Julian Nance "Jay" Carsey (1935-2000) was a United States college professor who twice disappeared to begin a new life.
Carsey was born in Ballinger, Texas and graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in 1952. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1958. Upon graduation, he received a commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves. [1] He graduated from George Washington University with a doctorate in public administration in 1971. He served with the United States Army. In 1965, he became a president of Charles County Community College (now the College of Southern Maryland) in Maryland.
In May 1982 Carsey left his wife Nancy Stevens Brumfield and his job and left Maryland, heading to Texas. He left a note saying he did not want to drag his wife down with him and she granted him a divorce in 1985. They had no children.
Carsey moved to El Paso, Texas, married Dawn Peacock Garcia, and taught mathematics at US Air Force bases in Europe. In 1988, he did administrative work with El Paso Community College and had an interview with an investigative reporter Jonathan Coleman. However, in December 1992 he vanished again and later divorced Dawn.
According to an interviewed source in Coleman's book Exit the Rainmaker, Carsey, when in his early 20s, fathered a child in Texas who he paid child support for a period of time, but did not acknowledge or contact. Carsey moved to Jacksonville, Florida and taught in some of the local colleges. He later moved in with Corinne Silverton.
Jay Carsey died in Jacksonville in August 2000.
Silvestre "Silver" Reyes is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district, serving from 1997 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence between 2007 and 2011. In the Democratic Primary election on May 29, 2012, Reyes lost by a margin wide enough to avert a runoff election to former El Paso city councilman Beto O'Rourke.
Grace Under Fire is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 29, 1993, to February 17, 1998. The show starred Brett Butler as a single mother learning how to cope with raising her three children alone after finally divorcing her abusive husband. The series was created by Chuck Lorre and produced by Carsey-Werner Productions.
Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers, and worked in the fields as a young boy. However, he achieved social mobility through education—earning a degree at Southwest Texas State University, and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) at the University of Oklahoma—and came to believe strongly in the virtues of education for Mexican-Americans.
Jay J. Armes is an American private investigator and actor. He is known for his prosthetic hands and a line of children's action figures based on his image.
Donna Axum was an American beauty pageant winner, author, television executive producer, philanthropist and model. She was crowned Miss America in 1964. One month earlier she had been crowned Miss Arkansas.
Jonathan Coleman is an American author of literary nonfiction living in New York City.
Ysleta High School is a high school in the Ysleta Independent School District in Ysleta, El Paso, Texas. It is located on 8600 Alameda and is the second oldest school in the El Paso, TX area.
Robert Lee Dobbs was an American football fullback and coach.
Theodore Quillin was an American radio personality who worked at KFWB.
W. C. Mackey is an American author and social scientist who has researched topics in anthropology, criminal justice and criminology, psychology, and sociology in his academic and professional career. He has authored Fathering Behaviors and The American Father, and co-authored the 2000 book Gender Roles, Traditions and Generations to Come: The Collision of Competing Interests and the Feminist Paradox with Nancy S. Coney for Nova Science Publishing. He has written on the relationship of gender on parental interaction.
Haskell Moorman Monroe Jr. was an American educator and university administrator who led the University of Texas at El Paso from 1980–87 and the University of Missouri from 1987-93.
Tom Moore was an American cartoonist and member of National Cartoonists Society, known for his work on the Archie Comic Book series in the late 1950s, and then again in the late 1980s.
Lydia Patterson Institute is a Methodist Christian college-preparatory school located in El Paso, Texas, United States. Founded in 1913 it offers programs for Spanish-speaking children, primarily from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to attend high school in the United States and attend a Methodist graduate university. All high school classes are taught in English, and the school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Kirk Wilson is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in Major League Soccer and the USL A-League.
Bernice Love Wiggins was an African American poet writing during the Harlem Renaissance period. Her work was published in the El Paso Herald, the Chicago Defender, the Houston Informer, and other newspapers across Texas.
Kimie Yanagawa Sanematsu (Tokuyama) was an American educator. In 1953 she was the first Japanese person to be naturalized in the United States since 1922, and the first in El Paso, Texas. News from the time period also stated that she was the first Japanese woman to be naturalized in the United States under the McCarran immigration act.
Kate Moore Brown was an American musician, clubwoman and traveler who lived in El Paso, Texas. Brown was one of the first graduates of El Paso High School. She was the first person to teach music in the public schools in Texas and El Paso and was the first woman to own a bicycle in El Paso. Brown is also one of the original creators of the El Paso International Museum which later became the El Paso Museum of Art.
Joan H. Quarm was an American educator, theater director, and actor. She was a major figure in El Paso theater productions from the late 1950s until the 2000s. She was responsible for creating two theater companies in El Paso, including the first bilingual theater company in the city. Quarm also worked as a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and as a theater critic.
Glendon Garfield Oakley Jr. was a United States Army private who has been called a hero for helping escort unaccompanied children during the 2019 El Paso shooting. His tale went viral, earning him an Army Commendation Medal, but later it prompted skeptical comments from police, who said they could not verify Oakley's claims. Authorities did not interview the people who were at the mall because of the distance and therefore cannot verify Oakley's story. “We have no independent confirmation to support his claims,” Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said. “Nobody has come forward and told us that their child or anyone else was saved.” Since then, Oakley was held at the Bell County Jail. A detail from Fort Bliss was sent to extradite him for being “absent without leave,” said Master. Sgt. Vin Stevens, an installation spokesman, offering few details.
Davíd Livingston Carrasco was an American government official and college basketball coach.