In Celebration of Catherine Monk

Update: We are having her Celebration of Life at Flag Pole Hill. 8015 Doran Cir. Dallas 75201. February 9, 2019 at 1:00. BYOB Bring your own purple balloon to lift up in honor of Cathy. Also, if you have something purple to wear, wear it. Food provided behind at the Pavillion.

January 14, 2019. It is with deep sadness that we announce Cathy, Catherine Monk, has suddenly joined her beloved fiance, Edward Trujillo in Heaven. She battled End Stage Renal Disease for 7 years. She had a huge heart, contagious smile, quick wit, and was very generous. She loved her brothers William Paul Monk and David, sisters, Marie Giles and Betsy Monk Weaver, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and so many friends. 
Will post memorial information once planned on both the website as well as the FB Class page.

Ken Kelly in Memory Wildcat 70

Dan Jordan reached out this morning to share that Ken Kelly passed on 12-15 years ago. If anyone has memories it would be good to share them.

In Memory of Steve Brogoitti

We were notified this weekend of the death of Steve Brogoitti from a fellow classmate, Mike Tarnower. Steve actually passed in 2006, but we want to share this with our class as we begin to catch up together coming into our 50th class reunion.

STEPHEN ARTHUR BROGOITTI was born in New Orleans, LA on April 2, 1952, to Florine and Hardy Brogoitti; and passed away July 14, 2006 in Denton where he lived. Stephen attended grade school through high school at Lake Highlands schools, Eastfield College and NTSU, Denton. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday July 27, 2006, at St. Johns Episcopal Church, 848 Harter Road, Dallas, the Rev. David Houk officiating. Memorial gifts may be made to St. Johns Building Community Fund. 

Steve has been added to our In Memory page. Please let us know if have information on any of our classmates.

Celebration of Life for Steve Russell

We lost another 70 Wildcat from this earthly journey. He leaves behind a legacy of love. Greg Gross has shared this message with an invitation to all our class to celebrate Steve next weekend over in Lake Highlands. Hope you can join us all.

Dr. Mark Toulouse - Alumnus of the Year April 2018 from the University of Chicago Divinity School

Photo of Dr. Mark Toulouse by Romi Levine

“Upon recommendation from the Divinity School’s Alumni Council, the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has named Mark G. Toulouse (PhD'84) the Divinity School Alumnus of the Year for 2018. 

Mark Toulouse is Principal of Emmanuel College and Professor of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College and the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty of Emmanuel College, one of the three theological faculties associated with the Federated Universities in the University of Toronto, in 2009, after serving twenty-three years at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University as a historian of religion and culture. Eleven of those years were spent as Dean and Executive Vice-President. He began his work in theological education in 1984, when he joined the faculty of Phillips Theological Seminary in Enid, Oklahoma. 

Phyllis D. Airhart (MA'81; PhD'85), Professor of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, wrote in her nominating letter that "I can think of no other Divinity School alum more deserving of this award."

Dr. Toulouse is the author of numerous articles and books. His books include The Transformation of John Foster Dulles: From Prophet of Realism to Priest of Nationalism (1985); Joined in Discipleship: The Shaping of Contemporary Disciples Identity (1992 and 1997); Makers of Christian Theology in America (1997), Sources of Christian Theology in America (1999), Walter Scott: A Nineteenth-Century Evangelical (1999), and God in Public (2006). The Academy of Parish Clergy named God in Public one of the top ten books of the year. His most recent work (co-authored) is a religious analysis of North American popular culture, The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture (2016).”

His Alumni Lecture video at the University of Chicago Divinity School is here.

This is an incredible honor for Mark and his family. He has traveled a journey not covered by many in our class and served others along the way. We are so fortunate to have him back close in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and able to visit with him at the pop up lunches and in the future at the 2020 reunion.

Mark is on FB if you have not already found him there and if you want to reach him, use the contact form on this website and send us your contact info to pass on to him.