Tom Singleterry
Favorite teacher: I will have to think about that, if I can remember any of them. One stupid thing I did in my sophomore year was to steal the family car, pick up some other guys, get drunk and drove over a road post next to the Caney River bridge as I was speeding through those great curves. The post jammed under the car frame, but after much kicking and pushing we got it free and ret turned the car with only a small dent on the front bumper. Those Buicks were massive beasts. One story about our sophomore art teacher, I cannot remember her name, is that we put some tacks in her chair when she left the room and after she returned and sat on them she didn't even notice they were stuck in her bottom, There must have been some heavy support there. Telling stories about classmates and our ventures together probably might get us all in a lot of trouble with our families. I am not sure we did anything nice.

I graduated from Oklahoma State with a B.S. degree and after working in the stock brokerage business and serving in the U.S. Army, I received my MBA in 1976 from the Phoenix private school called the American Graduate School of International Management (AGSIM), known formerly as "Thunderbird". I married my college sweetheart, Karen Wheeler of Chickasha, OK, in Stillwater at the Oklahoma State campus chapel on January 22, 1966. Our family is made up of Karen, me and our 2 Cairn Terriers, first daughter, Summer and her husband, Jason, and second daughter, Misha, and her husband, Matt. Both girls live in Dallas and are school teachers.

We are very active in our church, Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, TX and serve as class leaders in a large Sunday school and we co-chair the missionary house committee. I have been active in investments since graduating from college, first in equity, debt and commodity investments with the old firm of Harris, Upham & Co. After graduate school I worked in commercial real estate investments as both a broker then as a principal and investment manager with a large international real estate firm.