Featured Scholarship/Friends of Joshua P. Darden

Among the 36 donors to the Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr. Scholarship Fund at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation are 18 individuals, one company and one organization affiliated with the automobile industry. All the 18 individual donors from the automotive business once worked for Darden at Colonial Auto Group in Norfolk and credit him with helping them become owners or managers of dealerships. Click here to read more about the new scholarship fund.

Pictured from left to right on front row are: Ron Jordan, Charles Barker Automotive; Grady Harris, Charles Barker Automotive; Charles Barker, Charles Barker Automotive; Douglas Joyner, retired from Colonial Auto Group; Michael Blais, Colonial Auto Group; Josh Darden, retired from Colonial Auto Group; Dennis Elmer, Priority Automotive Group; Ken Hall, retired from Hall Automotive, and Alan Rice, Colonial Auto Group.

Pictured left to right on back row are: Nathan Drory, Charles Barker Automotive; Scott Crabtree, Pohanka Lexus (Northern Virginia); Donald Williams, Colonial Auto Group; Wes Snyder, Colonial Auto Group; Donny Howard, Atlantic Auto Sports; George Pelton, First Team Automotive; Alex Jones, retired from Beach Auto Brokers.

Automobile industry donors not pictured are: automotive donors Tom Blocker, representative of Hendrick Automotive Group; David Greer, retired from Continental Volvo; Donald Hall, representative of the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association; Ernest Hodge, Heritage Automotive Group, and Harry Land, retired from The Land Network (North Carolina).