Southwestern Magazine | Fall 2019

We remember the lives of all members of the Southwestern University community who have recently passed. IN MEMORIAM Doris Forsvall Johnapelus ’42 Wayne W. Coffin ’44 Rowena Nixon Dillard ’44 Doris Biggs Wright ’44 Alyce Moerner Phillips ’45, P’74, P’76, P’83 Doris Brown Morriss ’50 Jerry Cullen Torrence ’50 Robert A. Pennybacker ’51 Eva Long Smith ’51 Lila Whitefield Atkins ’53 Mary Eddins Earles ’53, P’90, P’90 Boyce A. Vardiman ’53, P’79, P’83 Hazen Lewis Folse ’54 Martha Fox Nelson ’54 Albert E. Sanders ’54, P’84 Calvin O. Beckendorf ’56 Dan H. Carper ’56 Nancy Tipton Langford ’56 Edwin T. Silliman ’56 Tommie O. Keepers III ’58 Charles J. Gauntt ’59 Mary Lewis Bost ’61 Janette Pearson Ramsay ’61, P’82, P’87 Gerald W. Sylvester ’61 Thomas T. S. Kaung ’62 Karen Smith Wilson ’63 Elizabeth DeLaune Jordan ’66 John A. Thomason ’66 John R. Saringer ’68 Judith A. Streett ’68 Judy Franze Winn ’69, P’95 Laura Youens Wexler ’69 Richard K. Ellis ’71 Gale Newman Emerson ’74 Steven S. Hopkins ’75 Karen R. Froehlich ’77 Brian E. Davis ’84 Donald Ledbetter ’84 Sheila LeDoux English ’85 Paul H. Roach ’03 Evan D. Faram ’10 Riley J. Webb ’13 Pat Hilgeman P’84 Wanda H. Lancaster P’78 William C. Powers new board of trustees members Rex Preis ’81 A CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, Preis is the vice president of accounting for Fifth Generation Inc., which is the operating andmanufacturing company for Tito’sHandmadeVodka. Prior to joining FifthGeneration, Preis practiced accountingwithGarza Preis &Co. in SanAntonio. Preis earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting fromSouthwestern. While at Southwestern, Preis was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order. Along with his wife, also a Southwestern graduate, he served as cochair of the Greater Austin chapter of the Southwestern University Alumni Association from 2011 to 2015. Prior to his election as a trustee, Preis was a member of Southwestern’s Board of Visitors. CamilleMartin ’19 MARTIN ISARECENTSOUTHWESTERNGRADUATE, having earned her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude , inhonors political science in2019.While at Southwestern,Martinwas elected to both the Phi BetaKappa national honor society and Pi SigmaAlpha, the national honor society for political science students. Shewas also amember of the AlphaDelta Pi sorority. Active in student government for three years, she served as student body vice president during her senior year. As a Southwestern student, Martin devoted considerable attention to the importance of civil political discourse. She conducted faculty-mentored research, analyzing the physiological e”ects of political incivility, and, as an inaugural intern for the SouthwesternProject for Free Speech and Civil Discourse, she helped plan programming to engage the Southwestern community in voting e”orts and political discussion. In her honors thesis, Martin empirically analyzed new trends in feminist political theory. Attracted to the fast-paced work of mission-driven organizations, Martin is currently a partnerships associate at Voto Latino, headquartered in our nation's capital. 51 SOUTHWESTERN