welcome to the DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS CEREMONY Friday, April 16, 2021 HOSTED BY The Kinkaid School Alumni Association ORDER of EVENTS WELCOME Jonathan Eades Head of School AWARDS PRESENTATION Michel Miller Mullett ‘00 Distinguished Alumni Awards Committee Chair DISTINGUISHED HONORARY ALUMNUS Berdon Lawrence Maritime Industry Leader, Community Advocate, and Wildlife Conservationist DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS Darrell Bock ‘71 Executive Director of Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNA Michelle Cho ‘98 Social Entrepreneur OUTSTANDING ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD Jane Hoffert Moore ‘46 Alumni Board Member Emeritus and Loyal Class Notes Correspondent EDWARD M. TRUSTY JR. CORE VALUES AWARD Tom Wey Longtime Kinkaid Faculty Member and Coach CLOSING REMARKS Jonathan Eades Head of School BERDON LAWRENCE DISTINGUISHED HONORARY ALUMNUS Berdon Lawrence was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University in 1964 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and in 1965 with a Master’s in Business Administration. He is currently Chairman of L3 Partners, LLC, a family business office that manages investments and real estate. He served as Chairman of the Board of Kirby Corporation from 1999-2010. He was founder and President of Hollywood Marine, a privately owned barge company that operated tank barges and towboats. In 1999, Hollywood Marine merged with Kirby Corporation. Berdon is involved in several community organizations including Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees, M.D. Anderson Board of Visitors, The Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, and The South Texans’ Property Rights Association. He served on The Kinkaid School's Board of Trustees for 11 years from 2009 until 2020. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Waterways Council and has served as past Chairman of the Inland Waterways Users Board. He also served on the Board of Trustees at Tulane University and The National Osteoporosis Foundation Board. Berdon and wife Rolanette established the Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program in 2004, which is now a collaboration of M.D. Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center. Through their donations they have advanced the development of bone disease research at these three facilities in the Houston Medical Center. The Lawrences are an avid outdoors family, dedicated to wildlife conservation. Their ranch, the Laborcitas Creek Ranch, near Falfurrias, Texas, has been the recipient of various awards through the years, including the 2018 Leopold Conservation Award for Texas. Berdon also received the Texas Wildlife Foundation Association’s Outdoorsman of the Year award in 2010 and the 2016 Harvey Weil Conservationist of the Year Award. Berdon has been married to Rolanette for 46 years, and they have three children, a daughter, Heather, and two sons, Mark and Charles '96, and seven grandchildren, John Berdon Mitchell '14, Elizabeth Mitchell '17, Collin Lawrence '18, Eliza Lawrence '20, Harrison Lawrence '23, William Mitchell '26, and Berdon Lawrence '31. DARRELL BOCK ‘71 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS Darrell L. Bock ‘71 is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, as well as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hendricks Center there. Dr. Bock has earned recognition as a Humboldt Scholar (Tübingen University in Germany), is the author of over 40 books, including well-regarded commentaries on Luke and Acts, studies of the historical Jesus, and works in cultural engagement as host of the seminary’s The Table podcast, which has been online since 2012. His mentors included internationally well- known New Testament scholars Harold Hoehner at Dallas, Howard Marshall in Aberdeen, Martin Hengel, and Otto Betz at Tübingen. His work on the last week of Jesus’ life appears in an international series. He co-chaired the Institute for Biblical Research’s Historical Jesus group and edited an internationally known 900 page technical monograph on Jesus entitled Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus. He was president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) for 2000–2001, was a consulting editor for Christianity Today for several decades, and serves on the boards of Wheaton College, Chosen People Ministries, The Institute for Global Engagement and Christians in Public Service. His articles appear in leading publications. Dr. Bock has been engaged on issues of race and diversity in his work at the Seminary and in the Dallas community. His newest books deal with culture (Cultural Intelligence) and a co-authored work on the role of technology in the church (Virtual Reality Church). He is often an expert for the media on New Testament issues. Dr. Bock has been a New York Times best-selling author in nonfiction (Breaking the DaVinci Code) and serves as elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church in Dallas. Married for over 45 years to Sally, he is a proud father of two daughters and a son, and is also a grandfather to five. Darrell enrolled in Kinkaid in the second grade and graduated with the Class of 1971. He did photography for the yearbook during his time in high school, played on the championship basketball team his senior year, and ran cross country. He regards his time at Kinkaid as foundational to his career. His siblings, John Bock ‘64, Darcy Bock Forman ‘68, and Joady Bock Rubin ‘73 (fs), also attended Kinkaid. MICHELLE CHO ‘98 DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNA Michelle Cho ‘98 is an award-winning social entrepreneur and CEO and Co-Founder of Gladeo, an inclusive, online career navigation platform for the future of work. Michelle is a 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2018 National League of Cities Local Hero Award recipient, a 2018 Gratitude Award recipient, a 2018 Ashoka/ American Express Emerging Innovator, and a 2017 Award Winner at Social Venture Partner LA’s Social Innovation Fast Pitch. She graduated from Stanford University in three years, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. After graduation, Michelle lived in Madrid, Spain for a year and worked in business development for a motion graphics company. When she got back to the States, she landed in San Francisco and worked in business development at Arup, an engineering firm. She soon realized her real passion was storytelling, so she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood. She started off at Paramount Pictures, and years later, she became an independent producer, co-producing the film “Au Revoir Taipei” which won the NetPac Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Like many creatives and entrepreneurs, she had a side hustle that enabled her to take risks and pursue her work, an operations job in commercial and residential real estate development. Currently, she also develops high-end short-term rental properties in Joshua Tree, California. Since 2005, when she wasn’t working, you could find Michelle volunteering her time conducting college planning seminars for schools and community- based non-profits. While she was volunteering, she saw a huge gap between school and career, especially for students who lived in low-income neighborhoods or who were the first in their family to go to college. She started Gladeo to bridge that gap, and since then, Gladeo’s online platform has helped hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and counselors learn about the diverse array of careers and industries through their videos, interactive website, infographics, and e-courses. Through Gladeo, Michelle is addressing the problem that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “the danger of the single story” by sharing and spreading the success stories of diverse individuals thriving in their varied careers. Michelle entered Kinkaid in the first grade. She played Varsity Basketball and Softball and was captain of the Varsity Volleyball team. She graduated Cum Laude. Michelle’s three sisters, Christina Cho ‘96, Grace Cho ‘01 and Alicia Cho ‘02, are also alumnae. Michelle resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Zachary Wood. JANE HOFFERT MOORE ‘46 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD Jane Hoffert Moore ‘46 has been a member of the Kinkaid family for 87 years. It’s a distinction she claims with pride. Her family moved from Shreveport, Louisiana to Houston when she was a young child. Her father immediately began to research the schools in the neighborhood and determined that Kinkaid was the best school in the city. She entered first grade on the Richmond Campus and graduated as a “Lifer” in 1946. Jane speaks fondly of Mrs. Kinkaid, saying she was brilliant and far ahead of her time in recognizing the importance of educating the whole child, not just in the basics but in a variety of extracurricular experiences. Jane had a wonderful rapport with her. Mrs. Kinkaid would ask her how she felt about things, always wanting to know the student’s view. She took a personal interest in each boy and girl. Jane went on to Baylor University where she was a Pi Beta Phi and PreMed major with an interest in plastic surgery. Her family and doctor discouraged her from this pursuit, so upon graduation Jane went to work in the Shell Research Lab. It was during this time that she joined the College Women’s Club and was asked by the President to start a new area of study for recent college graduates. This was the beginning of many years of community service as she became an active member of the Downtown Club, the Professional Women’s Club, the Heritage Society, and Bluebirds to name just a few. Along with her husband, Jane raised their three daughters, Susan, Alicia, and Sally, in the Memorial area. In 1967, a friend told her about five acres behind the blue farm house on the corner of Taylorcrest and Piney Point that she might be able to purchase. Jane went to visit the acreage and knew immediately that she wanted to develop it. She was able to purchase the tract, and in 1969 began the process.