Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

by Robert L. Walker
Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

by Robert L. Walker

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Overview

The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history.  He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes amusing vignettes of his encounters with a wide range of benefactors to Texas A&M.

“Bob Walker is much more than a fundraiser.  He devotes all of his time to making and keeping friends for the university.  I have never met anyone with as much capacity to help Aggies as he has.”—Former Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen

“Bob Walker contributed significantly in creating the culture of stewardship that has helped make Texas A&M one of the nation’s truly great land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant universities.”—Mark A. Hussey, Interim President, Texas A&M University

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623493158
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publication date: 03/30/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 140
File size: 30 MB
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About the Author

ROBERT L. WALKER has served for more than five critical decades in leading fundraising roles at Texas A&M University, including holder of the distinctive James Aston University Chair in Institutional Development. Recently retired from Texas A&M, he still lives in College Station, where he and his son, Sid A. Walker, manage The Walker Consulting Group.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: A Framework for Development 1

Sixty Exemplars Who Have Made Lasting Impressions

Class of 1912 James M. "Cop" Forsyth 17

Class of 1943 H. R. "Bum" Bright 20

Class of 1978 Clay Bright 24

Class of 1919 Grady S. Appling 27

Class of 1921 Sterling C. Evans 29

Class of 1944 Sara John H. Lindsey 31

Class of 1930 Michel T. Halbouty 33

Class of 1925 P. M. Green 35

Class of 1922 H. B. "Pat" Zachry 38

Class of 1926 Sid M. Kyle 39

Class of 1922 Sam Houston Sanders 40

Class of 1945 T. R. "Bob" Frymire 41

Class of 1941 Netum Steed 43

Glass of 1947 Chester J. Reed 47

Class of 1960 Jack Little 48

Class of 1926 George J. Fppright 49

Anonymous, Class of 1969 50

Class of 1959 Erie Nye 51

Class of 1938 H. R. "Jack" Finney Jr. 52

Class of 1988 Patricia Ward 53

Class of 1935 John W. Runyon 53

Class of 1939 George O. Yamini 56

Class of 1941 Leslie L. Appelt 59

Richard Sctmbot 60

Madlin Stevenson 62

"Puggy Poo" 62

Class of 1937 Richard Conolly Sr. 64

Paul and Judy Andrews 66

Tom and Joan Read 67

Class of 1947 James Whadey 68

Class of 1913 Wofford Cain 69

Class of 1909 Jesse L. Easlerwood 70

Class of 1949 Curtis Robert 71

Class of 1945 Oscar Wyatt Jr. 74

Class of 1946 James E. A. P. Wiley 77

Class of 1923 C. E. "Pat" Olsen 77

Class of 1938 Joe Hiram Moore 80

Class of 1914 Walter W. Lechner 81

Class of 1943 Ford D. Albritton Jr. 83

Class of 1959 Melbern G. Glasscock 85

Class of 1949, and Howard Erase, Class of 1952 Ed F. Kruse 86

Class of 1922 M. J. Neeley 87

Class of 1945 John Blocker 88

Class of 1935 Mike Dillingham 90

Class of 1934 Floyd Thurman 91

Class of 1946 Harold J. "Bill" Haynes 93

Class of 1944 J. L. Huffines Jr. 94

Class of 1950 R. G. Wallace 96

Class of 1933 Burton E. "Burt" Delleney 99

Class of 1946 Jack Brown 101

Class of 1945 John Tom Campbell 102

Class of 1940 George P. Mitchell 106

Class of 1954 Modesta Clayton W. Williams Jr. 108

Class of 1933 James W. Aston 111

On Fund-raising

Fundraising 101 115

My Fundraising Formula 121

Parting Thoughts 124

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