Texas Techsan Magazine

TECHSAN

TRAVELING TECHSANS

YOUR PASSPORT TO THE WORLD

photo on these two pages by Wyman Meinzer | SPRING HAS SPRUNG. on the cover photos by O'Jay R. Barbee | MANY OF THE STAIRCASES ON THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ARE MORE THAN JUST STEPS — THEY ARE WORKS OF ART.

FROM TEXAS TO TUSCANY

Grapes, olives and agritourism: here’s an inside look at Stephen and Jennifer DePizzo’s lives while running an Italian vineyard and winery.

MORE MILES MIKE

For Mike Rogers, running is more than a way to stay fit — it is a way of life.

NATURE’S CANVAS: THE LEGACY OF ROSA FINSLEY

Rosa Finsley has spent her career beautifying residential and commercial landscapes across the country.

BARBECUE AND BOUTIQUES

Katie Cook Gooch puts her public relations degree to use as the executive director of Granbury’s Hotel Lucy and The Pearl at Hotel Lucy boutique as well as all five locations of Hard Eight BBQ restaurants.

A FARM BOY AND FOOTBALL

A football scholarship was the best way to ensure Hollis Davis could attend college, so he set that goal and achieved it.

THE STAIRWELLS OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Many staircases on campus are more than just utilitarian — they are works of art.

ASSOCIATION NEWS 52 ALUMNI NEWS 54 AT LAST 76 DEPARTMENTS

THINKING BIG AND BOLD 6 THROUGH THE ARCHES 8 RETROSPECT 48

MAGAZINE STAFF

Publisher, Curt Langford ’90,’97

Editor, Jean Ann Bowman Cantore ’84,’87

Associate Editor, Jennifer Bell Ritz ’94,’95

Intern, Allie Herring ’25

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Hartsfield Design, Lubbock, Texas

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

Missi Currier, Ph.D. ’08, ’09, ’16, Carlsbad, New Mexico (Chair)

Morris E. Wilkes ’75, Lubbock (Past Chair)

Tyler Young ’06, ’11, Lubbock (Chair Elect)

Paul Tarwater ’87, Houston

David Y. Low ’87, ’03, Lubbock (CFO)

Curt Langford ’90, ’97, Lubbock (President & CEO)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Isaac Albarado ’04, ’11, Austin

Jon Mark Bernal ’99, ’03, Lubbock

Kathy Berry ’77, Washington, D.C.

LTCOL Mark H. Bryant (USMC Ret.) ’83; Bountiful, Utah

Adam Cathey ’05, Southlake

David Deason ’80, ’10, Alto, New Mexico

Gary Dixon ’72, Spanish Fork, Utah

Case Fell ’07, Austin

Mark Fewin ’82, Dallas

Jeff Griffin ’11, Lubbock

Melissa Hancock ’00, ’02, Lubbock

Ryan Henry ’94, Lubbock

Allen D. Howard ’76; Cypress

Robbye Kirkpatrick ’98, Lakeway

David Ladewig ’10, Houston

Katie Marshall ’96, ’98, Austin

Kevin Martinez ’25, New York, New York

Julie Meyer ’83, Granbury

Amanda O’Connor ’03, Abilene

Karen Partee ’94, McKinney

march 25-26, 2025

Jenna C. Perez ’09, Rockwall

Ronald G. Phillips ’90, ’91,’94, Lubbock

Janie Landin Ramirez ’72, Ransom Canyon

Chris Richards ’02, Lubbock

Shawna Tankersley ’87, Tyler

Russell Thomasson ’98, Lubbock

Chance Turner ’08, Dallas

Nick Wells ’06, Dallas

Kate Zaykowski ’09, Austin

EX-OFFICIO & SPECIAL POSITIONS

Kristina Butts ’01, ’04, Vice Chancellor, Legislative Affairs, Ex-Officio

Parker Galvan ’25, Student Alumni Board Representative, Weslaco

Jaret Greaser ’99, Lubbock Secretary & Legal Counsel

Carey Hobbs ’58, Waco, Athletic Council Representative

Byron Kennedy ’04, ’07, ’07, TTU Institutional Advancement Representative, Ex-Officio

Patrick Kramer, Lubbock, TTUS Institutional Advancement Representative, Ex-Officio

Peggy Adcox Maxwell ’76, Academic Recruiting, Ex-Officio

Zane Thompson ’26, Student Alumni Board Representative, Hartley

Bobby Waddle ’55, MVP Representative, Ex-Officio

Texas Techsan is the official publication of the Texas Tech Alumni Association and Texas Tech University. Texas Techsan (USPS #021-676) is published quarterly and mailed to Texas Tech Alumni Association members. Editorial and advertising offices: McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, 17th & University/P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, TX 79409-5001. Telephone (806) 742-3641; fax (806) 742-0283; e-mail jean.ann.cantore@ttu.edu. Periodical postage paid at Lubbock,Texas, and additional offices. Send alumni news information to jennifer.ritz@ttu.edu. Send news for Techsan Memorial obituaries to jean.ann.cantore@ttu.edu. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Texas Techsan Magazine, P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, TX 79409-5001 or by e-mail to ia.bioupdate@ttu.edu.

ONE COLLEGE’S STORY CONTRIBUTES TO TEXAS TECH’S CONTINUED GROWTH

ON FEB. 10 – TTU FOUNDER’S DAY – I attended the 2025 time capsule reveal at the College of Media & Communication, an event that was 50 years in the making. Former MCOM students assembled the capsule in 1975, commemorating their time at Texas Tech and documenting the technology of the era. Phones back then weren’t as smart, beta tapes were much bigger and the yearbook was a prominent part of campus life.

I was grateful to be in attendance, alongside former professors, alumni, current students and faculty, all curious to know what items would be unboxed after five decades.

The capsule contained The Golden Anniversary “La Ventana,” in pristine condition, along with commemorative copies of the University Daily, a KFYO broadcast production reel, a copy of the proposal to the TTU Regents to establish the School of Mass Communications and a beta tape of the KCBD News Broadcast reporting on the time capsule to be opened in 2025.

The gathering was the first public event for Dr. Bey-Ling Sha, who was just hired and in her second week as the fourth dean of the college. Former dean Dr. Jerry Hudson paid homage to the late Dr. Billy Ross, founding chair, whose initial persistence and vision laid the groundwork for the College of Media & Communication we know today. Hudson gave an accounting of the college’s humble beginnings with a journalism class offered in the Department of English in the late ’20s before expanding years later into broadcasting and advertising, then growing into its own department.

The first college building was dedicated in the ’70s before becoming the School of Mass Communications within the College of Arts & Sciences in 1988. Constructed in 1976, the $3.5 million MCOM building was a prominent modern facility, built to accommodate 1,000 students.

Former Regent Chair and Mass Comm Advisory Board Member Wendell Mayes, Ph.D.’49 spoke at the dedication of the building on Oct. 15, 1976, saying, “This building has for its purpose the training and the education of the minds of those who study in the field of journalism and advertising and telecommunications and photography and public relations.

“But it doesn’t stop there, because those who learn within these walls, many of them at least, will devote their lives working in the print and broadcast media of Texas and our country. In future years, people who study in this building will be the leaders in the communications industry.”

The school became a separate and independent College of Mass Communications in 2004. That year, the Texas Higher Education Board approved the college’s application for a doctorate in mass communications and the first doctorate was awarded in 2005. The College was renamed the College of Media & Communication in 2012 when it relocated into the former College of Business Administration Building that same year.

We will maintain dedication to excellence, respect for hard work, and commitment to civility and to humanity — these values will always be in style. We will live these values — daily and authentically — as we open our hearts and our minds to continue our collective, lifelong journey of learning, and educating ourselves in the present.

- Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D. Dean, College of Media & Communication

Jerry Hudson, Ph.D., former dean of the College of Mass Communications, left, joins Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., the new dean of the College of Media & Communication, at the opening of the college's 50-year-old time capsule. They represent the past, present and future of the college.

According to Sha, “The history of our college is filled with giants, notable men and women who were pioneers as students, and influencers as professionals....The items inside the time capsule both remind us, of how far we’ve come, and cause us to reflect, on how far we’ll go in another 50 years.... We adapt — willingly and wisely, with agility and with alacrity — to all the changes and the challenges in the current landscape of media and communication.”

As a public relations grad and product of MCOM, I benefited greatly from my professors, studies and friendships along the path. I enrolled in Marsha Gustafson’s journalism class, where I wrote my first feature for the Texas Techsan about Brian Hall, the placekicker for the Red Raiders who kicked with a wooden foot. I still recall having to use the association’s long-distance phone card, before cell phones, to interview him by phone.

Dr. Hudson, Dr. Bill Dean and Janet Wright (adviser) were strong influences during my undergrad days. My senior project in Cathy Morton’s PR class was a proposal to bring the alumni magazine production in house during the advent of desktop publishing. This experience ultimately led to my being offered a full-time role as assistant editor with the Techsan upon graduation. After completing a master’s degree specializing in higher ed and communications, I developed an even deeper appreciation for Drs. Dean, Roger Sathoff and Randy Rettick, who served on my master’s non-thesis committee. Each challenged my thinking and made me better.

Here I am today, communicating with alumni through a myriad of media channels, unthinkable in the past.

So many alumni have fond recollections within their academic colleges a proud Arts & Sciences alumnus who feels a close connection to Media & Communication with a record enrollment of 2,372 undergrad and graduate students.

As part of the university, our combined colleges and the impact of Texas Tech will go On & On.

Scan the QR code to KCBD's broadcast of the 1975 capsule opening.

SAYING GOODBYE TO ONE OF OUR OWN

The TTAA lost a beloved team member on Feb. 25 with the passing of Jackie Gray. She worked in the association’s accounting office for 28 years and personally processed countless memberships over that time.

Jackie was a valued team member who developed personal friendships with many of our members over the phone, when they made their annual calls to renew and catch up.

Jackie started with TTAA in 1997 and was instrumental in accommodating growth during TTU’s 75th Anniversary Horizon Campaign in 2000 and through our centennial in 2023. Her office was full of Elvis collectibles as she was a big fan of The King. We've been big fans of Jackie and will miss her fun-loving personality. Forever One Of Us.

Striving for Honor,

Virtual connections have become more important than ever.

PH.D., HAS been representing Texas Tech in Antarctica’s science community for over a decade now. The associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences within the College of Arts & Sciences is currently on her fourth trip to the continent, where, in addition to carrying the title of Texas Tech researcher, she has also been named Palmer’s Science Station Leader by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a prestigious honor that includes significant duties and responsibilities. Van Gestel’s research focuses on how environmental changes influence ecosystem function.

GEN. RICHARD E. CAVAZOS WAS posthumously presented the Medal of Honor on Jan. 3, 2025, by President Joe Biden. A veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, Cavazos served in the military for more than three decades. In 1976, he became the first Hispanic to attain the rank of brigadier general in the United States Army, and fewer than 6 years later he again made history by being appointed the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Cavazos was a native Texan and graduated from Texas Tech University in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in geoscience. He retired from military service in 1984 and passed away in 2018. Fort Hood was renamed in his honor in 2023.

JENNIFER GUELFO, PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of environmental engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr.College of Engineering, was part of a research team that found the use of a novel subclass of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) in lithium ion batteries is a growing source of pollution in air and water. Testing by the research team further found these PFAS, called bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides (bis-FASIs), demonstrate environmental persistence and ecotoxicity comparable to older notorious compounds like perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Lithium ion batteries are a key part of the growing clean energy infrastructure, with uses in electric cars and electronics, and demand is anticipated to grow exponentially over the next decade. These findings are critical in the expanding conversation of clean energy infrastructure.

JOHN GRANIER, PH.D., ’01, ’03, ’05, an alumnus of the Whitacre College of Engineering and former faculty member, and his team at Element U.S. Space & Defense will join the Texas Tech Combustion Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering to research combustion dynamics in gun chambers. He and his team are working on the problem of hang fire – the phenomenon that occurs when the hammer or firing pin of the gun fell and although the shot was not immediate, the ignition process was initiated, thus causing a delayed discharge, often unbeknownst to the operator. With this deadly issue in mind, the DOD has made a multimillion-dollar investment to explore the intricate process of gun propellant ignition and its effects on interior ballistics through a workforce development program led by MICHELLE PANTOYA, PH.D., THE J.W. WRIGHT REGENTS ENDOWED CHAIR PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING at Texas Tech University. Granier is a former graduate student of Pantoya’s.

Van Gestel

Guelfo

Cavazos

Pantoya; to her right is Granier and their research team.

NATASJA VAN GESTEL,

TEXAS TECH HAS ESTABLISHED A new academic partnership with Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. The two universities are teaming up to provide applied physics majors from Southwestern University with the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Texas Tech. The collaboration is designed to encourage students to seek education beyond a baccalaureate degree by creating an accelerated pathway from undergraduate studies to a master’s degree. Through the partnership, Southwestern students who complete their bachelor’s degree in applied physics will now have the opportunity to transition seamlessly into the master of mechanical engineering program at Texas Tech, completing both degrees in just five years. The universities will collaborate to ensure eligible students are not required to repeat competencies already achieved, establish a seamless transfer process, increase graduate-level student enrollment, create community-oriented academic engagement and expand educational opportunities for students.

THE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR CLINIC IN the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources began offering its behavior modification and training services to the community in September. The student focused program will be led by faculty members from the Department of Animal & Food Sciences who specialize in companion animal science. The clinic provides affordable, science-based dog training to the public while giving students hands-on learning opportunities under the supervision of experienced professors.

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A TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFT OF A conservation-winning ranch will become a research, teaching and engagement hub for Texas Tech and the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources. Murray Randle, owner of 7R Ranch in Granbury, Texas, signed an estate gift agreement with Texas Tech and Davis College earlier this year, marking a first-of-its-kind property gift to the university and the college. With the extensive work Randle has done in the conservation space on the 7R Ranch, the property is a haven for wildlife, plant and natural resources management research and will benefit students and researchers for many years to come.

DARIA GUSEVA

7R Ranch

THROUGH THE ARCHES

BRIEFLY

TEXAS TECH INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

DISPLAYED the “High and Dry: A Photographic Exhibition of Peoples and Places of the World’s Dry Lands” exhibit from December 2024 until February 2025. This annual photographic competition – now in its 24th year – attracts hundreds of artists from across the nation as they respond to some aspect of life in an arid or semi-arid region,with submissions ranging from sand dunes in the Sahara Desert to ghost towns in Terlingua, Texas. Steve Goff, a retired professor and former Program Head of Photography at Odessa College, served as this year’s juror. The exhibit can be viewed in the International Cultural Center and is free and open to the public.

For more information and to see the full exhibit scan the QR code below:

1. Kiva of Pecos Pueblo - Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico. Photo by Sharon Mouser

Tsemo Namgyal MonasteryLadakh, India. Photo by Martha Bohn

Sunset at Santa Elena CanyonBrewster County, Texas. Photo by Richard Acosta

Rajas than Desert FestivalJaisalmer, India. Photo by Matt Sims

Inside Arizona Slot Canyon. Photo by Richard Jespers

Murmuration - Lubbock, Texas. Photo by Sandy Fortenberry

Buffalo Dancers - Flagstaff, Arizona. Photo by Wes Odell

BRENT ROSS FEARLESS CHAMPION AWARD

The TTAA is accepting nominations for Brent Ross Fearless Champion Award presented by the Texas Tech Credit Union to an undergraduate student at TTU who exhibits what it means to "strive for honor," living life to the fullest and love for Texas Tech. For detailed criteria and to submit nominations, visit texastechalumni.org/brentross.

The recipient will be recognized at A Matador Evening on October 10.

AWAR D NOMI NAT IONS

2025 nominations for all awards will be accepted until June 16, 2025.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD

The TTAA is accepting nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is historically given to recognize and honor alumni who have made significant contributions toward furthering the excellence of TTU through outstanding accomplishments, careers and/or through extraordinary levels of service. For detailed criteria and to submit nominations, visit texastechalumni.org/DA.

Recipients will be recognized at the Distinguished Alumni Dinner on November 14.

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RAIDER ON THE RISE AWARD

The TTAA is accepting nominations for the Raider on the Rise Award, sponsored by Crown Royal, which recognizes up-and-coming Red Raiders under 45 who have made proven contributions to their community through professional expertise, public service and/or civic activities. For detailed criteria and to submit a nomination, visit texastechalumni.org/raiderontherise.

The recipient will be recognized at the Distinguished Alumni Dinner on November 14.

EVENTS

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE UPCOMING TTAA EVENTS.

SEPTEMBER 12 2025 Alumni Cup golf tournament | OCTOBER 10 A Matador Evening celebrating the Lauro F. Cavazos Award, Distinguished Service Award and Brent Ross Fearless Champion Award honorees | OCTOBER 11 — TTU Homecoming | NOVEMBER 14 Distinguished Alumni Dinner recognizing the Distinguished Alumni Award and Raider on the Rise honorees

SPORTS

TEXAS TECH HAS BEEN NAMED the Big 12 Conference’s most valuable college athletic program. According to a recent CNBC ranking that lists the 75 most valuable college athletic programs in the nation, Texas Tech comes out at 33rd overall, the top spot for any Big 12 school, with the University of Kansas the closest behind at 37th. In the report, Texas Tech is valued at $619 million with a revenue of $147 million.

GRAHAM HARRELL, THE RECORD-SETTING QUARTERBACK who rewrote the NCAA record book during his Texas Tech career, will become the seventh Red Raider in program history to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation (NFF) announced Jan. 15 as part of its unveiling of the 2025 class. Harrell was among the 18 college football greats and four former coaches named to the 2025 class of the College Football Hall of Fame, which will be formally inducted during the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 9 in Las Vegas. The announcement was made during “College Football Live” on ESPN2. Once inducted, Harrell will join a prestigious group of fellow Red Raiders already in the College Football Hall of Fame, a list including E.J. Holub (inducted in 1986), Donny Anderson (1989 class), Dave Parks (2008 class), Gabe Rivera (2012 class), Zach Thomas (2015 class) and his former teammate Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech's most-recent inductee as part of the 2022 class.

Harrell

D1SOFTBALL RELEASED ITS 2025 PRESEASON Top 25 Poll Jan. 21. Texas Tech came in at No. 13 making them the third highest rated Big 12 team behind Oklahoma State (No. 5) and Arizona (No. 12). Tech was also ranked in Softball America's Preseason Top 25 Poll where they were slotted at No. 9. The Red Raiders opened their season on Feb. 6 in the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Clearwater, Florida.

NIJAREE CANADY, USA SOFTBALL’S COLLEGIATE Player of the Year, has joined the Red Raider softball roster for the 2025 season. The Matador Club offered the powerhouse pitcher a record-breaking NIL deal of $1,050,024, the highest-ever NIL contract for a softball player. Canady will be joining the Red Raiders fresh off two seasons with the Stanford Cardinals, where she led the team to two Women’s College World Series. During the 2024 season, Canady registered a sport-leading 337 strikeouts in 230.2 innings pitched.

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SOFTBALL SCHEDULE

TEXAS TECH SOCCER PLAYER MACY BLACKBURN was named a Second Team All-American by the College Sports Communicators. The honor comes fresh off her being named the Big 12's Defender of the Year and a First Team United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American. This is her second AllAmerican honor this cycle and her third career honor. Blackburn was previously tabbed a Third Team All-American in 2023 before earning First Team honors this season. She was also named a semifinalist for the 2024 Women’s MAC Hermann Trophy. This season Blackburn scored twice and had 10 assists in 19 games played and 18 starts.

TEXAS TECH ALUM LUDVIG ÅBERG earned his second PGA Tour win Feb. 16, claiming victory at the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines Golf Club. The former PGA Tour University No. 1 and Red Raider (2019-23), birdied four of his last six holes on the back nine of Torrey Pines' South Course, capped by a dramatic 6-foot, 9-inch birdie putt on hole No. 18 to edge out Maverick McNealy by one stroke for the win.

Åberg finished atop the Genesis Invitational leaderboard with a 12-under-par 276, shooting a final round 6-under 66 on Feb. 16. Åberg now sits in first on the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup standings with 700 points. His earnings for winning the Tour's third Signature Event also sent him soaring to the top of the Tour money list with Sunday's $4 million paycheck, after beginning the week in 30th place.

Canady

Blackburn

Åberg

ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY anticipated recruiting classes in Texas Tech history arrived on campus in January as head coach Joey McGuire and his staff welcomed 26 mid-year additions for the start of the spring semester. Texas Tech has been the talk of college football since the transfer portal opened in December 2024 with the Red Raiders signing what is considered the nation’s top class according to On3.com. The transfer class is also ranked second nationally currently by both 247Sports and ESPN, raising expectations for a Texas Tech program that is coming off its fourth-consecutive bowl appearance and an 8-5 record in McGuire’s third season. The group includes 17 transfers and eight high school signees. Texas Tech’s other 10 high school signees from the 2025 class are expected to arrive in June.

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IT WAS A WILD NIGHT AT THE United Supermarkets Arena Feb. 24, 2025, when No. 9 Texas Tech squared off against No. 3 Houston. While the top-10 Red Raiders didn’t

fare so well, taking an L (61/Tech-69/Houston), one Tech student hit the jackpot.

Blake Porter, a Lubbock native who is pursuing a finance major with a data analytics minor in the Rawls College of Business, was chosen to participate in a halftime contest: putting a golf ball across the court. Not only did he make the putt, but the feat landed him on the national stage. After shoulder-bumping Patrick Mahomes, who was attending the game and seated front-row, Porter caught the attention of media sources all around the country, resulting in an invitation to appear on the “Today Show” in New York, where he was informed the Texas Tech Department of Athletics would pay his tuition for Fall 2025 and Adidas made him an honorary member of Team Mahomes.

“Thanks to Texas Tech and Patrick Mahomes, my life will never be the same,” Porter says. “Hitting that 94-foot putt was crazy enough, but all the attention that it brought has made this experience so unbelievably insane. I’m so thankful for Adidas, Patrick Mahomes, Texas Tech and the “Today Show” and all they’ve done for me. I will never recover from this crazy and awesome moment. Wreck ’em!”

SHIEL WOOD HAS ARRIVED AS Texas Tech football’s new defensive coordinator. One of the top up-and-coming defensive coaches in the country, Wood arrives at Texas Tech following one season in a similar position at Houston where he helped the Cougars transform into one of the Big 12 Conference's top defenses this past season. Wood boasts 15 years of experience at the Division I level and has been a defensive coordinator each of the past four seasons with stops at Army, Troy and Tulane.

MACK LEFTWICH HAS BEEN CHOSEN as Texas Tech's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Leftwich arrives at Texas Tech following two seasons at Texas State where he has developed one of the nation's top offenses as the Bobcats have led the Sun Belt Conference and ranked in the top 15 nationally for total offense and scoring each of the last two years.

BASEBALL SCHEDULE

Blake Porter appeared on the "Today Show" to discuss his winning putt.

Mahomes, left, and Porter celebrate the putt.

The TTAA offers hundreds of scholarship opportunities for future and current Red Raiders. In addition, TTAA chapters also provide scholarships for students from their areas. These awards are based on hometown, academic achievement, honors, activities and financial need.

www.texastechalumni.org/scholarships OFFERING ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS IS AT THE HEART OF THE TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’S MISSION ALONGSIDE MANY ALUMNI CHAPTERS, ALL SUPPORTING NEXT-GENERATION TECHSANS.

Keep an eye out in every 2025 issue of the Texas Techsan magazine to learn about its history through the years

19691987

rom 1969-1987, the Texas Techsan magazine reflected change and exciting times for both the Texas Tech Alumni Association and the university. On Sept. 1, 1969, the Texas State Legislature changed the name of the school from Texas Technological College to Texas Tech University. • In July 1978, Bill Dean, Ed.D., was chosen to serve as executive director (years later, called “president”) of the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association. He went on to lead the association for 41 years. A 1961 Texas Tech marketing graduate, Dean also earned his master’s degree and doctorate in education from Texas Tech. • Dean had been director of student publications and associate professor of mass communications at Texas Tech for several years. (He continues to teach to this day.) Prior to that, he served as director of publications and taught journalism at Lubbock High School, his alma mater, and as director of student activities at Lubbock Coronado High School. • The new head of the association hired Marsha Gustafson Pfluger as editor of the Texas Techsan in Fall 1978. A journalism graduate of the University of Alabama, she was new to Lubbock. Pfluger held the editor role for 20 years, until she became associate director of the National Ranching Heritage Center in 1998. • Under Pfluger’s direction, the magazine’s size increased as member numbers grew. She added new sections and approaches to the magazine, including wider campus coverage and more feature stories. She also implemented themed issues, in which each story in an issue fit an overall theme. • In her popular “Editor’s Notebook” column, Pfluger covered everything from meeting favorite writers to saying goodbye to a beloved pet dog. She established “Texas Tech in Retrospect,” short pieces about Texas Tech history courtesy of the Southwest Collection.

Covers Through the Years

Vol. 21, No. 5, October 1969

The Texas Tech Ex-Students Association relocated to the beautiful Old Presidents’ Home on campus in Summer 1969.

Vol. 24, No. 3, September 1971

Saddle Tramp

Jim Gaspard ’72 created the Raider Red mascot in 1971. “Red” first appeared publicly that fall.

Vol. 38, No. 5, March/April 1985

The 1985 Southwest Conference Champions Red Raider Basketball Team.

Vol. 36, No.6, November/ December 1983

Jennifer AufillFontenot ’89, 1983 Masked Rider, was the third woman to earn the role.

Important People of the Magazine

FEBRUARY 1969 – FEBRUARY 1978

EDITOR

WAYNE JAMES

APRIL 1978 – JUNE 1978

ACTING EDITOR

JIM HESS

AUGUST 1978

MANAGING EDITOR

JEANNA I. BLACK

OCTOBER 1978 – MARCH 1981

EDITOR

BILL DEAN

SEPTEMBER 1978 – DECEMBER 1998

EDITOR

MARSHA GUSTAFSON

During these years, the covers of the Texas Techsan were rarely conventional. Not only did the staff move the masthead around the cover from issue to issue, but there were also times the cover was flipped to a landscape view.

Between 1960-1987, the Texas Techsan had three different mastheads. On the left-facing page are the mastheads that appeared from 1969-1982 and 1982-1985. The masthead shown below began appearing on the May/June 1985 issue.

Issues published annually

17,095

Undergrads in 1969

19,652

Undergrads in 1987

2,211 Graduates in 1969

3,350 Graduates in 1987

149,101

Lubbock Population in 1970

186,206

Lubbock Population in 1990

Closing Thoughts

From the years of 19691987, the university underwent a name change from Texas Technological College to Texas Tech University. The Texas Techsan magazine was boasting full color covers by 1969, with usually one interior page that was also printed in color. Seventeen years later, in 1987, it was still the same: a full color cover with about one other full-color page inside. The page counts climbed from 30-something pages in the 1970s to 50-something pages each issue by 1987— each issue varied slightly in page numbers. There were changes in mastheads and design improvements inside the book and, when Marsha Gustafson became the editor in 1978. The magazine began having more features about alumni instead of only campus news.

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Wine, Olive Oil and Agritourismo

by: ALLIE HERRING | photos courtesy of: STEPHEN DEPIZZO

Approximately 5,726 miles from the Texas Hill Country, there is a vineyard known as La Pievuccia. In this Tuscan valley, rustic white homes with tiled roofs sit beneath a vast blue sky, bordered by grapevines and rolling mountains. If you were to turn your gaze upward, you would see a castle in the distance – a medieval fortress rising above the otherwise green, olive grove covered landscape. The word that comes to mind? Idyllic. The owners of this property didn’t always spend their days harvesting olives, making wine and running an Italian hotel. Stephen and Jennifer DePizzo’ s journey from Texas to Tuscany has been as winding as a tiny mountainside road – though the view at the top has proved worthy of the climb.

A Dream Realized

Before moving to a new continent, the DePizzos lived in Austin, Texas, where Stephen worked in commercial real estate and Jennifer taught fifth graders. The two of them had always loved the wine industry – in fact, one of their very first dates had been at a vineyard and winery in Fredericksburg that used to run a small bed and breakfast.

“We said,‘Maybe one day we could have a property like this,’” Stephen says. “The romance of having a vineyard and winery stuck with us.”

Even though the dream of running their own vineyard and winery had been in the back of their minds for years, the DePizzos could not have predicted the turn their lives would take when Stephen got a life-changing phone call from his father one day. His father had recently gone to dinner with his brother, Stephen’s uncle, who had come across what he saw as an opportunity for the family.

“He found this property in Tuscany,” Stephen recalls his father saying to him.“It’s a bed and breakfast winery, and he wants you to run it.”

The property in question was La Pievuccia. Stephen did his due diligence, ultimately looking into about 12

Stephen and Jennifer DePizzo moved to Italy in June 2022 to pursue their dream of owning and operating a vineyard and winery.

other comparable properties, but he says he and his wife kept returning to the first place his uncle showed him – the one with the vineyard overlooking the mountain with the medieval castle on top.

In February 2021, after ordering and tasting the property’s products, they decided to put in an offer –which was promptly refused. An offer from an unknown American who hadn’t ever seen the property was not viewed, Stephen says, as a serious offer.

“I was like, ‘Okay, I guess I’m going to Tuscany,” Stephen says. “And that was my first time in Italy.”

The DePizzos closed on La Pievuccia in early 2022 and moved to Italy in June of that same year. This meant they had to figure out how to run the property, navigate the Italian infrastructure and start their new lives abroad – quick.

wOur first guest arrived on June 5,” Stephen says, “and we arrived on June 6.”

Viticulture Crash Course

During harvest time at La Pievuccia, it’s all hands on deck. The DePizzos often rely on volunteers during the busy season for both grape and olive harvest.

this time to learn the language and learn the wine business and all that. It was really just a spur of the moment decision.”

With this in mind, Stephen enrolled in the Texas Tech Viticulture Certificate Program, which is produced by the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences at Texas Tech University and is headquartered at the Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The program is a combination of online modules and in-person training at the teaching vineyard in Fredericksburg. Some of the curriculum participants are exposed to includes lessons on grapevine biology, site selection and vineyard management.

“It’s a beautiful crash course on viticulture,” Stephen says.“It’s not a bachelor’s degree in agronomy, but it was a nice down and dirty of, you know, this is what you can expect with having a vineyard.”

As much as they loved the wine industry, Stephen and Jennifer didn’t come from a background of winemakers and vineyard owners. There was a lot to learn, even without the added layer of doing business in a foreign country.

“We didn’t have plans to do this,” Stephen says. “It was something we always wanted to do, but it wasn’t like we were planning to move to Italy, and we had all

Kirk Williams, a lecturer of viticulture in the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, says he remembers the first time he met Stephen through the program and learned of his plans.

“He was the first one,” Williams says,“that was seriously going to go grow grapevines in another country.”

While working through these online courses, Stephen also started to get some hands-on experience with the vines at his friend’s vineyard in Johnson City, Texas, Lewis Wines. By the time he finished his certificate program,

Stephen was living in Italy, where he was able to apply the knowledge he learned to his own property.

“The coursework and the setup were perfect for what I needed,” Stephen says.

His experience in the program came full circle in November 2024, when Williams visited the property and was able to see the real-life application of the things Stephen had learned about in the certificate program during the lecturer’s week-long stay at La Pievuccia.

“I think [Stephen] has worked really hard,” Williams says. “I don’t think people necessarily understand the amount of work that it requires.”

The Agritourismo Experience

La Pievuccia spans 38 acres, spread throughout six different parcels of land in a small valley. There are about 15 acres of olive groves and 12 acres of grapevines, with the remainder of the land housing the main property, some farmland, some forests and the agritourismo.

For Americans thinking of agritourism back home, the examples that most readily come to mind probably include pumpkin patches, berry picking and those endless fields of tulips in which thousands of people pose for Instagram posts. Agritourismo, as they call it in Italy, is slightly different, Stephen says.

says. “They would come to specific different farms, and work and help on the farm, and then that family would give shelter and food in exchange.”

Stephen says having visitors stay on these small farms for a period of time is now a common practice throughout the country.

“Some families have gardens and all different types of poultry or sheep, and that’s their specific niche,” Stephen says. “Others are wineries.”

La Pievuccia has eight apartments for guests and can sleep about 26 people total, plus the additional spaces for camper vans in the olive groves and vineyard. They open for the agritourismo season in mid-March or early April and close around mid-October. The property, Stephen says, gives guests a unique insight into the everyday operations of a small vineyard and winery. The relaxing atmosphere doesn’t hurt, either.

Guests often spend their mornings at the pool, basking in the early Tuscan sun, or slowing down to enjoy their coffee as they walk around the picturesque Tuscan property. Stephen says the peaceful morning atmosphere is completed by the daily Italian breakfast they serve, which incorporates locally-sourced meats and produce. For those looking to explore the region, La Pievuccia is also ideally located for daytrips.

“The concept is from way back when families used to host travelers visiting north and south Italy,” Stephen

“That’s what’s great about where we’re located, on the eastern end of Tuscany,” Stephen says. “It’s kind of

Top left: Kirk Williams visited La Pievuccia in November 2024.

Pictured left to right: Williams, his wife Shawn, Jennifer DePizzo and Stephen DePizzo.

we’re all working together for one common goal, and that’s the success of this place.

like a stopping point, a home base, where you can visit all these beautiful historic towns throughout Tuscany within 40 minutes to an hour.”

Working the Land

As it turns out, working together is not an entirely new concept for Stephen and Jennifer. The two actually met while working at a restaurant in Austin where Jennifer started as Stephen’s trainer.

This has come in handy at La Pievuccia, where they are both kept busy with the daily running of the property. Jennifer mainly focuses on guest interactions and the agritourismo, while Stephen spends much of his time in the vineyard and the olive grove.

The property, which has been certified organic since 1994, had some issues with overgrowth when they bought it. Stephen says improving the health of the vineyard and the olive grove has been a top priority of his, which aligns well with their new community.

“People here in Italy are very passionate about farming, and very passionate about their soil,” Stephen says. “Tuscan soil is unlike any that I’ve ever seen – it’s very specific and very beautiful.”

Attention to detail sets La Pievuccia apart – the charm of Tuscany is clear in every nook and cranny of the property, such as the Tuscan breakfast spread above.

“We have this 88-year-old neighbor, and he was born and raised in this property. He lives right next door,” Stephen says. “The guy cried twice this year, looking at the vines…you could just see the pride in his face.”

Deep Roots

Stephen comes from a “proud Italian American family” in Youngstown, Ohio, but the experience of living and working in Tuscany has made him feel more connected to his heritage than ever before.

“We had the opportunity to go to one of my great-grandfather’s villages,” Stephen says, “and I felt so connected to that village.”

His heritage has also helped him to pull some clout with locals: “Living in America and then coming here to live as an Italian – they respect that.”

La Pievuccia is a very historic and well-known farm in the region, Stephen says. Noticing the value of the property and taking it on was the first step, but the DePizzos had to be intentional as they integrated themselves into the community.

The DePizzos’ efforts to improve the land since taking over the property have been rewarded with increased yields and high-quality fruit, to the point where even those around them have taken notice.

“We had to come into this small village…everybody knows each other here,” Stephen says.“Everybody knows what’s going on.”

Stephen says he was surprised by how welcoming the locals were, but he attributes much of that to the way he and Jennifer approached owning and operating the property.

“People look at you like, ‘Wow, you’re actually out there in the fields!’” Stephen says. “People see that – they see you dirty, walking around town – you’re not just some owner who owns the winery…I’m actually a worker. I’m in the vineyard, my knees are dirty, my fingernails are dirty, and they see that, notice that, and they respect that.”

Stephen says he and his wife view the opportunity to own La Pievuccia and work its land as an honor, and he thinks their new community can sense that.

“[The locals] see that we care deeply for this property and the land and the work we’re doing, and that translates to how they welcomed us as neighbors and business owners in the town,” Stephen says.

The warm welcome from the community has helped with some of the challenges of running a business in a foreign country – especially since Stephen and Jennifer are still learning the language.

Stephen says they have a team of local Italian folks who are also working on their English, who help them by sitting in on meetings, translating and generally bridging the gap.

“We would just not be able to do it without them, to tell you the truth,” Stephen says. “We’ve become family from it, spending so much time, putting so much effort into revitalizing this farm.”

The motivation, Stephen says, is simple.

Grapes Grown: Chardonnay Incrocio Manzoni Sangiovese Merlot

Plus extra virgin olive oil

Scan the QR code to see La Pievuccia website:

“We’re all working together for one common goal,” Stephen says, “and that’s the success of this place.”

Rogers' friend Sam Ayers, Ed.D. '90 drew a portrait of the runner in honor of his success at The Great World Race.

USAFIT Lubbock celebrates Rogers' completing 10,000 miles.

More Miles Mike

Mike Rogers’ love of running long distances has earned him the nickname “More Miles Mike.”

People take up running for many reasons – for cardio strengthening, to relieve stress, for a challenge or simply because they enjoy it. Mike Rogers of Lubbock can tick off all of those boxes plus a few more as to why he gets up before the crack of dawn to run. Rain or shine, cold or hot, he’s out there, beating the pavement while enjoying the feeling of freedom running provides.

Since he began running marathons regularly in 2010, Rogers has completed 50 such events. His plan has been to enter one marathon a month, but he enjoys the experience so much that he continually seeks out more races. He has gotten faster, and the races have gotten easier for him. The more he runs, the more he wants to run.

In November 2024, Rogers competed in The Great World Race™, known as “Around the

World in 7 Days™.” Simply put, he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.

“My wife found the World Race,” Rogers says.“I really didn’t want to go, but she said I had to. She was very sure I would complete the race.”

So, he signed up for it.

“It was a bucket list trip,” says his wife, Cathy Lowe Rogers. “We tried to find the biggest race we could, and that was it. I thought that after this race, he could cherry-pick what he wanted to run and not have any pressure. He wouldn’t have to run every race because he’s already run the big one.”

The Great World Race, based in Ireland, is owned by Ice Cap Adventures, Ltd. It is organized by race director and CEO David Kelly, an Irish physician and former international cross-country runner. He has overseen, medically, several endurance events in Antarctica and at the North Pole. In addition to Kelly, seven other physicians from Ireland and two physical therapists support the 60 runners who participate each year.

By Jean Ann Cantore

Photos courtesy of Mike Rogers

Rogers enjoys showing off his hardware from The Great World Race, 2024.

The competition begins on one continent and progresses over the next week through six more continents. Participants run a marathon or half-marathon and then fly on a chartered plane to the next of the seven race locations. Although records are set during the World Race, most participants just relish in having completed such a difficult feat.

“I ran 144.1 miles during The Great World Race and in order to train, I ran 60 to 80 miles per week – around 280 to 300 miles per month,” Rogers says. “Since then, I’ve run 15 to 20 miles per week. I ran 1,650 miles last year. I prefer running on the street or sidewalk, but it’s important to also train off road or on trails. I think that 45 to 65 degrees temperature is the perfect weather to run in, but I can’t control that. I end up running in all sorts of weather when I’m training for a big race.”

Getting ready for such an event doesn’t happen overnight or even in a year. In fact, you could say that Rogers’ training for The World Race began when he was a teenager, growing up in Brownfield, Texas.

“I started running cross country when I was a student at Brownfield High School,” Rogers says.“I pursued it for three years and ran three marathons. When I was a senior, I quit track to focus on my studies. James Morris was my coach in junior high and high school. He eventually moved on to coach at South Plains College and then to coach Olympians for the 1976 games.

“I enjoyed running throughout high school and college. Whenever I had something to think about, I’d run.”

Rogers excelled in science and math in high school and wanted to pursue a career in health care; he chose medical technology. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1973 from Texas Tech University and then went directly into the med tech program at the then-named Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Upon completing that segment of his education and becoming a medical technician, he moved to Dallas for a couple of years.

Although he devoted most of his time in college to academics and afterward, to his career, he ran whenever he could find the time. He also enjoyed golfing. Church was important to him, as well.

“I moved back to Lubbock to work at Methodist Hospital again, where I met my wife, Cathy,” he says. “She also was a med tech who graduated from Texas Tech – in 1981. We got married and had two kids, Joshua and Rachel. I gave up running when I became a dad in my late 30s.”

USAFIT Lubbock presented Rogers with a sign congratulating him on completing 10,000 miles of running with USAFIT Lubbock in Summer 2024 before The Great World Race.

"He just runs. He always runs. When I got to know him, I found that it is true –he just runs."

In 2010, a phone call from a high school track buddy changed Rogers’ life.

“A friend from high school I ran a marathon with back then called and asked me to join him in a marathon,” Rogers says, “I was overweight and really hadn’t run much in 30 years. He talked me into it. I told him I needed to get in shape.

“So I began running again. At the same time, John Matthews, the youth minister at our church, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Lubbock, started a running group. I became one of the first members of USAFIT Lubbock, a chapter of the national organization USAFIT. Matthews and the group got me in shape for the race.”

The runner and his high school buddy chose to take part in a marathon in Washington, D.C.

Rogers remembers it as a horrible experience and that the last six or seven miles were especially hard. He recalls that his friend and his friend’s wife were running just ahead of him and kept looking back at him with concern but that he stuck it out and finished the race.

After the race, he and his friends ate dinner together. Then, medal in hand, Rogers boarded a plane for Lubbock. He thought he’d never run again.

However, a couple of days after the D.C. event, the runner put on running clothes and took off. It was the start of his second career as a marathoner.

“I have had the privilege of knowing Mike since 2017, when I joined USAFIT Lubbock to become a better runner,” says Shawna Wilson, who became his running coach. “When I met Mike, everyone said, ‘He just runs. He always runs.’ When I got to know him, I found that it is true – he just runs.

“We have run many miles together. As a coach, I create routes and Mike sort of sticks to the routes and sometimes runs off the grid and many of us will follow him. We find lots of statues and murals along our routes to take pictures of, which makes all runs fun.”

Wilson also is complimentary of Rogers’ wisdom about running and the many tips he offers his fellow athletes.

During the next 13 years or so, Rogers ran marathons and even entered a series race, where runners participate in several half-marathons (13.1 miles) or marathons (26.2 miles) across several states or a region over two or three days. Marathon Mike chose the October series race the “Day of the Dead” in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It involved five half-marathons.

Series racing gave the Rogers a taste of what to expect in The Great World Race. In addition to the distance factor, challenges included varying terrain and altitude. However “the big one,” as Cathy Rogers calls this ultimate race, was a different animal. It required hours of plane travel through numerous time zones. Varying climates and altitudes were a consideration, too. Rogers approached the adventure by training with longer runs in different environments.

“The World Race was harder than running in series,” Rogers says. “In a series, you can get to the next place in a couple of hours and sleep in a hotel. Not so in this big world race.”

Rogers’ World Race was in November 2024. His adventure began in Wolf’s Fang, Antarctica, then continued to Cape Town, South Africa; Perth, Australia; Istanbul, Turkey (European side); Istanbul, Turkey (Asian side) and Cartagena, Colombia. It ended in Miami, Florida.

Day 1

Wolf’s Fang, Antarctica 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit with snow and ice

“My favorite thing was getting to run in Antarctica,” Rogers says. “Getting off the plane in Antarctica, seeing ice and snow in every direction and knowing not many people had run there was exciting. The sun never went down, and we started when it was at its highest point. It was Day 1, so I was fresh.”

Day 2

Cape Town, South Africa

Mid-70s with little rain and 10 hours of sunshine

The flight time from Antarctica to South Africa is a little more than five hours. Rogers notes that it was important to sleep on the plane. He adds that eating enough calories is a challenge in distance running.

“The people in Cape Town were wonderful,” he says. “The local running clubs had many volunteers there who were very supportive of us, providing water and food.”

"It was great to get back home, but looking back on the race, every place we went was wonderful in its own right."

Day 3

Perth, Australia

Mid-70s to low 80s with ample sunshine

Perth is a popular spot for outdoor activities especially in the spring months of September, October and November. So it was a great place for The World Race participants to run. Rogers says the people of Perth also were very helpful to the runners.

Day 4&5

Istanbul, Turkey (Europe) & Istanbul (Asia) 60s with moderate rainfall

“The race took place for two days in Istanbul, one day on the European side, north of Bospros, and one day on the Asian side by the Black Sea,” Rogers says. “We ran in the rain and in the dark. Attrition began to take its toll as well as jet lag. Then I found out I could run either half-marathons or full ones. I chose to run a half-marathon on Day 5, so I was able to sleep in the hotel, shower and get to breakfast before the run.”

Day 6

Cartagena, Colombia

Heat index of 102 degrees Fahrenheit

“It was 95 degrees when I started running a half-marathon,” Rogers says.“There was a young man trying to set a record of completing the run in two hours. I saw that he was staggering and looking dazed at one point and wanted to help him. However, First Aid workers took him off the course. He’d had a heat stroke but ended up being OK.

“At every kilo, there were aid stations with water and ice. I began eating ice for hydration until a fellow runner told me it was not clean.”

Day 7

Miami, Florida, United States 80s and dry

Rogers had completed all seven days of the race. Back on American soil, he was met by his wife, Cathy, who was happy to be there to greet him.

“It was great to get back home, but looking back on the race, every place we went was wonderful in its own right,” he says. “I had a great time and made some great friends.”

Rogers realizes now how much his accomplishment has meant to his running group. He also has let them know how much he has appreciated his friends’ support.

Paul Faulkner and Rogers have been friends for more than 35 years and have become even better friends since they started running together in 2011. Also a Texas Tech graduate (1976), Faulkner runs regularly with his friend – a favorite route is going through campus. Faulkner is a coach and organizer with USAFIT Lubbock.

“We vicariously followed Mike on social media during his ‘7 Marathons on 7 Continents in 7 Days,’” Faulkner says of the local running group. “We had a group of Lubbock FIT members, family and friends meet at the Lubbock airport to welcome him triumphantly home.

“As he stepped off the airplane to the welcoming throng, he handed me a birthday card. (Coincidentally, Rogers’ return happened to be on Faulkner’s birthday.) After a worldwide trip, Mike remembered my birthday. That’s the kind of person that Mike Rogers is. Mike is a friend and a leader who puts others ahead of himself.”

Cathy Rogers adds that her spouse is, indeed, an inspiration. She notes that their grown daughter, Rachel, says,“Dad is in his 70s, but he runs circles around me.”

Despite his many athletic successes, Rogers remains humble. As he puts it,“Anyone really can do this.”

Rogers plans to keep on running races. After all, he is More Miles Mike.

To learn more about The Great World Race, scan the QR code or visit thegreatworldrace.com

THE LEGACY OF ROSA FINSLEY

Nature's CaNvas

To the untrained eye, an unassuming plot of land sits vacant. The untamed terrain is easy to pass without giving a second glance. It is nothing special and certainly not a work of art.

Yet Rosa Finsley, an accredited landscape architect and 1963 Texas Tech University alumna, sees a blank page ready to be transformed into something beautiful. On this natural canvas, brushstrokes are made with life itself. A careful selection of plants, rocks, color palettes

and other natural elements are placed intentionally to create something entirely new.

A collaboration between left and right brain, The Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) describes the profession as a melding of the scientific and artistic. Landscape architects create spaces designed for human beings and inspired by nature that help make our communities better places to live, work and play.

By: Lindsay Dube

Photos By:Jeremy Enlow/Steel shutter photography

SEEDS OF SUCCESS

Native to Lancaster, Texas, a small town just south of Dallas, Finsley developed a strong connection with West Texas growing up through family visits to Levelland to see her relatives.

“We’d drive right by the campus and I was horse crazy at that time, still am for that matter,” Finsley said with a laugh.“But, I used to just press my nose to the window going by the farms out by Tech, and said, ‘Someday, I’m gonna go there.’”

Even with a strong connection to Texas Tech, Finsley only intended to stay in Lubbock for two years, then planned on transferring to Stanford University to major in oceanography.

“I called Stanford and made arrangements to go to Tech for two years because it was a lot cheaper, and it’s where I wanted to go anyway,” Finsley recalled. “I was going to transfer to Stanford for the last two years but I got involved in horticulture.”

Her heart had been captured by the folks in West Texas and she had fallen in love with the horticulture program working under Elo J. Urbanovsky and other department leaders.

“It’s unlike any college experience I’ve ever had,” Finsley said.“It was totally enveloping. It really is. I tell people the land is flat, but the people are wonderful.”

While taking a horticulture course as a non-major her freshman year, Finsley began working in the greenhouse on campus for 80¢ an hour. With all A’s and some work experience under her belt, Finsley was connected with the Dallas Zoo by Urbanovsky, department head at the time. He proposed that she spend the summer working in the zoo’s park department and if she enjoyed it, to come back and officially declare as a park administration major at Texas Tech. So that’s exactly what she did.

Even with all the encouragement from her professors and her natural knack for the field, Finsley was unsure how her mother and father, a librarian and World War II veteran, respectively, would react to her change in plans.

“You know, my dad was always very supportive and my mother was always very much a professional in the library type,” Finsley said.“I wasn’t sure whether either one of them were going to like the whole idea of having to change from marine biologist to landscape, but they did. They bought into it.”

Anybody can drop

A lot of plants but it tAkes somebody thAt’s gonnA be Artistic to mAke it work.

“I landscaped our place first, and I did that during the summer that I worked at the zoo. So they approved. They said, ‘Okay, we’ve got our place tidied up now, now we’ll go send you more people’.”

Officially a park administration major, Finsley returned for her sophomore year and was awarded a $200 scholarship from the District 1 Texas Garden Club. For Finsley, this was more than just financial support, it was an unmistakable sign her community believed in her. For the first time, folks were betting on her success rather than against it.

“That was a pretty big deal to me,” Finsley said. “It wasn’t a big amount of money even then, but it said to me that there were all these people that loved what I was doing, you know, and liked what I was doing. It gave me the nerve to go ahead.”

She went on to consecutively earn the scholarship through her junior and senior years. During all four years at Texas Tech, Finsley continued to work on-campus at the greenhouses and stayed engaged through her involvement in the The Goin’ Band from Raiderland and other social organizations.

“I think I preferred being busy,” Finsley said. “If I had time and someone said, ‘Why don’t you join this such and such?’ I seemed to join it.”

ROOTED IN RESILIENCE

The first woman to graduate with a Park Administration degree from Texas Tech, Finsley started her professional career by returning to work at the Dallas Zoo. After five years, she was searching for a way to propel her career to the next level.

“When I was at the zoo, after five years I hadn’t gained any kind of recognition and I was still working at the same jobs,” Finsley said. “I decided at that time that I was going to have to start my own company if I was ever going to get ahead, so that’s what I did.”

Ready to take her career into her own hands she opened her own business, Kings Creek Landscaping in Cedar Hill, Texas, which she ran successfully for more than 20 years.

Having completed work all over the country, including in Denver, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and even as far as California, her creative

process always includes a trip to the site to take in the land and drive inspiration.

“I’ll go to a site and just sit there for a while,” Finsley said. “Maybe an hour or two and just kinda soak in the site to try to figure out how it’s used and how it’s gonna be done.”

“Those are the sites that I enjoy the most. And a lot of times, it’s just a matter of going and sitting for a while, and it’s amazing all the different things that come to mind when you do that.”

Experienced in residential, commercial and private projects, one that stands out as a favorite in Finsley’s career is ‘The Bartlit Residence’. Located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the project was a massive undertaking that earned her a coveted spot in Architectural Digest for her part as the landscape architect.

“I never even met the owners until we were about halfway through the job,” Finsley said with a chuckle. “They were really busy…so all I could do was do what I thought I needed doing. I worked a lot with native plants and it was kind of neat going to an area that had native plants different from the ones that were [in Texas].

SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE OF TOMORROW

Similar to her time at Texas Tech, Finsley was one of the few women to enter the landscape architecture profession. Well after her graduation, Finsley continued to trailblaze in a field traditionally dominated by men. Reflecting on her experiences, she acknowledged that the lack of representation in her field had its challenges and forced her to reach a higher standard.

“Being the only woman at that point, you just go where you’re appreciated,” Finsley said.“One of the things I did was I learned how to do things. I didn’t leave it up to somebody that I hired to do it. I never took on a job that I didn’t know how to do.”

Despite its challenges, Finsley has witnessed the profession evolve throughout the decades of her career and is encouraged to see more young women pursuing careers in landscape architecture.

“There’s a lot more women landscape architects and I give them the same advice,” Finsley said.“Go to the job and kinda sit there and just figure out what there and how it’s gonna be used and things like that. Anybody can drop a lot of plants but it takes somebody that’s gonna be artistic to make it work.”

Now in her 70s and self-described as ‘semi-retired’, Finsley is still working for a few select long-standing clients. She has helped mentor the next generation of landscape architects as a guest lecturer at several universities. Her advice was simple: learn the plants.

“The trick is to get interesting jobs and then put your heart and soul into it,” Finsley said.“When you like your work, it’s not really work to go to work”.

BARBEQUE

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BY JEREMY ENLOW

BY JENNIFER RITZ

HOW ONE RED RAIDER ENDED UP MARKETING THE HARD EIGHT BBQ RESTAURANTS AND THE BOUTIQUE HOTEL LUCY AND ACCOMPANYING THE PEARL BOUTIQUE.

PHOTOS

KKatie Cook Gooch ’14, knew what she was doing when she opted to major in public relations. With a bright smile and an abundance of energy, she has crafted a perfect role in the world of PR, blending her resourcefulness and outgoing personality into two separate but similar industries: a boutique hotel and gift shop and a family of five BBQ restaurants.

The businesses are very different but equally vibrant and they all have flourished with the help of Gooch’s hard work.

Gooch grew up in Bridgeport, Texas, about 50 miles north-northwest of Fort Worth. She was always very outgoing and competitive, enjoying participating in one-act play and 4-H and FFA leadership competitions and livestock shows. She was familiar with Texas Tech through her FFA experiences.

“I actually had a housing deposit down to go to another university,” she says. “My cousin and I were graduating at the same time and we decided to go to Tech for a visit…so I thought, oh yeah, we’ll jump in and check it out. And I fell in love with it and canceled the housing deposit.”

Gooch says the genuine nature and kindness of the people she met on campus sold her on Texas Tech. After a long discussion with her mom, and toying with then tossing the idea of becoming a news anchor, she settled on a major that would complement her abilities.

“And so that’s when we started looking into PR and I quickly realized it would be a good fit,” Gooch says. “And it was a very versatile degree. You don’t know what you want to do when you’re a freshman, but, looking down the road at graduation, I knew I could use a PR degree in a lot of different ways.”

And her post-college work experience has been as varied as her degree. When she graduated, she lived in Plano and worked as

the marketing manager for a landscaping company, Superscapes, Inc., in Celina, Texas. She says she enjoyed that first job because she was given the freedom to build the company’s marketing plan from scratch.

From there, she accepted a position with the Southwest Airlines Federal Credit Union in Dallas.

“I wanted to go and travel and do,” she says. “And so that’s when I took a job with Southwest Airlines and I worked for the Southwest Airlines Federal Credit Union, doing business development and marketing for them. I loved it. I was traveling a lot, but it was a really great experience and a great company to work for.”

After about two years with Southwest Airlines, Gooch was scrolling social media when she stumbled across what would become a career-changing post from long-time family friend Vicki Nivens. Nivens owns the Hard Eight BBQ restaurants as well as Hotel Lucy and The Pearl gift shop in Granbury, Texas.

“I feel like I have known Vicki Nivens my whole life,” says Gooch. “And she randomly posted on Facebook that she was looking for a marketing public relations person. Since I had just gotten married, the traveling wasn’t near as glamorous as it had been in the beginning…So I sent her a message.”

Nivens was excited at the prospect of hiring Gooch and knew she would be a great fit.

“I met Katie when she was probably five, I guess,” Nivens says. “Her mom and I are really good friends…Katie was always one of those who was so above her age…she was so proper. I’d call their house and when she answered I’d say, ‘Hey Katie.’ She would say, ‘Well, good morning Ms. Vicki,’ or she would answer the phone and say, ‘Cook residence, how may I help you?’ So, she’s always had it going on.”

Gooch began working with Nivens in May 2017. Because the Nivens had never employed any marketing personnel, Gooch was able to craft the position into what she saw as the best fit for the Hard Eight BBQ restaurants.

“ I look back and I think, ‘I was so young and they just really trusted me to jump in and be a self-starter,’ and I did it!” Gooch says. “I grew to love the people at Hard Eight and I really started paying attention to the brand in general and how we could grow. I became involved in…more than just marketing

HOTEL LUCY THE PEARL A N D

Gooch and her husband, Hal, have identical twin boys. When Niven found out Gooch and another employee, Abbey, were pregnant, she purchased a house across the street from Hotel Lucy and refurbished it. She hired a nanny who watches Gooch and Abbey’s children so they can be close by and the mothers can pop in anytime.

and Gooch.

Left: Brianna Vinson, store manager at The Pearl,

If you think Granbury is a beautiful little town, you should see the inside of HOTEL LUCY and the accompanying properties. Opened in August 2020, the hotel— which includes three nearby houses and 12 rooms — boasts views of the lake from some rooms and views of the treeencompassed courtyard and pool area from others. Each room has a theme and every single one is stunningly designed. Right off Pearl Street and walking distance from the town square, part of the hotel’s footprint includes THE PEARL at Hotel Lucy, a gift shop glittering with irresistible goodies, from bath salts to the latest fashions and home goods.

because I’ve always been a self-starter and I really grew to love the company.

As Gooch’s responsibilities grew alongside the Hard Eight brand, she was promoted to the executive director role in early 2020. In August of 2020, Gooch also was named executive director of Nivens’ new venture: Hotel Lucy.

“As the Hotel Lucy construction project was wrapping up, I came and helped with smaller projects,” Gooch says. “When they were getting ready to start marketing and advertising this new hotel, I thought, ‘This hotel is ready to open, but who’s going to set up all these processes and who’s going to run it?’ I went to Vicki and I said,‘I see a hole here and I can help you start this hotel and run it.’”

Gooch was confident she could oversee all of Niven’s brands, from the five BBQ restaurants to a new hotel and gift shop.

“That’s how my executive director role came to be,” Gooch says.“Mind you, we were opening a hotel in Fall of 2020 (during COVID), which ended up being a great thing. People were ready to get out and ready to travel, even if it was just locally from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.”

In addition to the marketing and PR components of her position, Gooch says philanthropy is a big part of her job.

“We are so involved in all of our communities,” Gooch notes. “I’ve never in my life met a more giving person than Vicki, and the giving back part of our job is so fun. We are involved with a lot of local sports groups. She seems to have a table at every charitable function that there is. She buys 4-H and FFA animals at the county shows.”

If one were to ask Gooch to provide a job description, she says it would be tough.

“The other day Vicki and I were talking about making job descriptions and we just looked at each other and laughed,” she says. “I don't even know what all I would put on mine because it’s just different day to day because we're always changing. We’re always growing, always trying to do the next big thing, whether it’s the restaurants or the hotel. But I love it. I love that I don't go and sit at a desk and do the same thing every day. And I love the people that I work for. I love the people that work underneath me. I enjoy the people aspect of my job so much, too.”

HARD EIGHT BBQ

The Nivens (Vicki and her late husband, Phillip, and their son-in-law Chad Decker and his wife, Carie) opened the first HARD EIGHT BBQ restaurant in 2003 in Stephenville, Texas. Today there are five locations. In addition to Stephenville, the other locations are The Colony, Coppell, Roanoke and Burleson.

a FARM BOY AND FOOTBALL

by HOLLIS DAVIS, ’53, BS CHEMISTRY

Iwas born in february of 1931, and I grew up on a farm near Purcell, Oklahoma. In the eighth grade, I started to work out in the fall with the high school varsity football team, even though it was illegal for me to do so. I never even attended any of the high school football games that year, which was the fall of 1944. I stuck with it and ended up working out with the varsity during spring training that year, then I moved up to second string fullback and was able to play in the spring game in 1945.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to go to college and I decided that the way for me to get an education was to get a football scholarship. Before I began playing football, I had never even seen a football game, but I had listened (on the radio) to some of the games that Oklahoma State played. I believe Bob Fenimore was their star running back.

I was very excited about playing football and was disappointed to learn after spring training that our coach was moving to Norman (Oklahoma). He came to our house and offered to get my mother a job in Norman if we would move there. He even promised me a scholarship to OU when I graduated from high school. This was great news to a farm boy who had only seen one football game that he played in as a second-string fullback. It certainly reinforced my goal of getting a scholarship.

But my mother had other ideas, and we moved to Fort Worth. There I attended Diamond Hill High School where I played four years as a starter, the last three in the backfield. After graduation, I was looking at colleges to give me a scholarship. Texas Christian University offered me one, but they wanted me to live at home. Other offers were from small colleges.

Then Coach Allie White, who was the Texas Tech freshman football coach at the time, came to my house and offered me a scholarship to Texas Tech. He talked with my mother and gave me a round-trip airline ticket to Lubbock so I could see the campus and talk with Texas Tech Head Coach Del Morgan. I was elated.

I went to Lubbock on a DC3, but Coach Morgan took my return airline ticket and gave me a Greyhound bus ticket back to Fort Worth. I guess he wasn’t impressed. I never knew if this happened to anyone else or not.

I did get a scholarship from Coach Morgan and enrolled at Texas Tech in the fall of 1949. Coach White, who recruited me, quit Texas Tech after my first season to accept a position as a line coach at TCU. My status didn’t improve as a football player until we got new coaches.

When I was a junior, Dewitt Weaver and Wade Walker came as coaches at Texas Tech. Somehow, I made first team right tackle and made All Conference as a senior. I played in the 1952 Sun Bowl in El Paso (Texas Tech defeated the Pacific Tigers 25-14). I also made All Conference my senior year.

I doubt that would have ever happened if Del Morgan still had been my coach.

s for academics, one of the assistant coaches, Pope Robinson, told me to major in anything I chose. I decided on chemistry. As far as I know, only two other boys on scholarship majored in chemistry since 1950. The other two became doctors.

I received a degree in chemistry from Texas Tech in 1953. I was drafted and spent two years in the Navy. I thought about becoming a coach, but, instead, I spent six years at General Dynamics learning about composite materials for airplanes and rockets.

While at General Dynamics, I went to school at night and on weekends and received an MBA in engineering management from TCU. I moved to Aerojet General Corp., continued research primarily for liquid and solid rocket motors. After 22 years at Aerojet, I moved to Kaiser Aerotech as vice president of materials research and development. I retired after 12 years but continued to consult until I was 91.

I won research contracts at Aerojet and Kaiser. I am not sure, but I believe I have presented more than 15 papers on my research efforts and at least 20 reports. These reports were about research and development for rocket motors, reentry and space structures. My last consulting work was for exit cones on solid rocket motors.

I was lucky to get the right coach at Texas Tech and the right job after college. That decision I made in the eighth grade to attend college on a football scholarship turned out OK for me.

photo courtesy of HOLLIS DAVIS

THE Stairwells OF Texas Tech University

text by Jean Ann Cantore

photos by O’Jay R. Barbee

WWhen you think about the beautiful buildings of Texas Tech University, some elements that probably come to mind are the Spanish Renaissance towers, graceful arches and bright red-tile roofs. Other architectural features you might recall are the sand-colored bricks throughout the campus and the intricate carvings that adorn many of the buildings. However, when considering what makes Texas Tech attractive, people rarely think about the many stairwells. For most people, steps are just a necessity – a way to get from one point to another. Yet, they also could be considered works of art.

Ornate columns add to the grandeur of the staircase in the Administration Building. The stairs are the oldest on campus, as the building was the first constructed.

The majestic staircase on the west side of the Humanities Building, formerly the English/ Philosophy Building, provides a great spot for photos.

Many architectural elements accent the Humanities Building staircase.

The Foy and Hahl Proctor Atrium in the Student Union Building boasts a stylish winding staircase.

The details of the Proctor Atrium staircase add interest.

The beautiful main staircase in the Administration Building, the first building built on campus, has lasted more than 100 years.

If stairs could talk, these Administration Building steps would have stories to tell.

An arch frames the stairs of the north entrance to the Chemistry Building.

Looking upward from the main Humanities Building stairs gives one an architectural view.

An ornate railing dresses up the stairs to the Agricultural Sciences Building.

Tiered stairs lead the way to the United Supermarkets Arena.

A sunlit staircase brightens the Animal & Food Sciences Building.

The Animal & Food Sciences stairway has inlaid colored elements.

Original to the Student Union Building, the 1952 metal staircase has withstood the test of time and many footsteps.

Known for the backdrop for the University Choir at the annual Carol of Lights™, the stairs on the Physics/Geosciences Building bring back memories for many.

The south side of Holden Hall’s three-story stairwell fills a wall of windows looking out on Memorial Circle.

I GIVE BECAUSE...

In the same way TTPM brings education to living rooms across Lubbock and the region through PBS, NRHC strives to educate the community about the ranching lifestyle through the immersive experience found at the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center – another endeavor Gustafson passionately supports.

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As a professor, Gustafson has always had a passion for education, and he saw giving to the center as a way to extend that passion from the classroom out into the lives of the thousands of guests who visit the NRHC each year.

TTPM and NRHC are just two of countless examples of the ways in which the Lubbock community and Texas Tech are thoroughly integrated. Each of the areas to which Gustafson gives are either completely community-facing in the case of NRHC and TTPM or have programs open to the community, such as youth camps in Athletics and the multiple clinics available to the public in Health & Human Sciences.

“TO ME, ONE OF THE REASONS FOR PHILANTHROPY IS TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW THAT YOU’RE GOING TO LEAVE A LEGACY THAT’S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IN YOUR STATE, AND IN SOME CASES, THE NATION.”

For Gustafson, this aspect of bettering the lives of neighbors and enhancing the communities we serve is exactly why he chooses to give to Texas Tech.

Join us to proudly support the people, programs, and causes that matter to you at Texas Tech.

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Let’s rally together!

Some Firsts at the New College

BY JENNY SPURRIER, ED.D.| PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SOUTHWEST COLLECTION/SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

We have celebrated the centennial of the establishment of Texas Technological College, but this fall, 2025, will mark the centennial of the first quarter of classes. One hundred years ago was a time of many firsts for Tech, the first building(s), the first sports team, the first president. This list could go on and on, but an obvious one, especially at an institution of higher learning, is the “firsts” in academics. Classes started Oct. 1, 1925.

When classes started, the third bulletin lists “four separate but co-ordinate colleges: (1) The College of Liberal Arts, (2) The College of Agriculture, (3) The College of Engineering, (4) The College of Home Economics.” Each college would only offer freshmen and sophomore courses during the first year, with junior and senior courses to be added in fall of 1926. Fall 1925 classes were held in the available buildings. The Administration Building, the Home Economics Building, the Engineering Building (Textile Building), the Cafeteria (completed later in the fall), the Pavilion and the Dairy Barn (completed closer to the end of the first quarter) were the first buildings available for use that fall, even if not fully completed. Not all were used for classes, but they were certainly multipurpose. For instance, the Pavilion hosted parties, pageants, concerts, the boxing club, basketball games, football practice and was used for livestock judging. In Ruth Horn Andrews’ book, “The First Thirty Years: A History of Texas Technological College, 1925-1955,” she shares an anecdote about an English class held in the Pavilion that is cut short because of a judging class entering with their swine.

The College of Liberal Arts’ first dean was James Marcus Gordon, LL. D. This was the largest of the co-ordinate colleges by enrollment. The college also had the largest number of faculty with more than 30. William J. Miller, M.S., E.E., was the first dean of the College of

Engineering, which was the second largest. Dean Miller oversaw four faculty members. The College of Agriculture was led by Dean A. H. Leidigh, M.S., with two additional faculty members, W. L. Stangel, M.S., and Charles H. Mahoney, M.S. Margaret W. Weeks, A.M., was the dean of home economics. The college had two other faculty members.

In “The First Thirty Years,” Andrews points out that enrollment was higher than expected and as such, additional faculty were needed. Andrews offers that the state, under Gov. Miriam Ferguson, offered aid by issuing a deficiency grant for additional funding. According to Andrews, the first registration totaled 914. She adds that the majority were freshmen (730); of that number, 642 were male. More than 200 Texas towns were represented by the enrolled students. Texas Technological College was off to a solid start.

Several sources report that 1925 was unusually rainy for the area. This weather created some challenges. For instance, the student convocation had to be moved indoors. The rain slowed down construction and caused travel problems for faculty and students. No paved sidewalks existed so folks were traversing a muddy mess, but they still came. Courses were listed in the bulletin. Each college laid out quarterly requirements with some electives for the freshman and sophomore terms. These were similar to what we see today. Then as now, most students had to take required classes, such as English, math and science.

The April 1925 Bulletin includes information about the colleges and some courses. One instance is “The College of Agriculture will include courses in agronomy, animal husbandry and horticulture. Work in dairying and in poultry raising will be stressed. Special

Cafeteria and Bookstore, 1925.

Home Economics Building.

Livestock Pavilion

attention will be given to arid and semi-arid farming, and such subjects as are especially adapted to the work of that portion of Texas in which the College is located.”

Various course descriptions are given. Some examples follow:

Mathematics 203. Calculus for Engineering students. Required of sophomores in engineering courses. The first quarter is devoted to a study of the derivative and its applications to mechanics and geometry, expansion of functions; and partial differentiation. The second quarter deals with definite integrals and its application; the third quarter is chiefly devoted to engineering problems involving calculus, with an elementary treatment of differential equations. Six hours a week. Fall, winter and spring terms. (p. 17)

English 101 deals with the various phases of expository writing that are met within the student’s most frequent reading, -the newspaper, the magazine, and the more pretentious book of fiction or non-fiction. The classwork, as a means to an end, will involve persistent attention to the principles of effective expression in the whole composition, the paragraph, and the sentence, as well as constant drill in other technical aspects of composition. But the chief end to be kept in view will be the development in the student of the power of clear and forceful expression of his reactions to literature and life. (p. 17)

Home Economics 121. Textiles and Clothing. Study of the physical, microscopic and chemical tests of fibers and of the selection and construction of clothing. Two lectures and two laboratory periods. Prerequisite or parallel: Home Economics 111 and 112. Laboratory fee, $2.00. (p. 23)

Andrews relates that the first day, Oct. 1, had its challenges: rain, incomplete buildings and not all textbooks and equipment had arrived. But faculty, staff, and students persevered and made the best of it. Today and throughout the past 100 years, we may have had different challenges, but Texas Tech students, staff and faculty continue to persist and make the best of the circumstances presented. Best wishes to Red Raiders past, present and future and to the next 100 years.

The Dairy Barn, 1925.

Campus looking northeast.

The first faculty meeting, Sept 15, 1925

The Administration Building under construction, Feb. 12, 1925.

THE TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WISHES TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS WHO JOINED AT THE CENTURY LEVEL AND ABOVE. COMPILED BY JEAN ANN CANTORE

Gold

Justin & Le’Ann Ardoyno

Randy ’90 & Devin ’14 Carman

Scott R. Franklin, Ph.D. ’05

Austin & Mackenzie LaFreniere

Kenneth C. Meixelsperger ’97

Cliff ’19 & Robbi Porch

Silver

Sean ’97 & Cynthia ’99 Brubaker

Lilia B. Escajeda

William ’13 Bailey & Alison ’12 Hayes

Heather ’97 & Justin Jordan

Zenobia Leyva-Martinez ’88

Clinton & Kathleen McConnell

Bronze

Tanner ’13 & Miranda Antonick

Patti L. Chiles ’80

Sue ’15 & William Curl

James Daniel ’24 & Ashley Davis ’01

Destiny ’12 & Brantley Gunter

Daniel Howell ’15 & Saul Fierro

Karla Ibarra ’05 & Tomas Carrizalaz

David ’88 & Melinda Tate ’80

Charles ’95 & Alison Wartsbaugh

Jentry E. Williams, DPT ’11

Century

Landry ’15 & Haley Actkinson

Benjamin Adams

Laura ’01 & Cullen Allen

Sarah Wilson ’13 & Jaime Arambula

Audrey ’11 & Leo Ashcraft, III

James ’08 & Samantha Balcom

Lauren Ross ’20 & Philie Baldner

Cody Harris-Abel ’22 & Dustin Barnett

Matthew ’01 & Ammie Bell

Kathy ’72 & David Boyett

Joseph ’09 & Kristin Brosig

Ashley Brown, DNP ’16 & Ryan Brown

Trevor Browne

Katie Buchanan

Matthew ’96 & Veronica ’96 Buescher

Katherine ’16 & William Carpenter

Bradley ’94 & Melanie ’94 Carroll

Nichole D. Carroway ’11

Lorrie S. Carter

Edward Garcia & Mallorey Castaneda

Eric ’08 & Elizabeth Chambers

Corey C. Chandler ’99

Jason’94 & Diana Coldiron

Justin ’99 & Lori ’01 Collingsworth

Kristan ’00 & David Del Greco

Christopher ’12 & Andrea ’11 Dini

Marty ’88 & Krishnapriya Dinivahi

Amy ’18 & Clint Donnerberg

Stacy ’12 & Derrick Drury

Patrick & Genevieve Durham-DeCesaro, Ph.D.

Jeffrey ’99 & Courtney ’98 Edwards

Errol Emmert

Tammy Torres ’15 & Matthew Faulkner

Jeffrey W. Fitzgerald ’83

Harrison & Isabella Franks

Lance ’90 & D'arci Franks

Randy ’89 & Rhonda Fuston

Mike & Misti Garcia

Regina ’16 & Patrick Garcia

Kevin ’06 & Allison ’06 Garrett

Ashley ’10 & Kyle Geddes

Brooke ’92 & Doug Golwas

Minerva Gonzales, DNP ’97 & Rickey George

Susie L. Gonzales ’21

Charlie ’10 & Amy Gremillion

Kelli Groves

Rachel Gutierrez ’99 & Daniel Miller

Kenneth B. Ham ’98

Kristy ’99 & Tracy Harris

Lisa ’78 & Shane Harvey

William Seale ’89 & Gayla Heinrich

Kayleigh R. Helton ’17

Jay ’99 & Pamela ’98 Hennigan

Betty Schoppa Holder ’71 & Richard Holder

Brian ’00 & Brea ’00 Holmes

Jarret L. Hostas, Ed.D. ’23

Joseph ’07 & Nicole Houston

Meredith ’06 & Mike Howard

Erik ’14 & Rachel ’15 Hudson

Janice S. Hughes

Katie ’06 & Scott Hyde

Kerry ’13 & Jasmine Hyder

Hallie ’18 & Zachary Hyles

Ronda K. Ingle

Katie R. Ingram ’13

Amanda ’16 & Cade Jones

Lori ’10 & Adam Jordan

Mackenzie ’09 & Cole Kirkpatrick

Jimmy & Tanya Kirkpatrick

Stance ’93 & Angela ’94 Labaj

Brett ’11 & Ms. Katlyn ’12 Longley

Summer ’15 & Jarrett Louder

William M. McMillan ’97

Casey P. Marcin ’05

Erik & Heather Martin

Jarret B. Matta ’16

Cassie ’05 & Donald Mattern

Austin ’11 & Emma ’15 Maynard

Harrison T. Moats ’13

David C. Morales ’08

Shaye Murphy

Sergio ’11 & Mrs. Elizabeth ’11 Ojeda

Chelsea ’11 & Garren Opdenhoff

Carrie S. Oreilly ’07

Dora G. Orr

Mary ’07 & Steven Parker

Rachel ’12 & Austin Pennington

Parrish ’00 & Amanda Pettey

Deanna B. Petty ’85

Patricia Mann-Phillips ’83 & Tim Phillips

Adrian A. Polizzi ’19

Meredith K. Reed ’10

Brian Robinson

Elvin D. Rogers

Josh & Alison Rowin

Paula A. Salter ’77

Quinton ’01 & Jennifer Scarborough

Geron Scates, Ed.D. ’20 & Amy Scates

James Schaefer ’88 & Susan Bowman

Lisa ’93 & Greg Self

Rosa ’13 & Lee Seman

Robin E. Senter ’85

Leah ’90 & Rodney Shine

John ’00 & Faye Sigle

Ty ’02 & Lindsey ’02 Sisco

Genta ’07 & Charles Sosebee

Andrew B. Spencer ’98

Jessica Spiegelberg, DNP ’18 & Stephen Spiegelberg

Brad ’02 & Lindsey Stewart

Rhett ’91 & Kimberly Stokes

Tanya ’93 & Peter Sullivan

Gerry & Diannah Tatum

Chad ’08 & Brittany ’09 Taylor

Clinton ’01 & Dominique Taylor

Kelley ’96 & Leslie Timmons

Bailey ’19 & Ryan Vereen

Kyle ’96 & Amie ’97 Voigt

Shanen Warneke ’20 & Madison Mahan ’20

Bruce ’75 & Barbara White

Crystal Dockery White ’09 & Larry White

Casey Hernandez White ’11 & Lucas White

David Williams

William & Page Wright

Douglas Zeltmann ’14 & Valerie Handley, Ph.D. ’19

Chapter Events

1. At the Dec. 8 annual TTAA Pre-Lighting Festival in Lubbock, Student Alumni Board members made sure everyone had a visit with Santa.

2. & 3. Jody Nix & the Texas Cowboys played at the TTAA Winters, Texas-Area Red Raiders‘ sold-out annual scholarship dinner and dance on Jan. 18. Nix, center, poses with Jason Johnson, left, and Curt Langford, right. Thanks to Kiersten England, Gary Kemp, Debbie Sorrells Kemp and all the local volunteers who made the event happen.

4. & 5.The TTAA Abilene Chapter sponsored the Legacy Club Zoopalooza at the Abilene Zoo on Feb. 1. The group and guests gathered on the pavilion for games, light snacks and info about Legacy Club. Of course, the event provided a chance to meet zoo residents up close.

6. Red Raiders enjoyed being part of The AutoZone Liberty Bowl Parade Dec. 26 on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

7. While in Lubbock to perform with The Panhandlers at a Jan. 15 concert, alumnus Josh Abbott sat down to talk with TTAA President & CEO Curt Langford. The Panhandlers returned to the Hub City where their music careers all began while students at Texas Tech. Abbott, Cleto Cordero, William Clark Green, John Baumann and converted West Texan Charlie Stout entertained.

To view the interview with Josh Abbott, scan the QR code:

A GLIMPSE AT TEXAS TECH’S HERITAGE In the 2005 “La Ventana,” photographer Linc Armes captures a typical springtime campus scene. “Students attempt to stay as dry as possible while crossing the flooded street by the Frazier Alumni Pavilion. There was a high level of water run-off on campus streets when it rained.” PHOTO RESEARCHED BY JEAN

ANN CANTORE

1976

KIM A. MCPHERSON (BS Food Science) Lubbock, presented the ‘Doc’ McPherson Award in November to Dan Schuette, director of wine and beer at H-E-B. This award is presented annually by the Sagmor Foundation on behalf of its board and the McPherson Family. It honors Kim’s late father, Clinton “Doc” McPherson, a former Texas Tech professor who is often recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern Texas wine, for his outstanding work

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in the Texas wine industry. Kim has owned McPherson Cellars in Lubbock, where he works as a winemaker, since 2000. His wife is SYLVIA Y. BURILLO MCPHERSON (BFA Interior Design ‘84).

KIRBY E. JOHNSON (BS Physical Education, BS History, M.Ed. Education ’80) Belton, Texas, has had a basketball court named in his honor at Temple College, where he served as the men’s basketball coach for 33 years, with 715 wins under his belt. The new Kirby Johnson

Basketball Court honors his dedication to the mentorship and education of his many students over the years. He coached a total of 38 seasons, retiring with the most National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I wins in the state of Texas. In addition to being honored by the college, he was also inducted into the NJCAA Athletics Hall of Fame in November. His wife is Kim.

FOY E. O’BRIEN (BS Agricultural Economics) Lamesa, Texas, was appointed to serve on the Texas Justice Juvenile Department State Advisory Committee by the State Board of Directors. In this role, he and the committee will provide updates on the juvenile justice department, as well as provide objectives for the year and an overview of the new state standards on how juveniles are handled in the system. Since 2013, Foy has served as the county judge of Dawson County where he has gained experience hearing juvenile court cases. His wife is KELLEY PEPPER O'BRIEN (BS Physical Education ’83).

RON BUTLER (BBA Finance) Abilene, Texas, has been promoted to vice chairman of the executive management committee of First Financial Bankshares, where he also will continue to service as chief administrative officer of the company. Ron has been with the company for 32 years and during that time has been senior vice president of commercial lending, president and CEO of the Eastland Division, president and CEO of the Stephenville Region and CEO of the Abilene Region. His wife is Lorilei.

VICTOR J. VILLALBA (BBA Finance) Coppell, Texas, has built a reputation for excellence over two decades of leading the Spanish-language radio broadcast team for the Dallas Cowboys and

BOOKS

MARK L. BENTSEN (BS’73 Wildlife Management) Austin, Texas, wrote “Nothing Is Negotiable,” a mystery novel centered on an outdoor photographer whose life gets turned upside down during a speaking engagement at Glacier National Park where she is forced to make a life-altering decision regarding the safety of her husband.

Mavericks. His play-calling sometimes makes its way onto national television broadcasts, giving the huge audience breathtaking snippets of what’s happening on the field of play. Victor has had a huge hand in helping the Cowboys consistently expand their reach into the growing Hispanic market.

1988

LINDA B. RUTHERFORD (BA Journalism) Dallas, Texas, retired in April 2024 from Southwest Airlines, where she worked for nearly 33 years. Linda began at the company as a public relations coordinator and was named chief communications officer in 2022. Her role when she retired was chief administrative officer, in which she oversaw culture and communications, internal audit, people, talent and leadership, total rewards, technology and the training program Southwest University. Her husband is Michael.

1990

JESUS “JAY” CHAPA (BA History) Fort Worth, Texas, has been named the new city manager of Fort Worth. This appointment makes him the first Hispanic city manager in Fort Worth’s history, showcasing his many years of dedicated service and impactful leadership in local government. With more than 25 years of experience, Jay has served in various roles within the city, including overseeing economic development, police, transportation and public works, public events and tourism and finance. He is also a member of the Rawls Advisory Council. His wife is EVALIS PEREZ CHAPA (BS Speech & Hearing Sciences).

LISA L. LAMBERT (JD Law) Lewisville, Texas, has been named U.S. Trustee for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas in bankruptcy court. The appointment comes from Attorney General Merrick Garland. After graduating from law school, Lisa clerked in East Texas before joining the Justice Department in 1998. She worked in the Dallas office for 15 years and coached a moot court team at Texas Tech School of Law for more than a decade.

1993

MAMOUN F. FANEK, PH.D., (MAR Architecture, Ph.D. Land Use Planning, Management, & Design ’97) Amman, Jordan, has been designing innovative urban spaces around the world,

recently presenting a master plan to the King of Jordan. He is the principal of Planning and Urban Design for Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners), one of the world’s leading engineering, architectural and planning consultancies. Earlier this summer, Mamoun appeared on the front page of Jordanian newspapers presenting the Abdali master plan to His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan. His wife is Dareen.

DERRICK MORGAN (BBA Marketing) Keller, Texas, has started a new position as director of development and alumni relations at the University of Texas at Dallas. Derrick previously worked at the University of North Texas at Dallas, where he held positions in development, alumni relations, and special projects. His wife is Janna.

MICHAEL R. TURNER (BFA Theatre Arts) Paris, France, and his team at the U.S. Embassy in France launched a public diplomacy campaign at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris called Games4All that was woven into the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The campaign celebrates a shared love of sports among all nationalities and will run through the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Michael joined the U.S. State Department in 1998, and his work has taken him to Georgia, USA; Thailand, Myanmar, Japan and Washington, D.C. , in addition to France.

1995

ROBERT “BRYAN” GANTT (BBA Finance) McKinney, Texas, was appointed in September to the 471st Judicial District Court in Collin County by Gov. Greg Abbott. Bryan is a partner at McGraw Gantt, PLLC, and previously served as an assistant attorney general in the General Litigation Division at the Office of the Attorney General. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Bar College, and the Collin County Bar Association (CCBA), and he serves as chair of the CCBA Solo and Small Firm Section. Bryan received his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas. His wife is Karen.

BENJAMIN E. ALEXANDER (BGS General Studies, MA Interdisciplinary Studies ’04) Lubbock, has joined the board of directors of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, the largest state-based funding source for civil legal aid. The Supreme Court of Texas appointed Alexander to a threeyear term ending in August 2027. Alexander is the executive director of the South Plains

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Rebecca ‘00 & Ryan Kerr ‘03

Michael & Tracy Kiefer ‘87

Max Kiesling, Ph.D. ‘89 & Rebekah Kiesling

MAJ Anthony Killa (Ret.) ‘95 & Angela Hartman-Killa

Marli ‘07 & Kaden Kimberlin

Truitt ‘00 & Kay Kimbrough ‘01

Abby ‘16 & Matthew King ‘10

Christopher ‘95 & Heather King

Kevin ‘92 & Laurie Kinzie

Robby ‘94 & Amy Kirkland

Laura ‘75 & Mike Kirkpatrick ‘74

Robbye ‘98 & Shawn Kirkpatrick

Chris Kirksey, PE ‘84 & Betsy Kirksey ‘83

Brenda ‘84 & Michael Kitten ‘91

Tio ‘69 & Janell Kleberg

Manda ‘97 & Todd Klein ‘91

Terry Hawkins, JD ‘96 & Douglas Klepper, M.D. ‘89

Casey S. Klesel, Pharm.D. ‘09

Jeff ‘76 & Kim Klotzman ‘77

Keith ‘93 & Shannon ‘94 Knight

Terry ‘71 & Linda Knight

Tara ‘92 & Scot Knight

Jon ‘84 & Michele Kocen ‘84

Jerry M. Kolander, JD ‘68

Barbara Kornfuehrer

Timothy Kotrla ‘92 & Lisa Castillo

Kimberly ‘00 & Daniel Kozmetsky

Melody H. Kramer ‘71

Brandon ‘04 & Callie Kuehler ‘09

Serena B. Kundysek ‘90

Brant C. Kuykendall ‘06

Keenie ‘67 & Jack Kyle

Brandon ‘01 & Sheri LaBonte ‘97

David ‘09 & Michelle Ladewig

Mackenzie & Austin LaFreniere

Marcus ‘94 & Paige LaGuardia ‘93

James ‘21 & Kacie Lambeth

Kerren Lampe, Ed.D. ‘74 & Richard Lampe, M.D.

Chris G. Lane ‘04

Kristy ‘02 & Clint Lane

The Honorable Pete Laney, Ph.D. ‘66

Curt ‘90 & Jill Langford ‘90

Scott ‘92 & Tyfani Lanier ‘94

Jeffery ‘91 & Kendra Lansdell ‘91

Michael D. Lao ‘04

Aaron ‘03 & Jaime Larmer ‘04

Ronald D. Larson ‘70

Jon-Paul ‘00 & Melissa Lascalere

Ingred ‘83 & Rick Lathrop ‘83

Cynthia ‘79 & Kyle Laughlin ‘93

D’Linda ‘87 & Tom Law ‘89

Marcy Lawless ‘93

Bernardo ‘84 & Patty Lawrence

Bernardo T. Lawrence, Jr. ‘20

Rowland C. Lawson ‘84

Shery Layne ‘81

Carol Layton, Ed.D. ‘93 & Bradley Layton ‘09

Kelly ‘78 & Robert Leach

Angie & Brent Lee

Peyton ‘91 & Kelly Legg ‘92

Susan E. Lehmann ‘71

Rachel ‘97 & Brendan Leigh

Carol Leito ‘79 & James Leito, III ‘79

James G. Lenhardt ‘92

Louis Lester, M.D. ‘85 & Sylvia Lester

Gary ‘73 & Kay Lewis

Julie Lewis

Regent Michael Lewis ‘72 & Robin Lewis

Kobi ‘05 & Robert Lincoln

Gary L. Lindsey ‘72

John & Tabitha Lipham

Julio ‘74 & Rosa Llanas ‘80

Pamela ‘87 & Tony Lloyd ‘88

Sally H. Loden ‘69

Robert ‘96 & Rebecca Lothringer

Kaitlin ‘11 & Lonnie Lovern ‘12

David ‘87 & Maria Low ‘90

Sarah ‘99 & Timothy Lowry ‘99

Sue Lubke

Marissa ‘20 & Tyler Lucas ‘21

Mitchell ‘80 & Sarilyn Lucas

Maj. Gen. Vince Luchsinger, Ph.D. ‘59 & Lou Luchsinger, Ed.D. ‘81

Eleanor ‘77 & Ronald Luke

Kyle M. Lukert ‘96

Ronald ‘86 & LaDon Madden

Arrington Madison, M.D. ‘17 & Bradley Madison ‘10

Julio Madrigal, Ed.D. ‘82 & Dolores Madrigal

Mark Mankins, M.D. ‘81 & Cyndi Mankins

J. Paul ‘94 & Molly Manning ‘99

Michael ‘90 & April Marshall

Jeffrey Marshall, CPA ‘97 & Kathryn Marshall ‘96

Brad ‘77 & Carol Martin ‘77

Raymond K. Martin, D.D.S. ‘79

Nancy ‘98 & Michael Mason

Gretchen ‘03 & Gary Massingill

Peggy ‘76 & Gregg Maxwell

Jan Maykus

Joe Bob Mayo, CLU ‘70 & Jo Mayo ‘71

Kimberly ‘06 & David McArthur

Cindy ‘75 & Mark McBrayer ‘75

Analisa ‘08 & Casey McCain ‘09

David ‘80 & Janet McCalla

Monica ‘84 & Stephen McCormick

Mark ‘80 & Paula McClellan ‘82

Brian ‘75 & Wetonnah McCoy

Johnathan ‘99 & Cindy McCright

Brooke ‘02 & Jathan McDowell ‘02

Beverly J. McDuff ‘54

Amy ‘94 & Brent McGavock ‘95

Joni W. McIlvain ‘59

Kathleen ‘04 & Ryan McKenzie ‘98

Kelly H. McKinzie ‘90

Amy McLane ‘97 & Drayton McLane, III

Collin ‘16 & Rebekah McLarty ‘16

George ‘66 & Linda ‘66 McMahan

Allison G. McMahon ‘11

Kevin ‘73 & Karen McMahon ‘73

Bart ‘87 & Vivian McMeans

William ‘02 & Crystal McMillan

Albert McNeel, II ‘92 & Kerrie McNeel

Daniel ‘88 & Whitney McWilliams

Lamar ‘83 & Philip Meaders ‘84

Kyle ‘03 & Jacklyn Meismer

Kenneth C. Meixelsperger ‘97

Lt. Col. Leonard Melcher (Ret.) ‘68 & Shirley Melcher ‘69

John S. Menzies, D.V.M. ‘75

Paul Meriwether, M.D. ‘76 & Carol Meriwether

Ilah Coffee Merriman ‘57

Lori ‘99 & Mark Mettille

Julie K. Meyer ‘83

John ‘72 & Cindy Middleton

Amy ‘88 & Trey Miller ‘87

Brett ‘97 & Jodi Miller ‘97

Jacob ‘01 & Jennifer Miller

Mark F. Miller, Ph.D. ‘82

Michael J. Miller ‘79

Nicholas ‘96 & TeriAnn Miller

Lindsay ‘81 & Karen Mills

Stephanie ‘86 & Timothy Mills ‘86

Douglas E. Mires ‘68

Brian P. Mitchell, CPA ‘98

John L. Montandon ‘69

Dennis Moore, CFP ‘04 & Aubrey Moore ‘04

Gwendolyn K. Moore ‘02

Patrick ‘94 & Kathryn Moore

Patrick ‘82 & Rene Moore ‘82

Clark Mooty, M.D. ‘01 & Heather Mooty ‘03

Brad ‘82 & Carla Moran ‘88

Chris ‘79 & Pamela Morphew ‘80

Cathy ‘77 & Craig Morris ‘78

Marvin ‘73 & Peggy Morris ‘71

Trey Morris, M.D. ‘03 & Jerome Morris ‘10

Larry W. Morton ‘84

Janet G. Moseley ‘65

Mitchell ‘05 & Laura Moses

Mike Moss, AIA ‘83 & Leslie Moss ‘81

Wendy J. Moss ‘94

Tommy ‘75 & Debra Mrazek ‘81

James ‘11 & Paula Mustin

Stanley ‘72 & Linda Nadolski ‘72

Elaine ‘78 & Steven ‘78 Nance

Bill ‘77 & Sharon Napier ‘76

Nathan ‘05 & Rachel Nash

Mrs. Nancy Neal ‘85 & Thomas Neal, M.D.

Michael ‘02 & Carrie Nelson

Mark ‘85 & Susan Nelson

Melissa ‘86 & Rod Nelson ‘89

Scott S. Nethery ‘83

Crystal Neustadt ‘03 & Jean Neustadt, III

Jerry ‘81 & Shelli Nevans

Nicholas ‘10 & Rachel Newman ‘12

Jan ‘75 & Frank Newton

Coby B. Nichols ‘98 & Armando Pando

Garrett ‘16 & Sydney Nichols ‘15

Jody ‘05 & Leigh Nichols

Joey Nichols, Jr. ‘81 & Sydney Nichols ‘79

John D. Nichols

Lucy ‘79 & Mark Nichols ‘79

Sandra ‘11 & Luis Nieto

Cynthia D. Nivens-Hawks ‘92

Benny ‘74 & Vicki Nixon ‘73

Jane ‘08 & Keith Nodskov

The Honorable Ben Nolen ‘86 & Dana Nolen ‘88

Adam ‘22 & Jodie North ‘06

Melanie ‘86 & Michael Norton ‘85

Deborah Norvell

Kenneth Norvell ‘74

Amanda O’Connor ‘03 & Terry O’Connor

Deborah I. Odom ‘72

Jennifer ‘94 & James Ogden

Mike ‘72 & Sandy Ogletree ‘79

Blake D. Orsini ‘07

Amanda ‘04 & Jeff Osburn

Kim ‘88 & Jerry Ostert

Selena ‘02 & David Overholt

David ‘73 & Paula Owen ‘73

Michael Owen, M.D. ‘70 & Loretta Owen ‘71

Mr. John ‘71 & Mrs. Cynthia Owens ‘73

Salina ‘00 & Brian Palmerton

Bob J. Paradiso ‘79

Joe Parker, Jr. ‘73 & Marjorie Parker ‘73

Stanley D. Pastusek ‘83

Braden ‘13 & Lauren Pate ‘10

Janeen C. Patterson

Skyla ‘07 & Nick Patterson

Roe ‘95 & Tonya Patterson ‘95

The Honorable Tray Payne ‘96

Todd ‘92 & Kimberly Payton

Bob ‘71 & Jaclyn Pearson ‘72

Chandler D. Pearson ‘23

Philip ‘80 & Lianne Pearson

Craig ‘98 & Kayla Peltoma ‘02

Roberto Pena, Jr. ‘93 & Denise Pena

Brandon ‘07 & Nicole Penn ‘05

Francisco Perez ‘02 & Ann Smitthipong Perez

Gabriel S. Perez ‘08

Vanessa ‘20 & Elliott Perez

John S. Perrin ‘70

Marvin Perry, Jr. ‘67 & Peggy Perry ‘66

Brenda J. Peters ‘74

J. Anthony ‘80 & Lisa Petrelli

Steve ‘93 & Stacey Phillips ‘93

David ‘90 & Samantha Pierce ‘95

Jane ‘83 & Scott Piercy ‘78

Bill ‘69 & Ginger Pittman

Jerry Pittman, CPA ‘66 & Susan Pittman ‘66

Alan K. Pitts ‘96

Steve ‘75 & Kelley Pitts ‘82

Melissa C. Plasencio ‘20

Susan F. Pollard

Robbi ‘15 & Cliff Porch

James ‘00 & Patricia Potratz

Clay ‘95 & Lisa Powell ‘89

Robert ‘91 & Victoria Powell

Kevin ‘94 & Patricia Powers

Gregory ‘96 & Heather Prather

J.R. Price ‘70

Nancy L. Price, Ph.D. ‘71

Terry L. Price ‘75

Col. James Pryor (Ret.) ‘87 & Charlotte Pryor ‘88

Michael ‘75 & Deborah Pryor

James M. Pryor ‘86

Scott ‘80 & Carroll Pullen

Carolanne ‘79 & Jim Purtell ‘82

Mendy ‘81 & Terry Putman ‘69

Brent ‘00 & Danielle Raindl

Brent & Danielle Raindl

Benjamin Ralston ‘08 & Lindsey Ralson

Lyndsey A. Ralston ‘07

Armand ‘99 & Erin Ramirez ‘02

Janie ‘79 & Isidro Ramirez ‘73

Rebecca Ramirez, JD ‘01

David ‘73 & Cathy Ramsey ‘73

Gregory Rasco ‘93

John & Karen Reagan

Felicia A. Redmond ‘84 & Thomas Medelberg

Mikayla J. Reeves ‘16

Steve ‘72 & Barbara Reichmuth

Marcos Reyes, M.D. ‘05 & Raina Reyes

Anisse B. Reynolds

Diane Reynolds, DNP ‘01 & Jorge Rodriguez

Jeffrey ‘79 & Susan Reynolds ‘83

Christopher & Danielle Reznicek

Rhonda Rhodes ‘88 & Terry Howard

Joseph ‘04 & Christen Rians

Prior to home football games in the fall, guests, including campus administrators, coaches and notable alumni, attend 1923 Society breakfasts.

Alison Richardson, MS ‘87 & Michael Richardson ‘85

Angela ‘99 & Jason Richardson ‘98

Shaun ‘97 & Stephanie Richardson ‘97

David ‘82 & Jill Ricks

Melissa ‘92 & Robert Rico

Julie ‘81 & Tommy Rigsby ‘79

Walter ‘60 & Joyce Rinehart

Amy ‘07 & Cody Ritchey

Steve ‘70 & Becky Rivers

Allison Rix ‘96 & Lewis Rix, III ‘95

Randy & Holly Robbins

Kathy E. Hager Roberts ‘72

Clark Robinson, M.D. ‘89 & Michelle Robinson

Jon Kevin ‘82 & Kay Robison

Jamie Rocha ‘00

Joshua Rodgers, Pharm.D. ‘03 & Tiffany Rodgers, Pharm.D. ‘01

Marcia ‘77 & Steve ‘75 Rodgers

Brooks Rogers, M.D. ‘87 & Keith Rogers

Evan M. Roll ‘14

Julie ‘85 & Stephen Roper ‘84

Susan ‘76 & Robert Rose

Kendra ‘91 & Christopher Rosenbaum

Shon & Amy Ross ‘96

Paul ‘68 & Judy Rostad ‘68

Heath ‘94 & Kimberly Rousser ‘96

Diedre ‘83 & Frank Rovelli ‘90

Monica ‘98 & Steven Rowe ‘02

Brandon ‘95 & Kelley Rowland

April & Jeff Rumsey

Shelby L. Russell ‘85

Tyler Russell, CFP, RICP ‘07 & Jenny Russell

Alan & Dawn Rust ‘89

Britt Sadler ‘95

John ‘96 & Suzanne Saenz ‘95

Desiree Sage ‘80

Joel ‘11 & Maria ‘09 Salazar

Jaime A. Salinas ‘14

Deric ‘93 & Lynne Salser ‘92

Joseph ‘78 & Susan Sammons ‘78

Keith Samples ‘77

Preethi C. Samuel ‘04

Sherry ‘77 & Alan Sancibrian

Dane ‘03 & Robin Sanders ‘05

Stacy ‘98 & Gilbert Sandoval

Sammie F. Saulsbury ‘58

Carolyn Sawyer ‘74 & L. E. Sawyer, Jr.

James Saye, III ‘81 & Ann Saye

Richard Scales ‘60

Bob Schlinkman, Jr. ‘71 & Anne Schlinkman

Robert ‘93 & Beth Schmid

Jeffery S. Schmitt ‘98

Ryan ‘01 & Mindy Schneider ‘02

Denise ‘79 & Eric Schrader ‘79

Robbie M. Schroeder

Robin Schulte-Straley ‘00 & Todd Straley ‘99

Steven ‘76 & Karen Schultz

Ernest Schutt, III ‘75 & Diana Schutt

Lori ‘80 & Ricky Scott ‘81

Matt ‘05 & McKensey ‘05 Scurlock

Chad ‘99 & Sara Seely ‘99

Raelye T. ‘14 & Joe Self

Kyla ‘95 & Tom ‘95 Sell

John ‘22 & Tracy Sellers ‘05

Kayce ‘01 & Roy Sellers

Pamela ‘77 & Thomas Sellers ‘77

Melinda ‘72 & Stephen Shanklin ‘71

Daniel ‘93 & Karina Shaver

Justin ‘01 & Robbie Shepherd ‘03

Faye Sheppard ‘84 & Joseph Sheppard, II ‘84

Brandi & Chris Shields

William ‘83 & Cindy Shields

Kim Shinn, PE ‘78 & Nan Shinn

Charles Shira, Sr. ‘74 & Terry Shira ‘75

Ginny ‘71 & John Shoaf ‘72

Gary H. Shores ‘63

Kevin Sieck, M.D. ‘95 & Tisha Sieck

Carol M. Simpson ‘83

Deborah ‘71 & John Sims ‘65

Jeffrey ‘89 & Meredith Sipes ‘91

Arigayle ‘11 & Andrew Skinner

Young ‘69 & Lynn Slack

Steven ‘75 & Katherine Smethie

Arlene ‘64 & Wallace Smith ‘58

Curtis ‘84 & Katy Smith ‘84

Cynthia ‘05 & Ryan Smith

Drue ‘93 & Jill Smith ‘92

Gary ‘58 & Alice Smith

Jim ‘87 & Michelle Smith ‘87

Kenny ‘83 & Joanna Smith ‘85

Lesley Smith, PE ‘86 & Amy Smith

Kristin Smith ‘76 & Lucian Smith, III ‘74

Robert ‘82 & Tabitha Smith

Stephanie M. Smith ‘99

Rainey ‘99 & Travis Smith ‘00

Bill ‘63 & Sonya Smyrl

Chris ‘95 & Susan Snead ‘93

Brian ‘89 & Julie Snellgrove ‘90

Lary C. Snodgrass ‘70

Jeanne ‘75 & Gary Snyder

Clayton ‘90 & Darla Sorrells

Heather & Mateo Soto

Steve Souter, FAIA ‘71 & Jill Souter

Juli ‘90 & Scott ‘90 Spiva

Bryan ‘80 & Sheri Springston ‘81

Phil ‘70 & Sharon Staley ‘71

Donna A. Stallard ‘70

Steve ‘74 & Kathy Stallings

Logan H. Stanley, D.D.S. ‘04

Mark ‘99 & Amanda Staudt

Wayne Steen ‘73 & Nora McNealy Steen

Lynne ‘78 & Clifford Stewart

Randy Stevenson ‘66

McArthur Stidom, Jr. ‘89

John Stokes, CPA & Vicki Stokes

Barbara ‘75 & Michael Stoltz ‘73

Cody ‘10 & Jaclyn Street ‘08

Colton ‘04 & Devin Street ‘04

Scott ‘83 & Patrice Streit

Rustin ‘01 & Alison Strickland ‘01

Larry ‘70 & Linda Strickland

William Stripling, IV ‘89 & Denise Stripling

Robert ‘65 & Sharon Stromberg

Mark ‘81 & Cindy Stroud

Bryan ‘97 & Amy Studer ‘17

Dawn ‘96 & Jeremy Stump

Haley ‘08 & Jeremiah Sturgeon ‘08

L. Biff Sturgess ‘94

Dan ‘90 & Katie Summerford

Michael ‘74 & Lynn Surovik ‘74

Julie ‘82 & Kelly Sutton ‘84

John ‘74 & Julia Swallow ‘89

Douglas Swartz, Ph.D. ‘12 & Lauren Swartz, M.D. ‘06

Regent Shelley ‘79 & Greg Sweatt ‘79

Jordan N. Swick ‘17

Christopher ‘89 & Linsey Synek

Kristi K. Synek ‘89

Sharon ‘86 & Joel Talley

Bill ‘87 & Shawna Tankersley ‘87

John ‘89 & Shelli Tarpley ‘91

Dalton Tarwater, Ph.D. ‘59 & Nancy Tarwater ‘59

Paul ‘87 & Terri Tarwater

Amy L. Taylor ‘91

Brandy L. Taylor ‘03

Lance ‘99 & Dawn Taylor ‘00

Jan Taylor ‘67 & Robert Taylor, Jr. ‘71

Terrell Taylor, Jr. ‘86 & Johnette Taylor

Toni ‘84 & William Taylor

Carrie ‘98 & David Teague ‘97

Charles ‘83 & Marita Tedder

Christopher M. Tejeda ‘07

Samuel ‘09 & Samantha ten Brink

Dean ‘79 & Mary Katherine Tetirick ‘79

Matthew ‘07 & Lauren Tharp

Russell Thoma, PE ‘80 & Jency Thoma ‘82

Carolyn Thomas ‘72

Allison Thompson ‘02 & Christopher Thompson, M.D.

Carolyn ‘05 & Justin Thompson ‘06

Greg ‘90 & Jamie Thompson ‘90

Matthew ‘11 & Sarah Thompson

Robert ‘75 & Diane Thompson

Patrick Thornton ‘89 & Loretta Talley

Tracy Thrash

Dwayne ‘67 & Elizabeth Tidwell ‘66

Fred Timberlake, Jr. ‘68 & Kay Timberlake

Diane ‘78 & Bill Todd

Jeremy ‘05 & Deborah Todd

Brad ‘80 & Kristie Tooley ‘83

Mitchell ‘82 & Tonya Toups

Ralph ‘94 & Debbie Trevino

Troupe ‘83 & Sharla Trice

Lindsey ‘97 & Paul Tubbs ‘98

Elesha & Troy Tucker

Chance ‘08 & Kim Turner

Gary J. Turner ‘82

Lane ‘89 & Kim Turner ‘90

Anne ‘71 & Jerald Tyre

Justin ‘98 & Brooke Underwood

Renee B. Underwood ‘78

Jarrod ‘02 & Amanda Upton ‘10

Phillip ‘08 & Michelle Urrutia

Anne VanBeber, Ph.D. ‘79 & Hance VanBeber

Larry ‘21 & Paula Vanderwoude

Brian ‘93 & Teresa Vardeman ‘93

Kyle ‘89 & Carla Villyard

Clinton Vincent, PE ‘99 & Ann Wells

Courtnie ‘11 & Wesley Vinson ‘13

John Vollet, Ph.D. ‘69 & Lucy Vollet

Bobby G. Waddle ‘55

David K. Waggoner, JD ‘83

Fred P. Wagner, Ph.D. ‘50

Kent ‘84 & Beckey Waldrop ‘89

Baylor ‘98 & Jamie Walker ‘98

Daniel ‘79 & Bredgitt Walker

David ‘78 & Michelle Walker

Jennifer ‘94 & Theodore Walker

Richard ‘73 & Catherine Walker

Ben ‘76 & Patricia Wallace

Michael D. Walleck ‘95

Toni E. Wallingford ‘68

Brianna ‘16 & Jarrod Walsh ‘16

Collin ‘12 & Kaitlan Walterscheid ‘14

Capt. Cade Walton ‘96 & Zane Walton

Sally Ann Walton

Juifeng ‘86 & Lu Wang

Leslie & Donald Ward

The Honorable T. John Ward, Sr. ‘64 & Elizabeth Ward ‘86

Jill & Martin Warren

Velma G. Warren ‘77

Leslie Wayne, M.D. ‘02 & Geoffrey Wayne, Sr. ‘97

Jim ‘72 & Lavenia Weathers

Samuel Weaver, III ‘65 & Carolan Weaver

James ‘75 & Claudia Webb

Molly I. Webster

Michael ‘05 & Tori Weems ‘05

Cam ‘91 & Stacey Welch

Janelle ‘79 & Terence Welch

Julie ‘04 & Nicholas Wells ‘06

James ‘91 & Cheryl Werner ‘91

Michael ‘93 & Teresa West

Connie & Jack Westbrook

Mark ‘83 & Sherri Whatley

Herman Wheatley, Jr. ‘65 & Barbara Wheatley

David Wheeler, Ph.D. ‘66 & Amy Meyer

Patricia Wheeler ‘93 & Charles Wheeler, D.O.

Ashley ‘07 & Joshua ‘04 White

Tony ‘79 & Cindy Whitehead ‘81

David ‘64 & Carla Wight

Greg ‘86 & Emma Wilkes

Kitty Harris, Ph.D. ‘83 & Morris Wilkes ‘75

Peter Wilkinson, Jr. & Teresa Wilkinson

Bryant Williams, Jr. ‘61 & Brenda Williams

Dale Williams, Pharm.D. ‘04 & Jennifer Williams

David Williams, M.D. ‘93 & Adrienne Williams

Michael R. Williams

Scott ‘74 & Diane Williams

Talley ‘01 & Carter Williams

Thomas ‘79 & Kellie Williams

Chad ‘05 & Jessica Wilson

Christi J. Wilson ‘01

Shayne ‘97 & Christina Wilson ‘99

John ‘74 & Teresa Wilson ‘87

Joseph Wilson ‘87 & Megan Taber

Mark ‘85 & Denise Winn ‘86

William C. Winters ‘08

Jeffrey ‘83 & Annette Wise ‘84

Elizabeth ‘88 & Erik With ‘89

Andrew ‘10 & Meghan Woelke ‘14

Mark ‘91 & Laurie Wolfe

Gary Wood, Ph.D. ‘73 & Sheryl Wood

Leonard ‘01 & Tamera Wood

Shayne ‘90 & Jennifer Woodard

Mark ‘77 & Claudia Woods

Jason ‘97 & Megan Wootan

Michelle Worthy, DNP ‘21 & Roy Worthy

Gary ‘78 & Melinda Wright ‘80

Stephen Wright, Jr. ‘95 & Jennifer Wright

Keith ‘07 & Samantha Wyly

Scott Wyrick, M.D. ‘87 & Lenore Wyrick

Amber N. Yanez ‘16

Justin ‘02 & Ashley Yarborough

Jeff ‘82 & Deborah Yarbrough

Jason ‘13 & Tori ‘12 Yeley

Martha & Robert York

Claire Sherman ‘00 & Michael Young ‘95

Tyler ‘06 & Emily Young

Wesley B. Youngblood ‘74

Britny ‘08 & Ignacio Zambrano ‘07

Alberto ‘03 & Iris Zubia

Ann ‘74 & John Zwiacher ‘74

Alan Henry Insurance Agency, Inc.

Charities Aid Foundation of America

Law Offices of Sam J. Chase, P. C.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Inc.

The Dowell Company

Thoma Engineering, Inc.

*As of Feb. 25, 2025

College (SPC) Lubbock Career and Technical Center and Workforce Development, where he is responsible for all workforce development programs of South Plains College and serves as the highest-ranking administrator and supervisor of all non-faculty positions at SPC Lubbock Center. His wife is CICELY C. YOUNGBLOOD ALEXANDER (BS Multidisciplinary Studies ’96, M.Ed. Counselor Education ’05, Ed.D. Educational Leadership ’22).

ELIZABETH A. “LIZZY” JOHNSON (BA History) Corinth, Texas, has been impacting the lives of students with her company, TransCend4, which she first launched in 2018. Through this company, Lizzy works with leaders at all levels of education to ensure every student receives a quality education. She works with school districts, educational leaders and organizations that provide services to schools mostly in Texas, but the company is beginning to expand in other states this year.

1996

AMY L. KEY CAMP (BBA Marketing) Bluffton, South Carolina, is fresh off the success of another Olympic Games, where she handles public affairs for corporate sponsors of Olympic athletes. Amy has worked every Olympics since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Her extensive experience in public relations and strategic communications includes time serving as the vice president of the PR firm Hill & Knowlton. Amy is also a former staffer for the late Rep. Sam Johnson. Her husband is Keith.

2002

RYAN G. BEADLE (BA Political Science) Charlotte, North Carolina, has been promoted to vice president of development at Jackson-Shaw, a leading national real estate development company based in North Texas. Ryan is based in the firm’s Charlotte office and leads efforts to identify and execute development opportunities across the Carolinas and the Southeast region. His wife is Amanda.

2004

KATRINA L. HUFFSTUTLER (BS Agricultural Communications, MS Agricultural Education ’05) Electra, Texas, was awarded the Ag Communicators Network’s Master of Communications Award at the 2024 Ag Media Summit in Kansas City, Missouri. Katrina is currently the director of content at the Grant Company and previously worked at the Noble Research Institute and Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers among other positions. Her husband is Brandon.

2005

JOE A. JIMENEZ (BBA General Business, MS Interdisciplinary Studies ‘11) Lubbock, has been selected as the new chief financial officer for the City of Lubbock, bringing with him more than 16 years of service and experience in finance and operational roles. Prior to this new role, Joe served as the director of financial planning and analysis for Lubbock Power & Light. He has also formerly worked for the City

of Lubbock as a capital program manager/senior financial analyst in the financial planning and analysis department, as well as for Texas Tech University in procurement services. His wife is AMANDA MORENO JIMENEZ (BS Human Development & Family Studies ’08).

2008

CARLOS A. FLORES, JR. (M.Ed. Special Education, Ed.D. Special Education ’14) San Angelo, Texas, has been elected secretary of the Texas Association of Teacher Educators (TxATE) and is serving a one-year term. Carlos is currently an associate professor in Angelo State University's Department of Teacher Education. His wife is Angela.

2010

SETH L. SCHULZ (BBA Finance) Lubbock, has been promoted to Lubbock market president of PlainsCapital Bank. Seth started with PlainsCapital as a credit analyst back in 2010 and previously served in the role of commercial

lending manager before his promotion. In addition to his work at PlainsCapital, he has served with the Lubbock Area United Way for more than a decade and is also a board member for the Cooper Hoopsters Board of Directors and the Lubbock-Cooper Ambassador Program. His wife is CHELSEA CARSON SCHULZ (BS Dietetics ’09).

2012

TERRANCE B. BULLITT (BA University Studies) Garland, Texas, has created the Bullitt Football Academy, a full-blown destination for young players who want to learn the game and excel at it. The academy is billed as the “No. 1 select football organization in the nation.” Terrance balances the rigor of running his own business with the sense of calling he feels coaching linebackers as an assistant at Richardson High School.

AMANDA ESPINOZA (BS University Studies, BFA Theatre Arts ’12, MFA Theatre Arts ’15) Matawan, New Jersey, has been using her skills to cultivate the minds of young actors at Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis, where she teaches and manages.

2017

DANIEL I. GALVAN (BBA General Business) Houston, Texas, is serving aboard the USS Barry, a U.S. Navy warship homeported at Naval Station Everett, Washington. The ship is currently in a Seattle shipyard undergoing routine maintenance. Daniel joined the Navy four years ago and currently serves as a surface warfare officer.

JOHN GALLEGOS (BFA Art) Lubbock, has been gaining momentum in running his business, Johnny G’s Salsa Co. His homemade salsa with fire-roasted chilies has found fans in the Lubbock community and is gaining a following in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The salsas can be purchased in person at Lubbock’s ThirsTeas, 3407 Milwaukee Ave., or at the McKinney Farmers Market at Chestnut Square, 315 S. Chestnut St., every weekend.

2019

TRAVIS R. BRUFFY (BBA Finance) London, Great Britain, has been chosen as a recipient of a scholarship from the London Business School. Travis currently leads venture technology investments for a Miami-based office in the consumer and supply-chain sectors and is also the founding general partner of his own investment syndicate.

2020

MICAH R. LAPOINTE (BS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering ’22, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ‘24) Lubbock, has begun working as a pulsed power engineer at Xcimer Energy, a nuclear fusion startup located in Denver, where her work utilizes lasers to ignite or cause ignition for a fusion reaction. Before her recent graduation, Micah had been conducting research with the Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics Laboratory (P3E) housed in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering. Her research focuses on building a deployable, solid-state microwave system that could be used in combat fields for drone deterrence. Her husband is WESLEY A. ENGEL-COLQUITT (BM Music ’19).

ETHAN W. BEAM (BA Theatre Arts) Tyler, Texas, directed his original play “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” at Tyler Junior College in November 2024. The production served as a full-circle moment for Ethan, who earned a theatre degree from TJC in 2018 before continuing his theatre studies at Texas Tech. Ethan currently assists in running Tyler Junior College’s performing arts facilities.

2022

CADE M. SNETHEN (BS Animal Sciences) Otterbein, Indiana, has been named the coach of the Purdue Meat Judging Team, bringing with him the experience of being a member of the 2021 national championship meat judging team at Texas Tech University. While coaching the team, Cade is pursuing a doctoral degree in animal science.

2023

ETHAN CARTER (BS Plant & Soil Science) Wolfforth, Texas, is the founder and owner of Ethan’s Earthly Edibles, also known as E3 Farm, which is now a significant producer for the Lubbock Downtown Farmer’s Market. Ethan grows greens, microgreens, peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms and more. His farm has a booth at the Wolfforth Farmers Market year-round. Ethan is a current graduate student studying plant and soil science.

GEORGIANA E. CRIST (BM Music) Lubbock, has been selected by the non-profit Texas Cultural Trust as the recipient of a first-year teacher grant designed to support arts education. Georgiana, a teacher in the Lubbock Independent School District, is one of only six Texas educators awarded the $1,500 grant, which may be used for expenses that enhance the quality of arts education, such as field trips and unique learning opportunities for students. These grants are awards annually in the fall and are designed to support new arts teachers in providing quality arts education in Title I schools and low arts access communities.

MADELON L. CLARK (BS Agricultural Communications) Washington, D.C., has been promoted to press secretary in the Office of Congressman August Pfluger, who represents the 11th district in Texas. Madelon previously worked as deputy press secretary in the same office.

ZARIAH E. GLORIA (BA Technical Communication) Lubbock, has gained attention for her unique method for raising funds for her teacher certification costs. The adjunct teacher at Centennial Elementary School saw an opportunity to combine her love for teaching with a fun fundraising idea when she noticed her students’ love for the cartoon character, Bluey. In her Bluey costume, Zariah has been making appearances at local events and schools, bringing smiles to children and raising money for her certification. Her unique approach not only supports her certification goals but also fosters a sense of joy and community engagement.

2024

TAYLOR E. ARNOLD (BFA Art) Lubbock, recently opened her art gallery, [Art]iqulating, at 1519 Texas Avenue in Lubbock, just streets away from the First Friday Art Trail. The gallery involves the community by allowing visitors to watch her paint and see where her art happens. Taylor specializes in acrylic painting, graphic design, photography and exterior and interior wall painting.

Techsan Memorial

ARMON LAMELL “MEL” ABBE ’78; Lubbock, Jan. 2. Survived by wife, Linda Abbe.

GERARDO ALANIZ, JR., sophomore computer science major. Weslaco, Texas, Dec. 27.

ROGER KENT ANDERSON ’60; Richardson, Texas, Jan. 7. U.S. Army Veteran. Survived by wife, Anna Margaret Anderson.

SYLVIA ANTUNA ’74; San Antonio, Texas. Jan 13.

JOSHUA ASHTON, freshman chemistry major, The Woodlands, Texas, Feb. 19.

DIANE COTTAM BRIGHTON BABB ’93; Lubbock, Dec. 12. Survived by husband, ROBERT G. BABB ’97,’03.

CLINTON WARREN BACCUS ’57; Mansfield Texas, Feb. 4. U.S. Air Force Veteran.

JAMES ROBERT “JIM” BERRY ’60; Clovis, New Mexico, Feb. 22.

TERRY DON BELL ’68; Lubbock, Feb. 12.

JAMES ROBERT “JIM” BERRY ’60; Farwell, Texas, Feb. 22.

JOHN BRYCE BILLINGSLEY, JR. ’61; Dallas, Texas, Feb. 10. Prominent businessman and founder of TriGlobal in Dallas. Honored as TTU Distinguished Alumnus in 2023 by TTAA. Major supporter of TTAA and TTU. The vestibule at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion is named in his and his wife’s honor. Survived by wife, Harriett Stone Billingsley.

EMERY REX BLACK ’56; Levelland, Texas, Dec. 27. U.S. Army Reserves Veteran.

LARRY CHARLES BOYD, M.D. ’11; Seymour, Texas, Feb. 7. U.S. Navy and U.S. Navy Reserves Veteran.

MICHAEL WAYNE BRIGGS ’61; Lubbock, Jan. 28. Survived by wife, Nancye Hamblen Briggs.

L.D. “BUTCH” BRYANT ’72; Levelland, Texas, Jan. 31. Survived by wife, JUDITH M. “JUDY” BRYANT ’70.

ANTHONY JOHN CAMPAGNA, SR.’76; Dallas, Texas, Feb. 14. Survived by wife, LISA MARIE SIERRA CAMPAGNA ’76.

CHARLES CARAWAY ’58; Lubbock, Jan. 18. Texas National Guard Veteran.

JENNIFER GAIL TAYLOR CARY ’81; Coppell, Texas, Nov. 22. Survived by husband, LANCE CARY ’82.

CHRISTOPHER MICAH CHILDERS, DMA ’96; Lubbock, Dec. 27.

CAROL LANGFORD COOK ’87; Midland, Texas, Dec.18. Survived by husband, KELLY DAVID COOK ’88.

DARRELL KENT “CHICK” CURRENT ’50; Amarillo, Texas, Dec. 18. 104 years old. U.S. Army Veteran,

WWII, Normandy Campaign and North Africa Campaigns, Purple Heart Recipient.

TOBY CHARLES DRAKE ’86; New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 15. Survived by wife, Gwen Drake.

CHARLES THOMAS DRAPER ’61; Gainesville, Texas, Dec. 3. Member, TTAA National Board. Captain, TTU Track Team; recipient, Athletic Heritage Award from TTU. U.S. Air Force Veteran, Vietnam. Survived by wife, Linda Wetzel Draper.

NATE REED DUNPHY, freshman psychology major; Garland, Texas, Dec. 1.

CYNTHIA “CINDY” PHILLIPS FINLEY ’72,’81; Lubbock, Jan. 30. Survived by husband, NEIL FINLEY ’80.

DAVID WAYNE FROST ’58; Longview, Texas, Jan. 21. U.S. Army Veteran. Survived by wife, Freida Hamilton Strauss Frost.

ORLANDO GARZA, sophomore foundational engineering major; Levelland, Texas, Jan. 16.

DOUGLAS GOEN ’65; Olton, Texas, Dec. 25.

ROY BOYD GOODLOE, JR. ’66; Lubbock, Feb. 3.

JOHN KENT GRAHAM ’70; Moore, Oklahoma, Sept. 14, 2024. U.S. Army Veteran, Southern and Northern Watch. Survived by wife Lyn Valentine Graham.

JAQUIETA “JACKIE” GRAY; Lubbock, Feb. 25. Longtime employee, 28 years, of Texas Tech Alumni Association. Worked in the accounting department, most recently as a membership associate.

DONNA BAKER GREAVES ’91; Abilene, Texas, Jan. 30.

EDISON “E.W.” HALLFORD, JR. ’63; Fredericksburg, Texas, Nov. 29. U.S. Army Veteran, Vietnam. Survived by wife, RUBYE CLINGINGSMITH HALLFORD ’66.

THE HONORABLE JAMES DAVID “JIM” HANSEN ’77; Lubbock, Nov. 30. Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Lubbock County. Survived by wife, Dixie L. Hansen.

MILTON MAXELL HATTAWAY, II ’66; Kilgore, Texas, Feb. 17. Survived by wife, Jan Peek Hattaway.

BILLY DON “BILL” HENRY ’70; Dallas, Texas, Jan. 4. Survived by wife, Cheryl Wright Henry.

ERMA FLORENCE HENSON ’57, ’59; Cumming, Georgia, Feb. 6.

GERALD HILL, M.D. ’58; Cushing, Texas, Dec. 31. U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserves Veteran.

M. DAN HOWARD ’59; Lubbock, Jan. 29. Named TTU Distinguished Alumnus by TTAA, 2015. Active with TTAA, Texas Tech Foundation Board, National Ranching Heritage Center. Chair, Red Raider Club. President, Texas Tech Tax Institute. Survived by wife, KAY ALEXANDER HOWARD ’60.

ERSKIN CARLES JENKINS , freshman psychology major; Montgomery, Texas, Nov. 23.

JUDITH ANNE “JUDI” MCCRELESS PALM KELLER ’87,’90; Lubbock, Feb. 6. Speech-language pathologist, assistant professor, TTUHSC Lubbock; clinic coordinator. President, Texas Speech-LanguageHearing Association; vice president. President, Council of State Association Presidents. Advisory Board; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association PAC. Executive board; National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Jack L. Bangs Award. Hall of Fame, Texas

Speech-Language-Hearing Association. TTUHSC Distinguished Alumni Award, 2007; President’s Distinguished Clinician Award. Survived by husband, CHARLES “CHUCK” KELLER, PH.D.’71.

SARAH ANN NIX KENNEDY ’57, ’59; Lubbock, Jan. 20. One of the first women on the TTU math faculty; taught for 37 years.

ROBERT DAVIS “BOB” KIKER ’60; Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Dec. 12. U.S. Navy Veteran. Survived by wife, Jean Kiker.

ROBERT MARDEN “BOB” KRAL, SR. ’51; Corsicana, Texas, Dec. 6. U.S. Air Force Veteran. Survived by wife, WILLA MAE FARIS KRAL ’51.

MARY ALICE MOORE LACKEY ’55; Lubbock, Dec. 11.

JOHN TREY MCCAVIT ’01; Denver, Colorado, Dec. 4.

TOMMY MCLAUGHLIN ’51; Midland, Texas, Jan. 25. U.S. Air Force Veteran. Survived by wife, Verbeth Carol Allen McLaughlin.

ETHEL MCCARTHY MCLEOD; Lubbock, Dec. 8. Major supporter of TTU. Businesswoman and civic supporter. Along with her late husband, Don, funded the McLeod Tennis Facility at Texas Tech. Chair, TTU President’s Council and the International Cultural Center. Awarded the Lifetime Distinguished Service Award by the College of Human Sciences.

JONATHAN E. MARKS, Ed.D., Palm Harbor, Florida, Feb. 15; Professor Emeritus of Theatre & Dance, 1995-2018. Predeceased by his wife, Tova Marks, Palm Harbor, Florida, Jan. 26, three weeks before his death.

JAMES LEWELLYN “JIM” MILLER ’60; Granbury, Texas, Jan. 30. Survived by wife, CAROLYNN PUTMAN MILLER ’60.

CLIFF MOWERY, JR. ’65; Frisco, Texas, Oct. 26. Survived by wife, CAROL DENNISON MOWERY ’65.

MARK KEVIN NANCE ’74; Lubbock, Feb. 24. Survived by wife, Monica Anderson Nance.

CAREER

ANSELMO OCHOA ’83; Lubbock, Dec. 18.

NINA KAY POWERS ’79; Lubbock, Jan. 25.

LOCKIE “ELOUIDA” THOMAS PRESTON’68; Lubbock, Dec. 18, 2024. Survived by husband, Duane Preston.

BENJAMIN HARVEY “BEN” RALSTON ’76,’81; Wichita Falls, Texas, Jan. 15. Survived by wife, JEANNIE JOHNSON RALSTON ’77, former TTAA National Board member.

MARY “MARGARET” WEEKS REDCAY ’85; Lubbock, Jan. 24. Lecturer and instructor in music theory and applied flute at TTU, beginning in 1966. Also taught private lessons. Received an inaugural Foundation for Music Education Award in 2018. Principal flutist, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, 1968-2005. Graduate, Eastman School of Music.

MICHAEL LESLEY RODGERS ’76; Brownwood, Texas, Feb. 18. Survived by wife, Sherry Ellis Rodgers.

JULIA MARIE FLUORNOY SAFFELL ’66,’93; Lubbock, Jan. 16.

YOLANDA GARCIA SANCHEZ ’84; Anton, Texas, Feb. 19.

JOHN “J.P.” SHANKS ’00; Lubbock, Feb. 20. Survived by wife, ANGELA GILBERT SHANKS ’93, ’99.

BOBBYE RUTH BOCKMAN SHAW ’46; Lubbock, Feb. 8. A 73-year member of the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

BOB WESLEY SIMS ’53; Cibolo, Texas, Sept. 12. U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Auditor.

ANDREW “RABY” SMALLEY ’53; Gatesville, Texas, Jan. 17. U.S. Navy Veteran.

DONNA CARROLL SMITH ’76; Lubbock, Jan. 10.

ROBERT WILLIAM SMITHEE ’83; Lubbock, Jan. 24. Taught business courses at TTU. U.S. Army Medical Corps Veteran, Vietnam; Combat Medical Badge, special ribbon for Tet Offensive; United Nations Command Ribbon.

TONY “BRYAN” SMITHERMAN, M.D. ’88; Lubbock, Dec. 6. Orthopedic Surgery Resident of the month, 1996, TTUHSC.

WILLIAM WESSLER “BILL” SNIDER ’69; Azle, Texas, Dec. 9. Survived by wife, Phyllis Snider.

RICHARD MORGAN STEEDE ’60, San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 1. U.S. Air Force Veteran.

RICHARD KEEN “RICKEY” STEWART ’69; Lubbock, Feb. 8. Survived by wife, Susie Stewart.

CHARLES LOUIS “CHUCK” STREHLI ’58; Austin, Texas, Jan. 17. Active in TTAA Austin Chapter. U.S. Army Veteran. Survived by wife, JEAN MCMURTRY STREHLI ’59.

DAVID WARREN THOMPSON ’58; Dallas, Texas, Oct. 13, 2024. President, Student Council, 1958.

MYRA JEAN BOWNDS TIMMONS ’50, ’66; Lubbock, Jan. 31. Associate Professor Emeritus, Merchandising, Environmental Design and Consumer Economics,1961-1995; invited back to teach from 1996-2002. Co-authored with Martha Gene Sheldon the textbook “Tailoring Techniques,” 1975. The first home economics teacher at Monterey High School, Lubbock.

TIMOTHY JUAN “TIM” TRUJILLO ’84, ’89; Lubbock, Jan. 25. Survived by husband, Bobby Kazee.

PHIL TUCKER ’68; San Angelo, Texas, June 9. Red Raider Football player named First Team All America and All SWC in 1967. Inducted into TTU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992 and SWC Hall of Fame in 2019.

CHERYL DOYLE VOIGTEL, D.D.S. ’89; Belton, Texas, Feb. 7. Survived by husband, Richard Voigtel, D.D.S.

SANDRA KAY CRAWFORD WARD ’89; Lubbock, Dec. 15.

GUY LEWIS WEAVER ’57; Arlington, Texas, Dec. 17. Survived by wife, JANICE “JAN” RICHARDSON WEAVER ’92.

PHILIP WISCHKAEMPER ’86, ’89; Lubbock, Feb. 24. Survived by wife, LOIS A. WISCHKAEMPER ’77,’91.

NEIL BLAKELY “BLAKE” WOOD ’82; Lubbock, Jan. 8. Survived by wife, Renee Fisher Wood.

JOHN WESLEY WOODWORTH, senior human development and family studies major. Odessa, Texas, Feb. 6. Survived by partner, Marcy Tombosky.

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Ring Tradition

BY JENNIFER RITZ

In 1999, the Texas Tech Alumni Association reintroduced the Texas Tech Official Ring. The university’s ring tradition had waned from the early years with no eligibility requirement or meaningful and memorable presentation of the ring. Restoring the academic integrity of the ring and introducing the ceremony was a vital part of the revived tradition. Students now must earn the right to wear the ring.

A component of the official ring program includes a ring ceremony sponsored by Student Alumni Board, where students take a “walk around the ring” to learn what each icon on the ring represents: the Double T, the Masked Rider, the Administration Building Tower and the seal of Texas Tech University. The inside of every ring is inscribed with the words “Strive For Honor.”

Previously, in the early days of the revived tradition, ceremonies were held at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center. The program quickly grew, necessitating the addition of multiple nights. In 2021, the ceremonies were consolidated into one afternoon and held twice a year (spring and fall) on weekends at the United Supermarkets Arena. This also allows more friends and family to make the trip to campus to join in the celebration.

Lori Garcia, director of affinity programs at the TTAA, has worked at the alumni association since 2013 and oversees the official ring program. She has helped thousands of students select their official rings that will last a lifetime.

“So many words come to mind when you talk about a Texas Tech ring,” Garcia says,”Words like tradition, alma mater, honor and legacy, to name just a few. Seeing the pride that each student and graduate has for the official Tech ring is inspirational. It not only represents their hard work here at Texas Tech, but it also represents family and community.

“I am so blessed to have this job. I get to hear so many beautiful and inspiring stories from students and alumni who come to the alumni center to get a ring but who also share their Texas Tech journey. I am usually the first person to see that huge smile on their faces when they’re trying on rings because they’re anticipating their arrival. I’m the first to see the tears that roll down their faces because they are so filled with joy and that sense of accomplishment. It’s just truly amazing to witness.”

To learn more about the official Texas Tech ring or to purchase one, scan the QR code. To watch a brief video about the ring tradition, scan the QR code.