TMS Funds & Scholarships

Endowment Fund

The TMS Endowment Fund was established in 2000 to support special projects that accomplish the TMS mission to advance the knowledge of masonry. Such projects include development of seminars, newsletters, and new publications.

The Endowment Fund is a restricted account, and only interest may be used to fund projects when directed by the Board of Directors.

Donate to the Endowment Fund

Projects Supported from the Endowment Fund

At its May 2009 meetings, the Board of Directors approved releasing interest earned from the Endowment Fund to support a 2010 edition of a Masonry Research Newsletter. The first edition of this newsletter was published earlier this year by Dr. Jennifer Tanner and Dr. Saadet Toker of the University of Wyoming with financial support from the Council for Masonry Research (CMR) and TMS’s Research Committee. That newsletter, which can be downloaded from the TMS Website, was warmly received. As such, TMS’s Research Committee requested that the Board consider funding future editions of the Newsletter. While the Board of Directors would like to see funding come from its general budget, monies were not available in 2010. As such, at the recommendation of the Executive Committee, the Board approved releasing earned interest from the Endowment Fund to support the development of a 2010 Masonry Research E-Newsletter.

On February 27, 2010, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck central Chile near Santiago. Preliminary estimates place this earthquake as the fifth largest ever recorded. TMS had the opportunity to embed Dr. Jennifer Tanner of the University of Wyoming into a team mobilized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) to serve as their masonry expert. TMS assisted, and provided travel funding for Dr. Tanner.

Contributors to the Endowment Fund

$5,000 or more
  • National Concrete Masonry Association
  • Portland Cement Association
$2,000 to $4,999
  • Raymond Miller
  • Gregg Borchelt
  • Chittenden Engineering
$1,000 to $1,999
  • Ronald Hunsicker
  • Hoggatt, G.P., LLC
  • William Hime
  • Greg Hess
  • Gladys Hanson
$500 to $999
  • Edwin Huston
  • Lawrence Kahn
  • Jerry Painter
  • Vilas Mujumdar
  • Paul Scott
  • Donald McMican
  • David Biggs
  • John Bufford
  • Clayford Grimm
  • Richard Lauber
$100 to $499
  • Craig Bennett
  • Jason Thompson
  • Brian Trimble
  • Phillip Samblanet
  • Joseph Welte
  • Terence Allan Weigel
  • Robert Kudder
  • R. Blair Stephens
  • James Colville
  • C. K. Allen
  • James Amrhein
  • Dean Brown
  • Shirley Dentinger
  • Thomas Gangel
  • Keystone Masonry
  • Robert Massina
  • Christine Subasic
  • Diane Throop
Up to $99
  • Kirk Haverland
  • James Cowie
  • Art Schultz
  • Michael DeBlasio
  • Joseph Arumala
  • Paul Maurenbrecher
  • Lawrence Tabat
  • J. Patrick Rand
  • Russ Peterson
  • James Durham
  • Donald Grant
  • F. G. Robinson
  • Daniel Shapiro
  • Larry Snedegar
  • WDP And Associates
  • Scott Beck
  • Andre Lamontagne
  • Jamie Farny
  • Victor Pavon
  • Glenn Rentschler
  • Stanley Burbank, III
  • D. Anthony Beale
  • Harold Epstein
  • Robert Freel
  • David Kurtanich
  • Paul Perlman
  • Don Sporleder
  • Thomas Boothby
  • John Butler
  • Canan D’Avela
  • Gero Marzahn
  • Nigel Shrive
  • James LaFave
  • Reiner Pligge
  • Max Porter
  • Scott Sabol
  • John Dawe