Class Notes
Recipients of the 2007 Idaho Business Review
Accomplished Under 40 Award Teresa Baker ’96, deputy prosecuting attorney, Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office; Andy Beitia ’92, regional credit manager/vice president, Zions Bank; Georganne Benjamin ’93, assistant director of strategic communications, Regence BlueShield of Idaho; Mark Gier ’90, project manager/associate stockholder, CSHQA; Kevin Satterlee ’93, associate vice president/ general counsel, Boise State University; Katie Vanderzwan ’96, president of Junior Achievement of Idaho; Shane Vaughan ’96, vice president of marketing for Balihoo; Mary York ’94, Holland and Hart partner and trial lawyer; Leela Assefi ’03, ’04, business development manager, Atlas Frontiers; and Mahmood Sheikh ’01, ’07 assistant athletic director/ regional development at the University of Idaho.
Kevin Miller ’98 has been promoted by the Washington State Department of Transportation to Clark County area engineer. Miller has been serving as the acting area engineer for this office since April and has worked for WSDOT for seven years. Matthew Smith ’98, ’04 is a third-grade teacher in Caney, Okla. He is married with a three-year-old son named Joseph. Jason Walker ’98 was selected as the new Camas County magistrate. He has served as Minidoka County prosecuting attorney since 2003. Ben White ’98 is a project architect at Carleton Hart Architecture firm. Travis Jones ’99 has accepted a job in Boise as the executive director of the Idaho Grain Producers Association. He previously worked for six years for Sen. Larry Craig.
2000 Jonathan Epstein ’00 works for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, who is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Epstein will cover energy research and development, and all matters relating to the Department of Energy. He has a Ph.D. in engineering science and applied mechanics from Virginia Tech, a law degree from Idaho, a master’s of law degree in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown and a post doctorate fellowship at Oxford. Roger Quarles ’01 was selected as the Caldwell School District’s new superintendent. He formerly was the district’s deputy superintendent.
AlUMNI Class Notes Bradley R. Rice ’01, ’06, former Vandal football player and law school graduate, has joined the Coeur d’Alene branch of D.A. Davidson and Co. as a financial consultant. Ryan M. White ’01 is the new regional director based in the Treasure Valley for Sen. Mike Crapo. He also served as former Gov. Jim Risch’s chief of staff in the Lieutenant Governor’s office in 2003. Lindsay Erb ’02 has joined the architectural team at CTA as an architectin-training. Erb has project experience in educational, healthcare and government facilities, as well as a variety of commercial projects. Kelsie Kirkland ’02 has joined Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston’s in the Durham, N.C., real estate division. Darick Pope ’02 was promoted from technical sales representative in the marketing department for Advanced Input System to regional sales manager. Maxwell M. Ruckdeschel ’02 joined the University of Buffalo Regional Institute as their GIS/data manager. David Tuthill ’02 became the director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources. He was appointed the interim director last January. Tuthill has worked for the agency since 1976. Troy Cuff ’03 has been hired as an electrical engineer for Advanced Input Systems. Cuff most recently was with the Office of Naval Research’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Project through the University of Idaho.
Army Capt. Benjamin J. Nagy ’03 graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served in Baghdad as a member of a battalion assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. Audra Sherman ’03, has joined Forsgren Associates’ Boise office as a project engineer. She will specialize in transportation and water resource projects. Marissa Caylor ’04 is attending Boston University School of Law. Mike Harper ’04 has been promoted to sales engineer at Colmac Industries in Colville, Wash. Matt Hammer ’05 is a purchasing agent for Stimson Lumber in Coeur d’Alene. He and his wife, April, had a daughter, Erika, on May 5, 2007. Brant Osiensky ’05 has been promoted to lead research and development engineer at Colmac Industries in Colville, Wash. Max Paisley ’05 has been promoted from a buyerplanner to a position of marketing associate at Stryker Communications in Dallas, Texas. Sara Bartles ’05 is the legislative director at the Republican Majority for Choice. She recently moved to Alexandria, Va. Nicholas Caylor ’06 is attending Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Jen Light ’06 has been hired as a cost accountant by Telect in Spokane, Wash. Allison Long ’06 has been hired as a risk consultant for Federated Insurance in Owatonna, Minn.
Lucas Howell ’07 had his poetry published in the November 2006 edition of POETRY magazine, an independent monthly publication founded in 1912. Lance Cpl. Riley McNeal ’07 received a Purple Heart award from the U.S. Marine Corps in May. During combat operations in the Al Anbar Province, McNeal was in a military vehicle that was struck by an explosive device. He was treated for his injuries and returned immediately to full duty. Candess Packard ’07 is an architectin-training at CTA, an architecture, interior design and engineering firm in Boise. She also will be involved with the interiors group. Andrew Stohner ’07 joins CTA as an architectin-training, and will work on modeling and detailing healthcare and retail commercial projects in Boise.
IDAHO
Marriages
Anna Lucia and Conner Andrew, daughter and son of David and Brienne Quilici ’97 Iverson
Amaya Eiguren ’02 to Nicholas Smith ’02
Benjamin Allen, son of Jonathan ’05 and Mandy Weeks ’04 Rey Kristine Michele, daughter of Robert A. ’93 and Jennifer J. Ostrom ’93 Schmidt
Laila Kinnunen ’03 to Frederick Johnson ’04 Aldinger
Dannenberg
G. Francis “Cisco” Reyes ’05 to Louise “Kaui” Torres Dana Rian Zenner ’02 to Tim Scharping
Bryce Todd, son of Todd and Melissa Fuentes-Dannenberg ’91
Stefanie Hitchcock ’06 to David Reinke ’05
Violet Marie, daughter of Chris ’02 and Polly Thompson ’02 Rillstone
Matthew Henman ’05 to Alexandria Dionne White
John Thomas, son of Eric ’97 and Stacy Knutson ’97 Sommer
holloway
nemergut
Kennedy Ora Clay, son of Clay ’03 and Gina Johnson ’04 Holloway and grandson of Roy Clay Holloway ’68, ’71
Chad Berry ’97 to Candace Holloway Ben Bryan ’02 to Erin Monroe ’04 rey
rillstone
Christopher William, son of Chad and Katie Moore ’00 Roe
David Ellison ’94 to Kathleen Meulen Ryan Benzel ’01 to Stacy Hamernik
Mehgan Elizabeth and Joshua Daniel, children of Capt. Michael M. ’00 and Kimberly L. Gladfelter ’00 Forbes Ryan Joshua, son of Crist and Jolynn Reiley ’98 Aldinger
Luke Rust ’05 to Katie White John Ernest Fluegel ’04 to Heidi Ann Messinger ’01
Preston, son of Craig ’00 and Amanda Felts ’01 Miller
Mark Sawyer ’05 to Brittany Oliver ’07 roe
Schmidt
Sophia Marie, daughter of Elene Margaret Nemergut ’94
To be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@ uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a .jpg format.
Holly Palmer ’01,’03 to Christopher Morgan ’03 Jennifer M. Butler ’01 to Matthew V. Cambier ’00 Michaela M. McGuire ’04 to Jeffery D. Sager Stacey Lynn Patchett ’04 to Daniel Tyler Chase ’05
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Stephanie Hardy ’06 to Stephen Hardy ’05
Lawrence M. Lineberger ’38, Homedale, May 27, 2007
Mary A. Verberkmoes ’38, Bishop, Calif., April 4, 2007
Don J. Lineham ’37, Genesee, May 13, 2007
Harry A. Walden ’32, Spokane, Wash., April 26, 2007
In Memory 1920 Byron L. Berry ’27, Boise, Feb. 27, 2007
1930 Shelley G. Alden ’37, Boise, Dec. 29, 2006 Margaret H. Bacheller ’34, Boise, Feb. 9, 2007 Marie T. Baken ’37, Yakima, Wash., April 11, 2007 Dorothy D. Chester ’30 Boise, May 10, 2007
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Virgil S. Cross ’30, Sequim, Wash., Feb. 16, 2007
Jean E. Cruikshank ’35, Lakewood, Colo., April 22, 2007 Edward L. Dailey ’39, Englewood, Colo., Dec. 16, 2006 Margaret M. Galligan ’34, Santa Rosa, Calif., Jan. 24, 2007
David C. Maul ’37, Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 25, 2007 Horace Pierce ’38, Kirkland, Wash., April 25, 2006
Edward W. Gibb ’36, California, May 30, 2006
Richard H. Seeley ’38, Boise, March 10, 2007
Leo L. Hammond ’39, Ashton, Jan. 9, 2007
George R. Thiessen ’38, Lewiston, March 24, 2007
Ruth E. Kehrer ’34, Boise, April 23, 2007
Vaughn E. Tippets ’38, Logan, Utah, March 3, 2007
Cecilia Hurley Weed ’37, Fremont-Newark, Calif., Feb. 10, 2007
1940 Betty L. Ableman ’49, Kellogg, Dec. 28, 2006 Elsa Agnew ’49, Riverside, Calif., Jan. 7, 2007 Janette J. Jenson Barnes ’49, Richmond, Va., Feb. 18, 2007
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