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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
In 1989, Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk published a Mayborn biography, ''Frank Mayborn: A man who made a difference.''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Frank-W-Mayborn-made-difference/dp/B0006ETCDQ|title=Frank W. Mayborn: A man who made a difference|author=Odie B. and Laura E. Faulk|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
In 1989, Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk published a Mayborn biography, ''Frank Mayborn: A man who made a difference.''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Frank-W-Mayborn-made-difference/dp/B0006ETCDQ|title=Frank W. Mayborn: A man who made a difference|author=Odie B. and Laura E. Faulk|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
Indeed Mayborn was involved in the development of many Bell County institutions. He served on the advisory board of the acclaimed Scott & White Memorial Hospital and played an important role in the location of the [[Texas A&M University]] Medical Center in Temple. A longtime advocate of a convention center for Temple, Mayborn donated more than fifteen acres of land for the Frank W. Mayborn Convention Center, which was completed in 1982, five years before his death. The facility includes the Mayborn Museum Complex.
Indeed Mayborn was involved in the development of many Bell County institutions. He served on the advisory board of the acclaimed Scott & White Memorial Hospital and played an important role in the location of the [[Texas A&M University]] Medical Center in Temple. A longtime advocate of a convention center for Temple, Mayborn donated more than fifteen acres of land for the Frank W. Mayborn Convention Center, which was completed in 1982, five years before his death. The facility includes the Mayborn Museum Complex.<ref name=bio/>
As an advocate for education, Mayborn was active in the founding of the two-year Central Texas College near Killeen, which services many military personnel from Fort Hood. He also started the annual Bell County spelling be]. He endowed a chair at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. Mayborn served on journalism advisory boards at both the [[University of Texas]] and Texas A&M. Mayborn established a journalism chair at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Baylor University]] of Waco.<ref name=baylor>{{cite web|url=https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=3726%E2%80%8B|title=Mayborn Foundation Commits $5 Million to Discovery Campaign|date=July 6, 2000|publisher=Baylor.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref> He was a trustee and a donor to George Peabody College in Nashville. The large Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center was endowed after his death at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton in Bell County.
As an advocate for education, Mayborn was active in the founding of the two-year Central Texas College near Killeen, which services many military personnel from Fort Hood. He also started the annual Bell County spelling be]. He endowed a chair at [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]]. Mayborn served on journalism advisory boards at both the [[University of Texas]] and Texas A&M. Mayborn established a journalism chair at [[Baptist]]-affiliated [[Baylor University]] of Waco.<ref name=baylor>{{cite web|url=https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=3726%E2%80%8B|title=Mayborn Foundation Commits $5 Million to Discovery Campaign|date=July 6, 2000|publisher=Baylor.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref> He was a trustee and a donor to George Peabody College in Nashville. The large Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center was endowed after his death at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton in Bell County.