Employee Highlights
Members of Midland College's faculty and staff are some of the key reasons students love our college. Their caring attitudes and outstanding credentials foster our educational environment of excellence. This page goes even beyond those aspects however, revealing interesting stories about some of their lives and careers.
Christy Garza
Christy Garza lives by the motto that "everything is possible through dedication and hard work." She says, "The brain can learn anything you put in front of it. We just have to allow ourselves to do it."
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Justin & Denise Beach
Midland College employees often refer to one another as the "MC family." For Denise and Justin Beach, the term "MC family" extends to more than just being coworkers.
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Alfredo Chaparro
Alfredo Chaparro, the youngest son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in an exclusive neighborhood in north Dallas--in the servants' quarters behind the home of one of Texas' most influential entrepreneurial and philanthropic families.
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Michael Chavez
Dr. Michael Chavez has a picture of his first birthday party. He is smiling, and at a table is a birthday cake. Minutes after that cake was cut, law enforcement personnel raided his home and arrested his father for dealing illegal drugs--but not before his father managed to hide some of the heroine in baby Michael's diaper.
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Terry Gilmour
Unlike the powers of Lois Lane, there appears to be no end in sight for the superpowers of MC Superwoman and Government Professor Dr. Terry Gilmour!
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Stan Jacobs
He's a snow sculptor, Fulbright Scholar and collaborator of MC's most notorious homecoming queen nominee. Dr. Stan Jacobs, MC Associate Vice President of Instruction for academic/transfer courses, has pretty much seen it all.
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Anita Martinez
"When I saw my first Midland sunset, I knew this was going to be my home," says Midland College (MC) Transition Specialist Anita Martinez. However, the road she took to the land of magnificent sunsets was a bit of a radical one for her traditional Hispanic family.
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Celia Roux
Celia Molina Roux remembers her grandparents, Felipa and Desiderio, as very strict and not showing much affection at home. Molina Roux says, “When we greeted my grandparents, they would say, ‘Besame la mano,’ which means kiss my hand, a very old-world Mexican tradition.”
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Rabon Bewley
Rabon Bewley took his bariton sax and love of jazz to the people of Volgograd, Russia, as part of a Christian mission organization of musicians who minister to people around the world.
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Julio Valladares
If the life and career of Dr. Julio Valladares is truly a circle, it is an open-ended one that will continue to grow as his studies, and the application of what he has learned in those studies, continue to grow.
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Sonia Ford
Sonia Ford knew as a little girl that she wanted to become a teacher. Now an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Sonia has been a trailblazer since coming to Midland College.
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Warren Taylor
His gifts with watercolor have given MC instructor Warren Taylor a great deal of recognition beyond Midland, with works on exhibit in galleries both in and out of state.
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Pamela Howell
It's not every day that a girl from Stamps, Arkansas, is summoned to the City of Dreaming Spires. However, that's exactly what happened to Dr. Pamela Howell.
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Paula Callo
Paula Callo has two back yards ... one behind her home in Midland, Texas, and the other just outside of Cuzco, Peru, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, where ponies roam along the banks of a river that flows into the Amazon.
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Karen Pape
Anyone close to poetry, its composition, its alleged opacity or its publication, knows that poetry doesn't pay -- not in dollars, that is...unless $5 counts.
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Craig Patterson
Chief Flight Instructor for the Professional Pilot Program Craig Patterson was one of the recipients of Midland College's prestigious Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA) presented in 2006.
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Bob Weidmann
Midland College's Director of Respiratory Care, Bob Weidmann, took the most important things he had to give to the citizens of Kabul, Afghanistan and left them all behind when he returned.
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Joe Willis, Katherine Allen and Tyler Tindall
Three Midland College Speech instructors began writing a workbook with the goal of establishing Speech Department guidelines and helping cut textbook costs.
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Ron Jones
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes and Midland College Coach Ron Jones fielding a highly-prepared women's basketball team.
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Rita Wallace
Wallace is calm and self-possessed. Her confidence is infectious, and hardship does not seem to have made any mark on this lovely woman. In fact, her endeavors define success.
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Tommy Ramos
The Lady Chap softball team consistently exceeds their own expectations. And while the program has seen the continual replenishment of its on-field talent and assistant coaches, one thing is constant: head coach Tommy Ramos at the helm.
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