March 24, 2020 – Collin College celebrated its 35th anniversary with a record-breaking audience of supporters attending the Collin College Foundation’s annual scholarship fundraiser, Stetson & Stiletto Standoff, Feb. 29.
The fundraiser was a sell-out with more than 400 guests packing the Frisco Campus (Preston Ridge) Conference Center. Presented by PBK Architects, the event is the foundation’s single-largest scholarship fundraiser of the year. Guests competed in a trivia challenge to raise scholarships for students. Because of gifts from generous supporters, the foundation raised more than $225,000.
In the trivia competition, the team sponsored by Jim and Rebecca Orr won the Stetson & Stiletto Standoff Championship. The Celina Economic Development Corporation came in second place after a tie-breaker with architects from PBK, who ultimately finished in third. The team sponsored by Farmers Bank & Trust won the “Trivia All Star” trophy for the highest score without mulligans.
In celebration of the college’s 35th anniversary, the foundation offered squares of fabric for patrons to sign during the event for a $35 donation. The squares will be stitched together to create a large commemorative banner celebrating the college’s 35th anniversary.
The event’s sponsors included Lone Star Partner PBK; Alamo Partners AECOM, Milton and Mary Kate Buschbom and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Plano; Rio Grande Partners the Collin College Student Housing Foundation and Skanska USA Building Inc.; Yellow Rose Partners Abernathy, Roeder, Boyd & Hullett, P.C., The Beck Group, IN2 Architecture, Independent Financial, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., Page Southerland Page and Trane; Silver Spur Partners American National Bank of Texas, ARTA Travel, Atmos Energy, Braun Intertec, the City of Celina and Celina Economic Development Corporation, Collin College Executive Leadership Team, Steve and Kim Davison, Farmers Bank & Trust, the Wendy Gartenberg Memorial, JE Dunn Construction, L.A. Fuess Partners, Lee Martin and Irene Joyce Tevis Memorial, Maso Family, McCall, Parkhurst & Horton, McKinney Economic Development Corporation and McKinney Community Development Corporation, Medical City McKinney, Jim and Rebecca Orr, Perkins + Will, RLK, Roach Business Center, Shep and JoeAnn Stahel, Anne Stahel Thornton, Workforce Solutions of North Central Texas; and additional supporters C&S Media, the City of Wylie, Ennis Graphics, Farmersville Economic Development Corporation, Local Profile of Collin County, Northern Trust, PSAV, and Roach, Howard, Smith & Barton.
For more information about the Collin College Foundation or scholarships, visit www.collin.edu/foundation.
Collin College serves more than 59,000 credit and continuing education students annually and offers more than 100 degrees and certificates, including new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Bachelor of Applied Technology (BAT) in Cybersecurity degrees. The only public college based in Collin County, Collin College is a partner to business, government and industry, providing customized training and workforce development. In addition, the college operates the Collin Higher Education Center, which has an enrollment of more than 3,300 each year in partnership with The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas Woman’s University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas Tech University and the University of North Texas. For more information, visit www.collin.edu.