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The Foundation will administer the endowment for the benefit of the
departments of pediatrics and internal medicine of the WVU Health Sciences
Center-Charleston Division. The pediatric endowment fund and the internal
medicine Mary McJunkin Gray has long supported numerous charitable causes in
Charleston and, for many years, served as a volunteer in the recovery room at
CAMC. The honoree of her gift, Howard (Mac) McJunkin, was a devoted husband,
father and civic leader. Following graduation from MIT and service in the Navy
during WWII, he returned to his beloved hometown to raise his family. Prior to
his death in 1975, he provided financial support and leadership to numerous
charitable organizations and community improvement efforts, including service as
chairman of the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority during its vitally important
early years. In his work at McJunkin Corporation, he was keenly interested in
the well-being of the companyıs employees and took great pride in the
employment and other benefits the company brought to the communities in which it
was located. This gift, dedicated to sustaining and elevating both the quality of health
care and the quality of life for residents of Charleston and the surrounding
region, would have been very gratifying to the honoree and represents a fitting
and enduring recognition of his service to the community. |
Mary
McJunkin Gray Gift Establishes Endowment Funds
endowment fund are both dedicated to the development and retention of
excellent faculty within the Charleston Division of the WVU School of Medicine.
In the department of pediatrics, Myra Chiang, MD, pediatric nephrologist, was
recognized in May 2008 as the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Professor
of Pediatric Subspecialty Care funded by the Howard P. and Mary N. McJunkin
Endowment.