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Here We Have Idaho The University of Idaho Magazine FALL 2005 • VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3

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University President Timothy White Interim Director of University Communications and Marketing and Editor Jeff Olson Alumni Association President Brian Hill University of Idaho Foundation President Keith Riffle Magazine Design Julene Ewert Illustrations Julene Ewert

Gifts change lives forever.

“You can make an immediate difference in the learning atmosphere for students by supporting scholarships, laboratory equipment, and Internet connections in the classroom and laboratories.”

—Prof. Carolyn Hovde Bohach

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The highest honor for undergraduate teaching in microbiology.

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Front row: Hannah Knecht, Princeton, Idaho; Heather Dobbin, Marsing, Idaho; Ji Youn Lim, Seoul, Korea; Jie Li, Pianjin, China; Christina Airhart, Plains, Montana Back row: Austin Viall, Fairbanks, Alaska; Scott Minnich, Moscow, Idaho; John Clarke, INBRE intern, BYU-Idaho, Lynnwood, Washington

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20 Alumni Entrepreneurs What it takes to successfully be your own boss

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A Vandal’s Role in the Watergate Scandal

13 Inspired to Help An alumna joins in the tsunami relief effort

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Virtural Technology and Design Students They are computer literate and arts aware

The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and educational institution. © 2005, University of Idaho Here We Have Idaho magazine is published three times a year, in January, April and August. The magazine is free to alumni and friends of the university. ❚ Send address changes to: PO Box 443147, Moscow, ID 83844-3147. ❚ Send information, Class Notes and correspondence regarding alumni activities to: Annis Shea, Alumni Office, PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail: alumni@uidaho. edu. ❚ Send editorial correspondence to: University Communications and Marketing, PO Box 443221, Moscow, ID 83844-3221; phone (208) 885-6291; fax (208) 885-5841; e-mail: uinews@uidaho.edu.

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Mark Felt Reveals his Secret

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Professor of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry American Society for Microbiology 2005 Carski Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award

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We welcome letters to the editor. Correspondence should include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for purposes of clarity or space.

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Nanotechnology The small side of science could be the next big thing

32 Vandals Make Their WAC Debut UI enters Western Athletic Conference competition

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Jason Crowforth is president and CEO of Boise’s Treetop Technologies, Inc., an Internet technologies services and support company. In addition, he owns two Boise restaurants. He is pictured at one of the restaurants, Square.

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Writers and Contributors Hugh Cooke Cindy Darnell Leslie Einhaus Tim Helmke Nancy Hilliard Scott Holter Jeff P. Jones Kate Jorgensen Bill Loftus Sue McMurray Becky Paull Kallee Hone Valentine Kathi Vieser Kelly Yenser Pamela Yenser

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1 Battle of the Palouse, UI vs. WSU football, Martin Stadium, Pullman

Creative Kickoff

Bruce Sykes

15-18 Campus Christian Center 75th anniversary reunion

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Kim Rundle

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17-17 Vandal Pride Days in Seattle 24-24 Dads’ Weekend Kappa Sigma 100th anniversary celebration

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KUID-TV 40th anniversary celebration Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Homecoming

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7 Student recruitment Vandal Preview Day 22 Ag Days 10 Idaho Treasure Award recognition luncheon 15 KUOI-FM 60th anniversary celebration

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18-19 Vandal Pride Days in Boise 9 Alumni Awards for Excellence banquet 10 December Commencement

December For more information on UI alumni chapter events, go to www.supportui.uidaho.edu on the Web.

One alumna, Jody Stover, was inspired to travel to Thailand to assist in tsunami relief efforts.

The first graduates in the University’s visual design and technology program are on the cutting edge of technology. They blend computer literacy with an awareness of the arts to help design a sustainable future.

I invite you back home this fall, as it is an invigorating time on the University of Idaho campus, and a wonderful time for alumni to visit. Homecoming, Dads’ Weekend and Ag Days are featured events for alumni – along with football games, volleyball and soccer matches

and performing arts events. Our athletic events will be staged in a new arena of sorts this fall; the University of Idaho enters its inaugural season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

All in all, this is a wonderful volume that highlights the global impact of all who have studied here... makes me very proud.

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t our May commencement ceremony, I reminded the honored graduates that “University of Idaho graduates have a reputation for making an impact, and that we have an expectation for them to do so.” Commencement speaker Thomas Wright, humanitarian, businessman and philanthropist, also challenged the graduates to “question the establishment,” and ask themselves if there is a better way to handle problems and issues, and to make a personal commitment to act.

A few weeks later, my comment became a bit of an understatement, and Tom’s words became prophetic, when UI alumnus Mark Felt made headlines around the world. The former FBI administrator and member of the University’s Alumni Hall of Fame revealed to the world his role as the informant dubbed “Deep Throat” in the Watergate Scandal of the 1970s.

You can read more about Mark Felt and his role in changing world history in this issue of Here We Have Idaho.

This issue of the magazine also highlights the accomplishments of a number of other UI alumni, students and faculty who are making an impact.

Four remarkable alumni who represent the entrepreneurial spirit are featured.

They found success by building upon a passion or simply chased a dream of working for no one but themselves.

University of Idaho researchers and students are helping to define an emerging science – nanotechnology – where materials and devices are constructed at the smallest possible scale.

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From the President PHOTOS BY CINDY DARNELL

UI student-artists put paint to pigskin this spring for a creative kickoff to the 2005 football season. The project was a collaboration between UI Athletics, the Art Department and the Vandal Scholarship Fund. Art faculty members Bill Woolston and Sally Machlis took the lead in encouraging students to turn footballs into pointy-ended pieces of art.

After being displayed at Retro-Fit Art Gallery in Moscow, the 20 footballs were auctioned at the Nick Holt Golf Tournament in April. The effort raised nearly $3,000, which was shared between the artists and the Vandal Scholarship Fund.

“This was the first of what we hope will be many projects that bring academics and athletics together,” said Rick Darnell, executive director of the Vandal Scholarship Fund.

“We want to work with other UI colleges and departments to showcase and support all of our talented students.”

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For more on these stories and for daily UI news, go to www.today.uidaho.edu.

University of Idaho mule clones Idaho Gem and Idaho Star are in training for the races. The University leased the clones to businessmen Don Jacklin of Post Falls and Roger Downey of Albuquerque, N.M., who serve as president and vice president, respectively, of the American Mule Racing Association. The next 10 months will be devoted to basic training, Jacklin said, as the clones become more used to handling, the saddle and carrying a rider. The third mule clone, Utah Pioneer, remains on campus.

A $9 million federally funded research program will bolster Idaho’s ability to study critical water and aquaculture issues. The National Science Foundation grant was awarded to the Idaho Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

Researchers at the University of Idaho, Boise State University and Idaho State University will share the funding.

Blenda Davis of Boise is this year’s UI Mom of the Year. She was nominated by her daughter, Emily, who wrote, “My mother has become my best friend and she continues to be the one who cares for me the most in the world.” Blenda is a member of the UI Parents’ Advisory Board.

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UI student Brett Phillips of Sugar City was elected chairman of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls for 200506. It is the largest and oldest studentrun organization worldwide. His term as chairman will focus on helping expand and improve the quality of residence hall life on a national scale.

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An essay by graduate creative writing student Sean Prentiss has received honorable mention in the Atlantic Monthly College Writing Awards Competition. The essay, “Pantheon of Loss,” is about the author’s experiences competing as a wrestler in high school and the dangers associated with the sport.

Douglas D. Baker is the new UI provost and executive vice president. Baker most recently served as vice provost for academic affairs at Washington State University.

“We are delighted to have Doug Baker join our leadership team,” said UI President Tim White. “His depth and breadth of experience and skills, plus an action-oriented, style make him a wonderful fit for the needs of the University of Idaho.”

Baker holds a doctoral degree in business Douglas D. Baker organizational behavior and theory from the University of Nebraska, and master’s and baccalaureate degrees in management from Colorado State University. He and his family reside in Moscow, and he is familiar with UI programs through his research and academic collaboration.

“One of my first goals will be to start implementation of the University’s Plan for Renewal, to build on the program priority efforts developed by faculty and leadership during the spring semester,” said Baker.

Honoring Alex Wetherbee

Newspaper is news maker

UI’s twice-weekly student newspaper, the Argonaut, won first place in the nation in the Mark of Excellence contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Brian Passey, now a reporter for The Spectrum at St. George, Utah, was the Argonaut’s editor during spring semester 2004. Abbey Lostrom, a UI senior journalism major, was the fall semester editor.

“The award is a testament to the dedication of those who lived and breathed the Argonaut, because that’s pretty much what we did,” Passey said.

Lostrom, who was the paper’s news editor before becoming editor-in-chief, agreed.

“It’s a great reflection of our staff and everybody’s hard work,” she said.

Judges evaluated three issues of the paper on news content, reporting, writing, editing, design, photography and editorials. The first-place award will be presented Oct. 17 at SPJ’s national convention at Las Vegas.

A Matter of Degrees — Commencement 2005

Sprinkles of rain turned into showers, but the weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the recordnumber of UI graduates and their families and friends on Commencement Day 2005.

“It is a good morning,” said UI President Timothy White, as he formally conferred degrees on an estimated 1,864 students eligible for degrees this spring. The number includes 1,209 bachelor’s degrees, 242 master’s degrees, 85 Ph.D. degrees, 35 specialist degrees and 83 law degrees.

“University of Idaho graduates have a reputation for making an impact,” said White. “We anticipate you will continue that tradition.”

The spring 2005 commencement brings the total number of degrees award by UI since 1896 to 87,880.

Commencement speaker Thomas C. Wright spoke to the graduates about the importance of philanthropy. “For every three dollars you earn, put one dollar in savings, spend one dollar on yourself and share the third dollar with others,” Wright said.

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money. “A philan-thropist also can give time and energy,” he said.

“There are many, many needs out there. It’s calling you forward to do all you can. I suggest you do it your way; accept the challenge and cherish the change.”

President’s Medallion recipients: Sen. James and Louise McClure, Scott Reed; Delbert Farmer; Honorary Degree recipient Thomas C. Wright.

UI students may become even more mobile in the use of computers.

ASUI, with the help of UI Information Technology Services, has started a new laptop computer lease program.

The “V-Mobile” initiative offers two IBM and two Apple models from which to choose, all pre-loaded with Microsoft Office and Symantec antivirus. Pricing for the laptops begins at $500 per semester. At the end of a four-semester lease term, students can purchase the laptop for $1. The major benefit of the program is service and maintenance — ITS provides hardware and software support and also will offer loaner laptops to students if their computer cannot be repaired immediately.

A memorial ceremony and tree dedication was held in May for University of Idaho alumnus Alexander E. Wetherbee, who died while fighting in Iraq last fall.

Lt. Wetherbee, 27, died Sept. 12, 2004 Lt. Alex Wetherbee while serving as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He is the first known UI alumnus to die while serving in Iraq.

He is survived by his wife, Heather, a 2002 UI alumna.

Wetherbee graduated with a forest resources degree from UI in 2001.

He was an active member of ROTC. Wetherbee also participated in trips and activities sponsored by the UI Outdoor Program, and became an instructor.

“Alex was an accomplished climber, skier, mountaineer and an outdoor educator with Outward Bound during his summers while in college,” said Mike Beiser, director of UI Outdoor Programs. “One of the distinguishing characteristics of Alex’s life was his love of the outdoors and his passion for sharing that love with others, particularly young people.”

A scholarship fund honoring Wetherbee has been established at UI. Donations may be made online at www.sites.uidaho.edu/gifts or to the University of Idaho Foundation, Inc., Gift Administration Office, P.O. Box 443147, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3147.

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This spring, the tread leading to Dean Jack Dawson’s office at UI Coeur d’Alene may have been more worn than usual.

“Steady traffic in and out of my office,” he says with a smile. People flocked to the office window to catch a glimpse of Joe and Ima Vandal.

This Vandal couple is like no other — a pair of geese with a gaggle of fans. It seemed the soon-tobe parents hatched a scheme to have their little ones in the limelight and online.

A Web cam was set up by IT Systems Coordinator Rob Baxter to monitor their moves. Visitors left messages online — even as far away as Germany: “Well hello there, little ‘ledge runner.’

Greetings from Pinneberg.”

When six goslings arrived in April, spirits soared.

“When I saw four of her ducklings hopping all over her,” one online visitor noted, “I about jumped off my chair.”

The goslings learned flight school basics at UI Coeur d’Alene much to the amazement of onlookers. One online visitor inquired, “Do Canada goslings hatch with built-in parachutes? They’ll need them!”

Dawson says he enjoys having a wild bird’s nest just inches away from his office window. It’s just one of the perks of the job. “We’re lucky here in Coeur d’Alene.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Remembering KUID-TV

I enjoyed the latest edition of the UI magazine, particularly the historical article about KUID. I graduated from UI in 1973 with a degree in journalism.

Two weeks after graduation, I walked into KMVT-TV in Twin Falls and told them they needed a female on the air. I had no television experience, but after a test read, they offered me a job. I was Idaho’s first female television reporter and talk show hostess. In those days, I was a staff of one. I arranged an interview, loaded my Bolex camera with black and white film, shot the story, conducted the interview, wrote the story, developed the film in the basement of the station, spliced and edited the film, and then read the story on the air. My live talk show featured everything from cowboys to choirs. It was a grand time to be in television, and I’ll always regret moving on to the restraints of corporate communications.

Elaine Ambrose Romano Via e-mail

Disappointing display

I just received the latest issue of “Here We Have Idaho.” I was surprised and disappointed by the choice of photographs for the “What’s in Your Pack?” article on page 2. Although I fully support everyone’s right to freedom of speech, the buttons featured on the large pack pictured were inappropriate and disrespectful and should not have been shown in a UI sponsored magazine. The button featuring former President George Bush Sr. and President George W. Bush and the words “Dumb & Dumber” is in extremely poor taste, disrespectful and rude. I was not aware that state funded schools were in the business of promoting political ideology. The other buttons show a cartoon figure being kicked in the groin and what appears to be “666.”

The smaller picture even shows an upside down American flag. I am disgusted by this display and quite frankly, it makes me ashamed to be an alumna of the University of Idaho.

Sincerely, Angela Grant ’99 Moscow

Etiquette and manners

I was delighted to see some attention to etiquette and manners at UI. I have become appalled at the manners and etiquette of so many young people who have college educations today. Both of these areas were stressed during the 1950s when I attended UI. My living group had a formal dinner every Sunday afternoon.

We had a senior member whose job it was to instruct us on proper manners and etiquette. We practiced at every dinner and many social functions. I came to the UI as a kid off the sheep ranch with very little education in etiquette. I learned more than academics there. During my career, I have dined with executives of major corporations and have never once been concerned on how to handle myself. I have related to our children and grandchildren the lessons I learned at the dining table during my years in college.

We are passing this valuable lesson on in our family.

Ralph Longfellow ’60 Coronado, Calif.

The article “When Manners Matter”caught my attention in the last issue of your magazine. It reminded me that some things just never change. Like learning manners. When I arrived on the UI campus in the summer of 1963 as a fresh out of grad school filmmaker and teacher, my first assignment from UI President Theophilus was to make a film that would help teach students good manners. Thus was born the now infamous cult film “The Social Amenities.” It is a “classic” film on the do’s and don’ts of social graces, including the advisory gem that the “ladies” should excuse themselves after dinner at a restaurant and go to the “powder room” while the “men” discuss the paying of the bill! After many years of “required” viewings it took on a second life as a cult film to be shown at parties. I, myself, used the film as a reward at the end of my film classes. If the class did good work, I would show them the film and let them discuss it with its director. As a part of the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary celebration of KUIDTV, this film and many others have been transferred to DVD and are available for purchase. Oh yes — and thanks for the excellent articles about “The Little Station that Could — and Did,” KUIDTV. That was another glorious adventure of my life!

Peter Haggart UI Professor Emeritus

A Taste for Success

UI student Clarisse Vaury earned a flavorful accomplishment this spring that few food science students can claim.

Schwan’s Home Service, a division of The Schwan Food Co., is marketing a sherbet featuring a new piña colada flavor she developed. The company’s fleet of signature yellow trucks will carry the product to neighborhoods nationwide.

Vaury, from Normandy in France, developed the new flavor while an intern at the Marshall, Minn., headquarters of Schwan — one of the largest, branded frozen-food companies in the United States. The flavor currently is available in Schwan’s summer catalog.

“I had a great time. It was fun and I learned a lot,” she said. “I think I was really lucky to end up at Schwan.”

She finds many aspects of food science appealing. Vaury said that given a choice, she would probably choose a career working with ice cream, or perhaps cheese, reflecting her heritage and Normandy’s fame for its apples and its dairy products. “Anything that is dairy, I think I would enjoy.”

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A Landscaping Twist

The University of Idaho has planted a tree at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. Not just any tree, mind you. It’s a Gnarly Poplar, developed by College of Natural Resources Professor George Newcombe. The new cultivar resulted from an experiment designed to improve disease resistance, but the unexpected added twist is that the ornamental poplar becomes more contorted as it ages. Since the University’s land-grant mission includes innovation and knowledge transfer, the Idaho Research Foundation secured a plant patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for landscape and ornamental purposes. The tree isn’t on the maket — yet. Commercial growers first must obtain a license from the IRF to propagate and sell the tree.

Clarisse Vaury

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ark Felt may have become our most famous Vandal — or our most infamous, depending on your point of view.

For more than three decades, he kept a spectacular secret. According to Ben Bradlee, top editor of The Washington Post, it was “the last secret” of the story that became the juiciest political scandal in modern history — Watergate.

And then in small increments of willingness, 91-year-old William Mark Felt ’35 let his family tell the world he was Deep Throat, a suspicion he had denied adamantly to his family, to the press and to the world.

With family friend and attorney John O’Connor willing to help write the story and his daughter, Joan, needing to pay for his grandkids’ education, Felt revealed his identity on May 31. Vanity Fair magazine ran the story in their June issue.

W. Mark Felt had finally ‘fessed up.

Famous or infamous? Hero or traitor? Either way, Felt now stands as a legendary figure.

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President Nixon sits in his White House office, Aug. 16, 1973, as he poses for pictures after delivering a nationwide television address dealing with Watergate. Nixon repeated that he had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in and was not aware of any cover-up.

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he identity of Deep Throat seemed consigned to history until this June when Vanity Fair broke the news. That Deep Throat’s identity has been revealed in our time is big news. That Deep Throat turned out to be Mark Felt is not much of a surprise to anyone, especially to those who remember or study Watergate.

Felt always has been on the short list of plausible informants: The FBI’s “Let me be very clear. then Acting Director L. Patrick Gray The story is completely III, who lived in Felt’s Fairfax, Va., neighborhood; Nixon speech-writers and Patrick Buchanan, David Gergen and Raymond Price; and a dozen others, I would have done it including Alexander Butterfield, who better, I would have been exposed Nixon’s Oval Office taperecording system. more effective. Deep As early as October 1972, Nixon himself suspected Felt, who was then Throat didn’t exactly assistant director at the FBI and bring the White House gunning for director. But Felt issued an absolute denial. He denied his role crashing down, did he?” as informant explicitly to family and friends. To the press, he denied it over —Mark Felt and over.

In 1974, he told the Washington Times-News, “I would not leak any information. I did not and would not.

I don’t operate that way.” The Washingtonian printed a quixotic quote: “I can tell that it was not I and it is not I.” In 1999, he told the Twin Falls Times-News,“Let me be very clear. The story is completely fictitious and false.” He gave the Hartford Courant an unequivocal and persuasive statement of deniability: “I would have done it better,” he insisted. “I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn’t exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?”

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The President: Richard M. Nixon, true-blue law and order guy with a square-jaw and tough demeanor; abuse of power led to his resignation, his demise hastened by the Watergate tapes.

The Scandal: Watergate–the two-bit burglary that became biggest political scandal of the 20th century and, up to this moment, the most serious constitutional crisis in American history.

The Liberal Press: The Washington Post, that hardcore bastion of fact-based newspapering; home of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reporters who unraveled Watergate with the help of Deep Throat; their story and press now scooped by the upstart, Vanity Fair, a glossy magazine largely devoted to soft journalism and celebrity.

The Whistle-blower: Mark Felt, a straitlaced G-Man with movie star good looks who skulked around in dark places, whispering shadowy secrets. When Woodward promised to keep his name silent until death if only he would spill the beans on Watergate, he gradually agreed, thus consigning himself to a double life. He was given the code name Deep Throat, an allusion to a ’70s pornographic movie.

The Hero: Same guy as above. FBI true believer and loyal protégé of J. Edgar Hoover, his hero. Felt presents himself in his 1979 memoir, “The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside,” as a model organization man – like his FBI superior Hoover, whom Felt considered disciplined and principled, loyal to his men and to the Bureau. When Felt’s leading role in the breaking of the Watergate story was confirmed recently, daughter, Joan, and grandson, Nick Jones, called him “a great American hero.”

The Books and the Movies: In “All the President’s Men” (Simon and Schuster, 1994) he is a chain-smoking, shadow-wreathed character. In the 1976 film, he’s the shadowy chain-smoking guy played by Hal Holbrook, who tells Woodward (Robert Redford) to “Follow the money,” while Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), back at the Post, is jumping to conclusions and spilling ashes down his shirt.

In a lucrative deal recently negotiated by Felt’s family, a new book to be co-authored by John O’Connor is tentatively titled “A G-man’s Life: The FBI, Being Deep Throat And the Struggle for Honor in Washington.” A new movie is optioned to Playton, a Tom Hanks’ company, and Hanks could have designs on playing Felt.

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“Mark was not a flamboyant character,” she says. “It’s not surprising to me that he could have kept his secret this long.

It might have been a little more in character if he had never told the story at all,” she adds, reflecting on the time and the character of the times when she knew him. “People kept what they knew to themselves.” The Felts were typical Idaho neighbors.

“It was always nice to go to their house,” says John Milner, a retired sociology professor now living in Los Angeles who grew up in Idaho with Felt. They went through high school and “He could throw college together, where Milner remembers Felt playing in the a football high school band and on the baseball team. In college they than anyone else I were friends, fraternity brothers ever knew, including at Beta Theta Pi, where Felt was made president. members of the In his role as a student at the University of Idaho in Vandal varsity, and the early 1930s, Felt was well farther than the rest recognized. In an interview conducted by David Johnson, of us could it!” of the Lewiston Tribune, Carol Renfrew ’35, who still lives in — E. Dean Lemon ’38 Moscow with her husband, Malcolm, remembers Felt as “very popular and handsome.”

This matter of popularity seems a constant in Felt’s life.

People liked him – in Twin Falls, at the Beta house, in the FBI. Felt was nice looking, a regular guy, a leader. One of his fraternity brothers, E. Dean Lemon ’38, remembers him well.

“He could throw a football farther than anyone else I ever knew, including members of the Vandal varsity, and farther than the rest of us could kick it!” Felt also was a member of the debate team at UI, and one of the questions debated was, “Resolved:

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Mark Felt posing for a picture with his pistol drawn for a newspaper story in this photo taken Jan. 20, 1958 at Salt Lake City, Utah. An article written in Vanity Fair magazine in June 2005 claims that Felt was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post in the early 1970’s. (Photo by Howard Moore/Deseret Morning News/Getty Images)

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For more than 30 years, Felt lived as if he were not Deep Throat, suspending his disbelief like a moviegoer in a dark theater, thus protecting himself and his family from the political pundits and the press. It was all in the line of “duty.”

Felt was an FBI insider, a man who had his picture taken in a crisp suit, snap-brim hat on his head, pistol in his hand.

How could this be the guy who ratted on Nixon’s Watergate shenanigans and brought down the establishment? Easy. Honor.

Felt believed that telling was the right thing to do.

According to O’Connor, charged with breaking the story, “Felt came to see himself, in fact, as something of a conscience of the FBI.” A lot of people agree that Felt was a man of principle;

a straight shooter, defending the FBI from the abuse of the presidency.

All this fuss about a boy from rural Idaho. Felt grew up in modest circumstances in Twin Falls. People from there remember Felt as a polite, well-brought-up, quiet young man from a good family: his father, a carpenter; his mother a neighborly mom.

“We were all poor together,” said Helen Bacon, a 93-year old woman who now lives in Boise. Twin Falls was a small town and people knew each other. Bacon strikes a familiar chord of memory in her description of Felt as “polite, respectful, circumspect, quite dignified.”

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Mark Felt and Maurice Russell were the Idaho affirmative team that debated Gonzaga University.

1913: Born at Twin Falls, Idaho 1935: Earns UI bachelor’s degree 1938-1941: Administrative assistant to Idaho Sen. D. Worth Clark 1940: Earns law degree from George Washington University 1941: Worked as lawyer for Federal Trade Commission 1942: Joins the FBI and works in counterespionage 1943-1971: Holds several positions in Mark Felt, sophomore the FBI structure, increasing 1933 responsibilities 1971: Promoted to assistant director of the FBI and assumed by most to be J. Edgar Hoover’s appointed successor 1972: May: Hoover dies June 17: Watergate Hotel Democratic National Headquarters break-in orchestrated

by G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt June 19: Deep Throat makes his first call to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward October: White House insiders suspect Felt of being Deep Throat.

Felt is inducted into the UI Hall of Fame for his service in the FBI November: Nixon is re-elected in a landslide 1973: January: Watergate burglars are convicted April: Nixon top staffers resign May: Senate Committee begins investigation into Watergate June: Felt resigns, ending a lengthy career in the FBI 1974: April: Appears on UI campus as part of a speaking tour July: A Washington magazine identifies Felt as the leading candidate for Deep Throat; Felt denies the claim August 8: Nixon resigns under fire 1978: Felt is indicted on an illegal search charge involving his earlier investigation of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group 1979: Felt publishes his memoir: “The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside” 1980: Felt is convicted on the illegal search charge.

Throughout the trial and aftermath he denies that he broke the law as it was written at the time of the event 1981: President Reagan pardons Felt 1999: In a story in the Twin Falls Times-News, Felt is identified as the source Deep Throat. Felt denies it, saying “Let me be very clear. The story is completely fictitious and false.”

2005: May 31: The Washington Post confirms Vanity Fair story that Mark Felt is Deep Throat July: Vanity Fair story hits the news stands and the June 13 Newsweek gives Mark Felt nine pages of coverage. Felt and his family sign deals for a new book and movie option.

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Even four months after the tsunami, she saw how much work remained. The displacement centers overflowed with people.

As part of the effort to provide housing, Stover joined a group of 22 American, French and Thai volunteers helping lay foundations for homes. What that translated to in actual labor was “slinging cement.”

“There weren’t a lot of resources. We were passing buckets of cement by hand.”

The climate added another challenge.

“The conditions were pretty harsh, not being used to the heat and humidity, and then working for eight hours a day in it.”

What made it worthwhile was the Thai people, whom she calls “generous, sweet souls.”

She tells the story of the man who owned the hotel where they stayed. Despite having lost his wife and two children, as well as most of his resort, to the tsunami, he donated a portion of their lodging. “He was still interested in taking care of us, feeding us, making sure we had a place to stay. Every Thai that you came across was full of love

Left: The young victims of the tsunami are the reason Stover helping with rebuilding efforts. Second from left: A child’s artwork is a somber representation of the marks left by the tsunami. Second from right: Workers pass buckets of cement to pour foundations for new buildings. Right: Stover, at right, with trip leader and volunteer Mui Kabkrue.

“When the tsunami devastated Thailand, I didn’t differentiate American victims from Thai victims and felt compelled to contribute to the greater good of humanity.” —Jody Stover

and generosity.”

She credits her time at UI with exposing her to a diverse array of people and for opening her eyes to “humanity’s core values.”

As a result, she states, “When the tsunami devastated Thailand, I didn’t differentiate American victims from Thai victims and felt compelled to contribute to the greater good of humanity.” Having been inspired, her selflessness is now itself an inspiration. I

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That all debts resulting from the World War should be cancelled.”

The first World War. Felt was debating on a stage in front of an audience, thinking through a problem. Thirty years later he was standing in a dark garage, hiding from everyone, thinking through another problem.

But before he was done with the UI, he had found a wife, too. A few years after he graduated, Felt married Audrey Isabelle Robinson ’37. They then went on to lead their lives in Washington, D.C. In 1972, his longtime mentor, J. Edgar Hoover, died. Felt was a pallbearer at the funeral. A month later the Watergate burglary occurred. Within two days Felt had contacted an acquaintance, Washington Post reporter Woodward, and begun the dialogue wherein he became Deep Throat.

Asked about the recent revelation that Felt is Deep Throat, Milner says he’s not surprised. He acknowledges that Felt had been “very disappointed to be passed over when the leadership of the FBI became available.” Then Milner adds, “I am delighted to know [Felt was Deep Throat]. “I am proud of him. He was pretty brave to do that.”

Bacon waxes philosophically about Felt’s revelation. It’s not going to hurt anyone now. Mark was a man of his own time, honorable and loyal to his particular position.”

W. Mark Felt, with his daughter Joan Felt, waves to the media gathered in front of In his memoir, Felt indicates he was warned of his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., May 31. Felt, the man who revealed himself as “Deep White House suspicions and animosity about his Throat”, has agreed to a book and movie deal about his life, his publisher and agent said possible role as Deep Throat by his new superior, on June 16. Felt and his family have chosen PublicAffairs Books to release the tentatively Gray. Felt denied the charge and Gray accepted titled “A G-man’s Life: The FBI, Being ‘Deep Throat’ And the Struggle for Honor in that denial. The investigation went on. The Post Washington.” (AP Photo/Ben Margot) continued to press the issue.

In January 1973, the burglars – one might call them the first line criminals – were convicted Cooper, Deep Throat came back... as W. Mark Felt. of breaking into Democratic National Headquarters at the It took Mark Felt more than 30 years and seven presidencies Watergate. In April, Nixon’s top aides resigned; in May the seven - before the truth about his role in the matter came out.

Senate’s televised hearings began.

The greatest secret in the history of the American investigative Mark and Aubrey Felt came back to Moscow in 1974 to start press has been solved, and yet questions remain. Did Felt do a tour promoting his memoir. They were happy to be back, Mrs. this because he was passed over? Did he do it because he was the Felt said. Watergate had changed everything, Felt said, about the conscience of the FBI? presidency and the FBI, and perhaps, about his own life.

Imagine Felt hiding in the shadows of that darkened parking At that time in 1974, the jig was mostly up. Nixon resigned garage, waiting for Woodward to show up for a 2 a.m. meeting, in August of the next year, a man defeated by secrecy and asking himself the question for which we have no answer: “Now, power. Out of that atmosphere, Deep Throat became a legend, why am I doing this, again?” I not unlike the mysterious Northwest skyjacker D. B. Cooper, disappearing into the night. Only, unlike the pseudonymous

he inspiration to do tsunami relief work struck UI alumna Jody Stover ’89 while reading a magazine article.

It highlighted Thailand, where relief funds were plenty but laborers scarce. “It was a desperate country in need,” she says. “And it was something I wanted to be part of.”

Her desire to help out immediately meant connecting with a small relief group called the Phuket Project and paying much of her own way, including roundtrip airfare.

She used personal vacation time from her job at Hewlett Packard in Boise, where she works in marketing, and left in mid-April for almost three weeks.

She traveled to Khao Lak, Thailand, where her first views of the beach were shocking. “I wasn’t quite prepared for the fact that in Khao Lak they hadn’t made very much progress.”

One day she helped clean the beach in front of their hotel. “You’re picking up people’s personal effects. Flip-flops, sunscreen, toothbrushes, baby toys. That was very disturbing.”

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I think it’s the ultimate blend of art, design and technology.” —Joe VanZeipel

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“I’m leaving the door open for the entertainment industry, but what I really like is automotive design. I think it’s the ultimate blend of art, design and technology.”

Sumption believes virtual technology and design in the entertainment industry will be dwarfed in the future by manufacturing, architecture and military applications.

“Business is beginning to understand how technology can be used to present complex information in a visual manner so it’s more easily understood,” said Sumption.

Three-dimensional simulations are a good example. Architecture firms now often use 3-D visual representations to walk clients through a new building in the early design stage.

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After receiving his degree, Brian Lathrop went to work as a 3-D technician for Visual Genesis in Boise. The four-year-old company was started by UI alumnus Jason Pfaff.

Visual Genesis, Inc. specializes in infrastructure, architectural, environmental and litigation projects, and 3-D modeling and animation are the tools they employ to simplify complex or technical information. The virtual design company has worked on urban design projects that require 3-D models and photo simulation, and they also have created an interactive training tool for forest firefighters.

“I didn’t realize the options I’d have when I started the program,” said Lathrop. Now, he wants to get into creating immersive worlds, an advanced virtual situation where the user is placed inside an image.

Classes in the Virtual Technology and Design program first were offered at UI in fall 2003, and seven students signed up as majors. It now has grown to 60 majors and Sumption anticipates a total of 90 majors in the program for fall 2005.

“The goal of our program is to produce graduates with technical, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills who are computer literate and arts aware,” he says.

So it is a matter of having both style and substance — important qualities to have if you are designing and defining the world in Joe VanZeipel, Brian Lathrop and Steve Johnson. which we live. I

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teve Johnson followed the seven-year plan to earn his degree from the University of Idaho. After four years as a computer science major, Johnson switched his major to a new program, Virtual Technology and Design. On May 14, he and six other students in the program received the first Virtual Technology and Design degrees awarded by UI. For the record, Johnson justifies his first four years at UI by adding a computer science minor to his degree.

“I feel like I’m on the front edge of something new,” said Johnson. “Fifteen years ago, people were talking about what the Internet might be; that’s where virtual technology and design is now.”

The UI program is geared to students who don’t want to create with bricks and mortar or design with traditional media; they want to build digitally.

If you are not sure what virtual technology entails, think special effects — as in movies and computer games.

“The video game industry is driving the technology,” said Brian Sumption, a professor in the Virtual Technology and Design program. “Students come into the program with goals of working in the entertainment industry. But they get their eyes opened to how the technology is quickly expanding into other areas.”

Joe VanZeipel says he started the program in order to get involved in the film industry, but learned an important lesson when he tried to make a short movie.

“It dawned on me that I’m not a writer or director; I’m a designer,” said VanZeipel. “I tell stories a different way.”

Now he is planning for a career in the industrial design field.

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In his own work, McIlroy wants to devise nanoscale sensors that can measure water quality. That project is part of a $9 million National Science Foundation grant UI scientists teamed with colleagues from Idaho State and Boise State universities to land early this summer.

The grant, obtained through the NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, will build the state’s research infrastructure and focuses largely on water.

Just as water is Idaho’s lifeblood, technological innovation helps Idaho’s economy grow in surprising ways. The rise of Micron, Hewlett-Packard and other high-tech employers started Idaho’s economy on a tear that transformed the state. Boise and southwest Idaho are among the most rapidly growing population centers nationwide because of high-tech dreams.

The promise and the difficulty of nanotechnology rest on harnessing the unusual abilities of extremely small particles, so small that 100 particles would span the width of a human hair. Scientists have learned that, for example, a large portion of carbon nanoparticles clumped together just act like carbon, while only a few such particles behave far differently.

McIlroy strives to take a measured, clear-eyed view of nanotech and has worked steadily to educate Idaho legislators and the public about nanotechnology’s potential. He sees UI’s expertise in nanotechnology focused on five key areas.

They include: • biological nanomaterials that may someday deliver drugs, • environmental uses that may aid environmental cleanups, • nanoelectronics that may miniaturize the capabilities of laboratories to fit on a chip, • and alternative energy ranging from solar cells to hydrogenbased engines.

• The fifth area of expertise, nanomagnetics, may be the most advanced.

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UI materials scientists Greg Donohoe and Yang Ki Hong work with magnetic materials and microcircuitry. Their works involves the use of a sputter deposition system, at left, which is used to deposit magnetic, optical and electronic nanometer thin films.

Background: A silicon oxide spring fabricated by Professor David McIlroy offers a glimpse of future nanoscale mechanical technology. Ten thousand such nanosprings laid side by side would be about as thick as the average human hair.

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Sophisticated equipment funded largely by industrial partners provides students and faculty with the tools to explore nanotechnology’s frontier.

Yang Ki Hong, a UI material scientist, and Greg Donohoe, a UI electrical engineer, also focus on nanotechnology. Their collaboration, which bridges two disciplines to integrate novel

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niversity of Idaho scientists believe that nanotechnology — materials and devices constructed at the smallest scale possible — promise a very large impact on the state’s future economy.

David McIlroy, a UI physicist and one of the campus leaders in exploring the new science, believes simple devices will lead the way.

A favorite example for McIlroy is a fist-sized lump of glass. The lump makes a great paperweight that might reflect light in interesting ways. But within the lump of glass is a tiny bit of silicon dioxide, only a few nanometers across, that can be coaxed to make light.

“This is the crux of nanotechnology,” McIlroy said. “At the nanoscale, many materials exhibit new properties that large pieces of the same materials cannot.”

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Nanotechology, because of its incredibly tiny scale, is hard to fit into any particular pigeonhole. The clumps of molecules that make up nanomaterials are bigger than the atomic scale of chemistry and smaller than the more conventional applications of material science.

UI physicist David McIlroy is one of the campus leaders in exploring the new science of nanotechnology.

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Jason Machacek, Mike Arthur and Ty Victorino developed a selfpowered nanosensor prototype last spring as a senior design capstone project for engineering students. Such sensors could be used to monitor potential chemical, biological or radioactive threats.

The device relies on a piezoelectric generator, essentially a ceramic strip that creates small burst of electricity when flexed.

The design uses the vibrations of the diesel engine pushing the tug to flex the ceramic, generate electricity and ultimately power the broadcast station that would report to ship-or shore-based receivers.

“It’s made to work with almost any kind of low-power sensor,” Machacek said.

Beyond sensors, nanotechnology offers a new way to harness conventional materials. “Nanotechnology gives us new options for implementing electronic microcircuitry,” Donohoe said.

The brave, new world that nanotechnology may yield in microelectronics isn’t that far away, Donohoe believes. “We’re hoping to be able to demonstrate working circuits in a year and a half that could be reaching market in three years,” he said.

Touraj Assefi directs the UI Microelectronic Research and Communications Institute. Nanotechnology has become a catchall for a wide variety of research because a wealth of commercial and government interest translates to numerous opportunities for grants.

In that universe, Assefi believes the work by McIlroy, Hong and Donohoe ranks among the closest to the cutting edge of the new science. Others think so as well.

One of the key projects the institute oversees is a revolutionary radar system for the Office of Naval Research, Assefi said. The project, led by electrical engineer Jeff Young, uses magnetic films and microwave devices for military communication systems. It received more than $1 million in research grants each of the past two years, and stands to attract several million more.

McIlroy met this spring with legislators, entrepreneurs and others to provide an update on nanotechnology research at UI. He has consistently counseled caution in assessing progress and claims for future miracles, yet he also is clearly on the bandwagon.

Although one of the first to synthesize nanosprings, which might someday become building blocks of incredibly small machines, McIlroy believes simple sensors are likely to become the first successes.

“All they have to do is sense a change in the environment and respond,” he said. That change might be as simple as launching a photon when the nanosensor detects oxygen, or something more sinister.

Nanotechology, because of its incredibly tiny scale, is hard to fit into any particular pigeonhole. The clumps of molecules that make up nanomaterials are bigger than the atomic scale of chemistry and smaller than the more conventional applications of material science.

That’s part of the problem with futuristic visions of tiny machines and robots at the nanoscale. The controls for the assembly of such devises are far beyond the ability of science at present, McIlroy said. I

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design and processing of nanoscale material structures to enhance microeletronic chips, is key to their work, Donohoe said. Hong’s lifelong work with magnetic materials provided some of the foundation on which rests today’s computing that shrinks physically while growing more powerful.

Current work by Hong and Donohoe focuses on what may become the next big thing in computing: magnetic memory that will pave the way for future computers that preserve data during power failures and that turn on instantly.

Hong’s work with Iomega and other major computer industry corporations yielded two patents in recent years. A scientist with a background in physics and engineering, he describes his work as engineering uses for the discoveries of physics.

His efforts developed magnetic nanoparticles that improved the digital tapes used to safely back up the massive amounts of information generated by government and the financial industry in particular. He also published numerous articles about magnetic nanoparticles in prestigious journals.

For Donohoe, nanotechnology holds promise for new ways to develop microcircuitry. A member of the UI Center for Advanced Microelectronics and Biomolecular Research, his expertise is in low-power, radiation-tolerant microchips for spacecraft.

The new magnetic memory cells he is working on with Hong could bring similar benefits to extra-terrestrial spacecraft as those enjoyed by future desktop computer users who won’t understand why data once disappeared when power failed.

The power- and memory-saving features promise to apply to a wide spectrum of consumer electronics, Donohoe said.

“Basically it will be a benefit anyplace that you want to extend battery life. That includes cell phones, biomedical devices and biochemical sensors.”

One such device that may emerge is a self-powered sensor that would monitor shipping containers and automatically broadcast their status aboard ships and barges. In its ultimate form, the monitor might someday rely on an array of nanosensors similar to those envisioned by McIlroy. Each nanosensor might be tuned to monitor a different chemical, biological or radioactive threat.

A prototype was developed by a team of engineering students mentored by Donohoe. Jason Machacek, who earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering last spring, said the device was developed as a senior design capstone project with fellow students Ty Victorino and Mike Arthur.

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Be Your Own Boss

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Alumni entrepreneurs do it their way in a variety of professions Jason Crawforth

Jason Crawforth ’92 admits that everything he learned about entrepreneurship, he learned from his first business — that of a six-year-old Kool-Aid saleskid.

“My mother allowed me to work on one of two street corners, so I counted the cars on each street,” said Crawforth. “I learned all but the legal aspect and taxes, and I learned that being a small cog in a big wheel didn’t appeal to me.”

Nearly three decades later, Crawforth is president and CEO of Boise’s Treetop Technologies, Inc., ndividually, an Internet technologies services and support company that employs more than 100 people in Boise, their Calgary, Alberta, and Singapore. vocations and He is the largest cog in the company wheel, but meets all of his employees on equal turf and lifestyles are about as measures the success with the most unexpected, but rewarding statistics. contradictory as they “We’ve only had three people quit, but we’ve had 18 children born and 85 houses purchased,” said Crawforth, whose company, founded in 1997, was ranked among Inc. appear: a flower farmer magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies. “My first employee had seven children and a in Hawaii, a Boise software wife. I went from feeding one person to feeding 10.” and development mogul, a A third generation Boisean, Crawforth wasn’t sure what to study at UI, or where it Seattle art gallery owner, and might take him. a lumberman and private pilot “I’m a generalist,” he admitted, “not a specialist. I wanted to take a lot of classes, but not in one subject.” who has retired to Arizona.

One class featured an executive speaker series, where leading business people Not one of the foursome is lent their expertise. When the floor opened for questions, Crawforth always acquainted with another, yet they asked the same one: “If you were a college student today, what would you focus share a career camaraderie and on?” educational bond that was ignited during “The Albertson’s CEO opened my eyes,” Crawforth remembered. “He the 1950s, ’70s and ’90s in the hallowed said, ‘I’ll teach you what I want you to know. Learn the general stuff, and learn about computers.’” university classrooms of Moscow.

Crawforth changed to a general studies major, and after graduation They are entrepreneurs—business-savvy he had to choose between working for a computer company or as a University of Idaho graduates who built upon on restaurant consultant in Jamaica. a passion, chiseled away at an idea or simply chased “I’m a red head with white skin,” he said. “I’d have burst into a dream of working for no one but themselves. flames.”

“The best time to start a business,“ said Joe Geiger, He went for the computer company, started Groupware Development in 1994 and Treetop three years later. a professor with UI’s Department of Business, “is when “Being successful isn’t about what you know, it’s about you’re young and naïve and you don’t understand what who you know,” Crawforth said. “You can be the greatest failure is. Or it’s when you’re older and you have enough cook on the planet, but that doesn’t mean you can run money that you’re not worried about losing some.” a restaurant.”

Geiger has been teaching business at UI since 1988. Now, By the way, he owns two eateries in Boise: a creperie that serves them square-shaped and a as often as ever, his students contemplate starting a business. pizza-by-the-slice establishment. Crawforth stops Many don’t want to work for a big company. Some are discouraged in often, but lets both food businesses run by the job market for Fortune 500 companies. Others simply aren’t themselves. interested in leaving the Northwest.

“I’ve just learned to find the right “Small business not only drives employment in this country, it is a people and give them a lot of latitude,” global phenomenon,” Geiger said. “You can teach small business, but can’t he said. “I’m a great builder, but a horrible manager. Every day I try to define entrepreneurship. It’s like art. Maybe you can’t define it, but you know meet my employees, and I always it when you see it.” want to know how work’s going, For these four UI alums, they saw entrepreneurship and they knew what to how life’s going.”

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Rasmussen’s thumb first turned green as a child, when his parents sent him to the farm owned by his aunt and uncle. He recalled, “My uncle In the year after he graduated from UI with a would say, ‘Being a farmer is the greatest life there is.’” botany degree, Craig Rasmussen ’76 began graduate Although he didn’t believe his uncle’s prophecy, working with plants school, got married and left for a vacation that would become Rasmussen’s clear-cut career choice. With no botanist continues to this day—28 years later. opportunities after graduation, he followed his bride to the islands “My wife’s parents were the only florists in Rupert and in 1977, where they have raised two children in two houses on the they retired in Hawaii, farming carnations on two acres same street. behind their house,” said Rasmussen, who grew up in Rupert.

The office rests 500 feet away in the middle of five acres of “We went to visit them in 1977, and we never came back.” greenhouses, and at 4,000 feet elevation, the surrounding Rasmussen and his pine trees and 40-degree winter evenings are opposite of wife, Teena, bought land Hawaii tourism legend.

“The minute you quit next door to Teena’s parents Because Maui caters to repeat visitors looking for and started growing and selling your new experiences, tourists could play a role in the flowers for leis, the traditional future of Paradise Flower Farms. Rasmussen plans business, you’ll go broke Hawaiian garland bouquets worn to offer them a hands-on experience to see how around the neck. or have to sell it.” flowers are grown and leis are made.

Today, Paradise Flower Farms in “The minute you quit changing your — Craig Rasmussen Maui — located halfway up the 10,000business, you’ll go broke or have to sell it,” he foot volcanic mountain Haleakala — has said. “We’ve always changed, and I’ve always more than 30 employees and 60 acres of loved being my own boss. The advantage land, and sells a majority of its bouquets, is that if I want to take off and go bulbs, leis and lei-making packages on its Web site. sailing, I take off and go sailing.

Rasmussen has been recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year and Maui Small Business “But there’s a disadvantage,” Person of the Year by two Maui organizations, but still gets his hands dirty. he continued. “I’m the boss and “I guess you could call me the orchestrator. I point a lot of fingers,” said Rasmussen, something generally needs to be whose jovial demeanor is chamber-of-commerce perfect for selling the island life. “Early on we done. So I don’t go sailing.” figured if we didn’t split up the duties, we’d split up as a couple. Teena handles the business end of it and I do the growing.

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Carolyn Staley has expanded her Japanese wood block prints and painting gallery to the Internet.

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graduated with a self-confidence to do whatever I wanted to do, When visitors to Seattle’s and the skills to learn whatever I wanted to learn.” but you historic Pioneer Square Her showcase has been on the same cobblestoned, just have to jump in. You neighborhood discuss the works gallery-endowed Occidental Avenue since it opened. of great sosaku hanga artists or “You learn a lot when you’re doing something you’re may never be ukiyo-e prints with art proprietor interested in,” Staley said. “No one here is a world’s Be willing to fail, and just Carolyn (Sanderson) Staley ‘57, they expert. One of the best art guys I ever knew sold have no inkling that this expert in shoes at Nordstrom. Great salespeople could also tuck it under your belt.”

Japanese wood block art graduated from be great art salespeople.”

— Carolyn Staley the University of Idaho with a degree in The business has evolved over the years. physical education.

Staley’s greatest sales are at print fairs from “I wanted to be a girls’ counselor,” said New York to Los Angeles, and a decade ago Staley, who started Carolyn Staley Fine Japanese the Internet spawned another level of interest in art and in things Japanese.

Prints 26 years ago. “But I guess I had no “You never know who’s watching the Web site,” said Staley, who counseling. All the counselors in my day were Phys. employs a person full-time strictly for the Internet business and a gallery Ed. teachers.” manager who’s been with her for 11 years.

Staley followed her new husband, William, Jr., Staley travels to Europe and Japan each year, and spends to Pittsburgh instead. He went to graduate school and afternoons researching prints in the back office of the 1,300-squareworked for U.S. Steel, while she started a reading lab for foot gallery. She likens her work to that of a teacher, circling back remedial kids, English-as-a-second-language students and high to the career she gave up to work for herself. schoolers wanting to improve reading or SAT skills.

Never has there been a regret, and Staley has strong When the Boise natives moved to Seattle in 1975, Staley gave opinions about what it takes to be successful. up the education profession, purchased a 1906 Victorian home and “Don’t start anything without studying the subject and worked as the contractor to restore and sell it. knowing the demographics,” she said. “It takes a lot of “I loved art and thought I’d use the money to buy or start a gallery,” courage, but you just have to jump in. You may never she remembered. “My first gallery featured old prints, but over the be ready. Be willing to fail, and just tuck it under your years it has narrowed to Japanese wood block prints and paintings. I had belt.”

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Thomas, who once dreamed of working for the Forest Service, met Troutner while working as a Seventy-eight-yearspecial sales agent for Weyerhauser Lumber Co. in Boise. old Harold Thomas “He told me about this new idea for a joist,” Thomas said. “I told him that if he made the ’51 of Sun Lakes, product, I’d sell it. I took out an $8,000 loan and Art put up his patents and machinery [as Ariz., e-mailed to ask collateral].” if the interview could be His early vision for the company led Thomas to initiate a rare doctrine for upper level rescheduled for a few hours management. later. “I would like to go flying “Air transportation wasn’t great when we started, so I learned to fly,” he said. “I flew in the morning,” he wrote. And all over the U.S. and Canada in a Beechcraft Baron twin engine. Our sales managers after touching down in his two-seat traveled individually, so I insisted they learn to fly, too. And I got them each a plane.”

Kitfox, perhaps a hike, like the threeThe sales tactic worked, and Trus Joist pulled off its biggest Idaho coup in 1974 mile stroll he takes every day. when it designed and provided materials for the University of Idaho’s Kibbie Thomas retired in 2000 after selling Dome. the company he co-founded. He’s been “If we would have had any problems, that could have broken the company,” married for 60 years this October, lives in Thomas said. “We didn’t make any money, but we didn’t lose any, either.” a home overlooking a small lake and sounds Trus Joist switched from direct selling to distribution in the late ’70s as tranquil as a man on a lifetime vacation, but and complemented its Boise headquarters with plants in Portland, Ore., sharp enough to sit on three company boards and Phoenix and Santa Rosa, Calif. be involved with two start-up ventures—which he By the time Thomas sold the company to Weyerhauser, he does. employed 3,500 people. It was a figure he never imagined when “As the years go by, I do less and less,” said plans were drawn up 40 years earlier.

Thomas, who grew up in Nampa. “I went to a sales “I always had a goal in front of me,” he said. “I could meeting [recently] and said, ‘I’ve been to 45 of these now, have worked in the woods for 40 years and never owned a and that’s enough. Unless you hold one in Phoenix.’” toothpick. Instead, I could own my own company.” I That meeting was for Trus Joist, launched by Thomas and partner Art Troutner in 1960, a truss roof system for light commercial construction, which nine years later produced the world’s first all-wood I-joist building component.

Harry B. Turner ’52 was awarded the Idaho State Bar Association Professionalism Award from the Fifth Judicial District in March 2005. This award is given to at least one attorney in each of Idaho’s seven districts who has engaged in extraordinary activity in his or her community, in the state or in the profession, which reflects the highest standards of professionalism.

Andy Resor ’66 retired after 38 years with The Boeing Company.

He was director of Business Management for Boeing Aircraft Trading, the used aircraft arm of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Chan A. Atchley ’56, ’69, ’70 received the First Place Award for best book from the Idaho Press Women’s Association. The book, “The Soul of the Land,” will now be entered into the National Press Women’s Association Best Book Contest. This book is about his grandfather’s and great uncle’s struggles to homestead the area in 1901.

Norman L. Helgeson ’58 began in 1999 to design a device that would reduce atmospheric pollutants emitted during the testing of U.S. Navy static jet engines. This led to the creation of a Noise Attenuation Device (NAD), which reduces the noise in public areas adjacent to Department of Defense operating areas.

Robert Whipple ’59 was named recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for 2004 by the Illinois chapter of American String Teachers Association. He has served as president of the state organization and founded and edited their state professional magazine. Under his leadership, the Illinois organization encouraged formation of new opportunities for musicians, including school orchestras, youth and adult orchestra organizations, and community music schools throughout the state, and has supported, encouraged and recognized achievements of established programs. He is a studio teacher, performing cellist and conductor, and executive director of the Clinton Symphony Orchestra in Iowa.

Lezle Warehime Resor ’68 has retired as a schoolteacher at Mountainside School in Issaquah, Wash.

Clifton Woody Mills ’68, passed away in April of this year. Décor & Style magazine dedicated its annual design issue to him for his legacy of important contributions and indelible footprints on architectural and design excellence — locally, nationally and throughout the world.

John A. MacPhee ’69 has been promoted to senior credit manager of Global’s Member Business Services.

Bruce Noll ’69 was awarded Outstanding Lecturer of the Year for 2004-05 at the University of New Mexico where he teaches in the College of Education.

70s Yvonne Torgerson Halley ’72 has had the opportunity to use her degree in sociology and social work. She worked for Providence Yakima Medical Center for 21 years in various capacities, including director for the Center for Senior Care and social worker for Home Health and Hospital.

She most recently has been employed as the director of Social Work at Heritage Grove Nursing Home, a behavioral health facility that specializes in care of residents with dementia and mental health disorders. Yvonne lives in Yakima, Wash., with her husband, Charles, and has five grown children, four of whom are married, and five grandchildren.

Douglas Ford Small ’72 was appointed to a career Senior Executive Service position

by Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao in Oct. 2004. Since Dec. 1, he has served as the Region 1 administrator in Boston, Mass., for the Employment and Training Administration. This entails administering federal government job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and unemployment insurance benefits.

Louis P. Etcheverry ’73 was appointed by California Gov. Schwarzenegger to a judgeship in the Kern County Superior Court. Etcheverry has served as commissioner of the Kern County Superior Court since 2002 where he presided over nearly all Superior Court functions.

Laurie Winn Carlson ’75 has recently published a book with the University of Missouri Press entitled “William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics.” By placing Spillman’s story within the larger context of American agricultural history, Carlson takes readers inside the USDA during the years our nation’s agricultural policy took shape.

80s Dick Emerson ’80 has been promoted to assistant vice president and relationship manager for U.S. Bank in Pocatello. He is responsible for commercial lending and customer service in the Pocatello market with additional responsibilities in Blackfoot, Soda Springs, Grace and Bancroft.

J.R. (Ron) Langrell III ’80, ’81, ’84, has been named vice president of Academic and Student Affairs at Riverland Community College in Austin, Minn.

Kevin L. Holt ’81, ’85 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve on April 2, 2005 by Brig. Gen. Gregory Schumacher, Commander of U.S. Military Intelligence Readiness Command. His daughter, Angelique, a UI student, pinned the oak leaf cluster symbolizing Lt. Col. Holt’s rank on her father’s uniform.

As a toddler 20 years earlier, she pinned on his lieutenant bars in a commissioning ceremony in Memorial Gym. Holt has assumed command of the 373rd MIBN, 201st MI BDE at Fort Lewis, Wash. In civilian life, Holt is an attorney in private practice specializing in criminal defense and trial litigation in Tri-Cities, Wash.

Robert J. Yuditsky ’81 was named vice president of investments at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. Sharon Clay ’82, a plant science professor at South Dakota State University, won the university’s 2005 Griffith Faculty Research Award. She also won the F.O. Butler Foundation award for Excellence in Research in 1997. Clay has been a member of SDSU’s Plant Science Department since 1989 with a wide diversity of research projects including precision agriculture, weed biology, ecology, variability across landscapes, herbicide-soil interactions and non-chemical weed control options. She has received more than $5 million in funding from more than 30 grants.

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Harold Thomas took out an $8,000 loan to start Trus Joist with partner Art Troutner.

ROGER HAWKINS

— Harold Thomas

ROGER B. HAWKINS

“I could have worked in the woods for 40 years and never owned a toothpick. Instead, I could own my own company.”

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Dean A. Chamberlain ’83 continues to be involved with not only video and audio production — but the computer industry as well. He currently works as a senior systems engineer for Vertafore, Inc., in Bothell, Wash. The company is the largest provider of software for the independent insurance industry. He also has built a recording studio in the Post Falls area. His latest project involves the sport of drag racing and he is shooting footage that will eventually be turned into a documentary. He may be reached at anC@BackDeckStudio.com.

David Clay ’83 won the South Dakota State University F.O. Butler Foundation Award for Excellence in Research in 2004 for his work in soil science within the Plant Science Department.

Clay Flowers ’83 was promoted to Financial Policy, Training, Reporting and Compliance manager with the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Clay is responsible for financial policy and training development, the development of the annual financial statements, all asset accounting and the compliance for all accounts payable for the department.

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Greg Horan ’83 was promoted to senior accountant/GL coordinator of the SpokesmanReview newspaper in Spokane, Wash., in October 2004. He also does financials for one of the corporate subsidiaries, Northwest Farmer Stockman, an insurance agency. He has been with the Spokesman since November 2002 and previously had been with Rosauers Supermarkets for 18 years in Spokane.

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Steve Shiver ’85, AIA, has been promoted to associate principal in the Seattle office of the Northwest Architectural Company.

Shiver currently is serving as project manager for the new Lake Stevens Mid-High School in the

Lake Stevens School District, and handles ward renovations at Western State Hospital in Tacoma.

Robert S. Lane ’86 was promoted to senior associate at the architecture firm of NBBJ in Seattle. Lane is senior technical architect for Washington Mutual Corporate Headquarters, the newest skyscraper on the Seattle skyline.

Kelli Kast ’88 has been appointed vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, the world’s largest primary silver producer. Her legal specialties are mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, commercial transactions, general corporate governance and comprehensive risk management.

90s Bill Lickley ’90 has been selected to participate in the Leadership Idaho Agriculture Foundation spring class. This program is designed to enhance the leadership, personal development and awareness of agriculture for each participant.

Jim D. Bradbury ’91 has been elected to the board of the World Affairs Council of Greater Fort Worth and placed on the Fort Worth Economic Development Foundation Board.

Bryan Cole ’91 was named associate principal of the Walker Macy firm. Bryan is a landscape architect with more than 13 years of project management experience with a broad scope of projects including planning, design and construction documentation of public and private projects throughout the Northwest.

Jonathan S. French ’91 was chosen as an honorary chairman for the Business Advisory Council for the State of California. As an honorary chairman, he will meet with current and past Republican leaders such as Carl Rove, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, in order to further advocate a pro business agenda. He also attended the President’s Dinner in Washington, D.C., hosted by Pres. George Bush in June.

Heather Zwicker ’91, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned to Headquarters Pacific Air Forces at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. She is a public affairs officer.

David Ruby ’95 has teamed up with a past co-worker, Wes Edwards, to start a new full service architecture firm

to handle commercial and residential projects throughout the Northwest.

The new firm is named Ruby|Edwards: Architecture + Design, p.a. and is located in Meridian.

Mark G. Bensen ’96 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for the Federal Way, Wash., Department of Public Safety. He also is a certified arson investigator and volunteers as a citizen adviser to his local fire department.

Rachel M. Turner-Bensen ’96 is a case manager with the LewisMason-Thurston Area Agency on Aging. Rachel recently completed her Certificate in Gerontology online through the University of Idaho Community Programs Office.

Kent Whittig ’96 has been selected to participate in the Leadership Idaho Agriculture Foundation spring class. This program is designed to enhance the leadership, personal development and awareness of agriculture for each participant.

Sandy Lynn Bain ’97 has started a class in courtroom procedures and trial practice and also serves as adviser to the Mock Trial Club at Lake City High School in Coeur d’Alene, where she teaches history and government.

00s Brant P. Borchert ’03 has accepted a position with Safeway Corporate Offices in Phoenix, Ariz., in their new financial compliance department as the manager of financial compliance systems.

Peter D. Leman ’03 was selected as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow to begin a doctorate program at the University of California, Irvine, in English and American literature this fall. The maximum award is $41,000 a year, renewable for up to four years, and administered by the U.S. Department of Education.

MARRIAGES Shannon Rose Fuchs ’91 to Patrick Joseph Gallagher Michelle Hastriter ’04 to Scott A. Wimer ’03 Courtney L. Herring ’03 to Antonio V. Bonuccelli ’03 Mary Hester ’02 to Charles Stegner ’02 Sarah Hester ’00 to James Schumacher Jennifer Jones to Darren Gehring ’93 Jennie Mitchell to Tom Charles Havey ’86

Mark E. Peterson ’03 made his debut at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., in the role of Sylvester in August Wilson’s award-winning play, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

Ryan Hutcheson ’04 is attending Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont., where he is continuing his studies in chemistry and working toward his doctorate.

Katie R. Shamberg ’03 was hired by the advertising agency BLUE541 as a graphic and Web designer. BLUE541, with offices in Coeur d’Alene, offers design, advertising and PR services.

Carrie McCabe ’04 is employed as a child life specialist for the Packard Children’s Hospital at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif.

Her responsibilities include enhancing the normal growth and development of children, from birth through adolescence, while reducing the impact of stressful or traumatic life events associated with hospitalization.

Scott Wimer ’03 was nominated for The National Dean’s List, 2004-05. He is employed as a radiology tech specialist at Tri-State Hospital in Clarkston, Wash.

Mitch Carricart ’04 is working for the nation’s largest homebuilder, Pulte Homes, Inc., in Southern California.

May 2005. Top Row (L-R): Keeven Shropshire, Peter Soeth, Carolyn Tesnohlidek, Joe Cloud, Kay Bacharach, Dick Bull, Konnie Leichner, Kacie Baldwin, Marilee Kohtz, Duane Rimel, Wayne Wohler, Jennifer Haemmerle, Bruce Pitman (Dean of Students), Tim Helmke, Kristy Mayer. Bottom Row (L-R): Carmen Savage, Steve Scott, Roxie Simcoe, Andrea Niehenke, Kristen Ruffing, Russ Vansant, Scott Green, Brian Hill, Gary Crum, Tom Birch, Don Ingle, Jim Dickinson, Tom Limbaugh, SArb President Erin Jessup, Harold Gibson.

Casandra Byington ’05 has been hired as a corps member for Teach for America. She has been assigned to Houston, Texas.

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Henrietta Jane Hawkins Nelson ’33, Weiser, Dec. 9, 2003

Virge Joseph Dixon ’43, Billings, Mont., Feb. 18, 2005

Ethel Larson Reagan ’29, Durham, N. C., Dec. 15, 2004

Kathryn Kendall Orr ’36, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 23, 2005

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Kenneth Dew Orr ’35, ’36, Converse, Texas, Feb. 8, 2005

Cecelia “Cissy” Jane Goodier Dominick ’46, Weems, Va., March 9, 2005

Robert Lewis Ashbrook ’37, Temple, Texas, April 4, 2005 E. Boyd Baster ’36, Boise, Feb. 11, 2005 Vera Lee Biggart Branom ’39, Seattle, Wash., Feb. 19, 2005 Norman J. Briggs ’38, Crossett, Ark., Nov. 23, 2004

Anneka Erin O’Connell to Jesse Charles McMillen ’00

Helen Elizabeth Mains Eals ’32, Longview, Wash., Dec. 8, 2004

Christina A. Purchase to Jared T. Scholten ’00

Mary Margaret Murphy Goss ’37, Spokane, Wash., March 7, 2005 Robert “Bob” Richey Granville ’38, Crystal River, Fla., April 12, 2005 Edward Harry Johnson ’39, Coeur d’Alene, Feb. 2, 2005 Winston I. Jones ’36, Twin Falls, June 1, 2005

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Kevin M. Lee ’05 has been hired as a sales manager trainee with Stock Building Supply in Ventura, Calif.

Joseph Daniel Cockrell ’43, Tacoma, Wash., April 4, 2005

Marjorie “Marge” A. Vandegrift Campbell ’34, Boise, April 6, 2005

Kimberly Ann Wilson ’03 to Stefan Michael Yauchzee ’04

Kerri Keeney ’05 has been hired as a corps member for Teach for America. She has been assigned to Charlotte, N.C.

L. Blaine Liljenquist ’38, McLean, Va., Sept. 18, 2003

IN MEMORY

Angela Brady Naylor ’04 to Cory Austin Wetzsteon ’03

Polly A. Thomspon ’02 to Chris Rillstone

Dan Hardy ’05 is the territory manager for the Seattle office of E&J Gallo Winery.

Gladys E. Smith Kirkpatrick ’37, Colfax, Wash., Feb. 28, 2005 Glenn R. Kunkel ’35, Hollister, April 20, 2005 Wendell D. Lawrence ’38, St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 12, 2005

Ethel G. Pitcher ’38, Sarasota, Fla., Oct. 25, 2004 George T. Riddle ’38, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 23, 2005 Cecil G. “Bill” Rudeen ’38, Nampa, April 18, 2005 Katherine L. Schuettenhelm Russel ’38, Williamsport, Md., March 19, 2005 Grace Ester Shawen Smith ’36, Potlatch, March 17, 2005 Celia Moss Strawn ’35, Portland, Ore., March 3, 2005 Beulah Wright Young ’32, Boise, April 12, 2005

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Paul Wayne Easterbrook ’42, Boise, April 24, 2005 William E. Effertz, Jr. ’49, Post Falls, April 2, 2005 Gwendolyn B. Waltman Ellingson ’49, Medimont, March 26, 2005 Lawrence “Larry” Robertson Good ’43, Lawrence, Kan., Nov. 18, 2003 Edgar “Ed” J. Grieser ’48, Moscow, Feb. 28, 2005 Thomas Alvin Hadley ’41, Emmett, May 1, 2005 Clarence J. Hamilton ’48, Coeur d’Alene, May 5, 2005 Raymond J. Helbling ’43, Greenville, Pa., Oct. 24, 2004

Harold T. Barnes ’47, Portland, Ore., May 21, 2004

John Richard Hoskins ’47, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 22, 2005

George A. Bishop ’40, Lakewood, N.J., Feb. 22, 2005

Allen J. “Brick” Hunter ’49, Moscow, March 5, 2005

Roberta A. “Bert” Rodgers Braddock ’46, Lewiston, April 12, 2005

Bernell Humpherys Kennington ’40, Burley, March 12, 2005

Madge Yvonne Hayward Brown ’49, Sandpoint, April 24, 2005 Richard J. Campana ’43, Orono, Maine, April 1, 2005

Francis Lloyd Kolar ’49, Marysville, Wash., March 5, 2005 Kenneth D. Lynk ’43, Kirkland, Wash., April 13, 2005

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Tim Prather ’82 has been selected to participate in the Leadership Idaho Agriculture Foundation spring class. This program is designed to enhance the leadership, personal development and awareness of agriculture for each participant.

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CLASS NOTES — IN MEMORIAM John Craige Manning ’42, Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 28, 2005

James H. DeChambeau ’55, Garden Valley, April 10, 2005

Clarence R. Meltesen ’41, San Francisco, Calif., May 7, 2005

Steve Douglas ’52, McCall, May 16, 2005

William “Bill” J. Miklich ’48, Waukesha, Wis., March 10, 2005

Roger L. Downend ’51, Seattle, Wash., April 2, 2005

Jack Zumwalt Nelson ’42, Sandpoint, April 25, 2005

Gary James Doyle ’59, Coeur d’Alene, March 15, 2005

Helen Wilson Roberts ’43, Port St. Lucie, Fla., March 29, 2005

Barbara A. Ulrich Flory ’51, Lewiston, Feb. 13, 2005

Isabel Tigert Robertson ’41, Boise, April 20, 2005

Wynne B. Henderson ’50, Yakima, Wash., April 20, 2005

Margaret Ann Maize Sale ’48, Boise, April 3, 2005

Clyde Keith Hickman ’56, Gulfport, Fla., March 12, 2005

Charles “Chuck” Sargent ’48, ’52, Coeur d’Alene, April 5, 2005

James “Jim” Woodward Hilliard ’55, Wheeler, Ore., March 3, 2005

Arlin Robert “Bob” Spaulding ’42, Sun City, Ariz., April 27, 2005 Guy E. Terwilleger ’49, ’53, Boise, March 5, 2005

William Bailey Howard ’50, Orem, Utah, April 10, 2005

Leo Alvon Thomas ’49, Hamilton, Mont., March 18, 2005

Alan F. Huggins ’52, Denver, Colo., April 9, 2005

Denton Tucker ’43, ’62, Bremerton, Wash., April 24, 2005 Beverly Pat Dodge Uresti ’42, Hayden Lake, Feb. 4, 2005 Harry Herrmann Wegeleben ’49, Yakima, Wash., Feb. 19, 2004 Otis Gil Wenzel ’49, Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2005 John Dexter Whalen ’40, Payette, Ore., April 3, 2005

50s Ione Marie Allen Adkins ’52, Boise, April 19, 2005 Sally F. McFarland Beattie ’58, Boise, April 21, 2005 Gerald O. Bierwag ’58, Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 15, 2005 John Arthur Blessinger ’56, Vancouver, Wash., May 1, 2005 William J. Coombe, Jr. ’57, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 14, 2005 Lyle Aamodt Craner ’51, Mount Vernon, Wash., April 29, 2005 Billy E. Daiss ’56, Spokane Valley, Wash., April 26, 2005

Marlin L. Hulett ’56, Orofino, April 1, 2005 Francis Edwin Keller ’58, Boise, April 18, 2005 Marco Kiilsgaard ’51, Baker City, Ore., April 12, 2005 Blair Stanley Lewis ’50, Idaho Falls, March 20, 2005 Thomas Clarence Lindstrom ’54, North Towanda, Pa., April 16, 2005 John W. McGough ’50, Spokane, Wash., May 31, 2005 Patricia M. Baker Polillo ’52, Foster City, Calif., Feb. 28, 2005 Elwin “Moe” H. Price ’57, Nampa, April 22, 2005 Eugene O. Reed ’51, Lake Clark, Alaska, April 21, 2005

Helen H. Werner ’53, ’56, ’73, Boulder, Colo., Jan. 27, 2004

Roger Walsh Bartram ’71, Louisville, Ky., March 10, 2005 Bruce “Ditto” Dittman ’70, ’76, Lake Forest, Ill., April 10, 2005

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Blaine Douglas Hamann ’70, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 29, 2005

Ruth M. Anderson ’66, Twin Falls, May 26, 2005

Daniel Elton Hibbard ’74, Post Falls, Dec. 13, 2004

Adelbert “Del” L. Bowman ’60, Boise, April 11, 2005

Susan E. Yoksas Kissane ’74, Woodridge, Ill., July 5, 2004

Virginia “Ginny” Brogan Eiden ’68, Boise, April 18, 2005

Roosevelt Owens Jr. ’71, Missouri City, Texas, May 13, 2005

Rusanne L. Storey Johnston Haertl ’66, Portland, Ore., April 22, 2005

Perry Cecil Sutton ’72, Ola, Oct. 20, 2004

Nickie McDonnell Lynch ’66, Portland, Ore., May 29, 2005

Peter C. Unsinger ’72, San Jose, Calif., May 3, 2005

Byron Kermit Meredith ’67, Jordan Valley, Ore., April 27, 2005

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Clifton Woody Mills ’68, Prescott, Ariz., April 13, 2005 Jerome J. Ney ’65, ’66, Lewiston, Feb. 25, 2005 Rudy R. Ringe ’68, Genesee, Sept. 17, 2003 James Vog Stewart ’61, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 16, 2005 Mary Evelyn McCandless Stuart ’63, Cataldo, April 21, 2005 Gerald Tattershall Jr. ’68, Starke, Fla., July 19, 2004 Ruth Haggerty Tucker ’62, Bremerton, Wash., Nov. 13, 2004 Violet Elaine Kusler Wachter ’68, Clarkston, Wash., April 25, 2005

Zachary Tremain, son of Eric ’97 and Leah Smith ’95, ’96 Johnson

Katie Jo, daughter of Chad and Jodi Tucker ’98 Booth

John “Jack” Thomas, son of Kyle ’98, ’05 and Jill Thomas ’97 Dennis

Dylan Thomas, son of Rob and Valerie Woodard ’99 Forster

Riley Daniel, son of Clay ’90 and Amy Widman’92 Gehring

Nathanyl Ander DeWitt, son of Jeff ’95 and Halo DeWitt ’94 Golden

Chesney Sarah, daughter of Mathew and Angela Largent ’98 Helmke

Parker Dell, son of Murray ’97 and Jenny ’97 Jenkins

Mercedez Jade Louise LaChapelle, daughter of Tim and Dawn LaChapelle, and granddaughter of Eric Leatham ’90

Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Bill and Alexa Steiger ’98 Lewis

Caleb Wesley and Eli John, sons of Jason’94, ’00 and Rachel Thompson ’93, ’00 Lyon

Dabne Flynn, daughter of Michael and Shaley Denler ’95 McGuire

Maxwell John, son of Allan and Danielle Scofield ’92 Niemi

Eilonwy Marie, daughter of Terry ’93 and Rebecca Latshaw ’96 Quinn

Ella Cathleen and Ethan Forrest, children of Lee ’00 and Cara Hayne ’02 Rubel

Sara Elizabeth Denman Sheehy ’76, Boise, Feb. 19, 2005

Terry Rex Howard ’64, ’67, Boise, April 12, 2005

Indurani Dayal Meshri ’68, Tulsa, Okla., May 16, 2005

FUTURE VANDALS

Jolyn Riggs Dahmen ’81, Clarkston, Wash., April 18, 2005 Randy Alan Erickson ’88, Pasco, Wash., April 7, 2005 Ira Grass ’80, Lewiston, April 20, 2005 Glenn Roy Jackson ’88, Post Falls, March 19, 2005 David Paul Mear ’83, Gunnison, Colo., Feb. 19, 2005

Morgan, Parker and Kendra, children of Wayne ’99 and Nicole Wray ’93 Gehring

90s Ronald Bruce Hoagland ’98, Idaho Falls, March 27, 2005 Karen A. Olson Mathews ’90, Oak Harbor, Wash., April 8, 2005

Loegan, son of Nick and Sarah Cooke ’00 Swanson

Tess and Hope, daughters of Steve ’93 and Andrea Kaaland Wimer

Josie, Michaela, and Caden, children of Todd ’95 and Tanya Meyer ’94 Wimer

Holly Marie and Landon Charles, children of Andrew ’00 and Colleen Zahn ’95, ’00 Dallmann

Ryann Annabelle, daughter of Jeff ’94 and Bridget Flynn ’94 Pilcher Miles Landon, son of Keith Eric ’96 and Laura Hanson ’97 Taylor Alexa Linn, daughter of Brian ’98 and Marcia De Ment ’00 Watt

Charles Mack Rice ’90, ’04, Pullman, Wash., Feb. 14, 2005 Tarrie Kay Wagner ’90, Boise, March 27, 2005

R. Dale Reed ’53, Lancaster, Calif., March 18, 2005

Gerald Robert Wunderlich ’61, ’67, Coeur d’Alene, April 21, 2005

Lester Rookstool ’50, Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 31, 2005

Dennis G. Youtz ’69, Twin Falls, April 15, 2005

Shannon Becker Kingsley ’01, Sandpoint, April 18, 2005

James William Ross ’50, Scottsdale, Ariz., March 12, 2005

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Deborah Taylor Sandlund ’01, Grangeville, Feb. 1, 2005

Wanda Delap Streeter ’58, Lewiston, May 14, 2005

John “Neil” Andreason ’70, Shelley, April 24, 2005

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Carl “Harry” Hogberg ’59, Vancouver, Wash., March 6, 2004

Lauretta Anne Lefevre Taylor ’53, Marysville, Wash., April 17, 2004

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2005 Alumni Association Hall of Fame

Carl Berry of Mill Valley, Calif., is a 1962 graduate from the College of Education. Berry is a national business leader in the resort property industry.

He pioneered the urban component of the timeshare industry in North America more than two decades ago. Berry has been an active volunteer of the UI Foundation and served as co-chairperson of the National Campaign Council of The Campaign for Idaho which raised more than $128 million.

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Heidi C. Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning

Endowments are the lifeblood of the UI Foundation and its support of the University. Last year, more than $9 million, including $6.5 million for scholarships, was paid out in grants to virtually every program and unit of the institution. Without these scholarships, many students here today would not be able to attend college.

As always, we hope you find this issue to have some meaningful information for you. And please, let us know how we can help you make your dreams and aspirations for a stronger, better University of Idaho come true. See our contact information on page 8 of Idaho Outlook.

Sincerely,

Ed McBride Director of Gift Planning

Heidi Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning

Frosh week activities, tug-of-war between the class of 1971 and 1972. The Class of 1972 proved victorious.

GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS

When Debra Kaye (Meyer) Rowe was crowned Miss University of Idaho in 1970, she never saw it coming. “I was shocked,” she remembers. The experience remains a memorable one for her.

“What I think was the neatest experience was going on to the Miss Idaho pageant and getting to know so many of the women that really had drive and compassion for their schools and their communities.”

Rowe made good use of her degree in business-marketing.

She first worked in a bank, then worked in marketing for Kaiser Aluminum on their management staff in Spokane for 26 years.

“I headed up sales, management and marketing for them.

I retired from there two and one-half years ago, and I’m now a licensed Realtor in the state of Washington.”

The Spokane resident has two children, a son and a daughter, and a husband of 34 years.

Some of Rowe’s fondest memories of her time at University of Idaho include her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta.

“I loved that life and all of my sisters. There’s a very dear part of me that is very loyal to the UI. I just think it’s a pretty campus. I live in Spokane so I still hear a lot about it and I still have a soft spot in my heart for it.”

—GAIL MILLER

Edward J. McBride Director of Gift Planning

1958 Nadine Talbot and Bruce Summers work on the Sigma Nu float.

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Allen Derr of Boise is a 1951 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He also earned a UI College of Law degree in 1959. He entered private law practice in 1960. In 1971, he successfully argued Reed vs. Reed, the first case in U.S. Supreme Court history to declare a state law unconstitutional because it discriminated against women and violated the 14th amendment. Allen Derr is married to Judy Peavey-Derr (Ramseyer). The Boise couple has two adult children. He continues his private law practice in Boise.

Remembering the ’70s

• The impact made by the Sullivan family of Boise; • A story on a young couple — Dave and Lisa Churchman – and how they already are planning for the future; • A Frequently Asked Questions page; • Features on students who have benefited from endowed scholarships, and; • Comments from academicians who have witnessed the benefits of the Sullivan endowments.

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Dale Bosworth of Washington, D.C., is a 1966 graduate of the College of Natural Resources. As U.S. Forest Service chief, Bosworth has responsibility for the stewardship of more than 100 national forests and grasslands covering some 194 million acres. In this role, Bosworth directs the largest natural resources-oriented research program in the world. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service for more than three decades. Dale and his wife, Carma, live in Washington, D.C., and have two grown children.

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Gerald O. Bierwag of Tucson, Ariz., was a 1958 graduate of the College of Letters and Science. He passed way Feb. 15. Bierwag was a retired college economics professor at the University of Oregon, Florida International University and University of Arizona. He specialized in “duration analysis,” which involves assessing interest rate risk on investment portfolios. His work has had a major impact on the way managers of financial institutions and investment portfolios assess interest rate risk.

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bout the time this issue of Here We Have Idaho hits your mailboxes, activities at the University of Idaho will be ramping up for another busy and productive school year. After the quiet summer respite, we here on campus actually look forward to the return of the students and all the hustle and bustle of the academic setting.

Students come here from all walks of life, from every state in the Union and from some 86 countries. Many count on financial support not only from Mom and Dad and income from their summer jobs, but also on scholarship backing.

These scholarships, in turn, come from endowments established by generous and far-seeing donors to the University of Idaho — people who saw a need not only for today’s scholars but for those in the future — students not yet born.

This issue of Idaho Outlook focuses on endowments at the University of Idaho — what they are, how they work, and most importantly, how you can participate. In these pages you will find articles on:

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Joan Sullivan ’65, Will Sullivan ’04 and Meghan Sullivan, ’04 Law.

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• Her great-great grandfather, Isaac Newton Sullivan, was an active member of the bar prior to Idaho’s statehood, and was the state’s first chief justice.

• Her great-grandfather, Willis Sullivan Sr., was a long-time practitioner in Hailey and Boise.

• Her grandfather, Willis Jr., was a partner in the legendary firm Langroise, Clark, Sullivan and Smiley, later to merge with the present Holland and Hart.

• Her father, Willis III, was with the firm Cantrill, Skinner, Sullivan and King until his untimely death from cancer in 2001.

• Meghan, a 2004 Idaho College of Law graduate, currently is clerking for District Court Judge James C. Morfitt in Canyon County.

Willis E. Sullivan Jr.

Willis E. Sullivan III

But that’s only part of the Sullivan legacy. In 2002 Jean Sullivan, widow of Willis Jr., and a well-known Idaho Statesman columnist, author, community activist and philanthropist in her own right, created two endowments at the University of Idaho. One is in loving memory of her husband for scholarships in the College of Law, and the other honors her son, Willis III for the Study Abroad program in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). This was accomplished only after a full conclave

of the Sullivan family, and a recognition that all members were participating in support of this generous act. These include Jean’s daughter, Tuck Sullivan Thomas and children, Amy Thomas Herberger and Wade Thomas Jr., and her daughter-in-law, Joan Sullivan along with her children, Meghan and Willis IV. The Sullivan family endowments have started paying big rewards for University of Idaho students. In the past two years, the Sullivan endowments have paid out $10,000 in scholarships annually to students in the Study Abroad program, and another $10,000 per year to law students. The improvement of our understanding of — and relations with — foreign nations and their people was a passion of Joan’s husband, Willis III, known in the family as simply “Bill.”

In fact, in 1974, he interrupted his law career to get a master’s degree in Spanish at Middlebury College in Vermont, after which he spent a year teaching in a Basque community in Onate, Spain, and later in California. His experience in Spain led to his support of the Basque populace in Boise where he was instrumental in establishing the Basque

Museum and served on the museum’s board for several years. When Bill and Joan moved back to Boise after his teaching ventures, he resumed his law practice, but continued to have a zeal for the study of foreign languages and foreign relations. There is little doubt that he would be delighted with the scholarship endowment memorializing his name in this generous fashion.

Both Willis Jr. and Willis III were active in the social, cultural and professional circles in Boise and throughout the state. Willis Jr. distinguished his service to the legal profession by serving as president of the Idaho State Bar and as a member of the first bar examination grading committee, serving in the latter capacity for more than 20 years. He also served on a number of state Bar committees as well as on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Council and the University of Idaho College of Law’s Advisory Board. He was a lifetime member from Idaho to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). As a capstone to his career, he was honored by the Idaho State Bar

as the first recipient of its Distinguished Lawyer Award in 1983. He served on numerous boards and ventures in and around Boise, including the Boise Public Library and a long-term stint as a director of Idaho First National Bank, which is now US Bank.

Willis III (“Bill”), also was an active community participant. He volunteered on the boards of several organizations including the Basque Museum, the Children’s Home, the Boise Opera, the Boise Art Museum, the Boise Public Library and The Nature Conservancy of Idaho. Professionally, he was a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and followed in his father’s footsteps as a state commissioner on NCCUSL from 1985 until his death. In 1994, he was the recipient of the Idaho State Bar Professionalism Award, and in 1996, he was honored with the Gem State Award from The Nature Conservancy of Idaho.

The Willis E. Sullivan name continues with Bill and Joan’s son (and Meghan’s brother), Willis IV. Known among friends and family as Will, he is a 2004 UI graduate in English. He has inherited 2005

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The Sullivan Legacy

Wade Thomas, ’65, Amy Herberger, Tuck Sullivan Thomas, ’65 and Wade Jr.

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In Support of a Global Education

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Thanks to the Sullivan family The College of Law is honored to have a role in perpetuating the remarkable legacy of the Sullivan family — a legacy spanning five Don Burnett generations of devotion to law and public life since Idaho’s formative days. Willis Sullivan Jr., for whom the law scholarship fund is named, was one of the exceptional practitioners and public citizens of his time.

It is fitting, therefore, that the “Sullivan Scholars” program has become an investment in excellence.

By providing more than half of the rapidly escalating total costs of attending law school, the Sullivan Scholarship enables the College of Law to recruit competitively against the national array of law schools that seek to attract Idaho’s best and brightest

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students. Moreover, by enhancing recruitment “at the top,” the Sullivan Scholarship enables the College to deploy other resources to the recruitment of a strong overall entering class each year.

The Sullivan Scholarship will grow in importance as a means of attracting talented students for whom cost is a critical factor. These students, burdened with less debt than they would otherwise incur, will be able to choose careers based primarily upon their ideals and a sense of professional calling, rather than solely upon economic necessity. I can envision Willis, nodding his head in affirmation.

The College of Law has established a goal of becoming America’s best small state law school. Through the “Sullivan Scholars” program, one of Idaho’s leading families is helping us get there.

We are profoundly grateful.

Don Burnett, Dean and Foundation Professor of Law

Susan Moss starts her final year at the University of Idaho College of Law this fall, and has been the recipient of The Willis E. Sullivan Memorial College of Law Scholarship Susan Moss for each of her three years in law school.

Receiving the scholarship solidified Susan’s decision to choose Idaho for law school. “I grew up in Coeur d’Alene and appreciate the opportunity, through the generosity of the Sullivan family, to be receiving such a wonderful education in my home state.”

The scholarship has afforded her the opportunity to focus on her studies and student leadership. She has served as president of the Sexual Orientation Diversity Alliance and secretary of the Women’s Law Caucus, and currently sits on the board of directors for the

American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho. Next year, she will be the editor-in-chief of the Idaho Law Review.

Although her undergraduate degree was in chemistry, Susan has enjoyed transitioning to the study of law. She spent last summer working in Washington, D.C., at the American Constitution Society, and returned to the nation’s capital this summer to work at the private firm of O’Melveny & Myers. The city is a change from Moscow, but Susan says that she is “just as prepared for practice at the firm as any of my fellow summer associates from the Ivy League schools, thanks to the individualized attention and dedication to students that the faculty of the College of Law provides.”

Though she may choose to work in Washington, D.C., after graduation, Susan says “Idaho will always be home.”

Since its establishment in 2003, the Willis E. Sullivan III Memorial Study Abroad Scholarship has provided important financial James Reece assistance to talented and promising UI students. Eight outstanding students from the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences – including three recipients for the coming academic year – have received Sullivan Scholarship support for their studies at universities in Spain, France, Germany, Chile and Costa Rica. Their academic interests have been as diverse as the sites chosen for their semester or year abroad; each of the eight has combined the study of a modern foreign language and culture with a second academic major – in anthropology, communication studies, music, sociology, recreation, international studies and political science.

The Sullivan Scholarship truly has made a difference in our ability to help our students take that crucial step toward linguistic proficiency that only extended residence and study abroad can provide. Beyond its role in the acquisition of language skills and of a fuller understanding of another culture, study abroad contributes importantly to the liberal arts education of our students and to their development as informed global citizens. Study abroad can often be a transformative experience for our students, opening them to new perspectives from which to engage the important economic, social and political problems that confront the world today. In turn, their experience helps to enrich the entire undergraduate curriculum in the college as we can count on wellprepared and intellectually curious students to return to the University and to our upper-level courses

following their time abroad.

The Sullivan family’s generous and foresightful gift truly is making a difference for the college and its students and we are grateful for the support it will provide our students for generations to come.

James Reece, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Gina Baldwin is the recipient of The Willis E. Sullivan III Memorial Study Abroad Scholarship to study abroad in France during the 2005-06 academic Gina Baldwin year.

She has been a student at the University of Idaho for the past two years after transferring from Colorado State University. A Meridian native, Gina enrolled in the political science department with the goal of positively impacting the lives of those around her. In her third year of studies, she decided to add French as a double major and pursue an exchange program in France.

“Studying a second language has been a very rewarding experience. I find that it has impacted me personally more than I could have ever imagined,” said Gina.

She finds the incorporation of a foreign language is essential to understanding one’s own way of life.

“The Sullivan Scholarship has allowed me to take advantage of an opportunity that I otherwise would not be able to afford. I think studying abroad will be an invaluable experience for me. The Sullivan’s financial support aids students in being able to expand their world views first hand, which is crucial in today’s world.”

Gina will graduate with dual degrees in political science and French in May 2007.

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Abroad Scholarship. They saw this as a fitting way to honor Bill’s memory.

Bill Sullivan was elected to membership on the UI Foundation in 1999. Upon his unexpected death in 2001, his wife, Joan, was invited to fill out his unexpired term and she readily accepted. Joan has been an active member of the Foundation, serving on the gift planning advisory committee and the CLASS advancement council as well as being a resource person, regularly participating in Foundation meetings, and volunteering in whatever way she can.

The Sullivan family stands out as a prime example of generous and visionary supporters of the University of Idaho. While the Sullivan funds are of considerable magnitude, endowments can be established with as little as $25,000.

See our contact information on page 8. to inquire how you, too, could create a lasting tribute to a loved one.

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his dad’s interest in foreign cultures and relations, and participated as a student in the UI’s Studies Abroad program in Spain. He says it was a fascinating experience and he commends it to all students.

Will is proud of the Sullivan E. L. “Nif” Sullivan Suzanne Sullivan legacy, and proud to continue to bear the name. level, strictly from earnings. While this Ninety-four year-old represents just one of the many ways Jean Sullivan is the matriarch of this Jean has expressed her philanthropic remarkable family, and the instigator of spirit in her community and state, it these two very generous endowments. is a wonderful way to honor both her Initially, with her family’s endorsement, husband and her son in a lasting tribute. she gave a sum that could be tapped But the Sullivan legacy doesn’t stop — both principal and income — for there. Motivated by their own spirit of scholarship awards in a certain dollar philanthropy and their love for their amount. In December 2003, after she nephew, Bill, Boiseans E.L. “Nif” Sullivan and the family saw how well this worked, and his wife, Suzanne, have created an they elected to increase the gift amount endowment of their own to augment the so that it could be endowed and still pay Willis E. Sullivan III Memorial Study out the same or more than the initial

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Q: How do these endowments work?

A: Once an endowment is created, it becomes a permanent, irrevocable fund, and only the earnings are available for distribution to the programs and purposes designated by the donor.

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Q: What do you consider as “earnings?”

A: Earnings include realized income in the form of dividends on stocks and interest on bonds, and realized capital gains from the sales of securities in the portfolio.

Q: So, if the earnings are distributed, does the endowment still grow in value?

A: That is certainly the intention. The Foundation invests its CIT assets for total return and employs an investment strategy that optimizes both income and growth through a balanced portfolio of bonds and equities (stocks). Some older endowments limit their distributions to the realized income only, and require that realized capital gains be reinvested. New endowments allow the Foundation to distribute earnings based on a spending rate that is a percentage of the fair market value of the endowment. Currently, that spending rate is targeted at 4 percent.

Earnings in excess of the spending rate are reinvested.

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Q: How much did the CIT distribute over the past five years for the benefit of scholarships, departments and other programs at the University of Idaho?

A: $26,231,274 for 2000 through 2004.

Q: How much does it take to create an endowed fund?

A: $25,000 is required for an endowed scholarship. Endowed faculty funds generally start at higher minimum amounts. The $25,000 may be in the form of an outright gift or a signed pledge commitment over a period of up to five years.

Q: Can I name the endowment I set up?

A: By all means. It can carry your name, that of your parents or other persons you wish to honor, or even the name of your company or foundation.

Q: How do I know the endowment I set up will be used in the way that I direct?

A: We work with our donors to create an Endowment Agreement that spells out the general manner in which the funds will be invested, the purposes for which it was created and the programs to which the earnings are to be distributed. Thus, if you wish to create an endowment for scholarships in the Department of English, your Endowment Agreement would reflect this and you would be assured that the funds would be applied to that purpose in perpetuity.

Q: What if the program I designate is someday no longer a part of the University curriculum?

A: We highly recommend that a “change of circumstances” clause be included that allows the Foundation discretion to direct the distributions to another area “which, in its judgment, is in keeping with the original spirit and intent of this document.”

Q: How specific can I be in directing how the distributions are to be made?

A: We will work with you to tailor the agreement and the distribution scheme to meet your objectives, as long as the provisions are manageable within our systems and not overly restrictive. For instance, if you wanted to provide scholarship support for students having graduated from a particular high school, that can be done. However, you would want to include language that says first preference will be given to those students, so that if none from that high school were eligible in a particular year, the scholarships could still be awarded to other deserving students.

Q. How will I know how my endowment fund is doing?

A. You will receive an endowment status report annually from the University’s Trust and Investment Office that shows endowment growth and earnings, and the amount of earnings that were distributed. Additionally, if your endowment supports a scholarship, the scholarship recipient will be asked to write you a letter of appreciation.

Q. Does the University of Idaho Foundation charge fees against endowments?

A. There are no “gift fees” per se charged against endowment gifts, however, gifts for endowments are “held” by the Foundation for a period of one year before being invested in the CIT. Earnings generated during the one-year holding period accrue to the Foundation and are in lieu of on-going development charges that many universities assess against annual endowment earnings. The CIT’s portfolio investment management expenses are netted against realized earnings before earnings are distributed.

Q: Who do I talk to if I want to set up an endowment?

A: Contact Gift Planning Services. See page 8 for contact information.

Young Vandals with a Plan Drive by the Churchman residence in Boise and one of the first things you’ll notice is the Joe Vandal rock displayed prominently next to the front door.

Living in Boise for the past 15 years, Dave and Lisa always have gone out of their way to show their Vandal pride. It was not surprising then, that when they started making estate plans, they immediately considered the University of Idaho as a beneficiary.

Dave and Lisa (Overman) met at the University in 1986 and began dating a couple years later after an extended friendship. (Dave claims his courting was “something more than random meetings and something less than stalking.”)

Dave was the latest in a long lineage of Churchman Vandals, including his mother and father, Val and JR, his sisters Terri Schmidt, Stacie Briggs, Leslie Knowles, and brother Dan. Both Dave and Lisa came to the UI almost by chance. Dave started his college years at the University of Portland, and on his way back to school in 1986 he stopped to visit his sister and a friend in Moscow. While there he spent time on campus and he was hooked. He decided right then to transfer. Lisa, a Spokane native, had made up her mind she wanted to attend someplace different than WSU or UW, where most of her classmates were heading. Idaho seemed like an OK place to go.

As it turned out, the Churchmans’ fulfilling campus experiences at the University of Idaho were the catalyst for their ongoing loyalty to it. Dave served as president of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, played saxophone in the Vandal marching band, and was active in various other campus groups. Lisa pursued her love of singing through the Vandaleers, held leadership positions in Campbell Hall and was involved in a variety of other campus activities. She also worked at the English Department as a student aide.

After graduating with a B.A. in English in December 1989 Lisa went on to Gonzaga University to obtain a paralegal certification. Soon after, she moved to Boise, and she and Dave were married in May, 1992.

Dave and Lisa have included the University of Idaho in their estate plans because they had high school and college friends who were unable to attend or finish college because of a lack of resources.

The Churchmans want to provide a means for future students to pursue their dreams. Said Dave and Lisa, “Many of our Lisa, Dave, Rebecca, and Alexander Churchman. fondest memories and closest friends are from adjuster with the Idaho State Insurance the University of Idaho, and we want Fund, and is currently a stay-at-home to give students in future generations Mom while pursuing an Education degree the opportunity to have the experiences at Boise State University. that we cherished at the University.”

Dave and Lisa have two children, They go on to say, “While the amount Alexander Robert born in 1996, and available to contribute now may be small, Rebecca Jenae born in 2000. Both are over the next 40 to 50 years it will grow already die-hard Vandal fans and love to significantly, and it’s extremely easy to set visit Moscow for football games in the fall. up a gift to the University in your will.

In addition to their estate plans for The employees at the University were the UI, Dave and Lisa continue to donate fantastic to work with and helped guide to the English Department, College of us through the process. Even though Business & Economics (including the we’re still in the prime of our lives, we felt Jack Morris Room), and the Vandal it was a good time to begin to plan for an Scholarship Fund. unplanned emergency and think about The Churchmans stay busy with what kind of legacy we’d like to leave their family, enjoying skiing, camping, behind.” boating, and especially fishing!! And, they A 1990 graduate in Production and enjoy their ongoing affiliation with the Operations Management, Dave’s entire University of Idaho. Go Vandals! career has been with Idaho Power and its affiliate, IDACORP Energy. He currently is managing natural gas supplies for the utility. Lisa has worked as a paralegal, an 2005

Q: I often hear the term “endowment” in connection with scholarships and other funds held by the University.

What exactly does that mean?

A: The endowment in the larger context means the funds that are intended to be held and managed in perpetuity by the Foundation for the benefit of the University of Idaho. Our pooled endowment fund is called the Consolidated Investment Trust (CIT) and it currently stands at about $160 million. Within the CIT are more than 1,100 individual accounts or endowments that have been created and funded by donors.

Q: What has been the CIT’s track record over the past five years?

A: It has had an average total return of 10.64 percent per year, with an annual average income of 4.77 percent.

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Ways to Give Through Your Estate Plan Endowments can be funded in a variety of ways through the University of Idaho Foundation, including life income plans and estate bequests. Here is a brief listing of how you can participate in this vital component of the University of Idaho’s mission.

Bequest in Will or Revocable Living Trust

What are the tax benefits?

What are some other benefits?

A gift you make by naming the University of Idaho in your will for a certain dollar amount or the residuary.

Reduces size of taxable estate.

A contract in which the Foundation agrees to pay you back a percentage of your gift annually for your lifetime.

Immediate income tax deduction for part of gift’s value, capital gains spread out over life expectancy, a portion of the income is tax-exempt.

Gives you and/or another beneficiary a set income for life.

A gift of an existing or new policy with the Foundation named as beneficiary and owner.

Immediate income tax deduction for gift’s value, plus possible estate tax savings.

Provides a way to make a significant gift with minimal capital outlay.

Retirement Plan Gift

A gift made by naming the Foundation as remainder beneficiary after your death.

Heirs avoid income tax and possibly estate tax.

Preserves 100 percent of plan’s value and allows you to leave heirs other, less costly bequests.

Retained Life Estate

A donation of your home or farm but with the right to remain there.

Immediate income tax deduction for the charitable value of the gift, plus no capital gains tax due.

Allows you to live in your home or farm and still receive charitable deduction; assures immediate passage of title on your death.

Charitable Gift Annuity

Life Insurance Gift

Gives you flexibility in providing for family needs first.

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Charitable Remainder Trusts

A trust that pays the University an income for a period of years before you or heirs receive the trust remainder.

Income tax savings from deduction, no capital gains tax liability, possible estate tax savings.

Income tax savings from deduction, no capital gains tax liability, possible estate tax savings.

Charitable Lead Trust

A trust that pays the University an income for a period of years before you or heirs receive the trust remainder.

Gift or estate tax savings for value of payments made to a charity.

Allows you to pass assets to heirs intact at reduced or even no estate or gift tax.

Life insurance for your heirs to replace the asset funding your charitable gift.

When properly established through a trust, the insurance passes to heirs estate-tax free.

Tax savings and cash flow from a life income plan may be enough to pay the premiums.

Wealth Replacement Trust

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Edward J. McBride Director of Gift Planning E-mail: mcbride@uidaho.edu Cell: (509) 336-9368

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Office of Development Gift Planning Services PO Box 443201 Moscow, ID 83844-3201 Phone: (208) 885-7069 Toll Free: (866) 671-7041 Fax: (208) 885-4483

Vandal Golfers are National Scholar-Athletes

Kibbe Dome grass field gets converted to two 75-yard SprinTurf playing fields.

Grass fields give way to SprinTurf

When students return to campus this fall, they’ll be greeted with new state-of-the-art playing fields available for year-round recreational use.

Two 75-yard SprinTurf – pronounced sprint turf – fields are replacing the grass practice field east of the Kibbie Dome. The $1.2 million project includes lighting and fencing in addition to the infill artificial turf.

What it means to the UI intercollegiate, intramural and club sports communities, as well as the residents of Moscow, is a field that previously had approximately 300 useable hours annually now will be playable for as many as 2,000 hours.

“We’re taking what had been an intercollegiate athletics-only field and opening it to everyone,” said Rob Spear, UI Director of Athletics. “This is a win-win-win. There won’t be any more rain-outs. It won’t make any difference what time it gets dark. We won’t have to keep people off of the field to maintain it.”

The 75-yard length was chosen because it is long enough for football and women’s soccer teams to practice, as well as for intramural competition, but short enough to have two fields in the space available.

Showler ready for UI coaching debut

Please let us know how we can help you with your philanthropic goals.

Heidi C. Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning E-mail: hlinehan@uidaho.edu Cell: (208) 310-6425

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Peter Showler makes his UI coaching debut Aug. 28 when the Vandal soccer team plays host to Washington State University. Showler spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Portland State University.

Showler, a native of England, brings more than 17 years of coaching experience to Idaho. He began his coaching career in 1987 and was a player/coach for the University of Sunderland men’s first team — equivalent to NCAA Division I — from 1989 to 1994. He started a women’s program at the university in 1990 and guided the squad to a National

Championship in 1990-91. He also served as the English Universities Women’s National Team head coach from 1992 to 1994, winning the Four Nations Cup in 1993-94 and remaining unbeaten during his tenure. Showler also has worked in the professional game for Everton F.C. in the English Premier League, Sunderland AFC in the English League Division and Huddersfield Town F.C. of the English League Division II. As a player, Showler most recently suited up for the Cascade Surge, playing in the PDL division of the United Soccer Leagues. He played college and semi-pro soccer in England before coming to the United States in 1999.

Two University of Idaho golfers have been honored by the National Golf Coaches Association as All-American scholar athletes.

Jennifer Tucker, a junior last season, and Kelly Nakashima, a freshman in 2004-05, were chosen to the team after maintaining grade-point averages of 3.5 or better and after having competed in at least 66 percent of the Vandals’ tournaments.

Tucker, from Casper, Wyo., is majoring in marketing. Nakashima, from Wailuku, Hawaii, is a general studies major.

Two UI track and field athletes earn All-American recognition

Manuela Kurrat and Russ Winger earned All-American Russ Winger status after their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

A multi-event performer, Kurrat finished fourth in the heptathlon, while Winger was fifth in the shot put.

Kurrat was in 15th place after the first day of competition, but performed well in the javelin and 800 meters to climb to fourth finish. She finished with a personal best 5,714 points.

Winger placed fifth with a throw of 62 feet, 5-1/4 inches. “It feels pretty great to be an All-American,” Winger said.

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“This isn’t only a football issue. This is about the future of a healthy, viable and vibrant athletic department at the University of Idaho.

— UI Director of Athletics Rob Spear

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ou name it – prestige, image, relationships. With their acceptance into the Western Athletic Conference, the Idaho Vandals are on the receiving end of those intangibles – and more – as they wrap up their first decade as a Division I-A football member as the WAC’s most recent addition.

While football dominates the conversion when conference affiliation is the topic, the Vandals’ move to the WAC encompasses the entirety of the University of Idaho.

Debbie Buchanan’s volleyball team still will have annual matches with one of the nation’s elite programs – only now it’s the University of Hawaii. Mike Divilbiss’ women’s basketball team has the likes of Louisiana Tech, a perennial power, as a league rival. In men’s basketball, Leonard Perry’s teams renew conference competition against the University of Nevada, Utah State University, New Mexico State University and Boise State University.

“We are really excited about moving to the WAC,” says Divilbiss as he noted the WAC was eighth among the nation’s women’s basketball conferences in the ratings percentage index (RPI). “It is a very strong conference for women’s basketball and we believe we have a team in place that is ready to compete.”

The move to the WAC transcends competition. It’s about the league the Vandals call home and the image it presents. It’s about increased national awareness and with that, presumably, a healthier financial picture with potential increases in booster contributions, marketing opportunities and ticket sales.

In 1996, the UI Department of Athletics made the move from Division I-AA to Division I-A football. After 31 years in the Big Sky Conference, the Vandals joined league rivals Boise State and Nevada in the move to the Big West Conference, which at the time counted among its members New Mexico State and Utah State.

For five years, Vandal athletics called the Big West home for all sports. But, the 2000 season was the last for Big West football as Boise State and Nevada accepted WAC invitations. UI joined New Mexico State and Utah State in becoming the first football-playing members of the Sun Belt Conference – a New Orleansbased league. The remaining Vandals teams, however, remained in the Big West.

Fresno State University Location: Fresno, Calif.

Enrollment: 19,781 Founded: 1911 Nickname: Bulldogs Colors: Red and Blue University of Hawaii Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Enrollment: 20,549 Founded: 1907 Nickname: Warriors Colors: Green and white University of Idaho Location: Moscow, Idaho Enrollment: 12,824 Founded: 1889 Nickname: Vandals Colors: Silver and Vandal Gold Louisiana Tech Location: Ruston, La. Enrollment: 11,975 Founded: 1894 Nickname: Bulldogs Colors: Red and Blue University of Nevada Location: Reno, Nev. Enrollment: 16,300 Founded: 1874 Nickname: Wolf Pack Colors: Navy Blue and Silver New Mexico State University Location: Las Cruces, N.M. Enrollment: 16,428 Founded: 1888 Nickname: Aggies Colors: Crimson and White San Jose State University Location: San Jose, Calif.

Enrollment: 30,068 Founded: 1857 Nickname: Spartans Colors: Gold, White and Blue Utah State University Location: Logan, Utah Enrollment: 21,490 Founded: 1888 Nickname: Aggies Colors: Navy Blue and White

UI Director of Athletics Rob Spear, left, sees the move to the Western Athletic Conference as a return to competition against teams with which UI has a historical connection.

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Boise State University Location: Boise, Idaho Enrollment: 18,456 Founded: 1932 (two-year); 1964 (four-year) Nickname: Broncos Colors: Blue and Orange

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Coach Debbie Buchanan, center, with the Vandal volleyball team.

“This isn’t only a football issue,” said UI Director of Athletics Rob Spear. “This is about the future of a healthy, viable and vibrant athletic department at the University of Idaho.

“It’s about appealing to our alumni, faculty and staff, student body, fans and boosters by having on our schedules competitions against teams with which we have an historic connection.”

When the invitation was extended last summer, WAC Commissioner Karl Benson was quick to note that the league’s presidents were impressed with the academic integrity of UI. “The presidents looked at what the entire Vandal program brought to the WAC – not just the athletic side,” Benson said in making the invitation announcement. “The academic side is an important part and certainly impressed our board. We think that Idaho will be a very productive and very valuable full member of the WAC.”

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invitation sparked immediate interest.

Vandal Scholarship Fund donations climbed by nearly $50,000 to a record $1.2 million for FY05. Season-ticket sales jumped and booster membership soared.

“One of my first thoughts was, ‘We’re going back to regional competition,’” said Benny Blick, a past president of Vandal Boosters and an 18-year member of the association’s national board of directors, upon hearing the news. “We weren’t going to have coach people on who we were playing.”

Blick, who resides in Castleford, said there was an immediate and very noticeable increased interest in UI events.

“We’ve been getting a lot of people back into the fold,” said Blick, whose region is host to two of the largest booster events with the annual Buhl Pig Out and Winter Fest. “We’ve been getting considerable new interest as well... People have the sense that there’s something to build on now. They’re excited about the WAC.”

Weight room in the Speed and Strength Center.

At Home in the WAC

“The WAC is going to be a very competitive conference. We’ve been playing in one of the nation’s premier volleyball leagues in the Big West Conference.

That experience, I believe, should enable us to be a very competitive member with an immediate opportunity to finish near the top of the league.” —Debbie Buchanan

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League shuffling was a national trend over the next four years as the Vandals continued to maintain membership in two conferences. Then on June 4, 2004, the Vandals received their invitation to join the WAC in all sports and return to a league with a western U.S. base.

“That was a significant day in the history of Vandal athletics,” Spear said.

“It was a long process. It felt like we ran a marathon.”

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Sept. 22, 2005 marks the next noteworthy date in the UI-WAC timeline.

That is when the first Vandal team competes as an official member of the WAC as Buchanan’s volleyball squad is at

San Jose State for a 7 p.m. match.

Like her colleagues, Buchanan relishes the opportunity.

“The WAC is going to be a very competitive conference,” she said. “We’ve been playing in one of the nation’s premier volleyball leagues in the Big West Conference. That experience, I believe, should enable us to be a very competitive member with an immediate opportunity to finish near the top of the league.”

Football’s WAC debut is the 2005 home opener against the University of Hawaii on Sept. 24. Nick Holt is enthused about the change in league affiliation as he looks at the broad spectrum of what it means to once again be in a western U.S.based conference.

“Really, it provides stability for the athletic department,” he said. “The WAC is an excellent conference. There are some outstanding institutions, some outstanding football programs.

“Fans will be excited about the teams we’re playing. It offers our natural geographic rivalries. It’s going to help the overall future of our department.”

The only WAC member that has not engaged in a football game with the University of Idaho is Louisiana Tech.

When the Bulldogs travel to Moscow for their Nov. 12 game at the Kibbie Dome, it will be the first football game between the two universities. The league’s other members, however, consistently have been on UI football slates. The Vandals are renewing league relationships with BSU, Nevada, New Mexico State and Utah State, as well as old rivalries – Idaho first played Hawaii in 1930, Fresno State in 1946 and San Jose State in 1946.

“We’ve been getting considerable new interest as well... People have the sense that there’s something to build on now. They’re excited about the WAC.” —Benny Blick

Something to Build On

All in all, it’s a comfortable fit – and an appealing one to members of the UI community, boosters and fans.

The initial news of the Vandals’ WAC Hydrotherapy pool in the Speed and Strength Center.

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Women’s basketball coach Mike Divilbiss.

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When the teams who used to make regular journeys to Moscow return, they won’t be seeing the same facilities. Sure, the Kibbie Dome still houses Vandal Athletics. But, now it includes a 7,000 square-foot Speed and Strength Center, a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool, new locker rooms and lounges for football, men’s and women’s basketball, and volleyball, and – the latest – two 75-yard SprinTurf practice fields on the facility’s east side.

“These facilities demonstrate our commitment to being a first-class member of the Western Athletic Conference,” Spear said. “This is the home we’ve sought for Vandal Athletics. We are committed to doing it right.” I

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8. Superlative suffix 9. “_____ Who Fell From Grace with the Sea” (2 wds.)

10. Stitcher’s task 11. Mr. Stravinsky 12. Soon (3 wds.)

14. Institution in Marquette (abbr.)

19. Sheep’s greeting 20. Apathetic reactions 25. _____ Lay Dying 26. Sorority kitchen worker 27. Headed somewhere (2 wds.)

28. To the sheltered side 29. Horne or Olin 30. Title for McCartney or Jagger 31. Leave out 32. “Here We __________” (2 wds.)

34. Eyes, in Barcelona 35. Cut off

37. Proposal reply 42. Decay 44. Apartment regulation (2 wds.)

47. Government resource for food growers (abbr.)

49. See 41 Across 51. “Mean Girls” star 52. Come together 53. UI president 54. Mom and Dad’s siblings 55. Native American tribe 56. “We _____ the World” 57. Bread variety 59. Legend 62. Olympic alumnus O’Brien 64. Possible Sunday seating 66. Pocatello to Rexburg dir. (abbr.)

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Information Technology at UI • ITS processes more than 215,000 e-mail messages per day — that’s 1.5 million per week. If you printed each message on a single piece of paper, the stack would be more than four miles high each year.

• The central e-mail servers operated at 99.89 percent during the past 12 months — down time was only 9 hours 38 minutes.

• On an average day, the UI high-speed Internet connection transfers more than 200 billion bytes of data to and from the university. Transferring this same amount of data over a 28.8 modem would require more than 643 days.

• The ITS e-mail servers block approximately 3,000 inbound viruses per day or 1,095,000 viruses a year.

• New spam-blocking programs are addressing the more than 2.3 million unwanted e-mail messages coming to UI accounts each month.

• During the past year, 37,592 ITS Help Desk contacts were received. Of these, 16,980 were by e-mail, 7,348 were by phone, and 9,407 were by walk-ins.

• During fall semester 2004, there were 342,680 student logins and they spent in excess of 297,409 hours working on computers in ITS-Student Computing Labs.

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1. That woman 4. Cloned mule Idaho _____ 7. “_____ Make a Deal” 11. Former acronym for Idaho Falls lab 12. Dies _____ 13. Showing fear 15. Alumni Association’s Silver and ____ Award 16. Shuttle overseer 17. The Vandals, for example 18. He’s a real hoot 19. The _____ of the Palouse 21. ’99 Humanitarian Bowl loser (abbr.)

22. _____ Speedwagon 23. Belonging to 16th U.S. president 24. Reaction to a bad joke 27. Moo goo _____ pan 28. Attack 30. NYC or London neighborhood 33. Fee for 61 Across 36. Legendary musical family surname 38. Mrs. David Bowie 39. The UI Vandal, to his friends 40. Perfect 41. With 49 Down, Calif. body of water 43. Friendly 45. Paleozoic, and others 46. Wyoming range 48. Above, poetically 50. Sigma Alpha _____ 51. Girl’s name in Monterrey 53. Vandals sports’ new governing body (abbr.)

56. Suffix for drunk or dull 58. Annual jazz festival namesake 60. “Ben-_____” 61. Interstate 15, for example 63. Voucher 64. Idaho’s state tree, the white _____ 65. _____ Frome 67. They can be rolled or wild 68. Suffix for major or kitchen 69. Skye of “Say Anything” 70. Moscow to Sandpoint dir. (abbr.)

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