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contents 10 Open to Possibility

A new president and first lady for UNM bring a new perspective.

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Aglow for the Holidays: Bedecked in luminarias, Hodgin Hall housed the whole university when it was built in 1892. On the National

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16 Teaching Respect—for People and the Planet

Named one of the top ten professors of the country by Rolling Stone magazine, Henrietta Mann, ’82 PhD, was on the ground floor of Native American studies.

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Register of Historic Places, it serves today as the UNM Alumni Center.

20 Come to Think of It…

Photo by Norman Johnson.

The car of the future, Rubber Bandits—Adrian Chernoff, ’96 BSME, ’99 MEME, ’99 MBA has ideas that may affect our daily lives.

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24 Winds of Change Jerry McNerney’s brand of idealism includes action—he ran for Congress, and won.

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Winter 2008, Volume 26, Number 2, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: David J. Schmidly, President; Karen A. Abraham, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations; Mary Conrad, Editor; Kelly Ketner, Echo Creative, Art Director.

UNM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Lillian Montoya-Real, President, Santa Fe; Judy Zanotti, President-Elect, Albuquerque; John Garcia, Treasurer, Albuquerque; Roberto Ortega, Past President, Albuquerque; Gene Baca, Corrales; Alice Hopkins-Loy, Albuquerque; Ruth Schifani, Albuquerque; Angie Vachio, Albuquerque MIRAGE is published three times a year, in April, August, and December, by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends.

Address all correspondence to UNM Alumni Relations Office, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Send all Album information to the attention of Margaret Weinrod. Send all changes of address to the attention of Records. Send all other correspondence to the attention of Mary Conrad. To comply with the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, UNM provides this publication in alternative formats. If you have special needs and require an auxiliary aid or service, please contact Mary Conrad. Phone: 800-258-6866 (800-ALUM-UNM) or 505-277-5808. E-mail to Mary Conrad: mconrad@unm.edu or alumni@unm.edu. Web address: www.unmalumni.com

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32 Athletics: Sports Cast

letters to the editor

Photos capture a few proud moments

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of this fall’s sports.

Looking Around: 3 Letters 5 Connections Research, gifts, accomplishments, new buildings, new faces, and a bit of everything that characterizes UNM.

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5 Classnotes Look for your friends here!

28 Development: The Right Stuff

Another Alaska Adventurer

There’s no grass growing under the feet of Shirley Mount Hufstedler, ’45 BBA, legal maverick and former US Secretary of Education.

Mirage was the title of the University of New Mexico yearbook until its last edition in 1978. Since that time, the title was adopted by the alumni magazine which

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32 Athletics: Sports Cast Photos capture a few proud moments of this fall’s sports.

44 Alumni Outlook Travel, events & insight.

46 On Location: Edward Gonzales New Mexico artist Edward Gonzales uses his paintings to highlight Chicano culture.

BY NATALIE ARMIJO

continues to publish vignettes of UNM graduates.

was happy to see the pull-out section (fall 2007) highlighting the upcoming Homecoming events, but more excited about the pictures and education on the “Everyone’s a Lobo!” hand gesture. I would like to share with you some of its history.

Back in 1978-80, UNM had a very spirited and exciting-to-watch group of co-ed cheerleaders. …During one cheer-brainstorming session Jocelyn Vallejos [now Herig] came up with the concept of the Lobo hand gesture that barked out “Everyone’s a Lobo! Woof! Woof! Woof!” and that was the birth of the “Lobo hand” and cheer.

The Lobos have a lot of traditions that have stood the test of time. This one was born just 30 years ago and has stayed true to its initial intent of energizing the crowd to be proud Lobos.

Richard Tug Herig, ’84 BBA Albuquerque

Look At This!

4 Aluminating Award The Alumni Association creates a bright new accolade.

38 Woof! Woof! Woof!

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was so excited to see the story about the teachers going to Alaska—Eek, my favorite town! (“Forth to Alaska,” fall 2007) I just published my first book last October, Between Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush (UNM Press) about this very thing!

The story is the same, except that the teacher [Donna McGladrey] wrote over 300 pages of letters home to her family and friends about life, love, frustration, honey buckets, bugs, illnesses, crime, churches, children, classroom teaching, the wilderness, and her experiences flying to remote places with her on-again-offagain boyfriend. She wrote … in 1958!

Unfortunately, [Donna and her] student-pilot boyfriend hit a snowstorm and disappeared [while flying] from Anchorage to Dillingham (where she had served as the first band instructor the previous year)….

Donna McGladrey was my mom’s twin sister.

I never met her until I wrote the book…

Sandra Mathews, ’88 MA, ’98 PhD Nebraska Wesleyan University Lincoln, Nebraska

Mirage welcomes letters to the editor.

If you would like to comment on something you’ve read in the magazine, please write us. Letters will be published as space allows and may be edited for clarity and brevity.

Letters must be signed. It’s helpful if you include your location and degrees. Our address is Mirage, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Email: mconrad@unm.edu.

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aluminating award The UNM Alumni Association has created the Aluminaria Award for alums who brighten our lives. Take this opportunity to shed light on those who have brightened yours.

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n a given day, it’s not the big stuff that makes us say to ourselves there may be hope in this world after all. It’s the examples around us of individuals who go out of their way to help others…. who act out of the goodness of their hearts without thought of recognition.

Alumni associations tend to recognize their big stars, those with name recognition or in leadership roles. But we’ve decided it’s time to honor UNM alumni who, plainly, do good things, just because.

The UNM Aluminaria Award celebrates UNM alumni who make the world a better, brighter place.

Their acts may be small but they are inspirational.

We take pride in these alumni and want to thank them—the Aluminarios who make life shine.

Do you know a UNM alum whose good deeds go unsung? Someone who brightens your community?

Who lights up the lives of others?

Nominate this person for one of our UNM Aluminaria Awards. We’ll send them our thanks, along with a special pin. And we’ll include them in our list of Aluminarios who make their alma mater proud.

Go to www.unmalumni.com/aluminarios to tell us about your nominee for an Aluminaria Award.

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headliners: In keeping with

world class: Arthur Kaufman, vice

President Schmidly’s attention to students and diversity, interim vice presidents of two new areas have been appointed. Terry Babbitt is interim vice president for enrollment management, and Rita Martinez-Purson, interim vice president for institutional diversity.

president of community health and chair of the UNM School of Medicine department of family and community medicine, was recently voted the recipient of the “Five Star Doctor” award for excellence in health care.” WONCA is the world organization of family doctors.

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dean scene: Jeffrey Griffith has been

appointed executive dean of the UNM School of Medicine. Previously, Griffith served as chair of the department of biochemistry & molecular biology. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=6137

at the apex: UNM vice president of research and economic development Terry Yates has been awarded honorary membership in the American Society of Mammalogists. This is the highest honor the professional society can bestow on its members. Only 84 awards have been given since 1912. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002090.html

administration administrater:

has been appointed the new director of the School of Public Administration.

Uday Desai

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002049.html#more branching out: Cedric Page has been appointed the new executive director at UNM-Los Alamos.

Catherine M. (Kate) O’Neill has been named executive director of UNM-Taos. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002019.html#more http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002014.html

meaningful mentor: Biology emeritus professor and Museum of Southwestern Biology director Donald W. Duszynski, who studies animal parasites, was honored with the American Society of Parasitologist’s Clark P. Read Mentor Award for 2008. The award is given to “honor an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in the training of young scientists who have successfully pursued the independent study of parasites or aspects of the host-parasite relationship.” http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002027.html#more

album compiled by Margaret Weinrod.

Look for a friend on every page!

Keep us posted!

Send your news to Margaret Weinrod The University of New Mexico Alumni Association MSC 01-1160 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. www.unmalumni.com/community Better yet, e-mail your news to mweinrod@unm.edu.

Fall (August) deadline: May 1 Winter (December) deadline: September 1 Spring (April) deadline: January 1 Benjamin Sacks, ’26 BA, former UNM history professor, was featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune for setting the record straight about which US presidents have visited San Diego and the Hotel Coronado. The professor began his research into the city’s history when he moved to San Diego in 1973. He now enjoys performances of the San Diego Opera and reading the newspaper daily. At 104, he may be the oldest UNM alum. (The fall 2005 Mirage includes a story about Professor Sacks and his career.)

John Porter Bloom, ’47 BA, received the Paul AF Walter Award “for services to the Historical Society of New Mexico” at its annual conference in the spring. The event marked the end of his long service as secretary of the society. John lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Richard G. Kurman, ’50 BAED, ’68 MA, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, had three of his paintings shown in Florence, Italy, at the 6th Biennale of Contemporary Art. Joe Boehning, ’53 BSAE, ’61 BAA, has been inducted into the Albuquerque High School Athletic Hall of Honor. He is best known as the architect primarily responsible for the design of the Pit. Joe lives in Albuquerque.

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professors—David Craven, Abhaya Datye, Larry Davis, Linda B. Hall, and Deepak Kapur—have been promoted to the rank of distinguished professor.

Distinguished professors are individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements and are nationally and internationally renowned as scholars.

research connections jawing experience: More than 400

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broken jaws walk and roll through the doors of the University of New Mexico Hospital every year.

Most are males, sixteen to forty years old, most are uninsured, and most are facing major surgery with plates and screws to pull the pieces back together...

it’s in the name: Two professional

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societies, the Optical Society of America and SPIE, have renamed their jointly sponsored congressional fellowship program the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship Program to honor a former UNM professor who died earlier this year. Guenther was a research professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Center for High Technology Materials. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002024.html#more

voting truth: Political science

professor Christine Sierra is the primary investigator in a recent study on the impact of the Voting Rights Act on non-white elected officials, featured in the July issue of PS: Political Science & Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002156.html#more

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Firewall of China,” used by the government of the People’s Republic of China to block users from reaching content it finds objectionable, is actually a “Panopticon” that encourages self-censorship through the perception that users are being watched, rather than a true firewall, according to researchers at UNM and the University of California Davis.

pbs success: KNME general manager

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article, “Silver Screen Desperado: Billy the Kid in the Movies,” published in the spring 2007 issue of the New Mexico Historical Review, is the winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize.

The prize is awarded annually to the author and publisher of the best article in the field of Western History.

Paul Andrew Hutton’s

and CEO Ted A. Garcia has been re-elected to the board of directors of the Public Broadcasting Service.

This will be Garcia’s second three-year term. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002213.html#more

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first among law schools in the September issue of Hispanic Business magazine. The ranking is for schools that promote and encourage “a diverse community where Hispanic students can thrive.” The School of Engineering is ranked fifth and the School of Medicine, sixth. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002177.html#more

student connections for whom the Nobel tolls: Diego

under the perception: The “Great best of the west: History professor

and marketing department created UNMlive to reach increasingly multimedia-savvy audiences and to deliver free education and “edutainment” to on- and off-campus communities.

media connections UNMlive: A new Web site, http://www4.unm.edu/unmlive/, features free pod-casts of UNM news, events, interviews, arts, and more. The university communication

Martinez, Chessa Scullin,

and Denis Seletskiy, all students at UNM, were selected to represent the United States as outstanding research participants at the 57th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany over the summer. Martinez was selected by the US Department of Energy, Scullin by the National Science Foundation, and Seletskiy

by Mars, Inc. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002036.html#more spain scholar: UNM student Matthew

has received a Fulbright US Student Scholarship to Spain where he will teach English as a foreign language at a secondary school in Madrid and conduct research on immigration, assimilation, and identity issues.

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remember this: The National

Science Foundation has awarded a three-year fellowship to UNM graduate student Felicha Candelaria so she can focus on her research into memory and how drugs affect the brain’s mechanism for encoding and retrieving long-term memories. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002179.html#more step right up! Gregory Arias, Justin DeVore, and Quinton Smith skipped summer vacation this year to be the first-ever New Mexico high school students to take part in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s Step-Up Program, sanctioned by the National Institutes of Health.

Since June, the three New Mexico students have been working on

research projects with mentors at the UNM Health Sciences Center. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002088.html#more

funding connections top dollars: The University of

New Mexico and the UNM Foundation topped $72 million in fundraising for the first time in the university’s history. The gifts help support student scholarships, initiatives to help students volunteer in the community, funds for new construction and renovation, and support for faculty and course development. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002104.html#more

A gift for all seasons!

album Al Vandegriff, ’54 BA, has published his first novel, Finders Keepers, a story of a senior citizen pilot ferrying heavy haulers anywhere in the world. Al retired from his honey processing business 20 years ago to build kit planes. He lives in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

John Cheek, ’57 BSCE, and Pat Gloss Cheek, ’57 BSED, live in Lacey’s Spring, Alabama. Jack retired from McDonnellDouglas and Pat from teaching 6th graders for 25 years. Their time is now devoted to volunteer work and travel.

Robert L. Dineen, ’57 BSCE, ’73 PhD, first retired in 2000, but returned to work initially as a consultant and subsequently on a full-time basis before retiring again in 2005. He managed the development and installation of engineering-related computer systems, and now enjoys woodworking in Huntsville, Alabama, and traveling.

Richard Gomez, ’57 PSPH, is retired in Albuquerque from the University of New Mexico Hospital as director of pharmacy, then coordinator of clinical studies.

Martha Liebert, ’57 MFA, hosted “Key Ingredients, America By Food” at the invitation of the Smithsonian Institution at the DeLavy House Museum in Bernalillo, New Mexico, in the fall. The exhibit looked at how food shapes our world. Martha lives in Bernalillo and is archive director and program coordinator for the Sandoval County Historical Society.

JB Nickell, ’57 BSPH, had his own pharmacy until four years ago. He lives in Lakewood, Colorado where he works for his son, also a pharmacist.

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onor a new graduate or commemorate your own or a loved one’s days at UNM with a personalized brick in front of Hodgin Hall, the UNM Alumni Center.

Each $100 purchase of a brick supports Hodgin Hall’s maintenance and renovation as well as UNM Alumni Association projects.

New Grad Special! $75 per brick for graduates within the past 5 years!

To purchase a brick, contact the UNM Alumni Association Office at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866. Find out more at http://www.unmalumni.com/makegift/bricks.htm.

Alfonso G. Sanchez, ’57 LLB, still practices law in Santa Fe and participates in the Senior Olympics.

Charles Ederer, ’58 BA, and Emily Pineda Ederer, ’88 BUS, ’91 MA, celebrated their 50th anniversary in August. Charles is a retired hospital management executive, and Emily has been a family court clinician with the Second Judicial District in Albuquerque for the past 14 years.

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and interim Provost joined Archbishop Michael Sheehan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe recently to announce the establishment of a $2.5 million Endowed Chair for Roman Catholic Studies at UNM. The chair, the third endowed chair in the College of Arts and Sciences, will be in religious studies. The others are in biology and English.

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Mead Hooker Memorial Visiting Professorship has been established as an endowed faculty position in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. The gift is from Van Dorn Hooker and his children, John Hooker and Ann Clarke. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002202.html#more hep help: UNM’S High School

Equivalency Program (HEP) has received $405,765 for the first year of a new five-year funding cycle from the US Department of Education Office of Migrant Education. Operated out of College Enrichment & Outreach Programs, the program will receive more than $2 million in funding over the five years. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002145.html#more cancer research: The UNM Health

Sciences Center has received a federal grant of $285,000 from the National Cancer Institute to study uterine cancer and the effects of a G-protein known as GPR-30. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002161.html#more

building connections domenici dedication: Dedication of Phase I of the new 48,000 square-foot, $16 million Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education was held recently at the Health Sciences Center. The state-of-the-art facility is equipped and designed to advance medical education and training for all health sciences at UNM, including the UNM School of Medicine, the Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences, Public Health, and Biomedical Sciences. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002169.html#more

Dean Christopher Mead and ARTS Lab Director Ed Angel were among those who pitched the first spades of earth at the Sony Pictures Imageworks groundbreaking at Mesa del Sol recently. The new facility will house a 100,000 square-foot digital production facility at Albuquerque Studios. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002039.html#more

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climate commitment: President

has added UNM to the growing list of colleges and universities that are reducing their impact on the environment by signing the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which moves universities into a leadership role addressing climate change and energy usage. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002184.html#more lobo energy: Lobo Energy, Inc., a

persistence by student government representatives, Johnson Field lighting has become a reality.

ASUNM helped raise $260,000 from state appropriations in the last legislative session to cover part of the $720,000 project costs.

UNM subsidiary, has entered into a contract with energy conservation expert Energy Education, Inc., to implement an energy conservation program at UNM. When fully realized, this program could save significant amounts of money now dedicated to utility expenses.

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field lights: After seven years of

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New Mexico Community College have approved a memorandum of agreement to work together to provide higher education, career development, skill development, and lifelong learning opportunities for the citizens of New Mexico.

This signals a new partnership between New Mexico’s flagship research university and the leading community college in the state. As part of the agreement, UNM and CNM will also work together to provide for the higher education needs of Rio Rancho, including jointly establishing a Rio Rancho campus.

city buses students: UNM President

and Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez officially launched the new Lobo Ride Pass program offered by the City of Albuquerque Transit Department, which provides free bus rides for

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Internet and digital television, expanding access to services like distance education and “telehealth.”

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Bruce Hood, ’59 BAFA, retired in 2000 after 42 years of teaching theatre arts, acting, directing, public speaking, and debate as well as various higher education roles. He is emeritus professor after 22 years of service at Butte College, in Chico, California. He lives on Alameda Island in the San Francisco Bay where he enjoys sailing and volunteering as a docent at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

rest assured: Led by the Anderson big river rivalry: UNM and

School of Management, UNM has been named as one of 12 new institutions designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

New Mexico State University recently announced the formation of the Rio Grande Rivalry. The Lobos and Aggies will compete in 12 sports on a point-based system to determine where the annual trophy will reside for the following year.

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native degrees: UNM-Gallup

complete student-athlete: The UNM

was again ranked third nationally and first in New Mexico among community colleges for awarding associate degrees to Native Americans, announced recently for the college year 2005-06.

UNM-Gallup awarded 112 associate degrees to 28 men and 84 women.

Alumni Lettermen’s Association awarded 19 scholarships this fall to fifth-year student-athletes.

The scholarships allow former student-athletes to complete their undergraduate education at UNM. The scholarship has been renamed the George Brooks Fifth Year Scholarship after former ski coach and Lobo lettermen George Brooks, who retired from UNM after 37 years of service.

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002028.html#more western wired: Internet to the

Sandi Platt Costick, ’65 BSN, volunteers with three of her canines as a pet therapy team, visiting patients at UNMH Mental Health Center in Albuquerque and at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Santa Fe. Previously she worked as an NM K9 SAR unit. Sandi lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Charles L. Maak, ’65 BA, of counsel with Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless, has been named a senior statesman in Chambers USA—America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007 for his real estate practice. He was also named to the 2007 Mountain States Super Lawyers for real estate. He lives in Park City, Utah.

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Hogans is a movement to connect northwest New Mexico to the

Walter L. Baumgardner, ’62 BSHPE, has had several articles published in the National Broker/Dealer magazine on issues confronting the securities industry. He continues to practice law, limiting his practice to securities fraud, with Musilli, Brennan Associates in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. He lives in Dearborn, Michigan.

A C C O M P L I S H E D A T H L E T E S : In September, the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Association inducted its 2007 members into the UNM Athletic Hall of Honor. Left to right are Ashley Lowery (female athlete of the year), Sharon Janecka-daughter of Bill Stockton (posthumous inductee), Mark Johnson, Matt Henry (coach of the year), Jamie Koch, Weldon Hunter (distinguished service), Mark Henry (coach of the year), Gregory Brown, Jodi Ewart (female athlete of the year), Tim Garcia, and Bill Stockton-grandson of Bill Stockton (posthumous).

Other honorees not shown are Lars Loseth (male athlete of the year), John Bridgers (posthumous), and Pauline Manser.

John P. Salazar, ’65 BA, is named in Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 for his expertise and experience in real estate law.

He is also named in Chambers USA— America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007. John is a member of the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque.

Malcolm L. Shannon Jr., ’68 BBA, ’71 JD, has retired after serving the past 15 years as counsel for General Atomics, and joined some of his Australian mates to serve as vice president of US operations for WildHorse Energy. The solar and wind energy work he was engaged in as co-director of ILS Laboratories in the 70s is included in an exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal. Malcolm lives in Englewood, Colorado. w i n t e r

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Like pet kangaroo-mice, and lizards in your freezer on one end of the spectrum and the presidencies of three universities on the other.

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David and Janet Schmidly field at halftime. It was the first homecoming for the Schmidlys, who moved to Albuquerque over the summer to take the helm of New Mexico’s flagship university.

album Theodore Yaeger, ’72 BS, was recently appointed associate professor at Wake Forest University, department of radiation oncology, Winston-Salem, and medical director of Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir, North Carolina. He lives in Winston-Salem.

Diane Wilson Goldfarb, ’69 BAED, ’74 MA, has been elected to a second term as president of the League of Women Voters of Albuquerque/Bernalillo County, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government.

Rosella Aragon Natzke, ’69 BA, has retired to a farm in Belen, New Mexico. She is currently involved in school administration on a volunteer basis, serving as chairperson, Board of Christian Education, Christ the King Lutheran School, in Los Lunas. She had worked for the US Foreign Service in Washington, DC with many overseas assignments, and later was director of admission in the private Chinese American International School in San Francisco.

Carole S. Villard, ’69 BA, ’86 AAED, is the author of a novella, Stripped of Preference (xlibris.com), an illustrated satire and a contribution to women’s literature.

Carole lives in Orlando, Florida.

possibility The former president of Texas Tech University and Oklahoma State University, Schmidly became the 20th president of UNM in June 2007. It’s the culmination of a career the cotton farmer’s son says he never fathomed as he grew up in West Texas.

The first person in his family to go to college, Schmidly says he had no idea what it would be like when

he set off for Texas Tech. “I didn’t even know what a PhD was. I had no real idea what scientific research was about. And in two short years after being introduced to a faculty mentor, I had a career goal that I never envisioned.”

He was also introduced to Janet Knox, an education and speech major, on a blind date. The couple would be

Paul Murray, ’70 BFA, had his photograph of fall cottonwoods along Bonanza Creek featured on the cover of the September issue of Santa Fean Magazine. For the sixth time in eight years, he had a pastel accepted in the Pastel Society of America exhibit in New York City in September. He was featured in an article on landscape painting in Artist’s Magazine’s October issue, and won first place in the landscape category of the 2007 Pastel Journal Magazine’s annual Top 100 competition. The Santa Fe resident was the 2006 UNM Homecoming poster artist.

Richard W. Johnsen, ’71 MA, has just had published a bilingual children’s book which he illustrated. It is titled Hip, Hip, Hooray, It’s Monsoon Day!/¡Ajúa, Ya Llegó el Chubasco.

Before becoming an illustrator, he was a bilingual public school teacher for 35 years.

He lives in Sahuarita, Arizona.

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married four years later. “He was the first boy I’d dated who made decisions,” says Janet, who completed her bachelor’s degree in 1966.

Schmidly earned his bachelor’s degree in biology and his master’s in zoology at Texas Tech, and his PhD in zoology at the University of Illinois.

In 1971 he accepted an assistant professorship at Texas A&M University,

remaining with the Texas A&M system for 25 years.

“I cannot imagine ever having a better life than being an academic,” Schmidly says, “having an intellectual interest, the opportunity to freely pursue it with my own thoughts and ideas and then to share it with young people, hear what they think about it, and continue to shape my ideas ...”

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• “The university would be greatly benefited by stability in its leadership.

Everywhere I go I sense that people around here want to be led.”

• “Leadership is about empowering organizations and people to achieve more than what each individual can. It’s about bringing people together.”

• “My father didn’t know he was a leader, but he really was. People respected him for his judgment and how he treated people. He is a big hero of mine.

Another hero of mine, a great leader, is my wife. She has this quiet form

of leadership.”

• “I’m a real fan of Abraham Lincoln. I’m also a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt.

One worked behind the scenes and was quiet but had very powerful thoughts

and a vision for the country, and a very simple, succinct way to express it.

The other was a hard-charging, flamboyant, we-can-do-it kind of guy. I’ve got a little of both of those in me.”

• “There are some coaches who have been great leaders. Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys, was my favorite. He conducted himself as a real gentleman and yet was intensely competitive.”

• “The most challenging thing is to unite people around a common vision.

In a corporation you can do that because you have a lot of authority.

University presidents don’t have a lot of authority, so you have to use other skills. You have to have a true vision for a place and create a picture of it, so that people can see their role in making it happen.”

• “Because I’m a hard charging guy and want to see things happen, I tend to [say] ‘Let’s make some changes and move on down the road.’ I’ve learned that it’s better in an academic setting to lay out more gently what you want to do, to listen to people, to develop patience.”

• “The university leads through empowering people. An educated person is potentially the most empowered person in the world.”

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One of the decisions the Schmidlys made was to remain at College Station while their two children—Katherine and Brian—were growing up, not subjecting them to frequent moves.

It also enabled Janet to continue her teaching career. She earned a master’s degree in language and learning disabilities at Texas A&M, and taught special education and at-risk children in elementary school, retiring in 1996.

Schmidly was an involved father, Janet says, coaching softball, baseball, soccer, and basketball.

He also involved his kids as he explored the fauna of the Southwest and Latin America. In some ways, “Dave treated our children like graduate students, expecting them to go off and get things done!” Janet laughs.

“As parents,” she continues, “you spend money on special trips to Disneyland and places like that. But all our kids talk about now is the crazy field trips we went on!”

When the family left College Station, one of Brian’s friends said he’d miss seeing the bats in the Schmidlys’ freezer, right next to the popsicles.

“If it’s got fur on it and it moves,” Schmidly says, “I’ve studied it!” (And possibly frozen it.) Those studies resulted in nine books, and a species of field mice, peromyscus schmidlyi, being named after him.

Telling Tale There’s a whale of a story here… and an example of Schmidly’s veering from the course, and making the most of the diversion.

The boy from West Texas had never seen a whale. While teaching at Texas A&M Schmidly got a phone call from someone on the Gulf Coast who said, “There’s a big whale down here. I thought you Aggies might be interested. Schmidly was, and he made the two-hour drive in a “little ol’ pickup.”

It was a stranded, 60-foot-long Wright

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album Victor Moss, ’71 JD, a Denver attorney, is author of Beware the Wolves: A Soviet WWII Story (UNM Press). The book details his father’s amazing survival from a Nazi war camp and his mother’s decision to stay in her hometown despite dire warnings from the Stalin regime. It is listed in the Top Four Best-Selling Books by the Denver Post.

V O I C I N G O U R S T R E N G T H S : At his inauguration in October, UNM President David J. Schmidly urged all the university’s supporters to share their pride in the accomplishments of the university.

whale, Schmidly says, the first one recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.

While the trip spawned a new Aggie joke—“Have you heard about the Aggie prof who went to get a 10-ton whale in a half-ton pickup?”—it also sparked Schmidly’s interest in marine mammals in the Gulf. His subsequent research showed just 16 known species, which seemed low to Schmidly. In 1980, he started the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network to record stranded species. “We started finding all these rare and unusual whales and dolphins,” he says. The network led to aerial and ship surveys, with sightings of 32 different marine mammals, and a book about them.

In 1992, the Schmidlys left College Station so David could head up the Galveston branch of Texas A&M, renowned for its maritime programs.

Janet missed her teaching so much that she commuted to College Station during the week, returning to Galveston over weekends. For the first time, Schmidly began to think about a career as a university administrator.

Students First Four years later, the president of Texas Tech approached Schmidly about serving in the administration there as dean of the graduate school.

The Schmidlys moved to Lubbock.

“I love graduate education,” Schmidly says. “Nothing but positives. Almost every day I dealt with these bright young people trying to publish, to finish their theses and dissertations…”

Young people energize both Janet and David Schmidly. No conversation with either Schmidly goes by without mention of them. While the success of students is foremost to the university endeavor, the presence of students also enlivens it.

“They spark me,” says Janet.

“They’re bright and energetic, making their paths into the future.” She ranks enjoying young people–as well as enjoying food!–high among the qualifications for a university First Lady.

With West Texan bluntness, her husband states, “It makes me feel good to be around young people.”

Schmidly’s own experience as a university student foretells the picture he would like to create of the student experience at UNM. “The faculty had a lot of time for students. I knew every professor in the zoology department at Texas Tech pretty well. And they knew me, and they encouraged me [because I was] sincere about wanting to learn and be good in their field.”

He also looks back admiringly at the department he chaired at A&M.

Ivy Rutzky, ’73 BAFA, had a show of her pastel landscapes in May and June at the Mehu Gallery in New York City where she lives.

Alfredo Vigil, ’73 BS, ’77 MD, of Taos, has been named by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as the new cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Department of Health. He had been chief executive officer of El Centro Family Health, a non-profit primary care organization in northern New Mexico.

David C. Serna, ’74 BA, was recently selected by Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 as one of six Albuquerque attorneys in the field of criminal defense and the only Albuquerque attorney in the field of DWI defense. He was selected by Albuquerque The Magazine in 2006 as one of the Top Lawyers in Albuquerque, based on a lawyers’ poll.

Margaret Davidson, ’75 BA, ’86 MA, is a coeditor (with Ron Briley and James Barbour) of Dreaming Baseball, a novel by James T. Farrell published by Kent State University Press. She resides in Dallas.

Catherine T. Goldberg, ’75 JD, has been selected by Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 as one of the Top 25 Lawyers in New Mexico. Also, she is listed in Chambers USA—America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2007. Goldberg is with the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque.

Melissa Miller, ’75 BAFA, is the subject of Melissa Miller by Susie Kalil (University of Texas Press). This is the first major publication of her work and includes over 100 color images of her paintings. Miller lives in Austin where she is associate professor of art at the University of Texas.

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“All of us shared one real passion,” he says. “That was doing good things for our students. There was a real bond in that academic unit between the faculty and the students. That was the greatest strength we had and we were able to build off that and really move that program forward.”

Watching the students pass by his office window, Schmidly muses: “The real mission is to educate these bright, talented young—and increasingly older—citizens and to

“I’ve always been a person people have turned to and said, ‘We’d like for you to be our leader,’” Schmidly says.

“He has vision and energy, and wants it all done yesterday,” says Janet, who sees part of her role as balancing her husband’s Type A style. “I can stop and enjoy the roses,” she says.

The Schmidlys have moved into a home they bought in Placitas years before the possibility of leading UNM even arose. Out where he “can see the mesa, can see the mountains,”

“The real mission is to educate these bright, talented young—and increasingly older— citizens and to empower them to have just an absolutely great life…” —David Schmidly empower them to have just an absolutely great life… to understand themselves, to understand the role of people in this world, to understand what values are, to have some perspective on the world, to be able to interpret the world factually and honestly, and to make informed judgment. When you do those things, the rest of it comes along.”

In Balance Since his days as department chair at Texas A&M, Schmidly’s motto has been adelante, Spanish for forward or onward. He applies it now to advancing the university’s goals, but it suits his professional progression as well.

In 2000, the president of Texas Tech decided to resign and urged Schmidly to apply for the job. He did, and, as he says, “the rest is history.”

Schmidly led Texas Tech for two years before accepting the presidency of Oklahoma State University.

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Schmidly makes a point of walking every day for at least an hour and a half. (That’s between 70,000 and 100,000 steps a week, or about 40 miles, he says. But who’s counting?)

“It’s really good-down time for me,” says Schmidly, who doesn’t take his cell phone with him on his walks. “I think and strategize and some days just look at the beauty around me. It’s good for my health, both mentally and physically.”

Schmidly also takes a deep breath on his half hour drive into work each day. “When I’m driving in the morning I think about the day,” he says. “I try to reflect on the kind of person I want to be that day. I remind myself that everything that happens today is not going to be like you want it to. Don’t be short tempered. Don’t lose your patience. Be a good listener and try to treat people like you would want them to treat you. I try to set in my mind a mental picture of how I want to get through that day.

“On the drive back I evaluate that day—well, I felt pretty good about this, not so good about that. It’s my effort at self-improvement. It’s very important time to me.”

As First Lady, Janet says she finds it challenging to balance her personal and public life. The mother of two and the grandmother of nearly three, she is also the only daughter—and the caretaker—of her 96-year-old mother who moved to Albuquerque when the Schmidlys did.

But Janet says she applies a benchmark in deciding what event to attend. “Who’s going to know where I was 10 years from now?” If the choice is between her granddaughter’s recital and a Lobo game, the answer seems clear.

Onward and Upward “We’re taking off on a grand adventure—together,” President Schmidly told students in a New Mexico Daily Lobo editorial at the start of the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Schmidlys themselves began their grand adventure 40-plus years ago. But every turn along the way represents a new possibility, and President Schmidly’s installation on October 7 symbolized just that.

New Mexicans tend not to boast about their accomplishments, or perhaps they don’t realize what they have accomplished. In his inaugural address, Schmidly recounted many of the university’s points of pride, ranging from its highly ranked programs and stellar faculty to its unique population and beautiful setting.

He appealed to New Mexicans and those who love UNM to brag a bit, to let others know of the treasure in our own back yard.

“Let’s begin thinking of the University of New Mexico in a new way,” he said, “and then let’s join

together to shape its reputation, rather than letting others do it for us…

I’m here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen: we’re good, we’re darn good. You know it, I know it, so now, let’s go out and tell the rest of the world!”

Together with the Schmidlys, UNM is moving ahead.

President Schmidly’s website at www.unm.edu/president/ contains copies of his speeches, goals, letters, and more.

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In his first months at UNM, President Schmidly has kept student success— emphasizing recruitment, retention, and graduation—on the front burner.

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• Created a division of enrollment management, with its own vice president, combining admissions and recruitment, scholarship, financial aid, and the registrar.

• Created a division of institutional diversity, with its own vice president, to provide strategic leadership for increasing and maintaining diversity.

• Integrated athletics with academics by making the athletic director a vice president and moving athletic advisors under the oversight of the provost.

• Created a Gateway Partnership with CNM for students who are not fully prepared for the academic rigors of UNM. Students will live in UNM dorms, use UNM facilities, take part in Lobo activities, etc., but will take courses at CNM. When they are ready, they will then transfer seamlessly into UNM classes.

• Begun establishing a campus in Rio Rancho to serve Westside students. Initially, the campus will be served by UNM and CNM, with some classes also offered

by NMSU. • Established a recruiting and community outreach office in Hobbs, New Mexico (with a gateway program with NMJC) to attract students from the southeastern part of the state, with plans to establish future offices in Texas as well as southern California.

• Increased the viability of branch campuses throughout the state in order to make higher education more accessible to students outside Albuquerque.

• Worked on plans for a Learning Center, which will act as a student hub for one-stop advisory and financial aid access, and will include satellites of the ethnic centers and athletic advisors.

• Made his presence known among students. The Schmidlys are constantly attending student events.

album Sheila R. Ortego, ’75 BA, ’81 PhD, is president of Santa Fe Community College.

She is also publishing her first novel through Sunstone Press, The Road from La Cueva, to be released next year. Sheila lives in Santa Fe. Angela Vachio, ’75 MA, ’02 HonD, is now chair of the UNM Health Sciences Center Community Affairs Advisory Council.

She has been executive director and co-founder of PB&J Family Services in Albuquerque. She has served as UNM Alumni Association president. Angie lives in Cedar Crest, New Mexico.

Beverly R. Bendicksen, ’76 BS, ’81 MBA, has joined Bank of the West as private banking manager. She lives in Placitas, New Mexico.

Stephan Foster, ’76 BSPH, has been promoted to professor at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. He is a vice-chair for the department of clinical pharmacy. Stephan lives in Atoka, Tennessee.

Stephen E. Livingston, ’76 BBA, has been promoted by Meyners + Co. to director in the tax department in Albuquerque.

Fadil Santosa, ’76 BSME, has been named the next director of the internationally recognized Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, based at the University of Minnesota, effective July 1, 2008. He has been professor of mathematics there since 1995.

James Waylon Counts, ’77 BA, ’81 JD, has been elected to a three-year term as Chief Judge of the 12th Judicial District Court (Otero and Lincoln Counties). He lives in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Nancy Salem, ’77 BA, is the new editor of New Mexico Business Weekly. She lives in Albuquerque.

Leslie McCarthy Apodaca, ’78 BA, has received the Quality of Life-Lawyer Award from the State Bar of New Mexico. She is with the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque where she is the practice group leader for the business litigation group.

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Professor and spiritual leader Henrietta Mann, ’82 PhD, was at the genesis of Native American studies.

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album John Shay, ’78 BS, publishes Headzup, the world’s first “catch and release” editorial cartoon for video-enabled cell phones.

Headzup.tv was recently selected the premier political cartoon for GoLeft.tv, the new progressive television. John lives in Bellevue, Washington.

Henrietta Mann, ’82 PhD, brings a blend of contemporary consciousness hip enough for Rolling Stone and traditional enough for a tribal elder to everything she does. Cheyenne woman, teacher, mentor, advocate, academic administrator, writer, spiritual leader, Henrietta is currently special assistant to the president at Montana State University-Bozeman and interim president of Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribal College in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

A surprisingly playful attitude

students. “When you hold the future

has guided her through these roles.

of the world in your hands, you’ve

“I just dance through life,” she says.

got one time to do this,” she says.

Part of that obligation to the future

Teaching Responsibility Rolling Stone magazine has recognized Mann as one of the ten

is helping students learn to take care of the world we live in.

“Because we have not lived as

leading professors in the nation.

responsible caretakers of this earth, we

Respect seems to be the cornerstone

have to deal with such issues as global

of her pedagogy—teaching students

warming,” she says. “We need to be

respect for other peoples, fellow

much more aware of the decisions we

students, and the planet.

make today and the impact they will

She’s acutely aware of the

have on future generations.”

responsibility that comes with guiding

Lois Vermilya, ’78 MA, has been selected

by ZERO TO THREE, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, to participate in the Leaders of the 21st Century Fellowship Program. She sits on the Early Childhood Action Network (ECAN) that advises the New Mexico Children’s Cabinet and legislature. She is director of the UNM Family Development Program.

Nancy Andrew, ’79 BAMU/BAFA, was the artistic director of the National Flute Association’s annual convention held in Albuquerque in August. Currently, Nancy is professor of flute studies at the University of Oregon.

Stephanie Catasca, ’79 BA, ’85 MBA, has been elected by the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation to its board of directors as treasurer. She is a director with Atkinson & Co., in Albuquerque.

Elizabeth Tillar, ’79 BA, ’84 MA, was named Teacher of the Year at Southern New Hampshire University–Laconia where she teaches philosophy, ethics, world religions, and writing. She received a PhD in theology from Fordham University in 1999. She resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Edward R. Ricco, ’80 JD, was selected by Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 as one of the Top 25 Lawyers in New Mexico. He is with the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque.

Lynn Amos, ’81 BAFA, recently started her own business doing web and graphic design, marketing, and copywriting for small businesses. She lives in Peekskill, New York.

Eric Loucks, ’81 BS, has been hired by Los Alamos National Bank as a financial officer. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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She has remained in touch with

oral teachings,” Henrietta says. Now,

aspect of life. “Spirituality is so

many of her students, following their

students have access to textbooks

personal. It can be so private.”

contributions as lawyers, educators,

written by Native Americans, as well

and community members. “That has

as buildings housing programs and

that you cannot separate humans from

been rewarding – to see students go

study areas.

that spiritual dimension,” she says.

into the communities and make a change in this world.”

“Native American studies programs provide in the world of academe safe

In the Beginning

“Most Native American tribes feel

“Everything we do is a prayer.”

Henrietta prefers to look at

havens for Native American students,”

spirituality rather than religion.

Henrietta says.

“Religion is a word that is used to

Henrietta began her career in higher education as a lecturer in Native American studies at the University of California-Berkeley department of ethnic studies, in 1961-1962. She says she came in on the ground floor of Native American

“We need to be much more aware of the decisions we make today and the impact they will have on future generations.”

—Henrietta Mann

studies as the discipline was getting its start in California, largely as a result of activism.

While more academic resources have become available, experience still

says. The values of Native American

plays an important role. Henrietta says

spirituality—generosity, love, respect,

were really just beginning to open the

that personal experience in Native

humility, patience, and kindness—are

pipeline to students that came from

American communities complements

to be practiced not only on a Sabbath

different cultures,” she says.

traditional academic sources like

day, but every day, she says.

“There were students of color who

Since then, Native American studies

textbooks. “It gives a much broader

“Henrietta is deeply committed

programs have sprung up at colleges

look and a perspective that’s more

to Indian values,” says Sandra Begay-

across the country, with degrees

complete than if you just use one or

Campbell, ’87 BSCE, an engineer at

ranging through the doctoral level

the other,” she says. “We–each of us–

Albuquerque’s Sandia Labs and former

and students from every culture.

have a different view of reality.”

UNM Regent, who has considered

The programs have grown in diversity as well as size.

“Native American studies programs are as diverse as we are as the first

With that principle in mind,

Resources in the field have also expanded. In the early days at Berkeley, “we had to rely upon experience and

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Henrietta is careful to point out that

nearly 30 years. “She taught me how to

she speaks from her own point of view,

stay grounded, how to keep my values,

and not for Native Americans generally.

and to understand the needs of Indian

people for this land,” Henrietta says.

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people and how I could help.”

Prayers across Time Henrietta stresses the importance of incorporating spirituality in every

“She carries herself as someone does who knows why they’re here on earth,” Sandra says.

album Henrietta would like to visit every sacred site in the world to pray and give thanks for life. “From a Native

is as beautiful and stress-free as I can make it for them.”

One of Henrietta’s hardest prayer

perspective—my perspective—all earth

experiences came on November 13, 2001,

is sacred,” she says. “There are sacred

when she visited the ruins of the World

places on every one of the continents.”

Trade Center to pray for the lives lost,

She paints a vision of each sacred

for those who lost loved ones, and for

place as a chain across time linking the

the city. Fires were still burning in the

prayers of each generation. “It’s just

rubble. It was an intense experience

my voice being added to the multitude

that reminded her of what her great

who have been there before me, and

grandparents must have lived through

those who come after me,” she says.

during the Sand Creek massacre, and

Among the sacred sites she has visited is Stonehenge, which she made a pilgrimage to in 2003 to pray for peace.

“I do not know if we’re going to ever

which Henrietta says she hopes never to repeat.

“We all share in this,” she says.

“Their pain is our pain as a country.

realize in this generation what peace is

Sitting here I can still feel the pain

all about,” she says. “The search for

of the country.”

peace seems to be an elusive quest.”

Elusive though that quest may be,

Her daughter joined her at ground zero, forming another link in the

Henrietta has remained determined in

chain of prayer. “It’s comforting to

her pursuit of it. “I want my great

know that my daughter will carry

grandchildren to inhabit a world that

on those prayer traditions,” she says.

Sharon McElvain, ’81 BFA, had a photographic exhibit, “Leap of Faith,” at New Mexico Tech’s Macey Center during the summer. She and her husband, Guy, live on Rancho Corazón in Lemitar, New Mexico.

Elena Salazar, ’81 BAED, ’90 MA, is now principal of Cibola High School in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Mark Elison Hoversten, ’82 MA, is now the dean of the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture in Moscow, Idaho.

Frank Sedillo, ’82 BBA, ’87 JD, has been inducted into the Albuquerque High School Athletic Hall of Honor. Frank is an Albuquerque attorney.

John M. Brant, ’83 JD, is listed in Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 for his expertise and experience in the area of professional liability: defense. He is with the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque.

Lynn Kelly, ’83 MA, teaches special-needs children at La Casita pre-school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She expects to retire from her 38-year teaching career, but not until next year.

R. Nelson Franse, ’84 BUS, ’87 JD, is recognized in Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 for his expertise and experience in the area of professional liability: defense.

He is also listed in Chambers USA— America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2007. Nelson practices law at the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque.

news about UNM and its grads every other month

John Larson, ’84 BBA, ’87 MBA, is currently on an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Congressional Fellowship assignment with US Representative (NM) Heather Wilson in Washington, DC. He is the Congresswoman’s military legislative assistant and focuses on military, foreign policy, and intelligence issues.

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Peter A. Sanchez, ’84 BBA, has joined Atrisco Companies in Albuquerque as CEO.

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Daniel Viramontes, ’84 JD, has been appointed by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as District Judge in the 6th Judicial District. Previously, he was in private practice and also served 17 years in the District Attorney’s Office. He lives in Deming, New Mexico. w i n t e r

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Acclaimed inventor, innovator, and futurist Adrian Chernoff, ’96 BSME,

Adrian Chernoff’s mind doesn’t stop with the given; it constantly churns with new ideas and ways

’99 MEME, ’99 MBA, says that even from a young age, he has had the

to make the old better. The “skateboard” he created for

ability to see things not only as they are, but also as they should be.

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“When I was a kid,” he says, “I would play with toys, and I’d say, ‘This stinks. Why doesn’t it do that?

Why can’t it do this?’”

“There’s a great scene in that movie ‘Big’ with Tom Hanks where he’s sitting there in the boardroom, and the executives have this new product – an action figure that turns from a building into a robot – and he says, ‘I don’t get it. … Couldn’t it be a robot that

turns into a bug with giant claws or something?’”

It was that line of thinking – the ability to see things in their future stage of perfection – that led the General Motors Corporation to recruit Chernoff in 2000, just one year after he graduated from UNM with twin master’s degrees. They told him: Here’s a car. Show us how it “should be.”

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With 59 patents in six years, including the “car of the future,” Adrian Chernoff, ’96 BSME, ’99 MEME, ’99 MBA, moves ahead to new ideas.

And that’s exactly what he did.

Then he did the same thing with rubber bands.

AUTOreinvented The annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit is where automakers from around the world converge to unveil their latest production models and “concept” vehicles.

General Motors was especially excited about the 2002 event because the company was prepared to debut a vehicle called the AUTOnomy, and media analysts from the automotive industry and far beyond were anxious to get a peek.

The familiar custom with unveilings is to have a sexy model pull a silk sheet off a car while striking up music or releasing balloons in something akin to a pep rally. But with the AUTOnomy, in a carefully choreographed spectacle bathed in blue light, the “reinvention of the automobile” slowly descended from the ceiling and gently touched down on a rotating stage. The lighting and backdrops were like something borrowed from the Academy Awards.

It was a jaw-dropper.

The AUTOnomy was the brainchild —the “baby”—of Adrian Chernoff, and he had a fair guess as to what the gathered media must have been thinking when this contraption hit the stage: “What the heck is that? That’s not even a car.”

The device appeared to be nothing more than a giant skateboard – just a flat plank, about six inches thick.

The only concession to conformity was the four rubber tires housed in the usual places.

However, if the doubters looked closely enough, they would have noticed several “docking” points on this skateboard, and as the crowd watched, the actual body of the vehicle made its way down from the ceiling and then clicked into place atop the skateboard.

And there it was: the car of the future.

“Everybody watched as it came together, and that’s when the frenzy began,” says Adrian. “The media reports were amazing. People were saying it was the most incredible innovation in the automotive industry in 50 years.”

What made the vehicle so enticing was that its fuel supply was hydrogen, not gasoline. Its entire propulsion system was housed in that six-inchthick plank, and its only emission was pure water.

“It was an incredible time,” he says by phone while taking a break from

album Kurt Wihl, ’84 JD, has been re-elected to a three-year term on the executive committee of Keleher & McLeod in Albuquerque. His practice involves matters of general and complex civil litigation and real estate disputes.

Donald Wunsch, ’84 BS, has been elected a fellow and senior fellow of the International Neural Networks Society.

He is the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri–Rolla.

Robert Masterson, ’85 BA, ’87 MA, has accepted a position as professor of English at Concordia College, in Bronxville, New York. He has a book forthcoming, Artificial Rats & Electric Cats (Camber Press, NY) about living in the People’s Republic of China in the mid-80s. He resides in Yonkers, New York.

Thomas D. Powers, ’86 BAA, ’90 MARC, recently completed work on Intel’s $3 billion Fab 32 high volume 300mm manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona, as project architect for CH2MHill. Tom lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Charles J. Vigil, ’86 BBA, has been recognized in Southwest Super Lawyers 2007 for his expertise and experience in the area of employment and labor law at the Rodey Law Firm in Albuquerque. He also received the Distinguished Bar Service Award from the State Bar of New Mexico in recognition of his long-term commitment to State Bar services and significant contributions to the legal profession.

Gina Penick McLean, ’87 BA, has worked with at-risk students for Lawrence County Schools in Tennessee for five years. Three years ago she developed a new positive alternative school called The Achievement Academy. Students with serious behavior problems or zero tolerance offenses are placed there. They are later transitioned back to their regular school setting.

Gina lives in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

Helen B. Padilla, ’87 BBA, ’92 MA, ’97 JD, is now director of the American Indian Law Center in Albuquerque.

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“It was just after 9-11, and though there’s nothing positive about 9-11, there was a feeling of transformation going on, a feeling in the air that we were getting our hopes back.”

Clear Sight It’s strange that Adrian would hold such a place of distinction in the history of the automobile; he says he never had much of an interest in cars.

“My dad would encourage me to learn about engines and help him change the oil,” he says, “but I didn’t touch cars.”

However, the spirit of innovation shadowed Adrian throughout his life as he amazed his Albuquerque teachers at Osuna Elementary, Hoover Middle School, and La Cueva High.

“I never really had a sense of what I wanted to be,” Adrian says, “but I always knew that I felt creative and that I could see things differently.”

He says he’s never had a sense of being uncomfortable or fearful when faced with something foreign and unfamiliar.

“It’s easier to come at something you don’t know anything about,” he says, “because you can see certain distinctions that other people might miss because they ‘live’ in that universe, whereas when you come in as an outsider, you can see things more clearly. It makes it more fun.” “[Adrian] had a different perspective; he wasn’t conventional in his thinking,” says Gerald May, who mentored Adrian as an instructor in the engineering department after stepping down as the university’s president in 1990. “He wasn’t the type who was satisfied to just study and do the homework. It was clear then that he was destined for something beyond routine engineering work, and I’m not at all surprised at his accomplishments.”

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“He was always looking for a better way to do things,” May says.

“He took my entrepreneur’s class,” says Bill Gross, professor and engineering dean emeritus. “He had that twinkle in his eyes, and his internal radar was always spinning—looking to identify other possibilities, other ways to accomplish things. I’m sure that contributed greatly to his success at General Motors.”

From Grill to Tailpipe A little more than a year after Adrian’s career as a Lobo student came to an end, General Motors came calling, saying they wanted to recruit him for a hand-selected team. The goal of the team’s project, and Adrian’s ultimate responsibility as the chief architect, was so clear and simple that it could be summed up in three words: “reinvent the automobile.”

For such a task, GM needed someone who could question every aspect of a vehicle’s composition,

CARousel, and the Sequel – is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, sorts of batteries that produce electricity by mixing hydrogen with oxygen. The cars also utilize drive-by-wire technology in which systems like steering and braking are directed by electrical signals instead of mechanical joints and linkages. There are no pedals. The driver accelerates, stops, and steers by twisting, squeezing, or turning a hand-grip. The car can reach speeds of 100 mph and has a range of about 100 miles before it needs a fresh fuel supply.

General Motors says it plans to have a production model ready by the year 2015, but other countries are ahead of the curve. For instance, the public bus system in Reykjavik, Iceland, leaves nothing but pure, white clouds of water vapor in its wake.

Such a future for American cars seemed to be nearing reality after the 2002 auto show in Detroit, and Adrian says he grew hoarse from granting countless requests for interviews (including a televised chat with news anchorman Dan Rather). But

“It’s easier to come at something you don’t know anything about because you can see certain distinctions that other people might miss because they ‘live’ in that universe, whereas when you come in as an outsider, you can see things more clearly. It makes it more fun.” from the grill to the tailpipe, and make improvements as they went.

They chose Adrian, who became the only member of the team from outside of the automotive industry.

He says the project was like a resurrection of the gas-turbine-powered Firebird 1 nearly 50 years earlier.

“That was the first vehicle to bring together research and development with design,” Adrian says. “With that, they reinvented the automobile.”

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before the media descended that day, he says he was soaking in the spectacle when he found himself eavesdropping on two representatives from Exxon Mobile who were studying an informational display about the future of hydrogen power.

“One of them turned to the other and said, ‘If this happens, what are we going to do?’” Adrian says. Shortly thereafter, Adrian says, Exxon Mobile invested over $100 million in hydrogen energy research.

Moving On Adrian parted ways with General Motors after five years and 51 US patents. He says it was difficult to watch his “baby” being adopted out, picked at, and dissected in various divisions in various countries who had varying levels of interest in hydrogen power.

“It’s hard to express what it’s like watching your baby become someone else’s,” he says. “It’s one thing when you have four or five people working on an idea, but then when you get 20, 50, 200, 500 people, things change drastically. It became more corporate. The creative aspect was being lost. They started changing things just so they could use existing parts instead of manufacturing new parts, like they should.”

These days, Adrian is on his own.

His new company, based out of Boulder, Colorado, is called Ideation Genesis, “an exploratory and idea development firm,” according to his web site, adrianchernoff.com.

He says he has no shortage of work, but like everyone else who has started a new business, there’s always a lingering sense of risk and trepidation.

“It’s no different than any other idea,” he says. “Sure, there’s a scary part, but there’s also the excitement of creating something new, something tangible. … You have to have faith in yourself and every idea that you have.

You have to be led by intuition.”

One of Adrian’s current side-ventures is the re-launch of one of his simpler inventions: a rubber band that has a tear-resistant label attached to it.

The product is called Rubber Bandits, and it was a winner of an invention contest sponsored by Staples, the business-supply company. Rubber Bandits were sold exclusively at Staples stores across the country for two years.

Brand Adrian Today—this very day—Adrian’s mind is doubtlessly preoccupied with

something new, but at the time of this interview, he was consumed with a consulting job that involved helping businesspeople and fellow innovators achieve a seemingly impossible task: creating a vocabulary for the vague and esoteric world of ideas and human thoughts.

“Ideas are abstract things that happen in our brains,” he says.

“They are part language, part pictures, part feelings, but for the most part, our ideas are only logical and sensible in our own brains. Communicating those ideas, and their import, is another matter.”

“Imagine there’s a group of people in a large conference room, and you need to describe a new idea; say you need to describe a design for a frontal-impact system for cars. How do you communicate that idea? I help people use analogy and other tools to effectively present their ideas,” he says.

Adrian says he misses the “passion and excitement” of his days at General Motors, but he’s happy and excited to be venturing out on his own, and that despite the notoriety that came his way as a result of his work on the hydrogen-powered car, his “claim to fame” has yet to come.

“Today it’s all about building that path to Brand Me,” he says. “It’s a journey, a continuing journey, and I’m blazing that trail every day.”

Despite his forward-looking agenda, it’s clear he still has plenty of room in his vast mind for fond memories of past accomplishments.

“The most telling, proudest moment for me,” he says, “was when Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, was at a media event, taking the Hy-Wire for a test drive with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. As he rolled past, he spotted me through the half-closed window and said, ‘Quite an accomplishment for a guy from New Mexico,’ and then he accelerated and drove away.”

album Sharon Schultz, ’88 BUS, has been named executive director of the Tourism Association of New Mexico. She is marketing operations manager for New Mexico State Parks and lives in Albuquerque.

Antonio “Tony” Franklin, ’89 BSED, ’93 MS, has been honored by Leadership Greater Galesburg Class XIV with the Distinguished Leader Award for 2007 in recognition of a community member who exemplifies leadership qualities. Tony is county director for University of Illinois Extension— Knox County office.

Mary A. Johnson, ’89 MA, ’94 PhD, has joined JR Realty in Albuquerque as an associate broker.

Kimball Lane, ’89 BS, is the new chief development and marketing officer of Lincoln Child Center in the San Francisco Bay area. She continues to run her consulting and executive coaching firm in Oakland.

Craig Deering, ’90 MARC, has joined RTKL as principal in the firm’s Washington, DC office and will work in the firm’s Workplace Studio Group. Craig lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Tina Deschenie, ’90 MA, received a fellowship to attend the Stanford Professional Publishing Course last July. The Farmington resident is the editor of Tribal College Journal, a national magazine based in Mancos, Colorado. She has been an educator and administrator in American Indian education for over 20 years.

Roberta S. Batley, ’92 BA, ’95 JD, has become a shareholder in Little & Gilman-Tepper, in Albuquerque. She is New Mexico Board Recognized Specialist in divorce and family law and is listed in Best Lawyers in America.

Joseph Mills, ’92 MA, and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, have written the second edition of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries (John F. Blair, Inc.) that profiles 64 wineries in the state. They live in Winston-Salem.

LeManuel Lee Bitsói, ’93 AALA,’95 BS, has received her EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania. She continues as director of w i n t e r

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album on his back, over a 10-foot drop-off along a narrow path in the Sandia Mountains. Ahead of him hiked his long-time buddy Bob Ross, engaged in his half of a philosophical discussion about— what else?—mathematical exponents. By chance, Bob turned to see Jerry just as he pulled his knees up hard, went into a back roll, flipped over, and landed on his feet in the streambed below.

“It was the single most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” says Bob. “Jerry kept his presence of mind.

He didn’t even stagger.”

Since the time he could first set his own course, Jerry McNerney has followed an unwavering personal compass, along a sometimes unpredictable path. It led him to relinquish a West Point-primed career because he couldn’t see himself leading troops into Viet Nam in a war he opposed. It led him to the dedicated pursuit of useable wind energy at a time when those who espoused renewable energy sources were considered fringe elements. Most recently, it led him to a race against an entrenched Republican Congressman and subsequently to a US Congressional seat representing California’s 11th district.

Politically Oriented “The McNerneys have always been politically oriented,” says Jerry’s sister, Rosemary Winkler, who in the early ’50s took little Jerry and his twin

brother, John, for show and tell at Fatima School (formerly Heights Catholic School) in Albuquerque.

“They thought it was important to be involved, to vote. Our Uncle Richard said he didn’t know there was a difference between Catholics and Democrats until he was 13!”

From that standpoint, it didn’t surprise Jerry’s family and friends when, in 2004, he began the first of two races against Congressman Richard Pombo, who had represented the San Joaquin Valley for nearly two decades. Nor did it seem implausible that Jerry’s son Michael had initiated Jerry’s candidacy when he learned Pombo was running unopposed.

“When the opportunity came up,” says Rosemary, “Jerry threw himself into it, saying, ‘I have to go all the way.’”

“I felt such a strong need to be involved,” says Jerry. “I felt the country was going in a bad direction.

Nonetheless, Jerry was not the prototypical politician. In fact, he wasn’t a politician at all.

L O O K I N G T O T H E F U T U R E : Wind engineer and mathematician Jerry McNerney has taken his ideals and ideas to Congress, serving California’s 11th district.

minority training in genomics/bioinformatics in the department of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard.

Joe Trumm, ’92 BSCE, ’94 MS, has opened Trumm Engineering in Albuquerque, specializing in water resources engineering, wastewater process design, and planning.

Karen J. Erickson, ’93 BUS, has transitioned from freelance writing and editing into more scientific work as the technical editor for ARES, a national engineering and research firm in Albuquerque. In July, she joined a select team working in Washington, DC for four months on a space exploration project for NASA. Sandy Fye, ’93 BA, is the author of Historic Photos of Albuquerque (Turner Publishing, 2007), a 10 x 10 large format that tells the pictorial narrative of the city in culled-from-the-archives photos. Sandy lives in Albuquerque.

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Jerry McNerney, ’73 BS, ’75 MA, ’81 PhD, was sliding headfirst,

Alma Garcia, ’93 BA, has received a $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award (2007), given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their career.

She lives in Seattle and is working on her first novel, tentatively titled Shallow Waters.

Kathy Kimball, ’93 BSNU, ’01 MSNU, is a nursing director at a community hospital in Loveland, Colorado, where she oversees the wound care program. The clinic is considered a model for outpatient wound care by nurse practitioners. The healing rates are about 17-20 percent higher than the national average.

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As teenagers, Jerry and John had spent a year at Albuquerque’s St. Pius High School, before their parents sent the duo to St. Joseph’s Military Academy in Hays, Kansas. Although the experience didn’t excite Jerry, the opportunity to do something great as a military leader did. After graduating from high school, Jerry sought and received a commission to West Point.

But the lure of glory diminished as Jerry’s introspection regarding the Viet Nam War increased over the next two years. In 1971, his moral compass impelled him to leave West Point. His dad, John McNerney, ’49 BSCE, a retired bird colonel in the Army, was distressed, says Rosemary, making the decision even more telling for Jerry.

At that point, Jerry returned to Albuquerque and enrolled at UNM, where he earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in math and developed a love of philosophy.

But after a decade of theory, Jerry says he felt the urge to do something more tangible, and began his career as a consultant in wind energy at Sandia Labs. There he became convinced of the need for—and hooked upon the pursuit of—alternate energy forms, especially wind energy.

In 1985, Jerry, his wife, Mary, and their three young kids moved to Massachusetts where Jerry worked as a senior wind engineer with US Windpower. Subsequently the company, along with the McNerneys, relocated to the San Francisco area.

Jerry and Mary, a nursing student, had met at a UNM ballroom dance class, and were married in 1977.

Mary stayed home to raise their two sons and one daughter, who today are scattered across the country in graduate school. Son Michael, 29, studies law at American University; Windy, 27, is working on a doctorate

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O N T H E H I L L : In Congress, Jerry McNerney says he enjoys the input of constituents impassioned by their causes. His own causes include renewable energy and opposition to the war in Iraq.

in neuroscience at Notre Dame; and Greg, 25, studies biophysics at UC Davis.

Rosemary describes her brother as “typically Irish,” in that he doesn’t talk about his devotion to his family. But, she says, “he would do anything for them.” Jerry says he looks forward to the two nights a week he is able to leave Capitol Hill for dinner with Michael. Less comfortable with the DC scene, Mary holds down the family home in Pleasonton, California.

In 1994, Jerry began working as an energy consultant for PG&E, FloWind, the Electric Power Research Institute, and other utility companies. Before his election to Congress, he had created a start-up company with plans to manufacture wind turbines. He recently received a patent for an algorithm that will make wind turbines run more safely and effectively.

“Jerry—his whole persona— symbolizes tackling the problem of energy for the future,” says his friend Bob. “He’s not just a politician who has picked up on global warming or energy, who takes someone else’s word for it.

Jerry is one of the scientists who is telling us about it.”

Having determined to oppose Pombo—whom he dubbed “Big Oil’s best friend— Jerry threw himself into the 2004 race, garnering nearly

40 percent of the vote. Two years later, a 14 percent swing vote from Republicans gave Jerry the win.

Life on the Hill On the job in Congress, Jerry has helped pass landmark energy legislation that he says “will lead our nation to energy independence, make us more secure, create new, good-paying, American jobs, reduce energy costs to consumers, and fight global warming.”

That legislation included a bill (HR 2304) Jerry wrote and introduced to increase research and development funding for “cutting edge, 21st century geothermal technology.”

While the driving force of Jerry’s campaign was clean energy, he is also passionately opposed to the war in Iraq.

In July he led a bipartisan, all-freshmen Congressional delegation on a trip to the embattled nation. He returned still supporting a “reasonable” timetable to begin troop withdrawals, which he believes will “give the Iraqis the incentive they need to step up and take control of their country.”

Back at the daily grind of Congress, Jerry is energized by advocates of various causes who try to persuade him of their views. “People have a real passion, and want my support,” he says. “They have 15 minutes to

On August 1, The Stockton Record wrote about McNerney: He’s pursued an interesting, unique agenda: part science, math, and alternative energy and part anti-Iraq war and noticeably pro-veteran coupled with a desire to help 11th district residents directly. …

The nitty-gritty of political campaigning will challenge his integrity and priorities. Democratic party leaders will prod him to do some things that might be distasteful and mean-spirited. How McNerney reacts and copes will reveal even more about the man San Joaquin County voters helped send to Washington.

Fair enough, Jerry concurs. As he approaches a new campaign in 2008

“The country needs you. Find your passion. Go all out to achieve your goals.”

Perhaps that’s the mathematician in him coming out. Or perhaps, as Jerry suggests, that rational urge propelled him into math in the first place.

Not to say that folks aren’t civil in Congress. On the contrary, Jerry says, “People are respectful and courteous on the floor and in hearings. There’s a lot of flowery language, like calling everyone ‘my good colleague.’”

Or perhaps Jerry, who his sister says is “competitive but warm,” just brings out the best in people who respond to him in kind.

Finding Balance Whether dealing with colleagues or constituents, Jerry appears to have struck an effective balance. Scientist and politician. Passionate and rational.

Maverick and player. And a Democrat in a previously Republican district.

—Jerry McNerney that promises to be “tough,” he says he is looking “for a way to get through with grace, dignity, and respect for the people of our district and country.”

At best, the campaign trail will afford Jerry the opportunity to address the young people of his district. Among all his activities as a Congressman, Jerry says he most enjoys “being part of inspiring and challenging our next generation to be reengaged in science, international affairs, technology, history, and the arts.”

His advice to his own young constituents parallels that which he says he would give to incoming freshmen at his alma mater. It also mirrors his own muse: “The country needs you. Find your passion. Go all out to achieve your goals.”

album Margaret Benny, ’94 JD, was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court Bench, Family Court Division, as a court commissioner. Previously, she was an assistant attorney general representing Arizona Child Protective Services. Margaret lives in Mesa, Arizona.

Todd Dunivan, ’94 BA, ’96 MBA, has been promoted to center business manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.

Holly R. Hlava, ’94 BS, has received national recognition from The Pampered Chef for being among the top 20 personal recruiters.

Holly works in the Albuquerque office of the American Heart Association as the corporate market director.

Ed Manzanares, ’95 BA, is now athletics director at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Eric Martinez, ’95 BA, has been appointed account executive at Cooney, Watson & Associates, a public relations, marketing, advertising, and video production firm in Albuquerque.

Tobias “Toby” McBride, ’95 BS, recently accepted a position as contaminants specialist in the natural resource damage assessment and restoration branch/ Environmental Contaminants Division of the US Fish and Wildlife Service Office (Sacramento, California). He and his wife, Ellen Roots McBride, ’96 BS, and son live in Sacramento.

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present that. I try to understand what they’re advocating.”

As Jerry spends more time on the Hill, he says the system seems less chaotic than it did at first, and that he is learning to be more effective.

Still, like most new Congressmen who come to the Capitol with items on their agenda to accomplish, he says the switch from being the lead voice of a district to being one among 435 others can be frustrating.

Asked how Congress would be different if it were comprised of a multitude of Jerry McNerneys, Jerry laughs. “I supposed it would be more rational. There’s a lot of demagoguery that goes on here. I like to consider arguments, to vote on what seems rationally to be the best thing.”

Connie Jimenez Trujillo, ’95 BSCHE, ’01 MBA, ’05 BSN, ’07 MSN, is joining Theresa Okoro, ’01 MSNU, at the New Mexico Quickcare in Las Vegas, New Mexico, doing full-scope midwifery. w i n t e r

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Express admiration that Shirley Mount Hufstedler, ’45 BBA, still practices law at 82, and she remarks, “Old ducks can still quack.”

Her brisk demeanor indicates the keen intellect that has allowed her to practice law for more than 50 years, enjoy a tenure as the only female appellate judge in the country, and become the first US Secretary of Education.

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“Legal giant” Shirley Mount Hufstedler, ’45 BBA, had what it took to make it in (what was) a man’s world.

L I F E A D V E N T U R E R : It took guts and determination to begin her own legal practice in 1950, but Shirley Mount Hufstedler— who served as judge of the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and later, as US Secretary of Education—had both. The same qualities were useful in riding a Tibetan yak at 16,600 feet. Shirley and her husband, Seth, are avid hikers and mountain climbers.

album Kathy Cordova Felker, ’97 BA, has been promoted to managing consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services. Kathy lives in Houston.

Kevin D. Kinzie, ’97 BA, has been promoted to administrator of the Bernalillo County Department of Substance Abuse Programs in Albuquerque. He oversees the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Assessment and Treatment Services facility.

Matthew J. Martinez, ’97 BA, of Ohkay Owingeh, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship of $32,250 for his research on tourism and economic development in northern New Mexico.

He currently teaches in the department of indigenous studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Matthew serves on the UNM Alumni Association board.

Malena McLaren, ’97 BAME, ’99 MAMU, assistant professor of clarinet at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, won second place in the research presentation competition at the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Vancouver.

She lives in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

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Patrick Conlon, ’98 MS, has published an article in the August 2007 issue of the journal Men in Nursing, entitled “Diabetes in Primary Care.” Patrick lives in Downers Grove, Illinois.

An Uncommon Woman Hufstedler is passionate about law, but her great work ethic is the foundation of her career. “I grew up during the Depression,” she says. “I learned how to get a job for myself when I was 11 and have been working ever since.” Her bachelor’s degree in business administration prepared her for the financial aspects of practicing law. She met her husband, Seth, at

Stanford Law School, where they were both at the top of their class. They married in 1949, the year they graduated.

After graduation, they became a power couple in the California legal world.

In 2002, the State Bar of California awarded the Hufstedlers the Bernard E. Witkin Medal, presented to “legal giants who have altered the landscape of California jurisprudence.”

Tobie Webb, ’98 BS, is serving as a joint interim leader of the UNM Development Office’s corporate and foundation relations (CFR) program. She will be the interim director of CFR external relations.

Carlos Fierro, ’99 JD, was recently honored by the New Mexico State Bar as an Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year. He is in the process of opening a consulting and law practice with offices in Washington, DC and Santa Fe. Jimmy D. Nguyen, ’99 BS, ’03 MD, has completed his neurology residence at the University of Arizona, and begun a second residency in anesthesiology at the University of Texas, San Antonio, in order to pursue neuro-anesthesiology and neuro-critical care.

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The couple began private law practice in 1950 in the Los Angeles firm Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble.

Although Hufstedler practiced law alongside her husband, she did not stand in his shadow. She was a respected attorney, specializing in appellate

drove her son to school every morning and carpooled for other moms and their children, but endured some discrimination for having a career.

“My son had very bad allergies,” she recalls. “Other mothers sent their kids to school with colds, which often

“I had a wonderful relationship with my colleagues and had very interesting and challenging cases,but being appointed the only female federal appellate jurist in the country was like nominating Typhoid Mary for the Dairy Queen.”

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litigation, in a time when career women were uncommon and female attorneys rarer still.

“No law firm would hire me because I was female, so I started my own practice,” Shirley says. “Only seven women were admitted to the California Bar in 1950. That didn’t begin to change until women became involved in the civil rights movement.

I talked to lots of people about women in law, but [the women] had to make up their own minds and do it through their own experience.”

Career Advancement— and Carpooling The arrival of their son, Steven, presented new challenges to Shirley’s career, but she remained characteristically undaunted. She

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put my son in the hospital. They said the only reason his allergies were so bad was because I worked outside of the home.”

Shirley didn’t spend time musing about having it all—she faced reality and worked hard. “I gave up little things like leisure because there wasn’t time for any,” she says. “That’s just the way it was. But my husband has been very supportive for 58 years, and you can’t do better than that.”

In 1961, Hufstedler was appointed Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court—one woman among 119 men. Two more significant appointments followed: Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal in 1966; and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in 1968.

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1960s and 70s included analyzing judicial systems and designing the first system to weight appellate court caseloads.

This was the most rewarding time of her entire career, disgruntled peers not withstanding. “I had a wonderful relationship with my colleagues and had very interesting and challenging cases,” she says, “but being appointed the only female federal appellate jurist in the country was like nominating Typhoid Mary for the Dairy Queen.”

To Capitol Hill Hufstedler resigned from her lifelong post on the bench in 1979 when President Jimmy Carter asked her to become Secretary for the newly established Department of Education.

“It was a horrifically difficult job,” she says. “I worked 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week.” She staffed the department with first-rate people, integrated 126 programs, established a general counsel’s office, and testified before Congress frequently.

Hufstedler says that her greatest accomplishment as Secretary of Education was to build a department so efficient that newly elected President Ronald Reagan couldn’t dismantle it. Reagan had pledged to eliminate the department as part of a cost-savings plan, but was unable to do so with a Democratic House of Representatives.

Giving Back In 1981, Hufstedler returned to private practice with Hufstedler &

album Kaus. She also was a visiting professor and guest lecturer at universities around the world, did pro bono work for the Lawyers’ Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, and was chairman of the US Commission on Immigration Reform. She began serving on the boards of national corporations and foundations. Between 1967 and 1981, Shirley received 20 honorary degrees, including doctoral degrees from UNM and other universities.

She established an endowed Presidential Scholarship for UNM engineering students in 1985. The gift was in memory of her brother, Kenneth Mount,’53 BA, a civil engineer. “The gift was also made in appreciation of what I had received from UNM,” she says.

In 1985, Hufstedler & Kaus merged into the multinational law firm Morrison & Foerster, where Hufstedler is now Senior of Counsel. The American Bar Association bestowed a medal, its highest honor, upon her

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in 1995. She is the first woman to receive this award. In September, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer for her pioneering role in the legal profession and commitment to public service.

Shirley doesn’t put in the punishing hours she used to, but still works six hours a day. She enjoys the leisure time that was so unknown to her decades ago. She also follows the careers of her former law clerks, and mentors young attorneys.

Shirley Hufstedler was fortunate to have made her career in an era when professional women were just beginning to realize the choices and challenges open to them. Being the only woman among a sea of male colleagues didn’t unnerve her; she believes it strengthened her already intrepid nature. “To do what you want to do,” she says matter-of-factly, “you have to realize that things are not always going to be easy.”

Endowments 101 An endowed fund is a gift that lasts in perpetuity, providing support in the areas of the

donor’s interest. Endowed funds may support scholarships, general needs of the University,

or any UNM school, college, or program. Donors may fully fund an endowment with a

one-time lump-sum gift; fund it over a three-year pledge period; or fund it through a

bequest or other deferred gift. Donors may establish endowments through cash or any

gift vehicle recognized by the UNM Foundation, including securities or real property,

pooled gifts of friends, memorial contributions, or continuing gifts to endowment

accounts. Donors may help develop guidelines governing the use of their endowments.

Sylvanna Falcon, ’00 MA, has joined the faculty at Connecticut College in New London as the Lenore Tingle Howard Class of 1942 assistant professor of sociology. Her areas of specialization include race-ethnic relations, racism/anti-racism, globalization, transitional feminism, gender human rights, and globalization in the Americas.

Lonnie Juarez, ’00 BBA, has been promoted to CPA, audit and consulting senior manager at REDW The Rogoff Firm in Albuquerque.

Lonnie lives in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

Lucas Lujan, ’00 BS, ’05 BS, works at PA-C, Los Lunas and Belen Health Center. He resides in Albuquerque.

Jamie Melin, ’00 BA, is an urban specialist at Real Estate Advisors, a commercial real estate firm in Albuquerque. She focuses on the commercial leasing of office and retail space in the downtown, Nob Hill, and Old Town markets.

Marti M. Morales, ’00 BS, has received her PhD in biology at New Mexico State University. The NMSU Alumni Association named her NMSU’s Outstanding PhD Graduate Student 2007. She has gone on to a post-doctoral position at the University of Michigan.

Martina Will de Chaparro, ’00 PhD, is the author of Death and Dying in New Mexico (UNM Press, 2007). Martina challenges American death stereotypes, focusing scholarly attention on the fringes of US and Latin American history in the American Southwest. She teaches at Texas Woman’s University in Denton and lives in Dallas.

Steven J. Yingling, ’00 BS, has obtained his doctorate of chiropractic degree from National University of Health Science. He now owns Quality of Life Center in Warrenville, Illinois, where he practices chiropractic, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and nutritional counseling.

Jason P. Anderson, ’01 MBA, has been promoted to Southwest division administration manager at Bank of the West in Albuquerque.

For more information, please contact the UNM Foundation office at 505-277-4503,

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sports We hear about the big sports and their stars.

We take equal pride in myriad other Lobo sports and the student-athletes who give them their all.

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Todd A. Astorino, ’01 PhD, recently married Jodi Edelmuth. They reside in San Marcos where he is an assistant professor of kinesiology at CSU-San Marcos.

Jaime M. Clark, ’01 BBA, has been promoted by KPMG LLP to audit manager in Albuquerque.

Antoine Predock, ’66, ’01 HonD, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award in from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. The Albuquerque architect has also won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the Rome Prize. Currently, Predock is working on the following projects: the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Montreal, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, and a proposal for the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Yakutsk, Siberia.

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Albuquerque Manzano product Jeremy Johnson became the

first native New Mexican to win a conference cross country championship for the Lobos since John Baker in 1964. This is the first year since 1988 that both men’s and women’s cross country have placed in the top three of the conference.

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Maggie Toulouse, ’01 BA, ’05 MA, has been appointed Bernalillo County Clerk to fill the unexpired term of the former clerk.

Johelen Carleton, ’02 MD, has joined the staff at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, to do a vascular-surgery fellowship.

Shawn Warrick, ’02 BUS, has been promoted by Citi Cards to training manager in the collections department. He lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Junior Gayle Tripp recorded her 1,000th career dig this season.

Volleyball has attracted more than 1,000 fans to each of its past seven consecutive games.

Andres K. Calderon, ’03 MBA, spends his free time playing with his four-year-old son, Isaiah, remodeling/upgrading his craftsman-era bungalow in the Winnetka Heights district in Dallas, and writing restaurant reviews and ethnic interest articles for Cliff Dweller magazine.

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go Senior keeper Mike Graczyk is a preseason All-American and the UNM career leader in shutouts, with 28.

As Mirage went to press, the Lobos were ranked 22nd in the nation by ColegeSoccerNews.com. The soccer team has had the highest winning percentage

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in Division I for the past three years.

Senior diver Carrie Quinn has qualified for the NCAA

Diving Zones in March 2008. The swim team placed second

Water Swimming Collegiate National Championships.

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and sophomore Brandon Putnam assess the situation at the 2007 William H. Tucker Invitational, where the team finished seventh.

Millican, ’98 BBA, ’00 MBA, has guided the Lobos to four MWC titles in six years as head coach.

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team concluded the fall with a 10th place finish among the nation’s top teams at the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship.

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Ana Deardorff, ’03 BA, earned a certificate in teaching English as a second language (TESOL) from Trinity College, London, at Sheffield Hallam University. She has returned to… “her homeland—green chile and electric sunsets,” and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in architectural drafting and design.

William A. Dodge, ’03 PhD, is the author of Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place (University Press of Mississippi), an interdisciplinary study of the community and cultural landscape near Zuni Pueblo. Bill is the senior cultural historian for Van Citters: Historic Preservation, in Albuquerque.

Jake Dopson, ’03 BBA, has been promoted to supervisor in the audit department at Pulakos & Alongi, in Albuquerque.

Sally Kelly-Rank, ’03 PhD, has been selected for promotion to Lt. Colonel with the US Air Force where she has served 13 years on active duty. She is currently at Bolling Air Force Base, assigned to the US Air Force Office of the Surgeon General, in Washington, DC. Sophie Martin, 03 MBA, is Albuquerque managing director of the National Dance Institute of New Mexico.

Katherine Carraro Murray, ’03 BA, ’06 MBA, has joined Loftin Realty of Albuquerque as an associate broker.

Jade Rennels, ’03 BBA, now works for Esparza Advertising in Albuquerque as a media buyer.

Jennifer Elliott Vosburgh, ’03 BSNU, ’06 MSNU, of Albuquerque, currently works at UNMH as a nurse educator and part time for the UNM College of Nursing as a clinical/community instructor.

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December 1 at Mississippi 4 at NMSU 8 at San Diego 15 Texas Tech 19 NMSU 23 Weber State 27 at Hawaii

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December 2 at NMSU 3 p.m.

Comcast Lobo Shootout 7 Norfolk State 8 p.m.

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Championship 8 p.m.

15 Arizona 7 p.m.

18 Stanford 7 p.m.

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January 9 Wyoming 8 p.m.

12 at San Diego State 3 p.m.

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Angela D. Chavez, ’04 BA, has been admitted to the UNM School of Law after spending three years working in communications and Democratic Party politics in Albuquerque.

Ryan Hatch, ’04 BAME/BA, is entering the graduate program in choral conducting at UCLA. Since graduation, Ryan has been teaching choir, most recently at Albuquerque’s Cibola High School; under his direction, the program has grown from approximately 80 students to nearly 360, and two new choral classes have been added.

Carla Moncayo, ’04 MAAC, is a recipient of a 2007 Sandia National Laboratories’ Employee Recognition Award. Winners are distinguished by their commitment and efforts to enable others to succeed. Carla works in accounting services. She lives in Albuquerque.

Richard Normandie, ’04 BUS, is employed as the environmental planner at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

He will be commissioned as an Officer in the Air Force Reserve.

Michael Padilla, ’04 MAPA, has received a 2007 Sandia National Laboratories’ Employee Recognition Award. Winners are distinguished by their commitment and efforts to enable others to succeed. Michael is a team leader in Sandia’s media relations office. He lives in Albuquerque.

Diana Aranda, ’05 BS, recently completed the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation’s awardwinning Everglades ecology internship in West Palm Beach, Florida. Diana will begin working on dual master’s degrees in coastal zone management and marine biology at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Desirée Kosciulek, ’05 BA, is currently in South Africa as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar pursuing an MA in development studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She writes she will participate in the Rotary AIDS Hike 2007 from Johannesburg to Durban.

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“Everyone’s a Lobo! Woof! Woof! Woof!” resonated throughout campus during the University of New Mexico’s 82nd Homecoming

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celebration. Alumni, faculty, staff, students, and Lobo fans learned Jennifer Evans

how to make the Lobo hand sign and shout out their pride at each event and during the game.

Alumni activities began on Wednesday, September 26 at the annual Appreciation Lunch for Campus Faculty

held in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Building. Alumni Association President Lillian MontoyaRael greeted more than 300 alumni.

The winners of the annual Campus Decorating Contest were announced after a slide show presentation of the 22 participating departments. The UNM Accessibility Services Department took top honors. Student King and Queen candidates campaigned in the SUB lobby throughout the day as voting took place around campus.

The traditional Heritage Club Dinner was hosted Thursday evening at the Embassy Suites Hotel. The Heritage Club is an annual gathering of alumni who have been out of the University 50 years or more. The Class of 1957 was greeted by UNM Executive Vice President David Harris and inducted into this prestigious group. Members from the Class of 1947 were also present to celebrate their 60th Anniversary.

Friday was one of the busiest days on campus with a variety of events for both students and alumni. The Class of 1957 met for brunch at Hodgin Hall and shared memories of pranks, sports events, and cherished faculty, among others. The students kicked into high gear with a pep rally and continuation of the annual Cherry/Silver Games at Johnson Field, where members of the Homecoming Court were announced.

Over 20 alumni reunions kicked off later in the afternoon and evening, and Staff

including the Alumni Reunions reception held in the SUB. Johnson Center celebrated its 50th Jubilee by hosting a reception for HPER alumni, coaches, and faculty. The event was followed by UNM vs. TCU Volleyball Game and a cake-cutting ceremony presided over

by UNM President David J. Schmidly and vice president for athletics Paul Krebs.

(The Lobos won, 3-0!). The students hosted their annual Student/Alumni Dance in the SUB ballroom later in the evening.

The traditional All University Breakfast was packed again this year as more than 180 alumni and guests gathered early Saturday morning to honor recipients of the Alumni Association Zia Awards and the Mortar Board Lobo Award. This year’s Zia Award recipients included Monica Armenta, Brian Burnett, Steve Bacchus (posthumous), Leonard DeLayo, Jr., Sandra Begay-Campbell, and Chuck Wellborn. The illustrious Lobo Award went to Viola “Vi” Florez. Alumni and fans showed their Lobo spirit by attending the annual Southwest Tailgate and Silent Auction before the UNM vs.

BYU football game. The auction raised over $11,500 to support the UNM Alumni Association Scholarship Fund and programs. The UNM Alumni and Student Marching Bands performed at the entrance to the tailgate, generating lots of cheers from Lobo fans. Students Jenn Wren and Louis Jeantete were crowned Homecoming Queen and King during halftime activities. Despite a courageous battle on the football field, the Lobos fell to BYU, 31-24.

H A N D S P E A K : All around UNM, Lobo supporters signaled “Woof! Woof! Woof!” for Homecoming 2007.

Jennifer J. Evans, ’06 BBA, has been promoted to staff accountant at Pulakos & Alongi in Albuquerque.

Colleen Guengerich, ’06 BA, is the economic development executive director at the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce. She resides in San Antonio, New Mexico.

Samantha Phillips Talmadge, ’06 BAME, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is entering the graduate program in vocal performance/ opera studies at Yale University.

marriages Rhonda Rodgers, ’96 BA, and Guy Tann, ’96 BA, ’00 JD Alicia G. Black, ’97 BA, and Steve Dugan Suzanne Emil, ’97 BSCE, ’04 MD, and Rick Gonzales, ’99 BS Nancy Lomax, ’00 BARC, ’07 MARC, and Justin Smith, ’02 BA Vanessa G. Rodriguez, ’00 BBA, and Jeremy W. Spencer, ’00 BBA Todd Astorino, ’01 PhD, and Jodi Edelmuth Denise Chanez, ’01 BA, ’06 JD, and Timothy Atler, ’06 MA, JD Stephanie Doran, ’01 BSNU, and James Madrid Kevin Ledwith, ’01 BBA, and Mildred Castaneda Matthew Talmadge, ’01 BAME/BA, ’03 MAMU, and Samantha Phillips, ’05 BAME Maggie Toulouse, ’01 BA, ’05 MA, and Allan Oliver Elyssa Baca, ’03 ASRA, ’03 BS, and Tom Rutherford, ’70 BBA, ’82 JD

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Homecoming 2007 Thank You’s and Acknowledgements

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The UNM Alumni Association would like to thank and acknowledge the following individuals and

Cash Sponsors Liberty Mutual UNM Division of Student Affairs— Eliseo Torres, Walter Miller

Defined Fitness Design Atelier, Janis LaFountain Dion’s Pizza US Senator Pete Domenici Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum El Rancho De Las Golondrinas Entourage Salon Fairfield Inn/Albuquerque Hilton Fleet Feet Four Hills Country Club Frank Frost Photography Friend of the Alumni Association Friend of the Alumni Association Gardenswartz Team Sales

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Gifts in Kind 770 KOB-AM 106.1 – The Sports Animal Albuquerque City Transit, Lamar Bright Ideas Citadel Southwest Radio Garcia’s Tents Lithexcel National Distributing

All Sports Trophies Apple Canyon Ashton’s Salon Avila Retail Barbara Ortega Barbara’s Therapeutic Massage Betty’s Bath and Day Spa Bien Mur Indian Market Center US Senator Jeff Bingaman Bow Wow Blues Bueno Brand Food Products Cannon’s Sweet Hots Charlene Chavez Tunney Chez D’Or Clampitt Paper

p R O Y A L Q U A R T E T : Lobo royals Louie and Lucy flank Homecoming King Louis Jeantete and Queen Jenn Wren at Homecoming 2007.

Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino & Resort Isleta Eagle Golf Course Isotopes Baseball Club Jewish Community Center-JCC Jiffy Lube Kelly Jo Designs Kelly’s Brew Pub Kim Jew Photography Studio KNME-TV 5 KRQE TV La Esquina Le Café Miche Liberty Gym Inc Los Cuates Del Norte New Mexican Foods Lynn Garlick Retablos Manning Florist Melba Floral Studio Mercedes Benz of Albuquerque Nancy Herring & Matthew Segura National Institute of Flamenco Arts National Restaurant Supply New Mexico BioPark Society New Mexico Look/Lobo Store New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Now We’re Cooking Optometry Office of Contact Lens Associates Portrait Innovations Rainbow Ryders, Inc. Roger Cox & Associates June Romero Route 66 Dry Cleaners Saigon Restaurant Sandia BMW Sandia Golf Club Sandia Peak Ski Area/Sandia Peak Tramway/Santa Fe Ski Area Santa Fe Opera Savory Fare Scalo Sign & Image Factory

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Auction Donors A Taste of Italy Restaurant ABQ Convention & Visitors Bureau ABQ Marriott Pyramid Hotel ABQ Museum of Art & History Marie Addison, A Baby Boutique Albuquerque Little Theater Albuquerque Thunderbirds

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sponsors for making this year’s homecoming a huge success.

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Clean, Inc. Cliff’s Amusement Park Comfort Foods/Desert Gardens Cookies by Design Country Clutter Creamland Dairies Daniel L. DeFazio, DDS Debbie-John, Inc. Dee’s Cheesecake Factory

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George Chew Graphic Connection Great Wall Chinese Restaurant The Grove Café & Market Hinkle Family Fun Center Hispaniae Hyatt Regency Albuquerque Hyatt Tamaya Hotel Il Vicino

album Lydia C. Rockwell, ’04 BA, ’05 MBA, and Simon R. Goldfine, ’03 BA, ’04 MBA Nicole Terrazas, ’04 BBA, ’06 MBA, and Orlando Dominguez Belin Tsinnajinnie, ’04 BS, and Leona Brooke Sam, ’04 BSCE Cameron M. Clark, ’05 BA, and Sharon Jaramillo Tisha Leach, ’05 BSNU, and Stephen Smith Shannon Dishman, ’07 BSEE, and Rafael Flores Ashley Ferran, ’07 BS, and Davis DeLayo Nathan Marquez, ’07 BBA, and Stephanie Headrick

p W I N N I N G S M I L E S : The traditional All University Breakfast was packed in honor of the Alumni Association’s Zia Award and Lobo Award winners.

From left to right are award recipients Brian Burnett, ’78 BSCE, ’80 MSCE; Monica Armenta, ’85 BA; Interim Provost Viola Florez (Lobo Award); Leonard DeLayo, Jr., ’71 BAED; Charles “Chuck” Wellborn, ’63 BA, ’66 JD; Sandra Begay-Campbell, ’87 BSCE; Jane Bacchus for Steve Bacchus, ’66 BBA, ’68 MBA, posthumous; UNM Alumni Association President Lillian Montoya-Rael, and UNM President David J. Schmidly.

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UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts/ Popejoy Hall UNM Championship Golf Course UNM Communications and Marketing UNM Football Athletic Complex UNM Foundation

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Men’s Golf Women’s Golf Lobo Athletic Dept Men’s Basketball Men’s Tennis President’s Office Press Recreational Services Ski Team Men’s Soccer

t LOBO D E C O R AT I O N S : A campus decorating contest motivated 22 UNM departments to “put on the dog” in honor of homecoming’s “Everyone’s a Lobo” theme. University Marketing and Communications intern Chris Elliott helped decorate the UNM Visitors Center.

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Sport Systems Stone Age Climbing Gym Tamarind Institute Taos Ski Valley Ten Thousand Waves Tomato Café Trish Jacquez Tux and Tails UNM Alumni Association UNM Women’s Basketball

in memoriam Charles Milton Tansey Jr., ‘36 Mary Louise Bezemek Cloughly, ‘38 Robert Orville Burke, ‘39 Roy H. Jones Jr., ‘40 Josefina Velasquez, ’40, ‘50 David P. Hale, ‘41 Edythe M. Pierson, ‘41 William Barry, ‘42 Thomas Devaney, ’42, ‘44 Charles E. Barnhart, ‘44 Halsey Hines, ‘44 Frances Wilson Berry, ‘47 Jane Ann Oldrup, ‘47 Rhodes F. Arnold, ‘48 John P. Logan, ’48, 63 Lillian Michael, ‘48 Joe Barron Rice, ‘48 WE Rice, ‘48 Diego R. Sedillo, ‘48 Winfred C. Buskirk, ‘49 Christine DiLisio, ‘49 Frank Lynn King Jr., ‘49 Edwin Earl Mitchell, ‘49 Thomas J. Plunkett, ‘49 Dorothy Louise Skousen Black, ’50, ‘59 Thomas C. Closson Jr., ‘50 Concha Aunon Johnson, ‘50 James Weir Jr., ‘50 Earl William Carr, ‘51 Robert A. Evans, ‘51 James N. Goldstein, ‘51 William R. Gregg, ’51, ‘52 Arthur S. Riffenburgh, ‘51 Beverly Dodge, ‘52 Florence McCarthy Rehm, ‘52 Victor Castillo, ‘53 Bruce H. Henderson, ‘53 Doris J. Johnson, ‘53 Robert Manson Bunker, ‘54 William ‘Ken’ Officer, ‘54 James Ray Barnhill, ‘55 w i n t e r

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p F U N & L A U G H T E R : Getting together with old friends prompts plenty of chuckles at the Alumni Reunion.

UNM Women’s Soccer UNM Swimming UNM Theatre & Dance UNM Women’s Volleyball Urban Academy Weems Galleries Wells Fargo Bank Wrights Indian Art Zinc Wine Bar and Bistro Homecoming Committee Steve Archibeque Steve Carr Travis Comer Lisa Delgado Patricia Dominguez Jennifer Gomez-Chavez Andrew Gonzalez Nancy Herring Marjori Krebs Ryan Lindquist Matt Maez Danny Milo Laura Montoya Debbie Morris Frieda Archuleta Stewart Leslie Venzuela Danny Vigil Susan Wilson Cate Wisdom

Susan Brake, Marching Band Alumni Tracy & Brian Denton, UNM Spirit Group Debbie Dobson, College of Arts and Sciences Margaret Duran, College of Education Kim Feldman, UNM Alumni Lettermen Andrew Gonzalez, College Enrichment Program Rich Grainger, Anderson School of Management Rosemary Gregory, College of Nursing Jennifer Mason, University Honors John Miller, School of Architecture and Planning Danny Milo, Young Alumni Debbie Morris, Past Student Government Leaders Judith Stauber, Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus Steven Zoncki, School of Engineering

Bob and Betsy Murphy Dorothy & Larry Rainosek Tommy and Cindy Roberts Gary McCabe Ross, DDS Bob Stamm Other Acknowledgements Amerisuites Echo Design, Kelly Ketner Embassy Suites Enterprise Rent-a-car Kirk Gittings, poster artist Homewood Suites David Kelly and UNM Jazz Band Lobo Louie Lobo Lucy The March Company Donese Mayfield Lillian Montoya-Rael and Carlos Rael Printworks, Kathi Bowler The Rev. Ned Ross Bobby Tamayo, Photography Zia Graphics Industries UNM Athletic Concessions UNM Athletics, Paul Krebs UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts Ovation Series UNM Daily Lobo UNM Dean of Students Office UNM Lobo Club, Larry Ryan UNM Marching Band UNM Office of Institutional Advancement UNM Parking and Transportation

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Reunion Coordinators Donna Balduini, Class of ‘57 Marlena Bermel, College of Nursing

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Homecoming 100 Club All Sports Trophies Karen and Price Bayless Jim & Yvonne Beckley John & Suzette Brooks Tom Cherones George Chew Patrick Conway, LA Chapter

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W O RT H T H E WA I T: Alumni Association executive director Karen Abraham and UNM executive vice president David Harris share in Barbara Brown Caton’s, ’57 BAA, pleasure as she is inducted into the Heritage Club, for UNM grads of 50 or more years ago. q

t A U C T I O N A M B I T I O N : Bidders for auction items at the Southwest Fiesta before the homecoming game boosted proceeds to more than $11,500 in support of UNM Alumni Association scholarships and programs.

Volunteers Brandon Altman Joe, Florence, and Andrea Archibeque Shannon Armijo Darlene Armijo Mary Jo Armijo Esther Basham Summer Brown CEOP Student Volunteers Wayne Chew Hiram Cook Larry & William Crockett Miranda Eastham Tara Edwards Yvonne Gallegos Gerry Gerken Adriana Gonzales Pam Harrington Bob Kelly Monica Licea Xinyi Liu Jiaxin Liu Mark Maes Don McClellan Aaron Mora Kristen Moreno Monica Natera Israel Parra Andres Perez Sherry Reeder Keith Ricci

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UNM Physical Plant UNM President’s Office UNM Public Affairs/ Campus News UNM Spirit Group UNM Student Activities UNM Student Union Catering UNM Student Homecoming Committee UNM Ticket Office UNM Trailblazers

Sarah Robinson Chris Schuler Matthew Segura and Andrew Jake Semler Francine Stewart Patrick Stewart Tom Tunney Bill Wallace Alumni Relations Staff Karen Abraham Natalie Armijo Donna Balduini Elaine Chew Mary Conrad Kim Feldman Christian Johnson Laura Kelley Sue MacEachen Gina Maes Ryan Matuszeski Barbara Ortega Roberta Ricci Charlene Chavez Tunney Maria Wolfe Candice Lopez Candace Ruiz

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D A N C I N G W I T H T H E L O B O S : Students and alumni finished reunion night with a dance in the SUB ballroom. q

album more memoriam Tad S. Clements, ‘55 Geraldine Joan Jo Drake, ‘55 John W. Kepner, ‘55 John Hogan Stewart, ‘55 William S. Cole III, ‘56 John Buster Hiller, ‘56 Jules R. Primm, ‘56 Jack A. Cole, ‘57 Herbert Lee Galles, ‘58 Paul LeRoy Garcia, ‘59 John Bryce Lane, ‘59 James Joseph Walker, ‘59 Marcel C. Chambellan, ‘60 Deanna R. Adams, ‘61 Michael Alarid Sr., ’61 Bruce R. Erdal, ‘61 Mildred Irene Johnson, ‘61 John J. Newman, ‘61 Leona Bauman, ‘62 Irwin L. Hoffman, ‘62 James Lambert Krone, ‘62 Laura Jane Elder Pogue, ‘62 Ben Montoya, ‘64 Nicholas R. Pica, ’65, ‘68 Stephen P. Bacchus, ’66, ‘68 Catharine S. Bush, ‘66 Charlie L. Myers, ‘66 Jan Kelt Pettis, ‘67 George A. Morrison, ‘68 Gerald Ray Viers, ‘68 John Harry Zoller, ‘68 Consuelo A. Valdez, ‘69 Jim Kraft, ‘69 Daniel Charles Cadieux, ‘70 Charles Harriman, ’70, ’71 Mary Rising Higgins, ’70, ‘88 William R. Prescott, ’70, ‘78 William ‘Bill’ Shell, ‘70 Opal Maxine Friedberg, ‘71 Laska Yurchak, ‘71 Maurice M. Bloom Jr., ‘73 Paul La Prairie, ‘73 Ronald G. Boyd, ‘74 Donald John Bush, ‘74 Roberto Reyes, ‘74 Kent O. Buckingham, ‘75 William Philips Stoddard, ‘75 Lorraine Anne Davisson, ‘76 Lee Roy Duran, ‘76 Frank Harold Cates, ‘76 Robert Bartholomew Ryals, ‘77 Richard “Eric” Tonigan, ‘77 Nancy Eberhard, ‘78 David “Juke” Strunk, ‘78 Darrel R. Fields, ‘79 Billy L. Morris, ‘79 Mary Frances Brougher Garman, ‘80 w i n t e r

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By Lillian Montoya-Rael, ’89 BA, ’98 MBA President, UNM Alumni Association

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had the honor of representing all of you at the installation of UNM President David Schmidly in October.

It was a joyful occasion, combining academic tradition with a bit of New Mexico culture. The Alumni Association helped sponsor the event, a way of demonstrating the

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importance we place in a strong relationship with the President, benefiting both the university and alumni.

President Schmidly wants to put UNM first statewide, and so has been traveling around the state with members of his team, including our Alumni Association executive director, Karen Abraham. For some of the communities, the visit was a first by a UNM president, and he was heartily welcomed. When he visits your community, I encourage you to attend the local event so that you too can have the opportunity not only to meet the President but to share what UNM has meant to you.

At the October Regents meeting, an institutional bond was presented that would designate $1.5 million for Hodgin Hall renovations. This historic building is 115 years old. While it has been updated through the years, its infrastructure has some major needs. The state legislature has also designated funds that will allow us to showcase the talents, work, and history of alumni in the building. I hope you will express your support of the bond and of our efforts to make Hodgin Hall a welcoming and useful Alumni Center.

I’m confident this will be an exciting new year for our university, and I hope your own will follow suit.

Make it a Great New Year!

on the horizon for unm chapters

February 27-March 9 Australia Discovery

December 1

Chicago Chapter Hot Chile Nights Pot Luck

December 8

Los Angeles Chapter Tour at Getty Villa in Malibu

April 24-May 2 Essence of India

December 8

Austin Chapter Holiday Event

December 9

May 25-June 5 Alumni College—Greece July 14-27 Ukraine on the Dnieper River

San Diego Chapter Holiday Lunch & Social @ Chevy’s Mexican Restaurant

February 13

San Diego Chapter Lobos @ SDSU Men’s Basketball: Social and Supper at McGregor’s Grille and Ale House

February 24

Austin Chapter Lobo Day & Annual Meeting

September 19-27 Enchanting Ireland

March 11-15

Mountain West Basketball Tournament—Las Vegas, Nevada

March 30

DC Chapter Lobo Day Event @ Ft. Belvoir

October 11-19 Best of Tuscany & the Italian Riviera

April 6-15

Los Angeles Chapter College Fairs

April 12

San Diego Chapter Art Alive: Social and Lunch at Water’s Café at noon

November 12-19 Rome Escapade

Tour of SDMA at 2 pm

Trips and dates are subject to change. For additional information, contact Charlene Chavez Tunney at the Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866.

April 12

Austin Chapter Annual Anne, Karin & Bill Birthday Bash & Wildflower and Eagle-Watching Tour

May 3

Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Day Event

Events, dates, and times are subject to change. Please contact the Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866 for additional information.

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L O B O M I G R A T I O N : Local young alumni joined those who traveled from afar before the October UNM-SDSU football game in San Diego. Left to right are Randy Nunez, ‘96 BA; Andrea Pino, ‘07 BBA; Candace Medina; and Ryan Montoya, ‘06 BBA.

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UNM Young Alumni 2007-2008 Winter Schedule of Events December 4

UNM vs. NMSU Basketball Game Viewing 7 p.m., Fox and Hound, Albuquerque

December 13

Welcome New Grads Wine & Cheese Reception 5:30-7 p.m., UNM Hodgin Hall

December 14

Graduation Reception Following Commencement, The Pit

January TBD

Snow Day Activities

February TBD UNM Career Builder Series Alumni welcome to participate!

album more memoriam LP Lucero, ‘80 Jackie Murray, ‘81 Roslyn Lyn Taylor, ’82, ‘88 Ward Beryl Meston, ‘84 Frances Kaufman Leiding, ‘84 Ronald W. Ford, ’85, ‘89 Lynn Nichols, ‘85 Kathleen Mary Balke, ‘86 Robert Cotitta, ‘86 Laura Elaine Milne, ‘86 Michael Payne, ‘86 Ioannis Constantinidis, ‘87 Carol M. Edwards, ‘87 Patricia Jo Kramer, ‘87 Jack Mastenbrook, ’87, ‘90 Dulcinea “Candy” Baca, ‘88 Renee A. Black, ‘89 Jeffrey David Jordan, ‘89 Betty Ann Peterson, ‘89 Gail Lynette Mersereau Szenasi, ‘89 Steve Paul Anthony Garcia, ‘90 Stephanie D. Salazar, ’91, ’02, ‘04 Len Cox, ‘92 Lora Michelle Norton, ‘95 Sherese Elizabeth Adamson, ‘96 Kodi Rae Maes, ‘96 James L. Romero, ‘96 Christopher Lee Mullins, ‘97 Diana P. Taschner, ‘00 Richard W. Becker, ‘01 Timothy B. Eyring, ‘02 Cynthia A. Young, ‘06 Renee C. Collins Gonzales, ’07 Paul A. Tenorio, ‘07 John Joseph Bergen, professor emeritus Gerald “Jerry” Allen, former medical resident Michael Albert Hickey, former medical resident Pamela Burgy Minzner, former faculty Timothy David Moy, faculty We regret that we wrongfully listed Alonzo C. Atencio as deceased in the fall issue of Mirage. It was his son, Alonzo Atencio, who had died.

http://www.career.unm.edu February 5

UNM Career Expo 2008 9 a.m.-3 p.m., UNM SUB Ballroom

Register for most events at www.unmalumni.com/calendar.

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Through his paintings,

Edward Gonzales portrays the importance of family and education to Chicano culture.

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Illustrations for The Farolitos of Christmas — Gonzales did the illustrations for Rudolfo Anaya’s children’s book, The Farolitos of Christmas.

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You Are Always in My Heart — Gonzales created this illustration for the cover of Rudolfo Anaya’s Farolitos for Abuelo, a sequel to

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A Grandfather’s Love Means So Much — Gonzales displays the importance of family in this bilingual poster series.

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I Pledge Allegiance* Juro Fidelidad — “I call these literacy paintings, they have to do with education and literature,” says Gonzales.

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Grandmother’s Wisdom — Her Love for Learning Still Inspires Us Today.

Gonzales has an African American friend whose grandmother grew up in Albuquerque speaking Spanish and English, giving him the idea for this African American bilingual poster. “I thought it was a good idea because our language is universal,” he says. “Anyone of any color can learn any language.”

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Farolitos for Abuelo Illustrations — Farolitos for Abuelo is a sequel to Rudolfo Anaya’s children’s book, The Farolitos of Christmas, which Gonzales also illustrated.

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Edward Gonzales — Gonzales sits in his art gallery located in Corrales, New Mexico. Behind the gallery is his studio.

After growing up in a neighborhood that “chided children for taking home a book,” New Mexico artist Edward Gonzales, ’71 BFA, is now giving back to education through his artwork.

Edward works on several different series of paintings and posters. Many of his educational and family paintings are turned into posters for the schools of New Mexico.

“The idea of these (bilingual) posters is to understand how Chicano culture plays an important

role in education,” Edward says.

“The entire familia is involved.”

An Albuquerque elementary school was named after Edward in 2004. This honor came “out of the blue” for Edward. “I was shocked when I was chosen,” he says, “but delighted as well. The fact that they would take a living artist and say we like what you are doing and it’s important to us gives me a lot of encouragement for creating more in the educational area.”

In 1989, Edward moved to Santa Fe where he was involved with the outdoor Contemporary Hispanic Market. He lobbied for the event to take place alongside the Traditional Spanish Market.

Gonzales became the chair of the Contemporary Hispanic Market.

In 1990, 60 artists participated on Lincoln Avenue. Today, the Contemporary Hispanic Market features more than 140 artists.

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