for the Texas A&M chancellor and president and served as president of the 12th Man Foundation at Texas A&M. He also created the Preston M. Geren Excellence Fund and the Dr. F.E. Giesecke 1886 Lecture Fund to fund speaker series and events for Texas A&M architecture students. In 2007, Texan A&M recognized him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award. Later life In 1982, Geren merged his firm into Texas architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott, which later merged into HOK. Geren retired from the firm in 1984. He died after a long illness on June 12, 2013. References 1923 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American architects People from Fort Worth, Texas Texas A&M University alumni Georgia Tech alumni United States Army personnel of World War II Episcopalians from Texas Architects from Texas Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Modernist architects from the United States