McMurry Physics Alumni
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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.
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 |
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| 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...
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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