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Alumnus Zach Carter and his wife, Delisea, have launched a business that uses reclaimed wood and metal from old boxcars to create classic pieces of furniture that have seen thousands of miles.

Many students in the Honors College were welcomed into a new dorm when they arrived in the fall. The structure is more than 77,000-squarefeet and offers pod-style living to maximize student comfort.

Viswa Subbaraman follows a calling in the music world.

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letters FOR JENNIFER RITZ, REGARDING “IN COUNTRY” IN THE JAN/FEB 2018 ISSUE

The purpose of this note is to compliment you on the professionalism you displayed while in our home while you gathered information for your recent article “In Country.” It was indeed a pleasure to work with you, and I am honored to be included in our alumni magazine. You were aware that I was not “fully on-board” with this project, but you made it easy. Even though I dreaded doing this you made me thoroughly enjoy the whole project.

I have received correspondence concerning this article from people that I have never met. That is a reflection on your talents, not mine. I have heard from people that did not go to Tech, do not receive the Techsan but have received your article from friends.

Your commitment to excellence is so very obvious, starting with a personal interview and ending with your final product. What an honor it is to call you my friend!

Sincerely, Tanner Mahan Menard, Texas

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Nice job by Jennifer Ritz with the article on Tanner Mahan and his Vietnam experience. As a former Marine from the same era, I am impressed with the research that went into the background for the story.

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Patriotism 101 the end of Tibor Nagy’s 15-year tenure at Texas Tech as vice provost of the Office of International Affairs.

Nagy, a 1972 graduate of Texas Tech, has served as a United States ambassador to several African nations during President Bill Clinton’s and President George W. Bush’s administrations.

Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec had high praise for his work in Texas Tech’s international affairs program.

“When he started we had a little over 1,000 international students,” he says. “Today, we have over 3,000.”

Nagy remembers when the only international undergraduate students here were scholarship athletes. He credits strong leadership from presidents such as Donald Haragan and Schovanec for the growth of the international program, but those close to the program credit Nagy for his remarkable leadership.

Part of Nagy’s responsibility is helping these students adjust to a new culture and, hopefully, to help students, faculty and staff learn about other cultures.

When he first arrived here, Texas Tech was sending about 200 students to study abroad. Last summer, more than 1,200 studied abroad.

Nagy was frequently asked to write guest columns in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on various foreign policy matters. He was recruited to serve as an adviser in the presidential campaigns of both Democrats and Republicans. In 2008, he was asked to serve as an adviser to the Obama campaign, and in 2012, he was involved in the Romney campaign. In 2016, he was recruited by current and past presidential candidates to work on their teams.

Ambassador Nagy was born in Budapest, Hungary, on April 29, 1949, and arrived in the United States as a political refugee in 1957. He and his father settled in Washington, D.C., where he completed high school. He wanted to study architecture and looked at schools in the western part of the country and found Texas Tech.

“When I first arrived in Lubbock, never having visited west of the Mississippi before, I kept waiting to arrive ‘in the city’ on the way from the airport,” he recalls. “We never did, as far as I was concerned, but I grew to love Lubbock, the region and Texas Tech very quickly, because of the wonderful folks who live in West Texas.” (Texas Techsan interview, March/ April 2000).

He changed his mind about architecture and pursued a double major in political science and history. He received a B.A. in 1972 and moved to Washington, D.C. He began work in the General Services Administration in contracting but moved to the field of office systems while getting his MSA degree from The George Washington University in 1978.

While at Texas Tech, he was active in Sigma Nu fraternity and this led to his finding his bride. He met Jane Whitfill Nagy from Lockney, Texas, in 1970 at a mixer hosted by the Sigma Nus and her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha.

They married in 1971, while still in college. She finished her bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University after their move to D.C.

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Nagy joined the Foreign Service in 1978 as a management analyst in the Bureau of Personnel. His first overseas assignment was as General Services Officer in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1979-81. After that, he was assigned to Victoria, Seychelles, for two years as administrative officer.

Jane also passed the Foreign Service exam in 1979 and had plans to be a public diplomatic officer.

Things changed, however, when she gave birth to the couple’s triplets, Tisza, Peter and Stephen.

They were born in Salisbury (now Harare), Zimbabwe, the closest acceptable hospital to Lusaka, Zambia, and became the first triplets to be born in that country.

The Nagys have been very active in the Texas Tech and Lubbock communities during his tenure.

Jane served as board president and also served on almost every OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) subcommittee at one time or another. This program was her real passion, and she believed that OLLI was a great asset to the Texas Tech University campus and to the Lubbock community, as well.

She was very instrumental in ushering OLLI through some tough times as OLLI was facing financial challenges while going through growth in membership numbers as well as expanding its satellite program in the Texas Hill Country.

She also served on the Lubbock Parks & Recreation Advisory Board (appointed by the Lubbock City Council), the KTTZ Development Council, the Literacy Lubbock Board of Directors and the TTU Museum Association Board of Directors.

He served as systems administrator for the African Bureau in Washington, D.C., from 1983-84 and then returned overseas as administrative officer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1984-86. For the next eight years, he was deputy chief of mission at Lome, Togo (1987-90); Yaounde, Cameroon (1990-93); and Lagos, Nigeria (1993-95).

He speaks Hungarian and French, and has received numerous awards, including the Department of State’s “Superior Honor” award, five “Meritorious Honor” awards as well as being runner-up for the prestigious “Deputy Chief of Mission of the Year” award.

Texas Tech owes a huge debt of gratitude to Ambassador Nagy for the international program he has developed on this campus. It will only get better.

C ON G RATU L ATIO N S TO BA KE R MAY F I E L D ,

who won the Heisman Trophy for 2017. There is no question he deserved to win the award. I just wish he would act like a Heisman Trophy winner.

IT HAS BEEN a crazy year in football. Some of the news makes you wonder if we all have our priorities straight.

Let me get this straight. Texas A&M just fired Head Football Coach Kevin Sumlin, who had a 51-26 (.662 percentage) record, six straight bowl appearances, but only a 25-23 record in the SEC. His buyout at A&M was $10.4 million.

They hired Jimbo Fisher from Florida State. His buyout there was $5 million. They are going to pay him $75 million over the next 10 years and they expect him to win a national championship—or two or three.

Our favorite chancellor, Texas A&M’s John Sharp, opined the following: “Gone are the days when we settle for a good football team. We expect to compete soon for championships.”

If only they could change divisions in the SEC and not have to play Alabama, Auburn, LSU, etc. every year.

Then there is UCLA where Mr. LaVar Ball has announced that he is pulling his son, LiAngelo, out of UCLA because Head Coach Steve Alford (a Bob Knight disciple) suspended his son and two teammates for shoplifting

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while the Bruins were in China. Had it not been for the intervention of U.S. President Trump, they might still be there.

“I’m not sitting back and waiting,” Mr. Ball told ESPN. “We get back over here and the consequences were even stiffer than China. So basically, they’re in jail here.”

Mr. Ball is also pulling his 16-year-old son LaMelo out of school as well. He plans to send the two youngsters to play overseas preparing them for the NBA. Simply unbelievable.

But there are positive developments.

If any of you watched the Army-Navy game, you had to feel a great sense of pride when watching the pregame ceremonies and the singing of the National Anthem by the combined forces of both academies in a blinding snowstorm. It was breathtaking. It made you very proud to be an American.

The game came down to the last second when Army escaped with a 14-13 win following a missed Navy field goal. The next step for all these players is deployment to various areas of the globe to protect and defend our country.

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From left are Schilling, Williams and Vaughn.

SOME 690 STUDENTS, FRIENDS, FACULTY AND STAFF OF TEXAS TECH’S COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & NATURAL RESOURCES WERE ON HAND NOV. 9 FOR THE 90TH ANNUAL PIG ROAST AT THE LUBBOCK MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER. The Pig Roast celebrated scholarship donors, recipients and intercollegiate judging teams. In addition, the program honored three Gerald Thomas Outstanding Agriculturalists, presented to individuals who have shown excellence in agricultural production, agribusiness, and public service.

Established in 1969, the Outstanding Agriculturist awards are named for Gerald Thomas, who served as dean of Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences from 1958 to 1970. Recipients for 2017 were: Dee Vaughn, agricultural production; Wayne Schilling, agribusiness; and Tony D. Williams (BS ’84 Agricultural Economics), public service.

DEE VAUGHN continues a family tradition on his farm near Dumas, where he and his wife Terri produce corn, cotton, sorghum seed and wheat. Since 1989, he has been a proactive supporter of Texas and U.S. agriculture, currently serving as a director of the Corn Producers Association of Texas, Texas Corn Producers Board and Southwest Council of Agribusiness. Vaughan serves on the advisory committees of the Texas Ag Forum at the Texas A&M Ag and Food Policy Center, and the Southern Risk Management Education Center at the University of Arkansas. He has worked extensively on policy and regulatory issues pertaining to agriculture in the areas of farm policy, energy, transportation, and trade.

WAYNE SCHILLING moved to Slaton in 1979 to start an agricultural compost business, which composts cattle manure for agricultural use at feed yards from south of Lubbock to the Texas Panhandle. His lawn and garden branch, Back to Nature, bags composted cotton burrs and ships them to independent nurseries and garden centers throughout Texas and surrounding states.

Schilling and his family also farm cotton in the Lubbock area, and run a cow/calf operation.

TONY D. WILLIAMS worked for Monsanto Agriculture Products following graduation from Texas Tech. Since 1988, he has served as the executive vice president of the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association in Austin. While in this position he has been responsible for the financial operations, the TCGA Annual Convention & Trade Show, and worked with legislative and governmental agencies to provide the cotton ginner’s point of view. Williams was instrumental in crafting several significant pieces of legislation, including HB 2095 that allowed the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Trust to self-insure as a group of employers for workers compensation insurance, and HB 2093 that adopted increasing the weight of cotton module trucks.

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CRAIG SNOEYINK, PH.D., AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE WHITACRE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HAS BEEN AWARDED A GRANT BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) WORTH $385,900 THAT WILL ALLOW HIM TO BUILD A HIGH-SPEED, 3-D, SUPERRESOLUTION MICROSCOPE AND DEVELOP THE IMAGING SOFTWARE TO ANALYZE THE DATA. The microscope will help Snoeyink reach the full potential of a technique he created years ago—while pursuing his doctorate, he invented a microscopy technique that attached to a microscope, and, when looking at very small fluorescent particles or molecules, he could tell their locations in three dimensions with high accuracy. The process was imperfect, so he pursued the NIH grant to purchase equipment to address those problems and build a microscope that can see the full potential of the technique.

Snoeyink’s technique will benefit biological researchers, and the grant was given to support biological research at medical universities that don’t have as much support in that area. The super-resolution microscope will allow biological researchers to more easily and accurately see how DNA strands coil. Snoeyink will be working with Petar Grozdanov, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s School of Medicine and director of the Image Analysis and Molecular Biology Core Facilities, and Clinton MacDonald, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in building the microscope.

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THE RESEARCH IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT STUDIES LABORATORY IS CONDUCTING GROUNDBREAKING WORK TO HELP CHILDREN AT RISK FOR AUTISM AS YOUNG AS 12 MONTHS OLD. ANN MASTERGEORGE , Ph.D., chair of the Texas Tech University Department of Human Development & Family Studies, is developing eye-tracking technology to determine if children are expressing autism-type behaviors, and robots for working with autistic children past the toddler stage. By implementing robot technology during therapy sessions, Mastergeorge is able to measure the child’s engagement and reaction to the instruction provided by the robot.

She notes that this is one of the first studies to look at both robots and eye tracking with children with autism.

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, THAYNE MONTAGUE, PH.D., WAS PRESENTED WITH THE 2017 DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR AWARD PRESENTED BY THE NON-LAND-GRANT AGRICULTURAL AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES UNIVERSITIES (NARRU). Montague, an associate professor of horticulture and undergraduate program leader within the Department of Plant & Soil Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, received the award at a special presentation during a NARRU meeting in Morro Bay, California. CASNR had tremendous success in the NARRU Award categories.

TEXAS TECH AND ACCELERATEH2O, A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE THAT SERVES URBAN RURAL, RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL, AGRICULTURAL AND PUBLIC WATER UTILITIES, HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR REGIONAL WATER INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP. THE PLAN IS INTENDED TO POSITION WEST TEXAS AS THE “NEW AMERICAN OASIS.” Fifty-five individuals representing a crosssection of federal, state, regional and public- and private-sector water interests convened at Texas Tech’s Innovation Hub and organized the partnership with AccelerateH2O, which works with water utilities by identifying alternative programs, methodologies and applications that ensure water is reused, conserved and better managed. Through additional collaboration with the Texas Rural Water Association, Texas Desalination Association and the High Plains Water Planning District, the partnership will propose and promote innovations to better manage and maintain the constantly evolving status of water in West Texas.

TEXAS TECH AND AMARILLO COLLEGE HAVE SIGNED AN INSTITUTION-TO-INSTITUTION MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, WHICH WILL ALLOW STUDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO TRANSFER MORE EASILY TO TECH. The need for the agreement arose from a meeting between Texas Tech and Amarillo College to further develop programs for students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics areas students wanting to transfer to a four-year university. The agreement gives students the option to finish their degree online or on-campus at Texas Tech.

THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ARMY ROTC, AIR FORCE ROTC AND THE MILITARY & VETERANS PROGRAM HOSTED THE ANNUAL VETERANS DAY RETREAT CEREMONY ON NOV. 10 AT MEMORIAL CIRCLE. The event featured U.S. Congressman Jodey Arrington and Lubbock Councilwoman Karen Gibson as speakers. The ceremony honored SUZIE CABALLERO TURNER , sister of Texas Tech alumna and Purple Heart Recipient STAFF SGT. VIRGINIA CABALLERO , as this year’s Gold Star Family through the laying of a wreath in Caballero’s honor. The ceremony also included a traditional retreat of the colors featuring retired STAFF SGT. DAVID WAYNE TURPIN , of the Texas Army National Guard 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry Regiment, as the bugler.

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TEXAS TECH’S CROSSROADS OF MUSIC ARCHIVE, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST COLLECTION/ SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY, IS HOME TO AN EXPANSIVE COLLECTION OF RESEARCH MATERIALS AND MUSIC MEMORABILIA FROM MANY DONORS INCLUDING DON CALDWELL STUDIOS. After Don Caldwell Studios closed, the tapes and other materials were stored in barns and sheds. Curtis Peoples, Crossroads of Music Archive archivist in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, and former employee of Caldwell Studios, was concerned the West Texas dust and weather would ruin the tapes, so he approached Caldwell, the University Libraries’ dean and the Southwest Collections director about moving the collection to Texas Tech.

Caldwell’s tapes would eventually be the cornerstone of the Crossroads of Music Archive, and Peoples would move into his current role as archivist. The same year the Caldwell Studios closed, the Texas legislature passed a resolution naming Lubbock and West Texas the Music Crossroads of Texas. As the archive was being developed, Peoples took the new designation as inspiration for its name. Featuring progressive country, folk, rock, Tejano and a variety of other genres, the archive is filled with music born in the South Plains.

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THE FIBER AND BIOPOLYMER RESEARCH INSTITUTE HELD A DEMONSTRATION OF AN INDIGO DYEING SYSTEM THEY DEVELOPED ON NOV. 14 AT THE INSTITUTE’S FACILITY. Representatives from the institute, the City of Lubbock, the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance and the U.S. textile manufacturing industry and Walmart Foundation were on hand for the demonstration of a breakthrough prototype system for applying indigo dye to cotton yarns using a foam medium. The prototype was made possible by grants totaling $747,564 from the Walmart Foundation and an additional $41,700 from the VF Corporation.

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ARTIST SHANE ALLBRITTON EXTRACTED VISUAL COMPONENTS FROM BLUEPRINTS, PHYSICS, FORMULAS, CALCULATIONS, MACHINERY AND DIAGRAMS, ALL OF WHICH ARE UTILITARIAN IN NATURE, TO CREATE “AUREOLE,” WHICH RECONFIGURES THEM TO CREATE A NEW ARTISTIC EXPRESSION AND ALLUDE TO THE PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. “Aureole,” or enlightened circle, employs these symbols from various fields and arranges them in a circular composition, like a mandala, which is in itself symbolic of a diagram or chart. Allbritton worked with Texas Tech University Department of Industrial Engineering professors to identify different areas within the industrial engineering field to visually represent within the discs. Each disc artistically represents one of the five areas within the Department of Industrial Engineering.

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little more than a century ago in the tiny settlement of Frisco, Texas, trains be-

gan rumbling through—with every pass, the ground trembled under their weight, causing the few nearby homes to shudder. These steam engines, and the cargo they pulled, opened the region to the ever-expanding American West and provided a much-needed link to the East. The railway ultimately established this North Texas city, and, it’s breathing life into the town again today albeit in a slightly different way.

Enter the Carters. You’re not likely to meet two more industrious people than Delisea and Zach

Carter ’00. Together they created Boxcar House, a company that uses wood and metal salvaged from retired railcars—most of which ran from the 1920s to the 1970s—to make bold, stunningly beautiful home accessories and furniture for every room of the house.

Although the company is fairly young—they launched in 2016—they’ve already drawn the attention of Chip and Joanna Gaines, who have one of their pieces in a home remodel on their HGTV show, “Fixer Upper.” They were also featured in The South’s Best Boutiques section of Southern Living magazine’s 2017 Holiday issue.

Every piece of Boxcar House’s furniture is matchless, its individual history woven into the metal and wood. To understand how the Carters have made something so unconventional work—turning boxcars into stunning desks, tables, chairs and more—you need to know about the couple behind the business.

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PROSPER Zach grew up in Prosper, Texas, the son of two entrepreneurial parents.

“My dad basically invented the first brushless carwash in Dallas,” says Zach, who earned his bachelor’s in restaurant, hotel and institutional management.

“He opened that in 1985. It was called Finish Line Car Wash down off Preston and Campbell and it was cutting edge, it was the only one. My sister and I would go fold towels used to dry the cars off. We’ve always worked. My parents made us work. We didn’t sit at home and play video games. We were always outside or working in the family business.”

By the time he was about 16, Zach decided he didn’t want to drive from Prosper into Dallas to work at the car wash, so he approached the owner of the local Chevrolet dealer, McIlroy Chevrolet, about a job.

“I called the service manager to ask if he was hiring and he told me they needed someone in the parts department to check in parts,” Zach says. “The inventory was kept on notecards, it was just a smalltown country dealership.”

The job turned out to be something Zach enjoyed, and it dovetailed with his love of cars. That first job gave him a small taste of financial freedom, such that when he came to Texas Tech, he held three different jobs at the same time while pursuing his degree.

“My parents were a big help when I started school, but there was an expectation for me to earn

Because the Carters salvage so many projects, they often have surplus lumber and metal. They established Boxcar Lumberyard as a way to offer excess materials to contractors and the public. Whether customers are searching for raw cargo wood, heavy wooden beams or well-aged corrugated tin, the Carters have it in stock.

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money as well,” says Zach. “I went to work for Plaza Cleaners on Boston Ave., but you know, back then, minimum wage wasn’t very much. So, then I got a second job on the weekends working in the parts department for Holiday RV, which was out on the loop…and while I was working at the cleaners I met a lady who owned some bingo halls, and she needed someone to hand out bingo cards. She told me it was pretty lucrative with tips. So, in the evenings and on Sundays, we’d go hand out bingo cards at the bingo hall.”

Zach says he recruited his sister and friends to work with him at the bingo hall, where he often earned up to $600 in tips. He admittedly spent a lot of time working while attending Tech, but, he notes, there was plenty of time for entertainment— whether it was a Tech football game or a party with his Sigma Nu fraternity brothers. He reflects on those years as some of the best of his life.

Once Zach wrapped things up at Tech, he moved home to Prosper to settle into working life.

“I started working for Enterprise Rent-A-Car out of college,” he says. “That was a month-to-month stint and it was just not what I wanted to do. They had me at a Jaguar dealership renting cars and I said to myself, ‘Man, I do not want to be here renting cars, I want to be selling parts.’”

He called his former employer at McIlroy Chevrolet, who offered him a position while he continued a job search.

“At that time (2001), they were in the process of building Land Rover Frisco,” he explains. “So, I worked for the Chevrolet dealership and applied for the position at Land Rover, and got the job.”

Zach started working for Land Rover Frisco when its doors opened in Feb. 2001, and today he oversees the entire parts department. His love for cars has become a vocation and an avocation, because he has always enjoyed rebuilding cars with his father.

“It started with my dad and me just buying a car,” Zach says. “We’d have one car that we’d play with, fix it up and drive it. I’d want something else, then I’d sell the car I had fixed up and buy something else. I started making money doing it as a hobby.”

The sideline of restoring old muscle cars grew to the point where he had multiple cars going at one time. They reached the point where they either needed to go all-in on the hot rod business—Prosper Supercars—or back it down to something more manageable again. Upon further consideration, Zach decided to take Prosper Supercars back to a father/son project—the larger scale operation had sucked some of the fun out of building hot rods, which was the reason they delved into cars in the first place.

Today, Prosper Supercars produces two or three cars a year that sell for $50,000-$60,000 a piece. Whereas he used to restore cars like the ’69 427 Biscayne, today it’s original-paint cars and pickups.

“I started doing the patina, original paint, barn-find cars, the cars that have been sitting outside for 30 years,” he says. “We take that, completely restore the chassis and put it on air ride and put an LS motor in it—that’s what I’ve gotten into, doing pickups and old cars like that, not touching the outside that nature created, but making it modern and low with big wheels.”

One of the main things he and wife Delisea have in common is their inability to remain idle.

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YOUNG Delisea grew up in Young County, attending school in Olney and graduating from Newcastle High School. She never felt drawn to attend college, and says she was ready for freedom immediately following high school.

“I remember in high school when we were all talking about where were we going to go for college,” Delisea says. “I said, ‘I just want to get out and do my thing.’ I can’t stand to sit still. Ever since I can remember, my dad was constantly telling me, ‘Find something you believe in. Find something you really want to do and do it. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. I don’t care what it is. I don’t care if you say you want to go walk on the moon, you can do it, and don’t let anyone discourage you.’ Through him, I was able to really just dream about all kinds of things and truly believe that I could do them.

“I ended up getting married after high school and then we had two kids,” she says of Magen, born in 1995, and Blake, born in 1996. “I guess my thing at the time was to stay home with them.”

By the time she was 23, she had divorced and was looking for a way to earn a living to support herself and her two young children. She says, at that point, she was in “survival mode.” She made ends meet

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by farming for her parents, working at United Supermarkets in Graham— where she’d also held a job during high school—and ultimately started her own in-home daycare.

When the only daycare in Olney went up for sale in 2003, Delisea saw an opportunity.

“Initially I said, ‘No, I don’t want to own a daycare center,’” she says. “But there wasn’t another daycare center…I decided to go and tour it and see what it was all about. There were only about 12 kids enrolled—that’s it.”

Delisea purchased the business and, before long, she had bumped that number to more than 80 children. She knew many of the new kids who enrolled because they were children of people she’d grown up around.

But she also thought about a demographic that had previously been overlooked—she went door-to-door in the local Section 8 housing apartments.

“I would knock on doors and ask the women, ‘Where are your kids going (for daycare)?’” she explains. “So many times the women would say, ‘I want to work, but I can’t a get a job, and if I do get a job, then I lose some of my benefits.’”

Delisea used her connections and began to find work for the women. She says 99 percent of the women said they did want to work, but their circumstances prevented them from holding a job.

“I found them work at the hospital or nursing facility where they needed certified nurse’s aides and things like that,” she says. “They weren’t glamorous jobs, but it was getting them out and creating a productive member of society. Plus, their kids were coming to my daycare center.”

Most of the women didn’t have access to a car to get to a job.

“I had a 15-passenger van and I would get up at 4:00 in the morning,” she says. “I would go around Olney picking these women up, taking them to work, and taking their kids to the daycare center. Every Friday, at the end of the day, I would load up their kids and then go pick up the moms after work.

We’d park at the grocery store and the ladies would go in and get things they needed from the grocery store.”

During this time, to boost her monthly income, Delisea purchased a little house in Olney as a rental property. With her income from the business and the rent house, she was making it. She knew, however, that she wasn’t long for Olney.

She often visited Frisco, where one of her life-long friends, Amber Robles, lived, and she knew that was where she wanted to be.

“One day, I remember I was sitting at the country club, by the swimming pool,” she says. “Magen and Blake are swimming and I remember I called Amber and I said, ‘I think I’m going to sell everything I have and move to Frisco…That’s what I’m going to do.’ And I did.”

Within two weeks Delisea had sold everything: the rental house, the daycare center, everything. At the same time Delisea made her decision to move, the house next door to Amber came up for rent. Delisea snapped it up.

The job Delisea had accepted prior to moving, a food and nutrition administrator for daycares, was phased out shortly after her move. Left without a way to earn money, she took the advice of a friend who encouraged her to become a realtor.

“I went to real estate school, got my real estate license, got out and I hustled,” Delisea says. “I was doing anything and everything I could to get business, but it’s really hard, especially when you’re in an area where all your friends are new friends.

It’s just different.”

Never one to back down from a challenge, she ended up partnering with another woman in her office.

“We were the No. 1 team the entire time we were with Re/ Max,” she says. “It went from just a couple of closings to 20, 30, 40 a year. It was just nonstop.”

But as with the daycare business, Delisea didn’t approach real estate in the same manner as many other realtors. She went with rather unorthodox—and very savvy—methods to earn her customers’ loyalty.

“I did extensive research on certain cultures because I was getting a lot of clients who came from other areas, and these people from other cultures would come in and were often very guarded. If I had clients from India I would immediately ask them to tell me a little bit about themselves, then ask, ‘Is Vastu important to you?’” she says, referring to the Hindu system of architecture, or directions, that often guide home design in traditional Indian culture. “When I would ask that, their eyes would light up…they would let down their guard and I became their friend. I cared enough to learn about their culture, to help them get the house they would be happy with.”

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A UNION Both Zach and Delisea’s careers were going great guns. The two had been introduced by Amber, Delisea’s friend.

They knew each other for years before they started dating. Though Zach often encouraged Delisea to meet friends out at local restaurants and bars, she often declined, noting her focus was on her two kids and her real estate career.

“Amber and her husband would have cookouts every Sunday, and since my kids and I lived next door we were always there,” Delisea says. “We always had so much fun and Zach was always there. We became great friends.”

She says mutual friends often asked why the two weren’t dating—they seemed to get along so well. It wasn’t until they took a trip together to the Texas Hill Country that they admitted there was something there.

“One weekend he called me and asked, ‘Do you want to go on a road trip?’” she says. “I hadn’t had a vacation in a long time…I was working nonstop. I said, ‘Sure, I’ve never been to the Hill Country. Let’s go.’

Donny Churchman, president of Nack Development, provided this rendering of The Tower at The Rail, which shows Boxcar House’s new home (the structure with black awnings). The 2-story development boasts: 8,000 square feet of interior space; retail and office space; restaurants; eight luxury brownstones as well as an open park and green spaces.

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“Those four days we were on the road trip together, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I really like him…’”

In 2009, on another weekend trip to the Hill Country, Zach proposed at Sister Creek Winery in Sisterdale. They married in April 2010.

So there was this union of two very industrious people—something big was bound to happen. But before Boxcar House came to be, their lives took a few turns. In 2010, Delisea received a terrifying diagnosis. She and her daughter visited a dermatologist. Delisea wanted her daughter to have a once-over and she needed to have a small, pesky freckle on her lower left leg looked at. The dermatologist, concerned by the spot, ended up removing it.

“I had a terrible gut feeling after that,” she says. “On Aug. 23 (2010), my oldest son’s birthday, I got a call that I had melanoma. I was in shock…I had no idea how deadly melanoma was.”

Delisea underwent a series of tests, and she was told she was cancer-free. The scare, she says, put her life into perspective, and she made some major changes.

Zach and Delisea knew they wanted a child together, and consider themselves blessed to call themselves parents to Delisea’s children as well as their son together, Wyatt, who was born in 2012. Delisea walked away from real estate in order to be a full-time mom.

As Wyatt got older and more independent, Delisea began to get the itch to be busy outside the home again. Zach had been in touch with a friend in Oklahoma who was salvaging boxcars and making furniture out of the flooring.

The friend had gotten to the point where he just wanted to salvage the boxcars and sell the wood and metal, he wanted out of the furniture side.

“I asked Delisea if she’d want to open a furniture store,” Zach says.

Initially she declined.

“A week or two later I was deleting some emails,” she says. “Zach had sent me some pictures of this boxcar furniture and I never even opened the email. I opened one of the attachments and it was the Diploma Desk. I realized this furniture was not what I thought it was going to be, I loved it. I immediately called Zach and said, ‘I want to open a furniture store.’”

In less than a week, the couple found warehouse space from which they launched Boxcar House in July 2016.

In a stroke of good fortune for the Carters, the city of Frisco has been diligently working toward revitalizing and building up their downtown into a shopping and dining destination. A local development company (see sidebar) knew Boxcar House would be the perfect foundation for the project, which will break ground in the spring of 2018. (see architect’s rendering). The Carters will move all operations to the new building.

This expansion will not only allow Boxcar House to grow, but the structure will also house a café on the top floor. Before their very eyes, their once small business is growing into a little retail empire in historic Frisco. And like the railroad was a century ago, Boxcar House will be the center of commerce in downtown Frisco.

Frisco, Texas, sits on part of what was once known as the Shawnee Trail—which ran from where Austin is today, north to the Red River. In the mid-1800s, wagon trains used the route, moving southward, to usher immigrants into Texas, and, northward, cowboys herded cattle to market on the trail. Eventually, the trail—later called the Preston Trail after Capt. William C. Preston, a veteran of the Texas Revolution—was chosen as a route for the railroad.

In 1902 a section of rail line was completed that ran from Denison to Carrollton, which zipped through the middle of today’s Frisco—the railroad was part of the St. Louis, San Francisco Railroad. Though the town was initially dubbed Eurida, folks at stations along the line began calling the town “Frisco,” short for the San Francisco Railroad. In 1904, residents decided Frisco would be the town’s permanent name.

The railroad opened the area to travelers and commerce, and was ultimately the reason the region began to expand. As the 1900s progressed and alternate forms of transportation moved in, the popularity of trains waned, however, the region’s population would not have multiplied as it has were it not for the railroad’s arrival. Today Frisco is home to more than 163,000 people, and it’s still growing.

With the rapid expansion of the town, city planners have endeavored to honor Frisco’s history with careful detail where commercial development is concerned. Nack Development, LLC, of Frisco, is spearheading a major project—The Tower—which will break ground this spring at the intersection of Elm and 7th Streets. Boxcar House will be the anchor for The Tower at The Rail. The Carters will dedicate the downstairs portion of the two-story building to constructing furniture and to a generous showroom. The upstairs will house a café.

The Tower at the Rail will be a perfect dovetailing of Frisco’s past and future, the Boxcar House bringing the railroad, once again, front and center.

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Honors RESIDENCE HALL Last fall, more than 300 students moved into the stunning and modern Honors Hall, located near the Rawls College of Business.

The 77,292-square-foot co-ed hall features living arrangements unique among all the other halls on campus. Residents of the hall enjoy pod-style living, meaning four rooms, each housing two students, share a sizable, centrally located restroom. Facilities Planning & Construction partnered with Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects, Mackey Mitchell Architects and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company on the 17 month project.

Upon entering the hall, students and visitors are met by high ceilings, an expansive lobby area filled with usable space, and a full-service Starbucks, ready to fulfill every student’s caffeine-related needs.

The best part? The coffee shop accepts dining bucks, part of each student’s pre-purchased meal plan.

Each of the four stories within the residence hall contains a study lounge area, complete with special furniture wired with outlets to ensure all laptops stay fully charged while students finish up their research reports.

In addition to the modern conveniences that now come standard in most residence halls (laundry rooms, cable TV, wireless internet) each individual room features moveable furniture, where residents can configure the layout of their room to an arrangement that is both ergonomic and efficient. Some students opt for bunk beds, allowing space for desks.

So what are the residents saying? What makes living in the Honors residence hall so great, and superior to the others?

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Kort Alexander, a freshman biology major from Wall, Texas, commends the convenience and increased productivity levels the hall’s pod-style living affords him.

“I think the study pods were a great idea. They’re a great place to hang out with friends, and it’s really convenient to be able to study there without having to walk across campus to the library.”

The aptly named residence hall primarily houses students in the Texas Tech University Honors College.

Like other residence halls on Tech’s expansive campus, the hall recognizes the proven advantages and benefits of grouping similar students, but differs in that it intermingles honors students of all disciplines.

“It’s nice to be around other students who are serious about academics,” said Alexander.

Honors College Dean Michael San Francisco acknowledges the good that comes from uniting diverse backgrounds from the Honors College in the Honors Hall.

“Placing students from different disciplines and backgrounds, with varied interests and aspirations, in the same environment provides a cauldron for interdisciplinary and interaction. This residence hall, with very special learning and interactive spaces, provides nuclei where learning is stimulated and the opportunity for discussion promoted.”

But it’s not just about having good spaces to hit the books though—residents of the Honors Hall can address each and every craving next door at Murray Hall, which has a Sam’s Place market and food court on its ground floor. Sam’s Place features a build-your-own sandwich and salad station, Mexican and Asian cuisine, and American favorites like burgers and chicken strips, in addition to seasonal fare.

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As Tech’s student population continues to grow, so does the quality and luxury of its accommodations. In addition to great study spaces and food options, residents are also met with the finest bathroom facilities. Many college grads depart from freshman year with communal bathroom horror stories. Honors residents enjoy bathrooms shared only with people living within their “pod.” Other conveniences the hall offers include a multipurpose room, perfect for making presentations or hosting a large group meeting.

The pleasant aesthetic doesn’t end at the double doors of the building, though. The courtyard is fully landscaped, and will soon, like other residence halls on campus, be graced by a public art installation. “Wandering,” by Marc Fornes, is a 16-and 18-foot-tall and 50-foot-long painted-aluminum, structural-shade piece.

The Honors Hall is not just a place for students to simply live, it is a place where they can foster friendships with fellow students and grow in their academic pursuits, all while surrounded by amenities specially and carefully designed to make their lives easier and more efficient.

As students prepare to make a major transition in their lives, from living at home to living on their own, who wouldn’t want to live at the Honors Hall?

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“Art is what defines us, what makes us human.”

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MISSIONARY

BY JEAN ANN CANTORE | PHOTOS COURTESY OF VISWA SUBBARAMAN

People may feel pulled toward a certain profession because they have the skills to pursue it or because they recognize there is a future in it for them. Others, though, have the view they can contribute to the larger good by working in a certain profession—they are called to pursue that career.

Viswa Subbaraman is a freelance music conductor who falls into the latter category. He communicates through his music, working toward keeping the classical music art form “relevant and alive.” In other words, he is a sort of musical missionary.

He has enhanced his career in the orchestra and opera worlds by studying and working under the direction of master conductors such as Kurt Masur, John Nelson, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti and Sir Colin Davis.

The Big Spring, Texas, native earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in music and biology from Duke University in 1998. He completed a master’s degree in music performance from Texas Tech University in 2002.

He also received his MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

He has traveled the world to study music and direct both symphonic and operatic productions. His work has taken him to Paris, London, Bombay, Amsterdam and Salzburg. In the United States, he has conducted in venues in Colorado Springs; New York City; Longview, Texas; Midland and Odessa, Texas; and Santa Cruz, California.

Most recently, he spent three years as artistic director of the renowned Milwaukee Musical Theatre, where he managed a $3.5 million budget and produced seven productions from start to finish each season. During this time, he realized he wanted to focus only on opera and orchestra as opposed to musical theatre.

All these experiences have led him to his current career success as a sought-after freelance symphony conductor.

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His original plan was a far cry from his reality.

Growing up in Big Spring, Texas, in a family full of physicians, including his father, a surgeon, Subbaraman always thought he would become a doctor. He loved science and was interested in medicine, so it seemed to fit.

He chose to pursue degrees in both biology and music at Duke University.

“The second semester my sophomore year, The Duke Symphony Orchestra spent a semester in Vienna,” Subbaraman says. “I did the study-abroad program with them. It was a basically a semester focused on music. I had always thought I would minor or double major in music because I had an interest in it. I thought it would be a lifelong hobby. It worked out that I could still do my biology degree and my music degree.

“In Vienna, we performed concerts in Linz, and also in Budapest and Prague. I took a class called ‘Opera in Vienna.’ As part of that class, I saw 15 operas that semester. My host family, which was amazing, had seasons tickets to the Vienna Philharmonic. The first professional orchestra performance I ever saw was the Vienna Philharmonic with Claudio Abbado. When you are surrounded by it and you see that people are making a living making music, you realize music is a career possibility.”

He had made his decision. The next step was convincing his parents that he could make a go of it in the world of professional conducting.

“I made a deal with my parents that I could pursue music if I would finish my biology degree so I would have something to fall back on,” he says.

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Ironically, music was not always something Subbaraman took seriously or even enjoyed. His parents enrolled him in violin when he was in third grade, mainly so he would have an extracurricular activity for college and medical school applications. He switched to trombone in sixth grade.

That is when the light came on for him.

“I played in band pretty much all through middle school and high school,” he says. “At first, I was the worst about practicing. The instrument would sit in the car between lessons. I never practiced.

“Then I had a band director who had a practice sheet—a half hour every day. My parents had to sign it. For the first time, in eighth grade, I had to practice. It was amazing that when you put some time in, how much better you get. I began to understand that when you reach a point where you have some technical ability, you may be able to say something beyond the notes and the rhythm on page.

“It was really in eighth grade that I began to understand that you could communicate with what you play. That takes a level of technique before you can get there.

“When you are surrounded by it and you see that people are making a living making music, you realize music is a career possibility.”

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OFF THE PODIUM WITH VISWA SUBBARAMAN WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CUISINE? Either Indian or French depending on the day... or

Mexican... or Southern... I just love food.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FAST FOOD? I love going into McDonald’s when I travel because they

do random “burgers” for other markets—India has a McAloo Tikka, and Thailand has a wonderful variety of food.

IN WHAT CITIES DO YOU FEEL MOST AT HOME, AND WHY? Paris—and I have no idea why it is

the most at home I feel anywhere in the world. I love the people, the food, the language, the culture, etc.

Houston is, to me, and I know it’s going to set off some hate mail, the city that represents the greatness and the international side of Texas the best. It has such an incredible diversity while capturing those aspects of growing up in West Texas that I loved. It’s all of Texas and the world in one city.

IF YOU COULD HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT FOR JUST ONE DAY, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT? I would love the ability to magically make people walk in each other’s

shoes for a day. I feel like we spend too little time realizing everyone has a journey, and we don’t always know what that journey is. I would use it to bring peace in areas of religious tension.

ASIDE FROM THE MUSIC YOU CONDUCT, WHAT MUSIC DO YOU ENJOY LISTENING TO? I’m

weirdly a huge old school music fan. I love ’70s and ’80s bands. I grew up on Pearl Jam, Snoop Dogg and Garth Brooks. I still try to see Dave Matthews Band when they’re on tour. I actually have a mix of that sort of stuff on my phone.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE AND WHY? “Cinema Paradiso.” It’s the ultimate romantic artist story. It captures those broken hearted moments we put into our work while also capturing the people who make us who we are. Admittedly, I’ve felt a kinship with the adult version of the main character—focused on art, living all over and never really finding that one missing piece of the puzzle.

WHAT IS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? “Maestros and Their Music,” but

I’m currently dragging “Moby Dick” around again.

IF YOU WERE TO BECOME ANYTHING BESIDES A CONDUCTOR, MUSICIAN, PHYSICIAN OR SCIENTIST, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? Venture

capital portfolio manager/evaluator. I think it’s like conducting but in finance. There’s a lot of analysis, but in the end, it’s art.

WHAT IS THE BIGGEST SURPRISE YOU HAVE EVER HAD? The biggest

surprise I ever have had was winning my job with Kurt Masur in Paris.

WHAT COUNTRY HAVE YOU NOT VISITED THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO? Uzbekistan. I have a weird fascination with the

Mongol Hordes.

WHAT IS YOUR WISH IN 2018? For the world, greater

listening to each other in the hopes of finding those points of tolerance and empathy.

For me, maybe adding that one piece that seems to have eluded me in my life.

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With his bachelor’s degree from Duke in hand, he served as an assistant to William Henry Curry, resident conductor of the North Carolina Symphony. He then returned to his native Texas. After earning his master’s degree from Texas Tech, he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study conducting with John Nelson in Paris.

“My second month there, I saw an advertisement for what I thought was a master class, only to find out a week before, it was an audition,” he says. “Fortunately, I had studied the repertoire.”

That audition ended up with his spending three years with the French National Orchestra and also worked as the visiting assistant conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.

Had he not studied in Europe at the beginning of his conducting career, it might have been another story for the conductor.

“What we do in the U.S. to young American conductors that makes it even more difficult is we start out by doing all the children’s symphonies and then the regional ones, which are incredibly important because they are your first real contact with the public and getting into what we do,” he says. “I had passed that level to where people take you seriously enough to do the classics. Once you’ve done your ‘Harry Potter,’ people look at you and go, ‘OK. He knows how to do that.’”

Working in Europe put him at a higher level than he would have reached, had he started his career on American soil.

Another obstacle he faced upon his return to the U.S. was stereotyping. Although he worked with many esteemed conductors in Europe, back in the United States, he found

roadblocks simply because he didn’t fit the stereotype of a conductor.

“I’ve spent time working with great conductors, and I have assisted Muti and others who are some of the greatest conductors of all time,” he says. “Then I came home back and had regional orchestra auditions for assistant conductor auditions.

“I was still considered too young to be a major conductor. We have this idea in the backs of our minds that you’re either a rock star or you have age.

Conductors are either white-haired old people, or there’s the concept of a young hip person with an awesome accent from somewhere in Europe.”

OK. Perhaps à la Gael Garcia Bernal’s character Maestro Rodrigo in the scripted television series “Mozart in the Jungle”?

Although Subbaraman has not seen the “Mozart” television series, simply because he thinks it is difficult to watch a dramatization of what he does for a living, he enjoys the “semblance of understanding” of his career it provides people.

“There is another difference between the U.S. and Europe,” he says. “I love going back to Europe.

Every time I go back, inevitably, I am in a taxi and I end up telling the driver what I do. I’ve had drivers sing their favorite arias to me. Once I landed in Vienna to see my host family, and I get in the cab from the airport, and I’m talking to the taxi driver who starts telling me which night I should go to the opera because the soprano is better that night. He said he had gone these nights and that the soprano was better on those nights. I thought, ‘Where else?’”

Relocating to Houston—a city known for welcoming the arts—he decided he would start his own opera company. Opera Vista not only was a proving ground in the U.S. for the conductor, but it also enabled him to produce modern operatic works for which he has a great passion.

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DAVE DIRENTIS DAVE DIRENTIS DOMINIC M. MERCIER

TOP Transgender boy John Blue (countertenor John Holiday) sings of feeling trapped in a body that does not love him.

MIDDLE Un/Sung (Lauren Whitehead, center) surrounded by the OGs (original ghosts) that inhabit the condemned Osage Avenue home on the site of the 1985 MOVE bombing (from left, Tendayi Kuumba, Caci Cole Pritchett, Michael Bishop and Duane Lee Holland, Jr.).

BOTTOM Un/Sung (spoken word artist Lauren Whitehead) consoles an injured John Henry (bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock).

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The arts do not exist in a vacuum. Opera requires music, a libretto, costumes, artistic props and backdrops as well as staging and choreography.

In his role as an operatic conductor, Subbaraman not only must know the musical score inside and out, but he must know the libretto, understand the actors’ and singers’ positions on stage and their timing for movements. Hence, seeing the arts as separate elements as well as how they fit together is crucial for leading a production.

“When I had my Fulbright, I went to Paris, one of the greatest cities in the world for art,” he says. “I knew nothing. As a classical musician, I knew nothing about art. I didn’t know the difference between an impressionist or a cubist, whatever. I got lucky. I had a friend in Paris, through a mutual friend, who was a professional artist. I would take him to concerts, and we’d talk about music, and he’d take me to museums, and we’d talk about art.

“It’s not fair to look around and say we’re culturally illiterate because we are and have not had the opportunity to learn it in schools, but I look at the number of books I still need to read. Who’s read ‘Moby Dick’ recently? Who’s read ‘Don Quixote’?

We don’t do that anymore. I include myself in that.

Then the question becomes, ‘How do we create that level of understanding we need?’ I do think there’s a reason it’s held on so long in Europe.”

Another aspect of the musical world Subbaraman laments is that people do not often understand is how politics and history influence art. During the late 1700s and early 1800s, Napoleon Bonaparte’s declaring himself “emperor” had a huge impact on society as a whole as well as the arts.

“It all ties together,” he says. “You can’t understand Mozart without thinking about the Enlightenment, and you can’t understand the Enlightenment without understanding what was going on in France at the time with Napoleon. You begin to realize Napoleon’s impact on Beethoven’s music.”

That influence prompted Beethoven to write his Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” as well as other pieces including his Concerto No. 5 in E-flat minor, “The Emperor.”

Subbaraman goes on to explain that opera often is based on other controversial, political works.

An example he gives is that “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart is based on a banned libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte about the class system in Italy in the 18th Century.

“It doesn’t show the class system in a good way either,” he says.

Productions Subbaraman heads today echo the politics and high emotion of those earlier works.

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At “We Shall Not Be Moved” are Subbaraman, left, with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, center, and Bill T. Jones, director.

He just completed a premiere of the modern opera “We Shall Not be Moved” with Opera Philadelphia.

The production was in conjunction with Harlem’s Apollo Theater and London’s Hackney Empire.

“That work was about a police shooting/ hostage situation in Philadelphia in a neighborhood that had actually dealt with a bombing,” he says. “Philadelphia is one of the only places where Americans have bombed Americans. The Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a neighborhood in 1985. The backdrop was they bombed a neighborhood, and we did a show that was primarily

by African-Americans and about a story relevant to African-Americans.

“We had to figure out how to make it a serious discussion. We didn’t want it to be anti-police, we didn’t want it to be anti-black; we wanted it to be a discussion. When you try to build a show like that, there are an incredible number of challenges you deal with. It’s more complicated when you have to do it with music.”

The production was a huge success.

Although Subbaraman’s work itself is gratifying, as is the feedback from the audience, being a conductor is not all glamour. In fact, there is a decidedly unglitzy side to it.

“After a production, I get home, and it’s three days before I feel I am functional,” he says. “I’m filing away my music. There’s always a little sadness. You fall in love with these pieces. They become your kids, particularly when you’re part of the premiere. I jokingly say, ‘I have birthed 10 operas.’

I was midwife for 10 operas. That’s a legacy.

“It’s amazing to be able to say I was part of making this new work. You fall in love with them then you have to close the score and put it back on the bookshelf. Maybe your next project isn’t for another month-and-a-half, so how do you keep yourself motivated? You start looking at that next piece. That’s the other side of it.

“There is nothing like being in front of that audience and making music happen. It’s the greatest moment in the world. I remember doing a New Year’s concert in France one year. I remember walking out of the theatre and people across the square yelling how much fun they had. Those are the moments. When a season’s ticketholder hugs you, that’s a great moment.

When the piece works, and you help to define a singer in a position to make the audience cry, those are “moments.”

When Subbaraman feels he has touched his audience and made an impact on them in some way, he knows he has done his job.

In other words—musical mission accomplished.

For more information about Subbaraman, visit www.viswasubbaraman.com www.L2artists.com

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Texas Tech Mourns Passing of Gerald “Corky” Oglesby CORKY OGLESBY, A FRIEND TO MANY, PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 81.

BY MATT DOWDY, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

the beloved former Texas Tech track and field coach and longtime Red Raider Club staffer, passed away Nov. 19 following a battle with cancer.

He was 81.

For over 40 years, Oglesby’s name was synonymous with Texas Tech Athletics as he was an assistant men’s basketball coach under both Bob Bass and Gerald Myers before spending 20 years as the head men’s track and field coach. He then transitioned to a special projects coordinator in the Red Raider Club, a position he remained active in up until his passing.

“Corky Oglesby is a legend,” Texas Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt said. “He in so many ways demonstrated what being a Red Raider is all about. It’s a special legacy that Corky has left behind – one we will always remember and always be with this athletics department and in this community. He was a cherished individual that will be deeply, deeply missed by all of us.”

Doctors discovered cancer in Oglesby this past summer soon after the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, one of his favorite events each year. The diagnosis didn’t crush his spirits, though, as Oglesby was still a regular at Texas Tech events in the months to come, including recent Red Raider football and basketball games.

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Oglesby was adamant that those around him not mourn for him. In fact, he declared he did not want a funeral when he passed. Instead, he preferred a party with friends and family, so he could hear the nice tributes that would be said.

A party it was.

Friends and family of Oglesby traveled to Lubbock from across the country in early August to tell stories of the man many simply knew as “Corky.” Former players, colleagues and even some of the coaches Oglesby faced recalled their favorite Corky stories during the three-plus hour party.

Those who knew him likely had a good Corky story. There were plenty that night, ranging from his early years in Lubbock to his recruitment of certain former players to even his favorite holein-the wall restaurants throughout the states of Texas and Oklahoma.

Towards the end of the ceremony, Texas Tech track and field coach Wes Kittley eloquently described his longtime friend. He was a Texas Tech “icon,” Kittley said to the lines of tables on the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum floor.

“We lost a treasure today,” Kittley said following Oglesby’s passing. “He was a blessing for me to have him in my life. I can’t tell you what he’s meant to me over the years. I’ll definitely miss him. He was Mr. Texas Tech to me. He gave his life to Texas Tech and touched hundreds if not thousands of lives along the way. He truly loved Texas Tech and it showed.”

Many of the friendships Oglesby developed were fostered soon after his move to Lubbock on April 1, 1969. Oglesby was hired that day to be the new assistant men’s basketball coach under Bass, a position he’d flourish in as he recruited several of the Red Raiders’ top players for both Bass and later Myers.

During his time on the basketball staff, the Red Raiders boasted six-consecutive winning seasons and a 98-57 overall record, which included a 58-26 mark in Southwest Conference play. His tenure was highlighted by a Southwest Conference regular-season championship during the 1972-73 season and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

“Corky was just a really good guy,” said Myers, who retained Oglesby on his staff when he took over for Bass in 1971 and then rehired him to the Red Raider Club in 1997. “We knew each other for 48 years, and he was always very close and dear to me. Corky was a very loyal and smart guy. He had a great sense of humor. I don’t think he ever forgot a name once he met someone. We’ll miss him a lot, but he’ll always have a special place in our memory.”

Oglesby’s love belonged on the track, however, as he served 20 years (1975-95) as head coach of the Red Raiders, the longest tenure for a track coach in school history. His list of successful athletes included 32 All-Americans, 11 SWC outdoor champions and seven SWC indoor individual champions. To this date, Oglesby coached 12 individuals that still own Tech all-time records, including nine outdoor track and field school records.

Oglesby remained active in the sport for the next 20 years as well, serving as a meet official for several of the top events throughout the country each year. He was passionate about the sport, regularly attending the NCAA Championships as well as several Olympics.

In all, Oglesby spent nearly 50 years serving in some capacity within Texas Tech Athletics. For his years of service and dedication, Oglesby was inducted in 2014 to the Texas Tech Hall of Honor, which is reserved for those who make outstanding contributions to Texas Tech Athletics.

“The Red Raider family has lost one of our most beloved members,” Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec said.

“Corky was a great man, who made a difference in the lives of many individuals and Texas Tech University and he will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

Texas Tech honored Oglesby’s legacy again when the track and field program hosted the Corky Classic, the first event hosted in the newly-opened Sports Performance Center. The nation’s elite programs such as Oklahoma State, Baylor, Texas and LSU came to Lubbock Jan. 13 for what Kittley says will become an annual event to honor Oglesby’s memory.

“It’s hard for me to imagine having a track meet without Corky there by my side,” Kittley said. “We went everywhere together. We went to the Olympics together and traveled the world for meets. Every championship I won, Corky was there.

He was so selfless, and that’s maybe what I’ll remember best about him. Texas Tech really lost an icon today.”

THE FIRST CORKY CLASSIC HELD JAN. 13 IN NEW FACILITY The inaugural track and field event in Texas Tech’s new Sports Performance Center was the Corky Classic, named after the late Gerald “Corky” Oglesby, who passed away Nov. 19.

During the meet, Texas Tech’s champion high jumper Trey Culver surpassed expectations when he totaled seven first-attempt clearances on his eight cleared heights. At 2.24m Culver had already entered the Texas Tech record book. At 2.30m, he was not only the school record holder, but the national and world leader. To conclude competition, Culver soared over a final bar of 2.33m/7-7.75 to hold the fourth-best high jump clearance in NCAA history. This height is not only the No. 4 All-Time NCAA mark, but the highest jump in the NCAA since 2013.

CHARLES BROWN secured the No. 2 All-Time TTU mark of

8.03m/26-4.25 in his second pass of the men’s long jump.

This indoor personal best currently leads the nation by over eight-inches and tops the world list.

ZARRIEA WILLIS took first place with her 1.82m/5-11.50 final mark. This height ties her already No. 3 all-time spot in the Texas Tech records.

Freshman G’AUNA EDWARDS secured the final win for the jumps squad as she had a 5.99m/19-8 leap in her last attempt.

NORMAN GRIMES claimed the first Red Raider win of the

Corky Classic in the men’s 600Y run, ending at an 1:11.78 pace.

In the 400m dash, newcomer TYREEK MATHIS took firstplace and hit a new lifetime best of 46.48, improving from his previous best of 46.93 for Penn State at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships last year.

Another No. 2 All-Time record was secured by sprinter DIVINE ODUDURU , who finished first amongst attached athletes with his 6.66 60-meter dash time.

Overall, Tech totaled 19 top-three finishes over the 26 events in which they competed.

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RHONDA RHODES IN WHAT CITY DO YOU RESIDE?

Englewood, Colorado.

WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD? I am a

new board member.

WHAT WAS YOUR MAJOR AND CLASS YEAR AT TECH, PLUS ANY OTHER DEGREES YOU MAY HAVE EARNED? I have

WHAT IS ONE THING YOU’VE ENJOYED SEEING OCCUR RECENTLY AT TEXAS TECH? The incredible growth of the university, not

only in enrollment and campus expansion, but also the February 2016 designation of Carnegie Tier One status.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK? Difficult to say, but a book that I recently enjoyed was “More Beautiful Than Before”

by Rabbi Steve Leder. The book’s subtitle is “How Suffering Transforms Us.”

WHERE ARE YOU EMPLOYED AND WHAT IS YOUR POSITION?

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE? “Philadelphia.”

WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS? Terry

Howard (husband) and Ragan Armstrong (daughter), who is a 2003 Tech graduate.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN WHICH YOU WERE INVOLVED AS A STUDENT AT TECH: As a single parent during law school, my activi-

ties were pretty limited, but I was on the Texas Tech Law Review and was a member of the Christian Legal Society.

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a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Lubbock Christian, a master’s degree in education from Eastern New Mexico University and I earned a law degree from Tech in 1988.

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WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS AND HOBBIES? Jazzercise, travel

and annual mission trips to Juarez.

WHAT CHARACTER TRAIT DO YOU VALUE HIGHLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL? Integrity.

IF YOU COULD ASK FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE TO YOUR HOME FOR AN EVENING, WHO WOULD THEY BE? My mom (Virginia

Rhodes); Barbara Jordan, the woman at the well (from John 4); Alexander Hamilton, President Obama and George Strait.

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Miscellany: Look of the Tech Co-Ed from the 1968 “La Ventana” “The look of the Tech co-ed changes with the seasons. At times it’s boots, sweaters and heavy coats, to combat the heavy snows of winter. In the spring, mini skirts, pants, dresses and sandals frolic across a soft green campus. Accompanying all these are the all-too-common scarves, as protection against the winds of the high plains. The style of the Tech campus is that of the individual.

“But for this Tech co-ed . . . It’s hard to say if she is ignoring fashion or starting a new fad!”

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BOOKS CHRIS MCGOFF (MS ’03 Interdisciplinary Studies) Silver Spring, Maryland, authored his second book, Match in the Root Cellar: How You Can Spark a Peak Performance Culture. Chris follows the story of Carolyn Qualey, a CEO who finds herself immersed in a broken, sullen culture, and discovers that even in the midst of darkness, everyone has the ability to shine. He explains that anyone in an organization has the ability to strike the match, to repel a dark default organizational culture and stand for something better. His first book, The Primes, was a field manual for those ready to step up to serious challenges and create a brighter future in their organization. Chris is the co-founder of The Clearing, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based management consulting firm. His wife is CLAIRE NEWMAN MCGOFF (BS ’82 Food & Nutrition).

JEAN FOSTER HENDRY (BBA Marketing) Centennial, Colorado, has developed her own business which focuses on empowering women. Be Brilliant, an Executive Presence & Image consulting firm focuses on bringing women to their fullest potential through helping them realize their gifts and strengths, and how they can be a driving force in their business or organization.

In addition to private consultation, Hendry also is a public speaker.

1978 RENÉE BERGENHEIER UNDERWOOD

CRAIG SMITH (JD ’76 Law) Dallas, a Texas judge, has col-

laborated with Winston & Strawn Dallas managing partner Tom Melsheimer in writing a legal reference titled “On the Jury Trial: Principles and Practices for Effective Advocacy.” The book outlines the process of jury selection, witness preparation, opening statements, jury research and more. It provides a fly-on-the-wall insight into world-class trial preparation and strategy. Before being elected to the 192nd District Court in Dallas County in 2006, Smith was an accomplished Texas trial lawyer for more than 25 years. As a judge, he was recognized as Trial Judge of the Year by the Dallas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. His wife is Michele.

1961 DAN WEBSTER (BBA Business) San

Antonio, was selected for the 2017 Life Achievement Award in the Outstanding Lawyers Program. Dan, who has practiced law for 53 years, is an attorney at Dykema Cox Smith. He is a former member of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

1977 LES BURKE (BAR Architecture) Midland,

Texas, has been promoted to Senior Associate at the largest engineering and architecture firm in West Texas, Parkhill, Smith & Cooper. Burke is a Studio Leader at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper’s K-12 Sector

in Midland, and his expertise lies in educational facility planning and renovation. He is also well versed in building codes and the requirements for the Texas Department of Licensing and RegulationTexas Accessibility Standards. He has been with Parkhill, Smith & Cooper for 23 years of his career in architecture spanning 40 years. His wife is CARYL J. BURKE ’76 (BSE Elementary Education.)

JT “JOHN” CALAWAY (BA

Telecommunications) Orlando, Florida, has been selected to narrate My Father’s War: Memories from Our Honored WWII Soldiers by Charley Valera. Calaway, who is a voice actor, says he is very honored narrate the incredible stories of valor and sacrifice from WWII veterans. The book is available on the author’s website at www.charleyvalera.com, or on Amazon Audible and iTunes. His wife is Elizabeth.

(BA Telecommunications) Fort Worth, Texas, will serve as associate director of the Advancement Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth. She is a past board president of the Texas Tech Alumni Association and currently serves on the board of directors of the International Catholic Stewardship Council. She is also involved in the Northeast Tarrant County Chapter of Texas Tech Alumni Association.

1988 CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN (BLA Landscape Architecture) Clinton, Mississippi, has transitioned to past president and chair of the committee on nominations for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards after concluding his one-year term as president of the organization. CLARB works to protect and ensure that all individuals who affect the natural and built environment through landscape architecture are qualified to do so. Christopher has served in a variety of leadership positions through CLARB, most notably serving as president from 2016-2017 leading the CLARB board of directors in advancing organizational strategy, ensuring effective leadership for the future and supporting members in the continued regulation of landscape architecture in North America.

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Ms. Allison L. Thompson ’02 Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Underwood ’71 (Pam Underwood) Mr. Tommy W. Velasquez ’93 Regent & 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)

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Gold ($1,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Mike R. Abbott ’63 (Diane Abbott) Mr. James D. Abbott ’48 Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Abston ’60 (Nancy S. Abston) Mr. Kevin L. Acosta Mr. Darrell W. Adams ’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. Ronald G. Althof ’79 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) Ms. Peri M. Barker Meyer ’81 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. Paul C. Berner ’73 (Deborah Berner) Mr. & Mrs. Oran H. Berry, III ’71 (Linda L. Berry ’70) Mr. & Mrs. Brent C. Bertrand ’87 (Tonya H. Bertrand ’86) Mr. William C. Bomberger ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel L. Boyd ’74 (DeLilah Boyd) Ms. Chree Boydstun ’87 Dr. & Mrs. Jason T. Bradley ’94 (Anne E. Bradley ’07) 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. Matt Bullard (Lacie L. Bullard ’04) Dr. James M. Burkhead ’84 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) Ms. Deidra R. Conner 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. 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. Sean D. Davis ’86 (Donna Davis) Dr. Miles R. Day & Dr. 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. John C. Downs ’66 (Edie Downs) Captain & Mrs. David A. Drake ’82 (Paige A. Drake) Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Dyer ’51 (Joy W. Dyer ’52) Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Eakens ’72 (Bonny Eakens) Mr. 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) Dr. Sandra B. Gee Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Gellner ’07 (Mary A. Gellner ’05) Mr. & Mrs. Bryan B. Gossett ’73 (Nancy K. Gossett) Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Gossett ’70 (Diane L. Gossett) Dr. Addison Gradel ’82 Mr. Robert Graves ’70 The Honorable & Mrs. William Gray ’64 (Lanette Gray) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Green ’64 (Mary Ann Green ’64) 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. Steve J. Hipes ’69 (Jorjanna B. Hipes ’70) Mr. Robert W. Hodge, II Mr. & Mrs. Greg R. Hoes ’86 (Lori C. Hoes) 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. & Mrs. Stanley K. Horton ’86 (Whitney Horton) 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 L. Isom ’80) Mr. & Mrs. Steven T. Jeffcoat ’96 (Lesley H. Jeffcoat ’96) Mr. & Mrs. Roger Jeschke ’74 (Deni Jeschke) Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy W. Johnson ’00 (Trina D. Johnson ’99) Dr. Thomas L. Johnson ’73 & Dr. Susan E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Todd Johnson (Mandy A. Carr-Johnson ’94) Mr. H. David Jones ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Troy D. Jones ’57 (Lona F. Jones) Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur H. Johnson ’65 (Patricia J. Johnson) Mr. Van Josselet ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Kahlich ’09 (Kara Kahlich ’09) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kiefer (Tracy G. Kiefer ’87) Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Key ’94 (Cynthia Key) Major Anthony D. Killa ’95 Mr. & Mrs. Truitt J. Kimbrough ’00 (Kathy L. Kimbrough ’01) Mr. & Mrs. David L. King ’74 (Janis L. King) Mr. & Mrs. M. Chris Kirksey ’84 (Betsy B. Kirksey ’83) Mr. & Mrs. Gaylon Kornfuehrer ’57 (Barbara Kornfuehrer) 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. James R. Lindley ’60 (Bernice G. Lindley) Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Lochausen ’93 (Caroline Lochausen) Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Loveless ’93 (Stacy Loveless ’92) Dr. & Mrs. Julio F. Madrigal ’82 (Dolores Madrigal) Lt. Gen. 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. George H. McMahan (Linda M. McMahan) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McMahon ’73 (Karen McMahon ’73) Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. McMorris ’67 (Carol M. McMorris ’67) 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) Dr. John S. Menzies ’75 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. & Mrs. Dudley Montgomery ’52 (Patty Montgomery) Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Moore ’56 (Dorothy E. Moore) Mr. & Mrs. Joshua C. Moose ’04 (Kristin M. Moose ’04) 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. & Mrs. Paul E. Pardaen ’05 (Rebecca Pardaen) 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. & Mrs. Gregory W. Prather ’96 (Heather Prather) Mr. & Mrs. David E. Proctor ’91 (Cindy B. Proctor ’90) Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Pruett ’78 (Debra Pruett) Mr. Mitch Pryor ’86 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. Sean D. Rae ’05 (Corrie Rae ’05) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Ray, IV ’66 (Sandra Ray) Mr. Jerry S. Rawls ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery F. Rea (Michelle Rea) Mr. & Mrs. B. Jack Reed ’72 (Janet K. Reed ’71) 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) Dr. & Mrs. T.C. Robinson, IV ’89 (Michelle Robinson) Mrs. Kathy Hager Roberts ’72 Mr. Keith J. Rogers & Brooks Rogers, M.D. ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Jim A. Rose ’87 (Rosalyn Rose) Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Rose (Susan Rose ’76) 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. Thomas Sellers ’77 (Pamela Sellers ’77) 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) Ms. Sharon J. Simandl 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) Regent & Mrs. John Steinmetz ’02 (Jaemie Steinmetz ’05) Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Stewart (Lynne Stewart ’78) 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) Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Taylor ’85 (Gwen Taylor) Mrs.Tracy Thrash Mr. & Mrs. Fred Timberlake, Jr. ’68 (Kay G. Timberlake) Mr. & Mrs. Ellis H. Todd ’67 (Marsha Todd ’65) 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

*As of January 22, 2018

alumni news He is the founder of Christopher B. Hoffman Landscape Architects, a Clinton, Mississippi-based firm. His wife is Laura.

1989 LARRY BELL (BS Civil Engineering)

Midland, Texas, has been promoted to Senior Associate at esteemed engineering and architecture firm, Parkhill, Smith & Cooper. He is a Senior Engineer with Parkhill Smith & Cooper’s Aviation Team in Midland. He is an experienced aviation project developer and is the past president of his local American Society for Civil Engineers chapter. Larry has worked with the firm for 27 years.

His wife is JAN J. BELL ’87 (BS Home Economics Education.)

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1990 JOHN PHILLIP HAYS (JD Law) Lubbock,

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has been appointed by the Lubbock Country commissioners to serve as judge in Lubbock County Court at Law No. 3. Hays is a native of Lubbock. He has been an attorney in Lubbock for 27 years, and is currently working as an attorney at Fargason, Booth, St. Clair, Richards & Wilkins, practicing in areas such as business, civil litigation, family law and oil and gas litigation. His wife is TRICIA A. HAYS ’90.

1996 LT. COL. MARIO AVILA, JR.

(Multidisciplinary Science) San Antonio, Texas, was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. His wife is Jennifer.

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… faculty experience creative collisions helping women who have undergone C-sections have the option to consider natural childbirth and preventing athlete injuries.

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K Quant, LLC started with a simple research presentation. Dr. Suhas Pol, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University (TTU), asked Dr. Kerry Gilbert, professor and director of the Clinical Research Anatomy Laboratory and Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), to give a presentation related to “fluid dynamics” of nerve tissue. During the presentation, Gilbert mentioned a research problem that caught Pol’s attention.

Gilbert and his colleagues: Dr. Phillip Sizer, professor and director of the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory and Doctor of Science in Physical Therapy Program at TTUHSC, and Dr. Richard Ellis, Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), wanted to measure and predict tissue kinematics (i.e., the amount of displacement and strain on nerve tissue) in live patients. The ability to measure and predict strain in nerve, muscle, tendon, ligament tissue would help physicians and physical therapists examine, prescribe, and monitor treatment outcomes for people with compromised tissues.

Unfortunately, the existing methods for accurately measuring tissue kinematics are relatively invasive, making them impractical for clinical applications.

“We were stuck,” Gilbert said. “When we mentioned the problem in our presentation, our mechanical engineering colleagues came on board and said, We have a technology that could help you solve this problem”. Pol said his department had an experimental tool, originally used for wind energy research, that he believed could be applied to research on tissue. “There is nothing new about the technology itself,” Pol said. “However, the application and the processing are new.” After developing and applying the technology for two years, Pol and the rest of the team realized that the process had commercial potential.

The Office of Research Commercialization encouraged the researchers to enter the National Science Foundation’s Regional I-Corps program, hosted at the Innovation Hub at Research Park (the Hub). The prestigious NSF program helps engineers and scientists identify paths to commercializing inventions and discoveries. With goals of transforming clinical care through precision diagnostics, TKQuant is developing life changing technology for doctors to utilize in assessing patient care.

As a result, it was discovered that obstetrics, gynecology (OBGYN), and sports medicine were very interested in the team's technology.

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Jim Gilbreath TTU Alumni , BBA Marketing 1970 iTTU Mentor, Lead Mentor OBGYN specialists wanted to implement the technology to measure scar tissue following a caesarean section allowing to more accurately determine the risk associated with future natural childbirths and limit the number of emergency caesarean section surgeries necessary, an extremely costly procedure. “C-Sections have become one of the most dangerous procedures in modern health care” said Gilbert.

Approximately 30% of deliveries are done via c-section in the U.S. This leads to increased risk of irreversible scar tissue.

“This kind of malpractice, however not intentional, has shown to be a major recurring issue within the medical field,” says Gilbert. Other potential markets include physical therapy, speech therapy, and orthopedics with an emphasis on sports.

Mr. Jim Gilbreath, a Texas Tech alum, is the lead mentor for the startup at the Hub as part of the Texas Tech Accelerator.

Gilbreath and the team of mentors’ support TKQuant with advice, strategies, and connections to the market during the one-year program.

What’s in the future for TKQuant? Sizer, Pol and Gilbert plan to launch the software tool for ultrasound equipment in hospitals across the nation in the coming year. They believe the product will decrease risk for the doctors and improve the lives of patients.

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SCOTT REED (BAR Architecture) Midland,

Texas, has been promoted to Associate at engineering and architecture firm, Parkhill, Smith & Cooper. He is an architect in Parkhill, Smith & Cooper’s K-12 Sector in Midland. Planning educational facilities that will shape the future of

their respective communities is his expertise. He has lectured on behalf of TSA’s Council for Opportunity in Education at TASA/TASB’s conference. Reed has worked for Parkhill, Smith & Cooper for four years within his 20-year career in architecture. His wife is Carla.

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Obadeh Shabaneh

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JARED W. BRATZ (BSCE Civil Engineering)

STACI HIX-HERNANDEZ, M.D. , (MD Medicine) Georgetown, Texas, has resigned from Baylor Scott and White and is entering private practice. She will now be offering plastic surgery procedures at Beleza Medical Spa in Cedar Park, Austin, Round Rock and Killeen, Texas.

Her husband is JEREMY HERNANDEZ , M.D. (BA Biochemistry, ’03, M.D. Medicine). Staci is a member of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

Allen, Texas, was named civil principal at RLG Consulting Engineers in Dallas.

Jared has more than 19 years of experience managing design teams to produce multiple concurrent land development projects from conception through engineering design, to construction completion. Notable projects include the University of North Texas Health Science Center Park, the SMU Dedman Center for Lifetime Sports and the storm water management system in Fort Worth. He serves in leadership roles in several professional organizations.

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In Memoriam JAMES ROBERT “JIM” RATLIFF ’61, Lubbock, died Dec. 8. He received

a bachelor’s in finance from Texas Tech, then worked in Dallas as a bank examiner before returning to Lubbock, where he became a stockbroker.

He was a loyal Red Raider and served as president of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors. He was an integral part in the planning of the construction of the Merket Alumni Center (now the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center). He also provided funding for scholarships through the Texas Tech Foundation and the Red Raider Club. He was active in the Lubbock community, was a gourmet cook and an avid traveler.

DAVID JAMES BARBER ’86, Lubbock, died Dec. 1. He is survived by his wife, Stacey.

BILLY ED BLACKWELL ’67, Lubbock, died Oct. 31. He is survived by his wife, JAN E. BLACKWELL ’78.

WALTER SCOTT COUCH ’57, Levelland, Texas, died Oct. 23. He is survived by his wife, Elsie.

ANGELA DAWN DEMARCO ’03, ’04, Lubbock, died Nov. 26.

DONALD C. DILLEY, JR. ’56, Pensacola, Florida, died Nov. 15. He is survived by his life

partner, Alan.

D’LAYNE DRENNAN ’90, Wolfforth, Texas, died Nov. 16.

JACOB WAYNE DUFFEE ’17, Levelland, Texas, died Sept. 29.

GARY DON ELLISON ’73, Austin, Texas, died Oct. 12. He is survived by his wife, Nila.

STEPHEN GRAYSON , a student from Coppell, Texas, died Nov. 12.

ROBERT DOYLE GREENHILL ’63, Ruidoso, New Mexico, died Oct. 29. He is survived by

his wife, Margaret.

JIM GREGORY ’98, Lubbock, died Nov. 2.

JEAN SPECHT ALICE ROBINSON GULLEY , Tyler, Texas, a friend of Texas Tech, died Oct. 22.

ANDREW MAYS HALTON ’04, Austin, Texas, died Oct. 21. He is survived by his wife, Anna.

KENDELL SWINFORD HEINRICH ’96, Lubbock, died Oct. 31. She is survived by her

husband, Wesley.

KATHLEEN E. “KAE” MULLAN HENTGES , former Texas Tech Health Sciences Center faculty

member from Lubbock, died Dec. 7. She is survived by her husband, David.

ELMER FRED LAMB ’52, San Angelo, Texas, died Sept. 23.

SHERRY KAY BEARD LESLEY , Marble Falls, Texas, a friend and former student of Texas Tech from, died Oct. 22. She is survived by her husband, Kent.

ROY LIVELY, JR. ’71, Belton, Texas, died Oct. 31.

RUBY MAXINE LOONEY ’83, Lubbock, died Dec. 10.

JOE HOLBERT MAYES, D.D.S. , a friend of Texas Tech from Lubbock, died Dec. 10. He is survived

by his wife, Cheryl.

JOYCE SMITH MANNING ’62, Lubbock, died Nov. 2.

JACK MCCARTY ’72, Lubbock, died Nov. 10.

PAULINE CHERRY MILLS ’46, Durham, North Carolina, died Oct. 31.

GERALD JOSEPH “CORKY” OGLESBY , former Texas Tech track and basketball coach,

died Nov. 19 in Lubbock.

DENISE PAIGE PALMENTERA ’09, Lubbock, died Oct. 5.

MICHELLE ROXANNE PARKER , a former student and friend of Texas Tech from Galisteo,

New Mexico, died Nov. 18. She is survived by her husband, Marcus.

RONALD LEE REED ’71, Lubbock, died Nov. 7.

LORI ROBINSON ’97, Lubbock, died Nov. 25. She is survived by her husband, CHARLES L. ROBINSON ’99.

RICHARD “RIC” THOMAS ’84, ’04, Lubbock, died Nov. 22. He is survived by his wife, RHONDA G. THOMAS ’83, ’87.

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2003 CAMRON HARRIS (BBA Accounting, BBA Management) Dallas, has been invited into the Whitley Penn accounting firm partnership. Harris, who has been a part of the Whitley Penn Audit department in Dallas since 2004, has served public and private clients in the following industries: real estate, professional services, manufacturing and distribution, oil and gas, private equity, and employee benefit plans. Harris represented the firm as a Secondee and was on assignment in London working with Whitley Penn’s Nexia member firm, Smith & Williamson. He is involved in a variety of professional and community organizations, including The Movember Foundation, The Real Estate Council, and the Texas Tech Alumni Association. His wife is LEAH C. HARRIS ’04 (Marketing.)

2006 BRETT MURPHY (BBA Accounting) Fort Worth, Texas has been invited into the Whitley Penn accounting firm partnership. Murphy, who joined the firm in 2014 as an Audit Manager in the Dallas Office was promoted to Senior Manager in 2015.

He has worked with both publiclytraded and privately-held companies in a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail, infrastructure and employee benefit plans. He is a leader in several professional organizations including the Independent Bankers Association of Texas, the and Board of Directors for the North Texas Risk Management Association.

His wife is KRISTEN M. MURPHY ’06, ’08 (Human Development and Family Studies, Elementary Education.)

IMPROVING THE LIVES AND FUTURE OF STUDENTS AND THE WORLD

DEGREES OF IMPACT Joseph A. Heppert

Vice President for Research, Texas Tech University

“I AM VERY EXCITED TO BE APPOINTED AS THE NEXT VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. Texas Tech is a great institution, with a great history of contributions to scholarly fields including engineering, the humanities, agriculture, the natural sciences and the arts. It is an honor to serve the students, faculty and research staff of one of Texas’ premier research universities in such a pivotal leadership role.”

-Joseph A. Heppert

ONE RED RAIDER’S JOURNEY BACK TO LUBBOCK

Lindley Herring, account manager at Officewise

WHY I LEFT THE METROPLEX Born and raised in Plainview, just 50 miles north of Lubbock, Lindley Herring grew up coming to Lubbock for everything from back-to-school shopping to birthday dinners to events in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

And in 1997, she came for Texas Tech University.

“My dad had gone to Texas Tech and loved it,” Herring said. “He let us apply for other schools, but after touring and visiting Tech, it was my top choice. Dad was a business major. When you’re deciding what you want to do with your life, you use your parents as role models and mentors.

That brought me to the business college, and Tech has one of the best in the nation.”

Following in her father’s footsteps, Herring graduated with a degree in business from Texas Tech and shortly after found a job and moved to Dallas. During the next 12 years, she met her husband Brian and, after the birth of their first daughter, the two of them hatched a plan to return to Lubbock.

“We decided we didn’t want to raise her in Dallas and wanted to get back to our roots,” she said. “We were always commuting and never saw our little girl. My husband had a 45-minute commute one way, I had a one-hour commute one way. We were spending $400 a month in toll tag fees.

It was hard to go out and eat when we knew we’d have an hour and a half wait. It was hard to go shopping when we knew we’d have to park our car four lots over, and even though our daughter was only a 1 year old at the time, she still says things about how it took forever to get to her day care in the mornings.”

When Herring and her husband factored up the amount of time they were spending in the car and the quality of life differences, it made sense for them to go back to Lubbock.

“There’s just a sense of peace about Lubbock that I didn’t find living in the metroplex,” Herring said. “We would never change anything about our time in Dallas. It helped us grow, we met each other there, but the calmness that came over my husband and I when we pulled back into Lubbock was unlike anything I could describe.”

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Herring and a co-worker selecting office products for a client

Now, while Herring serves as an account manager for Officewise, a local business products distributor, her husband has a thriving dental practice in the “Hub City.” And though Lubbock is just as they remembered, the city had also seen lots of positive growth in their absence.

“When I was here from 1997-2001, Lubbock had maybe 10 hotels. Now there’s around 60,” Herring said. “That means lots of people are coming here. Lubbock is thriving so much that people are finding it attractive. Not only are people coming here for business, they’re coming here to visit. They’re coming here for sports, shopping and restaurants and dining.

With all the new attractions and companies that are being built – it’s completely different now than when I left in 2001.

It’s exciting. It’s solidified our decision to move back.”

With that ongoing development, the “Hub City” continues to thrive.

“Lubbock has been growing significantly over the past decade, but still offers that same friendly West Texas hospitality,” John Osborne, president and CEO for the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance (LEDA), said.

“Lubbock has added more restaurants and retail stores. Local family attractions have expanded and more schools are being built. Our downtown is also being revitalized with sizable investments, allowing for new businesses and residents to make downtown their home. Lubbock is a well-balanced city that people want to live and work in.”

It’s something that Whitney Kennedy, HR manager for Tyler Technologies, has seen firsthand.

“I have talked with lots of people about what has brought them here and why they stay,” she said. “The top three reasons are the sense of community Lubbock provides while still being big enough for opportunity, great school systems and no traffic. It’s a great place for quality of life personally and for a family.”

With growth in industries like health care, technology, education and agriculture, there are more opportunities in Lubbock than ever before.

“Lubbock’s corporate sector is very strong, and as these companies grow, they need skilled employees in a variety of occupations such as engineering, sales and financial services,” said Christine Allen, director of workforce development for LEDA. “LEDA is trying to raise awareness about these higher paying positions, and we are assisting with the effort to recruit highly skilled, indemand employees to our community.”

One way LEDA is accomplishing this task is through return2lbk.org, which features concentrated, valuable corporate job openings in a variety of industries along with information about life in Lubbock and video testimonials of Texas Tech alumni and Lubbockites who have moved away and found an opportunity to return to the Lubbock community, just like Herring.

“My family loves being here,” Herring said. “We go to Texas Tech sporting events. We like waking up on a Saturday morning and getting donuts in five minutes instead of 45 minutes and going to the grocery store in 30 minutes, not an hour and a half. We like the support and sense of community here. I would highly encourage people to consider moving back.”

As for Herring, she has no plans to move anytime soon.

“People always say, ‘I will never move again,’ but for us that’s the truth. We are in Lubbock forever. We wouldn’t even consider going anywhere else.”

For available corporate positions and other employment opportunities in Lubbock, please visit www.return2lbk.org or call 800.687.5330.

The Herring family enjoying an afternoon at the Science Spectrum & OMNI Theater

student spotlight COM PI LE D BY J EAN AN N CANTOR E

CHEN CHEN , doctoral student in the Department of English’s Creative Writing program, has been longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. His book,”When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities” (BOA Editions, 2017) already has won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

INOSHA WIJEWARDENE , doctoral student in the Department of

The Texas Tech Women’s Chess Team from left are Duruoha, Munoz, Heredia and Andrenko.

Over winter break, the Texas Tech Knight Raiders Chess Team placed third at the 2017 PanAmerican Intercollegiate Chess Championship, qualifying them the Final Four of College Chess for the fifth year in a row. The competition, known as the President’s Cup, will be in New York this spring.

The win marks the fifth consecutive year and eighth time overall Texas Tech has qualified for the Final Four.

Fifty-eight teams from more than 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada competed in the tournament.

The winning team included International Grandmasters ANDRII BARYSHPOLETS , doctoral economics student, and PAVLO VORONTSOV , computer science major; International Grandmasters SERGEY MATENSKO , graduate interdisciplinary student; and JACK SHTEMBULIAK , finance major.

Baryshpolets was on the Texas Tech team that won the 2015 Pan-American tournament.

For the second time, an all-female team from Texas Tech competed in the tournament. The only female team this year, they finished 42nd overall. Members included Woman International Master IRYNA ANDRENKO , graduate horticulture science student; Woman Grandmaster CARLA HEREDIA SERRANO , graduate sports management student; Woman Candidate Master CLAUDIA MUNOZ , mathematics major; and OPURICHE “IFY” DURUOHA-IHEMEBIRI , accounting major.

The chess program was established within the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in 2007 and has earned more than 10 national titles. It was named Chess College of the Year in 2014.

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Biological Sciences, won first place in the Texas Tech University Graduate School’s third annual Three Minute Thesis competition, beating out 11 other finalists. Wijewardene won $300 for presenting “Cooverexpression of AVP1 and RCA to increase drought, salt and heat tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.

DEMI GARY , graduate student in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources’ Department of Natural Resources Management, placed second and won $200 for “Examining the southern Great Plains for hotspots of at-risk species.”

JUDY ROSE , doctoral student in the College of Education, Curriculum & Instruction, took third place and $100 for “African American Representation in Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).”

PATRICIA RYAN , doctoral candidate in the College of Education, Educational Psychology & Leadership,won the People’s Choice Award and $100 for “Women leaders in higher education: Career pathway factors, leadership styles, institutional fit and attaining legitimacy for female university presidents.”

The 3MT®, developed by The University of Queensland in 2008, celebrates graduate students’ research. They explain their thesis or dissertation to a non-specialist audience in three or fewer minutes, using only one, static PowerPoint slide.

T H E T E X A S T E C H Meat Judging Team in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources won its third national championship in the last five years and the 13th in program history at the American Meat Science Association International Meat Judging Contest in Dakota City, Nebraska. It is the fifth national championship for the Meat Judging Team this decade.

For the second time in three years, Texas Tech had the top two individuals in the competition juniors MADDY AINSLEY and APRIL MOLITOR .

KAYLEE MARTIN , junior, finished fourth overall, third in specifications and fifth in beef grading. BEN MILLS , junior, placed sixth overall, fourth in specifications and fifth in overall beef.

Ainsley and Mills were named first-team All-Americans, while Molitor earned second-team All-American honors, based upon scholastic achievement and competition performance.

Three individuals finished in the top 10 of the alternates division.

DELANEY HANAGAN , junior, finished fourth, and KYLE MAHAGAN , senior, and DEAN CHAPMAN , junior, finished ninth and 10th, respectively.

Chapman also earned the prestigious Rachel Hamilton Spirit and Motivation Award, which recognizes commitment, dedication and teamwork during a team member’s meat judging career.

Other team members are JORDAN BACHLER , junior; LEGRAND BOUYI , senior; KENNA FAULKENBERRY , senior, and SAM SPRADLIN , junior.

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