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2026 Scholarship Recipients
It is with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the second annual Pipes Family Foundation Scholarship. Once again, we partnered with the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center at the…
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A Streetcar Named Opportunity
Few of us have the experience of turning our lives upside-down to pursue our career, and among those that do, most probably have not pulled up stakes and moved to…
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Lost At Sea
Since today is the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, we wanted to take this opportunity to talk about a relative of ours who made the ultimate sacrifice in World…
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Hiding From History
In January 1970, a man named Ralph Pipes wrote a four-page letter to his cousin Charles Pipes. He certainly could not have known on that day, when he put pen…
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STLGS Quarterly
One year ago, we announced that through a donation from the Foundation we had joined the St. Louis Genealogical Society. Through our subsequent involvement, we learned that they regularly solicit…