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Charn Uswachoke [page 22]
UNT’s Economic Reach [page 24]
Residential Communities [page 34]
Stadium Posterpage 24
IN SUPPORT OF EXCELLENCE
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SHAPING THE FUTURE OF
With the demand for
joint replacements growing
and candidates for surgery
getting younger, the need
for improved implant
durability and better
integration between
implant and surrounding
tissue increases. At UNT,
our biomaterials research
focuses on increased
implant bioactivity with a
greater interface between
the artificial material and
the body. This improved
biocompatibility will
reduce scar tissue, extend
implant life and improve
quality of life. It also will
prevent younger patients
from facing multiple
surgeries to replace
artificial joints that last
only 10 to 15 years. I want
to help make life as good
as it can be for others
while inspiring the next
generation of student and
faculty researchers.
— Narendra Dahotre, chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
“I see a future where bio-implants
improve quality of life.”
3.4 million knee replacements will
be needed annually in the United States
by 2030.— American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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FEATURES
22 Charn Uswachoke Alum with a history of sharing his success makes giving history at UNT.By Ellen Rossetti
24 Powering the RegionWith the opening of UNT’s new Apogee Stadium, the university’s economic impact reaches even further. By Randena Hulstrand Stadium Poster: Pull out your
special commemo-rative poster to learn more about UNT’s new Apogee Stadium.
34 Living and Learning UNT’s REAL communities give students a unique academic experience. By Ernestine Bousquet
D E P A R T M E N T S
F R O M O U R P R E S I D E N T • 3Journey to excellence
D E A R N O R T H T E X A N • 4 International scholar ... Dedicated teachers
U N T T O D A Y • 6Remembering Sept. 11 ... Mayborn conference ... National research awards ... Photo Gallery
U N T M U S E • 2 9Pat Boone … ‘New’ presses … 2011-12 artist- in-residence Nick Cave
E A G L E S ’ N E S T • 3 9Bruce Hall creation ... Alumni Gatherings ... Paying it forward ... Phoreffs and Delta Chi Delta reunion ... Friends We’ll Miss
L A S T W O R D • 4 8Phil McGraw (’76 M.A., ’79 Ph.D.) encourages new alumni to change the world.
Support Transforms UNTa h I STo R I C mo N T h — I N C LU d I N g T h e U N I v e R S I T y’ S L a Rg e ST - ev e R g I f T, o N e o f I TS L a Rg e ST - ev e R b e q U e STS a N d a STa d I U m S P o N S o R S h I P — m a k e S U N T ST Ro N g e R T h a N ev e R . By Ernestine Bousquet and Ellen Rossetti
Cover photography of Charn Uswachoke (’73 m.b.a.) by Luke duggleby/bangkok
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The North Texan (ISSN 0468-6659) is published four times a year (in March, June, September and December) by the University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, for distribution to alumni and friends of the university. Periodicals postage paid at Denton, Texas, and at additional mailing offices. The diverse views on matters of public interest that are presented in The North Texan do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the university. Publications staff can be reached at northtexan@unt.edu or 940-565-2108. It is the policy of the University of North Texas not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability (where reasonable accommodations can be made), disabled veteran status or veteran of the Vietnam era status in its educational programs, activities, admission or employment policies. In addition to complying with federal and state equal opportunity laws and regulations, the university through its diversity policy declares harassment based on individual differences (including sexual orientation) inconsistent with its mission and educational goals. Direct questions or concerns to the equal opportunity office, 940-565-2737, or the dean of students, 940-565-2648. TTY access is available at 940-369-8652. Postmaster: Please send requests for changes of address, accompanied if possible by old address labels, to the University of North Texas, University Relations, Communications and Marketing, 1155 Union Circle #311070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017. “University of North Texas,” “UNT” and “Discover the power of ideas” and their associated identity marks are official trademarks of the University of North Texas; their use by others is legally restricted.
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F rO M O U r President
I’m proud to tell you that UNT had a historic summer, attracting more than $51 million in landmark gifts and a stadium sponsorship that will propel us forward (see page 16). The gifts include a $22 million pledged gift from entrepreneur Charn Uswachoke (’73 M.B.A.), which is the largest in UNT’s history, and longtime benefactor Paul Voertman’s $8 million bequest. The gifts will foster student learning and faculty scholarship while furthering UNT’s reputation for cutting-edge research and world-class arts and music. Apogee’s $20 million naming sponsorship for UNT’s new stadium helps usher in a new era. I hope to see fans filling the stands all season long at Apogee Stadium, starting with our first home game Sept. 10 and at Homecoming Oct. 22, which includes festivities all week (see the posters in the center and back of this publication).
Thanks to these milestones, our own fiscal prudence and the better-than-expected outcome from Texas’ 82nd Legislative Session, we have renewed optimism for the future. We are making investments to enhance our students’ educational experience and keep up with growth, from setting aside more financial aid and scholarship dollars to improving our classrooms to hiring more faculty and lecturers.
You can see our progress everywhere. Our new state-of-the-art Business Leader-ship Building is a great example of how technology and collaboration enhance students’ learning. Join us Sept. 22 for the grand opening.
These investments are essential. More students than ever are attending UNT, including a freshman class that is expected to be our largest and one of our best qualified. Our students are poised to do great things. And we promise to give them a superior education so that their time here is defined by excellence. Our students deserve the best and that is why it is so important for us to achieve our goal of being a public research university offering the best undergraduate education in Texas.
Sincerely,
V. Lane RawlinsPresidentpresident@unt.edu
President V. Lane Rawlins visits with students on campus.
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other overt actions against the black students (summer 2011). Most of us were there to get an education and make life long friends no matter the color of their skin. I thought North Texas handled the integration in the best possible manner beginning with the first graduate student, seniors, juniors and on down.
I commend Burlyce Logan for returning and getting her degree at age 73, but I question if the writer researched the first years.
Dianne YarbroughMurphy (’57)Chico, Calif.
Editor’s note: Thank you for letting us know about your experience at North Texas. It’s true that desegregation here was relatively peaceful compared to that of other universities, but it wasn’t without incident. In his oral history for the university, President J.C. Matthews mentions the appearance of burning crosses on campus and racial epithets on sidewalks, quickly cleaned up by grounds crews and kept out of the press. His policy was to draw as little attention as possible to desegrega-tion, good or bad, and thus avoid the violence occurring in other states. You can read the transcript of his interview and others at www.unt.edu/ 50yearsofprogress/ recollections.htm.
UNT opportunities
I was on campus a few months back and had a nice meeting with President Rawlins. I was very impressed with his plans, goals and leadership. I support his efforts to make UNT a major public research university and to offer the best undergraduate education in Texas.
It was good to be back on campus and to see the new Business Leadership Building and UNT’s new Mean Green football stadium. Both are beautiful and positive assets for our university.
The degree I earned was so important to my career in the business world. Being at UNT gave me an opportunity to meet some lifelong friends and the chance to learn from some wonderful professors.
I am glad to see UNT doing so well.
Jim McDonald (’60)Duncanville
International scholar
My dissertation advisor, Dr. Michael B. Collins (“Friends We’ll Miss,” summer 2011), was one of the College of Music’s greatest teachers and a teacher-friend of mine for 34 years. He was a scholar of international stature.
Almost 50 years after he defended it, his dissertation, “The Performance of Color-ation, Sesquialtera and Hemiola (1450-1750),” continues to impress.
In addition to his advanced seminars at UNT, including one devoted to Beethoven string quartets, his Baroque performance course was legendary given that it allowed him to put into practice his dedication to Baroque court dances learned from Wendy Hilton. I will never forget Michael breaking into a sarabande in Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors.
James Parsons (’92 Ph.D.)Springfield, Mo.
Professor Collins was the finest classroom teacher I have ever had. His lectures were fascinating. My favorite course was Baroque Performance Practices in which all the students took part performing various works using impro-vised ornamentation, unequal notes and other skills. We even learned Baroque dances. Once a week there would be doctoral students of every sort prancing around on the stage of the old Concert Hall. It was fun, sometimes funny, and extremely valuable for understanding much about Baroque music.
Michael and I became close friends and kept in close touch over the years. He is someone whom I will miss terribly.
Norma Stevlingson (’74 D.M.A.)Superior, Wisc.
IntegrationAs a student at North
Texas and a graduate in 1957, I do not recall any cross burning, rock throwing or any
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dedicated teachersThe “Music Beginnings”
letter (spring 2011) brought back a lot of memories of my years at UNT. As a 25-year-old Arkansas band director, I was told that North Texas was the place to go for graduate work. I worked on my master’s in the summers and completed it in 1967. Returning in 1969, I was a teaching assistant working on a Ph.D. I was always impressed by the faculty as people who cared about the students and were always available for questions and concerns.
The names John Haynie, David McGuire, Maurice McAdow, Leon Brown, Clyde Miller (my horn teacher), William Latham, Frank Mainous (who suffered through my piano playing for the piano proficiency exam!) stand out in my memory. Several of these men are gone
now, but their inspiration and dedication will be remembered by the many students they taught.
Joel Duskin (’67 M.M.Ed.)Shreveport, La.
I came to North Texas as a junior transfer into the music school in 1941 because I was attracted by the A Cappella Choir and what Wilfred Bain was doing for music in Denton. Dr. Bain promptly established the choir as both an instrument for great music and for promotion of the department he hoped to build.
As a middling quality tenor, I was first assigned to the Chapel Choir, and Frank McKinley was my voice teacher. By my second semester in the program, I was invited to the A Cappella Choir, and I then toured with them. For all of us vocalists in
the budding program, it was a wonderful, wonderful time.
Carter Murphy (’43, ’46),Professor Emeritus of economics, SMU
Sweet classesMy sister and I rode at
Sweet Estes’ stable (winter 2010) on the far west end of Maple Street, a dirt street at that time. Perhaps we were in one of her first classes — 1944 or 1945. I can remember the names of 14 horses: Jitters, Indigo, Choo-Choo, etc. We rode west and south of town and around the golf course being built. I sure do hope Sweet is put in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She knew everything about horses.
Marjorie M. Dannelley Larson (’48)Ottawa, Ill.
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Fifty years agoAt Homecoming 1961, the Lambda Chi House com-memorated the change from North Texas State College to North Texas State University. The words on the banner at left were: “Little did they know into a university I’d grow.” Photo submitted by Deanne Devers Sims (’62) and Bill Sims Jr. (’68)
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REMEMBERINGSEPT. 11
UNT commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a week of events,
including a keynote address Sept. 7 by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.
Share your Sept. 11 memories at september11.unt.edu.
The 10Th anniversary of The sepT. 11 attacks will be a time to reflect on the painful memories of the day’s events and their aftermath, but also an opportunity to make a positive impact on the North Texas community.
UNT is commemorating the anniversary by encouraging participation in service projects, as well as reflection and discussions on how the terrorist attacks have shaped the U.S. and the world. For one week beginning Sept. 6, UNT will host commemorative events across campus that are open to stu-dents, faculty, staff, alumni and the public.
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Events include a letter-writing campaign to military service members, a blood drive, roundtable discussions featuring world-renowned experts on foreign and domestic policy issues, a halftime moment of silence and recognition of student veterans at the Sept. 10 football game, a memorial service, and a Distin-guished Lecture Series keynote address by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.
“Providing our students and the university community with the best possible opportunities for learning and growth is a fundamental part of UNT’s mission,” President V. Lane Rawlins says. “The Distinguished Lecture Series complements the educational experience by attracting the nation’s top speakers and exposing our community to diverse perspectives and personalities.”
Gates joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional. During that period, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council and the White House, serving four presidents. Prior to serving as the 22nd secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011, he was president of Texas A&M University for four years.
Gates has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Security Medal and the Presidential Citizens Medal, has twice received the National Intelligence Distin-guished Service Medal, and has received the CIA’s highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, three times.
“Having Robert Gates on our campus is a unique opportu-nity for our students to learn first-hand from someone who has had significant responsibility within our government,” says Eliza-beth With (’02 Ed.D.), vice president for student affairs.
“He will be able to provide a perspective of 9/11 events, but also of the impact on current policy and military actions around the world.”
Veterans Center
Over the last decade, UNT has been acknowledged by numerous organizations for the university’s outreach to veterans, including the opening of a Veterans Center in 2009. The center, located in the University Union, helps veterans navigate the transition from service to college. UNT also has an active Student Veteran’s Association and offers emotional support through the Disability and Well-being Consortium.
UNT, which enrolls nearly 1,200 student veterans, has been named a Military Friendly School by G.I. Jobs magazine and is ranked No. 1 in Texas for Veterans by Military Times Edge. At left: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates will speak
at UNT Sept. 7. Above: Students signed sympathy cards in 2001 for those impacted by the Sept. 11 tragedies.
getInvolved
Uso letter-writing campaign to troops: Send a note of support to our military service members from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 6 and 7 in the One O’Clock Lounge, University Union. For more informa-tion on how to support the troops, go to www.uso.org.
Distinguished lecture series keynote address: Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates will speak at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 in the UNT Coliseum. Ticket prices range from $15 to $40. For more informa-tion, contact the Union Information Desk at 940-565-3805.
blood drive: The American Red Cross will host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 8 in the Golden Eagle Suite, Union.
roundtable discussions: Experts from around the globe will dis-cuss foreign and domestic policy issues since Sept. 11, including criminal justice and human rights, Sept. 8 in the Gateway Center. The domestic policy roundtable begins at 4 p.m. in Rooms 34-35. The foreign policy roundtable begins at 5:45 p.m. in Rooms 43-47.
honoring student veterans: Join the UNT community in a moment of silence and honor student veterans at the first home game in UNT’s new Apogee Stadium beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 10. North Texas alumnus Pat Boone will sing the national anthem.
memorial service: Join the UNT community during a memorial ceremony on the Library Mall from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 11. The ceremony will include a live performance of the national anthem, speakers from various religious and professional backgrounds, and a moment of silence.
For more information, go to september11.unt.edu.
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DCTA A-train
Denton just got a little closer to Dallas. The Denton County Transportation Authority has opened its new A-train service between Denton and Lewisville.
The service offers connections into Dallas via Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line at the Trinity Mills station in Carrollton.
The A-train departs every 25 minutes during peak commut-ing hours in the morning and evening, with bus service during the mid day. DCTA operates two bus routes between the Denton station and UNT Monday through Saturday. An additional peak-period route runs during fall and spring
semesters. For schedules and fares, go to www.dcta.net.
Emeritus College
Designed for adults ages 50 and older, UNT’s Emeritus College offers courses, lectures, field trips and travel learning opportunities for those wanting to enrich their lives. Launched in 2009, the college offers non-credit classes and social networking opportuni-ties for a $110 annual mem-bership fee. Course topics
range from fine arts, current affairs, history, social sciences, language and literature to religion and spirituality, health and well being. Classes are taught by UNT emeritus and active faculty as well as area professionals. The Center for Achievement and Lifelong Learning oversees the college, which is offering more than 50 classes this fall, beginning Sept. 8. Call 940-565-3487, email marilyn.wagner@unt.edu or visit call.unt.edu/emerituscollege.
Pass it on: great things are happening at UNT. Learn about them here and share our successes with your family and friends. • happy dining. Khush Roti, which means “happy bread” in Hindi, is making happy eaters with its award-winning fare. It earned two national awards for dining services — Best Convenience Retailing Concept by Food Management magazine and Best Single Retail Concept by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The campus food cart serves up international sandwiches such as the Tandoori Naanwich spicy marinated chicken and Sabzee, a vegetarian delight.
• Find it online. The UNT Libraries CyberCemetery website — an archive of government websites that have ceased operation — has been selected as one of the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2011. The 13th annual list includes 25 websites voted for by member librarians from around the U.S. as an outstanding site for reference information.
• Dancing flutist. Doctoral student Wayla Chambo performed at the August National Flute Association convention, the premier professional organization for flutists in the U.S. Chambo combined a popular Bach composition with choreography that allowed her audience to experience music and dance in a new way. The five-minute classical piece featured modern dance techniques such as turns, rolls and jumps. G
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Mayborn conference
In July, the seventh annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference hosted a roster of the nation’s most intriguing storytellers.
Keynote speakers included author and poet Diane Ackerman, whose intimately detailed works include One Hundred Names for Love and The Zoo Keeper’s Wife; Ted Conover, who has ridden rails with hoboes (Rolling Nowhere) and become a maximum-secu-rity prison officer (Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing) to produce provocative stories; and Gene Weingarten, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. One of Weingarten’s winning works was built from interviews with
parents who left their children in hot cars (Fatal Distraction); the other is about a world-class violinist who played for tips in a Washington, D.C., subway (The Fiddler in the Subway).
Other speakers also showcased the power of narrative through participatory journalism.
The conference awarded $15,000 in cash prizes to winning articles, essays and book manuscripts. UNT Press will publish one of the books, and the top 10 essays will be published in Mayborn’s literary journal, Ten Spurs.
The conference is hosted by the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.
Transfer agreement
UNT has created an admis-sion partnership agreement with North Central Texas College that will make it easier for students planning to transfer from NCTC to UNT to complete their bachelor’s degrees. The Eagle Bound Program will give them access to UNT resources such as academic advising and admission counseling.
The program allows NCTC students who meet UNT’s admissions requirements and participate in the community college’s honors program or earn an associate’s degree in certain fields to receive auto- matic admission to UNT.
n AT i o n A l R E s E A R C h A w A R D Richard Rogers, Regents Professor of psychology and leading authority on the variability of Miranda warnings, received the 2011 Award for Distin-guished Contributions to Research in Public Policy from the American Psy-chological Association. His research on the comprehensibility of the nearly 900 variations of Miranda warnings has received more than $800,000 in National Science Foundation grants and was cited before the Supreme Court. He also received the 2008 Award for Distinguished Professional Con-tributions to Applied Research — only the third recipient of both awards.
Journalist Ted Conover was a featured keynote speaker at the seventh annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in July.
UNT’s Life Sciences Complex recently received gold-level
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environ-
mental Design) certification — the first
building at UNT to officially receive LEED
certification.
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new appointments
Three new administrative appointments were made this summer. Allen Clark (’00 Ed.D.), assistant vice president for the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, was named UNT’s vice provost for academic resources. Clark replaces Donna Asher (’92, ’99 M.B.A.), who was named associate vice chancel-lor for business services for the
UNT System and will head the new UNT System Business Service Center. Clark joined UNT in 2000 as a senior research analyst in the Office of Institutional Research. He was promoted to associate director in 2003 and director of institutional research in 2005.
Richard Nader was appointed interim vice provost for international affairs. He replaces Earl Gibbons. Nader
joined UNT in 2008 as director of research develop-ment in the Office of Research and Economic Development. His more than 20 years in international programs includes serving as director of the Institute for Pacific Asia at Texas A&M University and managing China and East Asia programs at the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National
Science Foundation. He also led international recruiting and student affairs at Texas A&M’s branch campus in Japan.
Roy Busby (’59, ’66 M.B.A.), Regents Professor of journalism, was appointed interim dean for the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. He replaces Mitch Land (’82 M.J.), founding dean. Busby has been with UNT since 1968, beginning as director of public information and publications and assistant professor of journalism. He served as an assistant to the UNT System Board of Regents, assistant to the president and vice president for university relations. He has been associate dean of the Mayborn School since it was established in 2009.
Purchase a UNT-branded license plate and show you’re part of the Mean Green Nation. By ordering a custom UNT plate, you not only are showing your school pride, but you also are helping students in need by giving to UNT scholarships.
The number of custom letters you choose determines the plate price. The annual cost of UNT branded plates starts at $55 with $14.10 going toward a UNT scholarship donation. The plates stay with you and not your car. You can
transfer them to your new car or move them to another of your cars. And by ordering a 5-year or 10-year plate, you will be able to secure your custom UNT plate for up to 10 years in advance and take advantage of the multi-plate cost savings, while still giving to UNT scholarships.
To order, go to www.myplates.com/go/northtexas, click on the UNT design and choose the level of personalization you want. You’ll be able to see what your plate will look like. It should arrive at your county tax office for pick-up in about three weeks. Find all the details at www.myplates.com/faq.aspx.
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Award-winning efforts
UNT’s efforts in building international research and educational opportunities recently have earned presti-gious recognitions.
Vish Prasad, vice president for research and economic develop-
ment, was selected as a 2011 recipient of the Michael P. Malone International Leader-ship Award, sponsored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, for establishing international research partnerships. He has created dozens of new research collaborations and academic partnerships in more than 20 countries. Prasad led the development of a master’s program planned for UNT and the Universidad de Magallanes in Punta Arenas, Chile. He also led UNT’s effort to establish alliances with seven elite research
institutions and centers in three major cities in India: Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.
“A shared base of resources and expertise among interna-tional institutions provides wonderful opportunities for student learning, faculty collaboration, cultural exchange, innovation and technology development,” Prasad says.
Another recognition this spring went to UNT’s Office of Global Learning and Experience, which won a
national 2011 GoAbroad Innovation Award for Innova-tion in Marketing for its unified campaign to promote global learning through study abroad and other international opportunities.
The awards are sponsored by GoAbroad.com, a resource for international education and travel. The office’s new cam-paign will go off campus for the first time in 2011-12, when the university’s study abroad programs open to non-UNT students.
Co l l E G E o f i n f o R M AT i o n A n D l i B R A R y G R A n T s The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded the UNT Libraries and the College of Information two grants totaling more than $850,000. One will help fund creation of graduate courses in digital curation and data man-agement for an academic certificate and support three graduate students to work on the proj-ect led by William E. Moen, associate dean for research in the College of Information. A second grant, supplemented by funds from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Sloan Foundation, will support a project led by Martin Halbert, dean of the UNT Libraries, to investigate how the library and information sciences profession can manage the growing
amount of scholarly research and data in the digital format.
Students who have participated in international educational opportunities share their experiences at UNT’s Study Abroad fair.
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n E w A l U M n i A s s o C i AT i o n o R n A M E n T This year’s UNT Alumni Association holiday ornament highlights the inaugural season of UNT’s Apogee Stadium, incorporating the limited-edition initial sta-dium logo trimmed in 24-carat gold. Derrick P. Morgan, executive director of the association, says collecting the ornaments, which help fund student scholar-ships and networking events for alumni, is a good way to remember your alma mater and show your UNT pride. The cost of the ornament, which comes in a custom box, is $20 plus $2.50 shipping, including tax. Supplies are limited.
To order, email alumni@unt.edu or call 940-565-2834.
Zero Energy Research lab
UNT is cultivating a high-quality green-collar workforce by building a state-of-the-art Zero Energy Research Laboratory — the first of its kind in the U.S. It will give students and faculty a place to get firsthand experi-ence with future sustainable energy technologies.
Construction of the 1,200-square-foot facility began in July. The lab, located at UNT’s Discovery Park, is designed to test emerging technologies such as structure-integrated insulation, building-integrated solar panels, energy efficient windows, and energy storage and monitoring
systems for the smart grid. Initially, the facility will be
powered by solar energy. Other alternative energy sources such as wind will be added to allow a wide range of zero-energy building research.
The $1.15 million project is funded with a combination of state Higher Education Assistance Funds, UNT operating funds and gifts-in-kind.
Debate workshops
Almost 300 high school students from Texas and 25 other states spent part of their summer vacation at UNT, attending one of the nation’s largest residential summer
camps for high school debaters.
UNT’s Mean Green Workshops, sponsored by the Department of Communica-tion Studies, help high school debate students prepare for the policy debate tournaments organized each year by the National Forensic League and state and local organizations.
The workshops also offer sessions on Lincoln-Douglas debate and, for the first time this year, included a session on public forum debate. UNT and Harvard University were the only two universities in the nation offering a summer program in public forum debate this year.
At the Zero Energy Research Lab ground-breaking were, from left, Miguel Garcia, engineering professor; Costas Tsatsoulis, dean of the College of Engineering; Yong Tao, chair of the mechanical and energy engineering department; U.S. Congressman Michael Burgess (’72, ’76 M.S.); UNT Chancellor Lee Jackson; and Ruthanne Thomas, associate vice president for research.For the third time in
four years, UNT has been named to the President’s Higher
Education Community Service Honor Roll.
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1 Campus tours now include a riding portion as well as a walking portion, thanks to an electric 14-passenger university tram. Led by Eagle Ambassadors, students trained in all things UNT, tours still last about 90 minutes but cover almost twice as much ground. Call 940-565-4104 or visit tours.unt.edu.
2 High school students at the ASM Materials Camp hosted by the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering harnessed the power of the Texas sun, gaining hands-on experience with the tools researchers use to create the materials of tomorrow.
3 New students and their parents learned all about UNT at orien-tations throughout the summer. Both the number of freshmen and the number of applications hit historic highs this year.
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With the football season kicking off at UNT’s spectacular new Apogee Stadium Sept. 10, this fall is the perfect time to
show your UNT pride. And we went to the perfect source — Scrappy, the Eagle mascot — for advice on making Mean Green spirit soar wherever you are. Although Scrappy is a bird of few words, we managed to interpret his call. “I’ve raised spirit on campus for years, but I can’t spread our green pride without your help,” he says.
at the office•WeargreentoworkonFridays.Visitthecenterposter
in this issue to learn how to buy — and win — great university-branded green gear.
•DisplayyourUNTdiplomainyourcageoroffice.•NetworkwithotherEaglesforjobleads.UNT’s
Career Center and Alumni Association are great resources. Visit careercenter.unt.edu and www.untalumni.com to learn more.
Stay connected•Comebacktothenestandsupportstudentsby
attending games, concerts and events or donate your time or money. Don’t forget to check in on Foursquare
if you visit campus so others know you’re here.
•Connectwithour33,000-plusfansandlike us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/northtexas.
•Bragatschool,workorhomeabout the great things happening at UNT.
Support the mean green•Hold up your Eagle Claw to show
pride and unity. If you don’t have talons, use your fist. Make a “V” for “Victory” with your pointer and middle fingers, extend your thumb and curl your fingers toward your palm.
• Join me for tailgating festivities before every home game at tail gating areas and around campus.
•Display a UNT yard flag or car decal and order a UNT license plate (see page 10).
•Do like I do and wear green to every game, especially Oct. 8 for “Green Out the Game.”
— Rebecca Poynter
Mapping science
UNT is the first-ever Texas stop for Places & Spaces:
Mapping Science, a traveling exhibit that demonstrates the power of maps to assist in
navigating abstract spaces as well as physical places. The exhibit, on display beginning Sept. 15 at the Discovery Park campus, 3940 N. Elm St. in Denton, includes maps, globes and an illuminated diagram on topics such as tectonic data for earthquake-prone areas of the world and the impact of air travel on the spread of diseases.
Ten new maps for the theme “science maps as visual interfaces to digital libraries”
are being displayed for the first time (pictured, “History of Science Fiction” by Ward Shelley). A special exhibit of interdisciplinary information visualizations by UNT scholars also will be displayed.
Places & Spaces is a 10-year effort partially funded by the National Science Foundation. It runs at UNT through Jan. 24, except for holidays. Visit mappingscience.unt.edu for more information.
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UNT alumni association
To join the association or learn more, visit www.untalumni.com, email alumni@unt.edu or call 940-565-2834.
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All alumni are invited to join the UNT Alumni Associa-tion at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, when its new pavilion opens with a dedication ceremony just before its inaugural “Alumni Pavilion Party” at 3 p.m. The new 2,000-square-foot pavilion designed by award-winning architect HKS Inc. features space for hundreds of fans to enjoy three high-definition TVs, misting fans, food and beverage stations and spectacu-lar views of UNT’s Apogee Stadium from a 3,200-square-foot exterior patio.
“This new pavilion will give alumni, students and friends of UNT not only a great meeting place,” says Derrick P. Morgan, the association’s executive director, “but also a venue to build camaraderie and a stronger, more viable presence at the new stadium on game days and throughout the year for other special events.”
While the pavilion is designated for use by association members, everyone is welcome for the grand opening to experience the new venue. Membership in the UNT Alumni Association will be required for entry to the pavilion at all subsequent home games. Each member can bring one guest for free. Alumni and friends also can renew or register for membership at the pavilion or purchase a temporary one-day membership for $10.
Located at the northeast entrance of the new stadium, the UNT Alumni Pavilion will open for each home game three hours prior to kickoff.
s o l i D l U B R i C A n T R E s E A R C h
Thomas Scharf and Jincheng Du, materials science and engineering faculty researchers, are studying how changes to the structure and chemistry of solid oxide lubricants can influence their high-temperature properties. Scharf will use advanced electron microscopy and chemi-cal spectroscopy tools housed in UNT’s Center for Advanced Research and Technology to study how structural and chemical changes can improve the friction and wear resistance of these lubricants. Du will use modeling of defects and other related processes in solid lubricants. Their project, funded by a National Science Foun-dation grant, could help minimize the negative effects of friction and
wear in jet engines.
sustainable building
UNT researchers and small businesses are collaborating to revolutionize the construction industry by developing natural alternatives to fiberglass and other non-biodegradable building materials.
Composite manufacturers, USDA farmers and Ladonia Market Center will work with UNT researchers to develop composite panels that use plant fibers in place of glass fibers.
Nandika D’Souza, profes-sor of materials science and engineering, is overseeing the interdisciplinary team, which includes Yong Tao, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering and PACCAR professor of engineering; Michael Allen, assistant professor of biological sciences; and Vish Prasad, vice president for research and economic development.
The team’s design and creation of the new composite materials and foams could be used in the construction industry, cars and aircraft. Their research is supported by a $600,000 National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation program grant.
The UNT Alumni Association will host an open house Sept. 10 for the new alumni pavilion.
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Propelled by a historic month that includes the university’s largest-ever gift and a stadium sponsorship, UNT is moving forward in its journey to being recognized as a top-tier public research university offering the best undergraduate education in Texas.
The milestones include a $22 million pledged gift from entrepreneur Charn Uswachoke (’73 M.B.A.) that is the largest in UNT’s history. And because of a $20 million naming sponsorship for UNT’s new stadium, the university now has a vital partner in Apogee, a campus residential network provider.
The gifts announced this summer also include longtime benefactor Paul Voertman’s $8 million bequest — one of the largest bequests ever made to UNT — as well as a nationally significant photo collection and cutting-edge merchandising design software.
The landmark gifts and stadium sponsorship totaling more than $51 million will impact every aspect of the university, with most every college benefiting. They will enhance student learning, support scholarships, create endowed chairs and professorships, sustain faculty with funding for research and creative endeavors, and elevate UNT’s prominence in fields
ranging from athletics to the arts and music to energy-related materials research.
President V. Lane Rawlins says these milestones will trans-form UNT from the standout institution it is to one that is at the head of the pack. The university has been making strategic investments to enhance its quality and expand its reach, and the game-changing gifts and stadium sponsorship have catapulted UNT onto a new playing field.
“We’re redoubling our commitment to become the best place for undergraduate education in Texas so that our students can excel and compete at the highest levels. As part of that commit-ment, we’ve made a promise to students to provide a high-quali-ty education and opportunities to grow,” Rawlins says. “These gifts will help us fulfill that promise and give us momentum toward our goal to become the best.”
Lisa Baronio, vice president for advancement, says the outside support will enable UNT to widen its margin of excellence.
“For 121 years, UNT has been a driving force in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, which says a lot because it is one of the largest, most economically vibrant regions in the nation,” Baronio says. “These kinds of gifts demonstrate that we are an
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institution on the move. Their breadth and depth represent the strong commitment our donors have to UNT and publicly acknowledge their belief in our mission. If we are at the fore-front, it will help businesses, communities and the state.” A history of giving
For UNT to become a leader, it will take committed support-ers — those who believe in what the university is doing and where it is going. Uswachoke and Voertman were both students at UNT, and they are now two of the university’s most generous benefactors. They have left indelible marks through their longstanding support of students, faculty and the institution.
Uswachoke says he values the education he received and is impressed with how the university has become stronger and expanded into new areas.
“UNT is a top-quality school,” he says. “And I want to help the next generation have a better education so that we can have a better world.”
Uswachoke’s $22 million pledged gift will be divided among the College of Music, the College of Engineering and the College of Business, with $7 million supporting student
scholarships, $6.5 million supporting endowed professorships and chairs and $3 million funding touring and recording opportunities for students.
New initiatives also include the $5 million premier Charn Uswachoke Center for Energy Efficient Materials and $500,000 to establish the Charn Uswachoke Graduate Suite in the new Business Leadership Building. Uswachoke also has given the university previous history-making gifts supporting music, business and international endeavors.
College of Business Dean Finley Graves says Uswachoke’s gift will make study abroad a vital component of a business educa-tion at UNT.
“Mr. Uswachoke’s gift will directly benefit students and provide them with the global competence so necessary in today’s business world,” Graves says. “A global perspective is essential if business students are to become business leaders, and there is no substitute for firsthand experience.”
Voertman attended the Demonstration School, a teacher training school on campus, beginning in kindergarten, and continued at UNT through his sophomore year of college in 1947. He has long supported the arts and music at the university.
UNT President V. Lane Rawlins, left, announcing a $22 million pledged gift in Denton — the largest gift in UNT history — from entrepreneur and alum Charn Uswachoke (’73 M.B.A.) via live video conference between UNT and Bangkok on Aug. 15. Pictured on video screen, from left, Uswachoke with James C. Scott, dean of UNT’s College of Music.
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His $8 million bequest will create the Ardoin-Voertman Endowment Funds, which will be shared equally among the College of Visual Arts and Design, the College of Music and the College of Arts and Sciences. Each college will use a significant portion of the funds to provide student scholarships.
“A college education enriches your life in a lot of different ways, and I wanted to give students the opportunity to experi-ence what UNT offers,” says Voertman, namesake of the Voertman Concert Hall in the Music Building and the Richard Ardoin-Paul Voertman Concert Organ in the Murchison Performing Arts Center. “I hope that this gift provides students with the help they need.”
Baronio says UNT is fortunate to have the support of two individuals who recognize that UNT’s strengths go beyond one facet of the institution.
“They benefited from a well-rounded education and from having varied experiences at UNT, and they want to give students the same opportunity,” she says.
Ken Newman (’66), chair of the UNT Foundation board of directors, hopes that Uswachoke and Voertman’s support does inspire others to give to UNT. Last fall, Newman and his wife, Ann, established a $1 million trust fund to support the Emerald Eagle Scholars program.
“Mr. Uswachoke and Mr. Voertman have shown that there are so many ways to give to UNT,” Newman says. “And they’ve also shown that when you give to the university in a way that is meaningful to you, you are ultimately helping our students receive a first-rate education.”
New stadium, new era
Athletics is a key part of UNT’s push toward greater recogni-tion for excellence. Apogee’s $20 million sponsorship of the new stadium, among the largest collegiate athletics naming-rights agreements, is an endorsement of UNT’s progress and potential.
Founded by Charles Brady and built from the ground up, Texas-based Apogee is one of the largest, most innovative providers of on-campus residential networks (ResNet) in higher education and is found on campuses across the nation, including UNT’s.
Brady appreciates that UNT embodies the same “pull-your-self-up-by-your-bootstraps” ethic that helped him create a multimillion-dollar company.
“We’re proud to partner with UNT on the new football stadium. Apogee has a deep appreciation for UNT and its 121-year legacy here in Texas. We’ve been watching the univer-sity grow rapidly as we grew as a company,” Brady says. “Both
From left: UNT President V. Lane Rawlins, Apogee CEO Chuck Brady and UNT Athletic Director Rick Villarreal at the Aug. 12 press conference announcing Apogee’s $20 million naming sponsorship for UNT’s new Apogee Stadium.
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UNT and Apogee are dedicated to elevating the student experi-ence through innovative, technology-based learning, so culturally it was a great fit.”
Athletic Director Rick Villarreal says the Apogee partnership will go a long way toward making UNT a leading destination for sporting, cultural and entertainment events.
“Apogee Stadium is the physical embodiment of a collective vision to build a world-class facility to inspire and foster our athletes and students,” Villarreal says. “We are extremely pleased to have found in Apogee a long-term partner who shares our vision and values and is fully committed to the university community.”
With the new stadium and new football coach Dan McCar-ney, UNT has the right ingredients for a strong program, Rawlins says.
“UNT’s Apogee Stadium represents an exciting milestone in our growth as a university that is dedicated to fostering the three A’s — academics, athletics and the arts — and to being the leading university serving the needs of the North Texas region,” Rawlins says.
A significant collection
UNT’s stature also is increasing through its reputation as a guardian of history. Already a hub for world-famous music collections and vital government-related and historical digital collections, UNT now also will house a culturally iconic collec-tion from father and son photographers Joe and Junebug Clark.
The Clarks have created a collection that represents one of the most extensive family archives from the golden era of American photography. Their work has been featured in Life, National Geographic, Look and Newsweek.
UNT will receive the complete family collection as a gift from Junebug and Kay Clark and Art and Charlotte Hancock. Art Hancock is a former Jack Daniel’s Distillery marketing executive, and the Clarks were the photographers for the iconic campaign that powered the Jack Daniel’s brand into the world’s No. 1 selling whiskey.
In addition to chronicling 40 years of Jack Daniel’s history, the collection contains all of Joe Clark’s work since the 1930s, which includes famous figures and coverage of Detroit’s emergence as an auto capital.
“My dad believed in ‘pictures that tell a story.’ His life’s work will now be cared for and available to be explored and to inspire people for years to come,” Clark says. “It couldn’t have fallen into better hands or found a better home.”
The collection contains millions of items including film, prints
Top: From left, Charlotte Hancock, Junebug Clark and Art Hancock at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in July. The university will curate, digitize and archive an iconic collection from photographers Joe and Junebug Clark, thanks to a gift from the Clarks and Hancocks. Bottom: Art Hancock, left, and Joe Clark, right, in a photo taken by Junebug Clark at a reunion at the Jack Daniel’s Distillery at Lynchburg, Tenn.
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and advertisements, which UNT will curate, digitize and archive for educational purposes. A long-term goal and the hope of the donors is that UNT will establish a permanent exhibit in Lynchburg, Tenn., home of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery, and develop partnerships across the nation for using the images to teach students.
Students studying photography, advertising, public relations and other fields in the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism will be able to learn from the collection, says Roy Busby (’59, ’66 M.B.A.), interim dean of the Mayborn School.
“The Clark photography collection is so significant because it will touch every part of our program,” Busby says. “It will really influence the future of the Mayborn School and all of our students and faculty.”
Hands-on experience
While all of the milestone gifts will bolster students’ educa-tion, one will have an immediate impact in the classroom. Starting this fall, students in the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management’s merchandising program will be able to create layouts and plans for stores with the same software used by international retailers, thanks to a gift to the school from vrSoftware Ltd.
Founded in 2003, England-based vrSoftware is a leading provider of software for visual retailing. The company donated its program Mockshop to help merchandising students master sales floor design. Mockshop allows students to build three-dimensional virtual stores, choosing everything from paint colors to merchandise.
The company says more than 100 retail clothing store chains and more than 70 sportswear and clothing brands and wholesal-ers use Mockshop, including Calvin Klein, Columbia Sports-wear, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Macy’s and Tommy Hilfiger.
Chasya McClure, a senior home furnishings and digital retailing major, is excited about the new software and adding to her skillset.
“The program is related to real life, and it’s the industry- standard program,” she says.
The Mockshop donation and licensing agreement, which includes annual software updates for the next 10 years, is equiva-lent to a $1.22 million gift. The partnership developed after Tammy Kinley, chair of the division of merchandising, met a company representative at a conference.
Judith Forney, dean of the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management, says the Mockshop software will enable merchandising students to become skilled in an advanced technology that enhances visual merchandising, which is one of the most important aspects of connecting stores, buyers and products.
“We make it a point to provide students with an education that encompasses fundamental knowledge of their field and hands-on experience,” Forney says. “A gift like the one we received from vrSoftware makes our students’ education even more competitive and relevant.” A banner year of giving
The landmark gifts signal that UNT’s stock is rising, and they will fuel the university in new ways. Some of the gift dollars are expected to qualify for matching funding under the state’s program to help emerging research universities become national research universities, which would further boost their impact.
Giving and total commitments to UNT have risen strongly since 2005, and the number of higher-end gifts is steadily climbing upward. The latest round of big-ticket gifts is expected to fuel overall giving at the university.
“This is a banner year for UNT,” Baronio says. “The breadth and types of gifts coming in will help us move fundraising forward and show alumni, friends, corporations and foundations that UNT is a great partner and should be their university of choice.”
Provost Warren Burggren says that the gifts support learning, teaching and scholarship — all of the things that are fundamen-tal to UNT’s mission as a public research university.
“These gifts directly impact our students and the quality of their education, which is where we always want to focus our efforts. Just as importantly, many of the gifts will make UNT a more competitive institution because they sustain students and faculty who are at the top of their game,” Burggren says. “These gifts will allow us to advance in so many ways and impact so many people.”
— Nancy Kolsti and Leslie Wimmer contributed to this story.
Learn more about how some of the gifts will be used, watch a video of Uswachoke’s history-making announcement and find ways you can give at northtexan.unt.edu/giving2011.
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Paul Voertman’s long commitment to UNT began in kin-
dergarten at the Demonstration School.
“The campus was my playground,” he says.
He swam in the school’s pool in the summer, roller-skated
across campus (“the smoothest sidewalks in town,” he says)
and went to ’Fessor Graham’s stage shows and movies. He
stayed through his sophomore year of college in 1947.
“I had a pleasant time here because I had grown up here,
but all children want to leave home at some point, and I did,”
he says.
He transferred to the University of Texas in Austin, where
he would complete his bachelor’s degree in economics, but
returned to UNT each summer to take classes and work at the
family store — an iconic Denton landmark. Generations of col-
lege students have bought textbooks and art supplies and
browsed through art and home goods at Voertman’s.
After his father’s death, when Voertman was 23, he took
over management of the store. He remained at the helm for 38 years
before selling it, and Voertman’s Bookstore still bears the family
name today.
Teacher Ann Bookman Williams inspired his interest in art in
grammar school, he says. An art connoisseur, Voertman began an an-
nual student art competition at UNT in 1960.
“At that time, the kids had no one to judge their work except fac-
ulty members,” he says.
With the competition, students have their work reviewed by an
outside judge — usually a practicing artist or curator — and can win
cash prizes. The competition continues today through the College of
Visual Arts and Design.
“In a four-year span, the student sees four different judges teach-
ing different things,” he says. “Art is pretty subjective, and when one
person may say it’s magnificent, someone else may say, ‘I don’t want
to show it.’ It’s a good learning experience.”
For the College of Music, Voertman supported the $1.5 million
installation of the Richard Ardoin-Paul Voertman Concert Organ that
put UNT’s organ program back in the national spotlight, and he is the
namesake of the recently renovated Voertman Hall in the Music Build-
ing. He regularly attends campus music performances and art events.
With his estimated $8 million bequest to UNT, he hopes to ease
students’ financial burden by providing scholarships and other pro-
grams. A college education in the 1940s cost him $38 a semester, he
remembers.
“Today, in an increasingly expensive college environment, stu-
dents need help,” he says.
Art graduate student Cecila Ann McClain-Shikle says Voertman’s
support has made a difference. She won a cash prize in the Voertman
competition this spring.
“It gave me confidence,” she says. “By winning that, I was able
to buy equipment I wasn’t able to afford otherwise. Since then, I’ve
entered multiple shows. When you get that little boost, it opens
more doors.”
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When he accepted UNT’s Distin-guished Alumnus Award in 1996, Uswachoke said, “I needed a catalyst to transform my vision into reality. I found that in this university.”
In addition to learning about business, Uswachoke fed his passion for music at UNT — particularly jazz. He recalls walking from his room in Kendall Hall to other parts of campus and passing the Music Building, where he heard the One O’Clock Lab Band practicing.
“Every time we passed on a walk, I listened to them,” he says, “and I liked it.”
In fact, in 2004, Uswachoke arranged for UNT’s world-renowned One O’Clock Lab Band to perform for the King of Thailand, who joined them in the four-hour concert. At the same time, UNT presented His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej with an honorary doctorate in music. Uswachoke says the king fondly remembers hearing the One O’Clock Lab Band play at the White House in 1967.
“This trip will forever rank as one of the true high points of international performance for UNT,” says James C. Scott, dean of the College of Music.
“For many years, Charn Uswachoke has been one of the college’s most generous and helpful supporters,” Scott says. “His new gift will go beyond protecting the long-established great school we have here to allow us to compete even more effectively for the very best students and faculty anywhere.”
Uswachoke — whose son, Chawit, graduated from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at UNT in 2010 — says he is pleased to see his alma mater on a journey of continued excellence.
“I’m happy to do this for UNT,” he says.“I love UNT and Denton.”
harn Uswachoke (’73 M.B.A.) came to UNT to learn how to turn his entrepre-neurial vision into reality.
Along the way, he found a welcoming place. Professors with ties to major corporations inspired him. He and friends attended football games at Fouts Field and basketball games at the Pit, and even traveled from Denton to the West Coast in a small Volkswagen. And UNT fueled his long-held love of jazz.
“I was away from home, but I didn’t feel like I was away because people treated me well,” he says. “I enjoyed it very much.”
The successful Thai entrepreneur has long been a generous supporter of UNT, and his latest pledged gift is another milestone.
Noted for his development of the semiconductor industry in Thailand, Uswachoke also was a senator of the Kingdom of Thailand from 1996 to 2000 and a member of its Committee on Science, Technology and Energy. He advised the Thai House of Representa-tives Committee on Science and Technol-ogy and was an advisor to the prime minister. He also was one of the Thai Red Cross Society fundraising directors.
Uswachoke gained his entrepreneurial spirit from his father, who owned a textile factory in Thailand, and he came to UNT for his master’s degree in business administration to gain more tools to help him in his career. He looks back fondly on
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Q and A
Luke Duggleby/B
angkok
Charn Uswachoke (’73 m.b.a.)bangkok
Degree in: Business administration
your vision: I work to be the best in my field.
Advice for students today:Opportunity is everywhere. We
can’t learn from just one country.
We have to be more international.
favorite place to go in Denton as a student: When I was a student there, Den-
ton was a small town and quiet. I
would walk downtown after class
on Fridays to watch a movie.
why you decided to invest in business, engineering and music: I have worked in the high-tech
world of science, I went to the
business school at UNT, and I
love music. It’s good for people.
When I have a headache, I listen
to music. I feel much better, and I
can think better.
Benefits of studying in another country: You learn a lot about culture and
how people think.
Definition of success: Happiness
visit northtexan.unt.edu to read more of
Uswachoke’s answers.
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POWERING REGIONUNT stimulates enterprise and educates people across Texas
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When UNT began as a normal college in 1890, President Joshua C. Chilton declared the institution’s aim to become a leader in “the education of the young men and women of Texas, fitting them to creditably fill the most important positions in business and professional circles.” The city of Denton, destined to be the educational center of the North Texas region, had a population of 2,558.
Now, 121 years later, Denton is closer to 120,000 and UNT is the nation’s 33rd-largest public university, preparing more than 36,000 students to fill society’s important positions. The university continues to grow with new facilities that enhance the student experience, such as the state-of-the-art Business Leadership Building and Apogee Stadium.
Today, UNT has ties around the
world, and its influence begins at home as the largest, most comprehensive univer-sity in Dallas-Fort Worth — the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area and the location of many of America’s fastest-growing cities.
UNT connects hundreds of thousands of people within the region and state — students and their families, alumni, faculty and staff, researchers, business
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people and visitors to campus. The university fuels knowledge to help create jobs and attract start ups. Its investments in new research initiatives and forward-looking degree programs contribute significantly to a thriving region.
“UNT’s 121-year legacy of providing students with the highest-quality educa-tion has furnished Texas with generations of innovative thinkers to lead and carry out the work of the state’s industries,” says President V. Lane Rawlins.
“Today, we continue to give our students a strong academic foundation and hands-on opportunities, making our region and state more and more competi-tive. The investments we are making to continue our growth as a major public research university with the best under-graduate education in Texas will only deepen our impact.”
Vibrant community
UNT is a major regional employer in its own right, with more than 9,000 faculty and staff. Operations spending by the university generates more than $1.3 billion in economic activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth region each year.
In addition, to support the university’s growth, UNT has engaged in an aggres-sive capital spending program for modern classrooms, laboratories and, most recently, the new stadium.
“The fact that UNT is growing and adding staff, students and programs has a tremendous economic impact on area population and jobs,” says Linda Ratliff (’96), director of economic development for the city of Denton.
Terry Clower (’92 M.S., ’97 Ph.D.), director of UNT’s Center for Economic Development and Research, says it’s the impact of alumni on the North Texas region that is perhaps most telling.
“Household spending by UNT alumni living in this region creates more than
$10 billion in economic activity each year. UNT graduates can be found in busi-nesses, the public sector and nonprofit organizations, many in leadership positions,” he says. “They are key contrib-utors to economic and community development in North Texas.”
By offering programs covering seven of the 10 fastest-growing high-pay jobs in North Texas counties, which include some of the fastest-growing counties in the nation, the university turns out scientists, engineers, teachers, musicians and entrepreneurs.
University research also produces financial rewards for a region, including royalties, start-up companies and new technologies. A strong university-based research program can have indirect effects on private firms.
“Investments in research and educa-tion are especially attractive for regional development because the benefits tend to multiply and stay in a region,” says Harold Strong, director of UNT’s Discovery Park and technology transfer.
“Scientists who want to spin off their research into commercial ventures usually want to be near their labs and their indus-try partners. And once an innovative cluster of businesses starts to form, the industry usually puts down deep roots.”
Technology transfer
Discovery Park, UNT’s nearly 290-acre research park, established a new technology incubator program last year to expand economic development opportu-nities. Solar Logic, which recently entered the incubator program, is bringing a public-private partnership to the univer-sity. The company is conducting research and development to bring an alternative-energy option to industrial businesses, rural residences and disaster relief efforts.
Greg Bohl, president and CEO, says his team selected UNT from other university incubator programs in the area.
“The synergy from the leadership and network of UNT’s Office of Technology Transfer and the skills from faculty and
Solar Logic recently entered the incubator program at UNT’s Discovery Park. Pictured are Greg Bohl, president and CEO, left, and Drew Springer (’88), chief operating officer, right.
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students in the Department of Me-chanical and Energy Engineering are significant time savers for us,” he says.
“That’s very important to us as a start up.”
Drew Springer (’88), chief operating officer, says the company will add manufacturing jobs and white- and green-collar jobs to the area.
“Our business design includes the use of existing North Texas regional companies, and once we move past the incubator stage we’ll continue to use UNT as a valuable resource for research as well as talent recruitment,” he says.
Equipment including a focused ion beam microscope, a transmission electron microscope and a local electrode atom probe is unique to UNT in that no other academic lab in the world is using all three devices together for research.
The Talon Research High-Perfor-mance Computing System allows for supercomputer-level computational capacity, and recently UNT began construction on a $6 million Nanofabri-cation Analysis and Research Facility.
Also inviting to researchers is UNT’s new Zero Energy Research Laboratory under construction at Discovery Park, designed to test emerging technologies that allow building systems to have a net-zero consumption of energy. Once completed in early 2012, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S.
Since 2000, UNT researchers have 24 issued patents. With existing faculty, strategic investment in 15 interdisciplin-
ary research clusters and six strategic areas of investment, and more than 200 research-active faculty to be added by 2020, UNT plans to reach external funding goals of $45 million in research expenditures by 2015.
“The research park and other new programs provide opportunities for businesses to expand and for entrepre-neurs to develop their products,” Ratliff says. “A healthy, creative atmosphere is a benefit to the community and a reason for new companies to locate.”
Buildings and beyond
Significant economic impacts are produced by the university’s construction and renovation projects, offering contrac-tual jobs and spending. UNT not only is renovating existing spaces, such as the transformed Paul Voertman Concert Hall, but also is creating new facilities
with innovative eco-friendly designs. The new Life Sciences Complex, which
recently earned Gold-level LEED certification, features some of the finest aquatic and plant research facilities in the nation. The new Business Leadership Building, with cutting-edge amenities, will offer collaborative opportunities with area businesses and corporations.
And UNT’s Apogee Stadium is the largest and most ambitious building project in the university’s history. The construction of UNT’s whole athletic complex, which includes the new stadium, has generated $165.8 million in economic activity and supported more than 1,200 construction and related jobs.
“By adding more resources, UNT is fueling one of the fastest-growing cities in America and demonstrates once again that we are terrific partners with our city and surrounding area,” says Hank Dickenson, deputy athletic director.
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A place of pride
UNT facilities such as the Murchi-son Performing Arts Center and the Elm Fork Heritage Museum and Education Center draw visitors to campus who spend money locally.
Dickenson says the multi-purpose new stadium and its naturally land-scaped grounds will offer unique venues for local, regional and statewide events such as concerts, summer camps, high school football games, band competi-tions, reunions, corporate meetings and community celebrations.
UNT’s campus master plan calls for the redevelopment of the former golf course adjacent to the stadium into a prime destination for business profes-sionals, conventioneers and vacationers with space for a proposed hotel with first-class meeting and convention facilities.
Recurring economic impacts of athletic complex operations, including visiting team spending, are projected to be $28.9 million each year, and future hotel and convention center operations are projected to increase UNT’s economic impact even more.
Ratliff says growth inspires growth. “When people see major construc-
tion under way, they get a feeling of progress and pride, understanding that a significant investment has been made,” she says.
“Businesses see an indication that the economy is improving and this could influence their decisions to expand or locate. The long-term results are the jobs created and the ability to pull talented, educated residents to the area.”
Paul Chandler (’72), president of Meridian Bank and chair of the board of the Denton Chamber of Commerce, has lived in Denton since the 1950s. He understands the value UNT has always brought to North Texas.
“The original 10-acre site of the university was bought by businessmen more than a century ago, showing the support from the business community around the region since day one,” he says.
“Now, as the largest economic engine of the city, the university is building success for years and years to come.”
Dallas-Fort Worth’s leading university
• Thenation’s33rd-largestpublicuniversity
• TheDallas-FortWorthregion’smostcomprehensive university
• Establishedin1890
• Morethan36,000students
• Morethan9,000employees
• $858millionbudgetfor2010-11
• Nearly93,000graduatesworkinginDallas-FortWorth,thenation’sfourth-largestmetropolitanareaandsixth-largest economy
• Programscoveringsevenofthe10fastest-growinghigh-payingjobsinNorthTexascounties,whichareamongthefastest-growingcountiesin the nation
• $1.3billioneconomicimpactinNorthTexas($1.5billionwithcurrentcampus construction activity)
• $24.6millionintaxrevenuesforlocaljurisdictions
• Analumniregionalimpact ofmorethan$10billion each year
The Elm Fork Education Center welcomes 15,000 children each year for field trips and science pro-grams. Pictured are Elm Fork campers with Brian Wheeler (’97), seated, center director, and John Hofmeister, retired president of Shell Oil, who was speaking on campus.
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Find more information and events:
www unt edu/calendar
Explore a world of cultural inspiration at UNTEnlightenment comes in many forms at UNT — thought-provoking works of art, award-winning plays, classical music performances and much more. This fall, discover why UNT is a major cultural entertainment center for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Beneath cognition: Jennifer Levonian, Lee Renninger and carey Roberson
Varied media conveying a sense of understanding that lurks just beneath the surface of thought, action or emotion. Inspired by the work of three American contemporary artists.
Through Oct. 1UNT Art Gallery — Art Building
gallery.unt.edu
who’s afraid of Virginia woolf?Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for “Best Play”Presented by UNT Dance and Theatre
7:30 p.m. Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1, 6, 7, 8 2 p.m. Oct. 2, 9Studio Theatre — RTFP Buildingdanceandtheatre.unt.edu
mozart’s Don GiovanniEnduring classic about the legendary libertine
Presented by UNT Opera and Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Nov. 11, 183 p.m. Nov. 13, 20
Lyric Theater — Murchison Performing Arts Centermusic.unt.edu/mpac
National Parks Project by harlan buttExhibition of vessels and other works by metalsmith Harlan ButtPresented by UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts
Nov. 1-23UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St. in Dentonuntonthesquare.unt.edu
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PAT BOONE ON CAMPUS
Legendary recording star and former UNT student presents “An Evening With Pat Boone” Sept. 11 after
singing at UNT’s Apogee Stadium Sept. 10.
To check ticket availability, visit music.unt.edu/mpac and meangreensports.com.
MUSIC LEGEND PAT BOONE RETURNS TO campus to sing the national anthem for the first football game at UNT’s Apogee Stadium Sept. 10 and will share stories and perform a few of his hits at 4 p.m. the next day in the Murchi-son Performing Arts Center. The author, entrepreneur, actor, humanitarian and recording star — who studied at North Texas in 1954 and 1955 — is recognized by Billboard Magazine as the No. 10 rock recording artist in history. He performed at ’Fessor Graham stage shows as a student before hitting the national spotlight on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. Debuting on the charts in April 1955, Boone was a force of the early rock era and has inspired fans ever since.
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Muse
books
The little manEighteenth-
century English
literature and
culture exhib-
ited a fascina-
tion with small
male bodies, from Henry Field-
ing’s Tom Thumb plays to male
dwarfs in public exhibitions and
bawdy poems featuring diminu-
tive men.
In The Little Everyman: Stat-ure and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Uni-
versity of Washington Press),
Deborah Needleman Armintor,
associate professor of English,
traces how the move from
court dwarf to a more modern
“little man” reflects the shift from
aristocracy to a newly bourgeois
culture. She highlights classic
works from Pope, Fielding, Swift
and Sterne, demonstrating how
the “little man” became an “every-
man” in a century’s time.
‘Rip’ Ford
John S. “Rip”
Ford is famous
for his days as a
Texas Ranger
and as an
officer in the
Confederate Army, commanding
Texas forces in the last engage-
ment of the Civil War, the Battle
of Palmito Ranch. But Ford also
was a doctor, lawyer, editor,
author, state legislator and civic
leader who in later life fought to
preserve Texas history.
In Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford (Texas Christian Univer-
sity Press), history professor
Richard B. McCaslin focuses on
Ford as a man spurred on by the
legacy of his grandfathers and
his convictions to become a force
in shaping Texas as a Southern
state before and after the Civil
War. McCaslin’s previous work
includes Lee in the Shadow of Washington (LSU), which was
nominated for a Pulitzer.
A country in storiesMiroslav Pen-
kov, assistant
professor of
English, has
published his
first collection
of short stories, East of the West: A Country in Stories (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux). The stories
include the Eudora Welty Prize
in Fiction winner “Buying Lenin,”
about a grandson who tries to
buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay
for his Communist grandfather. Penkov is a native of Bulgaria
who grew up listening to his
mother tell him stories that she
made up and his father tell him
about Bulgarian history. The
collection, which has been called
“a dark yet hilarious pleasure,” is
filled with characters wrestling
with the weight of history, exile
and debt to family while their
stories remain light and ani-
mated. Penkov teaches creative
writing at UNT and currently is
editor of the American Literary Review.
‘New’ presses at UNTFour old letterpresses are newly renovated, thanks to the work of four graduate students and Lari R. Gibbons, associate professor of visual arts. The group
overhauled a 60-year-old Craftsmen tabletop press, rebuilt a 140-year-old Gordon clamshell press and worked on two hand iron presses from the late 1820s and
the 1830s or ’40s, making them compatible with cutting-edge printing technology such as vector-based software and photopolymer plates.
Three of the presses are owned by the Print Research Institute of North Texas, P.R.I.N.T. Press, at UNT. Gibbons acquired the fourth, the unique Gordon press,
for the printmaking program after spotting it in a Denton driveway
and finding the owner. Because it was impossible to get replacement
parts, the group consulted with sculpting students and learned to
recast brass to make a piece that had fallen off. A metalsmithing
student soldered a broken spring, and instrument toolmakers in the
Department of Physics made a chase, which holds the letters of the
press in place. An iron works company in Idaho made a treadle for
the press.
The graduate students involved in the restoration were M.F.A.
printmaking candidates Cat Snapp, Laura Drapac, Linda Santana and
Christopher Wallace. An exhibit of their letterpress-inspired fine art
prints, titled Second Edition, is being featured through Sept. 30 at the
Museum of Printing History in Houston. View a catalog of the works at
www.blurb.com/books/2349981. Eventually, the Craftsmen and hand
iron presses will be available for use at P.R.I.N.T. Press workshops for
students and the public. Visit www.art.unt.edu/print for information.
From left, Linda Santana, Christopher Wallace, Lari Gibbons and
Laura Drapac with the Gordon clamshell press built in the 1870s
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dance and Theatre
Professional work
UNT theatre students got the
chance to present their talents in
a professional venue when six
short plays they wrote, directed
and performed were presented at
the Kitchen Dog Theater in
Dallas this spring. The students
prepared their 10-minute plays
in a playwriting class taught by
Andrew B. Harris and a directing
The Department of Dance and Theatre presents Lorca in a Green
Dress by Nilo Cruz at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9-12 and 2 p.m. Sept. 12-13
in the University Theatre. After his murder by fascists during
the Spanish Civil War, poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca
confronts his life and loves before moving on. For tickets and
information about other productions, call the box office at 940-
565-2428 or visit danceandtheatre.unt.edu.
At the Murchison Performing Arts Center this fall, the UNT
symphony orchestra, conducted by David Itkin, with Emanuel
Borok (pictured) on violin, presents Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
in D Major, Op. 61, and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, at 8
p.m. Sept. 30. An opera gala Fundraiser is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Oct. 16, the wind symphony and
symphonic band perform at 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 1, and the baroque orchestra and
Collegium singers take the stage at
8 p.m. Dec. 2. For information about
tickets and other concerts, visit
music.unt.edu/mpac.
UNTold+new, a retrospective exhibition, will feature award-
winning two- and three-dimensional design by CVAD alumni. The
exhibition, curated by communication design faculty member Eric
Ligon (’97 M.F.A.) and judged by Patrick Coyne, editor of Commu-
nication Arts magazine, includes work in interactive and graphic
design, art direction, illustration, copywriting and photography.
It begins at UNT on the Square Oct. 7-25 with a reception Oct. 21
and will be at the UNT Art Gallery Nov. 15-Dec. 17, with reception
Nov. 17. Visit untonthesquare.unt.edu and gallery.unt.edu.
UNT on the Square also hosts laying the Foundation: UNT art
Faculty, 1890-1970, a collection of work from past art faculty, Dec.
2-Feb. 8. UNT on the Square, which houses UNT’s Institute for the
Advancement of the Arts, is at 109 N. Elm St. in Denton.
Visit calendar.unt.edu for more upcoming events.
class taught by Marjorie Hayes.
“Before this, all of the original
plays written by my students
were done only on campus at the
end of the semester,” Harris says,
thanking faculty member Sally
Vahle, one of the founding
members of Kitchen Dog
Theater, for the idea of present-
ing the plays in Dallas.
After the free performances,
the artistic directors of Kitchen
Dog Theater — Tina Parker and
Christopher Carlos — partici-
pated in a discussion of the plays.
Eleven more student plays were
presented on campus.
“Having your play on its feet
can be a wonderful experience for
a young playwright,” Harris says.
“It’s an excellent laboratory to
encourage a writer’s future
development.”
English through artPainting a mural and dancing in a flash mob were a few of the activi-
ties helping students from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de
México learn English this summer at UNT. The annual LTC Summer
Institute offered by the Department of Linguistics and Technical
Communication included tracks in performing and fine arts in addi-
tion to academics and professional development.
The students in the performing arts track, led by Elizabeth Schal-
chlin (’09 M.A., ’11 M.A.), worked on improvisation, scripted skits
and vocal warm-ups and planned and performed in the flash mob at
the University Union. Chip Cullum (’99, ’10 M.A.) led the fine arts
track, in which students worked on origami, comic strips and the
mural. The institute is directed by Katie Crowder (’88, ’95 M.A.),
senior lecturer in the department.
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Musevideos, streaming music, photos
and other features. It also allows
users to sign up for the band’s
mailing list and to tweet com-
ments on its fan wall.
The app, which is now avail-
able for Apple and Android
platforms, is free to download on
your smartphone or portable pad
device. Go to northtexan.unt.edu/online for links.
Television and film
TXU film contest
May graduates Dylan Voisard
(’11), Patrick Perkins (’11) and
Andrea Rosales Santillan (’11)
won third place in the college cat-
egory of the TXU Energy Light
Up the Red Carpet Student Film
Contest. The award included
$2,500 for the students and a
matching amount for UNT.
The radio/television/film
majors were recognized for their
film Zephyr, which as a finalist
in the competition was shown
at the 2011 Dallas International
Film Festival. The students also
were honored at the festival’s
Gala Awards Dinner.
In the four-minute film, a
mysterious object appears in a
glass tube. The film’s protagonist,
depicted as being wasteful with
energy, discovers that the object
The band’s annual CD has
a new twist this year. Lab 2011
includes a bonus DVD contain-
ing full-length videos of all nine
tracks — a first for the band.
You’ll find a high-definition
video montage and videos of
three tracks on YouTube and
at the band’s new website at
www.theoneoclock.com. The CD/
DVD is available online at www.penders.com, or call the jazz office
at 940-565-3743.
You can keep up with all of
the news about the world-
famous, Grammy-nominated
band through a new mobile
application that provides direct
access to concert dates, news,
music
One O’Clock news
Award-winning trumpeter
Terell Stafford will be the guest
artist for the One O’Clock Lab
Band’s 51st Fall Concert at 8
p.m. Nov. 22 at the Murchison
Performing Arts Center. Visit
music.unt.edu/mpac for ticket
information.
is a message from the year 2150,
begging those of the current
generation to change their energy
consumption patterns or face a
dismal future.
“We were going for the visuals
in this movie, which people can
interpret as they see them,” Vois-
ard says. “We also were trying to
startle people in a way by pre-
senting disturbing images about
rampant energy consumption.”
You can view the film at
vimeo.com/22155713.
visual arts
Metalsmithing
The works of four students
and recent graduates from the
College of Visual Arts and
Design were selected for juried
exhibitions at the Society of
North American Goldsmiths
annual conference in Seattle.
Metalsmithing and jewelry
senior Alan Johnson and master’s
student Robin Gordon (’10)
exhibited works in the juried
student exhibition called State of Flux. They were among the 40
students selected to represent 31
universities from across North
America. Their works were
chosen from 1,170 pieces
submitted by 284 students.
Loring Taoka (’11 M.F.A.)
and Parker Brown (’05, ’10
M.F.A.) were featured in the
conference’s live, juried student
Grammy winUNT and One O’Clock
Lab Band alum Mark V.
Gonzales (’96) took home a
Grammy this year with his
band Grupo Fantasma in the
“Best Latin Rock, Alternative
or Urban Album” category.
The 10-piece original Latin band, based in Austin and known for its
energetic live shows, won for its self-produced album El Existential (Nat Geo Music).
As a UNT student, Gonzales — nicknamed “Speedy” — played
trombone with other music students in the popular soul/funk band
Mingo Fishtrap and moved to Austin with the group in 1999. He
joined Grupo Fantasma in 2008.
Gonzales, who earned his degree in music education, also is
known for his horn arranging abilities. He has played and worked
with artists such as Erykah Badu, Bonnie Raitt, Justin Timberlake,
Kris Kristofferson, Spoon, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Stephen Bruton, The
Neville Brothers, Ozomatli, Frankie Valli, The Scabs and Bob
Schneider, among others.
Gonzales was one of the Grupo Fantasma members who
attended the Grammy ceremony. Visit northtexan.unt.edu/culture for a link to the group’s acceptance speech.
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Internationally renowned visual and performance artist Nick Cave will serve as the
artist-in-residence for UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in 2011-12. Cave,
who studied at UNT in the 1980s, will visit UNT twice this fall and twice in the spring to
work with students, faculty and community members in master classes, workshops and
public lectures. He also has been commissioned by the UNT Art Galleries and the insti-
tute to create a new performance piece on campus in the spring with collaborators from
the College of Music, the Department of Dance and Theatre and other UNT arts programs.
The piece will incorporate 30 newly created Soundsuits in the shapes of horse-like forms
that move through campus and evolve into hybrid beings. Cave is renowned for his
elaborate Soundsuits sculptures — wearable art made of materials such as twigs, beads,
Easter grass and dryer lint that make sounds as they brush together.
The institute also named two 2011-12 faculty fellows to work on creative research proj-
ects that will further raise the profile of the arts at UNT. Marimba specialist Mark Ford, co-
ordinator of percussion, plans to compose a concerto for wind ensemble and percussion
soloist to be performed by the UNT Wind Symphony and plans a version for orchestra. He
also will study with internationally known composer Edward Gregson, retired from the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and Jack Stamp, Indiana University Wind
Ensemble director and composer.
Award-winning poet Corey Marks, associate professor of English, will use the fellow-
ship to work on his third manuscript of poetry, specifically writing a sequence of six
poems exploring the theme of the modern zoo and its embodiment of “a complicated set
of impulses: intellectual curiosity, preservation, entertainment, titillation, the perfor-
mance of power.” He also proposes to write a central poem about Dallas real-estate
mogul Harlan Crow’s collection of sculptures of 20th-century dictators.
Cave will speak at the annual Nasher Lecture Series Oct. 11 at the Nasher
Sculpture Center in Dallas. For ticket information, call 940-565-4001.
Cave new artist-in-residence
Plastic Island art
Students in a digital illustra-
tion class spent three weeks this
spring researching the Plastic
Island of the Pacific, sometimes
called the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch. Ocean currents bring the
slide show video Fluxuation.
Their works were chosen from
more than 1,000 images
submitted by 285 people from 50
colleges and universities around
the world (pictured, Brown’s
“This Land Is My Land. This
Land Is Your Land” of steel,
brass, leather, wood, fabric and
sinew).
The video was shown at the
conference and is online at www.snagmetalsmith.org.
plastic and trash dumped into
the Pacific to the circling patch,
estimated to be at least the size of
Texas and possibly much larger,
killing birds and sea life.
The students in the class
taught by Karen Dorff (’85),
lecturer in communication
design, were assigned to create
work that raises awareness of the
problem, promotes new solutions
or exposes some of the biggest
trash offenders in the Pacific.
They experimented with analog
mark making using traditional
printmaking tools and tech-
niques, as well as stamping,
monoprinting, painting and
drawing. Their work was then
scanned and incorporated in
illustrations to be integrated in
poster and cotton bag designs
(the crab cup pictured is the
work of sophomore Mercy
Lomelin).
The final posters will be part
of a presentation at the Elm Fork
Education Center this fall.
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Students in UNT’s ReaL communities bond over common academic interests
by Ernestine Bousquet
It was the week before finals and six freshmen holed themselves up in a common room at Clark Hall to study.
The students joked and laughed as they tested their knowledge in preparation for the big biology final. Among them was a future surgeon, a future anesthesiologist, a future physical therapist, two future pediatricians and a future gynecologist.
Nine months before, they were strangers, encountering a world of new experiences and expectations. And as pre-med students, they were embarking on a difficult course of study.
But after living and learning together as members of the Health Professions REAL (Residents Engaged in Academic Living) community during the 2010-11 school year, the freshmen were thriving and focused on their academic goals.
The health professions community is one of UNT’s 15 living-learning communities, designed to connect students to each other and to the resources they need to excel in their first years of college. The communities are chosen based on popular majors or interests that range from art to engineering to music. They also engage special student populations such as transfer students.
peer bondingGrouped together because of their common majors, the health professions students
bonded in ways that stuck. Some were roommates. Many ended up in the same classes. They studied together in all-day and late-night study sessions and swapped tips on classes to take. They went bowling, grabbed meals and snacks together, and hung out in their residence hall wing watching movies or playing board games. Friday nights turned into a ritual of going out to dinner.
Anthony Smith, a biology major who plans to become a surgeon, says being involved in the health professions community exposed him to positive peer pressure, which motivated him in many ways. He is now serving with several members as officers in the UNT chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
“I learned good study habits and was able to feed off the energy of my peers,” Smith says. “I got so much out of the community — friends, better grades, things to do.”
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Students in UNT’s ReaL communities bond over common academic interests
Students in UNT’s REAL communities share interests or majors and spend time living, learning, studying and socializing together in residence halls. Students can choose from 15 living-learning communities, such as the art and design community shown above.
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a smooth transitionUNT’s REAL communities provide
students with a support network to encourage learning and development outside the classroom. Students have built-in access to faculty, staff and peer mentors who get them more involved in their majors, campus life, and leadership and service activities.
Since it launched in 2007, the program has grown from 65 students in three communities to more than 700 students in 15 communities. Most communities involve freshmen, but some include sophomores. UNT launched a new community this fall that is specifically for sophomore students.
“Being in a REAL community makes it easier for students to lean on each other and to instantly feel like they are part of a family,” says Elizabeth With (’02 Ed.D.), vice president for student affairs. “And having more personal access to staff and faculty is an excellent way to reinforce the growth and learning that goes on in classrooms.”
Dale Tampke, dean of undergraduate studies, says REAL communities show student learning can happen anywhere.
“REAL communities bring students together and create a complementary environment,” says Tampke, who is considering other ways to make living and learning more seamless. “They make a big campus feel small.”
Friends and mentorsUNT’s REAL communities are
structured with an emphasis on helping students to stay on track academically and to stay in school, says Elisabeth Warren (’83 Ph.D.), director of housing, who helped launch the program.
“Grouping students together and providing strong avenues and resources for them to live and learn together helps them stay engaged,” Warren says.
Each REAL community has a mentor or network of mentors coordinating activities and offering resources that are tailored to the students’ common majors or interests, according to Eugene Frier (’04, ’11 M.Ed.), residence life coordinator who also helped launch the program.
For instance, one of the faculty mentors for the jazz community gave a talk on gig etiquette to members, who were student musicians. The journalism community
mentor took her students to The Dallas Morning News, where they helped pick stories that appeared in the newspaper the next day.
The ultimate goal is to get students more involved in their course of study while encouraging bonding and fun.
“We want students to get connected to mentors and to see them as a useful resource,” Frier says.
In the global learning community, students are usually international studies or foreign language majors. Many are from other countries. Their shared global perspective helps to break down cultural barriers. Fleur-Marine Maubert, the faculty-in-residence for the 2010-11 school year, held potlucks, movie nights focused on world issues, mock debates and language classes to help the community members get to know each other.
Students sought Maubert out for everything from help with French to her perspective on living abroad.
“If you don’t see the person who can help, you don’t think about looking for them. But the proximity made a differ-ence,” says Maubert, who was part of an exchange program.
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Jacquelyn Peña says she and the other health professions community members had great support from their resident assistant, who was a senior biology major, and from the community’s mentor, who also is an academic advisor for students majoring in health professions.
The students took a field trip to a local hospital where they were inspired by working doctors, courtesy of their mentor. They even volunteered at a nursing home to put their care-giving skills to the test.
“Everyone was willing to help,” Peña says.
a familyThe UNT SERVES! community helps
students cultivate their leadership skills and community activism through a freshman seminar class, regular group meetings and volunteer projects.
They spend much of their downtime making an impact, whether it’s picking up trash around campus once a month or mentoring area at-risk students.
Some also participate in community service projects through Alternative Spring Break programs. The shared
experiences lead to strong bonds. Adriana Diaz, a transfer student
studying applied behavior analysis and psychology, says being a part of the UNT SERVES! community made her first year at a four-year university easier.
“I knew I was going to be ready for work and to study, but I wasn’t sure how I was going to fit in and find my social circle,” says Diaz, who was part of the com-munity in 2010-11. “I was very blessed to be able to join a group and have a little family already built there for me.”
As her confidence grew, so did Diaz’s commitment to community service — which prompted her to join the UNT chapter of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (formerly American Humanics).
“It was really nice to help other people while still having fun and being with friends,” Diaz says.
Rachel Rachel, who served as a resident assistant and advisor for UNT SERVES! from its beginning, says the community brings students like Diaz out of their shell while challenging them to get involved.
“This is such a tight-knit group. They
all had in common that they liked leadership and community service. It allowed them to break the ice,” says Rachel, who graduated in August with a degree in applied arts and sciences.
social learningThe UNT SERVES! students also
formed close ties with faculty mentors such as Brandi Darensbourg, an assistant professor in rehabilitation counseling who served as the faculty-in-residence in the program’s first year and stayed involved with the group.
“After a while, I wasn’t a professor. I was like their neighbor,” she says.
“Dr. D,” as the students call her, lived just down the hall from her charges and worked with them on service projects. She says it was amazing to see them put their knowledge and leadership skills to use.
“It’s a great social learning experience,” Darensbourg says. “You get to see how well your students learn from each other and within the community as opposed to the traditional classroom setting.”
Gary Payne
Students in the health professions, UNT SERVES! and global learning REAL communities meet to study for exams, plan volunteer projects and foster cultural exchange and international awareness.
Michael Clem
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"Basketball, like life, is a team game."
— Johnny Jones, head coach, North Texas basketball
The young athletes at the Johnny Jones Basketball Camp signed up to improve their basketball skills. They also are learning important life lessons about teamwork, responsibility and leadership. For Jones, basketball is more than a game. It’s a way to prepare future generations for adulthood.
In the Super Pit, these same lessons have resulted in five straight 20-plus win seasons, a pair of Sun Belt Conference titles and two NCAA Tournament trips in the last five years for Jones and the men’s basketball team. With the 31st ranked signing class in the country, the 2011-12 Mean Green team will again be a team to watch.
Share the Mean Green experience and help this team grow. Buy your season tickets online or by phone today. Packages start at $85 and include a home game with LSU.
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"Basketball, like life, is a team game."
— Johnny Jones, head coach, North Texas basketball
BRUCE HALL CREATION
Rahul Panchal (’04) turned a dorm room experiment into a spicy business.
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RAHUL PANCHAL (’04) SAYS HIS BUSINESS started as a jar of water, spice and sun on his Bruce Hall window sill.
“In college, I started missing my parents’ spicy food,” he says. He tried steeping the Indian spices his parents sent, and the
outcome was a piquant tea heightened with capsaicin. After he discovered market research showing that spicy food
sales were growing in the U.S., Panchal started Prometheus Springs Elixirs. The company offers six strangely spicy-sweet flavors, like lychee wasabi and mango chili. What started as a dorm room experiment resulted in a product available in almost every state and more than 1,000 stores nationwide.
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EAGLEs’ Nest
Upcoming alumni gatheringsUNT alumni are gathering to network and celebrate – and you can join them. Here’s a sampling of events coming up:
Football home opener vs. houston: Experience UNT’s new Apogee Stadium Sept. 10. See the poster in the middle of this issue for infor-mation.
alumni pavilion Dedication: Join UNT Alumni Associa-tion member and friends Sept. 10 for the dedication and grand opening. Email alumni@unt.edu or call 940-565-2834.
UNT Career Fairs: Career and internship fairs offered by the UNT Career Center are free to alumni job-seekers. Scheduled are the College of Business Fair, 3 to 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the UNT Coliseum, and the College of Engineering Fair, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22 at Discovery Park.
business leadership building grand opening: Celebrate the opening of the new building at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 22. Call 940-565-4333 or visit cob.unt.edu for information.
Family weekend: Join us Sept. 23-25 for a fun-filled weekend. Learn how to get involved at www.unt.edu/familyweekend or contact the UNT Parent Programs Office at parents@unt.edu or 940-565-4373.
homecoming 2011: Join the university community Oct. 22 for annual Homecoming celebrations. See the poster on the inside back cover of this issue for details.
1960
gary foster, dallas :: is a
senior lecturer in music theory at
SMU. After graduating, he taught
for almost 10 years in Odessa and
for 28 years at Northeastern State
University in Tahlequah, Okla.,
serving as department chair for 12
years. He earned a master’s from
Texas Tech and a Ph.D. from
LSU along the way. He retired
in 1997 and moved to Dallas,
where he began work with SMU
in 2005. He says he would enjoy
hearing from any of his UNT
classmates from the late ’50s and
early ’60s.
1965
Wynoka Sue Jay Passmore, (m.ed., ’70 ed.d.), arlington :: retired in May after teaching
for 43 years at Texas Wesleyan
University in Fort Worth. She and
her husband of 50 years hope to
spend more time with grandchil-
dren and plan to travel.
1966
Judith Carrier (m.ed., ’71 ed.d.), fort Worth ::
founding president of Tarrant
County College Southeast
Campus, received the Discover
Award from the Girl Scouts of
Texas Oklahoma Plains. She was
recognized at the 2011 Women of
Distinction luncheon in May. She
also has received UNT’s
Distinguished Alumna Award
and Outstanding Service Award.
Lorene barnes holmes
(m.b.ed., ’70 ed.d.),
hawkins :: retired from Jarvis
Christian College after a 49-year
career and was named Professor
Emeritus. The college also named
the Dr. Lorene Barnes Endowed
Scholarship in her honor. In
addition to visiting her children,
grandchildren and other relatives
and friends, she is concentrating
on writing a book and also has a
business, Lorene’s Gifts.
maureen m. mcGuinness (’97 m.Ed., ’03 Ed.D.), assis-tant vice president for student affairs, and her children show off their green pride at niagara falls.
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1968
barry m. birkhead
(m.S.), Waldron, ark. :: was
appointed by Arkansas Gov. Mike
Beebee to the State Emergency
Response Commission. The
advisory committee makes
recommendations for education
and training regarding hazardous
materials to emergency response
teams across Arkansas.
William kerley, Runaway bay :: wrote Sell and Negotiate with Top Guns: Fly with Eagles (PublishAmerica). The book is
about how to overcome obstacles
and find success, with chapters
including “Working With Jerks,”
“When the Buzzards are Circling”
and “Staying Ahead of Your
Competition.”
1969 Lynda Taylor ender (’76), dallas :: was presented with the
Distinguished Public Service
Award by the Women’s Council
of Dallas County. She is director
of Advocacy Group for Elders for
The Senior Source and previously
was the regional coordinator for a
state senatorial office.
Richard L. ‘Rick’ mcmahan, houston :: is
serving as a
U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in
Thailand, teaching English to
Thai elementary and secondary
students through the joint U.S./
Thai Teacher Collaboration and
Community Outreach Program.
He retired from a career with
EDS (now HP) and FOX
Cognosante.
1970
karleen barlow koen, houston :: had a new histori-
cal novel released this summer.
Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV (Crown) is set in 1661
in the court of a young Louis
XIV, whose romantic affairs set
France on the road to scandal
and conflict with the Vatican.
The New York Times bestselling
author earned her English degree
at North Texas.
1977
kathryn minette, Santa fe ::
and her husband, Stan bider-man, who attended North Texas
in 1969, collaborated on their
first book together, Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses into Art, Politics and Culture in China and Tibet (Irony Press). They went on an
art-buying expedition through
the area, and the resulting book is
filled with their impressions and
Kathryn’s photos.
1983
mark Terry (m.ed.), Southlake ::
was named
president-
elect of the board of directors
of the National Association of
Paying it forward
as a tax manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), accountant emily mauzy (’06, ’06 M.S.) advises private and
public companies about how to make the most of their earnings, a talent
she demonstrates in her personal life, too.
Four years after graduating from UNT’s five-year master’s in tax ac-
counting program, Mauzy contacted the Department of Accounting and
arranged to donate money for a scholarship, $1,000 a year for a minimum
of five years.
“I received several scholarships while at UNT, so I wanted to do some-
thing,” says Mauzy, who arrived from Maryland and decided after her first
cheese quesadillas that Texas was the place for her. And so was UNT.
“I liked the accounting program and the complete college experience
that UNT offered,” she says. “I thought, ‘When I get out in the real world,
how cool would it be if I could pay my experience forward?’”
A resume submission to the Beta Alpha Psi accounting honor society
for a job fair resulted in a spring internship.
“A partner at PwC had a daughter who graduated from UNT and
wanted to recruit from the campus,” she says.
That UNT supporter launched Mauzy into her career with the intern-
ship that led to a full-time job at PwC in Dallas. She was promoted to tax
manager this summer.
Mauzy wrote the check for her first $1,000 installment on the scholar-
ship late last year.
“I don’t itemize on my personal return, so I didn’t even get to write it
off,” Mauzy chuckles.
But she says she doesn’t mind.
“UNT took care of me.”
— Rebecca Poynter
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EAGLEs’ Nest
Phoreffs and Delta Chi Delta members reuniteEleven ladies met at the Prestonwood Country Club in June, mem-
bers of a sorority that reunites each summer. Depending on when they attended North Texas, they were known either as Phoreffs, members of the girls social club organized on campus in 1935, or as Delta Chi Deltas, members of the local sorority the Phoreffs became in 1944. Some also are members of Alpha Delta Pi, the national sorority the group affiliated with in 1953-54. They meet to catch up and remember North Texas days.
“Ours is not a growing group, but we are still here,” says Rose-Mary Brau Rumbley (’52, ’53 M.Ed., ’70 Ph.D.), who keeps a mailing list of about 85 members and helps organize each reunion.
Two who were part of the group from its beginning are Dorothy Lee Dillon Vestal (’36) and Wilma Jo West Bush (’36). Vestal, who was a charter member of the Phoreffs, invited Bush to be in the first pledge class and the two are still fast friends 75 years later. They remember the earliest Phoreffs gatherings simply as times of fun.
Loretta Smith Hudspeth (’41) recalls dances, life in the Phoreffs House and especially the restaurant where the girls took their meals. It was there she met a waiter named Bud Hudspeth (’46) one morning and he called to ask her out that night. He passed away on their 58th wedding anniversary.
Rumbley says all the members are proud of their North Texas connections.“We’ve never forgotten our roots,” she says.
To read more about the reunion and the two Phoreffs who have been friends for three-quarters of a century, visit northtexan.unt.edu.
1994 Suzanne L. disheroon (m.a., ’97 Ph.d.), grand Prairie ::
professor of English at Cedar
Valley College and director of
creative services for Texas Career
Solutions, has published her
eighth book, The Awakening and Other Writings (Broadview Press).
A collaboration with three other
scholars, the edition places Kate
Chopin’s novel in the context of
cultural and regional influences.
Jason Phillips (’96), orlando, fla. :: who earned his law degree
from the Florida State University
College of Law, has opened his
own law firm in Orlando, J. Brian
Phillips P.A., Attorney at Law.
The firm handles general civil
litigation cases and provides in-
house counsel to corporations and
nonprofit organizations.
1995
marta Plata, fort Worth :: was
named the 2011 Woman of
down the Corridor
Elementary School Principals. He
has been a member of the associa-
tion since 1993 and has served
on its board since 2007. He is the
principal of Eubanks Intermediate
School in Southlake.
1989
martin Taylor, Columbus, ohio :: published a book called
My Neck Hurts!: Nonsurgical Treatments for Neck and Upper Back Pain ( Johns Hopkins Press),
a comprehensive guide to treating
neck pain. Taylor, a practicing
neurologist and clinical associate
professor at the Ohio College of
Osteopathic Medicine, earned his
doctorate in biomedical sciences
at the UNT Health Science
Center in 1995.
1993
david Toney, Pearland ::
was elected to
membership
as a fellow of the Texas Bar
Foundation. He is a partner at
Adams and Reese, where he
practices primarily in the areas of
construction disputes, commer-
cial litigation, products liability,
personal injury defense and toxic
tort litigation. He is president of
the Houston Bar Association’s
Construction Law Section.
From left, front, Betty Salem Korioth (’53), Kathryn Caldwell Eubanks (’43), Doro-thy Lee Dillon Vestal (’36), Wilma Jo West Bush (’36), Loretta Smith Hudspeth (’41), Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Hill (’47); back, Sherry Milholland Thompson (’46), Joyce Bynum Smith (’54), Peggy Click Mal-lick (’51), Ann Embry Koenig (’56), Rose-Mary Brau Rumbley (’52, ’53 M.Ed., ’70 Ph.D.)
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Distinction by Altrusa Interna-
tional Inc. Marta (pictured with
her husband, Jesse) has served as
principal of Manuel Jara Elemen-
tary School for five of her 17 years
with the Fort Worth ISD.
1999 Jason Skipper, Tacoma, Wash. :: has released his first novel,
Hustle (Press 53). The book is
about a young man raised by an
ex-con grandfather and philander-
ing father who grows up in Texas
selling shrimp from a roadside van
and struggling to become a musi-
cian. Jason teaches creative writing
at Pacific Lutheran University.
2000
adam hayashi, (m.S.), des Plaines, Ill. ::
was named
dean of science and health careers
at Oakton Community College.
He earned his doctorate from the
University of Florida in Gaines-
ville and previously served as dean
of the College of Central Florida’s
Citrus Campus in Lecanto, Fla.
angela kirkendoll, houston ::
was named the 2011-12 Houston
ISD Librarian of the Year. She is a
library media specialist for the
district’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Early Childhood Center.
Chris Latham, austin :: was
a co-presenter at Austin’s South
by Southwest Interactive
Con ference. He discussed the role
of web and social media during
the University of Texas campus
shooting last fall. He managed the
emergency information page and
UT Police Facebook page during
the incident. Chris earned his
master’s in information studies
from UT in May.
2004
Sally Perret, (’06 m.a.), Champaign, Ill. :: was
awarded the
first Kibbee Prize from the School
of Literatures, Cultures and
Linguistics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The award will be given annually
to the winner of a Dissertation
Completion Fellowship. Sally is a
Ph.D. candidate in Spanish,
Italian and Portuguese.
dominique Rhymes, Irving ::
was named the 2011 Body by Vi
Transformation Champion and is
now a spokesperson for ViSalus
Sciences. Other prizes included a
trip to Hollywood and a cruise. A
Dallas police officer, Dominique
joined the 90-day weight loss
challenge to improve her fitness.
At UNT, she ran track, majored
in broadcast journalism and was a
member of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority Inc.
➺ The screen printing process of Denton freelance artist
Nevada hill (’05) was featured on KERA’s Art & Seek
this spring. Hill, who earned his
printmaking degree from UNT,
designs posters, album packag-
ing and apparel for businesses,
musicians and venues. He has
designed for the Granada The-
ater and Josh Pearson of Mute
Records, and he works for Tim
Delaughter of Polyphonic Spree
and Tripping Daisy fame. His work also has been featured
in several books and comic anthologies. Visit northtexan.
unt.edu/online for a link to the KERA video.
➺ Musician, composer and producer art hays (’94), who
earned his bachelor’s degree in music from UNT and has
toured with bands such as Matchbox Twenty and Carbon-
dale, produced the theme for the NBC summer show Love
Bites — a cover of The Pretenders’ “Message of Love.” He
also has three of his songs featured in the series and has
been busy composing and producing music for commer-
cials for companies such as Tostitos, Eggland’s Best and
Abbott Pharmaceutical.
➺ As NASA’s space shuttle program came to a close, UNT
astronomy program director and former North Texas
student Ron diIulio made news with what he calls
“probably the largest collection of shuttle memorabilia
in the world.” He began chronicling the space program
half a century ago, collecting autographed, commemora-
tive envelopes and stamps that document moments in
space history such as rocket tests and shuttle flights. The
collection now numbers 2,000 to 3,000 commemorative
envelopes. DiIulio, also known as “Starman,” told NBC-5
it’s his mission to document it all: “The shuttle is the
body of the novel, but we have to have other chapters.”
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EAGLEs’ Nest
F R I E N D S W E ’ L L M I S S
UNT’s alumni, faculty, staff and students are the university’s greatest legacy. When members of the eagle family pass, they are remembered and their spirit lives on. Send information about deaths to the north texan (see contact information on page 5).
Read more, write memorials and connect with friends at northtexan.unt.edu.
University Community Ishmael ‘Ish’ bustinza, Denton,
assistant pro-
fessor of for-
eign languages
and literatures,
1965-2006,
died June 15. He taught Spanish,
was a member of the Faculty Senate
and served on mentoring commit-
tees with the Office of Nationally
Competitive Scholarships, helping
students prepare for the interview
process for Rotary Ambassadorial
Scholarships and Rhodes Scholar-
ships, among others. He was born
in Brownsville and earned degrees
from the University of Texas at
Austin. He served in the U.S. Navy
aboard the U.S.S. Juneau.
denis anthony Conrady, Terre
Haute, Ind., as-
sociate profes-
sor of computer
sciences, 1974-
1998, died June
13. He received a bachelor’s degree
from the U.S. Naval Academy, a
master’s from MIT and a doctorate
from Case Institute of Technology.
He served in the U.S. Air Force in
Mississippi, Alaska, Florida and
Massachusetts and at Colorado’s
U.S. Air Force Academy, where he
was the first to teach computer
science. He was a member of what
is now the Barbershop Harmony
Society for 58 years. He sang with
many quartets and choruses and
won 10 international gold medals
with one of his favorites, Dallas’
Vocal Majority.
d. barry Lumsden, Raleigh,
N.C., Professor
Emeritus of
higher educa-
tion, 1978-
2006, died
June 14. He had a 36-year teaching
career in higher education. At UNT,
he served for two years as director
of the Center for Higher Education
and taught a course on scholarly
writing and publishing that was
popular with doctoral students. In
1999, he wrote the proposal, funded
1930s
merle Inman Tolbert (’32), Southlake :: After graduating,
she began her teaching career
in Leonard, then married and
moved to Fort Worth. She taught
second- and third-grade students
at W.J. Turner Elementary School
for 28 years before retirement.
She was 99.
marvin guy Ramey (’34), denton :: He earned his
business degree and worked for
insurance agencies in Houston
and Denton before serving in the
Army during World War II. After
the war, he bought his father’s
half of Ramey and Ivey Insurance
Agency in Denton and eventually
formed Ramey and King Insur-
ance. As president of the Denton
Chamber of Commerce, he led
fundraising efforts to establish the
Denton State School. He received
UNT’s Outstanding Service
Award in 1987.
1940s
martha Jo godwin aldridge (’40), Whitesboro :: She was
a Yucca favorite and active in
the Gammadion Society, Sigma
Tau Delta, the Mary Ardens and
Kappa Theta Pi. After graduat-
ing, she taught in the Saint Jo and
Gainesville public schools.
Leslie ‘Les’ bullock (’40), Laurinburg, N.C. :: He earned
master’s and doctoral degrees
from Union Theological Seminary
of Richmond in Virginia and later
studied at Cambridge University.
He organized the Church of the
Covenant for Brazos Presbytery
in Houston and in 1948 joined
Flora McDonald College in Red
Springs as a professor. When
the college merged with another
to form St. Andrews Presbyte-
rian College, he began work on a
“Christianity and Culture” pro-
gram that was recognized by the
Danforth Foundation as one of
the two most outstanding general
education programs in the U.S.
John berkeley knapp (’41), garland :: He retired as
manager of the casualty prop-
erty claim department for The
Travelers Insurance Co. in Dallas
after 37 years of service. He also
had worked for The Travelers
in Wichita Falls and in Wichita,
Kan. He served in the U.S. Army
during World War II. At North
Texas, he was a member of Alpha
Chi Honor Society.
J. Ray martin (’42), denton :: He was a county court at law
judge in Denton County from
1970 to 1986. He served as a
meteorologist with the Army Air
Forces during World War II and
graduated from Columbia Law
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School. He served as county judge
in Snyder from 1959 to 1962.
Catharine ada greever Sherron (’42), Santa Rosa, Calif. :: She taught physical edu-
cation briefly at New Braunfels
before marrying and moving out
of state. She was an active mem-
ber of P.E.O., an avid tennis player
into her 80s and an accomplished
world traveler.
Charles franklin dameron (’43), dallas :: After graduat-
ing with a journalism degree, he
joined the U.S. Navy. He served
in World War II and the Korean
War, retiring from the Naval
Reserve as a commander after
26 years of service. In 1946, he
began his newspaper career with
the Dallas Times Herald, where
he served as a reporter, city editor
and news editor and retired as as-
sociate managing editor in 1983.
Stanley P. Wilson (’43), abilene :: He served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II, then
earned his law degree and joined
McMahon, Springer and Smart
in Abilene. He was senior vice
president and general counsel for
Central and Southwest Corp. in
Dallas before retiring and becom-
ing Of Counsel to the McMahon
Law Firm. He and his wife of 66
years, Claudie Park Wilson (’45), endowed a UNT scholar-
ship and were lifetime members
of the President’s Council. Other
survivors include his brother-in-
law, Charles onstead (’47),
whose wife, the late Jo ann Park onstead (’44), is the namesake
of Jody’s Fountain on campus.
Jeanne hamilton Rodgers (’45), Tyler :: She earned a
business degree and was recruited
by Hudnall and Pirtle in Tyler.
After marrying, she focused on
her family, becoming an excellent
seamstress, cook, gardener and
handywoman. She was a church,
school and community volun-
teer and a member of the Junior
League of Tyler and the Festival
Garden Club.
billie Joy hooten-beavers-Reichman (’46), Leaven-worth, kan. :: She taught home
economics in Itasca and taught
in Bryan before moving to Japan
and then Europe. She worked on
a master’s degree and served as a
social worker for five years before
joining her second husband as
co-owner of Peddlers Corner in
Leavenworth.
elizabeth ‘betty’ everett Thomson (’48), Pasadena, Calif. :: She was an honors grad-
uate in interior design and later
earned teaching credentials as well
as a California realtor’s license.
A member of Kappa Theta Pi
sorority, she was a campus beauty,
one of those selected in 1947 to
fly to Austin for the selection of
a North Texas Beauty Queen by
Gov. Beauford Jester. Survivors
include her husband of 63 years,
William Thomson (’48, ’49 m.m.).
Richard hill Crosby (’49), Richardson :: He was a veteran
of World War II, serving in the
Merchant Marines, and earned
his degree in physics. In 1948,
he married Patty gene hoke (’49), who died last year.
Jim Scott (’49, ’56 m.ed.), Costa mesa, Calif. :: He served
in the Army Air Corps in World
War II before coming to North
Texas, where he was a yell leader
known for doing a standing back
flip before cheers. He worked in
the aerospace industry in Dallas,
then transferred to Costa Mesa
where he started Seco Seals, a
company that made gaskets. He
worked to garner support for high
school athletic facilities, includ-
ing a football stadium at Estancia
High School that bears his name.
1950s
mary beth Loughmiller hiskey Paul (’52), houston :: She was a member of Kappa
Delta and married U.S. Air Force
pilot Peter marion hiskey Jr. (’54) after graduation. When he
for $1 million, to establish the Don
Buchholz Endowed Chair in Commu-
nity College Education and planned
and initiated the Bill J. Priest Center
for Community College Education.
Lumsden founded and was editor of
three journals, Community College
Journal of Research and Practice,
Educational Gerontology and Chris-
tian Higher Education. He earned
bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
degrees from North Carolina State
University.
J. Roy moses Jr., Kerrville, assis-
tant professor
of journalism,
1966-1968
and 1972-1997,
died May 5.
He was named to the C.E. Shuford
Hall of Honor in UNT’s journalism
department in 1996. Moses was
the director of information and
publications and served on the
journalism faculty at North Texas
from 1966 to 1968, then returned to
the faculty in 1972. He spent several
years as an advisor for the college
newspaper. He served in the U.S.
Army and was an editor and reporter
for Texas newspapers. He also
was director of journalism for the
University Interscholastic League at
the University of Texas at Austin. He
earned degrees from Southwestern
University and UT.
dale hugh Peters (’52, ’53), Den-
ton, Professor
Emeritus of mu-
sic, 1959-2005,
died July 16. He
was coordi-
nator of organ and harpsichord
instruction for 20 years and served
for 12 years as associate dean for
academic affairs in the College of
Music. Peters earned bachelor’s
degrees in organ and English from
North Texas and a master’s in
musicology from Columbia Univer-
sity. He served as assistant organ-
ist/choirmaster at St. Paul’s Chapel
at Columbia University before
receiving a Fulbright grant for study
in Denmark. In 1983, he became a
fellow of the American Guild of
Organists and passed the choir-
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EAGLEs’ Nestdied in a plane crash in 1956, she
entered the University of Texas
Law School. She graduated in
1959, passed the State Bar and
joined Tennessee Gas and Trans-
mission Co. as an attorney. She
remained involved with Kappa
Delta, the Assistance League of
Houston and several boards.
Patricia L. Stephens (’53), Newcastle :: She earned a busi-
ness degree and went to work
for Humble Oil, now Exxon, in
Dallas. She retired in 1986 after
33 years with Exxon and lived
in Graham before moving to
Newcastle.
kathryn ‘kay’ kidd Winters (’54), Richardson :: After
earning her business education
degree, she had careers as a stay-
at-home mom and an elementary
school teacher. She lived in Albu-
querque, Beaumont, Kansas City,
Bartlesville and Tulsa and enjoyed
tennis and golf. At North Texas,
she was a member of Alpha Delta
Pi sorority.
valentine m. kolar (’56), Las vegas, Nev. :: He served as
a member of the U.S. Army band
during the Korean War and was
an accomplished musician and
vocalist, playing stand-up bass and
traveling the world with legend-
ary jazz bands including those of
Stan Kenton and Johnny Mathis.
After he retired from an 18-year
teaching career, he attended the
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
and trained to be an actor in the
senior adult theater. At North
Texas, he was a member of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
emmett foster keiffer (’59), Plano :: He was proud to have
put himself through school at
North Texas. After earning his
degree, he worked for 32 years
with U.S. Gypsum, where he was
a top sales representative. He also
worked in the homebuilding in-
dustry, constructing several homes
in the West Plano area. He was an
Army veteran, serving during the
Korean War.
1960s
glenn howze (’60, ’63 m.a.), Chapel hill, N.C. :: He
earned his degrees in sociology
and went on to earn his doctorate
from Washington State Univer-
sity, teaching at Tuskegee and then
Auburn. A rural sociologist, he
spent 12 years overseas working
on economic development proj-
ects in Mali, Burkino Faso, Niger
and Somalia, and he worked on
more than 20 assignments in
Africa and Latin America. In
2001, he taught as a Fulbright
Scholar in South Africa.
Jimmy Lee murphrey (’61), denton :: He earned degrees
in history and education, taught
political science and later retired
from Denton State School. He
also served in the Army Reserves
Engineers.
Sue Turner flournoy (’67), mount vernon :: She earned
her bachelor’s degree in biology
and education and was a member
of Mortar Board Honor Society
and Chi Omega. She raised her
two children and later served as
office manager for her husband of
44 years, psychologist Richard flournoy (’66, ’67 m.S.).
henry bedford furr (’68 ed.d.), abilene :: He served in
the U.S. Air Force during World
War II and pursued careers in
education and business. He
retired as assistant superintendent
for business in Wichita Falls. In
earlier years, he worked for a radio
station and became sales and
promotion manager for United
Electric Co. He and his wife of
69 years, oneta Roberts furr (’40 m.S., ’68 ed.d.), earned
their doctoral degrees at the same
time and made news as the first
married couple to accomplish that
at North Texas.
Carroll ‘ken’ mcTee (’69), van alstyne :: He earned a
degree in graphic design and began
work for Texas Instruments on
master examination. Peters began
playing organ at the First United
Methodist Church in Denton in
1949 and, after a break for graduate
study and Army service, became the
full-time choir director and organist
in 1963, serving in those positions
for 40 and 50 years. He and his wife,
the late vocalist and lecturer Juanita
Teal peters (’51), regularly presented
concerts together. Donations may
be made to the College of Music’s
Dale Peters Organ Scholarship.
Lorin C. Richtmeyer, Atlanta,
Ga., died June
8. He taught
musical instru-
ment repair
in the College
of Music from 1984 to 1997 after
retiring as a professor of music
from Northern Michigan University.
He received a bachelor’s degree
from Central Michigan University
and master’s and doctoral degrees
from Michigan State University.
Richtmeyer was in the U.S. Army
during World War II, serving in
Italy as a cryptographer. He also
formed a swing band that helped
entertain his combat buddies. His
military honors included two Bronze
Stars. He was an avid runner who
competed in marathons in New
York, Honolulu, Portland, Dallas
and London, including a race on
his 70th birthday. He ran his last
half-marathon at age 77. Survivors
include his daughter, Debra a.
richtmeyer, former faculty member
in the College of Music.
Nelia mae Smith, Denton,
undergradu-
ate advisor in
the Mayborn
School of Jour-
nalism, who
had worked in the journalism pro-
gram since 1987, died June 4. She
was the department’s first secretary
and, after retiring in spring 2002,
returned the next fall to work in the
school’s undergraduate advising
office. She earned a bachelor’s
degree from Texas Tech University
and received teacher certification
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the ground floor, working his way
up to become supervisor of five
divisions. He retired in 2004 after
34 years with the company, then
became a Grayson County Master
Gardener and devoted numerous
volunteer hours to the community.
Jerome ‘Jerry’ Jay Samuels (’69 m.m.ed.), dallas :: He
was a pianist and bandleader for
more than 45 years, playing with
jazz greats Lionel Hampton,
Artie Shaw and Clark Terry. He
served on the faculty of Richland
and Brookhaven colleges and was
accompanist for the Brookhaven
Vocal Jazz Ensemble for 19 years.
In 2004, he released Samuels & Wesar Perform the Music of Clare Fischer and the next year recorded
an album of 18 original composi-
tions, Sounds of Samuels.
1970s
Charles e. Wellington (’71 ed.d.), Rio Rancho, N.m. :: He served in World War II and
the Korean War before beginning
a lifelong career in public educa-
tion. He was a teacher and then a
principal, assistant superintendent
and superintendent of schools in
Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, Oregon
and Arizona. After retiring, he
was known as the friendly neigh-
borhood handyman.
belinda davis White (’74), victoria :: She earned a bach-
elor’s degree in biology and English
and was a member of Alpha Phi
sorority. She taught school in West
Virginia before earning a degree in
physical therapy. She worked as a
pediatric physical therapist for the
public schools in Charlton, Mass.,
and was a senior physical therapist
for Health Force Pediatric Reha-
bilitation Clinic in Victoria.
Tom f. glover (’77 m.f.a.), Panhandle :: He was a teaching
assistant in the ceramics program
while earning his master’s degree.
He then taught at Amarillo Col-
lege from 1977 to 1986 before
moving to Guadalupita, N.M.,
to work as a full-time potter. His
work can be seen at Taos Artisans
Co-op Gallery and the Museum
of Natural History in Santa Fe.
Steven arthur kroll (’78), denton :: He served in the
U.S. Army in the mid 1960s and
came to North Texas on the GI
Bill, earning his degree in music
education. He taught, wrote and
performed with a multitude of
instruments, including vocals. He
also was a photographer, an artist,
a pilot and a sailor.
1980s
Roy hunton (’87 m.ed.), odessa :: He turned his love of
carpentry into a lifelong passion
by teaching a building trades class
for the Ector County ISD, also
designing and building his home
and several others for friends.
He retired from the district after
25 years of service, which also
included coaching and teaching
history. He was a member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
2000s
James eason (’04), Rockwall :: He taught fifth grade at B.J.
Smith Elementary in the Mes-
quite ISD. He and his wife, who
was an assistant principal in the
district, and their son were killed
in a car accident in East Texas.
Lori bull dodds (’06, ’07 m.S.), mckinney :: She was
serving as the Collin County
law librarian and had worked in
Austin as a paralegal for Winckler
& Harvey LLP. She loved to travel
and, at the time of her death, was
traveling with her family in Peru.
2010s
Sam dibrell, San antonio :: He was a senior who played
football for the Mean Green in
2007 and 2008. In high school, he
was a star wide receiver on Alamo
Heights’ 2006 state championship
team and was named all-state as a
senior there.
for kindergarten through 12th
grade. UNT students remember her
as kind, calming and helpful. She
turned her passion for gardening
into a company called Plants Alive,
which allowed her to supervise
interior landscaping for more than
a dozen businesses, including the
Golden Triangle Mall in Denton
and Barton Creek Mall in Austin.
Survivors include her husband of 52
years, Don smith, recently retired
UNT biology professor and tree
expert.
Ralph L. Willard, dean and
president of the
Texas College
of Osteopathic
Medicine, 1975-
1985, died Jan.
30. Willard was appointed dean of
TCOM, which would evolve into the
UNT Health Science Center, when
the private medical school received
full state support and was placed
under the direction of the North Tex-
as regents and president. In 1981,
he became the second president of
the college. During his tenure, three
major buildings were constructed
as the school grew into a modern
campus. He received the college’s
Founder’s Medal in 1985. Willard,
his parents, his son and his sister
all were osteopathic physicians. He
earned degrees from Coe College
and from the Kirksville College of
Osteopathic Medicine. He was a
bomber pilot in World War II, receiv-
ing the Distinguished Flying Cross,
and also served in the Korean War.
Survivors include his wife, margaret
Dennis willard (’58 M.Ed.).
memorials Send memorials to honor UNT
alumni and friends, made payable
to the UNT Foundation, to the
University of North Texas, Divi-
sion of Advancement, 1155 Union
Circle #311250, Denton, Texas
76203-5017. Indicate on your
check the name of the memorial
fund or area you wish to support.
Make secure gifts online at www.development.unt.edu/givenow. For
more information, email giving@
unt.edu or call 940-565-2900.
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T h E L A sT Word
BE PROUD OF YOUR DEGREE AND ASk ‘WHAT IS NEXT?’
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from McGraw’s May 2011 commencement speech at UNT. It’s edited slightly for print.
AS A FORMER STUDENT AND graduate, it truly is an honor to be addressing you. I can’t tell you what it’s like to go through all of this and then one day get to come back and stand here. And there have been some big changes since I was where you are. When I was here, there were 17,000 students and now there are 36,000. It’s more than doubled. There are new buildings, new programs. I looked all over the place for the key card punch center, I just couldn’t find it. We used rolodex. We had 8-track tapes. We had rotary dial phones. We didn’t have cell phones, the Internet, laptops, desktops, but we still got the job done.
And even before my day, North Texas was known as “North Texas Normal Col-lege.” Well, I’m glad they changed that name, because I’ve been called a lot of things since I left here, and “normal” ain’t one of them. It’s amazing to see the progress here, and these folks are to be commended. Be proud to hold an advanced degree from the University of North Texas. I am.
I did most of my work over in Terrill Hall, and the first day I was up on campus there was a construction fence over there, and a bunch of psych students
had gone with really big paint brushes and wrote on that fence, “Help! The paranoids are after me!” A little psych humor, but I knew I was in the right place. They had a sense of humor here.
Now, something that may surprise you — maybe it won’t, maybe it will — is how great a school the University of North Texas is. I believe it is one of the best-kept secrets in America. And you will see that. You will see it when you get out there. I went into a competitive world with a master’s and a Ph.D. from here and I tell you that there was never a time I was in a room when I felt like I did not have a superior education. I didn’t care where they came from or who they were. Be proud of what you have achieved here. This is a fine university and you should be proud of completing this curriculum.
My major professor here at North Texas was Frank Lawlis. I still work with him every day of my life. He’s on the staff of the Dr. Phil show. I still use resources from this school. You’ve got to have people around you who want you to succeed. I’ve done 1,500 shows. I’ve had the privilege of dealing with silent epidemics in America — domestic
violence, bullying, mental illness — trying to open the dialogue about these things in American society. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing presidents, royalty, testify-ing before Congress. Not one bit of that was achieved alone.
The question for you is, “What is next?” Someone here in this audience will change this world. Why not you? Hear me when I say this: The difference between dreams and goals is a timeline. “Someday” is not a day of the week. Phil McGraw (’76 M.A., ’79 Ph.D.) has fostered a national dialogue about mental health and mental illness as host of his syndicated television show Dr. Phil. He also is the author of six No. 1 New York Times bestsellers and is often called upon to act as “America’s psychologist,” giving his expert opinion on current events for news outlets such as The Today Show, Good Morning America and Anderson Cooper 360.
Learn Dr. Phil’s truths for success in the full speech transcript at northtexan.unt.edu/online.
by Phil McGraw (’76 M.A., ’79 Ph.D.)
Jonathan Reynolds
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FRIDAY, Oct. 2111 a.m.Zeke Martin Memorial
Homecoming
Golf Classic
Benefiting the North Texas Letter-
men’s Association and the UNT
Alumni Association. Registration
begins at 11 a.m., noon lunch and
1:30 p.m. shotgun at the Golf Club at
Champions Circle in Fort Worth.
For information: matthew.phillips@
unt.edu or 940-369-8409.
11:30 a.m.Golden Eagles Luncheon/
Reunion - Class of ’61
University Union, Silver Eagle Suite.
Reservations, $20. RSVP: abbie.lows@
unt.edu or 940-565-4851.
3 p.m.Willis Library 40th
Anniversary Celebration
Refreshments and cake in the Library
Forum, first floor of library, with
exhibit highlighting UNT football
through the years. For information:
external.relations@unt.edu.
6:30 to 10 p.m.UNTold+new Alumni
Design Show
Presentation/Reception
Patrick Coyne, editor of Commu-
nication Arts magazine and juror
of the Department of Design’s first
competitive alumni design show,
UNTold+new, will speak in the Lyce-
um. Reception following at UNT on
the Square from 8:15 to 10 p.m. For
information: UNToldnew@unt.edu.
7 p.m. Spirit March
Begins at Fraternity Row on Maple
Street and proceeds to the bonfire
site on the northwest side of UNT’s
Apogee Stadium.
Wisconsin Sleepers
Homecoming Reunion
Alumni mixer at the Holiday Inn Ex-
press, 4485 N. I 35 in Denton. RSVP:
brendarobwilliams@gmail.com.
8 p.m. Bonfire and Yell Contest
Lighting of the bonfire. The yell
contest will take place in the north
parking lot on the northwest side of
UNT’s Apogee Stadium.
College of Music
Free faculty recital at Voertman
Concert Hall. Gustavo Romero and
Eri Nakagawa on piano and Mark
Ford and Paul Rennick on percussion.
Visit music.unt.edu.
SATURDAY, Oct. 227:15 a.m. Fun Run
Free and open to everyone, starts in
front of the Pohl Recreation Center.
Pre-registration not required.
Registration until 7 a.m. For
information: britton.sherry@unt.edu,
940-565-2275 or visit
www.unt.edu/recsports.
8:30 a.m.Athletic Hall of Fame
Breakfast
This year’s inductees are Melinda Pina
(’04), soccer; Johnny Quinn (’06),
football; Bill Walters (’54), men’s track
and field; and Bobby Way (’60), foot-
ball. Gateway Center Ballroom. For
information: matthew.phillips@unt.
edu or 940-369-8409.
10 a.m. to noonChi Omega Lodge Open
House
Refreshments served. 930 S. Welch St.
Hosted by Chi Omega House Corp.
For information: mh0032@verizon.
net or 940-382-2360.
11 a.m.Theta Chi House
Dedication/Open House
Refreshments served. 1015 Maple St.
RSVP: landrylewis@gmail.com
or 817-676-5944.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Business Leadership
Building Open House
Tours available. RSVP: www.cob.unt.
edu/rsvp/rsvp.php?/189.
Floyd Graham Society
Dancing to the Aces of Collegeland
big band and musical program “Brass,
Blues and Bebop” featuring Morgan
Homecoming 2011
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Powell (’59, ’61 M.M.) on trombone
and Ray Sasaki (’75 M.M.E.) on
trumpet. University Union. Reserva-
tions, including lunch, $35 prepaid
by 5 p.m. Oct. 19. RSVP: 940-565-
0804, fax 940-891-0690, Paypal to
gpr1@earthlink.net or mail to Floyd
Graham Society, 815 Ector St.,
Denton, Texas 76201.
1 p.m. Homecoming Parade
Begins at Welch and Hickory Streets,
travels around the Denton town
square and up Oak Sreet. From Oak
to Welch, right on Hickory (going
the wrong way on Hickory through
campus), left on North Texas
Boulevard to Highland Street.
3 to 6 p.m. MEAN GREEN VILLAGE
Tailgating around campus starts
early and ends 30 minutes before
kickoff. Organization, department
and college tents at UNT’s Apogee
Stadium add to the Homecoming
spirit along with live music, the
Junior Mean Green Fun zone, The
North Texan booth to have your
photo taken, and the Mean Green
March featuring the cheerlead-
ers, dancers, marching band, Head
Coach Dan McCarney and the Mean
Green football team. For tent reser-
vations: www.unt.edu/homecoming.
Alumni Pavilion Party *
Join UNT Alumni Association
members and friends at the new
alumni pavilion near UNT’s Apogee
Stadium. For information: alumni@
unt.edu or 940-565-2834.
College of Arts and
Sciences *
Refreshments served. RSVP: nissa.
gordon@unt.edu or 940-565-2048.
College of Business *
Food, drinks and fun. $5 per person
donation to fund scholarships; chil-
dren 12 and under are free. RSVP:
www.cob.unt.edu/sales/
homecoming2011.php.
College of Education
Alumni Reunion/Teacher
of Year Recognition *
Special honors for alumni who were
named 2011 Teachers of the Year
by area school districts. RSVP: kelly.
perry@unt.edu or 940-369-7805.
College of Public Affairs
and Community Service *
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of
the Master of Public Administration
program. Barbecue and games with
the UNT SERVES! REAL Communi-
ty students. RSVP: jamie.settemeyer@
unt.edu or 940-369-7349.
Department of
Communication Studies/
UNT Debate Team *
RSVP: brian.lain@unt.edu or
940-565-4354.
Department of Political
Science *
RSVP: kimi.king@unt.edu or
940-565-4984.
KNTU-FM *
Celebrating 42 years on the air. For
information: russc@unt.edu or
940-565-2554.
Risk, Insurance and
Financial Services Club *
RSVP: jinna@my.unt.edu or
debra.richardson@unt.edu.
TAMS Alumni Reception *
Featuring the Class of 2006’s 5th
anniversary, Class of 2001’s 10th
anniversary, Class of 1996’s 15th
anniversary and Class of 1991’s 20th
anniversary. Photos and cake at 3
p.m. For information: rpreston@unt.
edu or 940-565-2437.
6 p.m. Mean Green vs.
University of
Louisiana-Monroe *
Ticket options start at $15. For
information: ticketoffice@unt.edu,
800-868-2366 or visit
meangreensports.com.
*Events are part of Mean Green Village at UNT’s Apogee Stadium.
Enter a drawing to win Homecoming prizes by
emailing northtexan@unt.edu by Sept. 15 with “Homecom-ing” in the subject line.
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UNT’s apogee Stadium is the largest and most ambitious building project in UNT history. an exciting and highly visible gateway to the university, it includes seating for nearly 31,000 fans, a spirit store and eco-friendly features unlike any collegiate stadium in the world. flip to page 24 for full coverage and poster.
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