Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

Footprints in Aggieland: Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser

By Robert L Walker

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.

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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publish Date: 04/06/2015
Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781623493141
ISBN-10: 1623493145
Language: English

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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

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.

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