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Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs: Meaders Moore Ozarow, Sam J. Chantilis
Yolette Garcia is the new assistant dean for external affairs and outreach in the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at SMU. She held positions for 25 years at KERA, the North Texas public broadcasting station, including executive producer for KERA-TV Channel 13 and assistant station manager and news director for KERA-FM 90.1.
Hector Guzman received the Mozart Medal, Mexico’s highest honor for musical excellence, in a January 2008 ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He is music director of three Texas symphony orchestras: Plano, Irving and San Angelo. He became a U.S. citizen in 2001 and now lives in Plano.
Phil Hubbard took a comic turn as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and also appeared in King Lear and Coriolanus in the 2007 Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, UT.
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Gordon H. (Gordie) Hamilton III and his wife, Ann Marie, adopted their daughter, Dasha, 6, from a Russian orphanage in December 2006 through the Bridge of Hope summer program of the Cradle of Hope Adoption Center
based in Maryland. She has three brothers: Gordie, John and Charlie. Dad Gordie, Cradle’s new regional director,
wants to bring the Bridge of Hope program to Kansas City-area families. He also is a financial adviser and planning specialist for Smith Barney.
Pamela L. Rundell is a senior compliance analyst in the Ethics and Compliance Department at Tenet Healthcare in Dallas, where she coordinates legal issues for Tenet’s U.S. facilities. She has a son, Reiny, 13.
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Teresa Weiss (Tisa) Hibbs plays the role of Annabel in the TV series Friday Night Lights on NBC. She is married to Billy E. Hibbs Jr. (M.B.A. ’81). They live in Tyler, TX.
Lara Lowman sailed September to December 2007 from Florida to Tahiti with her uncle and three others on a 43-ft. catamaran built by her uncle.
Mark Miller has been named assistant managing editor and chief of correspondents for Newsweek.
Christine Karol Roberts has a California intellectual property law practice and has established GazetteWatch.com,
a trademark watching service. She has written a novel, The Jewel Collar, and is working on a legal thriller to be entitled License to Die For.
Douglas S. (Doug) Rogers has been named chief investment officer of Seattle firm Laird Norton Tyee. He is a noted investment expert and author of Tax-Aware Investment Management: The Essential Guide (Bloomberg Press, 2006).
He is a frequent conference speaker and contributor to industry journals.
Patty Sullivan joined Texas Capital Bank as senior vice president of marketing and media after six years as director of public relations for Pizza Hut U.S. In September 2005 she adopted a baby from China, Catherine Mei Sullivan.
Elena Rohweder Turner was named vice president of corporate marketing at Wachovia bank’s central region
in Addison, TX.
Melanie Wells continues her string of Dylan Foster psychological thrillers with her third book, My Soul to Keep (Multnomah Books, February 2008). Her previous books are When the Day of Evil Comes (2005) and The Soul
Hunter (2006).
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John R. Bear (M.B.A. ’89) has been named president and COO of Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc., based near Indianapolis. It operates 93,600 miles of high voltage wholesale electric transmission lines over a 920,000 sq. mi. area touching 15 U.S. states and one Canadian province.
Craig Flournoy has been recognized by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Preparation at The University of Texas at Austin as one of eight Texans who improved the lives of those in their communities for his work as an investigative reporter at The Dallas Morning News and investigative projects by students he directed at SMU. He teaches advanced news writing, computer-assisted reporting, history of American journalism and investigative reporting. He has won more than 50 state and national journalism awards, including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.
Janie E. James (J.D. ’92) has been named a Texas Super Lawyer. She is senior counsel in the business transactions section of the Dallas office of Jackson Walker LLP.
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Karl L. Fava, CPA, is founder and president of Business Financial Consultants Inc., a national tax and financial advisory firm. He has been elected chair of the board of the Henry Ford Community College Foundation. A. Joseph Shepard has been appointed director of the Office of Investment at the U.S. Small Business Administration based on leadership skills and experience in investment banking and mezzanine and private-equity investing. He will oversee the Small Business Investment Company program which has invested about $51.4 billion in more than 103,000 small U.S. businesses.
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Reunion: November 8, 2008
Chairs: Kathy McCoy Turner, Stephen L. Arata
Mark W. Peters was elected secretary of World Services Group for 2007-08 at the annual meeting in Montreal. He is a member of the law firm Dykema, where he deals in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, subsidiaries and divisions. He lives in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
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Rafael Anchía has been named a partner in the Financial Transactions Practice Group of Haynes and Boone LLP. In addition, Anchía has been twice elected Texas state representative for District 103, which includes parts of Dallas, Irving, Carrollton and Farmers Branch.
Craig Anderson (J.D. ’93) has joined the Dallas law firm DLA Piper LLP as a partner in the real estate section.
Greg Brown (M.B.A. ’02) is managing director of the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival. He is responsible for the workings of the festival and year-round programming.
John Clanton is a veteran Texas investment adviser and portfolio manager. He joined Wachovia Wealth Management as a vice president and investment strategist. Most recently he served as portfolio manager for Northern Trust in Dallas.
Carolyn Herter has some of her photos included in an exhibition at Montserrat Gallery in New York City from
October 2007 to September 2008.
Katherine Staton is president-elect of the International Aviation Women’s Association, which brings together
women of achievement in the aviation industry and promotes their advancement internationally through a worldwide network of aviation professional contacts. She is a partner in the litigation and aviation sections of Dallas law firm Jackson Walker LLP.
Johnson Samuel Subramanian recently published the academic book The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms as Prophecy (T&T Clark International).
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William R. Jenkins is one of Fort Worth, Texas magazine’s Top Attorneys. He is a partner in the litigation section of Jackson Walker LLP and a board member of the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.</p
Bettye Anderson McLaughlin, at age 78, leads an aerobics exercise class for older ladies at San Saba (TX) UMC.
Dawn McMahan and her husband, Terrell Steketee, announce the birth of their second daughter, Madeline Dawn,
Aug. 23, 2007.
Ross Vick left his family business to write adult contemporary music. His album, released last October, contained the hit single “The Road”.
Michele Wallis is living in southern Florida’s Treasure Coast. She has relaunched the Web site SisterDelirious.com.
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