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Tim Horan is a Houston real estate attorney and recipient of the NFL Community Quarterback Award by the Houston Texans and the United Way of Greater Houston for leadership, dedication and commitment to improving his community.
Ben Shepperd (B.B.A. ’75) has published a novel, Wild Goose Moon – A Story of Love, Death, God, Sex and 1968, the story of events in the life of a sophomore at a conservative university in Dallas against the backdrop of the volatile year in America and the world.
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Marianne Brems co-authored English for Child Care: Language Skills for Parents and Providers (Sunburst Media, 2010) for adults who care for children.
Dr. Carlos Davis is a psychologist in private practice in Dallas, director of a psychiatric research foundation and published author of Never Learn to Milk a Cow. He and his wife, Jane, are parents of Christin Sawyer and Carlos Eugene.
Lynn Massingill has retired to Sulphur Springs, TX, after a 30-year career as production stage manager/lighting and scenic designer for the professional theatre and manager of over 2,000 performances in summer stock, dinner theatre and Broadway.
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Kelly Newton was elected to the International Board of the American Gem Society at the annual meeting in Boston last April. The Society promotes consumer protection, gemological education and ethical business practices in the jewelry industry.
Chuck Paul started a business in 1994, A Closer Look Inc., for mystery shoppers.
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Phillip Virden was invited to join Teach for America and in summer 2010 began teaching high school English in the Mississippi Delta.
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Stephen B. Kinslow is president/chief executive officer of the Austin Community College District. He announced last June that he will retire in June 2011 after six years as president and 34 years of service to ACC. He was previously with the Dallas County Community College District and a public school teacher in Big Spring, TX.
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Bill Bowers is a partner in the tax practice group at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in Dallas. He was recently elected to the American College of Tax Counsel based on reputation and demonstrated achievement in lecturing, writing, teaching and bar activities in the tax field.
Ginger Henry Geyer (M.F.A. ’78) was deputy director of the Dallas Museum of Art before moving to Austin to start a career in porcelain art. Last spring she had two simultaneous art exhibits in Dallas at The MAC/McKinney Avenue Contemporary and Valley House Gallery. Her sister is the Rev. Wendy Henry Fenn ’03, and her brother-in-law is Douglas S. (Doug) Fenn ’73.
Diane Irwin Harris has moved back to Dallas and hopes to reconnect with SMU friends.
Angelina B. Treviño recently retired from Austin ISD as an elementary school principal.
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Duncan L. Clore is a partner at Strasburger & Price LLP in Dallas named to the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Tracy Daugherty was a finalist for a 2009 literary award from the Texas Institute of Letters. For the Carr P. Collins Award for Nonfiction he submitted Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (St. Martin’s Press) about his former teacher – short story author and novelist Barthelme.
Dr. Frances Levine (Ph.D. ’80) became director of New Mexico’s Palace of the Governors in 2002. She guided its expansion into the largest and most modern museum in the state, the New Mexico History Museum, which opened in May 2009 and serves as the anchor of a campus that encompasses the Palace of the Governors. In recognition of Dr. Levine’s accomplishments, the Institute of Museum and Library Services gave the museum funds to produce history videos, and she was awarded a spot in the Getty Museum Leadership Institute’s summer program.
Geary Reamey (LL.M. ’82) received the Culture Medal of Honor last summer from the city of Innsbruck, Austria, for his role as co-founder and director of St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems, an annual summer study program in international law conducted by St. Mary’s University School of Law with the University of Innsbruck.
Elizabeth (Libby) Pedrick Sartain is on the board of directors of Manpower Inc. and Peet’s Coffee and Tea. She and her husband, David, live on a ranch near Bastrop, TX.
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Chris Abood is manager of employee and community partnerships for Cleveland Clinic.
Brian Cobble spent five years creating the pastel landscapes for his fifth exhibition at Dallas’ Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden May 21-July 3, 2010.
Dirk W. Johnston was recognized by the Texas Association of Broadcasters as Associate of the Year at their annual convention in Austin last August.
Pamela J. Brown Wright has owned a visual design firm for the last 25 years. Recipient of multiple design awards, she was recognized in Who’s Who in American Self-Employed Women in Business.
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T.A. Taylor appeared in Cymbeline at Shakespeare Dallas last summer.
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Susan Williams Avant was one of 55 from Central Texas selected for Leadership Austin’ 2010 Essential Class. She is involved with numerous nonprofits and is in her 20th year of selling real estate in Austin.