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1930s

James T. Billups ’32 turned 100 years old in October 2004. He lives in an apartment in Houston and is still very alert and agile. He retired five times from his work as a general surgeon at Hermann Hospital. Among many accomplishments, Billups is proud to have served in World War II. Muriel Cody, widow of Claude Cody ’36, recently established the Claude Cody Retired Physicians Award for Contributions to the Arts and Literature. The 2004 recipient was Mavis Kelsey ’36 of Houston, Texas. Clarence Agress ’37, Santa Barbara, California, is a retired cardiologist. During his sixty years of practice, he started the cardiology department at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and designed the heart monitor that Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon. He is an avid astronomer and has also written ten novels. At the age of 91, Agress self-published his first novel and will do the same for a second novel soon.

1940s

Marvin Schlecte ’40, Wimberley, Texas, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in August 2003. He retired as a medical consultant to the Texas Rehabilitation Commission in May 2000. His namesake grandson received a medical degree from UTMB in June 2003. What a great life! Gordon Black ’43 still enjoys good health and works one day a week as a radiologist at the V.A. Clinic in El Paso, Texas. He and his wife, Dottie (SON ’45), cruised with the Flying Texas Exes in April 2004. Joseph Neel ’43, Dallas, Texas, is a retired surgeon. He is still doing aerobics and riding a stationary bicycle (twelve miles daily) at Cooper’s Aerobic Center. He is also an avid reader and loves to walk his dog, Sir Henry. Marjorie Roper ’43 has been called a hometown hero by the residents of Bullard, Texas (population 1,150). She still practices medicine in the office she opened 60 years ago in the town’s former drug store and family business. It is now called the Ferrell-Roper Clinic and is where she has treated generations of patients as if they were family, even continuing to make house calls, if needed. Roper received the Centennial Award of Special Merit from the Smith County Medical Society several years ago. As the oldest practicing physician in Smith County at the time, she was honored for her 56 years in medicine. Ross Whittenburg ’43 is still doing a few insurance exams eighteen years after official retirement. He is also still skiing in Concord, New Hampshire, and would love to show any 1941 to 1946 graduates the beauties of his adopted state. Louis Girard ’44 is retired and living in Magnolia, Texas. He recently completed a 228-page History of the Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1943-1970. In it, he recounts returning to Houston in the fall of 1953 and being offered the post of associate professor and associate chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor. Philip Williams ’44, Tucson, Arizona, says that at his age no news is good news. He spends his time “living it up” and traveling by recreational vehicle. At a conference hosted by the Association for Community Television in February 2004, Ninfa Cavazos ’45 was honored by Houston’s PBS Channel 8 for being the first Hispanic woman doctor in Houston. She was previously recognized by the National Mexican American Historical Society as the first Mexican American woman licensed to practice medicine in Houston. Cavazos has been inducted into the Hispanic Women’s Hall of Fame, presented with the Met-Life Trail Blazer Award and was named “Moderna Latina for 2000.” Both a psychiatrist and an attorney, her current interests include the study of maladaptive behavior leading to violence, and research on suicide behavior. Charles S. Clark, Sr. ’46 has been in Corpus Christi, Texas, since 1949. For the past fifteen years he has been employed as a physician advisor and medical director of resource management at a hospital system now known as HCA. Additionally, in the last three years, he has written three novels, published two, and is working on a fourth. Published novels are “Trails to Dos Encinos” and “Suit Up in Scrubs.” Both books are available at Barnes and Noble. Anyone interested can access Clark’s web site at www.charlesclarknovels.com. Edward Singleton ’46, Houston, was inducted as an inaugural Legend in Medicine by UTMB President John D. Stobo in January 2006. The honor was created to recognize alumni who have influenced the health care landscape in Texas and in the nation. He was recognized for his distinguished career in pediatric radiology and teaching. Singleton, who is a fellow and gold medalist of the American College of Radiology, also has served as president of the Society for Pediatric Radiology and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists. Louis Green ’47, Houston, is retired. He is a clinical professor emeritus of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Walter Kempler ’47, Laguna Woods, California, is retired from The Kempler Institute. His book, “Principles of Gestalt Family Therapy,” is now published in six languages, the latest being Russian. He enjoys life with his wonderful wife and five healthy sons. Cecil Knox, Jr. ’47 is retired and living in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. He didn’t shoot his age (in golf) until November 2004, but has done it several times since then. Grace Jameson ’49, Galveston, was honored by NAMI (National Association for the Mentally Ill) Gulf Coast in May 2005 for devoting her life to helping people with mental illness. Jameson has been a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UTMB for more than 50 years. Curtis Torno ’49, Buffalo, Texas, says hello to all of his classmates. He is retired and his general health is good even though he is confined to a wheelchair due to scardosis and the treatment of it with large doses of cortisone. He is very proud of UTMB and of the fact that one of his grandsons is a medical student at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Torno and his wife, Jean, have been married for 57 years.

1950s

Earnest Pretz ’50, Orange, Texas, still does occasional locum tenens. When he is not employed, Pretz volunteers his time and expertise assisting veterans with their medical records in order to help them establish claims with the Veterans Association. Morris Rosenthal ’51, Houston, is still practicing pediatrics and plans to do so “until he drops.” He is happy that he’s got a niece and a grandson who will be joining his practice soon. James Thompson ’51, UTMB professor emeritus of surgery and physiology and biophysics, was among eight physicians honored at a dinner in May 2006 as “legends” and toasted as “pioneers” by the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The physicians were celebrated for outstanding contributions to that institution as well as to their respective fields of professional endeavor. Among the many achievements for which Thompson was cited included serving as a mentor for more than 100 surgical investigators; NIH support of his research efforts for 41 continuous years, and an NIH Merit Award in 1986; the American College of Surgeon’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, presented in 1996; and, “over the course of an eminent career spanning over 40 years,” publishing over 1000 articles and receiving numerous other honors. Thompson’s work has taken him to medical institutions throughout the world, and his accomplishments have been acknowledged internationally. Benjamin Leonard ’53 is still going strong as the quintessential country doctor. He has faithfully served the small valley community of Gustine, California, since 1954. He knows the vast majority of his patients personally and still make house calls when needed. Leonard is also an accomplished author and singer. His book, “Words: Beyond the Dictionary,” has been published by AuthorHouse and is also available at Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc. Arthur Walker ’53, San Jose, California, is retired. His avocations of mountaineering, technical rock climbing, and skiing have come back to haunt him in his back and legs. He says it was still worth it. Billy Boring ’54, and his wife, Luan, are happy that all five of their children live nearby. He and his son, Billy, Jr., practice together at Boring Family Medicine in McKinney, Texas. W. Rex Davis ’54, Sylmar, California, is retired. He plays Taps for an All Veterans Burial Squad several times a week, sometimes as many as three times a day. Harold High ’54, Cuero, Texas, is the 2006 president of the Texas Medical Association’s 50-Year Club. He is a retired family physician who has been recognized for his tireless commitment to improving rural health care throughout his long, dignified career of medical practice, academics and community service. In addition to his activity with the TMA, High also has been active in the Texas Academy of Family Physicians for more than 50 years. Lawrence Chapman, Jr. ’55 recently moved from a bayfront home in Seabrook, Texas, to the 22nd floor of the Warwick Towers in Houston. What a different world! Quintous Crews, Jr. ’55, San Diego, California, retired from his job as the chief medical officer for the California Department of Veterans Affairs (Chula Vista) in December 2004. Nelson Jones ’55, Waxahachie, Texas, is a retired family practice physician. He now enjoys more time with his family as well as travel (motorcycle touring), community service and a little charity medical work. Hylmar Karbach ’55 is medical director of the McKenna Ambulatory Surgical Center in New Braunfels, Texas. He assists in major surgery, travels twice a year with the University of Texas’ Flying Longhorns, and is actively involved with Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, the southernmost year round trout fishery in the United States. V.C. Saied ’55, Wichita Falls, Texas, received an Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus award from UTMB in May 2003. In addition to teaching and practicing medicine for many years, he also has been an advocate for the medically underserved. He has made more than 11 trips to Mexico to provide anesthesia for more than 500 surgeries to correct cleft lips and palates in indigent adults and children. Saied is the co-founder and president of the Mad Medics, a Dixieland band dedicated to providing scholarships for nursing, medical, and music students from Wichita Falls. Joe Schooler, Jr. ’55, Fort Worth, retired from his private practice as an orthopaedic surgeon in August 2001. He is now a consultant to the U.S. Postal Service and the Texas Rehabilitation Department. Melvyn H. Schreiber ’55, Galveston, was honored as the 2006 recipient of the John P. McGovern Lifetime Achievement Award in Oslerian Medicine in June 2006. Richard Sherman ’55, Alamogordo, New Mexico, is retired from his surgery practice. He has endured many back surgeries himself and is also now eighty percent recovered from a stroke he suffered three years ago. A. Bryan Spires, Jr. ’55 recently moved to Georgetown, Texas, where he and his wife, Linda, love their life and house in the country! He commutes to Austin four days a week for his job as a consultant to the U.S. Disability Determination Service. Marolyn Cowart ’56 is retired and has moved back to Houston from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She says it is good to be back in Texas where she lived from 1940 to 1977. Cowart practiced family medicine in Texas from 1957 to 1977 and in Florida from 1977 to 1984. Horace DeFord ’56, a psychiatric examiner, lives in Dallas, Texas, but commutes to Austin to work part-time for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. His son, James DeFord, works for UTMB doing research in molecular biology. Don Langston ’56 retired in January 2001 after 44 years of pediatric practice. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife, Phyllis, who was a pediatric nursing supervisor at John Sealy Hospital. They have been married for 45 years. Phil Webb ’56, Clifton, Texas, is retired and doing well. He works two to three hours a week doing consultations at a local hospital.  Donald Craig ’57, Lubbock, Texas, is already looking forward to his fifty year class reunion. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at Texas Tech University Health Science Center. Elaine Mantooth-Fleming ’57, Nassau Bay, Texas, was honored for her lifelong contribution to medicine in Galveston County with the establishment of a professorship in her name in UTMB’s Department of Emergency Medicine. A.H. “Buddy” Giesecke ’57, professor of anesthesiology and pain management at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists in October 2003. He was recognized for many outstanding achievements and for his lifelong commitment to the field of anesthesiology. The award is the highest given by the organization. Dora Due Logue ’57, Baltimore, Maryland, continues to enjoy being a child psychiatrist at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To honor Richard Ruiz ’57, the University of Texas Medical School at Houston renamed its Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science the Richard S. Ruiz, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Ruiz, who has been the only chair of the department since the school opened in 1970, holds the John S. Dunn Distinguished University Chair in Ophthalmology and serves as chief of ophthalmology at Memorial Hermann Hospital. John Sheel ’57, Camarillo, California, works part-time as a quality management physician for the Ventura County Behavioral Health Department since retiring from private practice in psychiatry. James Duke ’58, San Antonio, Texas, retired in August 2002 after forty-one years of solo practice in pediatrics. He now works part-time for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District doing well baby clinics. Alfred Franger ’58, Brookfield, Wisconsin, was elected chairman of the Wisconsin State Medical Examining Board. Earl Grant ’58, an anesthesiologist in Austin, Texas, is a member of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Foundation Board of Trustees and served as the foundation’s 2003-05 vice president. He has served in several roles within the TMA and as president of the Travis County Medical Society. Thomas Hinkle ’58 still works full-time as a radiologist in Beaumont, Texas. He enjoys his work so much that he has no plans for retirement. George Keeler III ’58 moved from the Washington, D.C., area to Seattle, Washington. Mark Kubala ’58, Beaumont, Texas, received a Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Medical Association in May 2006. It is the TMA’s highest award. He is described as a “doctor’s doctor,” and was honored for his many years of service to his patients and to organized medicine. Kubala is a highly-respected neurosurgeon and also has been recognized for outstanding service by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Alex Munson ’58 was awarded the Distinguished Service Award at the annual convention of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians. He was recognized for “broad contributions to psychiatry over an extended period of time.” Munson practiced child psychiatry and psychiatry in both Austin and Lubbock before retiring in Georgetown, Texas, in 2000. David Davis II ’59 retired from the practice of ophthalmology in California and now lives in Camas, Washington, a beautiful area just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. He would love to hear from classmates and can be reached by email at www.dbd1029@attbi.com. Allan Hanretta ’59, Santa Barbara, California, and his wife, Carolyn, send their best wishes to all of his classmates. Paul Hill ’59, a psychiatrist from Temple, Texas, is glad that he spent three months serving U.S. troops in Iraq. He answered a postcard from the United States Army asking for retired doctors to volunteer. He deployed to Baghdad in July 2004, where he served at the Baghdad headquarters of the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division, home to more than 32,000 military personnel. He is serving the remainder of his one-year stint at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.

1960s

Jerry Waisman ’60 is still working full-time and enjoying his life as a pathologist and professor at New York University. Malcolm Mazow ’61, Houston, has served as a member of the board of trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology since 2002 and as chair of the Council of the American Academy since 2003. Both terms of service will expire in 2006. In February 2005, Mazow was honored as the first physician recipient of the Person of the Year award from the Gulf Coast Chapter of Prevent Blindness USA. He is the Walter and Ruth Sterling Professor in Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the founder of Houston Eye Associates. Ross McElroy ’61, Gainesville, Florida, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine. He works part-time teaching psychiatry to residents. The rest of his time is spent fishing, vacationing, or at the beach. Mike Adkisson ’62 has been a practicing pediatrician in Greenville, Texas, for over twenty-five years. In 1982, he organized the Doc and the Gang Orchestra. He still plays the tenor saxophone and clarinet and serves as its manager. The group began as a Dixieland combo that evolved in the mid-1980s to become a dance band with an extensive library of swing, jazz and contemporary ballads. Raymond Benski ’62 was an honored guest at the 2004 University of Houston College of Pharmacy graduation ceremony. He retired from UTMB in 2001 after nineteen years on the faculty and has lived in Nederland, Texas, with his wife, Sandra, since 1963. Benski served as a captain in the Military Sealift Command from 1954 through 1956, was a bank director for ten years, and practiced family medicine in Nederland before joining UTMB. He loves retirement, spending time with his children and grandchildren, traveling, reading right-wing books, feeding and watching squirrels and birds, eating lunch in the doctor’s lounge, watching goldfish in the pond and staying out of trouble. That last task gets easier every year. Don Blanton ’62 retired from his private internal medicine practice in December 2003. He has been in Dallas since 1968, after serving on active duty in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968. Donald Butts ’62, Houston, served as the 2004 president of the Harris County Medical Society. Joseph Prud’Homme ’62, a board-certified surgeon in Tyler, Texas, since 1968, received the 2004 Gold-Headed Cane Award from the Smith County Medical Society. His second profession is raising Simmental cattle. He held the first Simmental sale on his 550 acre ranch in 1975 and it has become the longest running Simmental sale in the United States. Larry Renshaw ’62, Las Vegas, is a retired radiologist. He recently bought a home outside of Sulphur Springs, Texas, and enjoys living part-time in both Texas and Las Vegas. Harvey Williams, Jr. ’62, San Angelo, Texas, retired from his dermatology practice in 1999. Now he farms, ranches and spends half of his time in the mountains of New Mexico. Jackson Yium ’62, Signal Mountain, Tennessee, retired from active medical practice in March 2006 and was recognized for his service to Erlanger Health System at a meeting of the Chattanooga–Hamilton County Hospital Authority Board of Trustees. A resolution presented in his honor stated that he and a colleague performed the first kidney transplant at Erlanger in 1989 and have since performed 450 transplants. His accomplishments include founding the hemodialysis and kidney transplant programs and serving as medical director of the hemodialysis unit from 1973–2005 and as medical director of the transplant program from 1989–2005. Yium also has taught new generations of physicians through his tenure on the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine–Chattanooga Unit, where he still works full-time in the Department of Internal Medicine. James Arrington ’64, San Francisco, California, is a retired ophthalmologist. He has written a chapter for an online textbook, eMedicine Ophthalmology, on Hansen disease. John Erwin, Jr. ’64 is self-employed at Family Diagnostic Medical Center, LLP, in Hillsboro, Texas. He is married to Martha Phillips Erwin (UTMB SON ’65). They have four sons: John, an assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) at Texas A&M Medical School; Bryan, head football coach at La Marque High School; Mark, head football coach at Hillsboro High School; and Brent, a 1996 UTMB School of Nursing graduate who is a flight nurse in Alaska. Lewis Fram ’64 retired in November 2004 after 36 years of practicing urology in Houston. He has joined the staff at UTMB as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, where he is enjoying every minute of teaching in the clinic and staffing surgery. Fram is a diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He and his wife, Marilyn, have three successful children, one granddaughter, and recently celebrated 40 years of marriage. Their youngest child, Ricki, graduated from UTMB’s School of Medicine in 2002. Fernando Guerra ’64 is the director of health for the city of San Antonio’s Department of Public Health. He has been elected to the Texas Academy of Medicine, Science and Engineering, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children’s Study. Guerra also was honored as an Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus at UTMB in June 2005. Sara Walker ’64, Columbia, Missouri, was elected president of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) in April 2002. She served as ACP Governor of Missouri from 1991-1995 and was honored with the ACP Laureate Award in 1995. Walker has been on the faculty of the University of Missouri in Columbia since 1980. Walter Buell ’65, Austin, was appointed to the Texas Department of Health Council on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. Howard Condren ’65 is a semi-retired orthopaedic surgeon living in Miami, Oklahoma. Charles Jones ’65, Huntsville, Texas, retired in August 2006 after more than 40 years in family medicine. He spent 20 years in private practice in Huntsville, and then found a second passion in training young family physicians, most recently as director of the Conroe Family Practice Residency Program. His years spent growing up in rural Polk County evolved into a public commitment to championing the health care needs of rural and underserved communities. He is a past president of the Texas Rural Health Association and a member of the Texas Medical Association Rural Health Committee. Jones looks forward to spending more time with his wife, Anna, who recently accompanied him on his fourth medical mission trip. He has traveled to Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia and Mexico, and hopes to have many more opportunities to promote healing of the body and spirit. John Wolf, Jr. ’65, West University Place, Texas, received a distinguished alumnus award from Rice University in 2003. He is a professor and chair of dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Ciro Sumaya ’66, College Station, Texas, has been appointed to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Sumaya is dean of the Texas A&M University System's Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health. Charles Bailey, Jr. ’67, a former president of the Texas Medical Association, accepted a position on the TMA Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2005. He has been a member of the TMA for 30 years and also has served as a delegate to the American Medical Association. Bailey was honored by Town & Country magazine as one of the top five plastic surgeons in Houston. Walter DeFoy ’67, Houston, is the medical director of disability services for Aetna Insurance Company. He has been involved with the insurance industry for 10 years. He and his wife, Linda, have two grandchildren. Their youngest daughter recently graduated from U.T. Law School. Glen Stanbaugh, Jr. ’67 retired from his medical practice but is serving as chairman of the board of the Texas Renal Coalition. He lives in Lubbock, Texas. L. Stayton Halberdier ’68, Montgomery, Texas, is the owner and lead physician of Houston Northwest Primary Care, a busy practice with four doctors and three physician assistants. Dennis Newton III ’68, Lewisville, Texas, received the Texas Dermatological Society’s Robert G. Freeman, MD, Mentoring and Leadership Award. He was cited for his many years of volunteer teaching and his service to organized dermatology. William Reed ’68, Corpus Christi, Texas, is an associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. He also works at the Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Lawrence Ross ’68, was elected president-elect of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists. He will serve a two-year term and then assume the presidency in 2007. A textbook he co-authored, “Case Files in Gross Anatomy,” has been published by Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill. Courtney Townsend, Jr. ’69, Galveston, was elected the 126th president of the American Surgical Association (ASA) in April 2007. He has long been recognized as a leader in surgical oncology and for his work in cancer prevention and control. The ASA was founded in 1880 and is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. He also has been named secretary of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The ACS is a scientific and educational association working to improve the quality of care for patients by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. Townsend is the John Woods Harris Distinguished Chairman of Surgery at UTMB and has been a fellow with the ACS since 1981.

1970s

Earl Ferguson ’70 has been in Ridgecrest, California, since 1996. He’s in solo cardiology practice, is chief of staff of Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, and is involved in developing telemedicine activities throughout California with the California Telemedicine and eHealth Association. He is also CEO of Sun BioMedical Technologies, a biotech company doing research for the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation on genomic and proteomic responses to infectious diseases and developing peptide antibiotics. Charles Oswalt III ’70, a trauma surgeon from Waco, was appointed to serve on the Texas Medical Board by Texas Governor Rick Perry. The board handles licensing and discipline for physicians and several other health care professions. Ned Snyder III ’70, Galveston, recently received a Chapter Laureate Award from the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, the Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), which honors ACP fellows and masters who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in medical care, education, research, and service to their community. Bobby Wroten ’70 is thrilled to announce that his son, Eric Wroten (UTMB ’00), joined his hand surgery practice in August 2006. The elder Wroten, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, recently completed 15 years of service as the hand and wrist consultant to the Texas Rangers professional baseball team. He now performs the same service for the Fort Worth Cats, a minor league baseball team. Ernest Charlesworth ’71, San Angelo, Texas, is a member of the board of regents of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Margaret McNeese ’71, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, assumed the position of associate dean for student affairs in May 2006. Her daughter is a dermatopathology fellow at UTMB. April O’Quinn ’71, New Orleans, Louisiana, retired in June 2004. She was chairman and the Maxwell E. Lapham Professor of the Tulane University School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Barbara Thompson ’71, the chair of UTMB’s Department of Family Medicine and the assistant dean of faculty practice, assumed the added responsibilities of medical director of UTMB’s outpatient clinics and community-based clinics in September 2004. James Copeland ’72 is an internist living in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Jan. His daughter, Lauren, graduated from UTMB’s School of Medicine in 2004 and is now an anesthesia resident at UTMB. His other two daughters, Ashley and Claire, live in New York City. Robert Hunnicutt ’72, Fort Worth, Texas, has been appointed to serve on the Texas Medical Association Foundation’s development committee. He is a delegate to the TMA House of Delegates, a member of the TMA Patient-Physician Advocacy Committee, and a past president of the Tarrant County Medical Society. Hunnicutt is an orthopedic surgeon. Sharon Raimer ’72, Galveston, was the 2003-04 vice president of the Texas Dermatological Society. William Wagner ’72, Las Vegas, Nevada, retired from general surgery in June 2003. He is now a licensed substitute teacher for Clark County schools. He also enjoys golf, hiking, and traveling. Joe Alexander ’73 is a certified forensic document examiner and handwriting expert. His expertise has been requested by people in 46 states and 17 foreign countries over the past four years. In addition, he has the unique ability to correlate health concerns and handwriting that allows him to give an expert opinion about a person’s mental state at the time of authoring a document. Alexander is a board-certified pediatrician and continues to practice medicine in Abilene, Texas. William R. Beaty ’73, Waco, was recognized in December 2003 for his service as president of McLennan County Medical Society and vice chairman of the board of directors for Hillcrest Health Systems. He continues to practice gynecology, having stopped obstetrics in 2000. Beaty and his wife, Danna, recently celebrated 30 years of marriage. Michael Malloy ’73, Galveston, was one of nine UTMB faculty members to be listed once again in the consumer guide America’s Top Doctors as among the country’s top specialists in their respective fields. He is a professor of pediatric neonatology and was listed in the 2004 and 2003 editions of the publication. Thomas Norris ’73, Seattle, Washington, was named vice dean for academic affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine in June 2004. He is a professor of family medicine, an adjunct professor of medicine, health services, medical education and biomedical informatics, as well as executive director of the University of Washington Physicians Network. William Peery ’73, associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita, received the Faculty Teaching Award during residency graduation ceremonies in June 2002. The annual award recognizes one faculty member for outstanding teaching abilities in a particular specialty. This is the second award for Peery, who was also honored in 1988. It complements a “Jayhawker M.D. Teaching Award” selected by medical students, and a “W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence,” both presented in 1999. J. Marc Shabot ’73, Galveston, received the Marcel Patterson-Robert Nelson Award from the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy in November 2006. It is the organization’s highest award and honors gastroenterologists who make exceptional contributions to the field. Shabot has been a faculty member at UTMB since 1978 and has served on more than forty institutional committees involving patient care or medical education. He also received the American College of Physicians (ACP) Laureate Award at the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine’s annual scientific meeting in November 2004. The award honors individuals who demonstrate an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, or research, and to the ACP. Shabot was governor of the ACP Texas Southern Region from 1999-2003 and is the only person from Galveston ever elected to serve as ACP governor. Robert Hendler ’74, Dallas, has been appointed chief medical officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s Texas region. He joined Tenet in 1998 and also serves as its vice president of physician relations. Hendler, a board-certified gastroenterologist, continues to teach at the UT Southwestern Medical School where he is an associate clinical professor. Deborah Peel ’74, an Austin psychiatrist, was appointed a member of the Council of Advisors for the Michael Tigar Human Rights Center for her expertise in medical privacy. The council advises the Texas Civil Rights Project and believes the loss of medical privacy is a crucial civil rights issue. Rodney Peveto ’74, Plano, Texas, retired as a diagnostic radiologist in July 2002. Ben Raimer ’74 received the 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Galveston Kingfest Committee, which guides the local celebration of Dr. King’s birthday. The award is presented annually to an individual who has helped to support a higher quality of life for people in Galveston. Raimer is vice president and chief executive officer for community health services at UTMB. Robert Stroud ’74, Austin, Texas, adopted a daughter, Katrina, from China on Thanksgiving Day 2003. He has four other biological children and Stroud says that they are all blessings from God. Phillip Sutton ’74, a general surgeon living in Houston, was the 2003 president of the Houston Academy of Medicine at the Harris County Medical Society (HCMS). The Houston Academy of Medicine, established in 1915, is the scientific and charitable organization of HCMS physicians. In addition to serving on the Houston Academy of Medicine’s board of trustees for three years, Sutton has served the HCMS in many capacities, including secretary/treasurer, chair of the Council of Hospital Chiefs of Staff, and alternative delegate to the Texas Medical Center. James Davidson ’75 retired in March 2003 after practicing internal medicine in Fort Worth, Texas, for 25 years. Michael Dobbs ’75, Hutchinson, Kansas, retired from practice in December 2003 to return to school to pursue a degree in pastoral ministry at Hesston College. Dave Kittrell ’75, San Antonio, was elected to serve as Texas Section Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists through 2007. He was also re-elected to a three-year term as vice chairman of the Texas Medical Liability Trust Board and has completed nine years on the Texas Medical Association Council on Legislation. Paul Moore ’75, an Austin, Texas, endocrinologist, received the Distinguished Service Award form the Austin Diagnostic Clinic. He was cited for excellence in the practice of medicine and for his commitment to patients. James Record ’75 closed his general surgical practice in 1996 and became the plant physician at the Invista plant (formerly DuPont) in Victoria, Texas, in December 2003. Joe Todd ’75 became the 104th president of the Tarrant County Medical Society (TCMS) in April 2006. He has served on the TCMS Board of Directors since 1995 and has chaired the medical society’s Medical Legislation Committee since 2001. He is an orthopedic surgeon and lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Stephen Burkhart ’76 is an orthopedist living in San Antonio, Texas. He is president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. E.A. (Andy) Clark ’76, Longview, Texas, was selected for the newly-created position of chief medical information officer by Triad Hospitals, Inc., in June 2006. He will lead an initiative designed to position Triad’s hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers across the country as leaders in clinical excellence and business transformation. Clark is board certified in pediatrics and currently serves as a member of the Longview Regional Medical Center’s board of trustees and Triad’s national Physician Leadership Group. Robert Light ’76, Houston, was appointed to the Texas Medical Association Insurance Trust’s board of trustees in September 2006. Michael McKinney ’76, Houston, was named chancellor of the Texas A&M University System by its board of regents in November 2006. He will oversee the A&M System’s 17 member institutions and system offices. Since September 2003, he has served as senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. McKinney joined the UT System in 2002 after serving as chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry from August 2001 to November 2002. Michael McKinney ’76 was named the sole finalist for chancellor of the Texas A&M University System by the board of regents in November 2006. Once confirmed, he will oversee the A&M System’s 17 member institutions and system offices. He has been senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston since September 2003. McKinney joined the UT System in 2002 after serving as chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry from August 2001 to November 2002. Clark Ballard, Jr. ’77, moved to Bellevue, Washington, from Redding, California, in September 2000. He is a psychiatrist and hopes to start practicing part-time in July 2005. Joseph Coselli ’77, Houston, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, received the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association’s President’s Award in November 2003. The annual award is presented to the author of the paper judged most outstanding during the previous year’s annual meeting. Judging is based on originality, content and presentation. Rachel Griffith ’77 is doing general pediatric locum tenens in the Dallas, Texas, area after 21 years of practicing neonatology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Dallas Baptist University, her alma mater. Bryan Novosad ’77 returned to family practice at the Texas Gulf Coast Medical Group in Galveston. He practiced administrative medicine for fifteen years prior to that, most recently in Waco. His wife, Jan (UTMB SON ’75) is a medical malpractice/defense legal nurse practicing in Houston. They have three daughters and live in Kingwood, a suburb of Houston. Phillip Romero ’77 had his first book, "Phantom Stress: Four Steps to Lifelong Intimacy," published by Random House in early 2006. The book is for the mass market and explains how attachment patterns from childhood can trigger stress hormones and brain circuits to overwhelm the deepest love. Romero is an assistant professor of child psychiatry in New York at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Randall Stickney ’77, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology in May 2004. Stickney has affiliations with the Hillcrest Medical Center and Southcrest Hospital, both in Tulsa, as well as the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He is active in many medical societies and has been president of the Oklahoma State Radiological Society, where he now serves as a councilor. Timothy Atha ’78 has joined the Samaritan Heart & Vascular Institute in Corvallis, Oregon. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. Before moving to Oregon, Atha practiced invasive and interventional cardiology in Arkansas for 14 years. Sue Chance ’78, Cleveland, South Carolina, is semi-retired and only works two days a week as a senior psychiatrist at the Pickens County Mental Health Clinic. This keeps her happy and gives her plenty of time for reading, cooking, and walking her golden retriever. Kevin Hiler ’79 is a general surgeon living in San Francisco. He is chairman of the Department of Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center. Warren Lichliter ’78, Dallas, Texas, is a past president of the Dallas County Medical Society as well as program director of colon rectal surgery and an associate professor of general surgery at Baylor University Medical Center. Mickey Bush ’79 spent 20 years as a family physician in private practice in Missouri City, Texas. She is now into ranching in the Hill Country and raises registered Irish Dexter miniature cattle that are shown throughout the United States. Bush is a widow and has no grandchildren yet. Her married daughter, Susan, lives in Dallas. Douglas Douthit ’79, Wichita, Kansas, has practiced at Wichita Ob/Gyn Associates with the same partners for over 21 years. He and his wife, Denise, have two children. He says hello to all his old Phi Chi friends. Trent Emmett ’79, an anesthesiologist in Abilene, Texas, is happy that his daughter, Alisha, is in her fourth year at UTMB School of Medicine. She was totally amazed when Junior recognized and called her dad by name as they walked into Sonny’s after twenty years. Emmett says that the family atmosphere of UTMB and Phi Beta make it a special place. John Fraser, Jr. ’79 was mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom in February 2003. He served as a preventive medicine officer with the 804th Medical Brigade in Kuwait and Iraq. He has now returned to his UTMB pediatric emergency medicine faculty position. Jay Portnow ’79/80 enjoyed his class reunion at Homecoming 2005. He is in private practice in rehabilitation medicine, is divorced, and has two sons. One is a freshman in college in New York and the other is a junior in high school. Neither one is interested in medicine.

1980s

Gary Etter ’80 is vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at John Peter Smith Hospital and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) in Fort Worth. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at UNTHSC and director of psychiatry emergency services at John Peter Smith. Etter lives in Irving, Texas, with his wife, Susan, who is a children’s minister at their church. Michael Fenoglio ’80, Denver, Colorado, is on the board of directors of the American Hernia Society and the American Society of General Surgeons (ASGS). He was the 2004-2005 secretary of the ASGS and will be its president in 2006. Don Geeze ’80 is completing his last assignment in the United States Air Force. He is a medical inspector and deputy director of medical operations in the Air Force Inspection Agency and works closely with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). He will retire as a colonel after 28 years of active duty, and remain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Mary Ann, and their three children. While in the Air Force, he completed residencies in psychiatry, aerospace medicine and occupational medicine. He plans to work part-time for JCAHO and be an aviation medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration. Robert Hoddeson ’80, Alpharetta, Georgia, is president of ENT of Atlanta. His daughter, Beth, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2004 and entered the Medical College of Georgia. Robert Hunter ’80, Houston, is board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with added qualifications in addiction psychiatry. He is also board certified in occupational medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine. J. James Rohack ’80, a top doc in Texas medicine, is now a top doc on the national scale. He is chair of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees and has served in multiple roles in the national association as well as holding several high-ranking posts within the Texas Medical Association, including its presidency. Rohack is a senior staff cardiologist at Scott & White Clinic in Temple, Texas, a professor at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, and medical director of the Scott & White Health Plan, a non-profit plan nationally recognized for quality health care delivery. In November 2003, he began a three-year term on the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality. The council advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on matters related to enhancing the quality, improving the outcomes, and reducing the costs of health care services, as well as improving access to such services. Kim Sherrill ’80, did locum tenens in Fairbanks, Alaska, while fulfilling a dream of seeing the Aurora Borealis. Ellen Wetter-Brenner ’80 is happily living in New York City and working as an imaging radiologist at the New York University School of Medicine. William Brelsford ’81 is a rheumatologist who has been in a great private practice in his home town of Tyler, Texas, for almost 20 years now. He is blessed with two children, both of whom would like to take over his practice someday. Both of them would also like to attend UTMB like Brelsford did and his father (Homer Brelsford ’44) did before him. Elizabeth (Matthews) Brunt ’81, Clayton, Missouri, is a professor of pathology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a member of the Saint Louis University Liver Center. She specializes in liver pathology and is the current president of the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, an international organization of hepatic pathologists devoted to the study of liver disease, pathology and pathophysiology. She is the proud mother of two young men and remains married to her husband of twenty-one years, who is an academic surgeon at Washington University. Brunt sends greetings to all of her classmates. Lisa Flores ’81, Chester, Pennsylvania, is practicing general pediatrics at a community health center that serves economically disadvantaged families from several nearby counties. She thinks people bored with Texas should visit historic and colorful Pennsylvania. Mary Dale Peterson ’81, Corpus Christi, Texas, is the 2006-07 director of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Randell Powell ’81 joined the faculty at UTMB in June 2003 as an assistant professor of neurosurgery. Catherine Scholl ’81, Austin, Texas, is the 2006-07 president-elect of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists. Kathleen Soch ’81, Corpus Christi, is secretary/treasurer of the Texas Geriatrics Society. J. Patrick Walker ’81 is chief of surgery at East Texas Medical Center Crockett in Crockett, Texas, and trauma director of its Level III trauma center. In January 2006, he was elected an at-large director of the American Board of Surgery (ABS). Walker was one of only three physicians chosen from more than 100 nominations received through an open nomination process and was recognized as an experienced community-based surgeon with an unusual record of achievement. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Texas Surgical Society, Singleton Surgical Society, American Society of General Surgeons and the Texas Medical Association’s Patient-Physician Advisory Committee. Walker also currently serves as chairman of the South Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons Committee for Applicants, is secretary of the Houston County Medical Society and has served as an associate examiner for the ABS surgery certification examination. Neil Whitaker ’81 left his 14-year internal medicine private practice in January 2002 to accept the position of regional medical director for Intermountain Health Care in Provo, Utah. He has responsibilities in three hospitals with combined medical staffs of nearly 700 providers and 600 inpatient beds. Cheryl Alston ’82 is a regional medical officer for the United States Department of State. She was posted in El Salvador for several years and transferred to Santiago, Chile, in 2004. Justin Bartos III ’82 has been appointed to the JPS Health Network Board of Managers by the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. He is a former president of the Texas Association of Family Physicians, serves on the board of the Tarrant County Academy of Medicine, is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and is an alternate delegate to AAFP’s Congress of Delegates. Bartos is a board-certified family physician in private practice in Keller, Texas. Patti Patterson ’82, Lubbock, Texas, was the recipient of the 2005 YWCA Women of Excellence Award in Science and Medicine. She is vice president for rural and community health and a professor of pediatrics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Patterson is a former commissioner of health for the state of Texas, and has participated in 27 medical mission trips to South America, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Peter Proctor ’82, Houston, recently had an invention placed in the electrical collection of the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. From his pre-medical school days, his 1974 “gadget” was the first electronic device using an organic polymer as its active element and the first demonstration of a high electrical conductivity state in an organic compound. More recently, this technology has resulted in things such as super bright color displays on cell phones and car radios, as well as organic polymer batteries and ultracapacitors. A somewhat later paper than Proctor’s on conductive organic polymers won the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Clifford Simmang ’82, director of colon and rectal surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, was elected a member of the Advisory Council for the Association of Program Directors for Colon and Rectal Surgery. He will serve from October 2003 to October 2006. He began serving a two-year term as an American Medical Association representative of the Residency Review Committee for Colon and Rectal Surgery in January 2005. The committee—with representation from the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, and the AMA—maintains the quality of graduate medical education in colon and rectal surgery. Allan Supak ’82 is the father of four and is freezing in fabulous, frosty Bozeman, Montana. He is an emergency room physician at Livingston Memorial Hospital. Kyle Janek ’83, Houston, was named the 2004 Citizen of the Year by The Galveston County Daily News. Janek is a Texas State Senator and has represented the southern part of Galveston County since 2003. Jeffrey Jekot ’83, Austin, Texas, is the 2006-07 treasurer of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists. Patrick Pevoto ’83, Austin, Texas, was elected secretary of the Texas Medical Association Insurance Trust in September 2006. He also has served on its board of trustees. Susan John ’84, Galveston, was appointed term chair of the Department of Radiology at the UT Medical School in Houston in April 2004. John, who was vice chair of radiology and is the chief of pediatric radiology, is the first female chair in the history of the medical school. Napoleon Lee ’84, Dallas, graduated from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in December 2004. J. Timothy Love ’84, Dearborn, Michigan, was elected chief of staff at Oakwood Annapolis Hospital in April 2007. He will offer input and direction representing medical staff and serve as a liaison between hospital administration, medical staff and the board of trustees for the quality of medical care delivered at the facility. Love specializes in critical care and internal medicine and earned a master’s degree in medical management from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Mark Redrow ’84, Fort Worth, Texas, is vice president of the American Cancer Society, Texas Division, Inc. Winston Watkins ’84 is a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. During the annual School of Allied Health Sciences awards ceremony in March 2007, he received special recognition from the Physician Assistant Program for the excellent clinical education he provides in his community-based clinic. Ross Scalise ’85 is a family physician at Kaiser Permanente Southern California Medical Group in Fontana, California. Michael Seale ’85, assistant dean for correctional medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been appointed to serve on the Texas Commission on Jail Standards by Governor Rick Perry. Seale is also the medical director of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department and a member of the American Correctional Association. He has earned correctional health professional certification from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. Carl (Tony) Dunn ’86, Waco, Texas, was the 2004-2005 president of the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Thomas Gudewicz ’86 is a founding member of the American Board of Disaster Medicine instituted by the American Board of Physician Specialties. When certification for this subspecialty begins in the fall of 2006, it will be a first in the history of medicine. Gudewicz believes that the national certification of core competencies in disaster medicine recognizes a unique level of physician training and experience that can influence research, public and private policy. Leslie Arnold ’87 is marking her 10-year anniversary of the good life in Idaho. She lives in Boise and enjoys her work as a medical consultant for those applying for Social Security disability, screening primarily pediatric, neurology and oncology cases. She has two sons and would love to hear from classmates via e-mail at lezarno@mindspring.com. Andrew Heiner ’87 is doing well as a gastroenterologist in Salt Lake City, Utah. He now has five children under the age of eleven. Mike “Lif” Lifshen ’87 recently joined Capital Family Practice in Austin, Texas. He married Marny Lochhead in March 2001 and, in September 2003, they had a beautiful baby girl, Samantha. With the help of a group of nurses, translators and a medical technician, Richard Declan Fleming ’88, Austin, Texas, collected 2,600 pounds of medical supplies donated by area practitioners and pharmacies and traveled to a remote area of Indonesia to provide needed medical attention for victims of the tsunami that ravaged the country in December 2004. His story was featured in the May/June 2005 Travis County Medical Society Journal. Fleming served his residency in general surgery at UTMB from 1989–1994 and joined the Department of Surgery faculty in 1997. He left UTMB in 2001 to join the Surgical Association of Austin, P.A. Don Hilton ’88, San Antonio, is secretary of the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons. Richard Noel ’88, Spring, Texas, is still in private psychiatric practice with Dr. Gary Miller (UTMB ‘60). He sees patients each afternoon and spends his mornings at Kingwood Pines Hospital, where he serves as president of the medical staff. Noel remains active in organized medicine and was recently elected to the Harris County Medical Society’s Board on Socioeconomics. His weekends are devoted to his daughter, Claire, and his wife, Kathy. Thuan (Tom) Tu ’88 is in private anesthesiology practice in Houston. He and his wife, Dianne, have three young children. Sheryl Williams ’88, a general internist in Amarillo, Texas, was the 2003-04 president of the Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, the Texas chapter of the American College of Physicians. Chik-Fong Wei ’88, Sugar Land, Texas, was named chief of the medical staff at Kingwood Medical Center in March 2007. He will serve as the chief administrative officer and chair of the Medical Executive Committee. Wei is a clinical assistant professor of medicine for the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Joel Blumberg ’89, Austin, Texas, became medical director of Children’s Hospital of Austin (CHOA) in 2003 and also continues in private practice. He married Ellen Veviel in November 2002 and is the proud dad of two children. David Chin ’89 is in the United States Air Force and has been reassigned to Lajes Field in the Azores. He is a flight surgeon and chief of clinical services. Christy Jackson ’89 is an associate professor of neurosciences and the director of stroke prevention at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She recently brought her daughter, Jessica, to Galveston so that Jessica could see where she was born. Seeing UTMB, Old Red, and the Phi Rho fraternity house through her daughter’s eyes was magical. Jackson would love to hear from old friends. Contact her by e-mail at cmjackson@ucsd.edu. Philip Jameson ’89 is enjoying life with his wife, Marjorie, in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico. Karla Wild ’89 has moved back to Galveston. She and her husband are semi-retired and she is working more or less half-time at Pearland Pediatrics with Debbie Gant ’89, a friend from medical school. They both have grandkids now—my, how time flies!

1990s

Shawn Newlands ’90, Galveston, become chair of UTMB’s Department of Otolaryngology in September 2003. He is one of the first graduates of UTMB’s combined M.D./Ph.D. program and also received a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. John Petrozza ’90 was promoted to director of the Division of Reproductive Medicine and IVF at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, the oldest and largest teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. Petrozza also represents MGH’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as one of five minimally invasive surgeons throughout the hospital operating in the new “operating room of the future,” a venture supported by the Center for Interaction of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Deepak Srivastava ’90 is the director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of California, San Francisco. He is taking a genetic and developmental-biology approach to heart disease, including examining the role of gene regulation and cell differentiation. Srivastava was a professor of pediatrics and molecular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, from 1996-2004. Sue Prill ’91 loves her private oncology practice in Piney Flats, Tennessee. She has a daughter in college and her husband, James, is president of a blacksmith guild. She enjoys singing in the church choir and assisting a teenage youth group when not taking care of her breast cancer patients. Ranbir Sharma ’91 is president and chief executive officer of Cleburne Pediatrics, P.A., in Cleburne, Texas. He was the 2004 chief of the medical staff at Harris Methodist Walls Regional Hospital. Anna Viltz ’91 married Earl Jimmison in June 2004. She is a psychiatrist working at the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority in Houston. Chantel Euler LaHaye ’92, Ville Platte, Louisiana, received an M.B.A. in 2001 and is now working as the administrator of a group practice. Her husband, Marcel, is a urologist in the group. They have five children: Jordan, 11, Joshua, 9, Ellis, 8, Jack, 4, and Luke, 1. Tracey Weir ’92 has been practicing emergency medicine at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, since 2000. She finished her residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 2000 after being in the Army with the 101st Airborne Division for four years. Weir, and her husband, Hayden Johnson, have a son, Jake, who was born in March 2005. Yutaka Wajima ’93 recently moved to Austin and says that it is great to be back in Texas. He joined Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, P.A., and practices at the Heart Hospital of Austin. Michael Yorek ’93 is a major in the United States Air Force, assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. As a flight surgeon, he deployed to Kuwait in March 2003. He would love to hear from classmates by email at Michael.yorek@salem.af.mil. Jill Airola ’94 is living in Carmel, California. (She needed to be near a beach!) She has two beautiful boys and a great husband and is really enjoying practicing pediatrics. Classmates can email her at jillairola@mac.com. Matthew Hay ’94, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UTMB, and Nancy Hughes ’94, an internist at UTMB, both made the list of the 2004 Texas Super Doctors published in the December 2004 issue of Texas Monthly. They were among seven UTMB physicians selected by some 52,000 of their peers to be among the best of the best in Texas. Greg Pennock ’94 is in private hematology/oncology practice in Pittsburg. He and his wife, Danielle, have three children. They sure miss the warm Texas weather. Joe Volpe ’94 is in Austin, Texas, practicing musculoskeletal medicine, spine care and sports medicine. He is the team doctor for his old high school’s hockey team, the Austin Ice Bats, and is co-medical director for the Lance Armstrong Foundation Ride for the Roses. Volpe also became “almost famous” when he was quoted in a patient profile article in a May 2003 issue of People magazine. Lauren (Moonan) Yorek ’94 is married to Michael Yorek. They have two children, Meredyth and Greyson. She enjoyed seeing classmates at her 10-year reunion in March 2004. Jason Brockway ’95, Kilgore, Texas, is practicing general family medicine with hospital privileges; he stopped obstetrics in 2004. He and his wife have four young children and Brockway is enjoying small town practice and family life. Christy (Batres) Fredenberg ’95 is a practicing pathologist at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Her husband, Patrick, is a radiologist. They are the parents of Mara and Jenna, and are expecting another child soon. Lucy Graubard ’95 lives in Houston with her husband, Robert, and their two children, Rachel and Ervin. She is in her sixth year of private practice at Pediatrics of Southwest Houston. Robert Kent ’95 is a flight surgeon on active duty with the United States Air Force and is stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Michael Moustakakis ’95 is practicing nephrology in Hartford, Connecticut, and is active in residency education through the University of Connecticut. Sunita (Bilimoria) Palmer ’95 is in private practice at Clear Lake Pediatric Clinic, in Clear Lake, Texas. She has been married six years and has two children. Richard Schaffer, Jr. ’95, a family physician, is in private practice near Roanoke, Virginia. His wife, Christy Cone, also is a family physician. Todd Thames ’95 completed nine years of active duty in the United States Air Force and accepted a position on the faculty of the Christus Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program in San Antonio, Texas. He and his wife, Debbie Cardell ’95, and their two daughters recently returned from their tour in Germany. Antony Wollaston ’95 accepted an emergency physician position in Quincy, Illinois. Arlette (Gilmore) Brown ’96 completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at UTMB in 2000, followed by a fellowship in breast imaging at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She now works at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston. Her husband, Jimmy, is a real estate broker. They welcomed the first child, Bryce, in February 2006. Quang Henderson ’96 lives in northwest Houston and has been an emergency medicine physician for five years. She is married to Kerry Kirkman, who graduated from UTMB’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program in 2003. He is now in solo practice at Cy-Fair Hospital and at Willowbrook Methodist Hospital. They have a son, Tien, and a daughter, Lilan. Tim Martindale ’96, Hewitt, Texas, has been in private practice for five years. He is medical director of an indigent patient drug detox program, was the 2001-2002 chairman of family medicine at Providence Hospital, the 2002 chairman of its residency program board, and the 2003 secretary of Providence’s hospital staff. Angela Shippy ’96 has been named medical director at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas. She is responsible for medical staff quality improvement initiatives and also will serve as the medical director for the Patient Financial Assistance Program. Shippy is board certified in internal medicine and has been a hospitalist at St. Luke’s for six years. Michele Slogoff ’96, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is practicing colon and rectal surgery at Loyola University. She is married to Michael Rashid ’98, and they recently welcomed their first child, Chloe Isabelle. Michael is in a private practice urology group in the suburbs of Chicago. Cassius Drake ’97, Lakeway, Texas, announced the birth of his first child, Noah, in April 2004. Laurie Hogarth ’97, Houston, is a general pediatrician for Texas Children’s Pediatric Associates of West Houston. Kelly Lobb ’97 is a psychiatrist practicing in the Bryan–College Station, Texas, area. He is the medical director of St. Joseph Occupational Health, St. Joseph Spine Center, St. Joseph Pain Center and Central Texas Rehabilitation Center. He and his wife, Kasey, have two children. Ryan O’Quinn ’97 has been in private, solo dermatology/Mohs surgery practice in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002. He completed his internship at Yale University in 1998, a dermatology residency at Vanderbilt University in 2001 and a fellowship in Mohs micrographic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Stacey, have two children, Hayes, 7, and Jack, 5. Robert Quillin ’97 was elected Physician of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2003 by the employees of the Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. The award recognizes physicians who practice above and beyond the mission and values of the hospital. Quillin was recognized for being a team player that treats others with respect and dignity and demonstrates extra sensitivity to his patients and their families. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and has his practice, Bay Area Pediatrics, in League City, Texas. Amy Simon ’97, a plastic surgeon, finished a reconstructive breast fellowship in December 2002 and a cosmetic/ oculoplastic fellowship in June 2003. She opened her own plastic surgery practice in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in cosmetic surgery, breast surgery, and oculoplastics. She says it’s a lot of work, but well worth it! Jennifer Thill ’97, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, earned a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and joined the Health Care Practice at the law firm of Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro. After a residency in the Department of Anesthesiology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, she served as an emergency room physician at three facilities in the Triad region of North Carolina. Robin Armstrong ’98 practices internal medicine at Mainland Medical Center in Texas City, Texas, and is president of the Galveston County Medical Society. He also is active in politics and was elected the first black vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party in June 2006. He lives in Dickinson, Texas, with his wife, Martha, and their two sons, Daniel and Gabriel. Richard Garza ’98 and Cheyanne Casas ’98 are living in Chicago and practicing at Loyola University Chicago’s Medical Center. He is a radiation oncologist, and she is a family medicine physician. Sharon (Ezell) Gerlach ’98 is currently on staff at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. She completed her internal medicine residency there in 2001 followed by a general internal medicine fellowship in 2002. She married her high school sweetheart, Gregg, and they have two sons. Abigail Martin ’98 is the administrative chief resident in general surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She started a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in July 2005. Swen Bao Phuong Nguyen ’98 is practicing at Driscoll Children’s Hospital (DCH) in Corpus Christi, Texas, after completing a residency in anesthesiology at UTMB and a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at DCH. Her email address is swen_md@hotmail.com. Jennifer Walden ’98 is an aesthetic plastic surgery fellow at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York City. She completed her plastic surgery residency in June 2003. Future plans include returning to Austin, Texas, to open a private practice there. Douglas Won ’98 was honored as an Outstanding Graduate by the school board in Irving, Texas, in April 2007. He is a spine surgeon specialist for the Southwest Spine Institute and also serves as a clinical assistant professor for UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Bradley Woods ’98 finished his general surgery residency in 2003 and is now stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, as a staff general surgeon on active duty. He lives there with his wife and two children. Martha Armstrong ’99 is doing locum tenens, and her husband, Robin Armstrong ’99, works as a hospitalist. They live in Dickinson, Texas, with their sons, Daniel and Gabriel, who were born on the same day (March 31) two years apart. Louis “Andy” Davenport ’99, Galveston, is a fighter pilot with the United States Air Force. He began a residency in internal medicine/aerospace medicine in June 2004. His wife, Meredith Doughty Davenport ’99, completed her ob/gyn residency at UTMB and is now a clinical instructor. Eric Feliberti ’99 is a surgery resident at UTMB. He and his wife live in Galveston with their daughter, Anastasia. David M. Green ’99, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and a staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, was recently awarded a $100,000 pilot study research grant to study arthritis. The two-year grant will help fund his research into how acute inflammatory leukocytes contribute to the destruction of cartilage. Erik Johnson ’99 is working in Kingwood, Texas, as a family practitioner. He says that domestic life is good. He and his wife, Karina, have two beautiful children, Kara and Luke. Krista Turner ’99 finished her general surgery residency in Chicago in August 2005. She is back home in Houston doing a surgical critical care/trauma fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Melissa (Hubbard) Urrea ’99 is practicing family medicine in Austin.

2000s

Martin Auster ’00 lives in New York and is a biotechnology analyst at GLG Partners, a global hedge fund. Auster works with Daniel Beale (UTMB ’01) whom he considers to be one of the finest biotech investors today. Stephanie Booth ’00 is in a rheumatology fellowship at the University of Chicago. She sent the following news about classmates: Alicia Romero is doing a cardiology fellowship at Emory; Wes Calhoun is in a nephrology fellowship in New Mexico; Luis Casaubon is in an endocrinology fellowship in Tampa, Florida; and Kelly Qatsha and Todd Oberle got married and have a daughter. They are in internal medicine and urology, respectively, in Maryland. Barbara Bryant ’00, League City, Texas, was profiled in the July 2005 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. The story was about how she fulfilled her dream of becoming a doctor despite a 17-year delay to raise her daughter, Mindy, as a single mom. The kicker to the story is that Mindy is now a third-year medical student at UTMB. Bryant completed her pathology residency (as chief resident) at UTMB in June 2005 and accepted a National Institutes of Health fellowship in Bethesda, Maryland. Gerald (Ray) Callas ’00, Beaumont, Texas, married Lisa Summerville in May 2003. Their first daughter, Emerie, was born in Galveston on Christmas Day 2004. Michael Figueroa ’00 completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2003. He did a year as chief resident from 2003-2004 and is now in a pulmonary/critical care fellowship. He has a beautiful daughter, Mia Isabella. Russ Fothergill ’00 is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and clerkship director at Scott & White Hospital–Texas A&M University Health Science Center in Temple, Texas. He lives in Belton, Texas, and has two children. Hilda Gonzalez-Saenz ’00 graduated from the Clinton Memorial Hospital family practice residency program in Wilmington, Ohio, in June 2004. She works for La Esperanza Health Center in San Angelo, Texas. Her husband, Major Manuel Saenz, was transferred from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas in July 2004. Their daughter, Briana, was born in February 2004. Richard Helmer IV ’00 is in his second cardiothoracic fellowship year at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He lives in Irving, Texas, along with his wife, Holly, and their children, Rich, Elizabeth and Katherine. Bridget Holden ’00 has completed her general surgery residency at Baylor University Medical Center. She is now in private practice in Dallas, Texas, where she lives with her husband, Michael Goldman, and their three children, Gray, Ashley and Anna Katherine. Fausto Meza ’00 and Michelle Meza ’01 were blessed with their second child, Julia, who was born in January 2007. Fausto completed his geriatric fellowship and now works as an assistant nursing home director and faculty member at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Cornell. He will graduate from Columbia University in July 2007 with a master’s degree in public policy and administration. Michelle also is at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Cornell and will complete her neonatology fellowship there in June 2007. They both will return to Texas in July 2007. Michelle will work as an attending neonatologist at McAllen Medical Center and Fausto will serve as a hospitalist at Harlingen Medical Center on faculty with UT–San Antonio. Jennifer Rittenberry ’00 is doing an endocrinology fellowship at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband, Robert Czapski, have a son, Sean. Noel Snowberger ’00 is completing her gastroenterology fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She plans to practice in Dallas, where she lives with her two children, Zane and Zoe. Charles Teeple V ’00 completed his urology residency at LSU–Shreveport in July 2005. He is practicing urology in Amarillo, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Susan, and their three children, Chase, Hudson and Evie. Eric Wroten ’00 recently completing a one-year hand surgery fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University/The Philadelphia Hand Center and plans to return to Texas to begin practice. He and his wife, Cynda, have two sons, Luke and Gil. Eve (Sansone) Betancourt ’01 recently completed a tour in the Navy as a general practitioner. She lives in Galveston and plans to start a pathology residency at UTMB. Her first child, a girl, was born in May 2005. Ann (Bray) Buchanan ’01, moved to Austin, Texas, in July 2005 after completing her residency in emergency medicine at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, where she served as chief resident. She and her husband celebrated the birth of their first child, Brayden, in December 2004. Andrew Burrows ’01, Tampa, Florida, is a vitreoretinal fellow at the University of South Florida. Juan Perez ’01 graduated from the Mayo Clinic Family Practice Residency Program in 2004. He is in solo practice at the El Paso Wellness and Healthcare Center, P.A., in El Paso, Texas. Stephanie Sim ’01, Houston, completed her psychiatry residency at Baylor in June 2005. She plans to open a private practice in Sugar Land, Texas, that will offer medication management and psychotherapy. Derek Smith ’01 is a fellow in the cardiac transplant unit at Loyola University in Chicago. He is board-certified in internal medicine. Harvey Castro ’02 has teamed up with an interventional cardiologist and a nutritionist to produce a new vitamin complex, called "Active Heart," to aid heart patients. For more information, visit his web site at www.vitalcomplex.com. Castro has changed from a family practice residency to emergency medicine and is currently at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His second son was born in Bethlehem in December 2003. He was named Zachary Asa Castro (ZAC) which means “physician/healer and God remembered.” Kelly Coleman ’02 completed her pediatric residency at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 2005. She has returned to Houston to pursue a career in pediatrics and childhood obesity. Ricki Fram ’02 has completed two years of general surgery residency and is currently doing two years of burn surgery research at Shriners Hospital in Galveston. Lilane Reifenberg ’02, Jacksonville, Florida, is the chief resident of the senior Emergency Medicine class at the University of Florida Health Science Center. Christopher Stephens ’02 is a trauma anesthesiology fellow at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Hangnga Vu ’03 is doing well in California at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She misses everyone and wishes all of her former classmates the best. Sean Ashrafian ’04 and Matthew Green ’04 are both second-year residents at the University of Kansas School of Medicine–Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program in Wichita, Kansas. Brent Spencer ’04, Temple, Texas, married Elyse Alexander in August 2005. After completing an internal medicine internship at UMTB in June 2005, he started a dermatology residency at Scott & White–Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Deaths

Samuel Schwartzberg ’29, San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 2006

Dan Golenternek ’34, Los Angeles, California, January 27, 2004

Milton M. Rosenzweig ’34, San Antonio, Texas, December 12, 2003

John H. Barganier ’35, Odessa, Texas, September 7, 2006

Murphy Bounds '35, Gunter, Texas, July 4, 2005

William M. Donohue ’35, Houston, September 10, 2006

Earl Gaston ’35, Kingsville, Texas, February 20, 2005

Causey C. Quillian ’35, Karnes City, Texas, March 28, 2006

Joseph M. Loewenstein ’35, Midland, Texas, February 7, 2007

Seth L. Witcher ’35, Clifton, Texas, April 2, 2003

H. Harlan Crank ’36, Austin, June 19, 2005

Wilbur K. Green ’36, La Grange, Texas, January 29, 2004

Bernard B. Grossman ’36, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 10, 2006

Robert P. McDonald ’36, Fort Worth, Texas, October 14, 2003

Ruth E. (Snyder) Sherman '36, Northport, New York, November 11, 2002

W. Doak Blassingame ’37, Denison, Texas, March 17, 2005

William W. McKinney ’37, Fort Worth, Texas, December 27, 2002

C.T. Rives, Jr. ’37, Winters, Texas, March 21, 2005

D.J. Sibley, Jr. ’37, Austin, Texas, January 8, 2005

James D. Donovan ’38, San Antonio, Texas, February 21, 2007

James D. McCall ’38, San Antonio, February 21, 2007

William D. Seybold ’38, Dallas, Texas, July 19, 2004

Geneva Ernestine Smith ’38, Amarillo, Texas, July 8, 2002

Thomas S. Barnes ’39, Dallas, April 12, 2007

Virginia Irvine Blocker ’39, Galveston, June 9, 2005

G. Valter Brindley, Jr. ’39, Temple, Texas, June 17, 2002

Tilden L. Childs, Jr. ’39, Fort Worth, Texas, date unknown

Jack A. French ’39, San Antonio, August 6, 2005

William S. Hotchkiss ’39, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2004

Marcus L. Ross ’39, Waco, Texas, September 24, 2006

Charles B. Sadler '39, Amarillo, Texas, December 30, 2002

Luke W. Able ’40, Franklin, North Carolina, March 16, 2006

J.D. Donaldson, Jr. ’40, Lubbock, Texas, September 14, 2004

H.M. Gibson, Jr. ’40, El Paso, Texas, May 8, 2007

Daniel E. Jenkins, Jr. ’40, Houston, Texas, March 25, 2005

Jerome O. Ravel ’40, Austin, Texas, January 30, 2003

Marvin C. Schlecte ’40, Austin, March 6, 2007

Carlos D. Speck, Jr. ’40, Bastrop, Texas, November 30, 2003

John M. White, Jr. ’40, Groves, Texas, June 2001

Charles W. Bailey ’41, Austin, Texas, February 17, 2004

Henry D. Garrett ’41, El Paso, Texas, April 7, 2004

Selwyn P.R. Hutchins ’41, Houston, November 20, 2003

Alfred J. Kelly ’41, Steubenville, Ohio, May 17, 2006

Louis J. Manhoff, Jr. ’41, Spring Branch, Texas, May 5, 2003

Eugene C. McDanald ’41, Dallas, Texas, March 8, 2005

Rhoads Mustain ’41, Irving, Texas, February 8, 2004

John Q. Rounsaville ’41, De Soto, Texas, March 26, 2005

Woolworth A. Russell ’41, Amarillo, Texas, August 5, 2004

William W. Sawtelle ’41, San Antonio, Texas, December 5, 2003

Peter L. Scardino ’41, Savannah, Georgia, July 21, 2004

Oscar O. Selke, Jr. ’41, Houston, April 12, 2003

Edwin P. Tottenham ’41, San Antonio, Texas, May 1, 2004

Sam W. Wilborn ’41, Austin, December 25, 2006

Roy H. Baskin, Jr. ’42 (Mar.), Waco, Texas, April 1, 2005

Presley H. Chalmers ’42 (Mar.), Wimberley, Texas, May 4, 2004

Earl W. Clawater, Jr. ’42 (Mar.), Tyler, Texas, January 8, 2005

Emory Davenport ’42 (Mar.), Fort Worth, Texas, January 25, 2007

Clifford R. Hall ’42 (Mar.), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, May 3, 2003

Carey J. Hargrove ’42 (Mar.), Houston, January 28, 2004

James O. McBride ’42 (Mar.), Fort Worth, Texas, March 11, 2005

David R. McMillin '42 (Mar.), Lampasas, Texas, May 5, 2003

Randolph L. Schaffer ’42 (Mar.), Houston, Texas, September 27, 2004

Dorothy P. Spatz ’42 (Mar.), Long Island, New York, October 24, 2001

J. Kenneth Wiggins ’42 (Mar.), Fort Worth, Texas, May 14, 2006

John C. Allensworth '42 (Dec.), Mineral Wells, Texas, March 26, 2003

Rollin S. Fillmore ’42 (Dec.), Temple, Texas, October 16, 2006

William C. Fuqua ’42 (Dec.), Beaumont, Texas, June 2003

Moise D. Levy, Jr. ’42 (Dec.), Austin, Texas, June 15, 2003

Warren W. Moorman ’42 (Dec.), Austin, March 24, 2007

Nell W. Sanders ’42 (Dec.), Big Spring, Texas, October 30, 2004

Jay T. Shurley ’42 (Dec.), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 24, 2004

James Y. Bradfield III ’43, Dallas, January 22, 2007

Richard DeYoung, Jr. ’43, Houston, September 17, 2006

Don Carlos Duplan ’43, Port Arthur, Texas, January 22, 2006

George F. Eden ’43, Bellaire, Texas, January 2, 2007

Joaquin B. Gonzalez ’43, San Antonio, Texas, December 15, 2003

J.B. Stephens ’43, Bangs, Texas, August 2005

J. Alan Stewart ’43, Lake Jackson, Texas, January 19, 2005

Aloysius P. Thaddeus ’43, San Antonio, March 15, 2007

E. Merrill Winsett ’43, Amarillo, Texas, October 29, 2002

William D. Battle ’44, Modesto, California, February 8, 2003

Bruce H. Beard ’44, Dallas, December 27, 2006

Lemuel M. Flanary, Jr. ’44, Ruidoso, New Mexico, November 27, 2003

James M. Graham ’44, Austin, April 11, 2007

Guy W. Purnell ’44, Bellaire, Texas, December 19, 2005

John L. Roan ’44, Weatherford, Texas, April 12, 2007

Caroline W. Rowe ’44, Galveston, November 11, 2006

Edward B. Rowe ’44, Galveston, December 23, 2002

Charles F. Stringer ’44, Dallas, Texas, March 13, 2003

Dick K. Cason III ’45, Hillsboro, Texas, October 8, 2006

Eugenia Tate Gauntt ’45, Kountze, Texas, March 7, 2003

Howard LeBus ’45, Gladewater, Texas, February 24, 2006

George T. Nicolaou ’45, Dallas, February 2, 2006

Rhesa L. Penn, Jr. ’45, Austin, Texas, December 7, 2006

Jack C. Riley ’45, Fort Worth, Texas, June 28, 2003

Stanley F. Rogers ’45, Houston, Texas, January 8, 2004

William G. Smith '45, Port Lavaca, Texas, December 20, 2002

Blanche O. Terrell ’45, Fort Worth, Texas, August 22, 2004

Dale R. Rhoades ’46, Crosbyton, Texas, September 4, 2004

Melross C. Rittiman ’46, Rockport, Texas, February 25, 2003

Eva Y. Seger ’46, Victoria, Texas, April 30, 2003

August J.A. Watzlavick ’46, Schulenburg, Texas, May 17, 2005

Norman E. Wright ’46, Amarillo, Texas, March 20, 2003

Jack R. Cox ’47, Teague, Texas, January 3, 2003

Marion R. Harrington ’47, Dallas, October 6, 2003

Frank B. Higgins ’47, Manchaca, Texas, July 5, 2005

Melvin Kutschbach '47, Shreveport, Louisiana, April 3, 2004

William C. Rollo ’47, Winnie, Texas, December 2, 2006

Thomas M. Runge ’47, Austin, April 30, 2006

Jerry A. Stirman ’47, Atoka, Oklahoma, April 28, 2005

Lawrence W. Uhl ’47, Jacksonville, Texas, December 17, 2005

Stanley M. Fromm ’48, Fairfield, Connecticut, August 3, 2006

James D. Gossett ’48, Rankin, Texas, August 2, 2006

Stephen G. Maddox ’48, Fort Worth, Texas, November 19, 2002

Hyman W. Paley ’48, San Francisco, California, date unknown

Joseph E. Sharp ’48, Abilene, Texas, November 29, 2003

Randolph Clements ’49, Seattle, Washington, February 29, 2004

William S. Conkling ’49, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 1, 2006

Carson Jones ’49, Crystal River, Florida, June 9, 2004

William B. Langston, Jr. ’49, Longview, Texas, March 27, 2004

H. Thomas McSwain ’49, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, April 18, 2007

William A. Wilson III ’49, Galveston, November 11, 2006

Michel S. Damiani ’50, Houston, Texas, January 1, 2003

Daniel J. Feinstein ’50, Houston, February 13, 2007

Alexander M. Finlay ’50, Denton, Texas, December 17, 2002

William A. Goodrich, Jr. ’50, Baytown, Texas, July 1, 2004

George A. Hoffman ’50, Fort Stockton, Texas, September 19, 2004

Harold J. Joseph ’50, St. Louis, Missouri, August 18, 2005

Hugh A. Pennal ’50, Amarillo, Texas, September 26, 2004

Theodore B. Samsel, Jr. ’50, Kerrville, Texas, January 16, 2006

Margaret M. Sedberry ’50, Wimberley, Texas, June 1, 2003

John D. Smith ’50, San Antonio, August 6, 2005

Carlos Bazan, Jr. ’51, San Antonio, Texas, November 4, 2004

Grady C. Gordon ’51, Waco, Texas, April 23, 2006

Gilbert C. Gremmel ’51, San Antonio, Texas, April 5, 2004

H. Shannon Gwin ’51, Corpus Christi, Texas, February 23, 2007

Clifford R. Haynes ’51, Malakoff, Texas, January 5, 2004

Thomas R. Humphrey ’51, Wichita Falls, Texas, December 21, 2005

Joe C. Jones ’51, Tyler, Texas, August 16, 2003

Minnie L. Lancaster ’51, Grapevine, Texas, April 5, 2003

Edward P. McCabe, Jr. ’51, San Antonio, March 1, 2007

James L. Robins ’51, New Braunfels, Texas, January 22, 2006

Rex E. Thomas ’51, Dallas, August 18, 2006

Worth Walton ’51, Houston, August 27, 2003

Frank A. Wappler ’51, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 24, 2004

Martha L. Hamilton ’52, Portland, Oregon, September 12, 2003

Dan J. Hoerster ’52, Llano, Texas, October 11, 2006

Martin P. Legett ’52, Austin, Texas, July 18, 2006

James L. Reagan ’52, Beeville, Texas, February 21, 2004

John P. Stanford ’52, Kingwood, Texas, May 14, 2003

Robert J. Wagner ’52, Shiner, Texas, February 9, 2003

Stanley M. Woodward ’52, New Braunfels, Texas, July 24, 2004

William D. Baird ’53, Dallas, March 15, 2006

Ray E. Bullard, Jr. ’53, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, December 18, 2002

James J. Ferrero ’53, Houston, Texas, April 12, 2003

Leon Keeble ’53, Brownsville, Texas, January 2003

Charles B. Lambeth ’53, Odessa, Texas, January 18, 2003

Herbert G. Liberty ’53, Seguin, Texas, April 15, 2004

George J. Liebes ’53, Dallas, Texas, December 30, 2002

Samuel Mendoza ’53, Alvin, Texas, January 4, 2007

William G. Robertson, Jr. ’53, Luling, Texas, January 11, 2007

Noble L. Rumbo ’53, Richardson, Texas, January 21, 2005

Irving M. Watson, Jr. ’53, Conroe, Texas, March 12, 2007

M. Jeanne Fairweather ’54, San Antonio, June 24, 2005

Clotilde P. Garcia ’54, Corpus Christi, Texas, May 27, 2003

James I. Lindsay ’54, Bryan, Texas, May 3, 2005

Donald M. Lowery ’54, Hobbs, New Mexico, May 13, 2003

Stuart S. Nemir, Jr. ’54, Austin, February 13, 2006

Hubert M. Radke ’54, Seattle, Washington, June 11, 2005

Robert S. Ray ’54, San Antonio, Texas, October 12, 2004

Francis J. Weishuhn ’54, Smithville, Texas, August 15, 2003

Thomas H. Allison ’55, Dallas, February 24, 2005

Warren W. Binion ’55, Tyler, Texas, May 4, 2003

Robert S. Jamar, Jr. ’55, Liverpool, Texas, October 7, 2003

Jimmy R. Snoga ’55, Akron, Ohio, June 3, 2006

James G. Barton ’56, Laguna Park, Texas, July 31, 2006

Robert B. (Bob) Denman ’56, Sugar Land, Texas, February 20, 2005

Norman H. DeRuiter ’56, Schulenburg, Texas, February 24, 2005

Frank H. Gregg ’56, Austin, May 29, 2006

Forrest D. Harris ’56, Hamilton, Texas, August 10, 2005

Robert E. Hill ’56, Baytown, Texas, July 15, 2006

George R. Hugman, Jr. ’56, Gladewater, Texas, December 8, 2006

Jesse E. Justiss, Jr. ’56, Bellville, Texas, September 28, 2006

Clyde Kresge, Jr. ’56, Dallas, Texas, December 7, 2006

Claude Mattingly, Jr. ’56, Jasper, Texas, February 15, 2003

H. Lee Morton ’56, Anthony, Texas, December 18, 2003

Andrew B. Pumphrey ’56, Fort Worth, Texas, January 16, 2004

Ralph R. Renshaw, Jr. ’56, Sherman, Texas, July 30, 2005

Jose Roman, Jr. ’56, El Paso, Texas, March 15, 2005

Allen N. Weaver ’56, Rockport, Texas, March 23, 2005

Bob W. Williams ’56, Bel Air, Maryland, August 19, 2004

Jack A. Haley ’57, Houston, July 10, 2006

Murray D. Hooks ’57, Lufkin, Texas, April 4, 2003

Richard P. Langlinais ’57, San Antonio, Texas, July 26, 2006

Duncan L. McKellar ’57, Willis, Texas, June 20, 2005

Paul M. Pratho ’57, Denton, Texas, May 11, 2007

Martin F. Scheid ’57, Houston, Texas, September 17, 2004

Gardner Thomas, Jr. ’57, Brownwood, Texas, September 15, 2006

John E. (Jack) Cogan ’58, Houston, Texas, February 12, 2005

Oneita F. Hedgecock ’58, Dallas, Texas, October 13, 2006

John W. Kolaja, Jr. ’58, Missouri City, Texas, July 30, 2005

William K. Murphy ’58, Houston, Texas, January 17, 2005

Louis S. Polsky ’58, Boca Raton, Florida, August 2, 2006

Warren (Jack) Scott, Jr. ’58, Houston, Texas, May 30, 2005

Ronald E. Buchanan ’59, Brooksville, Florida, March 5, 2003

Allan G. Hanretta ’59, Santa Barbara, California, March 18, 2007

James S. Hollingsworth ’59, Port Neches, Texas, March 25, 2007

Joseph E. Johnson ’59, Frisco, Texas, August 2, 2006

Herbert G. Rush ’59, Fort Worth, Texas, January 15, 2004

Don R. Warren ’59, Euless, Texas, April 6, 2003

William E. Watson ’59, Lufkin, Texas, July 14, 2003

Lubrett Hargrove ’60, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 20, 2005

Christopher A. Kaeppel ’60, Houston, Texas, May 3, 2003

Milton J. Railey ’60, Austin, Texas, December 8, 2003

John H. Simms ’60, Port Arthur, Texas, February 28, 2007

Alfonso J. Strano ’60, Springfield, Illinois, March 13, 2006

Jimmie R. Clemons ’61, Austin, Texas, February 13, 2005

Arthur M. Colvin ’61, San Antonio, Texas, February 16, 2004