Hon. Charles Neuffer, South Palm Beach, Fla., is retired from serving as a federal prosecutor. In 2001, he was appointed a judge for the state of Florida by Governor Jeb Bush.
On August 19, 2005, President Jake B. Schrum's '68 piece on "A Better Way to Evaluate Colleges" became a feature article on Inside Higher Ed (www.insidehighered.com).
Although she has lived on the same block for fifty-one years, Grace Anne Maroneey Schaefer authored a Native American family saga, which takes readers to a place far from Leander, Texas.
The New Day Dawns, the first book in the saga of The People of the Frozen Earth, begins twenty centuries ago on the Western Great Plains in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Next week will mark Alan Carsrud's first anniversary of arriving at the Florida International University. Even he is surprised at what he has been able to accomplish in a single year in building the University's interdisciplinary Global Entrepreneurship Center.
In January 2000, Schrum was elected president of Southwestern University. Jake B. Schrum, a native Texan who grew up in Sugar Land, has served as a college and university administrator for more than 27 years.
While living in Colorado several years ago, Southwestern University Alumna Patricia Scott read an article about a national organization of people who work with children in foster care, advocating for them as they are protected by the courts. "I knew it was something I wanted to do, so I sought them out to see how I could help."
While pledging the Kappa Alpha fraternity his first year at Southwestern University, Charles Millikan '68 noticed a familiar-looking pledge. That fellow pledge was Sugar Land'd Dulles High School starting center Jake Schrum, and the two eventually became fast friends. Each, also went on to become student leaders in the Southwestern community: Schrum as student body president and Millikan as president of the student judiciary committee.