The President's Roundtable distinguishes donors whose lifetime giving to Covenant College is greater than $1,000,000.

Members are recognized as benefactors whose generosity has advanced the academic and spiritual distinctions of a Covenant education and has equipped countless students for lives of service to Jesus Christ and to the world.

Covenant College was founded with a vision of teaching young Christians to live as active, reforming agents of Christ's redemption in a complex world. The College has been able to offer this sort of education for since its founding thanks to the support of innumerable friends, including three families formally recognized as founders of the College: the families of Max V. Belz, Robert G. Rayburn, and Rudolph F. Schmidt.

Symbolized by the original Carter Hall tower before the renovations of the early 1980s, the Founders Society honors its members for their personal sacrifice and bold generosity.

• Patrons: Founders Society Patrons are those persons whose gifts to the Covenant Fund total greater than $50,000.

• Fellows: Founders Society Fellows have given between $25,000 and $49,999 to the Covenant Fund during the previous fiscal year.

• Members: Founders Society Members are donors who have made gifts totaling between $10,000 and $24,999 to the Covenant Fund during the previous fiscal year.

The thistle, a common wild flower native to the Highlands, is the national symbol of Scotland.

Ancient legend tells of Viking invaders creeping across a quiet beach toward an encampment of sleeping Scots. The Vikings had removed their shoes to move silently across the sand, but their plan was ruined when one of the barefoot attackers stepped on a thistle. The Scots awoke to howls of pain and pushed the Vikings back into the sea. By the early 16th century, the thistle had been incorporated into the country's royal arms.

Scotland's highest order of knighthood to this day is the Order of the Thistle. Its members are knighted in the Chapel of the Thistle in the high cathedral at Edinburgh, surrounded by statues of angels playing bagpipes.

Members of the Order of the Thistle have made gifts totaling between $5,000 and $9,999 in the previous fiscal year to the Covenant Fund.

Majestic. Rugged. Beautiful. One of the few areas in the world that can still truly be described as wilderness.

The Scottish Highlands account for nearly one-fifth of Britain's geographic area but are home to less than one-fiftieth of the population. According to Sir Hugh Munro's Tables of 1891, at least 250 of the Highland summits reach elevations greater than 3,000 feet above sea level.

It is a land of wild, silent mountains and dramatic coastlines. Of a thousand lochs and walking paths. When the gray skies clear, the sunlight wakens the Highlands to innumerable earthy colors.

Membership in the Highlands Society is granted to those whose gifts to the Covenant Fund during the previous fiscal year totaled between $2,500 and $4,999.

The history of tartans is as old as Scotland itself, dating back to the plaid cloaks of fifth century settlers. Over the centuries, these plaids became a means of identifying the region in which a Scotsman was born. In 1746, the English Parliament decreed that anyone wearing a tartan would be imprisoned or exiled for seven years. However, soldiers in the newly formed Highlander regiments of the English army were allowed to wear kilts. These regimental tartans, along with those later associated with clans, were distinguished by the number of colored threads in the pattern. Today, tartans are recognized around the world as a symbol of Scottish national identity.

The Covenant College tartan was created in 2004. Covenant will be one of only a handful of educational institutions in the world with a tartan registered with the Scottish Tartans Society and the Scottish Tartans Authority.

Members of the Tartan Society each gave between $1,000 and $2,499 in the previous fiscal year to the Covenant Fund.

According to legend, on a cloudy morning in AD 832 King Angus of the Picts lifted his eyes to heaven before taking his army into battle. As he prayed for God to watch over his men, he saw the clouds overhead form the shape of "the Saltire"-the Saint Andrew's cross-against the blue sky.

After leading his troops to victory, Angus declared that the Saltire would forever be the flag of Scotland. It is the oldest national flag in Europe.

Years later, another band of Scots was badly outnumbered by an invading army. They were on the verge of collapse, about to retreat into the Highlands, when a handful of patriots raised an enormous Saltire made of canvas and wood on a deserted hilltop. The Scots rallied and routed their enemy. The surviving invaders were allowed to return home, after swearing never again to take up arms against Scotland.

Members of the Saltire Society are those persons who have given between $500 and $999, or Covenant alumni who have graduated in the past three years and made gifts of between $100 and $500 to the Covenant Fund in the previous fiscal year.