About the Candidate
Ron has been a resident of Bryan, TX since 1965. He is retired from
Texas A&M University as a Professor Emeritus. He served on the
faculty of Chemical Engineering there for 38 years, being actively
involved in teaching (at all levels), research and public service.
Ron graduated from Rice University in 1955 with BA and BS degrees in
Chemical Engineering and a commission in the Navy. After 3 years of
active duty on destroyers in the Pacific, he returned to Rice for
graduate work and received the PhD degree in 1961. He married Doris
Otto, and they spent the following year on a NSF Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Cambridge University in England. In 1962, he joiner the
Research Center for LTV Aerospace Company in grand Prairie, TX,
where he worked until coming to Texas A&M in 1965. Ron stayed in
the active Naval Reserve after his release from active duty until 1988,
when he retired with the rank of Captain, USNR.
At A&M, Ron received a number of honors and awards, including the
Texas A&M Former Students Award for excellence in teaching. He was
also very active in his professional organization, the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers, where he achieved the status of Fellow, and
served as Chair of the South Texas Section in Houston, Program Chair
of an AIChE National Meeting in New Orleans, etc. He has published
two books and numerous technical papers, and he received nine
awards from the AIChE for outstanding technical publications.
Ron is currently involved in technical consulting on a part-time basis,
and is still active in several technical organizations. He is also an
active Red Cross Volunteer (Disaster Services) in Bryan, and spent
three weeks in Florida in 2003 with the Red Cross assisting the
hurricane victims there. He is also an active RSVP Volunteer (Driver
Escort), and an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Bryan.
Ron’s wife died in 1989, and he has two children, Ann E. Echols of
State College, PA and Charles Darby of Boise, ID.
Ron’s platform is based on fiscal responsibility, accountability, and
minimizing the interference of government in the lives of our citizens.
He believes that there are numerous areas and programs in all levels
of government that are intrusive and/or wasteful and should be scaled
back or eliminated altogether. He believes that all government
programs should pass three tests in order to be enacted: “1. Is it
Constitutional? 2. Do we need it? 3. Can we afford it?”
CT Score Data
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Registered Voters: 112,329
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Number of Candidates: 2
CT Score: 30
