McMurry University

Alumni Achievement Awards: Night of Distinction
2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Graduates of McMurry University are leaders in their professions and their communities, living extraordinary lives that embody McMurry’s core values of Learning, Excellence, and Service.
The University will honor seven alumni who have made a significant difference in their communities and professions at the Alumni Achievement: Night of Distinction dinner on Friday, April 25, 2025, as part of McMurry’s annual Spring Alumni Weekend.
The 2025 McMurry University Alumni Achievement Award honorees are:
Distinguished Alumni Award
MELODY HUNT ’79
Young Alumni Achievement Award
DANNI McMAHAN ’12
Ann Spence Servant Leadership Award
JoLISA HOOVER ’92
Honorary Alumni Award
KATHI AND MURRAY EDWARDS
Outstanding Alumni Award in Business
SARAH GRAHAM ’63
Outstanding Alumni Award in Education
ROGELIO GARCIA ’98
Outstanding Alumni Award in Fine Arts
BRIAN HECIMOVICH ’08
Outstanding Alumni Award in Math & Sciences
DR. RICK QUY ’70
Outstanding Alumni Award in Humanities, Religion, and Social Sciences
KRISTINA JONES ’92

Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Works (Classes Suspended)
2025-04-25 09:00 - 14:00

Spring Alumni Weekend
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26
April 25-26, 2025
Join us for a full weekend of events!

Alumni Achievement Awards: Night of Distinction
Friday, April 25 at 7 p.m. $30 per person, $350 tables of 8
Affinity Group and Social Club Exes Association Reunions/Meetings
Ring Ceremony
Saturday, April 26 at 1 p.m.

Spring 2025 Exercise Classes
2025-04-23 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-16 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-09 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-04-02 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-03-31 17:30 - 18:30 and 3 more dates
Classes are open to the public. Classes will focus on cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength, endurance, and core.
Location: Hunt PE
$40 per semester or $5 per class
Contact: Janet McMurray

Men's Bible Study
2025-04-22 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-15 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-08 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-04-01 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:30
Location: In front of the Grill (Campus Center)

Easter Monday Holiday
2025-04-21

Women's Bible Study
2025-04-20 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-04-13 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-04-06 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-03-30 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-03-23 16:00 - 17:30
Location: Mabee Rm. D

Good Friday Holiday
2025-04-18

Registration Begins for Summer and Fall 2025
2025-04-07

Women‘s Leadership Luncheon
2025-03-27 11:45 - 13:00 | Mabee Room
McMurry University’s annual Women’s Leadership Luncheon will host Shannon Sedgwick Davis ’96 as the keynote speaker. Join us in celebration of women’s achievements!
Shannon Sedgwick Davis ’96 is the CEO of Bridgeway Foundation and the author of To Stop a Warlord. The Bridgeway Foundation is a philanthropic organization dedicated to ending and preventing mass atrocities around the world. Established in 2000 as the charitable giving arm of Bridgeway Capital Management, the organization serves as a catalyst for peace and reconciliation in international communities suffering from oppression, genocide, and other human rights violations. An attorney, activist, and passionate advocate for social justice, Ms. Sedgwick Davis has guided the Bridgeway Foundation in pioneering solutions to seemingly intractable issues around the world. The organization has supported the work of groups like Aegis Trust, Resolve Uganda, Human Rights Watch, Invisible Children, and dozens of community-based organizations. Ms. Sedgwick Davis and the Bridgeway Foundation have been credited for their pivotal role in mobilizing awareness, civilian protection, and recovery efforts to counter the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony, the first-ever indictee of the International Criminal Court. Ms. Sedgwick Davis and the Foundation’s work have been featured on NBC’s TODAY, TEDxSanAntonio, PBS NewsHour, and in Forbes.
Before joining Bridgeway Foundation in 2007, Ms. Sedgwick Davis served as Vice President of Geneva Global, a leading philanthropic consulting firm that advises individuals, foundations, non-profit organizations, and corporations on international development, global health, and poverty solutions. Previously, Ms. Sedgwick Davis was the Director of Public Affairs at the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights agency that focuses on ending slavery, forced prostitution, and illegal land seizures in the developing world. Her work in helping rescue children from sex trafficking in the Svay Pak village of Cambodia was featured in the 2005 Emmy award-winning piece, “Children for Sale,” on Dateline.
Ms. Sedgwick Davis is an honors graduate of McMurry University and Baylor Law School, from which she received the institution’s Young Lawyer of the Year Award in 2011. Her other recognitions include the Nomi Network’s 2014 Abolitionist Award; a Global Human Rights Hero award from Saving Innocence; the Navy SEAL “Fire in the Gut” Award; and the 2022 International Citizen of the Year Award from the World Affairs Council of San Antonio. Ms. Sedgwick Davis serves on the advisory council of The Elders and is a board member of several organizations including Humanity United, charity: water, Verdant Frontiers, and, formerly, TOMS.
All proceeds from this event benefit the Dr. Sandra S. Harper Women’s Leadership Scholarship at McMurry.

KINESIOLOGY KLUB ANNUAL GARBAGE PICKUP
2025-03-25 18:00 - 19:00
Location: McMurry Campus
Contact Pamela Verhulst for more information.
verhulst.pamela@mcm.edu

Wilson-Bennet Lecture Series
2025-03-18 19:30 - 20:30
Who are My People: Revolutionary Belonging in the Book of Acts
Dr. Jennings is a famous Black theologian and accomplished author who won the 2020 book of the year award from Publisher’s Weekly.
Dr. Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School.
In addition to being a frequent lecturer at colleges, universities, and seminaries, Dr. Jennings is also a regular workshop leader at conferences. He is also a consultant for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and for the Association of Theological Schools.
He served along with his wife, the Reverend Joanne L. Browne Jennings as associate ministers at the Mount Level Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, and for many years, they served together as interim
pastors for several Presbyterian and Baptist churches in North Carolina. They are the parents of two wonderful daughters, Njeri and Safiya Jennings.
