2016 Gala - Sunset on the Serengeti
First Annual Lion’s Pride
Gala: Sunset on the Serengeti
presented by Prosperity Bank/Bruner Auto Group
Tickets are currently on sale for the First Annual Lion’s Pride Gala, called Sunset on the Serengeti, and slated for Saturday, September 17th. The Gala will be held at the Tolson Game Ranch at Lake Brownwood’s Deepwater Estates at 6pm. A gourmet dinner, music by the Chubby Knuckle Choir, and live and silent auctions will round out the night’s entertainment. The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of two new merit awards sponsored this year by Bostick Auto and Texas Bank. The Lion’s Legacy Award will honor long-time retired teacher Mrs. Frances Stovall, and the Brownwood Outstanding Alumni Award will honor Mr. Paul Waldrop, BHS Class of 1969 graduate. ISD Trustee and Foundation Board Member, Eric Evans, said “The Education Foundation is a tremendous organization to be able to express our appreciation for our teachers and invest in extraordinary ways in our Brownwood students. I would hope that everyone would find a way to support the Foundation and its efforts.”
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Tickets for the event are $75 per person, or a table is available for $1,000, and may be purchased at the Brownwood Independent School District’s Central Office (2707 Southside Drive), the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce, or in the lobby locations of Prosperity Bank, Texas Bank and Citizen’s National Bank. Online purchases may be made at the Foundation’s website of www.supportbisd.org. Additional event section sponsors are Big Country Ford, Citizens National Bank, Haynes Law Firm, Kohler, and Southwest Food Services.
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The annual Lion's Pride Gala serves as the primary fundraising effort for the Brownwood Education Foundation, a 501(C)3 organization tasked with funding innovative teaching grants within Brownwood ISD, as well as teaching awards and appreciation acknowledgements. Previously known as the Brownwood Foundation for Excellence, the foundation was active in the 1980’s-1990’s and raised money to support the Brownwood ISD. The Foundation has been reactivated as the Brownwood Education Foundation, with its purpose streamlined to raise funds that go directly into Brownwood classrooms through innovative teaching grants awarded to teachers who want to expand classroom learning for their students. The Foundation will also be active in presenting teaching excellence awards annually. When asked for his position on the newly rebranded Foundation, Dr. Joe Young, BISD Superintendent, said, “Brownwood ISD is extremely fortunate to be within a community which supports its students, teachers, and schools. The Brownwood Education Foundation allows our teachers to expand their normal activities through grants and receive the appreciation through recognition they so genuinely deserve.
Information about the upcoming Gala and the Brownwood Education Foundation may be obtained from the foundation’s Executive Director, Priscilla Monson at 325-643-5644 ext. 1205 or at [email protected].
Information about the upcoming Gala and the Brownwood Education Foundation may be obtained from the foundation’s Executive Director, Priscilla Monson at 325-643-5644 ext. 1205 or at [email protected].
The Brownwood Education Foundation will present two new awards at this year’s inaugural Lion’s Pride Gala, called Sunset on the Serengeti, and planned for Saturday, September 17. Texas Bank and Bostick’s Auto & Truck Sales are underwriting these awards. The annual Lion’s Legacy award will honor an individual who, through employment, volunteerism or business, has made a lasting impact on the Brownwood Independent School District. This year’s Lion’s Legacy Award will be presented to long-time educator Mrs. Frances Stovall. The BHS Outstanding Alumni Award will be presented to a Brownwood High School graduate who has achieved extraordinary success through his or her personal, professional and philanthropic endeavors. Mr. Paul Waldrop, Jr. will receive this year’s Alumni award.
Legacy Award recipient Frances Stovall was a long-time secondary English teacher in the Brownwood ISD. She taught English II at the high school level for sixteen years, after which she taught English IV for another 21 years, making her service to the Brownwood Independent School District a 37-year career.
Legacy Award recipient Frances Stovall was a long-time secondary English teacher in the Brownwood ISD. She taught English II at the high school level for sixteen years, after which she taught English IV for another 21 years, making her service to the Brownwood Independent School District a 37-year career.
Frances Stovall
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Leaving the town of her birth, Brownwood, to live on West Texas ranches and to experience the industrial city life of Pasadena, Texas, Frances Spain returned to graduate from Brownwood High School and Howard Payne University. After marrying Bill Stovall, the legendary Brownwood Bulletin sports editor, she began her teaching career in the Brownwood Independent School District. She received her master’s degree from Howard Payne and attended seven Texas universities for post-graduate work. As Ms. Stovall taught at Brownwood High School, she also taught at Howard Payne University during the summer as well as evening classes. Retiring from BISD in 2003, she became an English instructor at Howard Payne through 2009. Currently, she is on staff at the Brownwood Public Library. Local attorney Mike Smith, who is also a member of the Brownwood Education Foundation Board of Directors, was a student of Ms. Stovall’s in 1989-1990. Mike said, “I was fortunate to have many great teachers from pre-school through high school here in Brownwood. But Ms. Stovall had—and still has—a grace, style, and competence that was unique to her. She had high expectations of her students and pushed us to work hard. She is such a delight and it is very exciting that she is being honored this way. I’m proud to have been one her students.”
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The Stovall family includes son, Mitch Stovall and his wife Shanna, both of whom teach at Denton Guyer High School. They live in Corinth with their children, Abby and Si. Daughter Stephanie is working on her counseling certification and lives in Brownwood. Bill Stovall passed away in 1997, leaving his own legacy of service to the Brownwood ISD, given his many years of solid coverage of area sports. Mrs. Stovall resides in Brown County on her twelve acres with her three head of cats. The Brownwood Education Foundation is proud to present the Lion’s Legacy Award to Mrs. Stovall, as she has truly exemplified the excellence in teaching that the Foundation is advancing through its classroom grant program.
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Area business owner Paul Waldrop will receive the Brownwood High School Outstanding Alumni Award. A 1969 BHS graduate, Mr. Waldrop began working alongside his father, Paul Waldrop, Sr., in 1972 in the family construction business. Waldrop Construction is now in its 70th year of operation. Father and son ran the company for forty years until Paul Sr.’s passing. Today, Paul runs Waldrop Construction in partnership with his son, Sam. The company provides pre-construction, construction management, and design-build processes in the commercial construction industry, having completed hundreds of projects, including many school buildings and special-use facilities throughout Texas and the southwest. Of Mr. Waldrop’s particular work done on behalf of Brownwood ISD, Kevin Gabaree, BISD Assistant Superintendent, said, “Paul Waldrop is the most humble and honest businessman with whom I have ever had the pleasure to work. We worked closely together during the 2005 Brownwood ISD bond election and resulting construction projects, so I had the opportunity to spend many hours with him in his office. I saw him repeatedly make decisions on our behalf, often times at his business and personal expense. And yet, every decision Paul made was for the good of Brownwood ISD and our students. Without a doubt, Paul’s servant leadership has been of great benefit to BISD, and I am pleased to see Paul receive this honor. I can think of no other person more deserving of the Outstanding Alumni Award.”
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Paul Waldrop
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After graduating from Brownwood High School in 1969, Paul married Lynda Cross and attended Howard Payne University. He served in the Texas National Guard from 1972-1978. Paul has been continuously active in community endeavors, including serving on the boards of the Brown County Chamber of Commerce, the Brownwood Industrial Foundation, the Brown County Youth Fair Association, the Heart of Texas Girl Scouts Council, Brown County Boys and Girls Club, New Horizons Ranch and Home for Children and the B.C. Drinkard Foundation. Currently, Mr. Waldrop is a member of the Brown County Hospital Authority Board, the Texas Bank Board of Directors, the Central Texas Foundation Board, the West Texas Chapter of Associated General Contractors, the Texas Building Branch AGC and is a trustee on the board of Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.
Paul and Lynda are active members of Coggin Avenue Baptist Church. Their family includes daughter Becky Warner and husband Phil of Plano and their children, Hayden and Andrew; daughter Michelle Brasher and husband Tim of Brownwood, and their children, Blake, Lilly and Abby; and son Sam and wife Jenny of Brownwood, and their children, Ethan, Eric, and Eli. Having been philanthropic in many area charities and causes over the year, Paul Waldrop exemplifies the type of service that the Brownwood Education Foundation wants to foster through its Alumni program.
Tickets for the event are $75 per person, or a table is available for $1,000, and may be purchased at the Brownwood Independent School District’s Central Office (2707 Southside Drive), the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce, or in the lobby locations of Prosperity Bank, Texas Bank and Citizen’s National Bank. Online purchases may be made at the Foundation’s website of www.supportbisd.org. Additional event section sponsors are Big Country Ford, Citizens National Bank, Haynes Law Firm, Kohler, and Southwest Food Services. Information about the upcoming Gala and the Brownwood Education Foundation may be obtained by calling Executive Director Priscilla Monson at 325.643.5644.
Information regarding live auction items will be added below as it becomes available! Click the photo to open a PDF containing item details.
Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan is widely known in the DFW area by virtue of his extensive volunteerism and philanthropic undertakings.
As a volunteer auctioneer for a wide variety of charitable causes over the past decade and a half, Bill has donated his services and raised well over $30 million dollars for charity and has also set a world record for fundraisers for wildlife conservation. Bill lends his expertise to these charities as a fundraising expert and also typically calls 12 to 15 charity auctions a year.
He also serves as an Advisor and Director to several charitable organizations, including Spokes-4-Hope and the North Texas Diabetes Association. In 2015, he took a leap of faith and accepted the responsibility of a very active role as Managing Director of the Americas for Millions From One (www.MillionsFromOne.org), an international Christian faith-based organization that has drilled water wells in 56 countries on six different continents, and is helping millions of people in the most remote corners of the globe by spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and providing them with clean drinking water.
He has served as a Planning and Zoning Commissioner for the City of Southlake, and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Southlake 2025 Plan. Bill is a Charter Member and the past (three-term) President of the Southlake Kiwanis Club, an international volunteer organization that helps the youth of the world locally and internationally. At Carroll Senior High School, he founded the “Heart of a Dragon” scholarship fund. He is also a past Board Member for Southlake Dragon Youth Football, and is known by the youth of his community as both a football and baseball coach for five (5) years and as a past volunteer for Boy Scout Troop 928. Currently, Bill is also a coach on the Carroll Clay Targets Team, teaching responsibility as well as advanced shotgun target techniques to over 80 kids in high school. Bill and his family are active members of White’s Chapel UMC in Southlake.
From a business perspective, Bill brings his highly-developed and unusually diverse expertise in many facets of commercial real estate evaluation, brokerage, investment, development and finance to the commercial real estate clients of his company. Over the past few years, he has provided extensive consulting services to publicly-traded institutional investor clients participating in national debt exchanges on over $2 Billion in transactions in 35 different states.
As a volunteer auctioneer for a wide variety of charitable causes over the past decade and a half, Bill has donated his services and raised well over $30 million dollars for charity and has also set a world record for fundraisers for wildlife conservation. Bill lends his expertise to these charities as a fundraising expert and also typically calls 12 to 15 charity auctions a year.
He also serves as an Advisor and Director to several charitable organizations, including Spokes-4-Hope and the North Texas Diabetes Association. In 2015, he took a leap of faith and accepted the responsibility of a very active role as Managing Director of the Americas for Millions From One (www.MillionsFromOne.org), an international Christian faith-based organization that has drilled water wells in 56 countries on six different continents, and is helping millions of people in the most remote corners of the globe by spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and providing them with clean drinking water.
He has served as a Planning and Zoning Commissioner for the City of Southlake, and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Southlake 2025 Plan. Bill is a Charter Member and the past (three-term) President of the Southlake Kiwanis Club, an international volunteer organization that helps the youth of the world locally and internationally. At Carroll Senior High School, he founded the “Heart of a Dragon” scholarship fund. He is also a past Board Member for Southlake Dragon Youth Football, and is known by the youth of his community as both a football and baseball coach for five (5) years and as a past volunteer for Boy Scout Troop 928. Currently, Bill is also a coach on the Carroll Clay Targets Team, teaching responsibility as well as advanced shotgun target techniques to over 80 kids in high school. Bill and his family are active members of White’s Chapel UMC in Southlake.
From a business perspective, Bill brings his highly-developed and unusually diverse expertise in many facets of commercial real estate evaluation, brokerage, investment, development and finance to the commercial real estate clients of his company. Over the past few years, he has provided extensive consulting services to publicly-traded institutional investor clients participating in national debt exchanges on over $2 Billion in transactions in 35 different states.
Greg Marwitz
Greg lived in Brownwood and attended Brownwood schools though Jr. High School, but graduated from Lampasas High School in 1980 after his family’s relocation. Greg also attended Texas A&M, graduating with his BS in Agricultural Economics in 1984 and his MS in Land Economics and Real Estate in 1985. He established Marwitz Appraisal Service that same year and has become an expert in real estate valuation in the Tarrant County and West Texas regions since that time. A father of two, Greg is active in several service organizations and his local church. He serves as a spotter for many of Bill Vaughan’s auctions in the DFW metroplex and is always pleased to work for the benefit of others, especially when children and education are involved. Never one to seek the spotlight, Greg’s servant heart leadership is his hallmark trait.
James McBride
A native of Brownwood, James graduated from Brownwood High School in 1980 and received his BS in Animal Science and his MS in Land Economics and Real Estate from Texas A&M shortly thereafter. James has been in the real estate lending, asset management and banking fields since 1985. Currently, he serves as a Banking Consultant for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Dallas, Texas, where he and his wife Allyson live. James and Allyson are quite active in the National Reined Cow Horse Association, showing their registered Quarter Horses and serving in various positions within the organization. They have both volunteered for years for the Texas Stampede, raising money for the Dallas Children’s Hospital annually. Additionally, James serves as a spotter in many of Mr. Vaughan’s charity auctions throughout the DFW metroplex, helping to raise monies for charitable causes throughout the area. James is especially pleased to assist his beloved Alma Mater with tonight’s Gala.