MILESTONES Memorial Tributes Margaret Doggett Crow ’37 passed away on April 11, 2014. She served Hockaday with a lifelong commitment and unparalleled passion as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1975 and was named a Life Trustee in 1981. She received the prestigious Hockaday Medal in 1991. She made numerous gifts to the School in support of the faculty, staff, alumnae, and development projects. These gifts helped to ensure the full potential of each student who would be guided intellectually and socially by the Four Cornerstones. With her daughter, she established an endowment fund in 1998 – The Margaret Doggett Crow and Lucy Crow Billingsley Chair in History. Mrs. Crow gave generously of her time and served on many other boards, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and The University of Texas at Austin Advisory Councils for the College of Fine Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1998, she opened the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art. Mrs. Crow’s Hockaday family connections include Lucy Crow Billingsley ’71, Lucy Billingsley Burns ’98, Margaret Crow ’03, Katy Crow Craig ’04, Anne Sumner Billingsley ’05, Ginny Crow ’14, Isabella Crow ’14, Margaret Crow (seventh grade), and Sarah Crow (sixth grade). John “Jack” Gordon Penson passed away on September 26, 2014. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1957, named a Life Trustee in 1978, and received the prestigious Honorary Alum award in 1985. Mr. Penson made numerous gifts to the School and established two endowments, including the Nancy Penn Penson ’41 Endowed Financial Aid Fund in 1981, which was established to provide annual financial aid grants to qualified students who had shown strong potential in the area of competitive athletics and who had exhibited the fine qualities of sportsmanship that his wife had shown in both winning and losing. In 2011, the second endowment, the Nancy Penn Penson ’41 and John G. Penson Distinguished Teacher Endowment in Fine Arts, was established to provide support for a Distinguished Teaching position in the Fine Arts Department. In the 1960s he thought Hockaday should have an annual campaign, and shortly thereafter, Hockaday started the annual fund with the first goal of $100,000. Mr. Penson served on the Long-Range Planning Committee of the Board and was passionate about planning for the future of Hockaday. His Hockaday family connections include Nancy Penn Penson ’41, Ann Penson Vreeland ’64, Suki Penson Jarzemsky ’66, Read Penson Gendler ’70, Elizabeth Gendler Watson ’01, and Hilary Elizabeth Vreeland ’05.
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