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A MESSAGE FROM UNM PRESIDENT LOUIS CALDERA

Students choose to

Great things are happening at the University of New Mexico,

fulfill their academic promise at UNM.

thanks to the extraordinary efforts of talented students,

Faculty and staff carry

out promising research.

exceptional faculty and staff, and dedicated supporters.

UNM is the community’s

partner for a promising

Today we are focused on four strategic priorities to help us

quality of life. But we need your promise to help us keep ours…

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build further on UNM’s legacy of achievement:

P R O M I S I N G F U T U R E S : These four UNM freshmen have entrusted their education to UNM—and UNM is enriched by their presence! Honors students all, they come from all corners of New Mexico and have chosen divergent career paths.

Erika Seidschlag of Thoreau concentrates on studio arts. To her right, Nathaniel Schneider of Santa Fe focuses on archeology. Vance Oas, second from the right, came to the university from Roswell, and plans to major in biology. Dennis Paiz-Ramirez, right, is from Albuquerque and is pursuing a degree in computer science. The support of alumni and friends helps UNM keep its promise to these bright students—and many others like them.

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visualization, infectious diseases, environmental sciences, and many other disciplines that are revolutionizing our world and providing the foundation for US economic competitiveness.

John Bowersmith

Advancing state-of-the-art healthcare. UNM Hospitals, the UNM

Strengthening the quality of undergraduate education. Focused

recruitment efforts—with the help of UNM alumni throughout the state and fostered by Regents, Presidential, and other merit scholarship support— brought a record number of Honors Students to campus this fall—more than 400 in all. Seventy-nine ranked in the top 1 percent of their high school classes: students such as Erika Seidschlag from Thoreau, Nathaniel Schneider from Santa Fe, Vance Oas from Roswell, and Dennis Paiz-Ramirez from Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque are just a few of the impressive group from across New Mexico who have chosen to fulfill their academic promise at UNM. Expanding our capacity for basic research. UNM’s total research portfolio

now approaches $300 million annually and continues to grow. The university is a world-class contributor to fundamental research in high technology materials, computing, modeling and

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Cancer Research and Treatment Center, and the UNM Health Sciences Center’s education and research programs are identifying and solving the most important questions of human health facing New Mexico’s diverse communities. Private contributions are helping to launch the largest capital improvement project ever undertaken in New Mexico: the construction of a $183 million Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion.

Performing high-impact public service. We are putting more of our

resources than ever before at the service of the community and state, helping to improve the quality of life for all New Mexicans. Bringing the unique expertise of our faculty to bear in addressing the most pressing issues facing our state and region is one of the most exciting goals we are pursuing at UNM. These strategic priorities extend the reach and impact of our work and raise the national stature of the University of New Mexico.

Now the stage is set for even greater achievements, with our alumni community of 120,000-strong poised to make all the difference in UNM’s future. National rankings (like those published in US News & World

Report), private foundation support, and student recruitment success are all influenced by the support of alumni to their alma mater. That’s why UNM is embarking on a campaign to double and then triple our present Annual Fund participation rate of just under 10 percent of alumni giving to UNM— and you can help! Your gift to the Annual Fund, by increasing numbers of alumni, will make an enormous difference in helping us advance the status of the university. You can give online at http://www.unm.edu/ foundation/give_online.html and I urge you to do so today.

The possibilities at UNM today are almost limitless, if we recognize our own potential and seize the extraordinary opportunities before us.

I look forward to working with all of the extended family and friends of UNM as we propel this great university into its next era of accomplishment.

Go Lobos!

Louis Caldera

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contents

On the Cover:

19-year-old Cherie DeVore is finding

her place—and her peace—away from

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her Crownpoint home. Cherie is one

of several students whose path Mirage is following as they acquire their UNM educations.

28 Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom: How Free Are They?

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At the core of Tom Popejoy’s UNM was adherence to academic freedom.

But it’s not a freedom to be taken for granted, as Popejoy’s successor,

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Ferrel Heady, and leading alumni learned the hard way.

VB Price leads the discussion.

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Kids listen to their sports heroes. Kirk Friedrich is tapping their adulation in the battle against AIDS in Africa.

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Mirage tries to keep you posted about the choices and changes of the students we began interviewing last year, as freshmen.

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Winter 2005, Volume 23, Number 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: Louis Caldera, President; Karen A. Abraham, Director, Alumni Relations; Mary Conrad, Editor; Kelly Ketner, Ketner Design, Art Director.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Coleman Travelstead, President, Albuquerque; Angie Vachio, President-Elect, Albuquerque; Michelle Hernandez, Treasurer, Albuquerque; Steve Bacchus, Past-President, Albuquerque; Dee Johnson, Albuquerque; Lillian Montoya-Rael, Santa Fe; Laurie Moye, Albuquerque; Roberto Ortega, Albuquerque.

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

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

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16 From Freshmen Hopes to Sophomore Strengths

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album compiled by Margaret Weinrod.

22 The Man Who Made UNM One UNM president tells the tale of another, Tom Popejoy, a UNM alum who led the university for 20 years.

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Look for a friend on every page!

DAVIS

Keep us posted!

Looking Around: 5 Album ’Tis the season to catch up with old friends.

22 Mirage was the title of the University of New Mexico yearbook

7 Letters Worth lies in the eye of the beholder.

8 Connections A caboodle of campus activity, plus a new VP to oversee Alumni Relations.

12 Athletics Here Comes the Sun BY

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Bright days await the Lobo golf team, until its last edition

with Spencer Levin aboard.

in 1978. Since that

Sports Summary

time, the title was

Hoop It Up! for Lobo basketball. Here’s when.

adopted by the alumni magazine which continues to publish vignettes of UNM graduates.

38 Development I Can Hear You Now! A major distributor of hearing aids, Ron Meltsner credits and remembers his alma mater for his success.

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40 Alumni Outlook

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

Fall (August) deadline: May 1 Winter (December) deadline: September 1 Spring (April) deadline: January 1

James L. Tear, ‘36 BS, has received the 2004 Governor’s New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award in recognition of his public service for the betterment of life in New Mexico. A Roswell resident, he has been serving missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints in Zimbabwe, West Indies, New Zealand, and British Columbia with his wife.

Lucile Reid Brock, ‘39 BA, of Horseshoe Bay, Texas, is the author of MD Pursuit (and Beyond), a collection of vignettes and original watercolors of her life in early ‘40s Dallas. Copies may be ordered through www.reidpsychiatry.com/lucilebrock_art.html.

All proceeds benefit the Lucile Lattanner Reid Brock Art Endowment through the UNM Foundation.

Hugh Hackett, ‘47 BA, ‘53 MA, participated in the USATF Master’s National Outdoor Track & Field Championships in August.

He took first place in the men’s ages 70-99 hammer throw and second place, 18.58 meters, in the men’s ages 70-99 javelin throw. Hugh is 84 years old and lives in Albuquerque.

Just a taste of what the alumni platter offers.

Lou Cullen, ‘48 BSPE, ‘52 MA, has been inducted posthumously into the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Athletic Hall of Honor.

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George Buffett, ‘51 BABA, of Albuquerque, was elected national committeeman of the Republican Party of New Mexico in June.

Thanks to all who made Homecoming 2004 a success.

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oo-hah! Thoroughly enjoyed reading Kateri Osburn’s letter in the fall ’04 Mirage. Thought we only got to read that kind of cogent commentary in the local Puget Sound newspapers. My compliments on your willingness to print her views.

Mark Morgan, ’76 BA Issaquah, Washington

Dubious Decisions—NOT In Answer to Kateri Osburn am the “campus cutie of the week” from 1956 on the calendar you are so disappointed in.

Now, instead of being offended, as you say, and wanting the editors to spare you the sexist, Euro-centric waste of trees and postage by not mailing you any more issues, I hope you will get this letter, plus get more issues in the future.

Actually, it gave me a big boost to read it, although they spelled my name wrong, as it was “Haynes,” not “Haines!” You must understand that I also played basketball on Highland High School State Champs in ’53.

We weren’t even allowed to use a full court. I was in Phi Gamma Nu, an honorary business society. Plus, I worked part time for Mr. Ben Hernandez, who helped many unfortunate people.

Let me tell you about my close UNM friends of the 50’s, who got no mention.

My friend, Nancy Welch Lamb, had to transfer to Wisconsin to get into medical school. Not many women were admitted to medical schools. She became a doctor, but unfortunately died of cancer later.

My other good friend, whom I still visit, is Louise Korn Waldron. She is now involved with land preservation in Albuquerque, and recently received an

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award from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. She has her PhD from UNM. Another close friend and sorority sister was Nancy Burk who married US Senator Pete Domenici. We did many things for society, including work at the Newman Center, which is having its 50th anniversary.

My gifts to society are my two daughters, Karen and Kim Simon.

Karen is managing director of JP Morgan and lives in London, and gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities.

Also, I taught her tennis and she went to the nationals and was the youngest member of the team when she went to the University of Colorado.

You see, Kateri, because of gals like us in the 50s, others can now break through the “glass ceilings” which were imposed on women. We were better known for our looks, or for making coffee in the office, but we overcame. So, you see, we could NOT be recognized for the things you can now. We weren’t invited.

As the editor noted: the calendar bits were representative of the campus culture in the year noted. The calendar you wanted would have been boring, and not representative.

Thanks, Mirage, for mentioning my glory for being a cutie in the year 1956. I’m saving the issue for my accomplished, multi-faceted, wealthy daughters to see what was important to society then.

JoAnne Haynes Simon Braley Plano, Texas

album John W. Hagen, ‘52 BAED, is happily retired after a rewarding teaching and administrative career in California public education. A few years ago he became a private pilot. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Larry Tuttle, ‘52 BS, ‘58 MA, has been inducted into the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Athletic Hall of Honor. Larry lives in Albuquerque.

Bill Kaiser, ‘54 BSED, has been inducted into the Bureau County (Illinois) Sports Hall of Fame as a junior high basketball coach.

Bill lives in Princeton, Illinois.

Jim Bruening, ‘55 BA, has been inducted into the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Athletic Hall of honor. He lives in Mesa, Arizona.

Ralph Melbourne Sr.

Dubious Decisions— Hoo-hah!

Ralph Melbourne Sr., ‘55 BABA, a mortgage broker and owner of Melbourne Financial Corp. of Albuquerque, is now one of a small percentage of mortgage professionals to attain the standing of a nationally recognized Certified Mortgage Consultant (CMC).

Mirage welcomes letters to the editor.

If you would like to comment on something you’ve read in the magazine, please write

Chuck Corbin

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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. To see the unedited version of these letters, go to www.unmalumni.com and click on Mirage.

Chuck Corbin, ‘60 BSHP, ‘65 PhD, received the Distinguished Service Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 2004. He was also elected the first

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Advancement Shines Under a New Star New VP to help UNM reach its high goals

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UNM has a new vice president for Institutional Advancement who will oversee the work of the UNM Alumni Relations Office, among other departments. UNM President Louis Caldera announced the appointment of Michael W. Carroll following an extensive national search to fill the position. about the university’s past, but about its present, and its future—even after they themselves are gone.”

Why Mike?

M I K E C A R R O L L is the University’s new vice president for Institutional Advancement.

As the University’s new vice president for Institutional Advancement, Mike Carroll oversees alumni relations, development, strategic communications, and KNME.

Carroll is responsible for all aspects of the university’s advancement efforts, including not only alumni relations but development, communications, marketing, public affairs, and KNME-TV. He serves as president of the UNM Foundation. He began work on November 1.

Carroll says he enjoys working with alumni. “They care not only

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Carroll came to New Mexico from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he had served since 1997 as vice president for development and alumni relations and president of the Rutgers University Foundation. At Rutgers, he led the $500 million “Creating the Future Today” university-wide capital campaign that exceeded its goal by raising $615 million in support for university programs.

Carroll and his family visited New Mexico and “fell in love immediately with the beauty of the state and the friendliness of its residents.” Carroll cites the opportunity to work on President Caldera’s team as one of the job’s top attractions.

“I am highly impressed by his resume, life experiences, plans for the university, and commitment to the state of New Mexico,” Carroll says.

“I greatly respect his honesty, personal integrity, and successful efforts to create a very positive environment at the university.”

“In Mike Carroll, we have found an absolute star who can help the university increase private support to make UNM one of the best-regarded public research universities in America,” Caldera says.

The Right Stuff Carroll jokes that he already has the right wardrobe for the job. His dad used to be executive director of the North Carolina State Wolfpack Club, so Carroll is accustomed to the UNM colors and a version of its lobo mascot.

Carroll brings to UNM more than 25 years of experience in university advancement. Before his work at Rutgers, he served as associate vice president for Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where he oversaw a successful university-wide campaign that raised $337 million, exceeding its goal of $250 million.

He also has worked in advancement at the University of California-Irvine, Centenary College in Louisiana, and East Carolina University.

Carroll is the recipient of numerous industry awards including Professional of the Year in 2004, awarded by the Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education (CASE) District II in recognition of exceptional achievement in the development of an institutional advancement program. He has served as a speaker and panel participant at professional conferences throughout the United States and abroad. He holds a master’s degree from Ohio University and a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University.

new connections Legislative Guide: President Louis

Caldera has appointed Carlos Rey Romero director of government relations. Romero will direct and coordinate legislative matters for UNM on state and federal levels. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 04-07-15romero.htm Staff Chief: Connie Beimer, ’77 BAR,

’78 MAPA, past president of the UNM Alumni Association, has been named

by President Louis Caldera as his Chief of Staff. She will serve as the president’s point of contact for individuals within as well as outside the university community, oversee the president’s office, and ensure effective communication and coordination of effort among the university’s senior staff. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000295.html#more Fine (Arts) Dean: Christopher Mead,

professor of architecture and of art history, has been appointed to a threeyear term as dean at the College of Fine Arts. Mead, who has a joint teaching appointment with the School of Architecture and Planning, has been a full professor since 1996 and a member of the faculty since 1980.

genetics of infectious diseases and vaccine response. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded deCODE a five-year, $23.9 million grant to conduct the study. The National Center for Genome Research will also be a partner in the study. http://www.unm.edu/%7Emarket/ cgi-bin/archives/000330.html#more Showing Reality: “CREATE,” or

Center for Rapid Environmental Analysis and Terrain Evaluation, will soon come to life with the aid of a $3.5 million grant from a series of federal appropriations supported

by US Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and administered

by NASA. Spearheaded by earth and planetary sciences associate professor Louis Scuderi, CREATE will provide real-time satellite digital imagery of New Mexico and other North American landscapes. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000212.html Meet the Movies: New Mexico

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Governor Bill Richardson awarded UNM $3 million to create the “Art, Research, Technology, and Science Laboratory” (ARTS Lab) to support the state’s efforts in the burgeoning digital media industry. The multidisciplinary project will leverage UNM’s strengths in computer science, fine arts, medicine, law, and business.

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Lowering the Risks: UNM was

Three Cheers—Daily: The Daily Lobo,

UNM’s student newspaper, is the No. 2 college newspaper in the nation, according to the Princeton Review.

It was ranked above the papers of Harvard, Yale, and Northwestern University. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000261.html#more

research and funding connections Decoding Disease: New Mexico

Governor Bill Richardson, C. Rick Lyons, director of HSC Infectious Disease and Inflammation Centerand UNM President Louis Caldera announced recently that UNM will partner with deCODE Genetics, Inc., to study the

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among five state institutions awarded scholarship funding from the 2004 Daniels Opportunity Awards, a $2.16 million partnership to get scholarship funding into the hands of non-traditional students at risk of being unable to afford a college education. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000208.html#more Binge Cringe: UNM’s Center on

Alcohol, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA) was awarded a $2.05 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health to develop and evaluate an interactive website targeted at reducing binge drinking on college campuses.

album chair of the President’s Challenge Science Board, a group that advises the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports on its President’s Challenge program and other issues. After a 45-year career as a teacher and researcher, Chuck is retiring from Arizona State University where he was professor of exercise and wellness. In 2004, he was also inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s Hall of Fame, as well as recognized by the Arizona Governor’s Council on Health, Physical Fitness, and Sports.

Charles D. Wise, ‘61 PhD, was a professor at Ball State University until his retirement in 1991. During that time, he served in both houses of the Indiana legislature. He returned to UNM in 1992 as a commencement speaker to biology graduates. He now lives in Milton, West Virginia.

Nasario Garcia, ‘62 BA, ‘63 MA, recently published Chistes: Hispanic Humor of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado (Museum of New Mexico Press) which deals with different types of humor, including pranks, hyperbole, solecisms, slips-of-the-tongue, and double entendres. He lives in Santa Fe. Rudolfo Anaya, ‘63 BAED, ‘69 MA, ‘72 MA, has a new paperback edition of his novel Tortuga, which includes a new afterword in which he shares his memories of the days in the hospital and their impact upon the remainder of his life.

Kenneth G. Brown, ‘64 BA, ‘68 JD, has retired as the longest-serving judge in New Mexico’s 13th Judicial District after a 33-year career of judicial service. He lives in Bernalillo.

Brant Calkin, ‘64 BS, of Encinitas, California, has received from the Wilderness Society its highest honor, the Robert Marshall Award, in recognition of his long-term service and influence on conservation and the fostering of an American land ethic.

Johnnie D. Boykin, ‘65 BA, has retired after 37 years as an educator in Arizona and New Mexico. He lives in Overgaard, Arizona.

Jesse Castaneda, ‘65 BSHP, is sports coordinator for Youth Development, Inc., in Albuquerque. He was recognized as a founding father of youth soccer in New Mexico by a plaque at UNM Johnson Center.

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and science learning for elementary, middle school, and high school students in Albuquerque’s West Mesa cluster will be enhanced by UNM graduate teaching fellows. The initiative is funded with a $1.8 million, three-year award from the National Science Foundation. Charles Fleddermann, School of Engineering professor and associate dean, is the grant’s principal investigator. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 04-08-11soe.htm Manufacturing Know-How: A host of

dignitaries, including Congresswoman Heather Wilson, UNM President Louis Caldera, Vice Provost for Research Terry Yates, and Rick Homans, state

secretary of economic development, participated in a ceremony to award a $1.3 million federal grant to UNM’s Manufacturing Training and Technology Center. The grant will enable clean-room expansion and further collaboration between UNM and small technology firms. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000334.html#more Moon Mission: NASA recently selected

Greg Johnston

a proposal involving researchers at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of New Mexico as a candidate for the next mission in the agency’s New Frontiers Program.

The Moonrise proposal will receive $1.2 million to conduct a seven-month feasibility study. The proposal involves landing two robots on the moon’s surface near the south pole and returning with about two kilograms of lunar materials from a region of the moon’s surface believed to harbor materials from the moon’s mantle. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000233.html#more Fluid Researcher: Sang Han and

researchers at the School of Engineering have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team Program to study how protein molecules behave in extremely small fluidic channels. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000280.html#more OT On Target: Patricia Burtner,

associate professor, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program in the pediatrics department at the UNM School of Medicine, was recently awarded a four-year, $800,000 grant from the US Department of Education to prepare occupational therapy graduate students for rural New Mexico school practice. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=333

Uploading the Rockies: The UNM

libraries have received a two-year, $377,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to lead an effort to build a regional website titled the Rocky Mountain Online Archive. The goal is to scan, digitize, and organize thousands of historical documents that build the history of communities in the Rocky Mountains. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000214.html#more

honorable connections Minding Children’s Minds: The

Family Development Program is one of three national pilot sites chosen by the Families and Work Institute in New York City to participate in “Mind in the Making,” a comprehensive training program for early childhood. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000211.html#more Concerted Diversity: The UNM School

of Law recently received the American Bar Association’s Henry J. Ramsey Award for Diversity. The nation’s largest attorney’s group recognized a concerted effort by faculty and students to address diversity through its programs and activities during the 2003-04 academic year. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000252.html#more

Hector Sergio Gomez Rodriguez, a curandero from Cuernavaca, Mexico, practices stress relief techniques on Elena Klavner at UNM’s Hibben Center. Rodriguez was one of more than 40 Mexican folk healers who came to the UNM campus over the summer to participate in the popular curanderismo course taught each summer by “Cheo” Torres, UNM vice president for student affairs. Klavner was translator for the curanderos.

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Robert “Olé” Anderson Schools: The

Bradley Ellingboe was named a recipient

Robert O. Anderson Graduate Schools of Management have been ranked No. 6 in the country for Hispanic students by Hispanic Business in rankings released in the September issue of the magazine.

It’s the fifth consecutive year that the Anderson Schools have been ranked in the top 10 by Hispanic Business.

of the 2004-2005 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Award for the fifth straight year, based upon the “unique prestige value of [his] catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances.” http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000272.html#more

album Tom L. Popejoy Jr.

Five Gold Rings: Music Professor

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Early Bloomer: Roxana A. Moreno,

assistant professor, College of Education, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000285.html#more Emmy Emirate: KNME-TV has won

three Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy awards. The winning shows are “Songs of the Spirit,” “Route 66: The Neon Road,” and “Albuquerque’s Historic Railroad Shops.” http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000296.html#more Above Average: Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii,

mathematics and statistics, has been inducted as Fellow to the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Koltchinskii was presented the IMS Medallion Award for outstanding research on empirical processes, statistical theory of learning, and multivariate statistics.

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000310.html#more Folklore Score: Hermanitos

Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption, a book by Enrique Lamadrid, professor of Spanish and director of Chicano Studies, has been chosen as a co-winner of the 2004 Chicago Folklore Prize. UNM communication and journalism professor Miguel Gandert was Lamadrid’s collaborating photographer. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000342.html#more

media connections Best Buy: For the ninth consecutive year,

UNM has been named in the annual report on America’s 100 Best College Buys, designating it as one of America’s best college educations for the cost. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000304.html#more

On Top of 117: Princeton Review

released its guidebook of the Best 117 Law Schools yesterday and ranks the UNM School of Law second in a list of schools with the “Most Diverse Faculty,” fifth in those providing the “Best Environment for Minority Students” and “Most Welcoming of Older Students,” and sixth in “Candidates for American Program Fellowships,” implying that the student body “leans to the left.” http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/000306.html#more

miscellaneous connections Calling All Freshmen: Representing

every state in the US as well as countries abroad, approximately 3,100 new students came to campus this year—a new record! With pomp, some ceremony, but mostly just warm smiles, this year’s freshman class joined the UNM community at Freshman Convocation, the first event of Freshman Family Day. President Louis Caldera and faculty members presided over a full Popejoy Hall on August 22. Caldera challenged each student to take advantage of UNM’s opportunities and to “truly stretch yourself and immerse yourself in this experience.” After the ceremony, students and their families joined President Caldera and faculty at the Duck Pond for a light-hearted afternoon of music and food. http://filo.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-08-26convocation.htm Striking a Balance: The Work-Life

Initiative Committee of the UNM Staff Council has surveyed the people, the programs, and the policies of the university that affect the faculty and staff’s ability to perform their jobs well while tending to the multiplicity of non-work related demands upon their lives, e.g. children, aging parents, education, and wellness issues. A report of the results and recommendations is available at http://www.unm.edu/~stafcom/.

Tom L. Popejoy Jr., ‘66 BABA, ‘71 JD, has been selected for membership in the American Law Institute on the basis of his professional achievement and demonstrated interest in the improvement of the law. He primarily represents clients in mediation and litigation of will, trust, and estate disputes.

He lives in Albuquerque.

Allen Weh, ‘66 BSHP, ‘74 MA, has been named chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico. He serves on the ASM National Advisory Board.

Harlie J. Outler, ‘67 BA, has retired from the ABC Television Network, Hollywood, after a 35-year career as a cameraman, the last 10-1/2 on “General Hospital.” A recipient of two Emmys, he and his wife, the former Doris Danielson of Santa Fe, are “slouching toward retirement in that area.”

They live in the Los Feliz area of Hollywood.

General William L. “Spider” Nyland, ‘68 BS, is currently serving as the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, DC. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Richard Storey, ‘68 BSED, has been named chancellor of the University of MontanaWestern in Dillon, Montana. Previously, he was dean of the college at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

Anne Yegge, ‘68 BA, ‘71 MA, was named Women in Business Champion of the Year at the New Mexico Small Business Week Awards Celebration in the spring. She lives in Albuquerque.

Manny Aragon, ‘70 BA, ‘73 JD, is the new president of New Mexico Highlands University.

Previously, he was a long-time member of the New Mexico Senate representing Albuquerque’s South Valley.

William Byrnes, ‘70 BA, was recently promoted to dean, College of Performing and Visual Arts, at Southern Utah University in Cedar City where he will be overseeing the departments of art, music, theater arts, and dance. w i n t e r

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UNM golfer Spencer Levin brings California sunshine to the New Mexico landscape. With bronzed limbs, tousled hair, and bright smile, he could have stepped out of an ad for surfboards or suntan oil.

Levin also brings his own brand of brilliance to the Lobo golf

team. Named the Southern Golf Association’s National Amateur of the Month in June, he was also low amateur at the US Open, finishing 13th, the best Open amateur finish since 1971.

Levin, a 2002 graduate of California’s Elk Grove High School, transferred to UNM last spring after spending his first year of eligibility at UCLA. “I didn’t really like Los Angeles and I wasn’t focused on school,” he says. “I talked to the coach and told him I needed to get out of there.”

Before opting for UNM he looked at several schools including the University of Arizona, University of Tulsa, Fresno State, and the University of San Francisco. “I had come to UNM before and had friends on the team.

(Coach) Glen Millican is a great guy.

The weather here is great and the practice facility is, too,” Spencer says.

Following his success at the Open, he won the California State Amateur, then the Scratch Players Championship in Monterey, California. The win at Bayonet Golf Course in Monterey came when he stretched a three-round seven shot lead to ten by the finish.

He made two birdies and one bogey for a 1-under-par 71 and a total of 280, 8-under par.

From the Diamond to the Greens Given his youth and ready success, one would think Spencer was born to golf. That is partly true. His father, Don Levin, was a 20-year veteran of the professional golf circuit. He didn’t encourage his son to follow in his footsteps.

“Only a handful of players are extra-good,” Don says. “So many others are very good, but it’s hard for them to break through. Of all the good ones, maybe one will break through.”

So Spencer played baseball, and played it well. An all-star player from the age of seven, he thrived on pressure situations. “Every time there was a big game, he wanted to pitch,” Don recalls.

Spencer says that many of his former Little League teammates are now going to college on baseball scholarships.

In high school he played both baseball and golf, but in his junior year he had to choose one. “The rules prevent an athlete from being a varsity player on two sports during the same season,” Spencer says. “I chose golf and I’m glad I did.”

Spencer says that in baseball all that matters is whether or not the team wins. Not so in golf. “Your individual score is what matters. It determines whether or not you qualify to play.”

Tee ’em Attitude With a strong emphasis on individual performance, the attitude and perspective of being on a golf team are different than in other sports, Spencer says.

“When one or two of us do well, others want to as well,” he says. “As a player, you want to beat your teammates, even when they’re playing their best. It helps the entire team to improve, work harder.”

F O R M I D A B L E F O R M : Lobo golfer Spencer Levin watches the ball soar across University Golf Course. Levin is taking titles and setting records for the UNM team.

album John Gasparich, ‘70 BA, ‘72 MA, recently published Santa Fe Money Trail, a mystery novel set in the state capitol. He is a former state budget director and recipient of the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award. He and his wife, Janis Marsh Gasparich, ‘73 BUS, ‘75 MAPA, live in Santa Fe. Gordon Bronitsky, ‘71 BA, is traveling in Mongolia with the Fernando Cellicion Traditional Zuni Indian Dancers and Compagnie Solim from Togo. While there, he will be meeting with US government and Mongolian cultural officials to begin creating worldwide cultural exchanges of indigenous talent. Gordon heads Bronitsky and Associates in Albuquerque.

George Brooks, ‘71 BUS, ‘80 MSPE, has been inducted into the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Hall of Honor and named Coach of the Year. He is the Lobo ski coach.

Diane Denish, ‘71 BA, has received the 2004 Child Health Advocate Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Diane is lieutenant governor of New Mexico.

Michael J. Glennon, ‘71 BABA, ‘74 MBA, has been named winner of the western regional Chief Executive Officer Award for 2004 by the Association of Community College Trustees. Glennon is president of TVI in Albuquerque. He was also inducted into the Anderson Schools Hall of Fame last May. Anthony Hunt, ‘71 PhD, is the author of “Genesis, Structure and Meaning” in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End, published by the University of Nevada Press.

Hunt is recently retired as professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. His wife, Susan Hunt, ‘69 MA, works as a secondary school teacher in Puerto Rico.

Lou O. Storm II, ‘71 BUS, appeared for the fourth time in the worldwide circulation Daily Devotional Guide, The Upper Room, September-October 2004 issue. A second edition of his Bible study, The Last Walk, was released last February. It uses Jesus Christ: Superstar as a visual and discussion aid. He lives in Dallas.

Robert Evans, ‘72 BAED, ‘77 PhD, retired in June from the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, DC, to take the position of national market manager in the 3M Public Affairs and Government Market Division in Washington. He is responsible for government facilities marketing with emphasis on the Department of Homeland Security and the US Postal Service. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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T H E E Y E - H A N D T H I N G : Spencer Levin demonstrates the eye-hand coordination that helps him excel on the golf course.

One of the team’s hard workers is Jay Reynolds, a senior majoring in broadcast journalism. Although he wasn’t one of the players Spencer knew before joining the Lobos, they have become friends–and not just because Reynolds has a car and Spencer doesn’t.

“I can tell you this: Spencer is the best golfer I’ve ever played with and I’ve played with Ben Crenshaw, Brent Jones, and DJ Brigman,” Reynolds says.

Coach Glen Millican says that Spencer fit in from the start and gets along with everyone. As a golfer Spencer has many strengths, but no “big time weaknesses.”

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gets hot, he’s a great putter,” Millican says. “But what really stands out is his accuracy off the tee.”

Don Levin also recognizes Spencer’s abilities on the green. “The mechanics of his swing are so sound that he has control every time he hits the ball,” he says, adding that Spencer’s competitiveness and the enjoyment he gets out of practice are keys to his success.

“He plays every game, every week to win,” says Don, who tries to watch Spencer whenever he can. “I’ve caddied for him, following and watching.” He says it’s much harder on his nerves to watch Spencer play golf than it ever was to watch him on the diamond.

Playing golf has given Spencer a chance to see a bit of the world. The Lobo golfers competed recently in the Topy Cup in Fukushima, Japan.

“The people of Japan are great.

There’s no trash on any street in Tokyo. We had to talk using our hands.

It’s an experience we won’t forget,” Spencer says, noting that both golf and baseball are big in Japan.

Another adventure was playing in the John Burns Intercollegiate at the Leilehua Golf Course in Wahiawa, Hawaii. He earned his first collegiate victory there, earning a three round score of 201 and shooting 15 under par.

When not traveling to play, Spencer was at home over the summer. He spent time at Wildhawk Country Club, in South Sacramento, just outside Elk Grove. It’s where Don teaches people how to play the game. He visited other courses in the area.

“During the summer I was on the course all day. It’s my job, but I love to play. I love to practice,” Spencer says.

Of all the places he’s taken his clubs, Pebble Beach is his favorite.

“I’ve played it dozens of times. It’s hard to beat playing at Pebble,” he says.

Spencer is majoring in family studies, no surprise with his extended family.

In addition to his father, Don, he has a stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister.

His mother, Carlene Metzler, lives in nearby Rancho Murieta, with Spencer’s half-brother, eight-year-old Trevor McBroom. “Trevor’s into golf, too,” Spencer says.

His entire family will likely be in the gallery the first time Spencer steps onto the green as a pro.

It’ll happen.

Postscript: The Sun Keeps Shining The New Mexico men’s golf team and junior Spencer Levin were ranked No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index in September— the first time in Lobo history the Lobos have claimed the top spot for teams.

For more good news about Spencer and the team, go to http://golobos. collegesports.com/.

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Kathi Schroeder, ‘72 BA, is now managing editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly.

She chaired the PR and promotions committee of the 2004 New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair, and lectures for the Management Development Center at the Anderson Schools of Management. Kathi lives in Albuquerque.

Christi Williams Rich Smith, ‘72 BSNU, has been the school nurse at Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix but is now co-chair of this year’s Race for the Cure, which benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix affiliate of the Foundation.

Guy Adams, ‘73 MAPA, is co-author (with Danny L. Balfour) of Unmasking Administrative Evil, revised edition. Guy lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he is professor and associate director of the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Gail Beam, ‘73 MA, ‘82 PhD, received the UNM College of Education’s award for excellence in educational policy at its 75th Anniversary Gala at commencement.

She has taught and is co-founder of Alta Mira Specialized Family Services in Albuquerque and serves in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

Barbara Butler, ‘73 BSPE, ‘85 BSPT, has been inducted into the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Athletic Hall of Honor as a multi-sport athlete. She lives in LeMoore, California.

Maria Martinez-Wolf, ‘73 MA, ‘84 MAPA, has joined the Girl Scouts of Chaparral Council, Inc., in Albuquerque as diversity coordinator.

Linda C. Niessen, ‘73 BS, has received a 2004 Callahan Medal of Excellence from the Ohio Dental Association. Linda is the first female recipient of the award. She is vice president for clinical education with DENTSPLY International and professor at the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas.

Veronica Garcia, ‘74 BAED, ‘80 MA, ‘03 PhD, received the Leadership in Education award at the UNM College of Education’s 75th Anniversary Gala. She is the first secretary of the NM Public Education Department.

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What a difference a year makes.

Last fall you read in Mirage about six freshmen who had just begun their

UNM careers. They were feeling their way on a campus larger than many

of their hometowns, among hordes of students, anonymous, unsure how they fit in, yet hopeful, with endless possibilities and choices ahead of them.

A year later, five remain at UNM. One has transferred to another school.

One has moved from a UNM branch to the main campus, one has found

reward with a community-action group, one has become a mentor to incoming

freshmen. Their choices have strengthened them. Their self-knowledge has

served them. They are calmer, more confident. They’ve survived one of the

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album Jeanette Larson, ‘74 BA, is author of Bringing Mysteries Alive for Children and Young Adults. The book is a handy reference tool for teachers and librarians. Its art and patterns are by her husband, James W. Larson, ‘73 BARC. Jeanette is youth services manager for Austin (Texas) Public Library.

Henry F. Narvaez, ‘74 JD, has received the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association’s Attorney of the Year Award. The award is given to an attorney who has supported the Hispanic legal community for many years.

He owns the Narvaez Law Firm, PA, in Albuquerque.

major changes of their lives—the move from the shelter of their family toward

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Ryanne Hodgins

Age: 19 — Hometown: Burbank, California Background and summer experience:

A member of the Lobo softball team, Ryanne went home for the summer, and did not play softball! She spent the days on the beach with friends, “reviving.”

She felt “comfortable” with her old friends again. Ryanne has learned it’s important to “create new memories with old friends, instead of just rehashing old memories.”

Difference between returning to UNM this year and starting at UNM last year: Ryanne feels more like a

“veteran” and less like a “deer in the headlights.” She knows people, knows her surroundings. While she is “shy by nature,” she’s becoming more outgoing.

Feeling of belonging: As an athlete,

Ryanne is already part of a group. This year Ryanne was selected one of four captains of the softball team, so she’ll be responsible for three or four players, encouraging them to think about their actions. After declaring a communication and journalism major, Ryanne feels she has joined another community.

One community Ryanne has left is the dormitory! She lives alone in an off-campus apartment, with friends as neighbors. It’s the perfect combination for an introvert who likes her personal space but says she needs to be around others.

Hopes for UNM: To open up to others,

as she begins to know faces in her classes. To do well in softball, with captain’s responsibilities. To succeed and enjoy life.

Hopes in general: Last year, Ryanne

talked about wanting a family and a career someday. This year, she says she’s had a “reality check” in discussions about the demands of broadcast journalism.

Most important in your life: Ryanne

still holds staying true to herself, knowing herself, and acting on her ideals as most important in her life.

While her Lutheran background remains central, she says a class on Western religions has led her to appreciate other people’s faiths.

V E N T U R I N G O F F H O M E B A S E : Comfortable as a co-captain of the Lobo softball squad, Ryanne Hodgins is making a place for herself in other campus communities this year.

Alicia Allman Snyder, ‘74 BA, ‘81 MA, is a member of the Albuquerque Southwest Corps of Canine Volunteers which initiated the “Read to the Dogs” literacy program in collaboration with the Rio Grande Valley Library system. The successful program is in its third year of operation.

Ronald Tafoya, ‘74 BSEE, ‘79 MSEE, is an engineering manager at Intel Corporation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

John O. Wood, ‘74 BSEE, was accredited by the White House as a delegate to the World Radiocommunications Conference 2003 conducted by the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland. John is an engineer with the government in Washington, DC. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.

Janice A. Chavez, ‘75 BAED, ‘77 MA, ‘83 PhD, has been hired as the new provost of New Mexico Highlands University.

Jeff Dye, ‘75 BS, ‘78 MA, is president and CEO of the New Mexico Hospitals and Health Systems Association. He has run the Socorro Hospital since 1986.

Eric Pillmore, ‘75 BABA, has been inducted into the Anderson Schools Hall of Fame. He is vice president of corporate governance for Tyco International and lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

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Maranda Romero

Age: 19 — Hometown: Tucumcari, New Mexico Background and summer experience:

Maranda, whose family lives in Tucumcari during the school year, spent a good part of her summer working on the family ranch: branding, moving the cattle around, hauling water, riding, “doing the things you do when you grow beef!” It’s harder now, she says.

Her dad was killed in a car-wreck a little over a year ago; the whole family (six kids and their mom) has had to adapt.

Difference between returning to UNM this year and starting at UNM last year: The biggest difference is that

Maranda’s sister, Christina, is a freshman at UNM this year. She and Maranda share an apartment off-campus, which makes life more familiar. “I still hate leaving home,” Maranda says, but the adjustment was easier. Last year before

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the first day, she was “nervous, almost sick.” This year, Maranda says she was a “little nervous, but once school started, it was nothing different.” It’s probably harder on her mom this year, Maranda says.

C O N T E N T : A campus job and her sister’s company have made Maranda Romero glad to be at UNM.

will have to “triple up” on science. She doesn’t know what to expect.

Feeling of belonging: “I love it here. I

wouldn’t rather be at any other college in New Mexico—or far away.”

Hopes for UNM: Maranda hoped last

year for the “whole college experience.”

While it may not have manifested itself as she imagined, she feels like she has it. Working in the ASUNM Crafts Studio since last spring has given her the chance to meet a lot of people—and to do some of her own pottery!

Hopes in general: Maranda still hopes to

be a pediatric dentist. She has entered the dental hygiene program; she hopes her work as a hygienist will pay her expenses in dental school.

“I could go back to ranching, someday,” says Maranda. “I never thought I could before. I miss it. I avoided it after my dad died. You don’t realize you miss it until you’re away.”

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Fears about UNM: Classes are harder

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good grades, graduate, and “put my family first, always.”

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Santana Torrez Age: 21 — Hometown: Taos, New Mexico Background and summer experience:

Santana lived at home last year and attended UNM Taos Center. She was ready for the adventure of moving to Albuquerque and the main campus, but disappointed when her cousin got cold feet about joining her. Still, she came with her best friend, and the two are rooming with two upperclassmen in the Student Residence Center. “I can’t stay in one place forever,” she says about leaving home.

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Difference between returning to UNM this year and starting at UNM last year: Before school started, Santana

explored the campus. She loved being on campus, hearing the band play.

“It’s real!” she thought at that moment.

Feeling of belonging: Santana has

sought out connections: a mentor and a tutor at the Centro de la Raza; the

possibility of membership in the Hispanic Honor Society; and a job on campus with UNM Libraries.

Hopes for UNM: Santana hopes to

pass all her classes, to keep her lottery scholarship, to do well, and conversely, “not to do bad and disappoint my family.”

Fears about UNM: Santana was fearful

about leaving her family. But once she was here, she says, she “knew it was the right thing.”

Hopes in general: Santana’s hope of

being an elementary school teacher has remained the same. Her art education class has influenced her to work on an art endorsement.

Santana wants to teach in a rural community, in a smaller school, with close colleagues and friends.

Most important in your life: Family.

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He lives in Las Cruces.

John Stachacz, ‘75 BA, recently accepted a position as library director at Indiana University Kokomo.

Larry P. Abraham, ‘76 BABA, is now mayor of the Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.

He has been a New Mexico licensed real estate broker and general contractor for 28 years. He serves on the Lobo Club board of directors as a past president and is a chartered member of the Tom L. Popejoy Society. He and wife Beverly own Cellular and More in Albuquerque.

Michael Bachicha, ‘76 BSPE, ‘84 MSPE, ‘94 EDSP, came to Sandia High School 28 years ago as assistant basketball coach— and a new UNM grad. He has now returned as Sandia’s new principal.

Dean Eppler, ‘76 MS, is one of four St. Lawrence University graduates honored with the Alumni Citations award in June.

The Citation recognizes longterm and exemplary service to the university, exemplary professional accomplishment, or community volunteer activities. Eppler is a senior scientist for NASA and lives in Houston.

Leroy I. Ortiz, ‘76 PhD, received the Chester C. Travelstead Endowed Faculty Fellowship Award during the College of Education’s 75th Anniversary Gala. Ortiz is associate professor of language, literacy, and sociocultural studies in the college.

Clark Colahan, ‘77 PhD, Whitman College professor of Spanish, won the G. Thomas Edwards Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship at Whitman commencement ceremonies. He has been on the faculty since 1983. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington.

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Allan Porter, ‘77 BUS, ‘87 BSCE, ‘91 MS, has joined Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., as senior civil engineer in their Albuquerque office. He specializes in water distribution and treatment system, wastewater facility, transportation project, and storm water design.

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Age: 19 — Hometown: Crownpoint, New Mexico Background and summer experience:

A year ago, Cherie planned to go home almost every weekend. Her summer experiences changed that. She spent 10 weeks as a youth community organizer for the Southwest Cultural Preservation Project, doing outreach to protect the Petroglyph National Monument on Albuquerque’s west side. She has continued her work, with the Sacred Alliance for Grassroots Equality (SAGE). Cherie also attended a conference in South Dakota sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the All People’s Power Summit in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Difference between returning to UNM this year and starting at UNM last year: Cherie’s friends tell her she

Feeling of belonging: More than last

year, when she was awed by the diversity of UNM students, Cherie feels that the traditional way of life defines her. “You have to function in both worlds,” Cherie says, but she is delving more into the stories, songs, and people of her ancestry.

She remains Christian, and “honors [her] own diversity.” She says she sees more Navajo students here this year, and estimates that 90 percent of her friends are Navajo.

year were to share her culture with those around her; this year her hopes have become more specific, as she works toward a goal of becoming a large-animal vet on the Navajo Reservation.

She hopes to get more experience in her major and to work at a vet clinic or kennel off campus.

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Fears about UNM: Cherie is always

concerned about maintaining her high academic standards. She also worries that her school and SAGE obligations will prevent her from going home and seeing her horse, “Boss,” as much as she’d like.

Hopes in general: To become more

disciplined personally and to grow within Native society, continuing her work with the SAGE Council.

Most important in your life: Family

and culture, which fall hand in hand.

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has matured. She speaks out more, and with passion, about issues important to her. She is more deeply involved in her cultural traditions. Cherie has moved to

an apartment off campus that she shares with her cousin.

SELF KNOWLEDGE: Looking inward for her roots and outward for her path, Cherie Devore works for environmental justice and a future as a large-animal vet.

Age: 20 — Hometown: Cañon City, Colorado Background and summer experience:

TJ decided to transfer from UNM to Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs his sophomore year, where he is studying outdoor education. He responded to our questions via email: Feeling of belonging: “I was blessed

in New Mexico by meeting some of the more involved students on campus within the first week of being at UNM. Each of them was extremely willing to help me find a place in the university that I could truly fit… I definitely felt that I fit in at UNM, but I also made sure that I was putting myself out there to be taken in. If I hadn’t been willing to risk rejection every once in a while I know that I would not have enjoyed my time or been as successful in New Mexico. As a student it’s too

easy to just sit back and let things happen around you and then blame the school for not making you feel like you’ve found a home.

“Classes, school work, and education were as important to me as the freshman experience. I was successful as a student and that came before any social situation. But what really shapes a student takes place in the roughly 100 waking hours that the student is not in class.”

Why leave UNM? I grew up in the

foothills of Colorado, just minutes away from great skiing, fishing, and backpacking, and I decided that I would not be the best student I could possibly be if I didn’t also love the natural environment I was living in. The sole negative aspect of my freshman year was not being in Colorado. I have no regrets of my time at UNM, but I had to learn I’m not a desert person.”

Most important in your life: Living

life with a purpose. It doesn’t matter if your purpose in life is to help sick children in Zimbabwe, convince the US Congress that we should be using the metric system, or be the best cabinet-maker in your hometown, as long as you’re out there putting your heart into every single thing you do. My purpose, well, I’m still narrowing that down, but currently it is experiencing everything I possibly can in my given spot, and hopefully it will lead me to my destination.

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Charlie Carrillo, ‘78 BA, ‘84 MA, ‘96 PhD, is the author of two new books: A Tapestry of Kinshi which accompanied his show of historic santos at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe, and Saints of the Pueblos which goes with his show at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

Drusilla Lucke Claridge, ‘79 BAR, was featured on The History Channel’s Wild West Tech “Massacres” episode. She worked on Silver City’s historic districts, and gave walking tours for the Silver City Museum. She also gives walking tours of Mogollon. She lives in Albuquerque.

Elizabeth Tillar, ‘79 BA, ‘83 MA, teaches writing, film, philosophy, comparative religion, and theology at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Tamworth, New Hampshire.

James Handley, ‘80 BSCH, ‘86 MA, is vice president of global operations for Phelps Dodge Corporation’s Climax Molybdenum subsidiary. He lives in Tucson.

Catherine Cross Maple, ‘80 PhD, was honored for her contributions to educational administration and leadership at the College of Education’s 75th Anniversary Gala in May. The Tijeras resident currently serves as assistant secretary for vocational rehabilitation in the New Mexico Department of Public Education.

Candice M. Will, ‘80 BA, has been named assistant director for the Office of Professional Responsibility at the FBI in Washington, DC. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Richard J. Holden, ‘81 BA, has been named regional commissioner for Pacific Region of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, headquartered in San Francisco. He lives in Elk Grove, California.

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Like a Hollywood western hero, Tom Popejoy emerged as the homespun “Pale Rider” from the ranchland around Raton to become the dominant force in higher education in New Mexico for much of the 20th century. From his student days beginning in 1921 until his retirement in 1968 and his death in 1975—more than half a century— he devoted literally a lifetime to this university, affectionately known as UNM.

The Road from Raton

The first native New Mexican to head the University of New Mexico, Thomas Lafayette Popejoy was born December 2, 1902, on a ranch 21 miles east of Raton—a rural mining, ranching, and agricultural community in northern New Mexico just below Raton Pass. His parents let him move to town, where he and his sisters kept house while attending high school. At Raton High School, Tom met Bess Kimball, and the two were married when he graduated in 1921. An outstanding scholar and athlete, Popejoy enrolled at UNM that fall. Of course, he brought his bride along. During his undergraduate years at UNM, he and Bess were one of only six married couples on the campus.

While Tom was a student and, later, during his early years as a member of the faculty and staff at UNM, Bess worked as a clerk in a department store in downtown Albuquerque.

An undergraduate at UNM in the “Roaring Twenties,” Popejoy was a

prominent leader on the UNM campus —president of the Sigma Chi fraternity, student assistant in the weather department for the radio station, and bona fide football hero forever etched in Lobo football lore for drop-kicking the winning field goal in a UNM victory over the University of Arizona. Graduating from UNM with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1925, he took some graduate courses at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley, before receiving his master’s degree in economics at UNM in 1929.

Meanwhile, in 1925, Popejoy was hired as an instructor in the UNM economics department. Eight years later he was promoted to associate professor. Also, during part of this time, he was the athletic business manager and active with the alumni association.

Popejoy’s leadership in many fields attracted the attention of President James Zimmerman, who, in 1937, appointed Popejoy comptroller of the university. The young Popejoy quickly

Michael Romero, ‘81 BUS, ‘82 MBA, has been inducted into the Anderson Schools Hall of Fame, 2004. He is president of Terradigm, Inc., in Albuquerque.

Marilyn Virginia “Ginny” Grace Beres, ‘82 BA, has been certified in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and is teaching English in Alexandria, Egypt, on a one-year assignment.

Eddie Campos, ‘82 BSED, is head coach for the Mesa Vista varsity boys basketball team in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. Eddie lives in El Rito, New Mexico.

Michelle Lujan Grisham, ‘82 BUS, ‘87 JD, has become the secretary of the New Mexico Department of Health.

Kathleen Stewart Howe, ‘82 BUS, ‘87 MA, ‘96 PhD, has been named the Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ‘23 director of the Pomona College Museum of Art and professor of art history.

Alberto A. León, ‘82 MS, ‘84 PhD, ‘90 JD, is a partner at the Albuquerque law firm of Bauman, Dow & León, PC. His practice is in intellectual property law (patent, trademark, copyright, registration, litigation, and licensing).

Michael Nuanes, ‘82 BSPE, is the new principal of Roselawn Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico.

Michelle Coons, ‘83 BABA has been elected chairman of the board of the Association of Commerce and Industry of New Mexico.

She is president of Wells Fargo-Santa Fe. Craig Lewis, ‘83 BUS, ‘84 MA, ‘90 PhD, is now dean of communication and social sciences at Everett Community College in Everett, Washington.

Jeanne Shannon, ‘83 MA, is editor/ publisher of The Wildflower Press in Albuquerque, which publishes books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, primarily by local authors.

Jimmy Trujillo, ‘83 BABA, was named Financial Services Champion of the Year at the New Mexico Small Business Week awards celebration last spring. He lives in Albuquerque.

Carol M. Cochran, ‘84 BABA, is a new member of the Foundation board of the Anderson Schools of Management. She works for REDW Business & Financial Resources in Albuquerque.

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moved onward and upward and became Zimmerman’s executive assistant. This led to his serving as acting president on several occasions when Zimmerman was afflicted with a series of heart problems.

During the last five years Zimmerman was president, Popejoy was a prominent participant in almost all major decisions concerning the university.

His experience was broadened even further when he took brief leaves to work with the National Youth Administration and the Office of Price Control. As Zimmerman’s “right-hand man,” Popejoy became the president’s and the university’s personal envoy to Washington, DC. His ability to negotiate with the federal government for “New Deal” programs resulted in financial aid for students, funding of academic endeavors, and construction of facilities.

In turn, these programs enabled the university to flourish while most of the country was wallowing in the depths of the “Great Depression.”

World War II was a pivotal era for the university and New Mexico as the campus became the focal point for military training programs and defenserelated research. Strong alliances were forged between UNM and the federal laboratories of Los Alamos and Sandia, and Albuquerque became the transit point for materials shipped south to the Trinity site for construction of the first atomic bomb.

Meanwhile, Zimmerman’s health continued to deteriorate, and in the summer of 1945, he suffered a heart attack and died. That same summer, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasake, and World War II came to an end.

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national levels, and his high visibility and popularity as a “native son” of New Mexico, there were those in academe who opposed his appointment as president because he did not have an earned doctorate. Thus, the Regents named a Harvard professor, John Philip Wernette, Zimmerman’s successor.

He lasted a bare 18 months. In a meeting in the downtown Albuquerque offices of the president of the Board of Regents in January, 1948, it was determined that Wernette would be terminated as of July 1 of that year and Tom Popejoy would be president of the University of New Mexico.

Destination:Presidency Popejoy officially took office July 1, 1948. It was a boom-time in higher ed—a great time to be a university president! The GI Bill for those who

had served in the armed forces opened the floodgates to college campuses.

Veterans were joined by other women and members of minority racial groups who enrolled by the millions. The student population on the UNM campus jumped from 4,400 students in 1948 to more than 13,000 by the time of Popejoy’s retirement in 1968. Research assumed a new importance as UNM made the transition from a small, relatively unknown provincial college in the Southwest to a center for serious scholarship. And during the two decades of Popejoy’s administration, the university sought to meet the needs of the people of New Mexico while also adhering to the demanding missions and standards of a national research university.

Time and events would prove that Popejoy was up to the challenge. With

First-Class Speech: “Second-Class Citizenship” Excerpts of a speech given in July 1962 by UNM President Tom Popejoy to the state convention of the American Legion: …It goes without saying almost that the university is a place of learning, where students and faculty members in an uninhibited way are searching for the truth. … First-class faculty members will simply not take assignments at institutions of higher learning if they are aware that conditions of second-class citizenship prevail. …The free play of ideas in the classroom, free and easy access to books, journals, and pamphlets in the library, freedom to search out the truth in the laboratory, are the best guarantees of a free society. Students, when given these freedoms, will surely be on the side of our way of life. The battle will be lost, though, if we use subterfuge, half-truths, and practiced and planned hysteria. …As long as I am president of the University of New Mexico, I shall fight with all the acumen and energy that I have for the freedom of our faculty and students. I shall do this because I think it is right and necessary.

It is the one way that our democratic way of life will survive in the world, a large portion of which is trying to tear down and erode the dignity of man as an individual. . . .

his years of experience as comptroller and his genius for procuring land and using it wisely, planning buildings for the campus, and obtaining funds to finance these projects, he was the right man for the job.

In another time, another century, the work of Sir Christopher Wren, the great British architect, received this praise: “If you would seek his monument, look about you.” The same could be said about Popejoy. He parlayed the pressures of the phenomenal growth in enrollment into visionary land acquisition and extensive capital construction on the central campus as well as the development of the then newly acquired north and south campuses. Most of the buildings on the campus as we know it today were constructed or planned during Popejoy’s administration.

The academic program also underwent significant change during Popejoy’s presidency with the development of professional schools— medicine, pharmacy, nursing, law, architecture, business—as well as the emphasis on the sciences and engineering and the growing excellence in the social sciences and humanities. But, perhaps the greatest accomplishment in the Popejoy era was the founding of the medical school and the accompanying blossoming of the health sciences on the north campus.

Further, the university capitalized on its cultural and geographic setting with programs indigenous to the Southwest and countries in Latin America, including the Peace Corps and Latin American Institute. Special emphasis on educating Hispanics and Native Americans became a high priority in his administration.

Another big step into the future was the founding of a research park to encourage alliances for joint research with business and industry.

Overall, with the expansion of the graduate programs, the increasing

emphasis on research, and the alliances with such scientific enterprises as Sandia and the Los Alamos National Laboratories, UNM became a university in fact as well as in name.

Of course, Popejoy didn’t do all these things alone. He had a knack of selecting and organizing subordinate administrators—able men and women who worked with him and for him. To name a few, there were people like Harold Enarson, Sherman Smith, John Perovich, Van Dorn Hooker, Myron Fifield, Harold Lavender, John Durrie, France Scholes, Chester Travelstead, Reginald Fitz, Bob Stone, Leonard Napolitano, Joe Scaletti, Henry Weihofen, Al Utton, Estelle Rosenblum, and a host of strong deans and department chairs and faculty. He was a master of delegating responsibilities to those more knowledgeable or more experienced than he in specialized fields and eliciting from them the expert advice he needed. He also was one who generated strong loyalties from his associates. As described by historian James Defibaugh, “He (Popejoy) wasn’t a saint, but he was very much a human being, and it was in his humanity that he and others found strength.”

While demanding of his subordinates, Popejoy nonetheless received their loyalty, friendship, and downright affection. Throughout his presidency his praises were sung by senators, congressmen, businessmen, newspaper editors and columnists and reporters, educational leaders, and the general public. However, some of the most moving tributes came from those who had worked closely with him on a daily basis. John Perovich, Popejoy’s vice president for business and finance, said at the time of Popejoy’s death, “He took over a small institution and it grew into a large complex institution.

The university and the state were very fortunate to have him at that time.”

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Kurt Streit, ‘84 BAMU, will be the tenor soloist in the December performances of Handel’s “Messiah” by the New York Philharmonic. Andrew Megill, ‘87 BAMU, of Ewing, New Jersey, is preparing the choir for the performances.

Anne Buckley, ‘85 BA, is now associate director of University News Services at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She will assist in the management of the public relations department and strategic planning, as well as serve as its science editor.

David A. Finlayson, ‘85 BABA, ‘93 JD, ‘93 MBA, has joined C. Leach, PC, in Albuquerque as a shareholder. He practices estate, probate, real estate, and corporate law. The Albuquerque firm is now Leach & Finlayson, PC. Rick West, ‘85 BA, is a State Farm agent now located in Tempe, Arizona, where he misses green chile and Frontier tortillas.

William Boehm, ‘87 BABA, works as a market manager trainee for Taco Bell Corp. in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Elizabeth Calhoon, ‘87 BAA, has been promoted to associate at Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller Landscape Architects in Albuquerque.

Tim Davis, ‘88 BA, of Albuquerque, is vice president of sales for Stevens Roofing Systems’ newly created western region.

Valerie May Jones, ‘88 BA, is currently the US western regional environmental manager at American Airlines corporate headquarters in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Anna Christine Hansen, 89 BAFA, ‘92 MA, has been appointed by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to the New Mexico Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is its chair. She is also chair of the Board of Directors of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. She owns Dakini Design, a firm offering services in graphic design, photography, and event planning in Santa Fe. Danny William Jarrett, ‘89 BS, ‘96 JD, is now a shareholder in the Albuquerque Law firm of Nicholas J. Noeding & Associates, PC. The firm will now be called Noeding & Jarrett, PC. Kim Pfeiffer, ‘89 BBA, has been promoted to project controls manager for DMJMH&N’s New Mexico design offices in Albuquerque.

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A U S P I C I O U S M E E T I N G : Tom Popejoy and his successor, Ferrel Heady, first met in 1940 when the two collaborated on a statement about academic freedom for the American Association of University Professors. Popejoy later recruited Heady to come to UNM as academic vice president. Here they are together at UNM circa 1967.

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Holding the Course: Academic Freedom Perhaps Popejoy’s greatest moment as president came in 1962 at the time of red-baiting, blacklists, and confrontations with zealots of the purge movements that targeted university campuses as hotbeds of communism. Nationally, the movement was referred to as McCarthyism, named for US Senator Joseph McCarthy, who chaired sensationalized Senate investigative hearings. In New Mexico, some of the accusations revolved around seven UNM professors who had signed a resolution calling for the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. A related issue centered on student and faculty dissension over a National Defense Education Act requirement that students sign a loyalty oath before being considered for a loan.

Members of the American Legion particularly were openly critical of the university. In July 1962, President Popejoy was invited to address the state convention of the American Legion in Carlsbad. In 100-degree heat, he delivered a fiery speech entitled “Second-Class Citizenship,” which not only silenced critics, but later was hailed as a classic defense of the rights of faculty and students to seek the truth and speak freely. (See sidebar.)

A staunch defender of academic freedom, Popejoy defused the panic over alleged communist infiltration of the campus while at the same time taking advantage of the national concern for eliminating the supposed technology gap that separated the United States and the Soviet Union.

And, with diplomacy and firmness, he managed to placate the more radical elements of the faculty and student body in the national rise of social unrest and to maintain a reasonable calm on the campus.

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But it wasn’t totally a time of wine and roses for UNM and Popejoy. Each had critics. While Popejoy was hailed as a staunch advocate of academic freedom, he nonetheless often was assailed by irate New Mexicans over some of the antics of UNM professors.

He would smile wryly and reply, “I have told the faculty they have given me abundant opportunities to defend them.”

Popejoy’s leadership in higher education extended far beyond the borders of New Mexico. He was one of the founders of the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE), which made it possible for students from western states to receive, at resident tuition cost, training in professional schools of other western states if the home state had no such program. Most of the demand was in the fields of medicine and veterinary medicine. Popejoy also was the first president of the Association of Rocky Mountain Universities, an organization formed to conduct cooperative scientific research projects. Further, he served as president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges.

Popejoy and two contemporaries— Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California and James Lewis Morrill of the University of Minnesota—were often referred to as “the three wonders of American Higher Education.” It was a special tribute to their leadership abilities that each was elected to head a major university without having attained the prestigious PhD.

Journey’s End Planning, designing, and construction continued at a hectic pace as Popejoy entered the twilight time of his 47 years as a student, teacher, and administrator at his beloved UNM. Grinning shyly, and in his customary self-deprecating way, he acknowledged he didn’t want to wear out his welcome and announced

plans for his retirement at the end of the academic year of 1968. His retirement ended two decades of service as UNM’s president—a record of time in office as president for the institution and one which likely might never be broken. The Board of Regents announced that Dr. Ferrel Heady, then serving as academic vice president, had been selected to succeed Popejoy and would take office on July 1, 1968.

For almost half a century, Thomas Popejoy seemed almost larger than life.

But after his retirement, he was plagued by failing health. He died in the Bernalillo County Medical Center (later the University Hospital) October 24, 1975, at the age of 72.

In many ways he was like a hero out of pulp fiction—bigger than Kit Carson, but smaller than a New Mexican grizzly. His visage was somewhere between Benjamin Franklin and Sam Houston, his personal demeanor someplace between Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln. But, above all, he was New Mexican to the bone. He was the stuff legends are made of, and there was and never will be a lack of tall tales about Tom Popejoy. Nor will there ever be any adequate way to acknowledge all that he did for the university that he loved and served so well. To appreciate Tom Popejoy, walk through the UNM campus. “If you would seek his monument, look about you.”

Note: Bess Popejoy died in

Albuquerque August 19, 1996 at the age of 92. The Popejoys had two children—Thomas J. Jr., an attorney in Albuquerque, and Jeanne Popejoy Smith, also of Albuquerque.

William E. “Bud” Davis was president of UNM from 1975 to 1982.

He is currently writing a history of the university to be published by UNM Press in the fall of 2006.

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Anthony Salazar, ‘89 BA, ‘93 JD, is the deputy district attorney for the First Judicial District in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, but at the moment is serving as first lieutenant judge advocate in the Army Reserve in Iran.

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Other Highlights School of Nursing founded University College inaugurated Graduate Center founded, Los Alamos DH Lawrence Ranch near Taos received as gift Land acquired for South Campus Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant programs founded Research Park designated for South Campus Peace Corps approved for UNM Founding of Medical School 18 hole golf course built on land west of airport Phi Beta Kappa approved for UNM Building purchased on SW corner of Stanford and Central for School of Architecture and Planning Gallup Branch campus founded

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Brandon Sprague, ‘89 BAA, is owner/ principal of Las Vegas-based Aptus Architecture, which offers site planning, programming, and design services throughout Southern Nevada.

Matt Urrea, ‘89 BABA, ‘92 JD, is president and owner of Walk-in Wills in Albuquerque, which is meant as an easy way to create legal documents such as wills and other estate services in a non-intimidating setting.

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Pharmacy, Biology Annex Civil Engineering, Wagner Hall Ford Utility Center, Boiler Plant, Heating Plant Journalism, Printing Plant (UNM Press Addition, 1963) Jonson Gallery State Highway Testing Lab, Research Center, Computing Biology, Castetter Hall Chemistry, Clark Hall Classroom Building, Mitchell Hall Law School, Bratton Hall (1915 Roma) Geology, Northrop Hall Electrical Engineering, Tapy Hall Johnson Gymnasium Student Union Building (SUB) Old Student Union remodeled for Anthropology Alumni Memorial Chapel College of Education Complex Fine Arts Center Addition to Physics and Astronomy Biology, Castetter Hall addition of Loren Potter Wing Basic Science Building, Basic Medical Science Addition to Zimmerman Library *Ferris Engineering & Nuclear Engineering *Student Health Center and University College *College of Business Addition, Anderson Schools of Business

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Michael Gallegos, ‘90 BUS, president and CEO of American Property Management Corp., has been honored with an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for creating in just 14 years one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing independent hotel companies. He lives in San Diego.

Kristin Van Veen, ‘90 BA, has been hired by RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment) as its first full-time communications and public relations manager. She lives in Woodbridge, Virginia.

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A former UNM president and alumni directly affected by First Amendment issues talk about the balance of pragmatism, rights, and ideals.

F I R S T F R I C T I O N : Just a few months into his UNM presidency, in 1969, Ferrel Heady faced a showdown with the state Legislature about academic freedom. It wouldn’t be the last occurrence.

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telling experiences, directly related to our topic. President Heady was involved with the 1969 “Love Lust” controversy and other kinds of speech issues on campus.

Marty was student body president when a controversial film was brought to campus. And Phill is the editor and protector of the First Amendment at the Albuquerque Tribune. How did the “Love Lust” controversy begin, Dr. Heady?

As I remember it, a student in one of the classes of Lionel Williams, the teaching assistant who had made the poem—“Love Lust” by Lenore Kandel— available, had sent a copy of it up to somebody in Santa Fe. Eventually it got to Harold Runnels. He had a copy of it, which he denounced as terrible.

This was one of the biggest cases of hypocrisy I have ever encountered.

Within the next few weeks, there were

“If you do the right thing, you’re probably not going to make anybody happy. Or the ones you make happy won’t say anything about it. The ones you make unhappy will let you know. That’s for sure.” — Ferrel Heady I was on an accreditation visit. This was spring, after I had taken the oath from Tom Popejoy the prior summer. When I came back, an urgent notice awaited me that Sherman Smith—our main representative in Santa Fe—and I had been ordered to appear that evening before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired

by Harold Runnels.

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Price: Did you know what this was going to be about?

No. I really didn’t. They announced that the meeting was going to be closed, but a few minutes after we got started, it opened up and anybody who wanted to come was there.

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hundreds of copies of that poem being circulated everywhere. It was unsuitable for a freshman English class but it was suitable to be sent to people of all ages, anywhere, who wanted to read it.

Let me read from my autobiography: “It dealt with a theme of sex in a variety of forms and was replete with four-letter Anglo-Saxon words…

After three decades of dramatic change in mores as to socially acceptable language, it is difficult to reconstruct why the furor was so intense in the spring of 1969 especially since, even at that time, the book in which the poem had been published was available in Albuquerque bookstores and had survived charges that it was legally pornographic.”

The poem seemed to provide “a symbol for forces on and off campus that were already poised for confrontation… [It] could be exploited for a variety of purposes only remotely related to the primary

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Chad Wisler, ‘91 BSME, is now director of engineering/principal in firm at SMMA in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Susan Badger Doyle, ‘91 PhD, is the editor of Bound for Montana: Diaries of the Bozeman Trail. Bound for Montana—edited for the general public—reprints the seven most interesting and representative diaries of the 33 eyewitness accounts of her two-volume Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866. Susan lives in Pendleton, Oregon.

Kevin Cronk, ‘91 MA, was recognized during the 2004 College of Education’s 75th Anniversary Gala for his work in community development in Los Lunas, New Mexico. He founded and serves as president of Habitat for Humanity of Valencia County.

Suzanne Sbarge, ‘91 MA, is the owner of Suzanne Sbarge Art & Design in Albuquerque.

Her firm provides graphic design and arts consultation services. Previously, she was executive director of Magnifico Arts, Inc., and program director at the Harwood Art Center.

William Browning, ‘92 BA, recently relocated to Toronto where he accepted a consulting contract with Royal Bank of Canada.

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VB Price: Each of you has had some very

Maureen M. Walter, ‘92 MARC, senior principal of BPLW Architects & Engineers, Inc., has been named the director of business development for the firm’s four regional offices: Albuquerque; Mesa, Arizona; El Paso; and Fort Worth.

Thomas Cothrun, ‘93 MA, a German teacher at Las Cruces High School, has been elected president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for 2004.

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issue as to whether it would have been appropriately used in the classroom.”

that are on university faculties and among student bodies too.

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you think about the free speech implications immediately or were you thinking more about what this was going to mean for the university —its relationship with the legislature? have always been problems in our relationship with the legislature. Tom Popejoy had left after 20 years, and I was new in the job.

Legislators were not going to attack Tom about anything, but there was resentment about him and about the university. The University of New Mexico is the biggest university in the state and Albuquerque is the biggest city in the state. All those things converged to make this as big an issue as it was.

university is a place for robust debate of the issues, but its administrators and Regents have to be responsive to political leaders. Politicians and academic freedom are like oil and

“The Archbishop is not very happy that we here at the University of New Mexico are showing this film.” Basically, those two Regents, in so many words said, “Get rid of it.”

After consulting with my film committee chairman, I called the Regents back and said, “It’s not my

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[Editor’s note: The New Mexico House of Representatives demanded the Regents fire Williams. Instead, Heady put Williams on temporary suspension until a university advisory committee met about the case. The committee recommended Williams’ reinstatement, which followed.]

They took $50,000 from the [UNM] Institute for Social Research and Development to start the Legislative Investigating Committee. They used it to get all the universities, but it was directed at UNM. Price: Why do you think universities are lightning rods for First Amendment issues?

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“The First Amendment is not a law of convenience. We all have a right to an opinion. The essence of a democracy is to express those opinions, and sometimes those opinions contain unpopular ideas.” — Marty Esquivel water. They don’t mix. You have a heavy-handed politician saying you shouldn’t be saying this and that, and you should fire this professor.

University administrators have to be politic about the response, respecting the politicians’ right to say this doesn’t belong here, but, at the same time, remain true to their feelings about academic freedom at the university.

It’s a tough balance.

Price: Could you tell us a little bit about your issue?

It began the day after Easter in 1986. I got a call from the chairman of the Board of Regents inquiring about why we were showing a film called “Hail Mary,” directed by Jean-Luc Godard who was very controversial in Europe. In essence, it was a modern-day story about Mary and Joseph and the Immaculate Conception and the Roman Catholic Church. Some thought it was blasphemous.

A few minutes later, a second very powerful Regent called me and said,

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position to impose philosophies on what films we should be showing and not showing.” I decided to go ahead and show it. Next day they hold an emergency Board of Regents meeting.

I’m summoned over there and crossexamined by five Regents who vote 5-0 to ban the film. The amazing thing was that the University Counsel had issued a written legal opinion saying, if you ban this film, it will be unconstitutional for these reasons…

The Regents disregarded the legal advice.

So I got the name of a good lawyer, John Boyd, and sued the university.

The university had to hire outside counsel since its own counsel had told them it would be unconstitutional to ban the film. The counsel shows up at federal court and says to Judge Santiago Campos, “Your Honor, I’m not prepared for suit. Could you give me a few more days?” And Judge Campos says, “I will give you a few more days if you will go back and ask your clients to read the Constitution of the United States.” Two days later, the Regents

called another emergency meeting and lifted the ban of the film.

By this time, there had been enormous publicity about it. There were long lines. There were protestors. I got a few calls from people who threatened to ex-communicate me from the Catholic Church. Interestingly, to this day, I have never seen the film. I never really wanted to see it, but it was my right not to see it. I gained a true appreciation of the First Amendment and of people who simply pay lip service to it.

Price: What do you think is lurking in our future about these issues, particularly on campus? Do you think we’re going to start to see some efforts to censor certain views? What does your newspaper-sense say about that?

hard for me to say what the climate is on campus because I’m a little farther away than I used to be.

From my own perspective, I think the level of dislike is higher than at any time I can remember—and I’ve been in newspapers for 26 years. Whether it’s the election, the war in Iraq, or a topic unrelated to any so-called controversy, the level of venom in disagreement is as high as it’s been.

to alleviate the concern of minority student organizations? That’s censorship.

What is a university to do in an effort to promote diversity and cultural sensitivity?

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figured if I was right, I was going to get it from both sides, in most of those big conflicts. Take “Love Lust.” I caught hell for that from the legislature and from the public generally.

At the same time, the teaching assistants in the English department and elsewhere got after me for causing Lionel Williams problems. I think that’s likely to happen in most real controversial matters. If you do the right thing, you’re probably not going to make anybody happy. Or the ones you make happy won’t say anything about it. The ones you make unhappy will let you know. That’s for sure.

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read a story about a group of university students—College Republicans, I think— having a bake sale and charging different prices for minorities and for white students in an attempt to make a point about affirmative action. Some of the problems of universities concern the balance of free speech with political correctness.

Issues of race are still hotbed issues.

Do you ban College Republicans from the right to have the bake sale in order

Price: Have we developed any kind of guidelines about speech issues, particularly on campus? Or is it always up in the air?

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a whole, I think we take most issues on a case-by-case basis.

What happened in 1969 and in 1986 was very similar, yet the way the two were handled was very different. How would you handle it today, using the internet? I am not nearly as adroit at dealing with the internet and how people congregate via the internet as someone 21 years old. What you see in politics today—the ability to raise money and coalesce a group without ever having seen them, met them, or even been to the town they live in— is a very different world for me.

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First Amendment really has not caught up with the internet.

The development of law surrounding

album Lisa D. McNary, ‘93 PhD, has authored Quality and Six Sigma from the Inside Out: Politics, Leadership, and Change in Organizational America published by SPC Press. She lives in Columbus, Georgia.

Raymond Craib, ‘94 MA, is assistant professor of history at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His book, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, was recently published

by Duke University Press.

Elizabeth Foster, ‘94 MBA, is business manager for Manzano Day School in Albuquerque.

Bruce Fretwell, ‘94 MBA, is responsible for financial management with General Dynamics Network Systems-International in support of three oil/gas plant telecom implementation projects in the Middle East.

He resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Gary Hudgins, ‘94 BABA, is now senior underwriter with First Health Group Corporation in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Nick Loftis, ‘94 BABA, has joined the Albuquerque-based CPA firm of McNulty Zahm, LLC, as a senior manager.

Susan Wycoff, ‘94 PhD, is the California State University Serna Scholar in Residence for 2004-05. Her research will examine a culturally tailored program designed to reduce HIV/AIDS risk among MSM Latino men. She lives in Sacramento.

Scott Creagan, ‘95 BA, of Albuquerque, received the Distinguished Service Award from the UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Hall of Honor.

De Haven Solimon Chaffins, ‘95 BAFA, will once again provide the art for the awards for the third annual March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Awards.

Chaffins lives in Paguate, New Mexico.

Christa M. Hazlett, ‘95 BA, ‘00 JD, has joined the Keleher & McLeod law firm in Albuquerque.

Paul Segura, ‘95 BA, is international sales manager for Bronco Manufacturing, Inc., an oilfield equipment manufacturer in Tulsa, and is part-owner of a parts distribution company in Monterrey and Villahermosa, Mexico.

Ron Smith, ‘95 BS, is a new member of the Anderson Schools of Management Foundation Board. He works for Compass Bank in Albuquerque.

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the two is not very clear. There are laws with respect to libel and defamation that apply to newspapers and to television stations but not to the internet. The internet has free rein.

state those views, and not to suffer as a result from some kind of institutional action against them.

Price: Do you think that is the same right that anybody who belongs to an

Casaus: The

sound you hear is my shaking, because of the unpredictability of it. What does the internet mean for

organization has in this country? If you belong to IBM, or if you belong to City Hall, isn’t there an implication,

“I think we’ve run into a spot where we don’t know what academic freedom means because we have assumed it. No freedoms can be assumed.” — Phill Casaus everybody from student activist to college presidents to newspaper people?

pragmatism aside, that as a citizen

Esquivel: If a professor wants to establish

Heady: You usually take more risks if your

his own website and espouse views that a legislator might not like, what do you do? Are you going to punish or reprimand a professor every time he says something a politician doesn’t agree with? That’s where you start getting into issues of censorship.

The First Amendment is not a law of convenience. We all have a right to an opinion. The essence of a democracy is to express those opinions, and sometimes those opinions contain unpopular ideas.

employer is another kind of employer.

Price: [The university is] a state institution, paid for in part by people of the state, who feel they ought to be able to say what happens and what doesn’t happen here. How does that view run into the

you have a right to dispute…

Price: Tom Popejoy made a speech in 1962, in the midst of the McCarthy era, in defense of academic freedom. Among

Casaus: I’ve

always told people that UNM is forever in search of the next Tom Popejoy but doesn’t have the patience to let someone become one.

[In the speech,] Popejoy’s last statement is that “the Constitutional right of every American to choose his own political philosophy cannot be denied to university professors as a class. There is, however, no place on a university faculty for a teacher who, under the cloak of academic freedom works actively to promote a form of government which would destroy the very privileges which he enjoys.” There’s that balance between protecting academic freedom yet looking out to see what you’re saying and how you are saying it.

It’s a brilliant speech. In some subtle ways and maybe in some not so subtle, it talks about the reality of being summoned to a Senate Finance Committee meeting—this afternoon!

You know where your funding is.

other matters, the Legionnaires were upset by several professors’ refusal to sign a loyalty oath.

Casaus: I

am sorry that I never got a chance to meet Popejoy because in so many ways he was the embodiment of what the University of New Mexico became.

Heady: He

was a wonderful president.

There is no question about it. He was a longterm president too. I don’t think anybody is going to be president of the university 20 years again.

Esquivel: Popejoy’s speech was fascinating

and heroic. As I read these words 42 years later, I couldn’t help but wonder how the folks at the American Legion received it. Something tells me they weren’t calling it fascinating and heroic back then. To articulate the need for academic freedom at that time, before that audience, was incredible.

Marty talks about the First Amendment as not a law of convenience.

It has stuck with me more every day in the job that I do. It is important for

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runs into most university people’s idea of academic freedom.

Most faculty members feel they have a right to hold any views they want, to

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S P E A K I N G F R E E L Y : Former UNM President Ferrel Heady, left, inspired Conversation participants, l-r, Marty Esquivel, Phill Casaus, and VB Price (moderator) regarding his handling of academic-freedom pressures. The group met in October to talk about their own experiences with issues of free speech.

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us—not just us as university presidents or lawyers or newspaper editors—to think about those things. It’s incumbent upon the university—its faculty, administrators, and students—to talk about what academic freedom means.

For a lot of folks, those two words are a big cloud. Universities need to explain what academic freedom means to the public that, yes, in many ways, funds them. I think we’ve run into a spot where we don’t know what academic freedom means because we have assumed it. No freedoms can be assumed.

It takes a lot of courage to stand up for principles of the First Amendment. University administrators and Regents are in a tough position, but if they are mindful of academic freedom and the First Amendment, they are much better off. They are

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Price: In the Honors Program seminars I teach, it’s our rule of thumb to create an intellectually safe environment. Anybody can agree or disagree with what’s happening in that room. There is to be respect and there is to be no abuse. We’ll hear each other out. It’s a very simple, very humane, very civil way of looking at things. It works and hardly anybody exploits it. If anybody does, it’s the only time I feel obliged to stop it.

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Phill Casaus, ’86 BA, is editor of the Albuquerque Tribune.

Marty Esquivel, ’86 BA, ’89 JD, is an attorney at Narvaez Law Firm in Albuquerque.

Ferrel Heady was President of the University of New Mexico from 1968 to 1975.

Moderator: VB Price, ’62 BA, has taught classes in UNM’s Honors Program since 1986.

Amy J. (Lewiecki) Buono, ‘96 BA, was awarded both a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship and a Social Sciences Research Council IDRF Fellowship for 2004-05. She is a PhD candidate in pre-Columbian and colonial art history at UC-Santa Barbara.

Her field research is in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil.

Erin Crowther, ‘96 BA, teaches ninth and tenth grade English at the Syracuse (New York) Academy of Science Charter School.

She married Michael Clarke in September.

Joseph A. Jablonski, ‘96 BAED, ‘97 BA, has been teaching at Green Valley High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, for five years.

Anne Kain, ‘96 BAA, ‘01 MBA, has been promoted to cashier at the Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Bank.

Everett C. Robinson, ‘96 BUS, is now director of marketing and public relations for Northland Pioneer College in Holbrook, Arizona. He lives in Show Low. Jennifer C. Bebo, ‘97 AAPE, ‘01 BSPT, currently practices physical therapy at the Gallup (New Mexico) Indian Medical Center where she is a commissioned officer (LTJG) in the US Public Health Service.

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Kathryn Felker, ‘97 BA, has been elected as a board member of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Houston chapter. She is the vice president of marketing for a two-year term. She lives in Webster, Texas.

Roderigo M. Padilla, ‘97 BUS, is the assistant director of financial aid at Concordia University in Austin, Texas.

He lives in Pflugerville, Texas.

Kim Clay-Bartley, ‘98 BABA, has joined Grant Thornton, LLP, in Albuquerque.

Matthew Perkins, ‘98 BS, was unfortunately listed in the “In Memoriam” section of the Fall issue of Mirage. In reality, he completed his master’s in educational administration from the University of Kentucky in August 2003. He has been a teacher for nine years and an administrator for the past two.

Recently he became the principal of Cardinal Valley Elementary School in Lexington, Kentucky, where he resides.

Louise Adelstone, ‘98 MA, was honored during the College of Education’s 75th Anniversary Gala for her contributions to school counseling at Comanche Elementary School in Albuquerque.

Jason Garcia, ‘98 BAFA, was awarded the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Artists’ Choice: Peer Award for exceptional, innovative work in any media at the Santa Fe Indian Market in August. His pottery tile depicted the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. He lives in Santa Clara Pueblo. w i n t e r

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The 29-year-old is development director of Grassroot

Soccer (GRS), an international nonprofit with a unique approach to the crisis. GRS trains superstar African soccer players—national heroes in their respective countries—as HIV/AIDS educators. They then go into small villages and towns to teach and empower middle-school children in an environment where discussion of AIDS is taboo.

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From High Desert to the Zimbabwe Highlanders A onetime soccer player for the Albuquerque Geckos, Kirk points directly to his UNM experience as a foundation for his current work.

“UNM offered a wide selection of courses I could choose from as a bachelor of university studies student,” he says. “It allowed me to learn about all different philosophies of education in the developing world.”

While at UNM and playing for the Geckos, Kirk met two teammates who would be pivotal in his future role as an AIDS educator. Tommy Clark and Methemebe Ndlovu spent hours talking about their experiences playing soccer together for the Zimbabwe Highlanders, Methembe’s homeland.

“I knew immediately that I would go to Zimbabwe as soon as I graduated from UNM,” Kirk says. “It would be a dream come true for the game I had been playing all my life to tie into my goals to see the world and experience new cultures.”

Before going to Zimbabwe, Kirk spent one more summer in the US playing for a team in Massachusetts.

It was there that he met the third key person in GRS, a young teammate named Ethan Zohn who spent the summer sleeping on the couch at Kirk’s house. “When I returned from Zimbabwe after the first year, Ethan was really into the idea of playing there as well,” Kirk says. Ethan joined Kirk in Zimbabwe for season two.

Life-changing Experience Kirk’s passion for soccer and the joy of the game were shattered by

his experiences in Zimbabwe, where AIDS become a deeply personal issue.

It was a moment that personified the staggering statistics: by decade’s end over 35 percent of all children alive in Zimbabwe would be AIDS orphans.

He says: “One guy was the best player on the team, strong, loved by everyone in the country. Before you knew it there were rumors, then a month later you see his body emaciated to the point where he could hardly walk.

The only way I knew him was because I recognized his eyes. The worst part is he had to hide out of his house because if people found out, he would go from national hero to goat and his family would be ridiculed. It angered me, and although I felt helpless then, I am now determined to make a difference.”

The Team The year 2003 provided that opportunity, in a fortuitous turn of events. Tommy Clark was now Dr. Thomas Clark, pediatric resident at the University of New Mexico. He had an idea of how to use soccer as a communication tool to bring the subject of AIDS to young people in Africa. He shared his idea with Kirk, who passed it along to Ethan, who coincidentally had just (in 2002) become the millionaire winner of CBS-TV’s hit reality series Survivor: Africa.

The core group of Tommy, Ethan, Kirk, and Methembe went to work furiously to create a workable curriculum and program with the help of leading behavioral change psychologist Albert Bandura. Boards were formed, with

album Ryan Stark, ‘98 BA, has received two awards from the West Texas Press Association: a second place for column writing and a third place for feature writing at the Roswell Daily Record. He has returned to live in Placitas, New Mexico.

Joel Condon, ‘99 MAAR, is with Elevation Architects where he works as a project architect. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Robert G. Del Campo, ‘99 BUS, ‘00 MBA, is assistant professor and teaches organizational behavior and diversity, and human resources theory and practice at the UNM Anderson Schools.

Daniel Lepp Friesen, ‘99 MBA, is beginning a three-year Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) assignment as executive director of MCC Manitoba. He lives in Winnipeg.

Tyr Loranger, ‘99 BA, and Brandan McDonald, ‘00 BA, have received JD cum laude degrees from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.

Candelaria Feliz Martin, ‘99 BS, of Minot, North Dakota, has earned an MD degree from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is taking her residency there.

Kimberley Ann Williams, ‘99 AAGS, ‘03 BUS, is in the master’s in humanities program at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.

Bunny Terry, ‘00 BUS, has joined the sales staff of the Adobe Mission Realty of Logan, New Mexico.

Novaline Wilson, ‘01 BS, participated in the Washington Internships for Native Students program at American University.

Students intern at one of many sponsoring federal agencies. She lives in Albuquerque.

Blanca Lopez, ‘01 EDSP, is the new principal of West Mesa High School in Albuquerque.

Amiilis Miranda, ‘01 BS, received an MS in physical therapy from Texas Woman’s University in December 2003. She recently accepted a position at Rio Vista Rehabilitation Hospital in El Paso as physical therapist.

Kevin A. Samuels, ‘01 BS, Marine Corps Second Lieutenant, has completed the Basic Naval Flight Officer Program.

Richard Cates, ‘02 MARC, works for Bechtel Corporation at the Savannah River Site Nuclear Reservation in South Carolina where he has been named site architect for the tritium extraction facility.

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members such as ex-Dartmouth player and Melrose Place star Andrew Shue (who played soccer at Dartmouth for famed soccer coach Bobby Clark, father of Tommy) and current UNM medical school faculty Ben Hoffman and William Wiese (GRS board chairman).

much potential for this program to affect so many kids’ lives, but we are limited by what we still need to learn: how to raise money and grow.” — Kirk Friedrich

The Game-Plan A stunningly short nine months after the first idea, and with the help of a fortuitous small grant from the Gates Foundation, Kirk found himself in Zimbabwe with the daunting task of creating and overseeing the GRS pilot program.

Contacts with the Highlanders led to an enthusiastic first group of soccer player-teachers, although the political climate in the country was and still is a major problem. “It’s a hard place to work,” says Kirk. The government is going through a major upheaval and it is affecting the economy to a degree that is truly depressing. A large percentage of the population is starving and there are shortages of just about everything every day.”

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openly discussing such a taboo subject and expressing confidence in returning home to teach their families. “Their eyes would light up when their heroes walked through the door,” Kirk says.

At the end of the classes, Kirk instituted a graduation ceremony, something to give the work a weight of importance,

“I am only frustrated that we can’t do more. There is so

“Kirk is an inspiration,” says Wiese.

“He has put idealism into fulltime action, taking on HIV prevention in one of the world’s most difficult areas.”

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Faced with a potential political situation, Kirk and GRS chose not to go through established school systems.

That would have effectively ended the program before it began due to a governmental mistrust of any foreign organization. The pilot program was instead shifted to city-council schools

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and smaller community centers where Kirk and his teachers could work with a lower profile. “I saw my friends and teammates (who died of AIDS) in every child we taught, and I was doing everything I could to make sure they did not meet the same fate,” says Kirk.

The mainstay of the program is a two-week curriculum focusing on play- and game-based projects.

Components include a trust game that powerfully demonstrates the effects of stigma on the community, fact or fiction challenges that test the taboos and myths of AIDS, and group juggling activities that develop decision-making skills. “We are not out there advocating condom use but an entire way of thinking about how to stay disease-free in a culture that does not want to have the conversation,” says Kirk.

The pilot program was a definite success, as the team was amazed to experience the young people freely and

and to give the children pride in their new knowledge.

The Children’s Health Council from Stanford University is currently evaluating the pilot program to see how much of a difference the program is making. The curriculum is easily adapted in other countries and cultures, and there are plans to expand the reach of GRS in its second year.

So Much to Do Kirk is not living in a dream world about his ability to affect the crisis.

GRS is just in its infancy, and the commitment from the small circle of friends who created GRS needs to be expanded. “I am only frustrated that we can’t do more,” Kirk says. “There is so much potential for this program to affect so many kids’ lives, but we are limited by what we still need to learn: how to raise money and grow.”

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team, Survivor: Africa star Ethan Zohn teaches Zimbabwean children about the disease and its prevention.

Association of Physicians in AIDS Care honored Ethan and GRS for their community service, alongside such notables as Bono from the rock group U2. Ethan continues to travel the country, tirelessly promoting the cause and going back to Africa. Tommy Clark is now participating in a fellowship program at the University of California San Francisco, working toward his master’s in public health. This will allow him to continue to oversee the GRS effort in the medical community.

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If it isn’t, future generations are going to look back at this generation and wonder why we did nothing when there was so much that needed to be done.”

www.grassrootsoccer.org

The genius of Grassroot Soccer is that it has found a powerful

resource—the public’s passion for sports—in a devastated land, stripped of

economic capacity and social service, with little left of a future even to hope for.

Sports heroes are still heroes. Grassroot Soccer has found professional athletes

who are willing to step forward to put in long hours to work directly with

school-aged boys and girls on health and lifestyle education. The soccer

professionals have taken a giant step in bringing the unmentionable subject

of HIV and AIDS out from the shadows and into the bright light of discourse

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Clara de la Cruz Watral, ‘02 MBA, has been appointed practice administrator for the Eye Institute of Albuquerque.

Julianne White, ‘02 PhD, is a composition instructor at Arizona State University, Tempe, while she looks for a permanent position in the Southwest.

Laura Marie Boykin, ‘03 PhD, is working as a research biologist for the USDA in Ft. Pierce, Florida.

Olivia Hopkins, ‘03 BS, will be studying for the next three years in Israel at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences Medical School for International Health, in collaboration with the Columbia University Medical Center. It is a new medical school that expands on the traditional medical curriculum to emphasize global health and healthcare for underserved populations.

Chris Johnson, ‘03 MBA, has been promoted to international sales manager at Academy Precision Materials in Albuquerque.

Tanya Chavez, ‘03 BABA; Steve Silva, ‘04 BABA; Christopher Mascharka, ‘04 MAAC; and Kenneth Stansbury, ‘04 BABA, have joined the audit staff of Neff + Ricci in Albuquerque.

Karen Ochsankehl, ‘94 BABA, is now staff accountant in the assurance department of Meyners + Company, LLC, in Albuquerque.

Steven L. Vega, ‘04 BS, has been commissioned into the US Air Force with the rank of second lieutenant.

Susan Yara, ‘04 BA, is Miss New Mexico 2004 and competed in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City.

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Back in the early ’70s, it didn’t take Ron Meltsner a New York minute to decide where to go to college. “Though I grew up in the ‘Big Apple,’” he says, “my family frequently took vacations out West. I loved it.” Ron’s father, who owned a hearing aid company, was familiar with the UNM campus and some of the professors, as well.

So the decision seemed to make itself: UNM it was. Ron has no regrets about his choice. “I got a superb education at UNM,” enthuses the alumnus. Now president of Widex USA, Ron in return gives generously to the university and the department of speech and hearing.

Expanding Horizons Looking back, it seems Ron was going through a “don’t fence me in” period. To go with New Mexico’s wide open spaces, he designed his own expansive curriculum under the bachelor of university studies (BUS) degree program, which was first offered by the university in 1969. The BUS program enables students to combine courses in more than one field for some specific career or personal goal—or, conversely, to acquire a quintessential “liberal arts” education by studying everything from art to zoology.

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Having an inkling that he might join his father in the hearing aid business, Ron took a mélange of audiology, business, and management courses.

Audiology was a fairly young science at the time. “Historically speaking, hearing aids were around as early as 1900,” explains Ron. “By the 1930s, they were more commercially available.” For decades, though, hearing aids remained big, bulky, and, shall we say, less than attractive. Advances in both diagnostic equipment and hearing instruments ultimately made audiology a science, and fitting hearing aids a profession.

Hal and Hen’s Big Venture Ron currently serves as president of privately-held Widex USA, a company whose roots lie in a business venture launched by two lifelong buddies.

Henry Meltsner (Ron’s father) and Harold Spar grew up together, served side by side in World War II, and finally

decided to go into business together.

Even on paper the two were inseparable: They named their partnership Hal-Hen, a combination of their first names.

“At first, Hal-Hen manufactured and sold a variety of products,” recalls Ron. “But my father had been in the Navy’s first radar school graduating class. Thanks to this background in electronics, Hal-Hen was offered a contract to manufacture hearing aid cords.” As a result, Hal-Hen became a manufacturer/distributor of hearing aid accessories.

In 1956, Hal and Hen formed Widex USA when the Danish company Widex approached them about distributing their hearing aids. It’s rare that a corporate partnership holds up through the tumult of half a century, but Widex USA is the exception. Currently, Ron’s company finishes the manufacturing process—inserting the electronics and the digital components—in New York.

“We’re still the sole distributor of Widex aids in the US,” he says.

Hal-Hen is still connected with Widex USA, though it remains a separate entity that deals strictly with hearing aid accessories and other assistive gadgets for the hearing-impaired.

Changing Directions After graduating from UNM, Ron spent two more years in the Southwest as a Widex rep before heading back to NYC. The potential for culture shock

Now! must have been huge: Just going from the horizontal New Mexico landscape to the verticality of the New York skyline would make anyone dizzy.

Ron laughs when asked if his wife, Wendy, is also a UNM alumna. “She is Brooklyn-born and -bred,” he says.

“But the first time I took her to New Mexico, she fell in love with it.”

Both personally and through the company, Ron has been generous to his alma mater. And just as he carefully crafted his eclectic degree program, he has thoughtfully earmarked his gifts for a wide variety of purposes. “First,” he says, “I gave to the libraries for a number of years, because I feel that they benefit everyone.”

A member of the university’s prestigious Popejoy Society by virtue of his cumulative giving, Ron has also supported students through his sponsorship of several Presidential Scholarships and gifts to the Richard B. Hood Endowment in the department of speech and hearing. The latter funds scholarships for promising students in the field of hearing science. The endowment was established in 1996 by

former department head Richard Hood, who remains actively involved in the department and with its students.

One might assume that Ron enjoyed a special student-professor relationship with Hood. “Everyone knew my family owned a hearing aid company,” he laughs, “so it was just the opposite. Dr. Hood bent over backwards to be fair to the other students.” That special relationship has developed over the years, however, and Hood has called on Ron for help on several occasions.

Most recently, the department drafted Hood to raise $40,000 for the construction of a soundproof testing facility for audiology students and their patients. Through Widex, Ron provided about half of that total, and Hood chipped in a hefty sum. The facility was recently completed.

Often, fond memories of a time and place motivate people to give to their alma maters. Ron takes “fondness” to a higher level. He categorically states, “My years at UNM were the best time of my life. The experience you get at UNM is a special one; it really prepares you for future interactions with a variety of people. My education has served me well in my business, professional, and personal relationships.”

www.unm.edu/foundation

UNM’s Popejoy Society The Popejoy Society is named for one of UNM’s most outstanding presidents—the late Tom L. Popejoy (president, 1948-1968).

Established in 1980, the Popejoy Society recognizes individual donors’ cumulative giving to the university through the UNM Foundation. Although the threshold gift levels have risen since the Popejoy Society was initially created, membership in the Popejoy Society is lifelong. In the 2003-2004 fiscal year, UNM extended membership to individuals and couples whose giving has reached or exceeded $50,000.

For more information concerning the Popejoy Society, please contact UNM donor relations manager Sachiko Isobe at sisobe@unm.edu or 505-277-7088.

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nly a few months on the job, serving as president of the Alumni Association has already been an eye-opener.

Opportunity after opportunity has come my way to learn more about today’s UNM—whether at Regents’ meetings, legislative strategy sessions, or recently, a gathering with the future king of Spain, the Prince of Asturias.

Four years ago Iberdrola, a privately held electric utility headquartered in Spain, endowed a UNM chair in information and science technology in the name of Spain’s future king.

As I listened to the crown prince speak of the University of New Mexico’s vast reach in the Ibero-American world and of its

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vast growth in the research world, it struck me that he was no longer talking about the “University Near Mom.” Instead, he was talking about the UNM of today—a dynamic, integral player in our changing world. As UNM President Caldera points out, our strengths speak to the statewide, national, and even worldwide search for fresh ideas and solutions: • Our research funding has gone from $200 to $300 million per year over the past three years.

• We are key players in the development of nanotechnology, super-computers, and the treatment of infectious diseases.

• We are succeeding in our efforts to recruit the best and the brightest students to UNM. Many are lured here by the opportunity to take part in important research as undergraduates.

UNM is still friendly; its faculty, approachable; its campus, beautiful.

Our 50-year-grads who came back for Homecoming this fall still recognize it. But there is a momentum here that tells of greatness.

As alumni, we have not just the chance but the obligation to

do what we can to promote our alma mater’s bright future.

The Alumni Association is working closely with university administrators to encourage the state legislature’s support. We need to show our personal support in every way possible—as volunteers and as donors.

With public and private support UNM will open the eyes not just of old friends but of new partners— like the kingdom of Spain.

I’d like to add a personal note as the magazine goes to press.

Gary Golden, president of the Alumni Association in 2000-2001 and a member of the UNM Student Affairs administrative staff from 1977 to 1991, died of heart failure over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Gary had moved to Farmington, New Mexico, to serve as vice president for student services at San Juan College. Gary’s unique combination of affability, insight, encouragement, and enthusiasm added joy to any task. We wish his family comfort, and all of those who knew him the continued spark of his support and trust.

ACCOLADES FOR A T H L E T E S : The 2004 UNM Lettermen’s Hall of Honor inducted four individuals and the national champion Lobo ski team into its ranks this fall. The individuals are Jim Bruening (football), Larry Tuttle (baseball and basketball), Barbara Butler (volleyball, basketball, and track and field) and Lou Cullen (football-posthumous). Also honored were George Brooks as 2004 Ski Coach of the Year, Scott Creagan, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, and Athletes of the Year Jennifer Delich (skiing) and Divan Coetze (tennis). Shown here, left to right are Barbara Butler, Jim Bruening, Scott Creagan, and Larry Tuttle.

New Year New Adventures UNM Alumni Association Educational Travel Adventures 2005

Try something new this new year! Join the UNM Alumni Association on one— or more—of our educational travel opportunities in 2005.

January 27 – February 6 February 26 – March 7 June 1 - 9 June 30 – July 11 October 25 – November 11 December 4 - 11

Legends of the Nile Alumni Campus Abroad–Sicily: The Cultural Season Alumni Campus Abroad–Switzerland Cruise the British Isles China’s Cultural Triangle Alumni Campus Abroad–Yucatan

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

album more marriages Cindi Marie McLure, ‘01 MA, and Thedeous D. Tah Chris Padberg, ‘01 BA, and Liliana Zavala Claudia Sun, ‘01 MSME, and Chris Stasny, ‘98 BS, ‘02 MD Meisha Johnson, ‘02 BSED, and Andrew Sedrel Andrew Mathis, ‘03 BA, and LaVonne Armijo Rene Gonzales, ‘04 BA, and Adrian Alarid

in memoriam

R E S O L V E D: Take Part in a UNM Alumni Chapter Activity!

December 4

Chicago Chapter Annual Chile Nights Holiday Party

December 4

Austin Chapter Holiday Party

December 4

LA Chapter Holiday Party at San Antonio Winery

December 5

San Diego Chapter Holiday Party

January 22

LA Chapter Basketball Viewing Party–Lobo Men vs. Utah

January 23

New York Area Chapter Event

February 9

Chicago Chapter Lobo Basketball Party at High Tops Sports Bar

February 13

LA Chapter Basketball Viewing Party–Lobo Women vs. Utah

February 26

Houston Chapter Lobo Day Baseball and Post-Game Get-Together

February 26

Northern California Chapter Lobo Day Potluck

February 26

San Diego/LA Chapters Pre-Game Social–UNM vs. SDSU Basketball

February 27

Austin Chapter Lobo Day Potluck

March (tba)

LA Chapter Public Art Walking Tour

March 9 – 12

Denver–WAC Championships–Pre-Game and Basketball

April 2

Austin Chapter “Bill and Karen’s Drive Through the Hill Country”

April 3

Washington, DC Chapter Lobo Day Brunch

April 16

Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Day Event

April 17

San Diego Chapter Lobo Day Event

September 17 Northern California Green Chile Roast and Picnic All dates are subject to change. For additional information, visit our website at www.unmalumni.com, call our office at 800-258-6866, or refer to event fliers sent to chapter areas before events.

Paul Palmer, ‘30 Maurice Carl Lipp, ‘32 Archie Westfall, ‘32 Robert Morris Coffin, ‘35 Barbara Grace Meyer Abernathy, ‘36 Ruth Brock Goldsworthy, ‘36 Porfirio Romero, ‘36 Allie Maurice Parker Grammer, ‘37 Mary L. Richard, ‘37 Leona Talbot Wulff, ‘37 William Pearce Beach, ‘38 Helen Emily Zimmerman Brandenburg, ‘38 Helen L. Clousing, ‘38 Adah S. Denton, ‘38 Betty Huning Hinton, ‘38, ‘76 George A. Jackson, ‘38 Ray Hough, ‘40 William Colby, ‘40 Russell Hutchison, ‘40 William Spencer Sharp, ‘40 Richard Jackson Braden, ‘41 Lorenzo Armijo Chavez, ‘41 Wayne W. Rouse, ‘41 Jack Rushing, ‘41, ‘51 Allen Roberts Dykeman, ‘42 Julia Penfield Reidy, ‘43 David Lee, ‘43 Mary Chapin Harley, ‘44 Harber J. Heather, ‘44 William Arthur Jourdan, ‘44 Robert S. Nelson, ‘44 June Redenbaugh Court, ‘45 Carol R. Ruppe, ‘45 Mercedes Sanchez Vergara, ‘45 Katherine Bee Webster, ‘45 Francis O. Wood Jr., ‘45 Boleslo A. McIntyre, ‘48 Doris Jeanne Rudolph, ‘48 Reinaldo M. Valdez, ‘48 Robert Bradshaw, ‘49 Carl George Estler, ‘50 Oscar M. Fligner, ‘50

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L U A U R O Y A L T Y : Elizabeth

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Schomberg and Carlos Guillen are all smiles after being crowned Queen and King of Homecoming 2004.

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he University of New Mexico celebrated its 80th homecoming during the week of October 18-23. Alumni, students, and staff participated island-style with “Lobo Luau.”

Student activities began on Monday with the (new) traditional chalk-mural contest and a movie in the pool. Young Alumni once again kicked off alumni activities with a celebration at a local establishment. On Tuesday, 19 campus departments competed for the best-decorated lobbies and offices throughout campus. The department winner was the Alliance for Transportation Research Institute with its rendition of a travel agency promoting Lobo Luau Island.

The annual appreciation lunch for alumni-faculty and alumni-staff was once again held in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Building. Alumni Association President Coleman Travelstead greeted more than 250 alumni at this event. King and Queen candidates campaigned throughout the day as voting took place around campus.

The traditional Heritage Club Dinner was hosted Thursday evening at the Albuquerque Country Club. The Heritage Club is an annual gathering of alumni who have been out of the University 50 years or more. The Class of 1954 was invited back to campus and inducted into this prestigious group. Members from the class of 1936 and 1937 were present.

Friday was one of the busiest days on campus with a variety of events scheduled for both students and alumni. The Class of 1954—including 1954 Homecoming Queen Dorothy Lewis Ripple—met for brunch at the Student Union Building and reminisced over memory books presented to each member in attendance. The students kicked into high gear with the Lobo Luau and continuation of the annual Cherry/Silver Games. The Homecoming Court was announced at an all-sport pep rally held at the Duck Pond. Over 20 alumni reunions kicked off later in the afternoon and evening. including the Lobo Luau Reunions held at the Lobo Tiki Pavilion (aka University Stadium). Alumni and students then convened after the reunions for the Lobo Tiki Dance. Students and alumni arrived dressed for the occasion in Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, and many leis.

The traditional All University Breakfast was packed again this year as more than 150 alumni and guests gathered early Saturday morning to honor recipients of the Zia Awards and the Lobo Award presented by Mortar Board. This year’s Zia Award recipients were Lobo ski coach George Brooks, New Mexico Education Secretary Veronica Garcia, Los Alamos Labs computer scientist Thomas Kelley, community volunteer Karen Pharris, educator Jacki Pieracci Riggs, and retired USWEST executive and UNM philanthropist Duffy Swan. The illustrious Lobo Award went to Fannye Irving-Gibbs, a lifelong learner, community activist, and African American historian. Alumni and fans showed their Lobo spirit by heading down to the Lobo Tiki Pavilion for the annual Tailgate and Silent Auction— which raised over $10,000 in support of Alumni Association scholarships and programs—before the UNM vs. San Diego State football game. At halftime, Elizabeth Schomberg and Carlos Guillen were crowned Homecoming Queen and King, in a traditional ceremony in front of a crowd of 37,000+ fans. The Lobos went on to demolish San Diego State, 19-9.

The UNM Alumni Association would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals and sponsors for making this year’s “Lobo Luau” a great success.

Thank you!

Major Sponsors JB Henderson, Linda Henderson MBNA UNM Division of Student Affairs– Eliseo Torres, Walter Miller

Sponsors Albuquerque City Transit Bright Ideas–Lesley Ann, Harold Kinney, June Wilhelm Citadel Broadcasting Corporation– Milt McConnell Wende Schwingendorf 610 The Sports Animal KNML-AM News Radio 770 KKOB-AM Garcia’s Tents–Steve Garcia Lithexcel–Waleed Ashoo, Danny Vigil National Distributing–Grant Cassman Pepsi of New Mexico–Robert Maestas Sierra Blanca Brewing Company– Neal Jones, Richard Weber

Homecoming Poster Artist Phil Hulebak

Homecoming 100 Club All Sports Trophies, Inc. Barraclough & Associates, P.C. Stephen Bass & Laura Hueter Bass Karen & Tucker Bayless Jim & Yvonne Beckley John & Suzette Brooks The Nature Conservancy–Tom Cherones Steve and Marian Ciepiela George Chew Annette & Fred Gorenz Maria Griego-Raby David N. Hernandez William and Susan Littlefield Bob and Betsy Murphy Frontier Restaurant Jim Ritchie Chuck and Susan (Deese) Roberts Cindy and Tommy Roberts Judith A. Rogala Gary McCabe Ross, DDS Florrie and Bob Stamm Coleman Travelstead UNM Los Angeles Chapter Robert & Elizabeth H. Wertheim John & Carol Zonski/ Jubilation, Wine, Spirtis & Deli

Auction Donors AAA New Mexico Albuquerque Convention & Visitor’s Bureau Karen Abraham Airport University Inn Albuquerque Economic Development, Inc. Albuquerque Hilton Hotel Albuquerque Little Theater Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid Hotel Albuquerque Marriott Hotel All Sports Trophies, Inc. Anonymous Donor Apple Canyon Company, Inc. Avila Retail Baldridge Lumber Best Western Inn & Suites Bien Mur Indian Market Center Bow Wow Blues Bueno Brand Food Products Butterfield Jewelers Casino Hollywood Chez D’Or China Gifts Clampitt Paper Co. Classique Hair Trends Clean, Inc. Coaches Sport Grill Comcast Cable Comfort Foods/Desert Gardens Cooperage/Scarpas Creamland Dairies Dee’s Cheesecake Factory Daniel L. DeFazio, DDS, PC Defined Fitness Dion’s Pizza Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR & Museum East Mountain Grill El Rancho De Las Golondrinas Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum of Albuquerque Fairfield Inn/Albuquerque Hilton Frank Frost Gardenswartz Team Sales T.J.P., Inc. dba Gin Mill Restaurant & Tavern Graphic Connection Graze by Jennifer James Nancy Herring & Matthew Segura Hinkle Family Fun Center Holiday Inn Mountain View Hyatt Tamaya Hotel IL Vicino

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FESTIVE WINNERS: Recipients of the UNM Alumni Association’s Zia Awards gather with UNM President Louis Caldera after the All University Breakfast. Left to right are Lobo Ski Coach George Brooks, community volunteer Karen Pharris, UNM President Louis Caldera, community volunteer and African American historian Fannye Irving-Gibbs who received the Lobo Award, retired Los Alamos Labs computer scientist Tom Kelley, New Mexico Secretary of Education Veronica Garcia, and retired USWEST executive and UNM philanthropist Duffy Swann. All the recipients are UNM alumni.

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Tomato Cafe Charlene Chavez Tunney UNM Alumni Association UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts/Popejoy Hall UNM Communications and Marketing UNM Foundation UNM Lobo Athletic Department UNM Men’s Basketball UNM Men’s Tennis UNM President Caldera UNM Ski Team UNM Spirit Marching Band UNM Theatre & Dance/Center for the ArtsCenter for the Arts UNM Track & Field UNM Universities Libraries UNM Women’s Basketball UNM Women’s Volleyball Team Weems Galleries Wrights Indian Art Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro

Homecoming Committee Steve Archibeque, Homecoming Chair Jennifer Riordan, Co-Chair Miller Asbill, Halftime/Band Chamiza P. Atencio, Lobo Luau Tailgate John Benavidez, Luau Reunions and Tiki Dance Steve Carr, Publicity Lisa Delgado, Campus Involvement Jennifer Gomez-Chavez, Campus Involvement Nancy Herring, Silent Auction Ryan Lindquist, Student Activities Amanda Martinez, Student Chair Rosie Matlock, Student Committee

Danny Milo, Young Alumni Debbie Morris, Student Activities, PSL Melissa O’Neill, Silent Auction Yvonne Pena, Young Alumni Mike Riordan, Luau Reunions and Tiki Dance Eleanor Sanchez, Campus Involvement Wende Schwingendorf, Publicity Danny Vigil, Publicity Joe Weiss, Athletics Susan Wilson, Publicity

Reunion Coordinators Alumni Lettermen–Kim Feldman Anderson Schools of Management and School of Public Administration, Lisa McHale Anthropology–Ann Braswell School of Architecture and Planning– John Miller Class of ‘54–Frieda Stewart College of Arts and Sciences– Debbie Dobson College of Education–Margaret Duran School of Engineering– Steve Zoncki, Joe Sholtis College Enrichment Program– Jennifer Gomez-Chavez College of Fine Arts–Andrea Bromberg Foreign Languages and Literature– Warren Smith Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus– Judith Stauber Marching Band Alumni–Susan Brake College of Nursing– Rosemary Gregory, Marlena Bermel College of Pharmacy–Julie Moss Past Student Leaders–Debbie Morris John Bowersmith

Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino & Resort Isleta Eagle Golf Course Jeanne’s Cosmetics, Gifts & Jewelry John & Debbie Johnson Kim Jew Photography Studio KNME-TV 5 KRQE-TV Laffs Comedy Cafe Le Cafe Miche Liberty Gym Inc Los Cuates Del Norte New Mexican Foods Manning Florist Melba Floral Studio National Restaurant Supply Co. Inc. New Mexico Scorpions New Mexico Zoological Society, Inc, Nothing but Noodles Now We’re Cooking Premier Motor Company Radisson Hotel & Conference Center Rainbow Ryders, Inc. The Range Cafe at Wyoming Restaurant Jennifer James Rick Johnson & Company, Inc. Sadie’s Sagebrush Inn Sandia Peak Ski Area/Sandia Peak Tramway/Santa Fe Ski Area The Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Southern Railway Ski New Mexico Stone Age Climbing Gym Sunny’s Hallmark New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Taos Ski Valley, Inc. TGI Friday’s

University Honors Program– Rosalie Otero, Beth Hanes Young Alumni– Danny Milo, Yvonne Pena

We Couldn’t Do It Without You! Albuquerque Country Club Albuquerque Hilton Albuquerque Petroleum Club John Bowersmith Carousel of Music Contest Judges–Kim Feldman, Danny Milo, Jennifer Riordan, Angela Vachio Enterprise Rent-a-car Fairfield Inn by Marriott Graphic Connection–Scott Creagan Graphic Industries–Greg Edgeington Ketner Design–Kelly Ketner Lobo Lucy Lobo Louie The March Company Donese Mayfield Printworks–Kathi Bowler Radisson Hotel and Conference Center The Rev. Ned Ross UNM Athletics– Rudy Davalos, Scott Dotson UNM Bookstore UNM Center for the Arts Ovation Series UNM Daily Lobo UNM Dean of Students Office UNM Lobo Club–Darrin Dunn UNM Marching Band UNM Maxwell Museum UNM Office of Institutional Advancement UNM Parking and Transportation UNM Physical Plant UNM Police Department UNM President’s Office UNM Press UNM Public Affairs/Campus News UNM ROTC Units UNM Spirit Group UNM Student Activities–Debbie Morris UNM Student Homecoming Committee UNM Student Union Catering–Ly Flock Bene Pasta, Sonic UNM Ticket Office UNM Trailblazers Margaret Weinrod

Bea Aragon Sandra Armijo Shelly, Hillary, Kermit, Miranda, and Ellen Broman Summer Brown Wayne Chew Larry Crockett William Wolfe Crockett Merlinda Gallegos Gerald Gerken Ashley Griego Pam Highum Mark Maes Hughie Mahedy Jerry Modisette Therese and Joe Mondragon Leo Moya Amy O’Donnell Dave Polansky Sherry Reeder Bernadette, Amanda, and Alyssa Robinson Chris Schueler Monica Sena Cristina Sessa Ben Smith Francine Stewart Patrick Stewart Kristina Trujillo Tom Tunney Christina Whitaker

Alumni Relations Staff Karen Abraham Donna Balduini Elaine Chew Mary Conrad Miranda Eastham Kim Feldman Rita Fristoe Merlyn Liberty Sue MacEachen Gina Maes Chris Polansky Frieda Stewart Charlene Tunney Maria Wolfe Students–Tara Edwards, Tony Hanlon, Chelsea Meadows

album Richard L. Reedy, ‘71 Don Riggle, ‘71 Harry Ives, ‘73 Michelle Preston, ‘73 Howard Neal Hamel, ‘74 Gina Martha Libo, ‘74, ‘79, ‘83 Richard Mark Meyers, ‘74, ‘76, ‘85 Vera Cushman, ‘75 James Howard Doughty, ‘75 David Edward Michel, ‘75, ‘77 Valentino Cordova, ‘76 Sara Jane Foster, ‘76, ‘87 Herman L. Ortiz, ‘76 Eugene A. Valentine, ‘77 Thomas R. Nahkai, ‘79 Kathryn “Kitty” Smith, ‘79 Anthony J. Abruzzo, ‘80 Curtis Anthony Barefoot, ‘80 Marri Billie, ‘80 Emilio Castaneda, ‘80 Elsie Murphy, ‘80 Gary Golden, ‘81 Sharon Kay Meketa, ‘81 George E. Richardson, ‘81 Mary Ann Heaton Westerhaus, ‘81 Gregory Alan Grisham, ‘82 Fred M. Fisher, ‘84 Steve Knee, ‘84, ‘87 Lois M. Reynolds, ‘84 William Recinos, ‘85 Michael Vicente Mares, ‘87 Lisa Laursen Thirkill, ‘87 Tony C. Fasenmyer, ‘88 Clare Intress, ‘88, ‘92 Sara Bartlett Burgard, ‘89 Karen Louise Cuddihy, ‘90 Annette Alice Sautter, ‘91 Stephen E. Tabet, ‘91 Jeremy Brendan Grant Worley, ‘91, ‘97 Catherine E. Gaines, ‘94 Jeffrey Robert Barker, ‘95 Kathleen Carmen Salas Wells, ‘00 Gene G. Kurtz, housestaff Richard H. Cady, director emeritus Frank Van Deren Coke, professor emeritus W. Sterling Edwards, professor emeritus Donald R. Morrison, professor emeritus Paul Silverman, former vice president Lee E. Teitelbaum, former faculty Robert Henry Tully III, professor emeritus Carla Wofsy, professor emerita Catherine (Katy) Louise Martin, retired staff Gary Golden, past staff, UNM Alumni Association president, 2000-2001 Regretably, we listed Matthew Perkins, ‘93, in this column, and we offer our sincere apology for the error. Please see the Album section for the proper information on Matthew’s activities.

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UNM silver 3.5 x 5 picture frame $30.95 New Mexico Lobos Alumni short-sleeved t-shirt $15.95

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givingback Presidential Scholar Alumni Give Presidential Scholarships

The best part of receiving is giving back. At least that’s what these new donors to the UNM Presidential Scholarship Program believe.

Each attended the university on a Presidential Scholarship.

On the PGA tour, Kent Jones, ’90 BABA, ’91 MBA, is giving back.

President of Permacharge and one of the first class of Presidential Scholars, Bianca Thayer, ’81 BSCH, is giving back.

Both attorneys, Dawn Chavez Branch, ’81 BABA, ’02 JD, and Brian Branch, ’87 JD, are giving back.

A former ASUNM president and now the president of Hartman Publishing, Mark Hartman, ’87 BABA, is giving back.

How about you?

Give back to UNM. www.unm.edu/foundation 505-277-4503 or 800-UNM-FUND