Southwestern Magazine | Fall 2019

Share your accomplishments, milestones, or fond memories of SUwith friends and classmates! To submit your class note for a future issue of Southwestern , visit southwestern.edu/alumni, click “HowDo I,” and choose “Submit My Class Note.” By submitting a class note, you are granting permission to Southwestern University to share this news in Southwestern , on the University’s website (including the Southwestern University Alumni Association page), and in social- media outlets for the University and the Association. encouraging. He would like to reconnect with his brothers, especially from 1958–1962. He says, “God bless Pi Kappa Alpha!” Milton Jordan , Georgetown, TX, coedited and published a new book titled Conflict and Cooperation: Reflections on the New Deal in Texas with Stephen F. Austin University Press. Jake B. Schrum , P’00, P’05, Decatur, GA, retired from his presidency at Emory and Henry College, where he served in the leader- ship role for six years. Schrum was the 21st president of the college. James Wagner , Hypoluxo, FL, has retired and is living the life in Florida as a numismatist. Rosemary Meek Whittle , Gatesville, TX, retired in 2015 after 21 years as a public-school choral director, 17 of those at Gatesville High School. She now works as a piano accompanist, teaches private piano lessons, and serves as an adjudicator for University Interscholastic League choral contests in Texas. Whittle says her music education degree from SU has been so valuable and opened up a lifelong career in music. Sally McMillan Brashear , Bellaire, TX, retired after 40 years of teaching English and journalism and serving as a magnet coor- dinator in the Houston Independent School District. She enjoys working part-time as a private tutor and gets a kick out of singing in her church choir. She and her husband, Harry, have been married for 58 years. Both of their daughters, Judy Brashear and Elizabeth Brashear Floreani ’88, are educators. John Wehrley “Jay” Chapman , Ann Arbor, MI, concluded a 50-year career as a physics professor (now emeritus) at the University of Michigan. During the last 20 years, he worked in Geneva, Switzerland, in high-energy physics for the University of Michigan. He received the U.S. ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award at the summer workshop of the U.S. ATLAS collaboration at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. Presley Joe Mock , Walburg, TX, retired after 50 years of medical practice. Sam Birkner , Granbury, TX, shared that being a Pike was such a positive experience in his life. He became much more confident because his fraternity brothers were so Martha Isbell Garmon , Paris, TX, published her first book, I Am Not Alone: Conversations with Care Partners of People with Dementia , in November 2018. Garmon retired from ministry December 1, 2018, and is now director emeritus of parish music with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Sue Stauffer Harshman , Dallas, TX, retired in 2016 after 25 years at Bank of America–U.S. Trust, with the majority of her time spent in nonfinancial assets and investment manage- ment. She now spends her time enjoying life while volunteering for several organizations, including SU. Michael Giblin , Lubbock, TX, retired May 1, 2019, after 25 years as an examiner, a super- visor, a senior specialist, and a regional claims manager specializing in compliance and workers’ compensation insurance. Ronnie Sherwood , Cleburne, TX, retired after 38 years of practicing general dentistry and now teaches a new dental-assisting program at Cleburne High School. Sherwood also served as lay director on the Walk to Emmaus #443 at Latham Springs Baptist Camp on September 5–8, 2019. Teresa Coble Sherwood , Mansfield, TX, retired in April 2019, having served for 24 years as the director of mission at First United Methodist Church in Mansfield, TX. Debora Jones Acevedo , Georgetown, TX, retired from Round Rock Independent School District on May 30, 2019, after 37 years of service as a middle-school language- arts teacher and an instructional-technology specialist. Lizette Tandy , Georgetown, TX, retired in November 2018 after 35 years of federal service with the Department of the Treasury. She is now working on her genealogy and traveling. Terry Gawlik , Middleton, WI, has been named athletic director at the University of Idaho. 1959 1960 1961 1962 1969 1968 1970 1978 1979 1981 1973 Class Notes 1975 1976 1977 FALL ISSUE: Jan. 1–June 30 SPRING ISSUE: July 1–Dec. 31 44 SOUTHWESTERN