TCU 360: Ty Pickens remembered as a generous soul

[TopFrog]

TCU 360: Ty Pickens remembered as a generous soul

By Olivia Caridi

His full name was Thomas Boone Pickens IV, but at TCU, he was known as Ty “Cheese.”

Ty was a lover of music, art, snowboarding, golf and hunting, according to his obituary. His world revolved around his loving mother, father, sister and his dog Zeus.

Pickens, who was a junior strategic communication major and business minor at TCU, died Jan. 29 at the age of 21.

Pickens was born on September 13, 1991, in New York, to Jennifer Long Pickens and Thomas Boone Pickens III. ...

http://www.tcu360.com/campus/2013/02/16881.ty-pickens-remembered-generous-soul

 

[BoydAveFrogFan]

Interesting nickname as "cheese" is a name for heroin

 

[My Buddy Steve]

God bless

 

[TopFrog]

Interesting nickname as "cheese" is a name for heroin

My immediate first thought as well when I saw that.

 

[ChipotleFrog]

My immediate first thought as well when I saw that.

or maybe he practiced T'ai Chi...makes the nick more logical

 

[TopFrog]

or maybe he practiced T'ai Chi...makes the nick more logical

Ty was a lover of music, art, snowboarding, golf and hunting

Just wonder if the writer ever considered that or made that connection mentally when writing that lead.

 

[goldenfrog]

That was my first thought when I saw that nickname. Unfortunate.

 

[jake102]

Yep. Unfortunate.

 

[Pure Purple]

The thought of losing one's child is incomprehensible.