David L. Smith Criminal Justice Endowed Scholarship

David L. Smith and Frankie Walker Smith married in 1947. David graduated from Pearland High School in 1944. In 1974, he received a Special Texas Ranger appointment from Sr. Captain, Clint T Peoples. In 1960, David L. Smith Realty was established in Pearland, Texas. David Smith and his wife Frankie started the company. On January 1, 2008 David L. and Frankie Smith’s daughter, Dr. Susan S. Lenamon, acquired the family business. Susan now caries the torch and is committed to carrying on the family tradition. Susan graduated from SHSU in 1973 with a BBA in Business Education. She is an endowed life member of the Sam Houston State University Alumni Association and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2005. She is currently serving as Vice President. She was employed by the Pearland Independent School District for 25 years as a teacher, principal, and director of communications. Susan is married to Bearkat, Ben Lenamon. They have 3 children, Leslie, Martin and Leigh; seven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Susan contributed $10,000 in memory of her mother, Frankie Walker Smith, to begin the restoration work on a 113-year-olc/ M.P. Moeller opus 139 pipe organ which was dedicated to Sam Houston State University’s Peabody Library in 2007. The organ was purchased and installed in the auditorium of Old Main in 1894 and was played by faculty members several times a week at then -compulsory chapel services.