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MANY STARS COME FROM TEXAS. t h e T erry fo un d atio n MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER he Terry Foundation is nearing its sixteenth anniversary and what began modestly in 1986 is now the largest Tprivate source of scholarships for University of Texas and Texas A&M University. This April, the universities selected 350 outstanding Texas high school seniors as interview finalists for Terry Scholarships. After the interviews were completed, a record 165 new 2002 Terry Scholars were named. We are indebted to the 57 Scholar Alumni who joined the members of our Board of Directors in serving on eleven interview panels to select the new Scholars. These freshmen Scholars will join their fellow upperclass Scholars next fall in College Station and Austin as part of a total anticipated 550 Scholars: the largest group of Terry Scholars ever enrolled at one time. The spring of 2002 also brought graduation to 71 Terry Scholars, many of whom graduated with honors and are moving on to further their education in graduate studies or Howard L. Terry join the workforce. We also mark 2002 by paying tribute to one of the Foundations most dedicated advocates. Coach Darrell K. Royal retired from the Foundation board after fourteen years of outstanding leadership and service. A friend for many years, Darrell was instrumental in the formation of the Terry Foundation and served on the Board of Directors since its inception. We will miss his seasoned wisdom, his keen wit, and his discerning ability to judge character: all traits that contributed to his success as a coach and recruiter and helped him guide the University of Texas football team to three national championships. On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff, we would also like to thank the Scholar Alumni and the staffs at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas for their invaluable assistance during our annual interview process in Austin, Houston, and Dallas. With best wishes for a great year to come, June 26, 2002 CONTENTS History of the Foundation..............................................................2-3 The Terry Scholarship Program....................................................4-5 About Texas A&M University......................................................6-7 1998 Texas A&M..University Scholars.....................................8-13 1999 Texas A&M..University Scholars...................................14-16 2000 Texas A&M University Scholars...................................17-20 Founders HOWARD L. TERRY 2001 Texas A&M University Scholars..................................21-24 NANCY M. TERRY The Year in Review.....................................................................25-31 Chairman of the Board of Directors RHETT G. CAMPBELL About The University of Texas..................................................32-33 1998 University of Texas Scholars.......................................... 34-39 President EDWARD T. COTHAM, JR 1999 University of Texas Scholars..........................................40-43 Directors 2000 University of Texas Scholars.........................................44-47 JAMES D. DAVIS 2001 University of Texas Scholars..........................................48-52 YVONNE RODE MOODY ROBERT CARTER OVERTON, III Terry Scholar Alumni - Texas A&M University...................53-55 JOHN W. STORMS Terry Scholar Alumni - University of Texas..........................56-58 Administrator About the Founders..........................................................................59 BETH W. FREEMAN About the Directors..................................................................60-62 Foundation Staff ROBERT L. PARKER About the Foundation Staff...........................................................63 BRANDY N. SKILLERN Index.............................................................................................64-67 JAMIE M. SKILLERN BARBIE TYLER In M emory........................................................................................68 HISTORY of the FOUNDATION Success is the attainment o f the goals you ve set for yourself in life. -H oward L. Terry he Terry Foundations goal is to improve and T develop the 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 and Texas A&M University, with over 550 Terry Scholars enrolled. But its origin was neither large nor legendary - and as humble and In the early years o f the Foundation, all the Scholars at the annual picnic could sit low-profile as the Founders whose name it bears. together around just a few tables. The Terry scholarship program was born of a desire of Howard and placing his name on campus structures: “Mortar & bricks will Nancy Terry to help young people to help themselves. A long-time eventually be torn down,” he reasoned. The Terrys believed, in the resident of Houston, Howard Terry had been active for many long term, that a university, like the state it represents, is only as good years in banking, construction, real estate, and oil & gas. With as the educated citizens it produces. Thus was born a desire to invest profound business success over the decades and their family’s needs in the students who would attend the public colleges and universities met, the Terrys developed a growing desire to give back to the in Texas. community and, specifically, to help young people to reach their The Terrys’ desire to help young people was influenced greatly by goals in higher education. Howard Terry’s own college experience: he had attended the University of Texas on an athletic scholarship, where he was In 1986, the Terrys began considering a variety of options in their captain of the football team and graduated in 1938. His family desire to make a lasting contribution to the future of Texas higher origins in Cameron, Texas were modest and it was only through education. After evaluating the generosity of others that his college education had been made ideas as varied as university possible. Mr. Terry never forgot the helping hand that he had campus construction projects received in attending college and was determined to extend that and endowed-chair faculty same help to a new generation of students. positions, the Terrys were still not satisfied. After seeking counsel from sources that included UT coach Darrell Knowing that universities Royal (an original Foundation Board Member) and Houston are more than buildings attorney Rhett Campbell (Board Member since inception and now and classrooms, Howard Board Chair), the Terrys determined that their most lasting Terry had repeatedly contribution would be through a perpetual endowment that declined to allow the would provide college scholarships for students who had At one o f the earliest picnics, Mr. Terry universities to honor his addre demonstrated the capacity to become outstanding future leaders previous contributions by microphone. and who needed financial assistance to achieve their goals in higher 2 ★ ★ + '■V Terryfoundation education. From this designed to continue in the future to provide a greater number of simple concept, the scholarships each year. Terry Foundation was Howard and Nancy Terry continue to be active participants in the created in 1986 to be scholarship program that bears their name. It has become larger the source of a perpetual than they ever imagined, fulfilling in the process their dreams of scholarship program. making a difference in the lives of students across the state. The Scholars at the April, 2002picnic The first scholarship Despite his extraordinary success in ventures that made the covered the entire grounds at Winedale. recipients, known since Terry Foundation possible, Howard Terry observes that “the Terry then as “Terry Scholars,” were selected at interviews held in the Foundation is the most important thing I’ve done in my life, spring of 1987. That original class of seventeen 1987 Scholars were because it’s enabled me to help more people than I would have ever joined in the 1988-1989 academic year by 17 additional been able to do otherwise.” recipients. Over the years, the number of Scholars selected has increased, with the most recent Spring 2002 interviews having resulted in the selection of 165 new freshman Scholars. These recipients will join the upperclass Scholars in College Station and Austin to number over 550 Terry Scholars enrolled for the 2002-2003 academic year. Since its inception, the Terry Scholarship program has assisted over 1,000 Texas college students to achieve their goals in higher education. The Foundation Board now oversees an endowment of over $ 100 million and includes two members who are Terry Scholar Alumni. Chartered to exist into perpetuity, the Foundation is The earliest Scholar classes at each university numbered as few as eight. NUMBER OF FRESHMAN SCHOLARS SELECTED 200 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 150 100 50 17 ■ 17 ■ 23 I 22 ■ 40 | 33 I 38 I 41 ■ 38 | 43 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 T erryfoundation ^ -V -V ★ ★ 3 the TERRY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Criteria he Terry Foundation awards scholarships to Texas high T school seniors who