Pat O'Brien:
CLASS OF 1963
Carroll High SchoolClass of 1963
Birmingham, AL
Oklahoma State UniversityClass of 1977
Stillwater, OK
Auburn UniversityClass of 1969
Auburn, AL
Auburn UniversityClass of 1967
Auburn, AL
St. Bernard Preparatory SchoolClass of 1963
Cullman, AL
Pat's Story
Currently, I am retired. I am President Emeritus, West Texas A&M University where I had the privelege to serve as president for ten year. Karen and I now reside in New Orleans. Wehave two sons and three grandchildren.
Upon graduating with a BS in economics from Auburn in 1967 and receiving a commission as a 2nd Lt. in the US Army, Karen and I married. We lived in Auburn while I worked on my masters degree. Our first son, Patrick, was born on Jan. 20, 1970 just prior to my entering active duty. We then spent the next two years in Wurzburg, Germany. In 1972, I entered the Ph.D. program in economics at Oklahoma State University. Michael was born in 1972 in Stillwater, Ok. In 1974, I accepted an appointment as an assistant professor of economics at Bowling Green State University. Karen and I then drug the boys to Fairbanks, AK where I had accepted a faculty appointme...Expand for more
nt at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. We stayed in Fairbanks till 1991. What a great place to raise a family. Terrific place to enjoy the Great Outdoors! Our sons still live in Fairbanks. Our younger son, Michael is a Smoke Jumper. Our older son, also was a forest fire fighter for over twenty years.
We moved to Jacksonville, AL in 1991 when I accepted an appointment as dean of the College of Commence at Jacksonville State University. In 1995, I accepted the position of dean of the College of Business Administration at Loyola University New Orleans.
After Katrina devastated New Orleans and essentially destroyed the first floor of our house, we were blessed to be appointed to the president's position at West Texas A&M University.
How God has blessed us! Indeed.
We love to travel. So far we have visited some 75 different counties, and we are not done yet.
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