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Wednesday, October 1, 2003

WHITFIELD J. COLLINS
Partner, Fort Worth, Texas
817/877-2814
wcollins@canteyhanger.com

Mr. Collins has been at Cantey & Hanger for 51 years. He was the last of the partners to be named in the title of the firm before the name was shortened to Cantey & Hanger. In 1987, the firm was called Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn and Collins. Only Mr. Collins and Mr. Munn survive from that illustrious group. Both have been named recipients of the Blackstone Award, Mr. Munn in 1993 and Mr. Collins in 1995.

Mr. Collins has practiced law only with Cantey & Hanger other than the early years he was a part of the Treasury Department, the IRS and finally the Navy during and after World War II.

Mr. Collins like Mr. Munn is in semi-retirement and also like Mr. Munn he was an expert at oil and gas law when those commodities helped to make Texas what it is. Unlike Mr. Munn , Mr. Collins is a tax attorney seeing legal things from another perspective from the litigator.

His practice is now limited to estate planning and probate.

The veteran attorney is a true patron of the arts in Fort Worth and can almost always be found in the audience of special events involving the symphony or the Van Cliburn piano competitions or an opening at one of the art museums or a new live theatrical production.

Pertaining to the arts: Mr. Collins is an honorary director, a past president and past chairman of the Board of the Fort Worth Art Association (now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth); past president of the Arts Council of Greater Fort Worth; former attorney for the Kimbell Art Foundation; past chairman of the Fort Worth Art Commission; the board of trustees, StageWest; advisory board, Circle Theater.

Other Community and Business Activities: Board of Trustees, Admiral Nimitz Foundation; past chairman of the board and president of the Radiation and Medical Research Foundation of the Southwest (operator of the Moncrief Radiation Center); President and Director of the Fifth Avenue Foundation and the C.J. Wrightsman Educational Fund, Inc.; Director and Treasurer, T.J. Brown and the C.A. Lupton Foundation, Inc.; director of the Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.; director of the Fort Worth Opera Association.

Mr. Collins was awarded the Patron of the Year award by the Live Theater League, 1999; and the Special Recognition Award by the West Texas Legal Services, 1999.

The attorney was educated at the University of Texas at Austin for both undergraduate and J.D. Degrees. He earned a Masters of Laws degree from Harvard University School of Law, in 1941.

Licensed to practice law in Texas, 1940.