Craig C. Brown ’75
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Year Awarded: 2017

Houston, TX

CRAIG BROWN ’75 received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in accounting. As a student, he was a member of I-2 and 6th Battalion staff and a Ross Volunteer; received the Army ROTC Superior Cadet Award; and was the college's Outstanding Senior Engineer and a letterman in track.

After graduation, he worked with Exxon and Keystone International. In 1986, he co-founded Bray International, a global manufacturer of rotary valves and actuators; he is owner, CEO and chairman.

Since 1989, he has been chairman and co-founder of the Craig and Galen Brown Foundation, which recruits National Merit Scholars to A&M. He selects students who are leaders in their schools and communities, are well-rounded and will make a difference in the lives of others. In the past 25 years, over 300 students have come to A&M as Brown Foundation Scholars, including 200 engineers; 40 doctors and veterinarians; and business, liberal arts, and STEM majors. The foundation also selects and presents the Outstanding Senior Engineering Award and scholarships to five students annually.

He has served on the College of Engineering Advisory Council for more than 25 years, and has been on the Corps of Cadets Board of Visitors and an executive cabinet member for the Lead By Example capital campaign. He has supported the Chancellor’s Century Council, the MSC renovation and other projects, and is an Endowed Century Club member with 38 years of giving.

He was named 1984 Outstanding Young Houstonian by the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce, a 2006 Outstanding Alumnus of the College of Engineering and a 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of Mays Business School and was inducted in 2017 into the Corps of Cadets Hall of Honor.

His family includes wife Sue; seven children, including Zachry G. Brown ’05 and Carter R. Brown ’10; and two grandchildren.

LTG Andrew D. Bruce ’16
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Year Awarded: 1968

St. Louis, MO

Bruce received a bachelor’s degree in Dairy Science in 1916 and an honorary L.L.D. in 1946. He served 37 years in the U.S. Army seeing action in World Wars I and II. He entered the service as Second Lieutenant and rose to Lieutenant General. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.



In 1966, Bruce retired as Chancellor of the University of Houston System after seven years of service. Under his leadership, the University of Houston achieved accreditation, strengthened its faculty, expanded its facilities, raised its academic standards, and won state support. Bruce was also a Former Director of Houston Chamber of Commerce and Former Trustee of Southwest Research Institute and Scott and White Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Ogbourne D. Butler, Jr. ’39
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Year Awarded: 1989

Orange, TX

Butler received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Animal Husbandry. After serving in the U.S. Army Reserve, he gained stature as a specialist in meat research. In 1986, he retired as Texas A&M Associate Deputy Chancellor for Agriculture after 50 years of service to Texas A&M University.

"Dr. Butler’s long record of service and support of Texas A&M is well known and presents a rather unique picture of a man who not only succeeded in his chosen profession in a grand way but who has promoted and served Texas A&M virtually all of his adult life."

  - Dr. Perry L. Adkisson, Chancellor Emeritus, Texas A&M University System

R. Wofford Cain ’13
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Year Awarded: 1964

Athens, TX

Cain received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1913. During his career, he was Chairman of the Board of Southern Union Gas Company, which he helped organize, and which is one of the largest natural gas producing and distributing concerns in the Southwest. He also was a Chairman of the Board of Aztec Oil & Gas Company and the Former Director of Mercantile National Bank in Dallas.



Mr. Cain was a Trustee and Chairman of the Texas A&M Foundation and supporter of Aggie athletics. He established numerous Opportunity Award Scholarships and has made possible the furnishing and exterior lighting of the All Faiths Chapel on the A&M campus, the construction of A&M’s outdoor Olympic swimming pool, and the completion of the Letterman’s Lounge and Texas A&M Hall of Fame.

"A&M afforded me the opportunities I have had in my life. I have only tried to help A&M, in turn, help others."

T. Randall Cain ’82
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Year Awarded: 2019

San Antonio, TX

Randy Cain ’82 retired as vice chair and Southwest Region managing partner at Ernst & Young in 2019. His 36-year career with Ernst & Young included 26 years as a partner and several leadership positions, including San Antonio office managing partner and Southwest Region tax managing partner.

Cain graduated cum laude with a BBA in accounting from Texas A&M in 1982. As a student, he was active in intramural athletics, the College Republicans and served as a Brazos County precinct chair.

He is a member of Texas A&M’s Mays Business School Dean’s Advisory Council and the Benjamin Department of Accounting Advisory Council. In 2013, he was named a Mays Outstanding Alumnus.

Cain is a past chair of the 12th Man Foundation board of directors, where he is on the Champions Council. A member of the Texas A&M Foundation Board of Trustees, he served as chairman of the board in 2017.

He is a member of The Association of Former Students’ Century Club, with 14 years of giving. He and his wife, Jyl, have also created an Aggie Ring Scholarship and established an Accounting Education Excellence Fund at Mays.

Cain’s civic leadership includes his current service as treasurer for the board of trustees for the Southwest School of Art and past roles as chairman of the Valero Alamo Bowl, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, Junior Achievement of South Texas and the American Heart Association of North Texas. He was appointed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ’72 to serve on the Texas Tax Reform Commission and Texas Emerging Technology Fund.

"Randy bleeds maroon and exemplifies Texas A&M's core values of excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect and selfless service. He continues to build a legacy that will support Texas A&M for years to come."

  - Andrew Beakey III '84

Carlos H. Cantu ’55
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Year Awarded: 2003

Brownsville, TX

Carlos Cantu graduate from Texas A&M in 1955 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics. He is retired president, chief executive officer, director of the board, and executive committee member of the ServiceMaster Company. Cantu represents the Exelon Corporation of Chicago as a corporate board member and chairman of the audit committee. In addition, he holds positions on the University of Texas- Brownsville Development Board, Texas A&M Vision 2020 Advisory Council, and Dixon Gallery & Gardens Museum Board of Trustees.

"He certainly was a great business leader and an even better person. He handled success and adversity with dignity, humility, and courage."

  - Longtime colleague Ernie Mrozek, ServiceMaster President and CEO

Hal N. Carr ’43
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Year Awarded: 1972

Kansas City, KS

At the age of 33, Hal Carr became the nation's youngest president of a scheduled airline when he was named President of North Central Airlines in 1954. He was elected chairman of the board of directors in 1965, is a member of the executive committee of the Company’s board, and as been a director since 1952.



Carr’s expert management and leadership over the past 18 years have been responsible for developing a small local airline in poor financial conditions into a major scheduled air carrier serving 90 cities in 13 states and two Canadian provinces and showing one of the most outstanding profit records in the industry.



A 1943 graduate of Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics, Hal Carr continued graduate studies in industrial management and finance at American University, Washington, D.C. He is a councilor and former trustee of the Texas A&M Research Foundation and is a member of the Air Transport Panel Advisory Committee of the Texas Transportation Institute of the Texas A&M University System. He has assisted graduate students from Texas A&M and other universities through a program of summer employment at North Central.



In his business career, Carr has been an officer and director of over 20 corporations and has a record of 27 years of top-level management experience in the industry. He entered the airline business following service in World War II as assistant director of Route Development for Trans World Airlines, Inc. He also served as a consultant to the Secretary of the Navy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Air Force; chairman of the board and president of the United Capital Investors Corporation; professional lecturer of management engineering in the graduate school of Business Administration, American University, Washington, D.C.; organizational and management consultant on foreign airline operations to the Agency for International Development; and as president of T.L. & C. Company – to name but a few of his varied positions.



Hal Carr has received many awards for his contributions to the development of commercial aviation. In 1955, he was nominated by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as a candidate for Ten Outstanding Young Men in America. Numerous magazine articles and several books have featured his outstanding business record and his career accomplishments. His biographical listing appears in “Who’s Who in America”, “World’s Who’s Who in Finance and Industry”, “Who’s Who in the Southwest”, “Who’s Who in the Midwest”, “Who’s Who in World Aviation”, and “Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.”

Horace S. Carswell, Jr. ’38
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Year Awarded: 2012

Horace S. Carswell, Jr., Class of 1938, studied agriculture at the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas before graduating from Texas Christian University with a bachelor of science degree in physical education and a minor in history.



In 1940, he enlisted as a flying cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Dallas. He was commissioned a second lieutenant, air corps reserve, and then promoted to first lieutenant in 1942. Carswell was first assigned to the 62nd Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group at Tucson, Ariz., before he transferred to Biggs Field, where he became a flight commander and later promoted to captain. In 1944, he was transferred to the army air base in Clovis, NM, and then moved to Langley Field, Va., where he was promoted to major before departing for duty in China with the 374th Bombardment Squadron, 308th Bombardment Group. He served on the 374th Bomb Squadron and commanded a detachment of B-24 bombers in Liuchow, China, where his plane was attacked by antiaircraft fire during a sea-sweeping mission over the South China Sea to locate enemy vessels. After two engines were shot out, the hydraulic system and one gas tank were damaged, Carswell’s crew bailed out, but he remained with his aircraft and attempted to save his copilot and another crew member, whose parachute was damaged. All three were killed when the aircraft crashed into a mountain. He was the fourth Texas Aggie awarded the Medal of Honor.



Carswell and his wife, Virginia, had one son. He passed away on October 26, 1944.

"It was a dream come true for me. I've always wanted my father on this base. Flying was his entire life. He belongs here."

  - -Robert Ede Carswell, Horace Carswell's son, at the reburial of his father at Carswell AFB

Bill E. Carter ’69
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Year Awarded: 2000

Decatur, TX

Carter received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics in 1969 and was a distinguished military graduate as well as Student Body President. A Certified Financial Planner, he currently serves as President of Carter Advisory Services and Carter Financial Management.



Carter is a Past President of The Association of Former Students and a Past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Texas A&M University Foundation. He has received wide recognition for his personal and professional acumen. "Worth Magazine" has named Carter numerous times as one of the Top 250 Financial Planners and he has also been named “Rising Star” of Texas by Texas Business Magazine.

"Bill is a leading Aggie, an outstanding industry leader, and devoted to this community."

  - Joe B. Mattei ’53, Distinguished Alumni, 2004

Harvey Cash ’33
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Year Awarded: 1980

Castro County, TX

Harvey Cash received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1933. Throughout his more than 20-year career with Texaco, he advanced through the ranks to become Executive Vice President in 1962. He was recognized for his petroleum expertise and ability to negotiate with high ranking officials of foreign governments. He played an important role in preventing serious energy problems in Western Europe during the 1967 Middle East crisis.



Cash served as President of The Association of Former Students in 1978, was a founding member of the Texas A&M University’s Presidential Endowed Scholarship program and was instrumental in implementing changes in annual fundraising.

"No one has better served their university than Harvey Cash served Texas A&M. He was always ready to help whenever called upon."

  - Randy Matson ’67, Past Executive Director of The Association of Former Students