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photo on these two pages by Wyman Meinzer | CHINATI OF WEST TEXAS Photo by Juan Cantu | JUAN CANTU CAPTURED CAMPUS FROM THE SKY, INCLUDING THIS STUNNING SHOT OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY’S MAIN ENTRANCE.

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THE BIGGER AND BETTER FRAZIER ALUMNI PAVILION Help us reach our financial goal for the newly-expanded Frazier Alumni Pavilion!

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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. As co-manager and executive director of the world’s largest rodeo stock company, Cervi Championship Rodeo, Binion Cervi brings rodeo to life across America.

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HERE TO SERVE TEXAS Construction of the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo is well underway and will soon welcome the inaugural class.

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A PASSION FOR THE PAST Monte L. Monroe, Ph.D., is archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and the Texas State Historian.

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RAISED BY COLLEGE STUDENTS Born in 1936, Barbara Ann Hinsley was raised by college students in the Texas Tech Practice House.

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A NEW ERA IN ALUMNI RELATIONS IN YOUR HANDS IS THE redesigned and reimagined next-gen Texas Techsan!

Thanks to longtime editors Jean Ann Cantore and Jennifer Ritz for leading the effort on this redesign,representing a bigger and even better publication for Texas Tech Alumni Association members. This magazine is the first in partnership with The Slate Group, the new official printing sponsor. We have sent this fall issue to an expanded number of alumni, encouraging them to belong to the TTAA. If you’re not already a member, please consider joining to continue receiving the Techsan throughout the year. Sign up at www.texastechalumni/ join, download our TTAA app or email me directly at curt.langford@ttu.edu.

IT’S BEEN A TOUGH TIME for all of us during this

COVID-19 era, yet I’m proud that we have adapted operations to continue engaging our alumni and serving the institution in creative ways. From the Matador Memories oral history project, to online commencements, the inaugural “Techsan Talks” virtual alumni chapter meeting and virtual ring ceremonies, we’ve maintained meaningful connections, despite the disruption. I am particularly proud of our system administration, who have led tirelessly throughout these difficult months, and for the “Texas Tech Commitment,” striving for as normal a collegiate experience as possible for students with everyone’s personal safety in mind. These have been difficult decisions requiring lots of preparation to achieve the best outcome for the Texas Tech community.

It’s been disappointing having to cancel so many in-person events. In addition to ring ceremonies and our inaugural Legacy U, we will not be hosting our long-held traditional events this fall such as the Distinguished Alumni awards dinner and A Matador Evening during homecoming. As we continue to weather the storm, expect more creative virtual programming. It is because of our loyal members that we’re able to sustain during this tough time. Thank you.

WE WILL BE HOSTING OUR annual Alumni Cup golf tournament at the Rawls Course Oct. 23 during homecoming weekend. We’re

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planning for our largest event ever, with many sponsorship opportunities. If you’re a golfer and would like to participate, field a team or simply sponsor a hole to help support the TTAA, contact me or Kristina Butler at kristina.a.butler@ttu.edu.

I WANT TO THANK MELINDA Schmucker Pharies at Carpet Tech, our newest TTAA corporate sponsor. Many readers will remember Melinda ’01 as a former Lady Raider and her husband, Chet, who played for the football team. With the sudden need for professional sanitized cleaning of our alumni facilities because of coronavirus concerns, Carpet Tech stepped up as a corporate partner to assist us in keeping our alumni center and pavilion certified as “Lubbock Safe!” Thank you, Melinda, and your team, for your support of the TTAA. You are one of us!

FINALLY, I’M THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE this fall the launch of Techsan Connection, an alumni

networking platform enabling a greater level of online engagement with our students and alumni of all ages. In cooperation with the University Career Center, Techsan Connection will allow our grads to connect and correspond with each other based on their career interest, geographic locations, business offerings, etc.

This platform will facilitate alumni engagement and networking in a powerful new way, bringing our Techsan community closer together and enabling us all to support each other more effectively. We will also be implementing an online mentoring program for alumni to mentor students and younger grads, while enabling alumni to seek out experts in specific fields for advice and professional development.

Happy Fall, y’all! Enjoy your latest Texas Techsan, a timeless and treasured tradition featuring our alumni since 1950!

AND WE WANT YOU TO LEAVE YOUR LEGACY AT THE NEWLY RENOVATED FRAZIER ALUMNI PAVILION. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR NAME SET IN STONE AT THE PLACE THOUSANDS OF RED RAIDERS CALL HOME FOR GAMEDAY. A PLACE WHERE MEMORIES ARE MADE. A PLACE WHERE SPIRIT AND TRADITION LIVE ON CAMPUS.

For as little as $300, you can leave your lasting mark on one of the recognition pieces that surround the pavilion.

Be part of this revolutionary transformation of a building that means so much to Texas Tech alumni and friends by visiting www.texastechalumni.org/frazier-expansion.

For more information, or to discuss a gift toward the project, please contact Courtney Jordan at (806) 392-0252 or courtney.jordan@ttu.edu.

THROUGH THE ARCHES

COMPILED BY JENTRY HAM AND JENNIFER RITZ

PEOPLE THE MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HAS APPOINTED AARON DAVID PAN, PH.D. AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Pan was selected after a nationwide

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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS QUARTERBACK PATRICK MAHOMES GAVE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT THE TEXAS TECH SPRING 2020 COMMENCEMENT. Mahomes attended and played football for Texas Tech as a quarterback from 2014 to 2017 and was drafted to play for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017. In 2020 Mahomes led the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl victory since 1970. Mahomes presented his speech in a much different space than past speakers because of the coronavirus pandemic. A virtual commencement was held to comply with COVID-19 guidelines.

search to serve as executive director and have a faculty appointment as associate professor of practice. He brings 12 years of experience from working in museums.

Prior to the Texas Tech museum position, Pan served as executive director of the Don Harrington Discovery Center, an interactive science center and museum in Amarillo. He also worked as the curator of science at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.

Pan was a postdoctoral fellow in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and received his doctoral degree in geology from the Program in Paleobotany, Department of Geological Sciences at Southern Methodist University. He earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors in creative studies with a biology emphasis from the University of California Santa Barbara. Pan took the place of Jill Hoffman, Ph.D., interim executive director, who led the museum through the transition period. She has resumed her role as the museum’s assistant director for visitor experience.

LORI RICE-SPEARMAN, PH.D., HAS BECOME THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER PRESIDENT AND IS THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM HISTORY. Rice-Spearman joined the TTUHSC in 1987 as an academic instructor.

Before becoming president, she most recently served as the dean of the School of Health Professions. Prior to that position, she served as associate provost, provost and chief academic officer. She was appointed interim president in November 2019, following Chancellor Tedd Mitchell’s decision to close tenure as president and focus on his position as chancellor. A national search was conducted to identify a pool of experienced leaders to fill the position. The board voted to elect Rice-Spearman as the only finalist after interviews were conducted with candidates and a recommendation was made from Mitchell. While dean, Rice-Spearman has led the university’s COVID-19 response, earning statewide and national praise during the outbreak. She earned a bachelor of science degree from TTUHSC in 1986 in clinical lab sciences, a master of science in interdisciplinary studies from Texas Tech University in 1991 and a doctor of philosophy in family and consumer science education from Tech in 2010.

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GINGER KERRICK , A MEMBER OF THE TEXAS TECH B OA R D O F R E G E N T S , P L AY E D A P I VOTA L R O L E I N THE SPACEX LAUNCH. On May 30, 2020, the U.S.

launched Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space to dock with the International Space Station. During launch preparation, Kerrick was deputy director of the Exploration Integration & Sciences Directorate at NASA. Her responsibilities with the launch were operational safety. She oversaw crew and flight control team training, SpaceX personnel Kerrick training, operational readiness for personnel who are required to support launch and landing recovery and rescue. She also worked with the Commercial Crew Program and SpaceX to ensure the astronauts have a safe return to Earth and to their families. Kerrick has been at NASA for 28 years and assumed the new role of Exploration Integration Sciences Directorate May 6, just before the astronauts were launched into space. Kerrick earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Kerrick also served as the August 2020 commencement speaker. She is a former member of the Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board.

T I M D O D D , P H . D . , WA S NAMED DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES AND HAS SERVED AS ACTING AND INTERIM DEAN FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. Dodd also is the

James C. and Kailee M. Young Regents Professor of Hospitality Management and director of the Texas Wine Marketing Research Dodd Institute at Texas Tech.

For the past 15 years, Dodd served the college as associate dean of administration and finance. A New Zealand native, he received his bachelor’s degree in education in 1981 from the University of Waikato, then a master’s degree in business in 1991 and a doctorate in consumer economics in 1994 from Texas Tech.

ATTENTION ALUMNI

The University Career Center (UCC) provides all services to undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni from Texas Tech University. Students/Alumni can schedule virtual, phone, or video appointments. Our office is located in the Wiggins Complex.

Services Include: Document Critiques | Mock Interviews | Career Assessments | Career Exploration | Job Search | Career Closet | Interview Room Reservations | Career Fairs & Events | Webinars For More Information: Visit: www.careercenter.ttu.edu Contact: Toni.d.Krebbs@ttu.edu

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THROUGH THE ARCHES

NEWS THE BIOLOGICAL THREAT RESEARCH LABORATORY WITHIN THE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH (TIEHH) WAS THE FIRST LAB IN THE STATE OF TEXAS TO TEST FOR COVID-19. Created in

1997, TIEHH is a joint venture between Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

As COVID-19 became increasingly prevalent, Texas Tech and TTUHSC partnered to expand their testing capabilities. More than 30 volunteers from both campuses have joined the original five-person team to create the Texas Tech/TTUHSC COVID-19 Testing Team. The team tests 350 to 400 samples each day.

The institute fuses the resources of Texas Tech’s academic campus and premier medical facility to address health issues from a multidisciplinary perspective and assess toxic chemical impacts on the physical and human environment. TIEHH’s Biological Threat Research Laboratory is a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s and Texas Department of State Health Services’ Laboratory Response Network, qualifying it to be a testing lab for the state.

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN RANKED IN THE TOP 10 NATIONWIDE FOR GRADUATE WORKFORCE PREPARATION. The Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU) named Texas Tech ninth in the nation, first in the state of Texas and top seven APLU member institutions in the nation. The ranking was based on the institution’s ability to produce the best-trained, educated and successful once hired graduates. Corporate recruiters seek out Texas Tech graduates due to the university’s overall reputation, as well as students’ preparedness, work ethic and Texas location. Texas Tech graduates are known to be innovative, intelligent, professional and team leaders. The ranking not only reflects a recent survey of employers, but it also acknowledges the alumni who have developed a long-standing relationship for excelling in their professional careers once they graduate. This is also a tribute to faculty and staff who work hard to prepare students for the workforce.

TEXAS TECH OPENED A NEW SATELLITE LOCATION ON MAY 4 AT THE JEFFERSONIAN INSTITUTE IN DOWNTOWN JEFFERSON. This new

East Texas satellite university will offer courses from Texas Tech’s Coding Academy, a cyber security course, and TTUK12 to East Texas School Districts. They hope to add Six Sigma Project Management Certification and other certifications at a later date. The new Texas Tech location has two classrooms and is currently a professional development site offering professional certifications and has a long-term goal of becoming a regional site.

TEXAS TECH COLLEGE OF EDUCATION RECEIVED A 1.5 MILLION GRANT TO TRAIN SPECIAL EDUCATORS. Texas Tech University’s Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities is launching Project TEDD: Training Educators in Dual Diagnosis. This is an initiative to address a state need for K-12 educators who specialize in teaching students who have dual diagnosis of intellectual development and development disability (I/DD) and a mental health condition. Project TEDD is funded by the Texas Council for Development Disabilities. The project will train 400 teachers who will train an additional five more educators totaling in 2,000 educators across Texas.

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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN NAMED THE 2020 CHESS COLLEGE OF THE YEAR. The governing

body of the U.S. chess competition, the U.S. Chess Federation, named Texas Tech University 2020 Chess College of the Year to recognize Texas Tech’s dedication to the chess community. Texas Tech University’s chess team, the Knight Raiders, are well known within the world of chess and dominated the December 2019 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships to qualify for the President’s Cup. The President’s Cup, known as the Final Four of Collegiate Chess, was to be held in New York City, New York, in April 2020 but was cancelled because of COVID-19. The Knight Raiders won the President’s Cup in 2011 and 2012 and had a third chance to win before it was cancelled. They also won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships in 2015 and has qualified for the President’s Cup nine times since 2009. Texas Tech has previously been named 2014 Chess College of the Year.

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THROUGH THE ARCHES

SPORTS TEXAS TECH BASEBALL’S CLAYTON BEETER (29) AND BRYCE BONNIN (40) WERE SELECTED ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE 2020 MLB DRAFT IN JUNE. Beeter was

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chosen in the Competitive Balance Round B with pick No. 66 by the Los Angeles Dodgers, while Bonnin was taken with pick No. 84 by the Cincinnati Reds in the third round. Tech was one of two Big 12 schools with multiple players chosen in the shortened five-round draft. It is the 30th consecutive year for Tech to record multiple draft picks, the third longest streak in the country and longest in the conference. Additionally, the 41 Red Raiders that have been drafted since 2015 is the most in the Big 12 and in the state.

LONGTIME FANS OF THE LADY RAIDERS WILL REMEMBER THE NEW TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH KRISTA KIRKLAND GERLICH – SHE WAS PART OF THE 1993 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM. Gerlich has been

a head coach for 14 years, the last seven of which were spent at University of Texas at Arlington. Gerlich has twice been named TABC Coach of the Year, earned three conference coach of the year awards, three conference titles, five NCAA Tournament wins and eight 20-win seasons. She has also overseen seven WBCA All-Americans, six conference players of the year, 10 All-Sun Belt selections and 17 Lone Star Conference All-Conference selections. She has 289 career wins as a head coach.

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CAMERON HEKKERT OF HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO, IS THE 59TH MASKED RIDER. She is a senior sports management major in

the College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors College. She has been accepted into the Fall 2021 class at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Hekkert accepted the transfer of reins from Emily Brodbeck ’20, a graduate student from Lubbock majoring in wildlife, aquatic and wildlands sciences and management in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources. Hekkert will spend the 2020-2021 academic year traveling with Fearless Champion, the Masked Rider horse, representing Texas Tech University at a variety of events.

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The Bigger and Better

Frazier Alumni Pavilion

By Jean Ann Cantore | Photos by Hope Huneke

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he Frazier Alumni Pavilion has been a revered campus landmark since it opened in Fall 1999. Although in name, it belongs to the alumni association, this esteemed venue really belongs to members of the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

We invite you to support this exciting facility that is the place to be on game day. In addition, this pavilion has become a go-to venue for everything from weddings to business conferences or even high school proms. By contributing to the newly-expanded pavilion, you are helping preserve a campus landmark for generations to come.

After more than year-long construction project, the now two-story, 28,000-square-foot Frazier has reopened to Red Raiders.

The impressive expansion includes an additional 4,200 square feet of open space, as well as new north and south entrance vestibules, a new courtyard and a second-story terrace that accommodates 200 people. Also, there is a new bridal suite, an expanded catering kitchen, an enhanced maintenance and sound system, as well as more restrooms. These options provide additional enhancements for people who want to book the pavilion for events.

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The Frazier Pavilion has been super special for both of us. First, individually, because as student athletes, we ate lunch here every single day, so that was a blessing. That’s how we met. We were both here one day and just got to talking. After we got engaged, we knew we wanted to get married in Lubbock.

Being athletes and alumni, it’s kind of a no-brainer.

It’s really special to us.

-BRADLEY AND MAGGIE ADKINS

On Aug. 6, the TTAA hosted a press conference at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion to recognize George and Linda McMahan for their generous $1 million lead gift. This gift has sponsored the front ballroom, named the Linda and George McMahan Room.

The couple has long-standing roots in the West Texas area. George says he is honored to contribute to a campaign that gives back to the Red Raider family and Lubbock community.

The association expresses heartfelt gratitude to donors whose generosity has helped with the expansion project.

There’s no doubt people love the Frazier Alumni Pavilion. In fact, a comment we often hear is, “See you at the Frazier!”

Please help us reach our financial goal for the newly expanded Frazier Alumni Pavilion, the place where Red Raiders connect. We have raised $4.6 million and are 70% of the way to the goal, with $2 million needed to finish the project. Your contribution will leave a legacy that you, your friends and family will see each time you visit the pavilion.

Numerous gift and pledge options are available inside and outside the pavilion to honor individuals.

Courtney Jordan can help you choose the right one.

"Masked Rider Monument" by Grant Speed.

Game days are unique for Student Alumni Board because we are able to welcome home Red Raiders and we get to talk and work with other alumni who came before and after them, young and old. It’s just cool to see everyone come together in a unified group where it doesn’t matter where you were in time, that you’re able to gather in one spot.

Here’s where you can do that.

-ALLISON SANDEFUR

The courtyard south of the pavilion.

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This expansion of this facility is critical to Texas Tech, not just for the alumni association, but for everybody who’s involved with the university, period. We need to do anything it takes to get it paid off and debt-free and functional and keep it the epicenter of attention.

We just need to do that.

Bridal suite.

-GEORGE AND LINDA MCMAHAN McMahan Room.

Terrace.

The Texas Tech Alumni Association honored George and Linda McMahan of Lubbock, Aug. 6, at a news conference and reception at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion. The couple gave the $1 million lead gift toward the pavilion expansion, making possible The George and Linda McMahan Room, a large reception hall. In this photo, Curt Langford, president & CEO of the Texas Tech Alumni Association, left, expresses gratitude for the McMahans' generosity.

You’re one of us, and together we will reach the goal!

Contact Courtney Jordan to help select the perfect gift and pledge option.

It’s just an important place. If my family comes in from out-of-town—my brother, my sister, my parents—we’re all alumni, and this is where we meet. This is where we see all our friends we made in college.

It’s family. It’s like coming home.

-JAMEY LANEY PHILLIPS AND SON, AUSTIN PHILLIPS

CALL: 806-392-0252 A convenient online payment option is also available at www.texastechalumni.org/frazier-expansion We welcome checks, too! Please make checks payable to Texas Tech Alumni Association, Frazier Pavilion, and mail to Texas Tech Alumni Association Courtney Jordan P.O. Box 45001 Lubbock, Texas 79409 FALL 2020

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Even though Binion Cervi’s days are protracted and often exhausting, most of his co-workers only work eight seconds a day.

Sometimes less.

Add to that they’re sweaty, hairy and sometimes cantankerous. They have a mind of their own and are pretty free-spirited, too.

On the other hand, they don’t gossip and there are no office politics.

And they never talk back.

By Jennifer Ritz

IMPULSE PHOTOGRAPHY, MALLORY BEINBORN

Binion earned his bachelor of science degree in spring 2008 in interdisciplinary agriculture with a minor in animal science. He didn’t have time to celebrate graduation since he needed to return to work immediately. “I didn’t walk (in the graduation ceremony),” he says. “I lived on the rodeo ranch, and they get mail three days a week, and the diploma wouldn’t fit in the mailbox. So they put it in a plastic bag, and I found it hanging from the mailbox.”

As I hopped out of my vehicle on an unseasonably bright and warm February Friday, I was struck by the familiar scent of horses and cattle mingled with diesel exhaust and dust. It smelled like what it was: a rodeo.

Well, in this case, a pre-rodeo.

Cervi Championship Rodeo company, managed in part by Binion, during the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, holds their rodeo stock at this off-site property I visited.

I surveyed horse trailers, from which a handful of equine were tethered. The animals, which would later be hauled to the AT&T Center for the evening performance, stood peacefully, heads low, eyes drooping as they snoozed in the late winter sun.

Spread beyond the trailers were acres of fenced pastures, generously sized, that separated horses, steers and bulls. In one of the largest fields stood a significant copse of old Live Oaks, the dense branches offering plentiful shade under which lazed brood mares and their small, spirited offspring.

After walking the length of the pastures, I stopped to study a bull, penned alone. He quietly considered me for about 9 seconds before giving a swing of his head and a snort. Losing interest, he turned and ambled away from where I stood outside the fence.

As one who has attended many rodeos, I can easily imagine the work entailed in executing an entire rodeo. The moving parts that must work in seamless harmony are almost unfathomable. The only reason this occurs is due to the stock contractor, how they run things behind the scenes and how they plan the event itself — from the grand entry to the final ride. In addition to their employees, major rodeos have many volunteers who step up to help. But, the hands-on roles with animals is all up to the stock contracting company.

And The Cervi Championship Rodeo bunch has at its helm three men for whom rodeo is everything. Binion and his brother Chase have continued the tradition started by their father, Mike. Mike was only 14 when he started working with Gene Autry, traveling the United States and Europe as both a rodeo clown and a competitor in steer wrestling and bull riding.

In 1967 Mike bought the first Cervi Championship Rodeo string, with a simple goal to provide quality rodeo stock. Then in 1973, Mike purchased Gene Autry’s rodeo company and merged it with Cervi.

Throughout the last 50-plus years, he has watched with pride as his small operation burgeoned into a father-son operation that is now one of the largest and most well-known PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) rodeo production companies in America.

If you’ve ever attended a large rodeo, chances are good that you’ve watched Cervi stock bucking across the arena.

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“I don’t know how exactly to put it into words, I just like the way people think and act there.

It’s very conservative and down to earth. It’s like Tech is still in touch with its roots.”

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Rodeo has been omnipresent in Binion’s life. He grew up in Roggen, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Weld County, northeast of Denver.

“It’s a blip,” Binion jokes. “Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it.”

His earliest memories were crowded with horses, cattle and rodeo life. The family operation includes raising not only many of the animals Binion, brother Chase and their team haul all over America and Canada, but they also operate cow-calf operations and raise bulls and bucking horses.

Although he attended school in Roggen, much of his childhood was spent traveling from rodeo to rodeo, learning the ropes. When he turned 12 he began trick riding and was part of the rodeo performances. His show was called “Cowboy Gone Wild.”

“I trick rode with a girl from Canada,” Binion says of Niki Cammaert Flundra.“She would get us the shows up there…we did Calgary, Cloverdale, Ponoka, the biggest ones in Canada. And I would help us get the jobs down here (in the United

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States) in the winter and spring. Then she’d get the big ones in the summer, so we worked together. We did Denver, San Antonio, Houston, San Angelo, Austin.”

A favorite aspect of his job is building relationships, such as the one with Flundra. Binion says his days of trick riding were some of the best of his life, and his former riding partner agrees.

“We rode together for about three years,” says Flundra, who performs with and trains Liberty horses and raises cattle with her husband and their three boys in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada.“I don’t even remember the first time we met, I just always remember knowing him.”

Although Flundra is several years older than Binion, the two began trick riding around the same time (she was 15 years old, Binion was 12). One of the reasons the two had success, she recalls, is that her partner was always all-in.

“Binion has such a unique combination of gifts and in everything he does he gives 110%,” she says. “And even though he’s incredibly busy, he gives every task or person all of his attention. He was like that when I rode with him. I loved that and admired that about him. He wanted everything to be perfect and I think he

Both Binion and his brother, Chase, were born partially deaf.

Binion received one cochlear implant in 2016, which he says was night and day, just a whole new world opened up. When urged by his doctor to get the second one, though, Binion says, “Maybe one day…” Prior to receiving the implant, he only read lips. He has his cowboy hats custom made to fit over the implant that attaches to his scalp. Brother Chase has opted out of cochlear implants for now. Hearing loss hasn’t slowed down Chase, either; he is known far and wide for his horsemanship skills and as a pick-up man. He’s on horseback every performance and is one of the men who pulls riders from danger in bareback and saddle bronc riding. He has won Pick-Up Man of the Year twice in the last four years. He has also been six times as a pick-up man to the NFR, where the year’s top 20 bareback and saddle bronc riders vote on who gets that honor. “He’s one of the best…”

Binion notes.

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inspires those around him to be that way. We toured all over and it was a wonderful opportunity for me. He and his family took care of me and we became like a family.

They were so good to me.”

Flundra is spot-on when she says Binion works hard. His production company handles more than 30 rodeos a year. It’s a non-stop rotation of planning the extraordinary events that thousands of people attend.

That work ethic earned Binion a scholarship from the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo for his trick riding.

The native Coloradan chose to attend Texas Tech.

“Texas is like a second home to me because we’re here for two to three months out of the year between San Antonio, Houston and Waco,” Binion explains.“And my mom is from Texas, and her whole side of the family is from the Panhandle: Miami, Pampa.”

He also had family members who had attended Texas Tech. For Binion, one deciding factor was the culture, which was one in which he felt at home.

“I don’t know how exactly to put it into words, I just like the way people think and act there,” notes Binion, when discussing why he chose Texas Tech. “It’s very

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When the Cervis aren’t on the road, they’re home on the ranch in Roggen working cattle and catching up on ranch work. Binion and Chase have houses near one another on the ranch.

Binion leads an unusual life, but he’s well-suited for it. Woerner says he sums up his close friend and former student with one word: “challenger.”

“If you challenge him, he will do it,” Woerner says.

“He loves to defy the odds. I guess this is how he has had to be. He’s had to overcome hearing loss, the loss of a brother and had to take the reins when his dad couldn’t. Overcoming adversity is no major feat for him.”

“People all across the country consider them family, people they would do anything for, and that is something that is earned not given freely.”

How did Binion’s parents land on his name? Binion was named in honor of his father’s best man and one of his best friends: Lester Ben Binion. “It was Benny Binion, who owned the Binion’s Horseshoe in Vegas. He’s the one who brought the National Finals (National Finals Rodeo held each December) to Las Vegas,” says Binion when explaining the origin of his unique name.

conservative and down to earth. It’s like Tech is still in touch with its roots.

“Even though I had traveled a lot in my life, Texas Tech helped broaden my horizons. It was a chance to get away from the world of rodeo for a while and learn about other things.”

While it’s 600 miles from Lubbock to Roggen, the two places were worlds apart for Binion. Even though he spent several years living in Lubbock, his college career was not typical.

“Binion began producing the top rodeos in the world while juggling classes at Tech,” says Dale Woerner, Ph.D., associate professor and Cargill Endowed Professor in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources.“I recall him going to class during the day and commuting back and forth on a plane for evening (rodeo) performances in San Antonio and Houston. He would bounce between classes. Literally, he is one of the highest energy people I have ever met — on his cell phone lining up stock and managing personnel. I remember thinking to myself,‘Who is this kid and how does he manage to get all of this done?’”

For Binion, who started helping with paperwork behind the scenes at age 14, it was the only life he’d ever known. By the time he enrolled at Tech, he knew almost everything about running the show.

Turns out that was a very good thing.

Binion with his wife, Hannah, on the ranch in Colorado.

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In addition to Binion’s younger brother, Chase, there was a third brother, Mike (named after their father), who died in a plane crash in 2001. Understandably, the family went into a tailspin, especially their father. During the time the family was recovering from the emotional trauma, some fine print regarding a disposal well was overlooked and an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) law was violated.

“Even though he had employees who oversaw the operations, he knew he ultimately needed to take responsibility for the mistake,” says Binion of his father’s five-month sentence.

“So I took a year off (from college) there.”

Binion went to summer school to pick up the hours he lost. He says support from his professors, who knew of his family’s situation, was monumental and assured he would earn his degree.

“My dad still says, ‘The best thing that ever happened was me going to prison,’” Binion says. “I was 21, and my brother (Chase) was 19, and people were saying, ‘You guys are going to run the rodeo company?’ We had a lot of people who thought we were going to fail. We haven’t yet.”

Far from failing, the Cervi Championship Rodeo company is soaring.

“Binion has produced the largest rodeos in the world for 17 years and he’s only 36 years old,” Woerner says.“The first year that I met him, he was making day trips to San Antonio and Houston to trick ride in the evening performances, and the next year he was running the show behind the scenes and out on the dirt. Not many Tech students can say that they ran a world-class business at the biggest and best entertainment venues on the planet while getting their degree.”

And as seriously as he takes his business, it’s evident upon visiting with Binion that his family, especially his wife Hannah and daughter Reagan, are No. 1 to him. Any discussion of his wife and daughter lights up Binion’s face.

“We can talk all we want about how great of a rodeo producer and stockman that he is, but what he cares about the most is being a good father and husband,” Woerner agrees. “He loves his wife and daughter more than words can describe…something we can all admire.”

Woerner sums up Binion and his family profoundly and simply,“A major testament to Binion and all of the Cervis is the size of their rodeo family. People all across the country consider them family, people they would do anything for, and that is something that is earned not given freely.”

The Cervi Championship Rodeo is responsible for more than 30 rodeos a year. This means almost constant travel. And when this crew is headed into town, make way. They travel with at least five semis and several gooseneck trailers. Binion says for their two-month Texas run in 2020 they brought 92 bucking horses, 27 saddle horses and 2 stallion bucking horses.

For some rodeos they contract with outside companies, who haul their own animals. For the 2020 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo and the Texas rodeos that follow, Binion says they had some bucking horses and bulls brought down from Alberta, Canada.

“That’s almost the Antarctic,” Binion says. “It’s almost 3,000 miles and was about 40-below.”

Regardless of the weather, though, the Cervi Championship Rodeo’s attention to detail ensures that rodeo fans experience electrifying performances every time.

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The long-awaited Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine is less than a year away from welcoming its inaugural class in Fall 2021.

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With much anticipation, Texas Tech University marked the official establishment in 2018 of a school it has been waiting on for some 50 years. As the second school of veterinary medicine in the state, the School of Veterinary Medicine will address the need for veterinary services in rural and regional communities of Texas, and will expand access to affordable, world-class veterinary medical education for Texans.

“It might sound odd but being the second veterinary school in Texas is a very liberating thing,” says Guy Loneragan, BVSc, Ph.D., dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. “It means we get to narrow our focus more than if we were the only program in the state. If we were the only school, we would have to try and do everything; we would have to try to be something to everyone which is hard to achieve.”

With that liberating freedom, Loneragan says, the school will center on primarily rural and regional communities, access and affordability and on sustainability of livestock industries.

Since 1971, after approval from The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to establish a vet school, the Texas Tech University has been working off and on toward establishing the School of Veterinary Medicine. Then in 2014, a growing need for an additional veterinary school and opportunities to increase life-science research at Texas Tech marked the beginning of the

official planning for the school. While that initial THECB approval long since lapsed, the THECB approved the new proposed DVM program late in 2019.

Construction is on time, on track and on budget, Loneragan says. The main campus building has taken shape and can be seen from Northwest Amarillo.

“After so many years of refining the vet school plan, it’s so thrilling to see it take physical shape,” says Loneragan.“I didn’t think it possible to get so excited about seeing steel and concrete.”

Texas Tech University did not have the infrastructure in place for a school of veterinary medicine in Amarillo and had to build from the ground up, Loneragan explains, but that provided more freedom to design the facilities hand-in-hand with designing the curriculum.

“We could design the innovative, mission-focused curriculum and the building at the same time,” Loneragan says.“Our mission informs the curriculum.

The curriculum then informs the design of the facilities and the buildings are designed to efficiently and effectively enable delivery of the innovative curriculum. That is going to set us apart and provide the students, staff and faculty a unique and completely purpose-built experience.”

The school contains two main areas: the Amarillo Campus and Mariposa Station. The Amarillo Campus is a 185,200-square-foot building that’s divided into two learning wings — east and west — with two levels. The east wing

Construction is well under way — this image was taken in mid-August.

A camera stationed above the building site snaps a photo every 30 minutes. Once the project is complete, the photos will be turned into a video that catalogs the entire construction process. The school contains two main areas: the Amarillo Campus and Mariposa Station. The Amarillo Campus (shown above) is a 185,200-square-foot building that’s divided into two learning wings — east and west — with two levels. The east wing contains classrooms, office suites, faculty offices and graduate study and workrooms. The west wing is primarily dedicated to research and teaching lab spaces and contains specialty labs, surgery suites, small animal housing and much more.

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contains classrooms, office suites, faculty offices and graduate study and workrooms. The west wing is primarily dedicated to research and teaching lab spaces and contains specialty labs, surgery suites, small animal housing and much more.

Mariposa Station is located two miles northwest of the Amarillo Campus and consists of several buildings spanning more than nine acres. Mariposa Station includes a main building with a classroom and various support rooms, a clinical skills training facility, an arena, a covered training area and support buildings. Together, these structures are 85,000 square feet. Mariposa Station will serve primarily large animals.

Funding for the state-of-the-art school was made possible in February 2020 when the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents approved a $90 million budget. This, along with financial support from the city of Amarillo and other donors made the school possible.

“It was tremendous support that we received in the Amarillo community, the tremendous support we received from our state legislators, and from chambers (of commerce) all across West Texas, Lubbock in particular,” says Texas Tech University President Lawrence Schovanec.

Funding has also enabled the school to begin the faculty hiring process and the school is set to begin accepting student applications this October (2020).

“We’re very excited,” says Texas Tech University System Chancellor Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D.“We are right on schedule with the facilities, we’re actually ahead of schedule with some of our faculty hires, we’re ahead with some of our research hires, and the plan is for students to be able to apply from October to January, and we’ll be conducting interviews during that period and into the spring.”

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The first class to be accepted into the school will be roughly 60 students, notes Mitchell, who says that with a smaller group, kinks will be easier to work out. The goal is to grow to approximately 100 students per class over a couple of years. In addition, there will be graduate-level students — researchers and educators — enrolled in classes, which will increase the student population at the school to greater than 400.

Loneragan references the class size as well, noting how important the inaugural class will be for the School of Veterinary Medicine.

“We only ever get to have one first class,” he says, “and we are looking for students with a pioneering spirit to work with our faculty and staff to continue to build and refine our program. The first class will have the run of the building; they will have the faculty all to themselves. It is going to be very special to be part of that first class.”

Before the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine can accept students, the school must receive accreditation from the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA-COE). Loneragan and his team are fully engaged in the accreditation process and are anticipating beginning the application process this fall.

The school will fulfill more than just the need for veterinarians, it will benefit Texas Tech University as well. Mitchell says Texas Tech has already seen an increase in student interest and student enrollment since the veterinary school was approved.

“We’ve already seen an increased number of applications to the animal sciences program in CASNR (College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources),” he says,“And we expect to see more of that.”

With increased enrollment and interest in Texas Tech because of the school, Schovanec reiterates the true values of Texas Tech University.

“Texas Tech University was established to serve the western region of our state,” he explains. “Even though we have become very much a national research university with an international presence, much of what we do begins with our obligation to this part of the state.

“I think the vet school is a wonderful example that, even though Texas Tech has grown and enhanced its research status, we still take very seriously the philosophy that led to its establishment and happens to serve West Texas. And I don’t think you could find a better example of that but the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine.”

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MONTE L. MONROE, PH.D., TEXAS STATE HISTORIAN

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istory is a door that opens to the past, allowing people to see what already has taken place. This valuable view offers clues to the future.

Monte L. Monroe, Ph.D., archivist at the Texas Tech University Southwest Collection/ Special Collections Library (SWC/SCL) and the current Texas State Historian, appointed

by Gov. Greg Abbott, subscribes to the famous cautionary quote by philosopher George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

As Texas State Historian, Monroe’s role is to increase public awareness and knowledge of Texas history, as well as to encourage the teaching of state history in public schools. He gives presentations about Texas history and also consults with state leaders to promote it.

“It was a great honor for Monte to be named Texas State Historian,” says longtime coworker Jennifer Spurrier, Ed.D., associate dean of libraries for special collections and associate archivist.“It is actually an honor for the SWC/SCL, Texas Tech University and the West Texas region. Monte loves Texas history and the history of this region. I think it is important that they named an archivist, because it means they recognize the importance of saving and collecting history.”

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“I am an eclectic historian,” he says. “There’s hardly an aspect of the past that doesn’t appeal to me. I believe that people should nurture a sense of their personal history or genealogy, so as to gain a better notion of their own cultural background and of humanity as a whole.”

Monroe’s position at the SWC/SCL dovetails nicely with his appointed state position. He seeks every opportunity to spread the word about the archival enterprise and history. In fact, he says that his fascination with history started so long ago, he can’t even “put a finger” on when that was.

As with many people who fall in love with history, Monroe’s passion probably began by hearing old family stories. Growing up in Houston and Orange, Texas, Monroe would listen to his father and uncles, all veterans, discuss their World War II experiences.

The elder Monroe loved taking his sons to the San Jacinto Battleground and the Battleship Texas. His mother took the boys to museums often. She was a schoolteacher and principal.

Monroe’s maternal grandfather was C.H. Meriwether, Orange County sheriff. He was one of the lawmen present when the notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down in Louisiana. The stories his grandfather told Monroe about the duo and other famous criminals further stimulated his interest in history. Monroe realized how much he loved stories—both hearing them and telling them.

Monroe gravitated, throughout his life, to mentors and acquaintances with interesting experiences. During his schoolboy years, he was influenced by various teachers. His golf coach, Curtis Jacobs, served as a crew chief on one of the backup planes for the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Ag teacher and Future Farmers of America sponsor Reuben Stringer “was always mentoring us on road trips,” Monroe says. He produced one of the most successful programs in the state, where Monroe became a livestock judging champion and excelled in public speaking competition.

“When I went to college at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, I became reacquainted with my seventh-grade math teacher, Brooks Kennemer” he recalls.

“We used to stay up late at night, listening to stories his grandfather, ‘Daddy Holt,’ told about East Texas history.”

“I believe that people should nurture a sense of their personal history or genealogy, so as to gain a better notion of their own cultural background and of humanity as a whole.”

- Monte Monroe

Guests from Texas Tech at the investiture of Monte Monroe as Texas State Historian at the Texas State Capitol.

Front row, from left, are Russel Campbell, Laura Monroe, Mari Nicholson-Preuss, Gene Preuss, Monte Monroe, Evelyn Husband Thompson, David Hemphill, David Gracy and Sarah Monroe Sales. Back row, from left, are Alwyn Barr, David Murrah, Paul Carlson, Stan Cape, Chandler Keilberg Monroe, Alex Monroe and David Carr. Seated is Kent Hance.

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Monroe gives a historical presentation in Texas Senate Chamber following his investiture as Texas State Historian.

From left are Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos; Chancellor Emeritus Kent Hance, master of ceremonies; Monte Monroe and Laura Monroe. “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin’s portrait is behind Monroe.

He studied under Archie McDonald, Ph.D., to whom he became close as a professional historian. Monroe’s fraternity adviser Lloyd Collier, Ph.D., also a friend of McDonald’s, broadened Monroe’s horizons talking about Chinese history and about Rotary Club, which later became a mainstay for service during his adult life.

In college Monroe was a janitor at the Nacogdoches Courthouse and Jail. Trustees often followed him around, relating their jailhouse stories. After graduation, he worked for the Nacogdoches County Road Department.

Most of his coworkers were veterans who shared their recollections with him as well.

“I also worked at the Red Barn Steakhouse as a dishwasher, cook backup, and truck driver who picked up meat in Austin once a week. I’d work in the restaurant until closing time, then clean up,” he says.

Laura, his wife of 41 years, then-girlfriend and classmate, went with him to keep him awake on the night long drive. They stopped to read history markers and picnicked at historic sites.

Monroe was a bartender at a nightclub called“Snoopy’s.”

One night, he was working, and comedian Bob Hope, who was appearing on campus, came in and began talking and dancing. The next day, Monroe and some fraternity brothers went to the Fredonia Hotel to take Hope a school t-shirt and visited with him for an hour.

Monroe graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English literature, history and philosophy from SFA in 1978.

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he night Monte and Laura married they drove from Nacogdoches to Lubbock, where Laura was to enter Law School and Monte was to start a branch taekwondo school for his Master Kyo Song “Jon” Chu. Wade Thompson, Ed.D., gave him a job in the housing department at Texas Tech University. He became assistant area coordinator of Hulen/Clement and Wall/Gates Residence Halls and summer conference manager. His resident assistants became lifelong friends. Each achieved considerable success.

Then, after years of hearing fascinating stories about the past and also researching his own family, he decided he wanted to teach history. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate under Professors Alwyn Barr, Paul Carlson, David Murrah, Dan Flores, Brian Blakeley, Alan Kuethe and Don Walker. Monroe taught in the Department of History as an instructor or visiting assistant professor for 19 years.

“To this day there’s nothing I love more than driving across Texas with Drs. Barr and Carlson, talking about history and Texas Tech,” he says.“One thing I’ve always benefited from is having great mentors. If you’re willing to pay attention, they enrich and bolster your life.”

Another mentor who supported Monroe at every turn is David Gracy, Ph.D., who earned his doctorate in history from Texas Tech, served as SWC archivist and rose to become one of the most important archivists in the country, as well as a prominent Texas historian.

“I stand on the shoulders of all these great mentors,” Monroe says.

For example, his old SFA mentor Archie McDonald gave a stirring talk at the West Texas Historical Association meeting one year.

“It was a magical evening, as the door of the museum opened to reveal the windmills revolving and creaking as the sun set and as Archie spun his tale,” he says. “I sat next to noted western author Elmer Kelton. The vast story of Texas

At the Texas Tech University Provost’s Reception for State Historian Monroe in the Formby Room, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are, from left, Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope, Monroe, Michael Martin Murphey and the late Len Ainsworth, Ed.D. In Laura and Monte’s honor, Murphey sang “Geronimo’s Cadillac,” the first song the couple enjoyed together when they dated in college.

Texas State Rep. Andy Murr, a Texas Tech Law School graduate, with his mother, Jane Chandler, the daughter of WWII-era Texas Gov. Coke Stephenson, in the governor’s home office at Telegraph, Texas, review historical manuscripts donated to the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech.

“One thing I’ve always benefited from is having great mentors.

If you’re willing to pay attention, they enrich and bolster your life.”

- Monte Monroe

At the private opening of the “Fallen Heroes Exhibit” at the Atlantis Space Shuttle pavilion at the Kennedy Space Center are, from left, Evelyn Husband Thompson, widow of Columbia Commander Rick Husband, both Texas Tech graduates; NASA Engineer Michael Ciannelli; Laura Husband; Matthew Husband and Monroe. He stands by Commander Husband’s and Pilot Willie McCool’s panels.

J. B. Roberts, Jennifer Spurrier, the late Ramona Roberts and Monroe at the Roberts’ office, at the donation to the Southwest Collection of the riding saddle of the Japanese Commander on Iwo Jima, recovered at the end of the battle from the command tunnel, and gifted at that capture to Ramona’s cousin Lt. Leslie A. Parish, Jr, who gave it to her.

At a reception honoring Lauro Cavazos, Ph.D., at the National Ranching Heritage Center are, from left, Terri and Chancellor Robert Duncan, Peggy and Lauro Cavazos and Janell and Tio Kleberg. (Photo by Monte Monroe.)

Monroe, left, with one of his mentors, Professor Archie McDonald of Stephen F. Austin University, at the East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting.

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Mastering Another Field Before his academic career, Monroe earned acclaim as a World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) International Master Instructor who ultimately served as secretary general of the Pan American Taekwondo Union.

“I first began studying martial arts in Orange, Texas,” Monroe says.

“In college, I taught taekwondo while studying under Kyo Song ‘Jon’ Chu. Sadly, Chu died at the age of 40.”

Chu wanted the day Monroe took the black belt exam to be memorable, so he insisted that Monroe test on his wedding day. He earned the coveted black belt that morning and got married that evening.

Following Chu’s death, Monroe and his classmates affiliated with Dong Ja Yang, Ph.D., who led one of the top taekwondo programs in the country at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Yang introduced Monroe to the international scene, where he became one of the first ten U.S. International Referees.

A turning point for Monroe was when he was selected to referee at the 1986 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

“Near the end of the championships, I was center referee for a match between Korea and Spain on primetime Spanish national TV,” he says. “The Spanish competitor incurred a penalty for pretending injury, claiming he was kicked in the face. He sat down in protest, and I was compelled to call the bout in favor of the Korean competitor, who was ahead in points.

“After the competition, the Spanish International Referee came to me in tears, saying, ‘You’ve destroyed my country.’ The highest ranking Korean Grand Master, who had criticized me regarding another bout, told me I made the appropriate call in this instance.

The police escorted us out of the building. People were throwing debris at us and pelted our bus with bottles and food.”

“When I arrived at our hotel, Dr. Yang requested that I come meet with WTF president and Olympic Committee member, Dr. Un Yong Kim. I met with Dr. Kim. He told me, ‘You made the proper call.’

“The next morning the Spanish Organizing Committee removed all the computers in protest. “Dr. Kim and the WTF Arbitration Board convinced Spain to finish the championship. Later the Spanish International Referee, who criticized me the previous evening, admitted I’d made the right call and apologized for what he’d said.”

“For international diplomatic relations the committee awarded two Gold Medals, one to Korea and one to Spain. The WTF used the video of that match to train referees for years. That single episode made my reputation.”

Out of thousands of referees worldwide, Monroe became one of 27 referees and the first native-born American to officiate at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. He served a second time at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992.

He remains the only American to referee Taekwondo in two Olympics.

“I retired after the Barcelona Olympic Games to raise my family and to complete graduate studies.”

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Monte Monroe executes a jump turn kick from a standing position to student Robert Garcia during a taekwondo demonstration at the Lubbock YMCA in 1980.

Monroe administers the Referee’s Oath to the officials and athletes of the sixth Pan American Taekwondo Championships in 1988 in Lima, Peru.

Kim Sorenson, Monroe and Gustavo Portello outside the Olympic Family Village, prior to embarking for the taekwondo event at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. These three were among 27 World Taekwondo Federation International Referees selected to officiate the event.

The JA Ranch Reunion. The legendary Charles Goodnight constructed the historic ranch house for John and Cornelia Adair near Palo Duro Canyon.

and her diverse peoples mesmerized the listeners. One day I hope to captivate an audience like Archie did that evening.

“Becoming Southwest Collection Archivist was the greatest opportunity of my life,” he says.“I’ve met so many people, including ranchers like Ninia Ritchie, owner of the historic JA Ranch, whose records are in the SWC — cowboys, astronauts, and sports figures.”

“Once pediatrician Robert Carr sent me to interview his brother, former Texas House Speaker and Attorney General Waggoner Carr, about the John F. Kennedy assassination. Two weeks later, I saw Waggoner at Rotary, a guest of his other brother, Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr. I was introducing guests and when Warlick merely said, ‘This is my brother Waggoner.’ I told the audience who Waggoner Carr was and that he and Gov. Preston Smith, also a Rotary member, had run against one another in the Democratic gubernatorial race.

Both men stood and waved at one another across the room. After the meeting, I was privileged to join them during the final conversation between those two political giants.”

Monroe also befriended Lauro Cavazos, Ph.D., who served as president of Texas Tech and the Medical School, and as the first Hispanic U.S. Secretary of Education, as well as his wife, Peggy.

“In 2016, I stood with Dr. Cavazos at commencement as he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Texas Tech. The previous evening Chancellor Robert Duncan, King Ranch heir and Texas Tech Alumnus Tio Kleberg and I presented to the board of regents a program about Cavazos’ heritage and contributions. Dr. Cavazos and Peggy are encyclopedias of Tech and Texas lore.”

Recently, Chancellor Emeritus Kent R. Hance and Monroe were inducted into the prestigious Philosophical Society of Texas, founded

by Sam Houston and others to study the future of the Lone Star State.

“The living embodiment of Texas and U.S. history, Hance, in 2018 served as master of ceremonies when I was sworn in as State Historian in the Capitol,” Monroe says.“He is a strong supporter of everything affiliated with Texas Tech.”

As archivist and historian Monroe, has been privileged to befriend numerous other interesting individuals, including Evelyn Husband Thompson, widow of Space Shuttle Columbia commander Col. Rick Husband, a Texas Tech graduate; Drs. Audrey and Barry McCool, parents of pilot Astronaut Willie McCool. He also is friends with Professor Kaz Fujita, the son of Ted Fujita, Ph.D., who developed the Fujita scale for measuring tornados; and the family of World War II-era Texas Gov. Coke Stevenson, Jane and Fred Chandler, and son, Texas Rep. Andrew Murr, all Texas Tech grads who donated Stevenson’s papers to the SWC/SCL. Musician and songwriter Michael Martin Murphey is a close friend, too.

“Murph donated his important collection to the Crossroads of Music Archive within the SWC/SCL, is one of our strongest advocates and helps us document the Texas Cowboy Christmas Ball,” Monroe says. “I’m also working with Murph’s wife, Apalachicola Creek Chief Cindy, to preserve the history of the tribe who scouted for Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812 and who Sam Houston brought to Texas and granted lands to.”

For Monroe, people and their stories are what make life interesting. He certainly never has met a stranger. Yet one special person has been by his side throughout—his wife, Laura. In turn, he has supported her in her career as an attorney. Their family includes their children, Alex and wife, Chandler Keilberg Monroe, and Sarah and husband, Texas Tech law student Matthew Sales, all TTU grads.

If it’s really true that people who do not know history will repeat mistakes from the past, thank goodness there are people such as Monroe to remind us of what has come before.

At the JA Ranch house, during a collection development trip to the JA Annual Reunion are, from left, Monroe, Abel Ramirez, JA Ranch owner Ninia Ritchie and the late Brenda Haes,.

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Born in 1936, Motherless Barbara Ann Hinsley was

Raised by College Students As Texas Technological College’s first “practice baby,” she helped home economics students learn about parenting firsthand.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but at what was then Texas Technological College, it only took one house.

The Home Management House, which opened in 1928, offered a high-intensity, hands-on education for home economics students. For nine weeks, students lived in what they called the “practice house” full-time with a resident instructor. They practiced cooking, cleaning, gardening, doing household crafts, creating meal plans and serving as hostesses for organized functions – in short, all the things they would have to do to run their own households one day.

In 1936, they added mothering to that list of duties.

Texas Tech home economics students pose on the front porch of the Home Management House with their practice baby. Image courtesy of the Southwest Collection/ Special Collections Library.

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By Glenys Young Images courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

Callan.

The Texas Technological College Home Management House.

Baby Barbara at about 10 months old, held by Sannie Callan.

Baby Barbara On Jan. 22, 1936, Lubbock’s first doctor, Dr. M. C. Overton, delivered into the world a beautiful, redheaded baby girl. But her mother, Willie Hinsley, died during childbirth. Her suddenly widowed father, Sherman Hinsley, was a bricklayer barely getting by — it was the Great Depression, after all — and he already had eight other children to care for, now single-handedly. He knew he couldn’t keep her, but he also wasn’t willing to give the baby up for adoption. Taking pity on the family, Overton reached out to a friend for help.

Suzanna Callan, who went by “Sannie,” was a professor in the College of Home Economics and the brand new, three-weeks-onthe-job director of the Home Management House. In meeting with her, Overton offered to provide free medical care for the child if the students in the Home Management House would care for her. After meeting the baby girl, Callan agreed.

“Miss Callan decided the time had come where we needed to have a baby in the Home Management House for us to have the experience of living with a baby,” recalled Pauline Bean, who was a student in the house when the infant arrived.“We got the first baby that was ever brought as part of the Home Management program.

This was a real eye-opener, and believe me, it was hard to go to school when it was your time to take care of the baby, but we did it.”

At 2 weeks of age, the child joined the household, where the students named her Barbara Ann Hinsley. Sherman Hinsley had picked out a different name, but for whatever reason, Barbara was the one that stuck.

A college news release from February 1936 paints a vivid picture of Barbara’s first weeks in the Home Management House.

“Motherless child of a local family, she has seven doting coeds to bathe her, warm her bottle and turn her on the other side when she cries. Diapers and baby dresses hang on the clothes-line in the back yard, visitors with colds are banned, and the best lead for conversation at the home economics building is,‘How is the baby?’

“Fugue, a big silky dog belonging to Miss Sannie Callan, is dour these days, resenting the transfer of attention once paid to him. The

entire household is demoralized. The students’ office on the first floor has been converted into a baby’s nursery. Where the telephone once stood, before it was relegated to the butler’s pantry, now stand soap, baby powder, oil, brush and cotton. A cot has been moved into the nursery beside a bassinet.

“Barbara is being brought up according to modern ideas and a strict schedule. Chiefly, she sleeps and eats, and though her ‘mothers’ insist she is a ‘good baby,’ visitors can testify that she is not neglecting the development of her lung capacity.”

Now 84, Barbara Munselle has fond memories of Callan and the stories she told about Barbara’s early life.

“Miss Callan always took care of me, my whole growing-up life,” Munselle said.“She wanted to adopt me, but my father wouldn’t let her.

“She got him a job as a gardener at the college so he could walk into the practice house and see me. One day he walked in, picked me up and took me outside for a walk, and the girls all ran to Miss Callan saying, ‘Somebody stole our baby!’ She said, ‘No, he didn’t steal the baby — he’s the baby’s father.’”

Because she lived in the “practice house,” Barbara became known as the “practice baby.” She stayed in the house full time, and students were entirely responsible for her care – in sickness and health, through middle-of-the-night feedings, diaper changes, spit-ups and everything else that comes with a baby.

She learned to walk there. She learned to talk there.

For their part, the students learned what it was to be a parent: to care for a child, to watch her grow and learn, to celebrate her achievements and milestones, to kiss her bruises. Each student took a turn as the primary parent, taking charge of fulfilling her needs and recording their observations of her personality, habits and development.

For a child who almost had no mother, Barbara had 52.

“I had so much love and so much care,” Munselle said. “I was very, very fortunate.”

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Growing up Of course, none of the student mothers could hold a candle to Miss Callan.

At age 3, Barbara left the Home Management House to stay with an aunt and uncle on their farm in Bledsoe, about 70 miles west of Lubbock. Despite the distance, Callan traveled back and forth often to see Barbara, bringing her back to Lubbock to spend time with her siblings or have her annual checkup with Dr. Overton.

“In those days, that was a long way,” Munselle said.

“Miss Callan kept me a lot of times in the summer, and she only lived two blocks from where my father lived, so she made sure that I played with my brothers and sisters.”

When Barbara was 13, enough of her older siblings had left home that there was finally room for her in her father’s house, a small, two-bedroom adobe structure. She explained that, years earlier, he had dug an enormous hole in the ground for a basement, then used the dirt to build bricks for the rest of the structure. Her three brothers slept in the basement, while all six sisters lived upstairs.

Even after moving in with her biological family, Barbara remained close with Callan, who continued to play a mothering role.

“She kept in touch with me until I got married,” Munselle said,“and she even bought my wedding dress.”

Callan continued to teach in the College of Home Economics until her retirement in April 1959. She moved to California, to be closer to her sister, and lived there until her death in September 1983.

Barbara and her husband, Bill Munselle, eventually also ended up in California, taking along their son, who now runs a vineyard there, and daughter, who is now a cross-country truck driver. After Bill died in 2014, Barbara moved into a house adjacent to her son’s vineyard. She’s still living independently and enjoying the closeness of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

“I’ve had a wonderful life,” she said. “I’ve traveled to Germany and Hawaii. My husband and I took our own boat up the inside passage to Alaska, and I even learned to fly an airplane. I’ve had a really full, wonderful life.”

"Miss Callan kept me a lot of times in the summer, and she only lived two blocks from where my father lived, so she made sure that I played with my brothers and sisters."

- BARBARA MUNSELLE Top: Barbara and her older sister, Reta.

Middle: Barbara was very close to her sister Reta.

Bottom: Barbara Hinsley Munselle.

Photos courtesy of Munselle Family.

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In addition to the Home Management House, the College of Home Economics also operated a nursery school that served as both a childcare facility for the campus community and a lab course for home economics students focusing on child development. When it opened in the spring of 1938, under Callan’s watchful eye, it had 24 children who were between two-and-a-half and four years old.

A nursery school with 24 children opened in 1938. Image courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

Baby Marie was the practice baby in 1942. Image courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

Beyond Barbara Barbara Hinsley may have been the first practice baby raised in the Home Management House, but she certainly wasn’t the last.

“They didn’t always have one,” said Barbara Davis, who lived in the Home Management House as a student in the early 1950s. “Every semester didn’t have a baby, I think it just had to be if they could. Because, I mean, who would want to keep their baby with a bunch of girls that didn’t know anything?”

Perhaps surprisingly, quite a few people shared their children. By 1951, 18 practice babies had gone through the program, ranging in age from 2 weeks to 1 year, and most staying in the house for a year. There were times when no child was available, but the succession of children that did come through were adored by their many “mothers” and afforded the kind of constant attention most children couldn’t receive within traditional households.

For some, their parents were temporarily unable to care for them. Most were the infants of students and faculty members who were willing to share their children for a short time. At least one was an orphan.

Parents signed a contract with the College of Home Economics to ensure that the child would be properly cared for and the parents would not interfere with the baby’s daily schedule, as set by the students.

Davis remembers getting in trouble with then-house mother Lola Drew after giving the practice baby a bottle in the middle of the night.

“She was a precious little baby, I didn’t want her to cry,” Davis recalled.“I picked her up and patted her and

talked to her and she was still just squalling her eyes out. I don’t know what was wrong with her, maybe she had a stomachache, but I just went downstairs and got her a bottle, heated it and gave it to her. I don’t know what woke Miss Drew up, but she came in there while I was doing it, and she grabbed that baby and the bottle and she said,‘You can’t give this to the baby. It’s not a scheduled time for the bottle. She’ll be waking up this time of night every night if you give her a bottle at this time.’

“She took the baby and the bottle, and the baby went back to sleep. I don’t remember hearing any more out of her that night, anyhow. She was a good little baby.”

Within its first 15 years, the program evolved. Whereas Barbara Hinsley had lived in the house full time for three years, by 1951, the practice babies returned home to their parents for weekends and official holidays. It wasn’t long before the duration of each baby’s daily stay varied on a case-by-case basis, depending on the child’s home situation. The children of local students and faculty members, for instance, sometimes only spent part of the day in the house and then returned home for evenings and weekends with their parents.

By 1959, less than 1 percent of home economics programs nationwide were using practice babies. While other universities – including Baylor University, Sam Houston State University, Texas Wesleyan University and the University of Texas – reported having a practice baby at one time or another, only Texas Tech was able to consistently support a practice baby for such a continuous period.

By the early 1960s, however, the program had transformed into a daytime-only residency program that cared for a student’s child. It was discontinued altogether by the end of the decade.

The College of Home Economics expanded significantly throughout the 1980s, thanks in large part to its leadership, and in 1993, it was renamed the College of Human Sciences. The nursery school would later grow into the Child Development Research Center, as we know it today.

This story first appeared online in “Texas Tech Today,” March 5, 2020.

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Whether you live in Lubbock or just come back to visit, look for a feature called “Gown + Town” in each issue. This section highlights a special place or event in the Lubbock area that mustn’t be missed.

Silent but Strong: The Silent Wings Museum THE PLANES MAY HAVE BEEN SILENT, BUT THEIR PRESENCE WAS STRONG.

BY JEAN ANN CANTORE | PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, SILENT WINGS MUSEUM A VITAL PART OF THE United States’ military’s role in World War II was the United

States Military Glider Program. Often overlooked, this important part of the U.S. Army Air Corps, the gliders known as “Silent Wings,” played an integral part in getting Allied troops behind enemy lines.

The Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, which opened in October 2002, preserves this important military program’s history and legacy. Visitors have an unforgettable experience when they stop by the facility to learn about this important part of American history and its vital role in getting American troops behind enemy lines in operations against Axis forces.

In the “Introduction: AAF Manual 50-17, Pilot Training Manual for the CG-4A Glider, 1944,” pilots are issued a charge: “You have an important job – that of carrying Airborne Troops and Equipment behind enemy lines, over unfamiliar territory, and into strange landing areas. It’s a big responsibility, and demands your best.”

Gliders were used to deliver troops, equipment, and even mules in eight major Airborne operations of World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces Troop Carrier glider pilots carried Army Airborne Glider Infantry Regiments into the combat zones of Europe, Sicily, Burma, and the Philippines.

Museum visitors learn about these military cargo gliders and the pilots who flew them through films and photographs. Exhibits contain artifacts that illustrate the story of the WWII Military Glider Program. A reproduction of the glider pilots’ barracks provides a taste of what life was like at training The original Lubbock Airport houses the museum.

Two CG-4A gliders land at South Plains Army Airfield, c.1943-1944.

Modern images of the Silent Wings Museum building and exhibits.

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Museum visitors learn about these military cargo gliders and the pilots who flew them through films and photographs.

“The glider pilots — of whom there are just a handful left, all over the age of 95 — were very proud of their service and their unique role as glider pilots,” says Sharon McCullar, curator of the museum. “They, even in their older years, were very quick to make one aware that they flew gliders on a one-way trip, and that took GUTS!”

locations such as South Plains Army Air Field here F/O Joseph Andrews leaning on a in Lubbock. Of course, planes are housed there, rope . Rope used to hold the roof including aircraft related to the training of glider of the tarpaper-covered wooden barracks building down against pilots and of course that restored WACO CG-4A West Texas high winds. Lubbock, glider that the retired pilots acquired bring the Texas, South Plains Army Air Field. training and combat experience to life with the idea of creating a place to commemorate their important role in World War II. The museum also offers special programs and activities for children. The artifact and archival collection contains material unique to the history and study of the WWII Military Glider Program and informs the exhibits and programs at the Silent Wings Museum and facilitates research on the U.S. Military Glider Program.

The “Silent Wings” carried infantry personnel, supplies and ammunition and often transported vehicles or other large cargo. The glider could carry its own weight in cargo. The CG-4A weighed around 3,750 pounds empty and often carried that much or more in cargo or troops, up to 9,000 pounds gross weight on some missions.

Cargo could be 13 troops in addition to the pilot and co-pilot, a 75-mm Howitzer artillery piece and ammunition, a Jeep or trailer, or even three mules.

Anything needed on the battlefield that could fit in the cargo compartment might have been transported into the combat zone by glider.

The Weaver Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio (WACO) was the first company contracted to develop a glider design and to finish a prototype glider that met all requirements. The 16 U.S. companies contracted to build gliders completed a total of 13,909 WACO CG-4As before World War II ended. Gliders flew in many attacks, including the Battle of the Bulge and D-Day. They went all over the world during the war.

The pilots who flew these “flying boxcars” as they were known, were brave and skilled. Even the flight takeoff was harrowing, as a tow plane pulled the glider to its landing zone, some flights were more than two hours to the combat zone, and then disconnected the silent flyer. At that point, the glider pilot’s knowledge and instincts had to kick in to guide the glider to a smooth landing in the targeted area.

THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II Glider Pilots Association founded the museum in 1984, having collected artifacts and archival material to preserve the unique legacy of their service.

Several World War II glider pilots in the Dallas area discovered that a tire store in Fresno, California, had bought a WACO CG-4A and glider as military surplus to put on its roof as an advertisement. The retired glider pilots acquired and restored the glider as a focal point of their museum.

The restored glider made its first appearance at a glider pilot reunion in Dallas in 1979 and then was moved to Terrell, Texas, where the first Silent Wings Museum opened in 1984. The National World War II Glider Pilots Association decided the museum facility needed a permanent location. The City of Lubbock provided the renovated old Lubbock Airport facility (1950 to 1974) and operates the Silent Wings Museum as a Municipal Museum.

The location is fitting, as many glider pilots trained at the former South Plains Army Air Field, which is where more than 5,800 of the 7,000 glider pilots completed Advanced Glider Training for the CG-4A and earned their G-Wings.

In a moving speech to the Glider Pilots preparing to carry troops and heavy equipment in Burma, at night, into occupied territory on March 5, 1944, the words of Col. Philip Cochran, 1st Air Commandos, Burma, summed up the significance of the glider pilots’ role: “Now tonight, your whole reason for being, your whole existence, is going to be jammed up into a couple of minutes, and it’s just going to balance it there, and it’s going to take your character to bring it through…

Tonight you are going to find out you’ve got a soul.”

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A Campus Icon

BY JENNIFER SPURRIER, Ed.D., ASSOCIATE DEAN OF LIBRARIES, SOUTHWEST COLLECTION/SPECIAL COLLECTION LIBRARY AS WE APPROACH THE CENTENNIAL of Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech University, we look back on the beginnings of the institution. At the Southwest Collection/Special Collections there are materials available documenting the history of Texas Tech. There is much to remember over the past decades (almost century), people, buildings, academic accomplishments, sports, various events, but one thing that has always stood out on this campus is the Dairy Barn. The building was one of the first seven built on campus. In the June 1924 Board of Directors minutes there is reference to sketches drawn for the construction. Several contributed to the design and working layout. Board meetings from 1925 reflect that the main architect was Wyatt C. Hedrick. Dean Leidigh of the School of Agriculture and Professor W. L. Stangel, the lone faculty member over animal husbandry, both contributed to the project. Stangel was allowed to select the location. Construction started in 1925, and the barn was ready for use by 1926.

Students were allowed to bring their own cows for use in the dairy program. This could help students earn funds for college. According to the Texas Technological College October 1925 Bulletin, students were “not to exceed three dairy cows” and there was a total of 40 stanchions. The dairy manufacturing program was very successful at the new institution, with products from the program being delivered to campus and other customers.

Over time, the barn continued to be an important part of the School of Agriculture for students. The Dairy Barn was the perfect classroom for learning about the dairy manufacturing industry. In 1930, a fire due to an unattended boiler being left on (some sources report due to a broken steam valve), did some damage and

also killed several cows. At the new school, there was plenty of space and there were corrals, pens and necessary storage, but as the campus herd grew, space mattered and students were no longer allowed to bring their own animals. In 1946, a milking parlor and observation room were added. Another incident in 1958, involving transformers and lightning, also resulted in a fire and the loss of several cows. The program moved forward until 1965-1966. At that time, the dairy program moved to another location (opening up space for another building) and the Dairy Barn was no longer used as originally intended.

What to do with the Dairy Barn? Initially, the abandoned barn was used as a storage facility. As the college became a university, some suggested that the barn should be torn down to make way for other uses. Texas Tech was seeing continued growth and the once open spaces were now occupied by buildings, but more were needed. Others felt that the Dairy Barn was historically and architecturally important to the campus and should remain as part of campus.

Various efforts to save the Dairy Barn have occurred over the past 50 years, but considerations for removal also continued. There were proposals to renovate it in both the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s, there was a Student Association Dairy Barn Renovation Committee. Arch Lamb, founder of the Saddle Tramps, led efforts preserve the barn and silo. Lamb and others over the years raised money for restoration efforts. Students, alumni and interested others offered suggestions for renovations, preservation and repurposing. In 1992, the Texas Technological College Dairy Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which is dedicated to listing historic buildings and places deemed worth preserving. The Dairy Barn was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 2015. In 2016, a Texas State Historical marker was placed by the barn and silo.

Now, because of the efforts of a lot of dedicated people, the Dairy Barn will be around for the centennial. So many people’s hard work and determination over the past 50 years has contributed to saving the barn and silo. The restoration project means that the Dairy Barn will remain part of the campus’ past, present, and future.

Materials used for this article came from SWC/SCL reference files, University Archives collections, SWC collections, and SWC/SCL photograph collections.

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THE DAIRY BARN TODAY

BY JENNIFER RITZ

FOR DECADES IT HAS BEEN on the wish list of many: a total renova-

tion of the Dairy Barn. The $3.5 million overhaul was recently completed and the results are another breathtaking addition to the Texas Tech campus. The project, which launched in November 2019, included a renovation and conversion of 8,000 square feet of interior space, including the creation of studio spaces, a display area and event space. There are two floors, the second being the former hayloft.

The barn’s exterior was also refurbished and included installation of a new roof, renovation of the existing deteriorated windows, new exterior doors, stucco repair and painting of the soffits and trim. The barn’s designation as a Texas Historic Landmark required the exterior design to adhere to the original plans to ensure authenticity.

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Mr. Bristen ’15 & Mrs. Sarah Phillips Mrs. Cynthia Pogue ’77 Ms. Loran Polson ’13 Mr. Jim & Mrs. Janice Posey ’63 Mr. Dwayne & Mrs. Misty Pounds ’92 Dr. Steve ’82 & Mrs. Teresa Presley Ms. Joy Prince-Holmes ’94 Mr. Jason ’86 & Mrs. Jill Pumpelly Mr. Randy ’84 & Mrs. Kaye Randle Mr. Thomas ’08 & Mrs. Morgan Randolph ’08 Mrs. Lisa Raphael ’90 Dr. Marshall Reddick ’71 Mrs. Barbara Renfro ’68 Ms. Judy Rhodes ’71 Ms. Tiffany Ritchie Mr. Jason & Dr. Davinia Rizzo ’02 Mr. Drew Robertson ’15 Mr. Brett Robinson ’83 Mr. Michael Rockefeller ’96 Ms. Aimee Roe ’10 The Honorable Randall ’74 & Mrs. Lois Rogers Mrs. Vanessa Rosa-Kubik ’13

Dr. Patrick Rucker ’82 & Dr. Karyl Lyne ’94 Mr. David ’91 & Mrs. Bendi Saindon Ms. Sarah Sanders ’08 Mr. David & Mrs. Phyllis Sarkaria ’86 Marcelo Schmidt, Ph.D. ’13 Mr. Mark Schulte Mr. Arnold Schwertner ’73 Mr. Edward ’93 & Mrs. Janeth Sears ’08 Mr. Gregory ’86 Segura & Mr. John Matthews Ms. Shari Sellers ’83 Mr. James & Mrs. Cindy Shelton Mr. Jake ’61 & Mrs. Sarrah Sides Mr. Travis ’12 & Mrs. Kelsey Sinclair Mr. Virgil Slentz ’59 Mr. David ’72 & Mrs. Janice Sloan Ms. Cecilia Smith ’80 Mr. Daniel Smith Mr. Ronnie ’68 & Mrs. Jean Smith Mr. Larry Smith Dr. Jeremy & Dr. Gina Smyrl ’07 Mr. Parker Smyrl Mr. Zachary Sowell ’01 Mrs. Verna Spikes ’79

Mr. Jerry ’67 & Mrs. Beth Sprayberry Mrs. Nancy Stringfellow ’72 Kelli C. Stumbo JD ’14 Mr. Krishnakumar Sukumaran Nair ’87 & Ms. Bindoo Krishnakumar Mrs. Mary A. Terrazas ’76 Mr. Shane ’99 & Ms. Heather Terrell ’03 Mr. William ’70 & Mrs. Carol Terry Mr. David ’85 & Mrs. Kristin Tesmer Mr. Ronald ’61 & Mrs. Jeweldine Thompson Mr. Michael ’13 & Mrs. Olivia Thompson ’12 Mr. James Johnson ’14 & Ms. Paige Thrash Mr. Ty ’04 & Mrs. Lea Thurman Mr. Michael & Mrs. Elizabeth Tomko ’97 Mr. Jason ’99 & Mrs. Stephanie Trook ’01 Mr Dane & Mrs. Carol Tune ’69 Mr. Matt & Mrs. MeMe Turner ’08 Mr. Brendan Tynan ’10 Mr. Gerry Ulrich & Lt. Col. Michael Holmes ’95 Mr. Richard ’00 & Mrs. Christi Urrutia Mr. James ’59 & Mrs. Pat Valliant Dr. Mark ’97 & Mrs. Donna Vining ’96 Mr. George ’59 & Mrs. Marilyn Waldrop

Ms. Diana Walker ’01 Mr. Charles ’17 & Mrs. Haven Walker ’19 Mr. Kenneth Wallace ’92 Mr. Andrew & Mrs. Stacia Watson ’97 Dr. Doyle Watts ’75 Ms. Sarrean White ’12 Ms. Maxanne Whitehead ’10 Mrs. Helen Wilder ’57 Sgt. Ashley Wilhelm’07 Ms. Teddi Wilkinson ’18 Mr. Dennis Willett ’68 Mr. Brian & Mrs. Michelle Wilson ’10 Cynthia Wimberly, Ph.D. ’06 Mr. Russell Windham ’86 Mr. Bruce Wiswell ’87 Mr. Michael & Mrs. Elizabeth Woodard Mr. Jack & Mrs. Marilyn Woods ’60 Mr. Robert & Dr. Sarah Wright ’75 Mr. Terry ’97 & Mrs. Camila Wright ’96 Mr. John ’11 & Mrs. Jessica Wurzbach Mr. Fumiko Yamamoto & Ms. Jamie Jones ’87

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MATADOR MEMORIES: A TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ORAL HISTORY PROJECT EVERY RED RAIDER HAS A story, and every

story is unique. What could be better than sharing your stories with fellow Red Raiders? That’s why we have been collecting stories of alumni in their own words for Matador Memories: A Texas Tech Alumni Association Oral History Project. Your memories will be preserved in a book that celebrates the impact Texas Tech University has had on your lives and who you are today. If you haven’t shared your memories yet, the Texas Tech Alumni Association wants to hear and share them with fellow Red Raiders.

With our limited resources, we’d never be able to tackle a project of this size. By partnering with PCI, we’ve been able to access their trained staff of real, live human beings who are excited to listen to what you have to share. PCI will also help collect and assemble the stories into the Matador Memories book that we can share with all Red Raiders. The PCI team will collect stories until Oct. 9, 2020. The book of collected alumni stories will be published and delivered in Spring 2021.

Various book packages are offered and include TTAA-branded gifts such as a blanket and pullover. You are also able to bundle your TTAA membership into the package. Although we appreciate every membership and book purchase, you do not have to buy anything to participate in the project. Matador Memories is a way for alumni to engage and re-connect with our alma mater through storytelling and a way for TTAA to preserve these stories for years to come.

The project has proven to be incredibly successful not only for collecting the memories of Red Raiders, but also for membership and data collection. Alumni should have received postcards and email communication beginning April 10. In all, more than 10,000 stories have been collected thus far, more than 45,000 alumni records have been updated and we have received 800 new memberships in the process.

As part of this project, we have helped alumni to stay connected to Texas Tech. PCI will help us collect updated contact information from those of you who may have moved and inadvertently lost touch with your alma mater.

We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you regarding your memories of “the school we love so dearly!”

Here are a few examples of the responses given by our amazing alumni from different generations:

“After serving in the Army in Oklahoma, North Texas and Mexico, I had a strong desire to attend Texas Tech for my bachelor’s degree. I couldn’t afford the move, so it was extremely exciting and rewarding when Tech offered a master’s degree online. I was already a police lieutenant in the Houston area. After earning my Texas Tech degree, I began teaching psychology courses at a regional junior college. Additionally, my plan for the degree was to provide some type of faith-based counseling for adults and older adults after retirement. Texas Tech is both an extremely prestigious university and an outstanding representative for Texas in the field of academics.” – John, ’16 “My experience at Texas Tech gave me the foundation to build a strong scientific career. I used to teach at a university, and then I transitioned to running a national research program. I am now running the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. I lead all the research and I’ve been here for 14 years.” – Mandy, ’94 “Back in the day, I was looking for a good orchestral music program. Of all the schools I touched base with, Texas Tech had the best for me to become an orchestra teacher. I made several friendships through the music program.

In my junior year, I became the orchestra librarian. That meant keeping the music in order and making sure all of the instrumentalists had their music when we went on tour. In the homeschool scene, I taught orchestra, band, and choir. There was a lot that I used as far as my music training from Texas Tech.” – Mina, ’78

You can find out more information about the project at www.texastechalumni.org/matadormemories.

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2020 Challenge BECAUSE OF COVID-19, THE MAY AND AUGUST 2020 GRADUATING CLASSES WERE NOT ABLE TO WALK AT COMMENCEMENT. We appreci-

ate the generosity of many renewing members who have responded to the 2020 Challenge by sponsoring one or more first-year TTAA memberships for our 2020 graduates. The donors listed at right have simply added $20 (or more) to their annual membership in honor of this year’s graduating class.

For more information ab out this challenge, please contact Curt L a n g fo rd , p re s i d e n t & C E O, a t curt.langford@ttu.edu.

DONOR AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS SUPPORTED MR. TREVOR & MRS. TAWNY ALLEN 1 MS. NORMA LOUISE ANDERSON 1 MR. JOHN & MRS. KIMBERLY ARRICK 1 MR. CULLIN & MRS. KIMBERLY BACAK 2 MR. JOHN BENTON 1 MR. ROBERT BENTZ 1 MR. WILLIAM & MRS. LAURA BOON 1 MR. JIMMY & MRS. BETH BRIDGES 2 MR. EUGENE & MRS. JUANITA CEDILLO 1 MR. PRESTON & MRS. DIANA CHAPEL 1 MR. RAMON & MRS. DEBORAH CHAVEZ 1 MR. JAY & MRS. FLOY COLEMAN 1 MR. MARTIN & MRS. LORIE COVARRUBIAS 1 MR. BRIAN & MRS. NANCY GOSSETT 5 MR. BILL & MRS. JANIS HOLMES 1 MR. JAMES HURST 1 MR. TERRY & SHERI HURST 1 DR. LINDA JOBE 1 MRS. KATHY JOWERS MR. JAMES & MRS. SUSAN KERBOW 1 MR. MIKE & MRS. JULIA KERR 1 MR. RON & MRS. VICKI L. LEACH 1 MR. MATTHEW & MRS. JESSICA LONG 1 MR. BRENT & MRS. JENNIFER MAGERS 1 MR. GREGG & MRS. PEGGY MAXWELL 20 MR. ARTHUR MARTIN 1

MR. EVERETT & MRS. GAYLE MCCULLOUGH 1 MR. TREY & MRS. AMY MILLER 1 MR. JIMMY & MRS. JEAN NEWMAN 5 MR. BOBBY NICKELSON 1 MR. BEADE & MRS. DARLENE NORTHCUT 25 DR. CHARLES “CAL” & MRS. SHERRY NUNNALLY 1 MR. GARY PETERSON 1 MR. ROBERT & MRS. MARSHA PETTIT 2 MR. DENNIS E. & MRS. DONNA J. PRUSS 3 MRS. DONNA RIDGWAY 1 MR. RICHARD & MRS. MARIBEL RIOS 1 MR. DON ROBY 1 MR. KYLE & MRS. JANET RUSSELL 1 MR. GRADY & MRS. KIM SIMMONS 1 MR. CHRISTOPHER & MRS. LEA SURLES 1 MISS ANTOINETTE TEJEDA 1 MR. JACKSON & MRS. DIXIE THORNTON 1 MR. WESTON VICTOR 1 MRS. BERYL WADDELL 1 MR. DAVID & MRS. JEAN WEBB 1 MR. TONY & MRS. CINDY WHITEHEAD 1 MR. STEVE WILLIAMSON 1 MR. MATT & MRS. LEE ANN WILMETH 1 MR. JONATHAN & MRS. ANNE WITHERSPOON 1 MR. BILL & MRS. BARBARA WOMBLE 5

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Students show the varied attire found on campus in the “Town and Country” section of the 1970 “La Ventana” yearbook. “Town and Country,” covers the College of Agriculture, the College of Home Economics, and their organizations. Coley White, agricultural economics major, strides his tractor while Diane Range, home ec major, poses in the foreground. (Fashions by Hemphill-Wells) PHOTO RESEARCHED BY JEAN ANN CANTORE

ALUMNI NEWS COMPILED BY JENTRY HAM AND JENNIFER RITZ

1972 THOMAS “TOM” R. DURANT (BBA Finance) Granbury, Texas, is one of the largest Chevy dealers in the Southwest with Classic Chevrolet. He purchased his first dealership from his father in 1972 after graduating from Texas Tech.

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Dealer of the Year for 10 consecutive years.

Tom now owns 21 dealerships and was named Chairman of the Texas Auto Dealer Association. The TADA is the statewide trade association representing more than 1,300 franchised automobile dealerships in nearly 300 communities throughout the state of Texas. TADA advocates on behalf of the dealers at the Texas Legislature, Congress and all regulatory agencies. Tom is also involved in Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred horse

racing. He set the record for number of wins at Lone Star Park and holds the title as the All-Time Leading Owner at Lone Star Park.

Tom served as president of the Texas Quarter Horse Association and has been on the board since the early 1990s. From 1994-1998 he also served as president and on the board of the Texas Horsemen’s Benevolence Protective Association (HBPA), representing horsemen at all Texas racetracks.

BY MIKE GUSTAFSON

Chemistry) Natalia, Texas, has been named the C.O. of the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush CVN-77. He is a highly decorated career naval aviator and has commanded other ships before his current promotion. It is a great honor in the Navy to be a commanding officer of an aircraft carrier. The C.O. has a great responsibility and must oversee 5,000 sailors on the ship.

TOP-LEVEL MEMBERS DIAMOND [$5,000+ ANNUALLY] Mr. James D. Abbott ’48 Mrs. Jan W. Baca ’70 Mr. Ralph ’70 & Mrs. Mary Belter Dr. Bryant ’95 & Mrs. Whitney Bonner ’96 Mr. Patrick C. Bryan ’06 Lt. Col. Mark ’83 (Ret.) & Mrs. Diane Bryant Mr. John D. Byram, Sr. Mrs. Holly G. Chandler Mr. Donald ’82 & Mrs. Vicki Chenault ’82 Mr. Jason & Mrs. Robin Elliott ’95 Mrs. Helen J. Geick ‘61 Mr. Bill ’70 & Mrs. Cheryl Henry Mr. Tom ‘87 & Mrs. Jerri Jacobs Mr. Christopher ‘95 & Mrs. Heather King Mr. David ’74 & Mrs. Janis King Mrs. Peggy B. LaFont ’61 Mr. Rowland C. Lawson ’84 Mr. George ’66 & Mrs. Linda McMahan ’66 Mr. Michael J. McVean ’84 Mr. William R. Moler ’88 Mr. Glenn D. Moor ’84 Mr. Gary ’82 & Mrs. Leslie Moss Mrs. Joyce Perkins ’64 Ms. Brenda J. Peters ‘74 Mr. John ’71 & Mrs. Ann Redmon ’71 Mr. Jerry ’52 & Mrs. Maxie Scott Mr. John & Mrs. Tracy Sellers ’05 Ms. Anita R. Smith ‘63 Mr. Marlis E. Smith ’54 Mr. Barry ’79 & Mrs. SuDeline Street ’79 Mr. Randall ’84 & Mrs. Dona Vines ’86 Mr. Bryant ‘98 & Mrs. Alison Williams Capt. John (Ret.) ’62 & Mrs. Ann Woody (Ret.)

PLATINUM [$2,500-$4,999 ANNUALLY] Mr. Darrell Adams ’81 Mr. Barney ’75 & Mrs. Kandy Adams ’75 Mr. Grant F. Adamson ’81 Mr. David ‘01 & Mrs. Amy Akins ‘00 Mr. Casey ’11 & Mrs. Kylee Amis ’10 Mr. Steve ’70 & Mrs. Barbara Armstrong ’69 Dr. Jason ’94 & Mrs. Anne Bradley ’07 Mr. Doug & Mrs. Holly Brooks ’74 Mr. Steve ’83 & Mrs. Elizabeth Burleson ’84 Mr. Cody ’03 & Mrs. Tara Campbell ’06 Mr. Ralph ‘59 & Mrs. Kay Campbell Mr. Adan ‘02 & Mrs. Carmen Cano Mr. Eugene ’66 & Mrs. Carole Chambers Mr. Rocky Cheney Mr. Robert ’91 & Mrs. Kristy Copeland ’90 Mr. Eric Courtney Mr. Lynn Cowden ’80 Mr. Tim ‘81 & Mrs. Annette Culp ‘81 Mr. Mike ‘74 & Mrs. Celia Davis ’74 Dr. Michael ’73 & Mrs. Ginger Doherty Mr. Ralph G. Goodlet, Jr. ’82 Mr. Kyle & Mrs. Ashlee Groves ‘07 Mr. Will ’69 & Mrs. Karen Hagood ’71 Mr. Michael ‘97 & Mrs. Lesley Hedlund ‘99 Mr. H. Wayne Henry ’75 Mr. Thomas ’95 & Mrs. Stephanie Hilbun ’95 Dr. William ’74 & Mrs. Joann Hinchey Mr. Jeffrey ‘80 & Mrs. Karlene Holloman Mr. Don J. Howe ’71 Regent Chris ’91 & Mrs. Robin Huckabee ’92 Mr. Parker ’97 & Mrs. Victoria Johnson Mr. Mark ’94 & Mrs. Cynthia Key Dr. John ’00 & Mrs. Emily Kuczek The Honorable Charles ‘68 & Mrs. Kay Lance ‘68 Mr. Lanny ’77 & Mrs. Joni Layman ’79

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Mr. Mark ’86 & Mrs. Kelly McCormick Mr. Michael ’67 & Mrs. Barbara McKenzie ’68 Dr. Aaron ’64 & Mrs. Sherri McNeece Mrs. Ainsley Nelson ’18 The Honorable Ginger ’92 & Mr. T. Kevin Nelson ’92 Ms. Marcia J. Newton Mr. S. David ’63 & Mrs. Jeanne Peeler Mr. Stephen ’90 & Mrs. Christina Poore Mrs. Mary Jo Price ’53 Mr. Michael ’98 & Mrs. Rebecca Pubentz ’99 Mr. Ben ’76 & Mrs. Jeannie Ralston ’77 Mr. B. Jack ’76 & Mrs. Janet Reed ’71 Dr. Nancy Ruff ’69 Mr. W. Joseph ’78 & Mrs. Susan Sammons ’78 Mr. J. ‘82 & Mrs. Deena Sargent Mr. Robbie ’79 & Mrs. Kathleen Sartain ’79 Mr. John ’68 & Mrs. Diane Scovell ’68 Mrs. Karen Seaberg ’69 Mr. Robert & Mrs. Melinda Sebesta ’83 Mr. Kenneth & Mrs. Catherine Sheffield ’79 Mr. Jim ’74 & Mrs. Alice Skinner Mr. Lucian ’74 & Mrs. Kristin Smith ’76 Mr. Tom ’75 & Mrs. Melinda Stacy Mr. Dale ’65 & Mrs. Cheryl Swinburn Mr. Max ’67 & Mrs. Doris Swinburn Mr. Fred ’71 & Mrs. Pam Underwood Mr. Jimmy ’00 & Mrs. Kristina Vallee Mr. James ’80 & Mrs. Susan Wedel ’83 Mr. Edward ’64 & Mrs. Linda Whitacre ’65 Mr. L. E. ’84 & Mrs. Lorie Willis

GOLD [$1,000-$2,499 ANNUALLY] Mr. Chip ‘93 & Mrs. Tiffany Adami ‘92 Mr. Robert ’95 & Mrs. Keeley Adcox ’95 Dr. R. G. “Wick” ’58 & Mrs. Janna Alexander ’58 Mr. Robert & Mrs. Janis Allen Mr. Timothy ’80 & Mrs. Kandee Allen Mr. Ronald ’79 & Mrs. Deidra Althof Ms. Alexis J. Anderson ‘74 Mr. Bruce ’91 & Mrs. Melissa Anderson Mr. Jeffrey ’80 & Mrs. Cynthia Anderson ’78 Mr. James ’71 & Mrs. Janet Anderson ’73 Mr. Andrew ’74 & Mrs. Kathy Armstrong Mr. Charles ’73 & Mrs. Leslie Baker Mr. M. Todd ’91 & Mrs. Amy Barnes Mr. Devin & Mrs. Liz Bates ’90 Dr. Carl & Mrs. Robin Beard ’12 Mr. Joe ’69 & Mrs. Patricia Beaty ’75 Mr. Monty ‘87 & Mrs. Patti Becton Mr. Phillip ’78 & Mrs. Sherry Bell ’77 Mrs. Nelda F. Benninger Mr. David L. Berry ‘65 Mr. Oran ’71 & Mrs. Linda Berry ’70 Mr. Brent ’87 & Mrs. Tonya Bertrand Mr. John ’61 & Mrs. Harriett Billingsley Mr. Danny ’75 & Mrs. Terri Bills Mr. Robert & Mrs. Stephanie Billstone ’95 Mr. Peter S. Boecher ’79 Mr. William Bomberger ’79 & Ms. Sharon Simandl Mr. Russell ’88 & Mrs. Kathryn Brewer Mrs. Mary Brigham ’66 Mr. Larry ’69 & Mrs. Judith Britton Mr. Alan Brown ’69 Mr. Bill ’74 & Mrs. Karen Brown Mr. Eddie ‘60 & Mrs. Billie Brown Mr. Robert ’59 & Mrs. Elena Brown Mr. Jeffry ’11 & Mrs. Julie Brunson Mr. Ronald ’73 & Mrs. Rebecca Bryant Mr. Ronald ’72 & Mrs. Shelley Buckalew Mr. Robert Buckner ’80 Ms. Jennifer Bullard ’05

Mr. Matt & Ms. Lacie Bullard ’04 Mr. Ben ’77 & Mrs. Marsha Campbell Mr. Scott ’88 & Mrs. Tricia Campbell ’88 Mr. Joe ‘64 & Mrs. Jo Canon ‘66 Mr. Chad ’91 & Mrs. Marie Carlisle ’96 Mr. Robert Powell & Mrs. Marie Carlisle ’96 Mr. David R. Carter ‘87 Ms. Maria R. Carter ‘87 Mr. Donald ’69 & Mrs. Robbie Champion ’69 Mr. Michael ’00 & Mrs. Alicia Chaney ’00 Mr. Kyle ’98 & Mrs. Ivette Chapman Mr. Mark A. Cina ’75 Mrs. Peggy Clark ’64 Mr. Bobby D. ’73 & Mrs. Rhonda Clifton Mr. Shane & Mrs. Jan Cook Mr. David ’91 & Mrs. Marquel Copple Mr. Boyd ’90 & Mrs. Teri Cowan ’89 Mr. Holt ’00 & Mrs. Kaye Cowden ’18 Col. Jimmy D. Cox, (Ret.) ’63 Mr. Cody ’04 & Mrs. Lauren Craig ’02 Mr. Terry & Mrs. Kelly Crofoot Mr. Brenton ’96 & Mrs. Carrie Croley ’95 Dr. Charles ‘76 & Mrs. Salty Cruser Mr. Charles ’59 & Mrs. Barbara Cummings Mr. Ronald ’75 & Mrs. Barbara Cummins Mr. William ‘72 & Mrs. Ann Daniel Mr. Jim & Mrs. Mary Alice Daniel ’78 The Honorable Jim Bob ’70 & The Honorable Kara Darnell ’98 Mr. Cody ’11 & Mrs. Ashley Davis ’12 Mr. Kenneth ’84 & Mrs. Lisa Davis Mr. Sean ’86 & Mrs. Donna Davis Mr. Enoch ’60 & Mrs. Frances Dawkins Dr. Miles & Dr. Audra Day ’99 Dr. Bill ’61 & Mrs. Peggy Dean ’66 Mr. J. Patrick ’90 & Mrs. Lisa Degroote ’91 Mr. Todd ’86 & Mrs. D’Aun Denton Mr. Jim ’70 & Mrs. Patti Douglass ’85 Mr. Michael B. Dowell Mr. John ’66 & Mrs. Edie Downs Mr. David ’82 & Mrs. Allison Doyle Capt. David ’82 & Mrs. Paige Drake Mr. Toby ‘86 & Mrs. Gwendolyn Drake Mr. Scott Dueser ’75 Mr. Norman Dyer ’51 Mr. Robert ’72 & Mrs. Bonny Eakens Mr. Stan ’68 & Mrs. Jane Edwards Mr. Howard ’66 & Mrs. Rita Ehler Mrs. Jan M. Elliott Mr. Tracy ‘77 & Mrs. Cary Elms ‘94 Mr. Michael ’73 & Mrs. Patty Erspamer ’74 Mr. R. L. ’81 & Mrs. Cindy Eschenburg ’81 Mr. C. Robert ’69 & Mrs. Lee Fabling Mr. Quinton Farley ’81 Mr. Brian ’99 & Mrs. Kasey Fielder ’98 Dr. Francisco ’67 & Mrs. Sharon Figueroa Mr. Reynolds L. Foster ’67 Ms. Sammie N. Fowler Saulsbury ’58 Regent L. Frederick ’78 & Mrs. Ginger Francis ’79 Mr. Ricky & Mrs. Melinda Gaddis ’84 Mr. Joe ’84 & Mrs. Linda Garner ’83 Mr. James ’72 & Mrs. Dinah Gaspard ’72 Mr. Christopher ’07 & Mrs. Mary Gellner ’05 Mr. Doyle & Mrs. Somer Glass ’98 Mr. Bryan ’73 & Mrs. Nancy Gossett Mr. Robert ’70 & Mrs. Diane Gossett ’71 Mr. Jeremy ’99 & Mrs. Lauren Gott Dr. Addison ’82 & Mrs. Tammie Gradel ’17 The Honorable William ’64 & Mrs. Lanette Gray Dr. Leonard ’67 & Mrs. Sandra Gray Mr. Thomas ’64 & Mrs. Mary Ann Green ’64

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! Mrs. Geneva Griffin ’51 Mr. Seth ’07 & Mrs. Ann-Claire Gustin ’08 Dr. Nadim ’88 & Mrs. Christine Haddad CDR Jon ’85 & Mrs. Cindy Hagemann Mrs. Kathy E. Hager Roberts ’72 Mr. Luke ’00 & Mrs. Beth Haile Mr. Rickey ’74 & Mrs. Sherrie Hale Mr. D. ’86 & Mrs. Jessie Hall Mr. Ivan ’64 & Mrs. Martha Hall Regent Ron ’68 & Mrs. Nancy Hammonds Chancellor Emeritus Kent R. Hance ’65 Mr. Keith ’68 & Mrs. Glenda Hansen Mr. Jeffrey ’80 & Mrs. Sarah Harbaugh ’80 Dr. John ’99 & Mrs. Nancy Hardy ’99 Mr. Owen ’73 & Mrs. Lois Harrison Mr. Jim ’83 & Mrs. Susan Hart ’83 Dr. Robert Hart ’80 & Dr. Susan Nelson Maj. Anthony Killa, Ret. ’95 & Mrs. Angela Hartman-Killa Mr. Tim ’51 & Mrs. Tommie Hatch ’51 Mr. Mark & Mrs. Karen Havins ’93 Mr. Brian Hawker ’97 Mr. Daniel ’81 & Mrs. Nita Heinchon ’81 Mr. Lloyd ’79 & Mrs. Cheryl Helms ’78 Mr. Brent & Dr. Bralie Hendon ’12 Mr. Alan ’64 & Mrs. Cassandra Henry ’67 Mr. Chad ’99 & Mrs. Heather Henthorn ’00 Mr. Richard ’73 & Mrs. Emilee Hervey Mr. Steve ’69 & Mrs. Jorjanna Hipes ’70 Mr. Douglas ‘76 & Mrs. Valerie Hlavaty ‘76 Mr. Robert W. Hodge, II Mr. Gregory ’86 & Mrs. Lori Hoes Mr. Ted ’77 & Mrs. Joellen Hogan ’76 Mr. Robert ’60 & Mrs. Kyle Hood Mr. Dan ‘57 & Mrs. Carolyn Hook ‘60

Mr. Stan ’86 & Mrs. Whitney Horton Mr. James ’66 & Mrs. Clara Huckaby Mr. Jimmie ’56 & Mrs. Betsy Hunt Mr. Steve ’71 & Mrs. Debbie Hurt ’72 Mr. Rex ’78 & Mrs. Nancy Isom ’80 Dr. O. Wayne ’61 & Mrs. Pat Isom Mrs. Peggy W. James ’64 Mr. Steven ’96 & Mrs. Lesley Jeffcoat ’96 Mr. Roger ’74 & Mrs. Deni Jeschke Mr. John ’90 & Mrs. AnnMarie Jeter Mr. Jeremy ’00 & Mrs. Trina Johnson ’99 Dr. Thomas ’73 & Dr. Susan Johnson Mr. Wilbur ’65 & Mrs. Patricia Johnson Mr. Roland ‘55 & Mrs. Joyce Jones Mr. Troy ’57 & Mrs. Lona Jones Mr. Van J. Josselet ’74 Mr. J. David ’86 & Mrs. Carrie Joyner Dr. Pedro N. Juri ’79 Mr. Phillip ’09 & Mrs. Kara Danielle Kahlich Mr. R. Scott ’76 & Mrs. Marian Kellerman Mr. Michael & Mrs. Tracy Kiefer ’87 Mr. Truitt ’00 & Mrs. Kay Kimbrough ’01 Mr. M. Chris ’84 & Mrs. Betsy Kirksey ’83 Mrs. Melody Kramer ’71 Mr. Brandon ’01 & Mrs. Heather Lairsen ’01 Mr. Ronald Larson ’70 Mr. Jon-Paul ’00 & Mrs. Melissa Lascalere Mr. Ryan ’01 & Mrs. Mindy Laudermill Mr. Samuel ’84 & Mrs. Julie Law ’84 Dr. Robert & Mrs. Marcy Lawless ’93 Mr. Jeff ’89 & Mrs. Meghan Lawlis Ms. Shery Layne ’81 Mr. Robert & Mrs. Kelly Leach ’78 Mr. Joseph ‘61 & Mrs. Jung Lew

Mr. J. Michael ’72 & Mrs. Robin Lewis Mr. Geoffrey ’93 & Mrs. Caroline Lochausen Mr. Chris ’93 & Stacy Loveless ’92 Mr. Ronald & Mrs. Eleanor Luke ’77 Mr. P.A. ’73 & Mrs. Bridget Lyon Dr. Julio ’82 & Mrs. Dolores Madrigal Dr. Mark ’81 & Mrs. Cyndi Mankins Ms. Troy A. Marchbanks ’02 Maj. Gen. Thomas & Lt. Gen. Wendy Masiello ’80 Mr. Gary & Mrs. Gretchen Massingill ’03 Mr. Bob ‘70 & Mrs. Jo Mayo ‘71 Mr. Brian ’75 & Mrs. Wetonnah McCoy Mrs. Beverly McDuff ’54 Mr. M. Ryan ’98 & Mrs. Kathleen McKenzie ’04 Mr. Kevin ’73 & Mrs. Karen McMahon ’73 Mr. Tom ’67 & Mrs. Carol McMorris ’67 Mr. Robert ’84 & Mrs. Anne McNaughton ’76 Mr. Philip ’84 & Mrs. Lamar Meaders ’83 Mr. Mark & Mrs. Lori Mettille ’99 Ms. Patsy H. Middleton ’57 Mr. Brett ’97 & Mrs. Jodi Miller ’97 Mr. Jacob ’01 & Mrs. Erica Miller Mr. Lon ’71 & Mrs. Gertrude Miller ’65 Mr. Steven ’74 & Mrs. Jan Miller Mr. Robert ’78 & Mrs. Sara Moeck ’81 Mr. Dudley ’52 & Mrs. Patty Montgomery Mr. Phillip ’14 & Mrs. Laura Moore ’13 Mr. Joshua ’04 & Mrs. Kristin Moose ’04 Mr. Dennis ’70 & Mrs. Diana Morris ’72 Mr. Thomas ’79 & Mrs. Laura Morris ’80 Mr. Kevin G. Morton ’83 Mrs. Janet G. Moseley ’65 Mr. Tommy ’75 & Mrs. Debra Mrazek ’81 Dr. Cynthia ’71 & Dr. Brett Mueller

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ALUMNI NEWS his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Tarleton in 1971 and returned to Tarleton in 1976 to teach. He taught there for more than four decades and retired as associate provost.

Throughout his career, Dwayne significantly impacted students, faculty and administration.

He worked with math, institutional research, the Dick Smith Library, Intern2Learn programs, military science and students with disabilities.

He also served on coordinating boards for construction planning and academic standards.

Dwayne’s children created the L. Dwayne and Connie Snider Endowed Scholarship in 2017 to continue his legacy and that of his wife’s.

1979 LESLIE E. REYNOLDS (BA History) Houston, Texas, has launched his own Texas-themed television show on hypnosis. The new lifestyle show is called “Crazy in Texas” and will be airing throughout Texas in the fall. Leslie created this show for Texans and it will be following his various travels around Texas.

Along with “Crazy in Texas” he has another show,“Crazy in the Caribbean,” that is popular internationally. These shows have moments of comedic hypnosis. Although he uses his

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hypnosis talents for comedy, Leslie is also very serious about his hypnosis capabilities. One of the most famous hypnotherapists in the world, he conducts seminars,and has hypnotized more than 150,000 individuals during his 20 year career. He is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist and is a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy and American Hypnosis Association. He is also the founder of the National Academy of Hypnotists. His wife is Valerie.

1982 GREGORY “GREG” D. BILLMAN (BAR Architecture Design) Amarillo, Texas, has been promoted to principal at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc. PSC is an architectural and engineering firm established in Lubbock with offices across Texas and New Mexico. Greg is currently the incoming director of higher education at the Amarillo office. His nearly 40 years of experience has enabled him to be a leader in higher education design. He has a diverse, multidisciplinary background and is recognized for his project management skills and trusted

adviser relationships with clients. His wife is SHARLANE H. BILLMAN (BS ’80 Finance Planning).

RONALD “RON” E. MILLER (BA Political Science) Forest, Virginia, has been named online dean of the Helms School of Government at Liberty University. The Helms School of Government prepares Liberty graduates for successful careers in government, public policy, law, criminal justice, international relations, intelligence and homeland security. Ron previously served as interim dean and associate dean of the Helms School of Government. Prior to joining Liberty, he was a commentator, author and consultant. He served at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Small Business Administration during the Bush Administration. Ron has also served as a senior technology and strategy executive in the private sector and with the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. His wife is Annik.

1983 RAQUEL C. BONO, M.D. (M.D. Medicine) Alexandria, Virginia, has been named head of Washington

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Affordable Opportunity. Exceptional Education.

Access to higher education should be attainable to everyone with a desire to pursue a degree and chase their dreams. To help students reach this goal, Texas Tech University has expanded access to the Red Raider Guarantee program. In-state, first-year students and transfers with an associates degree with a combined family income of $40,000 $65,000 or less are guaranteed tuition and mandatory fees throughout their college careers. To learn more, visit financialaid.ttu.edu/guarantee.

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by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. In this position Raquel advises the governor and state agencies on actions to address the capacity and strain across health care systems. She works closely with acute care facilities, long-term care facilities, clinics, tribal facilities and the federal government to ensure medical staffing needs are met. Raquel has developed standard protocols across facilities and coordinates with the state Emergency Operations Center to operationalize statewide efforts. Her husband is Arthur.

1988 DAVID L. FINLEY (BAR Architecture Design, MAR ’90 Architecture) Dallas, Texas, has been promoted to the principal position at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc. PSC is an architectural and engineering firm established in Lubbock with offices across Texas and New Mexico.

He is currently the Director of K-12 at the Frisco office. David has more than 20 years of experience with public schools in Texas, including belonging to executive leadership teams for Ector County Independent School District and Carrollton-Farmers Branch

Independent School District. His extensive experience as an architect, coupled with a depth of knowledge in public education, has formed a unique perspective of educational attainment and school facility design. His wife is Mary.

1990 IAN M. HALPERIN (BA Telecommunications) Wylie, Texas, has received the 2020 Professional Achievement Award from the Texas School Public Relations Association (TSPRA). The TSPRA is a nonprofit, professional organization dedicated to promoting public schools through effective communications. It is comprised of primarily of communications professionals who serve the public school districts and education associations, foundations and organizations of Texas. Ian is the executive director of communications and community relations for the Wylie Independent School District. He has led multiple TSPRA committees and has served as state president of the organization. His wife is BEVERLY K. HALPERIN (BA ’91 Telecommunications, BA ’91 English)

1993 MONTY ROGERS (BBA Finance) Lubbock, Texas, has been named Lubbock market president

by Plains Bancorp, Inc. holding company for First United Bank. Monty comes to First United Bank from El Paso, Texas, and has 29 years of experience in the finance industry. He is a graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University as well. While in El Paso, he was an active member of the United Way of El Paso, the Downtown Management District of El Paso, and the Board of Governers for the El Paso Country Club. His wife is Jody.

1998 BRIAN C. SAUER (BBA Marketing) Houston, Texas, has been recognized on the 2020 Forbes/Shook list of Best-In-State Wealth Advisors. This list showcases the best financial advisors from across the U.S. The candidates are selected based on in-person interviews and industry experience. Other factors include candidates’ quality of practice, industry experience, compliance record, assets under management

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UBS provides financial advice and solutions to institutional and corporate clients worldwide.

Throughout his career, Brian has worked hard to build long-lasting client relationships while contributing his experience and integrity to the firm. He has served as a University of Texas Medical Branch Board member and on the Galveston Bay Foundation board of directors. His wife is Stephanie.

JEFFERY “JEFF” L. WALTERS (BBA Marketing, MS ’02 Interdisciplinary Studies) Allen, Texas, has joined Wolters Kluwer as Associate Director of Product Marketing. Prior to his position at Wolters Kluwer, Jeff worked at the American Heart Association (AHA) as a marketing manager, was a member of the AHA Activities Committee and served as an AHA Ambassador. In 2008, he moved to Emergency Cardiovascular Care as the senior healthcare marketing manager where he helped launch the HeartCode brand and several other products. In 2009, Jeff was promoted to director of commercial markets where he led a team through different transitions. He also served as co-creator and co-chair of the AHA MORE Mentoring Program and was a member of

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the CEO Diversity Advisory Committee. His wife is Melody.

2000 KRISTEN B. LOLLAR (BA Public Relations) Little Elm, Texas, has been named to the Plano Chamber of Commerce board of directors where she will serve a three-year term. She currently works for Whitley Penn public accounting firm as the director of marketing.

Kristen has more than 19 years of professional services marketing experience. She is a member of the American Marketing Association and Association of Accounting Marketers, and she has served as a mentor through the DFW AMA for the past seven years. As a part of the Plano Chamber of Commerce board of directors, Kristen will work to promote local economic growth, foster business-friendly policies and serve members through programs, benefits and services. Her husband is Erik.

2005 PRISCILLA D. CAMACHO (JD 2005 Law) Dallas, Texas, joins the Alamo Colleges District’s

communications team as the director of government and community relations. Prior to this position, Priscilla served as the senior vice president of public policy at the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce (DRC). She led a team responsible for all advocacy efforts to support the North Texas region, ensuring it remained the No.1 place in the U.S. to live, work and build a business. The team focused on influencing the development and implementation of policies at all levels of government to benefit the region. Priscilla worked with the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce as vice president of education and workforce development before her position with DRC. In this role she worked with chamber members and external stakeholders to develop public policy strategies related to education and workforce issues at local, state and federal levels.

2006 HOLLY R. BAIRD (JD Law) Richardson, Texas, has been named on the 2020 Texas Rising Stars Up-and-Coming Top 100 and the Up-andComing 50 listings for her work in family law, an honor she has received since 2014.

This recognition highlights the top women attorneys in the state who are 40 years old and younger or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. Lawyers are nominated by their peers and then assessed by an editorial review process where only 2.5% of eligible attorneys are chosen. Holly is currently a partner at boutique family law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, a nationally recognized firm and known as one of Texas’ largest family law firms.

2008 C. ASHER ROSEBROUGH (BBA Finance/Real Estate) Fort Worth, Texas has been promoted to vice president/senior credit officer at Ciera Bank in Fort Worth, Texas. He oversees commercial and consumer credit departments for real estate, small business and commercial customers and analyzes asset management. He earned his MBA in commercial real estate from Texas A&M University and his license from Texas Christian University Petroleum Land Management program. He spends his free time working with a non-profit, Arise Africa, that supports orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia through a child sponsorship program.

Smarter Ways to Support Texas Tech The Goin’ Band from Raiderland means a lot to Andy and Nan Crowson. It’s where they met as freshmen in 1977.

That’s why the couple made a gift from their will to support three scholarship endowments at Texas Tech University.

Nan and I felt strong “about education for young folks in our region. We’ve been blessed. It’s our turn to give. It’s our time to help other people.

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2009 KYNDAL IRWIN (B.S. Exercise & Sports Science, B.S.’18 Nursing) Lubbock, volunteered in April during the COVID-19 epidemic to work in New York City assisting understaffed hospitals. She signed on with Krucial Staffing and worked 12-hour shifts for 21 days. Kyndal is currently a nurse for the Lubbock Plastic Surgery Institute.

She kept family and friends apprised of her work through a Facebook page: Taking on the BIG Apple.

NANCY A. TREVINO, PH.D. (BS Human Development & Family Studies, MS ’11, Ph.D.’18) Lubbock, has been chosen to direct the Texas Tech Human Sciences Center Mental Health Initiative by the Department of Psychiatry. The initiative will connect local partners, Lubbock-area professionals, and community members with Texas Tech University and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center faculty to provide clinics, research, and training. Nancy has lived and worked in Lubbock for 20 years. Prior to accepting her new role with the TTUHSC Department of Psychiatry, she worked in positive youth development programming,

prevention education, program evaluation and grant writing. She serves on numerous Lubbock-area boards and committees. Nancy is a certified instructor for mental health first aid and youth mental health first aid with designations in emergency medical services, higher education and rural communities. She has spent much of her career working with youth in the foster care system. She also has provided instruction for the Preparation for Adult Living courses provided to youth aging out of foster care, conducted research regarding the foster care system and evaluated reproductive health curriculum used to educate youth in foster care.

2010 LENA B. LAURENZO (BA Psychology) Houston, Texas, has been recognized on the 2020 Texas Rising Stars list. This is her fourth consecutive year to be included on the list. Lena is currently an associate at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner personal injury law firm. She joined the firm in 2019 after several years of practicing personal injury and maritime law at another firm in Houston.

Her legal practice covers a wide variety of

personal injury matters, including private and commercial automobile accidents, pedestrian accidents, Jones Act and maritime cases, workplace injury, and wrongful death. Lena was inducted into the Order of Barristers, a national trial advocacy honorary organization.

She is also a member of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association, Houston Young Lawyers Association, Houston Bar Association, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Executive and Professional Association of Houston.

2012 JAMIE N. HANSARD (Ph.D. Family and Consumer Sciences) Wolfforth, Texas, has been promoted to vice president for enrollment management at Texas Tech. She brings 23 years of experience in higher education enrollment management, including the last 13 years at Texas Tech University. Jamie also served as interim Senior Associate Vice President for Enrollment Managemen. In her new role, Jamie will lead a dynamic, cross-functional team that includes undergraduate admissions, financial aid, scholarships, information technology and the registrar. Her team is mostly responsible for the 10 years of record growth

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2016 HANNAPHEN C. PARK (BS Architecture, MAR ’17 Master of Architecture) Aledo, Texas, is an emerging professional in architecture at VLK Architects, an architecture firm that provides architecture, planning and interior design services to K-12, higher education, corporate and institutional clients throughout Texas.

She recently worked on the Denton High School project. The new 490,000 square-foot high school building will serve 2,200 students.

This world-class facility consists of a 1,900-seat gymnasium, 800-seat auditorium, a centralized media center and a large student commons

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area. Prior to working with VLK Architects, Hannaphen worked as an architecture designer for Carrell Partners & Yost Architecture, a project intern with MEL/ARCH architectural studio and an architecture intern with Mead & Hunt. She volunteers with Habitat for Humanity Texas, Gladney Center for Adoption and First Christian Church.

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NEEL P. ROY (BS Economics) Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been awarded a U.K. Fulbright Partnership award within the Fulbright U.S. Student Program award and will pursue his master’s degree in economics and econometrics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and people of other countries. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and have demonstrated leadership potential within their fields. Neel will be working on a project at Kent to research migrant well-being. He and his team will focus on the “healthy migrant effect” on U.K. migrants. Neel will help expand the scope of the initial project to include the U.S. migrant population to gain a fuller, more rigorous

CHEN CHEN (Ph.D.English) Waltham,Massachusetts, had a piece, titled“The School of Eternities,”published in the Spring 2020 issue of Ploughshares, an award-winning journal of contemporary American literature. Chen earned a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and master of fine arts from Syracuse University. He currently teaches in the English department at Brandeis University and co-runs the journal, “Underblong.” Chen is a poet and essayist interested in Asian American histories and futures, family, multilingualism, humor and pop culture. His expertise is creative writing, contemporary American poetry, contemporary creative nonfiction, Asian American writers and LGBTQ writers. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Creative Writing), the Pushcart Prize

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BARBARA JUNE BUSHLAND ’71,’86, Lubbock, died June 23.

CASON GARRET COCKRELL, a current student at Texas Tech from Frisco, Texas, died May 16.

ANITA JEAN CARLSON ’53, Portland, Oregon, died May 20.

PRISCILLA DELLENBACK ’73, Lubbock, died April 29.

CARLTON DODSON ’51, Lubbock, died April 12.

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LAURA ANN KYLE BAKER, M.D. ’75 ’81, Lubbock, died May 18. She was a former faculty member and won numerous awards from many organizations, including the Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award, Timothy J. Harner Physician Mentor of the Year, and Star Teaching Award.

EDWIN BENJAMIN BRIGHT ’63, Dallas, Texas, died May 1. He is survived by his wife, SHEILA GEORGE BRIGHT ’64.

JOAN MACAULAY VAN NORMAN BUERSCHINGER ’53, San Antonio, died Feb. 13.

J.C. CHAMBERS ’54, Lubbock, died April 8. He was elected president of the Texas Tech Alumni Association, then called the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association, in 1962. He was named a Texas Tech University Distinguished Alumnus in 1990 and earned numerous honors within the Lubbock community. He is survived by his wife, Patty.

HELEN RUTH BELL DYER ’46 ’55, Lubbock, died May 27.

STEPHEN EDGAR ELLIS ’68, Brownfield, Texas, died April 30.

BOB ETHEREDGE ’55, Lubbock, died June 29. He is survived by his wife, GAIL ETHEREDGE ’59.

JOANN CHAPMAN ’51, Lubbock, died April 7.

HARDY S. CLEMONS, PH.D. ’55, San Antonio, Texas, died July 1.

JOHN WILLIAM COBB, JR., D.P.E.’54, Hurst, Texas, died April 12. He was designated Professor Emeritus, having served as professor at Texas Tech University in physical education from 1958 until his retirement in 1993. He is survived by his wife, Nathaleen.

GLENNA GOODACRE ’96, Santa Fe, New Mexico, died April 13. She received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Texas Tech University. She is known nationally for her artwork, including the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.; the Irish Famine Memorial in Philadelphia and the Sacagawea dollar coin from the U.S. Mint. Several of her pieces grace the Texas Tech campus, including “CEO,” a statue of Texas Gov. Preston Smith, “Park Place at Talkington Plaza” and “Tug O’ War.” She is survived by her husband, Mike.

ELIZABETH LEIGH CRENSHAW GREGORY ’00, Ralls, Texas, died Nov. 8.

PEDRO THOMAS GUTIERREZ, a current student at Texas Tech from El Paso, Texas, died June 11.

SYBIL HAIRSTON, a friend, Lubbock, died April 13.

LEO L. HATFIELD ’58, Midland, died June 20.

DAVID HOUSE, a current graduate student at Texas Tech from Allen, Texas, died Feb. 11.

LYNNITA HUFSTEDLER ’58, Lubbock, died May 21.

She is survived by her husband, Don. JULIAN “CORKY” HUNSUCKER ’53, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, died Feb. 18. He is survived by his wife, Barbara.

TINA SUE JENNINGS ’00, Lubbock, died March 30.

NOEL DAWN JOHNSON ’95, Wichita Falls, Texas, died June 9.

WILLIAM “BILL” JOLLEY ’89, ’00, Lubbock, died March 4. He is survived by his wife, Gretchen.

JO ANN TILLEY KNIGHT ’50, Lubbock, died June 19.

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ALUMNI NEWS DORIS RAGSDALE KOCHANEK ’46, Lubbock, died April 15.

KARL W. LAWSON ’49, Lakewood, Colorado, died Jan. 30, 2019.

PATRICIA ANN LAMBERT ’72, Lubbock, died April 3.

LERA DELL LOGAN ’53, Mount Vernon, Texas, died April 22.

MAX MANLEY, ED.D. ’64, ’71, Lubbock, died May 26. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann. ANNA BAKER MAY ’45, Albuquerque, New Mexico, died April 24.

OLIVER G. MCGEE, III, PH.D.; a former professor of mechanical engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University, who was from Arlington, Virginia, died June 7.

BILLY DOUGLAS “BUTCH” MCKELVEY ’79, Lubbock, died March 24. He is survived by his wife, TERESA B. MCKELVEY ’81.

JACQUELYN CHRISTINE BROOKS MOORE ’58, Stephenville, Texas, died April 14. She is survived by her husband, SETH T. MOORE, JR. ’59.

GEORGE EDWARD MORRIS ’52, Dallas, Texas, died April 1. He is survived by his wife, GENEVIEVE “GENA” MORRIS ’57.

PAUL F. MORSE ’70, Lubbock, died June 20. He is survived by his wife, Delilah.

DORIS MUSICK ’88, a former Texas Tech employee from Lubbock, died June 14. She is survived by her husband, Donald.

KIMI NAKATSUKASA, PH.D., assistant professor and applied linguist in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University, died Oct 23. She is survived by her husband, Johannes Dahl, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geosciences.

L. JAMES ROBISON ’56, Lake Kiowa, Texas, died March 27. He is survived by his wife, AUDRENE RHINE ROBISON ’57.

CATHERINE ROYALTY ’36,’51, Lubbock, died May 15 at 105 years of age. She was the oldest living graduate of Texas Tech University and the oldest World War II veteran of in Lubbock.

PIOQUINTO A. RUIZ ’88, Albuquerque, New Mexico, died June 30.

ALAN J. SALES ’74, Alba, Texas, died March 13. He is survived by his wife, KATHY RHODES SALES ’74.

ALICE “JEANNE” BULLARD SCARBOROUGH ’49, Lubbock, died March 22.

BOBBY WAYNE SHATTUCK ’74, Lubbock, died April 2. He is survived by his wife, Donna Rose.

RICHARD LYNDEL “DICK” SPEARS ’57, Sweetwater, Texas, died March 14. He is survived by his wife, SANDRA E. SPEARS ’63, ’68.

BETTY HICKS STEPHENS ’57, Lubbock, died April 22.

SHIRLEY E. STEPHENS ’56, Lamesa, Texas, died April 5.

JAMES M. TAPP ’79, Austin, Texas, died April 6.

He is survived by his wife, Kristine.

JOEL DAVID TARDY ’82, Franklin, Tennessee, died May 14. He is survived by his wife, BETSY BEAKLEY TARDY ’80.

NATHAN F. TUBB ’49, Levelland, Texas, died April 5.

DARLENE YVETTE WALKER ’02, Lubbock, died March 9.

LEATHA S. WARDEN, a current student at Texas Tech from Anton, Texas, died June 19.

DOYCE RAY WAUER ’65, Arvada, Colorado, died Jan. 13, 2008.

MARY RUTH WEST ’52, Lubbock, died April 4.

ROBERT FIELDS “BOB” SPEARS ’65, Dallas, Texas, died May 3. He is survived by his wife, Jacky Castle Spears.

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MELVA LYNN MCDONALD PATRICK ’73, Lubbock, died March 12. She is survived by her husband, John.

PHILIP CLIFTON “PHIL” PRICE ’67, Lubbock, died June 8. He is survived by his wife, VICTORIA JANELLE PRICE ’71.

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TOMMY MCVAY, longtime director of Texas Tech football operations, passed away Aug. 13, as this magazine was nearing completion.

McVay served under five different head coaches during his tenure, which began with Spike Dykes in 1997 and continued under the leadership of Mike Leach, Tommy Tuberville, Kliff Kingsbury and Matt Wells. He was entering his 24th season as director of football operations when he died.

His legacy at Texas Tech will be remembered through an endowed scholarship that has been established in his name.

Donations also can be made in McVay’s name to the South Plains Food Bank.

Please look for more about McVay in our next issue.

E. JAY WHEELER, M.D., Lubbock, a former associate dean for strategic planning and development for the Texas Tech Medical School, died March 12. He is survived by his wife, Carol.

JESSE J.B. “WHIZZER” WHITE ’42, Lubbock, died April 27.

RALPH WILLIAMS ’64, Lubbock, died June 24. He is survived by his wife, Cindy.

THOMAS BARBEE WORD ’59, Lubbock, died Feb. 26. He is survived by his wife, Gay.

To submit news of an alumnus death, please contact Jean Ann Cantore, editor, at jean.ann. cantore@ttu.edu, by fax at 806.742.3604 or by mail at Jean Ann Cantore, Texas Tech Alumni Association, P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, TX 794095001. We prefer your submission be in writing so that we have accurate facts.

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I was born and raised in Acuff, Texas, but today I live in Maineville, Ohio, with my wife Nikki, and our five children. I am currently pursuing a doctoral degree in plant and soil science from Texas Tech, so I make frequent trips back to campus. Several years ago, I started my own business, Innovative Agrivision, which provides agriculture producers with individualized farming prescriptions through aerial mapping. I do this using unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs. Recently, Jennifer Ritz asked me to shoot some of our beautiful campus, and I decided to capture the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center from a different elevation than we see from the ground.

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