Class Notes

1970s
Albert Barringer, ’78 MA, is the chief economic development, community and workforce development officer and director of the Bowling Green Technical College Franklin Center in Bowling Green, Ky.

Clifford McFarland, ’77 BS, is chairman, CEO and senior managing director of LITMUS Consulting LLC in Houston, Texas.

Gerald Metcalf, ’79 MBA, founnded InSpect Resources LLC, an API inspection services located in the Clear Lake area.

Karen H. Perry, ’78 MS, is co-author of “Lil’ Tex Visits the Alamo,” which was recognized by ABC’s Children’s Picture Book Competition.

Karen Gillmouth Saultz, ’78 BS, is an accounting supervisor for Tenaris Hydril.

1980s
Carolyn Praytor Boyd, ’83 MA, was a juried poet at the 2007 Houston Poetry Fest and will be a featured poet in 2008.

Gavin Clabaugh, ’80 MS, is vice president and CIO of the C.S. Mott Foundation. Clabaugh was named one of the 2007 NPT Power and Influence Top 50 by Nonprofit Times.

Marsha Clapp, ’85 MA, has opened Wild Peach Rock Shop in Village of Wild Peach, Texas.

Robert J. Exley, ’84 MBA, ’82 BS, has been appointed president of Snead State Community College in Boaz, Ala.

Stephanie Jones Hawley, ’83 MS, is interim vice president for academic affairs at Malcolm X College of Chicago, Ill.

Daniel Holt, ’82 MS, ’77 BA, is vice president of business services at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.

Candace J. Jones, ’82 BS, is executive director of the Fort Bend Museum Association in Richmond, Texas.

Allen McHenry, ’87 BBA, has earned the Certified Protection Professional designation from the American Society for Industrial Security. He is a postal inspector for the United States Postal Inspection Service.

Monette Miller, ’87 BS, is living in Wimberley, Texas.

Steve Phelps, ’80 BBA, ’91 Distinguished Alumnus, has been re-appointed to the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority. He serves as chairman of the Port of Houston Authority Pension Committee.

Mara Savely, ’87 BA, is a subcontractor administrator supporting supply chain management for the space shuttle and International Space Station for United Space Alliance.

Christopher Vassiliou, ’83 BS, is a professional director serving on the boards of several companies. He also serves as an adviser for technology grants for New Zealand’s Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.

David Zach, ’81 MS, was the keynote speaker for Leadership Tulsa’s Annual Executive Leadership Series in Tulsa, Okla.

1990s
Martin Blain, ’96 MA, has been invited to participate in and submit a paper for the Oxford Round Table Conference to be held at Oxford University in England. Blain is a full-time professor of English at Houston Community College.

Scott Caudle, ’93 BS, was named director of Tribridge’s Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics NAV practices.

Kathy Jo Cook, ’92 BA, was named president of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. She is a litigator for the law firm of Keches & Mallen in Taunton, Mass.

Craig Cordola, ’98 MHA/MBA, is CEO at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Jane Dunn, ’92 MBA, ’85 BS, works for BASF as an accountant.

Mike Fossum, ’97 MS, made his second trip to space May 31 onboard the space shuttle Discovery.

Rebecca Frame, ’90 BS, is employed in the radiation dosimetry department at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Traci Goodwin, ’96 MS, ’87 Secondary Teaching Certificates in history and English/language arts,’87 BA, is associate principal for Manvel High School and has been selected to represent the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals as the 2007 Region IV Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year.

Joe Haas, ’92 BS, recently started his own business, Zench Technology LLC in Pearland, Texas.

Michael Kapp, ’91 MBA, ’87 BS, is president of VT Griffin and serves as vice president of VT Service Inc. in Alpharetta, Ga.

Kathy King Johnson, ’92 Professional Teaching Certificate, ’85 MS, has been named executive director of Medicine Horse Program in Boulder, Colo.

Stacy LeBlanc, ’95 MBA, is research department administrator for the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and editor emeritus of the Texas Branch, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science newsletter.

Travis Leslie, ’98 BS, is a medical sales representative for Johnson & Johnson.

Elizabeth Lopez, ’98 MS, ’95 BS, is teaching eighth grade for Camp Lejeune School District in Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Robby McGowen, ’95 MS, ’94 Professional Teaching Certificate, is superintendent of Alvin ISD in Alvin, Texas.

Glenn Miller, ’98 BS, is a corporate manager with Nighthawk Oilfield Services in Houston, Texas.

Michael Nestor, ’96 MA, was promoted to vice president and head of global change management for the Bayer Group. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Keith Parrot, ’95 MHA, ’07 Distinguished Alumnus, has been named president of Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala.

Shery Purkeypile, ’93 MHA/MBA, is CEO of Allied Physicians of Michiana.

Diana (Penner) Reaume, ’97 MS, is superintendent of Quillayute Valley School District in Forks, Wash.

Darrell Robertson, ’91 MS, is the director, program planning and analysis, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He lives in Upper Marlboro, Md.

Glenda Kay Rose, ’94 BS, teaches eighth grade at Alice Johnson Junior High School in Channelview, Texas.

Annie Mae Shanklin, ’92 MS, ’91 Professional Teaching Certificate, retired from Houston ISD after 36 years. She wrote a book, “Precious Memories,” and taught at Houston Community College and Lee Junior College.

Kenneth Storm, ’93 Professional Teaching Certificate, ’85 MS, has been the principal at Del Valley Middle School for eight years and currently lives in Lost Pines, Texas.

Heidi White, ’99 BA, is teaching special education at Deer Park High School South in Deer Park, Texas.

Victor White, ’90 Professional Teaching Certificate, is assistant superintendent for Deer Park ISD in Deer Park, Texas.

Sherry Wiseburn, ’95 MS, teaches sixth grade at Alexander Middle School. She was selected as Pearland ISD’s Secondary Teacher of the Year.

Melissa Wright, ’99 BBA, is the marketing manager at Smith Seckman Reid in Houston, Texas.

2000s
Jennifer Benson,’05 BS, is a care specialist at Bering Omega Community Services in Houston, Texas.

Erin Bettison, ’05 BA, married Brandon Jones on Oct. 6, 2007. She is the marketing director for Bay Architects in Houston, Texas.

Claire Blondeau, ’02 MBA, is senior editor for new books at the American Health Information Management Association in Chicago, Ill.

Scott Burk, ’07 BBA, was promoted to clinic manager for Texas Children’s Hospital Multidisciplinary Clinics in Houston.

Jackie Callies, ’07 BBA, is the executive director of development and alumni relations at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

Gregory Chamitoff, ’02 MS, will take part in a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station from May through November 2008.

Kimberly Crouch, ’00 BS, married Brad Stephenson on Nov. 4, 2007, and the couple resides in League City, Texas.

Shannon Deitz, ’01 MA, is the coordinator of youth ministry for St. Martha’s Catholic Church in Kingwood, Texas.

Lori Dunaway, ’03 MA, had a baby girl on Oct. 16, 2007.

Rateresa Dunn, ’02 MA, is a senior operations manager for Cardinal Health.

Daniel Erwin, ’03 MA, ’01 BS, married Carly Stanton on Sept. 1, 2007. The couple lives in Houston, Texas.

Liliana Garza, ’04 MS, is a counselor and parent/ student coordinator at Garden’s Elementary in Pasadena, Texas.

Catherine Horne, ’06 BS, is working on her master’s degree at UH College of Social Work.

Atul Jha, ’04 MBA, ’99 MS, and his wife, Hema, welcomed a new baby girl, Alisha, in December 2007.

Samuel R. Kennedy Jr., ’01 MA, is a lieutenant for the Houston Police Department in Houston, Texas.

Mark Kenney, ’02 BS, is the president/ owner of Kenney & Associates Financial Advisory Group in Houston, Texas.

Kevin Kettle, ’07 BA, is director of membership resources for Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce in Sugar Land, Texas.

Abdulla Kudrath, ’07 BS, is attending Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in College Station, Texas.

Tom Lassister, ’02 MA, ’99 BA, is living and working in New Jersey. David Lawhon, ’00 BA, is a history lecturer at Texas A&M in Galveston, Texas.

Jennifer Liggio, ’07 MS, married Franklin D. Beck on July 21, 2007. She teaches biology at Dickinson High School.

Tina Linquist, ’00 BBA, is the marketing director for AMOCO Federal Credit Union in Texas City, Texas. She was named Texas Credit Union Marketer of the Year for 2007 at the Texas Credit Union League’s annual Credit Union Marketing Conference.

Victoria Marron, ’04 BS, is a gang-intervention counselor for Houston Mayor Bill White’s Anti-Gang Office.

Rachel Mathews, ’01 MA, teaches English at Taylor High School in Katy, Texas.

Natalie Marley, ’07 MS, was married to Stephen McVeigh on Oct. 20, 2007. She is employed by PACE Partial Hospital Program.

Amanda Moody, ’00 BS, was married to Michael Gaido III on May 18, 2007. She teaches physical education at Burnet Elementary, Galveston ISD.

Claudia Paredes, ’05 MS, ’02 BS, is teaching kindergarten at Spring ISD’s Ponderosa Elementary in Houston, Texas.

Carolyn Richard, ’02 MA, ’90 Secondary Teaching Certificate, is an adjunct at Lone Star College-North Harris.

Debbie Richards, ’00 BS, is the owner of Rainbow of Love Adoption Agency in Houston, Texas.

Mike Stokes, ’07 BS, has been accepted into a threeyear Research Experience for Undergraduates established by the Disaster Research Center at University of Delaware.

Melissa Waters, ’07 MA, had her master’s research project accepted as a report in The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Sara Whitlock, ’04 MA, works for Dacha Family Recovery Program.

In Memory
Ishmael William Paul Jr., ’85 MBA, ’77 BBA, passed away in November 2007.

Ronald R. Proctor, ’79 MA, passed away in May 2008.

Sharon Gail Russell, ’92 MS, ’92 Elementary Teaching Certificate, passed away in January 2008.

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