Former Friendswood graduates Nilofer Azad, MD, and Blake Svejokovsky will be honored by the Friendswood Education Foundation and the FHS Alumni Association at the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Banquet on October 18.

After graduating from Friendswood High School in 1993, Dr. Nilofer graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. She is currently a Medical Oncologist and Principal Investigator with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. She specializes in the care of colorectal cancer patients and has extensive experience in the design and implementation of oncology clinical trials.

Nilo was the leader of our first State Champion Academic Decathlon Team. She really had it all, said Pepper Smith, who coached the team, and is a longtime teacher at Friendswood High School. She was beyond intelligent; she was competitive; she was committed; and she did everything with such grace, integrity, and humility.

Svejokovsky is a 1981 graduate of Friendswood High School. Svejokovsky graduated from Texas A&M University in 1985 with a degree in mechanical engineering and has been involved in the snack-food conveyor industry his entire professional life. After stints at Frito-Lay and Triple/S Dynamics, he is now a product handling manager with Heat & Control, Inc. in Carrollton, Texas. His name appears on nine U.S. patents.

Azad and Svejokovsky will be honored at the Annual Distinguished Alumni Banquet presented by the Friendswood Education Foundation and the FHS Alumni Association. Two other Alumni also will be honored, including Steven Jamail (1998) and Elaine Eitelbach Penton (1974), and former FISD Superintendent Walter Wilson will be recognized with the Honorary Distinguished Alumni award.

We are so pleased to be honoring these five individuals, who each have had tremendous accomplishments, said Trish Hanks, FISD Superintendent. The impact they have had on Friendswood is one that will last for many years.

The Distinguished Alumni Banquet will be held Thursday, October 18, at the Green Event Center in Friendswood. The reception begins at 7:30 p.m., with dinner and the program at 8 p.m. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at the FISD Administration Building at 302 Laurel in Friendswood. For more information, call (281)482-1267.

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Byron will hold its second Alumni Basketball Challenge Oct. 6 at Byron High School.

Among the names returning to play are Jordan Auker, Matt Pendergrass, Ryan Considine, Matt Meline, Dan Cameron, Hannah Miller and Travis Bond on the Black Team, and Justin Rosecke, Adam Head, David Hillis, Cody Lindsey, Jenna Mooberry, Brandt Voiles, Hunter Hill and Alex Johnston on the Orange Team.

The game follows a 6 p.m. game between Byrons and Winnebagos middle school girls teams. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. The game is sponsored by Byron Community Revitalization as a fundraiser for Byrons Challenge Day, which is a self-esteem anti-bullying seminar presented annually to freshmen.

New coaches Guilford has hired Tug Gillingham as its new baseball coach. Gillingham has seven years of coaching experience at the college and high school level, coaching two years at Triton Junior College, two years at Walther Lutheran before taking over as head coach at Lincoln Park the past three years. A 1999 Walther Lutheran graduate, Gillingham played three years at Purdue and two years at Northern Illinois. He also played five years of professional baseball with the Windy City Thunderbolts, South Georgia Peanuts, Sioux City Explorers and Joliet Jackhammers.

Oregon has hired former Byron standout Lindsay Nauman as its new head softball coach. Nauman was a pitcher for the Tigers before graduating in 2008. She just finished her college career last year at Elmhurst College, where she was a Second Team College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin All-Conference Pitcher. Nauman replaces Jamie ReVelle, who took over the Hawks in 2008 after successful playing careers in Division I (University of Evansville) and professional softball. Oregon released ReVelle last June.

Emily Tropp: 815-987-1385; etropp@rrstar.com; @emilytropp

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BOSTON The former medical director of an exclusive Massachusetts prep school will stay jailed on a child pornography charge, for now.

Physician Richard Keller waived his rights to detention and probable cause hearings during a Friday appearance in federal court in Boston.

Authorities arrested the 56-year-old on Sept. 13, saying they seized hundreds of photos and several dozen DVDs of child pornography from his Andover home.

Law-enforcement officials say Keller had child porn delivered to him on the campus of Phillips Academy before his 2011 resignation.

The Andover boarding school's alumni include former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and his father, along with Humphrey Bogart and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Keller also voluntarily surrendered his state medical license this week, while the Massachusetts medical board does its own investigation.

Children's Hospital in Boston also put the pediatric endocrinologist on leave from his job, as did Harvard Medical School, where Keller is a pediatrics instructor. Keller's attorney Max Stern declined to comment after court.

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The Trent Semans Center is located in the heart of Duke's transformed medical campus.

When Leonard White, Ph.D., convenes his School of Medicine course on brain and behavior on Jan. 2, he will do so in a new building designed around the innovative way in which he teaches Duke medical students.

The class will be the first one to meet in the new Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education (TSCHE), a part of the dramatic transformation of the Duke medical campus. The striking new building was built to support School of Medicine's team-based learning model.

There are still appropriate times and places for lectures in medical education, but we have been working hard to move into a pedagogy that reflects the real-life experiences of health care professionals, said White, associate professor and director of education for the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The details that make the opening of the Trent Semans Center so exciting are its flexibility and its ability to support small teams of students thinking and learning together.

Construction is nearly complete on the six-story building adjacent to the Seeley G. Mudd Building and at the crossroads of the transformed medical campus. Its main entrance is just yards from the new Duke Cancer Center, the Duke Medicine Pavilion and Medical Center Library.

Each floor of the building is designed to bring together education spaces that are now spread throughout the medical campus.

The Trent Semans Center is all about spaces big spaces for large groups, medium spaces for labs and demonstrations, and small intimate niches for self-study, said Edward G. Buckley, M.D., vice dean of medical education.

The building is configured for adaptation. Walls move, furniture is portable and technology allows for communication for anywhere to anywhere. Most important, Buckley said, the building is readily accessible because it is at the very heart of the medical campus.

Before the TSCHE, the brain and behavior course met in an amphitheater in the lower level of Duke Clinic for lectures, in rooms on the fourth floor of the Davison Building for small group sessions and in the gross anatomy lab in the lower level of that building to examine brain specimens.

In January, 100 first-year medical students and about dozen grad students from other parts of the university taking the brain and behavior course will use team-based learning environments on the second and third floors of the TSCHE. They will work primarily in teams of six to seven students. Med students learn with their team throughout their first year.

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KEARNEY Six University of Nebraska at Kearney alumni will be recognized during 2012 Homecoming activities.

The six will be honored at the 32nd-annual Homecoming Awards Banquet Friday.

Jamie Gutierrez of Omaha, class of 1989; William C. Bill McGahan of North Platte, class of 1964, master of science 1968, educational specialist 1981; and Jeanette Keller Wojtalewicz of Omaha, class of 1984, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dan Whelan of Schaumburg, Ill., class of 2000, will receive the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, and Jerry and Nancy Stahr Dulitz of Kearney, class of 1965, will receive the Jim Rundstrom Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Gutierrez is president and owner of Midwest Maintenance, a building service provider headquartered in Omaha. As a leader in the housekeeping industry, Midwest Maintenance maintains more than 8 million square feet of office, industrial, health-care and arena space. The company has been Omahas largest minority-owned, woman-owned and Hispanic-owned business since 1998.

Gutierrezs company has been recognized as one of the fastest growing Inner City 100 businesses by Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Inc. magazine.

McGahan is a retired educator who spent 48 years in education, 42 in a variety of positions with North Platte St. Patrick schools. For 37 of those years, he served as superintendent of the North Platte Catholic Schools system before retiring in 2011.

McGahan was a charter member of UNK Educational Administration Advisory Committee, serving from 1991 to 2011. He served on 24 Nebraska Department of Education school accreditation team visits to Nebraska schools.

Wojtalewicz is chief financial officer for Catholic Health Initiative Nebraska, a position she has had since 2010. CHI Nebraska is a $1 billion company that includes hospitals and organizations such as Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center and the Nebraska Heart Hospital in Lincoln, St. Marys Hospital in Nebraska City, and the Physicians Network and Health Connect at Home.

Wojtalewicz is a member and was past president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She is treasurer of the board of the Nebraska Surgery Center in Lincoln and president-elect of the board for the Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium in Omaha. Wojtalewicz served as a member of the UNK Gold Torch Society from 2006 to 2008.

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Memories will be shared at Immaculate Conception Cathedral School's Mercy Day celebration and Hall of Fame luncheon Friday when eight honorees will be inducted into the school's newly established Alumni Hall of Fame.

Margaret "Peggy" Scobey

Margaret "Peggy" Scobey, Class of '67, the Service to the Community honoree, was the U.S.ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt from April 2008 until July 2011. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Syria from 2003 until 2005, when she was recalled in reaction to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. She is currently the Deputy Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University.

Tina Santi Flaherty

Receiving the award in the Role Model for Women In Business category, Tina Santi Flaherty, Class of '57, has earned numerous accolades, including the designation of the country's first "Powerchick." While still in her 20s, she blazed new paths for women in business when she became the first female vice president at three leading American corporations, Colgate-Palmolive, GTE and Grey Advertising. Flaherty has penned two award-winning books, "The Savvy Woman's Success Bible," and "Talk Your Way to the Top," along with her latest work, "What Jackie Taught US: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis." Flaherty was named one of 73 "Women Ready to Run Corporate America" by Working Women's magazine, Business Week's "One of America's Top Corporate Women," and was among the "100 Amazing Americans" by America's Elite 1000, Millennium Issue. Now retired, she devotes her time and support to one of her favorite causes, animal rights.

Rose Marie Cross

Rose Marie Cross will receive the Service to the School award. A classroom teacher for 50 years, Cross was chairwoman of the ICCS English Department, organized the first model United Nations Assembly, and created ICCS' student literary publication. She received an Outstanding Educator in the State of Tennessee award, Teacher of the Year Delta Level, as well as the Crystal Apple Award for Teachers from WMC-TV. She was the 2008 nationwide winner in an essay contest sponsored by the Memphis Chapter of UNICO for her essay "How my Italian Heritage Influenced My Life."

Helen Martinelli Weirich

Helen Martinelli Weirich began the first grade at ICCS in 1952 and was enrolled through her graduation in 1964. A current ICCS faculty member, she will also receive a Service to the School award. She has been a full-time French teacher in the high school since 1987 and was a substitute teacher for six years prior. An adjunct French professor at Christian Brothers University, Weirich's influence on her students is evident each year as ICCS graduates return to share how their college experience was shaped by their studies under her direction.

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BOSTON - The former medical director of an exclusive Massachusetts prep school was reprimanded for using a school computer to access adult pornography, one of the many reasons his appointment was not renewed, the school says.

But John Palfrey, the head of Phillips Academy in Andover, stressed in a Friday email to students, parents, staff and faculty that the schools concerns with Dr. Richard Keller are unrelated to a federal child pornography charge against him. Palfrey said he does not believe any of the students were the subject of Kellers alleged crime.

Keller, 56, a pediatric endocrinologist, was arrested at his Andover home Thursday. He remained in custody Friday and has a Monday bail hearing. Both Childrens Hospital in Boston, where he works, and Harvard Medical School, where he is a pediatrics instructor, say they have placed him on leave.

Federal prosecutors allege that Keller purchased and ordered more than 50 DVDs of child pornography online. During a search of his home, authorities found more than 500 photographs and 60 to 100 DVDs of child pornography, according to an affidavit.

Keller was the medical director at Phillips Academy in Andover for 19 years.

Palfrey said in the email that the school told Keller in April of last year that his contract would not be renewed. Palfrey said Keller resigned and left that same month.

Palfrey said the school did not renew Kellers contract because of professional misconduct unrelated to the federal charge. He said the reasons included the reprimand in 1999, an inappropriate cartoon Keller showed students in 2002, and an inappropriate voicemail he left a colleague in 2010.

Childrens Hospital has said no complaints or concerns have been expressed by any patients or family members about the care Keller provided to them at Childrens.

Paige Kelly, a federal public defender who represented Keller in court after his arrest, didnt return a call seeking comment. If convicted, Keller faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison.

Phillips Academy in Andover is one of the nations most selective prep schools and alumni include both presidents Bush, Jack Lemmon and Humphrey Bogart.

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