Gloria Cathryn Mallamas personified the West Virginia women who valued family, friends, their home state, education and hard work. She established this permanent endowment as both a permanent memorial to her late husband and as an expression of her love for the people of our Mountain State. Income from this fund will be used for a need and merit based scholarship for college qualified students residing and educated in either Raleigh or Mercer counties. Jimmy Mallamas died in 1997; he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and earned an Associate in Science degree from Beckley College. He was a successful general contractor, designing and building custom homes in the Beckley area. Gloria wrote “My late husband loved children and had a good influence on many young people. He always encouraged others to continue their education, which he did throughout his life.”
