Awards Given to Alumni of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Texas 1999 Annual Alumni Awards Dinner:

Larry Wisdom - Ulys Knight Spirit Award
Era, Cook County - B.S. Industrial Arts/Education, 1968
Larry is currently the Owner and President of the Weaver Wisdom Body Shop, Inc., as well as the Owner and Operator of the L&L Black Limousin Cattle Company. He is also very active in his profession and in the community. Mr. Wisdom is the Chairman of the DISD vocational Advisory Committee, as well as a Teacher and Coach for the Denton Independent School District. He is also very supportive of the UNT athletics and the University.

Mark A. "Tony" Altermann - Green Glory Award
Dallas, TX - B.S. Education, Speech and Drama 1965; M.S. Speech and Drama 1968
Mr. Altermann is the President and Co-Owner or the Altermann & Morris Galleries in Dallas, Houston, Santa Fe and Hilton Head. He was the Chairman for the President's Council at UNT, and a past Trustee for the Dallas Repertory Theater as well as the past Director of the Advisory Board for the Dallas Visual Arts Center. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the School of Dance and Theater Arts, and a member of the Chief Executive Round Table for the Professional Development Institute at the University of North Texas. Mr. Altermann is a member of many organizations within his community and his profession. He has also received the award for Who's Who in American Art.

Dr. O.L. Davis, Jr. - Distinguished Alumnus Award
Georgetown, TX - B.A. Government 1949; M.Ed., Public School Administration 1950
After Dr. Davis' studies at the University of North Texas, he received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching in 1958 from the George Peabody College for Teachers. He is the Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or co-author of more than 260 reports, articles and essays, and has been an editor for a number of publications. Dr. Davis was also the President for the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum from 1994-1995. He has also been the recipient of numerous honors. For example, he was the College of Education's Distinguished Alumnus for the University of North Texas in 1984, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Curriculum Studies from the American Educational Research Association in 1996.

University of North Texas 1999 Alumni Appreciation Day Honored the Following College of Arts and Sciences Alumni For Excellence in their Profession:

Biological Sciences

Dr. Stanley W. Szczythko
Stevens Point, WI - MS 1975, Ph.D. 1978

As Professor and Chair of the Water Resources Department, Dr. Szczythko's specialization is biological water quality assessment, ecology, systematics and behavior of aquatic insects. Stan has published numerous ecological articles and he has generated a great deal of money by way of grants to help fund his work. Stan is a member of various biological professional organizations.

Chemistry

C. James Carrico, M.D.
Dallas, TX - BS 1957

Dr. Carrico is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, and is a scholar in the area of care for trauma, burn, and critical care patients. He received his medical training at UT Southwestern, where he also began his academic career. He then moved to the University of Washington in Seattle. He was on the faculty at Washington from '76-90, including seven years as chairman of the Department of Surgery from '83-90. He then returned to UT Southwestern to his present position as Professor and Chairman. He is a past chairman of the American Board of Surgery, a past chairman and current member of the Board of regents of the American College of Surgeons, and past chairman of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He received the UNT Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1991.

Communication Studies

Judith P. Burns
Scottsdale, AZ - MS 1996

As Executive Vice President of Hospitality Technology Consulting, Ms. Burns provides a variety of consulting services to businesses within the hospitality area and beyond. Her prime focus points are project management of reservation system conversions, the development of training materials and the management of convention services. In addition, her responsibilities include administration of the consulting practice. Judith has provided research assistance for a major Canadian biographer and has prepared training materials for a number of American corporations. She is a member of the Speech Communication Association of America.

Dance & Theater Arts

Sherry "Boo" Capers
Dallas, TX - BS 1973 (Drama)

As the originator of Capers for Kids, Inc., Boo operates a creative arts school in a unique space designed specifically to teach classes in creative drama, visual art, and play production to children from ages 3 to 15 years old. Professional children's theater productions are presented in the theater space several times a year. In addition to the school, an outreach program provides classes in drama and visual art to twenty schools and 2,500 children throughout the metroplex. Capers for Kids has been profiled in The Dallas Morning News, a WFAA television program, Texas Monthly, Dallas Child Magazine, Dallas Family Magazine, Dallas Life Magazine and KCBI radio. Boo has been invited to present workshops and seminars for UNT, UTD, SMU and numerous independent school districts throughout the metroplex.

Dorothy Stewart Wells
Las Cruces, NM - BS 1981, MA 1984 (Dance)

Dorothy began her career as a dance teacher at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she was a lecturer in the dance program and associate director of the SFA Dance Performing Company. From there she moved to Las Cruces where she operated her own school of dance. Since 1992, she has been teaching dance in the El Paso Independent School District. At the present time, Ms. Wells is a teacher in the Dance Program at Irvin High School in El Paso and directs the Irvin High School Dance Club. She is a member of several professional dance organizations. Dorothy was selected to Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 1996.

Kristin Hodge Hassett
New Fairfield, CT - BA 1989 (RTVF)

Kristin's UNT theater experience earned her an internship at The Dallas Theater Center. After graduation, she secured a job with Gateway Playhouse in Belport Long Island, NY. Happily a three-month engagement turned into ten years. Starting out as an electrician, she worked her way up to Equity Stage Manager, Lighting Designer, and eventually Production Manager. Ms. Hassett has toured the US numerous times working on Camelot, A Chorus Line, Ain't Misbehavin', Song and Dance and Music Man. Even more exciting was touring the Asian Continent with The Sound of Music and A Chorus Line as Production Stage Manager and Oliver as a Lighting Designer.

Economics

Ajay Babar
Plano, TX - BA 1993, MS 1995

Ajay joined SABRE Travel Information Network as a Strategic Planning Analyst. He updated performance measurement in the training and helpdesk unit by developing a Product Performance Tool and Training Impact Tool. Ajay was recently promoted to Manager of Performance Measures. He has introduced and developed a Centralized Tracking System for North America and is currently developing a similar system for Europe, Mexico, and Latin America. SABRE is the computer system widely utilized by all airlines and travel agents.

Engineering Technology

Lee Palmer
Coppell, TX - BS 1990 (Manufacturing)

Lee is Senior Manager of Management Consulting with Grant Thornton of Dallas, TX. Lee was with Andersen Consulting prior to joining Grant Thornton and is the SAP Practice leader for the Dallas office. He is primarily responsible for business development, practice development and strategic marketing initiatives. Mr. Palmer's clients include LTV Aircraft, Frito Lay and Maddox Metal Works. His recent work experience includes: leading a 35-person team during a 2-year implementation process for a nationwide food distributor; managing the software selection for a made-to-order custom metals manufacturer; leading a project team in the implementation of an integrated inventory management system and telesales system. Lee is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Randall Reed
Aubrey, TX - BS 1997 (Mechanical)

Mr. Reed graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Technology program. He accepted a position with Peterbilt Motors in the custom truck plant in Denton. This position in Division Engineering dealt specifically with the chassis group and involved engineering review of customer specified options to insure smooth assembly. Mr. Reed was promoted to a position in Liaison Engineering, working in the frame group. Responsibilities here focus on production support of on-line problems.

Robert Starret
Denton, TX - BS 1996 (Manufacturing)

Mr. Starrett graduated from the TAC of ABET accredited Manufacturing Engineering Technology. Prior to graduation, he was employed by Ernst & Young (an international accounting firm), as a staff administrator. Immediately after graduation, he accepted a position with Allen Telecom, Decibel Products Division. As a Methods Specialist, he designed tooling and fixtures and also optimized production processes. Robert was promoted to Supervisor, Senior Industrial Engineer in the Manufacturing Engineering Department of Allen Telecom. His responsibilities include supervision of Methods Specialists as well as a range of administrative functions.

Alan Triggs
Richardson, TX - BS 1995 (Electronics)

Mr. Triggs is a Senior Wireless Engineer with the Professional Services Division at Ericsson Incorporated of Richardson, Texas. An expert in wireless communication, Alan has led a number of projects including the continuous monitoring of the competitors technology; an international conference on Global Services, and a trial of a new diversity technique in microcells. Mr. Triggs is Chair of the Fort Worth Chapter of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is working toward a PE license. Alan is an Adjunct Lecturer as SMU where he teaches Digital Telephony to graduate students and has been a guest lecturer at UTD, UT and at UNT.

Foreign Language

Kellye Church
Pilot Point, TX - MA 1997

Before coming to UNT, Kellye taught Spanish and French for 10 years. She began her graduate studies at UNT in the French Institute, receiving her MA in Spanish. Because of her dedication to the program at UNT and her excellent skills as a teacher, Ms. Church was asked to continue working as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages. She agreed, and has continued to serve as an inspiration to many students to undertake both undergraduate and graduate studies in a foreign language. In addition to being a faculty member at UNT, she has taught classes at NCTC and TWU. In 1997, she received a student-body award for instructional excellence from TWU.

Geography

David Drury
Bartonville, TX - BA 1993

Following graduation, David has held positions as Geographic Information Systems Manager with Geo-Marine, Inc. and Woolpert Engineering, and currently is the manager of the Geographic Information Systems program at JPI, a fully integrated real estate firm, where he focuses on site selection and market area analysis for upscale apartment communities.

Michelle Markham
Lewisville, TX - BS 1997

Michelle is currently a Geographic Information Systems analyst with the Denton County Planning Department. Before joining Denton County, she worked as a technical assistant with the City of Arlington Water Utilities Department.

History

Dr. Numan V. Bartley
Athens, GA - MA 1961, Ph.D. 1966

"Bud" began his teaching career at Georgia Tech in 1966 and moved to the University of Georgia in 1972. He became the Coulter Professor of History at Georgia in 1986, and held that position until his recent retirement. Dr. Bartley is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on southern history, including The New South, 1945-1980, the eleventh volume in the prestigious History of the South series. He served in 1993-94 as President of the Southern Historical Association.

Journalism

Winifred K. Skinner
Denton, TX - MJ 1983

Winn came to UNT from Minnesota to warm up. While here, she earned her MJ degree and was named an outstanding journalism graduate student. She has worked as a copy and news editor for several papers, including the Denton Record Chronicle, the Austin American Statesman and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. She has been an Adjunct Professor in the Journalism Department since 1989. A founding member of Habitat for Humanity of Denton, she is currently chairing the affiliate's first 2-week blitz in September 1999.

Denise Kile Walton
Dallas, TX - BS 1985

Denise is the owner of Paramount Communications, Inc. - a public relations and marketing company. The company specializes in providing clients with public relations plans, media relations, marketing, corporate identity materials, broadcast productions and crisis communications planning. In addition, Denise is the executive producer of Crime Stoppers, a weekly crime-of-the-week news segment aired on WFAA-TV. Paramount Communications has won four Texas Press Club Katie awards for excellence in journalism. Currently, Denise is the President of the Press Club of Dallas. She is the youngest member ever to be elected president, and only the fourth woman ever to hold this office. She was the executive producer for the 1996 Press Club's Gridiron show honoring Mayor Ron Kirk, and the 1998 show honoring philanthropist Ray Nasher.

Mathematics

Dr. James Ochoa
Abilene, TX - Ph.D. 1996

Dr. Ochoa completed his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics under Professor Paul Lewis. James is currently on the faculty at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. James was an outstanding student and an excellent teaching fellow while a graduate student at UNT.

Physics

Dr. Orin Wayne Holland
Oak Ridge, TN - MS 1979, Ph.D. 1980

At UNT, Wayne was an outstanding graduate student with a 4.0 GPA. After graduation, he accepted a position in the Solid State Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where he is today. He has had an outstanding career at ORNL. He is a recognized world class researcher in Materials Synthesis and Processing of Materials for the semiconductor industry. In 1983 he was given the prestigious IR-100 award for his development of "Supersaturated Semiconductor Alloys." He also received the ORNL Sustained Achievement Award, which is only given to a few of the better researchers at ORNL. Wayne has published two books and over 170 scientific publications in journals. He has helped to organize six international conferences, and has been granted nine patents. He still stays very active with the UNT Physics Department. At the present time, two UNT physics students are doing their Ph.D. research work in his laboratory in Oak Ridge.

Political Science

Ozro Luke Davis III
Dallas, TX - BA 1976

Mr. Davis' political science degree provided the foundation for both career paths that he followed after graduation. He first became a public school teacher, focusing on high school social studies. He developed a non-traditional curriculum for his students by channeling the "stuff" of history /government into the daily lives of teenagers. After four years in the classroom, he reverted to his pre-law training at UNT and attended Texas Tech School of Law. He has practiced as a trial attorney in Dallas since being licensed in 1983. The "business" of a law practice has taken him from large firms to his current self-employment. Luke has handled cases from small-claims court to antitrust cases in the Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Psychology

Dr. Judy P. Sawyer
Denton, TX - Ph.D. 1988

During Dr. Sawyer's training at UNT, she received several fellowships, and was a member of two honor societies. She is a charter member of the American Psychological Society and a member of the Executive Board of the Fort Worth Neuropsychological Society. She is also a member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the International Neurospychological Society. Currently, she is the President of the Neuropsychological Associates of Denton and Fort Worth. In her consulting work, she provides psychological, neuropsychological, jury research, and trial preparation services for attorneys, businesses and health care providers.

Radio, TV & Film

Steve Flanigan
Colorado Springs, CO - BA 1977

Steve works as a director of photography. His clients include AT&T, HBO, CBS, ABC, NBC, Lucent Technologies, ESPN and many more. He has more than twenty years of experience in film and television lighting, as a producer, and as director of photography. Mr. Flanigan has received over 250 awards in cinematography and related fields. Also, he has recently completed a book on lighting and cinematography entitled The Art of Visualization (Focal Press Publishing.)

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Rita Galbraith Baker
Fort Worth, TX - BA 1974, MS 1975

Mrs. Baker is the owner of the Bowie Speech and Hearing Inc., which is a full service rehabilitation facility providing physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy as well as audiological services. She has served as a speech-language pathologist at Cook/Ft. Worth Children's Medical Center, the North Texas Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center, the Oschner Hospital in Hew Orleans, and in several public schools. She is very active in professional associations as well as community activities, such as the Auxiliary to the American Osteopathic Association. She has given numerous presentations on management of swallowing disorders, and provides contract services to the major hospitals, home health agencies and nursing homes throughout the metroplex area in language and swallowing disorders in patients from pediatrics to geriatrics.

Dr. Miriam Henoch
Denton, TX - BA 1971, MA 1972

Dr. Henoch is an Associate Professor and Director of Audiology Services in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of North Texas. Miriam has been employed as a clinical audiologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Association, Humana Hospital, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and the Detroit Hearing and Speech Center. She has also served on the faculty at UTD and San Jose State University. Dr. Henoch has numerous presentations and publications in the field of audiology and is President-Elect of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology. Her primary research interests are in the areas of hearing loss in musicians, disorders of auditory processing in adults, and hearing handicap in adults.