RSF Scholarship Winner Sergeant First Class
James “Buck”
Hawkins.
Gary Finley presented the first RSF Memorial Scholarship check
to recipient James Hawkins. James is a mining engineering student,
with an explosives minor at Missouri University of Science &
Technology, Rolla, MO.
Cohen Memorial Scholarship Winner Kathryn Horner The Cohen Memorial
Scholarship was presented to Kathryn Horner during the Western Chapters
45th Annual NSPE President Visit. Kathryn is a civil engineering
student at University of Missouri - Kansas City. Pictured
left to right: UMKC Dean Kevin Truman, MSPE Western Chapter
President John Balling PE, Kathryn Horner Scholarship Recipient,
NSPE President Brad Aldrich PE, MSPE President Charles Powell, PE.
The MSPE Educational Foundation Building
On July 13, 1994, Kansas City civic leader Jerome Cohen and his
wife, Jeannette, donated the building and property at 200 East McCarty
Street in Jefferson City, Missouri to the Missouri Society of Professional
Engineers Educational Foundation, Inc.
 By
gutting the facility, the professional design/construction team
of Pellham, Phillips, Hagerman of Springfield, Missouri and Ludwig
Associates of Jefferson City transformed the building's plain and
unassuming original structure into a design that projects the technical
and professional image of engineering in a classic way.
The new building houses the state headquarters of the Missouri Society
of Professional Engineers and the Consulting Engineers Council of
Missouri on its main level. The lower level provides office space
for the Missouri Community College Association.
The donation of a building is an asset to further the purpose of
the MSPE Educational Foundation, which was established January 15,
1968 under the General Not for Profit Corporation Law, Chapter 355
RSMo, as a way for the member engineer or their family to make charitable
contributions to the profession.
The Foundation Activities 
- To provide scholarships at Missouri engineering schools, approved
by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),
for worthy and qualified applicants.
- To promote the study of engineering through quality programs
like the highly-acclaimed MATHCOUNTS competitive study and testing
program for sixth, seventh and eighth-graders.
- To develop sound investment strategies that will enable the
building to become a revenue producing asset that will encourage
and enhance access to excellent engineering education curriculums
and successful engineering careers
 .
The Building Fund Goal
- To solicit tax-deductible donations which will be used to retire
the mortgage undertaken for the building renovation and modernization.
- To fund the creation and implementation of new programs that
will make a positive impact on the future of engineering education
in our state.
- To provide the method and means to make long term investments
in the engineering profession.
- June 2007 Building Debt $174,000
Donations to the MSPE Educational Foundation are welcome from members,
their families or friends, supporters of the foundation, firms with
an interest in the engineering profession and corporate foundations
and trusts. You may earmark your contribution to be applied directly
to our MATHCOUNTS or scholarship programs or you may apply it to
the Building Fund which will ultimately benefit all facets of the
Educational Foundation activities.
MSPE's Educational Foundation is exempt from taxation under 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and contributions to it are
deductible under Section 170 of the code.
Endowed Scholarships
Please note: the MSPE Educational Foundation Scholarships
are for a sophomore or junior in COLLEGE. Thank you!
- MSPE will not be offering the Cohen Memorial Scholarship for
the 2010-2011 year. Thank You!
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