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The World According to Eric To a true fan, it's not trivia. It's a history of greatness.

• Which team won Texas Tech's first Sout hwest Conference Crown?

• What was the former name of Texas Tech University?

• What are t he t hree marks of a true Red Raider?

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Kent Hance Texas Tech's New Chancellor For this issue, I invite our new chancellor, Kent Hance, to share his vision with you as he takes over the leadership of the university system.

• I'd like to thank Bill Dean for giving me an opportunity to share with you a few of my thoughts about Texas Tech as we move into 2007.

First, I want to say that it 's great to be home. I'm excited about beginning my duties as chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. I am coming into a great s ituation where both universities are in good shape.

We have an outstanding faculty, excellent students and a terrific staff, which will make my job even easier.

We also have fiercely loyal and proud alumni, and I will call on you for your help and advice in the coming months.

I have been both a student and a professor at Texas Tech. About 45 years ago, my parents brought me to Texas Tech and left me at Bledsoe Hall. I want you to know that I have loved Texas Tech since that moment and I will work diligently to increase awareness of the excellence at Texas Tech. We already have a good start.

Texas Tech's academic reputation continues to grow. The university's recent selectio n to shelter a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is a prime example. President Jon Whitmore and his staff and the faculty who worked on our application are to be congratulated.

Some of the best and brightest students in Texas, and around the country, have chosen to come to Texas Tech because of the tremendous education we offer. Our enrollment has leveled off and even dropped over the past three years. It is my goal to reverse

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that trend and grow our enrollment to around 40,000 by 2020. But be assured I want that growth to continue to be quality growth, supported by the faculty and infrastructure needed to support that many students.

A big reason we have seen enrollment drop is the rising cost of higher education. We need to raise more money to recruit top students and provide them with competitive scholarships. You can expect me to ask for your help in this regard.

It is vital that we raise a considerable amount of money to support student scholarships and faculty endowments. I believe that Texas Tech does more with less than any university in the country. My goal is for us to do more with more.

Along those lines, increasing funding at the state level is a top priority as is obtaining more research dollars from the federal government.

I have built many good relationships throughout my career and I will use those contacts to help Texas Tech.

Texas Tech faces stiff competition for the best students and facu lty and for increased research funding. We are not competing only against UT, A&M

and OU as we do in athletics. We are competing against the Univers ity of Michigan, UCLA and o ther top universities across the country.

We need to always think of ourselves as a world class university.

From the day Texas Technological College opened its doors to the first class, the school's founders have urged us to think big thoughts. Our first president, Paul Whitfield Hom , turned to the vast West Texas horizon for inspiration for a speech to our first students. In that speech, he noted that the work of this university should fit the vast horizons and that we should think in worldwide terms.

He was right. We have the facu lty, we have the students and we have our alumni. I can guarantee that I w ill do everything within my power to build Texas Tech's endowment and to spread the story of this great university. I hope I can count on your help.

Kent Hance CHANCELLOR

ABOUT CHANCELLOR HANC E Hance is a native of Dimmitt. Texas. who graduated from Texas Tech in 1965 with a hachelor"s of business administration degree. He earned his law degree from the University of Texas in 1968.

Hance returned to Lubbock to practice law and teach business law at Texas Tech. where he was named an outstanding professor. He was elected to the Texas State Senate in 1974 and the U.S. Congress in 1979 and served as a member of the Texas Railroad Commission from 1987-1990. Until his appointment as chancellor. he was an allorney with the firm of Hance Scarborough Wright Woodward & Weisbart in Austin.

He and his wife. Susie Hance. also an attorney, have five chi ldren and seven grandchildren.

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Using a grant obtained from NSF, the team will address programs that will be implemented in the eight College of Engineering departments, four science departments in the College of Arts and .

Sciences, two departments in the School of Pharmacy and four departments in the School of Medicine.

The College of Human Sciences opened a facility for two centers in early November: the Christi ne DeVitt and Helen DeVitt Jones Child Development Research Center, or CDRC, and the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, or CSAR. The CSAR celebrated its 20-year anniversary the same weekend as the opening. The CDRC has been serving Tech and Lubbock communities for 75 years.

News The Phi Beta Kappa Society voted to establish a Phi Beta Kappa chapter for Texas Tech University Oct. 28. Texas Tech's Phi Beta Kappa faculty and staff worked for more than 20 years to establish the chapter.

According to Texas Tech University President Jon Whitmore, Ph.D., this new status means that prospec;;j..;'JL tive students are assured ff>\'\ill_T~ they ca? o~tai~ a quality ~illJll\ educatiOn m hberal arts and sciences found only at the top 10 percent or so of institutions in the United States.

The status is also a boon for current and future faculty members because it elevates the university's status. Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, is the oldest academic honorary in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world.

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Tech's Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics, within the College of Engineering, was part of a documentary filmed for the History Channel. Electric Sky, a British-based film company, created a film about the sunken liberty ship Montgomery. The ship was loaded with 1,400 tons of TNT when it sank

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under unclear circumstances in the River Thames in London in 1944. The ship and its cargo are still there. To prove that 60-year-old TNT is still highly explosive, the Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics provided their explosive chamber to test "old" TNT. Andreas Neuber, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Daniel Garcia, senior technician in the Department of Electrical Engineering, spent 12 hours with the film crew to shoot footage of small-scale explosions at close range. There was no difference detected between the old and new TNT. Texas Tech University's College of Architecture is one of six programs honored by the nation's architectural regulatory board for creatively integrating architectural practice and education in an academic setting. The National Council of Architecture Registration Boards for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy recognized the college's practicum-studio program for its innovative partnership, which offers students access to finns in relatively distant urban centers.

Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center are partnering to advance the status of women faculty members in engineering, science, me~cine and research by addressing spectfic problems identified by task force studies and administrators at both

Texas Tech University students and Texas Tech's Department of English now offer four student-taught classes to people in the Lubbock community who want to irnpro'¥e their English and communication skills.

The classes are taught by teams of Tech students enrolled in an honors class withia the Department of English.

People Rick Haan, a Texas Tech School of Law graduate, earned the highest score on the Texas state bar exam. He surpassed more than 2,800 other first-time and repeat examinees in the July bar examination.

Karlene Hoo, Ph.D., a professor of chemical engineering and former associate dean for research in the College of Engineering, was named Texas Tech University associ· ate vice president for research. She will act as a liaison with faculty in overseeing grant applications, coordinating research

Outstanding Agriculturalists -The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources held the 79m annual Pig Roast Nov. 9 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources faculty and administrators recognize and honor scholarship donors and recipients, outstanding leaders in the field of agriculture, teams and individuals who have distinguished themselves for Texas Tech during the past year and to say thank yoo to those individuals and companies for their support.

The Texas Tech University College of Mass Communications honored six form er students at its Outstanding Alumni Breakfast. Gera ld Fricks, Beverly McBeath, George O ' Dwyer, Ron Thomas, Scott Whitley and Keith Williams were honored for their professional achievement, dedication to excellence, personal ethical standards and work ethic.

start-up packages and heading a research council comprised of associate research from Tech's colleges.

I Texas Tech computer science professor Daniel Cooke, Ph.D., was presented with the Technical Achievement Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics

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The process uses selenium coatings on orthodontic devices, like braces, to prevent bacteria formation. Bacteria build-up impedes tooth movement during orthodontic trearnent and often leads to periodontal tissue breakdown and tooth decalcification. A license agreement for the process was obtained by Lubbock-based ClassOne Orthodontics and Selenium, Ltd., an Emergent Technologies, Inc. portfolio company.

Engineers Computer Society. Cooke was honored at the President's Awards Banquet in San Diego, Calif., where he received a $2,000 honorarium and a certificate recognizing his outstanding and innovative contributions to the field of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology within the last 15 years. He was honored for a computer language used in developing NASA's new Crew Exploration Vehicle.

William Westney, D.M.A., professor of piano in the School of Music, author of the article, "Essential Skills: Risks and Rewards," received the 2006 American Music Teacher Article of the Year award.

He holds two endowed positions at Tech and has been honored with teaching awards in the past, including the Yale School of Music Alumni Association's prestigious "Certificate of Merit."

Julian Spallholz, Ph.D., of Texas Tech University and Ted Reid, Ph.D., a researcher at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, partnered on research to create technology that utilizes anti-microbial properties that may prove revolutionary to the orthodontics industry.

Texas Supreme Court Justice Phil Johnson received the Texas Tech School of Law 2006 Distinguished Alumni award.

Johnson attended Tech and graduated with honors from the School of Law in 1975. He is the first Tech alumnus to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. •

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HELP US HONOR GOV. PRESTON SMITH YOU ARE INVITED to participate in honori ng former Texas Governor Preston Smith by contributing toward a monument in his honor to be placed at the Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock.

A 1934 graduate of Texas Tech, Smith was the 40th governor of the state. During his years in office, he was responsible for the establishment of the Texas Tech School of Law and the Health Sciences Center. He served as a true champion for West Texas.

The Lubbock Area Foundation, holding a fund named The Governor Preston Smith Airport Memorial Fund, is accepting contributions toward the monument, which will cost between $40,000 and $50,000. CH Foundation and PlainsCapital Bank have committed leadership to establishing this scu lpture and hope you will join them.

Garland Weeks, a native of Wichita Falls and a Fellow in the National Sculpture Society. has been commissioned to create the monument. Weeks is a graduate of Texas Tech University and is among the first alumni to make a contribution toward this project.

"It is important to me that Gov. Smith not be forgotten for all his known and unknown contributions to West Texas and Texas Tech University." Weeks said. "All I can offer is my talent, and that is my gift to his memory."

Weeks has submitted an original three-sided seven-foot high veneered Austin red granite triad maquette. One plane will have an impression of the State of Texas cut out with water jets and placed inside the outlined impression will be a Heroic size (l/10-two times lifesize) bust of the late governor.

The remaining two sides will list state offices held during his lifetime and contributions to the state and Texas Tech University.

Please consider being part of recogni zing this man who has done so much for Texas Tech, Lubbock, West Texas and the entire state of Texas by sending a contribution to Lubbock Area Foundation @ 1655 Main St., Ste. 202, Lubbock, TX 7940 1, or by calling 806.762.8061.

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Director of Development Communicatiom,

Making Texas Tech Top Choice for Today's Scholars Matthew, Amanda and Anna were just infants in the late 1980s when Texas Tech University made a commitment to enhance the academic environment and to recruit superior students. As they were learning to walk and talk, the Presidential Scholarship Program was initiated, and financial supporters invested in Texas Tech University by endowing scholarships for the sole purpose of recruiting academically gifted students.

Matthew, Amanda and Anna are reaping the benefits and so is the university as demonstrated by higher incoming freshmen average SAT scores ( 1120 in 2007) and improved student retention and graduation rates. The recent chartering of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation 's oldest and most prestigious U.S. honor society, is also evidence of our enhanced aca-

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to be in the Honors College. He plans to use both his engineering and medical degrees to design the next generation of artificial limbs.

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demic reputation among the higher education community.

Our goal is to help the next generation of students and enhance our academic reputation by making Texas Tech University the institution of choice for top scholars. The presence of outstanding scholars creates a stimulating academic environment for other students and faculty members.

By endowing the program and increasing incentives to attract the highest scoring students, we create a permanent legacy of excellence for Texas Tech.

Merit-based scholarships are awarded to academically talented students based on their high school ranking and SAT or ACT scores.

The number of Merit Scholars applying to Texas Tech is increasing each year.

Because of this success, Texas Tech mu st expand private support to further build endowments that serve as the foundation for the Merit Scholarship programs .

Merit Scholarships help Texas Tech recruit the best and brightest students; which in turn increases the value of a Texas Tech University degree.

Boosting scholarship endowments provides more opportunities for students and is a top priority for Texas Tech. Let's continue to build on our previous successes and provide better opportunities for these bright, young minds. If you want to help Texas Tech 's Merit Scholarship program, contact Alicia Knight at 806.742.1828 or Elizabeth Haley, Ph.D., at 806.742. 1638 . •

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work 10 the structural engineering field and pursue a master·s degree. Her dream job is to work With a historical preservation firm.

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Presidential Plus Scholarship & National Merit Finalist Anna Is an English and anthropology

major with roots close to campus. Her goal is to earn her doctorate in English and become a professor so she can share her love for education with others.

lumni who attended Tech for any number of years might be surprised to learn of the amazing detail carved into the original campus buildings: Administration, Engineering-Tex tile and West- Chemistry and Home Economics. Students of yesterday and today most likely have walked past these building hundreds of time and taken very little notice of the names, faces, quotes and symbols that adorn the exterior walls.

The original campus planners inc luded the car vings pure ly for aesthetic value and the hope that their inclusio n on the structures would cause students and campus vis itors to stop and ponder their meanings. The sculptures range fro m faces of Texas and American historical figures to gargoyles and cupids. Specific to Texas Tech are the seal of the university o n the north side of the Administration Building, a carving of the school monogram symbol TIC (Texas Technological College) on the C hemistry Building's columns and cotton bales on the Textile Engineering Bui ld ing.

Architects origi nally wanted to use cast stone for the detail work but were discouraged from doing so by the state inspector of buildings who said cast stone would eventually be troublesome and would crack

and leak. Instead, the product chosen was Lueders stone, a variety of limestone from a Jones County quarry near Lueders, Texas. Lueders is north-nmtheast of Abi lene. For areas subject to more wear, such as exterior window sills, bui lders used Bedford Limestone from lndiana.

The years in whi ch the orig inal campus buildings were constructed (mid- 1920s) saw a focus on crafts manship. All of the art on the original bui ldings were hand-carved by skilled artisansa staggering concept in today's construction market. Historical

was brought to the bu ildi ng sites by horse-drawn wagons.

C ampus planners looked to historical structures for their designs. The warm, arid climate and vast open p lains of the bare campus mimicked those in many areas of Spain.

William Ward Watki n, the master planner of the early Tech campus, pointed to the "table lands of west Texas" being simi lar to the "table lands of Central Spain." The reg ion's c limate and the state's h istory were a perfect match to play host to a Span ish style campus.

Watkins noted that the o ld Spanish missions in Texas re flected some of the most glo rious structures in Europe, specificall y Spain.

The Spanish Renaissance archi tecture, upon which Texas Tech's was modeled, is showcased in the Spanis h towns of Leon, A lcala de Henares, Salamanca and Toledo.

While Watkins obviously played a huge role in the early development of Tech's style, so did President Paul W. Hom. He was very involved during the constmction of the Administration Building, even choosing the 10 figures chosen to grace the building's north facyade (more on this building in Part 2 of this story in the May/June issue), quotes both spiritual and philosophical, and other inspirational wording.

As the university population grew, so did Hom's responsibilities. He was less involved in the design of the remaining bui ldings because his administrative duties were expanding, but he was still involved.

From the tiniest scrolls to the largest colu mn, the most cherub ic cupid to the ever impo rtant cotton bales, the histo ry, honor and heritage of Texas Tech is preserved for eternity in the bricks and stones that were stacked and carved more than 80 years ago.

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LI KE THE TEXTILE Engineering Building, the West Engineering Buildingnow known as the Electrical Engineering Building-was designed to hold heavy equipment needed for the study and research of engineering. However, the building's exterior was still ornately decorated.

The portal, or entrance arch, has several decorative arch rings continuing through the breezeway.

The front of the building also showcases detailed scrollwork and dragons.

West Engineering has cupids holding shields carved with symbols related to different engineering fields: architecture, civil, electrical and mechanical.

The east fa~ade of the West Engineering Building has a figure of an unknown character holding a cross.

The genesis of this mysterious figure is rooted in the campus's original structure, the Administration Building. This artwork will be explained in greater detail in Part 2 in the May/June issue, but it was originally suggested the figure be president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis.

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Some of the most intricate detail on campus is showcased on this structure. According to the book "TEXAS TECH ...The UNOBSERVED Heritage," by Nolan Barrick, the entrance portal was based directly on Spanish missions built in the Southwest. The symbolism of the art on this building is minimal, with exception of the cotton bales, which are located about the main arched opening. As a testament to the importance of cotton to Tech's creation, the bales were placed, says Barrick, in the niche reserved on mission fa~ades for statues of the patron saints.

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The Home Economics THE HOME ECO OM I CS Building was the smallest of the original structures and was designed to look more like a residential structure- in reality the structure was almost an afterthought. Located east of the Administration Building, it was dwarfed in size and minimal in detail. Today the Home Economics building has been engulfed by building expansions, but the original three-arch entrance still remains.

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The building's east fac;ade has a 1narble plaqt~e ~ith a. Latin tnscnptlon: vzsta interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultunz lapidenz.

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Animal-/ human-like figures, flying felines, serpentine lines, all In red, black and ochre, cover the Rattlesnake Cave shelter.

ocks cross one of the rugged, vast ranches in Val Verde County, located in far southwest Texas, near the joining of the Pecos and Rio Grande Rivers, are precious murals created by Archaic peoples 4,000 years ago. Texas Tech University owns the land !.....

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Hall, a Harvard-educated researcher, says, "For prehistoric aboriginal art in North Mexico and North America, Rattlesnake Cave is one of the most elaborate and best preserved rock art sites we -see anywhere in the American Southwest. The art is symbolic and likely has religious significance, illustrating the religious beliefs of the people who produced the pictographs."

The land, 90 acres known as Rattlesnake Canyon, was donated in 1979 to the university by the late Stanley Stribling, whose business was real estate and whose daughter, Shelly, had earned an art degree from Texas Tech.

"I always supposed it might have been her influence on her father that emphasized how important these paintings in Rattlesnake Cave are," Hall says.

Now Director of the Texas Tech Center at Junction and an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hall offers some history about the site.

"The story goes that when Jim Goss, then director of the Museum of Texas Tech, first carne to the area when the transfer was made, he went down into the canyon and found a pair of cowboy boots with human leg bones in them,' Hall says. "The authorities investigated, but no one ever knew what happened.

"Rattlesnake Cave is a jewel in Texas Tech University's crown. The mural is huge and 4,000 years old. The pictographs are difficult to get to because a person has to cross very rugged land to get to them.

Those of us who know a~ Rattlesnake Cave and have studied upper Paleolithic periods know that it is as important as the cave draW· ings in Europe. I would rank the paintings to be as

important as a Picasso or other famous murals, such as those done by Diego Rivera."

The Rattlesnake Canyon land is sacred, and over the years, Hall has taken his anthropology students to the pictograph site, while other Texas Tech artists, historians and biologists have traveled there to study the painting sites and the animals of the region. Hall and Texas Tech Senior Vice Provost Jim Brink are determined to honor and preserve the site and to promote the study of the rock art.

The images of human, animal and geometric forms are well-preserved, although over the past 50 years, the pictographs have deteriorated. The building of Lake Amistad near Del Rio caused changes in moisture content and humidity.

"We need plans for stabilization and further study," Hall says. "The Pecos style rock art is the oldest of four types of aboriginal artwork in that region, which dates between 2,000 and 4,000 years ago, and we still can discern remarkable images given their age; their colors are still vibrant."

Last fall , Hall and Texas Tech hosted a visit by the SHUMLA School and its guest Jean Clottes, Europe's preeminent expert on prehistoric art. Clottes says Texas Tech's Rattlesnake Cave is a classic site. 'ih.is is what I call a great gallery of rock art at the world level. Rattlesnake Cave is significant. The paintings were done in one time period and are homogenous, telling a complete story," Clottes said upon studying the mural.

Carolyn E. Boyd, Ph.D., an archaeologist, is executive director of the SHUMLA School, a nonprofit edu-

cational organization for Studying the Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art (SHUMLA), located on land near Comstock, Texas.

Boyd's primary research contributions are to the fields of cognitive and experimental archaeology as they apply to the technology and interpretation of the prehistoric art of the Lower Pecos River region in southwestern Texas and northern Mexico. " In my view, Rattlesnake Cave is one of the most significant sites of all of the Lower Pecos rock art," says Boyd, a former muralist and artist. "Based on my analysis, this was done in one sitting, which may have taken weeks, but was executed in one artistic time frame that dates to 4,000 years ago. We can recognize the art of one artist and his or her helpers. That makes it extremely exciting to research. The mural is a wellexecuted composition."

She began studying the panels of the pictographs of the region to find clues for meaning and symbolic representation.

"What I've been finding, in addition to the idea that these

A shaman figure holds an atlatl, or a spear·throwing tool.

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Carolyn Boyd and Jean Clottes study rock art.

are altered states of shamans, is that the representations go much deeper than that," she says. "This is like looking at the origins of different gods, not just an individual shaman.

What we're looking at is the belief system. It's fabulous.

"The rock art is like a book or a collection of short stories. Others are developed as novels. Rattlesnake Cave is a novella," Boyd says.

"These Archaic peoples were hunter-gatherers, and they traveled in small bands

whose members were related by blood or marriage. The bands regularly followed the animals. Shamans were magical religious practitioners that served as members who provided hope for the people.

I am looking for symbolic language and themes. The Trans Pecos dry rock shelters are the best preserved in North America."

From her own and others' studies, Boyd suggests that animal fat was used in the long-lasting paint of the pictographs.

"We have done experiments to learn that bone marrow, yucca juice and mineral pigments all were available and could have been used in the paint," she says. "Animal fat was precious, because these people went through periodic starvations, and to get the large amount of fat from the deer bone marrow and to use it to paint on the rock walls was pretty important.

This was not graffiti, not a leisure time activity. The art itself is potent. This is a powerful place."

In the last 20 years, scholars have made a greater effort to interpret rock art. Early interpretations of these symbols-shamanic figures, animals and shapes and forms of uncertain meaning- involved the general idea that the main figures in the rock art represented shamans who went into trances in order to voyage into the spirit world. Analyses by cognitive archaeologist Boyd suggests that shamans most likely ingested psychoac-

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tive plants, such as peyote, found in the region, before creating the images inspired by their hallucinations on the shelter walls. The shamanic images are transcending the real and spiritual underworld, she suggests.

"Scholars began realizing 10 to 15 years ago that the Pecos style rock art has to do with religious beliefs," Hall says. "Boyd' s work is interpretation through the process of ethnographic analogy in which she compares the whole Pecos rock art to the religious rituals of the living Huichol people of Mexico, often called the peyote tribe.'

The Huichol people believe in a divinity that is half deer and half human, · which brought to the shamans upon its antlers the potent hallucinogenic peyoll ' plant, Boyd explains. She ' says she has seen the saJDC imagery in the Pecos rock . art of Texas. Her work for1

years has been to investigate the analogy between the Huichol and the Pecos peoples. In her first book, "Rock Art of the Lower Pecos," Boyd presents detailed information gleaned from the rock paintings regarding the nature of the lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, huntergatherer lifeways, and the function of the art within this prehistoric society.

She concludes that both the art and the artist actively participated in creating, maintaining and transforming social relations and religious identities, Hall says.

"The rock art of the Lower Pecos performed work; it was a tool for survival," she says.

More conservative in her specific interpretations, another long-time rock art researcher, Solveig A. Thrpin would say that using ethnographic analogy is not reliable comparing living Huichol peoples to 4,000 years ago, and that the conclusion is too big of a leap, Hall explains.

Thrpin is not interested in specifics; for her, knowing that people were going into trance states to enter the underworld is enough. Turpin has made important and extensive contributions to understanding the peoples who populated the Trans Pecos and since the early 1980s has written 50 articles and several books about the rock art.

Thrpin has created a model to understand why no art can be found from prehistoric humankind's past occupation of 12,000 years ago and why humans in the area did not start producing the images unti14,()()() years ago.

"In the Late Pleistocene, the moist and cool climate that included pine trees gradually

was becoming hotter and drier, much like the modem day Pecos incredible value in the environment," Hall says. "If that was happening, plants and aniRattlesnake Canyon resource mals changed. When humans are confronted with problems, they for Texas Tech. do everything humanly possible to resolve those issues to make "My teaching style is sure the people are healthy and well-fed. But, once everything hands-on, and all the field humanly has been exhausted, humans tum to religious answers. trips are important learning "This point is a powerful tool when observing peoples across opportunities," he says. "I the world. In Christian religions, the greatest investments that were still get excited when I go made in religious art came when general conditions were stressed. to Rattlesnake Cave. You Turpin recognized that people under the stress of climatic change travel across a big, barren looked to the shamans for answers. She answers an important quesranch to the remote site of the cave. You are more tion about why people in the region 8,000 years ago did not create rock art, instead starting about 4,000 years ago." separated from modern life The SHUMLA School, the Rock Art Foundation, the Texas and civilization there. Those Parks and Wildlife Department and the National Park Service of us who are interested in and revere the pictographs have joined forces to excavate and document these sites. Hall is determined that Texas Tech University will be integrated into the know this art is not as old mix and involved in the movement to recognize the region. as that of France and Spain, "Because Texas Tech has control of Rattlesnake Canyon, and but the images still are a Rattlesnake Cave is such a huge part of the Trans Pecos rock art, I very complex representation hope we can contribute," he says. of the religious beliefs of Boyd, Clottes and members of the SHUMLA School eventually ancient peoples." • would like to create a life-size replica of the Rattlesnake Cave mural.

TO COMMENT ON THIS STORY. E-MA IL "I think it is a very good idea to make a replica that people JEAN.ANN.CANTORE@TTU. EDU. can see," Clottes says. "We have life-size laser recording tools with excellent resolution that now can record these sites."

Hall also notes that a hope of rock art enthusiasts is to obtain World Heritage Site status for the Lower Pecos.

The designation would open the region to more preservation efforts and grants for the study of the prehistoric art.

"I want people to recognize that what we have is worthy of World Heritage Site status," Boyd says.

In Texas, Hall comments, a large part of the public does Shamans and related motifs cover the walls of the Rattlesnake Cave mural. not appreciate art.

"That's something that saddens us because Rattlesnake Canyon for Texas Tech University and for all Pecos style art is an artistically and archaeologically significant scientific site," he says. "We have been disappointed in the Jack of funding from the state government for the preservation and stabilization of the rock art of the Trans Pecos and in not making the pictographs more accessible to the public."

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20071 TECHSAN 29

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to ~top and think.

by JEAN ANN CANTORE PHOTO & ARTWORK COURTESY of HOLLY BEA

oily Bea hand$you her bu$in~ card: and you read on it: "Author, Copywriter, Problem-solver, Pollyanna."'

Huh? Once you think about it-or get to know Bea-you understand the complex yet wonderful services she offers her clients. She is a published author, a proven copywriter, a bonafide problem-solver and, possibly, above all, a truly accomplished Pollyanna. (In other words, she offers her clients 'the glad game,' as she puts it, along with her services-she is an optimist.)

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She learned of her passion for writing when she was II and a

to Maxey Park to look at the geese. He told me that I should write

teacher asked her to help start a school newspaper. Bea has always

a story about them. I told him he should write a story about them

relished using her word skills to inform and to inspire others. She

because I always believed my

has worked as a copywriter and creative agency for agencies, large

brother was a stronger writer than

and small, a feature writer for major newspapers such as the Dallas

I was. He never got around to writ-

Times Herald and creative director for several major ad agencies

ing it, so when he died, I decided to

for 15-plus years.

write the story for him."

An author, Bea has composed six interdenominational

The book tells the story of

children's spiritual books and the mainstream "Lucy Goose

Lucy, a Canada goose who decides

Goes to Texas," published at the end of 2006. She has sold well

to fly to Texas for the winter on

more than 400,000 books of all her titles since the inception of

her own, without her family. Along the way, she learns a lot about

her children's book career.

herself and how important it is to work with others . The story is

The native of Arlington, Texas, graduated from Texas Tech in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in advertising and minors in English and music.

motivational and educational.

'The more I did research on the Canada Geese that migrate through Lubbock, the more I liked what I found out about them,"

Yes, t~ wtrc: her friends! There was her mother!

They honkod and they honkod and c:unc down wim They said, •eomc with w! Come fly in our V .

There's a rcuon we do it; oomc along and yuu11sec.

·we all get a lifi when we: Hy in a V; We don't get so tired; we Ay easily.

It's all about teamwork; we all stick together, So "-'t: get where we't'(: gomg. no mauer the weather.

-w e honk at each other to say, 'You an do ~~· ~n we work as a ream, "'~ know wc11 get ch rough lr.

So Jet's go to Texas where wt all get to rurl Lets all hdp each other ro each be: our best:

W

en I found out I wa$ going to be an aunt,

Bea notes. "If one bird gets sick, two birds go down with it and

wanted my niece raised knowing something

won't leave until that goose gets well or dies. Anybody can be the

bout God," she explains. "I thought, 'Well, if

lead goose if they want to; they just have to be willing to work the

I can sell Doritos and Pepsi and American Airlines on my ad

hardest. The reason they honk at each other is they're encouraging

agency side, I ought to be able to sell God.' So I thought I'd

the lead goose who's had to work so hard. The other geese can fly

Write a children's book. I wrote, 'Where Does God Live?' but it

71 percent farther if they fly in a V formation or a line formation."

took me nine years to find a publisher. Meanwhile, my brother kept having kids, and each one had to have a story. So my first six (published) books are nondenominational spiritual books for

Bea often speaks to classes in elementary schools , and she shares these thoughts with children.

'That's one of the lessons I use when I teach- we tend to pick

children. They're used in synagogues, churches, by people who

the smartest, the prettiest, the fastest, the strongest to be our team

don't know what they are but know they believe in God."

leaders," she says. "Sometimes it might be nice to say, 'Who

"Lucy Goose Goes to Texas" was the brainchild of her brother, Tim, who died in 2001 .

would like to experience some leading this time?' I say to classes,

'Tun lived in Lubbock, and his family still does," she notes.

'Don't you do better if someone believes in you and is encouraging you? We need to remember to encourage the people in our

"I Would go to Lubbock every December to see my nieces and

classrooms and on our teams because we can help them be better

nephews. My brother was a big bird watcher, and he would take me

than they even know they can be.' "

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B

ea continue$ her ful5t-paced fi>eelance career as a writer for Web sites, varied bu~inesses and major publications. She also speaks to wnters groups and

teaches seminars about writing. She says that being a writer has opened up worlds for her.

"I used to love 'Northern Exposure,"' she says. ' I got to interview Janine Turner for a cover story that appeared in the Dallas

Morning News last year. It was so cool to get to meet her and find

out that she raises Heritage longhorns. She's a really cool, downto-earth person. If I were an accountant, I never would have been able to learn all that. I do what I love and then the money follows.

That's what I tell kids-find your passion. Figure out what it is that you love to do. Then work hard at it."

In their spare time, she and her husband, Steve Weaver, a newspaper publisher, make the most of their lives in Greeley, Colo.

They enjoy mountain biking, hiking, snowshoeing and other ventures. She comments that she and her husband are lucky to live by. a wetland that is home to about 500 Canada geese that she enjoys watching. Yet, the writer remains committed to community efforts. ''I'm very involved in the community," she notes. "I do a lot of volunteer work. I do a lot of work for the Humane Society and write the animal descriptions for pet adoptions every week. I'll write little funny first-person descriptions'My parents decided to move to Montana. Can you believe they left me behind? How lame is that?' I also do a lot of work for United Way and the domestic violence shelter. I wrote my freshman thesis on domestic violence, and ever since then, I've been involved in domestic violence shelters."

And she still works on books for kids.

"The one I'm working on right now is about apple snails who escape in a classroom," she explains. "I was teaching in a science class in Florida, and the science teacher was a friend of mine. She had this package arrive. She pulled out this stick that had these little round things on it. She said they were apple snail pods-you stick them in water with the stick sticking out.

She put it in this big glass bowl, and these little bitty snails started to hatch out of these little round things. She said she always had to save it for the end of the year because the snails get big and escape. They can travel 55 feet a day."

Bea never stops thinking of ideas and ways to reach others. She offers as an assessment of her success and contentment with her career: "Find your passion. Figure out what it is that you love to do. Then work hard at it." • For more information about Holly Bea, visit www.hollybea.com.

Bea is offering a 20 percent discount to Texas Tech alumni on sales of any of her books. She will happily sign and personalize all books ordered through hbweaver@ix.netcom.com.

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Jean Ann Cantore "It's real exciting to get it over with," Jackson said. "Now we can just concentrate on o ur conference schedule."

Zeno said he is proud to be part of the team that helped Knight break the coaching record.

"We're part of history so that's really exciting," he said .

Following the game Knight was presented with two trophies and a nine-minute video was shown. The.video contained congratulations from coaches Rick Barnes and Mike Krzyzewski and ESPN personality Dick Vitale.

Knight Time Tech coach becomes all-time Divsion I-A wins leader

By Jay Langley, The Daily Toreador

Texas Tech men's basketball coach Bob Knight rang in the New Year by becoming the all-time winningest coach in Division I history. Tech's 70-68 victory over New Mexico Monday (Jan. 1) was the 880th of Knight's career, one more than former North Carolina coach Dean Smith.

"I think this game was about all of the players that I have ever coached," Knight said. "And all the coaches that have ever worked with me. And all the people that

possessions the rest of the way until New Mexico's J.R. Giddens' last second threepoint attempt bounced off the side of the rim giving Tech the two point win.

"I think this whole thing has kind of been a burden on the kids," Knight said of the record.

Jackson and Martin Zeno Jed Tech with 22 points each.

Tech Chancello r Kent H ance, President Jon Whitmore and Athletic D irector Gerald Myers all spoke to the crowd following the game.

"Tins is a great accomplishment," Whitmore said. "But more important to me than the 880 wins is what you have brought to the university; the graduation rates and all that you've done for the libraries."

Looking back on his career in college basketball Knight said he has enjoyed his 40-plus years.

"Basketball has really afforded me an opportunity to live a life that has been really mostly enjoyable;' he said. "I am very grateful to basketball and I'm pleased that something like this could happen that involves all of our players over 40 years.

Everyone that has been a part of what we've done has had something to do with this."

have helped in one way or another with our basketball team."

The 2006-2007 basketball season marks the 41st in coaching for Knight. His first career victory, a 71-62 Army victory over Worcester, came in I 966. Before taking the head coaching job at Army Knight served as an assistant at West Point.

"I think of a guy by the name of Jake Pride who would drive the bus at West Point," Knight said . " He's one of the g uys I think about and remember."

During Monday's game Tech (1 1-4) opened up a 19 point first half lead. But the Lobos (10-4) managed to make the game close late taking a four-point lead with 6:25 to play.

Guard Jarrius Jackson gave Tech the lead back with 2:05 to play on a 3-pointer to make the score 70-68. The teams traded

B.owt Game Victory- Texas Tech defeated Minnesota 44·41 at the Insight Bowl on Dec. 29. The win was the

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dtfferent quarterbacks. The 2006 season marked the fifth highest consecutive winning streak in the country.

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Kipyego claims NCAA cross country title From Staff Reports, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

• Terre Haute, Ind. - Last season, the Texas Tech women's cross country team finished sixth at the Big 12 Conference meet.

The Lady Raiders finished sixth again Monday ... this time at the NCAA championships.

With sophomore Sally Kipyego leading the way, the No. 13 Lady Raiders posted a top- I 0 finish in what marked their first team trip to the national meet. Kipyego, meanwhile, captured Tech's first individual cross country national title, fi nishing the

6-kilorneter race in a time of 20: 11 .1 0.

She fi ni shed the season undefeated in six races, also claiming Tech 's first individual Big 12 and Mountain Regional cross country championships.

"It was just a phenomenal performance," Tech cross country coach Jon Murray said. "Sally was the favorite corning in, but this was the biggest meet she's ever competed in. She did a great job."

Murray said Kipyego ran the first mile a little faster than they both wanted, but she had enough strength to hold for the

win. Colorado's Jenny Barringer finished second, 26.8 seconds behind Kipyego.

"I was really nervous before the race, and I think that's why I started so quickly," Kipyego said. ''I' m just so excited right now. It feels great to be a national champion."

Tech senior Irene Kirnaiyo placed ninth in a time of 21:06.30 to earn allAmerican accolades. ''This was by far the biggest and most competitive meet we've raced in, but they just all came through," Murray said.

"We were ranked 13th coming in, but we knew we could pass other teams and finish in the top 10. It helps to have the one-two punch of Sally and Irene."

No. ! -ranked Stanford won the women's team title with 195 points.

Colorado finished second.

On the men's side, Tech senior Kevin Chelimo placed a career-best 17th at the national meet. He became the first Tech male to earn all-American accolades in cross country. He finished in a time of 31 :22.20.

"Our goal for Kevin was to become All-American, and that's what he did," Murray said about Chelimo. "He ran a great race." •

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Associate Vice President

The Dallas alumni chapter of Tech Exes continues to be one of our most active groups.

Here are just a few of the events they sponsored throughout 2006.

RIGHT Since the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are featured on national and regional television on a frequent basis, game-watching parties are very popular with Tech fans. The Dallas alumni cheer the Raiders on to another victory.

BELOW This shot is of another Dallas Happy Hour...with a twist. On this occa· sion, the Dallas chapter partnered with the Dallas chapter of UT-Austin alumni.

(As far as we know, it was all carried out in a civil manner).

LEFT Happy Hour events are another way for Tech alumni to gather, meet with old (and new) friends while they get the opportunity to network with other professionals.

A~OVE Uke many of our chapters around the country, the

H1ll Country chapters sponsored a game-watching party for the Insight Bowl. These Tech fans were rewarded wi~h t_he gn:atest come-back win in NCAA Bowl history.

EnJoymg th1s amazing win are, from left: John Carroll, Jr., Roy Dubose and John Carroll.

LEFT Th~ Hill Country alumni chapters have all been very act1ve and productive throughout the year. The Hill C~untry annual golf tournament was a huge success and ra1sed more than $17,000 for their scholarship fund.

Shown here_are, from left: Tom Hutton, Bobby Cavazos, Dayme Mulhns, Robert Kluting and Bob Hickerson.

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Mr. & Mrs. David E. Greenhill '91 (Jody Greenhill)

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Moffatt (Jean F. Moffatt '80)

Mr. Justin W. Guerrant '02

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Perdue '93 (Rebecca M. Perdue)

Mr. Randy L Guzinsky '05 Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Hairgrove '74 (Sarah J. Hairgrove) Mr. & Mrs. Mike Harris (Judy Harris)

Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph V. Renda, Jr. '99 (Christy Renda)

Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Hayter '76 (Marietta J. Hayter)

Mr. & Mrs. Harold L Rives, Ill '95 (Margaret W. Rives)

Mr. & Mrs. Wade R. Helstrom (Kathy C. Helstrom '66)

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Sanderson '70 (SusanJ.Sanderson'73) Mr. Kevin M. Smith '02

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Mr. Benjamin J. George

Mr. Richard A. Purcell '65

$35-$99

Loyalty

Mr. & Mrs. Enrique A. Garza '90 (Cheryl A. Garza) .

The Texas Tech Alumni Association

Platinum

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L Garrett '57 (Altha F. Garrett)

Mr. & Mrs. Hakarn Kayasseh '03 (Rizkia Kayasseh)

$2,500 or more annually

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Gold

Mr. Dan C. Spencer

Dr. Thomas R. Irons '72

Mr. & Mrs. Max R. Tarbox '76 (Carol G. Tarbox)

Mr. & Mrs. A. Darryt James (Lynn A. James '79)

Mr. & Mrs. Greg W. Wessels '79 (Katie J. Wessels '79)

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jay '77 (Vicki L Jay '78)

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Williams '91 (KrisT. Williams '92)

Ms. Undsey J. Jones '05

Mr. & Mrs. Gary M. Joiner '86 (Karen A. Joiner) Mr. & Mrs. Jim Kerbow '67 (Susan Kerbow '69) Mr. Jay T. Killough '00

Century

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$1,000 to $2,499 annually

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Mr. & Mrs. Joe R. King '02 (Christi J. King '02)

$100 to $249 annually

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Mr. Michael G. Knize

Ms. Patty C. Booth '83

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Mr. & Mrs. John Aldrete (Guiselle M. Aldrete '91)

Mrs. Gail E. Crockett '85

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Mr. Steven D. Alexander '70

Mr. & Mrs. Scott T. Koons '87 (Nonnna L Koons)

Mr. & Mrs. Kip Allison (Usa G. Allison '87)

Mr. & Mrs. Rick T. Lathrop '83 (lngred C. Lathrop '83)

Mr. & Mrs. Cha~es R. Gibson '62 (M. Dolores Gibson)

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Mr. & Mrs. Scott G. Arbuckle, Jr. '83 (Tammy M. Arbuckle '83)

Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen '80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Mr. & Mrs.

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Philomena W. Kong, M. D. '88

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Mr. & Mrs. Alan L Lee '92 (Tiffany Lee) Mr. & Mrs. David D. Leg-Page '03 (Anna K. Legh-Page '04)

Mr. Brittian E. Bell '91 Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Brown '86 (Sheri Brown '85)

Dr. & Mrs. Derek S. Lehew '01 (Melissa Lehew)

Mr. Jordan Busby '03

Ms. Lori J. Leo '00

Ms. Lori A. Barnes '85

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Clement (Melinda L Clement)

Mr. & Mrs. Roy M. Blankenship, Ill '82 (Debra A. Blankenship)

Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Cornaud (Frances Cornaud)

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Uonbarger '92 (Holly R. Uonbarger)

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald E. Gaige '68 (Dorothy C. Gaige '68)

Mr. Eric P. Cudd '02

Mr. & Mrs. Grady T. Locknane '04 (Celeste Locknane '04)

Mr. & Mrs. T. Scott Davis '96 (Angela M. Davis '95)

Ms. Cynthia H. Lorenz '82

Mr. Jay L. Hurt '95

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Deen '89 (Melissa A. Deen '89)

Mr. & Mrs. Brandon A. Luedke '04 (Amanda S. Luedke '04)

Ms. Deborah K. Douglass '71

Mr. & Mrs. Melvin L Macha '78 (Tina D. Macha)

Mr. & Mrs. Cha~es L Dunlap '65 (Dorothea Dunlap)

Ms. Chandra L. McBee '03

$500 to $999 annually

Ms. Samantha L. Crouch '00

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Quimby '78 (Candace L. Quimby)

Bronze $250 to $499 annually

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Dr. & Mrs. Neal B. Houston, Jr. '65 (JoanN. Houston)

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Mr. Michael R. Mallette '03

Dr. & Mrs. Brian J. Ereithel '88 (Vicki Reithel)

Mr. Matthew T. McCallister '05

Mr. & Mrs. S. Todd Aiken '86 (Mary E. Aiken '86)

Mr. & Mrs. Lance Evans (Tina Y. Evans '86)

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse J. Allen '80 (Veronica B. Allen)

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fadal '77 (Jennifer P. Fadal)

Mr. & Mrs. Wilson R. McGraw (Mary K. McGraw '03)

Dr. & Mrs. Davis W. Carvey '72 (Pamela L Carvey)

Capt & Lt Emesto Rores '93 (Cynthia S. Rores '92)

Mr. & Mrs. H. Keith Fabling '70 (Janet C. Fabling)

Mr. Kyle W. Ford '92

Miss Julie M. McPhaul '81

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Mr. & Mrs. Steve K. Rutherford '87 (Elaine M. Rutherford)

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Thompson '73 (Terry M. Thompson)

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Morgan '70 (Carrie E. Morgan) Mr. & Mrs. Barry A. Nebhut '85 (Patricia Hebhut)

Mr. Steve W. Scarbrough '78 Mr. & Mrs. Joe M. Shamberg '65 (Mary J. Sharmberg)

Mr. & Mrs. T. Todd Thurman '99 (Tisha D. Thurman) Mr. Jason Tijerina '99 (Elizabeth M. Sargent '01)

Tracy J. Noga, Ph.D. 01

Mr. Jonathan I. Shub '01

Ms. Megan L Toone '01

Mr. Bruce W. Nolley '87

Mr. Scott T. Siggins '04

Mr. & Mrs. Dago Urias (Michelle Urias '04)

Mr. Rama G. Oakes '55 (Patricia C. Oakes)

Mr. & Mrs. Darren R. Smith '99 (Dana L Smith '99)

Mr. & Mrs. Steven R. Voelzke '66 (Ellen B. Voelzke)

Mr. & Mrs. Donald L Smith, Sr. '47 (Jean Smith '45)

Miss Kay B. Ward '79

Ms. Stacy J. Montgomery '96 Mrs. Francoise D. Moore '85

Mr. & Mrs. James W. Ober!lolz '99 (Vanna K. Ober!lolz '98) Mr. & Mrs. Justin E. Odom '01 (Kimberly L Odom '01)

Mr. & Mrs. Blaine C. Warzecha '93 (Blaine B. Warzecha)

Mrs. Andrea Stone '78

Mr. & Mrs. Roger K. Owen '48 (Bennye L Owen)

Ms. Maryellen Sullivan '02

Mr. Eugene J. Popaditch, Ill '05

Mr. & Mrs. Terry T. Sutton (Rebecca W. Sutton '78)

Mr. & Mrs. Jacob G. Watson '55 (Roslyn Watson '54)

Mr. Craig W. Ray '04

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon D. Taylor '88 (Kelly S. Taylor)

Mr. J. Mark Watson '99

Mr. & Mrs. Lester C. Redifer (Patricia Redifer '69)

Mr. Trenton L Thach '01

Mr. Dustin S. Whittenburg '00

Ms. Deborah D. Reeves '98

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Thering '99 (Kane R. Thering)

Ms. Robyn L Williams '05

Mrs. Sharon S. Rice '66

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L Thomas '79 (Sherry G. Thomas)

Mr. & Mrs. Sam T. Wortham (Donna T. Worthan '69) •

Mr. & Mrs. Rick D. Roberts '89 (Kerry Roberts) Mr. James J. Robertson '00

MASKED

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Unveiled and dedicated in the year 2000, the life-and-a-quarter-sized, commissioned Masked Rider monument is an inspiring addition to the campus landscape. The monument, located south of Frazier Alumni Pavilion, was fashioned by renowned sculptor Grant Speed of Lindon, Utah.

To fund the project, a limited number of monument replicas are being sold through the Texas Tech Alumni Association. The replicas are 2 feet long by 1.5 feet tall, an impressive artistic addition to any business lobby, home or personal office.

Although contributions of any amount are appreciated, limited edition replicas are available for $7,500 and can be paid with three annual pledges of $2,500. Replicas will be delivered upon first payment.

For more information, contact the Texas Tech Alumni Association at 806.742.3641.

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David Maserang (BS Microbiology) Houston, Texas, retired from the U.S. Navy in November 2005. He accepted a position with the Bureau of Laboratories with the Houston Department of Public Health.

Leslie Shipp (BS Physical Education) San Antonio, Texas, returned in August from a six-month deployment to AI A ad in Iraq. He was the operations officer for Combat Logistics-7 Alpha Surgical Co. His wife is Sylvia.

'00 John D. Yolk, Jr. (BS Mechanical Engineering) Amarillo, Texas, graduated from F-16 Falcon fighter pilot training at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, in October.

After completing F-16 advance training in night systems and weapons, he and his wife. Penny, are spending the next three years stationed on an operational assignment in northern Japan at Misawa Air Base. Tolk received his wings following basic pilot training at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla., in June 2005.

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'41 Duffer B. Crawford (BS Civil Engineering) Houston, Texas, worked for the U.S . government after his graduation on what was then a top secret project, now known as the Manhattan Project, developing the nuclear bomb that some claim won World War II. Today, he consults with his former employer, Kellogg Company, on a weekly basis, regarding LNG and petroleum recovery.

'55 Gordon E. MBert" Tandy (BS Electrical Engineering) Spring, Texas, retired in 1995 as staff engineer for Houston Lighting and Power Co. He was on the engineering team for South Texas Nuclear Project and ERCOf power interchange coordinatiing committees.

His wife is Susan Burr Tandy (BS ' 56 General Education).

Calling Members of the Class of 1957!

Your 501" Reunion is scheduled for May 9-11, 2007. If you did not receive your notice by mail, please call the Alumni Association for more details: 806.742.3641.

PLANNING REUNION! Former members of the Tech Bible Choir, supported by the Broadway Church of Christ, especially those members who attended In the '50s and early '60s, please write or call: Ray M. Thompson e-mail: raymackt@tx.rr.com phone: 972-231-0765 1120 Eton Dr. Richardson, Texas 75080 www.raymack.com

'58 M. Watson Moore (BBA Accountiing) Roby, Texas, is a retired C PA and currently serves as chairman of the board of trustees of Baptist Retirement

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Community of San Angelo, Texas. He Jives on a fann with his wife, Shirley.

'61 John L. Castleman (BSE Secondary

Education) Lubbock, is the songwriter for the album "Cowboy Up!" Ten of his songs have been recorded by professional musicians in Levelland, Texas.

The music is centered around the American cattle drive. All of the songs on the album are Castleman's original works.

'62 Mary Lou Childress Coughlin

(BS Applied Art) Plano, Texas, retired after teaching for 18 years with Plano Independent School

District. She is enjoying traveling and spending time with her grandchildren. Her husband is Jim .

'62 Marvin Crawford, Jr. (BSE Education)

Austin, Texas, is executive director of Texas Association of Suburban/ Mid-Urban Schools. He is also a consultant for several education fi rms. His wife, Marilyn Lobsteln Crawford (BSE '75 Elementary Education), is assistant director of TAS/MUS and an interior decorator.

'64 Carolyn Anderson (Agricultural Science) Rocksprings, Texas, owns and publishes The Rocksprings Record, a newspaper in Rocksprings.

Her husband, Dean Anderson (BS '65 Animal Production), published the book "A Century of Rodeo ." He was

on the rodeo team at Tech in 1963 and 1964 and included many of the Tech rodeo hands in his book.

Ronnie M. Ayers (BBA Accounting) Houston, Texas, has been featured as M.D. Anderson's poster boy for prostate cancer. He has appeared in numerous magazine ads, TV and radio spots. In June, he was contacted by a woman he dated in 1962, when they were both students at Tech. After a whirlwind courtship, Ayers married Karen S. Smith on Nov. 8.

Royce Newsom (BBA Industrial Management) Lubbock, was inducted into ACMA Hall of Fame at COMPOSITES & POLYCON 2006. He is a long-time industry professional of Venetian Marble Company in Lubbock. Eligibility for the Hall of Fame requires at least 20 years of service to the industry and a lasting impact that is forever felt by industry professionals. His wife is Mary Jo Garrett Newsom (BS '65 General Home Economics).

'66 Sharon Rice (BSE Secondary

Education) Wingate, Texas, has been a teacher in Texas public schools for 37 years. She has taught at Winters Independent School District for the last 19 years.

'67 George M. Roberts (BBA

Management) Metairie, La., and his wife, Mary Lynn, survived hurricane Katrina. They have spent the last 30 years in business manufacturing cultured marble products for kitchens and baths.

'68 Beverly Shearer Baker (BS Home Economics Education) Fredonia,

Texas, retired in 2000 after 30 years of teaching. She is currently serving as president of the Hill Country Cattlewomen and owner/operator of Heart of the Heart guest cabin. She enjoys ranching in Mason County with her husband and two sons.

directs the W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum and research center.

His latest book, "American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs," is currently in press at the University of Oklahoma and is scheduled for release spring 2007.

Charles "Mac" McClure (BBA Management) Farmers Branch, Texas, was elected first vice president of CCIM Institute; the governing body of the largest commercial real estate network in the world. He will serve in a three-year executive leadership capacity for CCIM Institute, culminating with national president in 2009. McClure is a 30-year commercial real estate veteran and co-founder ofTIG Real Estate Services, Inc., of Dallas, Texas.

'69 Judy Copeland Ashcroft (BA English, MA '73 English, Ph.D.,'9l) Austin, Texas, is director of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA) at the University of Texas at Austin, and was selected to become dean of the university's Division of Continuing Education.

William D. Perry (BS Mechanical Engineering) Helotes, Texas, has been promoted to institute engineer in the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute. The position of institute engineer, scientist or analyst is the

T. Lindsay Baker (BA History, MA '72 History, Ph.D., '77) Rio Vista, Texas, holds the W.K. Gordon Endowed Chair in History at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He also

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'72 Gary Don Allen (BS Industrial Engineering) Liberty, Utah, is a process engineer for C- 130 APU Turbines at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. His wife is Kathy.

Margie Hooper (BS Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising) Rockwall, Texas, is president of the Rockwall County Chamber of Commerce. Prior to the presidency, she spent 32 years holding various management positions with SBC/Cingular Wireless.

'74 Kelly D. Pratas (BA Political Science, BBA '80 Finance) Lubbock, is president and co-owner

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The Alumni Association would like to offer special thanks to our Platinum and Gold members for their support. platinum ($2,500 or more annually) Mr. & Mrs. Barney G. Adams '75 (Kandls Adams '75) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Anders '78 (Nesa J. Anders '81) Plano, TX Mr. Paul M. Barowsky '00 San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Benninger, Jr. '65 (Nelda Benninger '68) San Anton1o, TX Mr. & Mrs. C. Robert Black '58 (Billie K. Black) Horseshoe Bay, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Brown ' 59 (Elena R. Brown) Lamesa, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Broyles '51 (Helen P. Broyles) Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Chenault '82 (VIcki L Chenault) Austin, TX Mr. Charles R. Cummings '59 Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. John M. Czapski ' 78 (Debra A. Czapski) Katy, TX Mr. & Mrs. Enoch L. Dawkins '60 (Frances S. Dawkins) New Orleans, LA Mr. Gayle M. Earls '59 Dallas, TX Mr. Daniel F. Frye, Ill '73 Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Steve Greer '68 (Dolores G. Greer) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. B. R. Griffin (Geneva Griffin '51) Lubbock, TX

Mr. H. Wayne Henry '75 APO,AE Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Herrin '82 (Cheryl R. Herrin '83) Tampa, FL Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Holt (Jullanna H. Holt '69) Blanco, TX Mr. & Mrs. 0. Wayne lsom, M.D. '61 (Pat lsom) New York, New York Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Jacobs '87 (Jerri L Jacobs) Rancho Murieta, CA Mr. & Mrs. Leon Jeffcoat ' 66 (Patricia E. Jeffcoat '66) Midland, TX Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation Wichita Falls, TX Mr. & Mrs Douglas D. Kenny '66 (Jenny C. Kenny) San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs. James R. Maggio '82 (Sylvia H. Maggio '81) Aust1n, TX Mrs. Joan H. McComb '67 Flower Mound, TX Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKenzie '68 (Barbara E. McKenzie '69) Sulphur Springs, TX Mr. & Mrs. J. Frank Miller Ill '74 (Kay 0. Miller '74) Dallas, TX Col. (ret) & Mrs. Michael M. Morse ' 63 (Constance L. Morse) Marble Falls, TX Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pendell '8 1 (Belinda J. Pendell) Clint, TX Mr. Gary R. Petersen '68 Houston, TX

Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Price (Mary Jo Price '53) San Antonio, TX Mr. Michael L. Riddle '69 (Carol Riddle) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. James H. Rippy '60 (Janet 0 . Rippy) Tyler, TX Mr. & Mrs. Ray L. Robbins, Jr. '66 (Cheryl Robbins) Chesterfield, MO Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Rose (Susan Menelaides '76) Scottsdale, AZ Mr. & Mrs. John E. Roueche, Ill '88 (Elise W. Roueche) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Martis E. Smith '54 (Shirley C. Smith '54) Englewood, CO Mr. & Mrs. William 8 . Snyder '55 (Sally M. Snyder) St. Petersburg, FL Mr. & Mrs. Dale V. Swlnburn '65 (Cheryl Swinbum) Tulia, TX Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Swofford, Jr. '47 (Sar.~h S. Swotfonf • San Diego, CA Ms. Suzanne Thompson ' 74 Oklahoma City, OK Mr. & Mrs. James S. Young '49 (Peggy B. Young) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. John D. Zwiacher '74 (Ann L. Zwiacher '74) Lubbock, TX • As of January 8, 2007

Join the Alumni Association today to be in the next Texas Techsan.

PLATINUM

GOLD

10-karat Official TTAA Class Ring• for those eligible, wall plaque,• recognition in all Texas Techsan magazines plus Loyalty benefits.

TTAA desk clock* or limited edition jacket,* wall plaque,* recognition in all Texas Techsan magazines plus Loyalty benefits.

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Loyalty Texas Techsan magazine, memben!ir ca1en00, membership cards, car decal, invitations to local alumni . chapter events, online cax:e~r sefll· es, group travel opportunJties, access to Texas Tech Federal Cr!li Union services and gameday ac«9 to Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

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gold ($1,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Tom Abraham '32 (Helen Abraham) Canadian. TX Mr. & Mrs. Vlnu J. Abraham '93 (Sandra Abraham) Jupiter, FL Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Adams '78 (Deborah T. Adams) Richmond, VA Mr. & Mrs. Grant Adamson '81 (Nelda S. Adamson) Austin, Texas Or. & Mrs. "Wick" Alexander '58 (Janna D. Alexander ' 58) Arlington, TX Or. 8. L. Allen '48 Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Annett '96 (Kathleen J. Annett) Charlotte, NC Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Anthony '75 (loraine C. Anthony) Friona, TX Mr. & Mrs. Scott G. Arbuckle '57 (Tommye E. Arbuckle ' 56) Dallas,TX .Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery D. Barker '81 (Peri M. Barker ' 81) Cincinnati, OH Mr. & Mrs. Noel Barrick '72 (Jeannie Barrick '72) Dallas, TX Mr. Caleb Bennett '06 Amarillo, TX Mr. & Mrs. William D. Benton '78 (Paula M. Benton) Van Alstyne, TX Mr. & Mrs. O<an H Berry, Ill '71 (linda A Berry '70) San Angelo, TX Mr. & Mrs. Hubert P. Bezner '49 (Victoria M. Bezner) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bickley, Ill '74 (Sandi Bickley) Garland, TX Mr. Jeff A. Blakeman '85 (Cristina Blakeman) Grapevine, TX Dr. Timm J. Bliss '84 & Or. l isa Griffin Bliss '84 Stillwater, OK Mr. & Mrs. Bryant Bonner '95 (Whitney R. Bonner '96) Aust10, TX s. Patty C. Booth '83 APO, AE r. and Mrs. J. Gregory Boyd '76 (Gall A. Boyd '75) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Breedlove '70 (Lorrie Breedlove) Spring, TX r. & Mrs. Bennie R. Brigham '65 (Mary G. Brigham '66) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Britton '69 (Judith A. Britton) Allington, TX Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Brochu '78 (Rebecca l . Brochu '78) San Antonio, TX Mrs. Patti A. Brogdon '79 Fort Worth, TX r. & Mrs. William D. Brown '74 (Karen E. Brown '74) Austin, TX . Colonel & Mrs. Mark Bryant ' 83 (Paula H. Bryant) Stafford, VA r. & Mrs. Ronald Bryant '73 (Rebecca E. Bryant '72) Mechanicsburg, PA r. & Mrs. Larry W. Burgess '76 (Talan Burgess) Dallas, TX r. & Mrs. Gary R. Burleson '77 (Kay M. Burleson) Humble, TX r. & Mrs Steve Burleson ' 83 (Elizabeth G. Burleson '84) Mrdland, TX r. & Mrs. Larry Byrd ' 57 (Patricia A. Byrd) Dallas, TX s. Caren C. Caffrey '86 Sharpsburg, GA r. &Mrs. Mark A. Carter (Barbara M. Carter '79) Antioch, CA r. & Mrs. R. Don Cash '66 (Kay Cash '67) lubbock, TX · Lauro Cavazos '49 (Peggy Cavazos '49) Concord, MA r. I. Mrs. Eugene C. Chambers '65 (Carole B. Chambers) Katy, TX r. & Mrs. Mark A. Cina '75 (Anne G. Cina) Harker Heights, TX r. &Mrs. Mark A. Conrad (Christy D. Conrad '92) The WOOdlands, TX rs. Gail Tolliver Crockett '85 Chrcago, IL · & Mrs. Thomas D. Curtis '80 (Gloria A. Curtis '79) Garland, TX r. &Mrs. Richard Davila, II (Holly Davila '98) lubbock, TX ·I. Mrs. Bill Dean '61 (Peggy M. Dean ' 66) Lubbock, TX r. & Mrs. E. L. Derr '50 (Sue Derr '50) Colleyville, TX ·Jane B. Dickson '74 Step/lenvrlle, TX · & Mrs. Jim Douglass '70 (Patti Douglass '85) lUbbock, TX r. ' Mrs. John Downs '66 (Edie Downs) Sadler, TX · Deborah D. Dunkum Houston, TX · Pa~lcla A. Erwin '77 Taylor, TX 'C~de L. Fincher '30 San Benito, TX · Joe B. Fisher '82 ,CyP<ess, TX • l~~rveyTX Garrison '64 (Joyce C. Garrison '64) I.M • · lu~\~ J. Geick (Helen J. Geick '61)

Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Gerik '83 (Caryl A. Gerik '86) Waco, TX Dr. & Mrs. Charles Geyer, Jr. '76 (Jonl A. Geyer) Sewickley, PA Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Gibson '62 (M. Dolores Gibson) Bedford, TX Mr. & Mrs. Chip Graves '80 (Cindy A. Graves) Auslln, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Green '82 (Kathy G. Green) Keller, TX Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Green '64 (Mary Ann Green '64) Fair Oaks Ranch, TX Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Gregory '85 (Nancy 0 . Gregory) Fort Worth, TX Dr. & Mrs. Dan Guy (Terri Guy '73) Santa Fe, NM Ms. Kathy E. Hager '72 Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. D. Brett Hall 'B6 (Christie G. Hall) Miami, TX Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Hamel '93 (Karen A. Hamel '93) Lubbock, TX Chancellor & Mrs. Kent R. Hance '65 (Susie Hance) Lubbock, TX Ms. Bobbie C. Harris Opelika, AL Mr. Joe W. Harris, Jr. ' 55 (Denise M. Harris) Bellingham, WA Dr. & Mrs. Robert Hart '80 (Susan E. Hart) Baton Rouge, LA Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Haworth '79 (Kathleen S. Haworth '79) Draper, UT Mr. Shane E. Hazel '98 (Kristen Hazel '98) Plano, TX Mr. Scott E. Heinzman '87 Hanover Park, IL Mr. & Mrs. Valentin Helou '02 (Theresa D. Helou '02) New York, NY Mr. & Mrs. Gregory R. Hoes '86 (Lori Hoes) Rowl ett, TX Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hogue (Lori l. Hogue '96) Missouri City, TX Mr. & Mrs. C. Cliff Hoskins '76 (Jane G. Hoskins '75) Corpus Christi, TX Mr. & Mrs. Don J. Howe '71 (Vickie Howe) Alpharetta, GA Mr. & Mrs. G. John Hrncir, Jr. '69 (Betty W. Hrncir '69) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Huckabee '91 (Robin C. Huckabee '92) Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Hunter '5 1 (Dorothy l. Hunter) Amarillo, TX Mr. & Mrs. John Hutchens '56 (Palricla J. Hutchens '57) Metaine, LA Mr. & Mrs. Olin l . Isham '58 (Patsy G. Isham) Amarillo, TX Mr. & Mrs. Rex lsom '78 (Nancy lsom '80) Idalou, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry Johnson '61 (Suzie Johnson '62) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Chris M. Kidd '77 (Ann l . Kidd) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Bill LaFont '61 (Peggy B. LaFont ' 61) Pla~nvrew, TX Mr. Brant P. landry '00 Dallas, TX Mr. Rowland C. lawson '84 Soldotna, AK Mr. & Mrs. Robert lewis '49 (Ann F. lewis) Fairfax, VA Mr. & Mrs. Chris S. Loveless '93 (Stacy loveless '92) Cos Cob, CT Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. lowe '67 (Ashley lowe) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robert Macy '60 (Debbie K. Macy) Post, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brian A. Marczynskl '89 (Krlstl C. Marczynski "89) Austin, TX Mr. Birke B. Marsh '88 Amarillo, TX Mr. Wendell W. Mayes, Jr '49 (Mary J. Mayes) Aust10, TX Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Mays, Jr. '55 (Patty C. Mays) Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brent D. McClure '84 (Laura K. McClure '83) Colleyville, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brian McCoy '75 (Wetonnah l. McCoy) San Marcos, TX Mr. & Mrs. John McCoy '70 (lynnda J. McCoy '68) Haslet, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. McGuire '83 (Nancy Q. McGuire '77) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mickey D. McPherson ' 67 (Myrna A. McPherson) lnchne Village, NV Ms. Patsy H. Middleton ' 57 Aust10, TX Mrs, Martha H. Miller '49 Brenham, TX Mr. Glenn D. Moor '84 Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Patrick E. Munn ' 61 (Janice Munn) Odessa. TX Or. & Mrs. Brent B. Nail '72 (Susan Nail '71) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Matthew D. Neessen '99 (Renee A. Neessen) El Paso, TX Ms. Jessica Nelson '99 Lincoln, NE

Dr. James D. Norcross '87 Irving, TX Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Norvell '74 (Sandra G. Norvell) Pleasanton, CA Mr. & Mrs. John Owens ' 71 (Cynthia M. Owens '73) Lubbock, TX Dr. & Mrs. Brian R. Papworth 'BB (Mardi Papworth) Albuquerque, NM Mr. & Mrs. S. David Peeler, Jr. ' 63 (Jeanne Peeler) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Poore '90 (Christina B. Poore) Mercer Island, WA Mr. & Mrs. Bradley P. Poteet '96 (Gina M. Poteet '97) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Powell '93 (Amy M. Powell '93) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Pratt (Amy C. Pratt) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen '80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Sugar Land, TX Mr. & Mrs. Karl A. Ransleben '62 (Mary B. Ransleben) Fredericksburg, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Rawl s ' 67 (Pam Rawls) Los Altos, CA Mr. & Mrs. John Redmon '71 (Ann R. Redmon ' 71) The Woodlands, TX Mr. J. Ross Relyea '53 Oklahoma City, OK Mr. & Mrs. Paul Rider '67 (De De Rider) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Rinehart '60 (Joyce M. Rinehart) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Robertson 76 (Becky G. Robellson 76) Amarillo, TX Mr. & Mrs. Rex F. Robertson ' 81 (Debra J. Robertson '81) Plano, TX Ms. Terry l . Rolan '85 Sarnt Lours, MO Dr. Nancy R. Ruff '69 Clinton, WA Dr. & Mrs. Maotln Salazar '78 (Margie Salazar) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Keith Samples •n (Megan Samples) Calabasas, CA Mr. & Mrs. David l . Sargent '81 (Sandra Sargent) Southlake, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robbie Sartain '79 (Kathleen M. Sartain '79) Mrdland, Ml Mr. & Mrs. Olin B. Saulsbury '57 (Sammie F. Saulsbury '58) Monroe, LA Dr. Alan C. Schauer '77 Aushn, TX Mr. & Mrs. John Scovell '68 (Diane K. Scovell '68) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Reagan W. Simpson (Nancy D. Simpson '75) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. l ucian R. Smith, Ill '74 (Kristin B. Smith '76) Jersey Village, TX Mr. Robert D. Smith '82 Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Souter ' 71 (Jill Harrison Souter) San Antonio, TX Mr. Garrett l. Spradling '04 80fger, TX Mr. & Mrs. Tom S. Stacy '75 (Melinda M. Stacy) Aust10, TX Mr. & Mrs. James Stone '50 (Evelyn B. Stone '48) Hattresburg, MS Mr. & Mrs. Barry C. Street '79 (Sudellne Street '79) Kress, TX Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. S~l. Jr. '72 (Michelle T. SwablelO Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Max S. Swinburn '67 (Doris Swinburn) Dimmrtt, TX Mr. & Mrs. Don D. Thetford ' 56 (Mary B. Thetford) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Carl J. Thomas '79 (Gall M. Thomas '79) Coppell, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy l . Tillinghast (Eucenla G. Tillinghast '96) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Fred Timberlake, Jr. '68 (Kay G. Timberlake) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Underwood ' 71 (Pam Underwood) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. J. Rex Vardeman '61 (Norma l . Vardeman) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Van C. Vernon ' 71 (Jan C. Vernon) Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. John B. Walker ' 68 (lisa A. Walker) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Wallace '76 (Patricia H. Wallace) Corpus Chnstr, TX Mr. & Mrs. Dan Webster '61 (Molly I. Webster) San Antonio, TX Mr. Steve W. Wentrcek '73 Tyler, TX Mr. & Mrs. David Wight '64 (Carla H. Wight) Anchorage, AK Mr. & Mrs. Karl B. Willard '91 (l!evorty Willard) Lantana, TX Mr. & Mrs. lee Winton '85 (Nancy L. Winton) Carrollton, TX Or. & Mrs. Scott W. Wyrick '87 (lenore P. Wyrick) Texarkana, TX •As of January 8, 2007

of Kuykendall and Schneider Inc., an investment services firm with more than $200,000,000 in assets under management. His wife is Cynthia McDonald Pratas (BBA ' 82 Management Information Systems).

'75 Thomas C. Harrison (BA Chemistry) Katy, Texas, is president of the 20062007 Board of Directors of the Texas Dental Association.

in the year. He and his wife Jane Kalley Cosby (BSE Elementary Education) have two daughters.

'78 Robert Boles (BBA General Business) Dallas, Texas, and wife Erin Elizabeth Erskine Boles (BA Advertising) announce the birth of their son, Brandon John, on July 12.

Melvin Macha (BS Crops, MA '87 Agriculture) Slaton, Texas, has farmed for 30 years. His wife is Tina.

'76 Robert M. Cosby (BBA Finance) Lubbock, works for City Bank as an AgLoan officer. He will be branch manager of City Bank-Idalou when it opens later

Jennifer Smith (BA Dance) New York, N.Y., was inducted into the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame in Lubbock on Sept. 16. She is a Lubbock native and has been acting, dancing and singing on Broadway for more than 20 years.

' 0 Jesse J. Allen (BS Petroleum Engineering) Katy, Texas, is the vice president of operations for Tempest Energy Resources in Houston, Texas. He and his wife Roni have two children.

David T. Gill (BS Electrical Engineering) Coppell, Texas, was elected to the board of directors of WIRES, a newly formed national non-profit trade organization consisting of the nation's leading electric companies. He is also the TXU Electric Delivery vice president of regulatory affairs. His wife is Kay Humes Gill (BA '83 French, BA Spanish).

Fred D. Raschke (JD Law) Hou ston, Texas, a managing partner of the Galveston law firm of Mills Shirley, L.L.P., was elected the 2006-2007 president-elect of the Texas Association of Defense

Counsel (TADC). TADC is a statewide association of more than 2,000 private practice attorneys specializing in civil defense trial law. His wife is Susan Garrott Raschke (M.Ed. '8 1 Education).

This award is presented each year to a small company that demonstrates superior entrepreneurial ability in its industry during the research period. Drew founded the corporation in 1996.

Laura Wilson (BFA Interior Design)

Lisa Foreman (BA Advertising) Canyon, Texas, works as the member services coordinator for Consolidated Beef Producers in

Dallas, Texas, works for Rees Associates Inc., in Dallas. She has more than 25 years experience in interior design projects including healthcare, corporate, education and re sidential.

Canyon. She and her husband, Cam, have one son.

Marsha Gattis (BSE Elementary

Education, M.Ed. Curriculum Instruction) Lubbock, has worked at Lubbock Independent School District for 25 years. She has been named to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" the past three years in a row. She is currently teaching at Hutchinson Middle School.

'8 Paula Walker Cain (BS Physical Education) Corsicana, Texas, is a dyslexia therapist fo r Corsicana Independent School District.

She and her husband Monte have three children.

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'82 Jerry Drew (BS Engineering Technology) Grapevine, Texas, is the founder of XCI Corporation and the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in the North American thermostats market.

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' John Halgls (BS Electrical Engineering Technology) Sherman, Texas, has worked for Texas Instruments, in DSP design for more than 20 years. His wife, Reneta Barnett Halgls ('84 Management Information Systems), also works for Texas Instruments, in IT management. They have three children.

'84 Robert Noble Ill (BS Electrical Engineering) Plano, Texas, was

Lisa Marie Saxenian (BSE Secondary Education) Waco, Texas, was selected as Region 12 assistant principal of the year. She is an assistant principal at Waco High School.

promoted to chief technology officer of AMX, a worldwide leader in advanced control system technology, in Dallas.

Karen Carr Ellison (BSE Elementary Education) Levelland, Texas, retired after 20 years service with the Levelland Independent School District, where she taught third grade.

' Philip F. Musa (BS Electrical Engineering, MS '88, BBA '92 General Business, Ph.D ., ' 00) Birmingham, Ala., was promoted to associate professor of management information systems, with tenure, at the University of Alabama. He has been invited to work at universities around the world.

' Shannon Denton (BS Computer Science) Atlanta, Ga., was elected to the Atlanta Council Board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA). She is senior vice president in the Atlanta office and general manager for the Southeast region of Avenue A/Razorfish, the largest interactive marketing and technology services firm .

James R. Old, Jr. (JD Law) Beaumont, Texas, was elected 2006-2007 president of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel (TADC). He is a partner in the Beaumont law firm Germer Gertz, L.L.P.

'89 Barry Brown (BA Poli tical Science) Washington, D.C., and his wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of their daughter, Ann A' Da le Gipson, born Oct. 24.

Darren S. Edwards (BS Agricultural Economics, MS) Euless, Texas, returned home after spending six months in the hospital recovering from a motorcycle accident. His wife, Lisa, cares for him at home and assists with his rehabilitation.

at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock.

'92 Marie-Adele "Mia" McCormick Cook (BA Speech Communication) Fort Worth, Texas, and her husband

Mike Cook (BS '97 Horticulture) own Mike 's Garden Centers of Fort Worth. They have four children.

Chris P. Orr (BS Agriculture Education) Stephenville, Texas, works for Pfizer Animal Health. He and his wife, Sunny Rosser Coody Orr (BS '93 Family Finance Planning) own and operate Pack & Mail Plus in Stephenville.

They have two children.

'90 Enrique Garza (BS Mechanical Engineering) Midland, Texas, was promoted to mechanical reliability team leader at the Huntsman Polymers plant in Odessa, Texas. Huntsman Base Chemicals & Polymers manufactures a diverse range of base commodity chemicals for the petrochemical and plastics industries. He and his wife, Cheryl, have one son.

Craig White (MS Accounting, Ph.D.,'88 Business Administration) Albuquerque, N.M., is a professor of accounting at Anderson Schools of Management in Albuquerque.

'91 Gary Bannister (BBA Marketing, MBA '92 General Business) Dallas, Texas, married Kimberly G. Sumrall (BS '98 Human Development and Family Studies) on Oct. 8.

Stephanie Gray (BSE Elementary Education) Austin, Texas, married Bob Brinkman on Aug. 19. She is the former manager of education programs

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and her husband, Ashley, have three children.

Velma Vera Medina (BGS

General Studies) Lubbock, has worked for Coldwell Banker Rick Canup Realtors since 2000. Her husband is Samuel Medina (BSE '73 Secondary Education, JD '76 Law).

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'96 Rand! Flnkelberg Frank (BS Exercise and Sports Science) Atlanta, Ga., and her husband Benjamin announce the birth of their second son, Aaron David, on Dec. 16, 2005. Randi is the curriculum developer for Ashworth College in Atlanta.

Kathy Oller Britton (BS Family

Finance Planning) Lubbock, joined the private banking group of Wells Fargo, where she addresses clients' banking, wealth management and financial planning needs.

Pepper Wallace Edens (BBA

Marketing) Houston, Texas,

Kyle Lukert (BBA Finance) Lubbock, joined Peoples Bank as vice president of commercial lending. He has more than eight years of experience with the Texas Department of Banking and as a commissioned bank examiner.

'97 David Frerlks (BSME Mechanical Engineering) Bothell, Wash., and his wife Christy Everett Frerlks (BA Journalism) relocated to Seattle, Wash., with their two-year-old son. David is a senior technology specialist for Cognos, a Canadian business intelligence software company.

Ellen Sigler (Ed.D. Educational

Psychology) Kokomo, Ind., is an associate professor of educational psychology at Indiana University in Kokomo.

'98 Sharla Durham Barefield (BS Human Development and Family Studies) Georgetown, Texas, and her husband,

Wade, announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Bailey Hope, on March 21, 2005.

Kevin Byrd (BS Architecture) Austin, Texas, and his wife , Ann Smith Byrd (BA Public Relations) announce the birth of thei r twins, Lauren Hope and Hudson Matthew, on Aug. 31. Ann is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Pfizer, Inc., and Kevin is a project manager for Bartlett-Cocke, a commercial construction company.

Kimberly Kunz (BGS General

Studies) Dallas, Texas, joined Todays Staffing to form and manage Todays Financial recruitment team.

She is in charge of placing accounting and financial professionals.

Bradley Riemer (BS Multidisci-

plinary Studies) Austin, Texas, received his masters of education in administration from Texas Christian University in May 2005.

He is a 1st grade autism inclusion teacher in Pflugerville, Texas.

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'99 Casey Gann (BS Animal Science, MBA '01 General Business) The Colony, Texas, and his wife, Ashly Dawn Beckham (BA '01 Psychology) announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Alexis Kennedy, in February 2006. Casey is a superintendent for Pulte Homes Inc., and Ashly is the regional talent manager for United Supermarkets in the DFW area.

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'00 Todd Berger (BBA Finance) Dallas, Texas, and his wife, Sarah, announce the birth of their first child, a son, Collin Douglas, on Oct. 2.

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Adam Knight (BA Social Welfare) Houston, Texas, is a United Methodist pastor. His wife, Brlttney Knight (BS 'O J Family Studies), is working on her master's degree in social work at the University of Houston.

'01 Jeffery T. Allen (BBA Finance, Economics) Carrollton, Texas, was promoted to vice president, sales support manager of the central region of the commercial bank at Bank of America.

'02 Tina Distel (BS Early Childhood) Austin, Texas, is a treatment coordinator at Avery Orthodontics in Cedar Park, Texas.

Mary Michelle Mann (BA History) Dallas, Texas, is the special projects

coordinator for the city of Richardson, Texas.

'03 Jeff Chandler (JD Law) San Angelo, Texas, was selected to participate in the 2006-2007 class of Leadership San Angelo. The program fosters leadership by providing concentrated training areas important to the city of San Angelo.

Tiffany Roberts (BS Animal Science) Cypress, Texas, is a teacher at Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District.

Gina Vandiver (BS Environmental Engineering, MENVE Environmental Engineering) Longview, Texas, competed in the Virginia Double Iron Triathlon, held Oct. 7-8 in Spotsylvania County. Out of 20 contestants, she was the top placer for

women and was one of two women to finish the competition, which consisted of a 4.8-mile swim, a 224-mile bicycle race and running 52.4 miles. She placed fourth overall with a time of 31 hours and 13 minutes.

Jason Vaughn (BBA Finance) Bacliff, Texas, accepted a position with El Paso Oil and Gas as an accountant in exploration and production. El Paso Oil and Gas Corp., located in Houston, Texas, own s North America's largest natu-· raJ gas pipeline system and is one of North America's largest independent natural gas producers.

'06 Whitney L. Reece (BID Interior Design) Abilene, Texas, accepted a position with Rees Associates Inc., in Dallas, Texas.

In Memoriam John Ross Bradford, Ph.D. '42, '48,

Lubbock, died Jan. 5. He earned his doctorate from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio.

Bradford served as dean of the Texas Tech College of Engineering from 1955 to 1982, when he began serving as vice president for development. He stepped down from that position in 1985.

Once again, he returned to teaching chemical engineering and continued until 1983. He was named a Distinguished Engineer ofTexas Tech in 1974. Bradford is survived by his wife,

Mike O'Dell '62 of New Braunfels, Texas, died Sept. 4, 2005.

Claude leonard "C.l." Tomlinson '49 of Rockwall, Texas, died Nov. 9.

Joann Marie Pymell '87 of Lubbock, died Oct. 6.

Margie Francis Squires White '42 of Escondido, Calif. , died Sept. 9.

Genelyn Cannon Ray ' 67 of Plano, Texas, died Sept. 29. She is survived by her husband Samuel M. Ray '66.

Michelle "Shelly" lee Stevens Williams '80 of Haslet, Texas, died Oct. 10.

Janakae T. Sargent, a Texas Tech student, of Mineral Wells, Texas, died Nov. 16.

Robbie Sargent '72 of Wichita Falls, Texas, died Sept. 9.

Mary lou Morris Sherrill '63 of Lubbock, died Oct. 28.

Betty Vaughn Bradford '50.

John W. Chism '60 of New Braunfels, Texas, died Oct. 14.

Mary Jean Webb Copeland '46 of Lake Kiowa, Texas, died Oct. 18.

LaVern A. Ish Curry '71 of Lubbock, died March 18.

W.P. "Daya" Dayawansa, former faculty member of Lubbock, died Oct. 18.

Norman Ray Ranagan '68 of Lubbock, died Oct. 25.

Joe G. Remlng '50 of Meadow, Texas, died Sept. 27.

Raymond L. King '38 of Lubbock, died Oct. 26.

Richard Blair Mansell '71 of O'Donnell, Texas, died Oct. 20.

Elvis McCarty '52 of Crosbyton, Texas, died May 19.

Send information for "Alumni News" to Jenni fer Ritz. associate editor, Texas Techsan, P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, Texas 79409·5001, or by e·mail to jennifer.ritz@ttu. edu. Please realize that because of space limitations and deadlines. the information you send us may not appear in the very next

Carole Dodsworth Stedman '68 of Harker Heights, Texas, died Sept. 24.

Perry Hite Bell '64, '71 of Lubbock, died November 25. He is survived by his wife, Camille G. Bell '42, '49.

Mary Frances Wiese Young '57 of Lubbock, died Oct. 21. •

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place in extemporaneous speaking. Senior Amador Juarez finished in second place in dramatic interpretation and fourth in impromptu speaking. McCarthy placed second in extemporaneous speaking at her first collegiate tournament in that event West won third place in impromptu speaking.

Dusten Russell, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, was awarded

the Joe B. and Martha J. DLxon Award for the best graduate student presentation in the Soil Mineralogy Division of the Soil Science Society ofAmerica at the 2006 Annual Meetings in Indianapolis. His presentation was titled ''Micromorphology and Stable Isotope Investigation of Lacustrine Petrocalcic Horizons on the Southern High Plains ofTexas and New Mexico."

Selection was based on quality of presentation and contribution of research to advancing the state of knowledge of soil mineralogy. Wayne Hudnall, B.L. Allen Endowed Professor of Pedology, and B. L. Allen were coauthors. Hudnall serves as Russell's academic adviser.

Jonathan Weinbaum, a doctoral student working with Lou Densmore, Ph.D., in biological sciences, recently traveled to Germany to collect comparative data on a poorly understood group of Triassic-age fossil reptiles ancestral to modem crocodylians called rauisuchians (r-ow-ee-sook-ians).

Weinbaum visited the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart and the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the University ofThbingen. Germany possesses some of the best preserved and most complete fossil specimens of rauisuchians outside of the United States, and this trip provided a tremendous opportunity to study some of these animals first hand. He was also able to visit one of several quarries in southern Germany that are still producing large quantities of fossil remains.

Hugo Mantllla-Melu, a doctoral student

working in the laboratory of Robert Baker, Ph.D., laboratory, was invited to be a keynote speaker to the II Congreso Colombiano deZoologia in Santa

In addition, Mantilla-Melu was invited to be part of the Group of Experts for Conservation of Colombian Mammals of Colciencias, the governmental institution in charge of science for Colombia. The main goal of this group of experts is to develop protocols that work to preserve the mammalian diversity of Colombia.

The Texas Tech speech and debate team won the award for top debate school for the second consecutive tournament at the Cameron Christmas Classic, held Dec. 1-3 in Lawton, Okla The team honor was followed by a number of strong individual performances. The tournament was attended by the University of Oklahoma and West Texas A&M, among others.

In parliamentary debate, seniors Jacob Parks and Tim West finished first in the varsity tournament, winning 11 straight judges' decisions. Freshmen Nicole Brown and Brian Horton were placed 5th in the varsity tournament, while freshmen Amy McCarthy and Sarah Saunders won a novice final round to finish as the top novice team at the tournament Horton also won first place in after-dinner speaking and sixth

Marta,

Colombia, last fall.

Mantilla-Melu also was in charge of the round table on the "Biogeography of Colombian Fauna" at the meeting.

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Student leaders are, from left Jennifer Mayo, chair of the Education Student Leadership Council; Tammyra Wilson, presi· dent of TSTA- SP; and Kimbra Massey. Treasurer ofTSTA·SP

Matthew Braddock, a master's student in philosophy, has had two articles about ethics accepted for publication: "A Critique of Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics," Philosophy Today (forthcoming, 2007); and "Actual lntentionalism, Interpretation, and Ethical Criticism," Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (A Journal of the British Society for Aesthetics) Vol. 3, Issue 2, August 2006.

Junhua Wang, a doctoral student in techni-

cal communication, and Ken Baake, Ph.D., associate professor of technical communication, published "Offshoring and Serving the Needs of Indian Technical Communicators with Online Technical Communication Programs: A Feasibility Study" in the November 2006 issue of Technical Communication Jordan Cofer, a new doctoral student in literature in the department of English, has published the short story "An Exercise in Futility" in the inaugural issue of The Broken Bridge Review.

Five students and graduates of the Department of English delivered presentations at the 2006 meeting of the South Central Modem Language Association: • Delores Duboise, "Family Stories: A Discourse of Recovered Hybrid Identity" • Gall Folklns, "Representing Jazz Selves: Gender Roles in Autobiographies of Charles Mingus and Billie Holiday" • Crystal Hicks, "Exploding the Boundaries of the Novel: Aspects of Intermedia Performance in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo" • Karen Keck, "It's a Dog's Life: Flush as Innocent Observer" • Amy Wells, "The Americanized 1920s Parisian salon: 20 rue Jacob, 27 rue de Fleurus, and 12 rue de l'Odeon." • The newly formed Education Student Leadership Council (ESLC) of the College of Education has successfully raised funds by selling college t-shirts to be the first academic unit on campus to donate funds to the student-led merit scholarship campaign "Paving the Way." The ESLC donation to the campaign will earn a brick honoring the students of the College of Education will be placed in the sidewalk leading to Memorial Circle.

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