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Hunt, Ford, and....?

Trevor Rees-Jones got his law degree from SMU, does that count?
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Loyd would be my guess
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Big deal
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Maybe one will pay for the IPF
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Feels weird to type this but my old classmate from '93(just because he's young to be a billionaire:

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I'd like to run up a billion dollars worth of debt
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The DMN ran an article a couple of years ago that said SMU had more billionaire law school graduates than any other school.

So I don't understand why we only have 3 now, unless some dropped off.
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SoCal_Pony wrote:The DMN ran an article a couple of years ago that said SMU had more billionaire law school graduates than any other school.

So I don't understand why we only have 3 now, unless some dropped off.


SMU has five from the law school alone, so this this is just for the undergrad.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithor ... f6e8c96512

Undergrad Billionaires:
Ray L. Hunt, Oilman
Gerald J. Ford, Banker
Jim Irsay, Owner - Indianapolis Colts
John H. Tyson, Chairman - Tyson Foods

http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-tyson/?list=rtb

Law School Billionaires:
Robert Rowling, the owner of the holding company controlling the Omni Hotels and GoldΓÇÖs Gym chains.
Gerald J. Ford, the noted Texas banker and businessman (not the former president).
Trevor Rees-Jones, a Dallas businessman.
Helmut Sohmen, chairman of BW Group, a huge shipping conglomerate, who lives in Hong Kong.
Hong-Tu Tsai, Taiwanese financier with stakes in the broad Cathay empire that includes airlines and real estate.
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/head ... -grads.ece
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Since Texas is a community property state-Sarah Fullinwider Perot. Ross graduated from Vandy

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Stallion wrote:Since Texas is a community property state-Sarah Fullinwider Perot. Ross graduated from Vandy

http://www.forbes.com/profile/h-ross-perot-jr/


The law extends even to business interests? In any case, Forbes says he is worth about $1.55 Billion, so she would be worth about $0.775 billion.
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this article is not close to accurate

UT has Dell, Moncrief, McCombs, Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui, Jeffery Hildebrand, David Geffen, Hicks and probably several others as well
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Hicks is not a billionaire. Doubt geffen is either.
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Hildebrand probably tumbled out of billionaire status with oil at $45. McCombs was never a billionaire.
Dell is. Moncrief could be but is also oil patch wealth.
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rodrod5 wrote:this article is not close to accurate

UT has Dell, Moncrief, McCombs, Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui, Jeffery Hildebrand, David Geffen, Hicks and probably several others as well


Moulay Abdallah ben Ali Alaoui is not a billionaire either. Not sure how the article is defining 'alumni'; but David Geffen and Michael Dell did not earn their degrees from there. Yes, the schools count the, not sure the criteria the article is using. I think they are considering only those with degrees.

"Penn has more billionaires among its alumni than any other university in the United States. 21 current billionaires have undergraduate or graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania."
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