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Martin W. Burrell has served as assistant vice president of minority business for Dallas Area Rapid Transit Systems, developing and implementing the Disadvantaged Minority and Women Business Enterprises program, and as vice president of minority affairs for the American Airlines Center in Dallas, where he initiated a comprehensive Minority and Women Businesses program.
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Rene Moreno (M.F.A. ’01) is an artistic associate for Shakespeare Dallas and director of last summer’s production of Cymbeline.
J. Allen Smith is a Dallas attorney elected to the board of directors of the Texas Historical Foundation, which funds preservation and education projects and helps promote the cultural legacy of Texas. He is president of SettlePou and chair of the firm’s commercial litigation practice.
Sally-Page Stuck had a role in last summer’s Shakespeare Dallas production Cymbeline.
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Candice Burgess Nancel went to Paris in 1988 on behalf of the Dallas Market Center. On May 25, 2010, at the American Embassy in Paris, she was decorated by the French government with the Légion d’Honneur to recognize her years of work and activity in the area of Franco-American relations. Especially noteworthy is her submersion in the nine-year restoration of the Hôtel de Talleyrand, the U.S. Embassy annex that houses the permanent exhibit of the Marshall Plan, the American plan for Europe’s post-WWII reconstruction. She is now cultural heritage manager responsible for the State Department’s collection of art, antiques and historic decorations located in the embassy buildings in France.
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Kyle Bagwell received the Dedman College Distinguished Graduate Award. He is the Donald L. Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a fellow of the Econometric Society, co-author of The Economics of the World Trading System, a senior fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a reporter for the American Law Institute project on principles of trade law. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1986.
Richard Heard is a lyric tenor who received the silver medal in the 2009 American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, GA. He is professor of music at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
The Rev. Dr. Sheron Covington Patterson (M.Div. ’89, D.Min. ’96) was named director of communications for the North Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church effective July 1, 2010, to oversee internal and external operations of the 310 United Methodist congregations in the northern Texas region.
Hector Reyes is technical director and chief technologist for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems in Richardson, TX. He was honored at the 2009 national conference of Great Minds in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has devoted his career to helping U.S. soldiers “see” farther, clearer and with a wider field of view using electro optics.
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Joe Drape is a reporter for The New York Times who has published a third book, Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen (St. Martin’s Griffin Press), described as “an inspiring story about how a coach and a community are building young men with the simple values of love, patience and hard work.”
Doyle Glass is the author of Lions of Medina: The Marines of Charlie Company and Their Brotherhood of Valor (Coleche Press, 2007 and Penguin, 2008), a true story of a Marine company in 1967 Vietnam told from their viewpoint. He is working on a book about the Marines of Kilo 3/5 in Fallujah.
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Linda Beheler is one of 79 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to earn the designation of Accreditation in Public Relations.
David Swanson launched a national media ministry, The Well, broadcast Sundays on church television and released his first book, Vital Signs: Discovering Abundant Life in Christ.
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Bruce Connelly was promoted to vice president of sport performance footwear at Nike Inc., where he is in his 23rd year.
Todd W. Gautier was appointed president of New York-based L-3 Communications’ precision engagement sector, which provides products and services including unmanned, global positioning and inertial navigation systems. He has more than 20 years of defense and aerospace leadership and program management experience. He was a strike/fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy and later flew for United Airlines.
Michael Hudak joined Merrill Lynch in 2002. He is a private wealth advisor in the Phoenix office recently named to Barron’s list of America’s Top 1,000 Advisors: State-by-State. He lives in Scottsdale with his wife and four children.
Kevin Jackson left management consulting for a career as an entertainer, using satire and humor to discuss American politics. He is author of The BIG Black Lie, writer of a political blog, host of a radio show and a nationally known speaker.
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Jennifer Conrad was named director of healthcare business development at Corgan, a U.S.-based architectural and interior design firm. She lives in Dallas.
Christina DeLaGarza-Perron and her pastor husband, Mike, are planning a church in Addison, TX. Summit Life Church will be all about adventures.
Kurt Kroese won the 2010 Arizona State Masters Criterium Championship. He is a member of GST Racing based in Tucson, AZ, where he practices law at Biaggi & Kroese PLLC.
Keith Todd is dean of admission at Reed College in Portland, OR. The previous three years he was director of admission at Rice University in Houston.
Edward F. Valdespino is a real estate law attorney at the San Antonio office of Strasburger & Price LLP named in The Best Lawyers in America for 2011.
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Darlene Doxey Ellison garnered the top
prize for autobiography in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The Predator Next Door. She is a national keynote speaker/trainer on child abuse/family violence prevention, overcoming obstacles and empowering professional women. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Scott, and two teenage children.
Elizabeth (Liz) Lawless recently published her third book, Western Legends: Yesterday & Today – African Americans 1798 to 2009, stories about black frontiersmen, pioneer women, buffalo soldiers, cowboys, cowgirls, horse trainers, lawmen and more. Wild West Diversity is a brand of Liz Lawless Creations Inc.
Zeenat Kassam Mitha is founder and president of Sweetwater Specialty Consulting LLC and an adjunct professor at the University of Houston.
John O’Reilly was a candidate for city treasurer in Carlsbad, CA.
Denys Slater has launched 18 Web sites over the past 11 years.
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Jeffrey Bean is in his 15th season as an Alley Company artist and has appeared in 100 Alley productions since 1989. Last July he played Detective Sergeant Trotter in the Houston Alley Theatre production The Mousetrap.
Daniel L. Butcher is a partner at the Dallas office of Strasburger & Price LLP named to the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Sonia Ytuarte Nasser was appointed chief operating officer of Ceres Associates Gulf in the United Arab Emirates. She is a technical expert in solid waste strategic planning and engineering for municipalities in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. She lives with her husband, Mohamad, and daughters Sara and Samar in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Edward (Scott) Vokoun is a U.S. Navy commander with 20 years of active service in Afghanistan as an anesthesiologist with a trauma surgery team. His wife, Kelly, gave birth to their third child, Jack, in August. They live in North Carolina.