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Dale Smith I was born in West Texas but got to College Station as fast as I could. I spent countless weekends as a kid watching Aggie football and listening to games on the radio pretending to be the announcer. I grew up close to the University and when the wind blew just right I could hear the Aggie Band in the distance, practicing for the upcoming game.

I graduated from A&M Consolidated HS in 1977 and worked many jobs to pay my way through college. The most rewarding jobs were drawing sports and political cartoons for both the Battalion and The Eagle newspapers and working as a student assistant for the TAMU Sports Information Dept in 1981. I received a B.S. degree in Journalism from Texas A&M University in 1985 and married Janet Hager of Bryan, Texas.

Not long after marriage, the kids began arriving so I put up my pens, pencils and paint to concentrate on raising a family. While working in the homebuilding and remodeling business the past 23 years, I never gave up the desire to resurrect my sports art ambitions. I started to draw and paint again and decided to attend a book signing by former Aggie coach Jackie Sherrill. After signing a few copies of published drawings including him from his days in Aggieland, he asked if I would donate a few to his 12Th Man Kickoff Team Foundation to raise money for scholarships to help students attend Texas A&M University. I agreed and during the past few years my work has sold for thousands of dollars at various A&M fundraisers. I've also attended the Dallas FBI Agents/G-Man fundraiser for several years raising money for fallen-agents' families, The Scottish Rite Children's Hospital along with several other charities. During this time, I’ve had the privilege in meeting many great Aggies from Houston to Junction, and from Big Spring to Dallas and hundreds in between as well as former coaches and players from rival universities and many professional athletes, some of which were my childhood art subjects. I can’t express enough of what it means to be part of such a great fraternity of fans and friends. Janet and I have two wonderful children, Ashley and Colton and live in College Station, Texas.
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