Scholarship Recipient Gives Back

A President’s Endowed Scholarship (PES) helped finance the Texas A&M University education of Bradley L. Worsham ’88. Now he has established a PES to do the same for other Aggies.

“I felt privileged to receive my President’s Endowed Scholarship,” said Worsham, who holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering. “My scholarship inspired me to do my best. I had to prove I was worthy of it.”

Worsham established the Bradley L. Worsham ’88 President’s Endowed Scholarship in mid-August. With his endowment to the Texas A&M Foundation, Worsham will help future generations of Aggies. “I want to reward incoming students’ academic and personal achievements, to encourage academic and personal excellence,” said Worsham, who co-founded BIT Systems, a high-tech research and development company based in Virginia.

“I also hope this scholarship will bring high-caliber students to A&M who might not otherwise come here,” said Worsham, adding that his PES led him to become an Aggie. “I had already been accepted to another school and then learned I had received a PES, so I came to Texas A&M instead.”

Since 1968, the PES has been Texas A&M’s chief scholarship for attracting high-achieving students. Today more than 900 Aggies attending A&M have a PES. To qualify, these students must have a minimum SAT score of 1300, minimum ACT score of 30, or be a semifinalist or commended National Merit Scholar. They must have demonstrated strong leadership in high school and in their communities.

Worsham says his gift honors his parents and grandparents as well as the teachers, counselors and coaches who mentored him as he grew up in Port Neches. He has two Aggie siblings: Bill ’86, also a PES recipient, and Kimberly Worsham ’91.

Worsham established the endowed scholarship as part of Texas A&M’s “Operation Spirit and Mind” initiative, a fund drive led by the Texas A&M Foundation to raise $300 million for academic and leadership programs on behalf of Texas A&M University.

The Texas A&M Foundation is a private nonprofit organization that solicits and manages investments in Texas A&M academics and student leadership programs. To learn more about giving Operation Spirit and Mind scholarships, contact Jody Ford ’99 at the Texas A&M Foundation at 800-392-3310, 979-845-8161 or fund-a-scholarship@tamu.edu. Find the Foundation online at giving.tamu.edu.