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STAA had the benefit for many years of the time and talent of numerous, now deceased, individuals who helped create, sustain, and enrich our organization. As a token of our respect for their contributions, and at the request of family and friends, a number of Memorial Funds and Scholarship funds were created to honor their memory. These funds give STAA members an opportunity to remember them by supporting the organization’s activities and undertakings through donations to those funds.
The funds fall into two categories, Memorial Endowment Funds and Memorial Scholarship Funds.
The Memorial Endowment is a fund created as a perpetual source of interest income to support the general activities of STAA. Donations to the Memorial Endowment will never be spent – they form the corpus of the fund and only interest income derived from its investments are returned to the General Fund for use by the organization. Funds not utilized are returned to the Memorial Endowment and capitalized. The Memorial Endowment is comprised of funds donated in the memory of thefollowing individuals:
Ray Blackburn Memorial Endowment
Frances Meskill Memorial Endowment
Norman Flaigg Memorial Endowment
Skip Kennedy Memorial Endowment
To contribute to the Memorial Endowment Fund with your tax deductible donations please click on the secure PayPal link below.
The Memorial Scholarship Fund was created as a perpetual source of interest income to support STAA’s Field School Scholarships for deserving students participating in Texas-based field school course work. Like the Memorial Endowment, only interest income generated from the endowment is spent to support scholarships. The Memorial Scholarship Fund is comprised of funds donated in the memory of the following individuals:
Jimmy Mitchell Scholarship Fund
Tom Kelley Scholarship Fund
I. Waynne Cox Scholarship Fund
To contribute to the Memorial Scholarship Fund with your tax deductible donations please click on the secure PayPal link below.
The STAA Board feels that with the number of new members, many may not be aware of the purpose and origin of these two important funds, but more importantly, they do not know of the history and life of the incredible and laudable deceased members these funds memorialize.
To accomplish that end, another difference that you will see on the new Dues Notice will be a reduction in the number of “Memorial Endowment” & “Memorial Scholarship” fund choices. The two choices now available will be listed as “Memorial Endowment” & “Memorial Scholarship”. Beneath these two choices will be a printed link to our web site for more information on the purpose and history of the funds and the individuals they memorialize. The following individuals have their biography and contributions posted so that both members and visitors to our website will have the opportunity to learn and more fully appreciate their lives and accomplishments:
Raymond C. Blackburn
Orgell B. Bramblett
Mary Frances "M. F." Chadderdon
Bromley F. Cooper
Idys Waynne Cox (coming soon)
Roger Hunt Hemion
Dorothy Lee Hindes
Tom Kelly (coming soon)
Glenn Wallace "Skip" Kennedy, Jr.
Dr. Donald Lewis
Frances Meskill (coming soon)
Jimmy L. Mitchell
E. H. "Smitty" Schmiedlin
Harvey Partridge Smith, Jr.
J. B. Sollberger
Francis Stickney
Bruce Moses
If you have any memorials, anecdotes or photographs of any of the named individuals, please send them to Matthew Harwood for inclusion on this website. The memorials section of the website will be updated periodically throughout the year.
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