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| We Dream of Eugenie Dallas model makes her mark in the Big Apple. Eugenie McCarthy, daughter of interior designer Josie McCarthy, recently scored big with a 16-page spread in the January 2001 issue of Mademoiselle. This success comes on the heels of appearances in Harpers Bazaar, Italian Marie Claire, and New York Magazine. Eugenie—who has decided that the single name is her new personal brand—attended Hockaday before eventually graduating from Hotchkiss, where she competed on the swim team. She now splits time between Dallas and New York, where she maintains an “A” average in art history at Columbia University. Does adopting the single-name moniker of other one-name wonders of the modeling industry, such as cupcake-of-the-moment Gisele, mean that she is following in their footsteps? Not exactly. Eugenie aspires to conquer a different side of the modeling industry. “Modeling is fun, but I really want to be a magazine editor,” she says. “Maybe for a fashion magazine.” Discovered in New York while eating at her favorite Italian restaurant, Eugenie started with Kim Dawson in Dallas and has been with the Ford Agency in New York City for one year. Susan Quillen, her representative at Ford, makes sure that Eugenie’s modeling job doesn’t interfere with her studies. “We always work her modeling jobs around her school schedule,” Quillen says. “She is a pretty serious student.” As for her future plans, despite her affinity for the Big Apple, she professes to be a Texas girl at heart. “I plan on staying in New York after graduation to get my career started,” she says. “But my roots are here. My parents are in Dallas. I will come back later in life to settle down. Maybe even have a family.”
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March, March, March Allen band director Billy Walker learned how to lead by marching with During the fall marching season, Walker barely has time to read Band World Magazine. When the music stops, however, Walker turns to The Man in the Mirror by Patrick Morley. “It tells you how to balance all the duties in your life,” he says.
Thomas just finished The Black Box by Malcom Murcherson. It consists of cockpit conversations from doomed airliners. “I was taking flight lessons at the time,” he says. Porter Haskew runs the band and computer network at Highland Park High School. When he took over at Highland Park eight years ago, he inherited 14 members. This year he had 80. “Every day’s a good day,” he says. “The kids keep me young.” Haskew recently read Dean Koontz’s The Vision. “Koontz catches you at the first paragraph. My wife doesn’t want me to start one of his books. I walk around the house reading.” These Books are Available from Amazon.com | ||||||||||
the SMU Mustang band for seven years. “How do you keep kids marching in a straight line?” we asked. “You gotta know your step size,” he said.
Plano East’s Jerry Thomas is in his 31st year as a band director. This fall’s show was edgy. Titled Glorioso, the band paid tribute to the “hidden Christians” in 17th-century isolationist Japan. The response surprised Thomas: Everyone loved it. “There’s a big difference between band parents and the football crowd,” he reports. “Band parents understand competition. The football folks just want to be entertained.”
