Condolences to the Steffy family

For those who know Loren Steffy '86: His dad passed away Thursday and there will be a memorial Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. in Bryan, at the Callaway-Jones Funeral Home.

From the Eagle's story: J. Richard Steffy was "a pioneer and a legend in A&M's nautical archaeology department, colleagues said. ... Steffy, a founding member of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M, worked on excavations in more than 30 countries, wrote books, received a MacArthur Fellowship and lectured all over the world."

Out standing in their fields

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Marissa Alanis '99 Staff writer/news assistant, Dallas Morning News, malanis (at) dallasnews.com or malanis_77 (at) hotmail.com

Holly Becka '91 Staff writer, Dallas Morning News, hbecka (at) dallasnews.com

Kelly Brown '89 Managing Editor, Bryan-College Station Eagle, kelly.brown (at) theeagle.com

Amy Chism, Marketing and Communications Rep at Memorial Hermann in Houston

Reagon Clamon '93 Co-owner, Leader News in Lytle

John Churchill '91 Manager, Internal Communications, Alcon Laboratories phoenix4 (at) hotmail.com

Brady Creel '03 Writer-editor, media designer and Webmaster, A&M University Writing Center; wedding/freelance photographer

Cyndy Davis '84 Strategic Staffing Consultant with Microsoft

Kristal Goehring '06, public relations, Hill & Knowlton/account executive, kristalgoehring (at) yahoo.com

Carol Meyer Hartzog, '78, Owner, Carol Hartzog Communications. Specialize in media relations, public relations and community relations. Oklahoma City area. carol (at) hartzogbiz.com or chartzog100 (at) aol.com

Jay Janner '91 Staff photographer, Austin American-Statesman jjanner (at) statesman.com

Roland S. Martin '91 CNN contributor, special correspondent for Essence magazine, Creators Syndicate columnnist, host of 'Roland S. Martin Show' WVON-AM/1690 Chicago, TV One commentator roland (at) rolandsmartin.com

Paul McGrath '78 Assistant news editor, Houston Chronicle superag1 (at) yahoo.com

Stew Milne '94 Freelance photojournalist, Providence, RI

Michael Mulvey '90 Sports/Business Photo Editor, Dallas Morning News

Julie Myers '91 Co-owner, Leader News in Lytle

Harvie Nachlinger '70 Instructor, Broadcast Journalism, University of South Carolina

Jeff Osborne '92 Assistant city editor, Waco Tribune-Herald

Sue Owen Whaley '94 Features copy chief, Austin American-Statesman aggiejournalists@gmail.com

Douglas Pils '92 Night Sports Editor/Sunday Page 2 writer, San Antonio Express-News dpils (at) express-news.net or dougpils (at) aol.com

Michael Plumer '94 Vice President, Lockton Dunning Benefits Company mplumer (at) lockton.com

Dr. Douglas Starr, Texas A&M AGCJ professor, teaching copy editing, news writing/print and broadcast, PR principles and practices

Ken Sury '86 Community editor, Waco Tribune-Herald

Richard Tijerina '91 Deputy sports editor, Austin American-Statesman rtijerina (at) statesman.com

Bottlecaps and Baby

Dave Thomas '93, in his "Bottlecaps and Wingnuts" blog, has recently taken a detour from writing about Billy Joe Shaver, et al., to introduce "the next great offensive lineman for Texas A&M" -- his new son, Matthew. Congratulations to Dave and Shannon!