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Ron Hall ’71 (MBA ’73) was slacking his way through TCU, thoroughly enjoying the social scene, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. His two years of service included training as a top-secret nuclear weapons inspector at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He returned to campus a changed man.

“It was eye-opening on the value of education and how I had wasted my first three years at TCU,” he said. “I came back to TCU and finished my last year with a 4.0.”

With a business degree (majoring in finance), Hall landed a job as a bank officer at First National Bank of Fort Worth, where he bought and sold tax-free bonds.

On his first business trip to Houston, he wandered into an art gallery to kill time before a bond auction.

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The visit sparked a lifelong passion for art. Within minutes he had spent more than half of his monthly salary on a $350 LeRoy Neiman lithograph, In the Paddock.

His wife, Deborah Short Hall ’67, was livid.

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