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HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY
Academic Valentines
Alumni couple reflects on time together at HPU
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
Ben and Angela (Haney) Butler graduated from HPU with
master of business administration degrees just one month
after their wedding. They are pictured with Dr. Les Pla-
gens, left, dean of the School of Business, and Dr. Lois
Patton, right, professor of business administration and
director of the MBA program.
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For Howard Payne Univer-
sity alumni Ben and Angela
(Haney) Butler, the univer-
sity will forever represent
more than just an educa-
tion - it’s also where they
met and fell in love.
The couple was married
on Nov. 2, 2013, just one
month before they crossed
the stage to receive their
master of business admin-
istration degrees.
Ben, a Graham native, and
Angela, from Denison, both
started at HPU in the fall
of 2008. After seeing each
other around campus for a
year, they became friends
in the fall of 2009.
“I could always tell that
there was something
special about Ben,” said
Angela. “He was always the
guy who would do anything
to help out a friend. If you
ask any of his friends from
HPU, they’ll tell you that he
goes above and beyond to
take care of other people.”
It wasn’t until the next
year, however, that Angela
noticed her feelings for Ben
were evolving into some-
thing deeper.
“I finally told a mutual
friend of ours, and he got
so excited that he immedi-
ately went and told Ben,”
she said.
According to Ben, he
didn’t quite believe the
news for the first few
weeks.
“I wasn’t sure if it was
true or if my buddies were
just playing a joke on me,”
he said. “Angela was the
type of girl that I always felt
was out of my league, and I
still do. But on the Tuesday
before Thanksgiving that
year, as I was getting ready
to head home for break, I
decided to text her.”
A month later, the couple
was “officially” dating and
they continued to do so
throughout the rest of their
undergraduate careers.
“Ben actually chose to
get his master of business
administration degree
through HPU before I did,”
said Angela. “He had an
extra year of eligibility left
in baseball and thought
the MBA program sounded
perfect.”
Angela, who had taken an
internship in her hometown
after graduating with a
bachelor’s degree, discov-
ered that a long-distance re-
lationship was not what she
wanted. Fortunately, she
applied for an admission
counselor position with
HPU’s Office of Admission
and was hired soon after.
“I didn’t really think any-
thing about getting an MBA
until after I came back to
work at HPU and more peo-
ple began to tell me about
their great experiences with
the program,” she said. “It
was enticing to me because
an MBA can help you in so
many different fields, and
it can be completed in only
one year. I decided to fol-
low in Ben’s footsteps and
get mine too.”
In between busy work
schedules, baseball and
other events, Ben and
Angela attended graduate
classes together at nights
and on weekends. Their
relationship continued to
blossom, and they became
engaged on March 16, 2013,
at a family friend’s house
after a home baseball game.
“I turned a comer and
saw Ben standing there
with a beautiful bouquet
of flowers, his Bible and a
little blue box wrapped in
white ribbon,” Angela said.
“He proposed and I said yes
in front of our friends and
family. We celebrated the
night away.”
Due to the fact that Ben
finished his MBA in August
and Angela finished hers
in December, they had the
rare opportunity to gradu-
ate together a month after
their wedding.
“It was a really cool thing
to do,” Angela said. “I even
had the registrar’s office
make sure that my name
said ‘Angela Nicole Butler’
on my diploma instead of
‘Haney.’ When I walked the
stage they had me wait for
Ben’s name to be called too.
We were able to get our pic-
ture taken together on the
platform, as husband and
wife, both graduating with
our master of business ad-
ministration degrees. It was
a really great experience to
get to share with him.”
The couple now lives
in The Colony, with Ben
working for Evantage, Inc.,
and Angela for Lewisville
ISD. They’ve joined Preston-
wood Baptist Church and
say they have been blessed
by God’s continual provi-
sion.
“As far as the future goes,
sometimes it seems like
we have a ton of plans and
sometimes it seems like
we’re just playing it fast
and loose,” Angela said.
“We would both eventually
like to pursue entrepre-
neurship.
“We want to travel. We
want to raise a family. But
right now, we’re just tak-
ing it one step at a time
and loving each other with
everything we have.”
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investigating the hierarchy’s
response to past cases of
abuse, holding senior clerics
to account and throwing
open archives.
The UN also wants the
Vatican to establish clear,
church-wide “best practices”
rules that compel bishops
and pastors across the vast
1-billion-member church
to report abuse, remove
offending clerics and alert
police. And it urges com-
pensation for victims. That
certainly makes sense. It
would formalize and uni-
versalize practices that the
Canadian church adopted
two decades ago. Clerics are
screened, church volunteers
face background checks and
abuse must be reported to
the authorities. That should
be the strict rule everywhere.
And while the UN report
pays tribute to the church’s
good work providing vulner-
able kids around the world
with schooling, health, social
care and other services, it
says more can be done to
advance their basic rights.
It urges the Vatican to
remove gender stereotyp-
ing from Catholic school
textbooks. To ban corporal
punishment. To remind par-
ents and teachers that kids
have the right to express
their views freely, and de-
serve to be taken seriously.
To condemn discrimination
against gay children and
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have made me who I am,”
he said. “They have given
me the chance to excel
and show what I am really
good at.
“I have also learned
about myself through my
leadership activities. Fresh-
man year, I couldn’t have
given a speech in front
of 10 kids and now I give
speeches in front of 1,200
people at conventions.”
And Conaway said
Broussard’s parents, Lance
and Joey, deserve a lot of
credit, too.
“While he did all of the
heavy lifting they were
there every second of the
way and made sure he had
the opportunities and took
advantage of the ones he
did,” he said.
If Broussard should get
an appointment, he has an
idea for a career path after
his military obligation is
up.
His resume might give a
clue. In addition to serving
a student body president,
Broussard is governor of
the Texas-Oklahoma Dis-
trict of Key Club Interna-
tional.
“Through my experi-
ences in student leader-
ship and the possibility of
getting to attend a service
academy, I would love to
pursue a career in politics
and serve the people of
our country and the great
state of Texas,” he said.
those raised by same-sex
couples. And to make sure
that kids are taught about
safe sex, family planning,
and preventing sexually
transmitted diseases.
In places, the UN report
over-reaches. It urges
the Vatican to soften its
stand against abortion, for
example. That is expecting
too much. Vatican officials
have pushed back, too, on
aspects of the report that
challenge church teaching
on homosexuality, sexual-
ity and contraception. They
also point out, reasonably,
that the UN doesn’t give
enough credit for reforms
that have been made.
Yet for all that the UN’s
basic judgment about the
abuse scandal is sound. As
Pope Francis recognizes, the
church needs to be honest
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four of the five U.S. mili-
tary academies. The EHS
student body president
is now being considered
for appointment to West
Point, Annapolis, the U.S.
Air Force Academy and the
U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Broussard said pursuing
such a college path stems
from his desire to make a
difference.
“I think it gives me the
opportunity to serve our
country at a level that
most people don’t get an
opportunity to serve at,”
he said. “It is also a good
opportunity for me. I love
leadership and the oppor-
tunity to serve others.”
And Conaway said
Broussard is a natural fit.
“The young man is
involved in a lot of things
and leads in every one
of the things he does,”
Conaway said. “It is about
leadership and he has
already demonstrated that
he can lead.
That is what our military
academies do is produce
leaders and he already
has a head start on that
process.”
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