The Dr. Marshall E. Bishop Memorial Scholarship’s endowment for math and science scholarships at Southwestern Michigan College doubled recently to $20,000, thanks in part to a treasure hunter known as Bunky.

Bunky, Bishop’s childhood nickname, lives on at Bunky’s A Bit of Everything, which opened in April inside Schoolcraft Antique Mall.

His widow, Jackie, SMC’s first computer programming instructor, is learning retail while gradually rehoming his many collections.

Mrs. Bishop also directed Indiana University South Bend’s computer center and worked for the Edward Lowe Foundation.

Though she grew up in Battle Creek and lives in Portage, the couple considered Dowagiac home after raising their two children here during 26 years on Twin Lakes Road and at Magician Lake.

Bishop, the college’s sixth president, passed June 4, 2023, at 80. Riverside Cemetery is his final resting place.

He came to SMC in 1975 to teach chemistry, became dean of arts and science in 1985 and was promoted to vice president of instruction in 1987.

Bishop became president in 1998 upon the retirement of David C. Briegel and served until 2001 when Dr. David M. Mathews succeeded him.

Bishop did not stay retired long, becoming president of Adirondack Community College in Queensbury, N.Y., until June 2007.

In 2014, Bishop attended SMC’s 50^th-anniversary celebration. Jackie attended Founders Day Nov. 1 for SMC’s 60^th anniversary, taking in two basketball victories with Camille Briegel and Linda Campbell.

The genial 6-foot-7 educator always dressed up for Halloween and as the Roadrunner mascot, initially a brown Big Bird.

In early 2000, at home on a Saturday, Bishop’s phone rang. It was Tony the Tiger on the other end of the line!

An avid collector of Kellogg’s memorabilia, his caller was Thurl Ravenscroft, who had been telling how G