Alumni

Carl Saltarelli

Carl Anthony Saltarelli (’77), Boerne :: He retired this spring as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where he taught radio and television courses. He also served as the station manager of the university's radio and television stations for several years.

Amrit Lall

Amrit Samuel Lall (’76 Ph.D.), Denton :: As a young man, he was a member of the Pakistan National Basketball Team and held Pakistan’s national pole vaulting record. He came to the U.S. in 1962 to study at Westminster College and earned his doctorate in counseling and secondary education at UNT. He earned his U.S. citizenship in 1978 and for many years was a Denton area counselor and later conducted social studies for the Denton County Court System. He was a gardener, a writer and a member of the drumming group “It Is What It Is.”

Henry Jones

Henry Joe Jones (’73), Denton :: He earned his degree in secondary education and history at North Texas. He was employed by National Life Insurance Co. and retired from General Motors Parts Division in Fort Worth. He became a 33 highest degree Mason. His family says he was a person who never met a stranger and never missed being a blessing to others. He was a faithful member of St. James A.M.E. Church in Denton for nearly 50 years.

George Flynn

George L. Flynn Jr. (’70), Houston :: He was a veteran reporter and editor, known for his dry sense of humor. He worked at the Houston Post, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Press. He attended North Texas from 1967 to 1970 and became the first editor of the North Texas Daily after it changed from the Campus Chat.

Lindon Endsley

Lindon ‘Lindy’ Carl Endsley (’68), Waco :: He transferred from Texas A&M in 1965 to finish his football career at North Texas. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs and played for two seasons (1968-1969) before becoming an industrial manager for United Parcel Service. He was part of the planning/implementation team out of Atlanta, Ga., that established the expansion of UPS in nine midwestern states, including Texas. He moved home to Waco in 1975, working as the UPS center manager and with T-N-T Sales. He later started his own firm, ENDSCO Sales.

William Trott

William Harlan Trott (’58), Clinton, Miss. :: He enlisted in the U.S. Army and spent time in Germany before attending North Texas, where he received his degree in physics and math. His career included jobs at White Sands Missile Range in Alamogordo, N.M., with Rockwell International and work on the space shuttle program in Louisiana and Florida. He received a NASA Public Service Award for Exceptional Technical Ability on the Space Shuttle main propulsion test engines in 1981 and a second Public Service Award from NASA the next year. In 1988, he was named Engineer of the Year by Rockwell International. He also was greatly interested in genealogy and had served as president of the Southern Chapter of the Mershon Association.

Ouida Tolson

Ouida Lorraine Murrell Tolson (’53), Plano :: At North Texas, she studied education and was a member of Kappa Theta Pi, which affiliated with Chi Omega her senior year. She was married to her high school sweetheart for more than 30 years and enjoyed traveling the world with him

Vernon Smythe

Vernon Lamar Smythe (’52), Houston :: He served in U.S. Army Intelligence, including two years in Vietnam, and had a 25-year career with the Veteran’s Administration in Houston. He also supported animal welfare causes.

Clarence Lindsay

Clarence Richard ‘Dick’ Lindsay (’50, ’54 M.S.), Tyler :: He joined the U.S. Navy at age 18 and served on the U.S.S. Buckingham in the Pacific theatre from the Philippines to Japan. In 1946, he accepted a football scholarship to Tulane University, then transferred to North Texas where he played offense, defense and special teams all four years. He was on the All Conference team two years. In 2006, he was inducted into the UNT Athletics Hall of Fame. He coached football in Waco and football and baseball at R.E. Lee High School in Tyler, where he also served as assistant principal. He was administrative assistant to the Tyler ISD superintendent for two years and then assistant superintendent of business. He retired in 1987 after 34 years in the Texas public school system.

Margaret McAdams

Margaret Louise Frisby McAdams (’37), McKinney :: She taught in Ysleta High School and in the Bryan ISD schools, where she retired. She taught Spanish and English and later reading. When she and her husband moved to McKinney after retirement, she was an active member of the First United Methodist Church's Lora Ryan Sunday School Class, the Clown Band and the En Avant Club. At North Texas, she was a member of the Phoreffs, the Current Literature Club and the Pan American Student Forum.

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