Distinguished Alumni
Ronald P. Mafrige
Awarded 1997
Mafrige lives in Houston, and is president of Ron Mafrige Enterprises, Inc. Despite his many business interests, he has been especially generous in time and monetary support to the College of Business Administration, which recently named an auditorium in his honor, and to the SHSU football program. In addition to creating the Touchdown '96 football fund-raising campaign, serving on the College of Business Administration and Alumni Association advisory boards, and establishing a $1 million endowment for COBA in the name of Glenn Adams from the Ron Mafrige family, he has found time for other causes such as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He worked as past captain and current vice chairman of the Program Committee and is a member of the International Committee of the Livestock Show and Rodeo, was a Houston Host Ambassador for the 1992 Republican National Convention, and has established a scholarship endowment at San Marcos Baptist Academy, where he has also been named a distinguished alumnus. Memberships include the Chapelwood United Methodist Church, the Mystic Shrine Arabia Temple of Houston, the Epsilon Zeta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta, the Houston Association of Realtors, the U. S. Army Retired Reserves (with rank of major), Fellowship Club of Houston (past president), Houston Affiliates of the Southern Federation of Syrian, Lebanese American Clubs (president and treasurer), President's Club of San Marcos Baptist Academy, and the Pine Forest and Sugar Creek country clubs. Mafrige and his wife, Linda, have one son.
As profiled at the 1997 Distinguished Alumni Banquet