Winter 2004

’20s

Archie Harold Keen, B.S.E.E., ‘23, a resident of Ft. Worth, Texas, celebrated his 101st birthday on December 26, 2002. Archie worked for the General Electric Company from 1923 until his retirement in 1960. He sold the first traffic lights in the state of Texas to the City of Austin. He was active in volunteer programs, and was named volunteer of the year in 1994 for Meals on Wheels.

Shortly after submitting this note, Archie passed away June 22, 2003.

’30s

William H. Knight, B.S.M.E., ‘37, retired from General Electric in 1980, in Schenectady, N.Y., and now resides with his wife Eleanor in the Dallas area.

’40s

Howard Hagood, B.S.Ch.E., ‘41, owner of Hagood Engineering Company in Brenham, Texas, writes”My great grandson Alexander Michael Hagood was two years old on Aug. 20, and is a future “Horn.”hhagoodtx@mailstation.com

 Edmund P. Segner Jr., B.S.C.E., ‘49, M.S.C.E., ‘52, says he’s semi-retired but busy as ever as professor and chair emeritus at The University of Alabama in Birmingham. Esegner@uab.edu

’50s

Philip K. Davis, B.S.M.E., ‘58, M.S.M.E., ‘59, retired as professor emeritus in engineering in 1993 after serving as department chair of engineering mechanics and materials for 15 years at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. davisp@siu.edu

 Carl E. Locke Jr., B.S.Ch.E., ‘58, M.S.Ch.E., ‘60, Ph.D.Ch.E., ‘72, served as professor, associate professor and assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma and was director of their School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He has been dean of the University of Kansas School of Engineering since 1986, maintaining his drive toward excellence. Carl is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of  the American Society of Engineering Education and its engineering deans council. He received the Distinguished Engineering Service Award from the Kansas University School of Engineering Advisory Board in 2002.

 R.C. Paulette, B.S.M.E., 1959, writes: ”after 23 years of engineering, I ventured into the risk management business. Irene gave up her teaching career and joined me in our business twenty years ago. Hardly a day goes by that I do not use my engineering skills in this new career.” rcpaul1@juno.com

’60s

Clifford E. Bell, B.S.C.E., ‘68, has retired to Austin after 35 years of service with the marine engineering and construction company, J. Ray McDermott, in Houston, where he last served as vice president and general manager for western hemisphere operations. cbell15@austin.rr.com

 John Wiley Davidson, B.S.E.S., ‘69, M.S.M.E., ‘75, Ph.D.M.E., ‘79, has been selected as director of the Los Alamos Center for Homeland Security. threedees@mail.cybermesa.com

 David W. Dorotik, B.S.M.E., ‘66, writes: “I am starting my consulting business in pumping systems, and also restoring a 1950 Plymouth and a 1952 Farmall ‘H’ tractor.”

 Bill Squires, B.S.A.S.E., ‘68, writes, “After doing youth work with inner city kids in East Oakland, I have helped start a church among these same kids who have now grown up and have kids of their own.” bsquires@i4f.net

 Richard Allen Voigt, B.S.C.E., ‘69, recently retired as captain of administration with the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office after 34 years of service. Richard continues to operate R. Allen Voigt & Associates, a consulting civil engineering and land survey firm in Victoria, Texas.

 John W. Wittliff, B.S.Ch.E., ‘67, has retired after 34 years of service with Union Carbide Corporation. He had been an assistant plant manager at Union Carbide’s Taft, Louisiana chemical plant for 15 years prior to retirement. He now lives on the eastern shore of St. Louis Bay in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

 Chuck Yarling, B.S.E.E., ‘76, is teaching algebra at St. Michael’s Academy in Austin, Texas. cby@io.com

’70s

Robert L. Bright, B.S.Ch.E., ‘70, formed TenBest Stocks.com, Inc. in November 2001 to provide proprietary stock instrument data developed through a uniquely engineered process. r.l.bright@tenbeststocks.com

 David Engle, B.E.S., ‘72; M.S.C.E., ‘74, writes: “I am working with a number of companies in Austin, on performance improvement using leadership and six sigma principles and practices. I recently delivered a workshop on the listening of leadership to a group attending the Texas Governor’s Center for Management Development. david_engle @attglobal.net

 Scotty Jergenson, B.S.A.S.E., ‘70, is currently assigned as the lead project test pilot on the new Cessna Citation Mustang business jet, with Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kansas. sjergenson@starband.net

 Bobby Williams, B.S.AS.E., ‘77, was featured in Aviation Week and Space Technology as a recipient of the publication’s laureate award for space for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission. Bobby led the mission’s navigation team from Jet Propulsion Laboratories.

’80s

William M. Campbell, B.S.Ch.E., ‘80, serves as reservoir engineer for the Houston-based Apache Corporation and was recently relocated to Cairo, Egypt with his wife and four children. His oldest daughter is a sophomore at UT studying communications. bill.campbell@khalda-eg.com

 Ralph Castillo, B.S.Arch.E., ‘82, serves as an engineer of the Austin Fire Department and as a structural specialist with Texas Task Force-1, an urban search and rescue team within the FEMA emergency response system. The Texas Task Force was activated the day of the 9/11 attacks and sent to work in New York the following Monday. Ralph worked a week of 15-hour days with five or six hours of sleep, under the command of NYFD, alongside New York firefighters, police and iron workers. ralph.castillo@ci.austin.tx.us

 Hsing-wei Chu, Ph.D.M.E., ‘80, now professor of industrial engineering at Lamar University, in Beaumont, Texas, was honored as a “Piper Professor” for 2002 by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.

 Greg DeMars, B.S.M.E., ‘88, is president of Brodee Systems, a Dallas-based provider of construction management and accounting software and services, and separately, providing human resources, recruiting, hiring, and wellness management programs to companies. brodeesystems@swbell.net

 Alex Gonzales, B.S.Arch.E., ‘88, now with Sunland Group, a consulting architecture and engineering firm based in Houston, has completed 22 months as deputy construction manager for the Combined Transportation, Emergency & Communications Center in Austin, Texas, which houses the essential public safety communications capabilities for the City of Austin, Travis County, Austin police and fire departments and emergency medical services, Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority, and the Texas Department of Transportation. alexg@austin.rr.com

 David G. Hartley, B.S.M.E., ‘83, is president of Reliable Output, Inc., Austin, Texas and writes: “August 13, 2003 marks the first anniversary of the incorporation of Reliable Output, specializing in the design, sales, and installation of uninterruptible power systems.” tequdave@swbell.net

 Alfredo G. (Fred) Hernandez, B.S.C.E., ‘84, is president of the recently opened AGH Consultants in Brownsville, Texas. fredhernandez@rgv.rr.com

 Duy-Loan T. Le, B.S.E.E., ‘82, dreamed of becoming an engineer from an early age in her native Vietnam. She came to Houston, Texas in 1975, in a fatherless family of nine, was named high school valedictorian at 16, and joined Texas Instruments in Houston at 19, as a memory design engineer after earning her electrical engineering degree at UT. Duy-Loan earned her M.B.A. from the University of Houston while working full time. She became the first woman elected a TI fellow in 1999, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in June 2001. She was selected an Outstanding Young Graduate of the College of Engineering this year, and the outstanding Young Texas Ex, both in 2003.

 Michael D. Starkey, B.S.P.E., 1987, a service supervisor III with Schlumberger in Houston, is currently assigned to the deep water drill ship Discoverer Enterprise, one of the most technologically advanced drill ships on earth, now working in the Gulf of Mexico in BP’s Thunderhorse field. mstarkey2@slb.com

 Edwin C. Swedberg, B.S.E.E., ‘82, was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Air Force on July 1, 2003. He was assigned as the chief, C2 Capabilities Division, Joint Staff/J6, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. swede1960us@yahoo.com

’90s

Andrew Coats, B.S.Arch.E., ‘98, writes: “I work as a structural engineer in New York City and responded to calls for volunteer structural engineers on-site at ground zero. Beginning about 35 hours after the 9/11 event, I spent 80 hours on the site over two weeks. We worked alongside the contractors, helping to stabilize the site and monitor the remaining structures. Despite experiencing some of the most terrifying moments of my life, I am glad that I had a skill to offer. I appreciate what I received in studying engineering at Texas, and realize how it has helped me. As I look forward to pursuing a graduate degree in architecture, I will always look to engineering as my base.” coatsandrew@AOL.com

 Eric Floyd, MD, B.S.M.E., ‘93, is an emergency room physician at Campbell Hospital in Weatherford, Texas, and writes: “We have a wonderful two-and-one-half-year-old daughter and another on the way. Engineering to medicine makes more sense than you would think.” Erccf@cyberlane.net

 James Garland Hurst, B.S.Ch.E., ‘97, completed law school at the University of Houston and now practices intellectual property law in Houston with the firm of Arnold & Associates. gar59@hotmail.com

 Jeffery L. Norrell, B.S.M.E., ‘92, M.S.E., ‘94, Ph.D.M.E., ‘99, writes: “I am currently manager of the engineering design group responsible for two of Westinghouse’s advanced fuel design programs. I work with both Korean and Brazilian engineers located in Columbia, S.C.” norrelj@westinghouse.com

 Janice Ruhl, M.S.E.H.E., ‘94, serves as an associate for Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. in Fairfax, Virginia, specializing in the design of wastewater treatment plants. She is engaged to Royal James Carroll, III and is planning a spring 2004 wedding. jruhlva@aol.com

 Joseph Sun, B.S.P.E., ‘97, graduated from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in May with an M.B.A. and now serves as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch & Company in Dallas, Texas. joseph_sun@ml.com

 Mark P. Williamson, B.S.M.E., ‘91, married Susan Wilson in Houston in November 2000. After spending 18 months in New York City, the couple moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to allow Mark to pursue contemporary figurative marble sculpting as a full time profession. He is working on a bronze statue of Alexander Frederick Claire (ALEC). porzellan_mpw@yahoo.com

 Stephanie D. Wilson, M.S.A.S.E., ‘92, selected by NASA in 1996 as a mission specialist, is preparing for shuttle flight STS-120 to deliver U.S. Node 2, the second of three station-connecting modules for the international space station. The launch date is under review.

 U.S. Air Force Major Chris Wegner, B.S.AS.E., ’91, pictured with Chief Warrant Officer 3 Matthew Munsey, unfurling a UT flag in Afghanistan writes: “the Afghani citizens are overwhelmingly appreciative of the coalition presence here. This country has been embroiled in war for over 23 years. The American and coalition presence brings stability to the region and offers a promising hope for a better future for the children and citizens of Afghanistan. I am proud to be a part of such a worthwhile endeavor.”