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Bruce MacDougal has an eye for architecture and a talent for administration. His interest in historic preservation was picqued when, at an early age, he saw the fight over the destruction of historic buildings in the small community in which he was raised. As executive director for the influential San Antonio Conservation Society, he has worked with the board to continue the fight to preserve our architectural heritage.

Glenn Mack left Arkansas to study Russian Language and Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, knowing that with his choice of a major, the chance of his return to Arkansas would be slim. Study of Russian took him to the Soviet Union in 1988, and in 1989 with a combination of good luck and good timing he got a job with Time, Inc.’s Moscow Bureau. Over a period of seven years he rose to head of Time’s photographic bureau in Moscow, and witnesses, first hand, the break up of the Soviet Union. In 1995 he left Moscow with his Russian-born wife to go to the Ukraine where some of her family lived. There he fulfilled a dream by studying cooking. When he and his wife returned to the United States, he and a partner founded the Culinary Academy of Austin, a cooking school, which teaches not only how to prepare foods, but also the culture of food. He is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas in Austin, in history.

Mary Lanzi Martini-chef Mary Martini loves to cook. Even after working five and six days a week at Central Market’s cooking school, she can’t stay away from the kitchen. Mary grew up in the restaurant business, but she took the path into the business world, working for Dupont, before she found her way back to her true love, cooking, learning about cooking, and teaching others how to cook meals that please the eye and the tongue.

Dr. Steve Mattingly accepts invitations. A microbiologist by training and profession, he agreed to assist in the dating of the shroud of Turin when asked He’s used his passion for scientific inquiry to develop a masters program for high school and elementary school teachers of science which give them hands on opportunity to experience the excitement of scientific discovery which they in turn infect in their students.

Bob Maxham has a visual style and aesthetic that are evident in both the commercial photography that he does and the photography that he does for his own pleasure. He explains his influences and the passion that propels him to keep recording images.

Naomi Miller, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology takes pleasure in the details of paleoethnobotany, sifting through, and analyzing the remains of plants from locations as remote as Iran and Turkey to as close as a site in Princeton, New Jersey.

Victor Miramontes has started several businesses and was the first employee of the North American Development Bank of which he became Chief Executive Officer. He is currently President and Chief Operating Officer for AmericanCity Vistas. Victor puts thought, talent and energy and innovation into his enterprises with skills he learned at the remarkable Cathedral High School in El Paso.

Mary Pat Moyer, Ph.D. received the regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in "Life Science-Emerging Companies for developing INCELL, and was inducted into the national Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame. Dr. Moyer founded TEKSA Innovations Corp., a for-profit, mixed use technology business incubator for growing biosciences, biomedical, engineering, information technology and telecommunications companies. She also founded a biomedical/biotechnology company, INCELL Corporation (1993) and serves as its President, CEO and Chief Science Officer. The two companies are an outgrowth of her scientific interests and the necessity to fund those interests. Her sense of humor, appreciation of life, and her true nurturing of young scientists, add to her success.

Dr. Don McRee has gained great insights in attributes of a life you love through 25 years of practice as a psychologist and consultant in San Antonio. His two areas of special expertise are building good marital and sexual relations which are not unrelated to recognizing those characteristics necessary for a successful employer-employee relationship.

Trisha McConnell, animal behaviorist Zoologist and talk show host, spent much of her life helping people and their pets communicate with one another. In pursuit of understanding human/animal communication better, Trisha McConnell earned a Ph.D. in zoology with an emphasis on animal-human interaction; her consulting firm, Dog’s Best Friend, specializes in behavioral problem-solving and companion animal training for cats and dogs.

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