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Daily Lobo: An Independent Voice p.34

Contents 5 UNM’s Economic

Development Mission A message from UNM President Robert G. Frank.

6 U Are Here

What’s been happening around campus? Find out here.

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Keep up with your classmates.

11 UNM By the Numbers

A collection of University trivia.

12 “A Lobo Paw Print in Our Hearts”

Robert Frank’s official installation as UNM’s 21st president capped off Inaugural Week.

13 The U Is You

The Alumni Association commissioned a bronze U as a gift to the University and to pay homage to a great old tradition.

14 Here’s Looking at You

A collection of moments captured from recent Alumni Association events.

16 Green Scenes

Set design is Donyale Werle’s

gift, and sustainability is her

passion. She marries the two

with jaw-dropping effect.

By Claire Sykes

20 Zombies Need a Little Understanding

Neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen has a knack for making complex topics easier to digest, with the help of a zombie or two.

By Carolyn Gonzales (’96 BA)

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Timothy Verstynen. Photo by John Beale.

24 A Passion for Good Taste

Spending all day writing, talking, and thinking about food sounds like a dream job, but for Rebecca Orchant, it’s also serious business.

By Michelle G. McRuiz (’06 MA)

26 A Study in Intensity For the past 13 years, Holbrook Mahn’s Summer Institute has provided ESL education that benefits education majors, teachers, and the community.

By Michelle G. McRuiz

Cover

On November 18, 2012, the Alumni Association revealed a giant bronze U. This symbol of University pride is a gift from the Association to UNM.

Photo by Michelle G. McRuiz

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28 A Dancer’s First New York Season

Jennifer Smiley plunged into her career immediately after graduation, starting with internationally renowned troupe MOMIX.

By Michelle G. McRuiz

30 UNM Alumni Changing Worlds: Dreams in Common Kyla and Roger Thompson’s planned gift to UNM will benefit students in many areas.

By Melissa W. Sais

32 Shelf Life

A sampling of the many books written or edited by UNM alumni.

34 Conversation: An Independent Voice

our former editors of the Daily F Lobo, plus the current editor, discuss the value of a university newspaper and the major stories and issues of their eras.

Moderated by V.B. Price, edited by Michelle G. McRuiz

40 You All Were Superheroes at Homecoming 2012

Thanks and memories from last fall’s Super U Homecoming celebration.

42 Zia Awards, Lobo Award

The Alumni Association presented its annual Zia Awards and Lobo Award to distinguished alumni during Homecoming 2012.

43 Lobos of Distinction

Spring 2013, Volume 33, Number 1 The University of New Mexico: Robert G. Frank, President Karen A. Abraham, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations Michelle G. McRuiz, Editor Wayne Scheiner & Company, Graphic Design UNM Alumni Association Executive Committee: Duffy Swan ’68, President

In February 2013, the Alumni Association honored four alumni who have made major contributions to the community and the University.

Randy Royster ’92, President-Elect

44 Alumni Outlook

Monica Armenta ’85

News on our travel program, a calendar of alumni chapter events around the country, and a message from Alumni Association President Duffy Swan.

Rich Diller ’75, Treasurer Waneta Tuttle, ’67, ’70, ’73, ’85, Past President

Steve Chreist ’67 Harold Lavender ’69, ’75 Kathie Winograd ’07 Mirage is published two times a year by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends. Address

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all correspondence to UNM Alumni Relations Office, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico,

Bernard “Gig” Brummell is characteristically modest when reflecting on his days as an outstanding basketball and baseball player.

By Steve Carr (’90 BA)

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Web: unmalumni.com. Facebook: facebook.com/ unmalumni. Twitter: @unmalumni.

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The sky is the limit when it comes to possibilities for your future.

We want to let you know about some creative gift options that won’t cost you a dime this year.

For example, you could: Designate UNM Foundation as the beneficiary of all or a percentage of your IRA. Make the Foundation a beneficiary of a percentage of your estate or a specific asset.

Leave what’s left of your estate to us after your loved ones are cared for.

Making a bequest commitment is the easiest way to make a gift this year without impacting your savings or investments.

Whatever your family, financial or estate planning goals may be, we can help. Call (505) 277-9604, visit our website at unmgift.org, or email us at giftplanning@unmfund.org today.

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Dear Fellow Alumni:

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It seems only a few days ago that I was interviewing on this beloved campus, and yet we are closing in on a year of my tenure as President of UNM. It has been a very busy time, and we are just beginning to implement some of the important initiatives that I spoke of at Inauguration. We still have a long road ahead of us, but I am confident that we have successfully set things in motion.

Brig. Gen. Robert Cardenas (’55 BS), San Diego, Calif., was honored by the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., at its annual Gathering of Eagles in June 2012. The gathering celebrates distinguished aviators from around the world. Robert has had a long and notable career as one of America’s premiere test pilots, a combat leader in both bombers and fighters, and the first Commander of the Air Force Special Operations Force. During the Vietnam War he earned the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Flying Cross for F-105 operations in Southeast Asia. Robert enjoys an active retirement in San Diego with his wife Gladys and their children and grandchildren.

One of the things about UNM that I have come to appreciate and respect is the role that our Alumni Office plays in our campus life. Karen and her excellent staff do so much to keep the Lobo connections strong.

Earlier this year, I had a chance to work with Lobos for Legislation. The 2013 legislative session was my first as President and your support was pivotal. No one is more effective in telling the UNM story than our alumni. The Lobos for Legislation program is critical in helping move UNM forward with the New Mexico legislature.

We are now building our economic development mission and I intend to come to you for your help. Economic development is consistent with our core commitment to educating students because our graduates should have choices when seeking good knowledge jobs in New Mexico. UNM must play a role in a new paradigm of economic development if we are to advance prosperity in our state. With your help, UNM can be a catalyst in New Mexico for economic development.

Finally, although it was several months ago, I would like to thank all of you who participated in the Inauguration and who sent me good wishes. Serving as UNM’s President is more than a job to me; it is deeply connected to who I am as a lifelong Lobo. I meant what I said at the close of my speech, “I promise to do my very best for this University.”

1960s Ed C. Yrisarri (’63 BSEE), Roanoke, Texas, is a retired engineer. Since his retirement, he has worked as a Catholic chaplain in the Tarrant County, Texas prison system. He recently published a book on jail ministry entitled Chaplain Ed’s Thinkin’s on the Matter, available on Amazon.

Kind regards,

Charles M. Atkinson (’63 BFA), Columbus, Ohio, was one of four scholars named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in November 2012. Charles has served the Society in many capacities, including as AMS President in 2007-2008. Charles is the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Music at Ohio State University.

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Capt. Richard Cloward, USN (retired) (’64 BA), San Diego, Calif., has accepted the position of director at the Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla. The museum, part of a private foundation, displays some of the

Thank you for your support. I look forward to working closely with you as we move UNM forward together. Go Lobos!

Richard Civerolo (’50 BA, ’68 JD), Albuquerque, was honored by the UNM School of Law as one of the recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award. He was a member of the law school’s first graduating class and founded a highly respected Albuquerque law firm that still bears his name.

He tried more than 100 jury trials and recorded 50 appellate cases in state and federal court during 59 years of practice.

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U Are Here HONORS & AWARDS Outstanding Women: Three UNM women recently received the annual Women in Technology Award from the New Mexico Technology Council: Katie Stone, host and producer of “The Children’s Hour” on KUNM; Angela Wandinger-Ness, pathology professor and director of the Fluoresence Microscopy and Cell Imaging Shared Resource; and Cheryl Willman, director and CEO of the UNM Cancer Center.

Education Hub: UNM was recently named by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium as one of 11 Centers for Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE).

UNM College of Nursing’s Robin MeizeGrochowski, professor and Ph.D. program director, is the principal investigator and project director. CoEPEs will act as hubs for the development, evaluation, and distribution of pain management curriculum resources for medical, dental, nursing, and pharmacy schools to enhance and improve how health care professionals are taught about pain and its treatment.

Lecturing Abroad: Regents Professor Emeritus Russell Goodman, Department of Philosophy, was selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Slovakia at Comenius University in September and October 2012. He lectured on a range of American philosophical writers, including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. The Fulbright Specialists Program provides short-term academic opportunities to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning

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President Frank’s UNM swim teammates returned to campus during the inaugural festivities Nov. 16-18 to congratulate him and recall great Lobo memories. From left to right: Back row: Mark Lautman, Dwight Dorsey, Randy Fuller, Mike Leach, Rick Klatt, Brian Patno, Larry Farrar, T.R. Lundquist, Dave Feld, Jay Koch, John Mechem, Robert Milne, Tom Smith, Steve Miller, Jim Smith, Rob Boyles.

Third row: John Fuller, Cathy Carr West, Chris Lautman, Doug Massey, Kim Dahlen, Tom Daulton, Steve Craven, Wes Baca, Matt Shinnick, Robert Gorham.

Second row: Arne Nelson, Bob Frank, Kurt Baca, Eric Philips, Michael Mann, Bob Muehlenweg, Jim Sauer, Greg Baca, Chuck Mills.

Front row: Giff Cutler, Paul Harris, Dane Jacobs, Mike Hickerson.

at post-secondary colleges and universities around the world.

of evolutionary anthropology, psychology, and biology.

Empirical Evidence: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Jane Lancaster recently was given the Human Behavior and Evolution Society’s (HBES) Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution. HBES recognizes her as one of the founders and promoters in the fields

Spanish Honor: The Sociedad Prehistorica de Cantabria in Santander, Spain recently presented Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus with an homenaje, which is similar to a lifetime achievement award.

Straus received it for the excavation and

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Terry Lee Perkins (’64 BSED), Walnut, Calif., is an online instructor at Regis University in Denver.

Augustine Chris Eichwald (’65 BA), Los Angeles, recently published Tiempo Robado under the pen name of Agustín Cebada. His book discusses the Chicano Movement in New Mexico and California and is available through lulu.com.

research he and his Spanish colleague, Professor Manuel González Morales, have conducted at El Mirón Cave in Cantabria, and for more than 40 years of research and publications on Cantabrian Spain since 1972.

climate change. Some of the predicted changes are the disappearance of plant and animal species, new mixes of remaining species, and disruptions in agricultural crops. The paper’s authors argue that despite the evident warnings, no one knows what the Earth’s tipping point High-Ranking: Hispanic Business is. news.unm.edu/2012/06/scientistsmagazine has ranked Anderson School uncover-evidence-of-earths-impendingof Management as the third-best postgraduate business school in the nation tipping-point for Hispanics. The ranking is a jump from Caffeine in Antiquity: Anthropology professor Patricia Crown led research last seventh place the previous year and is summer that unearthed highly caffeinated the fourth year in a row that Anderson tea in pottery beakers in Illinois. The has received a top-10 ranking from the research shows that southeastern U.S. magazine. news.unm.edu/2012/09/ civilizations were drinking tea as early unm-graduate-programs-ranked-byas 1050 A.D.—about 500 years earlier hispanicbusiness-com than previously thought. The tea was Count on Her: For the second time brewed from a species of holly bush and in four years, Joni Young, the KPMG is thought to have had held ritualistic or Professor of Accounting at Anderson spiritual significance for its drinkers. Some School of Management, has received the Outstanding Accounting Educator award estimates show the tea had as much as six from the New Mexico Society of Certified times the caffeine as coffee. The discovery also supports the idea that a vast trading Public Accountants. The award is given network existed in the area at the time. for outstanding accomplishments in the classroom that enhance the reputation of the CPA profession. She also received the award in 2008.

RESEARCH A New World: A prestigious group of scientists, including Distinguished Professor of Biology James H. Brown, published a paper in the June 7, 2012 issue of Nature that warns of a major and irreversible shift in the Earth’s biosphere due to massive population growth, destruction of natural ecosystems, and

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Barbara A. Schwartz (’66 BA, ’77 PhD), Windham, Maine, is a forensic psychologist specializing in developing treatments for sexual offenders. She has been in practice for 41 years. Her tenth book, The Sex Offender, Volume 7, was released in July 2012.

Peter O’Boyle (’66 BA), Waldport, Ore., recently had an exhibition at the Ozone Gallery in Newport, Ore. His 10-piece suite of found-object sculptures titled “Gentle Persuasion: A Space Invasion, It Will Not Be Sudden, It Will Come Slowly, Gently with Our Compliance Until it’s Too Late” was part of an exhibit of repurposed technology.

Ted Parnall (’67 JD), Albuquerque, was honored by the UNM School of Law as one of the recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award. Ted has been a member of the School of Law community for more than 27 years. After graduation, he served as a law professor and dean. During his career, he helped establish legal systems and train lawyers in more than 10 developing countries.

George R. Savage (’69 BBA), Mammoth Lakes, Calif., retired as CFO of Mono County (Calif.) Superior Court in Mammoth Lakes on Dec. 28, 2012.

Tim T. Schowalter (’69 MS), Granby, Colo., recently received the Pioneer Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). The AAPG is the largest group of petroleum geologists in the world with more than 30,000 members.

Life on Mars? Horton Newsom, a senior researcher at UNM’s Institute of Ralph “R.J.” Mirabal (’69 BA, ’75 MA), Albuquerque, Meteoritics, is part of the ChemCam laser has published his first novel, The Tower of Il Serrohe, team for the Mars Rover Curiosity, which with Black Rose Writing. R.J. has been doing readings and book signings at bookstores in Albuquerque touched down on the Red Planet August and Santa Fe. The Tower of Il Serrohe is available 5, 2012. ChemCam’s job is to zap Martian on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. In rocks into tiny pieces to enable researchers November 2011, R.J. was inducted into the National to determine the rocks’ chemical makeup. Education Association of New Mexico Hall of Fame The research team spent the last few for his outstanding service to the teaching profession. months of 2012 in NASA’s Jet Propulsion 1970s Lab in Pasadena, Calif., overseeing Carl M. Zorzi (’70 BSME), Ridgecrest, Calif., ChemCam and analyzing sediments. recently retired after 40 years of exciting service as news.unm.edu/2012/08/curiosity-landsa mechanical design engineer with the Naval Air on-mars-unm-researchers-go-to-work Warfare Center Laboratory in China Lake, California.

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U Are Here Ancient Change: UNM researchers were part of an international team whose article was featured on the cover of the November 9, 2012 issue of Science. The research examined the impact of rainfall variations on Mayan political systems.

Keith Prufer, associate professor of anthropology, was one of the principal investigators; Yemane Asmerom, Victor Polyak, and Valorie Aquino reconstructed the chronological climate record in the Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory at UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences. Asmerom said the lab’s leading-edge developments in uranium-series dating allows extremely precise documenting of climate transitions. sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/ 788.full Particle Scrutiny: Several thousand physicists worldwide have collaborated on the search for the Higgs boson (or Higgs particle) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle that was predicted decades ago to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.

Recently, a new particle turned up in the search, but physicists are not yet sure if it has the properties of the Higgs boson.

UNM researchers Salley Seidel, Igor Gorelov, Martin Hoeferkamp, Rui Wang, and Konstantin Toms have all played important roles in the development, construction, and operation of the pixel detector, which was critical to the discovery of the new particle.

Black Beauty: A Martian meteorite found in the Saharan Desert in 2011 has been a focus of study for Carl Agee’s team of

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researchers at the Institute of Meteoritics for more than a year. The research team has determined that the rock, nicknamed “Black Beauty,” formed 2.1 billion years ago and is a completely new type of Martian meteorite. It could give researchers valuable clues on Mars’ ancient past. news. unm.edu/2013/01/ancient-water-richmeteorite-linked-to-martian-crust

APPOINTMENTS Council Member: Erin Corriveau, MD, senior resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, has been appointed to the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME).

COGME is the 17-member body appointed

by Secretary Kathleen Sibelius of the Department of Health and Human Services that analyzes trends and makes reports advising Congress on physician workforce policy. This is the first time a resident from New Mexico has been appointed to this committee.

BIA Boss: On September 22, 2012, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Barack Obama’s nomination of UNM School of Law Dean Kevin Washburn to serve as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior. Washburn has served as the law school’s dean since 2009.

He is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.

will help increase the number of students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs while helping biology students apply their credits more easily toward a bachelor’s degree at UNM. The agreement came after a $3.47 million federal five-year grant aimed at increasing the number of students in STEM fields, including Hispanic and low-income students.

Migrant Education: UNM President Robert Frank; UNM Foundation President Henry Nemcik; and Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque, recently signed a memorandum of understanding signifying their continued collaboration to offer and support higher education initiatives for Mexican migrants in the United States. For the 2012-13 academic year, the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque contributed $54,000 provided by the government of the United Mexican States, which was matched by private funding administered by the UNM Foundation, for a total of $108,000 to be granted in scholarships for Mexican or Mexican-origin students enrolled at UNM with a specific cultural interest in Mexico.

D.C. Fellowship: Dr. Barbara Damron, associate professor with the College of Nursing and full scientific member with the UNM Cancer Center, has been selected as a 2012-2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Institute of Medicine Healthy Policy Fellow. She has joined seven other noted health care professionals for a oneyear fellowship in Washington, D.C. The fellows will work either in a congressional office or with the executive branch.

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Scientific Benefit: A new collaboration between UNM and Central New Mexico Community College called STEM UP

Album Richard F. Fleck (’70 PhD), Denver, Colo., will be celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife Maura in Ireland in June 2013. He still teaches parttime at Colorado Heights University in Denver and has written two books during the past year: Canada and Beyond: Poems of Other Lands and Desert Rims to Mountains High (to be published in September 2013). West Winds Press has nominated the book for the John Burroughs Natural History Writing Award for 2013.

Dr. Damron has extensive experience with caring for underserved, minority community members.

Indigenous Design: In November 2012, President Robert Frank signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim, and New Mexico Indian Affairs Department Secretary Arthur Allison.

The MOU designates UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning, Indigenous Design Planning Institute (iD+Pi) to provide technical assistance to the Navajo Nation’s Division of Economic Development on design, planning, and development projects. Collaborative initiatives include master planning for the towns of Crownpoint, Diznothodithli, and To’hajiilee, as well as developing a resort project for the Chaco Canyon area. With this partnership, students from Navajo institutions can participate in a joint curriculum on design and planning.

GRANTS Meta-Teamwork: Edl Schamiloglu, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), is leading a team of researchers that recently received a highly selective Multiuniversity Research Initiative (MURI) award from the Department of Defense. His team prepared a five-year, $7.5 million bid titled “Innovative Use of Meta­Materials in Confining, Controlling, and Radiating Intense Microwave Pulses.” The team includes ECE professors Christos Christodoulou and Mark Gilmore, and

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professors from other universities. The project’s goal is to study the interaction of electrons with novel dispersive structures made from meta-materials to develop new sources of coherent electromagnetic radiation.

Gordon Bronitsky (’71 BA), Albuquerque, is the founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates, which provides international cultural marketing.

Bronitsky and Associates worked with the U.S. embassy in Jordan to bring Minnesota’s Native Pride Dancers to Jordan during the summer of 2012.

Waste Not: The Unites States Army Research Office has awarded Andy Schuler, associate professor of civil engineering, a three-year, $418,000 grant to harvest energy from bacterial metabolism in waste­water treatment.

The project is being conducted through UNM’s Center for Emerging Energy Technologies. It will focus on fundamental and applied research to develop materials with engineered surface chemistries and other characteristics to improve electron transfer from bacteria to anode surfaces, thereby improving overall performance and developing this promising source of renewable energy.

Alexander N. Pattakos (’71 BA), Santa Fe, was invited to join the prize committee for the Tran Nhan Tong International Prize for Reconciliation and Compassion, which is awarded annually by the Tran Nhan Tong Academy and hosted by Harvard University. Alex also was invited to deliver a TEDx talk in Hong Kong in April 2013. He is the founder of The OPA! Way® and OPA! Center for Meaning. His new book on The OPA! Way will be released in 2013.

Middle School Enrichment: UNM’s Prevention Research Center and Department of Pediatrics Professors Sally Davis, MD and Shiraz Mishra, MD, along with researchers and educators from the UNM College of Education, have been awarded nearly $1.3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health’s Science Education Partnership Award to implement a science enrichment program in five tribal and non-tribal (predominantly Hispanic) middle schools in rural New Mexico.

Kathi D. Schroeder (’72 BA), Albuquerque, recently joined the American Society of Radiologic Technologists as director of communications. Kathi previously worked as the editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly. She presently serves on the national board of directors for the UNM Alumni Association.

Fulbright Scholar: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Assistant Professor Richard File-Muriel recently received a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and

Shaun R. Webb (’72 BA), Florida, retired in 2011.

He and his wife Jennifer recently moved back to the Tampa Bay area, where they love to go deep-sea fishing. They have a son, Shannon, and a daughter, Melissa.

Shaun R. Webb

William (Bill) Pesch (’72 BS), Joplin, Mo., was recently appointed as President and CEO of Able Manufacturing and Assembly. Previously, Bill was President and CEO of McBride Electric and Driessen Aircraft Interior Systems, plus earlier experience with Siemens Building Technologies, Marconi, and Maytag in various manufacturing and marketing management positions. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

David R. Seidler (’73 BA), Fort Worth, Texas, was selected as one of the top attorneys of Tarrant County

by Fort Worth, Texas magazine.

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U Are Here research in linguistics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogotá, Colombia, during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Kidney Institute: The Health Sciences Center has received $6 million—one of the largest private donations ever made to HSC—from the Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI) of Nashville, Tenn. The grant will allow HSC to form a UNM Kidney Research Institute in Albuquerque. DCI is the largest nonprofit dialysis provider in the United States; it operates 11 clinics in New Mexico. medicine.unm.edu/nephrology/ institute.html Cancer Grants: Two UNM Cancer Center researchers received federal grants recently.

Eric Prossnitz received a five-year, $1.6 million federal grant to study ways to treat recurring breast cancer tumors. Prossnitz, a professor of cell biology and physiology, will study a new type of estrogen receptor as a possible new drug target and hopes the research will lead to clinical trials for new drugs. Alan Tomkinson received a four-year, $1 million federal grant to study how and why cancer cells make mistakes in repairing their DNA. On a Nanoscale: UNM is participating with the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California – Berkeley on a $18.5 million, multi-year National Science Foundation grant to develop nanoscale manufacturing systems for mobile computing. The three institutions will develop the Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT) Center to build nanomanufacturing, nanosculpting, and

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nanometrology systems that could lead to versatile mobile computing devices.

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for High-Technology Materials Steven R.J. Brueck will lead the UNM activities. news.unm.edu/2012/09/ unm-collaborates-on-nsf-nanoscalemanufacturing-research-center

OTHER NEWS Sustainable U: According to a July 2012 study by Bain & Company, many American universities are in danger of becoming financially unsustainable according to two metrics: A decrease in equity and an increase in expense. However, according to study data, UNM is financially sustainable and sound. For details, visit bain.com/ publications/articles/financiallysustainable-university.aspx HSC Complex: The Health Sciences Center (HSC) opened its new Innovation, Discovery, and Training Center (IDTC) in October 2012. The 89,000-squarefoot renovated space holds the Center for Molecular Discovery, the Center for Digestive Diseases Research, and the Emergency Medical Services Academy and Center for Disaster Medicine. This $16.5 million renovation will allow HSC to more rapidly advance its research, clinical, and educational missions.

UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions. This fellowship provides a year of funding for a project that investigates how alcohol use disorders affect the brain’s white matter networks.

The study aims to increase understanding of alcohol-related white matter damage, examine its behavioral consequences, and identify at-risk populations.

Poetic Justice: Communications and journalism graduate student Hakim Bellamy was named Albuquerque’s first Poet Laureate in spring 2012.

He is a regional and national Poetry Slam champion who facilitates writing workshops at schools and community organizations throughout New Mexico.

Hakim is strategic communication director of the Media Literacy Project at Albuquerque Academy.

Research Fellowship: Students Jesse Young and Kaitlin Hughes were recently selected by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) as recipients of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

The fellowship goes to highly competitive students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in biology.

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Alcohol Research: Psychology predoctoral student Mollie Monnig has been awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award through the

In the fall issue of Mirage (page 26, “Future Fossils”), we stated that Lindsay Zanno graduated from UNM in 1995. In fact, she graduated in 1999. We apologize for the error.

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Nuggets of University trivia.

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15,769 The number of doctoral degrees held by UNM alumni.

The number of tons of materials UNM recycled in 2012. This includes paper, aluminum, glass, cardboard, pallets, carpet, textiles, and electronic scrap.

124,110

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The approximate number of current students receiving Legislative Lottery Scholarships, a renewable full-tuition award for New Mexico residents who enroll full-time immediately after high school graduation and are in good academic standing (at least a 2.5 GPA).

FIVE The number of museums on campus: Geology Museum, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Meteorite Museum, The Museum of Southwestern Biology, and University Art Museum.

1,000 Additional students living on campus this year with the addition of Casa del Río housing—fully furnished apartments rich with amenities located on the main campus.

How many inventions UNM researchers disclosed in the 2012 calendar year.

Science and Technology Park (STC.UNM) received 43 U.S. issued patents during the same time period.

Compiled by Dianne Anderson, Maria Wolfe, and Michelle McRuiz.

Album Blair Friedman (’73 MA), Wellington, Fla., recently retired from GE Healthcare at age 67. He has been married to Vivian for 30 years; they have a daughter, Stacy. Blair would love to reconnect with his former classmates; you may reach him at (561) 385-6446 or badcomic@aol.com.

Richard W. Tavelli (’74 BUS), Albuquerque, recently joined McCarthy Building Companies as director of client services for McCarthy New Mexico. Rick has 39 years of experience in the construction industry.

Sheila C. Peyraud (’74 BUS), Minnetonka, Minn., was appointed vice president and chief technology officer of Donaldson Company, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of filtration systems. Sheila joined Donaldson in 1978.

Sheila C. Peyraud

Joseph J. Snyder (’74 MA), Shepherdstown, W. Va., recently published a book with Juniper House Library Publications, Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of America’s First Common-Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971.

Alesia Kunz (’75 PhD), Berkeley, Calif., recently published a speculative fiction novel, The Power of Indigo, set in Albuquerque. For more details on the novel, visit alesiakunz.com. Alesia formerly taught in the women’s studies and educational foundations departments at UNM. Jeff Potter (’77 BS), Albuquerque, has been retired from UNM since 2006 after 25 years as a research scientist in the Health Sciences Center. He has pursued a career as an artist since then and recently was awarded second place at the 29th Texas and Neighbors Regional Art Exhibition in Irving, Texas. He garnered another second place award at the Gateway to Imagination National Exhibition in Farmington, N.M. For more information, visit jeffpotterart.com.

Richard G. Villa (’77 BUS), Rural Valley, Pa., retired in February 2012 after 21 years of federal government service, the last 15 as an investigator for the Federal Public Defender in Pittsburgh. His wife, Dr. Judith H. Villa (’96 PhD), is an associate professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa. Anna M. Aragon (’78 JD), Las Vegas, N.M., was appointed a new member of the New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission.

Anna has operated her own law practice since 1984, specializing in criminal defense and domestic relations.

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“A Lobo Paw Print in Our Hearts”

For multimedia coverage of the inauguration and the unveiling of the U (see next page), visit dailylobo.com/multimedia/10811.

The LOBO Pledge I will ...

Lead with courage and integrity Open my mind to the diversity of people and ideas that surround me

Be engaged in my community, making a difference in the lives

Wearing his academic regalia and the presidential medallion—first used in 1968— Dr. Frank speaks of his vision for higher education in New Mexico. “If a boy from Las Cruces can go on to become a president,” he said, “then surely a girl from Española can be a rocket scientist and walk on Mars.” Photo by Jodi Newton.

of others

Own my future through the pursuit of academic and personal excellence I will take pride in The University of New Mexico

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Robert G. Frank’s installation as UNM’s 21st president capped off Inaugural Week.

Dr. Frank took office as UNM President on June 1, 2012. On November 18, UNM faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends gathered in Popejoy Hall to celebrate his inauguration. Afterward, the Alumni Association co-hosted a reception for the president and his wife Janet in Hodgin Hall Alumni Center.

President Frank is proud to be a three-time Lobo: ’74 BS, ’78 MA, and ’79 PhD. “No matter how far away from New Mexico we stray, we all carry a Lobo paw print in our hearts,” he said in his inaugural remarks. “I’m a Lobo through and through, proud of what this university has given me.”

Album Wendy York (’78 BA, ’82 JD), Albuquerque, was honored by the UNM School of Law as one of the recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award. York presided over more than 1,200 civil cases during her eight years as a judge with the Second Judicial District Court. Since leaving the bench in 2005, she has become highly regarded as a mediator and arbitrator with the Sheehan & Sheehan law firm.

Rudy Rodriguez (‘79 PhD), Denton, Texas, a retired professor in the University of North Texas College of Education, is currently serving his second three-year term as a member of the Denton Independent School District Board of Trustees.

1980s Minda L. McGonagle (’80 BUS), Albuquerque, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a policy advisor in the Government Relations Department. Prior to joining the firm, Minda owned her own government relations practice.

Ta-da! Lobo Louie and Lobo Lucy unveil the U.

The U Is You In the early years of UNM’s history, the townspeople of Albuquerque nicknamed the institution “the U.” In 1922, under the administration of President David S. Hill, a 10-foot U, made of tin and fitted with electric lights, was placed on top of Hodgin Hall (then called the Administration Building). University officials illuminated the U every time the Lobos won a football game. The “electric U” stayed in place until sometime in the mid-1930s.

In spring 2012, the Alumni Association began construction on a new U as a gift to the University. The Association also renovated the surrounding patio area with new landscaping, pavement, and

signage identifying Hodgin Hall as the Alumni Center.

On November 18, 2012, the Alumni Association unveiled and dedicated the 3,000-pound, cast-bronze U. President Robert G. Frank, who was inaugurated earlier that afternoon, accepted the U on behalf of UNM along with ASUNM President Caroline Muraida and GPSA President Marisa Silva. “The U is you,” said Alumni Association President Duffy Swan in his remarks to the audience.

Well said, Duffy—the U is a symbol of the Association’s and the University’s collective pride in its alumni, students, faculty, and staff.

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Ranolph “Dolph” H. Barnhouse (’80 BA, ’83 JD, ’84 MBA), Albuquerque, was awarded the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG) 2012 William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award.

Barnhouse, a certified appellate specialist, advocated for government transparency and open records in briefs filed for NMFOG with the New Mexico Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Barnhouse is a partner at the law firm of Luebben Johnson & Randolph H. Barnhouse Barnhouse LLP. James H. Hinton (’81 BA), Los Ranchos, N.M., is the chair-elect designate of the American Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees. Jim will assume the chairmanship in 2014. He is the president and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque and has been with the organization since 1983.

Michael F. Gray (’81 MS), Albuquerque, worked at the UNM Computer Center from 1983 to 1991, then returned to Albuquerque and, with a friend who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), co-founded Friends in Time, a non-profit that serves people with

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Lobo Louie, Lobo Lucy, and cheerleaders are all members of the UNM Spirit Program.

“Thank you so much for such an educational tour of Popejoy. My daughters and I were so excited we bought tickets to attend the next show. It was a treat to see the puppets that were sitting on shelves and hanging from the ceiling the night before come to life! We enjoyed the tour of Hodgin Hall too!”

Alumni serve pizza to students during the fall 2012 Welcome Back Days.

—Martha Sousa (’78 BFA, ’89 MA) on the October 22, 2012 tour of Popejoy and behindthe-scenes look at The Lion King. This event was the first in a series of public, educational events called the Lobo Living Room.

George Davis (’80 PhD), president of the Atlanta Alumni Chapter, takes his turn during one of the many green chile roasts held around the country last summer.

Current Lobos for Legislation Chair Rich Diller, former chair Laurie Moye, N.M. Representative Kelly Fajardo, Larry Fajardo, and N.M. Representative Carl Trujillo at the New Legislators Reception in January 2013.

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Lobos for Legislation host legislators in Albuquerque’s North Valley in December 2012.

From left to right: President Frank, Sen. Bill O’Neill, Sen. Jacob Candelaria, and Rep. Ed Sandoval.

Album ALS and multiple sclerosis. Friends in Time is now a program of Adelante Development Center. In 2012, Michael published two books with ABQ Press: Asleep at the Wheel of Time and The Flying Caterpillar.

Captured moments from recent Alumni Association events

Lawrence D. Rael (’81 BA, ’86 MPA), Albuquerque, was appointed state executive director of the New Mexico Farm Service Agency. Rael oversees all aspects of federal farm program delivery for an agency that employs nearly 1,700 people and, on average, issues more than $100 million annually in commodity, conservation, disaster, and credit benefits to farmers and ranchers across the state.

Kevin J. Koval (’81 BUS), Albuquerque, has joined Nagels CPAs as a senior manager. Koval formerly worked as the managing partner at Howard & Koval PC.

Trailblazers are ambassadors for UNM and the Alumni Association.

To view other Alumni Association photo albums, visit our Flickr page at flickr.com/photos/ The Alumni Lettermen’s Association saluted outstanding athletes at the November 16, 2012 Hall of Honor Banquet. Photo by Taylor Stern.

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Katherine A. Ganz, MD (’81 MD), Albuquerque, has returned to First Choice Community Healthcare (FCCH) as clinical compliance director after over 10 years directing the Health Policy Commission for the state of New Mexico and consulting with the state legislature. She is a former FCCH medical director.

Orlando G. Leyba (’82 BA), Albuquerque, had his paintings exhibited in a two-man show at TAFKAJ Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland. The show, Opus 15: Profusion, ran from September 13 to November 3, 2012. Orlando’s work also has been shown in exhibits in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Durango, Los Angeles, Boston, and Pittsburgh. Collections of his work are in many permanent collections, including those of the New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque; Albuquerque Sunport; and the collection of Salvadore Scarpitta, New York.

Henrietta Mann (’82 PhD), Weatherford, Okla., has received the 2012 Ely S. Parker Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). This is the highest honor bestowed by AISES. Dr. Mann is currently the first president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, serving as the special assistant to the president of Montana State University – Bozeman, and the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, Professor Emeritus. She is the author of CheyenneArapaho Education, 1871-1982. She serves on several boards and councils concerning Native American affairs.

Daniel H. Boardman (’83 BArch), Albuquerque, opened Tía Betty Blue’s, an eclectic New Mexican restaurant, in May 2012.

Members of the Lobo football team walk past cheering tailgaters at a fall 2012 Lobo Prowl.

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Donyale werle, Tony-Winning set designer

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“Donyale Werle may be the most inventive visual artist working in the theater today,” said Bloomberg News about the artist’s design for the Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher.

Photo courtesy of Donyale Werle.

Plastic bottles and buttons, bike chains and rope, used wine corks and old dinner forks are just some of the things that make their way into the creative hands of Donyale Werle (’93 BFA).

From other people’s trash, Donyale Werle recycles ordinary objects and turns them into theater-stage-set treasures.

For this Brooklyn, New York award-winning set designer, being green is as important as designing a compelling scene.

But Werle’s dedication to the sustainable goes beyond the material. She’s also working to change the theatrical profession’s mindset, while her designs blow audience’s minds.

In her set for Peter and the Starcatcher, 204 rope pieces, 817 bottle caps, 162 bamboo sticks, 366 kitchen utensils, 3,563 corks, and other objects were glued down and gilded, elaborately adorning the

proscenium arch of Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Old scaffold planks, fire-damaged doors, Disney-warehouse abandoned rear-projection screens, and leftover Little Mermaid-costume scraps also starred in her design. The 2012 Broadway hit won five Tony Awards, one to Werle for Best Scenic Design.

She said of the trophy, “It’s cool to have and look at. But more so, I love that it validates this sustainable way of working.

There’s been a stigma in the industry against using recycled materials because it doesn’t seem professional. But you can do it on Broadway—and get a Tony for it.”

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Sustainability is “my greatest passion,” said Werle. Since 2008, 60 percent of her set designs have been made with recycled materials. “I’m always looking for ways I can improve upon the products I use in my industry.” The sustainable route is not only environmentally friendly; it also can be cheaper, and because it limits designers’ choices it can challenge their imaginations even more.

Werle starts by reading the play and, if it’s a musical, listening to the music nonstop. She doesn’t do any drawings.

But she looks at a lot of sculpture, “because it’s three-dimensional like set design; and historical imagery, if it’s a period show,” she said. “I put tons of pictures up on the walls.”

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Then she builds the basic model box, but not out of foam core, long used by set designers. “Every sheet takes 50 to 100 years to decompose, compared to two weeks for packaging cardboard. So I’ve switched over to whatever I can find of that lying around,” she said. Then she makes a miniature version of the cast and puts them in the model, “because it’s people who tell the story. I create a world around them.”

Taking Creative Risks

Said Werle of her creative process, “It’s painful and nerve-wracking. I build something, take it to the director, maybe he hates it, I break the model in half, make a new one. I have a very haphazard approach to design. If you’re always creating at your comfort level, you repeat yourself or stay in a place of mediocrity.

I need to take it to the point where I’m teetering on the brink of disaster, and at some point it shifts.”

Then the model tells Werle what materials to search for—in Dumpsters and junkyards and Goodwill bins; and at neighborhood stoop sales and salvage retailers. Her cat-sitter and neighbors helped her collect 500 cat-food cans, reincarnated as a seven-foot chandelier for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, her Broadway scenic-designer debut, in 2010. For the emo-rock musical, she also covered the interior walls of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in red velvet and fake fur, reused from others’ productions.

Werle’s design earned her a 2011 Tony Award nomination, and three other awards for the show’s off-Broadway run.

And all those Starcatcher bottle caps? Kids collected them, as part of the sustainabletheater organization Broadway Green

Album Elva Österreich (’83 BA), Socorro, is the new editor of El Defensor Chieftain, a twice-weekly newspaper in Socorro. Previously, she was associate news editor at the Alamogordo Daily News for 14 years.

Alliance’s collaboration with The Broadway League’s “Kids’ Night on Broadway.”

“I like using everyday objects; we have an emotional response to them. Bringing them to the stage creates a layer of subtext to the storytelling, and can deepen the audience’s experience,” said Werle, who hires sustainable set-building shops, such as Showman Fabricators (Broadway’s sole shop) and Paper Mâché Monkey (founded by her former assistants).

Gaining Acceptance

After earning her BFA, Werle moved to San Francisco and freelanced painting theater, television and film sets, and people’s homes. By 2002, she had her MFA in set design from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Soon Werle was assisting on Broadway.

Some of those in the industry who did know, four years ago, “would literally laugh in my face,” she said. “Now they don’t laugh, but it’s been a slow process of acceptance. Currently, everyone believes greening efforts cost more money. My goal is to prove that there are many ways greening initiatives are actually cost-effective and affordable.

Once producers believe this and it’s accepted at the top, it’s much easier for everyone down the line to adopt these new (and old) ideas about sustainability.”

To read a longer version of this article, visit unmalumni.com/werle.html.

Claire Sykes is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon. Her articles on a variety of topics appear in dozens of alumni and other national magazines.

In 2006, she worked as an associate set designer on High Fidelity, the Nick Hornby-novel adaptation that unexpectedly closed after only 13 performances. The sets were dumped.

“It hit me like a train: Why am I involved in a profession with so much waste? I can’t live with myself like this.”

Werle quit Broadway and designed for tiny downtown shows, “where you make almost no money,” she said.

That was 2008. She and her assistants worked out of friends’ barns in the Catskills and other free spaces in Brooklyn, building sets out of cardboard, plastic bottles, and discarded computer parts.

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Cee Kaye Nation (Fails) (’83 BS, ’06 MA), Albuquerque, is now the principal at A. Montoya Elementary and Roosevelt Middle School, which are merging to create a pre K-8 model for Albuquerque Public Schools (APS). Cee Kaye has been with APS for over 27 years.

Karen J. Delle Site (’84 BA), Corrales, N.M., has joined Urbielewicz Murphree CPAs in Corrales. Karen is a past chair of the Rio Rancho Regional Chamber of Commerce and was the president and a charter member of the Rotary Club of Rio Rancho Sunrise.

Sally M. Reilly Marquez (’84 BS), Albuquerque, is the new executive director of the New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA). She joined the NMAA in 2004 as an associate director and has served as the assistant executive director since July 2011.

David L. Crouse (’85 MS), San Jose, Calif., is now global manager of geology and exploration for Imerys Performance and Filtration Minerals, a leader in industrial minerals mining and processing.

Marietta Leis (’85 MA, ’88 MFA), Albuquerque, had a group of her paintings, Limnings, shown in a group exhibit entitled Lo Studio dei Nipoti (the Studio of the Grandchildren, Nieces, and Nephews) at the Hillyer Art Space at the International Arts and Artists in Washington, D.C. In September 2012.

Anita T. Tallarico (’85 BA), Santa Fe, was appointed

by Governor Susana Martinez as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Anita previously served as the chief executive officer of a consulting business.

Mayor Richard J. Berry (’85 BA), Albuquerque, was honored recently by the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government at its annual awards. Mayor Berry received the 2012 William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award for being proactive about promoting government transparency through the City of Albuquerque’s website, ABQView.

Paul J. Zamprelli (’85 BS), Verona, Wis., is the director of business development for Orbital Technologies Corporation (OrbitecTM), a high-technology development company based in Madison.

Kramer E. Woodard (’85 BArch), Albuquerque, won the first-place professional prize in the recent Design Lab that was part of the Santa Fe Interior Designers Presents Weekend of Event at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Gallery in Santa Fe in October 2012. Woodard’s entry, “Penthouse Prototype,” was

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a design for prefabricated architectural dwellings.

Kramer is the principal of K.E.W. Architects and an associate professor at UNM School of Architecture and Planning.

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Richard Morales (’85 BS), Alpharetta, Ga., recently received the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Outstanding Large Project of the Year for the Borinquen Cofferdam – Pacific Access Channel, Panama Canal Authority.

Cliff Gravel (’86 BSEd), Albuquerque, recently appeared in the movie All in a Day’s Work. His play Brigands of the Salty Dog has toured several locations in New Mexico.

Cliff Gravel

Photo by John Beale.

Neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen (‘01 BA) finds that his subject can be more approachable when it’s scary.

By Carolyn Gonzales (’96 BA)

Zombies do not make good walking partners or conversationalists, according to Timothy “Zombie Doc” Verstynen. Their stiff-legged, lumbering gate could be from damage to the cerebellum. They also may be suffering from expressive aphasia—a condition caused by a brain lesion that impairs the zombie’s ability to use written or spoken language.

Cognition. His research centers on fast response-selection abilities that are at the border of perception and action. Think of a tennis player on the court who must process cues such as the trajectory of the ball, getting to the right place on the court to swing at it, picking the correct swing, and hitting the ball to where the opponent has the most difficult shot at it.

Dr. Verstynen uses zombies’ popularity in modern culture to get his students and others interested in science in general and neuropsychology specifically. In his day job, he’s an assistant professor in two departments at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh: The Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of

Verstynen is director of the Cognitive Axon Lab at CMU. There he uses a combination of behavioral testing, computational modeling, and neuroimaging to explore how the architecture of brain connections and their dynamics regulate action planning and motor control. In other words, who’s talking to whom in the brain.

Captain David A. Culler (’87 BA), Virginia Beach, Va., recently assumed command of Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval station in the world. He was commissioned in 1988, graduated from the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School, also known as Top Gun, in 1992 and earned his pilot wings in June 1995. Culler and his wife, Ghada, have two sons, David and Stephen.

Ehrich J. Braunschweig (’87 BS, ’89 MS), Minneapolis, Minn., is part of a research team that recently won R&D Magazine’s Editor’s Choice and R&D 100 Awards, which salute the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. He is a senior product development specialist at 3M. Jim Piekarski (’87 MA), Carpinteria, Calif., recently published a book, Mastering Your Emotions with Your Spouse and Others: Seven Steps for Transforming Emotional Reactivity. Jim is a licensed marriage and family therapist and is the clinical director of Phoenix of Santa Barbara, a non-profit agency that treats adults with mental disorders. He also is a clinical supervisor for interns and trainees who are learning to become therapists at the Salvation Army Hospitality House in Santa Barbara.

He has served as an adjunct professor at various colleges in the Santa Barbara area.

Julie W. Cook (’88 BA), Albuquerque, has been recognized by the New Mexico chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as its outstanding fundraising professional for 2012.

Julie has more than 20 years of fundraising experience and is director of development for Sandia Preparatory School.

Elizabeth A. Shipley (’88 BS), Albuquerque, government affairs manager for Intel Corp., has been named chair-elect for 2012-2013 and

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Weird Science: Timothy Verstynen combines neuropsychology and popular culture to engage a broad audience. Photo by John Beale.

Aboard the Zombie Train

While in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, Verstynen became friends with fellow grad student Brad Voytek. “We shared a love for geeky things, like horror movies,” he said. “While Brad was doing post-graduate work, Matt Mogk of the Zombie Research Society asked him to give a talk on the psychology and pathology of zombie brains.”

On both TED-Ed and Verstynen’s blog, The Cognitive Axon (cognitiveaxon. blogspot.com), the zombie docs use approachable language that appeals to their target audience of young zombiephiles.

Talking about zombies helps people understand real syndromes and their underpinnings in humans, said Verstynen.

“I have had friends show these videos to their undergraduate students to help “I often get asked how we made this model them understand the material. It’s good for non-college audiences as zombie brain,” said Verstynen. “Well, well,” he said. until the zombie apocalypse gives us sufficient specimens to scan, we had to do Thanks to the exposure they’ve received something else—take a human brain and from their research and online presence, morph it into what a zombie brain should Verstynen and Voytek recently signed a look like.” book deal with Princeton University Press.

“It’s a primer designed for high school One of the two TED-Ed videos shows an animated zombie with affected speech and and early college students to get them movement. The two scientists discuss their interested in science,” Verstynen said.

The as-yet-untitled book will be theories behind the zombie’s problems. published in fall 2013.

One quips, “The large, gaping wound on

Verstynen and Voytek created a 3D model of a zombie brain based on zombie behavior, as well as a two-part series of animated short education videos for TED Education (TED-Ed, ed.ted.com). (TEDEd animator Franz Palomares created the animation.) “The brain has a fake lesion that correlates to the part of the brain that creates aphasia,” Tim said. “In the video, his shoulder might have something to do we explained the speech-lesion connection with it.” From there, they scientifically and described behavior relations evident analyze the zombie. in real brains.”

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Real Science Applications

Science teachers are taking notice and taking advantage of the zombie docs’ approach. Last year on Halloween, one teacher showed her class the TED-Ed

Album video and used the discussion and lesson plans. These tools are not only a good way to build discussion outside the traditional lesson plan, but to engage people who aren’t science nerds. “Our goal is to get people interested in science and talking about it,” Verstynen said.

“I am happy talking 24/7 about science, but not everyone is.”

stopping the reach. “I look at the wiring of the brain and create diagrams of it. I take basic neuroscience and apply it to high-level behavioral studies,” he said.

His research also reveals that physical conditions—obesity, for example—can influence the brain.

“The physical connections in the human brain are called white matter, which is Serious Stuff made up of trillions of axons—fibers that He does encounter some resistance to his extend from the cell body to the terminal teaching methods. “There is a slight age endings and transmit the neural signal,” gap, with a lot of support from younger Verstynen continued. “Through human colleagues,” he said, quickly adding, brain imaging, we can see that chronic “We’re very careful to walk the line on inflammation reduces the integrity of the side of science.” white matter. It’s like adding noise to a Carl Sagan encountered some of the same phone line. It’s subtle, but it can affect resistance when presenting astronomy in how the brain functions.” He added that alterations to long-range connections a publicly appealing manner, Verstynen impact the brain’s functions. said. “He was ostracized within his field for what he did. They thought it Overall, Verstynen and Voytek have was a joke for him to be on television.” received a lot of positive feedback about He said anti-science trends arise from their work. “We’ve been told, ‘I never misunderstandings about what science is. thought I would care about the brain.’”

“Not everyone sees things as a scientist does,” he said. “Science outreach is fun Carolyn Gonzales is a senior communication for us, but important for the field.” representative at UNM, her alma mater.

He spends 80 percent of his time exploring the brain pathways that people use when selection actions: Right hand, left hand, reaching for something,

A longtime Mirage writer, she’s also been featured in the magazine for her immigration research with the Cross-Border Issues Group.

Show Your Lobo Pride!

ALUMNI

Wear your enthusiasm for UNM on your sleeve … or your back, or your cap!

The new Super U Alumni Spirit Club gives alumni and friends of UNM access to exclusive Lobo gear and gifts. In addition, Spirit Club members help support the Alumni Association at the same time. Visit alumnimembers. myshopify.com/pages/registration to learn more, join, and receive your registration gift.

chairman for 2013-2014 by the board of directors of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. Shipley is responsible for developing and implementing Intel’s government relations strategy for New Mexico with federal, state, and local officials, regulatory agencies, and key policymakers.

Robert X. Martinez (’88 BArch), Albuquerque, recently joined Bradbury Stamm Construction as a senior owner’s representative construction manager. He has 32 years of experience in the construction industry and 14 years of experience as an owner’s representative.

Charles Mark Gentner (’88 BA), Washington, N.C., has been in the broadcast television industry since 1998 and was recently promoted to vice president and general manager of WITN-TV (NBC affiliate) located in Greenville, N.C. Lisa A. Torraco (’88 BA, ’91 JD), Albuquerque, was elected to the New Mexico State Senate representing New Mexico District 18. Lisa is a practicing attorney at Torraco Law; her practice focuses on criminal and commercial litigation.

Prudence S. Simon (’89 BA, ’91 MA), Santa Fe, recently joined Ecoscapes, a green landscaping company, as a project manager and plant specialist.

Jeff Tolley (’89 BA, ’91 MA), Albuquerque, recently published his first novel, Azalea Springs, a story of a struggle to end racial intolerance set in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, N.C. An Albuquerque native, Jeff is an English teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque. Azalea Springs is available on Amazon.

1990s Lt. Col. Melanie R. (McMahan) Friedman (’90 BA), Carbondale, Ill., is the Commander of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 205, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. She is responsible for developing quality leaders for the Air Force. Current enrollment in AFROTC at SIUC is 125 cadets, and Melanie commissioned 13 Second Lieutenants this year. Melanie and Erik Friedman welcomed baby daughter Lillian Clara Friedman on January 13, 2012; her adoption was finalized on July 16, 2012.

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Taste of home: Rebecca exults in the arrival of their first shipment of green chile.

Photos courtesy of Rebecca Orchant.

A Passion for Good Taste

Rebecca on the Grill

Food and cooking consumes Huffington Post editor Rebecca Orchant (’07 BA), but please don’t call her a foodie.

Mirage asked Rebecca the tough questions, and, being a New Yorker, she was ready for them.

By Michelle G. McRuiz

What food trends excite you now?

Honesty and simplicity are really appealing to me. My friends and I think Korean food is the next big thing. I’m super-excited about the return to the greasy spoon. In the 90s there was this concept of the finer diner. That’s going away; now they’re just diners.

Do you have any favorite food writers?

M.F.K. Fisher—I have an affinity for vintage recipes, and How to Cook a Wolf is about cooking during the constraints of World War II. Obviously, that is relevant now. Molly Wizenberg has a blog called Orangette. She takes a very personal approach to food. I highly recommend her book A Homemade Life.

And I’m a huge Ruth Reichl fan.

What would your last supper be?

Radishes with cold butter and salt, pimento cheese, a pickle plate, a grilled cheese sandwich, a bowl of potatoleek soup, obviously some green chile enchiladas, chocolate cream pie, and Pappy Van Winkle to round out the meal. Pappy Van Winkle is one of the most annoying foodie things I care about. It’s a rare bourbon.

Red or green? Green.

Corn or flour tortillas? Corn.

Smothered or hand-held? Smothered.

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Pop quiz: The question “Does anyone have something to eat?” is: a) a plea; b) an eternal quest; c) R ebecca Orchant’s Twitter profile statement; d) all of the above If you chose d, you are correct! For Rebecca, who is absorbed with that most basic of human needs, it could be the question she asks most.

Rebecca has what many would consider a dream job: Associate editor of HuffPost Taste—also known as the taste section of Huffington Post, the news website, blog, and content aggregator. She thinks, researches, talks about, and writes about recipes, cooking, chefs, and restaurants.

But her job is also hard work in a field where decent jobs are as scarce as Frito pies in Beverly Hills.

She had her eye on HuffPost for a while, and while trying to get a job there “worked very heartily on my own food blog [Chronicles of a Stomach Grumble] and applied for anything I could find. I worked at a couple of jobs I hated in the interim.” In May 2012, she finally landed the position of assistant editor for both

the food and the taste section and eventually became associate editor for the taste section.

Playwriting and Reality

After graduating from Sandia High School, Rebecca attended Drew University in Madison, N.J., for one year before transferring to UNM. She switched majors from history to theatre at the urging of Digby Wolfe—writer, actor, and professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, who passed away May 2, 2012—and Jim Linnell—Digby’s closest colleague, professor of dramatic writing, and dean of the College of Fine Arts.

“Once I started writing plays at UNM,” she said, “I decided that was what I wanted to do. I wouldn’t say that I’ll never write one again, but I don’t know when that will be.”

Her playwright dreams dissolved in her pursuit of more immediate goals soon after she and her boyfriend (now husband) Sean Gardner (’06 BA) moved to New York City in late 2008—“right after the collapse,” she said with a rueful laugh.

Their first focus was finding a job—any job. “We were in a panic,” she admitted.

And, like most people in the food business, cooking and eating have always been important to her. While working at jobs she wasn’t crazy about, food was a wonderful solace. “Any time I spent away from work I was cooking or writing about cooking.”

No Typical Days

“Every day is a new challenge” at HuffPost Taste, Rebecca said. “My job consists of connecting with the social community. It involves writing way more than I thought it was going to: Writing posts, building recipe galleries. We do a lot of brainstorming about what we’re eating and cooking, what tricks we’ve figured out.

“From the second we get here until we leave, we’re working as hard as we can,” she continued. “I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere I’ve worked. It’s kind of a reporting job some days—gathering facts, doing interviews. We do a lot of taste tests, but a lot of things are gross.”

The grossest thing in recent memory: “Pringles came out with a holiday line— white chocolate peppermint.”

Not a Foodie!

As food trends, restaurants, and celebrity chefs take an increasingly larger share of the cultural spotlight, terms like “gourmet” and “foodie” are handed out like cocktail napkins. Rebecca particularly despises the latter term.

“I think it’s diminuitive; it says that something you care deeply about is silly,” she said. “It hints at a deeper issue, which “This is probably my favorite cocktail of all time,” said Rebecca, who loves to entertain with her husband Sean, an “excellent amateur bartender.” This is Sean’s recipe.

Aviation Cocktail Yield: one cocktail.

• 2 ounces gin • 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice • 2 barspoons Luxardo maraschino liqueur • 1/4 ounce Crème Yvette or Crème de Violette Combine the first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake to chill well, then strain into a cocktail glass. Float the Crème Yvette/Crème de Violette into the glass.

is that people rarely call people who work in the food industry ‘foodies.’ Most of us have worked in the industry and care deeply about the people who work in it and the food itself. On our team (at HuffPost Taste) we focus really hard on not having a bourgeois attitude toward food.

“I think if there are people to be heralded in this business, to be fawned over, it’s not the restaurant consultants, the big restaurant franchise owners; it’s the line cooks, the farmers, the busboys, the people doing the hard work.”

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Rebecca and her team have been “trying to build a map of the American taste bud” by focusing on regional foods.

And Rebecca is continuously trying to demystify cooking. “It’s something we all eventually have to do,” she explained.

“Cooking with instinct is very important to us—using the recipe as an inspiration and building your own set of rules around it.”

Twitter: @SMcPickles, @HuffPostTaste HuffPost: huffingtonpost.com/taste Blog: chroniclesofastomachgrumble. blogspot.com

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Album Randy Gregg (’90 BBA), Dallas, Texas, has joined the public accounting firm of Whitley Penn as an assurance and advisory services partner.

Gladys S. Herrera-Gurule (’90 MA, ’97 PhD), Peñasco, N.M., has been named the principal of Enos Garcia Elementary School. She previously was state director of the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Bilingual Multicultural Education Bureau for 10 years.

Stephen S. Skinner (’91 BA, ’99 MPA), Edmond, Okla., was appointed to be the Chief United States Probation Officer in the Western District of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City on June 1, 2012. Steve has served the federal judiciary in a number of positions over the last 21 years in San Diego, Albuquerque, and Oklahoma City.

Sandra Benischek Harrison (’91 BA), Oklahoma City, was recently promoted to Chief Operating Officer for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.

She was also named Oklahoma Public Employees Association Administrator of the Year.

William G. Fahrenholtz (’92 PhD), Rolla, Mo., was promoted to Curators’ Professor of Ceramic Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla in January. The Curators’ Professor rank was established to recognize outstanding scholars in the University of Missouri system. Bill’s current research is focused on ultrahigh-temperature ceramics for hypersonic aerospace applications. He lives with his wife Jill and sons Karl and Eric.

Thomas P. Barrett (’92 MA, ’03 PhD), Baltimore, Md., has joined SWCA Environmental Consultants as cultural resources program director for the company’s Albuquerque and Durango officers. Barrett has 24 years’ experience in cultural resource practice and 17 different states and also Japan.

David B. Peters (’93 BA), Albuquerque, has joined VIP Mortgage, Inc., as a senior mortgage broker.

David has 17 years of experience in the mortgage lending industry and previously worked at Peoples Bank, WestStar Mortgage, and as the owner of his own mortgage company, Crescent Financial Solutions, from 2001 to 2009.

Sheri J. Mastin Miller (’93 BA), Albuquerque, has joined The Montebello on Academy, a FiveStar Quality Care Community, as sales and marketing director. She received her

Sheri J. Mastin Miller

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A Study in Intensity The ESL Summer Institute that Holbrook Mahn (’97 PhD) began 13 years ago offers students and teachers needed methods and experience.

By Michelle G. McRuiz

“If someone is teaching full-time, they can take maybe one course a semester,” said Mahn. “UNM has five courses that are part of the ESL endorsement, so that would extend over a couple of years. I got the idea of putting together an intensive institute during the summer where they could take nine of the 15 credit hours.”

The Cohort System

The first Institute was held at East San Jose Elementary in 1999 and moved to La Mesa Elementary eight years ago. “When we moved here,” Holbrook said, “we began the practice of recruiting ESL students from the community and building classes of 15 to 20 students in K-5 classrooms.”

Story time: UNM student Rachel Martinez finishes the morning with a story in Spanish.

Getting it right: Adult ESL students at La Mesa practice their writing skills.

For education majors and teachers, summer is an ideal time to catch up on courses, methods, and practice.

The College of Education’s ESL Endorsement Summer Institute offers an intensive approach to teaching and learning English as a Second Language (ESL) that benefits teachers and students alike.

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Getting with the program: Holbrook Mahn checks in with Institute participants.

The Summer Institute is the brainchild of Holbrook Mahn, who joined the College of Education faculty in 1997 after earning his doctorate. At that time, he said, there was a real need for more teachers with ESL endorsements—and there still is.

But the teachers’ workload and schedule often prohibited them from earning their endorsements efficiently.

The Institute’s effectiveness lies in its cohort structure. “We divide UNM students and teachers into cohorts,” said Mahn. “One cohort is attending a UNM course. The other is in a classroom teaching ESL students. After a couple of hours they switch. They get methods in their UNM courses, use them the next day, and get feedback on them.”

During the first of the Institute’s six weeks before the ESL students start, teachers and education majors attend sessions of the three UNM courses and plan the curriculum for their ESL classrooms. In weeks two through five, children and adults from the La Mesa community in southeast Albuquerque attend English classes from 8:00 a.m. to noon. With only two or three teachers per classroom, students get ample attention. From noon to 1:00 p.m. teachers and UNM students review the morning, give each other feedback, and prepare for the following day. During the final week when there are no ESL classes, UNM students attend

Album nursing home administrator license in 1997. She was also third runner-up in the 2012 Mrs. New Mexico Pageant.

Summer days: In the afternoon, cohorts discuss methods and practice and prepare for the following day.

University courses, summarize and reflect on their experiences for their classmates and the Institute’s faculty, and make presentations that demonstrate their learning.

Theory into Practice

The UNM students, including both pre- and in-service teachers, love the practical nature of the ESL Summer Institute. “This has been a really incredible experience,” said Leslie Kirkpatrick, who finished her last semester of student teaching in the fall of 2012. “What we learn we can apply the next day in the classroom. Getting that practice helps solidify that for me into memory and gives me an idea of how we can use it in the future.”

“The beauty of the Institute is that because the students are in cohorts and are teaching together, they have time to plan when the ESL students are gone,” Mahn said. “The teaching teams come together and talk about what worked.”

Elementary school teacher Steven Lamb said the most valuable part of the Institute was augmenting his real-world experience. “I’m adding to my toolbox, and I like being able to see the younger ones putting it together too,” he said. “In a lot of classes you’re experimenting with the students, trying to figure out what’s going on. Here we’re applying methods correctly. The Institute instructors have brought their experience and applications, and I’ve seen everyone here take hold of that and understand it and not just take notes.”

Uninterrupted Learning

“The La Mesa community meets the ESL Summer Institute’s needs,” said Mahn.

“The principal and assistant principal have opened up the school to us and have been very helpful in assuring the smooth functioning of the Institute. It’s worked very nicely.”

For many of the La Mesa students, the Summer Institute represents an opportunity to continue learning English without the typical learning regression that can happen during a summer break.

Their four weeks of intensive study help the La Mesa children transition successfully to the following school year.

Leslie Kirkpatrick described how the Institute has helped provide the ESL students a stronger academic foundation.

“I’ve realized how much scaffolding plays a role; for example, moving from modeling writing to shared writing to interactive writing to guided and independent writing. The ESL students are confident; they know what to say and how to say it; they can read what they’ve written.”

Last summer, three UNM instructors and 56 UNM students, including 17 inservice teachers, three substitute teachers, and two educational assistants, took part in the Institute. Mahn estimated that 700 UNM students have gone through the program in the past 13 years. “We have a really great teaching team,” he said.

“A good number of the students say it’s the best educational experience they’ve had at UNM.”

R. Elisabeth Elliott Laws (’95 MPA), Crozet, Va., is the author of Gemstones of the World. After graduation, Elisabeth moved to the mid-Atlantic coast, where she worked for many years as medical research grants and contracts administrator in two major academic medical centers. After dabbling in semi-precious gemstones and precious metals, she retired and began making jewelry, which she sells in nearby boutiques. Elisabeth lives with her husband and their two spoiled cats on the east slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Aaron J. Armijo (’95 BS), Belen, N.M., recently joined Jack B. Henderson Construction Company as a project manager for Albuquerque operations.

Aaron has 17 years of experience in general and specialty contracting in New Mexico and Texas.

Kenneth T. Christensen (’95 BS), Champaign, Ill., was promoted to full professor and appointed associate head of mechanics programs in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He also serves a director of the laboratory for turbulence and complex flow in the university.

Erika E. Anderson (’95 MA, ’01 JD), Albuquerque, is president-elect of the State Bar of New Mexico 2013 Board of Bar Commissioners. She is a civil litigation attorney at French & Associates PC. She has been practicing Erika E. Anderson law for 11 years in the areas of governmental liability, civil rights, personal injury, general tort liability, and employment litigation.

Lt. Col. James W. Bibb (’96 JD), Fairfax, Va., has graduated from the Army Inspector General Course at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax. Bibb is an operations and support division chief assigned to the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He has served in the military for 21 years.

Suzanne J. DuBose

Suzanne J. DuBose (’98 BA), Houston, Texas, has joined the prominent Texas trial and appellate law firm of Godwin Ronquillo PC as a commercial litigation shareholder in the firm’s Houston

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A Dancer’s First New York Season

Jennifer Smiley and Dominique Guerra choreographed and performed this work, Happy, for the 2011 student dance concert, Open the Unknown. Photo by Pat Berrett.

For Jennifer Smiley (’12 BA), dancing can be tough.

But not dancing is tougher.

By Michelle G. McRuiz On a summer day last year in Manhattan’s über-retail SoHo district, Jennifer Smiley was on break from her shift at Victoria’s Secret. Her phone rang, which was odd because she didn’t usually get cell phone service there. It was the call she’d almost given up on. MOMIX, an internationally renowned troupe of dancer-illusionists, was on the line. Two full days of auditions had culminated thus: MOMIX wanted her.

Dancing. For them.

For Jennifer, who had moved to New York in June one month after graduation, this was an incredibly lucky break. But to UNM dance professor Vladimir Conde Reche it was a testament to Jennifer’s talent and dedication.

“One of the things that set Jennifer apart was her drive to grow and explore,” said Conde Reche. “Jennifer’s attitude in class and rehearsals was an inspiration

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to her peers, and because of the faculty’s experience and keen eyes we were always pushing—not beyond her limits, but beyond what she imagined, allowing and encouraging her to discover what we saw.”

From Class to Stage

Jennifer’s journey as a dancer began in the small town of Anthony, N.M.—exit zero on I-10. Jennifer became enamored of ballet at the relatively late age of 11. She decided to major in dance during her second semester at UNM, when she enrolled in ballet and auditioned for the dance department and then for professor emerita Jennifer Predock-Linnell’s student show. From then on, Jennifer was hooked on the beauty, feeling, and process of dancing.

to the director’s reaction to the movement on my body to see what I should work on from there. After a while I throw those notes out the window and try to make the movement more like my own than someone else’s movement on me.”

UNM prepared her for professional auditions “as much as it’s going to prepare you,” she said with a laugh. “You had to audition no matter what your grades and talent were. You needed to show how much you wanted it.”

In New York, the dance capital of the world, Jennifer also needs to show how badly she wants a job—but she has only one chance.

She must spend it all whenever it’s asked of her. At an audition, she relies on her solid background of technique and training and keep her wits sharp. “You just have your equipment and your tools,” Jennifer advised. “Don’t expect anything; be willing “When I’m learning new material,” she said, to do anything. Even if you have no idea what you’re doing, just do it.” “my focus is getting the movement right away, thinking about how to translate the That attitude served her well, and her movement in the body. Then I pay attention timing was excellent: Summer dance

Album office. Suzanne graduated with a law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2004.

Sandra Duran Wilson (’98 BA), Santa Fe, has a new book, Mixed Media Revolution: Creative Ideas for Reusing Your Art, available on Amazon. Galleries in Santa Fe; Scottsdale; Austin; Washington, D.C.; and Australia represent her art. She teaches art online and in workshops around the country.

Cyrus B. Martinez (’98 BA), Hershey, Penn., recently

Jennifer Smiley has adapted quickly to life in Manhattan. Photo by Aaron Hooper (‘12 BA). began employment at The Hershey Company as its

auditions are plentiful in New York. She made it to the final round of cuts for Elisa Monte Dance, then plunged into the tryouts for MOMIX.

Making the Cut

During the MOMIX audition, the dancers were divided into groups and shown a combination of steps. One at a time, they performed the combination. After the first cuts, the remaining men and women came together, performed another combination, did partnering work, and finally left.

The 22 dancers who made it through the first audition went to the second round: A long ballet class followed by learning choreography from Botanica, MOMIX’s visually stunning signature piece, taught by artistic director Moses Pendleton, complete with some of the huge props the company is known for. That audition lasted more than nine hours. “We got to dance with company members,” Jennifer said. “The girls got to learn the marigold parts. We were wearing these huge poufy skirts that start above the chest. We were like dancing puffballs.”

The following week she got the phone call. MOMIX had been looking for only two dancers but needed a third because the company was overbooked on its upcoming tour of Holland and Spain— and Jennifer was that third dancer. “I was so excited I wanted to scream but couldn’t because I was at work,” she said.

She signed a contract, began attending company class, and started rehearsals.

Testing Her Strength

Spain’s economical woes dashed MOMIX’s fall and winter touring plans. “I was going to be on the Holland tour, but they canceled the Spain tour,” explained Jennifer. “I was the only new girl on the Holland tour, and a retiring dancer needed one more tour, so I wasn’t chosen.”

For the month of November Jennifer was in limbo—technically a MOMIX dancer, but not dancing; still working at Victoria’s Secret, where the constant standing was taking a physical toll. She thought about attending other auditions, but at that time of year no company was holding them.

At times she struggled to keep her faith.

“I was upset in the beginning when I found out I wouldn’t be able to tour. That was a big blow for me. But I can’t control anything; everything happens for a reason. I know there’s something more, something better.”

That “something better” came in early December 2012. MOMIX told Jennifer they needed her for the March 2013 spring tour. At the time of this writing, she wasn’t sure if she’d be touring the U.S. or Hong Kong.

Jennifer’s first season as a professional dancer has taught her important lessons in perseverance, patience, and flexibility.

She can’t imagine doing anything else.

“Often times I do lose faith,” she admitted, “but I think that’s part of the journey.

UNM prepared me enough to know about the letdowns and getting up because something will give if I give.”

council, labor, and employment attorney. Previously Cyrus practiced law in Phoenix for 11 years.

J. Brent Moore (’98 JD), Santa Fe, has been elected to the 2013 State Bar of New Mexico Board of Bar Commissioners. He is a shareholder with the law firm of Montgomery & Andrews. His current practice focuses primarily on the fields of governmental relations, insurance regulation, and environmental law, and he assists clients J. Brent Moore with their lobbying efforts before the New Mexico legislature and with their regulatory needs before New Mexico governing agencies.

Maxwell S. Kagan, CPA (’99 BA, ’10 MBA), Albuquerque, has been the chief financial officer for Presbyterian Medical Group since January 2012.

Prior to this position, he was director of financial operations at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. Max also has been appointed to a two-year term as the chairman of the Bernalillo Maxwell S. Kagan County Audit Committee.

Jeffrey Alan Shannon (’99 JD), Taos, recently was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez as a magistrate judge in Taos County.

Elaine K. Carey (’99 PhD), Bellerose, N.Y., Chairperson and Associate Professor at St. John’s University, has been elected to a three-year term as vice president of the teaching division of the American Historical Association beginning in January 2013. Elaine has received numerous grants, including two Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellowships, two funding opportunities from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and grants from the National History Center and the Teagle Foundation.

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Photo by Christian Horstmann.

UNM Alumni Changing Worlds

Making a difference: Marilyn Melendez Dykman (left), director of the UNM Veteran’s Resource Center, with Roger and Kyla Thompson.

and we’ve worked very hard and have been privileged to have our careers.”

Dreams in Common Kyla, ’66 BA, and Roger Thompson’s planned gift to UNM supports education on multiple levels.

By Melissa W. Sais With an eye for dreams, a lot of hard work, and the inspiration of friends, Kyla and Roger Thompson developed a planned gift that extends directly from their hearts to the University of New Mexico.

“We started by wondering how we could make our dreams of giving come true,”

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said Kyla, a UNM alumna and former member of the UNM Foundation Board of Trustees for eight years and a former member of the UNM Alumni Association Board. “We began talking about what would be a great thing for us to do.

Neither Roger nor I inherited any money

Roger, a pioneering voice-over artist for television news stations across the country, got his start in broadcasting after his return from Vietnam and discharge from the U.S. Army in 1971. He’s also a master woodworker who specializes in Spanish colonial furniture.

Kyla, a crisis communications expert, grew up on a ranch in Maljamar in Lea County, N.M., and graduated from UNM. She owned a public relations firm in Denver for 25 years and has been a

Album consultant in New Mexico since 1998 when the Thompsons moved to the state from Denver. She has served on more than 20 boards in Denver, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. Kyla and Roger met in Denver and married 32 years ago.

Keeping Good Company

The Thompsons regularly draw inspiration from Albuquerque restaurateurs and close friends Dorothy and Larry Rainosek’s enthusiastic contributions to UNM. The two couples have similar paths, said Kyla. “We all came from meager beginnings with great parents and great support and went on, worked hard, and made it on our own.”

and to try to get your education,” Roger said. “One of the more saddening things to me about our country is we don’t take care of our vets once they’ve done their service. To help these vets get their education is important to me.” A trip to the Veterans Resource Center at UNM solidified his commitment.

“Vets need a transition from a place of war back to the world again,” he said.

“Their sacrifice is huge and we need to help them.”

Threefold Generosity

Other friends also played a role. One of the first people Kyla met as a freshman at UNM was Rick Johnson, founder of the Albuquerque advertising firm Rick Johnson & Co. “I adored him instantly and we became good friends,” Kyla said. “Rick’s death (in 2010) not only stunned us but just left this huge hole in our hearts. When the Anderson School announced the Rick and Debbie Johnson Marketing Center, I knew that was something I wanted to be a part of.”

These life experiences converged to form a planned gift to UNM divided into three equal parts. The Roger and Kyla Thompson Loan Fund for Student Veterans will provide loan forgiveness for veterans who complete their degrees.

The Kyla and Roger Thompson Communication Endowment at the Rick and Debbie Johnson Marketing Center will support the work of the center. And endowed Presidential Scholarships will give first preference to qualified students residing in Lea County to encourage more students from southeast New Mexico to attend UNM.

Participation in a recent Agent Orange study at the Veterans Administration Hospital started Roger thinking about helping veterans in any way that he could.

“I certainly know what it’s like to be a vet

“UNM is such an enormous universe that there is something there for everybody to become involved with,” Kyla said. “That’s what made the difference and it really did make some of our dreams come true.”

Have a Good Howl Our monthly email newsletter, The Howler, keeps Lobos up-to-date with Alumni Association news and events, as well as additional alumni profiles not published in Mirage. You can read it online at unmalumni. com/the-howler.html or subscribe to the email version by emailing a request to alumni@unm.edu.

Jessica M. Hernandez (’99 BA, ’02 JD), Albuquerque, is now working as deputy chief of staff in the office of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. Prior to this new position, Jessica served as Gov. Martinez’s general counsel.

Shannon L. Murdock (’99 BA, ’03 JD), Albuquerque, is an assistant attorney general. She recently received the State Bar Prosecutor of the Year Homer Campbell Award for Child Abuse Cases for 2012.

2000s Carlos A. Olivas (’00 BS) and his wife Tonimarie Vigil Olivas (’02 BS), Frisco, Texas, had a baby girl, Emily Amanda, on March 25, 2012. In September, Carlos was named Athletic Trainer of the Year for the Texas Baseball League by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society. Carlos is the athletic trainer for the Frisco RoughRiders, the Double-A Affiliate of the Texas Rangers.

Daniel P. Buttram (’00 BA, ’05 JD), Albuquerque, has joined Whitener Law Firm as an associate attorney.

Carmela Y. Romero (’01 BS, ’04 MA), Rio Rancho, has been working with the Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) for the past seven years. She currently is the juvenile community corrections program manager for the state of New Mexico. For the past four years, she has been on the Juvenile Justice Services Division administrative team.

She is the mother of an awesome 10-year-old.

Christina Lovato, MD (’01 BS, ’06 MD), Albuquerque, has joined Presbyterian Medical Group as an endocrinologist in Presbyterian’s Rio Rancho location.

Board-certified in internal medicine, Lovato previously was the primary care chief resident for internal medicine at the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Mary Louise Glennon Pepper (’03 MA), Albuquerque, is the owner of Healthy Relationships 101. Its mission is to provide relationship and parenting educational services for individuals and organizations. For more information, visit healthyrelationships101.com.

Amy L. Gottheimer (’04 BA), New York, N.Y., was honored as a National Association of Social WorkersNYC Emerging Leader in 2012. She obtained a MS in social work from Columbia University in 2008 and currently serves as program director for the Center for Urban Community Services Home to Stay/Scattered Site Apartment Program.

Michael A. Maldonado (’04 BBA), Los Gatos, Calif., was recently hired by Cisco Systems as senior manager of finance.

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Shelf Life Books by UNM Alumni

New Mexico Art Through Time: Prehistory to Present Joseph Traugott (’81 MA, ’83 MFA, ’94 PhD) Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012 This volume considers some 250 works of art from across a vast timelines of 14,000 years, expanding the definition of what constitutes art. The transition from these early works to contemporary art reflects changing economic, ethnic, ideological, religious, and cultural perspectives, while considering diversity, aesthetic complexity, and cultural breadth.

About the author: Joseph Traugott is the curator of 20th-century art at the New Mexico Museum of Art and the author of numerous books, including The Art of New Mexico: How the West Is One.

How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico Rudolfo Anaya (’63 BA, ’69 MA, ’72 MA); illustrations by Nicolás Otero, translation by Nasario García Rio Grande Books, 2012 Hollyhocks is a fanciful folk tale for children that helps explain the beautiful flowers that can be seen in all parts of New Mexico in the summer and fall.

Escaping Herod’s wrath, the angel Sueño takes the Holy Family to New Mexico by mistake. This tale shows how different cultures can work together peacefully and respect the land.

About the author: Rudolfo Anaya is one of the most influential and well-known Hispanic authors today. He has won many awards for his writing, including the National Endowment for the Arts Medal of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. A native New Mexican, Anaya has written many books, including The Santero’s Miracle and the seminal Bless Me, Ultima.

The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce Veronica E. Velarde Tiller (’70 BA, ’74 MA, ’76 PhD) and Mary M. Velarde Arcadia Publishing, 2012 This addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series boasts more than 200 vintage images as well as text about the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the northern New Mexico town to which they were relocated.

About the authors: Veronica Velarde Tiller and Mary Velarde are both members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Tiller is author of The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History and the Culture and Customs of Apache Indians and the publisher of Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country. Velarde is a graphic designer.

In the Dust of Time Donald L. Lucero (’65 MA, ’70 EdD) Sunstone Press, 2012 This novel completes Lucero’s trilogy, Voices in the Stillness, on New Mexico’s colonial history. Based on actual events, the book relates an account of the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 and its aftermath.

About the author: Donald Lucero is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Raynham, Mass. In his research for this book, Donald meticulously retraced the colonists’ deadly retreat during the Pueblo Revolt, as well as the trails of their attempts at reconquest.

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Secrets of the Plumed Saint: A Tale of Intrigue from Northern New Mexico Elizabeth Ann Galligan (’61 BA, ’95 PhD) ABQ Press, 2012 When the statue of the Santo Niño de Atocha disappears, village leaders suspect the culprits are among local hippies, Protestants, drug dealers, Anglos, and other outsiders. But when the statue mysteriously reappears and their chapel sacristan is attacked, Jay Sierra and his pal Ernie investigate. Longforgotten facts about the little statue take everyone by surprise and lead to the conclusion of this mystery set in the 1970s in northern New Mexico.

About the author: Author, poet, and educator Elizabeth Ann Galligan, Ph.D., is intimately familiar with the multicultural heritage of the Southwest and is enchanted by its ever-changing landscape, particularly that of northern New Mexico.

Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of the First Common-Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971 Joseph J. Snyder (’74 MA) Juniper House Library Publications, 2012 This book explores the origins and development of passenger services and operations on the oldest common-carrier railroad in the U.S. Lavishly illustrated, Baltimore and Ohio evokes the rich and storied past of the B&O passenger trains.

About the author: Joseph Snyder is a retired writer and editor. He has written for Washington Post, Sea Power Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and many others. He is a former writer and editor for the U.S. National Park Service and a Vietnam veteran.

Red Eagle’s Children:Weatherford vs.Weatherford et al.

Edited by J. Anthony Paredes (’64 MA, ’69 PhD) and Judith Knight The University of Alabama Press, 2012 Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as a window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American. The case, which went to the Alabama Supreme Court in 1851, provides a record of an attempt to interrelate and, perhaps, manipulate differences in cultures as they played out within the ritualized, arcane world of antebellum Alabama jurisprudence.

About the editors: J. Anthony Paredes is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Florida State University and is the founding series editor of the Contemporary American Indian Series at The University of Alabama Press. Judith Knight is retired from The University of Alabama.

Justice Betrayed: A Novel Jeffrey David Reynolds Sunstone Press, 2012 A murder trial, a jury deliberating on the death penalty, political corruption, and a staunch investigation set the stage for this story of two judges. One is a respected veteran of the bench who has risen to the chief justiceship of the state’s Supreme Court; the other is a young administrative law judge, unwilling to be swerved from his oath to uphold the law.

About the author: Jeffrey Reynolds, who attended UNM in the early 1980s, is an attorney who served as a judicial law clerk at the District Court in Albuquerque. He also served as staff attorney and pro se writ clerk for the U.S. District Court of New Mexico. His legal career culminated with an administrative law judgeship-hearing officer position for child support hearings in northeastern New Mexico. Jeffrey lives in Florida.

Album Kimberly Reiter, MD (’04 MD), Albuquerque, has joined Presbyterian Medical Group (PMS) as a rheumatologist at the PMS Rio Rancho clinic.

Tatiana Engelmann-Corp (’04 JD), Albuquerque, has joined Raines & Associates as an associate attorney.

Her practice focuses on all aspects of family law.

Erin S. Greenlee (’05 BS), Albuquerque, joined Hawks Aloft, Inc., as an avian biologist. She has 12 years of experience in research and manages projects such as nesting raptors of the upper Rio Grande Gorge, monitoring avifauna of the Valles Caldera and Jemez Ranger District, avian monitoring for the Bureau of Land Management, and projects for corporate clients such as PNM, New Mexico Gas Company, and Peabody Energy.

Ellen Dornan (’05 MA), Albuquerque, recently had her book, Forgotten Tales of New Mexico, published

by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. A reviewer for Pasatiempo magazine wrote, “Ironic and slightly offbeat, Forgotten Tales is a bit of a high-wire act over the minefields of New Mexico’s historical controversies. It’s also a handy field guide to the eccentric history of the land of New Mexico as it changed from kingdom to colony and from territory to state.”

William (Bill) Raynovich (’06 EdD), Omaha, Neb., associate professor and director of Creighton University’s Emergency Medical Services Education program, is the recipient of the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) Lifetime Achievement Award. Raynovich has devoted more than 45 years to the EMS profession as a clinician, educator, author, researcher, and national and international speaker.

A faculty member at Creighton for eight years, Raynovich is currently the senior editor of publications for Domain 3, the official journal of NAEMSE. Cody R. Rogers (’06 JD), Las Cruces, N.M., recently joined the law firm of Miller Stratvert, PA. Her practice will focus on civil rights and government entity defense, civil litigation, employment law, medical malpractice defense, and insurance claims. In 2011, the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association named Cody Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year.

Ambrosia Ortiz y Prentice (’07 BA), Albuquerque, recently graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and has begun practicing immigration law at Reinhardt Law Firm, P.C., in Albuquerque.

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Conversation: An Independent Voice Participants Carroll Cagle (’67 BA), editor in 196465, has focused his professional efforts at the interface of media, politics, and technology, working at state, regional, and national levels. He is the president of Cagle and Associates, Inc. Wayne Ciddio (’71 BA, ’81 MA) served as editor in 1969-70. Since 1995, he has been the executive secretary of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission.

Elizabeth Cleary (’13 BA) is the current editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. She studies journalism and French and has interned at KOB Channel 4 and the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Four former editors of the Daily Lobo, UNM’s student-run newspaper, plus the current editor gather to discuss the value of a college paper and the major stories and issues of their eras.

Moderated by V.B. Price, edited by Michelle G. McRuiz

V.B.: What is the value of an independent student newspaper to a university and to a community such as this?

Carroll: [Independence] is exhilarating but also sobering and daunting because you realize that it is all up to you and your colleagues. We had a great responsibility to do it right. Being independent gives Charles: We represented the student voice. you more opportunity to express yourself and allow others to use that venue—both We covered issues that mattered to them for the reportage and the viewpoints and challenged the administration, even put forth. on things like tuition hikes.

Wayne: During the time I was at UNM there was a lot of stuff on campus. We had a Student Publications Board chaired by [bestselling author and former chair of the Communication and Journalism department] Tony Hillerman. There was absolutely no attempt to censor or curtail what we were doing. There was a downside too; he allowed us to take our lumps so we could realize we should have thought it through, been a little more moderate.

Marisa DeMarco (’05 BA) was editor in 2004-05. She is the co-founder of an independent news website, New Mexico Compass (nmcompass.com).

Charles Poling (’82 BS, ’85 MA) served as editor in 1979-80. In his 30-plus years as an author, novelist, journalist, and magazine editor, he has most often written about architecture, homes, and the people who create them. He is currently developing a book about the hippie communes of the late 1960s.

Moderator: V.B. Price (’62 BA) has been writing, editing, and teaching in New Mexico for 50 years. Author or editor of 17 books, he has been the editor of New Mexico Magazine and Century Magazine, city editor of the New Mexico Independent, series editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen poetry series at UNM Press, and a political and environmental columnist for various publications since l971.

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Marisa: It serves as a training ground for taking a look at administration, the student body, ASUNM, legislative bodies, the Regents. It is a microcosm of what you get into when you leave the Lobo and begin covering the legislature, the governor, and Congress—although covering the university president and ASUNM are just as important.

Elizabeth: On a larger scale, what is the value of independent media to a community and the government?

We are all government watchdogs.

V.B.: Did you ever “scoop” the dailies? What were the stories?

Charles: We had Lobogate [the Lobo men’s basketball recruiting scandal], and that was a lot of fun. That was a big national story: CBS, 60 Minutes. There were times when we beat [the dailies] on

Album Chris J. Guillen (’07 BA), Albuquerque, spent the past five years working on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor and in private wealth management for Morgan Stanley in New York. He recently returned to the Land of Enchantment as a financial advisor for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Michael G. Jennings (’07 BS, ’10 MA), Albuquerque, is a research analyst at the American Society of Radiologic Technologists.

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certain aspects. I think we were out ahead a couple times and we were incredibly proud of that. We had good student sources. I remember knocking on the President’s door when that story broke.

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wages for the Physical Plant workers.

Their emergence and the Black Student Union’s boycott of Brigham Young University because of its policy against blacks were big issues. Kent State and Viet Nam, of course, pervaded that whole Elizabeth: I wasn’t chief editor at the era with protests and the National Guard time, but Isaac Avilucea’s story about football coach Mike Locksley’s altercation coming on campus. Turmoil, upheaval, student revolutions—it was a great time with his assistant coach, J.B. Gerald, was a national one. This year, we had a scoop to be the Lobo editor. on one aspect of the presidential search Carroll: The 60s really started around committee; a lobbyist for Governor 1965. Our focus was on the free speech movement. There were big protests and Martinez had found his way onto shutdowns at Berkley and Columbia. the committee.

The Lobo was a premier advocate for V.B.: What were the major free speech. Throughout the year, issues of the day, nationally we advocated for the W.E.B. Du Bois and internationally? group to organize, and on the other side, we advocated for George Lincoln Wayne: The United Mexican American Rockwell, the self-proclaimed [founder Students were advocating for better of the] American Nazi Party. The Lobo sponsored him to come here to speak, but not because we supported what he said. After we invited him, the Vice President of Student Affairs, Sherman Smith, called me and said we had to talk.

I gave him my spiel about free speech and he saw that I was adamant. He said, “I have to call Tom” [President Tom Popejoy]. He got Tom out of a dentist’s chair and told him, “Carroll’s here and he is determined to bring in Rockwell.” After the conversation, Sherman looked at me with disgust and said, “Bring him on.”

Rockwell showed up at the airport in full Moderator: V. B. Price Nazi regalia, and sure enough, there was

Deanna V. Armijo (’07 BA, ’11 MBA), Rio Rancho, is an investor relations analyst with PNM Resources. On September 7, 2012, she, along with other employees and guests of PNM, visited the New York Stock Exchange to mark the company’s 40th anniversary of trading on the NYSE. Lisa N. Anderson (’07 BA), Placitas, N.M., has joined the Department of Veterans Affairs Albuquerque VA Medical Center as a social worker in outpatient mental health.

Barry J. Berenberg (’07 JD), Albuquerque, has joined Modrall Sperling Law Firm. His practice focuses on insurance defense, commercial litigation, real estate, intellectual property, and general torts. Previously he was a solo practitioner in Albuquerque.

Ian C. Paul (’07 MPT), Ruidoso, N.M., has joined the staff of Lincoln County Medical Center as a physical therapist.

Madhusudhana Rao Dowlapalli (’08 PhD), Decatur, Ill., began work as a process electrochemist at Ascend Performance Materials, Technology Division, in October 2011. He previously worked as a chemical engineer at the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials in Carlsbad, N.M. and as a scientist at Calera Corporation in Los Gatos, Calif.

Matthew M. Beck (’08 BA, ’12 JD), Albuquerque, began a law clerkship with The Honorable James O. Browning of the Federal District Court for the District of New Mexico in September 2012.

Lindsay E. Ruska Drennan (’08 BA, ’11 JD), Albuquerque, has joined Allen, Shepherd, Lewis & Syra PA. Drennan previously clerked for Robles, Rael and Anaya PC and Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb PA while in law school.

Jarrin M. Solomon (’08 BA), Albuquerque, received a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, making him only the second former Lobo to receive a medal from the games. Jarrin ran the second leg for Trinidad and Tobago men’s 4×400-meter relay team, which finished in 2 minutes, 59.4 seconds in the August 10 final. Trinidad and Tobago’s team placed third behind gold-medal winner the Bahamas and silver-medal winner the United States.

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From left to right: Elizabeth Cleary, Charles Poling, Marisa DeMarco, Carroll Cagle, Wayne Ciddio, and V. B. Price.

a huge turnout of people booing the guy.

He got nowhere and showed perfectly how free speech works.

Wayne: When I was the editor, the Associated Students Speakers Bureau brought Strom Thurmond in to speak.

There had just been a school bus of black children attacked in South Carolina. Bill Orzen and a couple of other students stood up just as he was about to speak and shouted him down. Thurmond finally gave up and left the stage.

V.B.: How did the administration approach the independence of the Lobo? Did you have clashes with the administration?

Marisa: This is one of my defining memories of my work with the Lobo: The clash with the president [Louis Caldera] regarding funding where [UNM] offered to pay us to phase out [strip club] TD’s advertisements. This was at the beginning of my term. Caldera remained angry with me for a long time. At the end of my term, I wrote an editorial about the student government. I said their campaigns were unrelated to student needs. They

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advocated to raise tuition when their role is to advocate for the students. They subpoenaed me, and I discovered they had the power to have someone removed from school if the student doesn’t consent to the subpoena. I refused to go and my parents were very concerned that I wouldn’t get my diploma.

Charles: We started the [Lobogate] basketball stories in September [1979].

[Lobogate] often came up in editorials.

Tony Hillerman was our mentor, but he was also the special assistant to President Bud Davis. It put Tony in a difficult situation, but there were some back-channel communications that were actually very helpful in developing our judgment.

V.B.: Did you ever interview Bud? Charles: Yes. In January [1980] or so, I did a long interview with him on the proper place of athletics: Are they too big? Why is the competition so intense? Lobogate was about falsifying grades and transcripts, gifts for students and families of students, massive NCAA violations, and some criminal activity as well. He had some explaining to do.

V.B.: When you three [Carroll, Wayne, and Charles] were editors, the technology was basically the same. But you two [Marisa, Elizabeth] are in the middle of the greatest revolution in news reporting and global dissemination of information. When it comes to the basics, is there any major difference between doing Internet news and print news?

Marisa: I don’t think the news needs to be about the people delivering it. I also think you need to be ready to break stories now.

You put it online right then, go back and correct your grammar and update it. You also have to be able to edit audio and video for online media.

V.B.: But the gathering of information is the same?

Marisa: It should be. Some people are cool with email interviews. [On nmcompass. com] I have guidelines banning those.

Face-to-face or phone calls are best.

You have to resist some of the modern conveniences that afford more anonymity.

Album Jenny L. Beare (’09 BA, ’11 JD), Rio Rancho, has joined Allen, Shepherd, Lewis, Syra, & Chapman, PA. Her practice focuses primarily in the areas of insurance defense and commercial litigation.

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There are many new challenges, but the fundamentals of telling good stories, taking good pictures, and in-depth writing have not changed.

Wayne: When I was the Lobo editor, we still had manual typewriters. The newspaper was set in lead galleys in the back. [Business manager] Dick Pfaff would bring me the cost of the Daily Lobo each day with the cost of resetting the type. Every time you edited something, you had to set a new line of lead type. The college news service was new; we didn’t have an abundance of information at our fingertips. We had to dig it out.

Marisa: I can’t imagine reporting without Google! I know the Internet isn’t a solid, factual information source, but if you play it smart, you can usually find what you need. How did you check name spelling?

Wayne: A phone call!

Elizabeth: We don’t allow stories to run unless there has been a thorough online search. I test the reporters and ask them about online information I find. If they don’t know what I’m talking about, I send the stories back.

Carroll: The thing that concerns me is quality control in journalism. There is a plethora of venues to find so-called “information.” I went to a conference a while back that showed how people receive their news and information. The Internet is the biggest source; print media is the smallest and is shrinking. What is the source [for Internet news]? There are great benefits to Google searches and all the data available with a mouse click, but when you trace it down, two things concern me: 1) The celebrity part—what Charlie Sheen or whoever has done recently; 2) Who are the journalists?

Are they following rigorous journalistic

DeAnza M. Valencia Sapien (’09 JD), Albuquerque, has been named the Executive Director of the Regional Coalition of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Communities. Sapien DeAnza M. Valencia Sapien is a New Mexico attorney with over 15 years of experience in public policy, government, political, and community affairs.

Phoenix Le Nguyen (’09 BBA, ’11 MBA), Albuquerque, is an audit associate in the Albuquerque office KPMG, LLP, a nationwide audit, tax, and advisory services firm.

Gabriel Cruz (’09 BBA, ’12 MBA), Albuquerque, is a staff accountant in the audit and consulting department of REDW, LLC. Steven A. Romero (’09 BA, ’12 JD), Taos, was sworn into the State Bar of New Mexico. He is working as a prosecutor in the Eighth Judicial District Attorney’s office in Taos.

Peter Callan (’10 AAS), Taos, has self-published two books: Prepare to Die! And Other Stuff Nobody Told You and Preparing for the Inevitable: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Death. Both books help individuals and families address end-of-life issues. Peter is currently working toward a bachelor’s degree at UNM-Taos.

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standards? It is hard to say where their content came from, and it may or may not be accurate or valid. This creates a certain ambiguity and doubt about the content wherever it appears. Whether it appears on the web or in a hard copy, that doesn’t matter as much as where it originated and the journalistic role that got it there in the first place.

To read an extended version of this story, please visit unmalumni.com/ daily-lobo-editors.html.

Anthony J. Zancanella (’10 BMus), Albuquerque, recently joined Opera Southwest as managing director. Prior to joining Opera Southwest, Anthony earned a MBA in arts administration from the University of Cincinnati.

Julie M. Kidder (’10 BArch, ’12 March), Tijeras, N.M., has joined the Hartman + Majewski Design Group in Albuquerque as an architectural designer.

Salim S. Shakir (’10 BBA, ’12 MBA), Albuquerque, has joined Atkinson & Co. as a staff accountant in the audit department. He is a member of the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Danielle Brower (’11 BA), Missouri, recently accepted the position of affiliate relations representative for Learfield Sports, in Missouri. She manages the company’s various radio networks at its more than 50 collegiate properties around the country and maintains and grows its radio partnerships.

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Brummell Cherishes Lobo Memories Bernard “Gig” Brummell (’61 BBA) has lived and played with dedication and a lot of heart.

By Steve Carr (’90 BA)

time for the youngster.

“I was very close to my mom,” said Brummell, “as close as a 6-yearold could be. She was very caring and protective, but we still had to survive and thrive.”

It was the fall of 1957 when Gig returned to the Land of Enchantment to attend UNM. The Santa Fe native had moved to Boonville, Mo., a rural farming town, to live with his grandparents after his mother died when he was 6. It was a traumatic

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Brummell did indeed survive and even considered himself lucky. He attended a small parochial high school close to the University of Missouri where there were only 19 graduates in his senior class, nine of them boys who played sports yearround. It took a long time for Brummell to recover emotionally from losing his mother, and athletics proved to be a great solace.

“We played whatever sport was going on,” said Brummel. “We even climbed through a bathroom window when the school was closed and would shoot around in the gym.”

Getting Noticed

As a high school senior, Brummell had more than 40 letters of interest from colleges and was actively recruited by several, including Kansas, Duquesne, Southwest Missouri State, and UNM. A 5-10 point guard, he scored more than 40 points in multiple games and averaged 23 points per game. He was originally recruited to play basketball at UNM, but baseball was still in the back of his mind.

Brummell played on the freshman basketball team for Bill Stockton, then Bob Sweeney on the varsity squad.

He went

on to become a three-year letter-winner in basketball, and during the 1958-59 season, he led the team in scoring, averaging 10.6 points per game as its sophomore captain.

He was also the Lobos leading free throw shooter as a sophomore and senior, and was ranked in the top 10 nationally, hitting more than 70 percent of his free throws.

While the Lobos record was unimpressive back then, Brummell’s list of memories isn’t. He recalled a victory over nationally ranked Wyoming with All-American guard Tony Windis that stood out, and close games with Utah and Bill “The Hill” McGill, a seven-foot monster, as well as a tilt against the University of Detroit and All-American Dave DeBusschere.

“Serving as captain of the Lobos, leading the team in scoring one year, and placing in the top 10 in the country in free throw shooting percentage will be in my memory forever,” said Brummell.

But the memories he’s the fondest of during his days at UNM include being a two-sport letter-winner and the friends he made along the way, such as teammates Larry Winters, Bill Reid, Francis Coffee, Larry Neely, Tom King (who still holds several rebounding records for UNM), and others who remain his friends today.

Basketball season usually ended the first week in March, and just like when he was a kid, Brummell would shift to the next sport: Baseball.

“As a freshman, I contacted Coach George ‘Stormy’ Petrol regarding playing baseball after the basketball season,” recalled Brummell. “Stormy was very encouraging, which began my baseball career at UNM in my freshman year.”

Brummell became an outstanding pitcher and three-time letter-winner in baseball (1959-61), earning all-conference honors in the old Skyline Conference in 1959 and First Team All-Skyline Conference in 1960 and 1961. He went on to sign a professional contract with the

Albuquerque Dukes, then an affiliate of the Kansas City Athletics, now Oakland Athletics. He played three years in the Athletics Minor League System, which had an outstanding minor league farm system at the time. In 1963, he tied a Midwest League and Sporting News strikeout record with 17 strikeouts in a single game. However, bursitis cut short his professional career.

Skills to Keep

Brummell was well-liked and active at UNM: He was sophomore class president, a member of the Student Lettermen’s Club, and involved in student government. After graduation, he opened and managed eight offices for the securities firm Dean Witter Reynolds in New Mexico and El Paso. His branch was recognized as one of the top five Morgan Stanley Dean Witter branch offices in the U.S. and the No. 1 branch in the Southwest for nine straight years.

He retired from business 12 years ago.

Brummell continues his commitment to his alma mater, through his involvement with the Anderson School of Management, Athletics, the Alumni Lettermen’s Association, and the Alumni Association. He also serves on as a trustee on the board of Sandia Foundation, chairs its investment committee, and is involved with other organizations.

“My community involvement has been extremely important to me and is even more so now,” said Brummell.

“I encourage all Lobo alums and athletes to recognize the special opportunities we have enjoyed as a result of being graduates and athletes representing this great institution, and to make a sincere effort to give back in talent, time, and treasure.”

Steve Carr has spent the majority of his professional career publicizing UNM. He spent eight years in the Athletics Department in the Media Relations office and is now in his 13th year on main campus in the University Communication and Marketing Department (UCAM).

Album Emily E. Kowalchuk (’11 MS), Tijeras, N.M., has joined the engineering firm of Souder, Miller, & Associates. She provides design and project management on water-related projects throughout central New Mexico.

Aida M. Adams (’11 JD), Albuquerque, has joined the Jeff Diamond Law Firm. Working from the firm’s Rio Rancho office, she focuses on Social Security disability, personal injury, and short- and long-term disability.

Russell D. Bustamente (’11 BBA), Albuquerque, is accounting supervisor at Daniel B. Stephens & Associates.

Kyle W. Decker (’12 BME), Albuquerque, has received his commission as a naval officer and is now on board the USS Independence.

Virginia A. Morgan (’12 PharmD), St. Petersburg, Fla., has joined Triad Isotopes, Inc. as a staff pharmacist in its St. Petersburg location. Triad compounds and delivers a wide variety of radiopharmaceutical products to local hospitals and nuclear medicine facilities.

Lindsey A. Padilla (’12 BA), Socorro, N.M., has joined El Defensor Chieftain as a general assignment reporter. El Defensor is a biweekly newspaper serving Socorro County.

Lisa Harrison (’12 BBA), Albuquerque, is the staff accountant for the audit department of Atkinson & Co. She is a member of the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Ruth E. Senior (’12 MBA), Albuquerque, is an audit associate in the Albuquerque office KPMG, LLP, a nationwide audit, tax, and advisory services firm.

Michele A. Racicot (’12 MSN), Albuquerque, has joined Adult Health Care as a certified nurse practitioner. She is a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dan A. Akenhead (’12 JD), Albuquerque, has joined the law firm of Miller Stratvert, PA.

Marriages Kevin M. Arnold, ’09 BBA, and Danielle Arnold Sam R. Auerbach, ’04 BS, ’07 MA, and Maeghan Bruce Aaron C. Baca, ’10 JD, and Rachel Baca Justin R. Benally, ’00 BSME, ’05 BSEE, and Valerie Benally Steven L. Carr, ’90 BA, and Sharon Carr Lisa M. Fairley, ’00 AAS, ’03 BA, ’07 MA, and Anthony Fairley

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You All Were Superheroes at Homecoming 2012

Lance Richards and Marissa Livingston were crowned Homecoming King and Queen at half-time.

Chris Guillen (’07 BBA), Athanasios “Nas” Manole (’09 BA), Billy Ninopoulos, and Christopher Villegas (’06 BBA).

Cash Sponsors UNM Division of Student Affairs Liberty Mutual Gifts in Kind Bright Ideas Cumulus Media Lithexcel Albuquerque City Transit/Lamar Hobby Lobby Store #70 Monroe’s New Mexican Food Bueno Foods

Homecoming Committee Nancy Herring (chair) Steve Carr Brad Hutchins Jessica Jaramillo Ashley Leach Lisa Lindquist Ryan Lindquist Argy Maniatis Cory Montoya Laura Montoya Melissa O’Neill Florencio Olguin Roberta Ricci Candy Romero Frieda Archuleta Stewart Leslie Venzuela Danny Vigil Madison Warren

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On October 6, the Lobos trounced the Texas State Bobcats 35 to 14.

“Super U” was the theme for Homecoming, October 1-7, 2012. All week, the campus celebrated through lectures, symposia, tours, games, receptions, luncheons—and, of course, reunions. For its annual Homecoming community service project, UNM collected toiletries for the Albuquerque Public Schools Homeless Project

Reunion Coordinators University Honors: Marcia Glenn Spanish and Portuguese: Enrique LaMadrid Baseball Team: Coach Ray Birmingham Soccer Team: Madison Warren Homecoming 100 Club Karen Abraham All Sports Trophies Joseph and Dorothy Baca Laura and Stephen Bass Jim and Yvonne Beckley Steve and Judy Chreist Tom Daulton James Jimenez Bill and Susan Littlefield Bob and Betsy Murphy Mary O’Hara Dorothy and Larry Rainosek John and Terri Salazar Bob Stamm and Mary Herring Duffy Swan Waneta Tuttle Robert and Elizabeth Wertheim John and Carol Zonski Other Acknowledgements Arturo Chávez, Homecoming poster artist Crowne Plaza Hotel

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Echo Design, Kelly Ketner Fairfield Inn by Marriott The March Company Michael Mellas, Photographer Norman Johnson Photography Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel Sign and Image Factory Sodexo Sports and Leisure UNM Air Force ROTC UNM Athletic Facilities Department (special thanks to Matt McKernan) UNM Lobo Club UNM Bookstore UNM Communications and Marketing UNM Copy Center UNM Dean of Students Office UNM Marching Band UNM Men’s Soccer UNM Office of the President UNM Parking and Transportation UNM Physical Plant UNM Spirit Group UNM Student Activities UNM Student Homecoming Committee UNM Student Housing UNM Student Quartet, Bradley Ellingboe, Director

and toilet paper rolls for the Ronald McDonald House.

Super U was a success due to the superhuman efforts of our alumni, volunteers, donors, faculty, staff, students, and sponsors. The Alumni Association wants to thank all of you for being UNM’s superheroes during Homecoming.

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Baum’s Music Beauty Secrets by Virginia Best Western Inn and Suites Bhava Yoga Studio Big River Raft Trips Biren Family Bishop’s Lodge Resort and Spa Blue Sky Images Bob’s Steak and Chop House Bradford Renaissance Portraits Bueno Brand Food Products Buffalo Thunder Resort Buffalo Thunder Resort Towa Golf Club Canine Country Club and Feline Inn Cara Mia Esthetics at Head Over Hills for You Hair and Nails Casa Verde Salon and Spa Cashmere Rouge Spa Cervantes Food Products George Chew Clampitt Paper The Cleanery Cliff ’s Amusement Park Cocina Azul Brian Colón Contact Lens Associates The Cooperage Copper Canyon Café Dee’s Cheesecake Factory Dr. Daniel Defazio, DDS

Defined Fitness Dion’s Pizza Diva D’Luxe Double Time Dance Studio Duran Central Pharmacy Durango Mountain Resort El Rancho De Las Golondrinas Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum of Albuquerque Farina Five Star Burgers Four Hills Country Club French Funerals and Cremations Frank Frost Photography Gardenswartz Team Sales Gold Rush Cupcakes Graphic Connection The Grove Café and Market Guava Tree Café Gyros Mediterranean Hair Etc. by Dominic Herrera Heritage Hotels and Resorts High Finance Restaurant and Sandiago’s Mexican Grill Hinkle Family Fun Center Hispaniae Historic Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas Holman’s House of Soccer Hyatt Regency Albuquerque Il Vicino Isleta Eagle Golf Course Isotopes Baseball Club Robin Jackson Photography Jiffy Lube Jinja Bar and Bistro Kaboom Test Labs Kelly’s Brew Pub Kitchen Concepts Southwest LLC KNME Public Television La Posada de Taos Inn Las Puertas Liberty Gym Inc. Lithexcel Lobo Men’s Shop Lynn Garlick Retablos Manning Florist Marc’s Guitar Center Marriott Dallas Plano at Legacy Town Center Mary Kay Cosmetics Masks y Más Michelle McRuiz Melba Floral Studio Mercedes Benz, Porche, and Audi of Albuquerque Mimi Green Designer Dog Collars Monroe’s New Mexican Food Music Maker – Eleanor McKinnon National Restaurant Supply New Mexico Bio Park Society New Mexico Department of Agriculture New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation New Mexico Sports and Wellness Now We’re Cooking Octopus Car Wash Old Town Emporium Ashlynne Padilla Palms Trading Co. Papa John’s Pizza Paraje Taos, LLC Pendaries Village Portrait Innovations Preciado Mexican Imports Private Balloon Flights RDM Consulting June Romero Route 66 Dry Cleaners Sadie’s SAFE US, LLC Saggio’s Salon FX

San Francisco Street Bar and Grill Sandia Peak Ski Area Sandia Peak Tramway Santa Fe Ski Area Savory Fare Scarpa’s Sign and Image Factory, LLC Silk Road Connections Soccer Connection Frieda Stewart Stream of Life Massage Therapy Tango Downtown Tanoan Country Club and Tennis Taos Ski Valley, Inc. Tennis Club of Albuquerque Three Dog Bakery Tia Betty Blue’s Tier One Productions (TOP), LLC TNT Youth Strengthening and Conditioning Toni and Guy Hairdressing Academy Charlene Chavez Tunney UNM Baseball UNM Basketball—Men’s UNM Basketball—Women’s UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts/Popejoy Hall UNM Championship Golf Course UNM Football UNM Golf—Men’s UNM Golf—Women’s UNM Lobo Athletics UNM President’s Office UNM Press UNM Recreational Services UNM Ski Team UNM Soccer—Men’s UNM Soccer—Women’s UNM Spirit Program UNM Tennis—Men’s UNM Tennis—Women’s UNM Department of Theatre and Dance UNM Volleyball The UPS Store at Academy and Wyoming Upward Motion Personal Training Mike Vialpando, Artisan Weems Galleries Wells Fargo Bank Whole Woman Yoga Bill Wiley Cody Willard Working Boy Productions Zinc Wine Bar and Bistro Carl and Deanne Zirker Artists and Authors Joe Abbin Archie Archuleta Richard Baty Joanne Bodin Dick Brown Pat Byrnes Janet Chapman Arturo Chavez Kitty Chilton Raphael Cristy Bill Dunmire Mel Eisenstadt Pauline Eisenstadt Nell Farrell Nasario Garcia Bob Gish Kirk Gittings Fermin Hernandez Van Dorn Hooker Tony Hunt Nancy Krenz Patricia McArdle VB Price Chris Schultis Neal Singer Lawrence Straus Maya Sutton Mike Thomas Yellowman

Homecoming Campus Decorating Contest Participants Accessibility Resource Center American Indian Student Services Anderson School of Management BA/MD Degree Program Cancer Center Research Administration College Enrichment Program College Enrichment and Outreach Programs—TRIO Chartwells Dining Services Economics Enrollment Management—One Stop Enrollment Management—SSSC Health Exercise and Sports Sciences Internal Audit Mailing Services Office of Community Health Office of the President Psychology Recreational Services Residence Life—Santa Clara/ Laguna DeVargas Residence Life—SRC Residence Life—Hokona Residence Life—Redondo Village School of Engineering Student Union Marketing University Communications and Marketing University Honors Program UNM Foundation Homecoming Campus Decorating Contest Prize Donors Air Force ROTC Anderson Business School Career Services College Enrichment Program Community Outreach and Education Program Chartwells Dining Services New Student Orientation Popejoy Hall Recreational Services Student Activities Student Housing UNM Bookstore UNM Sustainability Services UNM Volleyball Alumni Relations Staff Karen Abraham Jane Algermissen Kate Ayala Ashley Benakis Elaine Chew Kim Feldman Trevor Ketner Victoria Lujan-Beserra Sue MacEachen Michelle McRuiz Camille Pansewicz Darnell Pollard Kathie Scott Charlene Chavez Tunney Maria Wolfe Volunteers Duffy Swan Wayne Chew Tessa A. Krause Phyllis Benia Salazar Dianne Anderson Matthew Segura Francine Stewart Donna Balduini Bob Algermissen Eugene Lujan Lobo Lucy Lobo Louie Soccer Tailgate Volunteers Joseph Archuleta Bob Kelly Alexis and Gabriel Lopez Dan Moynihan Antoinette Pacheco Dominique Romero

Album Marriages Susannah E. Fedorowich, ’00 BA, and Michael Fedorowich Theresa M. Greeno, ’04 BA, and Christopher Greeno Sonia M. Herrera, ’05 BBA, and Dominic Martinez Charles F. Lee, ’78 BS, and Martha Lee Steven J. Lucero, ’06 BSEE, ’10 JD, and Heather Yeo Amber D. McIlhaney, ’07 BSED, and Christopher Bitakis, ’04 BBA Katie M. Nicolas ’11 BS, and Jonathan Nicolas Ilene M. Strain, ’09 BS, and Miguel Cervantes de Toro Eric J. Telles ’89 BBA, ’10 MBA, and Tracy Telles

In Memoriam Virginia (Mcmanus) LaPine, ’28

Pricilla L. (Prater) Risk, ’45

Alta L. (Black) Briscoe, ’34

Evelyn (Ellis) Byrd, ’46

Margaret E. Landis, ’34

Betty (Bennett) Ely, ’46

Michael J. McGuinness, Jr. ’34

William H. Flocken, ’46

Esther M. (Nielsen) Strong, ’34

Maxine R. (Hill) Hopping, ’46

Margaret L. N. (Naylor)

Abenicio R. Lopez, ’46

Richard L. Nye, ’46

Cooke, ’35

Marie E. (Jenson) Hays, ’36

Celia G. (Griego) Romero, ’46

Esther H. Preston, ’36

Bert L. Gentry, ’47

Ruth W. (Witzel) Rose, ’36

Avelino V. Gutierrez, ’47, ’50

Frances (Vanstone) Kauerz, ’37

Valerie O. (Steger)

Maxine H. (Rideout) Goodell, ’38

Koschnick, ’47

Ernest Garcia, ’39

Paula Kathleen (Williams)

Barbara (Clark) McKnight, ’39

John F. Sheldon, MD, ’39

James M. Prichard, ’47

Dixie B. (Boyd) Zickefoose, ’39

Marvin O. Romme, ’47

Eda (Anderson) Baird, ’40

Eva (Candelaria) Velarde, ’47

Lawhorn, ’47

Paul C. (Woode) Bossemeyer, ’41 Frank A. Camm, ’48 Grace L. (Littlefield) Evans, ’41

Marjorie K. (Korn) Chadwick, ’48

Jacqueline H. (Dearing)

Lowell C. Cozzens, ’48, ’53

Herbert Goldman, ’48

Nolan, ’41

Marcelin A. Baca, ’42

John G. Grant, ’48

Bill C. Boswell, ’42

The Honorable Norman

Victor L. Cargile, ’42

Ann C. (Batchelor) Frey, ’42

Naomi (Ferree) Jordan, ’48

Jean (Cummings) Jones, ’42

Frederick H. Martens, ’48

Jose B. Montoya, ’42

Ulric B. Patrick, Sr. ’48

Alma E. Thomas, ’42

Gretchen (Rupert) Sammis, ’48

Esther A. (Allen) Lawson, ’43

Dorothy K. (Elam) Vigil, ’48

Thomas H. McCarthy, ’43

William T. Ashby, ’49

Robert A. Rehm, Jr. ’43

William J. Baisley, ’49

Morgan G. Smith, ’43

Margaret J. (Disharoon)

Carl F. Cramer, ’44, ’48

Everett B. Huxtable, ’44

Edward P. Brooks, ’49

Joel L. Lacey, Sr. ’44

Dorothy A. (Quinn) Connelly, ’49

Philip B. Mutz, ’44

Jeanne F. Davidson, ’49

Tony R. Tagliaferro, ’44

Hal L. Dobkins, ’49, ’55

J. Wayne Woodbury, ’44

Walter R. Eden, ’49

Janet E. (Neuman) Collins, ’45

Carl M. Frantz, ’49

Jane H. (Morrow) Owensby, ’45

Jon W. Frost, ’49

Hodges, ’48, ’51

Bower, ’49

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Lobos of Distinction Honoring Outstanding Alumni

Derek J. Smith

In February 2013, the Alumni Association announced the winners of four prestigious awards.

Every February, the UNM Alumni Association presents four awards to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the University and the community. The James F. Zimmerman Award goes to an alumnus who has brought fame and honor to UNM or to the state of New Mexico. The Bernard S. Rodey Award recognizes those whose leadership efforts have contributed significantly to the field of education. The Erna S. Fergusson Award honors exceptional accomplishments, commitments, and distinguished service to UNM. The Faculty Teaching Award recognizes full-time UNM

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James G. Ellis

Angie L. Vachio

faculty who have provided outstanding teaching and service to students.

Derek J. Smith (’94 MS, ’97 PhD) received the James F. Zimmerman Award. Derek is a zoology professor at the University of Cambridge in England. He received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award of $2.5 million for his groundbreaking research on the influenza virus and predictions of how pathogens, particularly influenza, will evolve.

James G. Ellis (’68 BBA) won the Bernard S. Rodey Award. James is the Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has been a professor of marketing at the school since 1997.

John D. Benavidez

Angie L. Vachio (’75 MA, ’02 HOND) received the Erna S. Fergusson Award.

Angie is the co-founder and executive director emerita of the Peanut Butter & Jelly Family Services, Inc. John D. Benavidez (’94 BBA, ’97 MBA) won the Faculty Teaching Award.

Benavidez has been teaching at Anderson School of Management since 1997. His areas of focus are advertising, digital marketing, promotions management, and marketing management, among other topics.

This year, the winners were honored at the “Call to Honor” dinner on February 21 at Hotel Andaluz. For biographies of the award winners, visit unmalumni. com/awards.

Zia Awards Homecoming is a weeklong annual celebration of everything connected to UNM. For the Alumni Association, the crowning event of Homecoming is the presentation of our Zia Awards to six distinguished alumni living in New Mexico, and our Lobo Award to an alumnus who has shown exceptional

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personal service to UNM. We gave these awards at the All University Breakfast on October 6. President Robert G. Frank was in attendance, as were Alumni Association President Duffy Swan, the Alumni Relations Office staff, and family and friends of the awardees.

John Cordova

Aileen Garcia

In Memoriam Jesse R. Hagy, ’49, ’51

Stockton A. Andrews, ’52

Philip T. Hayes, ’49, ’51

Malcolm I. Berman, ’52

Jeanne (Wells) Keating, ’49

Thomas E. Breece, Jr. ’52

Edward F. Klein, Sr. ’49

Myron K. Carson, ’52, ’85

Leonard W. Meeks, ’49

Alice R. (Wood) Dement, ’52

Edmund A. Miera, ’49

Marshall S. Floyd, ’52, ’56

James C. Patterson, ’49

Stella M. (Shaffer) Jordan, ’52

Frances L. (Hale) Priebe, ’49

Donald G. Litchfield, ’52

Charles J. Smith, ’49

George E. Lloyd, ’52, ’68

Johnny L. Stoops, ’49

Rolf W. Meier, ’52

Lyman F. Weaver, ’49

Florentino Montoya, ’52

Eugene Williams, Jr. ’49

Sylvia S. (Senior) Russell, ’52

Philip M. Williams, ’49

Daphne D. (Cowper)

Robert J. Blount, ’50

Robert D. Boulter, ’50

Garrett N. Vick, Sr. ’52

Richard S. Carlton, ’50

Elizabeth C. Wesenberg, ’52

Col. Isidore M. Casaus, ’50

Roy R. Boyd, ’53

Albert D. Corbin, ’50

J. F. Branson, Jr. ’53

George G. Curry, ’50

Robert F. Ciesiel, ’53

Thomas W. Eglinton, ’50

Billy D. Crane, ’53

Gwinn Bub Henry, III, ’50

Joan G. (Kopko) Gluth, ’53

Lt. Robert C. Hodges, ’50

Aaron Schechter, ’53

Lowry G. Kinzer, ’50, ’58

Paul W. Stein, ’53

Joe E. Pearce, ’50

George Louis Thomas, ’53, ’71

Truett L. Randolph, ’50

Boyd R. Whitson, ’53

John F. Salazar, ’50

Antonio Archuleta, Jr. ’54

Lewis B. Seward, ’50

Col. John R. Burke, ’54

Veronica S. Sieminski, ’50

Jean H. (Walpole) Cowden, ’54

Oliver R. Smith, ’50

Andrew R. Durand, ’54

Rev. Dan C. Stringer, ’50

Virginia M. (Roybal)

Playford V. Thorson, II,

Jean (Drake) Hendrickson, ’54

PhD, ’50, ’50

Vaughn, ’52, ’67

Gonzales, ’54

Jack F. Ullman, ’50

Weldon B. Hunter, ’54

Michael L. Yaffee, PhD, ’50

Edmund V. Keehan, ’54, ’55

Gregory M. Zaccaria, ’50

G. James Machacek, ’54

2012 Zia Awards

Homer B. Adams, ’51

Robert G. Tresner, ’54

David L. Becker, ’51

Lois M. Wagner, ’54

Brian Colón (’01 JD), partner of Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C.

Rhonda King (’88 BBA), state representative

Philip A. Braaton, ’51

Eleazar V. Arvizu, ’55

Eliot K. Buckingham, ’51

Charles L. Dickinson, ’55

Helen W. (Wyatt) Buescher, ’51

Jeanne Fargo, ’55

Edward Gonzalez (’71 BFA), artist

Aileen Garcia (’82 MA), educator

George D. Buffett, ’51

Albert Goodman, ’55, ’61

Paul Robert Guthals, ’51

Charles E. Harper, Jr. ’55

John Cordova (’61 BS), president of Cordova Public Relations, Inc.

Baker Morrow (’69 BA, ’97 MA), landscape architect, professor, and author

Sarah D. Huber, ’51

Robert A. Hayes, ’55, ’69

John M. Hutchins, Jr. ’51

Ralph P. Johnson, ’55

Barbara A. (Bigbee) Irwin, ’51

Beatrice Joy (Lauderbach)

Joyce A. Johnson, ’51, ’51

Virginia K. (Ritzmiller)

Bobby A. Langell, ’55

Virginia J. (Wehmhoner)

Edward Gonzalez

Rhonda King

2012 Lobo Award Rosalie Otero (’77 MA, ’84 PhD), director of the UNM Honors Program and associate dean of University College

Rosalie Otero

Baker Morrow

Johnson, ’51

Kennedy, ’55

Elaine F. (Aronow) Koester, ’51

Harry E. Koester, ’51, ’58

Ralph Melbourne, Sr. ’55

Luedke, ’55

Gene Langseth, ’51

Gloria (Silva) Olson, ’55

Duane L. Logan, ’51

Benjamin R. Padgett, ’55

Justin B. Rinaldi, ’51

Walter C. Smith, ’55

Ray J. Rogers, ’51

Patricia (Cunningham)

Charles R. Snyder, ’51

Conrad Joseph Stack, ’51

Sam Thompson, III, ’55

Taylor, ’55

Barbara A. (Mchenry) Sweet, ’51 Lt. Col. Harry G. Birkelo, ’56 Betty Ann A. (Kearns) Zaice, ’51

Norma J. Stewart, ’56

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Alumni Outlook UNM Alumni Association 2013 Travel Program Asian Wonders February 2-21, 2013 GoNext Travel

Alumni College Abroad—Spain Barcelona and San Sebastian April 21-30 Alumni Holidays International

Civil War and Southern Culture Steamboating Along the Mississippi May 17-26 GoNext Travel

Alumni College in Ireland June 3-11 Alumni Holidays International

Northern Italy

Culture and Cuisine October 11-19 GoNext Travel Trips, dates, and pricing are subject to change.

For additional information, contact Charlene Chavez Tunney at the Alumni Relations Office at (505) 277-5808 or 800-258-6866.

Chapter Master Calendar March March 3 Austin Chapter CROP Hunger Walk March 13-16 Mountain West Conference Basketball Tournament/Receptions, Las Vegas, Nev. March All Chapters: College fair participation. Volunteers welcome! Future Lobos wanted: Information on UNM admissions, scholarships, and volunteering for college fairs. Contact Gary Bednorz, garyb@unm.edu.

April

April 6 Chicago Chapter Lobo Day Celebration April 7 D.C. Chapter Annual Lobo Day Event at Ft. Belvoir April 13 Austin Chapter Hill Country Wine Tasting and Wildflower Tour April 16 Washington, D.C. Congressional Reception April 30 San Diego Chapter National College Fair Participation— volunteers welcome!

April All Chapters: College fair participation. Volunteers welcome! Future Lobos wanted: Information on UNM admissions, scholarships, and volunteering for college fairs. Contact Gary Bednorz, garyb@unm.edu.

May May 18 Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Day Event May All Chapters: College fair participation. Volunteers welcome! Future Lobos wanted: Information on UNM admissions, scholarships, and volunteering for college fairs. Contact Gary Bednorz, garyb@unm.edu.

June June 8 Black Alumni Chapter UNM Foundation Joe Long Scholarship First Annual Fund-Raiser Phone-a-Thon

July July 27 July TBA

Austin Chapter Annual Beat the Heat Ice Cream Social Los Angeles Chapter Hollywood Bowl and Pre-Concert Potluck

August August 25 Los Angeles Chapter 20th Annual Green Chile Fest in Ventura Events, dates, and times are subject to change. Please contact Charlene Chavez Tunney at the Alumni Relations Office at (505) 277-5808 or 800-258-6866 for additional information.

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A Message from Our Alumni Association President be woven into the fabric of their lives I am writing this message near the for a lifetime? To what degree could end of December 2012. In order to we introduce a new paradigm into our meet Mirage publication and mailing roles as UNM alumni and, collectively, deadlines, I must start writing well in create meaningful ways to give back— advance of the mailing date. Thus, at the not unlike what we time of this writing, have done recently January 1 is yet to with the new plaza come. In the midst and U in front of of the Newtown, Hodgin Hall or the CT tragedy and new garden that continued discussions surrounds the UNM in Washington about Alumni Memorial “fiscal cliff ” (again, Chapel. What if we as of this moment), …? perhaps two quotes and a paraphrase Stay tuned, there’s from a book, When Duffy Swan (left) with Billy Tubb, more to come!

Growth Stalls, that technical director at Popejoy Hall. The Executive fellow UNM alumnus Committee of your Steve McKee (’85 BBA) wrote about four UNM Alumni Association board will be years ago will suffice to form the center of developing a few areas through which the this message. power and reach of 175,000 UNM alumni Pericles wrote: “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Then, from the late UCLA basketball coach John Wooden: “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” Finally, in his book, Steve McKee presents the concept that in every experience there emerges an opportunity. That opportunity produces yet a new experience—each building on the other indefinitely.

As UNM alumni, we stand 175,000 strong today. What opportunities could we create in unison that would enrich the experiences of thousands, that could

can be a transforming force—now and for decades to come. Watch for these initiatives in upcoming issues of The Howler, our monthly email newsletter, and on our website, unmalumni.com.

May the year 2013 be among your—and our—best-ever years! Weave the threads of your life into the tapestry of others as the year unfolds.

Duffy Swan ’68

UNM Alumni Association President

Charles S. Williams, Jr. ’56

Sanren M. (Bradford)

Harold G. Gillit, ’56

Leonard Sheffield, Jr. ’56

Thomas J. Dunn, ’62, ’65

Ronald E. Nelson, ’56

Theodore F. Effken, ’62

Doris L. (Lard) Shockley, ’56

James J. Lang, ’62

Collins, ’62

Frederica L. (Lamb) Brooks, ’56 Herbert D. Merville, ’62 Martha M. (Mccarrick)

Lawrence D. Phillips, Jr. ’62

Norma (Lanning)

Olmos-Ollivier, ’56

Gary L. Tate, ’56, ’58

James E. Bratcher, ’56, ’61

Kay (Winemiller) Vasey, ’62

Postlethwaite, ’62

June M. (Mills) Fenner, ’57

Maximilian D. Villa, ’62

James G. Gasaway, ’57

Gail (Plunkett) Durham, ’63

Angelo L. Giorgi, ’57

Col. Jerry L. Hess, ’63

Donald L. Hosner, ’57

Annie L. (Jones)

John W. Lansing, ’57

H. Don Porterfield, ’57

Wesley B. Leach, ’63

Charlene M. Slater, ’57

Susan (Reutter) Lucero, ’63

Charles T. Stephens, PhD, ’57

John McKinley, ’63

Hogan, ’63, ’68

Norma J. (Williams) Stirling, ’57 M. Marge (Andres) Miller, ’63 John J. Vaughn, ’57

Gary B. Ottinger, ’63, ’70

Roberta J. Barnes, ’58

James E. Randall, ’63

Jack Leroy Cecil, ’58

A. Percy Wicklund, ’63

Martin J. Dahlquist, ’58

Joseph Denas, ’64, ’69

Rolland L. Feight, ’58

Sonja L. (Hyduke) Ellis, ’64

John Dwyer Fisher, ’58

Brenda L. (Abbott)

Birgit (Hamilton) Regener, ’58

Charles J. Selva, ’58

Stanley T. Gleave, ’64

Felix Trujillo, ’58

Stanley C. Huff, ’64

Jack G. Verhines, ’58

Alexander A. MacNab, ’64

Walter G. Balleau, Jr. ’59

Kathryn D. (Harry)

Donald R. Douglass, ’59, ’66

Lloyd I. Dudding, ’59

John F. Reece, ’64

Diana (Holterman) Howe, ’59

Spencer Santage, ’64

Robert H. McBride, ’59

James R. Sterrett, ’64

Barbara A. (Sayre) Monroe, ’59

Oralia Zuniga-Briggs, ’64

Norman E. Mugleston, ’59

Gary D. Murphy, ’65

James R. Peck, ’59

George M. Shoup, ’65

Robert H. Schnurr, ’59, ’68

Kenneth N. Headley, ’65

Frances D. Williams, ’59, ’77

Ralph E. Clark, ’65

Elizabeth A. (Dallmann)

Richard C. Sandoval, ’65

Richard J. Hanrahan, ’65

Campbell, ’60

Galbreth, ’64

Myers, ’64

Gary L. Rickman, ’60

Dorothy J. (Harding)

Alfonso B. Sandoval, ’60

Georgine (Rummage)

Floydean Gage, ’65

James M. Baca, ’65, ’68

Clarke, ’61

Serna, ’65

Richard M. Goodrich, ’61

Robert Bonomo, ’66

Richard H. Hayes, ’61

Joan L. Farrell, ’66

Patricia H. (Howard)

Judy A. Putman, ’66, ’87

Robert M. Richmond, ’66

Olliges, ’61

Lt. Col. Milton R. Rose, ’61

John G. Wilsey, ’66, ’69

Barbara M. (Wills) Shaver, ’61

Floyd W. Caldwell, ’67

Mike B. Voth, ’61

Patricia G. (Goodman)

Owen P. Williams, ’61

Patricia M. (McCalmont)

Herbert M.

Willins, PhD, ’61, ’67, ’77

Caldwell, ’67 Campbell, II, ’67

Sylvia C. (Wilson)

Michael Dorame, ’67

Will B. Evans, ’67

Chenault, ’62

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In Memoriam Steve P. Michael, ’67

Anthony S. Tiano, ’70, ’71

Donald L. Downs, ’74, ’78

Kathryn A. (DiVasto)

Stephen E. Hawkins, ’85

William K. Stone, ’96

Frank L. Montoya, ’67

Edward D. Aaronson, ’71

Milton Floersheim, III,

Ralph L. Harley, ’85

Lorraine Kryle, ’96, ’03

Jean C. Sievert, ’67

Michael Bourke, ’71

Josephine A. (Rexroth)

James M. Iwerks, ’85, ’90

Virginia L. Vader, ’97

Melinda Via, ’67

Gloria Chacon, ’71

Kathleen M. (Grall)

John E. Johnson, ’85

Joquetta A. (Tewksbury)

Gary W. Weaver, Sr. ’67

Floyd Correa, ’71

Gilberto B. Cordova, ’79

Eduardo J. Quintana,

Roger W. Banks, ’68, ’70

Michael Joseph Forni, ’71

James L. Jorgensen, ’74

Michael Davis, ’79

Margaret B. (Scheu)

John M. Bell, ’68

William M. Gasser, ’71

Raymond J. Lurch, Sr. ’74

John J. Janusz, ’79

James D. Russell, ’85

Ruth L. Bell, ’68

Edward J. Gerety, ’71, ’93

Donald E. Nickerson, ’74

Joseph E. Maestas, ’79

Fran G. Schwegler, ’85, ’90

Michelle A. Valenzuela

Wendell W. Gray, ’68

Hugh B. Gordon, ’71

James C. Padon, ’74

Robert L. Martin, ’79

Roger L. Thomas, ’85

Veretta A. Bell, ’68

William H. Greer, ’71

Diana J. Bell, ’75

William R. Ross, ’79

Amanda Bailey, ’86

Sidney R. Cullipher, ’99, ’99

Robert C. Jirikowic, ’68

Robert M. Johnson, ’71

Terry L. Elms, ’75, ’82

Gerry G. (Gehrke)

Kim K. Kleyboecker, ’86

Joseph C. Jaramillo, ’99

Shirley A. Johnston, ’68

Katheryn D. Katz, ’71

Richard B. Gregory, ’75

Paul L. Marchiondo, ’86

Fay Medley, ’99

Addison L. Julian, ’68

James L. Kremmel, ’71

Ernest L. Lewis, ’75

Ed Baca-Green, ’80

Francisco Moreno, Jr. ’86

Maryam Nourestani, ’99

Sigrid Mayer, ’68

Della (Esquibel)

Kella (Montoya)

Angela D. Griego, ’80

James K. Sewell, ’86

Kerri L. Repa, ’99

Hardy K. Mock, ’68

Betty (Reed) James, ’80, ’89 Steven J. Tollefson, ’86

Jack D. Rex, ’68

Vinodrai A. Mithani, ’71

Frederick Marianito, ’75

M.L. Krasnick, ’80

Patricia S. Tomlan, ’86

Richard J. Stefansik, ’99

Judith L. Rogers,

Megan L. Morris, ’71, ’75

Grace C. Martinez, ’75

David L. Perrigo, ’80

Eleonora (Harvey)

Alyce Traeger, ’99, ’03

Cecilio Orozco, ’71

Thomas E. Moody, ’75

Russell G. Robertson, ’80

Elizabeth A. Hammock, ’00

John J. Seaberg, Jr. ’68

Charles M. Ramsey, ’71

Virginia J. Passmore, ’75

Mark S. Schramm, ’80, ’86

Jan E. Fitzgerald, ’87

Ralph D. Smith, ’68

Robert L. Rivers, ’71

Richard L. Peterson, ’75

MSG Clifford A.

Michelle A. Lesicka, ’87

Karen T. (Thompson)

Diana A. Simmons, ’71

Tommy K. Smith, ’75

Stoppelman, ’80

Melinda S. Madix, ’87

Billy R. White, ’71

Diana H. Wing, ’75

Mildred E. Dickson, ’81

William B. McCurdy, ’87

Gladys L. (Chantland)

Baxter Bell, ’72

Etti E. Benvenisti, ’76

Julie A. (Nesbitt)

Larry L. Sanbrero, ’87

William A. Boyle, ’72

Charles R. Best, ’76

Paul R. Aragon, ’88

Reeta (Cockrell )

Shirley (Sabin) Bunker, ’72

Richard N. Cleary, ’76

Michael M. Schmidt, ’81

Katherine P. Black, ’88

Michael R. Faulkner, ’72

Richard A. Haywood, ’76

Thomas Livsey, ’81

Marla E. Edelman, ’89

’68, ’78, ’98

Achen, ’69 Anderson, ’69 Brummer, ’69

Mirabal, ’71

’74, ’79 Harmon, ’74, ’79

Maes, ’75, ’78

Lowel, ’78 Rivers, ’78

Schultz, ’79

Huntsman, ’81, ’87

’85, ’88

Trotter, ’87

Robert M. Casson, ’69

Edith I. Green, ’72

Michael J. Hermetet, ’76

Patricia A. Lugo, ’81

Alice A. Killackey, ’89

Doris (Hollingsworth)

Bob T. Henderson, ’72

Stephanie (Stinnett)

Ms. Irene Bekis-Begay, ’82

Elizabeth K. Kionut, ’89

Maxine C. Martinez, ’72

Ms. Joan (Downes)

Allen L. Moulton, ’89

Steve B. Gabriel, ’69

Richard E. McKenna, ’72

Henry Martinez, ’76

Max J. Madrid, ’89

Barry L. Lower, ’69

Sylvia A. (Vigil) Powell, ’72

Mario E. Martinez, ’76

Samuel R. Kemp, ’82

Benjamin T. Adams, ’90, ’94

Arthur W. Ludwig, ’69

Sara L. Ramos, ’72, ’76

Harlan G. McCormack, ’76

Betty J. (Cornejo)

Rosemary B. Saiz, ’90

LaVonne Minge, ’69

Janelle N. (Glasscock)

Robert H. West, ’76

Jacqueline Smith, ’90

Don D. Mulder, ’69

Lisle K. Borom, ’77

Aron E. Rael, ’82, ’88, ’06

Sandra K. Thomas, ’90

Barbara J. (Lonie)

Betty L. Waugh, ’72

Georgia Buechley, ’77

Cheryl (Drake) Skinner, ’82

Patricia A. Abeyta, ’91, ’00

Agnes Bernhardy, ’73, ’88

James Caldwell, ’77

Ann Elizabeth Wulff, ’82

Gloria A. Brack-Baratta,

Ernest J. Orona, ’69

Lila M. (Milligan)

Richard D. Clausen, ’77

William W. White, ’82

Richard W. Arndt, ’70

Patricia A. Hannaford, ’77

John E. Cuneo, ’83

Jonathan R. Downey, ’91

Seanna G. V. Barton, ’70

Agnes M. H. Caudle, ’73

Matteo P. Moore, ’77

Diego Granada, ’83

Kathryn R. Strong, ’92

Alex J. Gulotta, ’70

Atha D. Daney, ’73

Clarence E. Pegues, Sr. ’77

Terry W. Rogers, ’83

Martin L. Barnaby, ’93

Dorothy R. Hall, ’70

David B. Dixon, ’73, ’89

Harold R. Piatt, ’77

Terri L. Toppin, ’83

Cecelia R. Briley, ’93

Gayle (Pinney)

William A. Goldsmith, ’73

Jeffrey P. Rose, ’77

Joaquin Alfonso, Jr. ’84

Lori A. Harrison, ’93, ’96

Anna H. Jaramillo, ’73, ’77

Roy Smith, ’77

Thomas A. Arms, ’84

Anthony E. Martinez, ’93

Bruce Keith, ’70

Richard A. Jones, ’73

Steve E. Vandal, ’77

Glen E. Barber, ’84

Michelle R. Damerow, ’94

Josephus T. Long, ’70

Mary M. Louis, ’73, ’78

Helen T. Weaver, ’77

Edward J. Campana, ’84

Glenn D. Hall, ’94

Tommy R. McCollum,

Margaret Sandoval, ’73

Adela (Amador)

Annette (Patron) Leger,

Harry L. Maine, ’94

Rev. Donald V.

J. Rudy Montoya, ’94

Joanne G. Petersen,

Eugene C. Armijo, ’78

Alix P. Linnartz, ’84

M. Callie Williams, ’94

Christopher J. Volk, VI, ’73

Mary W. Bliss, ’78

Pegye J. Marshall, ’84

Scott A. Williams, ’94

Sandra A. (Taylor)

Susan M. Young, ’73, ’86

Louise K. Castleberry, ’78

Virginia E. Novak, ’84

Martha R. (Watacelu)

Linda Diane (Merville)

Marilyn P. Mayo, ’78

Carol S. Robinson, ’84

Gerald M. Slavin, ’70

Sandra R. Nolney, ’78

Pamela W. Combes, ’85

Laurie M. Malin, ’95

Ester Pepi (Bloom)

Robert E. Bussey, ’74, ’77

Darrell W. Hadfield, ’78

Juan P. Fabres, ’85

Chris R. Christensen, ’74

Robert C. Holmes, ’78

William L. Gram, ’85

Desha, ’69

Oltmanns, ’69, ’72

Hendrickson, ’70

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Boyden, ’73

Stephens, Jr. ’73

Charlton, ’74

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Willson, ’77

Evans, ’82

Mora, ’82, ’88

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’91, ’93

Wato, ’94

Degroat, ’98 Hoffman, ’98 De Jim, ’98

Steven D. Rider, ’99

Martha L. Morris, ’01 Marco D. Ortiz, ’02 Douglas A. Baughman, ’03 Lester J. Wahner, ’03 Susan R. (McGuirk)

Dugan, ’03

Jessica Galya, ’03, ’08 David L. Bennett, ’04 Cara E. Chaekon, ’04 William H. Muirhead, ’04 Mark F. Scott, ’04, ’09 Lacey D. Creacy, ’05 Holly R. (Fife) Glidden, ’05 Amanda N. Dillon, ’07 Rachel J. Creech, ’07 Jeremy D. Valdez, ’07 Antonio M. Barreras, ’08 Derek R. Crook, ’08 Adrienne Elizabeth

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