HOUSTON
PAN AMERICAN ROUND TABLE
History
What follows is an excerpt from The Pan American Round Table, Lois Terry Marchbanks, Avon Behren Press, 1983, (pp. 118-119).
The Pan American Round Table of Houston was organized in 1940 by Hallie Bryan Perry with twenty members present. Miss Mary Fuller served as the first director, 1940-1942.
The organization has grown and flourished. The Table now consists of one hundred and fifty-seven active and associate members whose sole purpose is to maintain an organization designed to bring into closer union the women and children of the western hemisphere and to develop a higher civilization through mutual knowledge, understanding and friendship.
To accomplish these goals, the Pan American Round Table of Houston supports these projects:
I. Revolving Loan Fund at the University of Houston:
The Houston Table has a $1,006.00 revolving loan fund administered through the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid of the University. It provides interest-free emergency loans for students of Latin American background.
2. Scholarships:
(a) Maude Cashin Scholarships are given to honor graduates of Jefferson Davis High School. Each year a grant is made to a Latin American graduate for use at a college of the student's choice.
(b) Other scholarships are frequently given by individual donors in honor of friends or relatives.
3. Memory Book:
Donations to scholarships made in memory of a deceased friend or relative are recorded in our "Memory Book". These donations are sent to our Treasurer. The Assistant Corresponding Secretary acknowledges the gift to the donor and notifies the family of the deceased.
4. Spanish awards are given to senior high school students of Houston who have attained the highest grades in a National Spanish Competition.
5. Pan American Round Table collections at Looscan Library are added to annually by individual contributions.
6. "Bienvenido"-The Bilingual Hospital Booklet. More than 20,000 copies have been distributed to hospitals to date.
7. Pictorial History of the Pan American Round Table of Houston contains archives and pictures of our activities.
8. Consular Corps:
Ladies of the Latin American Consular Corps are invited to each of our regular meetings. All consuls and their spouses are honored in some way on Pan American Day.
Mrs. T. Preston
Reynaud
Historian
Update 6/1/2001
The PART of Houston meets every 4th Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
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