Rebecca (Becky) Adair, Texas A&M University Class of ’86, spent 30 years working at colleges and universities in Texas, Wyoming, and Tennessee. Leaving higher ed in 2019, Becky created a “patchwork of possibilities” chart so she could choose how to spend her days. That included writing her first book, for parents of college students, titled “Whatever’s next…it’s not 13^th grade (a dorm mom’s guide for a parent’s journey).” Speaking about that book to Rotary was the first step in deciding to apply for membership!

Before she was selected to live (again) and work in a residence hall on the A&M campus in June 2000, her professional background was in communications, including business communications, editing, publications, and public relations. She completed a master’s in Adult Learning from the University of Wyoming in 2012 (having started way back in 1986). Her sometimes-profitable hobbies include organizing, presentations, author coaching, workshops, writing, proofreading, and calligraphy.

Becky has two children from a previous marriage (Chelsea and Davis Downey) and two stepchildren from her current marriage to Chuck Beloney (an engineer and ’78 graduate of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band). She has worked with him since 2001 to support his business, Show and Tell Products, which is soon to be turned over to his son Adam. Two of the children live less than five miles away! The stepchildren (Adam and his wife Catrina, and Karen and her husband Shane) provided the delight of four grandchildren, long before Becky felt old enough to be a grandmother.

Becky is known for being super-organized and talking with her hands. She collects coloring books (and the colors to use in them), board games, puzzles, s’mores characters, and books. When weather allows, Becky shoots archery in her backyard, wishes she could play more tennis, pickleball, and ping-pong, and sits on the patio admiring middle Tennessee. She likes to rate sunsets while drinking wine with her husband. She is strongly connected to her Scot and Irish roots, having been a competitive highland dancer back in the dark ages. Becky also plays the organ when nobody is listening and sings along with all the songs she knows. She loves getting to travel more, especially with friends and family (and friends who are family) while trying not to get too emotionally involved in Aggie sports.