The Callaway Foundation is a foundation that has helped my son. It is what is great about America. This couple decided to give back to our little school district.

They were not business owners they didn’t inherit a lot that I know of. They lived a simple life on the street behind me. Each evening Mr. Callaway would feed the geese. He would throw out feed on his lawn and roof, and hundreds would land, eat and fly away. I would take out my kids to watch some nights an evening ritual. The geese knew it was his house; they never flew to ours the geese, as the local kids knew exactly where to go. Mr. Callaway was an manager for McLane groceries later to become McLane Company. As the company grew so did his stock value, if you add that to his frugal living and investment ability you get a foundation worth more than I will ever see.

There are on average about 140 kids in each class much less, than that graduate and fewer still go to technical school or college. Anyone that does and applies to Calloway will get money to do so. It is that simple in a way. You do what most kids do and fill out the application you get money. If all you do is go four years to our high school, with Callaway they would receive $750.00. They have added the requirement of 20 volunteer hours, which in honesty is not hard. With FFA, 4H and NHS most kids have that already. With each year they have perfect attendance they get even more money, with their activities each year they add money for each group they participate in. The foundation also requires a 90% attendance rate in school. The kids do have some rules, but nothing that most kids motivated to live a better life don’t have. Dunk ended up at $2450.00.

This year the lowest amount was $1250.00 and the highest was $78,000. The top three get $60,000 or four years at a university. Each year the university changes, this year it was Texas A & M.

There are some kids going to a local junior college, some are going to Texas State Technical School, some to four-year colleges and one is going to the Culinary Institute in Austin.

The grand total of money given to this group of kids was $360,925.00. It was given in love from two people no longer here on earth that knew these kids needed an extra bit to get started. Since this foundation began giving, more and more kids are going to college. The legacy that this humble couple left will last for decades.

This picture is all the kids that applied for and got a Callaway Foundation Scholarship, Skeet in the middle is holding the Callaway’s portrait that hangs in the display case of the high school.

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