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Henry Dennis Babers in 1966, the year he graduated from the Ole Miss School of Engineering The memory and legacy of two University of Mississippi School of Engineering alumni killed in the Vietnam War are honored in perpetuity by the Henry Dennis Babers and Phillips H. Izard Engineering Scholarship. This scholarship endowment, established by a generous donation from an Ole Miss engineering classmate and fellow Vietnam veteran, supports veterans pursuing an engineering degree.
Now, we need your help to build the Babers-Izard Scholarship endowment to help more veterans pursue their goals of higher education and attain engineering degrees. Student veterans are eager to pursue a degree but may lack sufficient financial assistance to complete their course of study. With your support, we can help veterans afford the cost of education above and beyond the G.I. Bill and continue to remember the sacrifices made by Babers, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Izard, who served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Babers, a member of the mechanical engineering class of 1966, was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps through the Ole Miss Navy ROTC program. He died in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, on Sept. 18, 1967, while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division.
Capt. Phillips H. Izard graduated from the School of Engineering in 1963 and was commissioned through the Ole Miss Army ROTC program.
While at Ole Miss, Babers and Izard were members of the National Society of Scabbard and Blade.
Please give to support student veterans, honor the lives and service of Dennis Babers and Phillips Izard and recognize the men and women who serve our country. Your gift is an investment in our student veterans by assisting them with their education to become engineers and computer scientists.
In 1900, the University of Mississippi established the state's first School of Engineering, with civil and electrical engineering programs. Today, hundreds of students pursue degrees in civil, electrical, biomedical, chemical, computer, geological, and mechanical engineering, as well as computer science and geology.
Capt. Phillips H. Izard graduated from the School of Engineering with a degree in geological engineering in 1963. A member of the Army ROTC program, he was commissioned into the Army Corps of Engineers. Give $63 in honor of this member of the class of 1963.
Lt. Henry Dennis Babers graduated from the School of Engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1966. He was a member of the Ole Miss Navy ROTC program and was commissioned into the U.S. Marine Corps. Give $66 in honor of this member of the class of 1966.
Both Babers and Izard were members of the Scabbard and Blade college military honor society, which has been in existence for the past 117 years. Please consider a gift of $117 in honor of the Scabbard and Blade.
The average student veteran aided by the Babers-Izard Engineering Scholarship will receive $1,000. Your gift of $1,000 will provide a scholarship to a deserving student veteran this year! Please give now!