Texas Tidbits: Fund to help Ike victims

Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio is providing $50,000 to assist victims of Hurricane Ike.

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BCFS, TBM benefit from Baptist Health Foundation. Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio is providing $50,000 to assist victims of Hurricane Ike. A $25,000 grant has been awarded to Baptist Child & Family Services of San Antonio to restock items that have been depleted from their medical special-needs emergency response trailers that have been used to assist more than 2,000 mid- to high-acuity patients. Texas Baptist Men received $25,000 to help fund meals and support units the group has been providing at shelters in San Antonio. The group is working with the Alamo Area Regional Command, FEMA and the state to assist hurricane victims.

Bawcoms endow scholarship at UMHB. President Jerry Bawcom and his wife, Vicky, have endowed a scholarship for students majoring in education at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Bawcom was named president of UMHB in 1991, serving as the school’s 18th president. He has announced plans to retire as president at the end of this academic year to assume the role of chancellor.

Endowed scholarship a birthday surprise. Estelle Owens, dean of the Wayland Baptist University School of Behavioral & Social Sciences, learned an anonymous donor gave money to set up an endowed scholarship in her honor on her 60th birthday. The scholarship will benefit a female social sciences student who demonstrates strong Christian leadership in a local church, academic excellence, dedication to scholarship and willingness to risk. In addition to her duties as dean, Owens is a history professor and university historian. She joined the Wayland faculty in 1974.

Borger couple’s estate endows Wayland scholarship. The Clarence and Mildred Moore estate endowed a scholarship at Wayland Baptist University to benefit students from First Baptist Church in Borger who attend the school. The $100,000 gift was made through the church, where the Moores were longtime members. The Moores both died in 2005.

Correction: The president of San Marcos Baptist Academy was incorrectly identified in a photo that appeared on page 20 of the Baptist Standard’s Sept. 15 issue. The first sentence of the photo cutline should have stated: “Students at San Marcos Baptist Academy get the opportunity to meet the school’s newly installed president, John Garrison, and his wife, Carol, at a reception held at the end of the first school week.”

 


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