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Executives,
grads ignore
UT in survey
AUSTIN (AP) — The University
of Texas’ exclusion from a recent
Business Week magazine poll has
sent shock waves through the uni
versity’s graduate school of business.
“We’re taking this very seriously,”
Robert Witt, dean of the graduate
school, said. “We would be making a
mistake if we did not take it se
riously.”
This is the second Business Week
ranking of schools. In 1986, the
magazine ranked UT 17th in the na
tion.
A 1987 U.S. News & World Re
port article ranked Texas in a tie for
11th with Dartmouth University.
Witt said part of the reason the
University of Texas failed to make
the latest top 20 was a change in the
way the magazine conducted its sur
vey.
In 1986, the poll was generated
from interviews with corporate re
cruiters, senior corporate executive
officers and the deans of 23 business
schools.
“This year they dropped the
deans out of the survey and replaced
them with a survey of recent grad
uates — May graduates — of the 23
schools involved,” Witt said.
X WARNeV HIM Aeour
PLAYING WITH TH6 HAMMTT?.
Ex-HISD official sued
for student loan fraud
Tyler woman charged
in death of resident
of Michigan rest home
AUSTIN (AP) — A former Hous
ton school superintendent and the
legal counsel to the Texas Associa
tion of School Boards are among
those sued by a woman who claims
she was defrauded of $39,000 in an
insurance and student loan scheme.
Amelia Colvin, 31, also has named
two Austin businessmen in the suit.
She has filed complaints with the
Travis County district attorney and
the State Securities Board.
Colvin, who now lives in Los An
geles, says the defendants persuaded
her to invest in the now-defunct Se-
rengeti Corp. of Austin to sell insur
ance policies linked to guaranteed
student loans.
The suit describes Serengeti,
doing business as the College Finan
cial Counseling Group, as a sham
corporation used by the defendants
to get Colvin’s money by “fraud and
misrepresentation.”
Named as defendants are Billy
Reagan, former superintendent of
the Houston district; Ray Morrison,
counsel to the school board associa
tion and former president of the
Houston school board; Austin busi
nessmen Herbert Moseley and R.
Michael Black; and Philip Kleas, a
former Austin resident.
All have been principals in Se
rengeti, according to state records.
Records of the state comptroller in
dicated the company was out of busi
ness as of June 6 because of unpaid
franchise taxes, the Austin Ameri-
can-Statesman reported.
Reagan and Morrison said they
had little to do with Serengeti and
that Moseley ran the company. Mo
seley declined to comment on the
suit for what he said were legal rea
sons, although he did say Colvin’s
charges would be proven “un
founded.”
WALKER, Mich. (AP) — Two
women, including one from Tyler,
were charged with murder Monday
in connection with the deaths of two
residents of a nursing home, where
authorities are investigating eight
suspicious deaths.
Gwendolyn Gail Graham, 25, was
arrested late Sunday at her Tyler
apartment and was being held in the
Smith County jail, Sheriff Jay B.
Smith said Monday. Michigan offi
cials said they would seek extradition
of the Texas woman.
Graham was charged with one
count of murder and did not waive
extradition during a hearing Mon
day in state district court.
Catherine May Wood, 26, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., also appeared
in Michigan before State District
Judge Sherwin Venema, who sched
uled a preliminary examination for
Dec. 16. Wood was returned to jail
without bond.
Wood faces up to life in prison if
convicted. She and Graham worked
at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home,
where some residents may have been
suffocated in their beds, Walker Po
lice Chief Walter Sprenger said. Of
ficials originally believed the patients
had died of natural causes.
Investigators believe at least some
of the residents were suffocated in
their beds, the police chief said.
He declined to speculate on the
motive, or to label the deaths mercy
killings. Detectives have investigated
but been unable to confirm allega
tions that the suspects began choos
ing their victims based on initials of
the victims’ names, which they
hoped to use to spell the word “mur
der,” Sprenger said.
He said the investigation had ex
panded to cover eight deaths at the
home in the western Lower Penin
sula town, a suburb of Grand Rap
ids.
Police arrested the Grand Rapids
woman early Monday and were
holding her in the Kent County Jail
pending arraignment on an open
charge of murder, Deputy Thomas
Zlydaszyk said.
Sprenger said the two former
nurse’s aides were being charged in
the deaths of Marguerite Chambers,
60, and Edith Cook, 98, whose bod
ies underwent autopsies after being
exhumed last week.
Sprenger said at least one other
body might be exhumed. Of the
eight cases being investigated, three
of the bodies were cremated.
About 40 patients died at the
nursing home during January-April
1987, when the eight suspicious
deaths occurred, Alpine Manor
spokesman Ginny Seyferth said. She
said Monday that was lower than the
normal death rate for such a facility.
Alpine has 208 patients.
“The motive is the key,” Sprenger
said. “It’s a complex motive. . . . It’s a
complex case. It’s so complex it’s
going to take a lengthy trial ... to
make a lot of sense.”
He refused to say if either woman
had confessed or made any com
ment to authorities. He said the in
vestigation will continue, and he said
more charges may be filed.
“We’ll continue now looking at the
other six (deaths),” he said. There
didn’t appear to be other suspects in
the case, he said.
He said the results of autopsies
conducted on two bodies that were
exhumed were inconclusive.
The Grand Rapids Press reported
the women lived together while
working at the nursing home,
according to the ex-husband of the
Grand Rapids woman and other
friends and former co-workers. Gra
ham worked as a nurse’s aide at a
hospital until recently, the newspa
per said.
The eight deaths being investi
gated occurred during the first half
of 1987. At the time, their deaths
were considered natural and no au
topsies were conducted.
Graham worked at the home from
June 1986 to June 1987, according
to Seyferth.
The Michigan Department of
Public Health was reported as saying
Sunday it also was investigating the
Alpine deaths as standard proce
dure in cases of unusual occurrences
that involve patients.
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