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1960

Faye Cox Moore, Shreveport, is chief executive officer of TES Regional Healthcare Federal Credit Union. She and husband Bobby ’61 have two sons, Michael and Christopher, and two grandchildren.

1961

Bobby Moore, Shreveport, retired as manufacturing manager of business telephone systems at AT&T/Lucent Technologies after 30 years.

William Peeples, Shreveport, and wife Fane have four grandsons, with the newest one born in October 2005.

1963

Kay Woodruff Butcher, Shreveport, is a sales associate with Coldwell Banker J. Wesley Dowling & Associates, Inc. She has earned membership in the company’s International Diamond Society, a level achieved by only the top 16 percent of the more than 120,000 sales associates worldwide in the Coldwell Banker System. The award is presented annually to sales associates who meet productivity goals. She received the award at the company’s International Business Conference, held in February 2005 at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla. She is active with the Centenary Muses and has served several terms on the board of the Friends of the Meadows Museum. She and husband John ’61 have two grown daughters who live in Memphis, Tenn.

Gay Griffith Means, Shreveport, of the North Louisiana Historical Association reports that two young alums—Charlie Starnes ’03 and Sara Thompson ’05—earned recent Overdyke Awards for “Best Undergraduate Papers.” Read details about their papers in the 2003 and 2005 class note sections. Both student entries were prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sam Shepherd Jr., professor of history at Centenary, and they were recently published in the North Louisiana History Journal, Fall 2005, Vol. 36 No. 4. Gay is coeditor of the Journal. The Overdyke Awards were founded in memory of W. Darrel Overdyke, professor of history at Centenary.

1965

'Bruce Dinwiddie, Metairie, La., is enjoying his grandchildren: Michael, born Dec. 12, 2002, and Julie, born Sept. 29, 2004.

1967

Leonard and Mary Tullie Wyrick ’68 Critcher, Dallas, Texas, spend weekends at Lake Whitney. He enjoys the golf resort while she enjoys the water. Their son, Merritt, married Kimberly Reno on May 14 at Highland Park United Methodist Church.

Les Hammond Atlanta, Ga., has been continuing his work as director of legislative affairs for the Department of Motor Vehicle Safety. He is in his 23rd year of playing the French horn with the Atlanta Wind Symphony. The AWS is a musical outlet for adult musicians whose experience ranges from some of Atlanta’s finest professional musicians and composers to hobbyists (i.e., those who do something else for a living but enjoy making music, like Les). In 2004, AWS was named a recipient of the Sudler Silver Scroll Award. This is North America’s most prestigious award for community concert bands. To commemorate the 25th year as an organization, the AWS was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York on May 28, 2005.

Allan Jones, Duluth, Ga., reports that daughter Katherine is working on her degree in hospitality management and daughter Emily graduated from Oglethorpe University in December 2005 with plans to enter law school in fall 2006.

Marsha Pickett Wells, Canyon Lake, Texas, is the Canyon Lake referral agent for Kuper Sotheby’s. A Texas realtor since 1991, she recently made a corporate video for a San Antonio homebuilder. It airs on Designing Texas.

1968

Tom Bitterwolf, Moscow, Idaho, and his family welcomed their third grandchild, Alexandria Naomi Hyde, who was born June 21, 2005. She is the first child of Tom’s daughter Kate and son-in-law Darren.

1969

Diane Hercher Key, Idaho Falls, Idaho, and husband Jim are both retired scientists from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls.

Jim Montgomery, Shreveport, has resigned his job as grant writer for the city of Shreveport and has been named executive director of the Charles T. Beaird Foundation. The foundation awards grants to nonprofit agencies in the Shreveport-Bossier area, and Jim says, “So I’ll go from asking for money to helping give it away to worthy causes.” How good was he in the asking job? He told a colleague: “At the City, during five years I managed to haul in about $1 million in grants and congressional earmarks, which is considerably more than my salary for the same period. At least I didn’t cost the taxpayers anything.”