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The North Texan - UNT Alumni Magazine - Spring 2011
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A U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H T E X A S P U B L I C A T I O N F O R A L U M N I A N D F R I E N D S
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Sun Belt Champs
World of Fashion [page 14]
Marian Brock [page 32]
Founder’s Circlepage 34
LOVE StOriES
[page 24]
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14 World of Fashion Rigorous fashion design program creates leaders in couture. By Ellen Rossetti
32 Marian Brock Alumna’s acting talents shine in Oscar-winning short film God of Love. By Ellen Rossetti
34 Founder’s Circle UNT supporters change lives and leave lasting impacts on the campus.
D E P A R T M E N T S
F R O M O U R P R E S I D E N T • 3Momentum in growth and excellence
D E A R N O R T H T E X A N • 4The Gross House … Music beginnings
U N T T O D A Y • 6Expanding research … Equity and Diversity Conference … Mean Green … Chile Field Station
U N T M U S E • 1 9Grammy honors … Ray Moseley … Upcoming Events … Pink Floyd ... Design Research Center
E A G L E S ’ N E S T • 3 6Advocate for diversity … Connecting With Friends … Upcoming Alumni Gatherings … Solar Punch … Photo Essay ... Chemistry centennial ... In the News … Friends We’ll Miss
L A S T W O R D • 4 8Tommie Phillips Harris (’37) recalls campus highlights during the Depression.
Love StoriesF o r g e N e r aT I o N S , U N T h a S B e e N T h e B aC k d ro p F o r Lov e . F ro M F I r ST daT e S To M a r r I ag e p ro p oS a L S , a LU M N I Co U p L e S F I N d L a ST I N g Lov e a S C L a S S M aT e S . By Randena Hulstrand
Cover photography by angilee Wilkerson
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unt love StorieS on video Three alumnicouples tell theirstories of how
they met at UNT, fell in love and eventu-ally married.
faShion on filmUNT fashion design faculty members talk about how they
prepare students for the competitive fashion industry.
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• VIDEO: RESEARCh On hOW
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The North Texan
The North Texan (ISSN 0468-6659) is published four times a year (in March, June, September and December) by the University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, for distribution to alumni and friends of the university. Periodicals postage paid at Denton, Texas, and at additional mailing offices. The diverse views on matters of public interest that are presented in The North Texan do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the university. Publications staff can be reached at [email protected] or 940-565-2108. It is the policy of the University of North Texas not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability (where reasonable accommodations can be made), disabled veteran status or veteran of the Vietnam era status in its educational programs, activities, admission or employment policies. In addition to complying with federal and state equal opportunity laws and regulations, the university through its diversity policy declares harassment based on individual differences (including sexual orientation) inconsistent with its mission and educational goals. Direct questions or concerns to the equal opportunity office, 940-565-2737, or the dean of students, 940-565-2648. TTY access is available at 940-369-8652. Postmaster: Please send requests for changes of address, accompanied if possible by old address labels, to the University of North Texas, University Relations, Communications and Marketing, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017. “University of North Texas,” “UNT” and “Discover the power of ideas” and their associated identity marks are official trademarks of the University of North Texas; their use by others is legally restricted.
URCM 3/11 (11-153)
f ro m o u r President
University relations,
CommUniCations and
marketing leadership
viCe president
deborah leliaert (’96 m.ed.)
assoCiate viCe president
marty newman (’02 m.J . )
assistant viCe president
kelley reese (’95)
direCtors
J immy Friend
kenn moFFitt
dena moore
rolando n. rivas
magazine staFF
managing editor
JUlie elliott payne (’97)
editors
randena hUlstrand (’88, ’07 m.J . )
J ill king (’93 m.s. , ’00 m.a.)
online editor
miChelle hale
art direCtor
sean zeigler (’00)
designer
kit yoUng (’06)
photo editor
angilee wilkerson
photographers
Jana birChUm
miChael Clements
brad holt (’09)
gary payne (’99)
Jonathan reynolds
mike woodrUFF
writers
ernestine boUsqUet
nanCy kolsti
adrienne nettles
bUddy priCe
ellen rossetti ( ’00, ’08 m.J . )
mellina stUCky
alyssa yanCey
online CommUniCations
eriC vandergriFF
integrated branding
Joy hoUser
proJeCt traFFiC
amy kioUs (’08)
laUra robinson
stUdent ContribUtors
megan beCk ( ’10)
thomas saldana
elizabeth smith
leslie wimmer ( ’07)
maintaining excellencePROmISE AnD POSSIBILITIES mARk the road to the future
Mike W
oodruff
It’s an honor to lead this great university and to collaborate with those in our UNT family. Part of my decision to stay on at UNT was to ensure stability and maintain momentum.
We are at an exciting time in our history, when the road ahead is paved with promise and possibilities and the destination is even greater excellence.
And yet, it’s a challenging time to be involved in public higher education because the road has many potholes that we can’t properly fix in light of dwindling state funding.
But we will not lose sight of our mission to focus on:• Educating our students and providing them with the best opportunities and
experiences for learning and growth; • Protecting the quality of instruction and the integrity of UNT degrees; and • Growing our areas of excellence — the jewels in our crown. As the nation’s 33rd largest public university, we provide many opportunities for
students from all walks of life to succeed. We’ve become a leader in helping underrep-resented and first-generation students earn a college education. And each year, nearly 8,000 UNT graduates turn their knowledge into action.
We also are a nationally recognized university with programs that are among the very best. We are building on this foundation to become a stronger research univer-sity, one that is equally focused on educating students and generating knowledge, ideas and innovation, because we exist to serve the public and our students.
In this tough fiscal climate, the support of our alumni and friends is more important than ever. And it makes a difference. It helps us ensure that our students now and in the future continue to have the opportunity to change their lives through higher education.
Sincerely,
V. Lane [email protected]
President V. Lane Rawlins talks with students on campus.
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deposit. I am asking you to do the same!
Phil Lee (’88)North Richland Hills
dr. gionet
Arthur J. Gionet, retired professor of French who died Jan. 16 (see page 45), was my high school teacher and then my mentor at the university. I achieved a B.A. in French because of his excellence as an educator, and our friendship continued through the years.
His belief in the cultural and practical benefit of hands-on learning and direct access to modern language profi-ciency resulted in a state-of-the art language center in the new Language Building constructed in the late 1960s.
Rewarded for his efforts in promoting the study of French, Dr. Gionet was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques on three occasions by France.
He enjoyed mentoring incoming professors at UNT, and he was a lifelong mentor of prospective French teachers. After his retirement, he continued to encourage
Fouts FieldI noticed in the winter
issue that you were collecting memories of Fouts Field. The field was named after my grandfather, Theron Judson Fouts, and my dad was Theron Judson Fouts Jr. (Tom). He died Aug. 30 (see page 45).
Dad loved North Texas and worked to improve and help achieve development of the campus and surrounding areas. As Fouts Field ends its reign as UNT’s field, with Dad’s death ends the name of Fouts in a line of great men.
After the funeral of my mother, we were driving past the new construction of the stadium and Dad stopped and pointed to it with pride. We will remember Fouts Field with fondness, but celebrate with the students of today and tomorrow for the future of UNT.
Mary Fouts LuebckeLone Tree, Colo.
The gross house I just read in The North
Texan (“Dear North Texan,” winter 2010) about the Gross House. In 1943, my mother, Gladys Renfro (’43), and I lived in the house on the lower floor and ate all our meals there.
My mother had come back to the college to finish her degree in history and get a teacher’s certificate so she could work while my father served our country in the U.S. Marine Corps.
While my mother was in class, Sonny Blondell, who lived on Hickory Street, and I had the run of the campus. We spent lots of time with Dr. Kingsbury at the college museum. Those were the good old days for an 11-year-old.
I believe the picture showed not only the Gross House, but also the Ad Building, the President’s House, the Science Building and the museum.
Later, from 1950 to 1953, I lived at the Methodist House on Avenue B. I am
now a retired United Meth-odist pastor.
Matty Barrett Renfro (’53) Austin our own scene
My only regret from my time at UNT is the fact that although we had a large student body and a beautiful campus, we never had a football program and facilities that were on par with many of our competitors in Texas.
I will be the first to confess my own apathetic lack of support and interest in the UNT football program over the years. But with our unbelievable new stadium on track for completion and the exciting hire of our new coach, it’s time we stepped forward with support.
Let’s fill those seats now, and create our own scene. Let’s make our new home a tough place for visiting teams to endure. Mean Green success on the field will follow.
I just secured my own season tickets with a small
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educators and prospective teachers to travel to France to enrich themselves through cultural exposure.
He was a marvelous educator and representative of UNT.
Donna Beth Lee Shaw (’61)Houston
Editor’s note: Read Shaw’s full obituary for Gionet at northtexan.unt.edu/obituaries. dr. hardin
I was very saddened to read of the passing of Dr. Robert Hardin (winter 2010).
I first encountered him while taking a summer French
course, and he highly encour-aged me to apply for a teaching fellowship in French. Later, after I received my master’s in French, he was instrumental in my gaining a teaching job in a local high school.
In addition to his knowl-edge of 18th and 20th century French literature, I will remem-ber Dr. Hardin as a very refined gentleman always.
Ollie Adamson (’77 M.A.)Garland
Sweet estes
Sweet Estes (“Dear North Texan,” winter 2010) brought her horses to North Texas in 1941-42. She intended to use
their rental to pay for her edu-cation. We admired her grit and determination, at her young age. I wanted to take lessons, so I set out walking to the stables (nobody had cars then). I encountered a barbed wire fence 8 feet high and ended up caught on top and had to be “rescued.”
Next trip, I walked around the fence, but I did go. Thanks to Sweet, I enjoyed horseback while at North Texas.
Jackye Anderson Bruner Plummer (’41)
Wichita Falls
Music beginningsRumors were floating on the wind sometime during
1947 or so that something exciting was happening in the Department of Music. I later learned it was the result of Dean Wilfred C. Bain coming to the school. He evaluated the Texas music scene and decided the quickest route to growth was to get a music organization on the road. So he hired Frank McKinley and encouraged him to develop an A Cappella Choir as quickly as possible and to take it on tour.
The rest is history, of course; but in addition to the choir, he needed a faculty ready to train and hold the students who were to be attracted to the school. I knew George Morey (“Legacy Families,” winter 2010), and there were numerous other teachers here by 1949, including Robert Ottman (’56 Ph.D.), Frank Mainous, Jean Mainous, Gene Hall (’41, ’44 M.A.), ’Fessor Graham, Maurice McAdow, Helen Hewitt, Lloyd Hibberd, Robert J. Rogers, Willard Elliot (’45). These were the foundation stones of the College of Music we have today.
T. Jervis Underwood (’55, ’70 Ph.D.)Oak Point
Frank McKinley directs the A Cappella Choir in 1955-56. “Mr. Mac,” who led the choir for more than 30 years, was among many outstanding music teachers who joined North Texas in the 1940s.
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With the help of its collaborative research clusters, UNT is making strides toward becoming a major research university. In 2008, the university launched the first phase of the research cluster initiative with the goals of advancing research, strengthening the state’s economy and developing technology vital to addressing today’s most pressing needs. With two years’ momentum behind them, these clusters have attracted top faculty and students and continued ground-breaking research. UNT expanded its commitment to the initiative in the fall by investing in four new research teams and five areas of strategic development.
ExPANDING RESEARCH
From improved crop protection, cancer treatments and energy sources to novel interactions between art
and science, UNT researchers are changing the world.
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Research clusters
UNT’s research clusters are part of a long-term plan to bolster high-impact research and address complex scientific, technological, environmental and societal problems through multidisciplinary collaboration and innovation. The original seven clusters are Bio/Nano-Photonics, Developmental Physiology and Genetics, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), Materials Modeling, Renewable Bioproducts, Signaling Mechanisms in Plants, and Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems and Biocultural Conservation.
The four additional clusters announced in December will focus on Computational Chemical Biology, Knowledge Discovery from Digital Information, Multi-scale Surface Science and Engineering, and Renewable Energy and Conservation. UNT also is supporting five additional areas deemed strategic for their seminal contributions and potential to expand — STEM Research and Education, Forensic and Investigative Science and Technology, Advanced Bio-Sensor Technology, Computational Life Sciences and Complex Bio-Environmental Systems, and Logistics.
Premier researchers
The multidisciplinary research environment supported by the cluster initiative already has attracted premier researchers and top students to UNT. Two internationally renowned plant science researchers joined the faculty last spring, bringing decades of experience and a wealth of technical expertise to one of the university’s most prominent areas of research.
Vladimir Shulaev and Ron Mittler are now working with the Signaling Mechanisms in Plants cluster to develop a better understanding of cellular communication in plants. Mittler and Shulaev were among the international team of researchers featured in the February issue of Nature Genetics for unraveling the DNA sequence for strawberries. This development is expected to help plant breeders create crops that yield tastier, hardier varieties of the berry and other crops in its family.
The Renewable Bioproducts cluster made its first senior hire earlier this year. Joining the faculty in January was Stevens Brumbley, senior research fellow and project leader of the Sugarcane Metabolic Engineering Group at the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute of Bioengineering. Brumbley’s research focuses on engineering plants, specifically sugarcane, to produce a range of industrial bioplastics and bioplastic precursors, which will provide alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics.
Advancements
The shared expertise and resources of the cluster model have allowed established UNT researchers to advance their unique research interests. Pudur Jagadeeswaran, professor of biology and a key member of the Developmental Physiology and Genetics cluster, has made important strides in the area of prostate cancer detection. He presented research to the American Association for Cancer Research that suggested zebrafish may one day replace mice as the preferred model to study prostate cancer.
Researchers participating in iARTA also have made considerable progress. The group’s advisory board members participated in the ART-TEC speaker series that included conversations among leading interdisciplinary artists, curators and scholars. David Stout, a noted interactive video-audio performer and iARTA’s first senior hire, earned recognition at the VIDA 13.0 International Arts and Artificial Life Competition in Spain. And the cluster has formed Moebius, a journal exploring the theory and practice of new media, along with an editorial board. David Schwartz, associate professor of music theory, will serve as editor-in-chief and work with 17 international board members, including five UNT faculty members.
Learn more about UNT’s research and how it is changing the world at www.unt.edu/untresearch.
Vladimir Shulaev and Ron Mittler, Signaling Mechanisms in Plants cluster faculty, left, are internationally renowned in the field of plant science. iARTA faculty member David Stout with guest artist Cory Metcalf, above, debut NoiseFold, an interactive media ensemble, in UNT’s Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.
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Wildlife on campus
Jeff Corwin, wildlife biologist, author and host of Animal Planet’s Corwin’s Quest, spoke on campus in February as part of UNT’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Corwin’s presentation featured several exotic animals, including amphibians and reptiles, with audience members joining him onstage to interact with the critters. He discussed his insights into culture, animal behaviors and interactions
among humans and animals. An expert on wildlife, ecology and conservation, Corwin has appeared on the NBC Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Morning Show, Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Distinguished Lecture Series brings world-class speakers to UNT several times throughout the year. Previous speakers include former President George W. Bush, former Mexican President
Vicente Fox, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Suze Orman. Tree Campus USA
The Arbor Day Founda-tion has honored UNT as a 2010 Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental steward-ship, for the third year in a row.
Tree Campus USA, a program of the Arbor Day Foundation, is a national program that honors colleges
and universities for promoting healthy management of their campus forests and engaging the community in environ-mental stewardship. UNT met the required five core standards of tree care and community engagement including a campus tree advisory committee, a tree- care plan, dedicated expendi-tures on the plan, involvement in an Arbor Day observance, and a service-learning project engaging the student body.
pass it on: great things are happening at UNT. Learn about them here and share our successes with your family and friends. • UNT to go. A new mobile site that keeps UNT at your fingertips has just been launched. You can stay connected with a social media directory, UNT news, event information, interactive campus maps, a people search and features to keep you up to date on all Mean Green sports. Also, alumni can update contact information, subscribe to publications and connect with other UNT grads through social media channels. Simply use your mobile device to browse to m.unt.edu and you’ll have UNT To Go.
• Tiny insect, big honors. Ken Stewart, Professor Emeritus of biological sciences, was included on Outdoor Life magazine’s list of 25 people who have had a significant impact on hunting and fishing. His research on stoneflies, a critical forage insect for fish, makes him one of the world’s leading authorities on the water insect that is of special interest to trout fishermen. Texas has 30 species of stoneflies, including one that’s named for Stewart.
• Center stage. The North Texas Dancers performed on the main stage with the Black Eyed Peas in the Super Bowl XLV Halftime show. As part of the elite dance group, they wore silver LED-illuminated costumes with cubes atop their heads. February’s mega-production had a record-breaking audience of an estimated 111 million viewers worldwide.
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Equity and Diversity
Conference
Soledad O’Brien, host of the In America documentary unit on CNN, and Hill Harper, who portrays coroner Sheldon Hawkes on CBS’ CSI: NY, were among the keynote speakers at UNT’s 11th Equity and Diversity Confer-ence in February.
The Celebrating the Big I.D.E.A.: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access conference was aimed at students, educators and professionals who are committed to equity and diversity in the workforce and in higher education. Topics included mentoring, equal pay, black masculinity, communication skills for
student leaders, social justice and veterans’ transition to civilian student life.
O’Brien, who joined CNN in 2003, is a former host of its morning newscast American Morning and has been a correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit and the anchor of a CNN special, Black in America.
Harper is the author of the motivational books Letters to a Young Sister and Letters to a Young Brother, based on his life. Other keynote speakers included activist Tim Wise, author of Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, and Evelyn Hu DeHart, who has published three books on the Yaqui Indians.
Private investigator certificate
UNT is simplifying the process required to become a private investigator with the launch of the state’s first training program that will qualify participants for the Texas private investigator licensing exam. The program, launched in March, is admin-istrated by the Professional Development Institute at UNT and is offered in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Participants are trained in theory, practice and business of private investiga-tions and will earn a certificate in professional private investigations upon comple-tion. For more information, visit legal.pdi.org.
f U l b R i g h T A W A R DChristopher Heiden, associate director of academic services in the College of Engineering, was one of twenty scholars nationwide to receive a grant to participate in the 2010 Fulbright Seminar for U.S. Administrators in International Education in Germany. The program is designed to help international education professionals and senior higher education offi-cials from the U.S. better serve and encourage international students and
prospective study-abroad students.
Soledad O’Brien, host of the In America documentary unit
on CNN, speaks in the University Union in February
at UNT’s 11th Equity and Diversity Conference.
As the nation’s 33rd largest public
university, UNT continues to be the
largest, most compre-hensive university in
the North Texas region and an important
driver for the country’s sixth largest economy.
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Programs’ first graduates
The first five graduates of UNT’s Teach North Texas program received their degrees in December, only two years after the program began. Teach North Texas is helping to increase the number of qualified mathematics and science secondary teachers by giving students the opportu-
nity to interact with experi-enced high school teachers and explore the teaching profes-sion. Since it launched in 2008, UNT’s program — run collaboratively by the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences — has exceeded expectations for enrollment growth. About 200 students are enrolled and are pursuing degrees in math and science along with teaching certificates.
Also in December, UNT’s first aviation logistics degree was awarded to Laura Rusnok. UNT launched the first
four-year aviation logistics program at a public Texas university. The program, with about 100 students enrolled, is one of only two in the nation focusing on the role of aviation in modern industrialized trans-portation and logistics systems.
Plastic research
Researchers led by Witold Brostow, director of UNT’s Laboratory for Advanced Polymers and Optimized Materials, have discovered a way to reinforce plastics at lower processing tempera-tures, resulting in energy
savings and improved produc-tion efficiency. Improving the strength of plastics allows manufacturers to create products traditionally made of metal from lighter-weight polymer materials and leads to improved gas mileage and easier maintenance in aircraft and automobiles.
The team’s research was published on the Society of Plastics Engineers website at 4spepro.org/index. Next, the researchers will explore other ways to produce similar results, with plans to patent the findings.
Come take a look at the new Mean Green as new head football coach Dan
McCarney hosts the annual Green and White Spring Game beginning at 1 p.m. April
16 at Denton ISD’s C.H. Collins Stadium, 1500 Long Road. The spring game, played in
a full scrimmage format, is the finale of the 2011 spring practice season, which began
March 23. The game provides an opportunity for fans, faculty, staff, students and
friends of the university to preview the 2011 Mean Green football team. Admission to
the event is free.
“As a coaching staff, we are excited about spring football because it is our first
opportunity to coach this team on the field,” McCarney says. “We are going to make spring practice fun for our fans as well,
opening it up to see everything we do from the first practice through the spring game to get them excited about what they can
expect from the Mean Green this fall.”
The first home game is Sept. 10, when the Mean Green will host the University of Houston.
Reserve your season tickets now. With a new innovative online tool, you can view sight lines in 3-D from every section inside
the stadium to assist you in choosing your seats. Deposits for tickets to the 2011 fall football season are being accepted through
the athletic ticket office. Ticketing options start at $100, with reserved sideline seating at $150 per ticket. For more information,
contact the athletic ticket office at 800-UNT-2366.
gearing up for Mean green football season 2011
To take a virtual 3-D tour of the stadium and reserve your seats, go to meangreensports.com.
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G L O B A L
C O N N E C T I O N>>
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Cape horn research field
station opens
UNT, in partnership with the Universidad de Magallanes, the Chilean Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, and several U.S. and Chilean nonprofit organizations, opened the world’s first field station dedicated to environ-mental philosophy, science and policy at the southern tip of Chile in the village of Puerto Williams in January.
The new Cape Horn Field Station — equipped with a kitchen, library, classrooms, computer area and laboratory for processing and storing research samples and other field equipment — supports an international network for interdisciplinary environmen-tal research opportunities for faculty, students and affiliated research scholars. The station will help to place UNT’s work at the forefront of research, education and conservation of biocultural diversity.
“The goal is to have students doing research in
Chile year-round so they can have a direct experience in crossing language barriers and working with students from other countries, scientists and the local society,” says Christo-pher Anderson, assistant research professor of biology and coordinator of the Sub-Antarctic Ecosystems and Biocultural Conservation Program and research cluster.
“Our mission is not just to do research but to develop long-term working relation-
ships with local authorities and community members and to make the research socially relevant.”
The program’s unique integration of ecological sciences with the humanities builds upon UNT’s strong tradition as the world’s premier program in environ-mental philosophy.
U n D E R g R A D U AT E S P R E S E n T R E S E A R C h Adrian Cadar, senior biology major, and Udayan Vaidya, a student in the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, were among more than 140 undergraduate students who presented 80 research projects at the Texas Undergraduate Research Day in Austin in February. The event showcased the research experiences of undergraduate students for Texas legislators and the public, highlighting how research conducted by undergraduate students positively impacts Texas. Cadar’s research of the cardiovascular system could lead to improved treatment for premature babies at risk of developing a heart defect that causes abnormal blood flow. Vaidya’s computational model to predict outbreaks of Dengue fever could be used by public
health services to forecast outbreaks as well as assess prevention strategies.
Visitors to the Omora Park in Chile for the inauguration of the Cape Horn Field Station in January included participants in UNT’s Travel Learn program, as well as university administrators.
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Gary Payne
Tax time doesn’t have to be stressful. Paul F. Goebel, senior director of campus life and founding and managing director of UNT’s
award-winning Student Money Management Center, advises that the key to low-anxiety tax returns is starting early, being organized and getting help if needed. Goebel works to help students develop and strengthen their money management skills. In addition to reminding us that this year tax returns are due April 18 — a three-day extension to allow for April 15 being a legal holiday in the District of Columbia — he offers the following tips to help you prepare your return this tax season.
Understand• The tax code is ever-changing, so be sure to research
what changes have been made and how they may affect your tax return.
• Seek out professional counsel, advice and assistance to receive the benefit of professionals’ knowledge of all possible deductions and credits.
prepare• Don’t procrastinate. Waiting until the last
moment will add an unnecessary burden of stress and frustration to the process.
• Get organized. Unnecessary delays may occur if you have to request forms, receipts and other documents you need to file your return.
put your refund to work• Use a tax refund for a pre-determined
financial goal or a priority you have already identified.
• Pay off debt or increase an emergency fund for quick access to cash reserves during challenging economic times.
• Invest the funds by depositing them into a savings account, a 401(k) or Roth IRA to make your money work harder for you.
— Leslie Wimmer
Political science fellow
Christopher Wall, senior political science and economics major, was named a Minority Fellow by the American Political Science Association
for 2011-12. Wall is a student in the Honors College, a Ronald E. McNair Post-bacca-laureate Achievement Program scholar and president of the UNT chapter of Mortar Board National Honor Society. After graduating in May, he plans to enter graduate school to become a university professor and continue research on weak states and democratization. The Minority Fellowship Program was
established to increase the number of political science scholars and professors who are ethnic minorities, are applying to doctoral degree programs and plan to teach and conduct research.
Rotary Scholars
Two recent graduates won 2011-12 Rotary Ambassado-rial Scholarships to study abroad for a year and engage in global public service. T. Lane
Ingram (’10 M.Ed.), who received a master’s in counsel-ing, will travel to New Zealand to earn a certificate in counsel-ing at the Wellington Institute of Technology.
Juan Oliveros Facio (’09), who received a bachelor’s degree in communication design, will pursue a master’s degree in cultural management from Universidad Iberoameri-cana-Puebla in Mexico.
how can you be money smart through tax season?
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UNT alumni association
To join the association or learn more, visit www.untalumni.com, e-mail [email protected] or call 940-565-2834.
UNT’s alumni network reaches around the world. In November, a group of about 100 Malaysian and Indone-sian alumni — some who had not seen each other in 20 years — had a reunion in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Not even flood problems in neighbor-ing states that closed some roads and airports could keep some alumni from attending. In addition to sharing memories, the group auctioned off and gave UNT memo-rabilia as door prizes.
“The reunion was a resounding success,” says Suzana Meor Abdul Aziz (’86, ’88 M.A.). “Close to 100 alums and their families turned up. We were standing room only.”
The group is planning to return to Denton in 2012 to mark the 30-year anniversary of the enrollment of 46 Malaysian students at the university in fall 1982.
“I am excited to see an increasing number of our international alumni reconnecting with UNT from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and around the world,” says Derrick P. Morgan, executive director of the UNT Alumni Association. “UNT International has been instrumental in driving these reconnections, and we look forward to expanding our partnership with them to continue building our far-reaching global alumni network.”
For information on how the alumni association can help you plan your alumni event, call 940-565-2834 or visit www.untalumni.com.
Co M P U TAT i o n A l l i n g U i S T i C S Co M P E T i T i o n
For the third year, the Department of Computer Science and Engineer-ing hosted the North Amer ican Computational Linguistics Olympiad, in which North Texas high school students used a set of rules and their analytical skills to decipher unfamiliar languages and translate them into English. The competition serves as an introduction to com-putational linguistics and computer science for many high school students and is just one of the ways UNT part-ners with area schools to encourage an inter-est in higher learning, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math. As a leader in computational lin-guistics research, UNT is uniquely equipped to introduce students to
the field.
Behavioral research
UNT researchers are helping to improve treatments for behavioral and emotional disorders. Lyndal Bullock, Regents Professor of educa-tional psychology, received a grant from the U.S. Depart-ment of Education to support graduate students aspiring to work with adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Amy Murrell, assistant professor of clinical psychology, and Adriel Boals, assistant professor of experi-mental psychology, were awarded a grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to study post-traumatic stress disorder and use of acceptance and commitment therapy.
Intel and Siemens
semifinalists
UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science students swept early rounds of two premier science competi-tions. Five students were named regional finalists for their research in computer science, chemistry and biological sciences and another 11 were named semifinalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, winning more awards than students from all other participating Texas schools.
Seven students were semifinalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search. TAMS had more semifinalists than any other school in Texas.
Malaysian and Indonesian UNT alumni gathered in November for a reunion in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur.
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Victoria Bleakley’s (’07) interest in fashion began out of necessity.She lost her ATM card while living in Germany after high school and
needed warm clothes in the November cold. Bleakley rummaged through bins of free thrift-store rejects and found outdated “mom jeans” and long-sleeved shirts. She ripped them apart and stitched them into chic garb.
“I was hand-sewing with needle and thread, and I didn’t even know how to do anything,” she says. “But then, I thought this might be something I could get into.”
She chose to study fashion design at UNT, saying “UNT was everything I wanted.” Building on Bleakley’s humble sewing roots, UNT gave her the skills she needed for a high-powered career in the nation’s fashion capital. Now, she works as a pattern maker for prominent New York-based designer Nicole Miller.
fashion successHoused in the College of Visual Arts and Design, the fashion design
program gives students a solid artistic foundation. Faculty members have years of industry experience, preparing students to make everything from couture creations to mass market designs. Graduates of the famously difficult program gain expertise to land positions with big names in the fashion world or open their own businesses.
David Dang (’01) worked with major retailers before moving on to start a new company. Finley Moll (’85) built a business known nationwide for the iconic Finley Shirt, seen in the pages of Redbook and O Magazine.
Others who studied in UNT’s fashion design program include Shirin Askari (’08), a Project Runway contestant who launched her own line; Michael Faircloth (’83), designer of the red presidential inauguration gown worn by former first lady Laura Bush; Khanh Nguyen (’08), who started her own elegant, edgy fashion label; and Nicolas Villalba (’96), who opened an atelier to make custom creations in 2002 and was appointed Stanley Korshak in-house designer in 2004.
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World ofFashion
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The program offers rigorous training, demanding classes and a senior-year runway show judged by pros. Students are granted access to UNT’s prestigious Texas Fashion Collection, studying works of great masters — Balenciaga, de la Renta, Givenchy and more.
Pieces of the puzzleAt UNT, Bleakley learned how to sew,
choose fabrics, and drape and fit gar-ments. She got hooked on the New York fashion scene during a trip with faculty members.
Straight out of college, she earned a three-week Nicole Miller internship that led to her full-time position.
“Being a pattern maker is like being a garment engineer,” she says. “We are creating the pieces of the puzzle that will fit together to create the final garment.”
Bleakley has helped create several tops that have debuted during New York Fashion Week — the semi-annual exhibition of the hottest up-and-coming fashion trends.
During one Fashion Week show, Miller herself wore a button-down shirt that Bleakley engineered.
“It was great to see my work out there on this national stage,” Bleakley says.
Knowing the solid work ethic of UNT graduates, Nicole Miller has recruited several UNT interns, Bleakley says. Those include Dana Case (’10), who after an internship earned a full-time spot as a production and pattern maker assistant working next to Bleakley.
Strong foundationsDang (’01) says his UNT professors
pushed his creativity while keeping him grounded in reality. (“Have you heard of gravity?” longtime fashion design faculty member Marian O’Rourke-Kaplan is
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known to ask students when she sees some of their designs on paper.)
After college, Dang worked as a designer for Dillard’s and a technical designer at Kellwood, making clothing lines for premier brands.
He later nabbed a position as designer, then senior designer and later account manager at sweater manufacturer KBL, working with such major retailers as L.L. Bean, Kohl’s and Target.
In 2010, Dang moved to Shanghai to become vice president of design and product branding for Full Linkage Corp. Dang is developing a business plan and marketing strategy to launch a line of brand-name golf apparel and accessories in China.
In tackling this newest challenge, he still uses advice he received from O’Rourke-Kaplan, now an associate dean in the college.
“She had a very strong technical background and showed me that as long as you have a strong foundation of knowledge and think clearly, you can
build upon it,” Dang says. “I took that foundation with me to
work, and I am applying all of that now.”
A unique aesthetic At UNT, Moll found freedom to
make fashions that stretched her creativity — including one memorable but perhaps too experimental dress made of metal. The model — still her friend today — loves to remind her that the dress “cut her to pieces,” Moll says.
“Being at North Texas in the ’80s was really fun,” she says. “There was so much happening with music and fashion and art, it was kind of a microcosm of the art community that a lot of people didn’t know about — kind of like Austin before Austin got discovered.”
Today, Moll runs Finley, a successful Dallas-based company that sells to 500 retailers, including Nordstrom. She and business partner Heather McNeill began the sportswear company in 1995 before honing in on the success of their tailored
white shirts for women.“We took a hard look at what we
were doing, and the shirts were by far outselling everything,” Moll says. “At the time, no one was doing a shirt with our aesthetic and our attitude.”
The company eventually added colored shirts and original prints designed by Moll. Today, she is proud the business stayed privately owned with loyal local employees while gaining national attention. She sees women of all ages wearing the Finley Shirt — from the Los Angeles airport to the streets of New York.
“Probably an ‘aha’ moment for me was when I was in New York seven or eight years ago, and I was walking through SoHo after market, and there was my shirt in a window in a store,” she says. “I was surprised. To experience it and not be looking for it — it was just wonderful. It made it very real to me.”
Watch a video about the fashion design program at northtexan.unt.edu/online.
Students in UNT’s fashion design program examine haute couture
creations in the Texas Fashion Collection, considered one of the most
important historic fashion collections in the country. The collection
lives in a 4,500-square-foot climate-controlled room on campus.
In 2006, UNT opened a 500-square-foot exhibition space, Fashion
on Main, to display gems of the collection in Dallas. The College of
Visual Arts and Design plans to eventually expand the gallery, bring-
ing more items into public view.
A new support group, The Dress Circle at UNT, works to ensure the
goal of caring for and preserving the collection. Providing funds for
exhibitions and new acquisitions also is a goal of the group.
The collection began in 1938 when Stanley and Edward Marcus
preserved examples of top designers’ works in honor of their aunt,
Carrie Marcus Neiman, a co-founder of the Neiman Marcus store.
The Carrie Marcus Neiman Foundation maintained the collection
after her death in 1953, and the Dallas Fashion Group took over in the
1960s. The collection came to campus in 1972. Under UNT’s care, it
has grown to more than 15,000 historic items.
Learn more about the collection at tfc.unt.edu.
— Ellen Rossetti
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GRAMMY HONORS
Renowned pianist and music professor Joseph Banowetz was nominated for Best
Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
Watch a report on Banowetz from WFAA-TV’s Debbie Denmon (’91)
at northtexan.unt.edu/culture.
JOSEPH BANOWETZ’S LATEST GRAMMY nomination came for his recording of Paul Kletzki’s Piano Concerto in D Minor, Op. 22, with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. The music of the Jewish composer Kletzki was lost in Nazi Germany and uncovered through UNT’s Lost Composers Project. Banowetz previously was nominated for a Grammy with Alton Chung Ming Chan (’82, ’94 Ph.D.) for Best Chamber Music Performance.
In other UNT-related Grammy news, Michael Daugherty (’76) won for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for “Deus ex Machina,” and Norah Jones and Christian rapper Lecrae (’02) also were nominated.
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Books
Architectural spacePalaces in
Saint-Cloud
and Würzburg,
courtesans’
homes, and
gentlemen’s
galleries in post-Napoleonic
London are among the interiors
covered in Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Con-structing Identities and Interiors (Ashgate).
Co-edited by Denise Amy
Baxter, associate professor and
interim chair of the Depart-
ment of Art Education and Art
History, and Meredith Martin
of Wellesley College, the book
explores how bankers, bishops,
bluestockings and courtesans used
architectural space and décor to
shape and express identity.
The book’s contributors address
identity as it relates to gender,
class and ethnicity and cover the
role that spatial environments
played at defining historical and
cultural moments.
Richard WrightIn Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen (Ivan R. Dee),
Jennifer Jensen
Wallach traces the life of the
author best known for his novel
Native Son and notes the effect of
his work on later African
American writers. Wallach,
assistant professor of history,
follows Wright from his origins
as a sharecropper’s son in
Mississippi to his life as an
American expatriate in Paris
involved with Marxism,
existentialism and Pan-African-
ism. She says her goal was “to
examine Wright’s various
attempts to answer the driving
question of his life, ‘How can I
live freely?’” The book was
published in 2010, the 50th
anniversary of his death.
The Young LordsThe Young
Lords, a
national
political
movement of
the late 1960s
and early 1970s, originated as a
Chicago street gang fighting
gentrification and unfair evictions
in Puerto Rican neighborhoods.
Its politically radical members
were part of the original Rainbow
Coalition with the Black Panthers
and the Young Patriots. The Young Lords: A Reader (New York
University Press), edited by
Darrel Enck-Wanzer, assistant
professor of communication
studies, provides a look inside the
movement.
The collection of essays,
speeches, pamphlets and
photographs created by Young
Lords members, primarily in New
York and on the East Coast,
includes the organization’s
13-point platform and rules of
discipline. The book covers the
group’s activism in education,
health care, police injustice and
gender equality.
In Foreign FieldsFive years after leaving North Texas with his journalism degree, Ray Moseley
(’52) found himself at Central High School in Little Rock, covering the violent
desegregation for the Arkansas Gazette. He thought at the time it might be the
biggest story of his career. But it was just the beginning.
In his book In Foreign Fields: A Veteran Correspondent’s Brushes with Wars,
Revolution, Secret Police and Flea-Pit Hotels (Lulu), the UNT Distinguished
Alumnus and Pulitzer Prize nominee recounts the adventures of nearly 50 years
in journalism, many spent as an overseas correspondent for United Press Inter-
national and the Chicago Tribune. Covering the world’s news from Rome, Cairo,
Nairobi, Moscow, Berlin, Belgrade and London, Moseley was on the scene for the
revolution in Iran, the Six-Day War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and more, dodging
bullets and the KGB along the way.
Robin Knight, formerly a foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report
and book reviewer for Time, writes that “a reader is left amazed at the versatil-
ity, stamina, resourcefulness and dogged legwork that kept Moseley chasing the
news for so many years in so many awful places.”
Knight calls foreign correspondents today “an endangered species,” and
Moseley refers to the book as his “testament to a vanishing age.”
“Had I come into journalism just a few years ago, and finished work a half cen-
tury from now,” Moseley writes, “I would never have had experiences remotely
similar to those recounted in this book.”
Read Knight’s full review at northtexan.unt.edu/online.
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Upcoming events
The Wind Symphony conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon
performs the wind version of Cindy McTee’s Double Play at 7:30
p.m. April 7 in the Murchison Performing Arts Center. The Detroit
Symphony Orchestra premiered the original piece by McTee, win-
ner of its Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award and retiring Regents
Professor. Visit music.unt.edu/calendar for concert information.
Convergent Boundaries, an exhibition of original fashion designs
by Zigwai Remy Odukomaiya, opens April 8 at Fashion on Main,
1901 Main St. in Dallas. This body of work created by Remy is a
requirement for the Master of Fine Arts in the College of Visual
Arts and Design. Exhibit hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays and
Fridays through June 10. For more information, visit tfc.unt.edu.
The 51st annual Voertman Student
Art Competition features a juried
selection of new works in all media
by students in design and studio
arts. (Last year’s award-winning
oil on canvas by Michael Blair is
pictured.) The show runs April 12-30
at the UNT Art Gallery in the Art Building. An opening reception
and award ceremony, with awards sponsored by Voertman’s, is at
noon April 12. Check gallery.unt.edu for information.
The Multicultural Center presents Blake Mycoskie, founder and
chief shoe giver of TOMS Shoes, at 4:30 p.m. April 13 at the
Main Auditorium in the Auditorium Building. Tickets — free for
students, $5 for faculty and staff, $10 for the general public — are
available at the Union Information Center, 940-565-3805.
UNT dance faculty members and guest choreographers share
their artistry with the public at the Faculty Dance Concert, 8 p.m.
April 28-30 and 2:30 p.m. May 1 at the University Theatre. Visit
danceandtheatre.unt.edu for more information.
Visit calendar.unt.edu for more upcoming events.
dance and Theatre
Music for dance
The work of Claudia Howard
Queen, assistant professor of
music for dance, is making news in
Taiwan. After teaching for the
Taipei National University of the
Arts — Taiwan’s premier arts
school — on her second Fulbright
grant to Taiwan in August, she
was invited to collaborate with
artistic director Ming-Shen Ku
and her professional dance
company for the concert Decode
2010. Queen improvised an
evening-length live music score in
performances with Ku & Dancers
at the Taipei National Theatre and
the Wei-Wu-Ying Center of the
Arts in Kaohsiung.
The Taipei Times’ review notes
that Queen “provided percussion,
piano, flute, guitar, vocals and
computerized sounds (dripping
water, rain, crashing waves, the
buzzing of night-time insects)
— and at one point in the matinee
she played the piano with her left
hand while strumming a guitar
with her right. It was amazing to
watch her. ”
Queen, who has been invited
to return to Taiwan, says she is
using this interdisciplinary
collaborative experience in her
teaching at UNT and hopes to
bring Ku & Dancers to campus
for a residency.
Noise “Edgy, “disturbing” and “riveting” are words
reviewers are using to describe Darin Brad-
ley’s debut novel Noise, published by Spectra,
a division of Random House.
Bradley (’02, ’04 M.A., ’07 Ph.D.),
administrative editor of the UNT English
department’s Studies in the Novel, earned his
doctorate in English literature and theory and has taught courses on
writing and literature at East Tennessee State University, Furman
University and UNT.
In Noise, after anarchists hijack the old analog airwaves to warn
of the collapse of civilization, two young men use their scouting and
gaming skills to write their own survival guide and lead a band of
hackers and misfits into the post-Apocalyptic world. Their guide
begins: “[1] i) This Book assumes many things. ii) Among them, that
you are still alive. …”
Publishers Weekly calls Noise “an exceptionally polished debut”
that falls “somewhere between The Lord of the Flies and The Zombie Survival Guide.”
Learn more about the book at www.salvagecountry.net.
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MuseSample jazz
If you’d like to know about
the latest work from UNT jazz
studies alumni, just head to
jazz.unt.edu/alumnitracks, where
the jazz studies division is featur-
ing sample tracks from jazz alums’
recent CDs.
Guitarist and alumnus Justin
Cash (’07 M.M.), who suggested
the project, got things started with
tracks from his latest CD Beautiful World. Alumni from any era of
UNT jazz are invited to send in a
track from a recent project. Send
tracks to John Murphy (’84, ’86
M.M.), professor and chair of jazz
studies, at [email protected].
Spring residency
Composer Jake Heggie,
renowned for his nationally
acclaimed opera Moby-Dick,
returned to campus in February
for a series of concerts, lectures
and other events.
Serving as the artist-in-
residence for UNT’s Institute
for the Advancement of the Arts,
he visited for the first part of his
residency in the fall.
The February events included
concerts featuring his works, a
convention in January in San
Antonio.
Two Czech specialists worked
with students during prepara-
tion for the opera, coaching the
principal roles on how to speak
the language and helping students
perfect their Czech singing skills.
The Bartered Bride was produced
in collaboration with the Czech
Educational Foundation of Texas
Frank J. and Hermine Hurta Kos-
tohryz Residency in Czech Music
and Culture.
Previously, UNT has won
awards from the National Opera
Association for two productions:
Argento’s Postcard from Morocco
and Britten’s Albert Herring.
Music
National opera honor
The first opera to be presented
in Czech at UNT earned third
place from the National Opera
Association’s Opera Production
Competition. Director Paula
Homer accepted the award for the
UNT performance of Smetana’s
Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride) at the association’s national
panel discussion and opera work-
shop master class. In addition to
coaching students, performing
and lecturing, Heggie continued
work on a commission from
UNT to compose a major work
for orchestra, chorus and soloist
to further explore his interest in
Moby-Dick.
Television and Film
Denton public access Journalism students are gain-
ing more experience in broad-
cast operations through a new
agreement between the Mayborn
School of Journalism and the city
of Denton.
The school began operating
the city’s public access television
channel, Denton Community
Television, in January.
Nann Goplerud, principal
lecturer and interim chair of
the Department of News, is the
station manager. Students from
the news and strategic com-
munications departments will
be producing a local newscast,
public service announcements
and other programming for the
station, which operates from a
renovated studio in the General
Academic Building.
The channel (Charter Cable
Channel 25 and Verizon FIOS
Channel 39 in Denton County)
also continues to provide a voice
to Denton residents.
New president Sam Sauls (’77, ’80 M.A.,
’93 Ph.D.), associate professor
of radio, television and film, was
elected the 2011-12 president
of the Broadcast Education
pink Floyd at UnTUNT’s 40-foot domed
Sky Theater planetarium is
taking audiences to the Dark Side of the Moon with a new
program of computer-
animated images set to the
music of the 1973 album by
Pink Floyd. The 45-minute
program features surround
sound and a kaleidoscope of
flowing colors and shapes through complex video imagery. The
program’s creator, Aaron McEuen at Utah-based Starlight Produc-
tions, says it’s “like having headphones for your eyeballs.”
Ron “Starman” DiIulio, UNT planetarium and astronomy
laboratory director, hopes the program will encourage those with
interests in computer animation, music, physics and other disciplines
to create similar planetarium shows for UNT. He plans to screen
more Starlight Productions programs this year such as Pink Floyd’s
The Wall and Wish You Were Here.
Dark Side of the Moon is presented at 9 p.m. Thursdays and 9:30
p.m. Saturdays through the spring semester at the Sky Theater in the
Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building. Tickets,
available 30 minutes before each show, are $7 for general admission
and $6 for UNT students, faculty and staff with UNT ID. Only cash
and checks are accepted. To view the trailer, visit skytheater.unt.edu.
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UNT’s new Design Research Center in downtown Dallas is the first of its kind in the
region. Opened in January, it serves as an “urban laboratory” where graduate students
and faculty use design to solve contemporary problems. The renovated 3,000-square-
foot space, which includes a conference room, student work stations and classrooms, is
a former police substation at 1908 Elm St., adjacent to the UNT System Building.
Interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students at the center will work with community
nonprofits, government agencies and corporations to address social, environmental,
economic and public policy concerns. Researchers already are working with public
television station KERA to create a “Kids and Family” portal and website; collaborating
with the nonprofit Downtown Dallas Inc. on ideas for improving the quality of life and
economy in the West End and other Dallas districts; and helping employees of the World
Factory corporation with innovations for developing new products.
Directed by Keith Owens, associate professor of communication design, the center
will support graduate students pursuing degrees in innovation studies along with faculty
members from five UNT schools and colleges: business, public affairs and community
service, merchandising and hospitality management, and arts and sciences, as well as
visual arts and design. Researchers are expected to present preliminary results of some
of their studies at a grand opening this spring.
For more information, visit art.unt.edu/designresearchcenter or contact the center at
[email protected] or 214-752-5556.
design research Center
visual arts
International award
Studio arts graduate student
Naomi S. Adams earned
worldwide recognition for her
unusual designs as the winner of
the Future of Quilting Award at
the 2010 International Quilt
Festival in Houston. The award
was part of the judged show of the
Inter national Quilt Association.
Adams created her quilt,
Diamonds, by dyeing the batting
used to make four quilts, cutting
Association, the professional
organization for faculty mem-
bers, industry professionals and
graduate students interested in
teaching and researching elec-
tronic media and multimedia
enterprises.
Sauls is the association’s vice
president for academic relations
and has served on its board of
directors since 2006.
He joined UNT in 1984 as a
lecturer and as station manager
of campus radio station KNTU-
FM. He is now the associate
chair and director of graduate
studies in the Department of
Radio, Television and Film.
He has 15 years of experience
in commercial and noncommer-
cial radio.
crescent-shaped pieces and gluing
them to a fifth quilt. The resulting
three-dimensional quilt stands
out three inches from the wall.
Adams also won the Olfa
Okada Young Designer Award at
the American Quilters Society
Show in 2008. Her work will be
shown at Quilt National 2011, a
juried international art quilt
exhibition, May 28 through Sept.
5 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in
Athens, Ohio.
Artist in residence
Regents Professor Harlan
Butt, an internationally known
metalsmith, was one of four
artists chosen to participate in
the 2010 Artist-in-Residence
program at Denali National Park
and Preserve in Alaska. Butt,
whose enamel and silver vessels
are inspired by a love of nature
and poetry, stayed in a historic
cabin and documented locations
in the park through photographs,
sketches and a journal of poetry
and impressions.
He made a presentation for
visitors during the residency in
August and has donated a piece
of artwork to the park’s art
collection inspired by his time
there. There are plans to exhibit
his National Park Series pieces,
including several inspired by
Denali, at UNT on the Square in
the fall. View photos from his
residency at northtexan.unt.edu/culture.
Keith Owens directs the new Design Research Center in downtown Dallas, where graduate students and faculty collaborate with nonprofits, government agencies and businesses, using design to address social, environmental, economic and public policy concerns.
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LOVE STORIES
by R andena Hulstrand
ollege years filled with inspiration set the course for self discovery — and sometimes for falling in love. Throughout its history, UNT has provided a lively backdrop for Cupid’s arrows, igniting love interests and growing relationships from first glimpses in classrooms and first dates in the University Union to marriage proposals under McConnell Tower. Love stories intertwined with memories of UNT span the years and occur in multiple generations for some alumni families. From a romantic rendezvous at the fish pond in the early years to a hand-in-hand walk on the Spirit March today, love at UNT is timeless.
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If you, too, met the love of your life at UNT, we want to hear from you. Tell us what year you met, your favorite places on campus to spend time together, and when you knew you had found true love. Share your stories and photos and read more UNT love stories online at northtexan.unt.edu/lovestories.
by R andena Hulstrand
See Eugenia McKinney (’52) and William “Bill” Foxworth King (’51) tell the story of how they met and fell in love on their first date to a Marquis and Terrill Hall dance at northtexan.unt.edu/lovestories.
When she first spotted William “Bill” Foxworth King (’51) during freshman English class in 1947, Eugenia McKinney (’52) didn’t know she would repeat history.
“He had the cutest turned-up nose, just like the movie star Lon McCallister,” she says. “I knew I wanted to go out with him.”
After failed attempts to get Bill to notice her by dropping her books after class, she asked him to a Marquis and Terrill Hall dance, which led to two more dates that week. Bill was a pre-med student teaching physiology in the then newly built chemistry building. She took his class, washed lab bottles for him and helped him grade papers.
“We’ve been dating ever since,” Bill says.They weren’t the only couple in their family who had love blossom on campus.
Forty years prior, Eugenia’s aunt, Lila Gertrude McDonough (1907) met Jesse Harrison Legett (1905), her biology teacher, while she was earning her teaching certificate, and fell in love. After teaching at a rural school in Canon, Lila returned to marry Jesse. An avid gardener who taught agriculture and biology courses for more than 40 years, he retired from the faculty in 1946. They lived where West Hall now stands with their five children, including three who attended North Texas and married fellow classmates.
Eugenia and Bill’s courtship included hanging out at Perryman’s Drug Store across campus, going to movies at the Campus Theatre, ’Fessor Graham’s Saturday Night Stage Shows, dancing to the Aces of Collegeland on the slab between Marquis and Terrill halls and riding in Bill’s 1927 Model-T. They restored the car, “Betsy,” and cherish it with reminiscent rides back to campus and at UNT Homecoming parades.
After graduation, Bill attended Northwestern Medical School in Chicago to study radiology while Eugenia worked at Terrell Laboratories in Fort Worth. They married in Denton in 1954, his third summer in medical school.
Following family tradition, two of their three children attended the university, son William David King (’81) and daughter Ann Catherine King Durick (’85), who met her husband, Dennis Durick (’85), as a student. And now, Eugenia and Bill’s grandson, Will King, a sophomore composition student, lives in Bruce Hall, just as his dad, aunt and uncle did.
“We’re four generations strong,” Eugenia says.
legacy love affairs
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enduring love
You never know what life is going to throw at you, says Max Raymond (’76). He and Priscilla Langston (’77) accidentally met in the foyer of the Administration Building in 1975.
“Priscilla was a Green Jacket and worked in the public information office in the Administration Building, and I was a tour guide showing prospective students and parents around the campus,” Max says.
The day they met, Priscilla was working at the information desk in the lobby, filling in for the regular staffer who was on vacation.
“There sat this beautiful woman with dancing green eyes and gorgeous auburn hair flowing down to her waist,” he says. “I walked into a life-changing experience.”
Both biology majors, Priscilla and Max began dating and discovered other similar interests, including a love for baseball and a desire to be Peace Corps volunteers.
But their relationship hit some rocky times. “I was dating other guys and needed to tie up loose ends,” she says.Max says he thought it was over between them.“I graduated and was resigned to never seeing Priscilla again when I received a letter
from her congratulating me,” he says. “We began corresponding by mail nearly a year after we first met, and we learned that we needed each other.”
After Max proposed on the LBJ library lawn in Austin before a North Texas-UT football game, they wed in December 1976 at The Little Chapel in the Woods in Denton. Shortly thereafter, they enlisted as Peace Corps volunteers in Tonga where they taught for two years.
Thirty-four years of marriage, four children and two grandchildren later, the Raymonds are both high school teachers and say more Peace Corps work might be in their future.
“We are still very much in love,” Max says.
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Introduced by her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sisters and his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers in 1953, juniors Beverly Ann Tidmore (’55) and Thomas Leeth (’55) began walking together from their 10 a.m. class to the Student Union Building three times a week for coffee. But their first date didn’t come until just before Christmas break.
“There came a tremendous snow fall and a snowball fight ensued between a number of sororities and fraternities in front of the old Administration Building on Hickory Street,” Tom says. “We battled it out and afterward I invited Beverly to a party at my fraternity brother’s home.”
In the spring, their relationship began to “heat up,” particularly on Thursday afternoons, when they frequented Blondy’s in Saginaw and listened to what became their song, “Once I Had a Secret Love,” he says.
In Lambda Chi Alpha tradition, Tom pledged his love for Beverly by presenting her with his fraternity pin and a dozen red Talisman roses on the steps of her dorm, Chilton Hall, while his fraternity brothers serenaded them.
“I still have that pin,” she says. “I knew he was for me and I was for him.” Tom says by that summer, he was “totally smitten” and gave Beverly an engagement
ring. They planned to marry following their 1955 graduations, but plans changed.“We were a few minutes late one night, smooching in the parking lot in front of my
dorm, and we didn’t see the lights blink to come in,” Beverly says. “And Imogene Bentley Dickey, dean of women, ‘campused’ me for the rest of the semester, just two months short of our graduation.”
With Beverly not allowed to attend his spring fraternity formal and Tom unable to persuade the dean to let her, he and Beverly eloped two days later, April Fool’s Day.
Their nearly 56-year marriage — producing two daughters, four grandsons and one great-grandson — is a testament to lasting love.
“Fate intervened,” Tom says. “No joke.”
fate intervened
Hear Beverly Ann Tidmore (’55) and Thomas Leeth (’55) tell the story of their April Fool’s Day elopement on a video at northtexan.unt.edu/lovestories.
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Through some of Edna Jo “Bo” Allen Chapman’s (’47) most challenging times, UNT has given her hope. She worked at the Campus Chat for 35 cents an hour to help pay for her expenses at Terrill Hall and pledged Kappa Theta Pi. But the reality of World War II dictated she move home to work at the Southern Aircraft Corp. plant in Garland for a year.
“I came back to North Texas in the fall of ’45 and it was a good thing,” she says. “The fellows were returning from the war.”
By spring of 1946, one special soldier returned. Pat Chapman (’47) had enlisted in the Air Force and left the university in 1943, serving in the Pacific Theatre on Tinian Island.
“Pat, who was a very handsome young man and president of the Betas, came by the Theta house where I was living and invited me to the ‘Corner’ at Hickory and Avenue A for a Coke,” Bo says. “We began our courtship.
“So many activities were all around us. We went dancing in Dallas at Maurice’s Flight 21, and on campus we had many Beta and Theta dances, Saturday nights with ’Fessor Graham and the Aces of Collegeland, football and basketball games, and movies. And yes, some studying.”
Pat and Bo married in May 1948 at The Little Chapel in the Woods in Denton and built a life together in Dallas, until Pat’s death in 1976.
It was during a Homecoming reunion in the early ’90s that Bo reconnected with six of her Theta sisters. The group still convenes several times a year.
“These are friendships of more than 68 years and a continuation of the life I started at North Texas with Pat — a life that gave us two sons, two daugh-ters-in-law and five grandchildren,” Bo says. “He would be very proud.”
postwar romanCe
Nancy Acker (’50) says she first saw Luther “Bugs” Fambro (’50) in 1946 when they were business administration students studying in the library. Weeks later, they were introduced to each other by a friend at Eagle Drug, across from campus.
“Many nights we sat in the great hall of my dorm, Terrill Hall, talking. We have the same birthday, Feb. 4,” Nancy says. “And I loved his blonde hair and good looks.”
Bugs lettered four years in football and also ran track. He was an all-Gulf Coast Conference end in football in 1949 and went on to set school and conference track and field records. In 1998, he was named to the UNT Athletic Hall of Fame.
By their sophomore year, Nancy and Bugs began talking of marriage and decided not to wait until after graduation. In August 1948, they wed and moved into the caretaker’s garage apartment on the golf course.
“‘Pop’ Noah, the track coach, was not pleased. He didn’t want one of his athletes to marry while he was participating in track,” she says, “but he soon mellowed.”
Living on the golf course, they played golf whenever they could and created many memories.
“Bugs gave me a cocker spaniel puppy, and every morning when we went to class, there was a pile of golf balls that he had retrieved at our door.”
The college sweethearts received many honors. Bugs, a member of Talons, was voted Eagles Outstanding Athlete in 1949. Nancy, who pledged Kappa Theta Pi, was chosen Homecoming Queen by the football team in 1948 and 1949.
With more than 62 years of marriage, four children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, the Fambros say they will always be loyal to UNT, where they got their start.
“We proudly fly a bright green UNT flag to greet everyone who enters the Fambro Bear Creek Ranch south of Strawn.”
golf course newlyweds
eagle proposal
Pamela Pineset (’03) had a crush on Vernon Bryant (’00) since they were teenagers, growing up and attending church together in Austin. But they didn’t start dating until her freshman and his junior year at UNT.
Vernon, a photojournalism major, worked at the North Texas Daily, while Pamela, a public relations major, worked at Voertman’s bookstore. Together, they were members of the National Association of Black Journalists student organization.
“I always knew he was a good guy and came from a great family,” she says. “He was dedicated to school and serious about his career, and I thought I better hang on to him.”
When Pamela was a senior, Vernon, already working for The Dallas Morning News, hatched an elaborate plan to propose to her. After asking Pamela’s parents for her hand, he organized a trivia game that included a succession of questions paired with letters he photographed, spelling out “Will you marry me?”
His final question, “What icon ties the two of us together?” led her to the Eagle statue in front of the University Union, where he kneeled, proposed and presented her with a ring.
“I was so nervous,” he says, “but in being friends before we dated, we really knew each other, and I thought, ‘What am I waiting for?’”
They married in Jamaica in July 2003 and live in Frisco with their twin 3-year-old girls, Carmen and Sanaya.
“Pamela makes me a better person because where I falter, she helps me do better,” Vernon says. “And she laughs at the same things I do.”
See how UNT played a part in Vernon Bryant’s (’00) elaborate marriage proposal to Pamela Pineset (’03) through a video at northtexan.unt.edu/lovestories.
sparks fly
On the first Wednesday of the spring semester in 2006, Ryan Tuomey (’08) sat behind NaShae Menefee (’08) in their geography lab in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building. They had never met before but recognized one another — they were Facebook friends.
“Ryan had spotted me at a new members’ mixer for our sorority and fraternity, Alpha Delta Pi and Lambda Chi Alpha, during the fall semester,” NaShae says, adding that he learned her name from a mutual Facebook friend and sent her a friend request on the social networking website.
“After class that first day, I received a Facebook message from Ryan saying ‘hello.’ We began talking, agreed to be lab partners and exchanged phone numbers,” she says.
During their first date at Hailey’s in Denton, they clicked.“I knew right away she was for me,” Ryan says.NaShae says that even though they are both shy, they talked for hours. A year later, Ryan proposed at a picnic during the Fourth of July fireworks show at
UNT near Fouts Field, not far from where they first met. They married after gradua-tion in 2008.
Ryan teaches in Mansfield at a high school career center, while NaShae teaches ninth grade world geography at North Crowley.
“It’s fun to explain that I met my husband in a geography class,” she says. UNT has become a part of the Tuomeys’ anniversary celebrations. They continue to
attend the fireworks shows and are avid Mean Green fans. Ryan says he can’t wait to bring their children to football games and tailgating one day.
“I am so happy I decided to attend UNT,” NaShae says. “If not, I may have missed finding my soul mate.”
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MarianBrock
Marian Brock has come
a long way from her first
role as a tightrope walker
in a kindergarten play.
The hard-working actress
is the female lead in the
oscar-winning short film
God of Love.
just so awesome, so inspiring, and I am still completely awestruck.”
In the film, Matheny’s character, the darts playing lounge singer Ray, is secretly in love with jazz drummer Kelly and mysteriously receives a box of darts. Any person hit by a mystery dart becomes romantically attached to him for six hours.
Brock nabbed the part by posting her resume on a website for actors. Her jazz-drumming roommate taught her to play drums in the basement.
Brock’s fascination with theatre began early — with her first role as a tightrope walker in a kindergarten play. By third grade, she made her debut as a playwright when her Austin private school produced her play about two mice scared of a cat — with Brock playing the cat.
At UNT, she learned from theatre professors Marjorie Hayes, Lorenzo Garcia, Barbara Cox and Andy Harris. They insisted she learn the technical aspects of theatre. That knowledge helped when she had to prepare her own cos-tumes and makeup in non-paying roles to gain exposure in New York.
She has found balance doing what she loves and earning money, she says. She acts in theatrical productions and films and earns extra money as a children’s party entertainer.
She also is a member of the National Comedy Theatre, performs in the arts education organization Story Pirates, does voice-over work at Studio Center and performs in Renaissance festivals across the country as a member of the Washing Well Wenches.
“To have balance and a life where I do what I love and get paid for it is the best thing I can ever imagine,” she says. “And I think that’s true of everybody.”
arian Brock (’05) knew she had stumbled upon something special when filming God of Love.
On the first day of shooting, the actress walked onto a set with balloons on the ceiling and a treasure chest full of wine. Every detail of the romantic scene seemed picture-perfect.
But she’s still trying to wrap her head around the news that the 18-minute film about a love struck, lounge-singing darts champion won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short. Brock played the female lead, Kelly, in God of Love, which already had won critical acclaim and snagged a student Oscar for best narrative film.
“Everyone was always willing to go that extra step,” Brock says of the cast and crew for the film, which was created as a graduate thesis by New York University student Luke Matheny. “I am so proud of everyone involved.”
Now, New York-based Brock — who worked seven non-acting jobs last summer — is scheduling interviews with agents and getting audition invitations, including one from a respected theatrical company. The Academy Award winners were announced in Los Angeles Feb. 27.
“This is truly the greatest blessing I have ever had in my career,” says Brock, who earned a bachelor’s degree in theatre. “I worked very hard, and I am very proud of that, and to have it come to fruition is
by EllEn RossEtti
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Q and A
Travis William
s (’06)
Marian Brock (’05)New york
Degree in: Theatre
favorite movie: Too many to count. Random
favorites in no order: The
Fountain, The Lion in Winter, Elf,
Singing in the Rain, Amelie and
The Cutting Edge
What i love about acting:I love living someone else’s life.
I’m a pretty boring person. I like
playing Scrabble and watch-
ing movies. So playing people
from every walk of life can be a
fascinating challenge. I also love
the collaborative aspect of film,
theatre and television. Getting all
kinds of different artists together
to create something greater
than ourselves is inspiring and,
frankly, a lot of fun.
favorite UnT memories: Hanging out with friends,
rehearsing shows, Fry Street Fair,
writing papers in the Willis lab at
4 a.m., drinking coffee outside
the RTVF building
My ultimate goal: To make my income entirely from
acting work. And to make a very
comfortable income through
acting work. Oh, OK, and to win
an Oscar for Best Actress. Yeah.
That’s my wildest dream come
true.
visit northtexan.unt.edu to read more of Brock’s
answers.
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F O U n D E R’ S CircleM
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When Ernie Kuehne (’66) came to the university on a track scholarship, he knew it was taking him away from his family’s cotton farm in the hardscrabble town of Otto, where he grew up.
But he didn’t know then just how different his world would become. Kuehne graduated with a political science degree, earned his law degree and became a success in the oil and banking industry. Now the managing partner of Kuehne and Shilling LLC law firm, he is at the top of the ladder.
But he has never forgotten the athletics program or the university that helped him take that first step. He returned the favor by donating $1 million to UNT’s athletics program to support student-athletes and athletic facilities, including the new football stadium at Mean Green Village that will open this fall. And he’s hoping that his gift will help other UNT students blaze their own trail to success.
New Founder’s Circle recognizes donors whose
contributions have a profound impact
President V. Lane Rawlins speaks with members of UNT’s Founder’s Circle, an elite group of donors whose lifetime giving contributions to the university range from $250,000 to beyond $1 million.
The gift of opportunity
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R e c o g n i t i o n S o c i e t i e S
• T H E M C C O N N E L L S O C I E T Y The McConnell Society recognizes those with contributions of $1 million or more.
Horace and Euline Brock Ruth and Don A. Buchholz Kristin Farmer-Totah Alan and Shirley Goldfield Ernest Kuehne The Frank W. & Sue Mayborn Foundation James McIngvale Gayle and Ken Murphy Ken and Ann Newman Robert A. Nickell G. Brint and Amanda Ryan John and Lindy Rydman C. Dan and Le’Nore Smith Ed and Nikki Smith Mrs. Virginia Street Charn Uswachoke Paul Voertman and Richard Ardoin Dr. Leroy and Wanda S. Whitaker Margot and Bill Winspear
• T H E M A T T H E W S S O C I E T Y The Matthews Society recognizes those with contributions between $500,000 and $999,999.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Baird Mrs. Nancy Dedman Ms. Nancy Hamon Dr. Francis Kostohryz Dr. Peggy Ladenberger and Mr. Charles Ladenberger Mr. and Mrs. Don Lovelace Dr. Charles Onstead Mr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pinkerton CDR and Mrs. Nicholas D. Ricco Sr. USN (Ret.) Dr. and Mrs. Robert Toulouse
• T H E K E N D A L L S O C I E T Y The Kendall Society recognizes those with contributions between $250,000 and $499,999.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bancroft Mercedes and Sid Bass Charlie Bond Janet and Frank Bracken Elinore and Benjamin Brown Dan Cathy Mack and Linda Christian Col. Guy Cloud Anne Fields Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gomez Tony and Toppy Goolsby Bob and Fran Kimmel Frank A. Kubica Elaine Mathes George and Nesha Morey Dr. Charldean Newell Mr. Charles Nobles Sara Sue and Don Potts Phyllis and Bobby Ray Marc A. Smugar Dr. Frank C. SpencerJohn and Bonnie Strauss Foundation Dr. Fran VickRoss W. Vick Jr.
To learn more, contact Kim Wendt, director of donor relations, at 940-565-3689 or [email protected].
“North Texas and the athletic program gave a young man an opportu-nity to grow and create a path for his future. The impact it had on my life and later successes is immeasurable and I am humbled and honored that I can give back to help others do the same,” says Kuehne, whose three children became well-known golfers. “I challenge every North Texas alum and fan to step up and help move this university forward.”
Kuehne’s gift landed him in the university’s newly created Founder’s Circle, which recognizes those whose generous contributions of $250,000 or more are game-changers for UNT and its students.
The Founder’s Circle consists of three recognition societies — the McConnell Society, the Matthews Society and the Kendall Society. Each is named for a former president who left a deep and lasting impact on UNT, just as the supporters have who are part of the Founder’s Circle.
Kuehne’s gift earned him a spot in the McConnell Society, the most elite of the recognition societies. And it places him in great company, with fellow supporters whose gifts have supported landmark programs, buildings and initiatives.
“Anyone who supports UNT and our students is changing lives by giving the gift of opportunity, regardless of the amount of the gift or where the money is directed,” says Lisa Baronio, vice presi-dent for advancement and director of development of the UNT Foundation. “But we created the Founder’s Circle to recognize those whose contributions help opportunity knock much louder and much longer for our students.”
UNT Athletic Director Rick Villar-real says Kuehne’s gift will help the Mean Green continue aiming for the top.
“Gifts like these are validation of the progress we have made and the achieve-ments that are possible,” Villarreal says. “Ernie’s gift is making it possible for athletics to compete on a national basis and I hope others will follow his lead, whether to athletics or one of the many other outstanding areas of our university.”
President V. Lane Rawlins says the contributions of Founder’s Circle members signal to others that UNT is a place of excellence, worthy of the highest of investments.
“These gifts enable us to do what we do best: provide the best possible education to our students,” he says. “And with more gifts like these, we’ll become a university offering the best undergradu-ate education in Texas as well as a first-rate research university.”
Being part of the Founder’s Circle also encourages members to stay connected to the university through annual exclusive events such as the President’s Council Reception and the biennial Founder’s Circle dinner.
At these events, supporters often have the opportunity to meet UNT students and hear firsthand about the impact they are making on their lives.
“Our donors direct their gifts to areas that are meaningful to them, and our Founder’s Circle members are no exception. We work with them to provide the most impactful gift to the university, while providing a very gratifying gift experience to them personally,” Baronio says. “This gifting opportunity is very meaningful to the donors as well as to the recipients of their generosity.”
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ADVOCATE FOR DIVERSITY
Carol West (’71), ordained minister and counselor,
earned a humanitarian award for helping to bring a community together.
Learn more about West and the work
she is doing at northtexan.unt.edu/online.
CAROL WEST (’71) FELT HER CALLING IN LIFE was to help people, and she has been doing just that for nearly three decades as a minister, a teacher, a suicide prevention counselor and the first AIDS chaplain funded by a grant from the state of Texas. She says UNT offered her camaraderie at a time when there was less sensitivity to diversity. Now, as pastor of Celebration Community Church in Fort Worth, she heads one of the most recognized churches in the area serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. She received the 2010 Kuchling Humanitarian Award for her work.
“North Texas showed me that everybody wasn’t alike,” she says. “You learned to work with people.”
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EAgLES’ Nest
Sheva Roquemore Wilkins (’96) represented unt at a College Fair in South Korea. She teaches at a depart-ment of defense school at Yongsan Army Base in Seoul.
1964
M.L. dan-iels (ed.d.), austin ::
retired after
teaching music
at Abilene Christian Univer-
sity for 34 years. In Austin, he
continues to write music and play
golf. He has more than 100 music
publications and is the composer-
in-residence of the Williamson
County Symphony Orchestra.
He gives much of the credit to his
composition study with Samuel adler.
Walter L. ellis (’66 M.A.),
pearland :: retired after 33
years as an Episcopal priest,
serving churches in Glade water,
Longview, League City and Hous-
ton. He previously worked in the
Lunar Receiving Labora tory at
the Johnson Space Center in the
Apollo and Skylab programs. He
earned his Master of Divinity
from Virginia Theological Semi-
nary and his Doctor of Minis-
try from Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary. He and his
wife, Susan, enjoy being near their
children and grandchildren.
Charlie d. Nichols (M.a., ’69 ed.d.), Mansfield :: worked for
35 years in education as a high
school teacher, coach, superin-
tendent and professor. He retired
from Texas Wesleyan University
in 1995, having served as profes-
sor of education, chair of second-
ary education and director of
international summer programs
in Mexico and Costa Rica. He still
actively manages private invest-
ment company Southwest Invest-
ments Ltd. and enjoys creative
writing and watching his small
stable of race horses run. He and
his wife, Arline, have been married
for 50 years.
1965
robert B. Foard (’71 M.S.), Fort Worth ::
taught speech
and drama for 25 years and was a
director at the Abilene Commu-
nity Theatre and the Hill Country
Arts Foundation Point Theatre.
He earned certification in English
as a second language and taught
English for 12 years in Saudi
Arabia, also earning doctoral
certification in voice and diction.
He is the author of two Christian
books. As a student, he was presi-
dent of the University Players and
the Sigma Gamma Cast of Alpha
Psi Omega.
1966
diane Shank, Shawnee, okla. ::
retired from
Oklahoma Baptist University in
2010 as a technical services
librarian, after joining the OBU
faculty as a librarian in 1969. She
is a member of the Oklahoma
Library Association and the
Southern Baptist Librarians
Association. Before joining OBU,
she worked as a children’s
librarian at the Dallas Public
Library.
1968
Mike McCurley, dallas ::
founder
and partner
of family law firm McCurley
Orsinger McCurley Nelson &
Downing LLP, was named one of
the country’s Top 100 Attorneys
in Worth magazine. He also was
named to the 2010 Texas Super Lawyers list and was singled out
as one of the state’s best family
lawyers in Texas Lawyer’s Go-To
Guide.
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1970
paul hammons, Hooks ::
received a patent on his invention,
the Flush Meister, that saves 1 to
3 gallons of water every time a
flapper-controlled toilet is flushed.
His interest in water-saving
devices began in 1980, when a
state commission was formed to
look for ways to meet the future
water needs of Texans.
1972
g.W. adams, hurst ::
program manager for the forensic
services unit of the Center for
Human Identification at the
UNT Health Science Center,
spoke in Columbus, Ohio, in
August at the Ride for Their Lives
event. The bicycle ride across the
U.S., hosted by the Surviving
Parents Coalition, raised funds to
advocate for laws and educational
initiatives to protect children from
abduction and abuse.
aaron Bonds, Corpus Christi ::
football, basketball and track and
field coach at Agua Dulce ISD,
received a Texas Heroes Award
from the NAACP in November,
recognizing his outstanding work
in the community as a tutor and
mentor. He also was profiled this
spring in STV, the magazine of
the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes.
Mike Friedman, dallas ::
senior vice president for CB
Richard Ellis, was honored at the
2010 Dallas Hebrew Free Loan
Association 75th Anniversary
Gala in October. He serves on
the UNT Alumni Association
board among many other boards
and has supported charitable
causes for 35 years. Proceeds
from the gala benefited the loan
programs of the association,
which assists Dallas Jewish
community members in
financial need.
Jim hansford (M.M.ed., ’82 ph.d.), Shawnee,
okla. :: Burton Patterson
Professor of Music and director
of bands, retired in July from
Oklahoma Baptist University
after 20 years of service. He has
been the conductor of the
Oklahoma Baptist All-State
Symphonic Band, the OBU
Symphonic Band and the
OBU-Shawnee Community
Orchestra. He stays active as a
guest conductor, clinician and
adjudicator in schools and
churches across the Southwest.
1973
Michael Maddox, duncan-ville :: was appointed platinum
marketing underwriter in the
Dallas Core Service Center of
Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.
He joined Amerisure in 1990
and has been recognized twice
as a finalist for the Market-
ing Underwriter of the Year in
Amerisure’s Champions Through
Excellence program.
Upcoming alumni gatheringsUNT alumni are gathering to network and celebrate – and you can join them. Here’s a sampling of events coming up:
UNT Career Fairs and Workshops: Career fairs offered by the UNT Career Center are free to alumni job seekers. The College of Education Career Fair is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 8 in the UNT Coliseum. Offered in the Alumni Job Search Webinar Series,
noon to 1 p.m. via interactive webinar, are: “Resume Basics” on April 20, “Networking to Enhance Your Job Search” on April 27, “LinkedIN and the Job Search” on May 4 and “Navigating a Career Transition” on May 11. Contact [email protected].
Alumni Awards Dinner: A long-standing university tradition, the UNT Alumni Awards Dinner is an annual event that recognizes the outstanding achievement, service and support of UNT’s alumni and friends. This year’s event begins at 7 p.m. April 15 in the Gateway Center Ballroom. For more information, contact Rob McKinney at [email protected] or 940-565-3162 or Karen Selby at [email protected] or 940-656-3480. Official Ring Presentation Ceremony: Part of UNT tradition, the official class ring and presentation ceremony reminds students of their college success. The spring ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. April 21 in the Gateway Center Ballroom. For more information or to join the UNT Alumni Association, call 940-565-2834 or go to www.untalumni.com.
1975
Larry C. Stevens, (M.S., ’83 ph.d.), Flagstaff,
ariz. :: is a professor of psychol-
ogy at Northern Arizona
Uni ver sity where he has taught
and conducted research for 25
years. He received a three-year
National Science Foundation
grant last year to study the social
psychophysiology of compassion.
He is the coordinator for NAU’s
Research Experiences for
Undergraduates program.
1976
Sparky koerner (M.M.ed.), Texas City :: is in his 27th year
at College of the Mainland,
where he is chair of fine arts and
director of instrumental studies.
He coordinates TMEA High
School All State Jazz Ensemble
auditions and is president of the
Texas Jazz Educators Associa-
tion. He says his time at UNT
prepared him “to carry out the
important message of music
education and especially jazz edu-
cation” over the years.
danny Ward (’77 M.a.), oakton, va. :: did the photog-
raphy and image layout for a
book of consolidated poetry and
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photography images. The Plane of Life collection was published by
Blurb press and featured in a fall
2010 show at the Atrium Gallery
in McLean, Va.
1980
Lendell M. hawley, austin ::
accepted a position as laboratory
manager with Invista S.a.r.l. in La
Porte. Invista produces polymers
and fibers, primarily for nylon,
spandex and polyester applications.
Cynthia roepke-Breeding, (M.ed.), Corpus Christi :: is
leading a Camelot Tour across
England and Scotland this sum-
mer, visiting sites associated with
the legend of King Arthur. She
has written numerous books,
including Camelot’s Destiny, Fate of Camelot and Prelude to Camelot.
1982 Cynthia I. gonzales (’90 M.M.), San Marcos :: is a ten-
ured associate professor of music
theory at Texas State University,
where she is coordinator of theory
and aural skills. She is celebrating
her 15th season with Austin-
based Conspirare, the Grammy-
nominated professional choral
ensemble. In May, she married
Guillermo “Bill” Guajardo Jr. and
says she “had no idea marriage
would be so fun.”
Linda Messick Montez, San antonio :: wrote a book titled Me and the Lord on the Bus (Xlibris).
In the collection of 30 vignettes,
she shares “how God turned her
ordinary bus rides into extraor-
dinary blessings” and encourages
readers to look for him in their
everyday living.
Stephen M. Wolfinbarger (M.M., ’89 d.M.a.), kalama-zoo, Mich. :: professor of music
at Western Michigan University,
received WMU’s 2010-11 Distin-
guished Teaching Award. He has
taught trombone at the university
for more than 30 years. In 2009,
he received an International
Trombone Association Award
honoring his career as a teacher
and mentor.
1984
Mark Mcdaniel (’87 M.p.a.), Tyler :: city manager of Tyler, was
named the Texas Administrator
of the Year by the Texas City
Management Association. He
became Tyler’s city manager in
2009, after serving as city
manager designate for 10 months
and deputy city manager for four
years. He also has worked for the
cities of Corpus Christi, Wood-
way, Lake Jackson and Denton.
Bill robin-son, raleigh, N.C. :: earned
a doctorate in
physics from
North Carolina State University
in May, then joined the physics
faculty there. He continues
composing and giving concerts
locally, especially at Duke.
Friends can contact him at
billrobinsonmusic.com.
Solar punch
When particle accelerator physicist alan Bigelow (’91, ’93 M.S., ’00 Ph.D.) is not smashing atoms, he’s playing guitar with
his eco-rock band Solar Punch to promote solar energy and ecological
responsibility. Bigelow, an associate research scientist at Columbia Uni-
versity, taught UNT’s popular “Science and Technology of Musical Sound”
course as a teaching fellow.
“I learned tools of the trade from extraordinary physics professors,” he
says, “and gigged in local clubs with outstanding UNT musicians.”
Solar Punch’s first studio album of environmental rock released in 2009
featured all-original songs with tailored messages about solar science and
environmental activism. The title, Surya, translates as “sun” in Hindi.
And the sun isn’t only a theme but a method. The band’s equipment is
powered by an off-grid solar power station assembled from portable solar
panels, a charge controller, batteries and a power converter. Bigelow can
charge the station in transit to gigs with a solar panel mounted atop his
Subaru. At each performance, he puts his teaching skills to work, showing
audiences how the gear works and expounding on sustainability.
In early 2009, the band traveled by solar-electric cars across India on a
40-day tour to spotlight climate solutions.
“We negotiated for electrical power at gas stations, hotels and dhabas
(road-side eateries),” says Bigelow (kneeling above), who fondly
remembers repairing a solar lantern “using a multi-meter, spoon and
razor” and discussing solar-induced water-purification techniques
through an interpreter at a town-hall meeting.
With another trip to India in February, a second album due out this year
and plans for a tour of France and the Caribbean, Bigelow hopes to inspire
others to join the cause.
“Music is indeed an international language,” he says.
Visit www.solarpunch.org to learn more about the music and gear.
— Elizabeth Smith
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EAgLES’ Nestdedicated to jazz flutist Herbie
Mann.
1988
amy pippin Mire, Wolfforth ::
is the assistant university archivist
for Texas Tech University after
working 21 years as a full-time
“domestic engineer.” Her husband,
Charles Mire (’88 M.S.), is the
founder and owner of Ultra-Nav
Aviation Inc., providing software
to the international business
aviation market. They have three
children: David, 21; Katy, 18; and
Clemmie, 15.
1991
Lori emerson Conrad, dallas ::
won a Lone
Star Emmy award as co-producer
of the half-hour television special
Rocky Top Therapy: Horses, Healing and Hope. The program
aired on CBS 11 and TXA 21
in December 2009, highlighting
the work of a Keller therapeutic
riding facility.
Cynthia Sisto Wenz, houston :: is executive direc-
tor of The Source for Women
of Houston. She was captain of
UNT’s varsity cheerleading team
and returned to coach the 1995
squad to its first-ever national
championship.
1995
Matt eiser-loh, euless ::
was named
chief market-
ing officer for
Parker College of Chiropractic
in northwest Dallas. Among the
organizations he supports are the
Fort Worth chapter of Habitat
for Humanity, the Hurst-Euless-
Bedford ISD Bedford Heights
Parent-Teacher Association,
Martin United Methodist Church
and the Dallas chapter of the
American Marketing Association.
Betsy Troup, dallas :: joined
a new real estate company,
Nathan Grace Realtors. Friends
can contact her at btroup@
nathan-grace.com.
1996
Chad andrus, aurora, Colo. ::
accepted a position as sports talk
show host on KXDP 87.7 The
Ticket in Denver, hosting from
9 a.m. to noon Monday through
Friday. He called play-by-play for
Turner Sports at the NBA Sum-
mer League games in Las Vegas
in 2010.
Tammy Theis, dallas :: is
owner and creative director of
Wallflower Management, a new
modeling agency. She has been in
the Dallas fashion community
since graduation, when she was
hired by The Dallas Morning News Fashion! Dallas section. She
reported on the 9/11 tragedy
from New York City, where she
had been reporting on fashion. As
a student, she was vice president
of the university’s fashion club,
Fashion Inc. She is a proud Mean
Green supporter and has spoken
at various functions at UNT.
1985
Jim Cavender, huntsville, ala. ::
released To A Planet, the third
CD of original jazz by his group,
Rolling Jazz Revue. It was released
on Startlingly Fresh Records, a
label owned by Jim and his wife,
Terri Smith Cavender (’85, ’92
M.A.). Startlingly Fresh also
released A Cellarfull of Noise, an
alt-country collaboration between
Jim and fellow guitarist-singer-
songwriter Skip Heller. Alumnus
ken Watters plays trumpet and
flugelhorn as a special guest. Jim
wanted his former journalism
professors to know “Cellarfull” is
spelled with a double ‘l’ because
the cover was designed by a
Canadian artist.
Jeffrey Longoria, alpharetta, ga. :: joined
SecureWorks,
an information security services
provider, as vice president of
North America channel sales and
business development. He leads
the channel sales team, partner-
ing with technology firms that
resell SecureWorks’ information
security services to targeted
industries.
1987
Mitchell a. kaplan, provi-dence, r.I. :: who studied jazz at
the university from 1984 to 1987,
published the book Jazz Flute: An In-Depth Study Into Contemporary Jazz Flute Performance (Mel Bay),
Reserve your place in UnT history
Leave your mark on UNT by purchasing a brick paver
engraved with your name that will be placed in the
exterior patio of the new UNT Alumni Pavilion, under
construction at the northeast entrance of the new
multipurpose football stadium. Options start at $100 for a small
paver, which is 4 by 8 inches and holds two lines of text with 16
characters and spaces per line.
For more information, contact the UNT Alumni Association at
940-565-2834 or visit www.untalumni.com.
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1 Several Emerald Eagle Scholars and President V. Lane rawlins
attended this year’s Emerald Ball, which attracted more than
300 guests and raised more than $90,000 for the Emerald Eagle
Scholars program. the program helps academically talented
students with high financial need attend college.
2 Provost Warren Burggren speaks with Johnnie (’71) and Delva
King (’72), who is a member of the UNt Foundation Board. the
scholars program joined forces with the Children’s Defense Fund
– texas Beat the Odds scholarship program to promote higher
education opportunities for deserving young people.
3 UNt’s Jazz repertory Ensemble kept ball-goers dancing.
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EAgLES’ NestLLC as the controller. The
computer services company caters
to small- and medium-sized
businesses in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area.
1999
ashley akers, Fort Worth ::
showed her art work for the
first time at the Bayou City Art
Festival Downtown in Houston
in October. She was selected from
more than 1,000 applicants. Her
current jewelry collection, the
Pebble Series, was inspired by her
work at a garden center.
2000
Stan Weeber (ph.d.), Lake Charles, La. :: attended the
Oxford Roundtable on Social
Justice at Oxford University in
July, where he was a discussant
and presented a paper. He is on
the sociology faculty at McNeese
State University.
2002
damali Johnson Crain (’02), houston :: was married to Sam Crain Iv in 2004 and they now
have two children, Avery, 3, and
Sam V, 1. Damali says the couple
was in a photo in the North Texas Daily about a month into their
relationship. “Thinking about our
time in Denton brings back so
many memories,” she says.
2003
Toyah Nikole hickman Bowman, alvarado :: and
down the Corridor
paul Mcdonnold (M.S.), dal-las :: published The Economics of Ego Surplus: A Novel of Eco-nomic Terrorism (Starving Analyst
Press), described as “part action
novel, part literary novel, part
guidebook to economics.” He is a
freelance nonfiction writer who
has taught economics courses at
UNT, the University of Delaware
and North Lake College in Irving.
1998
Jason Cooper, denver, Colo. ::
leads a new
Denver office
of Stratford
Land, a land investment manage-
ment company, as director of
investments for the Rocky
Mountain region. He previously
was president of Dallas-based
Stratford Realty Capital and
served as vice president with First
Horizon and SouthTrust banks.
david
dollar (M.S., ’03 ph.d.), Fort Worth ::
received the Chancellor’s Award
for Exemplary Teaching for the
Tarrant County College
South east Campus, the highest
teaching honor given to TCC
faculty. He has served as a
chemistry associate professor at
TCC for 11 years and has 25
years of experience in education.
Jennifer kriston gilligan, Frisco :: joined IntegraSys IT
Chemistry CentennialIn 1910, Wallace Newton Masters established UNT’s chemistry department, a program he developed
and served as director for 30 years. A century later, his granddaughter, Catherine Dawson, was among those on campus to greet nearly 200 alumni and friends of the department for the Chemistry Centennial Celebration in October.
Activities throughout the day included a student poster session, a continuous history presentation and a seminar by Frank Carey (’70, ’72 M.S.) of Wharton College, all sponsored by professional chemistry frater-nity Alpha Chi Sigma. At a celebration at Fremaux’s Metropolitan, 100 birthday candles were extinguished by chairs of the department through the years: Leroy Theriot, James Marshall, Ruthanne Thomas, Michael Richmond and William Acree. In addition to Dawson’s greeting, attendees enjoyed a history presentation by Marshall, followed by personal reminiscences from alumni. Leroy Whitaker (’50, ’52 M.S.) ended the evening with a challenge to create a special Chemistry Centennial Fellowship, an endowed fellowship for chemistry students.
Among the attendees were Elaine Truitt (’42), widow of Professor Emeritus Price Truitt (’41, ’42 M.S.), and alumni Bill (’68) and Dee Carrico, son and daughter-in-law of the late “Kit” Carrico (’27), who served as chemistry chair for 26 years following Masters.
Also present was UNT’s first recipient of a doctoral degree in chemistry, Linda Creagh (’62, ’64 M.S., ’67 Ph.D.), the Truitts’ daughter.
To share your memories and read more about the department’s history and the
celebration, including how to order a DVD of the event, visit northtexan.unt.edu.
Chemistry faculty member Diana Mason, left, presents a brick from Masters Hall to Catherine Dawson, granddaughter of W.N. Masters.
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. . . . . . I N T H E / / newsBrandon Bowman celebrated the
birth of their twin boys, Liam
Edward Bowman and Landry
Rivers Bowman, in August. The
twins joined their proud
5-year-old sister Kendal. Toyah’s
sister Misti Skye hickman and parents, Rick Hickman and
Mary Loera hickman (’78),
are proud aunt and grandparents.
emily Callahan (M.J.), Memphis, Tenn. :: was named
chief marketing officer for
ALSAC, the fundraising
organization of St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. She previously
served as senior vice president of
global marketing and networks at
Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Calvin Sexton, dallas :: was
selected for
inclusion on
the Texas Commission on the Arts
Touring Roster with his band
Inner City All-Stars. He is the
bandleader and founding member
of the group, which also was signed
to National Performing Arts
booking agency Betsy Dubois.
debra voth Sicking, Muenster :: was named 2010 Teacher of the
Year for Muenster Elementary
School. She is a fifth-grade
reading and language arts teacher
and the district web master. She
also works in technology support.
She and her husband, Jason, have
four children. She says she is
proud to follow the example set
by the instrumental educators she
had throughout her college career.
2005 van Nguyen and Ngoc Nguy-en (’09), denton :: opened NV
Cupcakes, a gourmet cupcake
shop, in Corinth in October. The
sisters have been exhibitors in the
Dallas Bridal Show, were featured
on Good Morning Texas and have
sponsored several charity runs.
Jordan Smith, denton :: mar-
ried Justin Harmon in July. Jordan
is a research compliance analyst in
the Office of Research Integrity
and Compliance at UNT. Justin is
the marketing project coordinator
at Northstar Bank of Texas. 2007 kellie greenleaf, dallas :: teaches first grade in the Garland
ISD. She was chosen as lead
teacher for the first grade at
Carver Elementary School. 2008 khanh Nguyen, dallas :: fash-
ion designer and founder of label
Nhã Khanh, had work featured
in Against the Grain’s Fashion
for a Passion in 2009 and 2010,
raising money for orphanages and
community outreach. She received
the 2010 Brilliantly You fashion
award from Women That Soar.
2010
grant Watters, amarillo :: is the youth fitness director of the
Amarillo Town Club, part of a
health club chain there. He was
married in October.
➺ The CBS Evening News profiled artist John Bramblitt (’07), who began painting after he lost his sight, in its
American Spirit series March 1. “The future is so open,
and there’s so many things I want to do,” he tells cor-
respondent Don Teague. “It’s brilliant, it’s just the most
brilliant colors and I can’t wait to see it take form, to see
it take shape.”
➺ Music educator Carla Moreno (’97, ’01 M.M.Ed.),
with her “unshakable passion for world music,” was
featured in The Huffington Post Feb. 14. She won a
one-week trip to Jordan last fall through Queen Rania’s
Twisit Jordan contest, a Twitter video contest to promote
cross-cultural exchange.
➺ The work of longtime jazz educator robert Morgan (’63, ’65 M.M.) in shaping musicians was recognized in
The New York Times and in a Houston Chronicle edito-
rial in January. Morgan, the retired director of the jazz
program at Houston’s High School for the Performing
and Visual Arts, was in New York attending concerts by
many of his former students in an event organized by
pianist Jason Moran to celebrate Houston musicians.
The Times notes of the “sophisticated and totally joyous
concerts” that “because the common denominator was
not just a city or a school but also one specific teacher,
you sensed respect. … This wasn’t just another gig.”
UNT alums Billy harper (’65) and Tex allen also
performed.
➺ A T-shirt company
co-owned by business
graduate drew Bowers (’99), right,
was featured on
msn.com after being
named America’s Best
Home-Based Busi-
ness in the “Wackiest” category of StartupNation’s 2010
competition. The company, My God Designs, produces
T-shirts combining unique messages and artwork featur-
ing a fun-loving God.
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F R I E N D S W E ’ L L M I S S
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University Community hershel M. anderson (’55),
Rockport, Pro-
fessor Emeritus
of accounting,
1961-1988, died
Dec. 26. After
serving two tours in the U.S. Armed
Forces, he earned a bachelor’s
degree from North Texas and was
named the outstanding accounting
graduate. He worked for two years
on the audit staff at Arthur Ander-
sen in Dallas. He earned a master’s
degree from the University of Texas
and a doctorate from the University
of Illinois. The author of multiple
articles and books, he co-wrote
Introduction to Taxation, one of the
most widely used textbooks in the
field for 25 years. He and his wife,
elaine austin anderson (’54), spent
many of their retirement years in
Ruidoso, N.M. They worked with
the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico,
building a school and establishing
an orchard.
david Fleming dawson (’47,
’48 M.S.), Den-
ton, mathemat-
ics professor,
1959-1985,
died Feb. 7. He
earned a doctorate from the Univer-
sity of Texas and taught mathemat-
ics there, at George Washington
University and at the University of
Missouri at Columbia before joining
North Texas. He served in the U.S.
Navy from 1951 to 1953. He was a
member of the American Mathemat-
ical Society and published more
than 40 papers on analysis, contin-
ued fractions and infinite series in
various mathematical journals in
the United States and abroad. He
spoke at mathematics meetings all
over the country.
Joseph doster, Southlake,
professor
of psychol-
ogy since 1976,
died Dec. 12.
He was director
of the health psychology program
1930s
Ina Mae renfro Jacobs (’33), Mckinney :: She worked in
the University Book Room and
earned her bachelor’s degree in
elementary education. She was
a member of the Mary Ardens
and the Elementary Council. Her
daughter says she often spoke of
her fond memories of attending
dances and enjoying the Stage
Band. Ina taught in Texas and
New Mexico, retiring in 1977.
Marianne kingsbury hart (’37), harker heights :: She taught for 25 years and
was named teacher of the Year
in Pecos in 1964. She was a
member of Delta Kappa Gamma
and the Association of Retired
Teachers. Her father, Joseph L. kingsbury, history professor
from 1925 to 1948, started the
Historical Collection on campus
and her mother, Mabel kings-bury, became curator after his
death. Marianne spoke at the
dedication of the J.L. Kingsbury/
Troy M. Thomason Library on
campus in 1998. She is survived
by her children, Jean gallinger (’63), richard hart (’69) and
Margaret helm (’70).
1940s
ross T. Collins (’48, ’51 M.S.), kerrville :: He helped
lead the golf team to Lone Star
Conference championships in
1946 and 1947 and also earned
letters in tennis and basketball.
He was inducted into the Athlet-
ics Hall of Fame in 1983. A for-
mer head golf pro, he was named
PGA Golf Professional of the
Year in 1971 and was inducted
into the Texas and Arkansas golf
halls of fame and the PGA of
America Hall of Fame. He also
was in two military halls of fame
for his work as a Navy pilot in
World War II.
Sam houston Bell (’49, ’58 M.ed.), Tyler :: A U.S. Marine
Corps veteran of World War II,
he attended North Texas on an
athletic scholarship. During his
senior year, he was elected captain
of the basketball team and was
the high scorer. He taught and
coached at high schools in
Bellville, Overton, Big Spring and
Tyler and was appointed assistant
principal at Tyler’s Robert E. Lee
High School in 1969. From 1973
to 1990, he was principal of Hub-
bard Middle School.
Ned W. Smith (’49), Tyler :: He attended North Texas on
the G.I. Bill after fighting with
Patton’s Third Army in the Battle
of the Bulge. He was awarded
the Purple Heart and the Bronze
Star with valor as well as other
medals. As a student, he was a lab
assistant for J.k.g. Silvey and
as a taxidermist prepared study
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skins for the biology department.
After graduation, he worked as
chief tester in the oil lab at La
Gloria Oil and Gas Refinery, retir-
ing in 1982. He was married to
Betty ellen daniels (’45) for
66 years.
1950s
Theron J. ‘Tom’ Fouts Jr. (’50, ’52 M.S.), denton :: He
was the son of Fouts Field name-
sake and former athletic director
and coach Theron J. Fouts. A
realtor for 46 years, he worked in
Dallas in the early 1960s before
starting his own real estate busi-
ness in Denton, which today in-
cludes commercial and industrial
real estate, property management
and oil and gas divisions. He and
his wife, the late Shirley Irene prather Fouts, met as students.
He was a veteran of World War
II and a 50-year member of the
Masonic Lodge in Sherman.
robert Miles payne Jr. (’50, ’55 M.M.ed.), Las vegas,
Nev. :: He served in the U.S.
Army from 1951 to 1953 based
in France with the USO. He
served as director of music in
Galveston, Pampa and Dallas
public schools before entering the
insurance business. After his 1992
retirement, he served 10 years as
coordinator of music appreciation
with the Osher Lifelong Learn-
ing Institute at the University of
Nevada.
Bob allen Littlejohn (’51), dallas :: He served in the U.S.
Army from 1952 to 1954. He was
a CPA and began a career at First
National Bank, served in various
executive positions with Centex,
and was CEO of Metro Bank in
Dallas. After a lengthy career in
insurance, oil investments and
banking, he worked at Wells
Fargo Bank until his death.
arthur Lee Buchanan (’57), Washington, d.C. :: After
graduation, he began a career in
interior design in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area. His career was inter-
rupted in 1961 when, following
the sudden death of his father, he
returned to Denton to manage the
family business, the Super Dog
Drive In, until his younger siblings
finished school. He went on to
pursue his profession in Dallas and
Washington, D.C. He was retired
from the Hirshhorn Museum, a
unit of the Smithsonian Institution.
rosemary voltin Cox (’57), Midland :: She volunteered full
time at Coleman High School,
where she received awards includ-
ing Grandparent of the Year. She
was a member of the Kappa Delta
sorority and actively involved with
the local chapter of the Kappa
Delta Alumnae Association.
She also volunteered at Midland
Memorial Hospital and was a
member of the 20th Century
Study Club, Midland Society of
University Women, Petroleum
Industry Wives Association of
Midland and Midland Associa-
tion of Retired School Personnel.
1960s
Wallace dayne Cook (’60), Stephenville :: He served in the
U.S. Army and was a longtime
insurance agent before retiring
in 2005. He and his wife owned
Cook Insurance in De Leon and
he served a term on the board
of the Independent Insurance
Agents of Texas.
Joann Sanneman ashby (’61), Longmont, Colo. :: She
served in the Woman’s Army
Corps before earning her degree
in education and was an elemen-
tary teacher in Texas, Minnesota
and San Diego, Calif. She earned
a master’s in special education
and became an expert in the field,
lecturing with Delta Kappa
Gamma and providing the initial
curricula to support autistic
children in the San Diego County
education system. She was a
founder of the Explorers, a women
education support group. She also
was a principal before retiring.
for 25 years. He received a doctor-
ate from Emory University and
taught at the University of Missouri
and the University of Georgia before
joining North Texas. He provided
the leadership that resulted in the
initial national accreditations for
the clinical and health psychology
programs and was involved in find-
ing financial support for students
completing graduate studies. He
researched cognitive and interper-
sonal processes in health, illness
and recovering roles.
arthur Joseph gionet, Denton,
Professor Emer-
itus of French,
1961-1995, died
Jan. 16. After
serving in the
U.S. Air Force from 1948 to 1952, he
completed his bachelor’s degree at
St. Thomas University and earned
master’s and doctoral degrees from
the University of Texas. He served
as advisor for UNT’s cooperative
education exchange program with
France and was a translator and
interpreter, working with the French
consul. In 1987, he was named one
of the university’s first Regents Pro-
fessors, selected for distinguished
teaching and research. He was
knighted by the French government
for his promotion of French, the
highest honor bestowed upon a
non-French citizen.
e.v. ‘vaughn’ huffstutler, Denton, Profes-
sor Emeritus
of education,
1968-1981,
died Feb 22. He
developed the doctoral program for
school superintendents. An expert
on administration, he created and
revised policies for many Texas
school districts from 1969 into the
1980s. He began his career at age
19 in a two-teacher school in Carter
and was superintendent in Millsap,
Glen Rose, Clarksville, Belton, Port
Lavaca, Texarkana and Beaumont.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from
Daniel Baker University, a master’s
from Texas Christian University and
a doctorate from Baylor University.
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Link Marks (’62), Lovington, N.M. :: After graduation, he
moved to New Mexico to start an
oilfield engine servicing company
with his father. He expanded to
operating oil and gas wells and
drilling rigs. He was a member
of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Link earned his pilot’s license in
1968 and logged 7,500 hours in
single and multi-engine aircraft.
He also was a lifelong sportsman
and collector.
Judith Bishop Ward Taubinger (’63), roseville, Calif. :: She earned her degree in educa-
tion and was a member of the
Chi Omega sorority. She was a
military wife for more than 23
years, who traveled and enjoyed
spending time with her family.
She was an active member of the
Roseville and Folsom quilting
guilds. Survivors include her hus-
band of 50 years, Col. richard C. Taubinger (’62).
Bevard eugene hargrave (’64), richardson :: After
graduating, he earned an M.A.
and M.B.A. from Michigan State
University. He served 21 years
in the Supply Corps of the U.S.
Navy, retiring as a commander,
and finished his working days as
a computer information systems
instructor at Tarleton State Uni-
versity. Survivors include his wife,
Sarah B. hargrave (’65).
Jack vedder Jones (’64, ’66 M.B.a.), Fort Worth :: He spent most of his life in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area and was
a Burger King franchisee for 36
years. He was president of the
Young Presidents Organization
and the Texas Restaurant
Association of Fort Worth.
Sam William Morphew (’65 M.S.), helotes :: He earned his
master’s degree in physics and was
an officer in the student section of
the American Institute of Physics.
He earned his doctorate from
Auburn.
William Beryl West (’65 M.ed., ’69 ed.d.), Murfrees-boro, Tenn. :: He was a Profes-
sor Emeritus at MiddleTennessee
State University and had stayed
active with the psychology depart-
ment there. A preacher for 60
years, he served as pastor of Mt.
Carmel Baptist Church in Mur-
freesboro from 2001 to 2010. He
was a cancer survivor since 1996
and had published works pertain-
ing to that, as well as textbooks and
articles dealing with education and
psychology. He traveled exten-
sively across the United States and
China.
allison Clinton ‘Clint’ ed-mundson Jr. (’67), rockport ::
He earned his B.B.A. in insurance
and was a member of Delta Sigma
Pi business fraternity. Following a
career in insurance in the Dallas-
Fort Worth area, he retired to the
South Texas coast. Survivors in-
clude his wife, ernestine ‘ernie’ Trietsch edmundson (’69).
1970s
Smith Blair III (’70), hono-lulu, hawaii :: He lived part of
the year in Honolulu and at the
time of his death was at his wife’s
home in Pattaya, Thailand. He
spent his post-college career in the
U.S. Army, Navy and Merchant
Marine. He also earned an M.B.A.
from the University of Hawaii.
Bruce earl haliburton (’76), Washington, d.C. :: After
graduation, he worked for U.S.
Rep. Bob Poage, Speaker of the
House Tip O’Neill and Congress-
man Thomas Foley in Washington.
He earned a Master of Divinity
at Virginia Union University and
completed his doctorate in the
School of Divinity at Howard Uni-
versity. He had served as a church
youth minister, a substance abuse
counselor and a teacher at Wash-
ington Baptist Seminary. In 2009,
he established LifeLine Ministries.
Survivors include his brother,
William haliburton (’05).
karl richard ‘dick’ Johans-son, Denton,
professor of
microbiology,
1973-1986,
died Jan. 19.
He was chair of the Department of
Biological Sciences from 1973 to
1982. He earned an undergradu-
ate degree in microbiology, a
master’s in veterinary science and
a doctorate in microbiology from
the University of Wisconsin. He
served as an officer in the U.S.
Navy Reserve aboard the U.S.S.
Cleveland in World War II. He
also taught at the University of
California-Davis, the University of
Minnesota, the California Institute
of Technology and the Univer-
sity of Texas Medical School and
worked at the National Institutes
of Health and the Wistar Institute
in Philadelphia.
Frank M. rachel, Denton,
Professor
Emeritus of
management,
1962-2005,
died Dec. 31. He earned a bache-
lor’s degree from Oklahoma State
University and his master’s and
doctorate from the University of
Illinois. He wrote books on office
and administrative management,
business systems and strategic
compensation management and
published numerous articles in
his field. He was named a Regents
Professor in 1989. He worked in
managerial positions for South-
western Bell before joining the
university.
Francis Stroup (’29), DeKalb, Ill.,
composer of
“Fight, North
Texas,” died
Dec. 1 at 101.
He wrote the
fight song in 1939 as an entry in a
contest for a new marching song.
As a student, he was a member of
the basketball team, played football
and was a swimmer and diver. He
was inducted into the UNT Athletics
Hall of Fame in 1987. He served in
the U.S. Army Air Corps and earned
his master’s and doctorate from the
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Mary ann Tate grundborg (’77 M.S.), arlington, va. :: She was librarian at the Academy
of the Holy Cross in Kensington,
Md. She was a member of Alpha
Delta Pi sorority and was the
regent of Thomas Nelson Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
daniel k. Marmion (’78, ’85 M.S.), granger, Ind. :: He was
associate director for the informa-
tion systems and access division at
the University of Notre Dame for
the past 10 years. He previously
worked at Western Michigan
University, Oklahoma State
University, AMIGOS, Southern
Methodist University and UNT.
He was editor of Information Tech-nology and Libraries for five years
and a frequent speaker at regional,
national and international library
conferences.
1980s
rowell ‘rowdy’ Cheatham Stanton Jr. (’81 M.S.), Carrollton :: He served in the
U.S. Army Reserve while earning
his bachelor’s degree from the
University of Georgia. He was a
CPA, specializing in tax account-
ing from 1982 until his 2007
retirement. He enjoyed sports and
summer vacations on the beach
with his family.
Mark Wendell hutchison (’83), kennesaw, ga. :: He
was the creative force behind
Light Image and the Highlands
Photographic Workshop. He
enjoyed outdoor photography and
received many photography ac-
colades, including Fuji and Kodak
specialty awards. He also enjoyed
teaching and at his death was
enrolled in Reformed Theological
Seminary pursuing a master’s in
religion.
Marc anthony Madore (’86, ’88 M.p.a.), Waco :: He was
an emergency management sys-
tem analyst for Argonne National
Lab.
Thomas robert austin (’89, ’91 M.S.), Seattle, Wash. :: He held a variety of jobs until
deciding to become a librarian and
specialize in law. He began his
library career at the Dallas firm
of Hughes & Luce as a gradu-
ate student and was hired as an
assistant law librarian. In 1995,
he became library manager for the
firm’s Texas offices and stayed on
through its absorption by K&L
Gates until his death. His family
says he was a world-class amateur
chef and sports fan who relished
rock and roll, Italian loafers and
the Denton Record-Chronicle police
blotter.
1990s
Jennifer Lee Mullin Wright (’99, ’03 M.B.a.), Lake Jackson :: She taught business
and computer classes at Grand
Prairie High School, then at Mary
Grimes School in Farmers Branch
before moving to Lake Jackson.
She taught economics at Angleton
High School for three years. An
avid runner, she completed seven
full marathons and also enjoyed
reading, traveling, beachcombing
and crafts.
2000s
Wesley dale Slinkard (’00), Cleburne :: He attended
Grandview schools and was a
member of the National Honor
Society, graduating in 1993. He
was employed in his family’s
Cleburne saddle shop until he
graduated from UNT, earning a
B.B.A. in decision sciences.
Cheryl Marie Strittmat-ter (’05), Fort Worth :: She
graduated from Amon Carter’s
Riverside High School in 1999
and earned her B.F.A. from UNT.
She worked at Belk Department
Store in Weatherford as a shoe
specialist. Memorials may be
made to the UNT Alumni
Association.
University of Southern California.
At Northern Illinois University, he
wrote the words to the fight song
and was the first swimming and div-
ing coach. His teams won 13 NCAA
championships. After retiring as a
professor of physical education, he
continued to enjoy composing and
playing music. His mother, Mina
gist Stroup, and brother, Malcolm
Stroup, also were alumni.
a.M. ‘Monk’ Willis, Longview,
former regent
for whom
Willis Library
was named,
died Jan. 14.
He served on the Board of Regents
from 1965 to 1983, including 10
years as chair. Willis was a graduate
of Washington and Lee University
and the Harvard Business School.
He was a lieutenant commander in
the U.S. Navy and had served as
an advisor to President Lyndon B.
Johnson. He operated an insurance
business in Longview before joining
the staff of U.S. Rep. Ray Roberts
in 1972. In 1976, he was appointed
staff director of the U.S. House of
Representatives Veterans’ Affairs
Committee, retiring in 1983. Memo-
rials may be made to the A.M. Willis
Jr. Scholarship at UNT.
Memorials Send memorials to honor UNT
alumni and friends, made pay-
able to the UNT Foundation, to
the University of North Texas,
Division of Advancement, 1155
Union Circle #311250, Denton,
Texas 76203-5017. Indicate
on your check the name of the
memorial fund or area you wish
to support. Make secure gifts
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JuST THE BEST
ATTENDING NORTH TEXAS in the early 1930s was one of the highlights of my life. Growing up in Blue Grove near Wichita Falls, I was always interested in history, and I knew from an early age I wanted to be a teacher. I began my studies in the fall of 1933 at North Texas, because it was one of the highest recommended colleges in the state.
I am the oldest of four children from a family of stock farmers and ranchers. In 1933, the Great Depression was going on and money was very tight. I lived at the Beville House, a girls’ rooming house on Oak Street. There were two rooms downstairs and four rooms upstairs, with two girls in each room. To save money, the girls brought food from home. I remember bringing cooked ham, canned fruit and different vegetables raised on our farm. We all cooked our meals together, and the girls were like family.
One of my favorite places on campus was the library. I spent many hours there reading about history and geography. I loved learning about other parts of the world. I worked very hard to make good grades, and it paid off as I was asked to be a member of the Historical Society. My favorite teacher was Dr. L.W. Newton, head of the history department. He inspired me even more to be a teacher.
My father would come and pick me up in the summer time and take me home, but during the holidays I often rode home with a boy who lived near our farm. I rode in the rumble seat in the
back of his car. It was so much fun to make the trip back home this way.
But because there always seemed to be so many interesting things to do around campus, I hardly ever wanted to go home. Many times I would walk to downtown Denton to see the movies, sometimes even in the snow. I always took advantage of my activity card that came with the school tuition. It gave me access to all of the fine arts programs.
One of my favorite memories was seeing Fred Astaire in a movie that was shown in the auditorium. I can still see him up there on that stage dancing away. He was so graceful and light on his feet. I have always loved music. My mother played the piano and my father played the French harp. When my family could afford it, I took piano lessons.
In 1935, my family did not have enough money to send me back to school. I stayed home for a year and helped my dad on the farm. This was a very hard time for everyone. The bank went broke in Henrietta, the closest larger town. We
all survived this difficult time and became stronger people because of it. We learned to appreciate the little things in life.
When I was able to return to school in 1936 and complete my studies, I was so happy to see the campus with all the pretty trees again. I am now 96 years old and I still wear my senior ring on my right hand. The date has been worn smooth because I have worn it all these years. I think North Texas has always had many advantages to offer its students. It is just the best. Tommie Phillips Harris (’37) earned a bachelor’s degree in history and taught in rural schools in Burkburnett and Pecos until she retired in 1980. She stressed the value of education to her two daughters, who both became teachers. She also has one grand-daughter and one great-grandson. She has lived in Kermit since 1946, moving there with her husband to raise a family and work in the oil fields. She says keeping active and being interested in the world around you is the secret to staying young at heart.
by Tommie Phillips Harris (’37)
The Mean green men’s basket-ball team advanced to its second straight Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship final in March after taking down Western kentucky 81-62 in the semifinal. The University of arkansas at Little rock won the final 64-63 with a last-second three-pointer in a game that featured 17 lead changes, ending UNT’s hopes for a second straight NCaa berth. The Mean green finished the year 22-11, its fifth consecutive 20-win season. pictured is UNT senior Josh White, who was named to the all-Tournament Team along with Tristan Thompson and george odufuwa.
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