Civic and Political Experiences
Schieffer remained active in political affairs. He was a member of Senator Lloyd Bentsen's Committee of 50 and worked in several of the Senator's campaigns, including his Vice Presidential campaign in 1988. Schieffer also had a long association with Governor Mark White, for whom he served as Tarrant County Coordinator for two of his gubernatorial campaigns. Schieffer served as Finance Chairman for Congressman Pete Geren's successful election to Congress.
In civic matters Schieffer was appointed a Trustee of the Tarrant County Junior College (now Tarrant County College) and was elected to a full term without opposition. Schieffer served as a board member of the Texas Commerce Bank in Fort Worth and as an advisory board member to the bank when it was later acquired by JP Morgan-Chase.
In addition, Schieffer has served on the board of Drew Industries, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Always interested in educational issues, Schieffer has served on the boards of Winston School in Dallas, the Tarrant County Community College Foundation, the Dallas County Community College Foundation, and the Penrose Foundation, which primarily provides college scholarships for Hispanic students. Schieffer also served on the Texas Rangers Foundation Board and was active with his wife Susanne in Habitat for Humanity, the Food Bank of Tarrant County and the Dallas Can Academy.
Read more about this topic: Tom Schieffer
Famous quotes containing the words civic, political and/or experiences:
“Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Realism holds that things known may continue to exist unaltered when they are not known, or that things may pass in and out of the cognitive relation without prejudice to their reality, or that the existence of a thing is not correlated with or dependent upon the fact that anybody experiences it, perceives it, conceives it, or is in any way aware of it.”
—William Pepperell Montague (1842–1910)