Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine | Dean’s Report 2009
Caring for the Best Investments
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You’re the best investment I’ve ever made.
ong before a scholarship was established in his name, Bernard Fallon was supporting medical students, specifically his daughter Dr. Kathleen Fallon, now the senior associate dean of student affairs at the College of Medicine. Of her father, Dr. Fallon said, “He was always very supportive of me as a woman going to medical school. He said that as long as I worked hard, he would do everything he could to help me succeed.”
To honor that promise, Dr. Fallon and her husband, Mr. Casey Jones established the Bernard F. Fallon Memorial Scholarship in 2006 in honor of Mr. Fallon to continue his legacy of support. “He was always asking about the students,” Dr. Fallon recalls. “He would ask, ‘How are the first-years? How did they do meeting their cadavers?’” “He and my mother, Barbara, were both very involved with the students. They loved visiting with them, hearing their stories, and getting to know them.” When Mr. Fallon passed away, Dr. Fallon and her family agreed that
a scholarship was the best way to allow her father, in essence, to keep putting students through medical school. In fact, this spring, Mr. Fallon’s first great-grandchild will be delivered by a College of Medicine alumnus, thus continuing the cycle of care and support through the College of Medicine. “As we cared for him in his later years,” Dr. Fallon recalls, “he made sure to tell me, ‘You’re the best investment I’ve ever made.’”
From left: Bernard and Barbara Fallon, Dr. Kathleen Fallon and Casey Jones
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