Robert C. Vackar, The 17 Million Dollar Man - Texas Border Business

Robert C. Vackar, President and CEO of Bert Ogden Auto Group. Picture taken after the announcement on May 2016 that he was gifting the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley $ 15 million, this in addition to $2 million already given in January of the same year. Photo by Roberto Hugo Gonzalez

Robert C. Vackar, The 17 Million Dollar Man

Robert C. Vackar, CEO of the Bert Ogden Auto Group had donated $2 million. The recipient, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley labeled the donation as the largest scholarship gift received in the institution’s history.