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
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
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: |
