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Friday, April 21,1989
Book dealer Warped
defaulted loan
before death
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by Scott McCul Sen:
AUSTIN (AP) — Rare book
dealer John H. Jenkins III, who was
found shot to death this week in the
Colorado River near Bastrop, faced
possible loss of his business after de
faulting on a loan, it was reported
Thursday.
Authorities continued to investi
gate the death of Jenkins, who was
shot once in the back of the head
with a large-caliber handgun.
The Austin American-Statesman
reported that court records showed
Jenkins, 49, had defaulted on a
$600,000 loan and faced the possibili
ty of losing his publishing offices
and warehouse.
Jenkins was being sued for de
faulting on a $20,000 loan made last
year and was part of a trio of busi
nessmen sued by the federal govern
ment for failing to repay $1.3 mil
lion in outstanding loans to buy a
drilling rig in West Texas, court re
cords showed.
Also, he had defaulted on loans of
unspecified amounts to renovate the
campus of Westminster College near
Waco, which he purchased for
$55,000 in 1977, the American-
Statesman reported.
Jenkins was considered one of the
country’s leading authorities on
Texas history and Texana. Relatives
said he had been doing research on a
new book, searching for a cemetery
west of Bastrop, when he died.
Bastrop County authorities said
they have still not determined
whether Jenkins committed suicide
or was the victim of a robbery-homi
cide. Officials have not recovered
the weapon that killed Jenkins.
“We want to put this case behind
us, but we want to make sure we do a
very thorough job before it’s ruled
one way or the other,” said Lee Con
ner, chief deputy of the Bastrop
County Sheriff’s Department.
Deed records in Travis County
District Court indicate Jenkins was
facing the loss of a 30,000-square-
foot warehouse and other property.
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Applicants vie for research grants
Fulbright award allows faculty, graduates to research abroad
By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
The Fulbright Grant competition
for 1990-91 officially opens May 1
for graduates in all academic fields
interested in researching and study
ing abroad.
The Institute of International Ed
ucation sponsors the grants to in
crease understanding between peo
ple of the United States and foreign
countries through the exchange of
persons, knowledge and skills. Re
cipients can research overseas with
professors in their concentration of
research or in a country wanting fur
ther research in a particular area.
“Fulbrights are prestigious schol
arships,” said Cathy Schutt, staff as
sistant in the Texas A&M Study
Abroad Office.
Applicants for Junior Fulbright
Grants must have a 3.5 grade-point
ratio, be a U.S. citizen, hold a bache
lor’s degree or the equivalent before
the beginning date of the grant, and
demonstrate proficiency in the lan
guage of their prospective host
country.
Full Fulbright Grants are for
graduates with doctoral degrees.
Many A&M faculty members are
Fulbright recipients, Schutt said.
Each country decides how many
grants it wants to award depending
on what areas of research it wants
expanded, she said.
Applicants can look at a booklet
which lists what research countries
are interested in and choose the
country with which they want to ap
ply, correlating it with their own
area of research interest.
Student recipients are overseas
for about a year in countries such as
Germany, Guatemala and England.
“The grants give funding for re
search that is often extremely diffi
cult for a student to get and also fur
thers them in their master’s studies
by helping them with their thesis,”
Schutt said. “It also looks great on a
resume.”
The applicant has several months
to develop his vita and research pro
posal and consult with his depart
ment advisers and the Study Abroad
Office.
The applicant then interviews
with the local Fulbright Selection
Committee, which offers advice for
final preparation of his project. The
final vita and proposal are then sent
to New York for competition. Stu
dents are informed in January if
their project has been sent to ik
prospective Country for review
The “rough draft* of the|
is due fhd 'nfst week in Septerate
and the final project isduethelis
Monday in October.
Spring meetings for consults
with the Study Abroad Office bet:
this week. The first meeting is tw
at 10 a.m. in 251 BizzellWest.
“Our office wants to work
with applicants to give adviced
help with deadlines,” Schutt said.
Students wanting more inform
lion can call the Study Abroad01
fice at 845-0544.
Texas children extend friendship to Soviets
AUSTIN (AP) —Janet Parker’s second-grade pupils
realize there’s lots they don’t know about youngsters in
the Soviet Union, but one thing is certain: They want to
be friends.
For several weeks, the second-graders and other stu
dents at Kocurek Elementary School have been work
ing on drawings, posters and personal messages, which
later this week will be carried to a Soviet elementary
school.
residents, who leave Saturday.
“1 think friendships start best when they start v
youth,” he told a group of youngsters. “We'll sect
benefits of projects like this in 20 years. If we canjfl
kids to grow up trusting one another, then wecanmd
some of the ice that has separated our two countries.
The artwork will be hand-delivered to Public School
64 in Moscow by Willie Kocurek — the man for whom
the school was named — and several other Austin-area
In addition to visiting Soviet school children, to
rek and his group will visit Armenian youngstersreffl
ering from injuries suffered in December’s devastaffl
earthquake. They are taking hundreds of colon:.:
books, packs of crayons and pencils to perk up thespi
its of the injured children.
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