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R E F R E S H E D TURN THE PAGE TO UNVEIL TTAA’S NEW IDENTITY

Dear Red Raider, Thank you for being a loyal Texas Tech Alumni Association member and upholding your ties to the university.

After a more than year-long rebranding process, it is with great pleasure that we reveal the new identity of the TTAA. We feel this newly strengthened identity champions what it means to be a Red Raider by emphasizing our connection with the University and with one another. We also feel it gives the association a voice that represents the loud and proud alumni of Texas Tech. You’re one of us!

YOU’RE A RESOUNDING PART OF THE LOUD AND PROUD. And you will always be a Red Raider. You are part of the alumni who are championing the proud traditions of our school. The lore of the Masked Rider. The ringing of the Victory Bells. And the spirit of Gameday.

YOUR MEMBERSHIP HELPS YOU CONNECT TO TECH. Explore all the exciting opportunities to stay engaged with your alma mater.

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BEAR YOUR BANNER. We know you’ll want to carry the Double T wherever you go. On the last page of this magazine, please find your new TTAA car decal to display with pride.

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TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GETS NEW IDENTITY

IMPROVING THE LIVES AND FUTURE OF STUDENTS AND THE WORLD

DEGREES OF IMPACT Dr. Alexandra Protopopova

Assistant Professor Department of Animal and Food Sciences

DR. PROTOPOPOVA WANTS MORE DOGS TO BE ADOPTED FROM ANIMAL SHELTERS. So, she set out to determine what behavioral traits in dogs are most attractive to potential adopters. That lead to working with shelters to train dogs to exhibit those traits when an adopter shows interest. The work is ongoing, but she is encouraged that her efforts and those of her fellow researchers have forged a path to increasing adoptions across the board.

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Alumnus and photographer Jerod Foster captured a few iconic structures while Texas Tech campus slept.

Joe Don Zetzsche is the director of floral for Texas grocer H-E-B at their San Antonio headquarters.

A new look for the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

Although Cody Hammond is a long way from the ranch he grew up on, his roots remain a big part of who he is.

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the Texas Tech Alumni Association Family lost a member when Brent Ross ’97 passed away after a long, courageous battle with cancer. He was 42 years old. Brent served as vice president for marketing for TTAA. He worked for the association for 14 years and during that time, spearheaded and provided leadership for many programs and endeavors.

Those he leaves behind include his wife, Aleesa Miller Ross ’98, ’10; son, Cooper; and twin daughters, Campbell and Courtney.

Memorials in honor of Brent may be made to Ross Children Fund at any of the Texas Tech Federal Credit Union branches in Lubbock or by mailing to Texas Tech FCU, FBO Ross Children, P.O. Box 41072, Lubbock, Texas 79409, or to the Texas Tech Alumni Association scholarship fund, noted in memory of Brent Ross, to P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, Texas 79409.

This issue was being prepared at the time of Brent’s death.

Read more about him in the January/February 2018 issue of Texas Techsan magazine.

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MAGAZINE STAF F Publisher, Bill Dean, Ed.D., ’61, ’65, ’71 Editor, Jean Ann Bowman Cantore ’84, ’87 Associate Editor, Jennifer Bell Ritz ’94, ’95 Intern, Lindsey Milner

DESIGN Amanda Sneed ’07 Hartsfield Design, Lubbock, Texas

ADVERTISING Brent Ross ’97, Associate Vice President Brett Winegarner ’13, Communications Coordinator Texas Tech Alumni Association 17th and University/P.O. Box 45001 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3641 E-mail: brent.ross@ttu.edu

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AL UMNI ASSOC IATION EX EC UTIVE BOA RD Kristina Harris Butts ’01, ’04 Washington, D.C. (Chair) Linda Burke Rutherford ’88, Carrollton (Past Chair) John W. Redmon ’71, The Woodlands (Chair Elect) Bill Brown ’74, ’76 Austin (Endowment Trust Board & Alumni Finance Chair) Bill Dean, Ed.D.,’61, ’65, ’71, Lubbock (President and CEO) David Y. Low ’87, ’03, Lubbock (CFO)

BOARD OF DIREC TORS Alex Arnold, Student Alumni Representative Ryan Barbles ’02, Houston Nancy L. Birdwell ’74, Salado Michelle Bleiberg ’89, Dallas Mandy A. Carr-Johnson, Ph.D. ’94, ’95, ’99, Highlands Ranch, Colorado R. Heath Cheek ’03, Dallas Paul W. Foster ’80, San Antonio Mike Gayler ’81, Fort Worth Randy Golden ’77, Dallas Francisco “Paco” Hamm ’88, Redondo Beach, California ReBecca Heidelberg ’00, Midland Staci Hernandez, M.D. ’99, ’03, Georgetown Carey Hobbs ’58, Waco (Athletic Council Representative) Tom Hutton, M.D., Ph.D. ’68, Fredericksburg Mark Jones ’79, Brady Leah McCoy ’04, Washington, D.C. Amy Gunter McLane ’97, Salado David A. Miller ’71, Horseshoe Bay Nathan P. Nash ’05, Dallas Vicki Vannoy Nixon ’73, Lubbock Rebecca Ramirez ’01, ’05, Lubbock Gary Shores ’63, Wichita Falls John C. Sims ’65, Lubbock (Legal Counsel) Jerry V. Smith ’65, ’67, Dallas Barry Street ’79, Kress Bobby G. Waddle ’55, DeSoto T. John Ward ’64, Longview Morris E. Wilkes, ’75, Lubbock Louis Bryant Williams Jr.’61, Kerrville

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Fall 2017: A Season of Changes WE ARE EXC I TED to announce with this issue a new marketing campaign and a new logo. You have already seen the new logo on this issue’s cover. The marketing campaign is explained on pages 24-27, and I would encourage you to read the article on those pages.

All this work is the result of a two-year rebranding project directed by The Richards Group in Dallas, one of the nation’s leading advertising firms.

A tremendous amount of research plus countless hours of discussion and development have gone into this project. From time-to-time, it is necessary to reposition our value proposition to ALL our alumni.

I want to thank Linda Rutherford, our board chair last year; Kristina Butts, this year’s board chair; and Michelle Bleiberg, chair of our marketing committee, for their relentless work in putting all this project together.

I also want to thank James Hering ’86 and his team at The Richards Group for a fantastic job.

Finally, thanks to our staff, David Low, CFO; Brent Ross, associate vice president; Kristina Butler, director of multi-media; Jean Ann Cantore, editor of the Texas Techsan; Jennifer Ritz, associate editor of the Texas Techsan; Laura Bixler, coordinator of membership; Brett Winegarner, communications coordinator; Madison Tatum, assistant membership coordinator; and Don Johnston, printing and mailing director.

It was a team effort from start to finish, and I hope you will feel as good about it as we do.

THE TEX A S TEC H Alumni Association lost one of the really good guys on Sept. 2 when Brent Ross, our associate vice president for marketing, lost a long, tough fight with cancer. Brent was a loyal employee who made many great contributions to our program over the years. The day before he died, he told his wife, Aleesa, that he needed to go the pavilion to help set up for the Eastern Washington game.

He also was very valuable because he did not always go along with the crowd and was not afraid to state his opinion on most matters. On top of that, he was a great human being, much loved and admired by all who worked with him. We are a family, and we all feel the loss of a family member.

He fought a long, hard battle with cancer for more than seven years, yet he rarely missed a day at work with the exception of trips he had to make to M.D. Anderson in Houston. His courage was an inspiration to all of us.

May God rest his soul and watch over his family.

enrollment reached 37,010 students. Hispanic enrollment has reached 27.8 percent, which will result in our being designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.

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Texas Tech President Schovanec indicated that receiving HSI status was a major priority for this academic administration.

“Achievement of HSI enrollment status does not mean Texas Tech has diminished its efforts in reaching out to and actively recruiting outstanding students of color and all nationalities, he said. “In addition to continuing to recruit Hispanic students, Texas Tech will redouble its efforts to recruit African-American students and other diverse population of students.”

T H E R E I S GR E AT concern around the country following the tragedy at Charlottesville in August. The following is an excerpt from a letter from President Schovanec to all faculty, staff and students, sent Aug. 21.

“As an institution of higher learning it is incumbent upon our administration, faculty, staff and students to promote an atmosphere of open dialogue. This is not a license for those who engage in racist speech or actions to promote ideals of hatred, or diminish our inclusive and diverse culture. At Texas Tech, we must ensure that our community in all its diversity has the opportunity to come together in mutual respect and thoughtful debate.This is a critical time to share our thoughts, opinions, beliefs and concerns. Universities and colleges are our country’s epicenters for this type of discourse, and Texas Tech should aspire to be a leader in the cultivation of ideas and solutions to these issues affecting our university and the broader society.

“Throughout the coming year, we will provide opportunities for formal discussion of public issues through panels, forums, and other gatherings that will allow us to hear all perspectives in the hopes of creating a better understanding of our differing beliefs, while mutually respecting others’ freedoms of thought and expression. One opportunity is a new series titled, ‘Civil Counterpoints.’ This series, which was developed by several faculty, features forums for students and faculty to discuss current relevant issues in an open and civil manner. The first session, ‘Speaking Freely: The Need for Opinion Diversity,’ took place this past spring with additional sessions planned for the upcoming fall and spring semesters. In the same spirit, the Student Government Association, in conjunction with the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, is preparing a summit for campus student leaders this fall.

Our goal is to incorporate the student voice into the Civil Counterpoints narrative in the future.”

Schovanec’s points need no comment.

I just wish every university and college president around the nation had the vision our president does.

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KRISTINA HARRIS BUTTS WAS NAMED THE NEW TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR. She serves on the chancellor’s executive cabinet, working closely with Chancellor Robert Duncan in developing policy initiatives, identifying strategic priorities and executing plans to achieve the chancellor’s goals. She initially joined the TTU System in April 2016 as director of strategic initiatives, where she coordinated federal affairs priorities for the system’s institutions, among other responsibilities.

Prior to joining the TTU System, Butts worked for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Government Affairs office in Washington from 2008-2016. She is serving as the 2017 chair of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

Former Texas Tech University System chief of staff for the Office of the Chancellor BRANDON LIPPS is now leading the food and nutrition service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. Lipps served three years as chief of staff for the Office of the Chancellor.

TEXAS TECH HAS SELECTED JOSEPH A. HEPPERT, PH.D., TO SERVE AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH. Previously, Heppert was a professor of chemistry and associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas is one of only 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Heppert Universities—Texas Tech is not yet an AAU member. During Heppert’s tenure at University of Kansas, the school achieved annual research expenditures of more than $240 million.

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DANNY REIBLE, PH.D., THE DONOVAN MADDOX DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING CHAIR AND PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, AND DENNY BULLARD, AN INSTRUCTOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING IN THE WHITACRE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, WERE SELECTED BY THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE OF TEXAS (TAMEST) AS PART OF A 19-MEMBER TASK FORCE TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF SHALE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ON WATER QUALITY. TAMEST formed the Shale Task Force to examine the environmental and community impacts of shale oil and gas development in Texas. The task force included experts from across the state with diverse knowledge and expertise and focused on six areas: seismicity, land resources, water, air, transportation and community impacts. The group looked at water usage in the Texas oil industry and water quality issues related to fracking. While the report noted more research is needed to increase the usage of poor-quality waters instead of freshwater for drilling and fracking, they found that the depth and separation between oil-bearing and drinking water-bearing zones underground makes contamination of the water unlikely.

NEWS TEXAS TECH MADE THE SIERRA CLUB’S 2017 COOL SCHOOL LIST, RECOGNIZING THE UNIVERSITY AS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 and has become one of the United States’ largest grassroots environmental organizations. Tech will continue to move forward with sustainable efforts such as looking at additional electric vehicles, hand dryers for larger restrooms, increased student involvement and education, sustainable landscaping, more water bottle refill stations and continuing to improve landfill diversion rate and energy savings.

TEXAS TECH’S FALL 2017 RECORD UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT BROUGHT WITH IT A RECORD ENROLLMENT OF HISPANIC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, PUTTING THE UNIVERSITY ONE STEP CLOSER TO BEING CLASSIFIED A HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION. Hispanic undergraduate enrollment comprised 27.8 percent of the 30,759 students enrolled this fall, which means Texas Tech has met the enrollment criteria to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as an HSI. The incoming first-time freshman class is 38.8 percent Hispanic. The official designation is expected to occur in 2019. A committee has been formed to ensure Texas Tech is responsive to the needs of Hispanic students and to identify new funding opportunities. The HSI designation will allow Texas Tech access to $8 million to $10 million in federal funding annually.

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THE WHITACRE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HAS UNVEILED PLANS FOR A NEW EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABORATORY. The laboratory, made possible by a $1 million gift from Valero Energy Corporation, will significantly increase the types and quality of experimental setups.

Relocating from the basement of the chemical engineering building to Livermore Center will increase lab space by 65 percent. In recognition of the gift, the facility will be named the Valero Experiential Learning Laboratory.

ESB II will be a state of art research laboratory building of approximately 117,000-square feet. It will accommodate four wet chemistry labs, two instrumentation labs and two synthetic chemistry labs with three shell spaces for future labs.

The basement will house an ABSL-2 vivarium for advanced biological research.

SUMMER COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES TOOK PLACE ON AUG. 12 AT THE UNITED SUPERMARKETS ARENA. A total of 1,478 students received diplomas. Texas Tech Associate Professor and musician JEFFREY LASTRAPES spoke at the ceremonies. Lastrapes is a visually impaired cello professor in the Texas Tech School of Music. He was born with a birth defect that caused him to be nearly blind in both eyes. At the age of 16, he was recruited for his accomplishments in cello by Temple University.

He advanced to the Curtis Institute of Music and then the prestigious Julliard School. Lastrapes has performed around the world and co-founded the West Texas chamber music outreach group, Caerus Ensemble. In addition to his role at Texas Tech, Lastrapes is on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. He was recently honored for 20 years of teaching at the famous Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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THIS FALL, 313 FRESHMEN AND RETURNING STUDENTS ARE RESIDING IN THE NEW HONORS RESIDENCE HALL. The residence hall is the first podstyle hall on the Texas Tech campus, with rooms clustered around central community bathrooms. Located near the Rawls College of Business, a full-service Starbucks is located on the hall’s ground floor. The Texas Techsan will publish a fulllength feature detailing the new dorm in an upcoming issue.

A TWO-STORY TOWER ADDITION, LOCATED JUST OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & NATURAL RESOURCES DEAN’S OFFICE ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE GODDARD BUILDING, WAS COMPLETED THIS PAST SUMMER. The project, which began last September, completes the exterior enhancement of CASNR’s new Bayer Plant Science Building and visually ties the new and old buildings together.

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THE TEXAS TECH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INTRODUCED AUG. 15 ITS NEWEST ADDITION, A GYPSY VANNER HORSE NAMED SNOWDRIFT. Snowdrift was recently acquired through a Facebook contest with LexLin Gypsy Ranch in Rockwood, Tennessee. The TTRC provides high-quality equine-assisted therapy to people with disabilities on the South Plains. Its goal, through a collaboration of medical and professional expertise, is to enhance the quality of life for each person participating in treatment through the use of a horse or through therapeutic riding. There are currently 12 horses in the TTRC stable.

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THE CHRISTMAS SEASON AT TEXAS TECH IS ALWAYS BRIGHT, thanks to two of our most glowing traditions: the National Ranching Heritage Center’s Candlelight at the Ranch (photos at left and above), and the Carol of Lights (photos below) at Memorial Circle. This year marks the 35th for Candlelight at the Ranch, a festive event that offers a glimpse into the past, as visitors experience yuletide celebrations that took place on the open prairie more than 100 years ago. This year’s Candlelight at the Ranch takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 14. A $2 donation is suggested. The 59th Annual Carol of Lights comes to life with the flip of a switch on Friday, Dec. 1, starting at 6:30 with the Carillon Concert. The lights will be turned on every night from dusk until midnight from Dec. 2 through Jan. 1, 2018.

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Texas Tech campus is an inspiring place. When Jerod Foster, Ph.D., sent me these images this past summer, I thought, “Our alumni would love these.”

I knew I would find space for them in the Texas Techsan because it’s my job to keep alumni connected to Texas Tech. And what better way than with images of our breathtaking campus?

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I was keeping my eye on the storm structure moving over the city while driving back to the house with my family. I usually like to photograph these big storms far away from the city limits, but since the storm was already in Lubbock, I thought it a good opportunity to find some unique looks at some of Tech’s more iconic architecture.

I live two blocks from campus, so I dropped the family off, grabbed a camera and a couple lenses, and drove up to the Administration Building’s parking lot, hoping for a nice sky to put in shots of Will Rogers. West Texas skies never disappoint, and the thunderstorms are always nice to shoot. I shot these images from about 30 minutes before sunset until 45 minutes after it had set and the color that persists in the sky had waned. They were shot during an unusually monsoonal late August.

I’ve always thought the Administration building was the most beautiful piece of architecture on campus. Since I was a freshman going to class down Ag Row, it has stood out to me as

Jerod Foster, Ph.D., (BS ’05 Agricultural Communications, MS ’07, Ph.D. ’13 Media & Communication) is an associate professor of practice in Journalism & Electronic Media in the College of Media & Communication. He also has a thriving photography business and is the author of numerous books and articles.

the visual pillar of Texas Tech University. It’s just as much West Texas as it is Spanish. I love its intricate carvings (such as the faces on its northern facade), the twin bell towers that boast of university pride, and the fluted columns in the southern courtyard. Although other buildings built around the same time feature similar visual characteristics, the Administration Building’s prominence and artistic value is certainly unique.

The shots do have somewhat of a lonesome feel, almost as if it was the calm before the storm (albeit, the storm had just passed over).

There is a quietness that persists once you leave the city and visit the farm fields that surround us. It’s not like a quiet in other secluded or natural areas. It’s not a deafening quiet, but one that’s rather like a blanket. This type of quiet, which doesn’t happen often (if at all) in a city, was certainly present during the hour or so I spent making photographs around Memorial Circle. The images also combine two of the most iconic facets of our part of the world: Texas Tech and a powerful, big sky. This certainly resonates with me, being a Tech graduate and professor, as I’m sure it does anyone that calls themselves a Red Raider. You’ll never come across a graduate that doesn’t recognize the power of the sky in Lubbock!

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From company headquarters in San Antonio, Joe Don Zetzsche oversees the floral division as well as the upscale H-E-B Blooms—available only in select stores—for the entirety of H-E-B supermarkets, Texas’ largest private employer.

His story begins small and grows to overseeing an incredibly complex segment of the Texasbased grocer’s business.

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oe Don Zetzsche’s story begins on his family’s ranch situated in the Texas Panhandle, about 15 miles east of the New Mexico border, near Friona. It’s a region of Texas where cattle still outnumber people, and where agriculture isn’t just a way of life, it’s the way of life. Those who inhabit these small ranching communities are either involved directly or peripherally in farming or ranching. And though, from the outside, a quiet rural lifestyle seems idyllic, it’s a lot of solitary hard work, and it’s not for everyone.

Zetzsche, one of four children—two boys and two girls—says his days began before the sun rose. The ride to and from school was 90 minutes on an old yellow school bus that trundled past miles and miles of hayfields, grassland and grazing cattle before reaching its destination. Most days, before and after the protracted bus ride, there was work to be done on the ranch— breaking ice on troughs on frigid days, feeding cattle, mending fences. Riding horses wasn’t done for pleasure, as it was reserved for work. The sun dipping on the broad Western horizon was often a welcome sight, as it heralded the end of a long day’s work.

“It was a 30-minute drive to Hereford from our farm, but of Zetzsche notes that he’s long loved writing lists. Not grocery lists, course the school bus, we were the but goal lists. Like many successful people, he believes that writing first ones on, so then you stop at down goals creates an incentive like no other. At age 16, that list every house all the way back up, was simple: find a way to spend more time in town. and then you stop at every house “I always felt very remote growing up,” says Zetzsche. “All my going back,” Zetzsche explains. friends were in town. They saw each other all summer. I was out “That’s part of why I’m such an there on the farm and ranch, just me and my brother working. avid reader, is that I would read When I turned 16, I got a job in town. It gave me an excuse to be books on that school bus. We had in town, to get off the farm, and it gave me a little spending money an agreement with the library, that that was my own. I worked in a grocery store, and that’s part of I think a lot of rural kids do, that why I went to West Texas (West Texas A&M) first was so that I we could check out more books, could keep my job in that little grocery store while I went to my because we could only go to the first year of school. Both of my sisters are grads of Texas Tech, both library once every two weeks...I of them in elementary education. Both of them are teachers. We would check out eight, nine books.” had a history with my generation, as a family, of going to Tech.”

The books were, as they are Zetzsche added to his list attending Texas Tech and earning his for all devoted readers, a form of degree quickly. escape. Zetzsche never felt as if he “I was loving my job in the grocery store, and I really thought that didn’t belong on the ranch, it was, a business degree made a lot of sense,” he says. “I transferred to Tech after all, the only home he’d ever and went to Tech full-time for two years, including summers.” known. He just knew he was desZetzsche packed loads of hours into those two years because he tined for a different life when he was ready to kick off his career and check off an item that had been flew from the nest. sitting on his list for a while.

“I wanted to go to the city,” he says. “I did not want to go back to that farm and ranch—just never had a desire to. I went to Tech full-time and got my BBA.” It was one of his business courses that set him on the path to working for H-E-B.

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“One of the other interesting things about how I ended up where I am, is that my last semester at Tech, I took a course, and at that time they called it a capstone course… but the idea was to have this one course that allowed you to think about the different precepts of marketing and business in one course, and think in terms of all those different elements, whether it be marketing, management, promotions, et cetera,” he says. “The teacher actually had…files on different businesses. You would go up and select a file at random and that became the business case that you used for all the coursework for that semester. The file that I pulled was H-E-B Grocery. I spent a semester studying H-E-B and learning more about the company, and thinking in terms of competition. Of course, I had retail background already, working for a small grocery store, but seeing what H-E-B did compared to that little independent that I’d worked for was eye-opening.”

Following graduation from Tech, Zetzsche set out for Austin and lived with his sister while seeking employment.

“I came to Austin really with an idea that I wanted to go to work for H-E-B, but I really expected I’d be able to parlay my degree into a management training program and get on a track and immediately jump right in.”

H-E-B builds management training courses around the typical sequence of receiving most applications in May, after college graduation. Since Zetzsche graduated in December, he was searching for a job too early. After attempting to find a way in to manager training and having no luck, he went to the closest H-E-B and hired on as a checker at $4.35 an hour.

“I knew I wanted to be in retail, and I really thought that H-E-B was a good fit, and it was,” he says. “I checked for six weeks. I started talking to the store leader and he put me into his own training program in a department.”

Zetzsche started working in the bakery department, and six months later, he had his first bakery.

“I began my path of growing in this company,” he says “My first 10 years at this company were working my way up through the store, running different departments. I did get in that store management training program.”

He ended up running his own stores—he went from Austin into the Waco/Fort Hood area, then back into Austin, then he ended up in Abilene. He spent five years at the Abilene H-E-B and, during those years, decided to pursue a master’s degree.

“I got my MBA at Abilene Christian University with a 4.0,” Zetzsche says. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,

H-E-B, like Texas itself, is huge. The mammoth grocery chain started with a $60 loan to Florence Thornton Butt in Kerrville, Texas, in 1905. Florence was a mom looking for a way to support her family when her husband became ill. She turned over the store to her son, Howard Edward Butt (Get it? H-E-B?), in 1919. Since then the store has burgeoned and has a reputation for quality, value and ingenuity. There are more than 300 H-E-Bs in Texas and more than 50 in Mexico.

With more than 100,000 employees, H-E-B is Texas’ largest private employer and one of the nation’s largest grocers. H-E-B is different from other grocers in Texas because they have a vast array of products produced by the chain. H-E-B has a comparable, lower-priced product for almost every national brand of food, paper good or home product.

H-E-B has become known for its generosity in times of crisis, most recently donating $5 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts along the Texas coast. They have Disaster Response Units and Emergency Response Units that take H-E-B’s Mobile Kitchen to areas of Texas affected by natural disasters—places where Texans are in need. It’s another example of Texans serving Texans, which is why H-E-B will always be a favorite in the Lone Star State.

working an average of 60 to 65 hours a week running a store and going to school. H-E-B gave me a scholarship, which helped defray some of the costs—this company is very forward-thinking.”

Earning his MBA, coupled with his experience, helped him move—in 1999, 11 years after his first job as a checker in Austin—into a corporate role at H-E-B headquarters in San Antonio. As he climbed the ladder at H-E-B, he was adding to his business experience and knowledge of the supermarket chain’s structure: from starting as a checker to managing a bakery, then a produce buyer and finally managing his own stores.

And while he was energized about the opportunities H-E-B provided him professionally, he says positively impacting the lives of his employees holds a top spot on his list of things he loves about his job.

“One of the great things about working for a privately-held, conservatively-managed Texas retailer is that there is so much opportunity,” he says. “There really is. We have the benefit of taking folks who may not have the chance to go to college and giving them a career. But when you do come to a place like H-E-B—we now are the largest employer in Texas, over 100,000 partners work for H-E-B—there are so many different roles at a company of this size. From logistics, market-

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ing, procurement, but from a people-leader perspective, which is what I consider myself— more than anything I consider myself a leader of people—there is so much opportunity to grow in a company like this, and as you gain experience you just continue to grow.”

Another rewarding aspect of his career with H-E-B is supporting small businesses that provide the products that fill H-E-B’s stores.

“I’ve been very blessed, both as a produce buyer and now leading the floral business for H-E-B, to really be able to build relationships with growers,” he says. “In many cases they’re local growers. (When I worked) In produce, I built very deep relationships with some local growers. There are some that would say that I helped them grow their business substantially by giving them insight… into ways they could be more successful supporting H-E-B. That’s the way that is vast experience at so many levels at H-E-B brought him to we want our relationships to work. It’s his current position as director of floral at H-E-B’s San Antonio got to be right for everybody. headquarters.

“Our leadership model is that it’s got “I had so much to learn about floral,” he says. “It was massively different. to be right for the customer, it’s got to There was a huge learning curve. Thank goodness when I came into this be right for our partners, including our position we had some really amazing floral buyers and floral designers and vendors, and it’s got to be right for the leaders in the business. The floral industry and the floral business is recompany. If you can say yes to all three markably different from fresh produce. You’re growing stuff in the dirt, for of those questions, it’s going to be the sure, but from a logistics standpoint, floral is much more difficult. It’s really right decision every time. If you start not as market-based. trying to take away from one or the “If you think about where flowers come from, fresh-cut flowers, 85 perother, if you want to take away cost at cent or more of our fresh-cut flowers come from equatorial regions. Either the expense of that grower provider, Bogota, Colombia, or Ecuador. Predominantly it’s in and around Bogota, long term, you’re going to fail. They’re Colombia. Our fresh-cut flowers are grown in greenhouses there. They’re going to have to give you poorer quality. harvested and packed there in our sleeves. They’re brought to an airport.

They’re going to have to make concesThey’re put on a plane. They’re flown into Miami, and then they’re trucked sions that end up impacting you longfrom Miami here. We have a processing facility to prepare them for stores term. To some extent, you’ll drive them and then they get to our stores.” out of business. I’ve been very blessed A stunning fact is that the American floral industry earns roughly 25 to understand that and to be a part of percent of its annual sales in two weeks: the week of Valentine’s Day and that. It probably helped that I had that the week of Mother’s Day. agricultural, West Texas background to “The fact is that about eight percent of the industry’s floral sales occur in better understand. It seems like no mat18 hours on Feb. 14,” he says. “Eight percent of your annual sales. There’s ter what I do to get to the city and get no other business in retail that I’m aware of that is as seasonally-impactful. away from agriculture, it ends up comIt’s mad.” ing back.”

So, while there’s an incredible amount of time and energy devoted to the two busy weeks of the year, there’s also the factor of providing products— flowers as well as gifts sold in H-E-B’s floral shops and Blooms shops— customers will want year-round. Going back to Zetzsche’s comments on building relationships with employees and growers, he also believes in relationships with customers.

“One of the things I tell my company is floral is the most personal service that we provide to our customers of any business, because I am there to celebrate your birth,” he explains. “I’m there to celebrate your graduations from kindergarten, fifth grade, senior level. I’m there to celebrate homecoming with mums. I’m there to celebrate prom. I’m there, clearly, for your wedding shower, and then I am there for your wedding. Then I’m there for that baby shower, and it goes all the way through to celebration of life. If somebody’s ill, we’re the ones who are providing the products often for that as well.”

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In order to provide the best for H-E-B’s customers, Zetzsche says he and his team must keep up with what’s in vogue in the fashion industry, which dictates not only flower colors but also varieties.

“We want to be the trendsetter in Texas,” says Zetzsche of H-E-B’s floral division. “We want to bring those trends first, and it’s a dance. Some of the trends in Europe will never make it to Laredo, Texas. Those trends move from Europe to Manhattan and L.A., and they slowly move in. We want to bring the trend as soon as we can, but not too soon. We also, of course, want to bring a Texas relevancy to it, because we’re Texans serving Texans. We know that some things just aren’t going to be done in Texas.”

Zetzsche says one of his favorite “on trend” stories comes out of Europe several years ago.

“One of the things we try to do for Christmas in our Blooms floral shops is bring one very unique Christmas tree, that’s not the kind of thing you’re going to see in mass retail,” he says. “It’s going to be much more upscale. But four years ago, in Europe, the hot artificial Christmas tree was shiny black. A shiny black Christmas tree with crystal and clear ornaments, clear lights. You can kind of see that in your mind. Black and white. It’s very elegant, but it is very nontraditional.

“So I have to think, ‘Could I sell a black Christmas tree in Laredo, Texas, or in Abilene, Texas, a very conservative town?’ I’m not so sure. In fact, somebody might say, ‘What’re you doing? A black Christmas tree? What are you thinking?

That’s not right. Christmas is about green.’ You have to look at trends and decide their relevance for a Texas customer.

You want to lead forward.”

And if there’s one thing Zetzsche has done during his 28 years with H-E-B, it’s lead forward. His job is more than flowers, it’s strategy and experience and attitude, which have combined to create a perfect experience for H-E-B customers as well as his employees and growers. As a kid on a big Panhandle ranch, he set his sights on the horizon and has had a fantastic time pushing himself to succeed, while, at the same time, leading those around him to their full potential.

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s often as possible, H-E-B conducts business with Texas growers. Two examples of growers who sell to H-E-B’s floral shops are Arnosky Family Farms and Klepac Growers, both based in Blanco, Texas, just north of San Antonio. Both the Arnoskys and Klepacs are family businesses that put a face and a heart on H-E-B’s floral business.

They’re by no means dependent upon H-E-B for their success, they choose to do business with H-E-B because of the relationships created between the families and H-E-B buyers over the years. They’re proud of the products they grow, and H-E-B is proud to feature Texas families in their line-up of product providers.

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Pamela Arnosky

The Arnoskys got into the flower business in Blanco decades ago. Pamela Arnosky and her husband, Frank, own and operate a sustainable family farm in the Texas Hill Country near Blanco and Wimberley. Their 100-acre farm is open all year. The Arnoskys are well known for their gorgeous flowers, and also for their Big Blue Barn and Weekend Market. All week the barn is open to customers, who may purchase fresh eggs, fresh flowers, goat cheese or a cold drink, a l on the honor system—there’s a little red wooden box by the door for patrons to place money for goods they’re purchasing.

Pamela is at the barn on weekends to greet customers, but during the week she and her husband oversee their flower business and a e busy planting, cutting and packaging. Their flowers a e delivered to many San Antonio and Austin-area H-E-Bs. I met Pamela in June at the Big Blue Barn, and we spent hours discussing the floral busi ness, and it is a tough business requiring extensive manual labor. The Arnoskys also have a farm in Minnesota where they’re growing peonies and recently purchased a farm in the mountains of Fort Davis, Texas, where they plan to grow cooler-variety flowers

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Jimmy Klepac

Klepac Greenhouses, Inc., is a family business that was established in 1955. Jimmy Klepac is the third generation to operate the wholesale growing business. Klepac Greenhouses grows only potted plants and has two locations in Blanco, one in town adjacent to the Blanco River, and a second (original) location on Highway 1623 northeast of Blanco. They have acres and acres of greenhouses dedicated to growing some of the prettiest potted flowers and plants in Texas.

They provide a variety of plants to H-E-B stores, as well as other Texas outlets. The plant selection is huge and includes, but isn’t limited to, poinsettias, Gerbera daisies, Kalanchoes, hydrangeas, various succulents, houseplants, Easter lilies and mums. The Klepacs are proud of their family business, and the fact that they are able to brighten days for Texans with their plants.

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To keep up with the times and maintain member interest, organizations often

undergo rebranding, basically an internal audit and a facelift for the organization.

Creating new logos, catch phrases, images and advertising has been part of the process of rebranding the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

“Texas Tech University and the Alumni Association have enjoyed a long, endur-

ing and mutually beneficial partnership,” said Law ence Schovanec, Ph.D., Texas

Tech president. “We are pleased to extend the use of the university’s most iden-

tifiable mark, the Double , to be incorporated into the Alumni Association’s new branding campaign for its continued mission of supporting the university and providing a valuable link to alumni around the world.”

“From time to time, it is necessary to look at how we reach our audience and

make some changes,” says Bill Dean, Ed.D., president and CEO of the Texas Tech Alumni Association. “This is one of those times. Our entire staff played a role in this, and I look forward to the reaction of our alumni to this effort.”

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he effort to revamp the “look” of the association stemmed from a strategic plan that took two years. One outcome of the planning process was that it was time for a change.

“In Fall 2015, our National Board initiated an effort to evaluate the current and potential visual identity options for the Texas Tech Alumni Association as we are 90 years strong,” says Kristina Butts, 2017 chair of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors. “The effort was led by members of our National Board, the TTAA’s marketing and communications staff and The Richards Group of Dallas, one of the top advertising and branding agencies in the world.

“The Richards Group team, led by Texas Tech alumnus James Hering ’86, did a fantastic job in collecting information from stakeholders and understanding the direction set forth by the National Board. We are excited to unveil the new logo that aligns with research showing the Alumni Association is the connector to Texas Tech University for our loud and proud graduates from every age group.”

Before the new designs were ready to present, staff from both The Richards Group and the Alumni Association worked to determine interests of the various age groups in the Alumni Association.

They conducted extensive research, in the form of online questionnaires and one-on-one interviews with association and university stakeholders. The study had a major impact on which logos and marketing materials were developed and selected.

It was important that the new face of the association appeals across the board demographically. For example, older alumni seemed most interested in making sure the university was strong and had good national rankings. They also embraced the idea of paying it forward by helping elevate the university to a new status, such as Tier One.

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Younger alumni enjoy networking, connecting with others, entrepreneurial opportunities and philanthropic efforts.

The younger group may not provide as much monetary support as others, but they enjoy giving back to Texas Tech by doing—participating in activities such as running a 5K that supports their school.

“Our first step was to look at aligning the overall visual identity of the Texas Tech Alumni Association with the greater university,” Hering says. “Achieving this effort, via the Double T logo, was a core design consideration as we want a look that every alum will be proud to display boldly and pronounce their pride for Tech. After extensive development and review of nearly 75 options, the winning design was chosen and validated through research among a sample group of alumni and passed the ‘of course, I’d love to display this on the back of my auto’ test!

“We then worked to create digital, print and social media creative to capture the brand spirit of the Alumni Association. Ultimately, the association exists for the purpose of ‘Championing what it means to be a Red Raider.’

And with our brand vision set, we created a campaign with the theme line “You’re One of Us.” The artwork that goes with the new brand is fun and captures Red Raider spirit. One ad shows the Masked Rider with the headline “If this is your idea of a Caped Crusader, you’re One of Us.” Finding new and convenient ways to reach alumni, such as through mobile technology was also an integral part of the rebranding strategy. The new Texas Tech Alumni Association app, which is now available on the App Store and Google Play, is an excellent way for the organization to increase engagement and facilitate that connection with Red Raiders around the world.

The TTAA mobile app includes a mobile membership card for easy access to exclusive events and discounts.

Alumni can receive updates and alerts regarding news and events directly to their smartphone, as well as digital access to the Texas Techsan magazine within the palm of their hand.

Making sure Alumni Association goals align with those of the alumni is vital to the rebranding. The bottom line, however, is to make alumni feel as if they are “One of Us,” part of a larger group with shared love for and loyalty to their alma mater.

“I look forward to the reaction of our alumni to this effort,” Dean concludes. “After all, it’s all about you.”

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Cody Hammond knows a thing or two about how a suit should fit. We’re not talking about off-the-rack clothes either. He specializes in bespoke custom-made men’s clothes. No double-knits or perma-press here. These garments are meant to be worn and look wonderful for many years.

Only the finest European and British fabrics are used, and nothing less than thick motherof-pearl buttons adorn the clothing. Trousers are silk-lined to the knee. All garments are handpressed over four hours at every stage of making them.

Having worked in men’s fashion since he was a student at Texas Tech University in the early 1980s, Hammond knows his stuff. He began his career in the world of men’s clothing at a high-end store in Lubbock called Stephen Craig. Across from Texas Tech, the store appealed to students and businessmen wanting a classic look.

Today, he is a much sought-after stylist, hired to outfit celebrities and well-heeled men who enjoy looking their best. He has rubbed elbows with all types of people, all over the world.

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Hammond’s entry into the fashion business was anything but conventional or expected.

“I was born in El Paso, Texas, and my parents got divorced when I was nine,” Hammond says. “Subsequent to that, I had some truancy issues and was sent to a place called Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, which was 36 miles northwest of Amarillo. Back in the day, it was a working ranch for truant kids. I went there when I was 11 years old and graduated from high school there. I’m a product of that place.

“The ranch was started in 1939 by a single man, Cal Farley. It doesn’t have any government funding. When I was there, we were totally self-sufficient. We had a dairy barn, a processing plant, a hog farm, chicken houses and feedlots, the slaughterhouse and a meat shop.

“We had our own laundry, gardens and hayfield and woke up every day and worked our fannies off and played sports in the afternoon. It was a very strict environment, but that’s what wayward kids needed. It was structured.”

Hammond took advantage of the many activities offered at Boys Ranch. He participated in rodeo and FFA, played baseball, sang in the choir and was active in drama. He “took to everything,” as he put it.

As graduation drew near, he had scholarship offers from the University of Texas and Texas A&M but decided neither was a fit for him. He considered Texas Tech but wasn’t sure how to get funding.

Hammond’s senior year of high school, Boys Ranch was participating in FFA meat judging at Texas Tech. He helped set up the meat for judging under Boyd Ramsey, Ph.D., a faculty member in charge of the competition. Impressed with the young man’s knowledge of and skill with handling meat, Ramsey inquired what his college plans were.

“I said, ‘I don’t know. I’m looking for a scholarship,’” he says. “He shepherded me to a scholarship in the College of Ag. My first job at Tech was working in the meat lab, which has a slaughterhouse attached to it. It was a natural fit. There aren’t a lot of kids who knew how to do all that from hoof to rail.”

He majored in agricultural economics, planning to follow his older brother into the agri-banking industry.

Although he considered working in the slaughterhouse with people with similar interests one of the most enjoyable times in his life, he wanted to try something else. He began working at the sale barn off North University Avenue, run-

ning cattle through the auction house—another hard and gritty job, as he puts it.

However, he found that he really liked the clothing many cowboys wore to auction— Ralph Lauren Polo shirts. He saved his money and ventured to Stephen Craig.

“The guy wouldn’t wait on me,” he says.

“He thought I was just some old rube. Being from Boys Ranch, I wasn’t unfamiliar with that. We had bad haircuts and farmer’s tans and ill-fitting clothing. You go into town, and you stick out like a sore thumb, especially in the late 1970s and 1980s. You just kind of do your thing. In a lot of ways, you wore it like a badge of pride. I certainly didn’t hang my head. I was tall and strong and lanky and very proud of who I was and where I came from.

I had a sense of pride for what I did—I could make my own way in the world.”

After the man in the store, who turned out to be the owner, Steve Jansen, explained how difficult selling clothing was, Hammond challenged Jansen to hire him and pay him straight commission. The newbie started out sweeping floors and cleaning the toilets. Then he moved up to folding shirts.

It wasn’t long before he made good on his promise and became a standout salesman.

“That’s how I got off of a horse and put my scabbard away,” he says. “I graduated in six years. When I graduated, the farming industry was in an apocalyptic place. It was Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid, and they were auctioning off farms. Credit bureaus were foreclosing on farms and ranches. I interviewed with some of these guys. My job was going to be checking collateral before they foreclosed. I just couldn’t swallow bankruptcies with farmers and ranchers. It didn’t sound like anything even remotely I wanted to do with my life. It was as depressing as heck.

“So I moved to Dallas and furthered my fashion career at Ralph Lauren. That was that.”

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Left: Family time at home in Connecticut with baby William Riggs Hammond and dog, Amigo.

Hammond and Riggs-Hammond in the Ruby Mountains, near Ashley’s childhood home in Nevada.

“I’ve learned so much about life it’s about how you treat others, comportment, history,” he says. “I think that that’s something kids today could certainly learn from, and I’d love to work with kids and give back what I learned. I could have never done what I’ve done in my career without the love and guidance of people in my life who absolutely listened to their hearts.

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“I hope there’s some kid who thinks, ‘Gee, I can’t go to school; gee, nobody cares about me, so I’m just going to spend my life digging a ditch somewhere’ will see this article and that it gives them some sense that if they’ll just put on some cleats and get out on the field, they can do it, too.”

To the newly minted college graduate, Dallas was a whole new world. Highland Park was home to beautiful houses, shiny cars and people who liked to shop.

He excelled in his job and soon was managing the men’s area. He worked his way up to being in the top percentile of salespeople in the company.

Then a random phone call set off a domino effect.

“A friend of mine from Lubbock, an old farm kid, was modeling in New York City,” he says. “He called me up and said, ‘Man, you’ve got to come up here and check this out. It’s tall cotton—you’ll just be blown away.’

“I went there and was dumbstruck. It was like the bell went off. I thought, ‘I want to come to New York, even if I come for a year—this place is unbelievable.’ I went back to Dallas and started hatching my plans. One of the corporate officers came down from New York and looked over the store and interviewed everybody. I said, ‘I’d like to interview for New York.’ He went back home and sent me a ticket.”

Meanwhile, never one to turn down an adventure, Hammond accepted his cousin’s offer to help deliver horses to Cheyenne, Wyoming, shortly before the interview in New York. He spent the week in Cheyenne at the rodeo, team-roping and having fun. He brought home a pair of sunburned ears.

Suddenly, it was time to fly to New York.

“I put on my best Ralph Lauren navy suit and went to my interview,” he says. “At that time, Ralph Lauren had only one building. When I walked in, a man was signing everyone in. I said I was there to meet Jerry Robertson.

There were three elevators and another bank of elevators. That third elevator opened up, and I just went into it, not knowing it was a service elevator because I’d never seen a service elevator.

“Mr. Lauren walked in. I was standing in the elevator by myself with Ralph Lauren. He looks at me and says, ‘What are you doing here?’ I said, ‘Mr. Lauren, I’m here to see . . . ‘ I don’t remember what I said.” He said, ‘What did you do to the tops of your ears?’ I felt like a bumpkin. I kind of stumbled over my words and said I was at a rodeo and kind of sunburned the tops of my ears.

“He said, ‘’A rodeo? Where?’ I said,’Cheyenne,’ and he wanted to hear about it.

“So I get off on the floor where I was supposed to interview, and he’s asking me these questions. Everybody in the building thinks I’m with Ralph Lauren. The entire staff is incredibly deferential. Lauren brings me into the interview and says, ‘Here’s your 9 o’clock appointment.’”

Afterward, Hammond was invited to lunch. There were many questions about his upbringing. After the meal, he got the surprise of a lifetime.

“Mr. Lauren said, ‘We’ve just taken the licensee in Paris, and we’d like you to think about getting involved in the management of the staff over there,” he says.

Hammond’s mind still was reeling when the company presented him with an allowance and passport and put him on a flight to Paris.

Upon arrival, he was shuttled to a total immersion language school in the South of France for two weeks.

While living in Paris for the next four years, he learned more than the language—he also had a crash course in Gallic culture, traditions, manners and morés. He soon decided that Paris was his favorite big city, probably because it was the first one he lived in outside of Dallas. He was very comfortable there.

“I also got a tutorial on America from afar, working for Ralph Lauren during the first Gulf War. There are only two places in Paris that are American institutions outside of the American Embassy— one is the American Express Office, and the other is Ralph Lauren.

“I changed the store into a welcoming, hospitable, almost Texan, place; whereas, before, the French were cold and stiff, with Edith Piaf music playing. I tried to take a little bit of the starch out of it while keeping the core tenets of good service and being very polite.

“I’ve also found that at the end of the day, being warm and friendly is not rude.

A lot of people hide behind being stiff in that environment, rather than being friendly and open. We had a guest book in the store, and people signed that guest book, and they were wonderfully interested in the American sensibility and the American way of life. I was very proud of that.”

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There he met and worked with Martin Greenfield, whom he calls “the preeminent tailor in America.” Hammond became an eager pupil of tailoring. A Holocaust survivor, Greenfield had made suits for every American president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as many of the most powerful, moneyed men in the United States.

Donna Karan wanted to get into men’s clothing, a difficult gig for a female designer. To get a start in the men’s fashion world for the company, Hammond and Greenfield began outfitting groups of highly-visible men—the FOX Sports announcers, the New York Yankees, the NBA and the U.S. Olympic team.

After Donna Karan went public, as a company, Hammond started his own bespoke clothing company. To combat inevitable economic downturns, he also started a consulting company.

“In tough times, men want their kids taken care of and their wives taken care of. Once they get that out of the way, they’ll shop for themselves. When the economic downturn came in ’07, that was a huge hit.

In 2011, that was another time when it hit me.”

After 9-11, Hammond decided living in downtown New York City was too close for comfort.

Hammond’s next career step was owning a beauty company that distributed Best of Class cosmetics to Scandinavian countries. For this adventure, he relocated to Iceland for three years. While there, he married and had a daughter named Helena, now 13.

“Iceland is the most calming, peaceful serene place you’ll be in.

It’s the land of the Midnight Sun, where you can see all of nature asleep. It’s a little chilly at night 50 degrees. You can almost see the flowers bent over, sleeping. When the sun is up, the flowers are up, pointed at the sun, getting that heat. At night, everything settles down. The animals are quiet. The rabbits aren’t bouncing around..

Then, there are the Northern Lights. I sailed a freighter from

A Western Girl Heads East “My wife, Ashley Riggs-Hammond, grew up on a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Elko, Nevada. Her father was the cow boss. National Geographic sent a photographer and writer to a random zip code, and one place they sent them was the Maggie Creek Ranch. This photographer from Hereford, Texas, named Robb Kendrick, traveled 45,000 miles west of the Mississippi, photographing working cowboys in their environment in tintype.

“At the end of a long day, Ashley came running down from her mom’s house. She was in the house canning peaches and said, ‘Mom, I want to see this photographer.’ He saw her, had her stand up against the barn and took three or four tintype pictures. One picture ended up being a full-page picture in the article and the cover of the 2004 National Geographic book of portraits. That picture is in the Smithsonian.

“Later, she came to New York, sight unseen. A little girl from a little town who was home-schooled, she began designing for Ralph Lauren. Robb Kendrick introduced me to her. She’s just phenomenal. Her dad’s a horse trainer, and her mom’s a homemaker. They are salt-of-the-earth. Ashley and I have our three-year-old precocious little boy. I have my daughter who lives in Iceland with her mother and comes to stay with us two or three times a year, and we go there.”

Life is good.

Norfolk, Virginia, 13 days into the North Sea to get to Iceland. I saw meteor showers, icebergs, whales. That was the trip of lifetime.”

For someone who had fallen in love with the big city lifestyle, living in a “sleepy” country, as he calls it, with about 300,000 total residents, was not ideal. He loved Iceland, but he returned to New York City.

Ready for another challenge, he returned to the Big Apple and started his own custom clothing and consulting business, Cody Hammond Design. His consulting business eventually became a platform for emerging fashion houses in North America.

Today, his clients are gentlemen in financial positions to purchase custom pieces or men with generational money who want to look great. Some clients may purchase several custom-made dress shirts for their pilots or order shirts to give as gifts.

Hammond also spends time in resort areas, working with clients who enjoy shopping while on vacation.

“I started having my clothes custom-made, and I would wear them to a social event, and men would say to me, ‘Nice suit. Who designs it?’

When I told them I did, I often gained clients.”

The designer remarried three years ago, and the couple has a three-year-old son, William Riggs Hammond. His wife, Ashley RiggsHammond, now works for Ralph Lauren as a designer. Both he and his wife also write for publication.

Ever humble about his life, Hammond regards his time at Boys Ranch as helping make him the man he is. He says the opportunities there and the kind and thoughtful dorm parent he admired were just what he needed.

“People have reached out—that’s God’s work right there,” he says.

He is quick to acknowledge the many mentors and people who have supported him through the years—Boyd Ramsey, Ph.D.; his coworkers at Stephen Craig, including manager Howard Thrash; a gentleman in Dallas who took him to dinner once a month at the Dallas Country Club and taught him social skills and how to interact with people are just a few.

Then there’s Roger A. Key, a Lubbock attorney and partner at Key & Terrell, LLP, whom Hammond met at Stephen Craig. Key took the young salesman under his wing “I thought Cody was an incredibly nice young man,” Key says. “I heard his story and realized he was basically on his own at Tech, with no parental support. I started hiring him to do projects around our home. He and his girlfriend would babysit our children. We’ve kept in touch all these years. We talk probably once a month or so.

“He has gone on to do incredible things. I think Cody is as comfortable being a cowboy as he is working for Ralph Lauren in Paris.”

One thing Hammond has in mind for his future is paying it forward, so to speak. He appreciates all that people have done for him and would welcome an opportunity to do the same for others.

“I’ve learned so much about life—it’s about how you treat others, comportment, history,” he says. “I think that that’s something kids today could certainly learn from, and I’d love to work with kids and give back what I learned. I could have never done what I’ve done in my career without the love and guidance of people in my life who absolutely listened to their hearts.

“I hope there’s some kid who thinks, ‘Gee, I can’t go to school; gee, nobody cares about me, so I’m just going to spend my life digging a ditch somewhere’ will see this article and that it gives them some sense that if they’ll just put on some cleats and get out on the field, they can do it, too.

The Hammond Brothers at the 2009 rodeo and reunion at Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch. They are seated on the steps to Anderson Dorm, where they all lived while at the Boys Ranch. From left, are, Cody, Britton and Jimmy, who has a BS in Ag Eco from Texas Tech (1980).

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Twirlers Earn 19 National Awards

BY AMANDA CASTRO-CRIST, TEXAS TECH MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

COURTESY OF BETHANY TOLLEY FIVE M EM BERS OF the Texas Tech University Twirlers competed at America’s Youth on Parade National Baton Twirling Championships, winning two team awards and 17 individual awards.

The Texas Tech University Twirlers returned from America’s Youth on Parade National Baton Twirling Championships with 19 individual and team awards. Five of the nine 2017-18 twirlers traveled to the competition, held July 25-29 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Raegan McWilliams, a senior from Odessa; Allyson Padron, a senior from San Antonio; Paxton Parliament, a junior from Brock; Emily Smith, a sophomore from Austin; and Shae Willingham, a junior from San Antonio, took third place in the National Collegiate Halftime Twirl Show team competition and fifth place in the National Collegiate Dance Twirl team competition.

“We started working on routines right after football season ended, and they gave up their summer to be here to practice,” said Bethany Tolley, program coach and coordinator. “The competition is a long week of hard work and I’m really proud of what they accomplished.”

In addition to the team awards, each of the twirlers earned multiple top-10 awards in the individual categories of solo- and two-baton twirling, strutting and flag twirling.

Padron competed in the beginner category for competitors age 20 and over and won first place in the women’s national and world open two-baton twirling championship and the national-international championship flag twirling/swinging contest.

Smith competed in the beginner category for 19-year-old competitors and won first place in the women’s world open solo-baton championship, second place in the women’s national and world open two-baton twirling championship and fourth place in the national-international championship flag twirling/swinging contest.

Parliament competed in the intermediate category for 19-year-old competitors and won second place in the national-international championship flag twirling/swinging

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contest and third place in the women’s national and world open two-baton twirling championship. She also won sixth place in the women’s world open solobaton championship and the women’s world open strutting championships.

McWilliams competed in the intermediate category for competitors age 20 and over and won third place in women’s world open strutting championships and in the national-international championship flag twirling/swinging contest. She also won fifth place in the women’s world open solo-baton championship and ninth place in the women’s national and world open two-baton twirling championship.

Willingham competed in the intermediate category for 19-year-old competitors and won third place for the nationalinternational championship flag twirling/swinging contest and fourth place for the women’s world open strutting championship. She also won fifth place for the women’s world open solo-baton championship and the women’s national and world open two-baton twirling championship.

Tolley said the twirling team has competed at the championship every year since 2011 and has placed in the top five each time, including back-to-back national titles in 2014 and 2015.

“I am very happy with the results,” Tolley said. “It’s a very stiff competition, but they did really well.”

The Texas Tech Twirlers are part of the Goin’ Band from Raiderland, the university’s 450-member marching band. The Goin’ Band is part of the School of Music in the J.T. and Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Texas Tech Co-Ed Cheer Squad and the Pom Squad Honored with National Championship Ring Ceremony ROBERT RHODE ROBERT RHODE F OR T H E F I R ST time in school history, Texas Tech's Cheer and Pom squads both won their respective national championships. The groups both took the top titles at the the National Cheerleader Association and National Dance Association Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona, Florida, in April.

The Texas Tech Co-Ed Cheer Squad won the 2017 NCA Division 1A Co-Ed Cheer National Championship. The Pom Squad won the 2017 NDA Division 1A Jazz National Championship. As a result, team members were eligible to receive championship rings. The Texas Tech Spirit Program held a special ring ceremony Sept.

1, during which the teams were recognized and presented with the rings.

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The Texas Tech Alumni Association Student Alumni Board recently elected its executive committee. From left are Camille Crawford, Savannah Buttler, Casey Buscher and Houston Beaty.

Philip F. Musa, Ph.D., P.E., MPH ’86, ’88, ’92, ’00, has his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and an MBA from Texas Tech University. He also has a Master of Public Health degree from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is an associate professor of management and information systems at the University of Alabama. Despite being several states from Texas, he shows off his loyalty to Texas Tech with a custom license plate.

The Orange County Chapter at a Josh Abbott Band Concert in Anaheim, California, March 26. Abbott has both a bachelor’s degree (2005) and a master’s degree (2012) in communications studies from Texas Tech. Fellow Red Raider, William Clark Green, was the opening act; he has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural sciences (2003) from Texas Tech.

There are several Red Raiders in both bands. Also attending, Anaheim Chapter president Chris Richards is just to the left of Josh’s white hat.

Members of the Texas Tech Women’s Swim Team of 1973 recently reunited in Galveston, Texas, in May. The team won the state championship and sent seven swimmers to nationals. Attending the event in May are, front row, from left, Nancy Hobart Kacz and Anne Goodman James; second row, from left, Victoria Daniels, Carol Peavey, Laura Kitzmiller, Laurie Birdwell and Paula Conley; and back row, from left, Kathleen Crowley, Beth DeRosa and Beth Forester. This photo was taken with all the women in the same pose for their 1973 team shot.

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Mr. Dennis Durkee & Mr. David Sanchez ’13

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Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Garrett ’10 (Audra Garrett ’10) Dr. & Mrs. Addison Gradel ’89 (Tammie Gradel ’17) Dr. & Mrs. John Kuczek ’00 (Emily Kuczek)

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/ / / C E NTU RY Mr. & Mrs. John Arledge (Taylor Arledge ’12) Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh Bailes ’01 (Heidi Bailes) Mr. & Mrs. Randy Beyer ’88 (Melissa Beyer ’99) Mr. Jim Bradford & Ms. Cherry Wright ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Len Bridgeman ’87 (Janelle Bridgeman)

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Mr. Robert Brown ’13

• Enroll in our full-time high school degree program.

Ms. Emily Bullington ’09

• Continue school year-round from anywhere.

Mr. & Mrs. Justin Cabe ’12 (Amanda Cabe ’11)

• Graduate on time or early.

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Chalfant ’06 (Amber Chalfant ’07)

• Make up failed credits (credit recovery).

Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Clark (Sarah Clark ’06) Mr. & Mrs. Max Cole (Kellie Cole ’89) Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Cook ’05 (Amanda Cook ’05) Dr. & Mrs. Greg Coronado ’89 (Tara Coronado) Mr. & Mrs. Turney Coulter ’09 (Cristin Coulter) Dr. & Mrs. Wick Culp (Janet Culp ’77) Mr. Caleb Daniel ’17 & Ms. Amari Aguilera Ms. Latosha Davis ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Donalson (Christa Donalson ’09)

• Supplement a school or homeschool curriculum.

• TTU K-12 courses and Credit by Exams (CBEs) are accredited by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Continue your legacy with Texas Tech University by having your student be a part of TTU K-12!

Mrs. Trish Dressen ’04 Mr. Waldo Gross & Ms. Kathie Duenes ’99 Ms. Rachel Farrimond ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Garrett ’90 (Cheri Garrett) Mr. & Mrs. Gilberto Garza (Crystal Garza ’04) Ms. Elizabeth Hazen ’86

The TTU K-12 online high school program is ranked 4th nationally and 1st in Texas by Best College Reviews

Dr. & Mrs. Joe Henderson ’62 (Lynn Henderson) Mr. William Hiett ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Brent Hill ’98 (Kristi Hill) Mr. Kenneth Hobbs ’17

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getting to know Texas Tech Alumni Association Board Members

REBECCA RAMIREZ IN WHAT CITY DO YOU RESIDE? Lubbock, Texas.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN WHICH YOU WERE INVOLVED IN AS A STUDENT AT TECH: Phi Alpha Delta, Hispanic Student Association, multiple law associa-

WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD? Board Member.

tions, and Texas Tech Alumni Association.

WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR FONDEST MEMORIES FROM YOUR TECH DAYS?

WHAT WAS YOUR MAJOR AND CLASS YEAR AT TECH, PLUS ANY OTHER DEGREES YOU

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU’VE ENJOYED SEEING OCCUR RECENTLY AT TEXAS TECH? Expansion of the campus, enrollment and classes offered.

Tech football games!

MAY HAVE EARNED? B.A.: Sociology, 2001 and J.D.:

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? The Bible and any legal mystery book.

Law, 2005 (Texas Tech School of Law, Master’s in Health Administration.)

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE? “E.T.”

WHERE ARE YOU EMPLOYED AND WHAT IS YOUR POSITION? Texas Tech University Health Sciences

gardening and music.

WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS AND HOBBIES? Watching sports, reading, WHAT CHARACTER TRAIT DO YOU VALUE HIGHLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL?

Center—Associate Managing Director for Correctional Managed Health Care.

Integrity.

WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS?

IF YOU COULD ASK FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE TO YOUR HOME FOR AN EVENING, WHO WOULD THEY BE? My family and friends.

Father: Eustolio Ramirez Jr., Mother: Minnie Ramirez, and Sister: Renee Ramirez.

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A G LI M PS E AT TE XAS TEC H’S H E R ITAG E

In the 1967 “La Ventana” yearbook, an unidentified couple put their best feet forward in an ice-skating exhibition. The caption on the photo reads, “A new event, which took place under the direction of the Department of Physical Education, was an ice-skating show.

Here students of ice skating demonstrate what skills they have learned in their classes.”

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1987

BY J E N N I FE R R ITZ

CHAD S. CONINE (BA ’00 Journalism) Waco, Texas, published his second book, “Texas Sports: Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year,” which celebrates Texas athletes and teams in more than 25 sports that have made the Lone Star State an athletics powerhouse. More than a century’s worth of achievements are marked on their anniversaries—the book combines victories and heartbreaks of both men’s and women’s sports across the state. Chad’s first book, “The Republic of Football: Legends of the Texas High School Game,” was published in 2016. Chad is a freelance sports journalist and has been covering Texas high school and college football since the late 1990s.

1967 FRANK SIKES (Political Science)

Lubbock, has been awarded the Bronze Award by the Texas Sports Hall of Fame First Annual Book Festival for national book of the year in sports, non-fiction, for his book, “West Texas Middle Weight,” which is about Pat Summitt.

His wife is Nancy.

1977 DON E. COSBY (BBA Accounting) Midland, Texas, has been hired by FirstCapital Bank of Texas to a senior management role. Cosby, former cofounder, president and chief operating officer of Carlile Bancshares, Inc., will be primarily responsible for the execution of new initiatives to support FirstCapital Bank of Texas’ ongoing growth. He has more than 30 years of senior level leadership at Texas financial institutions. In addition, he served as vice president and chief financial officer at Texas Tech University from 19891996. His wife is PAM J. COSBY ’76.

MIKE DAVIS (JD Law) Palestine, Texas, won the Texas Tech Alumni Bob Black Bar Leader Award. The award, named in honor of Texas Tech Law alumnus Bob Black, recognizes a Texas Tech Law alumnus who has, during the past year, served as president of a local, state, national, international, or specialty bar association. Davis has served as president of the Anderson County Bar Association and has been on the Local Bar Services Committee since 2013. His wife is Sandra.

1985

SCOTT NELSON (BBA Finance) Midland,

Texas, has been promoted and appointed as chief lending officer at FirstCapital Bank of Texas. Nelson, who has more than 28 years experience in the financial industry, will continue to guide FirstCapital Bank of Texas in meeting the financial needs of clients and communities including Amarillo, Horseshoe Bay, Lubbock, Marble Falls and Midland. His wife is MINDY L. NELSON ’98.

1988 JAY TATUM (BAR Architecture) Houston

Texas, has been appointed to serve on the board of directors of Houston First, a local government corporation that manages more than 10 city-owned buildings, properties and parking facilities. Tatum, who currently serves as managing principal for design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm HOK’s Gulf Coast region, has nearly 30 years of experience leading development projects throughout Houston. His wife is Shana.

1989

PATTI HOGGARD DOUGLASS (BA

DEANN JACOBSON O’LENICK, PH.D. (MS

Telecommunications) Lubbock, is the new Visitors Center manager in Undergraduate Admissions at Texas Tech University. The Visitors Center is located at West Hall. Her husband is JIM DOUGLASS (BBA ’70 Marketing), associate vice president of the Texas Tech Alumni Association. He has worked there since 1979.

Speech & Hearing Sciences) Fort Worth, Texas, received her doctorate from Texas Woman’s University in Early Child Education and Development. She will focus on the development of augmentative communication on a consultative and trial basis. O’Lenick currently owns her own business, O’Lenick Consulting, LLC, and lectures in the Southwest Region.

Her husband is David.

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Diamond ($5,000 or more annually) Mrs. Iris M. Anderson

Mrs. Peggy B. LaFont ’61

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

Mr. Rowland Lawson ’84

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Breedlove ’70 (Lorrie Breedlove) Lt. Col. Mark H. Bryant ’83

Mr. Glenn D. Moor ’84

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

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

Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Copeland ’91 (Kristy S. Copeland ’90)

Mr. & Mrs. W. Joseph Sammons ’78 (Susan Sammons ’78)

Mr. Floyd E. Cotham, Jr. ’83

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

Mr. & Mrs. Jason Elliott (Robin Elliott ’95)

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

Mrs. Helen J. Geick ’61

Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Waters ’77 (Barbara W. Waters ’77)

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Pomerantz (Karen Tandy Pomerantz ’74)

Platinum ($2,500 to $4,999 annually) Mr. G. Barney Adams ’75 (Kandy Adams ’75) Mrs. Nelda S. Adamson Mr. & Mrs. Mike Baca (Jan W. Baca ’70) Dr. & Mrs. Edward Broome ’68 (Jan L. Broome ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Brown ’59 (Elena R. Brown) Mr. & Mrs. Steve L. Burleson ’83 (Elizabeth Burleson ’84) Ms. Maria R. Carter ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Clay Cash ’97 (Ashley B. Cash) Mr. & Mrs. Lynn F. Cowden ’80 (Lisa Cowden) Mr. Richard R. Davila, II Chancellor & Mrs. Robert L. Duncan ’76 (Terri G. Duncan) Mr. Daniel F. Frye, III ’73 Mr. Ralph G. Goodlet, Jr. ’82 Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Gregory ’85 (Nancy Gregory) Mrs. Geneva Griffin ’51 Mr. & Mrs. Will B. Hagood ’69 (Karen Hagood ’71) Mrs. Julianna Hawn Holt ’69 Mr. H. Wayne Henry ’75 Mr. Bob L. Herd ’57 Mr. Michael Herd ’10 Dr. & Mrs. William W. Hinchey ’74 (Joann C. Hinchey) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hix ’70 (Leslie Hix ’71) Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Holloman ’80 (Karlene Holloman) Mr. Peter M. Holt Mr. Don J. Howe ’71 Mr. & Mrs. Ken V. Huseman ’75 (Jaye M. Huseman) Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Jacobs ’87 (Jerri L. Jacobs) Mr. & Mrs. Parker Johnson ’97 (Victoria Johnson) Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Kuefler (LeAnne Kuefler ’92) Mr. & Mrs. Lanny G. Layman ’77 (Joni Layman ’79) Mrs. & Mrs. Mark R. McGuire ’83 (Nancy Q. McGuire ’77)

Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKenzie ’67 (Barbara McKenzie ’68) Mr. William R. Moler ’88 Mrs. Joyce W. Perkins ’64 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Poore ’90 (Christina B. Poore) Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Price (Mary Jo Price ’53) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pubentz ’98 (Rebecca Pubentz ’99) Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Ralston ’76 (Jeannie Ralston ’77) Dr. Nancy R. Ruff ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Robbie R. Sartain ’79 (Kathleen M. Sartain ’79) Mr. & Mrs. John Scovell ’68 (Diane Scovell ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth H. Sheffield, Jr. (Catherine Sheffield ’79) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Skinner ’74 (Alice B. Skinner) Mr. Gary T. Skrehart ’79 Ms. Anita R. Smith ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Smith ’65 (Gail Smith ’68) Mr. & Mrs. Tom S. Stacy ’75 (Melinda Stacy) Mr. & Mrs. Phil D. Staley ’70 (Sharon Staley ’71) Mr. Chase Street ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Dale V. Swinburn ’65 (Cheryl Swinburn) Mr. & Mrs. Max Swinburn ’67 (Doris Swinburn) Mr. David F. Thomas ’83

Ms. Allison L. Thompson ’02 Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Underwood ’71 (Pam Underwood) Mr. Tommy W. Velasquez ’93 Mr. & Mrs. John B. Walker ’68 (Lisa A. Walker) Mr. Geoffrey L. Wayne, Sr. ’97 & (Leslie G. Wayne, M.D. ’02) Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Weber, III ’77 (Debra Weber) 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 September 18, 2017

Gold ($1,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Mike R. Abbott ’63 (Diane Abbott) Mr. James D. Abbott ’48 Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Acosta (Arcilia C. Acosta ’89) Mr. Darrell W. Adams ’81 Mr. Grant F. Adamson ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Adcox ’95 (Keeley K. Orman-Adcox ’95) Mr. & Mrs. David R. Akins ’01 (Amy R. Akins ’00) Dr. & Mrs. Richard G. Alexander ’58 (Janna Alexander) Mr. Robert Allen (Janice Allen) 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. Steve F. Armstrong ’70 (Barbara Armstrong ’69) Mr. & Mrs. C Kevin Atkins ’81 (Gay Atkins) Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Baker ’73 (Leslie E. Baker) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Barber ’65 (Sandra R. Barber) Dr. & Mrs. Carl A. Beard (Robin Beard ’12) Mr. & Mrs. Joe Beaty ’69 (Patricia Beaty ’75) Mr. & Mrs. Weston Benoit ’12 (Cat Benoit ’11) Dr. Francille Bergquist ’68 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. & Mrs. Samuel L. Boyd ’74 (DeLilah Boyd) Ms. Chree Boydstun ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Bennie R. Brigham ’65 (Mary Brigham ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Britton ’69 (Judith A. Britton) Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Broiles ’79 (Cindy L. Broiles) Mr. Alan D. Brown ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Eddie M. Brown ’60 (Billie G. Brown) Mr. & Mrs. William D. Brown ’74 (Karen E. Brown ’74) Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bryant ’73 (Rebecca Bryant) Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Buckalew ’72 (Shelley Buckalew) Dr. J. Fred Bucy ’51 Mr. & Mrs. Randy Butts (Kristina Butts ’01, ’04) Mr. & Mrs. Larry Byrd ’57 (Patricia Byrd) Mr. & Mrs. Ben D. Campbell ’77 (Marsha B. Campbell) Mr. & Mrs. Adan R. Cano ’02 (Carmen Cano) Mr. & Mrs. Joe Ed Canon ’64 (Jo Canon ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Howard R. Carlson, IV ’08 (Ali Carlson) Mr. David R. Carter ’87 Mr. & Mrs. R. Don Cash ’66 (S. Kay Cash ’67) Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Chambers ’66 (Carole Chambers) Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Champion ’69 (Robbie Champion ’69) Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Cina ’75 (Anne G. Cina) Mrs. Peggy Clark ’64 Mr. & Mrs. Bobby D. Clifton ’73 (Rhonda Clifton) Mr. & Mrs. David Copple ’91 (Marquel Copple) Col. Jimmy D. Cox ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Brenton A. Croley ’96 (Carrie E. Croley ’95) Dr. & Mrs. Charles F. Cruser ’76 (Salty Cruser) Mr. & Mrs. Tim G. Culp ’81 (Annette L. Culp ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cummings ’59 (Barbara Cummings) Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Cummins ’75 (Barbara Cummins) Mr. & Mrs. Jim Daniel (Mary Daniel ’78) Mr. & Mrs. William Daniel ’72 (Ann C. Daniel) Mr. & Mrs. Cody W. Davis ’11 (Ashley N. Davis ’12) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Davis ’84 (Lisa G. Davis) Mr. & Mrs. Enoch L. Dawkins ’60 (Frances S. Dawkins) Dr. & Dr. Miles R. Day (Audra R. Day ’99) Dr. & Mrs. Bill F. Dean ’61 (Peggy M. Dean ’66) Mr. & Mrs. Todd Denton ’86 (D’Aun Denton) Ms. Jane B. Dickson ’74 Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Doherty ’73 (Ginger R. Doherty) Mr. & Mrs. Jim A. Douglass ’70 (Patti Douglass ’85) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dowdey ’88 (Cynthia Dowdey ’88) Mr. & Mrs. John C. Downs ’66 (Edie Downs) Captain & Mrs. David A. Drake ’82 (Paige A. Drake) Mr. Atlee R. DuBose ’96 Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Dyer ’51 (Joy W. Dyer ’52) Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Eakens ’72 (Bonny Eakens) Mr. & Mrs. Gayle M. Earls ’59 Mr. & Mrs. Stan J. Edwards ’68 (Jane Edwards) Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Erspamer ’73 (Patty Erspamer ’74) Mr. & Mrs. C. Robert Fabling ’69 (Lee Fabling) Mr. Quinton A. Farley ’81, ’85 Mr. Andrew Fickman ’88 Mr. & Mrs. Joe A. Fralick (Celeste R. Fralick ’88) Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Gaddis (Melinda Gaddis ’84) Dr. Steven G. Gamble ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Garrett ’10 (Audra L. Garrett ’10) Mr. & Mrs. James L. Gaspard ’72 (Dinah A. Gaspard ’72) Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Gellner ’07 (Mary A. Gellner ’05) Mr. & Mrs. Bryan B. Gossett ’73 (Nancy K. Gossett) Dr. Addison Gradel ’82 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Graves ’70 (Susan Graves) Hon. & Mrs. William Gray ’64 (Lanette Gray) Dr. & Mrs. Dan Guy (Terri S. Guy ’73) Dr. & Mrs. Nadim G. Haddad ’88 (Christine Haddad) Chancellor Emeritus Kent Hance ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Keith R. Hansen ’68 (Glenda G. Hansen) Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Hardin ’78 (K’Aun Hardin) Mr. & Mrs. Owen Harrison ’73 (Lois Harrison) Dr. Robert I. Hart ’80

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hart ’83 (Susan M. Hart ’83) Mr. Terence Hart ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Tim A. Hatch ’51 (Tommie A. Hatch ’51) Mr. & Mrs. Mark Havins (Karen A. Havins ’93) Mr. & Mrs. Bob D. Hayter ’72 (Nancy Hayter) Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Heinchon ’81 (Nita C. Heinchon ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Henry ’64 (Cassandra L. Henry ’67) Mr. & Mrs. Chad M. Henthorn ’99 (Heather Henthorn ’00) Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Hervey ’73 (Emilee G. Hervey) Mr. William H. Hervey ’49 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hilbun ’95 (Stephanie Hilbun ’95) Mr. Robert W. Hodge, II Mr. & Mrs. Ted Hogan Jr. ’77 (Joellen Hogan ’76) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin P. Holleron ’94 (Mona K. Holleron) Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hood ’60 (Kyle T. Hood) Mr. Stanley K. Horton ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Huckabee ’91 (Robin Huckabee ’92) Mr. & Mrs. James E. Huckaby ’66 (Clara J. Huckaby) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hughes (Pamela Hughes ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie B. Hunt ’56 (Betsy H. Hunt) Mr. & Mrs. Rex Isom ’78 (Nancy Isom ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Steven T. Jeffcoat ’96 (Lesley H. Jeffcoat ’96) Mr. & Mrs. Roger Jeschke ’74 (Deni Jeschke) Mr. & Mrs. John B. Jeter ’90 (Ann Marie Jeter) Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur H. Johnson ’65 (Patricia J. Johnson) Mr. & Mrs. Todd Johnson (Mandy A. Carr-Johnson ’94) Mr. & Mrs. H. David Jones ’69 (Cindy R. Jones) Mr. & Mrs. Troy D. Jones ’57 (Lona F. Jones) Mr. Van Josselet ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Kahlich ’09 (Kara Kahlich ’09) Mr. & Mrs. T.W. Kendra (Anne-Marie Kendra ’77) Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Key ’94 (Cynthia Key) Major Anthony D. Killa ’95 Mr. & Mrs. David L. King ’74 (Janis L. King) Mr. & Mrs. M. Chris Kirksey ’84 (Betsy B. Kirksey ’83) Mr. & Mrs. Terry G. Knighton ’80 (Patricia Knighton) Mr. & Mrs. Gaylon Kornfuehrer ’57 (Barbara Kornfuehrer) Mr. Kenton D. Krejci ’88 Dr. & Mrs. John Kuczek ’00 (Emily Kuczek) Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Lairsen ’01 (Heather Lairsen ’01) Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Lathem ’94 (Carol Lathem ’94) Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Laudermill ’01 (Mindy Laudermill) Mr. & Mrs. Dan C. Lewis ’73 (Debra A. Lewis) Mr. & Mrs. Justin Lian (Lauren E. Lian ’05) Mr. & Mrs. James R. Lindley ’60 (Bernice G. Lindley) Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Loveless ’93 (Stacy Loveless ’92) Dr. & Mrs. Julio F. Madrigal ’82 (Dolores Madrigal) Lt. General Wendy M. Masiello ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Bob Mayo ’69 (Jo Mayo ’71) Mr. & Mrs. Jim McCarley ’87 (Myra L. McCarley ’86) Mr. & Mrs. George McCleskey, III (Royan McCleskey ’95) Mr. & Mrs. Mark T. McCloy ’73 (Annette McCloy) Mr. & Mrs. Brian F. McCoy ’75 (Wetonnah L. McCoy) Mr. & Mrs. Paul McDonald ’81 (Karen P. McDonald ’81) Mr. & Mrs. George G. McDuff ’58 (Beverly J. McDuff ’54) Mr. & Mrs. Ryan McKenzie ’98 (Kathleen McKenzie ’04) Mr. & Mrs. David H. McLellan ’76 (Theresa B. McLellan) Mr. & Mrs. George H. McMahan (Linda M. McMahan) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McMahon ’73 (Karen McMahon ’73) Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNaughton ’84 (Anne McNaughton ’76) Mr. & Mrs. C. Aaron McNeece ’64 (Sherri McNeece) Mr. & Mrs. Philip L. Meaders ’84 (Lamar Meaders) Mr. & Mrs. Kyle J. Meismer ’03 (Jacklyn Meismer) Ms. Patsy Middleton ’57 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. Robert K. Moeck ’78 (Sara H. Moeck ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Dudley Montgomery ’52 (Patty Montgomery) Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Moore ’56 (Dorothy E. Moore) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Morris ’99 (Leslie Morris) Mr. Kevin G. Morton ’83 Mrs. Janet Moseley ’65 Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Mrazek ’75 (Debra Mrazek ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Jamie Nail (Cheryl D. Nail ’99) Ms. Jennifer L. Neff ’91 Dr. Susan E. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Nevans ’81 (Shelli Nevans) Mr. & Mrs. Lyndel A. Newsom ’55 (Billie Newsom) Mr. Coby B. Nichols ’98 Mr. & Mrs. John R. Nickens ’15 (Marye L. Nickens) Mr. & Mrs. Benny D. Nixon ’74 (Vicki Nixon ’73) Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Norton ’85 (Melanie T. Norton ’86) Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Norvell ’74 (Deborah Norvell) Mr. & Mrs. David Overholt (Selena Overholt ’02) Mr. & Mrs. John C. Owens ’71 (Cynthia Owens ’73) Mr. Bob J. Paradiso ’79 Mr. Paul E. Pardaen ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Joe J. Parker, Jr. ’73 (Marjorie Parker ’73) Mr. Paul E. Parkinson ’74 (Crystal Parkinson) Mr. Andy Payne ’65 (Mary-Lees Payne) Mr. & Mrs. Gary S. Payne (Debbie Payne) Mr. Gary R. Petersen ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Mike J. Petraitis ’79 (Martha M. Petraitis ’81)

Mr. & Mrs. J. Steven Phillips ’93 (Stacey Phillips ’93) Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pickering (Lugene L. Pickering ’77) Mr. Bruce A. Pike ’97 Mr. & Mrs. David E. Proctor ’91 (Cindy B. Proctor ’90) Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Pruett ’78 (Debra Pruett) Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen ’80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Mr. & Mrs. Terry H. Putman ’69 (Mendy W. Putman ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Gil H. Radtke ’82 (Ann G. Radtke) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Ray, IV ’66 (Sandra Ray) Mr. Jerry S. Rawls ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery F. Rea (Michelle Rea) Ms. Maria Ausena Resendiz ’04 Ms. Jennifer A. Respondek ’08 Mr. & Mrs. Sam Rich (Jacque M. Rich ’72) Mr. & Mrs. David D. Ricks ’82 (Jill Ricks) Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rinehart ’60 (Joyce Rinehart) Mrs. Janet O. Rippy Dr. & Mrs. T.C. Robinson, IV ’89 (Michelle Robinson) Mrs. Kathy Hager Roberts ’72 Mr. & Dr. Keith J. Rogers (Brooks Rogers, M.D. ’87) Ms. Terry L Rolan ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Jim A. Rose ’87 (Rosalyn Rose) Mr. & Mrs. John E. Roueche, III ’88 (Elise W. Roueche) Mr. & Mrs. John H. Saenz ’96 (Suzanne Saenz ’95) Dr. & Mrs. Martin Salazar ’78 (Margie Salazar) Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Sales ’75 (Kathy A. Sales ’74) Dr. & Mrs. Philip Samuels ’80 (Elizabeth B. Samuels) Mrs. Sammie Saulsbury ’58 Mr. Richard Scales ’60 Dr. & Mrs. Alan C. Schauer ’77 (Regina Schauer) Mr. & Mrs. Ryan W. Schneider ’01 (Mindy B. Schneider ’02) Mr. & Mrs. Ricky C. Scott ’81 (Lori J. Scott ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Selfridge ’60 (Sue Selfridge) Mr. & Mrs. Joe M. Shannon ’89 (Brooke M. Shannon ’88) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Sharbutt ’71 (Patsy Sharbutt) Mr. Josh M. Shuster ’00 Dr. & Mrs. Kevin Sieck ’95 (Tisha Sieck) Mr. Reagan W. Simpson & Nancy Simpson, Ph.D ’75 Mrs. Tammy Skrehart Mr. Kenneth L. Slack, Jr. ’71 Mr. & Mrs. Bobby L. Smith ’80 (Sabrina T. Smith) Mr. & Mrs. Drue Smith ’93 (Jill A. Smith ’92) Mr. & Mrs. John P. Smith (Ashlee M. Smith ’07) Mr. & Mrs. Lesley K. Smith ’86 (Amy V. Smith) Mr. & Mrs. Lucian Smith ’74 (Kristin Smith ’76) Mr. Marlis Smith ’54 Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Smith ’82 (Tabitha Smith) Mr. & Mrs. Shane Smith (Kelly K. Smith) Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Smith ’77 (Debi Smith) Mr. & Mrs. William Snyder ’55 (Sally Snyder) Mr. & Mrs. Bryan A. Springston ’81 (Sheri E. Springston ’81) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Stallings ’74 (Kathy P. Stallings) Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Stewart (Lynne Stewart ’78) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Stewart, Jr. ’76 (Tricia Stewart) Mr. & Mrs. James H. Stone ’50 (Evelyn Stone ’48) Mr. David L. Stoneking ’77 Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Strickland ’70 (Linda F. Strickland) Mr. Clayton R. Sykes ’09 Mr. & Mrs. Cloyce A. Talbott ’58 (Anita P. Talbott ’91) Mr. & Mrs. Lance L. Taylor ’99 (Dawn M. Taylor ’00) Mrs.Tracy Thrash Mr. & Mrs. Fred Timberlake, Jr. ’68 (Kay G. Timberlake) Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Turner ’68 (Diane Turner ’68) Mr. Bobby G. Waddle ’55 Mr. & Mrs. John P. Wald, Jr. ’80 (Karen M. Wald ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Clint D. Walker ’82 (Risa R. Walker ’91) Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Wallace ’76 (Patricia H. Wallace) The Honorable & Mrs. T. John Ward ’64 (Elizabeth Ward ’86) Mr. James M. Watson ’58 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. & Mrs. Gary B. Wilcox ’81 (Angie L. Wilcox) Mr. & Mrs. M. Greg Wilkes ’86 (Emma J. Wilkes) Mr. & Mrs. Andy Williams ’91 (Camille Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Bryant Williams ’98 (Alison E. Williams) Mr. & Mrs. L. Bryant Williams, Jr.’61 (Brenda Williams) Mr. & Mrs. Chris Williams ’86 (Lezlee Williams ’87) 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. & Mrs. W. Eric Wilson ’92 (Jackie L. Wilson) Dr. & Mrs. Gary B. Wood ’73 (Sheryl Wood) Mr. & Mrs. Lee Wright ’87 (Tammy L. Wright) Mr. Randy Wright ’68 Dr. & Mrs. Scott W. Wyrick ’87 (Lenore P. Wyrick) Mr. Wesley B. Youngblood ’74 Mr. & Mrs. John D. Zwiacher ’74 (Ann L. Zwiacher)

*As of September 18, 2017

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1991 George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman

MIKE HAYNES (MA Mass

A WITNESS TO HISTORY

Communication) Amarillo, Texas, retired from Amarillo College in August 2016 after 25 years of teaching journalism and advertising in the Matney Mass Media Program. During his time at Amarillo College, Haynes advised on various campus publications. He and his sister, Sheri, are now co-publishers of Panhandle-Plains Basketball.

A Witness to History: George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman Janet M. Neugebauer, foreword by Kent Hance

Janet M. Neugebauer | Foreword by Kent Hance

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CHRISTY JACK (JD Law) Fort Worth,

Texas, has been selected to receive the esteemed Daniel H. Benson Public Service Award from the Texas Tech Law Alumni Association. The award recognizes an alumnus who has demonstrated significant and substantial contributions to furthering ideals of public service in the law. Jack currently serves as chair of the Criminal Justice Section

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15-AFF-136764 Affinity: Millennial Toolkit

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A NEW BENEFIT FOR OUR COMMUNITY

An easy way to pay for almost anything.1 As a Red Raider, you’re eligible to take advantage of the Texas Tech Alumni Association’s tools and resources to help you succeed. We’ve recently teamed up with OneMain, a leader in consumer lending that has over 100 years of experience.

Get a step closer to achieving your goals with a personal loan from OneMain. With it, you can pay for things you need, like:

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• Convenient online application • Receive your money as soon as today if approved by noon2 • One-on-one support in over 1,600 branches nationwide • Plus, OneMain makes a contribution to the Texas Tech Alumni Association for every new loan booked by alumni like you.

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All loans subject to our normal credit policies. OneMain loan proceeds cannot be used for postsecondary educational purposes as defined by the CFPB’s Regulation Z such as college, university or vocational expenses; for any business or commercial purpose; to purchase securities; or for gambling or illegal purposes.

2 Loan proceeds may be disbursed by check, Automated Clearing House (ACH) deposit or a prepaid card. ACH disbursements can take approximately 1 to 2 business days depending on the time of loan closing. Prepaid card disbursements are limited to the first $10,000 of the loan amount and are available immediately upon activation of the prepaid card. Prepaid cards are not available in all locations and are not available to active duty military, their spouse or dependents covered by the Military Lending Act. 3 Before you refinance your other debts with a new loan to reduce your total monthly debt payment, you should consider that the new loan may increase both the total number of monthly payments and the total amount paid over the term of the loan.

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alumni news of the State Bar of Texas, which promotes excellence, education and ethics in the practice of criminal law. She also serves as chair of the Governing Board of the Texas Civil Commitment Office.

1992 DAVID HIPP (BAR Architecture Design)

Spokane, Washington, has successfully completed the requirements for the nationally recognized Designated Design-Build Professional™ (DBIA™) certification. The Design-Build Institute of America awarded designated status to Hipp upon his successful completion of coursework and formal examination in all aspects of design-build project delivery. He is currently working on two design-build projects in Washington State: the BCT Complex, Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the Washington

State Department of Transportation North Central Region Administration Facility in Wenatchee.

1993 KELLY WHITNEY (BID Interior Design)

Dallas, Texas, has been promoted to principal at Perkins+Will in Dallas.

Perkins+Will is an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm. Whitney has substantial experience with organizational project management and healthcare facility design. She also participated in the Texas Department of State Health Services Licensing Workgroup, where she helped to update statewide healthcare codes. Her expertise has been a key part of the success on large projects, such as the expansions of Medical City Dallas and Riverside Community Hospital in California.

1996 ERIC J. GOLLE (JD Law, BBA Accounting)

McKinney, Texas, co-founded HelpMD, a service that may help those affected by the current healthcare crisis. In order to counteract the costs and complexities of the healthcare market, HelpMD was created to extend medical care to consumers who are currently priced out of the healthcare marketplace, or have seen their deductibles, prescriptions and out-of-pocket costs dramatically increase. More information can be found at www.helpmd.com

1999 MATTHEW B. “MATT” REEVES (BA

Business) Huntsville, Alabama, will return to litigation practice at Maynard Cooper & Gale. Matthew, who has

TEXAS TECH PRINTS by Joe Gallagher

Limited Edition Prints of artist Joe Gallagher’s oil painting of the iconic Texas Tech University landmark..Will Rogers and his horse Soapsuds..are available through TTAA. Prints come ready to hang for $185 plus $35 for shipping. A portion of the proceeds benefits TTAA. Visit the Artisit’s Website at www.JOEGAL.com to order, or call 609-682-0884.

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...as Texas Tech inspires Raider entrepreneurs and innovators.

Kimberly Gramm Senior Managing Director Innovation Hub at Research Park

Passion is the first word that comes to mind when

ship and innovation. Texas Tech University has received the Association of Public Land Grant Kimberly Gramm talks to Texas Tech students, University 10-year designation for Innovation, alums and faculty who are thinking about solving Competitiveness and Ecoproblems and considering nomic Prosperity. Universities becoming startup founders. receive this designation that She’s been at Texas Tech a demonstrates excellence and little more than a year. leadership in planning, imple“I’m continuously surprised menting, and evaluating by the enthusiasm, energy programs and initiatives that a year of success... and passion Red Raiders support regional economic have inherent within them to development. These criteria achieve great things, with the include promoting faculty/stuhighest degree of integrity, to dent innovation and entrepreimpact the world we live,” she neurship, excelling in technolsays. “I have made the right ogy transfer, contributing to decision to come from south talent and workforce developFlorida to West Texas to be a ment, establishing governpart of our community and ment-university-industry partalongside university leaders nerships, and fostering comto foster the entrepreneur munity and "place" developspirit.” ment through public service, engagement and outreach.

The Innovation Hub at To be successful in engageResearch Park (the Hub) is ment, Red Raiders from the first major investment in everywhere are coming together to support entreinfrastructure toward Texas Tech elevating its preneurship and innovation at Texas Tech! profile in entrepreneur-

ADVERTORIAL

To celebrate the Hub’s 2016-2017 launch of 11 new programs, which includes the Texas Tech Accelerator, we are introducing the Entrepreneur Alumni Chapter in partnership with the Texas Tech Alumni Association on Nov. 18, 2017. The Chapter serves the Red Raider network for current and future entrepreneur and innovation initiatives. The Chapter hosts a once-a-year startup launch party the Friday before the last home football game featuring Texas Tech innovations, startups and an inspiring keynote speaker at the Hub. Get involved in Red Raider innovation and entrepreneurship today!

Entrepreneur Social at the World of Beer.

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Great people creating great innovations and startups at Texas Tech.

2017-2018 Schedule Hub Camp Nov 15 iLaunch(Applications Open) Jan 1 Red Raider Startup Feb 9-11 TTU Accelerator(Applicaitons Open) May 1 Entrepreneur Socials Nov 13 Jan 18 Mar 12

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TTU Accelerator Startups celebrate with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

alumni news strong ties to the Huntsville market, will focus on complex commercial litigation including the firm’s class action, civil rights, and real estate litigation.

Matthew has more than 14 years of experience in both federal and state trial and appellate courts, and in alternative dispute resolution forums handling disputes involving complex commercial, intellectual property, securities and corporate governance, civil rights and government contract matters.

2000 REV. RYON L. PRICE (BA Arts) Lubbock, has been named senior pastor for Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth.

The announcement came after a national search led by a nine-member committee. Since 2010, Price has led

Second Baptist Church in Lubbock and has served as pastor of United Church of Colchester in Vermont. Price will be joined in Fort Worth by his wife, Irie, along with their three children.

moted to associate of TMP Architecture, Inc. O’Neal, who became a registered architect in 2015, has been involved with various educational clients in and around the Dearborn area.

2003 VIN FISHER, JR. (BBA Management)

Andrews, Texas, clinched the steer roping title at the PRCA Dodge City Roundup with a three-run time of 36.7.

Fisher is a 13-time National Finals Steer Roping qualifier. His wife is CANDACE L. FISHER ’03.

2005 DANIELLE C. O’NEAL (MAR Architecture)

Dearborn, Michigan, has been pro-

2011 STEPHEN WRIGHT (MBA General Business) Houston, Texas, CEO of Wright Business Technologies, Inc., is celebrating 25 years of being in business. His wife is Jennifer.

2012 KELSEY POND (BS Agricultural

Communications) Corpus Christi, Texas, recently joined Hason Professional Services Inc.’s Corpus Christi office.

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alumni news While at Hanson, a national, employeeowned consulting firm that provides engineering, planning, and allied services, Pond will develop and prepare business proposals and statements of qualifications, as well as other materials used in pursuing new business. Her husband is NATHAN POND , ’14.

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JOE R. SAVOIE (JD Law) Houston, Texas,

has joined Crain Caton & James, P.C.’s litigation practice as an associate attorney. His practice focuses in the areas of commercial litigation, products liability, insurance and personal injury defense, fiduciary and general civil litigation.

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2014 WALT CATHEY (MA Business) Lubbock,

who currently serves as president of Covenant Medical Center, has been named to Becker’s Healthcare 2017 Rising Stars list of 60 healthcare leaders under 40. Cathey oversees more than 2,500 employees and works extensively with Covenant Medical Center’s 650 medical staff to develop performance improvement initiatives as well as strategies to improve quality of care within the system.

MADISON PERKINS TATUM (BA Public

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Relations, MA Strategic Communications ’16) London, England, married Will Tatum in (BBA Accounting, MS in Accounting ’17) in August 2016. Madison is the assistant membership coordinator for the Texas Tech Alumni Association, and Will is a tax specialist for Deloitte UK. The couple recently moved to London for Will to begin his new career.

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In Memoriam OSCAR BARTON ALLEN ’49, Lubbock, died July 15. He is

survived by his wife, Janetta.

ROBERT P. ANDERSON, PH.D. , Lubbock, former faculty

member in the Department of Psychology, where he served as head of the counseling program, died June 18.

He is survived by his wife, Iris.

ROALD “BUCK” JOHNSON ’74, Muleshoe, Texas, died July 14. He is survived

by his wife, Carolyn.

NATHAN JAMES KAUFMAN , a student, The Woodlands, Texas, died Aug. 9.

RONALD O. LAMBETH ’65, Southlake, Texas, died July 21. He is survived

by his wife, Linda.

BARBARA JACKSON BARTON ’68, Lubbock, died July 29.

CHARLES TRAVIS LOUDER ’55, Lubbock, died July 29. He is survived by his wife, MARY LOUISE FENTON LOUDER ’56.

LESLIE ANN HUNT-BOND ’02, Lubbock, died June 28.

REESE BARRETT MCBROOM ’63, Lubbock, died Aug. 12. He is survived

She is survived by her husband, James.

DAVID LEE BOSTON ’67, Argyle, Texas, died May 11. He is survived by his wife, JAYNE CROOM BOSTON ’69.

IMOGENE FORTENBERRY BOWMAN ‘49, ’50, Lubbock,

died July 4.

WILLIAM B. CALVERT ’59, Houston, Texas, died May 12. He is survived by his wife, CAROLYN POPE CALVERT ’58.

PATRICIA ENID “PAT” CHRISTENSEN ’68, Lubbock,

died June 8.

LAURA ANASTINA MASON DAVIES ’10, Denver,

Colorado, died July 10. She is survived by her husband, JERAMY N. DAVIES ’11.

TOMMIE EDITH WYNN DEARTH ’56, Midland, Texas, died

June 25.

by his wife, Pat. JOHN DALE MCCUAN ’11, Lubbock, died July 13.

ROY ERNEST MITCHELL, PH.D. , Denison, Texas, a former chemistry professor,

died July 5.

CALEB SPENCER NEAL , a student, Waxahachie, Texas, died June 30.

H.V. NEWMAN, JR. ’71, Lubbock, died July 27. He is survived by his wife, JO ANN YORTY NEWMAN ’72.

KAREN LOU IRENE PERKINS ’74, Roselle, New Jersey, died June 1.

JULIA PHARR-HEGI ’42, Lubbock, died July 3.

MIKE ROBBINS ’71, Grapevine, Texas, died Aug. 13.

CHARLES LEO “CHARLIE” ROBERTS ’65, Dallas, Texas, died July 10.

He is survived by his wife, Paula.

JAMES R. EISSINGER , Lubbock, former associate dean at

TEDDY CHARLES “TED” SCOTT, M.D. ’69, Lubbock, died July 12. He is survived by his wife, DENISE SCOTT ’91.

Texas Tech University School of Law, died July 13. He is survived by his wife, MARY J. EISSINGER ’76.

JANICE LEE DAWKINS STEVENSON ’53, Tucson, Arizona, died May 19.

She is survived by her husband, JAMES L. STEVENSON ’53.

DORIS “DUANE” FINCHER ’69, Amarillo, Texas, died July

25. He is survived by his wife, Virginia.

ARMANDO GARCIA ’72, Lubbock, died July 21.

CLARENCE RICHARD “DICK” GROSS ’50, Rogers,

Arkansas, died July 9.

HENRY WAYNE HURT ’65, San Benito, Texas, died July 16.

JANICE LEE DONALD THORNTON ’81, Lubbock, died July 27.

RODERICK DESHAWN TOLER ’15, Lubbock, died July 3. He is survived

by his wife, Ashley.

JAY WESLEY WATSON , Lubbock, a friend, died July 8. He is survived

by his wife, Jana.

VESTAL L. “PAPPY” YEATS ’61, Lubbock, a former geology professor,

died July 28.

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KATE OSANA SIMONIAN , a doctoral student in the Texas

Tech University Department of English, is the grand prize winner of this year’s Nelson Algren Literary Award competition for her short story, “Le Problem Being.” The prize carries a cash award of $3,500. Out of 3,900 entries, Simonian was named the winner after four rounds of judging, in which authors’ names are removed so stories may be evaluated purely on their own merits. Simonian, an Armenian-Australian writer, attends Texas Tech as a Presidential Fellow. In 2017, she received the Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and her work has been published by, or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review Online, Passages North and The Best Australian Stories. She is working on a story collection and a novel.

Texas Tech Law won the championship title at the 2017 Texas Young Lawyers Association State Moot Court Competition in Dallas. Tech Law also won the state championship last year, making this the second time in the school’s history that teams have secured back-to-back victories (the others being 2008 and 2009). This win marks the fifth time Texas Tech Law has taken the championship at competition in the past 10 years—no other school has won more than two in that same period. This win also marks the law school’s 100th state/regional advocacy championship. ERIN GARZA, BRANDON KING and JASON JUDD were named champions after beating Baylor Law School in the final round. Garza was named the state’s second-best advocate, and King’s brief finished third.

BRITTANY NEILSON , a doctoral student in the Human Factors

Psychology program in the Texas Tech University Department of Psychological Sciences, recently received the NASA Texas Space Grant Graduate Student Fellowship, her third fellowship with NASA. Through this fellowship, Neilson will conduct research at Texas Tech relevant to NASA’s mission, including the restorative power of nature; natural environments improve cognition and reduces stress. The fellowship Neilson received never had been given to a graduate student in psychology. Neilson said she had to advocate for the importance of the human factors field before she could start her research when she applied for the fellowship.

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KEMBRA ALBRACHT-SCHULTE earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Lubbock Christian University and her master’s degree in exercise science from Texas Tech. She is pursuing her doctorate in nutritional sciences at Texas Tech. She was awarded a fellowship by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture, allowing her to further her research in nutritional biochemistry and the study of interactions between nutrients, genes and disease.

after the residence halls opened for the fall semester, more than 140 new and returning Red Raiders spent a total of 424 hours, helping build a house for a local family. The project, sponsored by University Student Housing and Habitat for Humanity, began about 10 years ago. Each day, groups of students from residence halls across campus spent four hours in the morning or afternoon working on the construction. Many participants were entering freshmen who wanted to meet other students and give back to the community.

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