The Walter S. McIlhenny Endowment was created to endow a natural history acquisition for Alderman Library's Department of Special Collections. The endowment was established in 1993 by John S. McIlhenny in honor of his late brother, Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, a UVA Engineering alum and World War II veteran who served as president of McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce, from 1949 until his death in 1985.
!["Presented ... by his brother, John S. McilHenny. A representation of a tiger walking through a jungle.](/sites/default/files/bookplates/20170622100940461_mcilhenny.jpg)
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