Danny Mason
Teacher, Deceased Person
1938 – 2007
Who was Danny Mason?
Danny Raymond Mason was a golf coach and physical education professor who was affiliated with Texas Tech University in Lubbock for more than three decades.
Under Mason's leadership, the Tech team qualified for four NCAA tournaments. In 2002, Mason was inducted into the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Honor and was awarded the title Associate Professor-Emeritus. Himself a kidney transplant recipient, Mason won five Texas Transplant Games golf tournaments and participated in the National Kidney Foundation golf tournament on three occasions.
Mason was born in Monahans in Ward County, Texas, as one of five children of Charlie Everett and Trudie Mae Mason. Upon graduation from Monahans High School in 1957, he attended Odessa College in Odessa on a golf scholarship. In June 1958, he married Betty Ann Pickett and then transferred on a golf scholarship to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He was a member of the 1960 NAIA championship team. In 1961, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education, with a minor in biology, from Lamar University.
Mason next took summer graduate courses at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogcoches, Texas, and accepted thereafter a teaching fellowship from Texas A&M University in College Station. He completed his master's degree in education and obtained a Texas guidance counselor's certificate in 1962. He coached and taught at Texas A&M for two years before moving on to Texas Tech. However, his Tech service was interrupted by a stint at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he obtained his doctorate in education and again coached golf.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1938
Monahans - Spouses
- Religion
- Independent Baptist
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lamar University
- Texas A&M University
- Lived in
- Texas
- Lubbock
- Died
- Jan 16, 2007
Lubbock
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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