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March 2008 Issue |
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'Roo Notes
Awards Gala Honors Five Alumni
The 2008 Austin College Awards Gala
on campus March 7
honored the recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards
and the Heywood C. Clemons Volunteer Service Awards.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI 2008
Selection as Distinguished
Alumni is an elite honor and one of the most prestigious
recognitions granted to alumni of Austin College. The Distinguished
Alumni Award recognizes alumni who achieve excellence or distinction
in their professional, social, avocational, or humanitarian efforts;
demonstrate leadership through community involvement and service to
others; provide inspiration to the Austin College community by
virtue of their leadership and values; exhibit support and advocacy
for Austin College, its mission, and its students; and exemplify
high ethical standards. First Decade Award recipients meet the
criteria of Distinguished Alumni in the first 10 years after
graduation. This award is given only as deserving alumni become
known. All alumni in good standing may submit nominees for
Distinguished Alumni honors. Nominations for the spring awards are
considered by the Alumni Association Board when complete by July 1.
See the details
and nomination procedures.
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Distinguished Alumni Award
W. Osler McCarthy ’73
Austin, Texas
Staff Attorney for
Public Information
Texas Supreme Court
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Distinguished Alumni Award
Jeannine Hatt Phelps '72
Denison, Texas
Pediatrician,
Texoma Care Pediatrics
Board member and former board chair, International Child
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First Decade Award
Jennifer J. Deng-Pickett ’99
Silver Springs, Maryland
Director,
Washington, D.C.,
Language Access Coalition
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Heywood
C. Clemons Volunteer Service Awards
The Clemons Award recognizes
long-term service of alumni and friends of the College who serve in
the spirit of former Board of Trustees Chair Heywood C. Clemons of
Fort Worth, Texas. John Bentham and Sarah Gunderson have served the
College for several years through involvement on the Alumni
Association Board and have assisted the Office of Admission with a
variety of recruitment events in their areas.
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Sarah Gunderson ’81
Dallas, Texas
Vice President,
Operational Systems
Equity Residential |
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John D.
Bentham ’93
Las Vegas, Nevada
Producer, IvoryStar Productions
Owner, Promotions in Print |

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Bill Warren |
Bill Warren Co-Produces Environmental Documentary
Bill Warren, Class of
1974 and a member of the Austin College Board of Trustees,
co-produced the film, The Unforeseen, and arranged an Austin
College premiere of the film in November 2007. The campus event was
arranged through the College’s Center for Environmental Studies.
The film details the development
and preservation of the City of Austin, and some of the
environmental issues faced by citizens in the growth of the city.
Warren said one of his major concerns is the state of our
environment, and he hopes this film will help other people take an
active role in protecting it.
Screened at Sundance, San
Francisco, and various other film festivals, The Unforeseen
also was on the agenda at the Hamptons Film Festival in New York in
October 2007, with Warren leading a discussion about the film.
Warren, along with Austin College Professor of Biology George Diggs
and film director Laura Dunn offered a discussion of the film at the
“Alumni College in Austin” Feb. 26 at the Austin City Hall. The
Unforeseen opened Feb. 29 in New York.
Warren, of Dallas, is a member
of the College’s Board of Trustees.
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Mike Nurre |
Nurre Leads Alumni Board
Mike Nurre
’67 took over duties as president of the Austin College Alumni
Association Board in January 2008. He has been a member of the
Alumni Board for the past four years.
A principal of Michael T. Nurre
& Co., L.L.C., an investment banking firm, Nurre lives in Dallas and
is active in several financial organizations, his church, and a
non-partisan community affairs group.
Nurre said the Alumni
Association Board looks to focus on promoting the alumni to Austin
College, its administration, faculty, staff, and the current student
body and on increasing annual fund participation among alumni.
The Alumni Board is responsible
for selecting Distinguished Alumni and First Decade Award honorees
as well as the 20-plus recipients of John D. Moseley Alumni
Scholarships. The board organized and sponsored the 2007 Alumni
College on campus and Homecoming on the Green events.
Alumni interested in serving on
the Alumni Association Board should contact Victoria Martinsen,
director of Alumni and Parent Relations at (903) 813-2381 or
vmartinsen@austincollege.edu.
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Andy Greene ’96 and Melanie Bickley Greene ’94
attended the gathering in Austin. Andy and their daughter, Caroline,
4, were all smiles for the camera. |
Alumni College in Austin Goes “Green” — Not Just a Color
Approximately 65 alumni,
parents, and friends from the Austin area gathered in Austin’s City
Hall Atrium in February when Austin College hosted Alumni College in
Austin, “Not Just a Color — A Way of Life,” focusing on the film
The Unforeseen. Bill Warren ’74, co-producer; film
director Laura Dunn; and Austin College Professor of Biology
George Diggs offered a discussion of the documentary and the
environmental issues chronicled in the film. The panel was moderated
by Stephanie McDonald ’97 of Austin, who helped coordinate
the event.
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Honorable Will Wynn, mayor of Austin, at far right, spoke to
alumni, parents, and friends about the environmental path
the City of Austin has taken. With him, left to right, are
his brother and their parents Charlotte O’Hagan Wynn ’51 and
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Alumni Profile:
Language House Can
Change a Life
Ed Stemple
’83 can attest to the influence of Austin College’s language house
program from its beginning. Stemple moved into the language house in
the spring of 1981, only one semester after the program’s inception.
At the time, the language house was Thompson House, a
Victorian-styled home on the corner of Grand Avenue and Brockett
Street that now serves as the Temple Center for Teaching and
Learning.
Languages rotated in and out of the house each term. In the fall of
1980, the program started with German House. In the spring of 1981,
it was Stemple’s turn to move into French House. “I have fond
memories of that semester, which had a big influence on my life,”
said Stemple, whose French House term readied him for study abroad
at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France. “It helped
prepare me for a junior year in France, entrance into Thunderbird
for graduate school, and a job in international relief and
development. Language house can change a life.” Stemple, his wife,
Jan, and their two sons live in Redmond, Wash., where he plans the
marketing and communications for AT&T’s 67 million wireless phone
customers.
The friendships Stemple made with French students in Montpellier, the French
language, and even French culture have lasted a lifetime. Stemple
returned to Montpellier in 2000 and stayed with the same friends he
met at the university cafeteria in 1981. “I still speak, read, and
write French,” he said. “To this day, I love French wines, cheeses,
and foods. Seeing one new culture in enough depth to reveal its
glory opened my mind to realize every culture has depth and
greatness to be discovered and appreciated.”
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Robert Lehr '58

Shirley Laseter '69 |
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Robert Lehr retired from Southern
Illinois Medical School after 25 years of teaching, but is now
teaching two classes at colleges in Vermont. He also does
consultation for head trauma rehabilitation and is scheduled to make
several presentations for international audiences.
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Glen Stanbaugh, chair emeritus and
chief medical officer of the Texas Renal Coalition (TRC) and a
retired Lubbock nephrologist, has worked daily since his retirement
to find ways to reverse the increase in cases of end-stage renal
disease (ESRD) he has documented in his practice. The work of the
TRC resulted in a $1 million allocation from the Texas Department of
State Health Services to fund an education program, Decrease the
Increase. The TRC and Dr. Stanbaugh’s work was included in June and
December 2007 issues of Texas Medicine, a publication of the
Texas Medical Association.
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Jefferson Stewart chaired the 18th
Annual International Conference of the American Society for the
Competitiveness (ASC) in November 2007 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He chairs
the Advisory Council of the ASC.
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Shirley Ruth Brooks Laseter
retired as library director of the Muir S. Fairchild Research
Information Center at Air University on January 3, completing 27
years of federal service. She joined the library in 1980 as a
reference librarian, and served as systems librarian, bibliographer,
reference chief, and reader services division chief before
appointment as library director. Air University at Maxwell Air Force
Base in Montgomery, Alabama, is the center of Air Force graduate and
professional military education.
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Carol Wiley Toll received a Bank of
America Spirit Award of Excellence, an annual award that recognizes
and rewards the top 1 percent of employees for significantly
exceeding performance goals and consistently demonstrating the
bank’s core values. She and her husband, Ralph, will attend an award
celebration to be held in Miami’s South Beach in March. She has
worked for Bank of America since 1995, including 10 years for
acquired company MBNA.
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Marjie Dexter Podzielinski
is librarian for 1,200 kindergarten-through-sixth-grade students at
Coulson Tough School in The Woodlands, Texas. She serves on the
Teachers’ Choices Steering Committee for the International Reading
Association (IRA). The committee examines newly published books for
curriculum content in kindergarten through eighth grade. Marjie
presented in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the IRA meeting in May,
and presented at the Sam Houston State University Children’s Book
Festival.
Jeffrey
Powers performed with the Baylor Symphony
Orchestra in the “Kindling the Fire!” performance September 18 at
Jones Concert Hall in Waco, Texas. He is the principal horn with the
Waco Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Baylor Woodwind Quintet
and the Baylor Brass. He also performs regularly with the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra, the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, and the Plano
Symphony Orchestra. He has performed professional and
internationally for many years, including 16 years with the Royal
Philharmonic of Flanders in Antwerp, Belgium.
William P. Proctor is the new pastor for First Presbyterian
Church of San Angelo, Texas. He and his family moved from the Main
Line outside of Philadelphia, where Bill served as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore for the past 11 years.
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Kim Powers has written a second book, Capote In
Kansas: A Ghost Story, now in its second printing. He describes the book as
“a sort of ‘fantasia’ about two of our greatest writers, Truman Capote and
Harper Lee, and the inescapable memories that bind them together. Plus the
ghosts of Boo Radley and the murdered Clutters from In Cold Blood make an
appearance!” A Library Journal starred review called the book “exceptional” and
asserted, “Powers succeeds brilliantly in blending fact and fiction to produce a
sensitive portrait of two lost souls.”
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Paul Reilley & Lisa Brewer

Brynn Elise Squires |
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Janet Moody Melton has been appointed
clinical assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Texas
at Arlington.
Fedora ’85 Named Head Coach
of University of Southern Mississippi
Larry Fedora ’85 (PHOTO) was named
head coach of the University of Southern Mississippi football
team in December, having spent the past three seasons as the
offensive coordinator for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Fedora played wide receiver for the Austin
College football team from 1981 to 1984, and was a member of the
Kangaroos’ 1981 NAIA National Championship team. He was named an
All-American in 1983 and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of
Honor in 2006 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to
Austin College athletics.
Fedora broke into coaching as a graduate
assistant for the Kangaroos in 1986, and after a stint at
Garland High School, became the wide receiver, tight end, and
running back coach at Baylor in 1991. He moved on to coach
quarterbacks and wide receivers at the Air Force Academy in
1997, and got his first offensive coordinator job in 1999 at
Middle Tennessee State. He went on to become the offensive
coordinator at the University of Florida in 2002 before taking
the same position at Oklahoma State in 2005. With his move to
the head coaching position at Southern Mississippi, Fedora
becomes one of five current NCAA Division I-A head coaches who
are athletic alumni of Division III schools.
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Charles Bradshaw has opened a new art
gallery in San Angelo, Texas, at the Chicken Farm Art Center. The
first exhibition, the paintings of Elizabeth Marsico ’87,
opened in December.
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Richard “Trace” Haythorn
’87 became president of The Fund for Theological Education in
January. He previously was director of the vocation and values
program and founder of the Center for Servant Leadership at Hastings
College, where he also served as assistant professor in the
Department of Religion. Haythorn has served pastorates at
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee; Toorak
Uniting Church in Melbourne, Australia; and the chaplaincy at
Nazareth College in Rochester, New York He and his wife, Mary —
also a Presbyterian minister — live in Atlanta with their son and
daughter.
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A daughter, Mary Catherine, was born August 30, 2007, to Stephanie
and Duncan Robert Ware. The eighth child of the family, she
joins brothers Jeremy, Connell, and John, and sisters Kylie, Molli,
Olivia, and Sarah Grace.
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Sarah Booth survived the Chicago Marathon in October 2007. She
was on mile 20 when the race was cancelled, but she did finish all
26.2 miles of her second marathon. When not running, Sarah is the
assistant director of the Montgomery County Memorial Library System
in Conroe, Texas.
Paul Reilley and Lisa Brewer were married August 9, 2007,
on the beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The couple shares six
children and lives in Spring, Texas. Paul continues to work as a
physician’s assistant with KSF Orthopaedic Group in Houston. Lisa is
a reservations trainer with Continental Airlines.
Bill Ucherek II, formerly in Abilene at The Ucherek Law Firm,
has joined the law firm of Juneau, Boll, Ward, & Carboy in Addison,
Texas. He is a board certified personal injury trial lawyer. He and
his wife, Brenda Montfort Ucherek ’88, moved back to the
metroplex last
summer with their three boys, Nick, 14; Jared, 11;
and Walker, 6.
A daughter, Brynn Elise, was born January 17 to Richard and
Laura Brown Squires.
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Benjamin & Leah
Schwartz

DeaAnn Mackie Martin

Catalina & Pacey
Mulhollan

Viviana & Madelynn Adkins

Trent & Brooks Head

Marley Toich

Lily Powell

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A son, Benjamin, was born to Joe and Susan Overstreet
Schwartz in May 2007. He joins his sister, Leah, 7. In June
2007, Susan received her M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School.
She is now a stay-at-home mom, but will begin a residency in family
medicine in summer 2008.
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Scott D. Forbes has been appointed director of
governmental relations for the University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston. He previously spent seven years as a manager of
governmental relations for the Port of Houston Authority, and spent
eight years as assistant director for state and federal relations
under Houston mayors Bob Lanier and Lee P. Brown. Scott lives in
Kingwood with his wife, Karen, and daughters Emerson, 5, and Kirby,
2.
Tommy Newsom has been appointed president of The Art Institute
of Austin, with 20 years of experience in higher education. He has
been with The Art Institutes for eight years, first as director of
public relations at the Dallas school. After two years, he became
dean of Student Affairs, also serving in that capacity for two
years. He then worked in the organization’s central office for three
years, first as assistant vice president of Student Affairs, and
more recently as vice president of Student Affairs. From June to
August 2007, he served in an interim role as president of The Art
Institute of Tennessee-Nashville.
A daughter, Chyanne, 3, was adopted by Kathie Null and her
partner, Marilyn Jones, with the process finalized December 20,
2007, in Pennsylvania.
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DeaAnn Mackie Martin earned a master’s degree in
nurse anesthesia from Texas Christian University in December 2007.
She will work as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at
Methodist Hospital of Dallas. She and her husband, Adam, have one
son, Brandon, 4.
Brian ”Rube” Rubrecht
has been awarded a tenured professor
position teaching English in the School of Commerce at Meiji
University in Tokyo, Japan. He is only the third non-Japanese to
work for the department in its 104-year history.
Marianne Bishop Turner was installed as pastor of the Friendship
Presbyterian Church of Athens, Georgia, by the Northeast Georgia
Presbytery in October 2007.
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A son, Seth Thomas, was born November 29, 2007, to Bryan and
Jennifer Baker Adams. The family lives in McKinney, Texas. Seth
is the grandson of Connie and Tom Baker, Austin College
professor of education.
A daughter, Pacey Addison, was born December 1, 2007, to
Kelly ’92 and Stella Lucio Mulhollan. She joins her
sister Catalina, 4. The family lives in North Carolina.
Amanda “Mandi” Hill Picken left her job as a design and print
project manager in August 2006 to become a self-employed editor.
That move gives her more time to look after Alex, 5, and Isabel, 3.
Mandi and her husband, Martin, live in Woking, England, where he is
a network development manager for British Airways.
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Jay Bender and his wife, Lynn, live in McKinney, Texas, where
Jay has opened a law firm on the historic square. He previously
served as assistant district attorney in both Dallas and Collin
counties. Lynn is a manager with Hitachi Consulting.
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A daughter, Vivianna Rose, was born April 17, 2007, in
Portsmouth, Virginia, to Allen and Kirstin Hurtado Adkins.
The family, including big sister, Madelynn, 3, lives in Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, while Allen
completes a master’s degree at the U.S. Army Command and General
Staff College.
Twin boys, Trent William and Brooks Fenner, were born March
6, 2007, to Tim and Kate McCarron Head. The family lives in
Rockwall, Texas. On August 25, 2007, friend and classmate Father
David Madison baptized Trent and Brooks at Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church in Heath, Texas.
Matthew Kirby is a full partner in a private practice at the
Atlanta (Georgia) Institute for Ear, Nose, and Throat. A graduate of
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he completed his residence in
otolaryngology at Baylor in 2006. In Atlanta he is able to do
charity work through the local Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital and
St. Joseph’s Hospital.

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A daughter, Marley Faith, was born July 20, 2007, to
Matthew and Jena Marie Sibbald
Toich.
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A daughter, Lily LeBron, was born July 25 to Jonathan and
Camille LeBron Powell. Camille is an associate pastor at
Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Bryan Campbell earned a master’s degree in computer networking
in July 2007 at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jack Peebles is the new senior pastor of the
1,400-member First Presbyterian Church of Yakima, Washington. Jack
graduated from Princeton Seminary in 2004 and began serving as
associate pastor at First Presbyterian in Kingwood, Texas. Jack, his
wife Margaret (Johnson) ’98, and their children, Annabelle
and David, moved to Washington in February. Jack and Margaret
participated in a mission trip to Egypt in 2006 and are pictured on
Mt. Sinai at dawn.
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Frank Kirby III

Grace Nworie

Trajan Wiley

Amber Powell &
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Kimberly Blanton and Daniel Day were married June 23, 2007, at
the Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park in Dallas. Rabab Fayad,
’00 was a bridesmaid and Tim Hardesty ’00 attended. Kimberly
is a labor and employment attorney with the U.S. Postal Service in
Dallas.
Amanda Jester practices health law at the firm of McDermott Will
& Emery in Miami Beach, Florida, and will spoke to a group of
fellows at the University of Miami Medical School in November
regarding the federal physician self referral law and the federal
anti-kickback law.
Douglas E. Lowe was promoted to senior accounting specialist in
logistics finance at JCPenney. This comes after two years of work as
an accounting analyst in stores finance. He also has recently been
selected as an elder for Trinity Presbyterian Church in McKinney,
Texas.
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A son, Sean Hunter, was born October 25, 2007, to Daniel
’02 and Jennie Knapp Harper. Sean is the couple’s second son.
Irma Pedroza graduated from Thurgood Marshall School of Law in
Houston in May 2006 and sat for the Texas Bar in July 2006. While
awaiting her results, she attended Georgetown University Law Center
to obtain a Master of Laws in Taxation, completing the program May
2007. She now works in the National Tax Office of Ernst & Young in
Washington, D.C.
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Stacy Smith
was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament in
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) November 4, 2007, at Preston Hollow
Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Many Austin College friends attended
and were involved in the service. Omi Boggus offered the Call
to Worship; Todd Penner, associate professor of religious
studies, read from the Gospel of Luke, and Stacy officiated
communion alongside the Rev. Mary Newberg Gale ’01. Stacy
recently received her Master of Divinity from Union Theological
Seminary in New York City, and serves as a Lake Fellow in Parish
Ministry at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Ind.
A son, Frank George III, was born September 21, 2007, to
Frank and Tamara (Smith) Kirby. Tamara works part-time as
a forensic chemist and spends the rest of her time with their new
son. Frank has finished his master’s degree in social work and works
as a supervisor in a child residence facility in Illinois.
Grace Nworie and Anthony Pokoo-Aikins were married
August 18, 2007. Kelly Oby was a bridesmaid.
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Leslie Moore &
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A son, Trajan Alexander, was born August 20, 2007, to
Paul Jimenez and Elizabeth Wiley. The family lives in Austin,
Texas, where Elizabeth works as an actuarial consultant.
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Joseph Greenberg and Leslie Moore were
married October 20, 2007. Both passed the Texas Bar Exam in July
2007. Joseph works as an associate for the Dallas/Houston law firm
of Godwin Pappas Ronquillo, and Leslie works as a contracts analyst
for British Petroleum.
Andrea Lerner and James Miller ’03 were married
June 11, 2006. The wedding party included Kyle Eichas ’03 and
Celeste Longoria ’04. The couple now lives in Richmond, Va.,
where Andrea is working on her doctorate in counseling psychology
and James is pursuing a master’s degree in library science.
Jordan Watson, a graduate of Texas Wesleyan University School of
Law, passed the July 2007 Texas Bar Exam. She plans to pursue a
career in estate planning law.
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Hesham Hambazaza graduated from Washington University in Saint
Louis in May 2007 with a degree in electrical engineering. He has
moved to Huntsville, Alabama, to work for Boeing as an
electrophysics engineer.
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Clelia Moreno
and Hairo Hassam Pena ’06 were married Aug
5, 2007, in Monterrey, Mexico. Bridesmaids included Stacy George,
Valerie Wehmeyer,. Kathleen Mclaughlin ’08, and
Nicole Hagenbuch. Groomsmen were John Mark Wiginton
and Bobby Myers. The Penas live in Sherman, Texas.
Amber Powell and Christopher Hinds were
married May 27, 2007, in Pilot Point, Texas. The wedding party
included Jon Glenn, Annie King, Dan Pucul ’05,
Frank Sedita, Maliko Ubl ’06, Megan Wald ’05,
and Ellen Weaver ’06. The couple lives in Poughkeepsie, New
York, where Chris attends the Culinary Institute of America and
Amber is the assistant director of graduate admission at Marist
College.
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Austin Teacher Program
alumnus Chris Hitch ’81 spoke to education students and to
students in the Communication/Inquiry course, “Education for
All: Seeking Equity, Excellence and Justice in U.S. Schools,”
taught by Professor of Education Tom Baker. Now a professor at
the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Hitch has been a
teacher and principal, and now runs a doctoral program for
educational leaders and consults both in the U.S. and
internationally. He made the trip to campus after traveling to
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IN MEMORIAM
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College Community Mourns Death of Lee Posey
Members of the Austin College
community were saddened by the death of Lee Posey on Feb.29
after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
Posey has been a good friend and
generous benefactor to Austin College. Lee and his wife, Sally, have
long been dedicated to mentoring young people and assisting them
with college funding. The couple discovered in the goals of the
College’s Leadership Institute many of the values that inspired
their own lives and soon became supporters of the program. The
institute was named to honor the Poseys, their leadership, and their
support of the College. From the Posey Leadership Institute
developed the plan for the Austin College Leadership Award to
recognize individuals who devote themselves to humanitarian or
educational advances that will create opportunities for young people
in the U.S. and around the world. Posey embodied the principles of
servant leadership and selfless dedication to young people that are
at the heart of the Austin College Leadership Award.
Posey earned a bachelor’s degree
from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, in 1956. Upon graduation, he
joined Redman Industries, Inc., and from 1967 to 1977 served as
president of the company. He founded Palm Harbor Homes, Inc., in
1978 and served as the company’s chair until 2005, then assuming the
role of chair emeritus. He served on a number of corporate
and civic boards, including Monaco Coach Company, Red River
Ventures, Dallas Habitat for Humanity, and the Dallas Symphony. He
also headed the Posey Family Foundation, focused on improving
educational opportunities for students at risk, and he made
pioneering efforts on behalf of single-gender education in Texas.
Posey was a trustee of Alma College and a member of the Austin
College President’s Advisory Forum.
Meet the Trustee
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Jacqueline Cooper
Jacqueline Cooper
’73 earned a
master’s degree in government from the University of Texas in 1975.
A resident of Oakton, Va., Cooper is very active at Dahlgren Chapel
on the Georgetown University campus, serving as a Eucharistic
minister and altar assistant. She also volunteers at Georgetown
University Hospital in the Pastoral Care Department as a weekend
Eucharistic minister and is a member of the hospital’s Volunteer
Leadership Team Committee. My service as
an Eucharistic minister at Georgetown University soon came to
include the hospital. This service allows me to give back what has
so richly been shared with me and again, emphasizes those values
that were so much a part of my Austin College experience.
Cooper is a member of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Association in West Branch, Iowa. Her personal interests include
travel, photography, and cooking.
Austin College Magazine
staff asked Cooper about her service on the Austin College Board of
Trustees.
What does it mean to you to be a trustee of Austin
College?
Being
an Austin College trustee is the realization of a dream come
true. It affords me the opportunity to help foster an institution
where students will be equipped academically, socially, and morally
to meet the stresses and joys of the 21st century. I have the chance
to help create an environment that is important to me. As a student,
Austin College provided me with a very nurturing environment where I
grew both academically and socially, and where I could practice
firsthand the concept of what President Page calls servant
leadership and community service. Austin College was more than just
a learning institution, for I developed life-long friends and
extended family. I have called on Drs. John D. Moseley and Kenneth
Street countless times for guidance and wisdom in handling a
situation. I am godmother to the son of one of former roommates and
a surrogate aunt to other Austin College friends' children.
My
goal for Austin College is for it to maintain its high academic
standing and stay small enough that the professors know their
students by name and are very interactive with them.
What do you enjoy about being an Austin College
trustee?
I
enjoy the interaction with students. I am chair of the Student
Affairs Committee, and relish the time spent with students. After
the committee meeting ends, several of the trustees hang out at the
Pouch Club chatting with the students who happen to join us, and on
occasion, playing a game of pool with them. I get together regularly
with some of the former students who now reside in Washington, D.C. 
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March 2008

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2008 Athletic Hall of Honor
Inductees:
Bo Brown ’75
Jim Baird ’93
Kenneth Tatum ’89
Allison McKinney Tarpley ’99
Dr. Kenneth Street (Honorary Inductee)
Coach
Joe Spencer Award for
Meritorious Service and Lifetime Achievement in Coaching:
Butch Worley ’76
Reunion of Champions, Saturday, July 19
Dinner and Awards Gala, Sunday, July 20
Austin College
26th Annual Slats McCord
Tournament, July 21
The Golf Club at Castle Hills
Lewisville, Texas
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