Best Wishes !!!
Since that time, Iris has risen through the ranks of secretarial positions to Administrative Assistant, and no Baylor administrator ever had a better one than Iris. Those who’ve worked with her know of her cheery disposition and the competent way she handled all her business. She started with our Center for Allied Health Professions working on a graduate teacher education program funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a program that has produced hundreds of graduates who’ve trained thousands of allied health professionals. This was when the PA program and the High School for Health Professions were still new programs – now they are celebrating a quarter of a century of offering quality training at Baylor. She’s personally arranged for 17 years of our annual Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology course that has trained almost 3,000 persons. Iris typed all of our grants back before any of us had PCs, and no one was better than her at cutting and pasting or using whiteout to make an original copy that had been retyped a few times look like a clean one. By my count, Iris has, since 1980, worked on 47 grants and contracts totaling almost $10,000,000. Additionally, she has assisted on all 80+ faculty development continuing medical education programs that I’ve directed equaling 12,000 clock hours for almost 4000 persons. And with her help during these 17 years, I’ve produced 166 invited presentations and peer-reviewed publications. Through all of this, Iris had health problems, deaths in her family, and, yet, each time she bounced back to help us run our geriatrics education programs in the Huffington Center on Aging and with the Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers. Our two families have literally grown up during this period of time – marriages, graduations, and jobs, grandchildren, and now her Chihuahua, Pancho, is even a geriatric pet. Seventeen years is a long time. Well, it has to happen sometime, so today Iris retires from 17 years of loyal, dedicated service to Baylor College of Medicine. Over a hundred friends, family members, and colleagues will gather to thank Iris for her efforts that have helped literally untold numbers of people because of the health care professionals that were trained in programs she helped administer. She was one-of-a-kind, and no one will ever replace her in our hearts and minds. Iris, we wish you nothing but health, happiness, and Godspeed. Your friend and ex-boss, Bob Roush |
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Iris
B. Jameson was born (in a certain year) in Wilmington, Delaware, and the best thing that
happened to us who know her and to her family, of course, is that she moved to Houston in
the 7th grade, enrolling in Jackson Jr. High and graduating from Austin High School. She
was an "Eastender" as they were known in those days: they were the ones who hung
out at the drive-ins along Wayside and battled Milby for supremacy in sports. She married
Leonard Cox, had three children – Leonard Jr., Lavonne, and Lisa – worked in
oil-related firms in Houston, was president of the Aggie Mothers’ Club, and luckily
for us, started working for Baylor in 1980.