May 29, 2003
Gentleman Caller
A fund raiser in West Texas finds that popping in on prospective donors leads to planned gifts aplentySan Angelo, Tex.
Roger Ellison calls on 500 prospective donors every year, showing up unannounced on people's front porches in a cowboy hat and ostrich-skin boots.
In pursuit of donations, Mr. Ellison, 57, vice president of planned giving at the West Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation, has been known to climb onto the roof of a
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