Here We Have Idaho | Spring 2015

Here We Have

SPRING 2015

SUCCESS STARTS HERE UI helps students discover new interests, unlock potential and find community

Inspiring Artifacts Broken porcelain, old medicine bottles and other discarded artifacts are all that remains of the Kooskia Internment Camp, a World War II Japanese internment camp 30 miles east of Kooskia. Anthropology major Kristen Tiede ’15 knows the importance of preserving our history to educate future generations. Your financial support of the Anthropology Department at UI makes research like Kristen's possible.

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On the Cover: UI senior history major Camilla Van Natter examines a 1950s-era Chinese vase from the university’s Asian American Comparative Collection.

Above: Pieces of nonyaware — heavily enameled porcelain dishes — that were made in China in the 1920s or ’30s and imported to the United States.

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Curating a Future

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14 Greek Row Gets Facelift 23 Engineering Graduate Gives Back to Honor Legacy of Professor

24 Connecting the Dots 30 Organization Helps Football Player be a Great Athlete and a Great Student

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From the President The University of Idaho, our state’s leading national research university, has always embraced a broad mission.

We generate and disseminate knowledge on a large scale, and partner with communities across the state through outreach and Extension. While those are critical roles, we can agree that there is no function more important than educating students and preparing them for a career and life as an educated citizen.

All too often, colleges seek to mold students to the institution’s practices, only secondarily regarding student needs and challenges. Higher education institutions assume students can intuit how to succeed in a setting where policies, procedures and expectations are often entirely new. A better approach, one we try to embody at UI, is to understand what’s needed for student success — motivational, academic, social, financial or procedural factors — and deliver on those needs as a partner. Without lessening standards, we facilitate greatly enhanced outcomes in academic achievement, personal growth and self-efficacy.

Many students come to college hoping to find their path, discover new interests and realize potential that they never knew they had. In this issue, we’re proud to showcase the experiences of students who have blazed their own trail at UI, nurturing academic and career interests, unlocking leadership potential and participating in organizations and activities they’d find no place else.

Two students profiled here are shining examples of our student-centered approach to higher education. One is a student from southern Idaho, majoring in mechanical engineering. He’s come into his own at the University of Idaho, recharging UI’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, mentoring others on campus and reaching out to southern Idaho high school students to get them excited about college.

Another student you’ll meet in this issue is a history major. Her UI experience has helped cultivate a passion for museum work. Our institution has partnered in

that progress, opening up opportunities with internships and hands-on class work. That practical experience gives students a lens through which to make decisions about career choices. It also means students can enhance their classroom experiences with practical applications of skills and concepts, while making connections and learning about themselves.

Why is it important to focus on the student, and not the institution? Harvard University professor Clayton Christensen, known for his theory of disruptive innovation, offers an instructive analogy about drills. It goes like this: One does not buy a drill because it is a great deal; one buys a drill for the potential to make holes.

It is the hole that interests the consumer, not the drill.

In education, it is the graduate prepared for an extraordinary life as an educated citizen, not the institution, which must occupy our concern. We admire colleges that routinely mold such students, as we have done for 125 years at the University of Idaho. But our success as an institution comes from our students’ success, not the other way around.

Of course, college students are made, not born.

Through the years, UI has evolved as a partner alongside our state’s K-12 system, taking a leadership role in training generations of educators and offering opportunities for K-12 students. You’ll see plenty of examples of our K-12 partnership efforts in the pages that follow — work that we are proud to take up to help meet our state’s goals and provide chances for students from many different walks of life, ranges of interests and degrees of preparation.

In the past year, we have positioned ourselves well to build on that legacy. The Inspiring Futures: Invest in the University of Idaho campaign recently concluded as a resounding success, with $261 million gifted — well over our original $225 million goal — including more than $90 million for student support. The generosity of donors resulted in 153 new student scholarships and the bolstering of many more existing scholarships. That is a profound investment in the success of students and the future of our world.

Vandals have a proud history of making the world a better place. One student at a time, and one graduate at a time, we’ll build on that success in the 125 years to come.

CHUCK STABEN, PRESIDENT

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CAMPUS NEWS

BY TAR A ROBERTS AND HOLLY FUNK

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Confronting Ebola with Computers

Influencing Urban Design

UI researchers with expertise in computer modeling are working together to combat a deadly virus: Ebola.

The new Ebola Working Group’s first project uses modeling techniques to study the implications of ongoing Ebola evolution. In December, the National Science Foundation awarded associate physics professor Marty Ytreberg and his research team a $72,000 grant.

Vaccine makers use proteins from the virus to elicit an immune response — the production of antibodies — in the body. However, these experimental vaccines use an older Ebola strain.

“Since the vaccine is not being made from the identical strain that’s circulating now, we’re asking how the antibodies that are being generated might interact with the virus,” said Holly Wichman, a Distinguished Professor of biology and a member of Ytreberg’s team.

The team also hopes to identify potential future mutations that could disrupt how well a vaccine works. These mutations could be put on a “watch list” for world health officials.

The group’s second project uses computer models to track how social, cultural and geographic factors affect the way Ebola spreads.

“The social and cultural context in which this outbreak is occurring has a huge impact on how many cases we’re seeing in different areas, and who is getting sick,” said team leader Michelle Wiest, an associate professor of statistics.

The team’s model will predict where the Ebola outbreak — which has plateaued in many areas — might persist. It also will identify what data isn’t yet being gathered in the field, but could help researchers better track the outbreak.

Last fall, graduate students at the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture Urban Design Center in Boise worked with the city of Boise’s planning and development department to explore urban design solutions for an area in northwest Boise.

The architecture and landscape architecture students were charged with rethinking and redesigning a new mixed-use development project that connects State Street and Gary Lane with surrounding neighborhoods.

The students presented their design concepts to the city, Idaho Housing and Finance Association, Boise State University’s Department of Community and Regional Planning, and Boisebased design firms, including CTA Architects Engineers.

Wanting to take his studio work further, landscape architecture student Brian Bentler incorporated perspectives of the commercial developer and property owner, Hawkins Companies. Impressed with his approach, the company hired Bentler to create a 3-D visualization of the design, which was ultimately approved by the planning commission and city council earlier this year after two previous plans were turned down.

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In August 1996, a chain reaction caused 4 million people on the West Coast to lose power. Officials spent a year mapping the sequence of events, recording measurements and determining what went wrong. Once they put the pieces together, they discovered the simulation models that could have helped them predict and prevent such events didn’t work — the power-generating machines ran differently than expected.

With funding from Pullman, Washington-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory, UI electrical engineering professor Brian K. Johnson is designing a system to help power companies keep their simulations up-to-date.

When the large power generators found in most power plants are built, manufacturers record parameters to describe the way the machines respond to disturbances, such as short circuits or changes in demand, which are then used in models for simulations.

“But over time the parameters drift or change a little bit,” Johnson said. “Once the machine is installed on-site, it’s not very easy to do tests and determine new parameters.”

Johnson’s and graduate student Mike West’s goal is to develop a computer-based system that can monitor a machine’s normal behavior as it operates, and then use that data to calculate real-time model parameters. A small generator specially adapted for the project in a UI lab provides a live platform to test their methods.

The project was made possible in part by UI’s expanded intellectual property policy, which now gives industry sponsors the option to obtain ownership of intellectual property discovered during research.

The U.S. dairy industry provides thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic output. In Idaho — third in the nation for milk production — the dairy industry generates $2.2 billion of the state’s gross domestic product.

Dairies connect to vital and growing food processing industries, producing cheese, yogurt and more.

The University of Idaho’s new Western Initiative on the Dairy Environment (WIDE) aims to support and strengthen the conditions needed for sustainable dairy and related-food industries in Idaho, the American West and beyond.

But these industries operate in a complex environment with interacting ecological, sociocultural and economic factors.

Through WIDE, UI and its partners can provide unbiased research and education, producing innovative solutions to issues related to water quality, air and soil conditions, appropriate animal health and welfare, an educated and developing workforce, efficient transportation and energy use, and profitability.

UI is convening WIDE partners and has hosted two workshops to begin identifying priorities and potential projects.

“This initiative brings together researchers and practitioners from universities, agencies, nonprofits, laboratories, dairy operations and communities around the nation to map out a research agenda that will help pave the way toward sustainable and environmentally friendly dairy and related food operations in the semi-arid western United States,” said Jack McIver, UI’s vice president for research and economic development.

WIDE seeks to make a difference not only for decisionmakers in Idaho, but also for people across the West who face similar conditions and issues. And these regional issues can be translated around the globe to the many arid landscapes that rely on dairy industries for jobs and food security.

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Transforming Students Volunteer center coordinator helps students expand their worldview through local and global service

BY SAVANNAH TR ANCHELL

M

ost people enter the workforce knowing that you have to spend a few years in the trenches before you’ll rise up to your “dream job.”

Natalie Magnus landed hers — coordinator for the Center for Volunteerism and Social Action at the University of Idaho — straight out of college.

And she has been pinching herself ever since.

“I often wonder how I got so lucky,” said Magnus, 25, who has a master’s degree in student affairs administration from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.

Magnus came to UI in October 2013, and her enthusiasm and energy have helped propel the Center for Volunteerism into a period of growth.

“I think she’s a very talented young professional who has really brought a lot of energy into the program. She has a lot of passion for her work and for helping to develop students and the volunteer center,” said Greg Tatham, assistant vice provost for Student Affairs. “There’s that saying about talking the talk and walking the walk — she does it.”

Magnus knows firsthand the impact that people in Student Affairs can have on students. She entered her undergraduate years at Wisconsin thinking she wanted to be an occupational therapist, but discovered the field wasn’t the right fit. In the meantime, she had become active in athletics and Greek life, and eventually UW-LC’s Leadership and

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Involvement Center.

“I realized, ‘this is what they do as a job’ — and this is what I get most excited about,” Magnus said.

The Center for Volunteerism and Social Action is in the Department of Student Involvement. Its mission is to help students become engaged in the community through handson learning and service opportunities. The center’s flagship program is the Alternative Service Break (ASB). Each winter and spring break, the center takes teams of students and advisors on regional, national or international trips in which the teams help fill a community need, such as building houses, disaster recovery, building gardens or installing solar panels.

The ASB program began with one trip to Seattle in 2001.

Since, students, faculty and staff have traveled to 25 states, 12 countries and five continents. This spring, students in nine teams had a regional focus, with ASB trips serving communities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

The trips — which the center subsidizes with funds it receives from student fees — can be life-changing experiences for the students, exposing them to ideas and people they may never get the chance to see, Magnus said.

“The main thing is expanding your worldview,” she said.

“The world is big — and you’re a part of it.”

That big world also includes the Palouse community and fellow students. Local service is a big part of the center’s

Top Left: Natalie Magnus and senior Samuel Herman work to build an improved cookstove in a rural Nicaraguan home as part of the Alternative Service Break program last winter in El Balsamo, Nicaragua. Top Right: First-year student Theresa Milbrodt and Magnus pose with the youngest daughter of their host family.

Bottom Right: Magnus and a team of students help to prepare a feast for the entire community to celebrate the completion of their water well project, which brought clean, running water to more than 50 homes.

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mission. The center has more than 95 partner organizations and can help connect students to a group that works in their interest area.

“We can be a great resource to get them connected to what they’re looking for, what they’re interested in,” she said.

The volunteer center also coordinates the Vandal Food Pantry, which consists of six cabinets across campus stocked with food and grocery bags. Students are allowed to take from the pantry, no questions asked, Magnus said. The program helped start conversations on campus about the challenges of going to school and being unable to afford groceries.

Other yearly efforts include “The Writing on the Wall Project,” during which a blank wall is installed outside the Commons. Students write on the wall hateful and hurtful words, and then people take turns breaking the wall down.

The center also coordinates the Books for Africa program, which sells used textbooks to support literacy programs.

Magnus estimates 1,700-2,000 students volunteer through the center every year, dedicating either a few hours for a daylong project or two weeks for a winter service trip.

She’s hoping for growth. Right now about 40 percent of the students who apply for ASB trips are turned away because of space constraints.

“I’d like to get to where anybody who wants to go, can go,” she said.

She also wants to get more students involved locally.

“We know there’s so much good that can be done in our local community. We’re the land-grant institution here — we can touch our local community,” she said.

Part of that growth is a new fundraising effort to help grow programs, cover the costs of trips and pay for scholarships for students who want to go but perhaps can’t afford it.

“We’re at a point now where we feel that we need to try to raise some of our funds to grow the program rather than rely on student fees,” Tatham said.

The investment is worth it, Magnus feels.

“The students who give up their break to do service — they truly care,” she said. “They genuinely want to make a difference. It’s really exciting to see that in the younger generation. They can make a big difference.”

Plus, serving can be really fun.

“We’ve never had a student come back and say they wish they hadn’t gone,” Magnus said.

Tatham is excited to see what more Magnus will accomplish in her time at UI. “I’ve seen her make a difference from the time she stepped foot here,” he said. “I’ve also seen her grow in the position and learn in the position — and that’s what you always want to see in a staff member — that ability to transform as they transform students.” I 7

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Camilla Van Natter examines artifacts in UI’s Asian American Comparative Collection, part of the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology.

PHOTO BY MELISSA HARTLEY

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he moment Camilla Van Natter stepped into the Idaho State Historical Museum’s main warehouse, she knew she wanted to spend her life working in museums.

“It’s like the end of ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ but it’s not in boxes. You can see everything,” she said. “It’s a history geek’s dream.”

Van Natter not only got to explore the museum’s sprawling archive, but also experience its treasures firsthand.

While earning internship credit, she spent the summer of 2013 measuring, describing and cataloging donated items in the museum’s basement.

It was the first of several experiences in and out of class at the University of Idaho that have enhanced her love of history.

“I’m a physical, tactile person — I like doing hands-on things,” said Van Natter, 21, who will receive her bachelor’s in history with a minor in Asian studies in May. “It’s really cool hanging out with artifacts.”

Van Natter, a second-generation Vandal from Priest River, came to UI with an interest in history, but found even more than she imagined.

“When I went to go sign up, there were classes I didn’t think would ever be offered,” she said. “I’ve taken pirate history. I’ve taken history of conspiracy theories. I’ve taken all sorts of 20th century American history.”

Future She discovered a niche in cultural history, which combines aspects of history and anthropology to examine issues such as pop culture and politics. Her senior capstone project in fall 2014 investigated the rise of Hollywood and celebrity culture, and her studies in her final semester have focused on modern Asia.

“It’s really interesting to understand what happened in history and how that impacts what’s going on today,” she said.

As a lifelong Idahoan, Van Natter connects strongly with the history of the American West — a perfect fit for her work at the Idaho State Historical Museum and, in 2014, at the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise.

At the state museum, one of Van Natter’s main tasks was documenting a collection of memorabilia from the 1967 World Boy Scout Jamboree and the 1969 National Boy Scout Jamboree, both of which took place at Farragut State Park.

“It’s Idaho history, but it’s also bigger history,” she said.

At the Basque Museum — where her internship was funded by the Pete Cenarrusa Foundation for Basque Culture — Van Natter got to know a side of Idaho she was unfamiliar with. Immigrants from the Basque region of Spain, which sits at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains near

Student finds unique opportunities to pursue passion for history at UI

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the Atlantic Ocean, began settling in Boise in the late 1800s.

“It was a crash course on Basque history,” she said. “I learned so much.”

In addition to leading tour groups through the museum and neighboring Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House and teaching Basque bowling at the annual San Inazio Festival, she catalogued 100-year-old letters and decades-old photos of Basque families from the Boise area.

“You can figure out a whole family’s story and see what happened to them,” she said.

During her last semester at UI, Van Natter is deepening her knowledge by taking an artifact analysis class through the anthropology department, giving her new tools for studying the objects she encounters in museums.

After graduation, Van Natter is excited to continue her work in museums. She plans to start working at a small museum in the West, eventually attend graduate school to earn her master’s degree in museum studies, and then see where her career takes her.

“I would love to be a curator — basically head artifact guru — of a big, substantial museum. Not necessarily the Smithsonian big, but big and culturally significant,” she said.

But wherever she goes, she’s sure

to keep with her the skills and stories she’s learned at the place she now considers home: the University of Idaho.

“Every single year I’m thankful that I chose Idaho,” she said. “You get a good education out of it, but you can also get a great experience, too.” I

A 1950s-era Chinese vase from the university’s Asian American Comparative Collection. The collection, part of UI’s Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, includes artifacts and other resources documenting the history of Asian-Americans in the West. It is the only collection of its kind at any university in the world.

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Diego Juarez found a sense of belonging in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UI. PHOTO BY MELISSA HARTLEY

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DIEGO JUAREZ

CULTURAL GROUPS HELP MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAJOR FIND COMMUNITY AND SUCCESS AT UI

BY TAR A ROBERTS

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D

iego Juarez’s first year at the University of Idaho wasn’t easy.

He was an excellent high school student, but adjusting to life as a firstgeneration college student proved more challenging than he expected. In his struggles, he turned to the campus community around him and found a support system of people and organizations that helped put him on a better path.

And now, with commencement in sight next year, Juarez is dedicating his time to helping other students succeed through the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, or SHPE. “What SHPE represents to me is all those mistakes I made that I didn’t have to, and helping students avoid that,” said Juarez, who grew up in Rupert and spent part of his childhood in Mexico. “We know that can make a big difference.”

Juarez, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major, joined with a group of other students to revitalize UI’s SHPE organization during his sophomore year in 2011.

Now, the small but active group helps any engineering student who would like to join, Hispanic and nonHispanic. SHPE students share textbooks and other resources, study together and attend conferences.

Members who have graduated stay connected to help students find internships and prepare for their futures.

“More than anything, it’s support,” Juarez said. “It’s a family at the end of the day.”

And to bring future Vandals into the fold, UI’s SHPE students host Noche de Ciencias, or Science Night,

at a southern Idaho high school each year.

Students who attend Noche de Ciencias try out science experiments, Skype with UI professors and check out projects built by UI students, such as an artificial intelligence robot.

“It’s just showing them that they can study engineering, and showing them it can be fun,” Juarez said.

MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT’S SUPPORT. IT’S A FAMILY AT THE END OF THE DAY. Juarez is particularly interested in showing kids who share his Hispanic heritage that studying science, technology, engineering and math — commonly referred to as STEM fields — is possible for them. Juarez’s parents encouraged him to attend college and he was part of a pre-engineering curriculum at Minico High School, but he knows other people from his community don’t see college as an option.

“For whatever reason, they limit themselves,” he said. “If they’re already intrigued by this stuff, why not take it a level up and become an engineer or work in another STEM field?”

In addition to SHPE, Juarez credits his professors and the cultural organizations he’s been part of with helping him find his place at UI.

“The way the university does everything, regardless of the program, there are always professors there to help,” he said.

Juarez was able to attend UI with help from the College Assistance Migrant Program, a federally funded program to provide financial and academic support services for students with migrant or seasonal farm work backgrounds.

“They helped me get used to the environment and get used to the mentality of working hard,” he said.

Juarez also has been active in several Hispanic cultural groups on campus, including Sabor de la Raza — a folkdance group — and Movimiento Activisita Social, or MAS, a social activism group. With MAS, he helped plan and perform in El Color de Nuestra Tiera, or The Color of Our Land, an annual Hispanic cultural showcase.

Being part of these groups helped Juarez get to know others who shared his heritage, as well as people from other cultures.

“You’re so used to being with the same type of people, and here it’s a way of expanding your horizons,” he said. At UI, “you get to connect with people regardless of race, ethnicity or background.”

Now, Juarez is excited to earn his degree and step out into the professional world to put to work the skills he’s gained at UI — both social and academic. He wants to spend the next five years establishing himself in the alternative energy industry.

“I feel pretty confident I could go anywhere,” he said. “I have a good background to become a leader.” I

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This rendering shows what the Delta Zeta house will look like when construction is completed in August.

Opposite page, top: Sigma Alpha Epsilon gutted its house and rebuilt from the studs up, as part of a $2.5 million remodel. Bottom: Delta Delta Delta’s remodel included updates to give the house a newer feel.

GREEK ROW GETS FACELIFT

Alumni Gifts Support House Renovations

BY SAVANNAH TRANCHELL

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reek life at the University of Idaho dates back almost to the foundation of the university itself: Kappa Sigma, UI’s first Greek organization, arrived on campus in 1905.

The university recently celebrated its 125th anniversary, and the Greek houses are reaching milestones of their own, with many of them at or near 100 years on campus.

With that history comes aging infrastructure that’s no longer keeping up with the demands of today’s hightech students.

That’s why nearly a dozen of Idaho’s Greek organizations have spent the past decade in a construction boom that’s brought more than $15 million in renovations and new construction to campus, nearly all of which was funded by alumni donations.

One of the most visible efforts is the construction of the new Delta Zeta house, located on the corner 14

of Seventh and Elm Streets. That $4.5 million building is set to be completed in August, giving the fairly new organization, which formed at UI in 2012, a permanent home.

The cascade of construction began a decade ago, when the Sigma Nu fraternity decided it was time to update its house at 718 Elm St. The renovation — which cost $2.3 million — started the domino effect of improvements among the Greek organizations, said Carl Berry ’76.

Last summer, Delta Delta Delta completed a $1.2 million renovation to modernize the sorority and continue to be an attractive option for students.

“We had a reunion and you just had this sense that our living room was a little bit like going to a nursing home,” said Nancy Baskin ’83. “It was extremely dated.”

Beta Theta Pi hopes to complete its $2.4 million renovation this summer. Like many houses, the fraternity,

originally built in 1925, did its construction over several summers to avoid having to shut the house down completely.

In addition to cosmetic updates and fresh paint, the houses focused on improving safety, such as installing sprinkler and alarm systems, widening hallways, replacing wiring, modernizing kitchens and updating electrical infrastructure and Internet capabilities.

The renovations are a boon for the Greek system and for students, who now enjoy safer, more modern living environments in the houses. Updating the houses helps bring in new members. It also has had an energizing effect on the alumni, who gave generously to support the construction for their house.

“The loyalty that members of the Greek living group feel toward the organization, to make sure that it doesn’t fail and it doesn’t stall, is amazing,” said Sigma Nu’s Berry. I

A New Home for Steel House Steel House, a privately-owned women’s cooperative, will break ground on its housing project this summer, says Sue Nesbitt ’64, a Steel House alumna and president of the group’s board of directors.

Steel has been leasing the former Delta Chi house at 908 Blake Ave. for several years. The new $1.3 million building will be located at 503 Taylor St., on land that was purchased by a board member. The goal is for residents to move into the new house in the fall of 2016.

The new building will house 32 women.

Steel House is a unique living situation on campus.

The cooperative offers reduced living fees in exchange for the women providing upkeep and doing most of the cooking and cleaning.

Projects The UI Greek and private-housing community has invested more than $15 million in renovations and new construction in the past 10 years.

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Capital Campaign News

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University of Idaho Concludes Record Capital Campaign

45,000 Total Donors

Thanks to the generosity of nearly 45,000 donors, the University of Idaho has concluded its Inspiring Futures: Invest in the University of Idaho $225 million capital campaign with gifts and pledges totaling more than $261 million.

As funding for higher education has declined in Idaho and the nation, many universities must seek private philanthropic gifts to continue growing while providing quality education. Individuals, corporations and foundations supporting the Inspiring Futures campaign have:

The largest comprehensive fundraising effort for any purpose, public or private, in the history of the state, the seven-and-a-half-year Inspiring Futures campaign provided needed investments for student scholarships, faculty support, facility construction and renovations, and program support.

n Created 153 new scholarship endowments, with gifts for student support totaling $90.4 million.

“Donors to the Inspiring Futures campaign have truly made history,” university President Chuck Staben said. “Their investment in the continued excellence of the University of Idaho will help us do more for students, for the discovery of knowledge and for the support of Idaho’s goals. We couldn’t be more excited or more grateful.”

n Supported the construction and renovation of more than a dozen campus facilities, including renovations to the Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center (Kibbie Dome), the Haddock Performance Hall in the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences, the new College of Law building in Boise and the College of Education building.

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Faculty Excellence Funds

million Program Support

n Contributed more than $67.3 million to help attract and retain top-notch professors and researchers through the creation of 20 faculty excellence funds.

n Provided $68.9 million in program support to enrich the student experience and impact areas such as sustainable agriculture, clean energy, natural resources and social sciences.

“Generations of Vandal students from all walks of life and every academic discipline will benefit from the generosity of the alumni and friends who were inspired to support this campaign and the future of our national research university,” said Rich Allen, co-chairman of the campaign and chairman of the UI Foundation, which manages philanthropic gifts to the university. “These investments are managed responsibly to maintain the principle and to ensure the best rate of return in support of the donor’s designated area of support.”

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Capital Campaign Milestones 2007

2013 February 1

Campaign silent phase begins

The Tom Alberg and Judi Beck Chair, the first fully funded endowed chair at the university, is awarded to Anthony S. Davis. Alberg and Beck also support the construction of the Tom and Teita Reveley Nursery Facility at the University’s Franklin H. Pitkin Forest Nursery

2008 February 29

$50 million in gifts and pledges

2009

December 2 May 1

Grand opening of the POWER Center for Power Engineering Excellence and the Real Time Digital Simulator in the College of Engineering

$200 million in gifts and pledges

2014 April 10

2010

The Micron Technology Foundation’s $1 million gift provides funds to support the first endowed professorship in microelectronics within the College of Engineering. Dr. Fred Barlow is named the first recipient of the endowed professorship

May 1

$100 million in gifts and pledges

October 9

April 14

Grand opening of renovated Haddock Performance Hall

Grand opening of the College of Education's Doceo Center

2011

June 24

Donor gifts and pledges total $225 million, reaching the original Inspiring Futures campaign goal

August 19

Grand opening of renovated Kibbie Dome

July 29

October 29

Groundbreaking of the College of Education renovations

Dedication of the College of Engineering ThinkTank

December 16

2012

$250 million in gifts and pledges

December 31

March 22

$150 million in gifts and pledges

April 28

Kickoff of campaign public phase begins with $161 million in gifts and pledges

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$261 million in gifts and pledges

2015 University celebrates end of campaign in Boise

Graduate student Lindsay Eliason has become a leader in the College of Art and Architecture, and she credits her success with the financial support she received from UI. PHOTO BY JOE PALLEN

A rising leader in landscape architecture During her last year of graduate school, master of landscape architecture candidate Lindsay Eliason received five scholarships — four relating to landscape architecture.

Eliason plans to graduate in May, leaving behind her own legacy of leadership in the College of Art and Architecture, where she served as president of the Student Congress of Art and Architecture, vice president of the Student Chapter of the American Society for Landscape Architects, and as a student ambassador to the College of Art and Architecture.

Eliason credited her leadership ability to the scholarships made possible by the University of Idaho.

“Simply put, it has been a blessing to receive multiple scholarships. This financial support has enabled me

to focus on my studies and further myself in the field of landscape architecture by gaining leadership skills in student organizations,” she said. “I feel passionate about giving back to the College of Art and Architecture in this capacity because it has afforded me opportunities I wouldn’t otherwise have.”

Upon graduation, Eliason plans to move to the Seattle area, where she has positioned herself for success through professional connections established during internships in both private and public-sector organizations.

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Capital Campaign News Ag commissions’ endowed professorships: Gains for grains

BY BILL LOF TUS

For recipients of endowed professorships from the Idaho Wheat Commission and Idaho Barley Commission, 2014 was a year of major challenges and opportunities.

Aberdeen Research and Extension Center–based University of Idaho Extension cereal agronomist Juliet Marshall, wheat breeder Jianli Chen and barley agronomist Christopher Rogers used their expertise to address growers’ needs.

Juliet Marshall used the Idaho Wheat Commission Aberdeen Cereal Agronomy Professorship to continue her research on improving quality and reducing the impact of diseases on wheat and barley crops, which looked nearly perfect last year.

Then the weather changed. Just as the first combines were beginning to harvest, record-setting rains deluged southeastern Idaho. The moisture and delayed harvest caused wheat and barley to sprout in the field. Malting barley, bred to sprout easily to expedite the malting process, sustained the greatest damage.

“It’s been a tremendously difficult year for growers. We had a tremendous yield and high quality grain ready to harvest and then disaster struck,” Marshall said. “We did the best we could to help growers find uses for their crop.” Losses are expected to total in the tens of millions of dollars.

Working with growers and cattle producers ensured that the grain remained suitable for livestock consumption, Marshall said. The major effort focused on finding ways that the grain could still satisfy the highest-value market, the malting companies who supply beer makers.

Thanks to prior experience, malting plants shifted gears to use this year’s barley immediately, keeping the 2013 crop in storage.

“I was really struck by the levelheadedness of all of the parties involved,” Marshall said. “Everyone worked together to address the problem, and we did the best we could with the situation.”

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Jianli Chen, Juliet Marshall and Christopher Rogers each conduct research in their respective fields thanks to gifts by Idaho ag commissions.

Jianli Chen used the Idaho Wheat Commission Aberdeen Wheat Breeding Professorship to continue her development of hard white wheat lines that promise to help growers tap lucrative markets. Chen also intensified screening for white wheats that resist pre-harvest sprouting.

The endowed professorship’s financial support was especially important to boost salaries of the research support staff who are critical to her program, Chen said.

In addition, endowment funds allowed her to participate in national and regional wheat growers’ meetings and discussions of hard white wheat markets.

She also joined the Great Plains Research Consortium to better network with colleagues and understand efforts to promote wheat quality for export markets.

Christopher Rogers began work as the Idaho Barley Commission endowed Aberdeen Barley Agronomy Professorship recipient at Aberdeen at the end of July.

He established barley trials at the Aberdeen center and in growers’ fields, expanded UI Extension’s focus on winter barley research and recruited support staff for his program.

Rogers integrated his expertise and research objectives to meet the needs of Idaho growers and collaborate with existing programs.

For more information: Kim O’Neill Assistant Dean of Advancement College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (425) 359-2411 kimoneill@uidaho.edu

Loyal Partners

The Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, one of the oldest and largest charitable foundations in the state, is a longtime benefactor of the University of Idaho.

For more than 43 years, the Boise-based foundation has supported several initiatives at UI, including the annual support of multiple scholarships and the Idaho Law Learning Center in the historic old Ada County Courthouse. Its cumulative years of support make the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation a part of the university’s Loyal Partner Program, recognizing those partners with two decades or more of financial support of UI. Established in 1963, the foundation is named in honor of Laura Moore Cunningham, a Boise native and daughter of C.W. Moore, founding partner of the Idaho First National Bank (now U.S. Bank).

Cunningham was a dedicated community member who served on several volunteer boards.

Today, members of the family continue to lead the foundation. The board of directors includes UI alumnae Laura MacGregor Bettis ’03 and Janelle A. Wise ’04, ’05. Harry L. Bettis, father of Laura and Janelle, and great-nephew of Cunningham, was granted an honorary degree from UI in 2013.

Loyal Donor Learn more about the University of Idaho’s Loyal Partner Program by visiting uidaho.edu/loyalpartners.

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Kimberly Jasper ’12 says encouragement from her professor kept her from dropping out of UI.

ENGINEERING GRADUATE GIVES BACK TO HONOR LEGACY OF PROFESSOR

PHOTO BY SUMMER BRANDER

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n the fall of 2009, Kimberly Jasper was thinking about dropping out of the University of Idaho and just going home to Boise.

But Dr. Ken Noren, a professor in the College of Engineering, stepped in.

“He listened to my concerns and asked the right questions. He never gave up on me, even though I was failing his class halfway through the semester,” Jasper said. “I would not have stayed in school and had the career I have now if it weren’t for him.”

Jasper stuck with it and graduated in the spring of 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Now 27, she works as a project engineer for Glanbia Foods, a cheese manufacturer based in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Jasper said the influence of professors like Noren, who died in 2012, and the support of her Kappa Delta sorority sisters were crucial in helping her achieve her career goals.

“I loved being in the Greek system,” Jasper said. “It’s where I made lifelong friends and where I met my husband, Nate.”

After graduating from high school in 2006, Jasper decided that the University of Idaho offered her everything she was looking for, and more.

“It has a great engineering college,” Jasper said. “Plus, the campus is nestled in the heart of rural Idaho, which provided me access to all the outdoor activities I crave.”

Jasper’s time at UI gave her access to the right technology

BY JOSH NISHIMOTO

and the practical skills needed to launch her career.

Additionally, her sorority introduced her to leadership roles and offered opportunities to engage with her peers in community events and activities, such as intramural sports.

“There was a group of us that participated in almost every intramural sport offered,” Jasper said. “I remember bonding with my sorority sisters while walking to and from the games.”

Jasper was vice president of public relations for the sorority, which gave her confidence to take on other challenges, such as serving as the communications lead for the Vandal Atmospheric Science Team (VAST). The VAST project involved students sending a high altitude air balloon up in the sky in order to collect scientific data in near-space. Jasper oversaw the project from start to finish, utilizing the practical engineering skills she gained at UI — the same skills she now uses in her daily job to solve problems and help others reach their goals.

Jasper has been successful, but she can’t help but think of what would have been had she not had the support she received from her UI peers and professors.

She’s already giving back in gratitude by supporting Noren’s memorial scholarship fund, a fund that will provide $1,000 in student scholarships annually once it meets its fundraising goal.

“Dr. Noren’s scholarship has not met its goal, yet,” Jasper said. “I want to help get it there.” I

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In the sixth grade, Amanda Smith was accepted into UI’s Educational Talent Search program, which helped her have the confidence to pursue higher education.

PHOTO BY JOE PALLEN

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rom an early age, Amanda Smith knew she wanted to go to college. But whether her life path would lead her there, she wasn’t so certain.

“Even though I knew it was something I wanted to do, I was on the fence on whether or not it was something I would realistically be able to do,” explained the native of Coeur d’Alene. “I thought that if my parents didn’t go to college, then maybe I wouldn’t be able to go, either.”

Family finances were tight. Her father worked unstable jobs in the area lumber mills, and her mother worked as a school paraprofessional. Smith’s parents encouraged postsecondary education for her and her younger sister, but a college fund was simply outside the budget.

With her family’s financial challenges and lack of college experience, Smith was unsure what her future would hold. A college education seemed out of reach. But in the sixth grade, she was accepted into the University of Idaho

Educational Talent Search (ETS) program, and her life was set on a different course.

“It was a life-changing opportunity for my family and me,” she said.

The University’s Educational Talent Search is designed for students like Smith who are from disadvantaged backgrounds and show potential to succeed in higher education.

Through the program, Smith explored career options, visited college campuses, received financial and academic counseling, and was guided through the college application process.

“ETS changed my mindset and opened my eyes to so many possibilities,” Smith said. “I was able to go to the college of my choice because of all the help I was provided with finding scholarships along with all the other necessary means that were needed for me to enroll. Without the program, I wouldn’t have been as educated about all of the opportunities that are out there that helped get to where I am today.”

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THE STATE OF IDAHO BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS SET A GOAL THAT

60%

OF IDAHOANS AGES 25-34 WILL HAVE A DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE BY

2020.

AN AMBITIOUS GOAL Smith graduates from UI this spring with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education. She represents the thousands of students in Idaho who have gone on to earn a college degree, thanks to the support they received through UI’s many outreach programs designed to direct K-12 students toward higher education.

The programs contribute to the state’s effort to increase the number of its citizens who graduate from college. In 2012, the Idaho State Board of Education established the Complete College Idaho Plan, which set the goal that 60 percent of Idahoans ages 25-34 will have a degree or certificate by 2020.

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It’s an ambitious goal, considering fewer than one in four Idahoans older than 25 have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. But it’s a critical one; Idaho ranks 39th among U.S. states for the number of adults who hold some type of postsecondary degree.

“We must grow talent in our state to fuel innovation and compete economically,” the Complete College Idaho Plan states.

To help the state reach this goal, the university leads programs to ensure college readiness and remove common academic, financial, cultural and family barriers to a college education.

“In order to increase college enrollment and degree attainment, we must continue to cultivate those populations who have not traditionally gone on to college,” said Scott Clyde, director of TRIO, a college preparatory program in the UI College of Education.

The College of Education’s TRIO program operates seven federally funded projects, including Educational Talent Search, all designed to prepare and motivate Idaho’s low-income, first-generation individuals for postsecondary education. Each year, the programs reach more than 2,000 students in 24 Idaho schools. The program also serves people beyond high school through partnerships with community agencies in a number of Idaho counties.

Upward Bound is among TRIO’s most well-known projects. The program serves more than 250 scholars in eight Idaho counties and the Yakama and Coeur d’Alene reservations. Free of cost, Upward Bound offers high school participants weekly advising sessions, tutoring, financial aid workshops, field trips to colleges and universities, community service projects and annual summer college simulation programs on the UI campus.

“We try to provide experiences that further expose them to the campus culture and rigors of a college education,” Clyde said. “It familiarizes them with the process and makes them more comfortable with the idea of leaving their home environment.”

In operation since 1968, UI’s Upward Bound program is one of the longest existing and most successful college preparatory programs in the country. Of its participants, 87 percent go on to postsecondary education, compared to the state average of 38 percent.

“Once they have been motivated to go to college, they understand it as a viable option, and they are prepared

High school student Yesenia Lopez from Wapato High School in Wapato, Washington, experiences college life firsthand through Upward Bound, a college-prep program for students from groups traditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education.

Upward Bound scholars from Potlatch High School (From left to right: Marissa Priest, Cassandra Carpenter, Daniel Curtis, Kenneth Sheffler) attending Vandal Friday on March 27, 2015. These scholars are part of the first Upward Bound cohort at PHS, which began in the fall of 2013.

The College of Art and Architecture’s Summer Design Week offers high school students a preview of degrees and careers in architecture, art, landscape architecture, interior design and virtual technology and design.

PHOTO BY K AT Y DODDS

PHOTO BY JOE PALLEN

academically. They are positioned to succeed in higher education,” Clyde said.

The College Assistant Migrant Program (CAMP) and Helping Orient Indian Students and Teachers (HOIST) program also play important roles in increasing college enrollment in underrepresented populations. CAMP targets students from migrant/seasonal farm working backgrounds, while HOIST is designed for Native American high school students. Both programs host summer campus visits, provide academic and scholarship support and help with college applications and admissions.

“Migrant seasonal farmworkers have a national highschool dropout rate of 45-60 percent; it is critical to provide hope and resources to this population,” said Evelina Arevalos, CAMP assistant director. “UI CAMP serves students from these backgrounds in specific regions where resources for pursuing postsecondary education are limited.”

THE CAREER CONNECTION It’s important to get Idaho’s youth to think not only about going on to college, but also about the careers they can pursue beyond the degree, Clyde said.

“Many of the individuals we serve are limited to employment opportunities that they see around them,” Clyde said. “We try to expose them to experiences that open their minds to various possibilities and help them understand that their career choices aren’t limited.”

The university hosts a number of camps that introduce youth to different fields of study and careers. For instance, the College of Art and Architecture (CAA) Summer Design Week on the UI campus gives students a preview of the design fields. High school sophomores,

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juniors and seniors experience a week in the life of a UI design student, with the opportunity to live in dorms and work with faculty on interdisciplinary design projects.

Additionally, CAA faculty and student ambassadors take an abbreviated version of Design Week on the road for High School Design Day. Students in ninth through 12th grade explore design majors and careers through hands-on design challenges. The camp is offered at high schools in Coeur d’Alene, Boise, Sun Valley and other areas throughout the state.

“Participants get to see beyond their art class in high school,” said Phillip Mead, CAA faculty member and coordinator of the camps. “The camps allow them to experience design in a broader context and help them connect their interest in design to an actual profession.”

UI’s College of Engineering is also active in its outreach to Idaho’s youth. For example, every year the college welcomes 500 high school students from around the state to campus for the annual Engineering Design Expo, which showcases engineering seniors’ capstone design projects. High school participants get to explore the types of projects they could work on in college and as a professional engineer. They also get a preview of campus life and network with UI faculty and industry representatives.

“They get to see firsthand the types of projects engineers work on, and how that work can impact people directly,” said Joseph Law from the College of Engineering. “Once they see what engineers do, they think it’s really cool, and they want to take part in it.”

Women in Engineering Day is another popular event.

Every year, the free, one-day workshop brings 75-80 female high school students to the Moscow campus.

Participants work together on an engineering design challenge, meet engineering students and professional women engineers, and tour engineering labs on campus to learn about degree and career options.

“Our pre- and post-event surveys show that this event has a measurable impact on participants’ attitudes toward the engineering field,” said Susie Johnson, who helps plan the event. “Based on their feedback, many girls who say they are not sure about engineering or moderately interested before the event, change their interest level to ‘very interested’ after the event.”

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EARLY INTERVENTION UI links fun with learning, higher education and careers to direct Idaho’s children toward postsecondary education at early ages.

The university's Extension’s 4-H program, one of UI’s most preeminent youth programs, helps carve the path to college for kids as young as five. With a statewide presence in each of Idaho’s 44 counties, UI’s 4-H serves more than 60,000 students across the state through 4-H clubs, afterschool programs, and other 4-H-managed activities, including the statewide UI Extension Robotics Lego program (see photo).

Jim Lindstrom, UI Extension’s 4-H director of youth development, said the 4-H programs undoubtedly help carve a path to higher education, especially in rural Idaho, where 4-H may be the only show in town beyond the local school district.

“4-H is a natural conduit to college,” he said.

Lindstrom points to the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, a national study that explores the impact 4-H programs have on participants.

“The research reveals that individuals involved in 4-H are more likely to be successful in school, and twice as likely to go on to college,” he said.

The university's McCall Outdoor Science School (see photo) is another example of the positive effects of linking fun to higher education. Serving more than 2,500 Idaho schoolchildren and their teachers every year, the program leads community outreach and brings students of all ages to its outdoor classroom, located on the shores of Payette Lake, for fun, hands-on science education.

UI Coeur d’Alene also works to get kids excited about degrees and careers in the STEM fields. The center offers a computer coding camp for middle school girls (see photo).

It also facilitates “STEAM Labs,” free, one-day workshops designed to improve skills and increase interest in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

“It’s important to reach youth at young ages and expose them to a variety of exciting learning opportunities,” said 4-H’s Lindstrom. “They realize learning can be fun, they learn practical skills, and they begin to see the possibilities that an education can provide. That can keep them motivated and promote success as they continue through school and life.” I

UI Coeur d’Alene recently introduced Dig’n IT Coding Camp for Girls, a free week-long summer program designed to encourage young girls to develop computer coding skills and start thinking about careers in the field.

As Idaho’s official FIRST Lego League partner, UI Extension Robotics manages Lego programs and competitions throughout the state for more than 1,000 youths, ages 6 to 18.

The popular McCall Outdoor Science School, the only publicly operated K-12 residential outdoor school in the state, takes a hands-on approach to increasing K-12 students’ interest in degrees and careers in science.

PHOTO BY MELISSA HARTLEY

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Organization Helps Football Player be a Great Athlete and a Great Student 30

BY SAVANNAH TR ANCHELL

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Jacob Sannon says the support of Vandal Athletics has helped him find success on and off the football field.

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ILYA PINCHUK

hen Jacob Sannon came to visit the University of Idaho, he came prepared: The student from Southeast High School in Bradenton, Florida, brought his snow gear.

“In my head I was like, ‘I’m going to snow,’ so I had snow stuff,” Sannon said. But upon disembarking from the plane with his teammate Jordan Grabski, Sannon said they found no one else was as bundled up as he was prepared to be.

He’s grown used to the cold since then. Now, when he goes home to Florida for a month at Christmas, his mother, Myrlene Leccima, admonishes him to put on some clothes.

“I’m like, ‘Mom, it’s not cold here.’ I used to think it was cold in Florida, but now I know it’s not cold,” he said.

It’s just one of the many things to which the now 20-year-old football player has become accustomed in the Pacific Northwest. (Another: Those are pine trees, not “Christmas trees.”)

Sannon joined the Vandal football team as a true freshman in 2013. During his senior year at Southeast High, he led his team with 730 yards on 43 catches and made the all-state team. But, he said, he wasn’t getting any scholarship offers.

Just weeks before National Letter-of-Intent signing day, Vandal football coach Paul Petrino asked him to come visit Idaho. Petrino had developed a relationship with Southeast’s coach, and trusted his judgment on players.

That trust wasn’t misplaced.

“When we brought him here, we knew what a hard worker he was and how goal-oriented he was. We knew he was going to be successful,” Petrino said.

Sannon played all 12 games as a wide receiver in 2013 and 2014. But it’s his dedication to

academics and excellence off the field that is setting him up for the most success.

“He’s a grinder. Every single day he’s going to do what’s right,” Petrino said.

“He’s a great student. He’s a great role model for the younger players. If they want to become a great student-athlete, that’s the kid they can really look up to and see how he organizes his time and does things.”

Sannon has been able to maintain a 4.0 GPA. He’s Jacob Sannon undecided on his major, but is taking a lot of business and accounting classes.

“I’ve learned the most in accounting so far,” Sannon said. “It actually is stuff I can use.”

Achieving that academic and athletic success requires a lot of organization.

“You’ve got to plan out your schedule. If you don’t plan it out, you’ll miss something,” he said.

That includes waking up in time to lift weights in the morning before classes and spending weeknights after practice doing homework. There’s no cable TV at his apartment and he said he doesn’t watch very many movies or spend much time on social media. The balance between academic, athletics and social activities can be tricky.

“It gets really hard in a week with more than one test or a couple essays,” he said. “But I try to think of it like priorities: What’s important?

What’s not important?”

That dedication helps him on the field, too.

“A lot of times you hear how you live your life off the field is how you live your life on the field,” Petrino said. “Most of the time, the guys who are doing a great job academically and are staying on top of their schoolwork are also the guys who are working extra hard to be the best football player they can be.”

UI’s athletic department understands that

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Athletics makes you have priorities.

You have to be responsible. balance and tries to support athletes in their academics.

There’s a study hall available for athletes, which Sannon said he uses because he doesn’t have computer access at home. The other athletes — “I call it the ‘athletic circle,’ ” Sannon said — help each other, too.

“No matter what class you’re in, there’s probably another athlete in there who can help you,” he said. “Athletics makes you have priorities. You have to be responsible. It keeps me on track.”

Sannon said the team atmosphere has helped him adjust to being so far from home. He lives in an apartment complex that is nearly all athletes, he said.

“We all chill together all the time. I go downstairs to see

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what those guys are up to. Then I go upstairs to see what those guys are up to,” he said.

The camaraderie isn’t just a social bonus. It helps on the field, too. And Sannon is excited for next season and the way the team is coming together.

“I’m looking forward to winning,” he said. “We haven’t quite put the winning formula together yet, but we’re close.

We will this year. All the players are starting to believe it.”

Petrino is looking forward to the future with Sannon, too.

“In the next two years, he’ll start taking a bigger role as a guy we throw the ball to a lot,” he said. “He’s just the type of young man you root for to be one of your best players because he is such a great kid.” I

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES Clockwise: Ayla Neumeyer, Bailey Thomas, Tim Helmke, Cassandra Michaud, Austin Karstetter, Steve Johnson, Lauren Hamilton, Emily Rasch, Trevor Kauer PHOTO BY MELISSA HARTLEY

SArb:

Connecting Students and Alumni Through pride and tradition, the Student Alumni Relations Board (SArb) has been connecting students and alumni since 1970, with SArb students hosting several alumni-centric events on campus each year.

SArb is the largest interest group at the University of Idaho. Each year, the organization sets a goal to maintain 89 student members to match the university founding in 1889. SArb students work with the UI Office of Alumni Relations to help organize some of the largest studentcentered events, including Moms' and Dads' Weekends, Vandal Walk, Gradfest and Silver and Gold Day. SArb members also serve in various capacities as student ambassadors and hosts at presidential receptions, Jazz Fest, university award ceremonies and other events.

Ayla Neumeyer, SArb president, said the group is a vital source for students to engage in college life.

“The support and opportunities I have received by being a member of SArb are truly invaluable,” Neumeyer said. “Going into college, I never imagined that I would be attending important events or working behind the scenes of long-standing traditions. SArb has connected me to the university in all facets of its past, present and future. It does this for a new group of students every year, and UI is without doubt a better place because of it.”

Alumni Association Executive Director Steve Johnson speaks highly of the students who participate in the SArb program and believes they are great representatives of the university.

“The SArb students are some of the most extraordinary people on campus,” he said. “They all apply themselves academically and are very engaged with the university.”

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IDAHO Spring 2015

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Correction: Angela Bishop ’04 was promoted to Associate at NAC|Architecture in Spokane, Washington. This was reported incorrectly due to our error.

’50s Julie Whitney Dawson ’58 has published “The Sillybillies Find a Shadow,” her fifth children’s book in her Sillybillies series.

Tom Stroschein ’59 was inducted into the Inland Northwest Partners Hall of Fame. This award recognizes individuals, communities, agencies or companies that have provided substantial support to economic development efforts in the Inland Northwest region.

’60s Gary Blank ’60 has been elected as president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-USA. Richard DeAtley ’65 has sold his mining business to the country’s largest aggregate company, Vulcan Materials. In retirement, he plans to travel, practice his art and golf.

Helen Gruber ’69 won the 2012 Henry Farfan Award from the North American Spine Society. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in spine-related basic science research. Dr. Gruber is senior scientist and director of orthopaedic

To be profiled, mail information, including reunion/graduation year, to Annis Shea, Office of Alumni Relations, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 3232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or email information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be emailed in a high resolution .jpg format.

Please limit your submission to no more than 35 words.

research biology at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

’70s Eloise Wilson Hanner ’71 has published her third book, “Posted in Paraguay,” an account of her and her husband Chuck’s ’71 return to the Peace Corps in their 50s. The couple live in Sarasota, Florida.

Greg Sanford ’72 retired in October from his Department of the Navy civilian position as deputy, Board of Inspection and Survey. He previously retired in 2002 as captain after 30 years of naval service, in which he was an engineering duty officer specializing in aircraft carrier operations and repair.

Elaine Ambrose ’73 received a national humor award for her book, “Midlife Cabernet.” Publishers Weekly called it “laugh-out-loud funny!” She was invited to be a blogger for the Huffington Post.

Robin French ’75 has created a personal retreat center, A Place Apart, in Illinois.

Mike Tyacke ’75 of the Idaho National Laboratory was honored for the second time by the U.S. Secretary of Energy for his continued efforts to reduce and prevent theft of highly enriched uranium nuclear fuel at civilian sites around the world. For the past six years, he has

worked with the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return program in various countries.

His team has removed 1,700 pounds of highly enriched uranium from 12 nations.

Steve Anderson ’76 retired in 2012 after 36 years of federal service. He was a 1976-78 Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya and worked in Idaho, California, Nevada and Montana as a Forest Service biologist. He now lives in Sandpoint.

Dell Hatch ’78 has rejoined Bernardo| Wills Architects as Landscape Architect and Design Coordinator.

Jeff Glaze ’79 has been named president of the ABHOW Foundation, a leading provider of senior housing and health care in the western U.S. Terry Ratcliff ’79 has been appointed executive director for distance and extended education at the University of Idaho.

’80s Scott Fehrenbacher ’80 is senior vice president and executive director of the Center for Worship Arts at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.

Maureen Ghosh ’80 visited the University of Idaho campus in November — her first trip back in 34 years.

Doug Holloway ’80 and Sosoni Institute in Deary have been selected as a 2015 “Savory Hub” from dozens of applicants worldwide. As a finalist, Sosoni Institute will join a growing global network of accredited Savory Hubs that bring holistic management training and consultation to farmers and ranchers in their region.

William C. Knowles ’80 is the Best Lawyers 2015 Portland, Maine, Litigation Land Use and Zoning "Lawyer of the Year.”

Andy Wiseman ’81 was selected as one of the two Secondary Principals of the Year in the state of Idaho.

Rey Erickson ’82 was awarded The Denver Post’s Strength in Health – Health Care Professional Award.

Jim Unsworth ’82, ’94 has been named director of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He will guide the agency that has a budget of $376 million and a staff of 1,480.

Christopher DeBord ’85 is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of DeBord Construction in Boston. He started the company after 18 years as a sales engineer.

Steven Shiver ’85 has been elected to the American Institute of

Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. One of the highest honors the AIA can bestow upon a member, the selection recognizes his significant contributions to architecture and society.

’90s Joe Grover ’90 has started the “Guys in Ties” club at Wilson Elementary School in Caldwell. The group of fifth-grade students meet once a month for a formal luncheon, where they wear dress shirts and ties. The club teaches the students manners, etiquette and leadership. It also features guest speakers from the Canyon County community.

Chuck Jones ’94 has started Jones Consulting.

He provides environmental reviews of wetlands and fish and wildlife habitat, local land-use planning and GIS services.

Brett Craig ’95 has been named as one of the “50 Movers and Shakers of the World’s Top Brands” by Adweek.

Chad Collins ’96, ’97 has opened “Legacy Search,” a new national recruiting firm specializing in mid- to seniorlevel executive searches across professional, collegiate and minor league sports.

The firm is based in Boise.

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES Kurt Pipal ’96 was honored in Washington, D.C., with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director’s Award for Excellence, one of the FBI’s highest honors. He is currently a special agent based in Sacramento, California.

Matt Shifley ’97 has published his first book, “Confessions of a Dumb, White Guy: Tales about Life, Love and the Risks of Wearing White Thong Underwear.” The book is available at Amazon.com and www.mrshife.com.

Crystal Halstead Wilson ’97, ’04, ’09 was selected as Outstanding Dietitian of the Year for Idaho in 2013.

She is the senior health and wellness director for the Idaho Dairy Council.

Cindy Wood ’97 received the “Woman of Distinction” community service award from the Soroptimist Club of Coeur d’Alene. The award recognizes her work helping homeless families as the executive director of Family Promise of North Idaho.

Michael Higgins ’98 is the risk manager for Central Europe at Jeld-Wen, Inc. He is stationed in Germany.

’00s Brice Glidewell ’00 has joined The Nature Conservancy as the new north-central Texas project director in Celeste, Texas.

Ben Bryan ’02 is a film producer for Red Bull Media House in Santa Monica, Calif. Ben was the driving force behind Red Bull’s major movie release “On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter.”

Kelly Konkright ’02 has accepted a partnership at the law firm of Lukins & Annis, P.S. in Spokane, Washington. He specializes in business litigation, employment and municipal law.

Kelsey Jae Nunez ’03 has transitioned from private law practice to a new role as executive director of the Snake River Alliance, a nonprofit organization that serves as Idaho’s nuclear watchdog and advocate for clean, renewable energy. She’s also entering her third year as co-director of the Idaho Green Fest, a community celebration of Idaho’s sustainable and conscious economy.

Shanna Harmon Wheeler ’04 is the new corporate accounting manager at New Wood Resources LLC in Boise.

Hilerie Scott Harris ’05 is the marketing and communications coordinator for financial aid and scholarships at the University of Utah.

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Shaun Daniel ’06 has received a permaculture design certificate from Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the Job Parrish Memorial Award for an essay on ecology of residency. He is in the second year of the University of Utah’s environmental humanities master’s program.

Teva Palmer Hopper ’09 has joined Noble Studio’s creative services team as a creative designer.

Hopper is an award-winning designer with more than six years of design experience.

Noble Studios is a digital marketing agency specializing in web, mobile and social media.

Pete Doss ’07 went on after graduation to The Country Club of the Rockies as assistant PGA golf pro. He is currently affiliated with Dye and Doss, Inc. and resides in Urbana, Ohio.

Cliff Murphy ’09 and Kyle Ryan ’10 were in White Sands Missile Range launching a two stage sounding rocket for the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract. Both alums provide engineering support needed in data collection for research and scientific payloads.

Jeremy Holcomb ’07 has passed the CPA exam and is the senior accountant at Ednetics in Post Falls, Idaho.

Nicholas Nelson ’07 is the director of development for the western region of Ducks Unlimited. Ducks Unlimited is the world’s leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation.

Ryan Heacock ’08 has been selected to be on the First Investors Chairman’s Council, which is made up of the company’s top 25 leaders.

He also attained the bronze level of the Chairman’s Circle and the title of vice president in the 2014 Chairman’s Council. This is his second year on the council.

Gordon Lemmel ’08, ’11 relocated to Billings, Montana, to work as a landscape architect at Peaks to Plains Design, a private design firm.

’10s Margret Bergerud ’10, ’14 has moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where she is an attorney for the Alaska Public Defender Agency.

Kelsi Nagle ’10 has accepted a position as the marketing, outreach and recruitment Coordinator at Oregon Health and Science UniversityDivision of Management in Portland, Oregon.

Jon Harty ’11 is a recipient of a 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award granted by the International Sculpture Center. His work will be

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on display at Grounds for Sculpture’s fall/winter exhibition in Hamilton, New Jersey. He was also featured in the October issue of Sculpture Magazine. View his work at www.jonharty.com.

Jose Gallegos ’12, ’14 has joined CSHQA as an intern architect. He will work on a variety of projects, including the 10th and Grove multi-use redevelopment and Snake River Tea in Boise.

Taylor Davis ’14 has been chosen for the Edgewood Management Group’s senior living executive-director-in-training program. This program provides individuals with a broad base of operational knowledge and leadership skills to serve as a licensed executive director in an Edgewood assisted living and memory care community. She will be based out of the Edgewood Spring Creek Meridian community in Meridian, Idaho.

Joe Szasz ’12 is a member of Vail Mountain Safety at Vail Ski Resort in Colorado.

Charlette Kremer ’13 has been appointed to Serve Idaho, the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism, by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter. Serve Idaho, a division of the Idaho Department of Labor, encourages voluntary public service and volunteerism throughout the state. Kremer is director of the LewisClark Service Corps at Lewis-Clark State College.

The following alumni and friends were selected for honors by the University of Idaho Alumni Association Awards and Recognition Committee.

Alumni Hall of Fame Alumni who have achieved national or international distinction by their accomplishments and leadership Mike Hunter ’73, ’76 David Poe ’70 Richard Dahl ’73 2015 Alumni Hall of Fame induction is set for May 15-16

Ian Clarke ’13 has moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where he is a mechanical engineer for Leidos.

Noël Fountain ’13 was promoted to junior copywriter at Hydrogen.

She joined the advertising agency in September 2013.

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Marriages Chanelle Banghart ’10 to Jeff Woodis ’10 Justine Belliveau ’12 to Brock Burgess ’11 Laurie Byrne ’13 to Cooper McBride ’12 Christine Cavanaugh ’08 to Joseph Gilmore Sarah Karow to Adam Mattison ’06 Sarah McAdams ’12 to Richard Perkins Laura Scheiderer to Pete Doss ’07 Aubrey Woodock ’08 to Brandon Hoxie ’06

Alumni with a distinguished record of achievement and service in their specialized area of endeavor Dr. Helen Gruber ’69 Bryan Timm ’87 Virginia Bax Valentine ’80 Mark Engberg ’84

Jim Lyle Award Long-term dedication and service to the university and/or Alumni Association through volunteerism Carl Hunt Doug Scoville ’63, ’67 Carl G. Berry ’62 Kristen Ruffing ’93 Cindy Haagenson ’73 Ray Turner ’69 Learn more or nominate a worthy person before Aug. 1, 2015. www.uidaho.edu/alumni/awards

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6. Kamden, son of Casey ’00 and Katie Schachte ’00 Gepford 7. Kason Judd, son of Brandon ’12 and Cara ’11 Guzman 8. Zachary Jacob, son of Josh ’03 and Rita Hunter ’03 Jensen 9. Ezra James, son of Robert ’02 and Brandi Koch

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14. Grant Dustin, son of Dustin and Stacy Baker ’00, ’01 Parent 15. Houston Maxwell and Hazel Autumn, children of Richard and Sarah McAdams ’12 Perkins 16. Julius, son of David ’07 and Shekina Polehn 17. Hannah Noelle, daughter of Wesley ’01 and Shauna McCray ’03 Rimel

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES In Memory The University of Idaho extends its condolences to the family and friends of Vandals listed below.

’30s Laura Clark Hoshaw ’30, Mount Vernon, Wash., Dec. 17, 2014 Lois Naylor Petterson ’36, Lewiston, July 31, 2014 Charles Simmons ’36, Ridgefield, Wash., May 29, 2013 Lucia Johnson Wilson ’36, Boise, Nov. 4, 2014 Frances Byrne ’37, Redmond, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 Rose Broemeling Sanders ’37, Greenacres, Wash., Dec. 25, 2014 Mary Ferguson Weber ’37, Green Valley, Ariz., June 15, 2014 Lois Savage DeCourcey ’38, Bend, Ore., Dec. 25, 2014 Miriam McFall Starlin ’38, Eugene, Ore., Jan. 2, 2015 Ferris Albers ’39, Longview, Wash., Oct. 8, 2013 Iris Morgan Compton ’39, Winona, Minn., Oct. 16, 2014 Lillian Larson Keithly ’39, Nampa, Dec. 11, 2014 Helen Banbury Lusk ’39, Dallas, Texas, Jan. 11, 2015 Mary Pucci McKenzie ’39, Kellogg, July 10, 2014 David Willis ’39, ’41, Nampa, Oct. 25, 2014

’40s Helen Berg Farris ’40, Davenport, Wash., Nov. 14, 2014

Willeen Shaver Platt ’40, ’47, Carmichael, Calif., June 15, 2013 Elizabeth Cleaver Riney Robinson ’40, Bend, Ore., July 10, 2013 Iris Tunney Tralle ’40, Riverside, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013 Glen Westberg ’40, Lewiston, Dec. 20, 2013 Anne Domijan Currier ’41, Los Altos, Calif., March 6, 2014 Dale Dufur ’41, Albany, Ore., Sept. 10, 2014 Jane Pier Evans ’41, Sandpoint, Dec. 15, 2014 Richard Paulsen ’41, Riverside, Calif., May 31, 2014 Burton Sanders ’41, ’42, Lincoln, Calif., May 27, 2013 Sherman Sundet ’41, Wheat Ridge, Colo., Dec. 7, 2013 Vernon Tompkins ’41, Waverly, Ohio, July 3, 2014 Seth Corless ’42, Paul, Jan. 9, 2013 Norman Hyder ’42, Tygh Valley, Ore., March 11, 2014 Robert Kennemer ’42, Peoria, Ill., Oct. 21, 2014 Virginia Vieira Dunham LaRue ’42, Boise, July 17, 2014 Ralph Naser ’42, Logan, Utah, Jan. 17, 2015 L.D. Parkinson ’42, Scott City, Kansas, Jan. 3, 2013 Dorothy Coon Tripp ’42, Waverly, Ohio, Aug. 7, 2013 Florence Orme Ward ’42, Palm City, Fla., July 1, 2014 Marian Rice Wertz ’42, Sandpoint, Nov. 25, 2014 Robert Wimmer ’42, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 28, 2013 Mona Dickinson Woodworth ’42, Clarkston, Wash., Dec. 16, 2013

Edwin Harper ’43, Lake Saint Louis, Mo., Feb. 14, 2014 Virgil Haynes ’43, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Jan. 6, 2015 Jean Richardson Lukens ’43, Denver, Colo., March 17, 2013 Barbara Sutherland Norton ’43, Newhall, Calif., Aug. 27, 2013 Henry Procter ’43, ’48, Spokane, Wash., June 6, 2014 Dale Reynolds ’43, Lake Oswego, Ore., Jan. 6, 2015 Rose Grieser Schuellein ’43, Rocky Mount, Va., Nov. 23, 2014 Warren Weinberg ’43, Solana Beach, Calif., March 7, 2013 Claire Bracken Dixon ’44, Richmond, Va., Nov. 17, 2014 Laurene Ploss Engler ’44, Bozeman, Mont., Sept. 21, 2014 Justin Guernsey ’44, Coos Bay, Ore., Sept. 6, 2013 Carrie Rosal Chaney Hall ’44, Boones Mill, Va., July 19, 2014 Ralph Hardin ’44, Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2014 Marjorie Call Butler Kimbrough ’44, Portland, Ore., Dec. 25, 2013 J Lowell Maughan ’44, St. George, Utah, July 31, 2013 William Mervyn ’44, Genesee, May 18, 2014 Elizabeth Riedel Sarriugarte ’44, Clifton, Ariz., July 17, 2014 Jacqueline Thompson ’44, Lewiston, July 13, 2014 Elizabeth Fredrich Tubbs ’44, Malad City, Feb. 23, 2014 David Busch ’45, Seattle, Wash., Feb. 13, 2013 Edward Ghormley ’45, Oxnard, Calif., Aug. 11, 2014

Catherine Bowling Girard ’40, Dayton, Wash., Feb. 17, 2014

Elaine Harrington Epling ’43, Carson City, Nev., Oct 20, 2014

Elizabeth Woesner Haworth ’45, Eugene, Ore., Sept. 16, 2014

Betty Ash Hearne ’40, Lake Oswego, Ore., Nov. 30, 2014

Marcia Gwinn Glenn ’43, Boise, Oct. 13, 2014

Willa Hill Parks ’45, Winchester, Va., May 26, 2013

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Genevieve Benoit Van Dera ’45, San Diego, Calif., April 22, 2014 Buena (Faye) Freeman Whitesel ’45, The Dalles, Ore., Dec. 2, 2013 Margaret Eiselstein Bottger ’46, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 1, 2014 Lewis Crea ’46, Orofino, Jan. 19, 2015 Saxon LaTurner Shelley ’46, Moscow, Oct. 24, 2014 John White ’46, Lewiston, Oct. 3, 2014 Lawrence Arneson ’47, Orofino, April 29, 2014 Ruth Fisk Elliott ’47, ‘49, Federal Way, Wash., June 4, 2014 Virginia Geddes Eyestone ’47, Farmington, Utah, Oct. 15, 2014 Marie Lampman McGough ’47, Spokane, Wash., July 27, 2014 June Williams Smith ’47, Boise, July 3, 2014 Jacque Fallis Batt ’48, Boise, Sept. 7, 2014 David Bush ’48, Boise, Nov. 16, 2014 Charles “Bill” Eimers, Sr. ’48, ’49, Grangeville, Nov. 4, 2014 Earl Hayes ’48, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Nov. 5, 2014 Philip Peterson Jr ’48, Kirkland, Wash., Nov. 1, 2014 Robert Bemis ’49, Coeur d’Alene, July 3, 2014 Barbara Mariner Brink ’49, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 11, 2014 Frederick Brough ’49, Oviedo, Fla., Nov. 7, 2013 Billy Bush ’49, ’51, Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. 19, 2014 Rowena Gardner Case ’49, Yakima, Wash., July 28, 2014 Paul Day ’49, Renton, Wash., Oct. 11, 2014 W.R. “Dick” Dell ’49, ’51, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 5, 2014

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Walter Hoffbuhr ’49, Ashland, Ore., July 19, 2014 Robert Kramer ’49, Kennewick, Wash., Dec. 21, 2014 Edmund McFaul ’49, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 28, 2014 Lawrence Meech ’49, Monterey, Calif., Jan. 16, 2015 John Morley ’49, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 3, 2014 Carl Munson ’49, Coeur d’Alene, Nov. 1, 2014 Donovan Ogsbury ’49, Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 16, 2015 Watt Prather ’49, Meridian, Dec. 19, 2014 Robert Smith ’49, Ontario, Ore., Jan. 27, 2015 Chester Timmer ’49, Portland, Ore., July 16, 2014 Davis Toothman ’49, Boise, Nov. 17, 2014 Pauline Schaplowsky Trom ’49, Dallas, Ore., Nov. 23, 2014

Earnest Johnson ’50, Boise, Sept. 14, 2014

John Urquidi ’51, Boise, Aug. 13, 2014

Max Mathews ’53, Twin Falls, Jan. 5, 2015

Donna McRae Mathews ’50, Boise, Aug. 26, 2014

Dona “Butch” Slavin Barsalou ’52, Salmon, Dec. 24, 2014

Patricia Rutledge ’53, Portland, Ore., July 11, 2014

Clifford Knudtsen ’50, Coeur d’Alene, Nov. 1, 2014

Marjorie Lampman McClaran ’50, Enterprise, Ore., July 2, 2014

Edward Minnick ’50, Centralia, Wash., Oct. 21, 2014 Charles Muehlethaler ’50, Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 31, 2014 Raymond Radford ’50, Pinehurst, Oct. 4, 2014

William Deobald ’50, Moscow, Aug. 22, 2014 Phyllis Whitsell Echeverria ’50, Garden City, Jan. 4, 2015 Ernest France ’50, Portland, Ore., Sept. 21, 2013 Leo Freiermuth ’50, Portland, Ore., July 9, 2014 Henry Gabica ’50, Twin Falls, Nov. 28, 2014 Weslee Hoalst ’50, Meridian, Dec. 18, 2014

Myron Johnston Jr. ’52, Richmond, Va., Aug. 18, 2014

Robert Lyons ’52, El Paso, Texas, Dec. 26, 2014

Bernhard Strohbehn ’50, Nappanee, Ind., Jan. 8, 2015 George Williams ’50, Boise, Oct. 7, 2014

Milbourne Block Sr. ’51, ’55, Ozark, Mo., Oct. 6, 2014

Darrel Bienz ’50, Pullman, Wash., Jan. 23, 2015

Fred Johnson ’52, Portland, Ore., Aug. 9, 2014

Charles Story Jr ’50, Boise, Sept. 10, 2014

Wayne Stewart ’50, Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 7, 2014

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Carl Berntsen ’50, Kitty Hawk, N.C., Oct. 13, 2014

Harold Hunter Jr. ’52, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Aug. 1, 2014

Robert Lieurance ’52, ’55, Goldendale, Wash., Nov. 1, 2014

Charles Abshire ’51, Troutdale, Ore., Jan. 1, 2015

Vida Baugh ’50, Lake Ridge, Va., Aug. 3, 2014

Charles Gossett ’52, Nampa, Oct. 31, 2014

Leon Schou ’50, Palm Desert, Calif., Dec. 20, 2014

Elwyn “Wynn” Chamberlain ’49, New Delhi, India, Nov. 27, 2014

Orville Barnes ’50, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 24, 2014

Roger Vincent ’51, Twin Falls, June 14, 2014

Marvin Beguhl ’51, ’55, Salinas, Calif., Oct. 25, 2014

Finley Degen ’51, Emmett, Aug. 10, 2014

Gerald Goecke ’51, ’60, Richland, Wash., Nov. 20, 2014 Mary Nelson Grider ’51, Brookings, Ore., Aug. 28, 2014 Conrad Merrick ’51, Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 15, 2014

Ted Lindley ’52, ’55, Boise, Dec. 11, 2014

JoAnn Wilde Marineau ’52, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 9, 2014 Jack McEntire ’52, Issaquah, Wash., May 4, 2014

Ruth Dimond Riedesel ’53, Longview, Wash., Oct. 4, 2014

Paul Tobin Jr. ’53, Potlatch, Aug. 21, 2014

Robert Hocking ’54, Mackay, Sept. 13, 2013

Thomas Miller ’54, ’56, Boise, July 7, 2014

William “Bill” Nixon ’54, ’56, Coeur d’Alene, Nov. 27, 2014 David Paulson ’54, ’64, Boise, Jan. 31, 2015

James Peterson ’54, Mercer Island, Wash., June 17, 2014 Rex Roper ’54, ’59, Ogden, Utah, Sept. 26, 2014

Po-Ping Wong ’54, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 26, 2014 Joyce Bush Lloyd ’55, Caldwell, Sept. 29, 2014

Richard McKevitt ’52, Sun City, Ariz., Oct. 14, 2013

Rebecca Ruby Niemi ’55, Stevensville, Miss., Jan. 27, 2015

James Snider ’52, ’54, Los Osos, Calif., Nov. 17, 2014

Phyllis Roff ’55, Vale, Ore., Aug. 11, 2014

Charles Morton ’52, Boise, May 4, 2014

Jay Stout ’52, Encinitas, Calif., Nov. 15, 2014

Donald Trupp ’52, Idaho Falls, Oct. 14, 2014 Donald Bennett ’53, Genesee, Sept. 4, 2014

Fredrick Bliss ’53, Othello, Wash., Nov. 29, 2014

James Oppliger ’55, ’57, Maupin, Ore., July 16, 2014

Barry Rust ’55, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 23, 2014

Alfred Schlottman ’55, Grangeville, Oct. 7, 2014

Wayne Shirk ’55, Long Beach, Calif., June 12, 2013 Stanton Tate ’55, Meridian, Nov. 3, 2014

Beverly Schupfer Morris ’51, Idaho Falls, Nov. 23, 2014

Clarence Bloomster ’53, Kennewick, Wash., Sept. 14, 2014

Lola Petersen Spencer ’51, Portland, Ore., Nov. 28, 2013

Marya Parkins Duncan ’53, Twin Falls, Aug. 7, 2014

Jacqueline Thorson Harrigfeld ’56, Modesto, Calif., Aug. 12, 2014

Arvel Fairchild ’53, Kellogg, Sept. 12, 2014

Bobby Murphey Prettyman ’56, Boise, July 15, 2014

Robert Scanlon ’51, ’52, Albany, Ore., June 28, 2014

Carl Straub ’51, Boise, July 18, 2014

Colleen Ebbe Swanson ’51, Billings, Mont., Aug. 26, 2014

Stanley Thomas ’51, Stockton, Calif., June 20, 2014

Donald (Bud) Deerkop ’53, Potlatch, Oct. 25, 2014

Guy Fairbrother ’53, Lewiston, Nov. 23, 2014

Robert Lothrop ’53, Nampa, Jan. 5, 2015

Robert Betts ’56, Tucson, Ariz., July 17, 2014

Kenneth Bratlie ’56, Portland, Ore., Jan. 22, 2015

Otis Johnson ’56, Middleton, June 29, 2014

William Snow ’56, Marcell, Minn., July 10, 2014

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES Vincent Tretter ’56, Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Dec. 24, 2014

Jerrald Giles ’59, Grass Valley, Calif., Aug. 10, 2014

James Walkington ’56, Burley, Aug. 6, 2014

Walter Ames ’62, Boardman, Ohio, Nov. 6, 2014

Denis Lemoine ’59, Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 11, 2013

Dean Barber ’62, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 29, 2014

Ronald Wells ’56, Kamiah, Sept. 1, 2014 Carol Lyle Larson ’57, ’71, Salem, Ore., Nov. 18, 2014 Betty Miller ’57, Raymond, Wash., July 20, 2014 Richard Newby ’57, Boise, Dec. 14, 2014 Robert Sewell ’57, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 7, 2014 Donald Shannon ’57, Caldwell, Oct. 12, 2014 Anthony Steiger ’57, Kennewick, Wash., July 29, 2014 Allen Wayment ’57, Nampa, Nov. 11, 2014 George Bogdan Jr. ’58, Boise, Jan. 4, 2015 Roy Brown ’58, Redmond, Ore., Nov. 29, 2013 Michael Day ’58, Lewiston, Sept. 28, 2014 Robert Farish ’58, Hopkins, Minn., Aug. 1, 2013 Mary Grabner Groll ’58, Boise, Nov. 21, 2014 Marcia Ellis Hicks ’58, Walnut Creek, Calif., Dec. 21, 2014 Walter Luhr ’58, Nampa, Aug. 10, 2014 John Thompson ’58, Granger, Wash., Nov. 8, 2014 Jason Troth ’58, Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 22, 2014 John Adams III ’59, Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 4, 2014 Marcia Maxwell Blakeley ’59, ’88, Boise, Sept. 1, 2014 Arnold Brauff ’59, Phoenix, Ariz., May 19, 2014 Herman Clemens ’59, Lancaster, Calif., Dec. 15, 2014

Leroy Payne Jr. ’59, ’69, Caldwell, Dec. 14, 2014 Richard Radde ’59, ’61, Carmel By The Sea, Calif., Jan. 23, 2014 Rodney Richeson ’59, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 8, 2015 John Roussos ’59, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 10, 2014 James Shearer Jr. ’59, Meridian, April 14, 2014 Jane Perry Simmons ’59, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 2, 2014 “Bill” Dossie Works ’59, Lincoln City, Ore., Jan. 8, 2015

’60s George Benedict ’60, ’68, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 20, 2014 Thomas Chikalla ’60, Kennewick, Wash., Aug. 1, 2014 Wiley Wagner ’60, Lewiston, June 27, 2014 Ronald Wimer ’60, Lewiston, July 19, 2014 Marlin Beckwith ’61, Carmichael, Calif., July 6, 2014 Robert Bonnett ’61, Boise, Aug. 24, 2013 Gordon Chester ’61, Boise, Oct. 31, 2014 John Crandall ’61, Spokane, Wash., May 12, 2014 Donald Humphreys ’61, Sioux Falls, S.D., Jan. 12, 2015 Gene Lilienkamp ’61, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 29, 2014 Sidney Marks ’61, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 5, 2014 Robert Richmond ’61, Baker City, Ore., Sept. 5, 2014

Wes Bourassa ’62, Newport, Wash., Jan. 9, 2015 Richard Havens ’62, ’67, Hubbard, Ore., Dec. 15, 2014 Larry Holmquist ’62, ’67, Nampa, Sept. 24, 2014 Robert Keller ’62, Boise, Jan. 8, 2015 Marilyn Merrick Mitchell ’62, Lewiston, Nov. 24, 2014 Peter Mooney ’62, Branson, Mo., July 28, 2014 Russell Newcomb ’62, Boise, Oct. 11, 2014 Arnold Syverts ’62, Riverton, Wis., Jan. 10, 2015 Dean Thomas ’62, Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 22, 2014 Albert “Chuck” Wennekamp ’62, Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. 8, 2014 Gladene Brown Gallup ’63, Boise, Nov. 3, 2014 Patricia McCarter Gentry ’63, ’87, Moscow, Aug. 16, 2014 Charlene Sherwin Goslin ’63, Chico, Calif., Sept. 27, 2014 Bob Griffin ’63, Hayden, Sept. 8, 2014 Robert Matthews ’63, Bothell, Wash., Sept. 9, 2013 Evelyn Nelson Powell ’63, Lewiston, Jan. 28, 2015 Karl Steward ’63, Bullhead City, Ariz., Aug. 11, 2014 June Burch Tracy ’63, Coeur d’Alene, July 5, 2014 Edward Borneman III ’64, Elkhart, Ind., Sept. 11, 2014 Ernest DeRocher ’64, The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 13, 2014

Harold Damiano ’59, Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 18, 2014

Arthur Royce ’61, Boise, July 19, 2014

Claudia Rockwell Luebbers ’64, Chicago, Ill., Aug. 26, 2014

Robert Eyler ’59, San Ramon, Calif., April 26, 2013

David Trail ’61, Moscow, Jan. 10, 2015

Robert McFarland ’64, Santa Barbara, Calif., Oct. 7, 2014

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Walter Sommer ’64, Bluffton, S.C., July 13, 2014 Frank Cronk ’65, ’67, ’72, Lewiston, June 28, 2014 Leslie Heasley ’65, Portland, Ore., Aug. 21, 2014 Barbara Dickeson Millar ’65, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 9, 2014 Fred Rensmeyer ’65, Glendale, Ariz., Nov. 3, 2014 Virgil Sestini ’65, Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 1, 2014 Darwin Witte ’65, Salem, Ore., Aug. 13, 2014 Clover Branch Klamer ’66, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 3, 2014 Dale Klappenbach ’66, Snoqualmie Ridge, Wash., Sept. 18, 2014 Velliyur “Malli” Rao ’66, Wilmington, Del., Dec. 2, 2014 Robert Roberts ’66, Lewiston, Sept. 16, 2014 Frank Rydalch ’66, Saint Anthony, Dec. 3, 2014 Frederick Fraser ’67, Richland, Wash., Nov. 6, 2014 Ruth Peereboom Gustafson ’67, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 4, 2014 Sally Seubert Hooker ’67, Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 19, 2014 Christine DeForest Kelley ’67, Rupert, Oct. 10, 2014 Richard Kelley ’67, Buhl, July 29, 2014 Glenn Nichols ’67, ’69, Garden Valley, Aug. 29, 2014 James Petrie ’67, Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 1, 2014 Larry Simmons ’67, Boise, July 13, 2014 Donald Wood ’67, Show Low, Ariz., Dec. 16, 2014 Daniel Babb ’68, Huntington, W.V., Nov. 18, 2014 Philip George ’68, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 31, 2014 Sue Young Hovey ’68, ’78, Genesee, Jan. 13, 2015

To be profiled, mail information, including reunion/graduation year, to Annis Shea, Office of Alumni Relations, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 3232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or email information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be emailed in a high resolution .jpg format.

Please limit your submission to no more than 35 words.

Richard Klamper ’68, Basalt, Colo., July 18, 2014

Bruce Burk ’72, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 23, 2014

Mike Boseth ’77, Sandpoint, Aug. 21, 2014

Howard Larsen ’68, Pocatello, Sept. 20, 2014

William “Bull” Eneas Jr. ’72, Lewiston, Jan. 20, 2015

Alice Knowles Reiber ’77, Moscow, Dec. 31, 2014

Gary Troyer ’68, Richland, Wash., Nov. 19, 2014

June Cook Judd ’72, ’82, St. Maries, July 28, 2014

Thomas Vogel ’77, ’82, Fargo, N.D., Aug. 18, 2014

Steven Leroy ’72, Las Vegas, Nev., Oct 1, 2014

Kathleen Heiselmann Dial ’78, Idaho Falls, Aug. 14, 2014

Theodore Long ’72, Portland, Ore., Sept. 7, 2014

Alice Ross Jones ’78, Grangeville, July 31, 2014

Lawrence O’Hare ’72, Post Falls, Jan. 30, 2015

David Mourning ’78, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 16, 2014

Rex Smith ’72, Ivins, Utah, Jan. 28, 2015

Walter Schultz ’78, Bellingham, Wash., Dec. 1, 2014

Donald Wolgast Jr. ’72, Rock Island, Ill., Sept. 4, 2014

William Albers ’79, Lititz, Pa., Nov. 5, 2014

Wally Butler ’69, ’85, Boise, Oct. 21, 2014 Irma Lehman Haley ’69, Buhl, Oct. 28, 2013 Michael Herndon ’69, Salmon, Feb. 6, 2014 Janet Jackson Koskella ’69, Weiser, Jan. 21, 2015 Lawrence Lakey ’69, Richland, Wash., July 26, 2014 James Lott ’69, New Harmony, Utah, Oct. 26, 2014 Terry Robinson ’69, Alamo, Calif., Jan. 11, 2015

Allen Dobey ’73, Sheboygan, Wis., Sept. 4, 2014 Ruthlla Diedrichs Hoffman ’73, Kendrick, Dec. 7, 2014

Craig Zemke ’69, ’71, ’75, Klamath Falls, Ore., July 12, 2014

Keith Amar ’74, Salmon, Dec. 31, 2014

’70s

Gary Bradshaw ’74, Yuma, Ariz., Oct. 10, 2014

Delbert Farmer ’70, Pocatello, Sept. 7, 2014 Clinton Hall ’70, Nampa, Oct. 24, 2014 Dennis Hoffman ’70, Kennewick, Wash., Aug. 14, 2013 Donnell Jerome ’70, ’71, Albuquerque, N.M., June 8, 2014 James Rockwell ’70, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 16, 2014 Melanie Jeffries Schmick ’70, Portland, Ore., Dec. 22, 2014 Douglas Skinner ’70, Napavine, Wash., Aug. 23, 2014 John Smith ’70, Santa Ana, Calif., Dec. 28, 2013 Warren Chadbourne ’71, ’73, Saint Maries, Aug. 20, 2014

Arthur Antonelli ’74, Puyallup, Wash., Sept. 26, 2014

Robert Brower ’74, Blackfoot, Oct. 12, 2014 Gary Donnelly ’74, ’79, Casper, Wyo., Aug. 8, 2014 Kevin Fiske ’74, Stillwater, Minn., Oct. 16, 2014 Henry Haener ’74, Clarkston, Wash., Oct. 3, 2014 Michael Hannaher ’74, Moorhead, Minn., Dec. 20, 2014 Clair Hiatt ’74, Clearfield, Utah, Jan. 30, 2015 Merle Jay Myers ’74, Pocatello, Aug. 29, 2014 Patricia Mundt Randolph ’74, Twin Falls, July 17, 2014 Celia Black Tindall ’74, Bruneau, July 24, 2014 Jeffery Hayenga ’75, Redmond, Wash., Dec. 13, 2014

Gary Young ’79, Post Falls, Jan. 10, 2015

’80s Shirley Post Erlandsen ’80, Spokane, Wash., Oct. 1, 2014 Jack Palmer ’80, Kihei, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 2015 Debora Welch ’80, Lewiston, Oct. 19, 2014 John Cronin ’81, Lewiston, Sept. 6, 2014 David Jasper ’81, Houston, Texas, Aug. 18, 2014 Thomas Richards ’81, Moscow, Nov. 18, 2014 Tracy Schoeffler ’81, ’91, Post Falls, Dec. 3, 2014 Stephen Andrews ’84, Boise, Dec. 1, 2014 Rotha Baines ’84, Arvada, Colo., Aug. 18, 2014 Delbert Brown Jr. ’84, Burley, Nov. 13, 2014 Jeanne Walker Anderegg ’85, Granville, N.J., Jan. 7, 2014 Charles Mikesell ’85, ’89, Boise, Oct. 18, 2014

Richard Haag ’71, Plattsmouth, Neb., April 24, 2014

Larry Wright ’75, Buhl, Aug. 19, 2014

Heidi VanCleave Gudgell ’86, ’89, Port Angeles, Wash., Sept. 21, 2014

Jeffrey Lamy ’71, Hillsboro, Ore., May 5, 2014

Mary Cavanaugh Hall ’76, Idaho Falls, Nov. 8, 2014

Judith Hansmann-Fong ’86, Lewiston, Dec. 6, 2014

Josephine Pence Miller ’86, Ronan, Mont., Aug. 21, 2014

’90s Chris Korbel ’91, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 29, 2014 David Milton ’93, Boise, April 15, 2014 Joseph Hassis ’94, Nampa, Nov. 14, 2014 Bryce Floch ’96, Kalispell, Mont., Nov. 16, 2014 Thomas Klansky ’97, Newport, Vt., Sept. 24, 2014 Dustin Eldred ’98, Boise, Dec. 27, 2014 Terri McCaig Grzebielski ’98, Moscow, Jan. 10, 2015 Agnes “Chris” Laughter LeVesque ’98, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 10, 2014 Fernando Villabol Jr. ’99, Moscow, Dec. 30, 2014

’00s Susan Pratt Gudmunson Zimmerman ’00, ’04, Lewiston, Sept. 16, 2014 Andrew “A.J.” Gray ’01, Coeur d’Alene, June 8, 2014 Heather Rose ’03, Monterey, Calif., Sept. 30, 2014 Lydia Clayton ’04, ’09, Genesee, Aug. 1, 2014 Mara Voglewede ’05, Manchester, England, Dec. 17, 2014 Casey “Bart” Randall ’09, Medford, Ore., Oct. 4, 2014

’10s Veronica Hendricks Rutledge ’10, Blackfoot, Dec. 31, 2014 Austin Horejs ’13, Boise, Sept. 25, 2014

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Save the Dates: Autumn Campus Celebrations DADS' WEEKEND

SEPT 25 - 27

Do you know a potential student who would be a great fit with the University of Idaho? Nominate him or her to become a future Vandal. Your nomination could encourage their future and set them on a path for a lifetime of success.

HOMECOMING WEEK

OCT 18 - 25

Learn more: Office of Alumni Relations

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www.uidaho.edu/growthegold (208) 885-7957

University of Idaho Retirees Association extends a welcome to retired faculty and staff.

Please consider joining the University of Idaho Retirees Association (UIRA). Enjoy social connections with former UI employees and meet new friends with a lifetime membership available at no cost. UIRA supports student scholarships through funding and hosts various social and informative programs throughout the year. For free lifetime membership, sign up online at uidaho.edu/alumni/uira/join.

For additional information: University of Idaho Office of Alumni Relations Phone (208) 885-6154 uira@uidaho.edu

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2015-16 Officers Travis Thompson ’97 President

Ben Rae ’83

Vice President/President Elect

Whitney Johnson ’80 Treasurer

Pat Sullivan ’73 Past President

Vandal Snapshot

University of Idaho photographer Joe Pallen captured the reflection of the Administration Building in raindrops on a car windshield one rainy morning.

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Prepared for Any Obstacle After visiting multiple universities, junior Katelyn Peterson, who is studying exercise science and health, found herself at home at the University of Idaho.

“A multitude of things drew me to Idaho,” she said. “On my first visit, I got the sense that I was going to be taken care of by my coaches in volleyball, but also in other areas such as academic and personal growth.”

Peterson liked the UI relational and professional support, but she was also impressed with the amount of financial support she received through the Vandal Scholarship Fund.

“The Vandal Scholarship Fund has given me tremendous financial stability and allows me to strictly focus on school and volleyball,” she said. “The scholarship means the world to me, and I am very thankful to have received it.”

Peterson plans to enter the field of medicine after graduation. She said that UI sports and education have taught her to be prepared for any obstacle, and she looks forward to the challenges ahead.

For more information: Brent Vicino Assistant Athletic Director for Annual Giving Vandal Scholarship Fund (208) 885-0261 bvicino@uidaho.edu