Schueck Family Foundation Establishes Doctoral Fellowships in Civil Engineering

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Schueck Family Foundation of Little Rock has provided $100,000 to the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering for the establishment of two endowed doctoral fellowships.

Thomas B. and Margaret Schueck lead the foundation along with their children, Jennifer Schueck McCarty, a 1991 UA alumna, and Patrick Schueck, a 1997 civil engineering graduate.

The gift will be matched by $100,000 from the Matching Gift Program to create a $200,000 endowment. The Schueck Family Foundation Doctoral Fellowships in Civil Engineering will be used to attract and retain highly qualified doctoral candidates in civil engineering.

“Recruiting and retaining talented doctoral students is an important goal for the College of Engineering,” said Dean Ashok Saxena. “The Schueck Family Foundation Doctoral Fellowships will play an essential role in helping us to achieve our goal of becoming one of the top-tier graduate and undergraduate engineering programs in the U.S.”

The civil engineering department’s graduate program has been ranked for the past two years by U.S. News and World Report.

“We are so grateful to the Schueck Family Foundation for this gift,” said Robert Elliott, department head. “It will make our graduate program even stronger.”

Thomas Schueck, a 1965 Washington University of St. Louis B.S.C.E. alumnus, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Lexicon Inc., a Little Rock-based company comprising Schueck Steel, Mills Services Co., Prospect Steel, Custom Metals Co., L-Con Constructors and L-Con Marine Fabricators and Heritage Golf. He is on the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy, the Little Rock Boys & Girls Club, Arkansas Economics Development Foundation (AEDF), Little Rock Project Progress Committee and Pleasant Valley Country Club. He was presented with a special award by the Arkansas Wildlife Federation. He was appointed by Gov. Mike Huckabee to three terms on the Pollution Control and Ecology Commission.

Marge Schueck presently serves on the boards of Museum of Discovery, Arkansas Cancer Research, Reynolds Institute of Aging and Single Parent Scholarship Fund Advisory Council.

The Schuecks have previously supported the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the Arkansas Cancer Research Center Auxiliary, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Baptist Health Foundation, St. Vincent’s Foundation, Indiana University Cancer Research, Heifer International, Clinton Foundation, John F. Kennedy Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Pulaski County.

The Campaign for the Twenty-First Century total stands at $930.5 million as of April 30, 2005.