“OIL PATCH ROUNDUP” Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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“OIL PATCH ROUNDUP” Wednesday, May 21, 2008 The Solomon Ortiz International Center, 402 Harbor Drive (Under the Harbor Bridge) View a Map to the Solomon Ortiz International Center Bar Sponsor Core Laboratories: Starts at 11:30 a.m. Speaker at Noon Lunch: $22 Students: $12 ($3 Surcharge if no reservation) Please make your reservation by e-mail jbockelman@sevenls.com (note – new email) or call John Bockelman at 361-698-6077 on or before Monday, May 19 at 9:30 a.m.  Topic: The Oil Patch, Aint it Great!!!Distinguished Guest Speaker, Mr. Red McCombs Red McCombs, born in 1927 in Spur, Texas, attended Southwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin-School of Business and School of Law. He began his career as a salesman in the automobile business in Corpus Christi in 1950. In 1958, he relocated to San Antonio where he became a partner, then sole owner of Red McCombs Automotive. In addition to his auto interests, he is co-founder of Clear Channel Communications and McCombs Energy Corporation in Houston and is active in a variety of other businesses. McCombs has served leadership roles in many national, state and local organizations including Chamber of Commerce, United Way and San Antonio’s World Fair, HemisFair. He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Southwestern University where he has been honored as Distinguished Alumnus and as Chairman of the Board of Visitors of University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Mr. McCombs has chaired many fund drives and community service organizations. He has been honored as Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin, where he was honored when their nationally acclaimed business school was renamed the Red McCombs School of Business. He has also been honored with numerous local, state and national recognitions including the San Antonio Business Hall of Fame, San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame, the National Automobile Dealers Hall of Fame and the Texas Business Hall of Fame and in December of this year, the National Football Foundation presented him with the College Hall of Fame honor in New York and The Texas Sports Hall of Fame recognized him with the first annual Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement in Sports Award. Mr. McCombs is the former owner of the NFL Minnesota Vikings, the NBA Denver Nuggets and the San Antonio Spurs, which he secured for San Antonio in 1972. At age 25, he purchased his first professional sports team, the Corpus Christi Texas Clippers in the Big State Baseball League. Mr. McCombs married the former Charline Hamblin in Corpus Christi in 1950. Their daughters Lynda McCombs, Marsha Shields and Connie McNab and eight grandchildren all reside in San Antonio. |