Retirement Plan

Charles W. Ballance ’57
Bell Society member since 2014

Charles W. Ballance ’57 of Smyrna, Ga. came to Peddie School in 1953 from Winston Salem, N.C.

At Peddie, he was a campus tour guide in the Gold Key Society, member of the football and swim teams and sang in Choir and Glee Club. Charlie remembers his friendship in Trask Hall with classmate and current Trustee Emeritus Mike Armellino ’57, whose 20 years of service to Peddie was inspiring to him.

Fortunately for us, this friendship and memories of teachers such as the late mathematics “master” David Kiviat ’42 led Charlie to designate the school for a percentage of his IRA and investment accounts. In 2014, after receiving the annual letter from Mike as class gift planning chair, Charlie became the seventh member of the Class of 1957 to join the Bell Society.

The retired owner of the Ballance Group, a fundraising consulting company, Charlie said: “I’m proud of how far my class has come. Some of us were from humble beginnings. It meant a lot to me that our teachers believed in us. My designations for Peddie are my way of saying thank you for the friends and faculty who have had an immeasurable and positive impact on my life.”