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involved.
"Getting involved in student leadership makes
all the difference,” Oeffinger, Class of ’75, said.
“It’s what will set you apart from other college
students who didn’t do those things. It really
gives you the competitive edge.”
Oeffinger is now self-employed, producing
custom distance-learning courses for numer
ous corporate, university and non-profit
organizations.
“Being self-employed has been the best of
both worlds,” Oeffinger said. “However, 1 will
tell you I haven’t worked this many hours since I
was a student.”
Oeffinger stumbled upon his presidential
position during an MSC Open House where he
was trying to find a way to get involved to set an
example for the underclassmen in his Corps unit.
“For the past three years being self-employed,
1 have done nothing more than the student work
I did at the MSC, such as marketing, budgeting
and planning,” Oeffinger said. “The skills 1 have
all go back to the MSC and I have used the same
tools my whole life.”
Oeffinger has also been actively involved in
politics since graduation, citing his first boss as
Chet Edwards during Edwards’ congressional
campaign. He was also the creator and co-chair
of the International Informatics Access ’87 con
ference in Dallas.
“It was way ahead of its time; a think-tank
seminar of international delegates from newly
industrialized countries interacting with people
throughout a four-day time period,” Oeffinger
said. “It was basically modeled on the SCONA
program at A&M.”
Oeffinger has also won 14 awards for creating
and leading the McMurphy Nursing Project, a
national nurse recruitment project.
“Throughout my entire career I’ve organized
people locally and across nations to take some
sort of action,” Oeffinger said. “And that’s defi
nitely a student skill I got at A&M.”
Oeffinger said the skills he learned during his
term, such as setting goals and learning to realis
tically set priorities, were invaluable.
“It’s still amazing to me that A&M caught
on quite a bit faster than other universities in
the arenas of getting students involved and
offering so many leadership opportunities,” he
said. “No other university fosters leadership as
much as A&M.”
Oeffinger has written his first non-fic
tion book, entitled “A Soldiers’ General: The
Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette
McLaws.” He is also recognized by the 51st edi
tion of the Marquis Who’s Who in America.
Without his experience as MSC Council presi
dent from 1979-80, Brooks Herring, Class of ’80,
does not think he would have been nearly as pre
pared to face challenges in the work environment.
“As a student leader I was exposed to many
people on campus that were extremely engaged
in activities at A&M,” Herring said. “And being
able to simply observe their behaviors and ways
of doing business was extremely beneficial.”
Herring is a marketer for Shell Oil Products
U.S., and leads all the activities related to
brand management strategy and retail business.
Although he graduated with a degree in chemical
engineering, he credits the experiences at A&M
with helping with the transition to marketing.
“As MSC Council president 1 had a very big
responsibility, and that experience helped me
learn how to manage multiple activities and pri
oritize what is important,” he said, “It’s been a
real help in my current roles.”
Herring has attended some exclusive social
functions over the past few years. Last year,
Herring and his wife were invited to attend
the White House Correspondence Dinner in
Washington, D.C.
“We saw lots of media folks and had a good
chance to visit with several editorial staff mem
bers for Time magazine,” he said. “ We also got
to shake hands with some real prominent people
like Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. It was a
real thrill; I felt like I was really in the know.”
Another recent thrill for Herring was when he
and his group won the Shell Houston Open and
he got the chance to meet Arnold Palmer.
“However, the accomplishment I’m most
proud of is having a very close family,”
Herring said.
After graduation, Trey Lary, MSC Council
president from 1994-95, has been focused on get
ting through law school and building his career.
Although he began working at a large law corpo
ration last summer, a group in his specialty area
of law, public finance, left the company to start a
new firm, Allen Boone & Humphries.
“It’s been very exciting and rewarding,” Lary,
Class of ’95, said. “I’ve been able to do out
standing things with this group of remarkable
lawyers, and am grateful for being able to learn
from them.”
Lary said he still uses a lot of the same talents
he needed at the MSC, such as good communica
tion and people skills. Working with complicated
financing structures, Lary stresses the importance
of being able to break these concepts down into
explainable terms for his clients.
“1 did this same type of thing as a student
leader,” he said. “Lor example, 1 had to make pol
icies and then put them into terms other students
could understand.”
The most rewarding aspect of his work as
a lawyer Lary said has been helping build
communities. While he is never in the court
room or doing any litigation, he is instead
helping the local government build schools,
roads and bridges.
“I’m able to do great things in society
through my clients, which is the opposite of
what people usually think of lawyers," he said.
“Being civic minded is definitely a quality
A&M instilled in me.”
Lary said everything he did in the MSC was a
service to the campus or community, all through
outreach programs.
“So it was a natural transition in the processes
of looking for jobs and practices of law to choose
public finance,” he said.
During his term, Lary’s biggest goal was to
minimize conflict between the MSC and other
student governments to focus on being more pro
ductive. He credits developing his negotiating and
team-building skills as qualities he got from his
work at the MSC.
“Now 1 spend a lot of time trying to help put
together programs and teams of people where
everyone has the same goal but different ideas on
how to get there,” Lary said. “And 1 have to fig
ure out how to find common paths and get every
one to the same resolve.”
As a student leader, Lary said, the focus
should not be on the end product, but on what
you learn and how you develop and grow through
the processes.
“It’s amazing how fortunate I was to attend a
school that gives so much emphasis on getting
students involved,” Lary said. “There’s nowhere
else in the world like A&M that focuses so much
on leadership and citizenship."
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