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LETTERS /GOMPILED BY JEAN ANN GANTORE MAGAZ INE STAFF Publisher, Bill Dean '61, '65, '71 Editor, Jean Ann Bowman Cantore '84, '87 Associate Editor, Jennifer Bell Ritz '94, '95 Intern, Mackenzie Gregory

Good Impressions A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I was in Lubbock, and on campus, for the first time in about 20

years. Wow, how things have changed. The purpose of my visit was to introduce my daughter to Lubbock and Texas Tech. Her mother, my wife, is a die-hard Aggie graduate, so this was a de-brainwashing play on my part. My daughter loved it. She was taken back by the architectural beauty of the campus. She loved its compactness, but most of all she was so impressed at how nice and helpful everyone she came into contact with was.

This is the purpose of the letter. I too was extremely impressed with every young man and woman that we came into contact with. Whether on campus or off. We were in several shops just off campus, plus the Spirit Arena, the SUB, and the rec center. Each and every time and in each place the students were most helpful, courteous, willing, friendly and excited about what we were doing.

As a parent, and an alumnus, I was so proud of these young men and women, who so very well represent Texas Tech and what we strive to be and what we are.

Hopefully, through and by the actions of each Ambassador of Texas Tech that we carne into contact with, my daughter may one day herself be a graduate and proud Red Raider.

Sincerely, Kent C. Manoushagian Class of 1977

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What's Going on at Texas Tech icon passed from the scene with the death of Polk Robison, former basketball coach and athletic d irector on June 27.

I vividly remember the season of 1961-62, the first year we won a Southwest Conference Championship. It was Polk's last year to coach. It came down to the last game at home with Texas, which the Raiders won 63-60. As Studen t Government president, I was assigned the job of getting Polk to address the crowd right after the game from the bench.

It was a mob scene, but we finally pulled it off. I thought he might rip my head off for pulling him away from the team. As always, he was very gracious.

He was a real gentleman, and he had a great passion for the game of basketball. Most remember his famous leg kicks while seated during a game.

Robison did things in a first-class way. When we first started playing in the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, one of his innovationswas to turn out the lights and sh ine a spotlight on the American flag during the National Anthem. That practice had to be evaluated following an A&M game when a group of students apparently threw eggs all over the A&M bench while the lights were out.

I am not going to recount his biography. His obituary appears on page 42 in our last Techsan. Thousands of words were written about him following his death. He put Texas Tech basketball on the map and then became athletics director. As athletics director, he inherited an under-funded athletic department and through a lot of hard work and effort developed it into one that was competitive and highly respected.

Polk stood for integrity and he transmitted that philosophy throughout our athletic department. As far as Texas Tech athletics go he was "Mr. Texas Tech ." I consider it a privilege to have known and worked with him.

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Polk stood for integrity and he transmitted that philosophy throughout our athletic department.

I was fortunate to be selected to be on the search committee for Tech's new president. The process was a long one and a thoughtful one. The job of the committee was to present three qualified candidates t o Chancellor Kent Hance, who made the final choice.

In my opinion, the committee recommended three very strong candidates. I believe the faculty, administration and our alumni would have been happy with any of these three.

However, following our interview with Guy Bailey, Ph.D., I think something just clicked. Apparently, Kent felt the same.

You can read about Bailey's accomplishments on p. 28.

He has solid academic creden tials and a good track record in securing research dollars. He spent nine years at The

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University of Texas at San Antonio as provost, so he understands the political system in this state and also understands the funding system.

While Bailey is not a native Texan, his wife Jan is. In fact, she was raised in Lubbock and has a degree from Texas Tech. I taught her in a journalism class during that t ime.

Her father, Tim Tillery, was my high school baseball coach at Lubbock High School in 1957. He was a long-time coach in football and baseball and later entered the sporting goods business. At one time he was associated with "Goober" Keyes in the Sports Center in Lubbock, now known as Cardinals Sports Center.

Her mother, Mary, was my wife's physical education teacher at Smylie Wilson Junior High School and later was a counselor in the Lubbock Independent School District. Both parents are deceased.

Bailey is going to have his work cut out for h im. The first thing he has to do is fill some key positions. Those positions include provost, vice president for finance and vice president for research, three key positions in the administration. He also is going to have to deal with the controversy over'faculty workloads.

My guess is he will be a very strong leader and a very effective one.

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Alumni of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources will be interested in a plan to build an American Museum of Agriculture in Lubbock. The AMA is currently located in temporary facilities at East Broadway and Canyon Lakes Drive.

The idea to recognize and preserve this region 's agricultural heritage began in 1969 when County Commissioner Alton Brazell convinced the Lubbock County Commissioner's Court to allow him to begin collecting the farm machinery that was a part of the technological transformation that took place on South Plains farms. This became the Lubbock County Historical Collection.

In 2001, a non-profit group organized to assume responsibility and administration of the LCHC and incorporated as the American Museum of Agriculture. In 2003, the Museum contracted with the City of Lubbock to lease a 25-acre tract on the east side of downtown in and adjacent to Mackenzie Park. In 2005, the executive board of the AMA contracted with Southwest Museum Services of Houston, a museum planning and exhibits design/fabrication firm, to provide a master plan for the site in cooperation with an architectural firm, FWA of Midland.

The new facility will be a living memorial to the thousands of farm families that pioneered in agriculture and will serve as an educational and entertaining venue to tell the story ef American agriculture.

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PEOPLE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PROFES SOR VICKIE SUTTON ATTENDED THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION IN AUGUST IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, WH ERE SHE ADVISED MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS AT THE MEETING OF EXPERTS FOR THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVE NTION ( BWC).

Sutton, who heads Texas Tech's Center for Biodefense, Law and Public Policy, present ed results of regional and national surveys conducted by the center. The center acts as a source of information to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress by offering its findings as groundwork for legislation. The most recent surveys explore the effectiveness of the

regulatory framework for biosafety and biosecurity in t he U.S. and the operation of law and ethics in international health.

residents on campus, the department serves more than three million meals per year with a $27 million dollar budget.

SAM BENNETT, DIRECTOR O F HOSPITALITY S ERVI C ES FOR TEXAS TECH , HA S BEE N EL ECT ED PRES IDENT- EL ECT OF THE NATIONAL ASSO CIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIV ERSITY FOOD SERVI CES ( NACUF S ) . Ben nett, who has been with Texas Tech for 33 years, will serve t hree years on t he organization's board of directors as president-elect, president and past p resident.

The Division of Hospitality Services is responsible for all Texas Tech residence hall dining services, the Sam's Place min i-markets, retail operations at the Student Union and the university catering operation. With 6,400

BILL GUSTAFS ON, PH. D. , SENIOR DIRECTOR O F THE CENTER FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN T HE COLLEGE O F HUMAN SCIENCES, has received the Hear t of Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award from the Financial Planning Association (FPA).

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J OHN BALDWIN, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, HAS BEEN APPOINTED BY LT. GOV. DAVID DEWHURST TO THE SELECT COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS.

TH E MUSEU M OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERS IT Y REC EI VED AN EXEMPLARY CERTI FICATION FROM TH E TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION'S CU~ATORIAL FACI LITY CERT I FICATIO N PROGRAM . This makes the museum the fi rst facilityt receive no deficiencies since the inception of the program. Exemplary certification is awarded when the commission finds no deficiencies or disabling factors in a museum's ability to collect and store state-owned artifacts.

The Museum also recently received accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM). The designation is held b onl 774 of the nation's 17,000 museums. Of those 774 accredited museums, only 108 are university or college facilities. y y

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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY WAS NAMED A "BEST

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IN THE WEST " COLLEGE BY THE PRINCETON REVIEW. The New York City-based education services company selected the sch ool on its Web site feature 2009 Best

THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IS TEAMING WITH AN AUSTIN COMPANY, LGE EXECS INC. , TO COMMERCIALIZE SOME OF THE INNOVATIONS DEVELOPED IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. LGE is a four-year-old company that takes on special projects for large and small companies and helps universities commercialize technology. The first start-up company being developed by LG E is Gamete Inc., a business that will specialize ,in improving artificial insemination for cattle and other livestock. The ·company looked at several hundred inventions for which Texas Tech holds patents and chose 12 with commercial potential. .A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY AND EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE (EPCC) OFFERS THE FIRST BACHELOR OF SCIEN CE DEGREE TO PROSPECTIVE ARCHITECTS LIVING IN EL PASO, TEXAS, AND JUAREZ, MEXICO. Architecture students who have earned their

Colleges: Region by Region. The Princeton Review is a New Yorkbased company known for its test preparation courses, books and college admission and other education services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and is not a magazine.

A 2008 STUDY SHOWS THAT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS GENERATE A TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT OF $1.15 BILLION AND HELP TO SUSTAIN ABOUT 13, 300 JOBS PER YEAR IN LUBBOCK COUNTY. The survey also estimates the university's goal to grow to 40,000 students by 2020 would increase the total economic impact by $480 million to $1.63 billion and sustain about 18,800 jobs. Texas Tech currently enrolls about 28,000 students who spend $297.5 million and help sustain about 2,054 jobs. Forty thousand students would spend about $421 million

associate's degree though EPCC are allowed to take upper-level Texas Tech courses at the college's Val Verde campus. The program was devel-

and help sustain about 2,907 jobs. Bradley Ewing, Ph.D., a Jerry S. Rawls Professor of Operation s Management in the Texas Tech Rawls College of Business, completed the study for the university's Division of Student

oped in part to lure more Hispanics into the field of architecture.

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ANITA THIG PEN PE RRY IS KNOWN IN H ER ROLE AS FIRST LADY OF T EXAS AND A FORMER NURSE . NOW HER COMMITM ENT FOR HEALTH CAR E AND EDUCATING FUTURE NURSES WILL FOREVER BE UNITED WITH AN ACADEMIC I NSTIT UTION . The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents approved the Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing Aug. 7, and Gov. Rick Perry visited Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Aug. 21. from left, TTUHSC President John C. Baldwin, M.D.; Alexia Green, Ph.D., R.N., School of Nursing dean; First Lady Anita Perry; Gov. Rick Perry; and Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hanc~.

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NURSING RECEIVED A $7 MILLION GIFT TO ESTABLISH THE COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM ENDOWED CHAIR IN SIMULATION AND NURSING EDUCATION. Sharon Decker, R.N., Ph.D., was chosen to serve as the endowed chair. Decker is a p rofessor and director of Clinical Simulations at TTUHSC School of Nursing. The Endowed Chair in Simulation and Nursing Education is a partnership bet ween TTUHSC and Covenant Health System that will p rovid e in novative educat ional experiences in order t o prepare student s and n urses t o provide safe, quality patien t care.

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THE UFFIZI GALLERY IS ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST FAMOUS MUSEUMS OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES IN THE WORLD. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all t ime, including works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Bot ticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are in the Uffizi as well, represented by important works by Diirer, Rembrandt, and Rubens. 0

Marty Davis Collection at Sui Ross State University that will consist of 60 superb h istorical maps spanning five centuries of Texas history.

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Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi This exhibition of no fewer than 40 paintings is coming from the famed U~zi_ G ~ery of Florence, Italy, illustrating the evolution of landscape pambng m Italy from its early roots as background settings in paintings of the 1500s to its role as the main subject in paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries. This mesmerizing exhibition offers a provocative approach to a d~ep e~ understanding and appreciation for landscape painting. Above is P1cn1c m the Grass by Filippo Napoletano.

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Stadium Expansion Initiative THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM fin ished the 2007-2008 fiscal year with the third-highest year in Texas Tech fundraising history, raising more than $120 million for Texas Tech.

The 2008-2009 fiscal year is shaping up to be equally successful, as Texas Tech launched an aggressive stadium expansion initiative.

PlainsCapital Bank donated $1 million toward the Jones AT&T Stadium east side expansion.

The gift was announced in September at an invitation-only dinner for top athletic donors.

Chancellor Kent Hance, Athletic Director Gerald Myers and Coach Mike Leach hosted

About lDD supporters oflexas Tech athletics gathered for the east side expansion announcement dinner hosted by Chancellor Kent Hance, Athletic Director Gerald Myers and Coach Mike Leach.

Pictured here are Marc Wise, Betsy Wise, Joyce Davis and Gordon W. Davis, Ph.D.

the event inside Jones AT&T Stadium. Leach opened the evening's events noting that this

will be an incredible improvement to the stadium, a testament to the support the athletic program has from its donors and fan s.

To date, t he stadium expansion initiative has raised $23 million of the $25 million needed to fund the project, including more than $20,000 in online gifts from fans.

Construction on the east side suites and club seats is scheduled to begin immediately following the current football season with secured funding in place.

To contribute to this project, visit online at Give2Tech.com or contact the Director of Development for Athletics, Andrea Long Tirey, at 806-742-1785. 0 Gary Zheng; _Du Feng, Ph.D.; Jane Gamble; Bess ~ale~, Ph.D., and Joe D. Gamble were among those attending the Jones AT&T Stad1um Expans1on k1ck-off dinner In September.

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he March/April 2008 issue of the Texas Techsan reported that in December, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools-Commission on Colleges had placed Texas Tech on probation for the next 12 months. The reason for the action was, according to SACS comprehensive standard CS 3.5.1, Texas Tech was required to provide more evidence to demonstrate adequate compliance with the standard, which relates to the assessment of general academic core curriculum.

The university immediately took action to correct the situation. According to Valerie Oslana Paton, Ph.D., who was appointed vice provost for planning and assessment in July, in the months since that news from SACS-COC, faculty members have conducted a significant amount of assessment activity and documentation. University officials expect that this evidence will be sufficient to result in removal of probation at the first possible date-December 2008.

A positive outcome from assessment activity occurred this past summer, when Texas Tech officials learned that the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) of colleges and universities deemed that Texas Tech University students performed above the predicted expectations of student learning.

According to a university news release, "The report states, 'Texas Tech University contributes more to the learning gains made by students than 71 percent of the 176 four-year undergraduate institutions participating in the 2007-2008 CLA. Texas Tech University performed Above Expected."

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"Texa6 Tech 6tudent6 have been highly valued in the workplace. £mployer6 recognize Texa6 Tech 6tudent6 a6 having loyalty, good work ethic6, and 6olid 6kill6. We want to U06ter that. " "Texas Tech freshmen were tested using the CLA in the fall 2007 semester with graduating seniors tested the spring 2008 semester. TheCLA measures students' improvement while in college on higher-order thinking skills such as critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving and written communication. The assessment also measures an institution's contribution, or the value added by the institution, to students' development of these competencies."

In an interview with Paton, she explained what prompted SACS-COC to place Texas Tech on probation.

"Assessment of general education college-level competencies is essential for reaffirmation. Texas Tech, in its 2005 reaffirmation visit, did not have recommendations on any SACS Core Requirements. However, there are another 70-some Comprehensive Standards. Tech did have recommendations on 'need for further improvement' and 'documenting evidence'

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on four Comprehensi'{e Standards. In the following two years, adequate documentation was submitted to resolve three of the recommendations In December 2007, Tech officials were told more evidence was needed to resolve the final recommendation. That was SACS Comprehensive Standard 3.5.1.

"Ever y Texas public institution and community college provides the Texas Common Core Curriculum. However, C.S. 3.5.1 requires that all institutions assess the general education 'college-level' competencies. This is a new requirement for SACS-COC and far more comprehensive than their previous requirement for general education assessment. Tech now needs to assess how our graduating students perform on several different assessment activities in these general education competency areas: in critical thinking, in communication, in writing, in math, social sciences, humanities, science, and more. This assessment process is very difficult for large institutions. It's actually a comprehensive standard that's written more for very small liberal arts environments."

Paton explained that there are three areas in which a great deal of change has occurred in American higher educationassessment, accreditation and accountability. Assessment, the first, is actually "a very large, national issue in higher education," according to Paton.

"At Texas Tech, we engage in a multitude of assessment activities in every area of university life, starting with assessment of students'learning to educational support services such as the library-the library conducts an annual assessment of all patrons, the numbers of people using the library and their satisfaction with the library.

"We have assessments going on all the time in student affairs measuring students' satisfaction with activities, students' reporting growth of their leadership skills and abilities to manage time. Athletics conducts assessment. Operations, the physical plant and parking conduct assessments.

"The essential component of assessment is that the findings are used. They go back to a decision-maker who can use them to improve -whether it's in student learning or faculty support services or the entire educational environment at Texas Tech and all the entities that contribute to excellence at Texas Tech. Assessment is essential to our being a learning institution. We're learning about how to be better in that we're using everything we can to improve what we do so that we serve our students, faculty, staff, alums, donors and general community of West Texas better, con stantly improving.

That's the concept of effective assessment."

The second area of change is in accreditation. SACS-COC is one of six regional accrediting bodies in the United States.

This particular group accredits 11 southern states, including Texas, and some institutions in Latin America. The colleges and universities within the SACS-COC region nominate members from the various institutions to serve on the reaffirmation and accreditation teams.

"These individuals who visit us are typically extremely well-respected in their fields, and they've gone through rather

extensive training to be a visitor. The process when they come to campuses is very focused, very narrowed, very specific to the SACS-COC core requirements, comprehensive standards and Federal regulations.

"Accreditation helps institutions establish best practices across all of the member institutions. For instance, member institutions agree upon standards for awarding transfer credit (between institutions); faculty credentials; the number of credit hours required for baccalaureate and graduate degrees, and what kind of educational support services, such as libraries, are essential to a healthy learning environment. Because of the standards established by member institutions, the Federal government requires regional accreditation for all institutions receiving and awarding Federal student aid."

The final component of the changing environment in American higher education is accountability.

"There's been an interest in trying to evaluate student learning on some common, nationally recognized learning outcomes, i.e., critical thinking, problem solving, analytical reasoning-the types of things that a college graduate should know and that employers value.

"Texas Tech students have been highly valued in the workplace. Employers recognize Texas Tech students as having loyalty, good work ethics, and solid skills. We want to foster that."

Texas Tech is taking that goal even further, according to Paton. Tech is now a member of the Voluntary System of Accountability, a group made up of 100 four-year educational institutions that work together in annual reporting procedures in many different areas.

"Alums should be extraordinarily proud of Texas Tech," Paton asserts, "We want our alumni and others to know that we are committed to a transparent environment and that information about how Texas Tech students perform is available in many different places. Alums have contacted me in recent months about a planning, assessment, accreditation and accountability questions. They should know that there are several places for them to find information about Texas Tech. Here are just a few resource sites." U TEXAS TECH STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ANNUAL ASSESSME NT www.ttu.edu/stratplan/

TEXAS TECH INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH www.irs.ttu.edu/

TEXAS STATE HIGHER EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM www.txhighereddata.org/lnteractive/Accountability/

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION COLLEGE NAVIGATOR nces.ed.gov/ collegenavigator/

VOLUNTARY SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTABILITY www. vol unta rysystem. orgllnd ex.cfm? page= about_cp

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WHAT STARTED as an off-hand remark led to a n fall2007, Texas Tech Alumni Association president Rex Isom '79, met with Vice President and Chief Executive Officer VISION Bill Dean '61, '65, '71, and Associate Vice President J im Douglass '70, to discuss a new marketing wing at Merket Alumni and the Center. The staff had outgrown the building, expanded to include a conference center in the mid-'90s, and the association board of directors had already approved the new wing. Isom was touring the facility to cliscuss logistics when Dean casually remarked that it would be nice someday to add a reception area to the conference center. "[ don't think Bill had any idea of that part capital campaign happening in the near future, but while we stood there, I decided we needed to do this," Isom said. that will make it a lsom's vision included naming the reception hall after Peggy and Bill Dean, whom he'd met in 1974 when Dean was adviser to Phi Delta Theta and Isom was pledging the frate rnity. Is om approached his wife, Nancy (Johnson Isom '80), the rest of his 1 Idalou-based family and the Ralston family, which

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"We looked at the numbers and thought there would be no problem getting help with Peggy and Bill involved," Isom said.

The families went to Douglass with their idea of naming the new reception area the Peggy and Bill Dean Grand Reception Hall and asked that the project

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NAMING OPPORTUNITIES ($75,000 AND MORE) _ Iam interested in discussing with Texas Tech Alumni Association the possibility of naming a room, acourtyard, a memorial grove. a commissioned portrait and/or making a major contribution to the capital campaign.

Contact me at this daytime telephone number to discuss in further detail: (

PEGGY AND BILL DEAN GRAND RECEPTION HALL ($1.000 TO $50,000) - Gold $50,000 _ Silver $15.000 _ Bronze SI0,000 _Special Friends $5,000 _ Honor Roll $1 .000

RECOGNITION IN OTHER AREAS OF MERKEl ALUMNI CENTER ($250 TO $10,000) _ _ _ _ _

Granite Bench (Exterior) $10,000 Granite Floor Plaque (Interior) $1.000 Bronze Pave~ (Exterior) $500 Bricks (Exterior) Sl50 Donation (Recognized in Texas Techsan) Up to $150

GIFTS TO THE PEGGY AND BILL DEAN EXPANSION OF MERKEl ALUMNI CENTER ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE. MATCHING GIFTS FROM COMPANIES MAY ALSO BE APPLIED. Total amount of gift: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Gifts of Sl50 and more may be paid over three yea~. (1008, 1009, 10 I0) Enclosed is$._ _ __ Please bill me the balance of S in _ monthly _ quarterly _ annual installments.

Please send information for automatic bank draft. _ Please bill my credit card: _ MasterCard _ Visa _ Discover _American Express Card Number Exp. CVV H_ __ Signature _________________ _ _ _ __ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO TTAA IBUILDING FUND. Name (as it should be engraved on recognition pieces) _ _________ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ __ _ Class Year _ __ Address - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - City, State, Zip - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - -- - - Work Phone - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - Home Phone_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Cell Phone,_ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Email,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ Please send a card acknowledging this gift.

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be kept a secret until the association's February 2008 board meeting in Lubbock. Douglass recruited Lubbock architect Joe McKay to create renderings, which were unveiled at a board dinner Feb. 29 to the surprise and delight of the Deans and Association board members.

"The board was overwhelmingly enthused, and the Deans were deeply appreciative to be honored in this way," Douglass said.

The board was so thrilled, in fact, that they not only approved the reception area but decided to include in the plan the doubling of Merket's conference space in order to accommodate growing demand.

They also designated the proceeds of the 2008 Matador Evening, which honored the Deans (September/ October issue of Texas Techsan), to benefit the capital campaign.

The timing of the board was ideal, coinciding with the May announcement of a Texas Tech Chapel, to be built just across the parking lot from Merket Alumni Center.

Since that time, a steering committee for the Peggy and Bill Dean Expansion to Merket Alumni Center has been working to make the project a reality. Chaired by Isom, the steering committee includes fundraising, marketing and financing/building sub-committees.

Committee members met with current staff to determine needs for the expanded facility, especially in regard to wedding and special event bookings.

With this information, the committee developed a new floor plan, site plan and elevation drawings of key components and prepared a preliminary project budget. The marketing sub-committee, headed by Renee Bergenheier Underwood '78, identified signature opportunities within the project, such as naming rights for the Grand Ballroom and four of its six component meeting rooms, two courtyards, the Marketing Suite, the bride's room, and more.

In total, the project will nearly double the present Merket Alumni Center by adding 10,694 square feet.

Thanks to the generosity of the Isom and Ralston families, as well as the hundreds of friends of the Deans who are expected to contribute to the project, the Grand Reception Hall and the Capital Campaign will bear the names of Peggy and Bill Dean. A new, secon d entrance into Merket Alumni Center will open into the reception hall,

Members of the lsom and Ralston Families pose with Bill and Pe&&Y Dean the eve· ning of the announce· ment of the building expansion. Front row, from left, are Greg Ralston, Julie lsom, Jeannie Ralst on, Lexie lsom, Peg&y Dean, Blair Haney and Travis lsom.

Back row, from left, are Bruce lsom, Ken lsom, Ben Ralston, Bill Dean, Nancy lsom, Rex lsom and Clayton lsom.

which includes a portrait of the Deans painted by Paul Milosevich and donor recognition pieces throughout the space. A fireplace and bar will be prominent features in the hall.

Three additional banquet/meeting rooms will be constructed which, in conjunction with existing rooms, will double existing banquet space and create a Grand Ballroom seating up to 600.

To serve the growing needs of .the facility, the expansion will include a new serving kitchen with storage, a new circulation, staging and planning office, a bride's room and new restrooms. · To support staff needs, ;the existing kitchen will be remodeled into an office suite for the Association's marketing department. . A second courtyard will be built, featuring a large replica of the official Texas Tech ring as an archway entrance and photo • pportunity for Red Raiders d~ng ring ceremonies and graduation day.

The capital campaign was officially kicked off Oct. 10 at A Matador Evening. At that time, Fundraising Co-Chairperson Nelda McQuien Laney '65, presented opportunities ranging from $250 bricks in the courtyards to the $.500,000 Grand Ballroom, which will be named for the donor and acknowledged in all materials promoting events that are held

there. With a project budget of $4 him away, and she has been Bill's million and plans to begin rock," he said. construction in early 2009, the Bill Dean, who has served in his support of literally every position at the Association since alumnus and friend of Texas Tech 1978, also serves as associate dean University will be needed to make of student affairs for the College of this vision a reality.

Mass Communications, where he Isom believes the Deans' name has taught since 1972. He will greatly enhance support of the served as faculty adviser to Phi project .

Delta Theta for 37 years and has "Who else can you find who's been adviser to the Saddle Tramps been more loyal through time for for the last 15 years.

Texas Tech University th an Bill Peggy Dean was a teacher in Dean?" Isom said, "He has been Lubbock from 1966 to 1970 and here through thick and thin and from 1982 to 2003. She is a vice president of Lubbock Women's has helped so many students who have come through here."

Club, a sustaining member of He said there was never any Junior League of Lubbock and a question in his mind about includmember of Lubbock Symphony ing Peggy in the honor. · Guild, Indiana Baptist Church , "From the word go, I've always Community Bible Study, PEO been amazed by Peggy. Bill never (a philanthropic educational could have done for Tech what he's group), Texas Retired Teachers done without her support.

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She said she is honored to be included in the naming but is more excited about the recognition her husband will receive. ''I'm not sure people know just how passionate Bill is about helping young people," she said.

"He gets up and is excited every single morning about the opportunity to work with students and alumni. He may have three or four things after work to attend, but nothing is ever an obligation to him. It's always something he wants to do, and I think that's very unusual in a person."

There is no question that Peggy and Bill Dean's commitment to Texas Tech and to the Lubbock community merit their receiving the Lauro F. Cavazos Award at A Matador Evening in October.

Now the capital campaign to expand Merket Alumni Center gives all of their friends and alumni of Texas Tech University another way to honor the Deans' passion. Please share the Isom and Ralston families' vision by supporting "Building on Tradition: The Peggy and Bill Dean Expansion to Merket Alumni Center." All gifts of $250 or more will be permanently recognized in the facility as a lasting tribute to each donor.

For more information, please contact [ 806) ?42-3641 or visit www.merketexpansion.com.

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he central Texas town of Junction means different things to different people.

Mention the town to Red Raiders, especially those who began attending Tech around 2001, and they'll think of Red Raider . The three-day camp is held each summer, with several sesto teach first-year students Tech traditions and customs.

Red Raiders may think of retreats and biology or art classes during summer months at the rural campus. any others, especially non-Red Raiders, may think of legend-ootball coach Bear Bryant. In September 1954, the coach held 1tallO-day football camp for Texas A&M players. That event the book "The Junction Boys," and an ESPN movie. lots of Red Raiders, the origin and purpose of the campus is a Here's a brief rundown of the functions of Junction campus. spread: Original open-air cabins built when the Junction campus was ofTexas A&M University.

Junction was, at one time, property of Texas A&M. In 1971, the Texas Legislature transferred ownership to Texas Tech University. The campus was used from May through August to teach intensive courses, often in biology, art

tions. Four other part-time employees worked as custodians and food service workers."

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Falls, Junction's purpose has expanded, and the facility is now used year-round.

The Junction campus has come a long way since the 1970s, much of it under the purview of Martha Richardson, who moved to the campus from Lubbock in 1982. She remained there until she retired in 2005 as director of Programs and Activities for the Junction campus.

"When I began work at TTU Center at Junction, in the summer of 1982, the Junction campus programs were trying to regroup after a two-year closing, due to legislative budget cuts," she says. "The academic program was a nineweek summer program, dependent upon public school teachers and TTU Lubbock students to fill the classes; TTU Lubbock faculty to teach and administrate. The Junction staff consisted of five full-time employees covering the office, maintenance and supervision of kitchen opera-

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There are still intensive summer taught. Photography, art, biology and zoology are mainstays, as well they should be, because the picturesque campus lends itself to those courses. The 411-acre property 'ncludes a stretch of the South Llano River, and has a habitat that supports mesquite thickets, pecan bottoms and diverse wildlife. ''The opportunity for faculty and students to study, learn and live in the close proximity of Junction campus allows, fosters an ex hange ideas and vitality that is hard to duplicate in a standard university setting," Richard n says.

"The unspoiled beauty of the landsca makes it an ideal outdoor science laboratory as weB an inspiring place for the fine arts. The JWlctiiOD<111 campus is a fine complement to the I"Qain campus and gives Texas Tech a uniquene s that separates it from other major universities."

An artists' hands: Hom Professor of Architecture James C. Watkins crafts pottery. Watkins' classes meet at least 12 hou rs a day while in Junct ion.

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The housing accommodations include five units with air conditioning and heating th at can sleep a total of 120 people and 10 screened cabin s that can house 100 people. The cabins have names such as Tech, Hummingbird, Pecan and Mockingbird.

The campus also has academic rooms and administrative offices and includes 16 classrooms/ laboratories, which share space with many of the housing units above. A large lecture/ dining hall, an academic building with darkroom, a 13-station Apple computer lab, and classrooms and art facilities for ceramics and glassblowing.

There are two distance learning labs, and an administration building that includes a 12-station PC lab, a library, a bookstore and staff offices.

When it's time to wind down, there are ample opportunities. Water activities abound due to the South Llano River's proximity: canoeing, tubing, swimming and fishing. The surrounding hills offer a cornucopia of outdoor activities such as hiking, birdwatching and wildlife and wildflower photography. The campus also boasts a swimming pool, outdoor voUeybaU an d basketball courts, softbaUfields, biking trails and a ChaUenge Ropes Course.

While Texas Tech is headquartered on the South Plains, it's easy to see that th e beauty and versatility of our university doesn't stop in Lubbock.

Look out! It's a snake!: The Official State Photographer of Texas Wyman Meinzer, who is also a graduate of Texas Tech, teaches photography classes in Junction each summer. Here, Meinzer keeps watch over a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake while student s photograph it.

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In the mid-1940s, a group of IGmble County landowners, where Junction is located, arranged for 411 acres of real estate along the South Llano River to be donated to the state. The group wanted a facility of higher education to serve the region.

The Texas Legislature agreed and designated the site for sucb purposes in 1949. Texas A&M University accepted the offer of the campus.

During the late 1950s, '48 through '50, a cafeteria/lecture hall, screened cabins and administration building were constructed for Texas A&M University's off-site campus.

The campus was originally called A&M Adjunct.

In the summer of 1970 a mutual agreement was struck between the administrations of Texas Tech University and Texas A&M that the campus be relinquished to Tech. The Texas Legislature !llade that official in 1971.

The campus closed for a two-year period around 1980 due to state budget cuts. It reopened in the summer of 1982.

Red Raider Camp, which was started in 2001 to help incoming freshmen transition to college life, helped breathe new life into and generate awareness of the campus. Each summer, hundreds of incoming freshmen spend three days at the campus, learning about Tech traditions and opportunities for involvement once school starts at the Lubbock campus. ()

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tant goal for both the university and the community. He points out that each graduate student brings more in formula funding from the state than an undergraduate does and also brings more became the fifteenth president of Texas Tech University on Aug.1, dollars into the Lubbock community.

"Graduate students both teach in the classrooms at Texas Tech 2008. But for at least 15 years before, he had been steeped in Tech tradition. When Bailey married Jan Tillery '74, in 1993, he became and work in our laboratories," he said. "They help us realize our part of a proud Red Raider family. research goals, and they breathe new life into our community.

Clarence "Tim" Tillery had been a star end on the Red Raider Graduate students and their families are good for the community football team between 1938 and 1941 when he left to join the and good for the economy." troops fighting in World War II. He returned after the war to Chancellor Hance believes that Bailey is the best possible choice graduate and marry Mary Elizabeth Brown, Class of 1948. The for Texas Tech.

Tillerys lived in Lubbock, where they both coached in Lubbock "Guy Bailey is the right person to lead Texas Tech University," schools, and their only child, Jan, became a Red Raider fan as a said Hance. "He shares our vision for enrollment growth and sees young child, attending football and basketball games with her Texas Tech as a place with one of the brightest futures in higher parents, dreaming of attending Tech. When she met her husband education. I'm excited that he's joined our team." many years later, she filled his head with her memories of great Bailey served as provost and executive vice president at the college traditions.

University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) from 1999 through At a reception welcoming him to campus on Aug. 4, Bailey told a 2005 and has taught at Emory, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, the packed room at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion that he had learned to University of Memphis and the University of Nevada/Las Vegas. give the Guns Up signal as a newlywed and was already well versed During his tenure at UTSA, the university added 15 new doctoral in showing his Red Raider spirit. programs, more than doubled its external funding for research, "I had known what a special place this was for many years," he saw its total enrollment grow by more than 40 percent and saw its said. "But I am now overwhelmed by the handsome architecture, graduate enrollment grow by almost SO percent the beauty of the campus."

Jan Tillery, Ph.D., is just as excited about coming home to His decision to accept the presidency at Texas Tech came as a Lubbock and Texas Tech as her husband is about being here for the surprise to his colleagues at the University of Missouri-Kansas first time. She looks back on her days as an undergraduate at Tech City, where he had served as a popular chancellor since 2006. They with great fondness. ha·d not factored in his long-term fascination with Texas Tech and "[ could not have had better teachers nor could l have received his wife's keen desire to return to her roots. better preparation for my academic career than I got at Texas Bailey's accomplishments at the University of Missouri-Kansas Tech," she said.

City give good reason why those colleagues were sorry to see him She noted with special fondness the classes she took with young go. At the UMKC, Bailey oversaw the completion of a $200 million professor Bill Dean. He was an excellent teacher of yearbook and capital campaign and created about $10 million in administrative newspaper skills, she said. savings that were put into the core academic mission of the univer"Everything he taught me bore true in later years when I taught sity, including raising salaries to attract and retain faculty. During in high school," she said. his tenure, about $175 million in new construction was approved Tillery received a doctorate in English linguistics from using primarily publidprivate funding partnerships, and the univer- Oklahoma State University. She and her husband have co-ausity implemented a plan to increase its enrollment by 25 percent. thored many papers and have frequently team-taught classes on He hopes to bring a new list of accomplishments to Texas Tech linguistics. They look forward to that opportunity at Texas Tech and believes that the university is in an excellent position to grow. as well. Bailey holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in English "Chancellor Kent Hance is an expert on fundraising and polifrom the University of Alabama and a doctorate in English linguistics," h e said. "No one can do those things better. So l plan to tics from the University of Tennessee. capitalize on Texas Tech's unique opportunity to move into flagBailey and Tillery continue to do research on language variation ship status, to become a national research university." and change, with special emphasis on the English of Texas and the Bailey says that the strong Texas economy and our excellent American South, and in computational linguistics. Their research faculty can be combined with an aggressive plan to enhance on Texas English has been featured on National Public Radio, current faculty opportunities and bring some talented new reCNN Headline News, BBC Radio, and in the New York Times, Texas searchers to Texas Tech in the near future. Bailey is upbeat about Monthly and the San Antonio Express News. They have received this new position. almost $1 million in external funding for their research.

"I am so grateful to be here," he said. "This is the best opportuWhen asked what they most look forward to at Texas Tech this fall, nity in higher education today." they respond in unison that they are most excited about the tremenIn addition to growing the research program, Bailey also bedous opportunity they have been given to serve the university. lieves he can help achieve the chancellor's goal of enrollment Tillery is particularly anticipating rediscovering Texas Tech and growth to 40,000 students by 2020.

Lubbock, she says. Once she has found a new home, she also looks "We are poised to reverse our flat enrollment trend," he said. "I forward to being in the classroom again, team-teaching with her believe the time is right to set enrollment management goals for husband. this university and bring them to reality."

"This is exactly the place we want to be," he says.

One such goal for Bailey is growth of the Graduate Sch ool. He "We are so grateful to be here!" she concludes. 0 sees an increase in graduate student enrollment as a very impor-

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His family later turned over their interest in the Gonzales ranch to other family members and purchased a 5,100-acre ranch in Edwards County, near Rocksprings, Texas, where Smith spends as much of his free time as possible.

"The genesis for my career began because I grew up hunting and fishing," Carter explains. "We also raised cattle, but I was always more interested in chasing bob white quail than .working cattle. I love the outdoors, and it is something I am privileged to pursue professionally."

Carter says he was still a young man when a game warden and wildlife biologist in Gonzales, Texas, generated his interest in land and wildlife management. He jokes that he took a circuitous route to get through college, but says he ultimately landed where he belonged: at Texas Tech majoring in wildlife management.

"I started college at Sewanee: The University of the South," he says. "Then I transferred to U.T. (The University of Texas at Austin) after that. A biology professor at U.T. actually suggested I attend Sul Ross (State University in Alpine, Texas), where I could study wildlife biology."

While attending Sui Ross, Smith met some professors from Texas Tech who were conducting a study on mule deer at Elephant Mountain, a 23,147-acre Wildlife Management Area about 30 miles south of Alpine. Elephant Mountain WMA was acquired by the TPW in 1985 via a private donation. Smith was intrigued and began to work for the Tech group as a research assistant.

The Tech professors encouraged Smith to transfer to Texas Tech into the wildlife management program. Once enrolled at Tech, he says he knew he was where he belonged.

"I feel like Texas Tech gave me a worldclass education in natural resources management," he says. "Departmental professors and their students conducted scientific research and then applied the results to benefit land and water management.

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Hudspeth County is an isolated area of Texas, and the area Smith worked encompassed hundreds of thousands of acres. Smith and fellow researchers would trap newborn fawns and implant them with individual radio transmitters. They tracked each fawn via radio telemetry equipment to determine the rate of survivorship. Through necropsies, the Tech wildlife management group was able to identify what was killing the fawns and developed a habitat management plan to prevent over-predation of the antelope population.

His experience at Tech prepared him to accept a job with the TPW upon graduation in 1992. Smith was a management intern and assisted in the Private Lands and Public Hunting programs. While with TPW he was encouraged by his bosses-then Wildlife Division Director Bob Cook, and Tech graduate and former Executive Director Andy Sansom '69- to attend graduate school. (Ultimately Bob Cook accepted the position of TPW executive director. He retired in 2007.)

One of the universities that expressed interest in Smith was Yale University, which may at first seem like an odd fit for a wildlife management expert.

"The father of wildlife management, Aldo Leopold, was a Yale graduate," explains Smith, who graduated from Yale with a master's in conservation biology.

Yale provided Smith his first opportunity to work closely with international students, and he says about 40 percent of his classmates were from outside the United States. As a graduate student, he was able to apply his newfound experience with different cultures when he lived in Saskatchewan, Canada, on a Cree Indian reservation. He worked with a conglomeration of universities, including Yale, and the National Science Foundation setting up a large ecosystem research project in the boreal forest.

"I lived there more than a year," says Smith about his time in Canada. "I set up the fieldbased research plots and had to hire technicians, foresters and biologists from the reservation to implement the various research studies. It was a seminal experience in my career."

After completing graduate school, Smith jumped right back into the world of the wild. In the mid-1990s a battle was raging between land developers and environmentalists over the fate of the wetlands in the Katy Prairie near Houston.

"I was hired to be the director of the fledgling Katy Prairie Conservancy," Smith says. "My task was to work with the rice farmers, conservation community, local political leaders and real estate developers to conserve a portion of the wetlands in the wake of exploding developmental pressures. This was ground zero for Houston's environmental wars at the time; to say the least, it was quite contentious and political."

The effort was extremely successful and today the conservancy (www.katyprairie. org) boasts more than 20,000 acres of natural habitat.

In 1998 Smith accepted a position with the The Nature Conservancy of Texas as the Laguna Madre Project Director. He worked for two years in the Brownsville-Harlingen area along the Laguna Madre of South Texas and Northern Mexico. He recalls fondly the opportunity to work with Mexican landowners.

"Working with landowners in Mexico wasn't that different than working with landowners in Texas," Smith says. "There are a lot of commonalities. They take great pride in the stewardship of their land and ranches. Private land conservation is well entrenched in Texas, and there are a lot of tools at the disposal of landowners here. In Mexico, private lands conservation is still in its formative stages.

Sharing those tools with Mexican ranchers was very rewarding. At the same time, I learned a lot from them."

Eventually Smith was promoted to Director of Conservation programs and, soon thereafter, Texas State Director of the Nature Conservancy, which required exten sive travel and countless public speaking appearances.

(He credits his fine-tuned speaking skills to a speech communications class he took while an undergraduate at Tech.)

His prior experience and stellar reputation in the wildlife and ecology conservation circles netted him the top job at his old stomping grounds, the Texas Parks and Wilcllife Department.

"I had a chance to live and work in different parts of the state, and it has undoubteclly helped me," he says of his experience. "To serve Texas in this way is a true honor and p rivilege."

Smith was not only looked upon highly by TPW, but also by employees of other wildlife organizations.

"It's great to see Carter as the new executive director at TPW," says David Brimager, a Texas Tech 1996 wildlife management graduate and assistant vice president of operations for the Texas Wildlife Association. "He is a hunter, well respected, and understands the conservation challenges we face in Texas as we become more urban. He values and understands the private landowner's role in conservation, habitat and wilcllife management.

"Texas' growing population and continuing urban disconnect with the land complicates natural resource management, and intensifies the need for innovative and flexible policies.

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right: Smith hunts with Gov. Rick Perry. Carter's favorite anomal to hunt, he says, is dove. "My favorite hours are found in a sunflower field or near a stock tank," he says. left: Smith is frequently required to speak publicly about TPW and maintains a rigorous schedulehe ~arved time in his schedule to get married m June to Tech graduate Stacy Gilbert '93.

unique conservation education activities and hunting heritage programs. Carter has been a TWA member for many years and we are proud to work with him and TPW, and look forward to his leadership atTPW." Smith espouses the same ideas as Brimager when it comes to the public and the outdoors.

"Our mission is to serve Texans whether you live in Houston or Marathon," he says. "I want to respect our proud traditions of private land ownership, and at the same time provide places where people can learn about the outdoors and our natural heritage. Survey after survey shows that Texans value our wild places and wild things. My charge at Texas Parks and Wildlife is to give people opportunities to experience and value the natural resources of our great state."

Smith's new job, while inherently political, is a highlight of a career built around teaching others the value of nature and the outdoors.

"I get to work with a wonderful team of people and it's an enormous privilege to serve Texans and the employees of Texas Parks and Wildlife each and every day," he says. 0 For more information on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, go to www. tpw d .state.tx.us/

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»SPORTS/COMPILED BY JEAN ANN CANTORE TEXAS TECH'S THREE INDUCTEES INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, from left, Donny Anderson, Dave Parks a nd E.J. Holub, get t heir "guns up." Parks has been announced for the Hall of Fame and will be inducted in festivities ranging from December 2008 through July 2009. The three were together Sept. 12, 2008, for a reunion of Parks' Red Raider teammates on the eve of the Texas Tech-SMU game. He was honored at ha lft ime.

Harrell Honored Graham Harrell received his third AT&T All-America Player of the Week honor following the win over Eastern Washington in September.

Harrell earned the honor twice last season following games at Oklahoma State and Texas. He threw for 536 yards and two touchdowns in the Red Raiders' win over Eastern Washington last Saturday.

Harrell ranks second in several Texas Tech passing and total offense categories to Kliff Kingsbury. Harrell's total against EWU pushed him over the 11,000-yard mark for his career.

In December, four finalists for the AT&T All-America Player of the Year Award will be announced during a one-hour special on ESPN in conjunction with the announcement of the AT&T ESPN All-America Team as selected by the Football Writers Association of America.

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Crabtree Nominated MICHAEL CRABTRE E, the 2007 AT&T All-America Player of the Year, received a nomination for AT&T All-American of the Week for his performance in the Red Raiders' 43-7 win over SMU. Crabtree recorded the sixth three-TD game of his career and first of the season.

Crabtree leads the Big 12 Conference with 131.7 receiving yards per game and is among Texas Tech's top 10 in career receiving yards (2,357) and career touchdown receptions (27). He needs four TD catches to break Jarrett Hicks' school record of 30, set during the 2003-06 seasons.

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Weight Room Renamed TEXAS TE CH'S NEWLY renovated weight room in the Athletic Training Center has been renamed the Gerald "Corky" Oglesby Strength and Conditioning Center.

Oglesby is a former Tech men's assistant basketball coach and head track and field coach. He has worked in the athletics department for 40 years.

The renovation was made possible by a contribution by Terry and Linda Fuller. lJ

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abol'e A group of Tech alumni enjoy the night out at the Boston Chapter's annual meeting held in July. In attendance were Bill Dean, Ed.D., and his wife, Peggy, representing the Alumni Association.

right Marsha Sharp and Nancy lsom have a laugh during the Honors College fund raiser held in San Antonio this summer.

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Mr. Douglas Staneart '93

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Ms. Mary Hendryx '84

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Mr. Be Mrs. Michael Huddle [ Becky Huddle '73)

Ms. Stephanie E. Alderete '04

Mr. Be Mrs. John T. Crawford, Jr. '83 (Sherri H. Crawford]

Mr. Be Mrs. Clay Johnson (Amy M. Johnson '83)

Mr. Be Mrs. Tommy Armstrong '71 (Mary Armstrong]

Mr. Be Mrs. Trenton Davis (Susan Davis '88)

Mr. Be Mrs. Stephen Kimmel '84 (Sherette Kimmel '84)

Mr. Be Mrs. Robert B. Barnes [Laura C. Barnes '73)

Mr. Be Mrs. Mark R. Gruenke (Cindy Havenhill) Mr. Cesar Gutierrez '02

Mr. Be Mrs. Charles King '68 (Jan King)

Ms. Courtney Benson '97

Mr. Jim Henderson '75

Mr. Be Mrs. Joseph A. Laffey '83 (Caryl B. Lafey)

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Mr. Be Mrs. L. Russell Laughlin '81 (Kathryn C. Laughlin '80)

Mr. Be Mrs. Cecil Johnson '63 (Ella Johnson]

Or. Richard Batz '99 (Or. Ginger Batz '00)

Ms. Alison Billingsley '07 Ms. Holly L. Bishop '03

Ms. J. Denette Marble '81

Mr. Stephen J. Blair '07

Mr. Be Mrs. Chien Liu '78 (Cathy Liu)

Mr. Timothy J. McAteer '89

Mr. Mark Bland 'BS

Mr. Be Mrs. Ronald 0. Nix '83 (Patti L. Nix) Mr. Be Mrs. Michael Norton '85 (Melanie Norton '93)

Mr. Be Mrs. Terry McDaniel [Kay S. McDaniel)

Mr. Aaron Boelter 'OB

Mr. Be Mrs. Kevin P. McDonough (Katherine C. McDonough '74)

Mr. Be Mrs. Burt Bratcher '71( Rosalyn Bratcher '71] Mr. Lanny Brewer'64

Mr. Be Mrs. Terry H. Putman '69 (Mendy W. Putman '81)

Mr. Be Mrs. Jacob A. Miller '01 [Erica Miller)

Mr. Be Mrs. Ricardo Rangei 'Ol (Chris Rangel )

Mr. A. Neil Phillips '77

Mr. Be Mrs. Albert Brown '65 (Josephine Brown] Mr. Be Mrs. Terra nce J. Brown '69 [Sandra Brown)

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Mr. Steve Moore '04

Mr. Be Mrs. Da rrel Sheridan '90 (Tralisa Sheridan)

Mr. Ivan Pinney '07

Ms. Emily Bruce '04

Mr. Clarence Steube '74

Mr. Scott Reynolds '03

Mr. Be Mrs. Darrell Buckley [Beth Buckley '82)

Mr. McArthur Stidom, Jr. '89

Mr. Be Mrs. Christopher Rodgers '89 (Amy Rodgers)

Mr. Be Mrs. James H. Stone 'SO [Evelyn B. Stone '48] Mr. Be Mrs. John Stribling '53 (Oaulma Stribling'S])

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Mr. Be Mrs. Kenneth W. Walter '68 [Kelly J. Walter]

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Mr. Bobby J. Cavazos '55

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Mr. Matthew A. Honeycutt '07

Mr. Rodney Chapin '90

Dr. C. Jefferson Hood, Ill '83

Mr. & Mrs. ChuckS. Reid ?8 [Nona B. Reid '7S)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Gerald Clark '56 [Celinda Clark '56 )

Mr. Kun-Hao Huang '85

Mr. Albert Reyna (Velma Villalobos '8S)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Hardy Coffman [Keva Coffman)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Oscar Huerta [Suzette L. Huerta 'DO)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Doyle Coker [Mary Coker ?7) Mr. David Coleman 'OS

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Mr. 8c Mrs. Robert W. Ray ?1 (Alexa J. Ray)

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Mr. & Mrs. Billy Hutson '96 [Melissa Hutson '98)

Mr. & Mrs. Randy D. Reynolds [ Rebecca C. Reynolds '87)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Bob Copeland '57 [Joyce Copeland) Mr. Scott Cotter '08 ·

Mr. Bill E. lgo '6S

Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Richards '70 (Socorro Richards)

Mrs. Stephanie R. Isbell 'OS

Mr. 8c Mrs. Joe Riker [Tami Riker)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Wade Cramer '71 [Ann Cramer '71) Mrs. Allison Davidow ?9

Dr. Kerry Johnson '84

Ms. Carol Rios

Mr. Gregory Johnson '03

Mr. Terry J. Rogers '93

Lt. 8c Mrs. David Davis '89 [Felicia Davis '89)

Mr. Robert Jones 'OS

Mr. & Mrs. Bill F. Rogge, II ?6 [Joyce Rogge)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Tyler A. Deans '07 [Myra R. Deans)

Mr. & Mrs. Bobby R. Jones '69 (Pam Jones)

Mr. Mark D. Russell '87

Mr. 8c Mrs. Robert Dillard [Susan Dillard '67)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Rodney B. Kendrick '81 [Susan S. Kendrick)

Mr. Ford B. Santa Maria '03

Mr. Kristopher L. Dorman '08

Mr. Christopher Kiefhaber '06

Dr. Arthur Schaerdel '66

Mr. 8c Mrs. Robert F. Doviak, II '82 [Lauren R. Doviak)

Ms. Andrea M. Knighton '04

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Shore '9S [Melissa Shore '96)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Phil Laurence [Kathy Laurence '86)

Mrs. Karen B. Simpson

Mr. Joe Lindemood '04

Mr. & Mrs. Adam Smith '98 (Amy Smith '98)

Ms. Cheryl L. Loff '81

Ms. Meloney L. Smith '92

Mr. 8c Mrs. Robert Dill '68 [Ma ry Dill)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Richard Dress man '91 [Janet Dressman)

Ms. Megan Hunter '07

Dr. & Mrs. Caleb Sawyer '02 (Rachel Sawyer)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Ronnie DuBois [Toni DuBois) Mr. Justin M. Dunaway '07

Mr. M. Brent Long '87

Ms. Heather N. Smyth '07

Mr. &Mrs. Michael R. Lovell '98 [Hillary N. Lovell '99)

Kevin T. Stennett '83

Ms. Amy Dunham

Mr. & Mrs. Corey Lowrance '04 [Shauna Lowrance 'OS)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Donald B. Stephens '60 [Sheila R. Stephens) Ms. Caryn E. Stevens '89

Mr. 8c Mrs. Jim T. Durham '84 [Tambi G. Durham '85)

Dr. & Mrs. Keh·Shew Lu '73 [Dan-Yu Lu)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Timothy C. Edwards '96 [Staci C. Edwards '9 5)

Mr. & Mrs. Syed A. Magsood '74 (Asifa P. Azhar)

Mr. Rowdy Stilwell '08

Ms. Tiffin M. Maloy '04

Mrs. Madeline Stokes '35

Mr. 8c Mrs. Michael Egan [Sharan Egan '75)

Mr. & Mrs. Kent Matthews '68 (Jane Matthews)

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Tella, II '72 [Cheryl K. Tella)

Mr. Jordan R. Evans '07

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. McCullough '06 [Sarah K. McCullough '06)

Dr. & Mrs. Roy E. Thomas [Jean Thomas '82)

Mr. Steve Fahle '80 Mr. 8c Mrs. Scott W. Fitzgerald '02 [Lanisa B. Fitzgerald '01)

Mr. Naveen Menon '01

Mr. & Mrs. Jackson F. Thornton '70 [Dixie S. Thornton '70)

Mrs. Emily Messa '96 Mr. Miles L. Mixon '82

Mrs. Vanessa Tollefson '80

Ms. Deanna L. Foerster 'OS Ms. Patricia Forgay '92

Mr. Chad Moore '01

Dr. David Geissler'78 [Dr. Jayne Geissler'78)

Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Morriss 'OS [Meredith Morriss 'OS)

Mr. & Mrs. William Tredennick '70 [Debera Tredennick '72)

Mr. Tap M. Giblin '06

Mrs. Mollie Treadway '6S

Mr. Robert G. Treece, Jr. '03

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Morriss [Laura A. Ethridge· Morris '98)

Mr. Neil Turner '07

Mr. 8c Mrs. Praveen Gopu '93 [Neelima Gopu)

Mr. & Mrs. Ken Muldrow '61 [Rita Muldrow)

Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Vadder '89 [ Valerie Vadder '90)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Curtis D. Goss '77 [Margaret M. Goss)

Dr. David Nazemi 'DO [Dr. Kellie Nazemi 'DO)

Mr. John Villalba '01

Mrs. Karen G. Grimes '64

Mr. & Mrs. S. Scott Neeley '80 [Vicky S. Neely)

Dr. & Mrs. Ray Wagner '82 [Marti Wagner)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Phillip Grinnell [Catherine M. Grinnell '01)

Mr. Michael Newsom '96

Mr. Robert B. Wallace '07

Mr. Joel Guerrero '06

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D' Brien [Lucille C. 0 ' Brien '03)

Mr. & Mrs. Jung-Cheng Wan '87 [Linda Shyu Wan '87)

Mr. 8c Mrs. Tee R. Hadley, 111'6B [Donna M. Ha.d ley '69)

Mr. & Mrs. Luke Oaks 'OS [Kathryn Oaks '04)

Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Ward '70 [Kathleen Ward)

Mr. Ryan L. Oliver '07

Mr. 8c Mrs. Jarod K. Waters '04 [Natalie Waters '03)

Mr. 8c Dr. Lance Haning [Holly Han ing '91)

Mrs. Allyson L. Palmer '82

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Willcox '82 [Becky Willcox) Joseph J. Wolcott '01 Mr. Jeffrey Wolfla '04

Mr. Matthew Glover '02 Mr. Ronald Goforth '81

Mr. Weibing Hao (Dr. Shuxia Lu '99)

Mr. William Peace '93

Mr. 8c Mrs. Steve Harrell [Kim Harrell)

Mr. William A. Peters '63

Mrs. Deborah Haynes '79

Mr. S. Michael Pounds '93 Mr. David E. Pressnell '73

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Mr. Carl Pruitt '56

Mr. William G. Holloway '98

Mr. 8c Mrs. Xavier Quezada [Candace Quezada '73)

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The Texas Tech Alumni Association would like to offer a special thanks to our Platinum and Gold members for their support.

Platinum ($2,500 or more annually) Mr. & Mrs. Grant F. Adam son '81 (Nelda S. Adamson) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Anders ' 78 (Nesa J . Anders ' 81) Plano, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mike Baca (Jan W. Baca '70) Vega, TX Mr. & Mrs. Edward Benninger, Jr. '65 (Nelda Benninger '68) San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs. C. Robert Black '58 (Billie K. Black) Horseshoe Bay, TX Mr. & Mrs. Bryant Bonner '95 (Whitney R. Bonner '96) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Brawley '95 (Sabrina Brawley '94) Keller, TX Mr. & Mrs. Richard Breedlove ' 70 (Lorrie Breedlove) Spring, TX Mr. & Mrs. Paul Brochu '78 (Rebecca Brochu ' 78) San Antonio, 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. E. F. Currie '55 (Angela Currie) Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. John M. Czapski ' 78 (Debra A . Czapski) Katy, TX M r. Gayle M. Earls ' 59 Frisco, TX Mr. Daniel F. Frye, Ill ' 73 Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Steve Greer '68 (Dolores G. Greer) Lubbock, TX

Mr. & Mrs. B.R. " Rip" Griffin (Geneva Griffin '51) Lubbock, TX Mr. Joe L. Halpain '57 Kemp, TX Mr. H. Wayne Henry '75 APO, AE Mr. & Mrs. Bob L. Herd '57 (Patsy N. Herd) Tyler, TX Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Herrin '82 (Cheryl R. Herrin '83) Tampa, FL Mr. & Mrs. Thoma s R. Hlx '70 (Leslie L. Hix '71) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Holt (Julianna Hawn Holt '69) Blanco, TX Dr. & Mrs. 0 . Wayne l som, M.D. '61 (Pat lsom) New York, NY Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Jacobs ' 87 (Jerri L. Jacobs) Rancho Murieta, CA Mr. & Mrs. Leon Jeffcoat ' 66 (Patricia E. Jeffcoat '66) Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. Douglas D. Kenny '66 (Jenny C. Kenny '70) San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs. W. Mark Lani er '84 (Becky J . Lanier '84) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Loveless '93 (Stacy Loveless '92) Cos Cob, CT Mr. & Mrs. James R. Maggio '82 (Sylvia H. Maggio '81) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKenzie '68 (Barbara McKenzie '69) Sulphur Springs, TX Col. (ret) & Mrs. Michael Morse '63 (Constance Morse) Marble Falls, TX Mr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Northcutt '82 (Karen C. Northcutt '84) The Woodlands, TX Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pendell '81 (Belinda J. Pendell) Clint, TX

Mrs. Susan B. Peterson '81 Steamboat Spring, CO Mr. R. Maxey Pinson '47 Oklahoma City, OK Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Price (Mary Jo Price ' 53) San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs. John W. Redmon ' 71 (Ann R. Redmon '71) The Woodlands, TX Ms. Stephanie L. Rhoads '07 Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Riddle '69 (Carol Riddle) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. James H. Rippy ' 60 (Janel 0. Rippy) Tyler, TX Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Robbins, Jr. '66 (Cheryl Robbin s) Chesterfield, MO Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rose (Susan Menel aides Rose '76) Scottsdale, AZ. Mr. & Mrs. William B. Snyder '55 (Sally M. Snyder) Saint Petersburg, FL Mr. & Mrs. Tom S. Stacy '75 (Melinda M. Stacy) Aus tin, TX Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stone '50 (Evelyn B. Stone '48) Hattiesburg, MS Mr. & Mrs. Dale V. Swinburn '65 (Cheryl Swinburn) Tulia, TX Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Swofford, Jr. '47 (Sarah Swofford '47) San Diego, CA Mr. & Mrs. J ames S. Young '49 (Peggy B. Young) Lubbock, TX 'As of September 25, 2008

Gold ($1 ,000 to $2,499 annually) Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Adams ' 78 (Deborah T. Adams ) Richmond, VA Mr. & Mrs. William A . Adams '71 (Linda R. Adams '71) Arlington, TX Or. B. L. Allen '48 Lubbock, TX Mr. and Mrs. Rona ld G. Altho! '79 (Deidra R. Altho!)

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Mr. & Mrs. J . Gregory Boyd '76 (Gail A. Boyd '75) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Bennie R. Brigham '65 (Mary G. Brigham '66) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Britton '69 (Judith A . Britton) Arlington, TX Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Broiles '79 (Cindy L. Brolles) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. William D. Brown '74 (Karen E. Brown '74) Austin, TX Lt. Col onel & Mrs. Mark Bryant '83 (Paula H. Bryant) Salt Lake City, UT Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bryant '73 (Rebecca E. Bryant) Mechanicsburg, PA Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Bucka lew '72 (Shelley S. Buc kalew) Houston , TX Dr. J . Fred Bucy, Ph.D. ' 51 Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Burleson '77 (Kay M. Burleson) Kingwood, TX Mr. & Mrs. Steve Burleson '83 (Elizabeth G. Burleson '84) Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Byrd ' 57 (Pa tricia A . Byrd) Dallas, TX Ms. Caron C. Caffrey '86 Sharpsburg, GA Mr. Thoma s J . Candallno, Jr. '99 Hurst, TX Mrs. Barbara M. Carter '79 Antioch, CA Mr. & Mrs. R. Don Cash '66 (Kay Cash '67) Lubbock, TX Dr. & Mrs. Lauro F. Cavazos '49 (Peggy A . Cavazos ' 53) Concord, MA Dr. Edward B. Cazzola, M.D. '74 Albuquerque, NM Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Chambers '66 (Carole Chambers) Katy, TX

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Cina '75 (Anne G. Cina) Harker Heights, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Conrad (Christy 0 . Conrad '92) The Woodlands, TX Mr. & Mrs. Leroy Crawford '57 (Frances Crawford '57) Huntsville, TX Mr. Richard R. Davila, II Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Sean 0 . Davis ' 86 (Donna Davis) Baltimore, MD Mr. & Mrs. Enoch L. Dawkins '60 (Frances S. Dawkins) New Orleans, LA Dr. & Mrs. Bill F. Dean, Ph.D. '61 (Peggy M. Dean '66) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. David F. DeLao '84 Edmond, OK Mrs. Sue Dorr ' 50 Colleyville, TX Ms. Jane B. Dickson '74 Stephenville, TX Mrs. Lisa G. Dockrill '87 Plano, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jim A. Douglass '70 (Patti Douglass '85) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dowdey '88 (Cynthia Dowdey '88) Ri chardson, TX Mr. & Mrs . John C. Downs '66 (Edie Downs) Sadler, TX Mr. & Mrs. B ob W. Dutton (Lettie A. Dutton '71 ) Midland, TX Mr. Joseph P. Edel '84 Spring, TX Mr. Gary W. Etheredge '71 Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Fannin '70 (Linda B. Fannin) San Antonio, TX Mr. & Mrs . Francisco Figueroa '67 (Sharon M. Figueroa) Kennewick, WA

Mr. Clyde l . Fincher '30 San Benito, TX

Mr. J oe B. Fisher '82 Cypress, TX

Mr. J . Dee Flamming '79 Bu rleson, TX

Mr. ~ Mrs. Edward N. Fletcher '87 (Julie A. Fletcher '87) K ongwood, TX

Mr. & Mrs. Edward B. Franco '70 (Nora Franco) Irving, TX Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Frisbie '76 (Betty A. Frisbie '76) Cypress, TX

Mr. & Mrs. Terry E. Fuller '77 (l inda S. Fuller '69) Southlake, TX Mr. D. Kent Gabel ' 67 Sudan, TX

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Garrison '64 (Joyce C. Garrison '64) Lubbock, TX

Mr. & Mrs. David E. Gates '85 (Jill M. Gates '85) Madison, MS Mrs. Helen J. Geick '61 lubbock, TX

Dr. & Mrs. James C. Graham '63 (Rachels. Graham) Creve Coeur, MO 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 E. Gregory) Fo rt Worth, TX Dr. & Mrs. Do n A . Grimes, D.D.S. '74 (Linda Grimes) L ubbock, TX Dr. & Mrs. Dan M. Guy (Terri S. Guy '73) Santa Fe, NM Mr. & Mrs. David H. Hadden '78 (Pamela A . Hadden '87) Allen, TX Mr. & Mrs. D. Brett Hall ' 86 (Christie G. Hall) M iami, TX Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Ham el '93 (Karen A. Hamel '93) Lubbock, TX Ch ance llo r & Mrs. Kent R. Hance '65 (Susie Hance) Lubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Harper '55 (Betsy F. Harper ' 57) Wichita Falls, TX Ms. B obbie C. Harri s Opelika, Al Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. Harris '55 (Denise M. Harris) B ellingham, WA Dr. Robert I . Hart, M.D. '80 & Dr. Susan E. Hart, M.D. Baton Rouge, LA Mr. & Mrs . John W. Harvill '72 (Jean R. Harvill) Harvey, LA Mr. & Mrs . Ro bert Haworth ' 79 (Kathleen S. Haworth '79) Draper, UT Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Heinchon '81 (Nita C. Heinchon '81) San Antoni o, TX Mr. Scott E. Heinzman '87 Hanover Park, ll Mr. & Mrs. Gregory R. Hoes '86 (Lori Hoes) Garland, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jeff M. Holloman ' 80 (Karlene M. Holloman) San Francisco, CA Mr. & Mrs. C. Cliff Hoskins ' 76 (Jane G. Hoskins '75) Corpus Ch r isti, TX Mr. & Mrs. Don J . Howe '71 (Vickie Howe) A lpharetta, GA Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Huckabee '91 (Robin Huckabee '92) Fo rt Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. J ohn Hutchens ' 56 (Patricia J. Hutchens '57) Metairie, LA Mr. & Mrs. Russell L Ingrum '86 (Shawnee H. Ingrum '85) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Rex lsom '78 (Nancy lsom '80) Idalou, TX Dr. & Mrs. Gary Jennings, D.D.S. '77 (Phyllis Jennings) Houston, TX Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Johlke '88 (Anita M. J oh lke '97) Peoria,IL Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Johnson '61 (Su zie E. J ohnson '62) Ho uston, TX Major & Mrs. Anthony D. Killa '95 (Carolyn T. Killa) Apex, NC Mr. & Mrs. Brandon D. LaBonte '01 (Sheri S. LaBonte '97) South Riding, VA Mrs. Peggy B. LaFont ' 61 Plainview, TX Mr. Rowland C. Lawson '84 Soldotna, AK Mr. & Mrs. 0. D. Lewis, J r. '72 (Ann L Lewis) Plano, TX Mr. Robert J. l ewis '49 Fairfax, VA Mr. & Mrs. James R. Lindley '60 (Bernice G. lindley) Killeen, TX Mr. & Mrs. Russell H. logan ' 51 (Caroll. logan) Colleyville, TX

Mr. & Mrs. larry K. lowe '67 (Ashley lowe) Lubbock, TX Mr. Blrke B. Marsh '88 Amarillo, TX Mr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Mason '73 (Linda W. Mason '72) Fair Oaks Ranch, TX Mr. & Mrs. Wendell W. Mayes, Jr '49 (Mary J ane Mayes) Au stin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brent D. McClure '84 (Laura K. McClure '83) Colleyville, TX Mr. & Mrs. Brian F. McCoy '75 (Wetonnah L McCoy) San Marcos, TX Mr. & Mrs. John l. McCoy '70 (lynnda J. McCoy '68) Haslet, TX Mr. & Mrs. G. Decker McKim '55 (Carolyn McKim) Kemah, TX Mr. & Mrs. James McSwane (Freda l. McSwane '02) Ruidoso, NM Dr. John S. Menzies, D.V.M. '75 Cleburne, TX Ms. Patsy H. Middleton '57 Austin, TX Mrs. Martha H. Miller '49 Brenham, TX Mr. Glenn D. Moor '84 lubbock, TX Dr. Joshua H. Moore '04 & Dr. Christina M. Moore '03 Tulia, TX Mr. & Mrs. Patrick E. Munn '61 (Janice Munn) Odessa, TX Dr. Paul Nader, M.D. '81 & Dr. Barbara Bargin-Nader, M.D. '76 Austin, TX Dr. & Mrs. Raghu S. Narayan '71 (Barbara Narayan) Conroe, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mark B. Neas '92 (Gaylynn W. Neas) Day1on, MD Mr. & Mrs. Matthew D. Neessen '99 (Renee A. Neessen) El Paso, TX Mr. & Mrs. J. l arry Nelson '57 (Rena Nel son) Tulia, TX Ms. Jessica M. Nelson '99 Pasadena, CA Dr. James 0. Norcross '87 Irving, TX Mr. Kenneth W. Norvell '74 (Deborah Norvell) Danville, CA Mr. & Mrs. John C. Owens '71 (Cynthia M. Owens '73) lubbock, TX Dr. & Mrs. Brian R. Papworth '88 (Mardi Papworth) Al buquerque, NM Mr. & Mrs. Howard T. Pebley, Jr. '69 (Rosann Pebley) McAllen, TX Mr. Gary R. Petersen '68 Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Mike J. Petraitis '79 (Martha M. Petraitis '81) Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Poore '90 (Christina B. Poore) Mercer Island, WA Dr. Rhonda Porterfield, M.D. '82 Dallas, TX 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 M. Pratt (Amy C. Pratt) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Scott R. Pullen '80 (Carroll A. Pullen) Sugar Land, TX Mr. & Mrs. Terry H. Putman '69 (Mendy W. Putman '81) Colorado Springs, CO Mr. & Mrs. Gil H. Radtke '82 (Ann G. Radtke) Houston, TX Mr. Jerry S. Rawls '67 los Altos, CA Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Rider '67 (De De Rider) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Rinehart '60 (Joyce M. Rinehart) lubbock, TX Mrs. Kathy E. Roberts '72 Houston, TX Mr. Douglass C. Ro bison '79 Midland, TX Mr. & Mrs. John E. Roueche, Ill '88 (Elise W. Roueche) Houston, TX Dr. Nancy R. Ruff '69 Clinton, WA Mr. Britt Sadler '95 Pflugerville, TX Dr. & Mrs. Martin Salazar, Ed. D. '78 (Margie Salazar) l ubbock, TX Mr. & Mrs. Keith Samples ' 77 (Megan Samples) Calabasas, CA Mr. & Mrs. Robbie R. Sartain '79 (Kathleen M. Sartain '79) Midland, Ml Mrs. Sammie F. Saulsbury '58 Monroe, LA

Dr. Alan C. Schauer, D.D.S. '77 Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. John F. Scovell '68 (Diane K. Scovell ' 68) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Chad V. Seely '99 (Sara L. Seely '99) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Sheffield, Jr. (Catherine Sheffield '79) Anchorage, AK The Honorable & Mrs. Dan Shelley '71 (Barnadette Shelley) Austin, TX Mr. & Mrs. Reagan W. Simpson (Nancy D. Simpson '75) Houston, TX Ms. Anita R. Smith '63 Slidell, TX Mr. & Mrs. Lucian R. Smith, Ill '74 (Kristin B. Smith ' 76) Jersey Village, TX Dr. Jo A . Sousa '88 Greenville, SC Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Souter '71 (Jill Harrison Souter) Alam o Heights, TX Mr. Garrett L. Spradling '04 Borger, TX The Honorable & Mrs. Chal1es Slanhotm '61 (Cynthia Slenhotm '61) Was hington, DC Mr. & Mrs. James H. Stone ' 50 (Evelyn B. Stone '48) Hattiesburg, MS Mr. & Mrs. Barry C. Street ' 79 (SuDellne M. Street '79) Kress, TX Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stroud '67 (Pamela S. Stroud '67) Bedford, TX Mr. & Mrs. Max S. Swinburn '67 (Doris Swlnburn) Dimmitt, TX Mr. & Mrs. Don D. Thetford '56 (Mary B. Thetford) Houston, 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. Erik M. Velez '04 Pflugerville, TX Mr. & Mrs. Randall W. Vines '84 (Dona E. Vines '86) The Wood lands, TX Mr. & Mrs. John B. Walker '68 (lisa A. Wa lker) Houston, TX Mr. & Mrs. Ben B. Wallace ' 76 (Patricia H. Wallace) Corpus Christi, TX Mr. & Mrs. Sean J. Walsh '88 (Shanna Walsh) Austin , TX Mr. & Mrs. Dan G. Webster, Ill '61 (Molly I. Webster) San Antoni o, TX Mr. & Mrs. Herman Wheatley, Jr. '65 (Barbara Wheatley) Brownfield, TX Mr. & Mrs. David G. Wight '64 (Carla H. Wight) Anchorage, AK Mr. & Mrs. Kar l B. Willard '91 (Beverly Willard) Lantana, TX Mr. & Mrs. Bryant L Williams, Jr. '61 (Brenda Williams) Kerrville, TX Mr. & Mrs. l ee D. W inton '85 ( Nancy L Winton) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Loftin V. Witcher '52 (Carol A . Witcher) Fort Worth, TX Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Wolf '75 (Joanna C. Wo lf '75) Dallas, TX Mr. & Mrs. Robert Womack ' 75 (Brenda Womack '78) Midland, TX Mrs. Glenna Shinn Wylie ' 52 lubbock, TX Dr. & Mrs. Scott W. Wyrick, M.D. '87 (lenore P. Wyrick) Texarkana , TX Mr. & Mrs. James Zimmerman '79 (Barbara Zimmerman) Denver, CO

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1959 DAN W. BROWN (BA Geoscience) Wellington, New Zealand, served three tours of duty in Korea during the Korean War and one in the French-IndoChina area. After graduation, he sp ent 40 years as an oilfield geologis t in the oil industry in the states, Canada and the Asia Pacific region. His last posting was in J akarta, Indonesia, as general manager of Triton Indon esia, In c., a subsidiary of Triton

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19 64 EDWARD R . BARKOWSKY (BA English, '68 MA English) Snyder, Texas, recently retired from Western Texas College.

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consultant and advocate for regional devel-

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basketball team from Northside Independent

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BECKY DUNLAP MARGOLIES (BS Home Economics Education, '71 MS) Round Rock, Texas, enjoys Austin Alumni Association lunches with her husband, Paul.

1971 STEVE SOUTER (BAR Architecture Structure) Alamo Heights, Texas, is a managing partner of Mormon Mok Architecture, the firm that was recently awarded the Architecture Firm Award for 2008 by the Texas Society of Architects.

His wife is Jill. He is on the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board

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1976 KIM A. MCPHERSON (BS Meat Science) Lubbock, is constructing a new winery, McPherson Cellars, in Lubbock's Depot District. There will be a tasting room, chapel and events center. His wife is SYLVIA BURILLO MCPHERSON ('84 BFA Interior Design).

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his wife, TINA BROOKE WRIGHT ('77 BSE Elementary Education), SAIL math lab teacher at Bennett Elementary in Wolfforth, celebrated 34 years of marriage in June.

1978 GREG B. CARTWRIGHT (BS Range Management-Wildlife Habitat, '78 BS Y'{ildlife Management) Lubbock, is a f~cilities operation specialist with the

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TIM CHAMBERS (BAAdvertising) Lubbock, accepted a new position as direc-

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DAVID F. THOMAS (BBA Marketing) Southlake, Texas, is a managing part ner of Subaru of Dallas and recently opened Subaru of Plano in Plano, Texas.

1984 ' RHONDA TYLER DI LLARD (BSE Elementary Education) Wolfforth, Texas, is principal of Bennett Elementary in Frenship Independent School District. Her husband is Dale.

GUY R. MCPHERSON (MS RangeScience, '87 Ph.D. Range Science) Tucson, Ariz., a University of Arizona professor, co-authored his eighth book Living with Fire: Fire Ecology

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Greg Davis-Advertising, 1982 General manager WRR Radio

Mike McAllister-Journalism, 1983 Managing editor PGATOUR.com

Linda Sease-Advertising and Public Relations, 1980 Director of marketing, newspaper division The E.W Scripps Company

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BRAD C. WAKELY (BBA Management) Dublin, Ohio, was promoted to vice presi-

dent and general manager for Time Warner Cable in Columbus, Ohio. He and his wife, Mary Kay, have three sons, one of whom is a sophomore at Texas Tech.

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KARL HITTLE (BBA Management) New Braunfels, Texas, joined Blackhawk ; Healthcare as executive vice president of operations. His wife is BETH HOWARD HITTLE ('87 BS Physical Education).

RICHARD N . JESPERS (MAEnglish) Lubbock, wrote "Basketball is Not a Drug," a short story recently publish ed in a print anthology, "Best of the Web 2008."

1988 MARK A. TALAMANTES (BS Advertising) Belvedere Tiburon, Calif., announced that his firm, Talamantes/ Villegas/Carrera, LLP (TVC) was ho nored

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1991 DAVID H. SAINDON (BBAFinance,

representing farm and restaurant workers

He joined Freese and Nichols in 2000 and

BBA Accounting) Bellaire, Texas, recently

in the Salinas Valley. In 2006 the firm was

manages all structural engineering in the

accepted a position as chief financial officer.

honored by the Impact Fund of Berkeley,

firm. His wife is Michal.

of Bobcat Gas Storage. His wife is Anne.

Calif., for its role in bringing impact litigation in California. TVC is a civil rights law

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firm based in San Francisco, Calif. Mark and his wife, Karen, have two sons.

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APRIL FAULKNER HIGNOJOS (BS

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ROY D. WARD (BS Agricultural

tant principal of Voigt Elementary School

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Education) Muleshoe, Texas, and his wife,

in Round Rock. Her husband is Salvador.

of Peoples Bank and has been promoted from

Elizabeth, announce the birth of their

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Medicine) Weatherford, Texas, and his second daughter, Hazel, on March 8.

Environmental Toxicology) Austin, Texas,

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JOHN G. VILLALBA (BS Inter-

STEPHEN P. STAMATIS (MD

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CHRISTOPHER E. STACY (BBA

NICK ROY (BBA Finance/Real Estate,

DAVID L. WYGANT (MA Theatre Arts,

Marketing) Fort Worth, Texas, sells oil and

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ALAN ZABLOUDIL, JR. (BBA Finance)

WYGANT ('03 BA History, '04 MA),

Dallas, Texas, is an equity trader for Penson

teaches history at Front Range Community

Financial Services in Dallas. Previously,

College in Westminster, Colo., where she

he was an investment adviser for Edward

serves as the faculty adviser for Phi Theta

J ones Investments. He has been with the

Kappa International Honor Society. She

firm since April2005.

has been appointed the Colorado chair for the Organization of American Historians

2005

Membership Committee.

2004

ZACHARY D. EDWARDS (BS Architecture) Coppell, Texas, passed his architectural registration exams and is on

AMANDA L . MCDERMAND (BA Public

his way to becoming a licensed architect.

Relations, '06 MA Mass Communications)

His wife, COURTNEY MICHELLE

San Antonio, Texas, moved to San Antonio

NEAL ('OS BID Interior Design), just

to begin working in marketing and prod-

sat for the National Council for Interior

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Design Qualification examination and

Iand GigaWave Technologies, Divisions of

is awaiting results. They both work for

, TESSCO Technologies.

Gensler in Dallas, Texas.

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ADAM P. JONES (BBA Marketing) Plains, Texas, teaches secondary biology. His wife, WHITNEY PEIL JONES ('OS BS

In Memoriam

Interdisciplinary Agriculture), teaches English II and IV and is a cheerleading sponsor.

MATT MIMS (BBA Finance) Colleyville, Texas, was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to the Juvenile

FRAN ANDERSON - COX '81, '83, of

Justice Advisory Board for the State of Texas.

El Paso, Texas, died July 18.

Matt is employed as an analyst in the manage-

BETTY A. ANTHONY '62, of

ment consulting practice at Accenture.

Lubbock, died J uly 29.

MICHAEL J. BAXTER '81, of

2006 ABRAM H. CLARK (BS Electrical Engineering, '08 MS Electrical Engineering) Arlington, Texas, began doctoral work in physics at Duke University in August. His wife is Sandra.

Winchester, Va. , died Jan. 1.

KATHERINE K. BEAL '58, '61, of Lubbock, died July 15.

NORMAN W. BERG 'SO, of Lubbock, died Aug. 9.

MARVIN WARLICK CARR '40, of Lubbock, died July 9.

NICKlE HENRY (BA Psychology) Austin, Texas, moved to Austin to help run a concrete company and plans to attend graduate school in the fall.

ELIZABETH CHENOWETH '35, of McAllen, Texas, died July 14.

JOHN COTTON '58, '63, of Lubbock, died July 9.

ERIC A . PETERSON (DMA Conducting) Murray, Utah, has been named director of bands for South Dakota State University. His wife is

MARGUERITE HARRIS '42, Lubbock, died Aug. 14.

KELLI D. HARTMAN '91, of Lubbock, died Aug. 4.

Michelle.

VELMA B. HENDERSON '35, of WHITNEY L. REECE (BID Interior Design) Abilene, Texas, is an interior designer and member of REES' Corporate/Broadcast Studio and

Shallowater, Texas, died Aug. 1?.

Lubbock, has been promoted from a banking officer to assistant vice president of Peoples Bank.

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Marcos, Texas, died July 13.

GEORGE R. MUSGRAVE , Ed.O., '52, '66, of Mesa, Ariz., died Aug. 16.

MELISSA K. NEWSOM '0?, of Lubbock, died June 18.

JOHN W. "JOHNNY" PALMORE, III '31, of Lamesa, Texas, died Aug. 11.

W. REED QUILL IAM, JR., a former associate dean in the law school, died July 14.

V. WAYN E RAMSEY '49, of Abilene, Texas, died Aug. 11.

WILLARD H . ROLLINGS , PH.D., '83, of Chicago, Ill., died July 30.

MA RGE L. SNYDER '42, of Lubbock, died Aug. 18.

ROBERT C. STAMPS '?5, of Lubbock, died July 14.

of Valley View, Texas, died Feb. 19.

'53, of Breckenridge, Texas , died

FREDA B. HUDSON '69, '?0, of Georgetown, Texas, died

JORDAN MCKAY (BBA General Business)

JOHN W. MORRISSET '60, of Sa n

J .D. STRICKLAND, ED.D. , '34,

April 5, 200?.

2007

MCCREARY '40.

DORIS PITZINGER HEYING 'SO,

recently passed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) examination.

by his wife, GAIL PADGE TT

JAMES "JERRY" HUNT, a former professor, of Lubbock, died July 22.

WILBUR T. LEON '51, of Petersburg, Texas, died July 19.

DOSH T. MCCREARY '39, of Austin, Texas, died May 20. He is survived

July 29.

GLADYS B. WIECHMANN '52, of Slaton, Texas, died July 2.

DANA VICKREY WILDMAN '81, of Edgewood, N.M., died July 11.

BRANT B. WILLIAMS '68, of Houston, Texas, died April 23. U

» STUDENT SPOTLIGHT/COMPilED BY JEAN ANN CANTORE BRENT NEWSOM AND LAURI ANDERSON, creative writing students from the Department of English, have received the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers awards fo r graduate poetry and graduate nonfiction writing. The award includes $100 and an opportunity for the students to present their work at the TACWT conference in September and have their winning works published in literary journals in Texas.

SHAYLA SWAIN, DOCTORAL student in the Department of Industrial Engineering, has been selected as a NASNTexas Space Grant Consortium Fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year. The fellowship consists of a $5,000 supplemental stipend.

ADAM BIELAMOWICZ, a tenor and senior vocal performance major, sang in the Santa Fe Opera Young Artists Apprentice Program in August. He performed the role of Duke in the quartet from Verdi's "Rigoletto."

He was the youngest participant ever in the program.

LAURA HEERS AND RYAN BLAIR, joined by Alumni Association Executive Vice President and CEO Bill Dean, recently received scholarships from the Cooke County chapter of the Texas Tech Alumni Association. The Texas Tech Alumni Association is proud to support today's Texas Tech students by awarding hundreds of scholarships annually.

Texas Tech University's Department of Animal and Food Sciences taught a series of horsemanship clinics in Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic this summer. Texas Tech students participating were graduate student ROBIN MORRIS and undergraduate students KEVIN BURNS, ALICIA DAUGHERTY and BRIANNE AUCUTT. During the past three years, the Texas Tech ranch horse program has conducted eight clinics in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark and Holland. The Tech students won the overseas teaching opportunity as part of a competitive grant process through the American Quarter Horse Association.

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SARA BLAKESLEE, MARTHA MORGAN, MEGAN OKA and ERICA WILKINS each received $25,000 to support their studies.

Un iversitySchoolofLaw Appellate Advocacy Team won the State Moot Court Competition Championship at the Texas State Bar Convention in Houston in June.

Team members were GRAIGORY FANCHER and ERIN WELCH , who both graduated in May 2008; MATTHEW LUENSMANN, a third-year law student; and CHARLES PELOWSKI, a second-year law student from Abilene.

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STEPHANIE HELMS won 1st place for her garment in the Fashion Group International Theatre Costume/Wearable Art category. JOHNNA SHEPPARD won 3rd place for her garment in the Fashion Group International Eveningwear category. DRU DEBUSK won 1st place in the Trend Board Competition, Mohair category. DESTINEE BATES won 1st place in the Trend Board Competition, Wool category, and REBECCA VANCIL won 2nd place in the Trend Board Competition, Cotton category.

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THE TEXAS TECH student chapter of the SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS was awarded the "Most Outstanding Student Chapter" at the Regional Leadership Development Conference conference in El Paso, Texas, in the spring. 0