worked as a museum docent and tour guide, and donated many hours to the chamber’s Women’s Division. At North Texas, she was a member of Delta Gamma.
accommodations and gourmet meals along with spectacular scenery and challenging rides.
1976
Terry Hunt, Waco :: is back
Camano Island, Wash.
:: was promoted by FedEx
in Texas after 10 years in radio in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is the cohost of a morning show on new Waco radio station KRMX, 92.9 Shooter FM.
1982
Services from account executive in Fort Worth to business development in Bellevue, Wash. She and her husband, Charles, now live north of Seattle.
Ken Simpson, Palm Springs, Calif. :: is
Karla Burkholder (’90 M.S.), Lake Kiowa
:: director
of instructional technology at the Northwest ISD, was elected 2012-13 president of TCEA, the largest state organization devoted to the use of technology in education. She also worked in instructional technology in Lewisville and Callisburg.
Brad Flowers (’95)
Jillien Garrison Anthony,
1981
Luxury travel by design It’s not where you are going, it’s how you get there. That’s the philosophy of Viaggio Lux, the luxury travel design company
Julie Mandrell (’97) started in 2009. It keeps her busy designing the interiors of private aircraft and buses for clients ranging from royalty to NASCAR. Mandrell says her mother, Lahna Wood Wheeler, who attended the university in 1965-66, recommended UNT as the right university for her
founder and CEO of Skin 2 Skin Care, an award-winning line of non-toxic skin care products certified cruelty-free and vegan. He drew on his experience in product development for luxury resort spas to develop this line when radiation treatments left his skin damaged. As a fashion design student, he was inspired by Betty Marzan Mattil, with whom he worked on what is now the Texas Fashion Collection.
M. Katherine Turpin Gravatt, Nacogdoches :: retired
bun, a Vietnamese dish.
after 22 years with the U.S. Department of Defense as a graphic manager. She recently married Dennis Gravatt, chair of the Department of Biology at Stephen F. Austin State University.
never experienced before. I took in everything,” Mandrell says.
1979
1983
Jeanne Twehous, North Con-
Dennis Bull (Ph.D.), Richard-
and her interest in interior design. “When I was growing up, my grandmother and mom were constantly painting rooms, putting up wallpaper or space planning,” she says. Mandrell remembers UNT offered many creative influences, beginning with a roommate who introduced her to one of her now-favorite foods, “There were new friends, music, art, a variety of cultures, things I had After earning her interior design degree, she landed a job in Dallas with a fabric company, which opened the door to designing the interiors of customized buses for manufacturer Country Coach. And through an invitation from a vendor, Mandrell experienced her first NASCAR race. “I became fascinated with the sport and its culture,” she says. In 2005, Mandrell expanded to airplanes as a designer for Gulfstream Aerospace. She traveled to exotic places with clients that included the royal family of Abu Dhabi. When the luxury travel business put the brakes on in 2008, she didn’t slow down. She opened Viaggio Lux, designing for
way, N.H. :: started Vesta Velo, a bicycle touring company for women only, based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She says the tours feature deluxe
son :: was made a full-time fac-
ulty member at the North Dallas campus of Strayer University, teaching psychology, humanities, sociology and religion.
NASCAR clients through Amadas/Featherlite Coaches in Suffolk, Va. and Piaggio Aero in Denton retained her to design private planes. “I’ve always wanted to design and knew I could do it,” Mandrell says. “I’m completely passionate about interior design.” — Rebecca Poynter
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