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initiative to grant more than a million dollars in a 20-year scholarship program to encourage the development of future community leaders, I was elated and greatly honored. On its 25th anniversary, the success of the program, made possible by the Rangers’ decision to continue the program beyond the original commitment, has been
Living Science Center. We’re in the process of planning a celebratory 25th this coming summer. The program has been supported through the years by dedicated community leaders, advocates, mentors, educators, donors, and personal friends, along
share a few personal reflections on how this John and Grace Hill with their son Atticus. Before John has expanded beyond what we had first became Senior Counsel with Boeing Space Launch, he Rangers Baseball Club imagined. developed a long career with the U. S. Department of Justice. Foundation who manage It has been a privilege to develop the program. relationships with the students selected for Serving with us for the program – all of that because of my wife the longest period has Sylvia’s endless commitment to maintain been George and Sandra contact with them. We enjoy the updates and Campbell, Judy and Brad photos they share concerning their careers, Rupay, Mary Jean and families, and Tim Moloney, Jeff and adventures Karen Williams, Buddy with us Richard and Cindy Bridges, Dr. through Greene Ryan Stewart, PhD his son Miles and father. Ryan pursued Marcelo Cavazos, Michael Facebook, a career in public education culminating as the Secretary of Education for the State of New Mexico. Hill and the late Lisann Christmas Peters, Danny Woodward Cards, emails, and Norm Lyons. reunions, personal visits, and lunches. We appreciate Each year we host the latest high school the AISD counselors seniors in our home for a leadership session who encourage the at Christmastime to make a presentation applications, the on Arlington’s extraordinary history. The teachers and others who lesson reveals a real-life example of the thoughtfully write the kind of outcomes we hope they will see as recommendation letters, instructional. and the administrators At the end of the semester, we host a wrapScholars Neelu Rajput, Sue Alice Sauthoff, Beth Scott, who arrange the up luncheon with them as they graduate to to Japan Tom Schieffer at the U. S. State Department. interviews and prepare evaluate the program, get their suggestions on improvements, and have them share their college plans Included here are a few photos of occasions we’ve and the major courses of study they plan to pursue. experienced over the years. We have thoroughly enjoyed greeting them and Richard Greene was Arlington’s mayor from 1987-1997 and currently teaches in UT-Arlington’s graduate program of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs.
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