Alumni and friends are invited to join us for the 2019 Welty Gala with John Feinstein. The Welty Gala is our annual fundraiser for the MUW Scholarship Fund. Friday, October 11, at 7:00 p.m. Trotter Convention Center 402 Second Avenue North Columbus, Mississippi Black tie optional John Feinstein is the author of 35 books, including the two bestselling sports books of all time: A Season on The Brink, and A Good Walk Spoiled, both No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Ten of his books have been mysteries written for kids. The first of these, Last Shot, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for mystery writing and was also a New York Times bestseller. His most recent non-fiction book, Where Nobody Knows Your Name, was his 23rd New York Times bestseller. His 36th book, The Legends Club, chronicles the rivalries and relationships among Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith and Jim Valvano. In addition to his books, John also works for The Washington Post, The Golf Channel, Golf Digest, Sirius XM, CBS Sports Radio and Comcast Sportsnet. He has been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame and the Greater D.C. Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Duke University and lives in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Christine, and has three children, Danny, Brigid and Jane. Please visit https://www.muw.edu/welty/gala for tickets.