Robert Samples:  

Presently, I am a VP at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in downtown Houston TX. I have been in the brokerage and financial planning business since 1985. Since leaving Saint Jo in 1953, I graduate from North Texas in 1957 with a B.B.A. I served as a second lieutenant in the U.S.A.F. in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I worked for Humble Oil and Ref Co. in Dallas TX. Later, I changed to Lederle Labs, a div. of American Cyanamid Co. and after serving as a pharmaceutical salesman, then hospital sales at the Medical Center in Houston TX. From there, Sales Training dept. in Pearl River, NY. After that, for four years district manager in New Orleans, LA . After moving all over the U.S. I decided to come back to Texas to stay. Events brought me back to Houston where I first joined Merrill Lynch and after approx. four years joined what after many mergers is today Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. In 1955, I married Betty Walker from Gainesville TX. We were blessed with three children who are now grown. They live in Austin, Atlanta and Florida. I have four grandchildren,ranging in age from 4 to 21. Betty and I were divorced in 1977. In 1979, I married Jean Alexander Huggett and we have lived in Houston since that time. For the past ten years we owned a second home on Tiki Island, just across the bay from Galveston. After some losses from hurricane Ike, we sold the property in March 2010. All my life my hobbies were hunting. shooting and fishing. With the bay house I was able to...Expand for more