▼ Joyclyn Theresa Galloway of Baton Rouge, La., completed the Bermuda International 26.2 mile marathon in January, helping the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society raise $1.5 million to support patient aid and research programs. Donald Allen Hilsdon of Plano, Texas, has been promoted to corporal with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Police Department. He is a member of the Bicycle Unit and is a certified instructor and field training officer. Jon T. McCraw (M.S. ’93) of Waveland has been named technology director for the Hancock County School District. He previously worked for NETschools Corp. Melinda Amelia Mitchell of Briggsdale, Colo., is a sales representative for Eli Lilly and Co. and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Colorado State University. Patty Wilder Roberts of Carthage has been named county executive director of the Leake County Farm Service Agency.
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J. Todd Arnold of Laguna Beach, Calif., has joined SWA Group, a landscape architecture and planning firm, as a member of the construction administration team. Denise McDonald Cosper of Starkville is coordinator of grant writing and prospect research at Wood College in Mathiston. Deidra M. Gammill of Cambridge, Mass., teaches 6th-8th grade English and Spanish at Christian Center School. Brenda Monk has been named assistant director of the Athletic Academic Support Program at Florida State University. She previously worked for the Rankin County School District in Brandon in several capacities, including principal, special education assistant supervisor, and school psychologist. Tracey Sibley has been named process specialist for Gulf States Paper Corp.’s Continuous Process Improvement Initiative. She works at Gulf States’ national headquarters in Sibley Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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Bonnie T. Brown of Mobile, Ala., has completed the NCIDQ licensing examination for interior designers. She works for Steelcase Systems, a furniture dealership in Mobile. Stacey A. Bruff of Jonesboro, Ark., has been promoted to senior technical services agronomist with Delta and Pine Land Co. His territory includes Northeast Arkansas and the Missouri bootheel. Chris Cosper (M.A. ’96) of Starkville, an architect with Pryor & Morrow Architects in Columbus, has completed the Architectural Registration Examination and received his license to practice architecture in Mississippi. Nancy Lischkoff Hamric of Birmingham, Ala., is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Aventis Pharmaceuticals. Marvin Kemp of Baltimore, Md., has been promoted to associate with Anshen+Allen Architects. James E. Sanders of Atlanta, Ga., is a first level network manager for BellSouth’s C-WINS Center in Atlanta. He recently was on assignment to BellSouth’s Training Department in Jacksonville, Fla., to train technicians for the company’s C-WINS Center there. Mary Susan Tyree of Nashville, Tenn., is an associate producer with TBA Entertainment Corp. She currently is working on the television series “Music in High Places,” broadcast on DirecTV. Camille Scales Young (M.S. ’96) of Jackson has joined the Mississippi Farm Service Agency as public relations/outreach coordinator. She previously was a governmental relations specialist for Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
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Vance Stuart Durbin of Memphis, Tenn., is a producer and announcer at WYPL-FM, the public library radio station in Memphis. Emily Turner Hayes (M.S. ’96) of Flowood is a pharmaceutical sales representative with Abbott Laboratories. Sandra J. Manning of Quitman, a second-grade teacher at Quitman Lower Elementary School, has received National
Board Teacher Certification in the early childhood/generalist area. Tim May of Secane, Pa., has joined CIGNA Healthcare’s HR&S Management Development Program in Philadelphia, Pa. Larry Tomkins of Brandon is Gulf Coast regional engineer for Advanced Drainage Systems Inc.
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Robert Michael Gammill of Cambridge, Mass., is pursuing a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He achieved professional licensure in September 1999. Carman Henley of River Ridge, La., has been promoted to senior engineer for Exxon Mobil Production Co. in New Orleans. William Ray Holloway Jr. of Tupelo has received the Local Community Award from the state Department of Rehabilitation Service for providing services to those with disabilities. He also has been appointed to the advisory council for the state Department of Health-Child Care Advisory Board and to the Mississippi Youth Soccer Association as TOPSoccer Administrator for the state. Danielle Jacolyn Louys (M.B.A. ’99) of Helena, Ala., is a perioperative sales specialist for Abbott Laboratories. Jonathan Lowery of Tuscaloosa, Ala., has been promoted to management forester at Gulf States Paper Corp.’s Sipsey timber management district. William W. Walker Lowery of Oxford is in his first year of law school at the University of Mississippi.
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C. Jason Armstrong (M.B.A. ’98) has been named assistant vice president for commercial banking at Trustmark National Bank in Tupelo. He is a member of the College of Business and Industry’s Young Alumni Advisory Board. Gary Greene of Venice, Fla., is 2001 president-elect of the Florida Business Technology Education Association. He recently was promoted to full professor at Manatee Community College in Venice.