Community Health
Behavioral Health
I arrived at Dallas Love Field by private aircraft in the Fall of 1984. I was there interviewing for a job in venture capital. I am quite sure today that, at the time, I had never seen how the super-success class moved around. There was no comparison between the faux-leather in my Chevrolet Malibu and the imported leather I didn’t want to leave behind as we taxied into the flight base operation. I was there to meet a Texas icon, who I would later realize to be among the most influential mentors in my life.
It was not hard to be impressed. The Highland Park penthouse. The grand portrait of him looming over me. Not surprisingly, a little brass plaque indicated it was painted by James Anthony Wills the artist who had painted President Richard Nixon that same year. The Bible on his desk was a subtle reminder this man had his priorities in the right place. The appreciation plaques from dozens of his philanthropic causes lined his bookshelf.
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