The Galveston County Daily News

TEXAS CITY — Texas City school district’s Foundation for the Future inducted four alumni into its 2009 Hall of Honor.

“Texas City ISD has produced many graduates who have excelled in a variety of careers and who have given back countless hours of volunteerism,” Deborah Laine, executive director for the foundation, said. “I continue to be in awe of the nominees and inductees year after year.”

This is the fourth year for the Hall of Honor, in which four alumni from the district’s high schools are selected for induction. The 2009 inductees, who all graduated from Texas City High School, are L.G. Dupre, class of 1951; Catherine “Kitty” Owens Potter, class of 1966; Marvin Charles Peterson (now known as Hannibal Lokumbe), class of 1967; and Dr. Machelle M. Seibel, class of 1967.

“The inductees were selected for having made significant contributions through exceptional service to their community, extraordinary accomplishments through their chosen profession or both,” Laine said.

Dupre was an all-state basketball player and member of the high school’s championship basketball team.

He earned a full scholarship to play at Baylor University, where he became an All-American football player.

He was the second draft choice by the Baltimore Colts and later was drafted by Tom Landry to be on the first Dallas Cowboys football team. After he retired from football, he worked for General Electric. He died in 2001.

Potter graduated from Louisiana State University and returned to Texas City to live, work and volunteer. She has worked for the past 25 years at Texas First Bank, where she is chief financial officer for the bank’s holding company Texas Independent Bancshares.

Potter has been president or chairwoman of the Rotary Club of Texas City, Mainland Communities United Way, Texas City-La Marque Chamber of Commerce and Texas City Day Nursery.

She also developed the “Davison Home Docents” program for the Texas City Historical Society.

Peterson — now known simply as Hannibal — moved to New York in 1970 to begin his music career after attending North Texas State University.

The Grammy-nominated jazz musician and composer gained notoriety in the mid-’90s for composing “African Portraits,” an orchestral piece that incorporated a jazz quartet, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Morgan State University Choir, the Kennedy-King College Community Chorus, the Doris Ward Workshop Chorale, four operatic singers, various traditional African musicians and a handful of African-American vocalists. The piece has been performed nearly 100 times since 1990.

Seibel, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Complicated Menopause Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is nationally and internationally known for his work with reproductive biology.

A pioneer developer of in-vitro fertilization, Seibel has published clinical trials, testified before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been invited to speak to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

He has written or edited 10 books and authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles. In 2003, Seibel founded HealthRock, a company that teaches health literacy through music and entertainment.

He performs under the name Doc Rock, offering health information in original songs that contain educational lyrics.

The Hall of Honor inductees’ photos and biographies will be displayed in the main corridor of Texas City High School in honor of their accomplishments.