Wesley Surber Coffman (’50, ’53 M.M.Ed.), Dallas. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and completed his education at North Texas and Florida State University. He was a music educator and church musician in Sherman, Houston and Dallas. From 1981 to 1995, he was dean of the School of Music at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, where he rallied fundraising support to build a new music building and complete restoration of an existing building. He also helped establish the School of Music Foundation.