Winter 2012 - Wayland Baptist University Alumni Association

Wyatt, 11. ( 2451 Sedgewick
Place, Jacksonville, FL 32217;
kyle@habchurch.com)
ANDY WEISS, BSOE’91
from the Hawaii campus,
writes that “A good friend,
who also was the production
engineer for the VP8 Image
Analyzer in the 1970s, opened
a Shroud of Turin museum
in Alamogordo, N.M., and
asked me to create a website
in 2009, ShroudNM.com.
When the Shroud is processed
through the VP8, which makes
brightness maps, the image on
the Shroud displayed is 3-dimensional.
This experience of
being the webmaster and my
exposure to the Shroud and its
scientific study was the latest
in my conversion process. This
experience helped cause me to
re-evaluate what many people
believe is my call to become
a deacon in the Catholic
Church. I have started my
second of four years in the
program and if I am chosen
to finish, I will be ordained
in 2015.” A retired Air Force
veteran, Andy says he enjoyed
his Old Testament classes with
Dr. John Brangenberg and
Dave Boatman for many of
his business classes as he completed
his degree in Hawaii.
(melekali@msn.com)
TOM WHITE JR.,
BSOE’98, from the Wichita
Falls campus, is the new director
for the Medical Laboratory
Technician program at Volunteer
State Community College
in Gallatin, Tenn. He was
previously clinical laboratory
manager at McConnell Air
Force Base in Kansas. Prior
to that, he was education program
director at McConnell.
2000s
BRETT COX, EX’05,
and RITA WILEY COX,
MA ’09, are parents of twin
boys, Chaucer (5 pounds, 6
ounces) and Miles (4 pounds,
3 ounces) who were born June
17, 2012, in Lubbock. Brett is
manager of Harral Auditorium
and Rita teaches at Floydada
High School. Proud grandparents
are DEBBIE WILEY,
MAR’03, the Theological
Research and Writing Lab
Director in the WBU School
of Religion, and her husband
Buddy. (coxb@wbu.edu;
wileyd@wbu.edu)
BRANDON DOUGLAS,
BA’06, recently completed his
Master of Education degree
in Educational Leadership and
Policy Study from the University
of Texas at Arlington.
He teaches Social Studies at
Houston School in Plainview.
While working on his degree,
Brandon did his internship
hours at Houston School and
has passed all necessary state
exams and holds the principal
certification for the State
of Texas. He hopes to work
as an assistant principal and
eventually a principal in an
Alternative Education setting.
(brandon.douglas@plainview.
k12.tx.us)
LUPE GUTIERREZ,
BSOE’02, MA’11, recently
was promoted to the rank
of major and changed duty
stations from Incirlik Air Base,
Turkey, to Ramstein Air Base,
Germany.
Gutierrez was
commissioned
in June 2002
via the Air
Force Officer
Training
School and became a munitions
maintenance officer. He
has deployed in support of
Iraqi Freedom and Enduring
Freedom and his medals
include the meritorious and
commendation medals as well
as the NATO medal. He and
his wife, Georgia, have two
sons.
APRIL WALKUP, BA’05
from the Albuquerque campus,
recently retired after 30
years as a police officer. She is
now a constable in Huntingdon,
Pa., for the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. Her
daughter, Amber Hopkins, is a
model in Las Vegas, Nev. April
is spending her retirement
traveling and volunteering.
(aprilrain59@yahoo.com)
REBEKAH WILKINS-PE-
PITON, BA’01, has been
named executive director of
the St. Lawrence County Arts
Council in Watertown, N.Y.
An artist working in a variety
of mediums as well as an
art educator, she taught high
school visual arts in Colorado
where she developed Pagosa
Springs’ Fine Arts Magnet
Academy and was Public Relations
and Marketing Director
for Square Top Repertory
Theatre. She also spent two
years in the Peace Corps in
Southeast Asia. Her work has
been in galleries throughout
the U.S. Her book Broken
Cycles, a conversation between
her photography and the
poetry of Damon Falke, was
published by Shechem Press
in 2007. She and her husband,
CHARLIE PEPITON,
BA’01, live in Canton, N.Y.
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