63
Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs:Harriet Hopkins Holleman, George W. Bramblett Jr.
64
Mike Boone (J.D. ’67) received the 2008 J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award February 12 at a luncheon at the Belo Mansion in Dallas. He is co-founder of the law firm Haynes and Boone LLP.
65
Molly Porter Burke is retired from teaching. She lives in San Antonio where she is a volunteer counselor at Agape Ministry, a coalition of churches providing funds, food and clothing to those in financial need.
66
Mary Ann Lee wrote a chapter in the recently published book Crisis of Conscience: Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle.
68
Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs: Johnetta Alexander Burke, Robert A. Massad, Gail Vosburgh Massad
Jerry C. Alexander (J.D. ’72) has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Dallas Bar Association for 2008 and was selected a Texas Monthly “Super Lawyer” for 2007. His firm is Passman & Jones PC.
Betty Roddy Bezemer is the 2008 president of the Dover Club, Houston’s entrepreneurial club of business professionals. She is a realtor with Keller Williams-Memorial.
Kathleen Gilmore (Ph.D. ’73) is an archaeologist who searched two decades for the lost fort of French explorer LaSalle, finally discovering it near the Texas Gulf Coast. Now age 92, she made a documentary last July at the site of Fort St. Louis. In December she visited Spain to study documents sent from early Texas missions, and she is writing a paper on Texas presidios.
69
Albon O. Head Jr. (J.D. ’71) is a Texas Super Lawyer, a “Top Attorney” in Fort Worth, Texas magazine and a leading U.S. attorney in The Best Lawyers in America 2008. He is a partner in the litigation section at Jackson Walker LLP and managing partner of the Fort Worth office.
Larry Van Smith (J.D. ’73) was named to The Best Lawyers in America 2008 for banking law and real estate law. He is with
the Dallas office of Jackson Walker LLP.
70
John Alexander is a contemporary painter whose first full-scale examination of his three-decade career was celebrated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, Dec. 21, 2007, through March 16. The retrospective moved to Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts April 13 to June 22.
Janie Bryan Loveless (M.L.A. ’74) is the communications manager at the national MADD office in Las Colinas (Irving, TX) and a freelance writer-editor and consultant. She and her husband, a television photographer, have a son, Bryan, 22.
71
Robert C. Margo joined the National Arbitration Forum’s panel of independent and neutral arbitrators and mediators based on experience in health care and contract and employment law. In 2006 and 2007 he was selected an Oklahoma Super Lawyer. He lives in Oklahoma City.
72
William Frank Carroll joined the Dallas office of law firm Cox Smith Matthews Inc. He was elected to the councils of the State Bar of Texas and Dallas Bar Association in the antitrust, business litigation and trade regulations sections.
Terry Daniels is retired in Ohio after 25 years as a private investigator in Texas. He is a former world heavyweight boxing contender.
Mike McCurley was named in October 2007 to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. He is founding partner of McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing LLP, one of the largest firms in Texas specializing solely in family law.
Submit a Class Note or address change online, or send information to
SMU Magazine, P.O. Box 750174, Dallas, TX 75275-0174. Be sure to include your class year.