By Patrick Wascovich

Arlene Reeves

A Medical Technologist now serving at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Arlene Reeves has witnessed and also mastered tremendous changes over the 45 years she has worked at UT Southwestern.

Processes, preparation, and analysis techniques and protocols have improved, and she’s among the hundreds of employees who moved into the Medical Center’s newest clinical facility at the end of 2014.

“The work is interesting and I like all of my co-workers,” she says. “At this point in time, I take it one day at a time.”

Her duties include analyzing blood, urine, and other samples used by UT Southwestern health care teams to diagnose and treat patients efficiently and effectively. At Clements University Hospital, the latest automated processes are in place.

She wants to be known as someone who “could always be depended upon to get the job done.”

Ms. Reeves’ third-shift schedule allows her and her husband, Bruce, to pursue many personal interests and activities, which through the years have included breeding and showing horses, photography, and scuba diving. Ms. Reeves met her husband at a windsurfing club picnic. She was the first woman he’d dated who had her own equipment.

She currently has become quite active in shooting and hunting circles.

“As a member of the Dallas Safari Club, I am usually the only woman to compete in the annual Big Bore Shoot, which requires you to shoot a rifle of .375 caliber or higher,” she says.

She has participated in four hunting trips to Africa, and is planning on another big-game safari this spring.

Her family also includes two brothers.

“It has been a wonderful, challenging journey,” Ms. Reeves says. “I am still learning and enjoying life.”