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Kudos

The North Texan continues to get better and better! The spring issue exudes creativity. What a great source of information and a fabulous vehicle to display the pride we have in the University of North Texas. I can't wait for the next edition.

Kudos to everyone!

Rick Herold ('84, '85 M.S.)
Euless

Missing faculty

On page 26 of the spring issue (“Research Report”), you begin the article with “faculty members” and yet, in the first item, you fail to mention the director and faculty member, Dr. Kris Chesky, who heads up the Texas Center for Music and Medicine. I think he should be acknowledged and recognized for his supreme efforts and achievements in this area.

Arleen Sugano
via e-mail

Editor's note: Kris Chesky, research assistant professor in the College of Music at UNT and the School of Public Health at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and Bernard Rubin, chief of rheumatology and professor of medicine at the Health Science Center, are co-directors of the center.

Worrell friend

Special place

I enjoyed your fall issue with the warm obituary about James Carrico.

I knew Jim well for many years, both as a friend and as a surgical colleague. I visited him as a visiting professor in Dallas on three different occasions.

I am puzzled by your not mentioning Jim's father, another Dr. James Carrico. He was chair of UNT's Department of Chemistry in the 1940s, retiring some time in the '50s. He was an outstanding man, both as a teacher and as a warm human being. I entered his freshman chemistry class as a somewhat frightened 15-year-old from West Texas in 1941. A few months later I was fortunate enough to receive a student teaching position in his department. He remains one of the outstanding role models as teacher.

Were you simply unaware of this remarkable father-son legacy?

It speaks for itself about the strong influence of North Texas on both the faculty and students. I personally have always had the highest regard for North Texas because it combines the ideal qualities of the university, superb teaching combined with a collegial semi-paternal attitude that treats students as junior colleagues and creates a marvelous excitement for learning.

Frank C. Spencer ('44)
New York City

Editor's note: Thanks for bringing this point to our attention.

Proud alum

It was a pleasure seeing a photograph of my father, Kenneth Keathley, in your spring 2001 issue. Dad was a proud alum of North Texas and an even prouder former member of 'Fessor Graham's stage band. He taught band and biology at the high school and college levels for more than 30 years and taught guitar virtually all his life until his death at age 78 (in 1994). I'm sure I have a copy of the photograph you published, but it has been a long while since I have seen it.


Ken Keathley
via e-mail

Soldier sketches

After reading in the spring issue about Army Capt. Paul Berg ('93, '95 M.B.A.) and the UNT flag he took with him to the Middle East, Betty Lou Switzer ('79) had her second-graders at W.E. Chalmers Elementary School in Gainesville make cards for him and others in his company.