Ask the Alumni Five alumni returned to campus in April to participate in a panel for the Office of Admission ’Roo Camp. Who better to answer the questions of prospective students and parents than graduates who had very active and well-rounded college experiences and now have begun successful careers? Panelists, as pictured, left to right: Tom Buttine ’07 a consulting analyst for Accenture, a global management and information technology consulting firm. Assigned to the San Francisco, California, office, Tom lives in Dallas, Texas, and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Sarah Russell Duff ’04, an attorney with Wolfe, Tidwell, & McCoy in Frisco, Texas Carrie Tibbals Rios ’06 and MAT ’07, a sixth-grade science teacher at Robinson Middle School in the Plano Independent School District Michelle Thomas Shiller ’96 an osteopath and third-year resident in anatomic and clinical pathology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Next June, she will begin a two-year fellowship in molecular pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Jason Duff ’04, attorney, the Law Office of Jason A. Duff in Greenville, Texas
Tom Garrison ’96 and MAT ’98, assistant principal at Jesuit Preparatory School in Dallas, Texas, has spoken to prospective students and parents at ’Roo Camp for several years. He returned this spring, presenting “What’s Next? Forewarned Is Forearmed.”
PHOTO BY VICKIE S. KIRBY
50-Year Reunion: Class of 1959 Members of the Class of 1959 gathered for 50-year reunion events were, left to right, front row, Pat Myers Polk, Patricia Martin Nichol, Shirlee Dirr Huser, Phoebe Slate Hicks, Nancy Mitchell Scott, and Rowena Taylor Britt; row two, Perry Morris, Dorothy Kelly Green, Amelia Poole Sudderth, Laura Jo Fojtasek, Lucy Nance Croft, Mary Bullock Beck, Marilyn Cowles Sweeten, and Dorothy Rodina Williams; row three, Richard Ortiz, Frank Seaman, Jim McCall, George McCall, Bill Jarvis, Darrell Murff, and Tom Huser; and row four, Chester Story, Wally Reddick, Joe Sudderth, Curtis Singleton, Louis Manz, Fred Minter, Eddie Polk, and Don Kiser. More photos from the reunion are available online.
Numbers in color after alumni names correspond with photos on page 45.
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Austin College Magazine
June 2009