Father and Son Fund Exceptional Students
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| Sissy and Pat Wood Jr. '54 |
Since 1968, donors have established 870 President’s Endowed Scholarships through the Texas A&M Foundation. The income generated on each $100,000 gift funds an annual stipend for one student. The scholarship is earned on academic merit and students must maintain a 3.5 grade point ratio to retain the award, available for up to eight semesters of their undergraduate education.
Wood Jr. was a member of the Corps of Cadets and Ross Volunteers, and also was president of his senior class. He graduated from Texas A&M with an accounting degree and then joined the U.S. Air Force. He remained in the service until 1957 when he moved to Port Arthur and took over the family business, Pat Wood Drug Stores, for the next 50 years. Now living in Bryan with his wife Sissy, Wood Jr. is an active contributor to the Corps of Cadets and MSC student programs, so that, as he says, “the students can receive the rewards of this fine school that my son and I did.”
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| Kathleen and Pat Wood III '84 |
Wood III completed his education at Texas A&M with high honors in civil engineering. President of the Memorial Student Center, he received the Brown Foundation-Earl Rudder Memorial Outstanding Student Award at graduation. He worked for Arco Indonesia before attending Harvard Law School where he became student body president. He has since served as chairman of both the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Now he is an energy infrastructure developer living in Houston with wife Kathleen and their four sons. Wood III hopes that through this gift students will have the opportunity to receive the same first-class, balanced education that he did from Texas A&M.
By Mikaela Davis
