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ALUMNI
IN THE NEWS
Curt Boyer '78 has announced his
intention to run for St. Francois County
Assessor. He feels the assessor's office
must implement changes to allow for future
growth and to keep the office on the cutting
edge.
Russ Cline '71 was recently inducted
into The National Lacrosse League's Hall
of Fame. Cline is co-owner and president
of the Philadelphia Wings lacrosse team;
the induction ceremony was conducted in
Toronto.
Dr. David Keith '71 will conduct
a performance of Mozart's Requiem in Carnegie
Hall in New York City on June 5, 2006. Since
graduating from WJC, David has continued
an illustrative and defining career in choral
music at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth,
Texas.
Brian Dolan '98 has been named as
the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Upper
Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. For the
last two years, Dolan has served as an assistant
coach at the University of Texas-Pan American.
Dolan played basketball at WJC but sustained
an injury as a freshman in 1995; he immediately
started his coaching career while a student
by becoming the head coach of the women's
junior varsity basketball team as a sophomore
and held that position through his senior
year.
Homer Drew '66, the winningest coach
in Valparaiso University's history, has
returned as head men's basketball coach,
succeeding his son, Scott, who resigned
to become the head men's basketball coach
at Baylor University. Drew relinquishes
his duties as Valparaiso University's Special
Assistant to the President for University
Advancement, a position he held since resigning
as head coach on April 25, 2002.
Norman Dunfee '74 is Executive Director
of MidAmerica Productions in New York City.
His company is the largest producer of classical
concerts in Carnegie Hall; the purpose of
their programs is to highlight the appearances
of outstanding choral and instrumental ensembles.
A 200-voice chorus performing Bruckner's
Mass in E Minor with the New England Symphonic
Ensemble on June 26, 2006 will be conducted
by Dr. Arnold Epley, WJC Professor of music
and director of choral studies.
Dr. Karen E. Edison '85 is the chairman
of the Department of Dermatology at the
University of Missouri School of Medicine
and medical director for Missouri Telehealth
Network. Edison is also the co-director
for the Center for Health Policy at the
University of Missouri. Edison holds a medical
degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She has been selected by Missouri Governor
Matt Blunt to join a task force created
to ensure that healthcare information can
be readily available to health care providers,
consumers, and public health agencies in
order to make the best healthcare decisions
and to improve patient safety by reducing
medical errors.
Elton Fay '70 is seeking a fifth
three-year term on Columbia Public School's
Board of Education. Fay has served for 12
years and is an active volunteer for Missouri
Boys State; chairman of the board of the
Show-Me Christian Youth Home; juvenile law
advocate for the Boone County Circuit Court
and youth sponsor at Forum Boulevard Christian
Church. Fay holds a law degree from the
University of Missouri - Columbia.
J.D. Gravina '00 has been named as
the new women's head basketball coach at
McPherson College. Gravina had previously
served as assistant women's basketball coach
at WJC for two seasons and was head girls'
coach at Putnam County High School in Unionville,
Missouri, before he was selected to lead
the Lady Bulldogs.
Gerald Harvey '49 has been tapped
to serve as the national commander of the
American Ex-Prisoners of War Association.
As a former POW, he sees this calling as
a way to minister to POWs and their families.
Mark Morris '76 co-authored a book,
"Fatal Error" which has been made
into a Lifetime Television Movie entitled
"Fatal Desire," which aired for
the first time on April 3, starring Anne
Heche and Eric Roberts. Morris and co-author,
Paul Janczewski, published their book in
2003; it is the non-fiction account of the
murder of Bruce Miller in Flint, Michigan,
in November, 1999. The movie was shot in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Morris and Janczewski
served as consultants on the shoot and appeared
as extras in the film.
Byron Motley '81 performed his one-man-show
"Faces, Voices & Stories"
at numerous locations in February during
Black History Month. Motley's show presents
the history and legacy of the Negro Baseball
Leagues for the early 1900s and how the
leagues contributed to African-American
history.
Joel Sager '03 is one of three winning
entrants in the Collector's Series Art Competition
to design bottle labels, sponsored by Les
Bourgeois Vineyards in Rocheport. Sager
received the Harriman Fine Arts scholarship
and was a recipient of the Carpe Annum award,
given to the most outstanding art major.
Sager interned with artist Mark English
and received a full scholarship to the Illustration
Academy at Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia.
Joyce Melville Vance '87 recently
held a gallery showing of her photographs
in Kansas City, Missouri, at Espresso dell'Anatra.
Her photographs contain an emphasis on the
uniqueness in everyday things, revealing
reflections of emotions, nature's seasons
and of her travels. Vance's work can be
seen at www.geocities.com/joycemelvillevance.
Tom Weakley '66 has been named Director
of Operations of The Owner-Operator Independent
Drivers Association Foundation. The OOIDA
Foundation is a non-profit organization
whose main purpose is to research issues
that affect truckers such as economic conditions,
health/safety issues and truck equipment.
Weakley has a master's in education from
the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
For more alumni updates, check the Alumni
and Friends website at http://www.jewell.edu/william_jewell/gen/william_and_jewell_generated_pages/
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