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Jess Moore and his wife, Beth Sanders Moore, are the youngest recipients to receive the Loving Hearts Caring Hands Award, presented April 30, 2009, in Houston at the 15th annual awards dinner at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Mrs. Moore is a breast cancer survivor.
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Tony Jack Howard (M.L.A. ’98) is editor of The Collected Works of James Ingall Wedgwood and author of the pamphlet St. Clement of Alexandria and Universal Salvation.
Rene Moreno (M.F.A. ’01) directed The Merry Wives of Windsor at last summer’s Shakespeare Festival of Dallas.
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The Hon. Antonio Oscar (Tony) Garza Jr. joined ViaNovo LP management and communications consulting firm and chairs ViaNovo Ventures with a focus on cross-border business development. He also serves as counsel in the Mexico City office of law firm White & Case. He is a former Texas secretary of state, railroad commission chairman and U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Hector Reyes is a senior Fellow at the Raytheon Company and recently was named chief technologist for Raytheon’s network centric systems business unit in Texas.
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John E. Davis retired June 30, 2009, as a United Methodist minister in the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference.
Barbara Elias-Perciful, a Dallas attorney and child advocate, was honored by the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division with the 2009 Child Advocacy Award. She is founder and director of Texas Loves Children, a nonprofit organization that assists lawyers, judges and others working with child protection cases.
Mike Higgins reports that Joe Drape had a book signing in August for Our Boys.
J. Jeffery Johnston (J.D. ’90) won second place in the 2009 Texas Bar Journal short story fiction writing contest for Marsdenbia, which was published in the June issue. He and his wife, MaryBeth Flahavin Johnston, live in Dallas with their children, Arden, Griffin and Hudson. MaryBeth’s clothing boutique, MaryBeth, celebrated 18 years in July 2009.
Gardner Savage joined the real estate and finance section of Dallas-based law firm Curran Tomko Tarski LLP in April 2009. His practice of more than 20 years includes commercial real estate transactions throughout Texas and the nation.
Walker Schupp and Bob Tullier ’83 made their first television commercial together as SMU students. Today they are independent film and video professionals at Dallas-based Reveal Film & HD Productions. Tullier’s wife, Clare Skwirz Tullier ’83, is a freelance producer at Reveal, which was co-founded by Bill Pridham ’78 and Cynthia Frazier Collins ’00. The company partners with local, regional and national advertising agencies to produce television commercials and corporate marketing videos.
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Melanie Wells has an online campaign, IToldTwoFriends.com, to raise $100,000 for ProLiteracy, an organization aimed at ending adult illiteracy worldwide. She will donate profits from the online sales of her psychological thriller My Soul to Keep (Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers, 2008) to the campaign.
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Patrick Aulson was appointed in June 2009 as chief administrative officer of HRsmart, a leading global talent management software company.
Bart Bevers received the 2008 National Sentinel Award from the Association of Certified Fraud Specialists and was 2009 Public Administrator of the Year from the Society for Public Administration.
Asif Dowla was named to the Hilda C. Landers Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is co-author of The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story about the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank.
Gary Walsh is chair of the board of trustees at Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth and principal and portfolio manager at Luther King Capital Management. He and his wife, Janice, have two children.
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Missy Brown Bender won re-election in May to the Plano (TX) school district board of trustees, place 7.
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Luann Aronson performed the role of Anna in last June’s world premiere of the restored The King and I at the Irving (TX) Arts Center. Among other roles she has played is Christine in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Darlene Doxey Ellison received a 2009 National Independent Publishing Award Gold Medal for her book The Predator Next Door. She is a national children’s advocate, speaking across the country on child abuse and betrayal recovery.
Kathleen Mary Mulligan was awarded a Fulbright grant to Kerala, India, for spring 2010 for her project “Finding Women’s Voices,” focusing on the empowerment of women and girls. She is assistant professor of voice and speech at Ithaca College.
Melinda Olbert was honored March 6, 2009, by the Oklahoma Hospitality Club for her work as board chair for CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates, for abused and neglected children. She and her husband, Mark, have two sons, ages 16 and 7.
Linda Williams Tomlinson (M.L.A. ’93) is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and History at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
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Ann Coleman Fielder returned to SMU May 11, 2009, as assistant dean for development and communications at the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, where she will lead fundraising efforts. Previously she was director of outreach for the Bickel and Brewer Foundation.
Cathy Cadman Read was matron of honor at the March wedding of her sister, Mary Cadman ’94.