Charlie D. Nichols (M.A., ’69 Ed.D.), Mansfield :: worked for 35 years in education as a high school teacher, coach, superintendent and professor. He retired from Texas Wesleyan University in 1995, having served as professor of education, chair of secondary education and director of international summer programs in Mexico and Costa Rica. He still actively manages private investment company Southwest Investments Ltd., which was started in 1968, and he also served on the alumni association board at Sul Ross State University after retiring. He enjoys creative writing projects and watching his small stable of horses run at the race track. He and his wife, Arline, have been married for 50 years.