In Memoriam

Remembering Rolando del Carmen

delCarmenRolando V. del Carmen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, was a long-time benefactor of the College of Criminal Justice.

A beloved member of the SHSU faculty, del Carmen became an assistant professor in 1974, was named Distinguished Professor in 1995, and Regents’ Professor in 2007. His expertise is recognized worldwide, and he has written prominent books and articles in the field, which have been translated into other languages and distributed across the globe. As a mentor to many graduate students, he helped them publish academic articles and advance legal scholarship in the field of criminal justice.

During his tenure, del Carmen earned many accolades, and was one of only three scholars to be recognized with all three top awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Additionally, he was named a Piper Professor, which recognizes the state’s top college and university faculty instructors.

Del Carmen generously supported the college, giving hundreds of thousands of dollars for scholarships. He has two scholarships in his name and contributed a gift annuity in honor of Phillip Lyons, dean and director of the Criminal Justice Center.

“Although Professor del Carmen will be greatly missed within the university community, he leaves behind a lasting and significant legacy in the students and colleagues whose lives he touched so profoundly and positively,” Lyons said. “We would not be who we are today, but for his presence over the decades; and we will not be the same without him.”

In Memoriam

A farewell to ...

Willie Ruth Hawkins ’36
Dorothy Marie (Cotton) Tipton ’38
Azile Dotson Harrison ’40
Geraldine Ann (Polansky) Laier ’41
Margaret (McKinney) Phillips ’41
Lee Henry Reed ’42
Gloria Kocurek Albright ’44
Anita Johnson Barton ’46
Zaidee W. (Watson) Brittain ’46
Marion Edgar Luper ’46
Reva Charlis (Tissue) Mitchell ’47
Josephine Kathryn (Borski) Skrivanek ’47
LeRoy Thielemann ’47, ’52
Jesse Claude Roberts ’48, ’50
Martha Leola (Harlow) Bryant ’49
Laura Dunlop (Shepherd) Crain ’49
Ruby Faye (Shuttlesworth) Hunt ’49
Ralph Roland Maglaughlin ’49, ’49
Frank Wayne Taylor ’49
Elsie Janet (Aydelotte) Brice ’50
Lee Drain ’50
Betty Jean (McGrew) Fletcher ’50
John Wesley Grimes ’50, ’64
Sam Kennedy ’50
Elbert Leroy Albritton ’51, ’57
Perry Wood Barkley ’51, ’53
Sara Nan (Anderson) Bennie ’51
Sam Nolen Boles ’51, ’52
Glen Truman Crews ’51
Eva Jean (Farris) Callaham '52
James Mae Henson ’52, ’57
Elroy Alfred Lieberum ’53, ’56
Ann Storey (Peterson) Monk ’53
Marilyn Jane (Williams) Austin ’54
James Veryl Fojt ’54
Oliver Monroe Bond ’55
John Dean Gilpin ’55
John Louis Girouard ’55
Charles David Goodwin ’55
Ulma (Fife) Somerford ’55
Allen Moore Boren ’56, ’66
Mary Ann (Adams) Weber ’56
Herman Schoenemann ’57, ’59
Beverly Ann (Holder) Vornsand ’57, ’70
James Buchanan Manning ’58
Freddie Melvin Woodard ’58
Shirley Ann Cousins ’59
Atmar Davis ’59
Mary Margaret (Keeling) Erwin ’59
James A. Metcalf ’59
Gerald Wayen Orton ’59
Alvin Henry Coufal ’60
Sidney Allen Cox ’60
Carolyne Jean (Mcelyea) Dodd ’60
Billie Jean (Martin) Lynch ’60, ’68
Norman Winston Roberson ’60
Elizabeth Marcille (Carroll) Swaim ’60
Sue (Vick) Chellew ’61
Daniel Kenneth Holliday ’61
Jackie Lee Tucker ’61
Reubie Jane Elder-Treybig ’62
Phyllis (Powell) Gulle ’62
Robert Oscar McFarling ’62
Robbins Marshall Claypool ’63
Charles Dixon Orr ’63
Samuel Robert Vaughn ’63
Curtis Edwin Wills ’63, ’64
Johnny Parks Ellis ’64
Thomas Fred Lipscomb ’64
Juan Pastora ’64
Charles Coy Thompson ’64
William Seth Hartman ’65
Ronald Lee Hayhurst ’65, ’66
Frederich Reinhardt Schauer ’65
Willie Rupert Archer ’66
Rudy Klecka ’66
Mary (Swilley) McDonald ’66
Harold Edwin Stowe ’66
D’Anne (McAdams) Crews ’67
Alan Edward Huffman ’67
John Reding Mitchell ’67
James Marvin Skaines ’67
Howard Hansbro Drake ’68
Brenda Joyce Forehand ’68
Jacquelyn (Bumpous) Grant ’68
Daniel Louis Kallus ’68
James Herman Miller ’68, ’71
Frank Talamantes ’68, ’70
Gonzalo Lavios Cortinas ’69, ’73
Jimmie Wayne Fitzgerald ’69
Patsy Ruth (Lemons) Maddux ’69
Myra Caroline (Buck) Bright ’70
O’Nita Elizabeth Buchwald ’70, ’72
Betty Catherine (Pope) Cichowski ’70
Jesse Vernon Dorman ’70
Gay Alice (Jokl) Greenspan ’70
Leon Allen Meek ’70
Mary Louise (Riley) Schriner ’70
Joe Randal Smith ’70
Johanna (Briseno) Thomas ’70
Fred Michael Warren ’70
Margie Nell Wheeler ’70
Norma Ann (Baxter) Flournoy ’71
Melvyn Ira Glick ’71
Bonnie Ruth (Wheeler) Hendrix ’71
Robert Alan Holcomb ’71
Delmer Hilton Nichols ’71
Brenda Jo (Brown) Biever ’72
Braxton Allen Blalock ’72
Karen Sue (Behnke) Dooley ’72
Martin Earl Jones ’72
Wanda Jean (Henson) Mills ’72
William Herbert Palat ’72
Edward Lee Phillips ’72
William Lee Wilbanks ’72
Rosalind (Williams) Anderson ’73
Richard Russell Leach ’73
Wayne Blair Posey ’73
Tommie Ray Allen ’74, ’74
Dicki Lou Alston ’74
Mary Kathryn Kaough ’74
Richard John Snyder ’74, ’74
Dennis Aubrey Yoder ’74
George Augusta Holloway ’75
Rodger Watts ’75
Charles Edwin Kingsley ’76
Jack Willard Bruner ’77
Pamela Lynn (Page) Munn ’78
Anne Day Peter ’78
Robert Lawrence Riedel ’78
Luanne Wellborn ’78
James Wesley Belk ’80
Marco Antonio de la Guardia ’80
Kenneth Dean Langley ’81
Larry Don Tryon ’81
John Lewis Oxley ’83
Margaret Jean Saltsman ’83
Ellen Gay (Ausbrooks) Gatavi ’84
Mary Paulette Harris ’85
Pauline Toni (Cuchia) Sachitano ’85
Melissa Ann Wickel ’86
Shelley Lynnita (Harris) Harrison ’88
Timothy Hugh Parks ’88
Josephine Irene (Minerich) Nakata ’89
Cynthia Joy Coalson ’91
Justin Charles Lewis ’92
Deborah Gay Mathis ’92
Felicia Ann Whitlow ’92
James Richard Schnurr ’94
James Arnold Teel ’94
Cindy Gamel Hines ’96, ’99
Molly Jo (Ruppart) Gray ’97
B. Barreda 99
Elizabeth Jean Burke ’00
Gerald Dax Pummill ’00
Charlann Gail (Upton) Morris ’01
Susan Barrett O’Quinn ’02
Brett Stephen Upchurch ’08
Shannon Leigh (Dudman) Lowder ’09
Mackenzie Lavert Lowry ’09
Alexandra Eileen Trevino ’11
Elizabeth Marie (Nuelle) Barraza ’12
Ramon Lynn Shick ’12
Bailee Raye (Ackerman) Byler ’18
William Troy Byler, III ’18

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