SCENE Magazine Spring 2012

spring 2012

Kent Black

From SU to BBQ

fromthepresident

“ The communal experience of a Schreiner education, what we have come to call

“learning by heart,” must be lived out by all of us and must be demonstrable to

student, to family, to donor and to the community outside.”

Dear friends of Schreiner, In 1997, management guru Peter Drucker wrote in Forbes, “Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive.” We are at the halfway point of that predicted journey and, although few would claim that big universities are halfway dead, few would claim that they are not in the midst of profound change and struggling for answers.

But we don’t have to apply this apocalyptic thinking only to big research universities, because predictions of obsolescence are just as frequently directed at smaller liberal arts colleges (and just about every form of traditional higher education in between). You have heard the argument: In a digital information age, knowledge is accessible by the individual without recourse to any intermediary, whether that be a professor in a classroom or a set of facilities and programs that calls itself a college. This notion has often been referred to as the “unbundling” of college, a kind of “protestantized higher learning,” where everyone is his own priest.

And this is not merely a theoretical argument, as actual programs demonstrate. MIT now plans to provide an interactive learning platform with MIT course content and the opportunity to earn actual credentials. Mozilla offers infrastructure, through what are called Open Badges, for persons to obtain credentials in subject matter of all kinds through self-paced online learning. The Western Governors University has for several years offered four degrees online at a very low rate. One recent writer suggested that the dispensing of higher education in the future will probably go either the Amazon direction (one or two major sources for millions of learning options) or the eBay direction (bidding platforms for learning content).

The daily bombardment college educators receive of messages like these would be unnerving if one were not well grounded in just what his or her work is all about. There is no better tonic to such bewilderment than listening to a

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student report on what she learned through an internship or receiving a note from a recent graduate expressing thanks to those who made his college experience enriching (and these are common, not exceptional, experiences for me).

So how should we respond to the cries of futurists that colleges and universities are obsolete? First, we should never dismiss or ignore them. There is much in their message that is relevant, for we have moved into a time when assessing what we do and how we do it is not a task to be completed every decade or so, but is an ongoing responsibility. Nowadays, even tactical changes (new curriculum, facility renovation) had better be strategic as well. We at Schreiner know that a world with digital information available to everyone with access to the Internet has changed and will continue to change the learning process, and we will change as a place of learning in response. It takes lots of cool heads to sort the wheat from the chaff in harvesting the impact of the information age, but that task is unquestionably with us for good.

Second, identify clearly the difference that you make with students and continue to make it—and do so better today than you did yesterday. If what we seek to provide in our educational experience were reducible to a digital badge, we would indeed be vulnerable. But it is not. However, we must be ready to do more than affirm that fact—we must show it.

The communal experience of a Schreiner education, what we have come to call “learning by heart,” must be lived out by all of us and must be demonstrable to student, to family, to donor and to the community outside. You don’t have to be a prophet to know that delivering on such a learning experience has a great chance of meeting the test of time.

Tim Summerlin President

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f e a t u r e s

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12 Did You Know?

4 mountaineertalk 6 oncampus 22 mountaineersports 24 makingconnections

Little Known Schreiner Facts

14 From SU to BBQ:

t h is

iss u e 26 formerstudents 30 classnotes 34 eventscalendar 35 roundup

The Kent Black Story

16 Hey Mister, Can You Spare Some Water?

20 Saying Goodbye to the Slivas

onthecover Kent Black ’72 still uses the 60-year-old butcher block on which his family has cut “hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat.”

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Finding a Way Home

by Ha nn ah de Jong

Freshm an gra ph ic desig n ma jor

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hat is the first evidence of your existence? For most people my age, it will probably be grainy black and white images from the first sonogram taken when they were just a few months old. Then more sonograms, maybe even a recording of their heartbeat and then the birth photos or video, along with a bona fide birth certificate. All of these are a logical series of documents of the first moments of life.

The beginning of my existence is a mystery to this day. The first official document I have about my earliest history is a foundling pickup certificate.

Foundling Pickup Certificate (translation) his is to certify that Cao Haofei, a girl T foundling, was found 100 meters near east inside of the South Entrance of Tiantan Park (Temple of Heaven), Beijing on March 17, 1994. Then she was sent to this institute for maintenance on March 21, 1994 by the Photos: Top photo, Hannah today. Photos 2-4 are Hannah while she was in foster care. The last photo shows Hannah with her family in Texas.

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Tiantan Park Public Security Office of Beijing Bureau of Public Security because they failed to find her parents. She was maintained by the said Public Security Office from March 17, 1994 to March 21, 1994 and Cao Haofei’s parents cannot be found up to this day.

The guardian: Wang Chenguang Beijing Children’s Welfare Institute August 11, 2000

Reading this document provides a few facts and raises more questions than I can even begin to write down.

For example, how old am I? I donʼ t really know. My foundling certificate only mentions when I was found. But someone, somewhere, had to come up with a birth date for me. Why did they pick February 28, 1993? It would suggest they thought I was about a year old when they found me. Why not February 27 or 26? Perhaps it has some significance in the Chinese calendar.

“Why did my parents abandon me?”

That is the most common question every orphan has to come to grips with. Honestly, I have not thought about it very often. My life has been filled with so many great experiences that I have not had the desire to be preoccupied with wondering about my biological parents.

I do believe that my biological parents loved me because why else would they place me in T iantan Park, a very popular tourist attraction?

They clearly wanted me to be found by someone who could provide for me since, for reasons unknown, they could not.

After I was found, I went to live at the Beijing Childrenʼs Welfare Institute. Itʼs amazing how little we remember from our early years.

One thing I do remember is my crib being too small for my body and that there were many other young children. After five years, I was transferred to a private foster home that was like being part of a family.

I enjoyed my time there and made friends, especially with one girl named Maria.

Little did I know that after two years of living at the private foster home, my life would be changed forever. I remember standing next to Maria when a woman entered the doors and began walking towards me. Maria whispered in my ear, “Your mother is very pretty.” And I smiled.

A few days after that I flew from Beijing to Texas and had an instant family with a bona fide brother and sister. I learned to eat strange foods like pizza and learned a new language.

I have lived in the United States for the past 12 years with my family.

They have loved me, been supportive in all my endeavors and helped me set goals for my life. I feel fortunate beyond measure. I cannot imagine life without them. To me it proves that blood is not always thicker than water; sometimes itʼs family.

Iʼve gone back to China a few times. When I was 16, I flew by myself back to Beijing and volunteered in the foster home where I grew up. I also took a 14-hour train ride to Xian and saw the Terra Cotta soldiers. This summer, I plan to go to T ianjin to work at another orphanage for handicapped children.

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Schreiner Names New VPAF songwriter stages at festivals and venues all over Texas, toured nationally and made three albums, Muse said. “I still have a couple of boxes of them in the closet.

“By 2000, we had achieved most of the nonfinancial goals we had set for ourselves,” he added.

The Muses relocated to the University of Montana in Missoula, returning to his 25-year career in higher education management.

He went to Montana to serve as executive director for planning, budgeting and analysis. He also was vice president of finance and Bill Muse, Schreiner’s new vice operations at the University Health president for administration and Science Center-Houston for eight finance, is something of a hometown years, a job with responsibilities he boy. Although he grew up on the Gulf describes as “virtually identical” to his Coast in Texas and received both his new position at Schreiner.

B.A. and M.A. degrees from The One of the things that most University of Texas-Austin, he has attracted to him to Schreiner was the strong ties to the Kerrville area. He university’s mission and approach. met his wife Mary here and they “When I came here to interview for bought a house in the Hill Country the position, got the chance to see after marrying. For five years, he and firsthand what has been accomplished Mary toured all over performing music on this campus over the past decade Muse had written—which naturally and met face to face the people whose brought them back to the area for the passion and commitment have made it Kerrville Folk Festival, where they happen, I wanted very much to be a worked as both performers and part of it.” volunteers.

He’s also happy to be back in the “We performed and helped produce Hill Country. His father was born and

raised in central Texas and Muse’s grown son lives in Houston.

“Dad is very excited about this move, to say the least,” Muse said.

“We are all extremely happy to return home. I also have a son, Jeremy, who is getting married in April, so the timing of our return could not be better. I am happy to be so much closer, so that I can visit with him and his wife, and those grandkids I am expecting them to produce.”

Muse sees challenges for Schreiner in coming years—challenges it shares with every other institution of higher education in the country.

Among the major challenges, he cited holding on to quality faculty, continuing to improve campus infrastructure—such as the planned new performing arts center, worship center and arena—continuing to invest in new technologies and student graduation and retention.

“I understand that these challenges will require an effective and creative collaborative effort,” Muse said. “I am ready to work enthusiastically with President Summerlin, Provost Charlie McCormick, Vice President Peg Layton and the rest of the leadership team to craft and implement these solutions, building on the strengths these folks have already put in place.”

Ad Campaign Wins Emmy Schreiner University’s “Learning by Heart” television ad campaign was judged best in Texas by the Lone Star EMMY Awards, the regional chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Briscoe Hall of Kerrville, Schreiner’s advertising agency for the last 7 years, won an Emmy award for its team’s work on Schreiner’s newest television ads, which debuted last January. Briscoe Hall created the ad concept designed to appeal to 15-18-yearolds. Old Texas poetry is presented in a modern “slam-poetry” style with edgy, quick edits of Schreiner students engaged in campus life. Briscoe Hall hired Electro-Fish Media (Austin) to film on campus for three days and to bring their artistry to the project. Nearly 100 SU students participated in scenes all across the campus.

Schreiner president Dr. Tim Summerlin was pleased about the award the ads have earned for Briscoe Hall. “We are delighted at the recognition given to the ads promoting Schreiner,” said SU President Dr. Tim Summerlin. “It was a pleasure again to work with Kerrville’s Briscoe Hall and through them with Electro-Fish.

The concept was a creative blend of voice and image, which depicted student life and spirit well. I believe they speak powerfully about the Schreiner experience.”

See the TV ad series here: www.schreiner.edu/about/marketing.html.

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Ahead of the Curb Schreiner University’s 2012 ad campaign includes a brand-new billboard. It is three-dimensional and travels all over the state filled with as many as 15 of the best Schreiner ambassadors we have: students and student athletes.

photo by Nicholas newland, SU Sophomore

“When the university placed the order for a new 15-passenger minibus to replace an old highmileage van, we saw the opportunity to make more of a visual statement to take advantage of the vehicles’s size and travel schedule,” said Lane Tait, assistant vice president for marketing.

“To the best of my knowledge, it is the only bus design of its kind in our conference,” said SU athletic director Ron Macosko.

“In the past, we’ve always looked at our peer schools and wished we had something more suitable for our student athletes to travel in.

It’s roomier and safer than travelling by vans, but the design is what sets it apart. This bus design really makes a positive statement about Schreiner University.”

University Relations graphic designer Jake Roa designed the vinyl wrap to showcase SU athletics on one side and academics on the other.

“This is a big step forward for Schreiner’s vehicle branding,” Tait says. “We felt it was a smart move and a worthwhile investment for our marketing budget. There’s another minibus in next year’s vehicle budget and we have plans to wrap it in a similar way.”

William Keaton (L), president of the Schreiner Student Senate, and Schreiner President Dr. Tim Summerlin officially open The Commons.

The Commons The area between the dining hall and CCAC is destined to become an archaeologist’s dream sometime in the far future. It has held a parade ground, an Olympic swimming pool, the Free Speech Area and now the newly built Commons area, with shade and seating for hanging out and slowing down. (By the way, a lot of the pool is still down there somewhere.

For other little known SU facts, go to page 12.) The structure went up over several months, and although The Commons was ready later than at first predicted, the end result is well worth the wait.

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Actors from the London Stage Actors from the London Stage returned to Schreiner this year with a brilliant and hilarious production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” Five actors—three men and two women—performed all 14 roles. In addition to the three public performances, which involved multiple hats and a countess’s cape that flipped into a maid’s apron— the actors visited Schreiner classes and taught a master acting class. The actors in this year’s tour were Richard Daniel Stacey, Katherine Heath, Michael Palmer, Dan Winter and Jennifer Higham. A different group from AFTLS visited Schreiner in 2009 with “King Lear.” AFTLS was brought to the campus by the Schreiner Center for Innovative Learning. For more information about CIL, visit Schreiner’s website at www.schreiner.edu. You can find out all about AFTLS at www.nd.edu/~aftls.

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Faith and Fortitude

by Louise Kohl Leahy

“The joke about me at Schreiner,” Sandy Langley said, “is that I change buildings every five years.”

She is currently in the Guy Griggs building, where she is the administrative assistant for the human resources department and runs the student work/study program.

“It only took me 15 years to get to a position where I work directly with students, which was one of my original goals,” Langley said.

Twenty-one years ago she started working at Schreiner as an administrative assistant in Environment Management.

Five years later, she moved to William Logan Library as an audio/ visual technician.

“That was when we had to haul the equipment around campus,” Langley said. “I didn’t have much experience with A/V equipment, but I learned how to troubleshoot and to fix typewriters—I also broke a few.

“I once hot-glued an overhead projector when I couldn’t get it together again after changing the bulb. It had all these little springs and I couldn’t find them all. My boss Conner Baldwin (associate professor of library science) told me ‘Be fearless!’ So I went home and got my hot-glue gun.

“Nobody discovered the hot glue until the bulb burned out and we couldn’t get back into the projector.

So I had to confess. By that time we needed new projectors, anyway.”

Eventually, she was moved to acquisitions, which she said was “much more my speed.”

However, her training was as an administrative assistant, so when a

position opened up—five years later— started with a Lutheran pastor, the she began administratively assisting in program is nondenominational another campus building. This time and has trained lay ministers in it was the former president’s house, 150 denominations in all 50 states, which then was home to the Office of Canada and other countries.

Advancement and Public Affairs.

“They announced the Stephen “I got to write and generate thankMinistry training program in church,” you letters to our donors,” Langley Langley said. “I kept feeling a pull said. “I wrote thank-you letters for a towards it, but I waited until the last living; it was one of my best jobs ever.” day before going to the leader and She moved to University Relations asking whether there was still room in in Hoon, which is part of the the training class. He said, ‘We need Advancement office, where she was 10 people to make up the class and the part-time assistant. we have 9. I’ve been waiting for you.

“Everyone else in UR was in the What took you so long?’”

Mac world,” she said. “I had the only Stephen Ministers take 50 hours PC, so I got to send out the press of rigorous training before being releases, do some writing and editing, assigned to a care receiver. Langley and proofread. I’m very obsessive has been with her care receiver for about proofreading. That will always almost a year. be my dream half a job.”

“We’re the helpers, God is the As to her current position, Langley healer,” she said. “I like listening to says she loves working with and people; everyone needs a listener. helping students: “It’s why I get up in This program is now part of who I the morning. I like helping out the am now and can’t be separated out faculty and staff, too.” from the rest of me.”

Essentially, she is a warm and Even though Langley has been with caring person. And she knows how HR for almost 5 years, she thinks she to translate that into positive, might well “rest here a while. As long practical action. as I’m helping people, I’m happy.”

Outside her office duties, Langley “Now, if an administrative assistant is the staff sponsor for the Methodist job opened up in Campus Ministry,” Student Ministry group at Schreiner, she said. “But that job doesn’t exist yet.” which meets once a week during the school year.

“Basically, I meet with them, pray with or for them and feed them every Monday,” she said.

“I love being with them; they are amazing people.”

Schreiner Student Services presented her with the Servant Leadership Award in 2011.

Langley’s care and comfort don’t stop at the Schreiner gates. Through her church, First United Methodist in Kerrville, she has been trained as a Stephen Minister.

Stephen Ministries trains lay church members as caregivers who provide quality, Christcentered care to people going through difficult times such as divorce, serious illness and job Sandy Langley surrounded by students from her Methodist Student Ministry group. loss. Although the program

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Staff Spotlight

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Faculty Spotlight

Man on the Move

by Louise Kohl Leahy

Dr. Kyle Busing, assistant professor of exercise science at Schreiner, said that in his Colorado high school, “I was never all that interested in sports.”

So how did he end up with a B.A., a master’s and a doctorate focusing on development and changes to the body associated with physical activity?

“I’ve always been amazed by and loved the complexity of the human body,” Busing said. “That’s what keeps me interested in my field.”

Let us just note here that it wasn’t exactly a straightforward path from high school to doctorate.

“I started at a junior college in Greeley, Colo.,” said Busing, who is originally from the small, mostly farming community of Akron, Colo., less than 100 miles from Greeley.

“After a year, I quit school and worked as a restaurant cook around Colorado for about four years.”

He then trained as a massage therapist and just after he had registered to go to a culinary school, he “decided at the last minute to finish my degree.”

He entered the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley as a history major and ended up with a B.A. in kinesiology. He went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate

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at UNC. For his M.A., he focused on older adults and the effect of Tai Chi on their dynamic balance and selfefficacy. For his Ph.D. dissertation, he concentrated on development in children and adolescents.

“I’ve worked with everyone from three-year-olds to 93-year-olds,” he said.

Busing said that one of the main reasons he chose to stay at UNC for his doctorate was Carrie West, who is now his wife. Like Kyle, West is also from eastern Colorado. When Busing first arrived at Schreiner, West and their two sons were still back in Colorado, where she was finishing up her doctoral coursework. They are now all together in Kerrville, and Carrie is working on her dissertation for a doctorate in communication studies from the University of Denver. She is an adjunct professor in communication this spring at SU. After receiving his Ph.D., Busing taught physical education majors and physical therapy students at Husson University in Maine.

“I liked Maine,” he said, “but my wife was not so happy with it. Winters in the Northeast are more overcast.

Coming from Colorado, we were used to sunny days.”

Shortly after Busing arrived at Schreiner in 2010, he and Dr. Lena

Rippstein, Schreiner’s director of nursing, designed an exercise program/study for older adults. They offered the successful program three times, and people still ask when there will be another one.

“The exercise classes were great but really time-intensive for both me and Dr. Rippstein,” Busing said. “I’m working on some revisions to my coursework to fit in an opportunity for practical experience for the students— so they can take on the program.”

Asked what he does for fun, Busing grinned and answered, “Well, there’s exercise, of course.” That would presumably take in the hiking and walking his dogs, “two of my favorite people, right there.” He likes to cook, but said he has no real specialties.

He also reads eclectically in his down time: historical fiction and nonfiction, mysteries and true crime, and just recently the first two books in George R.R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice series, “A Game of Thrones” and “A Clash of Kings.”

All in all, it seems Busing and his family are happy to be at Schreiner and in the Hill Country.

“I have had so many great experiences since I got here,” Busing said.

“The faculty has been very supportive.

But I enjoy the students most.”

Dr. Mary Grace Antony, assistant professor of communication studies, attended the 97th National Communication Association

Reacting to the Past Students in the IDST seminar class required for all freshmen found themselves in the WayBack Machine, transported to Athens in 403 B.C. and becoming members of Athenian society. This refreshing way to look at history and how societies function is a program called Reacting to the Past, which was developed at Barnard College in New York City. Although a number of colleges and universities use the program with small groups, such as honors students, Schreiner is one of only a few using RTTP for an entire class of students.

Dr. William Woods, dean of the School of Liberal Arts, noted that Schreiner’s use of the program “serves as a strong reminder of our innovative nature.” Class outcomes do not necessarily reflect historical facts. In one class the student-Athenians voted to give women and slaves the right to vote.

annual conference in November, at which she presented two papers in the Social Cognition and Mass Communication Divisions on the links between real media violence, moral disengagement and empathy. She also chaired a panel for the International and Intercultural Communication Division. She will be receiving the Top Paper in Mass Communication award at the Southern States Communication Association convention in April for her paper “Boys don’t cry... but do girls? Gender, Empathic Distress and Enjoyment of Real Media Violence.” Two of her students’ original research papers have also been accepted for presentation.

Jay McCormack, visiting assistant professor of business, presented Schreiner University’s signature program Integrity Ambassadors in Business in October at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference, Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility, in Long Beach, Calif. He also presented a series of lectures titled “The Perfect Storm: A Discussion of Real Estate Markets, Investments and Forecasts, 2000-2014,” at Wells Fargo’s Private Banking University, San Francisco, in November.

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Faculty Out and About

Dr. Adam Feltz, assistant professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies, has four publications in press: Schulz, E., Cokely, E.T. & Feltz, A.:

“Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: A test of the Expertise Defense” for the journal Consciousness and Cognition; Feltz, A., Harris, M. & Perez, A.: “Perspective in intentional action attribution,” for Philosophical Psychology; Feltz, A., Perez, A. & Harris, M.: “Free will, causes and decisions: Individual differences in written reports” for The Journal of Consciousness Studies; and Cokely, E.T. & Feltz, A.: “Virtue in business: Morally better, praiseworthy, trustworthy and more satisfying,” Journal of Organizational Moral Psychology. In summer 2011, Feltz gave a presentation on “Persistent Bias in Philosophical Intuitions” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Group in Berlin. In addition, work in Schreiner’s Behavioral Philosophy Lab, which Feltz founded, has been featured in Scientific American, The New Scientists and Miller-McCune magazines.

Pictured in the top photo is Dr. William Woods with some of his student Athenians. In the bottom photo, also from Dr. Woods’ class, are Conner McLauchlan (left), who played General Thrasybulus, and Dylan Schlemmer, who was a moderate democrat.

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Little Known Schreiner Facts .) .. in k n u J m a S e r a (unless you The Muse

Greased Pigs?

In the mid 1950s, when Schreiner had a football team, a greased pig catch was part of the Homecoming halftime entertainment.

The Muse started out as The Parade; SCENE evolved from The Bulletin and Recall was the name of the yearbook. (Recall as a gathering of what were known as “exeys” was homecoming.) The Mountaineer student newspaper once came out weekly, with paid ads for Coca Cola, Pampell’s and Schreiner Department Store.

Schreiner junior college and college teams have pretty much always been Mountaineers. High school teams were The Rebels.

1958 “boarding student” enrollment was 260, the highest since 1946 when World War II veterans returning to school made temporary housing necessary.

Ground was broken for a swimming pool—the first

stage in the new Gus Schreiner Student Center—in November 1956. The pool, which had five 25-meter racing lanes and two diving boards still exists (with some modifications) under The Commons between the dining hall and CCAC.

Melody Corner A favorite student hang out, the Melody Corner was located in Peterson’s Goodyear Store on the first floor of the Peterson Hospital Building. No. 1 on The Melody Corner’s Top Ten in 1958 was Bobby Day and “Rockin’ Robin.” Also on that list, “Bird Dog” by the Everly Brothers and The Imperials with “Tears on My Pillow.”

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In the 1930s,

a two-acre plot “near the southeast corner of campus” was put aside as a vegetable garden. It provided the dining hall with tomatoes, beans, radishes, turnips, mustard, okra and onions. The well that provided water for the plot was put down during Schreiner’s first year.

In April 1958 a day-long, campuswide blackout caused inconvenience for everyone, but perhaps mostly, The Mountaineer student newspaper noted, for the campus cows. They were milked with electric milking machines.

Schreiner once had a

the dormitories (Schreiner Hall, Dickey Hall, Hoon Hall, Delaney Hall, South Barracks and West Barracks) got pay phones. Residents contributed 50 cents each, and “if any phone does not take in a minimum of $11 a month from 10-cent local calls, the difference will be made up from the fund.”

In the 1950s, ranching

students were allowed to bring their favorite animals with them as they learned to become ranch managers and foremen. This information was illustrated by a photo of a young woman in dress, sweater, dressy shoes, and an armful of books standing beside a sheep with a smug look.

Taxidermy Club.

Pilot Training

Big news in 1958:

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Bovine Blackout

The Guy Griggs Building started out as the Griggs Health Center.

It replaced a frame building that had been the school’s infirmary since 1930.

No changes were made to the outside and minimal changes to the inside when it became home to Schreiner’s human resources department.

In 1939, one of the most popular courses on campus was flight instruction—ground school and flight training—provided by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Ten young men soloed that year. Many pilots who trained at Schreiner went on to fly planes for the U.S. during World War II.

There was once a cannon at the school entrance.

Jane Flato Hall was the first Schreiner dorm with air-conditioning. It opened in 1966. Jane Flato was a Schreiner student during the summer of 1942.

In 1933, so many Schreiner students had gone on to The University of Texas that an Ex-Schreiner Club was started at UT.

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Kent Black

All in the Family

by Amy armstrong

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ou could say Kent Black has BBQ in his blood.

The 1972 Schreiner graduate’s grandfather started Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart, Texas— the oldest BBQ restaurant in the country owned by the same family.

But Black took the long way around into the family business.

“My parents always said get an education, have a career and if you want to come back to the family business you can,” Black said.

He took them at their word.

After graduating from Schreiner, Black later went on to earn a law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston.

After that, Black returned home to Lockhart and opened up a private practice next door

to the family restaurant.

His father, Edgar Black, would call him during the lunch rush and tell him to come over and help out.

“I would tuck my tie into my shirt and serve up brisket,” Black said.

While in Lockhart, Black practiced family law then served as a municipal court judge.

In 1988, he went to work for the state of Texas as a prosecutor in the Health and Human Services Department. He worked in childcare protective services, adult protective services and helped to regulate both child and adult care centers.

“I liked being on the right side of the issue,” Black said. “Helping to take care of those who couldn’t take care of themselves is really fulfilling.”

After retiring with the state

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“My parents always said get an education, have a career and if you want to come back to the family business you can.”

— Kent Black

in 2008, Black went back to help run the restaurant.

“I wasn’t really planning to come back but the manager left so I agreed to come back and run the place,” Black said.

Coincidentally, Black’s father took a similar path.

“He went back to the business to help his father for a couple of weeks and that turned into 60 years,” Black said.

Since Black has taken over the business he has made it his mission to expand the company’s Internet reach with the help of his son, Barrett Black, known as the virtual pitmaster.

“Pitmaster” is an industry title for BBQ cooks.

“We have a huge Web presence now,” Black said. “Barrett has worked

really hard to make the website dynamic and easy to order from.”

And the new website brought a whole new dimension to the business.

An entertainment agent saw the revamped website and wanted to represent Black’s.

That led to Black’s first appearance on QVC in June and, boy, what a hit that was. In eight minutes, they sold 1,000 briskets and 1,000 bottles of BBQ sauce.

The sauce is Norma Jean Black’s, Kent Black’s mother’s, own recipe.

“My parents developed a cooking process that is really complicated,” Black said. “There are 15 steps, there is a family recipe dry rub and a certain wood you have to use and certain meat. It’s what you don’t put on the meat that really counts.”

Black has been back to QVC seven or eight times since his first appearance and has plans to one day expand to other cities.

“We can have an unlimited national presence through the power of the Internet,” Black said.

But despite all the state-of-theart technology, Black said, the main thing is to treat people right.

“You are only as good as the last meal you serve,” Black said. “You have to treat your customers with respect, they are the boss. You also have to treat your staff with respect.

This business is like our house.”

Black is coming back to Schreiner for Recall in April not only as a participant but also to bring his yummy food to the lucky attendees.

“I met some great people and forged wonderful friendships while I was at Schreiner,” Black said. “I am starting to reconnect with classmates and that is really fun. I can’t believe how much the campus has changed since my time at Schreiner.

“My favorite professor was Pete Hallman (professor emeritus of English),” Black said. “He was really outstanding and tough and he really pushed you.”

And in Black’s case that has certainly worked out well.

Photo above: Kent Black ’72 in front of Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart, Texas.

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Texas:

Hung Out to Dry

by Louise Kohl Leahy Illustration by Jake Hawk Roa

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n Texas these days that old country saying “You never miss the water ’til the well runs dry” sounds less like an aphorism and more like hindsight. The 2011 drought

was the worst one-year drought since 1895, when the state first began collecting rainfall data.

Many Texas wells went—and remain—dry and we’re all surely missing the water.

Before 2011, the worst one-year drought hit the state in 1925. It affected 14.6 percent of the state. In 2011, 55.8 percent of Texas was dry.

In fact, studies of tree-ring data at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory-Columbia University showed that the last time Texas was

this dry was in 1789, when the U.S. was barely a country. That was the year George Washington was unanimously elected the first American president, the French Revolution was warming up and the first American public university— University of North Carolina—was founded.

How dry was it in 2011? Abandoned towns, gravestones and even a border church started reappearing from lakes as their water levels fell, as did prehistoric sites and fossils. Archaeologists might be the only people to find something positive in the weather. Ranchers had to sell off or kill livestock—not only because of the scarcity of water, but also the scarcity of affordable feed. Losses to

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ranchers and farmers reached a record $5.2 billion.

You just have to look around to see the damage: You can count the ribs on local white tail deer, water levels in rivers are way down and creeks have dried up. We’ve had a little rain now, but almost all of last year it was hard to spot the color green in nature, unless it was a dusty olive drab.

It even looks bad from space. NASA maps (www. nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/tx-drought.html) show groundwater and soil moisture levels in the state have dropped to a 60-year low. Rainfall in Texas for the first nine months of 2011 was 13 inches below normal. And climatologists are predicting the drought will last through 2020. Now there’s a thought.

“It’s entirely possible this drought could go through 2020, in the sense that climatologists would see the nine-year span as one event,” said Dr. Chris Distel, an environmental biologist and assistant professor of biology at Schreiner. “However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all the coming years will be as bad as last year.”

Then again, it could be just as bad.

Distel’s research focuses on amphibians and their responses to changes in their surroundings and resources.

He is responsible for designing and implementing Schreiner’s field biology program and when he came here in 2010, that’s where his students did their research—in the field, in local rivers. However, Distel said he has been unable to start any amphibian projects this year because of the drought and he has had to restructure his approach.

“We’ll do amphibian research next year with aquaria in the lab,” he said. “What we study will depend on the availability of local resources.”

He added that he had used cattle tanks in the past, but “with stage 4 water restrictions I don’t feel right about filling tanks right now.”

The problem is motility as well as mortality. Not only have many species had die-backs, including, Distel said, a surprising number of tadpoles, but as resources become scarcer and even disappear, mature animals are heading for comparatively greener pastures.

“Some are still hanging around the river,” Distel said, “and when conditions improve, they will move back to their original areas. They’re equipped to deal with this; it’s not unusual to have a year in which almost everything dies off, even in wet areas. Amphibians are mobile, they breed 18 Spring 2012 SCENE

2-5 years of their lives and have offspring by the dozens to the thousands, although not all survive to adulthood.”

Even so, Distel said that if the drought came to an end tomorrow, it would take a long time for the flora and fauna to recover to pre-drought levels.

“For amphibians, it would probably take two to three years,” he said. “That’s one generation, with eggs laid this year reaching sexual maturity by then.”

Unfortunately, as long as we have drought, even fewer amphibian young will survive than usual, as their parents move to find water in which to lay their eggs—water which now contains a greater than usual number of predatory fish who also are looking for areas with more water.

And, of course, the drought also has a negative effect on the Hill Country’s human population. Many we all know about: lack of local produce and meat, the weeks of temperatures over 100 degrees, higher utility bills, trees that once shaded homes dying; in fact, make that one-half billion trees dead from drought in the state. In addition to that, Distel said he had heard of several people getting sick from swimming in the Guadalupe River.

“The low water concentrates what’s in the water and the extreme heat makes nice growing conditions for bacteria,” he said. “There’s always bacteria in the water, but it is kept at a low concentration by the flow. Now there’s no flow.”

Dr. Tom Arsuffi is another local expert in weather and environment, especially water issues in the Hill Country.

He is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and director of the Llano River Field Station at Texas Tech in Junction, and one of the organizers of the annual Texas Water Symposium presentations, of which Schreiner is a sponsor. The topic for the October 2011 symposium was, “Drought: What, Where, Why and When…Will It End?” Arsuffi believes the word that best describes our Hill Country weather is “flashy.”

“Weather in the Hill Country takes pretty abrupt swings between lots of rain and flood, and drought. That’s nature, that’s the planet, that’s the cycle,” he said, adding “the driving force behind weather patterns is heat.”

Carbon dioxide is one of the most prevalent heattrapping gasses produced by mammals, burning forests and fossil fuels in industry and autos.

“More carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere are heating things up,”

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he said. “More heat causes climate changes that exacerbate weather patterns, causing much heavier rains and longer and more intense droughts.

“Earth is a closed system. All that stuff is still with us. It’s not escaping to outer space. We haven’t seen the new normal yet, because the climate is still changing as carbon dioxide continues to increase in our atmosphere.”

Full recovery from the drought will take more than a little greening up after a couple of rainstorms; both Distel and Arsuffi agreed it won’t happen overnight. Every one of us adds to heat-trapping gases while forests that clear carbon dioxide from our atmosphere are being reduced all over the planet.

Unless we address this fact, weather in the Hill Country—and everywhere else—will continue to move to the extremes: more drought, more flooding; more ice, more heat.

“We should try to be better stewards of the

Texas Water

Symposium Series

The Texas Water Symposium Series is sponsored annually by Schreiner University, Texas Tech University, Texas Public Radio and Hill Country Alliance. Topics of discussion at the 2012-2013 symposia will be • “EARIP, The Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program: The Final Chapter to the Never-Ending Story?”

• “SB3: How Much Water Is Needed to Maintain Healthy Environments for Texas Rivers, Bays and Estuaries?”

• “Fracking; That Energy/Water Nexus Thing Again” For information about dates and locations, please check for updates at www.schreiner.edu/water/index.htm.

environment,” Distel said. “We should try to use less water in every possible aspect of our lives, remembering that water is used for manufacturing and refining processes, too. Even our clothes required water in their production. Water and energy use are closely tied.”

And tied not only to each other, but to the weather.

Here’s another scary thing to mull over.

Much of the Arctic areas on our planet are covered in permafrost, soil and buried organic material that has been frozen for thousands of years. If global warming melts the permafrost, the decomposing oncefrozen matter will release a lot of carbon dioxide. How much? So much that even if we shut down every car and manufacturing plant in the whole world, there would still be too much CO2 in the atmosphere, more than enough to maintain and increase the greenhouse effect. We will have passed the tipping point.

If that happens, Texans won’t be living in a drought area. We will be living in a desert.

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Schreiner, the gr ass turned dry st iff and brown and the ground tu rned to dust just like most of the rest of the state.

It was a good inc entive to stay on the pa ved foot paths for a chan ge .

About 30 trees were taken down around the camp us, but Dale M ye director of the En rs, vironmental Manag ement Complex, does not believe th e drought was dir ectly to blame; although he said it probably hasten ed the process.

“I don’ t believe the drought of 20 11 had a lot to do with the trees we lost this year ,” M yers said.

“Almost all of th em were old or ha d rot or wind damage. It was m ainly an older mix of hackberry, box elder and china berry trees that had been dying a little each year, an d about 17 live oa ks that had been declining for som e time. We are aw ait ing spring budding to see if we ha ve lost an y of our pecan trees.” www.schreiner.edu Spring 2012 19

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hen Dr. Bill and Susan Sliva drive away from the Schreiner University campus this May, you might hear “On the Road Again” in the background.

Hitting the Road Bill and Susan Sliva

by Amy Armstrong

Photos, left to right: The Slivas at Red Rock State Park; Dr. Bill Sliva at the Wyoming Territorial Prison; Susan Sliva serving as a docent in Wyoming; The Slivas at the prison broom factory and serving as lighthouse hosts at the Yaquina Bay State Park.

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The duo, retiring after more than 30 years at SU, plans to sell their house and hit the road in their RV to spend more time performing volunteer work. This is not a new thing­—it’s what they’ve done almost every summer for 11 years.

Bill, is a professor of mathematics and Susan who retired from teaching last year came back this semester part time to teach mathematics. They came to Kerrville in 1980 to teach at what was then Schreiner College.

Needless to say, a name change is not the only difference between now and then.

“No doubt we have seen a lot of changes,” Bill said. “New buildings, more students, more programs. There has been a lot of growth.”

One thing that hasn’t changed is the Slivas’ love of teaching.

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“It is all about the students,” Bill said. Susan added that to see the students come in as freshmen and watch them grow and mature is really something special.

During their summer holiday the Slivas turned their love of camping into a way to help others.

While camping at state parks, they spent time talking to the campground hosts and decided hosting was something they wanted to do.

So in 2001, they spent the first of several summers serving as campground hosts at the James Robb Colorado River State Park in Grand Junction, Colo.

It was their stints at Red Rock State Park in Sedona, Ariz., in 2006 and 2007 that led them to a new experience in Oregon as campground hosts at South Beach State Park in Newport.

While there, other volunteers told them about Yaquina Bay State Park also in Newport, where the Slivas worked as lighthouse hosts.

Last year, they spent the summer as docents at Wyoming Territorial

Prison State Historic Site in Laramie.

“We learned we really like being docents,” Susan said, which is why they are headed back there in May. After they leave Wyoming, they hope to be headed to Seaside, Calif., to work as volunteers for Laborers for Christ, but they don’t know yet if they will be selected.

“We want to do more volunteer work while we are healthy enough to do it,” Susan said.

When you volunteer, Bill said, you are getting much more than you are giving.

“In addition to helping people, you get to meet people from all over the world,” he said.

“We have met a lot of people over the years and we still keep in touch with many of them,” Susan said. “It is a great community of people.”

The pair began as tent campers but a run-in with fire ants led them to purchase their first RV in 1989.

They love the RV life so much they decided to sell their house and make the vehicle their home.

“It really is a simple life and a home on wheels,” Susan said.

Known as a “fifth wheel” because it is towed by another vehicle, their RV is about 325 square feet inside and about 35 feet long.

“We want the freedom to go where we want, when we want, without having to worry about taking care of a house when we get back,” Susan said.

Another great community of people the Slivas plan to keep in touch with is the SU community.

“Definitely the hardest part about leaving Schreiner will be leaving the students and our colleagues,” Bill said.

“We still keep in touch with some of our students and I am sure we will continue to check in here at Schreiner.”

Both hope to see Schreiner continue to grow after they are gone.

“I don’t want SU to lose the personal touch,” Susan said. “I would like to see the programs continue to be enhanced and modified.”

Bill added that he expects to see Schreiner’s name recognition grow as a premier place of learning.

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Schreiner to join Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

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chreiner has accepted an invitation to join the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in the 2013-14 academic year. Currently, Schreiner

is one of 16 members of the American Southwest Conference and will continue as a member until the move to the SCAC on July 1, 2013.

“This is an important step for Schreiner University, both academically and athletically,” said SU president Dr. Tim Summerlin.

“The SCAC is a highly respected conference and for very good reasons. That these institutions have unanimously extended an invitation for Schreiner to join the SCAC means much to us. We believe that it signifies a recognition that Schreiner has made great progress in its goal of being a premier place of learning as well as becoming increasingly competitive in its 13 intercollegiate athletic programs.

We are honored by the invitation.”

“We are pleased that Schreiner University has elected to join the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference,” said Austin College president Marjorie Hass, who currently serves as the chair of the SCAC board of directors.

“Schreiner represents another fine institution that has worked hard to find balance for its solid academic program and competitive

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NCAA Division III athletics program. We are all impressed with the commitment Schreiner has displayed in the review process and anticipate many competitive games and matches in the years to come with our new conference partner.”

The SCAC is made up of some the most prestigious academic institutions in America. In the fall of 2012 there will be six members of the conference: Trinity University, Southwestern University, Austin College, University of Dallas, Colorado College and Centenary College. Like Schreiner, Centenary is currently a member of the ASC but will be moving to the SCAC this summer.

Schreiner will become the seventh member the following summer.

“I am delighted with the presidents’ affirmative response to the membership application of Schreiner University,” said SCAC commissioner Dwayne Hanberry.

“We feel very pleased and fortunate to have been invited into the SCAC,” says Ron Macosko, director of athletics at Schreiner University.

“In the fall of 2013, we will align ourselves with some of the top teaching institutions and athletic programs in the country. Although Schreiner is young as a university, it has made great strides in recent years, in terms of enrollment growth, facilities expansion and academic

quality. We are committed to broadbased programs and recognize that academic success is the first priority for our student-athletes. We are pleased that the SCAC leadership saw these commitments when they made their decision to invite us.”

Summerlin and Macosko both expressed their satisfaction with more than a decade of association with the ASC. “We are thankful for the opportunity to have been members of the ASC for the past 12 years and will be active members through the coming year,” Macosko said.

“Whenever you make a decision like this, it also means that you will be leaving schools with which you have shared a strong competitive bond. But at this time, we feel that this is the best decision for our university and our studentathletes as we move forward.”

Schreiner made the decision for its athletic programs to move from NAIA athletic scholarship status to NCAA Division III, where there are no athletic scholarships, in the late 1990s when it joined the ASC. Schreiner offers 13 sports programs currently: volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s golf.

Senior Tyrie Prince (#23) and freshman Travis Pflughaupt (#0) battle for a rebound in the first round of the ASC tournament. Junior Manny Longoria looks on.

The biggest athletic news at SU so far this year is the Schreiner men’s basketball February win in front of a packed Edington Center. Despite losing starters Darren Smith early in the game and Stevan Guerrero two weeks earlier to injuries and starting center Travis Pflughaupt breaking his nose in practice the day before, the gutsy Mountaineers prevailed over Concordia-TX, 90-76 and earned the school’s first postseason bid to the ASC tournament. SU fell to UT Dallas in the first round of the playoffs.

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Men’s Basketball

Team photo: Front row, left to right: Brandon Knotts, Ryan Evans, Ethan Catalani, Darren Smith, Kevin Carrell, Tyrie Prince, Manny Longoria, Mike Huddleston, Mike Stewart, John Davison and Garrett Enriquez. Second row, left to right: coach Daniel Perez, student manager Randy Jones, Dustin Linder, Tyler Guderyahn, AJ Myers, Landon Kosacek, Jerome Harrell, Travis Pflughaupt, Theo Duplechain, Trent Noack, Stevan Guerrero, Casey Alfred, Matt Topham and head coach Drew Miller.

Women’s Basketball The Schreiner women’s basketball team took a huge step this season by tying the school record for the most wins in the NCAA era by posting a 7-18 record.

Two of the team’s biggest contributors earned recognition from the American Southwest Conference. Sophomore Olivia Swarner earned Honorable Mention All-ASC West and Karisa Cantu was named ASC West Division Freshman of the Year. Swarner led the team in most offensive and rebounding categories this year. She averaged 11.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season. She also led the team in blocked shots with 25 for the season. Possibly her best game of the year came late in the season when she scored 22 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a close loss at Mary Hardin-Baylor. She had another big game earlier in the season when the Mountaineers beat UMHB, scoring 20 points and grabbing 14 rebounds. Cantu had several standout performances in her rookie collegiate season. The first was a 24-point effort in a home win over Ozarks in December. Then came a 35-point game in a road win at Texas Lutheran that avenged a home loss to the Lady Bulldogs just a couple of weeks earlier. She was third on the team in scoring at just under nine points per game, and was second on the team in rebounding at 3.6/game and led the team in assists with 2.3 per contest. The Mountaineers have improved steadily under the guidance of head coach Matt Wallis, who just completed his third season and second full year at the helm of the program.

Freshman Karisa Cantu was named ASC West Division Freshman of the Year.

Team photo: Sitting down, left to right: Bailey Harris, Kristy Guerra, Melanie Cavazos, Michele Navarro, Chelsea Sims, Danika Cervenka, Burgandy Partain and Hayley Jordan. Standing, left to right: Mercedes Corona, Karisa Cantu, Jasmin Copeland, Mari Duran, Jessica Galindo, Olivia Swarner, Chelsea Watters, Ashley Bryand, Ashton Vincent, Lindsey Peterson, Colby Adolph, Brandy Vaclavick, Alexis Sendejo and Lia Phillips.

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hen Marvin Singleton left Baytown to start his college career, he did not know Schreiner Institute and Kerrville would become places he would never forget. Landing

Honor Student Then, Honored Donor Now:

Marvin Singleton

By Karen Davis Kilgore Planned Giving Advisor and Director of Development

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on campus in 1958, Singleton immersed himself—as a scholar, an athlete, a campus leader.

“I enjoyed the camaraderie of a small school with small classes, enabling nearly individual attention of the professors. We had the opportunity to have a complete range of subjects to explore in a liberal arts tradition, which was a tremendous academic base that prepared me for a wonderful life,” remembers Singleton.

Singleton was everywhere—a student speleologist—no doubt exploring caves with Professor Harry Crate. But he also participated in the Archaeology and Physics clubs, the Texas Academy of Science, the Chem-Tex club and served as president of the honor society, Phi Theta Kappa. As a member of

the tennis team, he credits coach Laurence Becker with “having the patience of Job.” (See page 28 for exciting news about coach Becker.)

Other teachers also gave him enormous encouragement, mentors he cannot forget: Kelly Hildebrand (math), Robert Carden (biology), Dr. G.G. Rowe (French) and Gordon Hanchey (chemistry). One of his vibrant memories is receiving the President’s Medal from Dr. Andrew Edington—against the backdrop of a sparkling new building, the Gus Schreiner Student Center.

He also remembers his classmates in Hoon and Schreiner halls as “a great group of guys: Ernest Kimbrough, Malcolm Pettit and all the rest. Eugene White was also a scholarship kid from Baytown.”

After earning his associate degree in 1960, Singleton continued his studies at University of the South and then at University of Tennessee Medical School. He also pursued post-doctoral work from Tennessee and California to South

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America. He spent many years as an otolaryngologist and a prolific contributor to medical journals and symposia. Then—in the midst of his medical career—the busy earnose-and-throat doc ran and won four races for the State Senate of Missouri. If this were not enough, he also raised Arabian horses.

Now living in Fayetteville, Ark., he has not slowed down much. In 2010, he served as senior surgical physician in Hawkes Bay District, New Zealand, and is ready to take on another interim assignment any time, almost anywhere.

Over the years, Singleton has reflected on the good and kind preparation Schreiner gave him and knew he wanted to give back.

“One of the ways I have decided to show my appreciation for having been given an opportunity at Schreiner was to contribute to the University as I have done with other institutions and efforts that I believe in. There are multiple ways one can contribute, but one

of the methods that I thought best for me was through a charitable gift annuity,” he explains.

Singleton liked the ease of establishing a gift annuity through the Texas Presbyterian Foundation, a simple process that took less than a week. The alumnus liked it so well that he has now funded a second one. After these plans have provided guaranteed income for him, the remaining assets will help Schreiner underwrite scholarships for other deserving young people— perhaps some future doctors!

“It probably doesn’t matter how you give,” the honorable Doctor Singleton says. “But at least consider giving something back to those who have helped in the past so they may continue that same assistance to others. That is the best legacy we can leave the future.”

Photo: The Honorable Marvin Singleton, M.D., presiding over the Missouri State Senate, where he represented Jasper, McDonald and Newton counties throughout the 1990s.

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Honoring Our Alumni

by Louise Kohl Leahy

Distinguished Alumnus Roy Quillin Minton

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ormer student Roy Quillin Minton came to Schreiner Institute as a midterm cadet in 1949, at least in part, he said, “to straighten up my act.” Even

though a cousin had attended Schreiner earlier, it was just a little curious that Minton ended up on the Schreiner Institute campus.

“I was raised in Denton six blocks from the North Texas State College [now University of North Texas] and I had gone to grade school and part of high school there,” Minton said.

Maybe it wasn’t so curious, after all.

Minton seems to have had an idiosyncratic—but nonetheless successful—approach to his college education.

“I came to Schreiner midterm because I had taken off from school for the fall term,” he said. “I did that all the way through college. I’d take off the falls and go to college in the springs and summers.”

Schreiner wasn’t his first introduction to the Texas Hill Country. His family spent summers between Ingram and Hunt at Camp Waltonia, which has been owned by

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the Secor family since 1923.

“You could say I grew up there,” Minton said. “That’s one reason I came to Schreiner Institute; I love that area.”

Minton still spends part of his summers at Waltonia.

During those semesters off, Minton worked for a Houston law firm and flew planes. He got his private pilot’s license when he was 17 and “just sold my last airplane a few years ago.”

Not surprisingly, Minton joined the U.S. Air Force after leaving Schreiner. After his tour of duty as a USAF pilot and marrying his wife Barbara, he served in the Texas Air National Guard at Hensley Field in Dallas from 1956-59 as Flight Commander Captain. He received a B.A. degree with honors from NTSC in 1958. In 1961, The University of Texas School of Law awarded him a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He graduated a member of Phi Delta Phi International, one of the oldest legal organizations in the U.S. “I worked as a clerk during law school,” Minton said, “and I just never got out of town.”

He still works for the firm he started with the late Perry Jones, now Minton, Burton, Bassett and Collins.

His sons, Perry and David, are attorneys with the firm as well.

Minton is a litigator who has taken on cases across the legal spectrum, including a number that involved Texas politicians, such as Ann Richards, Bob Bullock and Bill Clayton.

“I’d like to think it’s my outstanding abilities as an attorney that brought all those politicians to me,” Minton said, “But I think it might have been my location.”

The firm is located two blocks from the Capitol in Austin.

Minton—along with the other attorneys in the firm—has been named among the Best Lawyers in Texas by Best Lawyers in America, the “oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession” (www.bestlawyers.com). Texas Monthly has named him a Super Lawyer six times.

“I appreciate that stuff,” Minton said. “But as you get older, well, people have to decorate someone.”

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Athletic Hall of Honor Richard L. Harben

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ick Harben’s résumé might lead one to believe that he has done everything at Schreiner except be a student. After all, he coached, taught and

served in Schreiner’s administration over a 43-year career here. One would be wrong, though. For a former basketball coach, he sure knows how to cover all the bases.

“Well, I have taken a few classes for credit here,” Harben said. “I took a Texas government class I needed to get my teacher’s certification, and I took classes in calculus, analytical geometry and college algebra. When I first came here, I taught algebra and I wanted to stay sharp.”

Harben was born and raised in Benton, Ill., and attended Benton Consolidated High School, where he lettered in basketball, cross country and track and held a record in cross country. In 1954, just as he was about to graduate, the high school basketball coach was taking a friend of his to Erskine College, in Due West, S.C., to try out for the team there.

His friend asked Harben to come with him, they both tried out and the Erskine coach offered both of them room, board, tuition and books if they would play for Erskine.

“My friend agreed immediately,” Harben said. “And when I said, ‘Well, I don’t know,’ he said, ‘Come on, Dick. I don’t want to be

here alone.’ So I went to Erskine, even though I hadn’t any thought before then about going to college. I was planning to be a mechanic.”

Harben came to Schreiner right after his graduation from Erskine College in 1958— “with a pregnant wife (Jane), a ’51 Kaiser, hot and no air conditioning.” Harben was the dorm supervisor for Hoon Hall, which was then a freshman dormitory, and the Harbens moved into a first-floor apartment.

“Those guys would jump from the second floor to the landing and then run the rest of the way,” Harben recalled. “I was always out there hollering at them not to run in the dorm. It was an interesting experience, supervising those boys.”

Harben remembers disciplining some of the boys by putting them to work shoveling out the stables, but said the punishment they really didn’t like was pulling milkweed in Schreiner’s playing fields: “It was too sticky.”

During his career at Schreiner, Harben taught at Schreiner Institute, College and University, was a basketball coach, dean of students and vice president of student affairs. He also was the faculty sponsor for the All-Girl Rodeo, which was held at the Kerrville Ag Barn.

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And a lifeguard, too?

“Dean Weir announced that the coaching staff had to be lifeguards during the summer,” Harben remembered. “I could swim but not that well. I mentioned that to one of the other coaches and he told me ‘just throw them the ring.’

You didn’t say no to Dean Weir. Well, he didn’t exactly ask, either.”

Weir had promised Harben that he and his family would be moved into A.C. Schreiner as soon as renovations, including the first-floor dining hall, were complete.

Harben’s second year at Schreiner rolled around with the renovations still under way.

“Dean Weir talked to me and said, ‘Since we can’t move you right now, I would be happy to renew your contract or help you find another job.’”

Harben stayed and moved into A.C. Schreiner as soon as the work there was finished. All three Harben children were born in Kerrville and raised on the Schreiner campus. Their daughter Ann married a Schreiner student, Gary Carr, who was catcher on Schreiner’s first baseball team.

Harben’s high school running career turned into a lifelong love of running. At 44, he ran his first (and last) marathon— having run from Fredericksburg High School to Tivy High School as part of his training—in under four hours.

“It was just under,” Harben said, “but it was under.”

Since retiring from Schreiner, he exercises weekly in the Mountaineer Center and does woodwork.

“I do woodwork for my kids and for my own pleasure,” Harben said. “I made a magic wand for my granddaughter, with a magnet on the tip so she could tap on things and pick them up. She thought it was the greatest thing ever, until she sat on it and broke it in half.

“I like retirement,” he added. “You can do whatever you want, when you want to. I might be slow, but I get there.”

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Athletic Hall of Honor Laurence Becker

L

aurence Becker lives in Austin in the house he grew up in. He

met his future wife in his back yard at a Sunday evening gathering of college students from University Presbyterian Church. Not a lot has changed over the years—except the address.

“I was born in Austin on 39½ Street and we moved way up north to 42½ Street,” he said. “45th Street was the north edge of town in those days. Today, 42½ Street is Park Boulevard, but my wife and I still live in the same house.”

From that you might think that Becker is something of a stay-at-home. Far from it.

Becker came to Schreiner Institute in 1958, after attending the University of Texas, where he played on UT’s 1957 tennis team—a team that set a school record for most wins and was ranked #3 nationally.

Becker has been ranked in the top three players in Texas more than once. Clearly, he was a great choice to coach SI’s tennis team from 1958-1962, especially when you consider that his Schreiner team won three national titles in 1962: the singles, doubles and team championships. Becker also taught Bible and English at Schreiner, and was a dormitory supervisor.

He had had another offer of a job, at

formerstudents

Sheldon Jackson Junior College located on the Baranof Island in Alaska. But as Becker noted, “the tennis season in Alaska is very short.” He came to Schreiner.

“Dr. Edington hired me to teach the entire Bible in one semester to high school students who needed it to graduate,” Becker said. “My preparation to take on such an assignment consisted of having been a lifelong Presbyterian and having studied for two years at the Christian Faith and Life Community, an ecumenical lay theological study center near The University of Texas-Austin.”

All the teaching and coaching didn’t keep him pinned down in Kerrville.

“I was teaching the courses, supervising a two-story dorm with 72 boys, coaching high school and college tennis and I was a member of the Naval Reserve in San Antonio,” Becker said.

“On one of my days off, I would drive to San Antonio, play tennis, take care of my Reserve duties and visit Rosanne.”

Rosanne would be that young woman at the Presbyterian youth meeting in his backyard. They have been married for 52 years now and have three children.

Becker is apparently adept at doing more than one job and doing them all well. After leaving Schreiner, he taught at St. Stephen’s High School in Austin. After 11 years at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, he and his family moved to rural Maine to work with Bill Coperthwaite and the Yurt Foundation for four years.

“Rosanne said it felt like four winters because it was so cold for most of the year,” Becker said.

The Yurt Foundation (www. yurtinfo.org) is an educational nonprofit that gathers folk knowledge from cultures all over the world, using it to design simpler ways of living in the modern world. The first yurt in Texas was built by students and their parents in 1972 on the grounds of St. Stephen’s.

While he was at St. Stephen’s, Becker also founded the Texas Students’ Film Festival, which he directed for six years. In 1983

he produced the award-winning documentary “Eyes Wide Open,” about the autistic artist Richard Wawro, who until Becker’s film had been considered retarded with an IQ of 30. Dustin Hoffman used this film in preparing for the movie “Rain Man.” Becker is now an international expert on artistic autistic savants like Wawro, and organizes art exhibitions and presentations around the country.

Juggling various projects at once opens Becker’s life to the process of synchronicity, to which he attributes all the many roads his life’s journey has taken.

“Synchronicity has been a notable part of my life,” he said.

Tennis also has been a notable part of his life, in both his 65 years as a player and in a 50-year coaching career that started at Schreiner.

“My four years in the trenches at Schreiner Institute, with fellow faculty members and so many memorable students, certainly taught me more that I could have ever learned in any classroom, in any university, anywhere,” Becker said.

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class notes Your fellow alumni would love to know where you are and what you’ve been up to. Submitting a class note is easy: just visit https://forms.schreiner.edu/classnotes.html or contact us at 830-792-7405 or scene@schreiner.edu.

1940s

Captain Jack Stevens ’43, U.S.

Navy (Retired), wrote, “After two years in the junior college portion of Schreiner Institute I entered the Naval Academy in 1943, graduating in 1946 (as a member of the Class of 1947).

Immediately married my hometown sweetie, the former Frances Real, and set out for Navy flight training.

Flew for the Navy about 30 years, retired, came back home, bought some of Frances’ father’s ranch land above Hunt and since 1976 we’ve been ranching, dancing and visiting Las Vegas every now and then. Was involved in the original planning of the Schreiner Former Students Association and have participated in many Recalls. On June 12, 2012, Frances and I will celebrate our 66th wedding anniversary. Couldn’t ask for any more!”

1950s

Ed Berrio ’56

attended high school and junior college at Schreiner. He wrote, “Well, the month of December was quite a month for Ed Berrio and family. I was diagnosed with muscle spasm Thanksgiving Day at the UT/ Aggie final game. Didn’t see the game but listened to it from College Station to Houston, watched the last nine minutes from my chair in Houston.

Go Horns!! Ann took me to ER at the Methodist Hospital in the Houston

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Medical Center and was diagnosed with brain cancer. I was operated on a Thursday and released from hospital Sunday morning. Hard to keep a Schreiner graduate down. I am now taking radiation for 6-1/2 weeks. No ill effects so far. Cows are doing fine and have green grass, too. Our grandson is in the Army and going to school in Fort Lee, Va. He came home for Christmas. Our twins doing good, too; they are down in Wharton, Texas, and almost two years old.”

Legendary Baltimore Colts wide receiver and Hall of Famer Raymond Berry ’51 took part in the post-game Vince Lombardi Trophy ceremony at Super Bowl XLVI by bringing the trophy onto the field to be presented to this year’s champions. Berry, who also was receivers coach for the New England Patriots from 1978-81 and came back as Patriots head coach in 1984, has been honored by Schreiner as a member of the Athletic Hall of Honor and a Distinguished Alumnus.

In a playing career stretching from 1954-67, Berry dropped only two passes and ended his career as a player with an NFL record 631 receptions for 9,275 yards and 68 touchdowns.

Kerr Mitchell ’55 and his wife Mary celebrated their 58th anniversary. Kerr wrote, “The one exciting time we had in the last year was spending 11 days in Israel where we walked where Jesus walked, visited the Upper Room and all the stations of the cross. It was a great trip and for those who plan on going, plan on walking about 20 miles or more. Masada was fantastic. Anyway, we had an experience of a lifetime.”

1960s

Leaders for Saddle Up Texas asked Benno J. Bauer Jr. ’63 to open their gathering with prayer. Benno is a pastor at Second Baptist Church, Houston, under Dr. Ed Young, a church with a membership of 58,000. He has been certified by the American Association for the Certification of Christian Sexual Addiction Specialists and serves the church as both a counselor and pastor. He founded a sexual addiction men’s group that is moving into its ninth year this May, called Battle Lines. Benno’s 38-year-old son, passed away in June in Houston.

Bucky Eckols ’69 and wife Donna have been married 43 years and continue to live on the family ranch south of Hardin. Bucky is a honorary retired peace officer and Donna is a retired educator. They have one son who lives in San Antonio with his wife and six children.

Cathy (Carden) Henry ’64 is enjoying retirement and being back in Kerrville.

She said “I volunteer at Schreiner University in the Office of Advancement, which is located in Hoon Hall where I lived for the first 16 months of my life.”

Cathy and her parents, Mary and Bob Carden (biology and zoology instructor 1940 to 1972) lived on the Schreiner campus.

Vernon “Bill” Servis ’63 wrote, “We are volunteering at Sabine Pass Battleground Historical Park in Sabine, Texas. This is where a small band of heroic Confederate soldiers defeated 20 Union gunboats and prevented Union forces from penetrating the Texas interior in 1863. There were no casualties among the 5,000 men. We will be here until the end of March,

Dan Vanderwoude ’62 graduated from Stephen F. Austin University after leaving Schreiner Institute. He has been self-employed as a general contractor since 1974. He writes, “My claim to fame is that I built the first Chili’s and first Cheddar’s restaurants.

I also build high-end residential homes in the Dallas area. I am divorced and have two children, Jay and Jayme. Jayme is a soccer mom and Jay is a nurse in Houston. I also have two grandsons, Christian and Luke Mungioli.”

1970s

Terence (Terry) Dalrymple ’74

recently published two books: “Fishing for Trouble,” a novel for middle readers, and, as editor, “Texas Soundtrack: Texas Stories Inspired

by Texas Songs.” You can find descriptions on Amazon or the Ink Brush Press websites.

Jim Hayes ’70 and Andree (LeMeilleur) Hayes ’70 returned from a four-year residency assignment in China in November. Jim wrote, “I am currently working on projects for Chevron in Houston and Andree is a retired school counselor. We are in the process of moving to Houston for a short duration from our home base in Kerrville. We have four grown children all living in the Austin/San Antonio area.

I have worked for Chevron the last 32 years and Andree worked as teacher/counselor for 20 years.

My career has been mostly international with stops in Russia, nine years in Angola and nine years in China (near Hong Kong).

Andree ended her career with eight years as a counselor at Tivy High School in Kerrville. We fondly remember our days at Schreiner College and the preparation for continuing our studies at the University of Texas.”

1980s

Andrea Barnes ’89

has taught reading for 23 years—14 years in Kerrville ISD and nine years in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. She writes, “I was recently inducted into the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Wall of Fame and also received the 2010 Scholastic National READ 180 Educator of the Year Award. Traveling has been my passion for the past 10 years, and I have traveled around the world from Australia to Hong Kong to Germany! My goal is to attain millionmile status with Continental/United Airlines in the next year and a half.”

Andrea can be reached at andrea. barnes@cfisd.net.

years ago to begin school at Schreiner.

Katy is currently finishing up her senior year at Schreiner and will have a degree in biology. I have my securities license and work for USAA in the investment, annuity and life insurance industry. My degree is in art and I still take on an occasional art project. I have worked on a variety of art projects from building stained glass windows, painting large custom safes to painting and airbrushing a couple of custom Harleys.”

1990s

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then we head back to Branson, Mo., in our RV.”

Elda M. Garcia ’94, writes, “Since

graduating from Schreiner I have married and I am the proud mother of two wonderful sons, Andy and Noah. After my divorce in 2005, I relocated back to my hometown of Batesville, Texas, where I currently live and work as an adult community supervision officer. My most recent accomplishment is graduating in December from Texas A&M University in Commerce with a Master of Science in Counseling.”

Mark “Andy” Edinburgh ’88 just celebrated his 15th anniversary as a Southwest Airlines flight attendant.

He wrote, “I enjoy the travel and the time off the job gives me. Currently live in Galveston and take lots of cruises, since I am 10 minutes away from the Port of Galveston.”

Ralph Lopez ’88 and his wife Lisa are doing in well in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, living in Little Elm. He writes, “I am going on 21 years in the mortgage industry, currently working as a transaction manager for Goldman Sachs.”

Gary Tromm ’86 graduated from Schreiner with a BFA. He writes, “My wife Peggy, our daughter Katy and I moved about 10 miles north of San Antonio to Bulverde about nine years ago. Our daughter Katy moved to the Center Point/Kerrville area to live with her grandparents about five

Gypsy Crane Ingram ’97 and husband Bill Ingram are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Riley Diane Ingram. She was born in June and “is the absolute love and joy of our lives.”

Vicki Dean Mullins ’98 will be the featured artist at Recall April 20-22 .

She has worked at SU for more than 12 years as an assistant art director of creative services. She said, “I continue to pursue my love of creating art in any form whenever possible.” Mullins

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Kenneth Bethune ’05 still has his law office in Oklahoma City and is in his third year as the head volleyball coach at Mount St. Mary High School.

He wrote, “We finished last season as the Regional Runner-up and the #12 4A team in Oklahoma. This is the first time in history that the Mount volleyball team has been ranked. I have also spent the past few years as the director of the Oklahoma Velocity Volleyball Club.”

has two grown daughters and lives on a hilltop with an awesome view of the Hill Country with her three dogs and her vintage Airstream. Visit Vicki at www.dancingdogsdesign.com.

Linda L. Neal ’95 is “excited to report that I am more than halfway through a Ph.D. program in psychology on a teaching track. I hope to teach psychology courses at the collegiate level once I complete this degree.

I also hope to keep up a therapy practice. I currently work in a schoolbased mental health program and provide therapy services to middleschool students 3 1/2 days a week and K-9 one day a week. I love my job. I would like to add some teaching online. I really miss Kerrville, so if the Ph.D. and the teaching pay well enough, I might get to move back one day.”

2000s

Adriana Acosta ’05

is continuing her education at the University of Miami and pursuing a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She writes, “I would like to thank Mrs. Bannister and Dr. Comuzzie for their help in getting my documents in order to make this possible. Thank you, Schreiner University.”

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Alexandra (O’Connell) Day ’07 married Robert Day in November in San Antonio. Rob is a Research Fellow at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Alex is currently working as a relationship banker for The Bank of San Antonio. They honeymooned in Las Vegas and hope to purchase their first home this year.

my sister and I were nominated for a Grammy for Best Recording Package for our design for Reckless Kelly’s ‘Good Luck & True Love.’ What a fabulous year!”

December graduate and commuter student Briana “Bri” Hamlyn ’10 moved for the first time in her life when she relocated to San Antonio to begin “working on my master’s in sociology at the University of TexasSan Antonio. I also started my first noncontract job at Ulta Beauty in November 2011.”

Shane Lambert LVN ’05 wrote, “Just a note to say I graduated from the San Antonio College ADN-RN program and I’m in the process of petitioning the Texas Board of Nursing for my NCLEXRN exam. Hope things are going well for you all at Schreiner!”

Stephanie (Reed) Coleman ’09 and Brent Coleman ’08 celebrated their first wedding anniversary in November. Brent wrote, “We were married at the Haak Winery in Santa Fe, Texas, in an outdoor ceremony.

Currently, Stephanie and I are both teacher/coaches for Columbia-Brazoria ISD in West Columbia, Texas, where she is the head girls’ soccer coach and I am the head tennis coach.”

Shauna Dodds ’02, who owns and operates Backstage Design in Austin with her sister Sarah, sent a short but very happy note: “James and I had a beautiful wedding in Austin November 6, 2011 (at last). And in December

Sarah (Richard) Loghin ’01 married Razvan Loghin in Austin in November 2010. She wrote, “We welcomed our son, Alexander Tiberius (“Sparky”) in July. He arrived quite a bit early but has caught up fast and is growing like a weed. We are really enjoying being his parents.”

with a bachelor’s in psychology and has since moved to Conroe just north of Houston. She said, “I’m working as a nurse technician at a psychiatric emergency treatment center and my fiancé is a working musician.”

Edgar Padilla ’10 wrote, “After graduating from Schreiner, I moved to Waco to work for Campus Living Villages as the assistant director of residence life. Recently I became the director of the career center at Texas State Technical College in Waco and I’m having a blast. This summer I will begin graduate work at Tarleton University, pursuing an M.S. in management and leadership. I’m looking forward to either joining or starting a Central Texas chapter of the SFSA!”

Abigail Rider ’11 married Matthew Kasinger on May 21, 2011, in Galveston, Texas, and they went to Honolulu for the honeymoon. She writes, “Spencer Key ’10 and Krystal Nentwich were bridesmaids and they were in my freshman class. I work in the loan department of Hometown Bank. We are living in Galveston, but still receive mail in Friendswood.”

Dianna Roberts ’11 and daughter Jessica Roberts ’11 both received graduate degrees from Schreiner.

Dianna wrote, “I just wanted to note that I have completed the graduate program in education at Schreiner and by the time you publish this I will be officially graduated from the program. At ceremonial graduation in May both my daughter and I will walk across the stage for our graduate degrees.”

Naomi Roach ’01 married Derick Joe in Austin on October 22, 2011. They currently reside in Austin.

Margaret Schneiderheinz ’10 wrote, “I just completed my first half marathon in November during the Rock ‘n’ Roll series in San Antonio and loved it! So in June, I will be traveling to Seattle to complete my second half marathon for the Rock ’n‘ Roll series. In between working, traveling and training, I have been mentoring some amazing kids at a local elementary school in San Antonio and have fallen in love with the kiddos, teachers and staff.”

Meredith Schneiderheinz ’10 completed her second half marathon at the San Antonio Rock ’n‘ Roll Marathon in November.

Brenda Wallace ’10 wrote, “Currently, my girls and I live in Sonora, Texas, where I am in my second year of teaching third grade at Sonora Intermediate School. Hello to everyone and may the new year bring everyone new blessings!

Heather (Kelly) Willson ’03 wrote that her husband Jamie joined the ranks of the #1 FFA program in the state at James Madison High School in San Antonio. She expects to leave her FFA coaching, AP classes and department manager position at Burleson Centennial High School early this summer. Selling their house will be difficult, but joining Jamie in San Antonio and returning to the family fold will be a new adventure.

Marvin Willis ’10 has created a national program to help small

business, charities and local economies since graduating from Schreiner. He writes, “What started as the Schreiner choir card is now ‘The Hero card.’ Hometown Hero is helping an unbelievable number of people.

I am very happy for what Schreiner University did for me. Now I am giving back and have the education and self-confidence to make it happen.

Hometown Hero is proof that you can make a difference. You can find out more about how we plan to help America on our site at www.hthcard. com. Schreiner University is truly in my heart.”

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Samantha Myers ’10 graduated

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eventscalendar march

2012

26 Chautauqua Lecture @ Schreiner Floyd & Kathleen Cailloux Campus Activity Center, 2nd floor ballroom, Dr. Danette Vines with a team of faculty and science students present on the Integrative Science and Engaged Educators community at Schreiner. 7 p.m.

27 Women’s History Month Schreiner Mansion Historic Site and Education Center.

“Domesticity, Politics and Why Sarah Palin is a Feminist” by Dr. Jeannette Cockcroft. 5 p.m.

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2012

3-5 Texas Writers Conference Lectures, coffeehouse, workshops featuring Kirpal Gordon, Thom Moon Poet and Anne Schneider.

4 Poetry Month Schreiner Mansion Historic Site and Education Center. Kerstin Blum: “Dante Alighieri and the American Search for Identity.”

5-6:30 p.m.

4 Texas Music Coffeehouse Lion’s Den, Floyd & Kathleen Cailloux Campus Activity Center. Spoken Word & Slam Poetry, featuring Thom Moon Poet, in conjunction with Texas Writer’s Conference. 7 p.m.

12 N onfiction Book Club ScarlePhilips Room, William Logan Library. Discussing “The Texas Pistoleers” by G.R. Williamson.

Author will attend. 7 p.m.

16 Monday Night Fiction Scarle-Philips Room, William Logan Library. Discussing “The History of Love,” by Nicole Krauss. 7 p.m.

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20 Kickoff for Schreiner Recycles 20-2 2 Schreiner RECALL weekend For more information: Paul Camfield, associate director of Alumni Relations, phcamfield@ schreiner.edu 830-792-7206.

22 Spring Choral Concert First Presbyterian Church, Kerrville. Schreiner University choirs. Admission free. 6 p.m.

30 Chautauqua Lecture @ Schreiner Floyd & Kathleen Cailloux Campus Activity Center, 2nd floor ballroom. “The Creative Experience: Schreiner Students Take on the Challenge of the Creativity Crisis.” 7 p.m.

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2012

3 Symphony of the Hills Cailloux Theater. “Out of This World,” featuring music from Gustav Holst, John Williams and Richard Strauss. 7:30 p.m.

4 Schreiner Music Department Student Recital Schreiner Dietert Auditorium.

7:30 p.m.

11 Greystone Achievement Recognition Ceremony St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Tucker Hall. Recognizing students upon completion of their academic year at Schreiner University. 10 a.m.

12 Baccalaureate Service 10:30 a.m.

Commencement 1:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of The University of Texas.

In honor of the ladies who have graced this campus over the years as day students and boarders.

Mark your calendars and meet your friends the weekend of April 20-22, 2012.

“My husband Rob (Gravedigger) Walker ’73 and I are really looking forward to returning to Schreiner for RECALL and hope to see many friends from 40 years ago,” said Mary (Pruski) Walker ’72. “We are also coming to honor Mr. Harben, who is so deserving of his award.”

“How amazing it is to me that a bunch of kids from all over the place—and were together for such a short time in our lives— came back together so many years later and are still coming back together each year for this gathering on our beautiful, growing Schreiner University Campus,” said Charlotte Brundrett ’52. “True friends are a good thing! Schreiner seems to be the catalyst.”

For more information about all the great RECALL events, visit the Schreiner website at

www.schreiner.edu/ recall.

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In Memoriam Former students

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Mr. Eugene W. Becker ’40 August 16, 2007, Pittsburg, Texas

Ms. Joyce B. Ritchie ’43 December 6, 2011, Kerrville

Mrs. Henrietta A. Bennett ’36 March 9, 2007, Kerrville

Mrs. Rosalyn C. Robinson ’98 July 10, 2010, Harlingen, Texas

Mr. Edward Breihan ’31 October 20, 2011, Austin

Mr. Donald Ross ’49 January 10, 2012, Fredericksburg

Mr. Robert K. Corkins ’46 January 30, 2012, Midland

Mr. Tynes Sparks ’42 June 21, 2010, La Porte, Texas

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Mr. Vern Curry Jr. ’40 April 14, 2011, Kermit, Texas

Mr. Charles F. Winston Sr. ’61 October 9, 2009, Fayetteville, N.C.

Amy Armstrong

Mr. Ernest Debakey ’62 October 22, 2004, Houston

Mr. Harry F. Woolsey ’44 February 8, 2011, San Antonio

Mr. Newell T. Donahoo ’49 October 13, 2011, Bandera Mr. Lowell Howe ’52 December 5, 2011, Kerrville Mr. Sean P. Keating ’86 November 13, 2011, Dallas Mr. Francis G. Miksovsky ’35 July 22, 2011, Angleton, Texas Mr. George I. Moses ’74 July 3, 2011, New York, NY Mr. Fred A. Newton ’63 November 8, 2011, Alexandria, Va.

editor director of university relations

art direction and design

Stephanie Lopez Keller assistant art director of creative services

SCHREINER OAKS Mr. James Johnson November 30, 2011, Austin Dr. Charles L. Liggett December 1, 2011, Kerrville

contributing writers

Louise Kohl Leahy staff writer

Karen Davis Kilgore planned giving advisor and director of development

sports

Temaine Wright Former Trustee Mr. Glyn M. Stewart December 3, 2011, Kerrville

sports information director

president

Dr. Tim Summerlin board chairman

Mr. W.F. Proctor ’43 January 31, 2012, Dallas

Former FACULTY

Dr. Mitchell H. Raiborn ’63 May 11, 2011, Brimfield, Ill.

Dr. F.M. Evans December 27, 2011, Kerrville

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backcover Members of Phi Delta Theta volunteer at a local Habitat for Humanity home. Last year, SU’s Greek organizations performed 2,736 hours of community service.

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