2000 Ken Hada
(PhD, English) co-wrote The River White: A Confluence of Brush and Quill, a tribute to Arkansas’ White River. Noted: July 30, 2012
1998 James J. Sellers
(MBA, Business Administration) was honored as part of the 2012 Class of the Fort Worth Business Press 40 Under 40 awards and received the Alumni Award for Early Career Achievement from the College of Business. He is president of Mansfield-based Sellmark Corp. Noted: July 30, 2012
1998 Howell Dennis
(BA, Journalism) is news editor for the Crowley Post-Signal in Crowley, La. Noted: July 30, 2012
1994 Herb Beckwith
(MS, Accounting) was honored by the Fort Worth Business Press as CFO of the Year in January. He is senior vice president and CFO of Justin Brands and a member of the College of Business advisory council. Noted: July 30, 2012
1990 Jimmy Ball
(BA, Journalism) is art director/senior producer with [x]cubeLABS, one of the world’s top application development companies, with U.S. headquarters in Dallas. He just completed a two-year term as president of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. He received three 2011 American Graphic Design Awards from GD USA magazine, which named him one of its “People to Watch in 2012.” Noted: July 30, 2012
1984 Craig Fujii
(BA, Journalism) is an emergency-room nurse practitioner at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. Before changing careers, he was a foreign correspondent photographer for the Associated Press and worked for the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News. As a student, he was Shorthorn photo editor. Noted: July 30, 2012
1984 Lindsey Boullt
(BGS, General Studies) gives private guitar lessons in California. He recently released a CD, Composition. Noted: July 30, 2012
1983 Patricia Newton
(’83 BA, Communication; ’12 MFA, Art) had a screening in May of her works, including Pursuit, New BethleHam, Texas, and Erase, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Pursuit played at the 28th Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival in May. Noted: July 30, 2012
1981 J. Lee Whittington
(’81 MBA, ’97 PhD, Business Administration) co-wrote Leading the Sustainable Organization: Development, Implementation and Assessment with Greg Bell (’08 PhD, International Business and Management) and Timothy Galpin. Drs. Whittington and Bell are members of the College of Business faculty at the University of Dallas. Noted: July 30, 2012
1977 Mike Farris
(BA, Political Science) has written two new legal thrillers, Wrongful Termination and Rules of Privilege. An award-winning screenwriter, literary agent, and entertainment attorney in Dallas, he also wrote Kanaka Blues and Manifest Intent. Noted: July 30, 2012
1954 Jan Collmer
(’54 AS, Science and Engineering; ’63 BS, Mathematics) wrote Go Start Something! Live Life on the Edge. A longtime Dallas civic leader, he worked at Texas Instruments before moving to Varo, where he started a semiconductor unit. He founded Collmer Semiconductor in 1979 and sold it in 2005. Noted: July 30, 2012
Curtis Frodge
Frodge (’06 BS, Mechanical Engineering) is a robotics engineer at NASA, where he has worked on Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, and Centaur 2, a mobility platform for Robonaut 2. Noted: July 30, 2012
Meshonda Cole
Cole (’01 BA, Interdisciplinary Studies) is the 2012-13 Teacher of the Year in the Dallas Independent School District. She has been with the DISD for 10 years and teaches sixth-grade math at Kennedy-Curry Middle School. Noted: July 30, 2012
Trey Yelverton
Yelverton (’88 BA, Political Science) was promoted to city manager of Arlington in February. He had been deputy city manager since 2006, overseeing the departments of economic development, community services, parks and recreation, police and fire, and others. Noted: July 30, 2012
2000 Lana Adams
(BA, Journalism) is event coordinator at Willow Brook Country Club in Tyler, Texas. She plans birthday parties, weddings, and any type of catering event at the club. She was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha at UT Arlington. Noted: March 29, 2012
1999 Tiffany Flores
(’99 BA, Anthropology) is an account manager for Fort Worth and Central Texas at American Reading Co., a textbook firm. Noted: March 29, 2012
1998 Kris Kriofske
(BA, Journalism) is marketing director for Woodbine, a brand revitalization agency in Winston-Salem, N.C. He oversees external marketing, new business development, and public relations for clients. Previously, he worked for BSMG Worldwide (now Weber Shandwick) in Dallas and London. Noted: March 29, 2012
1997 Irma Kusuma
(BA, Journalism) is events director for the Greater Dallas Asian-American Chamber of Commerce. Noted: March 29, 2012
1978 Maria de los Santos Onofre-Madrid
(MA, Spanish) is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Angelo State University. Noted: March 29, 2012
1978 David Hunn
(’78 BS, ’80 MS, Mechanical Engineering; ’92 PhD, Materials Science and Engineering) won the Louis and Edith Zernow Award at the 26th International Symposium of Ballistics. He and Sang Lee presented a paper, “Development of a Novel Ceramic Armor System: Analysis and Test,” which included technical aspects of their research on lightweight armor for vehicles. Dr. Hunn is chief scientist for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie. Noted: March 29, 2012
1976 Neil Ferguson
(BA, Psychology) was elected to the Lewisville City Council in December. He is chair of the Greater Lewisville Arts Alliance, vice chair of the Lewisville Lake Symphony, and chair of the 88 Keys Steinway Program. Previously, he was a commissioner on the Planning and Zoning Board and the Traffic Board and a member of the Brownfields Committee and Capital Improvements Advisory Committee. Noted: March 29, 2012
1975 Stephen C. Wagner
(BFA, Art) had two pieces of his mixed media work added to the Riverside (Calif.) Art Museum. Wagner, who began his career in San Antonio, now lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Noted: March 29, 2012
1974 Bill Lane
(’74 BS, ’76 MS, Mechanical Engineering) is vice president of emerging technologies for Weatherford Artificial Lift Systems, based in Houston. He has 33 years of oil and gas industry experience. Noted: March 29, 2012
1974 Charles Jenkins
(BS, Mechanical Engineering) announced his retirement as chief operating officer in October after 40 years at Oncor. He held a variety of engineering, management, and officer positions with the company. After working for other former TXU companies, he returned to Oncor in 2003 to head Transmission Grid Management. In November 2009 he took the COO position. Jenkins, who worked primarily in Dallas and Arlington, will remain as senior vice president until April 1. Noted: March 29, 2012
1972 David Buhrkuhl
(BS, Electrical Engineering) is president of SPEA America LLC, a producer of automatic test equipment used in the production of printed circuit boards and semiconductors. The company is based in Tyler, Texas. Noted: March 29, 2012
1971 George Kitamura
(’71 BS, Aerospace Engineering; ’97 MBA, Business Administration) is a certified business development specialist with the Center for Government Contracting for the Small Business Development Center. Noted: March 29, 2012
1971 Kristy Libotte Keener
(BFA, Art) won a 2011 MarCom Award for a set of postcards featuring nature photography and for a transportation book cover for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. She is the graphic design coordinator at NCTCOG. Noted: March 29, 2012
1967 Darrell Paulk
(’67 BA, Sociology; ’72 MS, Social Work) is president and CEO of the Santa Clarita Child and Family Center in Santa Clarita, Calif. Previously, he was the president and chief executive officer of the LeRoy Haynes Center for Children and Family Services in La Verne, Calif. Noted: March 29, 2012
1984 Jim Greer
Greer (’84 BS, Electrical Engineering) was named chief operating officer at Oncor in October. He joined the Dallas-based company in 1984. He serves on the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and was a 2010 recipient of the Leadership in Power award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Noted: March 29, 2012
