STARKVILLE, Miss.— A $7.2 million gift from the Charles E. and Viola G. Bardsley Estate will endow a scholarship program for Mississippi State University veterinary students.
The Bardsleys, who were residents of Ocean Springs in their later years, began supporting Mississippi State in 1996 with the creation of an annual academic scholarship with the College of Veterinary Medicine. The scholarship is awarded to the fourth-year senior who has attained the highest cumulative grade point average during the professional program.
“Our college gratefully appreciates and will uphold the wishes of the Bardsleys to educate promising students and make available. . .

