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HONORING J.T. & MARGARET

T ALKINGT ON

Impact of

Talkington Gifts to

TTU Systems

IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE

BY TERRY GREENBERG
Texas Tech University students walk outside J.T. & Margaret Photography by
Talkington Hall. The residence hall was named in recognition of the Artie Limmer, Texas Tech University System
Talkingtons gift to graduate fellowships at the university.

.T. and Margaret Talkington came Texas Tech University System • providing undergraduate
Jto Lubbock in 1946. He was with Chancellor. “Their generosity has scholarships and graduate
a CPA firm expanding into West been positively transformative fellowships that benefit almost 300
Texas. She decided a high-fashion in enhancing areas that help students a year;
store for women would bring a us achieve excellence, while
level of sophistication to the South strengthening the ways in which we • creating six permanently
Plains. They achieved success serve our community.” endowed chairs to recruit specialists
over their decades in business in internal medicine to the Texas
while still finding time to serve The effects of the Talkingtons’ Tech University Health Sciences
their community, always with the philanthropy show up time and Center;
goal of making Lubbock a better again across Texas Tech’s sprawling • sustaining the first comprehensive
place to live and work for all its Lubbock campus, most notably in student-athlete leadership program
residents. Even after their deaths, the following: of its kind in the nation;
the couple continues to elevate
the sophistication of Lubbock and
Texas Tech. Through their personal
giving and the ongoing work of
the J.T. & Margaret Talkington
Charitable Foundation, the impact
of the couple’s philanthropy to the
university system is widespread.
Their total giving over the years is
impressive, but it fails to capture
the impact of all those gifts on
students and faculty at Texas Tech
University and the Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center
— the two Texas Tech institutions
that call Lubbock home. “Not only
did they influence the course and
overall quality of our schools and Texas Tech University President Lawrence Schovanec stands in his office with student recipients
programs, but they have absolutely of undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships established by J.T. & Margaret
changed lives,” said Robert Duncan, Talkington.

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