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Janet Pace is director of volunteer outreach for Louisiana, a position created after Hurricane Katrina. Her office promotes national service opportunities through AmeriCorps and supports the efforts of eight volunteer centers in the state, as well as nonprofits, faith-based organizations and governmental agencies. In June 2008 she was in Cedar Rapids, IA, to help organize volunteers to assist with flood relief.

Kathleen (Kathy) Vollenweider Waring is a volunteer for the New Orleans Secret Gardens Tour where participants open their private gardens to the public as a forum for creating awareness for brain injury recovery issues. Her interest results from a traumatic brain injury sustained by her own young daughter. For details on the March 2009 event, see www.secretgardenstour.org.

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R. Stephen (Steve) Folsom of Dallas was elected to the Methodist Health System corporate board of directors. He is president of Folsom Companies Inc. and a director of the Alzheimer’s Association, The Hockaday School and the Methodist Health System Foundation. He and his wife, Sharon, have two daughters and a son.

Emanda Richardson Johnson (M.A. ’93) is an adjunct faculty member in art education/art history in the College of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas.

Mark A. Shank is the new chair of the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is with K&L Gates LLP in Dallas.

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Charlene (Charl) Boyd has worked in real estate in Scottsdale, AZ, for 13 years and was a founding member of Equitable Real Estate Company. Recently she was named chair of the Habitat for Humanity Raise the Roof Golf Classic.

Joe Pouncy was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Carrollton-Farmers Branch (TX) Rotary Club in appreciation for his service to the club. He is a high school principal in Carrollton.

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Hector Reyes is a Senior Fellow at the Raytheon Company in McKinney, TX. Recently he was named chief technologist for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business unit in Texas.

Rodney Harmon was head coach of the men’s U.S. Olympic tennis team in Beijing this summer.

A. Brandon is a breast cancer survivor who has established a non-profit organization, Triangle Helping Hands, for cancer patients facing treatment.

Ruthelen Griffith Burns is one of five poets celebrating their first collaborative book, Rivers, Rails, and Runways (San Francisco Bay Press), launched Aug. 27, 2008. Termed “The Airpoets,” they wrote about faraway places and homecoming. An artist interpreted their verses as abstract images and acid-etched them onto 14 stained glass windows in the new terminal at Indianapolis International Airport. Burns lives in Indiana and New Mexico with her husband, Andy, and their three children.

Dr. Michael Joel Lanoux graduated from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, completing a residency in diagnostic radiology. Since 1992 he has been vice president of Fort Worth Imaging PA.

James (Jim) Lewis moved to The University of Texas at Arlington May 15, 2008, as vice president for development, following 13 years as vice president for institutional advancement at Austin College in Sherman, TX.

Nancy Foreman McClure was recognized as one of Tucson’s 10 Most Influential Women of 2008. She is a first vice president for CB Richard Ellis, specializing in retail properties. She and her husband, Doug, have two daughters, Morgan and Erin.

Jon S. Wheeler has a company, Wheeler Interests, in Virginia Beach, VA, that has been listed among the Top 15 fittest companies in the nation, cited by Men’s Fitness magazine for offering employees catered lunches twice a week and free use of a gym.

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Reunion chairs: Hal Gibbs, Chris J. Gilker and Heather Evans Gilker

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Christopher Braun, a senior partner at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP in Indianapolis, was named to the Super Lawyers listing in environmental, business litigation and real estate law. He is Indiana’s only attorney to be accorded membership in the American College of Environmental Lawyers, which inducted him in September 2008 at the annual conference in San Francisco.

Hal Curtis is an Emmy-winning art director with Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency and creative director since 1997 of national campaigns for Nike and Coca-Cola. Advertising Age’s Creativity magazine named him one of the 50 most influential creative leaders of the past 20 years. As part of the ExxonMobil Lecture Series at SMU last spring, he spoke to students about “Brand Heroism: Advertising as a Force for Good.”

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The Rev. Earl Bledsoe has been elected bishop of the 20-county North Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church, which includes Dallas. He was pastor of churches in Houston and Cypress, TX, before becoming a district superintendent in 2002.

George Lancaster is senior vice president of corporate communications in the Houston office of Hines, an international real estate firm. He holds the designation of senior certified marketing director and senior certified shopping center manager from the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Susan Lang is a personal home building consultant in design, construction and decorating and the author of Designing Your Dream Home: Every Question to Ask, Every Detail to Consider, and Everything to Know Before You Build or Remodel. She lives in Nashville.

Robert (Bob) O’Boyle is a partner at Strasburger & Price LLP and president of the Austin Bar Association for 2008-09. He received the J. Chrys Dougherty Award for 2008 from the Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas for his commitment to pro bono work.

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Bart Bevers was appointed Texas Health and Human Services Commission Inspector General by Gov. Rick Perry. He received the Founders Award in San Francisco from the Association of Certified Fraud Specialists.

Asif Dowla is a professor of international economics and the economics of developing countries at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. In May 2008 he received the Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching. He co-authored The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story.

Dawn Estes formed Taber Estes Thorn & Carr PLLC, a female-owned law firm in Dallas. She practices civil litigation and technology law and serves as an arbitrator and court-appointed mediator.

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Suzannah Bowie Moorman made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall June 14, 2008, as soprano soloist of Mass in C major, No. 1, “Wedding Mass.” The concert was sponsored by Distinguished Concerts International – New York.

Roger O’Neel (M.M. ”88) was promoted in August 2008 to associate professor of church music with tenure at Cedarville University in Ohio.

Sima Salamati-Saradh received the Managerial Leadership Award for 2008 by Women of Color magazine, IBM Corporation and the selection panel of the National Women of Color Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Conference. She was honored in October at the Awards Gala at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas.

Raymond W. Starmann wrote the movie Generation Gap about a troubled teen who spends a summer in Maine with his grandfather. It will be shown on the Hallmark Channel.

Thomas Wiberg worked as a geologist in the environmental consulting field for almost 20 years. He and his wife have left Dallas and opened a wine shop and wine bar in Comfort, TX.

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Naida Albright Graham is co-founder and former co-publisher of Below the Line, a daily newspaper focused on film crews. She left her position in April 2008 to pursue media and entertainment opportunities with a new production entity, Conshimfee Prods.

Sue Hostetler was appointed to the Board of Trustees at Ballroom Marfa, the non-profit cultural arts center in Marfa, TX. She is host of a television show, Plum Homes with Sue Hostetler, style editor for Aspen Magazine, a contributing editor at Gotham magazine and the author of two books, Hip Hollywood Homes (Random House, 2006) and Oceans (Rizzoli, 2002). She lives in New York with her husband, Jon Diamond, and her young daughter.

John O’Reilly was appointed by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors as one of nine members of the Palomar Airport Advisory Committee; his term expires January 2011. He owns a comprehensive wealth management firm in Carlsbad, CA.

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Reunion chairs: Tracey E. George, Caroline Waggoner Hautt and Craig H. Yaksick

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Kristi Birch is a science writer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She also writes for Johns Hopkins Magazine and other JHU periodicals, including Johns Hopkins Public Health, Arts & Sciences, Hopkins Medicine and Peabody Magazine.

Doug Renfro is president of Renfro Foods in Fort Worth, which received the 2008 Greater Tarrant Business Ethics Award from TCU’s Neeley School of Business.