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TECHSAN VOLUME 67, NUMBER 05 // THE MAGAZINE FOR TEXAS TECH ALUMNI

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A Conversation with Mark Lanier // Texas Tech on the Llano // The Lima/Lubbock Connection // Q&A with Kingsbury

Chancellor Robert L. Duncan and His Wife, Terri

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Get to know the new leader of our Texas Tech University System.

Liz Pruett of the Lanier Foundation talks with the attorney and theologian about his new book “Christianity on Trial.”

The Texas Tech campus at Junction offers an array of educational and outreach opportunities.

Guillermo Perea of Peru came a long way to earn his two degrees from Texas Tech.

Here’s a chance to learn a little more about the leader of the Red Raider football team.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH CHANCELLOR ROBERT L. DUNCAN

A CONVERSATION WITH MARK LANIER

TEXAS TECH ON THE LLANO, PART 2: FULFILLING A MISSION

THE LIMA/LUBBOCK CONNECTION

Q&A WITH HEAD FOOTBALL COACH KLIFF KINGSBURY

DEPARTMENTS FOR YOUR INFORMATION 6 // THROUGH THE ARCHES 8 // LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT 34 // SPORTS 36 // ASSOCIATION NEWS 40 // ALUMNI NEWS 42 // STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 60

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Roy T. Grimes My earliest recollections of Roy T. Grimes were when he was a junior high school football coach in Lubbock. His parents and my parents were friends, but he was older than I, and I didn’t really know him. However, from time to time, our paths would cross at school or church, and he always made it a point to say hello and ask how I was doing. That was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

I remember him as the chief of the chain crew at Lubbock High School football games in the early 1950s when the Westerners won 29 games in a row and two state championships in 1951 and 1952.

He became friends with then-Westerner coach Pat Pattison and was very loyal. I recall when Pattison moved to Vernon and had a playoff game at Jones AT&T Stadium in the mid-1960s, there again Roy headed up the chain crew at that game.

He began his teaching career as a classroom teacher and coach at J. T. Hutchinson Junior High School in 1953. That same year, I entered Lubbock High School as a sophomore.

He later became the principal at Hutchison in 1961 and retired after 34 years in 1987, with 27 of those as principal. He graduated from Lubbock High in 1944 and went into the United States Navy shortly before his 18th birthday. He served two tours on active duty during World War II and the Korean Conflict. His service in the Navy counted 42 years, and he retired at the rank of captain. He was extremely proud of his Navy background and recited to me every promotion he had received on one occasion when I visited him in the hospital.

He came back from Naval service and enrolled in Texas Tech to pursue a career in education. I discovered, when I attended Texas Tech, that we were in the same fraternity, which strengthened our relationship over the years. Roy graduated from Texas Tech in 1953 with bachelor’s degrees in business and education and a master’s degree in education.

I recall that when I began my teaching career as a journalism instructor and director of school publications at Lubbock High, he would check on me from time to time to offer encouragement.

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We also had a faith connection in that Roy and his wife, Jerry, attended St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church and later Christ the King Catholic Church.

He met Jerry Freeman at Tech, and they were married on June 12, 1954, at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church. They became a strong team in every activity they became involved in the Lubbock community.

He was a member of the board of the then Ex-Students Association that hired me as its executive director in July 1978. After his service on our board, he continued to call or drop by my office to catch up with what was going on and offer his opinions and analysis. He would start his phone conversations by saying, “This is Roy T. Why in the heck did you do that?”

He offered me plenty of advice—good advice. He was always extremely supportive.

He created the Lubbock Principal’s Scholarship Fund, which awarded scholarships to students from all the local high schools. I visited him in his home one week before his death, and he asked me why he had not received a report as of the end of 2013 on his scholarship fund. The Alumni Association honored him with its Distinguished Service Award in 1981.

Roy was also supportive of the growth of Tech’s College of Education was honored by the college with its Distinguished Alumnus and Friend of Education awards.

Following his retirement, he served 18 years on the Lubbock Independent School District Board of Trustees, serving as secretary, vice president and president. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association named him the School Board Trustee of the year for 2005-06.

If you didn’t want to know what Roy Grimes thought on any given subject, then you didn’t ask. He had strong opinions on many issues, but those opinions were based on research, study and reflection. They were definitely not knee-jerk reactions. There are always tough issues with which school boards have to deal. I think all of Roy’s decisions were based on what was best for students in the school system, not what was always the most popular public opinion on the subject.

He was a professional, and he took a professional approach to everything he did. He brought the perspective of an educator— a person who had been in the trenches and understood the culture—to the school board. He attended everything from athletic contests to band concerts to recognition assemblies. He was Mr. LISD. Roy served on the Lubbock Youth Council, the Chamber of Commerce, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Science Spectrum, the Catholic Diocese of Lubbock and the Texas Aviation Heritage Foundation.

He loved Texas Tech, LISD, the Catholic Church, the Navy, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and the people of Lubbock. He was known to be pretty emotional at times about the loves of his life. He worked hard to make all of them better. We are all better off for having known and worked with Roy T. Grimes.

God rest his soul.

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People THR EE FAC U LTY M EMBE R S from the Department of Personal Financial Planning in the College of Human Sciences—Harold Evensky, CFP; Deena Katz, CFP; and Michael Finke, Ph.D., CFP— were named to the IA 25, a list of the most influential people in and around the financial advising industry. The list appeared in the May 2014 issue of Investment Advisor.

Individuals chosen for the list were selected based on their influence in the past and for the likelihood they will influence the markets, how advisors invest and plan retirement for clients and who will affect the regulatory and legislative environment in which advisors operate

T H E C O L L E GE OF Architecture named Thomas D. Curtis the 2013 Distinguished Alumni. Curtis received his bachelor’s in 1980 and subsequently spent 14 years working for HKS of Dallas. He then was director of healthcare for Aguirre, INC., and in 1996 he founded Curtis Group Architects, LTD. He specializes in all aspects of healthcare facility planning and design. His experience includes facility master planning; acute care hospitals, rehab hospitals, surgery centers, medical office buildings, wellness centers, cancer centers and imaging centers.

TE X A S TEC H U N I V ERS I T Y officials announced June 10 a gift of $15 million for graduate student fellowships from alumnus Edward E. Whitacre, Jr., and his wife, Linda. Whitacre is former chairman of the board and CEO of General Motors and chairman emeritus of AT&T. The couple’s gift will establish the Ed and Linda Whitacre Graduate Fellowship Endowment and fund an estimated 30 doctoral fellows per year.

The donation is eligible for state matching funds through the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP), which is expected to double the gift’s total impact on the university.

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chancellor for research and commercialization, left his position July 3 to pursue a career in the private sector with Scott Laboratories, a Lubbock-based medical company. Arrington was responsible for patenting and marketing products created through research at Texas Tech.

Prior to his position in the Texas Tech University Office for Research and Commercialization; he was chief of staff for Chancellor Kent R. Hance. He also served as a senior adviser to President George W. Bush in the White House and Texas governor’s office and was chief of staff of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Arrington plans to run for the Texas Senate seat vacated by incoming Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Duncan. He received degrees from Texas Tech in 1994 and 1997. Arrington’s office was featured in the November/December 2012 issue of the Texas Techsan, “From Research to Reality.”

From left are Brown, Kaufhold, Irlbeck, Outenreath, Ellingson, Prouty, Morse and Hill. Not pictured are Karam and Nesbit.

T E X A S T E C H A LU M N I Association presented New Faculty Awards to nine faculty members with four years, or fewer, of service to Texas Tech University. The dean of each academic unit designates the recipient of the award, which carries with it a certificate and an honorarium of $500. The honorees are Erica Irlbeck, Ed.D., assistant professor of agricultural communications; Jeffrey Nesbit, M.A., assistant professor of architecture; Leif Ellingson, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics and statistics; Elizabeth Karam, Ph.D., assistant professor of management; Donna Brown, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership; Stephen Morse, Ph.D.; assistant professor of civil engineering; Anne Prouty, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., associate professor of marriage and family therapy; Alyson Outenreath, J.D., professor of law; Kelly Kaufhold, Ph.D., assistant professor of journalism; and Duane Hill, director of the “Goin’ Band from Raiderland” and the Concert Band.

News T E X AS TEC H U N I V ERS I TY was named Chess College of the Year by The United States Chess Federation.

Alex Onischuk, the program’s head coach, was named Grandmaster of the Year as well. This is the first time ever than one college program has received both of these awards. Tech’s nationally recognized program was nominated for the award because of its skilled players and outreach efforts.

Onischuk has been ranked as one of the top 100 chess players in the world for the past 18 years, and he began playing chess at age 6.

T E X AS TEC H U N I V ERS I TY set a record for summer enrollment with 11,605 students enrolled as of June 24, 2014, the official reporting day. The number exceeds the previous mark of 11,316, set in 2012.

ON MAY 2, Texas Tech University officials announced the receipt of a $9.45 million gift from United Supermarkets to renew the Texas-based grocery chain’s naming rights on the United Spirit Arena and begin renovations to the venue. State-of-theart improvements will be made to locker rooms, film rooms and training facilities that have not been upgraded in the 15 years since the building’s construction. The arena has been renamed United Supermarkets Arena. United Supermarkets secured the original naming rights on the facility in 1996 with a $10 million, 20-year agreement supporting the construction of the multi-use, 15,000-seat arena.

T E X AS TEC H U N I V ERS I TY recently was ranked second among “Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs for Veterans” by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings, now in their second year, were designed to help veterans identify high-quality online degree programs that suit their educational needs. The rankings methodology requires participation in four key programs. The university must be certified for the GI Bill; participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program; affiliated with schools that are members of the Service members Opportunity Colleges (SOC) Consortium; and offer at least one course in the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) catalog. The Yellow Ribbon Program requires that public institutions charge in-state tuition for all outof-state veterans.

T E X AS TEC H U N I V ERS I TY School of Law received the highest passage rate for its first-time examinees at 91.67 percent. Texas Tech ranked No. 1 among the nine Texas law schools for first-time examinees.

P IG P H E ROMO N E QU I E T S barking dogs— why it works is a mystery, but it does work. John McGlone, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources who specializes in swine research and animal behavior. He discovered, quite by accident, that spraying a barking dog with pig pheromone quiets canines—with no pain to the dog. McGlone had a spray bottle filled with androstenone, a pheromone found in boar saliva, and squirted his barking dog with the spray. The dog immediately ceased barking. After conducting research to compare dogs’ responses to a placebo, it was discovered the androstenone really worked to stop barking. McGlone calls it a serendipitous find and has since worked with Sergeants pet care company to develop a commercialized version of the spray.

Association is partnering with The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University to conduct and support whitetail deer research. TIEHH will study all aspects of deer health, beginning with transmission of insect-borne disease in whitetail deer.

The Texas Deer Breeders Corp. is partnering with The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University to conduct and support whitetail deer research. Deer Breeders Corp provided $325,000 to the program in July, which is in addition to an initial start-up grant and other investments valued at approximately $370,000 from the company. The gift will be matched by the Texas Research Initiative Program (TRIP) at a 50 percent rate, or $162,000. This brings the total to more than $850,000. TIEHH will study all aspects of cervid and white-tailed deer health, including transmission of insect-borne disease, drug residues, nutrition and genetics.

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THE RAWL S C O L L EG E of Business in early 2014 launched the Rawls Business Leadership Program (RBLP), a dynamic learning experience designed to provide students with real-world knowledge and experiences to excel in leadership roles. Fourteen students who are involved in the RBLP traveled to Brazil and Argentina in May. The trip ran from May 14 through May 29.

The students, who had just completed their junior years, spent two weeks studying South American businesses such as banks, oil and gas service companies, the Buenos Aires stock exchange and ports.

Mayukh Dass, Ph.D., director of the Rawls Business Leadership Program and J.B. Hoskins Associate Professor of Marketing, says Brazil and Argentina were selected for the group’s international travel because of the great variety of

businesses they could tour, but also because of the impending World Cup. “Given that FIFA World Cup was scheduled to start in June (2014), it was a great opportunity for our students to experience the energy from a soccer loving country like Brazil, and learn about the preparation, and logistic issues of hosting such a grand event,” says Dass.

The following students attended the RBLP 2014 BrazilArgentina trip: Slade Birkenfeld,Broc Dyson, Jacob Fedosky, Blake Hoffman, Bailey Iverson, Joseph Kmetz, Alexandria Lyon, Joshua Neel, Katherine Peters, Kacie Phillips, Nia Pierce, Khaki Scrivner, Tanner Swaringen and Hayden Turner.

Preparations for the 2015 international trip are underway.

T H E P OPU L A R I T Y OF food trucks on college campuses has exploded, and Texas Tech is no exception. Beginning this fall students can partake of on-the-go grub from StrEAT, the ultimate food truck provided by the Texas Tech Hospitality Services program. According to Executive Chef of Operations Dewey McMurrey, they’re still tinkering with offerings, but he assures hungry co-eds that there will be something for everyone.

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G ROU ND WA S BROKE N April 29 on the new Bayer Plant Science Building Expansion. The $13 million expansion will allow the Department of Plant & Soil Science, in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, to expand research capabilities. The 20,490-square-foot facility will run north-south from the west end of the current Plant Science Building and connect at the second floor.

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T HE L ATES T I N S TA LLME NT to the Texas Tech University System public art program was celebrated June 18. The piece, titled “Astrolabe,� is a stainless steel and painted aluminum sculpture and was created by sculptor Owen Morrel of Peconic, N.Y. An astrolabe is an ancient astronomy and navigation tool. Morrel says he hopes the piece will force the viewer to discover something new about the act of perception by asking the viewer to be active and walk around the piece in order discover how it works formally and visually.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH

Texas Tech Chancellor

ROBERT L. DUNCAN

By Jean Ann Cantore |路| Photos by Artie Limmer

Chancellor Robert L. Duncan in front of the Administration Building.

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WHAT IS YOUR HOMETOWN?

I was raised in Vernon, Texas, near Wichita Falls in Wilbarger County.

HOW DID YOU CHOOSE TEXAS TECH FOR COLLEGE?

There is one word that made me choose Texas Tech—family. I had several choices in Texas, but Texas Tech has always been a family tradition. My uncle, Marshall Formby, served on the Board of Regents and made the motion to change the name from Texas Technological College to Texas Tech University. My parents attended Texas Tech, and when I was graduating high school, my cousin Clint Formby was serving as a regent as well. You could say there is an extra “Double T” gene in our family.

WHAT ACTIVITIES WERE YOU INVOLVED IN WHILE AT TEXAS TECH?

My sister heavily encouraged me to join a fraternity, so I followed her orders. My fraternity brother Joe Parker called me one day and said, “Get down here, and put your name in the hat to run for Student Senate.” I had never been involved in student government, but Joe said it was time to learn. So, I won my first election and became a senator for what was then the College of Agriculture. I also was involved in the Ag Economics Association and Ag Council within the college. I ran for Student Body President in 1975 and won a runoff election against a law student. I actually ran on the platform that I wasn’t going to law school. Little did I know!

WHAT WERE YOUR CAREER GOALS WHILE A STUDENT?

My bachelor’s degree was in agricultural economics, and I wanted to be a farmer. My father and I were going to buy around 200 acres. We put together a business plan that required we make a profit. Unfortunately, the farm markets were tough, especially for a young guy. Interest rates were high, and there was no capital. There wasn’t any way we could feasibly get into it, so I had to think of another plan.

After college, I went to work for John C. White with the Texas Department of Agriculture. At the time he was managing Lloyd Benson’s re-election campaign for the U.S. Senate, so I was able to work part-time with the Ag Department and part-time on his campaign.

In 1977, I worked as a special assistant for the Dean of Students, Lewis N. Jones, at Texas Tech.

He was an icon at the university. The university created an academic recruiting team, and my job was to work with them and schedule events. I had a really high-tech system—a road map where I would highlight where to go and how to get there. We also organized the very first college day and invited prospective students to visit campus.

It then that I decided to take the LSAT. I got lucky and was accepted into law school. After earning my law degree, I began my legal career as an associate and then as a partner at Creshaw, Dupree and Milam in Lubbock and worked there up until becoming chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.

WHAT DOES TEXAS TECH MEAN TO YOU?

When I think of Texas Tech, the words opportunity and inspiration come to mind. Texas Tech inspired me to do something more than I ever thought I could do. If you had asked me, or anyone else from my high school what Robert Duncan was going to do with his life they would have said he’d either be playing the guitar or selling fertilizer.

I always had ambition to go to college. All of my family attended, so there was never a question in my mind of whether I’d get a degree or not.

Once I got to Texas Tech, the people I was surrounded by really inspired me to do more. My fraternity brothers pushed me to get involved. The College of Agriculture offered me a ton of opportunities, but it was my professors who I felt really took an interest in me. They served as mentors and spent a lot of their own time encouraging students.

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Chancellor Duncan speaks at the June 12 news conference announcing his approval as Texas Tech University System Chancellor by the Board of Regents.

That’s the atmosphere I want all of our universities to create. I hope our students gain that experience of having faculty mentors, because going to college isn’t about memorizing facts.

It’s about learning how to think, how to build relationships and how to discover. Yes, you’re focusing on an academic area, but you’re not going to learn just by reading a book. Students need to have something or someone to inspire you about what it is that you’re studying.

Really it’s inspiration that leads to opportunity, and that’s what Texas Tech signifies for me.

It was in 2009, when Texas needed to invest in higher education, while other states were cutting back. NRUF established a source of funding for research in higher education. Also, the Texas Research Inventive Program (TRIP) was created in 2009 to provide state matching funds for private gifts. We basically put those two ideas together to send a message to the country that the State of Texas was going to be competitive in higher education research. Texas Tech has been able to capitalize on these initiatives, and I am excited that I can continue to advance us toward our research goals in my position as Chancellor.

HOW LONG DID YOU SERVE IN THE TEXAS STATE SENATE?

WHAT ARE YOUR THREE FAVORITE FOODS?

I served in the Texas Legislature for more than two decades.

There was an opening in the Texas House of Representatives in 1992, and I was elected to District 84. In 1996, I won a special election to the Texas Senate, where I served until my resignation in July.

My favorites would probably have to be salmon, roasted brussel sprouts and my wife Terri’s meatloaf. I don’t really like dessert, but it’s hard to pass up anything with dark chocolate.

WHAT IS YOUR PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT WHILE YOU

WHAT IS YOUR NO. 1 FAVORITE VACATION SPOT?

My family and I definitely like the mountains and try to make it out there whenever we can.

WERE IN THE SENATE?

I am proud of several moments in my career, but being known as a Senator who could get things accomplished was one of them. I carried the bill for post-conviction DNA procedures in 2001, and negotiating the water property rights was huge.

However, the National Research University Fund (NRUF) was probably one of the biggest higher education initiatives we did.

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WHEN YOU’RE NOT WORKING, HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME?

I like to play golf. It’s kind of neat because my son is the one who encouraged me to get better at golf. Since we knew he would be graduating soon, we started playing together. It’s a great father-son activity. I also like to read historical fiction, especially when the story is set out here in West Texas.

“When I think of Texas Tech, the words opportunity and inspiration come to mind.”

WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LOVE?

I’ve always been a fan of classic rock. I love a song with a really great lead guitar, so “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin and “Hotel California” by the Eagles are two of my favorites.

PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FAMILY.

My daughter, Lindsey, is a public school teacher and counselor, and is married to Wes Pike. My son Matt recently graduated from Texas Tech and just started his career as a food sales representative. My wife Terri also has two children, Justin Patterson who is an IT specialist, and Clayton Patterson, who is an auto-financing assistant.

We’re proud to say that all four kids are Texas Tech University graduates.

WHAT ARE SOME THINGS ABOUT YOU NOT GENERALLY KNOWN?

After being an elected official for more than 20 years, there’s not a whole lot people don’t know about you. Some may not know that I played guitar in a band called Grace all through high school.

There were four of us guys, and some of us get together from time to time. Our name actually came from me stumbling over something one day.

HOW DID TECH IMPACT YOU PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY?

When I started my application for the position of Chancellor, I began with the phrase, “From here, it’s possible,” because that’s truly been my story.

I was a young kid from Vernon whose main interests were making the football team and having a good rock band. Then, after coming to Texas Tech, I became Student Body President, later served as State Senator and am now serving as Chancellor. That’s the story of higher education and its impact. It’s not just about getting a job; it’s about preparing people for life and success. This institution brought that out in me.

Chancellor Robert L. Duncan and his wife, Terri.

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By Liz Pruett | Photos courtesy of the Lanier Foundation in particular. I’m here to ask Mark about his latest project, a book called “Christianity on Trial” that has just been released by InterVarsity Press.

Mark, who looks extremely relaxed in his suit and tie, settles himself behind his desk. Smiling, he points to me. “Yes, you in the front,” he jokes.

I laugh and raise my hand like a student.

I’m just going to dive right in. Mark, tell me about “Christianity on Trial.” Some people say that we live in a post-Christian age—an age of enlightenment, an age of science, and knowledge, and logic and precision. Is it reasonable at this point in history to believe in things like God, scripture, a resurrection, eternity? I’ve started a journey that has been put together in this book.

It’s a journey of addressing these questions, and it’s a journey I hope readers will take with me, because these are the core questions of life.

What sort of “core questions?” “Can God exist?” is the fundamental first question. If he does exist, “what kind of god?” Then we go further, and we say, “OK, beyond that, is it reasonable to think that this god might choose to communicate to us? And, if so, how? In what ways? Is there a basis for thinking scripture is something other than the collection of stories that we’re told it is by much of the media today?”

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am sitting in Mark Lanier’s office. As he finishes a business conversation, I look around the room. Someone once told me that a man’s office reveals a lot about who he is, and Mark’s office is no exception. It is here that the lawyer, the theologian and the family man intersect. The bibliophile in me rejoices in the rows and rows of books lining the walls of his office from floor to ceiling. On a table behind me are framed photos of Mark with his wife and children, and a blanket knitted by Mark’s grandmother is draped over the arm of the upholstered couch on which I am sitting.

A 1611 King James Pulpit Bible has been given a place of prominence on the coffee table in front of me.

Mark is one of the foremost American trial lawyers, and he recently made national and international news by winning a $9 billion verdict against Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and Eli Lilly—the largest personal injury verdict and punitive damage verdict in history. Mark is also a passionate theologian. In 2010, he built a theological library on his property. This library, which is open to the public, contains a number of significant private collections from scholars and currently holds more than 80,000 volumes. He also hosts lectures by scholars and theologians from around the world there.

There are a lot of questions that I want to ask Mark, but I am in his office to talk to him about one thing

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You talk about your journey. When did your journey begin? You know, the question of whether or not it’s reasonable to be a Christian is something that has been an interest of mine since I was 12 years old. And it has been a fascinating journey, because I can remember growing up in a community of faith, believing fervently. And then I can remember going through a time of questioning, wondering if the belief could be reasonably held. As I continued to labor through that, really look through evidence and really give thought to it, it was so interesting to me that what I thought was a journey perhaps away from the basics of my faith, turned out to bring me full circle into a deeper conviction and a deeper understanding of the simple truths that we call Christianity.

How does your faith impact what you do as a lawyer? I could not do what I do as a lawyer if I did not have a foundation of faith that made me understand that God has a purpose behind my life. Part of that purpose is for me to do the practice of law the best that I can to His glory. And so, it’s so interesting for me to see the people who are biting their nails, and who are nervous, and who are scared to death because we’re playing a game with millions of dollars and big odds at stake. I’m just doing what I’m called to do. And if we win, praise the Lord. And if we lose, praise the Lord as long as I did my best.

And what about the other way around?The other side of the coin is, as a lawyer, it has changed the way I view my faith. I used to think that faith required scientific proof, but for example, you cannot prove that Napoleon was at Waterloo with a scientific version of proof. It just can’t be done. In courtrooms, we use what is called a “burden of proof.” We’ll ask the question, “What’s more reasonable than not? What’s more likely than not? What does the greater weight of credible evidence indicate to us?” And that’s the way we prove historical events. That’s the way we should go about proving our faith.

I see. So, you suggest that we use the legal approach instead of the scientific approach to prove our faith? That’s not to say that science is wrong in the laboratory. That’s where it belongs. But in answering these questions, it just—it’s the wrong measurement tool. I can use inches to decide how far apart my hands are (Mark holds up his hands), but I can’t say they’re three gallons apart, or two cups, or six ounces. Now, cups and gallons and ounces are legitimate measurement forms. They’re just the wrong kinds of measurements for distance. Don’t use science to measure the proof for faith.

It doesn’t mean we don’t prove our faith, but it means we use a legal approach—something that works, something that’s more reasonable than not.

How do you hope your readers will use “Christianity on Trial”? I want readers to examine these core questions of God and faith and the Christian understanding, in light of witnesses that I’ve called, in light of the latest science and the latest knowledge, to make the determination of what is most reasonable. I want to take this evidence and set it before readers as my jury.

I’m not asking for their bias. I’m not asking for sympathy, prejudice, preconceived notions. I’m just asking for an honest evaluation of the evidence.

Because how readers read the evidence and how they make their decisions will affect the rest of their lives. Look at the evidence, and, please, let the lawyer make his case, and then you decide the verdict.

Why should we, as Christians, examine some of these core questions that you talk about? It’s very important that Christians understand their faith and know how to defend it, because of what it means for themselves, and what it means for their loved ones, their friends, and the people around them – what it means for the world. If a Christian is not able to, first, understand his or her faith, then she or he will never live in the power of the faith. They’ll always have the nagging doubts, the…the… (Mark grimaces and makes a sound of frustration) that gnaws at their soul. But as we grow more confident, and as we grow more appreciative of the well-reasoned bases for our beliefs, then we’re more willing to share that with others, and that’s where the real rubber hits the road.

Do you have any suggestions for those who read “Christianity on Trial” and want to explore the Bible and Christianity in more depth? I’d urge them to go to the website, www.biblical-literacy.org. On that website, I’ve got almost a decade of biblical teaching and writing that was the genesis from which this book came. Besides that, there are great books – marvelous books – and marvelous speakers that they can explore. And I think the appropriate thing to do is find a local church that seems to meet your needs. Plug yourself in there with others, and find out which books they’re reading and what seems to be shaping their lives.

Finally, a lot of people may only know you as a trial lawyer, or as a theologian, or they may not have heard of you before. I’d like you to say, in your own words—who is Mark Lanier? You know, I almost ask myself that question on a regular basis…on a daily basis. Who is Mark Lanier? That’s a – that’s a fascinating question. On one level, I’m married to the most marvelous woman in the world, Becky. We have five spectacular children. And that’s part of Mark Lanier. On another level, I’m a lawyer who spends his life traveling around the U.S. trying cases…inside courtrooms…preparing to get

in courtrooms. And that’s Mark Lanier. On another level, I spend daily time in prayer. I spend daily time in study. I spend daily time writing, trying to address questions of faith, both to share with others and for my personal edification and walk. At my core, I’m someone whom God made, who is so honored and just stunned to receive His love, and His care, and His attention. He has blessed me with the family.

He’s blessed me with the job. He’s blessed me with the opportunities to teach. And it all goes back to…I am a work in progress of His, undeserving of the blessings, but so deeply thankful, and just prayerfully hoping to be a good steward of the opportunities He has given me.

Anything else? I’m hoping to learn how to play better racquetball. (Mark laughs.) And that’s about it.

“Christianity on Trial” can be purchased through InterVarsity Press, Amazon, and at select bookstores.

Liz Pruett is, among other things, a writer and communicator. She especially enjoys talking with interesting people and getting the opportunity to help them tell their stories. Liz currently lives in Houston, Texas.

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Fulfilling a Mission

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Editor’s note: The story in the July/August issue, “Texas Tech on the Llano Part I: The Wildest Classroom in the World,” focused on the Junction Campus’s Outdoor School, and touched on the classes taught and research conducted there. Part II focuses on many, but not all, of the events that make the Texas Tech Junction Campus/Llano River Field Station such a busy, and breathtaking, place. Jerod W. Foster agreed to write about his “Junction Experience,” and I think he does an outstanding job of detailing what students take away from their time at Texas Tech’s campus on the Llano River. If this story piques your interest, I urge you to find out more by visiting their page on the official Texas Tech University website: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/junction/

PART 2

I first visited the Junction Campus in mid March. The agarita were so loaded with bright yellow blossoms you could smell them through my pick-up’s air conditioning vent. When I stepped outside, even a slight breeze caused me to be enveloped in their light, sweet scent.

Their heavy blooms in mid-March forecast a bumper crop of wildflowers in April. Rain had finally graced areas of Texas—enough to allow for a green spring in Junction—and the wildflowers did put on a fantastic spring show.

There are two directions visitors can enter the Junction Campus, one of which takes visitors over the Llano River bridge.

It’s a great way to showcase how different this place is from any other Texas university—a river runs through it. My arrival at the Texas Tech Junction Campus and Llano River Field Station was met with the rumbling of a large Axis deer herd sprinting along the edge of the campus. It was a captivating introduction, and another example of how valuable the 411 acres is to the teaching, research and outreach goals of Texas Tech University.

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ROBERT STUBBLEFIELD

RESEARCH/OUTREACH PROJECTS AND PARTNERS AT THE LLANO One of the most prominent roles of the Junction Campus/ Llano River Field Station (LRFS) is that of a collaborative research institute. Since many of the classes taught at the Junction Campus are geared toward natural resource conservation, water, and biology, most of the research is as well. Furthermore, the LRFS researchers often partner with other researchers and universities. The partner grants total more than $30 million, and the LRFS has independently received more than $1.9 million in grants from National Science Foundation, Partners for Fish and Wildlife, Hal and Charlie Peterson Foundation, Texas State Soil and Watershed Conservation Board and others.

“LRFS is the largest inland field station in Texas,” says Tom Arsuffi, Ph.D., director of the Junction Campus and a Texas Tech adjunct professor in several departments.

“Bisected by the headwaters of the South Llano River, it’s located in a vast and biologically diverse area of the state called the ‘Texas Hill Country,’ which encompasses more than 25 counties. An important feature of the Hill Country is the Edwards Plateau, characterized by a large 20

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number of springs, an important natural resource in a semiarid region, forming the headwaters of seven major Texas river systems.”

An example of research and outreach conducted by the LRFS is the Upper Llano River Watershed Protection Plan. A watershed is an area of land where all water, whether above ground or belowground, drains to the same place. The watershed in this case is the lands draining the North and South Llano rivers upstream of the City of Junction.

Arsuffi is Watershed Coordinator in this project. The Llano River, which is spring-fed, is a major tributary of the Colorado River, providing downstream flow to Lake LBJ and other Highland Lakes, particularly in times of drought. Because it’s spring-fed and runs through undeveloped ranch lands, the South Llano River, the portion that flows through the Junction Campus, is still pristine. But, the purity of the South Llano River is always at risk from things like pressure loss of spring flow from aquifer withdrawals, changes from land fragmentation, loss of riparian habitat and the spread of cedar trees, which soak up precious groundwater like a sponge. Each risk factor requires research evaluation of the magnitude of threat and ways to mitigate.

The purpose of Upper Llano WPP is to protect and preserve the Upper Llano ranchlands and its springs. For this project, Arsuffi has teamed

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RIVER FIELD STATION with Texas Water Resources Institute, the South Llano Watershed Alliance, Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board.

A second example of research and outreach is the solar and wind energy grant awarded to the Texas Tech Center at Junction. The Texas Energy Conservation Office granted $230,000 to the Junction Campus to fund solar panels and a wind turbine. Texas Tech put another $50,000 toward the grant.

Robert Stubblefield, the director of operations at Junction, handles oversight of the project and notes that the solar and wind panels are monitored daily for efficiency and productivity. The solar panels were installed on the roofs of the academic and administration buildings—120 solar panels were installed on the academic building, 27 panels forming a Double-T were installed on the administration building. The third component is a 12-panel micro tracker that follows the sun to maximize energy capture throughout the day. The wind turbine was placed near the administration building.

Data gathered from the renewable energy sources are used as an education resource and curriculum unit as well by The Outdoor School and other students on campus. A kiosk in the academic building allows visitors to study the process, progress and comparative production of the solar panels and wind turbine, and to see how much money is saved in energy costs.

According to Arsuffi, the solar panels and wind turbine will save $500,000 in utility costs during a 25-year period because they supply 100 percent of the energy requirements of the two buildings.

The following is a list of some of the Llano River Field Station research partners: Texas Texas Texas South Texas Texas Texas Texas

A&M AgriLife Extension Service Water Resources Institute Tech University Water Resources Center Llano Watershed Alliance A&M University Spatial Sciences Laboratory Parks and Wildlife Department Forest Service State Soil and Water Conservation Board

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ZOOM IN

By Jerod W. Foster

My class wakes up at 5 a.m. By 6 a.m., we are knee deep in the cool water of the Llano River waiting on the sun to peek over the horizon. Fourteen students position their tripods and cameras next to rapids and begin to make long exposures of the flowing water and the colorful reflections of a sky about to burst with light. We stay to shoot for two or three hours, trying to capture the essence of the place, photographing the water, the plants, the wildlife and the people that occupy it. We travel back to campus, cull the poorer of the images and critique the keepers before lunch.

After eating, we break for some time before jumping back in a 15-passenger van and driving an hour and a half to our next location—east to an expanse of granite boulders the size of the buildings in the nearby town of Mason. Again, we are about capturing the story of the place, and we will do so from

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dinnertime until nearly midnight, all the while being aware of the different flowers and grasses protruding from the rock, the effects of drought on the land and fauna, and the visitor’s draw to such places. Over the next 15 days, we will repeat this day’s long process to produce some of the best natural history and outdoor editorial images in some of the greatest and most awe-inspiring places in the state of Texas.

If I could identify the origin of my career as both a photographer and an educator, I could in two words: Junction Intersession. I was encouraged nearly a decade ago to take an advanced color photography course from State Photographer of Texas Wyman Meinzer, a course that involved 15 days of landscape and travel photography with the man that defined this genre of work in the state. It changed my life. I ditched the idea of going to law school, started my master’s degree, formed a lasting relationship with Meinzer, and started teaching the course with him the very next year as an assistant and then as a co-instructor the next. I was passionate about photography, and in seeing the effects the Junction Intersession had on me come out in other students, I became passionate about teaching photography and visual storytelling.

After teaching with Meinzer for six of the 12 years he taught it, I’m in my third year of teaching solo. Every May, I get to take a small group of students from the classroom in Lubbock, and literally drive them across the state for two weeks to shoot and create defining images of the land, regions and people contained within its borders. We use the Junction campus as our home base and return every day with stout portfolio images, but maybe even more important, with memories and experiences that often cultivate characteristics in students that they will embody for life. The Junction Intersession allows me to push my students in ways the typical classroom can never do, educationally, creatively, physically and from a work

academic offerings In addition to the courses offered at the Junction Campus, there are three degrees offered: Bachelor of General Studies Bachelor of Arts/Science in University Studies Master of Art Education This year there were 11 intersession courses offered from May 14-29 in the fields of zoology, biology, natural resource management, English/ creative writing/poetry, geography, photography and electronic media.

The remainder of the courses taught during the first and second summer sessions are art courses.

In addition to university classes, the campus hosts numerous workshops, meetings and retreats throughout the year. And once summer ends, The Outdoor School, featured in the July/August 2014 issue, gears up again.

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ethic perspective. And yet, I’ve never seen a student take this class and walk away from it saying they gained nothing. Rather, many are changed the same way I was. Many of the students I see go through this course are some of the sharpest and most successful graduates of the university’s various programs. Each year, I’m proud, and more important, excited, to once again lead the class as my predecessor did, knowing that each student will have an experience that is hard to define, but positively lasting nevertheless.

This description is not unique to the photography class, though. Each faculty member that teaches in and out of the Junction campus feels the same way about his or her own courses, students and experiences. Likewise, I have yet to meet a university administrator who has walked the banks of the Llano on campus and left without proclaiming the beauty and value of this unique place of learning, artistic expression and scientific exploration. A quick visit with the staff and management of the Junction campus reveals another group that is excited to not only work among such Texas Hill Country beauty, but also to be a part of the most formative learning experience students have when in attendance throughout the year and during the summer sessions.

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My class ends its 15-day run with a public portfolio showcase of images made all over the state, from Junction and the surrounding communities to as far west as Lajitas and the Big Bend, to as far south as Utopia and the Sabinal River. Students visit with faculty, staff, other students and members of the Junction community about their work and relate stories on how they had to climb mountains for sunset vistas in the desert and lay on the ground mere feet away from a rattlesnake. There’s an energy in the room, and it all resounds commonly among the crowd.

It is The Junction Experience.

Jerod Foster, Ph.D., is a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism & Electronic Media in the College of Media & Communication. He is also an editorial and commercial photographer, a Peachpit Books author, and the co-publisher of several books on Texas natural history photographed by Wyman Meinzer. He is a product of the Junction learning experience, and continues to advocate for student learning in unique environments like it.

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LIMA/LUBBOCK

By Jean Ann Cantore

Connection NOTE: In May 2014, Guillermo

Perea, a 1976 and 1977 graduate

Once upon a time, a young man from

of Texas Tech, and his wife, Pilar,

traveled from their home in Lima,

Huancayo, Peru, decided to take a journey

Peru, to visit Perea’s alma mater. It

that would change his life. Guillermo Perea,

was the first time they had been in

who now lives in the Peruvian capital city

Lubbock since he graduated. Their

of Lima, decided to come to Texas Tech

host was Connie Sterling Blosser, longtime friend of the Perea Family

University in the mid-1970s to attend college.

and niece of Curtis Sterling, the

It would prove to be a big adventure.

college roommate of Guillermo’s father, Guillermo Eloy Perea.

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After all, the two places are on opposites sides of the Equator, about 3,548 miles apart. They also have vastly different cultures and languages.

Before you think that his decision was a random one, you have to know that attending Texas Tech is somewhat of a family tradition in the Perea Family.

Perea’s father, Guillermo E. Perea, graduated from Texas Tech in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in textile engineering. Since father and son graduated, four of the younger Perea’s sisters and brothers, as well as a nephew graduated from Texas Tech.

“Believe it or not, my grandfather was a CPA from New York,” he says. “He graduated in 1907 or 1908 from a school in New York. In 1944, my father’s brother was in England in textile school. The second World War started, and he had to leave England and go back to America. He went to Georgia Tech for a textile degree. My father said he did not want to go to the same school, so he did some research and found out that Texas Tech had a good textile school. That’s how he ended up in Lubbock.

“That’s why I came here. My father’s roommate, Curtis Sterling, and he were fraternity brothers. My father wasn’t able to go back home for Christmas, so he stayed here in Lubbock with the Sterlings.”

The elder Perea and Sterling remained lifelong friends.

The younger Perea was a sophomore in college in Lima when his dad asked him if he would like to attend Texas Tech. Having heard about his dad’s good experiences in Lubbock, he didn’t have to think long or hard about the decision. He wanted to study business and knew that Texas Tech had a great business program.

He journeyed to Texas Tech in 1974.

“I did not speak a single word of English,” Perea says. “James G. Allen, the dean of men, was the one who guided me when I enrolled at Texas Tech.” He said, ‘Your English is no good, so I want you to go to South Plains College at Levelland. I think I was the first Peruvian to enroll.

“Dr. Allen also said I should stay away from the Latinos because I was learning English. He sent me straight to Coleman Hall to live so I would get an American roommate. When I enrolled, all of them (Coleman residents) were Americans. I had to practice my English every day, but on weekends, I used to get together with Latinos.

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Machu Picchu

FACTS ABOUT PERU CAPITAL: LIMA; 8,180,000

INDUSTRY: MINING OF METALS, PETROLEUM, FISHING, TEXTILES, CLOTHING, FOOD PROCESSING

AREA: 1,285,216 SQUARE KILOMETERS (496,224 SQUARE MILES)

Text excerpted from “National Geographic Atlas of the World,” Eighth Edition

POPULATION: 27,947,000

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COURTESY OF GUILLERMO PEREA

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Perea’s family at his nephew Santiago’s wedding in Peru. From left are Perea, Pilar, son Guillermo, Santiago and wife Christie Rey, daughter Maria Fe, grandson Juan Diego and son Diego.

Guillermo and Pilar

“At Tech at the time, there were about 60 Latinos. We had the Latin American Student Association. We had meetings, and then Friday nights, we got together to go to Lazario’s.”

(Lazario’s was an Italian restaurant, popular with college students, on Main Street, near the College Inn.) While a student, Perea pledged the business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, where he made friends with people who remain in touch with him. He made the Dean’s List a number of times and was inducted into the management studies honorary, Sigma Iota Epsilon.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech in 1976 and completed a master’s degree in business administration in 1977.

“The very last day of classes, I got a note that said, ‘Perea, would you go to the associate dean’s office.’ I thought, ‘Oh, I didn’t make it.’ Two of my major professors were sitting there. They said, ‘Don’t worry, Guillermo, we’re going to Lima and would like to have a conversation so you can tell us about Lima and where we’re going to teach.’ Both of them went to Lima four times.”

Those professors, Carlton J. Whitehead, Ph.D., then associate dean and J. Duane Hoover, Ph.D., then coordinator of the area of management, remain good friends with Perea, who visited with them when he returned to Lubbock in 2014.

“I still can’t believe I’m here after so many years and have seen how much the Texas Tech campus has changed,” Perea says during his 2014 visit. “I used to live on 5th Street, and now it’s gone (replaced by the new housing development in North Overton). Fourth Street used to be a straight line, and now it has bridges and many lanes.

“My wife came with me (while I was a student) and spent a year with me. I was studying, and she was working and shopping. There were a bunch of graduate students getting together at my house one time. We were there about six hours working on papers and stuff like that. She said, ‘I’m not going to stay here.’ She took the car and went shopping. At the time, we had the big South Plains Mall. That was our place to go.

“Pilar used to work for the post office on campus. If you’re a foreign student and do not have a visa, you’re allowed to work on campus. The post office is a gathering point because you get people from all over the world come to get letters and messages. It was a

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ABOUT GUILLERMO ELOY PEREA ’51 FATHER OF GUILLERMO PEREA ’76, ’77 DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER CITATION, 1975

Guillermo E. Perea in the 1949 “La Ventana”

Former Dean of Student Life James Allen, right, points out the many changes in the face of Texas Tech to returning ex-student Guillermo Perea. The library and many of the buildings on the campus weren't standing when Perea was a student in 1951. He now lives in Lima, Peru. (Texas Techsan, December 1968).

Guillermo E. Perea, born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1925, received his B.S. degree in Textile Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1951. Since attending Texas Tech, he has done graduate study in industrial relations in Panama and in business administration in Peru.

Mr. Perea joined Cias Unidas Vitarte, Victoria, Inca, S.A., in 1955, where in the production department he introduced such effective changes as led to his appointment as vice president of the National Textile Society, Lima, Peru. CUVISA is one of the largest textile complexes in South America and, in addition to its domestic markets, exports to four continents.

Mr. Perea is executive president of CUVISA, a position to which he was elected in 1973. He has been a director of the Cotton Chamber of Peru, a member of the American Chamber of Commerce, and a director of Compania de Seguros Rimac, one of Peru’s major insurance companies. He was named by the magazine Gente the "most distinguished personage of the textile group in 1974."

For his creative pioneering in the area of textile engineering, Texas Tech designates Guillermo E. Perea: DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER, 1975.

Courtesy of the Whitacre College of Engineering

custom for all foreign students to stop at the post office before going to class. Pilar’s boss hired me to clean the post office.

I had to clean it every day, and on Sundays, I had to mop it.

We made such good friends working there, and it was a nice experience.

“We were lucky because we had the Good Neighbor scholarship—four dollars per credit hour. Very cheap. It cost me about $60 for my tuition (per semester). It was cheaper to be at Texas Tech than in school in Lima.”

After graduation, Perea returned to Peru and began his career. He worked in a textile factory for almost six years, working in human resources, accounting and other business functions. He then went into the banking business. He then began working for a company that programs the generation of electricity, where he remains today.

He also has been a professor in the MBA program at the Catholic University of Peru, teaching business strategy for four years. He may teach again in the near future, as he has an offer from another school.

“We have two sons and one daughter,” Perea says. “One son is 34 and a mineral trader. My daughter is a psychologist in the human resources area. The other son is 25 and lives in

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Singapore. He is a trainer for the National Optimist Team of Singapore. An Optimist is a small sailboat. Both of my sons went to two world tournaments—one in Billund, Denmark, and the other in Corpus Christi.”

Despite their father’s enthusiasm for Texas Tech, the three Perea children opted not to attend school in Lubbock.

Spending time with family is important to the couple. They enjoy playing golf, as do their two sons. Their grandson, Juan Diego, who is eight, plays soccer, which they follow.

Perea also frequents Facebook to keep up with college friends.

He stays in touch with fraternity brothers in California and Ohio, as well as Ecuador and Bolivia. The online enthusiast writes about politics in his country, too.

Perea and Pilar enjoyed their trip back to Lubbock—and their trip back in time.

While the landscape of Lubbock may have changed some since the late-1970s, the people haven’t changed.

“The people at Texas Tech treated me so well,” Perea says.

And it seems they did so, too, during his return visit.

Guillermo´s email address is guiperea@hotmail.com for those classmates who want to contact him.

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I’ve heard it’s Rice Krispies treats.

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What is your favorite beverage for post workouts? Our nutritionist here at the facility makes amazing protein shakes.

As a kid, did you have a fallback dream/ idea if football didn’t pan out? Nope. I always wanted to be an NFL quarterback.

Do you work out? What’s your exercise of choice? I know your mom was a fantastic runner and aerobics instructor… there must be something you love to do! I do work out every morning before work. My favorite exercise is playing basketball.

When you walked off the field in Orlando, Fla., following the 2002 Tangerine Bowl, did you ever foresee a day when you would lead your alma mater onto the field as head coach?

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If you could have dinner with someone (from the past or someone alive today), who would it be and why? My mom. Just to thank her again, tell her I love her, and tell her about this wild ride over the past eight years without her.

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What about yourself do you take the most pride in? Doing my best to bring positive energy every day and treat people the right way.

Do you own a tablet…if so, what brand (Kindle, iPad, etc.) What do you use the tablet for…work, recreation or both? iPad Mini. Purely recreational.

If you’re not working, you’re thinking about work.

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When you’re dining out in Lubbock, is there ever a time you’re not approached to sign autographs or have your photo taken with fans? How do you handle that? Is it important to you to always attempt kindness? I’m sure it is exhausting, but I’ve always heard you’re very generous with your time where fans are concerned, especially kids. I do get approached quite a bit, but West Texas has the most amazing people in the world, and I love interacting with the community and feel so blessed to be here!

Do you enjoy reading? If so, what do you like to read?

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What time do you leave your office most days? It just depends on the day, but I’m not a night owl type cat.

Do you have a favorite TV show or shows? Ray Donovan on Showtime. Great Show.

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Your mother was an intense, positive, energetic and athletic lady. Can you talk about her impact on you as it relates to your style of coaching? She always had energy and always found the good, in even the worst situations. I try to incorporate that into my style.

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Talk a little bit about what you were looking for this year on the recruiting trail—what were some holes you were hoping to fill or places you wanted to increase depth in a position? We needed to add immediate depth on both lines, and we feel like we addressed that with some JUCO players. We’re also targeting high character kids in this class that we project to be leaders in our program from Day 1.

What’s the hardest part of recruiting?

The waiting.

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Why has the NFL, in general, seemed to pushback on adopting an offense like yours, given the amount of continued success that it has had in college football? I think you’ll see more and more teams moving toward this style of offense. The success Chip Kelly had in Philadelphia his first year really opened some eyes. (Charles “Chip” Kelly is the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles professional football team.

Previously he was head football coach at the University of Oregon.)

What are some key differences in this year’s squad that will create more success than last year’s? The fact that it is their second year in our system will really help our confidence as a team, and hopefully our play on the field.

What is your favorite play? Four verticals, indefensible if run correctly and thrown accurately. (Sketch by Coach Kliff Kingsbury) What’s the most rewarding part of coaching for you? The most rewarding part for me is watching our players grow up as men and get their degrees. There are so many incredible stories that we as coaches get to see, of overcoming odds and perseverance, that it makes all the hours up here worth it!

Does your youth give you an edge where recruiting is concerned?

If the answer is yes, why do you think that’s so? I’m not sure if it helps or not. I think our staff just does a really good job of showing our passion and energy for this university.

Did you first learn how to deal with pressure as the ball boy with your brother Klint for the New Braunfels Unicorns? Talk a little bit about how that experience prepared you for playing football in junior high and high school. I think just being so close to the game your entire life helps you get accustomed to the pressures that come with playing high school football in Texas.

What’s your favorite comfort food? Chicken fried steak.

What’s your favorite childhood memory?

All of our family vacations.

What would you regret not having accomplished before you leave Texas Tech? I will have no regrets.

The 2014 Texas Tech Red Raider football season will be a fun ride.

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from the president M. duan m.

DUAN eE nN eE llis, LLIS, ph.d., PH.D., PR esi pr ESI de DE nt, NT, TEXAS texas tech TECH uU nN ive IVE rsity RSITY

Dear Alumni of Texas Tech University, As we embark on the upcoming academic year, I’d like to take the opportunity to share with you my reflections of the previous year—my first as president of Texas Tech University.

Long before I was a candidate for the president’s position here and prior to serving in the same capacity at the University of Idaho, I knew of Texas Tech University and its reputation as an emerging institution of higher learning. When approached with the opportunity to serve in this role, that reputation played an integral part in my decision. Now that more than a year has passed, I can verify what I knew coming in—Texas Tech is a great institution of higher learning rapidly making progress toward becoming a national research university. This is a credit to the high quality faculty, staff, and student body that thrive on excellence and embrace our mission of moving this great university forward.

A record enrollment ushered in the last academic year as more than 33,000 students enrolled in classes. We experienced record enrollment in the spring and summer semesters as well, reflecting the value of a Texas Tech education. Those students achieved at high levels, evidenced in the research funding they obtained and academic national championships they won. It also reflects in the more than 7,000 students that earned degrees during the year. Additionally, our student athletes boosted our school spirit as 13 of 17 athletics programs advanced to NCAA postseason play, including football’s Holiday Bowl win, our men’s track and field Big 12 Championship, and baseball’s first appearance at the College World Series.

It also was a banner year for our faculty as 10 researchers were named Fulbright Scholars, the most among national research universities. These are faculty from across several disciplines and among the world’s leaders in their fields. More importantly, our faculty is fostering a learning environment conducive to producing future industry leaders, educators, researchers and more. Their dedication and commitment to their craft continues to propel us forward.

Due to the valued hard work of our staff, Texas Tech University has been listed as one of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Great Colleges to Work For. Through a survey administered by the Chronicle, our faculty and staff provided favorable feedback, qualifying TTU for the first time for this prestigious honor. This comes on the heels of last year’s listing as the top university to work for nationally by Glassdoor, a national human resources company. I continue to be impressed with the pride in which our staff performs their duties, and am fortunate to be working alongside them.

The last school year welcomed the construction of new student housing, which opens this fall; the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research; the Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building, which houses the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering; and a groundbreaking ceremony for the Bayer CropScience Plant & Soil Science

Building. Construction of new housing and the renovation and construction of new teaching and research space is anticipated to continue in the future as the demand for a Texas Tech education grows.

When the dust settles from students moving in and completing the first few weeks of classes, we anticipate another record enrollment this fall.

The fall also ushers in the first semester of new leadership in the Texas Tech University System.

Chancellor Robert Duncan, a Texas Tech School of Law graduate and former state senator, assumed the duties in July. I look forward to his leadership and know his expertise championing higher education in the Texas Senate will greatly benefit the institutions of the Texas Tech System. We applaud Kent Hance, who passionately and admirably served his alma mater for more than seven years. He did so with an unmatched drive and determination that is reflected in his many accomplishments and contributions.

I’ve had the pleasure through alumni gatherings to meet many of you and I look forward to future events. From Washington, D.C., to Denver to other locations around the country, from Lubbock to Austin and around the state of Texas, you welcomed Ruthie and me with open arms and shared your stories of your time at Texas Tech. What resonated with me was your glowing as you reflected on your experiences on campus.

It’s been my honor and privilege these past 16 months to serve as president of Texas Tech University. As I enter year two, the innovative vision created and fostered by many talented people that will lead our great national research university forward will remain constant. As alumni, you play a pivotal role in the daily successes of this university, keeping our banners spread far and wide.

It is my hope that Texas Tech University’s achievements, accomplishments, and successes make you proud when you see the diploma displayed on your wall. It is my pledge to you that we will continue working hard to build upon the foundation you left for us.

Go Texas Tech, and Wreck’em!

M. Duane Nellis, Ph.D. President

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Tadlock Leads Long Awaited Trip To Omaha After years of close calls and heartbreak, Tech earns coveted trip to the College World Series

BY BLAYNE BEAL, TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS | JUNE 13, 2014 ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

When the last out was recorded on Sunday afternoon, the thousands of Red Raider faithful that had packed Rip Griffin Park for two days erupted in celebration.

In that moment, years of heartbreak and missed opportunities had been washed away.

Texas Tech was headed to the College World Series.

A destination that once seemed out of reach was suddenly the next stop for a program that had coveted a trip to college baseball’s holy land.

Years of Close Calls

Texas Tech burst onto the college baseball scene in 1995 when Larry Hays took a group of virtually unknowns to within a few outs of the College World Series. That 1995 team still owns the school record for the most wins in a single season (51) and won the first conference title in school history.

Yet in the NCAA Regional Final against Stanford, when a trip to Omaha seemed so certain, the Red Raiders only found heartbreak. The Cardinal etched out a run in the ninth inning to take a 3-2 win and force a second and deciding championship game. In that second game, Stanford pitcher Kyle Peterson, who will be in the broadcast booth for ESPN this week (week beginning June 13), threw a complete game and the Cardinal defeated Tech 6-5 to advance to the CWS. Then there was 1996 when Tech found itself hosting NCAA postseason baseball for the first time. The Red Raiders dug themselves out from a first round loss only to lose to USC in 13 innings and have their dreams of Omaha dashed in back-to-back years.

The Red Raiders won a pair of Big 12 Championships later that decade and hosted more postseason baseball. Yet no tickets for Omaha were ever punched and the road seemed longer than ever before.

As the millennium rolled around, Texas Tech fans were confident that those years would produce more conference titles and ultimately that mid-June trip to the Midwest.

Tech found itself in striking distance in 2001 and 2004 but ultimately those dreams were dashed and an unforeseen 10-year postseason drought would leave a lasting mark on the program.

The Right Man For The Job

A disappointing last place finish in the Big 12 in 2012 forced athletics director Kirby Hocutt to make a leadership change in the program. Hocutt knew that Texas Tech could be a national contender in college baseball based upon its loyal fan base and a new stadium renovation that made Rip Griffin Park one of the best in the sport.

So he turned to a guy he knew would build a program the right way and make it a championship contender. He turned to a Red Raider.

Tim Tadlock knew the task wouldn’t be easy but the rewarding things in life never are.

His first order of business was hitting the recruiting trail because in order to compete in the Big 12 Conference, he had to have a

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stable of Johnny’s and Joe’s. Texas Tech had talent on its roster but not nearly enough depth to be successful in an ultracompetitive league.

He also had to fill out a coaching staff that was as committed to winning at Texas Tech as he was.

The hiring of pitching coach Ray Hayward and recruiting coordinator J-Bob Thomas gave him instant credibility while sitting in living rooms selling the Texas Tech baseball program to potential recruits. And then there are guys like director of operations Joe Hughes and volunteer assistant Matt Gardner that elevate the program both on and off the field.

In his first College World Series news conference, shortly after being named the Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year, Tadlock was quick to point out the integral role his staff has played in Tech’s run to Omaha.

“I’ve got really good people around me,” said Tadlock. “I mean Coach Hayward, Coach Gardner, Coach Thomas, our operations guys and our whole administration. We’ve got

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a really good group of people. I’m just a small part of the deal and I am really thankful to be here.”

At Tadlock’s hiring news conference back on June 7, 2012, Hocutt told the crowd that had gathered for the announcement that great times were ahead for Texas Tech Baseball.

Boy, was he right.

Respecting The Game

True baseball fans can appreciate Tadlock’s simple approach to the game. Never look ahead and certainly don’t look behind.

That approach has guided a young team that was picked to finish eighth in the Big 12 Conference back in January all the way to Omaha.

It didn’t change when Tech found itself in a win or go home scenario in Miami nor did it alter in front of packed houses at Rip Griffin Park in the super regionals.

Play the next pitch. Get the next out. Focus on the game at hand.

And if you think anything will change this week with a national championship on the line, you should think again.

In front of a crowd of reporters back in Lubbock on Wednesday that were eager to talk big picture, Tadlock simply responded; “It’s one out at a time. It’s just one inning. It’s just a baseball game.”

Larry Hays, the winningest baseball coach in program history, coached Tadlock at Texas Tech for two years (1990-91) and summed up his success as well as anyone could.

“One word. Love. He loves the game, loves his players, and loves success.”

Tadlock Awarded National Coach of the Year Texas Tech head coach Tim Tadlock was awarded the College Baseball Hall of Fame National Coach of the Year on June 28

BY SCOTT LACEFIELD, TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

Texas Tech second-year head coach Tim Tadlock was awarded the College Baseball Hall of Fame Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year award on Saturday evening (June 28) at the annual “College Baseball Night of Champions” banquet at the Overton Hotel.

Tadlock, who led the Red Raiders to their first-ever NCAA Regional championship, Super Regional title and trip to the College Baseball World Series in Omaha, was one of several individuals awarded top national individual honors alongside this year’s induction class into the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year Award: Tim Tadlock, Texas Tech Dick Howser Trophy: A.J. Reed, Kentucky Johnny Bench Award: Max Pentecost, Kennesaw State National Pitcher of the Year Award: Aaron Nola, LSU Brooks Wallace Award: Trey Turner, NC State John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award: A.J. Reed, Kentucky

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Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Burleson `88 (Gayle Burleson `88)

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Mr. David F. Saunders `79

Mrs. Wanda B. Driver `65

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Mr. & Mrs. John Kelly `68 (Kathy S. Kelly)

Mr. Norman Herrera `03

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Streit (Patrice Streit)

Mr. Jarrett B. Lidell `06

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Holland (Rebecca Holland `72)

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Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Miller `96 (Teri Ann Miller)

Mr. & Mrs. John Holmes `81 (Becky Holmes)

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getting to know Texas Tech Alumni Association Board Members

Paul W. Foster

Bobby Waddle

In what city to do you reside? San Antonio, Texas.

In what city do you reside? De Soto, Texas.

What is your position on the Alumni Association Board? Membership and Grant Selection Committees.

What is your position on the Alumni Association Board?

Legislative Affairs, Scholarship and Nominating Committees.

What was your major and class year at Tech, plus any other degrees earned? I received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Texas Tech in 1980.

Where are you employed, and what is your position?

I am president/CEO of Foster CM Group, Inc., a program/construction management firm headquartered in San Antonio, with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and Houston, and Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.

What are the names of your family members?

Anna, wife; Briana, daughter; Satirah, daughter; Paul (PJ), son; Triniti, granddaughter—college graduates of those other universities. PJ is a sophomore at Arizona State; Triniti is in third grade.

Major activities in which you were involved as a student at Tech? I was a charter member of the Iota Upsilon Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

What is one of your fondest memories from your Tech days? I was an architecture major, so the only memories that stick with me are the late nights spent in the architecture studio, working on my projects. Outside of that, when I could, I’d slip away to a party or two. I also enjoyed playing intramural basketball.

What was your major and class year at Tech, plus any other degrees you may have earned?

A bachelor of science in Agricultural Education ’55 from Tech, then a master of arts in Urban Sociology ’72 from the University of Northern Colorado.

Where are you employed and what is your position? Served in U.S. Air Force for 30 years—currently I manage family agriculture interest and business.

What are the names of your family members? Sherry (wife) deceased; daughters Tanya, Kimberly and Elizabeth; 9 grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

Major activities in which you were involved as a student at Tech: Student Council, Alpha Zeta, Block and Bridle, Meats Judging Team Air Force ROTC, Phi Gamma Delta and an assistant dorm supervisor in Sneed Hall.

What is one of your fondest memories from your Tech days? The friendliness of the student body and feeling a part of Texas Tech.

What is the thing you’ve enjoyed seeing occur recently at Texas Tech?

The hiring of President Nellis, Athletics Director Hocutt, Coaches Kliff Kingsbury and Tubby Smith, along with all of the improvements that have been done on and around campus, not to forget Texas Tech University’s quest for Tier 1 status.

What is one thing you’ve enjoyed seeing occur recently at Texas Tech? The tremendous expansion of our University, the continued vision to provide a quality education, while instilling in our students there are no limits to their future achievements and our program for Veterans.

What is your favorite book? The Bible—it sets the foundation for a purpose filled life.

What is your favorite book? “Lonesome Dove” and “The Wolf and the Buffalo.”

What is your favorite movie? The last one that I thought was interesting was “The Butler.”

What is your favorite movie? (Or, what is the last movie you saw?) “Nebraska.”

What are your interests and hobbies? I enjoy golf, but it does not mutually agree with me; spending time with family; and attending San Antonio Spurs playoff games that lead to NBA Championships.

What are your interests and hobbies? Family, flying and community involvement.

WHAT CHARACTER TRAIT DO YOU VALUE HIGHLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL?

What character trait do you value highly in an individual?

Integrity, hard work and a sense of humor.

Honesty, integrity and humility.

IF YOU COULD ASK FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE TO YOUR HOME FOR EVENING, WHO WOULD THEY BE? Job (from the Bible); Martin Luther King,

Jr.; Paul L. Foster (Texas oil man and philanthropist); Gen. Wiliam T. Sherman; President Andrew Johnson and President Barack Obama.

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If you could ask five or six people to your home for an evening, who would they be? Fighter pilot, rancher or farmer, educator, Tech student and an elected official.

Dr. Sankar Chatterjee Paul Whitfield Horn Professor in Geosciences and Museum Science

From the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs to the great-grandmother of all crocodiles, Dr. Chatterjee and his colleagues are making discoveries today from events that happened millions of years ago.

I am many things.

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The Dallas and Collin County Chapters of the Texas Tech Alumni Association held their annual Red & Black Casino Night in March at the Intercontinental Dallas.

The Dallas Chapter of the Texas Tech Alumni Association enjoyed a happy hour at HG SPLY CO. Nutrients and Spirits in Greenville.

Red Raiders on the Celtic Lands cruise sponsored by Texas Tech Alumni Association show their loyalty by displaying a Tech flag. From left to right are Don and Gayle Brothers, Stuart and Cecilia Jones, and Becky and Mel Owen. The picture was taken at Caenarfon Castle in Wales.

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Call for Nominations Each year the Texas Tech Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors elects new members to three-year terms. These positions are open to all alumni.

If you know an alumna or an alumnus who loves Texas Tech, and you think that person would make a good addition to the board, contact Peggy Pearce for a nomination form: peggy.pearce@ttu.edu; 806-742-3641.

This is your Association, so join in!

Located in the Lubbock Country Club neighborhood — your home away from home.

Whether you are here for a romantic weekend, Texas Tech football game or graduation, you will enjoy the utmost in comfort and convenience.

Lubbock, Texas

Close to Texas Tech and the Airport 806.781.8374 806.762.8175

You’ve got the questions.

Can I still use the career center as an alumni? What is the best way to grow my network?

How do I hire Tech students? How can social media help me find a job? What style of resume is the most common? How do I negotiate the best salary for me? What steps should I take to make a change in my career? What do I wear to an interview? When should I start looking?

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University Career Center FOCUS Career Assessment • StrengthsQuest • Strong Interest Inventory RaiderJobs • Resume Critiques • Mock Interviews • Career Counseling

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In the 1964 “La Ventana,” Baldridge’s Bakery’s ad shows the annual Homecoming bonfire, held at the Southwest Conference Circle.

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BOOKS DIANNE MORRIS JONES (BS 1981 Family Financial Planning) West Des Moines, Iowa, published “STOP

BREATHE BELIEVE: Mindful Living One Thought at a Time,” in which she offers hope and shares her system for turning emotional struggle into personal growth. Dianne is a psychotherapist whose philosophy espouses emotional, physiMindful Living One Thought at a Time cal, spiritual, financial, intellectual and relational beliefs. The book teaches readers the STOP BREATHE BELIEVE technique while providing DIANNE MORRIS JONES, , with Catherine Knepper colorful analogies for picturing how the human mind works. “STOP BREATHE BELIEVE: Mindful Living One Thought at a Time” can be purchased on Amazon.com.

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TIBOR NAGY, JR., (BA 1972) Lubbock, Texas, a re-

tired U.S. Ambassador, co-authored a book with fellow retired Ambassador Gregory W. Engle.

“Managing Overseas Operations: Kiss Your Latte Goodbye,” is a guide for serving as a diplomat overseas. Nagy is Vice Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1999-2002 and Ambassador to Guinea from 1996-1999. Nagy joined the Foreign Service in 1978 as a management analyst in the Bureau of Personnel. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1949, he arrived in the United States as a political refugee in 1957. He is fluent in English, Hungarian and French. “Managing Overseas Operations: Kiss Your Latte Goodbye” can be purchased on Amazon.com.

“West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State,” is a book printed by the University of Oklahoma Press that features the writing of 17 Texas Tech alumni. The editors, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud, assembled the volume that entertains and informs with essays “covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary.” Presented in four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture— the book delves into what shaped West Texas.

Cultural influences such as the Tejanos, oil and gas, ranching, recreation or turn-of-the-century education. Authors take turns describing the people and events that have defined the region as well as each geographic region: the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos. “West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State” can be purchased on Amazon.com.

JOHN T. BECKER | MA 2001 SHARON MORRIS BOGENER | BA 1990, MA 1992, Ph.D. 1995 STEPHEN BOGENER | Ph.D. 1997 THOMAS A. BRITTEN | BA 1986, Ph.D. 1994 PAUL H. CARLSON | Ph.D. 1973 SEAN P. CUNNINGHAM | BA 1999, MA 2002 TIFFANY A. FINK | BA 1996, MA 1998, Ph.D. 2004 BRUCE A. GLASRUD | Ph.D. 1969 JAMES T. MATTHEWS | MA 1991

MONTE L. MONROE | MA 1991, Ph.D. 1999 DAVID J. MURRAH | MA 1970, Ph.D. 1979 CURTIS PEOPLES | BA 1999, MA 2001, Ph.D. 2012 GENE B. PREUSS | Ph.D. 2004 JAMES M. SMALLWOOD | Ph.D. 1974 M. SCOTT SOSEBEE | BA 1996, MA 2000, Ph.D. 2004 LELAND K. TURNER | BA 1972 ANDY WILKINSON | BA 1972

FRIEND TRAVIS EWERT , Dallas, Texas, is a current

member of the board of trustees for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. The mission of the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center is to improve the lives of abused children in Dallas County and to provide national leadership on child abuse issues.Travis is the senior vice president of Colliers International. He specializes in representing corporate office users in their strategic real estate planning and transaction processes.

1964 KEN PATTERSON (BS Engineering Physics)

Lubbock, is serving as the 2013-2014 District Governor for Rotary International District 5730, which spans from Dalhart and Perryton to Sweetwater and Pecos. Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization with a membership of more than 1.2 million. His wife is ELYN BREEDING PATTERSON (’64 BS Home Economics Education).

1969 JOE BOB MAYO (BBA Finance) Petersburg, Texas,

was elected to serve on the board of directors for the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas during its annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in June. His wife is JO CAROLE FELTON MAYO (’71 BSE Elementary Education).

RITA WILLIAMS (BA Journalism) Portola Valley, Calif., received the 2014 EMMY Board of Governors Award for outstanding accomplishments. The award is the highest honor a local chapter can bestow. Williams, who retired from KTVU in Oakland, Calif., after 41 years in the TV news industry. It’s believed she broke more stories and had more exclusive interviews than any other TV reporter. She captivated viewers with her coverage of notorious figures in California, such as her interviews with the wife of San Francisco City Hall assassin Dan White, and the man believed to be the Zodiac Killer. She also was first to report the damage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. She also recently received an Outstanding Journalism Alumni award from Texas Tech. Her husband is Lindsay.

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Diamond ($5,000 or more annually)

Mrs. Peggy B. LaFont ’61

Mr. & Mrs. Barry C. Street ’79 (SuDeline Street ’79)

Mr. & Mrs. George H. McMahan (Linda M. McMahan)

Mr. & Mrs. Randall W. Vines ’84 (Dona E. Vines ’86)

Platinum ($2,500 to $4,999 annually)

Mr. & Mrs. G. Barney Adams ’75 (Kandy Adams ’75)

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Josephs, Jr. (Kirsten Josephs)

Mr. & Mrs. Grant Adamson ’81 (Nelda Adamson)

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Mase (Liz Mase)

Mr. & Mrs. Mike Baca (Jan W. Baca ’70)

Mr. & Mrs. Justin Mason (Denise Mason)

Ms. William B. Baker ’06 (Lori Baker ’04)

Mrs. Joan B. McComb-Dominey ’67

Mr. & Mrs. Bryant Bonner ’95 (Whitney Bonner ’96)

Mr. & Mrs. L. Brent McGavock ’95 (Amy McGavock ’94)

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Brawley ’95 (Sabrina Brawley ’94)

Mrs. & Mrs. Mark R. McGuire ’83 (Nancy Q. McGuire ’77)

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Breedlove ’70 (Lorrie Breedlove)

Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKenzie ’68 (Barbara McKenzie ’69)

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Brown ’59 (Elena Brown)

Mr. Glenn D. Moor ’84

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Broyles ’51 (Helen P. Broyles)

Mrs. Joyce W. Perkins ’64

Lt. Col. Mark H. Bryant ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Price (Mary Jo Price ’53)

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Burleson ’83 (Elizabeth Burleson ’84)

Mr. Michael R. Proctor ’90 (Julie Proctor)

Mr. Clay Cash ’97

Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Ralston ’76 (Jeannie Ralston ’77)

Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Chenault ’82 (Vicki L. Chenault)

Dr. & Dr. George R. Raschbaum ’82 (Rene Raschbaum)

Dr. & Mrs. Todd K. Cowan ’81 (Veronica I. Cowan)

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Redmon ’71 (Ann R. Redmon ’71)

Mr. Lynn F. Cowden ’80

Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. Riordan ’00 (Jennifer Riordan ’00)

Mr. Richard R. Davila, II

Dr. Nancy R. Ruff ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Enoch L. Dawkins ’60 (Frances Dawkins)

Mr. & Mrs. John Scovell ’68 (Diane Scovell ’68)

Mr. Joseph H. Dominey (Joan McComb-Dominey ’67)

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth H. Sheffield, Jr. (Catherine Sheffield ’79)

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Domino ’86 (Lisa K. Domino)

Mr. James T. Simpson ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Gayle M. Earls ’59 (Dolores J. Earls)

Ms. Anita Smith ’63

Mr. Daniel F. Frye, III ’73

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Smith ’65 (Gail Smith ’68)

Mr. Ralph G. Goodlet, Jr. ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Marlis Smith ’54 (Shirley Smith ’54)

Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Gregory ’85 (Nancy Gregory)

Mr. & Mrs. Tom S. Stacy ’75 (Melinda M. Stacy)

Mr. & Mrs. B.R. “Rip” Griffin (Geneva Griffin ’51)

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Stone ’50 (Evelyn B. Stone ’48)

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Hagood ’69 (Karen G. Hagood ’71)

Mr. & Mrs. Dale V. Swinburn ’65 (Cheryl Swinburn)

Mrs. Julianna Hawn Holt ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Max Swinburn ’67 (Doris Swinburn)

Mr. H. Wayne Henry ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Swofford, Jr. ’47 (Sarah Swofford ’47)

Mr. Bob L. Herd ’57

Mr. David F. Thomas ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hix ’70 (Leslie Hix ’71)

Mr. & Mrs. Mickey D. Tucker ’77 (Schelley A. Tucker)

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Holloman ’80 (Karlene Holloman)

Mr. Tommy W. Velasquez ’93

Mr. Peter M. Holt

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Walker ’68 (Lisa A. Walker)

Mr. & Mrs. Don J. Howe ’71 (Vickie Howe)

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Whitacre ’64 (Linda Whitacre ’65)

Dr. & Mrs. O. Wayne Isom, M.D. ’61 (Pat Isom)

Mr. Dan White ’79 (Debbie White)

Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Jacobs ’87 (Jerri L. Jacobs)

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Wilkins, Jr. ’88 (Karen Wilkins)

Mr. & Mrs. Leon Jeffcoat ’66 (Patricia E. Jeffcoat ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Parker C. Johnson ’97 (Victoria N. Johnson)

*As of July 29, 2014

Gold ($1,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Mike R. Abbott ’63 (Diane Abbott) Mr. & Mrs. Ken Abraham ’63 (Renee Abrahma ‘71) Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Abston ’60 (Nancy S. Abston) Mr. Darrell W. Adams ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Adcox ’95 (Keeley K. Orman-Adcox ’95) Mr. Michael Akeroyd Dr. & Mrs. Russell S. Akin ’05 (Jill L. Akin) Dr. & Mrs. Richard G. Alexander ’58 (Janna Alexander) Mr. Robert Allen (Janice Allen) Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Allen ’80 (Kandee L. Allen) Mr. & Mrs. Ronald G. Althof ’79 (Deirdra Althof) Mr. & Mrs. Bruce E. Anderson ’91 (Melissa Anderson) Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Anderson ’80 (Cynthia Anderson ’78) Mr. & Mrs. David Anderson ’84 (Susan Anderson ’85) Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Anthony ’75 (Loraine C. Anthony) Mr. & Mrs. J. Mart Armstrong ’79 (Tonya Armstrong) Mr. & Mrs. C Kevin Atkins ’81 (Gay Atkins) Mr. & Mrs. Chris Aulds ’84 (Terry Aulds) Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Autrey ’84 (Tiffany Autrey) Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Baker ’73 (Leslie E. Baker) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Barber ’65 (Sandra R. Barber) Mr. & Mrs. Brad S. Barrett ’93 (Kimberly Barrett ’94) Mr. Richard Beach ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Beard, Ph.D. (Robin Beard ’12) Mr. & Mrs. Joe Beaty ’69 (Patricia Beaty ’75) Mr. & Mrs. Edward Benninger ’65 (Nelda Benninger) Mr. Michael C. Bernatis ’00 Mr. & Mrs. Oran H. Berry, III ’71 (Linda L. Berry ’70) Mr. & Mrs. Brent C. Bertrand ’87 (Tonya H. Bertrand ’86) Mrs. Victoria M. Bezner Ms. Nancy L. Birdwell ’74 Mr. & Mrs. C. Bob Black ’58 (Billie Black) Mr. William C. Bomberger ’79 Mr. Greg Borum Mr. Jared W. Bradford ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Bradley ’90 (Vicki W. Bradley) Mr. & Mrs. Bennie R. Brigham ’65 ( Mary Brigham ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Britton ’69 (Judith A. Britton) Mr. C.H. Brockett ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Broiles ’79 (Cindy L. Broiles) Dr. & Mrs. Edward Broome ’68 (Jan L. Broome ’68) Mr. Alan D. Brown ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Eddie M. Brown ’60 (Billie G. Brown) Mr. & Mrs. Jon Brown ’90 (Elizabeth Brown ’90) Mr. & Mrs. Tommy R. Brown (Brenda Brown) Mr. & Mrs. William D. Brown ’74 (Karen E. Brown ’74) Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bryant ’73 (Rebecca Bryant) Dr. J. Fred Bucy ’51 Mr. & Mrs. William G. Burnett, III ’70 (Carolyn Burnett) Mr. & Mrs. Jack L. Byrd ’56 (Marline C. Byrd) Mr. & Mrs. Larry Byrd ’57 (Patricia Byrd) Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Cain (Melissa Cain) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Cameron (June C. Cameron ’64) Mr. & Mrs. Ben D. Campbell ’77 (Marsha B. Campbell) Mr. Howard R. Carlson, IV ’08 Mr. Louis C. Cartall ’03 Mr. David R. Carter ’87 Ms. Maria R. Carter ’87 Mr. & Mrs. R Don Cash ’66 (S. Kay Cash ’67) Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Chambers ’66 (Carole Chambers) Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Champion ’69 (Robbie Champion ’69) Ms. Nora Chang ’95 Mr. Thame H. Chapman ’90 Mr. Mark A. Cina ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Dayle M. Clark ’55 (Betty Clark) Dr. David S. Cockrum ’94 Mrs. Kathryn E. Comfort ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Coppinger ’84 (Belinda Coppinger) Mr. & Mrs. John C. Covery ’77 (Teresa C. Covey) Mr. & Mrs. Holt Cowden ’00 (Kaye Cowden ’78) Col. Jimmy D. Cox ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Brenton A. Croley ’96 (Carrie E. Croley ’95) Dr. & Mrs. Charles F. Cruser ’76 (Salty Cruser) Mr. & Mrs. Tim G. Culp ’81 (Annette L. Culp ’81) Mr. Charles Cummings ’59 Mr. & Mrs. Glen M. Curry ’87 (Julia Curry) Mr. & Mrs. Jim Daniel (Mary Daniel ’78) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Davis ’84 (Lisa G. Davis) Mr. & Mrs. Sean D. Davis ’86 (Donna Davis) Dr. & Dr. Miles R. Day (Audra R. Day ’99) Dr. & Mrs. Bill F. Dean ’61 (Peggy M. Dean ’66) Dr. Carrie E. DeMoor ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Richard A Derr, Jr. ’89 (Stacey R. Derr ’88) Mrs. Sue A. Derr ’50 Ms. Jane B. Dickson ’74 Mrs. & Mrs. Mike K. Dobbins ’88 (Tracy Dobbins) Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Doherty ’73 (Ginger R. Doherty) Mrs. & Mrs. Stefan K. Dorman ’99 (Johnna Dorman) Mr. & Mrs. Jim A. Douglass ’70 (Patti Douglass ’85) Mr. & Mrs. MIchael S. Dowdey ’88 (Cynthia Dowdy ’88) Mr. & Mrs. John C. Downs ’66 (Edie Downs) Mr. & Mrs. Stan J. Edwards ’68 (Jane Edwards) Mr. & Mrs. Jason Elliott (Robin L Elliott ’95) Mr. & Mrs. C Robert Fabling, Jr. ’69 (Lee Fabling) Mr. Quinton A. Farley ’81 ’85

Ms. Cindi D. Faulkner ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Fitzgerald (Jeanette Fitzgerald ’86) Dr. W. T. Fogarty ’80 Mr. Reynolds L. Foster ’67 Regent & Mrs. L. F. Francis ’78 (Ginger G. Francis ’79) Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Gaddis (Melinda Gaddis ’84) Mr. & Mrs. Chris S. Gelanos ’68 (Carla J. Gelanos ’69) Dr. Steven G. Gamble ’67 Mr. & Mrs. James L. Gaspard ’72 (Dinah A. Gaspard ’72) Mr. & Mrs. Bryan B. Gossett ’73 (Nancy K. Gossett) Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Graham ’73 (Jane Graham ’73) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Green ’64 (Mary Ann Green ’64) Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Gunter ’86 (Karen Gunter) Mr. & Mrs. Dan Guy (Terri S. Guy ’73) Dr. & Mrs. Nadim G. Haddad ’88 (Christine Haddad) Mr. & Mrs. David H. Hadden ’78 (Pamela A. Hadden ’87) Mrs. Kathy E. Hager Roberts ’72 Mrs. Karen Hamel ’93 Mr. & Mrs. Bobby E. Hammond Jr. ’75 (Cynthia Hammond) Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie D. Hammonds ’68 (Nancy L. Hammonds) Chancellor & Mrs. Kent R. Hance ’65 (Susie Hance) Mr. Dane Hardy ’03 (Alexandra M. Hardy ’02) Mr. & Mrs. Owen Harrison ’73 (Lois Harrison) Dr. & Dr. Robert I. Hart ’80 (Susan E. Hart) Mr. & Mrs. Daniel D. Hart ’95 (April Hart) Mr. Terence J. Hart ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Heinchon ’81 (Nita C. Heinchon ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Henry ’64 (Cassandra L. Henry ’67) Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Herrin ’82 (Cheryl Herrin ’83) Dr. & Mrs. William W. Hinchey ’74 (Joann C. Hinchey) Mr. W. Embry Hines ’65 (Martha J. Hines ’89) Mr. Robert W. Hodge, II Mr. & Mrs. Gregory R. Hoes ’86 (Lori Hoes) Mr. & Mrs. Ted W. Hogan Jr. ’77 (Joellen Hogan ’76) Mr. & Mrs. Pete Holden ’65 (Marjorie G. Holden) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin P. Holleron ’94 (Mona Holleron) Ms. Jesse Holleron Mr. Stanley K. Horton ’86 Mr. Thomas J. Howard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Huckabee ’91 (Robin Huckabee ’92) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Huckaby ’66 (Clara J. Huckaby) Mr. & Mrs. Ken Huseman ’75 (Jaye Huseman) Mr. & Mrs. Drew M. Ingram ’79 (Laura J. Ingram ’79) Mr. & Mrs. Rex Isom ’78 (Nancy Isom ’80) Ms. Kathy G. Johnson ’77 Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur H. Johnson ’65 (Patricia J. Johnson) Mr. & Mrs. H. David Jones ’69 (Cindy R. Jones) Mr. & Mrs. Troy D. Jones ’57 (Lona F. Jones) Mr. Van Josselet ’74 Mr. & Mrs. J. David Joyner ’86 ( Carrie R. Joyner) Mr. Phillip S. Kahlich ’09 Mr. R. Scott Kellerman ’76 (Marian Kellerman) Major Anthony D. Killa ’95 Mr. & Mrs. M. Chris Kirksey ’84 (Betsy B. Kirksey ’83) Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Kitten ’89 (Janet Kitten ’91) Mr. & Mrs. Terry G. Knighton ’80 (Patricia Knighton) Mr. & Mrs. A. Lance Langford ’87 (Brenda L. Langford) Mr. Rowland C. Lawson ’84 Mr. & Mrs. Lanny G. Layman ’77 (Joni Layman ’79) Mr. Robert J. Lewis ’49 Mr. Jack C. Looney ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Loveless ’93 (Stacy Loveless ’92) Mr. & Mrs. Justin Mason (Denise Mason) Mr. & Mrs. Wendell W. Mayes, Jr ’49 (Mary Jane Mayes) Mr. & Mrs. Bob Mayo ’69 (Jo C. Mayo ’71) Mr. & Mrs. John N. McAnulty ’96 (Michelle McAnulty ’98) Mr. & Mrs. Mark T. McCloy ’73 (Annette McCloy) Mr. & Mrs. Brian F. McCoy ’75 (Wetonnah L. McCoy) Mr. & Mrs. John L. McCoy ’70 (Lynnda McCoy ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Paul McDonald ’81 (Karen P. McDonald ’81) Mr. & Mrs. George G. McDuff ’58 (Beverly J. McDuff ’54) Mr. & Mrs. Don E. McInturff (Pauline L. McInturff ’48) Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNaughton ’84 (Anne McNaughton ’76) Dr. John S. Menzies ’75 Mr. Jarret B. Meuth ’96 Ms. Patsy Middleton ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Miers ’82 (Sarah Miers) Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Mikolajczyk ’60 (Hilda Mikolajczyk) Mr. & Mrs. Lon E. Miller ’71 (Gertrude P. Miller ’65) Mr. & Mrs. Jacob A. Miller ’01 (Erica Miller) Mr. & Mrs. Tim G. Miller ’82 (Kyla Miller) Mr. Michael J. Montgomery ’76 Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Moore ’56 (Dorothy E. Moore) Mr. & Mrs. Joshua C. Moose ’04 (Kristin M. Moose ’04) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Morris, III ’99 (Leslie Morris) Mr. Luke N. Morrow ’93 Mr. Kevin G. Morton ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Fred H. Moseley ’67 (Janet Moseley ’65) Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Mrazek ’75 (Debra Mrazek ‘81) Mr. & Mrs. James A. Mueller ’80 (Kathleen M. Mueller) Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Munn ’61 (Janice Munn) Dr. Paul M. Muratta ’86 Mr. & Mrs. H Garth Nash ’63 (Zandra Nash) Ms. Jennifer L. Neff ’91 Dr. Susan E. Nelson

Mr. & Mrs. Juan J. Nevarez ’95 (Iris R. Nevarez) Mr. & Mrs. Lyndel A. Newsom ’55 (Billie Newsom) Dr. James D. Norcross ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Norton ’85 ’90 (Melanie Norton ’86 ’93) Mrs. Keeley K. Orman-Adcox ’95 Mr. & Mrs. John C. Owens ’71 (Cynthia M. Owens ’73) Dr. & Mrs. Brian Papworth ’88 (Mardi Papworth) Mr. Bob J. Paradiso ’79 Mr. Paul E. Parkinson ’74 (Crystal Parkinson) Dr. & Mrs. Neal R. Patel (Carrie Patel ’96) Mr. & Mrs. Gary S. Payne (Debbie Payne) Mr. Franklin T. Perkins ’49 Mr. Gary R. Petersen ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Mike J. Petraitis ’79 (Martha M. Petraitis ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Steve Phillips ’93 (Stacey Phillips ’93) Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pickering (Lugene L. Pickering ’77) Mr. & Mrs Stephen S. Poore ’90 (Christina B. Poore) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Proctor ’91 (Cindy B. Proctor ’90) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pubentz ’98 (Rebecca Pubentz ’99 Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen ’80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Mr. & Mrs. Terry H. Putman ’69 (Mendy W. Putman ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Gil H. Radtke ’82 (Ann G. Radtke) Mr. Jerry S. Rawls ’67 Mr. Samuel M. Ray, IV ’66 (Sandra L. Ray) Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery F. Rea (Michelle S. Rea) Mr. Richard D. Rhodes ’71 Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rinehart ’60 (Joyce Rinehart) Mrs. Janet O. Rippy Mr. & Mrs. James S. Rivera (Dr. Cynthia D Rivera ’88) Mrs. Kathy Hager Roberts ’72 Mr. T.C. Robinson, IV, M.D. ’89 Mr. & Dr. Keith J. Rogers (Brooks Rogers, M.D. ’87) Mr. John S. Rogers, Jr. ’87 Ms. Terry L Rolan ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Rose (Susan Rose ’76) Mr. & Mrs. John E. Roueche, III ’88 (Elise W. Roueche) Mr. & Mrs. Brandon D. Rowland ’95 (Kelley Rowland) Mr. & Mrs. John Saenz ’96 (Suzanne Saenz ’95) Drs. Bolkar Sahinler, M.D. (Michelle Sahinler, M.D. ’99) Dr. & Mrs. Martin Salazar ’78 (Margie Salazar) Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Sales ’75 (Kathy A. Sales ’74) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Salter ’72 (Lana L. Salter) Mr. & Mrs. W. Joseph Sammons ’78 (Susan Sammons ’78) Mr. & Mrs. Robbie R. Sartain ’79 (Kathleen Sartain ’79) Mrs. Sammie F. Saulsbury ’58 Dr. Alan C. Schauer ’77 (Regina Schauer) Mr. & Mrs. Ryan W. Schneider ’01 (Mindy B. Schneider ’02) Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Scorgie ’95 (Colleen Scorgie) Mr. & Mrs. Ricky C. Scott ’81 (Lori J. Scott ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Bill D. Senter ’51 (Lila L. Senter) Mr. & Mrs. Joe M. Shannon ’89 (Brooke M. Shannon ’88) Mr. Josh M. Shuster ’00 Ms. Jessica J. Siewert Ms. Sharon J. Simandl Mr. & Dr. Reagan W. Simpson (Nancy D. Simpson ’75) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Skinner ’74 (Alice B. Skinner) Mr. Kenneth L. Slack, Jr. ’71 Mr. & Mrs. John P. Smith (Ashlee M. Smith ’07) Mr. & Mrs. Lucian Smith ’74 (Kristin Smith ’76) Mr. Robert D. Smith ’82 Mr. & Mrs. William B. Snyder ’55 (Sally M. Snyder) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Souter ’71 (Jill H. Souter) Mr. & Mrs. Phil D. Staley ’70 (Sharon D. Staley ’71) Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Stark (Diane Stark) Mr. & Mrs. Robb Stewart ’87 (Melinda Melnar Stewart) Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Stoerner ’71 ’78 (Nancy S. Cusack) Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Strickland ’70 (Linda F. Strickland) Mr. & Mrs. Lance L. Taylor ’99 (Dawn M. Taylor ’00) Mr. & Mrs. Tommy E. Taylor ’85 (Gwen Taylor) Mr. & Mrs. Fred Timberlake, Jr. ’68 (Kay G. Timberlake) Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Turner ’68 (Diane Turner ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Underwood ’71 (Pam Underwood) Mr. & Mrs. Bobby G. Waddle ’55 Mr. & Mrs. David W. Walker ’51 (Virginia Walker) Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Wallace ’76 (Patricia H. Wallace) Mr. James M. Watson ’58 Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Weber, III ’77 (Debra Weber) Mr. & Mrs. Dan G. Webster, III ’61 (Molly I. Webster) Mr. & Mrs. James S. Werner ’91 (Cheryl E. Werner ’91) Mr. & Dr. David R. White (Lynn White, Ph.D. ’69) Mr. Ted L. Wilkerson ’75) Mr. & Mrs. D. Andy Williams ’91 (Camille Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Williams ’57 (Jamelle Williams) Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Willis, III ’84 (Lorie L. Willis) Mr. William C. Winters ’08 Mr. & Mrs. Justin D. Wright ’01 (Sheri L Williams ’ 01) Mr. Lee Wright ’ 87 Dr. & Mrs. Scott W. Wyrick ’87 (Lenore P. Wyrick) Mr. Wesley B. Youngblood ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Greg M. Zielinski (Donna J. Zielinski) *As of July 29, 2014

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1971 DAVID N. AMMONS (BA Political

Science) Chapel Hill, N.C., received the 2014 Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award, presented by the American Society for Public Administration’s Center for Accountability and Performance for published work on public sector performance. David is Albert Coates Professor of Public Administration and Government at the University of North Carolina. His wife is Cindy.

1977 KENT FERGUSON (BS Range Management) Valley Mills, Texas, was honored with a Distinguished Alumni

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alumni news Award from Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources for his work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service as a state rangeland management specialist.

In addition, Ferguson writes a monthly column titled “Plant of the Month,” for the Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association magazine, The Cattleman, and is a member and director of the Texas Section of the Society for Range Management. His wife is Debbie.

1978 DOUG JORDAN (BBA Finance, ’04 JD Law) Abilene, Texas, was appointed president of Stewart Title Company’s Lubbock division. Before accepting this position, Jordan worked for a regional title company and in the legal services of the development, construction and

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financing of the world’s largest wind farm. He has been in the banking business for 22 years and is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Active in his community, Doug has held positions on the board of directors for organizations such as the Lubbock chapter of the American Cancer Society, South Plains Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Lubbock Western Little League. His wife is COURTNEY COLLIER JORDAN (’86 BBA Accounting).

1980 ROBERT A. “BOB” BLACK (JD Law)

Beaumont, Texas, was inducted as a Texas Legal Legend by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. The induction took place during the State Bar of Texas’ annual meeting. Bob served as president of the State Bar of Texas from 2011 to 2012 and has also received the Presidential Citation and

the Certification of Merit from the state bar. He is a managing shareholder of Mehaffy Weber Law Firm, has tried more than 50 cases to verdict and successfully argued several cases before both the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Since 2000 his sole focus has been mediation and arbitration. He has helped mediate more than 20,000 asbestos claims in one year and has mediated or arbitrated more than 4,000 cases total, recently serving as an appeals panelist for the Deepwater Horizon incident.

1982 GAGE PAINE (JD Law) Austin, Texas,

received the inaugural Dr. V Ray Cardozier Alumni Excellence Award from The University of Texas at Austin Higher Education Administration Program. The award recognizes a graduate of the doctoral program who

alumni news demonstrated excellence in their scholarly and professional work. Paine is vice president for Student Affairs at University of Texas—Austin.

1985

Speakers Association (NSA). Through his own company, To Leader Publishing, he has authored five leadership books. His wife is SHEILA HUDSON BARNES (’87 BBA Marketing).

KAROL KEENAN HOLDEN (BSE Secondary

RICK BARNES (BS Agricultural

Economics) Keller, Texas, was elected to the Keller City Council. Barnes is the owner and president of Rick Barnes Presents, Inc. Rick is an educational speaker who uses humor, experience and information to empower clients to achieve their highest potential. He has been a featured speaker at more than 2,000 college campuses nationwide, as well as being a frequent presenter at corporate, international and non-profit organizations. He is also a life and career coach who guides those with a passion for speaking and wish to pursue it as a career. Rick has more than 20 years professional experience in higher education and is a member of the National

bers of his platoon after an explosion in Afghanistan. Tim’s wife is LESLIE COLKET JACKSON (’85 BA Advertising).

1992

Education) Dripping Springs, Texas, was selected as the 2014 Secondary Teacher of the Year for Dripping Springs Independent School District in Dripping Springs, Texas, where she has been teaching for the last 10 years.

Holden teaches advanced U.S. history.

Her teaching career spans 28 years. Her husband is D. DEREK HOLDEN (’83 BBA Marketing).

STEPHEN MCLELLAN (BS Physical Education) Seabrook, Texas, returned home from a deployment to Guantanamo Bay and will be retiring at the rank of Chief Petty Officer from the Navy Reserve. He and his wife Hilary have one son.

TIM JACKSON (BBA Finance) McKinney,

NATALIE HARVILL (BS Civil Engineering) Lubbock, was hired by JQ, a structural and civil engineering firm, to lead their new Lubbock office. She has directed engineering design for more than 300 projects involving diverse applications in the healthcare, education, com-

Texas, worked with his company, Tim Jackson Custom Homes, and Operation Finally Home to build a custom home for Army Sgt. Stephen Jackel and his family of seven in Paloma Creek, Texas.

Jackel lost his leg trying to save mem-

1997

Classes Designed For People Ages 50 & Up McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center 17th and University Avenue Lubbock, TX 79409 806.742.OLLI (6554) www.olli-ttaa.org olli@ttu.edu

Upcoming Classes

Spot Check, What’s That Spot? • Texas Beer Tasting • Nature Photography • International Medical Relief Corps • Painting & Drawing with Nature Scenes • One-on-One with Tim Collins • OLLI Computer Series: Digital Photos • Offering Your Knowledge & Experience • Readers Circle • Square Dance With a Twist • Letterpress Printing & Paper Marbling • Weight of the Nation • Behavioral Economics • Mah Jongg for Beginners • Desert Crops for Texas High Plains • Glass Blowing • Opera & Politics • Investing for your Future • Nutrition & Bone Health • Inequality & the Economy • OLLI Film Series • Tour of Historical Church in Umbarger, Texas Tech University Traces of Pan & Adonis • Museum, Zoos & Aquariums • One-on-0ne with Robert Giovannetti of KTTZ-TV • Astor Piazzola: Father of Tango Nuevo • The Haunted Southwest • Travel to India in Class • Symbolism in Clothing at Museum of TTU • Science Diplomacy • Science & Environmental Illiteracy • How Grandchildren Amaze • Property Issues.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at TTU is administered and housed by the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

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alumni news mercial office and industrial markets.

Natalie is the first female principal of JQ in the company’s 30-year history.

An advocate for LEED, Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, she contributed to the development of the new LEED AP exam based on Version 3.0 Design Guide for Building Design & Construction. She has been involved in the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, the U.S. Green Building Council—West Texas, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineering Institute. Her husband is Lewis.

1998

When it comes to a graduate degree, the experience is everything. With more than 160 master’s and doctoral programs, Texas Tech University Graduate School offers tremendous opportunities for an educational experience that will change your future.

LAURA BEITLER (MBA General Business,

’98 JD Law) Dallas, Texas, was selected as one of three vice presidents of Mary Kay Inc., a top beauty brand and direct seller in more than 35 countries around the world.

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KEITH MORGAN (BS Restaurant, Hotel,

JOSEPH S. IMAMURA (BS Architecture, ’06 MAR Architecture, ’07 MUP Urban Planning, ’12 MLA Landscape Architecture) Fairfax, Va., is currently working on his doctoral degree at Texas Tech and is also an adjunct professor. Previously, Joseph worked for the General Services Administration with the U.S. government, including work on the 2008 Presidential Transition Team, managerial support in the Construction Excellence program and urban planning and public outreach. He has also been a part of projects with the GSA in more that 50 different cities in the country. He is also an adjunct professor for Texas Tech for junior and senior-level courses in the Department of Integrative Studies. His wife is NICOLETTE HARGER IMAMURA (’13 BS University Studies).

and Institutional Management) New Braunfels, Texas, was awarded one of three 2013 Diamond GM awards by Marriott International. Keith is the general manager of the Courtyard New Braunfels River Village. The honor is given based on hotel leadership, team building and development, financial management, sales leadership, service leadership and community service.

Under his leadership, the Courtyard New Braunfels River Village has been named “Best Place to Stay in New Braunfels/Comal County” for the past four years and received the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence in 2012 and 2013. Keith is involved in the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce as well as the board of directors of the Hospitality and Visitors Assocation, New Braunfels Hotel and Lodging Association and the Arts Commission for the City of New Braunfels. His wife is SUSAN TEAGUE MORGAN (’97 BS Health).

2001 WADE BOWEN (BA Public Relations) New

Braunfels, Texas, held his 16th annual “Wade Bowen Classic” celebrity golf tournament and concert June 1st and 2nd in his hometown of Waco, Texas.

More than a $250,000 was raised at the event for The Bowen Family Foundation, which benefits organizations in need.

His wife is Shelby.

MARCO PEREZ (BBA Finance) Donna,

Texas, and his wife, Kristy, announce the birth of their son, Michael Anthony Perez, on April 10.

BRYAN SESSOM (BBA Management)

Lubbock, was selected by the Lubbock Independent School District Board of Trustees as the Director of the Early Childhood Intervention Program. Before being promoted, Sessom worked with

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2002 KRYSTIL SMITH (BBA Marketing, BA

Public Relations) Silver Spring, Md., has worked with The Humane Society of the United States for the past year as an educational outreach coordinator.

Krystil, a vegan, promotes “Meatless Mondays” at K-12 public school districts, colleges and universities. She works with school officials and food providers to provide students with plant-based meal options.

2005 CHRIS WOOD (BA Political Science)

Dallas, Texas, was selected as a 2014 “Texas Rising Star” by Thomson Reuter.

“Texas Rising Stars” are honored annually as the state’s leading attorneys who are under 40 years old and have been practicing for less than 10 years. The selection is based on peer nominations and an extensive editorial review with only 2.5 percent of eligible attorneys chosen for this honor. Wood practices in the Dallas office of the Godwin Lewis, PC law firm as a civil litigation defense associate.

2006 STEPHANIE BRAISLIN (BBA Accounting,

’06 MSA Accounting) Dallas, Texas, was

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2011 KAYLA MEADOWS (BBA Marketing)

Albuquerque, N. M., was married on June 14, 2014, in Kauai, Hawaii., to Brandon Gilmore, a graduate of the University of New Mexico. In May 2013, Kayla received her MBA with a concentration in international management from the University of New Mexico.

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In Memoriam JAMES ROSS ALEXANDER ’61, ’73, Lubbock,

died Feb. 22. He is survived by his wife, Linda Huffhines-Smith Alexander ’70, ’93.

PAUL ALEXANDER ’88, Plano, Texas, died Feb. 20.

He is survived by his wife, LISA ALEXANDER ’88.

EDWARD DAVID ALLEN ’60, Lubbock, died May 4.

BERNARD A. BARASCH ’67, Lubbock, died June 24.

EDGAR EUGENE “BECK” BECKNELL ROBERT “BOBBY” CAVAZOS ’55, San Antonio,

Texas, died Nov. 16, 2013. He was a member of the Texas Tech Football Hall of Fame.

STUART LOGAN COBB ’90, Buffalo Springs, Texas, died June 2.

OTTO LOWELL CROSLIN ’67, Lubbock, died May 5.

BOBBY TIM CROSS ’68, Norman, Okla., no date of death.

HOPE LYNNETTE COFFMAN EVANS ’91, Lubbock, died April 12.

FRANCENE FERREL ’68, Lubbock, died June 8. She is survived by her husband, BILLY FERREL ’66.

CHARLES “CHUCK” HERBERT FREDRICKSON

’67, ’73, Houston, Texas, died June 14.

SIDNEY ELIZABETH PACE HALL ’51, Lubbock, died May 30.

GEORGE WILLIAM “G.W.” HENSLEY ’54, Lubbock, died June 8. He is survived by his wife BETTIE L. HENSLEY ’74.

CECYLE YVONNE ANDERSON HILTON ’59, Dallas, Texas, died May 9.

PHILLIP DWAYNE HISEY ’92, ’95, Lubbock, died June 7.

DAVE M. HOPPER ’55, Hereford, Texas, died April 20. He is survived by his wife JOAN HOPPER ’56.

ANN JACKSON ’75, Lubbock, died May 12.

RANDELL JAY JOHNSON , D.D.S. ’72, Lubbock, died April 29.

WALTER P. KESSINGER, JR, Ph.D., ’51, Lafayette, Louisiana, died April 14.

SAMUEL FORREST “SAM” KING ’48, Longview, Texas, died May 23.

MARY ELIZABETH KREBBS ’41, Lubbock, died May 26.

RUTH ANN KRULL ’69, Blacksburg, Va., died May 15.

ANNABELLE FLANAGAN LOCKLEY ’50, San Antonio, Texas, died Dec. 31, 2013. She is survived by her husband JAMES L. LOCKLEY ’50, ’60.

EDWARD JAY MATSLER ’61, Lubbock, died Dec. 31.

KAREN LOUISE MASON MCCLENDON ’63, Sharpsburg, Md., died May 21.

She is survived by her husband BRUMMETT J. MCCLENDON ’65.

LAURA MCMILLAN ’50, Lubbock, died March 29. She is survived by her husband W.G. MCMILLAN JR. ’50.

SARALYN MORGAN MURPHY ’07, Lubbock, died June 16. She is survived by her husband J. RUSSELL MURPHY ’75.

BETTY JO NEAL ’51, Anton, Texas, died May 4.

DIANE MENEFEE OATMAN ’75, Llano, Texas, died May 1.

DALE WESLEY PARR ’68, Idalou, Texas, died April 3.

ERNESTINE G. PYLE ’53, Bakersfield, Calif., died April 24.

RICHARD H. RAMAGE ’65, Papillion, Neb., died April 10 SUSAN ELISE RUSHING ’99, Lubbock, died January 8.

TERRY SAVAGE ’58, Sunnyvale, Calif., died April 27.

EARL HOWARD SMALTS ’88, Abernathy, Texas, died April 28.

MARY JO SMITH ’56, Lubbock, died June 22.

WANDA J. STEGEMOELLER ’80, Lubbock, died April 27.

J. PETE THOMPSON ’49, Abernathy, Texas, died May 11.

JOHNNY WARREN ’63, Lubbock, died May 17.

LAVERNE LEGATE WEBB ’45, Seagraves, Texas, died April 27.

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THE TEX A S TEC H Alumni Association Student Alumni Board officers for 2014-2015 are Dillon Harris, president, a senior geology major with minors in geoscience composite and pre-med; RYLEY T. BENNETT , vice president, a senior Honors Arts and Letters major with minors in legal studies and Spanish; DANIELLE VILLARREAL , external affairs, a junior exercise and sports sciences major with a concentration in sports management and a minor in general business; MEGGAN GILLES , internal affairs, a senior exercise sports science major with a concentration in exercise science and minors in chemistry and biology and CHARLES BULLARD , member-at-large, a junior civil engineering major with minors in Spanish and international engineering.

The SAB is the governing body of the Student Alumni Association.

THE TEX A S TEC H University Ranch Horse Team was named the “2014 Reserve National Champion Collegiate Stock Horse Team” at the American Stock Horse Association Intercollegiate Championship Show held recently in Loveland, Colo., in April.

The Ranch Horse Team rode individual horses and competed in four separate events: stock horse pleasure, trail, reining and working cow horse. This year’s Tech team included

ASHLEY ADAMS, LANDON BROWN, KAMERON BUCHANON, CASSIE COLTRAIN, GATLIN DUNCAN, CLAY ELLIOT, COURTNEY FREDRIKSON, BETH HUGHS, TYLER O’NEAL, JUSTIN STANTON

and PATE STEWART .

Golden Key International Honour Society chapter achieved Gold Standing for the 2013-2014 academic school year, the second year in a row. The Texas Tech Golden Key Chapter has received the Gold Standing since 2005. Chapters receiving this standing met requirements by collaborating with other student organizations, participating in or planning service projects, implementing new member events and networking with Golden Key honorary members and alumni. Fewer than 25 percent of the chapters reached this standing. Golden Key is the world’s largest society with more than two million members and 400 chapters across the U.S. and around the world. Its mission is to unlock the potential of each member by upholding standards of excellence on campus and beyond. The society offers members opportunities, connections and scholarships to support members for them to lead and help others.

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F OR T H E T H I R D year in a row, the Texas Tech University student chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has earned the Gold Standard Award for 2014 in recognition of its exceptional programs in industry engagement, operations and planning, community involvement, professional development and innovation.

Texas Tech University’s Meat Science Academic Quiz Bowl Team earned the title of National Champions at the 67th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) in Madison, Wisc. The Red Raiders entered two teams in the contest, sponsored by Hormel, finishing first and third against 27 other teams from the top meat science programs at 19 universities. Colorado State University finished second. Texas Tech also won the competition in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2013. The 2014 team members included CAETLYN AVANT, BRITTANY BLUM, HAYDEN

BROWN, LINDSEY DREY, KAITLYN FARMER, TAYLOR FRANK, JEREMY GARCIA, DESHEA HANAGAN, NICK HARDCASTLE, DAVID HOLLAND, AUSTIN LANGEMEIER, KASSANDRA OGNOSKIE, AUTUMN RITCHEY, CHAD VANDERLINDEN and CHRISTY WOERNER . In addition, HEATHER RODE received an AMSA

Scholastic Achievement Award, and AUSTIN LANGEMEIER earned honorable mention.

Chess Federation named Texas Tech Chess College of the Year and head chess coach Alex Onischuk as Grandmaster of the Year in May. It was the first time that a school has received both awards the same year. Texas Tech’s nationally recognized chess program was nominated for the award because of its skillful players and its outreach in the Lubbock and campus communities.

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