Remembering The Passed

Remembering T. Boone Pickens, Robert Frank, Eddie MoneyT. Boone Pickens was the Oklahoma energy magnate who made and lost several fortunes, and also made a name as a corporate raider in the 1980s. He founded Mesa Petroleum and attempted to buy out much larger oil companies, usually unsuccessfully. His efforts did result in chastened boardrooms in many of those companies. He was also the largest single contributor to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater. Robert Frank was the Swiss photographer who came to the United States after World War II and photography and photographic subjects were handled. In the 1950s and 60s, he did much of his work with the Beat poets. Eddie Money was the son of a New York policeman who turned to rock and roll, and became one of the most successful solo artists of the 1980s.