Since 1991, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano has served the communities of Plano, Frisco, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson and McKinney. With advanced medical treatments and an experienced staff that provides compassionate care, our mission is to improve the...

In 2004, Texas Instruments (TI) donated 1 million dollars to Collin College to further the education of students studying science, math, technology and computers. TI is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company which operates in 35 countries. The...

The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation was established in 2008 by Rudolph and Christina Andrea. Because of their youngest’s daughter struggles with cystic fibrosis, the Andreas realized the importance of having excellent healthcare and respiratory care programs. Rudy...

The Beck Group is a company that provides architecture, construction, real estate development and sustainable design and consulting, as well as finance and technology services. Beck is dedicated to aiding the communities in which we live and work. Each year our...

This Foundation was established in 2021. They have a passion to help people who have the desire and ability but don’t have the resources to better themselves through education.

Greg Gomel founded The Gomel Group in 2016 as a Veteran Owned Small Business focused on IT consulting. The Gomel Group believes in the fundamental power of knowledge to change lives. One of the areas of growth in IT is Cybersecurity and Texas is understrength by...

Theresa (Terri) Klein Smith was born in Dallas, Texas in 1959. She is a graduate of Bishop Lynch High School and then the University of North Texas where she earned honors (magna cum laude) with both Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Tax Accounting. Terri held CPA...

The Shops at Willow Bend is located in the bull’s eye of one of the nation’s most affluent and fastest growing suburban markets. The Shops at Willow Bend offers North Dallas customers a unique blend of Texas-style ambience and world-class shopping.

Tino Trujillo was born in Mexico and worked for the Mexican government. He moved to the United States and served in the U.S. Army. In 1976, he opened Tino’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in Plano. He has won various small-business awards and was named Plano’s...

Colonel Tom Emerson was born in McKinney in 1894. He started selling peanuts and candy at age seven. He later became the Vice President of sales at the Eversharp company in New York, creating the $64 Question quiz show. He retired in 1954 but kept busy with the...

Trane Inc. is a manufacturer of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and building management systems and controls. The company is a subsidiary of Trane Technologies and is the successor company to the American Standard Companies. It makes products under...

Cynthia Wise Bauge passed April 2020. Cindy was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. She was raised in Des Moines and graduated from Roosevelt High School. Later she attended Iowa State University. She met husband Harry Bauge in the 10th grade and they fell in love on their first...

This scholarship is named in memory of Virginia Elliott Cottongim, Mr. Billie Cottongim’s late mother and Jayne Langdon’s grandmother. Virginia Elliott Cottongim loved education and made many sacrifices during her lifetime helping other people. Although she did not...

Virginia Wiley Cottongim (1932-2013) earned her RN in 1953 from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Dallas, Texas and subsequently enjoyed a 40 year career as a Registered Nurse, working as an Emergency Room Supervisor and later in Nursing...

Emmett “Smokey” Commons was the first person to establish a “Charitable Remainder Unitrust” by gifting a parcel of land located in McKinney to the College. Mary Vivian Commons was born in 1913 and passed away in 1992. Smokey was born in 1913 and passed away in 1998.

Wendy Gartenberg passed away in 2013, at age 29 after a long battle with carcinoid syndrome. Wendy was the daughter of Cheryl and David Gartenberg who attend the Stetson & Stiletto event every year with Dr. Tiimothy Chappel of Collin College’s Respiratory Board.

This scholarship was established by Dr. Amy White Helms, professor of biology, to honor the memory of her parents, Bob and Patricia White.

Colonel William J. Blitt worked for the college from 1995 until he retired in 2016. He served as a full-time faculty member until he was promoted to the Dean of Business, Information Systems, and Engineering Technology. He was a retired Air Force Colonel. He and his...

Bill Coker was a career chemist and lifelong learner who believed in service and never forgot a name. He was a 1942 graduate of Texas A&M University, a World War II veteran with wartime service in the Army Air Corps, and an ex-student of the University of Texas. He...

Buschbom, Wilma Bernice (Sellers) was born in Green Mountain, Iowa, and later lived in Albert Lea, Long Lake, Wayzata, and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. She was an active church member and served as an Elder in the Presbyterian Church for over 30 years. After retiring...

Wilma “Jane” Ouellette was born in Poplar Bluff Missouri in 1942. She earned her RN from Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis. She worked as a nurse at Washington University, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, and Medical City Dallas. She administered to...

The W. Ray Johnson Foundation was established in 2017 and is a 501©(3) charity that specializes in providing the financial means and assistance for students by creating scholarships, internships and special community-based projects at colleges and universities. The...