Overview

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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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. His legacy will be remembered for years to come. --Interim President, Texas A&M University, Mark A. Hussey--Mark A. Hussey (09/24/2014)

The book, while of special interest to Aggies also has a lot to say to anyone involved in fundraising. The Eagle --Glenn Dromgoole The Eagle (07/05/2015)

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. His legacy will be remembered for years to come. --Interim President, Texas A&M University, Mark A. Hussey-- (09/24/2014) Bob Walker is much more than a fundraiser. He devotes all of his time making and keeping friends for the university. I have never met anyone with his capacity to help Aggies. He is a highly principled individual who, through years of good work, is uniformly respected by everyone who knows him. --Former Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen-- (09/24/2014) The best, most effective fundraiser I have ever known. Based upon his track record, Bob would certainly rank in the top ten of university fundraisers in the country (and number one in my book!) --Bill Estes, Vice President of University Advancement, University of West Georgia-- (09/24/2014) . . . shines a light on the creation of various scholarships and endowments that helped A&M become the university it is today. --The Eagle--The Eagle The book, while of special interest to Aggies also has a lot to say to anyone involved in fundraising. --The Eagle--Glenn Dromgoole The Eagle (07/05/2015)

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Robert L. Walker has served for more than five critical decades in leading fundraising roles at Texas A&M University, USA 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. Walker, manage The Walker Consulting Group.

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