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Drew Bagot (J.D. ’73) joined Dallas-based law firm Cowles & Thompson PC in the corporate and business section. He has 35 years of experience in company formation, acquisition, regulation, compliance and licensing issues.
Jane Hansen Gilbert was appointed president and CEO of The ALS Association in March 2009. The association helps people with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
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Elizabeth (Betty) Underwood serves as the 2009-10 corresponding secretary for the Dallas alumnae of Pi Beta Phi. She is also a deacon at Highland Park Presbyterian Church.
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Larry Maday retired in 2009 after 34 years of teaching math at Tinley Park High School in Illinois but continues as varsity football assistant coach.
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Roy R. Campbell III was elected chair of the board of directors of Methodist Healthcare Ministries, a private, faith-based, nonprofit organization providing medical and health-related services to low-income families and the uninsured in South Texas. He is vice president of investment services at Frost Financial Management Group.
Robert K. Carrol (J.D. ’77) is listed in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a top attorney in labor and employment in the international law firm Nixon Peabody LLP in California.
Jan Carroll is a Super Lawyer for 2009 in the March issue of Indiana Super Lawyers magazine. A partner with Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Indianapolis, she co-chairs the media practice group, handling product liability, professional liability and real estate and land use.
Lea F. Courington is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a distinction for less than one-half of 1 percent of American lawyers. She is a partner in the firm Curran Tomko Tarski LLP.
Don F. Davison (M.B.A. ’80) completed his second term in May 2009 as Faculty Senate president at Galveston College. He is a recipient of the Galveston College Faculty Exceptional Service Award and a member of the Texas Faculty Association Board of Directors and Texas Community College Teachers Association Legislative Affairs Committee.
Peter G. Pierce released his first book March 31, 2009. Baseball in the Cross Timbers: The Story of the Sooner State League (Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2009) tells about the last Class D baseball league west of the Mississippi, which operated in 11 Oklahoma and four Texas cities from 1947 to 1957.
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Howard Barnett was named president of Oklahoma State University’s Tulsa campus in September. He was managing director of TSF Capital LLC in Tulsa, a specialized merchant banking firm, and previously served as state commerce secretary and chair of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce.
Jim Dent is the author of Twelve Mighty Orphans, now in its 20th printing. A film production company acquired the movie option rights to his true story of a math teacher who leads a group of orphans in forming a winning football team that plays the toughest teams in Texas.
Marilyn O’Hearne is vice president of the International Coach Federation, advancing the coaching profession for over 15,000 members in 92 countries, and a three-year member of the board of directors. She is a writer and speaker and a master certified coach and trainer.
Radamee Orlandi sold his dental practice after 30 years and is now assistant to the pastor at First United Methodist Church of Port St. Lucie, FL, serving in Christian education and discipleship.
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Nancy Wheeler Heller reports that her family is all-SMU: husband Robert Wayne Heller (’75, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’80); son Ridley Mathias Heller ’06, a senior associate at Site Selection Group of Dallas recognized as a Heavy Hitter by the Dallas Business Journal; and son Andrew Cole Heller ’08.
The Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson was honorary chair for the 5th annual 5K walk for the National Alliance on Mental Illness May 2, 2009, at Fair Park in Dallas. She also joined the board of directors of The Progressive Center of Texas, formerly Obama Dallas. As a U.S. congresswoman, Johnson represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, encompassing much of Dallas.
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Chris Abood is marketing manager of Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the Best Children’s Hospitals. Last March he and SMU classmates Chris Good and Mark Kane ’76 celebrated the life of R. Chris Moore ’78, who died in February.
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C. Wade Cooper was named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America. He is managing partner in the Austin office of Jackson Walker LLP.
Richard (Rip) Hale is a senior institutional consultant with Smith Barney in Dayton, Ohio, and one of Barron’s Top 1000 Advisors for 2009.
Rod and Cindy Funkhouser MacIlvaine recently completed a study tour of Greece and Turkey, tracing the journeys of the apostle Paul. A portion of Rod’s doctoral dissertation will be published in the upcoming edition of The Theological Journal Bibliotheca Sacra.
Thomas Slater (D.Min. ’81) was the Bible study leader for 20 pastors on a two-week pilgrimage to Nazareth, Caesarea Philippi, Bethlehem, Masada and Jerusalem, sponsored by Mercer University, where he is professor of New Testament studies in the McAfee School of Theology.
T.A. Taylor performed in The Merry Wives of Windsor last summer at the 2009 Shakespeare Festival of Dallas.
Les Weisbrod has been certified a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum for attorneys who have won million- and multimillion-dollar verdicts, awards and settlements. His specialty is medical malpractice law at Miller, Curtis & Weisbrod, a national firm based in Dallas.
John Wilson is executive director of the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego.
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Doug Adelstein recently completed eight years as city councilman in Lynden, WA.
Martha L. Danhof is lead hospitalist and palliative care physician at Baylor All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth.
Craig Levering retired in March 2009 as CEO of Dallas-based Crawford Electric Supply. In 2007 he sold the business to the largest electrical and lighting distributor in the world. Levering and his wife, Carrie, have two daughters, Courtney and Christen Levering Redlich ’07. They live in Dallas.