RICHARDSON’S MOVERS AND SHAKERS Editor’s Note: Movers and shakers are people who make things happen, inf luencers whose energy creates positive change. They’re always busy and often pioneers in their respective fields. In each issue of Richardson Life Magazine, we highlight an individual, couple or group of people who we feel fits this definition. If you would like to nominate a mover and shaker to be celebrated in the pages of the magazine, email pmotte@hylogroup.com.
CATHERINE AND DANIEL BURDETTE By Patti Otte
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ork Hard. Play Hard. Give Back. That’s the motto Catherine and Daniel Burdette wrote together years ago and still wholeheartedly embrace in their daily lives. Both native Texans, Cat, as she is affectionately known to her friends, and Daniel met at Adair’s Saloon in Dallas, a Deep Ellum stalwart. Cat is a native Houstonite, while Daniel grew up in Waxahachie, after a few years living on a farm in Mt. Pleasant in his youth (with several scars to prove it, he chuckles). Cat graduated with bachelor’s degrees from both the University of Colorado and the University of Northern Colorado before living in Denver and later moving to Dallas. She then earned a master's degree in Radio, Television and Film from the University of North Texas. Daniel earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band (WHOOP!), a specialty unit in the Corps of Cadets. As a member of the Corps, Daniel had the opportunity to shake the hands of five US Presidents. He was one of a dozen senior cadets asked to escort dignitaries around the library grounds at Texas A&M when the Bush Presidential Library was opened in 1997. Past presidents Ford, Carter, Bush (41) and Clinton were in attendance, as was Nancy Reagan. George W. Bush, who was Texas’s governor at that time, was also in attendance. After graduating from college, Cat and Daniel pursued very different
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