Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2021

1967 Van Phillips , Memphis, TN, and his theater consulting firm Jones–Phillips Associates, LLC, celebrated its 46th anniversary in September 2020. His firm has completed more than 900 projects in 41 states, the countries of the Persian Gulf, and China. Jones–Phillips Associates provides planning, consultation, and design services for performing-arts venues and places of public assembly (e.g., sports arenas, convention centers, exhibit spaces, museums and galleries, adaptive reuse spaces, and religious facilities), as well as architectural lighting design. 1970 Lawrence Stanberry , New York, NY, stepped down in 2018 as chair of pediatrics at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and took on the role of associate dean for international programs at the medical school. His work has focused on pediatric programs in Africa, and he is the principal investigator on a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of the project is to learn more about modifi- able factors that could influence the risk of neonatal nosocomial infection in 60 African hospitals. He serves as a member of the Pfizer Data Safety Monitoring Committee for their COVID-19 vaccine trials. 1963 Margie McCreless Roe , Cedar Park, TX, see Milton Jordan ’62 . 1968 Linda Cooper Holm , Bryan, TX, retired from Texas First Bank as travel coordinator after 15 years. Holm retired from Texas City Independent School District (TCISD) after 34 years as a teacher and senior-class counselor. She was elected to the TCISD Foundation Hall of Honor in 2014. 1971 Nancy Woodman Grayson , Waco, TX, started a charter school award-winning STEM program after completing a doctorate at Texas A&M. Recently, she started Lula Jane’s, a bakery and coffee shop, to support the neighborhood and feed her homeless neighbors. 1973 Cynthia Appleman , Houston, TX, began volun- teering in 2014 on the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo’s (HLSR’s) Wine Garden Committee. Award-winning wine sales from the HLSR’s international wine competition have become the third largest contributor to Rodeo Houston’s scholarship program. Debbie McKee Gorence , Austin, TX, recently retired from Texas State University, where she spent the last seven years supervising special education majors during their student-teaching semester. She shares, “It was the most fun job I ever had! I will miss it, but COVID concerns prevailed!” Seven years ago, she retired from Austin Independent School District after working there as a behavior specialist for many years. 1974 Charles Mayfield , Houston, TX, retired after 37 years as a federal economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. He received several notations, from the regional office up to the commissioner of the bureau. 1962 Betty Ewing Dicken , Plano, TX, founded the nonprofit Artists and Musicians in Recovery in 2018 and created Signature, the organiza- tion’s annual celebration (learn more at www. artsrecovery.org ). Milton Jordan , Georgetown, TX, edited the anthology No Season for Silence: Texas Poets and Pandemic , published by Kallisto Gaia Press in fall 2020. Poems by Margie McCreless Roe ’63 are also included in the collection. SOUTHWE S T E RN | 3 9