Gary Wayne Wright

Gary graduated from Centre in 1964. He retired as owner of Southwestern Business College in 2004. A baseball player while at Centre, Gary made gifts to Centre to renovate the existing baseball field, including the surface, dugouts, and lighting. The Gary W. Wright Field is named in his honor. Gary established the Gary W. Wright and Howard VanAntwerp III Scholarship in honor of Mr. VanAntwerp, which is to be awarded to worthy full-time students, with preference to students who graduated from the following schools in the Ashland, Kentucky area, or from high schools subsequently established that serve students from the same region: Paul Blazer High School, Russell High School, Boyd County High School, Greenup County High School, Raceland High School, and East Carter High School.