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 FINE ARTS FACULTY


 

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.

 

 

Dr. Karen McBee (2003)
Director

Dr. 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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 theory, jazz appreciation, classical and jazz guitar.

 

Susan Honeywell (2004)
S
peech/Theater

Susan (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. 


Reginald Peters (2008)
Theater

Reginald 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.

 


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.

Kary Raine (2004)
Theater

Kary 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. 

 

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.

 

 

Libby Stapleton (2002)
Communication

Libby 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.

 

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.