St. Mark's School of Texas
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The St. Mark's School of Texas is a nonsectarian preparatory
day school
for boys located in Preston Hollow, Dallas
, Texas
, USA. The School offers grades 1–12.
St. Mark's was founded as a merger of the nonsectarian Texas Country Day School and the Episcopally-associated The Cathedral School. To solve the religious question, St. Mark's was founded as a nonsectarian school with the agreement that Chapel services would be nondenominational, led by an ordained Episcopalian Chaplain. The school officially opened as St. Mark's School of Texas in 1953. The Hockaday School
for Girls, founded in 1913, became the sister school to St. Mark's.
On its 40 acre-campus is an array of buildings, most of which are named after well-known Dallas families. Texas Instruments
' co-founders Cecil H. Green and Eugene McDermott
donated a math and science quadrangle, the main library
, the greenhouse
, the planetarium
and the observatory
. Shortly after those buildings' completion in the 1960s, Time magazine called St. Mark's the "best-equipped day school in the country."
In more recent years, the Roosevelt family
contributed a carillon
, installed in early 2005. The natatorium
was named in honor of Ralph Rogers
; the Lamar Hunt
family donated a football stadium, completed in the fall of 2005, and Tom Hicks
funded a new gym
nasium. Its arts facilities are also impressive. In 2007-08, the School executed the large-scale Centennial Project. Initiating funding was a $10 million donation from the family of Harlan Crow
. The products of the Project were two new state-of-the-art academic buildings: Centennial Hall, housing the Math, English, History, and Administrative Departments; and the Robert K. Hoffman '65 Center, housing the Language, Debate, Journalism, and College Counseling programs, in addition to the Student Store and Senior Lounge. The new buildings opened in June 2008.
Large donations have spearheaded much of this construction and enhancement of financial aid, but support is actively solicited from throughout the school's community. For example, in 2010-2011, donations were received from 87% of parents and 56% of all alumni; the percentage of alumni contributing was the highest percentage for any secondary school in the country.
St. Mark's has long resisted efforts towards coeducation, though there are several courses that students can take with Hockaday students at that campus. The school has a long tradition of outdoor activities throughout the Middle and Upper Schools, known as the Wilderness Program. Each Middle School class has a camping trip every year. The Wilderness Program culminates in a 10-day backpacking trip in the Pecos Wilderness of New Mexico. The trip occurs in early-mid August before boys enter the 9th grade and is considered a "rite of passage" into the Upper School. Faculty, alumni, and current Upper School students, known as sherpa
s, lead the trip in small groups. The school's uniform has remained unchanged for decades: gray shorts or pants with white oxford shirts for grades 1–11 (blue oxford shirts for seniors).
Among the 92 graduates in 2011, 22 were National Merit Semi-Finalists, and 35 others were Commended Students. The median SAT
score was 2130 on a 2400 point scale.
From the class of 2011, the 82 seniors enrolled at 49 colleges and universities. Twelve will attend the University of Texas at Austin, while an additional 43 will attend a "national university" ranked in the top 25 by US News, and five others will attend a top 5 "national liberal arts college" or one of the military service academies. Between 2007 and 2011, ten or more students matriculated at the following schools: Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SMU, Southern California, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Most St. Mark's teams have won recent conference championships, but several have been historically dominant within the 18-team SPC. For example, in the 2010-2011 academic year: Wrestling
won its 14th consecutive conference title and 35th in the 37-year conference history; Swimming
won its 15th conference title in 16 years; and Track and Field
won its 8th consecutive SPC championship. St. Mark's has also done well in two sports that are not widely followed in Texas: Lacrosse
finished among the top 4 in the state in 2011 for the third consecutive year after again winning SPC, and Crew
won three state titles in 2010 as well as a state championship in 2011.
Overall, St. Mark's has won 10 consecutive SPC Director's Cups, a quantitative measure of overall yearly athletic success within the conference.
After starting for the Texas Longhorns football
team, Sam Acho
was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Cardinals
in 2011. In October, 2010, the Sporting News named Sam one of the 20 smartest athletes in America, a list that included 2 other college players and 17 professionals from the four major American sports. Sam's brother, Emanuel '08, is also a starter for Texas, as was Kalen Thornton
'04, who then played for the Dallas Cowboys
. From the 2011 class, 7 seniors signed to play intercollegiate sports, including football and track (Penn), lacrosse (Bates), track (Columbia), rowing (MIT), swimming (Bates), football (Stanford), and water polo (the U.S. Naval Academy).
See also
For example, both the school newspaper, The ReMarker, and the yearbook
, the Marksmen, won 2011 Gold Crowns, the highest award given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association
. From around the country, approximately 20 school newspapers and ten yearbooks earn this recognition from among 1700 entries. For The ReMarker, it was the eighth consecutive Gold Crown, lengthening its record for consecutive Gold Crowns won by a high school newspaper. The Marksmen won its fourth Gold Crown in five years.
The debate team won a national championship in 1990, finished runner-up in 1987, 1992, 2002, and 2010, and has generally been ranked among the top ten in the country over the past 30 years. The school itself annually hosts one of the most prestigious high school debate tournaments in the country: The Heart of Texas Invitational.
The White House
sponsors a Presidential Scholars Program
that attracts about 7000 high school students with a special interest in the arts. 150 are invited annually to Miami for intensive instruction and evaluation, and 60 are then selected as finalists. In 2010, 4 St. Mark's seniors were named finalists (2 in photography, 1 in ceramics, and 1 in band), and 2 of the 4 were selected to be among the 20 Presidential Scholars in the Arts..In 2011, one student became a finalist and another a semi-finalist.
The school's photography program has been named best in state by the Association of Texas Photography Instructors for five consecutive years (2007–2011).
At the 2009 state tournament for autonomous robots, the St. Mark's team went undefeated against 22 teams, taking first in seeding, first in double elimination, third in documentation, and first overall.
The Middle School math team finished first in State in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and the 4th grade "Wordmaster" team won a national title in 2011, competing against 694 teams from around the country. The Upper School "Whiz Kid" team has won the North Texas championships for the past 3 years.
15 boys were named to the 2011 All State Orchestra (and 4 others to All State Band) by the Texas Private School Music Educators Association; this number comprised over a quarter of the entire orchestra.
Steve Miller
and Boz Scaggs
are probably the most famous alumni musicians; while in high school, they created a band called The Marksmen. The founder of Texas Monthly
and a co-founder of the National Lampoon both attended St. Mark's. Prominent alumni actors include Tommy Lee Jones
, who played football at both St. Mark's and Harvard, and Luke Wilson
, who set the school record for the 800 meter run (1:54.99).
The avidity with which students pursue extracurricular activities is mocked in the film Rushmore
, which was co-written by another St. Mark's alumnus, Owen Wilson
, set at a fictional cross between St. Mark's and a rival high school in Houston, St. John's School, and filmed on the campus of another Houston rival, the Kinkaid School; the film features a protagonist who participates in dozens of clubs and activities.
University-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
for boys located in Preston Hollow, Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, USA. The School offers grades 1–12.
History
St. Mark's developed from three preceding private schools: The Terrill School (1906–1944), Texas Country Day School (1933–1950), and The Cathedral School (1944–1950). The school traces its earliest history to Mr. Terrill's school, which is considered the city's first effort to create a private school that could rival its East Coast counterparts. The Terrill School served as a base for the foundation of The Cathedral School.St. Mark's was founded as a merger of the nonsectarian Texas Country Day School and the Episcopally-associated The Cathedral School. To solve the religious question, St. Mark's was founded as a nonsectarian school with the agreement that Chapel services would be nondenominational, led by an ordained Episcopalian Chaplain. The school officially opened as St. Mark's School of Texas in 1953. The Hockaday School
The Hockaday School
The Hockaday School is an independent, secular, college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas, USA and surrounding areas...
for Girls, founded in 1913, became the sister school to St. Mark's.
The School today
Historically, the School was fairly homogeneous and geared towards the sons of doctors, lawyers, and affluent businessmen. St. Mark's has since made significant changes in terms of financial aid and minority recruitment, and approximately 50% of students are now involved with the financial aid program.On its 40 acre-campus is an array of buildings, most of which are named after well-known Dallas families. Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
' co-founders Cecil H. Green and Eugene McDermott
Eugene McDermott
Eugene McDermott was a geophysicist and co-founder of first of Geophysical Service and later of Texas Instruments.Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 12, 1899. He graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a mechanical engineering degree.-Early career:Upon graduation,...
donated a math and science quadrangle, the main library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
, the greenhouse
Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a building in which plants are grown. These structures range in size from small sheds to very large buildings...
, the planetarium
Planetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...
and the observatory
Observatory
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed...
. Shortly after those buildings' completion in the 1960s, Time magazine called St. Mark's the "best-equipped day school in the country."
In more recent years, the Roosevelt family
Roosevelt family
In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial play on a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones...
contributed a carillon
Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...
, installed in early 2005. The natatorium
Natatorium
A natatorium is a term given for a building containing a swimming pool. In Latin, a cella natatoria was a swimming pool in its own building, although it is sometimes also used to refer to any indoor pool even if not housed in a dedicated building...
was named in honor of Ralph Rogers
Ralph Rogers
Ralph Burton Rogers was an American industrialist, philanthropist and PBS executive, called the "Founding Father of the Public Broadcasting Service."-Biography:...
; the Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League and Major League Soccer , as well as MLS predecessor the...
family donated a football stadium, completed in the fall of 2005, and Tom Hicks
Tom Hicks
Thomas Ollis Hicks, Sr. , is an American 'leveraged buyout' businessman living in Dallas, Texas. Despite Forbes Magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at USD 1 billion in 2009, Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year...
funded a new gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium. Its arts facilities are also impressive. In 2007-08, the School executed the large-scale Centennial Project. Initiating funding was a $10 million donation from the family of Harlan Crow
Harlan Crow
Harlan R. Crow is an American real estate magnate from Dallas, Texas. He is the third son of Trammell Crow and the head of Crow Holdings.Crow was born in Dallas the third son of Margaret and Trammel Crow and has four brothers and one sister. Unlike his siblings, he attended high school at the...
. The products of the Project were two new state-of-the-art academic buildings: Centennial Hall, housing the Math, English, History, and Administrative Departments; and the Robert K. Hoffman '65 Center, housing the Language, Debate, Journalism, and College Counseling programs, in addition to the Student Store and Senior Lounge. The new buildings opened in June 2008.
Large donations have spearheaded much of this construction and enhancement of financial aid, but support is actively solicited from throughout the school's community. For example, in 2010-2011, donations were received from 87% of parents and 56% of all alumni; the percentage of alumni contributing was the highest percentage for any secondary school in the country.
St. Mark's has long resisted efforts towards coeducation, though there are several courses that students can take with Hockaday students at that campus. The school has a long tradition of outdoor activities throughout the Middle and Upper Schools, known as the Wilderness Program. Each Middle School class has a camping trip every year. The Wilderness Program culminates in a 10-day backpacking trip in the Pecos Wilderness of New Mexico. The trip occurs in early-mid August before boys enter the 9th grade and is considered a "rite of passage" into the Upper School. Faculty, alumni, and current Upper School students, known as sherpa
Sherpa people
The Sherpa are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas. Sherpas migrated from the Kham region in eastern Tibet to Nepal within the last 300–400 years.The initial mountainous migration from Tibet was a search for beyul...
s, lead the trip in small groups. The school's uniform has remained unchanged for decades: gray shorts or pants with white oxford shirts for grades 1–11 (blue oxford shirts for seniors).
Academics
Its 849 students are spread across first through twelfth grade, and the overall student/faculty ratio is 8:1. 80 percent of the 125 faculty members have master's or doctoral degrees, and 25% have been at St. Mark's for more than twenty years. There are twelve endowed teaching positions, including nine endowed chairs.Among the 92 graduates in 2011, 22 were National Merit Semi-Finalists, and 35 others were Commended Students. The median SAT
SAT
The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
score was 2130 on a 2400 point scale.
From the class of 2011, the 82 seniors enrolled at 49 colleges and universities. Twelve will attend the University of Texas at Austin, while an additional 43 will attend a "national university" ranked in the top 25 by US News, and five others will attend a top 5 "national liberal arts college" or one of the military service academies. Between 2007 and 2011, ten or more students matriculated at the following schools: Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SMU, Southern California, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Athletics
St. Mark's organizes 17 varsity sports teams that compete against similarly-sized private schools in the Southwest Preparatory ConferenceSouthwest Preparatory Conference
The Southwest Preparatory Conference is an athletic conference for certain private high schools in Texas and Oklahoma. It is composed of the following schools:*All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas*Casady School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
.
Most St. Mark's teams have won recent conference championships, but several have been historically dominant within the 18-team SPC. For example, in the 2010-2011 academic year: Wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
won its 14th consecutive conference title and 35th in the 37-year conference history; Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
won its 15th conference title in 16 years; and Track and Field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
won its 8th consecutive SPC championship. St. Mark's has also done well in two sports that are not widely followed in Texas: Lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
finished among the top 4 in the state in 2011 for the third consecutive year after again winning SPC, and Crew
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
won three state titles in 2010 as well as a state championship in 2011.
Overall, St. Mark's has won 10 consecutive SPC Director's Cups, a quantitative measure of overall yearly athletic success within the conference.
After starting for the Texas Longhorns football
Texas Longhorns football
The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...
team, Sam Acho
Sam Acho
Samuel Onyedikachi Acho is an American football linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals. Acho played college football at the University of Texas.-Early years:Acho attended St. Mark's School in Dallas, Texas...
was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Cardinals
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
in 2011. In October, 2010, the Sporting News named Sam one of the 20 smartest athletes in America, a list that included 2 other college players and 17 professionals from the four major American sports. Sam's brother, Emanuel '08, is also a starter for Texas, as was Kalen Thornton
Kalen Thornton
Kalen Bruce Thornton is a former American football linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played in fifteen games in the 2004 season but was forced to retire in 2006 after missing part of the 2005 season because of a knee injury...
'04, who then played for the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
. From the 2011 class, 7 seniors signed to play intercollegiate sports, including football and track (Penn), lacrosse (Bates), track (Columbia), rowing (MIT), swimming (Bates), football (Stanford), and water polo (the U.S. Naval Academy).
See also
- Bill BlakeleyBill BlakeleyBillie Buie Blakeley , also known as William and Billy, was an American basketball coach at the interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional levels.- Intercollegiate basketball: NCAA Division I :...
(1934–2010), Basketball Coach 1956-1966
Extracurricular activities
St. Mark's offers 42 Upper School clubs and academic teams for the approximately 90 boys per graduating class. This extracurricular activity has led to significant external recognition.For example, both the school newspaper, The ReMarker, and the yearbook
Yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
, the Marksmen, won 2011 Gold Crowns, the highest award given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, textbooks, critiques and award programs...
. From around the country, approximately 20 school newspapers and ten yearbooks earn this recognition from among 1700 entries. For The ReMarker, it was the eighth consecutive Gold Crown, lengthening its record for consecutive Gold Crowns won by a high school newspaper. The Marksmen won its fourth Gold Crown in five years.
The debate team won a national championship in 1990, finished runner-up in 1987, 1992, 2002, and 2010, and has generally been ranked among the top ten in the country over the past 30 years. The school itself annually hosts one of the most prestigious high school debate tournaments in the country: The Heart of Texas Invitational.
The White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
sponsors a Presidential Scholars Program
Presidential Scholars Program
The United States Presidential Scholars Program is the highest possible honor for graduating high school seniors in the United States of America....
that attracts about 7000 high school students with a special interest in the arts. 150 are invited annually to Miami for intensive instruction and evaluation, and 60 are then selected as finalists. In 2010, 4 St. Mark's seniors were named finalists (2 in photography, 1 in ceramics, and 1 in band), and 2 of the 4 were selected to be among the 20 Presidential Scholars in the Arts..In 2011, one student became a finalist and another a semi-finalist.
The school's photography program has been named best in state by the Association of Texas Photography Instructors for five consecutive years (2007–2011).
At the 2009 state tournament for autonomous robots, the St. Mark's team went undefeated against 22 teams, taking first in seeding, first in double elimination, third in documentation, and first overall.
The Middle School math team finished first in State in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and the 4th grade "Wordmaster" team won a national title in 2011, competing against 694 teams from around the country. The Upper School "Whiz Kid" team has won the North Texas championships for the past 3 years.
15 boys were named to the 2011 All State Orchestra (and 4 others to All State Band) by the Texas Private School Music Educators Association; this number comprised over a quarter of the entire orchestra.
Steve Miller
Steve Miller (musician)
Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...
and Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
are probably the most famous alumni musicians; while in high school, they created a band called The Marksmen. The founder of Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Austin, Texas. Texas Monthly is published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. and was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy, Texas Monthly chronicles life in contemporary Texas, writing on politics, the environment, industry, and education...
and a co-founder of the National Lampoon both attended St. Mark's. Prominent alumni actors include Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
, who played football at both St. Mark's and Harvard, and Luke Wilson
Luke Wilson
Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...
, who set the school record for the 800 meter run (1:54.99).
The avidity with which students pursue extracurricular activities is mocked in the film Rushmore
Rushmore
Rushmore may refer to:Places:*Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, in the United States*Rushmore, Minnesota, a small city in the United States*Rushmore Cave, southeast of the mountain...
, which was co-written by another St. Mark's alumnus, Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and writer, known for his roles in the films The Haunting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, Bottle Rocket, the Cars series, The Darjeeling Limited, Marley & Me, Midnight in Paris, Shanghai Noon,...
, set at a fictional cross between St. Mark's and a rival high school in Houston, St. John's School, and filmed on the campus of another Houston rival, the Kinkaid School; the film features a protagonist who participates in dozens of clubs and activities.
Notable alumni
- Richard BassRichard BassRichard "Dick" Bass is the owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and the first man to climb the "Seven Summits," the tallest mountain on each continent. There is no relation with the Bass Family of Fort Worth, Texas.-Early life:...
, 1946. Owner of Snowbird Ski Resort, mountain climber. - Steve MillerSteve Miller (musician)Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...
, 1961. Musician. - Boz ScaggsBoz ScaggsWilliam Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
, 1962. Musician. - Michael R. LevyMichael R. LevyMichael R. Levy is the founder of Texas Monthly magazine, and was publisher until retirement in August 2008.A native of Dallas, Levy's father was a plumber. Levy once drove a taxi, and also worked as a jailer at the Dallas County Jail. He is a graduate of St...
, 1964. Founder and publisher of Texas MonthlyTexas MonthlyTexas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Austin, Texas. Texas Monthly is published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. and was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy, Texas Monthly chronicles life in contemporary Texas, writing on politics, the environment, industry, and education... - Robert Hoffman, 1965. Co-Founder, National Lampoon. Businessman. Namesake of new Hoffman Center building.
- Tommy Lee JonesTommy Lee JonesTommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
, 1965. Academy Award-winning actor. - Jeffrey SwannJeffrey SwannJeffrey Swann is a renowned classical pianist.Swann was born in Arizona but moved to Dallas, Texas, as a young child. He began piano studies at the age of four. While attending St. Mark's School of Texas, he studied for seven years with Alexander Uninsky at Southern Methodist University in...
, 1969. Pianist. - Alan SternAlan SternS. Alan Stern is an American planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto....
, 1975. NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
scientist. - H. Ross Perot, Jr.H. Ross Perot, Jr.Henry Ross Perot, Jr. is a real estate developer and Chairman of the Board of Perot Systems. He is the only son of Ross Perot.-Early life:...
, 1977. Executive Chairman, Perot SystemsPerot SystemsPerot Systems was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States. A Fortune 1000 corporation with offices in more than 25 countries, Perot Systems employed more than 23,000 people and had an annual...
; real estate developer. - Randall ZiskRandall ZiskRandall "Randy" Zisk is an American television director and producer.As both a director and producer, he has worked most substantially on the television series Monk and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
, 1977, Producer/Director. - Michael WeissMichael Weiss (composer)Michael David Weiss , is a jazz pianist and composer best known for his fifteen year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin....
. (attended grades 1–7). Jazz pianist, composer. - Kurt EichenwaldKurt EichenwaldKurt Alexander Eichenwald , an American writer and investigative reporter formerly with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio...
, 1979. Journalist. - David HudginsDavid HudginsDavid Hudgins, , is a television writer and producer. He has worked on the series Everwood, Friday Night Lights and Parenthood.-Career:...
, 1983. Television writer and producer. - Clark HuntClark HuntClark Knobel Hunt is Chairman and CEO of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs and a founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer. Hunt also serves as Chairman of Hunt Sports Group, where he oversees the operations of FC Dallas and the Columbus Crew of MLS He is the son of Lamar Hunt...
, 1983. CEO, Kansas City ChiefsKansas City ChiefsThe Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
. - Craig ZiskCraig ZiskCraig Zisk is an American director and producer. He has worked on Smallville, Scrubs, Weeds and My Name Is Earl as well as many other programs.-Director:* My Name Is Earl * The Office * Weeds...
, 1983. Producer/Director. - Steve JurvetsonSteve JurvetsonSteven T. "Steve" Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson . He was a Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana...
, 1985. Venture capitalist. - Rhett MillerRhett MillerStewart Ransom Miller II , better-known as Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' school in Dallas in 1989 and briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College on a creative...
, 1989. Musician, Old 97'sOld 97'sThe Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993, they have since released nine studio albums, two full extended plays, shared split duty on another, and have one live album. Their most recent release is The Grand Theatre, Volume Two...
. - Owen WilsonOwen WilsonOwen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and writer, known for his roles in the films The Haunting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, Bottle Rocket, the Cars series, The Darjeeling Limited, Marley & Me, Midnight in Paris, Shanghai Noon,...
(expelled). Actor. - Luke WilsonLuke WilsonLuke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...
, 1990. Actor. - Miles FisherMiles FisherMiles Fisher is an American film and television actor and musician. Born as James Leslie Miles Fisher, he was raised in Dallas, Texas until his family moved to Washington, D.C. He was educated at the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C...
Actor. - Sam AchoSam AchoSamuel Onyedikachi Acho is an American football linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals. Acho played college football at the University of Texas.-Early years:Acho attended St. Mark's School in Dallas, Texas...
, 2007. Defensive end for the Arizona CardinalsArizona CardinalsThe Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
. Brother of Emmanuel Acho. - Sai Gunturi, 2007. Winner of the 2003 Scripps National Spelling BeeScripps National Spelling BeeThe Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States, with participants from other countries as well. It is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W...
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