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Note to Alumni: Our students would like to know what they might do with a physics degree from McMurry. Please let us know what types of jobs you have had. You might also consider contributing to the education of current students via the Science and Math Advisory Board

Note to Others: The graduates with email links have agreed to offer advice and opinions regarding life-after-McMurry. Alumni and current students are sorted by extracurricular interests on another page.

Please also see our Student Page for the Alumni-to-be.


Sorted alphabetically by year of Graduation

 
Name: Grad
Date
Post-McM Adventures: latest
update
Dustin Brown 5/08 Electrical Engineering Tech 1 for CoServ Electric in Corinth, Tx 9/9/08
Kendra McBride 5/08 Texas Tech University, Civil Engineering 9/9/08
Tyler McCracken 5/08 New Mexico Tech University Graduate School in Astrophysics 9/9/08
Aaron Ramos 5/08 5/08
Rusty Stogsdill 5/08 5/08
Geoff Colburn 12/07 2/08
Karen Brown 5/07 8/07
Chris Cumby 5/07 Texas Tech University Graduate School in Mechanical Engineering 9/07
Adam Davidson 5/07 Texas Tech University Graduate School in Engineering 9/07
John Garza 5/07 US Navy (teaching) 9/07
Joseph Glover 5/07 8/07
Kirk McGinty 5/07 Houston? 9/07
James Walsh 5/07 Perdue University Graduate school in physics 9/07
Michael Foret 5/06 Air Force, Scott AFB, IL 6/06
Chad Mikulec 5/06 Texas Tech University Graduate School in Civil Engineering 5/06
Tim Renner 5/06 Baylor University Graduate school in physics 5/06
Bonnie Schneider 5/06 Has two job offers... 7/06
Jed Taylor 5/06 Texas Tech University Graduate School in Civil Engineering 9/20/07
Tony Williams 5/05 Texas Tech Physics Graduate School 5/05
Ryan Henderson 5/04 Texas Tech Physics Graduate School 5/05
Steve Slampa 5/03* Process Engineer, Thin Film Metrology Intel Corp., Qiryat Gat, Israel until summer 2010.
[MS TTU]
9/9/08
Carlton Thomas 12/02 Working in Dallas 4/06
Dennis Conner 5/02  Physics Graduate Program at University of Arizona, Tucson 1/26/04
Weldon Bailey 5/01  Software Developer for Innovative Signal Analysis
[MS Rice Univ]
** Alumni-Lecture 11/11/05 **
11/05
Randall Hollas 5/01  High School Teacher (has done science and math) and Coach 7/5/02
Jill Bowden 12/00  Medical Claims Rep Progressive Insurance Co, Abilene, TX
** Alumni-Lecture 11/2/04 **
11/2/04
Jason Mosley 5/99  Intership at AMD through Texas Tech Graduate Program 12/5/01
Clayton Stevenson 5/99  Clay is working in the DLP group at Texas Instruments.
[MS in Semiconductor Products Engineering from TTU]
9/2/02
Court Allen Arning 12/98  Court works for Texas Instruments. [MS in Semiconductor Products Engineering from TTU]
** Alumni-Lecture 12/7/01 **
12/7/01
Brian Lee Maddox 5/98  3/2 program transfer (5/1994)
Graduated via Tex Tech (5/1998)
3/14/00
Mario Pavlovic 5/97  Mario works for Boeing in the antennae division.
[MS in EE from Kansas]
3/9/01
David Grider
1975
Works on SiC Power Device technology at Cree, Inc. [Ph.D]
3/06
Tom Helm
1973
Senior Process Engineer for JSI-Microelectronics, a subcontracter to DMEA.
12/05
Adrian (A.K.) King
1972
Passed away

David Hammond
1972
Medical Physicist, Edwards Cancer Center
** Alumni-Lecture 2/25/05 **
** Tour Host (Moncrief Cancer Center) 4/05 **
9/05
Glenn Light
1972
Southwest Research Institute
** Alumni-Lecture 9/24/04 **
8/19/04
Dick Richardson
1971
Senior Staff Aeronautical Engineer, F-16 Flight Test Modifications, Flight Test Engineering Operations, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Ft Worth TX
** Tour Host (Lockheed-Martin) 3/06 **
3/06
Larry Conlee
1971
Chief Operating Officer of Engineering and Manufacturing at Research in Motion 7/06
Flavio Veiga
1970
Presidente do Circulo Dos Profissionais De Vandas and Sales and Marketing VP for Profiles Basil, the Portuguese version of Profiles International, Inc.
** Visited for lunch in Sep '05. **
9/05
Bill LeBus
1967
EBAY Obi-Wan Kenobi
2004
Roger Ward
1967
Retired President of Quartzdyne, Inc.
** Alumni-Lecture 10/13/05 **
10/05
Canon Bradley
1962


Jerald Lee
1961
Retired from DuPont - Engineering Physics Group
[Ph.D. Ohio University]

semi-annual email contact
Charles Curb
1960
Owner/Operator Paradise Regain'd Antiques; Writer; Speaker
** Alumni-Lecture 4/1/05 **
4/05
Girvin Harkins
1960
Retired from Hewlett-Packard, McMurry Trustee
[Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1964]

McMurry Distiguished Alumnus
9/07



Graduates we haven't heard from...
1983
Richard Ronald Nason
1977
Kerry Hibbits
1976
Danny Reynolds
1974
David Cooke, Robert Polvado
1973
John Cole , James Pinson
1972
Lynn Caton, Melvin Griffin
1971
Rodney Heathcott
1970
Dick Ang, William Goosby, James Stevens
1968
David Miller
1967
Tommy Cook
1966
Truett Austin
1965
Charles N. Adams, Jerry Ivey, Richard Sherrill
1964
Tom Howle, Gerald Montgomery
1963
Jerry Leach, Kelley Scott, Bobby Seago
1962
Charles A. Adams
1961
James Dennis, Levere Wilson
1960
Jack Barnes, Van E. Neie, Gerald Smith, David Neil Warner Jr.




Recent Graduates with a Minor in Physics
Dean Webber 5/06 Teaching Music(?) 9/07
Timothy Rackler 5/04 Naval boot camp - technical training on submarines 1/12/05
Thomas Grimstad 5/05 Teaches high school physics at Birdville High School in North Richland Hills, TX 8/06
Jacob Taylor 5/02 Teaching High School Math and Physics in Virginia 7/06
Kirk McVey 5/99 Developmental Math Tutor, College of the Mainland 1/18/05
Sarah (Martin) Meyer 5/98 Works on mathematical modelling of engineering problems at Applied Research Associates 12/18/02
Shelley Wells 5/96 Instructor for Mission Management Operators for the Space Based Infrared Satellite program, a missile defense project at Lockheed Martin 7/25/05

Please email Dr. Keith with news and updates of your success. 


 
Graduate Fellowships
IBM offers a Fellowship for PhD students




Updates:
9/9/08 various updates WK.
5/16/08 Add Spring 2008 grads WK.
2/18/08 Add December 2007 grad WK.
9/20/07 Update from Jed Taylor WK.
9/14/07 Updates to various individuals WK.
8/28/07 Add 2007 grads WK.
8/17/07 Update format WK.
6/13/05: Updated D.R., F.V., T.W. by JC.
11/12/04: Updated A.K., T.H.
5/16/03: Updated post-graduation
5/11/02 Added May Graduates 
2/25/02 Added SMAB link 
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Created: 3/14/00 Page overhauled by Joseph Christensen. 
 

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