Current Board Members

August ("Happy") W. Harris III, President, Class of 1982
August or "Happy" has deep Austin High family roots and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. After many years in the banking industry, in 2002, he took a new path and founded Covenant Financial Solutions, LLC, a merchant service provider and banking consulting practice. He also is a state certified mediator. Happy currently serves as President of the West Austin Neighborhood Group, Chairs the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's Transportation Committee, serves on the Board of the Heritage Society of Austin; and is a member of the Texas Nature Conservancy's Generation Conservation Steering Committee. He is a graduate of Leadership Austin's Class of 2008.

Morgan Stone, Vice President, Class of 1988
Morgan has been a Board Member since 1998 and is President of Stone Asset Management, Inc., an investment advisor firm located in Austin.  Morgan is also a member of the Financial Planning Association and the Estate Planning Council of Central Texas and is active in the Austin chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. 

Marty Douglas Rosenfield, Treasurer, Class of 1962
Marty attended both The University of Houston and The University of Texas at Austin.  She has been in the financial services industry since 1968 and is currently Vice President/Trust Officer of Austin Trust Company. 

Jerry Adams, Class of 1956
Hall of Honor Distinguished Alumnus

Jerry is a retired FBI Special Agent, and is a co-founder and past President of AHSCEF. While working in the Texas Governor’s Office, he helped write and implement the Texas Homeland Security Program. He is the owner of Gerald Adams & Associates, Inc., a private investigation/security corporation. He is past President of the Ronald Mc Donald House and the Society for Former Special Agents of the FBI. His wife, Gay Stolley, is a 1957 AHS graduate.  Jerry is the recipient of the 2005 PEACE AWARD from the International Institute for Interfaith Dialog, Inc.

Dell Boykin, Class of 1988
Dell has almost 20 years of real estate and special asset experience and is currently Senior Vice President at Austin Trust Company. He is an active member of the Coastal Conservation Association and an associate member of Bachelors of Austin. A die hard Longhorn, Dell attended the University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Angie, have wonderful twin girls.

Alice Marshall Davis, Class of 1960
Hall of Honor Honored Faculty

Alice is married to John M. Davis, class of 1959. She received a B.S. in Education and an M.A. in Geographic Education from the University of Texas.  She retired in 2005 after 34 1/2 years in the classroom.  Of those years, 26 were spent teaching geography, Asian Studies, sociology and English at Austin High.  She was also the Social Studies Department Chair and sponsored the Hall of Honor Steering Committee for five years.  Alice is a member of the Assistance League of Austin, Austin Retired Teacher's Association and Zeta Eta chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma society.

Tony Diggs, Class of 1983
Tony received a BS from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State), San Marcos, Texas in 1987.  We went on to receive his MS in Criminal Justice from the same institution in 1993.  He has been employed with the Texas Board of Nursing since 1989.  He currently serves as Director of Enforcement for this State agency.  Tony has served on several non-profit boards and is a member of the Gamma Eta Lambda chapter of  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.  Tony and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two children.

Ann Lavercombe Doctorman, Class of 1956
Ann attended The University of Texas at Austin.  For a number of years she worked in state government – as personal corresponding secretary to Attorney General Crawford Martin and  as administrative assistant to State Representative (and later Speaker of the House) Pete Laney.   For  31 years, Ann  served in the private sector as Executive Assistant to the President and Vice-Presidents of Texas Oil & Gas Association (TxOGA), a trade association for the Texas oil and gas industry.  Ann retired from TxOGA in 2009. 

Brooks Goldsmith, Class of 1951
Brooks graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston. After serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps in Fort Carson, Colorado, Brooks returned to Austin in 1961 to establish a private practice in General Dentistry. He and wife Anne, have two grown children, Eric and Blake.

Marsha Jensen, Class of 1956
Marsha graduated from the University of Texas and was a teacher for 20 years in Austin, Bangkok, and Okinawa. She then worked for the State of Texas Department of Information Resources.  In 1991, Jerry Adams and Marsha discovered the need for the scholarships and founded AHSCEF.  She is a past president of AHSCEF and has served with other charitable organizations.

Sam Kimberlin, Class of 1945
Sam received a BBA. and LLB from The University of Texas at Austin. He served as First Assistant District Attorney of Travis County, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Counsel for the Texas Department of Banking, and for 28 years as the managing officer of the Texas Bankers Association prior to his retirement from that position. Currently he is consultant to Austin Trust Company and a director of Thornhill Securities, Inc., and he serves as an appointee of the Dean on the U. T. Third Age University Council, which is composed of representatives of SAGE, LAMP, QUEST and FORUM.

Bennie Maldonado, Class of 1980
Bennie graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Electrical Engineering.  He is one of five Austin High graduates in his immediate family following two sisters and a brother with a younger sister that followed him as the fifth graduate.  Bennie has worked for the University of Texas Applied Research Laboratories for 25 years contributing to research and development projects for the U.S. Navy.  He has also contributed to the UT Austin mentoring program for new students and Orange Santa.  Bennie is married to wife, Tina, and has two stepsons, Christian and Carson, currently pursuing college degrees at Tarleton State University.

David L. Roche, Class of 1975 
Member of the last class to graduate from the Rio Grande Campus. BBA in Accounting from The University of Texas 1979. Founding partner of Endeavor Real Estate Group, a company dedicated to increasing the value of commercial real estate. Past president of the Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Past chairman of the board of Texas Industry for the Blind and Handicapped (TIBH), board member of Austin Commercial Real Estate Society, Austin Woods and Waters and advisory board member of The Helping Hand Home for Children and Sovereign Bank.

Alden B. Smith, Class of 1955
Alden has kept Austin High all in the family. His wife, Barbara Leonard, AHS Class of '56, and their three sons all graduated from Austin High:  Leonard, a lawyer, Class of '80; Mark, a real estate appraiser, Class of '83; and Lamar, a high school history teacher and tennis coach, Class of '87.  After earning a B.B.A. from the University of Texas, Alden spent 17 years as a stockbroker, but now concentrates on owning and managing commercial real estate, directing stock market investments, and overseeing assets in the oil and gas industry and in various partnerships.

Cynthia Goodrich Smith, Class of 1984
Cyndy took full advantage of her years at Austin High School by being involved in as many academic and extracurricular activities as possible.  She then graduated with a BA from the University of Virginia, where she met her husband Eric, also a Texan with Austin roots.  They have 2 children and have recently moved back to Austin after several decades living in Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh, Prague and London.  After a career in public relations and then non-profit communications and development, Cyndy enjoys volunteering in the Austin community.

Mary-Jane Parker Williams, Class of 1984
Mary-Jane attended Stephens College, in Columbia Missouri graduating in 1988. She started selling residential real estate for Moreland Properties in 2002. In 2006 she married Andy Williams AHS Class of 79. She is involved with several local charities, including Austin Smiles, Austin Pets Alive and The Seton Fund.

Delano Womack, Class of 1952
Hall of Honor Distinguished Alumnus
Delano married his high school sweetheart, Margaret Ann Olle in 1954. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1956 with a B.B.A. in Marketing and Real Estate. Delano is still active in the real estate industry in Austin and the surrounding area and has been on the Board since 1996. (Read article about 2011 Ceremony)

 

Past Board Members

Boone Almanza 1981
Bob Armstrong
John Avery 1964
Bo Byers 1936
Rosario Mercado Baxter 1956
Harry L. Bengtson, Jr. 1948
Bob Dowd 1957
Beverly Dunn 1968
John Fainter, Jr.,Esq. 1957
Bill Gaston 1944
Brian Gaston 1974
Carol Hatfield 1952
Stacy Looney 1983
Bitsy Henderson Mallory 1966
Mario Markarzel 1980
Don McCullough 1957
Nancy Middlebrook 1966
Charles Moody 1984
David C. Parker 1952
Cary Petri 1965
Lee Person  
Cathy Powell 1960
Lynn Remadna 1967
Susie Salinas 1985
Mrs. Vivian Todd 1939
Carol de al Torre  
Barry Williams 1945