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Drive with Pride

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If you drive one of the 1,841 Vandal Pride vehicles currently on the road, thank you!

And Idaho students thank you, too.

University of Idaho collegiate license plates fund the Vandal Pride Award scholarship program. Since 1998, we’ve awarded 177 scholarships to deserving students —that’s $119,798 worth of license plate pride.

You can purchase a University of Idaho specialty plate from the Idaho Transportation Department for $35 beyond normal plate fees. Of that, $25 goes to the University. The renewal cost is an extra $25 annually, $15 of which goes to the Vandal Pride Award.

For more information and a registration form, visit the Web site at http://itd.idaho.gov/dmv/vehicleservices/vsspecin.pdf

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Cover Story 20 High Hopes on the Slopes The Idaho winter

Features 8 I’m Having Trouble Remembering A 30-year reunion

Departments Campus News Letters to the Editor Quest

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Class Notes 25

On Campus 33

Vandal Sports 34 Events Upcoming 37

sports team has a long history of surprising accomplishments.

compels fraternity brothers to confront the disease that robs memories.

12 World-Class Science with a View Lake Pend Oreille

is the perfect location for mini-submarine research.

16 It’s No Fishing Expedition Idaho’s fish

research makes an international impact.

18 Living with Students Faculty take learning to the laundry room. winter 2007

On the Cover: Cover photo by Bill Marineau, whose daughter, Heidi, is a member of the Idaho snowboard team. The cover photograph features senior Ethan Davis, a geography major from Summerville, Ore., flying high in the slope style snowboard event at the 2005 United States Collegiate Snowsports Association National competition at Brundage Mountain.

From the President The University of Idaho Magazine WINTER 2007 • Volume 24, Number 1 University President Timothy White

Vice President for Advancement Chris Murray

Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Communications Wendy Shattuck

Editor

Jeff Olson

Alumni Association President Jim Dickinson

University of Idaho Foundation President

William G. Gilbert Jr.

Magazine Design Julene Ewert

Illustrations

Nathan Nielson

Class Notes Editor Amber Crowley

Writers and Contributors Leah Andrews Hugh Cooke Leslie Einhaus Donna Emert Tim Helmke Dan Hunt Joni Kirk Bill Loftus Sue McMurray Gail Miller Becky Paull Don Shelton Kallee Hone Valentine Cynthia Taggert

Photographs

Joe Pallen Kelly Weaver and as credited

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ost of us have witnessed those “ah-hah” moments when, in talking with someone about the University of Idaho you’ve heard, “I never knew that…” It could be about our accomplished alumni, the quality of our students, the impact of our research, or the cultural contributions we make, all of which span the state and many of which extend nationally and globally.

I want to share some of the things we’re doing to strengthen and broaden the University’s reputation, which will in turn, help us attract the resources— human and economic capital—to realize our vision for the University.

In this issue of Here We Have Idaho, you’ll see a redesigned look that is part of our clarified and updated visual identity and our overall strategic communications initiative. (You’ll find more details about this important initiative on page 3.) While we hope you like the new look, we’re certain you will appreciate the sharpened focus of our messages and the bolder ways in which we’ll be telling our story. I hope you experience the same pride I do in sharing these stories of the distinctiveness of our University and our community. Please feel free to re-tell them. They’re sure to generate more ah-hahs.

Winter sports are a big draw for students who come to Idaho, and our cover story, “High Hopes on the Slopes,” is an example of our new focus on the heightened expectations we create for our students. The winter sports team is one of the oldest club sports on campus. Idaho skiers and snowboarders have been top performers at the National Collegiate Winter Sports Championships. Our men’s and women’s snowboard teams finished second overall last year, and they have high expectations for this year’s competitions.

The notion of creating heightened expectations would be hollow without a counterpart focus on redefining opportunities—empowering our students to achieve and exceed expectations. “I’m Having Trouble Remembering” was written

by Don Shelton ’76, an assistant sports editor for the Seattle Times. Don recounts the unexpected emotions and opportunities that surfaced at the 30-year reunion of the 1972 Phi Gamma Delta pledge class. The fraternity members rallied to help one member who is struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Lake Pend Oreille is one of the quietest bodies of water in the world and a world-class acoustics laboratory. Professor Dean Edwards of the College of Engineering is taking advantage of the quiet qualities of the lake to conduct research on autonomous underwater vehicles. Working with a team of faculty and students from across the University, Edwards is testing mini-submarines that talk to each other as they maneuver underwater. It is amazing research that is expanding the boundaries of technology.

This issue of the University of Idaho magazine arrives at the start of a new year, and Karen and I send our wishes to you for a prosperous and rewarding 2007. I look forward to sharing more news about the new energy and sense of renewal at the University of Idaho and the wonderful accomplishments of our students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Have you heard?

We Are Telling Our Story in a Fresh, Bold Way

No Fences.

University of Idaho, we will stress and demonstrate through stories about our students, alumni, faculty and staff, five core attributes of our institution. These attributes speak not only to our academic quality and achievements, but to the impact those achievements have on Idaho, the nation and the world: 1. Expanding Intellectual Boundaries Idaho is a place that expands minds, fosters new ideas and perpetuates intellectual growth. We have the highest-quality academic programs, and passionate, innovative professors who expand intellectual boundaries every day.

2. Enhancing Passion and Discovery The transformative experience that Idaho provides begins with passion for teaching, for learning and for supporting the individual needs of each student.

Students come here smart, and they leave with a drive to continue learning for the rest of their lives.

3. Improving Lives Through Scholarship Our internationally recognized achievements and innovations in research and scholarship have a very real impact on the lives of people throughout the country and worldwide. By creating a better world, we are creating a stronger Idaho.

4. Creating Heightened Expectations Shaping students for the best possible futures starts with heightened expectations. Our quality and results are competitive on a national scale because we expect more out of our people, and they expect more out of us.

5. Redefining Opportunities Heightened expectations require an equal commitment to providing empowering opportunities. Our legacy of producing leaders, thinkers and global citizens is getting stronger every day. This is the “value” of a degree from Idaho.

As you can imagine, messages like these are delivered most powerfully by those directly affected by a positive University of Idaho experience: our alumni and current students. We welcome the interest and assistance of alumni in their alma mater’s marketing efforts. Stay tuned! We look forward to reporting back to you on the campaign’s progress.

Wendy Shattuck Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Communications

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As part of the renewal and new vision of the University of Idaho, President White launched a strategic communications initiative to enhance the strength and reach of the University’s “brand.” The goal is simple: to engender interest and support among those we wish to attract, influence and collaborate with at the University of Idaho—to realize our vision and reach our potential.

We want to thank the hundreds of alumni who gave their input as part of the market research we conducted over the last year. We’d like to especially thank the University of Idaho Foundation for its involvement in and support of this work. The foresight and commitment of our alumni and friends benefits all of us.

The initiative is a long-term effort. We expect to continue this investment in our university for the next several years. The fruits of these labors will be realized as our own constituents and the competitive higher-education marketplace at large gain awareness and understanding of the distinctive strengths of the University of Idaho.

The campaign will reach many of our audiences directly via publications such as this one, as well as new recruiting pieces directed at future students and their parents.

A refreshed and improved Web site will launch in the spring. In TV, radio, magazine, billboard and airport ads, you’ll sometimes note a thematic phrase—“No Fences”—that plays on our distinctive Idaho location while evoking notions of the boundless opportunity and creativity, passion and discovery, and heightened expectations offered here. This theme, and the University’s new tagline— “Open Space. Open Minds.”—work together to give external audiences a quick and creative first impression of the University of Idaho.

As we talk further to those audiences about the identity, distinctiveness and value of the

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TODAY@IDAHO

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

The University’s National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology is ranked among the top transportation research centers in the nation. It is one of 10 centers to receive honors from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration for finding innovative solutions to transportation challenges. The award provides funding of $1 million per year for a minimum of three years.

Here’s the scoop: Assistant Professor of Forest Hydrology Tim Link was one of five finalists in the “Do Us a Flavor” contest sponsored by the ice cream icon, Ben & Jerry’s. But in the end, Link’s suggestion of Mojito, a combination of lime-based sherbet with mint, brown sugar and rum, lost out to Puttin’ on the Ritz, with vanilla ice cream, caramel and Ritz crackers.

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Idaho researchers received a grant from the National Science Foundation for $527,050 to acquire an “all-in-one” microscope and spectroscopy system for cutting-edge interdisciplinary science and engineering at the nanoscale. The only one of its kind in the Northwest and among only a handful in the world, the scope can view images roughly 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

Jack Morris is the new dean of the College of Business and Economics. Morris joined the college’s faculty in 1980, and was serving as associate dean at the time of his appointment to dean. He replaces Byron Dangerfield who stepped down from administrative duties last August and will officially retire in February.

College of Engineering Dean Aicha Elshabini, center, with mechanical engineering student Brittany Ballard, left, and alumna Michelle Johnson ’04, right.

Thinking Outside the Box While engineers usually think outside the box, Aicha Elshabini figures out how to put things back inside.

Elshabini is the dean of the College of Engineering and has spent much of her research and academic efforts on packaging and microelectronic engineering.

Her groundbreaking research has impacted the world and includes work in the creation of cellular technology,

microwave radios and extensive battery research.

Elshabini recently was presented with the Daniel C. Hughes Jr. Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in microelectronics.

She is the first woman to receive the award, and she joins the ranks of national engineering leaders, including the inventor of LCD technology and one of the principal investigators in the creation of the motherboard.

Integrity and Justice Rewarded

College of Law Dean Don Burnett

College of Law Dean Don Burnett recently earned the Idaho State Bar’s Professionalism Award, considered to be one of the highest honors a lawyer can receive during his or her career.

The award recognizes demonstrated and uncommon devotion to public service, the improvement of the administration of justice, and a career-long demonstration of diligence, ability, civility, integrity and dignity.

Under his leadership, law students are introduced to a high standard of professionalism. Burnett established, with faculty approval, a requirement that all students, prior to graduation, perform at least 40 hours of pro bono legal service.

Campus News

A Class in Honor Memorial Gym was built to honor Idahoans who died during World War I. Over the years, memorials have been added to recognize those who died in World War II, the Korean War and the war in Vietnam.

The gymnasium has become a classroom for 36 students in the Core class, “Contemporary American Experience.” They are studying the two plaques with names of those from Idaho and the University who died fighting in Vietnam.

One plaque, listing U.S. Army servicemen, has four names, and the students have identified eight names that need to be added. The other plaque lists all Idahoans who died in Vietnam, but contains errors and omissions.

With the help of the Alumni Office, campus ROTC units and others, the students will update the list of servicemen to be honored to include Idaho students from other states and University employees.

With the help of the Art Department they will cast a new plaque this spring. The University will hold a dedication ceremony next school year.

The students are asking for your help in making the list as complete as possible. Visit their Web site at www.uidaho.edu/vietnammemorial to review the names or submit a name of someone to be honored.

Jack Brown grows success in Idaho and the Northwest. He is a plant breeder and has developed varieties of mustard, canola, and rapeseed especially adapted to the Pacific Northwest and other U.S. regions.

Now, Brown and his research team are taking on the world.

What Rhymes with Great Expectations?

Lucas Howell

Master of fine arts student Lucas Howell has two poems published in the November 2006 issue of POETRY. It is considered the most important literary journal in the world and claims to have published “every significant American poet of the 20th century.”

Persistence pays off, along with talent.

“I’ve submitted, and been quickly rejected, by them since I was 18,” said Howell.

Howell grew up in Tacoma, Wash., with a “hard working and hard playing family,” and spent time fishing, backpacking, and doing physical labor and mechanical work. These topics are described in his poetry.

The move to the Palouse has also influenced Howell’s work. He worked at a local farm, where he watched and learned about the land from an agricultural perspective.

“That experience and understanding has definitely made its way into my writing,” he said.

You can read his poems at www.poetrymagazine.org/.

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Creating a Better World with Biofuels

A Gibraltar-based biofuels company, Eco-Energy Ltd., is supporting Brown’s work with $2 million in research funding over the next five years. The goal is to develop high-value oilseed crops worldwide for alternative fuel production. That means breeding plant varieties that can grow in widely diverse climatic and environmental conditions.

Brown’s research plan calls for employing four graduate students and three undergraduates to develop and test new varieties.

“We are perhaps unique in our approach to bioenergy,” said Brown.

“We are developing plants which are specifically designed to be liquid energy sources.”

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LETTERs TO THE EDITOR Small World

A music lesson—Assistant Professor of Music Steven Spooner with student Kent Queener, a piano major and Lionel Hampton Scholar.

Passion... and a lot of practice Steven Spooner has gained national and international success as a pianist. He made his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Oct. 22 in an extraordinary concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution with Hungarian pianist Adam Gyorgy.

Spooner also has gained a big following from students in the Lionel Hampton School of Music.

Why? Because he’s an assistant professor of music at Idaho. He’s an enthusiastic teacher, with a passion for music and teaching. It’s a passion that is transforming his students’ lives.

Spooner says his professional career enables him to relate to his students and the struggles they go through as they learn. “I’m still a student, and as a result, I am continually learning.”

Spooner and Gyorgy also performed in Washington, D.C., New Canaan, Conn., and on the Idaho campus as part of the concert tour.

I just received the fall issue of the University of Idaho magazine. I really enjoyed the article on Chelan Pedrow about her life in Amman, Jordan. I lived and worked there from June 2004 until late December 2004. I agree, the people there are so interested in America and we are seen as friends of the people of Jordan. I also visited there briefly in late 2005, right after the terrorist attack that killed so many. They were already “back to life as normal.” I also had to laugh about her trip to Petra and the marriage proposals. I had the same experience, and I have been a senior citizen for many years.

I am glad to see that the students represent the University in the extended world in the positive way Chelan Pedrow has.

Lucille (Palmer) Gordon ’57, ’60 Helena, Montana

Style and Class I only spent one semester at Idaho back in 1971, but it was an experience this flatlander will always cherish and never forget. I wasn’t in Moscow long enough to really establish myself and consider myself a true Vandal—shoot, I’m a Buckeye all the way—but I do enjoy the occasional glimpses back to Vandal land your fine magazine provides. Kudos to the art and design staff especially. The magazine exudes style and class, and while I may not always read it, I do enjoy looking at it!

Keep it up, and keep it coming.

Go Vandals! Go Buckeyes!

Ed Crockett Via e-mail

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Building for the Future

The University is pursuing options for improvements and expansion of athletics facilities while at the same time, creating an all-purpose Events Pavilion for the University and Moscow communities. Architects are completing a feasibility study that was funded by a number of donations.

Based on architect findings, the University will review possible concepts for solutions and then explore the financial viability of pursuing one of those concepts.

According to President Tim White, when the required amount and combination of private and public funds are identified, the University will seek State Board of Education approval for the green light to create the facility.

Among the many programs in addition to athletics that would benefit from the Events Pavilion

concept are the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, commencement, and other annual arts and lecture activities. These events often attract overflow crowds to existing facilities.

Quest research news

A Multipurpose Bacterium

Neurobiologist Kevin Kelliher studies animals’ sense of smell and the behaviors it can trigger.

His investigation into how odors influence animal behavior led colleagues to award him the prestigious Frank A. Beach Award in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. The award recognizes young investigators who show exceptional promise for making significant contributions to the field.

Part of his work focuses on how odors may signal genetic individuality.

He also explores how chemical cues control social behavior in mice.

Trout Get a Coldwater Treatment The No. 1 disease facing the commercial sector of the Idaho trout industry may soon be better controlled by an improved vaccine being developed by a University of Idaho fisheries scientist.

Ken Cain, Aquaculture Institute associate director, and other collaborators plan to enhance a vaccine and develop improved diagnostic techniques that will help prevent or control large outbreaks of coldwater disease and subsequently decrease the need for antibiotic treatments.

Coldwater disease is a worldwide problem for rainbow trout in commercial aquaculture and fish hatcheries. In recent years, economic losses from this disease in the trout industry are estimated at approximately $10 million in the U.S.

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Acting on Odors

Gulhan Unlu, a food scientist, specializes in a lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, which produces yogurt and fermented milk products.

She is interested in bacteriocins, anti-microbial compounds bacteria produce to fight closely related microbes, with potential use in preservation of ready-to-eat food products. Her work also focuses on use of lactic acid bacteria for conversion of agricultural and industrial waste to value-added products.

Unlu recently joined an international team to compare the genome, essentially the genetic catalog of an organism, of the bacterium with those of eight other closely aligned species and published the results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Illustrations by Nathan Nielson

I’m having trouble

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By Don Shelton ’76

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ndre “Andy” Pedersen ’79 smiles at me as the opening notes of The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” boom from my car’s speakers.

We are driving from Moscow to Seattle, two almost-forgotten friends sharing music and memories. We’re on the return leg of a journey back in time to our alma mater, the University of Idaho, and the 30th reunion of our fraternity pledge class.

As Andy starts to speak, I turn down the music.

“Tell me about Saturday night,” Andy says, a hint of worry and his native Danish in his voice.

“I’m having trouble remembering.”

Photos by Ellen M. Banner

Strong medicine Andy stood up and slowly made his way with the help of a cane to the front of a hotel banquet room of Fijis in their early 50s. He had been rehearsing this moment for weeks so he wouldn’t forget what he wanted to say.

The 54-year-old man who stood before us wore thick glasses, and his blond hair and beard were turning silver.

Yet his eyes and voice were just as I remembered.

Andy told us the reunion was the therapy he needed to hold back his Alzheimer’s for a little while. He told us what a success we all had been and how proud he was of us. But most of all he spoke of the bonds of friendship and fraternity.

“It’s something you carry with you for the rest of your life,” Andy said, his voice strong as he leaned on his cane carved from Texas mesquite. “Every one of us cares about each other. That’s something that doesn’t happen in the rest of the world on a regular basis.”

Someone leaned forward at a nearby table and whispered what most of us were thinking: “Andy’s telling us goodbye.”

Jerry “Wildcat” Myers ’86 stood up and joined Andy.

A manager of a wilderness ranch in Idaho, he pulled out eagle feathers he’d found along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and stuck one in the band of the cowboy hat that Andy had kept since college.

“This is strong medicine,” Wildcat said. “May this give you strength. We know you’re going to need it.”

Tears rolled down Andy’s cheeks, and the two men embraced. The rest of us encircled them and joined in the hug.

Beer bellies and bifocals Fijis began streaming in Friday night, taking over a Moscow pub, and I saw that time had changed us all. Some had white hair, and a few had hardly any hair at all. Beer bellies and bifocals had replaced bell-bottoms.

But as I heard their voices and looked into their eyes, these aging men turned into the kids I lived and laughed with 30 years before. A handshake and a hug peeled back the decades. In minutes, it was like we were back on campus after summer break.

Old photos and pitchers of beer were passed around, and memories poured out. Scrubbing toilets and mopping floors on Saturday details. Winter wake-up calls in an ice box of an attic where we bunked. Skipping a Friday class to grab a burger or a game of foosball.

As we talked, we opened up to each other. The banker and the farmer. The real-estate developer and the teacher. The architect and the guy on disability. Fat bank accounts and fancy cars didn’t matter. We listened in a way we couldn’t have 30, 20 or 10 years ago.

I couldn’t take my eyes off one old photo. Seven young men were clustered around a pickup after a hunting trip, shotguns in hand.

On the right stood a tall, slim kid with blond hair and a proud smile. His eyes took me back 30 years.

It was a picture of Andy with Don Shelton ’76 and Andy Pedersen ’79 his whole life in front of him.

Old coach’s pep talk Saturday afternoon, a few of us gathered at the Corner Club. Moscow’s timeless bar had been renovated, but the tubs of beer were still cheap and tasty.

Someone noticed football coach Dennis Erickson at a nearby table dissecting the Vandals’ final scrimmage played that day. I walked over in my Idaho sweatshirt and introduced myself.

“I’m a sports editor,” I said, “but I’m here as a Vandal alum.”

I pointed to our table and mentioned the reunion and Andy.

Erickson is in his second tour of duty as Idaho’s head coach and was a young assistant when we were in college.

His shock of white hair showed that, just like us, he’d been away from his old school for a long time.

Soon Erickson joined us at our table, shaking our hands and wishing us well.

A few hours later at our hotel, just before Andy’s moving speech, the old coach made a surprise appearance in the Gold Room.

“I just wanted to tell you how great what you’re doing is,” Erickson said. “I hope other groups do this in 30 years.” winter 2007

For Andy, fragments of the weekend already are disappearing Sunday as we drive. He has Alzheimer’s, and the disease already is robbing him of his short-term memory.

Andy had called me a few months before from his home in Wichita, Kan. Would I reunite in April with other Phi Gamma Delta brothers—Fijis, we call ourselves—who had pledged in the fall of 1972?

Eighteen of 27 answered his call. We came from every corner of the country, because Brother Andy needed us.

We found out we needed him just as much.

One weekend brought an almost spiritual sharing of feelings between middle-age men who thought they had lost each other. One weekend awakened pleasant memories for me, along with a few painful ones. One weekend made me question what I had done with three decades.

As I drive, I start to tell Andy what happened the night before in the Gold Room.

Pledges from the University of Idaho’s Mu Iota chapter pose during their freshman year. Andre “Andy” Pedersen is top row, third from left.

Author Don Shelton is front row, third from left.

Reelin’ in the years

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Sunday morning, the brothers started leaving town.

Andy and I needed to drive back to Seattle, where we would rejoin our wives.

With Deep Purple, The Who and Steely Dan CDs as our soundtrack, we took a trip back three decades and talked about who we had been, who we had become and where we were heading.

My father died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s almost 14 years ago, and spending time with Andy brought back emotions I thought had been buried with Dad. Getting the disease myself had become a fear I admitted to no one. It was stashed alongside the guilt, horror and helplessness of watching someone you love fade away.

Yet as I drove back home with a man grateful for each new day, a man facing a bleak future with courage and dignity, I found myself talking about the unthinkable.

For Andy, Alzheimer’s was just another hurdle in a life littered with them. Two months after most of us graduated, a motorcycle he was riding hit a truck head on, fracturing his skull, collapsing both lungs and nearly shearing off one leg. The accident left him in a coma, and his family and Fiji brothers gathered at the hospital to say goodbye.

“I thought there was no way I was going to see him again,” recalled John Robinson ’78, now a Boise banker and one of the Fijis who visited Andy’s bedside that summer of ’76. “He has a very, very strong will to live. All of us could take a lesson from him.”

Andy awakened from his coma after 31 days and had to relearn virtually everything. He never walked again without a cane, but he always kept going forward. He returned to college and later passed four medical boards.

After a divorce, he moved to Kansas and was working as a counselor when he met and married Yolanda.

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Four years ago, at age 50, Andy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a disease that may be linked to his horrific head injury. He says a doctor told him he probably wouldn’t remember his wife’s name by 2005.

Details and words escape him—but not Yolanda’s name.

Andy sometimes even forgets why he goes to his front door until the doorbell rings a second time, but Yolanda’s painstaking daily schedules keep him on task and he writes down nearly everything. Andy battles the disease with the same determination he showed 30 years before.

“Like I was reincarnated” As we drive through flat, endless farmland in central Washington, I realize this reunion is as much a part of Andy’s therapy as the pills he takes twice a day. The weekend energizes him, and the man who brought us together to say goodbye talks about his future. He and Yolanda already are making plans to move to Spokane.

Andy will be closer to most of his Fiji brothers, and Yolanda has a good friend who lives there.

“I’m going to forget everything and everybody as my Alzheimer’s advances,” Andy says. “When I start to go south, she’s going to need help.”

We talk about how fast 30 years passed. How careers, families and life pulled us apart. How Andy’s illness brought us back together and showed us it doesn’t have to be that way.

As Andy starts to speak again, I turn down the music.

“It was almost like I was reincarnated,” he says of the reunion. “It helped me assemble pieces of my life I could never get back again. I was able to recover memories, conversations, smells, voices, places I used to walk. I did it all one more time.

in Ecuador. A bigger reunion of all Idaho Fijis from the 1970s is being talked about for next summer.

Andy’s doing well, though he has good days and bad days. But he’s astonished at the effect the reunion he inspired has had on his brothers.

“I am humbled by it,” he told me when he visited me in July. “I am so pleased, so glad because you are my brothers.

I see every one of you ready to help me at the slightest whisper of trouble.”

Finding the pledge brothers I thought I’d lost pushed October 2006—an update me to reconnect with my older brother, Barry, whom I never really The reunion triggered a summer “I am so pleased, so glad knew and hadn’t talked to in four of recollections, reconnections and years. Barry lives in Indiana. After revelations for the brothers of Phi because you are my brothers. Mom and Dad’s deaths, it was easy Gamma Delta’s Class of 1976. Elose touch. Barry is 13 years older, mails, phone calls, lunches and beers I see every one of you ready to and had joined the Army when have bound us closer together than was only four. The steel worker we’ve been since we left campus 30 to help me at the slightest Iand newspaper editor had little in years ago. common.

Each month that went by Andy e-mailed every pledge whisper of trouble.” made it easier not to talk. brother with what he remember In September, I finally called about them and what they meant to —Andy Petersen him. As we talked, I realized I have him, then called us to reinforce the a lot more in common with my big message. In July, Andy took a bus brother than I thought. We talked from his home in Wichita to Boise about his retirement, something I’m thinking about more where more than 20 Fijis attended a barbecue and several as 50 fades in my rear-view mirror. We talked about trying brothers took Andy on a camping trip into the Stanley to lose a few pounds, about how well our three grown sons Wilderness Area. Then he flew to see me and another are doing, about how good our lives are. pledge brother who lives in Seattle.

We also talked about losing Mom and Dad. Another brother came through Seattle on vacation, and Barry told me he wants to go back to Idaho to visit our we had dinner with our wives overlooking Elliott Bay. My sister next year. He paused. wife and I traveled to Carmel, Calif., and we spent a day “Let me know when you’re going,” I said. “I’ll be there.” reconnecting with another brother and his wife. I spent Funny how I’d said those words a few months before three days in Boise visiting my sister and several other about a different trip to a different reunion. Funny how brothers. seeing the brothers I thought I’d lost led me back to the Two brothers who lost touch have started seeing each brother I never really knew. I other every week. We tracked down the last two in our Don Shelton ’76 is a Seattle Times assistant sports editor. pledge class—one in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and another

Mu Iota’s pledge class of 1976 gathers after their banquet in Moscow last April, almost 30 years after most graduated from the University of Idaho. Andre “Andy” Petersen is back row, sixth from left. Author Don Shelton is back row, seventh from left.

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“When I was standing up there in the Gold Room looking at every one of your faces, I was feeling emotions I hadn’t felt in 30 years,” he says, his eyes filling with tears and his voice choking with emotion. “The reunion brought me back to life.”

We ride in silence for a while, lost in our thoughts. As I slide in a CD, I realize Andy is speaking for all of his brothers.

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World Class Science with a view

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6 feet several inches of Dean Edwards strides across the dock at the Navy’s Acoustic Research Detachment facility in Bayview. The sun is gliding into its daily arc over Lake Pend Oreille. Light bounces off the lake as if it were 148 square miles of disco ball. With equal zeal, sound bounces and bends under the water.

Edwards is relaxed. This is familiar territory.

His team sets up a laptop and joy stick. The five vehicles at the edge of the dock are the largest fleet of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) anywhere in the world. The researchers carefully remove three prototype AUVs from their modified golf bag travel cases.

Idaho: An Unlikely Port The state of Idaho, several hundred miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, seems an unlikely port for U.S. Navy research and development. Yet the lake at Bayview, and the scientists who access it, uniquely suit Idaho to the task.

“Pend Oreille is deep, quiet, cold and uniform,” explains Edwards. “It’s a world-class acoustics lab.”

Nature’s own Petri dish for growing stealth technologies, Pend Oreille boasts a maximum depth of 1,158 feet and is the quietest body of water in the world.

In scientific terms, it is quieter than sea state zero more Researcher Tom Bean prepares to launch one of the Idaho autonomous underwater vehicles in Lake Pend Oreille.

than 50 percent of the time, making the ARD the premier facility on the globe for structural acoustic measurements.

Of the 75 ARD personnel, 30 are engineers and 16 are Idaho alums. Working with quarter- and one third-scale models that replicate full-scale conditions, they modify hull design and quiet engine noises to reduce the acoustic signatures of ships. Changes are then incorporated into the Navy’s fleet. The ARD’s product is data. Its impact is stealth. Both translate to more effective and safer Navy operations and ultimately a more secure nation. The use of the smaller models to achieve big results has saved over a billion tax dollars.

The ultimate goal of this University of Idaho/ARD partnership is to develop AUVs capable of communicating with one another and with a mother ship, and to more effectively conduct high-risk reconnaissance operations to detect and destroy underwater mines.

When deployed by the Navy, fleets of AUVs will gather data from areas as large as 30 square kilometers in one week, with no mines left behind.

Big Picture Emerging from the Pixels In the waters of Pend Oreille, an interdisciplinary, multiple-perspective approach to research is illustrated literally. Researchers gather data from several points: • On the dock, Beidler and Bean give commands and monitor how the vehicles process communications, using a wireless connection and a joy stick. They measure the AUVs’ velocity, latitude, longitude, depth, heading, pitch and roll as the subs complete each search simulation, also keeping a watchful eye on how much juice remains in the subs’ batteries, and how, or if, each mission is executed.

• The data they collect are taken back to their labs and analyzed. There, Bean plots where each sub ran, and “what it thought it was doing.”

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The diminutive subs, measuring 39 inches long and 4 inches in diameter, are cutting-edge defense technology, designed, built and steadily evolving under the collective efforts of principal investigator Edwards, his interdisciplinary Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) team, and scientists at the U.S. Navy’s Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview.

At the east edge of the dock, Geoff Beidler, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tom Bean, who recently earned an Idaho master’s degree in computer engineering, gently tip each sub into the lake, hydrophone end first, to run them through their weekly simulations.

With an eye trained on the action at the end of the dock, Edwards seems focused inward, which is where this odyssey began.

Edwards, a mechanical engineering professor who recently earned the University of Idaho’s Excellence in Research Award, has been engineering autonomous vehicles for about 20 years. His projects include a Mars rover, an automated logger, crawlers designed to probe shallow waters and the small submarines in the lake.

The AUV research being conducted here is funded by an Office of Naval Research grant.

Mechanical Engineering Professor Dean Edwards directs the autonomous underwater vehicle research project but has been working with the design of land-based autonomous vehicles for 20 years.

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Beidler and Bean command the fleet from their laptop “Reality and what it thinks never coincides exactly,” on the dock. Odell intercepts the subs’ conversation, Bean explains. “There could be a centimeter or meter which appears on his computer screen in code. Edwards discrepancy. By plotting the sub’s activity we can see points out that one of the next evolutionary stages of AUV why it makes decisions, and why something went wrong.” technology includes a translation of the code “from AUVish Post-doctoral student John Canning, who built the fleet, to English,” so researchers can read on the computer screen works with Bean to find out why things go wrong. “Then what the vehicles are saying in the water. we make decisions on what needs to happen to change “Currently, the AUVs utilize 10,000 lines of code, or outcomes.” individual instructions,” said Beidler. “Before they are ready Once weaknesses are identified and solutions devised, to deploy, the code, or the complexity of Beidler incorporates new, the instructions, might get as much as twice more effective behaviors “The lead vehicle transmits as complicated, with additional formation by adding code to the subs’ control and formation communications.” programming. The program is his progress and the Beidler works with Richard Wall, professor evolving to include instructions electrical and computer engineering, who for a broad menu of behaviors followers stay in formation. of helped write and is troubleshooting the necessary for the AUVs to work in unison, deal with the We’re working to develop 10,000 lines of AUV computer code.

“They are complex little creatures,” said many variables of the oceans’ underwater environment, and the ability of the followers Edwards. “It has taken some time to get them to function and operate correctly. The successfully accomplish their to take the lead vehicle’s focus now is on increasing their language mission. capabilities.”

Meanwhile, ARD engineer place if it is destroyed.”

To accomplish that goal, Edwards Doug Odell works from a partners with Wall; mechanical engineering 24-foot aluminum harbor —Doug Odell professor Michael Anderson, whose AUV patrol boat with two acoustic research focuses on acoustic sensors and their transducers in the water. integration into control systems; professor They are hooked into an of philosophy Michael O’Rourke; and their student onboard computer. From the boat, he locates the subs and researchers. “eavesdrops” on their conversations. The data he gathers At the heart of AUV behaviors is a set of algorithms— are later sent to Bean for analysis and plotting. succinctly defined mathematical instructions for As their intercommunications capabilities improve, the accomplishing specific tasks, which are implemented by AUVs will be able to assess the loss of a vehicle, change formation to compensate for the loss and continue to gather data and destroy mines. Currently, “The lead vehicle transmits his progress and the followers stay in formation,” said Odell. “We’re working to develop the ability of the followers to take the lead vehicle’s place if it is destroyed.”

The lake is essential to this research and development effort. “The real world is a lot different than the lab,” Odell notes. “It allows you to see all the details that have to be dealt with, from higher level engineering challenges to making sure there’s gas in the generator.”

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The AUVs currently search cooperatively, moving up and back repeatedly in a “lawn mower” pattern. They also can launch in formation, achieve an away point, and return in a formation. As they search, they communicate with one another and respond to signals.

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Sliding through the water of Lake Pend Oreille; the Idaho AUVs measure 39 inches long and four inches in diameter.

With AUVs, Less Is More Even with the onion-like layers of science involved in first-time engineering, Idaho’s prototype AUVs price out at about $15,000 each. Current large-scale AUVs cost around $400,000 each and require cranes and crews to deploy. Big and expensive, they are not easily replaced when destroyed. In contrast, a full fleet of Idaho AUVs will be deployable by a single person. When one is destroyed, another will swim over to take its place, and the mission will continue.

Peacetime applications of the emerging technology could include monitoring environmental quality, such as water temperatures, salinity, pollutants and marine life.

In the future, communicative AUVs also could provide underwater surveys for cable and pipeline inspections.

Right now, the aim of the research at Bayview remains fixed on developing effective mine counter measures. University of Idaho and Navy expertise, and the unique properties of Lake Pend Oreille, are key to that development.

“At Bayview, we can determine the best possible performance and how it may degrade in the ocean,” said Edwards. “If you can’t do it here, you probably can’t do it.” I

Researcher Tom Bean follows the progress of the AUVs from land.

The Idaho/ARD Team: Playing the Best “Athletes” Alan Griffitts ’88 is chief engineer for Large Scale Vehicles at the ARD. As such, he is responsible for all aspects of the United States Navy Large Scale Submarine Program there.

The Bayview fleet includes the one-quarter-scale Seawolf submarine model and the one-third-scale Virginia Class model. Each is a fully operational, unmanned, autonomous submarine used as a research and development platform.

Griffitts feels the skills he honed carrying out his University of Idaho senior engineering project reflect the most valuable aspects of his Idaho education. “The importance of working with a team, of applying your best efforts and of dedication to a timely and cost effective finished product are still as valuable today as they were back then,” he said.

Griffitts contributed to the AUV project in the initial grant-writing stage and sees the partnership as a win/ win arrangement. ”The ARD has a very experienced staff and world class resources which we can add to the highly educated and motivated University of Idaho AUV team. The real value of the Idaho/ARD partnership is the ability to bring the best ‘athletes’ to the task. We both gain from this experience.”

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computer code. Edwards and mechanical engineering graduate student Andy Rajala developed AUV algorithms. O’Rourke’s specialized knowledge in language structure aided in the development of the AUVish language.

“Algorithms facilitate the vehicles’ language and cooperative behavior,” explains Edwards.

“Really, these vehicles were built to test those algorithms out and effectively carry the modems that allow them to communicate with one another.”

Back at the University labs, researchers are seriously tweaking the AUV modem to more effectively access communications.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard Wells and his students are incorporating Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) techniques that separate out unique signals sharing the same band; utilizing Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques that cancel out underwater echos; and reducing co-channel interference.

“Shallow water is like a big echo chamber, with the noise bouncing off of the lake floor and the lake surface, making it hard to communicate,” explains Wells. “This modem can perform signal processing operations and filter interferences so the AUVs can receive the unique signal.”

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expedition:

It’s No Fishing Idaho’s Fish Research Makes International Impact

By Joni Kirk

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hat do fish at Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute have in common with the university’s students and alumni?

Some are home grown, some are not. But regardless of where they come from, their impact is seen around the world.

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In fact, the trout offered at the local diner has a great probability of coming from Idaho. A major aquaculture product in Idaho’s Magic Valley, more than 70 percent of rainbow trout farmed in the U.S. are grown in Hagerman.

And more than 43 percent of all fish consumed in the world in 2005 were farmed fish, making aquaculture the fastest growing animal-production system in the world.

“The University of Idaho is a supporting source of information for the immediate problems facing the aquaculture industry, and also concentrates on forwardthinking research that will create information needed in the future,” said Ron Hardy, director of the ARI and Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station, and professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.

Idaho is more than just a supporting source of information. It’s the national leader in aquaculture research. In August, a report from Blackwell Science Publications at Oxford in England stated that Idaho was

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the top-ranked U.S. university and fourth in the world in 2005 by number of Institute for Scientific Information— ranked papers published in the Journal of Fish Diseases.

Idaho also was ranked the top U.S. university and seventh in the world for publications in all fish disease journals.

To continue its research and development of responsive resources for the aquaculture industry, the University took steps to bolster its facilities and resources. In September, after a year of construction, President Tim White and Idaho Governor James E. Risch ’65, ’68 dedicated the University’s new $3.2 million biotechnology aquaculture laboratory and office complex at the ARI site in Hagerman.

The new facility contains state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment, which allows scientists to apply advanced biotechnology to research in fish, mainly rainbow trout.

“This new facility will allow continued collaborative partnerships and research to expand into new areas of scientific discovery, impacting people both within Idaho

and throughout the U.S.,” said Hardy. In addition to ARS, the station has collaborative programs with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The dedication ceremony marked the culmination of the $18 million University of Idaho Biotechnology Campaign launched in 1997. The campaign sought to improve student access to technology and training and included the new $14 million Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory on the Moscow campus in 2001 and renovation of the adjacent Agricultural Science Building.

Next time fish is on the menu, think of the University of Idaho and its continued research, which is expanding into new areas of scientific discovery and impacting people within Idaho, throughout the U.S. and around the world. I

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At the new $3.2 million biotechnology aquaculture laboratory and office complex in Hagerman, left to right: Karen Frank, research technician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Matt Powell, assistant professor of animal science; and Ron Hardy, director of the Aquaculture Research Institute and Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station.

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Living with Students Faculty take learning to the laundry room

By Leslie Einhaus

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ome sweet home for faculty member Carol Marlowe is a campus

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residence hall. The College of Business and Economics instructor and Faculty-in-Residence often provides career and finance tips for students in a common area of the Living Learning Community. Other times, she is seen folding clothes and chatting with undergraduates in the laundry room.

In the midst of such exchanges, “The learning really goes both ways,” noted Marlowe, who lives in Scholars Hall. She occasionally frequents Engineering Hall, which is familiar territory for the retired Hewlett-Packard executive-turned-college instructor.

Residence hall student Emmalee Kearney said she bonded with Marlowe right away: “It was really great talking to her after I moved in because then I wasn’t so homesick.”

Idaho’s Faculty-in-Residence program was established three years ago, according to Michael Griffel, director of University Residences. However, the fall 2006 semester marks the first time the program has had two full-time faculty-in-residence positions filled in the LLC. Joining Marlowe in the faculty fun is Melanie-Angela Neuilly, assistant professor of justice studies, who lives in Global Village. Her passion for learning empowers Idaho students. Her easy-going, friendly personality also engages her neighbors— students attending the University from all corners of the globe.

“How exciting would it be if Neuilly has her own story of discovery and travel. Originally from Brittany, France, the young professional recently finished we had people from every graduate studies in criminal justice at Rutgers. She also is finishing college living among and up a doctorate degree in psychology from the University of Rennes interacting with students II in France. At Idaho, Neuilly is teaching justice policy issues and comparative criminal justice systems. outside of the classroom—it Faculty-in-residence enjoy a full kitchen, comfortable living would make college an even area, wireless Internet access and extended cable television. Even in college quarters, noise isn’t an issue. better experience.”

“It is surprising how quiet it gets around 9:30 or 10 p.m.,” —Mary Harbert Marlowe noted.

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Faculty-in-residence Carol Marlowe and Melanie-Angela Neuilly in the laundry room of Scholars Hall.

become confidantes, mentors, and often, friends. It seems to be a win-win for faculty, residence hall staff and students.

“We haven’t heard a single negative,” Griffel said.

It’s all positive for Mary Harbert, Scholars Hall resident, who says the program gives students a unique chance to interact with faculty. “We are able to relate to faculty on a different level, interacting through a conversation—not a lecture,” she said.

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The concept behind the faculty-in-residence model is well-researched, according to Griffel. “There are definite intentions of having such a program because of its promotion of academic success among students and overall satisfaction of the college experience.”

Faculty members spend about 10 hours a week connecting with students, not just neighbors across the hall, but students throughout the residence hall system.

They work with Residence Life staff to develop and sponsor programming that enhances success in and out of the classroom. Participating faculty also help during student move-in day.

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Winter Sports

By Cynthia Taggert

high hopes on the slopes

Skiing competitively in college was a must for Kristen Wick, but

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a good marketing education was even more important to her. The star junior skier from Coeur d’Alene chose to attend the University of Idaho, where students have excelled in skiing and studies for nearly 75 years.

“I wanted to try to excel in a different aspect,’’ says Wick, who represented Idaho at the U.S. Collegiate Snowsports Association’s National Championships in Sugarloaf, Maine, last winter. “I want to have fun skiing but still have intense competition, and I want to focus on school.’’

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Top: Heidi Marineau soars through the blue skies of Idaho in the slope style snowboard competition at the 2005 collegiate championships. Above: Three Idaho skiers at a 2006 qualifying race at Mt. Hood in Oregon. Left to right: Marc Luckstead, a physics major from Walla Walla, Wash.; Kristen Wick of Coeur d’Alene; and Brett Jones, a mechanical engineering major from McCall.

Wick chose well. Idaho’s student skier success dates back to the 1930s and includes record-setters, national champions and war heroes, architects, engineers, doctors, researchers and more.

“Students come here because they want an education first,” says Jerry McMurtry, associate dean of the College of Education. He coaches the ski team. “They race well, but education is the priority.’’

McMurtry and Wick arrived at Idaho long after the school’s skiing heyday. But the skier and coach are working to resurrect the 1940s and 1950s glory days— 21st century-style.

It’s a bumpy road. Skiing once was a varsity sport at Idaho. The Vandals competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and at one time recruited topnotch ski competitors from Norway.

In 1949, Sverre Kongsgaard, an exchange student from Norway, set a North American ski jumping record.

Student ski jumpers and Nordic skiers competed and won ski titles nationwide.

We used to have one of the top NCAA ski teams in the United States,’’ former ski team member Don Hayes told the Argonaut in 1979. “In 1948 and ’49, we were third in the nation.’’

Hayes helped resurrect the University’s ski team in 1946 after a hiatus during World War II. In those days, college skiers competed in slalom, downhill, cross country and ski jumping.

“Students come here because they want an education first. They race well, but education is the priority.’’

Downhill racers like Hayes flew 90 mph, which is why downhill was eventually dropped from college competition. Hayes, who lives in Walla Walla, Wash., remembers a ski meet in Sun Valley when 36 of 128 competitors were so badly injured in the downhill race that only 92 could race the following day.

Hayes had just returned from serving in World War II. He was 45 pounds lighter than normal and working hard to regain his ski legs. He was seeded 95th in Sun Valley’s downhill event.

“When I got to the worst place—the place full of holes in the snow—there were broken skis, ski poles, hats and earmuffs, goggles,’’ he says. “The 12 or 13 toboggans they had as stretchers were already gone by the time I got there.’’

Hayes’ ski split and he couldn’t finish. But he raced the next day. And he went on to help start the Vandal ski club for men and women the following year.

“I had to,’’ he says. “We had Norwegian exchange students that year, and they filled all the racing positions on the team.’’

Vandal skiing flourished until 1971 when the Big Sky Conference, in which Idaho competed dropped the sport. Nordic skiing held on as a club sport, but alpine skiing faded until 1978, when the National Collegiate Ski Association formed. McMurtry arrived at Idaho in 1995 after coaching skiing at Colorado State University, Montana State and the Big Sky Resort. He took over as the

team’s faculty adviser, a club team’s coach. McMurtry, who skied through college on a scholarship, was well qualified.

He offered a balanced approach to sports training.

“I want them to do the best they can, but I want them to have fun and do well in class,’’ he says. “Dryland training is mandatory, but if they can’t make it because they have a class, go to class. School has to come first.’’

He faced challenges. Nearby North/South Ski Bowl closed after McMurtry’s first year. With no travel money, skiers carpooled to the next nearest ski slopes and lodged at the cabins of friends and family whenever they could.

McMurtry’s coaching style was inviting and inclusive.

The team attracted beginning to advanced skiers. In 1997, snowboarder Chris Klimko suggested adding snowboarders to the team. McMurtry saw no problem attaching Idaho’s newest team to one of its oldest.

At the time, snowboard teams were new on college campuses. Only a half dozen existed. The Vandals easily qualified for national competition. Snowboarder mindset was relaxed. The new element of the ski team attracted a broad range of interest. Eventually, the snowboard team grew to more than 50 members and became its own entity.

Senior Angie Snell, a landscape architecture major, leads the team this year. A skier turned snowboarder, Snell never envisioned herself competing. But the Idaho team was irresistible.

It’s great to be on the mountain with such a devoted group of like-minded individuals,’’ she says. “I meet people

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Above: Idaho skier Ben Kemery at the starting gate for the giant slalom race at Mt. Hood. Kemery is an electrical engineering major from Challis. Side top: Idaho men’s team, which place second overall at the 2006 USCSA Championship at Sugarloaf, Maine. Below: Idaho women’s snowboard team that also placed second overall at the national competition.

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from all over the country, make lifelong friends.’’

Last winter, Idaho’s men’s and women’s snowboard teams finished second place overall at the U.S. Collegiate Snowsports Association National Championships in Sugarloaf, Maine. Their sport is small enough at the collegiate level that they know most competitors from other schools.

“We’ve established relationships with them, see how they’ve improved,’’ Snell says. “We share a lot of time on the mountain with Albertson College and have a great relationship with them.’’

Only Wick qualified for collegiate nationals from Idaho’s ski team.

She accompanied the snowboarders to Maine.

“We kept an eye on her, supported her,’’ Snell says. “We had to make sure she felt she belonged. It’s important to feel camaraderie.’’

Wick appreciated the snowboard team’s presence and McMurtry’s coaching style.

“Jerry’s a great coach,’’ she says. “He gave me another perspective— to do it for me and have fun.’’

Wick began racing at age 6 at Silver Mountain in Kellogg. She skied for teams at Schweitzer, Mt. Spokane, even Park City, Utah.

“That’s all I’ve known,’’ she says.

NCAA schools wooed Wick, but she wanted the right balance of

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n Jan. 29, 1949, Sverre Kongsgaard ’51, a 27-year-old Norwegian exchange student at the University of Idaho, soared from Olympian Hill at Hyak, Wash., and set a new North American Competitive Ski Jumping record of 290 feet. He held that record for more than a year. His jump was featured in a movie newsreel that week at the Kenworthy Theatre, and helped to make him a celebrity on campus.

He was featured in Time magazine as well.

At six-feet, fiveSverre Kongsgaard inches, Kongsgaard cut an impressive figure on campus. Still, he was characteristically modest about the jump as he was about all things. He said: “I made a good jump. It may never happen again.”

Kongsgaard had studied two years at the University of Oslo before coming to Idaho, and served in the Norwegian Ski Patrol against the Germans in World War II. A fellow student, Ramona Bills Dymoke ’50, remembers that he spoke English with deference and very little accent.

“He loved America, enjoyed the personal freedoms so many of us took for granted. He was a quiet man, a gentle man, who still could get raucous with his friends. He had a great sense of humor and loved to play practical jokes. He would often rather listen to others than talk, and enjoyed other people’s humor—but he had a firm side to him that no one liked to cross.”

He taught ski lessons to earn his way through school and Nancy Lyle ’56 in the Alumni Office was one of his students when she was 12 in 1946-47. She recalls him as a “kind and patient teacher who instilled a love of skiing as a life-time sport.”

He was very serious about his studies, and often helped others with theirs, said Dymoke.

Kongsgaard earned his degree in civil engineering mid-term in 1951. He then returned to his hometown of Kongsberg, Norway, to be reunited with his wife. They had married in 1948. He died in 1997.

However, for the few years that he and his Norwegian teammates were competing for the University of Idaho, they helped to put it “on the map.”

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all snowboard Photos Bill Marineau

Ben Rodes, a senior landscape architecture major from Garden Valley, warms up for the halfpipe competition at Tamarack Resort.

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school and sport. Idaho is close to her Coeur d’Alene home and the team skis in a division that offers her competition without dominating her life.

The ski team competes four times per season in Northwest regional qualifying events. Wick supplemented her racing last season by training with the Schweitzer Mountain ski team and racing for the Pacific Northwest Alpine team.

With the Vandals, Wick strength-trained and worked her cardio-vascular system through the fall semester. The team played soccer and Ultimate Frisbee games and mountainbiked on Moscow Mountain. Barbecues usually followed.

After a 10-day snow-training camp, skiers competed for the team’s seven racing spots each for men and women.

Silver Mountain offers the team discounts and benefits to train in Kellogg.

“Silver Mountain’s just done wonderful things for us,’’ McMurtry says.

Wick competed with the team from Mt. Hood in Oregon to McCall.

Under McMurtry’s training, Wick says she learned to relax and skied better than ever. Five teams and the top individual finisher in a conference qualify for nationals.

Wick was that individual.

She finished sixth overall at nationals and is excited for this year. She plans to finish higher at nationals. Idaho’s team is in good shape heading into the 2007 season.

“I don’t know the last time we had such a strong shot at qualifying for nationals as we have this year,’’ McMurtry says.

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Jon Hammermeister ’96 at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Torino, Italy. Hammermeister series as a consultant on sports psychology for the U.S. Nordic ski team.

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on Hammermeister ’96 isn’t a competitive skier, but that didn’t keep the U.S. Nordic ski team from identifying him as a winner. Just months after Hammermeister earned his doctorate in health promotion and exercise psychology, he was asked to join the team as a consultant on sports psychology.

Eleven years later, Jon has accompanied the Nordic team and ski jumpers to four world championships and two Olympic games.

“They love me for my mind, not my body,’’ he says, chuckling. “I’m not a very good skier.’’

He was a triathlete, with 13 Ironman competitions to his credit. He also was a successful tennis coach. His fascination with the mental mechanics of competition pulled him to Idaho’s graduate program in sports psychology in 1991.

“The University of Idaho has one of the best sports psychology programs in the world,’’ Jon says. “I got

unbelievably good training there. It was the five best years of my life.’’

Jon devotes about 40 days a year to the U.S. teams. His often is the last friendly face skiers see before they blast across snow-covered terrain or down a ski jump.

“Some need to be yelled at, some joked with, some you don’t say anything to,’’ he says. “Some need a head butt.

We sit down before and clear up what they need so we’re not winging it on race day.’’

He counsels them about competitive anxiety, relations with the coach, confidence, even hygiene. Then he flies home to Cheney, Wash., where his wife, Cathy Crowson ’97, who earned her master’s degree in education from Idaho, their daughters, Abby, 8, and Grace, 2, and his job running Eastern Washington University’s graduate track in sports and exercise psychology are waiting.

“The training I got at Idaho really prepped me to be able to handle this,’’ Jon says. I

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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.

Pat Harris Miller ’53 published “Don’t Eat the Elephants” in May 2006. The book is about her late husband Don F. Miller ’53 and of the story of their college romance, 42 years together, and Don’s walk through early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

1960 Dean Lundblad ’62 was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Stephen Allred ’64, former chief of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, was picked to be U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior for land and minerals management. Allred has more than 40 years experience in engineering, management and leadership positions, half in private industry and half in public service.

Dion W. Rumney ’69 is retired but still works doing volunteer work in alcoholic recovery.

1970 Phillip O. Walch ’71 was named poetry ambassador by the managing editor of the International Library of Poetry.

“Images” is his first book.

Ronald J. Sestero ’72 retired after 26 years as executive pharmaceutical sales representative for the Boise region for Abbott Laboratories based in Abbott Park, Ill. Jeana M. Abromeit ’73 received a promotion to full professor at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wis. She serves as chair of the Social Science Department and also is the chair of the Council for Student Assessment. In 1996, she earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Tom Spofford ’73 retired from the USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service as the national water management engineer after 35 years with the agency, which was formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service.

He and his wife of 25 years, Sharon, have returned to the West from Washington, D.C., and now reside in Soap Lake, Wash.

Philomine M. Sprute Lund ’76 has published the “Mommy and Me” child development calendar, a helpful guide for new parents that is being distributed through Kiwanis Clubs. Phil is immediate past president of the Moses Lake, Wash., Kiwanis Club and immediate past lieutenant governor of Division 58, Pacific Northwest District of Kiwanis.

Michael Hannaher ’74 worked for 31 years in the private practice of law in Moorhead, Minn. He now has been named director of development for the FargoMoorhead Area Foundation, North Dakota’s largest community foundation.

Mike Wilson ’77 has been hired as chief financial officer of Blue Water Technologies.

Most recently he was interim executive director of the University of Idaho Foundation, Inc.

Gary M. Donnelly ’74, ’78 is a marketing instructor at Casper College and is the 2006 Wyoming Association of Career and Technical Education Teacher of the Year.

Ted L. Lund ’74, ’76 was honored with the 2005 Meritorious Service Award from the North American Pulse Improvement Association. He has been a plant breeder with Brotherton Seed Company since 1986.

Charley D. Jones ’75 is president and CEO of Charshaw, Inc., and was appointed one of four new board members for Zions First National Bank, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation.

Gordon W. Petrie ’76, a former Lewiston lawyer, was appointed to a new seat in the 3rd Judicial District.

Stacie Quinn Neely ’76 of Boise was elected regional director of alumnae for Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity for a second term. As one of six regional directors, Neely will supervise, assist, counsel and train province directors of alumnae in the Midwestern region of the country.

Charles A. Vickrey ’78, a retired major in the U.S. Air Force, received a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is now working as a family nurse practitioner in El Paso.

Jeff White ’78 has been hired as CFO at Garco Building Systems. He previously was the CFO at Spokane Seed Company.

Maxine Martin ’79 was featured in The Coeur d’Alene Press’ Lifestyles section for her work in the healthcare profession. Martin is the director of the RN to BSN nursing program at Lewis-Clark State College.

1980 Greg Godwin ’80, ’89 was named Idaho’s 2006 “Superintendent of the Year.”

Godwin, superintendent for the Kellogg School District, was honored by the Idaho School Superintendents’ Association.

Kelly Wood ’80 has received his A.A.M.S. certification and has joined the Boise office of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., as a financial consultant.

Karen Gowland ’81 is an attorney at Boise Cascade and was honored by the Association of Corporate Counsel with the Pro Bono award.

Mark S. Moorer ’81 has received the Idaho State Bar’s service award. He was among eight individuals honored statewide. Moorer is past president of the Latah County Bar and has served three terms as the president of the Second District Bar Association.

Thomas Munson ’81 has opened Penland & Munson Attorneys Counselors Chartered, a law office in Boise. His practice focuses on civil litigation and workers’ compensation.

Ted Rydberg ’81 is overseeing Queensland Alumina Limited’s High Voltage Distribution System upgrade as plant specialist electrical engineer and project director.

Rydberg oversees the 15person team in charge of creating a more reliable and secure power system. Rydberg and his wife, Mary Schilling Rydberg ’80, are currently living in Gladstone, Australia.

Richard W. Dean II ’83 was promoted to the rank of colonel and is currently the deputy chief of staff and engineer for the 88th Regional Readiness Command at Fort Snelling, Minn.

Brian Kellerman ’83 and Ken Hobart ’84 were inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame. winter 2007

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Class Notes

Alumni

A Legacy of Thinkers, Leaders and Global Citizens 2007 Idaho Alumni Hall of Fame Recognizes living alumni who have achieved national or international distinction by their accomplishments and leadership.

Kirby Dyess ’68 Beaverton, Ore. Sharlene Gage ’64, ’67 Detroit, Mich.

Keith Riffle ’62, ’63 Bellevue, Wash.

2007 Silver & Gold Award Recognizes living alumni who have a distinguished record of achievement and/or service in their specialized area of endeavor, thus bringing honor and recognition to the University.

Ray Stark ’75 Boise Jeff Stoddard ’75, ’76 Laguna Niguel, Calif.

L. Dean Welch ’50 Brookfield, Wisc.

2007 Jim Lyle Award Recognizes living individual or couple who has shown longterm dedication and service to the University and/or Alumni Association through volunteerism.

Alan Gummersall ’80 Boise Bob ’57, ’63 and Carol ’58 Schreiber American Falls Ross Bennett ’76 Allen, Texas If you would like more information or wish to nominate someone for an Alumni Association Award, contact the UI Alumni Office at (208) 885-6154 or alumni@idahovandals.com.

IDAHO

Deadline for nominations is Aug. 1, 2007.

More information is available under Awards at the Alumni Web site, www.idahovandals.com.

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Barry Aiken ’84 will be joining contemporary pop star Gino Vannelli’s 2006 tour to promote his new album. Aiken will be touring Canada and the East Coast and appeared on the CBS Early Show in October. A fall European tour also is planned. For further information, visit his Web site at: www.baremicmusic.com.

Roger Gaboury ’87 earned National Board Certification in adolescent English Language Arts from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. A former reporter, he now teaches English and journalism at Schenectady High School in New York.

Scott Green ’85 has been inducted into the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Hall of Fame at a recent gathering in Las Vegas, Nev. John P. Lundeby ’87 was elected secretary/treasurer and president-elect of the Kootenai-Benewah Medical Society. The society is one of 14 statewide that makes up the Idaho Medical Association, and the second largest in the state. Lundeby practices general, vascular and minimally invasive surgery at Lake City Surgeons, PLLC, and is co-owner of Reflections MedSpas/The Laser & Vein Center, PLLC. Suzanne Rainville ’87 is the forest supervisor of the Payette National Forest. Rainville will oversee the management of the Payette National Forest’s 2.3 million acres, including the nearly 800,000 acre Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

Patrick Wiese ’87 was selected as a recipient of the national Heroes In Our Midst award for his 11 years of service with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program of Southwest Idaho. Heroes In Our Midst, a national award, is sponsored by the Greeting Card Association.

Michael Mosher ’88 is a professor at the University of Nebraska, and was promoted to chair of the Department of Chemistry. He also published a textbook for freshman-level general chemistry entitled

“Chemistry: The Practical Science,” with two co-authors.

The first edition is due out in January.

Bradley James Wallace ’88 of Salem, Ore., has been named the middle school principal for Salem Academy for the 2006-07 school year.

Anne Gwen Thacker ’89 was named Nevada’s Principal of the Year and will travel to Washington, D.C., to be honored by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

She will also receive a wall plaque and bell with her name engraved of them. Thacker has taught in the Elko County School District for 37 years and has served in teaching and administrative positions at Owyhee Combined School, Carlin Combined School and Elko High School.

1990 Stephanie Bowman ’91 works for the Port of Tacoma as federal government affairs manager.

She manages the port’s federal legislative agenda and works with elected officials and their staff members on a number of key issues, including transportation, the environment and port security.

Kimberley A. Bouchard ’93 was awarded a 20062007 Fulbright U.S. Senior Lectureship at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. She will teach 20th century Hispanic-American dramatic literature in the American Studies Department.

Chalene Chang ’93, a deportation officer with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has been selected as an instructor at the ICE-D Academy/Firearms Division located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. She has been assigned to the Anchorage, Alaska, Sub-office of the Detention and Removal Operations Division since 1998.

AlUMNI Class Notes

Stacey L. Wales ’97 works for Marathon Oil Company in Houston, Texas, as an advanced commercial analyst in Global Procurement, Process Systems and Controls.

She travels globally to develop processes, systems and controls to ensure the Marathon Oil Company complies with SOX Regulations in the procurement of goods and services.

inspiration

Angie Dorman ’00 received the 2006 “Leave No Child Behind” American Star Teaching Award for Washington State. She was selected for her work to help students from low-income families obtain college degrees.

Mike Hollis ’94 was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Keith Porter ’94 works for Oregon Department of Human Services and has been selected to be a central training and development specialist where he will train staff who work in the 31 group homes in Oregon.

Krista M. Scully ’94 was named the nation’s Pro Bono Professional of the Year by the American Bar Association and the National Association of Pro Bono Professionals. She is the pro bono director of the Alaska Bar Association.

Jon M. Smith ’94 sends greetings from L.A. The proud Vandal reports he completed an amazing life experience by training for and then participating in the AIDS/Lifecycle 5 Ride.

He rode his bike 585 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles over seven days with 1,840 other bikers. Jon raised $7,933.01 for AIDS research and assistance, and the entire group raised more than $8 million.

Kimberly Calvin-Friend ’95 and her husband, Rich, are now the owners of River Adventures, Inc., an outfitter and guide service in Riggins.

They provide drift boat fishing, chukar hunting and fishing packages, whitewater

rafting trips, and jet boat fishing tours on the Snake River in Hells Canyon. The company also hosts the largest women’s steelhead fishing tournament in the U.S., held every February, and aptly named “Women with Bait.”

Kim and Rich have a fouryear-old son, Fischer Scott.

Dan McCrea ’95 has joined the Boise-based architecture/ engineering firm CSHQA as an electrical engineer.

Mich.

Al Wildey ’96 was promoted to chair of the Department of Art at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant,

Chad Collins ’97 is the director of sales for the Sacramento River Cats baseball team and has organized the annual Brian Ellis Memorial Golf Tournament and activities related to the foundation, honoring the late Idaho graduate.

Greg P. Partch ’97 has been hired as vice president of private banking at Intermountain Community Bank in Spokane, Wash.

Chris Taylor ’97 was named president and CEO of Fisher’s, the major office equipment

David Barber ’98 is an engineer and physicist for Idaho National Laboratory and has been chosen for the 2007 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship to serve as a science adviser to the U.S. Senate.

Kristen Dieffenbach ’98 has accepted an assistant professor of athletic coaching education position in the Department of Physical Education at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. She also is a member of the USA Cycling coaching education committee and has her own sport consulting business, Mountains, Marathons & More.

John Friesz ’98 was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

David Montz ’98 was named director of development at eProject, a Web-based project management software company based in Seattle, Wash.

Carrie Northcutt ’98 is in her second year as a first grade teacher at Morningside Elementary in Twin Falls.

Paul Sherman ll ’98 has joined Hancock Bank of Louisiana as an assistant vice president and senior asset liability analyst in Hattiesburg, Miss.

2000 Steven Meade ’00 has been appointed executive director of the Legal Trust for the Idaho School Boards Association.

Daniel G. Remmick ’00 has joined Welch Comer & Associates, Inc., consulting engineers in Coeur d’Alene, as a project manager. He will work on the firm’s municipal water and sewer projects in Idaho and eastern Washington.

Amy Torguson ’00 has completed Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga., and was promoted to captain. She has moved from executive officer at the company level to the Brigade S3 Operation shop.

Daniel R. Ordyna ’01 was been appointed by Williamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Ore., as chief operating officer. Ordyna was director of development for Triad Hospital’s ambulatory surgery division in Plano, Texas.

Mackay Hanks ’02 is with the Bonneville County prosecuting attorney’s office.

Holly A. Palmer ’01, ’03 and Christopher D. Morgan ’03 recently announced their engagement and are planning a March 2007 wedding. They both now reside in Houston, Texas.

Krista Lynn Rule ’01, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a WPI Fellowship for her research, which is directed at developing a biosensor to detect Cryptosporidium in drinking water. She is a National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Fellow and received the 2004 American Chemical Society Up and Coming Chemist Award.

Troy Braga ’02 is an accounting manager for Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg.

Steve Clayton ’02 has joined CH2M Hill as a civil engineer and senior project manager in the Water Business Group.

He will develop, manage, and provide technical leadership to habitat restoration and salmon recovery projects at the regional and local levels.

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dealer based in Garden City.

Taylor previously served as strategy and planning manager for Micron Technology, Inc.’s mobile-memory business group.

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Class Notes

Alumni October 19, 1956 Tragedy and heroism in the University’s ‘saddest hour’

By Leah Andrews

Kris Andrews

A

IDAHO

Alumni gathered in the new Gault Living Learning Community to talk about the Gault Hall Fire on the 50th anniversary of the fire. Top row from left to right: Chuck Thomas ’59, Moscow; Stephen Hinckley ’62, Preston; John Hughes ’57, Bothell, Wash.; and Maurice Johnson ’55, Moscow. Bottom row: Tom Stroschein ’59, Moscow; Elwood Kintner ’59, Spokane, Wash.; and Ben “B.J.” Schaffer ’59, Livingston, N.J.

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n early morning arson fire in Gault Hall on Oct. 19, 1956, claimed the lives of three students and left its mark on the lives of many others. A campus remembrance marked the 50th anniversary of the fire and allowed survivors an opportunity to share and reflect.

“You hide things like this, and they stay in your subconscious,” said Ben “B.J.” Schaffer ’59, of Livingston, N.J. “Unless you do things like this, they stay there. This helps.”

Others spoke about those who died: Paul Johnson, a sophomore from Davenport, Wash.; Clair Shuldberg, a freshman from Terreton; and John Knudsen, a freshman from Idaho Falls.

The Gault Hall fire was hailed as the University’s “saddest hour” by then-president Donald Theophilus.

The arsonist, Paul D. Matovich, who covered the Gault Hall fire for the Argonaut, was arrested 33 days after the fire. He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Matovich was paroled in 1968 and died in 1980.

“I still remember every year on the 19th of October, that is a day of sorrow,” said Elwood Kintner, ’59 of Spokane. Kintner lived on the fourth floor, where the fire’s three fatalities occurred. “It is a tragedy for the lives that were never fulfilled for John, Clair and Paul, and the families that never got to see them reach maturity.

It is hard to lose childhood friends.”

Kintner grew up in Idaho Falls with Shuldberg and Knudsen.

Against the objection of the doctor, he left the campus infirmary where he was recovering from injuries sustained in the fire, to be a pallbearer at both Shuldberg and Knudsen’s funerals.

The gathering also was a time to talk of heroism.

AlUMNI Class Notes Jennifer Bivens Douglass ’02 was appointed civil deputy prosecutor by Nez Perce County.

Kevin Triphahn ’02 has recently taken a position with the Braided Accents and Mountain Moulding & Millwork sales team.

Jeremy Baker ’03 was promoted to supply/demand analyst for Micron Technology in Boise.

Cristen E. Hardy ’03 has joined Stoltz Marketing Group, a Boise-based integrated marketing communications firm, as a graphic designer. She is the co-founder and graphic designer for the breast cancer fundraising organization, Think Pink, Inc., and creative clothing company, IzzyP, LLP. Kaycee L. Murray ’03 was hired as a reporter for KTVBIdaho’s News Channel 7 in Boise.

Ryan Downes ’04 has joined Farbest Foods, in Huntingburg, Ind., as a marketing and sales representative for the International Division.

Patrick J. Geile ’04 has joined the Meridian law firm of Foley Freeman Borton, PLLC, as an associate. His practice will focus primarily on family law and domestic relations, as well as representation of creditors and debtors in bankruptcy matters.

Ryan Mackowiak ’04 has joined CSHQA, a Boise-based architecture/engineering firm, as an intern architect.

Kevin Holt ’05 has joined Wetzel & Wetzel Attorneys at Law as an associate attorney in Coeur d’Alene. He will specialize in litigation, land use development and personal injury.

Becky Kiebert ’05 is the principal at Sandpoint High School. Kiebert has been principal at Lake Pend Oreille High School, the alternative school in the district, a counselor at Sandpoint High and Priest River High, and has worked in the district for 12 years.

Courtney E. Forsmann ’04 to Patrick C. Hill

Esther Miramontes ’05 has taken a position with the geotechnical department of the Boise-based engineering consulting firm Materials Testing and Inspection (MTI).

Stefanie L. Hitchcock ’06 to David D. Reinke ’05

Laura Knapp ’06 has joined the Boise-based architecture/ engineering firm CSHQA as an interior designer. She will be involved with CSHQA’s commercial and retail projects.

Ethan O’Brien ’06 joins Hummel Architects as an architect-in-training. He will be working on projects for the Twin Falls School District that include a new high school and renovation and remodeling of nine other elementary, middle and high schools in the district.

Chicago, Ill.

Timothy R. Stoddard ’06 received a performance scholarship based on his audition for Roosevelt University in

Katy Studer ’06 has joined the staff of Hummel Architects PLLC, a multidisciplinary architecture firm, as part of their newly formed interior design department, Hummel Interiors.

Marriages Reenie L. Arnold ’92, ’99 to Keelan P. Murphy Laura A. Baer to Matthew M. Reznicek ’06 Mandi Bullock ’06 to Will Ross ’05

Jill L. Grunenwald to Jake M. Wimer ’01, ’06 Michelle L. Hadley ’05 to Stephen C. Johnson ’05 Yuki Hirotani to Mike Janson ’91

Jennifer Huff to Jacob Shumaker ’06 Diane J. Johnson ’05 to James E. Douglas Robin G. Kelley ’95 to Brian M. Rausch ’98 Michelle Krippendorf to David Janson ’91 Camille Laney to Brian Holleran ’04 Melissa L. Nelson ’05 to Joel A. Skindlov Nancy L. Orme ’01 to Bryan E. Krause Stacey L. Patchett ’05 to Daniel T. Chase ’05 Alisha Pope ’01 to Toby Leinweber ’99 Karena M. Stotz ’99 to Rositur Martin ’03 Mica J. Wages ’04 to Chris Johnson ’04 Tennille C. Walker ’06 to TJ Adams Ruth B. Walsh to Jacob S. Klinginsmith ’05 Erica Paulson ’04 to Jaret Frafjord ’02 Sara Newkirk to Jeremy Baker ’03 Ashley R. Seger to Ryan P Downes ’04 Erin Monroe ’04 to Ben Bryan ’02 Audree Dawn Holt ’99 to Kenneth Duane Wright Toni L. Sutton ’92 to Andrew Goar

Kelly S. Clayton to Justin L. Boggs ’04 Lindsay Craft ’06 to Joseph Santoro ’04, ’05 Jessica N. Crawley ’06 to Brandon A. Lamb

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“Floyd Lydum and Lawrence LaRue are the two men who saved my life,” said Stephen Hinckley ’62. “There were others who just watched, but they went into action and I have no doubt that without them I would not be alive today.”

Lydum ’58 is credited with saving four lives that night. He and fellow Gault Hall residents Pete McConnell ’57 and Andy Coray ’58 were escaping the fire when they heard Schaffer and Don Archer ’57 calling for help from their fourth-story room.

The three climbed to the fourth-floor roof, and Lydum, a member of the gymnastic team, had McConnell and Coray lower him by his feet so he could reach Schaffer and Archer. Lydum acted as a human ladder helping both men reach the roof.

Later, Lydum saw Stephen Hinckley and Harold Jacobs trapped in their fourth floor room.

Lydum realized that the fire crew’s ladder was poorly positioned and would take too long, and he asked a fireman for a rope. Then, he and Lawrence “Lash” LaRue ’58 climbed back up to the fourth floor roof and lowered the rope to Hinckley and Jacobs and pulled them to safety.

The heroism of Lydum, LaRue, McConnell and Coray was recognized in local newspaper articles, and Lydum and LaRue received bravery certificates from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Hawley-Jamison Post, shortly after the fire. I

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Class Notes

Alumni Best

brady

Bristol

Holbrook

hough

Iverson

Future Vandals Colin Daniels, son of Dustin ’00 and Kristen Best Kaylee Ann, daughter of Michael ’02 and Shelia Bristol Karah Marie, daughter of Pat ’99 and Shannon Clevenger Karalynn Alexandra, daughter of David ’98 and Shari Hill Conditt Courtney Rose and Heidi Faith, daughters of Timothy ’93 and Christine T.S. Dennis Sophia Rose, and Finnegan James, children of Chris ’01, ’02, ’06 and Stephanie Glancey

dennis

Joany

stansell

Kaitlyn Marie, daughter of Jason ’99 and Heidi Judge ’01 Hough

Mallory Kathleen, daughter of Douglas ’04 and Rebecca Simmons ’04 Otto

Gabriel Scott, son of Lance ’04 and Jennifer Peavey ’04 Joaniz Hazel Mae, daughter of Rob ’93 and Margaret Eyrse ’90 Lanphier Wyatt Baxter, son of Cody ’00 and Lisa Moore ’98 Lindley

IN MEMORY

Edwin F. Fricke ’35, Merrimack, N.H., Sept. 7, 2006

Katherine A. Dewinter ’39, Boise, Oct. 2, 2006 Arthur W. Dretke ’38, Star, Aug. 22, 2006 Lowell J. Farmer ’30, Mount Vernon, Wash., Aug. 17, 2006 Boyd Faulkner ’31, Auburn, Maine, May 26, 2006

little

James Eric, son of Brandon and Shannon Holbrook ’99

Brady Robert and Jillian, children of Jason ’96 and Sharelynn Agre ’96 Moore

Nell Louise Clingerman ’33, Hayden, Aug. 24, 2006

lanphier

ham

griffith

otto

rozell

Maleia Alice Christine daughter of Jared ’99 and Cherie ’91 Hasenoehrl Ham

Katja Valentina, daughter of George ’98 and Natasha ’00 Griffith

E.V. Boughton ’38, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 29, 2006

glancey

Blake David Guinness, son of David ’03 and Jessica Medalen ’02 Hardy

Brady James, son of Mark and Amy Ridenour ’96 Little

Robert L. Alexanderson ’39, ’41, Caldwell, June 8, 2006

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conditt

Caden Paul, son of Cody ’06 and Kajsa Greenhalgh

1930

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AlUMNI Class Notes

Julia V. Milburn Haddock ’39, Carrollton, Texas, May 30, 2006 Donald G. Harvey ’35, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 7, 2006 Esther R. Flenner Hensler ’37, Camarillo, Calif., June 9, 2006 Mary E. “Betty” Holmes ’31, Fair Oaks, Calif., June 9, 2000 Donald L. Johnson ’39, Selma, Ala., June 30, 2006 Rowena M. Ramey Koepp ’38, Cameron, June 9, 2006 Althea Pond Lasley ’33, Pocatello, June 27, 2006

williams

staples

Chloe, daughter of Brent ’99 and Tara Williams ’00 Rowland Reveau Stewart, son of Clay ’04 and Emily Habern ’04 Rozell Logan and Regan, children of Eric and Wendy Swenson ’93 Stansell Summer Elisabeth, daughter of Jared ’05 and Leeann Staples

Eli Ashdown, son of James ’02 and Tera Stoner Paul Ryan, son of Rob ’01 and Gina Hulsizer ’01 Strobel Nikash, son of Shitij and Annette Henke ’03 Tejpal Wyatt Jackson, son of Josh ’06 and Katie Werner Joseph Tryal, son of Scott ’04 and Marci Musgrave ’04 Williams

William J. Lloyd ’38, Mesa, Ariz., March 24, 2006

Roy E. Smith ’37, ’52, Lewiston, Aug. 18, 2006

Rex I. Pardue ’37, Lewiston, July 27, 2006

Grace R. Spraker ’32, Boise, May 15, 2006

Lester J. Randall ’33, Spokane, Wash., June 30, 2006

Herbert K. Steiniger ’39, Mendocino, Calif., July 27, 2006

Raymond L. Richmond ’39, Pullman, Wash., Sept. 10, 2006

George W. Swisher ’38, Pasco, Wash., May 10, 2006

Cynthia D. Sanger ’35, Twin Falls, March 24, 2006

W. Frank “Tony” Warner ’31, Twin Falls, Jan. 20, 2003

Frederic M. Sanger ’36, Twin Falls, Aug. 1, 2006

1940

Henry Schodde ’35, Rupert, Sept. 13, 2006

Robert M. Andrews ’47, Boise, May 11, 2006

James A. Singley ’39, Wheat Ridge, Colo., Oct. 2, 2006

Kathryn Biehl ’45, Kihei, Hawaii, Dec. 23, 2002

AlUMNI Class Notes

William J. Carbaugh ’47, ’48, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14, 2006 Don H. Carlson ’47, Napa, Calif., July 29, 2006 Frank R. Crawford ’48, Burley, Aug. 14, 2006 Donald L. Croghan ’41, Cedar Fall, Iowa, Aug. 11, 2006 Carolyn N. Elder ’47, Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 13, 2006 Louise Burgess Engstrom ’47, Palm Desert, Calif., May 29, 2006 Max W. Fee ’48, Gillette, Wyo., July 29, 2006 Mary Alice Spofford Glasby ’40, Mountain Home, June 11, 2006 John N. Graifemberg ’43, Sacramento, Calif., July 30, 2006 Grant Anderson Harris ’41, Pullman, Wash., June 21, 2006 Dennis E. Hess ’41, Boulder City, Nev., Sept. 30, 2006 Mary Pauline Bulkley Holland ’47, Englewood, Colo., Dec. 21, 2005 Howard W. Jacky ’41, Green Valley, Ariz., June 1, 2006 Sylvia Knight Dearle Jennings ’44, Seattle, Wash., June 27, 2006

Evelyne O. Young Rice ’49, Issaquah, Wash., May 11, 2006

Dorothy J. Farmin ’56, Sandpoint, Aug. 20, 2006

Kenneth Wohllaib ’54, ’64, Greeley, Colo., Sept. 23, 2006

Laurine Wilde Roberts ’42, Ogden, Utah, July 14, 2006

James E. Gibler ’50, Fallbrook, Calif., Sept. 16, 2006

Lyle R. Wood ’57, Farmington, N.M., July 13, 2006

Robert M. Robson ’49, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 5, 2006

Mery G. Gregg ’55, Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8, 2006

1960

Gustav E. Rosenheim ’41, Boise, May 26, 2006

William C. Grosch, Jr. ’50, Rockford, Ill., June 5, 2006

Earl J. Bensching ’66, Chehalis, Wash., July 15, 2006

Dorothy T. Rowen ’47, Boise, Aug. 8, 2006

Robert B. Hill ’52, Pocatello, June 1, 2006

J. Leona Bales Sanders ’47, Emmett, June 8, 2006

Roy Irons ’51, Garden City, June 28, 2006

Richard Charles ’68, Redmond, Wash., June 18, 2006

Orland B. Scott ’40, Coeur d’Alene, May 21, 2006

Carolyn H. Jensen ’59, Fullerton, Calif., May 13, 2006

J. Perry Silver Jr. ’46, Boise, Aug. 12, 2006

Jack L. Knowlton ’50, Boise, May 23, 2006

Orriette Coiner Sinclair ’43, Twin Falls, July 23, 2006

James H. Landers ’51, Berryville, Va., May 8, 2006

Helen Ruth Gale Smith ’44, Mercer Island, Wash., April 27, 2006

Roger A. Lillibridge ’54, Pinehurst, July 30, 2006

Walter E. Smith ’41, ’49, Boise, June 15, 2006 Duane Town ’42, Ontario, Ore., June 9, 2006 Edward A. Uslar ’43, Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 19, 2006 Madelyn M. Voeller ’42, Pocatello, June 11, 2006 George Wallace ’49, Tucson, Ariz., June 18, 2006 Wayne West ’40, Wendell, Sept. 12, 2006 Geraldine S. Wren ’48, Davis, Calif., Aug. 13, 2006

Carl. D. Norman ’55, Longview, Wash., Oct. 1, 2006

Terry A. Chase ’64, Spokane, Wash., June 15, 2006 Walter Cranston ’60, Lockeford, Calif., Sept. 30, 2006 Claire Strawn Floan ’61, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 17, 2006 Douglas R. Goodrich ’61, Concord, Calif., July 19, 2006 Mary H. Gorman ’63, Yakima, Wash., June 12, 2006

Harlow H. Oberbilling ’54, Boise, May 21, 2006

Edwin F. Hahn ’61, Cherryville, N.C., May 22, 2006

Frank A. Pentzer ’51, ’63, Lewiston, Aug. 13, 2006

Earl D. Hall ’60, Longmont, Colo., March 18, 2006

Garnett R. Port ’52, Nampa, Sept. 2, 2006

Gail Eugene “Gene” Harder ’64, Spokane, Wash., July 28, 2006

Raymond H. Remp ’53, Libby, Mont., Jan. 26, 2006 Ralph J. Schaeffer ’57, ’61, Boise, Sept. 29, 2006 Peter G. Snow ’54, ’59, Burley, March 11, 2006

William Joseph Johnston ’66, Midvale, May 19, 2006 Earl G. Jones ’68, Ammon, May 29, 2006 Dale E. Laird ’68, Molalla, Ore., May 29, 2006

Berne K. Jensen ’49, Boise, Aug. 13, 2006

1950

William R. Snyder ’55, Olympia, Wash., May 27, 2006

Alfred C. Kiser ’45, ’50, Boise, June 18, 2006

James Vernon Brown ’53, ’55, Portland, Ore., June 25, 2006

Delbert Stelljes ’52, Clarkston, Wash., July 20, 2006

James R. Klahr ’41, ’42, Parma, May 16, 2006

Bruce R. Cairns ’59, Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 14, 2006

Victor I. Neeley III ’60, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 26, 2006

Roger C. Stoker ’59, Meridian, July 26, 2006

Miriam L. Koester ’42, Twin Falls, Oct. 3, 2006

Lloyd A. Carothers ’50, Hillsboro, Ore., May 24, 2006

Darwin J. Nelson ’64, Tucson, Ariz., June 20, 2006

Elmer Stout ’51, Moscow, Aug. 13, 2006

Ila J. McBride ’40, Fresno, Calif., Sept. 13, 2006

Elbert C. Cleaveland ’50, Boise, Sept. 27, 2006

Gordon R. Powers ’62, Reno, Nev., June 14, 2006

Harold L. Suchan ’52, Buhl, Aug. 12, 2006

Russel J. Morbeck ’49, Coeur d’Alene, June 24, 2006

Leverett B. Curtis ’50, Vancouver, Wash., May 23, 2006

Miles M. Rice ’69, Boise, May 7, 2006

Charles D. Tovey ’58, Homedale, May 13, 2006

Bruce D. Rullman ’66, Elko, Nev., Aug. 24, 2006

Robert L. Turner ’58, ’60, Boise, July 24, 2006

Alice V. Erickson Shove ’67, Coeur d’Alene, June 19, 2006

Warren G. Weinel ’59, Mesa, Ariz., Aug. 17, 2006

Samuel D. Swayne ’67, ’69, Hixson, Tenn., April 8, 2006

Charles “Chuck” Weinmann ’52, ’57, Bakersfield, Calif., July 24, 2006

June Ann Tenckhoff ’67, Pewaukee, Wis., Aug. 4, 2006

Eric R. Nelson ’47, Cathlamet, Wash., Sept. 28, 2006 Alex Passic ’41, ’42, Federal Way, Wash., April 2, 2006 T. Edwin Peterson ’43, Bremerton, Wash., May 31, 2006 Wallace Reed ’44, Idaho Falls, May 14, 2006

William W. Douglas ’56, Rochester, Minn., July 22, 2006 David T. Ellis ’56, Valley View, Texas, April 17, 2006 Frederick H. Eriksen ’58, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 11, 2006

Neville A. Williams ’51, Clarkston, Wash., Aug. 1, 2006

Lyle M. Lubiens ’63, Nampa, June 14, 2006

Lee D. Tusberg ’69, Spokane, Wash., May 7, 2006

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Hilma J. Burke ’47, Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 26, 2006

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Class Notes

Alumni Steve N. Vanhorne ’60, Sandpoint, July 11, 2006

Harold K. Wilson ’65, Estes Park, Colo., Aug. 19, 2006 Sara J. Woodbury ’67, Spokane, Wash., July 25, 2006

1970 Kenneth E. Armstrong ’71, Depoe Bay, Ore., Aug. 22, 2006 Thomas E. Burkwist ’72, Eagle River, Alaska, Sept. 30, 2006 William “Sandy” d’Elia ’76, San Francisco, Calif., July 3, 2006 David K. Denton Jr. ’79, Spokane, Wash., May 17, 2006 Robert A. Dire ’74, Port Angeles, Wash., July 21, 2006 Chlea C. Gregory ’70 Moscow, Aug. 23, 2006

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Jane N. Clarke Mellor ’76, Portland, Ore., July 23, 2006 Douglas A. Pierce ’74, Spokane, Wash., May 18, 2006 Karen Darcy Sorenson Read ’71, Kent, Wash., May 3, 2006 Jim E. Wood ’73, Hazelton, May 16, 2006

1980 Donna M. Anderson ’84, Pagosa Springs, Colo., June 19, 2006 Steven Wayne Arnold ’88, ’91, Boise, May 24, 2006 Susan E. Doucette ’84, Raleigh, N. C., July 22, 2006 Carol J. Hammond ’85, Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2006

Scott Hanford ’76, Boise, Aug. 5, 2006

David L. Reigle ’89, Elizabethtown, Penn., June 4, 2006

Gy C. Hansen ’77, Idaho Falls, Sept. 8, 2006

James Lawrence Schaub ’87, Sept. 15, 2006

Jean E. Milne Heitmann ’75, Lewiston, June 8, 2006

Donald Frederic “Fred” Stabler ’82, Gautier, Miss., June 14, 2006

George Huppert ’71, St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 14, 2001 Donna M. Luebeck ’72, Livingston, Mont., Sept. 16,

Daniel P. Stephenson ’88, Burley, July 17, 2006

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The College of Engineering Centennial will feature events throughout the year on campus and around the state.

College Engineering Centennial kick-off celebrations: Jan. 16 Coeur d’Alene • Coeur d’Alene Resort Jan. 17 Moscow • Student Union Building Jan. 24 Boise • Owyhee Plaza Jan. 25 Idaho Falls • Museum of Idaho For more information, visit www.engr.uidaho.edu/100 or call (208) 885-7978.

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Issac W. Underwood ’80, Grand Junction, Colo., May 24, 2006

Lynnette L. Martin Nelson ’95, Caldwell, July 24, 2006

Kenneth C. “Chris” Tolmie

Carolyn Wren ’96, Grangeville, June 1, 2006

2000 Valerie M. Ambrosetti ’00, Post Falls, July 6, 2006

Engineering Design Expo 2007 April 27 Student Union and Engineering Complex Celebrating 100 years of Engineering at Idaho – 1907-2007 • Environmental preservation and restoration projects with interdisciplinary solutions • Easing the energy crisis through alternative, renewable and sustainable resources • Creating environmentally sound infrastructures for business, home and transportation • Software, advanced materials, and manufacturing for a better world • Reaching worldwide to solve basic needs of developing countries

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• Commemorating 100 years of global engineering achievements

Richard J. Leferink ’00, ’03, Coeur d’Alene, May 21, 2006 Charlotte L. McClelland ’00, Sanders, Ariz., July 19, 2006 Jennifer L. Vorhies-Storaasli ’01, Sandpoint, Sept. 23, 2006 Terry D. Wright ’01, Moscow, July 22, 2006

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Dear Friends of Idaho Welcome to another issue of Idaho Outlook

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s you have probably heard by now, there is a new law on the books that provides unprecedented opportunities for charitably-inclined taxpayers in certain age groups.

It is known as the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and sometimes referred to as the IRA Rollover bill. In this issue, we highlight one couple that has already taken advantage of this new provision. Some of the law’s features include: • If you are 70 1/2 or older, up to $100,000 can be distributed from a traditional or Roth IRA directly to the University of Idaho Foundation tax-free this year; • Married persons with separate IRAs can each transfer that amount; • As with any other gift for the University of Idaho, you can designate a specific program or fund as the beneficiary of your gift; • Such transfers can be applied toward your minimum required distribution under the plan; • The law sunsets on December 31 of this year; • Not all state tax laws will necessarily follow the federal one so it is important to check this out in your state, and you should consult with your legal and tax advisers before determining if this is right for you.

We hope you will find the articles and stories in this issue of interest. As always, we’d love to hear from you, and we welcome the opportunity to discuss how you too, can make a difference at the University of Idaho.

Sincerely, Ed McBride Director of Gift Planning

Heidi Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning

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Bob Stillinger

From Two-Bits an Hour to CEO to Contributor

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ob Stillinger started his working career at the tender age of 13, when his dad sent he and his older brother to work on construction jobs during the summer months. The work paid 25 cents per hour, which was one-half the wage paid to common laborers.

His dad wanted both sons to go on to college but to first fully appreciate hard manual labor and thus the need for further education. Now, 70-plus years later, Bob is truly thankful for the work ethic his dad instilled in him and cites that as one of the main reasons for his career successes. He also is thankful for the great start he had in his career at the University of Idaho.

Graduating from Idaho in 1943, Bob spent three years during World War II as a naval officer on a submarine chaser in the Caribbean. Following his Navy service, he married Lois Barnes of Coeur d’Alene, and spent two years on manual labor jobs in the large Potlatch Forests sawmill in Lewiston.

Then, he decided to get his master’s and doctoral degrees at the New York College of Forestry in Syracuse.

His first professional job was seven years at the Oregon Forest Products Laboratory in Corvallis, followed by another seven years as technical director at Cascades Plywood Co. in Lebanon, Ore. His

The Department of Forest Products is extremely grateful for the opportunity that the J.R. (Bob) and Lois L. Stillinger Endowment gives us to make strategic investments in our students, faculty and research infrastructure.

These funds have provided scholarships for students who are now successful in their careers and making significant contributions to the regional economy. The endowment has funded graduate student research in new areas of discovery that has led to competitive research awards. The endowment funds also are used as a source of matching funds that allows leveraging of state, federal and private dollars in new equipment purchases.

The endowment has helped to enhance our research collaboration with other colleges on campus and key partners at Washington State University, thanks to Dr. Stillinger’s encouragement and support.

During the period that we have been investing the J.R. (Bob) and Lois L. Stillinger Endowment into our departmental programs, our undergraduate and graduate student enrollments have doubled, our research equipment acquisitions have exceeded $1 million and our competitive grant awards have grown significantly.

Tom Gorman, Chair Forest Products Department

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Bob and Lois Stillinger, lower right, celebrated 60 years of marriage in Hawaii in 2004 with their three sons and their families.

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and research programs. Bob’s lifetime giving to the University of Idaho will soon be enough to induct him into the Foundation’s Syringa Society that recognizes donors with lifetime giving of $500,000 and above. He also has a significant bequest coming to the University upon his demise.

In so many ways, Bob Stillinger epitomizes the essence of a true philanthropic spirit by sharing some of the fruits of his notable professional accomplishments. The University is truly indebted to him for his vision, support and belief in its mission and achievements. Among his many accolades along the way, he was inducted into Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities as an Idaho student in 1943; was international president of the 4,500member Forest Products Research Society in 1967-68; was inducted into the University’s Hall of Fame in 1994; and awarded an honorary doctorate from Idaho in 1998. He also served on the boards and as president of several other professional organizations throughout his career.

Bob and Lois celebrated 60 years of marriage just three months before she passed away in 2004. They raised three sons and have three granchildren.

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career then took him to the Roseburg Lumber Co. in Dillard, Ore., as technical director assisting in the design of the largest particleboard plant in the world at that time.

The next big move was to Dallas, Texas, where for six years he was the CEO of a particleboard company with four plants located in, Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arkansas.

That was followed by a job as CEO of a plastics plant in Arlington, Texas, for three years. Bob then became North American technical and sales representative for the large German company Bison, Werke. He was later hired as managing director of a bankrupt Scottish particleboard company and brought it back to a profitable operation and built a second highly-automated mediumdensity fiberboard plant over a period of seven years. Bob retired from that position at age 65.

Bob and Lois returned to Corvallis where he established his own management and technical consulting company with projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. until he retired, again, at age 77.

Bob has been a generous financial supporter of the University’s College of Natural Resources over the years through his funding of scholarships

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Trini and Gerry Snow

An Adopted Vandal University of Idaho Before long, they were buying “ hedoesn’t owe me anything, but neighboring properties. Finally, in

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I owe it a lot.” Those are the sentiments of Gerald Snow, Moscow native and a Vandal in every sense of the word. Gerry farmed just outside Moscow and started going to Idaho football games with his dad in the 1930s when he was seven or eight years old. His zeal for Vandal sports has never waned.

But it doesn’t stop there. Gerry says he was helped in more ways than he can count over the years in his farming operation, mostly

by College of Agricultural and Life Sciences personnel, but by others as well. He feels very strongly about the economic impact the University has in the Palouse and across the whole state.

In 1952, Gerry decided to cash in a life insurance policy his dad had bought when Gerry was just an infant. With the $3,500 proceeds, he and his wife, Norma, put a down payment on a house on the edge of campus and with “sweat-equity,” turned it into an apartment house.

1969, they moved the houses to land south of Moscow and constructed a 12-unit apartment house on the site.

It has been a prime investment for Gerry over the years. As he puts it, “It’s never empty.”

Along the way, Gerry also invested in an individual retirement account and when the Pension Protection Act, sometimes called the IRA Rollover Bill, was signed into law in August 2006, he seized the opportunity to make a tax-free donation to Vandal Athletics. This was but one more significant contribution to the University of Idaho that Gerald Snow has made. Following the deaths of both his first wife and his son, he created the Norma, Jerry Jay and Gerald Snow Endowed Scholarship Fund and has been steadily adding to it, as well as continuing his support of other athletic and academic programs.

In addition to his financial support, Gerry was president of the Latah County chapter of Vandal

Boosters in the early ’70s, and National Vandal Booster, now Vandal Scholarship Fund, president in 1978.

Gerald and his wife, Trini, have been married 10 years, and though she still has some sentimental ties to that Boise-based university, she says she is “95.5 percent Vandal now.”

Trini is 100 percent behind Gerry’s charitable support of Idaho, including the provisions in his estate plan for the institution. Gerry and Trini, a retired intensive care unit nurse, divide their time between their Caldwell and Lake Havasu, Ariz., homes. They rarely miss a home football game each fall.

Gerry was the first person to take advantage of the IRA Rollover provision to benefit the University of Idaho. He likes the simplicity of the transfer—a directive to his IRA manager—and the fact that the distribution counts toward his mandatory minimum withdrawal.

Best of all, he doesn’t have to claim the distribution as income.

Emily Davis and Idaho is my family. I want to know that if something happens I am leaving a lasting legacy at the place I call home,” said Davis.

Davis was born and raised in Boise. Her parents, James and Blenda Davis, raised her with the purpose and need to serve others. “Servant leadership was taught to me at an early age,” says Davis.

She may well be the youngest member of the Heritage Society, but she keeps good company. These are families and individuals who have provided for the University in their estate plans and life insurance policies. “When I volunteer at alumni and supporter events, it’s so wonderful to meet other members of the society,” said Davis.

As Davis finishes her fifth and final year at Idaho, she looks over her resume and is a little surprised at what she has done in such little time: student government, Student Alumni Relations Board, Student Foundation, Residence Life, Women’s Center and avid Vandal athletics fan.

“I have made Idaho my life. I bleed silver and gold, from my very core I am a Vandal. The time I have spent serving my fellow students, alumni, faculty and staff has been well worth it. I am proud to look back and see what I have done. As I look toward the future, I can’t wait to continue serving the University of Idaho.”

Bequest Language

A bequest through your will or revocable trust can deliver a specific dollar amount or asset to the University of Idaho. It also can specify a percentage of the balance remaining in your estate be distributed to the University after taxes and other specific bequests have been paid. Finally, a bequest can be contingent, that is, payable to the University only if an individual beneficiary listed in your will is not able to inherit.

Specific Bequest—“I give and bequeath Twenty Thousand ($20,000) Dollars [or: all my Microsoft stock] to The University of Idaho Foundation, Inc.” Partial Residuary Bequest—“I give and bequeath 10 percent (10%) of the residue of my estate to The University of Idaho Foundation, Inc.” Full Residuary Bequest—“I give, devise and bequeath the rest, residue and remainder of my estate to The University of Idaho Foundation, Inc.” Contingent Bequest—“If my nephew does not survive me or is unable to inherit this bequest, I direct that it be paid to The University of Idaho Foundation, Inc.” As with a gift made during your lifetime, a bequest in any form can be designated to the program, department or endowment of your choice, or it can be left to the Foundation to be used where most needed.

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s a current student of the University of Idaho, Emily Davis ’06 has been busy making a difference on campus. As a part of the next generation of Vandal alumni, Davis wants to make sure everyone knows her love for and loyalty to Idaho.

Davis is a founding member of Idaho’s first Student Foundation.

As the director of this student organization, Davis works with the University of Idaho Foundation and advancement professionals to implement the spirit of philanthropy into the hearts and minds of the current student body. Last year, she helped raise more than $4,000 for the Class Gift Project and worked with other student leaders on the ASUI Vandal Leadership Fund.

Having a mentor like Executive Director of Development Caroline Nilsson Troy to help her understand the importance of giving back to Idaho—the people and place that has given Davis so much—she had a serious conversation with her family. Accordingly, Davis has made arrangements with her parents that if her time comes earlier then expected, whatever she has will be given to Idaho as an unrestricted gift.

“Some people might think I am jumping the gun, but you never know what God has in store for you. I know that I want to take care of my family

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Heritage Society – FY06 J. Robert and Sonja J. Alexander Richard W. and Sharon L. Allen Leona Ambrose Ethel K. Anderson Michael M. and Jeannie Anderson Phillip D. and Janell K. Anderson Beulah K. Archer John Lee Armitage, Jr. Steven A. and Patsy M. Atkinson John M. and Lois E. Ayers B. Bernice Bacharach Evalyn I. Baker William P. Barnes Elbert M. and Elna M. Barton June Bauer Maxine C. Behrman Bill S. and Donna G. Belknap Melinda Ann Belt J. Burton Berlin Charles A. and Nancy J. Berry Edith Betts Harvey T. and Myrna Bickett Edward L. and Barbara L. Bickford Thomas E. and Caroline M. Bitterwolf Linda L. Blackwelder-Pall Clara R. Bleak Ben L. and Annette Brooks James B. and Shellie A. Bronson 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 Mary Jean Craig Robert L. Culbertson Alan B. and Mary Ann Curtis Robert R. and Lynn M. Curtis Robert L. and Carol E. Dahlberg Glen W. and Bonnie J. Dahmen Paul W. and Dorothy J. Dale Richard H., Jr. and Cindy L. Darnell Brenda G. Dau Madeline David P. Michael and Linda S. Davidson Emily P. Davis

Martha I. Davis James A. and Alice B. DeShazer Sandra D. Dunn Xavier E. and Mary Ellen Durant Ruth Parks Durham Gene D. and Marlene A. Easton Thomas L. and Helen J. Edmark Dorothy Ann Effertz 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 Bonnie J. Fisher Melville W. Fisher II 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 Harold E. Granlund Ronald N. and Diane Plastino Graves John O. Gray Robert C. Greeley Nancy L. Gregory Robert M. and Dolores A. Griffith Timothy D. and Joan M. Gutzwiller Garth D. and Margie Haddock Timothy J. and Christine M. Haener Glenna Hamilton Gail E. Hanninen Lucille M. Hardgrove Pauline W. Harris Norbert and Eileen Potucek Hartmann Miriam Hatch F. Marshall and Sharon A. Hauck David H. and Bonnie J. Hawk Jack W. and Julie Holden Hawkins James V. and Gail R. Hawkins Mary Jane Hayes Eloise B. Helbling

Thomas M. and Alice E. Hennessey Betty Jane Hervey Evan Berdett and D. Yvonne Hess Frances W. Hirschi Melva Hoffman Dennis Thayer Hopwood Larry G. and Nancy K. Huettig Bonnie J. Hultstrand Arthur E. and Sheila D. Humphrey Pauline D. Hunt J. Stuart and Nancy B. Hutchins J. Robert and Bonnie J. Jackson Richard W. and Trudy J. Jackson Ruth W. Jensen Erling J. and Amy L. Johannesen Myron E. Johnston Kenneth M. and Jan Jones Robert T. and E. Jean Jones Roger L. Jones Marion G. Kalbus Thomas A. and Lillian Keegan Taso C. Kinnas Barbara L. Kitchens George M. Klein Ruth Ann Knapp Lawrence L. and Kathryn A. Knight Barbara J. Langdon Carol Ann and Jerry Lange Margaret Larson Elsie E. Lathen Richard K. 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 Randall G. Litton Marjorie Logue Maurice B. and Alice J. Lynch George and Mary Ann Macinko Gene C. and Lila M. Maier Martin J. and Linda A. Marler Kenneth B. and Dorene Marshall William H. Mason Elsie Krey Matthews Edward J. and Connie L. McBride F. Parker and Beverly S. McCreary Doris M. McGinty Eugene A. and Alice J. McHale Helen M. McKinney Elizabeth G. McKissick Marilyn Hammer Meechan 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 Leland L. and Mary Margaret Mink Terry P. and Ann Mix Larry W. and Janice A. Moore William B. and Marilyn Moore Joseph W. Mrachek Sharon A. Murray 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 Jeffrey K. Olson Wayne L. and Annette T. Olson 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 Robert A. and Victoria E. Peterson James D. Pittenger Kenneth W. and Patricia Pober David A. and Mary Alice Poe Frederick R. and Cherie B. Pond James I. and Judith M. Powers Stewart W. Pugh Leonard G. 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 Ben R. and Anna M. Rolphe

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Listed below 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 remembered and honored for their generosity and foresight.

Alfred B. Anderson Bernard A. Anderson Mary Margaret Anderson Paul W. Atwood Myrtle Bain Herbert D. and Dolores S. Barnes Dorothy T. Barnes Robert W. Beamer Sherman Bellwood Ralph Bleak Warren Brown and Jayne J. 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 C. Gordon Edgren Herbert M. and Beulah M. Edwards William E. Effertz Jr. 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 Fred R. Gleave Elma M. Goodman Leon G. Green George A. Hardgrove Mildred M. Haberly Leonard Halland Eugenia A. Hamblin Bobby C. Hamilton Walter C. and Myldred Hayes Ruth M. Heady Art Helbling Mildred M. Hensley Dwight S. Hoffman K. Jean Holmes Shirley P. Horning Gertrude Drissen Hudson Robert E. Jensen John O. Johnson Elmer M. Johnston Nancy Joy Jones Katharine K. Kemp Thor Kiilsgaard Edith Miller Klein Elvera V. Klein Marvin Klemme Rosalie Koenig Allyn Richard Larsen E. Richard Larson Russell K. LeBarron Eugene C. Logue Elbert M. Long James R. and Violet Lucas Curtis W. Mann Boyd A. and Grace C. Martin James W. and Beulah L. Martin Margareta O. Mason Ellis L. Mathes Richard I. Matthews Fred D. and Irene H. Maurer Clarence R. Meltesen Keith K. McDaniel Vaughan P. McDonald Valetta A. McGill Mary Alice McGovern

William C. McGowan Albert A. and Jean M. Monnett Wallace P. and Dorothy Monnett Winfred B. Moorer David W. Morehouse Patsy S. Munroe Sarah Nettleton Ralph Lee Olmstead Glenn B. , Sr. and 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 George E. Pynchon R. Marie Pyne Edwin J. Ratajak James A. Raymer William H. Richardson Donald Ellis Roberts Julia E. Rolland John W. Roper Patton A. Ross Everett V. Samuelson 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 Carol E. Stewart Lois L. Stillinger Alene M. Swindler Lee Anne Tavis Eline L. Taylor 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 Douglas A. Wood Herbert M. Woodcock Dolores L. Woodhead

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Geraldine Hastings Wayne H. Valentine Lily C. and Chien M. Wai Susan K. Waltner Elizabeth Ann Webb Garry R. and Linda I. Webb Lucinda Weiss L. Dean and E. Gay Welch Wayne L. Weseman Franklin K. Wheelock Darrell G. Whitehead Marie H. Whitesel Daniel B. Whiting George D. and Kathleen D. Whitlock Loretta O. Wickstrand Craig A. and Linda B. Wiegman Larry D. and Winnie E. Williams Ronald M. and Ella Mae Winans 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 John Zbozen, Jr.

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Elaine Ambrose Romano and Michael Romano Richard H. and Dorothy S. Ross George W. Rothweiler Gavin B. Rumble Joseph N. and Susan Rumble Lois E. Samuelson Marilyn Ruth Sargent Donald B. and Ann K. Schaechtel 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 John R. Smiley Daryl L. and Deborah L. Smith Richard R. and Ruth A. Smith Gerald J. and Trini Snow Melvin C. Snow Richard L. and Patty Sorensen James A. and Janet Steele James D. Stephens Donald P. and H. Maxine Stewart Richard B. Stewart J. Robert Stillinger W.G., Jr. and Laura J. Stover Robert C. and Shirley L. Strom J. Kirk and Elizabeth M. Sullivan Kathryn A. Supko Bruce L. and Marilyn M. Sweeney William A. and Dorothy S. Sylvies Richard K. and Kathryn M. Talbott Trevor S. and LeeAnn K. Tarter 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 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

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There are many ways you can support the University of Idaho in addition to an outright gift. Below is a brief listing of how you can participate in this vital component of the University of Idaho’s mission.

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 the University of Idaho in your will for a certain dollar amount, percentage 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 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. Heritage Society membership.

Life Insurance Gift

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

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

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

Retirement Plan Gift

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

Heirs avoid income tax and possibly estate tax.

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

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. Heritage Society membership.

Charitable Remainder Trust

A trust that pays 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 annual income that could increase if trust value increases. Heritage Society membership.

Charitable Lead Trust

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

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

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

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. Heritage Society membership.

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

Please let us know if you have remembered the University of Idaho in your estate plans.

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

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

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Gear up for the Great Outdoors—The Outdoor Recreation Program, housed in the Student Recreation Center, outfits more than 10,000 people a year for outdoor adventures with snowshoes, skis, tents, stoves, sleeping bags, wetsuits and even coolers.

It’s about endurance—Over the past three years, students have spent time running, biking and stepping with fervor. They have completed more than 117,000 hours of heart-pumping exercise, which totals more than 13 years. I

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t the entrance of the Student Recreation Center, exercise enthusiasts grasp the door handles, replicas of silver barbells. Once inside, a heightened enthusiasm fills the space as runners, bicyclists, climbers and weight-lifters burn calories, build muscle and test endurance.

The SRC is a place with more buzz than a corner coffee shop. With such a high-intensity atmosphere, it’s easy for a University of Idaho student to make this hotspot part of his or her regular routine.

Run, Vandal, run­—In the last three years, students ran enough laps to complete more than 10,000 marathons.

Serious globe-trotting­—Runners and cyclists have tallied enough miles to circle the globe nearly 29 times.

Top of the popularity poll—Treadmills are the most popular form of exercise, each of the 11 machines have averaged more than 3,800 hours of use over three years. Elliptical machines come in at No. 2 on the popularity scale. The stationary bikes sizzle—riders have completed the length of the Tour de France nearly 180 times.

At the peak—At the Climbing Center, students can maneuver across 2,200 handholds to reach the top of the 55-foot-high pinnacle. Climbers have a half-mile of climbing rope at their disposal, 40 harnesses and 150 carabineers. The climbing wall features 5,600 square feet of climbing space. It also features 24 roped climbing stations.

Top of the world—In six months, stair-stepping students take enough steps to climb Mount Everest nearly 500 times. The SRC features eight stair-steppers.

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Distance and cross country runner Dee Olson.

Idaho’s All-American’s Leading the pack in track and field

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ee Olson and Russ Winger have followed similar paths to success as track and field standouts at Idaho.

The two team leaders came to Moscow with limited experience in their sports and are now adding to the University’s illustrious—and growing—track and field tradition.

Both earned All-American recognition for their performances at NCAA National Championship meets. Winger, a shot put thrower, finished second in the 2006 indoor championships and fifth in the 2005 outdoor championships.

Olson, a distance and cross country runner, finished third at the 2006 indoor championships and sixth at the 2006 outdoor championships.

Dee Olson— “I’m gonna be an All-American” It is unclear which will wear out first: the Palouse running trails or Dee Olson.

From the early days she spent as an unknown freshman, practically screaming to anyone who’d listen that one day she’d be an All-American, through the day she actually became an All-American, the senior distance runner has backed her confident spirit with a supernatural workout regimen.

“Yup!” she says in a tone that belies unfathomable energy. “I want to run in the Olympics—that’s what motivates me. I want to see how far I can go.”

Olson, the Idaho women’s track and field team captain, has been known to run 90 miles in a week. She runs 1015 miles a day—six days a week, lifts weights and spends hours working on other drills.

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She still does these things, and by now, she’s almost as visible on the Palouse as the wheat fields and hills.

“I love it here,” Olson says. “I couldn’t picture myself at any other school.”

“Dee has matured a lot (since coming to Idaho),” Phipps said. “Some people may not believe it because she’s kind of a goofball. But she’s got such a big heart. I think sometimes, people overlook that.

“When it comes right down to it, she’d do anything for anybody,” he adds. “If a friend needed anything, she’d give it right up.”

Russ Winger—an imposing talent Though he might not have looked like much as an 18year-old freshman, Vandal coaches knew from the start Russ Winger was bound for something special.

Four years later, Winger, the Idaho men’s track and field team captain, is a world-class shot-put thrower.

“Internationally, we’re very strong in the shot put,” Winger’s throwing coach, Julie Taylor ’87, says. “For him to compete with America’s best throwers, that puts him in a class with some of the best in the world.”

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track coach Wayne Phipps says. “The intensity and volume she’s able to handle are just incredible.”

By her junior year, the seemingly average athlete made herself into one of the country’s top runners. In 2005, she led the Vandal cross country team to the school’s first Western Athletic Conference championship. In 2006, she finished third in the mile at the Women’s Indoor championships.

If she continues at this rate, Olson has a strong chance to compete at the London Olympics in 2012, or even the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

This success comes as no surprise to Phipps, nor to anyone who sees Olson work on a day-to-day basis.

“She used to come up to me and tell me she was going to be an All-American,” Phipps says with a laughing affection. “It wasn’t just like once every six months. It was written on worksheets. It was everywhere. ‘Coach, I’m gonna be an All-American.’ ‘Yeah I know, Dee, I know.’”

“I was like, nothing. I don’t know who I was!” Olson says. “Looking back, I probably would have hated me. But I just knew that I was going to do whatever I had to do.”

So she ran around every inch of the Kibbie Dome. She ran with the men’s team during practice. She scaled the back side of Moscow Mountain and ran wind sprints when she got to the top.

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and Field Championships with a personal best throw of 65 feet, nineand-a-half inches. Last summer, at a meet of some of this hemisphere’s best throwers, Winger earned a silver medal.

“We have a good shot at winning the WAC outdoor championships this year,” Idaho track coach Wayne Phipps says. “His performance is going to be 75-percent of the reason why.

He’s that valuable.”

From being un-recruited by college coaches to competing with Olympiccaliber athletes, Winger ran the gamut of collegiate fortune, thanks to a tireless work ethic, along with a physical talent that is imposing to say the least. Winger has added 50 pounds of muscle since coming to Idaho and now weighs a solid 270 pounds.

Winger, for his part, deflects credit for his success and instead points to a “support base” which includes

teammates, coaches and, perhaps most importantly, his mother and father.

When the Vandals competed in the 2006 NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., his dad, Brad Winger, and his mom, Carol Grunschlaeger, drove from Colorado Springs to watch him.

“It was surprising,” Russ says. “They just called a couple hours before they came into town and said, ‘You wanna’ meet for dinner?’ ‘Uh, sure. Where are ‘ya?’”

This story is unsurprising coming from Winger, who’s much more likely to mention those around him than his own accomplishments. For the record, Winger finished second at the National tournament and has a solid chance to win it all this year.

“He considers other people and their possibilities,” Taylor says. “He’s not just a person focused on his own accomplishments, which is pretty

unusual for a track kid.”

Taylor recalls when the young thrower sought out meet officials after competitions, and thanked them for their parts. She considers him a strong team leader, nearly to the point of being an extra coach.

Winger throws team barbecues, motivates other throwers during running drills and even pulls teammates aside when he thinks they could improve their effort.

Perhaps one of the reasons he does this is to give back to teammates who have helped him improve in the past.

“Without somebody there to push you and help you out, you never know what you can do, I guess,” Winger says. “It changes the dynamic of competition so much to have your teammates there, throwing with you. It’s amazing—just the change in energy.” I

#17—A Vandal Legend University of Idaho football great John Friesz was honored this fall when his #17 was retired in recognition of his many contributions to Vandal athletics.

The retirement ceremony, during the Idaho-Boise State football game, marked the end of a busy few months for Friesz. The Coeur d’Alene native was inducted into the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame in August.

Friesz still is the Idaho record holder in six single-season passing categories and three career lists.

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Vandal freshman Rhea Richter made an immediate impression on the Western Athletic Conference cross country world in her debut season.

Richter, from Hennstedt, Germany, swept the cross country awards after winning the league title. She also was selected as the Female Athlete of the Year and the Freshman of the Year.

During the season, she won the Vandal Twilight meet and was third at the Charles Bowles Invitational.

Rhea Richter

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March 3 Vandal Night at the Idaho Stampede, Boise

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Jan. 24 University of Idaho Day at the State Legislature

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A New Vibe

at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival...

The University of Idaho is excited to welcome bassist, composer, arranger and conductor John Clayton as artistic director for the largest educational jazz festival in the world – the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.

Join the excitement in Moscow, Idaho, Feb. 21-24 as we fulfill Lionel Hampton’s dream of inspiring the next generation of jazz artists. Special tribute will be made to Lynn “Doc” Skinner for his 40 years of dedication to the festival and music education.

Scheduled to appear: Roy Hargrove Quintet Jane Monheit

John Pizzarelli James Morrison

Wycliffe Gordon and more!

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