How TCU Gives Day Impacts Fort Worth Medical Students
A gift to the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University will directly support our medical students in their journey to become Empathetic Scholars®.
A gift to the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University will directly support our medical students and allow them to become Empathetic Scholars®.
Our medical school is redefining medical education with its many Tarrant County health care partners, abandoning an outdated lecture model and transforming the clinical experience. The Burnett School of Medicine offers a one-of-a-kind educational experience, tailored to how students learn best, capitalizing on teamwork and application sessions to retain knowledge, and keeping the patient at the center of all we do.
TCU Gives Day Challenge totaling $50,000
Understanding the power of leading by example, John, Grainger, and Gregor are supporting 2023 TCU Gives Day by adding $50,000 to their endowment from the family’s donor-advised fund at the North Texas Community Foundation. They hope that this addition will challenge and inspire at least 150 others (with gifts of any size) to join them in supporting the Burnett School of Medicine.
The John Esch family has enjoyed a close and passionate relationship with TCU for seven decades. John earned his TCU Economics degree in 1964, and with his wife, Mary, set down roots in Fort Worth that remain strong today. The family’s connection to TCU has also remained strong. While older son Grainger earned his degree from Duke, younger son Gregor earned his 1996 journalism degree from TCU. A mutual love of athletics, music, and the arts has led the entire family to campus often through the years.
Like many in Fort Worth, the 2019 launch of a new medical school attracted the family’s attention and interest. “TCU has provided Fort Worth with an incredibly important asset and resource with the rapid development of a quality medical school. The coming physical location in the medical district will magnify the impact even further,” explained John. The value of conducting a four-year research project and thesis particularly caught their eye. “We have the greatest amount of respect for the dedication, perseverance, and discipline that research entails.”
The family created the Mary G. Esch and Mary N. Esch Endowment Fund in 2021 to provide annual support to the Scholarly Pursuit and Thesis program, and to help offset the costs of 60 new student research projects each year. The fund honors the memory of wife and mother Mary Norwood Esch and mother and grandmother Mary Guinn Esch. “Research in all areas of humanity is vital to the betterment of life; but none more beneficial or needed as in the medical area,” added John.
Please join the Esch Family and be part of the education and training of future physicians.