A West Texas A&M University graduate, WT Communication Hall of Fame inductee, and Amarillo television mainstay once again will help the University celebrate its latest class of honored alumni.

Andy Justus, co-anchor of KAMR’s Studio 4 and Local 4 News, will serve as master of ceremonies at The Phoenix during Homecoming Week.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 in Legacy Hall inside the Jack B. Kelley Student Center on

the Canyon campus.

Tickets are $75.

Reservations are due Oct. 2!

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 Several prominent area educators will speak about their experiences as the first members of their family to pursue higher education in an upcoming event at

West Texas A&M University. Speakers include FAH's own Dr. George Pacheco Jr, associate professor of communication, and Dr. Nancy Garcia, assistant professor of media communication

WT’s Office for Engaged Citizenship will host a “We Are One” talk featuring several contributors to “First-Gen Stories for Success,” a book compiled by WT’s Dr. George Pacheco Jr.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 in Legacy Hall inside the Jack B. Kelley Student Center on WT’s Canyon campus.

The book collects essays by Pacheco, several of his WT colleagues and scholars from across the country that address the balance between a student’s goals and their family’s plans, the importance of student organizations and mentorship, and how to create a path to success, among other topics.

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On her commute between Canyon and Guymon, Oklahoma, Katy George found unexpected inspiration in the rolls and folds of the Texas Panhandle landscape.

It reminded her of bedsheets,

of all things.

Now, George, the art program director at Oklahoma Panhandle State University, is using that inspiration in works on view in “This Interconnected Landscape,” her thesis exhibition for her Master of Fine Arts degree at

West Texas A&M University.

The exhibition will hang Oct. 5 to 28 in the Dord Fitz Formal Gallery in Mary Moody Northen Hall. An opening reception is scheduled for

5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 5.

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The West Texas A&M University forensics team took home several awards as part of the Hill Country Swing, two days of tournaments

held in San Marcos.

The team tied for third overall in team sweepstakes in the first tournament, held Sept. 23 at

Texas State University.

The team took second place overall in the second tournament, held Sept. 24 at Texas State and hosted by the University of Texas.

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Also, be sure to check out the WT Forensics Reunion happening during Homecoming on Oct 14!

See graphic below

Isaac Doty, a senior sociology major from Lubbock, placed third in communication analysis. Alejandro Mata, a senior political science major from Hereford, placed third in persuasion with a speech based off his McNair Scholar research on code switching in forensics, and Abigail Stilwell, a senior psychology major from Henrietta, placed fifth in persuasion. Willa Brackin, a freshman digital communication and media major from Thicket, placed fifth in program oral interpretation.

 One of West Texas A&M University’s newest music faculty members will be a featured soloist in an upcoming concert—a “full-circle moment”

for a WT alumnus.

Dr. Conor Bell was hired this fall as assistant professor of bassoon in WT’s School of Music in the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities, stepping into the shoes of one of his own mentors, Dr. Tina Carpenter, who retired in May after

37 years at WT.

Now, Bell will perform as a soloist for the WT Symphony Orchestra at its Oct. 6 concert, several years after he was a member of that ensemble himself.

Bell will perform the second and third movements of Carl Maria von Weber’s Bassoon Concerto with the orchestra in a concert that also will feature this year’s edition of Ensemble Next, a high-school string trio coached by Evgeny Zvonnikov, WT’s Harrington lecturer in violin.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in Mary Moody Northen Recital Hall on WT’s Canyon campus.

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A quartet of prominent West Texas A&M University alumni and other community leaders will be

honored during

Homecoming Week celebrations.

The four alumni to be honored this year include a groundbreaking Black politician, a Dallas-area entrepreneur and record-breaking WT quarterback, a prominent former WT athlete turned teacher, and a professor emeritus of nursing.

The WT Celebration of Color event, held by the Office for Engaged Citizenship, will begin at 6 p.m. Oct. 13 in Legacy Hall in the Jack B. Kelley Student Center on WT’s Canyon campus.

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Elisha Demerson earned both his bachelor’s in physics in 1976 and his master of science in engineering technology in 1991 from WT.

Victor McGee attended WT in 1981-1982. He was inducted into WT’s Hall of Champions in September.

Milton Smith earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communication in 1980 while playing football

for the Buffs.

Dolores Neal Thompson earned her master of science in

nursing from WT in 1974.

Calling all WT Alumni who competed on the forensics team!