Alumni

2015-2016 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

2016 Distinguished Alumni Award Honorees

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Scott Emerson ('75)

Founder and CEO of the Emerson Group, a sales management company with partners in Europe, Asia, and North and South America and an active supporter of a multitude of nonprofit, charitable, and educational organizations including Children’s Miracle Network

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Ron Lynn Mitchell ('72)

Vice chairman/president and CEO of the Horseshoe Bay Resort, an internationally recognized destination; volunteer endeavors includes co-founding CASA of Burnet County (now CASA of the Highland Lakes Area), which serves abused and neglected children

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Ernie W. Sadau ('85)

President and CEO of CHRISTUS Health, overseeing the second- largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas, including more than 50 hospitals and other care facilities across three states, providing more than $250,000,000 in community benefits to the markets they serve

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Diana McGinty Schick ('71)

Internationally renowned Christian author, speaker and outreach advocate; founder of Creative Living International, a nonprofit organization through which she’s authored, published and distributed 25 “user- friendly” Bible study books, with translations into nine languages

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Jim West ('77)

President of Jet Maintenance, Inc., Capital Star Oil and Gas, AW Trucking, and Modelo Energy, a prolific community volunteer in his hometown of Victoria, Texas, and founder of the Jim West Challenge collegiate golf tournament at Texas State

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Marvin Whiteley ('97)

Director of the John R. LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease at the University of Texas; research has been recognized with multiple awards, including being selected as a Burroughs Wellcome Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

2015 Distinguished Alumni Award Honorees

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Susan Angell-Gonzalez ('80)

Choreographer, director, entrepreneur, and first member of the Strutters Hall of Fame; recipient of the Texas Dance Educators Association Hall of Fame Award, and the Texas Dance Educators Association Lifetime Achievement Award

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Mary Rose Brown ('79)

Executive vice president and chief administrative officer for NuStar Energy L.P.; recipient of the Silver Anvil Award; inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame

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Ambassador Oliver Del Cid ('95)

Appointed Belize’s ambassador to Mexico in 2011 and non-resident high commissioner to Jamaica in 2014; continues to promote bilateral relations and tourism, trade, and investment across the Americas

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Beth Guastella ('84)

After one year as president and COO of upscale baby product retailer, giggle, Inc., rose to chief executive officer, building on 30 years as a leader for international brands like Stuart Weitzman, Kate Spade New York, and Hermes

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Rod C. Kellar, Jr. ('81)

President of Segway, Inc., highly regarded in the technology industry for his innovative leadership; received the prestigious Technology Marketer of the Year Award in 2003 from Technology Marketing magazine

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The Honorable Nelva Gonzales Ramos ('87)

Appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a judge in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, where she presides over civil and criminal cases in the Corpus Christi division; former state district court judge in Nueces County

*Deceased