billion Fortune 500 distributor of medical and surgical supplies to hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. He has spent his career with Owens & Minor, and served as company president from 1981-1999. He was named chief executive officer in 1984, and in 1994 was elected chairman of the board.

Minor is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden School of Business Administration. He has been and is active in a number of civic, professional and charitable organizations in Richmond, including serving on the boards of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority, Richmond Renaissance, SunTrust Banks, Inc. (in Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond), Virginia Health Care Foundation and the National Committee for Quality Health Care.

Minor has been and remains one of VMI’s most loyal and generous sons. He has served as president of the VMI Foundation Board of Trustees and on the Keydet Club Board of Governors. He was appointed by the Governor of the Common-wealth of Virginia to the VMI Board of Visitors in 2000 and was reappointed in 2004. He currently serves as vice president of the Board of Visitors.

He co-chaired the campaign for the Coach John McKenna Scholarship Fund Drive in 1999-2000, which raised over $1.2 million dollars, and was a challenge donor for the Athletic Operations Fund that was established in 1999. He is a long-time Full Scholarship annual giving member of the Keydet Club, and has been a key contributor to the renovation and expansion of the Patchin Field baseball/lacrosse/soccer complex, including the Locker Room Project completed in 2004.

Mr. and Mrs. Minor have two children and three grandchildren.

Cadet Celine M. Ziobro '09 is recognized in the name of the
Charlotte and Gil Minor '63 Women's Soccer Scholarship
for the 2007-08 year.