Pictured here: Becky and her Gamma Nu sisters at their 50th reunion earlier this year.
possible, to be her most rewarding assignment. When asked for advice for younger women interested in a similar career, she simply said, “Do it!” “What other program pays you to go to school and then has a job waiting for you when you’re done?” Becky implored. “Yes, you have a couple of years’ commitment to pay back to the institution, but my goodness, not everybody finds you a job, and we do that. Plus, having a pension and living in cool places making a real impact in peoples’ lives is a nice perk.” Becky is married to Col. (Ret.) Travis Lee Hooper, a retired Armor officer, and they live in San Antonio. She recently celebrated 50 years of being an Alpha Phi with seven of her sisters. “It’s magical, really,” Becky shared. “It was like we had only been gone for a summer when we all got together again. I had not seen [some of these women] in 45 years, but it was as if no time had gone by at all.” Thank you for your service to our country and your dedication to Alpha Phi, Becky!
duty serving as the chief of the Department of Health Education and Training for the Academy of Health Sciences, AMEDD center and school. Prior to this, Becky was selected to be the Chief Physical Therapist for the Army, which took her to Washington D.C. Becky’s education includes a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and graduation from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks in 1996. Her awards include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator, the Order of Military Medical Merit and the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service. In February of 2006, just a month after retiring from the Army, Becky accepted a position as the program manager for the Center for the Intrepid (CFI) at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas. She worked at the CFI until her retirement from civil service on January 31, 2014. Becky considers her time working with the dedicated staff at the CFI, ensuring that wounded service members received the best care
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