Notable Alumni
Dave Pietro ('87)
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and member of the Maria Schneider Orchestra
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Steve Pietzsch ('73)
Artist whose illustrations have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly
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Emily Pulley ('95)
Soprano with the Houston Grand Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera
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Patricia Racette ('88)
Soprano with the Santa Fe Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera
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Azim Rashid ('94)
Entertainment marketing strategist and former senior vice president of Atlantic, Capitol, Roc Nation and Columbia Records; CEO and founder of lifestyle clothing brand Alum Apparel and Chief Strategist at The Alchemy Group, a marketing consulting firm
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Cleatus Rattan ('65, '69 M.Ed.)
Former Texas Poet Laureate and author of The Texas Review Poetry Prize-winning collection of poems, The Border
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Ray Renfro
Deceased 1929-1997Football player for the Cleveland Browns (1952-1963)
Anne Rice
Deceased 1941-2021Best-selling author of the Vampire Chronicles books
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Ray Roberts
Former U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Texas
Lexie Dean Robertson ('13)
Deceased 1893-1954Former Texas Poet Laureate who was a charter member of the Texas Institute of Letters and whose poems appeared in Good Houskeeping, Ladies' Home Journal and other publications
G. Brint Ryan ('88, '88 M.S.)
CEO of Ryan, a global tax services firm and software provider, who was named to Texas Monthly's Top 25 Most Powerful People in Texas list
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Radio personality on the DFW radio station 96.3 KSCS; winner of Billboard Magazine's Air Personality of the Year and member of the Country Radio Hall of Fame
Melissa Rycroft ('05)
Television personality; Dancing with the Stars: All Stars winner and The Bachelor contestant
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Tony Award-nominated actor who has appeared in The Newsroom, Life in Pieces, Wild and John Wick
Cara Santa Maria ('04, '07 M.S.)
Los Angeles Area Emmy Award-winning host of the podcast "Talk Nerdy to Me" and science correspondent on National Geographic's TV series "Brain Games"
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Greg Millsbaugh Sax ('88)
Longtime radio announcer and member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame
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Bill Schmidt ('70)
Won the bronze medal for the javelin at the 1972 Olympics
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Thann Scoggin ('04)
Member of the Grammy Award-winning band Roomful of Teeth
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