12.12.22
Class Notes
CLASS NOTES
Comings, goings, appointments, retirements, honors, accolades and other notable Wichita State University alumni news. Former Wichita State students are designated by fs. Honorary alumni are noted as hn.
Featured 2-27-2022
JUNETTA M. (FRENCH) EVERETT ’79, DEN HYG, has been selected as the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2023 Uncommon Citizen. Established in 1974, the award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to civic and cultural organizations in Wichita. Everett, a registered dental hygienist who recently retired as vice president of professional relations at Delta Dental of Kansas, is active on many community, nonprofit and corporate fronts. In 2021, for example, she co-founded The Gathering, a networking group for Black business professionals in Wichita. She is an independent director at Equity Bancshares and serves on numerous boards of directors, including that of the Kansas Health Foundation. In 2020, she became the first African American to serve as board chair of the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce. She has also stayed connected to her alma mater, where she has been recognized as a distinguished alumna and is involved with a wide-ranging array of programs, projects and organizations, including serving on the WSUFAE’s National Advisory Council. Everett lives in Wichita.
V. KAYE MONK-MORGAN ’93, CHEM/BUS, ’96 M PUB ADM, ’21 PHD ED LDR, has been named president and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center (KLC), effective March 6, 2023. The announcement on Feb. 23 comes just 10 months after Monk-Morgan joined the organization as chief impact officer. The KLC is a non-profit organization with the goal of “fostering leadership for stronger, healthier and more prosperous Kansas communities.” Established in 2007, the center is based in Wichita. Monk-Morgan took up this position after 30 years at Wichita State, where she was a university administrator, educator and advocate for students, especially first-generation students. With her portfolio of responsibilities at WSU ranging from community engagement and strategic planning, to assessment and accreditation, she most recently served as vice president for Strategic Engagement and Planning. During her 20 years as director of WSU’s TRIO Upward Bound Math Science Center, she guided, encouraged, coaxed, admonished and perhaps even hounded from time to time hundreds of students on their paths to obtaining degrees from Wichita State. She has served on numerous non-profit (including the WSUAA) and corporate boards at the local, state, regional and national levels, notably serving as the board chair for the Council for Opportunity in Education, a Washington, D.C.-based college access and success professional association and advocacy group. A Gore scholar as a student at Wichita State and the 2017 WSU Laura Cross Distinguished Service Award honoree, she resides in Wichita.
MEGAN J. HUEY ’20, M PA, is an emergency medicine physician assistant with Smith County Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital with an attached rural health clinic located in Smith Center, Kan.
JADE L. MURSCH ’20, INT MKG, is a social media coordinator for Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers. A first-generation student, she worked in Wichita State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion as a student. She resides in Wichita.
MEGHAN R. CARVER ’19, COMM INTG MKT, formerly communications specialist at the Greater Wichita Partnership, is program officer in Wichita for Lead for America, a national service program that works to foster the next generation of U.S. Leaders. She resides in Wichita.
M. TYLER LEVESQUE ’18, M SP MGT, is a brand marketing associate analyst for PepsiCo. Prior to taking this position in March 2022, he was assistant director of club sports and Esports at Northeastern University in Boston, where he assisted with the development and administration of Northeastern’s Club Sports program, which supports 64 club sport teams and more than 2,000 student-athletes. From January 2019 to December 2019, Levesque served as the coordinator of Esports at Wichita State, where he worked with top university officials to secure funding and set up a WSU varsity Esports program that would focus on competition, human performance, analytics, media, mental health, and professional development.
JORDAN GILBERT ’17, M E MGT, a project management professional formerly with Textron Aviation, where he worked as a sales engineer in technical marketing, has served since June 2020 as a senior project engineer, an engineering specialist, and now as an avionics manager at Bell Flight. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas.
TYLER R. LAUDICK ’17, BIO SCI, a biomedical engineering student at Wichita State, is a law clerk to a U.S. federal judge in Wichita. Experienced in intellectual property, antitrust and other areas of civil litigation, Laudick is a graduate of Washburn University School of Law and author of “Patently Confusing: Refining a Test for Patentable Subject Matter and Its Implications towards Biotechnology.” He lives in Wichita.
KYLE M. PALMER ’17, M HIST, is the historic preservation manager at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Ark. A graduate teaching assistant at Wichita State while working on his master’s degree, Palmer has worked as an intern for the City Historic Preservation Office in Wichita and as a resource management interpreter for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at Roaring River State Park. He is also the proprietor of NWA Window Restoration, which serves the greater Fayetteville, Ark., area.
CARLY PENNOCK ’17, MUS ED, is a User Experience (UX) engineer at BASYS Processing, Lenexa, Kan., where she began her employment with the financial institution in January 2021 as a deployment specialist. While at Wichita State, she made the Dean’s List Honor Roll and was a member of the Madrigal Singers and the Concert Chorale. She lives in Shawnee, Kan.
KHOA V. TRAN ’17, MATH, ’18 MECH E, ’22 E MGT, is a system project management engineer at Collins Aerospace | Raytheon Technologies Corp., Wichita. In May 2022, he graduated from Wichita State with a master’s degree in engineering management, as well as two post-graduate certifications in supply chain management and in system engineering management. His work experience includes stints in flight test engineering and structural design engineering at Bombardier; in project management engineering at Parker Hannifin in Fort Worth; and in tools design engineering at Boeing in Seattle.
SARAH M. BONDAREV ’16, ACCT, is a senior financial analyst for sensors and data services at Frontier Technology. In 2021, Bondarev earned an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She lives in Beverly, Mass.
JOSEPH W. SHEPARD ’16, GEN ST, ’18 PUB ADM, who served a term as Student Government Association president during his student days at Wichita State, is chief of staff and director of Lead for America’s National Hometown Fellowship program in Wichita. The goal of the national program is “to empower young professionals to change the trajectory of their hometown communities through fellowship opportunities.” Shepard lives in Wichita.
FRED VANVLEET ’16, SOC, became a first-time professional all-star in his sixth NBA season with the Toronto Raptors. (Read more about his early days with the Raptors in “Backcourt Pros” from The Shocker archives.) He is the eighth different Raptors player to be named an all-star and just the fourth undrafted player in the NBA’s modern era to be selected to the league’s prestigious showcase. VanVleet joins fellow Shocker standout Xavier McDaniel ’96, GEN ST, as an NBA all-star. McDaniel, a first-round NBA draft pick and player #4 for the Seattle Seahawks, played 13 years in the NBA and was selected to the all-star team in 1988.
TAYLOR KASTRUP ’15, M SP MGT, who was assistant director of ticket operations at Wichita State from 2014 to 2016, is an event specialist at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.
ROY N. MOYE III ’15, AEROS E, talent acquisition specialist at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, has proven quite the talent himself. The latest proof is his 2021 Grammy nomination as a participating member on the recording All One Tribe by the 1 Tribe Collective. The recording received its award nomination in the Best Children’s Album category. Moye’s contribution to the album is the song “Black Lives Made STEM History.”
KATELYN DELVAUX ’14, M CR WR, lives in St. Louis, Mo., where she teaches composition and literature at Saint Louis Community College. She is also a creative writer whose poetry has appeared in such publications as Split Lip, Menacing Hedge, Slice, and Driftwood Press. She serves on the poetry staff for Rivet. Her poems have received multiple nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, while her scholarly work has earned her fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Poetry Foundation.
ANOSH S. GOMES ’14, BIO E, is associate director of program management at Arcus Biosciences, a clinical stage immuno-oncology biotech company working to develop cancer immunotherapies. Previously, Gomes held positions at Upsher-Smith Laboratories in Minnesota, and at Pfizer in Wichita.
SOON WILEY ’14, M CR WR, whose writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and earned him fellowships in Wyoming and France, is the author of When We Fell Apart, his debut novel. A native of Nyack, N.Y., Wiley holds a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Connecticut College and an MFA in creative writing from Wichita State. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and their two cats.
TATE P. BLANTON ’13, INT MKG, who is a former WSU Alumni Association assistant director of alumni relations, is director of alumni annual giving at the College of Charleston. He resides in Charleston, S.C.
KEVIN W. BOMBARDIER ’13, MATH, ’13 PHYSICS, is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, where he teaches courses in algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, calculus, differential equations, and where he pursues his mathematical and research interests in abstract algebra, graph theory, and in math education. He holds a master’s degree (2015) and a doctorate (2019; thesis “Atoms in Quasilocal Integral Domains”) in mathematics from the University of Iowa. While a student at Wichita State, Bombardier was a teaching assistant who taught both calculus and non-calculus based physics labs. He lives in Platteville, Wis.
JANETH B. VAZQUEZ ’12, COMM, director of marketing and business development at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kan., has been elected to serve on the Liberal City Commission — becoming the first Latina in Liberal to win election to the city commission. In 2021, she was appointed by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly to serve on the KANSASWORKS Board. Formed through the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, the state board was set up to help job seekers find employment, education, training, and support services. Vazquez, who earned an MBA from Pittsburg State University in 2021, has prior work experience as a multilingual multimedia journalist, and as an academic adviser and transfer coordinator at Seward County Community College in Liberal, where she lives.
NATHANIEL “NATE” O. ALVAREZ ’11, SP MGT, is a special education teacher at Andover Central Middle School and an assistant football coach and the head wrestling coach at Andover Central High School in Andover, Kan. Before taking up teaching and coaching in Andover, he served as assistant wrestling coach at Maize South High School in Maize, Kan. In June 2021, Alvarez began graduate work in special education and teaching at Pittsburg State University.
BOBBY D. BERRY ’11, EX SCI, ’13 M EX SCI, ’21 PHD ED LDR, diversity and inclusion faculty fellow in Wichita State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and assistant dean for diversity and outreach in the WSU College of Applied Studies (CAS), was recognized as one of the 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Award recipients by the Wichita Business Journal. The 2019 WSU University Recognition Award honoree, Berry has sported a varied work history at Wichita State, including managing the university’s Human Performance Lab and serving as a clinical educator in the College of Applied Studies. He also directed WSU’s The Fuse, which champions collaboration between CAS and the wider community.
DIANA J. LEARNED ’11, ENG, is supervising librarian at Palo Alto City Library, where she supervises the staffing and daily operations of three neighborhood libraries and manages a team of 10 library staff. As a freelancer, she also works as an administrative assistant for the San Juan, Puerto Rico-based Entropy Accumulating, where she manages the payroll for two contracted employees and helps research and develop projects, including a members-only educational newsletter. She is also a founding member of STEMinists, a community development group. Learned lives in Palo Alto, Calif.
JADE PIROS DE CARVALHO ’07, PHIL, who is mayor of the city of Hutchinson, Kan., has been appointed by Kansas Lieutenant Governor and Commerce Secretary David Toland as director of the Kansas Department of Commerce’s new Office of Broadband Development in Topeka. She had worked for the past six years as director of industry and community relations at the independent rural internet provider IdeaTek in Buhler, Kan.
ALICIA T. SANCHEZ ’07, FLD MJR, a former assistant dean of students and director in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at Wichita State, now serves in a similar role at Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita. On Aug. 18, she was recognized as one of the 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Award recipients by the Wichita Business Journal. Sanchez, the 2019 recipient of the WSU Young Alumni Award, has been enthusiastically — and quite officially — lauded as a “community champion.” She is a past recipient of the Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission’s Community Champions Award. At Wichita State, she helped lead ODI in championing every underrepresented population. “We need,” she has often said, “people of all races, religions, sexual orientations, genders, all of these things because we are the one-stop shop when it comes to diversity.”
MATT BRAEUER ’08, SP ADM, ’10 M SP ADM, who was a three-year starting point guard at Wichita State from 2004 to 2008, is an assistant coach at North Texas University in Denton, where he is responsible for player development, game planning and recruiting. He joined the Mean Green coaching staff during the summer of 2018. In his three full seasons with UNT he has helped guide the Mean Green to back-to-back Conference USA championships (2020 and 2021) and the program’s first NCAA Tournament victory. Braeuer came to UNT from the College of Charleston, where he had served for two years and helped lead the Cougars to back-to-back 25-win seasons and Colonial Athletic Association regular season and tournament titles. During his playing time at Wichita State, the Shockers — with Mark Turgeon at the coaching helm — made the NCAA Tournament and reached the Sweet Sixteen, and earned a top-10 national ranking. After earning a bachelor’s degree in sport administration, he served as a graduate assistant for the Shockers and received his master’s degree in 2010 before embarking on his coaching career.
PRAVEEN SHIVASHANKAR ’06, M EE, is director of technology partnerships at BioConnect, a biometric devices and technologies company based in Toronto, Canada. Shivashankar joined BioConnect just over four years ago as a quality assurance manager and then served as the company’s director of products until January 2022, when he took up his current responsibilities. His prior work experience features a five-year stint (2011-2016) with Daon Inc., an international biometrics and identity assurance software company, during which he was a senior product consultant serving the Bengaluru area in India and a technical consultant for India’s AADHAAR project, which is a 12-digit individual identification number that serves as proof of identity and proof of address for residents of India. Born and raised in Bangalore, India, Shivashankar studied electronics and communication at Visvesvaraya Technological University, one of the largest tech universities in India, as well as business administration with focuses on innovation management and business analytics at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. At Wichita State, his studies included work as a research assistant with the charge to help conceptualize and develop a MAC protocol for the university’s wireless sensor network communication. Also while at WSU, he worked as a web developer, and was involved in the creation of the website for Project Discovery, an educational talent search site.
WILLIAM K. JAMES ’01, M BUS ADM, is senior vice president and general manager of Sierra Space’s space transportation sector, which includes the commercial space company’s Dream Chaser cargo space vehicle program. Before joining Sierra Space, James headed up operations at Boom Technology, a Colorado-based startup aerospace company developing a supersonic airliner, and held executive positions with a number of other aerospace companies, including Airbus, Hawker Beechcraft, MD Helicopters, and ICON Aircraft. In addition to his Executive MBA from Wichita State, he holds a bachelor’s degree in aircraft engineering technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
ZERRIN K. OELZE ’01, EL ED, a science teacher at McLean Science and Technology Magnet Elementary School in Wichita, has received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The award honors the dedication, hard work, and important role that America’s teachers play in supporting learners who will be future STEM professionals, including climate scientists, mathematicians, inventors, space explorers, and engineers. Established in 1983, PAEMST is the highest award kindergarten through 12th grade mathematics and science teachers can receive from the U.S. government. Oelze went through a rigorous application process that let her demonstrate content knowledge and her ability to adapt to a broad range of learners and teaching environments. A panel of distinguished mathematicians, scientists and educators at the state and national levels reviewed the applications before recommending nominees to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Oelze was among those selected based on their distinction in the classroom and dedication to improving STEM education. “I’m deeply honored to receive this award,” Oelze said in a statement. “I am grateful to USD 259 and to the amazing staff and students I work with that make each day a joy!”
D. ROBERT “ROB” RUNQUIST ’01, ANTHRO, is finance manager at Lead for America in Wichita, where he is responsible for such financial operations as overseeing the organization’s contracting and procurement process, and managing major grants and gifts. Prior to joining Lead for America, he was area operations supervisor at Kohl’s Department Stores Inc. in Wichita (2018-2020) and was CFO and CEO at CrossWinds Counseling and Wellness in Emporia, Kan. (2014-2018). He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Baker University in 2015.
HAROLD G. “SONNY” WHITE ’99, MECH E, a mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and applied physicist with work experience at Boeing, Lockheed Martin and NASA, is director for advanced research and development at Limitless Space Institute (LSI), Houston. LSI is a nonprofit with the mission of accelerating the human exploration of interstellar space. Through a mix of in-house research, grants, and partnerships with other institutions, the organization bolsters the advancement of space power and propulsion technologies — or, as White told Wired in 2020, LSI is all about making spacecraft “go incredibly fast.” White’s own research is wide-ranging and has focused on propulsion concepts like faster-than-light warp drives and quantum thrusters that get boosts from space-time itself. Much of his research work was done as head of NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab at Johnson Space Center, which was founded in 2009. Among White’s enterprises at LSI builds on his work at NASA; he conducts research on the EmDrive, an “impossible engine” that produces thrust without propellant by bouncing radio waves around a metal cone.
SANDRA C. (WOOD) ZOELLNER ’99, M PUB ADM, is director of economic development and planning at Village of Park Forest, Ill., where she has served as assistant director of economic development and planning (2008-2022) and as economic development director (2005-2008). She resides in Mokena, Ill.
JASON P. LACEY ’97, MUS P, managing partner of the law firm Foulston Siefkin LLP, has been elected by the Board of Governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC) for induction as an ACEBC Fellow. The ACEBC’s listing of Fellows shows only two other attorneys in Kansas who have earned this recognition. Lacey practices primarily in the areas of ERISA, employment benefits, and executive compensation. Already inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, he has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers of American and Chambers USA as a leading business attorney in the United State. He frequently speaks at the national, regional, and local level on employee benefits topics, and serves on the adjunct faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law. A WSU music performance graduate (and a former member of the WSU Bands Club society), Lacey earned his juris doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law and an advanced tax degree from New York University. He lives in Wichita.
JANE LIVINGSTON ’97, HIST, has served as vice president for information technology and CIO at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., since July 2021. An executive with 20 years of experience supporting information technology in higher education, Livingston has been CIO at Florida State University in Tallahassee (2019-2021); associate CIO and director of IT strategy, governance and digital services at Yale in New Haven, Conn., (2010-2019); and an academic technologist at Vassar College (1999-1005). Before focusing in on IT in higher education, she was a technical writer at IBM and a project planner in Boeing’s commercial airplanes division. In addition to her bachelor’s degree from WSU in history with an emphasis on women’s studies, she also holds a master’s degree in information technology from Syracuse University.
BRIAN HERSHBERGER ’95, a Wichita State aerospace engineering graduate and senior manager at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Palmdale, Calif., served as a technical consultant for the blockbuster movie “Top Gun: Maverick,” starring Tom Cruise. Hershberger was among members of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works® advanced development group that was called in to help in the production of the movie and the creation of the Darkstar hypersonic aircraft featured in the film. In a June 22 Fort Worth Star-Telegram article, Hershberger said, “The team who did a lot of the work watched the movie, and it brought tears to their eyes.” Earlier in June, “Top Gun: Maverick” passed the $800 million mark for global box office, ranking it as the highest-grossing film in Cruise’s career. Back in November 2021, Hershberger helped build on a 20-year history of collaboration between Lockheed Martin and Wichita State to prepare students for future Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. WSU and the aircraft giant partnered on a program with the U.S. Air Force to build a digital twin of the F-16 Block 40/50. Guided by a Skunk Works team, engineers and student technicians at WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research set to creating drawings of each detailed component of the aircraft and assembling them into a digital twin. “Not only is the digital twin making an impact on mission readiness for the USAF and U.S. Army,” Hershberger said about the project, “it is also creating a talent pipeline through applied learning that is unmatched.”
ANTHONY “AJ” JONES ’95, CS, ’06 M BUS ADM, is vice president of digital technology and CIO for Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a business of Raytheon Technologies. Before the company’s merger with United Technologies Corp. in 2020, Jones served as senior director of IT infrastructure services at Raytheon Company’s Global Business Services.
ALEEN J. RATZLAFF ’94, M COMM, communications professor at Tabor College, a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kan., shared findings from her primary research focused on the history of the Black press and its role in community building in Kansas during a Wichita Professional Communicators luncheon and meeting on June 1, 2022 in Wichita. Her presentation is titled “The Black Press: Giving Voice.” Ratzlaff resides in Hillsboro.
KIM L. NEEDY ’93, PHD IE, is dean of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering, a position she has had since November 2020. She is the first female in the role. In May 2022, Needy was profiled in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s article “Kim LaScola Needy: Working for diversity and equality in engineering.”
JUDY K. BREES ’91, HIST, is a ceramist and potter who resides in Newton, Kan.
LAURIE J. BECVAR ’87, GEN S, stepped down as president and chief operating officer of the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, Crazy Horse, S.D., effective Feb. 22, 2022. She continues to serve the foundation as an independent consultant. “Over eight and a half years, it has been an honor and privilege to be engaged with an organization that protects and preserves the culture, traditions, and living heritage of the Indigenous people of North America,” Becvar said. “To carry on the work of the Crazy Horse Memorial’s founders, Chief Henry Standing Bear and Korczak and Ruth Ziolkowski, especially starting and advancing the Indian University of North America®, has been most meaningful and rewarding. Crazy Horse is a place of big dreams and big accomplishments — and much has been accomplished with a great team and board of directors during my tenure.” Prior to her role with the Crazy Horse Memorial, Becvar served as the chief academic officer at two private, nonprofit colleges in South Dakota, and as dean of the graduate school, as dean of the division of continuing and distance education, and as senior associate provost at the University of South Dakota.
LYDA L. (ZARING) ANDREWS ’84, PAINTING, is an artist who began painting in the abstract style in the late 1990s. “I like to move with the fluidity of the paint using color, line and rhythm to convey my feelings and emotion,” the California native said about her style of painting. Andrews lives in Benton, Kan.
ERIC F. MELGREN ’79, SPEECH/THEA, is Chief United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. He was a law clerk for Judge Frank G. Theis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas from 1985 to 1987, after receiving a Juris Doctor from Washburn University School of Law in 1985. From 1987 to 2002, he was in private practice with the law firm of Foulston Siefkin LLP in Wichita, where he stayed active with his alma mater of Wichita State, including a stint in 1997-1998 as president of the WSU Alumni Association. From 2002 to 2008, he served as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on July 23, 2008 to fill a seat in the District of Kansas and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In this role, Melgren prioritized federal agencies working collaboratively with local and state law enforcement. He became the Chief Judge on Dec. 1, 2021. As a student at Wichita State, he majored in history as well as speech/theater, was a graduate of the Emory Lindquist Honors Program and served as Student Government Association (SGA) president. He and his wife, DENISE (WARFIELD) ’78, EL ED, reside in Wichita.
LOUIS E. STURNS ’71, POLY SCI, who is the first African American to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, retired from his heavyweight law career in 2018, when he stepped down from his position as a state district judge in the 213th District Court, Tarrant County, Texas, with jurisdiction to hear civil cases and felony criminal matters. Sturns, who served as state district judge from 2007-2018, also served as judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and as judge of Criminal District Court No. 1 from 1987 to 1990. A former member of the Texas Juvenile Justice Advisory Board and the Texas Ethics Commission, Sturns was born on a farm near Henderson, Texas, and attended segregated Rusk County schools before heading for Wichita State University, where he joined the Army ROTC, washed dishes and drove school buses to put himself through undergraduate school. After attending the University of Kansas Law School, he returned to his home state to work with Tarrant County’s civil rights lawyer Clifford Davis. After passing the bar, Sturns was assigned to the Judge Advocate General Corps at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army post located near Killeen, Texas, and worked as a prosecutor, defense attorney and legal adviser to other soldiers before rejoining Davis’ law firm. In 1991, in a Confluence WSU alumni magazine profile, Sturns shared his conviction that the two most important traits for achievement in any field are discipline and motivation. Read “A Case for Fairness,” May-June 1991 Confluence.
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