Message from the Chair - Meredith Worthen, Ph.D.

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Message from the Chair
Hello, alumni and friends of the
OU Sociology Department:
I want to begin our newsletter this year
with a thank you to the many people who
made financial contributions to the Sociology Department. When I became department chair seven years ago, we had only
a small handful of contributors. By my
count, this past year we received contributions from 40 people. (See the list of these
donors in this newsletter.) I apologize if I
inadvertently left anyone
off the list. We are making
progress building our donor
base. Several of our donors
have taken the opportunity to have monthly donations charged to their credit
cards or deducted from
their bank accounts. This
way, they can make steady
contributions to the Sociology Department with hardly
a thought. At this point, we
have donors who are signed
up to donate as little as $10
and as much as $100 per
month. Please look for the
contribution form inside the
newsletter and lend your
support to the Sociology Department.
This leads me to a matter that is both
tragic and hopeful. On Sept. 14, Army
1st Lt. David T. Wright II (BA 2006, sociology/criminology) died while serving
his country in Afghanistan, the victim of
an improvised explosive device. He is
remembered in the department as a good
student and great young man. Our sympathy goes out to his family and friends.
To honor his memory, we have decided
to create the David T. Wright II Memorial
Scholarship. David was proud to be in the
military and planned eventually to pursue
a career in law enforcement. We hope
to award this scholarship to undergraduate sociology students who are military
veterans or active duty members of the
armed services; or who plan to pursue
careers in the military, law enforcement
or public service. If you would like to
direct your donation to this scholarship,
check the box on the contribution form
indicating this preference.
Please keep in mind that
we have many great students who can benefit from
your generosity. In these
difficult times, your financial support will be greatly
appreciated.
I hope you enjoy the rest
of the newsletter. You
will see that our faculty
received a bumper crop of
awards this year and our
students continue to do
many great things. Our
academic programs have
never been stronger, and
with the very talented
young members of the faculty our programs can only improve. We appreciate
your comments on the newsletter and
hope to hear from you. Stay in touch.
Professor and Chair
xcellence
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Teaching Awards
At the annual Faculty Tribute in April, the Sociology Department faculty was well-represented,
with three members of faculty winning major awards. (Pictured above from left: Akiko Yoshida, Kelly Damphousse, Jennifer Hackney and Trina Hope. Susan Sharp is pictured below).
Hope was the recipient of the $1,500 Good Teaching Award for outstanding teaching. Only two
such awards are made on the Norman campus each year.
Hackney received the $5,000 OU Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award, given to members
of the faculty who have made exceptional contributions to undergraduate teaching. Six such
awards were made to Norman campus faculty members this year.
Sharp was named an L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor. Presidential Professorships are
awarded to faculty members who have excelled in teaching, research and service and who
have made exceptional contributions to student mentoring. Presidential Professors receive a
cash award of $10,000 per year for four years and a lifetime title. Nine faculty members on the
Norman campus received a Presidential Professorship this year.
Damphousse was recognized as the winner of the President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentoring
Program Outstanding Mentor Award, and Akiko Yoshida was named the Outstanding Graduate
Student on the Norman campus by the Graduate Student Senate.
In addition, Sharp was named the 2009 Kinney-Sugg Outstanding Professor in the College of
Arts and Sciences. Sharp is recognized as a leading researcher in the field of women and
crime and is the author of many books and articles on the effects of female incarceration on
the children of women inmates and on the effects of the death penalty on the families of those
receiving the sentence.
Paul B. Bell Jr., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, surprised Sharp in her classroom with
the news that she was the recipient of the award, which comes with a cash prize of $5,000.
“Susan Sharp is a model professor who exemplifies the ideals of the Kinney-Sugg Award. She
is both a well-respected scholar in her field and a talented teacher who is praised by her students,” said Bell.
Sharp graduated Phi Kappa Phi from Texas Tech University with her master’s degree in sociology and received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas in 1996. That same year,
she joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma. She teaches classes at OU on women and
crime, criminology and the criminal justice system.
The Kinney-Sugg Outstanding Professor Award, established by OU alumna Sandy Kinney and
her husband, Mike Sugg, was first awarded in 2002 to help the college reward and retain outstanding professors. The OU College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest, largest and most diverse college at the university and provides 61 percent of course hours to the university student
body. Visit their Web site at www.ou.edu/cas.
Paul B. Bell Jr., dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, surprising Susan Sharp in
her classroom with the news
that she has won the KinneySugg Award.
“Susan Sharp is a model professor who exemplifies the
ideals of the Kinney Sugg
Award. She is both a wellrespected scholar in her field
and a talented teacher who
is praised by her students,”
said Bell.
Women benefit from scholarships
for single moms
June 9, 2009
By Julianna Parker Jones, Norman Transcript
Sociology Ph.D. student Yok Fong Paat (pictured, middle), along with three other students recently received the
newly created Empowerment of Spirit Award, a scholarship dedicated to single mothers furthering their educations, worth $2,000.
Paat and her fellow recipients originally had applied for another scholarship for single mothers, the $4,000 Betty
Baum and Norman Hirschfield Scholarships. However, there were too many applicants for three scholarships
and they didn’t receive one. But staff in the Women’s Studies Program, where the scholarship is administered,
wanted to give them something. “The women were outstanding candidates,” said Jill Irvine, director of Women’s
Studies.
So Women’s Studies faculty member Martha Skeeters asked Norman resident Cindy Merrick (owner of Therapy in
Motion physical therapy clinic), to consider funding $100 scholarships for the four women. She gave Merrick the
applications filled out by the four women, which included their personal stories. “I took them home and I sat at
my kitchen table reading them and I just cried,” Merrick said. She said she was impressed by their ability to move
beyond their past and commit fully to both their children and their education. “They had asked for $100, and I just
thought that wasn’t enough,” Merrick said. As she sat in her kitchen with this thought, she opened her mail. The
first piece she opened was an $8,000 check from the Internal Revenue Service. She said she immediately knew
that she didn’t need that money, but these women did. “I was a single mom,” Merrick said. “It’s tough. It’s tough
-- they have some extreme financial needs.”
Merrick also enlisted the help of her friend, Ally Richardson, to make the EOS scholarship a reality. The women
also chose the name, which in addition to being an acronym for Empowerment of Spirit, also represents Eos, the
goddess of the dawn that represents new beginnings. Richardson said it was the recipients of the scholarship that
really inspired its creation by their vulnerability expressed in their applications. “We were so moved by their stories and by the way they were able to move past their stories,” she said. As a result, she said, the women helped
to empower Richardson and Merrick by allowing them to do something to make a difference in their lives.
Despite the challenges posed by being a single mother, Paat said she decided to continue her education in which
she is pursuing a doctorate in sociology. “I wanted to continue to improve myself, and I wanted to set a good example for my son,” she said. Her own father did not complete high school because he needed to work to support
his family, Paat said. But she said he taught her the importance of a good education from an early age.
The scholarship will be awarded to more single mothers this coming year, depending on the number of applicants,
Irvine said. The Women’s Studies Program is looking for more people to donate to support the scholarship, but
Merrick and Richardson definitely have committed for the future. “We’re anxious to do this every year,” Merrick
said. She also said she wants to give others the opportunity to be empowered by giving to others.
Photo: Bob Taylor
Presidential Dream Courses
In the 2008-09 academic year the Sociology Department was fortunate to host two Presidential
Dream Courses out of the five total offered in the entire university. For Presidential Dream Courses, faculty
members propose to enhance an existing course by bringing prominent guest speakers to campus to speak
to students and to make public lectures or propose a new course that will focus on presentations by guest
speakers. Funding for Presidential Dream Courses includes up to $20,000 per course and is provided by the
President’s Associates donor program. Presidential Dream Courses provide an opportunity for students to be
instructed by and interact with some of the most influential figures in their fields.
Martin Piotrowski and Craig St. John received funding to turn Martin’s Population and Society course
into a Dream Course titled “Demographic Issues of the 21st Century.” The guest speakers for this course
were the prominent demographers Robert Hummer (mortality, University of Texas), Philip Morgan (fertility,
Duke University), Douglas Massey (immigration, Princeton University) and Angela O’Rand (population aging,
Duke University). Morgan is past president of the Population Association of America and former editor of the
journal Demography. Massey is past president of the Population Association of America, past president of the
American Sociological Association and current president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Hummer’s public lecture was titled “Religious Involvement and Adult Mortality Risk in the United States:
Evidence and Controversy.” Morgan spoke on “Is Low Fertility a 21st Century Demographic Crisis?” Massey’s
talk was on “Understanding America’s Immigration Crisis.” O’Rand’s public lecture was “Population Aging and
Global Risks.”
Ann Beutel and Susan Sharp, along with Aparna Mitra, Economics, were funded for a Dream Course
on “American Women and Men in the 21st Century.” The speakers for this course were Meda Chesney-Lind
(gender and crime, University of Hawaii at Manoa), Michael Messner (sports and masculinity, University of
Southern California), Paula England (gender inequality, Stanford University) and Barbara Bergmann (gender
and economics, University of Maryland and American University). Chesney-Lind’s public lecture was titled
“Bad Girls, Mean Girls or Just Girls: Facts and Myths about Girls’ Aggression and Violence.” Messner spoke on
“It’s All for the Kids: Gender, Families and Youth Sports.” England’s lecture was on “Gender Inequality: What’s
Changing? What’s Not?” Bergman’s talk was “The Decline of Marriage: Economic Consequences and What We
Can Do about Them.”
2009 Sociology Awards
Most Outstanding
Criminology Student
Royline Williams-Fontenelle
(pictured with Craig St. John
and her daughter, Jade)
Outstanding Criminology Students
From left: Craig St. John, Dakota Allison,
Mallory Scott, Christopher Barnett, Candace Smith,
Sidney Peck and Colin Rocket.
Not pictured: Jaclyn Pennington and Ronald Wallace.
Outstanding Research
From left: Craig St. John, Lauren Ballinger, Hoest Heap of
Birds, KeYonna Wynn, Jessica Currie and Valeri Edwards
Most Outstanding
General Sociology Student
Logan Lockhart
(not pictured)
Outstanding Sociology Students
From left: Craig St. John, Nicollette-Leigh Brandt,
Kendall Craft, Jessica Currie, Hoest Heap of Birds, Sarah
Smith, Jacob Rogiers, Elizabeth Wagner and Megan Sneed.
Not pictured: Ana Cathey-Parkhurst, Daniel Tippin and
Logan Lockhart.
Graduate Awards
From left: Mary Brooks (Wiles) - Masters level, and Loretta
Bass
Not pictured: Akiko Yoshida - Doctoral level
fa c u l t y
Jennifer Hackney spent nearly a month in Italy in June 2009 teaching
the course “La Dolce Vita? Contemporary Social Life in Italy.” The
course used sociological perspectives and methods to enhance
students’ study abroad experience by acquainting them with the lives
and culture of contemporary Italians.
The course was based in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, Italy, located
about an hour south of Florence by train. Arezzo is a beautiful town
on a very steep hill that has history dating back at least 2,500 years.
Arezzo has nearly 100,000 residents, but is similar to Norman
in its smaller town feel and love of festivals. During the course,
city officials from Arezzo and Norman met to cement a sister-city
relationship between Norman and Arezzo and the class was able to
witness the proceedings in the town hall of Arezzo.
While based in Arezzo, Jennifer and her class were able to take field
trips to Lucca, known for, among other things, its in-tact 16th century
city wall; Assisi, the home of St. Francis; and a working olive oil farm
and winery.
The highlight of the course was the Giostra del Saracino (Saracen Joust) of Arezzo. There are four neighborhoods, called
“quartiere,” in Arezzo and each has its own territory, colors, emblems, headquarters, etc. Students were given tours of
quartiere headquarters and museums. They also attended the pre-joust quartiere dinners; each outdoor dinner served a
multi-course meal to between 500-1500 quartiere members. Then, they attended the joust, in which the neighborhoods
compete through a jouster who attacks a dummy with a lance. Points are given according to where the jouster’s lance hits the
target held by the dummy. The Giostra and attendant activities helped students to understand the social bonds and divisions
that exist for contemporary Italians.
New Faculty
Connie Chapple, Ph.D.
Connie Chapple is a graduate of the University of Arizona with specialties in crime, race
and gender. Prior to coming to OU, she worked in the Sociology Department at the University of Nebraska and in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Cincinnati. Her
research examines the effects of early childhood experiences with family, peers and school
on adolescent delinquency. She also is interested in exploring gender differences in the
causes of delinquency. Chapple and her husband Jim have two girls, Willa and Tess. The
girls keep them busy but when they can find the time, they enjoy sailing and scuba diving.
Maria-Elena Diaz, Ph.D.
Maria-Elena Diaz grew up in the islands of Hawaii and Guam before earning a BA degree
from Brandeis University and an MA degree in Human Relations from OU. Most of her early
professional career was in education. In addition to being a higher education counselor, she
taught in junior colleges, high schools and a middle school, and chaired the Social Sciences
Department at Guam Community College. Her experiences from living in almost every region
of the United States fueled her passion for the study of race relations and social inequality.
Returning to school, Diaz earned MA and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of
Notre Dame. Her dissertation examined the influence of social integration and diversity on
the political participation of Asian Americans. Other research interests include theorizing
the interaction between stigma, social structure, and social change; examining the interaction of culture and power in
the process of domination; and studying structural factors that promote a global collective consciousness. In her free
time, Diaz enjoys spending time outdoors, visiting new places with her husband, and catching up with family and friends
scattered across the U.S. She also likes to relax with a good science-fiction/fantasy novel that models the possibilities of
“What if…?”
Meredith G. F. Worthen, Ph.D.
Meredith Worthen recently received her doctorate in sociology from The University of
Texas at Austin in 2009 and joined the OU’s faculty in the fall of 2009 as an assistant
professor of Sociology. Worthen’s main theoretical interests focus on the etiology of
adolescent deviant behavior with a critical examination of peer and romantic partner
influences. Utilizing a feminist framework, her research incorporates the intersections of
gender, race/ethnicity, sexualities and class. Her current projects include examinations of
race/ethnicity and body image dissatisfaction, romantic partner influences on adolescent
delinquency, friendship network composition and adolescent deviant behavior, adolescent
sexual identity formation and adolescent peer influences on sexual behavior.
The mission of the University of Oklahoma is to provide the best possible educational
experience for our students through excellence in teaching, research and creative activity,
and service to the state and society.
Sociology professor Kelly Damphousse’s capstone criminology class hold up signs displaying
statistics about criminals who are parents. Provided photo.
Criminology class video gives hope to children
Class looks to impact community by aiding children of
jailed parents.
LeighAnne Manwarren/The Daily
Thursday, April 23, 2009
After winning a state-wide competition, OU students are using their prize money to form a
program to impact the community.
The video produced by Professor Kelly Damphousse’s criminology capstone class was among
the five top-rated videos in the Social Innovation Challenge hosted by the University of Tulsa.
“We were fortunate to win the contest,” Damphousse said. “We hope to use the money to
provide programs at OU for children whose parents are incarcerated.”
The five top-rated videos each received a $1,000 award . Damphousse, associate dean for
the College of Arts and Sciences, said his class will use the prize money to sponsor a Sooner
Fun Day. “Participants were given a topic concerning the high incarceration rate of women
in Oklahoma and were challenged to come up with an idea of how to help the community,”
said Susan Sharp, sociology professor and competition judge. Sharp said judges were asked to
look at the potential impact each video would have on the community, the creativity of how
they presented the material and whether it could be replicated. “Looking at Dr. Damphousse’s class video, I thought it was very powerful; it covered all the important aspects of
the issue in a very powerful manner and they came up with a plan in place and a way to
continue it,” Sharp said.
Breanna Dowell, criminology senior, said their goal for the program at OU is to bring attention to legislators about the “incredibly” high rates of female incarceration in the state,
the impact it has on children and encourage these children to attend college. “Through the
Big Brother Big Sister program, we hope to be able to contact children whose parents are
in prison and invite them to OU for a Sooner Fun Day, where the kids can meet some OU
athletes and coaches and learn more about the university,” Dowell said.
The program will be run through OU’s Criminology-Sociology Club and members plan
to create further fundraisers so Sooner Fun Day will continue in the future. “We all really
believe in this program. Dr. Damphousse has even said should the program funding dip below
what it should, he would pay out of his own pocket to keep it going,” she said.
Dowell said she hopes through Sooner Fun Day, the program will be able to demonstrate to
children they are capable of attending and ultimately graduating from college. “I am a student
with a parent in jail so I know how difficult it is,” Dowell said. “We want to show them that it
is possible to go to college and graduate and break the cycle they are in.”
To view the prize-winning video, log on to: http://www.youtube.com/user/StudioBlueTU
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Criminology-Sociology Club Tour Spring 2009
The Criminology-Sociology Club’s annual tour was to the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City
and Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft, Okla. Nearly 40 students participated in the tour which took
place on April 24. The Federal Transfer Center is an important element of the American federal correctional
initiative since all prisoners who enter the system first go the center, are evaluated and then assigned to one
of America’s federal penitentiaries. A highlight of the tour was the talk and question and answer session
that came at the conclusion of touring the facility. Jeff Butler, unit manager at the facility, spoke in detail
about the history of the FTC, types of inmates who pass through it, and he encouraged students to consider
careers in federal corrections. After visiting the FTC, the students then went to Taft, Okla. to visit the Eddie
Warrior facility, which is a state prison for women. This part of the tour included an extensive look at the entire prison, with the tour being conducted by several inmates and the chief of security. Although Eddie Warrior is classified as a minimum security facility, it houses serious offenders and includes barbed wire fences.
After the tour of the grounds, the students were addressed by six inmates who had received sentences for
drug offenses and violent crimes. Most of these inmates were mothers and were serving anywhere from five
to 20 years for committing their crimes. Bob Franzese, faculty sponsor of the Criminology-Sociology Club,
and OU sociology graduate and current bail bondsman Tom Trepagnier organized the trip.
Royline Williams-Fontenelle was born and raised on the
beautiful island of St. Lucia, famous for its natural beauty and French
Creole heritage. There, she attended Catholic-run primary and secondary schools where students were ranked not only by class work but
behavior, dress, extracurricular and sports activities as well.
After successfully completing her secondary education and graduating with distinctions, Williams-Fontenelle went on to attend Sir Arthur
Lewis Community College, from which she graduated with A levels in
biology, Spanish and sociology in 1999. After college she worked as a
secondary science teacher for two years. In 2002, she moved with her
husband and daughter to the United States, hoping to continue her science studies. But she
had to postpone her education for three years while she worked and cared for her family. In
2005, she started her academic career at OU as a biochemistry major and worked diligently at
this degree for two years. However, after her first experience with racism she decided her immediate interests were in sociology. Royline won the Most Outstanding Criminology Student
Award for 2008-2009. She began working on her MA degree in the Sociology Department
this fall.
Susan Ambler received her BA in sociology from OU in 1969.
She then went to the Ohio State University where she earned
an Masters degree in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1975. Her interests
at Ohio State were research methods, urban sociology, and demography. After finishing graduate school, Ambler and her husband Bob (also an OU graduate) moved to Tennessee where Bob
took a faculty position at the University of Tennessee in speech
communication and she began a three-year stint working for
an urban planning agency. (Then, after working at CarsonNewman College, for a women’s organization in the mountains
and at Knoxville College,) Ambler has settled into a position
at Maryville College, where she now has taught for 19 years.
At Maryville College she has pursued an interest in Appalachian Culture and she teaches courses on
research methods, population and social problems. Ambler has incorporated service learning and community based research projects into her teaching. These projects have led her to work with people in
community organizations where she co-founded, with grassroots community leaders and several other
academics in small liberal arts colleges in Appalachia, an organization called Just Connections (see
www.justconnections.info). This kind of work has led her in a nontraditional path that de-emphasizes
publishing research in a specialized area to focusing on the needs of community people for research
on which to base their social change work. Because of this work, Ambler was invited to serve on the
American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Public Sociology, which tried to influence the discipline to define this type of work as just as legitimate as the traditional view of a sociologist.
students
Hoest Heap of Birds received his BA in Sociology from OU in May
2009. He grew up in Oklahoma City and is a member of the CheyenneArapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Throughout his undergraduate studies, Heap
of Birds worked at the Oklahoma City airport and as a senior he had the
opportunity to serve as an undergraduate teaching assistant. While at OU he
was a Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Scholar. His paper
“Cultural Identity and Cultural Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of Young
Native American Men in Urban Areas” examined cultural identity through indepth interviews and found three distinct identity types in the urban context.
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program provided travel funding
for data collection and his paper won the Roland Lehr Phi Beta Kappa Award
for Distinguished Undergraduate Research. Heap of Birds also has presented
at several McNair research conferences and received the Outstanding Sociology Student and Outstanding Research awards for the 2008-2009 academic year.
This past summer, Heap of Birds was awarded a research fellowship by the National Science Foundation and the Graduate School at the University of Southern California. In August he attended
the American Sociological Association’s annual conference in San Francisco as a participant in the
Honors Program where he presented his McNair research. This fall Heap of Birds began graduate
study in sociology at the University of Southern California. He is the recipient of the university’s
most prestigious award, the Provost’s Doctoral Fellowship. Heap of Birds plans to continue his research on urban Native American issues while he is in graduate school in Los Angeles.
Sonya Conner joined the Sociology Department in 2006 as a
Master’s student after receiving her B.S. in criminal justice from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, located in her hometown. Upon completion of her Master’s degree, she began her Ph.D. studies and expects
to receive her degree in 2011. While completing her coursework,
Conner worked as a research assistant to Susan Sharp for the “Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children” project and Loretta Bass for the
“Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Demographic Study”. As she heads
into the dissertation stage of her program, mentored by Ann Beutel,
Sonya will combine her interests of stratification and family by examining the intersection of race, class, motherhood, and child/adolescent
well-being. Her research will explore the process through which social location affects mothers’
socialization of children in ways that impact children’s developmental outcomes and social mobility. Sonya has identified ideal data sets for carrying out her dissertation research and earlier
this year submitted proposals for competitive-entry data user workshops for two of them. She
was selected to participate in both, and this past summer received training on the NICHD Study
of Early Child Care and Youth Development and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
Child/Young Adult.
Conner has been among the department’s most active students, serving a year on the Graduate
Student Senate, providing mentorship to her peers, presenting her research at conferences, and just
this past August, presiding over a roundtable for the Children and Youth section of ASA. Additionally, she has received the Ronald E. McNair fellowship and OU Women and Gender Studies’ Baum
and Hirschfield award, and won first place for the poster presentation of her master’s thesis in
OU’s Research Day Poster Competition.
While she and her seven-year-old daughter, Nadia, miss the crawfish, gumbo and Zydeco music
from back home, Conner admits that they have discovered great authentic food at places like
Logan Lockhart hails from the great state of Texas. As a
graduate of Plano West Senior High School and native Dallas-ite, she
bravely ventured into Sooner territory in the fall of 2005. Over the
course of her four years at OU, she was notably involved in her sorority,
Gamma Phi Beta, as well as a variety of other campus activities including High School Leadership Conference, Big Event and Big Red Rally.
In May 2009, she culminated her college experience by obtaining a
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Some of her most cherished accomplishments include membership in Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, an award
for Most Outstanding General Sociology Student, and a 3.97 overall
grade point average. In addition, she was a finalist for the Carl Albert
award, presented each year to the outstanding senior in the OU College of Arts and Science. Currently, Lockhart is pursuing a Master of Arts in Community Counseling
from OU. After she completes her Master’s program, she hopes to pursue a career in either school
counseling or adolescent psychology. As of June 2009, Lockhart has become emotionally involved
with her HD TV and DVR. While she often feels that her on-going relationship with pre-recorded
television serves as an engaging distraction from her studies, she is certain that the two will eventually be required to part ways to foster academic productivity.
These folks have:
Dr. Susan Ambler
Mr. Ted B. Baer
Ms. Nancy A. Bates
Ms. Betsy A. Blakeman
Ms. Mistele Griffith Bloom
Dr. Thomas J. Burns
Ms. Angela D. Bush
Dr. Herbert L. Costner
Dr. Kelly R. Damphousse
Dr. M. Elizabeth Darrough
Ms. Angela R. Efurd
Dr. Miyuki Fukushima
Mr. Heath S. Gadient
Mr. Roger D. Hair
Ms. Rochelle J. Hines
Mr. Joseph Howell
Mr. Allan H. Keown
Dr. Danell Q. Landes
Mr. Ryan K. McComber
Ms. Patti S. Mullen
Dr. Sheila Taylor Myers
Rev. Donna L. Newendorp
Ms. Juanita Ortiz
Dr. Irene K. Park
Mrs. Carolyn B. Parrish
Ms. Devrie D. Peoples
Ms. Monica H. Peters
Mrs. Andrea M. Pixley
Ms. Nancy E. Porter
Ms. Tamara S. Ramirez
Ms. Lisa R. Riggs
Ms. Melanie F. Scott-Erskine
Mrs. Cindi L. Smith
Dr. Nancy Sonleitner
Dr. Craig St. John
Dr. Hallie E. Stephens
Mr. Bob Thompson
Ms. Nancy A. Thompson
Mr. Seth M. Urbanski
Paul D. Watkins, DDS
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