Alumni - Class of 1992

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Andrew Fobes (1992 - Journalism)
lives in Riverview, Florida, with an adorable miniature schnauzer, Caesar. He works for the Tampa Port Authority as the Director of Public Relations in Tampa, Florida. He was most recently Chief of Protocol for the Port of New Orleans and prior to that, communications manager for the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport. He also served as the director of marketing & development for Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast in Biloxi from 1996 until 1999. He was the 1997 Rotarian of the Year and a community volunteer.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Barry Barker (1992 - Physics & Mathematics)
completed his Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University and then worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a post-doctoral research scientist before moving to the Washington, DC area. He worked as a senior research physicist at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (located on the Univ. of Maryland campus) before becoming the Technical Director (roughly equivalent to the Chief Technology Officer) for the Lab in 2006. He married a professional actress on Leap Day, 2004, and they have one son, born in October, 2005.
Last Updated: May 2008

Becky Boyd (1992 - English)
teaches Advanced Placement English, Honors Writing, and eleventh grade English at White House High School in White House, Tennessee. She is currently working toward a master's in English at Western Kentucky University.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Carlos Murillo (1992 - Management)
after graduating from USM, went on to complete an MBA at Vanderbilt University on a Fulbright scholarship. He returned to his native El Salvador in 1998, where among other occupations, he was a university professor for five years (Basic Marketing), as well as business manager. Currently, he owns an environmental services company in El Salvador (where he still lives) and also works as Latin American Manager for an emissions testing company based out of Cleveland, OH. Carlos continues to have strong ties to Mississippi as his two children live with their mother in Jackson, affording him numerous opportunities to visit.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Edna Kerkow (1992 - Accounting)
Employed with Wright, Ward, Hatten & Guel, CPAs in Gulfport, Mississippi as a Certified Public Accountant.
Last Updated: Aug 2008

Joy Adams (now Eakins) (1992 - Mathematics)
received her master's in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She married Eric Eakins on January 1, 1994, and currently works at Lucent Technologies as a team leader for a Tier 4 Support Group in Research and Development (Bell Laboratories).
Last Updated: Apr 2008

K. Chimene Gecewicz (1992 - Psychology)
After graduating with a degree in Psychology in 1992, I completed masters degrees in Anthropology (cultural) and Applied Linguistics (the teaching of languages, specifically English as a Second Language). In addition to studying the Lebanese diaspora in West Africa and Hispanic immigration to the United States, I have been actively involved in an oral history project involving recent immigrants to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I have taught English as a Second Language to students in grades K-12, and I am presently teaching Anthropology at the university level.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Rhoma Johnson (1992 - Chemistry)
is pursuing her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at Emory University. Rhoma, who holds an Emory Minority Graduate Fellowship, is working on the synthesis of metal oxygen containing clusters (or polyoxometalates) for use as oxidation catalysts in industrial processes. When she completes her degree, Rhoma plans to work in the field of science and technology policy. In Fall 1998, Rhoma started work at the Center for Disease Control on a two-year intensive training fellowship in the field of environmental health.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Robert Adelman (1992 - Sociology)
is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and works in the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. His research focuses on the relationship between race/ethnicity and urban poverty, the process of residential attainment, and internal migration in the US. Additional research interests include urban politics and economic development issues. He is married to Elizabeth Glaser Adelman, a law student at Albany Law School, Union University.
Last Updated: Apr 2008

Susan Penton (now Caldwell) (1992 - Psychology)
graduated from LSU Medical School in May 1999. She is currently in her first year of residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She married Vernon Caldwell in June 1994, and had twin boys, Philip and Matthew, on January 23, 2000.
Last Updated: Apr 2008