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Class Notes

1990s

Kevin Brady (M.B.A. ’98) has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for Knowledge Systems.

Nicolas Brines (’92) has been named vice president of the American Heart Association’s Gulf Coast Division.


Crystal Brown

Crystal Brown (’96) has been appointed to the State Advocacy Committee of the American Heart Association.

Lisa Chmiola Burns (’98) has transferred to the Houston office of the American Heart Association, where she is serving as corporate marketing director.

Carolyn Campbell (’92) has been promoted to managing editor at Alvarez & Marsal Tax Advisory Services, LLC.

Romulo “Rom” Crespo (’96) has started a UH Alumni Club in Katy. Anyone interested in joining may contact him at romcrespo@sbcglobal.net.

David Dang (’97) has been promoted to vice president of information technology for Members Choice Credit Union in Houston.

Donald (’95, M.A. ’96) and Stephanie Dement (’95) are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Jonah Fulton Dement, on May 12, 2005.

Ronald Green (’93) has been named chairman of Houston’s Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee.

Brian Hanna (’98, M.H.M. ’05) has been named training consultant for the Houston Region Corporate Office of McDonald’s, Inc.

Stephen C. Haynes (M.B.A. ’91) has been named chief financial officer of Touchstone Resources USA, Inc.

Richard S. Hellmann (M.B.A. ’91) has been hired as vice president and director of investment consultant relations of Eagle Global Advisors.


David Kaiser

David Kaiser (’93) has joined the SpawGlass Houston Region as a senior estimator.

Robert Kramp (’96) has been named vice president and director of the national research and client services group of Grubb & Ellis Company.

Kristen Loden (M.M. ’92) has been named executive director of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Paul McNamara (M.H. ’90) of Red Lobster Restaurants has been awarded the distinguished alumnus award by the Hilton College Alumni Association.

Jacob Monty (J.D. ’93), managing partner of Monty Partners, LLP, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to the board of directors for the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank.

Dr. David C. Pate (J.D. ’96) is now the senior vice president and CEO of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.

Gregory S. Perrin (’92, M.F.A. ’95) has joined The University of Texas at Austin as assistant director of development in the College of Liberal Arts.

Mike Reeves (’94) has accepted the position of managing partner for a Bennigan’s franchise in Dallas.

Charles Robinson II (’87, Ph.D. ’97) is expanding the African American Studies Program at the University of Arkansas, where he is a history professor and director of African American Studies.

Paul Sarahan (’90, LL.M. ’93) has joined the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP as counsel in its environmental group.

E. Ashley Smith (LL.M. ’93) has been named executive vice president, general counsel, and chief legal officer of Houston-based Stewart Information Services Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Stewart Title Guaranty Company and Stewart Title Company.

Ronald L. Smith (’95, M.S.W. ’01) and longtime friend Vashonda Hickman (M.S.W. ’02) are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Aureyana Anjorin Biamila Smith, on November 18, 2005.

Kirk Tucker (J.D. ’99) has been elected partner by Thompson & Knight, LLP.

Chin Yu (’96) has been promoted to senior manager at UHY Advisors, Inc. in the firm’s Forensic, Litigation and Valuation Services Group.


ALUMNI BOOKS


Elline Lipkin’s (Ph.D. ’03) collection of poetry in The Errant Thread (Kore Press) is described by poet and UH Emeritus Professor of English Cynthia Macdonald: “Lipkin’s poems will give you a stick with which to climb mountains, walk through gracious parks, and will steady you as you talk out the mind’s doubts.”


Joanna Price (’00) designed The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 (Simon & Schuster), a New York Times bestseller. This fully illustrated, interactive biography gives rare insight into Bob Dylan’s storied career.

Heidi Nicolini’s Faithful Fables (Kingsley Literary Services), brought to life with colorful illustrations by Jesse Morales (B.F.A. ’05), tells insightful stories about self-esteem for children.

Coauthor Joseph Stewart (Ph.D. ’77) combines traditional elements of political science analysis—history, constitutional theory, institutions, political behavior, and policy actors—with a fully updated survey of four major groups (African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians) in the widely acclaimed Can We All Get Along? (Westview Press).


Award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Johnson’s (’76) Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion (Wiley & Sons)— described as a “forensic masterpiece” and a “must-read for history buffs”—details the last eighteen months of the Cold War-era fast-attack nuclear submarine, which disappeared with ninety-nine men on board in 1968.

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