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Design by Mike Rhodes From the President Cover photo by Fred Gaylor CadenceCARDINAL DEPARTMENTS As we approach the holidays, and in particular as we reflect on 4 On campus 37 Class notes The Staff Adding alternative certification . . . teachers Reunion announcements . . . save the date our thankfulness for the blessings of life and liberty, we must also go exploring . . . saving a life in simulation Cardinal Cadence is published by the Division of University 34 Athletics be thankful for the opportunities found in education. Advancement, Lamar University, a member of The Texas 12 Dreambuilders Cross country Cards capture We have seen a steady rise in our six-year graduation rate, State University System and an affirmative action, equal Scholarship generosity helps students achieve dreams championship . . . basketball preview opportunity educational institution. up 14 percent, the result of high-quality students, better student 26 Arts & Culture 50 Report on Giving , Executive Editor, Director of Public Relations Brian Sattler Lien named museum director . . . student films Alumni loyalty is vital to success . . . charitable services and a strong academic environment. Cynthia Hicks ’89, ’93, Editor, Publication Specialist honored . . . choir camp flourishes . . . NEA conference giving opportunity extended attracts leaders . . . Literary Lamar We are thankful, too, for the support of our wonderful alumni and friends. Recently, we Larry Acker, Assistant Director, Writer had cause for celebration with the wonderful gift of $5 million by Lamar alum Phillip M. Beth Gallaspy, Marketing Specialist, Writer Louise Wood, Media Specialist, Writer FEATURES Drayer and his wife, Karen, to the Department of Electrical Engineering. An ardent supporter Contributors: and advisory council chairman, Phil has an exciting vision for the future of the college and the Daucy Crizer, Laura Ibarra, Andrew Lacey, Sarah Parker, 14 Historical passion role it can play in Southeast Texas and beyond. Thank you, Phil and Karen, for your support. Crystal Rawls, Amanda Rowell, writing Thompson trades corporate America for life of scholar Karen Almond, Chris Castillo, Michelle Cate, Scott Eslinger, Lamar’s Connect-ED emergency notification system got its first real-world use when Laura Ibarra, Nader Khouri, John Lobretta, Jabari Lockett, Art in the Amazon David Pellerin, Michael Stravato, Rohn Wenner, photography 16 Hurricane Humberto struck Southeast Texas. The system is capable of contacting thou- Douglass Norvell ’64 develops Peruvian art institute sands of faculty, staff and students in minutes with important messages and instructions, but Circulation includes 54,000 copies distributed to alumni, 14 faculty, staff and friends of Lamar University. If you have 20 Legends of Southeast Texas only if the right numbers are in the system. Please sign up if you have not already done so. received more than one copy of this publication, please Leaders back scholarships to achieve excellence let us know. (Step-by-step instructions for updating contact information in myLAMAR can be found at and growth Lamar.edu/connected.) Changes of address may be sent to: University Advancement, 46 24 Three honored as Distinguished Alumni We welcomed several hundred new Cardinals in the Academic Partnership program. P.O. Box 10011, Beaumont, Texas 77710, or by Randy Best ’67, Clara Brown Cooper ’89 and email: [email protected] These certified teachers, in public school districts across the state, are embarking on a path to a Charles Cutler ’61 stand out master’s degree in educational leadership through an innovative program that blends Lamar’s Division of University Advancement Camille Mouton, Vice President 30 Empowering potential Phil Drayer ’67 takes engineering to new heights quality curriculum and instructors with high-tech delivery and support. Janice Trammell ’85, ’93, Director of Development 16 I am humbled each year when I see the support students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni Loraine Thibodeaux, Director of University Reception Center P.O. Box 10011 46 Taking care of Big D business and friends give Lamar University. Your generosity does so much to help students achieve an Beaumont, Texas 77710 Mary Suhm ’68 keeps things smooth as city manager (409) 880-8419 or fax (409) 880-8409 outstanding education. That is truly something for which to be thankful! email: [email protected] 48 Destined for a healthy partnership Carol Lavender ’79 and Derenda Pete ’79 focus With Cardinal Pride, Lamar University Alumni Office When visiting campus, you’re invited to stop by the on patients Alumni Office at the John Gray Center, Building B, 855 Florida, Suite 102. 58 58 Partnering for power Lamar set to tackle hydrogen challenges James M. Simmons Juan Zabala, Executive Director of Alumni Affairs and President Advancement Services 60 The building of a champion Lamar University LU Alumni Office 30 Lady Cards smash all comers for championship P.O. Box 10005 LAGNIAPPE Beaumont, Texas 77710 (409) 880-8921, or (800) 298-4839 19 Cardinal Views Email: [email protected] www.lamar.edu/alumni 33 Homecoming 2008

THE TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Lamar University Foundation BOARD OF REGENTS Janice Trammell, Executive Director Lamar University Foundation Charles Matthews, Chancellor • Austin P.O. Box 11500 Beaumont, Texas 77710 Bernard C. Francis, Chairman • Addison (409) 880-2117 Email: [email protected] Trisha S. Pollard, Vice Chairman • Bellaire John E. Dudley • Comanche 48 Dora G. Alcalá • Del Rio Dionicio “Don” Flores • El Paso On the cover: Electrical engineering seniors Luis Cardinal Cadence (USPS 017-254) is published triannually Espinoza, Hien Nguyen and Erin Tade take a closer Charlie Amato • San Antonio Michael Truncale • Beaumont by Lamar University, Division of University Advancement, look at a computer-controlled circuit board mill in the Ron Blatchley • Bryan Greg Wilkinson • Plano 855 E. Florida, Beaumont, Texas 77705. Periodicals postage Rapid Prototyping Facility of the newly named Phillip paid at Beaumont, TX, and additional mailing offices. M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering.

60 2 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 3 on campus on campus New regents Enrollment moves upward appointed Alternative certification option added Enrollment climbed 4.8 percent above last Texas Gov. Rick Perry Baytown on Saturdays for those who are interested and qualify. fall’s enrollment of 9,867 students, slightly announced Sept. 24 the Requirements include a bachelor’s degree from an accred- below the pre-Hurricane Rita headcount of appointment of three ited university in an academic area appropriate for certification, 10,595 students in the fall of 2005. Fall 2007 regents to The Texas State a minimum grade point average of 2.5, a minimum number of welcomed 10,379 students to campus. University System to fill hours in a content area required for state certification, and The total semester credit hours students the expired terms of passing scores on the TExES content area examination and are enrolled in has risen 2.3 percent to Chairman Kent Adams ’78 basic skills test. 115,178 hours from last fall’s total of of Beaumont, Regent Alan Participants can begin teaching with probationary Texas 111,739 hours. Dreeben of San Antonio certification and will receive mentoring for the first year of “This headcount almost returns Lamar to pre-Hurricane Rita levels and Regent Ken Luce teaching. Other benefits include receiving credit hours that and reflects the fruits of several enrollment rebuilding initiatives,” said of Irving. may be applied toward a master’s degree in elementary or Kevin Smith, senior associate provost. “We are very pleased. It is the The new regent from secondary education, as well as successfully completing the result of a lot of hard work. We expect the momentum to continue into LULA HENRY Beaumont is Michael BRIAN SATTLER probationary period in one year and passing the appropriate the spring semester and into the future.” Truncale, a senior partner Lamar University, in partnership with Lee College in Baytown, is state certification test to become fully certified at the end of the year. Enrollment rebuilding initiatives include new distance-education at Orgain, Bell and Tucker, offering the PACeR (Post-baccalaureate Alternative Certification Information about the program is available by calling Lula Henry, sites in Baytown and Lumberton, more online courses and degrees, L.L.P. He is past president Route) for individuals who have earned bachelor’s degrees and want associate professor and director of the alternative certification additional scholarships, new degree programs and newly constructed of the Jefferson County to become teachers. Classes will be offered at San Jacinto Mall in program, (409) 880-8902. recreation, dining and residential facilities. Bar Association and fellow MICHAEL TRUNCALE at the Texas Bar BRIAN SATTLER Foundation. Truncale is a member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and the Senate bill caps dropped courses American Bar Association. He received a bachelor’s degree from Political Lamar University, a master of business administration from the This fall, new undergraduate students in Texas colleges and univer- scientist University of North Texas, Denton, and a law degree from Southern sities saw a cap assigned to the number of courses they may drop. Methodist University School of Law. His term expires Feb. 1, 2013. The 80th Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 1231 limiting to gives Also appointed are Charlie Amato of San Antonio, co-owner six the number of courses an institution of higher learning may keynote and chairman of Southwest Business Corporation, and Ron allow an undergraduate student to drop, including any courses a Blatchley of Bryan, co-owner of BMB Homes, a residential Beaumont native transfer student has dropped at another university. construction company. Darren Davis SB1231 affects any student enrolled as a first-time freshman at The Texas State University System is the oldest multi-campus ’88, professor of Lamar University and all other Texas universities and colleges, system in Texas and plays a critical role in the educational and political science beginning with the fall 2007 semester. The coordinating board economic development of this state. A nine-member board of at the University defines a “dropped course” as a course an undergraduate student at regents appointed by the governor provides governance. In addition, of Notre Dame, an institution of higher education has enrolled in for credit but did SARAH PARKER a nonvoting student regent is appointed annually to the board. was keynote not complete. New news for communication students speaker for Lamar’s summer After a quarter century, the Department of Communication is making commencement DARREN DAVIS news of its own by moving into new quarters. Aug. 18. ROHN WENNER After the construction of Lamar’s state-of-the-art Dining Hall was Davis is nationally recognized for his research on Connecting in an emergency complete, the former dining hall was remodeled to house the communica- political tolerance, the support of democratic values, Lamar University has contracted with Connect-ED, by the NTI Group Inc., to provide tion department as well as offices for the Department of General Studies subtle racism and the concern for social desirability. His a state-of-the-art, web-based emergency notification system. The system will allow the and the Services for Students with Disabilities. The building, which has recent book, Negative Liberty: Public Opinion and the university to contact faculty, staff and students quickly with news not yet been named, is on East Virginia, behind the Sheila Umphrey Terrorist Attacks on America, details how perceptions of and information in the event of an emergency. Recreational Sports Center and across from the new Dining Hall. threat and anxiety shape political attitudes and, ultimately, The Connect-ED system is capable of contacting individuals The building has five classrooms dedicated to the communication citizens’ support for democracy. on cellular, home or office phones, PDAs, voice mail, and by text department, one of which has theater-style seating. Another is a double During commencement, Lamar conferred 349 message, e-mail and TTY/TTD. Through the Connect-ED system, classroom with a sliding divider and seven interview rooms. It also has a degrees, including 10 doctorates, 130 master’s degrees and Lamar can contact thousands in minutes. The university administra- Macintosh studio classroom and two computer labs. Each classroom is 209 bachelor’s degrees. Graduates hail from eight coun- tion began exploring ways to boost its ability to quickly reach equipped with a flat-panel LCD TV and projection capabilities. In tries, seven states outside Texas and 44 cities in Texas. faculty, staff and students following the tragic shooting at Virginia addition to the classrooms and the computer labs, the building has seven Tech in April and in the face of weather emergencies. editing rooms, each with a computer, and a student lounge.

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Teachers go exploring Saving a life in K-12 teachers met in June for the Teaching Environmental Science simulation Institute (TESI) to reinforce the message to “teach locally, think Three high school students went into globally” in areas of study from waste disposal to water and air action, trying to breathe life into a new- quality to conservation of natural habitats. born baby in the birthing lab. “Since 1996, nearly 200 teachers have completed the program Ashley Joseph held the baby’s at Lamar,” said program director James Westgate, professor of earth head and told nearby Sharlie Johnson and space sciences at Lamar University. “Subsequently, these to pump air into the newborn’s lungs. teachers have brought to approximately 100,000 students a better The baby was a shade of blue because understanding of Southeast Texas’ environmental concerns.” the child didn’t have enough oxygen. Scholarships and expenses of the program are funded through Elissa Tieman watched as the baby grants by local corporate started to breath normally. The baby sponsors: ChevronPhillips, cried and the group seemed to breath a CHRIS CASTILLO Entergy, ExxonMobil, sigh of relief at the noise. Buna, Central Medical Magnet, Community Christian, Kirbyville, MeadWestvaco, Minutes earlier, the trio, all participants in Lamar’s Nightingale Nederland, Port Neches-Groves, Orangefield, Sabine Pass, Silsbee, Sempra Energy, the Experience, helped a mannequin give birth. These were among many Woodville, Hamshire-Fannett, Vidor, Lumberton, Kountze and the Texas Center for computer-simulated programs students used at the JoAnne Gay Richard Milburn Academy in Beaumont. Environmental Quality Dishman Department of Nursing to gain familiarity with what it feels Lamar nursing instructors worked closely with area school coun- (TCEQ) and Valero. CHRIS CASTILLO like to be a nurse. selors to identify high school sophomores The unique partnership assessing water quality and capturing juvenile species in the region’s Lamar and CHRISTUS Hospital St. who are interested in nursing and want to of 25 industrial, government estuaries during daily field trips to coastal swamps. Other field experi- Elizabeth and St. Mary hosted the two-day learn more about job opportunities within agency and non-profit environmental organizations provides funding, ences show the participants industrial and agricultural management, event to introduce high school students to that field, Curl said. Students were selected scientific information and hands-on experience for four hours of coastal concerns and endangered species. nursing and the job opportunities available by their counselors as having the potential scholarship-paid graduate studies credit. “The diversity of the Southeast Texas landscape creates a regional in the field, said Eileen Curl, professor and to be successful in the intellectually The TESI educates teachers about how to enlighten and engage laboratory,” said Westgate. All the experiences prepare the participants chair. Forty-three potential nursing students demanding field of nursing, then Lamar their students as they explore local environmental concerns. The to be more effective teachers in the science classroom, Westgate said. from 16 area schools attended. nursing instructors selected the Nightingale hands-on learning includes a wide array of activities including “We are encouraging high school stu- candidates, she said. dents to select nursing as a career,” said Healthcare professionals predict the Curl. In its fifth year, the Nightingale nursing shortage in the U.S. will intensify Experience gives students a first-hand look CHRIS CASTILLO within the next 10 years. Local hospitals Nurturing at nursing and the hospital setting, Curl said. The goal is to showcase have hired recruiters to attract qualified nurses. Curl said nursing nursing while students are still making career decisions. offers good pay, flexible hours and job opportunities almost anywhere Students use nursing simulation programs to become familiar in the U.S. because nurses are in demand. scientific interest with skills and procedures such as helping an obstetric mannequin Lamar University offers both a four-year bachelor’s degree and a Dr. Bernard Harris, president and founder of The Harris Foundation, deliver a baby. “Nursing has many more career options than what is two-year associate's degree in nursing. Lamar also offers a graduate visited campus to meet with campers attending the 2007 ExxonMobil portrayed on TV,” Curl said. “Students don’t realize how many degree in nursing. More information is available by contacting the Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp. options there are.” nursing academic advisor at [email protected] or by calling Developing their teamwork and organizational skills, the campers High schools participating in the event included Bridge City, (409) 880-8868. presented their work to Harris, demonstrating the scientific concepts of Archimedes’ principle of buoyancy and its relationship to density. The campers built a raft using aluminum foil and straws and then tested its buoyancy by Teachers learn more effective methods floating the raft in water and weighing it down The Departments of Mathematics and Professional Pedagogy, with Education with pennies. Service Centers in Regions 4 and 5, hosted more than 120 high school and middle In 1990, Harris was selected as a NASA school teachers as part of The Texas State University System Mathematics for astronaut and flew his first mission three years English-Language Learners Initiative. later. He became the “First African American The initiative is a multi-year, multimillion-dollar effort aimed at developing to walk in space.” At the time of his retirement instructional resources designed to increase the effectiveness of mathematics instruc- from NASA in 1996, he had logged more tion for students who are English-language learners (ELL), said Sandra Richardson, than 438 hours in space and traveled over assistant professor of mathematics and a co-primary investigator for the project. 7.2 million miles. Harris gave the commence-

BERNARD HARRIS BRIAN SATTLER ment address at Lamar Aug. 17, 2002.

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helped companies raise Faculty notes At the podium more than $500 million for Applying earth lessons in space . . . nursing organization ensures that professional nursing education in technological growth, and it The world’s insatiable quest for Texas is proactive in addressing contemporary issues and trends in New York to Paris comes to Beaumont houses the Gulf Coast energy means researchers will go practice. It provides expert representation to designated professional . . . In 1908 an epic race helped usher Regional Center of Innovation beyond the bounds of Earth in and government organizations, makes recommendations of nursing in the age of the automobile. The and Commercialization. almost superhuman feat pit man and that search, said Jim Jordan ’71, education policy and actions, and fosters communication among machine against the elements and fueled professor and chair of earth and professional nursing education programs in Texas. As president, Curl B. Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Flight public passion for the car in America and space sciences. He took that plans to focus on how to use simulations in nursing education to Systems Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Europe. In October, the city of Beaumont, in association with the message to Canada when he enhance student education and extend clinical resources, efforts to (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., visited campus Oct. 1 to speak Mary and John Gray Library Lecture Series, hosted a two-day event delivered the keynote address encourage collaboration between about his with speaker Jeff Mahl, the great-grandson of the legendary George “From Prospect to Pipeline: The colleges and universities, and new vision for the

N. Schuster, who drove the 1907 Thomas Flyer around the world in Search for Extraterrestrial JIM JORDAN BRIAN SATTLER tactics to enable nursing programs 21st century. The the 1908 New York to Paris Great Automobile Race. Mahl spoke on Resources” in June at the to admit more students and to visit was part of campus in the John Gray Center Auditorium Oct. 8. With seemingly Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Science Symposium in Sudbury, increase the number of nursing the Academic insurmountable obstacles, Schuster was the first person to ever drive Ontario . . . Professors lend talent to AP . . . Three Department of faculty . . . Hopper and Cotten accept Lecture Series, an automobile across the U.S. in the winter. He was the only Mathematics faculty members participated this summer in the annual new roles . . . Current administra- funded by stu- American to make the full distance of the reading and scoring of the College Board’s advanced-placement (AP) tors Jack Hopper and Don Cotten dent service fees race from New York to Paris. Mahl pre- examinations in Lewisville, Ky. Associate professor Mary Wilkinson have new positions. In addition to to attract lectur- DON COTTEN sented the story—based in fact and richly and assistant professor Sandra Richardson read for the calculus exam, Hopper’s roles as dean of the ers and experts to while assistant professor Kumer Das read for the statistics exam. College of Engineering, professor in illustrated with more than 70 original pho- campus. The “The reading draws upon the talents of some of the finest teachers the chemical engineering depart- tographs—in the guise of his great-grand- event was hosted and professors the world has to offer. It fosters professionalism, allows ment and director of the Texas father, bringing original artifacts to help by the College of for exchange of ideas and strengthens the Center for Technology Incubation bring to life the events of the 1908 New Engineering. commitment to students and to teach- and the Texas Hazardous Waste York to Paris Great Automobile Race. JEFF MAHL Lee is also a

B. GENTRY LEE BRIAN SATTLER ing,” said Trevor Packer, executive direc- Research Center, he will assume the science fiction tor of the program . . . Curl to lead Texas title of executive assistant to the DFJ Mercury Venture Partners managing directors Dan Watkins and author with several New York Times bestsellers to his credit. He is association . . . Eileen Deges Curl, chair president for industrial relations and Blair Garrou spoke as a part of the Institute for Entrepreneurial responsible for the engineering integrity of all the robotic planetary of the JoAnne Gay Dishman economic development. Don Studies Entrepreneurship Lecture series Oct. 2. Watkins and Garrou missions managed by JPL, including engineering oversight of histori- JACK HOPPER Department of Nursing, has been elect- Cotten, who came to Lamar as shared their perspective on the venture capitalism industry, the emerg- cal twin rover missions to Mars and the implementation of NASA’s ing markets in software and life sciences in Texas, and the growing Deep Impact and Stardust missions. Lee is an active novelist, televi- ed president of the Texas Association of executive director of the Office of Sponsored Programs entrepreneurial climate in the Greater Houston area. In addition to sion producer, computer game designer, media columnist and lectur- Deans and Directors of Professional Administration in 2006, becomes associate provost for research. EILEEN DEGES CURL serving as a managing director for DFJ Mercury, Dan Watkins found- er. He is co-author of four novels, Cradle, Rama II, The Garden Of Nursing Programs. The professional ed and was a managing partner of A3 Associates, a Houston-based Rama and Rama Revealed with revered science fiction grandmaster firm focused on seed-stage investments and advisory services for start- Arthur C. Clarke. Since his collaboration with Clarke, Lee has written Volunteer work earns recognition up companies. Blair Garrou teaches venture capitalism as an adjunct three solo novels, Bright Messengers, Double Full Moon Night, and The professor of management at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Tranquility Wars, each of which were on the major science fiction System selects Ho Jesse Doiron ’77, instructor of English, has received the presti- Rice University. He led the sale of Intermat Inc., the world’s leading bestseller lists. Lee also was the late Carl Sagan’s partner in the cre- gious Governor’s Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award in In a unanimous vote, provider of parts optimization software tools and services at the time, ation, design, development and implementation of Cosmos, a science recognition of his contributions to the community of Beaumont The Texas State University to Information Handling Services Inc. and served as the director of documentary series for television that won several Emmys and the and Texas in the field of criminal rehabilitation. Doiron, a crime System (TSUS) Board of operations for the Houston Technology Center. The center has prestigious Peabody Award. victim survivor, became a prison volunteer in 2003, when he Regents recognized six began participating in Bridges to Life, a faith-based restorative outstanding faculty mem- justice program with a mission to connect communities and bers as the first recipients prisons in an effort to reduce the recidivism rate. of the Regents’ Professor Press Club recognizes staff and student excellence Award, including Lamar Staff and students won a total of 38 awards, including 13 first-place awards, in the 2007 Excellence in the University recipent This guide shows the way Media competition sponsored by the Press Club of Southeast Texas. Thomas C. Ho, professor

BRIAN SATTLER The GeoSciences Information Society (GSIS) awarded geology The annual awards banquet benefits the Press Club Memorial Scholarship, presented each semester to a and department chair of professor Don Owen ’57 with a Best Field Trip Guidebook Lamar communication student or students. chemical engineering. Ho was recognized for his significant research award. He was recognized at the Geological Society of America Lamar’s Department of Communication took home first place in the television documentary category. publications and projects, contributions to professional societies, excep- meeting in Denver this fall. The book covers the latest geological The University Press—produced by Lamar students—won 10 awards, including three first places, in competi- tional student evaluations throughout his 25 years of teaching at Lamar, science information on the Chama Basin of northern New tion with professional newspapers. The Lamar Public Relations staff and Cardinal Cadence magazine won 27 unique and challenging teaching projects and methods, and his unfailing Mexico, adjacent to Colorado. awards, including 10 first-place trophies. desire to work with students to help them be successful. Recipients receive a $5,000 award and commemorative medallion. 8 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 9 on campus on campus

Johnson, a junior from Beaumont; Alys Rodriguez, a sophomore from Making class count, continued Making class count China, Texas; and Bobby Temple, a senior from Galveston. The and started asking for stories,” said Wigley. “Next thing I knew, I was This year, Team Red Rover is one of three Lamar University teams research experience is designed to allow talented undergraduate stu- on the staff.” Howard Perkins, director of student publications, said, that participated in the Texas Space Grant Consortium’s (TSGC) dents the opportunity of working on an original research project. In “She’s done an extremely good job working for the paper. She’s annual design challenge. Team Red Rover chose to focus on object addition to studying an exciting branch of mathematics, the students organized, great at managing and working with the staff, and she’s avoidance, navigating the robot around obstacles to avoid collisions. will discuss their work at a Mathematical Association of America con- JIM WESTGATE got great news values. Ultimately, that’s what we need in an editor.” Team members, all 2007 Lamar electrical engineering graduates, ference. • The Lamar Student Education Association (LSEA) hosted a Wigley’s main goal is to encourage reader contributions to the paper. include team leader Jace Daigle, Tarkington; John Brazzil, Baytown; Fall Read-In, a day of reading and entertainment for area students in “I want to let people know the doors are open. Students can come to Greg Gattis, Fannett; and Martin Martinez, Baytown. Faculty advisor pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, Sept. 29. LSEA members read a JASON Project teaches the newsroom and let us know what they want to read or even write Bernard Maxum of the electrical engineering department and mentor variety of books to the children attending. The children also had the a piece that we can include. This position won’t be difficult because I Dave Cheuvront of the NASA Johnson Space Center Constellation opportunity to read books to others and participate in making arts prep for super storms have three editors who do great work,” she said. Her team includes Program Office also participated in the project. Daigle now lives in and crafts, including designing their own storybook, puppet and story Several Southeast Texas JASON Project teacher-trainers spent five days managing editor Julie Garcia of Port Arthur, features editor Belashia Austin and works for National Instruments. Brazzil works for line caterpillar, all designed to build a life-long love of reading in on a tour across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana to get Johnson of Houston and photo editor Kourtney Reese of Houston. American Electric Technologies Inc. in Beaumont. Martinez now young children and to teach them about books in a fun and unique first-hand familiarity with the just-released 2007-08 curriculum created • Obinna “Obi” Arisukwu of works with NASA, and Gattis has moved to Pearland to work for way while Lamar students gain classroom experience. • In paleontol- by the JASON Project, a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Houston is taking the reins Lyondell Chemical. “After working with my teammates and several ogy, discovery can be dirty. And the search can lead to some rugged Geographic Society. as president of the Student consultants to resolve problems, the most enjoyable part of the whole places. This summer, students and Professor Jim Westgate headed for This fall, the teachers trained 170 fellow 4th-8th grade science Government Association. experience was when one of the judges from the showcase told us that the Badlands of Utah for a little paleontological prospecting. James teachers in new discovery-based experiments. They, in turn, introduced Arisukwu has a passion for our project was the best one he’d seen in four years of judging,” said Burnes, a junior from Beaumont, and these concepts to their more than 8,000 students to understand what enhancing student life and Gattis. Team members won several awards, including Best Project Susan Ellis, a graduate student from causes monster storms such as Hurricanes Rita and Katrina as well as has set many goals in that Model, Best Project Focus, Best Project Demonstration Video and an Orange, helped collect more than 2,000 super-cell thunderstorms that generate tornadoes throughout Tornado direction for the school year. Outstanding Participation certificate from TSGC and NASA. • The pounds of bulk sample from a 42-million- Alley, the southern end of which extends almost to Houston. A senior graphic design College of Business awarded its second William G. McGowan year-old pond deposit in what is now the Since 2001, the JASON Alliance of Southeast Texas and Lamar major with a minor in Scholarship to Steven Woodard, a senior accounting major from desert of northeastern Utah—the Uinta University have provided curricula and training to Southeast Texas business, Arisukwu chose to Vidor, who has high hopes for Formation in the Badlands of the Uinta school districts free of charge through grants from local industries and BURNES AND ELLIS attend Lamar because what this honor will mean for his Basin near Vernal. They believe the fossil other benefactors. “Lamar feels like a family to future. After he graduates in May record will show that the region was once lush, supporting a myriad The Monster Storm expedition was part of a graduate course me,” he said. “Instead of 2008 with a bachelor’s in business of species. The sample will be examined for clues as to what caused “Teaching Coastal and Environmental Science” led by Jim Westgate, being in a classroom with administration, Woodard, who the extinction of primates in the Rocky Mountain region about 40 professor of earth and space sciences. D’Ann Douglas, director of the 300 other students, teachers OBINNA speaks German and is learning million years ago for a joint paleontology project between Lamar, the JASON Alliance for Southeast Texas, assisted in planning the expedi- ARISUKWU at Lamar know (students) by Mandarin, plans to teach business College of Charleston, Case Western Reserve University and the tion and recruiting peer trainers. name.” Arisukwu enjoys working as a team with SGA officers vice English in Shanghai, China, and University of California, Los Angeles. • Lamar senior Lauren Wigley On one memorable stop in the multi-state journey, the teachers president Tony Sarda of Miami, Fla., and secretary-treasurer Vera he will be a German translator for of Lumberton is in her first semester as editor of the University Press. met with the pilots and crew of a WC-130J Hurricane Hunter aircraft Akinkuotu of Houston. • The Lamar University Chapter of the the Olympics in Beijing. He plans “It’s all about being a people person and knowing how to best utilize in the 403rd Wing of the 53rd Weather Squadron at Keesler Air Force Financial Management Association International was named a to pursue an international MBA the UP staff ’s strengths,” she said. Wigley, formerly a writer for Base in Biloxi, Miss. The JASON trainers also toured the National “Superior Chapter” in 2006-2007 for the second year in a row. in business law. Each year, the “Cadenza,” the Honors Program newsletter, “went to the newsroom Weather Center’s National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, “Superior Chapter” is the highest honor a financial management McGowan Charitable Fund Okla., and visited Entergy’s Arkansas Nuclear One electric power plant chapter or honor society can attain. Of the more than 200 active stu- awards scholarships to a select and a fossil oyster reef that lived on the Gulf Coast 35 million years ago dent chapters, fewer than 5 percent receive this honor each year. The group of management students when sea level was 200 feet higher and the Earth existed under a following Lamar University students have been named Collegiate “greenhouse” climate. The final stop on the five-day expedition was the

BRIAN SATTLER who exhibit extraordinary STEVEN WOODARD Fellows by the Financial Management Association International: Eric leadership, academic achievement, National Estuary Program in Louisiana to see the impact of recent Angelle, D’Angelo Walker and Mercedes Watkins-Price of Beaumont; character, entrepreneurship and commitment to community. “We have monster storms on Louisiana’s wetlands. In one month during the Robinson Bui of Groves; Shannon Copeland of Nederland; Austin very few scholarships of this magnitude,” Dean Henry Venta said. 2005 hurricane season, the state lost the same amount of square miles of Jackson of Vidor; and Munira Mitha of Orange. • The Lamar “Only a university of our caliber can achieve this honor.” • The wetlands that it took the previous 10 years of Gulf storms to remove. University Career and Testing Center welcomes the opportunity to National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, On Oct. 25, students, teachers and community leaders gathered to assist employers with scheduling their on-campus recruitment efforts. “Investigating the G-graph of a Group,” was held May 23-July 6, hear hurricane expert Jason Dunion. At NOAA, Dunion specializes in Employers may register online at www.lamar.edu/careercenter to post 2007 on campus. Four Lamar students were chosen to participate in satellite remote sensing of hurricanes and has led the development of job openings, view student résumés and register for upcoming career the summer program designed to spend time working on research several new satellite products for monitoring tropical cyclones and events. Employers may also request to schedule on-campus interviews problems and on becoming proficient in LATEX, a document markup Saharan dust storms. Dunion’s visit was hosted by the JASON and information sessions to share company perspectives, labor market language used by mathematicians, scientists, philosophers, engineers Alliance. Following the lecture, Dunion and six local students traveled trends and profile emerging career options, said Teresa Simpson, and scholars in academia and the commercial world. Participating in to the coast of Louisiana to conduct research at locations devastated by director of the center. the project were: Christa Colvin, a junior from Port Arthur; Chrissy LAUREN WIGLEY LAURA IBARRA Hurricane Rita two years ago.

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* New scholarships benefit students law firm Lindsay and Morgan Chemical Engineering in recognition of the played sports with Mildred Didrikson appreciation to help a student succeed in his We are proud of our alumni and honored to established the Lisa Renee education she received at Lamar and to take “Babe” Zaharias. She earned a degree from or her choice of a career in music.” The FISHER LECTURE SERIES: have friends such as these invest in the university Ligda Beaulieu Scholarship in the opportunity “to give back to the univer- Texas Woman’s University and taught junior Shepherd family descended from 19th-centu- and its students. Loyal alumni and friends make criminal justice in memory of sity that gave so much” to her. She is a past high physical education at Dick Dowling ry English immigrants who founded Gift increases endowment a difference in the lives of our students with gifts Beaumont police officer Lisa member of the Department of Chemical school in Beaumont. Shepherd’s Laundry, which eventually Beaumont Foundation of America has that continue to give into perpetuity, meeting Beaulieu. Her dream of becom- Engineering Advisory Council and is process ********* expanded to include operations in Houston given the Lamar University Judge Joe J. generations of students where their aspirations ing an officer began after her superintendent of TOTAL Petrochemical in Ida McFaddin Pyle, Gene McFaddin and and San Antonio. Many members of the Fisher Distinguished Lecture Series graduation from Katy High Port Arthur. Shepherd family attended Lamar from its begin, allowing them to engage with faculty Rosine McFaddin Wilson established the $250,000, which has been added to the School. She worked as a jailer in birth as South Park Junior College to its ********* James L.C. McFaddin Jr. Memorial current endowment of $66,000. The gift and curricula during successful college careers Dayton while attending the growth into Lamar University. Three mem- Cardinal fan and former alumni board presi- Scholarship in Entrepreneurship in memo- was part of $1.15 million given to create and achieve their immediate goals and long- police academy at Lamar bers of the family were musicians: Mary dent and Cardinal Club board member ry of their sibling. A Beaumont native, Jim nine scholarships to honor Southeast term dreams. Institute of Technology. Then, Henry Strait ’74 spearheaded a group of McFaddin attended the University of the Louise Shepherd Philip, Jane Shepherd Texas legends. she was hired as a dispatcher in Cardinal Club members and baseball fans to South at Sewanee, Tenn., and Harvard Williamson and Mabel Winne Shepherd. ********* The Lecture Series honors the distin- the Beaumont Police Department and establish the Jim Gilligan Scholarship in Business School. He served in the Army in “The choice Mirabeau Scholarships guished Judge Joe J. Fisher, who was the worked as a reserve officer on a part-time, Baseball in recognition of the longtime the Counterintelligence Corps in Germany of a music scholarship is a tribute to the Mirabeau Scholarships provide a four-year United States district judge for the unpaid basis on the Kountze Police coach’s career achievements. Gilligan ’70, a during the Korean War. He was an active achievements of Lamar University in train- full scholarship to academically gifted Department to get on-the-job training before former Cardinal pitcher himself, was induct- member of Trinity United Methodist Church ing students and providing music to the Eastern District of Texas for almost three incoming freshmen. becoming a sworn officer with the ed into the and served as president of the Lamar community,” Turner said. decades. It attracts individuals of national Becky (Dickson) ’71 and Chuck ’72 Beaumont Police Department in 2001. Her Texas Baseball University Foundation, the Cardinal Club ********* and international stature who are capable Mason have established the Becky and six-year civil service file is filled with com- Hall of Fame in and the YMCA, among many other civic Alumni and friends of the Department of of making significant educational contri- Chuck Mason Mirabeau Scholarship, the mendations. Beaulieu lost her life April 27, 2004. In his 28 commitments. Jim McFaddin encouraged Electrical Engineering have established the butions. The series recognizes the many first privately funded endowed Mirabeau 2007. She was the first female police officer years as the young entrepreneurs, and, with this scholar- Professor Joseph T. Watt Jr. Scholarship contributions to Southeast Texas by one Scholarship. “Chuck and I were both very to be killed in the line of duty in the coach of his ship, the family hopes to continue that tradi- in Electrical Engineering. Watt began his interested to hear about the Mirabeau of the state’s most outstanding citizens, a Beaumont department’s history. alma mater, tion by helping worthy students pursue their tenure at Lamar after working for General Scholarship fund,” Becky said. “We think distinguished jurist and scholar, and good ********* Gilligan has collegiate dreams. Electric Co. and completing graduate work recruiting top students is an outstanding friend to the university. Linda and Joe Domino ’75 established the guided the at the University of Texas, Austin. He devel- idea.” Mason, of Mason Construction, serves ********* Lamar University is indebted to Joseph F. Domino Scholarship in Cards to 11 oped new courses in digital systems and as treasurer of the Lamar University Richard and Cathy Price have established the Judge Joe J. Fisher for lending his name Electrical Engineering. Domino earned a conference computers and served as director of coopera- Foundation and as district 5910 governor. Richard and Cathy Price Scholarship in to this most worthwhile endeavor, to the master’s degree in engineering science from championships, Choral Music in honor of Eduardo Garcia- tive education from 1984 to 1992. He The couple is actively involved in a number JIM GILLIGAN members of the steering committee who Lamar. During his 36-year tenure with 11 NCAA retired in 1996 and later taught English for of community organizations, including Novelli, assistant professor of music and Entergy, he advanced to become president regional appearances and four conference the Lamar Language Institute. planned and executed the funding effort, Rotary International, the JASON Project, director of choral activities. The scholarship and chief executive officer of Entergy Texas titles. His career record of 1,069-649 ranks and to the donors who have made the Partnership of Southeast Texas and the is available to any eligible major who partici- ********* in 1998. His volunteer service is significant him as the 17th most active and 35th all- endowment and the program possible. Symphony of Southeast Texas. Mason pates in choir. For many years, the Prices Charlie Weinbaum has established the and wide-ranging: the Greater Beaumont time winningest coach in NCAA history. He Construction built the replica of the derrick have been widely known for their love of Gloria Weinbaum Literary Scholarship in Chamber of Commerce, United Way of has been named the Southland Conference JUDGE JOE J. FISHER that brought in the Lucas Gusher of 1901 at music and their devotion to expanding memory of his wife, who believed that edu- Beaumont and North Jefferson County, coach of the year five times during his career LECTURERS the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown music offerings and music appreciation in cation, human enlightenment and cultural Symphony of Southeast Texas, Boy Scouts and is the 32nd coach in NCAA history to 1987—GERALD R. FORD Museum on campus. the Beaumont area. They are both active advancement were all attainable through a 1988—LARRY MCMURTRY of America, Texas Energy Museum, Golden record 1,000 career wins, which was the cat- members of First United Methodist Church life of study and in the enjoyment of great ********* 1989—VLADIMIR SAKHOROV Triangle Minority Business Council, Greater alyst for beginning this scholarship. Gilligan of Beaumont and are currently planning a books. The annual award of $1,000 will be The Josephine and Wilbur Hebert 1989—STEPHEN J. GOULD Houston Partnership and Partnership of has coached more than 135 players into pro- 2008 tour in Spain, during which the church given to eligible English majors. This is the Mirabeau Scholarship has been established 1991—LINDA ELLERBEE Southeast Texas are only a few. He is a fessional baseball. choir will perform at different cathedrals. second scholarship to bear the Weinbaum in the couple’s memory. They were longtime 1992—ANTONIN SCALIA Distinguished Alumnus of Lamar and serves ********* Before his retirement, Richard served as vice name. A bequest by Eleanor P. Weinbaum, residents of Port Arthur and members of St. 1997—ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. as a trustee of the Lamar University Through a bequest, Vivian Liddell estab- president of LMS Trucking Corp. Charlie’s mother, established an endowment Joseph Catholic Church. Josephine retired 1998—SHIMON PERES Foundation and as vice chairman of the lished a scholarship in her name for majors ********* in the Department of English and Modern from Texaco after 43 years of service. 2002—BENAZIR BHUTTO College of Engineering Advisory Council. in the College of Education and Human Languages to support scholarships, Pulse ********* Marjorie Shepherd Turner ’40 established ********* Development with preference to students The Shepherd Scholarship in Music “for Magazine and the Poetry Room. Field of Study Scholarships Rebecca Fussell ’82 has established the pursuring careers in teaching. Born in Bay all that Lamar has done for the Shepherds Michael Lindsay and John Morgan of the Rebecca Lynn Fussell Scholarship in City, Liddell grew up in Beaumont and and for Beaumont as a token of our

12 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 13 when he was just being Slim Pickens.” he went to England and was there when Among favorite directors, he lists King Edward VII died. So I’m going to “Dr. J. Lee Thompson is a classic Strangelove’s write a book on him, which I would not example of a scholar-teacher,” says John Stanley Kubrick. Others are have done if I had not done the research to Storey, chair of the Department of History. John Ford, for Westerns, and directors like write this lecture.” “His research and writing in British history Frank Capra and Howard Hawks, for the have not only enriched the classroom for screwball comedies of the 1930s. Hawks’ Thompson is also sought after as a Bringing Up Baby thousands of Lamar students, but also is one of his favorites. speaker-scholar. In 2006, he was a visiting H ISTORICAL PASSION brought favorable notice to the university Fellow at Wolfson College of Cambridge from scholars across the nation.” The evolution from academician to University and delivered the presidential Thompson also received glowing published author was a natural after graduate address at the Western Conference on British 2007 DISTINGUISHED FACULTY reviews from his students. school. Studies’ 32nd annual meeting. He has made presentations at The Chamberlains of LECTURER J. LEE THOMPSON “I think they like my classes because I “You’re crazy if you don’t write a disser- know my subject and am enthusiastic about tation that can be a book,” he says. “I had a Birmingham, an International Conference, in FOUND FASCINATION IN it,” he says. “I have fun with it. I tell them good graduate advisor who not only is a 2003 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. BRITISH HISTORY, AND NOW the first day, ‘I’m going to enjoy myself. I world-class scholar but is also a great teacher. Another audience was the International Journalism Historians Interest Group at the HE’S A WORLD-CLASS SCHOLAR hope you guys will come along,’ I bring a lot I have stolen shamelessly from his teaching of enthusiasm and passion for the subject, style—and have told him that.” American Journalism Historians’ Association AND AUTHOR ON THE SUBJECT and I think that comes across in my lectures.” Thompson’s dissertation, “Lord 14th annual convention in 1995. Northcliffe and the Great War,” led to two Thompson recently returned to A&M to speak to history Ph.D. students—as a Thompson was born in Dallas, spent books, Politics, the Press and Propaganda: Lord by Louise Wood successful graduate—about what it’s like in most of his youth in Austin and graduated Northcliffe and the Great War 1914-1919, the real world. “So You Want to Be a from high school in Houston. If he hadn’t published by Kent State University Press in Historian?” was his topic. become a British historian, he might have 1999 and Northcliffe: Press Baron in Politics, bachelor of arts degree in hand, “I talked about my experience getting a been a film historian. Upon entering college, 1865-1922, published by John Murray J. Lee Thompson was firmly Ph.D., the job search and how you survive he took a personality test to determine the Publishers of London in 2000. ensconced in corporate America. on the job. I told them about Lamar and A best course for a career. “My No. 1 match Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Years later, he would find his real life’s how, since I’ve been here, every year things was film director,” he recalls, while historian published Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, work, with the other side of the Atlantic seem to get better and better. It’s turned out and lawyer were in the Top 5 or 10. Viscount Milner of St. James’s and Capetown, Ocean his ultimate destination. “Writing a book is a lot like directing in 2006, and Pickering and Chatto to be a great place.” Thompson had graduated from the a film. You’re in control, and you have to Publishers in London published Wider In his rare time away from teaching and University of Houston at 21 with a histo- control the whole thing. I haven’t been Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British writing, Thompson plays tennis and cheers ry degree, but, he says, “I was really tired able to make films, but I have been able to Empire Commonwealth in 2007. Another for the Dallas Cowboys. He and his wife, of school. Getting a Ph.D. in history did- write books.” manuscript is in progress: The Proconsuls: Diane, are wine enthusiasts—and they enjoy n’t even occur to me. I wanted to make But, Thompson admits, “I am a film Curzon, Cromer, Milner and Kitchener in the traveling to destinations like Italy and some money.” nut. Not just historical films. I like film Age of High Imperialism. France, off the beaten path of his historical He worked at a mortgage bank, as LEE THOMPSON research. BRIAN SATTLER noir, and I like foreign films. I like all sorts Biographer-historian John Grigg hailed an IBM salesman and in the publishing of genres.” Thompson’s first book as “really a splendid Thompson gives Diane, a human industry. Becoming a scholar, historian fessor of history, was honored this month Thompson, teacher, scholar, researcher During the mini-session last summer, work” in which Thompson “shows with resources director in Groves, credit for his and author seemed light years away. Then, as Lamar’s 2007 Distinguished Faculty and the author of four books, with two he taught a course on the British Empire in great lucidity and a wealth of evidence that success. “She allowed me to go back to Thompson says, “After about 15 years, Lecturer. He became the 21st recipient others in progress. Recently, he was hon- film. “We showed nine movies, starting Northcliffe could be either brilliantly right school while she was working,” he says. “If that quit being fun. Confucius said, ‘Do of the award, which is considered one of ored as a Fellow of the Royal Historical with Captain Blood, the pirate movie with or crashingly wrong.” The volume opened we hadn’t been able to do that, this never what you love, and you’ll never work a the highest accolades accorded a Lamar Society. Errol Flynn. an important new era of historical research, would have happened. In every one of my day in your life.’” faculty member. “Part of it is travel, and part of it is “The last was Dr. Strangelove with Peter according to other reviewers, closing a sig- books, I thank her. Well into his 30s, Thompson His lecture attracted an enthusiastic interest. From Robin Hood forward, I’ve Sellers, showing the British playing second nificant gap in the history of World War I “I feel blessed and lucky to be able to embarked on a new chapter in his life. He audience to the University Theatre Nov. been a fan of British history. It’s always fiddle to the Americans.” propaganda. have done this—and also to just find a job loved history, so he returned to U of H at 12. Partners in the Age of Global Terrorism: fascinated me.” In Thompson’s opinion, Slim Pickens While preparing his Distinguished because Ph.D.s are sort of thick on the night for graduate courses in history, com- The United States-British ‘Special Thompson travels to London every steals the show. Sellers was supposed to do Faculty Lecture, Thompson came up with ground. It’s good fortune—or kismet or pleting his master’s degree. He went on Relationship’ in Historical Perspective was year for historical research. He’s been to that role, too, but he hurt his ankle and the topic for his next book, Theodore whatever you want to call it—that I’m here to Texas A&M University and earned a the topic of the lecture, sponsored by South Africa and has India and Egypt, couldn’t get in and out of the B-52. “So Roosevelt, the 26th president. It will be and doing what I want to do.” Ph.D., then spent 18 months there as a ExxonMobil. both former parts of the British Empire, they brought in Slim Pickens,” Thompson titled Teddyssey—as in Odyssey—and will focus lecturer. In August 1998, he arrived at “I’m a British historian. I was drawn on his agenda for the next book. His fam- said. “It was a British production, and the on Roosevelt’s travels to Africa after he left Lamar University, and the rest is history. to that because the country has had a ily is originally from England, so that also British all thought he was a method actor the presidency. “He went on safari and then Quite literally. Thompson, associate pro- thousand years of history,” says has something to do with his interest.

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by Brian Sattler

hen you meet Doug Norvell ’64, be prepared to hear a fish tale. Before long, you’ll find out about many of his passions, not the least of which is a unique institute in one of the moreW remote places on earth. Along the way, you’ll see a stroke of organizing genius that is pure art. Silvered and pushing 70, Norvell tackles life with the same kind of zest that took him hitchhiking to Mexico right after he graduated from Port Arthur’s Thomas Jefferson High School in 1956. It seems he’s been setting new goals and mapping new destinations ever since. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Lamar in economics and history, graduating in 1964, and began a career in academe, earning a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Texas A&M in 1970. His career included service for the state department in Afghanistan, work as a professor in marketing and international business at Texas A&M, as well as teaching in Harvard Business School’s branch campus in Central America, and at other universities. Today, he’s a man with a new passion—The

Amazon Institute for Indigenous Arts in Iquitos, Peru. JOHN LOVRETTA/THE HAWK EYE HAWK LOVRETTA/THE JOHN Want to visit? Don’t plan to drive. With a popu- lation of around 500,000, it’s the largest city in the world without a road leading in. Water locked, Iquitos has steamships that travel the Amazon, airplanes that fly across the Andes to other Peruvian cities, and a huge fleet of riverboats carrying people and cargo that travel but, for a globetrotting consultant like Norvell, conversations create “We got to be buddies, and he took me over to the art school,” the tributaries. Brush with destiny opportunities. Norvell said. Norvell has traveled to South America many Norvell took along an old aluminum case, freshly coated with self-etch- Applying brush to the project was Cliver Flores Lanza, a pro- The school, a converted 1920s-era hospital building in the art times. He ended up in Peru in 2006 in a quest to land ing primer, intending to have it decorated by a local artist. fessor at the Victor Morey School of Fine Arts, or Bellas Artes, a deco style, needed some repair. As the pair toured the facility, care- a peacock bass, a prize game fish of the Amazon River “It would be a conversation starter,” he said. “The only piece of luggage government-funded school offering college degrees for young fully skirting puddles and drips from the leaky roof, Lanza painted basin. Instead, it was he who got hooked. like it in the world.” That makes a suitcase easier to find in baggage claim, artists of the Amazon basin. a picture of challenge. Norvell saw instead opportunity.

16 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 17 Jesse Doiron ’77, ’81, Lamar University’s With salaries for faculty and staff provided two high-end hotels to choose recipient of the 2007 Julie and Ben Rogers by Peru’s Ministry of Education, and facilities from, the Victoria Regia and Community Service Award, is joined by his wife, Uliana Trylowsky, and their daughter, by the local community, the institute had Hotel Acosta. For the more Natalia, and son, Dennis, before the promise. The greater challenge was for the 75 adventuresome, students will take awards ceremony. students, half of whom dropped out simply artists deeper into the jungle for because they could not afford materials. $10 per day. Two jungle lodges, “It is horrendously expensive,” he said. the Helconia and Zungaro “Most of the art supplies are imported from Cocha, are options as well. England. I said, ‘So, it’s a money problem. Daily fees are split between the hotel We’re gonna fix that.’” company and the institute helping build more classrooms and buy more materials at Bellas Artes, providing scholarships for students from low-to A Backnovel home in approachNauvoo, Ill., Norvell drew moderate-income families, and pro- on his experience as he wrote up an applica- viding for faculty salary supplements, tion for a Fulbright Senior Scholarship from professional development and other Daniel Risso, manager of ExxonMobil’s the state department. activities. Beaumont Refinery, and Kathleen His idea was to create a non-profit Jackson, ExxonMobil public affairs man- About the time Norvell applied for organization within Bellas Artes, the Amazon ager, join President James Simmons at the Fulbright Scholarship, U.S. Secretary of Institute for Indigenous Arts. This organiza- the Distinguished Faculty Lecture dinner. State Condoleezza Rice had issued a statement tion would partner with an Iquitos lodging urging all U.S. missions overseas to reach out to Karen and Phil Drayer ’67, center, were honorees at a Dishman Art company to host artists from around the “marginalized” peoples. Museum dinner the evening before the announcement of the Drayers’ world who want to experience, and be $5 million gift to Lamar and naming of the Phillip M. Drayer Department “There’s nobody more marginal- inspired by, the raw beauty of the Amazon of Electrical Engineering. With them are his brother and sister-in-law, ized than the river dweller in jungle. Dr. Jerry ’60 and Kellyn Drayer, and President and First Lady James the Amazon Basin, living on and Susan Simmons ’68. “It would be the ultimate sustainable the edge of civilization,” Distinguished Faculty Lecturer J. Lee Thompson, right, eco-tourism,” Norvell said. “Artists would Norvell said. and his wife, Diane, visit with lecture committee chair come, experience, create and then they go The institute was formed Steven Zani at a dinner in Thompson’s honor before home.” the Nov. 12 lecture. in December 2006 with sup- Setting up the foundation would keep Patti and Ed Hurwitz ’62 port from the Fulbright money separate from the state-run institution enjoy the reception Commission and the Cultural before the La Dolce where it might end up channeled to other Affairs Office of the U.S. Vita Vintner Dinner. purposes, Norvell said. Likewise, to reduce Embassy. “Everything just fell the temptation a large endowment might From left, Barbara White, Ann Ohmstede, Colene Hansen, together,” he said. present, he requires funds be expended every Bill Russell and Judy Dishman prepare to place their bids Norvell is now working on appointing a during the silent auction at La Dolce Vita. year on scholarships, or direct support of stu- board of directors, and is already dreaming of dents to buy the materials they need. expanding courses and taking the program “The Institute is modeled after farther into the jungle to other towns in the Providence, R.I.’s municipal department of Amazon basin. “We have strong Art, Culture and Tourism,” said Norvell. Peruvian leadership,” Norvell said. “Research led us to the Providence program, “I’m the spark plug, a whirlwind. and I hope to replicate both their techniques I get them whipped up, and then I and successes.” leave,” Norvell said. The first major effort of the Institute will Watch for him at the airport. be a visiting artists program, where artists He’s the fellow with the suitcase from the industrialized countries come to brightly painted with faces of the Iquitos, travel deep into the rainforest and people of the Amazon basin, as well paint, sculpt or print. as fish, reptiles and animals. And For $75 a day, visiting artists are provid- he’s got a fish story to tell you. ed room, board, studio space and river travel. Johnny Carrabba peruses the book, Ezekiel’s Horse, by Lamar’s The accommodations are swank, with Visit amazonartinstitute.com Keith Carter ’70, presented as a gift to him at La Dolce Vita. Lynne Lokensgard, professor of art history, joins Carrabba at the podium. 18 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 The main token of appreciation is a Carter portrait of the guest chef. NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 19 LEGENDS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS The Beaumont Foundation of America honored these leaders as Southeast Texas Legends

MAJOR TOWNSEND BELL 1897-1969 Major Townsend Bell devoted almost half a century to the legal profession – beginning his career as a district attorney for the 4th Judicial District in East Texas and, ultimately, impact- ing the legal community for more than four decades as a driving force behind the Beaumont law firm of Orgain, Bell and Tucker, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2007. Bell served as president of the State Bar of Texas and Jefferson County Bar Association. His younger son, Tom, describes him as a man of honesty, integrity and kindness – a straight shooter. “He had an aura about him that was pure honesty,” the younger Bell said.

“He was a lawyer’s lawyer.” – BENNY HUGHES, JR., Of Counsel, Orgain, Bell & Tucker

“He was a man of honesty and integrity. He stood up for his clients and their rights. He DON BURGESS would get off a case if it did Judge Don Burgess’s legal career has spanned more than three not meet his standards.” decades, from service as an assistant district attorney and later They are Legends of Southeast Texas – seven lawyers and two educators – GILBERT “BUDDY” LOW judge of the 260th District Court in Orange County to private Partner, Orgain, Bell & Tucker whose names will live in perpetuity at Lamar University and help practice to 20 years as an associate justice of the 9th Court of Appeals. As an appellate judge, he participated in 12,000 cases, generations of students realize the dream of higher education. personally writing opinions for more than 4,500 of them. Burgess retired as the senior appellate judge in the state of “Don Burgess is one of the most he Southeast Texas Legends scholarships— ing close the digital divide,” said Frank Newton, Texas and continues as a senior district and appellate judge. He academically bright legal scholars Legendseach an endowment of $100,000—were president and chief executive officer of the Beaumont retired from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a colonel. T made possible by a gift from the Beaumont Foundation of America. “Our mission has broadened I’ve ever met. Many times over the Foundation of America, a non-profit corporation that beyond technology to address a fundamental reality of years, when I was dealing with a seeks to expand, enhance and strengthen opportuni- our global economy: Education is essential for a suc- tough or confusing legal issue, I ties for students who are most in need of assistance, cessful life. We believe scholarships such as these are the would go to Judge Burgess.” said Wayne Reaud, chairman of the Beaumont backbone of how to achieve excellence and growth.” – JEFFERSON COUNTY JUDGE Foundation board. “This will give students the opportunity to come RON WALKER, EVERETT LORD ’37 Beginning in January 2007, the Beaumont to school and maybe not have to work quite so hard, Former chief justice, 9th Court of Appeals 1918-1994 Foundation and Lamar University announced scholar- so they can get through Lamar University in four ships honoring the late Major Townsend Bell, Everett years and become productive citizens right away,” Everett Lord was an imposing figure in the legal community, known for Lord and Joe Tonahill, all of whom were lawyers; Simmons said. “These scholarships will inspire future his impact on family and domestic law in Southeast Texas. The son of a Judges Don Burgess and Bob Wortham; lawyers generations of Lamar students. We are thrilled that district judge, he was introduced to the judicial profession at a young Hubert Oxford III and John Tucker; Lamar President Lamar University is one of the institutions age. Lord practiced family law for 44 years, also serving as interim judge James M. Simmons; and former Lamar Chancellor that the Beaumont Foundation of America assists of the Jefferson County Family District Court and teaching family law at George McLaughlin. with funds.” Lamar University. His service to the state of Texas is commemorated by a The foundation grew out of an historic $2.1 Camille Mouton, vice president for university plaque hung in the halls of the State Bar of Texas in Austin. billion settlement of a nationwide class-action suit advancement, added: “These scholarships will have an “Everett Lord was a man of his to obtain relief for those who bought defective immense impact on deserving students. We are most word. Everything was done on computers. The foundation has granted more than appreciative that the Beaumont Foundation of a handshake during the early $68 million worth of equipment. America has chosen to foster academic excellence days, and you could always “During the initial phase of the foundation’s life, at Lamar through this substantial and extremely trust Everett Lord.” its technology phase, it was a national leader in help- generous gift.” – MELVIN BONEAU ’64, by Louise Wood Partner, Boneau & Lewis

20 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 21 JOE TONAHILL 1913-2001 Joe Tonahill was a larger-than-life legal giant who, coming from humble beginnings, made it his GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN ’56 life’s work to be a “people’s lawyer”—though earning international acclaim along the way. Tonahill George McLaughlin’s service to higher education spans half a century and closely parallels the distinguished himself as a co-founder of trial lawyers’ organizations, as a pioneer in worker protec- recent history of Lamar University. He is a 1956 Lamar graduate whose impact on educational tion, product liability and juror reform and in other areas. He practiced law in Jasper more than excellence has extended from the LU campus and classroom to regional, state and international half a century, but tried cases across the country, including his highly publicized presence on the innovations in education. After serving in a number of major positions at Lamar—including Jack Ruby defense team. chancellor and Regents’ Professor of Education—he now is with Best Associates of Dallas. Among scores of honors, he earned the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award to spend a year in Hong Kong “Joe was an unusual lawyer, one of a as Fulbright professor-in-residence at Chinese University. rare breed who could try almost any type of case. There were no limits on “Dr. George McLaughlin personifies Joe’s practice or imagination.” the quest to make education – quality – RICHARD HILE ’71 education – available and accessible (Joe Tonahill’s son-in-law) to students, whether across the Partner, Dies & Hile Quadrangle or around the globe. JOHN TUCKER His leadership and dedication have “He worked hard on his cases and HUBERT OXFORD III Over a legal career that spanned more than seven decades, John meant a great deal to his profession seemed to take them very personally. During a 45-year career, Hubert Oxford III has contributed Tucker earned a reputation as the “wizard of trial law.” In 1933, and to this community.” He lived the law and breathed it.” to his profession and to the state of Texas, not only as a high- Tucker joined the law practice founded in 1907 by William – PRESIDENT JAMES SIMMONS – JOE TONAHILL JR. ly regarded lawyer, but also as a public servant. He is manag- Edmund Orgain. The law firm’s name changed to Orgain, Bell & ing partner of the Beaumont law firm of Benckenstein & Tucker in 1945. Both he and the law firm celebrated their 100th “Some lawyers are good on the facts, Oxford, LLP, specializing in admiralty law and maritime birthdays this year – Tucker in October 2007. He was lead coun- and others are good with the law. cases. Oxford began his career as a briefing attorney to U.S. sel in many cases that established important principles of law, John was good at both.” District Judge Joe Fisher and as an assistant district attorney arguing a number of cases before the Texas Supreme Court. – BENNY HUGHES for Jefferson County. He served as a regent and general coun- Described as a humble and clever man, he is known for his sense Of Counsel, Orgain, Bell & Tucker sel of the Lamar University System, on the Texas Air Control of humor and kindness – and his signature bow tie. “Hubert Oxford’s service to Board and in a number of other statewide positions. He left “It didn’t matter if you were the Lamar University is legendary, as his mark on the Southeast Texas landscape by working to opposition lawyer, the court reporter or evidenced by his appointment as a incorporate many small towns around Beaumont and helping the person making copies for the law regent of the Lamar University them receive utility services. firm. He treated everybody as if they System and, later, by his tenure as were someone special.” general counsel to the system.” Legends – ANN ISLES – PRESIDENT JAMES SIMMONS (the oldest of John Tucker’s three daughters)

JAMES SIMMONS BOB WORTHAM ’71 Bob Wortham is an innovator and legal pioneer whose landmark cases have had national impact. Since becoming Lamar University’s 10th president in 1999, James Simmons has led the university Wortham, judge of 58th District Court in Jefferson County, served 12 years as U.S. attorney for into a new era of dynamic growth. He increased enrollment, reshaped the campus and inspired the Eastern District of Texas before becoming a partner in the Reaud, Morgan and Quinn Law excellence. The first Southeast Texas native to lead Lamar, Simmons rose through the ranks from Firm. He began his career as an assistant district attorney and, at age 31, was appointed to 60th band director, department chair, advancement executive and college dean. His community leader- District Court, becoming Texas’ youngest district judge. A 1971 Lamar graduate, Wortham is a ship has earned scores of honors. Music is his passion, and Simmons remains active as a musician philanthropist whose generosity has touched scores of individuals and organizations. and conductor.

“By any standard, Lamar University President James Simmons is a legend—a legendary “Bob is a force of nature. He sets high goals for himself and pursues them. He’s been a judge, educator, artist, motivator, innovator and leader who is blazing trails across the Southeast a prosecutor and a lawyer. It’s hard to do all those things right – and he’s succeeded in every Texas landscape and into the future. President Simmons has made history at Lamar one of them. The tone he sets is conducive to feeling good about yourself and wanting to work University, transforming momentum at the university into momentum throughout the hard. He knows how to make people feel valued. Service is what motivates Bob. He’s happiest communities whose quality of life, economic impact and very futures depend on this fine when he’s helping the public.” educational institution as their lifeblood.” – TOM KIEHNHOFF – GILBERT “BUDDY” LOW Associate, Reaud Morgan & Quinn Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1990-2001 Partner, Orgain, Bell & Tucker To read more about the Legends of Southeast Texas, visit lamar.edu/legends.

22 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 23 CLARA BROWN COOPER earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Lamar “The Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner is one of my favorite University in 1989 and immediately began helping people—beginning her career with events of the year,” President Jimmy Simmons said in opening remarks. Big Brothers and Big Sisters as director in Fort Bend County. Her dream of helping a “I want to say how proud we are of you as outstanding Lamar alumni. larger community came true after earning a master’s degree and accepting a position Welcome home to your alma mater.” working for the United Way campaign department to strengthen the relationship Jill Roy, chair of the committee, presided over the prestigious event, between corporate and non-profit communities. She now takes a more hands-on attended by Lamar faculty, staff and alumni. The award recognizes approach in serving her community as executive director of Target Hunger in Houston. alumni who have distinguished themselves in their careers or life’s work. Although Target Hunger was originally expected to aid 700 people per month, Cooper The award also honors alumni who work in community service and now finds herself serving well over 8,500 on a monthly basis. She has transformed young alumni who have distinguished themselves early in their careers. Target Hunger from an outlet for clients to receive food as needed to an agency that The 2007 honorees included Randy Best ’67, entrepreneur; Clara Brown offers various services such as assisting clients locate resources for rent, shelter and utili- Cooper ’89, humanitarian; and Charles Cutler ’61, inventor. ties. The agency has expanded to include after-school hot meals programs, computer training and partnerships with other agencies to provide back-to-school clothing and school supplies. Under her leadership, Target Hunger has partnered with agencies to provide life skills, health education, nutrition classes and GED courses. “We don’t pro- vide a quick fix. We try to get to the root of the problem,” she said. “We do more than Three honored food here, we provide hope.” She was selected the Distinguished Alumna for RANDY BEST Community Service. “I am truly honored to have been selected as an outstanding alumna this as outstanding Cardinal alumni year,” Cooper remarked as she accepted the distinguished alumni award. “I remember when I had my third child last year, and my mother told me I would The Distinguished Alumni RANDY BEST began his entrepreneurial journey before he graduated have to slow down some now that I had three kids. She said some of my volun- from Lamar University in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in govern- teer work would have to wait. Actually, more work came. There are so many wor- Awards Committee of the Lamar ment, selling his seventh business to Beatrice Foods after graduation. thy causes I believe in that need volunteers, it was impossible for me to turn away. He has founded or acquired more than 100 publicly or privately held I think everyone who has been blessed as I have must reach back to help others.” companies during a 35-year span as a private investor and senior execu- University Alumni Advisory tive. Best was a founding partner in the merchant banking firm of CHARLES CUTLER began his academic career in 1954 playing football for Lamar. Mason Best with offices in Texas and London. His business interests, He joined the Army in 1956, and his two-year stint included touring Europe on Army Board selected three notable based in Dallas, include specialty foods, health care, real estate, energy boxing and football teams until a broken leg sidelined the leading ground gainer. That and education. break led Cutler back to Lamar and a degree in chemical engineering. A 1961 gradu- alumni who were honored during Lamar University has partnered with Best to provide master’s-level ate, he worked for Shell USA for 23 years, exploring the intricacies of a relatively new courses to Texas teachers in a convenient course format with Lamar computer control process. Cutler became the driving force behind bringing process instructors. The application-based curriculum meets the practical needs control into the computer age. After leaving Shell, he founded Dynamic Matrix the annual Distinguished Alumni of educators and school districts through relevant, research-based con- Control Corp., which today provides the most widely used process control software in tent. The program’s unique instructional model provides the flexibility the world. He sold the company in 1996 to create San Antonio-based Cutler Johnston Awards Dinner Oct. 27. to meet the professional and personal needs of today’s educators. Corp. to convert the dynamic matrix controller as a training simulator for control oper- In 1994, Best founded Voyager Expanded Learning, a provider of CLARA BROWN COOPER ators. Cutler holds several patents and is a member of the prestigious National in-school core reading programs, reading intervention programs and Academy of Engineering. Despite a busy travel schedule, he still finds time to serve as professional development programs for school districts throughout a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Council. the United States. These programs are boosting student and teacher “During the course of my life, I’ve had the chance to change course many success in school districts across the country by addressing two major times, and in each case it was an unplanned event,” Cutler said during his accept- challenges in public education—teacher certification and student ance remarks. “Breaking my leg in the Army changed my outlook from being a illiteracy. Best serves as a member of the Lamar University College of coach back into being an engineer. I probably would have been a lousy coach, but Business Board of Advisors. I turned out to be a reasonably good engineer. Another event was coming back “I’m most grateful to Lamar University for giving me a great here to Lamar. I had the opportunity to go to other schools, but the fact that I had education and for the many professors and others here who took a married my wife of 53 years kept me here in Beaumont. In my many years at personal interest over a long period of time in my future,” Best said Shell, I had the opportunity to work with engineers from all the Ivy League in accepting the award. “One of the great regrets I have is waiting so schools, and I found out quickly that I could compete with anyone from anywhere long to come back to Lamar. I came back to see some of the profes- with the education I received at Lamar University.” sors whose lectures I remembered for decades only to find that Distinguished alumni honors are awarded annually, and outstanding alumni may be by Larry Acker many are gone. Whenever there was a world event, we would go nominated at any time by contacting the Alumni Affairs Office at (409) 880-8921 or to Dr. Fornell’s class and sit on the floor just to listen to what he had lamar.edu/alumni. The selection committee reviews nominations in March for selection. to say about it. They were remarkable people who will live on in our Nominees are eligible for the Distinguished Alumni Award for two years. hearts and memories forever.” 24 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 CHARLES CUTLER NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 25 Arts&Culture

NEA conference attracts Lien assumes duties as Dishman director arts leaders to Lamar

For years, as art The “A great nation deserves great art,” according to the history profes- Film takes first film’s pur- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). That sor at the The documentary Surviving Rita: Looking pose is to declaration is part of the agency’s logo and litera- Parsons School Forward, created by Lamar University students explain why ture—a mission statement for an agency that is the of Design, Fu- and graduates and supervised by two LU fac- the Texas wetlands are important and encour- nation’s official arts organization and largest source Chia-Wen Lien ulty members, has earned several prestigious age people to protect them. Students in the of arts funding. heard about awards, including first-place Department of Communication and Executives of both the NEA and the Texas New York City honors from the Houston Press 42 middle and high school students Commission on the Arts were at Lamar June 14 to artists’ flocking Club and the Southeast Texas from Region 5 schools traveled to the share their visions on arts and society with leaders to Texas in Press Club. In April 2007, the wetlands of Texas, including the Big of arts organizations across the region and beyond. TONY CHAUVEAUX search of a project took best documentary Thicket, Shangri La and the J.D. The College of Fine Arts and Communication and CHRIS CASTILLO EDUARDO GARCIA-NOVELLI ROHN WENNER muse. Now, honors at the Louisiana State Murphree Wildlife Management Area, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs “In this community, the arts are a real window FU-CHIA-WEN LIEN Lien can see for University’s annual film festival. to film footage. Students in the com- bands and camp director. The camp Administration hosted the conference. into the university,” Chauveaux said. “Campuses are herself the culture that draws so many talented Gordon Williams, producer of munication department wrote, edited, focused on activities to improve The speakers the greatest patrons of the arts in our nation, and individuals to the area. As the new director of the film, said he was happily were videographers and appeared as interactive ensemble skills, as well as were Tony Lamar is a gem in the community.” Lamar’s Dishman Art Museum, Lien is taking surprised by the win at the reporters in the film. As winner in the individual skills. Activities included Chauveaux, Surveys show arts participation correlates with in every aspect of artistic life in Southeast Texas. Houston Press Club because it student/amateur category of the festi- rehearsals, sight-reading and theory deputy director positive civic behavior, Chauveaux said. “Without “The Dishman Art Museum is such a was up against Channel 13-KTRK, the ABC val, McLemore premiered the film at the asso- classes, and electives, with recitals for grants and art, we would not have the society we want. Take wonderful place to showcase not only the affiliate in Houston. KTRK took second and ciation’s annual conference in Virginia Beach, and talent shows in the evenings. awards for the art away, and you’re left with a diminished thing.” talent of our students and faculty, but also the third place in the documentary competition. Va., in November. Theatre Camp in June included Washington, The Texas Commission on the Arts provides varied talent of nationwide and worldwide puppets, prose and plays as partici- D.C.-based grants, information and technical assistance to artists,” she said. pants studied many aspects of the NEA, and artists, art organizations and the general public. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Lien theater and performing on stage. Ricardo “We fund 98 percent of all applications that Wetlands wins Students perfect RICARDO HERNANDEZ BRIAN SATTLER received her bachelor’s degree in English Lamar theater students helped Hernandez, come to us—but it took us years to get there,” literature from National Taiwan Normal national recognition song, dance and campers choreograph a Broadway- executive director of the Texas Commission on the Hernandez said. Grease University. There, she excelled in painting and Texas Wetlands, a film produced by the stu- more at camps style dance from the musical . Arts in Austin. The commission works with about 8,000 drawing and nurtured a growing interest in dents and faculty of Lamar, won first place in In technique class, participants went Chauveaux is a longtime Beaumont lawyer, organizations on a regular basis, he said—from art. She honed that talent at the University of the student/amateur Eduardo Garcia-Novelli, director of choral through various techniques of act- community leader and supporter of Lamar “mom-and-pop shoebox” organizations to the North Carolina, where she earned her bache- category of the activities and camp director, greeted 16 young ing, including voice and diction University. He divides his time between Beaumont Museum of Fine Arts, Houston—and provides lor’s and master’s degrees while studying North American voice students when he conducted his first exercises and stagecraft. Students and Washington. funding to more than 1,000 of them annually. Western art traditions and modern art theory, Association for choir camp in the summer of 2002. In 2007, designed puppets for presentation, history and practice. Environmental he welcomed 250 students to the All-State painted a set and rehearsed one-act To share her love of art with her home- Education/Pierce Choir Camp in June. plays, all designed to impart land, Lien returned to Taiwan to work in the Foundation “We’ve been growing every year,” he said. knowledge of theater as well as an Storey makes history education department of the country’s first Environmental This one-week intensive program for high appreciation of the art form. The East Texas Historical Association honored John Storey ’61, modern art museum, Taipei Fine Arts Education Film and school students focuses on learning the reper- During Dance Camp in July, award-winning author and historian and Regents’ Professor of Museum. In addition, Lien helped establish Video Festival. “It is toire for the All-Region and All-State Choir dancers ages 12 to adult immersed History, for his “exemplary contribution as a teacher and keeper of DANIEL MCLEMORE Taiwan’s first alternative gallery, Space II. Her an honor to be able auditions. During the day, the schedule themselves in the world of dance by East Texas history.” love of studying art earned Lien the presti- to go to a school like Lamar that is not that includes sectional and full rehearsals, sight- working with inspiring teachers. Storey, history department chair and a 40-year faculty veteran, gious Fulbright scholarship, allowing her to well known and still be able to win such a reading classes, diction classes, voice classes and Harriet Lihs is veteran director of accepted the association’s East Texas Educator of the Year Award Sept. return to the United States to earn her Ph.D. prestigious award,” said Daniel McLemore, lectures. Evenings are filled with recitals, recre- the camp, which was offered for the 29 in Nacogdoches. in art history from the City University of New producer and lead editor of Texas Wetlands and ational activities and a talent show. Instructors ninth year.The camp taught ballet, Storey said, “I try to emphasize that history is not just dates. York Graduate Center in 2004. For her disser- a junior communication major from include statewide, award-winning choir teach- modern dance and jazz, as well as History is about people. It’s about movements. It’s important that my tation, Lien explored The Body Politics of Nederland. Texas Wetlands is an education film ers as well as Lamar faculty members. special classes in tap, ballet repertory students understand the sequence of events—the cause and effect. Decoration and Handicraft: Revisioning 1970s created for the JASON Alliance of Southeast Band Camp attracted about 360 students and auditioning. Hopefully, I make history come alive.” Feminist Art. Texas. in June, said Bradley Kent, Lamar’s director of Storey is the author or co-author of seven books. BRIAN SATTLER

26 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 27 Arts&Culture Bassoon tunes Bassoonists Patrick Todd, a Port Neches-Groves High School graduate, and Natalia Albacete, a graduate of Beaumont West Brook, share the spotlight at the opening concert of the 2007-2008 Lamarissimo! concert series. The Lamar Wind Ensemble and Literary Lamar Concert Band brought up the curtain on the series’ ArtsNotes 18th season Oct. 9 in the Julie Rogers Theatre. The neo-expressionist and assemblages. Wubben is Wright explores works of distinguished a professor of printmaking Oklahoma bombing alumnus John Alexander JOHN ALEXANDER and drawing at McNeese ROHN WENNER ’68 will be on display Dec. 21 through State University. Visitors to the muse- Stuart Wright, professor of sociology and assistant STUART WRIGHT March 16 in the Smithsonian um found themselves “overwhelmed director of the Office of Research, has published his American Art Museum in Washington, by his black-and-white paintings of fourth book, Patriots, Politics and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Cambridge D.C. John Alexander: A Retrospective is complex round patterns,” said Lynne University Press is its publisher. The book is a historical and sociological La Dolce Vita . . . sweet success the first full-scale examination of the Lokensgard, professor of art history. study of the militant, underground Patriot movement as it metamorphosed About 300 patrons enjoyed a weekend of fine wine Beaumont-born artist’s three-decade “His work, as presented in this exhibi- into a violent, anti-government movement in the 1990s, culminating in and cuisine when the Dishman Art Museum hosted career. It includes about 40 paintings tion space, projects graphic power and the bombing. La Dolce Vita. Now in its fourth year, the three-tier and 30 works on paper from the late hauntingly evocative shapes.” . . . “I began writing this book about the bombing itself, but, as I event benefits the museum’s collections and educa- 1970s to the present, highlighting Kathleen LeBlanc-Hood ’06, a graduate researched the history and ideology of Patriot groups, I detected numerous tional programs. Featured chef Johnny Carrabba Alexander’s engagement with the assistant in the Department of Music, threads linking this event to a series of movements that spanned several proved a popular attraction during the weekend, American landscape. The Museum of Theatre & Dance, participated recently decades, reaching back to the heyday of the Cold-War years,” Wright said. presenting both a gourmet vintner dinner Oct. 19 Fine Arts, Houston, organized the in two prestigious musical events at Wright’s study builds on face-to-face interviews with Timothy McVeigh, the and a cooking demonstration Oct. 20. On the exhibition . . . Le Grand Bal, major The Boston Conservatory. She attend- convicted Oklahoma City bomber. The author served as a consultant to McVeigh’s evening of Oct. 20, guests sampled international annual fund-raiser for the College of ed classes and performed May 29-June defense team. fare and complementary wines. Italian fare included Fine Arts and Communication, will 10 at the International Woodwind “The story of the Oklahoma City bombing is one that Stuart Wright is shrimp scampi and honor Gay (Duckworth) ’80 and Bill Festival 2007. On Oct. 21, she uniquely qualified to tell because of his masterful understanding of the Patriot other delights. Scott ’70, business and civic leaders. returned to Boston for Clarinet Day at movement . . . ,” writes Carl Smith, distinguished professor of English and The gala, featuring a Renaissance the conservatory, billed “a complete American studies at Northwestern University. “The result is a remarkably com- theme, is scheduled March 29 in the day of all things clarinet.” LeBlanc- pelling analysis of the fateful social and political dynamics that brought McVeigh Wine-pairing patron Anne Kilman of Katy Dishman Art Museum and Montagne Hood, now of Beaumont, is a Bridge and his truckload of explosives to Oklahoma City. This book is an informative, savors one of the many Center. Beverly ’80 and Carl Parker will City High School graduate. She has insightful and gripping study that is at once irresistibly fascinating and deeply dis- delectable dishes chair the event, hosted by the Lamar guest-conducted the Lamar Concert turbing.” offered at the event, Friends of the Arts. For reservations, Band for the last two Lamarissimo! per- Wright is internationally recognized for his research and analysis of religious served by senior art formances . . . Eric Gunter ’04, a gradu- movements, domestic terrorism and militia groups. student Brittney Ragsdale of Vidor. ate student in English from Port Neches, has earned the Vanderleeuw examines racial politics Frank O’Connor Award for Guest chef a short story published in The issue of race has always intrigued James Vanderleeuw, professor Johnny Carrabba Descant of political science at Lamar. charms the , the literary journal “Growing up, I came to political awareness during a turbulent audience with of Texas Christian era in our nation,” says Vanderleeuw, also director of Lamar’s Center his culinary skills University in Fort Worth. and family stories. for Public Policy Studies. “There were protests to the Vietnam War, GERRY WUBBEN MICHELLE CATE The award, which carries a ERIC GUNTER Civil Rights marches and the urban riots of the mid-1960s.” $500 prize, honors the best After decades of scholarly research and publications, he is now call (409) 880-8137 . . . Works by short story appearing in the 2007 issue Gerry Wubben the co-author of a book on the subject, Race Rules: Electoral Politics in Lake Charles artist , two- of the journal. “Last year, Descant Johnny Carrabba, New Orleans, 1965-2006, published by Rowan & time winner of Lamar’s Dishman received more than 500 short story assisted by Wayne Competition, attracted acclaim during submissions,” said David Kuhne, Descant JAMES VANDERLEEUW Littlefield’s Lexington Books division in October 2007. DaSilva, proprietor a fall exhibition at the Dishman Art editor and associate director of the His collaborator is Baodong Liu, professor of political of Carrabba’s Italian Museum. Wubben attended a reception William L. Adams Center for Writing science at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Guests fill the Dishman Art Museum for Grill in Beaumont, “This volume should be on the shelf of all those interested in the wine pairing, which featured amazes the in his honor Oct. 12 and spoke Oct. at TCU. “Of those, we were able to audience with the racial and urban politics,” wrote Charles S. Bullock III of the Mediterranean, Italian, French, Asian 30 at the museum. The exhibition, One publish 13 in Descant 2007. As editor, I and dessert stations. preparation of Decade: Gerry Wubben, included larger- judged Eric’s story, The Colored Boy, to University of Georgia. homemade pasta. than-life charcoal drawings, paintings be the best of those 13 stories.”

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHELLE CATE AND ROHN WENNER

28 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 29 small-college engineering programs when he attended. He hopes to see Lamar engineering achieve growing state and national recognition for its accomplishments and quality. Empowering potential “I feel like the luckiest man in the world this morning,” Drayer said at the unveiling of the new department name, citing the people in his life, from his parents, to teachers, to colleagues and his wife, Karen. “If you don’t have an anchor at home, going through all the gyrations that are required to get to this point, I can promise you that this wouldn’t happen.” Now “safely retired for about the third time,” you’ll likely find Phil Drayer serving a kill shot on the racquetball court, or serving on the board of some august organizations. In either case, his penchant for progress propels him. Most recently, Drayer served as a member of Gov. Rick Perry’s original 17-member executive committee for the Emerging Technology Fund, helping direct the state-sponsored venture funds investment in new start-up technology companies in Texas. Today, he continues service on the board of the World Affairs Council in Dallas and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C. His civic-minded contributions include service on the board of governors for the Dallas KAREN ALMOND PHOTOGRAPHY KAREN Symphony Orchestra. Drayer has chaired Lamar’s Engineering KAREN AND PHIL DRAYER Advisory Council since 2005 and is a trustee of the Lamar by Brian Sattler BRIAN SATTLER University Foundation. years with TI, starting as an integrated circuit designer for military by Brian Sattler Being able to make a multi-million-dollar gift to his alma applications. mater might have seemed beyond the realm of imagination to this In 1971, he would take MOS from the realm of military As chairman of the Lamar University Beaumont native as he made the drive to California in 1967 to take secrets to the commercial world as he led a team in developing the College of Engineering Advisory Council, a job with Teledyne Systems Inc. He had just graduated from first volume production of the single-chip calculator. It would Lamar with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and had become the first MOS circuit to reach volume production at TI. Phil Drayer ’67 is helping bring to life the worked at Teledyne the summer before, an opportunity facilitated TI’s success propelled the company toward MOS solid-state by his brother Larry ’60, a Lamar graduate and an engineer there. memory, aiding the development of ever-smaller computer college’s motto — Imagine it. Design it. “I was always impressed by the education components, Drayer said. He advanced I got at LU,” Drayer said. “LU equipped me from design to leadership in manufacturing Build it. Improve it. He and his wife, Karen, to go head to head with people from Cal Tech, engineering, helping bring concept to MIT and Berkley. What I discovered was that “LU equipped me commercial viability, then profitability. After are backing confidence in the college with a after six months, they were all coming to me to go head to successes there, Drayer joined a TI spin-off $5 million gift. for answers. I got a much better education at company—Mostech Corp.—that was creat- LU than they got at those schools.” head with people ed to advance and market emerging micro- In celebration of their generous philanthropy, the Phillip At Teledyne, he worked on a from Cal Tech, processor technology. Drayer began as team M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering was named Department of Defense contract to develop a MIT and Berkley.” leader of the company’s microprocessor Oct. 22. fully digital, very high-speed navigation designers, bringing its first products from Of his leadership and the gift to engineering, Drayer said, receiver for high-performance aircraft; soon, —PHILLIP DRAYER the drawing board to life. Again, Drayer “My goal is to do what I can to return the Lamar College of “It will be a great honor to have the Drayer name linked in however, he began to develop a growing soon made a move from design to manufac- Engineering generally, and the electrical engineering department perpetuity with a great department, a great college and a great interest in a new technology called Metal- turing, eventually running the company’s specifically, to national prominence for research in certain com- university,” Simmons said. “The endowment to fund the Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) that created wafer-thin transistors. on-shore and offshore assembly and test operations. petencies and to see it produce top-notch graduates who can naming of the department will memorialize Phillip M. Drayer, “I wanted to move into semiconductors and integrated That propensity to move from design to leadership roles is make a big contribution for many years to come.” thanks to a wonderful couple who, in their lives together, have circuit design because I felt there would be a good future there,” attributable both to opportunity and to preparation. While many “This $5 million gift will transform the electrical engineer- made a commitment to philanthropy on a high level and to Drayer said. of his peers were pursing advanced engineering and business ing program and, ultimately, the college,” said James Simmons, supporting excellence and opportunity for future generations.” Being a Texan, Drayer naturally looked to Texas Instruments degrees, Drayer attended night school at South Texas College of president of the university. “It will enable us to recruit top- Honored as a distinguished alumnus in 2006, Drayer for that opportunity. He got the nod to join TI’s MOS group and Law in Houston to earn a juris doctorate. With its concentration quality faculty and students, provide research and scholarship knows how to make a positive impact in business and in life. soon found himself as one of the original contributors to its MOS in corporate law, Drayer—and others—saw his legal background assistance, and help the college to grow in many other ways. He also recalls how Lamar was ranked among the nation’s best business in Stafford, Texas, near Houston. He would spend eight as a degree of distinction.

30 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 31 Delta Sigma Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha 45th Anniversary Celebration Hybrid know-how, February 22-24, 2008 entrepreneurial élan HOMECOMING Information at www.lamar.edu/alumni “When I graduated, engineers went to work FEBRUARY 22-23, 2008 for one of a dozen large companies,” Phil Drayer said. “Now the Don’t miss this opportunity to return to your campus—bustling, thriving and proudly displaying a spectrum for things to Celebrations number of new venues. Reminisce with friends at the new dining hall or the amazing Sheila do is much, much broader.” Umphrey Recreational Sports Center. Take a campus tour and see how much has changed—and That is why Drayer is an active propo- MUSIC how much brings back fond memories—since you were hiking to class. All alumni are invited to nent of developing a cross-flow between HALL of HONOR the colleges of engineering and business to COMPUTER SCIENCE cheer the Cards to victory at the Homecoming basketball game at 7 p.m. Feb. 23. REUNION provide Lamar’s graduates a distinctive advantage in the high-tech marketplace.

BRIAN SATTLER REGISTRATION DUE BY FEB. 12, 2008 “The engineering profession is becom- ing more and more entrepreneurial in nature. A block of rooms has been reserved at the MCM Elegante Hotel in “I always wanted to start my own company, and I felt that my technical Today, most jobs and innovation are found in Beaumont. Contact the hotel directly at (409) 842-3606 or go online to education and experience, coupled with a legal education, would provide me a small and medium-sized entrepreneurial busi- www.mcmelegantebeaumont.com and mention Lamar University's unique background,” Drayer said. He remains a member of the State Bar of Texas. nesses. And, many of today’s graduates will Homecoming 2008 to receive the discounted In 1980, Drayer started his first company—EPI Technologies—a semiconduc- get the bug to do something entrepreneurial rate. Room availability is limited, so tor contract manufacturer. “We were one of the early inventors of the contract on their own.” manufacturing business,” Drayer said. make your reservation early. Check Likewise, Drayer sees continuing oppor- Soon, the Dallas company was making semiconductors for customers like TI, out the alumni web site for schedules tunity for venture capital and financial institu- Motorola and Fairchild, as well as highly reliable circuits for the Department of and details. tions as they support increasing numbers of Energy’s nuclear applications. 409) 880-8921 | (800) 298-4839 new, upcoming or separating businesses. In 1990, Drayer “came full circle” when he took leadership of a company www.lamar.edu/alumni It would be a clear advantage for engi- owned by Teledyne Industries—his first employer. “The semiconductor industry neering majors to graduate with some busi- was going through another one of its severe recessions,” Drayer said. “Teledyne’s ness background, he said. “Not like me, who semiconductor group’s financial performance was bad and getting worse.” had no idea what a profit-and-loss statement He rescued the floundering high-tech company from a relentless pounding by was,” Drayer said. “I know now what my the industry’s “boom-and-bust cycles.” In two years, a thorough restructure and weakness was when I started my first busi- turn-around was complete, and the once-shunned company was highly desirable. ness at age 35. I started from a very deep “We ended up buying the semiconductor business from Teledyne,” Drayer said. hole and had to learn as I went along. I Soon, a new company, TelCom Semiconductor, was created to develop a series of could have gotten my business started a lot standard and semi-standard high-performance products destined for use in cellular quicker than I did had I been equipped from phones, personal computers and other consumer products. The formula met success, a business perspective.” the company grew, and profitability was up. In 2000, Drayer sold the company to Likewise, business students would bene- Microchip of Phoenix, Ariz. fit by being exposed to the technical jargon Drayer then took his combination of high-tech savvy and business acumen to and aspects of the technology business, the venture capital arena as president and CEO of Kalydus Equity Research Partners, Drayer believes. a company providing equity research for Wall Street investment firms and the Bank “Graduates who have a big-picture per- of America. Perry tapped Drayer’s business acumen and high-tech savvy soon after spective and take chief-financial-officer or that to help guide the Emerging Technology Fund. chief-operating-officer positions inside com- “Rarely does a day go by that I don’t think that all I may have, or have accom- panies would have a real advantage,” he said. plished, was in large measure because Lamar was there to give me a start,” Drayer “Reciprocal exposure between business and said. “I can assure you that when I was a graduate in 1967 if someone had told me I engineering would make a much more desir- was going to be standing here in the Phillip M. Drayer Department of Electrical able candidate coming out of the university.” Engineering, I would have thought they were absolutely crazy.” —BKS

32 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 33 Another Repeat Performance lthough the Lady Cardinals cross country team fell just short of a fourth Aconsecutive conference title—edged out by Texas A&M Corpus Christi by four points— the individual performance of senior Clerc Koenck made history. After becoming the first Lady Cardinal to capture the Southland Conference crown as a junior in 2006, Koenck became the first Lamar University runner, male or female, to repeat as a cross country conference champion with a 20:48.1 performance over 6,000 Scavenger hunt nets meters. The only runner to register three straight championships the goods since 1997 is Lamar coach Sita Waru-Ewell, who accomplished The second-annual canned food scav- the feat from 1999-2001 while running for McNeese. enger hunt held Oct. 15 by the Lamar Junior Renee Graham continued her run of second-place finishes in the University Student-Athlete Advisory SLC championship, grabbing the No. 2 spot for the third straight season. Committee (SAAC)—which includes members from all Lamar athletic Freshman Rachel Kingsford was the third Lady Cardinal to finish in the top teams—brought in 1,300 pounds of 10, grabbing a 10th-place finish. Like the men, the three runners in the top canned goods for the Southeast Texas 10 earned all-conference honors. Food Bank. Emelie Irving, executive director of the Southeast Texas Food The Cardinals continued their successful season with impressive performances Bank, was on hand to accept the dona- at the South Central Regional in Fayetteville, Ark., on Nov. 10. The men’s team tion and address the crowd in atten- turned in a fourth-place finish, while the women placed sixth. Kasagule, Kosgey, dance at the Montagne Center. Bwambale, Koenck and Graham all earned all-region honors with their Members from all of Lamar’s ath- letic teams met at Rogers Park at the From left, Ewan Simpson, Danny Shaw, Francis Kasagule, Randy Becker, Aaron Brannen, Frank Bwambale, top 25 finishes. corner of Dowlen and Gladys and split Samuel Kosgei and Drew Bean. Two-time all-American Kasagule is holding the trophy. Individually, three LU runners punched their ticket to the NCAA Championship into small groups to search for the food in Terre Haute, Ind. Kasagule and Koenck earned automatic berths with their from houses in the surrounding neigh- second- and fourth-place finishes, while Graham earned an at-large bid after finish- borhood. The canned goods were given ing in 11th place. to the Southeast Texas Food Bank as Cross country captures second —DL part of a presentation during the Big Red Mania pep rally. straight SLC Championship CLERC KOENCK by Drew Lacy

he foundation was already in place for a repeat with the men’s what kind of history we have.” LU SOCCER TEAM Tcross country team returning all five runners that clinched the Sophomore Francis Kasagule led the way for the Cardinals, run- Left to right, front row: 2006 Southland Conference title. The only thing missing from a ning to a second-place finish in a time of 24:12.5 over 8,000 meters. Kari Melancon, Lauren Messick, second straight SLC title was for the Cardinals to run the race. He finished eight seconds behind Shadrack Songok of TAMUCC, Kelsie Binetti, Lauren Ludwig, In a span of 30 minutes, the LU men had finished the job they who set a new SLC meet record with a 24:04.6 performance. As a Mindy Gremillion, Haley Addison; had come to do in Corpus Christi. The Cardinals celebrated their freshman in 2006, Kasagule registered a third-place finish. middle row: Carrie Mrazek, second straight conference championship by putting five individuals Junior Samuel Kosgei, who finished second a year ago, was the Lauren Peterson, Brittany Ross, among the top 15 runners in the SLC meet at West Guth Park. second LU runner to cross the finish line, grabbing a fourth-place Yureli Gomez, Aline Pugliesi, The Cardinals posted a team score of 37 points to win the title, finish in a time of 24:38.8, while junior Frank Bwambale registered a Beth Squires, Heather Broussard; while Texas A&M Corpus Christi finished in second place with 44 seventh-place finish in a time of 25:10.1. Senior Danny Shaw com- back row: athletic trainer Josh points and UT-Arlington finished third with 73 points. The win was the pleted his SLC Championship career with his third straight Top 10 Yonker, former volunteer assistant seventh SLC team title for Lamar, tying them for the most in conference finish, grabbing 10th place in a time of 25:25.0. The four Cardinals coach Gina Fulner-Dillon, Ericka history with McNeese State and former member Abilene Christian. in the Top 10 all earned all-conference honors. Predmore, Erin Binagia, Staci “Winning this championship is special for several reasons,” cross Freshman Drew Bean, who was running only the second race of McGuire, Leslie Myers, Stefani country coach Sita Waru-Ewell said. “The first reason is that this is his collegiate career, completed the scoring for the Cardinals with a Turner, Jillian Lindsey, Lauree what we were supposed to do. We returned everybody from a year 14th-place finish in a time of 25:41.9. Sophomore Randy Becker was Thibaut, Logan Matt, Rachelle Barry, ago, but repeating a championship is very hard, especially when every- the sixth LU runner to cross the finish line, grabbing 16th place in a Toree Plaia, former head coach body around you expects it from you. The other reason is that it puts time of 25:49.1, while sophomore Aaron Brannen finished 22nd in Matthew Dillon, assistant us in a tie for the most team championships in conference history. a time of 26:11.3. Junior Ewan Simpson closed out the Lamar coach Jodi Clugston. That says a lot about what kind of program we have right now, and performance with 28th-place finish, running a 26:41.7.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELTA SIGMA! Delta Sigma Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha Cardinals Lady Cardinals Celebrates the 45th anniversary of the founding of the fter three straight years of advancing to the semifinals of the ith just four returning players, 10 newcomers and a new head Lamar University chapter Feb. 22-24, 2008. ASouthland Conference Tournament, Lamar is poised for a run at Wcoach, Lady Cardinal basketball has a new look for the 2007-08 For more information, visit www.lamar.edu/alumni. the SLC Tournament title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. season, a look they hope to parlay into championship contender status. Steve Roccaforte ’89 guided the Cardinals to a 15-17 overall Head coach Larry Tidwell and his staff of Sondra Ancelot ’94, Clarence J. LeLeaux Jr. ’49, certif. chemistry, Charles Alexander ’58, B.A. history, earned Martha (Moulden) Bruce ’61, B.B.A. office record and an 8-8 mark in SLC play in his first year at the helm. He ’05, Janet Eaton and Joey Wells made an immediate impact on the We hope you enjoy reading lives in Houston with his wife, Josephine. his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in administration, lives in Beaumont. 1962. He has since retired after 45 years of returns a solid nucleus of six letterwinners, including four starters, that recruiting trail, inking the No. 31-ranked class in the NCAA, as Ed. E. Canoll Jr. ’61, B.F.A. graphic design, about former classmates. If teaching and lives in Butler County, Ohio, Basketball is retired and lives in Rosenberg with his has optimism running high in Cardinal country. ranked by The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report. They addressed 50s with his wife, JoAnn. you have news to share – a wife, Linda. Lamar was the No. 7-seed at last year’s SLC Tournament, played their need at each position with impact players on the perimeter and Harold W. Davis ’50, A.A. engineering, is Shirley (Metreyeon) Broussard ’58, B.S. Betty (Simmons) Cochran ’61, B.A. English, chief financial officer for EWSCO and lives physical education, is retired from at the Campbell Center in size and development in the paint, position announcement, ’63, M.A. English, lives in Washington, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with his wife, Enid. Nederland school district and lives in Houston. The Cardinals upset N.C., with her husband, William. while adhering to the philosophy of milestone, achievement, Nederland with her husband, Paul. Leonard E. Davis ’50, certif. engineering, No. 2-seed Sam Houston State, Dudley D. English ’61, B.S. chemical engi- “pure energy” by playing up-tempo, received his bachelor’s degree in mathemat- Kenneth R. Garner ’58, B.B.A marketing, wedding, baby – or know neering, has retired as director of engineer- 99-98, when Darren Hopkins ics from Trinity University in 1953, and his is retired from Sears Roebuck and lives pressing basketball. ing for Olin Corp. and lives in Tallahassee, the whereabouts of a lost juris doctorate from the University of Texas in Odessa. hit a driving layup with 2.6 The Lady Cards were tabbed Fla. in 1958. He practices law at his own firm John B. Hancock ’58, B.B.A accounting, is seconds remaining in the game. the top team in the Southland alumnus, we want to hear in San Antonio, where he lives with his Daniel F. Greer ’61, B.S. social sciences, a self-employed investment advisor and wife, Jean. They have three children and earned his master’s degree in education and Lamar’s season ended with a Conference Eastern Division by the lives in Sugar Land. from you. Send us your news: four grandchildren. counseling in 1968. He works part time 78-65 loss to No. 3-seed coaches and second in the east by Jamie G. James ’58, B.S graphic design, is for the University of Alaska Southeast and Write to Cadence, Neil J. Sheffield Jr. ’50, certif., lives in Tyler owner and president of the James Agency lives in Ketchikan, Alaska, with his wife, Northwestern State in the the sports information directors. with his wife, Margie. P.O. Box 10011, in San Diego, Calif. Rita. semifinals. Returning players are sophomore John A. Smart Jr. ’50, certif. business, Harry E. Langert ’58, B.B.A. business Barbara (Power) Idleman ’61, B.S. second- Beaumont, TX 77710, received his bachelor’s degree from the The six returning players Brittney Williams, senior Aida administration, is advisor to the president ary education, has recently become a great- University of Texas in 1954. He is retired accounted for 66 percent of the of Taylor Made Adidas Golf Co. and lives grandmother. She is retired and lives in Bakhos, Jasmine Stewart and email [email protected] and lives in Centennial, Colo., with his wife, in La Quinta, Calif., with his wife, Jane. Macon, Ga. scoring and 59 percent of the Marriott. Vickie Toney. or call (409) 880-8421. Capt. Don McWilliams ’58, B.S. govern- James A. Harvard ’62, B.S. mechanical rebounding from last year’s Col. Robert F. Darden Jr. ’51, certif., received Joining them is a talented ment, is a retired pilot for the Federal engineering, is retired and lives in his bachelor’s degree from the University squad. group of newcomers, led by 5-6 Aviation Administration and lives in Hendersonville, N.C., with his wife, of Omaha in 1962, and his master’s from Kilgore. Judith. The Cardinals return four point guard Nikki Williams—a 1st- American University in 1974. He is an Air senior starters in Matthew team NJCAA All-American who is 40s Force retiree and lives in Waco with his Melvin E. O’Mealey ’58, B.S. mechanical Katherine (Marsch) Henderson ’62, B.S. ele- Flossy (Wadzeck) Shipman ’45, B.B.A. busi- wife, Jo Ann. They have three children. engineering, is retired and lives in Aurora, mentary education, is a retired teacher and Barrow, Darren Hopkins, Lamar an explosive floor-leader and a Colo., with his wife, Jerry. lives in Taylorville, Iowa, with her husband, ness administration, is a real estate agent Dr. Joseph E. Dugas Jr. ’51, certif., earned Patrick. They have twin granddaughters. Sanders and Currye Todd. Also quality shooter from behind the arc. for Century 21 Tenace Realty in Boynton his master’s in 1956 and his law degree in Carole (Yant) Tanner ’58, B.S. music, lives in returning are junior forward Tamara Abalde, a 6-2 small forward Beach, Fla. She was voted “Realtor of the 1971. He is a retired surgeon and lives in Liberty, Mo., with her husband, Jim. Charles M. McBride ’62, B.S. industrial Year” by her local board of realtors and she New Orleans with his wife, Betty. engineering, earned a Ph.D. in engineering Lawrence Nwevo and sopho- Ronald R. Wallace ’58, B.B.A. marketing, is has size and versatility on the lives in Atlantis, Fla. in 1967. He is retired and lives in John H. Marshall ’54, B.S. business admin- the slot manager for Agua Caliente Casino more guard Shane Mahoney. Robinson with his wife, Ida (Bridgewater) perimeter and helped Spain finish Howard Williams ’47, A.S. science, earned istration, received a law degree from St. and lives in Cathedral City, Calif. ’62, certif. secretarial science. That returning fire-power his doctorate of medicine from Baylor Mary’s University in 1957 and his master’s 4th in the 19U European Ronnie R. Webb ’58, B.B.A. economics, is a University in 1956. He owns a family from New York University in 1958. He Sarah (Winchester) Rankin ’62, B.A. did not go unnoticed to the rest Championships held in Slovakia computer systems analyst for Motorola and practice in Orange. He lives there with his recently received a 50-year service award English, is a retired teacher and lives in lives in Austin with his wife, Joan. of the conference as Lamar was during the summer. wife, Elizabeth. from the State Bar of Texas and practices Tucson, Ariz. law in Houston, where he lives with his Roy A. Johlke ’59, B.S. industrial engineer- picked to finish first in the SLC Ashley Crawford, a 5-6 point Jesse L. Boyett ’48, A.A. engineering, Thomas E. Short Jr. ’62, B.S. chemical engi- earned his engineering degree from Texas wife, Jacquelyn. ing, is retired and lives in Tomball. East Division in the preseason guard, displays a speedy, athletic neering, earned his Ph.D. from Oklahoma A&M University in 1950. He is retired R. Guy Williford ’54, B.S. business adminis- Sue (Sherer) Jones ’59, B.B.A. office State University in 1970. He is retired and coaches’ poll. Additionally, combo-guard game, best suited for and lives in Freeport with his wife, Mary. tration, is retired and lives in Port Neches administration, retired after 37 years with lives in Ada, Okla., with his wife, Debbie. Sanders was named to the pre- Tidwell’s up-tempo style. Herbert B. Crawford ’48, A.S. engineering, with his wife, Neva. DuPont and lives in Port Neches with her They have three sons. husband, James. season all-SLC first team and Emily Spickler, a 5-7 shooting earned his physics degree from the Janie E. (Findley) Lunceford ’55, B.S. educa- Earl L. Walker ’62, B.A. sociology, lives in University of Texas in 1950. He is retired Bette (Rudd) Liebgold Hopkins was a second-team tion, is a paralegal for Zbranek Law Firm ’59, B.S. secondary Kailua, Hawaii. He has one daughter and guard, finished 2nd in the NJCAA and lives in Houston. and lives in Liberty. She has three children education, earned her master’s degree in two grandchildren. selection. and seven grandchildren. math from Louisiana State University in in 3-point field goal percentage and Belton Davis ’48, certif. business, received Jeanette (Decker) Weems ’62, B.A. English, 1963. She is retired and lives in Houston The recruiting haul landed led the nation in free-throw percent- his bachelor’s degree from the University Gene M. Shaw ’55, B.S. health education, is a retired teacher and lives in LaGrange of Houston in 1949. He is retired and lives with her husband, Peter. a top-flight point guard in DARREN HOPKINS age in 2007. Agnija Reke, a 5-8 is retired and lives in Nederland with his with her husband, Dalton. in Houston with his wife, Marie. wife, Gail. Kenny Dawkins, who was an shooting guard, was a starter on the Cary (Van Vleck) West ’62, B.S. music, is a Dudley G. Letbetter ’48, certif., received his Robert V. Birch ’57, B.S. secondary educa- 60s substitute teacher and a substitute driver NJCAA second-team All-American. Brandon McThay was also added 2007 Wranglers team that captured the NJCAA national championship. bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering tion, earned his master’s degree in second- for Marble Falls school district. She lives in Martha (Sanders) Campbell ’60, B.A in 1950 from Texas A&M. He is retired ary education from the University of Burnett with her husband, Norman. to provide backcourt depth. Lamar returns two letterwinners to front- The Lady Cardinals also bulked up in the post, adding Natasha English, lives in Austin with her husband, and lives in Groves. Houston in 1965. He is retired and lives in John ’64, B.S. mathematics. Phyllis (Lee) Baker ’63, B.S. secondary edu- court and will count on four recruits to provide interior defense, Ward, a 6-5 center; Brittany Hendrix, a 5-11 small forward; West Columbia with his wife, Celeste. Jack T. Belton ’49, certif. drafting, is retired cation, earned her master’s degree in biolo- rebounding and some scoring punch: juniors Jay Brown, Justin Deward P. Bowles ’61, B.A. English, earned Trashanna Smith, a 6-0 forward; and Nicole Aiken, a 6-3 center. and lives in Beaumont with his wife. They Thomas E. Dwyer ’57, B.S. industrial engi- gy in 1971. She is the chair of the science his master’s degree in English from the Nabors and Tristan Worrell (Houston, Texas/Angelina College) and have three children and six grandchildren neering, retired from the Air Force in 1974 department for Port Arthur school district With the talent Tidwell and staff have assembled, this year’s team University of Arkansas in 1963. He is self- and great-grandchildren. as a lieutenant colonel and command pilot. and lives in Port Arthur. sophomore Ashton Hall. The Cardinals will also gain the services of employed and lives in San Jose, Calif. will look to force the issue on the court and become a force in the SLC. He lives in Conroe with his wife, Barbara Coy Custer, who was redshirted last season as a freshman. ’48, certif. vocation.

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Mac R. Chandler ’63, B.S. sociology, earned Fred B. McKinley ’64, B.A. political science, Sue (Chesson) Harris ’67, B.S. kinesiology, is husband, John. She has recently begun David Quick ’70, B.S. secondary education, is with his wife, Sylvia. keting. Their son, Caleb, will graduate from Rebecca (Hobbs) Wright ’75, A.A.S. dental his master’s degree in public administration ’87, M.A. history, retired from Willow Creek the director of education for the Stark working on her master’s degreee in special a teacher at the STARS campus in Jasper Lamar in December with a B.B.A. in human hygiene, ’89, B.S. elementary education, ’04, Mary (Strait) Babb ’72, B.B.A. management, from the University of Texas in 1970 and Publishing Co. in 2005. He recently pub- Museum of Art. She lives in Orange with education. school district. He lives in Jasper with his resource management. M.S. family and consumer science, is an is employed with the White Pine County lives in Staunton, Va. lished his third book, a historical fictional her husband, Franklin. wife, Paula (Welch) ’75, B.S. elementary edu- instructor for the dental hygiene program at Charlotte (Howard) Rainey ’69, B.S. elemen- school district and lives in Lund, Nev. Gerald R. Miller ’74, B.S. secondary educa- novel titled Devil’s Pocket. He lives in cation, ’85, M.Ed. secondary education. She Lamar Institute of Technology. She lives in Louise (Jacobson) Galiher ’63, B.S. elemen- Carole (Murphy) Page ’67, B.A. English, tary education, retired in 1991 and lives in tion, ’78, M.Ed. secondary education, is a Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Dottie. is assistant superintendent of Burkeville Wiley Dean Hulsey ’72, B.S. chemical engineer- Beaumont with her husband, Perry ’76, tary education, lives in Chevy Chase, Md., earned her master’s degree in English from Beaumont. She has three daughters. counselor at Nederland High School. He school district. ing, is production manager for Occidental A.A.S. drafting technology. with her husband, Richard. They have two Bob Morgan ’64, B.B.A. business manage- the University of Oklahoma in 1971. She is lives in Nederland with his wife, Cynthia. Stuart D. Slifkin ’69, B.S. sociology, has just Chemical Corp. He lives in Houston. children. ment, began his new term as justice of the a program director for the Army and lives in Linda (Boyd) Sparkman ’70, B.A. political sci- Pamela (Holt) Ansley ’76, B.S. elementary started his 12th year as transportation John E. Nilsson ’74, B.S. mathematics, earned peace for Precinct 2 in Jefferson County this Springfield, Va. ence, lives in Beaumont with her husband, Glenn M. Ledger ’72, B.B.A. marketing, is a education, is a teacher for the Hardin school William T. Kee ’63, B.S. mathematics, is director for Tiffany & Co. He lives in Long his M.B.A. from the University of Southern year. He lives in Port Arthur. Terry ’73, B.S. secondary education. They retail manager for S.C. Johnson & Sons. He district where she was named 2007 Hardin retired and lives in Royal, Ark., with his Vonda (Hebert) Sharron ’67, B.S. elementary Valley, N.J., with his wife, Karen. California in 1987. He is a senior scientist have one son and one grandchild. lives in Vidor with his wife, Joanne. Elementary School Teacher of the Year. She wife, Edna. Robert G. O’Brien ’64, B.S. electrical engineer- education, lives in San Antonio with her hus- for Computer Sciences Corp. and lives in Russell L. Staley ’69, B.S. mathematics, lives in Daisetta with her husband, Michael. ing, earned his master’s degree in electrical band, James ’70, B.B.A. marketing. Jack A. Strawther ’70, B.S. health education, Randall G. Morgan ’72, B.S. chemical engineer- Galveston. Dan G. Sassin ’63, B.S. electrical engineering, received his master’s degree from the engineering from Purdue University in is district manager for Cambro and lives in ing, retired after 32 years with Dow Chemical Nelda (Bailey) Buchanan ’76, B.S. elementary is retired and lives in New Braunfels with his Robert T. Victor ’67, B.S. biology, ’77, M.B.A. University of Houston in 2007. He is retired Virgil M. Pate ’74, B.S. health education, is 1969. He is retired and lives in Lakeside, Bedford. Co. He lives in Lake Jackson with his wife, education, teaches kindergarten in Port wife, LaVerne. health care administration, is a program and lives in Deer Park. superintendent for Warren school district. Ore., with his wife, Diane. Mary. They have four granddaughters. Neches-Groves school district. She lives in Richard J. Thiem Jr. analyst for Quest Diagnostic. He lives in Donald B. Winkle ’70, B.B.A business man- He lives in Hillister. ’63, B.B.A. accounting, is Orange with her husband, Jeffery. James L. Walker ’64, B.S. sociology, is corpo- Desoto with his wife, Erma. agement, is regional manager for Thomas Jennifer (Jacobson) Stone ’72, B.S. speech, retired from American National Insurance John Prien ’74, B.B.A. accounting, lives in Co. and lives in Galveston. rate director of human resources for Superior 70s Equipment and lives in Cypress with his earned a master’s degree from Sam Houston Judy (Burge) Hare ’76, B.M. music education, Barbara (Keeling) Dressler ’68, B.B.A. office Decatur, Ill., with his wife, Nancy. Industries International. He lives in Valencia, wife, Linda. State University. She worked as a speech lan- is a music teacher for West Bonner County Lynton H. Thomas ’63, B.S. mechanical engi- administration, is an executive administrator Sheri (Barrett) Baden ’70, B.S. elementary Calif., with his wife, Robin. guage pathologist and speech therapist for Francis J. Rivero ’74, B.A. history, owns school district and lives in Priest River, neering, is retired and lives in Calvert City, for North American Training Development. education, teaches kindergarten at All Saints Walter “Bob” Buckalew ’71, B.A. English, Conroe school district and retired in May F&M Copiers and lives in Leander with his Idaho, with her husband, Duane. Ky., with his wife, Betty. Dr. Robert C. English ’65, B.S. biology, is a She lives in Houston with her husband, Jerry Episcopal School and lives in Beaumont. earned a master’s degree in communication 2007. She lives in Conroe. wife, Margaret. dentist at Fort Hood and lives in Nolanville. ’68, B.S. mechanical engineering, who is a from the University of Texas. He is owner Ernest Jacobs Jr. ’76, B.S computer science, Glenda (Salem) Bays ’64, B.S. elementary Leroy J. Bailey ’70, B.S. mathematics, lives senior project engineer for Albemarle Corp. and president of Buckalew Media. He Adair (Thorn) Bowen ’73, B.S. elementary Linda J. Wagner ’74, B.S. medical technology, is a senior service specialist for Dow education, lives in Longview with her Beverly (Odneal) Morris ’65, B.S. elementary in Garland with his wife, Barbara (Guidry) formed the company after a 25-year career in education, earned her master’s degree in is a medical technologist for M.D. Anderson Chemical Co. He lives in Lake Jackson with husband, Ed. education, earned her master’s degree in Don Dutton ’68, B.S. government, is presi- ’72, B.B.A. accounting; ’79, M.Ed. media that includes serving as a producer for 1989. She is a professor at Baylor University Cancer Center in Houston, where she lives. his wife, Lois (Laday) ’78, A.S. nursing. education in 1970. She retired after 26 years dent of the North American Gaming special education. Jim B. Boone ’64, B.S. music; ’70, M.Ed. the NBC Television Network and as an exec- and lives in Woodway. of teaching and lives in Thornton with her Regulators Association. Before being Barbara (Goodgame) Wyrick ’74, B.S. elemen- Minette (Liebling)Johnson ’76, B.B.A. guidance; ’74, M.Ed. school administration, Thomas C. Gerik ’70, B.S. health physical utive producer for Austin’s KVUE-TV and husband, Gary. appointed as a board member of the New Martha Holland ’73, B.B.A. marketing, earned tary education, retired in 2006 after 32 years accounting, is a real estate agent with Keller is retired and lives in Colmesneil with education, earned his master’s in education Houston’s KPRC-TV. He lives in Austin with Mexico Gaming Control Board in 2003, he her law degree from the University of of teaching. She lives in Grand Prairie. Williams Realty and lives in Alpharetta, Ga., his wife, Linda (Laughman) ’62, B.S. John C. Susil ’65, B.S. mechanical engineer- administration from Texas A&M–Commerce. his wife, Amanda. had a general civil law practice in Ruidoso, Houston in 1978 and is an attorney advisor with her husband, Kirk. elementary education. ing, earned his master’s degree in mechanical He retired from Robinson school district in Nicholas Carter ’75, B.B.A. accounting, is N.M. He lives in New Mexico with his Bill Dean ’71, B.S. elementary education, ’74, for the Social Security Administration. She engineering from Texas A&M University in 2005 and lives there with his wife of 37 years, president of South Hampton Refining Co. Beverly Nell Lange ’76, B.B.A. accounting, is Charles A. Brown ’64, B.S. electrical wife, Ladonnah. M.Ed. supervision, is superintendent of lives in Bethesda, Md. 1966. He is retired and lives in Friendswood Carolyn (Urbanovsky) ’70, B.A. English. She is He lives in Lumberton with his wife, Judy assistant city manager of Frisco. She also engineering, is a marketing consultant for Jasper school district. He lives in Jasper with with his wife, Agnes (Harbus) ’65, B.S Ann (Blackwell) Fisher ’68, B.A. elementary a teacher in Robinson. Gailen (Clark) Lakey ’73, B.S. home econom- ’79, B.B.A. accounting. She owns Antique serves as vice president of the TexStar Local Ranken Energy Corp. and lives in Edmond, his wife, Susan (Miller) ’71, B.S. elementary secondary education. education, owns Ann Fisher Realty and lives ics, is teaching home economics at Kennedy Mall of Lumberton. Government Investment Pool. Okla., with his wife, Shirley. Frank Hancock III ’70, B.S secondary educa- education. in Tallahassee, Fla., with her husband, George. High School and lives in San Antonio with Ruth Julianne (Mills) DeBower ’66, B.S. tion, ’72, B.S. psychology, earned his Ph.D. Billy F. Chilos ’75, A.A.S. drafting technology, Henry W. Prejean ’76, B.A. history, is assistant James Robert Collins ’64, B.A. mathematics, Kirk F. Hebert ’71, B.B.A accounting, lives in her husband, Willie. They have one son. speech, retired as senior vice president and Michael L. Johnson ’68, B.A. history, earned in religious studies from Rice University in earned his master’s in business administra- district attorney for Brazoria County. He earned his M.B.A. in management from the Brentwood, Tenn., with his wife, Mary. University of Dallas and a master’s degree regional trust manager for Bank One, Texas, his master’s degree in 1976 and is the New 1990. He is chaplain for Solar Hospice Care Charles L. McFarland ’73, B.B.A. accounting, tion and his Ph.D. in leadership administra- lives in Richwood with his wife, Trudy. and currently runs a private law practice. She Mexico sales representative for Houghton and lives in Las Vegas, Nev. Emmett McKinley ’71, B.B.A. marketing, is is the practice manager for Halliburton and tion in 1994. He is the president and chief and doctorate in electrical engineering from George M. Shirley Jr. ’76, B.A. sociology, is has four children and lives in Lakeway with Mifflin. He lives in Albuquerque, N.M., with the advertising director for the Baytown Sun. lives in Katy with his wife, Cindy. They have executive officer of Leadership Strategies Texas A&M University–Commerce. He is Pricilla (Hodges) Hayes ’70, B.S. elementary retired after 46 years as an industrial safety her husband, Ken. his wife, Marjorie. He lives in Atascocita with his wife, Tamara. two sons. International and lives in Maryville, Ill., head of industrial engineering and technolo- education, teaches first grade in Clear Creek consultant. He lives in Sulphur, La., with His son attends Lamar University, majoring with his wife, Monica. They have three gy, Dwight Look College of Engineering Charles W. Hammonds ’66, B.S. electrical Carol (Keesee) Pace ’68, B.A. sociology, lives school district. She has been teaching 32 Cecile C. Ross ’73, A.A.S. dental hygiene, his wife, Anne (Himmelheber) ’79, B.S. art with Texas A&M–Commerce. He lives in in biology and chemistry. children and six grandchildren. engineering, earned two master’s degrees in Fredericksburg with her husband, William years and is a professional singer with is a dental hygienist for Mott Family education. Farmersville with his wife, Claude Ann (Riggs) in 1968 and 1992 and a doctorate of ’71, B.S. government. CantareHouston, a chamber ensemble Harriet (Lane) Langston ’71, B.S. elementary Dentistry and lives in Rolla, Mo., with Phyliss (LeDoux) Coleman ’75, B.S. ’64, B.S. mathematics. Larry D. Storer ’76, M.Ed. school administra- ministry in 2000. He is pastor of Grace sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, education, ’83, M.Ed. special education, her husband, James. elementary education, ’79, M.A. special Dwight D. Thacker ’68, B.S. health education, tion, is vice president and editorial director Jimmie D. Cypert ’64, B.S. electrical engineer- Fellowship Church and lives in San Andreas, Houston. She lives in Pearland with her retired after 25 years of teaching. She lives in education, is the assistant superintendent for earned his master’s degree in health educa- Kenneth C. Thayer ’73, B.S. elementary of Publications & Communications Inc. He ing, earned his master’s degree from the Calif., with his wife, Myra (Hite) ’65, B.S. husband, Roland. Village Mills and has two children. Santa Fe school district. She lives in League tion in 1974. He is retired after 37 years as a education, is an identification technician for lives in Waco with his wife, Patricia. University of Texas in 1965. He is retired secondary education. City with her husband, Stanley ’80, B.B.A. coach in Bridge City school district and lives Samuel C. Itin ’70, B.S. environmental sci- Richard M. Metcalf ’71, B.B.A accounting, the Orange Police Department. He lives in and lives in Houston. accounting, who is a consultant with Russell Velma Elaine (Griffith) Stryker ’76, B.S. ele- Dr. William F. Harper ’66, B.S. biology, in Bridge City. ence, earned his master’s degree in 1975. He owns Sentinel Financial Tax Services and lives Orange with his wife, Rose. Coleman & Associates. mentary education, lives in Elberta, Ala., Robert M. Giesy Jr. ’64, B.A. sociology, is assumed the post of associate program direc- is the president of Lone Wolf Resources, and in Fancy Gap, Va., with his wife, Thelma. Carolyn R. Barnett ’69, B.S. health education, Patricia W. Wingate ’73, B.A. history, ’77, with her husband, Paul. retired and lives in Charleston, S.C. tor and internal medicine resident at the he lives in Houston with his wife, Susan. Barbara (Williams) Harper ’75, B.B.A. general earned her master’s degree in health educa- Leta (Thomas) Parker ’71, B.S. secondary M.A. history, taught special education and University of Texas Medical Branch after 18 business, ’04, M.B.A. business administra- Dene (LeGros) Tate ’76, certif. office adminis- Jo Ann (Thomas) Griffin ’64, B.S. sociology, tion in 1970. She owns Blueblood Ridge Marie (Thibodeaux) Johnson ’70, B.S. educa- education, is program assistant for Big lifeguard and water safety for 25 years. She years in private practice. He lives in tion, is an instructor at Houston Community tration, lives in Port Arthur with her hus- received her master’s degree in counseling Thoroughbred Farm and lives in Pollok. tion, teaches adult classes after retiring from Thicket National Preserve. She lives in works for Spindletop MHMR in Beaumont, Galveston with his wife, Peggy. College. She lives in Sugar Land. band, Donald. from the University of Delaware in 1972. teaching in Galveston where she lives. She Lumberton with her husband, John ’69, where she lives. Charlene (Born) Copeland ’69, B.A. political She is retired and lives in Wilmington, Del. Robert G. Hill ’66, B.S. government, is super- has three children and 10 grandchildren and B.A. political science, ’71, M.A. history. He Randall K. Odom ’75, B.A. criminal justice, is Rev. Pamela Lynn Taylor ’76, B.S. music, is science, is the assistant attorney general of Paula (Pate) Beaty ’74, B.S. secondary educa- intendent of the Marine Military Academy in great-grandchildren. retired in 2001 as manager of Village Creek chief of training for the Texas Game Warden senior pediatric chaplain at Texas Children’s Larry V. Hardy ’64, B.S. sociology, is retired Illinois. She lives in Shorewood, Ill. tion,’84, M.Ed. supervision, ’00, M.Ed. Harlingen. He lives there with his wife, Hattie State Park in Lumberton. Academy. He lives in Round Rock with his Hospital in Houston, where she lives. and lives in Oxford, Ohio, with his wife Jerry C. Knowles ’70, A.A.S. business and school administration, is interim coordinator “Jodi” (Oakes) ’68, B.S. home economics. James K. Davis ’69, B.B.A accounting, is a wife, Dana. They have two children. Katherine. They have three children and four data processing, is the owner of WHY USA Sherry (Singleton) Windham ’71, B.S. art of testing, assessment and counseling for Donald B. White ’76, B.B.A. general business, real estate agent at Ken Davis Realtor and grandchildren. Lt. Col. John D. Taylor ’66, B.S. sociology, lives Bluebonnet Properties in Houston, where he education, teaches art at Orangefield High Port Arthur school district. Daniel T. Seay ’75, B.S. secondary education, is a claims manager for the American lives in Arlington with his wife, Nita. in Woodville with his wife, Rosemary. lives with his wife, Dixie. School and lives in Orangefield. She has earned his master’s degree in education from Automobile Association in Houston. He was George E. Mathesen ’64, B.F.A. graphic Kathleen (Dean) Hayes ’74, B.B.A. office Dolores (Rodriguez) Pinion ’69, B.S. secondary two daughters. Pepperdine University in 1979. He is presi- recently nominated for the company’s design, earned his master’s degree in 1965 Richard W. Griffin ’67, B.A. political science, is Murphy J. Monceaux ’70, B.S. geology, administration, is a paraprofessional at Port education, ’73, M.Ed. educational psycholo- dent of ConCenSys Group Inc. and lives in President’s Award. He lives in Houston with from Instituto Allende in San Miguel de a professor at Ferris State University and lives earned his master’s degree in 1976. He is Randy Allmon ’72, B.S. geology, is vice presi- Neches-Groves High School. She lives in gy, is an instructor in the Fairbanks school Lenexa, Kan., with his wife, Janice. his wife, Rosemary. Allende, Mexico. He is retired and lives in in Big Rapids, Mich., with his wife, Diane. associate dean of ITT Technical Institute and dent and chief geophysicist of Kraker & Port Neches with her husband, John ’73, district in Alaska where she lives with her San Antonio with his wife, Lucy. lives in Old Hickory, Tenn. Martin Energy. He lives in The Woodlands A.A.S. mid-management, ’77, B.B.A. mar-

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Anthony M. Young ’76, certif. real estate, is in Raphael M. DeMartino ’78, B.B.A. general Thomas in 1988. He is the managing direc- Gary Rothenberger ’82, B.B.A. accounting, is Internal Revenue Service and lives in Meredith (May) Frazier ’88, A.A.S. radiologic Beaumont with his wife, Tanya. They have Dallas with her husband, Jason. real estate sales for Brighton Homes and business, is retired and lives in Beaumont tor for Coastal Securities and lives in an administrator at Calvary Baptist Church. Houston. technology, is retired and lives in Lufkin. She six children. Vernita (Pitts) Mathews ’92, B.S. criminal jus- lives in Pearland. with his wife, Mary Ann. Houston with his wife, Shelly. He lives in Beaumont with his wife, Jan. has two children and six grandchildren. Frankie (Driver) Johnson ’85, B.S. communi- Mary Rachel (Slott) Dubois ’90, B.S. speech, tice, is a probation officer for Dallas County Kathryn (Outler) Dunigan ’77, certif. vocational Michael D. Getz ’78, B.S. secondary educa- Ronald R. Strybos Jr. ’80, B.S. chemical engi- Terence Welch ’82, B.S. electrical engineer- cation, is a secretary for Spring school dis- Willamena (Taylor) Frazier ’88, B.B.A. general earned a master’s degree in art from Texas and lives in Mesquite. nursing, owns the Village Movie Center in tion, owns his own firm, the Law Offices of neering, is a senior cavern specialist for Dow ing, is director of operations for British trict. She lives in Houston with her husband, business, is a human resource representative A&M–Corpus Christi. She is a lecturer for Brian K. Richardson ’92, B.S. communication, Beaumont. She lives in Vidor with her hus- Michael Getz. He lives in Beaumont. Chemical. He lives in Angleton with his Petroleum America. He lives in Katy with Victor. They have one son. for Bayer Corp. She lives in Houston with the department of communication at received his master’s degree from Louisiana band, Johnny. wife, Gwen. his wife, Janelle. her husband, Justin ’00, B.G.S. general stud- Lamar, teaching public speaking and cor- Capt. John R. Ragan ’78, B.S. computer infor- Laura (Ham) Klock ’85, B.S. communication, Tech in 1992 and his doctorate from the ies. He is in the final stages of launching a porate training. She lives in Port Neches Daniel Duplantis ’77, A.A.S. real estate, is sen- mation and science, is active in the Air Force. Timothy Sudela ’80, A.A.S. drafting technolo- Jerome A. Jarboe ’83, B.S. chemical engi- lives in Windsor, Colo., with her husband, University of Texas in 2001. He is a profes- stock market analyst business. with her husband of 16 years, Robert, and ior consultant for Clayton Services. He is He lives in Balch Springs with his wife, gy, ’85, B.S. industrial technology, ’92, B.S. neering, is an environmental supervisor for Terry. They have six children. sor of communication studies at the their two children. president of the Mortgage Bankers Grace (Blackmon) ’92, B.A.A.S. applied arts mechanical engineering, is executive vice Houston Refining and lives in League City Cheri (Mathis) Prichard ’88, B.S. elementary University of North Texas and recently Todd A. Landry ’85, B.S. chemistry, earned his Association of Tampa Bay and regional gov- and sciences. president of American Valve & Hydrant. He with his wife, Sandra (Schroeder) ’83, B.S. education, lives in Dallas with her husband, Chris W. Graham ’90, B.S. computer science, founded New Script Communications. He M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University ernor of the Mortgage Bankers Association lives in Beaumont with his wife, Lisa. communication. Lev. They have two children. is a systems analyst for ExxonMobil lives in Fort Worth with his wife, Cheryl. William J. Traywick ’78, B.A. political science, in 1986. He is director of the Division of of Florida. He holds designations as a certi- Chemical Co. He was recently selected as the They have two children. is a retired captain of the Texas Alcoholic Daryl J. Harvey ’81, B.S. communication, is Colleen (Goodwin) Jones ’83, M.Ed. special Children and Families within the Nebraska Charlette (Prothro) Sandell ’88, B.B.A. general fied mortgage banker and an accredited resi- National Chapter Advisor of the Year by Beverage Commission. He lives in Spring an area sales manager for Novartis education, is a school psychologist for the Department of Health and Human Services. business, is a manager at Spectra Energy Yolanda M. Shaw ’92, A.A.S. business data dential underwriter from the Mortgage Sigma Nu Fraternity and lives in Beaumont with his wife, Billie Jo. Pharmaceuticals. He lives in Kingwood with Hamilton County Department of Education. He lives in Omaha, Neb., with his wife, Kari. Corp. She lives in Spring with her husband, processing, ’01, B.A.A.S. applied arts and Bankers Association of America. He lives in with his wife, Amy. his wife, Suzie. They have one daughter, She lives in Hixson, Tenn. Randy ’75, A.A.S. drafting technology. sciences, is a teacher in Beaumont, where Riverview, Fla., with his wife, Anita. George Briggs ’79, M.A. English, is minister Richard Sandig ’85, B.B.A. finance, is director who will become a third-generation Lamar Andy Mann ’90, B.S. political science, ’95, she lives. emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Kim (Rogers) McLaughlin ’83, B.S. communi- of financial accounting for Occidental DeAndrea (Prevost) Sullivan ’88, B.S. fashion Jack H. Eldridge ’77, M.Ed. secondary educa- graduate in December. M.B.A. business administration, is a contract Fellowship. He lives in Winston-Salem, cation disorders, is a second grade teacher Petroleum. He lives in Katy. and retail merchandising, is the human William F. Walker ’92, M.Ed. school adminis- tion, is a retired Air Force colonel, and he employee at Johnson Space Center. He lives N.C., with his wife, Elise. Michael Killingsworth ’81, B.S. elementary for Eanes school district. She was selected as resources manager for Macy’s West and lives tration, received his bachelor’s degree from lives in San Antonio. Britt K. Talent ’85, B.S. communication, owns in League City. education, was recently promoted to head of the 2007 Bridge Point Elementary Teacher in Chino Hills, Calif. East Texas Baptist University. He was recent- Phyllis (Osmand) Cowgill ’79, B.B.A the Cleveland County Herald and is a mem- Belinda Giarratano ’77, B.S. speech, teaches at learning and competence for gas and power of the Year and lives in Austin. Danny C. Mitchell ’90, A.A.S. mid-manage- ly selected as superintendent of Randolph accounting, lives in Houston with her ber of the Arkansas Press Association board Stephen Wilson ’88, B.S. electrical engineer- Vidor Junior High School. In March 2007, for Shell International/Royal Dutch Shell. ment, ’94, B.A.A.S. applied arts and sci- Field school district and lives in Killeen. husband, Patrick. Gary L. Miller ’83, B.S. mechanical engineer- of directors. He lives in Rison, Ark., with his ing, is president and creator of Music Oven she was given the VFW National Citizenship He lives in Hague, the Netherlands. ences, is a teacher and coach for Tatum ing, is branch manager for Engineered Air wife, Karen. Network Inc., an internet company that helps Nelson R. Davis III ’93, A.A.S. computer Education Teacher Award, which recognizes Joseph Hegwood ’79, B.B.A. accounting, is school district. He lives in Longview with Tom McClellan ’81, B.B.A. accounting, is direc- Balance Co. Inc. He lives in San Antonio businesses create their own audio image and drafting technology, is a computer-drafting teachers who provide citizenship education. chief financial officer for Bryan Texas Utilities. Mollie (Modisette) Dixon ’86, B.B.A. account- his wife, Erica. tor of forensic audit services for Delphi and with his wife, Sarah. helps artists outside the traditional broadcast technician for Gusto MSC and lives in Katy. She lives in Orange. He lives in Bryan with his wife, Cathy (Powell) ing, lives in Erie, Colo., with her husband, lives in Clarkston, Mich., with his wife, Mary. formats get air play. He lives in Austin. Michael W. Barnes ’91, B.M. music, is direc- ’80, certif. office administration. She is office Robert M. Simmons ’83, B.S. industrial tech- Douglas. They have twin sons. Mark A. Fertitta ’93, A.A.S. real estate, is James T. Glass Jr. ’77, B.S. industrial engi- tor of fine arts and band for Spring Hill manager for Bryan school district. David C. Smith ’81, B.S. industrial engineer- nology, is principal for Environmental Scott Coker ’89, A.A.S. real estate, owns owner of Mark A. Fertitta Realty and neering, ’90, M.E.S. engineering science, is James T. England ’86, B.B.A. marketing, is school district. His band has been invited to ing, was recently elected to the position of Resources of St. Louis and lives in St. Scott Coker Realty and lives in Lumberton. Property Management. He lives in the CAFM manager for Austin school dis- Colleen (O’Grady) Laine ’79, A.A.S. dental senior vice president for Woodforest perform at the 2008 Olympics in Bejing, chairman-elect for the American Machine Charles, Mo., with his wife, Sharla. Beaumont with his wife, Carolyn. trict and lives in Round Rock. hygiene, lives in Hitchcock. National Bank. He lives in Spring with his James Fults ’89, B.B.A. accounting, is senior China. He lives in Henderson. Tool Distributors’ Association. He lives in Dr. Barbara Stubee ’83, B.S. biology, has a wife, Lisa. financial analyst for Chevron Phillips Celeste (Moody) Halko ’94, B.S. health educa- Theresa (Crain) Harvick ’77, B.S. elementary Melaine (Henderson) Priesmeyer ’79, B.S. ele- Ballwin, Mo. Susan (Smith) Lamb ’91, B.B.A. accounting, medical practice in Port Arthur. She lives in Chemical Co. He lives in Magnolia with his tion, is the contracts manager of First Care education, teaches seventh grade in mentary education, owns Energy Metals Inc. Jose A. Ibarra ’86, A.A.S. electrical technolo- received her master’s degree from North Linwood Abshire ’82, B.B.A. management, is Nederland with her husband, Kenneth. wife, Robin, and their three daughters. Health Plans and lives in Georgetown with Hamshire-Fannett school district. She lives in and lives in Houston with her husband, gy, is a general foreman for Newtron Inc. Carolina State University in 1994. She is an a homebuilder and developer for AAA her husband, David. Beaumont with her husband, David. They Michael. William F. Dixon ’84, B.S. electrical engineer- and lives in Beaumont with his wife, Patty. Lee E. McBride ’89, B.S. kinesiology, is an educational consultant and academic advisor Home Builders. He lives in Beaumont with have two children. ing, is a systems engineering manager for They have two children. assistant professor at McNeese State for Collegiate Preparation Services and lives in Shawn E. Hamilton ’94, B.S. industrial tech- Elias Rohbani ’79, B.S. chemical engineering, his wife, Kerri (Fournier) ’87, B.B.A. general Lockheed Martin. He lives in Coatesville, University and lives in Lake Charles, La., with Raleigh, N.C., with her husband, Marshall. nology, is the IT coordinator and coach for Gary Jackson ’77, B.A. government, ’79, is public relations officer for Acme Metal business. They have five children. Paul Clines ’87, B.S. speech communication, Pa., with his wife, Wanda. his wife, Barrette. They have three children. Woodlands High School. He lives in M.P.A. public administration, is assistant city Finishing Inc. and lives in West Hills, Calif., is senior pastor for Parkway United Jack Mann ’91, B.B.A. finance, is assistant Lillie (Larkin) Hubbard ’82, B.B.A. office Houston with his wife, Shaundra. manager of Deer Park. This year, he celebrat- with his wife, Sherri. Juliana (McNight) Garcia ’84, A.A.S. general Methodist Church and lives in Sugar Land. Timothy A. Sheffield ’89, A.A.S. mid-manage- operator for Valero in Port Arthur, where administration, is employed with Port ed a 25th wedding anniversary with his wife, secretary, ’90, B.B.A. management, is a ment, is a measurement technician with he lives. Deborah Johansson ’93, B.B.A. marketing, is Tara (Baker) Shockley ’79, B.S. communica- Arthur school district and lives in Nederland Kleve Smith ’87, A.A.S. computer drafting Lisa (Woodson) ’77, B.A. sociology. She teacher with the Orangefield school district. Kinder Morgan Texas and serves on the a broker associate at Coldwell Banker tion, is director of communications for the with her husband, Frank. technology, is project manager in the facilities Michael T. Peyton ’91, A.A.S. computer draft- works at a library in Pasadena. She lives in Orange. Nederland City Council. He lives in Commercial Arnold and Associates. She lives Houston Bar Association. She lives in department of Houston Community ing technology, is a graphics designer for Marc Keith ’82, B.S. kinesiology, is principal Nederland with his wife, Marie Ann, and in Bridge City with her husband, Alan ’74, Michael F. Preston ’77, B.B.A. accounting, is Houston with her husband, John. Ronnie Sims ’84, M.Ed. school administra- College. He lives in Friendswood. CDI Corp. He lives in Beaumont and plans of Port Neches-Groves High School. He their three children. A.A.S. refrigeration and air conditioning president of Creekstone Partners in Houston. tion, earned his doctorate in education from to return to Lamar University to pursue an lives in Port Neches with his wife, Kimberly Margaret Ramona (Carter) Stricklan ’87, B.B.A. technology. He is a service manager at Nance He lives in Sugar Land with his wife, Eileen. Texas A&M. He is superintendent of Pamela (Hood) Standley ’89, A.A.S. business industrial engineering degree. (Cameron) ’85, B.S. kinesiology. accounting, is a fourth grade teacher at Parnell International Inc. 80s Lumberton school district. He lives in data processing, lives in Brownwood with Kathy (Tully) Turner ’77, B.S. speech, lives in Elementary School in Jasper. Her husband, Theodore W. Reese ’91, B.S. communication, Janice (Roberts) Melara ’82, A.A.S. nursing, Lumberton with his wife, Rachel. her husband, Donald. John M. Leger ’93, A.A.S. nursing, earned his Orange with her husband, Robert. Hewlet J. Harris ’80, A.S. drafting technolo- Jerry ’86, B.S. criminal justice, ’86, A.S. law is a project manager for UBS Financial is a retired staff nurse with the Williamson master’s in business from Our Lady of the gy, is a CAD designer for Dodson Psomas John E. Suttle ’84, B.S. communication, is enforcement, is a materials supervisor. Services in New York, N.Y., where he lives. Jeffrey B. Watson ’78, B.S. physics, earned a County and Cities Health District. She lives Lake University in 1999. He is chief nursing and lives in Suisun City, Calif. vice president of business integration for master’s degree in art from Sam Houston in Austin with her husband, Garrett. They Jimmy D. Taliaferro Jr. ’87, B.B.A. economics, 90s John M. Beck ’92, B.S. theatre, founded officer at Select Medical Corp. and lives in BAE Land & Armaments and lives in State University and a doctorate in education Ivan E. Ogburn ’80, B.S. mechanical engineer- have three grandchildren. ’07, Ed.D. educational leadership, is depart- Beck-n-Call Productions and lives in West Humble with his partner, Charles Hardy ’95, Waxhaw, N.C. Donna (Montgomery) Britt ’90, B.A. English, from Texas A&M. He is vice president for ing, is a staff mechanical engineering manag- ment chair of industrial technology for Hollywood, Calif. B.A.A.S applied arts and sciences. Kellie (Morris) Miller ’82, A.A.S. radiologic teaches at Ross S. Sterling High School in academic affairs at East Arkansas er for Lockheed Martin in Houston and is Lori (Swinney) Aten ’85, B.S. chemistry and Lamar State College-Port Arthur. He lives in technology, works for Christus St. Mary’s Baytown. She received the Mary Jon and J.P. Timothy Haney ’92, B.S. kinesiology, is an Todd D. Munn ’93, B.S. communication disor- Community College in Forest City, Ark., developing the crew module docking system biology, teaches science at Lufkin High Port Neches with his wife, Kimberly (Cash) Hospital and lives in Bridge City with her Bryan Leadership in Education award from academic counselor for the University of ders, is the assistant manager of the Shoe where he lives. for NASA’s Orion CEV Program. He lives in School and is team leader for the Integrated ’85, B.B.A. accounting, who teaches in Port husband, Kenneth. the Texas State Historical Association. She Phoenix. He lives in Phoenix. Department and lives in Laneville with his Taylor Lake Village with his wife, Audrey. Physics and Chemistry Science section at the Neches-Groves school district. William P. Wilkinson ’77, B.B.A. general busi- lives in Baytown with her husband, John. wife, Esther. The couple married in June. They have three daughters. Sheryl (Claymon) Mitcham ’82, B.S. school. She was named teacher of the year in Karen E. Holstead ’92, B.A. English, is a cam- ness, is the national account director for Roxanne (Daggett) Allen ’88, M.S. kinesiolo- elementary education, lives in Chester 2007. She lives in Huntington with her Rodney D. Cavness ’90, B.S. kinesiology, ’94, paign administration coordinator for Thomas Price ’93, M.Ed. school administra- Veolia. He lives in Corpus Christi with his Jill Scoggins ’80, B.S. communication, is gy, is an instructor at McNeese State with her husband, Gary. husband, John. M.Ed. administration, received his doctorate Bucknell University and lives in tion, earned a doctorate in education from wife, Billie. director of public relations and marketing for University and lives in Lake Arthur, La. in educational administration from the Northumberland, Pa. Lamar in May 2007. He is superintendent of Texas A&M in Kingsville, where she lives Gayle (Rayborn) Reynolds ’82, B.B.A. Richelle Brewster ’85, A.A.S. mid-manage- Jeffrey Wilmore ’77, B.A. political science, is Kara (Audrey) Broussard ’88, B.B.A. office University of Houston in 2004. He is super- Splendora school district. He lives in with her husband, David Widener. accounting, works for Guide Stone Financial ment, earned bachelor’s degrees in criminal Sharon (Darbonne) Leath ’92, B.B.A. market- the interim city marshal in Groves. He lives administration, is a supervisor at Christus St. intendent of Evadale school district and Splendora with his wife, Donna (Duhon) Resources and lives in Colleyville with her justice and accounting from the University of ing, is advertising director for Cadbury in Groves with his wife, Ella Kay (LaGrange) Tony D. Sekaly ’80, B.B.A marketing, received Elizabeth Hospital. She lives in Beaumont teaches professional pedagogy as an adjunct ’81, M.Ed. elementary education. husband, Duane. Houston. She is a revenue agent for the Schweppes Americas Beverages and lives in ’79, B.S. art. his master’s degree from the University of St. with her husband, Leonard. instructor for Lamar University. He lives in

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Patrick B. Maloy ’94, B.B.A accounting, is the with his wife, Laura. They have three children. education from Lamar in May 2007. She is Beaumont with his wife, Ashima. Kevin Andrews ’03, B.S. health education, is Becky (Vickery) Thomason ’04, B.S. criminal Donniece Fells ’05, B.S. industrial technology, Chris A. Alexander ’06, B.S. mechanical engi- tax director for American Oncology Inc. He assistant principal at Central High School in co-manager of Kroger in Friendswood. He justice, ’05, M.S. applied criminology, is a real estste agent with Town & Country neering, is a mechanical engineer for Amanda Jones ’97, B.A. English, ’03, M.Ed. Hiram Clark III ’01, B.B.A. general business, is lives in Houston with his wife, Deborah. Beaumont, where she lives. lives in Houston with his wife, Allison achieved professional certification as a Real Estate. She lives in Orange. Lyondell Chemical Co. in Channelview. He school administration, earned her doctorate a homebuilder for H.K. Clark & Sons Inc. They have twin daughters. (Starghill) ’02, B.S. nursing, and their daugh- certified fraud examiner. She is an internal lives in Crosby with his wife, Misty (DeMann) in educational leadership from Lamar in May Lori (Webb) Benefield ’99, B.S. sociology, He lives in Orange. Nitin Garg ’05, M.E. mechanical engineering, ter, Zoey. Allison is a registered nurse at the auditor for the Texas Department of ’05, B.S. psychology. Suzane (Simon) Moore ’94, B.S. communica- 2007. Her sister, April Jones ’96, B.S. sociol- is a representative for State Farm Insurance. lives in Punjab, India. Max R. Dunlap ’01, M.B.A. business adminis- University of Texas Medical Branch in Criminal Justice in Huntsville where she tion, is an account manager for Accudata ogy, ’03, M.Ed. school administration, also She lives in Murfreesboro, Tenn., with her Rev. Diandra M. Darby ’06, B.G.S general tration, is an internal audit manager for Pride Galveston. lives. She has one son. Stephanie (Cryer) Glover ’05, B.S. psychology, Systems Inc. in Houston. She lives there earned her doctorate in education in May husband, Anthony. studies, lives in Atlanta, Ga., where she is International Management. He lives in has been chosen to serve as vice president of with her husband, Coy. 2007. Amanda and April are both adjunct Darin Fletcher ’03, B.S. kinesiology, is head Casey L. Tucker ’04, B.A.A.S. applied arts pursuing a master’s degree in divinity at the Jackie (McQueen) Bradley ’99, M.Ed. coun- Houston with his wife, Chen Chen. recruitment for the Texas Tech School of professors at Lamar and live in Beaumont. baseball coach at Deweyville High School. and sciences, is a disaster recovery analyst for Interdenominational Theological Center – Jacqueline (Sanders) Ballard ’95, B.A.A.S. seling and development, is a counselor at Medicine, where she is a student. She lives in Jay W. Johnson ’01, B.B.A. marketing, is the Christus Health Foundation in Morehouse School of Religion. applied arts and sciences, teaches math at Jennifer (Lelaya) Kastner ’97, B.S. environ- Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School, Chrisa (Ponthieu) Atkins ’04, B.S. communi- Lubbock with her husband, Mark. working with Zim American Integrated Beaumont. He lives in Beaumont with his Jasper High School. mental science, is an environmental analyst where she attained certification as a National cation, is business and marketing manager Layne Riddick ’06, B.B.A. accounting, is an Shipping in Houston, and lives in Baytown. wife, Amanda. Aleta (Naderhoff) Nash ’05, B.S.W. social for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and an NEPA Certified Counselor through the National for the Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports accountant for Cavett, Turner & Wyble in Cristal (Dorman) Fertitta ’95, B.S. foods, work, earned a master’s degree in social Specialist in the Rocky Mountains. She lives Board of Certified Counselors. She lives in Amberly (Granger) Klam ’01, B.B.A. account- Center. She lives in Beaumont with her Kizell J. Brown ’05, B.S. electrical engineering, Beaumont, where she lives. nutrition and dietetics, lives in Beaumont work from Stephen F. Austin State in Magnolia with her husband, Thomas. Orange with her husband, Barry. ing, lives in Austin with her husband, Jason husband, Robert ’04, B.B.A. finance, who is is an area manager/electrical technology engi- with her husband, Frank. They have one University in May 2007. She is a therapist Brandon D. Thibodeaux ’06, B.B.A. general ’98, B.S. kinesiology, who is the chief operat- a loan officer for Westin Mortgage Group. neer for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in daughter. Eric Maddox ’97, B.S. chemical engineering, Dr. Laura Eastep ’99, B.S. chemistry, received for Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital in business, is credit manager for Smart’s Truck ing officer for The First American Corp. Lawton, Okla., where he lives. He is pursu- is a staff engineer at RWD Technologies in her medical degree from the University of Jonathan Bond ’04, B.B.A. general business, Beaumont and lives in Vidor. & Trailer in Beaumont, where he lives with Terryn D. Strahan ’95, A.A.S nursing, is a ing his M.B.A. in technology management. Houston, where he lives. Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where Angela (Butler) Lewis ’01, B.S. communica- is a field technician for ECP Tech Services in his wife, Erin. nurse at Harris Methodist Hospital. She lives Jennifer (Mahana) Reynolds ’05, B.S. elemen- she lives and works as a resident physician. tion, is vice president of Capital One Bank in Houston. He lives in LaPorte with his wife, Stacy (Enmon) Burleson ’05, B.B.A. account- in Keller. Dr. Chris A. Sparkman ’97, B.S. biology, owns tary education, teaches math and science in Jessica (Rambin) Wooley ’06, B.S. communi- San Antonio, where she lives with her hus- Stephanie (Farrow) ’02, B.G.S. general stud- ing, is an internal auditor for the University Sparkman Family Medicine & Aesthetic Shane Howell ’99, B.G.S. general studies, is Cypress-Fairbanks school district. She lives in cation, is a child support technician for the Rhonda (Norris) Wesie ’95, B.S.N. nursing, is band, Bradley. ies. She is an athletic trainer at Christus St. of Houston. She lives in Baytown with her Center in Houston. He lives in The head coach of the men’s golf team at Texas Katy with her husband, Seth. Texas Attorney General’s Office. She lives in a nurse for the University Health System and John Hospital. husband, Justin ’05, B.B.A. economics. He is Woodlands with his wife, Amanda. They State University in San Marcos. Debra (Ott) Long ’01, B.A.A.S. applied arts Nederland with her fiancé, Stephen B. lives in San Antonio. an examiner for the National Credit Union Scott Sheridan ’05, B.S. civil engineering, is have one daughter. and sciences, ’04, M.S. kinesiology, is the James W. Mahon ’04, B.B.A. management Yearwood ’06, B.S. communication. Angela S. Moody ’99, B.S. family and con- Administration. vice president of Daniel Scott Engineering. Joseph H. Brown ’96, B.S. environmental sci- director of health information technology for information systems, is a specialist with the Steven D. Vincent ’97, B.B.A. management sumer sciences, is director of community He lives in LaPorte. Joseph K. Young ’06, B.S. electrical engineer- ence, teaches social studies and coaches at Lamar Institute of Technology. She lives in Army and lives in Fort Myer, Va. Robert Bush ’05, B.B.A. finance and econom- information systems, is the hardware and relations for ASRC Energy Services and lives ing and B.S. physics, has been accepted into Jasper High School. Sour Lake with her husband, Boyed. ics, is a field service representative for Curtis G. Smith ’05, B.S. industrial technolo- knowledge engineering manager for Hewlett in Anchorage, Alaska. Vince E. McClelland ’04, B.S. theatre, is a the doctoral program in nanophotonics at Halliburton Co. He lives in Spring with his gy, is a pipe designer for Bechtel in Houston. Randi (DuBose) Fertitta ’96, B.S. psychology, Packard in Houston. He lives in Tomball Latrice (Simpson) Patton ’01, B.S. kinesiology, field technician for Advanced A/V Solutions Rice University. He lives in Houston with Kedric Westbrooks ’99, B.A.A.S. applied arts wife, Dacia. He lives in Webster. is director of disaster response and special with his wife, Katherine. teaches and coaches in Cypress-Fairbanks and lives in Lumberton. his wife, Ebonie (Howard) ’02, B.B.A. man- and sciences, is a business manager for initiatives for Catholic Charities of Southeast school district in Houston, where she lives. Sumeer V. Chopra ’05, B.S. chemical engi- William G. Smith ’05, B.A. history, is a barista agement information systems. Emily (Everett) Allen ’98, B.S. political sci- AT&T. He lives in Wylie. Kecha (Landry) Ray ’04, B.S. communication Texas. She lives in Beaumont with her hus- neering, is a process operator for Lyondell at Starbucks in Dallas, where he lives. ence, ’04, M.Ed. supervision, is a grade Jackie C. Duvall ’02, B.A.A.S. applied arts disorders, is a vocational rehabilitation Holly M. Hornsby ’07. B.S. health education, band, Jerome. Chemical Co. He lives in Manvel with his chairman and special education teacher for and sciences, is a safety engineer for Gulf counselor for the Department of Assistive Rajashekhar Tadi ’05, M.S. environmental is a healthy living sales associate with HEB wife, Wendy. Bruce A. Jagers ’96, B.S. communication, is Pine Forest Elementary in Vidor. She lives in 00s Coast Project Corp. in Houston. He lives in & Rehabilitation Services. She lives in engineering, is a design engineer for in Beaumont, where she lives. director/technical director of WEPC News Sour Lake with her husband, Raymond. Humble with his wife, Melanie. Beaumont. Dimitra (Raesis) Crowell ’05, B.S. interdisci- Interfield Inc. He lives in Houston. James W. Hammonds III ’00, B.B.A manage- and lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla. plinary studies, teaches for the Port Arthur Jason E. Bonnette ’98, B.S. biology, plans to ment information systems, lives in Austin Dorothy (McIntyre) LeBlanc ’02, B.S. commu- Amy A. Sanders ’04, B.S. biology, is a student Shannon M. Tait ’05, B.S. political science, school district. She lives in Port Neches with Dr. Shelly Polnick ’96, B.S. psychology, return to Lamar to earn his master’s degree with his wife, Basimma. nication, is a respiratory sales specialist for at Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena recently graduated from the George Bush her husband, Jason. received her master’s degree in 2000 and her in biology. He lives in Beaumont with his Adams Respiratory Therapeutics. She lives in and lives in Houston. School of Government and Public Service at Katherine (Barnes) McGee ’00, B.S.N. doctorate in 2006. She is director of physical wife, Trudy. Daphne, Ala. with her husband, Matthew. Texas A&M University, and lives in Bryan. nursing, is a nurse for Davita Dialysis and therapy for Orthopedic Physical Therapy and Aaron D. Clauson ’98, B.S. civil engineering, lives in Pearland. Kristin (Seaman) Franz ’06, B.A.A.S. applied lives in Plano. is the products manager for Big R arts and sciences, is a family and consumer Kimberly M. McMains ’00, B.S. nursing, is a Benny Soileau ’96, B.S. criminal justice, ’00, Manufacturing and lives in Loveland, Colo., science teacher at Jasper High School. nurse for Sam Houston Elementary School M.Ed. educational administration, earned his with his wife, Carrie. and lives in Nederland with her husband, Phyllis L. Loeb ’02, B.S. criminal justice, ’04, Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He is Brian P. Herrington ’98, B.M. music, received Cory. They have two children. M.S. applied criminology, works for the U.S. principal of Nederland High School and his master’s from the University of Louisville. Postal Service and lives in Beaumont. Save the Date lives in Nederland with his wife, Angie Ann Mullins ’00, M.Ed. school administra- He received two awards from the American (Sonnier) ’02, B.S. interdisciplinary studies. tion, earned her doctorate in educational David Manley ’02, B.A.A.S. applied arts and Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, leadership from Lamar in May 2007. She is sciences, is dean of campus support services at Timeca Allen-Shaheed ’97, B.B.A. office and he is currently teaching at Sam Houston principal of St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Ranger College. He lives in Ranger with his administration, is a human resource assistant State University. He lives in Conroe with his Jimmy Simmons & Friends Baytown, where she lives. wife, Callixta (Innocent) ’06, B.S. psychology. and assistant to the executive vice president wife, Mary ’99, B.S. nursing. They have two at CDI Engineering Solutions in Houston. children. Dr. Wesley Myers ’00, B.S. chemistry and Jacob Miller ’02, B.F.A. studio art, earned his She lives in Missouri City with her husband, biology, earned his medical degree in 2004. master of fine arts in visual arts from the Vickie (Roberts) Lazenby ’98, B.A.A.S. Fardan. He lives in Galveston with his wife, Keri University of Iowa in 2007. He is currently applied arts and sciences, lives in Orange (Harris) ’00, B.S. biology. pursuing a master’s degree in painting from Carol L. Davis ’97, B.S. interdisciplinary stud- with her husband, Daniel. the University of Iowa. May 3, 2008 | 7 P.M. ies, teaches for the Liberty school district and Courtney (Sturrock) Smith ’00, B.S. interdisci- Joe D. Malley ’98, B.B.A. management, owns lives in Nome with her husband, Chris ’97, plinary studies, owns and teaches at the Chanelle (Guidry) Reese ’02, B.B.A. manage- Encore Malley’s Real Estate Inspection in Montagne Center B.S. civil engineering. Sturrock Montessori Academy in Beaumont, ment information systems, lives in New Beaumont. He lives there with his wife, where she lives with her husband, Bryan. Bern, N.C., with her husband, Terrance. Dr. Heidi (Beaumont) Doucet ’97, B.S. chem- Melissa (Tipton) ’99, who received her They have a son. istry, ’97, B.S. biology, is an optometrist in master’s from the University of Texas. She is Erik Angelle ’01, B.B.A. finance and account- Orange. She lives in Bridge City with her currently employed as a family nurse practi- ing, is a staff accountant for Cavett, Turner Leena L. Waghmare ’02, M.E. electrical engi- husband, Keith. tioner at Beaumont West Medical. They have & Wyble in Beaumont, where he lives. neering, is a senior consultant for KPMG Mark your calendars now so you don’t miss this special one daughter. and lives in Mumbai, India. Joel M. Galindo ’97, B.S. electrical engineer- Anand K. Chauhan ’01, M.S. computer evening of spectacular music. ing, is an engineering manager for Overload Anna D. Nguyen ’98, B.S. interdisciplinary science, is an instructor of computers for Services in Houston. He lives in Pearland studies, ’00, M.Ed. earned her doctorate in Lamar State College-Port Arthur. He lives in

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Alumni include her husband of 51 years, Edgar; 25 years. She was also employed as an the Texas Excellence Award for Chamber of Commerce and the Groves nurses at Stilwell Technical Center, she during World War II, serving at county draft board. With the U.S. entry her son, Joe; and daughter, Laura organist at churches in Texas and Outstanding Teachers. Survivors include Rotary Club. He spent 31 years as a pho- taught pediatrics, psychology and micro- Guadalcanal. He returned to live in Port into WW II, her interests turned to avia- Jack Folmar -53, occupational training, Howard. Georgia. Survivors include her husband, his son, Tim, and daughter, Erin tographer and was the co-owner of TNT biology courses at Lamar before retiring Neches and worked at the B.F. Goodrich tion, and she became at 18 the first died July 9, 2007, in Dallas. Born in Cecil; sons, Cecil and Blake; and daugh- Galloway. Productions in Nederland. He was an in 1982. Her husband, Frank, preceded Rubber Plant and Fairmaid Bakery in licensed female pilot in southern Iowa. Charles Miertschin ’59, B.B.A. general Luling in 1931, he grew up in ters, Gail Jones, Terry Hinson, and Cecile advocate against drunk driving because a her in death. Survivors include her sons, Beaumont, where, as a teamster steward She joined the Civil Air Patrol, training to business, died May 30, 2007, in El Paso. Karl Kugler ’71, B.F.A. graphic design, Beaumont and became a pilot, later Hughes. drunk driving accident left him wheel- Freddie and Dennis, and daughter, Lois. in 1948, he began his career as a Texas meet the nation’s requirements of that He worked in the marketing department died March 19, 2007. He was born in founding Gulf Aviation Underwriters and chair bound as a toddler. He was a labor leader. He was appointed AFL-CIO time and to provide assistance when of Texaco Inc. for 30 years. After he Charlotte Newnum ’67, B.A. history, died Freising, Germany, and came to Paul Wilson Holmes, 84, died Aug. 29, then incorporating Aviation Office of Hughen School graduate and devoted legislative director in 1966 and was elect- called upon. She later worked in retired in 1989, he worked one day a March 10, 2007. She worked part time as Beaumont at age 7. In 1977, he opened 2007. A native of Abilene and resident of America, a company that achieved world- much time to the school. He is remem- ed president in 1973, serving for eight, Washington for U.S. Rep Karl week for Trans Mountain Oil Co. for 15 the financial secretary for Trinity United Heinz Kugler Fine Portrait Photography. Silsbee, he earned a master’s degree in wide growth as an aircraft insurer. He bered as an inspiration to many and a two-year terms. He retired from the LeCompte, who hired her in 1946. She years and spent the other four workdays Methodist Church in Beaumont before He was a member of the Iron Butt music theory and composition from also founded International Aviation friend to all. Survivors include his wife, AFL-CIO in 1989 and assumed the post met her future husband, C. Robert golfing. Survivors include his wife of 48 retiring in 1999. A devoted mother, she Association and the BMW Motorcycle Hardin Simmons University and joined Underwriters and Aviation and Marine Loraine, and brother, James. of director of human resources at John “Bob”Kemble, when he came to years, Ernestine, and sons, Michael and served as president of the Parent Teacher Owners of America, and he participated the Lamar faculty in 1953. An active Insurance Group, which was acquired by Gray Institute. Survivors include his wife Washington to thank the congressman for Matthew. Association and director of concessions in three Iron Butt long distance motorcy- Terry (Wallace) Lee ’86, B.S.W. social composer, he was head of music theory an NYSE company in 1997, leaving him of 64 years, Marceil; his son, Bob; and his appointment to West Point during the for West End Little League. Survivors cle endurance rallies. Survivors include his work, died July 15, 2007. She worked for and composition until his retirement in to manage investments for Jack G. William McNeill ’60, B.A. history, ’65, his daughter, Janis Dawes. Battle of the Bulge. They married shortly include her husband of nearly 41 years, wife, Brie; daughters, Elizabeth, Emily the Texas Department of Protective and 1985. His Adagio and Allegro was per- Folmar & Partners Ltd. He served on M.A. history, died April 2, 2007. He was after Bob’s graduation in 1949. She was Bill; son, Will; and daughter, Katie and Lilian; stepdaughters, Beshka and Regulatory Services for 20 years in offices formed by many orchestras, as well as by various bank boards and on boards of born in Beaumont in 1938 and attended an influential moth- Rogers. Allie; son, Jeremiah; and stepson, in Beaumont, Houston and Conroe and the National Symphony Orchestra in trustees for Baylor University and was a South Park High School. He earned a er of five and a tal- Sebastian. won the Texas CPS caseworker of the Washington, D.C. His son, Ralph, pre- life deacon of Park Cities Baptist Church. doctorate of philosophy from Rice Mildred Gernentz ’68, B.A. history, died ented and helpful year award. Survivors include her daugh- ceded him in death. Survivors include his He also was a founding member of the University and taught history at Lee May 15, 2007. She taught history for 20 Daisy H. Green ’75, service partner to ter, Matty; mother, Margaret Duke; and daughter, Laura, and son, David. Lamar University Foundation board. College in Baytown for more than 40 years at Thomas Edison Junior High B.S. speech, ’84, M.S. Bob—an energetic father, O.T. Wallace. Survivors include his wife, Janet; years. Survivors include his wife, Jeanette; School in Port Arthur. The governor of audiology/speech- Tony Houseman died at his home in Army wife in daughters, Bonnie Moore and Connie son, Sy; and daughters, Julie Paradissis, Texas honored her as “Outstanding Texas language, died May Dewey Prince ’89, B.A.A.S. applied arts Orange Aug. 3, 2007. Born in Port Germany, a faculty Stevenson; and son, David. Kate Smoke and Kelly McNeill. History Teacher” in 1984. Her husband, 22, 2007, in Dallas. and sciences, died May 21, 2007. He Arthur, he built a career in investment spouse during Bob’s 10 years as a profes- William McDermand John, preceded her in death. Survivors Born in Jasper Jan. served in the Army and earned four banking in Los Angeles and New York ’56, B.M. music, ’85, Edward Richardson ’60, A.S. commercial include her sons, John, James, Joe and 11, 1921, she was the campaign ribbons with nine battle stars. and established Houseman Securities in sor at West Point, M.M.E. music, died June 16, 2007. A art, died Aug. 25, 2007 in Houston. He Jordan. wife of Edward W. Green and mother of He worked for Neches Butane until Dallas. He founded Housemen First Lady at New native of Orange and resident of Sour was a retired commercial artist who, as a Joan M. Riddle of Dallas. She will be he retired in 1983. His wife, Theresa, Companies in 1987 with his wife of 23 Mexico Military Lake, he was a retired musician and volunteer, designed the esplanades on Robert Waguespack ’68, B.S. industrial remembered for the love she had for her preceded him in death. years, Gisela, and continued a Houseman Institute and then at teacher and was organist for several Antoine in northwest Houston. He was engineering, died March 18, 2007. He family. She practiced speech pathology in family tradition of home building begun Lamar University, churches in the area for many years. born in 1937 in Beaumont, and, after worked primarily in the inspection Graeme Doughty ’01, B.B.A. general busi- the Texas public school systems and had a in the 1960s. Houseman was also com- with 13,000 stu- Survivors include his sister, Mary Ann graduating from Lamar, joined architect department of Texaco/Motiva in Port ness, ’02, M.B.A. business administration, love for music. mitted to a number of local charities, dents and 500 facul- Scarborough. Rex Goode as a draftsman. He later was Arthur for 31 years. He was a member of died April 13, 2007 in Goicoechea, Costa wildlife conservation organizations and ty. Finally, for four supervisor of graphics at Shell Oil’s St. Elizabeth Catholic Church and the Richard Loupe ’75, certif. real estate, died Rica, where he lived with Fanny Hidalgo, Barbara (Ball) Metcalfe ’57, B.S., ’64, regional economic engines and was a chil- years she was a Bellaire Research Center and worked for Knights of Columbus Council 2461. March 8, 2007. He was an Army veteran his wife of two weeks, and their baby. M.Ed. elementary education, died June dren’s advocate. In Orange County he New Mexico Mobil and Sun Oil in Beaumont. Survivors include his wife of 39 years, and retired from Texaco Chemical in Port He was a principal in the Casino Paradiso 19, 2007, in Bryan. She served the Port founded Patrons of Police (POP), a sup- Cabinet Secretarys Survivors include his wife, Ann, and Pat, and sons, Jeff and Keith. Neches after 35 years of service. Survivors Costa Rica in the Clarion Hotel Amón Neches school district for 28 years as an port group for law enforcement person- wife—all while daughter, Hettie Young. include his wife, Mary, and sons, Richard, Plaza in Barrio Amón, San José. committing time to elementary school teacher and as a special Clayton Fontenot ’67, B.S. industrial engi- nel. His most lasting contribution to President and First Lady Robert and Helen Kemble cut the Mike and Jeff. numerous and myri- education supervisor. She could be found Jerry Mallory ’62, B.S. health education, neering, died June 9, 2007. He retired wildlife conservation is the Tony cake at the university’s 60th anniversary celebration. ad volunteer service caring for pets of ill or out-of-town ’88, M.Ed. middle management, died from ABB Power T&D Co. Inc. after 38 Helen (Simmonds) Morgan ’75, A.S. nurs- Faculty, Staff and Friends Houseman State Park and Wildlife neighbors, tutoring struggling students, Management Area at Blue Elbow on the projects. Survivors include her husband May 21, 2007. He coached football for years of service. He lived in Houston. ing, died May 14, 2007. She was a nurse Alice Bell, 74, died June 2, 2007, in Helen Kemble, 84, wife for 58 years of furnishing cold drinks to the lawn-care Sabine River. He devoted substantial and five children, Christopher, Keith, the Nederland school district for 25 years Survivors include his sister, Fran, and in private practice in Beaumont and a Beaumont. She was born in 1933 in former Lamar University President crew, finding medical services for those energy to the Southeast Texas Economic Cynthia Lawshe, Geoffrey and Carol. at C.O. Wilson Junior High School, brother, Ed. nurse administrator at a nursing home in Rockport. She attended Texas Woman’s Robert Kemble, died of pancreatic cancer unable to undertake the task, befriending Development Corp. (SET Inc.) and the Central Junior High School and Dayton. She loved camping, fishing and University and earned bachelor’s, master’s in her home in Albuquerque, N.M., Sept. Ruth Truncale, 82, died April 4, 2007. She the recently bereaved, going kayaking Terry Watkins ’69, B.B.A. accounting, Partnership of Southeast Texas (POST). Nederland High School. While at traveling. Survivors include her husband, and doctoral degrees before teaching in 22, 2007. She was Lamar’s “First Lady” graduated from the University of North with friends at age 81 or leading neigh- died May 26, 2007. He was born Oct. He was a board member for Lamar Nederland High School, he served as Bob; her sons Mike, David, Brian and several different schools and the Austin from 1977 to 1986. She served for 50 Texas with bachelor’s and master’s borhood children on a night-time bug 15, 1945, in Beaumont and graduated University Friends of the Arts. Survivors head coach of football and track and field Joe; and daughter, Kathy. Recreational Department. In 1975, she years in prominent public and private degrees in music. In 1947, she became patrol. Her husband of 46 years, Joseph, from South Park High School. He retired include his wife; son, Stanley; and daugh- and taught marketing, driver’s education joined the Lamar faculty. After 18 years, roles in New Mexico, Texas, New York one of the first female members of the preceded her in death. Survivors include as a certified public accountant and Kolt Loukas ’78, B.S. oceanographic tech- ters Zo Houseman, Debi Means and Julie and physical education. He later worked she became a full professor and served as and abroad. Her vigorous life exemplify- faculty at Lamar. She taught piano cours- her son, Joseph. owned a business in Lawton with his nology, died March 28, 2007. He was Hobert. Memorial contributions may be as an administrator serving as an assistant chair of the Department of Health, ing service to country, community, and es until she retired in 1953. After leaving wife. Survivors include his wife, Yon Sun; born in Port Arthur and graduated from made to Lamar University Beaumont- Jimmy Ann (Watwood) Smith ’57, B.S. principal and interim principal for Physical Education and Dance and as family was often in partnership roles in Lamar, she and her husband, Joseph, sons, John and David; and daughters, Thomas Jefferson High School in 1973. Speech & Hearing, P.O. Box 11500, chemical engineering, died June 5, 2007. Nederland High School. Survivors women’s athletic director. Survivors her husband’s varied professional posi- developed the Beaumont Civic Opera and Susan Watkins, Wendy Frederick, Linda He was a member of the Lutheran Beaumont, TX 77710. include his wife, Sheron; sons, Jake and tions as well as in many pro bono charita- the Lamar Opera Workshop. She is pre- She was homecoming queen at Lamar Fountain and Sherry Allen. church. Survivors include his sons, include her sisters, Myrtle, Anna Williams Jared; and daughter, Shera Raborn. ble activities. Born in 1923, she grew up ceded in death by her husband of 54 and was the first female to graduate with Jeremy and Kristofer. and Patsy Hudman, and brother, Glen Harry Hubbard, 82, former president of John Conway ’71, B.A. history, died during the Depression and graduated years, Joseph. Survivors include her son, a degree in chemical engineering. Born in Rita (Blakeman) Green ’64, B.S. elemen- McMillan. the Texas AFL-CIO, died June 7, 2007, Houston, she grew up in Beaumont and March 8, 2007. He taught many years at Ronnie “Wheels” Thibodeaux ’79, certif. in Bastrop. Born in 1924 in Rocky from high school six months before the Michael, and daughter, Ruth Ann Muse. tary education, died March 12, 2007. She Helen Dunlap, 86, died May 31, 2007. lived in Wildwood. She worked as a Kelly High School. He was honored with real estate, died July 23, 2007. A lifelong Springs, he refused a basketball scholar- attack on Pearl Harbor. She attended jun- loved music, especially the piano, and she After a long career in nursing, including chemical engineer, math and chemistry national recognition by the National Groves resident, he was a member of the ship from Stephen F. Austin State ior college while also working at a series taught in Port Neches-Groves school dis- serving as head nurse at St. Mary teacher, and real estate agent. Survivors Catholic Education Association and given Port Arthur Optimist Club, Groves University in favor of joining the Navy of other jobs, including secretary to the trict as a music and classroom teacher for Hospital and director of instruction of

44 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 45 Suhm has been recognized for her professional Taking care of achievements by the North Central Texas Council of Government with the Linda Keithley Award for Women in Public Management, the Women’s Council of Dallas County as Woman of the Year and by the North Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administrators as the North Texas Public Administrator of the Year. She has earned a reputation for creativity and innovation by reorganizing city servic- es delivery to align with priorities established by the Big D City Council, establishing better customer service throughout the city organization and establishing a per- manent efficiency team to streamline city processes and business identify revenue sources and savings. Suhm is active in mentoring other female mid-level managers in the city by Larry Acker of Dallas by being available for counsel, offering advice “It was the most amazing experience of my professional “Everyone pitched in and gave all they had during and making opportunities available. career,” said Mary (Moore) Suhm ’68, Dallas city man- that crisis.” “I recognize the challenges for women in general ager, as she talked about providing emergency services Mary Suhm is an executive who likes to keep her in their careers, but, for me personally, I don’t think for evacuees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “We options open to take advantage of opportunities as they about challenges as challenges for women. I think were beginning to get people who needed some help, present themselves. Suhm graduated from Lamar earn- about the challenges women deal with as professionals, and we knew there were people already staying in the ing a bachelor’s degree in education with an emphasis such as the problems you have to solve and the things hotels. We pulled out the emergency plan, and it called in biology and English. She was awarded a pre-med you have to deal with along the way,” she said. “I try to for opening the recreation centers. We had 60 people scholarship and considered pursuing a career in the give women as much opportunity as possible in roles or so in the centers; so we were feeling pretty good health care profession, but, at the urging of her mother, that are not historically female roles with the city. about ourselves until we found out there were 25,000 who was a teacher at French High School, she earned a “We have, I suspect, one of the few female direc- people heading toward Dallas who were not going to teaching certification so “she would always be able to tors of a major water system in the country, a woman be able to take care of themselves. I remember looking get a job.” whom I hired. The woman who is head of the sanita- at a spot on the wall wondering what in the world I Her career began as a teacher at R.L. Turner High tion department is another example. Those are not tra- was going to do. I haven’t had that feeling very often School in Carrollton, where she taught for a year before ditional jobs for women.” in my life.” moving to a teaching position at Allen High School A member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, she worked Providing emergency response for Katrina and near Dallas. During the spring of her first year at Allen, at the Lamar swimming pool as a lifeguard during the Rita evacuees was one of the most emotionally trying she became pregnant with her first child, which cut her summers. One not-so-fond memory was preparing for yet professionally fulfilling times for the chief executive teaching short. graduation. Her schedule was to graduate at 10 a.m., officer of Dallas. For one swift moment, a hint of “As I think back about that now, I can just imagine get married at 2 p.m. and begin a new teaching job the trepidation crept into her mind, but it quickly passed that principal was ready to kill me,” she said. “A friend following week. That’s when she found out she was as she gathered the staff and prepared for the largest was going back to school to get her master’s degree, so one credit hour short of graduating. evacuation the United States had ever encountered. I decided to go with her.” “I panicked,” she recalls. “Dr. Richard Setzer, the Working 16-, sometimes 24-hour, days for six weeks That decision earned her an M.B.A. and a master’s president of Lamar at the time, took time to see me didn’t seem to bother the city staff. There were so degree in library science from the University of North and hear my problems. I realize now that he went out many people who had literally lost everything in the Texas. Her position as director of the Allen Public of his way to see me and even set up an individual storm, the long hours required to care for evacuees Library led to a director’s position with the Dallas study class that helped me get all that resolved. Years Dseemed to pale in comparison. Although, while grow- Public Library in 1978, beginning her long tenure with later, in looking back, I realize how much he helped me ing up in Beaumont, she had gone through Hurricane the city of Dallas. and the fact that he probably wasn’t even the one who Audrey, a Category 4 hurricane, in 1957, and She has held many leadership roles in Dallas city should have been dealing with my problem.” Hurricane Carla, a Category 5 hurricane, in 1961, governance, including executive assistant director of the When asked about hobbies, or special interests, she nothing prepared her for the devastation wrought by Dallas Police Department (the first female non-sworn laughs and comments that running the city of Dallas is the 2005 storms. executive in DPD history), director of court services, a seven-day-a-week, 18-hour-a-day job, but she loves “People came to us with literally nothing. Their assistant to the mayor and assistant city manager, which her work and feels honored to be entrusted with such lives were devastated, and everyone needed assistance eventually led to her appointment as city manager in an awesome responsibility. She does enjoy spending of some kind. I was so proud of our response team 2005. She is responsible for an annual budget of more time with her grandchildren. Suhm has two sons, Gabe and the city staff for doing the things that were neces- than $2 billion while supervising in excess of 13,000 and Josh, and four grandchildren, Emma, Eli, Collin sary to help so many disaffected people,” she recalled. employees. and Jared.

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MARY SUHM PELLERIN DAVID greater presence in our backyard,” Lavender said. degree in nursing and worked as a nurse manager at a hospital. She Lavender has a daughter and two granddaughters. Pete has a son later applied for a job at the Houston hospital where, unbeknownst to and two grandsons. Both raised their children as divorced single moth- her, Lavender was the director of cardiac services. When the chief nurs- ers while working full time and furthering their education. Today, they ing officer noticed the Lamar University connection, she brought Pete’s are part of the sandwich generation, each caring for parents while resume to Lavender to see if she knew the applicant. enjoying their grandchildren and watching their children achieve their Pete was hired as director of the emergency department, and the goals—all as they direct the day-to-day operations of a successful firm. friendship continued and grew. Both women had abilities in manage- The consulting business is a far cry from where they started. ment and completed master of business administration degrees togeth- Pete knew when she graduated from Beaumont’s Hebert High er at Houston Baptist University. School in 1975 she wanted a health care career. She researched several Through hospital mergers and acquisitions, first Lavender and options, choosing Lamar because of its location close to home and the then Pete, found themselves in search of a new path. Together, they onset of the four-year degree program. “The program had some really began working as consultants for an independent consulting firm. The good teachers,” she said. work focused on training clinicians and front- Her training at Lamar prepared her for line managers in management skills. When a nursing job at Baptist Hospital in “That passion the consulting firm later sold, the women Beaumont, which led to supervisory posi- decided to strike out on their own. tions at the hospital. “The nursing school for nursing, for the “We just kind of stepped into it with was the core,” Pete said. “We found the cur- patients, really came both feet, eyes shut,” Pete said. riculum to be very challenging.” Though Lavender said they decided For Lavender, a Nederland High School to the forefront of “somewhat naively” to start their own con- graduate, becoming a nurse was not part of a everything we did.” sulting business with no capital on hand, they long-term plan. Encouraged by her mother, certainly bring their business acumen to bear —CAROL LAVENDAR who was an instructor in the one-year LVN in the work they do. Lavender said she and program at Lamar, she went through a respi- Pete are clinicians first and have an advantage ratory therapy certification program at Lamar University. She chose the in understanding both the clinical and business side of health care. program because of an aversion to needles, but found she still had to “That passion for nursing, for the patients, really came to the fore- learn to draw blood. front of everything we did,” Lavender said. “We understand financial “Every step of the way (the program) was challenging me to do issues, the business issues, but we also understand that the whole rea- things out of my comfort zone,” Lavender said. son hospitals and health care facilities are in operation is patient care.” DERENDA PETE CAROL LAVENDER After completing her certification, Lavender went to work for So far, all of Insight Advantage’s business has come from referrals, MICHAEL STRAVATO NADER KHOURI NADER Baptist Hospital as a respiratory therapist and returned to Lamar to not from soliciting new clients. With a new focus on developing busi- study nursing. Both programs, and the professors she encountered as a ness in Texas, that soon could change. student, had a profound impact on the young woman who had never From a helicopter flight as nurses focused jointly on one patient’s Destined for a healthy partnership given much thought to academia. “It really boosted my self-confidence. care to a joint business that took flight more than a decade ago, by Beth Gallaspy From then on, I said, ‘If I can do this, I can go on.’ I really wanted a Lavender and Pete have been going places for years and see new degree,” Lavender said. “The nursing program was strenuous. It pre- opportunities on the horizon. erenda “Dee” (Sublett) Pete ’79 and Carol (Jordan) Lavender ’79 recommendations about how the companies can refine what they do. pared us clinically, but also focused on management, which is critical to met as nursing students in one of the first classes at Lamar A big emphasis for clients now is patient flow, said Pete, who has our success today.” DUniversity to earn bachelor of science in nursing degrees. authored books and spoken nationally on emergency department opera- The fact that Pete also worked while in nursing When they graduated, their relationship consisted of nothing more than tions. The company looks at how a hospital moves patients from the school, something discouraged by faculty, gave the pair friendly hellos. doors of the emergency room through admission, treatment and dis- more in common. The bond was not established, though, Fast-forward to 2007, and the two are friends and business partners charge. Identifying bottlenecks and trying to clear them might mean rec- until a few years later when both were nurses at Baptist in a Houston-based health care consulting firm celebrating more than a ommending changes in scheduling or staffing. The ultimate goal is Hospital on the leading edge of emergency care. Pete was decade in business with a national client list. greater efficiency, higher profitability and better patient care. “The director of nursing for the hospital’s new Life Flight pro- “Trying to get our name out there is our challenge,” Pete said. patient is the nucleus of what happens,” Pete said. gram when Lavender, director of the interventional cardiac “We’re competing with a lot of larger health care consulting groups.” The company also offers on-site management training for frontline cath lab, joined her on a flight to transport a cardiac trans- Pete and Lavender created Insight Advantage with nothing more health care managers such as nurses. Lavender authored those educa- plant patient to Houston. than their brainpower and two laptops 11 years ago. After some lean tional materials and was involved in developing labor productivity soft- A friendship was born. It took a hiatus when the times early on, they established a profitable business with a growing list ware the company uses. women lost touch temporarily after Lavender moved on of satisfied clients. Insight Advantage works with hospitals, large physi- Finding out what clients need means frequent travel to facilities to a Houston-area hospital. cians’ practices and clinics to improve customer service, productivity and across the U.S. Pete spends about three weeks a month on the road. “For whatever reason, our paths seemed to follow profitability. Lavender and Pete draw on their clinical and managerial Frequent travel also has been part of Lavender’s routine for years. The along the same lines,” Pete said. Pete initially left Baptist experience to study clients’ health care organizations and make objective pair seeks to develop more business in Texas. “We would like to have a Hospital for Galveston, where she worked on a master’s

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| NADER KHOURI LAMAR SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, TO AUGUST 31, 2007 A Report On Giving U NIVERSITY

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Atnip The Examiner Corporation Mrs. Betty Leaf Mr. and Mrs. G. Steve Rhea Helping Lamar University Grow One Student at a Time Beaumont Founders Lions Club Ms. Caroline Faubus Dr. and Mrs. John D. LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Warren W. Rice Now, more than ever, is the time to make an investment in Lamar University. Your gift helps us to meet the needs Mr. John T. Bebeau Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Felsenthal Mr. and Mrs. Chris LeBlanc Mr. Raymond J. Richard of aspiring students and support an exceptional faculty dedicated to engaging them in teaching, research and schol- Dr. Russ Bebeau Mr. Paul F. Ferguson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David J. Lehmiller Mr. and Mrs. John Riedmueller Mr. Bryan D. Beck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Fertitta Mr. and Mrs. Vincent D. Leone, Sr. Mr. Jack E. Robertson arship. The loyal support of alumni and friends like you will ensure their achievements resonate for years to come. Mr. Mohammed Y. Beck Dr. and Mrs. Shawn M. Figari Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Locke Mr. Bill Robicheaux Mr. Ronny L. Becknell The First Pentecostal Church Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Lovoi Mr. and Mrs. David Rook You do make a difference in the lives of our students. Mr. James E. Bell, Jr. Mr. Joe J. Fisher, Jr. Mr. Gilbert I. Low Mr. and Mrs. Dale Rose II Annual Giving focuses on acquiring regular, yearly contributions to fill the gap between what is needed and what Mr. and Mrs. Jim W. Bishop James J. Flanagan Shipping Corp. LTC Financial Services, Ltd. Mrs. Katherine A. Ross BoMac Contractors, Inc. Mr. Tom Flanagan The Lube Shop Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Roy the state provides. Unlike endowed funds, which are invested and generate support for specific purposes in perpe- Dr. Brent W. Bost Fraternal Order of Eagles #3743 Ms. S. Jill Lung Ms. Lori Ryerkerk and Mr. Mark S. tuity, the Annual Giving Campaign plays a vital part in the success of our university. Mr. Jack Boychuk Ms. Debbie Frazier Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts Woodburn Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brandom Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Fuchs Lyondell Petrochemical Co. Mrs. Holly C. Sansing Your gift really does matter. Mr. Frank P. Breazeale III Dr. Mary J. Gagne and Mr. James M. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Mahlie Dr. Anita L. Riddle-Schmidt and Dr. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Bridgwater Patton Mr. G. Michael Major Steven P. Schmidt Every gift is important, no matter how large or small. Every dollar counts! And you can increase your Mr. Roy L. Brittain Gale Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James R. Makin Dr. and Mrs. Russ Schultz contribution at no additional cost by checking with your employer to see if it will match charitable gifts. If so, Ms. Eunice H. Bromley Germer & Gertz, LLP Mark A. Fertitta Realty & Sempra Energy obtain a form, fill it out, and return it with your annual gift. We’ll take care of the rest! Mr. and Mrs. Jim B. Broussard Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Giglio Management Co. Mr. and Mrs. Don S. Shaver Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Broussard Mr. and Mrs. Howard Girouard Dr. and Mrs. Bobby K. Marks Mr. and Mrs. Mel W. Shelander The following pages acknowledge donors who have cumulatively given $100 or more to Lamar University, the Broussard's Mortuary Mr. James H. Glanville Ms. Susie Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Scot E. Sheldon Lamar University Foundation and the Office of Alumni Affairs between Sept. 1, 2006 and Aug. 31, 2007. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Burger, Jr. Mr. James T. Glass, Jr. Mason Construction, Inc. Mr. Todd Shores Mr. Carlo J. Busceme III Greater Houston Community Mrs. Mildred Mathis Dr. and Mrs. Carl E. Shrontz Amounts listed are cumulative; donors’ gifts to the Cardinal Club, Friends of the Arts, KVLU and other affiliated Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Butler Foundation Dr. Barbara Mathis-Tarbutton Sigma Engineers, Inc. organizations have been combined for this report. Dr. David M. Caldwell Dr. and Mrs. Ned Groves and Mr. George Tarbutton Dr. and Mrs. James M. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cammack Gulf Coast Electric Co., Inc. Chancellor and Mrs. Charles R. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Skinner Thank you for helping Lamar grow. Mr. Dominic C. Cantalamessa Hadley’s Furniture Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Smith Caprock Pipe and Supply Dr. and Mrs. Tim Hagler Mr. and Mrs. Johnny May Mr. and Mrs. Mike G. Smith Dr. and Mrs. James L. Carolan Halliburton Co. Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. McCabe Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Smith Mrs. Mary Dale Carper Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Sean J. McCaffity South Hampton Refining Company A Report On Giving SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, TO AUGUST 31, 2007 Casa Ole/Crazy Jose's Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Harvard Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. McSpadden, Jr. Southeast Texas Human Resource Cavett, Turner & Wyble, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Harvey, Jr. Ms. Donna Meeks and Dr. Jim L. Jordan Association Mr. and Mrs. Wayne P. Cerniglia Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hawa Judge and Mrs. James Mehaffy, Jr. Southeast Texas Workforce Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Ellis MAC Pizza Management, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Roy N. Steinhagen President’s Circle Mr. John J. Certa, Jr. Lester D. Henderson Foundation for Dr. and Mrs. Cruse D. Melvin Development Board ENGlobal Engineering, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Arun H. Magia Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Strait ($5,000 & Up) Dr. Tamerla D. Chavis Youth Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Messina Sport Clips TX-502 Entergy - Texas Mrs. Betty H. Mahlmann Dr. and Mrs. Leldon Sweet Dr. and Mrs. Stephen N. Cherewaty Mr. Joseph D. Henderson Mid Cities Restaurant Corp. Sport Dimensions, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander Entergy Services, Inc. Mr. Mike Mahoney Temple Inland Foundation ChevronPhillips Chemical Company Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hendricks Mike Smith Autoplaza SSE Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Almond Enterprise Rent-A-Car Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Mason Texas State Bank ChevronTexaco Corp. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Hill Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stelly Mr. and Mrs. Murray Anderson Equistar Chemical, LP Mr. and Mrs. Elvis L. Mason The Modern Group Ms. Rena F. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hoffer Mr. and Mrs. David L. Montgomery Dr. and Mrs. James B. Stevens Aviation and Space Foundation of Texas ExxonMobil Mr. and Mrs. Stan N. Mathews Dr. R. Blaine Thomas Coburn Supply Company, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Joe W. Holland Mr. Forrest Moore, Jr. The Honorable and Mrs. John B. Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute Fitness Expo, Inc. McDonald's Restaurant Dr. and Mrs. Curtis D. Thorpe Ms. Edith E. Coco Home Furniture Co. Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Morgan Stevens, Jr. Beaumont Foundation of America Five Point Credit Union Mr. Eugene H. McFaddin Time Warner Communications Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Coco Honeywell International Dr. and Mrs. Terry Morris Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stirling Beaumont Rice Mills, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Fouts Dr. and Mrs. J. Robert McLendon Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. Rev. and Mrs. T. Stewart Coffman Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Motiee Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Straface, Jr. Mr. David J. Beck Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Fuljenz Mr. and Mrs. Jensen G. Millar Trinity Industries, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley Cohen Dr. and Mrs. Jack R. Hopper Motiva Enterprises Stuart-Griffin-Perlitz Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bertrand Ms. Rebecca L. Fussell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller T.S.P.E./Sabine Chapter Collette Travel Service, Inc. Hostetler Johnston, LLC Ms. Camille Mouton Mr. and Mrs. Ken M. Suiter Better Business Bureau Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Turner Mrs. Beverly Collie Mr. Joseph C. Hughes, Jr. Munro’s Dry Cleaning Sun Bowl Association Mr. and Mrs. Marion L. Bonura Gas Processors Association of Houston Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Moore Dr. Marjorie Shepherd Turner Mr. and Mrs. Randy C. Conley Mr. and Mrs. Ed L. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nathan Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Sutton, Jr. Mr. S. Gerard Bonura Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Gill Motiva Enterprises LLC Mr. and Mrs. Walter Umphrey Conn’s Inc. Hygeia Enviro-Clean, Inc. Neches River Festival, Inc. Mr. Kenneth Tekell Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy E. Booker Golden Triangle Dairy Queens, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Munro Universal Coin & Bullion, Ltd. Ms. Kathryn Costello I.B.E.W. Local Union #479 Mr. and Mrs. Sina K. Nejad Ms. Rose M. Thomas The Honorable and Mrs. Jack B. Brooks Julia Gordon Gray Trust Neches Federal Credit Union Verizon Wireless Mr. and Mrs. Revon Craig ICU Environmental Health & Safety Nell McCallum & Associates, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thurston, Jr. Estelle Broussard Family Trust Mr. and Mrs. Austin T. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Ben Parks Mr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Nathan H. Cross Imagistics Pitney Bowes Office Systems Mr. and Mrs. Frank Newton Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Tidwell Mr. Joe Broussard II Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Greenberg Peak Industrial Services, LLC Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Custer, Jr. Industrial Transportation, Inc. Dr. Brenda and Mr. Harry Nichols Time Warner Communications W. J. and Lela Budwine Charitable Mr. and Mrs. D. Mike Grimes, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Penland Foundation Dammon Engineering, Inc. Infocus Camera & Imaging, LLC Ms. Karen B. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Turner Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Harrington, Jr. Pfizer, Inc. Wells Fargo Mr. Pete Dammon, Jr. ISP Elastomers Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Ortega Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Turner Mrs. Lela Budwine Wilton and Effie Mae Hebert Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Pigue Williams Kherkher LLP Ms. Janet Daniels J. Mark Smith & Associates, Inc. Parigi Property Management, Ltd. UBC-Parker Lumber Mr. and Mrs. Jon B. Burmeister Estate of Josephine Hebert Press Club of Southeast Texas Mrs. Rosine M. Wilson Dr. and Mrs. Barry J. Davis Mr. Brian Sutton and Mrs. Fern V. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Parigi, Jr. Valero Refinery Capital One Mr. and Mrs. Alton D. Heckaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Price The Honorable and Mrs. Robert J. Rep. and Mrs. Joseph D. Deshotel Ms. Lucille F. Jarisch Dr. Beverly and Mr. Carl Parker Value Carpet Shoppe Dr. Joseph B. 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Cogswell Mr. Toliver W. House, Jr. Mrs. Norma Parsel Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Beshears Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Celli Mr. Don DeMartino Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Marshall Ms. Katy Wells Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Coleman Mrs. Gisela R. Houseman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Pate Mrs. Elta Smith Williams Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Bessell Mr. Elmo Chaison Mrs. Alice M. Der Garabedian Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Dunnam Dr. and Mrs. Tony Martin Wheeler Truck Body of Beaumont, Inc. Mrs. Cynthia G. Comeaux Houston Jewish Community Mr. Srini Patibandla Mr. H. Wayne Williams Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bevilacqua, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Chamberlain Mr. and Mrs. Wayne DeYoung Ms. Max Duplant Mr. Tom Martinez White Onion Investments Limited LP Complete Litigation Support Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Patton III Dr. and Mrs. Mark A. Wilson Ms. India K. Billeaud Mr. Matt Champagne Dr. and Mrs. Jon K. Dezelle Mr. and Mrs. Darrin S. Dykes Mr. William B. McInnis Mr. and Mrs. Clark White Ms. Susan M. Conn Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Huckaby Mr. and Mrs. John E. Payton Mr. Pat N. Wilson Mr. Alan Bills Mr. and Mrs. Randy R. Chance Mr. Henry Dillon, Jr. Dr. Ezea Ede Dr. and Mrs. Scott A. McKenney Mr. and Mrs. Mike White Mr. and Mrs. David Cook Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Huckaby Mr. Floyd Pearce Mr. James E. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Binagia Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Chapman Dr. and Mrs. Eric Dineen Mr. Tim Edgmon Dr. Michael L. McMahon II Mrs. Charlene M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. William J. Cook Dr. and Mrs. Young G. In Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Peevy Mrs. Peggy Wood Dr. Donna B. Birdwell Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dix Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Edson MeadWestvaco Mr. Edgar A. Williamson Drs. Catherine and Donald Cotten Dr. Peter C. Isaac Mr. Bill Pittman, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Wright Mr. Brad Bishop Mr. Richard D. Chappell Mr. and Mrs.Obie H. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ferguson, Jr. Medical Management Services, Inc Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Wimberly Mr. William R. Courtney Jeneal International Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Z. Polk Mr. Robert M. Zoschke Dr. and Mrs. Kamal C. Bitar Mr. and Mrs. Garland D. Charpiot Dr. Peggy and Mr. David Doerschuk Mr. Ed B. Few Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mehaffy Mr. and Mrs. Terry W. Wood Mr. J. H. Covington Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Jewell Ms. Maudie Pope Mr. Frank L. Bittinger Mr. Herbert R. Chavis, Sr. Mr. Doug Dornier Mr. and Mrs. Doug Fierce Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Crabtree Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Johnigan, Jr. Mr. Albert J. Price, Jr. BJ Ford, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Chen Ms. Linda M. Downing Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Fisher II Mr. and Ms. F. Max Merrell Mr. Nathan Wright Daniel Land & Cattle Company Mr. Theodore R. Johns, Sr. Mrs. Elizabeth Buchanan-Price and Big Red Circle Ms. Gretchen Bjerke Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cherry DRC Inspection Inc. Dr. Jane and Mr. Johnny Fitch Mid County Medical Skin Spa Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wright Mr. and Mrs. C. Lynn Daughrity Mrs. Helen R. Johnsen Mr. Albert J. Price, Sr. ($100-$249) Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Black, Jr. Dr. Fred D. Cheshire Ms. Leah R. Drullinger Mr. and Mrs. Bob A. Flores Mr. and Mrs. Danny Miller, Jr. Dr. Robert O. Zimmerman Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Johnson Mr. W. Doug Pursley, Jr. Mr. George S. Blackmon Mr. Nelson J. Chevis Mr. Buddy Dryden Mr. D. Fontenot Mobiloil Federal Credit Union Mr. and Mrs. Pete F. Zummo Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Johnstone Mr. Luis Quinones Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. Abbage Mr. M. Shawn Blackwell Ms. Pai-Yu Chiang Mr. and Mrs. Brian Duchin Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Ford, Jr. Mr. J. C. Modica Mr. Laurence J. Zych Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Day Dr. Gene Jones Dr. and Mrs. Jed J. Ramsey Mr. David L. Acker Ms. Pollie V. Bland Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Childress Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Dugan

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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Landeck Mr. K. Scott McDonald Dr. Don E. Owen Mr. and Mrs. Ken E. Ruddy Mr. Walter I. Tacquard III Pension Protection Act of 2006: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Landry Mr. Donald W. McEachern Mr. Leon F. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Rugg Mr. and Mrs. George O. Talbert Ms. Joyce Landry Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. McGaugh Mr. and Mrs. Gerard M. Parigi Dr. and Mrs. Rod W. Ruppel Mr. John E. Talbot A CHARITABLE GIVING OPPORTUNITY EXTENDED Mr. and Mrs. Johnny C. Lane Mr. and Mrs. Brad A. McGowan Park Plaza Physical Therapy Mrs. Suzanne A. Rusch Mr. Nic Tanner Last year, Congress enacted legislation through the Pension Protection Act of 2006 Ms. Lynne Lange Mr. Bubba McGuire Mr. and Mrs. Shane Parker Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Russo Target Mrs. Juanell L. Langston Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. McKey Mr. Chris M. Parks Mr. and Mrs. David E. Rutledge Ms. Jane H. Taylor that offered charitably minded individuals an opportunity to make gifts from their Mr. Richard C. Latham Dr. and Mrs. George McLaughlin Mr. Dan Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Byron G. Sadler Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor, Jr. Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and to exclude the amount of their gifts Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Latimer MCM Elegante Hotel Ms. Betty Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Jerad Saindon Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Teel Ms. Mary B. Latino Mr. and Mrs. Doug McMakin Pastor Nominating Committee Salt on the Rim Machine Rentals Telecom Pioneers South TX from their gross income. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Laurette Ms. Donna G. McMurrey First Presbyterian Church-Dallas Ms. Paula Salter Chapter #64 Mr. Keenan J. Lazenby Mrs. Carolyn McNamara Pat Tank, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Stuart N. Salter Mr. Chukiat Temcharoen Mr. Alan Leach Mrs. Terry O. McNeely Mr. and Mrs. John E. Pate Sampson Steel Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tennison To be eligible: LeaseAll RentAll, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. McPherson Ms. Linda D. Pate Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. Sampson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Teten Mr. and Mrs. Antoine J. LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Daniel N. McWilliams Mr. Kartik K. Patel Sam's Package Store Texas Alliance For Minorities • You must be 70-1/2 years of age or older; Mrs. Mary E. LeBlanc Ms. Rebecca S. Meadows Ms. Bobbie J. Patterson Mr. Eugene Samuel Texas Section, American Society of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ledyard Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Meaux Mr. Bob Paules, Jr. Sandra's Shooting Stars Civil Engineers • IRA transfers must go directly to Lamar University Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Gerald K. Lee Mrs. Greta J. Mee Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Michael Savoie Mrs. Loraine L. Thibodeaux Mr. and Mrs. Morris T. Lee Mega Play U.S.A. Mr. Robert M. Peck Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Schwartz Mr. Gary A. Thomas • Distribution maximum for the year is $100,000; Mr. Ronnie F. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Chris H. Menzel Performance Restoration, L.P. Mr. and Mrs. Malon Scogin, Jr. Mrs. Miriam Thompson Mrs. Jane S. Leger Ms. Jennifer Mertz Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Perrella Mr. Bryce M. Scott Mr. James T. Timmons • IRA transfer can count toward your minimum distribution; Ms. Jane Leger Mr. and Mrs. Greg M. Messina Mr. and Mrs. Mike Persia Mr. Don E. Scott Mr. Ray Todora Mr. Rick Lemke Mr. Brent Messina Mr. Rodger E. Peterson Mr. John W. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Torres • Gifts must be outright (i.e. no benefits such as income may be received). Mr. and Mrs. Will S. Leonard III Dr. and Mrs. Clyde C. Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Banker Phares Dr. and Mrs. George C. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Jake Tortorice, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom LeTourneau The Honorable and Mrs. Maurice Philpott Motors, Inc. Mr. Patrick E. Sculley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Tortorice, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Levine, Sr. Meyers Ms. Marcia M. Pickering SE Texas Classic Automotive Trader Bills, Inc. Please consult with your financial advisor to learn more about how this tax-smart Dr. and Mrs. John M. Levosky Mr. Joseph J. Michalsky, Jr. Ms. Deborah M. Pickett Mr. and Mrs. John Seaberg Mr. Jon Trahan charitable giving opportunity will impact your gift planning with Lamar, and then Mr. Edward D. Lewis Ms. Julia S. Mickum and Mr. Troy Ms. Brandi L. Pierson Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Seabrooke Mr. Bao T. Tran Mr. Richard Lewis Fontenote Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Pillitere Mr. Joe P. Searcy Mr. and Mrs. John W. Traugott, Jr. call the Lamar University Foundation at (409) 880-2117. You CAN help us make Mr. and Mrs. Ron E. Lewis Microsoft Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Placette Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Searle Mr. Marrie Travis, Jr. a difference! Mr. and Mrs. Bruno J. Lioi Mr. Adam W. Middleton Plumbing Services Mr. Wayne Sebesta Mr. Jon P. Tritsch Ms. Jean Little Mighty Bluebirds, Inc Rep. and Mrs. Ted Poe Mr. Jack Seeley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Troxell Mr. and Mrs. William T. Little Mrs. Zelma Milgram Mr. Stanley V. Polcar Mr. Dale L. Seiler Mrs. Uliana N. Trylowski and ACT NOW FOR THE GREATEST BENEFIT! This special IRA ruling is only Ms. Teresa Lively Mr. George E. Milhouse, Jr. Dr. Laura G. Polich Mr. William W. Sellers Mr. Jesse J. Doiron, Jr. Lloyd’s I-10 RV Center, Inc. Mr. L. Nolan Miller Mr. and Mrs. David R. Pollard Mr. and Mrs. Tom Settle Mr. and Mrs. Billy Tubbs available until December 31, 2007! No charitable income-tax deduction is allowed. Mrs. Helen C. Locke Mr. and Mrs. Leon J. Moncla, Jr. Mr. Don A. Porter Ms. Diane C. Shaffer Mr. and Mrs. John H. Tucker Dr. Thomas A. Lombardo Mr. and Mrs. Leon J. Moncla, Sr. Dr. Jackson L. Porter II Mr. Harshad C. Shah Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Tucker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson O. Long, Jr. Mr. Wayne A. Moncla Mr. and Mrs. W. Ken Poston II Mr. Prashant V. Shah Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Vail Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Long Mr. and Mrs. Pete M. Mondello Mr. Lee Potter Ms. Amanda L. Shaw Mr. Joseph Valmore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Loukas Mr. and Mrs. Gene C. Monger Mr. and Mrs. James C. Potter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sheffield Dr. and Mrs. John S. Vardiman Mr. Mike Dukes Mr. and Mrs. Jon Flanagan Ms. Daisy H. Green Ms. Linda A. Hebert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Jasper J. Lovoi, Jr. Ms. Rose A. Moon P.P.G. Industries Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Scott Shelander Mr. Artie E. Vaughan Mr. Blane Dunkleberger Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Flournoy Ms. Erin E. Green Mr. Darryl D. Helton Mr. Ernest James Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Lum Mr. and Mrs. Ted E. Moor III Mr. Thomas W. Prejean Honorable Randy Shelton Mr. Joel W. Vazquez Mr. and Mrs. Todd B. Dunkleberger Judge and Mrs. Wilford Flowers Dr. Harriet B. Green Dr. Paul T. Hemenway Mr. Arthur J. Janecka Mr. Fan Luo Ms. Bernadette Moore Mr. Kevin L. Prescott Ms. Martha Sheppard Dr. Enrique (Henry) R. Venta Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Dupuis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Fontenot Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Greenway Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Mr. Joseph T. Janica Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore Dr. Richard L. Price I Mr. and Mrs. E. Jay Sherlock III Mr. Krishan M. Verma Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Duty Mr. Gilbert Fontenot Mr. Fred M. Griffin III Hemmenway Mr. and Mrs. Bob E. Jantz Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Harmon Mr. Glenn F. Moore Dr. Jay C. Proctor III Mr. Robert Shinn Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Villiva Mr. and Mrs. W. Robert Dyer, Jr. Mr. Larry C. Forster Mrs. Sally M. Griffin-Byrd and Mr. Gary B. Henderson Mrs. Kathryn M. Jefferson M Q H & D. Inc. Ms. Celia A. Morgan Mrs. Denise Pruett Ms. Melinda J. Shirley Ms. Amanda K. Vincent Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Dyson Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Foster Dr. Otis E. Byrd, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John A. Henderson III Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Jenkins Dr. and Mrs. Li-Chen Ma Judge Robert T. Morgan, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Purswell Mr. Michael A. Short Vin's Paint & Body, Inc. Ms. Lillias B. Ebner Mr. and Mrs. Joel N. Foxworth Mr. and Mrs. Jim Griffith Dr. and Mrs. John A. Henderson IV Mr. Roy A. Johlke Mr. Greg A. Mack Mr. and Mrs. Sam W. Morphew Mr. Lee R. Pyssen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Shuff Mr. and Mrs. Ginter Vurlicer Ms. Carol R. Edgerly Mr. and Mrs. James P. Foyle Dr. and Mrs. Ed B. Gripon Mr. Bryan L. Hendrix Dr. and Mrs. Barry W. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. James S. Mackin Mr. and Mrs. Carl Morris Qualified Plans of Beaumont Mr. Dexter A. Simmons Wachovia Foundation J. S. Edwards & Sherlock Ins. Mrs. Mary Frissell Mr. and Mrs. William H. Groberg Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hennigan Mr. Glen Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Madden Mr. and Mrs. Glen R. Morrison Mrs. Patrice R. Rabalais Dr. and Mrs. Ranjit R. Singh Mr. and Mrs. Russ Waddill Agency, L.L.P. Mrs. Nellie Froedge Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Grogan Dr. Alisa K. Hicklin Mr. Kevin L. Johnson Mrs. Patsy A. Magee Mrs. Rachel H. Morse Dr. J. W. Ramsey Mrs. Victoria P. Skinner Mr. William G. Waites Mr. and Mrs. Lum C. Edwards, Jr. Ms. Shawna D. Gaines Mr. and Mrs. Alvin J. Guidry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie D. Hickman Ms. Lori Falk Mr. and Mrs. Brent L. Mainwaring Drs. Gisele and Jimmy Moss Rao’s Bakery Mr. and Mrs. Nick Slavik Mr. and Mrs. Carl Waldman Efficient Systems, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gallio Mr. and Mrs. John C. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hickman Mr. Paul B. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Chip Majors, Jr. Motorola Inc. Mr. David B. Rawls, Jr. Ms. Roberta Slevin Mr. Raymond L. Walker, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Ege III Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Brent A. Guidry Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hickman Mr. Richard Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Stephan P. Malick Mr. Anand B. Movva Mr. John Read Mr. and Mrs. Stu Slifkin Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walker Mr. and Mrs. George D. Eicke Dr. and Mrs. Ramon Garcia Mr. and Mrs. L. Lee Guillory Mr. and Mrs. Randy Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Sam Malley Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Reaves, Jr. Mr. Andrew K. Sloane Ms. Lachelle D. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Eisen Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Gunderson Mr. Jerry Hidahl Mrs. Julia P. Jolly Mr. and Mrs. David Mallgrave Mr. and Mrs. Bob Myers Drs. Shanthi and G. Reddy Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith Mr. Joseph H. Wallis III Mr. and Mrs. Jay L. Eisen Ms. Jacqueline E. Garner Dr. and Mrs. M. Wyatt Haisten Mr. and Mrs. Homa S. Hill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Seab R. Jones Mr. Jeffery P. Malmay Ms. Regina B. Myers Redlac Enterprises Ms. Barbara W. Smith Dr. Bin Wang Eli Lilly & Company Foundation Ms. Peg Garrett Mrs. Jo Haley Mr. Carl L. Himel III Ms. Mary Jones Mama's Pizza Mr. and Mrs. Habeeb M. Nacol Mr. Jay Reese Mr. James G. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wann Ms. Bonita L. Elias Sheriff and Mrs. J. Keith Gary Dr. Michael L. Hall Mrs. Gina Y. Hinson Ms. Sandra B. Jones Ms. Ann M. Manes Mr. Sachin Naphad Mr. and Mrs. Durgesh C. Regmi Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lee Smith Mr. Ray H. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Elliott Mr. Michael Garza Mrs. Mildred P. Hall Dr. and Mrs. George J. Hirasaki Mr. Sanford A. Jones Mr. Rene S. Manuel Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Nation Mr. Thomas R. Reid Mr. and Mrs. John C. Smith Mr. Les Warren Mr. Joseph C. Elwell Dr. David G. Gates Mr. Robert R. Hall Mr. John P. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jones Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neff Mr. and Mrs. Cleve W. Renfro Mr. and Mrs. Kirk M. Smith Wastewater Consultants, Inc. Mr. James D. Elwood Mr. John G. Gauthiere Pastor W. C. Hall, Jr. Mr. Robert D. Hoepner Ms. Vicki S. Jones Mr. and Mrs. John Mao Mr. and Mrs. Bill Neild Mrs. Dolores A. Respess Dr. Sheila and Mr. Mack Smith Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Watkins Mr. Robert J. Emery Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Gautreaux The Honorable and Mrs. Mike Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Hoke Mr. and Mrs. John R. Joseph Marine Fueling Service, Inc. Ms. Nancy B. Neild Mr. and Mrs. Jim E. Rich Mr. Marvin A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Watler, Sr. Mrs. Ethel May Emmons Mr. and Mrs. Burke Gautreaux Hamilton Mr. Dennis R. Hollander Ms. Charlotte M. Jungen Ms. Merilyn F. Howton and Dr. Mr. Steven L. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Wade G. Richards Mr. Matison W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Floyd T. Watson, Jr. Mr. Steven B. Erickson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Genn III Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Hamlin Mr. Alex M. Hollingshead Dr. and Mrs. Elmore P. Kalbaugh Richard G. Marriott Ms. Terry Newman Mr. and Mrs. Alva A. Richardson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Smith Dr. Joe T. Watt, Jr. Mr. Tim Erickson Mr. and Mrs. Greg Gentry Mr. Jimmy D. Hamm Ms. Dorothy Holmes Mr. Manjunath M. Kankanawadi Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Jack T. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Randy J. Ney Mr. and Mrs. Darrell L. Richerson Smith-Hayes Optical Services, Inc. Mr. Billy F. Waugh Mr. Stephen C. Estes Mr. Carey Georgas Mr. Felix M. Hammack Ms. Oleta E. Holmes Mrs. Melanie J. Kasper Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy B. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Nicholas Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Richey, Jr. Mrs. Carol Solomon Mr. Bill Wearden Dr. Daron Etie Ms. Evangeline J. George Mr. and Mrs. Trace Hammond Mrs. Dora Horwitz Mr. Paul Kattawar Mr. and Mrs. Loren Martin Lt. Col. Warren Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Clyde P. Richmond South Texas Auto Sales Mrs. Jackie S. Weik Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Gephart Ms. Julie Hanes Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Horwitz Mr. Gopichand Kavikondala Dr. Rudy D. Martinez Dr. and Mrs. Bob Nicks Mr. Randall A. Richter Mr. Harold Spies Mr. and Mrs. Bernard B. Weinbaum Exygon Health & Fitness Ms. Heidi Gerstacker Mr. Ben J. Hanks Mr. John S. Howard Mr. Paul Keedy Dr. and Mrs. Carl R. Martray Mr. John P. Nickum Mr. and Mrs. Walter Riedel Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Spooner Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Weinburger Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Faggard Mr. Michael D. Getz Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hannay Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Howell, Jr. Ms. Antionette M. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Greg Mason Mr. Neal M. Nielsen Mrs. Ellen W. Rienstra Mrs. Pamela D. Springer Mr. and Mrs. Glen O. Weir Dr. and Mrs. John E. Farnie Mr. and Mrs. Bill Geyser Dr. Keith C. Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Hoyal Mrs. Nina B. Kenney Mr. David A. Massey Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Night Mr. Don Rinehart Dr. and Mrs. Malur Srinivasan Mr. Terry Welch Mr. James P. Farone Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hanson Mr. and Mrs. John C. Huber III Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Kessel Mr. Ricky A. Masters, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Nix Ritter Lumber Mr. and Mrs. Hershel L. Stagner, Jr. Ms. Victoria Weldon Ms. Judy Farrar Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Gilliam Harmonic Work Science Dr. Jean and Mr. Rhea Hudson Dr. Stena E. Kettl Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Matthis Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Nobles Mrs. Ruby D. Rives Mr. Russell L. Staley Mr. Jerome L. Wells Fasulo Paint & Body Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gilson Ms. Rania E. Harmoush Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Kiker Mr. and Mrs. Billy W. Maxwell Mr. Albert E. Nolen Mr. James M. Roach III Ms. Mary Jo Stedry Ms. Yolanda Wells-Broughton Mr. Scott Feldhausen Dr. James R. Gish Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Harper Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Huffman Mr. Michael Killingsworth Ms. Rose H. Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Nona Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Robertson Ms. Katherine Stefos Mr. Richard B. Welton Mrs. Dorothy Ferebee Mrs. Mary A. Glasgow Dr. and Mrs. Purvis E. Harper Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hughes Mrs. Cara V. Kinchen Mr. Norman May Dr. William Novelli Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Stuart D. Stein Mr. Jason M. West Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferrell Mr. Charles D. Glass Mr. M. L. Harrell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hullett Mrs. Ellen Goldin King Mrs. Sue S. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nuckols Mr. Steven Roby Mr. and Mrs. Mark Steinhagen Mr. Roy P. West, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Fertitta, Jr. Mr. David Gleinser Ms. Gail L. Harris Ms. Vivian R. Hulsopple Dr. and Mrs. James M. King Mr. Robert H. Mayfield Mr. and Mrs. Dan Oakes Mr. Eric S. Roccaforte Mr. and Mrs. John Steinman Mrs. Karen Corwin and Dr. James Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Fertitta, Jr. Mr. Kumaresan Gnanamurthy Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Harris Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hunsucker Mr. Kenneth W. Kipp Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Mayo Mrs. Ann Ohmstede Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Mr. Stephen Sterling W. Westgate F-Five Ranch Mr. and Mrs. Warren Goehringer Mr. Daryl J. Harvey Mr. John D. Hunt Dr. and Mrs. James F. Kirby Mr. Bryan Mazzola Mr. Lynn Olson Roccaforte, Sr. Stewart Title Company Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Wheeler Mrs. Charlie Fields Mr. Herb Goldstein Mr. Mehrad Hashemian Mr. and Mrs. Tanner T. Hunt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Kirkland Mr. Richard E. McAllister Ms. Mary A. Ondruch Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Roccaforte Mr. Kerwin B. Stone Mr. Ron Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Finch, Jr. Ms. Linda Goldstein Mr. Greg Hatcher Mr. Brian R. Hurlbut Mr. Virgil W. Kirkland Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. McAnulty Mrs. Pamela Ondruch Mrs. Phyllis S. Roccaforte-Boutte Mr. and Mrs. Chris B. Street Dr. and Mrs. E. J. White Ms. Cassie A. Fiorenza Mr. and Mrs. Dewey J. Gonsoulin Ms. Kitty A. Havens Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Hurtado Mr. Randy Kirwin Mrs. Fran Maness McArthur Ms. Cynthia F. O'Neil Mrs. Dawn G. Rodriguez Stress Engineering Services, Inc Mrs. Margie M. White Mrs. Rhonda B. Fishbein Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gonzales Ms. Sarah F. Hawes Ms. Lou Anne Huval Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Klein Mr. Kevin McCabe Mr. Amir Orcina Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Rogas, Sr. Mr. Jimmy R. Streubel Mr. Chad J. Whitehead Mrs. Kathleen C. Fisher Mr. Winston D. Goodrich, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hawkins Mr. Ernest C. Hymel Mr. Gary F. Klingman Mr. and Mrs. Earl McCaleb Mr. and Mrs. Jay Orcutt Mr. and Mrs. Archie D. Rogers Mr. Alan D. Sturm Dr. Gwendolyn Whitehead Mr. Mark Fisher Mr. and Mrs. William C. Goolsbye Mr. and Mrs. Elton Hayes, Jr. Ice House Museum Mr. Cole Kojak McClelland, Samuel and Fehnel Mr. Jerry Orndorff Mr. and Mrs. Jordan J. Rogers Ms. Jodi Stutes Mrs. Jane A. Whitlock Mr. and Mrs. Chris Fisher Mr. Jason A. Gore Mr. Levie J. Heard International Environmental Ms. Gail Krohn Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. McClelland Dr. and Mrs. Raul Ornelas Roofing Supply Ltd. Mr. Timothy J. Sudela Mr. and Mrs. John S. Wilber Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Fitzpatrick, Jr. Mr. M. C. Gore, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. B. Edward Heathcott Assoc., Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Mike J. Kunst Mr. and Mrs. Dexter McCoy Dr. and Mrs. J. Dale Ortego Mrs. Dolores K. Ross Mr. Balu Sulur Mr. Peter Wilcox Mr. Tim Fix Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Goth Mr. Bobby Hebert Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ireland Mr. Dennis G. Kutac Mrs. Carol E. McCredie Dr. and Mrs. John A. Osborne Mr. Lynn Ross, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Surratt, Jr. Mr. Charles R. Wilkinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Bill E. Grantham Mr. and Mrs. Calvin J. Hebert Ms. Daniella J. Irle Mrs. Suzanne Lambremont Mr. and Mrs. Mack McCullough Ms. Cissie J. Owen Mr. Daniel Rubio, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Swerdlow Mr. and Mrs. Percy Willard

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Mr. and Mrs. Sam Willey Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Wing Mr. and Mrs. Monte Woodard Mr. Joel D. Wrotan Ms. Nancy E. Zey Mr. and Mrs. Gene M. Williams Mr. Fred C. Winograd Sheriff G. Mitch Woods Mr. and Ms. Stephen H. Yeates Mrs. Chun Lin and Mr. Wang Zhang Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wyn Wise Mr. and Mrs. Bill Worsham Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Yennie Mr. Allan Zimmerman IN MEMORIUM Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Williams Mr. and Mrs. William M. Withers Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Worthington Mr. and Mrs. Bill H. Yoes Ms. Candis J. Zimmerman Ms. Elizabeth V. Adams Mr. John M. Conway Mr. Sam A. Maida Mr. Hugh G. Rose Senator and Mrs. Tommy Williams, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Wolf Ms. Alicia G. Wright Mr. Kody M. Young Mr. Travis Zimmerman Mrs. Gilbert T. Adams, Sr. Dr. John Crawford Mr. E. Paul Martinez, Jr. Mr. Sam Salim Mr. Moodye Williamson Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wolfrom, Jr. Mr. James R. Wright Mr. Terry Young Mr. Marvin C. Zoschke Between September 1, 2005, Dr. Hugh A. Akers Mrs. Mary Edna Crawford Dr. Alec L. Matheson Ms. Lila M. Salles Mr. Nathan A. Willis Ms. Chandra F. Womack Ms. Jennifer L. Wright Dr. Feras Zabad Mr. Bo Zou and August 31, 2007, Mr. Bruce Allred Dr. Nancy S. Darsey Mrs. Shar Zaloom McCabe Mr. George C. Sculley, Jr. Mr. George J. Wilson, Jr. Mr. David C. Wong Ms. Pauline P. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Zeek Mrs. Ronda A. Zowarka Mr. Aubrey S. Aron Mr. Neal Doblin Mr. K. Sean McDonald Mrs. Sue Shepherd Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wood Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wright Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Zerkle donations were received in Dr. Harold T. Baker Mr. Weldon B. Drennan, Jr. Mr. James L. C. McFaddin, Mrs. Mary Frances Sherlock memory of the following Mrs. Joyce N. Baker Mrs. Sandra W. Dutton Jr. Mr. Ed Stedman, Jr. alumni and friends of Lamar Ms. Gail Barnett Mrs. Mamie W. Edson Mrs. Anne McGown Dr. Manfred Stevens University. If you would like to Dr. Byrnes Belk Mr. John H. Gernentz Mr. Charles G. Miertschin Dr. Robert A. Swerdlow Dr. Alice C. Bell Mr. Robert H. Gunn Mr. Francis R. Mouton Mr. Ronnie Thibodeaux honor the memory of someone Ms. Alicia C. Bonura Mrs. Anne Heifetz Mrs. Marjorie B. Mouton Dr. R. Blaine Thomas in this special way, please send Mr. Lawrence Bonura Mr. Mark R. Hernandez Mr. Irving I. Nathan Mrs. Ruth H. Truncale your contribution to Lamar Mr. Jonathan E. Boyd Mrs. Anna K. Hoffer Mr. Lucas Petkovsek, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Vaglica University, P.O. Box 10011, Ms. Ashley Brown Mr. Jack House Dr. Annette E. Platt Mr. Robert J. Waguespack New Online Planned Dr. Melvin F. Brust Mr. Tony H. Houseman Mr. Howland J. Reich, Jr. Mrs. Gloria Weinbaum Beaumont, Texas 77710. We Mr. Eric J. Carlsen Mr. Tom E. Jackson Mr. Paul Reid Mrs. Gladys S. Williams Giving Calculator will notify the families of your Mr. Russell E. Chase, Jr. Mrs. Sherry Laurent Mr. Ben J. Rogers Mr. Will Wilson thoughtful generosity. Mr. Andrew P. Cokinos Dr. John J. Lopez Mrs. Julie Rogers Mr. Parker Windham It’s no secret that the future of Lamar University depends upon the continued financial support of our alumni and friends. We’ve created an easy-to-understand web $1 Million + Mr. and Mrs. Walter Umphrey E. I. DuPont De Nemours site to help you dream a little—about our Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Aldredge Edmonds Educational Foundation future and yours. There are many easy Beaumont Foundation of America $500,000 - $999,999 Entergy - Texas giving options from which you can choose. Mr. David J. Beck Mrs. Kate Dishman Estate of Josephine Hebert Mrs. C. W. Conn, Jr. Estate of Mary S. Schlesinger The Planned Giving Calculator is a web- CARDINALS Houston Endowment, Inc. FOR LIFE Mr. and Mrs. David Danziger Estate of Katherine E. Mundt Friends of Spindletop based calculator that provides an interactive Mr. and Mrs. George A. Dishman, Jr. The Robert A. Welch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Hunter W. Henry, Jr. way for you and your advisor to perform The University recognizes and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Drayer Mr. Rudy C. Williams IBM Corporation Mrs. Betty Leaf charitable deduction calculations for a extends its sincere appreciation ExxonMobil Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Gill $250,000 - $499,999 Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Mason broad range of planned gifts. The calculator to those who have supported The Meadows Foundation Julia Gordon Gray Trust BP Amoco Foundation, Inc. Lamar University throughout the Mr. and Mrs. Ted E. Moor, Jr. is designed to give you an estimate of your Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Green Estate of Hilma R. Breazeale years. Cardinals for Life are M. M. Rothwell Trustees tax savings and income benefits of a life Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Harken Capital One those alumni and friends who Mr. and Mrs. Bill Schindler Dr. and Mrs. Don M. Lyle ChevronTexaco income plan. have cumulatively made Shell Development Company The McMaster Trust Mr. and Mrs. Gary Christopher significant contributions. Mrs. Ed Stedman, Jr. You may explore the following options Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mitchell Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Walles Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Reaud Conn Appliances using the calculator: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Reese H.E. and Kate Dishman Charitable Ms. Regina J. Rogers Foundation • Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust Foundation SBC Dow Chemical Company • Charitable Remainder Unitrust • Charitable Lead Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Aldredge Mr. J. C. Giglio Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. • Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Mr. Paul Andrues Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Gill McSpadden, Jr. • Gift Annuity HERITAGE SOCIETY Mr. David J. Beck Dr. Charles Gongre Drs. Marilyn and George Mehaffy Mr. Gregory W. Bischoff Mr. Rex Goode Mr. Charles I. Miller • Pooled Income Fund The Heritage Society honors alumni Ms. Joan E. Brenizer Mr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Graves Mrs. Jeanette Mills and friends who have made planned gifts Visit the Planned Giving Calculator online Mr. King A. Campbell Mrs. Peggy H. Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Moore for the future of Lamar University. These Dr. Joseph B. Carlucci Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Harken Mr. Thomas Morris at www.lamar.edu/foundation. By answer- gifts come in the form of bequests, life Mrs. Phyllis Denby Ms. Lucille F. Jarisch Ms. Jessie M. Moss ing a few basic questions, you can easily insurance and life income arrangements Mr. Keith Dorman Mrs. Helen R. Johnsen Dr. Jack Orrick, Jr. work through the process of narrowing such as charitable remainder trusts and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Drayer Ms. Maxine Johnston Ms. P. J. Paine down your choices. It’s fun and easy to use! charitable gift annuities. If you would like to Mr. Harvey Du Bose Mrs. Hubert B. Kaszynski Ms. Pat Park become a member of the Heritage Society Mrs. Myrna J. Dunnam Mr. Leslie A. Lakie Mrs. Grace H. Riley The site is secure, and the service is free. by making a provision for Lamar Mr. Reggie Ebner Mrs. Gus F. Landegren Mr. Jerry P. Rudd If you have any questions, please call us at University’s future through a bequest or Mr. P. Charles Eldemire Dr. J. D. Landes Dr. John Schnick (409) 880-2117. trust, please contact Janice Trammell, Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Eveland Mrs. Jerry LeBlanc Ms. Patricia A. Snyder director of development, with the Division Mrs. Mary Ann Faust Mr. W. S. “Bud” Leonard Mrs. Vickie Stallings of University Advancement at Lamar Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Flaherty Ms. Claudia P. Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Walles www.lamar.edu/foundation University, (409) 880-8422. Mr. C. William Frank Dr. and Mrs. Don M. Lyle Mr. Rudy C. Williams Mr. Shel Gee, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. McCabe

56 | CARDINAL CADENCE 35:3 NOVEMBER 2007 NOVEMBER 2007 35:3 CARDINAL CADENCE | 57 PARTNERING for POWER COMPANIES INVEST IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS LAB CONDUCTS FRONTIER The day of meetings with univer- mechanical engineering will be assets FUEL RESEARCH sity engineering faculty, researchers in tackling the challenges of hydro- Lyondell Chemical Co. and administrators, as well as gen,” said Jack Hopper, dean of the representatives Mike Lamar University’s Fuel Cell and representatives from the City of College of Engineering. Already the Energy Research Lab is conducting Wobser, Randy Tatum Beaumont, Beaumont Chamber of college is pursuing groundbreaking frontier research to meet the needs of and Nicole Lewis Commerce and the U.S. military by developing clean presented a $65,000 Radiance Technologies, and efficient energy systems for its check to the sought to characterize strategic missions. This includes the Department of opportunities unique generation of chemically stored energy Chemical Engineering to Southeast Texas and in systems that produce hydrogen from Oct. 11. Lamar University in conventional and renewable sources. “We provide students with knowledge in the class- particular. Along with military applications, While quick to room,” said Peyton Richmond, associate professor of advanced fuel cell research holds the describe Texas as slow chemical engineering. “Lyondell’s donation will help stu- promise of utilizing non-polluting on the draw to get dents assimilate that knowledge by providing example hydrogen energy that will eventually into the long-term problems in an industrial context.” allow energy independence for the U.S. hydrogen play, Parsons The money will be used to help establish an while reducing environmental stresses. describes the state as President James Simmons said, Advanced Process Control lab. Students using the system uniquely positioned to “Lamar University is indeed fortunate will feel as if they are in an actual plant control room and assume a national leadership position research in hydrogen-powered fuel to have such stellar support from will be exposed to the types of problems that arise on the in the production and distribution of cells under contract with the Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and job, Richmond said. hydrogen and the development of a Department of Defense. Materials sci- Congressmen Kevin Brady and Ted hydrogen-based economy. ence, nanotechnology and composites U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Poe for the innovative research being performed here on Lamar’s campus.” Other states’ hydrogen efforts to research will all play important roles, Lamar University will Hutchison, R-Texas, visited This ongoing research by the new Lamar University energy laboratory and its numerous collabo- date have centered primarily on trans- Hopper said. receive $15,200 from rating partners places Southeast Texas and the Gulf Coast region squarely at the forefront as leaders in campus and toured the portation challenges—working with “We will continue to build part- ExxonMobil’s developing sustainable and renewable energy for decades to come. industry in the development of hydro- nerships bringing the best of research Departmental Grants Advanced Fuel Cell Research “A comprehensive strategy to unleash the power of free minds and free markets so we can gen-powered automobiles and buses science together with industry to explore and produce energy in America will strengthen our national security and solidify our global Program. The unrestricted Laboratory with professor for example—but have done little to design, develop and demonstrate the economic leadership,” Hutchison said. “With its renowned research institutions and vast supply of grant allows selected address the supply and distribution technology of tomorrow,” Hopper David Cocke ’69, left, July 6. untapped renewable energy resources, Texas is poised to invent the breakthrough sources that will academic departments to challenges facing the move to clean said. “We expect to be at the epicenter Accompanying Hutchison help fuel the world in the 21st century.” allocate the money for various educational purposes, hydrogen, she said. of the dawning of the next energy including scholarships, field trips, visiting speakers, equip- were U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, right, Creating hydrogen economically era—the age of hydrogen.” ment purchases, student and faculty travel to academic- DEFINING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY from clean sources—wind, solar, bio- The Texas H2 Coalition’s mem- R-Humble, for District 2, and related activities, and other educational projects. Lamar University is in a unique position to bring Texas closer to the vision of a mass—and developing power distribu- bership includes founding members U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, “Supporting higher education has always been a hydrogen economy. LU recently hosted a fact-finding visit by Patrice “Pete” tion methods will be essential for suc- Toyota, Shell Hydrogen, Xcel Energy, R-The Woodlands, for Parsons Marshall, executive director of Texas H2 Coalition, to discuss cess. Codes and standards are yet to Air Liquide, TEXYN, Exergy strong priority for ExxonMobil,” said Tom Marcotte, Global opportunities in hydrogen-related research. be written, and there is a lot to explore Development Corp. and Nature’s Recruiting Organization, ExxonMobil. “This program District 8. Parsons, a former deputy land commissioner for Texas in charge in bringing the technology forward to Electric; educational institutions the enables us to provide funding to colleges and universities of energy, has been a long-time advocate for alternative energy the market, said David Cocke, Gill University of Texas and Lamar that play a pivotal role in preparing students to enter the sources and is a driving force behind the formation of the Chair in Chemistry and Chemical University; and affiliate organizations, workforce. ExxonMobil is proud to provide support to industry-driven initiative for a hydrogen economy, a Engineering at Lamar. Southern Fuel Cell Coalition and the Lamar University that will enhance the department’s coalition of business, industry, academia and non-gov- “Lamar University’s strong Center for Transportation and the ability to align academic focus with the workforce needs ernmental organizations. history in chemical, electrical and Environment. of ExxonMobil.”

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Sept. 8 through Nov. 10. The winning streak started with a 3-1 victory over the University of Denver in their final match of the TCU tourna- ment in Fort Worth. The Lady Cardinals had dropped their previous two matches and six of their last seven and were sit- ting three games below .500 at 4-7 on the year. As players, the Lady Cardinals knew they were better than their record, and hen he took over as head coach of the Lamar knew they had to start proving it. They rebounded from a University volleyball team almost three years ago, tough 3-2 loss to New Orleans in their morning match and W Justin Gibert inherited a program that had fallen rolled past Denver, a win that triggered a 20-1 run to close out from championship contender to the bottom of the Southland the regular season. Conference. Now, just 34 months later, the Lady Cardinals are “I think the match against New Orleans was an important conference champions and the top seed in the SLC tournament. lesson for us,” sophomore outside hitter Kaci Brewer said. “I knew it would happen, I just didn’t know it would hap- “We went into that match, after losing to TCU the night before, pen this fast,” Gibert said. “We basically had to start from thinking we would beat them pretty easily. We didn’t show them scratch. We had to get a bunch of new players and get the players respect, and they stepped up and beat us. After that loss, we that were here before us to buy in to what we were trying to do. hated the way we felt, and we decided to start making teams I knew it was just a matter of time for Lamar to get back to the respect us the way New Orleans made us respect them.” top, and this team put it together.” Along with respect they earned, the Lady Cardinals picked This season the up the eighth overall conference championship in school history master plan worked and the school’s fourth Southland Conference volleyball champi- as the Lady onship. The Lady Cardinals won their first two SLC titles in Cardinals rolled 1983 and 1984 and their third in 2001. through the Adding to their team championship, the volleyball program Southland also received a truck load of individual honors for their efforts. Conference, posting Senior Molli Abel was named Southland Conference Player of a 15-1 record in the Year; Adrianne Meengs was named setter of the year; league play. They Shalayne Blythe earned Newcomer of the Year honors; and ripped off 14 Gibert was named the SLC Coach of the Year. straight wins, which is the second- longest winning streak in school history, dropping just one match from

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