"The solenoid went out on my stick shift, so any motel I
stayed in had to be on an incline so I could pop the clutch
in the morning," he said, laughing. "That was in 1972, and
46 years later, I'm still here."
K.C. Weiner was born to a successful geologist in Midland
and took a circuitous route to his Houston office. He did a
semester abroad in Spain and ended up staying for a year
and a half, working as a dishwasher and cook in a resort
town. It was only due to political upheaval that Weiner
returned home to Texas.
"I had some adventures there and then [Spanish dictator
Francisco] Franco died [in 1975] and I thought there would
be a revolution," he recalled. "I came back here, finished
college, went to grad school, and then went to law school."
Weiner soon realized he didn't want to be a lawyer and
"We liked to think about what's
going to move the needle and
make a difference."
