Longtime Houston independent oil and gas entreprenuer, real estate developer and philanthropist George Mitchell announced jointly with Texas A&M University yesterday that he and his wife Cynthia are donating $35 million to A&M to help build two physics facilities at the university. Jennifer Radcliffe of the Chronicle reports on the donation, which is one of the largest in A&M history. Earlier posts on philanthropic donations of the Mitchells are here and here.
A&M is certainly appreciative of the Mitchells' generous gift, but what most Aggies want is for Mr. Mitchell to do something about the reeling Aggie football program, which Chronicle sportswriter and former Aggie John Lopez sizes up here and here. Similarly, this caustic San Antonio Express article on the A&M football situation pretty well reflects the Aggie sentiment around the Lone Star State at this particular moment.
The Aggies are currently 16.5 point underdogs in their game at Texas Tech on Saturday. Taking Tech and laying the points may be the lock bet of the year. (Sorry, Donna, Michelle, Michele, Teri, Bennie Jo, Lucy, Bennie, Don, Heidi & Bob!)
3 comments:
Very interesting article Tom, thanks. That's one big donation for A&M. Learned a little about George, quite a success story. I love your blog. Great idea.
Hope family is well.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! That is a lot of money!:)
Go aggies!!!!
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