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Leslie Marmon Silko feels at home in the tough terrain near Tuscon where she shared her thoughts with Laurie

BY LAURIE MELLAS Considered by many the first Native American woman novelist, Leslie Marmon Silko, ’69 BA, discusses her work, her life, and her world outlook.

16 Keen on the Bean

BY JANICE MYERS Starbucks Coffee Master Wayne McIntosh, ’81 BAA, brews up business.

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10 Memory and Promise: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Story

Mellas for our story on page 10.

20 How to Succeed without Knowing You Have B Y LY N N E A R A N Y In need of a more secure career, anthropologist Joelle Hertel, ’77 MA, ’83 BSCE, turns construction pro in a big way.

28 Added Perspective Laurie Mellas

BY MARY CONRAD Year three in our series watches three UNM students develop from newbies to vets.

BY ALEXIS KERSCHNER Nancy Hollander, ’78 JD, leaves the Supreme Court a winner.

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Spring 2006, Volume 24, Number 3 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO; David Harris, Acting President; Karen A. Abraham, Director, Alumni Relations; UNM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Angie Vachio, President, Albuquerque; Roberto Ortega, President-Elect, Albuquerque; Lillian Montoya-Rael, Treasurer, Santa Fe; Coleman Travelstead, Past-President, Albuquerque; Gene Baca, Corrales; Michelle Hernandez, Albuquerque; Ruth Schifani, Albuquerque; Judy Zanotti, Albuquerque.

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BY STEVE CARR Keeping their goal in mind, the Lobo soccer team finally achieves a trip to the College Cup.

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44 Alumni Outlook

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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. www.unmalumni.com/community Better yet, e-mail your news to mweinrod@unm.edu.

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Eleanor Guilford, ’42 BA, has published One Hundred Mile Summers: Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada (Borders Books, Amazon.com, Regent Press), the story of her backpacking adventures on the 2,638-mile trail, at age 71. Eleanor lives in San Francisco.

Barbara Bailey Heberholz, ’48 BFA, ’53 MA, and Donald Herberholz, ’53 MA, received the Living Art Educator Award from the California Art Education Association in recognition of their dedication to educating and engaging students, teachers, and parents in the visual arts. Each recently retired as professor emeritus from California State University, Sacramento.

Betty J. Fohr, ’44 BA, taught school in Regina and Porter in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains.) in one-room schoolhouses, then in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois for a total of 30 years. She retired in 1983 and lives in Tucson.

H. Michael Hayes, ’45 BSEE, is professor emeritus of marketing and strategic management, University of Denver, and co-author of Managing Business Marketing and Sales: An International Perspective (Copenhagen Business School Press).

He lives in Westminster, Colorado.

Isobel Klein-Hernandez, ’50 MA, has been appointed honorary chairman (New Mexico) for the Business Advisory Council, a small-business support program sponsored by the National Republic Congressional Committee. Isobel is a psychologist in private practice in Las Cruces.

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n January 25, the UNM Board of Regents and President Louis Caldera announced that Caldera would step down as president, by mutual agreement.

Caldera is currently on a leave of absence, after which he will join the faculty of the school of law as a tenured professor. The key focus for all parties is to ensure a smooth transition of leadership and continued forward momentum on key university initiatives.

UNM Executive Vice President for Administration David Harris was named acting president. As Mirage goes to press, the regents have not decided upon an interim president with academic expertise to serve in the near future.

We thank President Caldera for his service and wish him all the best in future endeavors. http://www.unm.edu/news/06JanNewsReleases/06-01-25caldera.htm http://www.unm.edu/president/

new connections Health Sciences Top Spot: The UNM

Board of Regents has appointed Paul Roth as executive vice president for health sciences. Roth, who has served as dean of the School of Medicine since 1994, replaces Phil Eaton, who retired July 1. http://hscapp.unm.edu/ calendar/output/index.cfm? fuseaction=main.release&EntryID=4560 Public Law Leader: Paul Biderman has

been named director of the Institute of Public Law at the UNM School of Law.

Exchange Maker: Thomas E.

has begun work as director of UNM International Programs and Studies.

titles and was offensive coordinator for the explosive Texas A&M teams of the early 1990’s. http://golobos.collegesports.com/sports/ m-footbl/spec-rel/011806aaa.html

student connections Engine Eagles: A UNM student-built

racecar recently placed 14th—UNM’s best finish ever—in the 2005 Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition. Approximately 140 teams from around the world competed. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000673.html#more

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http://www.unm.edu/news/Sept05Releases /05-09-07international.htm Football News: Head football

coach Rocky Long has announced the appointment of former UCLA head coach Bob Toledo as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.

Toledo brings a wealth of experience as he led the Bruins to two Pac-10

Business Brights: A group of MBA

students at the Anderson Schools of Management won top honors in the Cadillac National Case Study competition recently. More than 50 teams, including 23 MBA and 28 undergraduate teams from colleges and universities nationwide, competed. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000683.html#more

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Meet Regent Chalmers

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Community leader Don Chalmers has been appointed to the UNM Board of Regents by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. A former member of the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education, Chalmers owns three major car dealerships in New Mexico. He serves on numerous volunteer boards, including Explora Science and Children’s Museum, St. Joseph Community Health Services, Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Acción New Mexico, United Way of Central New Mexico, the Albuquerque Community Foundation, the Rotary del Sol Club, and others. Chalmers is the incoming president of the Albuquerque Auto Dealers Association, a National Auto Dealers Association director representing New Mexico, and president of CARS New Mexico. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chalmers moved to New Mexico a decade ago. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1970 with a BS degree in Marketing. http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/000967.html#more

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Affordable Housing: Students and

Pledged to Practice: New Mexico

faculty from the School of Architecture and Planning took up the challenge to design a “simple, decent, affordable” five-bedroom, two-bathroom house for a Habitat for Humanity competition.

They won. Now the challenge is to get volunteers to build it.

Governor Bill Richardson has pledged $15 million to the UNM athletic department, with $6 million earmarked toward the construction of a new indoor practice facility.

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http://golobos.collegesports.com/ genrel/012806aaa.html Funds Make Waves: Congresswoman

semester, student-athletes enrolled at the University of New Mexico combined for a grade-point-average of 3.0 or higher.

has announced that UNM will receive $3.5 million to begin the design and construction of the Long Wavelength Array, a group of receivers that will examine objects in the ionosphere in great detail.

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Water Ways: For the fifth consecutive

Deadly Bio-Agent Research: As part

year, master’s of water resources students under the guidance of earth and planetary science professor Michael C. Campana traveled to Honduras to help build a water system for the residents of Brisas de Rio Negro. http://www.unm.edu/~market/

of a five-year grant totaling nearly $15 million, the US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $1.8 million to a consortium led by UNM to research contagious and deadly bio-agents.

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High Marks: For the seventh consecutive

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Destiny, Abroad: The Institute of

International Education and the US Fulbright Commission have awarded international-exchange grants to three UNM students. http://www.unm.edu/news/Aug%2005% 20Releases/05-08-24fulbright.htm

Mental Health Careers: The National

Institute of Mental Health/Career Opportunities in Research training program at UNM’s Center on Alcohol, Substance Abuse has received a five-year, $1.39 million grant to continue support of its undergraduate honors training program.

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Buildings Ahead: In June, the UNM

PhD ABCs: Ten US universities, including

Board of Regents approved a $125 million bond issue to pay for a number of main campus capital improvements, including $25 million toward building the Centennial Engineering Center.

The bond will be paid for by increasing student fees to approximately $56 more per year for the next four years.

UNM, have received $1 million grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to initiate fundamental changes in the way PhD scientists are trained.

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album Richard G. Kurman, ’50 BAED, ’68 MA, recently completed a monograph on the life and work of painter/educator William Fett.

It is archived at Washington University, St. Louis; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; the Museum Library at the Chicago Art Institute; McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio; and the Centro Histórico, Mexico City. Kurman’s own art is on line at www.collectorsguide.com/rkurman and at ASKART.com.

Beverly Burke Strohl, ’51 BAMU, recently married Gerry Blair, author and photographer.

The couple has moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where they pursue their interest in mineral collecting.

Patricia Murray, ’52 BA, has been elected to the board of trustees of Southwestern College, a private educational institution in Santa Fe. She is senior vice president with First State Bank.

William Holcomb, ’54 BAED, and Margot Palese Holcomb, ’55, are enjoying their retirement from teaching in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina. They recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a Caribbean cruise.

Patrick J. F. Gratton, ’55 BS, ’58 MS, a Dallas independent geologist, has assumed the presidency of the 31,000-member American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

James J. Lamb, ’55, has co-authored a second thriller novel, Heir Today, with his wife, Bette Golden Lamb. They live in Novato, California.

Arturo Madrid, ’60 BA, has been appointed by the US Secretary of Education to the new National Commission on the Future of Higher Education. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

Arturo is Murchison Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Trinity University’s (San Antonio) modern languages and literatures department.

Robert D. Smith, ’60 BS, retired from Mentor Media Group in June 2004 and is now executive director of GreenvilleConnect, an alliance of Christian churches, ministry groups, and business and community leaders in Greenville, South Carolina.

F. Chris Garcia, ’61 BA, ’64 MA, has been promoted to distinguished professor. He served as UNM’s 17th president in 2002-03 and most recently received the Franklin J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service from the American Political Science Association. Chris serves on the board of directors of Think New Mexico.

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Researchers at the UNM Health Sciences Center received a $1 million Keck Foundation grant to fund an interdisciplinary team study of the role certain steroid receptors may play in hormone-sensitive cancers. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=4599 Flow of Events: The Department of

Energy Office of Science has awarded UNM $375,000 for suspension flow research. UNM will team up with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the University of California, Santa Barbara for a total award of $2.4 million over three years. This award is one of 13 selected from approximately 170 proposals.

honorable connections Legal Leader: Law professor Barbara

has been appointed president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Bergman joined the law faculty in 1987 after serving as a criminal defense lawyer with the Public Defender Service in Washington, DC. She also spent a year as associate counsel to President Jimmy Carter.

With more than 10,000 members, the NACDL is the preeminent US organization advancing the mission of criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process.

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Engineering Honors: Deborah Fisher,

associate professor of civil engineering, has received the 2005 Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000747.html#more Esteemed in España: Manuel de Hermenegildo,

the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair in Information Science and Technology at UNM, has been honored with Spain’s 2005 National Research Award for Mathematics and Information Technologies, known as the Julio Pastor Award. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000943.html#more

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000740.html#more Nurses Needed: The College of

Nursing has received $250,000 from the State of New Mexico to address New Mexico’s nursing shortage.

Barry Staver

http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=4158 Teen Drug Abuse: Researchers at

the UNM Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Center are examining an emerging boom in prescription-drug abuse among young adults and teenagers.

School of Medicine resident Teresa Smith de Cherif, front, is bringing

Kazakhstan Can! Through a grant

color to caring. Smith de Cherif’s idea to manufacture and sell scrubs

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made from cloth dyed in the traditional West African method has brightened up units at UNM Hospital and the New Mexico Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, and is providing employment for people in Africa. http://hsc.unm.edu/about/features/deCherif.shtml

Physics and Astronomy Stars: Physics

Prost! Professor emeritus Peter Pabisch

and astronomy professors Ivan Deutsch and Rob Duncan were recently elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.

They become their department’s sixth and seventh current APS Fellows.

has won the Outstanding German Educator Award and Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Scholarship from the National American Association of Teachers of German (AATG).

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Geriatric Guidance: Melvina McCabe,

Author Acclaimed: Along with author

’80 BUS, ’84 MD, faculty member within the School of Medicine department of family and community medicine and director of the New Mexico Geriatric Education Center, has been selected to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging.

Joan Didion, American Studies professor Gerald Vizenor recently received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association.

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Health Messengers: The staff of the

Emergency Direction: David Sklar,

chair, department of emergency medicine, has been elected to the board of directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=4488 TV VIP: Ted A. Garcia, general manager

and chief executive officer of public television station KNME-TV, has been elected chair of the board of directors of the Pacific Mountain Network, an investor in public television programs and services. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000733.html#more Award of a Lifetime: Regents

Professsor of Spanish and Portuguese Tey Diana Rebolledo recently received a lifetime achievement award for scholarship in the field of American ethnic literatures. The award was presented by MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/001023.html#more

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UNM Prevention Research Center has received an award from the National Indian Health Board for significant contributions to health promotion and disease prevention in Native American communities.

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Patty Howard Olliges, ’61 BAED, received the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Distinguished Service Award. In college, she practiced with the men’s golf team before there was a women’s team. She funded UNM’s Patty Howard Championship Golf Complex, dedicated in 2000. Patty lives in Henderson, Nevada.

Nasario Garcia, ’62 BA, ’63 MA, has written his 18th book, ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

Three Centuries to Remember, honoring Albuquerque’s Tricentennial celebration.

Published by La Herencia del Norte, it is illustrated with 250 photographs taken between 1864 and 1990, many of which may never have been published previously.

Also, UNM Press recently issued Nasario’s Tiempos lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past in paperback. Nasario lives in Santa Fe.

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Robert F. Gish, ’62 BA, ’67 MA, ’72 PhD, is author of West Bound: Stories of Providence, about fate’s dealings with a family that moved from Tulsa to Albuquerque in the 1920s. Bob is retired in Albuquerque.

On Their Side: University College

Julie Dove Higgins, ’63 BA, and R. Jay Higgins, ’66 BSHP, ’68 MS, both teach at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas. Last year marked his 700th win as coach, his only job other than as player-coach while at UNM.

Dean Peter White has been named an “Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate” by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the Houghton Mifflin Company. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/001009.html#more

media connections Sexual Attraction Rules: UNM

psychology professor Steven Gangestad has been quoted in USA Today and ABC News regarding his research suggesting that members of “the gentler sex” may have evolved to cheat on their mates during the most fertile part of their cycle—but only when those mates are less sexually attractive than other men. http://www.unm.edu/news/06JanNews Clips/04research.htm

Jess Holmes, ’64 BARC, has retired from Dekker/Perich/Sabatini/Holmes in Las Vegas, Nevada, after a 40-year career in architecture.

He now lives in Henderson, Nevada.

Aubrey C. Quinn, ’64 BBA, and Priscilla M. Quinn, ’78 BSED, live in San Antonio, Texas. He is a retired USAF major. She retired last June after 26 years as a public schools classroom teacher, principal, and central office administrator. She received her doctorate from the University of Texas at San Antonio in August 2004 and currently teaches at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.

Carol Rhudy, ’64 BSHP, of Keego Harbor, Michigan, has been inducted into the Alumni Lettermen’s Association Hall of Honor for her accomplishments as a swimmer.

Carol is part owner of Aquatic Therapy Group and New Wave Aquatic Rehab.

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The Outlook Is Good: UNM is listed

Lab Leaders: A consortium of

at UNM’s Mind Imaging Center and UC-Irvine have concluded in a study, detailed in the scientific journal NeuroImage, that men and women achieve similar IQs through fundamentally different regions and pathways in the brain.

among the top 100 colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico that are doing “a commendable job of recruiting, retaining, educating, and graduating Hispanics,” according to Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. In an earlier issue of the magazine, the UNM dance and music programs are ranked among the top for graduating Hispanics.

New Mexico universities led by the University of New Mexico is part of the team contracted to run Los Alamos National Laboratory. UNM will play a leadership role in the research and educational activities of the laboratory, but not in the day-to-day operation of the facility.

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Heart Leaps: Thoracic and vascular

http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=4087 The Write Way: USA Today named

the Taos Writers’ Conference one of the “10 great places to get write with the word.” Sharon Oard Warner, director of the creative writing program in UNM’s department of English, founded the conference. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000701.html#more Tops in Technology: Gabriel P. Lopez,

professor of chemical and nuclear engineering and chemistry, has been named by the editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine as one of the 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business for 2006. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/001030.html#more

miscellaneous connections Hats Off: The 35-member New Mexico

Disaster Medical Assistance Team, based at UNM and including 16 UNM alumni, responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast last fall. In testimony before a Senate committee, FEMA Public Information Officer Marty J. Bahamonde singled out the team for a job well done.

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surgeons at UNM are the first in the state to offer a new FDA approved life-saving surgical technique for patients with aortic aneurysms. The minimally invasive technique cuts hospital stays to overnight and makes it possible to treat patients who are too ill to withstand traditional open-heart surgery repair. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=4559

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Under Advice Valerie Romero-Leggott, ’92 MD, associate dean of the Medical School’s Office of Diversity, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the US Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health. The ACMH advises HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on public health program activities.

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Ceremonial Storage: Elizabeth Miller,

executive director of the UNM-Gallup branch, recently signed an agreement among the UNM Board of Regents, UNM-Gallup, and the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial concerning storage of ceremonial archives and artifacts. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000691.html#more Diamond Jubilation: Having

commemorated its 75th year last year, UNM Press has even more reason to celebrate 2005. For 10 consecutive months, UNM Press shattered sales goals and finished with a substantial profit for 2005, its fifth profitable year in a row.

Nick Layman

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000995.html#more Strong Summit: Strengthening

From the Ground Up Construction of the new School of Architecture and Planning (SAP)

relationships with tribal leaders statewide was the goal of the UNM Tribal Summit on Higher Education in September. The summit considered UNM’s strengths and weaknesses in educating Native Americans. http://www.unm.edu/%7Emarket/ cgi-bin/archives/000757.html#more

and Fine Arts and Design Library Equipping High Tech High: The

across Central Avenue from the old SAP has begun. Check out its progress at http://www.unm.edu/ waytogo/architecture.htm

Mastering Construction: A new

program in the UNM civil engineering department will meet the demand of non-engineering construction professionals who would like to earn a master’s degree. http://www.unm.edu/news/ Sept05Releases/05-09-1construction.htm

UNM Board of Regents has approved a capital outlay request of $7.3 million for High Tech High School, a newly opened affiliate charter school. The request is for biology and engineering laboratory equipment, student laptops, a wireless network, servers, a specialty media arts lab, digital and DVD cameras, and video editing and multimedia software. http://www.unm.edu/news/ Sept05Releases/05-09-26hightech.htm Student Stats: Sophomore retention

was up to a record 76 percent this fall.

Enrollment is strong on the whole, with 26,280 students on the main campus. http://www.unm.edu/news/ Sept05Releases/05-09-22enrollment.htm

album Robert Rowe, ’64 MBA, of Alto, New Mexico, has been appointed adjunct associate professor with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he teaches online courses. For the past 10 years, he has served as an instructor at the educational center at Holloman AFB in Alamogordo.

Mary Jo Campbell, ’65 BSHP, of Albuquerque, has been inducted into the UNM Athletic Hall of Honor. She was the first female recipient of a sports scholarship at UNM, and later taught physical education at UNM for 30 years.

Moises Venegas, ’65 BAED, is executive director of the Albuquerque Partnership, which works with local governments, neighborhood associations, and other organizations to foster a sense of community through responsibility.

Mary Jo Veatch Kearfott, ’67 BSED, taught elementary school for four years, raised a family, and volunteered at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for 16 years before “retiring.”

She also served on the UNM Alumni Association board of directors for three years. Mary Jo lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Luke Ney, Sr., ’67 MSME, of Los Alamos, enjoys working with and living next door to Roger Schamaun, ’60 BSME, ’67 MSME. Luke’s wife, Barbara, attends UNM-LA. They have sent two of their children to UNM. John Schelberg, ’68 BA, was commended last fall by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for more than three decades of public service in cultural resource management.

John is with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District.

John Thorson, ’68 BA, is co-author of Negotiating Tribal Water Rights: Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West (University of Arizona Press). He was special master for Arizona’s general stream adjudications and is now an administrative law judge for the State of California in San Francisco. He lives in Oakland, and serves on the UNM Alumni Association board.

Robert Diercks, ’69 MA, had a show last year of his recent works at the Thoreau Art Gallery of Franklin Pierce College. Robert lives in Troy, New Hampshire.

Patricia Madrid, ’69 BA, ’73 JD, was selected by the Kennedy School of Government to attend the “Women in Power: Leadership in a New World” workshop at Harvard University last year.

She also received Hispanic Magazine’s 2005 Latina Excellence Award in Government.

Patricia is New Mexico Attorney General and lives in Albuquerque. She has announced her candidacy for New Mexico’s First Congressional District Seat. s p r i n g

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In an exclusive interview, Leslie Marmon Silko, ’69 BA, doyenne of Native American literature and Macarthur Foundation “genius award” recipient, talks with Mirage about her writing, her heritage, and her worldview.

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Five hundred miles from New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo, the land and culture that inspire her, world-renowned author Leslie Marmon Silko, ’69 BA, carves a fiercely independent life in the rugged hills below Tucson’s Saguaro National Park.

Silko emerged on the literary scene in the early 1970s when she and others, including M. Scott Momaday, ’58 BAED, and Simon Ortiz, brought the voice of Native Americans to the fore. Her 1977 novel, Ceremony, chronicles a Laguna Pueblo World War II veteran returning home to find redemption through the stories and ceremonies of his elders.

It earned Silko a spot in the canon of American literature. Many consider her the first Native American woman novelist.

Silko’s thought-provoking work shepherds the reader from cultural confusion to ethnic understanding, from divergence to consensus. Or not.

She is keenly aware that outspokenness on issues such as native exploitation, capitalism, imperialism, discrimination, poverty, and the United States/Mexico border—which she calls “meaningless and ridiculous”— moves some to anger.

“The local dailys do not review my books,” acknowledges Silko, who, incongruous with her inclusive,

peaceful worldview, keeps a rifle or two to defend life and land.

Such a dichotomy makes Silko appealing to an audience that extends across the Americas and far into Europe. Her celebration of life on the Laguna Pueblo and of native oral tradition makes her one of a kind.

Locked away this past winter writing her latest novel, Blue Sevens, Silko agreed to a rare interview to discuss her exceptional life and career.

Oasis As welcoming as the 80-degree Arizona day, Leslie Marmon Silko smilingly greets me at the rise of her 25-acre desert oasis, accompanied by a begrudging pit bull.

Comfortable as orator, Leslie shares the history of her home and refuge as we wind through her cluttered artist’s studio—she’s been painting since fifth grade—and past living areas neatly lined with hundreds of books. Previous owners of the home pieced the eclectic

D E S E R T R E F U G E : In her foothills home near Tuscon, author Leslie Marmon Silko finds a fierce peace, reflected in her writings.

Manuel C. Martinez, ’70 BAA, recently retired after teaching art for 31 years at Cochise Community College. Last year, he received the National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development Award at the International Conference on Teaching & Leadership Excellence. He lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

William Hook, ’71 BAFA, of Carmel, California, had a show of his acrylics at the Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe last summer.

David Stuart, ’70 MA, ’72 PhD, Albuquerque, is the author of Zone of Tolerance (UNM Press) in which he explores a neglected segment of Guaymas, Mexico–the working girls of the city’s night club district.

Dave is UNM associate provost emeritus.

Rick Legoza, ’71 BUS, ’79 MAPA, has retired as senior account executive after 24 years at SunGard, as well as 11 years in higher education (including registrar at UNM). He plans to divide his time between Colorado and Hawaii.

Chan Mohney, ’71 BA, has retired from the Central Intelligence Agency after nearly 31 years of federal service, receiving the Gold Retirement Medallion and the Career Intelligence Medal. Chan lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Ted Osborne, ’71 BSCE, ’02 MBA, has been promoted to southwest region vice president

by Centennial Contractors. He lives in San Diego.

Alex N. Pattakos, ’71 BA, is author of Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl’s Principals at Work, used in Indonesia since the Asian tsunami. He is helping the Statue of Responsibility Foundation build its monument on the west coast. Alex is founder of the Center for Personal Meaning in Santa Fe. Sal DiMaria, ’72 BS, ’88 MA, is associate professor of geography at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. He has written an encyclopedia article on biological corridors and is developing a new course in international migration.

Ronald S. Feingold, ’72 PhD, is now dean of the School of Education at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. He lives in Wantagh, New York.

Robert Andrew Mannle, ’72 BA, has joined Investors Bank & Trust in Boston where he works as a senior business systems analyst/project director. He invites friends and classmates to contact him at sailor2516@yahoo.com.

David R. Seidler, ’73 BA, has joined the Fort Worth law firm of Hughes & Luce as a litigator.

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rambler together through the decades, she says. Suspended above the volumes are giant puppets from her film production, Arrowboy and the Destroyers. The Congo African Grey on its perch above her sitting room, one eye on me and another on public television, is as intelligent as the dolphin or great ape, she says.

Her menagerie of domestic animals includes several massive if not menacing Old English Mastiffs, a slew of Military Macaws, and two blue and gold parrots who stand sentry over the estate.

Leslie writes at a laptop in a cramped, brightly lit office, with first editions of her six books nearby. Today, she dresses in jeans and a tee shirt with a blue kerchief at her neck.

Sunlight dances off her wavy hair as she moves lithely between a computer and table checkered with reference materials for Blue Sevens. She moves as easily from teacher to learner. Her voice grows husky and eyes inquisitive as she reads from a tome on botanicals, fertilizer for the next chapter.

Foundation Born March 5, 1948, to Leland Marmon and Mary Virginia Leslie, Silko was raised at Laguna Pueblo on the Rio Grande plateau. She recalls her lineage proudly, authoritatively.

Familial and ancestral stories are the foundation for much of her work.

Her paternal grandfather is Laguna Pueblo, Plains Indian, German, English, and Mexican. Relatives on her mother’s side are Cherokee. “Through both sides, it’s very mixed, literally a diaspora.

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there was a little more of a tolerance of cultural mixtures because of New Mexico’s unique history,” she says.

Leslie’s paternal great grandfather, Robert G. Marmon, was a Quaker from Ohio. He and his brother Walter, government surveyors and traders, arrived at Laguna in the 1870s, married Laguna women, and settled into pueblo life. “They were accepted by the Laguna people because they were peaceable, polite men,” she says.

Pueblo women shaped Leslie’s childhood. She grew up living next door to Robert’s second wife, Marie

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“The way you change human beings and human behavior is through a change in consciousness and that can be effected only through literature, music, poetry—the arts.”

Anaya, the Grandmother A’mooh of her acclaimed 1989 book Storyteller, a combination of poetry, fiction, memoir, and photographs depicting her family history. Marie, along with Susie Rayos Marmon, wife of Leslie’s great uncle, handed down the stories of ancient Laguna. Early on, Leslie felt a great responsibility to keep those stories alive.

She attended Laguna’s Bureau of Indian Affairs school through fourth grade. There, she was punished for speaking the Keresan language.

“We were whipped. All the kids were,” she recalls.

She sought comfort in stories and was a reader by age 5. “Reading was a refuge for me and so was writing,” Leslie says.

Laguna children were either shipped to boarding schools in the fifth grade or required to travel to schools in Albuquerque or Grants. Her parents chose to drive her to Manzano Day School in Albuquerque. The BIA school had ill prepared her, she recalls, and during the first weeks of class she was miserable. One day a teacher asked the students to create short stories using a simple spelling list.

“All of a sudden, I saw my classmates who were so ahead of me in math and

album Resistance Silko knows the sting of injustice and power of knowledge. Elders shared with her the long history of atrocities against New Mexico’s pueblos. From them, she developed a penchant for speaking out.

“I learned from the really old folks, especially the old women, who remembered way back in time and had a much clearer memory of terrible things that had happened. They knew what the people had suffered and that they were never defeated and never gave up and that they had resisted the US government when it tried to crush the pueblo religion,” Leslie says.

Pueblo men and boys were imprisoned in Santa Fe for their beliefs, she says. “The women and children could not manage the work that was needed to keep the fields going so they starved and died. This happened in the twentieth century. It happened at Zuni, at Hopi, at Laguna, at Acoma, and up and down the Rio Grande Valley.

“One of the things about oral tradition and collective memory is that it goes way back, farther than western Europeans would like to admit. They want the written word to be superior for political and legal reasons,” Leslie says.

When Leslie was 7, the Laguna Pueblo filed suit against the State of New Mexico to regain land once granted by the King of Spain. Oral

histories played an important role in the legal battle.

“Aunt Susie and the old folks went on trips [to the courthouse] and related stories about being on the land, and archeologists testified to what our traditional use area was. That was my first glimmering of the importance of what I already knew and loved,” she says.

Suleiman Kassicieh, ’74 BS, ’75 MBA, director of the Center for Economic Development, has been named associate dean for research and economic development at Anderson Schools of Management.

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science and this was hard for them, but it was a piece of cake for me. It was so fun and I was so happy,” she says.

Transition Leslie graduated from Highland High School in 1965, and entered UNM that summer. In 1966, at age 18, Leslie married Richard C. Chapman, an archeologist. They had a son, Robert.

Leslie excelled in college, graduating magna cum laude with honors in English in 1969. Her father’s earlier involvement in the land-suit sparked in her a short-lived interest in law.

She was enrolled in UNM’s Indian law program when the protracted case was settled. The Court of Indian Claims awarded the pueblo not the land it sought, but 25 cents an acre with no accrued interest.

“There is not a better way to understand this culture than to look at it through law school. The deck is stacked against the poor and powerless,” Leslie says. “Certainly attorneys are useful and helpful, but I saw very quickly that I would be advising my clients to take the law into their own hands.”

Although her three semesters of law school proved advantageous— “I use it in my work all the time”— Leslie says her English major prepared her to make a difference.

Ricardo Maestas, ’74 BA, ’77 MATP, is now vice president for student and university relations at New Mexico Tech in Socorro.

Rosanne Piatt, ’74 BA, ’83 JD, and Bill Piatt, ’75 JD, live in San Antonio. Bill is dean of St. Mary’s University School of Law where Rosanne teaches family law and legal writing. She has a 1907 Mirage (yearbook) on which her grandfather, Elwood Mills Albright, worked as assistant editor.

Deborah Johnson Olsen, ’75 BA, is publisher of Steamboat Magazine and the Steamboat Springs Visitors’ Guide since purchasing them in 2004. Previously, she was editor of the magazine for six years and a reporter and editor for the Steamboat Pilot/Today newspapers.

Mark W. Chavez, ’76 BUS, serves on the National Contract Management Association board of directors. He is a senior manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Albuquerque.

Cathryn Leigh Proctor Fletcher, ’76 BA, president of All-Ways Traveling, received the Home Based Business of the Year Award 2005 from the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.

Arthur J. Gonzales, ’76 BABA, has been appointed director of the UNM Office of Equal Opportunity.

Idell Revell Koury, ’76 BS, has received the James Madison Memorial Foundation Fellowship and is using it to attend Converse College in South Carolina for her master’s in education. She has been a middle and high school teacher at Southside Christian School in Greenville, South Carolina.

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“The way you change human beings and human behavior is through a change in consciousness and that can be effected only through literature, music, poetry—the arts,” Leslie says.

In the early 1970s, she taught on the Navajo Reservation. She had divorced Chapman and met and married John Silko in 1971. The couple, who later also divorced, had a son, Cazimir, in 1972. The family moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where she began work on Ceremony.

Acknowledgement In 1975, Silko returned from Alaska to teach at UNM. In Humanities Building #218 she revised Ceremony.

Emeritus professor Patricia Clark Smith recalls walking past Silko’s office and hearing her “clacking away on the typewriter.”

Last spring, UNM bestowed the honorary degree of letters upon Silko.

Introducing her at a regents’ dinner, Creative Writing Program director Sharon Oard Warner noted, “I am witness to Leslie’s influence and importance on a nearly daily basis.

I hear from students who have read her stories and novels and have been changed and inspired by them. Young women named Susan Deer Cloud and Coral Dawn Bernal tell me of their heritage and dreams. They want to study here at UNM because Leslie Marmon Silko studied here. I can think of no finer compliment for a writer and no more sacred obligation for a university.”

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and moved to Tucson to teach at the University of Arizona.

In 1981, Silko was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship for writing, poetry, and filmmaking, allowing her to devote herself fulltime to writing Almanac of the Dead (1991). The immense novel took nearly a decade

until it can straighten itself up I’m not going to waste my time on it.”

Teaching is also in her blood, but she separates the two to benefit both.

“I work to buy freedom. Freedom to write,” she says. “When I’m ready to teach, I’m really ready, and I’m there for my students.”

She writes to learn what she remembers, what she’s forgotten, and what she knows. to complete. Debated by critics for its apocalyptic views and brutal honesty, the epic tale of the 500-year conquest of the Americas is a major achievement in 20th century American fiction.

Writing Books have always been targeted by civilizations competing for power.

The great libraries of the Maya and Aztec were destroyed in 1520 because Spaniards feared the political and spiritual power of books authored by indigenous people, says Leslie, for whom writing is as much a part of life as breathing. She writes to learn what she remembers, what she’s forgotten, and what she knows. Reclusive while at work on a book, she is completely focused unless the pages force her to pick up a paintbrush.

“Painting helps me when I hit a rough spot in my writing and that’s why I’m doing these big paintings right now. I’m having a big fight with it,” she says of Blue Sevens.

“It’s personal between the book and me. It’s a very misbehaving novel and

She advises protégés to “give your best self, your best energy” to the writing. “You are your best self early in the morning closer to the dream state.

Your resistance is still low; the regular world—the electric bill, the flat tire— has yet to invade.”

She warns against publishing houses that pressure writers to “crank it out in this culture of commerce.” Leslie reaps some financial reward from Ceremony, an English 101 staple, but pays a price for not remaining under contract.

Light Although Silko writes primarily fiction, she enters uncharted waters and spares no punches, especially when it comes to her native and adopted states. Publishers shy away from controversy and, after September 11, material critical of the country. “This chilling effect has really affected me and my work on Blue Sevens. I really worry that when I complete and publish it, I might not be able to live in my beloved [Tucson] home anymore,” she says.

album On the other hand, Silko is not one bit worried about the storytelling tradition. Collective memory and community come together to keep stories alive, she says. During a late 90s trip to Laguna/Acoma High School she spoke to a senior class about her first anthologized piece, Tony’s Story, based on the 1951 case of an Acoma man who took a police officer for a witch. She asked if the students had heard about the incident before reading it. Hands flew up. Contrary to anthropologists’ predictions, she says, oral customs are clearly alive and well.

“Those kids had plenty of access to all the technological goodies for a while, but oh, no, that (incident) was still really important. The wider culture had a deeper appreciation for storytelling before the labor force began to move around the country.

Cheap labor and capitalism destroy families and now we have the turnkey children and kids that identify with gothic things. Who else and what else do they have?” she asks.

With the promise of Blue Sevens and more Silko work borne of the real and mystical, past and future, they can hold tight to a living tradition that leads to the light and a better understanding of ourselves and the world around them.

• • • At the conclusion of our exhaustive interview and photo session, Leslie offers to back my truck down her steep, narrow drive. She waves goodbye.

Watching as she ascends the hill, I hope the new novel straightens up and is equally polite to her.

Leslie’s Lists Publications Laguna Woman: Poems (1973) Ceremony (1977) Storyteller (1981) Almanac of the Dead (1991) Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (1996) Garden in the Dunes (1998)

Selected Accolades Chicago Review Prize (1973) Pushcart Prize (1973) MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” (1981) New Mexico Arts & Humanities, New Mexico Living Cultural Treasure (1990) Lannan Foundation Fiction Award (2001) National Women’s History Month, March Honoree (2004) Honorary Doctorate from the University of New Mexico (2005) American Indian Festival of Words Author Award, from Tulsa City-County Libraries (2005) Spirit of the West Award, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association (2005)

Susan K. Cutler, ’77 MA, ’93 PhD, has relocated to Minnesota, where she is associate professor in the department of professional education and coordinator of the online program for two special education licensure programs at Bemidji State University.

Michael Cox, ’78 BA, ’81 JD, received the Appellate Advocacy Award from the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation with their board of directors’ Award for Outstanding Advocacy in Capital Cases 2004-2005. He lives in Albuquerque.

Sherman Tyler, ’78 MA, ’80 PhD, heads the human-system integration division of Aptima. He lives in Soquel, California.

Jeff Bacon, ’79 BA, is retiring as a captain after a 26-year career in the US Navy where his final billet was as deputy oceanographer.

He created the cartoon “Broadside,” which has appeared in Navy Times since 1986.

Selyndia “Sindy” Hagg, ’79 BA, and her daughter, Whitney Petrie, ’04, are the pride of their athletically oriented father/grandfather, Mickey Hagg. Sindy had a running career while at UNM, participating in the Kansas Relays and two AAU prep meets. Whitney is a PhD student in biochemical sciences at UNM, who works in a lab concentrating on female cancers and the influence of estrogen signaling.

Tommy Jewel, ’79 JD, Albuquerque, received the UNM School of Law’s Distinguished Achievement Award last fall.

He retired in September from the Second Judicial District’s Children’s Court, and now serves on the State Justice Institute board of directors.

Leslie Morrison, ’79 BSPT, ’87 MD, associate professor, vice chair of neurology and division chief of child neurology, has been appointed assistant dean for academic affairs at the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Margaret Gallegos, ’80 BSPH, received her PharmD degree from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy last year.

She works as a clinical pharmacist for a managed care plan in Albuquerque.

Cindy McGill, ’80 BABA, was inducted into the Anderson Schools of Management 2005 Hall of Fame last spring.

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album Evelyn Davis Roger, ’80 BSHE, is a sales agent with Real Estate Brokers International in Chandler, Arizona, who has received the At Home with Diversity certification from the Arizona Association of Realtors. She and her husband, John, ’96 MA, live in Gilbert.

Amalia Amaki, ’81 BAFA, last summer had an exhibition of her mixed-media work, “Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Amalia lives in Atlanta,.

Kathryn G. Lehner, ’81 MBA, is now the superintendent/president of Mendocino College in Ukiah, California.

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Michael D. DeWitte, ’82 MBA, was inducted into the Anderson Schools 2005 Hall of Fame last spring.

Steven Feld, ’82 BSME, of Philadelphia, is founder and director of VoxLox, a documentary sound art label producing compact discs that advocate for human rights and acoustic ecology.

Babs Baker, ’83 MA, was honored with the UNM Work + Life Manager/Supervisor 2005 Award. Department administrator in art and art history at UNM, she is looking forward to retirement in June.

the creepy passages of the catacombs in Rome, you turn a

Sung-Ho Kim, ’84 MSNE, ’88 PhD, is the founder and CEO of Lattice Electro Optics, a leading laser optics manufacturer of high damage threshold, in Fullerton, California.

corner and find yourself in a Starbucks coffee shop. Wayne

Deborah Soehlig, ’84 BA, has been promoted to principal at Fischel & Kahn in Chicago. She lives in Palatine, Ilinois.

McIntosh, ’81 BAA, a regional development manager for the company, sees the world as Starbucks’ biscotti.

McIntosh hadn’t anticipated a future in retail when he emerged victorious from the School of Architecture and Planning in 1981.

In fact, he had helped finance his studies by working for six years at Long and Waters, a large, traditional architectural firm now known as BPLW.

But 7-Eleven came to call, and McIntosh left standard practice behind and joined the world of corporate architecture.

“When I worked at 7-Eleven, people would comment that designing convenience stores had to be boring,” he says. “But it’s really much more

Alan Varela, ’84 BA, ’87 JD, was listed in October’s Hispanic Business Magazine among the 200 most influential Hispanics.

The Albuquerque resident is CEO of New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration and serves as president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Alan Blackstock, ’85 MA, ’95 PhD, is the editor of A Green River Reader (University of Utah Press), an interpretive guide for river novices and river veterans with written testaments from writers such as David Brower and Edward Abbey. He lives in San German, Puerto Rico.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Case, ’85 PhD, was the keynote speaker for the China-US Conference on Aligning Assessment with Instruction in Beijing in July 2005. Betsy is director of research on special populations at Harcourt Assessment, San Antonio, Texas.

C O F F E E C O N N O I S S E U R : At the Starbucks outlet in Zimmerman library, developer/designer Wayne McIntosh samples the wares.

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interesting to design a whole retail outlet on your own than to share a project with others at a big firm. In corporate settings, I’ve worked on the designs for everything from burrito plants to auto parts stores.”

career has evolved from designer to store developer.

When the licensing group in the company was small, McIntosh covered the entire US. Now his region includes New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada,

“Home is the first place, work is the second place, and Starbucks strives to be the third place.”

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Thirteen years ago McIntosh was hired by Starbucks Coffee, the Seattle coffee chain that is currently spawning at a prodigious, if not downright alarming, rate. This rapid expansion has produced an abundance of material for stand-up comics, one of whom joked that he told a friend to meet him at the Starbucks across the street from the Starbucks. Go ahead and laugh, says McIntosh: From a total of 85 outlets when he joined the company, Starbucks now has almost 11,000 outlets in the US and around the globe.

Southern California, and Hawaii.

It’s hard to imagine a more receptive market than Las Vegas, where shuteye is viewed by many as a frivolous waste of gaming time. Java juices the jitters of gamblers anonymous and helps them sustain the belief that, unlike Elvis, Lady Luck has not left the premises.

McIntosh is in the midst of a licensing drive on college campuses. UNM just opened a Starbucks in Zimmerman Library, which doubles the number of outlets on campus.

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McIntosh’s job is developing licensed outlets—those located in real estate not owned or leased by the company. Starbucks does not franchise, so the company owns all its stand-alone stores; licensed outlets include those found in college campuses, hotels, bookstores, hospitals, theme parks and airports. With a large staff of design and development professionals at Starbucks, McIntosh’s

If coffee isn’t your cup of tea, you may find the Starbucks phenomenon hard to fathom. McIntosh describes the merchant’s mystique as “The Third Place.”

“Home is the first place, work is the second place, and Starbucks strives to be the third place,” he says.

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transition, and conversely, stopping for coffee on the way home can start the unwinding process.”

In between, it offers a change of scene from the office, where colleagues can engage in outside-the-box thinking, harried workers can fire up their laptops in the privacy of a public place, and potentially contentious meetings can be held on neutral grounds.

Waiting in line for the individually prepared product has the moral benefit of teaching patience, as well, although drive-through Starbuckses are popping up everywhere.

Some paranormal abilities have been ascribed to coffee consumption.

One memorable quote runs, “Coffee turns mathematics into theorems.”

Mathematicians might also help calculate the exact number of permutations available at any given Starbucks outlet on any given day.

The many available varieties, roast methods, brew methods, and presentations would surely make for the Mother of All Word Problems.

Coffee Talk Encouraged by company culture, McIntosh recently became a Starbucks Coffee Master. His conversation is laced with references to exotic climes and historical lore, concepts out of which Starbucks has created its unique, caffeine-chic ambience. Although design concepts are developed by another team, McIntosh’s architectural background and corporate history give him a fair amount of influence over the development of stores in his region.

One of the design challenges presented by the sheer number of Starbucks outlets, McIntosh explains, is “Keeping a certain ’feel’ without

album making the shops identical. At first, we had color and artwork packages based on the elements of lands where coffee is grown: fire, air, earth, water.

Then we had color palettes based on some of the steps (grow, roast, brew, and aroma) that take coffee from field to cup.” For example, the brew scheme used a dark, rich palette of browns; the grow scheme was heavy on greens.

Appropriately themed artwork was selected (e.g. pictures of coffee plantations in the grow scenario).

At the moment, McIntosh says, the company is entering a new period of design evolution.

Once a deal is made, McIntosh collaborates with the store designers on how to tweak the décor to accommodate the physical setting and regional personality of the outlet.

Careful corporate planning has made the process into a Chinese-menu affair.

“We have a lot of leeway because our components are designed to be mixed and matched,” he says. With modular casework, stylistically compatible furniture, and proprietary Starbucks equipment, he adds, “we have a visual bridge to periodic remodels, which occur every three to five years.”

Certain elements, however, are untweakable. “We are very proprietary about the signage at our stores.

Although the typical Starbucks is identified with a simple green ’Starbucks Coffee’ sign, we aggressively protect our use of color, font, and spacing.” Where linear space is a challenge, the company may use just its logo.

By the way, the two-tailed sea siren of the original Starbucks logo has cleaned up her act over the years. “The company is named after Starbucks, the coffee-loving first mate in Moby Dick,”

McIntosh says. “The logo reflects those origins. But as the urban landscape becomes ’noisier’—bombarding people by signage —uniquely visual graphics like the Starbucks logo are more effective.”

Unlike soft-drink companies, which produce different products for overseas markets, Starbucks’ menu is global.

Nor is there room for concessions to its traditional smoke-free policy, even in Europe, where smoking is as much a part of life as (or a complete substitute for) breathing. Customers who must, however, may simultaneously indulge their caffeine and nicotine addictions in outdoor seating areas.

Make Mine a Double McIntosh spends about 60 percent of his work-week on the road, a schedule he’s maintained for most of his career. It helps that his wife, Pamela, is also a Starbucks employee.

The couple plans to stay with the company until they retire. “It’s a great company to work for,” says McIntosh.

Imagine the following verbal exchange between the relentlessly glum poet TS Eliot, who surely must have spent some time in Seattle, and the unsinkably domestic Martha Stewart.

Eliot: I measure out my life with coffee spoons.* Stewart: It’s a good thing.

Wayne and Pam McIntosh would have to agree. And if you, too, fall into that category, not to worry: Billions of people couldn’t possibly be wrong. * From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Lt. Col. Mike Garrett, ’85 BA, is serving in the Horn of Africa as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The intent is to counter terrorism through engineering, humanitarian, and military training missions and provide communities with the resources to take care of themselves.

Kimberly A. Nunley, ’85 BBA, was inducted into the Anderson Schools of Management 2005 Hall of Fame last spring.

Marty Anne Robertson, ’85 ASDH, is a senior educator with the Virginia Department of Health’s division of dental health. She lives in Check, Virginia.

Michael B. Smith, ’85 BAA, ’87 MARC, will celebrate his firm’s fourth anniversary this summer. The company, Smith Larock Architecture, of Denver and Calgary, has a specialty design niche of high-tech command/control center design services offered internationally. In Colorado, it offers custom home design and commercial work.

Sandra Begay-Campbell, ’86 ASPE, ’87 BSCE, received the UNM School of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award last fall. She is a member of the UNM Board of Regents.

Tammy L. Bliss, ’86 BABA, is vice president of supply chain for Coca-Cola North America’s north central region. She lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, ’86 MMUS, has received a doctor of musical arts degree from Arizona State University. He is director of music at New Mexico Highlands University.

Gwen Gregory, ’86 BA, head of bibliographic services, Tutt Library, Colorado College (Colorado Springs), is author of a new book, The Successful Academic Librarian.

Rani T. Alexander, ’86 MA, ’93 PhD, is coeditor of The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives, a collection of essays published

by UNM Press. Rani lives in Las Cruces.

Katherine B. Cantrell, ’87 BBA, MPA ’93, was incorrectly shown in the Fall ’05 Mirage as having “resigned as deputy director of the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education” and moved to Florida. In reality, Kathy is the acting director of the Commission following the resignation of Letitia Chambers. However, faced with the error, she wrote, “... the good news is that a large number of alumni really do read the Mirage!” Please accept our apology, Kathy.

Richard Rolston, ’87 MD, is president and CEO of Prevea Clinic in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He had been with Lovelace Health Systems in Albuquerque.

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Melissa lives in Albuquerque.

Coming off San Antonio’s I-410 loop, I encounter in the wide-open dust flats ahead a distinctly Southwestern Stonehenge. Giant tower cranes, as much as 10 stories tall, define the immense geographic bowl, in turn punctuated by a shorter, but no less impressive, gaggle of standardheight units. It was then, back in 1992, that I finally began to grasp the remarkable career Joelle Hertel, ’77 MA-anthropology, ’83 BSCE, had ahead of her.

That project, the $225.3 million Brooke Army Medical Center, was a critical moment in Hertel’s engineering career—and in her life in general. A single mom of twin sons, Joelle had already begun to establish herself as a Southwest archeologist when she realized she needed to find work that would be more predictable—and more remunerative. Today, with some 25 years of experience under her belt, she has more than made her mark in the construction world.

The Scale of Things As senior vice president for The Clark Construction Group, Inc., one of the country’s largest, privately held general contractors, Hertel has overseen projects as sensitive as the post-9/11 Sea-Tac airport expansion in Seattle, and as complex and sometimes oddball as Grizzly Peak at Disney’s California Adventure. Through it all, she has been driven by an unbounded passion for her work.

FROM PREHISTORIC TO CONSTRUCTION SITES:

Steve Taylor, ’87 BA, ’92 JD, has joined US Senator Chuck Hagel as general counsel.

For the past six years, he served as senior counsel on the US Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee.

He lives in Washington, DC. Manuel Varela, ’87 BA, ’89 MS, ’92 PhD, associate professor of biology at Eastern New Mexico University, received the Spirit of Eastern Award. He has published two papers and has a three-year NIH grant to study sugar transport in bacteria.

Donna Farnell Bianchetti-Robinson, ’88 BABA, currently lives off-grid near Taos in El Prado and works as a software quality assurance manager for a company out of Arlington, Virginia. In her spare time she is a metal sculptor.

Tessa Davidson, ’88 BA, ’90 MA, ’95 JD, has opened the Davidson Law Firm in Corrales. She practices in the areas of water law, natural resources, real property, small business, estate planning, and mediation.

Christopher A. Harris, ’88 BA, has been promoted to commander, USN, and is deputy director of PERS 45 at the Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tennessee.

Christopher R. Moberg, ’88 BABA, has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of marketing at Ohio University in Athens. He has also been awarded a named professorship – the Robert H. Freeman Professorship in logistics management. He lives in The Plaines.

Brad Strand, ’88 PhD, recently received an Honor Award from the North Dakota Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Brad is department head for health, nutrition, and exercise sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo.

Art Carrasco, ’89 BABA, is author of Tears From Above and Below, a western romance set in the 1880s. Art is president of Creative Lending Corporation and Creative Real Estate in Albuquerque.

Trudy Kaye Tannen Cretsinger, ’89 BAE, has received her master of divinity degree from Luther Seminary and is pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Topeka, Kansas.

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Currently the officer-in-charge of the Los Angeles County+University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Replacement Facility, Joelle enjoys engaging the mental muscle that makes every project she’s on “kind of a chess game.” She also enjoys being relatively stationary, albeit in a pressure-cooker environment.

Before this $519 million, 1.5 million square-foot state-of-the-art venture, she had racked up the frequent flyer miles. In the early 2000s, while wrapping up Grizzly Peak (and dealing with deadline-threatening inquiries like, “What do you mean the concrete pour is late at Frog Jump Falls?”), she regularly ran up to the Seattle airport site and to Fresno for multiple projects, including Save Mart Arena.

Previously, Hertel had been project executive for a mega-semiconductor plant (IBM/Toshiba in Manassas, Virginia) and the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Woman’s Work Despite the high level of her work, Joelle had held on to the notion that she was engaged in a “job,” not a “career,” so focused was she on making it possible for her kids to go to college and to provide a good home for them.

She moved the family to Washington state when the boys were just 10, for her first job in the field— resident engineer for the Veteran’s Administration Office of Construction.

She had won the position only after sending out some 100 résumés and flying under the radar of people thinking “Joelle” was, yes, a variation on Joel. While there, she earned an MS in engineering management from St. Martin’s College. Even more

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importantly, she began to develop the key relationships that would help establish her reputation and break down some of the preconceptions that shadow every woman in this field.

In the world of construction, it is not typical for men or women to have an engineering degree. Instead, most of the top-level people have degrees in construction management or business. Hertel’s tougher civil

pursue that childhood dream. While employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, she got a feel for the teamwork and interpersonal skills that would hold her in good stead years later.

The mapping and other field skills she acquired—along with the sense of humor so desperately needed in construction’s high-stakes and close-quarters environment— would later prove useful as well. But

Joelle enjoys engaging the mental muscle that makes every project she’s on “kind of a chess game.” engineering course gives her an edge, made all the more significant when you consider that only about 10.4 percent of all employed engineers are women.

archaeological surveys and excavations most often run on a 10-days on/4-days off schedule—not exactly suited to raising kids, despite the help of a few “rent-a-grannies.” So she took stock, and moved on.

Taking Stock It was at UNM that Joelle discovered her love for the construction aspects of engineering. The requirement flukes of an Association of General Construction scholarship led her into that concentration. Aside from an unacknowledged affinity for mechanical thinking in her undergrad days, highly-rated math skills, and the unanalyzed pleasure of construction projects with her dad while she was growing up in Wisconsin, she’d had little previous support or consideration as an ideal candidate for not just a job but a most successful career in the field.

Joelle’s initial career path had been in anthropology and archaeology. The romance of it had nabbed her early, and she had come to New Mexico to

Acceptance Hertel’s flexibility, keen and nimble thinking, and creative instinct for making progress in all manner of adverse and challenging conditions— recalcitrant subcontractors, weather, equipment problems, material shortages, budget, bias, and more— have moved her into the upper echelons of management. Her cost-saving solutions won Hertel respect early on from those who initially resisted her direction because she was a woman, and they have continued to be a hallmark of her leadership style. She champions a team approach to her jobsites, making sure that those who work on her projects know that their contributions are valued. While mistakes will always be made, she says,

home life. As she says, for most folks in her field, “your family is the jobsite.”

Nevertheless, she looks forward to settling again in New Mexico where she owns a home near Sedillo, backing on to her sister Jean’s property.

(New Mexico is a family affair— Hertel’s other sister, Jackie, is an Albuquerque resident.)

Until then, Hertel continues to give back to her profession and to others entering non-traditional career paths with the same discipline and passion she has shown for every endeavor she undertakes.

Freelance author Lynne Arany, ’74 BA, writes on travel and American culture. Her guidebook, Little Museums (Holt, 1998), co-written with Archie Hobson, details over 1,000 small and unusual museums nationwide.

Lynne met Joelle Hertel during their archaeology days and the two have remained friends ever since.

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it is “critical to resolve them quickly, then laugh about them.” And so morale stays at an exemplary high.

There is still much work to be done to make her profession more inviting to women and to make that proverbial playing field even. Hertel’s credo, “to just work hard and not let it get in my way,” cannot be as easy as she makes it look. And despite being sought as a mentor by both men and women— evidence that she is, as Hertel says, “seen as a success, not just as a woman who is successful”— there remains room for improvement. At the negotiation stages of her current hospital project—a joint venture with two other major construction firms, and Hertel as managing partner—she was for months referred to as “my guy” by her firm’s dealmakers. Not until the deal was finally in place was she introduced to the other partners.

Not surprisingly, she brought the entire staff around rapidly. Today, future joint projects are contemplated—this time with Hertel in the lead.

Joelle easily acknowledges the disconnect between work and a stable

Anna Hansen, ’89 BAFA, ’92 MA, owns Dakini Design, a small business in the field of design, public relations, organizational event planning, and fundraising in Santa Fe. She is the graphic designer for the Bead Expo and director of community building for Oshara Village, a new sustainable community.

Christopher Nitsche, ’90 MFA, is assistant professor of sculpture at Keene State College. He exhibited a site-specific installation at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. He has also received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

He and his wife, Melanie Mills, ’83 BAFA, ’92 MA, live in Swanzey, New Hampshire.

Clifford J. Villa, ’90 BA, spoke last summer at a conference in Alicante, Spain, focusing on environmental information and municipal government. His topic was “El Derecho de Información Ambiental en el Sistema Americano.” He lives in Seattle.

Christopher Painter, ’91 BA, is now story editor on the new Cartoon Network series “Squirrel Boy.” His wife, Alysia Gray Painter, ’94 BA, is an editor for AOL CityGuide. They live in Los Angeles.

Vic Perini, ’91 BSPH, vice president of operations at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, received the Young Healthcare Executive Award from the Tennessee Hospital Association.

Beth E. Torgerson, ’91 MA, is the author of Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Beth teaches at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

Alan L. Kleinfeld, ’92 BA, co-owns Meetings ONE, overseeing its western regional office in Albuquerque. Alan is a Certified Meeting Professional.

Sam Tubiolo, ’92 MFA, installed and dedicated his most recent public artwork, “Protecting the Community,” an 82-foot-long terracotta mural, on the façade of Fire Station 20 in Sacramento last year. Sam teaches at American River College. s p r i n g

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John Garcia, ’93 BUS, is a major in the US Army and has served in Korea, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq. His wife, Dorota Sypniewska, ’97 BA, also in the Army, is a combat engineer at Fort Hood, Texas.

Pete Henderson, ’93 BABA, a financial advisor in Morgan Stanley’s Albuquerque office, has joined its exclusive Wealth Advisor Group.

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Hollander, ’78 JD, a criminal defense attorney with the Albuquerque law firm of Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander

& Goldberg PA, argued her first case in front of the US Supreme Court in November 2005, she found the nine justices didn’t quite fit their serious semblance.

scenario Defensive Stance Nancy began UNM Law School at the age of 31, the day her son started first grade. She had majored in sociology at the University of Michigan, spent time as a community organizer, directed the New Mexico Chapter of the ACLU, and even written a book about Appalachian migrants to Chicago. All of her experiences convinced her that the way to protect people’s rights was as a criminal defense lawyer. She enrolled in UNM law school with a focus on

criminal defense law, specifically the defense of the constitutional rights of the individual. It has been her focus ever since.

“In criminal defense, you don’t always agree with the people you defend,” says Nancy, a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “What’s important to me is that the government uses constitutional methods to prosecute the case. A jury decides whether the person is innocent or guilty.”

G O O D T O T H E L A S T C O U R T : The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was the basis for Nancy Hollander’s defense of a small religious group’s right to use a sacramental tea during its religious ceremonies. Ultimately, the case was heard by the US Supreme Court.

Michelle A. Hernandez, ’93 BA, has become a shareholder of the Modrall law firm in Albuquerque. She serves on the UNM Alumni Association board of directors.

Cindy Marrs, ’93 BA, ’96 BA, ’99 JD, teaches part time at TVI in the paralegal studies program and is vice president of the National Lawyers Guild southwest region.

Her husband, Anthony Marrs, ’96 BSME, is production manager at AgilOptics, an Albuquerque start-up company that manufactures adaptive optics systems.

Nick Loftis, ’94 BABA, has opened his new accounting practice, Nick Loftis, CPA, in Albuquerque.

Claudia Medina, ’94 MA, and Rachel Lazar, ’96 MS, incorporated Enlace Comunitario in Albuquerque more than five years ago. The community-based organization is dedicated to eliminating domestic violence and advancing the rights of Latino immigrants.

Ronald C. Archibeque, ’95 BA, ’98 JD, has joined Koeller Nebeker Carlson & Haluck in Phoenix where he practices primarily in the areas of complex litigation, construction defect, product liability, and mass tort.

David J. Corwell, ’95 BA, is a graduate of the 2001 Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop and the 2005 Borderlands Press Writer’s Boot Camp. He has published fiction in Dead in Th13een Flashes and Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves. His story, “Susto,” won the 2003 SouthWest Writers Contest Storyteller Award. When not writing, the Albuquerque resident is a contributing editor for Gila Queen’s Guide to Markets. s p r i n g

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by federal narcotics agents. Shortly afterwards, Hollander received a call that Bronfman and the church needed assistance.

Hollander and colleague John Boyd ultimately filed suit on behalf of the UDV against the federal government.

In Federal District Court, the UDV was granted a preliminary injunction against the government to continue using the tea, based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Eventually the case wound its way to the Supreme Court, which refused the government’s request to stay the injunction but granted a review of the case.

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Ceremonial Tea Hollander’s interest and focus on constitutional liberties reached the highest court in the land last year when she argued Gonzales vs. O Centro Espirita Beneficente União do Vegetal in front of the US Supreme Court. The case focused on a small religious group, O Centro Espirita Beneficente União do Vegetal (UDV), founded in Brazil with practitioners in various parts of the United States, including Santa Fe, New Mexico. The UDV uses a sacramental tea during its religious ceremonies. The tea, called hoasca, contains dimethyltryptamin or DMT, which in its synthetic form

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“What’s important to me is that the government uses constitutional methods to prosecute the case. A jury decides whether the person is innocent or guilty.”

— Nancy Hollander is a Schedule 1 controlled substance in the US. The highest officer of the United States branch of the church is Jeffrey Bronfman. The church offices in Santa Fe had 30 gallons of the sacramental tea for use in its religious ceremonies. In 1999, the church’s supply of the tea was confiscated

attorneys around the country offer to one another. Hollander held five moot arguments—including one with UNM law professors and one at Georgetown Law School, complete with a mock-up of the Supreme Court.

Prepping for a Supreme Court case is different from prepping for any other case, says Nancy. Luckily,

album her husband, trial consultant Joe Guastaferro, was able to help. One of the major differences is that oral arguments must be structured as sound bites due to time constraints and the question-and-answer format of the Court.

The Way It Is…Really Each side has precisely 30 minutes to present arguments, including questions from the justices. Hollander fielded 21 questions during her 30-minute argument, not counting the time the justices took to discuss issues amongst themselves.

“I never got out more than two or three sentences at a time,” says Nancy.

In fact, she only got the first sentence of her argument out before Justice Anthony Kennedy asked her a question.

Seriously at Ease The justices all have their own styles and personalities, Nancy says, but they are all “pretty funny and friendly.” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor—who was on the bench at the time of Nancy’s case—typically would ask the first question, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg generally focuses on procedural questions, Justice John Paul Stevens is very polite and won’t interrupt, and Justice Antonin Scalia is very engaging.

“The justices use your arguments to try to convince each other about the case,” says Nancy, adding that they

aren’t above giving each other and the attorneys a hard time.

At one point, Justice Scalia asked Hollander if he could give her a suggestion on how to make a point about a treaty related to the case. As Hollander waited for Justice Scalia to make his suggestions, Justice Souter piped in with “Say yes.”

Amidst laughter, Hollander said yes, and Justice Scalia complied.

Holding Her Own… and Waiting The opposing counsel in the case was Edwin S. Needler, a deputy solicitor general who was making his 91st argument in front of the Supreme Court. Hollander was making her first.

But, according to a New York Times article by reporter Linda Greenhouse, she “was hardly a courtroom novice and managed gamely to hold her own.”

Hollander is now waiting to hear what the Supreme Court will decide in the matter of the religious freedom of the church.

• • • The next time Nancy stands up for constitutional rights in front of the highest court in the land, she’ll know what to expect—and be prepared to chuckle.

Alexis Kerschner, ’99 BA, is public relations manager at Rick Johnson & Company in Albuquerque.

Wendy Fronterhouse, ’95 BS, ’00 MD, has been hired by Southwest Medical Associates in Albuquerque.

Martin Garcia, ’95 MA, is a licensed clinical counselor working in behavioral health and specializing in child and adolescent counseling at the Journal Center Health Care Center in Albuquerque.

Craig A. Herrera, ’95 BA, of Fresno, is an on-camera meteorologist at KNTV, the NBC station in California’s bay area.

Paul Richard, ’95 MA, has a new website combining his love of travel and home exchanges with his pursuit of a private pilot license, homeandhangarexchange.com, which provides a mechanism for general aviation pilots to arrange home and hangar exchanges. Paul continues with IBM as a project manager setting up help-desk applications for new accounts.

Christian S. Rushing, ’96 BAED, is a partner in a new consulting firm, Kennedy Coulter Rushing & Watson, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He can be reached at www.christian@kennedycoulter.com.

Patricio Tafoya, ’96 JD, a Marine Corps judge advocate, has earned a master’s of laws from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. He has been awarded the Bronze Star for his service with Combined Joint Task Force Seven in Iraq as a legal advisor at coalition headquarters.

He is now the staff judge advocate for Marine Forces Europe in Stuttgart.

Jean-Paul Hebert, ’97 BSNU, is now PICU associate partner at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Norman G. Hebert, ’99 BA, is also in the pediatric intensive care unit at Riley.

Mary Allison Penner, ’97 MA, is a professional genealogist and writer. She researches family histories and writes a weekly online genealogy column for the Albuquerque Tribune.

Morris J. Chavez, ’98 JD, has been named the 2005 Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of New Mexico.

Mo works for the New Mexico Gaming Control Board and lives in Albuquerque.

Elizabeth W. Kiddy, ’98 PhD, of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, is the author of Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Penn State Press). The book tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.

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The six freshmen we interviewed in 2003 were nervous about their upcoming college years. They felt like outsiders, not knowing what the rest of the campus knew.

The following year, we caught up with five of the six, including one who had transferred from UNM. Those remaining had begun to feel comfortable with their new routine away from home. They knew the ropes and were relaxed enough to live in the moment, exploring new friendships and opportunities.

This year, only three students were available for interviews. Ryanne Hodges, Maranda Romero, and Santana Torrez have learned to know themselves and have begun looking beyond graduation. But they’re still enjoying the growth in their friendships and the challenges of upper level classes.

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A summer job at State Farm Insurance Agency opened Maranda’s eyes to the possibility of an insurance career near her ranch home in eastern New Mexico, with the flexibility to enjoy the ranching life.

Maranda’s boss at State Farm, Bill Tobin, has offered her a job as an agent after she graduates. Once she has established her own clients, she can set up her own business.

“It’s a major life change!” says Maranda, adding, “I’ve grown up a lot.

I’m not scared to do my own thing, to try new things. I feel like I’m more an adult, like I can make adult decisions.”

“I like everything about life right now,” Miranda says. With her ready smile, Maranda has made new friends in her business classes, and still hangs out with her sister and good friends from freshman year.

Staying in school to graduate may challenge Maranda as she contemplates the career ahead of her. “I’m ready to

get out, to start working,” she says.

Maranda spent much of her winter break on her family’s 100-year-old ranch south of Tucumcari. “I ache to be out there,” she says. The day before returning to school, she and her mom drove around the back pastures.

“I feel the presence of my dad there,” Maranda says. Maranda’s dad was killed in a car wreck shortly before the start of her freshman year at UNM. Only now is she able to conjure memories of her dad without too much pain.

Letting go of a long-held self-concept and goal can be tough. Her mom and siblings helped Maranda think the decision through. “It means a lot to know you’re doing something your family approves of,” she says.

Her dad would have approved, too.

In advice as symbolic as it is literal, he used to remind his family, “Stay on the road. Head home.”

Maranda would like to thank Dr. Matthews, a retired Albuquerque dentist who invited her to an ADA meeting after reading in Mirage about her interest in dentistry.

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Ryan Stark, ’98 BA, was recently named marketing and public relations manager of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Albuquerque.

Elaine Carey, ’99 PhD, is the author of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico (UNM Press) which documents the student protest movement in Mexico and the massacre of students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Elaine is a professor at St. John’s University, living in Bellerose, New York.

Charles Gerald Conway, ’99 MA, of Palm Springs, California, has earned a PhD in philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union.

Donna Fletcher ’99 BUS, has launched her own real estate company, Invicta Realty, serving the greater Albuquerque area.

Cinnamon R. Ruvolo, ’99 BABA, ’02 MBA, assistant vice president and relationship manager at Wilson & Co. Engineers and Architects, has joined the UNM Anderson Schools of Management as an adjunct professor.

Jeffery Speidel, ’99 BBA, is assistant vice president and relationship manager with the Bank of Albuquerque Private Financial Services Group.

Mike Arnold, ’00 BUS, has accepted a position at Southwest Airlines in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a pilot/first officer.

Angela Koeneker Jayaraman, ’00 BA, completed a master’s degree in 2001 and currently is the child life specialist for the brain tumor team at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Shauna Shannon, ’00 BA, is marketing manager for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation.

Todd A. Astorino, ’01 PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of kinesiology at Carlsbad State University-San Marcos, California.

David Chavez, ’01 BABA, works in retail leasing with Maestas & Ward Commercial Real Estate in Albuquerque.

Tiffany A. Oliver, ’01 BA, ’04 JD, has joined the firm of Little & Gilman-Tepper in Albuquerque as an associate attorney, specializing in divorce and family law.

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“I want to travel and explore. I love it!”

One of Santana’s aunts lives in Hawaii where she works as a special ed teacher. Santana not only plans to visit this summer, she is also thinking about teaching there after she graduates.

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wherever she goes. Photography has been near to Santana’s heart since high school. Even on campus, she thinks in terms of photographs, taking unique photos of steps and stairs.

Santana is excited to be taking a photography class this semester.

She’s seen growth in her own work, and in her approach to photography.

“I can now see in the viewer that I have a good photo. I see it done before I take it. “ The adventure of young adulthood lies in learning who we are, and in learning how to meet our own needs.

“I’m much more independent this year,” Santana says. “This is up to me.

If I miss class, it will matter to me.”

As Santana contemplates big adventures away from home, she’s also learning more about the people who make up her home. And not surprisingly, that new knowledge comes from her camera.

Over the summer, Santana put together a series of photos of her grandparents. “I took pictures of my grandpa’s legs crossed, his hands, his boots, his axe. And I took pictures of Grandma in front of her wall with her santos.”

But this treasure trove of photos holds more than images. In the course of taking the photos, Santana asked her grandma, “What’s most important?”

And her grandma replied, “Family and religion.” Equally.

Santana was surprised by her grandma’s weighty inclusion of religion.

That is, until she had a touch-and-go experience with her cousin Alicia’s newborn who was baptized on an emergency flight from Taos to Albuquerque. At that moment, Santana says, “I understood how my grandma couldn’t separate the two.”

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f their college years are meant to prepare students for the “real world,” then Ryanne Hodgins’ three years at UNM are doing a good job. While her career plans are taking shape, her personal resolve is strengthening as well.

Ryanne, 20, had the opportunity to work with the ESPN crew at two Lobo football games this fall, setting up equipment and helping the cameramen.

She realized she’d love to be on camera, talking about sports she knows. So she has set her sights on sports broadcasting, a shift from her former hard-news interests. Over the summer, she hopes for an X Games internship in Los Angeles. “In broadcasting,” she says, “experience counts.”

Experience counts in softball, too, Ryanne has found. “I’ve been struggling for two years to become mentally tough,” she says. “If you’re upset, the whole team feeds on it. I’ve realized that it’s okay to make a mistake. I don’t let it take me out of the game.”

Ryanne participates in Athletes in Action, a Christian athletes group that

teaches both physical and spiritual development, she says. As a result, she has made “close, supportive friends.”

“I didn’t think I’d find friends as close as in high school,” she says.

“But in college, when you meet new friends, you’re the person you’ll be for the rest of your life.”

Accepting—and appreciating— who you are is essential to a happy adulthood. Ryanne is developing those characteristics: “I’ve learned a lot about myself,” she says. “I used to need to be liked and included. I don’t care if others think I’m a nerd. I’m passionate about school, making the most of it. I don’t need everyone to like me. I’m okay on my own.”

And that is an attraction in itself.

Fielding a practice ball, Ryanne smashed her nose into a fence moments before her Mirage photo-shoot. She was okay, but not photo-ready. We promise a photo of Ryanne in the next issue of Mirage.

Cory Underwood, ’01 BABA, is a financial advisor with CPA Wealth Advisors in Albuquerque.

Hillary White, ’01 BS, has been elected to the Great Salt Lake Audubon board of directors. She works as a wildlife biologist in Salt Lake City and has been conducting neotropical migratory bird surveys and breeding bird census for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

Tracy L. Alexis, ’03 BA, works as a project specialist with Strategic & Learning Services in Albuquerque.

Wade Jackson, ’03 JD, has joined the Albuquerque law firm of Rodey Dickason Sloan Akin Robb as an associate in the commercial litigation department.

Linda Schaffer, ’03 PhD, is an assistant professor in teacher education at UNM.

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Capt. Anthony Spratley, ’03 JD, serves in the US Air Force JAG Corps, and is temporarily serving as chief of military justice at RAF Mildenhall, England. His wife, Bethany Spratley, ’03 BA, is philanthropic chair for a military spouses organization.

Carl R. Grending, ’04 MBA, will become president of Beck Office Systems in Albuquerque in May.

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Rob Koonce, ’04 MA, was named 2005-2006 international co-chair of the State and Provincial Bar Special Interest Group for the Association of Continuing Legal Education. Rob directs the Center for Legal Education and Professional Development for the New Mexico State Bar Foundation in Albuquerque.

Keith Witt, ’04 BABA, has joined Delta Dental of New Mexico as a large accounts service representative in Albuquerque.

Shannon Allison, ’05 BA, attends Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, studying for an MA in Byzantine archaeology and text.

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P I T C H P E R F E C T : UNM soccer head coach Jeremy Fishbein, center, celebrates with Lobo defender Josh Brown after the Lobos beat California in overtime at University Stadium. The win put UNM soccer on the map and sent the team to the Final Four.

Matthew Ruybal, ’05 BA, works in Santa Fe with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s office as special assistant for policy and issue.

in memoriam David B. Mitchell, ’30 George I. Sanchez, ’30 Dorothy Pomerenk Delaney, ’32 Charles B. Brooks, ’35 Louise E. Lee, ’35 Lillian Haynie Page, ’35 Mary Louise Bezemek Cloughly. ’38 Fernette G. Honaker, ’38 Ruthe Foxworth, ’39 Mercedes Garoffolo, ’39 Tomas C. Gonzalez, ’40 George H. Johnston, ’41 John J. McMullan, ’41 George A. Watts, ’41 William A. Monfort, ’42 Edward P. Ancona, ’44 Robert Emmet Clark, ’44, former faculty Abraham Bronson Feldman, ’44 Mary Chapin Harley, ’44 Franklin J. Marberry, ’44 Howard E. Muller, ’44 Jean Ann Zwicky, ’45 Elizabeth Mary Benton Cashion, ’46 C. Donald Montgomery, ’47 Dale L. Page, ’47 Helen H. Gill, ’48 James Coplen Hall, ’48, ’69 Flavio G. Martinez, ’48 Paul E. Patterson, ’48 E. Paul Barnhart, ’49 Charles Crowley, ’49 William Thomas Morrow III, ’49 Norman Silverstein, ’49 Lola B. Smith, ’49 Donald L. Spencer, ’49 James Joseph Willis, ’49 Frank Angel Jr., ’50, former faculty Stewart B. Crooks, ’50 Francis X. Daut, ’50 Emily Ann Large Fuhs, ’50, ’53 Jacqueline Anderson Gidden, ’50 Florentino Gutierrez, ’50 Thomas Joseph Hoban Jr, ’50 George S. Leiby, ’50 James Sydney Logan, ’50 Vicente Ojinaga, ’50 Clarence V. Okon, ’50 Thelma Oneal, ’50 s p r i n g

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The 2005 season, in which the Lobos competed for the national championship against Maryland, didn’t just happen. Nor was it a “dream season” as many may be inclined to think.

The Road to the Cup The 2005 season was the result of four years of hard work from a group of dedicated student-athletes and a determined coaching staff. Over those four years, the 2005 class became the most successful in school history, posting an incredible 61-16-8 record, with three Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) titles and three trips to the NCAA Tournament.

“I had high goals and always have,” says Fishbein. “That’s why I came here.

I felt it was an opportunity to succeed on a national level—doing it the right way—with good smart kids with proper values… We don’t set winning as the first goal. We set other goals and if we achieve those, winning comes along.”

In 2002, Fishbein’s first year, New Mexico posted a school-record 18 victories and finished 18-4-0, advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In Fishbein’s second year, UNM had a disappointing mark at 8-9-3, but six of those losses came against nationally ranked opponents. The Lobos still finished at 4-2-0 in the MPSF, and a second-place league finish.

In 2004, the Lobos turned things around and got back on track compiling a 17-1-2 record, sweeping through the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and taking the conference title with a mark of 10-1-1. The team earned the automatic berth with the conference title and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament where it lost to Virginia, 4-3, on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie in regulation.

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Finally, in 2005, New Mexico completed the season at 18-2-3 overall.

Despite having a bull’s eye on its back, New Mexico reached the 2005 NCAA Tournament by winning the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regular season title for the second consecutive year. The Lobos finished at 7-1-2, which was good enough to edge San Jose State at 7-2-1. It was UNM’s fourth MPSF title and NCAA Tournament appearance in the past five seasons.

“You always try to focus and take it one game at a time,” says Fishbein.

“That was our mantra throughout the year—we couldn’t get ahead of ourselves because as the season

Two days later, a free-kick wound up determining the outcome of the championship game against Maryland.

A UNM foul in the 31st minute of the first half allowed Maryland forward Marc Burch to score. Burch’s shot from 25-yards out deflected off the Lobo wall, past keeper Mike Graczyk.

It stood as the only goal of the game in the 1-0 Terrapin victory.

The Lobos finished the regular season ranked first in the Soccer Times Top-25, NSCAA Top-25, and the CollegeSoccerNews.com Top-30.

“It’s great to have such a wonderful season,” says Fishbein. “It was all you could ask for. From a personal

“I had high goals and always have, that’s why I came here.

I felt it was an opportunity to succeed on a national level— doing it the right way—with good smart kids with proper values…

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The Lobos concluded their year in the championship game of the College Cup in Cary, North Carolina.

Making a Statement Once at the College Cup, New Mexico was intent upon making a name for itself with the big boys of college soccer—including Clemson, SMU, and Maryland, who had also punched their ticket to the Cup. New Mexico advanced to the championship game with a 2-1 win over Clemson at the SAS Soccer Stadium.

Freshman Brandon Barklage and junior Andrew Boyens scored for the Lobos’ win.

standpoint it’s hard because it’s going to be difficult to replicate. We had a committed core of players, many of whom had been here for three years previously, and all worked incredibly hard.

“We had the opportunity to test ourselves against many of the best programs in the country and we performed at a very high level. We got to play big-name teams and we beat them all… It gives us confidence in what we’re capable of doing and in setting our goals.”

Fan Fervor The Lobos advanced to the College Cup after exciting and fan-rousing

victories at the UNM Soccer Complex for three rounds of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, setting new attendance benchmarks each step along the way.

Earning the home field advantage turned out to be key with the great fan support New Mexico enjoyed.

“We put ourselves in a situation to get a high seed and potentially play three games at home, “Fishbein says.

“We felt we would win at home.”

The support for the Lobos was phenomenal and it grew with each game. UNM earned a first round bye with a No. 2 seed in the tournament, then hosted Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the second round. In a tough match, UNM won 5-3 on penalty kicks after the two teams played to a 2-2 tie in regulation.

That victory came in front of a school record 4,552 fans. That figure was short-lived as the fans, sensing something special in the works, turned out to the tune of 4,849 for the Lobos’ 1-0 victory over No. 15 Cal-State Northridge in the third round.

But the Lobos weren’t done and neither were the fans. In the fourth round, New Mexico set a new standard, selling out the complex for the first time ever. A throng of 5,600 fans helped propel the Lobos to a heart-stopping 1-0 overtime victory over No. 7 California. Fans poured out of the stands to congratulate New Mexico’s stars of the pitch, which had just earned their first-ever trip to the College Cup.

Final Tally UNM accomplished feats during the 2005 season that were unmatched in the history of the program. For the second consecutive year, the Lobos had five Academic All-Americans including seniors Ben Ashwill, Andrew

Boyens, Jeff Rowland, and Matt Wootton, who earned their spots on the first team, and Brandon Moss, who was a third team selection. Ashwill is a three-time honoree, while Wootton and Rowland earned honors for the second time.

Additionally, seven Lobos were named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VI squad with a 3.35 GPA in spring 2005. Erik Bagwell and Graczyk joined Ashwill, Boyens, Moss, Rowland, and Wootton on the honor list as New Mexico took all but four of the 11 spots on the team.

On the pitch, three Lobos earned All-America honors—Rowland on the first team, and Boyens and Watson on the third. Previously, just five UNM players had earned All-American honors in the team’s 22-year history.

Rowland will go down as one of the all-time greats to wear a Lobo uniform.

The two-time All-American was a runnerup for 2005 Hermann Trophy Finalist and is second on the Lobos’ all-time scoring list with 104 points on 45 goals and 14 assists.

Other seniors departing with Bagwell, Boyens, Moss, Rowland, and Watson are Josh Brown, Cody Hanna, and Ryan McVay. Four seniors— Brown, Moss, Rowland, and Watson— were selected in the 2006 Major League Soccer SuperDraft.

While it may be hard to replicate the 2005 season, especially with a young squad returning in 2006, you can count on Fishbein and the Lobos to do whatever it takes to put themselves in that position.

“We’ll be real young next year,” says Fishbein. “But we’ll still be extremely competitive and will try to attain the high expectations people have for our program.”

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As you can imagine, UNM Presidential Scholars take on complex academic schedules, ambitious goals, and interesting activities. After all, they represent the state’s best and brightest students. Each semester, they write a letter to their scholarship sponsors, updating them on their college progress. Here’s what a sampling of the fall 2005 letters reveals.

Noses to the Grindstone The students in our sampling pursue various majors, from pre-medicine to business, engineering to psychology.

Their classes have included cellular biology, computer programming, organic chemistry, quantitative analysis, and sociology.

Challenging, yes, but students acknowledge their degrees require some tough classes. Sigrid Karlstrom, Albuquerque, admits to her sponsors, former UNM President Bill Gordon and his wife, Kathy Gordon, ’82 BS, ’85 MS, ’87 PhD, of Winston-Salem, North

Carolina, that her music performance major is “a ton of work.” Added to violin lessons and performance groups, music theory “takes a lot of time, but is definitely helping me to understand and interpret the music better,” she writes.

Carlsbad, New Mexico, nursing major Whitney Galindo writes to her sponsors, Kent, ’90 BABA, ’91 MBA, and Joanna Jones, of Albuquerque, “Now I can watch ER on TV and understand the majority of what they are saying! One of my favorite, but most difficult, classes has given me

P E R S O N A L A P P R E C I A T I O N : One of 423 Presidential Scholars, Benjamin Alaimo-Monson, a sophomore business major, credits the

more in memoriam Richard T. Lewis, ’64 Gilbert Harold Lind, ’64 Richard W. Morris, ’64 Douglas G. Muller, ’64, ’68, ’70 Charlie “Cobb” Stallings, ’64 Melvin C. Dowden, ’65 Clara W. Hummel, ’65 George Donald Rector, ’66 Jonathan Fred Taylor, ’66 Bruce J. Hodgins, ’67 Marilyn Lenth Goodrich, ’68, ’85 June Charlene Collins Massey, ’68 Wendy R. Tidenberg, ’68, ’77 William M. Worthen, ’68 Robert Dean Gardenhire, ’69, ’73 Augustus F. Keck, ’69 Violeta Consuelo Roybal, ’69, ’79 Mildred G. Williams, ’69 Ivan “Joe” J. Rose, ’70, ’75 R. Blair Blankley, ’72, ’83 Joseph A. Martinez, ’72 Jess Nettles, ’72 Walter W. Ruoff, ’72 Judy M. Stubbs, ’72, ’77 Ronald Stanley Guillemette, ’73, ’87 Stephen Strong Miller, ’73 John Frank Ulibarri, ’73, ’77 Thomas Henry Hargrove, ’74 Rita Victoria Scaletti, ’74, ’79 Forest Richard Celum, ’75, ’78 Marian N. Gillett, ’75 Edward L. Kaufman, ’75 Constance Thurston Simmons, ’75 Frederick Christopher Williams, ’75 Robert Norlan Daughtrey, ’76 Mark Wayne Gaddis, ’76, ’79 Narcissa Rose Patrick, ’76, ’85 Thomas S. Oglesby, ’77 Ross M. Pierce, ’77 Rue W. White, ’77 Holly Matey Craft, ’78 George W. Detorie Jr., ’78, 83 Venetia Farmer, ’78, ’85 Ronald Stanley Guillemette, ’78, ’87 Christopher Allan Mark, ’78 John Schlessinger, ’78, ’83 Karen Wichelns Weber, ’78 Steven B. Cox, ’79 George Fred Nolan, ’79, ’82 Edward F. McDowell, ’80 Tamara J. Spears, ’80 Jose-Pablo Garcia, ’81 Gale P. Pfefferie, ’81 Barbera Stephenson, ’81

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this understanding: human physiologic function I… a combination of anatomy, physiology, and patho-physiology.”

Lest you think Presidential Scholars are all work and no play, consider that they add balance with classes like yoga and ballroom dance.

In her letter to sponsor Jeff Adams, ’93 BSCS, Lafayette, Colorado, Aubrey Blair-Pattison of Albuquerque writes, “I have begun to train for triathlons, and I hope to participate in one in May. I’m taking a triathlon class to learn how to transition during races, and I’ve gone on long bike rides with the Triathlon Club. The latest was about 40 miles long.”

that this was indeed my calling. I was immediately captivated by the process of delivering the anesthesia to the patient and the intricacies of the surgery.”

Branching Out Presidential Scholars enjoy many experiences that UNM offers. At least two students from our sample plan to participate in a Spanish-immersion program in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

treats and toys for them and the other primates.”

Meghan Barnhart, whose scholarship is also sponsored by Duran, writes about her summer internship with a chemical and biological technologies group at Sandia National Laboratories.

The Albuquerque student worked on a project called Rapid Viability, measuring the effectiveness of current decontamination methods. “The project was so interesting to me because it is

“Knowing that I have someone who is supporting me helps me to study even when it gets hard, because I know that it is someone’s hard-earned money that

Major Decision The UNM experience helps affirm Presidential Scholars’ choices of majors. Albuquerque’s Teandra Evans told the Honorable Shirley Mount Hufstedler, ’45 BABA, and Seth Hufstedler, Flintridge, California, that the classes, faculty, and opportunities UNM offers make her excited about her nuclear engineering major. “Every time I hear about the research being conducted and work being done, it just feels… right.”

Nursing major Sara Hastings, Albuquerque, who intends to become a nurse anesthetist, writes her sponsor, Peggyann Hutchinson, ’50 BA, Medford, Oregon, about shadowing a UNM Hospital anesthesiology team.

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I am representing.” this summer. Blair-Pattison notes, “I really hope to attain fluency in Spanish so that I can use it to visit other places and understand other cultures.”

Amanda Becker, Albuquerque, tells her sponsor, Gilbert Duran, ’78 BA, Albuquerque, that she serves as secretary for the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. “I have never been an officer in any club before,” she comments, “so this is a new and enjoyable experience.” She also enjoys volunteering each week at a Rio Grande Zoo enrichment program run by the UNM anthropology department. There, she says, “I get to see the gorillas and howler monkeys in their inside enclosures and make

— Teandra Evans applicable to everyday national security,” Barnhart says. “I have been able to present this project at both the Sandia Labs Student Symposium this summer as well as at the UNM Undergraduate Research Symposium.”

Thank You! Many Presidential Scholars work during the summer, most often in capacities related to their fields of study. One student from our sample was a color guard instructor for her former high school marching band; another, a nurse extern in a medical/cardiac ICU. Still another was a certified nurse assistant at a nursing home. But when classes are

album in session, their scholarships relieve many from having to combine work and school. They are grateful they can concentrate on their studies.

Benjamin Alaimo-Monson, Albuquerque, writes Richard, ’60 LLB, and Patricia Morris of Santa Fe: “Life for many Presidential Scholars would be quite different if it were not for the generosity and kindness of people like you.” Indeed, Sara Hastings defines heroes as “people who invest in the future of this nation; people like you who sponsor young adults who would otherwise not be able to afford college and enable them to achieve their full potential.”

Presidential Scholars also recognize that responsibility comes with the scholarship. Teandra Evans writes, “Knowing that I have someone who is supporting me helps me to study even when it gets hard, because I know that it is someone’s hard-earned money that I am representing.” Whitney Galindo writes, “Knowing that caring people like you have invested so much in me is a great motivation to continue to do well.”

These students also think about passing on the favor. As Meghan Barnhart notes, “I hope someday I will be able to give to another young person the incredible opportunities you have given me. I am so grateful!”

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PSP — Presidential Scholarship Program New Mexico high school seniors earn Presidential Scholarships based on

grade point average, class rank, college board scores, personal essays,

leadership, and community involvement. An annual gift of $1,750 to

sponsor one scholar is matched by UNM and increased up to approximately

$5,400 per student. However, donors can participate in the Presidential

Scholarship Program through the “share-a-scholar” program by making a

more in memoriam Thomas George Pretzel, ’82 John Phillip Livingston, ’83 Ronald M. Valencia, ’83 Chris R. Jaramillo, ’84, ’89 David French, ’85 Joe E. Gurule, ’85 Evelyn Sue Wallace, ’86 Terry A. Dean, ’87 Danny Marez, ’87 Kathryn Kaliel Medrano, ’87 Teslin Phillips, ’87 Richard L. Beckman, ’88, ’90 Paul Harrison Sowash, III, ’88 Celia Archuleta, ’89, ’91 Arthur E. Elliott, ’89 Regina D. Montoya, ’90 Sandra A. Spraggins, ’90 John William Tall Bear, ’90 Regina D. Montoya, ’90 Lorencita Castillo, ’91 Stephen R. Tabet, ’91 Aron Hank Skrypeck, ’91 Jeremy Brendan Grant Worley, ’91, ’97 Terry M. Bland, ’92 Shanta Savara, ’92 Judith Ann Gordon, ’94 Charles Ulibarri, ’95 Arthur Jaynes, ’97 Sarah “Baby Bird” Villas, ’97 Brenda Rae Nielsen Cox, ’99 Vickie Daughtrey, ’01 Hemming A. Atterbom, ’66, professor emeritus Carman A. Bliss, professor emeritus, dean Bernard Epstein, professor emeritus George Robert Grice, professor emeritus William C. Ingersoll, former faculty John Leach, professor emeritus Norman Bradford Levit, professor emeritus Gladis Maresma, ’70, former administrator Helen Lucile McIntyre, faculty emeritus Anne Noggle, ’66, ’70, former faculty Victor H. Regener, professor emeritus George Robert, professor emeritus Fred G. Sturm, faculty

gift of any size, which UNM also matches. Full PSP sponsors are invited to

the university’s annual scholars’ dinner to meet the student recipients of

their generosity. To learn more, contact Mary Wolford at 505-277-5688

or mwolford@unm.edu, or visit www.unm.edu/foundation.

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Well, that was a bit embarrassing, Charles Hodgin told himself as he slid the hand-lettered, gilt-edged diploma into a drawer. An honorary doctorate is like a common-law marriage—not quite the real thing—and you risk looking foolish if you take it seriously.

Still, he thought, President Zimmerman and the Regents were sincere in wanting to honor his 28 years of service to the University of New Mexico. They didn’t realize that his reward was the knowledge that hundreds of teachers in the state had received their training and, he hoped, their inspiration from him.

“What a relief to take off that heavy black gown,” Hodgin told his wife as he joined her on the porch for iced tea. “June in Albuquerque is no time to be sitting out in the sun. But commencement has to be in June, just as Halloween has to be in October, when it’s often too dark and cold for young pranksters to be out. Maybe I could write a poem about the tyranny of the calendar.”

“That can be your prize for finishing your historical essay for the Alumni News and your address for the annual fall assembly,” his wife replied.

“And don’t you also have a speech to prepare for the New Mexico Education Association?”

He winced. “Don’t remind me. The history of the university will be easy to write, because I was here for most it, and the students like to hear funny stories at the assembly. But the NMEA members will expect a profound discourse on pedagogy.”

Charles Hodgin, age 69 in 1925, was professor and dean emeritus of education at the University of New Mexico. He had come to Albuquerque in 1885 in hopes that the high altitude and dry climate would improve his wife’s health. He was hired as principal of the new private secondary school called Albuquerque Academy. When the territorial university opened he was among the first to enroll and earned a bachelor of pedagogy degree in the first graduating class of 1894. By then he had been superintendent of the new Albuquerque public school system for three years. In 1897 he returned to the university as principal of the normal department. It later became the education department, with Hodgin

F O U N D I N G F A T H E R : Charles Hodgin belonged to UNM’s first graduating class (1894). He went on to become principal of the normal school, head of the education department, dean, and then vice president of the university when he retired in 1925. His ready smile and red hair set him apart from the crowd.

album marriages Gil Cordova, ’67 BABA, ’71 MBA, and Fran Aslakson Judith Wallace Moss, ’78 BUS, and John Albert Minks Anne McConnell, ’80 MA, and Nick Ault Alan Pope, ’81 PhD, and Lenore Miranda, ’86 BA Patricia Cross, ’93 BA, ’96 JD, and Eric Mattingly Nancy A. Nelson, ’84 BAME, ’93 MS, and Tom Neill, Jr. Brian J. McClung, ’86 BSEE, ’92 MS, and Joyce Ann Clabaugh Kristin Van Veen, ’90 BA, and Gregory Hincke Mary T. Torres, ’92 JD, and John T. Chavez, ’84 BABA Gary C. Barboa, ’93 BA, and Martha J. Mintle Laurie Edeal Carroll, ’93 BSED, ’97 MA, and Brad Boyce Lisa A. Chavez, ’94 BA, ’97 JD, and Mark S. Ortega David Martin, ’95 BA, ’99 MBA, ’02 CTPM, and Stephanie Gerdes, ’96 BA Timothy Vander Jagt, ’95 BA, ’01 MD, and Laurie Martinez Jennifer Bell, ’97 BA, and Eric Garcia Jack Greiner, ’97 BS, and Emily Reiff Jennifer Stine, ’97 BABA, and Joel Cardona Melissa A. Baca, ’98 BUS, and Lane McIntyre Ryan Stark, ’98 BA, and Michelle Valencia, ’98 BA Erin Duddy ’99 BA, and Jeff Leidner, ’02 BAFA Charlotte Evans, ’99 BSED, and John Crimi Stephanie Hertel, ’99 BA, and Craig Davis Susan E. Sena, ’99 MA, and Scott E. Tolar Stephanie Hertel, ’99 BA, and Craig Davis Nicole Lee Ault, ’00 BUS, and John Warner Widell Angela Koeneker, ’00 BA, and Arun Jayaraman Carolyn Aparici Law, ’00 BA, and Ruben Gonzales, ’03 BA Dawn Kacpura, ’00 BABA, and Christopher Gutierrez James E. Schloss, ’00 BUS, and Tatum V. Simpson Katherine Smalley, ’00 BABA, ’02 MBA, and Ryan Johnson, ’01 BS Shauna Tyree Van Meter, ’00 BA, and Kevin Corry Shannon Craig Wright, ’00 BSCS, and Misty Ritchey s p r i n g

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various treatments, including eating only raw food. The theory was that cooking devitalized the food. The students found out about it, and for a Halloween prank they left a big, leafy, green bale of alfalfa on my desk. I gamely nibbled on a stalk and told the

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as dean. He would later hold the titles of dean of the university and, from 1917 until 1925, vice president. He also served as the first president of the UNM Alumni Association.

Mrs. Hodgin had succumbed to tuberculosis soon after their arrival, but

H O M E S W E E T H O M E , H O D G I N S T Y L E : In the early 1900s, Charles Hodgin and his wife, Elizabeth, lived—and entertained often— in a small house across the street from the university, at the southeast corner of today’s Terrace Street and Central Avenue.

Charles remarried. He and Elizabeth built a small house across from the campus and made it the social center of the university. Each had endured a loved one’s illness and early death, and they vowed to make every day count.

They had very little money, but neither did their friends, and they all valued conversation more than cuisine at a party. And since society had not yet decreed that professors were effete, Charles and his colleagues rode, hiked, fished, and hunted, earning the respect of the men of Albuquerque— and furnishing quail and rabbits for the dinner table.

“I think I’ll tell the alfalfa story at the assembly this fall,” Charles told his wife. “Mind if I rehearse it with you?”

“Of course not. I still remember how glad I was when you gave up that silly diet.”

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class I preferred my alfalfa with peanuts on the side. Then I promised to deliver the bale to the campus stables.”

Behind the scenes Charles Hodgin had been the right-hand man to three presidents he trusted and admired: Clarence Herrick, George Tight, and David Boyd. Many Regents relied on Hodgin’s counsel, and at one point he was asked to assume the presidency.

He declined, saying he believed the president should have a doctorate, but the truth was that he was not interested in wielding power.

What interested him were people and poems. Even the jaded upperclassmen responded to his optimism and kindliness, and his encouragement made shy young women articulate and confident.

As the university grew, its affairs became more complex, and administrators spent more and more time in meetings.

Charles was not really interested in budgets or boiler rooms, and he learned

to keep a noncommittal expression on his face during meetings—while writing a poem in his mind.

The Hodgin home was almost a hotel. President Tight moved in, uninvited, when he arrived from Ohio, and stayed for several years. Chemistry professor John Clark ate there so often that he sometimes showed up at mealtimes out of habit, invited or not. So many students came to visit, and no doubt to be fed, that the informal, egalitarian university spirit could be attributed largely to Charles Hodgin and his wife.

Hodgin and President Tight bought land together in the Sandia foothills.

Tight, a geologist, suspected there were valuable minerals on the land, so the two men named it the Hodgotite Camp.

They spent five years proving up a claim. They didn’t get rich but they had a lot of fun.

World War I changed the campus drastically. Most of the male students and faculty members enlisted. The New Mexico National Guard set up a training camp for 1,500 men. The Guardsmen were not allowed to date the coeds, so the young women kept a roster and took turns inviting the few remaining male students out for dates.

The campus also housed a Red Cross hospital and army wagons, caissons, cannons, and tents. The gym was used for medical exams of recruits, and the Federal Army Board occupied much of the administration building.

The university organized a Student Army Training Corps for men who were continuing their studies while training for the military, and 136 men enrolled.

Hodgin wrote a poem lamenting that he “could not pass to shoot a gun, for my life too long had run.” Instead he planted a war garden.

But alas! The summer sad! It seemed that all things turned out bad! … All kinds of harmful bugs galore swarmed in as at an open

door, and filled their stomachs with delight, tasting every thing in sight…

The end of the war in 1919 brought relief and joyful celebration. Vice President Hodgin presided at a ceremony to demobilize the service flag after the commencement exercises.

Four gold stars were added to the flag in honor of four students who died in the war, and silver stars represented 395 students who served.

Charles and Elizabeth remained in Albuquerque after he retired, until the need for medical care took them to Pasadena, California. In 1933 he published his Rhymes from New Mexico, dedicated to the students of the university. Some of the poems were topical, like this one, written for the 1926 state teachers’ convention in Santa Fe: “We are coming, Ancient City, some sixteen hundred strong; and you’d better get you ready for the gathering of the throng….” Other poems were reflections on natural phenomena, philosophical theories, or his experiences. One lamented Elizabeth’s long journey back East: “…Then every hour is like a day, and every sound a groan…”

Professor Emeritus Hodgin had presided at the first Memorial Day Exercise in 1928 to mark the 39th anniversary of the territorial legislature’s passage of the bill creating the university.

There were music performances, introductory remarks by Hodgin, an address by President Zimmerman on the meaning of Memorial Day, and tributes to Bernard Shandon Rodey, author of the founding legislation.

Eight years later, in 1936, Memorial Day was devoted to Charles Hodgin.

The tribute was delivered by JR McCollum. It began with a brief biographical sketch featuring these words: “Fortunate were the pioneer teachers of New Mexico in the professional leadership of Professor Hodgin…” Said President Zimmerman: “His long years of service as dean and then as vice president, working under different presidents with widely different temperaments, attest his loyalty, but far more important, they stand as unimpeachable evidence, through all those years, of his love and devotion to the University.”

Intrigued?

Then you should take a look at the newly published history of UNM, Miracle on the Mesa,by former UNM President (1975-1982) William “Bud” Davis. Davis begins with the “joint presidencies” of Elias S. Stover and Hiram Hadley, 1892-1897, and continues through Louis Caldera’s tenure. The lively text also provides a unique look at Albuquerque and its citizens during each time period.

496 pages, 57 color photographs, 190 halftones hardcover, $49.95; paperback, $29.95 unmpress.com 800-249-7737

album Nissane M. Black, ’01 BA, and Jayson B. Capps Jessie Demko, ’01 BUS, and Don Wade Janel Dominguez, ’01 BA, and Jarrod House Ida Hernandez, ’01 JD, and Raul Sedillo, ’02 JD Krista Jones, ’01 BA, and Mark Sterner Jennifer Pope, ’01 BSED, and Jeremy O’Nelin Megan Stowe, ’01 BS, and Stephen Schad Drew Daum Wilson, ’01 BSED, ’02 MA, and Jude Hlifka Joel W. Blackman, ’02 BABA, ’03 MA, and Lana E. Sohns, ’03 BA Jessica Gilmore, ’02 BABA, and Francisco Bussetti, ’04 BABA Jillian Suzanne Cvetic, ’02 BSNU, and Ty Michael Ryburn Stephanie Garcia, ’02 BA, and Johnathan Krenrich Jennifer Marie Pino, ’02 BABA, and Christopher Angelo Serrato Tracey Szydlowski, ’02 BA, and Leland Wyman, ’04 BA B. Jesse Muniz, ’03 BABA, and Carmella Salazar, ’03 BS Ryan H. Nelson, ’03 BA, and Ysela P. Navarrette Elizabeth M. Smith, ’03 BAME, and Brian Wenrich Loralie A. Buston, ’04 MA, and Jason C. Aragon, ’04 Phar Andrea Dennison, ’04 BS, and John Gallegos Kimberly Eakin, ’04 BSED, and Jesus Acosta Ursula Esquibel, ’04 BABA, and William Packham, ’04 MBA Bridget JaDee Griego, ’04 BSED, and Randall Priddy Amanda Lynn Gutierrez, ’04 BA, and Seth Jones Jennifer L. Jackson, ’04 BA, and Adam White Elizabeth A. Leitch, ’04 BSED, and Ryan Eklund Michelle Lewis, ’04 BSED, and Paul Barry Kirsten LaVonne Moeller, ’04 BABA, and Jesse A. Martinez, ’04 BS Nicole S. Wagner, ’04 BA, and Daniel W. Trott, ’04 BS Bridget Barrett, ’05 BA, and Richard Hurff Elizabeth Foster Bryans, ’05 MA, and Joseph Laird Jordan Elizabeth Key, ’05 BSED, and Jonathan Leo Guerra

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Partners

by Angie Vachio, ’75 MA, ’02 Honorary PhD President, UNM Alumni Association

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ne thing is for sure—everything in life undergoes change. UNM is no

exception. The resignation of President Caldera was a surprise to many,

expected by others, and unnoticed by some. Whatever your reaction, a change in leadership brings uncertainty and many questions. It also brings new possibilities and bright opportunity for strong involvement by alumni in the search and selection process of a new UNM president.

The Alumni Association and the university are partners. We, as alumni, have a loyal connection to our beloved UNM and the university is dependent upon the continued engagement of its alums.

Now is the time for active, productive dialogue about UNM, its public responsibility, and its future leadership. We stand ready to assist as the university moves forward.

I know you join me in offering our collective wisdom, ideas, and support.

I have enjoyed my tenure as your Alumni Association president. It is my sincere hope that alumni become more engaged with UNM, and that UNM become more engaged with its alumni. We all benefit by that valued connection.

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Spring Forward!

April 2 April 5 April 8 April 8 April 29 May 4 May 6 May 13 June 3 June 10 July 8 July 21-23 July tba August 5 August 12 August 20 August tba September 9 September 10 September tba September tba September tba September tba September tba October tba October tba

Seattle Chapter Lobo Day Event Architecture & Planning Annual Career Fair: Hire a Student!

Austin Chapter Bill & Karen’s Birthday Wild Flower Tour Denver Chapter 2nd Saturday Lobo Breakfast Chicago Chapter Food Bank Community Service Day Architecture & Planning Foundation Celebration Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Day Cinco de Mayo Celebration Denver Chapter 2nd Saturday Lobo Breakfast Chapter Council Meeting in Albuquerque Denver Chapter 2nd Saturday Lobo Breakfast Denver Chapter 2nd Saturday Lobo Breakfast Los Angeles Chapter Deep Sea Fishing Adventure Chicago Chapter Millennium Park Concert Austin Chapter Ice Cream Social Denver Chapter 2nd Saturday Lobo Breakfast Los Angeles Chapter 14th Annual Green Chile Fest Denver Chapter Annual Picnic and Silent Auction Los Angeles Chapter Hollywood Bowl featuring Willie Nelson Washington, DC Chapter Green Chile Roast & Taco Picnic Chicago Chapter Annual Green Chile Roast Las Vegas Chapter Annual Green Chile Roast Atlanta Chapter Annual Green Chile Roast Austin Chapter Annual Green Chile Roast Norcal Chapter Annual Green Chile Roast Las Vegas – Lobo Football Tailgate and Game Colorado Springs – Lobo Football Tailgate and Game

Here, there,

and everywhere!

Educational Travel Adventures 2006 www.unmalumni.com/edtravel/travel.htm Here is the lineup of our educational travel opportunities still to come in 2006. We hope you will join us in the near future!

Watch soon for our exciting 2007 offerings.

April 7 – 14 Peru, Featuring Machu Picchu May 22 – June 2 Alumni Campus Abroad – Greek Islands July 9 – 18 Family Adventure in Costa Rica September 5 – 13 Alumni Campus Abroad – Portugal October 12 – 20 Lakes & Mountains Switzerland & Northern Italy November 9 – 17 Prague/Budapest Escapade Trips and dates are subject to change.

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

Honoring… I

n February, the UNM Alumni Association bestowed its

four major awards to outstanding alumni and faculty.

Eric M. Pillmore, ’75 BBA, senior vice president-corporate governance, at Tyco International Corporation, received the Zimmerman Award. Eric has instilled an all-encompassing program of ethics in that company to help restore its stature.

John P. Salazar, ’65 BA, an attorney at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, received the Erna S. Fergusson Award.

An expert in real estate law, Salazar is also a respected community leader.

David E. Stuart, ’70 MA, ’72 PhD, who recently retired from UNM as associate provost, received the Bernard S. Rodey Award. David played a pivotal role in responding to the needs of non-traditional students at UNM.

Communications and journalism professor Miguel Gandert, ’77 BUS, ’83 MA, received the UNM Alumni Association Faculty Award, Miguel is a nationally known photographer and an inspiring photography teacher. s p r i n g

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Celebrating Dr. Sacks “History in the Making”—Fall 2005

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hree cheers and a huzzah! too for Dr. Benjamin Sacks. By continuing to do research, write, and publish on into his second century he inspires all who were students at UNM during his long tenure there. With three—or is it four?—projects in various stages of development on my own docket, I gain renewed energy from his example of creative perseverance. Yes, Dr. Sacks, all of those papers will be done—and on time too!

William J. Cunningham, ’48 BA, ’50 MA Houston, Texas

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read all the articles in this latest issue of Mirage and found them interesting. My husband had even heard of Dr. Benjamin Sacks even though he never attended UNM or lived in New Mexico. (Is Texas close enough?)

Delores Jeannette Lambert Kepner Pierce, ’66 BS, ’69 Med Tech Anniston, Alabama

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n October 6 I (was) 102 and still get around. After my retirement I quit handball but if you can imagine, I took lessons in ballroom dancing and found it entertaining. I still do it, benefiting from the statement “it takes two to tango!” Otherwise, I like to think the scholarly articles I wrote and published resounded to the academic credit of UNM. Benjamin Sacks, ’26 BA San Diego, California

Athletics Appraisals “Mad about the Lobos!”—Fall 2005

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look forward to receiving Mirage but was disappointed by Carolyn Gonzales’ article, “Mad about the Lobos.” What disturbed me was that there was absolutely no mention of the men’s soccer team which is #6 in the country pre-season rankings (August 2005). Either Ms. Gonzales did no

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research on this program or, even more distressing, the athletic director, Rudy Davalos, doesn’t recognize them.

Rob Romero, ’89 BAA Men’s soccer team member, 1985-1989 Dallas, Texas Editor’s Note: The soccer team deserved a story of its own, and has it in this issue!

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ormally, I very much enjoy reading Mirage as it keeps me abreast of activities at UNM. As one who has often defended the University of New Mexico from those who do not understand its excellence and its profound impact on New Mexico, I was taken aback and disappointed by a characterization of my university in the article about UNM athletics.

Michigan’s approach to football is just like its approach to everything it does… expecting to be leaders and best. No less is expected of athletics than liberal arts, medicine, law, nursing… everything it does. That longstanding expectation has made UM one of the leading universities in the world.

Mary Sue Coleman President, University of Michigan Former UNM Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1993-1995

Calendar Comments “Gifts for a Lifetime”—Winter 2006

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ou have done many good and honest things with Mirage.

Sometimes I see apparent bias, but only occasionally, when a magnifying glass is used. You do a great job!

The last issue of Mirage left me puzzled and depressed. First, I have nothing to give as alumni gifts; second, it was over-saturated with the give-receive feel-good message so as to make me nauseous; and last, I learned nothing about my classmates and friends in an Alumni News section.

I realize the good of the majority, and the new students, and the university trump one person’s needs to hear about menial old-school alumni. Yes, I know about the on-line “alumni pages.”

They are obfuscated by having to know the exact year a person graduated in order to make a search. I could barely remember when I graduated.

I know nothing will come of my thinking as I am probably in the minority, no longer a student, and worthless for donations to the university.

Gary L. Strong, ’74 MS Portland, Oregon

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found the 2006 calendar beautifully done, going through each month, reading about the chosen students.

What I found interesting is that all of them are minority students. Even the Austrian student could be counted as a minority, as she is not from the US. Does this mean my child, who is not a minority, would not have a chance for one of these scholarships?

I have nothing against minorities, but so often, minorities are offered workshops, programs, and scholarships that should be opened to all. My children should deserve the same opportunity.

Their minority friends are at the same educational level and financial level as we are, yet they get the chance to receive the aforementioned and my own children are left out, including being represented on the UNM calendar.

Marie Turney Morrison, ’80 MA Santa Fe Mirage welcomes letters to the editor.

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

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

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