Oak Cliff residents Kelly and Wade McClure are the honorary chairs of the 14th Annual Bishop Dunne 100 Dinner to be held at the Hilton Anatole on October 22.
The couple has lived in Oak Cliff since 1986. They are proud of their contributions to Catholic Education and for their commitment to Oak Cliff and South Dallas.
Kelly is a product of her Catholic Education having graduated from Fairfield University in Connecticut and St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio. All four of the McClure boys have attended grade school at Christ the King School. Three of their boys have attended Jesuit and their youngest, Grant, is a senior this year at Bishop Dunne.
Since Grant arrived at Bishop Dunne four years ago, the McClures have fallen in love with the School and its talented staff and teachers. They are committed to the continued growth of Bishop Dunne and to all manners of growth of Catholic Education in South Dallas.
Both Kelly and Wade are attorneys in Dallas with diverse practices but their interest in their family, their community and their faith are primary in their lives.
Keynote speaker for the evening is Oliver Luck - director of Intercollegiate Athletics at West Virginia University. Luck, appointed the West Virginia University’s 11th director of athletics on June 9, 2010, has made significant strides to enhance WVU’s role as a major player in collegiate athletics.
He oversaw West Virginia’s move to the Big 12 Conference in 2012 and has spearheaded several major capital projects at WVU, such as the $21 million baseball ballpark now under construction at the University Town Centre and more than $125 million in additional improvements planned in the near future for other athletic facilities at WVU.
Last year, he was appointed to the prestigious 13-member committee that will select this year’s college football playoff field.
Luck’s athletic and professional career has been the epitome of success, first as a record-setting quarterback for the Mountaineers from 1978-81, then as a professional quarterback for the National Football League’s Houston Oilers, as back up to Archie Manning, and later as a professional sports executive in professional football.
Luck totaled more than 10 years of service with the NFL before becoming chief executive officer of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority in 2001. In that role, he coordinated the development and management of a $1 billion professional sports and entertainment complex for the city of Houston that included Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans, the Toyota Center, home of the Houston Rockets, Comets and Aeros and the Livestock Show and Rodeo.
In 2005, Luck was named the first president of Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamos, helping that organization to a pair of MLS Cup titles in his first two years at the helm. Luck secured the funding for an $80 million soccer complex to house the Dynamos when the call came to return to his alma mater. Prior to his current position at WVU, Luck was appointed by then Gov. Joe Manchin in 2008 to a four-year term on the West Virginia University Board of Governors, a spot he relinquished to become director of athletics.
The Rhodes Scholar finalist graduated Phi Beta Kappa from WVU in 1982. He also earned a law degree from Texas, graduating cum laude in 1987. In 1997, Luck was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2008, he was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
Date: October 22
For more information and tickets see the school’s website: www.bdcs.org
Information provided by Judy Porter.