Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2022

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. information architecture teams in supporting space shuttle and space station programs at NASA’s Johnson Space Center with IBM’s Federal Services Division in Houston; managing international leasing of IBM products and services with IBM Credit Corp. in Stamford, CT; and creating an IBM worldwide business information architecture within the IBM corporate campus in Somers, NY. Paul Whitley , Austin, TX, retired after 33 years with Hastins Communication Services. Henrietta “Hank” Hardy Huisking P’01 , Sierra Vista, AZ, has taken office as the district governor of Rotary International District 5500. Huisking’s area of responsibility and service includes 50 clubs totaling more than 1,300 members in the Tucson metropolitan area and throughout southern Arizona. This area encompasses 50,000 square miles and serves a population of 1.1 million. Carol Sloan Browne , Floresville, TX, achieved the rank of full professor at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine (UIWSOM) in San Antonio, TX. Browne is a member of the Department of Clinically Applied Basic Sciences. She is co-director of the Developing Osteopathic Clinical Skills Division Wanda Winfrey Mehlman P’82 , Ellicott City, MD, celebrated her 101st birthday on November 17, 2021. Phillip Carson , Locust Grove, VA, retired after 27 years with the U.S. Air Force and 27 years as a teacher (seven years in Plantation, FL, and 19 years with U.S. Department of Defense schools in Japan and Germany). William “Bill” Smith , Houston, TX, retired from fire protection agents and equipment manu- facturer Perimeter Solutions after 47 years in the fire and safety industry. William “Bill” H. Ashley, Jr. , Houston, TX, was awarded his 40-year pension from IBM in February 2019. He completed his tenure as a senior business information architect, having led complex software systems and and director of objective standardized clin- ical examinations (OSCEs) and standardized patients. In addition to these responsibilities, she maintains an active role in session facilitation (teaching), serves as a senator for the UIW Faculty Senate, and is chair of the UIWSOM Faculty Assembly. Michael F. Joseph , Karnes City, TX, retired from Southwest Airlines after 30 years of flying. He took an early retirement package from the airline but will continue flying corporate jets and helicopters in the private sector. Throughout his career, he has amassed almost 26,000 flight hours. Stephanie Gartner-Fanburg , Portland, ME, is a partner at Rheumatology Associates, the largest rheumatology practice in northern New England. She is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University. This past winter, she spent many of her days off volunteering at the Maine Health COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Scarborough and Westbrook. Steven Hales , Orangeville, PA, professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, recently published his 11th book, The Myth of Luck (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). In spring 2021, he was a visiting professor at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge. Matt Motes , Fort Worth, TX, has been elected pres- ident of the Rotary Club of Western Fort Worth. Motes is a former chair of the Tarrant County Bar Association Construction Law Section and a member of the National Association of Home Builders, the Texas Association of Builders, and the Greater Fort Worth Builders Association. As a construction/commercial litigation partner at Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, he represents general contractors, builders, 1942 1961 1973 1976 1977 1989 1981 Class Notes 1982 1987 FALL ISSUE: Jan. 1–June 30 SPRING ISSUE: July 1–Dec. 31 42 SOUTHWESTERN