David Rudolf Wintermann ’34

Dave "Tex" Wintermann, described in his citation in 1980 for our Outstanding Achievement Award as "a businessman, sportsman, humanitarian, and member of our class of whom we are proud," died Feb. 4, 1997, less than a month after his 86th birthday. More than 20 years earlier, at the dedication of the Eula and David Wintermann Library, which Tex and his wife donated to Eagle Lake, Tex., their hometown, a classmate living nearby wrote, "probably no one will ever know the extent of his private philanthropies, but the mayor summed it up by saying there were few people in town whose loads had not been lightened somehow by Eula and Dave Wintermann."

An avid conservationist and longtime prominent member of Ducks Unlimited, Dave was honored last fall by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. for his lifetime contributions to nature conservation and by the Texas Nature Conservancy, which gave him its lifetime Achievement Conservation Award, its highest.

Dave's wife, Eula (Goss), a 1933 graduate of Rice, survives. She is a life sponsor of Ducks Unlimited and a life member of the Audubon Society, and with Dave made possible the construction of both the hospital and the community center in Eagle Lake. To her we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934