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Text Box: Grammer-Massengill Scholarship Fund Everyone has heard of the “Grammer-Massengill Scholarship Fund” and seem to know that it was set up from donations by Mrs. Grammer and Mrs. Massengill to help students with expenses. This is a history of how the Grammer-Massengill Scholarship Fund came to be. Mrs. Norma Rutledge Grammer was the organizing regent of the Honorable Philip Livingston Chapter in Fort Worth from 1959-1963. She was Texas State Regent from 1963-1965. She started the Texas Society Student Assistance Fund in 1965 during her term as State Regent, with a donation of $500 and was dedicated to making all DAC Chapters aware of the Fund and hoping to see it grow. She loved children, even though she had none of her own. The early gifts made from the fund, which were usually about $50, were known as “Book Awards” and were used by recipients to purchase textbooks. One of the goals set by State Regent Mrs. Grady Kirby in 1965 was to increase the principal of the fund to a minimum of $1000. By the end of her term in 1967, it was $1200. By 1979 the fund principal had grown to $4000. Traditionally the awards have been made to American History students of colleges located in or near the cities in which the State Assemblies have been held each year, however, no stipulation as to major or grade point average is required. Only in 1967 was the gift given to an out-of-state student, who was from School of the Ozarks in Missouri. The State Regent, with assistance from hostess chapters select the recipients of the Scholarship. The Standing Rules of the Texas Society state “The Texas Student Assistance Awards which shall be given to one or more worthy undergraduate students at a college or university in the locale of the city where the State Assembly is held. The State Regent shall oversee this project. The hostess chapters will assist her in the selections of recipients. There shall be no stipulation as to grade points or to the major. The students and a professor or counselor shall be the guests of the State Assembly at the Candlelight Supper.” Mrs. Cornelia Nan Holmes Massengill was a charter member of the Sabine River Chapter – Longview. She was Chapter Regent from 1966-1970 and 1973-1975, State Librarian 1969-1971 and State Second Vice-Regent 1977-1979. Mrs. Massengill passed away March 2, 1982 and left a bequest of $1000 to the Texas DAC for a Scholarship fund to be established. For 35 consecutive years, the Texas Society has awarded the Texas Society Student Assistance Fund to deserving students. In addition, for 18 years the scholarship established by Nan Massengill was also being awarded. In 2000, it was proposed and passed, that because both funds were small, they would be combined, along with the Educational Projects Fund, so that a better return could be made on the interest rates, and thus allowing more gifts to be presented to deserving students. At that time, the fund was renamed The Grammer-Massengill Scholarship Fund. Each year .40 cents out of each $5 dues to the State is put towards the principal of the Scholarship fund. In 2004, the Principal of the fund was over $30,000. Each year we give scholarships to deserving students in the area where the State Assembly is being held, using ONLY the interest gained that year. It is our greatest hope that we will be able to increase the principal of the scholarship fund substantially, so more students will be helped by our donations. Sources: Crews, D’Anne McAdams, comp and ed. Daughters of the American Colonists in Texas—a History of the Texas Society 1930-1979. Huntsville, Texas: n.p., 1979. Linda Ludecke, “The Grammer-Massengill Scholarship Fund” (speech, Texas State Assembly, Fort Worth, Texas, February 21-22, 2004). Texas Society Daughters of the American Colonists Bylaws, Standing Rule No. 8.

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YEAR	RECIPIENT—COLLEGE	AWARD	LOCATION
2010
2009	Evan Vaughan, TCU, Fort Worth	GM	Arlington
2008	Alicia Phillips, Collin CC, Plano	GM	Arlington
2007	Janet Concha Melina Brevard	GM GM	Nacogdoches
2006	Sarah Renae Morrison Leah Pisaturo	GM GM
2005	None given
2004	Charles Christopher Anthony	GM	Fort Worth
2003	Krista Fisher, Austin College, Sherman Tiffany A. Evans, Collin County CC, McKinney	GM GM	Dallas
2002	None given		Lufkin
2001		GM	Houston
2000		T
1999	Michelle Hall David Greer		Fort Worth
1998	Louis Smith Santy Lo Van		Dallas
1997	Tiffan Baker Lonnie Ereman Billy Mayfield	T T S	Tyler
1996	Stephen Barclay Reggie Cumberland	T S	Houston
1995	Mary Helen Alvares, St. Edward Univ. Jennifer A. Riggs, Mary Hardin Baylor	T T	Austin
1994	Christina Bakker, Trinity Univ.	T	San Antonio
1993	Amin Parpia, Brookhaven College	T
1992			Bay City
1991
1990
1989	Lisa Kay Hill, Univ. of Texas Mark Mouritson, Univ. of Texas	T T	Austin
1988	Cathie M. Coover, Del Mar College Louis N. Metoyer, Corpus Christi State Univ.	T T	Corpus Christi
1987	Sharon Suzanne Lovier, Univ. of Houston Royce Gene Holt, San Jacinto College	T T	Houston
1986	Johnny Collins - West Texas State Univ Susan Johnson - West Texas State Univ	T T	Amarillo
1985	Mrs. Jinger Jones, Brazosport College Bryan Bennett, Brazosport College	T T	Lake Jackson
1984	Tony Browning, Texas Wesleyan College Regina Peck, Texas Wesleyan College	T T	Fort Worth
1983	Martha J. Rouse, San Antonio College Keith T. Kawcynski, San Antonio College	T T	San Antonio
1982	Houng Nguyen, Brookhaven College Stephen Zoebeck, Brookhaven College	T T	Dallas
1981			Abilene
1980	Lisa L. Clifton, Texas A & M Univ. John D. Walker, Texas A & M Univ.	T T	College Station
1979			Austin
1978	Brenda Lincke, Victoria College John L. Kandler, Victoria College	T T	Victoria
1977	Rose M. Garcia Thomas N. McLellan	T T	San Antonio
1976	Betty Anderson, LeTourneau College Paul Graybill, LeTourneau College	T T	Longview
1975	Candace Baldwin Wright, Sam Houston State John Randall Ryan, Sam Houston State	T T	Huntsville
1974	Cynthia Ann Orr Phillip Lee Driskell	T T	Fort Worth
1973	Patty Gillis, Abilene College Kathryn Walla, Hardin-Simmons John Luther Hawk, McMurry College	T T T	Abilene
1972	Chery Berglund, Texas Lutheran College Gary Hanneman, Texas Lutheran College	T T	Austin
1971	Deborah Black, Austin College Norman Wilcox, Austin College	T T	Dallas
1970			Houston
1969			Longview
1968			San Antonio
1967	Tony Stephenson, Ozarks, MO		Dallas
1966			Houston
1965			Brownwood

GM = Grammer-Massengill	T = Texas Student Assistance
M = Massengill	S = State Regent’s Project