Class Notes

Sister Clarencia Kavanagh, CCVI, BA '34, and Sister Adelaide Wiedemann, CCVI, BM '47, celebrated 75 years as Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word last May. Sister Clarencia worked in the UIW Library for many years. Sister Adelaide passed away on July 23, 2003.

Sister Jennie Torregrossa, CCVI, BS '50, celebrated her golden anniversary as a Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word last May. Sister Margaret Connelly, CCVI, BA '51, MA '75 and Sister Angela Clare Moran, CCVI, BSN '50, DHL '87 celebrated their diamond anniversaries of 60 years. Sister Jennie had served as Dean of Students at IWC and principal at Incarnate Word High School. Sister Angela was a former CEO of Santa Rosa Hospital and a UIW trustee.

Mary Wendelyn (Wendy) Watters Laughlin, BSN '53, was honored by Hospice of Cincinnati at its appreciation luncheon last May 1 st . Wendy received the Direct Service Award and was honored for her 25 years of continuous service as a hospice volunteer in the home care setting. The Direct Service Award honors volunteers who contribute directly to Hospice of Cincinnati and its patients.

Mary Garaña Allen, BA '54, retired from Vinnell Corporation/Department of Labor and returned to Corpus Christi after fifty years. She is now Volunteer Coordinator for VistaCare Hospice. Mary enjoys being with family again, especially her sister Carmen Garaña, BA '57, Med '63 and traveling to France twice a year.

Vivian Wood Donahoe, BA '56, visited San Antonio from California last June for the 50 th class reunion of her IWHS class and spent time with her classmate Carol Shannon Canty, BS '57 and her husband, John. Vivian will now have more time for herself as she retired as a school principal on July 31 st .

Helen Cholick Franscini, BSN '57 , lost her husband, Luke, on August 30, 2003. He had a full military burial in the Rio Grande Valley. You may contact Helen at: [email protected].

Susan M. Greenburg, BA '57, MA '60, widow of the late IWC President Dr. S. Thomas Greenburg, is the proud grandmother of five and great-grandmother of two. Both children,

Dr. Robert M. Greenburg and Joyce G. Mazero, IWHS '72 , have successful careers.

Gwen Coulter Sanchez-Navarro Sandefur, BA '57, MA '66, and her husband are retired from public and medical television in Houston and are living their dream in Wimberly, TX. She has been doing oil painting for five years and traveling to France.

Sister Rosalie Glynn, CCVI, BSN '57, Sister Teresa Grabber, CCVI, BA '57 [also Sister Mary Edward] and Sister Theresa McGrath, CCVI, BA '59, MA '76 [also Sister John of God] celebrated their golden anniversaries as Incarnate Word Sisters last May. Sisters Grabber and McGrath had many years on the UIW faculty, and Sister Theresa McGrath initiated the campus Pastoral Institute. Sister Agnes Keaveney, CCVI, BA '56 and Sister Mary Esther Brennan, CCVI, BA '58, MA '70, celebrated their Diamond anniversaries of 60 years. Sister Agnes taught at IWHS for many years.

We do not have many email addresses for the '60s graduates.

Sister Teresa Stanley, CCVI, BSN '60, Hon. '03, was invited to return to the Catholic Health Association in St. Louis as Senior Director, Sponsor Services. She was Senior Associate for mission at CHA from 1990-1996. In this new position she will be responsible for development of programs and services designed to support leaders of religious institutes, other laity, and bishops who sponsor Catholic healthcare in the U.S. The Senior Director serves as a resource to sponsors as they seek to guide and influence their sponsored works and prepare for transition to evolving forms of sponsorship in support of their ministry commitments. Sister made a one-month retreat in July before assuming her position in early August. Sister Teresa had served on the UIW nursing faculty, was director of the Division of Nursing, a member of the UIW Board of Trustees and served a term as the General Superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.

Sister Matilda Fagan, CCVI, BA '63 and Sister Mary Ailbe Keaveney, CCVI, BA '63, celebrated their diamond anniversaries of 60 years as Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word last May. Sister Matilda worked for many years in the Library and in the curriculum and resource section, and Sister Ailbe taught at Incarnate Word High School.

Gus Kilthau, BS RT '63, his last Air Force assignment was at USAF School of Aerospace Medicine where he was involved in the �Project Apollo� performing astronaut candidate medical examinations. He resigned from the Air Force in 1965 after 14 years. He has two patents in nuclear medical technology, and has performed research and written journal articles in the areas of radiography and nuclear. He is currently serving as CEO of Academy Central, Inc., which developed and operates a charity high school based on the Internet. He said he still remembers several of his great professors at IWC, Sisters Joseph Marie Armer and Mary Daniel Healy.

Sister Margaret Nugent, CCVI, BA '64, MA '68, celebrated her golden anniversary as a Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word last May. Sister had served as principal of IWHS.

Sandra Holmes Heyen, '66, is the Administrator of the Engineering Document Center for Rohm and Haas Company in Deer Park, TX.

Kathleen Klein Lestrange, BA '67, director of the creative writing program at the Northeast School of the Arts, was the guest speaker at the San Antonio Friends of the Library last summer. Kathleen won the Writers Guild Award for Best Daytime Serial Writing in 1996 and 1998, in addition to Emmys for Best Daytime Serial Writing Team for four years.

Judy Ann Anderson Perillo, BA '68, MA '99, and a 1983 Alumna of Distinction [Family] has been appointed the head of a new program for the Archdiocese of San Antonio called Victim Assistance and Safe Environment. Judy had worked for twelve years with the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. She will be responsible for appointing a safe environment coordinator in every Catholic parish and ministry in the 19-county archdiocese, conducting background checks on church employees and overseeing all phases of the church's national Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Agua Azul, Chiapas, Mexico

Sister Mary Carmel Smith, CCVI, IWHS '57, BA '68, MA '79, announced that the International Library of Photography selected a framed picture from her gift shop photography collection, �Agua Azul, Chiapas, Mexico� for publication in their forthcoming anthology, Endless Journeys (Library of Congress ISBN-O-7951-5247-7) in the Winter 2003 edition. It will become part of a classic, coffee-table quality hardbound volume. It is now placed in final competition in the �Nature� category at the International Photography contest.

Constance B. Allen Ellis, MS, OCN, CWOCN, [Coni], Margaret M. Lynam Ciatto [Margi], and Marifran Stark Mazza, [Muff] all BSN '69, have been getting together every few years to catch up on all the news. Coni has been promoted to Director of the Houston UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse Education Program. She is the mother of three adult children and a tickled grandma of a precious three-year-old granddaughter. After thirty years at St. Joseph Hospital as a nurse educator, Margi three years ago moved to the Villa De Matel where she serves a dual role as nurse educator and clinician caring for the Houston Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. She is the mother of four, two in college and two in high school. Muff moved away from the Boston area last year after 33 years and is now in San Francisco exploring a show business venture. Margi baby sat Coni's children as she married ten years after Coni, then Coni's children sat for hers, and now Margi's children can sit for Coni's granddaughter. Ah, the circle of life!

We do not have many email addresses for the '70s graduates.

What a small world! Susan Fruchtnicht Bean, BSHe'70, is working at Probate Court #2 in San Antonio under Judge Tom Rickhoff who is married to alumna Carol Mumford, BA '69. Sue and Carol have been friends since 1966! Judge Rickhoff met Carol while he was attending St. Mary's and she was at IWC, and Sue's roommate at the time. Let's hear from others. [email protected]

Sister Juanita Albracht, CCVI, BSN '71, sends greetings to all from Peru where she is directing Posta Médica �Santa Clara�, the hospice program Hospicio Santiago Apóstol, and works with a parish youth choir.

Margaret [Peggy] O'Brien, '71, was named the 2003 Alumna of the Year for Incarnate Word Academy in St. Louis. Peggy served the IWA alumna board and on the fund-raising campaign for a new building dedicated in September that added new classrooms, laboratories, and library.

Joan Ashcraft Davis, BM '72, and husband Mike, St. Anthony Catholic H.S., '62, reported in with the latest news. Mike is now with Christus Health in San Antonio and she started her ninth year at Reagan High School. Olympic swimmer-son Josh welcomed his fourth child, Annabelle, on Valentine's Day, and he is busy in training for the Olympic team to Athens. Daughter-soprano, Tynan, spent three months in Italy and began her master's work in vocal performance at Texas State[SWTSU]. Twins Sam and Will are fine. Will and his wife, Cara, live in Dallas where she is an elementary school teacher and he is finishing up a master's at the Dallas Theological Seminary. Their child who is due in March will be the fifth Davis grandchild. [We remember when comedian Mike once said that is was okay if Joan wanted to become a grandmother, but he had no intention of becoming a grandpa.] Sam is an admissions counselor at Texas State and recently returned from a life-transforming trip to India with the International Justice Mission. He went to document on video the lives of young children and families and helped them to escape forced prostitution and servitude.

The clan of Jo Pollock, BS '72[left] and Toni Pollock Mulvaney, BA '78 [center], visited the campus this past summer and brought three student recruits and candidates for M.A.R.S. scholarships!

Erin Gardner Bowman, BA '73, of the Santa Rosa Children's Hospital Foundation was named a Headliner of the Year for 2003 last May by the San Antonio chapter of the Association of Women in Communications.

Col. John J. Harvey (USA Retired), BSN '73, retired from the Army Nurse Corps in 1988 after 30+ years of exciting and challenging assignments. As Deputy Commander for Nursing he had assignments at Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio S.F., CA, Fort Ord, CA, Fort Belvoir, VA, Berlin Army Hospital and Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany. John and Mary have been married 49 years and live in Sun City, TX and enjoy every day of it.

Pat Williamson Osoria, BA '73, is currently a special education teacher in a self-contained classroom at a psychiatric hospital for children in San Antonio. Pat holds an MS in clinical counseling as well as his BA in psychology and has worked for a variety of state agencies and then started working with at-risk children. She decided that she wants to be in the school system and last summer she was awaiting her teacher certification. Pat and Joe married in the IWC Chapel and they have a 13-year-old son. She wishes more people from the 1970's were on the alumni network on the web. We do too!

Mary Cox Greenslade, Capt. Tom Badger, USN, Anna Doerr and Sr. Rosanne Popp, CVI, M.D., all BSN '74

Mary Cox Greenslade, Capt. Tom Badger, USN, Anna Doerr and Sr. Rosanne Popp, CVI, M.D., all BSN '74, had a mini-reunion on campus May 23 rd and were greeted by alumna and former instructor Dr. Caroline Schoch Spana, BSN '59. They had a great visit with her, went on an inspection tour of the campus, and spent hours catching up over lunch at Tomatillo's.

Cindy Mozisek Callins, BA '75 and Helen J. Klitch, BA '85, visited the campus after the 4 th of July. Cindy has published five curriculum works and Helen published a collection of works and historical family documents. Helen was once the secretary to Dean of Students Teresa Logan.

Sister Mary Henry

Sister Mary Henry, CCVI, BM '75, made her First Profession of Religious Vows with the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word on August 15, 2003. Mary will be working on a Masters in Theology, with a concentration in Liturgy at the Aquinas School of Theology. She is also playing for the choir at St. Vincent de Paul Church in St. Louis. The last alumna to take CCVI vows was Sr. Cynthia Ann Stacy, CCVI, BA '77, on August 15, 1993.

Cindy L. Rodriguez Martinez, BA '76, is teaching at a charter school, Positive Solutions in San Antonio, teaching English, Creative Writing, Practical Writing and Reading Improvement. And hang on to your hats�Cindy is a grandmother! Grandson Romeo was a year old on July 28th .

Maria A. Mendez-Balderas, BSPe '78, has been working with San Antonio's Southside ISD for seventeen years and began working at the new campus, Freedom Elementary, this fall. She also coaches 7th grade volleyball and basketball.

Irelanette Broadnax, BSN '79, had a book published in July by the Winepress Publishing Company called Confused About Love? Yet a Revelation.

Yvette Janisse Benjamin, BA '80, was stationed at Fort Sam Houston while at IWC and then she and her husband spent a year in Tacoma, WA before moving to Washington, DC. Here she earned a BS degree and became a physician assistant working in HIV/AIDS with children and women. She worked as a clinician, doing research, writing proposals and monitoring clinical trials for the National Institutes of Health and completed a Master in Public Health [1985] with a focus on administration and health policy. From there she went to the Institute of Medicine [IOM], a health policy think tank. After five years with the IOM she spent two years doing evaluations for organizations such as Kellogg and the Pew Charitable Trust. Then she was on to Geneva with the World Health Organization for nine months working on HIV/AIDS issues in resource poor settings. She was in Geneva on 9/11. Back in Washington, she is the Director of the Global Health Program for the Association of Public Health Laboratories [APHL]. A wonderful route from the BA in psychology!

Dr. Shihab Mufleh Diais, DDS, BA '80, MA '87, received the executive MBA degree from Texas Tech University on August 9, 2003.

Sandi K. Fahr Gill, MA '83, of Pottstown, PA once again represented UIW at a presidential inauguration, this time at the University of Scranton on September 26, 2003.

Viola G. Hernandez Benavente, BSN '84, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing for UTHSC in San Antonio and active in the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.

Alice M. Martinez, BBA '84, has relocated back to San Antonio and is a realtor with Century 21 Smith & Associates. Alice was the SGA president 1982-83.

Paul Algueseva III, BA '85, won first place in the First Iowa Sculpture Festival in Newton, IA on June 14 th . Sculptors from five states were represented in the show. His winning piece was �Dances on Water� and was on view with 30 other of his works at the LeClair Welcome Center through the end of July.

Lisa Horan Ginapp, BSN '85, is a Nurse Educator for Clear Lake Regional Hospital in Webster, TX, but is continuing her master's studies at UTMB.

Bill Gokelman, BM '85, is on sabbatical this year from UIW. For the past six years he has been working with David Kauffman, a Christian composer. He does the choral, keyboard and instrumental arrangements for all of his music, and the pianist for his CDs and concerts. Four of his songs made the Christian charts top twenty. Last winter they began recording the latest CD, Behold , with choir used on all but one. For three of the works he used a 100-voice choir made up of the UIW Chorale, UIW Chapel Choir, and St. Mark the Evangelist Church Choir, and some featured instrumental work by spouse Lena Jenette Gokelman, BM '85. The CD was released to the public at a concert on August 29 th . Watch for the CD on the market.

Anita Maria [Anamari] Cordua, BA '87, is now Sister Ana Pia, SCTJM . Anamari was a student from Nicaragua and has joined a new community in Florida called the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Their ministry is essentially in Spanish although they serve the English-speaking community as well. When she wrote she was about to begin work as a religion teacher.

Mario Herrera, MA '88, and Rosita Martinez Herrera, BA '73, send greetings and news. Mario, a photo essayist and poet, will be presenting a paper in 2004 at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association meeting in San Antonio. Mario will be doing a pictorial history of San Antonio's Holy Cross High School. He will also chair the Photography of the West sessions and panels at the conference. He has been active for sixteen years and also served as president. His literary works are housed at the UT Arlington Library Special Collections Division in the Mario Herrera Collection.

Liz Garcia Smith, BBA '89, MA '01, is a religion teacher at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School in San Antonio. Her husband, Bill, also teaches 8 th grade mathematics and is the Assistant Principal. The new development officer for the school is St. Anthony and IWHS alumna Emily Juen Mason, '80 and '84 .

Nash Martinez Jr., BS '90, is now the Head Baseball coach at his alma mater, Floresville High School.

Tammy W. Dupre Ledbetter, MA '91, completed her UIW doctoral dissertation, entitled �Leadership: Practices Used by Online Instructors In Higher Education.� Her mentor, Dr. Cyndi Porter, Director of The Virtual University, said �it is something that people interested in online education and training will be looking to for advice.�

Mark. K. Vasquez, BBA '91, is a partner in the firm of Rojas & Vasquez, PLLC Attorneys & Counselors in Dallas.

David Griffin, BBA '93, MA '03, completed nine years with the H.E.B. grocery chain in management.

Randy Henderson, BBA '93, is the head Girls Basketball coach and mathematics teacher at Port Aransas High School, TX.

James Kirschenbauer, BA '93, is teaching special education English and mathematics in Las Vegas, NV at the local high school � in 110-degree heat!

Dr. David Javier Lozano, BS '93, will complete his pediatric pulmonary fellowship next June and is setting up interviews for his future. The Laredo native hopes to head back to Texas for good.

Laura Márquez, BA '93, and her husband, Javier Farias, are living in Allen, TX and had their first child in December 2002. She is the Director of Academic Skills at Austin College, Sherman.

Yvette Paredes-Gonzales, BA '93, Med '00, earned her second master's degree, in school administration, from Trinity in May '03.

Maria Irizarry, BSN '94, completed her MBA in healthcare management on May 17, 2003 at Our Lady of the Lake University. Last June 12th she married on a Thursday, as she had no intention of getting married on a Friday the 13th .

Sister Laura Magowan, CCVI, MA '94, celebrated her golden anniversary as a Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word last May.

Sister Sally Mitchell

Sister Sally Mitchell, (right) OSF, MA '95 and Dean of University Preparatory Programs celebrated her golden jubilee as a member of the Franciscan Order.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira, BA '96, is awaiting the release of the film The Alamo in which he has the featured role of hero Gregorio Esparza. Filmed entirely in Dripping Springs, Texas in a recreation of 1836 San Antonio, the film stars Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton. After filming, Ric made a national Budweiser commercial and had a guest role in NBCs Kingpin to add to his credits that include Jag and Six Feet Under. His latest was a bad guy in the CBS family drama Joan of Arcadia . UIW folks remember theatre arts major Ric for many campus roles, notably the title role in Macbeth .

Kate Crosby, BBA, ADCaP '96, is now Business Development Officer at Frost Bank.

Mike Adame, BSN, ADCaP '98, retired from the San Antonio State Hospital before his graduation and then went to work for the Health Department in the Immunizations Department for 3 years, an experience he recommends for all new nursing graduates. He is presently with Camino Real MHMR Center in Lytle, TX as the Quality Management Nurse. He was a forerunner of community outreach back in 1978 at the State Hospital, and he is back on the road again making rounds to various clinics from Eagle Pass to Kennedy. You can email him at [email protected].

Paul Alexander, MA '98, knows high school football � firsthand as a high school star in Lockhart and as an Emmy-winning sports reporter. The familiar face of Fiesta Dodge commercials and former KSAT-TV sports anchor has penned his first book about small town high school football. Its title, Movin' the Chains , is apropos for a labor of love that took 10 years to complete. That Alexander, 48, was a star athlete at Lockhart High School, where he lettered as a receiver and defensive back from 1969 to 1971, or that he was a rising star at CBS in the �80s covering sports, doesn't have as much to do with his new book as one might think. �It's more a matter of me wanting to stretch out,� said Alexander, who is an instructor and football coach at St. Anthony Catholic High School. �After more than 20 years in TV sports, I was tired of dot-dot-dot sentences,� he said. Alexander's book is set in Gonzales, a small town not unlike his hometown �in size, scope and attitude.� After graduating from Southwest Texas State University in 1976, he worked at KTBC-TV in Austin, KOLD-TV in Tucson, Ariz., and at CBS-owned and operated KMOX-TV (now KMOV) in St. Louis from 1980-87. In San Antonio he spent four years as sports director at KSAT and later as news anchor at the syndicated News of Texas in the late �90s.

Wen Pao, MSN '98, was one of 48 finalists tapped for Excellence Awards by Nurseweek in the category of �Advancing the Profession.�

Julenne Barshop, MA '99, is a grants writer for the UIW Office of Foundations, Corporate and Government Relations and has taught English at UIW.

Peggy E. Burford, BA '99, is working as a career counselor at the University of Texas at San Antonio downtown campus.

Fred Campbell, BSN '99, is now working in one of the surgery wards at the Audie Murphy VA Hospital in San Antonio after four years at University Hospital doing floor and clinic work.

Susan Gonzales, BA, ADCaP '99, completed work on her master's degree and applied to the Ph.D. program at Our Lady of the Lake University.

Jay Johnson, MBA '99, is now the President of Sales and Marketing at the Block Distributing Company. Jay is also a member of the UIW Development Board and has appeared in a television commercial for the university.

Kevin E. Buchek, BA '00, received the J.D. degree with an academic excellence award from St. Louis University School of Law on May 15, 2003. He also received the Employment Law certificate.

Mikala Gibson, BA '00, had the role of Grace in The Piano Lesson by August Wilson at Houston's Ensemble Theatre. In 2001 she won the best supporting actress in a drama award from ATAC for her performance in Picnic.

Jason Uribe Hernandez, BBA, ADCaP '00, is an IT Systems Developer for The Scooter Store in New Braunfels. Jason, his wife, and two children moved into their first home in Selma last summer.

Casey Lee Sieler, BA '00, has an internship as a programs officer with REAP [Rural Enterprise Adaptation Program] International, (www.reapintl.com) a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to help stabilize villages in Russia with strategies to become self-sufficient and independent of the State system. REAP works with schools, youth and others to bolster rural resources and adapt survival techniques learned in the US. They encourage sustainable approaches that do not damage the environment; they especially promote eco-tourism. The main office for her internship is in Ulan-Ude, which is the capital of Buraytia, a very western province/republic of Russia, south of Siberia near Lake Baikal. She is working with the YAC's, which are youth activity centers founded in rural schools in 1996. They are the centers for sustainable development of their villages. The villages are traditional Buryat communities, descendants of the Mongols and are now considered both an indigenous and marginalized ethnic community. Basically as a programs officer intern she is assisting in the establishment of several more YAC's in villages and help plan, evaluate, and implement the business/micro-enterprise proposals for making the schools self-sufficient. So she is traveling to the villages and dialoguing with the locals for business ideas, and then helping to found and implement the business which is finally approved by both REAP and the village councils. She then helps oversee the implementation. Her internship is a guaranteed 9-month position with the option to extend longer. It is paid for by a FRAEC grant. It covers her housing, groceries, travel, and health insurance, plus two hundred dollars extra a month. And just to give you an idea of how much that is: a one bedroom flat in Ulan-Ude is $150 a month.

David Anthony Allwein, BSN '01, became the UIW Assistant Director of Health Services on July 14, 2003.

Leon F. Bedolla, BA '01, works for Burson-Marstellar Public Relations as the Public Relations Consultant for the Mexico Board of Tourism in Miami.

Arnulfo (Arnie) Maldonado, BA '01, attended the Prague Quadrennial, the most prestigious international theatre design and architecture competition held every four years in Prague. A large theatre conference was held in conjunction with the exhibition. For the first time, UIW was represented in the Schools of Scenography exhibition. Arnie exhibited his theatre design work from UIW in the USA, student section, which was funded by the Tobin Foundation. Arnie was a McNair Scholar and is studying theatre design at Tisch School of the Arts. He is a Vilar Fellow, and NYU sent him to Prague. UIW Professor Margaret Mitchell was one of the curators for the USA National exhibition, and the USA won a prize for including international designers. There were 52 countries represented, and nine prizes were given.

Monica Velasquez McIlwain, BA '01, is just months away from her M.A. with a 3.63 GPA and is still employed by USAA. Monica, husband Randy and children Jackie, Justin and Stevie celebrated their first anniversary in a new home, and Justin is a freshman at Taft H.S. in San Antonio. She is still mentoring teen moms and one of her teens just graduated from high school.

Ann Marie Cowan Ozturgut, BA '01, wrote from Turkey where she was visiting with her husband's [Osman] family and learning Turkish. They left CIW early as the school was closed early and the faculty sent home as a precaution due to the SARS outbreak in China. After visiting in Turkey for about a month, they visited San Antonio and Ballinger before moving to St. Louis. Ann was accepted into the East Asian Studies program at Washington University and as a graduate fellow in the residence life program. In the program she'll need a level three proficiency in Chinese to graduate. Isman will be working on a master's degree.

Jason C. Rivas, BBA '01, has relocated to Chicago and is pursuing his MBA while working with the Operation Department of Wachovia Securities.

Adriana Barron, BA '02, is working with the Gucci Corporation in New York.

Andrea Salinas, BA '02, is a producer at Bromley Communications, a Hispanic advertising agency in San Antonio. She travels on production shoots to produce television commercials for clients Burger King, Coors Light, Continental Airlines, and Proctor and Gamble products. She also produces radio commercials as well. Andrea started work on her master's degree this fall.

Linda Alvarado Vela, BA '02, is working with a public involvement-consulting firm called Ximenes and Associates.

Gregory Pasztor, MA '03, is teaching two communication arts courses at UIW this fall: a seminar on producing and directing, and communications technology and society. Both are areas of considerable experience for him. Gregory is a television photojournalist and executive with twenty-five years of experience.