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< — daring do SMU students and faculty embody the spirit 10 — the story is told of SMU’s Second Century Celebration, which The Mustang – SMU’s first alumni publication – was highlights the University’s prominence in born in 1920, beginning a strong tradition of alumni leadership, innovation, creativity and service. communication. SMU Magazine recalls its past from Among them are: various issues through the decades. 16 — Dedman College Dean William Tsutsui 12 — Raven Sanders, engineering student 22 — Elizabeth Peterson, sophomore and Environmental Representative to residence halls departments 27 — Troy Vaughn, veteran and M.B.A. student

07 — moody milestones 32 — centennial welcome At the announcement of a $20 million gift Enjoying their Golden Mustang Reunion to expand and renovate , during SMU’s Founders’ Day are (from left) Frances Anne Moody-Dahlberg ’92, executive Genie Watkins Farrow ’50, her husband, Ed, director and trustee of the Moody Foundation, and Billie Leigh Rippey ’53. As SMU’s Second expressed both generosity and Mustang Century Celebration continues, favorite spirit. She said, “We are honored to continue traditions will mingle with new events. the Moody Foundation’s legacy with this gift and thrilled to be part of the beginning of SMU’s second century. Go Ponies!”

03 — lighting the way to a new century departments Starting April 17, the 100th birthday of the 02 — to our readers signing of SMU’s founding charter, the dome 06 — hilltop news of SMU’s iconic Hall was illuminated 07 — campaign update in red and blue lights for 10 nights, representing 08 — research update the 10 decades of SMU. 30 — mustang sports 32 — alum news 34 — class notes 46 — in memoriam 48 — hilltop history — to our readers

Reaching 100, Staying Young “Universities do not grow old; but yearly they renew their strength and live from age to age in immortal youth.”

With that statement in 1913, SMU’s • In another ranking, our Ph.D. program first president, Robert Stewart Hyer, in theology and religion, offered jointly made a commitment for SMU in his by Perkins School of Theology and time, but affirmed that we would be a the Department of Religious Studies in university for all time. Dedman College, is ranked number Reflecting that vision, SMU has built nine in faculty quality. upon its initial offerings in the liberal • The Carnegie Foundation for the arts as the core of the University along Advancement of Teaching raised SMU with programs in theology and music. to its category of research universities We have remained young and nimble in with “high research activity.” R. GERALD TURNER developing professional education to • Innovative programs in Meadows School President serve a changing region, nation and of the Arts and Lyle School of Engineer- world, adding programs in the sciences, ing are providing new opportunities business, engineering, law, communica- for learning combined with service. tions, and other applied areas of learning. • The new Annette Caldwell Simmons Today, part of SMU’s uniqueness comes School of Education and Human from the fusion of our liberal arts core Development speaks volumes about with pre-professional and professional SMU’s commitment to making an programs through our seven schools. impact on societal issues. We celebrated this tradition of looking • And The Second Century Campaign has forward as we marked the 100th anni- surpassed $500 million at mid-point, versary of SMU’s founding April 15. At a making possible many of the improve- smu magazine is published by the Office of Public briefing that day, I shared a wealth of ments we celebrate today. Affairs, Division of Development and External Affairs, good news with our alumni and friends: You’ll read in this magazine the many in fall/winter and spring/summer for alumni, parents • is one of the ways in which we are saying Happy and other friends of Southern Methodist University. The few in the nation to have three M.B.A. Birthday, SMU. We pledge to remain Office of Public Affairs retains the right to determine programs ranked in the top 15 by “in eternal youth” as we move into our editorial and advertising content and manner of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. second century of achievement. presentation. The opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily reflect official University policy. • ranks among Letters to the editor and contributions to the Class Notes the nation’s top 50 law schools in U.S. section are welcomed. Send correspondence to: Editor, News & World Report. SMU Magazine, Office of Public Affairs, PO Box 750174, R. Gerald Turner Dallas TX 75275-0174; e-mail: [email protected]. President

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Vol. 61, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2011 Editor Susan White, M.L.A. ’05 Contributors Margaret Allen, Chris Dell ’11, Cherri Gann, Nancy Lowell George ’79, Creative Director Sherry King Myres ’72 Sarah Hanan Vice President for Development and Senior Editor Patricia Ward External Affairs Brad E. Cheves Printer Etheridge Printing Company Class Notes Editor Carolyn George Copyright © Southern Methodist University 2011 Executive Editor/Associate Vice President SMU will not discriminate in any employment practice, and Executive Director of Public Affairs Designers Matchbox, Becky Wade education program or educational activity on the basis of Patricia Ann LaSalle, M.L.A. ’05 race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability Photography Hillsman S. Jackson, or veteran status. SMU’s commitment to equal oppor­tunity Laura Graham, Clayton Smith includes nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

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SMU100! CELEBRATES FOUNDERS’ DAY

“IT IS OUR CHALLENGE; IT IS OUR OPPORTUNITY; IT IS OUR BLESSING TO LEAD THE UNIVERSITY INTO ITS SECOND CENTURY WITH AS MUCH VISION, OPTIMISM, AND COMMITMENT AS WAS EXHIBITED BY THOSE WHO BEGAN ITS FIRST CENTURY.” – SMU President R. Gerald Turner

2011 | spring/summer | smu 3 FLAGS, FIREWORKS AND FESTIVITIES HERALD SMU’S SECOND CENTURY

More than 1,200 alumni from around who believed that a better future for our the globe and members of the campus region, a better city, a better quality of community gathered April 15 for tributes, life for our families – all would be the fireworks and a giant birthday card as SMU result of SMU being placed here.” celebrated the 100th anniversary of its The University presented resolutions founding. The event kicked off a series of thanking the citizens of Dallas and The events for SMU’s Founders’ Day Weekend. United Methodist Church, which joined in The kickoff also officially launched the partnership to establish SMU. They were University’s multiyear Second Century accepted by Dallas City Council member Celebration, commemorating the centennial Angela Hunt, representing the city, and of the University’s founding in 1911 and its Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe ’85, representing opening in 1915. Founders’ Day, designated the church. as the third Friday in April of each year, In addition to President Turner and recognizes the filing of the University’s Trustee Chair Prothro, other platform charter on April 17, 1911. party guests included Ruth Collins Sharp “Our founders would be proud of where Altshuler ’48 and Carl Sewell ’66, co-chairs, “SMU Unbridled 100” banners line campus we are as we approach 100 and as we The Second Century Celebration Organizing walkways and area streets. launch our second century of achievement,” Committee; Brad E. Cheves, vice president, said President R. Gerald Turner, citing as SMU Development and External Affairs; examples SMU’s recent rise in academic rankings, applications for admission and student SAT scores. “IT’S BEEN A GREAT 100 YEARS, BUT IT Friday’s event took place in front of , SMU’s centerpiece and oldest IS A FOUNDATION. THIS CELEBRATION building. Board of Trustees Chair Caren HONORS THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF Prothro noted that the Hilltop was just a THE PAST 100 YEARS, BUT IT IS FO- patch of Johnson grass when SMU was CUSED ON MOVING SMU FORWARD AND founded. “The land, the resources and the UPWARD IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS.” magnificence of Dallas Hall were all made possible by the citizens of Dallas, – Carl Sewell ’66 Robert Hyer Thomas ’53, grandson of founding President Robert Stewart Hyer, waves a miniature centennial flag.

At “Inside SMU,” alumni enjoy “classes without The Mustang Band sports new uniforms in honor of Founders’ Day. quizzes” led by SMU faculty.

4 smu | magazine | 2011 W. Richard Davis ’56, ’58, mayor of committees; and winners of Distinguished Turner. That evening and overnight, the University Park; Linda S. Eads, president, Alumni and Emerging Leader Awards. SMU student body hosted Relay for Life, SMU Faculty Senate; Paul W. Ludden, The ceremony culminated with a benefitting the American Cancer Society, SMU provost and vice president for fireworks display and the raising of SMU’s on Bishop Boulevard. academic affairs; Gail Meletio Madden centennial flag that will fly on campus On April 16, SMU co-sponsored ’63, mayor pro tem, Town of Highland through 2015. Giveaways included miniature University Park’s Easter egg hunt for Park; Rev. Dr. Stephen W. Rankin, SMU versions of the centennial flag, centennial children at Goar Park near University chaplain; Jake Torres ’11, student body cupcakes and punch. A 12-foot-by- Park’s City Hall. And on April 17, the president; Bill Vanderstraaten ’82, incoming 20-foot birthday card to SMU was available dome of Dallas Hall was illuminated in chair of the SMU Alumni Board; and for students, alumni and others to sign. red and blue lights for the first of 10 Gretchen Voight, president of the SMU “Through our centennial activities, we evenings, representing SMU’s 10 decades, Staff Association. will engage our alumni and the broader in honor of the Dallas residents who President Turner also recognized community more actively in the life and provided land and funds used to groups of individuals who have helped to progress of the University, celebrate our establish SMU. shape the University: family members of achievements, and prepare for even brighter “Today is really a call to action,” former SMU presidents; past provosts; as days ahead,” said Trustee Ruth Altshuler. Turner said. “Truly it’s a time to reflect, well as current and past trustees; Friday afternoon also included Inside to express our gratitude, but then to presidents of alumni, faculty, student, SMU, classes for alumni, parents and return to the work at hand. SMU has and staff organizations; Mom’s and Dad’s friends taught by SMU faculty, followed always been eager, ambitious and club leaders; members of campaign by a University briefing by President forward-looking. It’s part of our DNA.”

President Turner, SMU officials and special guests on the platform party Well-wishers sign a 12-foot by 20-foot birthday card to SMU. welcome more than 1,200 celebrants. other centennial activities

COMMEMORATING A CENTURY OF HISTORY – Darwin Payne, Promenade, to be constructed on Ownby Drive for the 100th Dallas historian and SMU professor emeritus of communications, anniversary of SMU’s opening in 2015. For more information, go has been appointed the University’s centennial historian, responsible to smu.edu/100pavers. for compiling SMU’s first comprehensive history. The book, to be published in 2015, will provide an account of SMU’s first 100 CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION: “SMU’s Second Century of years. Payne also recently authored In Honor of the Mustangs: Achievement” – The lower level of the Hughes-Trigg Student The Centennial History of SMU Athletics, 1911-2010. The centennial Center will become a Centennial Hall with an interactive web- commemoration will include taped interviews with past and based exhibition designed to engage visitors of all ages in the current University leaders and supporters and a series of life and future of the University. The exhibition, expected to symposia and public programs. open in fall 2011, will be available both in the Centennial Hall and through SMU’s website. The hall will be the site of alumni COMMEMORATIVE PICTURE BOOK – To be published in fall reunions, Homecoming activities, Founders’ Day events and 2011, the book will contain photographs of SMU’s campuses, other campus activities through 2015. historic architecture and University life. This book will be the The Centennial Celebration coincides with SMU’s Second first of its kind since SMU’s 75th anniversary celebration in 1986. Century Campaign. Launched in 2008 with a goal of $750 million, gifts to date have exceeded $500 million. COMMEMORATIVE PAVERS – By making a $100 gift, alumni, For more information about Founders’ Day Weekend and students, faculty, staff and friends of the University will be the Centennial Celebration, visit www.smu.edu/News/2011/ recognized with an etched paver on SMU’s planned Centennial centennial-celebration-15april2011.

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Alumna To Lead Enrollment Management carnegie raises smu research Stephanie Dupaul has of information, alumni can been named SMU’s associ- serve as the best represen- classification ate vice president for tatives of the SMU experi- The Carnegie Foundation for the Enrollment Management. ence,” she says. Advancement of Teaching has raised In this new position in the The director of financial SMU’s classification among institu- Office of the Provost, she aid, registrar and bursar tions of higher education, reflecting will provide strategy for the also will report to Dupaul. dramatic growth in the University’s University’s goal of increas- She will chair the Strate- research activity since it was last mea- ing the number and quality gic Enrollment Manage- sured in 2005. of applicants. ment Group and direct SMU is now categorized with 96 other Dupaul has served as SMU’s relationships with institutions as a research university interim dean of SMU Stephanie Dupaul admissions consultants. with “high research activity,” a signifi- admissions since August SMU is seeing dramatic cant step up from its assessment in 2010. She previously served as director growth in applications and a rise in the 2005 as a doctoral/research university. of undergraduate admissions in Cox SAT scores of students who seek The Carnegie Foundation assigns School of Business, which improved the admission. Applications for the entering doctorate-granting institutions to academic profile of its B.B.A. students. class for fall 2011 increased by more categories based on research activity The University is searching for a dean of than 30 percent, and SAT scores have during a particular period and the number admissions, who will report to Dupaul. risen nearly 100 points in the past of doctoral programs. “This position will strengthen the decade. “SMU’s rise in the Carnegie classifica- connections in the Division of Enrollment Dupaul served as Cox associate tion system is further evidence of the Management as we work together with director for B.B.A. advising and student growing quality and research productiv- the schools to support SMU’s mission and records from 1996-2002. Before joining ity of our faculty,” says President R. goals,” says Dupaul, who earned an M.A. SMU, she was associate director of Gerald Turner. “We are building a commu- in English in 2004 from SMU. M.B.A. admissions at the University of Dupaul says she also is eager to work Dallas and academic adviser for nity of scholars exploring important with alumni who serve as Student Brookhaven College. Dupaul holds an research questions, making an impact on Recruitment Volunteers, call prospective Ed.D. degree in higher education societal issues and enriching the class- students in their areas and attend SMU administration and leadership from the room environment for their students.” Previews and other events. “Because University of Alabama and a Bachelor’s Most universities in the highest prospective students view alumni and degree in English from The University of research category have medical schools. current students as trustworthy sources at Austin. The foundation’s assessment of SMU’s increased research activity occurs as the University is making dramatic advances in other measures of academic progress: During Engineering & Humanity U.S. News and World Report magazine Week in April, Lyle School of gave SMU its highest ranking ever for Engineering students built and 2011, placing SMU 56th among 260 “best lived in shelters designed to national universities” – up from 68th in house the poor or those 2010. In addition, Cox School of Business displaced by war and natural is one of only a few schools in the nation disasters. The Hunter & to have all three of its M.B.A. programs Stephanie Hunt Institute for ranked among the top 15, according to Engineering & Humanity sponsored the Living Village. Bloomberg Businessweek.

For more information about research at SMU, visit blog.smu.edu/research.

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Moody Foundation Gift Launches Coliseum Expansion and Renovation

As confetti rained William L. Moody Jr. and a brass band and his wife, Libbie Rice played, the SMU com- Shearn Moody, estab- munity celebrated lished the Moody Founda- the announcement of a tion in 1942. The Founda- $20 million gift from tion has enjoyed a long the Moody Foundation partnership with SMU, April 20. The gift will including support of launch an expansion improvements to Fondren and renovation of the Science Building and University’s Moody Moody Coliseum, which Coliseum. opened in 1956. “Moody Coliseum has In Moody’s inaugural long been a signature year, fans cheered the space to the University Mustang men’s basketball and the city,” said team to the Southwest R. Gerald Turner, SMU Conference Champion- president. “With this ship and NCAA post- generous gift from the season competition. Moody Foundation, Women’s basketball came the coliseum will be The SMU community gathered outside Moody Coliseum April 20 to celebrate a Moody to Moody Coliseum in ready for the future.” Foundation gift for expansion and renovation of the landmark venue. 1976 and women’s volley- With the gift, SMU’s ball in 1996. It is a popular Second Century Campaign reached a “As we celebrate the centennial of our site for area high school graduations. milestone. “The Moody Foundation founding this year, it is especially gra- Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, commitment takes our campaign total to tifying to receive this gift from a family George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush date over the $500 million mark,” with a strong legacy of support for SMU,” have spoken at Moody. Bands such as the announced Caren Prothro, chair of the said Brad Cheves, SMU vice president for Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, U2 and SMU Board of Trustees. development and external affairs. Pearl Jam have played there. Launched in 2008 with a goal of $750 million, the Second Century Campaign seeks support for student quality, faculty and academic excellence, and the moody project attracts second major gift campus experience. At press time, SMU received news of another major gift to support the renovation The Moody Coliseum project will feature and expansion of Moody Coliseum – a $10 million commitment from David B. Miller new premium seating, as well as court- ’72, ’73, a member of the SMU Board of Trustees, and his wife, Carolyn Lacy Miller. side retractable seating for students and “As a former Mustang basketball player, David has enjoyed the excitement of renovation of the lobby and concourses. athletic success in this facility, and he and Carolyn have attended numerous ceremonies Technology improvements will include in Moody,” says SMU President R. Gerald Turner. “Their generous gift builds the new video boards, scoreboards, sound momentum to secure additional funding.” system, broadcast capabilities and The Millers have been longtime SMU donors, supporting a professorship and aca- heating and cooling systems. Office demic centers in Cox School of Business, annual scholarships, and athletics programs suites, restrooms and locker rooms will and facilities. Miller is co-founder and partner of EnCap Investments L.P., a private be upgraded. equity firm based in Dallas. He is also president of the David B. Miller Family Founda- Additional donors will be sought for tion, which Carolyn serves as vice president. the $40 million project. Planning and design will begin immediately. For more information: www.smu.edu/News/2011/moody-gift-millers-28april2011.aspx

2011 | spring/summer | smu 7 — research update

Research Engages Underserved Groups In Improving Health

Georita Frierson was 19 years old She has embedded herself in the “We want to fill a gap that needs to be when her father, an African-American, community through work at clinics, addressed,” Frierson says. “The informa- was diagnosed with colorectal cancer churches and health fairs. tion from this pilot can help us develop and subsequently died of an infection. One program, Project GATHER, explores programs and support groups to ease the That experience shaped Frierson’s the motivating factors and barriers to burden on Triple Negative survivors. interest in health psychology, especially racial and ethnic minorities’ willingness These are young cancer survivors; in improving the health behavior of to participate in genetic biobanking, in understanding their needs is important.” underserved groups such as African- which individuals donate blood to a As much as Frierson is devoted to Americans, Hispanics and non-English- health institution for genetic research. behavioral health, she is equally dedi- speaking minorities. Led by Frierson, a team of SMU graduate cated to mentoring students. She directs and undergraduate research- graduate and undergraduate students in ers in collaboration with UT her ARCH 1 (Addressing Race, Ethnicity, Southwestern and The Cooper Culture and Health for 1) Lab in Institute recruited Dallas- Heroy Hall, which looks at the causes area residents into 28 focus and risk factors of various health groups to assess willingness behaviors. In the four years Frierson has to donate blood for genetic been at SMU, nearly 40 students have research on cardiovascular worked in the lab. disease and cancer. Prelimi- Sophomore Olivia Adolphson has nary findings revealed that worked more than 135 hours in Frierson’s 81 percent of participants had lab. “This experience showed me what never heard of biobanking. psychologists do in real life instead of Before the focus group, just reading about it,” says Adolphson, Georita Frierson 64 percent said they would who wants to be a clinical psychologist. participate in a biobank; “Now I’m conducting my own study “There is a silver lining in every after the focus group, that number about people’s perceptions of genetic experience that can grow your passion,” increased to 90 percent. biobanking.” says Frierson, assistant professor of With a $50,000 grant from The – Margaret Allen psychology in Dedman College. “I’ve been Discovery Foundation in Dallas, Frierson very passionate about helping people also is undertaking a two-year study to increase their healthy behaviors and understand the effect of fitness, exercise decrease their unhealthy behaviors.” and psychosocial factors in women Frierson earned her Master’s and diagnosed with aggressive, non-hormonal doctoral degrees in clinical psychology Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Triple from The State University. Negative, which occurs in 10 percent to Frierson now is engaged in research 20 percent of women diagnosed with partnerships with some of the nation’s breast cancer, doesn’t respond to all most respected medical institutions traditional treatments. It generally affects and health care providers, including women who are younger, test positive The Cooper Institute and the Simmons for a mutation in the human gene that Cancer Center at UT Southwestern suppresses tumors, are African-American Medical Center at Dallas. Her research or Hispanic-Latina. focuses on helping individuals with Called Project Positives About chronic conditions to improve quality of Triple Negatives, or PAT, the study will life, to address their physical and provide data to enable doctors, hospitals emotional health and to participate in and other providers to develop pro- healthy living programs, including grams and care strategies for Triple Edward R. Biehl breast cancer prevention and education. Negative patients.

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Digging The Ancients: Archaeologist Explores Early Maya Culture

Maya culture has fascinated scientists expert in stone tools. She earned her for decades, but many mysteries remain doctoral degree in anthropology from about the ancient people that rose to Vanderbilt University in 2006. prominence for their highly developed Today, cow pastures and cornfields civilization in what is now Central surround the patch of rainforest where America and Mexico. Archaeologist Holtun’s structures – more than 100 Brigitte Kovacevich, assistant professor – are buried under decomposed foliage of anthropology in Dedman College, is and soil. Overgrown with jungle trees, part of a growing effort to understand the site has the appearance of large the lesser-known early period of Maya mounds, Kovacevich says. Looters have culture, before the rise of its kingdoms tunneled into some of the structures. and powerful rulers. Archaeologists who explored the “Little is known about how kingship structures have verified the existence of developed, how individuals grabbed numerous plazas, an astronomical political power within the society, how observatory, a ritual ball court, mounds the state-level society evolved and then that served as homes and a signature was followed by a mini-collapse between Maya architectural structure called a 100-250 A.D.,” says Kovacevich. triadic pyramid – a 60-foot-tall platform Brigitte Kovacevich A specialist in Mesoamerica, Kova- topped with three 10-foot-tall pyramids. cevich is exploring early Maya culture at In summer 2010, Kovacevich and U.S. creation of an on-site museum. This the mid-sized city of Holtun in the central and Guatemalan colleagues installed summer the scientists will begin lakes region of Guatemala. Holtun a weatherproof roof on one structure to excavation, adhering to Guatemala’s dates from 600 B.C. to 900 A.D. and had prevent further damage to various rigorous preservation, environmental no more than 2,000 residents. monumental stucco masks and other art and conservation requirements. Situated on a limestone escarpment that adorn the facades of the pyramids. The Institute for the Study of Earth fed by two nearby springs, Holtun was Kovacevich and her colleagues also and Man in Dedman College, the Downey flush with natural resources, including hosted a workshop to teach local guides Family Award for Faculty Excellence chert, a sedimentary rock from which about the site’s importance as a way to and University Research Council are tools are made, says Kovacevich, an aid ecotourism development and funding the research.

compounding hope for nerve-degenerating diseases

Synthetic compounds developed in the lab of Chemistry pharmaceutical for preventing nerve-cell damage and delaying Professor Edward R. Biehl one day may help the millions onset of degenerative nerve disease. of people who suffer from nerve-degenerating diseases such as Current treatments don’t stop or reverse degenerative nerve Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s. diseases, but only alleviate symptoms, sometimes with severe Biehl developed and tested the compounds with SMU postdoc- side effects. If proved effective and nontoxic in humans, toral researchers Sukanta Kamila and Haribabu Ankati, and EncephRx’s small-molecule pharmaceutical would be the first Santosh R. D’Mello, a biology professor at The University of Texas therapeutic tool able to stop affected brain cells from dying at Dallas. The family of small molecules shows promise in because of these diseases. protecting brain cells. The researchers now will assist EncephRx in testing and SMU and UTD have granted Dallas-based startup EncephRx, analyzing the primary compound. The company initially will Inc. the worldwide license to the jointly owned compounds. A focus development and testing efforts on Huntington’s disease biotechnology and therapeutics company, EncephRx will develop and potentially will have medications ready for human trials in drug therapies based on the new class of compounds as a two years.

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1990s the first homecoming 2000s of the first “all s.m.u. class” 2010s “The clock was the cause of it all. … that worthy time-piece, the gift of the 1919 class to its Alma Mater… ” The Story Is Told Since 1920, Alumni Publications Share SMU News he year was 1920. Southern Methodist University had been open for five years, and alumni were beginning to feel the tug Tof alma mater. In January, 12 students volunteered to begin a new tradition – The Mustang – a magazine for alumni to be published the last Thursday of each month. H.S. DeVore served as editor; Jordan Ownby (for whom Ownby Stadium was named) wrote about athletics. “The need of such a magazine has been felt since the opening of the university,” they wrote. Unfortunately, after only seven issues, the magazine folded in November that year. But that publication began a strong tradition of alumni communication that has taken many shapes and forms throughout the years. As SMU celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in “and now we have with us 1911 and its opening in 1915, so too will SMU Magazine remember its past the coffee house” through reproduction of content from various issues through the decades. captain and And as those early editors stated, even today “Our greatest desire is to center of produce a magazine that will be a credit to SMU.” the mustang girls miss an outing at turtle creek loveeth king

5¢ to $3 “Indeed it is quite possible that the coffee house may replace to some extent the old bar. With the preservation of all its claim for latter institution in the way of social intercourse and friendly comraderie (sic), without the evils with which it was inevtiably (sic) associated.” the fighting mustangs

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still nearby alumni pledge News Of The Day 1920 honor for support for merit faculty raises geology classes in demand Joseph David Doty The Southern Geology classes have greatly increased in popularity ’16 and George F. Methodist University since the discovery of the new Texas Fields. Thomas ’19 are the Alumni Association University’s first has evolved a plan new physical facility Rhodes Scholars whereby it will guaran- “The recently completed University gym and excellent tee the 15 per cent cinder track offer Dallasites the best there is to be had demographics then and now increase in the teachers’ in quintets and speed demons of the cinder track.” salaries to be granted 1919-20 2010-11 by the university next SMU ENROLLMENT: SMU ENROLLMENT: the morrison legacy year. Each graduate APPROXIMATELY 900 APPROXIMATELY 11,000 The University has recently signed a four-year and exstudent will pay FROM TEXAS: 93% FROM TEXAS: 52% contract with Ray Morrison to act as director of $5 for the first year af- Other states: Other states: physical education. Morrison needs no introduc- ter leaving school, $10 1. Oklahoma 1. California tion to the Mustang followers. In the first two the second year, $15 the 2. Arkansas 2. Florida years of the existence of S.M.U. it was he who third year, and so on 3. 3. Missouri coached the varsity squad… through a period of ten 4. Missouri 4. Georgia years, the last payment 5. Tennessee 5. the cost of an smu education amounting to $50 and 6. Oregon 6. Tennessee the total for each alum- Then 1919-1920 (each term, three per year) nus coming to $270. International students: International students: TUITION $40 The present senior class 0 1,052 from 94 countries FEES (science, library, medical) $4.50-$7 has started the move- AVERAGE ROOM AND BOARD $97 ment by contributing (per semester) $5 for each member. All Now 2010-2011 TUITION $16,520 alumni will be called FEES $2,095 trees and on later for their pro AVERAGE ROOM AND BOARD $6,368 more trees rata share. Since nature herself did not put many trees on the land chosen for our selecman era begins campus, all the trees we Former SMU President Robert S. Hyer (1911-1920), possess had to be set right, at the inauguration of SMU’s third president, out. A tree does not grow Charles Selecman, in 1923. to maturity in a week or two and it will be several years before most of ours are very large. They have a good start now, however, and at some future date the campus of Southern Methodist University will be as beautiful as any in the country. daring Programs, Professors Cultivate Next-Generation Entrepreneurs doBy Patricia Ward Senior engineering student Raven Sanders is working on a prototype and patent for an audio-mixing system.

thread of entrepreneurship weaves through the Science in Entrepreneurship, as well as a noncredit history of SMU from the beginning. In asking Starting A Business certificate. “What is our duty to all the coming generations Also within Cox, the Executive M.B.A. program was of Texans until the end of time? … ,” members of ranked by Financial Times as No. 6 in the world for the Commission of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, entrepreneurship last fall. South of Texas demonstrated game-changing foresight in Andy Nguyen ’11 says the Master of Entrepreneurship 1911. They spotted an opportunity in a growing city and program provided him with a solid handle on the mechanics joined forces with like-minded civic leaders to bring the of business ownership. Nguyen owns WSI Search, a North University to life. Dallas marketing firm that specializes in web development Fast forward six decades: When the Caruth Institute for and Internet marketing strategies, and calls himself a Entrepreneurship opened in August 1970, “we could identify “serial entrepreneur with a laundry list of ideas.” The nine- only a handful of universities that even taught a course year Marine veteran, who has served in Afghanistan and in entrepreneurship,” says Jerry White, director of the Asia, is now mapping out “a nonprofit organization to help institute in the Cox School of Business. “Today, if you don’t veterans transition into entrepreneurship.” have a substantial entrepreneurship education program, “The MSE program has given me the tools and resources then you won’t have a .” to build, run and exit a business in the most effective and The institute was established with the support of W.W. efficient manner,” says Nguyen. Caruth Jr., son of W.W. Caruth Sr., who donated land to SMU in 1911. “W.W. Caruth Jr. felt that universities were training ‘be ready to jump’ students to be employees of large organizations, and that’s Engineer Bobby B. Lyle ’67 proves that inventive not what he chose to be,” White says. “He was ahead of go-getters populate all disciplines. He served as a professor the curve in recognizing that business schools needed to and administrator at the University before making his address entrepreneurship education.” mark in the petroleum and natural gas industry. Lyle, an While White says there’s no hard and fast definition of SMU trustee for more than 20 years, provided gifts that “entrepreneurship,” he boils it down to “building a business established the Bobby B. Lyle Chair in Entrepreneurship where none existed before and pursuing the opportunity in Cox – held by Professor Maria Minniti – and laid the without regard to resources you currently control.” foundation for leadership and entrepreneurship education “Innovation is not entrepreneurship,” he adds. in the Lyle School of Engineering, which was named for him “Entrepreneurs take innovation and do something with it.” in 2008. The Caruth Institute offers four undergraduate and 20 The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical graduate courses – from venture financing to financial Engineering with an Engineering Management and transactions law – to provide students with a solid Entrepreneurship Specialization. In addition courses such foundation for launching and managing successful ventures. as “Technical Entrepreneurship” encapsulate the challenges Through the institute students can pursue a Master of of technology start-ups through “on-the-job learning,” says

12 smu | magazine | 2011 Professor Stephen A. Szygenda. as a security system. Divided into company teams, “If your phone is stolen, you can students have to decide on a lock and wipe it [erase data] remotely,” hypothetical venture and develop a Ghadiry explains. five-year strategy. As the semester After five months on the market, the unfolds, Szygenda bombards the application has been downloaded more groups “with different situations, like than 16,000 times from SeekDroid.com an unanticipated natural disaster. at a price of 99 cents per download. They have to come up with solutions They began tinkering with apps in and document how they’ve redirected an electrical engineering special topics the company to successfully deal course taught by Joseph Camp, the with the issue.” J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Professor Brian Tannous (left) and Amir Ghadiry, creators The course’s emphasis on team in the Department of Electrical of the SeekDroid smartphone app dynamics and innovative problem- Engineering. “For students with an Simmons School of Education and solving complements initiatives of entrepreneurial flair, the mobile phone Human Development will launch a the Hart Center for Engineering applications market is an emerging Master’s program with a specialization Leadership, which was funded by a avenue,” Camp says. in urban school leadership. The gift from Linda ’65 and Mitch Hart 45-hour program was developed by the and opened in October 2010. it’s not business Department of Educational Leadership In the lightning-fast technology as usual and Policy in concert with the school’s sector, “there’s a very small window Some new SMU programs borrow new Education Entrepreneur Center for success, so when it opens, you have from the B-school toolkit for courses (EEC). to be ready to jump,” Szygenda says. tailored to a challenging climate. The EEC coalesces efforts of the New engineering graduates Amir Next month, the Annette Caldwell Simmons School and the Teaching �B Ghadiry ’11 and Brian Tannous ’11 took a leap into the marketplace with SeekDroid, an application do you fit the profile? (“app”) for smartphones that run the Growing up in Carthage, Miss., Jerry White says he was “one of those Android mobile operating system. The kids who always had a business.” Among his most successful ventures was multifunction app serves as a locator a snow cone stand. Within weeks of opening, his operation was doing such – through a secure website, a user can brisk business that his adult-run competition folded. pinpoint the device’s location – as well White seemed to know instinctively that by offering a superior product at the right price, he would thrive in the marketplace. So, are some people born entrepreneurs? While an actual gene linked to entrepreneurship has not been identified, people who bring their ideas to life do seem to share some attitudinal DNA, according to White. among the essential characteristics: A never-ending sense of urgency. keep things challenging, but they “They won’t wait; they see the understand that hedgers, not opportunity and act on it quickly.” gamblers, usually win.” Superior conceptual ability. Realistic. “They don’t engage in “Entrepreneurs make sound denial, and they call a spade a decisions in situations where spade.” others may feel they don’t have Ethical. “They realize that enough information to act.” treating people ethically is good Low need for status. “When for business.” building a business, they’re not It also helps to have good health concerned about status or the and stamina, White says. “Running trappings.” a business requires long hours Moderate risk-takers. and lots of energy, especially in “This surprises most people. the beginning.” Entrepreneurs like a little risk to Jerry White, director of the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship in the Cox School of Business

2011 | spring/summer | smu 13 Mustang Ingenuity THESE ENTREPRENEURIAL ALUMS BRING IDEAS TO LIFE

YOUNG DREAMER ENTERPRISES ‘enduring perseverance’ to keep going.” julene fleurmond The little company that could gradually morphed into a When Oprah Winfrey successful “specialty optics shop,” Hatcher explains. “We took her show on the improve the performance of lasers used in almost any road in December, industry: the medical field, in aerospace and even large journalism graduate industrial lasers that precision-cut materials in factories.” Julene Fleurmond While retooling the company’s focus, Myatt, who holds ’09 was among the undergraduate degrees in math and physics from SMU and “Ultimate Viewers” a Ph.D. in atomic physics from the University of Colorado, treated to a trip to became interested in medical testing equipment. His “little Australia. side science project” has grown into a separate business: MBio Diagnostics. When producers Myatt developed a portable, affordable device for blood tests Julene Fleurmond were searching for that is ideally suited to emerging nations where small clinics people inspired by Winfrey for the audience of the show’s rarely have diagnostic equipment. Next month, field trials of final-season premiere, Fleurmond caught their attention. the device will begin in Kenya. Her organization, Young Dreamer Enterprises, and website More information: precisionphotonics.com and mbiodx.com (dreamerENT.com) advance creativity and entrepreneurship in young people through online activities, inspirational posts and 18 RABBITS videos. GRANOLA “Seeing Oprah in person was a surreal experience and AND BARS reinforced my belief that by pursuing your passion and alison bailey purpose, your dreams can come true,” says Fleurmond, who vercruysse is now working toward a Master’s in public health at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. By harnessing “Pony While an SMU undergraduate, Fleurmond received a Big power,” Alison Bailey iDeas grant for her website. Sponsored by SMU’s Office of the Vercruysse ’92 moved Provost, the Big iDeas program funds selected undergraduate into an important national market and research proposals aimed at addressing issues that confront Alison Bailey Vercruysse ’92 (left) and Erin major metropolitan areas like Dallas. McCormick ’09 found a key employee. “Having recognition and support from a program like Big Vercruysse started iDeas encourages you to make your idea bigger,” she says. 18 Rabbits – certified-organic granola and bars – in 2008. That year, the San Francisco-based entrepreneur met fellow PRECISION Mustang David Cush ’82, ’83 at an alumni event. Cush, PHOTONICS president and CEO of Virgin America Airlines, serves as a chris myatt and Second Century Campaign Steering Committee co-chair. sally hatcher “He was very gracious, gave me his card and suggested I send him a box of samples,” she says. Chris Myatt ’91 had Vercruysse did, and 18 Rabbits Gracious Granola is now on the perfect ingredients the airline’s breakfast menu for a second time. for a start-up – a good Two years later, the tables were turned when Erin idea, a spare room McCormick ’09 approached Vercruysse. McCormick, a dance and a lawyer-partner major, was searching for a new opportunity after living in New – wife Sally Hatcher York for a year. High-energy thin film polarizers are among ’91. The couple founded Precision Photonics’ products. “When I decided to move, I contacted everyone in the SMU Precision Photonics, alumni online database who lived in the San Francisco area,” which specializes in precision optical components, in Boulder, she explains. “The alums were very encouraging and really Colorado, in 2000. The telecommunications boom was at its wanted to help.” peak, so the timing seemed right. Coincidentally, Vercruysse, who majored in accounting “We started as a telecom business. When the bubble burst and finance at SMU, was hunting for a marketing intern. The in 2001, 70 percent of our customers went out of business two hit it off, and McCormick now serves as field marketing and those remaining weren’t spending money,” says Hatcher, manager for the company. who earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and history More information: 18Rabbits.com from SMU and a J.D. from the University of Colorado. “It took

14 smu | magazine | 2011 Mustang Ingenuity TOMS SHOES blake mycoskie TOMS Shoes isn’t just another footwear company and founder Blake Mycoskie isn’t a cookie-cutter executive. His title synthesizes an unusual corporate philosophy: He doesn’t call himself “chief executive officer.” Rather, he’s the self-proclaimed “chief shoe giver.” TOMS – the name is derived from Shoes For Zannie Voss, chair of Meadows’ Division of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Tomorrow – operates on a one-for-one giving model: For each pair of TOMS shoes sold, one Trust, a nonprofit organization them to take a proactive role in pair is given away. As of 2010, more than 1 established by entrepreneurs sculpting their post-SMU futures million pairs of shoes had been donated to Rosemary Perlmeter, founder of now,” says Zannie Voss, chair of needy children in over 20 countries, including Uplift Education charter schools, the Division of Arts Management the United States. and Ellen Wood, a financial and and Arts Entrepreneurship in Mycoskie started the enterprise in 2006 after social investment consultant, to Meadows and professor with a a trip to Argentina, where he was moved by a offer high-quality professional dual appointment in Meadows group of youngsters with no shoes to protect preparation for emerging school and Cox. their feet. When he returned to the U.S., he leaders as well as development Beginning in the fall, decided that writing a check wasn’t enough opportunities for seasoned Meadows will offer an and developed the idea for TOMS. Today, a principals. undergraduate minor in arts range of designs for men, women and children Lee Alvoid, clinical associate entrepreneurship open to bears the distinctive TOMS logo. professor and department chair, students from any major on Over a decade ago, Mycoskie started his first believes some of the business campus who want to develop company, a laundry service, while an SMU approaches used to turn around their ideas for new arts – or student. He later created and sold a billboard ailing companies can be modified entertainment-related ventures. company and worked in TV development and and applied to low-performing The six-course minor focuses on entertainment marketing before finding the urban schools. such skills as arts budgeting and perfect fit. “Entrepreneurial educators financial management, attracting What’s his next step? When delivering the can find and deploy resources capital (donors, investors and keynote address at South by Southwest in in a creative and nontraditional public funds) and generating an March, Mycoskie teased that TOMS “will no manner,” she explains. “They are arts venture plan. longer be just a shoe company.” He’s expected able to create an organizational As they home in on how to to announce his new one-for-one idea this culture focused on the students monetize their ideas, students summer. and have the ability to develop may redefine success in terms of More information: toms.com and Mycoskie’s blog, policies that support change personal fulfillment rather than startsomethingthatmatters.com that’s important in urban schools fame. And even those who have with low performance.” their sights set on stardom need Much like the Simmons to be able to interpret a financial program aims to prepare school statement. leaders to achieve under difficult “The reality is that it’s in our conditions, a new Meadows students’ best interests to not School of the Arts initiative only create their own art and merges a business perspective films but also to understand with classical training as an how to sustain themselves,” Voss intellectual gyroscope for a says. “This initiative emphasizes shifting arts landscape. Meadows’ encouragement of “Our students are incredibly students to ‘start a movement.’” proficient and expert with their talent as performers and artists. We don’t want them to wait for the phone to ring; we want Blake Mycoskie celebrates TOMS’ success.

2011 | spring/summer | smu 15 NEW DEAN OUTLINES VISION FOR DEDMAN COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES By Susan White

illiam Tsutsui has been dean of Dedman degrees in history from Princeton University, a Master College of Humanities and Sciences since July of Letters in modern Japanese history from Oxford 2010 but already he has made news. Tsutsui was University’s Corpus Christi College and graduated summa blogging about his experiences with the Japanese cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts American Leadership Delegation that was visiting Tokyo in East Asian Studies. when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan March 11. As dean of the largest of SMU’s seven schools, Tsutsui His interviews and SMU Adventures blog provided media has been promoting the benefits of a liberal arts education outlets (from The Times and NBC Nightly News to numerous alumni and SMU constituents and developing to CNN and ) with an eyewitness a strategic plan to position Dedman College for further account of the natural disaster’s impact on Japan. In fact, progress. He also is helping Dedman College prepare for Tsutsui’s quote comparing the movement of downtown its major role in implementing the new undergraduate skyscrapers to “trees swaying in the breeze” was the Times’ University Curriculum, which goes into effect for the quote of the day March 12. He also has spoken to numerous entering class in fall 2012. And on occasion, he will eagerly student groups on the subject. share his passion about the Japanese film icon, Godzilla, Tsutsui, a specialist in modern Japanese business the subject of one of his books. Action figures of the and economic history, joined SMU from the University mutant monster line the shelves in his office in Dallas Hall. of Kansas, where he served as associate dean for In the following interview Tsutsui shares his optimism international studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, about the future of Dedman College. professor of history and director of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching About Asia. He received M.A. and Ph.D.

16 smu | magazine | 2011 You have said that Dedman College and SMU provide the perfect formula for the model of success in higher education. What do you mean by that?

We’re at a difficult point in higher education in the United States. It’s not just the economic issues facing a lot of universities now, but also an existential crisis – what are we doing, what value are we giving to students? I spent 17 years at the prototypical flatland state university being asked by taxpayers in the state of Kansas to train their kids to do anything and everything and to do it for nothing. Big public institutions like Kansas and Berkeley and Ohio State are wonderful examples of the modern “SMU and Dedman College are the perfect mingling of the two great American research university that have contributed to life, traditions of teaching and research,” says Dean William Tsutsui. well-being and knowledge in countless ways. The problem is that the model of a gigantic state university funded the liberal arts prepare you not just for one job (as more largely by federal research grants and touching every narrow professional or vocational training might) but for aspect of society looks increasingly like a brontosaurus, a wide range of jobs that need readily transferable skills and we’re undergoing climate change in higher education. like reading, writing, research, analysis and creativity; the In particular, state universities have lost touch with liberal arts prepare individuals to lead full, open-minded, a fundamental part of their mission – the education of civically engaged and reflective lives; today, nations undergraduate students. That’s something that liberal arts like China and India are trying to emulate the liberal colleges like Amherst and Williams have long focused on arts from America to stir creativity and breadth in their and continue to do extremely well. But liberal arts colleges undergraduates. also fall short in serving students and society because they But we also need to emphasize the role of the liberal don’t have the commitment to creating knowledge that a arts in combating the fear that seems so prevalent research university does. SMU and Dedman College are the today in American families and throughout our society, perfect mingling of these two great traditions of teaching a pervasive sense of anxiety growing from economic and research. We have high-powered, cutting-edge uncertainty, international concerns, and political divisions. research, scholars winning highly competitive national It is precisely at this moment, I believe, that the liberal research grants and creating knowledge that could change arts are the most valuable. The constant questioning, millions of lives. At the same time, every faculty member critical thinking and healthy skepticism that characterize in the College is dedicated to teaching undergraduate the humanities and sciences are a potent antidote to students. A rich undergraduate experience, based on uncertainty and anxiety. A liberal education teaches us individual relationships between faculty and students that “not knowing” is the normal state of being and that by inside and beyond the classroom, must continue to be the thoughtful, self-reflective and collaborative investigation, hallmark of Dedman College and SMU. experimentation, discussion and debate, new options can be discovered, new truths revealed and a new comfort How do you make the case that the liberal arts continue to play found amid insecurity and doubt. The liberal arts help us a vital role and make significant contributions to society? master and direct our fears and approach the future not with apprehension and unease, but with the confidence We are undeniably in a moment of renewed worries that no challenge is too great to be studied, contemplated about the state of the liberal arts and increased scrutiny and eventually surmounted. of the place of liberal education in American colleges and universities. The discontinuation of departments and You’ve been working on a strategic plan for Dedman College. degrees, especially in the humanities, at many institutions One of the main initiatives is support for undergraduate has been chilling. And students seem to be voting with education. What does that entail? their feet, walking in the same direction for a couple of generations: away from the liberal arts and toward As part of a university with several high-caliber professional schools. professional schools that offer attractive undergraduate We’re all familiar with the arguments for why a liberal programs, Dedman College must provide the kind of education is the best possible preparation for life and curricula and educational experiences that can draw career in America today: look at any corporate board of the best students to the liberal arts. To get those top directors or the leadership of any top government agency students requires an institution to not only offer excellent and you are likely to find a slew of liberal arts graduates; academic programs but also top scholarship support.

2011 | spring/summer | smu 17 Fostering Entrepreneurship And Dedman College has been a little behind the Innovation In Japan times in that regard. Happily, with the Dedman Blog by Dedman College Dean William Tsutsui College Scholars program we’ve begun to compete for exceptional students at the highest ne of the major topics of discussion on my recent trip to Japan level. We must work harder to build the financial was entrepreneurship. Japan’s economy has been in a seem- base of endowed scholarship funds that are ingly endless funk for the past two decades … and today it is not a necessary to increase the academic quality of particularly entrepreneurial place. The economy is dominated by large our undergraduates. corporations, the hand of government in industrial and financial af- We need to take advantage of our real fairs is heavy, and the education system is geared more to producing strengths at SMU and one of those is our size conformist company men (and women) than to encouraging enterpris- – this is still a very intimate campus, where ing free thinkers. The well-respected Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, students can have extraordinary experiences for example, consistently ranks Japan among the least entrepreneurial and take on unique roles. One of the ways they nations on earth. can do that is through undergraduate research. Many argue that there are deep cultural elements behind Japan’s At large state universities focused on attracting anemic entrepreneurialism. Japan, some say, is a collective culture, huge research grants, faculty often don’t have where emphasis on the group overwhelms the kind of muscular in- the time to mentor undergraduates, to give them dividualism necessary for entrepreneurial success. Others stress the an enhanced educational experience. At SMU we profound risk-aversion of Japanese society. can do that in our labs, libraries and classrooms. There are also structural issues conditioning the environment for en- Dedman College also needs to create more trepreneurialism in Japan. The tax and legal systems do not encourage degree programs that capture the interests of entrepreneurial daring. Venture capital is scarce in Japan: some say it students, such as we have achieved through is because all the money has surged into hyper-entrepreneurial China; the Embrey Human Rights Program. Students others argue that the stunted culture of innovation and risk-taking in today (and especially those we have at SMU) Japan simply scares away the investors. are incredibly idealistic – they grew up doing One certainty is that Japan has historically been a pretty darned community service projects and participating entrepreneurial place. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many in volunteer programs. The Human Rights of the firms that now constitute Japan’s gold-plated corporate estab- Program offers them an opportunity to explore lishment were founded by go-for-broke home-grown entrepreneurs: how they can make a difference at a personal the Mitsubishi empire, Toyota, and most of Japan’s banks began as level in the world. We need to develop similar textbook cases of vigorous, creative entrepreneurship. Even in the mid- major and minor programs that build on faculty 20th century, when Japan’s hierarchical corporate economy began to strengths and engage our undergraduates: I gel, entrepreneurs were plentiful and many achieved outstanding suc- hope we can expand our existing environmental cess: Honda Soichiro turned a small engine shop into one of the world’s studies program and consider degrees related dominant car makers; Matsushita Konosuke’s drive and daring built to important issues like migration, where Panasonic; and Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru made Sony (started in a Dedman College has interdisciplinary expertise run-down shed in 1946) a household name worldwide. in anthropology, sociology, literary studies and There are certainly glimmers of hope today for Japanese entrepre- political science. neurialism. Efforts from the grassroots to create incubators and net- We also need to provide more opportunities works of innovation on the local or regional level are beginning to show for international exposure, both inside the some results. Some large mainstream companies have been trying to classroom and through education abroad, and loosen up and encourage “intrapreneurship,” entrepreneurial initiatives for service learning. New and enhanced options within established firms, as a growth strategy. And there are a series of in experiential learning and building global new collaborations between the United States and Japan around entre- awareness will contribute to the undergraduate preneurship and innovation under way, including a promising partner- experience. ship between Hawaii and Okinawa around green energy. What assures me that Japan has the spark and the spirit to break new ground entrepreneurially is the incredible creativity and energy of Japanese popular culture. That the hyperactive minds and imaginations of the creators of anime and manga, video games and cult movies have flourished in straight-laced, hammer-down-that-nail Japan is evidence aplenty that there is the vision and capacity for entrepreneurship on a grand scale in the nation today. When this creative, constructive, freewheeling style reaches its full potential, Japan’s economy may be a force to reckon with once again.

18 smu | magazine | 2011 How does the strategic plan address graduate education? Why are interdisciplinary programs a major aspect of the College’s strategic plan? That is a tough one, because many people still think of SMU as primarily an undergraduate institution. The budgetary zero-sum game that has affected Dedman Nevertheless, the research projects that we’re engaged College for the past 25 years has made it very difficult in and the high-level scholarship that takes place for faculty to collaborate across disciplines – they’ve in the College are not sustainable without vibrant pulled back into their departments, reluctant to support graduate programs. Strong graduate programs also feed interdisciplinary endeavors. But the problems of the world collaborations across disciplines, build bridges to the today are too big for any one discipline or department to community through research and service, and enhance solve. Look at any of the big issues – cancer, health care, the productivity of faculty. Graduate students also can climate change, democratic transformations – all of these play an important role in mentoring undergraduates require scholars with a variety of training and expertise and facilitating undergraduate research projects. Many coming together to explore possible solutions. graduate programs in Dedman College have long histories I am proposing the creation of a new organization in and records of educating and placing their students. the College to stimulate the kind of interdisciplinary Unfortunately, graduate education is probably the least collaboration that feeds an active intellectual climate. well-funded part of the College now. We need to find Dedman College is rare among universities at our level ways to build support for our doctoral programs, to offer in that it doesn’t have a humanities center. I envision students financial packages (including health benefits) a high-profile institute that will spark interdisciplinary that are competitive with other top universities around the connections across departments and schools, throughout country, and to increase the number of graduate students the humanities and sciences, spanning research and within our departments. teaching. It also would welcome undergraduate and graduate students in addition to faculty. I can easily In a time of budget cutting and faculty reduction at imagine it contributing to the development of new courses universities nationwide, you are proposing an increase in and new degree programs, as well as enhancing our ability Dedman College faculty. Why? to compete for large research grants. Dedman College is fortunate in having a number of established units that Despite the overall growth at SMU, the development of new support interdisciplinary research: the Tower Center for programs and the ever-increasing demands on scholars Political Studies and the Clements Center for Southwest and educators, the total number of faculty in Dedman Studies have international profiles, the Institute for the College has not changed in 25 years. Recruiting and Study of Earth and Man is a long-term contributor to retaining a faculty of excellence is an ongoing challenge, research in the natural sciences, and the new Center for especially in today’s competitive climate. For Dedman Scientific Computational Science has great potential. These College, however, the size of the faculty may well be our centers and institutes can and should provide leadership in most pressing concern. Almost all College departments stimulating dialogue across campus, but the new institute have fewer tenure-track faculty than their equivalents in will play a critical role in creating a vibrant culture of SMU’s comparative peer institutions, and some are not interdisciplinarity in the College and at SMU. even staffed to the levels found in small liberal arts colleges. This situation means that Dedman College departments generally do not have the number of faculty necessary to provide the breadth of teaching and research generally expected in leading American universities. We need to work through the Second Century Campaign to build the number of endowed chairs, which have a rapid and substantial impact on the reputation of the University. We can hire well in Dedman College, we just need the financial resources to do it.

Students conduct research in the lab with Eva Oberdorster, senior lecturer in biological sciences (right).

2011 | spring/summer | smu 19 What are your priorities for research in Dedman College? Why is it important to raise Dedman College’s profile?

Historically, the majority of externally funded research Dedman College serves Dallas in countless ways, but we at SMU has been conducted in Dedman College. We have seldom get the recognition we deserve because few people the potential to do even more, but we need to provide are aware of all that we do. The College’s outreach spans better support for undergraduate and graduate research from members of our Economics Department consulting and further assist junior faculty members in competing with the Federal Reserve Bank in to our for the top national grants. We also need bridge funding faculty in the sciences collaborating with researchers at UT to help senior faculty start new projects or launch new Southwestern Medical Center to undergraduate students in areas of investigation. In addition, we must ensure that sociology, world languages and religious studies working the natural and social sciences have adequate laboratories on tutoring, bilingual education or local history programs and collaborative spaces, and that they have the latest with low-income communities in East Dallas. Connecting technology to support the work of scholars and students. Dedman College more deeply with Dallas will enrich Dedman College faculty members have long been faculty scholarship and the student experience, provide enthusiastic participants in the process of discovery, new opportunities for applied research and funding, and and a lot of people locally recognize the value of that contribute to our region’s economic vitality and the quality research – the benefit it brings not just to the world but to of life. Dallas in particular – because it generates new economic opportunities and addresses a wide variety of social, What will Dedman College’s role be in implementing the political and cultural challenges. new University Curriculum (formerly General Education People want to invest in people. That’s why it is so Curriculum), effective fall 2012? important to get our faculty out into the community as part of the Second Century Campaign. When alumni see the Dedman College is where all SMU students begin their passion that our biologists, economists, psychologists and collegiate journey, no matter what majors or minors they other faculty bring to their research, they understand that ultimately choose. The University Curriculum provides what can seem like a faceless institutional gift actually the common knowledge, skills and experiences every has a very human imprint. To help stimulate research student must accrue before he or she graduates. The new activity, the College, working with our Campaign Steering curriculum makes it easier to pursue multiple majors Committee co-chairs Kelly Hoglund Compton ’79 and Fred and minors. It also accommodates more opportunities for Hegi ’66, has created the Dean’s Research Council, a donor honors programming, international study, undergraduate organization that provides resources for promising new research, internship experiences and service learning. scholarly projects. We’ve already received a $100,000 Students must demonstrate second-language proficiency leadership gift from Pierce Allman ’54 and have selected equal to four semesters of college study. some impressive young, tenure-track faculty members – What I particularly like is that the new curriculum Amy Pinkham in psychology, Yunkai Zhou in mathematics engages students more actively in the process of their and Lisa Siraganian in English – who will receive seed own education, forcing them to do more than just sit in a funding as a springboard to compete for large federal grants. classroom and take notes from PowerPoint slides. It will require students to think about how they learn and what they’re going to learn, asking them to be more active and intentional, for example, in identifying a community service experience or gaining global perspectives. SMU will be in the forefront of having an up-to- date student-focused curriculum. Of course, this new curriculum also will pose a few challenges for Dedman College. The foreign language requirement will have a huge impact on our World Languages and Literatures Department. We also have to work to develop our interdisciplinary offerings. There is sure be a lot of juggling in introducing this curriculum, but it’s a valuable opportunity for faculty and the institution to evaluate and sharpen the undergraduate experience – this challenges us to reflect on what we are doing in the classroom Geothermal Lab coordinator Maria Richards (right) points out geothermal hot spots to and what we can be doing better. graduate students.

20 smu | magazine | 2011 What are you saying to alumni who may be concerned that The 4-1-1 About Dedman College the SMU “as they know it” is going to change? of Humanities and Sciences

I’ve spent a lot of time talking to alumni about their • About 40 percent of SMU’s undergraduates choose majors in strongest memories of SMU. Some will mention Dedman College. athletics, for others it was their sorority and fraternity • 16 academic departments experiences. But I’m often pleasantly surprised by the • Full-time faculty: 301, including 18 visiting appointments; 25 number of alumni who can remember the first classes endowed faculty positions; three professors have been named they took. I was talking recently to a successful graduate to the National Academy of Sciences in the automobile industry who transferred to SMU; • 50 Bachelor’s degree programs he remembers even today that one of his first classes • More than 85 majors and minors, including innovative was in philosophy, and that he called his parents right academic programs like Environmental Studies, Markets and afterward and said, “This is the place I was meant to Culture, and Human Rights be.” That’s exactly the experience I want our students to • 31 graduate programs – 18 leading to a Master’s degree; 13 to have when they take classes in Dedman College. I don’t a Ph.D. degree want them to think, “This is high school, year five.” They • The economics Ph.D. program, the University’s first, was need to be exposed to a broad range of perspectives approved in 1958. (and challenges) by their instructors. As long as we • 338 graduate students (spring 2011) keep engaging students and firing their curiosity, that • 982 students graduated from Dedman College in the 2009- fundamental experience of an SMU education will 2010 academic year. remain consistent over the decades. That’s the genius • Received more than $18.7 million in sponsored research last of the liberal arts – you never know what will capture a year (74% of University total for 2009-10) student’s passion. • Dedman College Scholars – Provides merit-based scholarships There is so much to learn out there in the world, for students pursuing a Dedman College major. and it’s unlikely we’re ever going to learn exactly all • Dean’s Research Council – Supports faculty research through that we need to know. Take for example the events a member-based donor group. unfolding today in Libya. You probably can count on one hand the people in America who’ve had courses on Notable Programs Libyan politics. It’s not a good investment of resources • The Embrey Human Rights Program – Boasts the largest un- at most universities to have specialists in only that dergraduate minor in human rights in the United States with field. Nevertheless, as informed citizens we need broad 67 minors. exposure to political movements, to Islam, to technology • University Honors Program – An intellectual community for and its power, and to civil-military relations that allow SMU’s most talented undergraduates. us to understand an unpredictable and rapidly changing • BRITE Scholars Program – Students majoring in biology, situation like we’re seeing in Libya and all over the biochemistry, or chemistry and planning research careers in Middle East. And that’s what the liberal arts can offer us. biomedicine can apply for admission to SMU and simultane- Even if you haven’t been trained to deal with a specific ously for acceptance to a Ph.D. program at the UT Southwest- issue or series of events, a broad liberal education ern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. equips you with a toolkit of analytical skills for making • The John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies – Pro- informed, intelligent decisions about a rapidly changing motes the study and discussion of politics and international world. affairs, and engages students in public service through in- sightful teaching and hands-on research. What are your final thoughts on Dedman College? • The Clements Center for Southwest Studies – Promotes research, publishing, teaching, and public programming in a The time is now for Dedman College; we have all the variety of fields of inquiry related to the American Southwest. ingredients to really fly – a wonderful faculty, a strong • Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Program – Students student base, and a supportive administration and Board live in the ACE house in East Dallas and serve as tutors and of Trustees. Now is the time for us to define our vision, civic guides to children in the neighborhood. to ask where we want to go and how investment will • Godbey Lecture Series – An outreach program to introduce the make a difference, and then to take off. There is no more Dallas community to Dedman College faculty and the scholarly optimistic campus in America than SMU, and there is no research that takes place. part of this University better positioned for growth and success than Dedman College. To support Dedman College’s faculty, students, research and For more information on Dedman College, visit programs, visit www.smu.edu/Dedman/Giving or call Courtney www.smu.edu/dedman. Corwin ’89 at 214-768-2691.

2011 | spring/summer | smu 21 Throughout red-and-blue SMU, green practices have become a way of life as the University community rallies to cut waste and conserve precious resources.

In Cockrell-McIntosh Hall, Pamela Varela’s small refrigerator used to be stocked with single-use plastic water bottles. Now Varela, a resident assistant, relies on reusable bottles. “I used to think that throwing all those plastic water bottles into the recycling bin was enough, until I realized that it’s best not to have a bottle to recycle in the first place,” says Varela, a sophomore environmental engineering major. She also is a member of the SMU Environmental Society and the campus co-chair of RecycleMania, a national intercollegiate recycling competition. Not far from Varela’s South Quad living quarters, a crew completes the installation of a new chiller for Barr Pool. The high- efficiency system captures energy that would otherwise evaporate into the atmosphere and converts it into heat. As a result, the University will save about $80,000 a year in heating costs for the outdoor swimming pool. On the west side of Bishop Boulevard, students gather for lunch at the campus’ main dining hall, the Real Food on Campus (RFoC) in , where trays have been removed. That action has yielded substantial decreases not only in water consumption but also in the amount of food thrown away, according to Michael Marr, SMU director of dining services and resident district manager for Aramark, which provides dining services.

SMU’s Environmental Footprint Shrinks, One Step At A Time by patricia ward At Barr Pool, a new, high-efficiency chiller system saves the University about $80,000 annually in heating costs.

“When people use trays, they tend to pile up their plates with much more food than they’ll eat,” he says. “Without the trays, food waste has been reduced by 4 to 6 ounces per meal a day, and we serve an average of 3,000 meals each day.” many shades of green The widely accepted definition of “sustainability” – eco-conscious behavior that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” – was established as a national goal when the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970. That year, the first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22. The SMU Sustainability Committee generates the kind of awareness that Earth Day evokes and supports it throughout the year. Established in 2009, the committee focuses efforts by students, faculty and staff on a sweeping plan to recycle, reduce waste and reuse. The long- term strategy encompasses resource management programs, student initiatives and green- building construction as well as degree programs, course offerings and research.

22 smu | magazine | 2011 Steps to shrink SMU’s environmental footprint are taken around the clock, says Michael Paul, executive director of Facilities Management and Sustainability (FM&S) and a member of the SMU Sustainability Committee. SMU collected 119 tons “There’s not one big thing we do that’s the sustainability panacea; it’s the thousand little things that really add up and make a difference,” Paul says. of recyclables FM&S takes the lead in rethinking business as usual by identifying new recycling and waste management opportunities as well as finding products and techniques that are eco- during 2011 RecycleMania. friendly and cost-effective. “Before we adopt a new method or system, it not only has to meet certain environmental criteria but it also has to make economic sense,” Paul says. As an example, he points to the replacement of incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs in all exit signs. On average an LED bulb uses about a 10th of the energy and lasts about 80 years, compared to the three- month lifespan of an incandescent bulb. “In one year the program paid for itself,” he says. forward thinking SMU’s long-term commitment to sustainability includes academic tracks to educate students who can meet the needs of a changing world and develop energy-conservation tactics that will play out over decades. Environmental degree programs – Environmental Studies and Environmental Sciences in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering in Lyle School of Engineering – prepare students now to develop solutions to mounting global sustainability issues. “I’m interested in research and work being done around the world to reduce carbon emissions by switching to renewable resources for fuel,” says Sarah Karimi, a sophomore environmental sciences and chemistry double major from Karachi, Pakistan. “My academic background helps me understand the environment from a scientific perspective, and I hope to pursue research that will contribute to sustainable energy solutions.” Sophomore Elizabeth Peterson serves as an Environmental Researchers like David Blackwell, Hamilton Professor of Geothermal Representative, or E-Rep, a student staff position assigned to Studies and one of the country’s foremost authorities on geothermal a residence hall to promote recycling and other green efforts. energy, and SMU Geothermal Laboratory Coordinator Maria Richards explore the alternative energy frontier. Their breakthrough mapping of the nation’s geothermal resources shows the vast potential for geothermal energy, which harnesses heat from the Earth’s core. Geothermal energy is reliable – and with the right technology can be generated virtually everywhere. “That’s really the holy grail of geothermal: that you can go anywhere and extract the Earth’s heat,” Blackwell told National Geographic News in December. SMU’s Sustainability Committee also is looking at energy through a long-range lens. A Carbon Action Plan with a 30-year goal of attaining carbon neutrality is in development, according to Michael Paul. The plan will outline specific projects to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by using fiscally sound technologies. “If we’re not good stewards of the environment today, then we’re not setting up generations to come for success,” he says. “Sustainability is as much about the future as it is about today. ”

Mackenzie Keck, a first-year advertising student, shines in a visit smu.edu/sustainability to check out smu’s real-time water and electricity design by Diana Mansour, a first-year business student. They usage on the building dashboard. participated in the inaugural eco-fashion show hosted by SMU’s Environmental Representatives March 25. web extras: read about recent tree replacements, the smu community garden and other smu sustainability projects at smu.edu/smumagazine.

2011 | spring/summer | smu 23 The Second Century Celebration 2O11-2O15

2011-2015: A five-year commemoration celebrating SMU’s founding in 1911 and opening in 1915

Special Publications Remarkable Alumni Reunions Centennial Exhibitions Commemorative Moments Spectacular Events The Second Century Celebration Organizing The Second Century Celebration Committee

Co-Chairs Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler ‘48 Carl Sewell ‘66

Honorary Co-Chairs William P. Clements, Jr. ‘39 Edwin L. Cox ‘42 Nancy McMillan Dedman ‘50 JOIN THE Celebration William L. Hutchison, Sr. ‘54 Bobby B. Lyle ‘67 Cary M. Maguire Save The Date Robert A. Meadows Homecoming and Centennial Reunions Annette Caldwell Simmons ‘57 November 3–6, 2O11 Kay Prothro Yeager ‘61 Centennial Reunions for the classes of

’66, ’71, ’76, ’81, ’86, ’91, ’96, ’01, ’06 Vice Chairs Michael M. Boone ‘63, ‘67 Vice Chair, Community Celebration Reserve Your Copy Kelly Hoglund Compton ‘79 Reserve your copy of SMU’s stunning centennial picture Vice Chair, Academic Celebration book showcasing the majestic beauty of the Hilltop. Rev. Mark Craig Vice Chair, Church Relations Linda Pitts Custard ‘60, ‘99 Make Your Mark Vice Chair, Special Events Antonio O. Garza, Jr. ‘83 You can purchase an etched paver on SMU’s planned Vice Chair, International Celebration Centennial Promenade. Bishop Scott J. Jones ‘81, ‘92 Vice Chair, Church Relations Jeanne L. Phillips ‘76 Wear Your SMU Pride Vice Chair, Centennial Host Committees Through 2015, you can purchase the SMU ring Richard Ware ‘68 marked with a special centennial engraving. Vice Chair, Alumni Celebration

At-large Members, 2010–11 Share Your Memories. Liz Martin Armstrong ‘82 We welcome contributions of beanie caps, yearbooks, Co-chair, Parent Leadership Council Linda S. Eads photographs and more. President, SMU Faculty Senate Contact us at 214-768-3022 or [email protected]. Ken S. Malcolmson ‘74 Chair, SMU Alumni Board Jake E. Torres ‘11 President, SMU Student Body

At-large Members, 2011–12 Bill Vanderstraaten Chair, SMU Alumni Board Chair, Parent Leadership Council Chair, SMU Faculty Senate President, SMU Student Body

Ex Officio Caren H. Prothro Chair, SMU Board of Trustees R. Gerald Turner President, SMU Brad E. Cheves Vice President, Development and External Affairs, SMU Stay tuned for news of more special events and publications. smu.edu/1OO (As of March 1, 2011) VETERAN STUDENTS GIs Transition From Military Service To College Classroom

By Sarah Hanan

our years ago in volatile For his service, he was awarded the Enrollment Services and the schools are southern Baghdad, Captain Bronze Star and rated top platoon leader working on financial arrangements, which Troy Vaughn ’11 was in charge by his battalion commander. include participating in the Yellow Ribbon of a 32-member scout platoon Today Vaughn, 28, is earning an M.B.A. Program, an addendum to the Post-9/11 for the Army, leading more at the Cox School of Business, where he GI Bill, to enable currently enrolled than 250 high-risk counter- has studied operations management and veterans to continue their education at Finsurgency and reconnaissance missions honed his leadership skills. SMU, says Veronica Decena, manager, over 15 months. In addition to ensuring Vaughn is one of the nearly 150 SMU Registrar’s Office. the success of the missions and the safety undergraduate and graduate students “We estimate that at least $200,000 of his troops while dodging snipers’ bullets attending SMU on the Post-9/11 GI Bill, will be needed to cover tuition and and searching for Al-Qaeda, Vaughn found which provides education benefits to fees next academic year where the that “everyday reality” also commanded military veterans and their dependents. current GI benefit leaves off,” she his attention. The bill is a 2008 update to the 1944 GI adds. “We don’t know if the cap will be “Real life doesn’t stop for the soldiers, Bill of Rights, which awarded scholarships supplemented for all students by the who can be dealing with all kinds of to World War II veterans to colleges of Yellow Ribbon Program,” which issues – from family to financial to their choice. currently covers only graduate and emotional,” Vaughn says. “My challenge However, beginning in August 2011, professional students. (For more was to take care of the soldiers – ensure changes to the Post-9/11 GI Bill create a information, visit smu.edu/registrar/ they were grounded emotionally and nationwide cap of $17,500 a year for veterans.asp.) spiritually and had all the support they tuition and fees reimbursement for Following, six veterans reflect on needed to do their jobs effectively.” private universities. SMU’s Division of their experiences as students at SMU.

26 smu | magazine | 2011 preparing to deploy In summer 2011 Sarah Wiita, 24, will to a big state school.” deploy for a year as a health care The Army’s emphasis on discipline has specialist with the U.S. Army Reserves helped her transition to college life and 490th Civil Affairs Battalion. The five balance coursework with her training members of her civil affairs unit expect and part-time jobs, she says. “I realized I to be stationed in the Horn of Africa. have different perspectives on politics They will serve as military liaisons with and other topics in my classes, probably local authorities and nongovernmental because I’ve been working for so long,” organizations while assessing how best she says. to provide aid and services to residents Rick Halperin, director of the Embrey in need. Human Rights Program, describes Wiita Troy Vaughn “We have been training at least one as a credit to SMU and the country. something bigger weekend a month at the Army Reserve “Sarah has embraced an understanding Center in Grand Prairie, and more often of all people’s rights and can use them to than yourself as we’re preparing to leave,” says Wiita, the benefit of all in her military The leadership skills that served a junior psychology major and human operations,” he says. Vaughn well while in the military continue rights minor in Dedman College. After serving a year in Africa, Wiita to do so at Cox. He has been a member of As the unit’s lone health care intends to return to SMU to finish her the M.B.A. Energy Club and was president specialist, Wiita is headed to Fort Sam coursework and attend graduate school and a founding member of Veterans in for medic training before in psychology. She wants to work with Business, which helps student veterans in deployment. She has been studying women and children who are victims of their transition from the military to a current events in Africa with her unit trafficking. “In warzones around the career in business. and says her courses in SMU’s Embrey world, the men do the fighting, while the “We’ve grown from five members to Human Rights Program also have helped women and kids are left behind and nearly 30,” he says. “We’ve built strong her understand different cultures and suffer the consequences,” she says. connections among ourselves, and we also histories. “People may think human “When I joined the military, I thought have connected our members with rights and the Army don’t go together, about serving our country, and now I’m networking and job opportunities. These but the Army does a lot of noncombat looking forward to the opportunity to students demonstrate discipline and operations and tries to make a difference serve people around the world.” leadership, even in the most challenging with civilian populations. That’s how I try situations.” to represent the military.” Holding an internship and part-time Wiita joined the Reserves in 2008 position with an energy exploration while earning an Associate’s degree in company while completing his studies, applied science at Collin County Vaughn has accepted a project manager Community College and training as a position with Sharyland Utilities after paramedic and emergency medical graduation this May. technician on an ambulance. “I told the A 2004 graduate of the U.S. Military Army recruiter I wanted to be a combat Academy at West Point, Vaughn served in medic,” she says. “I enjoyed my medical the military for more than five years, most work and knew I wanted to continue to recently as commander of a Texas National do something challenging, something I Guard infantry company. He was reared in could dedicate myself to.” Bulverde, Texas, in a family that takes pride When considering where to continue in its patriotism, he says. “In the military, her college education in 2009, she you get a sense of service, of doing applied only to SMU because of the something bigger than yourself,” he says. strength of its reputation, she says. “I “I’m hoping to achieve that in business.” love the campus, and I didn’t want to go Sarah Wiita

In Service To Their Country James Noel Kashima Jones Necorian Jones Troy Vaughn

2011 | spring/summer | smu 27 furthering the mission Former Petty Officer 2nd Class James Noel, 28, served aboard warships around the world during his six years in the U.S. Navy and two in the Navy Reserve. His first time at sea was at the start of the Iraq war in 2003 on the USS John S. McCain, where he worked as a sonar technician, watching for underwater threats and minefields. “We had been in the Arabian Gulf for about a week when we heard President Bush’s address to the nation over the ship’s intercom about the start of military operations,” says Noel, a sophomore accounting major in Cox School of Business, with a minor in economics in Dedman College. “It was two or three in the morning, and the war became very real then. We were all determined to focus on our orders and meet our objectives.” Kashima (right) and Necorian Jones After Baghdad was taken by U.S. forces – and 98 straight days on the water – discovering a passion Noel and his shipmates sailed back to When Kashima Jones served in the Necorian also is earning a minor in their home port in Japan. Navy from 2004 to 2008, she was education from the Annette Caldwell “In the military, you’re there for a stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Simmons School of Education and purpose – not to earn a paycheck, but to Lejeune in North Carolina. She won Human Development, and both Joneses serve your country,” he says. numerous awards working as a dental say they hope to teach: Necorian would technician, providing care to Marines as like to be a high school math teacher and “Students at they deployed to and returned from Iraq football coach, while Kashima wants to and Afghanistan. teach high school biology and eventually “I am so grateful to people who are serve as a principal. She discovered her SMU, who willing to go to war and make huge passion for the field this year while sacrifices for all of us back home,” says working with the - Jones, 25, who today is a junior biology readiness program, Education Is are working major in Dedman College and a member Freedom. of the Navy Reserve. “It was hard to see “I’ve been helping students at a Dallas toward their some not make the trip back.” high school fill out financial aid forms Jones’ husband, Necorian, 26, a Navy and college applications and get in the veteran and active Reservist, is a junior mind-set for college,” she says. “I am a degrees and mathematics major in Dedman College. first-generation college student, and I The couple continues to serve one remember thinking I didn’t have the weekend each month as dental tools to go to college. It feels great to careers, also technicians at the Naval Air Station Joint help others get there.” Reserve Base Fort Worth. Kashima also is working to form a are working “Working with dentists helps with my student organization for SMU’s military biology classes because they’ve all been members. “It would offer camaraderie down the same road before me,” says and support,” she says. “It could bring to further the Kashima, who is from Miami. She and together all of us who can relate to life her husband moved to his hometown of in the military – veterans, reservists, Dallas in 2008 and began their college active-duty students, family members – mission of this studies at Mountain View College before and also anyone who’s interested in transferring to SMU. learning more about the military.” country.”

28 smu | magazine | 2011 “We are proud that after serving our country, many are choosing to continue their education at SMU.” – Provost Paul Ludden

finding the right fit at a distance First Lieutenant Michael D. Gifford II, the Tager Satellite Network. Approximately James Noel 29, works with lasers, high-power 25 percent of applicants for the fall 2011 “But all students at SMU, who are microwave systems and radiological term are classified as military students, working toward their degrees and safety at Kirtland Air Force Base in including active-duty, veterans and careers, also are working to further the Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gifford, who Department of Defense civilians. “Our mission of this country. They’re learning earned his Bachelor’s degree from faculty often are impressed with the caliber to be the leaders of tomorrow in every Purdue University and worked as an of experience that military students field – business, government, medicine, engineer in Houston for several years, bring to the learning environment,” says the arts.” decided to follow his dream of joining Abigail Smith, assistant director for Noel, a Chicago native who always the Air Force in 2008. graduate military, distance and part-time enjoyed visiting family in Texas, He was based in Wichita, Kansas, for on-campus education. transferred to SMU in fall 2010 from his first two years in the Air Force. Military veterans and their families, as Richland College in Dallas, where he “People in my field are experts in well as active-duty military, have long discovered his passion for accounting. “I’m chemical, radiological and nuclear been important members of the SMU enjoying my business classes at Cox and incidents. We’re responders in emergencies community, says Provost Paul Ludden. the interaction with professors,” he says. – not first responders – but we go in and “They bring unique, global perspectives “And I love the atmosphere at SMU, the assess signs and symptoms.” Now at to the classroom and campus. We are school spirit, game days and Boulevarding. Kirtland, he works primarily on Air proud that after serving our country, Even though I’m not a traditional college Force policy issues. many are choosing to continue their student, I feel like one here. Everyone – So earning a Master’s degree in education at SMU.” the professors, staff and students – has environmental engineering through the been very welcoming.” distance-learning program at the Lyle Noel serves as secretary of the National School of Engineering was a natural fit. Association of Black Accountants at Cox, “The coursework goes hand in hand with which hosts experts and offers professional my work as a bioenvironmental engineer,” development and leadership training. He Gifford says. “The courses deal with hopes to start an online retail business contaminates, the environment and after earning his degree. regulations. Environmental engineering His military experience taught him to gets you out on site, doing assessments be prepared for anything, Noel adds. “If and making things better.” anything, the Navy was a stepping-stone. Gifford also appreciates how receptive Students who haven’t been in the the Lyle School is to military students. “I military probably can’t relate, but if did a lot of searching to find the right you’re just on time, you’re late, and if program that was fully accredited online you’re early, you’re on time,” he says. “I and flexible. SMU was at the top of the make sure I’m early to class and ready to list because it offered half-price tuition. I get to work. was assigned temporary duty in Florida “I do take class seriously. After visiting and was able to get my coursework and underdeveloped countries and seeing submit it online.” what people have to do to make a living, The Lyle School Distance Education I’m grateful for everything I have.” Program began over 40 years ago with Michael D. Gifford II

2011 | spring/summer | smu 29 — mustang sports

Athletic Trainers Keep Students On Their Feet And In The Game

Whenever SMU coach Rhonda informed about an athlete’s injury. Rompola ’83 pushes her women’s This job comes with long hours basketball team to the brink of behind the scenes. Mike Morton, giving up, she always says the same SMU’s director of sports medicine, thing: “Just fight through it!” helped rehabilitate four football Just fighting through it, however, players with ACL injuries last fall becomes an entirely different while traveling with the team. In challenge after an athlete suffers a addition, he juggled an active serious injury. That is why athletic family life at home, helping his trainer Kelli Clay, a seven-year wife, Michelle, care for their veteran with the program, is such an newborn daughter, Violet, important aspect to ensuring the 20-month-old son, Michael, and team’s success. 6-year-old stepdaughter, Carys. Clay has seen her share of cuts, From July to January, he took off strains, breaks and tears, but she only three days. experienced perhaps her greatest “During preseason practice, challenge in the 2009-10 season. I worked 160 hours in two weeks,” She helped one of the team’s top Morton says. “Even though it can performers, Delisha Wills, recover Trainer Kelli Clay applies an ice pack to Delisha Wills’ knee. be tough to find that work-life from a torn anterior cruciate liga- balance, I really enjoy my job ment (ACL) in her left knee. Clay in the women’s basketball training because of the positive results that I see.” Wills, an English major from Mesquite, room in Crum Basketball Center. “Some Clay works during holidays because had been one of the team’s top scorers people just give up because they don’t she travels with the women’s basketball since she arrived at SMU in 2006 as a want to do the rehab and they don’t want team, but she says the job’s rewards freshman. But she suffered the torn to play the game anymore. But for me outweigh the sacrifices. She enjoys the ligament as she hustled for a loose ball that wasn’t an option.” opportunity to help student-athletes stay in a preseason practice in October 2009. “I wouldn’t have let you not come back,” on their feet – and in many cases get The injury ended her hopes of seeing the Clay adds. back on their feet – so they can continue court in what was supposed to be her Similar stories of rehabilitation, to pursue their dreams of playing senior season. recovery and a return to dominance Division I basketball. In the meantime, “I heard her scream, so I ran over to abound in other SMU sports as well. Clay has developed rewarding relation- help her,” Clay says. “The hardest part These conquests are made possible by ships with players, perhaps none more was seeing her lie there in so much pain, SMU’s staff of seven full-time athletic so than Wills. but there was nothing I could do to take trainers. Every sport at SMU has its “Delisha and I have been through a the pain away.” own athletic trainer, with football lot,” Clay says. “An ACL rehab is very Wills had surgery in November of that having two. hard on you physically and mentally, and year, and she and Clay spent every day These healing artists do much more I was honored to have walked down that together in the training room until Wills than hand out water bottles and tape path with her.” was cleared to play again six months ankles. They also work daily with Rompola also gained a new apprecia- later. The 5-foot-10 forward redshirted injured players, tailoring individual tion for Wills’ toughness and her determi- the 2009-10 season and returned this workouts to facilitate quicker and safer nation to end her career on the court season, averaging 10.1 points per game recoveries. They drive players to doctors’ – not on the sidelines with an injury. in 25 starts – making her the team’s appointments and surgeries and closely “The best way to compare Delisha’s third leading scorer for the year. The monitor practices and games to make situation to one faced every day by our Mustangs finished 14-16 overall and 7-9 sure athletes stay as safe as possible. team is that she had to fight through it, in Conference USA games. They also communicate regularly with just like we have to fight through “Not everybody comes back from an physicians, coaches, players and parents adversity on the court,” Rompola says. ACL injury,” says Wills, as she sat next to to ensure that everyone remains – Chris Dell ’11

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Celebrating 100 Years Of Mustangs Sports 2011 Mustang Football As SMU celebrates the centennial of its founding in 1911 and opening in 1915, the University also is marking 100 years of September 3 Texas A&M achievements in athletics through a recently released book, In September 10 UTEP September 17 Northwestern State Honor of the Mustangs: The Centennial History of SMU Athletics, (Family Weekend) 1911-2010. The first history of SMU athletics showcases September 24 Memphis exploits on the gridiron as well as achievements in swimming, October 1 TCU basketball, volleyball, track and field, cross country, tennis, October 15 UCF baseball and equestrian competition. In Honor of the Mustangs, October 22 Southern Mississippi published by the Lettermen’s Association and SMU’s DeGolyer October 29 Tulsa Library, was written by SMU professor emeritus of communications and centennial November 5 Tulane (Homecoming) November 12 Navy historian Darwin Payne ’68. Gerry York ’58, curator of SMU’s Heritage Hall November 19 Houston (www.athletichistory.com), selected the book’s 650 photographs. To obtain a copy, visit November 26 Rice smu.edu/cul/degolyer. For more information, call Pam Anderson at 214-768-0829. Copies also are sold at SMU Bookstore, 214-768-2435, and Culwell & Son, 214-522-7000. For tickets: call 214-768-4263.

Bouncing Into The CIT Hall Of Fame Beckons Luchi Gonzalez ’01 ranks third in the men’s soccer program history with 128 The men’s basket- SMU’s Athletics Department and the career points. The 2001 winner of the ball team advanced Lettermen’s Association have inducted Hermann Trophy, presented to the to the semifinals of six new members into the Athletics Hall nation’s top men’s soccer player, and the CollegeInsider. of Fame. Following are the 2011 inductees NCSAA First-Team All-American helped com Tournament in and their achievements. the Mustangs win regular season March, where the Craig James ’82 is SMU’s third all-time conference championships in each of his Mustangs lost 72-55 leading rusher (3,743 yards). The three- years at SMU. to Santa Clara time All-SWC selection led the Mustangs Tommy Bowers Sr. ’55 is the only University at Moody to the Southwest Conference Champion- baseball player in the program’s history Coliseum. Robert ship during the 1981 and 1982 seasons. to be named an All-American. He helped Nyakundi led SMU Papa Dia He teamed with Eric Dickerson ’84 to lead SMU to its only share of a league with 14 points and 10 rebounds. The form the “Pony Express” backfield. title by tying with Texas for the SWC Mustangs spent most of the game James was drafted by the New title in 1953. He played professionally without leading scorer (18.3 ppg) and Patriots and played with the team in the with the Dallas Eagles and was honored rebounder (9.6 rpg) Papa Dia, who 1985 Super Bowl. as the Texas League Pitcher of the Year suffered an ankle injury when he was Gene Phillips ’71 ranks second in in 1957. fouled on a layup with 8:18 left in the SMU men’s basketball history with 1,932 Alfred R. “Red” Barr ’71 served as the first half. The Mustangs (20-15) finished career points. The three-time SWC Player head coach for SMU swimming from 1947 with their first 20-win season since of the Year was selected by the Milwau- to 1971, leading his teams to 17 SWC 1999-2000. Dia was selected the 2011 kee Bucks in the 1971 NBA and Championships. SMU’s pool was named Conference USA Defensive Player of the played with the ABA’s Dallas Chaparrals. in honor of Barr, who coached 50 Year and a member of the C-USA Lisa Cole Zimmerman ’90 is SMU’s All-American swimmers and divers. All-Defensive Team. The senior forward all-time leading scorer for women’s also was named All-Conference USA soccer with 101 goals and 44 assists. The First-Team. In addition, Nyakundi was 1990 All-American led the team in goals selected All-Conference USA Third-Team for four straight seasons (1987-90). See www.smumustangs.com and Collin Mangrum was named to the for more information. Conference USA All-Academic Team.

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Centennial Reunions: Creating Second-Century Traditions

Time-honored Homecoming traditions, Alumni celebrating their 50th year reunion each spring. This year 178 Golden like the parade and football game, since graduation are invited for their own Mustangs and guests attended a luncheon combined with engaging new events will special reunion during Commencement on Founders’ Day April 15 (see page 3). create unforgettable alumni moments weekend, beginning with the Class of 1961 Reunions also provide a platform for during SMU’s Second Century Celebration. May 13-14. supporting two Second Century Campaign An important aspect of the 100-year- Alumni who graduated more than 50 goals: that 25 percent of alumni give each anniversary festivities will be Centennial years ago are invited to a Golden Mustangs year and 50 percent of alumni give during Reunions, a series of enhanced class the course of the campaign. reunions held during Homecoming weekend “By growing the physical plant with beginning this fall and continuing through beautiful new buildings and increasing the 2015. Undergraduate alumni from the endowment to support academic and classes of 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, faculty excellence, the University is making 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 will be the first huge strides in its goals to enhance the to gather for their once-in-a-lifetime SMU experience for our talented students,” Centennial Reunions November 3-6. says Ann Frances Jury, co-chair of the However, all alumni are encouraged to be Class of 1981 Centennial Reunion. “As part of this historic SMU experience. alumni we all have the privilege of sharing Reunion weekend special events and in the reflected glow of this truly activities will include: outstanding University.” • The Earl Stewart Lady Mustangs and Reunion Invitational golf tournament the Claire Cunningham ’49 (left) and Nicki Nicol For more information, contact the morning of Friday, November 4, to benefit Huber ’61 were among 178 alumni and guests SMU Office of Reunion Programs at Lady Mustangs golf. who attended the Golden Mustangs luncheon on 214-768-9327 or 1-800-766-4371 or • Guided walks and self-guided tours of the Founders’ Day April 15. e-mail [email protected]. campus that highlight historic buildings and new structures. In addition there will be site tours of planned facilities, such as the Residential Commons. mustang minis: a new twist on reunions • Children’s activities, Boulevarding and Saturday night parties. Some of the closest bonds between classmates develop during shared academic and • New this year: mini-reunions for groups campus life experiences. That’s why the University’s Office of Reunion Programs has introduced of alumni with common interests or Mustang Minis, a new avenue for reconnecting and reminiscing with SMU friends. shared SMU experiences across class These small, alumni-driven gatherings will be organized by volunteers, and like class-year years (see sidebar). reunions, they will take place during Homecoming each fall. • SMU Day at the Museum of Nature and The ties that unite kindred Mustangs are numerous and varied. Here are some examples: Science at Fair Park in Dallas Sunday, • Cheerleaders/Pom Squad • Campus publications groups November 6, with discounted admission • SMU Abroad groups • Greek organizations and other perks for SMU alumni and their • Student government groups • First-year floors in residence halls families. • Minority or multicultural organizations • Athletic clubs and teams Dozens of Dallas-area businesses will While volunteer leaders will manage each event, the SMU Reunion Programs staff will show their Mustang spirit as “Homecoming support efforts by helping with some planning logistics, such as times and venue Hot Spots.” These restaurants, shops and selections; linking fellow alumni; and providing promotional resources, including online and other venues will offer special discounts to social media channels. SMU alumni during Homecoming weekend. To get started, alumni may download the online Mustang Minis toolkit by selecting the As Reunion weekend approaches, “Plan a Mini Reunion” link at smu.edu/alumni/reunion/mustangminis and contact the SMU more details will be posted online at Office of Reunion Programs at [email protected] or 214-768-9327. smu.edu/reunion.

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Alumni Volunteers Recruit Best And Brightest Future Mustangs

Stacy Simpkins ’88 grew up institution of higher learning.” in Los Angeles and had never SeRVes reach out to pro- heard of SMU until her high spective students as they school counselor brought the prepare to make their college University to her attention. As choices and continue to a Student Recruitment Volunteer stay in touch with accepted (SeRVe), Simpkins now shares students to encourage them to her Hilltop experiences enroll at SMU. The inter- with prospective Mustangs in action is satisfying on many Southern California. levels, according to Judge “Most of the students I Charles Montemayor ’88. contacted were from high “My own experience schools I was familiar with, at SMU was so formative so I could relate to their and enriching that I feel a real backgrounds and anticipate calling to share my enthusiasm some of their questions,” As Student Recruitment Volunteers (SeRVe), alumni share their SMU with prospective students experiences with prospective students and their families. SeRVe efforts culminate says Simpkins. “I know that and their families,” Montemayor in send-off parties (above) held around the country for new SMU students. traveling so far for college says. “The opportunity to can be daunting, so they’re support SMU, which offers so relieved when I can tell them from my own SMU more ‘real’ to that family.” much beyond outstanding academics, and experience that SMU goes to great lengths The SeRVe program harnesses alumni to help a young person with an important to make you feel at home.” power to forge links with promising high decision is truly rewarding.” The Office of Alumni Relations, in school students around the country. The Alumni also contribute by attending partnership with the Division of Enrollment personal touch is particularly effective college fairs and recruitment events. Spring Services, coordinates the SeRVe program. in regions where SMU is beginning to build receptions were held in 13 cities around the “Alumni are critical in the admission momentum. country – including Atlanta, Philadelphia, process,” says Stephanie Dupaul ’04, “The program has given me the St. Louis and San Diego – for college-bound interim dean of Undergraduate Admission opportunity to help recruit the best and students and their parents. who will become SMU’s associate vice brightest students in Kentucky and president for Enrollment Management southern , where SMU is not well For more information about SeRVe and June 1 (see page 6). “They are the voice of known,” says Doyle Glass ’84. “Not only other alumni volunteer opportunities, SMU in their communities. Every interaction have I reconnected with my alma mater in visit smu.edu/alumni/involved, e-mail alumni have with a student, or with a a meaningful way, but I also hope that [email protected] or call 214-768-ALUM parent of a prospective student, helps make I am helping to make it an even better (2586) or 1-888-327-3755.

Alumni Board chair: Luisa del Rosal ’08 JoAnne Moore ’80 Bill Vanderstraaten ’82 Larry Delzell ’72 Michaux Nash Jr. ’56 Nominations for the SMU Alumni Marcus Duron ’85 Kelli Nesseth ’88 past chair: Board will be accepted through Lance Etcheverry ’90 Debbie Oates ’78 Ken Malcolmson ’74 December 31. Alumni may nominate Harriet Holleman ’63 Stephanie Pinkston ’81 fellow alumni or themselves. For members: Rob Johnson ’97 Mark Plunkett ’96 more information, call the Office of Brad Adams ’93 Fredricka Johnson ’08 Rick Powell ’89 Alumni Relations at 214-SMU-ALUM Craig Adams ’88 Thomas Kincaid ’05 Anga Sanders ’70, ’77 (2586) or 1-888-327-3755, e-mail Paul Adams ’52 Steve Lindley ’74 David Schmidt ’79 [email protected] or visit smu.edu/ Chris Ainsworth ’94 Bob Massad ’68 Debbie Sirchio ’70 alumni/involved. Shonn Brown ’95, ’98 Susie McCormack ’77 Steve Swanson ’74 Erin Johnson Cianciolo ’96 Leslie Melson ’77 2011 | spring/summer | smu 33 Marli Craig ’92 Bobby Mills ’57 — class notes

what’s new with you? and coached. After completing law school, he was county attorney and then opened a New marriage? New baby? New job? Share your news in SMU Magazine by filling out the private practice, from which he is retired. online form at smu.edu/smumagazine/classnotes or emailing information to [email protected]. Lowell (Stretch) Smith Jr. was honored Or use the “What’s New with You” card in this magazine (please print legibly). Class Notes last fall by the National Multicultural received after March 18, 2011, will appear in the fall/winter 2011 printed issue of SMU Magazine. Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth as a 2010 inductee into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He raises cattle and is the fourth 43 49 family member to operate the Smith Ranch, founded in 1887 by his great-grand- Wesley N. Schulze was a United Methodist Maurice D. Bratt recalls working his way father. He also is a well-known banker and minister for 43 years and recently retired through SMU holding down a six-day-a- served as president of the First State Bank as chaplain general of the Sons of the week job at the original Neiman Marcus in Rio Vista. His “Cow Pasture Bank” was Republic of Texas, which honored him as a store in downtown Dallas. Blanche Webster the largest bank in the area when it was Knight of San Jacinto. He celebrated his Coker moved from Pittsburg, TX, to Dallas in bought by Wells Fargo in 1999. 90th birthday May 15, 2010, and his 67th 2008 after the death of her husband, Bill wedding anniversary with his wife, Ann, Coker ’49. Kenneth R. (Ken) Steele (M.B.A. last September 1. ’62) fondly remembers his Pi Kappa Alpha 55 and dorm “X” friends at SMU. H.A. (Pat) Baker Jr. visited Egypt last 46 November, where he saw the pyramids in 52 Giza and the tombs in the Valley of the Mary Cecelia Whitehead Ackerschott, as a Kings and and enjoyed a cruise on member of the national American Needle- Caroleen Turner has been married to Homer the Nile River. point Guild, entered one of her creations L. Thornton Jr. for 58 years, and they enjoy and won first place, judges’ favorite and life in Paris, TX. She has 13 grandchildren best in show. She donated a collection of and three great-grandchildren. 56 original art pieces to SMU’s Taos Cultural Roger William Blackmar Jr. is in his 54th Institute. 53 year as a financial advisor and is one of five remaining active brokers licensed in 1957 Howard A. (Tony) Bridge Jr. owns and oper- 48 by the New York Stock Exchange. He and his ates six AM/FM radio stations in Longview wife, Joan, have been married 53 years. Charles Roberson retired in the mid-1980s and Marshall (TX) and Shreveport. He was from an accounting career. Now a resident inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame at the C.C. Young retirement community, Nov. 14, 2010. 58 he is visited daily by LaVelle, his wife of Luca Cacioli was promoted to worldwide 60 years. 54 marketing manager for audio and imaging products for . The Rev. Dr. Hugh Higgins (J.D. ’67) was named to the John Thomas (Tom) Graves was ordained in Ex-Students Association Wall of Fame at 1956 and is now retired after 55 years of Cleburne (TX) High School, where he taught ministry. He has authored five books,

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Marsh Terry’s Eventful Day ‘High On The Hilltop’ Professor Emeritus Marsh Terry ’53, ’54, known affectionately as “Mr. SMU,” received the Dedman College Distinguished Graduate Award March 23 for his contributions to literature and the University. Terry’s career spans more than five decades as the E.A. Lilly Professor of English and architect of SMU’s creative writing program. He also served his alma mater as director of public relations and assistant to SMU President Willis Tate (1954-1972, 1974-1976). As an administrator in 1963, he wrote the first SMU Master Plan – the basis for today’s Strategic Plan. In addition he helped to initiate the long-running Literary Festival. Known as a friend and mentor by many Texas writers, he helped launch the careers of novelists Joe Coomer, Douglas Terry, Tracy Daugherty and Lewis Shiner, among others. Terry’s work has received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters and PEN Texas. His histories of SMU, From High on the Hilltop: A Brief History of SMU and its third edition, Marshall Terry’s History of SMU with Various Essays by His Colleagues, are significant resources as SMU celebrates the centennial of its 1911 founding and 1915 opening. winning awards with several, and is writing School Alumni Hall of Fame last October, 65 a sixth. He is a sailor and chaplain of the recognized for her work on educational, sailing fleet at Lake Texoma. Recently he political and environmental issues in Geor- William H. (Bill) Lively, noted fundraiser, was awarded Texas United Methodism’s gia, Mississippi and the nation. Geri Sue will be the next president and CEO of the highest honor, the Medallion of Merit, by the Hudson Morgan is doing well nine years Dallas Symphony Association, a three-year Texas Methodist Foundation. He lives in after a kidney transplant. appointment. He begins part-time in April, Lamar County, TX. as his duties wind down as president and 63 CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV 61 300-person Host Committee. He takes over The Rev. Karl Brown has joined the faculty full-time at the Dallas Symphony in June. Kathy Vernon Clark was surrounded by SMU of The Wisdom School at St. Mark’s Episco- graduates in her family — father, a minister pal Church in San Marcos, TX. He was 66 and journalist; mother, a teacher; and director of the Campus Christian Commu- brother, an attorney. Their example of ser- nity at Texas State University for more than Reunion Chairs: Lou Fouts, Norma Friou vice inspired her to earn a Ph.D. and 30 years. Sandra Hartman Wilkinson ’71 and Fouts, Jack C. Myers, Carol Paris Seay become a special education teacher and husband Ronald L. Wilkinson ’64, ’66 live in The Rev. Dr. James E. Dunlap was honorably professor. Ivor Noreen (Nicki) Huber has Waxahachie, TX. Sandra serves as chair of retired by the Chicago Presbytery of the retired after a long career that included their neighborhood association. Ronald was Presbyterian Church U.S.A. after serving 14 becoming the first female consultant hired mayor of Waxahachie for two terms and years as coordinator of spiritual services at by Booz Allen & Hamilton NYC and running maintains an active law practice. Their son, Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL. He is a her family business, Nicol Scales, for 23 Robert, is an SMU law student and his wife, board certified chaplain of the Association years. She and her husband, Paul, live in Melinda, is working toward a Master’s of Professional Chaplains. E. Stanly Godbold Naples, FL. They have three grandchildren, degree at Simmons School of Education and Jr. has published a book, Jimmy and Rosa- two of whom live in Seoul, South Korea. Human Development. lynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974 Nicki serves on the SMU Libraries Execu- (Oxford University Press). His stepdaughter, tive Board. 64 Heidi Gluesing, is a 1998 SMU graduate. 62 Michael M. Boone (J.D. ’67) was named by the Texas Lawyer newspaper one of the 67 Rondal G. Crawford worked in structural 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past Jerry L. Griffin retired in January as man- design at NASA, 1960-1984; marketing at quarter-century. He was honored for his aging partner of Sewell Lexus in Dallas Ford Aerospace, 1984-1990; and marketing outstanding contributions at a luncheon after 40 years with the organization — eight at SAIC, 1990-2000, when he retired. He has at the Belo Mansion and Pavilion in Dallas with Lexus and 32 with Sewell Cadillac. His four children, six grandchildren and one last October 1. boss throughout has been Carl Sewell ’66, great-grandchild. Dr. Linda Hawkins Kay chair of the Sewell Automotive Companies was inducted into the Jacksboro (MS) High

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69 where she teaches, as well as an outstanding teacher award from BP Oil. Charles R. (Rocky) Saxbe was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in 74 America 2011. He is managing partner at Chester Willcox & Saxbe LLP, where he rep- Joe Pouncy (M.L.A. ’82) was named Educator resents clients in all aspects of civil of the Year for 2010 by Christ Community litigation in state and federal courts. Connection Organization of Carrollton and Farmers Branch, TX. He is principal of 71 Carrollton’s Newman Smith High School. Reunion Chairs: Katherine Glaze Lyle, 75 Cliff Towns Cynthia Day Grimes has joined law firm Suzanne Goodrich Greene was named 2010 Strasburger & Price LLP in the San Antonio Texas Art Education Association Educator of office, representing commercial entities in Lettermen Present the Year. She lives in Houston and teaches medical products, medical litigation and middle school art in the Spring Branch Mustang Award personal injury. She was previously at Ball School District. Susan Johnson Parks has & Weed LLP, where she was a founding To Albon Head worked for 23 years as an educational spe- partner. Deborah Nadler Straubinger cialist for the Maine Department of SMU Director of Athletics Steve Orsini (left) recently earned her Master’s degree in mar- Education. She founded The Poets’ Group, presents the 2010 Silver Anniversary keting from Webster University in Orlando, which recently published its second poetry Mustang Award to former defensive back FL. Sol Villasana has a new book, Dallas’s chapbook, Pondtown Poetry II. Martha Bible Albon Head ’69, ’71. Head received the most Little Mexico (Arcadia Publishing, April Smith, a book reviewer, has published two prestigious honor bestowed by the SMU 2011), a photographic history of that books of poetry: Yet in 2008 and So in 2010. Lettermen’s Association January 22. A neighborhood. partner in Jackson Walker’s Fort Worth law She is retired after 31 years as a teacher office, Head lettered in football at SMU from and 15 years as an entrepreneur. Janita 1966-68, played defensive back on the 1966 Monghan Thomas and her husband, D. Lee 76 Thomas ’74, vacationed in Kauai last August SWC championship team and was a Reunion Chairs: Roy W. Bailey, with Dr. Carole Terry ’71 and her husband, co-captain on the 1968 Bluebonnet Bowl Betsy Lane Morton championship team, which defeated Dr. Alan Fine, both couples celebrating their Arden Bennett serves as chief executive Oklahoma 28-27. Head has served as chair anniversaries. Janita and Carole, four-year officer and director general of CIMA Hospi- of the SMU Alumni Association, the PwC roommates at SMU, have remained friends tal in San José, Costa Rica, part of the SMU Athletic Forum and the Doak Walker for 40 years despite thousands of miles International Hospital Corp., which also Award. He is a member of the executive between them. operates hospitals in Mexico and Brazil. boards of SMU Dedman School of Law and SMU-in-Taos. In 2003 he received an SMU 72 Mary A. Bonnick volunteered at the NFL Dedman School of Law Distinguished Experience at the Dallas Convention Center Alumni Award. Paul Alfassa operates the general law prac- during Super Bowl week in February help- tice of his late father and serves as docent ing participants test their football-throwing at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. skills in the “let it fly” game.David (Dave) Ray Thomas Johnston is an adjunct faculty Dillon is chair and chief executive of Kroger, and former chair of the SMU Board of member in the graduate school of social known for a management style that involves Trustees. work at Stephen F. Austin State University an up-close-and-personal study of Kroger in Nacogdoches, TX, and operates a full-time stores and their consumers and employees. 68 private counseling practice. Barbara D. Nunneley heads the Nunneley Family Law Center in Hurst, TX, limiting her Henry V. Heuser Jr. was elected chair of the 73 practice to divorce, property division and Board of Overseers at the University of custody disputes. Gerald S. Reamey (LL.M. Louisville (KY) and president of the Louisville Linda Kretzmeier Parker (M.M. ’75) received ’82), professor of law at St. Mary’s Univer- Rotary Club. the John Batchellor Award for excellence in sity in San Antonio, was awarded the music education in the state of New Mexico, Culture Medal of Honor from the City of

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Innsbruck (Austria) at a dinner last summer 77 79 hosted by the City of Innsbruck and the State of Tyrol. He and a colleague founded Scott Inman is a senior program manager Jennifer Bishop Jenkins of Northfield, IL, the St. Mary’s University School of Law’s for military display systems at Planar Sys- was selected for the Illinois Women’s Insti- Institute on World Legal Problems, an tems Inc. in Beaverton, OR. His daughter, tute for Leadership in 2010. Alyce Tidball annual five-week summer session in Aus- Rochelle, is a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. completed a one-year assignment to the U.S. tria attended by up to 130 students from law Air Force. Randy Nickell has published Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and now schools around the nation. The program online the “Civil War Journal” of his great- serves as director for the Office of Interna- had a successful end to its 25th year. great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson tional Narcotics and Law Enforcement at Andrew Weber has joined law firm Kelly Nickell. Read history at www.angelfire. the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. Hart & Hallman as a partner in the Austin com/il/thecivilwarjournal. office, heading the public law practice 80 group. Prior to his new position, he was first 78 assistant attorney general at the Texas Timothy R. Gordon is a 2010 graduate of Attorney General’s office. Dick and Susan Garbett Kendrick announce the New Canaan (CT) Police Civilian Acad- the arrival of their first grandson, Cole Evans emy. John C. Hollar is president of the Estrada, born Dec. 13, 2010. 100,000-item Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, which opened in

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January 2011 with the exhibition “Revolu- January 2 as a top motivational speaker. driving, terrain park safety, ski patrol tion: The First 2000 Years of Computing.” Lillie Young chaired the “Soup’s On” luncheon advice and ski risks and the law. He was Hollar estimates that the museum has for the Stewpot Alliance at Dallas’ Union vice president of the Northwest Ski Council raised $90 million from 65 private donors, Station Jan. 25, 2011. She is senior vice in 2009-2010. He enjoys downhill, back- including a $15 million lead gift from the president of investments with Allie Beth country and cross country skiing on and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is Allman & Associates and is a consistent around Mount Hood in Oregon. Tara Elias married to the former Melinda Williams ’82. multi-million-dollar producer for the real Schuchts recently attended the reunion Sandra J. Jones works for the U.S. govern- estate firm. of the SMU Class of ’85. Salvatore Vitale is ment in microbiology labs. working to develop and enlarge his law 84 firm, Vitale & Partners, which has several 81 offices in Europe and the United States. He Ray Washburne is co-owner, general part- and his wife, Liana, are parents of Giulia, 2, Reunion Chairs: Chip Cavanaugh, ner and president of Highland Park Village and Diana, born Jan. 27, 2011. Trish Neal Ann Frances Paris Jury, Allen Smith, near SMU. Wilson is a photo stylist and works with Jane Cornish Smith photographers at four- and five-star hotels Msgr. Tony Jack Howard (M.L.A. ’98) recently 85 and resorts. She also is an independent published A Month of Sundays: Occasional executive for Zrii/HMG, selling all-natural Linda Beheler has responsibility for global Sermons of a Liberal Catholic Priest (St. liquid nutritionals. corporate communications at Celanese. Alban Press). He and his wife, Victoria, are Susan Dean Hammock owns The College expecting their second child in May. Application Coach, a service that helps stu- 86 dents and their families navigate the path to Reunion Chairs: Elizabeth Baier 82 college acceptances. She lives in Orlando, Emerson, Bill Koch FL., with her three children: Phillip, 20; Lisa Johnson co-directed/produced His Name Sharon Killion has moved back to Dallas Kelsey, 18; and Bennett, 16. John Klintworth is Bob (www.hisnameisbob.com), a docu- after living in South Africa for six years. married Birgit von Wuerzen in Toronto, mentary screened at film festivals in Texas, She had a successful career in real estate Canada, Oct. 30, 2010. Richard Rizk is the New Jersey, Utah and California. Distribu- there, selling more than 55 condos on the Far West Ski Association’s 2010 Safety tion is being sought for the film.Laura Indian Ocean in less than 10 months after Person of the Year for developing a winter Ochoa Morales appeared on the cover of the arriving. Donna J. Smiedt is a family law safety speaker awareness series on winter Houston Chronicle’s business section specialist in the Donna J. Smiedt Law Office in Arlington, TX. In 2000 she was sworn in by Chief Justice Rehnquist to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Honoring A First Lady Of Literacy Patrick D. West heads the Patrick D. West Former First Lady Laura Bush ’68 Law Firm PC in Fort Worth. received the 2011 Literati Award from Friends of the SMU Libraries for her 87 contributions to the advancement of literacy. The award was presented David Poynter is senior manager of current during the Friends’ annual Tables programming at TNT cable network in Bur- of Content fundraiser April 2. bank, CA. He oversees several original The highlight of the evening was a television series, including “The Closer,” conversation with Mrs. Bush led by “Men of a Certain Age” and “Falling Skies.” award-winning journalist Rena He is married to Laura Mulrenan, who has Pederson (right). A member of the a Pilates studio in Hollywood. Their daugh- SMU Board of Trustees, Mrs. Bush has ter, Anabelle, was born in 2006. Ray championed the importance of Starmann has co-written a new web TV literacy and education throughout her series, “The Gumshoe.” life, particularly during her years as a teacher, librarian and first lady of Texas and the United States.

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88 changing attitudes, Amy Bishop has been named deputy direc- one conversation at a time tor of the Texas County & District Retirement System. More than 600 county Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño ’79 accepted the Distinguished Alumna Award from and district employers participate in the Perkins School of Theology February 7 with a confession. She was one of the pranksters respon- system, which provides benefits to 215,000 sible for placing a jack-o’-lantern in the Perkins Chapel steeple on Halloween Day, 1975. The Texans. Michael E. Kirst is vice president for dean at that time “was not so pleased,” she recalled strategy and external affairs at Westing- with a smile. house Nuclear for Europe, Africa and the While the audience in Dallas enjoyed the humor- Middle East. He lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his wife and two daughters. Tim J. ous anecdote in her videotaped address, the bishop Smith has published Pricing Strategy: Setting was 8,000 miles away in the Democratic Republic Price Levels, Managing Price Discounts, & of the Congo. Carcaño was working with Methodist Establishing Price Structures, a text on leaders from around the world on organizational corporate strategy. Leigh Anne Williams Van issues regarding the church outside the United Doren received the Entrepreneur of the States, known as the Central Conferences. Year Award from the Fredericksburg (VA) Chamber of Commerce for creating the Carcaño, who became the first Hispanic woman Fredericksburg Parent and Family Magazine. elected to the episcopacy in 2004, also acts as the She and her husband, Tom, have two daugh- official spokesperson for the Council of Bishops on ters: Tabitha, 13, and Jamie Nelle, 9. immigration. The council supports “a pathway to citizenship,” fair treatment of immigrant workers 89 and the preservation of family unity. Immigration policy is an especially volatile Mary Lynn Huckleberry Carver is senior vice Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño ’79 president of communications and public topic in Arizona, where she serves the Phoenix affairs at the University of Maryland Medi- Episcopal Area, Desert Southwest Conference, which encompasses most of the state. Some cal Center and its parent organization, the blame heated political rhetoric for the shootings in Tucson January 8 that stunned the nation. 12-hospital University of Maryland Medical Six people were fatally wounded and 14 others were injured, including U.S. Representative System. She relocated with her family to Gabrielle Giffords. The tragedy spurred “much more conversation about what it means to have Baltimore from Memphis, where she was senior vice president of public relations and civil discourse,” she says. “I’m seeing a change in attitude, a realization that the negative tenor communications for St. Jude Children’s of conversation had been unhelpful and unhealthy.” Research Hospital. Angél Wonycott Kytle The calm, soft-spoken bishop, who grew up in the South Texas city of Edinburg, has never has headed Saint Paul’s School in Clearwa- retreated from controversy. She led her first congregations in the 1980s – when female ministers ter, FL, for the last three years and has been were rare and some church members were vocal in their distaste for a woman in the pulpit. elected to the Board of Directors of the Flor- “Early on, I was struggling with a particular parish relations committee. One member told me ida Council of Independent Schools. Previously she was a division director at that her husband had been robbed of a spiritual leader because I was a woman, and he would Trinity School in Atlanta. Her sons are never seek my counsel,” she remembers. “A few months later, her husband came to me to ask for Blake, 8, and Dustin, 3. N. Mark Rauls has spiritual guidance. That was a turning point.” been a professor of philosophy at the Col- Carcaño credits God with giving her strength and Perkins with providing “the gift of faith lege of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas since expression.” 1997. In 2010 he was appointed the college’s “I had a calling to serve the Mexican-American community, and Perkins was the only first ombudsperson.Thomas B. Walsh IV is a United Methodist seminary at the time that prepared students for ministry in the Hispanic Dallas intellectual property and commercial litigation attorney at the law firm Fish & context through its Mexican-American Program,” she says. She served as director of the Richardson. In 2010 he earned a fourth con- program from 1996-2001. secutive selection to the Texas Super “If ever I have provided any light for a world often consumed in darkness, Perkins has been Lawyers list featured in the October 2010 there with me.” Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers – Patricia Ward

2011 | spring/summer | smu 39 — class notes magazines. He has been named a Best in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts 93 Lawyer in D magazine for three consecutive and Sciences at Arizona State University. years and twice a Texas Super Lawyers She was named an exemplar, a faculty Jamie Hensley Arnold earned a Ph.D. in edu- “Rising Star.” member who exemplifies the best of the cational psychology from The University of teacher-scholar model of academia. Texas at Austin and has accepted a tenure- 90 track position at Temple College. Her 92 husband, Doug, is a judge. They live in David A. Dreyer (M.F.A. ’92) has had solo Georgetown with their two children, Drew exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Con- Alison Bailey Vercruysse is the founder of and Dan. Kay Longacre Bernzweig is a Mas- temporary in Dallas and The Grace Museum San Francisco’s 18 Rabbits, an organic gra- ter’s degree candidate in the instructional in Abilene. He is currently adjunct instruc- nola company. Before finding her passion in technology program at the University of tor, technical supervisor and safety baked goods, she worked at the Federal Houston – Clear Lake. Jennifer (JJ) Jones coordinator for the Division of Art at SMU. Reserve Bank of Chicago. She has hosted (M.L.A. ’99) is the executive director for stu- His third solo exhibition at the Valley House eight cooking segments of ABC’s “View from dent development and programs in the Gallery, “Transitional Planes,” ran February the Bay” and is profiled in the 2010 book Division of Student Affairs at SMU. She 12 through March 12. Growing Roots: The New Generation of accepted an invitation to visit the White Sustainable Farmers, Cooks and Food Activ- House last December. Jin Kim is a senior 91 ists by Katherine Leiner. Monica Mullens manager and general counsel of the legal Warren and her husband, Chris, announce team at Korea National Oil Corporation. He Reunion Chairs: To be announced the birth of twins Charlotte Janice and John joined the company in 2005 and has been Pamela Ann Marshall, Ph.D., was recently Patrick in San Francisco Oct. 7, 2010. the lead in-house counsel in multi-billion- tenured and promoted to associate professor dollar acquisitions. Father Anthony Frederick (Tony) Lackland is the chaplain to approximately 2,500 Catholic students at SMU, offering them educational programs, ministry opportunities and spiritual sup- port. Brian Waddle and his partner, Kevin Hamby, held a commitment ceremony in Houston Nov. 27, 2010, followed by a trip to Hawaii. Among those in attendance were Wade McAlister ’89, Christy Albano ’93, Mark Dempsey ’94, Kellie Prinz Johnson ’95 and Tricia Letton Clark ’95, ’04. Brian is public relations director for Houston Com- munity College John B. Coleman, M.D. College for Health Sciences in the Texas Medical Center. Sean Whitley wrote “The Spawn of the Sasquatch” for Viper Comics’ Dedman School of Law Recognizes upcoming Cryptophobia anthology. Contributions By Distinguished Alumni 94

A justice of the Supreme Court of Thailand and a philanthropic entrepreneur were among George Edward Seay III was co-chair with those honored at the SMU Dedman School of Law Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony his wife, Sarah, of the Council for Life’s February 19. Alumni present at the event and their awards were: seated, from left, Donald J. 2010 Celebrating Life Luncheon Nov. 9, 2010, Malouf ’62, private practice; Barbara J. Houser ’78, judicial service; Philip J. Wise ’81, public at Dallas’ Hilton Anatole Hotel. service; Jack D. Knox ’63, Robert G. Storey Award for Distinguished Achievement (highest honor bestowed); and Marshall P. Cloyd, honorary alumnus, who earned a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from SMU in 1964. SMU President R. Gerald Turner, awards committee 95 members Dawn Enoch Moore ’78, ’81 and Albon Head ’69, ’71 and Dean John B. Attanasio Missy Morrison Gulick and John A. Gulick were among those honoring the alumni. Award winners Sobchok Sukharomna ’81, global, III ’81 live in Scottsdale, AZ, where she and Richard Wright-Hogeland ’57, ’58 , corporate service, were unable to attend. is a vice president for DMB Associates Inc. She received the Sandra Day O’Connor

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elect. She is an engineering manager at L-3 (Mindy) Sutton married John Lund Dec. 31, Insight Technology and lives in Bedford, NH. 2010, in Austin, where they live. She is deputy to the dean of students at The Uni- 96 versity of Texas at Austin and is pursuing a Ph.D. in higher education administration. Reunion Chairs: John Anderson, Melissa McCullough Ulrich announces the Susan Porter Glassmoyer birth of her son, Mason Curtis, Nov. 25, Iva Linda Baird is a bilingual diagnostician 2009. Suzanne Campbell Wellen is a 10-year for the Dallas Independent School District. business litigation attorney in the Dallas Jason David Blakey has started his own office of Andrews Kurth LLP and a 2010 business, LifestyleONE Agency, to provide Texas “Rising Star” in the April issue of lifestyle management services to individual Texas Monthly magazine; she also received and corporate clients. Christopher Dupuy this honor in 2007 and 2009. She married was elected a county court judge in Galves- Darrell Wellen in August 2009 in Indianapo- ton County, TX. Suzy Rossol Matheson lis. Todd Martin serves as vice president and Lighting The Way received the Exceptional Service Award associate general counsel for CoreLogic, Inc. In Public Education from the American Dance Therapy Associa- tion. President of the Texas chapter since 98 When Israel Cordero ’97 became principal 2006, she was given an Arts Respond Grant of W.W. Samuell High School in 2008, from the Texas Commission on the Arts to Mark R. Allen and his wife, Lauren, wel- the southeast Dallas school was at risk fund and manage adaptive dance programs comed daughter Rainey Elizabeth last New of being closed after four years of based on her revitalization of the chapter. Year’s Eve. Stella Mulberry Antic success- unacceptable ratings. In one year under Natalie Rule married Matthew Burns in her fully defended her doctoral dissertation to Cordero’s leadership, the school earned an home state of Oklahoma last August. They complete her Ph.D. in higher education at “acceptable” rating from the state. Cordero reside in St. Paul, MN. Michael F. Trusnovec the University of North Texas in April 2010. was the North Texas recipient of the is a member of the acclaimed Paul Taylor In November she married Daniel Antic at Luminary Award presented by the Annette Dance Company and has received rave Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Plano, Caldwell Simmons School of Education and reviews in The New York Times and else- TX. Carlos Carpizo joined Link America, one Human Development January 27. The where. He was among the group that danced of the fastest growing privately held compa- Luminary Awards honor “extraordinary at the White House Sept. 7, 2010, in an event nies in the Dallas area and 2010 Dallas 100 commitment to improving lives through hosted by Michelle Obama. Awards™ winner, as president of its inter- education.” Other recipients were Teach for national division. Michael J. Cihock has America (national award) and Neuhaus been promoted to partner at the law firm Education Center (regional award). 97 McLean & Howard LLP in Austin. In 2010 he Emily Watkins Freudigman’s recording with was recognized as a “Rising Star” in real Camerata San Antonio, “Salón Buenos Aires: estate law by Texas Monthly magazine. Tim Music by Miguel del Águila,” was nominated W. Jackson has published Mangrove Under- Community Leadership Award from the for two Latin Grammys: best classical album ground, his debut literary novel set in the Junior League of Phoenix and the Frank and best classical contemporary composi- Florida backcountry (The Chenault Publish- Hodges Alumni Achievement Award from tion. In 2003 she and her husband, Ken, ing Group, December 2010). He is a former Scottsdale Leadership. She is on the board founded Camerata San Antonio, a chamber staff photographer with the Citrus County of the Arizona Humane Society and the ensemble presenting imaginative music in Chronicle and Tampa Tribune, which ran his Phoenix Women’s Board of the Steele Chil- South Texas. Amanda Holland Janicek and nonfiction travel writing about the Florida dren’s Research Center at the University of her husband, Matt, welcomed a son, Hayden wilderness. He is finishing a second novel, Arizona. Melinda Marie Maxfield has been Holland, July 31, 2010. Heather McCowen set in the Caribbean, and a collection of named principal of Williams & Jensen PLLC defended her dissertation – Mentorship in island-based short stories. He lives in the in Washington, DC. She joined the lobbying Higher Education Music Study: Are Good Cayman Islands, where he is a boat captain firm as an associate in 2007 and has focused Teachers Mentors? – and earned a Ph.D. in and scuba instructor. Regan Stewart Schies- on a public policy portfolio. Nita Patel, P.E., higher education from the University of tel and husband Adam announce the birth was honored February 17 as the 2011 New North Texas in August 2010. She is assistant of their twin daughters, Luca and Larkin, in Hampshire Engineer of the Year by the NH dean of enrollment for the performing arts August 2010. John Stone is a U.S. Army Joint Engineering Societies and selected a at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Melinda major serving in Baghdad, Iraq. He and his candidate for 2012 IEEE-USA president

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mapping the genetics of autism wife, Mandi, have three daughters – 7, 5 and 4 – a son, 2, and a baby son born in January. When Ed Cook’s brother, Wade, died in 1989 of natural causes, there was no diagnosis for They are stationed in Germany. the developmental and emotional problems that had always plagued him. Cook ’77, the Earl M. Bane Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders 99 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, believes that by today’s standards, Dr. Patricia (Pat) Pefley works for the his brother would be considered to have autism. Defense Intelligence Agency in the Depart- Cook remembers that Wade, who was six years his junior, would become extremely upset ment of Defense in Washington, DC. Hon. when his or the family’s routine was disrupted – an attribute now identified as common to autism Gena Slaughter is presiding judge of the 191st Civil District Court in Dallas. Jennifer spectrum disorder. Smith married Aaron Lill at Prestonwood A desire to help people Baptist Church January 22. They live in like Wade and their Plano, TX. families has inspired Cook during his 25-year 00 medical career as one of Ashley Lehman Cook formed the law firm the nation’s leading Ashley L. Cook PC. Josh Helland conceived researchers focusing on and executed the first “bed drop” in Los the neurochemistry of Angeles Dec. 7, 2010, the kickoff project for autism. He is trying to the AGNS Foundation (A Good Night Sleep), pinpoint possible genetic as he and volunteers delivered 79 beds and links to the neural devel- bedding sets to the Downtown Women’s Center. In addition, the AGNS team took six opment disorder, as well double mattresses to Door of Hope in Pasa- as explore the use of dena, CA, and 25 double mattresses to Ed Cook Jr. ’77 is the director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental medications to alleviate People Assisting the Homeless in Los Ange- Disorders at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, symptoms. les, both groups working with individuals where he conducts autism research. In 1997 he and his and families transitioning out of homeless- research team published findings on chromosome 15q duplication syndrome, a clinically ness into permanent housing. He has identifiable group of symptoms found in individuals with an extra piece of chromosome 15 that projects lined up for 2011 in San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, New York City, Jacksonville has duplicated end-to-end. This extra genetic material is one of the most frequently identified and New Orleans. Tammy Nguyen Lee and chromosome problems in people with autism. husband George celebrated the birth of For years Cook has been a scientific and professional adviser for IDEAS, a parent support their first child, Gabriella Young An Lee, group for children and adults affected by the syndrome. Nov. 23, 2010. Tammy, the recipient of SMU’s “People with this condition remind me of my brother from childhood to adulthood,” Cook says. 2010 Emerging Leader award, is the director “I’m not surprised that I’ve ended up working with these families, who, like my parents, inspire of development for original programming at AMS Pictures (“Ma’s Roadhouse,” “Girl me with their commitment to provide a loving home and dedication to their children’s needs.” Meets Gown”) and president/founder of the Cook now is involved in trials for the first autism medications developed on the basis of nonprofit ATG Against The Grain Produc- genetic findings. “Our ultimate goal is to find more drug treatment options,” he says. tions. Patricia McGregor graduated from the A student of the late Harold Jeskey, SMU’s R.S. Lazenby Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, directing program at the Yale School of Cook says that undergraduate work with molecules and “being tested under pressure was Drama where she was artistic director of good training for a future physician/researcher.” He holds a Bachelor’s degree in biology the Yale Cabaret. She has worked at venues including Broadway, BAM, Second Stage, from the University. The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, His fondest memory of SMU: meeting his wife, Melissa Perrett ’76, during his first night on The Kitchen, the O’Neill National Playwrit- campus in 1973. The couple married in 1981, after his graduation from The University of Texas ing Conference, Lincoln Center Institute and Medical Branch at Galveston. They have two children: daughter Lindsay and son Andrew. Exit Art. Last November she was back on – Cherri Gann the SMU campus holding auditions for the

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play “Yerma,” which she directed. C.J. Nelson is researching cases for Seniors vs Altshuler Honored With Ethics Award Crime, a special project of the Florida attor- Philanthropic trailblazer Ruth Collins Sharp ney general. He is a member of the Altshuler ’48 was honored as the 2011 recipient of Jacksonville Sheriff’s Advisory Council. the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award presented by Cecilia Dubon Slesnick and her husband, SMU’s Cary Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Don Slesnick III, announce the birth of their Responsibility March 10. Altshuler has given daughter, Cecilia Anne, Nov. 6, 2010. Kevin L. generously of her time, talents and resources to Weiss is senior vice president of human the community and SMU, which has honored resources in the integrated systems group her with its Distinguished Alumni Award. One of at L-3 Communications, a defense aerospace SMU’s longest-serving trustees, she is former business. Crystal Willars married Matthew Vastine ’05 in a ceremony on Maroma chair and a current member of the Board of Beach, Mexico, Sept. 16, 2010. She is a Trustees. She is co-chair of The Second Century senior marketing manager for AT&T, and he Campaign Leadership Council and The Second is a flight test engineer at Lockheed Martin Century Celebration Organizing Committee. and a Smoothie King franchisee in Fort

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Worth. Together they own and operate Vermont. Jonathan Giles and Rebecca Atlanta called “The Puckin’ Fuppet Show” Fort Worth Foodie, a quarterly magazine Waghorn Giles ’03 announce the birth of and is the artistic director and a puppeteer dedicated to food culture in Fort Worth. twins Knox Carter and Tatum Aubrey, Febru- for the web series “The Sci-Fi Janitors.” ary 16. Bernard M. Jones was elected to the Christopher Epp and Mairin Flynn ’04 were 01 American Cancer Society board of directors. married Oct. 16, 2010, in Dallas. They reside He is the associate dean of admissions and in Austin. The Rev. Michael W. Waters Reunion Chairs: Monica Netherland external affairs at Oklahoma City University (M.Div. ’06) has been the primary religion Hopkins, Newton N. Hopkins, School of Law. Laran Carman O’Neill (M.L.A. writer for more than a year for the online Sara Love Swaney ’08) has been promoted to director of devel- publication Dallas South News. His most José Galarza was hired by Yestermorrow opment for the Cox School of Business at recent article focused on Junie Collins Wil- Design/Build School as the first director of SMU, having served as assistant director liams, age 16 when a bomb ripped through semester programs. He is an architectural since August 2007. the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church of Bir- designer, builder and educator with experi- mingham Sept. 15, 1963. The blast killed four ence in planning, project management, 02 young girls, one of whom was her sister. information technology and construction. Rev. Waters is the founder and senior pastor As Yestermorrow’s community outreach Jon Alexis is president of TJ’s Seafood in of Joy Tabernacle A.M.E. Church in Dallas. coordinator, he handled class building proj- Dallas, specializing in fresh seafood and the Lisa Renee Wilson married David Benjamin ects with such clients as the Vermont personalized service of a family business. McCaul in Seattle, July 31, 2010. Foodbank’s Kingsbury Farm. Currently he Beau Brown was asked to direct Late Night runs José Galarza Building Workshop, an Entertainment at the 2011 National 03 architectural design studio based in central Puppetry Festival in Atlanta. He currently produces a late-night puppet slam in Lisa Blank married Brent Matthew Wynn Aug. 28, 2010. They live in Portland, OR. Martin Coe is a systems engineer and founder of Intelligent PD, an engineering EUROPEAN CHARM, FRONTIER SPIRIT consulting and contracting firm assisting clients in product development of complex Visit European Heritage Sites, French medical devices. Shannon Winslow De Leon Vineyards And Alaskan Glaciers and husband Ben welcomed their second With Fellow Mustangs daughter, Winslow Grace, March 12, 2010. SMU’s Alumni Travel Program offers an Her sister, Anna Lee, was born in October array of options for learning while explor- 2007. Christopher Frederick, aka Brotha ing exciting destinations around the world. Fred, has joined KISS-FM 103.7 in Chicago For travel questions, contact the travel as host of the morning show, syndicated in companies directly at the numbers shown. several markets. Ryan Long earned a Mas- For other information, call the Office of ter’s degree in engineering management Alumni Relations at 214-768-2586 or toll- and information systems from SMU’s Lyle free 1-888-327-3755, e-mail smualum@smu. School of Engineering in December 2010. edu or visit smu.edu/alumni/events/travel. Chrissy Crawford Malone has launched a new tech/art venture in New York called June 11-21 LittleCollector.com, which offers limited- THE GREAT JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE edition contemporary art for children by (Holland, Germany, France and Switzerland) Shepard Fairey, David Levinthal, Cynthia Gohagan & Company Travel Rowley and others. Crawford was an art 800-922-3088 Sept. 22-Oct. 2 history major at SMU. Amy Sims became PARIS AND THE VILLAGES AND Aug. 4-14 part of the SMU athletic staff Sept. 10, 2010, VINEYARDS OF FRANCE ALASKAN FRONTIERS & GLACIERS (Includes Reims, Hautvilliers, Beaune as assistant director of athletics giving. LUXURY CRUISE and Dijon) Previously she was community development (Includes Hubbard Glacier, Icy Strait Point, AHI Travel Ketchikan and Sitka) director at the Arthritis Foundation and 800-323-7373 Go Next Travel Leukemia Texas, both in Dallas. 800-842-9023

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Mustangs Meet Up In Manhattan 06 The renowned New York Public Reunion Chairs: Chip Hiemenz, Katie Library was the setting for an Horgan alumni gathering April 5. New York Katie Knapp Littlefieldhas lived and worked City chapter leaders pictured are: in Japan and now China since her SMU (front, from left) Andrew Afifian graduation. In 2008 she and a business part- ’00, Sara McCooey ’06 and Jackie ner founded an international online retail Effenson ’05, chapter president; company called Hazel and Marie Pearls, (back) Francesca de la Rama ’10, profiled in the February 2011 issue of Kevin Schubert ’04, Jordan Carter Shanghai Talk. They are carrying on the ’08 and Jennifer Kesterson ’06. accessorizing legacy of their grandmothers Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s (Hazel and Marie) by offering heirloom- Embrey Human Rights Program quality pearls online. Anne Reilly in Dedman College, and Brad E. Rasmussen is a December 2010 graduate of Cheves, vice president for SMU’s Master of Liberal Studies program. Development and External Affairs, spoke at the event. 07

Anna Alvarado practices law with Tanner of Business at the University of Pennsyl- and Associates PC in Fort Worth. Olivia 04 vania in May 2011 and will work in the Bender and A.J. Undorfer ’08 were married at Perkins Chapel Oct. 16, 2010. Olivia is the Margaret (Peggy) Covert Branch was married investment banking division of Credit daughter of Betsy Hall Bender ’77. Temitope in December 2009 and had a son in 2010. Suisse. Jordan Reisenweber and Aubrey (Temi) Oladiran married Demetrio Moroni at Lindsay Goodner has been named a 2010 Knappenberger ’04 were married Aug. 21, Perkins Chapel Oct. 28, 2008, and welcomed Texas “Rising Star” by Texas Monthly maga- 2010, in Laguna Beach and now live in Santa twin daughters, Ashley and Alisha, Nov. 15, zine. She is an associate attorney in Dallas Monica. He has been with MOG Music Net- 2010. Angela Pena and Ben Ulrich ’08 were at Chamblee, Ryan, Kershaw and Anderson work for two years and recently was married at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in PC. Mikhail Orlov launched webyshops.com, promoted to digital account executive on the Dallas Sept. 4, 2010. They first met during a web-based sporting goods retailer that West Coast. She is a digital account execu- Week of Welcome at SMU. Angela works in sells major-brand products. Quia Querisma tive at comedycentral.com for MTV marketing and Ben is a financial analyst. is managing editor of SoulTrain.com, Networks. José Leonardo Santos (Ph.D. ’08) Jennifer Gadd Snow and her husband, which has run interviews with such per- was appointed social science assistant pro- Andrew F. Snow, are the parents of Harrison formers as Arrested Development, Joonie fessor of anthropology in the College of Arts Taylor Benjamin, born in Dallas Sept. 10, and Rhian Benson. and Sciences at Metropolitan State Univer- sity in Saint Paul, MN. He was once an 2010. Andrew is director of alumni relations adjunct lecturer and research assistant at in the SMU Office of Development. 05 SMU, focusing his work on urban immi- Andrew Dees is a staf sergeant in the U.S. grants. Courtney Underwood has worked for 08 Marines. In October 2010 he joined “The eight years to get a SANE (Sexual Assault Eric Camp is an attorney in the oil and gas President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band as a Nurse Examiner) program in Dallas. Last practice group at Whitaker Chalk Swindle & clarinetist and performs regularly at the November she was among the celebrants Sawyer LLP in Fort Worth. The Rev. D. White House and across the nation. Elaine hailing a $2 million grant to support a SANE Anthony Everett has been appointed to the Ferguson married Christopher Coleman ’10 program and treatment center at Texas Lexington-Fayette (KY) Urban County in Marietta, OK. They celebrated their elope- Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. SANE Human Rights Commission. He is the asso- ment with family in October 2010 at the is a service that helps sexual assault victims ciate director for African American in Dallas, where in the traumatic aftermath of attacks and Ministries with the Kentucky Conference of they live. Murtaza Madraswala joined the assists law enforcement in prosecuting the The United Methodist Church. Lindsay Nike Inc. headquarters in Beaverton, OR, attackers. Hunter Woodlee has his own Miller joined the SMU alumni relations married in 2008 and welcomed a daughter gaming company in Dallas, Controlled team in December 2010 as alumni programs in 2010. Courtney Reilly will graduate with Chaos, working with iphone apps, video coordinator. Previously she was a program an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School games and the like.

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specialist at Mothers Against Drunk Driving 00 (Kidd-Key College) Mildred Abel Martin, Pace McBeath, 11/8/10 William W. and a pacesetter campaign associate for 10/28/03 McCormick, 8/8/09 John E. Moore, United Way. Tatiana Vertiz won her age group 29 Rebecca Roberts ’41, 12/13/10 4/24/10 Hugh O. Mussina ’55, 8/30/10 Jack at the Hawaii Ironman last October and is 31 Dr. D. Richard Bowles, 8/29/90 Margaret S. Rolf, 2/14/11 Joe F. Schreiber, 11/4/10 the official women’s world champion triath- Moore Solomon, 10/17/10 Sammy Z. Seltzer, 11/30/10 The Hon. lete for ages 18-24. She has been competing 33 Harry Edward Kenny Jr. ’34, 9/1/77 Rodrick L. Shaw, 12/27/10 Esther for only a few years, discovering her love 34 Irma Sigler Boyer, 12/5/10 Elsie Lietemeyer Smith, 9/1/10 Charles R. for the sport while a student at SMU. Frankfurt Pollock, 1/5/11 Totebusch Jr., 10/9/10 36 Louise Little Barbeck, 11/13/10 Susanna 50 Marshall K. Bercaw Jr. ’54, 12/23/08 Saville Grinnan, 2/12/11 Charles Robert Busbee, 9/8/10 Laverne I. 09 37 Dorothy Wathen Mayers, 11/13/10 The Bynum, 1/10/11 Curtis H. Cadenhead Jr. Katye Dunn is the associate youth minister Rev. Harry Frank Miller, 1/16/06 ’51, 11/29/10 Garvin H. Germany Jr. ’55, at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church 38 Dr. Cecelia Bachrach Crow ’40, 11/8/10 8/21/01 Tresa June Thompson Ghormley, Robert L. Howell, 12/15/10 1/2/96 L. Camp Gilliam, 12/17/10 Guy in Little Rock. Erin McCormick works in San 39 Lurlyn January Fleming, 1/23/11 Dr. Douglas Herring, 1/9/11 Kevin B. Koecher, Francisco for 18 Rabbits, an organic granola Presley Clyde Funk III, 1/19/11 Andrew M. 10/10/10 William D. Lawrence Jr., 1/25/10 company which sells its products in Dallas Swarthout, 9/24/10 William David Minnick, 5/24/10 Nancy M. at Whole Foods and Central Market. Megan 40 Dr. Charles O’Neill Galvin, 1/27/11 Ben R. Granrud Monson, 8/30/10 Robert J. L. Rosser is the lead kindergarten teacher at Howard, 2/9/09 Frances Cornett Warren, Robinson ’52, 11/15/10 Lawrence Ray Truth Campus charter school Shekinah 11/27/10 Ward, 12/27/10 Leanora Lee Tartt Radiance Academy, responsible for all cur- 41 Adm. George L. Cassell, 3/20/09 Josh H. Williams, 1/19/11 Willard Charles riculum design, instruction and supervision. Parr, 9/5/07 Dixie Martin Taylor, 11/15/10 Williams, 7/20/88 Shelley Smith spent six months volunteer- 42 Mary Ellen Haughton Forde, 12/29/10 51 Maurice E. Cunningham Cantrell, 9/24/10 ing in South Africa teaching and working in Winfred Larry (W.L.) Tunnell, 2/10/11 William Brown Gough, 10/13/10 Dr. journalism and videography. Now she lives 43 Thomas Slater Walker, 11/9/10 James P. Eugene Thornton Herrin Jr., 11/20/10 in Los Angeles and works in digital ad sales Williams Jr., 2/12/11 Martha A. Bynum Irizarry ’70, 12/29/10 for Turner Broadcasting Company. 44 Frances Golden Ware, 12/16/10 E.C. Karnavas, 1/26/11 Porter Loring Jr., 45 Vivian Walker Chaffin, 9/22/10 Horace 1/14/11 Michael Gordon Reily Sr., 2/21/90 10 Eugene Chamberlain, 1/12/11 Elizabeth Leo Bernard Rickmers, 6/2/06 Eugene Shawver Cramer, 9/10/10 Dr. Ewing Bragg Smith Jr., 1/23/11 Noel N. Juan José de León won the Metropolitan Burton Jones, 3/1/11 The Rev. B. Rhodes Standridge, 2/22/01 Clayborn Umberfield Opera National Council’s southwest regional Martin, 7/12/10 Luther S. Pully, 1/3/11 Jr., 11/14/10 Phillip Donald Weihs, 9/12/10 auditions Jan. 23, 2011, and in February 46 Tom H. Owens Jr., 9/5/10 Dr. Charles Edgar Wells, 6/14/10 Helen made his Dallas Opera debut in “Romeo and 47 Richard R. Brown, 11/3/10 Fred Eubanks, Rumback Wood, 5/14/03 Juliet.” Eric Peng, Ph.D., joined the Dallas 11/5/10 Dorothy Coughran Harbordt, 52 James Merritt Anderson, 2/27/10 Jo Nell office of the national law firm Fish & Rich- 2/13/10 Dr. Robert L. Johnson Jr., 1/4/11 Ussery Bailey, 6/16/09 Louise Ballerstedt ardson PC as a technical advisor in the Dr. Edgar Lee Lancaster Jr., 2/28/10 Raggio, 1/22/11 Martin W. Vernon, patent group, supporting patent prosecution Lorelei Weltman Marks, 11/5/03 Claude T. 11/24/10 in technologies including wireless commu- Savage Jr., 9/23/10 Gloria Thornton Slack 53 David Leo Blonstein, 10/24/10 Don A. nications, semiconductors and software. ’48, 2/26/11 Dozier, 3/12/10 Ruth Joyce Potts Fulgham He is a member of the technical profes- 48 Albert E. Aikman III, 12/8/09 Edward E. ’74, 2/12/11 Patsy Martin Rogers, 5/2/06 sional association IEEE and the Leadership Blount ’57, 2/12/07 Todd Corry, 9/19/10 Jake W. Scherer, 1/5/11 The Rev. Norris Institute. Alan H. Rose has launched hand- James O. Faires Sr., 7/20/10 Jack F. Fanta, Steele, 8/29/09 Willard Dawson Sterling, sondallas.com, a multimedia news site that 12/27/10 Jack H. Hunter, 5/24/10 Howard 1/15/11 Effie Xeros Yianitsas, 9/22/10 covers sports, entertainment, food and news F. Mauldin, 9/22/10 Louise Ferguson 54 Albert Mitchell Belchic, 11/17/00 Peter in Dallas and the surrounding area. He is McKnight, 11/24/10 Arthur E. O’Connor Joseph Canizaro, 5/1/84 John Glenn pursuing a Master’s degree in emerging ’58, 1/9/11 John F. Slice, 9/11/10 Donaho, 1/31/07 Roscoe C. Elmore, 11/2/10 49 James E. Browning, 7/28/04 Joseph Richard Lee Farr, 1/1/11 Hal Neitzel, media and communication and also works Albert Calamia, 2/20/09 George E. 8/31/10 John Curtis Thompson, 10/19/10 for the Texas Rangers baseball organization. Cowand, 2/15/11 Floyd Merle Fields, 2/2/11 William W. Ventress, 4/6/10 Joe Freed, 2/2/11 Deryl Hamilton 56 Priscilla Rettger Bell, 2/1/11 Kenneth R. Freeman, 11/13/10 Ruth Rein Hopper, Davey, 11/15/10 Bruce Anthony Dunmore, 2/9/11 Lt. Col. Clifford W. Houy, 12/11/10 10/27/09 Theodore E. Gebhardt, 12/15/10 Nancy Warlick Loe, 9/15/10 Margaret Carl D. Jackson, 12/16/10 Frederick Lee

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Kribs Jr., 8/6/10 Jeanne Byrd Meyer, 69 Thomas E. Gaines, 11/14/10 Dr. Gary W. Anthony Marczynski ’93, 10/23/07 12/21/09 Diane Hall Mitchell, 2/5/11 Husa, 10/10/10 93 Robert Lewis Millard II, 1/28/11 Raymond Carolyn Clark Norton ’75, 2/28/10 Martha 70 Wm. R. Newsom, 2/17/10 Russell J. Jacques Seguin, 1/25/11 Maxwell Waters, 9/25/10 Spetter, 11/2/10 Michael David Tuttle, 94 Khristannand Bipatnath, 4/26/10 Travis 57 Taylor Boyd II, 2/4/11 Jerry D. Brownlow, 10/4/10 Verner J. Vansyckle, 7/1/70 Houston Davis, 10/12/09 Mickey Scott 4/14/05 Barbara Brian Hamilton, 12/24/10 71 Beverly Barnette, 8/31/10 Jarrett H. Maxwell, 6/8/10 William C. Kaltenbach, 12/19/10 The Rev. Boren, 2/28/11 Carolyn Sue Johnson, 95 William Robert Cole, 7/14/10 William Roy Moyers, 2/19/10 Mildred 9/4/10 John W. Moore, 8/17/05 Gail 96 Brenda Lea Newlin, 12/2/10 Christin Hancock Penk, Ph.D., ’70, ’75, 11/24/09 Andrea Schatzman Smith, 10/23/10 Rooney Palmer, 3/3/11 Danny (Buzz) Seibold, 8/27/10 Dr. John Warren Tomlinson, 1/18/11 Janet L. 97 Mary Jane Furr, 10/19/10 Clinton Shanks, 1/3/11 Marie Shippen Whittlesey, 11/13/10 Patricia Rogers 98 A’Drewana Chane’t Johnson, 12/2/10 Snyder, 4/12/96 Winters, 3/28/04 00 Adelea Anne Fussell, 9/20/10 58 Charles C. Blaylock, 12/22/10 Donald E. 72 Pastor Ralph Howard Ford, 2/26/11 01 Martha L. O’Rourke, 1/7/11 Fisher Jr., 9/24/10 Robert M. Lindsley, Martha Addington Hoffmann, 8/24/10 02 Cory Christopher Fross, 11/14/10 8/31/10 Jacqueline Roberts Miller, 9/9/10 Sophronia Sue Broom McCone, 10/9/02 04 Johnny Kyle Cotton, 9/16/10 Prof. Robert C. Moffat ’62, 11/14/10 James (Jim) McLure, 2/17/11 Daniel 05 Benjamin (Ben) Todd Fricke, 2/21/11 Thomas G. Nash Jr. ’62, 1/24/11 Warren Joseph McNulty, 9/22/00 Robert Chris Moore, 2/20/10 Courtney S. Mark Pulich, 11/27/10 Clairenne 73 Thomas Alan Draper, 9/28/10 Bryan K. Turner Chambers, 1/3/11 Allensworth Sanborn, 7/20/10 John R. Ford, 11/20/10 Jean K. Lemons Slagle ’76, Standley, 5/24/10 Kay Barnhouse Stout, 8/28/10 John William Steakley Jr., SMU Community 12/17/10 Otis C. Wyatt Jr., 2/6/10 11/27/10 Earl Borgeson, retired professor and law 59 Patricia Hand Armstrong, 1/11/10 John 74 Alan R. Barr ’82, 1/3/11 Dr. James E. Fix librarian at Dedman School of Law, Robert Biar, 1/22/11 Dr. Rex Jordan Sr., 1/17/11 Ernest E. Hoffman III, 9/7/10 12/25/10 Cantrell, 12/19/08 James E. Graham, Marta Heria Reina Paisan, 1/14/11 L. Paul Ben Earp, SMU staff, 12/7/10 1/1/62 Morgan P. Groves ’63, 3/13/10 Snell III, 9/18/10 Robert E. Verinder Sr., Charley Galvin, former dean of Dedman Elizabeth Oates Hefner, 11/13/10 Kennett 11/13/10 School of Law, 1/27/11 Hobbs, 11/21/10 Gloria A. Galouye Jackson 75 Ronny Vandon Cook, 10/4/10 Dr. Paula Eugene Herrin, Schuler-Foscue Endowed ’78, 1/13/11 Douglas H. Jeffers, 11/18/10 Moffett, 5/10/10 Chair in the Roy M. Huffington Robert C. Peterson, 3/31/09 Jennings B. 76 Patti Crook Parris, 10/30/10 Jerry L. Department of Earth Sciences, 11/20/10 Thompson, 5/24/09 Turner, 12/23/10 Willem Willemstyn, Douglas E. Jackson, retired professor of 60 Charles E. Ashmore, 10/16/10 Lucretia 1/15/11 sociology of religion at Perkins School of Nilan Cloran, 12/3/10 Bill W. Folmar ’67, 77 Lillian Dubois Starr, 9/8/10 Victoria Theology, 1/26/11 8/24/10 Wayland Kesler, 12/23/08 Don Veach-Rogers, 12/12/10 Karl Kilinski, SMU professor, 1/6/11 Meredith, 12/5/10 78 Victor Charles Barton Jr., 10/1/10 Ann S. Knowles, retired SMU staff, 10/7/10 61 Guy P. Reese, 11/22/10 Susan Herring Lawrence David Hanna, 10/12/10 Laura Laurin, retired SMU staff, 9/29/10 Stahl, 2/14/11 Frederick W. McElroy ’82, 12/20/10 Syd Reagan, retired professor in Cox School of 62 Frank J. Doran, 1/22/11 Theron J. Ewert 80 Fred Irven Franklin, 11/22/10 Ruth Business, 11/10/10 ’71, 10/10/10 The Rev. Kenneth T. Metzger, Harbison McDowell, 12/30/10 Allan K. R. Richard Rubottom ’32, ’33, former professor 3/9/10 Charles D. Wood, 11/4/10 Moser, 12/4/10 Phil Rolland, 5/14/10 of political science, 12/6/10 63 B. Gill Clements, 10/21/10 B.G. Folkers, 81 Ann Hillin, 9/30/10 Craig Brantley Vernon James Shelton, retired SMU staff, 12/23/10 4/1/10 ’90, 9/21/10 James Cleo Thompson, former SMU trustee, 64 Robert E. McClendon, 7/18/08 83 Charles Pasquale Guerriero IV ’89, 2/8/11 11/18/10 65 David B. Harrell Jr., 3/6/10 R. Lewis Robin Perkins McBride, 4/8/08 Fern Helene Chase Whitehurst, SMU staff, Nicholson ’67, 10/27/10 84 David Michael Radman, 10/17/10 10/26/10 66 Don T. Bullock, 8/1/86 Katherine 85 Hei Tak Chu ’87, 4/16/03 Frederic Cullen Emmitt Wickliffe, retired SMU staff, 10/17/10 Zimmerman Huller, 1/18/11 Jack Frank Liskow, 2/14/11 Phillip Brian Morton, Mike Wooton, retired professor in Cox School Lutts, 4/23/10 George Wilfert Martin, 1/18/11 of Business, 1/24/11 6/24/99 Martin F. O’Donnell, 9/27/10 86 Mary Tichenor Metzinger, 4/2/10 Rodney Samuel C. Oliver III, 9/20/10 Albert B. William Winslow, 1/18/11 Correction: In the 2010 fall/winter issue of Ramsdell, 9/1/83 Jack W. Rhodes, 10/15/10 87 James Mathew McGee, 3/21/10 SMU Magazine, the date of death for James B. Henry L. Spence, 10/29/10 89 Marjorie Ann White, 9/12/10 Seaman II ’70 was listed as 9/1/78. The date 67 Hugh E. Prather III, 11/15/10 90 Martha A. Cochrum, 3/31/05 should have been 9/25/78. We sincerely regret 68 Douglass Phillip Bales ’70, 2/8/10 Richard 91 David Nigle Evans, 9/13/09 this error. Dean Hawn ’73, 11/22/10 92 Allen Robert Cole, C.P.A., 1/16/11 Brian

2011 | spring/summer | smu 47 — hilltop history

Dallas On The Eve Of SMU’s Founding

In 1910 Dallas, a growing, Library. DeGolyer Libraries, University Central University, Methodist Southern Cultural amenities were chest-thumping city of not plentiful. Not until 1901 commerce in northeast Texas, did Dallas get its first public was earmarked as the best library… . A modest art unoccupied site in the nation museum had been created at for a new college. Such was the the same time by allocating stated opinion of the executive space on the second floor of secretary of the General the library. Education Board of New York. On all sides of the city Such matters had received some farmers grew crops – mostly but not significant attention cotton – in the black, waxy in Dallas. Its businessmen had soil, and Dallas became a been preoccupied with commerce market center. Texas was and growth. raising about one-third of the Rapid growth was the basis world’s cotton, and 60 percent for its chest-thumping pride. of Texas’ cotton was raised Between 1900 and 1910 the city within a 100-mile radius Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks parade during a more than doubled in size, of Dallas. national reunion, circa 1908, on Main Street in downtown Dallas. jumping from 42,638 to 91,104. One of the new develop- That spurt was continuing unabated. had moved there in 1878 from Huntsville. ments attracting attention in the area By 1920 the population reached 158,978, Founded in 1841 by a wandering was aviation. In 1911 the traveling a nearly fourfold increase in just two trader from Tennessee who envisioned a International Aviators put on a spectacular decades. Classified by the U.S. Census thriving trading post on the banks of show at Fair Park. Bureau as an “emerging” metropolis, the Trinity River, Dallas had been The vision of acquiring a fine university Dallas became one of 19 American cities promoted loudly from that moment as for Dallas did not hold the same allure with a population between 100,000 and the most promising site in North Texas. as did the miracles of flight, growth and 200,000. The arrival of the first two railroads commerce. But a sense of realization In the area of higher education … by in 1872 and 1873 ... prompted an explosion was dawning. To be a city of renown, 1910 the city could boast of a small in population. Dallas must have a quality university to college for young women that had been A bird’s-eye view showed three attract and to serve young men and in existence since 1889, Saint Mary’s major downtown streets – Elm, Main women. It could be an ornament in the College. Its doors closed in 1930. Dallas and Commerce. Commercial and retail city’s crown. also was the site of a medical school, activities, originally centered on the But how to get one? Start one from organized in 1903 (moved to Houston courthouse square, had spread eastward scratch or find an existing university in 1943). along the three main thoroughfares. that could be enticed to move to Dallas? Dallas’ nearby rival, Fort Worth, The sidewalks were filled with pedes- No matter. When Dallas decided it although smaller, had made a successful trians in this day when downtown needed something for the betterment of overture in 1910 to bring to its city an was the center of life in Dallas. Electric the city, it generally found a way to get it. established college, Texas Christian streetcars, horse-drawn carts and a University. It had accepted Fort Worth’s growing number of automobiles crowded Darwin Payne ’68 is SMU professor offer of $200,000 and 50 acres for a the streets. emeritus of communications and campus after a fire destroyed its main Two outstanding new residential areas centennial historian. The full essay is building in Waco. In Houston, Rice had been developed in recent years – included in From High on the Hilltop... Institute was preparing to open its Munger Place and Junius Heights – east Marshall Terry’s History of SMU with Various doors. Even little Sherman, a town just a of downtown. And just north of the city Essays by His Colleagues (DeGolyer few miles north of Dallas along the old was the exclusive suburban development Library and Three Forks Press, 2009). Preston Trail, had Austin College, which of Highland Park, incorporated in 1913 as a separate city.

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Check This Out

SMU libraries bear little resemblance to the first library that was located in a room in Dallas Hall. The University system now comprises seven libraries – DeGolyer Library, Fondren Library Center, Hamon Arts Library, Institute for Up To The Challenge the Study of Earth and Man, Business Information Center, and the professional Inertia, the 2D platform arcade game Underwood Law Library and Bridwell created by students from The Guildhall Library, as well as libraries at SMU-in- at SMU-in-Plano, is one of the big Taos and SMU-in-Plano. Patrons also digitized special collections items and rely on online materials available streaming access to more than 50,000 winners ($130,000 in cash and prizes) through SMU libraries – approximately CDs. And there is always the traditional of the second annual Indie Game 20,000 magazine or journal subscriptions, route: more than 3 million books. Check Challenge (www.indiegamechallenge. 472 databases, 308,700 e-books, 8,330 it out at smu.edu/libraries. com/finalists/inertia). The eight members of SMU’s Team Hermes are enrolled in the Master’s degree Badges Of Honor program in video game design at The Guildhall. In addition, a four-member Michaux Nash Jr. ’56 ended a three-decade treasure hunt a few years ago by team was named as one of three completing the only known collection of finalists in the National STEM Video sheriffs’ badges from all 254 Texas Game Challenge in Washington, D.C. counties. Nash, a fourth-generation The educational game Slime Garden Dallasite and third-generation banker, donated the collection to SMU last year. teaches scientific methodology by It is a one-of-a-kind collection because incorporating experimentation and regulations now prohibit private simulation (slimegarden.com). The individuals from obtaining genuine law Guildhall recently was named one of enforcement badges, says DeGolyer Library Director Russell Martin ’78, ’86. the top graduate programs in video The collection can be viewed at DeGolyer game design by The Princeton Review. Library; call 214-768-2253 or visit smu. edu/cul/degolyer. Michaux Nash Jr.

Just The Historical Facts, Please

It seems there are sharp eyes and memories among several of our alumni, who contacted SMU Magazine to gently inform us that the photo on the back cover of the Fall/Winter 2010 issue was not of SMU’s 1934 Homecoming queen. In fact, we were contacted by the Homecoming queen from the actual year of the photo: Sarah-Finch Maiden “Skippy” Rollins (Mrs. Joe G. Rollins) ’42, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado. She says it was she sitting atop the convertible during SMU’s Homecoming parade in downtown Dallas in fall 1941. SMU Magazine stands corrected, and so does SMU Archives. NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY SMU MAGAZINE SMU BOX 750402 DALLAS TX 75275-0402

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