The Buffalo Breakfast Club was formed in late 2015 as the brainchild of the fathers of many of their founding members. It is a light-hearted, casual, private social club of young men who meet regularly to socialize & network as well as to better themselves and their community.
Those men had organized their own Bayou City Breakfast Club in the late seventies and early eighties with a few goals in mind:
- Maintaining existing relationships. As work and family life can leave little time for friends, members pledged to meet monthly for breakfast to catch up.
- Expanding social networks. Before the days of Facebook, people used to make new friends through mutual friends.
- Expanding social awareness. Meeting new friends also evolved into acquaintanceships with a continuous stream of interesting and influential people from the Houston area, who would be invited to breakfast meetings as guest speakers.
Decades later, the Bayou City Breakfast Club had slowly evolved into something much bigger: A social fraternity full of members of exponential character, leadership, and companionship.
Many members also had sons during the Reagan administration who were now at a similar age as their fathers when the first breakfast club started. Those members thought, "Instead of inviting these young men and their friends to join our club, let's show them what ours has done for us and encourage them to form their own."
Those young men accepted the challenge, and the Buffalo Breakfast Club was soon established.
William Peoples reading the first bylaws of the Buffalo Breakfast Club, March 8, 2016. |
The Buffalo Breakfast Club continues in the traditions of their predecessors, meeting regularly for breakfast and the occasional happy hour, and discussing family, work, and Houston happenings. Their members come from all backgrounds and work fields including finance, real estate, construction, law, and information technology. Guest speakers from elected officials to philanthropists to athletes to executives continue to pass through the breakfast room doors, expanding the minds and perspectives of members in attendance.