During her almost 15 years of life, Teresa Marie Anne Plackowski Witucki was an inspiration to her family and friends, touching their lives and encouraging them to do their best and treat others as they themselves would want to be treated. A voracious reader of fantasy, literature and history, Teresa passed away in 2001, one week before she was to begin her first year of high school. She loved drama, and had roles in various Midland Center for the Arts plays and musicals, as well as Northeast Middle School productions in Midland. Her parents established this endowment in memory of her life.