Organization expands as it moves into second year
P4L to operate in six middle schools 2006-2007

HOUSTON (July 10, 2006) – Debbie Dalton has been named vice president of Resource Development for Prepared 4 Life (www.prepared4life.org), a non-profit organization instilling life skills, character education and entrepreneurialism in Houston middle-school students via experiential after-school programs.  Prepared 4 Life operated in three HISD middle schools during the 2005-2006 school year and will expand to six in the coming year.

Prior to joining Prepared 4 Life, Dalton was a grant officer for The Simmons Foundation.  A graduate of The University of Texas, Dalton focused her career on real estate marketing and development before transitioning into not-for-profit fundraising.  She is an active community volunteer and has held volunteer leadership positions with Houston Habitat for Humanity, Leadership Houston, American Heart Association and the Children’s Assessment Center.

Prepared 4 Life also reported the following staff and director appointments:

• Michael H. Holthouse, Board chair
• Lisa M. Holthouse, Board vice chair
• Sara Speer Selber, President

Newly appointed to the Board of Directors:

• Judge Eric Andell – Justice of the First Court of Appeals (1993-2000), Judge of the 315th District Court (1985-1993)
• Gary G. Eagleton – Founding partner, Eagle King Interventions
• Oliver Luck – President/general manager, Houston Dynamos
• Rosanna Moreno – Assistant vice president/executive director, International Business Development, Memorial Hermann Hospital
• Jeffrey Paine – Vice president, Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Eric J. Pulaski – Manager, EKP Holdings, LP
• Michele J. Sabino, Ph.D. – Executive director, University Advancement, University Of Houston - Downtown
• Bret Sanders – Director of NASDAQ Trading, Sanders Morris Harris Inc.
• Mary Stanton Smith – Business owner and community volunteer
• Peggy B. Smith, Ph.D. – Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine
• Susana Brener Stern – Artist and community volunteer
• Susannah Lee Wong – Restaurateur and community volunteer