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A Pair of Engineers … and a Poet

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The electrical & computer engineering department in the School of Engineering is celebrating its centennial. VB Price interviews two of its grads about their education and careers.

Through the decades, participating in student government has influenced the course of student leaders’ lives.

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In 1952, this group of council

The Mystery Writer Who Studied Philosophy Need a good mystery to warm you up this winter? Try J. Michael Orenduff’s award-winning Pot Thief mystery series set in New Mexico.

By Amanda Sutton

representatives took a spirited vote.

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Passion for Performing Theatre grad James Mills finds his place with Gilbert and Sullivan onstage in New York City.

By Carolyn Gonzales

1952 Mirage Yearbook

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Picture Perfect Two years in the making, the renovated Pit is dazzling, as you can see in these photos.

Photography by Christian Horstmann

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The Greatest Classroom Student government presidents through the years say their campus experience taught them valuable lessons for life after college.

By Michael Green and Mary Conrad

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Engineer Finishes MBA in Afghanistan

By Paul Giblin

Mirage was the title of the University

37 of New Mexico yearbook until its

the title was adopted by the alumni magazine which continues to publish

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last edition in 1978. Since that time,

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Randy Velarde has been a loyal supporter of UNM since his start.

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Winter 2011, Volume 30, Number 2, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: David J. Schmidly, President; Karen A. Abraham, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations; Mary Conrad, Editor; Kelly Ketner, Echo Creative, Art Director.

UNM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Steve Chreist, President, Albuquerque; Waneta Tuttle, President Elect, Albuquerque; Gene Baca, Treasurer, Corrales; Ruth M. Schifani, Past President, Albuquerque; Monica Armenta, Albuquerque; Randy Royster, Albuquerque; Duffy Swan, Albuquerque; Kathie Winograd, Albuquerque.

MIRAGE is published three times a year, in April, August, and December, by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends.

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

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UNMLINKS aLBUm compiled by Margaret Weinrod

Introducing Paul Roth, Acting UNM President Until UNM President David J. Schmidly has fully recuperated from surgery and can resume his normal schedule, the Board of Regents has appointed Dr. Paul Roth, UNM executive vice president for health sciences, to act in his stead.

Dr. Roth has held the position of dean of the UNM School of Medicine since 1994 and that of health sciences executive vice president since 2006.

He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He received his MD from George Washington University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in family practice at UNM in 1979.

“I want to be the first to wish President Schmidly a full and complete recovery,” Dr. Roth says. “My top priority is our students and their success. We will all work together to fulfill our educational, research, and clinical missions.”

HONORS Presidential Appointment: After her

nomination by President Barack Obama, Law Professor Gloria Valencia-Weber has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.

Valencia-Weber created the Indian law certificate program at UNM. http://news.unm.edu/?p=5490 LTER Honored: The Long Term

Ecological Research Network has received the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences. UNM’s LTER is one of 26 field stations in the network. The award recognizes those who have made significant scientific contributions to the biological sciences. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/005187.html#more

Chemical Society Fellow: David G. Whitten,

research professor of chemical and nuclear engineering and interim director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at UNM, has been named a 2010 fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Pathogen Detector: A team of researchers at the UNM Health Sciences Center and Sandia National Laboratories has been honored by R&D Magazine for its development of a portable, handheld biosensor device capable of detecting dangerous viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens within seconds or minutes. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=8855

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Send your news to Margaret Weinrod, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 Better yet, email your news to mweinrod@unm.edu.

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Fall (August) deadline: May 1 Winter (December) deadline: September 1 Spring (April) deadline: January 1 Floyd Emanuel, ’53 BA, ’57 MA, Oklahoma City, obtained his PhD from the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, joined its graduate faculty, and taught for 39 years. After being retired for 10 years, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame.

Diana Avery Amsden, ’53 BA, ’73 MA, Santee, California, is a member of the International Society of Philosophical Enquiry. Her Index to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is available on Amazon.com.

She is writing Mother Love and Sacrifice, a study of Amish psychology, family abuse, and sociopathy.

C. Gene Samberson, ’57 BA, ’62 JD, Lovington, New Mexico, was honored by the University of the Southwest in Hobbes with the 2010 Trustee of Free Enterprise Award, for outstanding business achievements, ethical business practices, community leadership, and working to preserve a free society. Gene is a former UNM regent.

Marcia Keegan, ’61 BA, Santa Fe, is author of Taos Pueblo and Its Sacred Lake.

It documents the return of Blue Lake to the pueblo after a 60-year struggle with the federal government.

Nasario Garcia, ’62 BA, ’63 MA, Santa Fe, is the author of Fe y Tragedias: Faith and Tragedies in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico (Rio Grande Books, 2010). Each bilingual account of tragedy and sadness, shared by old-timers, personifies faith, fortitude, compassion, and buoyancy.

Penny Naughton Beaumont, ’63 BUS, Bryan, Texas, after retiring as vice chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, co-authored Imperial Divas: The Vicereines

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+MORe UNMLINKS ABA Governor: Peter Winograd, UNM

School of Law professor emeritus, has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, the national voice of the legal profession. http://news.unm.edu/2010/08/unm-lawprofessor-named-to-aba%E2%80% 99s-board-of-governors/ Chemical Engineering Award Winner:

Regents’ Professor of Chemical, Nuclear, and Mechanical Engineering Mohamed S. El-Genk is the recipient of the 2010 Donald Q. Kern Memorial Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2711 ¡Qué bueno! UNM President David J.

received the Premio Ticul Alvarez from the Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología recently. The award is presented to a professional in the field of mammalogy whose research has focused on Mexico.

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http://news.unm.edu/?p=2788 Best Book: The Western History

Association has selected the UNM Press title The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900, by Robert Wooster, as the 2010 winner of the Robert M. Utley Award. http://news.unm.edu/?p=3664 Essays of State: A book of essays about the history of New Mexico has won a national award from the American Association for State and Local History. Regents’ Professor of Anthropology Marta Weigle, New Mexico History Museum director Frances Levine, and Louise Stiver, ’78 BA, ’91 MA, received an AASLH Leadership in History Award of Merit. http://news.unm.edu/?p=1850

GRANTS, GIFTS & RESEARCH Changing Worlds: The UNM Foundation raised $75 million this fiscal year, nearly twice what it raised five years ago. The Foundation welcomes its new president, Henry Nemcik, as it continues Changing Worlds: The Campaign for UNM, which has generated more than $323 million since 2006. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2998 Powerhouse Research Group: The National Center for Research Resources, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a five-year, $23-million grant to bring UNM’s Clinical and Translational Science Center into a 55-member NIH national powerhouse group of biomedical research institutions. http://news.unm.edu/?p=1919 Health Disparities: The National

Institutes of Health and its National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities have announced a five-year, $7 million grant to UNM to establish the New Mexico Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement, and Science on Health Disparities. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=8916 Exposing Uranium Exposure: The

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a division of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has announced a cooperative agreement with the UNM Health Sciences Center for a three-year, $3 million study on pregnancy outcomes and child development in relation to uranium exposure among Navajo mothers and infants. http://news.unm.edu/?p=3344

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LAII Funding: The Latin American

& Iberian Institute has received a four-year grant worth more than $2 million for Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies from the U.S. Department of Education. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2105 Pediatric Kidney Study: UNM has

received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and its National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study the genetics of pediatric kidney disease. This is an international collaborative study involving over 1,400 children with chronic kidney disease, headed by Craig Wong, associate professor of pediatric nephrology. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=9173 Combating Alcohol Abuse and Addiction: The UNM Center on

Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions has been awarded a five-year, $1.7 million institutional research training grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. http://news.unm.edu/?p=1416 Barrier Freeing: UNM’S Student Support Services (SSS) program was recently awarded funding in the amount of $1.27 million for five years. The SSS is a U.S. Education Department TRiO program affiliate, TRiO having been created by Congress in 1965 to help Americans overcome barriers to higher education. http://news.unm.edu/?p=3509 State Connections: The National

Science Foundation has awarded UNM a $1.17 million grant for the New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research that will enable high-speed internet

aLBUm connections to the state’s regional universities and tribal and community colleges.

New Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th century. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2317

http://news.unm.edu/?p=3475 Digitizing the Music: University En Route to Doctorates: UNM has

received a National Science Foundation-funded “Alliance for Minority Participation – Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowships” award for $966,438. The award provides complete support for 12 PhD-bound minority graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Libraries has begun to digitize songbooks and archival resources from the New Mexico Federal Music Project. The Federal Music Project was established as part of the Works Progress Administration in 1935; it became the WPA music program in 1939 and continued to 1943.

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Nanoscience Fellowships: The

Increasing Numbers: Enrollment at

http://news.unm.edu/?p=1800 All About Abba: Biology Professor

is a big fan of abba – a gene found in fruit flies that could turn out to make a bigger splash than the legendary Swedish singers.

Mutations or flaws in the human version of the abba gene cause one form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). Cripps’ experiments, funded with a $339,561 grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will define at the molecular level how the protein made by abba functions in fruit fly muscles.

Richard Cripps

http://news.unm.edu/?p=2844 Digitizing the News: Thanks to a grant of $351,642 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, University Libraries will digitize, from microfilm, 100,000 pages of newspapers printed in

Evelia Cobos, ’65 BA, published a collection of stories about her father, Ruben Cobos, ’36 BA, ’42 MA, They That Laugh Win (Rio Grande Books, Albuquerque). After collecting memories from her family, she wrote the book as a fiction piece that retells his jokes, anecdotes, songs, and stories. Dr. Cobos is a professor emeritus at UNM.

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National Science Foundation has recognized a unique partnership at UNM with a $700,000 grant to provide three years of competitively awarded fellowships for full-time graduate students seeking a master’s degree in nanoscience and microsystems.

of India (Haus Publishing Ltd., London) with her husband. Penny received the Jefferson Award for Public Service in recognition of volunteer contributions to her community.

UNM grew nearly six percent to 27,700 students at the Albuquerque campus as of the first day of fall classes. Growth is particularly strong among national scholars, nonresidents, beginning freshmen, and transfer students. Students taking online classes grew by a record 59 percent. http://news.unm.edu/?p=3189 Dracula in China: Students, faculty,

and staff from the department of theatre and dance became ambassadors to the world when they carried their production of Mac Wellman’s Dracula to the Asia Theatre Education Centre International Theatre Festival in Beijing, China, earlier this year. http://news.unm.edu/?p=3018 Crossing the Border: The Cross-Border

Issues Group traveled to Central America this summer in its quest to gain a better understanding of the factors motivating outmigration from the region into Mexico and the United States. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2928

MICHAELE ANN MELTON Michaele Ann Melton, ’67 BS, Tucson, Arizona, retired after 28 years in the restaurant/catering business. Now she has time for volunteer work, including a trip to New Zealand with Habitat for Humanity.

Lon S. Vickers, ’67 BA, Marietta, Ohio, retired in June as vice president for Student Affairs from Marietta College, capping a 42-year career in higher education, working at six colleges and universities.

Rod C. Jensen, ’68 BSME, informed us that he is “very much alive and still working.”

We regret and apologize for the error of listing him in the obituaries in the last Mirage.

Daniel B. Flores, ’69 BA, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, is author of Puerto de Luna, about his ancestral village. Daniel is a former teacher and retired Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools superintendent.

George L. Hiller, ’69 BA, received an international business education grant from the U.S. Department of Education. It will fund study programs in Germany for faculty and students at colleges in southwest Virginia. George directs international programs at the West Virginia Higher Education Center, and teaches at the University of Richmond. He and his wife, Laura Moore Hiller, ’71 BAED, live in Richmond, Virginia.

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Estate Development has joined forces with American Campus Communities to break ground on the new South Campus Student Apartments project. The apartments feature on-site management offices, a business center, study and meeting rooms, a game room, a fitness center, and a swimming pool. http://news.unm.edu/?p=1327

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Napolitano Center: Leonard Napolitano,

Photo Finish: College of Fine Arts student Jory Vander Galien took the grand

prize in the New Mexico Tourism Department’s Day of Enchantment photo contest. He received $10,000 for his photo, “Rain Shadow.” See more of Jory’s work at synapsestudio.net/jory-vandergalien. http://news.unm.edu/?p=1700

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Role Model: Geraldine Forbes Isais, the

Home Improvements: In a fall 2008

first woman dean of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, didn’t have many leadership models to follow when she made her ascent in academia. As past president of the Women’s Leadership Council, she is making sure that the next generation of women and minorities will.

survey, 13 percent of students reported being dissatisfied with their overall UNM housing experience. Since then, Residence Life and Student Housing has spent $11.8 million to improve student housing. With the completion of renovations to Hokona Hall, Student Family Housing (SFH) is the next target for improvements, including energy efficient windows, landscaping, and HVAC. With 200 units, SFH serves student families and graduate students.

http://news.unm.edu/?p=3607 Regional Medical Center: Kevin Rogols

has been appointed the new president and administrator of UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Rio Rancho’s City Center. Scheduled to open in spring 2012, UNM SRMC will be a 68-bed community hospital with private-practice and university physicians, and a teaching venue for medical students. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output /index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=9103

http://news.unm.edu/?p=2313 http://news.unm.edu/?p=4915 Parking Garage: A new parking garage at Yale and Las Lomas, with 780 spaces, has opened. On its roof is a photovoltaic solar array that generates enough electricity to offset the amount purchased by UNM. http://news.unm.edu/?p=4794

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a founder and influential dean of the UNM School of Medicine for more than 20 of the school’s formative years, was honored recently with a dedication on North Campus of the Leonard M. Napolitano, PhD, Anatomical Education Center. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=8836

MORE NEWS Digitally Versed: Preparing students

to apply digital media skills across an array of industries separates UNM’s Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program from the typical film school. While the film industry has exploded in New Mexico, “digital media is more than just entertainment,” says Nick Flor, program director and associate professor at Anderson School of Management. http://news.unm.edu/?p=5505 Let’s Read! Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya,

’63 BAED, ’69 MA, ’72 MA, emeritus professor of English, is the Lobo Reading Experience title for 2010. Incoming freshmen, current students, faculty, and staff have been encouraged to read the book and take advantage of fall programs to discuss it.

http://www.unm.edu/~acadaffr/ Academic%20Inititatives.html

aLBUm Advanced Ranking: A new report

Med School Ranking: In a recent

from the National Research Council, “A Data-based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States,” includes 26 UNM programs. The report evaluates and ranks more than 5,000 programs in 62 fields at 212 universities nationwide.

issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the UNM School of Medicine was ranked No. 19 in the nation for contributing to the social mission of medicine.

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UNM in Princeton Review: UNM is

Número 4: In its September 2010

issue, Hispanic Business magazine ranked the UNM School of Engineering fourth-best in the nation for Hispanic students.

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one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review, which features UNM in its 2011 edition, The Best 373 Colleges. http://news.unm.edu/?p=2337

http://news.unm.edu/?p=4663 Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezin Students

The College of Education and the UNM Art Museum are working together to bring to UNM an exhibition of the work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and students to whom she taught art in the Terezin concentration camp between 1942 and 1944. Dicker-Brandeis was an artist-teacher who studied at the Weimar Bauhaus during its foundational years.

When she was transported to Terezin, she went with the intention of teaching art to kids and thus packed art supplies as part of her limited allowable luggage. The exhibition will be in the Van Deren Coke Gallery at the UNM Art Museum from January 28-March 13, 2011 and will include works borrowed from institutions in Vienna, Prague, and Los Angeles. UNM Press is publishing a companion book. http://coe.unm.edu/home/narrowwindow.html.

Deanne Williams, ’69 BSN, Salt Lake City, was selected for the 2010 Distinguished Alumni of the University of Utah College of Nursing Award in recognition of her 30-year career focused on women’s health and on expanding access to nurse-midwifery care.

Deanne received her MS from the University of Utah in 1980. We erred in listing the recognition as a UNM award in our Fall Mirage.

Virginia R. Dugan, ’71 MA, ’75 EDSPC, ’92 EDD, ’95 JD, Albuquerque, was selected for the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. She is an attorney and shareholder in the divorce and family law firm Atkinson & Kelsey. She was also reappointed chair of the American Bar Association family law section.

John Starner, ’71 BS, ’73 MA, Houston, was named associate dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas.

Wesley G. Estill, ’72 BS, Albuquerque, retired from his technical staff position at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a member of the earth and environmental sciences division. He accepted a teaching position in China.

Paula Tackett, ’72 BA, ’77 JD, Santa Fe, retired from the Legislative Council Service after 22 years of heading the agency.

Francisco Garcia, ’73 MA, Albuquerque, was elected to the board of the Daniels Fund that gives grants to New Mexico non-profit organizations. He is founder and president of Garcia Companies, and founder of BTG Family Foundation.

Veronica Garcia, ’74 BAED, ’80 MA, ’03 EdD, Albuquerque, resigned her position as Secretary of the New Mexico Department of Education. She now works for the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network as vice president and chief academic officer.

Jeanette Larson, ’74 BA, Pflugerville, Texas, is author of a children’s book, Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas. After UNM, she obtained a master’s degree in library science, but found her anthropology degree to be a great foundation for her work.

Unknown child artist

Courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Through a Narrow Window Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezín Students Exhibition of works by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Bauhaus-educated artist, and students to whom she taught art in the Terezín concentration camp

Ellen Biderman, ’75 MA, Santa Fe, with two colleagues, won second place in the manuals and handbooks category of the National Federation of Press Women’s communication competition for the College of Education Family Development program’s “Watch Me Play, Watch Me Learn.”

Carol Collins, ’75 BS, ’81 MD, Taos, is the county’s new human resources director.

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CONV er S a T a PaIR OF eN ...aND a PO As the electrical and computer engineering VB Price interviews two of its graduates about their education and careers.

David Hendricks, ’06 BS, computer engineering, is a software engineer with Google, living in northern California. A Los Alamos native, David worked as a technical assistant/intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory and spent a summer as a software engineering intern at IBM before completing his degree at UNM. “I got approached by Google,” he says. “I asked myself, ‘More school or go to work?’ I had ‘senioritis.’”

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Manhattan College in New York City and a master’s in electrical engineering from UC Santa Barbara. After a 20-year career in the Air Force, he launched several medical diagnostics start-ups, the first of which developed a non-invasive glucose monitor. He founded TruTouch Technologies, which developed and sells non-invasive alcohol testing products worldwide. Its first product was recognized

by TIMETM magazine as an Invention of the Year in 2006. He currently works as director of operations at Applied Technology Associates in Albuquerque, which delivers precision sensing, measurement, and control systems with commercial and military applications.

Moderator: VB “Barrett” Price, ’62 BA. VB has taught classes in UNM Honors since 1986 and in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning since 1976. A poet and journalist, VB recently completed The Orphaned Land: An Environmental Accounting of New Mexico Since the Manhattan Project, to be published by UNM Press.

In addition, the Press has released a new book by VB and photographer Robert Reck, The University of New Mexico, a photographic portrait of UNM. Bobby Tamayo

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department approaches its 100th anniversary,

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VB Price: Can you describe what an engineer does across the spectrum?

Jim: You

have a representative sample of the two extremes here. David is in research. I work the financial side of high technology businesses, meeting customer demand, figuring out what problems need to be solved.

David: As

the new kid on the block, Google is looking at the world and figuring out “what can we make better?” Since information sharing and searching is so successful for us, we are pushing really hard to figure out business cases and put out stuff that people will want to use.

VB: When you walked away with a BS in computer engineering from UNM, what skills did you come away with?

David: Technical

jargon, skills in manipulating technical issues, problem solving – coming up to speed with the technologies necessary to innovate and solve new problems. You learn a little bit about the old stuff so you can solve new stuff.

One thing great about UNM – where we have the partnerships with the labs – is that we have a lot of great equipment, so we get hands on. Going into the university, you might think, “I can be an engineer and make the world a better place,” but you have to get your

hands on the equipment and facilities and really get some experience. Often, you won’t have a scanning electronic microscope at home or computer labs.

You’ve got to get your hands on something you can play with, then have someone skilled looking over your shoulder helping you along. In the end, it feels great. You look at your progress and say, “Wow, I engineered that!”

Then, you go off into the real world and do it on a larger scale.

Jim: My

experience at UNM was the PhD program which is very different from the undergraduate. A PhD is all about new research. It is synthesizing, taking all these basic facts and creating new ones, inventing things. It is a slightly different skill – the ability to think in a disciplined manner, using the engineering methodology. Our language is mathematics. I don’t know much about computer engineering.

David doesn’t know about optics but we could communicate through mathematics.

I’m assuming the undergraduate program at UNM is not unlike others.

My engineering education had many engineering courses as well as fine arts, social studies, and others. “Are you a thinker and innovator as well as an educated citizen?” was at the core of my undergraduate education.

R E A L - T I M E C O N V E R S A T I O N : Around the table in the engineering dean’s conference room, Jim McNally (left) and David Hendricks (right) talk about their electrical and computer engineering studies, careers, and concerns with VB Price. The ECE program celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

aLBUm Customer Care in the Dallas area. She says she is “thrilled to be back. The worst day in Taos is better than the best day in Dallas.”

Frank Fine, ’75 MArch, Albuquerque, received Travel Goods Association’s TGA Award recognizing outstanding contributions to the industry and community at large.

Frank owns Lieber’s Luggage.

Margaret Moses Branch, ’76 BUS, ’78 JD, was honored by the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In her law practice, Margaret has been particularly concerned with women’s health care issues.

Paula Castillo, ’77 BA, Santa Paula, California, is a sculptor who uses recycled steel. Two of her pieces, Dos Arboles, Dos Hermanas, and Rio Grande Colcha, frame the entrance of the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. Gregory T. Hicks, ’77 MArch, Albuquerque, of Hicks Associates, was a member of the design and construction team of the new UNM College of Education Phase I building, which earned LEED Platinum certification.

Diane Fisher, ’78 JD, Albuquerque, is senior vice president and general counsel for Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

Jimmie Reyna, ’78 JD, Washington, DC, was nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Jimmie is a partner in the DC law office of Williams Mullen.

Georgann Seibert Taylor, ’78 BSHE, Santa Fe, retired from PNM after more than 32 years. She is president of a consulting business that focuses on performance excellence, quality management, strategic planning, executive coaching, and workforce planning.

Thomas R. Acevedo, ’78 JD, Polson, Montana, was named by President Obama to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. He is CEO of S&K Technologies.

Karen A. Alarid, ’79 BAA, Albuquerque, was named a 2010 New Mexico Rainmaker

by New Mexico Business Weekly. She is a registered architect and executive director of Capital and director of Facilities Design + Construction for Albuquerque Public Schools.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, ’79 JD, Baltimore, is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Mixed God with Politics and Lost Their Way. She is a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

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the job, you find you don’t really get an opportunity to sit down and learn tons of new stuff and explore new ideas because you’re always busy trying to meet deadlines. It’s great to come to UNM with all these professors and programs where you can explore fun, new ideas and not be pushed all the time by your boss.

VB: Do you come away with a particular engineering way of thinking?

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outcome of an engineering education is that you learn to think in a way to solve problems. You can identify a problem, the laws of physics that apply to it, and the mathematical rule that drives those. You come away with a methodology and the language of mathematics. These skills are not unique to what the layman thinks of as “engineering problems.” In fact, engineering students are recruited heavily into financial companies because they know how to quantitatively analyze things.

VB: When UNM alumni hear about the School of Engineering, they really have no clue what a vast array of subject matter – covering practically everything a society does – is being taught. I can’t think of anything that hasn’t been designed or engineered at one point or another.

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VB: How does this apply to computer engineering in particular?

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VB: What is the difference between design, creativity, and engineering?

things in this room are engineered. You may go buy the drywall at a home supply shop but it was engineered. It has a certain composition of material made to a certain thickness and the process by which it is manufactured is an engineering defined process as well.

This table could have been designed by an architect or designer but you would engineer a methodology to create it. Polyurethane finish was created by a chemical engineer.

Our world is engineered. Go back to the Romans. One of the reasons their empire expanded is that they understood how to build roadways.

They engineered aqueducts to move water from the source into the city.

at everyday life. Your means of communication. Your transportation.

You hope engineering-educated individuals not only go into being entry-level, brilliant engineers who develop the next device but that they go on to law school and get involved with the legal side of engineering, using their high tech background. You hope a few of them run for public office because policy-makers are elected officials who then appoint people to the National Transportation Safety Administration, for example, ensuring we have safe vehicles, roads, and highways.

Jim said, there are laws of physics that you have to deal with. If Intel puts out a 3 gigahertz chip, you can’t necessarily say, “Well, we’re going 12

to put out a 10 gigahertz chip!” You have to be keenly aware of what is physically possible. You have to have a great grasp of all the different aspects of design. You have to form relationships with various people – it could be a company across the street, it could be a venture capitalist, it could be someone in Asia – to make sure you can actually build the latest and greatest product at a reasonable price and ship it. You have to have art in it too. People don’t want to buy the latest and greatest if it is an obelisk-looking chunk of plastic. They want new and sexy.

they can make their own decisions rather than having the lobbyist make decisions for them.

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is a little design in our DNA – in all of our genetic make-up.

Everyone is a little bit of a designer and engineer in their own way – even if they don’t know it.

VB: Let me ask a novice question.

Is engineering morally neutral?

The simplest answer is yes, because engineering is based on a set of guidelines, or laws – the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, biology. The language of mathematics doesn’t take with it any moral or ethical intention.

Now, how it gets applied… That’s where you start to talk about your moral standard compared to mine.

Take the ability of the computer engineer to create computers that can process so fast, and with such a volume Jim:

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is an exciting new frontier of ethical engineering. We are getting into an age where people are way freer to share information about themselves. They may not know what they are getting into – especially since someone can design a robot to crawl all over their information and harvest contacts and personal data. There are companies looking to make money off your personal information.

As engineers, we make the tools available but we try to implement safeguards. In the end, it is how or if you apply them. As engineers, we want to make sure that people can feel safe and comfortable sharing information with the rest of the world. As engineers, we need to encourage the dissemination

Earl R. Schwers III, ’80 BA, Rio Rancho, retired in July from UNM Hospitals as systems analyst III. Doug Beason, ’81 MS, ’84 PhD, Castle Rock, Colorado, was appointed chief scientist and technology adviser, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base. Previously, he was an associate director at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

of information that the stock market can be traded in 1/8th points by a computer pre-programmed for trading rules instead of by a human saying “I want to buy 100 shares of IBM.” Does the engineering or the application of that engineering challenge the moral standard you might have of what is good or bad?

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Jim McNally of knowledge and make it searchable and all that good stuff but also make sure that if you don’t want something shared that people don’t get to it easily.

Or we should tell the user straight up, “Please don’t share this.”

The cool thing is that in the end, ethical engineering tends to triumph.

People want to buy cars that can go 150 miles an hour, even if they know they’ll never drive them that fast.

People want to buy high quality, safe products. They want to feel safe online, doing things whether or not they know how they came to be – driving a car fast, going up and down an elevator, throwing their information into the ether of the networks. By and large, good things happen and people have a higher standard of living.

CeNTeNNIaL CeLeBRaTION The electrical and computer engineering department in UNM’s School of Engineering will celebrate its centennial on April 1 and 2, 2011. Plans include a Friday dinner for alumni and faculty (current and past) at the Embassy Suites Hotel, along with a variety of activities on Saturday to celebrate the evolution of electrical and computer engineering at UNM since 1909. Please mark your calendar! Questions? Contact Frances Strong, ECE Communications, at fstrong@ece.unm.edu.

Peter N. Thomas, ’81 BA, ’85 MA, ’90 PhD, Wilmington, North Carolina, is professor of Spanish at the University of North CarolinaWilmington. He writes a column on contemporary Latin American literature for the Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio.

James G. Enloe, ’82 MA, ’91 PhD, Iowa City, Iowa, is the author of The Magdalenian Household: Unraveling Domesticity (SUNY Press, 2010). James is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa.

Elizabeth D. Sellers, ’82 BSCHE, Idaho Falls, retired in 2008 from the U.S. Department of Energy as site manager, Idaho National Laboratory. She just finished a 15-month stint in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as program manager for Good Harbor, consulting on the UAE nuclear power project.

Henrietta Mann, ’82 PhD, Weatherford, Oklahoma, is professor emerita and special assistant to the president at Montana State University. She is also president of Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. She was a featured speaker at the 50th anniversary celebration of Bent’s Old Fort (Colorado) as a National Historic Site.

Deborah A. Good, ’84 MA, ’96 PhD, Albuquerque, is president of the board of directors of the Art Therapy Credentials Board.

David Iglesias, ’84 JD, Albuquerque, U.S. Navy captain, is a spokesman for the Pentagon’s prosecution of Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay. P. Lynn Bryant, ’85 MD, Albuquerque, was elected president of the New Mexico Medical Society last spring. She has practiced as an internist since 1990.

John Corcoran, ’85 BSCS, Rio Rancho, manages the Fort Stanton Cave Study Group, a team of volunteers surveying the Snowy River passage, believed to be the longest continuous mineral cave decoration in the world.

Doug Easton, ’85 BBA, Albuquerque, joined Granite Transformations as a design consultant. He worked previously as a sales consultant at Coldwell Banker Legacy and KB Homes.

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Randy Velarde, founder of The Plaza Group, credits UNM for the core competencies and core values that define his business.

When Randy Velarde received his BS in chemical engineering from UNM in 1981, he was unaware where his career would lead him, but he felt well prepared.

“As life has presented itself, certainly in business, the UNM education and experience were responsible for me being able to approach challenges in a successful way,” Randy says.

In fact, Randy’s career led him to Houston where he eventually established The Plaza Group and applied not only the technical education he had received at UNM but the values he had acquired there as well.

In Houston It wasn’t unusual that Randy made his way to Houston, considering that he had selected the chemical industry for a career, that Texas was next door to New Mexico, and that Houston was the center of his chosen field.

After graduating from UNM, Randy joined Shell Chemical in Houston and, later, Texaco Chemical. In 1994, he recognized an independent opportunity to provide services to the petrochemical industry and founded The Plaza Group with three other investors. At that time, large companies were looking for smaller firms to assume activities they felt no longer meshed with their core business but were crucial to their operations. That need continues today and is an essential element that has driven the growth for The Plaza Group, Randy says.

Three years after the firm was established, Randy acquired full ownership. The abilities he had honed in management and market development,

V A L U A B L E S U P P O R T : Randy Velarde founded and runs The Plaza Group, an international marketing company for petrochemical and refinery products headquartered in Houston. A loyal Lobo, Randy continues to give financial and volunteer support to his alma mater.

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first at Shell and later at Texaco, particularly in the intermediate and solvents sectors, had set the stage for this decision, he says.

Today, the business, with about $200 million in revenues, has blossomed into an international service company with clients that include Frontier Oil, BP, Mitsui, Total Petrochemicals, Polimeri Europa, Sumitomo, Shell, and others. Complementing the services are a leased fleet of 250 railcars and 100 trucks as well as bulk storage tanks and warehouse facilities that function as a distribution segment.

Randy notes that the company more recently has undertaken an expanding global approach, conducting business with suppliers in Korea, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, Taiwan, and China in order to market what is becoming an increasing supply of products from around the world.

Five Values About 15 years into what had become this thriving venture, Randy decided to articulate some of the important business values he believed in—many taken from his UNM experience as a young man. “We set aside time to gather some people from our board and employees to determine what were our core values...that were central to our success,” he says.

The executives determined that there were five values fundamental to the business: be honest and forthright; treat people with respect, courtesy, and professionalism; provide exceptional service to customers and suppliers; be opportunistic; and be financially responsible.

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Giving Back As Randy’s business has grown, he has taken the time to give back to the industry, as well as the local community and national organizations. This year, The Plaza Group was recognized with BNSF Railway Company’s Annual Product Stewardship Award for its commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail. Earlier, Randy served on the National Petroleum Council, appointed by then Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson.

In Houston, Randy is a member of the board of St. Thomas University and the Houston Business Council, and is a partner and board member of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

He formerly served on the Business Development Board of Sterling Bank.

Additionally, he has given his time as a mentor in a local independent school district and at the University of Houston and as a basketball coach in the Houston/Galveston Catholic Diocese.

An Albuquerque native, Randy continues to show his gratitude by offering financial and volunteer support to UNM. He is a generous contributor to scholarship funding in the School of Engineering. He also says he tries never to miss an opportunity to

recruit students for his alma mater. In 2001, the School of Engineering honored Randy with its Distinguished Alumni Award for “demonstrated professional eminence and community service.”

Randy says his volunteer efforts spring in part from his own good fortune as well as from the values that inspired him while at UNM. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate,” he adds, noting the support he has received from his wife, Vicki, who attended UNM, and their four children, Garrett, Vincent, Jaclyn, and Diana.

In New Mexico Randy admits he enjoys any excuse to return to The Land of Enchantment.

“UNM has a beautiful campus with a great environment,” he says. “I’ve grown even more fond of it as the years go by.”

Also drawing Randy back home are his parents and an older brother, a UNM graduate and Albuquerque attorney. It was this brother’s influence that sealed Randy's decision to attend UNM. “I never even thought of another school,” he recalls, adding that after he was enrolled and began his studies he “could see that the road led to some pretty nice things.”

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FANE GEORGE FRIBERG Fane George Friberg, ’85 BBA, Neenah, Wisconsin, joined Plexus Corp as vice president, materials-North America. He is a Certified Supply Chain Professional, responsible for sourcing, material costing, supply chain management, and material management.

Yvette Gonzales, ’85 BA, ’90 JD, Placitas, after 12 years in the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office, was named a Metro Court judge in Albuquerque.

Marietta Leis, ’85 MA, ’88 MFA, Albuquerque, last summer had paintings included in a group exhibit at the 105 Gallery and at the Wooden Cow Gallery, both in Albuquerque. In the fall, she had a solo show at the Santa Fe Community College. Her art was also featured in the Ascea, Italy, newspaper.

Jim Corriere, ’86 BA, ’93 MA, Brawley, California, taught school for APS for six years, then moved to Southern California where, for nine years, he has taught incarcerated men studying for their GED at Centinela State Prison.

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Michael Emerson, ’86 BSME, Albuquerque, is non-profit executive director of New Mexico Community Capital. Michael focuses on business development in the public sector and was previously senior director of business development with ABS Consulting.

Randy isn’t resting on his success.

As the company’s website says: “... we are far from finished. Conscious of the past, we are setting our sights on an exciting future.”

Kim Jarigese, ’86 BAFA, Albuquerque, was elected president of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Marketing Association board of directors. Kim is marketing manager for the UNM distance education programs.

The UNM Foundation, Inc., promotes excellence at the University of New Mexico by raising, investing, and managing private gifts through the cultivation of longterm partnerships with donors, matching their interests to the university’s priorities. For information on making a gift, please call the UNM Foundation at 505-277-4503 or 1-800-UNM-FUND or visit unmfund.org.

Jonathan Seddon, ’86 BSEE, and Mary Seddon, ’87 BSPH, live in Iowa City, Iowa.

Jonathan works on avionics design at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, and Mary is a hospital pharmacist.

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Philosopher. Mathematician. University president. UNM

alum J. Michael Orenduff, ’69 MA (philosophy), can now add

“mystery writer” to his resume. Mike has published three books in his series of Pot Thief Murder Mysteries,

including The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras, The

Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy, and The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein. In these quirky New Mexico-based mysteries, Mike acquaints us with the amusing, if not conflicted, protagonist Hubert Schuze.

Q U I R K Y Q U E S T : From his home in Georgia, Mike Orenduff incorporates memories of New Mexico and UNM into his popular Pot Thief mystery series. Read a Q&A with J. Michael Orenduff at unmalumni.com/q-a.

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After stints in mathematics and business, Hubert has pursued his passion for pottery. Hubert (or “Hubie,” as his friend and foil Susannah calls him) is, like his creator, a UNM alum.

While at UNM, Hubert began making pottery. His interest in making pots eventually leads Hubert to an anthropology degree, which eventually leads to digging up pots.

Hubert’s livelihood is now made selling pottery in his Old Town shop, Spirits in Clay, which is attached to his adobe home built in 1685. From the first book, The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras, we see that Hubert is what you might call an unwilling hero. He has a penchant for too many margaritas at his favorite Old Town eatery, Dos Hermanas. He also runs his shop with questionable ethics and inventory: he sells his own pottery, telling customers that the pots are replicas only if they ask, and that he has “collected” the original pottery himself.

You see, Hubert is a bona fide pot thief. Despite society’s negative portrayal of pot-hunting, Hubert still relishes the rush of a good dig. “The real reward is in the thrill of the find, the sudden connection with the ancient past when you hold in your hands a pot that has lain unknown and untouched for a thousand years,” he confesses to Susannah in the first book.

In Pythagoras, Hubert receives a proposition from a customer pursuing a valuable Bandelier pot. The problem is, the pot is not for sale, because it belongs to a permanent collection at UNM’s Valle del Rio Museum. When

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These are the kinds of tangles Hubert encounters in Mike’s mysteries. In the second book, The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy, Hubert is asked to recover some San Roque Pueblo pots at the high-security Rio Grande Lofts—from a 150-foot-high resting spot. The plot is high-flying, with Hubert wrongly arrested for murder and then falling head over heels for the beautiful Stella. The third book, The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein, opens with Hubert being asked to appraise a million-dollar collection of Anasazi pottery owned by another Albuquerque treasure hunter.

In each of his mysteries, Mike incorporates math and science into the

plot, with ancient algorithms often helping Hubert out of jams. A fourth mystery, The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier, takes Hubert to Santa Fe to study the science of cooking, à la famed French chef Auguste Escoffier.

Hubert has been asked to prepare special plates for a fancy new Austrian restaurant. But when a member of the kitchen crew turns up dead, poisoned by a chemical found in one of Hubert’s glazes, Hubert must once again prove himself innocent, which is complicated by the fact that the body has been found in his Bronco.

Unlike his victims, Mike and his mysteries don’t seem to be dropping off anytime soon, with a fifth book in the works. With his fun, amusing mysteries that allow readers to enter into the world of art and philosophy, science and murder, Mike’s books have something for everyone. Mystery nuts will love the twists and turns of Hubert’s dilemmas and Mike’s fast but intricate plots that weave in New Mexico culture.

So, on your next visit to Old Town, stop in at the real Treasure House Books, buy a Pot Thief Murder Mystery, grab a margarita, and read up!

The Pot Thief Who Won Awards: The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras won the national Dark Oak Mystery Contest. It has also been selected as a finalist for Best First Book and Best Mystery by the New Mexico Book Co-op, a statewide organization of writers, publishers, booksellers, and libraries, which sponsors an annual New Mexico Book of the Year Award. The Kindle version won the “Eppie” as Best eBook Mystery of the Year for 2009. The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy won 2010 Fiction Book of the Year from the Policewriters Organization.

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Spencer Farr, ’87 PhD, Santa Fe, launched his third bio-technology company, Vista Therapeutics, which is developing a nanotechnology-based device to continuously monitor body fluids in trauma patients. He also helped launch Phase One Ventures, a new investment firm to commercialize bio- and nanotechnology from the national labs and UNM. Manny F. Varela, ’87 BA, ’89 MS, Portales, professor of biology, received the 2009-10 Eastern New Mexico University Presidential Award for Excellence in Research.

Jennifer L. Stone, ’88 BA, ’91 JD, Albuquerque, was elected to the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She is a partner at the Rodey Law Firm.

Bradford Strand, ’88 PhD, Fargo, North Dakota, is president-elect of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Employed at North Dakota State University, Bradford previously was president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.

Bruce L. Brown, ’89 JD, Palmer, Alaska, has practiced law in Alaska for 20 years. He is currently an assistant public defender.

Brian Jay Jones, ’89 BA, Damascus, Maryland, is working on the biography of legendary muppeteer Jim Henson, to be published by Random House in 2012.

Mark Harris, ’90 BAED, Farmington, is stepping down as Farmington High School’s assistant principal to become principal at Hermosa Middle School.

Teresa Archuleta, ’91 BUS, ’00 MA, Albuquerque, principal of Valle Vista Elementary, was selected as New Mexico’s 2010 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Thomas F. “Tommy” Tollison, ’91 BA, Phoenix, serves as the senior assistant general counsel-marketing group for U-Haul International. He and his wife, Dubravka Milas, have three children.

Norma Gutierrez, ’92 BSED, ’00 MA, Los Lunas, received the UNM Elementary Education Legacy Award for Master Teachers. Norma teaches at Katherine Gallegos Elementary in Belen.

Alan L. Kleinfeld, ’92 BA, Folly Beach, South Carolina, is with CMM Advisors, strategic association and meeting managers out of Charleston. He writes frequently for trade magazines in the hospitality and event field. w i n t e r

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Doing Gilbert & Sullivan requires a glibness, a sleight of tongue that comes from practice, practice, practice – and assistance from someone like Professor Henry Higgins, the linguist in Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady who teaches poor, little cockney Eliza Doolittle to speak English well enough to pass for a duchess.

My Fair Lady happens to be James’ favorite play, and linguistics was James’ minor in college. “Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination for dialects and how people sound. Singing musical theatre is expressing the mechanics of dialects and phonetics. I hit upon my passion,” James says.

His credits throughout his career include HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, The

Yeoman of the Guard, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Merry Widow. His favorite roles are Finch in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Jack in Into the Woods, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, stepsister Portia in Cinderella, and the title role in Bat Boy the Musical, the story of the half human/half bat discovered in the caves of West Virginia and brought into a world not ready for him.

Committed to the Moment Terry Davis, public affairs representative and part time faculty in the College of Fine Arts, taught James, performed with him on stage, directed him, and has been in the audience watching him perform. He says that part of what impresses him about James

T O H I S C R E D I T : A comic baritone in the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, James Mills plays a “coolie” in The Mikado.

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is his concentration: “He remains committed to the moment when he’s on stage. He’s engaged, so that makes him more engaging for an audience.”

Performance requires full participation – mental, physical, and emotional. Nothing can creep into the mind while the footlights shine.

“It’s meditative. The audience disappears while you’re performing,” James says. “On stage you can’t think about beef or chicken for dinner or buying groceries. You have to give the same performance for every person who bought a ticket. Tuesday’s audience gets as much as Saturday’s,” he says.

Guilty Pleasure James was sold on stage performance the first time he set foot in front of an audience, his freshman year in high school. “Before that, I couldn’t give a report in front of people. I got up on

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The theatre became therapeutic for me.

It was a way to get over that,” he says, adding that it also helped him deal with doubts and fears.

His first experience with Gilbert & Sullivan came when Hal Simons directed HMS Pinafore in Albuquerque. “My only exposure before had been to play Little Buttercup on the piano. It’s part of

for other roles,” he says. “I used to work at Starbucks on Times Square. That’s a challenge on body and soul.”

Davis says, “James’ success is all his own. Plenty of talented actors can’t make a career in the theatre. He moved to New York, put himself out there in auditions, got parts early on, and worked hard in each case. There’s a tireless dedication to that aspect of

aLBUm Karen Sanchez-Griego, ’93 MA, Albuquerque, principal of Atrisco Heritage Academy High School, received the Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women.

Conrad Ernest Candelaria, ’94 AACI, ’01 BUS, ’03 MPA, Albuquerque, was nominated a U.S. Marshall by President Obama. He is a part-time sociology instructor at UNM. Peggy S. Jackson, ’94 MA, ’07 MA, Sandia Park, was named New Mexico’s Teacher of the Year by the New Mexico Public Education Department. Peggy teaches U.S. government, economics, and history at Moriarty High School.

James remains committed to the moment when he’s on stage. He’s engaged, so that makes him more engaging for an audience. — Terry Davis ear training. After that, I was bitten by it and addicted,” he says.

While James was at UNM, Kathleen Clawson, adjunct faculty, theatre and dance, suggested that he spend the summer between his junior and senior years with the College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

It gave him valuable experience. “We did nine fully staged productions in 11 weeks,” James says.

Among the productions was the G&S operetta Yeoman of the Guard.

James got the lead. The director told him he would do exceptionally well in a professional Gilbert & Sullivan company.

Three years later, he got his first “gig.”

G&S had always been his “guilty pleasure,” something others might not deem cool. He’s grateful for his work.

“It’s kind of a gift – getting paid to do what I would do as a hobby,” he says.

Dedicated to the Dream James lives in the center of Manhattan with the marquee lights of Broadway just outside his door. He’s gotten parts and a place in the NYGASP, but he’s done some “starving artist” time.

“I still have part-time jobs and audition

the business that many actors don't have or don't know how to do.”

Albert Bergeret, artistic director of the NYGASP, says that James has fit in well with more experienced actors in the 35-year-old company. “He is ambitious and always looking for more to do.”

Onstage, James’ forte is comic patter roles, Bergeret says.

Traveling Troupe The NYGASP has a traveling company, which will come to Popejoy Hall on May 1 to present The Mikado. (See popejoypresents.com.) James will play a gentleman of Japan and other supporting roles. “In the spirit of the original D’Oyly Carte Company, young and middle aged men often get to play the old character parts,” he says.

“The singing and the patter are my passion,” James continues. “There’s evolution in the theatre. These kinds of roles, which are tailor-made to me, are part of a genre that is slowly becoming extinct. However, with age I can only grow more appropriate for these roles.”

“I live for the audience and the applause,” James says. “It’s the greatest feeling.”

GREG NEWMARK Greg Newmark, ’94 BA, Los Angeles, was elevated by Meyers Nave to principal status.

A statewide expert in water quality issues, Greg serves as a member of the California State Bar Environmental Law Section Executive Committee.

Dick Stewart, ’94 BUS, Sandia Park, is author of Eleven Unsung Heroes of Early Rock and Roll, a collection of interviews and biographies about 11 important artists who influenced the genre.

Joseph D’Souza, ’94 MS, San Jose, California, is director of business development and clean technologies with Energy Recovery, which designs and develops energy recovery devices for desalination.

Joseph has 15 years’ experience in the semiconductor and solar industry sectors.

Rhonda Attaway, ’95 BSED, Animas, is principal at Animas Elementary School after serving as facilitator for the Exceptional Programs Office in Farmington.

Jean-Luc E. Cartron, ’95 PhD, Albuquerque, is editor of Raptors of New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2010).

Jean-Luc is director of the New Mexico office of the Drylands Institute and a research assistant professor of biology at UNM.

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Art R. Maes, ’95 BBA, Irvine, California, joined the Hershey Company as a customer sales executive in the Southern California market. Art has direct headquarter responsibility for Hershey’s business in both confection and grocery categories for three large food accounts. Art and his wife, Adriana, ’01 BBA, and two daughters relocated from Houston.

William C. Reichard, ’95 BA, ’08 MBA, Albuquerque, is senior vice president of communications, marketing, and advertising at the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the YMCA of Central New Mexico.

Justin Treat, ’95 BS, Coralville, Iowa, completed specialty training in allergy and immunology at the University of Iowa, and joined the Allergy and Asthma Center of Eugene, Oregon.

Can you hear the noise? Can you see the lights? Can you feel the energy?

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Actually, the doors never closed entirely when construction began in March 2009. The MWC champion Lobos played their 2009-10 season in the midst of construction while good-humored fans tolerated the craziness, including port-a-potties and outdoor concessions. At the recent opening, those fans were greeted with: • End zone video boards and ribbon boards for replays, scores, player introductions • 17 new concession stands • 158 flat screen TVs throughout • Additional restrooms • Digital signage and interactive kiosks • Lettermen’s Lounge with a balcony and panoramic view of the Sandias • Club suites and seats on the upper level

For both the men’s and women’s teams, there are new locker rooms, a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning center, and new training facilities.

“The place reeks UNM,” says Roberta Ricci, who attended the opening game with her family. “It’s cherry and silver everywhere.”

“The energy is incredible,” she says. “It will be very intimidating for our opponents.”

W E L C O M E T O T H E P I T ! The main entrance of the newly renovated Pit offers a dramatic greeting to Lobo fans.

Joachim Chino, ’96 BS, ’01 MD, Tuba City, Arizona, is chief of surgery at Tuba City Regional Health Care.

Elisha Allen, ’96 BAEPD, Albuquerque, received the 2010 Jim Davis Staff Council Award for Meritorious Service at UNM. Elisha, who is associate director of New Media and Extended Learning at UNM Extended University, served as president of the Staff Council last year.

Leslie D. Hall, ’96 BBA, Albuquerque, joined the Seattle Fish Company of New Mexico as chief financial officer.

Previously she was controller at Lovelace Health System’s Westside Hospital.

Pilar Vaile, ’96 BUS, Albuquerque, opened her solo law practice, “Pilar Vaile, PC,” focusing on mediation and arbitration in the field of labor and employment law, as well as on general counseling and advocacy services in other areas of the law.

Joshua Bienfang, ’98 MS, ’01 PhD, Bethesda, Maryland, received a Service to America Medal from Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to revitalize our federal government.

Joshua is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Patrick C. Conlon, ’98 MS, Downers Grove, Illinois, published his first research article, Diabetes Outcomes in Primary Care, which documents and illustrates the role of the

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The northeast corner of the Pit can sport huge banners such as this one featuring Lobo women’s basketball.

Look up as you approach the entrance and you’ll see this modern maze.

You’ll find the ticket office in the Frontier/Golden Pride foyer.

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David Mahooty, ’98 BA, ‘00 MBA, Albuquerque, was named a Wells Fargo New Mexico 2010 Diversity Champion. He is an assistant vice president and a commercial banking relationship manager for middle market and tribal clientele in New Mexico and El Paso.

Everett M. Trujillo, ’98 BBA, ’08 MBA, Santa Fe, was promoted to senior manager in state and local tax with Moss Adams CPAs. Lisa Railsback, ’99 MA, Austin, Texas, published a kids’ novel, Noonie’s Masterpiece (Chronicle Books, 2010) the idea for which came from her play developed at UNM, Noonie’s Masterpiece in Purple. Her new novel, Betti on the High Wire, was released in July by Penguin Books for Young Readers.

Lisa is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a Jerome Fellow in Playwriting at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.

Raul Burciaga, ’00 JD, Albuquerque, is the new director of the Legislative Council Service.

Inside, at the north end, you’ll see the balcony that extends from the club-level seating.

Jennifer Dean, ’00 BA, Fairway, Kansas, started Business Blog Writers (businessblogwriters.com), in 2007. She does some writing, but is moving into an editorial/management role.

Polly Jackson, ’00 BAFA, Albuquerque, paints daily and teaches classes at Artisan Art Store, UNM Continuing Ed, and several senior and multi-generational centers.

Jose “JD” Lopez, ’00 BBA, Glendale, California, was admitted to the State Bar of California. He founded an entertainment law firm, J. Lopez Law, based in downtown Los Angeles, that represents clients in music, film, and television, and handles intellectual property.

Julie R. Angel, ’01 BS, Columbus, Ohio, finished her PhD at Ohio State University.

Her dissertation was on the earthwork archaeology of central Ohio. She is staying at OSU to teach and to expand the forensics program there.

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, ’01 PhD, Algodones, was elected to the board of trustees of the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience in Santa Fe.

Video screens and ribbon boards will catch your eye inside the Pit bowl, as will the new chair backs, dark ceiling, and bright floor.

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over it has been formative for its leaders since its beginning in 1907. Several past student government presidents tell us how it changed their lives.

S I T H E R E ! At the Student Senate meetings of the 1960s, representatives sat behind signs of the student organizations they represented.

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aLBUm Eduardo H. Tschen, ’01 MBA, Albuquerque, a former UNM School of Medicine professor, is now president and treasurer of Academic Dermatology Associates. He is a special government employee and consultant to the FDA and the National Institute of Health’s dermatology teaching program.

Keri Rath, ’02 MD, Carrizozo, joined the Lincoln County Medical Center where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecology.

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yle Talbot and I created a model legislature on the UNM campus to expose students to the legislative process. Lyle and I considered that a worthy project. Serving as student body president gave me great experience in listening aggressively, talking thoughtfully and engaging in creative conduct with others for the good of UNM.

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Angela M. Tafoya-Trujillo, ’02 BSED, Albuquerque, received an MS degree in educational leadership from New Mexico Highlands University.

Genieve N. (Arredondo) David, ’02 BA, is chief of public affairs for Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. She manages media operations, community relations, and base information for the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing.

Longtime retail businessman, now a self-employed consultant.

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n retrospect, my term as president of the student body served as one of the most exciting and rewarding classrooms I had at UNM. Tom Popejoy was president of the university at the time. He was truly a great person. He believed in student leadership and used his student leaders – in a good way – to help run the school.

We didn’t just feel involved: we were involved.

For example, the university was just beginning plans for the new student union building. President Popejoy brought us into that process, asking us to research the state of the art in student union buildings across the country. He found out that one of the best was at Utah State University, and sent us there. We worked extensively with the architects here trying to get our building right.

Politically, he made sure we got up to the state legislature to express student interest in items on the legislative menu. He made sure we were always in the thick of everything.

We’d never belonged to the national student body presidents’ association. He made sure that we joined and participated.

Matteucci President Popejoy gave us real hands-on experience and a chance to learn. He taught us so much about life, how to handle situations we’d never been in before. I’ve never forgotten him because he offered us this great opportunity.

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Frank Neher Edward Horgan Roy Hickman Paul Fickinger Barney T. Burns, Jr. Thomas E. Moore

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Frank Stortz George Morrison Clifford Dinkle Jason Kellahin Fred Huning, Jr. George Seery

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John Kennedy Lyle Saunders Stanley Koch Stephen Reynolds Albert Simms Cy Perkins

VALERIE ALMANZAR Valerie Almanzar, ’03 BA, ’06 MBA, Albuquerque, was recognized as one of the National Association of Realtors’ “30 under 30.” She was featured in the June issue of REALTOR Magazine. Valerie is co-chair of web and technology for the Albuquerque Association of Realtors, and was the top salesperson for RE/MAX in 2009. She is with Keller Williams Realty.

Kristen Bushnell, ’04 BS, Albuquerque, is a physician’s assistant with ABQ Health Partners. She was previously a PA in the burn and trauma unit at UNM Hospital.

Angela Chavez-Adkins, ’04 BA, ’10 JD, Albuquerque, works for Rugge, Rosales & Associates. Angela recent married Joshua Adkins.

Robin Noble, ’05 MA, Santa Fe, is principal of Ramirez Thomas Elementary School.

Sean B. Ortiz, ’05 BBA, Walnut Creek, California, recently received his MBA from the University of Phoenix. Sean has worked as a customer experience project manager with Bank of America for 11 years.

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John Thorson, ’70 BA (JD, UC-Berkeley; DPA, USC) Current: Federal Water Master for the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Chair of the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee Former: Water law judge in Arizona and California, executive director of Conference of Western Attorneys General, private law practice, author Semi-retired from San Francisco to western Montana two years ago.

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y term of office as student body president was both turbulent and productive. We had controversy over the scheduled campus appearance of Black activist Stokely Carmichael, picketing of ROTC offices, the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy (Kennedy had visited the UNM campus only weeks before), and friends dead or injured in Vietnam or on their way to the war. Yet, we secured approval to place students on all major faculty and administrative committees, established a student lobby at the legislature, opened an International House, and brought a seemingly endless parade of musical groups (e.g., Simon & Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Moody Blues, Chicago) and speakers (e.g., Kennedy, Goldwater, Sen. Mark Hatfield, Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby) to campus. In an unprecedented step, I was invited by the Regents to participate in the selection process that resulted in the appointment of President Ferrel Heady.

The lessons of this short but intense year are many, but three continue foremost in my mind.

First, I remain in awe of the principled leadership practiced by UNM administrators at the time: President Popejoy, Vice Presidents Sherman Smith, Chester Travelstead, Harold Lavender, Sr., and Ferrel Heady. They did not veer from their commitment to academic freedom, empowering students, Thorson but insisting on responsible student actions.

Second, I came away realizing that more can be accomplished through the politics of conciliation than the politics of confrontation. In most situations, what we share is more important than what divides us.

Finally, UNM and life in New Mexico taught me the importance of diversity. Three rich cultures (now joined by many others) have worked out ways to live relatively harmoniously along the timeless Rio Grande. That success, while requiring continuing effort, is our distinctive contribution to the American pageant.

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Edward Driscoll Al Utton Jerry Matkins Jim Bruening Vince Gormley Bob Matteucci Jack Little

1958-59 Don Fedric 1959-60 Turner Branch Turner and his brother Jim (1965-66) have been the only sibling presidents.

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The Board of Regents then called an emergency meeting and voted 5-0 to ban the film. In response, both the film center director and I filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging a violation of our First Amendment Rights. After an initial hearing, the Regents eventually backed down, reversed their prior decision, and Marty Esquivel allowed the film to be shown. A phenomenal amount of people came out to see the film. Interestingly, I E D U C AT I O N U P F R O N T: never saw the film. I had no interest As president of the Albuquerque Public in seeing it. I only had the desire Schools Board of Education, Marty to have that choice and not to have Esquivel keeps the education and anyone else make it for me. welfare of students front and center.

The experience shaped me professionally to this day. I gained a great understanding for the legal process and it led me to law school. After graduating, I began to specialize my law practice in the First Amendment and had some great mentors along the way. Two years ago, I was recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of First Amendment law. It’s funny how life works out.

1962-63 Dennis Ready 1963-64 Tim Bennett 1964-65 John Salazar 1965-66 Jim Branch, Jr. Jim and his brother Turner (1959-60) have been the only sibling presidents..

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Dan Dennison John Thorson Jim Dines Ron Curry Eric Nelson Ken White, Jr. Jack O’Guinn

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Ross Perkal Gilberto Gonzales Alan Wilson Damon Tobias Thomas Michael Williams

aLBUm Nicholas Pattengale, ’05 MS, ’10 PhD, Albuquerque, received a $5,000 award from Santa Fe-based Qforma, a provider of advanced analytics, for his outstanding PhD dissertation in computer science.

Patricia Marlene (Gradoville) Jephson, ’06 BA, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in international relations and development studies. There she received a certificate of appreciation for outstanding contribution as International Student Ambassador. She married William Jephson of East Sussex last summer.

Jennifer Secrest Pedneau, ’06 BA, is assistant director of development for the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins.

Sarah R. Rivera, ’06 PharmD, Albuquerque, was named the 2010 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year by the New Mexico Pharmacists Association. She works at Catalyst Rx. Melissa N. Sedillo, ’06 BBA, Albuquerque, joined the Cities of Gold Casino and Sports Bar Race Book and Casino as marketing manager in Santa Fe. Josh Skarsgard, ’06 JD, Albuquerque, is one of 15 young commercial real estate professionals to receive the 2010 Developing Leaders Award from NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.

Sarah K. Brack, ’07 MACCT, Albuquerque, was accepted into the 2010 class of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts Leadership Academy. A senior accountant with Burt & Company CPAs, Sarah received her CPA license in 2009.

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Lillian Montoya, ’89 BS, ’98 MBA I’m a Venture Capitalist assisting entrepreneurs and start-ups and I lead a statewide early childhood education public awareness campaign.

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learned more about leadership and strategy while serving as ASUNM president than I did from my undergrad coursework. At the time, I was fortunate to simultaneously serve as a Lillian non-voting UNM Student Regent and the student representative on the then Commission on Higher Education. Lessons learned that have served me well, in no particular order: 1) Take the time to understand the different perspectives on an issue before jumping to conclusions and solutions.

2) Don’t burn a bridge you may need to cross back over.

3) Honor your commitment.

4) Create opportunities for others to “own” and share in a successful outcome in order to increase the likelihood of sustainability and “stickiness.”

5) When asked to keep information in confidence, keep it in confidence.

6) It doesn’t matter who takes credit so long as the most desirable outcome is achieved.

7) Admit when you make a mistake.

8) My professional mantra: you only get one life journey so keep learning, have fun, and make a difference.

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Brittany A. Jaeger, ’07 BBA, ’10 MBA Professional Intern, UNM Division of Student Life Albuquerque

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very significant accomplishment I had as ASUNM president was the implementation of the lights on Johnson Field. Though one may not initially see this as a “major” accomplishment, after years and years of student governments promising to “light Johnson Field,” the ASUNM Senate and I did just that. We worked tirelessly to raise the funds and support. The night the lights were turned on, campus life lit up as well. Any night of the week, you can drive by Johnson Field and find at least 20 people playing soccer, running around the field, or just hanging out. Even with only the safety lights on, you will still see students playing well into the night.

Jaeger How did this affect my professional and/or personal life? It taught me the importance of patience, transparency, organization, awareness, and collaboration. This was a project that was long in the making. There were so many meetings and forms that had to be completed for the project to even make it on the radar. As students, we had to be beyond organized and understand exactly what we were asking for. We worked with everyone and anyone that might be affected by the lights. I learned so much from this project and am so delighted to see the success of the lights today!

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1982-83 Michael Gallegos 1983-84 Dan Serrano 1984-85 John Schoeppner John went on to serve as president of the Graduate Professional Student Association (GPSA).

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Mark Hartmann Lillian Montoya Jim Spehar Charles Penny John Webber Karen Brownfield David Standridge

1993-94 Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe 1994-95 Alberto Solis 1995-96 Alberto Solis 1996-97 Shane Evangelist 1997-98 Jason Bousliman

Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe, ’94 BA (Mdiv, Golden Gate Seminary, PhD candidate, Dallas Baptist University) Campus pastor for Mosaic, a community of faith in Los Angeles.

I am a life coach, and speak on issues of leadership, social justice, spirituality, and creativity.

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lthough there were many accomplishments during my tenure as ASUNM President, the one I am most proud of is the official ban of California grapes in concert with the University administration. The rights of migrant farm workers was and continues to be an issue in our nation.

Recently the United State Congress held hearings sponsored by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Control (O9/28/10). Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif) was criticized for inviting political and social satirist Steven Colbert to testify on the issue. The Congresswoman did so to raise awareness of the issues farm workers face daily.

Although our focus was on the health and welfare of workers as a result of pesticides, the balance of the issue still remains in question, and thus a larger one for our society: Are we willing to advocate for the rights of others who have no rights? And, can we as a society move to a new tone and temperament on issues that divide us? Are we people of compassion, love, and authenticity?

The University, when confronted by a “coalition of conscience,” moved to do the right thing.

Fighting for the rights of others continues to be the narrative of my life.

Marcus Goodloe

Autumn Pearson, ’07 MA, Tijeras, joined East Mountain High School in Sandia Park as the gifted coordinator.

Matt Pacheco, ’07 BBA, Albuquerque, a tax associate with Grant Thornton, earned his CPA designation.

Ralph Gomez, ’08 PhD, is an assistant professor of mathematics at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.

Ivy Brown, ’10 BS, Albuquerque, while a student, had her research on West Nile virus published in Virology and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine. Ivy now works at UNM studying T cell migration in mice.

Aimee Deans, ’10 BA, was a craft apprentice designing costumes at the Santa Fe Opera this past summer.

MaR R IaGeS Francine Maher, ’93 BA, and Kevin Hopper Laura Moffitt, ’94 BA, ’97 MA, and Robert Conley Amy Chavez, ’99 BBA, ’02 JD, and Chris Romero, ’00 JD Ericka Candelaria, ’00 BBA, and Michael K. DeCourcey Jeff Farber, ’01 BA, and Brittany Romenesko Jennifer Griego, ’02 Pharm, and Andrew Campbell Jennifer Murray, ’01 BS, and Brian Petracca Kristi Trujillo, ’03 BAFA, and Tim Hartley Angela Chavez, ’04 BA, ’10 JD, and Joshua Adkins Joi Hunley, ’04 BA, and Shawn Gassett Samantha Robertson, ’04 BAED, ’07 MA, and Christopher Vigil

V A L U E D M O M E N T S : Pastor, student, father, husband – Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe makes time to enjoy the company of his wife (“and best friend”), Lucy, and their two (“amazing”) kids.

1998-99 Fred Melendres While Fred was the only Melendres to serve as president, both his father, Art, and his brother, Paul, served as vice presidents.

1999-2000 Eric Anaya

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he UNM campus broke out in disco for Lobo Fever during Homecoming week, September 28-October 2, welcoming the return of alumni to their alma mater.

The Homecoming Committee, under chair Nancy Herring, got their groove on, helping plan and organize reunions, receptions, auctions, and more. The Alumni Association partnered with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of New Mexico for a variety of civic engagement projects, such as “soup night” – members of the Homecoming Committee served as guest chefs for over 70 residents.

First place in the 9th Annual Campus Decorating Contest went to the Office of the President. The winners were announced at the annual Alumni Faculty and Staff Appreciation Luncheon in the SUB Ballroom. In exchange for a 2010 Homecoming pin, each guest brought a package of toilet paper for the Ronald McDonald House.

The Heritage Club combined with the Class of 1960 for a reunion brunch at Embassy Suites. Myriad other constituency reunions took place as well, including the University Honors, Jewish Foundation, Alumni Lettermen, Anderson School of Management, College of Nursing, College of Education, the College Enrichment Program, Young Alumni, and others. Several departments – including Maxwell Museum and Zimmerman Library – hosted educational seminars and demonstrations.

Six Zia award winners were honored at the All University Breakfast at the Embassy Suites Hotel. The recipients were Kara Bobroff, Sue Daulton, Jerry Dominguez, Ed Mazria, Bradley Smith, and Amy Wohlert. Retired Dean of Students Randy Boeglin received the Lobo Award. The pre-game Southwest Fiesta Tailgate and Silent Auction treated alumni, parents, and Lobo fans to traditional southwest cuisine and entertainment by DJ Voight.

The silent auction went online to reach out to alumni unable to attend Homecoming. The live event sustained its usual success, offering items such as NFL game day packages, artwork, hotels and spa treatments, ski packages, UNM sports gear, and more to benefit alumni scholarships and programming.

The halftime coronation of Homecoming King Miguel Gonzales and Homecoming Queen Zoe Riebli was celebrated in style with the UNM Alumni Band and Marching Band playing tribute to Saturday Night Fever.

The UNM Alumni Association would like to thank the following sponsors, staff, and volunteers for their time and hard work in making “Lobo Fever” a hit!

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Thank you’s and acknowledgements Cash Sponsors: Liberty Mutual UNM Division of Student Affairs

Gift in Kind: Albuquerque City Transit, Lamar Bright Ideas Citadel Southwest Radio 610 The Sports Animal 770 KOBAM 103.3 Ed FM Garcia’s Tents Lithexcel

Homecoming Committee Steve Carr Joshua Gallegos Jennifer Gomez-Chavez Nancy Herring Brad Hutchins

Lisa Lindquist Ryan Lindquist Matt Maez Laura Montoya Debbie Morris Frieda Archuleta Stewart Leslie Venzuela Danny Vigil Susan Wilson

Reunion Coordinators Jan Bandrofchak, School of Architecture and Planning Donna Balduini, Class of ‘60 Marlena Bermel, College of Nursing Harriet Bull, College of Pharmacy Tracy & Brian Denton, UNM Spirit Group

Kim Feldman, UNM Alumni Lettermen Paul Garson, Sigma Chi Fraternity Andrew Gonzalez, College Enrichment and Outreach Program Rosemary Gregory, College of Nursing Laura Kelly, Anderson School of Management Sara Koplik, Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus Tracy Ljone, Swim & Dive Matt Maez, Young Alumni Jennifer Mason, University Honors Christie Ross, College of Education Frank Sedillo, 80’s Football

aLBUm MO R e M aR R IaGeS Patricia Marlene Gradoville, ’06 BA, and William Jephson Susan Stevens, ’06 MS, and Brian Adams Leticia Fraga, ’08 BA, and Eric Kuebler Janae Herrera, ’08 BA, and Christopher Martinez Gloria Spina, ’08 BA, and Clint McGuire Jennifer Segura, ’09 BA, and Bryce Loftis

I N Me M O R I aM Lenore Polly Pettit Cline, ‘29 Mollie E. Gordon Hayes, ’38, ‘39 Mary Alyce Lujan, ‘39 James P. Chaplin, ’40, ‘41 Julia Gutierrez Andrade, ‘41 Jean Begley Bluestein, ’41, ‘55 Jane Crawford Baird Erikson, ‘41 James L. Leach, ‘42 Mary Eunice Waggoner Bockelman, ’43, ‘51 James A. Borland, ‘45 Irma Yarbrough JohnsonBudington, ’45, ‘48 Marjorie P. Ozier, ‘45 Robert M. Vinyard, ‘45 Frank L. Baird, ’48, ‘51 Sam N. Gaeto, ’49, ‘51 John M. Harvey, ‘49 John S. Bartlo, ‘50 Walter J. Dalby, ‘50 Victor J. Gonzales, Jr., ‘50 Lurana A. Ferguson, ‘50 James L. Hatchett, ‘50 Charles M. Jensen, ‘50 Robert G. Lalicker, ’50, ‘54 Arthur T. McGinnis, ‘50 Glenn H. Lawrence, ‘50 Veta L. Mercer, ‘50 Dante J. Menicucci, ‘50 Edmund “Ned” P. Ross, ‘50 Carleton K. Webb, ‘50 Ruth Jeanne Willcut, ‘50 Robert C. Colgan, Jr., ‘51 Jean T. Maltrotti, ‘51 James Allen May, ’51, ‘54 Phillip G. McCracken, ‘51 Irving Eugene Moore, ‘51 William Alan Rogers, ‘51 Ernest H. Rosenbaum, ‘51 William B. Norwood, ‘52 John P. Ryan, ‘52 Jay S. Saunders, ‘52 Forrest S. Smith, ’52, ‘64 George Robert Taylor, ‘52 Greta Goodrich, ‘53 Frances Ruth Hunt, ‘53 Gerry Washburn, ’53 George C. Ambabo, ‘54

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Other Acknowledgements

Karen Abraham Mayor Larry P. Abraham All Sports Trophies, Inc. Joseph F. & Dorothy Lee Baca Barraclough & Associates, PC Tucker & Karen Bayless Penny Naughton Beaumont Jim & Yvonne Beckley Fred & JoAnn Chreist Steve & Judy Chreist Frontier Restaurant Bill & Kathy Gordon Fred & Annette Gorenz David N. Hernandez James Jimenez Harold & Judith Lavender Bill & Susan Littlefield Bob & Betsy Murphy Now We’re Cooking

Erin Belger, Photographer Cervantes Restaurant Steve Chreist, President, UNM Alumni Association Echo Creative, Kelly Ketner Embassy Suites Hotel Enterprise Rent-A-Car Fairfield Inn by Marriott Eldon Feldman Homewood Suites

by Hilton Uptown Christian Horstmann Lobo Louie Lobo Lucy The March Company Donese Mayfield Florencio Olguin, Photographer Southern Wine & Spirits Dan Stouffer, Poster artist Tier One Productions, Voight Thornton UNM Air Force ROTC UNM Alumni Marching Band UNM Anderson School of Management UNM Athletics UNM Bookstore UNM Copy Center UNM Dean of Students Office UNM Fire Marshal UNM Lobo Club UNM Office of the President UNM Office of Sustainability UNM Parking & Transportation UNM Physical Plant UNM Press UNM Public Affairs/Campus News UNM Spirit Group UNM Student Activities UNM Student Homecoming Committee UNM Student Housing UNM Student Quartet, Bradley Ellingboe, Director UNM Student Union Catering and Chartwell’s UNM Ticket Office UNM Trailblazers UNM Volleyball Jesse Varoz, Photographer Zia Graphics Industries

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R O YA L F A N F A R E : After their half-time coronation, Homecoming King Miguel Gonzales and Homecoming Queen Zoe Riebli take their regal leave.

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Kelly's Brew Pub Kim Jew Photography Studio KNME La Esquina La Farina Leisure Bowl Liberty Gym, Inc. Los Cuates New Mexican Food Manning Florist Marc’s Guitar Center Mario’s Pizza Marriott Dallas/Plano at Legacy Town Center Melba’s Floral Studio Mercedes Benz, Porsche & Audi of Albuquerque Mirai Express Monroe’s New Mexican Food My Style Handbags & Accessories Nantucket Shoals Seafood Market National Institute of Flamenco Arts National Museum of Nuclear Science & History National Restaurant Supply New Mexico Bio Park Society New Mexico Golf, Ltd. New Mexico Look New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation New Mexico Sports & Wellness New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Now We’re Cooking Oak Tree Café Old Town Emporium Organizit, Inc. Outpost Ice Arena Palms Trading Co. Patrician Design Preciado Mexican Imports Radisson Hotel & Conference Center Route 66 Diner Route 66 Dry Cleaners Sadie’s Sandia BMW Sandia Peak Ski Area Sandia Peak Tramway Santa Fe Ski Area Satellite Coffee Savory Fare Savoy Sign & Image Factory, LLC Silk Road Connections Soccer Connection Star Bright Cleaners Stone Age Climbing Gym SunCare Tanning Tanoan Country Club Tanoan Tennis Taos Ski Valley, Inc. Ten Thousand Waves Tier One Productions (TOP), LLC Tomato Café Charlene Chavez Tunney UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Association UNM Baseball UNM Men’s Basketball UNM Women’s Basketball UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts/ Popejoy Hall UNM Championship Golf Course UNM Football Athletic Complex

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A M A Z I N G Z I A S ! The Zia Awards honor outstanding UNM alumni living in New Mexico. Six recipients were honored at the All University Breakfast. Left to right: Jerry Dominguez, vice provost-extended university, oversees distance learning at UNM; Bradley Smith, retired Air Force Colonel, led the Center of Excellence for military space science and technology; Kara Bobroff founded Native American Academy; Sue Daulton is a great supporter of UNM scholarships, academics, and athletics; Amy Wohlert, is vice provost-graduate education and dean of graduate studies; Ed Mazria, not pictured, founded Architecture 2030. Randy Boeglin, right, retired dean of students, received the Lobo Award. Read the recipients' intros/bios at unmalumni.com/zia-award.

UNM Foundation UNM Men’s Golf UNM Women’s Golf UNM Lobo Athletics UNM President’s Office UNM Press UNM Recreational Services UNM Ski Team UNM Men’s Soccer UNM Women’s Soccer UNM Spirit Program UNM Men’s Tennis UNM Women's Tennis UNM Theatre & Dance UNM Women's Volleyball Upward Motion Personal Training Weems Galleries Wells Fargo Bank Zia Graphics Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro

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Phyllis Benia Salazar Chris Schuler Matthew Segura Erik Sevigny Francine Stewart Patrick Stewart Student Volunteers Duffy Swan Jean Ann Swan Tom Tunney Bill Wallace

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Wayne Chew College Enrichment and Outreach Programs Hiram Crook Tara Edwards Isaiah Ellison Ja'lyn Ellison Jamel Ellison Tonya Ellison Bob Kelly Tessa Krause Marcel Montoya Melissa O’Neill Antoinette Pacheco Marcus Packer Matthew Packer Paris Packer Robin Packer Keith Ricci Susan Ritchie

Karen Abraham Donna Balduini Ashley Banikas Danielle Bauer Elaine Chew Mary Conrad Kara Evans Kim Feldman Michael Green Trevor Ketner Sue MacEachen Gina Maes Florencio Olguin, Jr. Camille Pansewicz Roberta Ricci Charlene Chavez Tunney Maria Wolfe

Wendell O. Beshore, ‘67 Fred C. Tharp Jr., ‘67 Ann Pierre Brunelli, ‘68 Glenna C. Harrington, ‘68 Leslie S. Johnston, ‘68 Gary E. Yancy, ‘68 Frank M. Raymond, ‘68 Jeanne Pryor Lawton, ‘69 Richard D. Waring, ‘69 James E. Woodard Jr., ‘69 James F. Zumwalt, ‘69 Rhoda Rudd Prall, ‘70 Cynthia A. Spreacker, ‘70 John Orlando Chavez, ‘71 Sol S. Gould, ’71, ‘78 Eural Mitchell, ’71, ‘75 Charlotte Grace Stark, ‘71 Charles James Tesar, ‘71 Karen Welborn Allen, ‘73 Deborah K. Gerou, ‘73 Lucy Hampson, ‘73 Mary Jo Thompson Miller, ‘73 Antonio Silva, ’73, ‘76 James C. Arieno, ‘74 Joan M. Chavez, ’74, ‘80 Joseph M. Deal, ’74, ‘78 Jessie Joe Delgado, ‘74 Paul Richard Montoya, ‘74 Felix A. Lugo-Quinones, ‘75 Robert A. Sandoval, ’75, ‘77 Cora H. Begay, ‘76 Joseph Wayne Nunnally, ’76, ‘89 Farrell Lane Udell, ’76, ‘78 Eugenio C. Valles, ’76, ’82, ‘92 Barbara Means Wilson, ‘76 James E. Short, ’77, ‘80 George Vallejos, ’77, ’89, ‘97 Rudolfo Baca, ‘78 David G. Malkowski, ‘78 Doris M. Hamelstrom, ‘79 Marvin C. McCallum, ’79, ‘81 Benjamin Coca, ‘80 Jerry Winston Henderson, ‘80 David T. Stewart, Sr., ‘80 Steve Jay Upton, ‘81 Markie C. Polly Rosenberg, ‘82 Janice M. Saavedra, ‘83 Hedy Neumann Dalia, ‘84 Richard K. Haury, ‘84 Donald Wayne Whatley, ‘84 Colleen A. Ashley, ‘85 Mary Jo Cohen, ‘85 Eva Linn Courtright, ‘85 Jeffery Shannon Eagan, ‘86 Duane Martin Henden, ‘86

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Our sincere apologies to Rod C. Jensen, ’68 BSME, whom we mistakenly listed in this column in fall 2010.

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aLUMNI OU Holiday Forecast

Steve Chreist, ’67 BBA | UNM Alumni Association President

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here’s nothing like December at UNM. The students – among them our Alumni Trailblazers – have already set out luminarias across campus for the traditional Hanging of the Greens.

Standing outside the construction fence surrounding Hodgin Hall, I can envision the great old building decked out in luminarias next year. You will all be invited to an open house next fall to see the completed renovations and a shining new Hodgin Hall – your Alumni Center.

Speaking of renovations, the Lobos are playing basketball in the Pit again!

We can all take pride in the beautiful arena – and in our athletes!

Remember that mixture of tension and excitement as finals neared, followed by vacation? It’s even greater

for those who are graduating this month.

Our Young Alumni group will welcome them into the fold at a wine and cheese reception commencement eve.

The New Year will bring the State Legislative session. With State funds tight, our challenge as alumni will be to tell our many success stories, to convey how much our UNM education has meant to us and our communities, and to make sure our legislators know how strongly we support UNM. But until then, enjoy the season.

Stay safe. And savor that bowl of posole and plate of tamales!

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dna Conway, ’35 BA (center), is a stalwart at the DC Chapter Annual Taco Picnic & Green Chile Roast.

After 41 years, the event, held at Bob and Geri Werdig’s (class of 1960, back row, right) Fortuitous Farm in Maryland, is not only a tradition but an institution. To the left is chapter president Greg Greseth, ’92 BSME. Savoring the smell and taste of freshly roasted green chile, 334 Lobos attended this year. They took home almost 3,000 pounds of New Mexicans’ favorite food. Proceeds from the event go toward the chapter’s endowed scholarship and stipends for its DC Amigo Scholarship students currently attending UNM. The DC contingent has become so proficient at roasting the green stuff that its members have taken to building their own roasters. The chapter now has three.

Even the Smithsonian has taken note of the chapter’s activities. This past fall, the Museum of the American Indian enlisted chapter volunteers to help plan and implement its Living Earth Festival. Chiles roasted by the Lobo crew were used in several dishes prepared by Zia Pueblo members and by celebrity chefs in a cook-off.

Other chapters across the country find the pull of green chile irresistible as well. Each year, between seven and ten of them hold their own roasts, with proceeds going to their chapter endowments and scholarship funds.

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Tim Lundin, class of 2000, http://TDLphoto.com

Going for the Green!

Maria Wolfe

UTLOOK Alumni Chapters: Howlidays, Basketball & College Fairs December 2 December 4 December 11 December 12 December 12 January 7 January 13 January 15 February 4 February 16 February 26 February TBD March 4 March 5 March 5 – 6 March 9 – 12 March 12 March 19 March TBD March TBD March TBD March April 1 April May 6 May

Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event Los Angeles Chapter Holiday Party Austin Chapter Holiday Pot Luck & Pandora’s White Elephant San Diego Chapter Holiday Dinner & Social Seattle Chapter “Howliday” Pot Luck Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event San Diego Chapter Young Alumni Networking/Social @57 Degrees San Diego Chapter TV Viewing Party – UNM vs. SDSU at McGregor’s Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event Lobo Men’s Basketball – Lobos @ SDSU – Pre-game at McGregor’s Austin Chapter Lobo Day Celebration Norcal Chapter Lobo Day Celebration Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Day Celebration – New Mexican Dinner Austin Chapter Participation in CROP Hunger Walk Mountain West Basketball Championships – Las Vegas Seattle Chapter Lobo Day Celebration Atlanta Chapter Lobo Day Celebration Washington, DC Congressional Reception Chicago Chapter Spanish Colonial Music of Latin America – Chicago Arts Orchestra conducted by UNM alum Javier Jose Mendoza Washington, DC Lobo Day Celebration Spring College Fair Season – All Chapters – Volunteers Needed!

Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event Spring College Fair Season – All Chapters – Volunteers Needed!

Salt Lake City Chapter 1st Friday Networking Event Spring College Fair Season – All Chapters – Volunteers Needed!

Young Alumni: Fractals, Finances & Fun Check out the University of New Mexico Young Alumni Facebook page!

December 3 January 21 January TBD February 4 February 10 February TBD March TBD March TBD March TBD April 13 TBD

Hanging of the Greens/Toys for Tots Drive Adult Night at Explora Career Builder Workshop First Friday Fractals UNM Career Expo 2011 Graduate Planning Workshop Daffodil Days KNME Spring Phone Campaign Art of Making Beer Educators’ Job Fair How to Net from Working It!

Events, dates, and times are subject to change. Check unmalumni.com or contact us at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866 for additional information.

The Old Brick School House

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e’ve always known that Hodgin Hall, the first building on the UNM campus, was constructed of brick, in 1892. It stood atop the empty mesa far east of downtown Albuquerque.

But the vision of a Pueblo style campus enticed UNM President William Tight, who served from 1901 to 1010, to flatten the building’s roof, stucco its walls, and square its arches.

It became hard to envision the old brick school house. But in the course of renovation, its former self has come to life. Red bricks and archways have been exposed; we plan to keep some of them visible, in testimony to Hodgin’s past.

We hope to move back into Hodgin Hall in late February, with the Alumni Center’s grand opening in the summer or fall.

UNM Alumni Association

2011 Travel Program Swiss Alps & the Italian Lakes May 29 – June 6 Alumni Holidays Passage to the Norwegian Fjords June 10 – 23 GoNext Passage of Lewis & Clark July 29 - August 6 Alumni Holidays Cradle of History Cruise September 18 – October 1 GoNext Christmas in the Heart of Germany December 6 – 14 Avalon Waterways 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. w i n t e r

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MORe aLUMNI PROFILeS Engineer Finishes MBA in Afghanistan P A U L

G I B L I N Paul Giblin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the Qalaa House compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, acknowledge co-worker Paul L. Cravens for completing his MBA from the University of New Mexico while on deployment.

Electrical engineer Paul L. Cravens, ’01 BSEE, ’07 MSEE, drew upon personal

experiences with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete his MBA while on deployment in Afghanistan. He chronicled some of the unique difficulties of rebuilding

the war-torn country in a research paper for a business ethics class at UNM.

The paper, entitled “A Clash of Globalizations,” deals with the economy and ethics of terrorism in Afghanistan. Included in it are details of some of the violence the Corps of Engineers and its contractors have encountered while trying to rebuild the country’s infrastructure. Paul wrote about shootings, kidnappings, and other tactics used by insurgent groups against construction workers to hinder rebuilding efforts.

Paul wrote the 18-page document and took the final exam for his business

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ethics class during a two-week vacation in Seoul, South Korea, last summer.

He initially tried to work on the paper after work hours in Kabul, but only had limited success, he says. Instead, he spent the bulk of a two-week vacation at the Dragon Hill Lodge, a recreation center for U.S. armed forces at the Yongsan Army Installation, bent over his laptop, surrounded by books and other research materials.

Paul, 55, lives in Tijeras, New Mexico, and started the master’s degree program in 2007. He obtained

permission from his instructor to complete his final course before leaving for Afghanistan in December 2009.

The Corps of Engineers has approximately 34,000 civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services in more than 90 countries worldwide.

It is the primary organization building army bases, police stations, roads, airstrips, and other infrastructure projects in Afghanistan to increase the country’s stability and bolster its economy.

Honored for his Courage CONTRIBUTED BY HERB SHILLINGBURG

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ene Franchini, ’57 BBA, after 15 years of legal practice in Albuquerque, served six years as a district judge in the 2nd Judicial District. At that point he presided over a case for which the mandatory sentence was a year in prison. Gene thought the sentence so inappropriate as to be immoral. In a display of courage, he refused to hand down the mandatory sentence and gave up his seat on the bench. After further private practice, Gene would serve 12 years on the New Mexico Supreme Court, including two as Chief Justice.

In May 2010, the board of the National High School Mock Trial Championship changed the name of its most prestigious award, the “Golden Gavel Award,” to the “Gene Franchini Golden Gavel Award.” In September, the Linda K. Estes “Giraffe Award,” presented to those willing to stick their necks out for a cause, was presented to Gene posthumously. His wife of 40 years, Glynnie, accepted the award.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of New Mexico We are glad to announce that the UNM Alumni Association has become a partner of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. All alumni will receive a 10% discount for all Osher courses. Thousands of alumni in the Osher age group of 50+ live in the Albuquerque metropolitan area and we invite them to become Osher members. The membership fee is only $20 annually. Joining allows you to register for all the Osher courses in 2010.

For information, contact Maralie BeLonge at 505-277-6179 or belonge@unm.edu.

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