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Communities In Schools of North Texas announces new chief executive officer

Fri, May 6, 2016 - 8:00am

Read the original story at: Star Local Media

Communities In Schools of North Texas, an organization dedicated to surrounding students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life since 1993, has announced the selection of Ann Pape, MPA,  as its new chief executive officer.

Pape will fill the vacancy created by Dana Smith’s departure in February to join CIS National. The decision was made after a national search and selection process conducted by the CISNT Board of Directors.

Kathy Duke, president of Communities In Schools, stated, "We are so pleased to support Ann as she leads the team at CIS. Ann brings the passion...

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Forney ISD announces new Instructional Technology Director and Forney Academic Center principal
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Fri, Apr 22, 2016 - 8:00am

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The Forney Independent School District recently announced that Stormy Lemond, currently the principal at the Forney Academic Center (FAC), has been named the Director of Instructional Technology for the District. Lemond will continue her role as the principal of the FAC through the remainder of the 2015-2016 school year and move into her new role with the District in June.

In her new role with the District, Lemond will be responsible for the integration of media and technology within the instructional programs by designing, developing, implementing, supervising and coordinating programs to promote the use of media and...

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UMB Bank Hires Mina Castaneda as Senior Vice President of Healthcare Lending in Texas
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Fri, Apr 15, 2016 - 8:00am

Read the original story at: Senior Housing Business

UMB Bank, a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corp. , has hired UNT alumna Mina Castaneda as senior vice president of healthcare lending out of the company’s Dallas office.

Castaneda is responsible for healthcare finance and senior living finance throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona. 

Castaneda has more than 26 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, with the last 15 years focused on healthcare lending. Prior to her role at UMB, she was vice president of the healthcare and senior living lending group at Comerica Bank.

Castaneda graduated from the University of North Texas. She...

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Dr. Jeremy Earnhart Joins the Music for All Board of Directors
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Thu, Apr 14, 2016 - 8:00am

Read the original story at: Focus Daily News

INDIANAPOLIS—Jeremy L. Earnhart, Ed.D., Director of Fine Arts for the Arlington, TX Independent School District has been elected to the Music for All Board of Directors. Music for All is a nonprofit educational organization, whose mission is to create, provide, and expand positively life-changing experiences through music for all.“As we continue to work through the myriad of music education, development, adjudication, and advocacy issues Dr. Earnhart’s input will be of great value to the organization,” says Gayl Doster, Chairman of the Music for All Board of Directors. “He will help us expand opportunities for Music for All as we...
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Filling the bill
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Thu, Mar 10, 2016 - 8:00am

Read the original story at: Denton Record-Chronicle

by Rhiannon Saegert

As 35 Denton expands, the festival’s talent buyers Charlie Hunter and Dallas Guill have expanded their horizons as well, bringing on a new booking person whose musical background is different, but equally tied to Denton.

With roughly 30 paid bands and about 130 other acts, they turned to Christopher Walker, a University of North Texas music composition graduate who works at the school’s composition studies and music education divisions as an administrative assistant, as well as at local venue Andy’s Bar as a talent buyer.

“We started off, just Dallas and I, hammering away at it. And when...

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