Comings, goings, appointments, retirements, honors, accolades and other personal alumni news. Former students are designated by fs. Honorary alumni are noted as hn. Wichita State University Alumni Association members are identified by an asterisk (*). Membership dues support alumni publications as well as other programs and services that support higher education at Wichita State.
Donald B. Beets ’53, ECON, is retired from his position as a business manager at Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Mo., after 30 years of service. For six years during the 1980s, he served on the Bonner Springs City Council in Bonner Springs, Kan., where he also put in 20 years of community service with the fire department, retiring in 1999 at the rank of battalion chief. He resides in Bonner Springs.
James H. Billings ’54, MUS ED, is an operatic baritone, librettist and opera director who began his career in the late 1950s in Boston and later became a member of the New York City Opera where he performed regularly from the early 1970s through the 1990s. A specialist in the comprimario (supporting role) repertoire, he has portrayed more than 175 opera roles on stage during his long career. He has also written operas for children and since the mid-1990s has directed several opera productions. For his work as a lyricist and librettist he has won awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has also directed a number of operas with the New York City Opera and other companies beginning with the NYC Opera’s 1996 production of H.M.S. Pinafore. In 2005, Springfield Regional Opera presented the premiere of his opera Babes in the Woods. He began his professional career at the Opera Company of Boston during the company’s first season in 1958, singing there regularly through 1970 in such roles as Sellem in The Rake’s Progress and Napoleon in the American premiere of War and Peace. In 1962 he sang the role of Polonius in the world premiere of Sergius Kagen’s Hamlet in Baltimore. In 1964, he made his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Benoit in La bohème. In 1969, he shared the stage with Beverly Sills in a production of Ariadne auf Naxos with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and later performed often with Sills at the New York City Opera, including in her final 1981 performance, Beverly! Her Farewell Performance. In 1972, he joined the roster at the New York City Opera, singing there for the next three decades in well over 100 roles. He has sung on a number of recordings with the New York City Opera, including the 1986 recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, which won him a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 1987. In 1989, he portrayed the role of Monsieur Beaunoir in The New Moon, which was filmed live for PBS’s Great Performances and subsequently released on DVD. Billings lives in Springfield, Mo.
Roger W. Evans ’60, BIO SCI, a Wichita cardiologist with more than three decades of experience, is a founding member of Cypress Heart PA, which, since 2006, has provided cardiac care with an emphasis on prevention, early detection and state-of-the-art treatment. He began his career in 1979 as a staff cardiologist with Kansas Cardiology Associates. He was then affiliated with the Wichita Clinic, before returning to KCA. A pioneer in cardiac rehabilitation at Via Christi Medical Center, where he has served two chairmanships of the department of medicine, he introduced the heart muscle biopsy technique to the Wichita area. He is a clinical associate professor of internal medicine at Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience in Kansas City, Mo., and University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita. Evans, who resides in Wichita, flies his own plane to treat people at clinics in western Kansas.
Wayland D. Rogers ’66, MUS T/C, is an award- winning composer whose works are heard worldwide in concert halls, schools, churches and synagogues. His catalogue of compositions contains more than 150 pieces, many of which have been performed in such venues as New York City’s Carnegie Hall; Ishihara Hall in Osaka, Japan; Ely Cathedral in England; St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC; and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He trained as a singer and conductor at Wichita State, the University of Kentucky, Northwestern University and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Germany. As a lyric baritone, he has appeared with many leading orchestras, choruses and at U.S. music festivals. He received a Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music for a recording of Mozart with the Chicago Symphony Winds. For many years, he was artistic director and conductor of the Camerata Singers of Lake Forest, Ill., and has been on the voice and/or conducting faculties at Chicago’s Northwestern University, DePaul University and Loyola University, at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ken., and Lambuth University in Jackson, Tenn. He directs the Chamber Singers at North Park University in Chicago and is music director at North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Ill. He lives in Chicago.
R. Kent Dove ’67, SOC/ANTHRO, is fund advancement director at Kidron Bethel Village, a senior housing community in North Newton, Kan. Previously, he worked as director of advancement at Prairie View Inc. in Newton, Kan., and as director of community development at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita. He lives in Sedgwick, Kan.
Mark W. Wait ’71, MUS, who holds a master’s degree in music from Kansas State University and a doctorate in musical arts from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, has been dean and professor of music at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., since 1993. Prior to that, he was a member of the music faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also served, from 1985-93, as executive assistant to the university’s president. As a concert pianist, he has presented more than 200 concerts in 25 states. In 1989, he was the pianist in a performance at Alice Tully Hall of Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto for Piano, Harpsichord, and Two Chamber Orchestras, conducted by Robert Craft. In 1993, he recorded Igor Stravinsky’s solo works for piano as part of Craft’s recorded cycle of the composer’s complete works; his recording of Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra with Robert Craft and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York has been issued on the MusicMasters label. His recording with the Nashville Symphony of Elliott Carter’s Piano Concerto (on the Naxos label) was nominated for a 2004 Grammy award for Best Classical Album, and he was a 2004 Grammy nominee for Best Instrumental Solo Performance with Orchestra for the same recording. He was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame board of directors from 2001-05; has been national vice president of the honorary music society, Pi Kappa Lambda, since 2003; served as vice president of the National Association of School of Music (2009-12) and is serving a three-year term as president (2012-15). Wait lives in Nashville.
James G. Work ’75, GEO (BS), ’75 GEO (BA), is vice president and general manager at IPR Egypt Companies, an oil and energy business headquartered in Dallas. Work’s career has included positions as regional exploration manager at Triton Energy, Dallas; general manager at Triton Argentina, Buenos Aires; as staff exploration geologist at Occidental Petroleum, Bakersfield, Calif; and others. He lives in Katy, Texas.
Michael “Mike” C. Burrus ’77, ACCT, president of Wichita’s Kapaun Mount Carmel High School, has been named executive director of Catholic Charities. He will remain through May at Kapaun in his current position, which he has held for 12 years, and then take up the leadership role at Catholic Charities in September. Burrus, who is a CPA and was president of Wichita-based Multimedia Cablevision before it sold to Cox Communications in 1999, resides in Wichita.*
Dene A. (Mahan) Nelson ’77, EL ED, ’85 M ED PSYCH, executive director of the Discovery Place Early Childhood Program, serves on the board of directors for Child Start. She lives in Wichita.
Veronica I. (Birmingham) Knight ’78, BUS ADM, who was appointed by former Gov. Mark Parkinson ’80 to the Kansas African American Affairs Commission and also serves on several other boards, is philanthropy director at Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Previously, she has served as director for Title III at Kansas City Community College, vice president of the Boys and Girls Club of Wyandotte County, executive director of Missouri School Age Community Coalition and vice president of Youth Corps of America in Shawnee Mission, Kan. She lives in Kansas City, Kan.
Charles “Chuck” Tumlinson ’78, MUS ED, who received his doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of North Texas in Denton, joined the music faculty of California State University, Fullerton, in 2001 as director of the jazz program. Since his arrival, the university’s Jazz Ensemble has appeared twice at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference and throughout the west with winning results at the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Reno Jazz Festivals. He has been a featured jazz trumpet soloist at several national conventions, and is a soloist, clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. He has also led bands and performers throughout the country, including Pete Christlieb, Eric Marienthal, the University of Northern Colorado Lab and the University of North Texas One O’clock Lab Band, and they have recorded many of his compositions and arrangements. On the classical side, he has served as principal trumpet in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Symphony, and has performed with the Wichita Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony and others. He lives in Anaheim, Calif.
Debra “Debbie” K. Luper ’79, EL ED, is chief of staff for Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee chairman Ty Masterson. A former Augusta, Kan., teacher who most recently served as district liaison and communications director for Senator Masterson, Luper is a two-time recipient of the Huck Boyd Volunteer of the Year Award, an honor given to one Kansas Republican volunteer each year. She lives in Andover, Kan.
Brian E. Davis ’80, GEN ST, is founding partner working in real estate, marketing, management and operations at Cow Creek Investments LLC based in Hutchinson, Kan. A consultant in higher education, Davis has worked as director of U.S. admissions for Richmond, the American International University in London and as assistant dean for U.S. enrollment services for the American University of Rome. He lives in Hutchinson.*
Davy Thomas ’81, COMP SCI, works as a master test technician at Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif., and as principal engineer at DT Consulting. Previously, he worked as a serviceability engineer, a technical program manager and a technical support engineer at Sun Microsystems. He resides in Capitola, Calif. *
Patrick J. Strunk ’82, COMP SCI, is principal engineer at Bombardier in Wichita. His career in aviation and aerospace has included positions as senior software engineer at Bombardier Aerospace in Wichita and as instrumentation software engineer and software engineer at Boeing in Wichita. He resides in Colwich, Kan.*
Michael R. Watson ’82, GEO, who is a self-employed geologist, is the author of Treasure of the Anasazi, the second book in his series of Jack Trader Adventures, and the first, The Nestorian Alliance. Both books are self-published through an Amazon.com program. The writer has begun work on a third book, a Western separate from his Jack Trader series. His new work will be based on the true story of a 1906 gunfight resulting from gambling conflicts between two city and county law enforcers in Durango, Colo. Watson lives in Peck, Kan.
Phillip A. Bostian ’84, AJ, took up duties as Park City, Kan., police chief on April 1. He began his full-time career in law enforcement in the Kansas Highway Patrol in 1984, after serving as a reserve officer, a reserve lieutenant and part-time officer for the Park City Police Department from 1981 to 1983 while attending Wichita State. A state trooper from 1984 to 1995, he has had command experience, including serving as administrative lieutenant at the patrol’s turnpike headquarters in south Wichita. As a state trooper, he was part of the team that responded to the 1991 Andover, Kan., tornado, and as a supervisor, he worked on the tornado response teams sent to Hoisington, Kan., and Haysville, Kan. Bostian lives in Goddard, Kan.
Gerald “Jerry” A. Goehring ’86, GEN ST, of Goehring Evans Productions LLC, is a Grammy-nominated producer who has been producing new theater projects across the United State and in Europe for more than 15 years. He currently serves as executive director of the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. He was executive producer for the 2003 Grammy-nominated CD of Ogden Nash’s The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, starring John Lithgow, for Best Spoken Word for Children, as a fundraiser for the National Theatre of the Deaf. From 1999 through 2002, he was executive director and CEO of the Tony Award-winning National Theatre of the Deaf. In 1990, he co-founded the Connecticut Children’s Theatre in association with university performing arts centers in three states, for educators and school systems in at-risk environments of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. During his theatrical career, he has been director, general manager and/or producer for 18 New York productions, 23 regional productions and 15 national tours. He produced and directed Definitely Doris, The Music of Doris Day for the premiere of Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles. The biographical musical was also produced in London and Boston. Goehring lives in Essex, Conn.
Scott D. Baus ’87, MKT, is vice president at Evraz Business Systems in Moscow, Russia. Evraz is a steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Europe, the United States, Canada and South Africa. Baus first joined Evraz in 2010 as a project director. Previously, he worked as vice president of business development at Simpler Consulting Inc., where he implemented projects for the Singapore Ministry of Health, the Joint Aviation Construction Corp. in Russia, Sberbank of Russia, the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom and for the U.S. Department of Defense. From 1984 through 2002, he held a number of different positions at Boeing in Wichita.
Max E. Cripe ’87, M MUS P, who has been principal French horn in the U.S. Marine Band since 2004, performed with the celebrated band in the 57th Inauguration of the President of the United States in January. Master Gunnery Sgt. Cripe joined the 130-piece band in 1988 during President Reagan’s second term and has performed in seven presidential inaugurations. He lives in Bowie, Md.
Dennis L. Jackson ’87, PSYCH, ’91 M PSYCH, ’96 PHD PSYCH, is associate professor of psychology at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, where his responsibilities include teaching graduate statistics courses and providing statistical consulting.
Merrill W. McHenry ’87, FIN, ’92 M BUS ADM, is a metals and mining analyst at Industrial Alliance Securities in Toronto, Canada. McHenry has also worked as a metals and mining analyst at Byron Capital Markets and at Global Hunter Securities, both of which are privately held companies based in the Toronto area.
Glennis S. Zimmerman ’87, M SCI ED, who farms with her husband on land north of South Haven, Kan., and is a substitute teacher, serves on the board of education for public schools in South Haven.
Terry E. Bourlard ’88, PHIL, ’92 M PE, ’00 M PUB H, who previously worked in public health emergency preparedness and disease investigation for Harvey (Kan.) Co. and at the Andover (Kan.) YMCA, is the community wellness coordinator at the Derby (Kan.) Recreation Commission. He lives in Wichita.
Sue E. (Myers) Givens ’88, M EAS, superintendent at El Dorado, Kan., public schools, has been named by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce to its 2013 Leadership Kansas class. Now in its 35th year, Leadership Kansas is a statewide leadership-training program. Each year 40 people from various industries are chosen from across the state. Earlier in her career in education, she was assistant superintendent and principal at Pratt, Kan., public schools and an elementary principal in the Renwick, Kan., school district. Givens, who is also executive director and producer at the Miss Kansas Organization, resides in El Dorado.
Tammy L. (Owings) Nolan ’88, JOURN, who has more than 20 years of advertising and marketing experience, is marketing director for the Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition. She lives in Towanda, Kan.
Thomas “Tom” E. Borrego ’89, AJ-COURTS, who during the past 15 years has worked in a number of fundraising positions at Newman University, Wichita State University, Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America and the Sterling College Foundation, is director of the Hutchinson Regional Medical Foundation in Hutchinson, Kan. Borrego, who is also a graduate of Washburn University School of Law, resides in Wichita.
Roger L. Powers ’90, M AERON E, is president and chief executive officer of the sister companies Flint Hills Solutions and Fat Head Solutions, both headquartered in Augusta, Kan. The two companies offer unmanned aircraft systems products, equipment and services. He lives in Augusta.
Melanie A. Bayles ’91, ACCT, works in the accounting outsourcing department at BKD in Wichita, where she lives.
James P. Hammonds ’91, BUS ADM, who also holds a degree in business administration from the University of Liverpool, England, is supervisor and chartered accountant at Baker Tilly, an accounting industry firm in Chester, England.
Bruce E. Johnson ’91, M AJ, serves as police chief in Concordia, Kan., where he had worked two different stints as Concordia’s interim police chief: from October to December 2005 and from March 2009 to July 2010. From 1983 to 2005, he was a member of the Wichita State University Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain. A 1980 graduate of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Academy, Johnson also previously worked as a deputy sheriff for the Ellis County, Kan., sheriff’s department and as a reserve patrol officer for the Hays (Kan.) Police Department. He lives in Sedgwick, Kan.
Lisa Perez Miller ’91, M EAS, who is vice president of students and enrollment management at Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kan., had a collection of her photographs shown at the college’s Riney Student Conference Center. She resides in Pratt.
Kristafer R. Ailslieger ’92, POL SCI, ’96 M POL SCI, who has worked in appellate practice for the Office of the Kansas Attorney General for more than a decade, currently holds the title of deputy solicitor general. He handles appellate practice in both the state and federal courts, and has filed briefs and argued numerous cases before the Kansas Court of Appeals, the Kansas Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has also co-authored several briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, including the death penalty case of Kansas v. Marsh. He also serves as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve; he holds the rank of lieutenant colonel and is the battalion commander for 3/290th Training Support Battalion based in Mustang, Okla. His military service includes deployments to Kosovo, Iraq, Africa and Afghanistan. In 2008, he was the deputy Rule of Law advisor for the Iraqi province of Kirkuk, and from January to April 2011, he served as part of the U.S. Embassy’s Rule of Law interagency planning and implementation team in Kabul, Afghanistan. He lives in Topeka, Kan.
Susan C. Hascall ’92, M ANTHRO, assistant professor of law at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., has been elected chairwoman of the African law section of the Association of American Law Schools, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit comprised of 176 law schools that is the principal representative of legal education to the federal government and other organizations. She lives in Pittsburgh.
Scott D. Steele ’92, ART GD, an artist and advertising creative, works as a senior copywriter at Drake Cooper in Boise, Idaho. His career has included positions as creative at Scentsy in Meridian, Idaho; as creative consultant and copywriter at Integrated Marketing Group in Salt Lake City, Utah; as creative consultant for Progrexion, also in Salt Lake City, and at Hot Skillet Productions in Park City, Utah; and as creative director at Type A Communications in Boise; among others. He began as a creative and art director at Wichita’s Sullivan Higdon & Sink agency in 1993, working at SHS for four years before heading to Corte Madera, Calif., where he was art director at Patterson Hall. While in Wichita, he created art in the collective called Famous Dead Artists. Scott lives in Boise.
Darren M. Frlan ’93, I BUS, is general manager and managing partner at Oakstone Bridge Consulting, which offers to IT/services organizations specialist business consultants in infrastructure, applications, executive searches, IT, and sales and marketing. Oakstone Bridge Consulting is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
Shiloh Sreelatha (Sudarsanam) Jiwanlal ’93, M NURS, is a clinical nurse specialist at the Via Christi Behavioral Health Center in Wichita. She resides in Wichita.
David E. Brotton ’94, CHEM BUS, is vice president of marketing at Purple Wave Auction in Manhattan, Kan., where he lives.
Janene A. (Johnson) Radke ’94, WOM ST, serves as executive director at Family Crisis Services in Garden City, Kan. FCS offers services in advocating against domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, as well as provides a 24-hour shelter. She resides in Garden City.
Deborah S. Wilkinson ’94, M LIB ST, an attorney with more than 25 years of experience in domestic and international jurisdictions, is senior appeals counsel at United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Tanzania. With specialties in international and comparative law, criminal investigation and prosecution, and appellate practice, Wilkinson has served as an international prosecutor for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and as assistant district attorney in the Office of the District Attorney, 18th Judicial District, Sedgwick County. A 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholar, she developed curricula and taught comparative criminal law and procedure to Ukrainian law students at four universities in Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk. At Wichita State, she majored in French and Latin, and went on to earn a juris doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1982. She also holds degrees from Smith College (music, 1978), Northampton, Mass., and the Université Marc Bloch (French, 1997), Strasbourg, France.
Donna K. Ferguson ’95, ED/EC ED, has been named principal of the Herington Elementary School in Herington, Kan. She will begin her duties Aug. 1. An educator in Texas from 2002 to 2006, she is a reading specialist at Wichita public schools, where she mentors first-year teachers and serves as an intervention strategist for second through fifth grades. She lives in Wichita.
Lori L. Lalouette ’95, BIO SCI, ’95 GEN ST, who worked previously as a computer systems engineer, earned a juris doctorate from Washburn University School of Law in 2009 and practices law at Lalouette Law LLC in Hillsboro, Kan. She also serves as city attorney for Lincolnville, Kan., and Lehigh, Kan.
Q. Shay Wyatt ’95, M SP ADM, has been director of athletics at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, since 2006. During his tenure, the athletics department has seen increases in the number of Westminster Griffin sports offered, in program resources, community service efforts among student-athletes, fundraising, corporate partners and in the number of coaches and support staff. In addition, the cumulative grade point average for Griffin student-athletes has been 3.1 or higher under Wyatt’s administration, and Griffin teams and student-athletes have captured nine national championships, 17 conference championships and 37 have qualified for national championship tournaments. Wyatt lives in Draper, Utah.
Kelly L. (Gandy) Green ’96, BUS ADM, a small business owner who operates a home-remodeling and home-staging business in Wellington, Kan., where she resides.
Deborah “Debbie” S. Love ’96, M NURS, is a nurse practitioner in family medicine at the Via Christi Clinic in Derby, Kan. She has been practicing at Via Christi Clinic in Wichita since 2008. She lives in Mulvane, Kan.
Dustin C. Commer ’97, ART GD, art director at Wichita’s Associated Integrated Marketing, has won the 2013 Wichita Riverfest design contest. It is his third contest win, having also won in 2002 and 2004. This year’s Riverfest, slated for May 31 through June 8, sports the theme “Let the good times flow.” Commer’s winning design for the city’s largest annual event features “Ollie the Octopus.” Commer lives in Wichita.
Sheri L. Floyd ’97, PA, who previously worked at the Lindsborg Rural Health Clinic in Lindsborg, Kan., will focus on women’s healthcare needs as a physician assistant at the Horton Rural Health Clinic in Horton, Kan.
Duane E. Harms ’97, MGT, previously vice president and loan officer at First National Bank of Anthony, is senior vice president at Rose Hill Bank, headquartered in Rose Hill, Kan., where he has worked since 2009. He lives in Wichita.
Jamie M. Klausmeyer ’97, ACCT, senior benefits analyst at Bombardier Learjet in Wichita, has been named to the Kansas Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Leadership Kansas class. Now in its 35th year, Leadership Kansas is a statewide leadership-training program. Each year 40 people from various industries are selected from across the state. Klausmeyer lives in Wichita.
Jeffery R. Smith ’97, EL ED, principal of the Sixth Grade Center in Derby, Kan., has been named General Education Administrator of the Year by the Kansas Association of Special Education Administrator. The award is based on the success of the administrator’s promotion and support of special education students and professionals. Smith resides in Derby.
Natalie J. Aramburu ’98, EL ED, ’00 M SP ED, is a special education teacher at Truesdell Middle School in Wichita. She lives in Wichita.
Veronica D. (Pang) Hinkle ’98, PSYCH, ’05 M ANTHRO, ’12 PHD PSYCH, works as a senior human factors engineer at Motorola Solutions in Plantation, Fla. She lives in Sunrise, Fla.*
Anne L. (Anderton) Warren ’98, SOC, ’00 M PUB ADM, is director of human resources for EagleMed in Wichita, where she lives.
Jadd C. Munn ’98, MKT, ’99 M BUS ADM, who has nearly 10 years of commercial lending experience, is senior vice president of commercial lending at CornerBank’s Wichita office. He resides in Wichita.
David L. Bollenback Jr. ’99, GEN ST, a licensed professional geologist, works in environmental services as a district geologist at the Kansas Corporation Commission’s District Office No. 2 in Wichita. His project management duties include investigating, monitoring and remediation work on contamination sites in the district, oversight of oil and gas regulation and spill clean up, well bore plugging instruction and the protection of fresh and usable water and soil. He lives in Wichita.
Jesse A. Nienke ’01, MKT, has been promoted to vice president and systems administrator at Equity Bank in Wichita. He resides in Wichita.
Brandi P. Hendrix ’02, EL ED, ’05 M CI, has been named head principal for grades 6-12 at public schools in Herington, Kan. She will begin her duties Aug. 1. She has served as executive director at the Technology Excellence in Education Network since 2008. Prior to that, she was an administrative intern at Wichita public schools, taught middle school in Wichita and also was a technology specialist and graduate assistant at Wichita State. She lives in Marion, Kan.
Wilson Hon ’02, MIS, has 10 years of experience working around the globe on information system technology, marketing, advertising, digital advertising and entrepreneurial projects, and now directs operations at Citron Express Pte Ltd in Singapore.
Todd S. Junker ’02, PE K-12, physical education teacher at Christa McAuliffe Academy, has been recognized with a 2013 Distinguished Classroom Teacher Award, presented by the Wichita school district. He resides in Wichita.
Jason D. Barrett ’03, M BUS ADM, who has more than 12 years of experience in technology and marketing, is president and chief operating officer at Go Local, a full service interactive agency headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. He lives in Olathe, Kan.
Stephanie A. (Ackerman) Hornung ’03, M PT, is a physical therapist at Phillips Physical Therapy Center in Dodge City, Kan. She lives in Spearville, Kan.
Cherise M. Stein ’03, COMM, works as sales and marketing director at Blue Cellular in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nathaniel “Nathan” N. Crow ’04, ACCT, is plant controller at Cargill in Newnan, Ga., where he lives.*
Evan J. Funk ’04, BUS ADM, is vice president and commercial relationship manager at Fidelity Bank in Wichita. He lives in Andover, Kan.
Matthew T. Gallagher ’04, M COUNS, a licensed clinical professional counselor, practices full time as a psychotherapist at Adult, Child and Family Counseling and also serves part-time as a school counselor at John Marshall Middle School in Wichita, where he resides.
Connie A. Howard ’04, M PT, is a physical therapist and the director of the Hesston, Kan., office of Advanced Physical Therapy, located inside the Hesston Wellness Center. Certified in aquatic therapy and aqua-stretch techniques, she provides these new services at the wellness center. Howard has eight years of clinical experience, most recently working in outpatient orthopedics in Wichita.
Bryan K. Smith ’04, GEN ST, serves as a member of the board of education for public schools in South Haven, Kan., where he lives. He works as a supply chain manager at Hawker Beechcraft.
Karla K. Stenzel ’04, M PE, a PE teacher at Wichita’s College Hill Elementary School, has been recognized as 2012 Teacher of the Year by the Kansas Learning Center for Health. Noted for her commitment to health education, she was key in scheduling KLCH outreach health programs in Wichita elementary schools for the past two years. She lives in Wichita.
Kathy D. Abdul-Hameed ’05, EL ED, who teaches fourth grade at Franklin Elementary School, has been recognized with a 2013 Distinguished Classroom Teacher Award, presented by the Wichita school district. She resides in Derby, Kan.
Deborah L. Fagg ’05, EL ED, first-grade teacher at Minneha Core Knowledge Elementary School, has been recognized with a 2013 Distinguished Classroom Teacher Award, presented by the Wichita school district. She lives in El Dorado, Kan.
Lindsay K. (Eck) Gray ’05, GEN ST, track star at Beloit High School in Beloit, Kan., and at Wichita State, has been selected for the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame Class of 2013. At WSU, she was a three-time Missouri Valley Conference champion in the 60m hurdles, 100m hurdles and long jump. Gray is an LPN at Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, where she resides.
Michael P. Leak ’05, BUS ADM, a CPA, is an accountant at Knudsen, Monroe & Co. in Newton, Kan. He lives in Wichita.
Tracy A. Anderson ’06, M SP ADM, ’06 M COUNS, a former English teacher and college coach, is the school counselor at Augusta High School in Augusta, Kan. She lives in Wichita.
Brian M. Barnickle ’06, COMP SCI, works in IT at Hewlett Packard in Wichita, where he resides.
Joanna D. Koudele ’06, EX SCI, ’10 PHD PT, is a physical therapist at Mathis Physical Therapy and Hand Center in Manhattan, Kan.
Kristina “Kristy” D. Luty ’06, SOC WK, ’11 M SOC WK, is a school social worker in El Dorado, Kan.
Andrea L. Riedel ’06, CJ, school resource officer with the Derby Police Department in Derby, Kan., has been named the city’s 2012 Employee of the Year for her efforts in increasing safety for Derby High School students.
Ian M. Armstrong ’07, FIN, ’09 M BUS ADM, works as a treasury analyst at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, where he lives.
Stacy D. (Schneider) Irvin ’07, HR MGT, works at Luminous Neon Inc. in Hutchinson, Kan., where she resides.
Jade R. Piros de Carvalho ’07, PHIL, is president and general manager at LogicMaze Inc., a web development and design firm. She also is a yoga instructor at Genesis Health Clubs and the YMCA in Hutchinson, Kan., where she lives.
Alicia M. Rose ’07, SOC WK, ’08 M SOC WK, works as an outpatient mental health professional at Horizons Mental Health Center, which serves clients in Barber, Harper, Kingman, Pratt and Reno counties in Kansas. She had been a therapist in the psychiatric unit at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She resides in Hutchinson, Kan.
Jake S. Baird ’08, MKT, is a credit analyst at Commerce Bank in Wichita, where he lives.*
Chase C. Curtiss ’08, M EX SCI, a specialist in high-tech monitoring of health and sports performance, is founder and CEO at Sway Medical, a mobile medical software company in Tulsa, Okla. A former undergraduate lecturer in biomechanics and motor learning/control at Wichita State, Curtiss was an exercise physiologist in cardiac rehabilitation at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita from 2006 to 2008. He lives in Tulsa.
Rissa M. Reyes ’08, BUS ADM, formerly of Wichita and Hutchinson, Kan., works as a store manager of Walmart in Oklahoma.
Sara E. (Lungren) Walkup ’08, EL ED, volleyball coach at Cheney High School in Cheney, Kan., is a member of the induction class of 2013 for the Pizza Hut Shocker Sports Hall of Fame. As a standout Shocker player, she was named to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman Team in 2004 and in 2007 not only netted MVC Player of the Year honors for the second year in a row, but also garnered honorable mention All-America status. During her time at WSU, the Shockers advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice, including her senior season in 2007, when the team went 27-6 and 17-1 in the MVC to win the conference championship. Walkup lives in Caldwell, Kan.
Sean R. Borst ’09, MUS P, ’09 MUS ED, ’10 M MUS I, is a band instructor at Brooks Magnet Middle School in Wichita, where he resides.
John S. Buckley ’09, PSYCH, a mental health and addictions counselor in the Wichita area, also works as a case manager for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Hutchinson, Kan. He lives in Derby, Kan.
Kaci A. Tucker ’09, I BUS, ’09 MOD/CLASS L, ’11 ECON, is a commercial development associate at Flint Hills Resources in Wichita, where she lives.*
Jenna A. Hendricks ’10, MGT, is a fraud specialist for Intrust Bank in Wichita. She resides in Wichita.
Jodi S. Lightner ’10, M S ART/P, who teaches painting and drawing at Montana State University in Billings, is an artist who for the past three years has been primarily working with acrylic, ink, graphite and oil on Mylar. Her show Escape Route (Flight) was on display at Sterling College, Sterling, Kan., in February and March. She has completed artist residencies at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy; the Vermont Student Center in Johnson, Vt.; and at Penn State Altoona.
Drew A. Tedlock ’10, ECON, ’12 M ECON, is a procurement agent at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita. A former economics tutor and graduate assistant at Wichita State, Tedlock lives in Wichita.
Van Tran ’10, MECH E, works in design engineering at Cessna Aircraft in Wichita, where he resides.*
Tabatha L. Ward ’10, PSYCH, ’11 SOC WK, ’12 M SOC WK, is a medical social worker at Progressive Home Health and Hospice in Wichita. She also works part time as a cheer coach at the South Wichita YMCA. She lives in Wichita.
Johnny J. Wyrick ’10, PHD ED, superintendent at Erie, Kan., public schools, has been hired as the superintendent for Altamont, Kan., public schools. He began his career teaching social studies in Deerfield, Kan., and went on to teach seventh- and eighth-grade social studies and serve as athletic director in Sedan, Kan. For three years, he was the middle and high school principal at schools in Stafford, Kan., and then served as K-8 assistant superintendent for a year. In 2008, he took the position as superintendent at Haviland, Kan., public schools. As superintendent in Erie, he led the school district through a number of initiatives, including the construction of a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified high school, the transition of Galesburg from a grade school to a middle school and the opening of a program for adults to acquire GEDs.
Callie M. Bruey ’11, PHD PT, is a physical therapist at the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center in Manhattan, Kan.
Sarah K. (Waldorf) Coleman ’11, MKT, previously of Lenexa, Kan., resides in Phoenix, Ariz., with her husband, Dustin “Dusty” Coleman fs ’08, a former standout shortstop at Wichita State who as a draft-eligible sophomore was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 28th round of the 2008 amateur draft. He is in spring training with the Oakland A’s.
James C. Glazier ’11, ACCT, ’11 FIN, is a staff accountant at the certified public accounting firm of Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball Chartered in Hutchinson, Kan. He lives in Cheney, Kan.
Robert J. Illidge ’11, GEN ST, a U.S. Navy seaman, has completed Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
Justin D. Kaufman ’11, BUS ADM, is a member of the audit and tax services staff at Swindoll, Janze, Hawk & Loyd LLC in McPherson, Kan. The Moundridge, Kan., resident has a private pilot’s license and occasionally helps ferry airplanes for Weaver Aero International Inc., based in Moundridge.
Brett C. Pittman ’11, GEN ST, who is a former resident of Wichita, Salina, Kan., and Hutchinson, Kan., works as an operations manager of Walmart in Oklahoma.
Annette L. Meece ’11, CJ, is a certified paralegal at Klenda Austerman LLC in Wichita. She lives in Augusta, Kan.*
Shane A. Newsom ’11, FIN, ’11 MKT, is a team leader at Beechcraft Corp. in Wichita. He lives in Wichita.*
Jason L. Ramey ’11, EL ED, fourth-grade teacher at Pray-Woodman Elementary School in Maize, Kan., is one of 32 recipients of the 2013 Horizon Award. The award, sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education and the Kansas Cable Telecommunications Association, recognizes exemplary first-year educators. He resides in Wichita.
Alex J. Ruhter ’11, BUS ADM, a small business owner, operates Quality Hood and Duct Cleaning in Newton, Kan., where he lives.
Nicole D. Cisneroz ’12, ENG ED, is in her first year of teaching as an English teacher at Augusta High School in Augusta, Kan. She lives in Wichita.
Austin J. Clift ’12, COMM, is a photographer for KAKE, Channel 10, the ABC-affiliated television station in Wichita. He lives in Wichita.
Kalli L. Gengler ’12, NURS, works as a registered nurse at Lindsborg Community Hospital in Lindborg, Kan., where she resides.
Rachelle J. Juresic ’12, COMM, works as a digital marketer at High Touch Technologies in Wichita. She lives in Andover, Kan.
Kelly G. Kemnitz ’12, COM SCI, is a software test engineer at NetApp in Wichita, where she lives.*
Julie McCoy ’12, M ACCT, has joined Kennedy and Coe LLC, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, Wichita, as an associate in the firm’s general practice group. Kenned
