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Sports writer and editor Jenna Sampson has turned her love of athletics into a career.
The Texas Tech University campus is ever-changing, with improvements and new construction at every turn.
A tribute to Texas Tech’s former Masked Rider horse, Midnight Matador, who died Feb. 4.
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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & NATURAL RESOURCES The fourth article in a series features the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION 6 // THROUGH THE ARCHES 8 // LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT 12 // SPORTS 36 // ASSOCIATION NEWS 38 // ALUMNI NEWS 50 // STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 64
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Outstanding Red Raiders A FEW YEA RS ago former Texas Governor Rick Perry caused an uproar when he questioned the value of research conducted in the state’s universities. One of his seven “Breakthrough Solutions” was to “Split research and teaching budgets, paying teachers for the number of students they teach and paying researchers according to research dollars they receive.” Perry attacked what he saw as frivolous research and implied that higher education should spend more on teaching and less on research. Texas Monthly magazine reported, “Rick Perry is waging an undeclared war on higher education.” Are there some frivolous research projects? Probably. One university research study found that individuals who were physically attracted to each other were more likely to have sex than those who weren’t. No kidding? However, beauty is often in the eye of the beholder. A research project that may seem foolish to some may be, in fact, meaningful to others. Meaningful and cutting edge research is critical in higher education and distinguishes top-level universities from medium range ones. I would cite the work of the three researchers at Tech who were recently awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award. Shu Wang, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech. Her research assesses the interplay between diet and chronic diseases, including obesity and cardiovascular disease, and she is a pioneer in using biocompatible and biodegradable nanocarriers to enhance bioactivity of nutrient and natural compounds to prevent and treat these diseases. Carla Davis Cash, Ph.D., is an associate professor of piano and piano pedagogy in the School of Music. She has become a leader in the design and implementation of empirical studies related to music learning, and her research in the growing field of memory consolidation has begun clarifying the processes by which musicians acquire and refine motor skills. Known for the collaborative nature of her research, she aims to convey and translate important ideas about understanding the process of skill learning for music teachers and performers. Changzhi Li, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on the study of integrated circuits and energy efficiency of microelectronics. In his research, he uses portable radar technology to track tumor motion for lung cancer treatment in patients, paving the way for the exploitation of radar sensors in new and promising applications such as practical medicine. His research has been recognized and sponsored by the Cancer Prevention Research Institution of Texas, which is a rare feat for electrical engineers.
the Texas Tech Alumni Association is the network of chapters in Texas and across the country. We owe a big debt of gratitude to those men and women who work tirelessly to keep these chapters alive. One such couple is Bryant and Emily (Patterson) Bonner in Texarkana. Bryant turned down dual-sport D1 scholarship offers to both Rice University and Texas A&M University to play closer to home at Southern Arkansas and support his family. A knee injury while playing basketball his freshman year would shape and change his and Emily’s fate and set up a lifetime of Tech memories.
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Bryant’s oldest sister, Virginia Bonner Shipp, owned the Green Thumb Florist in Lubbock, and he had visited her from time to time and fell in love with the Tech campus. He transferred to Tech and convinced Emily, whom he had dated in high school, to transfer also. They married in 1966, and both graduated from Tech in 1967. They moved back to Texarkana in 1969 to start their family and launch their long-term careers, and they actively participated in the East Texas chapter of Texas Tech Alumni Association. The East Texas chapter was started back in the mid-’60s by Joe Thomas and Norman Hoback, and Bryant and Emily really came to enjoy their company and all the chapter members. Bryant became actively involved in the chapter and ultimately became president of the East Texas Chapter for almost five years. He developed a passion for real estate and along with two other partners, started The Appraisal Group (TAG), a real estate appraisal firm that focused both on residential and commercial real estate appraising in the Four States area surrounding East Texas. In parallel to Bryant’s work career in real estate appraising, Emily had amazing success in the field of education. She worked as a teacher for 14 years and obtained a master’s degree with an emphasis on counseling. After completing her post graduate degree Emily would transition her career into the counseling field and help many students achieve their educational dreams for more than 16 years. I well remember making the chapter development swing into Texarkana in those days and being greeted by the Bonners. Typically, the chapter had a catfish fry as part of their meetings, and the fish were fried on site. Bryant and Emily’s Tech legacy extended to three of their four children, along with their nephews, nieces, and soon-to-be grandchildren. The current count of family attendees has reached 15, with another 10 grandchildren chomping at the bit to enjoy the legendary Tech experience Their eldest child, Cathy Bonner Townsend, attended Tech for three years from 1989-1991 and met her husband, David Townsend, while they both attended the school. Their second child, Bryant III, attended Texas Tech from 1992–1995. While at Tech, Bryant earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major of MIS and minor in accounting. Bryant III was President of Sigma Nu Fraternity and worked
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part-time as a bookkeeper throughout his Tech schooling experience. He met his wife, Whitney Zayac Bonner, at Tech his junior year. Whitney earned a degree in elementary education in 1996 while Bryant III accepted a position with Ernst and Young as a management consultant. Their third child, Amy Bonner Mickelson, attended Tech from 1995-1997. Amy earned a bachelor's degree with a major focus on financial planning. Aside from their immediate children, Bryant and Emily have influenced many other family members. There are many things that change in our lives each day; actually changes that happen every minute of each day, but there is one constant in the family of Bryant and Emily Bonner that will never change, and that is a passion for Texas Tech University in East Texas—a passion that runs deeply through many generations.
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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Chancellor Robert Duncan announced in January that Lisa Calvert was named vice chancellor for institutional advancement. Calvert led fundraising efforts at three universities, including Purdue University, where she served as vice president of development. During her tenure at Purdue, she reorganized the university’s development efforts to double the annual dollars raised from $200 million to $400 million, simultaneously shifting the traditional mix of gifts toward more cash.
SCOTT RIDLEY, PH.D., DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY , is one of the early members behind Deans for Impact, a newly launched organization dedicated to reforming teacher preparation programs in the United States. Deans for Impact’s mission is to integrate the “science of learning” into teacher preparation programs so new teachers enter the classroom with the knowledge they need to be effective teachers. Ridley is the only dean from a Big 12 university in the organization and one of three from Texas. MARIE BUGAREL, PH.D., A RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCES in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, discovered a new serotype of the salmonella bacteria. The Pasteur Institute in Paris, the international reference center for salmonella, confirmed the new serotype. Because convention calls for a new serotype to be named after the city in which it is discovered, this new discovery will be called Salmonella Lubbock (officially Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica Lubbock). The broad purpose of Bugarel’s research of salmonella is to find ways to reduce salmonella in food and improve public health.
THEO UDEIGWE, PH.D., AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, was awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (ADF), a program for educational projects at higher education institutions in Africa. Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education, the same institute that manages the Fulbright scholar program, the Carnegie ADF program supports African-born academics at accredited higher education institutions in the U.S. and Canada in partnership with accredited higher education institutions in select African countries. Udeigwe has been with Plant and Soil Sciences since 2012. His research focuses on soil and environmental chemistry, water quality and soil fertility. He came to Texas Tech after earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nigeria and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Louisiana State University.
CHRISTOPHER M. HUCKABEE AND RONNIE “RON” HAMMONDS WERE APPOINTED TO THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM BOARD OF REGENTS BY GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT. Huckabee ’91, who holds a bachelor’s in architecture design and lives in Fort Worth, Texas, is CEO of Huckabee & Associates, an architectural design firm specializing in constructing and renovating schools. Hammonds ’68, who holds a BBA in accounting, lives in Houston, Texas, and is manager and owner of Grason Communities LLC, a Houston real estate investment firm. He previously owned Hammonds Homes Ltd., which was acquired in 2002 by Meritage Homes. Hammonds is a native of Cotton Center, Texas. Christopher M. Huckabee
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Pictured with CASNR Dean Michael Galyean are, from left, Schur, Taylor and Jones.
IN NOVEMBER 2014, TEXAS TECH’S COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES welcomed more than 600 friends and guests to the 87th annual Pig Roast at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall. The annual event celebrates scholarship donors, recipients and intercollegiate judging teams, as well as honoring three individuals with Gerald W. Thomas Outstanding Agriculturalist Awards. The annual outstanding agriculturalist awards recognize individuals for contributions to various areas of agriculture. The recipients for 2014 were GLENN SCHUR for agricultural production, LINDA TAYLOR for agribusiness and PATTI JONES for public service. Schur, who received his bachelor’s in agricultural economics in 1980, is a Plainview native and is the owner/operator of Glenn Schur Farms, where he has been a sorghum grower for Grain Berry Cereal for seven years. Farm operations include Schur Limousin, a 100+ registered cow/calf operation. Taylor received her bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1965 and master’s degree in education in 1969. She is the owner/operator of S P Taylor Insurance Agency, a Ropesville-based crop insurance agency. She was office manager, co-owner and operator of Buster’s Gin, Ltd. between 1976 and 2009. Jones has served as a Lubbock County Commissioner for Precinct 4 since 2000. Jones is from a multi-generational farming family and today continues the legacy built with her late husband, Steve. She and her youngest son, Casey ’03, who holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary agriculture, and daughter-in-law Lacy, operate today as JJJ Farms, LLC.
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Incomplete Limb, Plesiosaur Indeterminate, Collected by Sankar Chatterjee, Ph.D., Seymour Island, Antarctica 1982
Typical clothing worn during summer field seasons in Antarctica, 1960s.
THE MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY is featuring an exhibition of the Second Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic, which took place in 1933 and involved F. Alton Wade, Ph.D., former chairman of the Department of Geosciences and Horn Professor. In 1939, Wade returned to the Antarctic as senior scientist for the United States Antarctic Service to plan and manage the expedition's scientific program and command the Snow Cruiser, a mobile research lab equipped with an airplane on its roof. Wade joined the faculty at Texas Tech in 1954 and subsequently led six Texas Tech Antarctic expeditions. He created the Antarctic Research Center at the Museum of Texas Tech University in 1971. The exhibition—which opened Jan. 30 and runs until Dec. 20—highlights nearly 100 objects from the collections of the Museum of Texas Tech University. Visitors to the exhibition will learn why it took 200 years before large sections of the Antarctic interior, 98 percent of which is covered in snow and ice, could be explored.
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NEWS TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY’S PRELIMINARY SPRING ENROLLMENT totals topped more than 31,000 students for the first time in a spring semester, more than a 5 percent increase from this time last year. After the 12th day of classes (Jan 30), 32,487 students are enrolled, breaking the record of 30,864 students set in spring 2014. The continuing increase reflects the university’s commitment to offering a quality education while increasing enrollment and retaining those students already enrolled. A recent retention study shows rates are at historic highs. In the most recent retention report, 83.47 percent of Fall 2013 incoming freshman returned to Texas Tech in Fall 2014. That marks the highest one-year retention rate for Texas Tech since 83.9 percent of Fall 2004 incoming freshman returned in Fall 2005. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS (AIA) named Texas Tech University’s Health and Design Research Institute in the College of Architecture as one of the 11 charter members to the AIA Design and Health Research Consortium. The Institute is composed of departments from both Texas Tech University and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. The consortium comprises 11 architecture schools and schools of public health throughout the country and is tasked with funding basic research on how design affects public health. It is a project of the AIA, the AIA Foundation and the Associate of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). IN JANUARY, OFFICIALS FROM TEXAS TECH and Collin College in McKinney signed an agreement making the university the newest partner in the Collin Higher Education Center. Starting in Fall 2015, students in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area will be able to earn a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech without leaving the area. Texas Tech will offer degrees in human sciences, general studies and university studies. Additional programs will be added as the program grows, officials said. THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES has officially moved from the College Arts & Sciences to the College of Media & Communication with the official ribbon cutting ceremony on January 12. The Department of Communication Studies joins the departments of Advertising, Journalism & Electronic Media and Public Relations in the College of Media & Communication. One of the original departments at Texas Tech, the Department of Communication Studies involves all dimensions of human communication and uses research, both in theory and in practices, to uncover the most effective and appropriate forms of communication.
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TEXAS TECH OFFICIALS HELD A RIBBON CUTTING (ABOVE) on a new sandwich shop in January. The College of Education’s Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research collaborated with Texas Tech’s Hospitality Services and Quiznos to bring the sandwich shop to the Burkhart Center. Hospitality Services staffers will manage the restaurant (below), but most of the line employees will be Burkhart students, all of whom fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. This partnership will allow students with autism spectrum disorder to gain experience in the food service industry.
from the president M. DUAN E N E LLIS, PH.D., PR ESI DE NT, TEXAS TECH U N IVE RSITY
Dear Alumni of Texas Tech University, Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure to serve various institutions of higher learning as an educator, researcher and administrator. Something I feel fortunate to have experienced is the noticeable change in our student body. Certainly, the diversity of our students has increased, but I’ve also recognized more and more students embracing opportunities to serve others beyond their campus borders. An important part of our academic mission at Texas Tech University is to ensure our students are prepared for an evolving and more diverse and service-oriented workplace by offering those experiences through various programs on campus. Our students have an insatiable desire to help others. I see it everyday, whether through their participation in the community or helping another student on campus, and I am encouraged that our futures will be in able hands. The Center for Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement (CALUE) at Texas Tech is a vibrant, proactive department that offers service opportunities in surrounding communities and areas across the globe and provides funding and support for undergraduate research. In December, 12 Texas Tech students and staff members traveled to San Antonio to build and renovate homes with Habitat for Humanity. This was the first trip of the new CALUE program to provide hands-on and experimental learning for students and faculty. Several students spent spring break in El Paso and Dallas as part of CALUE’s Service Breaks program, which offers service projects and weeklong trips throughout the year. Students in El Paso partnered with the Annunciation House. The goal of the students was to raise consciousness about border issues such as immigration, economic development, human rights and social justice. They spent time touring the border and visiting with
border control agents, visiting a federal courtroom and interacting with volunteers and migrants, hearing their stories and sharing meals. Students worked with Crossroads Community Services in Dallas, addressing concerns related to poverty and food insecurity. Our students assisted Crossroads clients with shopping in the organization’s clothing closet, organized donations that were placed in the closet and worked with clients to complete food orders in the food pantry. CALUE is just one example of a department that encourages and fosters engagement opportunities for our students. We have a campus committed to these endeavors and many organizations and individuals who participate. I am so proud of all of our students, faculty and staff and their selflessness and giving hearts to spend so much time helping others. These students who gave of themselves during a week away from their studies are joined year-round by an active campus community that participates in service projects in the Lubbock community, surrounding areas and across the country. Others take opportunities to serve communities abroad, and I know all of their sacrifices are welcomed and appreciated. Community engagement is not new to Texas Tech. Many of you participated as students and continue to do so in your communities. Your foundation of service during your time on campus has encouraged a new generation of students to give of themselves, and they are doing so in ever-increasing numbers. I always say none of what we experience on campus today would be possible without your paving the way. Our successes and achievements are molded by your example, and I thank you for all you have done and continue to do for Texas Tech University. Wreck ’em! Sincerely,
M. Duane Nellis, Ph.D. President
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When you think about sports writers, do you envision men with crimped stogies parked in the corner of their mouths, sitting in a press box, cranking out copy about athletics? Times certainly have changed since those days. Jenna Sampson is a freelance sports writer and editor who is a far cry from that old stereotype. Growing up in a sports-loving family, Jenna Sampson was a natural to go into sports media for a career. She got into the field while she was a graduate student in the mass communications and sports management program at Texas Tech. Sampson’s father, Greg Sampson, was a first-round draft pick for the Houston Oilers, for whom he played from 1972-1978, first as defensive end and then as offensive tackle. “When my dad retired from the NFL, he and my mom retired in Southern California,” Sampson says. “But my mom is from the Houston area, so I grew up going to Texas several times a year. “In 2001, my parents moved to Midland, Texas, for a few years because my mom missed Texas so much and we had family living in Midland. My parents kept hearing people talking about Texas Tech. They didn’t know what they were talking about and ended up driving up and checking out the campus. They kept telling me how beautifully amazing it was and that it reminded them of Stanford, where my dad had gone to school.” At the time of their move, Sampson was an undergraduate in college in Los Angeles. Her little brother, Cole Sampson, a high
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school football player, was just recovering from a cancer diagnosis and tumor removal from his chest cavity. Jenna told her brother that if he ever played football again, she would come see all his games. He ended up making the team at Midland Lee as the starting quarterback. Sampson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies (radio, TV, film) from Azusa Pacific University. “I remembered my parents talking about Tech, so I transferred to Tech for the fall of 2001, just for Cole’s football season in Midland,” she says. “I had the time of my life at Texas Tech. Some of the friends I made there are still some of my best friends. I told myself that if I went back to grad school, it would be at Texas Tech—and I did.” The soon-to-be sports journalist always knew she would work in the world of athletics. She just wasn’t sure exactly where. “My master’s degree is in mass communications and sports management,” she says. It was the news sports media degree they were offering. I got involved in that program, and instead of doing a thesis, with this program, you do a master’s report following a six-month internship with a professional team or the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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“I thought that would be a great way to get my foot in the door and find out if that was for me. I had never thought about getting into sports writing, and it happened by accident. “It turned out to be my passion.” Word about Sampson’s talents soon got around Lubbock. A local media outlet contacted Liz Watts, Ph.D., a faculty member at the time, looking for a good writer who knew a lot about sports. Watts recommended Sampson, who was soon was running the outlet’s website and overseeing undergraduate students to cover Tech sports. Several months later, she was working with Chris Cook, who was then director of athletics communications at Texas Tech. He hired her in 2004 to work for his department. She was the feature writer for the football team and did the postgame quotes. She covered baseball, women’s basketball and wrote about a few other sports. “Chris set the bar high for me in seeing how a communications department should be run—the professionalism, the interpersonal skills—how you treat people—and since then, seeing how well he has done things and how he treats his employees, has helped me avoid working for some sports teams that I knew maybe just weren’t right,” she says. Cook, who is now managing director for communications and marketing at Texas Tech University, returns the compliment about Sampson. “I recall her strength as a writer,” Cooks says. “Writing was more than a chore or task; she had the innate ability to relate to a subject, which reflected in the final product.” Rain or shine, Sampson spent afternoons during graduate school on the football field. She interviewed players for feature stories, and she wrote play-by-play accounts of the games every week. When it was time for her internship, she worked for the San Diego Chargers in their public relations office. The experience gave her insight into all the tasks someone in that position does.
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“I realized I really like doing interviews one-on-one with the players and doing a sit-down with them and really investing and hearing their stories and writing a quality piece,” she says. “I realized that’s what I enjoyed the most out of the position, so I thought, ‘You know what? Instead of just working for one team seven days a week, 14 hours a day, why don’t I do freelance writing?’ I am kind of a curious person and like to learn different things.” “The thing that I love about writing is sitting down with someone and really trying to connect with them and getting the kind of quotes that no other reporter has taken the time to get and writing the kind of story that someone’s kids would be proud to read someday.” Meeting so many talented athletes has been an exciting experience for Sampson. She notes that she can learn something from everyone she interviews. Among the people she has interviewed, one visit she remembers well is flying to Green Bay, Wisc., and going to Lambeau Field to interview Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, whose professional career was just starting. She only had 13 minutes to talk with the 2014 NFL Most Valuable Player—to get to the heart of his story. Time limits and quick turnarounds are just part of the job for Sampson. She was assigned an interview with skateboarder Tony Hawk for a local magazine. The story was due the next day. “I had to do some quick research,” she says. “Tony Hawk is an X-Games star famous for inventing some of skate boarding’s toughest tricks and has a business empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars−clothing lines, skateboard and bike companies, video games, etc. Well, I didn’t know all that. I had to do a ton of research. I got to meet this legendary skateboarder and did my interview with him on the beach. That was pretty cool.” Another visit that she recalls fondly is taking her father to the L.A. Dodgers spring training in Arizona so she could
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Sampson with Green Bay Packers chaplain Troy Murphy (left) and wide receiver Jordy Nelson at a speaking engagement in Los Angeles after their 2011 Super Bowl win. She profiled Nelson for a cover story for Sports Spectrum Magazine.
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Sampson with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers after an interview
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interview Clayton Kershaw, a Cy Young Award winner and MLB Most Valuable Player. “He’s the best pitcher in the game,” she says. “That was a special moment watching the pitchers and catchers have their first training for the season. My dad grew up an L.A. Dodgers fan, so it was pretty cool to get to have him there with me.” Sampson also has interviewed many female athletes. She remembers having a good one-on-one talk with Lisa Leslie, star of the Los Angeles Sparks and multi-award winner, including three Olympic Gold Medals. The writer also has remained friends with some of the people she meets on the job, including Olympic cyclist Amber Neben. She helped Neben write her autobiography last year, a huge undertaking of which she is very proud. “Jenna is a determined individual; always has been,” Cook says. “I saw it when she worked for us and I’ve noticed it in the stories she’s written and shared on social media. There was no doubt she would be successful. She told me once her goal was to write lengthy, feature pieces for magazines. What impresses me is she did not waver from that dream. She is a fantastic writer, and I am not surprised by her success.” Although Sampson loves writing and plans to continue it, her skills and experience have parlayed into something else— handling publicity for sports figures. Her first client is 2x Gold Medalist and Paralympian Rudy Garcia-Tolson. “I ran his 2014 media schedule and organized his school tours and appearances,” she says. “What I discovered is that everything I learned at Texas Tech came full circle. When you’re in college and do internships and get experience in things, you think, ‘Well, I might never use this again.’ Not true!” In addition to her busy freelance career, Sampson handles public relations and personnel for her parents’ beach RV resort in San Diego, Paradise by the Sea. In her own right, Sampson is quite an athlete herself. She stays active and until last year, played basketball competitively in a league with mostly former college and professional athletes. Having combined two of her loves—sports and writing— Sampson exemplifies someone who has taken Confucius’s advice to heart: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
For more information about Sampson and her work, visit: www.jennasampson.com
NEW campus on This is the second installment in a series showcasing campus improvements. Some projects are small and already completed; some are large and are underway, and some are in the planning stages, but have been approved by the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents, which means they will happen in the near future. This series is just a small way to show alumni some of the changes happening every day at Texas Tech University.
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On Feb. 20, Texas Tech University’s Recreational Sports division unveiled the new West Rec Turf Field Complex. In October 2013, the student body voted for the 280,946-square-foot complex. There are four flag football fields, recreational soccer space and a student group meeting area. Students will use the fields for intramural games, tournaments, flag football, soccer and men and women’s lacrosse. The complex is located near 10th Street and Texas Tech Parkway adjacent and North of Greek circle. Texas Tech’s Vice Chancellor of Facilities, Planning & Construction, Michael Molina, noted that the project was designed and constructed in less than 100 days and delivered under budget.
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The primary entry to the Texas Tech campus was designed and built perfectly in line with the original master plan Spanish Renaissance and Beaux Arts design principles. Michael Molina, architect and Texas Tech’s vice chancellor of Facilities, Planning & Construction, noted that a key component of the recently completed master plan update was to address other “ports of entry” into the 1,839=-acre campus. There are multiple intersections at the perimeter, as well as within the campus, which provide a great location to provide entry portals into and within the campus. The portals would clearly reflect the TTU Spanish Renaissance design as well as announce entry into various areas of the campus to vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. These would be powerful expressions of the entry experience to the community, visitor’s, students, faculty and staff.
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Robert Bruno’s untitled steel sculpture, an addition to the Texas Tech University System Public Art Collection, has been moved to the exterior of the College of Architecture building at 18th Street and Flint Avenue. Created in 1974, the sculpture sat in a cotton field for 35 years before being moved to Texas Tech, where a plaza, named in Bruno’s honor, is being constructed. Bruno was a former architecture professor at Texas Tech and was an internationally recognized sculptor and architect best known for what he called the “fusion of art and architecture.” The metal sculpture served as inspiration for him, as he hatched a plan to create a similar piece that functioned as a home—dubbed the Steel House. He worked for decades on on the Steel House at Lake Ransom Canyon, just outside Lubbock, but never completed the home. Though he died in 2008, the unfinished home remains, overlooking the lake and surrounding canyon. A dedication ceremony for the Robert Bruno Plaza was held April 20.
The Rawls College of Business Administration is expanding with a new RCoBA Addition west of the existing. The new addition will consist of three floors that complement the existing building for a total of 38,000-square feet. Based on the programmatic needs of the college, the first floor will include a 200+ occupant multipurpose space for guest speaker presentations, college events and day-to-day student congregation. In addition, the first floor will include a state-ofthe-art Testing Center and an expansion of the student Career Management Center for International Relations. The second floor is focused on expanding the classroom capacity with four new classrooms, one of which is dedicated to a larger capacity of 75 students. The first floor will include a new behavior lab, student think space and additional office space to accommodate the increasing staff.
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Farewell
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Midnight Matador, or “Amos,” stretches his legs on an evening run.
Former Masked Rider horse Midnight Matador died Tuesday, Feb. 4, after complications from surgery to relieve colic. It was only about two years ago, in 2013, that Red Raiders bid farewell to Midnight Matador as the mascot—he was retired after 11 years of service due to an injury. We welcomed the current Masked Rider horse, Fearless Champion, in early 2014. Midnight Matador was the longest-serving horse in the program’s long and storied history, which began in 1954 with the first Masked Rider Joe Kirk Fulton. When it came time to retire Midnight Matador, whose barn name was “Amos,” the Masked Rider committee selected Stacy Stockard, who served as Masked Rider and rode Midnight Matador in 2004-2005. He lived out the rest of his days here in Lubbock, happy as a clam. I spoke to Stacy Stockard about Amos/Midnight Matador and decided to share her answers here because I knew many readers would be curious about his life and death. Stockard grew up on a ranch in Sanger, Texas, north of Dallas/Fort Worth. She received a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications in 2005, a master’s degree in agricultural education in 2006 and a law degree from the Texas Tech School of Law in 2009.
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She is the marketing coordinator for Texas Tech University Transportation and Parking Services, and she remarked about how she has been buoyed by her coworkers’ support: “My bosses and coworkers have been extremely supportive and even made a contribution to the Masked Rider Endowment Fund in Amos’s memory,” Stockard says. As for where he will be laid to rest, Stockard noted, “Double T and High Red Bug are buried at the Tech farm in New Deal. Black Phantom Raider is buried at the Junction campus, which has a wonderful memorial for him. Others have been laid to rest at the place of their retirement. With Amos, we have a chance to set a new precedent and provide a fitting tribute to these special horses here in Lubbock. I chose to cremate Amos because I felt it gave him the most dignity in death, and it also allows us to take the time needed to develop a final resting place and memorial for him and those that follow.” I’ve included sweet, fun information about Midnight Matador as well as facts about his tenure as the mascot for Texas Tech’s Masked Rider program—a tribute to the horse and his final ride into the sunset.
Facts about Midnight Matador: He served 11 years and carried 11 riders: Jessica Melvin, 2002-2003 Ben Holland, 2003-2004 Stacy Stockard, 2004-2005 Justin Burgin, 2005-2006 Amy Bell, 2006-2007 Kevin Burns, 2007-2008 Ashley Hartzog, 2008-2009 Brianne Aucutt Hight, 2009-2010 Christi Chadwell, 2010-2011 Bradley Skinner, 2011-2012 Ashley Wenzel, 2012-2013 He was a youngster when he was selected in 2002 as the 13th Masked Rider horse—just three years old. The Masked Rider program estimates the mascot and rider travel roughly 15,000 miles a year. If you multiply that by his 11 years of service, that’s about 165,000 miles. He was retired from service in 2013 and ownership was transferred to former Masked Rider Stacy Stockard. He lived out his remaining days in Lubbock.
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“He was the smartest horse I’ve ever ridden. Once you haltered him, he was extremely willing to work and learn—all business. I quickly found I had to keep him entertained while riding or else he wouldn’t pay any attention. I could teach him a new trail obstacle in the middle of warming him up, and he’d complete it like a seasoned professional by the end of our ride and every day forward. He liked to be challenged every day. He lived an exciting life and loved traveling and having a job, so I was putting the final touches on him to take him into the stock-horse show ring in 2015. The weeks before his passing, my trainer (also a proud Tech alum) was helping me perfect his flying lead changes. “I haven’t been around a horse who loved people as much as Amos did. He wanted to be wherever the action was, and he adored kids. It took a while for him to warm up to you, but once he decided he liked you, he was extremely affectionate. He loved to hang out in your personal space. He would come when I called him, every once in a while with a whinny. He would give back to you how much you put into him and take great care of you. He was a joy to be around.” —Stacy Stockard
Stockard and Midnight Matador
“Amos had a very strong personality that fit his public persona. He could be intimidating and absolutely fearless, and he was just a big, stout gelding. He was mischievous and curious about everything. Where most horses would spook or bolt, he would go in for a closer look. Amos also knew to pose for cameras; he loved having his picture taken.” —Stacy Stockard
What looks like agression is really playfulness. Midnight Matador and Golly, a mare who lives in the paddock that adjoined Midnight Matador’s.
“Once Amos realized his new job was just to live the good life, he loved retirement! I kept him at a boarding facility in Lubbock I’ve been a client of for over a decade that offers exceptional care. Everyone always had a treat in their pocket for him, knew his name, and loved on him. Amos had his own stall and turnout paddock. He sprawled out and took a nap in the sun in the same spot every day at 10 a.m. He liked to race the horses in the paddock next to him up and down their shared fence. He would run and buck—including a bronc move where he would jump and kick out midair and involuntarily let out a little whinny—but as soon as you went to halter him to bring him in, he was a perfect gentleman. Amos also loved baths and loathed mud.” —Stacy Stockard 24
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“When it was announced Amos would be retiring, I knew I wanted to provide him a home. I absolutely loved him during my term and watched him grow with riders through the years. The Masked Rider Committee opened applications to his former riders, and we outlined our short- and long-term care plans for him. A subcommittee selected me to take ownership. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get one good night’s sleep from when they opened up applications until I got the call he would live with me. I couldn’t imagine life without him.” —Stacy Stockard
Midnight Matador’s Double T freeze brand, a painless way to mark the horse.
Amos loved peppermints, carrots, apples and Red Raider fans.
Stockard and Midnight Matador charge onto the field.
“Colic is a term for general pain in a horse’s abdomen. Unlike people, horses cannot vomit if something upsets their stomach. Colic ranges from being very mild, like gas in the gastrointestinal tract spurred by a weather change that just takes a little medication to recover, or very severe where surgery is required to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, Amos’s was the type that required surgery, and it occurred in the part of the GI tract with the most difficult recovery. Even though he did very well in surgery and waking up from anesthesia, the recovery was just too much for him. But he was such a fighter. He had a world-renowned surgeon, the best post-op vets in the country, and 24-hour care. His team had multiple status conferences regarding his recovery every day, and when they finished a status conference, they called their colleagues at vet schools around the country to get additional opinions. “I was by Amos’s side when they put him under the anesthesia, during the surgery, when he woke up from the anesthesia, and every day of his recovery—nearly all of them 12-hour days just sitting with him in his recovery stall. Amos always liked hearing The Beatles in the barn, but he didn’t like them in recovery. So instead I played him Goin’ Band songs and showed him the Vision and Tradition video. The Horse Music—his theme song—was still his favorite; he perked up when it played. I was halfway through brushing my teeth at 7:45 a.m. Feb. 4 when my cell phone rang. It came from the vet’s personal cell phone, and I just knew. He told me Amos didn’t make it through the night; he passed away at about 3:30 a.m. that morning.” —Stacy Stockard M A Y / J U N E 2 0 15
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High school girls basketball coach Leland Bearden keeps the wins coming, with more than 600 under his belt, including two state championships, he has developed a winning tradition everywhere he’s coached. Leland Bearden ’90 will tell you that, in a roundabout way, growing up on a family farm is part of what made him the extraordinary coach he is today. His family farmed cotton in Ackerly, Texas, about 80 miles south of Lubbock. The town lies east of a sandy stretch of Highway 87 and is home to just about 200 souls. Industry in Ackerly centers around mainly two things: cotton and sports. The sports take place at the local school, Ackerly-Sands Consolidated Independent School District. Like most farm kids, days were long for Bearden. There was school all day, then helping out around the farm after that, often driving the tractor for hours on end. Bearden credits his dislike of sitting still to his skill as a basketball player in junior high and high school. “I never gave any thought to becoming a farmer,” he says. “I couldn’t sit in a tractor that long! Basketball was a great outlet for me, because it was the one thing my dad would let me get out of work to do. So, I spent a lot of time at the gym playing basketball.” He says basketball was always his love, and, now that he’s a coach, he’s instilling that love of the sport in his players. One of the reasons he says he loves coaching girls is that he can take a player with minimal raw talent, and through hard work and many hours in the gym, can turn her into a great player. “You can teach a girl who doesn’t have that much athletic ability to be solid fundamentally and they can contribute tremendously,” he says. That’s one of the things Bearden says that brings success: putting in the hours, dedication. “I enjoy getting to see young ladies who are willing to work hard to be successful,” he says. “I tell my girls all the time, ‘If it was easy being good, everyone would be good.’ Everyone wants to win, but are they willing to put the time and effort in to be successful?” He has obviously put in that time and effort alongside his players. In 24 years of coaching, he has gone to the playoffs 22 times—that’s about 92 percent of the time. He has qualified for the state tournament three times and has won two state championships. These accomplishments aren’t flukes, because he has brought a high rate of success to all three of the schools at which he has coached.
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Bearden started his coaching career in 1990 right where he ended his playing career, at Sands High School. “The superintendent at the time was James Blake, and he was always like a mentor to me,” explains Bearden. “I would call him about every school that I interviewed with. I called him to ask about Muleshoe, Texas, and he asked me to come to his office for a visit and, when I got there, he offered me a job as an assistant coach. I accepted and I was the assistant coach for both boys and girls. I helped with football and was the 7th grade boys basketball coach, J.V. girls coach, varsity girls assistant and head tennis coach.” In 1991 Bearden was offered the head coach position for the girls basketball team. But, like at most small schools, he wore many hats. He was not only the head coach for girls basketball, but also the girls junior varsity and junior high basketball coach, the head cross country coach, the head tennis coach, head girls track coach, the junior high tennis coach and the junior high girls track coach. So, when he moved on from Sands to Smyer, Texas, eight years later, Sands not only lost a great coach, they, in essence, lost eight coaches. “I took the head girls basketball job at Smyer, and after being there for two years I then took on the duties of Athletic Director,” he says. “I stayed in Smyer for 15 years. I came to Seminole in 2013 as the head girls basketball coach and girls coordinator.” It was while he was at Smyer that he went to the state tournament three times and won back-to-back state championships in 2010 and 2011, and was state runner-up in 2013. This school year at Seminole, Bearden was named Girls Athletic Director, in addition to his duties as head coach. So, when he’s not focusing on preparing to play or winning basketball games, he’s attending volleyball and softball games, track meets and tending to the concerns of parents.
“I always loved Tech and Lubbock,” says Bearden, who received his bachelor’s in education. “Growing up in West Texas, I really thought there were no other schools besides Texas Tech. I never considered going any where other than Tech. My sister went to Tech also, so that made it an easy choice.”
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Bearden coaching at a 2015 playoff game.
For all the success he’s had, he’s incredibly humble and gives credit to his players. “There’s nothing special about what I’m doing,” he says. “The kids buy in to what we do. I motivate the kids to spend time in the gym and develop their skills. We always want to achieve a higher standard.” Just like when he was in high school, Bearden knows that you can’t practice too much—those extra hours pay off in wins. And though winning is a priority, it’s not Bearden’s No. 1 priority. He looks at his job as a way to develop character and work ethic in his players— a way for the girls to learn to work hard to achieve goals. His players buy into his philosophy, and he begins telling them early-on how quickly those high school years fly by, to make the most of them by putting their hearts into the game, because, he tells them, “it’ll fly by.” And it does, and almost every year there are playoff games, and every year there’s a definite end to the season, and it’s never easy to say goodbye to teammates and a game to which you’ve given everything. The young players watch and learn and make silent promises to continue the winning tradition, because they know their coach can take them as far as they want to go.
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You Win Some… A few quick stats about the career of Coach Leland Bearden, Head Girls Basketball Coach and Girls Athletic Director at Seminole Independent School District: › Has coached since 1990. › His teams have gone to the playoffs 22 of the 24 years he has coached. › His win-loss record is 622-165. › Has qualified for three state tournament championships and won two state championships (in 2010 and 2011).
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How hard is it to lose those playoff games? Bearden says, “There are lots of tears. For a lot of my players, it’s been what they’ve invested their lives in. I don’t know if you can ever say anything to make them feel better, but I just say, ‘Thank you for all of your time and effort.’”
People say that coaching is not a job, it’s a lifestyle. That’s true for the great ones. Ask any of their spouses, they’ll tell you. “Leland has such a passion for the game,” says his wife, Slaton native Staci Sims Bearden ’94, ’97, who is a speech pathologist for Seminole Independent School District. “He loves basketball and is extremely knowledgeable about the game. He not only spends a lot of time in the gym coaching, he’s also scouting and preparing— it’s a lifestyle, not a job.” But Staci says, in her married life, that’s all she’s ever known. She’s proud to be married to someone so dedicated to his career. “He loves those girls like his own children,” she continues. “It’s not about basketball, it’s about making them great young ladies.” As a testament to how entwined with basketball their lives are, the couple even met at a basketball game Bearden was coaching. “When I was just out of school, in 1999, and working at my first job after graduate school, a friend invited me to watch her niece play basketball at Smyer,” Staci recalls with a laugh. “My friend and her 18-year old niece introduced me to Leland at that game. Little did I know that my friend’s niece was playing matchmaker.” The plan worked, though, and Staci and Bearden married in 2001. They have two children. Their daughter Bethani is a 6th grader at Seminole Junior High School who loves the performing arts, and, Bearden says, “She also is beginning to really like basketball.” Their son, Brennan, is a 2nd grader and he “loves anything that involves a ball, especially football or any video game.” Bearden at the Seminole High School gym.
What’s the real secret to Bearden’s ongoing success? He says his coaching style is “plain vanilla.” You won’t find him bragging, just insisting that the path to victory is exceedingly simple: persistence, tenacity, resolve. Or, in plain vanilla terms: hard work. He credits his players for the wins and credits several coaches with helping him throughout his career: “Sam Tipton, Pat Mouser and Marsha Sharp. Just about everything I run came from them or is some sort of variation to something they ran,” he says. “I focus on being disciplined, not taking a good shot but working and getting the best shot. I feel that success only comes to those who are willing to work hard to be successful.” So far, his formula is spot-on.
Bearden gathers his team during a 2015 playoff game.
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college of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources CO M P I L E D BY T R AC E E M U R P H ’ 0 9 PHOTOS COURTESY OF C O L L E G E O F A G R I C U LT U R A L S C I E N C E S & N AT U R A L R E S O U R C E S
THIS STORY IS THE FOURTH IN A SERIES ABOUT EACH O F T H E C O L L E G E S AT T E X A S T E C H U N I V E R S I T Y.
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H Established in 1925, it was one of four original academic units when Texas Tech first opened its doors
H Slightly more than 1,400 undergraduates and 340 graduate students
H 16,936 lifetime alumni H Six academic departments: Agricultural and Applied Economics; Agricultural Education & Communications; Animal & Food Sciences; Landscape Architecture; Natural Resources Management; Plant & Soil Science
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H The College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources is a leading agriculture college in the United States, with programs awarding 12 baccalaureate, 11 masters and seven doctoral degrees. CASNR is a campus leader in distance education with five distance degree programs: one undergraduate, three masters and one doctoral—offered jointly by Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University. Within the six academic departments, there are nine research centers and institutes: Burnett Center for Beef Cattle Research and Instruction; CASNR Water Center; Center for Agricultural Technology Transfer; International Center for Agricultural Competitiveness; International Center for Food Industry Excellence; International Cotton Research Center; Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute; Thornton Agricultural Finance Institute and the Texas Cooperative Research Unit.
With a heritage that traces to the founding of Texas Tech University in 1923 and unique linkages to the agricultural and natural resources producing community, CASNR has always been a leader in teaching, research and outreach at Texas Tech. Our student-friendly approach is characterized by excellent teaching, faculty advising, outstanding student organizations and competitive teams, and nationally recognized distance education programs. More than 40 percent of our students receive a scholarship, and CASNR retention and graduation rates are among the best on campus. Moreover, CASNR’s research enterprise is one of the largest on campus, with internationally recognized faculty and programs that account for more than 20 percent of the total research activity at the University. All these factors combine to produce an environment in CASNR that attracts the best and brightest, and fosters alumni relations for a lifetime. A goal in CASNR is to provide science and education that affects everyday life, and I know you will enjoy learning more about this great college.
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BRIGHT SPOTS CASNR has the HIGHEST STUDENT RETENTION RATE on campus, 85 percent. 14-TO-1 STUDENT-TO-TEACHER RATIO —we are one of the few colleges in which faculty members are also academic advisers and maintain an “open door” policy for students.
CASNR has created the STATE’S FIRST DEGREE OPTION in the study of viticulture (grape production) and enology (winemaking). Within this degree plan, students major in Plant & Soil Science and take 18 credit hours of classes specializing in viticulture and enology. CASNR’s total endowment stands at MORE THAN $56.4 MILLION. Endowments for scholarships have increased more than $3 million in the past year. Forty three percent of students, undergraduate and graduate combined, currently enrolled in CASNR receive scholarships. CASNR is home to a BIOTECHNOLOGY-READY GREENHOUSE . The DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE houses a collaborative design studio for landscape architecture. The TEXAS TECH EQUESTRIAN CENTER (TTEC) is a 45-acre, $3.2 million facility with four outdoor arenas and one indoor arena. The Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center (TTRC), now in its 17th year, is housed at the TTEC, partners with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and is nationally and internationally recognized for excellence in equine-assisted therapy, teaching, research and service to the community. The TTRC is the only Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH, Intl.) Premier Accredited Center in the South Plains area. One on-campus and two off-campus RESEARCH FARMS . TURF MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAM at the Rawls
Course (Texas Tech’s European designed, 18-hole championship golf course). The GOVERNMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM , established in 1998, has sent more than 100 students to serve as interns in congressional and legislative offices in Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas.
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COWamongus, in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences, makes frozen custard daily and is a restaurant and mini meat market.
H The agricultural communications undergraduate program offered by the Department of Agricultural Education & Communications is ranked No. 1 as the best in the nation, according to a new University of Arkansas study. Forty programs across the country were identified in the study, the research focused on creating an accounting of existing programs, a description of those programs, identifying program demographics and identifying top programs.
H The Department of Animal & Food Sciences was ranked 19th in the Top 20 in the country, according to GraduatePrograms.com. The guide ranks higher education programs based on student evaluations which cover a variety of topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.
H Fully-accredited Landscape Architecture program that offers the first professional degree program for both undergraduates (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture–B.L.A.) and graduates (Master of Landscape Architecture–M.L.A.). Students are eligible to sit for their licensing exam much sooner than those who graduate from unaccredited programs. It is accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board, and all instructors have practiced professionally.
H Four research awards; 40 teaching awards; two Horn Professors (highest honor awarded by the university); 18 teaching academy members; three academic advising awards.
H CASNR has a global research footprint, with more than 80 international projects currently underway in 42 nations.
H Sponsored funding generated per tenured/tenure-track faculty in CASNR is among the highest of any college at Texas Tech University.
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sports COM PI LE D BY J EAN AN N CANTOR E
Duffield & Adkins Go 1-2 As Tech Takes 5th In Arkansas The Tech men tie their highest indoor finish in school history
BY BLAKE ZIMMERMAN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS PHOTOS BY WESLEY HITT, ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS
Teammates JaCorian Duffield, left, and Bradley Adkins revel in their wins.
it and dreamed about it all season, and on March 14, it became a reality. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins took first and second place in the men’s high jump final at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, in Fayetteville, Ark. The Red Raider duo becomes the first pair of teammates to go 1-2 at the NCAA Championships in the high jump since 1974, when Oregon State’s Mike Fleer and Tom Woods accomplished the feat. Those 18 team points aided the Red Raiders to a fifth-place finish, with 31 points, their highest point total in program history for an NCAA Indoor meet. The fifth-place finish ties for Tech’s highest at NCAA Indoors. They reached fifth place in 2013 as well. Tech had the highest finish of any team in the Big 12, which placed four schools in the men’s final top 10. “This is one of the greatest blessings of my life,” Duffield said. “To be able to do this is amazing. It was so awesome to compete against Bradley [Adkins] and go back and forth like that. It felt like we were at a normal practice. That’s how we compete, and we were able to bring it to the track today. We’ve been talking about this all season, so to be able to do it is a great feeling.”
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There were plenty of twists and turns along the way. Duffield cleared on his first four jumps of the event, and had sole possession of first place heading into the bar at 2.26m/7-5.0, due to having not missed up to that point. That’s when Adkins made his move, clearing that bar at 2.26m/7-5.0 on his first attempt, which was a personal-best. Duffield took two tries to get it and suddenly, Adkins was in front. “It was incredible for us to go out there and compete like that,” Adkins said. “We’ve been trying to pull this off since I got on campus my freshman year. We are always able to push each other to do great, and today was no different, but I let him win because he’s a senior. I’ve got him in outdoors.” From there, the bar moved up to 2.29m/7-6.0, a height neither of the two had cleared in their careers. On his second try, Duffield flew over the bar to break his own school record once again, and retake the lead.
About 30 seconds later, Adkins sailed over the bar on his third attempt, bringing the capacity crowd at the Randal Tyson Center to its collective feet. Neither was able to clear the next bar, giving Duffield the national title, on jumps attempted. Duffield becomes the third Texas Tech NCAA Indoor champion in school history. Both athletes now share the high jump school record. “I don’t care if they were the first, fifth or 25th pair to do it—to pull this off was amazing,” Texas Tech assistant coach James Thomas said. “This was an incredible feat, and I am so proud of them for the way they competed. At this point, there isn’t much coaching to do, you just hope that they do what has gotten them to that point. It was so great to watch, as a coach.” Less than 30 minutes later, Chris Caldwell continued his breakout season for the Red Raiders with a second-place finish in the men’s 60m hurdles (7.69). His first team All-American performance and valuable eight team points vaulted Texas Tech into third place at the time, with 26 team points. “This is a great feeling,” Caldwell said. “As a competitor, I’m not happy with second place, but I’m really excited to contribute to what we did as a team. I’m looking forward to outdoors, where hopefully I can find myself in the national meet again. I’m just proud to be a Red Raider right now.” Kole Weldon contributed to the scoring with a toss of 19.21m/63-0.25 in the shot put, to place sixth, marking the second time in three years he has taken home first team AllAmerican honors in the indoor shot put. In the final event of the evening, the men’s 4 x 400 meter relay, the Red Raider quartet of Steven Champlin, Joseph Richards III, Kyle Collins and C.J. Jones clocked a 3:07.52 to place seventh, and earn first team AllAmerican honors, while earning two team points. On the women’s side, Le’Tristan Pledger took home first team All-American honors with a fourth-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles, clocking an 8.17. Cierra White followed that up in the 200 meter dash, with a school record-breaking 22.90 to earn her own fourth-place finish. White broke the women’s 200m dash school record four times in 2015. Those performances coupled with Shanice Stewart’s fourthplace long jump finish on Friday, gave Tech 15 points on the women’s side, good enough for 12th. Stewart placed 12th in the pentathlon earlier in the day, accumulating a total of 4,069. This is the highest finish for the Lady Raiders since a ninth-place finish in 2010, where they scored 21 points. This is the first time in program history that the Tech men and women have finished in the top 12 at the same NCAA Indoor meet.
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Cory Duffield
“You always wish you could have done better, but walking away in fifth place when you entered as the No. 10 team is pretty good,” Texas Tech head coach Wes Kittley said. “It’s the same thing on the women’s side, going from No. 22 to No. 12. There were so many great performances across the board. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like what our high jumpers did today. That was amazing. Everybody who competed today gave it all they had, and it showed on the scoreboard at the end. I’m so proud of this team, and I’m really excited for outdoors.”
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getting to know Texas Tech Alumni Association Board Members
RANDY GOLDEN IN WHAT CITY DO YOU RESIDE? Dallas,
IN WHAT CITY DO YOU RESIDE? Houston,
Texas.
Texas.
WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD? I am
WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD? I just completed my
vice chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and a member of the Facilities Committee. WHAT WAS YOUR MAJOR AND CLASS YEAR AT TECH, PLUS ANY OTHER DEGREES YOU MAY HAVE EARNED? I’m a ’77 graduate of the Rawls College of Business,
with a BBA in management. WHERE ARE YOU EMPLOYED AND WHAT IS YOUR POSITION? I
have my own consulting and brokerage business focusing on the beer industry. WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS? My wife is Linda, a ’77 liberal arts graduate. I have two children, Courtney Golden, who is a ’10 graduate from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Anita Perry School of Nursing, and a son, Trevor Golden. Both live in the Dallas area. MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN WHICH YOU WERE INVOLVED AS A STUDENT AT TECH: Phi Delta Theta fraternity. WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR FONDEST MEMORIES FROM YOUR TECH DAYS? Having grown up in Lubbock, I enjoyed getting to
know my Phi Delt brothers from all over the state. I also worked during my years in college and some of the fondest memories were bartending at “Fat Dawgs,” where I gained a whole different type of education. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU’VE ENJOYED SEEING OCCUR RECENTLY AT TEXAS TECH? I love the physical changes on campus,
with the new buildings, but what I enjoy the most is the passion current students have for learning and how Tech is offering them so many opportunities. My involvement in the Rawls College of Business advisory board has given me tremendous exposure to young students who not only want a job, but also want to excel at what they do. I believe this exists in all of the colleges. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? For recreational reading I love
any book by Grisham, Patterson or Baldacci. Two of my favorite books that I have tried to apply to my business life are “Nuts,” the story of Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines, and “It’s Your Ship,” the story of how U.S. Navy Captain Michael Abrashoff changed the performance of his cruiser through his leadership. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE? The classic comedic movies like “Animal House” and “Caddy Shack…” “American Sniper” and “Lone Survivor”—they make you proud of those who serve our country. WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS AND HOBBIES? I love to fish and hunt. Specifically, hunting dove and quail in West Texas and fly fishing in Montana. WHAT CHARACTER TRAIT DO YOU VALUE HIGHLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL? Someone who does not place their interest first and
understands how their actions may impact others. IF YOU COULD ASK FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE TO YOUR HOME FOR AN EVENING, WHO WOULD THEY BE? All four of my grandpar-
ents and my two kids, since my kids did not get to know them. I think they would enjoy learning from them, as I did. I would also get to enjoy my grandmothers’ cooking one more time.
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first year of board membership. I have served on the Scholarship and Chapter Development/ Academic Recruiting Committees and will chair the Chapter Development/Academic Recruiting Committee, beginning this year. WHAT WAS YOUR MAJOR AND CLASS YEAR AT TECH, PLUS ANY OTHER DEGREES YOU MAY HAVE EARNED? I received a BS in
Physics from Texas Tech in May 1991. After completing one semester of graduate school at New Mexico State University in their Astronomy Department, I realized that I preferred physics, so I returned to Texas Tech in Spring 1992, graduating with an MS in Physics in December 1993. In 2014, I started in the MBA program at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. WHERE ARE YOU EMPLOYED AND WHAT IS YOUR POSITION? I have worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Johnson Space Center for more than 20 years. I am the Flight Operations Directorate Associate Director for International Space Station. WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS? My mom is Genoveva Kerrick, and my twin sisters are Velia Kerrick and Delia Kerrick, all from El Paso, Texas. My brother, Kenneth M. Kerrick III, lives in Elk Grove, Calif. I also have two “fur-kids,” my dogs, Wilson and Big Momma. MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN WHICH YOU WERE INVOLVED AS A STUDENT AT TECH: Society of Physics Students, tutoring and Intramurals,
Intramurals, Intramurals! I played volleyball, basketball, softball and flag football. WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR FONDEST MEMORIES FROM YOUR TECH DAYS? I think I actually spent more time at the Rec Center than any
other building on campus. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU’VE ENJOYED SEEING OCCUR RECENTLY AT TEXAS TECH? The groundbreaking on the new Research and
Technology Park. I’m excited to see the innovative opportunities it will yield. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? “The Shack” by William P. Young. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE? It’s a tie among “Sliding Doors,” “Shawshank Redemption” and “Love Actually.” WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS AND HOBBIES? I am an avid runner. Now that I’m older, I’ve downgraded from full-marathons to half-marathons, but I run competitively at least once a year. I also am volunteer coordinator for a non-profit organization, Triumphant Tails, Inc., an all-breed dog rescue. I have a cake decorating side-business and donate the profits to the dog rescue. And last, but not least, I really enjoy mentoring co-op students who work at NASA, and I give guest lectures to high school and college-age students, mainly within Texas, encouraging them to choose STEM-related careers. WHAT CHARACTER TRAIT DO YOU VALUE HIGHLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL? Accountability. IF YOU COULD ASK FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE TO YOUR HOME FOR AN EVENING, WHO WOULD THEY BE? Martin Luther King Jr., Ph.D.;
Stephen Hawking, Ph.D.; Valentina Tereshkova, Ph.D.; Cesar Milan and my father.
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4,124 Increase in Total Membership
7.18% Increase in Contributions over 2014
TOTAL ALUMNI IN U.S.: 204,861 TOTAL ALUMNI IN TEXAS: 184,420
on the web legacies The Texas Tech Legacy Program provides children and grandchildren of TTAA members a fun way to start learning about Raiderland at an early age. Members receive Texas Tech birthday cards and gifts throughout their membership.
chapters No matter where you are, connect or reconnect with other alumni and friends through the TTAA Chapter Network. Our regional chapters provide opportunities to network, volunteer and socialize with fellow Red Raiders while also raising scholarship funds for students in your local areas.
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our grads PRESIDENT NELLIS GRADUATES
5,267 New 2014 Graduates were given a year of free membership from President Nellis The Texas Tech Alumni Association has partnered with the Office of the President to provide every undergraduate with a complimentary membership in the TTAA. This program is designed to engage new graduates and foster a lifelong connection with their alma mater.
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distinguished alumni award Since 1967, Texas Tech Alumni Association has been presenting the Distinguished Alumni Award to the most prestigious graduates of Texas Tech University for their professional achievements, contributions to society and support of the university. Past recipients have governed states, flown space missions, sung leading roles in the great opera houses of the world, served as CEO’s and military commanders, won Olympic Gold Medals, and even performed heart surgery on celebrities such as Larry King and David Letterman.
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President Eastern New Mexico University System Portales, N.M.
U.S. District Judge (Retired) Eastern District of Texas Longview, Texas
lauro f. cavazos award The Lauro F. Cavazos Award is presented to individuals who have made a positive impact on the university through outstanding accomplishments, acts of service and/or financial support. The award was created in 1987 in honor of Lauro F. Cavazos, Ph.D., a sixth-generation Texan who served as the 10th president of the university. He was the first Texas Tech alumnus and first Hispanic to achieve that distinction. Chancellor Emeritus Kent ’65 and Susie Hance were chosen as the 2014 recipients of the Lauro F. Cavazos Award.
top techsan awards Recognized as individuals who exemplify team spirit and extraordinary work proficiency, four individuals were honored at the Texas Tech Alumni Association’s 2014 Top Techsan Luncheon in October.
CHRISTI FELTON
Event Coordinator, International Cultural Center
AMY M. HEARD
Associate Athletics Director, Athletics
KYM H. RUIZ
Event Planning Manager, Top Tier Catering
ADOLFO VARELA
Senior Safety Officer, Environmental Health and Safety
2014 national board of directors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Renée Underwood ’78 Lubbock
Immediate Past President William D. “Bill” Benton ’74, ’78 Van Alstyne
President Elect Tom C. Sellers ’77 Sulphur Springs
Endowment Trust Board and Alumni Board Finance Chairman William D. “Bill” Brown ’76 Austin
Executive Vice President & CEO Bill Dean, Ed. D. ’61, ’65, ’71 Lubbock
NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SPECIAL POSITIONS Academic Recruiting Representative Peggy Adcox Maxwell ’76 Grapevine
Arcilia Acosta ’89 Dallas
Victor Hackett, Jr. ’76 Marlton, N.J.
John Redmon ’71 The Woodlands
Ryan Barbles ’02 Houston
Art Hall ’96 San Antonio
Linda Rutherford ’88 Carrollton
Athletic Council Representative Carey Hobbs ’58 Waco
Nancy Birdwell ’74 Salado
Sandy Henry ’67 Lubbock
Gary Shores ’63 Wichita Falls
Michelle Bleiberg ’89 Dallas
Nancy Isom ’80 Idalou
Jerry Smith ’65, ’67 Dallas
Kristina Harris Butts ’01, ’04 Washington, D.C.
Ginger Kerrick ’91, ’93 Webster
Barry Street ’79 Kress
Neal Leonard ’95 San Antonio
Bobby Waddle ’55 DeSoto
Vicki Nixon ’73 Lubbock
Louis Bryant Williams, Jr. ’61 Kerrville
Secretary & Legal Counsel John C. Sims ’65 Lubbock Student Alumni Board Representatives Mallory Sanderson ’15 Trophy Club Dillon Harris ’16 Dwight, Ill.
Heath Cheek ‘03 Dallas Paul Foster ’80 San Antonio Ginger Francis ’79 El Paso
Texas Tech University Ex-Officio Representative Scott Cooksey ’80 Lubbock
Randy Golden ’77 Dallas
Timothy Parker ’94 ’96 Roswell, N.M. Paul Parkinson ’74 Plano
Texas Tech Alumni Association And Subsidiary Consolidated Statement of Financial Position For the years ended Dec. 31, 2013 and 2014 Assets
Consolidated Statement of Activities For the years ended Dec. 31, 2013 and 2014 2014
Cash & Cash Equivalents 2,265,076 Receivables Accounts Receivables 122,453 Contributions Receivables 96,781 Employee Receivables 1,223 Inventory (11,573) Prepaid Expenses 113,365 Restricted Cash and Receivables 706,452 Property and Equipment 6,008,509 Cash Surrender Value of Life Insurance Policies 228,834 Other Assets 2,113,173 Total Assets 11,644,294
2013
3,426,315 69,141 170,952 846 141,456 47,946 6,189,594 228,834 1,879,745 12,154,829
Liabilities & Net Assets Liabilities
313,360 20,061 129,985 121,695 46,559 63,012 77,070 771,742
115,773 12,033 121,306 46,560 347,665 101,189 117,289 861,815
Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total Net Assets
9,289,221 1,256,356 326,974 10,872,551
11,016,234 276,780 11,293,014
Total Liabilities & Net Assets
11,644,294
12,154,829
Accounts Payable Retirement Payable Accured Liabilities Payroll Liabilities Accrued Compensated Absences Ring Deposits Due to Affiliate(s) Deferred Revenues Notes Payable Total Liabilities Net Assets
Revenue
Sales and Commissions Contributions Unrestricted In-Kind Contributions University Support Restricted Sponsorships Rental Income Programs and Special Events Techsan Magazine Revenues Royalty Income Investment Income Insurance Proceeds Gain (Loss) on Sale of Assets Assets Released From Restriction Miscellaneous Income Total Revenue Total Revenues and Other Support
2014
2013
199,192
231,392
2,150,262 110,000 20,450 61,400 323,715 386,736 112,890 405,414 201,515 5,197 3,976,772 3,976,772
2,117,057 557 75,000 133,218 61,400 299,093 343,370 109,478 738,281 24,733 8,298 708 4,142,585 4,142,585
Program Expenses Fundraising Expenses Management & General Expenses Total Expenses
2,384,103 841,088 972,044 4,197,235
2,189,336 863,737 751,532 3,804,605
Increase in Net Assets from Operations Contributions to Endowment Trust
(220,463) (200,000)
337,980 (600,000)
11,293,014 10,872,551
11,555,034 11,293,014
Expenses
Net Assets, Beginning of the Year Net Assets, End of the Year Unaudited Financial Information Financial Information provided by Texas Tech Alumni Association Accounting Department
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An advertisement in the 1945 “La Ventana” shows students attending a formal function at the Hotel Lubbock. “Intermission during a college dance held in the Hotel Lubbock Ballroom finds this typical scene. For a great many years, Texas Tech students have enjoyed the fine service of this friendly Hotel . . . . Dinners, dances or receptions all receive the same special consideration.”
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MILITARY SHANE MCNEIL (’09 BA Arts & Sciences) Stafford, Va., served in the Army from October 2002 to April 2012. This photo was taken while he was a sergeant assigned to the United States Division South Headquarters, Contingency Operating Base Basra, Iraq, during Operation New Dawn, his third year in Iraq—he served there in 2003-2004, 2005-2006 and 2010-2011. Shane is in the middle, not in uniform. He works as a defense contractor for CACI International, a company that provides information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for intelligence, defense and federal civilian customers. CACI International has offices throughout North American and Western Europe. His wife is REBECCA A. HEAD MCNEIL (’08 Arts & Sciences).
1972
BOOKS MICHAEL K. BOHN (’65 BA Political Science, ’67 MA
Political Science) Alexandria, Va., former director of the White House situation room, released his sixth book in January, “Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions Inside the White House from Truman to Obama.” In his latest book, he takes readers inside the crisis meetings over the course of 12 modern presidencies. His wife is Elin.
JERRY D. CRAFT (’60 BS Animal Production) Jacksboro, Texas, recently had a second book published by the Texas Tech University press, “Pitching for the Stars.” His newest book was written for young adults. Like his first book, “Our White Boy,” it follows his experiences in 1959 and 1960 as the only white player in the West Texas Colored League, where he pitched for the Wichita Falls/Graham Stars minor league baseball team. The book brings to life a time in America when baseball, like everything else, was segregated. Jerry is also a rancher and former mayor of Jacksboro, Texas. He was also a pioneer in the national cable television industry. His wife is Pamela.
TIM KING, PH.D. , (BME Music Education, ’79 MME Music Education) Nacogdoches, Texas, was named the Regents Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. The title of Regents Professor is the highest honor SFA bestows upon a faculty member. It is given to faculty members who are exemplary role models to the university community. Every three years he accompanies his students on a tour of Europe. In 2012, his group visited and sang at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Tim’s students travel to and sing in places about which they read and study in their music history classes. King is a professor of music and director of choral activities at the university. He has been with SFA since 1983. His wife is Vicki.
1976 E. MICHAEL “MIKE” SHEEHAN (BA
Psychology) Aledo, Texas, a partner at the law firm Thompson & Knight was named a “Top Attorney” in the December 2014 issue of Fort Worth, Texas magazine. The magazine features Tarrant County’s “Top Attorneys” in selected fields that were nominated by their peers. Sheehan was named best in civil litigation. His wife is Carol.
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A special thank you to our top-level members for their continued support. Diamond ($5,000 or more annually) Mr. & Mrs. Richard Breedlove ’70 (Lorrie Breedlove)
Mr. & Mrs. George H. McMahan (Linda M. McMahan)
Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Chenault ’82 (Vicki L. Chenault)
Mrs. Joyce W. Perkins ’64
Mrs. Helen J. Geick ’61
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Phillips ’93 (Stacey Phillips ’93)
Dr. & Mrs. Marco A. Gutierrez ’92 (Rubi Gutierrez)
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pubentz ’98 (Rebecca Pubentz ’99)
Mr. & Mrs. B.R. “Rip” Griffin (Geneva Griffin ’51)
Ms. Anita R. Smith ’63
Chancellor Emeritus Kent Hance ’65
Mr. & Mrs. Barry C. Street ’79 (SuDeline Street ’79)
Mrs. Peggy B. LaFont ’61
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. Grant Adamson ’81 (Nelda Adamson) Mr. & Mrs. Mike Baca (Jan W. Baca ’70) Ms. William B. Baker ’06 (Lori Baker ’04) Mr. & Mrs. Bryant Bonner ’95 (Whitney Bonner ’96) Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Brawley ’95 (Sabrina Brawley ’94) Dr. & Mrs. Edward Broome ’68 (Jan L. Broome ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Brown ’59 (Elena Brown) Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Broyles ’51 (Helen P. Broyles) Lt. Col. Mark H. Bryant ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Steve Burleson ’83 (Elizabeth Burleson ’84) Mr. Clay Cash ’97 Mr. Lynn F. Cowden ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Tim G. Culp ’81 (Annette L. Culp ’81) Mr. Richard R. Davila, II Mr. Joseph H. Dominey (Joan McComb-Dominey ’67) Mr. & Mrs. Gayle M. Earls ’59 (Dolores J. Earls) Mr. Daniel F. Frye, III ’73 Mrs. Merle Fulton Mr. Ralph G. Goodlet, Jr. ’82 Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Gregory ’85 (Nancy Gregory) Mr. & Mrs. Will B. Hagood ’69 (Karen Hagood ’71)
Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie D. Hammonds ’68 (Nancy L. Hammonds) Mrs. Julianna Hawn Holt ’69 Mr. H. Wayne Henry ’75 Mr. Bob L. Herd ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hix ’70 (Leslie Hix ’71) Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Holloman ’80 (Karlene Holloman) Mr. Peter M. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Don J. Howe ’71 (Vickie Howe) Dr. & Mrs. O. Wayne Isom, M.D. ’61 (Pat Isom) Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Jacobs ’87 (Jerri L. Jacobs) Mr. & Mrs. Leon Jeffcoat ’66 (Patricia E. Jeffcoat ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Parker Johnson ’97 (Victoria Johnson)
Mr. & Mrs. Gus Jones ’71 (Chloe Jones) Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Malone ’87 (Darcy Malone ’87) Mr. & Mrs. Tom Mase (Liz Mase) Mr. & Mrs. Justin Mason (Denise Mason) Ms. Andrea E. Massey ’78 Mrs. Joan B. McComb-Dominey ’67 Mrs. & Mrs. Mark R. McGuire ’83 (Nancy Q. McGuire ’77) Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKenzie ’68 (Barbara McKenzie ’69) Mr. Glenn D. Moor ’84 Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Price (Mary Jo Price ’53) Mr. Michael R. Proctor ’90 (Julie Proctor) Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Ralston ’76 (Jeannie Ralston ’77) Dr. & Dr. George R. Raschbaum ’82 (Rene Raschbaum) Mr. & Mrs. John W. Redmon ’71 (Ann R. Redmon ’71) Dr. Nancy R. Ruff ’69
Mr. & Mrs. W. Joseph Sammons ’78 (Susan Sammons ’78) Mr. & Mrs. John Scovell ’68 (Diane Scovell ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth H. Sheffield, Jr. (Catherine Sheffield ’79) Mr. James T. Simpson ’83
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Skinner ’74 (Alice B. Skinner) Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Smith ’65 (Gail Smith ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Marlis Smith ’54 (Shirley Smith ’54) Mr. & Mrs. Dale V. Swinburn ’65 (Cheryl Swinburn) Mr. & Mrs. Max Swinburn ’67 (Doris Swinburn) Mr. David F. Thomas ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Mickey D. Tucker ’77 (Schelley A. Tucker) Mr. Tommy W. Velasquez ’93 Mr. & Mrs. John P. Wald ’80 (Karen M. Wald ’80) Mr. & Mrs. John B. Walker ’68 (Lisa A. Walker) Mr. & Mrs. Edward Whitacre ’64 (Linda Whitacre ’65) Mr. Dan White ’79 (Debbie White) Mr. & Mrs. John W. Wilkins, Jr. ’88 (Karen Wilkins) *As of March 23, 2015
Gold ($1,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Mike R. Abbott ’63 (Diane Abbott) Mr. Darrell W. Adams ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Adams ’75 ’78 (Deborah T. Adams) Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Adcox ’95 (Keeley K. Orman-Adcox ’95) 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. 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. & Mrs. Carl A. Beard, Ph.D. (Robin Beard ’12) Mr. & Mrs. Joe Beaty ’69 (Patricia Beaty ’75) Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Bender (Daena Bender) Mr. & Mrs. Edward Benninger ’65 (Nelda Benninger) Mr. & Mrs. Oran H. Berry, III ’71 (Linda L. Berry ’70) Mr. & Mrs. Brent C. Bertrand ’87 (Tonya H. Bertrand ’86 Ms. Nancy L. Birdwell ’74 Mr. William C. Bomberger ’79 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) Mr. Alan D. Brown ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Brown ’77 (Virginia K. Brown) Mr. & Mrs. Eddie M. Brown ’60 (Billie G. Brown) 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 Ms. Jackie S. Buford ’79 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. John B. Campbell ’07 Mr. Howard R. Carlson, IV ’08 Mr. David R. Carter ’87 Ms. Maria R. Carter ’87 Mrs. Maricela M. Carter ’80 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) Mr. Mark A. Cina ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Dayle M. Clark ’55 (Betty Clark) Dr. David S. Cockrum ’94 Mrs. Robin J. Conner ’95 Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Coppinger ’84 (Belinda Coppinger) Mr. & Mrs. David Copple ’91 (Marquel Copple) Mr. & Mrs. Walter D. Cornelius ’59 (Waldeen Cornelius) Mr. & Mrs. John C. Covery ’77 (Teresa C. Covery) Mr. & Mrs. Holt Cowden ’00 (Kaye Cowden ’78) Col. Jimmy D. Cox ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Terry J. Crofoot (Kelly D. Crofoot) Mr. & Mrs. Brenton A. Croley ’96 (Carrie E. Croley ’95) Dr. & Mrs. Charles F. Cruser ’76 (Salty Cruser) Mr. Charles Cummings ’59 Ms. Catherine L. Daniel ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Jim Daniel (Mary Daniel ’78) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Davis ’84 (Lisa G. Davis) Mr. & Mrs. Sean D. Davis ’86 (Donna Davis) Mr. & Mrs. Enoch L. Dawkins ’60 (Frances Dawkins) Dr. & Dr. Miles R. Day (Audra R. Day ’99) Dr. & Mrs. Bill F. Dean ’61 (Peggy M. Dean ’66) Dr. Carrie E. DeMoor ’05 Ms. Jane B. Dickson ’74 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. John C. Downs ’66 (Edie Downs) Captain & Mrs. David A. Drake ’82 (Paige A. Drake) Mr. & Mrs. Patrick N. Drennon ’78 (Tracie Drennon) Mr. Atlee R. DuBose ’96 Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Eakens ’72 (Bonny Eakens) Mr. & Mrs. Stan J. Edwards ’68 (Jane Edwards) Mr. & Mrs. Jason Elliott (Robin L Elliott ’95) Ms. Patricia Erwin ’77 Mr. & Mrs. C Robert Fabling, Jr. ’69 (Lee Fabling) Mr. Quinton A. Farley ’81 ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Fitzgerald (Jeanette Fitzgerald ’86) Dr. W. T. Fogarty ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Nicky A. Fowler ’83 (Betty R. Fowler) Ms. Marcia L. Foster ’05 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. Terry L. Gray ’70 Hon. & Mrs. William Gray ’64 (Lanette Gray) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Green ’64 (Mary Ann Green ’64)
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. Keith R. Hansen ’68 (Glenda G. Hansen) Mr. & Mrs. Rodney M. Harden ’74 (Teresa L. Harden) 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. Tim A. Hatch ’51 (Tommie A. Hatch ’51) 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) Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Hervey ’73 (Emilee G. Hervey) Ms. Heather Hibbard ’94 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher S. Hicks ’06 (Emily G. Hicks ’05) 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. Pete Holden ’65 (Marjorie G. Holden) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin P. Holleron ’94 (Mona Holleron) Mr. Stanley K. Horton ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Howard ’02 (Katherine A. Howard) Mr. Thomas J. Howard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Huckabee ’91 (Robin Huckabee ’92) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Huckaby ’66 (Clara J. Huckaby) Mrs. Rachel E. Hudson ’04 Mr. Michael A. Hull ’99 Mr. & Mrs. Ken Huseman ’75 (Jaye Huseman) Mr. Jerrod C. Imel ’96 Mr. & Mrs. Drew M. Ingram ’79 (Laura J. Ingram ’79) Mr. & Mrs. Rex Isom ’78 (Nancy Isom ’80) Mrs. Harvella Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy W. Johnson ’00 (Trina D. Johnson ’99) 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. & Mrs. Phillip S. Kahlich ’09 (Kara 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. Brandon R. Lairsen ’01 (Heather Lairsen ’01) Mr. & Mrs. A. Lance Langford ’87 (Brenda L. Langford) Mr. Rowland C. Lawson ’84 Mr. & Mrs. Lanny G. Layman ’77 (Joni Layman ’79) Mr. Brian C. Levea ’03 Mrs. Lauren E. Lian ’05 Mr. Jack C. Looney ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Loveless ’93 (Stacy Loveless ’92) Dr. & Mrs. Julio F. Madrigal ’82 (Dolores Madrigal) Mr. Jonathan A. Masood 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. Mike S. McKee ’85 (Cammye S. McKee ’85) Mr. & Mrs. Ryan McKenzie ’98 (Kathleen McKenzie ’04) Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNaughton ’84 (Anne McNaughton ’76) Mr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Meaders ’84 (Lamar Meaders ’83) Mr. & Mrs. Orlando D. Mendoza ’83 (Rosa Mendoza) Dr. John S. Menzies ’75 Mr. Jarret B. Meuth ’96 Ms. Patsy Middleton ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Miers ’82 (Sarah Miers) 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. 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. 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) Mr. Coby B. Nichols ’98 Dr. James D. Norcross ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Norton ’85 ’90 (Melanie Norton ’86 ’93) Mrs. Keeley K. Orman-Adcox ’95 Mr. & Mrs. David Overholt (Selena Overholt ’02) 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) Mr. & Mrs. Andy C. Payne ’65 (Mary-Lees Payne) 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. David R. Pickering (Lugene L. Pickering ’77) Mr. & Mrs. Cody W. Plowman (Shannon M. Plowman ’85) Mr. & Mrs Stephen S. Poore ’90 (Christina B. Poore) Mr. David E. Price ’84 Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen ’80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Mr. & Mrs. Terry H. Putman ’69 (Mendy W. Putman ’81) Mr. Jamal Qaiyyim ’10 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. & Mrs. Steve D. Reichmuth ’72 (Barbara Reichmuth) Mr. Richard D. Rhodes ’71 Mr. & Mrs. David Ricks ’82 (Jill Ricks) 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. John Saenz ’96 (Suzanne Saenz ’95) 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. 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. Jeffrey Shulse (Tiffany Shulse ’93) Mr. Josh M. Shuster ’00 Dr. & Mrs. Kevin Sieck ’95 (Tisha Sieck) Ms. Jessica J. Siewert Ms. Sharon J. Simandl Mr. & Dr. Reagan W. Simpson (Nancy D. Simpson ’75) Mr. Kenneth L. Slack, Jr. ’71 Mr. & Mrs. Bobby L. Smith ’80 (Sabrina T. Smith) 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. Robb Stewart ’87 (Melinda C. Stewart) Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Stewart (Lynne Stewart ’78) Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Stoerner ’71 ’78 (Nancy S. Cusack) Mr. & Mrs. David L. Stoneking (Jane B. Stoneking ’77) Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Strickland ’70 (Linda F. Strickland) Mrs. Amy L. Taylor ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Lance L. Taylor ’99 (Dawn M. Taylor ’00) Mr. & Mrs. Tommy E. Taylor ’85 (Gwen Taylor) Mr. & Mrs. Mark Thrash ’96 (Tracy Thrash) Mr. & Mrs. Fred Timberlake, Jr. ’68 (Kay G. Timberlake) Mr.& Mrs. Christopher Traylor ’86 (Laura Traylor) Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Turner ’68 (Diane Turner ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Underwood ’71 (Pam Underwood) Mr. & Mrs. Jidge Verity (Chris M. Verity ’71) Mr. Bobby G. Waddle ’55 Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Wallace ’76 (Patricia H. Wallace) Mr. & Mrs. Mike Walsh ’70 (Colette Walsh) 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. & Mrs. David G. Wight ’64 (Carla Wight) Mr. & Dr. David R. White (Lynn White, Ph.D. ’69) Mr. & Mrs. D. Andy Williams ’91 (Camille Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Williams ’57 (Jamelle Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Roderick Williams ’10 (Samantha Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Williams ’85 (Molly Williams ’84) Ms. Mary Jane Williamson ’62 Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Willis, III ’84 (Lorie L. Willis) Mr. William C. Winters ’08 Mr. Lee Wright ’87 Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Wright (Beth Wright ’80) Dr. & Mrs. Scott W. Wyrick ’87 (Lenore P. Wyrick) Mr. Wesley B. Youngblood ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Greg M. Zielinski (Donna J. Zielinski) *As of March 23, 2015
alumni news
1980 DAVID MCCALLA (BS Electrical
Engineering) Lubbock, Texas, has been named the CEO of Lubbock Power & Light. He previously served LP&L as the assistant director of electric utilities. His wife is Janet.
1983 ROBIN RUSSELL (BS International
Trade) Houston, Texas, is an attorney at Andrews Kurth LLP, and was named one of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women for 2014 by Houston Woman Magazine. The women selected as Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2014 are individuals who have possess expertise in a particular
field or arena and are considered knowledgeable, credible and trustworthy. Robin is co-chair of the firm’s bankruptcy and financial restructuring section and serves as a member of numerous firm committees, including the Policy and Finance Committees. Her practice combines experience in bankruptcy restructuring and litigation with financial transaction work. She represents clients throughout the U.S. in corporate restructurings and reorganizations.
1984 JANNA CLARKE (JD Law) Keller, Texas,
who is currently of counsel to Broude, Smith & Jennings, P.C., was elected as chair of Texas Legal, the statewide nonprofit legal insurance plan. She is an ad hoc member of the Tarrant County Bar Association, where she has served in a
number of capacities, including president. Janna also served as the president of the Tarrant County Women’s Bar Association. She’s a life fellow of both the Tarrant County Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation. Her husband is Matthew.
1987 SCOTT CLARK (BS Mechanical
Engineering) Fort Worth, Texas, was promoted to vice president of the Dallas-Fort Worth office of Burns and McDonnell, a company that was named No. 14 on FORTUNE’s 2014 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. He is now an officer at the firm. Previously he was general manager of the 160-person office, which also includes Raleigh, N.C. Scott joined Burns & McDonnell in January 2010 and helped open the firm’s Fort Worth office.
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1992 BRYAN DANIEL (BS Agricultural
1989 SEAN M. HALLORAN (BBA Marketing)
Houston, Texas, supports his Texas Tech University roots as he runs 40, 50 and 100-mile races all around the country. After these runs, he poses with his medals and puts his guns up to promote Texas Tech. In addition to his many races, Halloran has twice run the Rocky Raccoon, a 100-mile trail run in 25.5 hours. He sells and markets the latest IT technology and has worked for Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Computer Associates and now Riverbed Technology. He and his wife, DELYNN JENKINS HALLORAN (BA ’89 Mass Communications), have three daughters.
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Education, MS ’94 Agricultural Education) Georgetown, Texas, has been named Director of Economic Development for the State of Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott. Previously Bryan was the senior administrator for trade and business development in the Texas Department of Agriculture. For more than 10 years, his wife, TAMARA DAVIS DANIEL (’92 BS Agricultural Communications), has owned her own consulting business focusing on communications and marketing for small agriculture organizations. Bryan and Tamara have two daughters.
MICHAELS WELLS (BS Civil Engineering) Lubbock, and his wife, POLYESTER WELLS (’05 BS Nursing) own Xtreme Structures and Fabrication, a custom manufacturer of aluminum, stainless and carbon steel structures for use in entertainment, worship, theatrical, manufacturing and trade show industries. The company’s customer base includes major theme parks, Ringling Brother’s, Disney on Ice, George Strait, Metallica and Cirque du Soleil.
1996 BRIDGET MORENO LOPEZ (BS Political
Science, JD ’99 Law) Dallas, Texas, was appointed managing partner of the Dallas Office of Linebarger Goggan Blair
LEE ANN HARRINGTON NUTT (BBA
Management, ’92 M.Ed. Higher Education, ’96 Ed.D. Higher Education) Tomball, Texas, in February was named president of the Tomball Campus of the Lone Star College System. Her husband is Jim.
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1991 GREGORY LEBLEU, M.D. (MD Medicine)
Leesville, La., has been named medical director at Leesville Rehabilitation Hospital and the Tri Parish Rehabilitation Hospitals, which are owned by Maxim Management Group. Gregory will be responsible for the overall quality of rehabilitation treatment. He is a trained physical medicine and rehabilitation physician and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He was also a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy. Maxim Management Group is a regional
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Support Litigation Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office and has a special interest in cases involving children’s issues and she regularly works with clients in matters involving custody and support disputes. She has been named to the Texas Rising Stars list of the state’s leading young attorneys each year since 2010.
JD Law) Dallas, Texas, earned her Board Certification in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She earned this certification by meeting all the requirements set forth by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and passing the comprehensive, daylong written examination designed to gauge an attorney’s expertise in Family Law matters. Monica works for the boutique family law firm of Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP. Previously, she served in the Child
2002 KEITH UNDERWOOD, Ph.D. (BS Animal
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ture through roles on Capitol Hill and with NCBA as a senior lobbyist. Her husband is Randy. She serves on the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board.
KRISTINA HARRIS BUTTS (BS Agricultural Communications, ’04 MS Animal Science) Washington D.C., was one of two Texas Tech graduates from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources to be named a “40 Under 40 in Agricultural Awards” by the Vance Publishing Corporation. Butts is executive director of legislative affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. She has spent the past 12 years serving agricul-
Sciences) Brookings, S.D., was one of two Texas Tech graduates from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources to be named a “40 Under 40 in Agricultural Awards” by the Vance Publishing Corp. Underwood is an assistant professor and extension meat specialist at South Dakota State University. His focus has been on improving the quality of beef. His research has helped lead product development and educate producers about how to manage carcass traits and other important details.
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JOHN D. STEINMETZ (BBA Business
Administration) Lubbock, the President of Vista Bank, has received the additional title of chief executive officer. He is a member of the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents and is also affiliated with several national, statewide and local organizations such as Young Presidents’ Organization and Young Life. He is the past recipient of the Volunteer Center of Lubbock’s Young Professional of the Year award and the Small Business Administration Financial Service Champion Award. His wife is JAEMIE MOORE STEINMETZ (’06 BS Human Sciences, M.Ed. Education ’08).
2003 TOBY CECIL (BBA Business Administration)
Lubbock, was named Lubbock president by Vista Bank. Cecil has been in the financial service industry for nine years and is actively involved in the community. He currently serves as president elect of the Double T Varsity Club, as a member of the Governing Board of Texas Tech University Early Head Start Program, on the UMC Gala Underwriting Committee and a board member for the Lubbock Housing Authority. His wife is Krysta.
2005 NATHEN MCEOWN (BS Accounting, ’05
MS Accounting) Dallas, Texas, was named partner to the financial firm Whitley Penn.
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As a CPA, Nathen has more than 10 years of public accounting experience providing a full range of audit and consulting services to both public and private companies. He is a director for the Southwest Education Fund, Inc., a board member of the Park City Club, mentor for the International Student Foundation and a former board member of the South Dallas/ Fair Park Trust Fund. His wife is Sara.
2006 BRANDON M. HILL (JD Law) Arlington, Texas, was named a new partner at the law firm Kelly Hart. Brandon represents lenders, borrowers and investors in interim, permanent, construction, tax-exempt bond and other types of financing transactions. He also has extensive experience representing clients in connection with loans secured by or involving real estate,
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manufacturers, individual investors and investment firms, online travel companies, oil and gas operators, mineral owners and working interest owners. His wife is Jenny.
2007 EMILY BERSET (BFA Studio Art) Lubbock, Texas, was named Teacher of the Year at Boerne Independent School District’s Kendall Elementary School, where she teaches art. She has taught in Boerne Independent School District since 2007 and has enhanced the art programs on a number of the district’s campuses. In her free time she works with ceramics as well as visual arts media such as painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, jewelry and printmaking.
AARON PHILLIPS (BS Industrial
Engineering, ’08 MS Industrial Engineering) Lubbock, Texas, was awarded the inaugural Whitacre College of Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year. This award is given to graduates who have taken personal risks and sacrificed to pursue a dream of new and better products and services that benefit society. He is the founder, president and CEO of AmpliSine Labs in Lubbock. His background includes leading a broad array of development and research projects ranging from the creation of AmpliSine’s patented next-generation SitePro automation software, to in-depth work with groups such as the United States Nuclear Weapons Complex, Penn State University, the National Science Foundation and many others. His wife is Ashley.
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LAUREN TURNER (BA English) Benbrook,
Texas, has been promoted to digital project manager and social media specialist by Fort Worth’s Balcom Agency. Lauren will continue to develop and execute innovative, results-oriented digital and social strategies for clients. She has spearheaded successful email and social campaigns for such clients as Justin Boots, DairyMAX, USMD Health System, the Neeley School of Business at TCU and Plains Cotton Cooperative Assoc. (PCCA), and has earned local industry awards for her work.
2008 LOREN HATCH (JD Law) Rio Rancho, N.M., was named the new deputy secretary for the New Mexico Department
of Transportation by New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez. He will manage the business operations and the programs divisions of the agency. Hatch served as general counsel for the NMDOT since 2012.
2009 JAMES BAUMGARTNER (BS Mechanical Engineering) San Antonio, Texas, has been named the inaugural Whitacre College of Engineering Young Distinguished Engineer of the Year. This award was created to honor a young Whitacre College of Engineering alumnus who represents the college in an outstanding way through their professional and civic achievements and through their overall involvement with the college. James works for ExxonMobil and has experience on four continents and
in more than 12 countries in a variety of areas, including government and national oil company negotiations, large-scale contract development and bidding, contract management, offshore/onshore execution planning, and general project engineering. He is currently working in St. John’s Canada on the Hebron Project, but returns to Lubbock on a regular basis as part of the ExxonMobil Recruiting Team. One year after graduation, he started a scholarship endowment in the college that has provided scholarship funding to two engineering students. Baumgartner is one of the founding members of the Young Guns young engineering alumni board and serves on the Young Guns executive committee. Since graduation, he has also been involved with a number of civic and philanthropic organizations including Compassion International, United Way, the Boys and Girls Club and Habitat for Humanity. KAYLA BIGGERSTAFF CARMICHAEL (BA Public Relations) Speedway, Ind., accepted a position as account manager with Willow Marketing, a full-service agency based in Indianapolis, Ind. Kayla will service a number of accounts, including Delta Tau Delta, Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority, College Chefs, Williams Comfort Air, Pac-Van, Inc., High End Concepts and Bunger & Robertson. Previously, she worked for Hirons Advertising and Public Relations. Her husband is Tyler.
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In Memoriam LAURA ELIZABETH ARNOLD ’80, Lubbock, died Dec. 10. DARWIN RICE BOARDMAN II ’75, Stillwater, Okla., died Jan. 11. WAYLON REESE CARROLL ’50, ’53, Lubbock, died Feb. 7. When he
retired from the Lubbock Independent School District after many years, he became principal of the Texas Tech University Independent School District. IMA JEAN CASSEL ’67, ’71, Lubbock, died Dec. 8.
CLINTON M. MCPHERSON, Ed.D., ’47, ’52, Lubbock, died Jan. 25,
2014. He was a professor in the College of Engineering for 28 years. DORIS FAYE MULLICAN ’70, Lubbock, died Jan. 21. PATRICK PRIVETT ’65, Littlefield, Texas, died Jan. 26. RALPH “SLEEPY” QUEST ’41, Lubbock, died Jan. 15. He is survived by his wife, LAURA QUEST ’42.
PAT J. GILLIAM , a student, died Jan. 29.
KENNETH MICHAEL RICE, M.D., ’91, Lubbock, died Feb. 5. He is survived by his wife, SHANNA RICE ’91.
CAROLYN BLEDSOE GOEBEL ‘54, ‘69, Lubbock, died Feb. 19. She
JOHNNYE NELL DURHAM SMITH ’57, Lubbock, died Feb. 6.
was the granddaughter of Sen. W. H. Bledsoe, the Texas state senator who wrote the bill that established Texas Technological College. She is survived by her husband, RODNEY GOEBEL ’51. REBECCA “BECKY” MILLER JACKSON ’87, ’93, Fluvanna, Texas,
died Jan. 23. CLIVE J. KINGHORN , Ph.D. , Lubbock, a longtime professor in the
College of Media & Communication and general manager of KTXTFM, died Jan. 18. RAYMOND N. LUNN ’55, Wichita Falls, Texas, died Sept. 6.
MARY ETTA ROBBINS SPICHER ’72, Lubbock, died Dec. 31. MILTON SVETLIK ’42, Dallas, Texas, the first female graduate
in chemical engineering, died Dec. 18. She is survived by her husband, JOSEPH SVETLIK ’42. MARY JEANNE VAN APPLEDORN , Ph.D. , Lubbock, a professor of
music in the School of Music from 1950 until 2008, died Dec. 12. SHIRLEY W. WARREN ’56, ’60, ’83, Lubbock, died Jan. 5. She is survived by her husband, BILL WARREN ’51.
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SABA NAFEES , a Texas Tech alumna and first-year graduate student
in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, was selected to be an E3! Ambassador to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI). Nafees is one of three ambassadors for Region VI, which includes Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. She is one of only 32 to be chosen nationwide for 2014-2015. She is originally from Pakistan. Nafees also was chosen to become a One Young World Ambassador for their 2014 World Summit in Ireland last fall. One Young World is a nonprofit organization that holds a conference for youth leaders from all over the world to discuss solutions for world issues.
AMBER BEARD , a third-year law student and JUSTIN NAIL, TARA PARKER and CLAY WATKINS , second-year law students, finished as national semifinalists at the ABA Arbitration Competition in Chicago in January. Texas Tech Law teams have won four national championships at this competition over the past eight years. A few weeks later, AMY JONES , a second-year law student, and NICHOLL GARZA and SHIVANI RUMALLA , third-year law students, were recognized with the best brief award at the Florida State Bar National Tax Moot Court Competition. ANDREW FILLINGIM , an undergraduate researcher in the Biomedical Micro/ Nano Device Lab, has been named one of 50 finalists for the 2015 class of Hertz Fellows. The Hertz Foundation funds graduate education for leaders in the fields of applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences and encourages its awardees to pursue science for the public good.
in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, attended the American Society of Animal Science, Southern Section meetings in Atlanta. KATE SHARON , a doctoral student, received one of two travel scholarships to the meeting and while there, earned first place against 70 other competitors in the graduate student competition with her research in the area of dairy cattle nutrition. Recent graduate RAND BROADWAY received the Swine Industry Award for Innovation, which is sponsored by the National Pork Board. His collaborative study was titled, “Determining the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of salmonella serovars isolated from U.S. retail ground pork,” which he did while a student. BAILEY RIEDEL , a senior, competed against nine other undergraduate students with her abstract entitled, “Beta-adrenergic receptor subtype distributions differ across carcass and non-carcass tissues in feedlot steers and heifers.” T WO GR A DUAT E S T UDE N T S
RICHARD LUCIO , a graduate student in the Texas
Tech University College of Architecture, was recently awarded the Student Design Honor Award by the Fort Worth chapter of the American Institute of Architects for his work entitled “Reclaiming Urban Ecologies,” which is part of the college’s Urban Design Studio. The studio examines the growth of Shanghai, China, as it continues to build on marshlands in the Yangtze Delta. SAMANTHA JARVIS AND SARANEIL STRIBLING ,
second-year law students, and JAKE KROMINGA and WADE SPARKS , third-year law students, were finalists
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