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Michael Fiorito has joined retired business administration professor Don Van Eynde on his latest fishing expedition in his new home state, Alaska.
Lorna Burton Banister has
joined Ballard Spahr LLP as an attorney in their Phoenix office. Her focus includes all types of commercial real estate matters.
Aisha Crumbine, founder and principal consultant of Crumbine Education Consulting LLC, was the featured speaker at a recent Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty sales meeting.
Roy C. Lopez has been appointed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as a community development officer. He will lead the Dallas Fed’s efforts to promote economic growth and financial stability for low- and moderate-income communities and individuals in the Eleventh District.
Brad Busiek is now the head
Paul Garro has been named as
Raul Piña, the co-founder and
CEO of the Dare2Dream Foundation in Phoenix, notes that he frequently remembers the late education professor Thomas J. Sergiovanni when recalling issues on school culture and moral purpose. Matt Schatz is the vice president
of sales at WP Engine in Austin, Texas. Schatz was also the commencement speaker for Trinity’s graduating class of 2013.
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pastor and head of staff at Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church in Fairview, Ore.
Michelle Jones has founded
a new college, the Wayfinding Academy, in Portland, Ore. The Wayfinding Academy is a twoyear alternative college with a focus on providing hand-crafted experiences tailored to each student’s interests.
Lindsay Anhold Lew, Erica Kafka ’00, Jordan Azar ’11, and Abby Loar ’12, all Trinity women’s soccer alumni, accompanied by Connor Jones, attended the Women’s World Cup.
Erin Baker received a Trinity
afghan from the senior director of alumni relations, Mary Kay Cooper, for being the outgoing president of the Trinity University alumni association.
Sardar Biglari is the founder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Biglari Holdings Inc., a diversified holding company. He has also been elected to the board of directors of CCA Industries Inc.
the new president of Central Catholic High School in San Antonio. Garro was promoted to that role by the Central Catholic High School Board of Directors and the Provincial Council of the Marianist Province of the United States.
Geoff Sanderson has been appointed chief program evaluation officer at McKinney ISD. He is in charge of state and federal assessment implementation and accountability as well as evaluation of district programs.
Jeffrey Osborne has joined Cowen and Company’s equity research department as a managing director to cover the alternative energy sector. Amber Nicole Puga, formerly
Mario Andres Puga, has begun her transition from male to female. The culmination of her body and mind since she was six years old, Puga is living life as her true self, a transgender female.
Over the summer, 20 Zeta Chi sorority sisters from the classes of 19972001 gathered in Cave Creek, Ariz., for a three-day reunion. Traveling
Katie Russell visited all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums in one season in honor of her mother’s passing. She threw the first pitch for her final stop at Wrigley Field.
from Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, and even Australia, the ladies enjoyed renting a house complete with swim-up bar, in-ground trampoline, tennis courts, and more. Back row, left to right: Lorna Burton Banister ’98, Pamela Neil Thibodeau ’98, Emily Houston ’99, Laura Tenczar Whiles ’99, Abby Haran Raddatz ’99, Regan Brooks Krainert ’98, Sarah Lape Robb ’98, Alicia Banos Taylor ’01, Jocelyn Lewis ’01, Eryn McGary Swanson ’00, Tricia Pierce ’01, Beth Pedersen Fagan ’01, and Heather Lunow Hunziker ’00. Front row, left to right: Ramey Barnett ’97, Courtney Schmidt Holcomb ’99, Andrea Spolidoro Martinsen ’99, Reka Lal ’98, Heather Conger ’00, Amy Fowler Tellinghuisen ’99, and Heather Todd Landi ’98.
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