Charles H. Gregory ’64 will begin serving a seven-year role as a Texas A&M Foundation trustee on July 1. Gregory, who holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from A&M and a law degree from the University of Texas, is president and director of Rupley Holdings Inc. in Houston.

“The Foundation has enjoyed a longtime affiliation with Charles Gregory,” said Dr. Ed Davis ’67, president of the Foundation. “His loyalty, generosity and involvement with Texas A&M make him an excellent choice as a new trustee, and his business experience will serve us well.”

After completing his law degree, Gregory served for two years as an Army intelligence officer in Vietnam, Thailand and Fort Bliss at El Paso. He worked in the securities business for eight years and then owned and managed a series of heavy equipment and manufacturing businesses. Rupley Holdings was an umbrella for several of those companies.

“It’s going to become more difficult for Texas A&M to meet funding challenges while responding to the changing demographics of the state,” Gregory said. “The Texas A&M Foundation will play a key role in this process, and I’m pleased to have the opportunity to serve on its board of trustees.”

In 2001, Gregory endowed the Charles H. Gregory ’64 Chair in Liberal Arts. (See the Winter 2008 issue of Spirit magazine for the influence of that gift on Dr. Kenneth J. Meier, who holds the chair.) With his mother and siblings, he also funded a faculty chair in civil engineering in honor of his father, R. P. Gregory ’32. Gregory also served on A&M’s One Spirit One Vision capital campaign executive committee.

Gregory has made major gifts to the Liberal Arts Development Council, the Dean’s Endowment for Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts and the Jon L. Hagler Center building fund. He is a Century Club member of The Association of Former Students.

As an undergraduate, he was active in campus events such as three years of the Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA VII, VIII and IX). During his senior year in the Corps of Cadets, he served as commanding officer of the Ross Volunteers and of Company F2.

Gregory, who has a son and daughter, lives in Houston with his wife, Mary.