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Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.Chairman, UH System Board of Regents
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Welcome W. Wilson, Sr., was elected chairman of the UH System Board of Regents in both August 2007 and in August 2008. He was appointed to the Board in April 2006 by Governor Rick Perry and will serve through August 31, 2011.
He is chairman of GSL Welcome Group, LLC. a group of companies that own and lease single-tenant, industrial facilities in Texas. He is a principal in Kingham Dalton Wilson, LLC, which is active in the construction of build-to-suit and design/build projects.
Since 1958, he has been a real estate developer of subdivisions, apartment complexes, shopping centers, industrial facilities and office buildings. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was board chairman of three Texas banks.
He served in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense Mobilization, a division of the Executive Office of the President. He also had responsibility for what is now known as FEMA. In 1966 he was appointed Special Ambassador to Nicaragua by President Lynden Johnson. He was a witness to the Atom Bomb tests in Nevada in 1954 and the Hydrogen Bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the pacific in 1956. In 1958 he was selected as one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service.
He received a BBA degree from the University of Houston in 1949, where he received its UH Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1970 and the C.T. Bauer College of Business Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996. He received an AA degree from Texas Southmost College in 1946, and received its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005.
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