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From the President Campus News Class Notes Sports Upcoming Events

Cover Story 8 Community Service A Vandal Tradition

Features 6 Extending Legal Education to Boise

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13 It was a Good Legend

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...as Worm Legends Go

On the Cover: Pre-medical and sociology student Lynn McAlister is a volunteer at a equine sanctuary for abandoned and abused horses.

14 2010 Commencement 16 The Science of Success 22 How Dario Toffenetti put the “Famous” in Idaho Potatoes

24 History in a Barrel

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From the President Summer on the Palouse finds more than 3,000 students pursuing various paths of inquiry and discovery during summer session, researchers are engaging in myriad projects that have real-world relevance and address critical issues, and Ruthie and I are marking our one-year anniversary with the University of Idaho. What we have seen, been involved with and experienced affirms how vital this great land-grant institution is not only in the Gem State, but demonstrates how that vitality and impact are felt around the region and the world.

Across the nation, higher education faced challenges this year; and while we felt that impact here at the University, our faculty, staff and students met it with a resilience that may be considered one of the hallmarks of this institution.

While we have focused on the needs of today, we also have kept our eye on the strong University we are creating for tomorrow – our legacy not only to serve future generations of students, but to serve the state of Idaho itself. As a land-grant institution, our mission has been, is and will continue to be woven into the fabric of this state; its historic development, its growth and its economic vitality.

During good times and challenging ones, the importance of higher education, and specifically a land-grant institution, becomes apparent in terms of what universities bring to states. A recent economic impact study found that the University annually generates roughly 2 percent – or nearly $1 billion – in added state income.

But impact also can be measured through civic engagement and volunteerism. For the fourth year in a row, the University of Idaho has earned the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement by being named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The cover story of Here We Have Idaho introduces you to some of the ways in which our community lives that volunteer spirit, including a new alumni volunteerism program, and student-athlete and Greek volunteer programs.

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The Idaho experience prepares our students for success in many ways and in many walks of life. At the spring commencement ceremony in Moscow, we welcomed Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong ’95 as our speaker, and she inspired us to embrace all aspects of life because we “get to,” not because we “have to.” It was her version of what makes for “The Science of Success” in life. Read about her approach to success, along with the stories of our honorary degree recipients Arden Bement Jr. ’59, director of the National Science Foundation; Stanley P. Desjardins ’58, aviation and aerospace researcher; and Gary E. Strong ’66, university librarian, University of California, Los Angeles.

In other pages of this edition of the magazine, we’ll focus on the third-year law program in Boise through the eyes of new professor Wendy Couture and the philanthropy of Frank and Harriet Schrontz. We’ll meet the granddaughter of the man who wrote an essay about how her granddad put Idaho potatoes on the menu at tony restaurants in New York and Chicago. We’ll follow up on the discovery of live, intact, giant Palouse earthworms, the national publicity that resulted from the discovery, and how they don’t quite live up to the legend that’s been created about them. We’ll dig into an unusual time-capsule gift of American history, opened after 50 years. We’ll get a sneak peek at the new Vandal store that opens in Boise next month. And we’ll also meet one of the newest members of the San Francisco 49ers – Mike Iupati, who earned his degree and our respect through his career as a studentathlete and first-round NFL draft pick.

I always look forward to each issue of Here We Have Idaho, which captures some of the best stories about this great institution. I hope that you use these stories to help illustrate for others how remarkable the University of Idaho is and how it continues to serve and lead in so many ways.

M. Duane Nellis President

Here We Have Idaho

The University of Idaho Magazine Summer 2010 • Volume 27, Number 2 University President M. Duane Nellis

Vice President for Advancement Christopher D. Murray

Senior Director of Marketing and Communications Christopher S. Cooney

University of Idaho Alumni Director Steven C. Johnson ’71

Alumni Association President Kristen Ruffing ’93

University of Idaho Foundation Chairman Frances T. Ellsworth ’83

Editor

Jeff Olson

Magazine Design Scott Riener

Class Notes Editor Annis Shea ’86

Writers and Contributors Amanda Cairo Donna Emert Spencer Farrin ’07 Nick Heidelberger ’07 Alecia Hoene Karen Hunt ’08 Joni Kirk ’98 Bill Loftus ’81 Corinna Nicolaou Becky Paull ’79 Tania Thompson

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Joe Pallen ’96 Kelly Weaver and as credited www.uidaho.edu/herewehaveidaho

On the Road with Joe Joe Vandal is having an excellent adventure, thanks to Leah Andrews ’02. Leah is teaching English at a private school in Zunyi, China. Before her departure, she purchased a Joe Vandal doll at the Bookstore to help chronicle her travels.

“Joe is the ideal travel buddy,” said Leah. “He never complains, always wants to go where you want to go and everyone wants to take their picture with him.

Joe has a Facebook page – Joe Vandal’s Travels – that features more photos of him on the road that have been submitted by alumni. And, you can get your own Joe Vandal at the Bookstore or www.vandalstore.com.

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campusNews Green Rankings Idaho is one of the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review, which ranked the University as one of the nation's top 286 green colleges.

The rankings focus on institutions that have demonstrated an above average commitment to sustainability in terms of campus infrastructure, activities and initiatives.

Idaho earned its place in the guide through activities such as launching a campus Sustainability Center and establishing a policy that all new construction and major renovations on campus meet LEED Silver standards. The University has allocated $35 million for energy conservation projects; lighting initiatives alone save the University $200,000 per year in electricity costs.

Dairy Smart

Dairy Challenge team members, left to right: Stewart Russell, Emmett; Amin Ahmadzadeh, team coach; Crystal Burke, Billings, Mont.; Carl Betts, Eagle; and Jackie Wuebben, Astoria, Ore.

Students from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences completed a top-tier finish at the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge against teams from across the U.S. and Canada.

The annual event drew teams representing 30 universities that visited working dairies near Visalia, Calif., and each team put their textbook and practical knowledge to the ultimate test – analyzing dairies.

The University of Idaho team won a reserve platinum award that was second to the top award.

Work with Idaho Communities Gets National Notice The University is a finalist for the national C. Peter Magrath University/ Community Engagement Award.

Idaho was selected for its partnership with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and its communities, and is one of just five universities to be selected as a finalist.

The University and the Coeur d’Alene Reservation communities began a large-scale partnership in fall 2006. The four small towns on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation – Plummer, Worley, Tensed and Desmet – created a community-wide vision and took action to overcome a legacy of underinvestment and poverty.

University participants and members of the four communities discussed the impacts of poverty, learned new 4

leadership skills, created a long-term vision and took action to achieve prosperity.

The Magrath award winner will be announced in November at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in Dallas, Texas.

The university/community partnership also received the Outreach Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award for the western U.S. region. The award, which included a $9,500 prize, honors the partnerships of a single university that has redesigned its teaching, research and outreach functions to become more involved with communities.

campusNews Historic Art Finds New Home

A Welcome to Three New Deans Corinne Mantle-Bromley has been appointed dean of the College of Education. She previously served as interim associate education dean at Washington State University. She earned her master’s degree in secondary education and doctoral degree in education from the University of Idaho.

She also has studied the Spanish language and Hispanic literature and culture at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and Instituto de Idiomas and Instituto de Filologia Hispanica in Mexico.

The Idaho Historical Statehouse Murals were created to commemorate and depict the first 100 years of Idaho history. They were displayed in the Capitol Building from 1993 to 2007 and then removed for the Capitol Restoration Project.

Now, the murals have come to the University of Idaho.

Members of the Idaho Capitol Commission, Idaho State Historical Society and the Idaho Commission on the Arts determined the Idaho Commons provided the best location to display the artwork. Requirements included a commitment to the visual arts and a wall large enough to display the six panels that measure nine feet high by 60 feet long.

Artist Dana Boussard’s tribute to the state includes a time line that tells a symbolic narrative of Idaho’s history, captures the beauty of the Idaho landscape, and reflects the natural and environmental events that have played a critical role in the development of the northern, southwestern and southeastern regions of the state.

Donald M. Blackketter has been appointed to the permanent position of dean of the College of Engineering, where he has served as interim dean for the past 15 months. He previously served as chair of the mechanical engineering department. He also served as the acting director of the Universitybased National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT), as assistant director of NIATT and as director of the NIATTs Center for Clean Vehicle Technology. In 2003, Blackketter spent six months in Quito, Ecuador, on a Fulbright Scholarship presenting seminars on how to implement clean vehicle technologies. Since 2001, he also has been an adjunct professor in the environmental science department.

Kurt Pregitzer is the new dean of the College of Natural Resources and Thomas L. Reveley Professor of Forest Ecology. He currently is professor and chair of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He will join Idaho on August 8. Pregitzer previously served as director of the Michigan Technological University’s Ecosystem Science Center. His teaching positions include Michigan Technological University, Michigan State University and the University of Idaho. In 2002, Pregitzer received the Barrington Moore Memorial Award from the Society of American Foresters for Outstanding Accomplishments in the Advancement of Forest Biology.

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Extending Legal Education to Boise: A Powerful Mix of Scholarship and Real-World Opportunity

by Donna Emert

The University of Idaho College of Law is ranked

Photo above: The College of Law thirdyear program in Boise is led by Externship Coordinator Katie Ball, Associate Dean for Boise Programs Lee Dillion and Professor Wendy Gerwick Couture.

among the nation’s top 10 best values in legal

Photo by Pam Benham

program in Boise, the value increases exponentially.

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education. With the introduction of a third-year law

The Boise location allows third-year students to As part of the college’s strategic plan to strengthen statewide legal education, the Boise program will allow participate in Idaho’s most robust, diverse and metropolitan 25-30 law students annually to complete their third year of governmental, legal and business community. study in Boise. The expansion offers students an enriched “It is essential that the law school further its statewide curriculum in business and commercial law, and opens mission by offering students the opportunity to study in new avenues for externships and professional networking Boise,” said Couture. “Many students, because of family opportunities in the heart of Idaho’s largest business, or work commitments, are unable to leave the Boise area government and legal community. for three full years and thus are unable to earn their law The program has moved forward with the support of degrees. The flexibility of allowing students to spend their private donors. Their gifts have allowed the College of Law third year in Boise will open the law school doors to more to grow its presence in Boise by hiring the first full-time students who dream of becoming law faculty member in Boise, lawyers. On-the-ground experience, Wendy Gerwick Couture. ...third-year students can gained at the nexus of Idaho law and Couture will help build and commerce, gives University of Idaho deliver the new legal education take their legal education law school graduates a competitive program. Her primary objectives edge in the job market.” include teaching, research and to the next level in Boise by

College of Law classrooms forging vital educational and professional connections among are currently being constructed in interning with judges, law students and practicing attorneys the University of Idaho Boise Center, in the Treasure Valley. located on Front Street in firms and state agencies.

Courses in Boise will focus downtown Boise. on business and commercial

“The new location offers all law, which makes Couture, who has practiced and written Idaho students a competitive edge, raising awareness of extensively in those areas, a perfect choice for the role. programs on both campuses and helping students at both Couture has served as a federal law clerk, a securities locations compete for jobs,” Couture said. litigator at a large Dallas firm and as an attorney in a Frank Shrontz, former CEO of Boeing and a 1954 Idaho boutique civil litigation practice in Olympia, Wash. She law alumnus, strongly agrees. is active in the American Bar Association and frequently “I believe the Boise initiative will strengthen the overall gives continuing legal education presentations to licensed success and reputation of the College of Law," said Shrontz. attorneys. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke Couture is happy to be returning to Idaho from St. University in economics and French, and a juris doctor Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, where she degree from Southern Methodist University, Dedman taught courses on civil procedure, business associations and School of Law, all earned summa cum laude. white collar crime.

“I look forward to integrating my practical experience “I spent one year in Moscow, and I fell in love with with scholarly thought in the classroom,” Couture said, Idaho’s natural beauty and with the warmth and noting that she believes the Boise location makes that friendliness of the people,” she said. “I’m delighted to integration possible. be back!”

“After spending two years in Moscow learning the Couture is the college’s first full-time, tenure-track fundamentals of legal analysis in an intense scholarly faculty member in Boise. Associate Dean for Boise atmosphere, third-year students can take their legal Programs Lee Dillion, Externship Coordinator Katie education to the next level in Boise by interning with Ball, Tax Clinic Instructor Barbara Locke and Director of judges, law firms and state agencies,” Couture said.

Development Terri Muse also serve in the law school’s Having formerly served as visiting faculty in the college from 2008 through 2009, Couture is familiar with Moscow Boise office. The third-year program is pending approval by the American Bar Association. The college’s long-term goal faculty, staff and programs. That familiarity will allow her is to provide a full three-year law program in Boise. to facilitate program integration of both law school sites.

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Community Service A Vandal Tradition Beyond Graduation

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by Amanda Cairo

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fter being awarded the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, an honor earned four years running, community service and volunteerism have become synonymous with the University of Idaho.

“Engaged learning and service in our statewide communities are hallmarks of the University of Idaho,” said Provost Doug Baker. “We are proud of the efforts of not only our students, but the faculty and staff who support, encourage and inspire our students to become leaders through these projects.”

In 2009, nearly 2,200 Idaho students from across the University performed 136,624 hours of community service. With programs like Alternative Service Break sending students around the world to perform community service and with service learning embedded in classrooms, students are given the tools to become leaders and give back to their community. Those tools build a foundation that lasts well beyond graduation. But how do students balance academics and community service? Very carefully.

Woldwide Volunteers A group of University of Idaho students, staff and faculty stand in front of a mural they helped paint at the Khmer Helps Khmer School in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This past year, Idaho sent teams to Cambodia, Romania and the Dominican Republic as part of the Alternative Service Break program.

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Getting Involved from the Beginning

Below: Student Lynn McAlister credits positive role models at the University for fostering her interest in volunteerism. Her interests include mentoring other students, working in the Gritman Medical Center Cancer Resource Center, and volunteering at an equine center for neglected or abused horses.

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Pre-medical and sociology student Lynn McAlister’s plate is full, but that doesn’t stop the senior from American Falls from helping others. While she has always been interested in volunteerism, McAlister’s sense of civic duty has been fostered at the University of Idaho in and out of the classroom.

“I like working to empower people; to give them a sense of control over their own situation,” said McAlister. “I’ve come across some very positive role models at the University, and they’ve given me a lot to strive for.”

As a student worker, McAlister organizes the mentor program at the Women’s Center. She also has a mentee through the Peer Advising on the College Experience program in the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

One experience McAlister has shared with her mentee is Orphan Acres Equine Rescue, Rehabilitation and Sanctuary in Viola, where McAlister helps feed, clean up and “play” with the horses that have been abandoned or abused.

McAlister also volunteers at the Gritman Medical Center Cancer Resource Center.

As a pre-med student who hopes to one day work with health systems abroad, sitting with constituents while they receive chemotherapy, offering resources and support group

information, and shadowing doctors and nurses encourages McAlister as she helps others.

“I really wanted to work with constituents and be around to help people,” said McAlister, who also recently began volunteering in Gritman’s emergency room. “It’s something I feel very strongly about; cancer touches most people in one way or another.”

In addition, McAlister co-leads Social Forum, a campus organization devoted to raising awareness about global social, political and economic issues and promoting activism around those issues. She also helped the Palouse Peace Coalition bring human rights speakers to the University and co-produces a radio segment with the coalition.

Building on a Greek Foundation Community service and philanthropy are cornerstones of all fraternities and sororities at the University. On an already active campus, the fraternities and sororities pitch in their fair share when it comes to both community service and philanthropy: they average 25,000 community service hours and raise about $25,000 a year.

“Not only does the community benefit, but it shows there’s another level to fraternities and sororities,” said Matthew Kurz, director of fraternity and sorority life. He adds the houses largely work on their own projects. “Being able to perform and develop their community service and philanthropy is a very important part of developing student leaders.”

Community service and philanthropy, in general, are traditions on campus, but some groups have created their own specific traditions, like Delta Sigma Phi’s annual tandem bike ride to Boise. The two-day bike riding event has been a tradition at the fraternity since 1964.

“It’s such a fun event for us brothers to do together, and we’re raising money for a good cause,” said Spokane’s James Hedley, Delta Sigma Phi’s philanthropy chair.

The brothers set out for Boise on April 22 taking turns on a tandem bicycle, followed by a caravan of cars. After two days on the road, they delivered a check for $9,200 at the State Capitol Building to officials from Hope House on April 24.

Each year, the Moscow chapter chooses a different charity to raise money for; Hope House, a 52-acre orphanage in Marsing, was the 2010 recipient.

“It seemed like a good idea,” said Delta Sigma Phi brother Ian Noack of Boise. “We knew where the money was going, and that it would stay local; it’s a good cause.”

Maintaining Balance on and off the Field Giving back to the community is a central theme in the athletic department, where the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program is recognized by the NCAA. Incoming athletes complete a life skills class that emphasizes academics, athletics, personal and career development and community service.

“Community service is important for everyone, not just athletes, but it is something we feel strongly about,” said Rob Spear, director of athletics. “Our athletes are fortunate to be recognizable in the community; it gives the department and the University notoriety.”

As a team and as individuals, University athletes participate in community service projects and are active with Relay for Life, Feed the Palouse and local elementary schools.

In addition, teams have their own community service projects, including the men’s basketball Readers as Leaders program.

Vandal football Head Coach Robb Akey encourages his players to get involved in the community because it gives his players an opportunity to help out and it exposes them to situations they may not see otherwise. It also lets the community get to know the players as real people.

“Giving back to the community is really important,” said Akey. “It’s a win-win situation.”

Players are busy throughout the year with volunteer opportunities, like reading to children in schools, working with the youth football league and talking with at-risk youth. Most recently, 30 members of the team went to the Spokane Shriners Hospital to help young patients stay active.

“I wasn’t quite sure what to expect at first, but after I got to know some of the kids, it was

really great,” said Brian Reader from Prunedale, Calif. “The experience was a real eye-opener.”

While it took Reader a few minutes to get into the routine, it was an old habit for Las Vegas’ Deonte Jackson.

“Especially when it comes to children, I jump at the chance to volunteer,” said Jackson, a father himself. “It’s a good experience doing something outside of yourself, and it does something on the inside.”

And considering the smiles on the faces of the children at the hospital, the football players had a big impact. It reminded both Jackson and Reader that they are role models in the community; it keeps the consequences of their actions in perspective.

“I remember worshipping the guys who played football when I was a little kid,” said Reader, who recently went into his old elementary school to talk with students. “Now I really think about that.”

Delta Sigma Phi members Ian Noack and Sheridan Shayne prepare to peddle the first leg of the fraternity’s tandem bike ride to Boise.

Below: Idaho track and field studentathletes instruct and interact with local elementary school students at the second annual free kids’ camp in March.

The event drew 150 local children and gave them basic lessons in the sprints, jumps and throws.

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Puget Sound alumni chapter members help cleanup efforts at the West Duwamish Greenbelt as part of the Alumni Association’s first Vandal Service Days. Left to right: Michaela McGuire ’04, Brad Walgamott ’05, Stacy Smith ’04, Christi Olson ’01 and Greg Wadsworth ’82.

Photo by Maxwell Balmain

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Continuing the Tradition While students gain the fundamental building blocks of volunteerism at the University of Idaho, the Alumni Association is helping continue that tradition beyond the University with Vandal Service Days.

“This allows Vandals to stay connected and continue to build on the community service they started at the University,” said Sandy Larsen, assistant director of events.

During the inaugural year, alumni staff helped chapters and clubs organize cleanup and volunteer events during April and May to celebrate Earth Month and the Alumni Association’s birthday.

“We’ve had pretty good response for a firstyear effort,” said Larsen, who hopes momentum for Vandal Service Days will build and chapters will start to take on a greater role. “I hope it becomes a great tradition.”

The Ada County chapter tackled projects at the non-profit Giraffe Laugh Early Learning Center, which needed a little cosmetic help.

Child care executive director and Vandal alumna Lori Fascilla ’81, was pleased with the help offered by 35 of her fellow alumni, who painted the inside of the building, built a patio area with benches, weeded and planted a community garden.

“It was awesome; they got a tremendous amount of work done,” said Fascilla.

While some of the projects were driven by the alumni staff, the Puget Sound chapter took the opportunity to use their own resources.

As a student, alumna Stacy Smith ’04 was an active volunteer, so when it came to Vandal Service Days, the Puget Sound chapter looked to Smith as a leader.

“I’ve done quite a bit of community service, and I knew of several activities going on for Earth Day,” said Smith. “I thought it was exciting; I’ve always enjoyed community service and it’s great to get everyone together like this.”

Smith, with the help of Lauren Feeney, organized two events on April 17 in the Puget Sound area: Spring Beach Cleanup at Edmonds Marine Sanctuary and the West Duwamish Greenbelt: Duwamish Alive! Earth Day Event.

Smith said she wanted to join a larger group effort to make the event the most successful.

“While our group ended up being small, we got quite a bit of work done,” said Smith.

As the University recently celebrated its 100,000th graduate and is welcoming one of its largest incoming freshman classes, both students and alumni are poised to make an even greater difference in the world as Vandals.

“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”

–William Shakespeare (Henry VI, part III)

It Was a Good Legend …as Worm Legends Go In 2005, Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon revived the legend of the giant Palouse earthworm, a native invertebrate that reputedly grows to three feet, smells like a lily and spits. A graduate student from Puerto Rico in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Sanchez-de Leon was studying carbon cycling and earthworm ecology in native Palouse prairie with Professor Jodi Johnson-Maynard.

Sanchez-de Leon’s discovery was the first sighting of the mysterious worm in two decades since another CALS graduate student and professor found several of the worms in a forested area on Moscow Mountain.

Unfortunately for that worm, the digging had injured it fatally and it became a pickled talisman in a jar. Still, that did not stop it from gaining international attention.

In March, Shan Xu, a Johnson-Maynard graduate student, was at work on a Palouse prairie remnant that crowns Paradise Ridge, south of Moscow. As she and research support scientist Karl Umiker used an electroshocker specifically designed to sample earthworms, a white-ish worm wriggled to the surface.

Umiker, well-versed in the search for the giant Palouse earthworm as Johnson-Maynard’s main field researcher, proceeded carefully. He noticed another worm’s snout as he began to excavate. Through good fortune, his trowel slid straight along the larger worm’s vertical burrow and Umiker recovered it intact.

Xu and Umiker had collected the first intact, giant Palouse earthworms, one an adult and the other a juvenile, in more than 20 years. The same sample of earth contained three worm cocoons, from which at least two new worms emerged in the laboratory in succeeding weeks.

by Bill Loftus

Their discovery was announced in April after Kansas earthworm expert Sam James examined the adult and formally identified it as a giant Palouse earthworm. That landed the legend another round of media attention.

The New York Times carried a tongue-in-cheek headline that declared the discovery a disappointment because the adult measured a foot or less, didn’t spit and didn’t smell like a lily.

TV Satirist Stephen Colbert awarded the discovery a wag of the finger, castigating the “unfunologists” for undermining the giant Palouse earthworm’s mythic status.

He worried that unicorns, his childhood fascination, might too come under assault.

The Associated Press carried the story and photo as breaking news, and that brought further attention from The Washington Post and other newspapers across the country and beyond, to London’s famed Fleet Street. The BBC booked a prime-time radio interview with JohnsonMaynard to discuss the discovery, but bailed when former Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his unfortunate bigot remark about a voter.

No matter. For Johnson-Maynard, the giant Palouse earthworm has hooked international media on a topic that she has devoted much of her career to: earthworms.

“This is a fantastic educational opportunity. I don’t think there’s ever been this much discussion about earthworms,” said Johnson-Maynard, a soil scientist by training and one of the nation’s experts on earthworm ecology.

At least, not as much discussion since Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking 1881 book about earthworms and their benefits for the soil that became a popular sensation.

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2 0 1 0 C o mm e n c e m e n t

The Science of

Success

by Corinna Nicolaou

At this year’s Moscow commencement ceremony on May 15, four alumni returned to participate, once again, in this rite of passage, and to share their tremendous accomplishments with the University community.

Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong ’95 delivered the commencement address. Armstrong is a cyclist who used skills she learned at the University of Idaho to become only the second 16

American woman cyclist in history to claim an Olympic gold medal.

In addition, three distinguished alumni were presented honorary doctorates for significant contributions in their chosen fields.

Gary E. Strong ’66 has gained international recognition for promoting and facilitating access to information through public, state and academic libraries.

Stanley P. Desjardins ’58 is an engineer and entrepreneur who is a

leader in the field of aviation safety.

Arden L. Bement Jr. ’59 has served as director of the National Science Foundation.

Each credits their achievements, in part, to skills acquired at the University of Idaho. They have harnessed the science of success – that unique combination of technical know-how, confidence and drive – to propel their careers to great heights and secure lasting legacies by using the University as a launching pad.

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The Science of

Winning Kristin Armstrong is not your typical Olympian.

“Most Olympic athletes are training in their teens and definitely by college,” she explained.

By contrast, Armstrong did not start cycling until 2001 – six years after earning her degree in exercise science and health. She calls hers a “Cinderella story” because growing up, she was never the one who stood out to coaches as a potential champion.

She had always been athletic – as a teenager, she had been a junior Olympian in swimming. Then, in college, she joined the track team, but found it too competitive. For the rest of her college career, she enjoyed intramural sports and the idea of playing for the pure pleasure of it.

In her senior year, Armstrong witnessed a curious sight. From the porch of her sorority house, she saw a group of bike riders who were wearing swimsuits whiz past. She wondered what they were doing.

She remembers someone telling her, “that’s a triathlon.” A mere hint of her future blew past.

After graduation, Armstrong moved to Boise and began a full-time job for a nonprofit organization. She worked long hours at a desk and she found herself, for the first time in her life, growing a bit soft in the middle. She decided to give triathlons a shot. After

all, it combined two of the sports she new well – swimming and running – and introduced a new one, cycling.

Armstrong enjoyed her new sport and did well at it, until fate intervened: she was diagnosed with arthritis in her hips. The doctor said she no longer could run.

“I was devastated,” she explained, “I thought it was all being taken away from me.”

She thought this could be a sign that she wasn’t meant to compete.

She considered giving up athletics to concentrate on living a “normal” life.

She felt she wasn’t meeting certain expectations of a woman her age. It seemed all her contemporaries were getting married and starting families.

After a bit of soul-searching, Armstrong decided she wasn’t ready for “normal.” Instead, she focused all her energy on cycling, which she still could do with her arthritic hips.

Suddenly, her life began to click into place like a clean gear shift: She was offered a contract with a professional cycling team and she soon met her future husband, Joe Savola ’88, a fellow cycling enthusiast and University of Idaho graduate.

Savola earned his degree in computer science in the College of Engineering, and he was able to research all the best components to help Armstrong build the most lightweight bike possible. It wasn’t long before he was encouraging and supporting her as she began training for the Olympics.

Kristin Armstrong and Joe Savola

Armstrong says the skills she used to train for the Olympics came from her University of Idaho experience. “The Olympics are just like college,” she explained. “They’re both on a four-year schedule and you have to set your goal, whether its graduation or winning a race, and then you have to work backwards and figure out the smaller goals that will get you to the big goal.

It’s all about time management, having a plan and staying focused.

I learned those things in college.”

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in Salzburg, Austria, her bicycle chain popped off mid-race. As she waited for it to be fixed, she was certain her chances of winning were ruined.

But this, like other seemingly devastating events in Armstrong’s life, turned out to bring its own rewards.

Not only did she end up winning the race, but later, Savola designed a new product to keep her chain in place that she used during her gold medal race. Now, the “chain catcher,” called K-Edge that stands for “Kristin’s Edge,” is available commercially through Boise-based AceCo Sport Group.

Today, Armstrong has retired from competitive racing, but stays in the game through the Kristin Armstrong Cycling Academy that offers womenonly bike retreats across the country.

She encourages and empowers participants to make cycling a lifelong sport and teaches the basic, essential cycling skills, such as how to change a flat tire. She and Savola also have a new joint venture: a baby on the way.

As an advocate for continuing education, Armstrong’s message is never to let someone else’s expectations define what you can achieve. She says each person has unique talents – even if they are not obvious to everyone.

“I never tested the highest or stood out as a great athlete.

But they don’t have a test for drive and determination, and that’s one I would have aced.”

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The Science of

Knowledge Growing up in Potlatch, Gary Strong thought he would go into the family sawmill business. His high school librarian, Mrs. Bennett, who doubled as the theater director at his small school, encouraged him and all the students to read.

It was through books that his imagination took him far away from rural northern Idaho to distant and exotic lands, and the idea for a different sort of life took root. He credits other key mentors, including University of Idaho librarian Richard Beck, with encouraging him along the way.

It wasn’t long after he started as an undergraduate majoring in education that Strong decided he wanted to work in the library.

“At the time I was flipping burgers,” explained Strong. “I wanted that library job so badly. I campaigned relentlessly for it.”

If he thought it would be easy work, he was sorely mistaken. He came on board just as the entire contents of the library needed to be moved from one building to another.

Despite the unexpected physical labor, Strong knew he had found his niche. Later, he and the rest of the library staff rejoiced at the arrival of the University’s first Xerox machine.

At last, the books would be safe from

Gary Strong

the students’ practice of tearing out pages and taking them for reference.

Strong went on to earn a master’s degree in library science from the University of Michigan, and then to work as a librarian at various posts in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. His “big break” came in 1980, when he applied for a job that he thought was a long shot – that of California state librarian, the top administrative post in the California State Library system.

To his amazement, he got the job, which he held for 14 years through three gubernatorial administrations.

This was phase one of a career that Strong characterizes as having three distinct phases. In the second phase, from 1994 to 2003, Strong

headed the Queens Borough Public Library in New York, the most diverse and busiest public library system in America, with a central library, 62 community libraries and six adult learning centers.

The third phase of his career has brought him back to a university setting. Since September 2003, Strong has served as university librarian at the University of California at Los Angeles, one of the top 10 academic research libraries in North America.

Part of his job includes traveling to those distant and exotic lands he once dreamed of, as he seeks resources to bolster the university’s collection. His search for primary source materials such as papers, letters, films, photos and drawings has taken him all over the world, including Israel, China and Russia. Even from his office, books can transport him to exotic, distant places.

He recently worked with the British Library and other experts to process a collection of Armenian documents that describe trade with India in the 1800s.

Strong mostly credits other people for giving him the opportunities that have allowed him to serve in such distinguished posts.

“People at various stages have opened a door,” he explained.

“And I had the good sense to walk through it. You have to take risks.”

As for his guiding principle, he said he often asks himself: “If I do

this, whatever it is, will it make a difference in someone’s life?” This simple question has motivated his decisions, particularly the efforts he’s most proud of: literacy campaigns.

Today, he finds himself having come full circle. He encourages reading, just like Mrs. Bennett did; he builds the library collection just like Mr. Beck. In addition, each year he is on the panel that gives out a prize to students who have built their own outstanding book collections. It’s the same award he won at Idaho in 1966 for his collection of Latin and Central American books.

The Science of

Safety

In his long career as an engineer, Stanley P. Desjardins has saved countless lives. He pioneered the design of crash-worthy seats used in both helicopters and jet airliners – seats that not only tolerate an impact, but also soften it for the human bodies they hold. His research resulted in key revisions to the U.S. Army’s regulations on crashresistant aircraft design criteria, a guide used around the world, and he went on to found a company that designed and fabricated seats for both government and commercial customers. He also refined other lifesaving products, including air bags, for both automobiles and aircraft.

Stanley P. Desjardins

“Improved crash safety has been my mission for the past 41 years,” explained Desjardins. “It has been extremely gratifying to be approached by someone or receive a letter from someone that credits their life to a product developed and manufactured by our company.”

These accomplishments are all the more impressive when you consider that Desjardins, who was the first in his family to go to college and was given that opportunity through the GI Bill, did not know what an engineering degree was or what it might entail. He admitted this made for “a rather shaky start” to his educational experience, but he soon found his love for the field of study.

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In the following years, the climate of international relations influenced the direction his life would take. Just months before Desjardins was to graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite.

Engineers such as Desjardins were concerned not so much about the satellite itself, as the rocket that had launched the satellite into space.

With this accomplishment, the Soviet Union had demonstrated its ability to shoot a missile toward a target thousands of miles away. In response, Congress appropriated funds to develop the Minuteman, the first solid-propellant, intercontinental ballistic missile. Desjardins’ engineering courses had included the study of ballistics and upon graduation he worked for 10 years on the Minuteman program, first as an internal ballistician and then heading up nozzle design.

Yet, even then, Desjardins was motivated by his desire to save lives.

He explained that our country’s missiles were a show of force meant to prevent human casualties.

“If any missiles would have ever been launched at the Soviet Union,” he said, “the system would have been a failure.”

Desjardins then turned his attention and business skills to making aircraft safer for humans, work for 20

which he has been nominated for induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. His contributions come from the consideration he gave to each component of the seat: the frame, the straps and the cushion – each purposefully designed to perform a protective function.

The primary protective device, however, is the energy-absorbing system that absorbs the crash energy and reduces forces exerted on the human occupant. He explained that most people take for granted that “the products we use on a day-today basis are the result of design and development in one form or another.”

The job of the engineer is to consider these features in painstaking detail. Because of Desjardins’ attention to detail, passengers of today’s vehicles, both air and ground, have a greater likelihood of surviving crashes.

Today, Desjardins is the president of Safe, Inc., a company he founded to continue the development of technology and products to save lives. The company now has introduced innovations in body and vehicle armor. In current combat situations, soldiers are likely to get injured by an explosion from a land mine or other explosive devices.

Desjardins’ ultimate goal remains the same: to protect the human body with products that absorb energy from impacts whether from blasts or crashes.

Arden Bement

The Science of

Energy When Arden Bement was 10 years old, his father took him on a day trip to the Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan, an outing he calls a “revolutionary experience.”

“It was the first time I had a sense of geological time and how the world worked. It stimulated a lot curiosity in me,” said Bement.

He credits this, combined with his mother’s encouragement that he play the piano from an early age, for setting his mind in motion and igniting his hunger to learn.

Despite his inquisitive nature, Bement wasn’t necessarily convinced of a need for formal education.

After high school, he admitted, “I didn’t even have it in my mind to go to college.” He took a job working for a mine in Climax, Colo.

“I was a roustabout,” he confessed.

So how did he make the leap to a career so illustrious that highlights include being a professor at MIT and director of the National Science Foundation?

He said he owes it all to his boss at the mine. One day, he and his boss were on opposite sides of the lunchroom – both were reading copies of a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. When his boss discovered Bement’s reading material, he encouraged the young roustabout to get an education, and even offered to pay for the first semester at his own alma mater, Colorado School of Mines.

Bement took his boss up on the offer, and then some. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he attended the University of Idaho for his master’s degree in metallurgical engineering, now the materials science and engineering program. He was drawn to Idaho by engineering faculty and department head Joseph Newton, who had written a prominent textbook in the field. Attending Idaho also meant much of Bement’s work would be hands-on research at Hanford Laboratory in Richland,

Wash., which today is known as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 10 national laboratories.

His research placed him at the forefront of discovering how to harness nuclear energy. His work focused on ensuring that all the elements involved – the containment vessel, the cladding and the control panels – could withstand the conditions under which the energy was created.

What does he have to show for those early experiments?

“Lots of scar tissue,” he said with a laugh. “I learned by doing.”

In other words, he got intimate with laws of thermodynamics by burning his fingertips.

Bement went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His almost 60-year career has included stints in research, academia and government. In his most recent post as director of the National Science Foundation, which he has held since 2004, his leadership includes managing a $7 billion budget to support fundamental science research. This summer, Bement will start a new adventure as founding director of the new Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University.

Bement’s drive to learn new things – what he calls his “low-fascination threshold”

– has propelled him from one job to the next.

“Each new position offers a new learning curve,” he said.

“When you get to the flat side of a learning curve, it’s time to move to a new learning curve.”

In terms of career paths, he recommends that young people consider models other than the straight climb up – the traditional “ladder.” He said his career path looks more like a spiral, which may be a less direct route, but allowed him to expand his areas of expertise along the way.

As for the research subject that started his upward spiral, Bement is excited that nuclear energy is experiencing a resurgence. He believes it can be an essential part in “greening” our power supply; a consistent source of energy that can facilitate a greater reliance on other alternative energies such as those generated by wind and sun.

Ultimately, his long career has taught Bement that a person must try new things, even if they seem ridiculous or scary at first.

“You can’t take yourself too seriously,” he said. Case in point: he was asked to guest conduct the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra in Indiana, an endeavor he knew little about. “I thought I would look like a fool.” He did it anyway, and it was a thrill.

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In 1910, Dario Toffenetti crossed the ocean from his birthplace in tiny Menas, Italy, to seek a better life in America. Early on, his success was decidedly mixed.

He had finally established a toehold as a struggling young restaurateur in late 1920s Chicago, when he happened onto a batch of outsized spuds: enormous, succulent Idaho Russets.

How Dario Toffenetti

Put the “Famous” in Idaho Potatoes

by Donna Emert

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He bought that entire load of magnificent tubers, and later, thousands more like them. They would help make Toffenetti’s Restaurant famous, help him launch five more restaurants in the Chicago Loop and help establish his outrageously popular, 1,000-seat restaurant in New York’s Time Square.

His brazen, quirky, tenacious salesmanship turned russets into gold and made Idaho Potatoes a national brand.

“He was really one of the first people to bring advertising to the service industries,” said Anna Vodicka, Toffenetti’s great-granddaughter and recent graduate of the University of Idaho master of fine arts Creative Writing Program. “There were ads for products, but people weren’t doing so much industry advertising at the time.”

Around the time of his giant potato discovery, the Saturday Evening Post reported Idaho was looking to establish itself as the national leader in the potato market. Toffenetti believed the Idaho spud could be the hallmark of his mid-priced menus, where a full dinner cost thirty cents. He tucked

the Post under his arm and boarded a train – destination Idaho; Toffenetti aimed to meet with Governor Charles Calvin Moore.

Vodicka’s book-in-progress documents the fortitude, leavened with blarney, that won Toffenetti an audience with the governor. She imaginatively recounts that exchange: “In my restaurant,” Dario said, eyes sparkling and arms gesticulating for emphasis, “we call them ‘World Famous Idaho Potatoes’ – and I promise you, Governor, that soon the whole great nation will say so, too. . . .

All I ask of you is a letter.”

Within minutes, Governor Moore was penning a letter of praise and congratulations “for [Toffenetti’s] splendid exploitation of the Idaho potato.”

Toffenetti went home to Chicago, enlarged the letter to poster size and filled his street-level restaurant window with the giant, official endorsement.

Ultimately, Toffenetti’s restaurants became famous for the fun and, often, fabulously hyperbolic menus and advertising he penned fresh every week for more than four decades, for outstanding food and service, for the generous spirit of its proprietor and for its world famous Idaho potatoes.

Dario Toffenetti received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Idaho in 1958; his son, Dario Jr., earlier earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1952. While at the University, Anna’s father, Albert L. Vodicka III, earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1966, and met her mother, co-ed Peggy Price, who studied art at Idaho for two years.

Anna Vodicka is a Wisconsin native and a graduate of Tufts University.

Idaho’s writing program almost escaped her notice.

Anna Vodicka

“Who knew Idaho had this underthe-radar program?” Vodicka said.

“I visited a lot of the top programs in the country, but the writing that was going on here was just so much better.”

Vodicka’s MFA thesis is a collection of nonfiction essays, including “Toffenetti’s,” her grandfather’s remarkable story. She received a $500 grant from the Idaho Potato Commission to research the essay.

One resource was IPC archival materials that include business minutes noting Toffenetti’s impact.

As a writer entering a very competitive profession, Vodicka feels a strong affinity with her great

grandfather, and recognizes the timeless power of his story.

“He had this remarkable ability to rebound and not let go of that idealized version of himself and what he wanted most,” Vodicka said.

“I really admire that. Rejection is inevitable. And if you really want to make it like Toffenetti made it, you have to have that resilience.

“His narrative traces the American narrative. I think we need those kinds of stories right now.”

Vodicka continues to research Toffenetti’s connections to Idaho. Please contact her at: toffenettiproject@gmail.com if you have information about him.

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HISTORY IN A BARREL But, Time Capsule Also Contains Mysteries Look up from this story and take a look around you. Now, think about the items you see that would best represent this moment, and put them in a box.

Mark on the top: “Do not open until 2060.�

by Karen Hunt Photos by Breanna Weston and Bill Kerr

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This act may seem silly, but for one man, that was a way to preserve the past. W. C. Cheney collected items from the first half of the 20th century and sealed them in 17 55-gallon barrels. In 1962, he donated the barrels to President D. R. Theophilus and the University of Idaho. Cheney’s only request was to wait until 2010 to reveal what was stored inside.

“People give to institutions of higher education for a variety of reasons,” said Lynn Baird, dean of the library. “Here we have a donor who was passionate about history and its role in educating future generations.

While this was unique because of the broad scope of what he collected, he also understood that the University of Idaho had the capacity to preserve and curate this gift so that others may benefit from his efforts.”

The barrels were stored in the library basement. This spring, library staff began opening the barrels and unveiled pieces of history and Americana that showcased what life was like more than half a century ago.

The library staff found an array of artifacts ranging from an old box of Kix cereal to old Army ration cards.

They also found magazines, glass milk bottles, toy airplanes that were the prizes in Kix cereal boxes and old wax recordings of radio programs.

“The potpourri of everyday life is captured in the items that we’ve uncovered thus far,” said Baird.

“Newspapers with banner headlines capture critical moments of history, documenting how Americans once

“Why the University of Idaho?” Cheney said, “It is first on the list of places I consider most safe for a long stretch of time. Human nature being what it is, I feel strongly we will be involved in an atomic war or a germ war.” engaged with global affairs on a daily basis rather than the constant connections that we now experience.

From toys to magazines, the themes of war and peace permeate through the collection.”

Little is known about the man who gave the barrels. It is believed that he was born in Oregon and lived there until he was a young man. Cheney was married around 1927. The couple lived briefly in Portland, Ore., before moving to Longview, Wash., around

1930. A few years later, they settled in Seattle, Wash., where he lived at the time of the donation.

Cheney wore many hats in his professional career. He was an engineer, a teacher, an inventor, an astronomer, and a historian. He created machinery used in World War II and was a part of several special divisions in the Army that were created during the war. He included some of the paperwork from these divisions in the time capsule.

Librarian Lee Zimmerman and President D. R. Theophilus oversee the arrival and storage of the “mystery barrels” donated to the University by W. C. Cheney. Photo from the June 1962 issue of The University of Idaho Reports, courtesy University Library Special Collections.

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The time capsule may have been an unusual gift given to the University; but it is a piece of history, time-stamped by a man who appears to be as mysterious as his gift.

“Mr. Cheney seems to be much of a mystery man,” said Baird.

Some of the items shed light on Cheney’s interests. From the copious amounts of magazines and newspapers, we know he loved to read and stayed informed on events going on in the world. He recorded not only radio programs but also some monumental news announcements, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the death of Will Rogers.

While Cheney’s interests can be determined based on the artifacts he donated, there is still question as to why he donated the time capsules to the University of Idaho. There is no definite answer; however, some speculate that Cheney gave the time-capsule gift to the University to preserve a part of history in case the West Coast was bombed during the Cold War. Baird said, “From some of the correspondence files, Mr. Cheney answers this question, ‘Why the University of Idaho?’ Cheney said, ‘It is first on the list of places I consider most safe for a long stretch of time.

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Human nature being what it is, I feel strongly we will be involved in an atomic war or a germ war. If not, and that is my hope, this collection will give an authentic cross section of life during the last of the 19th and the larger part of the 20th centuries.’”

Library staff members have opened five of the 17 barrels. The artifacts they found have been displayed in an exhibit housed in the library. On April 19, President M. Duane Nellis unveiled the exhibit and talked about the generosity of the gift given by Cheney. He also joked that perhaps the library staff will find gold bullion hidden in the remaining 12 barrels.

A local genealogist, intrigued by the unique donation, did further independent research and identified and contacted some of Cheney’s descendents who plan to visit and view the collection’s many items.

“Since we unveiled the collection, several genealogists have contributed snippets from the Census and other background materials to help document the man,” said Baird.

“While we have not yet been able

to follow up on some of these leads, we will be able to pursue this better after we have had an opportunity to complete our inventory of all of the barrels.”

The time capsule may have been an unusual gift given to the University; but it is a piece of history, timestamped by a man who appears to be as mysterious as his gift.

Alumni Class Notes

1940s Gerry Hagedorn ’46 will be inducted into the University of Idaho Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in fall 2010 for his lifetime contributions to Vandal Athletics.

Left to right: Steve Johnson, Alumni Relations executive director; graduate Rachel Hailey ’10; Rachel’s great-grandmother, Juanita Parke ’42; grandmother, Victoria Smith ’67; and mother, Sheila Hailey ’86.

I Want to Shake Your Hand For recent graduate Rachel Hailey, forensic science isn’t something she watches on television; it will be her career.

In May, Hailey earned the first forensic science degree at the University of Idaho. A forensics degree prepares students to work in state crime laboratories to analyze the chemistry makeup of evidence and the DNA composition left behind by criminals. For Hailey, forensic science is similar to putting a puzzle together. All the pieces must fit in order to see the whole picture. Everyone has their own personal chemistry makeup, but it’s how the chemistry fits together that could solve the puzzle to catch the perpetrator.

Becoming the first graduate of forensic science is not the only milestone Hailey celebrated on graduation day. She marks the fourth generation in her family to have graduated from the University of Idaho. Hailey’s great-grandmother, who will celebrate her 90th birthday this summer, graduated nearly 70 years ago. Graduation was a proud moment for the Hailey family.

“I will miss how the University is so accepting of how well-rounded people can be,” said Hailey.

Congratulations, Rachel, and all of our 2009-10 graduates – all 1,500 of you. And, welcome to the University of Idaho Alumni Association.

Keep in touch!

Steven C. Johnson ’71 Executive Director of Alumni Relations

Carlos L. Benjamin ’49, former Marine corporal of A Company, 26th Marine, 5th Marine Division, stands atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. He participated in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima in March 2010. Carlos also noted that his machine gun section was under the leadership of Second Lt. Vito Barzilouski, a hero at Iwo Jima and an athlete at Idaho in the early 1940s where he was known as Vic Barelous.

1950s John Ascuaga ’51 has been inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame at the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He was recognized for building the Nugget Casino into the Reno area’s most prominent resort.

William Rigby ’53 has retired as CEO of the Bank of Idaho, which he founded in 1985.

Arden L. Bement ’59, the director of the National Science Foundation, has been named to lead Purdue University’s new Global Policy Research Institute in West Lafayette, Ind. Bement began his post on June 1, 2010.

David Youmans ’59, ’69, ’75 has written a book titled “Beyond the Forested Ridge.” It is a sequel to his book, “Wherever Home Is.” In the book, an emeritus academic describes earlier times in the rural West, educational landmarks, years of work and family life abroad and dynamics of the university milieu. He concludes with reflections on peace, social justice, spiritual quest and the challenges of aging.

1960s C. Eugene Allen ’61 retired in December 2009 after a 43year career at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He received numerous university and national teaching, research and service awards and served for 25 years as a dean, associate vice president, vice president and provost. During his career, he gave leadership to numerous national initiatives in research, interdisciplinary and international programs, and for many years was involved in programs of the Board on Agriculture of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences. He and his spouse, Connie (Block) Allen ’61, continue to reside in a suburb of St. Paul, Minn.

Hassan Alief ’62 has been named chairman and chief executive officer of ARNEVUT Exploration Corporation.

Larry Sall ’64 retired in January from the University of Texas-Dallas after leading the university’s libraries through an era of dynamic growth.

Don Matthews ’65 will be inducted into the University of

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Idaho Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in fall 2010 for his lifetime achievement as a coach in the Canadian Football League.

Larry Branen ’67 retired from his position as associate vice president for northern Idaho at the University of Idaho on June 30, 2010.

Ben ’67, ’69 and Linda ’69 Cavaness were awarded the Service to Education Award by the American Falls Education Foundation during its annual Heritage Dinner. The award is given to a parent, school supporter or other individual who has provided invaluable service to the schools of American Falls.

Bonnie Richard McDermid ’67 and her husband, John E. McDermid ’67, have retired.

John worked for Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies, a spinoff of HP, for 34 years. Bonnie retired as an administrative assistant at Agilent Technologies.

They live in Loveland, Colo., close to their son and daughter and two grandchildren.

John Mundt ’67, ’73, ’89 of Boise is one of six individuals nationwide to receive the National Association of Agricultural Educators Lifetime Achievement Award. Mundt was recognized for making a difference as a high school agriculture teacher, state supervisor and teacher educator.

Daniel S. Looney ’68 has been included in the 2010 Marquis publications of “Who’s Who in American Art,” “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.” He is also a 2010 nominee for the Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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Elizabeth (Betty) Ranta Zabielski ’69 recently retired as CFO of Alaska Gateway School. She and her husband now run a B&B in Tok, Alaska, that offers discounts to Vandals and their families.

1970s Colleen Owens ’70 has joined DeNuke as vice president for business development. Owens will be responsible for developing new clients at the Defense Department, EPA and other federal and state agencies, as well as “marketing, proposal development and recruiting for DOE ARRA-funded work.”

Bill Morscheck ’70, ’83 has been elected state director for the Latah County (Idaho) Board of Realtors for 2010.

Jim Rehder ’73 retired from the Idaho Department of Correction after 28 years as educator and warden. Jim is currently serving his second term as Idaho County commissioner.

He served on the Idaho Children Trust Fund board and now serves many local, state and federal committees as commissioner.

Jim resides with his wife, Sally, in Cottonwood.

Johnnie Sue Reid ’73, ’75 has been elected secretary for the Latah County (Idaho) Board of Realtors for 2010.

Steven R. Strait ’73 has been appointed by Alaska Governor Parnell to the Alaska Aviation Advisory Board. The 11-member board advises the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities on aviation issues.

Deborah Stetson ’74 has been selected as Iowa Tennis Coach of the Year, USTA Missouri Valley Outstanding High School Tennis Coach of the Year and USPTA Outstanding High School Tennis Coach of the Year. She has coached boys and girls varsity and junior varsity tennis at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines for 28 years. In 2009, her boys tennis team won the triple crown for the second time by winning the state singles, doubles, and team title, along with the co-ed team title. No coach has ever won four state titles in the 83-year history of Iowa tennis.

Howard Crosby ’75 has been appointed to the board of directors and named president of Senetek PLC. He is currently the chairman of Plasmet Corp., a private green energy company.

Sally Bagshaw ’76 is a member of the Seattle City Council, first elected in November 2009.

She is chair of the Parks and Seattle Center Committee and the Waterfront Planning Committee, vice chair of the Public Safety and Education Committee, a member of the Built Environment Committee, and an alternate on the Housing, Human Services, Health and Culture Committee.

Barry Wood ’76, Idaho Fifth District Judge, has retired from his full-time duties but will continue working part time as a senior judge as needed.

Frederick L. Salinas ’77, a natural resource specialist with the USDA Forest Service in Washington, D.C., and formerly a forest supervisor with the National Forests and Grasslands in Lufkin, Texas, has volunteered to serve a 13-month assignment

in Afghanistan to help rebuild that country’s agricultural sector.

John P. Ryan ’79 has been appointed chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Senetek PLC.

1980s Donald P. Gray ’80 has been appointed to the position of vice president – mining for Orvana Minerals Corporation of Toronto, Ontario.

Dave Gressard ’82 had his work featured at the Valley Art Center in Clarkston, Wash., during the month of March.

Gressard records everyday occurrences in the outdoors.

His detailed studies of cougars, bears, butterflies and falcons begin as pencil sketches based on his photography.

Frank J. Sutman ’82 has been designated as one of nine TAPPI Fellows for 2010. It is an honorary title bestowed upon less than one percent of TAPPI’s membership and given to individuals who have made extraordinary technical or service contributions to the industry and/or the association. TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging and converting industries.

Clayton Flowers ’83, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, earned the designation as a certified government financial manager from the Association of Government Accountants.

Clayton currently works for the Oregon Department of Transportation as the financial policy and compliance manager.

Patty Miller ’83, executive director of the Basque

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Museum and Cultural Center, was presented with the Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award by the Idaho Humanities Council.

The award recognizes “either a person or an organization … that fosters greater understanding or appreciation of the humanities.”

Miller has been crucial to the development of the Basque Block in Boise and is an enthusiastic proponent of Basque culture.

Ken Owens ’83 will be inducted into the University of Idaho Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in fall 2010 for his achievements in basketball at the University of Idaho.

Carol M. Stiff ’83, ’89, ’02, founder of Kitchen Culture Education Technologies Inc., and its subsidiary, the Home Tissue Culture Group, based in Wisconsin, has been hired as the executive director. KCET/ HTCG is a nonprofit company dedicated to promoting plant science education. The company presents hands-on plant tissue culture workshops that instruct teachers, students, hobbyists, plant lovers and nurserymen how to do simple plant tissue cultures, or micropropagation, using inexpensive kitchen and household supplies. The goal is to help keep students in school and increase graduation rates throughout the United States.

Chris Anton ’84 has joined ClearRock Capital, LLC in its new Boise office. He will serve as portfolio manager. His responsibilities will include growing the firm’s client base in Boise as well as attracting advisers to the new office.

Tim Dunnagan ’84 has accepted a position as dean

of Boise State University’s College of Health Sciences.

Todd Kuiken ’84, a physician and biomedical engineer, is responsible for creating the “bionic arm.” He uses nerves and muscles in an amputee’s stump to carry signals from the brain. A computer in the prosthesis directs electric motors to move the limb.

Curtis LaPierre ’85 has been named a senior associate for Otak, in the company’s Kirkland, Wash., office.

Mark Lesko ’85 is a lands resource supervisor for the Idaho Department of Lands’ Ponderosa area office in Deary.

Dan Mattson ’85, longtime Farm Services Agency employee, received recognition for his community service as a 2009 recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The award, presented by President Barack Obama’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, honors individuals who are committed to strengthening our nation and making a difference through volunteer service. Mattson also received a certificate from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack that recognizes him as one of the top 100 USDA employees who are especially passionate about community service.

Steve Shiver ’85 has been promoted to principal with NAC|Architecture.

Steve Harris ’86 has been named interim executive vice president in addition to his current position as vice president of engineering with Cascade Microtech Inc. Corinne Mantle-Bromley ’86, ’90 is the new dean of the University of Idaho College of Education.

Mike Rousseau ’86, plant manager at Alcoa Intalco Works, has worked tirelessly for the past two years to secure a power deal with the Bonneville Power Administration to keep the lights on and the doors open at the smelter. While negotiating this complex power deal, Rousseau was able to implement costsaving measures throughout the operation, making it one of the most efficient smelters in the U.S. Joseph Taylor ’86 has been hired to practice family medicine by Inland Family Medicine in Spokane, Wash.

He has more than 10 years of medical experience since his graduation from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences at Des Moines University.

Stephen Goss ’87 has been named to the Lithium Corporation board of directors.

Scott S. Ross ’87 was selected as the deputy power manager at Grand Coulee Dam to provide additional leadership for numerous projects over the next decade.

Jeanne Higgins ’88 has been selected as the forest

supervisor for the HumboldtToiyabe National Forest. In this position, Higgins will manage the largest national forest in the lower 48 states.

Ken Hunt ’88 is the chairman and founder of the Warrior’s Promise Foundation, a nonprofit organization designed to help with the day-to-day needs of veterans and their families.

The foundation, formed in 2007, provides food vouchers, travel funding, medical/dental, rent/mortgage assistance and scholarships for education.

Larry Pratt ’88 has been appointed vice president – sales for Farmers Insurance Group of Companies.

Susan Wiebe ’88 has officially stepped up onto the bench in Idaho’s 3rd Judicial District.

Official investiture ceremonies were held in Payette and Weiser.

John Kennedy ’89 has been named deputy director for internal operations for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

1990s Candis Donicht ’90 will retire this year as superintendent of the Moscow School District and has been selected as Idaho’s School Superintendent of the Year.

Kevin Harrison ’90 of Seattle, Wash., was promoted to senior director of business operations for the Washington region of Comcast Cable where he has been employed for the last 10 years. Prior to moving to Seattle, he lived in Denver, Colo., where he began his tenure with Comcast.

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Dale Kleinert ’90, ’08 has been selected by the Moscow school board as the next superintendent of the Moscow School District.

He currently is the Moscow Junior High School principal.

Randon Draper ’92 wasn’t trained in the delicate art of foreign adoptions when he was dispatched to Haiti 40 hours after the January 12 earthquake.

But he learned quickly how to handle them from his position on the ground at the Port-auPrince airport. He has emerged as an unsung hero in the efforts to move children from orphanages to homes in the U.S. Dan Kurtz ’93 has been promoted to associate principal with NAC|Architecture.

Trent Schwenkfelder ’93 has been promoted to president of Commercial Tier in Meridian.

Hong Yang ’93, professor of science and technology and director of Bryant University’s Confucius Institute, will be the first recipient of the Dr. Charles Smiley Chair in the Confucius Institute at Bryant University.

Clint R. Bolinder ’94 has been appointed as a member of the board of directors for the Boise State University Foundation.

He will serve a two-year term.

Jeffrey A. Crouch ’94, ’04 has been awarded tenure at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Conn., where he is the chair of the Social Science Department and Criminal Justice program coordinator.

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Michelle Spain ’94 is the newest board member for the Gritman Medical Center Foundation in Moscow. She will help with the renovation project of the Gritman Community Wellness Center.

Eric Wildman ’94 has been appointed by Idaho Gov. Otter to fill a judgeship in the Magic Valley’s Fifth Judicial District.

Annette Melton Weeks ’95, ’01 earned the National Board of Professional Standards Teaching Certificate in agriculture and environmental sciences in December 2009.

Calli Daly ’96 has joined Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC as regional manager of state government affairs for the Northwest region.

Daly will be based in Salem, Ore., and be responsible for legislative policy advocacy and government relations issues in Oregon and Washington.

Sunday Hess Henry ’96 has accepted a position as a team physician for Moscow Family Medicine in Moscow.

Al Wildey ’96 had his photographs that use multiple camera techniques to illustrate street life, landscapes, domesticity and travel exhibited at the Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery at Alma College. His works exhibited included digital images on aluminum, silver gelatin prints, mixed media, Polaroid integral dye prints and digital composite prints.

Nors Davidson ’97 became managing partner at the law office of Robert Tayac in San Francisco, Calif.

Davidson now is a trial attorney specializing in criminal defense.

Kevin Henry ’97 has opened a dental practice in Moscow called BlueSky Dental.

Mary Marano ’97 has been selected as coordinator for the Kootenai County Mental Health Court in Coeur d’Alene.

She previously served as a probation officer for the court’s Adult Misdemeanor Probation Department.

Matthew O. Pappas ’97, ’00 has been named a partner of Anderson Julian & Hull LLP. His practice primarily involves the areas of insurance defense, worker’s compensation law, personal injury, construction, probate and appellate practice.

Sean Wilson ’97 has been elected local director for the Latah County Board of Realtors for 2010.

Katie Abernathy ’98 has been hired as the business development manager for the Butler (Indiana) Business Accelerator (BBA). This is a new position for the BBA, a professional consulting business housed within Butler’s College of Business.

Gail Laferriere ’98 has been awarded the 2009 Certificate of Service for outstanding use of a career information delivery system by the Association for Computer-based Systems for Career Information. Laferriere serves as social science instructor/director of Career Services for North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene.

Brian Lee ’99 has officially stepped up onto the bench in Idaho’s 3rd Judicial District.

2000s Christopher M. Banks ’00 has graduated from Officer Candidate School Phase III training at North Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard.

Kathryn Purviance ’00, founder of the student architect site, ArchitectureAddiction.com, is leading a field trip to Peru for interested architecture addicts.

Debrah Roundy ’00 has been invited to speak at the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Health in San Francisco in October 2010. She will speak on teaching psychoneuroimmunology in the special needs classroom and the difference it has made in the health of her students.

Shane Zenner ’00 has received his certification as a certified financial planner. This requires a college degree, at least three years’ experience in the field, finishing a course of study and passing a two-day examination.

Shane is a representative of Edward Jones in Mountain Home.

Joe Stegner ’01 has been awarded the Idaho State Planning Council on Mental Health 2010 Legislative Service Award for his efforts to improve mental health services across the state of Idaho.

Angela Baldus ’02, ’05 was awarded the 2008-09 Idaho Gem Rookie Administrator of the Year Award by the Idaho Association of Elementary

To be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, P.O. Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a .jpg format.

School Principals at its fall 2009 meeting. She is currently the principal of Orofino Elementary.

Nick Epler ’02 has purchased the franchise and re-opened the Pita Pit restaurant in Moscow.

He also owns franchises in Boise and Meridian, and is part of Pita Pit’s corporate marketing advisory committee.

His efforts were recognized in 2009 when he was named Pita Pit Franchisee of the Year.

Nate Smith ’02 has built up Northshore Industries from a small one-product business, which he purchased in 2006.

In addition to the original product, “Moose Juice,” he developed “Suit Fresh,” an eco-friendly wetsuit cleaner, and more recently, “Slider,” an anti-chafe, antioxidant formula for runners, bikers and other out-of-water athletes.

Kate Nelson ’03, ’06 is now leading Io DuPont’s product, Power Cordz, while company founder, Tony DuPont, focuses on research and development.

Angela Whyte ’03 will be inducted into the University of Idaho Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame in fall 2010 for her achievements in track and field at the University of Idaho.

Pamela A. Yenser ’03 retired with her husband, Kelly, to Albuquerque, N.M. Retired?

Ha! Still teaching and writing.

Katie Botkin ’04 is the managing editor for MultiLingual Magazine, the primary news publication for the localization industry.

Jen Hirt ’04 has published her book “Under Glass: The Girl With a Thousand Christmas Trees” with the University of

Akron Press. In this memoir, Hirt recounts what it was like returning home to find she had lost the very thing that defined her family’s identity.

Erik K. Kantola ’05 has successfully completed his architectural internship with NorthWind Architects, LLC and passed his Architectural Registration Board exams to become licensed to practice architecture in the state of Alaska. He currently is employed with NorthWind Architects as a staff architect with a primary focus of working on public projects.

Pete Williams ’05 is a Farmer’s Insurance agent in the San Diego area.

Mark Cummings ’06 has been hired

by Murray, Smith & Associates, Inc., a Pacific Northwest consulting engineering firm that specializes in public infrastructure engineering. Mark will be involved with a wide range of water, wastewater and storm water planning and design projects.

Steven Janowiak ’06 has been named vice president for student development at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. He will be responsible for residence life, career development, counseling and health services, security, campus life, campus ministry and student leadership.

Michelle Jeitler ’06, ’08 has been hired as an instructor of mathematics at New River Community and Technical College in Summersville, W.Va.

Kara Moser ’06, commercial interior designer for Boise-based LCA Architects, earned her LEED accredited professional status in interior design and construction, as well as attained the highest level of interior design qualification as a nationally certified interior designer. The LEED AP credential signifies that Kara is a design professional with experience in and understanding of the design of high performance commercial spaces and tenant improvements that provide healthful, productive places to work, and are environmentally responsible.

Christian Pace ’06 has earned his doctor of veterinary medicine after completing four years at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.

Rebecca Schwartz ’06 is in her second year in the Japan Exchange Teaching program. She is shown at the summit of Kyoga-dake, the tallest mountain in her area.

Julia Williams ’06 was selected for the Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant by the National Institutes of Health, which will fund her research assistantship for two years. She is currently working on a doctoral degree at the University of Illinois.

Adam A. Gremling ’07 graduated from Officer Candidate School Phase III training at North

Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard.

Wyatt R. Prescott ’07, ’08, of Concho, Ariz., has been named executive vice president of the Idaho Cattle Association.

Prescott is currently running a family cow/calf, stocker operation in Arizona.

Tomi Quigley ’07 has been elected chairman of the Greater Spokane Inc.’s 2010 board of trustees.

Tara Roberts ’07 has been promoted to assistant city editor for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow.

Grechen Lynne Wingerter ’07, a part-time instructor of theatre and guest director at Lycoming College, has been selected for a 2009 National Teaching Artist Grant from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She is one of six people nationwide to be awarded this honor for outstanding achievement as a theatre artist and educator.

Michael A. Kauffmann ’08 has joined the Drake Law Firm after completing a clerkship with Justice Brian Morris of the Montana Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Montana, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Aimee Shipman ’08 has been named executive director of the Latah Economic Development Council in Moscow.

Derek Jansson ’09 has been hired by LeMaster Daniels as a staff accountant specializing in audits and generalist tax.

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Alumni Class Notes

Alumni Hall of Fame — 2010 Inductees Pete T. Cenarrusa ’40

Pete Cenarrusa has an unmatched history of public service to the state of Idaho.

He was an Idaho elected official – state representative, Speaker of the House and Secretary of State – from 1950 until his retirement in 2003, and remains the longest serving elected state official in Idaho’s history.

“I was a TKE at the University of Idaho and we had a cannon,” he recalled. Every time the University of Idaho won a football game, we’d set off that cannon. It was a tremendous blast. The more paper we jammed into that barrel, the louder it got. I remember – it was probably the last time we used the cannon – we blew out the windows of the SAE house. That was the end of the cannon.”

Daniel D. Frye ’79 2010 Alumni Hall of Fame inductees, left to right: Daniel Frye, Nancy Morris and Pete Cenarrusa. The Alumni Hall of Fame now recognizes more than 160 University of Idaho alumni who have achieved national or international distinction by their accomplishments and leadership.

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Daniel Frye has worked for IBM for nearly his entire professional career. He currently serves as vice president of open system development and director of IBM’s Linux Technology Center. He leads a worldwide software development team of more than 1,500 software professionals at IBM. “[My physics professors] told me: ‘Physicists always have jobs. The unemployment rate for physicists is generally less than 1 percent, regardless of how the economy is doing because physicists can do anything. They’ve been trained to handle variables, to handle unknowns, to bring order from disorder.’ And they were right. The fact that I have a senior, successful position in something in which I’m not trained is irrelevant because the physics background I have turned out to be pretty useful.”

Nancy M. Morris ’83

Nancy Morris has achieved a remarkable career in both the national and international spheres of law and commerce. She currently is executive vice president at Allianz Global Investors of America, where she serves as chief U.S. regulatory counsel. She previously held the position of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) secretary from 2006-08 – the first woman to hold the post. Morris also delivered this year’s College of Law commencement address.

“One of the topics I’ll talk about to the graduates is just how surprising it will be to see where their career leads them. What you think you might be doing as you start your career is likely to be completely different three or five years down the line.”

Read more about the 2010 Alumni Hall of Fame inductees at www.uidaho.edu/idahovandals/awards/halloffame.

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The deadline for 2011 alumni award nomination is Aug. 1, 2010.

For information, visit www.uidaho.edu/idahovandals/awards.

To be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, P.O. Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a .jpg format.

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Cael and Jackson, sons of Guy ’97 and Molly Crozier ’99 Bullock Raegan Emily, daughter of Jacob ’05 and Christina Jensen ’04, ’06, ’07 Cahill Emilee, daughter of Robin ’94 and Heather Graff ’94 Calkins (in picture) Lauren Grace and Brandt Nicholas, children of Jeff ’93 and Nicole Geibel Macyn Dawn, daughter of Adam ’00 and Cyndi Dawson ’98 Hankins Madeline Danielle, daughter of Jason and Mindy Mugrave ’02 Hinkle Ella Mae, daughter of Shane ’98 and Karen Pratt ’97 Lowe

Ella Avery, daughter of Aaron ’02 and Cynthia Popich ’02 Maki Lincoln Allen and Jackson August, sons of John and Rachel Lambacher ’99 Marone Dylan Patrick, son of Robert ’99 and Molly McDaniel ’99 Schafer, grandson of Terry ’73, ’76 and Nancy ’73 McDaniel, and nephew of Patrick ’02 McDaniel Ella Rae and big sister Kassidy, daughters of Dylan ’01 and Erika Schneider Zain Jamal, son of Mahmood ’01, ’07 and Amity Vacura ’00 Sheikh Samuel James, son of David ’00 and Amy Shepherd

Maycee Mari, daughter of Dillon ’09 and Teresa Vazquez ’09 Summers Sarah and Samuel, daughter and son of Keith ’04 and Maureen Wallace, grandchildren of Jerry Wallace ’71,’74, ’84, and Phyllis Van Horn ’72, niece and nephew of Brian Wallace ’00 and Angie Wallace ’97, grandniece and grandnephew of Harvey Wallace ’64,’68, and cousins of Mike Wallace ’93, Nikki Cox ’99, ’06 and Bill Gehring ’91,’08 Emma LeeAnn, daughter of John M. ’05, ’10 and Nicole Wheaton

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Marriages Katie Brittingham ’08 to Brian Hammond ’08 Samantha Garlow ’07 to Casey Hofland ’04 Ashley Irish ’09 to Tim Jech ’09 Kathryn Purviance ’00 to Robert Basic Gloria Uscola ’95 to Jon Schodde ’95 Christina Lynn Waldon to Steven Norman Kaufman ’05

Truman and Morgan, sons of James ’92 and Kimberly Yates

Sophia Marianne, daughter of Jared ’05 and Leeann Staples

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Alumni Class Notes

In Memory 1920s

Violet Bohman Whittaker ’31, Jacksonville, Fla., April 15, 2010

1940s

Edward E. Lacy ’41, Elk Grove, Calif., Dec. 4, 2009

Robert B. Benjamin ’58, Meridian, Feb. 23, 2010

Lawrence W. (Bill) Larson ’49, Dowling Park, Fla., Jan. 24, 2010

Robert Bulen ’50, Lewiston, March 7, 2010

Helene Smith Babcock ’27, Twin Falls, April 24, 2010

Willard N. Adams ’49, St. George, Utah, Jan. 7, 2010

Hugh C. McKay ’41, Moscow, Jan. 2, 2010

Nathan E. Bundy ’53, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 6, 2010

Eva Balderree ’29, Medford, Ore., May 17, 2009

Perry Bakes ’49, Spokane, Wash., March 11, 2010

Betty Cardwell McLain ’45, Coeur d’Alene, April 6, 2010

Osborne E. Casey ’54, ’62, Meridian, Aug. 27, 2009

Ivor A. Bauman ’42, Spokane Valley, Wash., March 29, 2010

Stephen M. Meikle Jr ’45, Idaho Falls, Jan. 28, 2010

Peter Chevis Sr. ’55, Bellingham, Wash., Feb. 26, 2010

Loyd C. Merrill ’44, Paul, Dec. 22, 2009

James L. Corbett ’57, Nampa, Dec. 30, 2009

David Morken ’41, Idaho Falls, March 15, 2010

Earl N. Dawson, Jr. ’53, Canby, Ore., Jan. 17, 2010

Darcy W. Nelson ’44, Rupert, Feb. 19, 2010

John E. Dixon ’57, Moscow, April 16, 2010

William C. Onweiler ’48, Rancho Mirage, Calif., Feb. 13, 2010

Charles “Cliff” Elledge ’50, Salem, Ore., Feb. 28, 2010

Vivian Athalie Owens ’48, Boise, Jan. 13, 2010

Richard D. Fisher ’53, Soda Springs, March 20, 2010

Evea Harrington Powers ’47, Boise, Dec. 30, 2009

R. Thomas Gooding ’55, Meridian, Feb. 14, 2010

Freda Radermacher Saulie ’48, Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 19, 2010

Robert Hendricks ’50, Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 21, 2009

Margaret Spring Singer ’47, Jackson, Calif., March 21, 2010

Harold K. Howard ’51, Lewiston, Jan. 22, 2010

Edward R. “Ted” Smith ’41, Twin Falls, Jan. 2, 2010

James E. Hurst ’55, Modesto, Calif., Feb. 14, 2010

Dorothy Lee Sneddon ’47, Montpelier, March 6, 2010

Floyd A. Iverson ’53, Boise, Sept. 11, 2009

1930s Pauline P. Andrews ’35, Jay, N.Y., July 25, 2009 Ancil D. Baker ’36, Fairfield, Calif., Aug. 27, 2009 Doris “Judy” Dawson Clouser ’38, Gooding, April 3, 2010 Frances Hobbs Dierken ’39, Missoula, Mont., Dec. 23, 2009 Nina Jones Fink ’36, Somers, N.Y., Dec. 21, 2009 Gordon H. Greenway ’38, Boise, Feb. 12, 2010 Edith Bradshaw Hansel ’30, Schnecksville, Pa., Jan. 28, 2010 Hazel Hayner Johnson ’34, Eugene, Ore., March 18, 2010 Wesley W. Lathen ’39, Eugene, Ore., Jan. 23, 2010

Helen VanBuskirk Bell ’44, Santa Cruz, Calif., Dec. 24, 2009 Irving H. Bennion ’41, Worley, Jan. 8, 2010 Norma McMurray Benoit ’42, Twin Falls, Dec. 20, 2009 Rex L. Blodgett ’41, Coeur d’Alene, March 14, 2010 William B. Bolton ’44, Salmon, April 7, 2010 Wallace M. Bostwick ’48, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 31, 2009 Glen Carlson ’45, Lewiston, March 30, 2009 Wilmer D. Carringer ’48, Brookings, Ore., April 24, 2009

Maria McElroy Laurance ’35, Vale, Ore., Jan. 6, 2009

George H. Cooke ’48, Hanover Township, N.J., March 2, 2010

John G. Milner ’34, Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 28, 2010

Donald L. Davis ’40, Menlo Park, Calif., Feb. 22, 2010

Sylvia Holte Thompson ’40, Pullman, Wash., Feb. 8, 2010

Thomas H. Johnson ’51, Sandpoint, Feb. 25, 2010

Walter P. Mitchell ’35, Klamath Falls, Ore., Dec. 22, 2009

Lois Seiter Eggart ’47, Post Falls, March 22, 2010

Betty Hoffman Thoren ’44, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 10, 2009

David S. Klehm ’51, Kalispell, Mont., April 1, 2010

Margaret Jane Cramer Pierce ’38, Twin Falls, April 1, 2010

Margaret Gridley Giesa ’40, Coeur d’Alene, March 12, 2010

Robert L. Tucker ’41, Sutton, Alaska, Dec. 21, 2009

Beverly Henson Knapp ’53, Bozeman, Mont., March 25, 2010

William Potts ’34, Coeur d’Alene, Feb. 21, 2009

Harris W. Gilpin ’42, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 24, 2009

Richard von Munkwitz ’49, Elkhart Lake, Wis., March 19, 2010

Amie Kaisaki Komoto ’51, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 29, 2009

Carol Campbell Renfrew ’35, Moscow, Jan. 12, 2010

Eleanor Steinmann Glarborg ’48, Hazelton, Jan. 22, 2010

John Wahl ’48, Paradise Valley, Ariz., Dec. 7, 2009

Genevieve M. Ladwig ’53, Port Angeles, Wash., Oct. 4, 2009

Edgar E. Renfrew ’36, Lock Haven, Pa., April 24, 2010

Austin E. Helmers ’42, Palmer, Alaska, March 5, 2010

Robert B. Walkley ’49, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 16, 2010

William D. Last ’50, Jerome, April 1, 2010

Marta Berg Robertson ’38, Moscow, March 2, 2010

Lois Hoffman Holden ’49, Sun City, Ariz., March 31, 2010

James M. Thompson Jr. ’35, Boise, Feb. 2, 2010

Frankland R. Kennard ’49, Bountiful, Utah, Dec. 26, 2009

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1950s Lester E. Alden ’51, Boise, Dec. 29, 2009

Larry G. Looney ’57, ’58, Boise, Feb. 16, 2010 Ann Odberg Martino ’51, Bend, Ore., Dec. 28, 2009

To be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, P.O. Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a .jpg format.

Terrence D. McMullen ’52, Reno, Nev., Feb. 4, 2010 Marjorie Thompson Miller ’50, Prescott, Ariz., Jan. 11, 2010

Burton D. Young ’51, Lewiston, April 9, 2010

1960s

Bud H. McDougal ’61, Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6, 2010

Jeff Palmer ’76, Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 29, 2009

Dick F. Monahan ’62, ’68, Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 26, 2009

Barbara L. Scharff ’70, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 11, 2010

Ray E. Neilson ’54, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 17, 2009

Beth Tillotson Atchison ’61, Pittsburg, Calif., April 1, 2010

Melvyn (Mel) Mosher ’64, ’68, Joplin, Mo., March 28, 2010

John S. Shumway ’73, Olympia, Wash., Jan. 15, 2010

Marilyn Moore Neu ’57, Renton, Wash., Dec. 26, 2009

Orvil D. Atkinson ’61, Twin Falls, Jan. 16, 2010

Emil F. Pike Jr. ’64, Kimberly, April 7, 2010

Rex F. Smith ’71, Boise, Jan. 29, 2010

Herald Nokes ’50, McCall, Jan. 10, 2010

Orson L. Bowler ’63, Centerville, Utah, Jan. 12, 2010

Wayne F. Pitkin ’68, Moscow, Jan. 14, 2010

Albert W. Varesio ’76, Mullica, N.J., Dec. 29, 2009

Richard Pennell ’50, Portland, Ore., Feb. 20, 2010

Lois Faris Brock ’63, Orofino, Jan. 6, 2010

John Fredrick Richardson ’63, Stites, May 16, 2009

Kathryn Depkovich Watanabe ’75, Boise, April 7, 2010

Wallace A. Peterson ’50, Boise, Jan. 13, 2010

Colleen St. Clair Carlson ’60, Bothell, Wash., March 20, 2010

George R. Russell ’60, Billings, Mont., Jan. 27, 2010

Don O. Quane ’53, Hayden Lake, Feb. 21, 2010

John Costello ’60, Los Angeles, Calif., March 15, 2010

Philip Schermerhorn ’66, Harrisburg, Ore., March 5, 2010

Bonnie Brown Raivio ’53, Ridgefield, Wash., Nov. 28, 2009

Maureen McGourin Craven ’61, Pocatello, Feb. 22, 2010

Ronald Scrivner ’62, Leesburg, Fla., Feb. 25, 2010

Merrill B. Robinson ’58, Burley, April 4, 2010

Obed H. Dahl ’69, Nampa, Jan. 9, 2010

Robert G. Steele ’68, Reno, Nev., Oct. 2, 2009

Edward Russell Short ’50, Connell, Wash., April 5, 2010

Joanne Extale Davidson ’61, Annandale, Va., Jan. 25, 2010

Vern E. Studer ’63, Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 18, 2010

Vanessa Wheatley Shrum ’56, Glenns Ferry, Jan. 24, 2010

Marie Clauson Ellis ’65, Eugene, Ore., March 30, 2010

Wayne W. Wahineokai ’66, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Dec. 20, 2009

Arthur L. Smith ’51, Alma, Mich., Feb. 24, 2010

Michael H. Fuehrer ’61, Portland, Ore., Feb. 7, 2010

Lewis D. Walker ’63, Alexandria, Va., Jan. 31, 2010

Barr N. Smith Jr. ’51, Boise, Feb. 21, 2010

Betty Hammond ’66, Sun City, Ariz., March 4, 2010

Ruland N. Williams ’63, Idaho Falls, Feb. 15, 2010

Jerry V. Smith ’50, Lewiston, April 11, 2010

Rex L. Helm ’64, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 26, 2010

Harold Solinsky ’55, Blackfoot, Feb. 22, 2010

Thomas D. Hesp ’68, Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 20, 2010

John Oren Cossel ’72, Wallace, Feb. 21, 2010

Romana Powers Hillebrand ’95, Moscow, April 3, 2010

Patricia Story ’50, Boise, March 31, 2010

Jerry A. Howard ’66, McKinney, Texas, Dec. 18, 2009

Cody F. Curtis ’77, Portland, Ore., Dec. 7, 2009

Heidi Kloos ’96, Ridgway, Colo., March 30, 2010

Gordon C. Taylor ’51, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2010

Viola Hawkins Huntsinger ’60, Caldwell, Feb. 25, 2010

Mariedyth Emerson ’79, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 1, 2010

Rhett J. Latham ’97, Twin Falls, Jan. 25, 2010

Harvey Thornton ’51, Auburn, Calif., May 28, 2009

Donald M. Kelly ’62, Davis, Calif., March 17, 2010

Gustaf G. Engstrom ’70, Boise, Jan. 12, 2010

James McDowell ’97, Palmer, Alaska, March 16, 2010

John S. Vandenberg ’50, Coeur d’Alene, Jan. 16, 2010

Paul C. King ’60, Ridgecrest, Calif., April 1, 2010

Glenn E. Franklin ’78, Lewiston, March 18, 2010

Patricia Tierney Rush ’95, Kendrick, Jan. 2, 2010

Robert G. Walker ’59, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 19, 2009

William D. Lankford ’68, Fairview, Texas, Feb. 18, 2010

Bruce G. Lanphear ’71, San Diego, Calif., Feb. 3, 2010

Donna Krulitz Smith ’97, Moscow, Dec. 23, 2009

Thomas R. Warner ’56, Fallbrook, Calif., Jan. 7, 2010

Kenneth Marnoch ’63, Simi Valley, Calif., March 28, 2010

John N. Lunders ’75, Salem, Ore., Feb. 25, 2010

Sidney E. Werry ’51, Peoria, Ariz., March 25, 2010

Carol Lawrence Maynard ’66, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 27, 2009

Richard D. Miller ’70, Caldwell, Dec. 21, 2009

1970s

1980s Nadine C. Adkins ’81, Rancho Cordova, Calif., Oct. 12, 2009 Richard A. Boyd ’80, Boise, Dec. 22, 2009 Edward Hughes Jr. ’83, Central Jersey, N.J., Jan. 12, 2010 Ronald W. Jones ’86, Anchorage, Alaska, Dec. 21, 2009 Donald C. Skinner ’82, Salisbury, Md., Feb. 27, 2009

1990s Brendan B. Armstrong ’90, Boise, Jan. 15, 2010 Tawnya Dolan Dennison ’98, Coeur d’Alene, March 22, 2010

2000s Shannon Marlowe ’09, Moscow, Jan. 18, 2010

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Coming to Boise…

Grand Opening in August

www.vand alstore.com

A grand opening celebration at the store, located at 821 W. Idaho Street, will take place on Tuesday, August 17 at 2 p.m. You can check the VandalStore website, www.vandalstore.com, for details and updates.

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Hey, Treasure Valley Vandals. Get your Vandal gear on.

Starting later this summer, it’s going to be a lot easier to show Vandal Pride in southwestern Idaho when a VandalStore opens in downtown Boise.

“The focus of the store is a fan shop,” said John Bales, director of the University Bookstore, which will operate the VandalStore in Boise. The store will offer a full selection of branded University of Idaho apparel, merchandise and gift items.

A grand opening celebration at the store, located at 821 W. Idaho Street, will take place on Tuesday, August 17 at between 2 - 4 p.m.

You can check the VandalStore website, www.vandalstore.com, for details and updates.

“Alums always ask us, ‘Why aren’t we in Boise?’” said Bales.

The bottom line answer is…the bottom line; the retail outlet needs to be profitable. After conducting an analysis and preparing a business plan, Bales believes the time is right to extend the Bookstore’s reach into the Treasure Valley. The area is home to more than 15,000 alumni, in addition to parents of current students, prospective students and their parents, and the students, faculty and staff at University of Idaho Boise.

“We spent the last year meeting with alumni and boosters in the region to engage them in this effort,” said Bales. “There is amazing desire and excitement for us to be there.”

Travis Jones ’99, who heads the Alumni Association’s Grads of the Last Decade (GOLD) chapter in Boise, uses the word “elated” to express the feelings of alumni about having a VandalStore in downtown Boise.

“For the Bookstore to be here in Boise permanently is great,” said Jones. “Young alumni are looking for any and all opportunities to show their Vandal Pride.”

During the fall, store merchandise will relate to football, then shift into holiday gift buying. Spring will offer opportunities to reach prospective students and provide high school graduation gifts.

But the VandalStore will be more than a shopping experience: it also will be a place for Vandals to gather and visit, and help make the Vandal family in the state an even more connected community.

“It’s going to be so much fun to have this avenue available to us,” said Jones. “I want the store to open as soon as possible.”

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Sports

Big Mike

Earns Respect and a Degree

by Becky Paull Spring 2010 was a season of milestones for the University of Idaho’s Mike Iupati. He was clearly one of the best players in more than 100 years of Vandal football and an example of determination and desire in his quest to achieve both on and off the field.

In April, Iupati became the second highest drafted Vandal in school history and only the second to go in the first round of the National Football League’s annual selection of future talent when the San Francisco 49ers made him the 17th overall pick.

One month later, in his final Kibbie Dome appearance, he was marching across the commencement stage to receive his bachelor’s degree from President M. Duane Nellis.

All this was achieved during just his ninth year of living in the United States.

When Iupati was 14, his parents packed their four children and immigrated to California. Who would

Mike Iupati, at left, celebrates commencement with football teammates Oga Faumui, Chris Williams, Aaron Lavarias and Kevin Small.

Photo by Jonathan Billings

have known then that Iupati, who had yet to experience American football other than occasionally watching it on TV with his dad, would become the most decorated player in Vandal history?

An Outland Trophy finalist, Iupati also was a first-team All-American choice of the American Football Coaches Association – an Idaho first; the Football Writers of America – another Idaho first; the Walter Camp Football Foundation; and the Associated Press. Those honors earned him consensus All-American status. Not to be forgotten are his roles as a team captain and offensive guard with the Vandals in their win of the 2009 Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl as they compiled the best season in Moscow since 1998.

As he ventures on to the next chapter in his life, Iupati packs a cache of good Moscow recollections.

“I’m just blessed and very happy to be in this position,” said Iupati,

“I’m going to go prove myself. I’m going to have to work hard, make a name for myself at the next level.

Just like at Idaho.” who noted a college education would have been a struggle – if not impossible – without a scholarship.

“It was like you snooze, you lose if I don’t take advantage of this opportunity. I’m going to go prove myself. I’m going to have to work hard, make a name for myself at the next level. Just like at Idaho.

“I have a lot of great memories – the community and my teammates.

I grew to love Idaho. I lived here for five years. I’m just blessed to be here and call this my home.”

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Sports On the Track Record-setting Allix Lee-Painter

Allix Lee-Painter out in front in the 3,000-meter steeple chase. Photo by Spencer Ferrin

Idaho track and field athlete Allix Lee-Painter completed a monumental triple on May 14-15 at the Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships at Ruston, La. The senior from Moscow won the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, 5,000-meter run and 10,000-meter run at the meet to become the first WAC athlete and just the third athlete in NCAA history to win all three events at the same conference championship meet.

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Women’s High Point Award after contributing 30 points to Idaho’s tally.

Earlier this year, Lee-Painter moved into second all-time at Idaho in the steeplechase with a time of 10:19.15 at the Mt. SAC Relays, then passed Idaho legend Patsy (Sharples) Scherer to move into second all-time in the women’s 5,000 meter with a time of 16:25.09 two weeks later at the Oregon Relays.

She ended her Idaho track career by finishing 14th at the NCAA West Preliminary Round.

The outstanding senior is an 11time All-WAC honoree and two-time

WAC Track Performer of the Year, but she also shows strong leadership off the track. Lee-Painter is a 10time WAC All-Academic selection, a 2009 and 2010 ESPN The Magazine/ CoSIDA Second-Team Academic AllAmerican and a 2009 Idaho Alumni Award for Excellence recipient.

She also participated in three Spring Break Service trips to Sabine Pass, Texas, Asheville, N.C., and Waveland, Miss., between 2007 and 2009. She earned degrees in English and secondary education in May.

Sports 2009-10 Top Scholar-Athletes

Summer 2010 Vandal Scholarship Fund Fundraising Events July 16 Inaugural Bonner County VSF Family Barbecue at Dover Bay Contact Shelly Robson (208) 651-7992 July 23 Buhl Pig-out at Clear Lakes Country Club, Buhl Contact Nat Reynolds (208) 334-2087

Daniela Cohen

Each year, the Rich and Mary Fox Endowment Award goes to the graduating student-athlete with the highest GPA at the University of Idaho.

But this year, the Vandals had two student-athletes equally deserving of the award as Maike Holtuijzen and Daniela Cohen both graduated in May with the Maike Holtuijzen top GPA among all Vandals.

Holtuijzen, a member of the Idaho track and crosscountry teams, graduated with a degree in conservation biology and earned a 3.94 GPA. During the 2009 crosscountry season, she brought home two top-five finishes and four top-25 finishes. Holtuijzen finished fourth at the Inland Northwest Cross-Country Challenge and took fifth place at the Clash of the Inland Northwest meet.

She also added a 26th-place finish at the Western Athletic Conference championships and qualified for the NCAA regional. During the track season, Holtuijzen competed in the 10,000-meter run and was a second-team, All-WAC performer.

Cohen, who played on the Idaho women’s tennis team, earned her degree in communication studies and also graduated with a 3.94 GPA. She was recognized as an ESPN The Magazine second-team Academic All-District selection in 2010. She finished the 2010 season with an 8-5 doubles record and a 4-7 singles record. Cohen finished the season with a 3-2 record in WAC play in both singles and doubles.

July 29 Governor’s Gala – The Grove Hotel, Boise Contact Nat Reynolds (208) 334-2087 August 6-7 VSF/University of Idaho Foundation Golf at Jug Mountain, McCall Contact Nat Reynolds (208) 334-2087 August 20 North Idaho Vandal Celebration at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Contact Shelly Robson (208) 651-7992

The University of Idaho Ada County Vandal Boosters and Ada County Alumni Chapter cordially invite you to the

2010 Governor’s Gala July 29, 6-10 p.m.

The Grove Hotel 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise 6 p.m. Cocktails and silent auction 7 p.m. Dinner 8 p.m. Auction and program For more information, please call (208) 364-4030. $150 per person/Coat and cocktail attire suggested.

Proceeds from auction items benefit the Vandal Scholarship Fund and the Ada County Alumni Chapter Scholarship.

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EventsUpcoming

Through Aug. 1

Idaho Repertory Theatre

Take Me Out to the Ballpark

July 12-24

JEMS (Junior Engineering Math and Science) Summer Camp

July 20

July 29 Vandal Night at Silverwood August 1

Deadline for Alumni Award and Recognition Nominations

August 17 VandalStore grand opening, Boise

Seattle Mariners baseball event, Seattle, Wash.

August 6 Vandal Night at the Spokane Indians, Spokane August 12 Vandal Night with the Boise Hawks, Boise

August 18

Magic Valley Thirsty Thursday, Twin Falls

August 23

Fall Classes Begin

August 14 Vandal Night with the Tacoma Rainiers, Tacoma

August 24

University of Idaho Night at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival

August 19 Alumni Night with the Portland Beavers, Portland, Ore.

September 10-11 Vandal Pride Days in Nebraska September 17-18 Ag Days

August 28 Anaheim Angels baseball event, Anaheim, Calif.

September 17-19 Dads’ Weekend September 18

POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony and dedication of the Vietnam War memorial plaque

September 18 Vandal Athletics Hall of Fame banquet and induction ceremony September 24-25 Vandal Pride Days in Colorado September 25

University Place 5K run, Idaho Falls

October 6 Engineering Career Fair and Corporate Reception

What Do You Think?

We’re conducting an online reader survey for Here We Have Idaho. Tell us what you think about the magazine. How can we make the magazine better?

October 18-23

Homecoming Week, Moscow

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November 4-5

Women in Engineering Day sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers

Go to www.uidaho.edu/magazinesurvey

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VANDAL ALUMNI Brian Benjamin ‘93, ‘96 Finance and Law Idaho Attorney General’s Office

Mat Erpelding ‘09 Adult and Organizational Learning Experiential Adventures LLC/ Boise State University Outdoor Program/ Wilderness Medicine Training Center

Terri Pickens ‘98 Law Pickens Law, P.A.

Eric Bjorkman ‘97 Law Perkins Coie LLP

David Hensley ‘02 Law Office of the Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter

Jeremy Pisca ‘99 Law Risch Pisca, PLLC, Law and Policy

The University of Idaho is proud to recognize our Vandal Alumni who have been selected by the Idaho Business Review for its 2010 Accomplished Under 40 Award. The award recognizes business and professional leaders in Idaho who have achieved success before the age of 40.

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October 23

New Mexico State University

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November 12 Boise State University

November 20 at Utah State University

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