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FINE ARTS FACULTY
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Front row:
Beckie Compton, music; Burlon Wilkerson, speech; Dr. Karen
McBee, Division Director. Stairs, front row: Larry Greer, music,
Michael Gallagher, Stage Operations Manager; Libby Stapleton,
student publications; Suzi Honeywell, speech; Robbie Roach, art;
Kary Raine, theater; Sabrina Collins, speech; Bonnie Nunn,
Hudgins Hall secretary. Stairs, second row: Michele Hill, Fine
Arts secretary; Jan Anderson-Paxson, graphic arts/journalism;
Reginald Peters, theater; Reg Reynolds, graphic arts. |
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Dr. Karen McBee
(2003)
DirectorDr. McBee is responsible for the Art, Speech and
Journalism Communications, Design and Applied Arts, Theater and
Music programs. She has a bachelor's degree in music education
from East Texas Baptist University, a master's degree in
music-piano performance from the University of Texas at San
Antonio, and a doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance
from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in
Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. McBee teaches class piano, applied
piano, music appreciation and music literature at Angelina
College.
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Jan Anderson-Paxson
(2002)
Communications & Graphic Arts
Jan Anderson-Paxson has taught journalism classes at Angelina College
full time since 2002.
She also teaches classes in the Design and Applied Arts Program. She works with photography students on student publications.
Anderson-Paxson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas, master's degrees
in Communication and Fine Arts,
and an MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University. She was the first female television photographer in Kansas when she went to work at KARD-TV in Wichita, Kansas. She has worked as a photographer for the Lufkin Daily News and
the Diboll Free Press. She is the official photographer for Angelina College.
www.jananderson-paxson.com
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Sabrina Collins
(1999)
Speech
Sabrina Collins has taught speech for Angelina College since 1999. Her teaching emphasis is in Interpersonal Communication where she is very active in creating a unique teaching environment incorporating the Ropes Course on campus. She also assists with the Angelina College forensics team and has been a faculty sponsor for Club Express, the campus speech club. Collins has a bachelor's degree in Speech Communications and Behavioral Sciences from East Texas Baptist University and a master's degree in Speech Communications from Stephen F. Austin State University
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Beckie Compton
(1998)
Music
Beckie Compton has taught music at AC since 1998. She is
the director of the award-winning AC Singers, and Chorale. Compton teaches
Piano, Music Appreciation, Music Theory, and Fundamentals of
Music. She has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from
SFASU, with concentrations in composition, piano and conducting. Compton is an active member of the Texas Choral Director's Association and Texas Music Educator's Association.
She formerly served as Hospitality Chair, All-State Chair
Coordinator and President of the Texas Two-Year College Choral Director's Association.
Compton has also traveled to Poland, Belgium, Scotland, Cuba and
Brazil with various orchestras as pianist.
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Larry Greer
(1998)
Music
Larry Greer has bachelor's and master's degrees from SFASU in composition and theory.
In addition to teaching at AC since 1992, he has taught at Stephen
F. Austin and Sam Houston State University. He is an active member
of IAJE Texas and TMEA. In addition to directing the ACC Big Band,
the AC Roadrunner Jazz Combo, and the AC Guitar Ensemble, he teaches
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Susan Honeywell (2004)
Speech/TheaterSusan (Suzi) Honeywell teaches
Business and Professional Speaking, Public Speaking, Interpersonal
Speaking, Voice and Diction and Communication and Intro to
Technology and Human Communication. Once in a while you may find
her teaching an Introduction to Drama course or speaking for an
organization on or off campus. Honeywell came to Angelina College
in 2004 after teaching at Tyler Junior College and Kilgore College.
She has been a presenter at the TCCTA annual convention. She is a
co-producer of Communication and the Workplace, an annual
event that joins the Lufkin business community with Angelina College
students. Her bachelor's and master's degrees are from the
University of Texas at Tyler.
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Reginald Peters (2008)
TheaterReginald Peters holds a M.A. in Drama from Texas
Woman's University, a B.F.A. Cum Laude in Performance from The
University of Texas at Arlington, a Texas Educator Certificate in
Secondary Theatre Arts and Communications from Texas A & M Commerce,
and an A.A. from Northeast Texas Community College. He is also a
former vice president and member of Alpha Psi Omega, the national
honorary theatre fraternity and enrolled in the Equity Membership
Candidacy program. Peters has worked with such Theatres as, Plano
Repertory Theatre, Richardson Theatre Centre, Theatre Northeast,
Garland Civic Theatre, Fort Worth Theatre, Stage West and Dallas
Summer Musicals as a Box Office Sales Associate and Assistant
Manager.
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Reginald Reynolds
(2004)
Art/Graphic Arts Reginald Reynolds, art/graphic arts
instructor, is developing the Design and Applied Arts Program.
Reynolds began teaching at AC as an adjunct in 1989 and became a full
time instructor in 2004. He has worked in freelance video and film
production for more than 20 years. Reynolds has a bachelor's degree
from Lamar University and a MFA from Stephen F. Austin State
University.
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Kary Raine
(2004)
TheaterKary Raine earned a master’s degree in theater from Stephen F. Austin State University.
Raine is AC’s representative for the Texas Educational Theater Association. She will also provide leadership when
four UIL contests are hosted on campus during the spring semester.
Raine, who was involved in Community Theater in Kentucky and Missouri, said her strengths are in directing theatrical performances.
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Robbie Lacomb Roach
(1993)
Art
Robbie Lacomb Roach studied at University of New Orleans, and Louisiana Tech University. Roach received her BFA, MA and MFA at
SFASU. She is an instructor of Art History, Printmaking and Painting. Roach has served abroad as the Artist in Residence for the Tangier American Legation Museum.
In 2005 and 2006 Roach exhibited her photographs and etchings at the
American University in Paris, France. In 2006 she lectured at Harris
Manchester College, Oxford University, England at a Fine
Arts/Science Round Table.
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Libby Stapleton
(2002)
CommunicationLibby Stapleton is a journalism instructor/coordinator of student
publications. In addition to her teaching load, she supervises The Pacer, the student newspaper, and
AC View, the student magazine. Stapleton was self-employed for 21 years in a printing and publishing business in Houston and Lufkin. She taught at Nacogdoches and Lufkin high schools for five and a half years. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Burlon Wilkerson
(2001)
Speech
Burlon Wilkerson teaches Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication. He came to Angelina College in 2001 after teaching Speech, English,
Journalism, and Drama for 28 years in local high schools. Wilkerson was also
heavily involved in coaching UIL and Academic Decathlon activities during
that time. Several of his students won awards at State Meets.
He has a bachelor's degree in Public Speaking and a master's degree in
Communication from Stephen F. Austin State
University.
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