ISU Magazine Fall 2019 by Idaho State University

Idaho State University MAGAZINE

VOLUME 50 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2019

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Friends, As we near the end of 2019, I have been reflecting on all of the great accomplishments we celebrated this past year. For these reasons, and countless more, I am proud to be a part of our Bengal family. This year, we have focused on our strengths — faculty and staff that truly care for our students and their well-being, and hard-working students who are continually looking at ways to improve the world around them. Our University has passion, commitment, pride, and most importantly, heart. I see it every day. We are also continuing to grow and move forward. It has been a year of change at Idaho State, in large ways and in small. If you have been to our campus lately, you will notice a new look and feel, embracing Bengal orange in all corners of campus. We saw the return of the “I,” an icon and, for many of you, a symbol of your time here at Idaho State. We are embarking on a renovation of Davis Field, a venue that has served our student-athletes for 90 years, and will now impact many future generations of Bengals. As our impact continues to grow, we recently introduced winter commencement ceremony, our newest campus tradition. We are focused on our students at Idaho State, who are truly the future. Thank you for all you do to help further and support our mission. Roar, Bengals, Roar! Kevin D. Satterlee, President

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In This Issue 3

Message from the President

ISU Awarded $1.1 Million Grant to Help Treat Opioid-use Disorder

Geosciences Researcher Discovers First Dinosaur Burrow in Idaho

Bingham Makes Commitment to Athletics

Meridian Lab Expands

Continuing Partnership with ICCU

Something to Hang Your Hat On

Miller, Over and Out

Bengals “Jam” It Up in Roller Derby

The Red Hill “I” Rises Again

TRIO Makes Path to Success

Where the Road Leads

New Branding Comes with a ROAR

A Place of Welcome

Alumni News

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ISU Awarded $1.1 Million Grant to Help Treat Opioid-use Disorder The Idaho State University Department of Psychology has been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant that focuses on improving the prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder in Southeast Idaho. Steve Lawyer, ISU psychology professor and director of clinical training and Samuel Peer, ISU assistant professor of psychology, are co-directors of the project. First, they plan to provide special evidence-based and trauma-informed interdisciplinary care for substance abuse treatment.develop the infrastructure in Southeast Idaho for telehealth and integrated behavioral health to help better treat opioid use disorder. As

part of the grant, ISU researchers and students will also be working with community partners to create a telehealth system to treat opioid use disorder in rural Idaho. “Our students will be learning how to work with people from other disciplines because if you are really going to treat opioid use disorder, you have to not only be a good therapist, you will have to have good working relationships with nurses, social workers, probation officers, and physicians,” Lawyer said. “But we’re also training those in other disciplines, like pharmacists and physicians, on how they can work with behavioral health services, too.”

Samuel Peer and Steven Lawyer

Geosciences Researcher Discovers First Dinosaur Burrow in Idaho Idaho State University Department of Geosciences affiliate researcher L.J. Krumenacker has discovered and documented the first di-

nosaur burrow in Idaho, which is just the second dinosaur burrow discovered in North America and the third discovered in the world. Both North American burrows are from the dinosaur Oryctodromeus, Idaho’s most common dinosaur. “I think this is pretty awesome,” Krumenacker said. “It is an incredible animal and it shows the potential for future discoveries in

L.J. Krumenacker

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Idaho. A lot of where I’ve been looking has never been looked at before and I expect there is a lot of Idaho dinosaur discoveries left to find.” The creature he discovered in the Caribou Range in the vicinity of Soda Springs is known as Oryctodromeus, a dinosaur about the size of a modern Great Dane, that was probably about 2-1/2 feet high at the hips and 11 feet long, including a 7-foot long tail. This dinosaur ate plants and the fossils are about 98 million years old.

Bingham Makes Commitment to Athletics The Idaho State Athletics Department has received a multi-year commitment from Bingham Healthcare in support of the strength and conditioning program. In its first year, this commitment will provide $100,000 to the athletic department to support the addition of an assistant strength coach to the strength and conditioning staff. It will cover additional costs such as certification, professional development and required continuing education for the strength coaching staff. Prior to this commitment, Idaho State athletics employed only one strength and conditioning coach for over 300 student-athletes and 15 athletic programs, placing the Bengals soundly at the bottom of the Big Sky in terms of strength staff. Now Coach Dan Ryan and his soon-to-be assistant will be able to provide better care and more individualized attention to all the student-athletes. “This is huge for the Idaho State strength program,” Ryan said. “I am excited for this gift as it will allow us to continue to enhance the performance and training of our student-athletes. This will let us continue to make improvements to ensure that we have a high-level training facility.” “We are grateful and humbled to support the athletics program at Idaho State, which has played such a significant role in the lives of so many Idahoans throughout the years,” said Jake Erickson, CEO of Bingham Healthcare. “Our gift is a testament to the leadership and vision of Pauline Thiros, as well as Dan Ryan and his team. As the official team doctors of Idaho State Athletics, our orthopedic and sports medicine team is looking forward to this on-going collaboration. Our first priority is always to ensure Idaho State’s athletes are kept safe and have the best medical coverage in case of an injury during a game or practice.”

2020 INDUCTEES Steven T. Anderson Football 1981-1984 BS, Secondary Ed

Shawn Beals Football 1984-1987 BA, Sociology

Kathy U’ilani Goods Volleyball 1992-1995 BS, Political Science

Heather (Hunt) Jones Soccer 2000-2003 BS, Health Ed, AA, Physical Therapy

Dave Nielsen Track & Field coach 1985-2016 MPE, Athletic Administration

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The lab expansion allows for the study of anatomy models and anatomical donations. Photo by Eric Gordon.

Meridian Lab Expands Meridian laboratory expansion benefits students and community partners Health professions students at Idaho State University took their studies to the next level this semester with the expansion of the L.S. and Aline Skaggs Treasure Valley Anatomy and Physiology Laboratories in Meridian. The 4,490-square-foot expansion includes the addition of 12 anatomy stations, high-definition cameras and distance-learning technology, enabling professors to share content with students in Pocatello. On a front wall is a large video screen — 12 feet wide by 7 feet tall — visible from every corner of the room. “Everyone can clearly see what is being pointed to and what is being talked about,” said Lorinda Smith, clinical assistant professor and laboratories manager.

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The cadaver stations — where students dissect and study anatomical donations — are similar to miniature classrooms, equipped with adjustable cameras, monitors and laptop computers. Instructors have the option of teaching individualized lessons to a small group or sharing content with the entire class, said David Anes, the instructional media specialist who helped design the lab and install the equipment. Idaho State students currently using the new space include students in the physician assistant studies, nursing, communication sciences and physical therapy programs as well as students from the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school housed on the Meridian campus.

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The new digs are part of a nearly $7 million buildout of the first and second floors of the Skaggs Meridian Health Science Center and complement the existing anatomy, bioskills and virtual labs housed in the TVAPL. Funding sources included a $3.85 million gift from The ALSAM Foundation, the charitable trust of drugstore magnate Sam Skaggs and his wife Aline; a $2.5 million collaborative agreement with ICOM, and funds from Idaho State, according to ISU Facilities Services. More than 2,000 people, including college and high school students, medical educators, health care professionals and community partners are expected to tour or participate in training sessions in the Treasure Valley laboratories this year. “This is an example of what Bengals can do when we work together and with the community in an effort to create educational opportunities for Idahoans,” Smith said. Chris Gabettas

From left: ICCU’s Chase Nieffenegger, ISU College of Technology Dean Scott Rasmussen, ICCU’s Mike Henesh, ISU President Kevin Satterlee, ICCU President Kent Oram and ICCU’s Megan Sorensen.

Continuing Partnership ICCU gifts ISU College of Technology $450,000 worth of tech equipment The holidays came early for the Idaho State University College of Technology in the form of information technology equipment valued at about $450,000 that was given to ISU Information Technology Systems program by Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) in mid-November. “This equipment will benefit multitudes of students for many years to come,” said Scott Rasmussen, dean of the ISU College of Technology. “Donations like this allow us to train students on state-ofthe-art equipment that will prepare them to go to work on like equipment when they graduate. This is of great benefit to industry as well as students.”

The gift includes all the equipment from two ICCU data centers including CISCO network equipment, switches, routers, and firewalls. It also includes a massive amount of network disk storage and Dell servers. The network disk storage and Dell servers will be purposed by the ISU ITS program to host virtualized environments for the current Linux and Windows desktop and server classes, said John Baker, instructor in ISU information technology programs. In addition, next fall, ISU will be adding new VMware virtualization classes and these too will benefit from the new hardware. “All of the equipment that we’ve donated, all of it was being used to run Idaho Central 100 percent

six months ago,” said Mark Willden, ICCU chief information officer. “With over 380,000 members and 1,300 employees we were dependent upon that equipment and it did a nice job for us. We just had an opportunity to go to this brand-new data center and we wanted the latest technology.” ICCU could have sold the equipment, but wanted to strengthen its relationship with ISU. “We love ISU,” Willden said. “A lot of our employees have graduated from ISU, and we have a number of employees going to ISU right now. It is our desire and our wish to see Idaho Central be a great partner with ISU and we want to see ISU be very successful.” “The other part of it is,” he continued, “we want to take ISU graduates and make them part of the Idaho Central family and use them for jobs in IT.” Emily Frandsen

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Something to Hang Your Hat On Twenty-four baseball caps from various U.S. universities hang from nails along the top of a wall in David Kleist’s office, and there’s an empty nail on the wall waiting for another hat to come.

thought I want to do something like that, a ritual or tradition, but not steal the same idea,” Kleist said. “I enjoy wearing baseball caps and I thought that’s what I’d do.”

“It is a timeline of memories of my students,” said Kleist, professor and chair of the Department of Counseling. “Everyone one of these hats is a person and brings back memories of my time working with these doctoral students.”

Kleist started in 1995 at ISU and since that time about 90 percent of his doctoral students have followed through with the hat ritual, for the others, he buys the hats on his own. He’s had 21 students on doctoral committees and some have sent him more than one hat when they’ve found new jobs.

When Kleist earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University, the chair of his doctoral committee made a deal with Kleist, who was his first doctoral student. “He said when you get a job, you have to buy me a beer mug from wherever you go,” Kleist said. “He was starting a ritual or tradition with his doctoral advisees, I imagine, so when I moved here I went down to the ISU Bookstore and got him some beer mugs.” Kleist and his advisor exchanged beer mugs from their respective institutions. “When I had a chance to work with my first doc student at ISU, I

“I don’t require them to buy a hat,” he said. “It’s a bit more playful like ‘I’ll agree to chair your doctoral committee, but you agree to buy me a hat at the institution that employs you upon graduation.’” The hats are testimony to the influence ISU’s counseling program has had nationwide. “By sending me the hats, the graduates are promoting their beneficial, excellent education at ISU,” said Kleist, then listing the names of states and universities identi-

fied on the hats, “in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Idaho, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Washington, Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Georgia, Montana again, Oregon, Utah, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and now Oregon State.” There’s also a nail that waits for a hat from Brooklyn College in New York. The hats don’t go unnoticed. “It has a great impact on students and for me there is a sense of pride to think that these are all different universities and all the different students that are being impacted by folks that went here,” Kleist said. “So to look at the network of influence of ISU , this is one cool way to see it represented.” The tradition is catching on among at least one of his colleagues. Steven Moody, associate professor of counseling, has begun collecting fishing lures from his doctoral advisees when they graduate. Moody graduated from ISU’s counseling department and began working at ISU five years ago after working at Northern Illinois University a couple of years. So far, he’s collected five fishing lures, each engraved with the student’s initials and the year they graduated. “It is fun for sure,” Moody said. “You work with your students for a good solid three years in the doc program so you really get to know them. It is just nice to exchange gifts at the end and we don’t want to be too elaborate or too expensive or anything like that, so it is kind of a fun way to have good memories.” Andy Taylor

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Interim KISU General Manager Jamon Anderson and Jerry Miller

As a kid on the farm, he’d listened to Los Angeles Lakers games on his small transistor radio, listening to legendary announcers Chick Hearn and “Hot Rod” Hundley and fantasizing about being a big-time announcer.

Miller, Over and Out KISU’s general manager retires as station celebrates its 20th birthday After nearly 20 years at as general manager of the public radio station KISU, Jerry Miller retired from that post in June, but will continue to be “the voice of the Bengals” broadcasting Idaho State University men’s football and basketball on commercial radio. During his career, Miller has done play-by-play radio announcing for more than 2,000 ISU sport contests. Miller, 66, interviewed for the KISU job only as a favor to a friend. “After the interview, both of them stood up and said ‘it’s great to have someone with your experience on board. Welcome to ISU,’” Miller said. “I was like, ‘what’s going on here?’ I am not sure I wasn’t the only person interviewed. I was an emergency hire and here I am almost 20 years later.” Despite only having one day of training and no general manager’s experience, Miller has grown the station. When he began, KISU was a small, 400-watt FM station with a single station number, 91.1

FM. Its wattage has grown 10-fold since then, it has a much more powerful transmitter and now has translator signals in Idaho Falls (91.3) and Rexburg (88.1). “I think the thing that pleases me most is that very few people in East Idaho are unaware of KISU,” Miller said. “Now you can listen to us all the way up to the Montana border if you’re going up on I-15. You just have to adjust your dial once in a while.” The Southeast Idaho native has had a varied professional life. However, radio has always been the first love of Miller. As a student at Brigham Young University, he had an internship with KSL radio in Salt Lake City, which turned into a job after he graduated. At the time, KSL was one of the 12 largest stations in the country. “It was my sports play-by-play that ended up landing me my first fulltime gig, and as a result I ended up being the backup announcer for the Utah Jazz,” Miller said.

“And there I was, my first year out of college and I find myself calling a Lakers-Jazz game in the Forum in Los Angeles in ‘Hot Rod’ Hundley’s chair with Chick Hearn right behind me. In my mind, I had just lived the biggest dream I’d ever had for my career. I walked out of the forum that day wondering where I go from here, and here I am at ISU.” Miller also worked at KLCE in Blackfoot and KSEI Radio in Pocatello. At KSEI he was “the voice of the Bengals” for 12 years starting in 1982. He didn’t call another ISU game until he was back at KISU, calling women’s basketball games during the 2000-2001 academic year. In 2008, Miller was once again hired to cover ISU men’s basketball and football games on commercial radio. “I’m going into my 32nd year total of doing ISU games when you combine all the men’s and women’s games,” Miller said. “Going into this season (2019 fall football) I’ve done 2,013 different broadcasts, which, to me, is incredible. I just can’t believe I’ve been around that long.” Miller has been married 44 years to his wife, Rozan. The couple had seven children and has 20 grandchildren, with another on the way. Besides calling ISU games in retirement, Miller said he hopes to keep up on yard and house work, golf when he and Rozan can, and he loves to fish. Andy Taylor

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Bengals “Jam” It Up in Roller Derby On a hot July evening at Capell Park in Chubbuck, members of the Portneuf Valley Bruisers roller derby team get down to business. They grab brooms and sweep up tiny rocks and debris, prepping the cement rink for the night’s practice session. Lee Ann Hancock coaches team mates through a jam — a two-minute session in a derby bout where blockers keep players called jammers from scoring points. “As blockers, we’re moving from the inside of the track, the middle

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and the outside to prevent the jammer from getting passed our hips and scoring,” she explains. If you’re thinking derby bouts are staged slugfests with women scrapping on skates, think again. Today’s derby is an international gender-inclusive sport, enjoying

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a global revival and renewed fan base. There are approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide with an active campaign to get derby into the Olympic Games. And the derby revival has rolled into Bengal country. Three Bruisers at tonight’s prac-

tice work at Idaho State University and a fourth is a graduate of the university’s sign language interpreting program. At least six more ISU graduates are on the team as well. “We’re like a family,” says Hancock, director of divisional marketing and communications for the Kasiska Division of Health Sciences. The Portneuf Valley Bruisers started a decade ago and belong to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association — the international governing body representing 460 leagues on six continents.

A Fusion of NASCAR and Rugby For those new to roller derby, five skaters from each team take the track — four blockers and a jammer who wears a helmet cover with a star on it. Jammers start

behind the pack and score a point for every opposing blocker they lap. Shoving, punching, kicking and head butting are not allowed, according to WFTDA rules. The game requires skill, athleticism, communication and a well-executed strategy, says Hancock who has skated with the Bruisers for six seasons and also serves as a league referee. “Imagine if NASCAR and rugby had a baby. That’s roller derby,” adds seasoned skater and ISU teammate Maggie Beason, referring to the finesse required to safely navigate obstacles while racing around a crowded track or through a pack on a congested field. Team mate Emma Wood, an assistant dean in the College of Education, joined the Bruisers two years ago and looks forward to skating after a hectic day at the office. “It’s a great way to recharge and refocus. It helps me be a much more rounded person,” she says. Alumna Laurie Hunt, an education interpreter for the Pocatello/ Chubbuck school district, is new to roller skating and joined the team last January. “I’m what they call fresh meat,” she laughs. Because roller derby is a contact sport, players are bound to incur their fair share of bumps and bruises. But thanks to protective gear and training, the risk of serious injury is minimal.

Hancock says the Bruisers are always looking for new players to join the team and people who have never skated are welcome. The season begins in spring and ends in early fall, and the Bruisers host a skate camp for beginners each year. That’s how Hunt got hooked. “I fell in love with it. It was so much fun. Everyone is so kind and supportive,” she says. Adding to the fun of roller derby is the opportunity for players to choose a skate name — a carryover from derby’s early days when bouts were more spectacle and entertainment than bona fide sport. Skate names are often a pun on pop culture, a play on a skater’s real name or a nod to an attitude or vocation. Lee Ann Hancock goes by Annimal, Maggie Beason is known as Beaston, the Ph.D.-carrying Emma Wood is Dr. Dilemma and Laurie Hunt is DeLauriean, a nod to the time-traveling DeLorean car machine in “Back to the Future.” For the women, roller derby has instilled feelings of confidence and camaraderie that carry into everyday life — from the moment they lace up their skates, strap on their helmets and make that first revolution around a sleek flat track. “There is something very empowering about being powerful,” says Wood. Chris Gabettas

From left: LeeAnn “Annimal” Hancock, Laurie “DeLauriean” Hunt, Emma “Dr. Dilemma” Wood and Maggie “Beaston” Beason. Photo by Eric Gordon.

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ISU civil and environmental engineering students design new Red Hill “I” … with a little help from their friends Imagine that your homework assignment for the summer is to design one of the most precious and visible 71-foot tall symbols that Idaho State University and Pocatello community have. Oh, and make sure it will last 100 years on top of a steep hill made of rock and be completed in time for ISU Homecoming in October. That was the challenge given to a group of ISU civil and environmental engineering undergraduate and graduate students who designed the new “I” that was placed on Red Hill this fall, ensuring that this icon retains its student roots. ISU students built the original Red Hill “I” and its preceding symbols including the “T” and the “4.”

“I think it is wonderful that here you have an icon that was originally built by students, and the new ‘I’ was designed by our students,” said Bruce Savage, civil and environmental engineering chair and associate professor. “The tie of having the students design it really brings back that the ‘I’ is for students, who are the university. That’s who we are here for.” There were at least seven students involved with designing the “I.” It wasn’t easy and the students said they’re thankful for the support they received from former students, ISU faculty, ISU Facilities Services and private companies involved with the project.

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The team leader was Jared Cantrell, a third-generation ISU master’s student from Mountain Home, who was also involved in helping create the Structural Laboratory at the ISU Engineering Research Center last fall. Jared was the 2017-2018 ISU Student Employee of the Year. “The project overall was a significant challenge,” Cantrell said. “There were a lot of opinions to cater to and care about, so that was something you don’t always see in these projects; it was something new for the students and a unique challenge. The project itself, its location and the timeline, getting everything coordinated and pushed through, has all been a learning experience.” The project only received the green light in April and students weren’t brought on to do the design work until June, with the goal of finishing the project by ISU Homecoming on Oct. 12. There wasn’t a lot to base the project on. “It was a huge challenge because it wasn’t typical, it wasn’t something you could go and draw from a lot of experience other people have had,” Cantrell said. “It’s not to say other people

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Some students involved in the project – from left: Mahesh Acharya, Samantha Kerr, Kathryn Hogarth, Joshua Ball and Jared Cantrell

haven’t done it, but there really wasn’t anyone from around here that was really familiar with that type of application and putting a piece up there.”

a lot of different directions, but they have a solid design. That ‘I’ is not going to go anywhere now. It will last for a lot of years. It is tied right to the hillside.”

The sustainability of the “I” was important to the constituencies that wanted it built. The new “I” needed to look similar to the old one, but needed a longer life expectancy.

Other civil and environmental engineering students involved on the project included Karma Gurung, a graduate student from Nepal who originally came to ISU as an undergraduate and has become a U.S. citizen; Katie Hogarth, a current undergraduate who plays on the ISU Women’s Soccer team and is the 2018-2019 ISU Student Employee of the Year; Mahesh Acharya, current undergraduate from Nepal; Joshua Ball, a local current undergraduate student; Ruchin Khadka, a graduate student from Nepal; and Samantha Kerr, a current undergraduate student from Canada. The

“They asked for us to have the ‘I’ be up there 100 years or more,” Cantrell said. “That’s what they pushed for and so that is what we aimed for.” Both Cantrell and Savage said they think the ‘I’ is solidly built. “The students did the design, drew up the plans and did the calculations,” Savage said. “They did a good job. It was a learning experience. This project has gone

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students working on the project received an hourly wage. Although the students did most of the design work, their efforts were peer reviewed and assisted by ISU civil and environmental engineering faculty who volunteered their time throughout the project. ISU faculty on the project included Savage, who served in a team-leader role, Assistant Professor Mustafa Mashal, who served as the advising structural engineer, and Senior Lecturer Jim Mahar, who provided geotechnical expertise. Krystal Chanda, who came up with the design concept, is an ISU alumna and an owner of A&E Engineering. A&E Engineering was brought on to the project for peer review to be the Engineer of Record. The students also worked with and sought advice from other major players in the project, ISU Facilities Services and Star Corporation, the contractor building the “I.” Darren Leavitt, coordinator of the College of Technology’s Civil Engineering Technology program, did most of the surveying for the project. “The whole collaboration has really gone well,” Cantrell said. “With the students, they have some experience, but not a lot of them

have been on real projects, so it was really good to get them involved with everyone who helped us and carry out the project in collaboration with everyone’s ideas and the best way to accomplish things. We really appreciate everyone who helped with the project.” The students said it was an honor to work on the project. “It was a great privilege for me to work for a project that had and will have great significance to the university and the community,” said Gurung. “The project was challenging at times but with great guidance from the faculty at ISU and the professionals at A&E Engineering, these challenges turned into opportunities for us to learn and grow.” The students were also struck by the importance of the “I” to the community. “It was interesting to see and good to see how many people cared about it,” he said. “The Alumni Association and other groups were really excited about doing this and they really wanted it to be a true, iconic structure that it was. They wanted the new one to have its roots tied back to the original ‘I’ and that was something that was important.”

How the new “I” was built • Test holes were dug to understand Red Hill’s soil makeup

The Red Hill “I” was a uniquely ISU project

• Foundations were hand dug

Besides students and faculty from the ISU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, other ISU employees and entities played vital and key roles in the construction of the “I.”

• A mud slab – which is a layer of concrete footing – was poured on top of the rock to give a working surface for the construction of the “I”. • Holes were drilled down through the concrete down into the native rock. • Steel bars were placed in the holes and grouted in-place. • Concrete beams and piers, were poured on top of the footing to encase the steel bars • A steel substructure was built on top of the concrete beams and piers. • The final stage was building a steel superstructure that holds composite grating that makes up the visible “I”. • The new “I” is 71 feet long and 24 feet wide. It is orange with a black border, with a white border around the black, retaining its original look. • Facilities Services provided project management and oversight. • Star Corporation was the contractor building the “I.” • A& E Engineering was the engineer of record.

ISU Facilities Services has been involved with the project from the beginning. “We have worked with the students on the design and on many different parts of the project,” said Cheryl Hanson, associate vice president for Facilities Services. “One thing different with this project is that its project manager is our own Herb Yee. Through a special agreement, the DPW (Idaho Department of Public Works) has delegated management of the project to ISU. This is the largest project we’ve ever run in house.” ISU Facilities Services was ultimately responsible for the whole project. “We coordinated with the contractors and did reports on all the tests on all the holes, foundations, footings, the soils – everything – this was not a typical project where we have the DPW taking over,” Hanson said. “It required a lot more commitment by my director of design and construction, Jason Adams, who also played a large role in the project. Andy Taylor

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The Iconic Since its addition to campus in 1916, the “I” has been a meaningful part of our institutional traditions and history.

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“T”: THE ORIGINAL SYMBOL Originally a “T,” the campus symbol was first placed on Red Hill in 1916 in recognition of the institution’s evolution from the Academy of Idaho to the Idaho Technical Institute.

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“T” MODIFIED TO BE A “4” The “T” became a tool for the students to display their desire for a four-year institution by changing their letter into the number “4.”

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“T” BECOMES AN “I” Finally, when the Tech was made the University of Idaho Southern Branch in 1927, the Students couldn’t wait to turn the “T” into an “I.”

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THE “I” LIVES A LONG FULL LIFE The iconic mark keeps a watchful “I” over campus for 87 years. Occasionally requiring upkeep in the form of whitewashing and chicken wire. A number of campus traditions related to the “I” existed.

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ICON REMOVED The “I” was eventually removed completely in June 2014 due to safety concerns related to ongoing erosion.

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‘I’ Take It Personally Few people living have as much to do with the new Red Hill “I” as Jim Mahar, a faculty member in the Idaho State University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering. He worked on the old “I” as a student in 1963, completed a technical review of the old “I” that concluded it needed to be taken down and is among the group of current and past ISU Idaho State University students and faculty who are a major part of the team that put the “I” back where it belongs.

Jim Mahar,, left, on Red Hill during construction of the “I.”

“To me, having a high-quality, beautiful ‘I’ represents the quality of education and experiences you can get at ISU,” Mahar said. “It has been an honor to participate in this project because it was so important to me and other people. I think the restoration and the president’s concept of restoring the ‘I’ history is outstanding because we do have a history and it is a really good one.” Mahar came to ISU from Rochester, New York, to play football for legendary ISU coach Italo “Babe” Caccia, who respected Mahar’s

academic commitments and would excuse him for missing practices if he had an important lab to attend. Playing cornerback and linebacker, Mahar was on a team that won the Big Sky Conference championship in 1963. He was also at ISU when it transitioned from Idaho State College to its current incarnation as a university. “I helped work on the ‘I’ for one or two days when I got here as a freshman,” Mahar said. “I remember seeing it every time I went to the football stadium (Davis

Field, where soccer and track now reign) and I would look up to it and it would have a special meaning.” As his life progressed, the “I” took on more meaning. While he was playing football under the shadow of Red Hill and the “I,” his future wife, Carol Bowser, was a dancer as part of the Bengalettes, who performed at football games. A mutual friend later introduced them in 1964 and they married in 1966. When James looks at the “I” now, he also thinks of his wife, a former assistant dean of devel-

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opment for the ISU College of Business for nine years. “I think the emotional side of this, restoring the ’I,’ has a lot of different aspects,” Mahar said. “But the one that is most important to me is that I was young, I was coming to school, I was playing football and I met this beautiful, wonderful woman and to fall in love was something so special. We were both studying, didn’t have any money, didn’t have any furniture, didn’t have anything and

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we ended up getting married and staying together for 53 years. It all started here at ISU and we are still in love and still at ISU.” Carol, too, cherishes the “I” and what it means in her life. She grew up near campus and remembers admiring the “I” as she played on Hutchinson Quadrangle. “I loved to hike up to Red Hill and enjoy the view,” she said. “I would watch the football team practice and enjoyed seeing the ‘I’ from a

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different angle. The ‘I’ was a daily part of my scenery when I lived on Fourth Street.” Both Jim and Carol said ISU with provided them with a quality education that set the foundation for satisfying lives. They each went on from ISU to earn master’s and doctoral degrees and have successful careers, while raising their daughters Kate, another ISU alumna, and Jennifer. They lived and worked in several states, including Colorado and Washington, D.C.,

and spent about 30 years based in the Chicago area. They returned to ISU in 2000 where she became an assistant dean. Jim joined the College of Engineering and the Department of Geosciences in 2001 and continues his work on the faculty. He also owns and works for Geotechnical Consultants, Inc. in Champaign, Illinois. “Coming to school here was one of the best decisions I ever made,” Mahar said. “I got a wonderful

education that really set me up for graduate work. In my opinion – and I’ve been to a lot of places, done a lot of work and been doing (civil engineering) consulting work for 47 years – this is one of the best deals going. The engineering group here is outstanding. It is a great place.” As much as both Carol and Jim cherished the old, cement “I” on Red Hill, Mahar had a part in taking it down. In 2013, the ISU Facilities Department completed a study that raised safety concerns about the old “I”. Jim reviewed that study and also concluded that because of erosion and instability it posed a safety risk.

The “I” was taken down in 2014. Before official plans were proposed, in 2016 Mahar had a class of 10 students complete a yearlong project to replace the “I” at approximately the 50-yard line, or mid-stripe of Davis Field. Mahar spent many hours up on the hill with his colleagues monitoring the technically and physically challenging construction project. “For five years I was hoping it would be replaced,” Mahar said. “It is a very important symbol for this great university. It is going to be beautiful and it is going to represent what Idaho State University really means to a lot of people.” Andy Taylor

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Paths to Success TRIO program puts higher education in the sights of Idaho State students

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Joseph Do psychology major

The McNair Scholars program, one of Idaho State University TRIO’s newest programs, is designed to help students in underrepresented populations, achieve success in graduate school. Students are chosen for the program based on their academic achievement — they must be on the pathway to graduate school and strongly considering a doctoral degree. To qualify, students must also be first-generation college students, meaning neither parent attended college, and have limited income, or be a member of a population that is currently underrepresented in graduate education. Through the program, students work with a faculty research men-

tor, and receive a paid summer research internship. They also receive support when applying for graduate schools, and the opportunity to present at local, national and international conferences as undergraduate students. Here are the stories of two Bengals on the path to a Ph.D:

Joseph Do Joseph Do’s family moved around quite a bit before finally settling in Rigby, Idaho when he was 12 years old. “My mom was looking for a good place to settle down and raise a family,” Do said. Coming to small-town Idaho at age 12 wasn’t easy, Do said, but he was driven. He knew he want-

ed to attend college, and sought out resources to help him achieve his goals. He began taking dual-credit classes at Idaho State when he was in high school. “It was a cheap way to jump-start college,” Do said. It was also during high school that Do discovered Bengal Bridge, a Trio program that offers lower-cost credits, academic coaches and the opportunity to ease into college life. Through the program, Do was able to spend the summer on campus, take summer courses, and receive assistance navigating through tasks like registering for classes, handling financial aid and locating on-campus resources.

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“My dad has always said, ‘I can’t give you a lot of money, I can’t give you a fancy house. What I can give you is an education … My parents have sacrificed so much for me.” – Selene Ortiz

Do is now a double major in psychology and biology, and is one of a cohort of McNair Scholars, high-achieving first-generation, low income or underrepresented students who are on a path to a doctoral degree. The McNair program urges students to find research mentors. Do was able to do research in the Department of Psychology with professor and chair Erin Rasmussen, studying food insecurity and obesity. Working with his mentor and graduate students, Do was able to work recruiting participants, interviewing study subjects and collecting data. He was also given the opportunity to work on preparing a paper to be published.

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“We basically worked as a team,” he said. “The McNair program creates good connections.”

“I remember crying because I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life,” Ortiz said.

The experience has been life-changing, Do said.

So she left, moving to Mexico to care for her 90-year-old grandmother. When she returned home to Idaho, she began work in a warehouse.

“My passions have expanded,” he said, “I want to work to help people. The McNair program helps people decide what they want to do.”

Selene Ortiz After her first semester at Idaho State, Selene Ortiz was done. She had begun school nervous, and, as a first-generation college student, she didn’t know who to ask about things like navigating financial aid, registration or getting help with classes.

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Her parents were not ready for her to give up, however. Although they only have an elementary-school education, seeing their children go on to college was a priority. One day, her dad, a farm worker, brought her his entire paycheck to pay her first semester tuition. Ortiz came back to school with a new outlook. “My dad has always said, ‘I can’t give you a lot of money, I can’t give you a fancy house. What I

Selene Ortiz Spanish major

can give you is an education,’” she said. “My parents have sacrificed so much for me.”

help others learn,” she said. “Being able to help others made a huge difference for me.”

lot of the research I’ve done has shaped what I want to do with my life,” she said.

When Ortiz returned, she was able to receive help from the ISU TRIO program, helping her find scholarships. When she struggled handling both school and her job on a potato farm, TRIO counselors showed her a paid internship researching water rights in her home community of Aberdeen. She applied and got the position.

When she wanted to study abroad, TRIO counselors helped her find the Gilman Scholarship, a highly competitive grant to study abroad. Ortiz earned the grant, and in spring 2018 she was able to study in Valencia, Spain. Now, she is part of the second cohort of the McNair Scholars program. Through the program, she was able to conduct research on opinions and knowledge of opioid abuse in Latino populations, and research on Spanish literature. The experiences, she said, have been eye-opening.

Ortiz is graduating in December with degrees in Spanish and global studies, with a minor in art. She is applying to several graduate schools, including Texas A and M, Notre Dame and Georgetown University. She hopes to earn her Ph.D. and earn a faculty position at a university. She has never had a faculty mentor who is a first-generation Latino graduate, and she wants to be able to provide that support for another generation. Having a role model who is like you can make a huge difference, Ortiz said.

“It opens doors for you, and teaches you to value research. A

“I really would love to teach,” she said. “I want to help others learn.”

Through TRIO and the Bengal Bridge program, she was able to co-teach classes to new students, helping them navigate through financial aid, classes, and everything they needed to know to become a Bengal. “I was given the opportunity to

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ISU Road Scholarships support 170 Idaho students “If you want to go to college, please stand up.” Leonor Serna rose from her seat at an Aberdeen High School assembly. She’d thrown on an orange Bengal T-shirt that morning, unaware that the outfit choice would make for a perfect photo op later that day. “If you want to go to ISU, stay standing,” said Kandi Turley-Ames, dean of the Idaho State University College of Arts and Letters. “Stay standing if you want to go into the College of Arts and Letters.”

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With each question, more of Serna’s fellow students sat down until she realized she was the only one left standing. “Congratulations,” Turley-Ames told her. Serna had been named a recipient of the Road Scholarship, a $2,000 award given to outstanding high school seniors planning to attend ISU after graduation. “All the barriers I faced made it difficult to proceed on with my studies, but the Road Scholarship gave me the financial stability to go through all the hardship,” Serna, now a triple major in political science, global studies and Spanish, said a year later. “I am immensely grateful for this scholarship, and there are no words to describe the true impact it had on my life.” The Road Scholarship began as a College of Arts and Letters recruitment initiative in 2016, meant to combat Idaho’s low go-on rate for students enrolling in college after high school. Students are nominated by their high schools and asked to write an essay describing their college and career goals. Road Scholars are then selected based on their GPA, major of interest and goals highlighted in the essay. In the first two years of the scholarship program, the college awarded 62 scholarships total-

Onika Sorenson with Interim Nursing Dean Karen Neill and Kandi Turley-Ames

ing $108,000. The next year, the program expanded into a university-wide initiative, with 108 Road Scholars receiving $216,000 in the 2019-2020 school year. The scholarships aim not only to provide incoming students with financial support, but also to invite them into the ISU community. Turley-Ames and other members of the college travel to each recipient’s high school, surprising each recipient in person. The visit serves to welcome Road Scholars into a network of resources and mentors.

When Onika Sorensen, then a graduating senior at Highland High School, received her Road Scholarship, members of the Highland and ISU communities surrounded her. As Turley-Ames read Sorensen’s application essay, the student held back tears. “Seeing everyone around me from both schools helped me realize how much support there was and just how many people were watching and rooting for me to succeed,” said Sorensen, now a nursing major with a minor in Spanish for health professions.

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“I was overwhelmed with joy and also love as I once again looked around and saw all of these people there to support me.” Like many Road Scholars, Sorenson encountered financial obstacles in her journey to college. She also grappled with health challenges, missing school because of illness and surgeries. “The Road Scholarship program has been a great opportunity for many of our students to be recognized and awarded who have been somewhat marginalized in the past,” said Jena Wilcox, Sorensen’s vice principal at Highland. “These students are often entering a field of study which does not garner a lot of scholarship opportunities. In addition, these students are not always your run-of-the-mill scholarship students, so the Road Scholarship provides an avenue for these students to offset the financial burden, making it easier for them to focus on their studies.” ISU senior Claudia Maldonado represented one of those students. As a first-generation student, she said, “there was a lot of uncertainty when I started, simply

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Leonor Serna with College of Arts and Letters Dean Kandi Turley-Ames

because I had to figure out a lot of things as I went.” At ISU, Maldonado found advisors ready to help her navigate majors and course schedules. With support from her college men-

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tors, she chose to pursue degrees in global studies and Spanish. This summer, she belonged to the inaugural cohort of the Idaho International Internship program, working with the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee with U.S. Senator Jim Risch.

I wanted to further my education and give them a better life.”

For Maldonado, the Road Scholarship served as a push to enroll in college, where she would eventually excel.

Serna received the Road Scholarship in June 2018, enrolling at ISU that fall. The community she’d been welcomed into at the Aberdeen assembly became an integral part of her college experience. Commuting 40 minutes each way to school, she found her way to College of Arts and Letters offices when she felt overwhelmed.

“It was really one of the key components to getting me to Idaho State, in a few ways,” she said. “For one, it played a role when I was debating between ISU and another university, but in a broader sense, it helped get me to college in general because it helped ease some of the uncertainty that comes with college.” The daughter of hard-working parents who had attended up to the third and fifth grades, Leonor Serna was no stranger to that uncertainty. “College was an unreachable dream,” she said. “I could only dream of going due to my culture’s stereotypes and financial stability.” One night while Serna was still in high school, her family sat around the dinner table. Serna’s mother asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Serna didn’t know. “But I knew I wanted to be someone,” she said. “I knew I wanted to show them that all their hard work was for something. I knew

“When I got here, I sat at the College because I knew I could always ask someone for help,” she said. “It was my home place away from home.” Just as Serna felt as if she were succeeding in school, her heart started hurting. As a child, she’d been diagnosed with a heart murmur. Doctors had said the problem would straighten itself out with time, but suddenly, Serna had trouble breathing. As she drove the 40 minutes to ISU, she grew faint and had to pull over. In December 2018, she had a cardiac episode while on a family trip to Mexico. Serna had no health insurance. She spent the majority of her spring semester in pain and hooked up to heart monitors. Her doctors told her to avoid stress, but with a full-time courseload, that felt impossible.

In July, Serna was diagnosed with atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia, a type of abnormal fast heart rhythm. On July 27, she underwent heart surgery. She was enrolled in 15 credits of summer classes. “I’d say to my parents, ‘I can’t do it, I’m so stressed,’” Serna said. “And they’d say, ‘No, no, no. Don’t say you can’t.’ Can’t is not in their vocabulary.” Serna passed her classes. She began working as a legal assistant and interpreter at a local law firm. She set plans to graduate in just two years and, despite doubting only a year before that she was capable of higher education, started exploring law and graduate school. After the difficulties of navigating college and feelings of unbelonging as a first-generation student, of her health scares and financial challenges, Serna regards receiving her Road Scholarship as pivotal. It made her feel like she belonged in college. It made her feel embraced into a supportive academic community. “Not only do they help you in academics, they help you in your personal life,” she said of the College of Arts and Letters community. “That’s what I love about it — they give you the best they can give you.” Madison Shumway

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Idaho State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history can be summed up in one word: evolution. From humble beginnings as the Academy of Idaho, to an internationally-recognized University with an alumni base of nearly 100,000 Bengals, Idaho State has adapted to meet a core mission of educating students. This fall, the University took another step forward in its evolutionary process with the launch of a new logo and revised brand elements.

One week before fall classes started, the new Bengal logo and University marks were unveiled. The rollout included large building banners, new apparel in the University Bookstore, and updated campus signage. The new Bengal logo features everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved Bengal, simplified and modernized. The Bengal logo now more

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closely aligns with bold personality found at Idaho State University, said Stuart Summers, associate vice president for Marketing and Communications. Other University marks include an updated spirit mark.

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“We want our identity and the corresponding brand to evoke a feeling of pride, inclusion and collaboration. A strong, united identity will help Idaho State’s message to roar even louder,” Summers said. “Orange isn’t just a color. It’s an attitude.” Idaho State collaborated with Boise-based marketing agency Mitchell + Palmer for the logo and brand redesign. The agency spent nearly a year gathering data, and talking to students, alumni, employees and community members about Idaho State and what it means to be a Bengal. Mitchell + Palmer has also assisted the University in building a new, comprehensive statewide ad campaign. “We are making changes to enhance all aspects of Idaho State,” President Kevin Satterlee said. “Not only changes in the way we’ve done things in the past, but changes designed to bring out our natural potential, to play to our strengths, to let us be the best version of ourselves as an institution.”

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A Place of Welcome Ground breaking on alumni center draws closer Idaho State University will soon have a new space to welcome alumni, friends, students and visitors. Bids for construction of a new, 22,000 square-foot ISU Alumni Center are expected to open this summer. The center will be located on the corner of North 15th Avenue and Memorial Drive in Pocatello, Idaho State Alumni Director Ryan Sargent sees the new center as a gathering place for alumni, friends, visitors and students. Features will include a large open courtyard, a large event hall, meeting rooms and an atrium. The center will also be home to administrative offices for Alumni Relations and the ISU Foundation.

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For more than 40 years, the Alumni Association has welcomed guests at the Magnusen House, a historic single-family home on Seventh Avenue near campus. Sargent says the new facility will allow the University to better showcase the open, welcoming feeling people get at Idaho State University. “The Alumni Center will serve as the gateway to campus and welcome the world to ISU,” Sargent said. “The building’s architectural design communicates warmth, hospitality and, really, ISU pride.” Donors have raised more than 95 % of the funding needed to begin construction, Sargent said. Through Dec. 31, all donations to the center are being matched by an anonymous donor, up to $200,000.

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For a donation of $1,000, which can be paid over time, alumni and friends can etch their name in history on a paver that will be located outside the new center. “This new facility will be a gathering place for not only our alumni, but for our friends, visitors and students,” Sargent said. “While we are calling it the Alumni and Visitors Center, it will really serve as our university center where we will bring Bengals together, both current and past.” For more information on how you can help make the Alumni Center a reality, visit isu.edu/alumnicenter. Emily Frandsen

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Alumni News 1970s LeTourneau University President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford recently awarded the Gerrie Forbis Staff Excellence Award to Assistant Director for Academic Support Debbie McGinness, ‘74. The award is presented in recognition of effectiveness in mentoring, dedication to LeTourneau University and Christian education, helpfulness to students, spiritual leadership, service and continuous improvement. McGinness manages the tutoring program at LeTourneau University, including the math lab and special instruction programs on campus to assist students to accomplish their academic goals.

Shane Williams, ‘84, is the new West Jefferson High School superintendent. Williams has worked for years in the Madison School District in Rexburg, most recently as principal at Kennedy Elementary school.

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Jodi Prestwich, ‘86, is the new principal of Tyhee Elementary in Chubbuck. Prestwich has worked for 15 years in the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District. She worked for 10 years as a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Jefferson and Edahow elementary schools and the last five years as a Title I Interventionist at Greenacres Elementary School.

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Phoenix Copper Limited announce that Ryan McDermott, ‘92, chief operating officer, has been appointed a director of the company. McDermott has 27 years’ experience in mining and mineral exploration for base and precious metals. Karla Hess, ‘97, FNP-C (Family Nurse Practitioner-Certified), has expanded women’s health care at the Firth Medical Center in Firth. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Idaho State University, a bachelor’s degree in human development from Utah State University, and a master’s in nursing/family practice from Gonzaga University.

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2000s Cambia Health Solutions Dr. Esther Machen, D.D.S., ‘ 02, has been appointed to the board of directors for Cambia Health Solutions. Dr. Machen is currently a member of the Idaho Oral Health Alliance, the Idaho State Dental Association and the American Dental Association. She also completed a term serving on the Idaho State University Dental Hygiene advisory committee. Dr. Machen graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, receiving her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. She also attended Idaho State University and graduated with a BS in Dental Hygiene. Andrea Binggeli, ‘03, has opened a children’s consignment store in Pocatello. Poky Kids is a resale store for quality clothes, shoes, baby gear, books and educational toys. Janelle Brouwer, ‘05, is the new superintendent of the Marion Independent School District in Iowa. Carl Darrington, ‘05, has been named commercial relationship manager for Zions Bank, responsible for developing and maintaining banking relationships with agricultural and business clients. He is based at the Burley branch. He has 14

years of banking experience and previously worked as a business relationship manager for Wells Fargo, focusing primarily on agricultural clients. Spence Ward, ‘06, has been hired as the Shoshone-Bannock tribal water engineer. He has worked for the Tribes for the past 13 years as the tribal water resources deputy engineer from 2006-2018, and was appointed to serve as the interim water engineer in February 2018. Mike Blauer, ‘06, is the new CEO at Bear Lake Memorial Hospital. Blauer moved from Mountain Home to Montpelier to take on the new position. Lester Stewart, ‘08, is the new Casper College Thunderbirds men’s basketball assistant coach.

2010s Adam Velasquez, ‘11, vice president and executive banking relationship manager at Zion’s Bank, was recently named a 2019 Accomplished Under 40 award winner by the Idaho Business Review. Nathan Capps, ‘13, has founded Streamline Energy Solutions, an energy efficiency company in Santa Clara, California. Payette County recently hired Adam Gonzalez, ‘15, to fill the new role of assistant emergency manager. Scott Anderson, ‘16, has taken ownership of American Falls’ Rockland Pharmacy. Anderson took over the pharmacy and boutique in April. Davis School District in Utah has hired Kathleeen Chronister, ‘16, to fill a new district-level administrative position to lead social and emotional learning (SEL) across the district. Chronister comes

to the new position from Davis district’s alternative high school in Kaysville, Mountain High, where she was the principal. Under her leadership, the school’s on-time graduation rate hovered around 95 percent. She has 29 years of experience working in Davis School District, including five years as a teacher, 10 years as a curriculum specialist, and 14 years as a school administrator. Hailey Dugan, ‘17, has joined Title One as a marketing communications coordinator in the company’s Boise office. Madeline Connaughton, ‘18, has joined TitleOne as a delivery specialist in the company’s Idaho Falls office. She has eight years of customer service experience. Scentsy Project Management Director Kerri Bryan, ‘18, was named one of the Idaho Business Review’s 2019 Accomplished under 40 award winners.

After nearly three decades of service at Idaho State University, Vice President for University Advancement Kent Tingey is retiring at the end of the year. Tingey first began his career at ISU in 1989 as Director of University Relations. He assumed the vice president position in 1999. Under his direction, ISU raised $152.5 million in its first-ever capital campaign. The result of the campaign was the construction of ISU’s Stephens Performing Arts Center.

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