2011 TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon

2012 TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon To Honor
Caroline Rose Hunt and Frank Risch

Caroline Rose Hunt and Frank Risch will join an esteemed list of arts and culture philanthropists when they are honored with the 2012 award during the 34th annual Silver Cup Award Luncheon on February 24th.

Caroline Rose Hunt has long supported Dallas with her energy and her philanthropy. Through her business interests—as former honorary chairman of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts—and her personal life, she has been a model of the giving citizen. Her philanthropic interests have ranged from social services and health to the fine arts, from children's interests to those of the elderly. In Washington, D.C. she served for a decade as a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has been an active participant in the boards of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, both at the national and state level since its inception, and was the recipient of their Arts Patronage Award in 2003. She has personally provided funding for the capital campaigns of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the Dallas Children's Theater (DCT), Parkland Hospital and United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.

Because of Mrs. Hunt's longtime direct support of Dallas Children's Theater that bears her company name Rosewood, the Center serves more than 100,000 Dallas children each year through arts education. For her sustained backing, the DCT has also named its annual award the Rosewood Award. She is also a longtime supporter of the Dallas Opera and the Dallas Symphony.

She has received numerous honors and awards. In 2006, The University of Texas at Austin named her a Distinguished Alumni, as did Mary Baldwin College in 2009 and The Hockaday School in 2003. In 1999, she was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Her support for Dallas ranges from KERA and the Retina Foundation of the Southwest to the Texas Ballet Theater and The Hockaday School. With the passage of time, she has supported a variety of organizations by lending her name to committees and serving as honorary chair of many events. First woman deacon of Highland Park Presbyterian Church, she has five children, 19 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.

For Frank Risch, the arts are essential to building a great city, and he and his wife, Helen, have helped make many new and exciting changes possible in the Dallas area through their volunteer service and philanthropy—in the arts and the wider community. As Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Theater Center for the past three years, Mr. Risch has helped oversee an exciting transition that included the 50th anniversary season of the Dallas Theater Center, its last in the Kalita Humphreys Theater, and the completion of two great seasons in the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theater at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. A Member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Mr. Risch also serves as Vice Chair of the Board Nominating and Governance Committee and Member of the Finance Committee.

His volunteer service also includes leadership roles as Vice Chair of Communities Foundation of Texas. For many years, Mr. Risch has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, which will award him the Museum's 2011 Hope for Humanity Award this October. In 2003, he received the Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League of North Texas, and he currently serves on the organization’s board. He is also a board member of Dallas CASA and the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, and serves on the Business Board of Advisors of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a past President of Temple Emanu-El of Dallas.

The Rischs are the proud parents of two children, Jonathan and Jolene, and they have six grandchildren.

Silver Cup Award Recipients

  • 1979 Mrs. Eugene McDermott and Mr. Henry S. Miller, Jr.*
  • 1980 Mrs. Grace Stemmons Kepler* and Mr. Robert S. Folsom
  • 1981 Mrs. William Plack Carr and Mr. George V. Charlton
  • 1982 Mrs. Leland Fikes* and Mr. Waldo E. Stewart*
  • 1983 Mrs. James B. Francis and Mr. Jerry Lee Holmes
  • 1984 Mrs. Edward S. Marcus* and Mr. Irvin L. Levy
  • 1985 Mrs. Theodore H. Strauss* and Mr. Stanley Marcus*
  • 1986 Mrs. Henry S. Miller, Jr.* and Mr. Ralph B. Rogers*
  • 1987 Ms. Elsa von Seggern* and Dr. Philip Montgomery, Jr.*
  • 1988 Mrs. Patricia B. Meadows and Mr. William A. Custard
  • 1989 Mrs. Edith O'Donnell and Mr. Peter O'Donnell, Jr.
  • 1990 Mrs. Nancy B. Hamon and Mr. Liener Temerlin
  • 1991 Mrs. Greer Garson* and Mr. Curtis W. Meadows, Jr.
  • 1992 Mrs. Wendy Reves* and Major General Hugh G. Robinson*
  • 1993 Mrs. Robert Ted Enloe III and Mr. C. Vincent Prothro*
  • 1994 Mrs. Lawrence S. Barzune and Mr. William Winspear*
  • 1995 Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn* and Mr. Jeremy Halbreich
  • 1996 Mrs. Virginia L. Nick* and Mr. John W. Dayton
  • 1997 Mrs. Deedie Rose and Mr. Robert L. Crandall
  • 1998 Mrs. Joyce Mitchell and Mr. Raymond D. Nasher*
  • 1999 Mrs. Arlene J. Dayton and Mr. Howard Hallam
  • 2000 Mrs. Linda Pitts Custard and Mr. Charles Wyly*
  • 2001 Ms. Mary McDermott Cook and Mr. Otto Wetzel*
  • 2002 Mrs. Patsy Miller Donosky and Mr. Harvey R. Mitchell
  • 2003 Mrs. Caren Harvey Prothro and Mr. Marty Weiland
  • 2004 Mrs. Diane Brierley and Dr. Kern Wildenthal
  • 2005 Mrs. Lynn Flint Shaw* and Mr. Howard Rachofsky
  • 2006 Mrs. Marguerite Hoffman and Mr. Robert Hoffman*
  • 2007 Ms. Linda Perryman Evans and Mr. Ruben E. Esquivel
  • 2008 Mrs. Elaine Agather and Mr. Brad Todd
  • 2009 Mrs. Geraldine “Tincy” Miller and Mr. Hal Brierley
  • 2010 Mrs. Cindy Rachofsky and Mr. John T. Cody, Jr.
  • 2011 Mrs. Sarah Perot and Mr. John Eagle
  • * deceased

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