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Physician tapped as Coming Home Queen
By Lisa Magers/CISD Community Services
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Sep 17, 2008 - 11:39:12 AM - The class valedictorian who left Cleburne in 1987 to pursue her
dream of studying medicine and returned home in 2000 to practice
medicine has been named this year’s Cleburne High School Ex-Students
Association Coming Home Queen.
Stephanie Johnson Morton, voted
by her classmates as “Most Likely to Succeed,” is among the CHS alumni
to be honored at Homecoming festivities Thursday and Friday.
Her
first appearance will be Thursday evening as a participant in the
Homecoming Parade, at 6 p.m., which will be led by members of the 1958
Jacket football team, who have been named parade marshals.
Rick
Hadley, a member of the CHS Class of 1981, will also be included in the
parade lineup as the 2008 recipient of the Wall of Fame Award.
“Having
Dr. Morton serve as the 2008 Coming Home Queen is such an honor for the
Ex-Students Association,” said Mark Banton, association president. “She
was both an academic leader and a class leader at CHS, and she
continued that high level of achievement as a student at the University
of Texas and the UT Health Science Center Houston School of Medicine.”
“We are very proud and blessed to have Dr. Morton back in Cleburne as a member of our medical community,” Banton said.
During
her time at CHS, Morton was active in student council, serving as vice
president as a senior. She also participated in Youth and Government,
Beta Club, National Honor Society and Exchangettes. She was a member of
the tennis team and the UIL academics team, competing at the state
level in debate. Her achievements include being named to “Who’s Who” by
the CHS faculty.
“I was a proud member of the Golden Pride,” Morton said. “I was also in Benny O’s [Ben Oefinger] last Latin class.”
After
graduation, Morton, the daughter of Dr. Steve and Nancy Johnson,
enrolled as a pre-med major at the University of Texas. Her campus
activities at UT included serving as rush captain and vice-president of
Zeta Tau Alpha women’s fraternity. In 1991 she received a Bachelor of
Arts degree in psychology.
The following year proved to be a
major milestone in her life, with her marriage to Bryan Morton and her
acceptance into the University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston Medical School, where she would continue pursuing her goal of
becoming a doctor.
After receiving her Doctor of Medicine degree
in June 1997, she began her residency at Houston’s Memorial Hermann
Southwest, the largest hospital in Texas devoted solely to training
family practice physicians.
While she served as chief
resident, Stephanie and Bryan celebrated the birth of their first son,
Luke, born in 1999. Their second son, Christopher, was born in Cleburne
in 2001.
After the completion of her training in 2000, the
Mortons returned to Cleburne, where Stephanie joined her father’s group
practice, Family Medicine Associates, P.A.
Her husband, Bryan,
is a member of the Smith Middle School faculty, where he teaches
language arts and coaches girls athletics. Her sons are fellow Colts,
as students of Coleman Elementary. The Mortons attend United
Presbyterian Church, where Stephanie serves as an elder.
After
eight years of serving the community alongside her father, Dr. Morton
will open her own family medicine practice next month, which will be
located in north Cleburne.
© Copyright 2008 by Cleburne
High School
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