Class Notes
     Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, ’76 was inaugurated as the second president of the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center and vice chancellor for health affairs for the Texas A&M University System in a ceremony at College Station Sept. 12. Before her appointment in January, Dickey served as interim dean of the College of Medicine from August 2000-December 2001, and has been on the faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the college since 1996. A board-certified family physician, Dickey is past president of the American Medical Association (1998-99). She helped create the National Patient Safety Foundation and served as its first board chair. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

     Dr. Michael Burgess, ’77, won the seat for the 26th Congressional District in Texas. He was sworn in as the Representative Jan. 7, 2003.

     Dr. Deborah H. Crumbaker, ’84, reports that she is a founding and senior partner of Brazos Valley Pathology, P.A., covering the Brazos Valley and Brenham, Texas. She married Mark Oldham on April 4, 1998, and has two grandchildren, Joshua, 10, and Heather, 8.

     In 1999, Dr. Tim Holder, ’87, was asked by his Rotary Club in Muskogee, Okla., to present ideas for an international grant project their group could undertake. He contacted Dr. Suzanne Snyder, ’87, who works with her family to serve the Maasai tribe in Kenya, Africa, to see if they would submit a proposal. Suzie oversees a group of eight rural clinics there and frequently hosts medical residents in an overseas elective rotation. In 2002, the project was completed as a generous grant of over $44,000 was provided through Rotary due to Tim’s efforts. “His persistence has paid off!,” Suzie writes. “He visited our mission site nine years ago during a short-term mission trip in which he and his wife worked at a Catholic hospital in Kitui for a month. They have been faithful and encouraging supporters of our efforts ever since.” These funds purchased a new Toyota Landcruiser ambulance and three Yamaha DT 175 motorcycles.

     Dr. Steven Holzman, ’88, reports that he and his wife Grace love living in Austin. Dr. Mike Phillips, ’88, delivered their second child, Edith, who joins big brother Arthur, 2. He says that he also sees former classmates Dr. Matt Rogers, ’88, and Dr. Wes Glazener, ’88 around town.

     Drs. Tim and Jennifer Heath, ’90, are the proud parents of twins, Karen and Andrew, who were born Feb. 28, 2002. The twins were born at just 26 weeks and spent 56 days in the neonatal intensive care unit but now are doing well, having increased their weight nearly 10-fold by their nine-month check-up. Ben, their big brother, turned 3 in January. Tim continues to do internal medicine, working at a hospital on the outskirts of Fort Worth. Jennifer is doing general adult psychiatry solely in an office setting. They would love to hear from their classmates – contact them at timjennifer@aol.com.

     Dr. Liza Leal, ’96, of Houston, was featured in a Prevention Magazine article about living with chronic pain.

     Dr. Mirelle Foster, ’98 and her husband Shane report the birth of their child, Savannah Foster, Jan. 22, 2002. “We are really having fun watching her grown and learn,” Mirelle reports. Mirelle recently completed a residency and is the medical director of a rehab unit at Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital in Kerrville, Texas. Shane is continuing to build homes and is building the family’s new home.

     Dr. Kristin Wilke Jung, ’98, is in a private pediatric practice in San Antonio, Texas. She recently married William Jung, II, and they have a new baby boy, Tyler, who was born Nov. 25, 2002.

     Dr. Gregory R. Johnson, ’99, and his wife, Shawn, announce the birth of their first child, Garrison Royce, on Sept. 30, 2002 in New Orleans. Gregory is completing his chief year at Ochsner Clinic Foundation Hospital in internal medicine and family practice and will join a hospitalist group in Tyler upon completion of his residency.

     Dr. Laura Ann Lingle, ’99, married Richard Frederick Whiteley Jan. 18, 2003 in Houston. She is currently in the last year of her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

     Dr. Kazim H. Mirza, resident ’02, is currently an attending physician at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Hospital

Lives Lived
     Dr. John E. Barnett Jr., ’90, died in an automobile accident in Birmingham, Ala. Sunday, November 24, 2002. He was board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology and joined Southwest Cardiac Associates in Mesquite, Texas in 1997 where practiced cardiology and cardiac intervention until his death. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Barnett, RN; three children, Kimberly, Derek, and Zachary; and his parents, Earlene and John E. Barnett, Sr.

     Dr. Thomas Dewitt Forner, ’85, of Tigard, Ore., died in Aug. 4, 2002. He was a volunteer with the Oregon Donor Program and was associated with Family Care Inc., in Portland. Survivors include his wife, Diane Pace Forner, and daughter, Robin Christa Forner.

     Dr. J. W. Baxter Jr., resident alumnus ’79, of Hope, Ark., died April 19, 2002.