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Brownsville Herald and
El Nuevo Heraldo and
director of Spanish
publications for
Freedom Commun-
ications Inc. He is
working with publishers
and editors to improve
coverage of Hispanic
communities for the
company's Spanish- and
English-language publi-
cations. He has been
publisher in Browns-
ville since 1998 and has
been instrumental in
the launch of several
Spanish-language pub-
lications.
Bill Robinson,
Raleigh, N.C., is collect-
ing photos from friends
at North Texas to post
on his web site at
billrobinsonmusic.com.He is working on a
doctorate in physics at
North Carolina State
University.
Lora-Marie
Bernard, Texas City, has
accepted a position as
community and com-
munications officer for
the La Marque ISD. She
was previously the sen-
ior reporter for the
Texas City Sun.
Rusty Reid, Fort
Worth, president and
chief executive officer
of Higginbotham &
Associates, was named
one of the "25 Most
Innovative Agents in
America" by the
National Alliance forInsurance Education &
Research and Rough
Notes Magazine. The
award is given to the
nation's top independ-
ent agents and brokers.
Amy Kyper
Smith, Alexandria, Va.,
an associate professor at
the George Washington
University School of
Business, received a
Fulbright Scholar grant
to lecture in Fall 2004
at the Southwest
University of Finance
and Economics in
Chendgu, Sichuan
Province, People's
Republic of China.
This spring she is a
visiting research fellow
at the University ofQueensland in
Brisbane, Australia.
Robert J.
Frank (M.M., '95
D.M.A.), Dallas, profes-
sor of composition at
Southern Methodist
University, was a win-
ner in the third annual
national fanfare search
conducted by the Dallas
Wind Symphony. His
fanfare "Lucky Stars"
was one of eight selected
and was performed by
Dallas Wind Symphony
musicians Oct. 12. He is
vice president of the
Texas Computer
Musicians Network and
spent a year on the
UNT faculty.Poet laureate
LEATUS RATTAN ('65, '69 M.ED.), WHO
was named Texas Poet Laureate for
2004, is facing
a degree of
success to
which he's
somewhat
unaccustomed.
"My most
recent book
has sold well
_ for poetry and
though I never
expected to
have an audi-
ence, I have a
small one now.
That is fun,
but it is not
necessary," he
says. "I am oneof those 'blockheads' who writes for some-
thing other than money."
Rattan, who for 30 years worked as a pro-
fessor at Cisco Community College, was
raised on a ranch in Irving. His father felt
the ranching lifestyle would "do him good."
"He took me out of a private school in
Dallas and moved us to the then-little town
of Irving," he says.
"The ranch life was something that I
wanted to avoid as soon as I could, but I
found after my college years and after my
time in the Marine Corps that I wanted to
return to it."
Rattan, who graduated from North Texas
with his bachelor's in psychology and his
master's in education, was used to sending
out scores of poems to literary publications
and receiving rejection letters in return.
With his published works Free of the Flesh
and 130 miles to Dallas, Rattan had not yet
gained widespread exposure.
But last year, on the day before Easter, he
received a letter informing him he was the32 The North Texan
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