Patricia Joy Parker Spears (’55), Dallas :: She studied education and foreign languages at North Texas. She was a member of Delta Gamma, past Sigma Delta Pi vice president and member of the Rally Committee. She was married to the late Stephen G. Spears (’59).

Gordon W. Grant (’54), Dallas :: He served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, then joined Tennant Co. and retired in 1993 as regional operations manager. He and his wife moved to Destin, Fla., in 1995, where he played tennis and golf and they enjoyed life on the beach. At North Texas, he was a member of the Talons and Kappa Alpha Order.

Elizabeth Anderson ‘Libba’ Weeks (’50), Dallas :: From the 1950s to the 1980s, she enjoyed a successful career in the Dallas recording industry, singing radio station and advertising jingles. At North Texas, she performed in the Saturday Night Stage Shows and sang in the Ho Hums quartet and the College of Music’s chorus. Years later, she sang with the reunited Moon Maids, North Texas alums who originally toured with the Vaughan Monroe orchestra during the Big Band era. From 1987 to 1997, she was an editorial specialist in the scientific publishing department of the American Heart Association. Survivors include her husband of 51 years, John E. Weeks, former director of news and information at North Texas, and her sister, Virginia Anderson Caffee (’50).

Robert M. McAbee (’49, ’51 M.Ed.), Fort Worth :: He was a life-long public educator, passionate about public education. He served the Fort Worth ISD for more than 35 years, retiring as the assistant superintendent for secondary education in 1989. He also spent five years at the Texas Education Agency, where he was an area supervisor and director of vocational and adult education.

Wilma Cozart Fine (’47), White Plains, N.Y. :: She studied music education and business at North Texas and moved to New York to run the classical division of Mercury Records in the 1950s and early 1960s. She oversaw production of the famed Mercury Living Presence series of records, which grew to more than 400 recordings, and produced CD reissues in the 1990s for Philips/Polygram. She was named vice president of classical music at Mercury in 1954 and retired in 1964 to raise her four sons. Donations in her memory may be made to UNT.

Marcelle Florence DeLeleu Hopper (’44), Weatherford :: She taught elementary music education for 42 years and gave private piano lessons. She also played the organ at North Side Baptist Church for 57 years. Marcelle and her husband and children combined education and travel every summer, eventually visiting all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. She spent countless hours researching and writing about The Orphan Train Society, whose work is now addressed in children’s textbooks.

Myrtle Lea Bennett Romer (’36), Henderson :: She was executive director of Camp Fire Girls in Marshall for 31 years and a charter member of the World War II Memorial Monument Association in Washington, D.C., as well as former president of the Henderson AARP and Henderson Pilot Service Club. She was a founding member of the William Phillips Family Association, a volunteer at her local chamber of commerce and Depot Museum, and a member of the Henderson High School Alumni Association and Rusk County Historical Association.

Tucson, Ariz. :: She was raised in Joy, Texas, in a farming family with 10 children. She attended a one-room schoolhouse and at age 17 became its teacher. She worked her way through college and later in Tucson completed her master’s in education at age 45. Her children say she instilled in them the idea that “education could be your ticket anywhere.”

Violet Roark Ingram (’36, ’66 M.Ed.), River Oaks :: She received her North Texas degrees in music education and counseling and taught fifth-grade music at Circle Park Elementary School in Fort Worth for more than 30 years. At North Texas, she wrote for the Campus Chat and was a member of the Music Club and the College Players. Survivors include her daughter, J. Louise Thompson (’68).

Hershel H. Stephens (’34), Bowie :: He worked in the retail furniture business, taught high school and retired in 1996 from the Denton Area Teachers Credit Union. He earned an M.B.A. from Texas Wesleyan University. At North Texas, he was president of his junior class, and his wife, the late Helen Anderson Stephens (’33), was a Yucca Beauty. He remained close to his Talons fraternity brothers for life. His friends say his retirement days were spent at the local Dairy Queen, “solving the world’s problems” with a group of regulars.