Range Rider

RANGE RIDER | FALL-WINTER 2017 49 Evelyn Mae, daughter of Braegan & Barrett Abernethy ’07BA , 9/6/2016. Livingston AL; pastorbda@gmail.com . Connor Scott, son of Colton & Brittany (Brazell) Adair ’10BA , 4/14/2017. Fort Worth; brittanybrazell10@gmail.com . Graham David, son of Reed (HSU Em- ployee) & Betsy (Morris) Ambrose ’09BS , 4/6/2017. Abilene; morr4328@hsutx.edu . Eli Ariem, son of Josh & Melissa (Ellis) Berlanga ’10BM , 4/11/2017. Abilene; ber- langa_87@yahoo.com . Blake Ivy and Ellis Gray, twin daughters of Grayson ’14BA & Marla (Macnoll) Bunnell ’13BSN , 5/22/2017. Abilene; macn9003@ hsutx.edu . Greyson Samuel, son of Randy & Brandy Chalmers ’14BS/’16M , 3/27/2017. Abilene; brandy.l.chalmers@hsutx.edu. Colson Luke, son of John ’04BS & Melissa (Henley) Contrucci ’06BS , 5/10/2017. Brownwood; melissa.contrucci@att.net. 1 Walt and Whitney, twins of Alexander “Alex” ’10BA & Jesse (Turner) Coulter ’10BA/’11M , 1/14/2016. Round Rock; jessercoulter@gmail.com . Ayden, son of Kyle & Ashley (Fenwick) Dillard ’15BA , 3/31/2017. Abilene; Ashley. Dillard@hsutx.edu. Owen Daniel, son of Jordan “Lee” ’08BA & Stephanie (Welch) Goolsbee ’09BA , 4/7/2017. Round Rock; stephanie.goolsbee@ gmail.com. Lillian June Gordon, daughter of Chris ’06BBS & Ashley (Rahrig) Gordon ’06BA , 7/21/2017. Richardson; agord0818@yahoo.com . Saylem Faith, daughter of Link ’01BBS/’03M and Holly (Thomas) Harris ’04BBS , 4/6/17. Abilene. Cecelia Jane, daughter of Joel “Walker” ’12BS & Kate (Spencer) Lyle ’12BA , 3/18/2017. Proud grandparents include Dr. Ken & Anita Lyle, HSU employees. Austin; Purity85@yahoo.com . Erik Jordan, son of Daniel & Briana (Isaac) Melius ’12BM , 3/24/2017; brianamelius@gmail.com. Adriana Kay, daughter of Jordan ’05BS & Amanda (Eichhorst) Neal ’07BS/’10M , 5/22/2017. Greenbrier, AR; jordanamanda- neal@gmail.com. Jordan Thomas Nixon, son of Dr. Elizabeth (Evans) Nixon ’06BA , 12/27/2016. Harker Heights. Lydia Jo, daughter of Kevin ’15D & Audrey (Salter) Prater ’13BS , 1/24/2017. Abilene; Salt6417@hsutx.edu . 2 Greyson Kim Revell, son of Sam Revell ’12BA and Callie (Rankin) Revell ’12BA , 6/16/2017. Grandparents include Rob Rankin ‘99M , Julie Rankin, and Ron Revell. Great-Grandparents are retired HSU professor Taylor Rankin and his wife, Elizabeth. Dallas; Callie.Revell@gmail.com Matthew Oren, son of Thomas & Katy (Wil- liams) Roberts ’12BS , 3/24/2017. Abilene, TX; katy89williams@gmail.com . Jude Watson, son of Mark & Erin (Stephens) Sakai ’12M , 3/2/2017. Abilene; nicholerin@ gmail.com. Waylon Jameson, son of Troy Tarrant ’12BA , 6/18/2017. San Angelo; tarr7399@hsutx.edu . Samuel Manning Thomas was born to Jen- nifer and Blake Thomas ’06BBA on April 21, 2017 in Dallas. FAMILY Welcome to the 1 2 ALUMNI Mr. William “Alex” Thomas ’13BBA , is now an Assistant Vice President at First Financial Bank in Abilene; thom4041@hsutx.edu . Mrs. Kacy (Bartlett) Uechi ’14BBA/’16MBA , is now an Assistant Vice President at First Financial Bank in Abilene; kacy.bartlett@icloud.com. Mr. John Dodge ’15BS , is the recipient of the 2016 Texas Rural Health Association (TRHA) Rural Health Student Award. He received the award at the TRHA Conference this in Austin; john4packers@live.com. Mrs. Leah (Wade) Morales ’15BBS , married Joshua “Josh” Morales ’14BBA/’15M , in September 2016. Pleasanton; Leahdelaine@yahoo.com. Ms. Jenny Ordway ’15BBS , received teacher of the year award at Sweetwater Intermediate School where she teaches fifth grade Reading and English as a Second Language; Jenny.L.Ordway@hsutx.edu. Ms. Lindsey Rawlins ’15BBS , started working for Houston Methodist Hospital September 2016 and just recently moved to a position where she is one of the Assistant Athletic Trainers at Alvin High School; Lindseyjrawlins@aol.com. Ms. Brooke Massey ’16BFA , recently moved to Durant, OK and is currently pursuing her career in Graphic Design. She took a position with First United Bank as the Assistant Graphic Communications Manager. She has been there less than a year and is already loving her job and learns new things every day; brookema@sbcglobal.net . Ms. McKynna Cocanougher ’17BBS , was named to the Dallas Stars Ice Girls dance team for the National Hockey League. She was an HSU Spur for four years under directors Amanda (Perez) Etter ’05BA and Bailey (Jarvis) Leroux ’14BBS. She was a co-captain of the Spurs her junior and senior years; janacocanougher@gmail.com . Mrs. Whitney (Collins) Jones ’17BA , married Caleb Jones on June 17, 2017 in Abilene. They moved to Midland where she is attending Physical Therapist Assistant school; collinswhit14@yahoo.com. Mr. Daymon Nicholas ’17BBS , is moving to Cambodia to teach English to the poor; daymon1959@gmail.com . 10 Ms. Katie Culpepper ’12 BBA and Mr. Justin Sizemore ’13BBS/’17MBA were married November 11, 2017. katiemc5@att.net Ms. Alice “Megan” Miller ’12BBS , was engaged to her fiancé, Mike on June 10, 2017. The wedding will be February 3, 2018. They are both members of Watermark Community Church in Dallas and look forward to creating a covenant before the Lord and their friends and family in the near future; Alicemeganmiller@gmail.com . 10