Iconic businessman and Oklahoma State mega-donor, T. Boone Pickens, died Wednesday at his home in Dallas, Texas. He was 91.
Pickens was born May 22, 1928, in Holdenville, Oklahoma in the first-ever c-section in that town’s hospital. He attended high school in Amarillo, Texas, and went to Texas A&M for a year before losing his basketball scholarship and transferring to Oklahoma A&M. He graduated with a geology degree from now-OSU in 1951.
Texas A&M’s 12th Man Magazine once included A&M’s decision not to renew Pickens’ $25-a-month basketball scholarship as one of the top 10 mistakes in Aggie history (a long and storied history).