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Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs: Linda Gibson Stephens, Kay Barker Enoch
Dan Kremer (M.F.A. ’75) appeared as Horace Vandergelder in the summer 2007 production of The Matchmaker at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, UT.
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Gary Ingram has been selected one of Fort Worth, Texas magazine’s Top Attorneys and was listed in the 2006 and 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. He heads the labor and employment section of Jackson Walker LLP.
Joe Pouncy (M.L.A. ’82) is president-elect of Rotary Carrollton-Farmers Branch (TX). He is principal of Newman Smith High School in Carrollton.
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Donnie Ray Albert sang the role of Trinity Moses in LA Opera’s production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, which premiered in December 2007 on PBS.
James B. (Jim) Harris is a partner in regulatory litigation and counseling, including environmental matters, in the law firm Thompson & Knight. He was named in September 2007 to a one-year term as chair of the board of Dallas Heritage Village, a living history museum that portrays life in North Texas from 1840 to 1910.
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Maxine Aaronson (J.D. ’80) has been named a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. She has offices in Dallas and Houston.
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Elizabeth (Beth) Mahaffey Anderson is chair of the governing board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the state’s affordable housing finance agency. In November 2007 she was appointed a commissioner
of the Texas Department of Public Safety by Gov. Rick Perry.
Mary Brooke Casad was named executive secretary in September 2007 of the Connectional Table of The United Methodist Church based in Dallas and will provide administrative leadership to the group. She and her husband, the Rev. Victor Casad, have two sons and one grandson.
Brian Cobble has received his fourth award in five years from the annual exhibition of the Pastel Society of America in New York. He received the 2007 National Arts Club Award for his pastel Lexington Alley (Nebraska).
Dr. Jeffrey Whitman is a physician-ophthalmologist in Dallas at the Key-Whitman Eye Center. He is a pioneer in some of the most advanced eye-care technology to date.
Ken Yano has joined the Kansas City office of Grant Thornton LLP as a state and local tax executive director. He has
over 25 years of experience in multistate income/franchise taxation, serving clients in the retail, financial, oil and gas
and service industries.
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Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs: Karen Selbo Hunt, Reagan Brown
Chairs: Karen Selbo Hunt, Reagan Brown
Steve Alter is associate professor of history at Gordon College in Wenham, MA.
Tom Aronson helps manage the assets of Julius Schepps Corp. After a 13-year layoff, he concentrates on his Fender Stratocaster in his free time.
C. Wade Cooper of Austin was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 for his work in bankruptcy and credit-debtor rights law. He is with the firm Jackson Walker LLP.
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Mina Brees taught dispute resolution seminars in Poland and Estonia in 2006-07. She is co-author of Arbitration Road Map (Texas Bar Books, 2007).
Peter Meza was appointed counsel Jan. 1, 2008, by Hogan & Hartson LLP. His legal practice focuses on intellectual property matters for U.S. and international semiconductor and high-technology electronics clients.
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J. D. Salazar was chosen one of Chicago’s 45 finest business leaders and featured in Chicago United’s 2007 Business Leaders of Color, released in November. He is managing principal for Champion Realty Advisors LLC, which under his leadership has become one of the most successful Hispanic-owned commercial/industrial real estate companies in the country. He is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which annually distributes more than
45 million pounds of food in Chicago and
Cook County. He also is a director of the Rediehs Foundation, which supports Christian missions and missionaries around the world.
Karla K. Wigley announces the adoption of her daughter, Larkin Faith MengFen, born Sept. 23, 2006, in The People’s Republic of China. She and her brother spent three weeks in China in September 2007 finalizing the adoption.
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C. David Cush (M.B.A. ’83) was named CEO of Virgin America airline in November 2007. He is former senior vice president of global sales at American Airlines.
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Phil N. Vanderpool was named the 2010 Texas CASA Judge of the Year last October. In November, he was elected the Judge of the 223rd Judicial District Court in Texas, being sworn in on January 1, 2011.