March 9, 2012
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Interviewing finalists from Louisiana and Texas
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
1515 Commerce Street
Room 216 and Conference Center
Fort Worth, TX 76102
This panel will convene at 8:30 a.m.
For the past several years, the Truman Scholars Association (an organization of Truman Scholar alumni) has hosted pre-interview dinners in the interview cities the night prior to the finalist interviews. The dinners are informal, fun, optional events (interview panelists do not attend). Invited to the dinners are incoming Truman Scholar candidates as well as older Truman Scholars from the area. The dinner locations are chosen at relatively inexpensive restaurants close to the venue where the students will be interviewed, and each person attending the dinner covers his or her own meal and transportation expenses.
The Dallas/Ft. Worth finalist dinner host is Cindy Crain. Please contact her at cindyjcrain@gmail.com to RSVP.
Panel Members
David Griggs -- Attorney, Law Office of Wendel Withrow; 1979 Truman Scholar
W. Frank Newton -- President and CEO, Beaumont Foundation
Abbas Ravjani -- Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas; 2003 Truman Scholar
John Robinson -- Executive Vice President of the Amon G. Carter Foundation in Fort Worth
Max Sherman, Chair -- Professor and Dean Emeritus, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; former Texas State Senator; Vice-President, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Frederick Slabach -- President, Texas Wesleyan University; Treasurer, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation Board of Trustees; 1977 Truman Scholar
Juanita Vasquez-Gardner -- Judge, 399th Judicial District of Texas
Andrew Rich, Secretary -- Executive Secretary, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation; 1991 Truman Scholar