The China Lake Museum Foundation is honored to continue the Piper Renea Faust Memorial Scholarship. Piper passed away on March 18, 2017 at the young age of 10 as a result of injuries suffered in a horse riding accident at a barrel racing event in Caldwell, Texas.  She is the daughter of CLMF Life Members Brian and Rhonda (Stroud) Faust and the Granddaughter of Wayne and Patsy Doucette.  Piper was one of our 2016 Dinner Auction Vanna Whites. 

 Piper was a young lady who was full of life, very outgoing, and a friend to everyone she met.  She was very involved in her church, Sunday school programs, and even sang a solo before the church congregation the Sunday prior to her passing.  She excelled in her academic school work, which included three years on the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Storying Telling Team, was in Art Club and sang in the choir.  Additionally, she was a member of the Texas Burleson County 4-H Club and showed rabbits and commercial heifers at the Burleson County Fair.  Piper loved to sing and dance and would light up the stage when performing both solo and group dances at various competitions.  She was extremely competitive playing little league and select tournament softball, which carried over to her love of barrel racing and she had aspirations to qualify for the Junior National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, NV.

She was nine years old when she proudly carried the live auction items at the 2016 CLMF Dinner Auction.  We were short a Vanna White that evening and Piper told her grandmother “Grandma, let me do it, I have stage presence.”  That she had, and an excellent job she did as our little Vanna White.

This memorial scholarship was originally established in 2018 by Wayne and Patsy Doucette in Piper’s memory.  She was such a loving, outgoing, friendly, and competitive young lady whose accomplishments at such a young age should be a goal for all to follow.