Mafrige
lives in Houston, and is president of Ron Mafrige Enterprises,
Inc. Despite his many business interests, he has been
especially generous in time and monetary support to the
College of Business Administration, which recently named
an auditorium in his honor, and to the SHSU football program.
In addition to creating the Touchdown '96 football fund-raising
campaign, serving on the College of Business Administration
and Alumni Association advisory boards, and establishing
a $1 million endowment for COBA in the name of Glenn Adams
from the Ron Mafrige family, he has found time for other
causes such as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He
worked as past captain and current vice chairman of the
Program Committee and is a member of the International
Committee of the Livestock Show and Rodeo, was a Houston
Host Ambassador for the 1992 Republican National Convention,
and has established a scholarship endowment at San Marcos
Baptist Academy, where he has also been named a distinguished
alumnus. Memberships include the Chapelwood United Methodist
Church, the Mystic Shrine Arabia Temple of Houston, the
Epsilon Zeta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta, the Houston Association
of Realtors, the U. S. Army Retired Reserves (with rank
of major), Fellowship Club of Houston (past president),
Houston Affiliates of the Southern Federation of Syrian,
Lebanese American Clubs (president and treasurer), President's
Club of San Marcos Baptist Academy, and the Pine Forest
and Sugar Creek country clubs. Mafrige and his wife, Linda,
have one son. |