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MANY STARS COME FROM TEXAS. MESSAGE fr o m th e FOUNDER s the Terry Foundation approaches our twentieth anniversary, A what began modestly in 1986 is now the largest private source of scholarships for a growing number of Texas public universities. After its first seventeen years at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University, the Foundation expanded for the first time in 2004 to include Scholars at the University of Houston and at Texas State University-San Marcos. In 2005, the Board of Directors approved additional growth for the Terry Foundation Scholarship Program to the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas at Dallas. The first Scholars for UTD and UTSA were selected at interviews in April, 2006 and will begin college in the fall of 2006. The Foundation is pleased to welcome these outstanding institutions to the Terry program. In April, the Foundation selected a total of 157 new 2006 Scholars. We are indebted to our Scholars and Scholar Alumni who joined the Howard L. Terry members of our Board of Directors in serving on the panels to select the new class. This new class, when combined with our existing Scholars, will bring the total number of active Terry Scholars at all six universities to more than six hundred students. The spring of 2006 also brought graduation to 137 Terry Scholars, many of whom graduated with honors. They join a growing body of Scholar Alumni that now numbers over 900. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Foundation staff, we would also like to thank the staffs at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State University-San Marcos, the University of Houston, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at Austin, for their invaluable assistance during our annual interview process in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Remember, the harder you work, the luckier you get! Howard L. Terry July 15, 2006 CONTENTS History of the Foundation.................................................................2-3 The Terry Scholarship Program....................................................... 4-5 20th Anniversary - Birth of the Foundation...............................6-7 About Texas State University-San M arcos....................................8-9 2004 Texas State University-San Marcos Scholars.................10-11 2005 Texas State University-San Marcos Scholars.................12-13 About Texas A&M University..................................................... 14-15 Founders 2000 Texas A&M Scholars..................................................................16 HOWARD L. TERRY 2001 Texas A&M Scholars..................................................................16 NANCY M. TERRY 2002 Texas A&M Scholars.............................................................17-26 Foundation Board Chair 2003 Texas A&M Scholars............................................................ 27-31 RHETT G. CAMPBELL 2004 Texas A&M Scholars............................................................ 32-35 2005 Texas A&M Scholars............................................................ 36-39 P resident The Year in Review........................................................................ 40-47 EDWARD T. COTHAM JR About the University of Texas at San Antonio........................48-49 D irectors About the University of Texas at Dallas....................................50-51 JAMES D. DAVIS About the University of Houston................................................ 52-53 YVONNE RODE MOODY 2002 University of Houston Scholars..............................................54 R CARTER OVERTON III 2004 University of Houston Scholars.......................................55-56 JOHN W. STORMS 2005 University of Houston Scholars..............................................57 Director o f Scholar Relations About the University of Texas at Austin....................................58-59 BETH W. FREEMAN 2001 University of Texas at Austin Scholars..................................60 2002 University of Texas at Austin Scholars............................ 61-70 Foundation Staff 2003 University of Texas at Austin Scholars............................ 71-75 BECKY ADAMS 2004 University of Texas at Austin Scholars............................ 76-80 ROBERT L. PARKER BRANDY N. SKILLERN 2005 University of Texas at Austin Scholars.............................81-85 JAMIE THYSSEN Terry Scholar Alumni - University of Texas at Austin .... 86-93 BARBIE TYLER Terry Scholar Alumni - Texas A&M University..................... 94-99 About the Founders..............................................................................100 About the Directors....................................................................101-103 About the Foundation Staff...............................................................104 Index...............................................................................................105-112 HISTORY of the FOUNDATION “Success is the attainment o f the goals you ve set for yourself in life. —Howard L. Terry he Terry Foundations goal is to improve and develop the T State of Texas by assisting Texas students to attend the state’s finest public universities. The Foundation hopes that these students will have a significant impact on the future leadership of the state and nation. To achieve this goal, the Foundation awards full scholarships to students who meet the high standards set by the Founders. What began in 1986 as a small scholarship program is now the largest private source of scholarships for the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, the University of Houston, Texas State University-San Marcos, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Texas at Dallas, with over 600 Terry Scholars enrolled. But its origin was neither large nor Howard Terry and 1987 UT Scholar Jina Kim at the 1991 Winedale legendary — it was as humble and low-profile as the Founders Picnic. In the early years o f the Foundation, all the Scholars at the whose name it bears. annual picnic could sit together around just a few tables. The Terry Scholarship Program was born of a desire of Howard produces. Thus was born a desire to invest in the students who and Nancy Terry to help young people to help themselves. A would attend the public colleges and universities in Texas. long-time resident of Houston, Howard Terry had been active for The Terrys’ desire to help young people was influenced greatly by many years in banking, construction, real estate and oil and gas. Howard Terry’s own college experience: he had attended the With profound business success over the decades and their family’s University of Texas on an athletic scholarship, becoming needs met, the Terrys developed a growing desire to give back to captain of the football team and graduating in 1938. His family the community and, specifically, to help young people to reach origins in Cameron, Texas were modest and it was only through their goals in higher education. the generosity of others that his college education had been made In 1986, the Terrys began considering a variety of options in their possible. Mr. Terry never forgot the helping hand that he had desire to make a lasting contribution to the future of Texas received in attending college and was determined to extend that higher education. After evaluating ideas as varied as university same help to a new generation of students. campus construction projects and After seeking counsel from sources that included endowed-chair faculty positions, former UT coach Darrell Royal (an original the Terrys were still not satisfied. Foundation Board Member) and Houston Knowing that universities are more attorney Rhett Campbell (Board Member since than buildings and classrooms, inception and now Board Chair), the Terrys Howard Terry had repeatedly determined that their most lasting contribution declined to allow the universities to would be through a perpetual endowment that honor his previous contributions would provide college scholarships for students by placing his name on campus who had demonstrated the capacity to become structures: “Mortar and bricks will outstanding future leaders and who needed eventually be torn down,” he financial assistance to achieve their goals in reasoned. The Terrys believed, in higher education. From this simple concept, the the long term, that a university — Terry Foundation was created in 1986 to be the like the state it represents - is only At one o f the earliest picnics, Mr. Terry addressed source of a perpetual scholarship program. as good as the educated citizens it all the Scholars — without a microphone. 2 ★ ★ A ’V ^ T erry foundation Texas A&M University. In the fall of 2004, the Foundation Scholarship Program expanded for the first time, when Terry Scholars were named at the University of Houston and at Texas State University-San Marcos. Two years later, additional growth provided scholarships at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Strategic future plans call for the program’s ultimate expansion to other public universities in Texas. Since its inception, the Terry Scholarship Program has assisted over 1,300 Texas college students to achieve their goals in higher education. The Foundation Board oversees an endowment that is now almost $126 million and includes two members who are The earliest Scholar classes at each university numbered as few as eight. Terry Scholar Alumni. Chartered to exist into perpetuity, the Foundation