• Member of Guild of Book Workers and the Austin Book Workers.
• Attended bookbinding workshops with: Priscilla Spitler, Gary Frost, Raoul Bollin, William Roberts, others.
• Demonstrations of bookbinding techniques have been repeatedly given with ABW sponsored Austin Book Fair.
• Deborah Evetts of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City accepted two of my book designs for her travelling Slide Presentation.
• Techniques I'm proud of and use regularly:
• Tyvek® end papers
• Random pattern hand color tinting of end papers.
• Fitted parallogram-tab repairs on signatures to correct occasional loose pages.
• Direct-inlay method for executing artistic book cover designs.  I'm told that this is unique among book binders and I am the only person known to be doing it.
• Book cover designs developed from life sketches ( flowers, pastoral scenes, etc.).
• Won honorable mention at the 1997 Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition & Award for American Bookbinding held at the Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.  Marky was featured as one of the 22 leading American bookbinders chosen for inclusion in the DeGolyer Exhibition.

• Established, owned and operated Mission Press in Corpus Christi for over 30 years.

• Graduate of Pan American University
• Exhibited in Corpus Christi, Dallas, etc.
• Work in various mediums
• Pencil sketch
• Water colors
• Oil
• Acrylic
 

Sailor:

• Proud member of the 15th century sailing school in Corpus Christi.
• Crew member on the Niña replica of Columbus' fleet.
• Marky is in the white blouse and bonnet.

• Organist and member of Saints Thomas & Martin Episcopal Church, Corpus Christi
• Travel to Italy and  Spain with my grandson, Doug McLean .  The museums were magnificant!!