UT Dallas Magazine - Winter 2012 - (Page 34)

Nine outstanding UT Dallas alumni and one of the University’s most ardent community supporters were honored at the Awards Gala in March. About 300 alumni and friends attended the event, which also featured the Green and Orange Award for Alumni Service and the Gifford K. Johnson Community Leadership Award. “It’s important to me to give back to my alma mater. How does one give back? My way is to volunteer at University events. It is great to interact with the faculty, staff and students, especially the students.” Distinguished Alumni Award Honorees BRITT R. BERRETT PhD’09 is president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he oversees strategic planning and operations for the 900-bed facility. He is also the executive vice president of Texas Health Resources Inc. Before joining Texas Health Dallas, he served as president and chief executive officer of Medical City Dallas Hospital. Berrett became interested in health care and the impact it makes on a community while on a two-year mission trip in Peru. Before completing a PhD in public affairs at UT Dallas, he received a master’s degree in hospital administration from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He has maintained close ties to the University, serving as a past member of the School of Management Executive Education Advisory Council and a current member of the MPA Program Advisory Board. “Today I got the chance to visit the campus again—unbelievable! I also had a chance to teach a class. The students I met with are bright. They are engaging. They are an utter delight.” Gifford K. Johnson Community Leadership Award DEBBIE FRANCIS has served UT Dallas as a board chair of the Center for BrainHealth since 2005. During her tenure, the Center has grown in unprecedented ways: moving into a 63,000-square-foot research facility, quadrupling staff, increasing fundraising sevenfold, and starting 30 new research projects. Her support of brain research in Dallas earned her the 2008 Legacy Award, the Center’s highest honor. She has also dedicated her time to numerous other area organizations, including Charter 100 of Dallas, the Crystal Charity Ball, Junior League, the Sweetheart Ball and United Cerebral Palsy, for which she served on the national board. A close friend of the former first lady, Francis is chairman of the advisory board of the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at Texas Tech University. She and her husband, Jim, are among Dallas’ most passionate and tireless community leaders. “I’m proud to be associated with this wonderful University that has grown so extensively and is only going to keep getting better.” Green and Orange Award for Alumni Service JOYCE R. JOHNSON BGS’83 seized the opportunity to complete her college degree when her husband’s new job at Texas Instruments brought the couple to Dallas. Once here, “When I started my PhD in 1975, the program was still in its infancy. Now it’s in adulthood and it has flourished to become one of the top she enrolled in the School of Interdisciplinary programs nationally. You do me proud.” Studies, formerly known as General Studies. Both Joyce and her husband, Bruce MS’84, SALLY L. CRAWFORD BGS’83 is attended night classes and would often meet a partner at Jones Day in Dallas. Her practice in the Green Building commons for dinner. As an active volunteer leader focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corpofor UT Dallas, she is a frequent visitor to the campus for student events rate finance and corporate law. Crawford and programs. Johnson has shown her loyalty in a way few other alumni concentrates on the representation of privately have—by including the University as a beneficiary in her will. This gift is held companies in the technology, transportaa way to honor her late husband, who was pursing a doctorate when he tion, manufacturing and service industries. She died in 1985. 34 utdallas.edu pursued a career that led her across the country and eventually around the world. She has explored speech-language and hearing sciences for more than 10 years as a professor at the University of Arizona. Previously, Cone was an assistant professor at Arizona State University, and she taught at and directed the clinical auditory electrophysiology lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. From 1985 to 1995, Cone was a professor of otolaryngology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She was also the chief of audiology at the Los Angeles County Medical Center during that time. Cone is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology. BARBARA KATHERINE CONE PhD’79 http://www.utdallas.edu

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of UT Dallas Magazine - Winter 2012

UT Dallas Magazine - Winter 2012
Contents
On Campus
From the Lab
Arts and Culture
Courtside Success
Athletics
Research Is Teaching
Town and Gown
In Your Footsteps: An Alumni Perspective
Alumni Notes
In Memoriam
Hindsight

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