G.C. and Pam Bucy
G.C. Bucy and Pam Lundy met when they were both students at Freed-Hardeman College in the late 1940s. After marriage, they both worked as educators. G.C. preached for churches of Christ and taught in the Nashville public schools. Pam taught for 30 years, the last 13 at Goodpasture Christian School in Madison, Tenn. When G.C. passed away in 1979, the couple had no children and Pam never re-married.
Many years ago, Pam made the decision to leave her entire estate ("little dab that it was" she sometimes said) to Freed-Hardeman University. She said, "Because we had no physical children, we decided to devote our lives to the education of young people."
When Pam passed away in 2010, the proceeds from her estate were used to purchase the Bucy Center, Freed-Hardeman's Memphis campus. President Joe Wiley spoke at the ribbon cutting of this facility. "We needed to do this," he said, "not only to be able to offer more classes and expand programs, but to tell the Memphis community that we are here to stay and that we are serious about serving the educational needs of this great city."
But Pam's legacy does not end there. G.C.'s brother, Bill Bucy, had no other family, so he had always planned to leave his estate to G.C. and Pam. When Pam left her entire estate to FHU, Bill decided to do the same, reasoning that if he had died first, Pam would have inherited his estate and then given it to Freed-Hardeman. Although Bill never attended Freed-Hardeman and never set foot on this campus, FHU received at his passing the largest estate gift in the history of the school, $6.3 million.