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Here We Have Idaho The University of Idaho Magazine WINTER 2005 • VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1

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

Writers and Contributors Kathy Barnard Hugh Cooke Leslie Einhaus Tim Helmke Nancy Hilliard Jeff P. Jones Ian Klei Bill Loftus Andrea Clark Mason Carl Marziali Sue McMurray Becky Paull Jan Rogers Amy Rysdam Photographs as credited

www.uidaho.edu/herewehaveidaho The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and educational institution. © 2004, 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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Cover Story 8

Lasting Legacies UI contributes to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial

Features 14

Bolstering Support The impact of higher education

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation Working and learning around the world

20 Kampa Family Six brothers and sisters find success

22 Score One for the Professor Keeping time with Gerry Mulligan’s music

24 The Aliens Keep Arriving UI’s newest research center

39 UI’s Go-to Guy Dean of Students Bruce Pitman

42 Prime Time TV Director Chris Nyby II and his Idaho adventure

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Campus News Quest

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Idaho Outlook

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Class Notes

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Sports

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To Be Considered

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Lionel Hampton School of Music faculty members Rager Moore II and Chris Thompson portray Lewis and Clark in “The Corps of Discovery” opera. Photo by UI Photo Services, photo illustration by Julene Ewert

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Class Notes Editor Annis Shea

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Illustrations Nathan Nielson Julene Ewert

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Brittany Highsmith

Tobi Osburn

Scotti Fuller

Jess Wasson

Scotti Fuller, above, is one reason the University of Idaho women’s rodeo team is getting noticed. The accounting major from Lewiston and her teammates ended the fall college rodeo season as the top team in the Northwest Region and second in the nation.

When all elements go together right, “and you’re rounding that third barrel in a good run,” it’s as good as a home run, says Brittany Highsmith, a biology major, also from Lewiston.

The women compete in goat tying, break-away roping, barrel racing and mixed team roping. They’ll resume their season in March, with a goal of competing June 12-18 at the College National Final Rodeo in Casper, Wyo. Tobi Osburn, a junior from Craigmont, and Jess Wasson, a junior from The Dalles, Ore., also are team members. Their coach is Stephen Maki, branch station superintendent for UI’s Animal and Veterinary Sciences.

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fter just a few months on the job, there is much I can say about the quality of the University of Idaho’s academic programs, students, faculty, staff and alumni. I am impressed daily with what is happening in the classroom, laboratory, studio and theater. That quality was recognized by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accreditation team in Moscow in October, who specifically commended the commitment and dedication of faculty and staff.

But what is the true impact of that quality?

If we evaluate everything we do on the level of impact, what does it mean for our students, for our state?

For example, the University of Idaho has grown a $105-million-per-year research enterprise.

What does that mean for the state? It primes the economic pump by supporting more than 3,800 jobs statewide either directly or indirectly.

It generates new knowledge and technology to bolster existing Idaho businesses, like Micron and Hewlett-Packard, and to create new businesses, like Blue Water Technologies in Coeur d’Alene.

Research helps our students — undergraduate and graduate — who, because they’ve participated in hands-on research, have a competitive edge in job markets throughout the United States. They learn in “real time” from professors who share their knowledge as they acquire it. They enter the workforce better prepared to live, work, compete and thrive in a global world. That is a tangible impact.

And more and more groups from around the state are beginning to understand that impact.

This issue of “Here We Have Idaho” features an update on the efforts of many — from business owners to boosters — to highlight the importance of a quality higher education system on the Idaho economy. The Idaho Economic Development Association also has weighed in on the role higher education plays in the “Power of Idaho.”

Student internships also are featured.

Providing opportunities for our students to learn and work in real-world environments dramatically and positively impacts their ability to compete for jobs as well as their personal confidence in applying their new skills.

It is wonderful to know that the University of Idaho’s true impacts are as extraordinary as its first impressions.

COMING EVENTS

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Jan. 14 Winterfest, Twin Falls 25-27 UI Alumni Reception & Vandal Vision in Anchorage, Alaska Feb. 16 Canyon County Silver & Gold Alumni Celebration — Nampa 17 UI Jazz Choir concert in Seattle, Nordstrom Recital Hall in Benaroya Hall 23-26 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival 9-12 Big West Basketball Tournament, Anaheim, Calif.

12 Spring Training Baseball with the UI Alumni Association, San Francisco versus Anaheim, Scottsdale, Ariz.

14-18 Spring Break 21 Model U.N. Dinner, New York, N.Y.

14 Vandal Golf Day at the Coeur d’Alene Resort 15-17 Moms’ Weekend 18-20 Borah Symposium, “Voices of Peace” 29 Engineering Design Expo Apr. 29-May 1 Class of 1945, Class of 1955 and Golden I Reunions

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UI Boise Commencement UI Idaho Falls Commencement UI Coeur d’Alene Commencement UI Moscow Commencement Ada County Vandal Golf Scramble New York City area UI alumni chapter reception

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

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Fall semester enrollment at UI totaled 12,824 students. Of those, nine were National Merit Scholars, outstanding new students who were among the top 1 percent of last year’s high school graduates.

That brings the total of National Merit Scholars at UI to 34. UI was the only Idaho institution to enroll any new National Merit Scholars last fall.

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An Idaho-developed microelectronics chip will be on board NASA’s deep space mission to the outposts of our planetary system. The chip was developed at the Center for Advanced Microelectronic and Biomolecular Research (CAMBR) at the UI Research Park in Post Falls. It will provide data fault protection against the effects of space radiation and other environmental “noise” as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft travels to Pluto from 2006-15.

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The University of Idaho’s standing among the top national, doctoralgranting universities in the country has been reconfirmed. New rankings from U.S. News &World Report magazine places UI in the top category with national universities having the widest range of undergraduate and graduate majors. As a national/doctoral university, UI is in the same group as Oregon State University, Washington State University, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington.

Living and Learning

UI is noted as a residential university that blends living and learning. That image got a boost with the dedication of the university’s newest residence hall in November.

The Living and Learning Community at the corner of Sixth and Line streets features eight buildings around a common courtyard, complete with food court, landscaped recreation areas and five multi-purpose rooms.

Five of the buildings, housing 375 students, opened for living for Fall 2003. The final three buildings of the LLC welcomed 225 students in August 2004.

LLC now links into a major pedestrian corridor from the Student Recreation Center to the Shattuck Arboretum.

Idaho’s newest Writer-in-Residence

Kim Barnes, a University of Idaho associate professor of English, is the state’s newest writer-inresidence. As the recipient of Idaho’s most prestigious literary award, Barnes will travel the state giving public readings.

The writers-in-residence program is organized through the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the selection is approved by the governor.

Barnes is the author of the 2003 novel, “Finding Caruso,” and has written two memoirs, “Hungry for the World” and “In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country,” which became a runnerup for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Martha Albrand Award. She also is a 2001 Pushcart Prize recipient for her essay entitled “The Ashes of August.”

She currently is writing a new novel and working on an anthology with Claire Davis, an English professor at Lewis-Clark State College.

Giving it up for Homecoming

What’s homecoming at UI? Tradition calls for a bonfire, parade, football and reunions. But students continue to add a spirit of giving to homecoming activities. During Homecoming Week in November, philanthropic efforts included: • More than 200 UI students participated in a campus and community clean-up;

• ASUI Blood Drive resulted in 134 pints of donated blood to benefit more than 400 people in need; • A food drive gathered more than 2,000 pounds of food for the Moscow Food Bank; • $1,080.90 in change was collected to purchase turkeys for Moscow Food Bank.

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John Beck was selected UI Dad of the Year during Dads’ Weekend in October.

Kristin Beck, a UI natural resources freshman from Seward, Alaska, convinced this year’s Dad of the Year committee that her dad deserved the honor “because he has every possible quality that any kid would want in a father. And my dad’s not for sale.”

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

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Seeing the World Through Vandal Eyes

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Top left to right: Mason Fuller with monks in Thailand, Land Crusier’s third flat. Middle: Fuller at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, country folks in Tibet. Bottom: incense in Hong Kong and the old streets of Shanghi.

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In February 2004, former ASUI President Mason Fuller ’03 started out on a trip around the world.

“I had a great time in college and before I anchor myself to a business venture, family and home I want to learn what I can about the world,” said Fuller on his Web page, www.masonfuller.com. He kept an online journal during the trip, which detailed his adventures in China, Tibet, Australia and a 2,500-kilometer bicycle tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.

From Tibet, Fuller wrote: “… I waited for the driver to pick me up and head back to Lhasa. When he did come, he carried two extra Monks and three Nepalese people with him. So that makes seven of us in the front two seats of an old Toyota Land Cruiser on the worst roads in the world.

I suppose here would be a good place to list the car trouble: 5 bad spark plugs (6-cylinder) 3 flat tires 1 dislodged strut 1 snapped suspension 1 plugged oil filter 1 mistimed distributor This was all over the course of the sixday trip, and it was nothing but constant fun listening to the monks pray for good mechanical condition.”

In September, Fuller called an end to his world travels. He decided to look for an investment banking job in Singapore and started an import-export business.

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Provost Departs

Brian Pitcher, provost at the University of Idaho since 1997, has been named chancellor at Washington State University-Spokane.

“In many ways, Brian has been the glue that has held the University of Idaho together through some of the most tumultuous and challenging times in its history,” said UI President Tim White. “He has been a thoughtful leader.”

An editorial in the Argonaut expressed thanks to Pitcher for his achievements. “...the UI community ... wonders how a newcomer could possibly meet the high standards of service and friendship set by Pitcher.”

During his tenure, Pitcher was instrumental in developing and implementing the university’s Strategic Plan, which strengthened undergraduate education, graduate and research programs and outreach services, especially in northern Idaho. He also led UI through its transition after the resignation of former President Bob Hoover, serving as acting president from March to June 2003.

An interim provost was expected to be named in December followed by a national search to fill the position permanently.

The Idaho Water Center fills up

The future looks promising for the Idaho Water Center.

In September, the first tenants moved into the University of Idaho facility in Boise. The six-story multi-use building houses UI educational and outreach programs and state, federal and university research focused on river and water quality issues.

Initial occupants include the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, Idaho Department of Water Resources and the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station.

The UI Boise engineering and eco-hydraulics programs are housed in the center.

Laboratories include one of the largest known high-elevation flumes for river simulation, hydro-informatics and computing to analyze lab results and field tests, and the latest satellite technology to transmit field data.

By summer 2005, the rest of UI programs in Boise, currently housed in rented space at the Morrison-Knudsen Plaza, will make the move to the new center.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Making Connections

Thanks for a great magazine. Enjoyed it all, especially “The Age of Innocence;” the article about my fellow Lewiston High friends, Bruce and Marilyn Sweeney; our grandaughter’s picture in the births; the Washington, D.C. story and even appreciate being brought up to date on obituaries.

Thanks, again.

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The Fall 2004 article, “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” was interesting and informative but, by the second half, the numerous opinions expressed made this article look more like an editorial in support of the national administration’s rationale for the preemptive war in Iraq.

You knew that nobody would be able to respond to these opinions until after the national elections. Is this acceptable journalism?

For one example, the microbiologist is quoted as saying “but from my perspective, we cannot afford not to be preemptive in these situations just because of the potential impact on world health in general.” North Korea and Iran, the other legs of the Axis of Evil already have nuclear WMD and I would not be surprised if North Korea is working on chemical and biological WMD or would be willing to import or trade such WMD from elsewhere. Should we find that to be true, (really true this time), do we have the financial strength and the manpower to invade and occupy North Korea while we search for and seize those WMD before they can be moved elsewhere? Are there no other possible options?

Out of a sense of fairness, I hope that you would be willing to allow someone with some status and authority a page to express his/her opposing opinions.

Sincerely, John T. Jensen Anchorage, Alaska

Crossing the Line

Unfortunately, the article on UI alumni in politics (UI Alumni in Washington, D. C., Spring 2004) crossed the line that separates noting alumni achievement from advocating a particular point of view.

I would strongly dispute the notion that “Harry and Louise ...spoke for the American people.” Rather, they were part of a massively funded disinformation campaign aimed not only at preventing action on a national problem that since then has only gotten more serious but even more as a weapon of congressional Republicans to deny Clinton and the Democrats an election-year achievement.

In this case — and in the future — I trust that when you give anyone a forum to argue a political opinion, you are prepared to air the other side as well.

Doug Rice ’75 Pendleton, Ore.

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Microbes and health

Fire ecologist Penny Morgan spent much of the past year directing a rapid response team chasing wildfires. The team traveled to fires as remote as Alaska’s massive interior this summer and as urban as the raging chaparral fires that burned more than 2,600 homes in California last fall.

Her team worked along the edge of the fires gathering information just hours before the flames roared through, and most often in the seared landscapes after the flames passed to study the fires’ effects on soils.

Morgan’s goal is to help fire managers plan the best ways to help fire-damaged landscapes recover.

The team used handheld sensors and computer mapping at ground level to link their observations to aerial and satellite images.

“We need to be wise and strategic in how we manage these areas before, during and after the fires occur. We hope to help managers target preburn fuels management and post-burn rehabilitation where fires are severe,” said Morgan.

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Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington shook up the fall’s normal classroom routine for UI geologists and their students.

UI volcanologist Dennis Geist tuned in students to real-time data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Their real-time assignment: predict the mountain’s next move and assess its potential threat for the public.

Mineralogist Mickey Gunter helped many Inland Northwest residents breathe easier about potential health threats from volcanic ash. He dusted off an earlier study that showed little effect on public health from Mount St. Helens’ massive 1980 eruption.

Gunter reviewed dust samples taken in Moscow after the gritty, gray ash blanketed much of northern Idaho and eastern Washington. The ash contained less of the more dangerous minerals such as quartz compared to regional samples of airborne dust.

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Studying the Volcano

Each of us is at once a body, and a community of microorganisms. Bacteria can play roles both helpful and sinister, promoting health or causing disease while inhabiting each part of our bodies from our scalps to our toenails.

A pioneering study by a team led

by UI Biological Sciences Department Head Larry Forney developed new understanding of how normallyoccurring microbes help women resist genital and urinary tract infections.

The team collaborated with Proctor and Gamble on the study.

An initial study of five adult women relied on advanced DNA techniques to identify microbes collected by vaginal swabs, yielding some surprising results.

In the past, biologists had to successfully culture bacteria to study them but conventional lab methods failed to cultivate all of the microbes present.

Knowing which microbes are most common in healthy women could be essential in understanding risk factors for various infectious diseases, Forney’s team wrote in the journal Microbiology.

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Lasting Legacies Two Centuries After the Corps of Discovery

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Meriwether Lewis and two of his men crested a ridge just above the headwaters of the Missouri River, becoming the first EuroAmericans on record to enter what is now known as Idaho. After an arduous day’s hike, Lewis hoped to find an easy slope down to the swift waters of the Columbia River, and thus, fulfill the Corps of Discovery’s charge from Thomas Jefferson to discover a water route linking the United States with the Pacific Ocean. On this day, the Bitterroot Mountains ended that dream.

The sight stunned Lewis. “I discovered immence ranges of high mountains still to the West of us with their tops partially covered with snow,” he wrote in his journal. The Northwest Passage did not exist.

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At left: West of Lemhi Pass, looking northwest toward the Lemhi valley. This is the area where the Corps of Discovery first entered what is now Idaho. Photo by Steve F. Russell.

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Though thwarted in their primary goal, the Corps pressed on. Their epic journey, which lasted almost two-and-a-half years, has fascinated Americans for two centuries, setting the stage for the long-anticipated bicentennial from 2003 to 2006.

“This is the biggest national commemoration that’s ever hit Idaho,” says Keith Peterson, bicentennial coordinator for the state. As the national spotlight edges westward, Idaho and UI are set to play major roles.

Since the 1990s, states have been planning for the bicentennial. Estimates of bicentennial visitors along the 3,700mile trail range from 9 million to 20 million. Nationwide, $400 million has been spent on more than 350 major projects. In Idaho, federal grant money funded the $1 million visitors center at Hells Gate State Park in Lewiston and the $450,000 Weippe Discovery Center, as well as numerous community projects and public improvements in many towns along the trail.

Idaho’s part in the original Lewis and Clark story is difficult to understate. According to Peterson, “If you got a group of Lewis and Clark scholars in a room and said, ‘Tell me the dozen most significant sites along the trail from St. Louis to the coast,’ five or six of those could legitimately end up being in Idaho.” He rattles these off: Sacagawea’s birthplace, Lemhi Pass, the Weippe Prairie, Canoe Camp at Orofino and Long Camp at Kamiah.

Of the 17 future states the expedition entered, the 93 days within Idaho’s borders proved most trying.

“The Idaho story, and of course, the whole Bitterroot crossing was the most difficult part of the whole journey and played a very major role in the story of the expedition,” Peterson says.

Although most scholars agree that the Corps never made it to the future site of Moscow, many people affiliated with UI have shaped how the bicentennial will be commemorated and remembered.

After Lewis’s sighting of the Bitterroots, the Corps turned north. On Sept. 13, 1805, the party of 31 men, one woman, one baby — Sacagawea’s Jean Baptiste — 40 horses and one dog crossed the Continental Divide and entered, for the second time, today’s Idaho.

The climb to Lolo Pass was even more difficult than Lewis’s climb to Lemhi Pass the previous month. Capt. William Clark described the path as “thick Steep and Stoney,” but, as soon as they reached the top, the trail opened into a peaceful series of “open glades.” They stopped for the night at what would become known as Glade Creek.

Recalling a solo camping trip he took to this same spot 188 years to the day after the Corps, James Fazio, professor of conservation social sciences, writes, “I arrived late in the afternoon, as they did. An eagle soared over the glade…In all my years of walking and standing in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, at no time have I felt so close to them.”

If there’s a Lewis and Clark guru at UI, it’s Fazio. For 25 years he has explored historical Corps sites. His book, “Across the Snowy Ranges,” is the most thorough single work on the expedition’s time in Idaho and western Montana.

In September 1997, Fazio received a phone call about Glade Creek. The timber company that owned the land intended to log it. Not usually an “environmental activist,” Fazio became one that day. Starting with a flurry of e-mails and phone calls, his efforts and those of UI presidential assistant Marty Peterson resulted in donations totaling $255,770 that allowed the Idaho Heritage Trust to purchase 160 acres of the glade for preservation.

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“A lot of the trail in Idaho looks exactly the same as described in the journals, so kids got a wonderful experience making the connection over time.” — Michael Odell James Fazio, professor of conservation social sciences

“My particular interest is trying to do what I can to protect the historic environment of the trail through Idaho,” he says.

As for the commemoration, he adds, “I’ve often said that the real lasting legacy that could come out of the bicentennial is a better understanding between the white Americans who are here and the Native Americans whose land it was when Lewis and Clark first came here.”

Indeed, as the party trundled down the Lolo Trail, exhausted and starving, they moved toward one of the most significant cross-cultural encounters of the entire expedition.

Weippe Prairie

The land between the Missouri and Columbia rivers proved much more mountainous than expected. The Corps’ route, roughly paralleled by Highway 12 today, hunkered below “high ruged mountains in every direction,” according to Clark’s journal.

Fatigue wore at them with each step. Their horses plunged down the steep hillsides, destroying Clark’s writing desk. Game was scarce, so they killed colts to eat. The exertion, cold and hunger encountered in Idaho’s mountains decimated the party’s morale.

Finally, they emerged onto a plain that, “greately revived the sperits of the party,” according to Lewis, ever the creative speller.

They had reached the Weippe Prairie and Nez Perce country.

Canoe Camp

For 11 days, the Corps camped along the Clearwater River and carved canoes from Ponderosa pines, preparing to transition from slow overland trekking to swift downriver travel. The Indians showed them a faster way to hollow canoes, by first burning out their centers. Fortunately for the Corps, the Nez

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In 1999, the school district in Lapwai, the community closest to the Weippe Prairie, began to benefit from a technology development program spearheaded by UI. The “Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Program,” coordinated by Michael Odell, director of the Division of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, and Bob Kearney, retired professor of Engineering, grew out of a $7.5 million grant aimed at getting technology into K-12 schools along or near the trail.

From 1999-2004, the Rediscovery Program trained more than 300 teachers in the use of a variety of technologies, including digital cameras, scanners and software. In their Rediscovery projects, many Idaho students found that 200 years, surprisingly, hadn’t brought much change.

“A lot of the trail in Idaho looks exactly the same as described in the journals, so kids got a wonderful experience making the connection over time,” Odell says. One of the school districts that benefited was Orofino, where, 200 years ago, the Corps paused to recuperate at a place called Canoe Camp.

Michael Odell, director of the Division of Teaching, Learning and Leadership

Bob Kearney, retired professor of Engineering

Jean Teasdale, College of Engineering

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Perce offered invaluable assistance, even though the expedition was a precursor to sweeping changes for them.

A UI project that supplies Native Americans with an unfettered voice in the bicentennial is L3, led

by Jean Teasdale in the College of Engineering. With $3.6 million from NASA, L3 is an impressive educational Web site with around 2,000 to 3,000 online visitors per month. The Nez Perce module presents several hours of video interviews with tribal leaders.

Chris Thompson, David Lee-Painter and Pamela Bathurst are “As far as we can tell, there hasn’t members of “The Corps of Discovery” opera. been another Lewis and Clark related project that has done such extensive work with the various tribes,” says Teasdale.

UI will host a different “first” in Idaho — the Northwest premiere of “The Corps of Discovery” opera.

Before that, though, in 2005, UI will host a different “first” in Idaho — the Northwest premiere of “The Corps of Discovery” opera.

“We’ve been given exclusive rights virtually in the entire West,” says David Lee-Painter, chair of the Theater and Film Department and stage director of the opera. He is teaming up with musical director Chris Thompson, faculty member in the Lionel Hampton School of Music, to produce the full-length opera.

“It’s the right place at the right time,” Lee-Painter says, adding that, depending on funding, the show may travel to as many as five cities in the Northwest.

One offshoot of the opera is “Discovering Family,” an educational one-act piece taken from “The Corps of Discovery” opera, that will be performed at K-12 schools.

“The Corps became like a family because they lived together and worked together, and they counted on each other,” says project coordinator and LHSOM faculty member Pamela Bathurst. “Everybody in it had to pull their own weight and contribute.”

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On Oct. 7, 1805, the Corps climbed into five handmade canoes and pushed off into the Clearwater current. For three days, they honed their navigation skills on Idaho whitewater before reaching the waters of the Snake and Columbia, and, a month later, the Pacific.

After wintering in Oregon, the Corps began their return trip. On May 5, 1806, they reentered today’s Idaho where the Nez Perce had faithfully kept their horses and surplus supplies.

Recalling their sufferings the previous year crossing Lolo Pass, Lewis and Clark established camp at present-day Kamiah for 27 days in order to store up provisions and wait for the snow to melt.

Indians visited Long Camp almost every day. Men from the two cultures played games and ran footraces. In the evening around the campfire, Pierre Cruzatte played his fiddle, and some of the men danced. Long Camp, still a source of study for ethnographers, was the site of many cross-cultural firsts.

In 2006, the Nez Perce will host Idaho’s first National Signature Event. Called “Among the Nimiipuu,” it will take place from June 14 to 17 and bring the national spotlight to Idaho.

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“This is one of many different publications that have tried to gather Idaho history and bring it home to Idaho.”

— Lynn Baird

Opera isn’t the only musical link between UI and the Corps.

The chorus and orchestra composition, “From the Journals of Lewis and Clark” by Dan Bukvich, LHSOM faculty member, premiered in 1999.

“At first, I couldn’t imagine finding great music in the journals,” Bukvich says. “Having grown up in Montana, I was so familiar with Lewis and Clark that it didn’t mean that much to me.”

However, after reading the 13-volume edition of the journals, the composer found inspiration. Finding time was another issue.

Since he teaches full time, Bukvich composed the piece from 2 to 6 a.m., seven days a week, for a semester and a half. The hourlong piece is available on CD.

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Music Professor Dan Bukvich composed “From the Journals of Lewis and Clark.”

Dennis and Lynn Baird, authors of “In Nez Perce Country.”

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The Lewis and Clark story is so epic and self-contained that it’s easy to forget how rapidly changes followed the expedition.

“For thousands of years, things had been pretty much unchanged in this area,” Dennis Baird, head of UI Library’s Reference Department, says. “And then, within 60 years, the world turned upside down.”

In the book, “In Nez Perce Country,” Dennis and his wife, Lynn Baird, head of UI Library Access Services, explore changes along the Idaho portion of the Lewis and Clark trail after the Corps passed through, from 1811 to about 1930.

Researching the book, one of the biggest challenges the Bairds encountered is the dispersal of the state’s history. They traveled to more than a dozen out-of-state libraries. “When you search for Idaho history,” Lynn says, “it’s everywhere but Idaho. This is one of many different publications that have tried to gather Idaho history and bring it home to Idaho.”

Primary accounts, some printed for the first time, fill their book, making it a rich source for future historians. As both

authors readily point out, the book is printed on acid-free paper, which will endure 300 years—itself a lasting legacy.

On June 14, 1806, tired of waiting for the snow to melt, the Corps hunkered on the Weippe Prairie, preparing to re-cross the Bitterroots. “I Shudder with the expectation with great dificuelties in passing those mountains,” Clark wrote. The next day, the party broke camp and, with a steady, cold rain soaking them, vanished into the forest at the prairie’s edge, the trees closing behind them.

Two hundred years later, the Corps of Discovery’s complex and compelling legacy is still strong in Idaho. Thanks to numerous projects undertaken by people at UI, as well as the funding of many new buildings and public improvements across the state, the Lewis and Clark bicentennial will leave its own lasting legacies of benefit to future generations. I

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successful commercial photo business in Seattle allows Ben Marra ’62 to pursue his labor of love—photographing Native Americans in full dance regalia at powwows. For 15 years, he and his wife, Linda, have traveled countless miles in order to record images of modern Native American life.

“We spend a lot of our weekends out on the road chasing powwows,” he says.

His most recent exhibit, “Faces from the Land: A Photographic Journey Through Native America,” displays 36 images of dancers from tribes the Corps of Discovery encountered. The exhibit recently completed a seven-month display at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., and a special showing at the Genoa U.S. Indian Boarding School Museum in Genoa, Neb. A native of Wallace, Marra arrived at UI in 1958, where he was a liberal arts major. After five years in the service, he entered the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif., which has since awarded him an honorary Master’s of Science degree for Ben and Linda Marra his work.

The turning point in his life came in 1988. On assignment to deliver a colorful photo, Marra was invited to his first powwow.

“That evening, we photographed 11 people and began our new lives as photographers of powwow dancers,” he writes in his book, “Powwow…Images Along the Red Road.”

“It’s the spirit that’s in the people that I’m recording,” he says. “They’re dancing, having fun, telling stories. It’s just a spiritual time.”

Marra speaks passionately about the power of positive imagery to dispel myths and stereotypes. “Lewis and Clark had a lot of help from the Indian people. People have to know that the Indian people are still here. They’re bankers; they work at Boeing; they’re schoolteachers, college professors. And, yes, on weekends, a lot of them take off their business suits and put on their regalia and go dance. That’s what my project’s all about.” I Photos above: Rose Ann Abrahamson, Lemhi Shoshoni, and a descendant of Sacajawea and Paris Leighton Greene, Nez Perce. Photos from “Faces from the Land: A Photographic Journey Through Native America.”

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The Nez Perce Tribe will host one of the 15 national signature events celebrating the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial.

The celebration is scheduled for June 14-17, 2006, at various locations in north central Idaho, which were part of the Nez Perce ancestral lands.

Aaron Miles ’95, manager of Natural Resources for the Nez Perce Tribe, is overseeing the planning for the signature event. Activities include cultural and educational programs, rodeos, jet boat races, elk-bugling and quilt-making contest and a basketball tournament.

The capstone event will be a re-enactment of the tribal ceremony between the Corps of Discovery and the Nimiipuu.

“When the expedition arrived on the Weippe prairie, they were bedraggled, exhausted and starving, and in the company of our enemies,” said Miles. An elderly Nimiipuu woman, Weetxuuwiis, spoke from her heart and set the course of history when she told the council of great leaders and warriors, “Do them no harm.”

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“Among the Nimiipuu: The Summer of Peace”

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Bolstering Support for Higher Education

BUSINESS LEADERS TO BOOSTERS JOIN FORCES

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number of different groups currently are working to put higher education and its value to the state economy back on the front burner for the Idaho Legislature.

“Investing in higher education in the state is a positive, proactive way to prime the economic pump,” said Gary Michael, UI alumnus, retired Albertson CEO and former interim president of the University of Idaho. He has helped to organize a group of Idaho CEOs working to bolster state funding for Idaho higher education. “In a knowledge economy, it’s absolutely essential to have a strong education infrastructure in place to attract new industry and better serve the business and industry already here.”

That’s the message the presidents of each of Idaho’s six higher education institutions – UI, Boise State, Idaho State, Lewis-Clark State College, College of Southern Idaho and North Idaho College – also will carry to Idaho lawmakers this session.

“As a system of higher education, we need to communicate the true impact of what we do,” said UI President Tim White.

“Money spent on higher education is an investment that pays important dividends for the state socially, educationally, environmentally and economically.”

He pointed to the university’s $105 million research enterprise and its benefits to the state economy, existing Idaho businesses and both graduate and undergraduate students.

“New knowledge, ideas and creativity that lead to innovation are the very best catalysts for the economy,” White said. “That is the basis for new business and industry to come to the state and the basis for existing business and industry to thrive and survive.”

Jerry Meyerhoeffer, UI alumnus and president of the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, has seen that return on investment firsthand.

“When we talk to our chamber of commerce leaders, they say the opportunity for four-year programs is really important for business recruitment,” Meyerhoeffer said. While CSI doesn’t offer four-year programs of its own, it partners closely with UI, BSU and ISU to offer four-year degree programs in a variety of areas. “The programs we can offer by partnering with Idaho, ISU and BSU have been a huge, huge benefit to the citizens of the Magic Valley,” he said.

Those educational opportunities, Meyerhoeffer says, have been key in attracting new businesses. In fact, he said the success

“Money spent on higher education is an investment that pays important dividends for the state socially, educationally, environmentally and economically.”

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higher education outside the football field. Other members of the committee include attorneys Mack Redford and David Goss and retiree Ken Jones, all of the Treasure Valley.

“I’m not sure how knowledgeable the general public is about higher education and its economic impact on the state,” Foley said. “State budget support in terms of percentage continues to dwindle for higher education. I sympathize with legislators; there’s only so much money in the pot. But if that percentage of support continues to decline, the state is going to reach a point where it is really hurting the ability of any of the institutions to provide a quality educational product.”

Several additional UI advisory groups, including those for the Colleges of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Business and Law, also have taken an interest in becoming involved in statewide higher education advocacy efforts.

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of the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization in bringing new business to the state – such as Dell Computer which opened shop in Twin Falls three years ago – has sheltered the Magic Valley from the latest economic recession.

“Dell was looking at 3,200 different communities and picked Twin Falls, Idaho,” Meyerhoeffer said. “Our ability to offer fouryear programs by partnering with our sister institutions was the last key in the cog that actually helped them decide to come here.”

Meyerhoeffer specifically noted the increased level of collaboration among Idaho’s colleges and universities.

“There is more collaboration among the schools now than there has ever been,” he said, “and all Idaho citizens benefit from that collaboration.”

Even the fiercest rivals among Idaho colleges and universities are joining forces to bring the benefit of a strong higher education system into the spotlight. Meridian attorney Howard Foley, UI alumnus and former national president of Vandal Boosters, said he and several other past Booster presidents are hoping to work with their counterparts at Boise State and Idaho State universities to help citizens understand the value of Idaho

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t the end of every spring semester students pack their cars full of belongings and head off in every direction, not to be seen again until the dog days of August. For some students, summer vacation means summer jobs; for others, summer provides time to explore far-flung learning opportunities.

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At left, top row: UI student Rachel Undesser presenting her final project in the villa’s garden; street scene from the ancient Ligurian hill town of Bussana Vecchia; Jeff and Emily Herman serves up an Italian feast.

Middle row: Professor Gary Austin at the Casa Wallace “Internet café;” Italian cooking instructor and UI student Robin Demmer in the villa’s main kitchen; Jennifer Stone, Roland Kouhsen and Rachel Undesser eating gelato in Genoa.

Bottom row; Taking a break at the Piazza de Ferrari in Genoa; Casa Wallace courtyard looking at the design studio; view of the Spanish Steps in Rome.

The Italian hill town of Trisobbio, near Casa Wallace.

help his family realize their dream to turn the villa into a center for the arts and education.

Drown found the possibilities exciting, but cautioned “their interests and our desires have to be compatible.”

The students take three courses during their six-week stay in Italy, including a design studio course taught by Drown with the assistance of Gary Austin, also of the landscape architecture department.

“The historical villages and landscapes of the Piedmont region of northern Italy provide an excellent context for exploring the relation between site planning, landscape, ecology, and social and economic sustainability,” said Drown.

Josh Smith, a senior landscape architecture major from Blaine, Wash., twice made the trip to Casa Wallace. “I’d not before experienced, and maybe won’t again experience, the opportunity to simply walk out the front door of my studio and be immersed in the project site,” he said. “Any time of day or night, I could easily pace around the exterior of Casa Wallace and get a feel for how my design ideas were or weren’t going to work.”

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Villa Casa Wallace sits in a valley strewn with rows of wine-producing grapes, near the town of Cremolino in northwestern Italy, one hour north of Genoa. It serves as the base of operations for the UI Landscape Architecture Summer Study Abroad program.

This past summer, 14 students traveled to Casa Wallace. The several-hundred-year-old villa was their home and classroom for six weeks. “Even though there were a lot of modern amenities, it definitely felt like you were transported through time,” said Aaron Luoma, a landscape architecture major from Kennewick, Wash.

Until two years ago, the program had been based in Turin. Then along came Jeff Herman ’00.

Herman studied landscape and restoration at UI, and his wife Emily, taught in the UI dance department.

“The little towns Now, they are partners in seem to Casa Wallace with Emily’s sister and her husband. from dusk till dawn, Herman contacted Steve Drown, chair of the whereas the larger Landscape Architecture towns became .”

Department, and offered to host the summer program — Emily Lunden. at Casa Wallace. Not only would it help him maintain close ties to UI, but it could

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During the summer, students designed a functioning wetlands for gray water treatment. A second challenge was to design a community equipped with modern conveniences that fit into the local region as well as the culture.

Other courses included “Italian Hill Towns and Urban Centers” and “Landscape, Language, and Culture.” Students visit nearby hill towns, including military towns, commercial towns and a spa town, Aqui Terme, which still has its original baths intact. Students discussed the possible directions for growth while maintaining respect for the towns’ histories.

Drown emphasized the challenges confronting the towns, from the tenth century to today, in their “struggling to be contemporary.”

Classes also explored how and why language is a product of region. Students practiced beginning Italian under the direction of an Italian tutor, and made use of the markets, gardens and historic sites of Piedmont area.

“Sometimes, we had no choice but to stumble over the pronunciations and usage to get anything accomplished,” said Emily Lunden, from Benton City, Wash.

Their “how I spent my summer vacation” photographs show the students dining in the garden, tasting wine and learning to make pasta; memories of an idyllic summer vacation. Lunden says the result of most of the cooking classes was “a meal to write home about.”

Students met with local experts to discuss ecology and architecture. They also visited famous gardens, including Hadrian’s Villa, Medici Garden and Villa Deste, all of which represent significant periods of landscape design.

Drown believes Casa Wallace is an ideal situation for students to learn. They are away from the hustle and bustle of the large cities and have the intimacy of preparing meals and socializing with local citizens. Students are encouraged to explore the area on their own by walking down the hill to the train station.

There are field trips to Italy’s cities and regions — Florence, Rome and Tuscany. “The little towns seem to slumber from dusk till dawn, whereas the larger towns became alive,” said Lunden. Luoma added that even in the large cities one can “still find the quiet corner gelato shop or pizzeria.”

The Italian setting creates the opportunity for students to examine historic and cultural spaces not available in the U.S. says Drown. “Rome and Siena provide many different examples of the public plaza or ‘piazza’ as a market place, a place of public performance and as ritual.”

It supports Drown’s claim; “People come to landscape architecture who want to experience the world.”

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Seung Kyum Kim, landscape architecture graduate student at the Italian Riviera hill town of Riomaggorie in Cinque Terre. Kim is from Seoul, Korea and will be graduating spring 2005.

Gaining work experience in the world is another summer activity for a growing number of UI students.

Summer internships have become a beneficial resumé item and for many students, a summer vacation of choice.

Neil Nguyen

NEIL NGUYEN, a computer science major, took part in the Langley Aerospace Summer Scholar’s Program at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The center hosts undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees related to space engineering.

Nguyen applied for the internship partially to be near his wife, who lives in Richmond. He also wanted the experience of working at a large research center. Neil worked with a team of other computer scientists on Hypatheon, a database of formulas for a theorem prover. The database is named after Hypathia of Alexandria, the first female mathematician, and her father, Theon.

“A computer program used for mathematically verifying the correctness of an algorithm or function qualifies as a theorem prover,” explained Nguyen. “Many theorem provers are used to verify correctness in applications like airborne systems, unmanned vehicles, classified security systems and high-reliability hardware processors.”

The challenges Nguyen and his team faced were great. “The Hypatheon system was already one year into development upon our arrival,” said Nguyen. “So a large amount of code and database structure had to be deciphered before actual production ensued. The learning curve was a little steep.”

Also, many of the interns wanted to learn new things, so they were encouraged to make compromises between working in an unfamiliar area to gain experience and working in areas of strength.

“On top of our busy schedule, we also had to write a research paper to be submitted for publication and present our project in a poster session to the entire NASA research facility at Langley,” said Nguyen.

Working with well-known researchers was somewhat intimidating, admits Nyugen, but notes that the research experience was motivating in that it encouraged him to consider graduate school.

PIOTR PAWLAK, a graduate student in political science, came to UI with a bachelor’s degree in German studies from the University of Warsaw in Poland.

He chose UI after researching the political science faculty at several schools in the U.S. and concluded that UI’s faculty had both experience and interest in eastern Europe’s transition to democracy.

“My core interest is the Piotr Pawlak political decision-making process, political and economic activities and their impact on communities,” said Pawlak.

He was so enthused with the notion of an internship that he now has completed two. The first one, last spring, was with the Idaho House Minority Office during the 57th legislative session. During the summer he interned with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Polish American Congress in Washington, D.C. Pawlak contacted the Polish embassy to inquire about the possibility of his working there over the summer. He was accepted, and soon found himself writing reports for the deputy chief of mission and the Polish ambassador. Being a Polish citizen was helpful in securing the internship, admits Pawlak, and his ability to speak Polish and to understand the intricacies of various Polish issues was essential.

“My favorite parts of the internship were driving around in a diplomatic car, talking to congressmen and senators and having access to rich educational resources,” said Pawlak.

He also worked in the culture division of the embassy where he helped educate visitors to the embassy about Polish culture.

He assisted in organizing and hosting receptions, including a celebration of the Republic of Poland’s success in joining the European Union on May 1, 2004.

Participating in the political process in both the state’s capital and the nation’s capital convinced Pawlak that while “it is difficult to pass law... the process now in place works.”

He hopes to stay in the U.S., probably in Washington D.C., and work for either a nonprofit organization, assisting with human rights and democratic issues in Poland, or possibly in the private sector doing consultation on Eastern European/ American relations.

Pawlak also is the recipient of the Jan Karski Scholarship granted by the American Center for Polish Culture. It is awarded to outstanding students who disseminate knowledge about Polish culture among Americans and ensure that the contributions of Polish-Americans to the United States will be recognized by future generations. I WINTER 2005

PEGGY BROWN, a mechanical engineering senior, completed an internship with the computer chip manufacturer Micron in Boise last summer. She found out about the popular internship at the campus career fair earlier in the year.

Brown was looking for an internship that encouraged handson experience and accountability. She did not want to repeat a previous summer internship where she mostly made copies and filed papers.

So when she was given the choice of an office job or a job in the fabrication unit where workers wear “clean room suits” so no dust, sweat, oil or hair from the employees’ bodies can damage the chips, she chose the fabrication unit. Nonetheless, she still spent time outside the fabrication unit to obtain a wide range of engineering experience.

Brown enjoyed her experience in the fabrication unit since it provided “more of an opportunity for teamwork and a hands-on situation.”

Brown worked as part of a team that included other engineers, operators and technicians. She was impressed with the friendly and helpful disposition of everyone at Micron; she also appreciated the responsibility she was given to complete projects and solve the very-real problems of an entry-level engineer.

Brown said her UI education, and especially the software knowledge she had gained, helped her to quickly adjust to the unfamiliar Micron environment.

“The Micron staff taught the interns a lot about working through a problem analytically,” she said. She plans to apply the lessons she learned about working in teams, including respect and collaboration, to both her Peggy Brown last semester of classroom work and her future career.

“The positive experience at Micron left me feeling really motivated and aware that I’m working toward a career I will really enjoy.”

This fall, Micron offered her the position of chemical vapor deposition junior fabrication engineer. She starts in January after she receives her UI degree at December commencement.

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“The positive experience at Micron left me feeling really motivated and aware that I’m working toward a career I will really enjoy.” — Peggy Brown

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The Kampa Kids at UI

It all started with a frigid Minnesota winter The Kampa family, back: Tim Kampa, Jane Cooke, Paige MacDonald, Joe Kampa; Middle: Midge Vivian, Katherine Kampa, Casey Meza; Front: Ben Kampa.

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ould everyone who has at least one child who has graduated from the University of Idaho please stand?” It was Commencement 1984, and thenPresident Richard Gibb was conducting his annual survey. The majority of the crowd rose to their feet.

“Now, everyone with two children who are UI graduates, remain standing.” Many sat down.

“Three?”

“Four?”

“Five?”

“How about six?” President Gibb asked, and among the few left standing were Ben and Katherine Kampa of Lewiston.

“There were Mom and Dad with one or two other families; it made us all so proud,” remembers the Kampas’ second daughter and UI alumna, Jane.

Every Kampa child – Paige, Jane, Joe, Tim, Midge and Casey – earned at least a bachelor’s degree at the University of Idaho.

And, with the love and support of their parents and siblings, every Kampa child has succeeded personally and professionally.

Four of them live and work in the Washington D.C. area; Midge is in Idaho Falls; and Casey lives in Orofino. Three were Kappa

Kappa Gammas, two were Sigma Nus, and the youngest was a Gamma Phi. “It was just a given we would all go to college,” Paige said.

Jane agreed.

“When Mom and Dad talked, it was always ‘when you go to college,’ not whether.”

The family moved from Grand Rapids, Minn., in the 1940s after the temperature stayed at 40 below for 40 days.

“Dad said if it snowed one more day he was packing up the family and moving West, and that’s what happened,” Casey said.

Lewiston offered two things – the Lewiston Morning Tribune, where Ben rose through the ranks to become production manager, and access to the University of Idaho.

Ben Kampa attended community college for a year, but Katherine never had that opportunity. “We always wanted the kids to get their education, so we purposely looked for a place near a university where that could happen,” Katherine said. “We knew they were smart kids, good kids, worth putting everything we could into them.”

While Ben worked at the Tribune, Katherine started an inhome daycare. “Mom provided a really great environment for a

lot of kids for a lot of years,” said Casey. “And the income from that business is one of the ways we all got to go to college.”

Scholarship dollars helped as well – every Kampa child earned some scholarship support to attend UI.

And his favorite real estate venture partner these days is brother, Tim. Joe and his wife, Kate, have four daughters, Courtney, Keenan, Megan and Gracie. They live right down the street from Jane.

Paige ’68 worked as a certified public accountant in Seattle while her husband, Jack MacDonald ’67, completed his master’s Tim, too, came to UI on a baseball scholarship, after being in international relations and attended law school. The couple courted by a scout for the San Francisco Giants. After injuring his arm in the spring of his senior year, he picked up a golf club moved to Washington D.C. in 1970. It was there that Paige started with the World Wildlife Fund where she became the during his rehabilitation, and as Joe says, “nine months later he was a registered pro.” executive vice president. In that capacity, she traveled the world After graduating in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in coordinating planning among the 26 WWF organizations around the globe. During her 18 years there, the budget grew to psychology, Tim played on the Canadian golf tour from 1976 to 1979. Playing golf evolved into designing golf courses, which more than $100 million.

She later started her own company, “French Country Living,” evolved into developing golf real estate. Two of Tim’s driving ranges were ranked No. 1 in the country when they first opened. a home furnishings catalog business that grew to a $30 millionTo date, he has helped develop three driving ranges, one golf plus enterprise.

Today, Paige is a leader in the Aeras Global Tuberculosis course and a 27-hole golf course/corporate retreat.

Vaccine Foundation. Funded with a recent $83 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Tim and his wife, Randi, have three children, Taylor, Ben and Morgan.

Foundation, the group’s mission is to They live right down the street from develop a new vaccine for TB. She is helping to organize clinical trials in places like South Paige.

“When Mom Africa and India.

She and her husband have two sons, Midge (Katherine) was a member of the and Dad talked, Vandal tennis team for three semesters and Andrew and William. was involved in a number of sorority activities it was always as well. The first priority, though, was Graduating in 1970 with degrees in both school. “I pretty much kept my nose to the ‘ you go to special and elementary education, Jane grindstone,” she said. “All of us kids held our has spent the majority of her career in the college,’ own scholastically.” classroom. While her husband, Terrence She earned her accounting degree in 1977 Cooke, was attending Tulane University in not .” and started with the U.S. Department of New Orleans, she helped set up a special Energy immediately upon graduation. “I was education program for the New Orleans — Jane Cooke slated to go to Richland, home of the Pacific Catholic Church diocese.

Northwest National Laboratory, but was sent The couple moved to the D.C. area in to Idaho Falls instead, and have been here 1975. There, Jane has worked in special for the past 27 years,” she says. She worked her way through the education for seventh and eight graders. Five years ago, she ranks, and currently is INEEL budget director responsible for moved into administration and now is assistant principal in financial oversight for the contractor and operations at the site. charge of special education at Franklin Middle School in Fairfax, She and her husband, George Vivian, have two daughters, Va. Franklin recently was named one of the country’s “Schools Paige and Janet. George also has three children from a previous to Watch,” schools that exhibit “best practices” in a variety of marriage – Terri, Greg and Stephanie. areas, particularly special education.

“It is quite an honor,” Jane said.

She and her husband have two children, Patrick and The youngest by seven years, Casey graduated from UI Cameron. in 1984 with a degree in corporate finance. After two years working on straight commission as a financial adviser/broker in Spokane, she took a job leading the St. Mary’s Hospital A baseball scholarship was one more reason to attend the Foundation in Cottonwood. In 1989, she became the chief University of Idaho, according to Joe Kampa. After earning his financial officer for the hospital and a year later, the CEO/CFO. bachelor’s in economics and political science in 1972 and while Today she heads a regional health care system that has become a completing his law degree in 1975, he played for the Baltimore model for providing health care in rural areas.

Orioles organization.

“We took two competing hospitals – one in Cottonwood, He moved to Washington after law school to work for one in Orofino – and brought them together,” she said. “There Bechtel International, and after “dabbling a bit” in the law and is one board of directors, one management team. Basically, political Washington – including a stint as a part-time bartender we are in the process of saving rural health care.” The system at the infamous Watergate Hotel – he entered the commercial recently won a $500,000 grant from USDA to upgrade its real estate business in downtown Washington, D.C. information systems.

“Working evenings at the Watergate was how I met people She and her husband, Dr. Michael Meza, have four children, and got connected,” Joe said. “I’ve been immersed in real estate Hanna and Katherine Uhling and Madeline and Zachary Meza. I now for 20 years.” He is now executive director for Advantis GVA, a national commercial real estate brokerage firm.

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UI music professor helps the Library of Congress honor jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan

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“My job was to decipher it, clean it up and notate it on the he spur-of-the-moment musical improvisations of jazz computer so it was easy to read, “said Gemberling. musicians can be magical; notes and phrasing and He had the original manuscript and recording to work from, feelings that happen only in a single moment. But but they weren’t necessarily the same. The song was composed underneath all improvisation is the song — and it exists as a for 19 instruments — a five-person rhythm section, a five-person written composition with all the notes on a piece of paper. horn section and nine other instruments — but the recording The trouble for musicians is that some songs exist as easy-tofeatures only a portion of the full orchestration. read published manuscripts and others are nothing more than “I listened to ‘K-4 Pacific’ I don’t know how many times, just smudged hand-written bars of music. over and over as I was trying to decipher who’s doing what on Al Gemberling, University of Idaho music professor, has the recording as opposed to what I saw on the manuscript,” said filled in with groups performing at UI’s Lionel Hampton Jazz Gemberling.

Festival and knows that all sheet music is not equal.

“I never got tired of it. It excited me more as I “I’ve played the Lionel went along. With any good composition, you get Hampton Big Band book more out of it with every listening.” of tunes and the Lou Rawls Gemberling plans to notate arrangements for all charts and some of them are eight songs on “Age of Steam.” In addition to “K-4 just a mess,” said Gemberling.

Pacific,” he has also completed “One to Ten in Ohio.”

“You’re sitting on the stage Both scores along with Mulligan’s original trying to decipher your part.” manuscripts are available on the Web at http://www.

But those musical loc.gov/ihas. adventures set up Gemberling “Being a part of this project has been rewarding,” to take on a project with said Gemberling. He appreciates making this the Library of Congress to historical, classic music available to schools and honor jazz saxophonist Gerry young musicians for free, and commends Franca Mulligan.

Mulligan and The library’s “I Hear the Library of America Singing” Web site Congress for presents tributes to a variety of sharing the musical styles and performers. music.

The Gerry Mulligan segment Gemberling features scores and recordings The completed notated score also knows how of Mulligan’s 1971 recording, for “K-4 Pacific.”

“K-4 Pacific” “Age of Steam.” Mulligan sounds when wrote and arranged the music performed from for the eight songs on the his notated recording. The only copies of the arrangements were scores. He Mulligan’s hand-written manuscripts. They had never enlisted UI been published, but Mulligan’s widow and president music faculty of Mulligan Publishing Company, Franca R. Mulligan, and local provided them to the Library of Congress in hopes they Gerry Mulligan’s original hand-written score. musicians to could be shared and played by others. perform the full Jon Newsom, head of the Library of Congress’ Music arrangement during last year’s jazz festival. He also put together Division contacted Lewis Ricci, director of UI’s International a group from Moscow High School.

Jazz Collections, to see if a partnership could be forged with the “We didn’t have a soprano sax player so we substituted with University of Idaho to turn Mulligan’s manuscripts into finished a clarinet player and we didn’t have a full rhythm section,” said notated scores. Ricci recruited Gemberling because of his jazz Gemberling. “But the integrity of the composition was intact performance education expertise, especially with high school and from the educational standpoint, it worked.” and college age students.

When all eight songs are notated, Gemberling would like “This cooperative project among the International Jazz to perform the entire album live with musicians from the Collections, the Library of Congress Music Division and Lionel Hampton School of Music and a baritone saxophone Mulligan Publishing Company is a great example of different guest artist. “Maybe someone approaching the caliber of Gerry types of organizations working together with one goal in mind Mulligan,” said Gemberling.

– to help another generation understand, enjoy and have access to jazz,” said Ricci.

Gemberling warmed up to the project with the song, “K-4 Pacific.”

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John Clayton returns in February for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.

Jazz artists from around the world will be coming to the University of Idaho Feb. 2326 for the 2005 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.

The line up of performers includes well-known jazz artists Freddy Cole, Lou Rawls, Jane Monheit, Randy Brecker, Roy Hargrove and the Lionel Hampton New York Big Band. See the back cover for more information.

A group of eight young, professional Russian jazz musicians will be special guests at the festival. The Open World Leadership Center, housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., selected UI to receive a $61,000 grant to support the visit.

They will partner with faculty in music classes, perform with UI jazz ensembles, give master classes for UI music students, participate in the Jazz in the Schools program and take a short course in arts management.

They also may learn about the history of jazz in Russia.

“We have a number of items of Russian origin in the International Jazz Collections,” said Lewis Ricci, director of the IJC. “That includes underground jazz publications from the period of time when jazz was outlawed in the former Soviet Union. Those publications could bring the visitors closer to a part of their heritage, of which they may not be aware.” I

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populations, thus understanding the dynamics of small populations helps us to manage invasive species.”

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The Aliens Keep Arriving Idaho researchers take on non-native plant and animal species

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hite pine blister rust, spotted knapweed and whirling disease in trout are three examples of plants and diseases that have found their way to Idaho. In some cases, they have thrived and now present enormous problems to Idaho’s economy.

Degradation or destruction of Idaho’s natural resource base is one of the greatest biological problems facing the state, UI researchers say. They predict the incidence of introduced – and consequently, destructive – species will only increase in years to come, given the increased mobility of human populations and globalized commercial traffic.

Statistics gathered by the Idaho Invasive Species Council support that claim. A 1999 survey estimated the annual economic impact nationwide of alien species at some $138 billion in direct losses to agriculture and industry. Losses due to noxious weeds alone are estimated to cost the state approximately $300 million annually.

In an effort to address the problems created by alien species, UI scientists worked together to earn a nearly $1 million grant from the Idaho Board of Education’s Higher Education Research Council to fund the new Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations.

The new center will draw on the University’s developing expertise in DNA analysis and molecular biology to better understand why some species become invasive threats and other species decline.

UI researchers affiliated with the new center, known as CRISSP, have previous experience in trying to overcome the problems created by alien species.

• Rebecca Ganley, Steven Brunsfeld and George Newcombe in the College of Natural Resources, have discovered a new group of fungi in the green needles of western white pines.

Early tests show that inoculating white pine seedlings with the newly discovered fungi appears to help the young trees combat blister rust.

• University of Idaho fisheries researcher Christine Moffitt wants to understand how prevalent whirling disease is in the state’s streams and the threat it poses to trout populations.

One of Moffitt's recent projects focuses on the Pahsimeroi River in eastern Idaho. Tanks in the Moscow fisheries laboratory hold small rainbow trout that were placed in cages in the Pahsimeroi to monitor the whirling disease threat.

• Burr chervil, a new weed exploding across northern Idaho’s landscape, may offer important clues to the biology of invasive species. “We want to use the sophisticated DNA techniques to see if we can spot genetic changes that allow a population to adapt to its environment and suddenly begin to multiply,” said Tim Prather, UI weed scientist.

The center also will focus on management of small plant and animal populations. Currently, center faculty are working on a number of declining or listed species such as Idaho ground squirrels, pygmy rabbits, salmon, white bark pine, grizzly bears, red wolves, sage grouse and elk.

“Invasive species all start as small populations, thus understanding the dynamics of small populations helps us to manage invasive species,” said Lisette Waits, associate professor of fish and wildlife resources. “Faculty in our center do research on small populations with the hope of preventing future endangered species listings and in aiding ongoing efforts on federally listed species.” I

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elcome to our second issue of the new, expanded Idaho Outlook. We’re now a regular feature of “Here We Have Idaho,” and we are proud to be a part of this longstanding tradition. In this issue of Idaho Outlook, we are highlighting the benefits — both to you and the university — of including the University of Idaho in your estate plans. In the next few pages, you will find articles on:

Happy New Year!

Sincerely, Ed McBride Director of Gift Planning Heidi Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning 2005

Heidi C. Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning

We hope you will take a few moments to look over this latest issue and learn a little more about the ways your university can benefit from your own estate planning.

And of course, if we can answer any questions, feel free to contact us. See page 32 for our contact information.

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Edward J. McBride Director of Gift Planning

• A Perpetual Legacy — the generosity and foresight of longtime university faculty members Bill and Carolyn Folz and the impact of their more than $1 million bequest for scholarships; • A Global Perspective — Folz scholar Jelena Nidbalska, a native of Latvia, and what the Folz scholarship means to her; • Giving Back to Her Alma Mater — how UI alumna Eileen Potucek Hartmann is establishing a scholarship endowment with current support as well as through her estate plan; • A Legal Scholar — featuring Richard Laws, a third-year law student and another Folz scholar; • The Heritage Society — what it is and how you can become a member; • Ways to Give Through Your Estate Plan — strategies that you can use to become personally involved in this all-important educational endeavor.

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William F. and Carolyn Atkins ’39 Folz

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illiam F. and Carolyn Atkins ’39 Folz were the quintessence of loyalty and dedication to the University of Idaho. Not only were they financial supporters during their long and illustrious lives, but they created one of the largest endowments at the university through their estate plans.

But their greatest passion was for the students Bill Folz was born in Indiana. they so tirelessly served throughout their careers Following at the University of Idaho. Though they had no high school he attended the children of their own, they “adopted” literally University of Evansville in hundreds of student-scholars over the years, Indiana where taking personal interest in their efforts, investing he received a bachelor’s their time and talents in ways that improved the degree. After teaching for a learning process, and celebrating successes with few years, he enrolled at the the young people they touched.

University of Illinois where he earned a master’s degree, and ultimately a Ph.D. During this time, he met and married Carolyn Atkins, and after being awarded his doctorate, the Folzes moved to

Moscow where he joined the University of Idaho faculty in 1935. From 1950 to his retirement in 1972, he was head of the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Carolyn Folz also was a graduate of the University of Evansville and the University of Illinois. After coming to Moscow, she continued her schooling and received a master’s degree in English in 1939. She began her long and distinguished career as the first librarian for the College of Law in 1945, retiring in 1972.

Both the Folzes were active in the community, in their church and in their respective professions. Bill was on the board of numerous professional associations, and was president of several.

In addition, he served on the board of directors of Murphy Favre, a Spokanebased investment firm, for 14 years.

They were indeed multi-talented people, and they willingly shared their special gifts within their respective spheres of influence. Those spheres grew ever-larger over time.

But their greatest passion was for the students they so tirelessly served throughout their careers at the University of Idaho. Though they had no children of their own, they “adopted” literally hundreds of student-scholars over the years, taking personal interest in their

Rick and Kate Laws with sons, Josh and Landon Savitz.

Third-year law student Richard Laws was born in Lewiston and graduated from Olympic High School in Concord, Calif., in 1984. The first member of his family to graduate from college, Rick spent about 10 years working, mostly as a musician, before he got serious about college.

In 2001, Rick graduated from Washington State University with an English degree, intending to head straight on to law school. Not wanting to leave the Northwest, the University of Idaho’s College of Law was one of only three law schools to which he applied. After considering what all three had to offer, he decided UI was the best fit for him. Rick says, “Actually, the Folz scholarship was integral to that decision.” He also is quick to acknowledge the recruiting efforts of Erick Larson, the former College of Law admissions director.

As a law student, Rick has been practicing asylum law in the Legal Aid Clinic since June 2004. In his words, “It has completely changed my life.

Eventually, I’d like to land a clinical teaching position in immigration and asylum law.”

Of the Folz scholarship, Rick has this to say: “I wanted to attend law school so that I could make a positive difference in people’s lives — I know it sounds corny, but it’s the truth. I’m here so that I can make things better as far as I can reach. The Folz scholarship didn’t just make this adventure more economically feasible; it actually guided me here to the UI.” In the Legal Aid Clinic, Rick has been able to handle successful claims for political asylum and will argue an immigration case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a rare accomplishment for a third-year law student. “I’ve been able to advocate for victims’ rights and for civil liberties; to write and publish on subjects that are important to me; to teach as well as learn. Were it not for the Folz scholarship, I might have been just another student at some other law school. Here, I’m surrounded by people who are committed to seeing me achieve my aspirations.”

The Laws family includes Rick and his wife, Kate, and sons Josh, who was born just four days before Rick started law school, and Landon Savitz.

Rick and Kate are expecting another child in January.

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efforts, investing their time and talents in ways that improved the learning process, and celebrating successes with the young people they touched. They were the very embodiment of the word “teacher” in all that they did.

Carolyn Folz died in 1990 at the age of 82, and William died in 1997. As a final — and lasting — legacy to their spirit of helping students, the Folzes created, through their estate plan, The William and Carolyn Folz Scholarship Endowment Fund. Being people of wide-ranging interests, they specified that scholarships from the endowment were to benefit “full-time students... who are pursuing a course of study that will lead to a degree in the humanities; social sciences; business or economics; or the professional degree of law.” After making a number of specific bequests, including a $30,000 addition to the already existing William E. Folz Scholarship Endowment Fund in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, they directed the residuary of their estate be used to fund the new endowment.

That residuary amounted to $1,706,122 — a sizable sum. In the six years since Bill Folz’s death, the endowment has grown to $2,091,377 — an increase of $385,255. During that time, 53 different scholarship recipients have received scholarships totaling $369,637.

Any number of similar stories of generous and equally visionary people can be told about their love for the University of Idaho and their desire to see it continue to excel. While the Folz fund is an unusually large one, scholarship endowments can be established for as little as $25,000. The University of Idaho Foundation invests the funds to optimize both growth and income potential, to assure the fund’s continued viability.

For more information about how you could establish a scholarship endowment — and the naming opportunity that goes with it — please contact us. See page 32 for our contact information.

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he Heritage Society was created as a way to recognize and thank donors who have made provisions in their estate plans for a gift to the University of Idaho, recognizing that the gift may be postponed until after their lifetimes.

The name, “Heritage Society,” was chosen to acknowledge the fact that the benefits of such gifts create a perpetual legacy and heritage for the university. Donors who become members of this group can be certain that future generations of students — as well as, ultimately, citizens of Idaho and the nation — will benefit from their foresight and generosity.

MEMBERSHIP Becoming a member of Heritage Society is simple. There are numerous ways to accomplish this: Bequest: Just let us know you have made provisions in your will or living trust for a gift to the university that will occur upon your passing.

The University as Contingent Beneficiary: If it fits your estate plan better, you can name the university as a bequest recipient only if other named beneficiaries predecease you.

A Planned Gift with the UI Foundation: This can take a variety of forms: • Charitable Remainder Trust • Charitable Gift Annuity • Charitable Lead Trust • Retained Life Estate Life Insurance: Name the UI Foundation as beneficiary of a new or existing policy (revocable) or transfer ownership of a policy to the foundation (irrevocable, with tax benefits); Qualified Retirement Plan: Name the UI Foundation as full or partial beneficiary upon your death. This can have tremendous tax saving implications for your estate and heirs.

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AUTHENTICATION When you let us know you have included the university in your estate plans, you are encouraged, but not compelled, to provide documentation of your intentions.

Such documentation would include a copy of the will or living trust or at least the portion pertaining the University of Idaho bequest or, in the case of life insurance, retirement plan or life income plan, a copy of the beneficiary designation.

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ENDOWMENT AGREEMENT We encourage all our donors, including those making gifts through their estates, to establish an Endowment Agreement — a simple memorandum of understanding between you and the UI Foundation specifying the uses and purposes of your estate gift. This assures you that those programs meaningful to you are benefited, and that the university will carry out your wishes.

J. Robert and Sonja J. Alexander Richard W. and Sharon L. Allen Elaine Ambrose Romano and Michael Romano Leona Ambrose Alfred B. Anderson Ethel K. Anderson Michael M. and Jeannie Anderson Phillip D. and Janell K. Anderson Beulah K. Archer John Lee Armitage John M. and Lois E. Ayers B. Bernice Bacharach Evalyn I. Baker William P. and Dorothy T. Barnes Elbert M. and Elna M. Barton June Bauer Maxine C. Behrman Eric D. Bennett J. Burton Berlin Charles A. and Nancy J. Berry Edith Betts Harvey T. and Myrna Bickett Linda L. Blackwelder-Pall Clara R. Bleak James B. and Shellie A. Bronson Ernest P. Brown Jayne J. Brown Frederic H. Burrow Billy and Margery A. Bush William D. Butler E. Jack Byrne Laila N. Carson John S. Chapman Arthur W. Chiko Richard M. Childs, Jr. Charles O. and Caroline E. Christenson Russell L. Chrysler Dave C. and Lisa M. Churchman Kathy D. Clark James E. Clovis Gregory C. and Melissa L. Coman Robert L. Culbertson Robert R. and Lynn M. Curtis Robert L. and Carol E. Dahlberg Glen W. and Bonnie J. Dahmen

Financial and Estate Planning News for Alumni and Friends of the University of Idaho Leland L. and Mary Margaret Mink Terry P. and Ann Mix Larry W. and Janice A. Moore Joseph W. Mrachek Patsy S. Munroe Robert E. and Faye Sargent Mytinger Richard J. Naskali Shirley A. Newcomb Glenn W. and Beckie A. Nichols John M. Nickerson William W. and Judy A. Nixon Frederick M. and V. Gayle Oleksiak Jeffery K. Olson Wayne L. and Annette T. Olson Glenn B. Owen, Sr. Richard H. Paris Lyle H. and Sharon K. Parks William A. and Beverly A. Parsons Richard A. and Marion J. Patterson Richard Q. Perry Hazel C. Peterson Julius E. Peterson James D. Pittenger David A. and Mary Alice Poe James I. and Judith M. Powers Leah R. Porzel Hartwell W. Priest Stewart W. Pugh Leonard G. and R. Marie Pyne Donald D. and Kathryn Daly Ramseyer Janet Orr Randall and Bruce MacEvoy Betty Lee Raymer Robert L. and Karla Reed Edgar E. Renfrew Malcolm M. and Carol C. Renfrew John S. and Laurie Retherford Marjorie D. Richardson Marjorie Rieske Michael D. Roach Richard B. Roberts Susan B. Roberts Charles L. and Dianne H. Robertson G. Wayne Rodeback Richard H. and Dorothy S. Ross George W. Rothweiler Gavin B. Rumble Joseph N. and Susan Rumble Everett V. and Lois E. Samuelson Marilyn Ruth Sargent Richard A. and Linda G. Schellenger Rodney K. and Kathy L. Schenck F. Wayne Schultz Sidney J. Scribner Miriam Sellers David M. Sellgren

Shirley K. Severn Donna K. Shepard Richard L. and Sally S. Shoup Victor H. and Ruth N. Skiles Daryl L. and Deborah L. Smith Richard R. and Ruth A. Smith Gerald J. and Trini Snow Melvin C. Snow James A. and Janet Steele James D. Stephens Donald P. and H. Maxine Stewart J. Robert and Lois L. Stillinger W.G., Jr. and Laura J. Stover Robert C. and Shirley L. Strom J. Kirk and Elizabeth M. Sullivan Bruce L. and Marilyn M. Sweeney William A. and Dorothy S. Sylvies Richard E. Tavis John R. and Earlene J. Taylor Paul F. Taylor Richard E. and Anne M. Thatcher Wayne L. and Peggy J. Thiessen Richard D. and Lavonne M. Thomas Richard W. Thomas Eugene and JoAnn C. Thompson Jacqueline A. Thompson Marjorie R. Thompson D. John and Vikki Thornton Jon G. Trail Margaret A. Trefren Vincent J. and Lois J. Tretter Harry B. Turner and Geraldine Hastings Wayne H. Valentine Scott S. and Susan K. Waltner Elizabeth Ann Webb Garry R. and Linda I. Webb L. Dean and E. Gay Welch Wayne L. Weseman Darrell G. Whitehead Marie H. Whitesel George D. and Kathleen D. Whitlock Loretta O. Wickstrand Craig A. and Linda B. Wiegman Larry D. Williams A. Irene Wilson Douglas A. and Mary Lee Wood Elizabeth P. Woodcock Robert K. Woodhead Thomas C. Wright Theodore W. and Joan C. Yocom John R. and Helen K. Yuditsky John R. and JoAn W. Zanot Joe L. and Dorothy J. Zaring

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James V. and Gail R. Hawkins Art and Eloise B. Helbling Betty Jane Hervey Evan Berdett and D. Yvonne Hess Melva Hoffman K. Jean Holmes Larry G. and Nancy K. Huettig Bonnie J. Hultstrand Arthur E. and Sheila D. Humphrey Pauline D. Hunt Charlotte C. Iiams J. Robert and Bonnie J. Jackson Richard W. and Trudy J. Jackson Robert E. and Ruth W. Jensen Erling J. and Amy L. Johannesen Kenneth M. and Jan Jones Roger L. Jones Marion G. Kalbus Thomas A. and Lillian Keegan George M. and Elvera V. Klein Ruth Ann Knapp Lawrence L. and Kathryn A. Knight Carol Ann and Jerry Lange E. Richard and Margaret Larson Richard K. and Janice Lehlbach Duane J. and Phyllis LeTourneau J. Bradley and Jennifer Lee Lewis Edward G. and Susan Kay Lieser Grete Lindeborg Lawrence Lineberger Gregory D. and Heidi C. Linehan Marjorie Logue James R. Lucas Maurice B. and Alice J. Lynch George and Mary Ann Macinko Gene C. and Lila M. Maier Curtis W. Mann Martin J. and Linda A. Marler Kenneth B. and Dorene Marshall Olive Marshall William H. and Margareta O. Mason Elsie Krey Matthews Edward J. and Connie L. McBride Valetta A. McGill Doris M. McGinty Eugene A. and Alice J. McHale Helen M. McKinney Elizabeth G. McKissick Marilyn Hammer Meechan Clarence R. and M. Helena Meltesen Laura Menard Richard W. and Jan W. Merrill John A. and Margaret Ann Miller Laurie Ann Miller William Charles Miller Carlos E. Milner, Jr. John L. and Faith G. Milton

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Richard H., Jr. and Cindy L. Darnell Brenda G. Dau P. Michael and Linda S. Davidson Martha I. Davis James A. and Alice B. DeShazer Sandra D. Dunn Xavier E. and Mary Ellen Durant Ruth Parks Durham Barbara J. Eastman C. Gordon and Madeline Edgren Thomas L. and Helen J. Edmark William E., Jr. and Dorothy Ann Effertz Roy L. and Miren Eguzkine Eiguren Karen I. Elder Valerie R. Elliott Roy J. and Frances Tovey Ellsworth Matthew J. and Lori S. Espe Richard E. and M. Eleanor Fahrenwald Virginia A. Farrell Robert M. Finlayson Melville W., II and Bonnie J. Fisher John O. and June Fitzgerald Ronald W. and Jo Ellen Force Bonnie Kuehl Ford Meta Foster Eloise Frank Richard E. Fredekind Carolyn A. Gaddis Matthew J. and Janna R. Galbraith Clinton J. and Eleanor R. Gardner Thomas R. and Bette J. Gates Jerald D. and Lois M. Gentry Alfred E. Giese Paul S. Giles Florence W. Gillette Fred R. Gleave Harold E. Granlund Ronald N. and Diane Plastino Graves John O. Gray Robert C. Greeley Leon G. Green Keith L. Gregory Nancy M. Gregory Robert M. and Dolores A. GrifďŹ th Garth D. and Margie Haddock Glenna Hamilton Gail E. Hanninen Lucille M. Hardgrove Pauline W. Harris Eileen Potucek Hartmann and Norbert Hartmann Miriam Hatch F. Marshall and Sharon A. Hauck David H. and Bonnie J. Hawk Jack W. and Julie Holden Hawkins

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isted here are those persons who were Heritage Society members by virtue of their expressed intentions during their lifetimes. Though they have passed on from this life, they shall be lovingly remembered and everlastingly honored for their generosity and foresight.

Bernard A. Anderson Mary Margaret Anderson Paul W. Atwood Myrtle Bain Herbert D. and Dolores S. Barnes Robert W. Beamer Sherman Bellwood Ralph Bleak Warren Brown Harry A. Campbell Maurine M. Cherrington Fred and Dorothy Dyott Clagett Robert Cobb A. Darius Davis Edward G. Davis Kenneth A. Dick Beatrice Dayton Dolan Frederick E. and Heloise M. Drager Frances G. Drake Herbert M. and Beulah M. Edwards Burton F. and Dee H. Ellis Stuart W. and Kathryn V. Fader William E. and Carolyn A. Folz James A. Foster, Jr. Floyd W. Frank Letitia R. Giese Mary E. Giles Leslie H. Gillette Elma M. Goodman Mildred M. Haberly Leonard Halland Eugenia A. Hamblin Bobby C. Hamilton George A. Hardgrove Walter C. and Myldred Hayes Ruth M. Heady Mildred M. Hensley Dwight S. Hoffman Shirley P. Horning Gertrude Drissen Hudson John O. Johnson Elmer M. Johnston Nancy Joy Jones Katharine K. Kemp Edith Miller Klein Marvin Klemme Rosalie Koenig Allyn Richard Larsen Russell K. LeBarron Eugene C. Logue Elbert M. Long Violet Lucas Boyd A. and Grace C. Martin James W. and Beulah L. Martin Ellis L. Mathes

Richard I. Matthews Fred D. and Irene H. Maurer Keith K. McDaniel Vaughan P. McDonald Mary Alice McGovern William C. McGowan Albert A. and Jean M. Monnett Wallace P. and Dorothy Monnett Winfred B. Moorer David W. Morehouse Sarah Nettleton Ralph Lee Olmstead Kathryn F. Owen Barbara H. Pendergast James W. and Carolyn M. Pennington Charles F. and Katheryne E. Peterson Kathleen M. Pittenger H. Michael Porter Francis B. Porzel A. J. Priest Edwin J. Ratajak James A. Raymer William H. Richardson Donald Ellis Roberts Julia E. Rolland John W. Roper Patton A. Ross L. Weldon Schimke Phillip H. Schnell Velma Scholl Agnes Crawford Schuldt Victor O. Sellers H. Russell Severn Gladys A. Shelton Savel B. Silverborg Clarence Simonson Minerva K. Terteling Smith Beatrice Stalker Alene M. Swindler Lee Anne Tavis Eline L. Taylor Mary Ellen V. Thomason Dean D. Thornton Norah S. Tisdale Caroline S. Valentine Bonita R. Wallis Charles O. Wamstad Lillian O. White Herbert L. Wickstrand Thomas I. Wilson Inez E. Winegar Fred H. Winkler Herbert M. Woodcock Dolores L. Woodhead

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Jelena Nidbalska

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did not realize until many years after I graduated from college how fortunate I was to grow up in the farming community of Castleford,” says Idaho native and UI alumna Eileen Potucek Hartmann. “Although the school was small — there were only 31 students in my graduating class — we received a good education that prepared us for college. Our parents, the teachers in the school and the community in general were very supportive of higher education.

As a result, the number of students in my graduating class who attended college far exceeded the national average, even though sending their children to college was a financial challenge for many parents.”

Eileen earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Idaho in 1972 and later a master’s degree in statistics and a bachelor’s in accounting from Oregon State University. In 1984, Eileen opened her own CPA firm in Corvallis, Ore., and in 2002, she moved her practice to a farm outside of Monmouth where she and her husband, Norbert, enjoy their fields and orchard.

Both Eileen and Norbert feel strongly about the importance of giving back

to their communities and supporting education. They have each set up an endowed scholarship at their respective alma maters. As Eileen puts it, “By funding the Eileen Potucek Hartmann Castleford High School Scholarship Fund, I feel I am supporting both my hometown and my university. It is my hope that this scholarship will enable future Castleford High School graduates to attend the University of Idaho and receive the same quality education that I did. I am pleased to be able to establish this scholarship during my lifetime rather than in my estate.”

Eileen has been adding to her scholarship endowment annually, and at the current rate, it will be activated in the year 2006. She intends to continue to add to it annually and also has made provisions for the scholarship endowment in her estate plans. She points out, “Fortunately for me, my husband works for Hewlett-Packard, which matches our gifts to universities. This doubles our money and makes it much easier to endow a scholarship.”

It is through the ongoing generosity and foresight of people like Eileen Potucek Hartmann that the University of Idaho continues to excel in its mission. If you would like to learn more about how you, too, can participate, please see our contact information on page 32.

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Folz scholar Jelena Nidbalska is a non-traditional student in more ways than one. As a native of Riga, Latvia, she represents the wide diversity of international students enrolled at the University of Idaho.

A senior accounting and finance major, she plans to become a CPA after graduating this spring.

Jelena also is looking forward to finalizing her U.S. citizenship, quite likely before her graduation.

She is married and has a 13-year-old son who is currently enrolled at Moscow Junior High School. She says “I hope I can be an example to him.”

Jelena was notified via e-mail last April 1 that she was a Folz scholar for the coming school year.

This was a huge surprise to her.

She says, “I was amazed because I didn’t expect it. I got the notice on April Fool’s Day, so I thought at first it was a joke!” Once she realized it was for real, she has been continuously grateful for this honor. She points out, “I come from a different country, a different culture, and this is so different from what I’m used to.”

She enjoys studying and while she would have somehow found the means to finance her senior year at the University of Idaho, the Folz scholarship took much of the worry out of the equation so she could focus on her studies. She is quite pleased with her education here and looks forward to her career in the accounting field.

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Ida o Outlook Ways to Give Through Your Estate Plan Leaving a bequest to the University of Idaho is a simple and effective way to make a lasting legacy. But, there are numerous other ways to provide major support to your university, including some that can give you back an income stream, provide significant income and estate tax breaks and allow you the opportunity to shape your ultimate gift in a way that’s truly meaningful to you and the university.

Type

What is it?

What are the tax benefits?

What are some other benefits?

Bequest in Will or Revocable Living Trust

A gift you make by naming UI in your will for a certain dollar amount or the residuary

Reduces size of taxable estate

Gives you flexibility in providing for family needs first You become a member of our Heritage Society

Charitable Gift Annuity

A contract in which the UI 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

Life Insurance Gift

A gift of an existing or new policy with the UI 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 UI 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 Remainder Trusts

Trusts that pay a set or variable income to you or those you name before the university receives remainder

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

Provides guaranteed or annual income that could increase if trust value increases

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 possibly no estate or gift tax

Wealth Replacement Trust

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

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We have materials to help you and your adviser plan your estate.

Contact us for your free kit.

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

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

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

ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

To be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a jpg format. In the interest of accuracy and privacy, we will list only items submitted by an alumnus or their family.

Dorothy Carter Moote ’55 and her husband A. Lloyd Moote are authors of a book recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press, “The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year.” The book has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Dorothy and Lloyd live in Princeton, N. J.

Dick ’55 and Barbara Riggs ’59 submitted this photo of three generations of Idaho Vandals.

From left to right, beginning with the back row: Zach Dahmen ’08, Doug (LCSC), Jolyn Riggs Dahmen ’80, Dick Riggs ’55, Matt Riggs ’96, and future vandals Moira Riggs (2021), and Shamus Riggs (2023).

Chan Atchley ’56, ’69, ’70 has written a creative nonfiction book titled “The Soul of the Land” published

by Aspend Publishing.

60s Bernard “Ben” Marra ’62 has created “Faces from the Land: A Photographic Journey through Native America” that was exhibited at the Genoa U.S. Indian School Museum in Genoa, Nebr. The exhibit focuses on many of the Native American cultures that Lewis and Clark encountered during their arduous 1803-1806 expedition.

Gordon Walker ’62 has left his namesake firm, Walker Architects, to join Mithun as a consulting principal.

Gordon has almost 40 years of experience designing landmark projects like the Pike and Virginia Building in Pike Place Market, the Pacific Northwest Ballet School and the Tacoma Financial Center.

Darrell Turnidge ’63 has been a member of the faculty of Kent State University since fall 1968.

He was recently appointed to serve as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2004-05. In addition, Turnidge was recently appointed as Kent State liaison officer to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM).

Larry D. Sall ’64 has been appointed to the newly created position of dean of libraries at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He has served as director of libraries at UTD’s Eugene McDermott Library for the past four years and led the library’s special collections department for more than 20 years.

Samuel G. Taylor ’65 retired as a professor at the University of Wyoming. He and his wife, Jean (Thomas) Taylor ’66, continue to reside in Laramie, Wyo. Gary Nyberg ’67 was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Grant to travel and study in Bulgaria during summer 2004. His experience included exchange with Bulgarian leadership in higher education, the humanities and arts with the purpose of promoting global cooperation and cultural exchange. Nyberg is presently composing a symphonic composition based on Bulgarian folk music.

Marshall M. Baker ’68, ’70 recently received the Harry J. Harwick Award from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). This prestigious award is the association’s highest recognition given to an individual who has displayed a lifetime of achievement and made outstanding, nationallyrecognized contributions to health care delivery, administration and education in medical group practice.

Francine “Fran” A. Park Ogden ’69, ’90, ’92 was recognized as the Safe and Drug Free Schools Shining Star of Prevention in April 2004. This award is sponsored by the Department of Education, Safe and Drug Free Schools Statewide Advisory Board. It recognizes an outstanding individual for making extraordinary efforts to improve the lives of youth within the state of Idaho. Fran is currently a counselor for the Council Junior and Senior High Schools.

70s Michael I. Kiely ’70 retired in June 2004 from the McCallDonnelly school district in McCall, where he served as an elementary teacher for 33 years.

Jerry L. Smalley ’70 recently retired after 36 years of high school science teaching and coaching in Iowa, Washington and Montana. He continues coaching tennis and freelance outdoor writing.

Richard Bauer ’72 is the director of orchestras at South Salem High School in Salem, Ore. Under his direction, the South Salem High School Chamber Orchestra has consistently placed in the top three in the Oregon State Orchestra Championships, has won first place twice in the past four years and received a standing ovation for their performance at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago this past December. Next spring, he will take all three orchestra classes on their fourth concert tour in Europe.

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James E. Hurst ’55 returned from the Ukraine after completing two agricultural consulting assignments for USAID. Since retiring in 1990, Jim has completed 18 projects in various developing countries where our government has determined it is in the best interests of the U. S. to help them achieve a better life. If retirement from active employment seems a bit boring and you love to travel, Jim recommends seeking out volunteer opportunities to enrich your life and the lives of others around the world.

John A. Rosholt ’59 was named Distinguished Lawyer for 2004 by the Idaho State Bar. The award is given annually to one or more lawyers who show exemplary conduct and have given years of service to Idaho citizens and the profession. He has been involved in virtually all of the significant water resources initiatives and represents clients in water-related matters involving the Snake River Basin Adjudication, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act and federal and state legislative matters.

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Sharon Allen ’73 was recently recognized at a “Celebrating Remarkable Women” event for her active involvement with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Gary Donnelly ’74, ’77 was presented with the Innovative Program award from the Region V Association of Career and Technical Education. Donnelly is the business division chair at Casper College and the director of the Tech Prep Consortium’s International Business Practice Firm.

Diane Plastino Graves ’74 has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Idaho Community Foundation. This $49 million Idaho foundation gathers charitable donations from donors, invests them and grants them to worthy project throughout Idaho. She and her husband, Ronald N. Graves ’68, reside in Boise and McCall.

Bert Stoneberg ’69, ’74 completed the graduate certificate program in large scale education assessment at the University of Maryland. He currently works at the Idaho Department of Education as state coordinator for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Robert B. Deeter ’75 retired in June 2004 from the Morrow County School District after a 27year teaching career in Oregon.

He also taught in Montana and Idaho. In addition, he served two years in the U.S. Army prior to moving to Oregon in 1977.

HERE WE HAVE

IDAHO

Sally Bagshaw ’76 received the 2004 Angelo Petruss Award from the Washington State Bar Association. This award recognizes a lawyer in government service who has made a significant contribution to the legal profession, the justice system and the public.

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Alan Wittbecker ’76 retired from SynGeo ArchiGraph as senior ecologist.

He worked on wolf surveys in Alaska, Bulgaria, Norway and Russia. He plans to continue to teach a class on ecology and to write essays. He is the author of 14 books, including reviewing the 2003 Eppie winner for best nonfiction on the Web.

Dave Christiansen ’77, director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Idaho Falls, received the annual 2004 Tiger/Griz Outstanding Service Award for his outstanding community service in youth sports and recreation. Christiansen served as the state’s Hershey Track and Field chairman from 1984-1993.

80s Doug Hummel ’81 has retired from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. He worked in both the construction and design divisions during his many years with the state of Alaska. While working on buildings, airport and highway construction projects, he enjoyed the challenge and remoteness of the great land that came with the job.

John W. Norbury ’83 was named the head of the Physics Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. in September 2004. Norbury’s primary field of research is in protecting astronauts from cosmic radiation, which has led to a strong working relationship with NASA. Stephen Price ’84 was promoted to the position of design director with WGS of Portland, Ore. Stephen has been a senior designer with WGS since 1997.

Frank Werner Sr. ’84 won the Governor’s 2004 Excellence in Arts award for his traditional waterfowl carving. He joins a select group of Idahoans who have been chosen during the last 35 years for their significant contribution to the arts in Idaho.

Cary B. Colaianni ’86 has been named city attorney for Boise. He will direct a 41-person office in City Hall representing the city on legal matters.

Col. Michael T. Hinman ’86 is serving as mission support group commander with the 115th Wing, Truax Field, Madison, Wisc.

Kalidas Shetty ’86, ’89 has been selected as a Jefferson Science Fellows by the National Academy of Sciences to work in the U.S. State Department to articulate scientific issues in the conduct of international diplomacy.

Shetty is a professor of food biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Thomas E. Golden ’87 joined Northwest Architectural Company (NAC) in 1990 and was recently promoted from associate principal with the firm to principal. Golden is principal project manager for the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute Technology Center and project manager for the new Ellensburg High School, as well as providing design and project management services for Washington State University Spokane’s Academic Center.

David Gordon ’87 has been hired by the Boise Parks and Recreation Department to coordinate the Ridge to Rivers Partnership program and also has worked in several wilderness areas in Colorado and Idaho. Ridge to Rivers is a collaborative effort of local, state and federal partners to maintain trails and open space in the Boise Foothills.

Doreen Lenoir McCray Howell ’88 was awarded an Editor’s Choice Award for outstanding achievement in poetry by the International Society of Poets.

Natalie Naccarato Hutley ’88 was promoted to associate with WGS in Portland, Ore. Natalie has been a senior designer with WGS since 2000.

David Wagers ’88 is president of Idaho Candy Co. in Boise, and was featured in a new book on candy bars, “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.”

Margaret Miller ’89 was named interim dean of the College of Education at Boise State University. Prior to this appointment, she was professor of Counselor Education, former chair of Counselor Education and interim chair of Elementary Education and Specialized Studies at Boise State.

Mark J. Pavek ’89, ’94, ’98 received his Ph.D. in Potato Science/Agronomy from Washington State University in 2003. He has accepted a position with WSU as potato and vegetable specialist/assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.

Stewart “Stewbo” Johnson ’84 and Kevin “Kevbo” Donovan ’94 rode their bicycles from Boise to Moscow – all 300 miles in two days – to attend the Vandal football game against Washington State University on September 18. This was the third time the pair has pedaled their way to a Vandal football game. They also made the trek in 1998 and 2000.

90s Greg “Trinidad” Sun ’90 participated in the Athens 2004 Global Torch relay in Los Angeles. “I have been to the Olympics, but the torch relay will be etched in my mind for a very long time” said the three-time Olympic bobsledder.

Tammy Lee Everts ’91, deputy city clerk/administrative secretary for the city of Grandview, Wash., has been awarded the designation of certified municipal clerk from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks. Everts has been employed with the city of Grandview since 1999.

CLASS NOTES

Marine Corps Reserve Capt.

Carl N. Kiewert ’92 deployed to Al Anbar Province in Iraq in August 2004. His unit will be focusing on infantry security operations.

Sandra Turtle ’92 was recently recognized for her dedicated service to the victims of domestic violence. She is the recipient of the 2004 Victims Services Volunteer of the Year award given by the Idaho Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance.

Kristin Armstrong ’95 realized a lifelong dream this past summer as a member of the United States cycling road-racing team competing at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Timothy Clem ’95 has been promoted to an associate of Giffin Bolte Jurgens, an award-winning architectural firm specializing in the master planning and design of healthcare facilities.

He is a LEED Accredited Professional and one of his new duties will be to further the firm’s efforts in sustainable design among their healthcare clients.

Brad Watson ’96 is the city of Meridian’s new public works director. The public works department oversees infrastructure from water and sewer lines to constructing new wells.

Dawn Nistal ’97 was presented with the Milken National Educator Award recognizing the country’s finest teachers, principals and specialists in K-12 education. Dawn is a third grade teacher at Seven Oaks Elementary School in Eagle.

Amy Bartlett ’98 was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch for a stretch near Kavala, Greece, in July.

Jason Hough ’98 was recently honored as a “Brothers of the Century” by Alpha Gamma Rho, a national professional/social agricultural fraternity. Honorees are known for the highest principles, values and ideals of brotherhood of Alpha Gamma Rho and as role models for young men within their career fields and communities.

Lt. Cmdr. Bill Schlemmer ’91 and Lt. j.g. Brian Hansen ’02 are pictured here just prior to a combat mission over Iraq. Both are currently flying missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

00s Frank O. Frost III ’00, a fishery biologist with the state of Maine since 1995, received Trout Unlimited’s Biologist of the Year award in 2003 for his efforts in restoring a wild brook trout population in a lake that had been drained and dredged for mining.

Laura Thackray ’00 has been featured in worldwide media for her safety research work for Volvo in Gotenburg, Sweden. She created crash test dummies to test correct seatbelt placement and investigate injury mechanisms for expectant mothers.

Diana Wheelen ’01 has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as an education volunteer in Ukraine.

James Hartley ’02 was honored as a “Brothers of the Century” by Alpha Gamma Rho, a national professional/social agricultural fraternity. Honorees are known for the highest principles, values and ideals of brotherhood of Alpha Gamma Rho and as role models for young men within their career fields and communities.

Scott A. Nusom ’02 has graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., and has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army.

Matthew David Fulwell ’03 has been accepted into the professional Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

He was among 80 students chosen to begin the program out of 794 applicants by presenting evidence of outstanding academic achievement and veterinary medical experience.

Diana Warrington ’03 was named assistant director of development and recruiting for the Hubbell Financial Group of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Spokane, Wash.

Rebecca Rule ’04 has joined Blue Water Technologies as a biological systems engineer. Her primary responsibilities will be field research and pilot study operation. Additionally, Rule will conduct environmental analysis of Blue Water’s contaminant removal products and systems.

Michael Walsh ’04 has accepted a position with the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Boise as a counselor working with juvenile offenders.

UI Alumni Hall of Fame 2005 Inductees Recognizes living alumni who have achieved national or international distinction by their accomplishments and leadership.

Carl Berry ’62, Mill Valley, Calif.

Allen Derr ’51, ’59, Boise Dale Bosworth ’66, Washington, D.C. Gerald O. Bierwag ’58, Tucson, Ariz.

The Alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place during 2005 Commencement Weekend, May 12-14.

2005

Jason Crawforth ’92 is the founder, president and CEO of Idaho-based Treetop Technologies Inc., a software support and development company. Inc Magazine named Treetop Technologies Inc. as the 18th fastest growing technology companies in the U.S. Jason also has been nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year in Inc. Magazine and received the Idaho Business Review’s 40-under-40 award which highlights people under the age of 40 in Idaho that have made a difference.

Kevin E. McPhee ’95 was honored as a “Brothers of the Century” by Alpha Gamma Rho, a national professional/social agricultural fraternity. Honorees are known for the highest principles, values and ideals of brotherhood of Alpha Gamma Rho and as role models for young men within their career fields and communities.

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James “Andy” Albee ’92 was awarded one of five Minnesota Adult Basic Education Teacher of the Year awards presented by the Minnesota Literacy Council, an advocacy group for adult basic education. Andy teaches mathematics for Robbinsdale School District in the western Minneapolis suburbs.

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FUTURE VANDALS

Nia, daughter of David ’99 and Erin Ogden ’98 Korus

Lukas Fischer, son of James ’94 and Kari Kiely ’96 Alt

Danielle Nicole, daughter of Scott ’90, ’93 and Jennifer Andrew

Parker Arana, son of Tucker ’96 and Andrea Arana Anderson

MARRIAGES Tema Lynn Bassett ’03 to Matthew Laurence Jessup ’03

Kristin Susan Nielson ’01 to Trenton T. Wright ’00

Miranda Bates ’03 to Edward Main ’04

Julie Lynn Ossinger ’99 to Charles E. Bond ’83

Mary Anne Blake to Ryan A. McLaughlin ’98

Jacque Peak to Kevin Haler ’93

Katie Danielle Cannon ’03 to Brian Robert Burton ’02 Elizabeth Christine Dugger ’03 to Michael Ian Scott ’04 Aimee Sue Foulk to Mathu Ardis Thomason ’04

Kaden Anthony, son of Ryan and Marci Bernhardt ’98 DuChene

Matthew Ryan, son of Jim ’97 and Suzanne Pinard ’97 Fullmer

McKenna Reiley, daughter of Crist and JoLynn Reiley ’98 Aldinger

Sophia Renae, daughter of Larry Robert and Vanessa Robinson ’96 Cornelius

Otto Dean, son of Sam Taylor ’88, ’90 and Lori Ann Wallin ’88

Kendal Marie, daughter of Zach ’99 and Aimee DeVries ’99 Libby

Lauren Paige, daughter of Nate ’99 and Staci Mio ’99 Woolsey

Brendan Davis, son of Ross and Cassandra Anicka-Davis ’89 Wagner

Teri Runge ’95 to Ryan Nipp Katie Schmitt to Troy Braga ’02 Megan Semmler ’00 to Troy Jaeger

Veneice S. Guillory ’03 to Chrisjon R. Lacy ’03

Jonelle Snodderley ’02 to Jon Olson ’02

Targhee J. Haveman ’02 to Ivar D. Hillesland

Wendy Spangler ’03 to Kevin Roach ’04

Stephenie A. Hayes ’02 to Michael P. Walker ’04

April Nicole Spradley to Darren Vinson Eby ’03

Lynne Hueber ’99 to Christopher Bartlett

Falen Lyn Vidales-Garcia to Morgan James LeBlanc ’03

April M. Lang ’03 to Benjamin G. Thornes ’01

Jamie L. Wagner ’94 to Mark E. Whitney

Michelle Leisy ’04 to Andrew Cline

Rebecca “Becc” Warnacutt ’01 to Zachary D. Choate ’01

Cyndi L. Lewis ’90, ’93 to Daryle R. Faircloth ’94

Joanna Webber to Matt Alexander ’96

Amy Ann Mathison ’99 to Kenneth Leon Hendrix

Mandy Weeks ’04 to Jonathan Rey

Debra (Debbie) Miller ’82 to David Kraykovic

Julie Wells ’02 to Larry Shenfield

Cameo Briana Nelson ’00 to Curtis Richard Chambers ’02

Michelle Wiley to Richard Rock ’94

Calvin Alexander, Carleigh Jael, Machen Knox and John Owen, children of Hobart C. ’99 and Jamie L. Bliven ’97 Newton

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Elizabeth, Sam and Sarah, children of Reed ’93 and Diane Carlson’94 Mahan

Ellie Charis, daughter of Kirk ’99 and Jill Tester ’99 Brower Hailey Elizabeth, daughter of Robert ’94 and Christine ’95 Everett Kennedy Phoenix, daughter of Jason and Kim Kleckner ’01 Miller

TSON 1985 D. GILBER PHOTO BY

IDAHO HERE WE HAVE

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Katie and Justin, children of Dean and Christine Wells ’94 Viers

Julie Pickens ’01 to Hanspeter Walter ’00

Andrea E. Gehring ’03 to Rocky D. Howe ’04

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Miles Borg, son of Matthew ’98 and Holly Parkins ’98 Lefebvre

Lucy Valentine, daughter of Eric ’97 and Amy Pence-’97 Brown

Donna Rae Person ’01 to Jeremy Gale Hacking ’03

Constructing the perfect human pyramid requires strength and balance.

During Greek Week 1984.

CLASS NOTES

Ruby Williams Cripe ’27, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 1, 2004 Lorin Weston Curtis ’28, Sun City, Calif., March 12, 2004 Ila N. Kinsey ’26, Seattle, Wash., July 19, 2004 Albert E. “Bud” Koster ’29, ’33, Moscow, June 19, 2004

Howard L. Wiseman ’34, Twin Falls, April 23, 2004

Lenore “Lee” Williams Harrison ’40, Pocatello, Sept. 20, 2004

Mildred Ash Knowlton ’37, Walnut Creek, Calif., Sept. 12, 2004

Arthur E. Young ’33, Pocatello, April 28, 2004

Frank H. Jacobs ’48, Rexburg, Sept. 11, 2004

40s

Elise Smith Kelly ’44, Boise, July 15, 2004

Dale Austin ’41, ’47, Oceanside, Calif., Aug. 7, 2004

Douglas D. Kramer ’49, ’51, Boise, Aug. 17, 2004

Keith Burns Blackburn ’49, Idaho Falls, Oct. 17, 2004

Richard S. Lambert ’40, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 4, 2004

Phyllis Eleanor Paynter Boren ’43, Clarkston, Wash., July 1, 2004

Charles L. Larson, Jr. ’48, Charlotte, N. C., May 14, 2004

Winifred Kerroll Kunz, Ogden, Utah, Aug. 3, 2004 Jerry Mills ’39, Salem, Ore., Sept. 23, 2004 Henrietta Nelson ’33, Weiser, Dec. 9, 2003

Mary J. Huff Penfield ’29, Santa Barbara, Calif., Feb. 1, 2004

Dr. Francis John Newton ’36, ’39, Portland, Ore., April 26, 2004

30s

Paul “Butch” F. Parrish ’39, Boise, March 5, 2004

Lawrence Floyd Bradbury ’42, Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 23, 2004

Herbert W. Angell ’38, Orange, Calif., Sept. 19, 2004

Betty J. Price ’36, Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 30, 2004

Lorenzo (Ren) Burdett ’43, Highland, Utah, July 23, 2004

Rose E. Freehafer Bachand ’38, Prineville, Ore., Aug. 14, 2004 Marilyn R. Andrews Bernt, Mountain Home, March 1, 2004 Karl L. Bronson ’37, Payette, Feb. 10, 2004 Ross Erin Butler ’39, Ontario, Ore., July 3, 2004 Elmer Fenn Chaffee ’37, Chapel Hill, N. C., Aug. 5, 2002 Ruby Tyrrell Clements ’37, Lewiston, Aug. 7, 2004 Louise Soden Cook ’30, Spokane, Wash., July 16, 2004 Cecilia Gibbs Davis ’36, Yakima, Wash., Sept. 11, 2004

Hey, Class of 1955 The Class of 2005 needs your help!

The tradition of the Senior Class Gift is being revived. The Class of 2005 wants to leave its mark and say thank you to the University. The class has set a goal of raising $2,005 for their gift, and is asking the 50-year graduating class of ’55 to give them a hand.

For more information, contact the Office of Annual Giving at (208) 885-8973 or seniorclassgift@uidaho.edu.

Rita L. Davis ’36, Boise, March 2003

Clayne Robison ’32, San Diego, Calif., July, 2004

Bette Allen Claiborn ’46, Kimberly, Sept. 20, 2004

Vera I. Rojan ’35, Spokane, Wash., June 6, 2004

William “Bill” Bagley Clark ’49, Reno, Nev., June 14, 2004

Irene Luke Grover ’32, Provo, Utah, Oct. 15, 2004

Karl A. Salskov ’32, Bellevue, Wash., June 5, 2004

Helen Whitehouse Hamblen ’33, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 16, 2004

Glenn LaForest Shern ’31, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 1, 2004

Elizabeth L. “Betty” Slayton Davey ’42, Sweet Home, Ore., Aug. 1, 2004

Ailene Trunnell Gregory ’39, Liberty Lake, Wash., July 18, 2004

Agnes M. Ramstedt Hawkins ’32, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 14, 2004 Ivy M. Hollingsworth ’34, Tampa, Fla., June 11, 2004 Virginia G. McDonald Jackson ’39, ’40, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 22, 2004 Jay L. Kevern ’38, Henning, Minn., Aug. 28, 2004

Clifford Forest Lathen ’40, Pullman, Wash., Sept. 2, 2004 Emerson C. Lillwitz ’40, Tekoa, Wash., July 29, 2004 Barbara Alice Dayton Lowry ’48, Albany, Ore., Aug. 1, 2003 Lillian Margaret Milliken ’41, Oak Harbor, Wash., Aug. 28, 2004 Maurice J. Mitchell ’41, Vancouver, Wash., Aug. 18, 2004 H. Dan Moser ’43, Billings, Mont., Oct. 14, 2004 Barbara Lucille Skinner Defenbach Mullikin, Clarkston, Wash., July 23, 2004 Walter Orville Olson ’40, ’48, Albuquerque, N. M., Feb. 26, 2004 Robert F. Patton ’42, Middleton, Wisc., July 10, 2004 E. Sabey Pingree ’40, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 2, 2004

Charles Otis Decker ’32, Moscow, June 21, 2004 Maxine C. Fisk ’39, Chewelah, Wash., May 26, 2004

William C. Lasswel ’48, Spokane, Wash., July 26, 2004

Carl F. Sierk ’39, Chandler, Ariz., Sept. 25, 2004 Clare Davis Smith ’34, Portland, Ore., July 31, 2004 Donald Jack Soltman ’38, Grangeville, June 27, 2004 Beverly Baker Stokes ’39, Boise, July 11, 2004 Sidney P. Walden ’32, Maple Valley, Wash., Jan. 18, 2004

Dorothy Lillian Hanzel Rasmuson ’40, Las Vegas, Nev., June 25, 2004 Bernard “Ben” Ryan ’47, Medford, Ore., Feb. 11, 2004 John Richard “Jack” Sheehy ’48, Salem, Ore., Feb. 25, 2004 James W. Siddoway ’40, Teton City, May 20, 2004

Gwendolyn McKay Dore ’47, Reno, Nev., July 7, 2004

Earl E. “Bud” Spencer ’49, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 23, 2004

Helen Lyn Forsyth ’41, Dallas, Texas, July 29, 2004

Lyman “Don” Stamper ’41, Guemes Island, Wash., Aug. 17, 2004

John Warren Gibson ’43, Balsam Lake, Wisc., June 29, 2004 Ernest Edwin “Ned” Gnaedinger ’42, Wallace, Oct. 9, 2004 Lawrence R. Good ’43, Lawrence, Kan., Nov. 18, 2003 Raymond T. Greene, Jr. ’41, Sandpoint, July 3, 2004

Robert N. Stanfield III ’41, ’49, Boise, April 8, 2004 Dean Lamar Summers, Ririe, Aug. 6, 2004 Diane M. Webster Tatterson ’42, Des Moines, Wash., Aug. 12, 2004

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Vaye G. Hart Kirkpatrick ’34, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 1, 2004

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Floyd Hanna Hall ’59, Riddle, Ore., Oct. 16, 2004 John Herman Hasbrouck ’51, Cascade, April 27, 2004 Gene William Hirschi ’57, Washington, Utah, May 19, 2004 Margery Hunt Hoffmann ’52, Sandpoint, May 21, 2004 John Cole Templeton ’43, Bend, Ore., Aug. 19, 2004

60s Garry R. Allan ’63, Kingman, Ariz., May 3, 2002 Lewis H. Button ’61, ’63, Kooskia, Sept. 30, 2004 Janet Hall Canfield ’67, Bend, Ore., Nov. 20, 2003 Sherman L. Cook, Jr. ’66, Des Moines, Wash., July 19, 2004

70s Bruce Gordon Austin ’70, Seward, Alaska, July 23, 2004 Richard “Dick” Bostrom ’73, Seattle, Wash., July 30, 2004 Kathleen Patricia Doyle ’73, Coeur d’Alene, July 5, 2004 Laurel R. Tracy-Falk ’75, Madison, Wisc., March 5, 2004 Toni P. Jensen Fanning ’72, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 14, 2004

Clayton Charles Cravens ’65, Lewiston, Oct. 16, 2004

Robert E. Wiley ’42, Rupert, June 18, 2004

Joan Loraine Mulroney Magden ’51, Tacoma, Wash., April 6, 2004

Robert Vaughn Fisher ’67, Boise, June 24, 2004

Mary Madeline Lee Winne ’41, Silver Spring, Md., March 26, 2004

Virgil Tim Mattson ’59, Nampa, June 16, 2004

Dennis R. Hoff ’67, Elizabethton, Tenn., July 17, 2004

Diane Maureen Webster Tatterson ’72, Sandpoint, Aug. 12, 2004

Howard D. Mead ’53, Idaho Falls, June 3, 2004

H. Wilbur Hoffman ’68, Union City, Calif., Sept. 2, 2004

Tommy B. Wood ’72, Bridgeton, N. J., April 24, 2004

Allen Morton ’50, Grand Junction, Colo., Sept. 27, 2004

Dennis Franklin Johnson ’62, Hollister, Calif., July 23, 2004

80s

Carolyn O’Callaghan ’57, Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 5, 2004

John Charles Jones, Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 9, 2004

Ray August ’87, Pullman, Wash., Aug. 30, 2004

Robert Lyle Beardemphl ’59, ’64, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 10, 2004

David Lloyd Omans ’57, Midway, Utah, April 21, 2004

LTC Gordon S. Lees ’63, Encinitas, Calif., Sept. 13, 2004

John V. (Ioannides) Innis ’81, Ontario, Ore., July 18, 2004

Beverly Manring Bell ’53, ’55, Rancho Bernardo, Calif., Oct. 15, 2004

E. Dale Pelton ’50, Sandpoint, Sept. 19, 2004

Tamara Lee Evans Leiser, Schertz, Texas, Aug. 6, 2004

King Robert “Bob” Mars II ’84, Richland, Wash., Sept. 4, 2004

Dale Sherman Pline ’59, Nampa, Feb. 10, 2004

Harvey J. Mashinter ’67, Longview, Wash., May 2, 2004

Dale Everett Robinson ’81, ’82, Boise, March 27, 2004

Richard B. “Dick” Roche, Sr. ’56, Reno, Nev., Feb. 8, 2004

Stephen E. McDonald ’62, ’75, Granbury, Texas, Sept. 12, 2004

Mark Allen Turman ’89, Worley, May 18, 2004

Melvin Ray Ruark ’59, Lewiston, April 3, 2004

Ruth Anne Scoggin-Miller ’66, Boise, Aug. 7, 2004

90s

Joseph Samuel Savage ’52, Kimberly, Sept. 24, 2004

Larry Lee Nash ’68, Bartlesville, Okla., Aug. 1, 2004

Harold W. Sims ’50, Bonners Ferry, Aug. 1, 2004

Robert R. Plastino Jr. ’65, Santa Maria, Calif., May 26, 2004

Robert “Bob” Speedy ’55, Mount Vernon, Wash., June 8, 2004

Charles Elton “Chuck” Schoonover ’62, Sandpoint, Oct. 8, 2004

50s

Rulon Keith Browning ’56, Asheville, N. C., Aug. 26, 2004 Luther C. “Bob” Burnham III ’53, Orofino, July 28, 2004 James Clifford Callaway ’57, Ontario, Ore., July 19, 2004 JoAnne Voiten Thorsted Campbell ’54, Boise, Sept. 27, 2004 Raymond Owen Davies Jr., M.D. ’57, Port Angeles, Wash., June 25, 2004 Jesse LeRoy (Roy) DePalmo ’51, West Jordan, Utah, Aug. 27, 2004 Richard I. Doty, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 2, 2004 John B. Feely ’56, Tacoma, Wash., July 4, 2004

IDAHO

Albert Lee “Bert” Wohlschlegel Jr. ’54, Salmon, Sept. 3, 2004

Ronald J. Wemhoff ’68, Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 7, 2004

Ralph J. Litton ’54, Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 26, 2004

Paul Vernon Wykert ’47, Santa Fe, N. M., March 3, 2004

HERE WE HAVE

Donald James Jensen ’50, Moscow, July 7, 2004

William Carl Winter ’58, Villa Park, Calif., Sept. 5, 2004

James G. Webster ’61, Eagle, June 19, 2004

J. Keith Whaley ’49, Pocatello, June 24, 2004

Doris Faye M. Wokersien, Fairfield, Feb. 28, 2004

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Dean Arthur Holt ’56, Port Matilda, Penn., Sept. 29, 2004

George J. Williams ’50, Philadelphia, Miss., April 16, 2004

Cecil Gasser Gerard ’54, Basalt, Oct. 13, 2004 Ernest T. Grover ’50, ’51, Aberdeen, Wash., April 27, 2004 Nelda Thomas Grover ’50, Scappoose, Ore., July 30, 2004

Robert Grant Spiker ’50, Lewiston, Sept. 22, 2004 Wendell Keith Stackhouse ’58, Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 3, 2004 Frances McDonald Tanny ’54, ’56, Burley, May 12, 2004 Kermit E. Tate Jr. ’56, ’70, Riggins, July 1, 2000 Lois Jean Ward ’50, Boise, March 5, 2004 Norman K. Whitney ’52, Bend, Ore., April 24, 2004

Lynn Thomas Snider ’60, ’72, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 12, 2004

Gwen Anne McGarvey Gross ’74, Boise, July 17, 2004 Scott Michael Plaisted ’78, ’79, Kalamazoo, Mich., July 24, 2004

Randall Fredric Anderson ’92, Boyd, Mont., June 26, 2004 Mike Kiblen ’94, Moscow, July 20, 2004 Jonathan Easton Lentz ’93, Fort Lee, N. J., Sept. 11, 2004 Suzanne Barbara Winn ’92, ’98, Monroe, N. C., July 16, 2004

00s

Richard P. “Dick” Snyder ’62, Cascade, March 1, 2004

Vicki Lee Rodgers Smith ’03, Shelley, Sept. 8, 2004

William Joseph Sprute ’66, Keuterville, July 15, 2004

Russell Wade Virgin ’04, Moscow, May 5, 2004

Gary Thayer ’65, Dallas, Ore., July 21, 2004

Alexander Edmund Wetherbee ’01, Iraq, Sept. 12, 2004

Judy Sharp Watson ’65, ’90, Twin Falls, July 12, 2004

Bruce Pitman – ‘A legend’ Words of appreciation for UI’s Dean of Students…

“He is a model for everyone who comes in contact with him. He is truly exemplary in all he does. Bruce is a treasure who is genuinely devoted to Idaho’s students.”

– Terry Armstrong, professor emeritus, College of Education

In tragedy and triumph, he’s UI’s Go-to Guy

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t is in the tiniest details that we find Bruce Pitman’s signature impact. He’s much more than his title — Dean of Students — suggests. He’s a problemsolver, mentor, crisis intervention expert, inspirational speaker, counselor and to many, a dear friend. It’s an impact that reaches beyond students to faculty, staff, community members and alumni.

“Bruce is one of our heroes,” says Provost Brian Pitcher, who admires Pitman’s listening ability, compassion and discipline. “He has a wonderful heart. I have the greatest respect for him.”

The University of Idaho is lucky to have someone of his quality and caliber, says Elizabeth Higgins, coordinator of Orientation and Judicial Affairs.

“This was perhaps most poignantly demonstrated during the difficulties we faced this fall.”

Two members of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, Jason Yearout and Jack Shannon, were involved in a fatal motorcycle accident. In a separate incident, hours later, UI football player Eric McMillan was fatally shot in his Moscow apartment. Just a few days later, UI senior Nick Curcuru was killed in a motorcycle accident in Moscow.

In addition to visiting the hospital consecutive nights, the Dean of Students toured Greek residences, talked with law enforcement, organized counseling opportunities for students and others, spoke with grieving parents and attended memorial services.

Another student tragedy occurred Nov. 19, when sophomore Heidi Bohac died in an automobile accident east of Lewiston.

“You don’t know who’s been touched by a tragedy until you start asking questions,” says Pitman, who often tells students to take their time during the grieving process. “Someone can’t expect to cry for a few days and then be O.K. ‘Be patient with yourself,’ that’s what I tell them.”

When he reached out to student Stacy Poler ’01 a few years ago, it was a gesture she won’t soon forget. In 1998, Poler’s roommate died in an automobile accident.

“Bruce was a source of incredible support for me during the most difficult time in my life,” Poler says. “I’ll never forget what it meant to me when I answered the phone, and he was on the other end of the line. …His offer to help

will remain with me for the rest of my life.”

On a typical day, Pitman enters his office at 7:15 a.m. He checks e-mail and scans overnight reports for any UI-related situations that he may need to investigate.

“It can be quiet …but you never know.

A whole day can change with one phone call,” he says.

And when that phone call comes in, Pitman stands ready.

“Our student body is incredibly lucky to have someone as caring and supportive as Bruce Pitman,” says Poler, who now works in the Department of Biological Sciences.

At an orientation for prospective UI students and their parents during Vandal Preview in October, UI’s BMOC — Beloved Man on Campus — visits with a former colleague that he hasn’t seen since his start at UI in the mid-70s.

It’s not always easy to remember names and faces of everyone over three decades of service. So, what triggered Pitman’s memory?

A tiny detail.

“I remembered his smile.” I

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“The students at the University of Idaho have a true friend and a person in whom to take refuge in Bruce Pitman. I want him to know how much he is appreciated.”

–UI parent Cheryl Freeman

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Hard-working and Happy

Emily Faurholt Scores National Attention

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Emily Faurholt — 2003-04 NCAA Division 1 Led nation in single-season scoring average — 25.4 points per game School records Points in a season — 737 Single-season scoring average — 25.4 points per game Free throws made in a season — 172 Field goals made in a season — 261 Points in a game — 39 Honors Big West All-Tournament Team Big West Conference Player of the Year Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention Kodak/WBCA All-America Honorable Mention 2004-05 Preseason Wooden Award candidate 2004-05 Preseason candidate for the Naismith Trophy

mily Faurholt may be one of the She hit the hardwood this year as hardest working players in the the first ever preseason Wooden Award country. As a 5-11 post player in the candidate at the University of Idaho, and Division I collegiate basketball ranks, she her goal for this season is to actually get has to be. better.

Faurholt is undersized for her position, “I thought last season was pretty but she makes up for her lack of height good for me except for the fact I feel I with a work ethic Idaho head Coach Mike peaked really early,” Faurholt said. “For Divilbiss has never seen. the last couple games of the conference “Emily is the hardest tournament, I wasn’t I know I wouldn’t playing at my best. My focus working player I have ever coached,” Divilbiss said. “If for this season is to peak accomplish anyone had any idea of the at the end and for my final amount of time she spends game to be my best game, much without my working on her game they which is a goal I share with would understand all of her teammates and I the rest of the team.” success is earned. We tell she works attribute much of what hardAlthough our team if they want to be to become a better a great player they have to I achieve to them,” individual player, Faurholt spend the time, and Emily knows where her success — Emily Faurholt is the epitome of that.” truly comes from and tries Off the court, Faurholt to not let the attention get is always laughing and in her way. singing and is rarely very “Although my personal serious. But when it comes to basketball, success is very exciting, I know I wouldn’t she acknowledges she needs to work hard accomplish much without my teammates, in order to be as successful as she wants and I attribute much of what I achieve to be. to them,” Faurholt said. “The best thing “Some people have talent, and some I can do for our team is to do my best to people have the talent of working hard,” ignore it during the season and do what I Faurholt said. “I work hard, and I do a do all of the time.” lot of extra on my own, but that’s what I Last season, Faurholt helped the team have to do. I’m also really competitive and to a 22-7 overall record and a second I like being good at whatever I do. That is place finish in the Big West Conference. what drives me in basketball — I don’t like Some feel Idaho’s season ended people beating me.” prematurely after the Vandals fell in the Her hard work paid off last season Big West Conference Tournament final as Faurholt accomplished more as and were not selected for post-season play. a sophomore than most players will Faurholt does not feel slighted, but accomplish in their entire careers. feels the chances of seeing the Vandals in She became the national scoring a post-season tournament this season are champion after averaging 25.4 points pretty good. per game, she was honored as both a “If we can walk off the floor knowing Associated Press and Kodak/WBCA Allwe have played to the best of our abilities, America Honorable Mention, and she set with the most effort that we could six school records, all in her first season possibly put out every night, we will win a playing Division I basketball. lot of games,” Faurholt said.

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Vandals at NCAA Cross Country Nationals

Football wrap-up — Three named All-Conference Senior Bobby Bernal-Wood, junior Cole Snyder and freshman Jayson Bird received recognition on the Sun Belt allconference teams.

Bernal-Wood, a receiver from Seattle, Wash., and Snyder, a linebacker from Kamiah, are first-team honorees and Bird, a true freshman running back from Shelley, is a second-team selection.

Bernal-Wood capped his career at Idaho with one of the finest seasons in school history. His nine receptions in the Vandals’ season finale at Hawaii pushed him past Jerry Hendren on the all-time single-season receptions list with 96.

Hendren set the previous record of 95 in 1969. Bernal-Wood was ranked second nationally in receptions per game.

Snyder finished the season with 135 total tackles, which led the Sun Belt. He was ranked 10th nationally in tackles-pergame.

Bird ran for 859 yards on 151 carries and had three games of 100 or more yards.

Olympic bronze medalist Joachim Olsen.

Summer Olympics follow-up

Four UI alumni participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Shot-putter Joachim Olsen ’02 earned a bronze medal for Denmark and Angela Whyte ’03, competing for Canada, finished sixth in the 100-meter hurdles. Kristin Armstrong ’95 finished eighth in the women’s cycling road race, and Lina Yanchulova ’96 teamed with her sister Petia to compete for Bulgaria in beach volleyball.

Vandal Scholarship Fund events April 11 UI Alumni Night at the Sonics, Seattle vs. Houston Rockets Spring football — Silver and Gold game, Kibbie Dome April 30 Nick Holt Golf Tournament, Moscow

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After a 19-year hiatus, collegiate swimming returned to the University of Idaho in a home meet at the Swim Center against San Jose State on Oct. 23. It was Idaho’s first varsity swimming event since 1985. The 16- swimmer Vandal team competed admirably, but fell to the Spartans 112-93. Backstrokers Kacie Hogan and Kirsten Wight were the first Vandals in the pool and began the meet by swimming opening legs in the 400-yard medley relay. Adriana Quirke was the first Vandal to win a race, taking the 200-yard freestyle. She also won the 500-yard freestyle. Bryn Spores, Sara Peterson, Quirke and Emily Weeks provided a victorious conclusion to the historic meet by winning the 400-yard freestyle relay in 4:36.66.

The University of Idaho women’s cross country team finished 25th at the 2004 NCAA Cross Country Championships in November at Terre Haute, Ind. The Vandal women were competing at nationals for the first time in school history.

Letiwe Marakurwa led the team with a 67th place finish.

She traversed the sic-kilometer course in 21:54. Mary Kamau finished 95th, and Mandy Macalister, Dee Olson and Bevin Kennelly rounded out the top finishers for the Vandals.

For the second season in a row, the Idaho volleyball team earned an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. The Vandals received an at-large bid with a 17-12 overall record. UI lost to the Washington Huskies in their first-round match-up in Seattle. Washington came into the tournament with a 24-2 record.

Senior middle blocker Sarah Meek and junior outside hitter Kati Tikker earned post-season recognition. They represented UI on the Big West All-Conference first team.

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The University of Idaho women’s cross country team finished 25th at the 2004 NCAA Cross Country Championships in November at Terre Haute, Ind. The Vandal women were competing at nationals for the first time in school history.

Letiwe Marakurwa led the team with a 67th place finish. She traversed the sixkilometer course in 21:54. Mary Kamau finished 95th, and Mandy Macalister, Dee Olson and Bevin Kennelly rounded out the top finishers for the Vandals.

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here were you when Once a Vandal NCAA swimmer you watched “The competing in freestyle and fly and, by his own admission, a directionless Six Million Dollar student, Nyby went on to tell the Man”? How about when you stories of our youth without most of us ever knowing his name. When a show’s saw “Battlestar Galactica,” co-stars have names like Bruce Willis “Perry Mason,” “Hill and Cybill Shepherd, even the makers of trivia games take a pass on the director.

Street Blues,” or a gritty Which is fine with Nyby. A television bartender turned actor in director should not draw attention to himself, he said in an interview at his “Moonlighting”?

Pasadena townhome. He and his wife, Christian Nyby II Susan, split their time between California and a horse ranch in Colorado. remembers exactly “A director is the storyteller,” he says, where he was for adding that the more transparent his The Case of the contribution, the better in most cases. “Using many of those the words the writers provide, the director then Accidental Student episodes: in his takes those words and puts them into a specific location. And then how the actors interpret director’s it, placement of the camera, the lighting, the chair. movement of the characters, the movement of the

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Seen through Nyby’s eyes, Idaho was something of an episodes of “Emergency!,” “Adam-12,” and a score of other oneaccident in his life. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, on hour series over more than three decades. the backside of the Hollywood Hills. His father was famous in Nyby says he is proudest of his “Hill Street Blues” episodes. cult circles for having directed the horror classic “The Thing.”

He also has fond memories of the energy and spontaneity on the Nyby II attended Van Nuys set of “Moonlighting,” where Bruce High School, alma mater of Willis became a star before Nyby’s Robert Redford, Natalie Wood eyes. and other celebrities-to-be. On “With Bruce you could just tell. weekends, he and his friends He jumped off the screen at you. You would ride their three-speed could just tell that the camera really bikes past the orange groves of liked him,” Nyby says.

Woodland Hills, through the Spotting talent is not always so Malibu Canyon and down into easy, Nyby remembers with a chuckle.

Santa Monica for an afternoon He tells the story of a short-lived swim. Then as now, Southern series in 1974 based on the rangers California high school seniors of Yosemite National Park—a literal spent little time thinking cliffhanger featuring climbing rescues about land-grant universities in by beefy male leads, a “Belaywatch” to landlocked states.

“Baywatch.”

But as Nyby was getting ready On the first day of shooting, the to graduate in January 1959, appropriately handsome lead actor one of his friends was offered was supposed to drive up in a ranger’s a football scholarship with the jeep, step out of the vehicle and aim Vandals. He convinced Nyby that 1960 UI swim team, Coach Clarke Mitchell, Dale Dennis, his binoculars at the cliff face.

Al Hansen and Chris Nyby II. Idaho was a great place to go to “He drives up, he stops, hits the school. mark perfectly, gets out, everything’s “I wasn’t sure what I wanted perfect,” Nyby recalls. “Except he’s to do in life,” Nyby recalls. “It just out of breath. He’s panting.” seemed like a good adventure to “So I cut the camera and walk go up there.” over to him and I say, ‘How come The morning after his you’re panting? How come you’re out graduation party, Nyby drove his of breath?’ ’53 Mercury straight to Moscow.

“He says, ‘Well, I had to drive real It was snowing when he got there. far and real fast to get here.’

Nyby crashed at his friend’s “I said, ‘Well, that’s true, but I’ve fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon, been driving for years and I’ve never and the next day the football been out of breath driving.’” team’s quarterback introduced “Good point,” the actor replied. him to the swim coach, who After another two or three takes promptly offered to help him Nyby had a usable scene. On a with class registration. break, the actor scribbled intently on Nyby joined the swim team a big yellow pad. It was a play, a coand the fraternity. It was the kind 1981 Chris Nyby II filming “BJ and the Bear” star told Nyby. They shared a laugh. of campus experience – instant The actor’s name was Ernest acceptance, instant family – that Thompson. His play, “On Golden marked the start of two happy Pond,” went to Broadway, won a Tony Award and was made years in Moscow. Nyby transferred to the University of Southern into a major motion picture. It was nominated for 10 Academy California as a junior to study film, but in terms of atmosphere, Awards in 1982, and Thompson won for adapting his own play the urban USC campus seemed something of a step down. to the screen.

After graduating from USC in 1963, Nyby was sent to “And he was out of breath when he accepted his Oscar,” says Vietnam as a photographer for the Air Force. After a four-year Nyby. tour of duty in Vietnam and Florida, he got hired as a second Some instructions from directors may never stick. But the assistant director and began to work his way up. His first big stories they tell stay with us for life. I directing job was on “Ironside” with Raymond Burr. Then came

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IDEAS TO BE CONSIDERED

The Idaho Economic Development Association is creating an image of the Gem State based on science and technology

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e live in an age of advertising. Most of us have some concept of what it means to create and defend a “brand,” even if we aren’t in the heady world of advertising and marketing. The power of encapsulating a set of associations in a single image or slogan, and commanding allegiance to those icons, is one that we can easily appreciate in a consumer-driven economy.

For many consumer products, a “brand” is simply a unifying concept and expression of that product’s best attributes. Saying that Maxwell House Coffee is “good to the very last drop” is a fairly obvious statement of that product’s “value proposition.” More recently, Nike set a new standard for brand concepts that may not seem as obvious — but that ultimately packs tremendous iconic value.

“Just Do It” may not seem as logical a way to sell a pair of athletic shoes as a slogan such as “Run Faster. Jump Higher.” The power of Nike’s now famous phrase, however, is not in its direct reference to shoes, but in its association with enabling athletic excellence — an association that could only be established by years of advertising and promotion.

The Idaho Economic Development Association (IEDA), a privately-funded organization comprised of economic development professionals and organizations throughout the state, is

currently developing a promotional campaign aimed at raising awareness of the state’s growing science and technology-based economy. The goal of the campaign is to make a case for Idaho’s enormous business potential to technology companies and workers — to demonstrate the enormous power of Idaho.

But what, exactly, is this power? Idaho has long been recognized for its agricultural products; not only “famous potatoes” but wheat, beans, legumes and dairy products.

Idaho also has been acclaimed for the power of its scenery and recreational resources: mountain ranges that have been dubbed “America’s Alps,” high desert vistas, more miles of untamed whitewater than any other state, forest wilderness and innumerable lakes. It is no exaggeration to say that Idaho is one of the last vestiges of what the West was like before the Corps of Discovery first navigated the Snake River.

Idaho’s power is multidimensional, and is a reality far beyond an advertising concept. Idaho is one of the nation’s fastest growing exporting states, increasing the value of its exports by more than 200 percent during the 1990s. Its biggest categories include electronic components, machinery, food, building products, and engineering and environmental technology. Idaho’s more than 800 hightech firms export $2.1 billion dollars worth of goods and services annually, placing the state among the top 20 for

high-tech exports. Idaho boasts 120,000 miles of broadband connective fiber cable, the 12th lowest crime rate in the nation, an overall tax burden that is second lowest in the West, clean air and water, and the seventh lowest business operating costs in the entire United States.

Higher education, including the University of Idaho, has helped build Idaho’s impressive science and technology infrastructure, along with businesses, research centers and state agencies. The collective result of these efforts has been the creation of a new, high-tech reality for Idaho. The mission of the IEDA is to communicate an image of the state that, in fact, reflects what most Idahoans have come to recognize: Idaho stands for more than potatoes and mountains. During the coming months, this message will be delivered through an IDEA marketing effort that will highlight the state’s intellectual property assets, the excellence of its academic institutions, its human capital, successful technology companies, and its efforts to channel all of these into new commercial endeavors. In the process, it will define a broader and more profound appreciation of Idaho’s true power. I

Jan Rogers, president, Idaho Economic Development Association

The Power of U STUDENTS

• More than 65 percent of college graduates end up working in the state where they attend college; a strong higher education system plugs the brain drain.

• UI research supports more than 3,800 jobs statewide either directly or indirectly.

• The University of Idaho awards more than 2,600 degrees each year.

• The majority of research dollars are funds from outside the state that would not have come to Idaho without the expertise of university faculty.

• At UI, research provides students with hands-on learning opportunities with professors who share new discoveries as they are made.

EARNING POWER

• A person with a bachelor’s degree can earn more than $2 million in a work life. That’s twice as much as someone with a high school diploma.

• A person with a professional or advanced degree can earn more than $4 million in a work life.

• Higher wage earners can “repay” the state’s investment in their college education more quickly through their state taxes.

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• University of Idaho researchers generate more than $105 million a year in research grants and contracts — that’s 75 percent of all universitybased research in the state.

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