Posted 1:34 am Sunday, November 04, 2007
Tylerites' Names Grace Two Schools In One Week
In one week two universities named colleges on their campuses after Tylerites.
In Norman, Okla., Curtis W. Mewbourne, president of Mewbourne Oil Co., saw his name added to the University of Oklahoma's College of Earth and Energy on Friday.
And on Tuesday, Stephen F. Austin State University regents made official the naming of that school's College of Education in honor of Tyler banker James Perkins.
Perkins and his wife, Margaret, also received the T.B. Butler Award during the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce annual membership meeting in October.
Mewbourne, a Shreveport native, earned a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from OU in 1935. After working as a petroleum engineer in the oil industry, he founded Mewbourne Oil Co. in 1965.
Mewbourne and his company have funded student scholarships and internships at OU for 25 years and have endowed seven Mewbourne Chairs in petroleum engineering.
Additionally, he funded the Mewbourne Hall for Mathematics and Science at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler and St. John's School in Houston. He has also funded the Mewbourne Fellowship for Mathematics Enrichment at both schools.
Perkins, president and chairman of the board of Citizens 1st Bank, is a graduate and longtime supporter of SFA in Nacogdoches.
"It is important that each of us supports and promotes the educational enterprise and my family and I are privileged to be in a position to help SFA," Perkins said in a statement released by the university.
"I have known Mr. Perkins to be a person of honesty, integrity and moral character during my nearly 30 years of working with him, and I do not know a better person to have this honor," SFA President Baker Pattillo said,
Perkins served as a trustee from 1969 to 1981, including a term as chairman of the board in 1977-78. He is a founder and former chairman of the SFA Foundation.
The Perkins family and Citizens 1st Bank funds at least 21 scholarships at SFA, the university said.
In Norman, Okla., Curtis W. Mewbourne, president of Mewbourne Oil Co., saw his name added to the University of Oklahoma's College of Earth and Energy on Friday.
And on Tuesday, Stephen F. Austin State University regents made official the naming of that school's College of Education in honor of Tyler banker James Perkins.
Perkins and his wife, Margaret, also received the T.B. Butler Award during the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce annual membership meeting in October.
Mewbourne, a Shreveport native, earned a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from OU in 1935. After working as a petroleum engineer in the oil industry, he founded Mewbourne Oil Co. in 1965.
Mewbourne and his company have funded student scholarships and internships at OU for 25 years and have endowed seven Mewbourne Chairs in petroleum engineering.
Additionally, he funded the Mewbourne Hall for Mathematics and Science at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler and St. John's School in Houston. He has also funded the Mewbourne Fellowship for Mathematics Enrichment at both schools.
Perkins, president and chairman of the board of Citizens 1st Bank, is a graduate and longtime supporter of SFA in Nacogdoches.
"It is important that each of us supports and promotes the educational enterprise and my family and I are privileged to be in a position to help SFA," Perkins said in a statement released by the university.
"I have known Mr. Perkins to be a person of honesty, integrity and moral character during my nearly 30 years of working with him, and I do not know a better person to have this honor," SFA President Baker Pattillo said,
Perkins served as a trustee from 1969 to 1981, including a term as chairman of the board in 1977-78. He is a founder and former chairman of the SFA Foundation.
The Perkins family and Citizens 1st Bank funds at least 21 scholarships at SFA, the university said.
