Pogue Scholarship

Pogue Scholarship

The Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Scholarship was established in the late 1970’s with a bequest from the estate of Joseph and Grace Needham Pogue, a married couple who had no children and left the majority of their estate to UNC. Joseph, the son of a wealthy Raleigh family, earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from UNC in the early 1900’s. He later earned a PhD in Geology at Yale and worked at the Smithsonian in DC, where he met his wife, Grace. They married in 1919. Joseph also worked as a geologist in the petroleum industry and later as a banker, even serving as head of Chase Manhattan Bank in the 30’s and 40’s. You can see his papers in the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library. Since the 1970s part of the distribution from the endowment has been used to support scholarships for students on the basis of academic achievement and social and community engagement. Pogue Scholars are automatically invited to join the UNC Scholars Program.