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Power of Place [page 14]

Rosalyn Reades [page 16]

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14 Power of Place New Life Sciences Complex features state- of-the-art labs and endless opportunities for researchers and students.

16 Rosalyn Reades The doctor takes charge using lessons learned as an honors student and athlete. By Mark Wright

34 Gaming for a Living Computer gaming lab primes alumni for a growing multibillion-dollar industry. By Adrienne Nettles

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FR O M OUR PRESIDENT • 3 The rise to the top

DE A R NORTH TEXAN • 4 Julia Kuskin The more you learn … Cotton-Tail goodbye

UN T TODAY • 7 24 A new flock … Galapagos partnership … Fighting the flu … Sustainable tourism

UNT MUSE • 1 9 Sara Hickman … Literary honors … Support for Driving the Economy the grieving … New artist-in-residence

a s b u s ine ss le a der s in a n in c re a s ingly EAGLES’ NEST • 3 8 interdependent wo rld, a lu m ni m a ne u v er Lighting the sky … Connecting With Friends … t h ro u g h di f f eren c e s in c u lt u re a nd c h a nge s in Upcoming Alumni Gatherings … Down the Corridor … Sewing for the Cheerleaders … In the te c h no lo g y, tr a de a nd reg u l ati o n s . News … Holiday ornament … Friends We’ll Miss By Randena Hulstrand  LAST WORD • 4 8 Jennifer Watson (’95) remembers the moment she found her true love — at the Delta Lodge.

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Staying on track The North Texan University Relations, Photographers UNT continues its Rise Communications and Jana Birchum Marketing Leadership Michael Clements Vice President Brad Holt (’09) to the top Deborah Leliaert (’96 M.Ed.) Gary Payne (’99) Jonathan Reynolds Assistant Vice President Mike Woodruff As UNT begins a new academic Marty Newman (’02 M.J.) Writers year, we are forging ahead with a research Directors Sarah Bahari agenda that will enrich our students’ Jimmy Friend Ernestine Bousquet Kenn Moffitt Michelle Hale education and continue moving us to the Dena Moore Nancy Kolsti Kelley Reese (’95) Adrienne Nettles top. Becoming a major research university Rolando N. Rivas Buddy Price Janet Zipperlen (’75) Ellen Rossetti (’00, ’08 M.J.) is a long-held vision, and UNT will stay Mellina Stucky Magazine Staff Alyssa yancey on this path. Michael Clements Managing Editor When students broaden their Julie Elliott Payne (’97) Online Communications Eric Vandergriff knowledge through research, it changes Editors Randena Hulstrand (’88, ’07 M.J.) Integrated Branding the way they think. Our work with the Jill King (’93 M.S., ’00 M.A.) Joy Houser Howard Hughes Medical Institute to President V. Lane Rawlins presented Online Editor Project Traffic improve science education shows that medallions to summer graduates of the Lisa E. Largen (’92) Amy Kious (’08) Honors College at a dinner held in their Laura Robinson when undergraduates conduct research Art Director honor in August. Sean Zeigler (’00) Student Contributors with real-world applications, it helps Megan Beck them better understand what they are Designers Dave Patterson (’10) Steven Altuna Khashan Poitier learning. To encourage undergraduates to make research part of their studies, we have kit young (’06) Renee SKROBARCZYK (’10) Elizabeth Smith a new website at www.undergradresearch.unt.edu. Photo Editor We also are transforming our campus to support hands-on learning. Our new Life Angilee Wilkerson Sciences Complex now is open (learn more on pages 14-15), and the Business Leadership Building is due to open next fall. The North Texan (SSN 0468-6659) is published four times a Guided by our strategic plan for research and overall strategic plan, we will seek to year (in March, June, September and December) by the University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203- achieve our goals while preserving and enhancing our strong traditions of excellence. 5017, for distribution to alumni and friends of the university. Although economic times are tough, our direction is clear. Periodicals postage paid at Denton, Texas, and at additional mailing offices. The diverse views on matters of public interest I have always believed that public universities provide the greatest opportunity for that are presented in The North Texan do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the university. Publications staff can be personal growth. Three-quarters of all college students attend public institutions. As reached at [email protected] or 940-565-2108. It is the policy of the University of North Texas not to one of the state’s largest and most diverse universities, UNT provides an environment discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, for excellence to thrive because of our high standards and talented faculty and staff national origin, disability (where reasonable accommodations can be made), disabled veteran status or veteran of the Vietnam members. And our student-centered, public-driven mission enables us to serve the era status in its educational programs, activities, admission or employment policies. In addition to complying with federal and region, state and nation with a commitment surpassing that of many universities. state equal opportunity laws and regulations, the university through its diversity policy declares harassment based on We are proud to be among those leading the nation in bringing opportunities to individual differences (including sexual orientation) inconsistent this generation. We will strengthen this position as we continue to progress as a major with its mission and educational goals. Direct questions or concerns to the equal opportunity office, 940-565-2737, or the research institution. dean of students, 940-565-2648. TTY access is available at 940-369-8652. Postmaster: Please send requests for changes of address, accompanied if possible by old address labels, to the University Sincerely, of North Texas, University Relations, Communications and Marketing, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017. “University of North Texas,” “UNT” and “Discover the power of ideas” and their associated identity marks are official trademarks of the University of North Texas; their use by others V. Lane Rawlins is legally restricted.

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Teacher and artist really hard. I did not do too Sculptor George Cadell Star experiences well on that front. The Cotton-Tail (“Art for Everyone,” summer My first experience with It was all worth it the first 2010) was my commercial the night sky (“Summer time I drove north to the art teacher in 1979-80 at Skies,” summer 2010) was in observatory. I was amazed at Denton High School. a freshman astronomy class. how far out it was and how Several of my classmates and I was not looking forward to unobstructed the view was I were just at his house for a it, but our first lab was in the going to be. I was amazed at 30-year reunion. observatory. what I could see. It really We joked about the old I was instantly hooked. changed how I view the night It was good to see the days in class, then got a While my group was looking sky. 1906 Cotton-Tail and the personal tour of his foundry. at constellations, I observed I ended up marrying an 1907 Yucca featured in the It was amazing to see all an unusual object in the sky, Earth science teacher. He, of summer North Texan the work that goes into a and now I can’t turn away course, loves anything dealing (“Down the Corridor”). I single piece. from the sky when the sun with stars, planets and their have enjoyed my grandmoth- My lifelong love of art was goes down. goings on. He looks on er’s copies for many years. enhanced in his class; he was Before this experience, I NASA.gov all the time and I thought your readers a fantastic teacher. I’m so believed I knew all about marks the calendar anytime might like to know that the glad he was featured in The space. Now I know the more something is going on. poem on page 98 of the 1907 North Texan. I learn, the less I know. I’ve seen the space shuttle Yucca was written by and the International Space Josephine Acker (1907) of Amy Layton, computer Robert Kennemer, Station streak by. I’ve seen Frisco. She only signed her graphics specialist, UNT junior history major falling stars and we watched initials to “In Memoriam to Printing Services the Leonids meteor shower. the Cotton-Tail,” but she I remember signing up He has added to my love penned her name in her own Beyond the Norm for astronomy my junior and wonderment of watching copy. Thank you for your article year at UNT. I was so the night sky that the UNT She continued to write on Norm Miller (summer excited and couldn’t wait to observatory and astronomy poetry all of her life and 2010). It’s refreshing and look at the stars. I had been program sparked in 1993. taught school in Celina and encouraging to read that interested in constellations Frisco before marrying W.B. Norm is still making a since I was a kid and saw Pamela Tyner Staley Jr. in 1910. difference. Clash of the Titans (goofy, I Dietrich (’97) In 1996, my wife gave me know). The math part was Grand Prairie Norm’s book, Beyond the

4 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Lunch through the decades Friendships beginning in the 1950s at North Texas have become lifelong memories. As older women, we now realize how unusual and rare it is to find ourselves in the same general area (Dallas-Fort Worth) with the willing- Jonathan Reynolds ness to get together for lunch once a month no matter what happens. All but two were in the sorority known as Phi Sigma Alpha. We have seen many life changes over the years: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, marriage, divorce, death and tragedies. However, we all LEFT: Standing from left, Mattie McClintock Ivy (’54), Dottie Maddox know that whatever happens — the wonderful or the Holliday (’57), Madie Echols Robinson (’53); seated from left, Marilyn destructive — we are there for each other to lean on and Bruyere Brunkhurst (’53), Wilma Connell Jeffers (’54). RIGHT: depend on. Standing from left, Mary White Scott, Mary Shoemaker Perrin, Delma We doubt that there are many groups of women who Deaver Donohue Hendrix (’53), Mary Lou McClintock Throneberry (’61), Phyllis Powers Roberts (’70), Barbara Fry Arnold (’55); seated have shared lunch together once a month for more than 50 from left, Shirley Blakeley Mitchell (’56), Virginia White Lasworth (’54). years. We find ourselves marveling in this accomplishment.

Norm, as a birthday present. Texas Push as well as Norm The Abbey House Abbey House and Mrs. Abbey, What an amazing and life- and Anne Miller. My great-grandmother, let us know and we will pass changing story. I would Lillie Jessie Dustin Abbey, ran them along to her great-grand- encourage anyone who is Bill Cherry (’62) an “Abbey House,” a 17-room daughter. looking for an excellent book Dallas boarding house close to the on the definition of success campus. to read this one. Flute scholar Her husband died in 1932 As the first Fulbright and she had to raise her 10 Brian A. Etchison (’71) Scholar-in-Residence for kids — three in college, three Hewitt Indian flute music at UNT, I in high school, two in grade- If you would like to comment lectured and performed at the school, and two at home. on a story, share your North Texas It would be a reasonable International Fest and with Is the Abbey House that is memories or photos, submit news guess that from the pool of the College of Music in mentioned in your summer or obituaries, or otherwise get in several hundred thousand 2009-10. I’ve put videos up 2009 issue the same place? touch with us, we would love to who have graduated from on YouTube from my visit, hear from you. UNT since Norm and Anne including performances by my Leilani Abbey Mojarro Miller did, that a few of them UNT students on Indian Las Vegas, Nev. E-mail: [email protected] may have been able to run bamboo flute. Online: northtexan.unt.edu Interstate Batteries as well as Editor’s note: We have not (follow the “Contact Us” link) Norm has. Of course, we’ll Rajagopala Srinivasan found much information in Phone: 940-565-2108 never know. Varanasi, India our records about the student Fax: 940-369-8763 However, let’s go back to boarding house known as the Mail: The North Texan; that same pool of graduates. Editor’s note: For links to the Abbey House, except it was University of North Texas; I’d say it’s highly improbable videos, go to northtexan.unt. reported to be on Avenue A on Division of University Relations, that we’d find another couple edu/letters. the northeast corner of campus. Communications and Marketing; who could dance the North If you have memories of the 1155 Union Circle #311070; Denton, Texas 76203-5017

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Back to The number of visitors touring campus is on pace for a record in 2010, with more than 10,500 people School taking tours in the first six months of the year. Some of the tour-goers are now UNT’s incoming freshmen — among the state’s best and brightest — who were welcomed on Sunday UNT rolls out the welcome mat for a new Fun Day by faculty, staff and community volunteers helping flock of students this fall. them move into the dorms. Others are now transferring to UNT. The university ranks No. 1 in Texas and fourth nation- Share your advice for new ally among public universities for enrolling transfer students. students and enter to win a UNT also has risen to the top in meeting the state’s Closing UNT T-shirt at northtexan.unt.edu/online. the Gaps goals for enrolling and graduating students.

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Pass it on: Great things are happening at UNT. Learn about them here and share our successes with your family and friends. • Tunisia trip. Thirteen students visited non-governmental organizations, museums and the Kasbah in Tunisia in May to explore what women have in common regardless of culture and religion. The women’s studies course was the first UNT study abroad trip to the North African Muslim country. • History buff to the ‘Big Apple.’ Harrison Wicks, a junior history major, attended the prestigious Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program in New York City in June as one of 30 fellowship finalists. During a week-long program, they visited historical sites and museums and interacted with writers, editors, museum curators and other history professionals. • Lights, camera, action! UNT’s innovation and growth as a major research university are on display in four new videos on YouTube. Each includes highlights from UNT’s history, academic programs, research, campus life and commitment to sustainability. One is an overview of UNT, another details UNT’s leadership in arts and music, a third emphasizes progress in research and economic development, and a fourth focuses on UNT’s international scope. Watch the videos at www.youtube. com/universitynorthtexas.

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New provost, two new deans high-quality education to affairs effective July 1. Burg- Michael Monticino, dean of Three new administrative students while growing as a gren, a biologist, has served as the Toulouse School of appointments are allowing major research university. dean of the College of Arts Graduate Studies, began UNT leaders to keep a Warren W. Burggren was and Sciences, the largest of serving as dean of the College seamless focus on the named UNT’s provost and UNT’s 12 academic colleges of Arts and Sciences, and university’s goals of providing vice president for academic and schools, since 1998. James Meernik, associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, began serving as acting dean of the graduate school. Appointments in place will continue until a long-term UNT president is appointed and establishes a long-term Warren W. Burggren Michael Monticino James Meernik administration.

8 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant UNT received this year is its second from HHMI. Last year, beginning biology students conducted laboratory research with support from the institute’s Science Education

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UNT has been named a Military Howard Hughes Medical dents will participate in Rural librarians’ project Friendly School for Institute grant research such as characteriza- The Department of 2011 by G.I. Jobs UNT will expand research tion of bacterial proteins of Library and Information magazine and is in opportunities for undergradu- unknown function in a new Sciences will begin a project the top 15 percent of ates and help transfer students Classroom Research Labora- with rural libraries with a colleges, universi- with a new $1.3 million grant tory as part of their biology $1.6 million grant from the ties and trade from the Howard Hughes courses. Robert and Ruby Priddy schools that have Medical Institute. UNT was And the grant will support Charitable Trust. earned this desig- among 50 universities to juniors and seniors to work in a The project pays tuition for nation for its work receive the HHMI Precollege biology or biochemistry lab UNT students enrolled in the with veterans and Undergraduate Science with UNT faculty and College of Information’s wishing to continue Education Program grant. graduate students. Certificate of Advanced Study their education. A portion of the grant will This is UNT’s second grant program with an emphasis in be used to bring community from HHMI. In 2009, the rural librarianship. college students to campus university received support Scholarship recipients will each summer. First-year from the institute’s Science support an outreach coordina- students will learn academic Education Alliance, a program tor in assisting library staff success skills and research to bring laboratory research to with outreach plans in about methods, and second-year beginning biology courses. 105 libraries in small North- students will work with UNT west Texas towns. faculty on research projects. Also, UNT undergraduate stu-

Sta rt- u ps j o in D is cov e r y Pa r k Two start-up companies — MedAutomate Diagnostics, a medical device company, and Solar Logic, an alternative energy company — opened offices at UNT’s Discovery Park, creating public-private partnerships that will lead to new technologies and provide a boost to the region’s economy and technology sector. The companies are

collaborating with UNT professors and students to bring about innovations in Jonathan Reynolds medical device development and energy. Discovery Park promotes entrepreneurship and encourages the development and commercialization of new, cutting-edge ideas. UNT boosts the Dallas-Fort Worth economy by about $1.5 billion annually.

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which won the Overseas Press blogging and memoir. Thermoelectric grant Club’s 1997 Hal Boyle Award, The conference awarded The materials science and was a finalist for the National $15,000 in cash prizes to engineering department and Book Award and was the winning essays and a book the physics department basis for the film. Mary Karr manuscript proposal, Finish received $100,000 from the is the author of Lit, which Forty and Home, by Phil II-VI Foundation for research continues her critically Scearce. UNT Press will that could extend the life of Jonathan Reynolds Jonathan acclaimed and New York publish the book, and the top thermoelectric devices, find a Mayborn conference Times best-selling memoirs 10 essays will be published in replacement for Freon in The sixth annual Mayborn The Liars’ Club and Cherry. the Mayborn’s literary journal, refrigerators, and use waste Literary Nonfiction Confer- And Gary Smith is a senior Spurs of Inspiration. heat from automobile exhaust ence in July hosted three top writer at Sports Illustrated Hosted by the Mayborn to cool the inside of vehicles. narrative practitioners as whom Slate calls “the best Graduate Institute of Regents Professor Witold keynote speakers. Mark magazine writer in America.” Journalism, the conference is Brostow will lead graduate, Bowden (above), a best-selling Other speakers showcased one of the country’s pre- undergraduate and Texas author, screenwriter and the power of narrative in eminent writing conferences. Academy of Mathematics and journalist, is best known for prose, screenwriting, song- Learn more at Science students, who will his book Black Hawk Down, writing, broadcasting, www.unt.edu/mayborn. assist with the research.

Alumni mentor students through Career Center programs

Alumni who would like to offer their career expertise and advice to students have several opportunities at UNT’s Career Center. Through the Mentor Match, a database of alumni who have volunteered to assist students with their career development questions, students can select alumni mentors who share their career, academic or cultural interests. Once matched to a student, alumni meet with students during informational interviews so they can learn about their industry and careers, network with students by e-mail, provide resume and cover letter critiques and conduct mock interviews. “UNT alumni can be valuable resources for students wishing to explore career possibilities,” says Alison Delicati, assistant director of the Career Center. “Alumni give that real-world career perspective students find beneficial when making career decisions.” Another program, Mentor-On-Duty, gives students the opportunity to meet one-on-one for 15 to 30 minutes with an alumnus in their occupation of interest. Alumni mentors also can sponsor students at the annual Etiquette Dinner Oct. 13, at which students learn dining etiquette and network with alumni and prospective employers. In the spring, alumni serve as hosts for the job shadowing program Take Flight. For one to five days during Spring Break (March 14-18, 2011), the program gives students a taste of daily life in their respective fields of interest by letting them shadow alumni at their workplace. Activities can include facility tours, staff meetings, reviews of company mission and vision statements, observance of client interactions, informational interviews, office tasks or project assignments. For more information on becoming a mentor, contact Delicati at [email protected] or 940-565-2705.

10 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 New peace studies institute UNT’s peace studies program, founded by the late Steven C. Poe, has established the Castleberry Peace Institute at UNT in collaboration with Peacemakers Inc., a nonprofit organized in 1987 by Dallas resident Vivian Castleberry, a retired Dallas Times Herald editor. The new institute will combine the strengths of the university’s academic programs in peace studies with the strengths of Peacemakers in community networking and programming, including support of peace education in elementary and secondary schools. The Department of Political Science, which will house the institute, began its peace studies program in 2000. In Texas and the Southwest, UNT became the first university to offer a minor and certificate in the field and the only university to have an endowed professorship in peace studies.

Charles Darwin Foundation traveled to the Galapagos in Office of UNESCO, the partnership June to sign a cooperative Charles Darwin Foundation GL O B A L UNT scientists and agreement between the and authorities from the c o NN e c t I O N philosophers will work with Omora Park and the Charles Galapagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Research Darwin Foundation to tourism industry. The new >> Station to find ways to support conservation and collaboration will involve joint support ecotourism and sustainability. Representatives projects, exchange programs confront challenges threaten- from UNT, the Universidad and technical support. ing the Galapagos Islands and de Magallanes in Chile and In 2009, a formal agree- the Cape Horn Archipelago. Chilean tourism operators ment between UNT and the A delegation of UNT and met with their Ecuadorian Universidad de Magallanes Chilean representatives with counterparts from institu- created the Sub-Antarctic the university’s Sub-Antarctic tions including the Pontific Biocultural Conservation Biocultural Conservation Catholic University of Program to integrate environ- Program and the Omora Ecuador, the International mental ethics and ecological Ethnobotanical Park in the Union for the Conservation sciences. Read more about the Cape Horn Archipelago of Nature, the Regional program at www.chile.unt.edu. Alex Ontanada

Representatives of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program traveling to the Galapagos Islands included UNT philosophy and biology professors Ricardo Rozzi and James Kennedy, standing at left, and program coordinator Christopher Anderson, sixth from left.

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that would equip robots to chosen to receive up to $10,000 to improve lives in communicate with each other, $250,000 later this year for their native countries. Swetha work that would help NASA Phase Two. Adama hopes to teach collect unprecedented data on To watch a video on the computer skills to students in the moon, Mars and space. project, go to northtexan.unt. rural India. Rajitha Peesari, The project is being funded edu/news. also from India, wants to by Phase One of the NASA promote the integration of Gary Payne Gary Ralph Steckler Space Grant International Peace Scholars computer science education Space exploration robots Colonization Research and Three international women for women with disabilities. Engineering researchers in Technology Development graduate students have been Weam Jasim plans to intro- the Autonomous Systems Opportunity. Eighteen univer- awarded the International duce reader-friendly math Laboratory at Discovery Park sities nationwide received up Peace Scholarship by the textbooks using pictures and are working to build a to $70,000 for the project. Philanthropic Educational graphics to schools in Iraq. network of wireless sensors Four universities will be Organization, each receiving

...... Ask an Expert

How can you stay healthy for a flu-free fall?

veryone dreads fighting the cold and flu season, prolonged vomiting, and if symptoms and the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus caused more improve but then get worse with high Econcern than usual. fever and cough. Seek emergency care for “The typical flu season lasts from November to March small children if they are breathing and generally peaks in February,” says Herschel Voorhees rapidly, have bluish skin or lips, are not (’75, ’82 M.S.), director of clinical services at UNT’s taking fluids, or are lethargic, irritable Student Health and Wellness Center. “While we saw an or, in the case of infants, inconsolable. increased number of H1N1 cases during the summer and fall of 2009, this year we don’t anticipate that resurgence.” Staying healthy Voorhees, who earned a D.O. from the UNT Health • The Centers for Disease Control and Science Center, offers the following tips for how to Prevention recommends getting determine if your runny nose is a sign of a cold or the flu, influenza vaccinations that include and how to keep from getting sick in the first place. H1N1 as soon as they’re available, for everyone 6 months and older. High-risk Cold or flu groups definitely should be vaccinated. • A cold’s symptoms are milder — headache or body • The best prevention is a vaccine, but aches, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, watery eyes. antiviral drugs used within 48 hours of the • Influenza symptoms develop rapidly and can include onset of symptoms can help. fever, cough, chills and fatigue along with sore throat and • Common sense rules: Avoid close contact more severe aches. H1N1 often includes nausea and with the sick. Wash your hands thorough-

diarrhea, and some patients do not run fever. ly. Get plenty of rest, eat healthy foods, Michael Clements • Seek emergency care if you are having difficulty breath- exercise and try to lessen your stress. ing, chest pain or pressure, confusion, dizziness or — Randena Hulstrand

12 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 NSF grant Narendra Dahotre, chair of the Department of Materials Science and new sustainable Engineering, received a tourism degree $208,868 National Science The School of Merchan- Foundation grant to develop a dising and Hospitality new stronger and energy HKS Inc. Management is now efficient class of metallic offering a new master glasses using laser-based of science degree in technology. Potential applica- Discover the power of pregame with the new alumni international sustain- tions include replacing steel pavilion and reserve your place in UNT’s history. able tourism, the first of cores used in electric trans- its kind in the U.S. The formers with the metallic UNT Alumni Association degree will prepare stu- glasses. The project is a collaborative effort with dents for management As the UNT Alumni Pavilion is built in conjunction Sandip Harimkar of Okla- with the new multipurpose football stadium, the UNT and leadership positions homa State University. Alumni Association is offering several donor recognition in sustainable tourism Dahotre has been named opportunities. Located at the northeast entrance of the new with either an operations to the 2010 Class of Fellows stadium, the pavilion will be the permanent headquarters for or policy focus. Students of the Society of Manufactur- the association’s Alumni GameDay Grille pregame parties in will spend one year at ing Engineers. the fall of 2011 and will be a facility that members and UNT completing courses friends can enjoy during special events throughout the year. in sustainable tourism, Chemistry conference “The UNT Alumni Pavilion project will provide a hospitality operations, UNT hosted the Biennial permanent presence for alumni to gather for food, fun and environmental impact Conference on Chemical Edu- fellowship as well as opportunities to meet in a less formal assessment and envi- cation in August. About campus atmosphere,” says Derrick Morgan, executive ronmental ethics. During 1,200 educators discussed director of the UNT Alumni Association. “Additionally, our their second year, stu- technology in chemistry alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, friends and organiza- dents will study natural education, how cooking tions have the opportunity to permanently etch their names into this highly visible venue.” resource management relates to chemistry, and green chemistry. Donor recognition opportunities include naming rights, and environmental poli- The conference, co-spon- an interior column marker, donor wall recognition or a cies at CATIE, an interna- sored by UNT and the brick paver on the adjoining exterior patio. Morgan says tional higher education, American Chemical Society supporters can get involved for as little as $100, and by research and develop- Division of Chemical pledging support to the new pavilion they will be helping to ment center in Turrialba, Education, accepted about build tradition and leave a lasting legacy for future UNT Costa Rica. 800 papers, 65 workshops generations. and 70 posters from chemists Contributions are tax-deductible. For more information, in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, contact the alumni association at 940-565-2834 or visit Canada, China, India, Ireland, www.untalumni.com. Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, To join the association or learn more, visit Russia, Sudan, Turkey, www.untalumni.com, e-mail Venezuela and the U.K. [email protected] or call 940-565-2834.

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Life Sciences Complex

With more than 2,500 Students returning to campus this fall have the opportunity to aquatic tanks and 24,000 learn about the life sciences in UNT’s newest state-of-the-art square feet of labs, facility. The Life Sciences Complex, a $33.2 million structure, UNT’s new world-class facility combines the existing classrooms and labs of the Biology Building significantly expands (left) with a new 87,000-square-foot building of additional research research and learning. space (right) that replaces Masters Hall, early home of the chemistry department. The four-story complex continues UNT’s green legacy, which Watch a video on the dynamic features began in 1935 with the arrival of biologist J.K.G. Silvey, pioneering of the new facility at northtexan.unt.edu/online. water quality researcher and UNT’s first research faculty member. Today, the new facility is expanding funded research programs in cardiovascular physiology, genetics, plant science and plant signaling. R o o fto p gr e e nh o u s e s Four climate-controlled rooftop research greenhouses are designed for technologically advanced plant science research. UNT scientists are studying how

Jonathan Reynolds to increase agricultural produc- tivity, with far-reaching effects in energy, food supply, nutrition and medicine.

Eco - fri e ndly f e at u r es The complex features north-facing labs that use natural light, a 20,000-gallon rainwater collection tank to water landscaping (built under river rocks, right), and cost-effective lighting and vent hoods that operate on occupancy sensors. The commitment to green is modeled by the UNT System and shared by the three system-member insti- tutions. In addition to UNT’s Life Sciences Complex, new facilities are opening this fall at the UNT Health Science Center and UNT Dallas. All are on track to receive gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Read more

about the UNT System’s strides with LEED Gary Payne building at untsystem.unt.edu. O p e n l a bs In support of UNT’s multidisciplinary research goals, the new complex features an open research lab concept promoting greater collaboration — and greater discovery. A new aquatic lab will support current projects and attract additional top-level researchers to study health issues from blood clots and oxygen deprivation to aging, diabetes and cancer. The lab will house more than 2,500 tanks and tens of thousands of saltwater and freshwater fish — making the facility the larg- est among aquatic university labs in the nation. Gary Payne

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 15 he car windshield had shattered, cutting a on-the-job administrative training there, gash in the victim’s arm. The intern with she worked emergency-room shifts and physician Rosalyn Reades (’02) at the responded to emergency calls, helping accident scene took one look at the blood train paramedics on the scene. and lost her nerve, the reaction of many. “She keeps the big picture in mind and T Reades, however, does not fret over tackles the tough problems first,” says blood — or whatever challenges a typical Malika Fair, a physician who was in day on the job in emergency medicine residency with Reades. “She is cool and might throw at her. The profession calls calm under pressure, and all of us around for strong leadership and unflappable her tried to emulate this.” calmness whenever the pressure’s on. From a young age, Reades knew what “In an emergency situation, you have to she wanted to be when she grew up. In take charge,” says Reades, who passed the high school, she volunteered as a file clerk The take-charge attitude written portion of the American Board of in the radiology department of a local Emergency Medicine exam last November hospital and assisted physicians with that made Rosalyn Reades and relocated to Dallas this summer, small tasks, such as taking blood pressure. accepting a position as an emergency Reades, who earned a bachelor’s (’02) a success on the medicine physician at Methodist Charlton degree in chemistry at UNT and Medical Center. “You can’t panic, because graduated from the University Honors Mean Green basketball people depend on you.” Program, now the Honors College, That attitude also served Reades well credits the support she received from Jean court is saving lives in her as a student-athlete at UNT. She finished Schaake, associate dean of the College of her career as the all-time leader of the Arts and Sciences, and others with new line of work. women’s basketball program in assists and helping her get into medical school. steals and was named to the UNT As a UNT junior, Reades applied for Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. Reades — and was accepted into — the medical also became only the second UNT school program at the University of Texas student to be named a semifinalist for the Medical Branch in Galveston. She prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. graduated from the program in 2006 and Now, she’s using her leadership skills to completed a three-year residency in help save lives in her new job, one she emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical landed after serving a yearlong post-resi- Center before beginning her fellowship. dency fellowship at Carolinas Medical “She embodies great intellectual talent, Center in Charlotte, N.C. As part of her academic preparation and ath­letic expertise, along with fine character,” says Gloria Cox, dean of the Honors College. “It is thrilling to see that she is now a doctor.” Reades’ new position in Dallas requires her to face constant Rosalyn pressure. Just the way she likes it. “I couldn’t imagine doing anything different,” she says. Reades by Mark Wright

16 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Mike Carroll

Rosalyn What playing sports taught Favorite UNT memories: Fan of: me about medicine: Playing basketball during “mid- NASCAR — I’m a huge Kasey Reades (’02) Discipline and teamwork. In med- night madness” (the first day the Kahne fan. Q Dallas icine, you’re dependent on many NCAA permits formal practice) and people. You can’t work alone. and attending “The Taste of Key to surviving medical Degree in: Denton” in the Pit. I like to eat. school: Chemistry My definition of success: Put in the time to study, with Achieving the goals that you’ve Favorite book: good time management, and stay A Favorite movie: set for yourself and being happy The Kite Runner by Khaled focused. Pretty Woman doing what you’re doing. Hosseini

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 17 Explore the world of entertainment at UNT As a major cultural and entertainment center for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, UNT offers the community a wide selection of events for the entire family — art exhibitions, thought-provoking lectures, theatre productions from dramas to musicals, and more than 1,000 musical concerts each year.

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Presented by UNT Dance and Theatre 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 2:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 10 University Theatre — RTVF Buiding

Gala: Best of Broadway Scholarship fundraiser featuring UNT Symphony Orchestra with David Itkin conducting 8 p.m. Oct. 15 Winspear Performance Hall — Murchison Performing Arts Center

Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery Art exhibition incorporating elements of nostalgia where cultural commonalities exist. It has been made possible in part by grants from UNT Fine Arts Series and Texas Commission on the Arts. Opening reception, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Nov. 9 Nov. 9-Dec. 18 UNT Art Gallery — Art Building

Encounters International Speaker Series: Sheryl WuDunn Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 Lyceum — University Union

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music with Sara Hickman (’86) is a Texas music icon, touring all over the U.S. in sold-out shows. She has made a mission name for herself as a musician but says it was as an art student at UNT that she met professors whose confident personalities inspired her. As Texas’ Official State Musician for 2010-11, As Official State Musician forT exas, singer/songwriter Hickman replaces last year’s honoree, Willie Nelson. Her goal Sara Hickman (’86) is promoting the arts for children. is to help raise $300,000 for Texas nonprofits Big Thought and Theatre Action Project and the children they serve. Read the full story and learn how UNT helped foster Hickman’s “It is quite an honor,” Hickman says. “Following Willie creativity at northtexan.unt.edu/online. Nelson, I feel I am a part of history.”

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River Music: Nature, Music and than 15,000 sorties and aviators and support crew had Books Memory in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya destroyed more than 200 helped prove the inefficiency of River Basin (TAMU Press). She German aircraft during World racial segregation in the nation’s Literary achievement worked as a journalist, magazine War II, first had to fight racial armed forces. writer and editor, and is a musi- inequality at home. J. Todd cian and librettist. Getschow is a Moye, associate professor of National Geographic former bureau chief for The Wall history and director of the Oral The rise of Street Journal and was runner-up History Program, tells the story National Mike Woodruff for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for in the pilots’ own words in Geographic to national reporting. He is writer- Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee cultural in-residence for the Mayborn Airmen of World War II (Oxford prominence is The Texas Institute of Letters Literary Nonfiction Conference University Press). the subject of welcomed two new members and is completing a literary non- Moye draws on more than Stephanie L. Hawkins’ American from UNT this spring. George fiction book,Walled Kingdom, for 800 interviews recorded for the Iconographic: National Geograph- Getschow, principal lecturer in publisher Henry Holt. National Park Service’s Tuskegee ic, Global Culture and the Visual journalism, and Ann McCutchan, Airmen Oral History Project, Imagination (University of assistant professor of English, Freedom flyers which he directed from 2000 Virginia Press). Hawkins, were elected in recognition of The United to 2005, to describe the Army assistant professor of English, distinctive literary achievement. States’ first Air Corps’ training program for traces the magazine from its first McCutchan, who teaches creative African black pilots in Tuskegee, Ala. He publication of nude photographs writing at UNT, has written Ameri­can says the program began over the in 1896 to its influence on several nonfiction books and military pilots, objections of top generals, but by popular novels and films in the has two forthcoming, including who flew more the end of the war, the Tuskegee 1950s. She focuses on how the

Good mourning

Mark Hundley (’93 M.Ed.) knows about grief. His first wife, Christy From April 1 to 30 next year, he’ll walk some 600 miles, roughly 1 million Laseter Hundley (’78) — a teacher with a few classes to go on her UNT steps, from McKinney to Nashville, stopping along the way to raise aware- master’s in education — was killed in a car accident in 1989, leaving ness of childhood and adolescent grief, highlight support organizations and Hundley and their then 7-year-old daughter, Kacie, to learn how to cope raise funds for the Journey of Hope Grief Support Center in Plano. A licensed without her. Hundley enrolled at UNT. professional counselor since 1994, he co-founded the nonprofit center in “After Christy died, I asked myself, ‘What am I going to do with my 1998 to provide free grief support for children, adolescents and their families. life?’ So at 35, I went back to school to get my teaching certification and “Grief isn’t talked about much. It’s sometimes labeled ‘depression,’ then my master’s in counseling,” he says. ‘stress,’ or maybe ‘relational issues,’” he says. “I want to make talking Discovering the hard way that helpful about it more common.” resources for dealing with grief weren’t Hundley, who calls the walk to Nashville “a stupid, crazy old idea” that easy to find, Hundley wrote his own guide kept coming back, already has a documentary film crew on board. His goal with strategies based on his experience. is to raise $1 million for a stand-alone facility for the center. The second edition of Awaken to Good He is married to Vanessa Moore-Hundley (’90, ’91 M.Ed., ’93 M.Ed.), Mourning (P3 Press) was released this whom he met in the counseling program at UNT. Kacie (’03), like her year. Hundley, who ran the White Rock mother, became a high school teacher, earning her degree and teaching Marathon twice to raise money for a UNT certification from UNT. The university awarded Christy’s master’s degree scholarship in Christy’s name, is directing posthumously. part of the proceeds from the book to a new project he has planned — Every Step Learn more about Hundley and the Every Step Has a Story project Has a Story. at northtexan.unt.edu/culture.

20 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 One Book, One Community Flight by Sherman Alexie — the story of an American Indian foster teenager who travels through time in search of his true identity — Upcoming is the book incoming freshmen are reading this year in UNT’s One Book, One Commu- Events nity program. As part of the year-long program, they received free copies of Flight and will join small groups Sept. 16 to discuss the book and its themes of coming of age and understanding hatred and humanity. Larry Austin, Professor Emeritus of music, celebrates his 80th Alexie is a poet and an author whose works also include the birthday with a Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia con- novels Reservation Blues and Indian Killer. He wrote the screenplay cert at 5 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater. Also for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, about the relationship this fall, three free performances in the Concert Hall Inaugural between a father and son. The Media Library in Chilton Hall will Series celebrate the Music Building’s newly renovated hall: NEA screen the movie at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 and will show The Exiles, which Chamber Music Concert Nov. 3, Artist-in-Residence Concert featur- documents 12 hours in the lives of a group of Native Americans in ing the work of Jake Heggie Nov. 5 (see page 23), and College of Los Angeles, at 7 p.m. Oct. 6. Visit vpaa.unt.edu/OneBook for infor- Music Faculty Recital Nov. 7. Visit music.unt.edu/calendar for the mation about other One Book events. complete schedule.

Enter to win a copy of the book by sending an e-mail with An 18th century art academy in Mexico and colonial urban space in “Flight” in the subject line to [email protected] by Oct. 1. Cuba are among the subjects to be covered at the UNT symposium “The Politics of Taste in 18th and 19th Century Latin America” magazine both reflected public praise in a Bistro Awards review. Sept. 17 at the Meadows Museum in Dallas. Art history faculty attitudes and influenced them, The reviewer says the actress/ members Paul Niell and Kelly Donahue-Wallace are co-organizers encouraging readers to identify singer “proved herself to be an of the symposium, which is free and open to the public. Visit with the values of other nations. artist of considerable depth and www.art.unt.edu/politicsoftaste for information. subtlety,” and he calls her Dance and Theatre rendition of “Hallelujah” by The Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibi- Leonard Cohen “quite possibly tion, showcasing artworks in all media New York cabaret the best I’ve ever heard” and by the artists working in the College of “certainly the most emotionally Visual Arts and Design, runs Oct. 5-23 textured.” with an opening reception from 4:30 Hayes, who has worked to 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at the UNT Art Gallery. off-Broadway, in regional theatres Pictured is Keith Owens’ Fragment Dan Strickler and in film, has performed her Series > 2b / 2d / 3c / 5b, 2010, of mixed paper, photographs and solo concert Song Stories From found objects. Visit gallery.unt.edu for information. Home at the Non-Stop Festival in After a successful run at the Poland and was a lead soloist in The Department of Dance and Theatre presents the Eugene O’Neill Gardenia in Los Angeles, Marjorie Story Songs, a benefit concert comedy Ah, Wilderness! about a young man’s coming of age in Hayes, associate professor of directed by Tony Award winner New England during the summer of 1906. Performances are at 8 dance and theatre, made her New Betty Buckley. In August, she p.m. Nov. 4-6, 11-13 and at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and 14 in the Univer- York City cabaret debut with finished shooting a leading role in sity Theatre. For tickets, call the box office weekday afternoons at Taking Chances at The Duplex this the feature filmUncertain, TX, 940-565-2428 or visit www.danceandtheatre.unt.edu. summer. The show, featuring a mix due out in the spring. You can of ballads, rock, blues and her catch her cabaret performances at Visit calendar.unt.edu for more upcoming events. favorite story songs, garnered high www.youtube.com/user/GeeHaze.

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Live from the Met International UNT music professor and Television and Film competition acclaimed tenor Richard Croft is Twenty double bassists coming to a movie screen near National service from around the world you. The Oct. 9 Metropolitan Ben Levin, professor of radio, competed in the inaugural Opera performance of Wagner’s television and film and M.F.A. Bradetich Foundation Das Rheingold, in which Croft program coordinator, has once International Double Bass sings the part of Loge, will be again been appointed to a Solo Competition at UNT broadcast live in movie theaters four-year term on the Library in June. Foundation and around the world as part of The of Congress National Film competition founder Jeff Met: Live in HD series for the Preservation Board. Levin, who

Jack Unzicker Jack Bradetich, Regents 2010-11 season. represents the University Film Professor of double bass, says he expects the event will help double The Met’s high-definition and Video Association, is one of bassists earn long-needed appreciation as solo instrumentalists. performance transmissions are the few members of the board “Winners will be international ambassadors for the double bass,” shown in theaters in more than who has served since its creation says Bradetich, who adds that such competitions were not available 40 countries. Go to northtexan. in 1989. for the double bass when he was a young performer. unt.edu/culture for links to more The board recommends titles Winning the top prize — $10,000 and a New York debut in information, including participat- for inclusion in the National Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall — was Artem Chirkov of ing theaters. Film Registry to the Librarian of Russia. Namgyun Kim of Korea clinched the second-place prize of Congress. Each year, 25 “cultur- $5,000, and Rex Surany of New Jersey won the $2,500 third-place Fifty years of fall ally, historically or aesthetically prize. All three earned CD recording and distribution, concerts and After performances this fall at significant films” at least 10 years master classes throughout the U.S. and abroad, and four years of the Guinness Jazz Festival in old are selected for the honor. career development. Cork, Ireland, the One O’Clock Organizations represented on Tian Yang Liu (above), a UNT student from China, earned Lab Band will perform its 50th the board include the Screen honorable mention and was named the favorite of the voting annual fall concert at 8 p.m. Nov. Actors Guild, the Director’s audience. 23 in the Murchison Per­forming Guild, the National Society of Arts Center. Film Critics and the Writer’s Music “the nation’s premier mariachi,” Directed by Steve Wiest (’88 Guild of America. helped the participants improve M.M.), the band welcomes guest Mariachi leader their skills in singing and playing artists and Rolling Stones Emmy nominations traditional mariachi instruments. band­mates Bernard Fowler on Alumni Kristopher Carter Students in UNT’s Mariachi vocals and Tim Ries (’81) on (’93) and Michael McCuistion Aguilas and students and alumni saxophones. (’87) of Dynamic Music Partners Michael Clements in the local professional group After a first half featuring the were among those nominated Mariachi Quetzal joined Hernán- latest from the One O’Clock, this year for an Emmy award for dez as instructors. Fowler and Ries will join the Outstanding Music Composition Between lessons, the campers band to perform selections from for a Series (Original Dramatic Media including Univision and experienced university life by Ries’ critically acclaimed jazz Score). The nod came for the Telemundo were on campus this staying in residence halls, eating recording The Rolling Stones episode “Mayhem of the Music summer as a top mariachi expert in the cafeterias and touring cam- Project. Meister” featuring Neil Patrick taught area middle school and pus. Donna Emmanuel, music For tickets, visit music.unt. Harris on the Cartoon Network high school students at UNT’s professor and camp organizer, edu/mpac or call the box office at show Batman: The Brave and the third annual mariachi camp. Mae- and psychologist Steven Prouty 940-369-7802. Bold. The award show was tele- stro José Hernández, founder and (’90 M.S.) have been studying vised Aug. 29. Visit northtexan. director of the Los Angeles-based how the camp helps at-risk youth unt.edu for an update or www. Mariachi Sol de México, billed as deal with challenges in their lives. emmys.tv for a full list of winners.

22 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 show, one of which was for the Erwitt’s documentary film about 1940s and ’50s idea of “woman- Visual Arts UNT Inline Hockey Team and the Kilgore Rangerettes, at 5:30 hood.” “Dual Gaze” is organized won a bronze award. p.m. Sept. 23 at UNT on the by UNT photography faculty Best School Award Square in Denton. Erwitt was members Brent Phelps, Dornith College of Visual Arts and Female identity documenting Texas culture after Doherty and Paho Mann. Design students took home the the Kennedy assassination for Best School Award for the fourth Paris Magazine when he discov- Smithsonian fellowship time in six years and earned a total ered the Rangerettes. He wrote Jennifer Way, associate

of $10,325 in scholarships and O. Rufus Lovett the introduction to Lovett’s book professor of art history, received a awards at the sixth annual Kilgore Rangerettes, which Terra Foundation for American National Student Show spon- Ameri­can Photo ranked as one of Art Senior Fellow award at the sored by the Dallas Society of the top 10 books of 2008 (at left Smithsonian American Art Visual Communications. Two distinct perspectives on is Blonde, 1995, silver gelatin Museum to support research for The contest included 97 female identity will be explored in print, by Lovett). her book project, Politics of the pieces from UNT — more than a film screening and lecture this Lovett and Rowe will lecture Handmade: The Significance of half of the 189 pieces from 12 fall as part of the Visiting Artist at 2 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Art Southeast Asian Handicraft for universities across the country and Scholar Series in the College Building, Room 223, with a book America, ca. 1955-1961. that were accepted for inclusion of Visual Arts and Design. signing following the presenta- One of 18 new fellows, she is in the competition. UNT stu- “Dual Gaze: Picturing Female tion. While Lovett examines researching the political and dents clinched 19 of the prizes. Identity,” which will feature drill team participation, Rowe cultural significance of making Communication design faculty multimedia talks by photogra- addresses female identity in and circulating handicrafts as part member Alex Egner (’03) also phers O. Rufus Lovett and Libby confrontational ways, incorporat- of U.S.-Vietnam relations from had two logo designs accepted Rowe, begins with a screening of ing anatomy and taboo subjects the time the French left Vietnam in the 2010 DSVC professional Beauty Knows No Pain, Elliott into her work to challenge the to the start of the war.

New artist-in-residence

UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts has named Jake Heggie, composer of the and IAA faculty fellows nationally acclaimed opera Moby-Dick, as its 2010-11 artist-in-residence. Heggie will work on a commission from UNT to compose a major work for orchestra, chorus and soloist to further explore his interest in Moby-Dick, which premiered in Dallas this spring. Internation- ally renowned tenor Richard Croft, UNT professor of music, is slated to perform in the solo role of Ahab when the composition, with the working title “Ahab Symphony,” is premiered on campus April 25, 2012, by the UNT Symphony Orchestra and Grand Chorus. Heggie also will coach composition and voice students and participate in other campus activities during his residency this academic year, Oct. 23-Nov. 21 and Feb. 14-28. In early November, a concert of Heggie’s chamber music and song cycles will be presented as part of a series of inaugural concerts in the Music Building’s newly renovated Concert Hall. New 2010-11 faculty fellows for the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts also have been announced. The fellows, granted release from other faculty duties for a semester to Janna Waldinger, Art & Clarity Waldinger, Janna work on creative projects full time, are David Bithell, assistant professor of music, who will Jake Heggie, whose acclaimed opera Moby-Dick work on a composition for the New York-based new music ensemble Yarn/Wire using interac- premiered at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas tive audio, video and sensors; Bruce Bond, Regents Professor of English, who plans to write this spring, is the 2010-11 artist-in-residence for the a full-length book of poems with the working title The Fire Breather; and Lesli Robertson Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. He will compose a major work for orchestra, chorus and soloist (’06 M.F.A.), lecturer in art, who will travel to Uganda to continue her research on bark cloth to be premiered on campus in 2012. from the mutuba tree.

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 23 John Magee (’94) has helped build Crane Worldwide Logistics into a global trade and transportation powerhouse in 19 countries. Angilee Wilkerson Angilee Driving the Economy UNT alumni lead global businesses

by Randena Hulstrand

hen Houston-based transpor- abroad opportunities, welcome visiting professors from around the tation and logistics company world and are establishing new international teaching and research EGL was the victim of a partnerships. As future business leaders in a global economy, our hostile takeover, John Magee graduates need to understand that there are deep cultural, legal and (’94) pulled together a team of regulatory differences that affect how business is done. executives to start a new “The world is not flat.” business — two years later, Crane World­wide Logistics Common threads now has a global presence in After the takeover of EGL, Magee waited for a one-year 19 countries. non-compete agreement to expire. Then, in 2008, as president of Phil Sorgen (’88, ’90 M.B.A.) has maneuvered through two the new Crane Worldwide Logistics, he rallied employees from decades of economic ups and downs to rise in the ranks of Micro- EGL to join the company with a new vision. They worked to better soft Corp., one of the world’s largest multinational corporations. use the web and a single global interface system to connect with And Roxanne Paschall (’94) is embracing technology in e-com- vendors and customers electronically. merce to meld marketing and customer service “We now help drive the global economy by opportunities for Gucci America, her most facilitating trade and transportation,” Magee recent professional challenge in a merchandis- “The world says. “A swelling economy can’t exist without ing career with European luxury labels. logistics services to get a project from one point Technological changes are requiring a more is not flat.” to another — transforming raw goods to a highly skilled work force than ever before. But finished product.” with an increasingly interdependent global Magee stresses that logistics is key to economy, it’s also crucial that professionals have a sound founda- addressing 21st century globalization issues of rising fuel costs, tion in decision logic and know how to collaborate, work with foreign currency exposure and international compliance in export- other cultures and manage unexpected challenges. ing and importing. UNT’s business and merchandising alumni, drawing on lessons “Logistics is helping to grow regional manufacturing, for learned as students, are working as global leaders to help connect example, in Eastern Europe for Europe and the Middle East, in local business with world markets and technology as engines of Mexico for the Americas and in China for Asia,” says Magee, who change and wealth. credits UNT for instilling in him a solid business foundation. John Magee (’94) has helped build Crane Worldwide Logistics into a global trade and transportation “We are preparing students to deal with global business issues UNT’s logistics and supply chain management program tied for powerhouse in 19 countries. by offering a variety of international business courses,” says O. 22nd in the world for research productivity in 2009, according to Finley Graves, dean of the College of Business. “We also offer travel the Transportation Journal. It is the nation’s seventh largest program.

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 25 “I am proud to be in an industry where UNT is in the top echelon of educators,” Magee says, adding that it was during his senior project as a marketing major that he learned the power of collaboration. “Teamwork is important in today’s industry. When you’re trying to operate at the top level globally, finding the best person in Frankfurt to match your person in Shanghai and in Sao Paulo is impor- tant,” he says. “You have to drive the right culture that not only attracts the best, but gives them a common thread so they work well together and deliver the best results.”

North Star focus As president of Microsoft Canada, Sorgen oversaw the country’s business and was responsible for expanding global competitiveness initiatives. He was so successful that the seasoned leader was promoted this year to corporate vice president for the small- and mid-market solutions and partners business in the United States. Whether he’s helping deliver technolo- gy-based business solutions across the country or on a global scale, Sorgen says it’s important to know your core custom- ers and stay focused on the end goal. “The best strategy for success is to understand your customers,” he says. “They are your North Star.” In his more than 14 years with the software giant, Sorgen has helped to steer the company, riding the waves of the dot-com era, the bust, the growing Sasha economy that incurred massive debt and now the economic reset of the past two years. “Investing in future innovative Roxanne Paschall (’94) has helped set global luxury fashion trends for Europe’s top labels, most recently as solutions with rigor and operational the women’s divisional merchandise manager for Gucci America. excellence keeps Microsoft competitive,” says Sorgen, who also traces his leadership skills back to lessons he learned at UNT

26 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Julia Kuskin Phil Sorgen (’88, ‘90 M.B.A.), formerly president of Microsoft Canada, is now corporate vice president for the small- and mid-market solutions and partners business in the U.S.

while earning his undergraduate degree in speak in front of hundreds of parents at not understanding English and with less business administration and his M.B.A. in orientation was one of many invaluable than $50 in their pockets, to build their marketing. experiences,” he says. “Beyond academic American dream. “The balance of academic and leadership pedigrees and GPAs, these are the things As a business student at UNT, Gonza- opportunities that UNT offers is truly my that count. At the time, I thought I was lez jumped on the fast track to success and story,” he says. doing something purely for the university, started a company promoting concerts to Sorgen got involved on campus and took but now I know I was also doing something other students on Fry Street in Denton and advantage of the many diverse organiza- for myself.” Deep Ellum in Dallas. tions. As a freshman peer counselor, a “The core of entrepreneurship is having member of NT40 (a student leadership Adding value vision, integrity, character — what your organization on campus) and an officer in Richard Francis Gonzalez (’90) also parents teach you,” he says. “I ask, ‘How do the Interfraternity Council, he says he approaches business with innovation and I add value to another company or how can learned how to take charge while remaining hard work. Gonzalez, a first-generation my product or service impact and change collaborative. American Latino and college graduate, says people’s lives?’” “Having to collect your thoughts and his parents came to the U.S. 42 years ago,

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 27 Serial entrepreneur Richard Francis Gonzalez’(’90) most recent ventures, Phoneraiser and Recycle to Eradicate Poverty, help microfinance loans in Central and South America. Gary Payne

Today, Gonzalez — president of cartridges. Paying the organizations tries. We are helping the poor rise out of Crescent Group Corp., a holding company between 50 cents and $300 per cellphone poverty with dignity through microfi- for four of his businesses — is a serial or PDA, Phoneraiser has written more nance,” Gonzalez says. “We’re changing entrepreneur who builds ventures that than $2 million in checks to schools, people’s lives.” follow his passions. He licensed World nonprofits, churches and individuals. Cup products in homage to his dad, a Gonzalez also founded Recycle to A knowledge economy former professional soccer player in Eradicate Poverty, a program that benefits Gonzalez was appointed the Honorary Paraguay, where Gonzalez also built an oil Chiapas Project International, to fund Consul of Paraguay for Dallas in 2007 and company. microfinance loans in Central and South is a U.S. Department of State-accredited Most recently, he is providing affordable America. diplomat. He is playing a key role in the cellphones and PDAs in South America UNT was the first university to partner establishment of a Paraguayan microfinance while helping organizations raise funds for with the Chiapas Project in 2007, and now bank. He also is watching the rising new their cause. His company, Phoneraiser, 20 other universities have followed suit. market potential of South America and the works with thousands of U.S. organiza- “Chiapas International has raised $3.3 BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India tions to recycle cell phones and printer million for seven Latin American coun- and China.

28 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 “We are in a knowledge economy, and with the Internet, everyone around the world has access to raw knowledge information,” he says. “The key is being able to decipher, analyze and transform the information into the knowledge.” UNT’s College of Business is provid- ing learning opportunities that help students solve these new global issues through collaborative programs. Visiting professors represent Korea, Chile and France, while a summer study abroad management course in Greece and Italy exposes undergraduates to the cultural influences on organizational functions and decision making. International opportunities for faculty include a research workshop exchange with Monterrey Tech in Mexico. And the new 180,000-square-foot Business Leadership Building under construction will allow for more webi- nars and online education not just for students and faculty but for executives, building a stronger bridge to the business community. “New business graduates must have a global viewpoint along with information tech skills,” Gonzalez says. “Thankfully UNT’s business programs are giving them real-world experience to take with them into the global market.”

Different cultures Part of an in-depth understanding of today’s global market is knowing how to work with other cultures. When Robert

Dobrient (’85) left Wisconsin in 1979 to Angilee Wilkerson play on UNT’s men’s soccer team, he wasn’t expecting 15 out of 20 members on the team to be from different countries. “The cultural learning opportunity was incredible,” he says. “The diverse Robert Dobrient (’85) leads Savoya, a global chauffeured ground transportation management service backgrounds taught me to appreciate company that operates in 55 countries.

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 29 our differences and really expanded my life-changing experience for me,” Paschall in merchandising and hospitality. world view.” says. “Being enrolled in school, taking classes And a new master’s degree in sustainable Dobrient, who earned his degree in and living in a completely different place tourism — the first of its kind in the U.S. marketing, has been a successful entrepre- from Texas was a cornerstone in my life.” — will prepare students for management neur using skills he developed as a student The opportunity helped land her an and leadership positions. The program will living in College Inn, when he started a internship with Saks Fifth Avenue in New require one year of study at UNT and one courier business with a fellow student. That York. From there she went on to work for year of study at CATIE, an international enterprise evolved into a third-party European luxury labels including Prada, higher education, research and develop- logistics services company that he sold in Hermes, Gianfranco Ferre, Louis Vuitton ment center in Costa Rica. 1997. In 2000, he launched Savoya, a global and Bottega Veneta, buying merchandise provider of chauffeured ground transporta- that spanned leather goods, silk, accessories, Opening doors tion management services that now operates jeans and ready to wear. UNT’s business program helped in 55 countries. Today, as the women’s divisional Melanie M. Pizzey (’86) get her start. The company, with headquarters in merchandise manager for Gucci America, With the help of business professor Dallas and a technology center in India, she works in New York and travels to Italy Charles Bimmerle, Pizzey submitted a caters to high-end customers such as the several times a year, crafting an interna- research paper on inventory management to a student competition that influenced her career goals. Another faculty member, Students learn to deal with Rod Hilpirt (’71, ’75 M.S., ’89 Ph.D.) was consulting for a small electronics distribu- the complexities of an tion company in Fort Worth at the time, developing a management training interconnected global world. program at the company. He arranged an interview for her as a manager trainee. “I opened the boardroom door to my private jet community, event planners and tional image of the brand and managing the interview, and eight senior executives of the high-tech industry. Dobrient says about buying team. She also oversees the visual the company were sitting around the 65 percent of his customers book through a merchandising, including e-commerce. table,” she says. “It was terrifying, but they proprietary web application developed “For us, it’s another store, even if it’s not hired me as one of the first trainees of the in-house. made of brick and mortar,” she says. company.” “Deploying that technology put us in the The faculty in the School of Merchan- Twenty-four years later, Pizzey is vice lead,” he tells business students as a frequent dising and Hospitality Management know president of global product operations for speaker for UNT’s Murphy Center for how valuable travel opportunities are for the same company. TTI Inc. is now the Entrepreneurship. “But people still crave students and have built a global perspective world’s leading distributor of components face to face connection, so our team travels into the course work, says Judith Forney, for industrial, military, aerospace and constantly to visit clients and vendors.” dean of the school. consumer electronics manufacturers. The “We prepare graduates to create and $1.5 billion company, a subsidiary of Study abroad manage experiences, services and products Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Paschall, with Gucci America, also for consumers who are increasingly diverse serves logistic needs for Alcatel, BAE developed her global savvy at UNT. The in nationalities, cultures and expectations,” Systems, G.E., Honeywell and others. fashion merchandising student packed her she says. “I was fortunate to be in the right place bags for a semester abroad at Northumbria The school’s Asia Study Abroad at the right time, and working my way up University in England, where she studied Program, now in its eighth year with more through every department has been very everything from design and execution of than 240 alumni, offers trips to Hong Kong valuable,” says Pizzey, who is responsible her own sketches to marketing. and China. The students live, learn and for asset management in North America, “Studying abroad was the biggest interact with global marketplace executives Europe and Asia and oversees supplier

30 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Gary Payne Melanie M. Pizzey (’86) has gone from manager trainee to vice president of global product operations for TTI Inc., a $1.5 billion logistics subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

systems, logistics, purchasing, training and age of terrorism, import and export law and Management and is a board member for inventory. environmental concerns when more the College of Business. “When I first started, we weren’t global companies are going green,” he says. “UNT helped me to better understand and couldn’t imagine video conferencing,” Pizzey agrees that realizing the dynam- the global economic picture,” says Pizzey, she says. “But today all of our locations are ics of global interdependency is important. who also supports an internship program at linked together with this great technology.” “It’s amazing to think that a cloud of TTI to help provide the opportunities for Terrance Pohlen, associate professor of volcanic ash from Iceland can totally students that were given to her. logistics in UNT’s College of Business, says disrupt a product delivery supply chain and “I love the challenge of winning new students learn to deal with the complexities halt business around the world, but in this business,” she says. “We want to be of an interconnected global world in global economic environment, it is a reality,” the best.” preparation for a competitive business she says. environment. Because of her experiences on campus, Read about Daton Lee (’00, ’02 “You have to be mindful what you she is reaching out to help future gradu- M.B.A.), division merchandising export and who you export to — to be ates. She now serves as chair of the manager for Pepe Jeans, at careful about security requirements in an advisory board for the Department of northtexan.unt.edu/online.

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Jonny Carroll Jonny Fouts Field celebrates its final season of football as construction continues on the new stadium.

Fouts Field Finale

In honor of 58 spirited Mean Green With the Mean Green looking forward to a brand new years, UNT celebrates Fouts Field’s final stadium next year, nearly six decades of football at Fouts Field will season of football. culminate in the six home games of 2010 — from the home opener against Rice Sept. 11 to the final home game against Kansas State Nov. 27. Each decade of football at Fouts Field, starting with the 2000s and ending with the 1950s, will be recognized this season with game tickets commemorating a player or coach of each era, videos of “Great Moments in Mean Green History” at each home game, and on-the-field recognitions. Look for special Fouts Field Finale merchandise, and if you’re a former player, don’t forget to stop by the North Texas Lettermen’s Hospitality tents during tailgating and at the stadium. To order tickets for this historic Fouts Field Finale season, visit www.meangreensports.com.

32 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Postseason play The 2009-10 season was a banner year for Mean Green athletics. UNT brought home two Sun Belt team championships and advanced to NCAA postseason play in four sports. The men’s basketball team set a school record with 24 wins and snagged its second Sun Belt Conference title and NCAA Tournament berth in the last four seasons. Two golfers were selected to play in the NCAA Golf Regional, making the Mean Green the only team in the nation with two true fresh- man individual players in an NCAA regional. The women’s tennis team won its first Sun Belt championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time.T he team also was nationally ranked by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for the first time in the program’s history. Fifteen members of the track and field team qualified for the NCAA Championship preliminary rounds, and four moved on in two events to the outdoor championships. Gary Payne Gary

Eric Tramiel (left) was the 2010 Sun Belt Tournament MVP. He earned a spot this year on the Dallas Mavericks Summer League team.

Academic excellence this Homecoming: Patrick Cobbs (’05), Win new stadium club seats Mean Green student-athletes continue the all-time leading rusher in school You could be the lucky Mean Green to excel in the classroom. UNT boasts 34 history with 4,050 career yards; Kevin fan to win a pair of luxurious chair-back student-athletes with a 3.5 cumulative GPA Galbreath, who helped lead Mean Green stadium seats with prime sight lines for or better — including 16 with a 3.8 or football to its first bowl victory since 1946 the entire 2011 football season in the new higher — and 64 Sun Belt Commissioner’s in the 2002 New Orleans Bowl and was stadium — a nearly $7,000 value — if List honorees in 2010. named the New Orleans Bowl MVP; you hold the winning ticket in the Best Five of UNT’s 16 teams scored a perfect Mike Hagler (’57, ’60 M.Ed.), one of the Seat in the House Raffle sponsored by 1,000 in the NCAA’s latest APR report, most versatile track athletes in the the Mean Green Club. which measures a school’s team-by-team 1954-55 season as a member of the Tickets are $50 each, with proceeds academic progress, and all 16 were above 880-yard relay team, the mile relay team going to a student-athlete scholarship the standard score of 925. The volleyball and the sprint medley relay team; and fund in the UNT Foundation. The squad led all Mean Green teams and placed Ben Moturi (’81, ’85 M.S.), the 1980 drawing will take place during halftime at inside the 80th percentile nationally. NCAA Regional Champion in cross- this year’s Homecoming game on country, who holds the school record in Saturday, Oct. 16. You do not need to be Hall of Fame inductees the 1,500-meter run. (For more informa- present to win. Purchase tickets by Four new members will be inducted tion and more Homecoming events, see contacting Jon Burkett at 940-369-8916 into the UNT Athletics Hall of Fame the inside back cover.) or [email protected].

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34 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Renee Vernon Renee Gaming for a Living by Adrienne Nettles

Chris Bream (’00) immersed himself in video games growing up. “We had the original King’s Quest, a classic Sierra video game for IBM personal computers,” Bream says. “This was before the Internet was big.” By high school, Bream had designed his first video game levels. “I made some levels for DOOM (a popular computer video game in the early ’90s). I really enjoyed it and wanted to see if I could make a career of it,” he says. Today, he works as technical director of Terminal Reality, a Lewisville game design and development company, where he oversees the technology used to make some of today’s most popular video games. He credits his success to UNT and the university’s decision to establish the Laboratory for Recreational Computing. “It was sort of revolutionary at the time,” Bream says. “UNT’s computer gaming lab was one of the very first in the nation at a university. I felt very fortunate to be part of it, because today there are a lot of copycats.”

$18 billion industry Bream is among a growing number of UNT alumni — more than 50 and counting —who are making a living in today’s $18 billion computer game industry. From writing books to starting their own businesses and holding Video games are big senior-level positions at top game companies, LARC alumni represent a cross-section of those working in today’s gaming markets, including the PC, business for alumni mobile, online and casino game markets. Former students work at some of today’s top computer game companies, of UNT’s nationally including Art Griffith (’02), the lead game developer for Sony Online Entertainment in Tucson, Ariz., and Cesar Stastny (’04), director of technol- ranked Laboratory ogy at California-based Treyarch. Bream says LARC was instrumental in preparing him for the industry. for Recreational His collection of work includes the video games Ghostbusters, Spy Hunter and Demonik, the game seen in the 2006 movie Grandma’s Boy. His most Computing. recent projects are Star Wars for Xbox 360 Kinect and Def Jam Rapstar, a karaoke game that detects if a player is singing the correct lyrics. “The LARC program forces you to use all the knowledge you’ve learned from other classes ‘to make something cool,’ as (LARC director) Ian Parberry

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would say. You also have to be very coding, usually several thousand lines of needed to land his first job as a game observant and logical,” Bream says. C++ code. And while they will do a lot programmer and go on to become But at the end of day, it’s about of work on teams, they also need to be director of technology at Treyarch, a entertainment, he says. able to be independent workers and video game studio best known for its Call “It’s exciting to be involved in making thinkers.” of Duty titles. people’s lives more fun.” Fletcher Dunn, now a technical “Parberry will dive in as deep as the director at the Disney company Wide- most ambitious student wants to go. If National attention load Games, says developing games for you think you would like to be a game UNT alumni working in today’s entertainment is no easy task. programmer, his courses will help you gaming industry have helped garner “Designing games is a technical figure out if this is for you,” he says. national attention for the LARC pro- challenge,” says Dunn, who co-wrote the “This was the ‘eureka’ discovery for me gram. UNT recently was named by book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and during that first LARC course. I found GamePro and The Princeton Review as Game Development with Parberry. out that, hey, I can really do this. I could among the Top 50 best institutions in “There’s a whole pipeline to making art do this for a living.” the U.S. and Canada for studying and animation.” Stastny is responsible for the design, game design. production and even some public Around since 1993, LARC was Doing this for a living relations for versions of Treyarch’s established in what is now the Depart- In the sixth grade, Treyarch’s Stastny popular Call of Duty games. He has been ment of Computer Science and Engineer- stared into a vast field of life-threatening working on Call of Duty: Black Ops, due ing by Parberry, who is a professor of asteroids in a single line of red numeric out in November. computer science and interim chair of the ones and zeros. “There are a zillion problems to solve, department, as well as LARC director. “I began to mess around with my dad’s and each one is a little adventure,” he says. LARC alumni stress the importance programmable HP-65 calculator and I of being able to solve problems and think wrote my first computer game, Asteroid More than child’s play logically to work in today’s evolving game Dodge,” Stastny says. Griffith’s parents used to tell him industry that markets to cell and website His fascination with computer games growing up that he was wasting his time gamers, social networking sites and game grew, and Stastny says he found himself by playing too many video games. They system players. thinking, “You can make games on these might think differently today, given his Students interested in the LARC things! SpaceWar? Are you kidding me? position at Sony Online Entertainment. program need to be prepared to “bone up Where do I sign up?” “It turned out it was research,” Griffith on their math,” Parberry says. Stastny has come a long way since says, looking back at his childhood love “They are going to do a lot of math. taking on those life-threatening asteroids. for the games. Many students are surprised by that,” he He says LARC was pivotal in providing For him, UNT’s Parberry was the says. “And they are going to do a lot of the high-tech skills and knowledge he first person to acknowledge that game

36 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 L A R C Steven Meckler Steven Meckler

UNT’s nationally ranked Laboratory for Recreational

Computing has been leading the pack in game pro-

gramming since 1993. For evidence, just ask any stu- programming was worthy of academia. “My time in LARC was invaluable,” he dent who has taken classes there. says. “Aside from the discrete knowledge “That’s why I went to UNT,” says Art Griffith (’02), the of how to make a game, the culture of lead game developer at Sony Online Entertainment in LARC taught me to communicate with my peers on both an intellectual and Tucson, Ariz. collaborative level.” An estimated 500 students have taken advantage of After graduating, Griffith joined the one-man game development startup game programming courses since LARC was created by Octopi. On the floor of a garage, he director Ian Parberry, professor and interim chair of the helped design the video game Poxnora, an online collectable/tradable strategy Depart­ment of Computer Science and Engineering. game that also can be played as an app on UNT’s program stands out because of the strong col- Facebook. laboration between students in computer science and In January 2009, Sony bought Octopi. Today, he says Poxnora has more than 2 visual arts, Parberry says. million registered users and 10 million “It’s a truly interdisciplinary program,” he says. games played. He points out that “making and “This sets us apart from many others.” playing a video game are two completely In 2008, UNT added a certificate in game program- different animals.” “UNT’s computer science program ming for students. In spring 2010, five students earned gives you the foundation to learn the the first certificates. things you need to learn to make games, Griffith says a career in the game industry requires and it teaches the rigorous academics needed to write games,” Griffith says. “an extremely strong work ethic.” “It’s very intellectually challenging. “You need to be very creative,” he says, “and dedi- Game development is one of the most difficult things you can do in computer cated to what you’re doing.” science. There are very few fields where you get to deal with artificial intelli- gence, graphics and server technology at the same time. I find it both fun and fulfilling.”

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lighting up as a child, David Rosenbaum (’09) would shoot fireworks with his father on July 4 and New Year’s Eve. the night sky Little did he know then, he one day would own a company that produces complex fireworks shows for events ranging from weddings to professional soccer games. Starting David Rosenbaum (’09) turned a childhood pastime Illumination Fireworks as a UNT sophomore in partnership into a business that adds a bang to big events. with his father, Rosenbaum won the Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship’s New Venture Creation Contest in 2007. See one of Rosenbaum’s shows on video and learn more about “We always try to stay ahead of the competition by being him and his business at northtexan.unt.edu/online. innovative,” he says. “That’s something I learned at UNT.”

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Keep up with the latest developments in the UNT RBJ Campbell Distinguished Comptroller of Public Accounts family and tell your peers what you’ve been Profes­sor and Professor and a state representative. He up to since leaving the nest. Send your news to Emeritus. He also taught in has served on the boards of the China for five summers and was Tyler Area Chamber of Com- The North Texan (see contact information on a support psychologist for the merce, Tyler Junior College and page 5). Members of the UNT Alumni Association Chinese Olympic Training Tyler Museum of Art, as vice are designated with a . Center. He is working on a chair of the Tyler Planning and Read more, share comments and connect with friends at 35-year follow-up study on drug, Zoning Commission and as northtexan.unt.edu. alcohol and tobacco use by president of the Smith County college students and is revising Bar Association. his book on successfully 1959 commission and his wings. He surviving divorce. He has two 1978 flew electronic countermeasure sons and in 2004 married Linda Chuck Seal (’60 M.Ed.), and combat control aircraft in Marlin Lynch, who has one son. Guy S. Greening, Flower Panama City, Fla. :: celebrated Vietnam and weather recon Mound :: was named to the first his 80th birthday this year and is missions in the Pacific. He later 1968 class of the Texas Association of retired after 33 years at Bay High was an instructor at the U.S. Soccer Coaches’ Hall of Honor. School as driver education Navy Advance Jet Training Emmett He was a founding member and teacher, head basketball coach Command at NAS Kingsville Anglin (’72 two-time president of the and assistant football coach. He and had a 35-year career in sales M.M.Ed.), organization. He retired from and his wife, Virginia, have four management. He married his Sumter, Flower Mound High School in children and seven grandchildren. North Texas sweetheart 46 years S.C. :: is a 2008 after a 30-year career. Chuck says, “If any members of ago, which he calls “the best retired middle school band our championship touch football decision I ever made.” director after 35 years on the job. Hank Hehmsoth, San team (Baptist Student Union) He is now arranging “hitherto Marcos :: won first place in the read this, contact me for I would 1965 little known 19th century band 2010 composition competition of love to hear from you.” music.” Some of his arrangements the Texas chapter of NACUSA William are published by Harold Goree (National Association of 1963 Beryl West of Pender’s Music in Denton. Composers/USA). His string (M.Ed., ’69 quartet, “X-trusions — a déjà vu Don ‘S’ Ed.D.), 1974 in 4D,” won in the professional Spencer, Murfrees- category and was performed Jacksonville, boro, Tenn. :: celebrated his David Hudson (’75 M.A.), during the International Joint Fla. :: runs a 60th anniversary as a preacher Tyler :: a partner at Perdue, Conference on Latin-American small business last fall. He was licensed to Brandon, Fielder, Collins & and Modern Music in February consulting company, OSP preach by the First Baptist Mott LLP in Tyler, was elected at Texas State University, where Innovations Inc. After graduating Church of Borger in 1949 and to membership in the Fellows of he teaches. Hank studied with from the Air Force ROTC at ordained two years later. He the Texas Bar Foundation this Dan Haerle (’66 M.M.) as a UNT, he was accepted into the retired after 40 years as a year in recognition of his doctoral student at North Texas. U.S. Naval Aviation Officer professor of psychology from contributions to the legal Candidate School and received a Middle Tennessee State profession. He previously was a University, where he was named hearings attorney with the Texas

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1979 and was named one of the top concerns. Lisak, who earned an director of education at ATI in 30 physician leaders of hospitals M.B.A. from Texas Woman’s North Richland Hills. Charles Bonnie, Newtown, and health systems in America University, became a certified Pa. :: was promoted within by Becker’s Hospital Review association executive in 2008. 1986 UnivarUSA Inc. from a field last fall. Heartland Health position as northeast regional received the Malcolm Baldrige 1985 Lisa Ann Doty Oliphant, operations manager to corporate National Quality Award this Spartanburg, S.C. :: joined director of quality assurance. He year and the Foster G. McGaw Tobi Worley Spartanburg Regional Health- says he can thank his North Prize in 2009 from the Jackson care System as a marketing Texas professors and his wife, American Hospital Association (M.S.), Fort assistant in its marketing and Valerie Brodie Bonnie (’79), and the Baxter International Worth :: was public relations department. for giving him the foundation to Foundation. elected to the succeed, and he has a message for Fort Worth ISD’s Board of current students: “Don’t be afraid Steve Trustees in May, representing to step out of your comfort zone Player, District 2. She is the assistant during your career, and be sure to Dallas :: celebrate your successes in life.” co-wrote a Upcoming Alumni Gatherings book with Fermis Howard, Oceanside, Steve Morlidge titled Future UNT alumni are gathering to learn more about each other, Calif. :: serves as general sales celebrate their green pride and network for their next career Ready: How to Master Business moves – and you can join them. Here’s a sampling of what’s manager for Cosby Oil/Fuels Forecasting (Wiley). He is coming up. Company, a ConocoPhillips founder and managing director Family Weekend: Don’t forget to join us Oct. 8-10 for a lubricant distributor in Dallas of The Player Group and fun-filled weekend of activities. Learn how to get involved at and in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. program director for Beyond www.unt.edu/familyweekend or contact the UNT Parent Programs Office at [email protected] or 940-565-4373. Budgeting Round Table in Jerilynn A. Williams North America. Homecoming 2010: Check out the poster on the inside back cover for information about many of our Homecoming (M.L.S.), Willis was elected to :: festivities Oct. 15-16. Be sure to visit www.unt.edu/homecoming the executive board of the Texas 1984 for a full listing of events. Enter to win Homecoming prizes by Library Association for a e-mailing [email protected] by Sept. 15 with “Homecoming” in the subject line. three- year term and as presi- Amy Dorries, Mansfield :: dent-elect for 2010-11. She is was married to Don Bogen in UNT Career Fairs: Career and internship fairs offered by the UNT Career Center are free to alumni director of the Montgomery August. He proposed on her job-seekers. Scheduled are the All Majors Fair and County Library System and birthday at the Shiner Brewery Government and Non-Profit Fair, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 15 at the UNT Coliseum; College of Business previously worked for the in Shiner. She is a fifth-grade Fair, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the UNT Coliseum; and College Houston Area Library System, social studies teacher for the of Engineering Fair, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22 at Discovery the Bryan Public Library and Mansfield ISD, and he is a CPA Park. If you are interested in representing your employer at a career fair, e-mail [email protected]. school libraries in Texas and for Nortel Networks. New York. Alaskan Cruise: Join other UNT alumni on an Alaskan frontiers and glaciers cruise Oct. 7-17, Cate Brennan Lisak, Dallas 2011. Book by Sept. 17 and receive $1,000 off 1980 :: was promoted to associate per stateroom. For more information visit www.gonext.com/unt or call 800-842-9023. executive director of policy and Mark Laney, St. Joseph, advocacy for the National Emeritus College: A new round of non-credit classes designed Mo. :: is the president and CEO Athletic Trainers’ Association. for adults 50 and older is being offered for the 2010-11 school year to engage people in lifelong learning. For more of Heartland Health, a health She oversees public relations, information, visit www.unt.edu/lifelonglearning system serving northwest state and federal governmental or contact Marilyn Wagner at 940-565-3487 or at [email protected]. Missouri. He is president of the affairs, reimbursement/revenue Mayo Clinic Alumni Association issues and employment market

40 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 Don is a founding partner in 1987 the law firm Rowlett Hill LLP in Dallas. Marsha Prophet 1991 Daria (M.Ed.), Julie Hooper Fort, Danbury, McKinney :: a partner in Conn. :: is working on a Strasburger & Price LLP, was documentary examining the named among the Top 50 social relationships and identity Women in Business by of multiracial children. She says McKinney Living Magazine. she is finding that “what used to Recipients are nominated by be a marginalizing experience is readers and evaluated based on now a symbol of pride” for the their accomplishments and Cheerleaders seamstress elementary through high school character. She has been students she is interviewing. She recognized as one of the Best is a professor and coordinator of Lawyers in Dallas in Land Use Since cutting out dresses for her Barbie dolls as a girl, elementary education at Western and Environment by D Lisa Dobson (’82) has patterned the most-likely career for herself. A Connecticut State University. Magazine and serves on the graduate of UNT’s apparel design program, she has stitched her name into board of the Government American history as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ seamstress for the 1988 Lawyers Section of the State Bar past six years. of Texas. Months before training camp starts, Dobson pulls out footage of the Ned Moore (M.S.), cheerleaders’ on-field performances and gathers her sewing tools to find Washington, D.C. :: is the Carl Rayburn, Fairbanks, ways to make the new season’s uniform more comfortable and eye-catching new executive director of the Alaska :: is the community- than the last. The major change in this year’s costume was to the balloon Foundation for Independent based services administrator for sleeves, which had limited the cheerleaders’ athletic performances. Higher Education and serves as Family Centered Services of “It’s really an honor,” Dobson says of sewing for the iconic group. “It’s a vice president of the Council of Alaska, overseeing group homes such a great feeling to see the finished product on camera or on the field, Independent Colleges. He was and therapeutic foster homes but the best part is seeing the rookies wear the uniform for the first time.” president of the Virginia Foun- that provide services to children Less than a week after finishing the DCC uniforms, Dobson dives back dation for Independent Colleges with behavioral and emotional into her home studio to work on other projects, such as sewing theatrical for eight years and was previously challenges. After graduating, he costumes for local dance companies. vice president for development began work with severely Although Dobson was only 9 when she began creating on a sewing at Randolph-Macon College and emotionally disturbed children machine, she says her career sparked while attending UNT. She began at Austin College. in Hawkins, where he met his another university before making the switch. future wife. He moved to her “I was bored with academics and I just wanted to create,” she says. 1989 home state of Alaska in 1996, When she remembered that UNT had one of the few fashion design and they were married in 1997. programs in the area, she decided to transfer. Don Hill She says she enjoyed the college experience and made lasting (’92 M.B.A.), 1992 friendships. One friend was classmate and now fashion guru Michael Dallas :: and Faircloth (’83), who recommended Dobson for the contract to sew for his wife, Susan America’s most recognizable group of ladies. Deborah, are Miiller “I will always be involved in fashion,” she says. “It’s a lot of work, but I celebrating the birth of their (M.F.A.), love creating.” daughter, Breeds Ruth Hill, who New Paltz, joins her big brother, Bunker, 2. N.Y. :: has — Khashan Poitier

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 41 EAGLES’ Nest been on the faculty at the State Pittman law firm, where he Amon Carter Museum as University of New York at New works in labor and employment 1995 exhibition coordinator. She was Paltz since 1999 in the fine and law and on the firm’s commercial previously the registrar for loans performing arts department and team. Previously, he worked for Eric Alonzo, and exhibitions at the Dallas recently received a Teaching JA Jones Applied Research Co. Irving :: girls Museum of Art and has worked at Excellence Award. Her other and the Electric Power Research soccer coach the Modern Art Museum of Fort awards include an Orange Arts Institute. He earned an M.B.A. at Irving Worth and the Galería de Arte Grant, SUNY individual from Queens University of MacArthur Isabel Aninat in Santiago, Chile. development and faculty Charlotte and is a graduate of the High School (pictured with his development awards and an Wake Forest University School son, Peyton), was named District Kerol NYFA grant. She has been the of Law. 7-5A Coach of the Year. In Harrod (’98 artist in residence at Catskill March, he recorded his 100th M.A.), Conservation Center, Weir Farm 1994 high school coaching victory. He Denton :: is Trust and Vermont Studio has been a head coach for nine producing a Center and has exhibited Richard E. Watts (Ph.D.), years, one year at W.T. White children’s educational television extensively throughout the U.S. Huntsville :: was named a fellow High School in Dallas and eight show for the Denton Public of the American Counseling years at Irving MacArthur. His Library in association with 1993 Association. He is a professor team finished as district Den­ton Television and the and director of the Center for champions this season. Denton ISD. Library Larry’s Big Eric Bass, Research & Doctoral Studies in Day, designed for children 2 to 8 Charlotte, Counselor Education at Sam Marci years old, stars three puppets N.C. :: Houston State University. Driggers who live in the library and visit became a Caslin, Fort places around town related to the partner in the Worth :: books they read. The show, Wishart Norris Henninger & joined the which airs on DTV and is

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Fifty years afterA bner Haynes (’62) finished his North Texas career and signed with the fledgling American Football League’s Dallas Texans — where he continued to amaze with his play — his contributions are being remembered among the greatest football moments in the region. With Super Bowl XLV headed to Dallas in January, the host committee is asking fans to vote on the region’s 100 greatest football moments through its Century in the Making online sweepstakes at www.centuryinthemaking.com. Voting remains open until Sept. 12 in the last category of the sweepstakes, where you can cast your vote for two Professional Moments featuring Haynes: the Dallas Texans’ 1960 defeat of the Los Angeles Chargers in the AFL’s first regular-season game in Dallas, and the team’s 1962 defeat of the Houston Oilers for the AFC title, in which Haynes scored two touchdowns. An earlier Special Moments category of the sweepstakes included the 1960 AFL Player of the Year, All-Star and Rookie of the Year titles Haynes The sweepstakes includes a chance to win Super Bowl XLV tickets, won while playing with the Texans, and the all-important integration of American Airlines AAdvantage miles and more. Visit northtexan.unt.edu/ intercollegiate football in Texas, which began when Haynes and Leon news for a list of other UNT-related moments that were featured. Results King (’62, ’72 M.S.) joined North Texas’ 1956 freshman team. of the voting will be announced this fall. available on the library’s web site, counseling and Lamaze child- Illustration. He says his new firm sity at Corpus Christi, published won first place in the Texas birth education. relies heavily on the fundamen- Ambrose Bierce and the Dance of Association of Telecommunica- tals he learned in UNT’s Death (University of Tennessee tions Officers and Advisors state Soko Sozuki Starobin (’98 communication design program. Press). She combines psychoana- television programming M.Ed., ’04 Ph.D.), Ames, Iowa :: He began his career at UNT in lytic theory with historical, competition this summer. is the 2010 recipient of the 1996 as a graphic designer at the cultural and literary contexts to Council for the Study of University Union’s Design Works examine the motif of death in Kathy Kuddes (M.M.Ed.), Community Colleges Barbara K. (then called The Art Center) as Bierce’s writings, updating older Allen :: received the 2010 Townsend Emerging Scholar part of a work-study program. psychological interpretations of Outstanding Administrator Award. She is an assistant profes- He lives with his wife, Holly, in his work. Award from the Organization of sor of higher education in the Arlington. American Kodály Educators Department of Educational 2000 during the organization’s annual Leadership & Policy Studies at 1999 conference in Dallas. Kathy is the Iowa State University. She Christa Boyd-Nafstad and director of fine arts for the Plano received the award for her Sharon Talley (Ph.D.), Corpus Karl Boyd-Nafstad (’04), ISD, where she oversees music, research on community college Christi :: associate professor of Dallas :: celebrated the birth of visual art, theatre, dance and students, especially those in English at Texas A&M Univer- speech programs. She was science and engineering. nominated by members of the Plano music faculty in recogni- 1997 tion of her leadership in developing a music curriculum Jason Rainey and Karen from the kindergarten to Crane Rainey (’97), Austin :: Advanced Placement levels. welcomed the birth of their 2010 Holiday daughter, Abigail Leigh, in Matthew Mailman (D.M.A.), February. Ornament Oklahoma City, Okla. :: has been a professor of conducting in 1998 the Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University since Tamara keepsake ornament, you are 1995. He conducted the opera Fulcher not only keeping alive your Die Fledermaus at OCU last (’02 M.S.), It’s time to order the UNT own special UNT memories,” November and Thoroughly Dallas :: Alumni Association’s annual says Derrick P. Morgan, Modern Millie in April. This fall is vice holiday ornament. This year’s executive director of the he is conducting Light in the president of TeoTios Inc., an IT ornament features the association, “but you’re also Piazza. solutions company in Irving. The association’s logo and is helping to fund student company was named a Blue dated 2010, making it a truly scholarships and networking 1996 Ribbon Small Business Award commemorative keepsake. events for alumni.” winner for 2010 by the U.S. Green and white, trimmed in Dale and Mary Michaud Chamber of Commerce and 24-carat gold, the ornament The cost is $20 plus $2.50 (’98 M.Ed.), Denton :: recognized at America’s Small includes a custom gift box. shipping, including tax. welcomed their third son, Liam Business Summit in May in Add to your collection or give Supplies are limited. Joseph, in February. Mary serves Washington, D.C. a memorable gift to the Mean clients through Embrace Birth Green alumni in your life. 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their second daughter, Katja Iduna Lux Boyd-Nafstad, in 2006 ...... I N T H E / / News January. She was 19 3/4 inches and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Lisa Atkins, Austin :: received the Teacher of the Year award at ➺ A June 2 nascar.com 2001 her high school in the Hays story features Diandra CISD. She is a sophomore Leslie-Pelecky (’86) Emily Newton, New York, English teacher who has taught and her interests in N.Y. :: will cover Ortlinde in a for three years and works with science and racing. With new production of Die Walküre English II, English-as-a-second- bachelor’s degrees in at the Metropolitan Opera next language and pre-Advanced physics and philosophy spring. She was named the Placement students. from UNT and a doctor- Outstanding Undergraduate ate in condensed matter Voice Student at UNT as a Jonathan physics, she has written senior and was an inaugural Perez, The Physics of NASCAR, member of the A.J. Fletcher Dallas :: The Science Behind The Speed, and writes the Stock Opera Institute at the North began training Car Science blog. Her interest began when she hap- Carolina School of the Arts, at the Navy pened upon a race on TV five years ago as a car went where she earned a master’s and a and Marine Corps Intelligence around a corner and into the wall, and she wondered professional artist certificate. Training Center in Dam Neck, what had caused the crash. “I said, ‘Heck, I’ll go look Va., after graduating from the it up on the Internet’ because I thought it was going to Michael Zamora, Corpus Navy Officer Candidate School be a 20-minute project. Here it is [five years later] and Christi :: was named the Star in Newport, R.I., in March. it’s sort of taken over a lot of my life.” Photojournalist of the Year for Class AAA at the 2010 Texas 2008 ➺ For the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in April, amNew Associated Press Managing York celebrated “up-and-coming New York designers Editors Convention in March. Charles E. Tucker Jr. (M.S.), who have a flair for fashion and helping the planet” by This is the second year in a row San Antonio :: accepted a speaking with Inessah Selditz (’06) and Tara Eisen- he has received the honor for his reference librarian position at The berg of the women’s fashion label Sublet. Their eco- work as a staff photographer at Daughters of The Republic of friendly clothing brand got its start when Selditz, who the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Texas Library at the Alamo in studied fashion design at UNT, answered Eisenberg’s November. Craigslist ad for a two-week apartment sublet. 2003 2009 ➺ Family law attorney Mike McCurley (’68) and the Sidra Lawrence, Austin :: was firm he founded, McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson awarded one of seven 2010 Julianna ‘Julie’ Gonzales and Downing LLP, are featured in the March/April issue Woodrow Wilson Women’s (M.P.A.), McKinney :: was of D CEO magazine. The article, “The Divorce CEO,” de- Studies Dissertation Fellowships. selected as a Presidential tails McCurley’s executive-style leadership at one of the Sidra is a doctoral student in Management Fellow finalist by country’s best-known matrimonial law boutiques, which ethnomusicology at the Univer- the U.S. Office of Personnel includes cross-trained specialists and a team approach sity of Texas living in Ghana and Management. She is a fellow with in which members meet weekly to discuss every case. conducting field research for her the Social Security Administra- In addition to high-profile clients, the firm handles pro dissertation, De-Sexing the Body: tion’s Office of the Deputy bono work, such as representing several children re- The Gendering of Dagara Commissioner for Disability and moved from the “Yearning for Zion” compound in 2008. Performance Space. Income Security Programs in Washington, D.C.

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after graduation, serving in the and was an accountant for Davis Pacific during World War II. He Concrete and Martin Eagle Oil Co. UNT’s alumni, faculty, staff and students are the worked for Sun Oil Co. for 40 He flew 44 missions as a bomber university’s greatest legacy. When members of years, beginning in Starr County pilot in the Army Air Corps during the Eagle family pass, they are remembered and and moving to Dallas to work in World War II and flew more than their spirit lives on. Send information about deaths the purchasing department. He 50 missions as an Air Force pilot to The North Texan (see contact information on retired in 1986. during the Korean War. page 5). Vivian Reese Roesch (’45), Betty JeanW ilkey Magee Read more, write memorials and connect with Falls City, Neb. :: She majored (’48), La Feria :: She earned a friends at northtexan.unt.edu. in physical education with journalism degree at North Texas minors in English and biology and furthered her education at 1940s Billie Doris Murphy Francis at North Texas. She taught and the University of Colorado in (’43), Borger :: She earned coached in Falls City public Boulder. She was a teacher for 27 Carl Leon Caruthers (’42), her degree from North Texas in schools, retiring in 1986. years in Fort Worth, Mercedes Haltom City :: He received his elementary education and served and La Feria. She later worked bachelor’s degree in chemistry in the U.S. Army as a medical William ‘Bill’ Henry Bryant for Go With Jo Tours as a tour with minors in math, physics technician. (’46), Denton :: An enrolled guide and worked for the city of and biology. After serving in the agent with the Internal Revenue La Feria as a librarian. U.S. Army during World War II, D. Ray Langford (’44), Service, he had a tax account- he began a 41-year career in the Dallas :: He was president of ing office in the First State Bank Bill C. Candler (’49, ’52 edible oil industry, working for: his senior class at North Texas, Building of Denton for many years M.Ed.), San Antonio :: Dur- Armour, Swift and Bunge. and enlisted in the U.S. Navy ing college, he was drafted and

University Community Boston Pops and the Cleveland and Community Service who served as Mark B. Cincinnati orchestras. An Honorary director of the University Center for DeLoach (’87 Leon Alumnus of UNT, he earned bache- Community Services, died Feb. 25 M.A.), Vashon, Breeden, lor’s and master’s degrees from TCU in Denton. She joined the center in Wash., former Denton, Profes- and received honorary doctorates 1968 and became director in 1970. director of sor Emeritus of from TCU and UNT. Memorials may She is considered the mother of the debate and associate professor of music who led be made to the Leon Breeden Music Texas Municipal Clerks Certification communication studies, died July UNT’s jazz program to international Scholarship or the Leon Breeden Program, serving as director from 24. He earned his bachelor’s degree prominence, died Aug. 11. Breeden Jazz Trumpet Scholarship at UNT. 1968 to 1993, when she retired from the University of Texas at Ar- was director of the jazz studies Visit northtexan.unt.edu/obituaries as director emerita. Byrd received lington, his master’s in communica- program and the One O’Clock Lab for links to online remembrances. bachelor’s and master’s degrees tion and public address at UNT and Band from 1959 to 1981. Under his in economics from Texas Woman’s his doctorate from the University of direction, the One O’Clock earned Dorothy F. University and did graduate study Southern California. He joined the its first two Grammy nominations. Byrd, Denton, in management and organization UNT faculty in 1991 and was well- A clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger former as- theory at North Texas. known as a mentor and an advocate and composer, Breeden wrote sistant dean of for his students. He had served as arrangements performed by the the School of a political debate analyst and was a

F a l l 2 0 1 0 | northtexan.unt.edu | The North Texan 45 EAGLES’ Nest served in the U.S. Army, then survived by his daughter, Cherry Billy Joe Weiser (’55), Dallas :: returned to finish his degrees. He Bilyeu Buhl (’80, ’86 M.M.Ed.), He owned and operated Jay’s Ma- 1960s was Professor Emeritus at San and his brother, longtime math rine Grill across from Love Field Antonio College, where he served professor Russell Bilyeu (’57). in Dallas for 27 years. At North Margaret ‘Peggy’ O’Dell for more than 35 years. He was Texas, he was a member of Delta Smith (’64), Portland :: She basketball, tennis, track and golf William David Dickman Sigma Phi fraternity. was a registered nurse for 25 coach, school nurse, department (’54), Dallas :: He was a years and a haven for stray ani- chair and athletic director. In member of the Air Force ROTC Lida Oliver Beasley (’56), The mals. At North Texas, she was a 1999, the Physical Education at North Texas and received his Dalles, Ore. :: She was a brass piano student of Stefan Bardas’. Center was renamed the Candler commission upon graduation, musician and conductor who Physical Education Center. entering the U.S. Air Force. was a student of John Haynie’s Paul George Newton (’68 He served eight years and then at North Texas. She worked as Ph.D.), Pulaski, Tenn. :: He 1950s returned home to Dallas, where a public school and college band earned his doctorate in musicol- he worked with IBM and the orchestra director. ogy from North Texas and taught Granville ‘Hank’ Bilyeu, Sanger-Harris Department Store. in higher education until his Hopewell, Va. :: He became J. Garland Warren, retirement in 1991. An accom- a sportswriter for the Denton Don Faught (’55, ’65 M.Ed.), Martindale :: He attended plished musician and composer, Record-Chronicle as a senior Spring :: He was a writer and North Texas from 1954 to 1958 he played in the Asheville Sym- in 1954 and, after serving in public relations practitioner on a football scholarship and phony in North Carolina. the Army, began work at the for more than 40 years, half of continued his football career in Hopewell News. At his death, he which were spent in hospitals in the Canadian Football League 1970s was serving as the sports editor, a Texas and Oklahoma. In 2002, he with the Winnepeg Blue job he held for 50 years. He also retired after 12 years as a public Bombers, coached by Bud Grant. Art Mack (’73), Portland :: was a devoted community volun- relations official for Houston In San Marcos, he built his first He pursued a career in radio and teer. He married Florence Anne Community College System. Sac N Pac convenience store, now television, working in Georgia, Henderson (’55) and also is a regional chain with 45 stores, Florida and North Carolina before followed by other businesses. moving to Corpus Christi, where

member of the International Society ing and accounting theory, and he his doctoral degree from Southern Alton for the Study of Argumentation. taught the behavioral accounting Illinois University. He joined North Thibodeaux He left UNT in 2000 to become a research seminar for the UNT doc- Texas as director of the anthropol- Jr., Denton, principal with Leadership Research toral program. He was a life member ogy program and helped develop a pioneer in Institute. A debate scholarship is of the President’s Council. Survivors the Department of Anthropology. He the university’s being set up in his name at UNT. include his wife, Barbara Merino, served as chair for 14 years. Naylor diversity programs, died June 6 in professor of accounting. Donations was a U.S. Army paratrooper in the Denton. A graduate of Grambling, Alan Mayper, may be made to the UNT basketball Special Forces and was stationed at he joined North Texas in 1972 as Denton, profes- program. Fort Knox, Ky., during the Vietnam assistant director of financial aid sor of accounting War. He completed social-cultural and became founding director of since 1987, died Larry Lee fieldwork in Papua, New Guinea, the Office of Equal Opportunity and May 12. Before Naylor, Hunt, and Ecuador. Memorial donations the university’s first African Ameri- earning a doctorate at the University professor may be made to the Larry L. Naylor can equal opportunity officer in of Florida, he practiced as a certified and chair of Anthropology Student Scholarship. 1977. He retired as associate vice public accountant with Arthur Young anthropology president for equity and diversity and Company in Denver. His teaching who taught at UNT from 1978 to in 1992. The next year, he was interests included financial account- 2005, died June 17. He received named an Honorary Alumnus, and

46 The North Texan | northtexan.unt.edu | F a l l 2 0 1 0 he was sports director for the CBS Miles Groves (’78, ’80 M.S.), of The Bereaved Parents of the and NBC affiliates. He later worked Washington, D.C. :: He went U.S.A. Her husband was the late 2000s with Coldwell-Banker Pacesetter to Rutgers for post-graduate work Robert Ottman (’56 Ph.D.),Pro - Steel as a real estate agent and was a and for more than 20 years was a fessor Emeritus of music. Memori- Pouya Kohandani (’07), production director for advertising media economist in the newspaper als may be made to the Robert W. Brooklyn, N.Y. :: After graduat- at Flint Hills Resources. industry, first atThe New York Ottman graduate music theory ing from UNT with a degree in Times and then at the Newspaper scholarship at UNT. biology, he earned his medical Donald R. Birmingham (’74 Association of America. He also degree in Poland and had started Ph.D.), Searcy, Ark. :: He served was a community leader and ad- 1980s his internship at Wyckoff Heights in Vietnam as an officer in the U.S. vocate for residents of downtown Medical Center in New York. Marine Corps and retired as a col- D.C., helping to create the Down- BettyB erkeley (’80 Ph.D.), onel from the U.S. Army Reserve, town Neighborhood Association Dallas :: She was an adjunct Kandace Starlene Hull (’09), having served in the Persian Gulf and serving as its president. professor in retirement planning Argyle :: She worked at Phys- War. His military honors included at UNT and a program develop- Assist Inc. in Fort Worth as a the Army Commendation Medal Shirley Cognard Ottman ment specialist and instructor at medical scribe and had aspira- for service as an instructor with (’79, ’82 M.A.), Denton :: She Richland College. She was a life tions to attend medical school the behavioral science department was an adjunct in the Department member of the UNT President’s and become a doctor. She studied at the Army School of Health of English, a lifetime member of Council since 1973. She and her pre-medical biology in California Services at Fort Sam Houston. He the President’s Council and active late husband, Marvin Berkeley, before moving to the Dallas area. provided family and rehab counsel- with the College of Music. She former dean of the College of She earned her bachelor’s degree ing in Searcy for 32 years. co-founded The Bereaved Parents Business, established a fellowship in biology at UNT. of North Texas and served as vice at UNT in 2003 for interdisci- Laura Bernice Dansby (’74 president of the national board of plinary studies at the master’s Lindsey Lear, Irving :: She was M.S.), Houston :: She retired The Compassionate Friends and level. Memorials may be made to a 2007 graduate of Irving High from the Houston ISD as a librar- as president of the national board the Dean Marvin Berkeley Schol- School and a development and ian and was a precinct judge in arship Fund at UNT. family studies major at UNT. Houston for more than 20 years.

the Alton Thibodeaux Scholarship Army veteran, serving as a surgical taught at UNT from 1964 to 1995, was established. He was honorary technician during World War II. At died April 29. He earned an arts Memorials co-chair of UNT’s yearlong obser- North Texas, he was influential in diploma from the High Museum Send memorials to honor UNT vance of the 50th anniversary of its developing the libraries and what School of Art, a bachelor’s from alumni and friends, made payable desegregation in 2004. He was mar- became the School of Library and the California College of Arts and to the UNT Foundation, to ried to Mary Shepherd Thibodeaux Information Sciences, now the Crafts in Oakland and a master’s the University of North Texas, (’76 Ph.D.), associate dean of busi- College of Information. He received from the University of Georgia. He Division of Advancement, 1155 ness, who died in 2007. his doctorate from the University of was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He Union Circle #311250, Denton, Chicago. Memorials may be made was chair of the art department at Texas 76203-5017. Indicate on David Aiken to the Ruth Hammerle Memorial Texas Wesleyan before joining North your check the name of the Webb, Denton, Fund at the UNT Music Library. Texas, where he taught primarily memorial fund or area you wish Librarian Emeri- drawing and painting. His artwork is to support. You can make secure tus who served Henry Lee included in collections of the High gifts online at www.development. as director of Whiddon, Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, unt.edu/givenow. For more infor- libraries from 1953 to 1978 and as Denton, Profes- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mation, e-mail [email protected] or director of the library school, died sor Emeritus and UNT, among others, as well as call 940-565-2000. May 4 in Denton. He was a U.S. of art who private collections nationwide.

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Drummin’ up love at UNT

by Jennifer Watson (’95)

just months out of Jon Nickson Photography/nicksonphoto.com high school, enjoying the boundless freedom that is synonymous with being a college freshman, I declared confident- ly to my roommate one evening that I was officially done with men. I had decided that relationships were far too complicated. And I reasoned that I was much too young for a committed relationship. My priority was going to be And so began our 15-year courtship. all walking to The Flying Tomato, our having fun. Ahem, I mean ... studying. He was a jazz studies major in the favorite pizza joint, where on more than No less than 45 minutes later at the famed College of Music. I dutifully one occasion we consumed our respec- Delta Lodge, the independent fraternity supported him by attending his con- tive body weights in pizza. in Denton, I met the man who I would certs, encouraging him during lab band A lot has changed since those days. end up marrying. Ah, the Delta Lodge. auditions and bringing him food during For one, I can’t eat pizza like I used to Home of some of Denton’s most notable his marathon rehearsals. without the consequence of seemingly foul-smelling, sweat-drenched, loud, And he in turn supported me as I instantaneous weight gain. But also, cheap-hot-beer-drinking college parties. worked toward a journalism degree. many of our old college haunts are The Delta Lodge was the kind of There was nothing more satisfying than gone. The old Delta Lodge, Rick’s Place place my parents had emphatically finding him waiting for me outside of and The Flying Tomato were all victims advised me to avoid as it would surely be the General Academic Building after I’d of fire. chock-full of unsavory characters. But I spent countless hours in the computer As for me and my drummer boy, our rationalized that my visit to the Delta lab, working on yet another project. love burns on. In fact, we married in Lodge was a cultural endeavor because I Despite all of the practicing and Laguna Beach in 2007 with the Pacific was going to enjoy live music. studying, we always found time for fun. Ocean at our backs. It was 1991, and the heavy metal hair Danny was in a popular band called And the beat goes on. gods of the late ’80s were experimenting Beef Jerky. I assumed my role of “band with new, exciting sounds. In a dark girlfriend,” which mind you, is a clear Jennifer Watson (’95) and Danny corner of the Delta Lodge was a band, step above groupie. Handler (’96) now run a successful and behind a curtain of thrashing hair, I Beef Jerky frequently played at Rick’s company called Core Collective Inc. saw him. Place, a once-popular Fry Street anchor. They’re living happily ever after in Dallas. The drummer. (Cue dreamy harp Rick’s Place was to us what Cheers was We’re still collecting love stories from music.) to Norm — a place where everybody alumni who met at North Texas. You can How would I explain this one to my knew your name. post yours online at northtexan.unt.edu/ parents? Not only had I gone to the very We eventually got a little apartment online or see page 5 for other ways to place they’d warned me about, but I had off Oak Street where we enjoyed the contact us. fallen instantly in love with a drummer. ease of walking to our classes and best of

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10:30 a.m. to noon 1 to 6:30 p.m. 7:15 a.m. including lunch, $30 prepaid by Profiles of Chemistry Centennial Fun Run 5 p.m. Oct. 13. RSVP: 940-565- Leadership Display Celebration Free and open to everyone, starts 0804, fax 940-891-0690, Paypal Unveiling Reception Join the Department of in front of the Pohl Recreation to [email protected] or mail to The College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry as it celebrates Center. Pre-registration not Floyd Graham Society, 815 Ector is honoring Linda Truitt Creagh 100 years with poster session, required. Registration until 7 a.m. St., Denton, Texas 76201. (’62, ’64 M.S., ’67 Ph.D.), the first reception, tour and presentations. For information: britton.sherry@ recipient of a science Ph.D. con- Chemistry Building. Reservations unt.edu, 940-565-2275 or visit Noon ferred by UNT. General Academic for Centennial Dinner at www.unt.edu/recsports. Professional Building. RSVP: [email protected] or Fremaux’s Metropolitan Catering, Leadership Program 940-565-2048. $35, prepaid. RSVP: susanb@unt. 8:30 a.m. Alumni Reunion edu or 940-565-3554. Athletic Hall Mingle and watch the parade 11:30 a.m. of Fame Breakfast at Vigne Wine Shop and Golden Eagles Luncheon 7 p.m. This year’s inductees are Patrick Delicatessens, 222 W. Hickory St. and Reunion — Class of ’60 Spirit March Cobbs (’05), football; Kevin Visit www.cob.unt.edu/plp. University Union, Silver Eagle The march begins at Fraternity Galbreath, football; Mike Hagler Suite. Reservations, $20. RSVP: Row on Maple Street and (’57, ’60 M.Ed.), men’s track and 1 p.m. [email protected] or proceeds to the bonfire site field; and Ben Moturi (’81, ’85 Homecoming Parade 940-565-3480. near Victory Hall. M.S.), men’s track and field. Beginning at Welch and Hickory, Gateway Center Ballroom. For travels around the Denton town Noon 8 p.m. information: matthew.phillips@ square and up Oak. From Oak to Zeke Martin Homecoming Bonfire and unt.edu or 940-565-8627. Welch, right on Hickory (going Golf Classic Yell Contest the wrong way on Hickory Benefiting the North Texas The lighting of the bonfire and 10 a.m. to noon through campus) and left on Lettermen’s Association and the the student yell contest. (Due to Chi Omega Lodge North Texas Boulevard to UNT Alumni Association. Noon new stadium construction, the Open House Highland. shotgun at the Golf Club at bonfire has been moved to Walt Refreshments served. 930 S. Champions Circle in Fort Worth. Parker Drive, next to Victory Welch St. Hosted by Chi Omega 3 p.m. Format: Four-man scramble. For Hall.) House Corp. For information: Life Sciences Complex information: matthew.phillips@ [email protected] or Ribbon Cutting unt.edu or 940-369-8409. College of Music 940-382-2360. Celebration Join the College of Music at For information: laurea.dunahoe the Murchison Performing 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. @unt.edu or 940-565-4367. Arts Center for a Gala: Best of Floyd Graham Society Broadway fundraiser concert Dancing to the Aces of 3 to 6 p.m. featuring the UNT Symphony Collegeland big band, under Mean Green Orchestra with vocalists singing the direction of Phil Rumbley. Village Broadway favorites. Visit Musical program “Les Paul and Tailgating surrounding Fouts www.thempac.com. the Fabulous Fifties,” featuring Field starts early and ends former UNT faculty resident 30 minutes before kickoff. artist Jack Petersen on guitar. Organization, department University Union. Reservations, and college tents add to the Homecoming spirit on Traditions Field along with live music, the

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