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Probate Section of the Dallas Bar Association.
1967 Glenn D. Roberts, Rochester,
1963
Minn. :: retired in October as a
Frank D. Bracken, Dallas :: received a 2012 Each Moment Matters Award from Presbyterian Communities and Services Foundation at a luncheon in October benefiting Faith Presbyterian Hospice.
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professor of microbiology, laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and at the Mayo Clinic, where he was on the staff for 40 years. He was a staff member of the Division of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Laboratory and Pathology.
1971 Mary Kay Parrish
Dan M. Linn, Dallas
(M.M.),
:: retired from
Shawnee,
UNT housing experience runs in the family for, from left, siblings Whitney (’10), Connor and Kathryn Ryan (’12). Whitney was a resident assistant in Crumley Hall, Kathryn was an RA in Bruce Hall, and Connor, a sophomore, is now a facilities assistant in Bruce Hall.
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1960
Okla. :: Professor Emeritus of music at Oklahoma Baptist University, was inducted into its Faculty Hall of Fame last fall. A handbell composer and clinician, she was on the faculty from 1964 to 2002 and founded the University Ringers.
1965 Billy Thompson Vandeventer
Ann Gribble Barnett (’56
M.M.Ed.), Denton :: retired
last spring from her position as organist at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Denton, which she held since the church was organized in 1960. She has been married to Prentice Barnett for 57 years.
Edward V. Smith, Dal-
las :: received
the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in probate law from the Real Estate Probate and Trust Law section of the State Bar of Texas. He previously received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
(’70 M.Ed.), Frisco :: is the
namesake of Vandeventer Middle School in the Frisco ISD, which was dedicated in September. She taught for 29 years, including 26 years in the Frisco ISD teaching fourth graders and middle school math. She began her teaching career in Carrollton-Farmers Branch.
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the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts last summer after 40 years of service. He says a campaign swing by Bob Bullock and appointments as Fort Worth and Dallas regional audit director two years into the job convinced him to stay. He became an assistant state comptroller and the manager for evaluation, development and succession planning.
1972 Maury Forman, Seattle, Wash.
:: senior manager of the Washing
ton State Department of Com merce, received the Jeffrey A. Finkle Organizational Leadership Award from the International Economic Development Council last fall. It recognizes an outstand-
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