"I might never have gotten that degree without the support and encouragement I got from everyone in the College of Engineering and Computing. I give to the college because in a way I owe them. Our middle son, Michael, earned a chemical engineering degree from Carolina in 2001, and our youngest son, Evan, is now going to Carolina. So we've invested our sons in the University, too."

—Jethro ('74, '76) and Cheryl Matthews ('71, '76), self-described "continual givers" whose gifts his employer matches 3-to-1