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2005 Benefitting Hospice Austin

When a medical cure is not possible, Hospice Austin offers hope and healing of a different nature. Their mission is to provide comprehensive hospice and palliative care to patients and families in Central Texas who are facing terminal illness. Their purpose is to relieve physical, emotional and spiritual pain so that life can be experienced as fully and hopefully as possible. Hospice Austin also provides emotional and spiritual support for hospice families and others in our community as they heal during bereavement.

2005 Table Hosts

Rob Balon Chief executive officer of market research firm the Benchmark Company, and noted author, speaker and expert witness; equally well known as Austin bon vivant and host of Dining Out with Rob Balon

Megan Biesele Anthropologist who has lived and worked for extended periods among the Bushmen hunters of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana and Namibia; also co-founder and director of the Kalahari Peoples Fund and a highly respected anthropology teacher and writer

H.W. Brands Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, Pulitzer Prize finalist, New York Times best-selling author and publisher of dozens of scholarly articles and scores of book reviews

Norma Cantu Professor of Law and Education at The University of Texas at Austin, former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights under President Bill Clinton and former regional counsel and education director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Ed Clements Co-host of the Morning Show and SportsTalk on NewsRadio 590 KLBJ, co-host of Longhorn GameDay, sports director for the six area Emmis Austin Radio stations and announcer for the presidential inaugural parades of 2001 and 2005

Betty Sue Flowers Director of the LBJ Presidential Library, former Kelleher Professor of English and director of creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin and co-author with Bill Moyers of a series of books including Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

Augie Garrido Head coach of the Texas Longhorns baseball team, the NCAA Champions in 2005 and 2003 and two-time Big 12 Conference Champions; all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I baseball history

Mike Heiligenstein Executive director of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority and chair of the Central Texas Clean Air Force, as well as former Williamson County commissioner and two-time vice chair of the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council

Jim Hightower Leader of the country's contemporary populist movement, nationally syndicated radio and television commentator, New York Times best-selling author, in-demand public speaker and former Texas Agriculture Commissioner

John Kunz Owner of Waterloo Records and Video, which has been voted Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll winner for "Best Record Store" every year since 1982 and is recognized as one of the country's best record stores by 20+ publications including Billboard and Vanity Fair

Mark McKinnon Media advisor for the 2004 and 2000 presidential campaigns of President George W. Bush, principal media advisor for dozens of communications campaigns worldwide, vice chairman of Public Strategies, Inc. and president of Maverick Media

Roy Minton Dean of Austin's trial lawyers and one of the most skilled and colorful members of the Austin bar; the lawyer you call first when you have a "bet the farm" case

Evan Smith Editor and executive vice president of Texas Monthly magazine, which recently received its third National Magazine Award for General Excellence; previously deputy editor of The New Republic and writer for GQ, Mother Jones and other national publications

Bill Stotesbery Now president and CEO of KLRU-TV, once one of the original employees of the technology research consortium MCC; also a community leader who has served on the boards of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Austin

Will Taylor Jazz and classical musician, pop-rock-jazz collaborator, composer and leader of the innovative contemporary-music group Strings Attached; also presenter of the American Roots in-schools program to expose young people to American music and musicians

Sarah Weddington Plaintiff's attorney in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, former Texas state representative and assistant to President Jimmy Carter, adjunct professor at The University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Weddington Center for leadership skills development

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