CLASS NOTES 1985
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Janice Horak has been named
Vanessa Hammler Kenon was a panelist at the Microsoft TechEd 2014 Women in Technology conference luncheon in Houston. She is UTSA’s assistant vice provost for information technology. This luncheon was Microsoft’s premier and largest conference in North America and hosted more than 10,000 participants from around the world.
Paul “Sonny” Marks was recently promoted to assistant secretary of Amerisafe’s subsidiaries. He was hired as deputy general counsel of Amerisafe, Inc.
Michelle Bogaard Flemons was
Steven Swoap was awarded
Lee Koch presented a paper
assistant vice president of development for Tarleton State University. She has previously served as director of The Langdon Center in Granbury, Texas, and assistant vice president of external relations with Tarleton State.
1986 Steve Darnall has started his tenth year as editor and publisher of Nostalgia Digest, a quarterly magazine which celebrated its 40th anniversary with its August issue. He has also started his sixth year as host and producer of Those Were the Days, a weekly radio show in its 45th year. Andrew Lock was a panelist in
the discussion “The Quest for Cash” to help those launching a startup or expanding a business find funding.
William McDonald was selected
for the 2014 Distinguished Service Award by the New Jersey chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. William is the president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Healthcare System in Paterson, N.J.
Timothy Parrish was appointed
a professor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. His main research interest is American literature and culture. He is the author of three books.
Beth Pattillo recently had
her novel, Heavens To Betsy, premiere as a television movie. “Heavenly Match” premiered in September as a UP original movie.
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two grants for his research. The National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health awarded him funding to continue his research on skeletal muscle fatigue and on how caloric intake affects blood pressure.
Monte Ward was recently
appointed to the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He is chief financial officer at Cabell Huntington Hospital.
David Rylander was promoted
to professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. He was also named Senior Experiential Learning Fellow and given the TWU Innovation in Academia Award.
Martha Imig Wilkins recently
returned from a nine-month deployment in Kabul, Afghanistan. She served as the future plans officer and then as Deputy Commander of the Directorate of National Logistics. Back in San Antonio, she is in the Reserves as chief of staff for the Southern Division, 75th Training Command and works with Army North on disaster response preparedness.
1989 Danice Lange is the esthetician (skin-care therapist) at Alamo Plaza Spa inside the historic Menger Hotel. She welcomes all alumni to make appointments.
inducted into the Delta Sports Hall of Fame for tennis. Her high school honored her at the Banquet of Champions.
entitled “A Model of the Medical and Nursing Educator’s Role in e-Learning” at the annual congress of the German Association of Medical Educators in Hamburg, Germany.
Leigh Montes joined the
expanded bariatric program as co-director of Bariatric Surgery at Christ Hospital. She is a leading bariatric surgeon and helps provide the highest quality care in the region.
Catherine Ward-Crixell joined Port Townsend’s Public Library as a youth services librarian. Mackey Smith and his wife April, and Dan Monson and his wife Anabel Monzo Monson ’93, partnered with a known local chef to open Pane e Vino Trattoria and Pizzeria, an Italian restaurant in Katy, Texas.