Angela Reid Jones, Spicewood, works in pharmaceutical sales for Santarus, Inc.
Pattie Meade Holecek Monday, January 14, 2008
Pattie Meade Holecek, Klein, serves as assistant principal of McDougle Elementary School. Her four high school students keep her busy.
Dr. Lisa Auanger Monday, January 14, 2008
Dr. Lisa Auanger, Hampton, Va., is in her sixth year of teaching high school Latin to public school students. She also teaches archaeology to gifted elementary and middle school students for the William and Mary Center for Gifted Education. She is more than a year out of completing chemotherapy and radiation treatments for breast cancer, which was discovered when she turned 40.
Scott Carrell '87 grew up in a musical family. Both his parents and their siblings played instruments and sang. He first began his piano studies when he was 10 years old.
Events in southern history have often been recounted from the top down, relying on political and economic models to explain historical changes. Thus, the key players have usually been men who dominated politics, shaped economic development, and led armies. However, history is also made from the bottom up by those who confront change and shape it through their actions. In this collection of essays, the contributors reexamine major transformative events of southern history from the late eighteenth century through the civil rights era.
Due to his father’s employment with the United States Department of Justice, Morgan Cawthon ’87 experienced the challenge of being the new kid on the block throughout his entire adolescence. Though his moves are now global, Cawthon attributes his appreciation of diversity to his years at Southwestern.
I fell in love in New Orleans. I was wandering through a crammed antique shop, meandering without any sense of time or purpose, enjoying the handsome legacies of earlier artisans... In this Inside Higher Ed article, Amy Wink '87 provides her perspective on "Finding the Courage to Begin Again."
His latest challenge is moving from the Admission Office at Southwestern to his new position as director of financial aid. James Gaeta '87 now oversees the financial aid process and budget for the University. While he is excited by the new opportunity, Gaeta initially had doubts about the transition.
Barely three years after completing his master's of social work from the University of Houston, Shed Boren was living in Miami Beach and working as a Social Worker with people living with HIV. It didn't take him long to recognize the relationship between HIV and poverty. "Those with the disease were becoming poor, and the newly infected were poorer people," he says.
Amy L. Wink '87 creates a book that will be indispensable to teachers and students of literature, theory of autobiography, southern American history, women’s studies, and American studies.
Steven D. Hales '87 gives readers a deeper understanding of the rich contributions early analytic philosophers have made to contemporary philosophical debate.
When he was 27, Southwestern University alumnus Ray Martinez '87 found himself at a critical moment in his political career. As the New Mexico director for the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign, he and his staff were charged with converting a state that had voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964. They did it.