From the moment he stepped foot on campus, G. Malcolm Louden ’67 embraced the spirit of Mr. TCU.  

“He was literally named Mr. TCU as a student and served as student body president,” Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr. said. “He continued to be Mr. TCU as a long-serving Trustee and Emeritus Trustee during a dynamic time of growth for TCU.”  

While at TCU, Louden served as junior class president, led Kappa Sigma fraternity and was active in ROTC. Taylor Louden ’07 noted that his father’s involvement set a high bar for family members following in his Horned Frog footsteps. 

After graduating, Malcolm Louden joined the Army National Guard and became his general’s Jeep driver. He bragged that he “could drive a car better than anyone, thanks to those years,” his son said. 

Louden started his career at the accounting firm Arthur Andersen and joined the Walsh Company in 1969. He retired as president of Walsh Holdings after 50 years.   

All the while, he maintained strong ties to TCU as alumni board president and a member of the Board of Trustees. During 40 years as a Trustee, he chaired four committees. He also helped bring in football coaches Dennis Franchione and Gary Patterson, lifting “TCU out of all those doldrum days” in the 1980s, Taylor Louden said. He also advocated against cutting other sports during that time. 

Louden’s other passion was Cook Children’s Medical Center. “He saw there was a huge, gaping hole” in health care for Fort Worth children, his son said. At the time, there was little pediatric research and training in the city. “He thought there was no reason the children of Fort Worth shouldn’t have the best care in the country.”  

Cook Children’s is now nationally ranked in seven specialties by U.S. News and World Report. 

In addition to Taylor Louden, who is now a physician at Cook Children’s, survivors include son Malcolm Louden Jr. ’03 and daughter Carey Louden ’20.