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Dr. Walter J. Stark, Boone Pickens Professor of Ophthalmology; T. Boone Pickens, Dr. Lloyd Minor, Provost of John Hopkins University; and Dr. Peter J. McDonnell, director of the Wilmer Eye Institute. Pickens has provided $6 million to the institute, long recognized for its flexible approach for delivering state-of-the-art ophthalmic care.
T. Boone Pickens is surrounded by some of the nursing staff at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Pickens has provided $6 million to the institute, long recognized for its flexible approach for delivering state-of-the-art ophthalmic care.
T. Boone Pickens speaks during the 2009 dedication of the T. Boone Pickens Mentoring Hall of Fame at the Irving, Texas, headquarters of Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas. Pickens has contributed millions of dollars of support for the volunteer organization that provides children support, guidance, and friendship by matching them to adult role models.
T. Boone Pickens speaks during October 2008 ceremonies dedicating a 21-story, 730,000-square-foot T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower on the campus of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Pickens, a longtime supporter of the institution, in 2007 challenged the Houston-based, world-recognized center devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education, and prevention to grow his foundation’s gift of $50 million, its largest to date, to $500 million over 25 years.
YMCA Building Strong Kids Campaign co-chair Gail Madden, T. Boone Pickens, and Gordon Echtenkamp, president and CEO of Metropolitan Dallas share a laugh as Pickens receives a special thank you during dedication ceremonies of the renovated downtown facilities, a sculpture of four children forming the letters Y-M-C-A in November 2009. The facility was renamed the T. Boone Pickens YMCA after to honor his $5 million to the campaign, the largest single gift in the organization’s history.
Eight-year-old Stillwater native Brodie Myers, one of 16 finalists in a kid reporter contest on NBC’s Today Show, introduces T. Boone Pickens during a Pickens Plan Town Hall meeting on the Oklahoma State University campus October 29, 2009.
T. Boone Pickens and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center president John Mendelsohn look out on the campus of the Houston-based, world-recognized center devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education, and prevention during October 2008 ceremonies dedicating the 21-story, 730,000-square-foot T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower. Pickens, a longtime supporter of the institution, in 2007 challenged the institution to grow his foundation’s gift of $50 million, its largest to date, to $500 million over 25 years.
Building Strong Kids co-chairs Garrett Boone and Gail Madden, T. Boone Pickens, YMCA Metropolitan Dallas president and CEO Gordon Echtenkamp, and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert prepare to cut the ribbon opening the newly renamed Downtown YMCA as the T. Boone Pickens YMCA in November 2009. Pickens gave $5 million to the campaign, the largest single gift in the organization’s history.
Building Strong Kids co-chairs Garrett Boone and Gail Madden, T. Boone Pickens, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, and YMCA Metropolitan Dallas president and CEO Gordon Echtenkamp stand in front of mural honoring Pickens for his $5 million to the campaign, the largest single gift in the organization’s history. The November 2009 marked the opening of the renovated and newly renamed T. Boone Pickens YMCA.
Dr. Klane White, a 2005-06 Dorothy and Bryant Edwards Fellowship in Pediatric Orthopedics and Scoliosis winner, receives a placque honoring his accomplishment from longtime Scottish Rite Hospital for Children supporter T. Boone Pickens.
T. Boone Pickens visits with Jenna, a five-year-old patient at The Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Pickens is a longtime supporter of the hospital.
T. Boone Pickens believes in young people, and has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University.
Boone Pickens, speaking at the American Red Cross 125th Anniversary Gala in May 2016, made a $7 million contribution in 2005 for Hurricane Katrina relief. The gift was the largest single-individual donation in the organization’s history.
Neighborhood children join officials, including T. Boone Pickens (center clapping), for the formal September 16, 2010, dedication of the $6-million Walt Humann & T. Boone Pickens Community Center and Resource Center at Jubilee Park in South Dallas. Pickens provided funding for the center, a linchpin for revitalization efforts in the area by community organizations and the city.
Godwin Dixon, president and CEO of Presbyterian Communities and Services, T. Boone Pickens, and Dallas mayor Tom Leppert celebrate the Each Moment Matters 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award awarded to Pickens by the organization September 9, 2010.
T. Boone Pickens (left) receives the Lifetime Sportsman Award from Mr. Bubba Wood, Honorary Chairman of Park Cities Quail Unlimited. Mr. Pickens suffered a broken wrist two days before the banquet but graciously postponed his surgery in order to attend the ceremonies.
Dallas Police chief David Brown and Mayor Tom Leppert react to some humor from T. Boone Pickens during the September 16, 2010, formal dedication of the $6-million Walt Humann & T. Boone Pickens Community Center and Resource Center at Jubilee Park in South Dallas. Pickens provided funding for the center, a linchpin for revitalization efforts in the area by community organizations and the city.
T. Boone Pickens addresses the crowd during the September 16, 2010, formal dedication of the $6-million Walt Humann & T. Boone Pickens Community Center and Resource Center at Jubilee Park in South Dallas. Pickens provided funding for the center, a linchpin for revitalization efforts in the area by community organizations and the city.
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and T. Boone Pickens share a moment during the September 16, 2010, formal dedication of the $6-million Walt Humann & T. Boone Pickens Community Center and Resource Center at Jubilee Park in South Dallas. Pickens provided funding for the center, a linchpin for revitalization efforts in the area by community organizations and the city.
T. Boone Pickens, honorary chair emeritus Ebby Halliday, LaunchAbility CEO Cathy Packard, and Roger Staubach prior to the October 26, 2010, Expanding Worlds luncheon benefiting Dallas-based LaunchAbility, an organization that provides services to help children and adults with disabilities reach their maximum potential. Emmitt Smith joined Pickens and Staubach for a luncheon panel discussion.
Energy industry legend T. Boone Pickens joined former Dallas Cowboys and Hall of Fame players Emmitt Smith and Roger Staubach for a wide-ranging panel discussion at the October 26, 2010, Expanding Worlds luncheon benefiting Dallas-based LaunchAbility, an organization that provides services to help children and adults with disabilities reach their maximum potential.
Bank of Texas chief executive Norm Bagwell, AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, Big Brothers Big Sisters of North & West Central Texas’ T. Boone Pickens Mentoring Hall of Fame member Don Carty, and Boone Pickens mark Stephenson’s entry into the Hall of Fame on January 19, 2011.
Boone Pickens answers questions about the energy industry during an America’s Future Series on U.S. Global Competitiveness breakfast in Dallas Jan. 19, 2011.
T. Boone Pickens, Texas Women’s University Chancellor Ann Stuart, and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert at the dedication ceremonies of the T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center Feb. 18, 2011. Pickens donated $5 million to the project.
The T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center houses Texas Women’s University’s College of Nursing, the TWU Stroke Center-Dallas and the health systems management program. Pickens donated $5 million toward the construction of the eight-story, 190,000-square-foot Dallas Center.
Texas Women’s University nursing lab coordinator Rica Kendrick demonstrates a patient care instruction procedure for Boone Pickens at the T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center at opening ceremonies of the 190,000-square-foot facility Feb. 18, 2011.
T. Boone Pickens shares a moment with 2007 Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation scholarship winner and its 2010 gala featured student speaker, Chad Werner, a senior at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, in November 2010.
Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation gala chair Jamie Cashion and former major league player and manager Bobby Valentine award T. Boone Pickens the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2010.
T. Boone Pickens speaks during a Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation gala in November 2010. The youth-support organization, which honored Pickens with its Lifetime Achievement Award that year, in 2011 named one of its annual scholarships after Pickens.
Energy industry leader and Oklahoma State University alumnus T. Boone Pickens announces a $100 million donation to Branding Success: The Campaign for Oklahoma State University on Feb. 26, 2010.
Legendary alum and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens, who has donated a half a billion dollars to the university, delivers the Oklahoma State University commencement speech in 2005.
Legendary alum and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens, who has donated a half a billion dollars to the university, delivers the Oklahoma State University commencement speech in 2005.
