Here We Have Idaho Spring 2016

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University of Idaho magazine | Spring 2016

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On the Cover: This illustration of the state of Idaho was created by UI alumnus Noah Kroese. Each icon represents a story and location inside this issue of Here We Have Idaho. Kroese received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from UI in 2004. He is a professional freelance illustrator based in Moscow. You can learn more about Kroese's work at www.illustrationnk.com.

Above: The University of Idaho offers firstclass medical education for Idaho residents through it’s participation in the WWAMI medical program. Read more about Idaho’s medical school on page 8.

Corrections: In the Fall 2015 issue of Here We Have Idaho, a photo caption on page 36 incorrectly identified the country where the photograph was taken. The photograph was taken in Finland.

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6 Vandals in Partnership 8 Idaho's Medical School 14 A Simpatico Relationship:

From the President Campus News Development News Class Notes Vandal Snapshot

How UI and the State's Latino Population Sustain One Another

18 Changing Lives through 4-H 20 What Does Fire Mean?

24 A Better Education for Everyone

28 Pro Bono Benefits 31 Part of Something Special 32 Exploring Geothermal Opportunities

34 Breaking the Stigma: Athletes Aspire to Inspire

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Here We Have Idaho The University of Idaho Magazine Spring 2016 • Volume 32, Number 2 President

Chuck Staben

Executive Director Communications and Marketing Stefany Bales ’96

Executive Director Office of Alumni Relations Kathy Barnard ’81

Alumni Association President Travis Thompson ’97

University of Idaho Foundation Chairman Richard W. Allen ’73

Editor

Savannah Tranchell ’08

Creative Director Emily Mowrer

Class Notes Editor Annis Shea ’86

Writers and Contributors Andrew Gauss Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka Brian Keenan Kate Keenan Joshua Nishimoto ’09 Maria Ortega Tara Roberts ’07 Jocelyn Stott Jodi Walker

Photography

Kari Greer UI Photo Services Melissa Hartley Joe Pallen ’96 Right: This photo of rhododendrons in front of the Administration Building was taken by Joe Pallen.

The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and educational institution. © 2016, University of Idaho Here We Have Idaho magazine is published twice per year. The magazine is free to alumni and friends of the university.

For address changes and subscription information, visit uidaho.edu/alumni/stay-connected.

Contact the editor at UIdahoMagazine@uidaho.edu.

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From the President Every morning as I head to work in our Administration Building, I pass by a small marker carved into the entryway to commemorate the 1908 completion of the historic building. The inscription reads: “Erected by the Commonwealth of Idaho for the training of her future citizens to their highest usefulness in private life and public service.” For the University of Idaho, those words etched in the heart of campus give voice to a promise — a core belief that Idaho’s leading, national research university has a fundamental duty to help construct a positive future for our students and for our state.

We accomplish that mission in many ways. First and foremost, we deliver a transformative education.

Our students come to us from all corners of our state, from small towns to major urban centers. Many are among the first in their families to attend college. They are making an investment in future success, and they count on us to provide an experience that is second to none.

How are we doing? I encourage readers to visit the federal government’s new College Scorecard website (collegescorecard.ed.gov) for a comparative look at our success as measured by graduation rates, affordability and financial outcomes after college. The pages in this magazine, though, tell more personal stories about people unlocking their potential and finding ways to contribute to society with their insight, passion and burgeoning expertise. They are future natural resource professionals; soon-to-be nuclear engineers setting out to work in the critically important clean-energy sector; aspiring rural and family doctors gaining access to one of the best medical educations in the country through the Idaho WWAMI program.

We can reach more students with the impact of a Vandal education. Over the next 10 years, we can reshape Idaho’s higher education landscape, strengthening our university and our state.

Last fall, UI worked with the state board and state government to implement a direct admissions initiative that offers automatic admission for Idaho

high school seniors to public colleges and universities based on their academic achievement. We followed up with Enroll Idaho, a day of statewide outreach that took the value of the college experience directly to high school students in nearly every county. In January, UI’s James A. and Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research issued its “Life after High School” study, which examines the choices students make. The study is a great resource to guide our decision-making.

We want more students to attend college, and we want the undergraduate student body at UI to look like Idaho. We can and should resemble a cross-section of this increasingly diverse, growing state.

In this issue, you’ll learn about some of the ways we reach out to students to promote postsecondary attendance. We’re building relationships between future teachers and Native American communities, and we are exposing more elementary schoolage tribal members to the UI experience. We’re connecting with Hispanic communities in southern Idaho. And we’re continuing to foster leadership through our outstanding 4-H and Extension programming.

The students of today are the in-demand workforce of tomorrow. We prepare graduates with the skills, perspectives and experiences that foster shared prosperity in an increasingly knowledgebased, global economy. Our success is borne out by a recent assessment of UI’s economic impact by the Economic Modeling Specialists International company, a national leader in the field, based here in Moscow. According to the recently published study, UI annually contributes more than $1.1 billion to Idaho’s economy. Nearly $800 million of that impact is the wage differential enjoyed by Vandal graduates — proof of the power of a Vandal degree. Our university’s total impact comes to nearly 2 percent of Idaho’s total economy.

We live in times filled with promise and with challenges. For our state to live up to its potential, it will need the University of Idaho to be its best. It will need Vandals.

CHUCK STABEN, PRESIDENT

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Collaborative Research Protects Sage Grouse and Ranchers

BY JODI WALKER

A team of University of Idaho faculty and graduate students is working to better understand the relationships between land-use decisions regarding grazing cattle and the viability of sage grouse populations. The research is the beginning of a 10-year project and is a collaboration with ranchers and numerous state and federal agencies throughout Idaho, including the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the Idaho Cattle Association.

The research team is working on 16 pastures within Bureau of Land Management allotments where ranchers graze cattle. Sage grouse are being collared, and nests and broods monitored. The goal is to assess whether sage grouse reproduction and survival are affected by different grazing practices.

Professors Courtney Conway and Karen Launchbaugh, in the College of Natural Resources, are leading the research through UI’s Rangeland Center.

Cattle grazing is not the only land use that can potentially affect sage grouse habitat quality. Researchers are also examining the threat of wildfire, cheatgrass infestations and climate.

The successful collaboration with ranchers and federal agencies, and other outreach efforts, are good examples of the new partnerships that contributed to the decision by the Department of the Interior not to list sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act last fall.

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Bioregional Planning Program: A Blueprint for Idaho's Future

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Depending on where you are in Idaho, land use may include mills and mines, farms and feedlots, bustling suburbs and urban growth. There are tribal lands, wildlands and federal lands. As Idaho’s population expands, so does the complexity of planning for this multitude of uses.

The University of Idaho’s interdisciplinary Bioregional Planning and Community Design Program, housed in the College of Art and Architecture at UI Boise and offered in Boise, Moscow and online, helps those who navigate landuse planning in Idaho make decisions to guide growth while preserving the state’s character, said Jaap Vos, who was appointed director in 2015.

Vos’ goal is to create a curriculum that combines community-based research with classes that serve traditional students and current planners who want to expand their knowledge. The program launched its first online course in January.

The research aspect of the program takes students into regional towns to collaborate with community leaders on real-world projects.

Student Brock Cherry of Rigby worked on a recent zoning ordinance review in Colfax, Washington, which opened his eyes to the intricacy of planning in a rural area.

“I want to give back to my state,” he said. “Idaho is growing at an amazing rate, and we have the opportunity to learn from all the mistakes from areas that have already grown significantly. We get to plan the right way.”

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Expanding Research for Nuclear Energy

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The demand for skilled nuclear engineers — combined with an ever-growing call for clean energy — has led the UI College of Engineering to increase its investment in nuclear engineering research and education.

“The real need is for the country’s primary energy source to be environmentally friendly,” said Vivek Utgikar, associate dean for research and economic development. “Nuclear is obviously one of the big contributing players that can satisfy whatever constraints are placed on new energy sources.”

The college’s Nuclear Engineering Program has components at UI’s Moscow campus and is a cornerstone of UI Idaho Falls, where it is housed in the collaborative Center for Advanced Energy Studies.

The majority of UI nuclear engineering research is conducted in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The research falls across a broad spectrum, including control and safety systems for nuclear power plants, designing secure facilities and treating waste.

The program also has expanded its faculty, including new director Richard Christensen. In 2015, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded UI a $434,000 grant for faculty development.

Utgikar and Christensen emphasized that UI is striving to develop broader and deeper partnerships among university researchers, with INL and beyond.

“Engineering is not a silo where you go sit in a corner and do it by yourself,” Christensen said. “Part of the objective is to go to your customer and say, ‘What do you need?’” www.uidaho.edu/engr

Study Predicts Demand on Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer The Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer is the sole source of water for 150,000 people in North Idaho.

The new study by the University of Idaho’s Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI) is helping the cities on the prairie maintain their water access as they grow.

The aquifer spans Idaho and Washington, with water flowing east to west and affecting the Spokane River. In March 2014, municipal water providers on the Idaho side asked IWRRI for help. The state of Washington was moving toward adopting flow rules for the Spokane River, and the water providers wanted to make sure it wouldn’t hurt their ability to deliver water to Idaho’s second-largest metro area in the future.

IWRRI interim director Mark Solomon estimated the area’s water demand for the next 30 years by examining current water demand and population and economic projections. With this data, the districts applied to the Idaho Water Resource Board for a future need water right.

If they receive the right, providers will be able to protect their water access “should it ever come to competition instead of cooperation between the states,” Solomon said.

Mike Galante, district manager for the North Kootenai Water and Sewer District, said he’s pleased with the study’s usefulness not only for securing water rights, but also for planning for growth.

Mark Solomon, from left, and Mike Galante, are collaborating on a project to predict water demands on the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer.

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UBDUE ALL THEIR FOES uring his State of the University address in September 2014, University of Idaho President Chuck Staben outlined an ambitious vision: Increase enrollment at UI by 50 percent — about 5,000 students — by 2024.

Since then, UI has emerged as a leader in Idaho’s statewide initiative to increase college enrollment. Staben’s June 2015 proposal to the State Board of Education to create a new admissions system led to the initiation of Direct Admissions.

High school students last October received letters announcing that, based on their GPAs, they were already conditionally admitted to Idaho’s public institutions.

To promote that effort, UI launched Enroll Idaho, a series of events held in nearly every county in November and January. The meetings invited students, parents and educators to talk about why going to college is a good investment, navigating the financial aid system and why UI is a great option.

The university has revamped admissions and recruitment materials, moved enrollment events to accommodate more students (Vandal Friday is now called UIdaho Bound and was held on two Saturdays in April) and redesigned its website to be mobile-responsive and more user-friendly.

But attracting more students to UI isn’t a goal that the university can accomplish on its own. It’s an all-hands-ondeck call.

“UI is an excellent option for students — we have worldrenowned researchers, state-of-the-art facilities and great outcomes for our graduates, especially in terms of finding a career and having a strong financial future,” Staben said. “A Vandal education offers a path toward a good job and a great life. And no one knows that better than our alumni.”

The Office of Alumni Relations and Office of Admissions know that alumni are often the best recruiters for the university. They are creating new initiatives and ways for UI supporters to help attract new students.

“Vandal alumni understand very well the amazing value of a University of Idaho education,” said Kathy Barnard ’81, executive director of Alumni Relations. “We graduate with what we need to succeed in the workplace and in life. We make a positive difference wherever we are. And, many of us want to share that experience and tradition with future Vandals.”

Tim Helmke ’95, associate director of Alumni Relations, agrees.

“What we’ve seen is there’s a whole group of alumni out there who want to help with recruitment, and that’s really their niche,” he said. “They don't just want to come to socials. They don't just want to donate. They want to help other students find their passion here like they found their passion here.”

One current focus is the Vandals in Partnership (VIP) program, which connects alumni with recruitment events in their area, as well as offers training and materials for alumni who want to be volunteer recruiters. The program offers several ways to participate: n Grow the Gold: Alumni fill out a card or online form (www.uidaho.edu/alumni) to nominate a student for admission to UI. The nominated student will not have to pay an application fee at UI. n Meet the Vandals and other recruitment events: UI hosts events throughout the Pacific Northwest each year, and alumni can participate by helping attendees register, giving directions or even just sharing their UI experience with high school students and their parents. n VIP Luncheons: Alumni meet with UI administrators and staff to hear about recruitment efforts and changes at the university. n VIP Recruitment Partner: UI offers training and materials to help those who want to host recruitment events or meet with students at high schools and college fairs.

Alumni involvement at all levels is crucial to UI’s success.

“When you’re at an event as an alumni volunteer — that speaks to the students and their families,” Helmke said. “We want students to experience that personal touch. That’s key. That’s the Idaho way.”

Alumni don't need to be well versed in UI's processes or programs, Helmke said, they just need to be willing to share their passion for the institution.

“Everybody has a story to tell,” Helmke said. “Success is defined in so many different ways. These students are just wanting to hear about the preparation the alumni had at UI, the quality of education, the student experience, how it prepared them and how it started their career paths.

“Everybody can share their story. Everybody is a success.

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SCHOOL WWAMI program gives UI students access to world-class medical education

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ordan Huttash knew she wanted to be a physician when she was 8 years old. She was the kid who always carried her plastic doctor’s tools around with her, the medic in her older brothers’ battle games.

She studied biology and Spanish at the College of Idaho, not far from her family in Nampa. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, she worked as a medical scribe at St. Alphonsus hospitals in Nampa and Boise.

In the emergency rooms, medicine was no game. Huttash saw patients in need and in pain. She met people who didn’t have insurance or couldn’t afford their medications. She met Spanish-speaking Idahoans who waited to seek treatment for fear of judgement or misunderstanding. She saw patient after patient who entered the ER dangerously ill because they didn’t have primary care doctors to help them before situations got serious.

Huttash saw a world that was far from ideal — and she knew what she wanted to do.

“Working with patients in real life and Jordan Huttash seeing medicine and health care how it is now, it removed any doubt,” she said about the decision to go to medical school.

She also had no doubt about where she wanted to go: Idaho’s WWAMI Medical Education Program, housed at the University of Idaho.

“The WWAMI program was my No. 1 choice,” she said. “I interviewed other places, but WWAMI was No. 1.”

IDAHO’S MEDICAL SCHOOL WWAMI stands for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho: the states working together since 1977 (Wyoming joined in 1996) to deliver medical education in a largely rural region with a great need for physicians.

The program provides a unique opportunity for students to study in their home states while earning a medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine — U.S. News and World Report’s top-ranked school for primary care, family medicine and rural medicine — for a cost lower than the national average for public medical schools.

Every year since 2013 the Idaho Legislature has voted to add more seats to UI’s WWAMI program, allowing a growing

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75% of all WWAMI graduates practice in Idaho during their careers

wave of excited, dedicated and talented young Idahoans to begin their medical careers. This year, five more seats were added, bringing the total to 40.

Huttash, 25, was accepted into the program and began her studies in August 2015. She’s part of Idaho WWAMI’s largestever class, and the first class to use a new curriculum that allows the students to spend the vast majority of their four years of medical study in Idaho if they choose, rather than having to travel for long periods to Seattle.

Huttash and her 34 classmates will spend two years gaining foundational medical knowledge from top faculty at UI in Moscow. For their third and fourth years, they can choose to conduct their clinical studies in Seattle, across the WWAMI region or at home in Idaho: learning about obstetrics in Sandpoint, pediatrics in Idaho Falls or surgery in Boise.

“People ask, ‘Should Idaho have its own medical school?’” said Jeff Seegmiller, Idaho WWAMI director. “I always say, ‘We already do. We have students training throughout Idaho, from corner to corner.’”

MEETING A NEED WWAMI students begin serving Idaho and the region from the beginning of their medical education.

“We’ve been seeing patients since my third week of school,” Huttash said. “You’re not living through a textbook.”

Huttash interviews patients and helps form treatment plans at Washington State University’s student health clinic in Pullman. Her classmates see patients in Moscow, Pullman and Lewiston. Once every two weeks, they work in local hospitals.

“Our patients take such joy in helping us learn and give us such great feedback,” Huttash said. “They’re so receptive. They don’t hold how young we are against us. They really make us feel like, as first-year students, we can contribute.”

This early one-on-one patient contact — a rare feature for a medical school — supports WWAMI’s goal of introducing students to the medical needs in their communities, particularly rural communities.

Students in the Targeted Rural Underserved Track, or TRUST, take special classes on serving rural populations

and are paired with one community for several clinical experiences throughout their education. Students between their first and second years can participate in the Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (RUOP), where they spend six weeks living and working in a rural or underserved urban community in the First-year WWAMI students WWAMI region. discuss a patient's case during These programs are vital to encouraging a class session at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow. medical students to seek careers in places Photo by Joe Pallen where they’re desperately needed.

“We have more medical schools that occur in very large urban areas, and the shortages throughout the country are in PREPARING STUDENTS rural areas,” Seegmiller said. “We know that when students have more rural experience, there’s a greater chance they’ll FOR NEXT STEPS understand rural needs and have a greater chance of coming back to practice.”

When Huttash and Kappmeyer graduate from WWAMI Huttash’s classmate Adam Kappmeyer is excited to spend in 2019, their medical educations will be far from over. part of his summer in the RUOP. He hopes to become either They’ll spend three to eight years in residency and fellowship a rural physician in Idaho or a specialist who travels among programs, refining their skills and learning their areas of rural areas. specialization.

“Whatever I end up doing, I want to end up in a rural Finding a residency is a difficult and competitive process community,” he said. for medical students. Students apply to dozens of residencies Kappmeyer, 25, graduated from Logos High School in that fit their interests, and residencies select students that Moscow and studied biology at UI. To prepare himself to go match their needs. In 2015, more than 1,000 U.S. medical into medicine, he volunteered at Gritman Medical Center, students didn’t match with a residency. And in 2017, there watched surgeries and shadowed doctors. will be more medical school graduates than residency sites.

“Especially in a rural community like this, I could tell just This is a crisis in medical education, Seegmiller said — but based on the trust patients have in their providers, these are one WWAMI students are prepared to overcome. true life-changing conversations that physicians are having “What helps you in matching is, one, you’re a stellar with their patients,” he said. “I wanted to be part of that.” student; two, you come from a top medical school; and three, you’ve already had high-quality clinical experience,” he said.

“UW School of Medicine gives Idaho WWAMI students all of those things.”

Idaho is home to five University of Washington-affiliated residency programs with rotational locations in communities statewide, but WWAMI graduates can elect to go anywhere in the region or nation to complete their residency.

Dr. Bryn Parker, a 2011 graduate of Idaho WWAMI, spent of Idaho her fourth year of medical school traveling the country for WWAMI residency interviews. When “match day” came, she learned graduates she’d been matched with her first choice, a family practice return to Idaho residency at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. The residency

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takes only 11 people per year.

“They like keeping WWAMI students in the Seattle family practice programs because they know we’re well trained,” Parker said.

After three years of residency, Parker accepted a fellowship in Tacoma in the nation’s only program to combine high-risk obstetrics with the broad-spectrum medical skills needed to serve rural areas.

All this was in preparation to come back to Idaho.

DEDICATED TO SERVING IDAHO Parker, 31, grew up in Elk City, Idaho. She graduated from Grangeville High School and headed to UI to study fisheries.

During her sophomore year, she was looking for volunteer opportunities. She had an interest in medicine because her grandfather and uncle were doctors, so she took an EMT class through the Moscow Volunteer Fire Department, and soon joined the department’s ambulance company.

“I ended up hanging out in the ER a bunch,” she said. “I started thinking, ‘This suits me.’”

One of Parker’s ambulance colleagues was married to a family practice doctor at Moscow Family Medicine, and Parker decided to take the opportunity to job-shadow. For the next two years, she spent one day a week with Dr. Helen Shearer.

Growing up, Parker only ever knew family doctors, but seeing one in action was new. As she watched Shearer navigate days packed with patient interactions, she began to get a feel for general medicine’s intensity — and its necessity.

One day, Parker observed as Shearer conducted a regular physical for a patient, who revealed a traumatic event in the course of their conversation.

“Helen stayed in there for another 30 minutes, not doing anything medical, just being present. It was wildly powerful,” Parker said. “It was just so poignant in terms of, wow, this is family medicine.”

It was the moment that made Parker sure she wanted to be a physician. By then, she’d switched her major to psychology.

She graduated from UI in 2007 and entered Idaho WWAMI.

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Dr. Bryn Parker, a 2011 graduate from Idaho WWAMI, now practices family medicine at Moscow Family Medicine.

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Now, Parker has come full circle: In September 2015, she became Moscow Family Medicine’s newest family practice doctor.

She’s in good company. At Moscow Family Medicine, four other physicians also graduated from Idaho WWAMI, including Dr. Francis Spain of the first-ever Idaho WWAMI class.

Since the program started, 51 percent of Idaho’s WWAMI graduates have returned to Idaho. Add in WWAMI’s partner states, and 75 percent of all WWAMI graduates have practiced in Idaho at some point in their career.

Returning to Idaho was an easy decision, Parker said.

For one, it made financial sense. Idaho’s Rural Physician Incentive Program provides up to $100,000 toward physicians’ student loans if they serve in federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas, which covers most of Idaho. The program focuses on areas of particular need: primary care, family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics.

This program, along with Idaho WWAMI’s comparatively low tuition, play a large role in drawing graduates back to Idaho, Seegmiller said.

Parker now has hundreds of patients of her own. She’ll soon start teaching continuing medical education courses for her old ambulance crew, alongside Shearer, her mentor.

She loves the variety of small-town family practice, helping college students build healthy foundations for their lives and working with retirees. As of February she’s delivered 12 babies in Moscow.

And she’s seen patients who haven’t seen a doctor in 20 years, who are struggling, who need the personal attention a primary-care doctor like Parker can give.

“There’s a huge need, so I kind of feel a responsibility to come back,” she said. “It’s where I’m from.”

Originally from Romania, Idaho WWAMI student Ana Cornea hopes to practice medicine in a rural environment.

COMMUNITY PRACTICE AT HEART OF IDAHO'S WWAMI PROGRAM

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s long as she can remember, Ana Cornea has wanted to be a physician. She loves everything about being a physician and believes the Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program offers a unique educational opportunity to work in a rural Idaho community and do what she loves.

“My experience with WWAMI has been wonderful,” she said. “Due to the program size, your ability to access your instructors is amazing and the relationships you form with fellow students is awesome. Everyone in our class enjoys interacting with each other, and you don’t always get that from higher education.”

Cornea is a first-year medical student who received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Lewis-Clark State College and a master’s in molecular biology from Washington State University. She worked at the University of Idaho for four years as a research assistant for Larry Forney in the College of Science.

Cornea has faced some substantial obstacles on her journey to become a physician: The greatest being simply applying and being accepted. Cornea and her family moved to the U.S. from Bucharest, Romania, in 1990.

“When we came from Romania, we had a very complicated immigration case. It took about 20 years after we arrived in the United States before we received our green cards,” Cornea said. “Without a green card, you have less than a 1 percent chance of being accepted into medical school. Once you are in, then comes the problem with how are you going to pay for it, because if you aren’t a citizen no one is going to give you any financial aid. Without financial aid, there’s really nowhere you can go.”

Cornea’s inability to control her residency only grew her desire to be a physician. Her mother also encouraged her to pursue any and all opportunities to do what she loves.

“When I was 12 years old, I went to a science camp called Satori at Eastern Washington University,” Cornea said. “The camp is designed to model the college experience for kids.

I even took classes, but they were fun classes — not like calculus. I took anatomy and physiology, where I got to work with cadavers. I remember thinking to myself, ‘This is the best thing in the entire world.’”

Cornea has set her sights on pursuing a career in obstetrics and gynecology and returning to a small town to practice medicine. She is interested in helping generations of women navigate childbirth and manage their reproductive health.

“The continuity of health care one receives in a small town is unparalleled to what one would see in a larger city,” she said. “The local physician that I work with has seen a grandmother, the mother and now she’s delivered the mother’s baby. She’s seen almost four generations, and the physician is still young. That’s the kind story that makes me want to join a practice in a small town like Moscow.

One really gets to be a part of the community, and that’s fundamentally why I love medicine.”

To learn more about how you can support the Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program, contact Jim Zuba, director of development, jzuba@uidaho.edu or (208) 885-4142.

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Simpatico sim·pa·ti·kō adjective Having or characterized by shared attributes or interests; compatible.

Modern Languages and Cultures professor Irina Kappler-Crookston has spent her career building connections between the university and Idaho's Latino communities.

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As chair of the University of Idaho’s Modern Languages summer camp through Head Start in Jerome. The grant also and Cultures (MLC) Department in the College of Letters, funded a study on Hispanics and STEM education, which Arts and Social Sciences, Irina Kappler-Crookston initially was published by UI’s James A. and Louise McClure Center visited Jerome in 2009 to better understand the backgrounds for Public Policy Research. of her Latino students. After witnessing how the local Latinos make up one of the fastest-growing population Catholic community and dairy farms helped bolster migrant groups in Idaho, comprising 12 percent of the total families, she wondered how UI could become involved. population in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Kappler-Crookston knew that the relationship couldn’t be and account for a quarter of the state’s recent growth. one-sided. While the dairy farms in southern Idaho ensure According to the study, only 43 percent of Idaho’s Hispanic stability for the Latino workers — who can live in one place fifth- seventh- and 10th-graders are proficient or advanced rather than follow the harvests — “we wouldn’t be able in science, compared to 72 percent of non-Hispanics. In to put milk on our table without them working on those addition, despite having lofty aspirations to attend college, farms.” She wanted to build a similar reciprocal relationship the number of Hispanic students proficient or advanced between the community and the university. in math is similar. Kappler-Crookston and her colleagues Kappler-Crookston, who is retiring this spring after 30 saw STEM education as a crucial area to address in Idaho’s years with UI, traveled to Jerome several times to meet with public schools, where Hispanic student enrollment outpaces the community and promote UI at the high school’s Latinos non-Hispanic enrollment. in Action Club. She still sees the residual effects of that Third-year student Carmen Perez of Twin Falls is part of outreach. the fulfillment of Kappler-Crookston’s work. She attended the “Since my first trip there, we’ve had a number of Latino Catholic church Kappler-Crookston first visited in Jerome and students come from southern Idaho,” Kappler-Crookston now is double majoring at UI in exercise science and health said. “The children of these workers might someday be and Spanish. scientists deciding the nutritional value of the food cows are Perez said she hopes more of Idaho’s Latinos will attend eating. They will be our future veterinarians. Their parents college, but knows that being away from home isn’t without worked on the farms, but my dream is challenges. Most Latinos are supported by that these students take the leadership large extended families and faith-based role in the sciences.” communities, Perez said — foundations that ONLINE In pursuit of this goal, Kapplerare sorely missed.

See the study, “Hispanics and STEM Education,” published by Crookston received a grant from There are benefits of coming to UI, too, the James A. and Louis McClure the Micron foundation in 2013 to though, Perez said.

Center for Public Policy, at www.uidaho.edu/Idahoataglance coordinate a STEM-related bilingual “Having a community of professors,

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UI senior Frederick Olmos is originally from Michoacán, Mexico, but grew up in Rupert, Idaho.

Carmen Perez is a third-year student from Twin Falls.

She credits instructor Irina Kappler-Crookston with helping her succeed at UI.

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mentors and peers that are in support of what I’m doing, and knowing that when I go home my siblings are beaming at me when I get off that bus — it makes it very rewarding,” she said. “And very importantly, we have St. Augustine’s Catholic Church right here on campus. So I can grow mentally and I can also grow spiritually.”

Kappler-Crookston served as a “sounding board” during her transition at UI, Perez said.

“She’s traveled, she’s spoken with parents, so she knows,” Perez said. “Every time I spoke with her, she understood the struggles of being away from home for the first time.”

“We come from a very tight-knit community, and breaking out of that can be difficult,” added Frederick Olmos, a senior who came to UI from Rupert and is originally from Michoacán, Mexico. Olmos, who is studying political science and Spanish, recently won an Alumni Award for Excellence.

“We’re blessed to have faculty and staff that support us,” he said. “It’s easy to get crushed and feel defeated without that support. They’re people you can relate to without being judged and looked at differently.”

The MLC faculty members serve as ambassadors during parent orientation to help ease the transition for families, Kappler-Crookston said, as well as collaborate with the Office of Multicultural Affairs to ensure Latino students have the opportunity to celebrate cultural traditions.

“The whole Spanish department will continue working to support Latinos on campus, and they’re doing it with enthusiasm,” Kappler-Crookston said.

Assistant professor of Spanish Lori Celaya mentors students who conduct research projects in Latino communities. Assistant professor of Spanish Marta Boris

teaches a course for the WWAMI Medical Education Program, training future doctors to speak Spanish and work in Latino communities. And Spanish instructor Anibel Alcocer is creating a public relations and media writing course in Spanish to enhance the Modern Language Business degree.

Ashley Kerr, assistant professor of Spanish, teaches a Latin American Studies course that allows students — Latino students, in particular — to examine their own heritage, while colleague Shannon McGowan specializes in cultural competency in secondary language instruction.

“We’ve been very successful in reaching out to our Latino citizens and establishing relationships,” said Andrew Kersten, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences.

“Irina’s work was central to that. Living our land-grant mission means that we reach out to all the state’s citizens, and one of those growing populations speaks Spanish.”

Though she has the skills to flourish in an international setting — last summer, Perez traveled to Nicaragua on a global health and community development trip — she ultimately plans to remain stateside upon completion of her degree and graduate program.

“Southern Idaho is where my family is, and I love Idaho with all my heart. So I hope to be able to relocate back home,” Perez said. “Southern Idaho is also very populated with Hispanics, and we have a lot of migrant work there. Physical labor creates problems with joint and back pain, so I hope to go back there and help that community, especially. I know that my Spanish degree will be of use. There’s something special about being able to interact with patients in their native language and not have that language barrier, because you can’t get to the root of a problem if there’s that barrier.”

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n a recent winter day, students in Russell Elementary’s Adventure Club are making “blubber burgers.” The lessthan-appetizing-looking creations made of shortening are teaching the children about fat content in foods.

The lesson in nutrition was brought to the Moscow classroom by Trevor Kauer, an agricultural and Extension education major at UI who works as a nutrition advisor for the 4-H Eat Smart Idaho program.

Kauer grew up as an enthusiastic 4-H member on a ranch near Leadore. Now the junior in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is looking for a career in the program.

“4-H to me has changed over the years,” Kauer said. “As a child it was fun, and it was what my family did. As a teen I realized it was preparing me for college. And when I got into college I realized the reason I’m in 4-H, and the reason I love it, is that it can change kids’ lives in ways they really don’t understand at their age but later on down the road they will understand.”

The job with Eat Smart Idaho expands on his studies in family and consumer sciences and nutrition.

Eat Smart Idaho is just one of dozens of programs run by 4-H that reach about 57,000 youths in Idaho from elementary through high school. Idaho’s 4-H programs are run through UI Extension and the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences along with the counties.

The programs — from livestock, to nutrition education and gardening, to robotics and science — provide Idaho youths

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from all communities with opportunities to expand their knowledge outside the classroom.

About a year ago, it took high school students Kimberly Lopez and Lorena Rivera of Caldwell all the way to the White House.

The teens were in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the University of Idaho 4-H Youth Development program and as representatives of the National 4-H Council.

For Rivera, 15, that Oval Office moment was amazing. So is 4-H. She joined as an 8-year-old after UI Extension educator Liliana Vega visited her afterschool program at Farmway Village, a housing development in Caldwell.

“I’ve learned many things,” said Rivera, now a high school sophomore who wants to become a lawyer. “One of them is that being a leader is amazing. You get to change people while you’re being changed yourself. You learn so much about yourself while you’re learning about others.”

In addition to the White House visit, Rivera and Lopez were among 19 Idaho teens chosen for the 4-H Food Smart Families program, serving as healthy living advocates. The program, overseen by Caldwell-based 4-H Program Specialist Maureen Toomey, uses teens to teach others how to make informed nutrition decisions.

Reaching youths and helping families in their community is a key component of 4-H. In Potlatch, Latah County’s associate 4-H Extension educator Kelli Loftus created a new partnership with the school district, which led to a 21st Century Schools

Trevor Kauer, an agricultural and Extension education major in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, teaches children about nutrition as an advisor for 4-H Eat Smart Idaho.

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grant from the Idaho State Department of Education. The $159,000 grant — which is renewable for five years — allows the Potlach program to offer more than 50 elementary students a safe and enriching place to learn after school.

“4-H helps youth succeed in many different settings. Its strength relies on research-based learning, connections to a national system dedicated to helping people and community networks of caring adults,” Loftus said. “Kids learn about things they enjoy in ways that help them as adults, and they have fun, too.”

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W H AT D O E S

firE MEAN?

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W If you’re a rancher or vacation homeowner, you may have a different answer to that question ― and what you want to protect. UI researchers are helping to bridge the gap between policy and community needs.

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hile ranchers in southeast Idaho are trading cowboy hats for fire helmets, vacation homeowners in the northern part of the state are addressing wildfire through building regulations.

This community reaction to living with wildfire — a certainty and necessity of Idaho’s landscape — is the focus of social science fire research at the University of Idaho.

Travis Paveglio, assistant professor in the UI College of Natural Resources, is leading the social science side of fire research and partnering with other researchers at UI and Washington State University who are looking at the impacts of wildfire from a biophysical viewpoint. Paveglio’s research connects humans and their environments to better understand how wildfire planning and mitigation might be designed differently for local populations. The goal is to inform policies that promote a range of solutions residents can help devolop, adopt and support given their unique local circumstances.

“The national goal is to have fire-adapted communities,” Paveglio said. “But first we have to understand what fire means to different communities.”

The creation of rangeland fire protection associations in the southern part of Idaho is one result. The ranchers, whose livelihoods depend on the land, are willing to mobilize in response to fires.

But owners of vacation homes intermingled with forestland around Sandpoint, in the northern part of the state, are often more accepting of planning regulations as a way to mitigate fire potential and protect land values and recreational resources.

“The concerns are just as valid, they are just different,” Paveglio said. “It isn’t going to be the same for everyone.

People have different needs and different priorities.”

Paveglio has studied the social implications of wildfire for years. Now, through ongoing collaborations, he is able to get into more communities and better understand the ways local needs translate to different strategies for wildfire management. His work is part of a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant led by Crystal Kolden, assistant professor of geography in UI’s College of Science. He also has grants from the U.S. Forest Service, tied to the National Fire Plan.

Paveglio’s latest partnership is with Dennis Becker, director of the UI Policy Analysis Group. Becker conducts policy analysis and provides communities and agencies with solutions that consider local dynamics for wildfire planning or response.

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have good intentions, I just help bridge the gap in strategy.”

Paveglio’s projects build on past research surrounding wildfire recovery and planning, including a study of longterm recovery from the 2006 Columbia Complex Fire, which burned nearly 110,000 acres and 28 structures in southeastern Washington. Local reaction to state and federal fire response during that event led to a change in state law allowing select Washington landowners to cross roadblocks to access their property.

“There is a lot of research into wildfire impact, wildfire as part of ecosystems, and rightly so,” Paveglio said. “But we can’t ignore the human elements, the social elements.

It isn’t all about landscapes. People live in these landscapes and their relationships with the land continue to influence wildfire dynamics.”

Problems can arise when landowners want to provide personal equipment, assistance or other resources when wildfires strike on or near their property or community.

However, wildfire suppression contracts may be established before the incident management team shows up, giving local landowners more rights. Incident management teams may be unable, contractually, to allow the uncontracted local equipment on the fires, often causing tempers to flare.

Priorities are often different, also. A farmer may want to save a field and its associated income over a structure on the property. Meanwhile, suppression guidelines can call for

structure protection above other values.

Understanding landowners’ concerns, ensuring firefighter safety and promoting the most effective firefighting tactics mean helping agencies pre-emptively incorporate locals’ values into response policy, helping everyone know the ground rules before the work begins.

“Being proactive in identifying what a community’s response is and what level of involvement that community expects to have is key,” Paveglio said. “Then the Policy Analysis Group can provide policy guidance on how to move those expectations into acceptable collaboration with firefighting entities.”

The bottom line is state and federal agencies are spending an unsustainable amount of money on fire suppression, Paveglio said. Local people and communities can be vital components in reducing wildfire spending, he said, but a “one-size-fits-all solution” for engaging populations in wildfire management is not the best way to accomplish those goals. Instead, there is a need to provide a range of potential policies, mitigations, and plans that diverse populations of people can implement in their locality.

“Adapting to wildfire means working with the unique local cultures that help define landscapes,” Paveglio said.

“Our resources and policies should be designed flexibly and in ways that allow for adaptation across different conditions or populations.”

Fire crews, ranchers and homeowners can have conflicting priorities when it comes to tackling wildfires in Idaho.

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BETTER EDUCATION for Everyone

Professor in College of Education Builds Partnership with Nez Perce Tribe to Help Students Learn About Culturally Responsive Classrooms

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hen Beau Woodford became a teacher, he was pretty proud of his philosophy around diversity.

“I thought the stance we were supposed to have was just treat everybody the same, that you couldn’t go wrong with that and there really is no difference.

Everybody is the same. Kids are kids,” said Woodford, who graduated from the University of Idaho in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in education.

It’s the attitude the Grangeville native took into his classroom at Lapwai Elementary School, where he has taught full time for eight years.

That attitude, he has come to realize, is 100 percent wrong.

“Treating any group of people like we are all just the same — you discount and exclude the things that make that culture great,” Woodford said. “Kids aren’t blank slates. They come

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with a lot of information already. What are you going to teach kids and on what are you going to hang that learning if you deny what they know?”

Creating a learning environment that honors the backgrounds of the children in his fourth-grade classroom is something Woodford strives for, particularly since earning his master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from UI in 2011. The back wall of the room is a mural of Native American imagery and history: Articles about the Nez Perce tribe, photographs of tribal members, vocabulary words and maps. The wall serves a dual purpose: To show the children their culture is valued and welcome in the classroom, and to keep it top of mind for Woodford, who is not Native.

“It reminds me that it is my students’ background; it’s the background that these kids walk in the door with,” Woodford said. “It’s a pretty easy, overpowering reminder to me — these students don’t have the same world view that I have.”

A New Vision

Creating teachers who have cultural awareness and are capable of adjusting their teaching styles to meet the needs of their students is part of a new focus for UI's College of Education.

Professor Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, an educational anthropologist, is in her second academic year teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. She most recently taught at the University of Arizona and has a doctorate in language, reading and culture from the College of Education at Arizona. She came to UI specifically to build relationships between the university and the Native American community.

Anthony-Stevens has been involved in grants and programs training educators to work with indigenous communities for years. Her passion is for creating cohesive, accepting school spaces for students from all backgrounds. Her experience with

cultures across the Americas made her a perfect fit for UI, said Associate Dean James Gregson, who also serves as AnthonyStevens’ mentor.

“The college has had a long history of working with the tribe,” Gregson said. “We were really interested in going deeper with that relationship.”

Anthony-Stevens is focused on building reciprocal relationships with area tribes, specifically the Nez Perce in Lapwai. Last fall, her classes brought students from Lapwai Elementary School to UI, and she also took a group of students to visit the Lapwai School District — including Woodford’s classroom — to see how the district works to incorporate cultural relevance into traditional education.

“Cultural competence and culturally responsive teaching are critical when addressing the achievement gap in a district with an 82 percent Native American student population,” said

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David Aiken, superintendent for the Lapwai School District.

Originally from Grangeville, Aiken, who received his Doctorate of Education from UI in 2013, is proud of the work the teachers, staff and tribe do to create a progressive educational environment.

“We work closely with the Nez Perce Tribe Education Department to collaboratively define what ‘culturally relevant’ education means for our students. This partnership has become a critical component to our success,” he said.

Translating the Language The Lapwai School District is a public school, run by the state of Idaho. The majority of the students are Native American, and the district works closely with the Nez Perce Tribal Education Services offices.

Part of the work involves translating academic lingo into teaching standards that resonate with the community. Tribal Education Services worked with a consultant to survey Nez Perce members and reworded the Common Core standards into Native American terms. For instance, “Contextualized Situations” becomes “Oral History” — both are about storytelling and connecting with the content on a personal level, but “Oral History” speaks to the ways Native Americans have taught their children for generations, said Joyce McFarland, education manager for Tribal Education Services.

Building partnerships between the school district and community creates educationally safe spaces for children and

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Curriculum and Instruction professor Vanessa Anthony-Stevens talks with elementary students while visiting a classroom in Lapwai.

works to heal the wounds that still exist between the tribes and the government.

Students at Lapwai Elementary receive Nez Perce language training two days a week. It's offered daily after school and for students in upper grades. The classes are taught by the tribe’s Nez Perce language department and community elders.

Welcoming the Nez Perce language into the schools — where it was once forbidden — offers a lot of symbolism to his students and parents, Woodford said.

“As that language drifted away, a rift was created between the school and the community: Send your kids, but keep your culture at home. Keep who you are at home,” he said. “We’ve been working really hard to try to overcome that. Our school mission statement has been translated into Nez Perce to show that not only symbolically, but physically, we’re opening up the classroom to the community influence.”

Building a Relationship Entering a classroom filled with students from a different cultural, racial or socioeconomic background can be a culture shock for any new instructor.

“As a new teacher, you have your perspectives, but until you work in that culture, you have no idea,” Aiken said.

Most of the students studying education at UI are of European-American heritage, which makes it all the more important to Anthony-Stevens to expose them to other cultures and ways of thinking through field trips and

Beau Woodford ′05, ′11 has adapted a culturally responsive teaching style for his classroom at Lapwai Elementary School.

Jared Klingele, who is studying early childhood development and theater at UI, works with students at Lapwai Elementary School during a classroom visit.

classroom exercises.

“I need my education students to see spaces like Lapwai — and not just Lapwai,” she said. “There is not a one-size-fits-all.

We don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world. Especially when you are privileged and come from the dominant class, you don’t understand that all people have interactions, practices, processes that make up their lives, but that they might be different from yours: they might use them in different ways.”

Differences in culture can mean differences in learning styles — which can leave children from the non-dominant class behind.

“Western thought assumes a deficit model,” Gregson said of traditional teaching methods. “We haven’t always recognized cultural knowledge and expertise. Vanessa really gets it. It’s not only about the learners; it’s about connecting with the elders. Vanessa wants to celebrate culture and give back to the community.”

Anthony-Stevens hopes the relationships with the Lapwai School District and Nez Perce tribe will open doors for her students as well as make UI a more welcoming place for Native students.

For his part, Aiken says the Lapwai School District welcomes the partnership.

“It is our hope that our partnership with the College of Education will encourage the talent from the University of Idaho to serve our students in the future. Dr. Vanessa AnthonyStevens has quickly become a valued partner and resource in our district,” he said. “We share her urgency in exposing

University of Idaho students to cultural experiences, further preparing candidates for awareness, respect and sensitivity for cultural diversity.”

The relationship between the tribe and UI has already increased the number of Vandal alumni working in Lapwai.

Four Nez Perce tribal members have earned their doctorates from the College of Education, Gregson said, including D’Lisa Pinkham, the principal of Lapwai Middle/High School.

Seeing tribal members succeed in higher education can act as inspiration to the children, he said.

“The students in Lapwai are beginning to understand that they can be successful students, that they can go on,” Gregson said. “It increases the likelihood that they’ll pursue postsecondary education.”

Increasing diversity among its students is good for everyone at UI, Gregson said, as it challenges faculty and students alike.

“While UI has much to offer these students, they have much to offer us,” he said. “I’m hopeful these partnerships will change how we approach teaching and learning at the university level.”

What the Lapwai district has done in its schools is incredibly progressive, Gregson said, and he hopes the partnership with UI will continue to grow.

“I see these schools as really becoming a model nationally on cultural competence and working collaboratively, and I see our teachers becoming increasingly involved,” he said. It also is beginning to change the way the college looks at teaching the subject. “Now we understand: one course on culture doesn’t cut it. It has to be integrated into the curriculum.”

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COLLEGE OF LAW CLINICS PROVIDE REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE IN LAW PRACTICE WHILE PROVIDING VALUABLE FREE SERVICES TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS

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bout two years ago, Cindy Metteer designed and sewed a stuffed polar bear to show her support for a friend battling breast cancer. The hand-sewed teddy was intended to just be a gift, but it spawned the concept behind BearA-Cause, a home business Cindy and her husband, Richard, are launching to raise funds for disease research.

The Nampa, Idaho couple had several years of combined experience in retail, sales and advertising, so they already knew many of the steps necessary to start a business. They were prepared to navigate the legal waters by themselves when they discovered they wouldn’t have to.

While researching liability and trademark information and forms online, the Metteers discovered the Small Business Legal Clinic at the University of Idaho College of Law, which offers free legal counsel to small businesses.

“They are helping us research our name and logo for trademark purposes, and they have offered support on every step of the process of creating a new business — a service we’ll be considering as we continue expanding,” said Richard Metteer. “It is great to see the benefit of a service like this to the business community. Many people wouldn’t know where to find the information by themselves.”

The Metteers are working with third-year law students Lourdes Matsumoto and Chad Johnson, overseen by Lee Dillion, associate dean for Boise programs and the clinic’s director, to finish the trademark application and find out how to legally produce and sell their collectible bears. Stephen Nipper, a Boise intellectual property attorney who has co-taught the clinic class for the past two years, supervises the trademark applications at the clinic.

The UI Small Business Legal Clinic, based in Boise but

ABOUT UI’S COLLEGE OF LAW LEGAL CLINICS

Students who have professional experience in their fields before graduation often have a considerable advantage over their peers when searching for jobs. In many cases, the experience can be attained by the student via internships, but the University of Idaho College of Law offers its students practical training in-house through legal clinics and externships.

At UI’s six law clinics, third-year students who have earned their limited licenses to practice from the Idaho Supreme Court apply classroom theory to hands-on legal practice and represent clients under the supervision of UI faculty.

FOUR CLINICS ARE BASED IN MOSCOW: n The Main Street Law Clinic represents

clients in cases including misdemeanor defense, family law, consumer protection and landlord-tenant disputes. n The Immigration Clinic helps immigrants who may be seeking asylum, permanent resident status, citizenship, status under the Violence Against Women Act and relief from removal. n The Mediation Clinic provides mediation services for dispute cases, such as divorce, child custody, criminal, personal injury or small claims. n Bankruptcy law is practiced by students at the Clinical Labs.

BOISE HOSTS THREE CLINICS. IN ADDITION TO THE SMALL BUSINESS LEGAL CLINIC, THEY ARE: n The Economic Development Clinic, in

which students advise Idaho counties, cities, tribes and non-governmental agencies with economic development related issues. n The Low–Income Taxpayer Clinic represents low-income taxpayers in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service.

Third-year law student Chad Johnson, from left, and Lee Dillion, associate dean for the College of Law's Boise programs, worked with small-business owners Cindy and Richard Metteer through the college's Small Business Legal Clinic.

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serving clients statewide, was created in 2003. The clinic has paired over 50 law students with more than 150 Idahobased start-up companies, including online businesses, food manufacturers, engineering consultants, recreational companies, software developers, firefighters, truckers, a ceramic artist, a hairdresser and day care operators. Each client has its own unique set of needs and challenges, and the clinic customizes its offerings for each.

“Most of the Small Business Legal Clinic clients just want to get their formation paperwork in order and then get on to their business, but some will come back after a few years if they need help with hiring new employees, or are passing their business to their kids,” Dillion said.

Dillion runs his clinic law-firm style, sitting around a table with the students discussing their caseloads each week. He helps the students with legal advice as well as how to interact with clients and develop their interpersonal skills. All students are in the third year of law school through UI’s College of Law and serve 180 hours per semester at the clinic.

“The main mission of the clinic is teaching our law students.

The side benefit is the service we offer to the community,” Dillion said. “The point I always emphasize with potential clients is that the client needs to be someone who has an understanding of our educational mission and who will work at the pace the students work.”

The clinic’s timing and delivery works for the Metteers.

“We are going through each step carefully,” Richard Metteer said. “We don’t want anything to come back to haunt us later.”

“Right now, they are researching for us if our name and logo already exist, for trademark purposes. That’s very time consuming and you have to be careful,” Cindy Metteer said. “I can’t imagine trying to go through all that research by myself.”

The Small Business Legal Clinic is one of the many clinics the UI College of Law offers its students and community members. The mission of the clinics is to offer real-life experience to law students in different aspects of law practice.

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PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL New Alumni Relations Executive Director Kathy Barnard proud to be back among the Vandal family

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he marble-topped stairs on the north wing of the University of Idaho’s Administration Building have been worn smooth by the feet of thousands and thousands of Vandals over the past century.

Kathy Barnard’s feet were among them.

It’s just one of the places on campus where she has found herself having to pause and reflect on the journey that took her from a journalism student to the new executive director of the Office of Alumni Relations.

“I catch myself at places on campus, and all of these memories come flooding back to me — and they’re all happy,” said Barnard ’81.

Barnard stepped into the alumni relations role in January.

She has extensive strategic marketing and leadership experience, most recently serving as the executive director of University Communications at Washington State University.

Even though her work at WSU kept her on the Palouse, Barnard said she missed the UI community.

“I love this place,” she said. “My lifelong friends are the ones I’ve met here at UI. It feels good to come home.”

Barnard sees the new position as “the ultimate ambassadorship,” one that requires building a strong, two-way

relationship between the university and its graduates.

Together with UI’s recently appointed Vice President for Advancement Mary Kay McFadden, Barnard spent the spring traveling around the state, meeting with alumni groups and reintroducing herself to the Vandal family.

“At the end of my tenure, whenever that is, I hope that alumni in general have a deeper understanding of what it means to be part of the Vandal family,” Barnard said. “If you’re a Vandal, you’re part of something special.”

As executive director, Barnard supports the goals of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, oversees off-campus alumni programs and events, chapters, affinity and advocacy programs, and the Vandal Ambassador Network.

She encourages alumni to stay connected with the university, participate in events and stay informed about changes on campus by reading the Vandal Vibe enewsletter.

Alumni can also email her directly at kathybarnard@uidaho. edu. An engaged alumni base is vital to the university’s overall success.

“At a recent Silver and Gold event in Boise, I said I had the best job at the university — and it’s true,” Barnard said.

“I get to do things that are fun, important and meaningful, and it doesn’t get much better than that.”

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BY TARA ROBERTS

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n a color-coded map of Idaho’s geothermal activity, a striking swoop of bright-orange heat crosses through the southeastern part of the state.

This is Idaho’s share of the Yellowstone Hot Spot, where hot rocks and magma flow beneath the surface of the Snake River Plain, making it one of the best identified sites in the country for geothermal energy production.

But right now, Idaho is home to just one geothermal plant, a Raft River business owned by U.S. Geothermal.

The University of Idaho and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) — along with partners across the West — are looking to change that in a big way.

“We see an opportunity for a number of these plants to be built in eastern Idaho to create an industry, to create an economic base and to create career opportunities for our students,” said Tom Wood, UI’s associate director for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, or CAES. CAES is an Idaho Falls-based collaboration among INL, Idaho’s public universities and the University of Wyoming with the mission of educating the next generation of energy scientists, exploring energy and environmental research, applying that research to industry and enabling transitions in the energy market that lead to economic development.

CAES is a partner in the Snake River Geothermal

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Consortium, one of five teams selected by the U.S. Department of Energy in April 2015 to participate in Phase 1 of the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy initiative — called FORGE for short.

The CAES team believes southeastern Idaho is the perfect location for the FORGE site. The Yellowstone Hot Spot swath includes most of INL’s campus, which has a 40-square-mile geothermal research and development site.

The Geothermal Consortium will learn later this summer whether it has made it to Phase 2 of the competition, and the Department of Energy plans to select a final site in 2019.

“If we can prove this technology, it could be a game changer not just for renewable energy, but energy overall for the country,” said Rob Podgorney ’07, a senior scientist at INL and director of the Snake River Geothermal Consortium.

THE GEOTHERMAL ECONOMY OF THE FUTURE The FORGE initiative focuses on enhanced geothermal systems, which can reach deeper sources of heat than traditional geothermal plants and don’t use as much water.

Because geothermal energy isn’t currently a big moneymaker, Wood explained, projects like FORGE are necessary to establish technologies, reduce industry and

government investors’ risk, and open the door to a more widespread geothermal market.

Researchers are studying ways to create fractures into which they can inject cold water and harvest hot water, as well as designing equipment that can withstand high temperatures. The INL site has a prolific aquifer to supply water, but the geothermal well’s target zone is deep enough that it will not damage the aquifer.

“We’re trying to learn from the successes of the oil and gas industry, and learn from their mistakes,” Podgorney said.

Whether or not Idaho receives the FORGE site, CAES and the Snake River Geothermal Consortium will continue pursuing geothermal energy technologies and bringing their economic benefits to Idaho. The combined research power of INL, the universities and their partners offers Idaho the chance for a geothermal renaissance, said Travis McLing, a senior scientist at INL who is studying toward his doctorate in geology at UI. “We can’t do this by ourselves,” he said. “In aggregate, we have all the capabilities we need.”

UI grad student Cody Cannon conducts geothermal research at Greenhouse Well in Raft River Valley.

THE GEOTHERMAL RESEARCHERS OF THE FUTURE The FORGE initiative and other geothermal research at CAES also benefit University of Idaho researchers and students, who in turn benefit the industry.

If Idaho is selected as the final FORGE site, “there would be a lot of technology developed, a lot of patentable ideas, and opportunities for students and faculty to get involved in cutting-edge subsurface science,” Wood said.

UI researchers are already involved in modeling the flows of heat and water in the Snake River Plain, and FORGE would open the door for extensive studies in topics from drilling to power-grid engineering to the social aspects of introducing a new energy market.

UI students at CAES are working on projects such as using chemistry to understand the geothermal fingerprint of water hidden beneath cold-water aquifers, and using cuttingedge methods to revisit the geothermal potential of an area with known geothermal resources that previously eluded researchers.

Involving students in geothermal research projects is important for the industry’s future. The last wave of intensive geothermal research in Idaho was in the 1970s and ’80s.

CAES researchers recently met with retired engineers from this era to learn from their research and insights — but the next generation needs to get involved in this revolutionary industry.

“Geothermal power is a true green energy, it is carbon free and it is available 24/7, 365,” Wood said. “Besides being massively fun, an education in the geothermal energy leads to many opportunities within industry and government.”

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Members of the University of Idaho's Student Athlete Advisory Committee volunteer their time to make the community a better place.

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Breaking the Stigma: ATHLETES ASPIRE to INSPIRE

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n the University of Idaho’s Athletics Department, student-athletes are working hard year round. They train their bodies physically in order to excel in their sport, and they train their minds to excel in the classroom.

They’re also training themselves to be good citizens and break down stereotypes about athletes through volunteerism and outreach with UI’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

“People don’t know us unless we get out there and meet with the community,” said UI senior Reagan Quigley, president of SAAC, who will graduate with a business degree this spring. Quigley was a forward on UI’s women’s soccer team, which won the regular-season Big Sky championship last fall.

SAAC was created by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) to give student-athletes a voice within the NCAA structure. Its mission also includes organizing community service efforts and promoting a positive image of student-athletes. UI has about 45 student-athletes involved in SAAC this year.

“We really want to make student-athletes the best people they can be after college,” Quigley said.

UI SAAC places community service on the top of its priority list. At Christmas, the club teamed up with Washington State SAAC to raise $2,352 to purchase gifts for area families. This year, members participated in the Palouse Cares Food Drive, the It's on Us campaign to end sexual assault on campus, and the Trick or Treat at the Dome event. They also visit local elementary schools and read to the students.

“To the elementary kids, we are almost heroes, and we don’t even realize that,” Quigley said. “It is really touching to everybody to go into the elementary schools because you can see how much of an influence you have on them.”

To extend this influence, UI SAAC started a partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Southwest Region when they were part of the Western Athletic Conference, and it still exists today. UI student-athletes wrote letters, held conference calls, and Skyped with Boys and Girls Clubs in Nevada to serve as positive role models for underprivileged children, encourage them to pursue higher education, and use athletics as a tool for physical and mental health.

This spring, UI SAAC partnered with elementary schools around Moscow for the Safe Routes to School Polar Walk.

Quigley hopes that with every contact SAAC members make, they can inspire students to achieve a college education.

These community service efforts haven’t just helped the community, the student-athletes also gain a community cheering section and real-world experience that goes beyond the playing field, Quigley said.

Quigley encourages all student-athletes to participate in SAAC. “As student-athletes, there isn't much time for extracurricular activities, but SAAC fits into their schedules.

There are opportunities for leadership just because of the breadth of opportunity within SAAC,” she said. “And it changes you as a person. Being in contact with the things that we do, like Christmas for Kids, you realize how fortunate you are, being in the position that you are in."

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UI’S ROBUST SCHOLARSHIPS SUPPORT IDAHO STUDENTS STATEWIDE

BY JOSHUA NISHIMOTO

BENAIAH CHEEVERS Junior, Spanish and Latin American studies, Hayden Awards: Diversity Scholar, Axtell Memorial Scholarship, Idaho Opportunity Scholarship, TRiO SSS Scholarship

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he University of Idaho provides students more than $25 million in scholarship awards annually.

Ranked third in the West in affordability among major public universities by Forbes, the University of Idaho is committed to helping students and their families make college affordable. These stories are just three of the thousands that could be told by Idaho students about how UI’s loyal donors are transforming students' lives in order to make their career dreams a reality.

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Q. When did you realize that your field of study was your passion?

A. When I traveled to Central America to serve at a special needs school for one week in April 2013. At the time I was attending North Idaho College studying English with the intent to pursue secondary education, but everything changed with just one trip to Honduras.

Q. What obstacles did you overcome to attend the University of Idaho?

A. I am a first-generation college student, and also a Hispanic and Native American student, so I've had many obstacles to overcome. Specifically, paying for college on my own has been a huge burden, but with scholarship support and the support of my family members, I have been successful in my pursuit of higher education.

WILLIAM HOFFMAN Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Idaho Falls Awards: Walter C. Hayes Engineering Scholarship Q. How has the University of Idaho helped inspire you to succeed?

A. As a freshman at UI, I wasn’t sure what field I wanted to go into, but I saw how happy and excited my professors were about the subjects they taught and it was really encouraging.

Q. How has your scholarship assisted you in your academic career?

A. My scholarships have made my undergraduate career much more affordable. The cost to attend college was a big factor when I applied and whether or not I even considered attending college. I knew I wanted to pursue mechanical engineering and Idaho has a good program, so the scholarship really just opened the door for me.

Q. If you could talk directly to the person who donates to your scholarship, what would you say?

A. I would say, thank you. Your donation really helped me accomplish my goals. I love college, so I am extremely grateful for your contribution. I will do my best to pay it forward in the future.

JANE SNELLING Junior, Food Science, Twin Falls Awards: Intermountain Institute of Food Technology Scholarship Q. How has your scholarship assisted you in your academic career?

A. Scholarships have always been a vital part of my success here at the University of Idaho. College can be very stressful at times — homework deadlines, club activities, volunteering, meetings and tests eat up a lot of my time and energy each week. Help from scholarship donors enables me to focus on school and gives me time to explore all the university has to offer.

Q. What are your career goals after graduation?

A. Right after graduation I would like to continue my education and complete my master’s degree. It’s hard to know what exactly I want to do, but I am currently interested in the process of understanding consumer preferences, developing a product that reflects those needs, and taking that product to the shelf with packaging and marketing.

To learn more about ways to support UI student scholarships, and other giving options, go to uidaho.edu/giving

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IDAHO’S OUTDOOR CLASSROOM

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or more than 75 years, the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources McCall Field Campus has provided hands-on learning through summer forestry camps; the McCall Outdoor Science School; wilderness training and leadership programs; and undergraduate and graduate student education.

The McCall Field Campus, located on Payette Lake, is one of the university’s gems. Its 14-acre outdoor campus has served as the site for place-based learning for more than 25,000 K-12 students, as well as thousands of teachers and university students.

Education programs focusing on science, technology, engineering and math — a priority of CNR — have grown through partnerships with the National Science Foundation, NASA and the USDA, and through biofuel research with other universities.

Plans are underway for the expansion of the physical and academic infrastructure of the McCall Field Campus. This new master plan allows the university to address the following challenges: n Growth in academic programming n Increasing demand for outreach and community engagement n Implementing sustainable development and operations n Advancing technological requirements n Diversifying the university-wide mission of the field campus Through corporate and private gifts, several physical enhancements are planned, including new shower facilities, access roads and parking, classrooms, undergraduate and graduate housing, learning pavilions and an amphitheater.

Your gift to the McCall Field Campus project will help the College of Natural Resources continue its legacy of placebased learning for future generations of Idahoans at one of the state’s most beautiful locations.

This artist's rendering gives an example of upgrades to the McCall Field Campus.

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LOYAL PARTNERS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING AG IN IDAHO

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or more than 80 years, CHS Inc. — a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States — has been serving Idaho’s rural, agricultural communities with a business model designed to help today’s farmers be more productive.

With a commitment to serving the agricultural industry, the CHS Foundation has generously partnered with the University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and College of Business and Economics (CBE) for more than 34 years.

“CHS has a long history of stewardship with universities, corporate giving partnerships and scholarship programs,” said William Nelson, vice president of corporate citizenship at CHS Inc. “The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has been the key to our relationship for a long time, but also the College of Business and the opportunity we had to be involved in the Barker Trading Room was really significant for us.”

A $250,000 grant from the CHS Foundation was instrumental in the 2014 renovations of the Barker Capital Management and Trading Program’s trading

Learn more about the University of Idaho’s Loyal Donor and Partner Program by visiting uidaho.edu/loyalpartner.

room, located in the business college. A gift from the CHS Foundation also provided funding for curriculum development and expansion of the program to CALS, allowing students to learn about trading agriculture commodities and risk management in the agriculture industry.

Nelson sees CHS’s stewardship with UI as a partnership — a way to educate and connect with students who have an inclination for farming and help them live and raise families in rural communities.

“Another area that has been a real plus for us has been the agricultural education program,” Nelson said.

“We stepped up last year as a company to become a lead partner in the National Teach Ag Campaign and we proceeded to do a lot of activities with various co-agriculture programs, particularly with the university teaching component.”

The CHS Foundation has loyally supported the university and agricultural education from their first gift of $350 in 1981 to today. With decades of generosity supporting student scholarships, Ag Days, 4-H youth development programs and educational innovations, CHS Inc. and the CHS Foundation set the standard for collaborative and meaningful partnerships.

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Alumni Award Recipients The following alumni and friends were selected for honors by the University of Idaho Alumni Association Awards and Recognition Committee.

Class Notes ’50s

Ford Elsaesser ’77 (Law) Mark Hedge ’85 (Engineering) Brian Oswald ’92 (Natural Resources)

Donald ’58 and Barbara ’59 Walker celebrated their 60-year wedding anniversary on Aug. 28, 2015. They are both retired and live in Boulder City, Nevada.

(Above are inducted into Alumni Hall of Fame in May 2016, in Moscow at Commencement Weekend)

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Alumni Hall of Fame Alumni who have achieved national or international distinction by their accomplishments and leadership

Silver and Gold Award A distinguished record of achievement and or service in their specialized area of endeavor A. Craig Olson ’74 Jonathan Segal ’84 James H. Ritter ’68, ’71 Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez ’01

Jim Lyle Award Long-term dedication and service to the university and/or Alumni Association through volunteerism

Lou Aldecoa ’75 Keeven Schropshire ’83 Tom ’59 and Ruby ’01, ’08 Stroschein Paul "Potlatch Joe" Anderson ’65

Honorary Alumni Recognition Identify special persons that are critical to the success of our alma mater Deb Ujiiye

Learn more and nominate a candidate before Aug. 1, 2016: www.uidaho.edu/alumni/awards

Melvin Myers ’67 is the author of “Occupational Safety and Health Policy,” published by the American Public Health Association in April 2015. The book is the result of teaching environmental and occupational health policy at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

’70s Gary Hermann ’71, ’72 retired in 2014 after 20 years as a professional agricultural and civil engineer at CH2M Hill in California, Oregon and Colorado, and 20 years at Velsicol Chemical in Tennessee. He lives with his wife, Joan, in Colton, Washington.

Randy Turner ’72 retired in October 2015 after 30 years as area architect/region facilities manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Arn Berglund ’75 retired from the Bureau of Land Management as the zone fisheries biologist in Idaho Falls District after working for the BLM and U.S. Forest Service for 35 years.

Donna R. Kemp ’77, ’78 retired from California State University, Chico after 30 years as a professor of public administration and political science and coordinator of the MPA program. She was the author or editor of six books and a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand, Lithuania and Latvia.

Marion Patterson ’77 was named Woman of the Year by the Linn County/Iowa Women’s Equality Day Coalition for her many years helping women and girls in professional and volunteer capacities.

Santiago (Ago) Ramos Jr. ’77 was honored with the New Mexico Press AssociationAssociated Press Managing Editors Newspaper Award for first place in sports writing in Daily Newspapers Class 1 for the Gallup Independent newspaper.

Ron Langrell ’79, ’81, ’84 was named president of City Club of Tacoma in September 2015.

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES ’80s Scott Fehrenbacher ’80 has accepted the position as senior vice president of External Relations for Trinity Western University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Kathy Barnard ’81 has been appointed executive director of Alumni Relations at the University of Idaho.

Rick Trader ’81 and his wife, Martha, have published the book “When Camels Slide Down Doors Do You Tell The Neighbors? A SevenYear Journey Through the Classroom of Dementia.” It is a collection of short stories about caring for family suffering from dementia, along with a mix of OCT, Parkinson’s and paranoia.

Paul Tracy ’82 has been awarded the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 Agronomic Industry Award. This award recognizes outstanding performance by a private sector agronomist in the development, acceptance and implementation of advanced agronomic programs, practices and/or products.

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Brad ’83 and Lisa (Harberd) Grover ’83, are pictured with their sons Nick and Joe, who are current third-generation Vandals, and Rover Grover.

Keeven Shropshire ’83 with JHS Architects has designed an amphitheater that will bring many events to the Pocatello community. The complex is part of the Portneuf Wellness Complex, being built to enhance and improve the health of southeastern Idaho.

Roger Haro ’88 was awarded the 2015 Wisconsin Professor of the Year award by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is currently a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse biology professor.

Mary Bird ’89, ’08 has been named executive director of the Idaho Academic Decathlon.

Bird has been a math teacher at Sandpoint High School since 1993 and a coach of the Sandpoint High Academic Decathlon team since 2000.

’90s Thomas Raedeke ’90 was named a fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Raedeke is a professor and graduate program director in the Department of Kinesiology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

David Gross ’91, ’94 has founded Pinnacle Law Office, LLC in Vancouver, Washington.

He serves as managing attorney.

Debbie Bravo ’92 has been named an associate with ALSC Architects in Coeur d’Alene, specializing in interior design. She has worked there for 19 years.

Marilyn (Broemeling) Blake ’93 was selected 2015 Teacher of the Year for the Lewiston School District.

Blake has taught in Lewiston for the past 27 years.

Asif Ghazanfar ’94, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, had research published in the journal Science as a cover story. The research findings address autism patients. He has also been featured on NPR discussing his research.

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Kristin Armstrong ’95 took the overall in the first Women’s Bike Racing USA Pro Challenge in Golden, Colorado.

Donald Bowker ’96 completed a 20-year Naval Aviation career flying combat missions and instructing in F/A-18s and carrier-based jet aircraft. He has transitioned into an encore career as a mission coordinator lead at AECOM Corporation.

Amy Little ’96 founded the Cause + Event Race Series in February 2012.

This year, the series will host events in Portland, Boston and Boise. The organization has raised over $75,000 for over 200 causes worldwide.

Jim Craig ’98, ’01 was awarded the Meritorious Service Silver Medal Award from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for his participation in a team that investigated, prosecuted and removed a highprofile Salvadoran national, Gen.Vides Casanova, from the United States.

To be profiled, mail information, including reunion/graduation year, to Annis Shea, Office of Alumni Relations, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 3232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or email information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be emailed in a high resolution .jpg format.

Please limit your submission to no more than 35 words.

’00s Nicole Willis ’01 has been accepted into the Informatics Training in Place Program (I-TIPP) fellowship. The national public health fellowship is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and National Association of County and City Health Officials. Willis is an epidemiologist at the Whatcom County Health Department in Bellingham, Washington.

Nancy Chaney ’02 received the Charles Hummel Award from Idaho Smart Growth for her dedication to and implementation of Smart Growth principles and respect for place, planning and people during her two terms as mayor of Moscow.

Lauren Lopp ’02 was promoted to director of People and Culture Services (HR) at Washington State Employees Credit Union in Olympia, Washington, where she has been working since 2004.

Crissie McDowell ’03 has joined Oliver Russell as the brandmarketing firm’s senior art director. She also is the cofounder of Think Pink, a nonprofit that has raised more than $70,000 for breast cancer research.

Richard Holm Jr. ’05 has released a second book about the history of backcountry flying and airstrips in the wilderness of Idaho and Oregon.

“Bound for the Backcountry II” contains historical information on the creation and ownership of these remote airstrips.

For further information see www.coldmountainpress.com.

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Scott Hopkins ’05 has been named associate stockholder at CSHQA. Hopkins joined CSHQA in

Lindsay Wilson ’06 has written her first collection of poetry, "No Elegies," which won the Quercus Review Press Spring Book Award 2014 and was published recently. She is an English professor at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. Website: http://quercusreviewpress. com/2014/07/22/spring-poetry-book-award-winner-2014/.

Brett Walter ’07 is the senior program director for Strong America Inc., a new 501(c)4 and political action committee that works to elect promilitary congressional candidates. He is also a political campaign and government relations consultant.

Jerry Mathes II ’08 won the North American Book Award for his memoir, “Ahead of the Flaming Front: A Life on Fire,” and the Meadow Prize for his novella, “Still Life.”

Elizabeth Sloan ’08 has published “When Songbirds Returned to Paris.” The historical nonfiction book recreates the life of Cecily Lefort, a WWII spy and Elizabeth’s relative. Research involved international travel, discovery of war archives and letters.

’10s

Engagements Sam Koester ’14 to Jim Martinez ’14 Cody McClung ’14 to Alysia Lohman ’14

Kimberly Russell Button ’11 graduated with her master’s degree in food science from Kansas State University.

Marriages

Lucia Sanchez ’13 was listed in 425 Business Magazine’s “Thirty Under Thirty,” which profiled 30 up-and-coming business professionals in the Seattle-Tacoma region.

Sanchez works as a marketing and client development assistant for the Mosaic Company.

Jane Demme ’09 to Mike Roberts ’07

Paige Orwin ’14 has published her first book, “The Interminables,” which will be on shelves this summer. She is now working on a sequel.

Rhylee Marchand ’15 was sworn into the Idaho Supreme Court and the Federal District Court for the District of Idaho in October 2015. Rhylee is assistant attorney in the Office of Legal Council for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

Clayton McFarland ’15 has relocated to Spokane, Washington, and started working at Valbridge Property Advisors|Auble, Jolicoeur & Gentry, Inc. as a commercial real estate appraisal researcher.

Andrea Cobb ’12 to Clark Baldus ’12

Jill Flockhart ’13 to Brian Reader ’10 Robin Lee ’11 to Rob Beusan ’11, ’13 Kelsi Nagle ’10 to Cody Rowe ’11 Christine Vaughan ’14 to Peter Brown ’15 Bobbi Zimmerman ’10, ’11 to Nathan Eby ’09

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5. Emberly Danielle, daughter of Casey ’03 and Amanda (Stewart) Fatzinger ’03 6. Weston Ray, son of Tim and Charlene (Huston) Franck ’11 7. William Best, son of Brett ’06, ’09 and Erika (Parsons) Judd ’05, ’09 8. Paul Stratton, son of Stratton ’10 and Ellen (Toevs) Laggis ’10 9. Nylissa Olivia, daughter of Natalie and Robert Mitchell ’03

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Please limit your submission to no more than 35 words.

In Memory The University of Idaho extends its condolences to the family and friends of Vandals listed below.

’30s June Davidson Armour ’34, Wayland, Mass., Nov. 18, 2015 Edith Paulsen Lemon ’38, Reno, Nev., Oct. 21, 2015

Fenoi “Murry” Murdock ’38, Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 13, 2015 Melvin Hollinger ’39, Blaine, Wash., Sept. 25, 2015 Wilmetta Hartley Meadows ’39, American Falls, July 20, 2015 Alfred Stone ’39, Boise, Oct. 28, 2015

’40s Elinor Mortimer Diltz ’40, Dalton Gardens, Nov. 2, 2015 Virginia Hunt Peterson ’41, Denver, Colo., Sept. 1, 2015 Merland Grieb ’42, ’49, Wenatchee, Wash., Sept. 26, 2015

Lois Rowe Latzko ’42, Richland, Wash., Dec. 13, 2015 Jessie June Stein ’42, Silverton, Dec. 4, 2015 Bernadine Stellmon Beenders ’43, Eagle, July 26, 2015

Doris Keister Gerhart ’43, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 20, 2015 Barbara Greenwell McKinney ’43, Salmon, June 27, 2015 Terence O’Rouark ’43, Boise, Jan. 2, 2016

Harold Dowdy ’44, Edmonds, Wash., May 14, 2014 Maxine Grover Eimers ’44, Grangeville, Nov. 19, 2015

Michael Fitzpatrick ’44, Lewiston, Sept. 14, 2015 Vaughn Peterson ’44, Idaho Falls, July 28, 2015 Kathryn Anderberg Johnson ’45, Carson City, Nevada, Nov. 5, 2015 Nadine Commnick Kambitsch ’45, Walla Walla, Wash., Aug. 9, 2015 Ray Muller ’45, Caldwell, Dec. 3, 2015 Mary Reynolds Randall ’45, Emmett, Nov. 1, 2015 Virginia Gridley Smith ’45, Sandpoint, Aug. 27, 2015 Fred Watson ’45, Seattle, Wash., Oct. 9, 2015 Marian Hallock Agee ’46, Roanoke, Virg., Dec. 11, 2015 Dorothy Dalley Parrish ’46, Orem, Utah, July 15, 2015 Claire Becker Sodorff ’46, ’64, Sandpoint, Nov. 25, 2015 Elizabeth Meagher Farley ’47, Corvallis, Ore., Nov. 18, 2015 Norman Fredekind ’47, Meridian, Nov. 28, 2015 Donald Hyder ’47, Fort Collins, Colo., Dec. 21, 2015 Joseph Malta ’47, Jackson, New Jersey, Jan. 12, 2016 Bonnie Kuehl Ford ’48, Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 22, 2015 John Fry ’48, Horseshoe Bend, Nov. 12, 2015 Lois Rankin Granlund ’48, ’71, Moscow, Dec. 4, 2015 Annabelle Moore Parvin ’48, Hot Springs Village, Ark., June 23, 2015 Keith Stokes ’48, Helena, Mont., Nov. 17, 2015 Robert True ’48, Wilder, Nov. 27, 2015 Jeanne Lindstrom Andersen ’49, Medicine Lake, Mont., Sept. 16, 2015

Don Berry ’49, Federal Way, Wash., June 28, 2015

James Hammond ’50, ’52, Lemoore, Calif., Aug. 2, 2014

Helen DeKlotz Brake ’49, Filer, Jan. 4, 2016

Fred Kohl ’50, Moscow, Dec. 19, 2015

Anita Kneale Brede ’49, Spokane, Wash., Dec. 13, 2015

Zimri Mills ’50, Garden City, Jan. 1, 2016

Robert Day ’49, ’59, Woodburn, Ore., Oct. 11, 2015

Lonnie Roe ’50, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14, 2015

Gerald Eyestone ’49, Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 31, 2015

Barbara Wardell ’50, Twin Falls, Dec. 26, 2015

Jay Felt ’49, Spokane, Wash., July 21, 2015 Betty Largent ’49, Sandpoint, Jan. 12, 2016 Sally Foskett Light ’49, Portland, Ore., March 11, 2015 Michael Rudloff ’49, Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 15, 2015 Troy Smith ’49, Lodi, Calif., Jan. 2, 2016 James Torgerson ’49, The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 1, 2015 Chuck Urban ’49, Boise, Nov. 9, 2015 Edgar Williams Jr. ’49, Kalispell, Mont., Dec. 13, 2015 William Wood ’49, Discovery Bay, Calif., Nov. 22, 2015

’50s Edward Aspitarte ’50, ’54, Boise, July 20, 2015 Arthur Becher ’50, Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8, 2015 Clarence Cook ’50, Lewiston, Jan. 16, 2016 Joseph Dion Jr. ’50, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 24, 2015 Carmen Gandiaga Dobaran ’50, Boise, July 27, 2015 Kenneth Frederiksen ’50, Nampa, Dec. 25, 2015 Harald Gerber ’50, Twin Falls, Oct. 10, 2015 Howard Grimms ’50, Salem, Ore., Nov. 14, 2015

Richard Atwood ’51, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 20, 2015 Tom Boyd ’51, Genesee, July 27, 2015 Darrell Brock ’51, Boise, Sept. 29, 2015 Dewey Clark ’51, Everett, Wash., July 7, 2015 Robert Culbertson ’51, Lewiston, Dec. 3, 2015 Gilbert DeKlotz Jr. ’51, Filer, Aug. 20, 2015 Howard Gorsuch ’51, Colville, Wash., Nov. 20, 2015 Gerald Gunnels ’51, Clovis, N. Mex., Aug. 31, 2015 Robert Hodge ’51, Boise, Aug. 14, 2015 Ray Korb ’51, Cusick, Wash., Jan. 18, 2016 Molly Cramblet McCormack ’51, Pullman, Wash., Oct. 22, 2015 Robert Nelson ’51, ’72, Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2015 Ernest Reed Jr. ’51, Hazelton, Aug. 23, 2015 Malcolm Stahl ’51, ’57, Deland, Florida, June 18, 2015 Dora Gaudin Thompson ’51, Snohomish, Wash., Oct. 15, 2015 Patricia Berry ’52, ’56, Clarkston, Wash., Aug. 13, 2015 Lee Boyle ’52, Rexburg, Nov. 11, 2015

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES Barbra Stewart Eardley ’52, Nampa, Sept. 17, 2015 Heber Grant Lau ’52, Soda Springs, Aug. 26, 2015 Joe Rumble ’52, Monitor, Wash., Jan. 5, 2016 John Wegher ’52, Durango, Colo., July 24, 2015 Coralie Hart White ’52, Portland, Ore., Dec. 11, 2015 Robert Bonnell ’53, Caldwell, Aug. 29, 2015 Robert Holder ’53, ’59, Redmond, Wash., March 13, 2015 Colleen Bickford Holland ’53, Lewiston, Dec. 25, 2015 William Hoover ’53, Escondido, Calif., Oct. 2, 2015 Otto Leuschel ’53, Mt. Vernon, Wash., Jan. 6, 2016 William Lodge ’53, Parma, Dec. 13, 2015 James Oates ’53, Caldwell, Dec. 6, 2015 Joan Wordal Schulz ’53, Fort Myers, Florida, April 11, 2014 Byron Webb ’53, Keizer, Ore., Jan. 15, 2016 Eugene Burbidge ’54, Boise, Aug. 3, 2015 Charles “Bob” Burns ’54, Parma, Oct. 24, 2015 Wilbur Montgomery ’54, Lewiston, Aug. 1, 2015 Loraine McConnel Neibaur ’54, Boise, Sept. 12, 2015 Leroy Paulsen ’54, Payette, Oct. 28, 2015 Jack Pierce ’54, Jerome, Sept. 7, 2015 Vernon Thomas ’54, Austin, Texas, Aug. 8, 2015 Sharon Paulus Bennett ’55, Boise, Jan. 10, 2016 Larry BeVan ’55, Moscow, Oct. 20, 2015

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Joe Corless ’55, North Tustin, Calif., Oct. 25, 2015 Patricia Valadon Johnston ’55, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 3, 2015

John Milton ’55, Coeur d’Alene, Feb. 15, 2015

Bonnie Bonner Warfield ’55, Garden City, Sept. 18, 2015 Larry Creek ’56, Boise, Nov. 29, 2015

Ward Dickey ’56, Boise, Sept. 23, 2015

Mary Allred Drashner ’56, Boise, Aug. 23, 2015

Floyd Gross ’56, Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23, 2015 John Hanson ’56, ’60, Kennewick, Wash., Sept. 25, 2015

Russell Iverson ’56, Brainerd, Minn., Nov. 3, 2015 Clyde Popplewell ’56, Buhl, July 16, 2015

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Emmett Wilkins ’57, Kamiah, Dec. 10, 2015

Karel Topinka ’60, Ludington, Mich., July 28, 2015

Stan Daniels Jr. ’58, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 28, 2015

Richard Fong ’61, Troy, Ohio, Nov. 18, 2015

Eugene Lees ’58, Wilmington, N. Car., Sept. 22, 2015

Ralph Jacobs ’61, Clarkston, Wash., Aug. 4, 2015

Kenneth Torkelson ’58, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 10, 2015

Zola Fairley McMurray ’61, Falls Church, Virg., Sept. 13, 2015

Leslie Walker ’58, Pocatello, Dec. 1, 2015

Archie Yager ’61, ’66, Spokane Valley, Wash., Oct. 5, 2015

Moire Charters ’58, ’59, Reedley, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015

Paul Webb ’60, Ocean Springs, Miss., Dec. 30, 2015

Judy Folkins Dougherty ’58, Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 1, 2015

James Hamilton ’61, Roseville, Calif., April 6, 2015

Ralph Roberts ’58, Payette, Oct. 7, 2015

John Leaton ’61, Orofino, Sept. 18, 2015

Donald Villeneuve ’58, Cambria, Calif., Oct. 15, 2015

Jon Mellen ’61, Boise, Sept. 4, 2015

Jack Bryan ’59, Pueblo, Colo., Dec. 13, 2015

Craig Kosonen ’59, ’61, Post Falls, Oct. 1, 2015

Jerry Jaeger ’62, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2015

Alice Collins Liles ’62, Kissimmee, Fla.. July 27, 2015

Howard Tankersley ’56, Fort Collins, Colo., Nov. 29, 2015

Elizabeth Cleveland MacGregor ’59, Boise, Oct. 3, 2015

Keith Boam ’57, Idaho Falls, Dec. 2, 2015

Thomas Rhodes ’59, Meridian, Jan. 13, 2016

David Stere ’62, Stayton, Ore., Aug. 25, 2015

Norman “Butch” Foltz ’57, Grangeville, Aug. 3, 2015

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Allen Brixen ’63, Grangeville, Sept. 2, 2015

Thomas Scherer ’62, ’89, ’90, Meridian, Nov. 21, 2015

Theodore Waddell ’56, Port Hueneme, Calif., Oct. 15, 2015

James Mann ’59, Portland, Ore., July 27, 2015

Theodore Spence ’62, Tigard, Ore., Nov. 1, 2015

Philip Edwards ’57, ’60, Omaha, Neb., Jan. 16, 2016

Kristen White ’59, Boise, Oct. 29, 2015

Robert Tarola ’62, Arlington, Texas, Sept. 26, 2015

Ernest Foote ’57, Galveston, Texas, Oct. 28, 2015 Sue McMahon Galligan ’57, Boise, July 22, 2015

Petrea Knudsen Goold ’57, Pocatello, March 23, 2015 Charles Janecek ’57, Alda, Neb., Dec. 19, 2015 Ned Pence ’57, ’67, Moscow, Jan. 15, 2016

Emilie Davidson Shupe ’57, Ogden, Utah, July 31, 2015 James Walker ’57, ’58, Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 23, 2015

James Brookes ’60, Salem, Ore., Dec. 8, 2015

John Gamble ’63, Idaho Falls, April 9, 2015

James Fritzley ’60, ’61, Twin Falls, Oct. 21, 2015

Joseph Kincaid ’63, ’67, Happy Valley, Ore., Aug. 11, 2015

Herbert Fritzley ’60, ’61, Meridian, Oct. 29, 2015

Harry Keller ’63, ’67, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 7, 2015

Darlene Johnston Miller ’60, Wimberley, Texas, Sept. 24, 2015

Frank Nelson ’63, Clinton, Wash., Sept. 1, 2015

Lloyd Rohn ’60, Potlatch, Dec. 6, 2015

Clifford Nichols ’63, Idaho Falls, Sept. 25, 2015

Josephine Clovis Thomason ’60, Craigmont, Nov. 8, 2015

Joseph Ken Yahraes III ’63, Boise, Jan. 9, 2016

Leo Tafolla ’60, Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 12, 2015

Lawrence Rieder ’63, Twin Falls, Nov. 10, 2015

To be profiled, mail information, including reunion/graduation year, to Annis Shea, Office of Alumni Relations, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 3232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or email information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be emailed in a high resolution .jpg format.

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Ruth Mitchell Bosteder ’64, Richland, Wash., Nov. 26, 2015

Francis “Clark” Jones ’66, Kellogg, Jan. 12, 2016

Frederick Edmiston ’64, ’88, New Plymouth, July 20, 2015

Gary McLaughlin ’66, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 13, 2015

Craig Dufur ’64, Grangeville, Aug. 17, 2015

Bonnie Reimann Fearn ’64, Ashton, Sept. 16, 2015

Lee Ron Galbraith ’64, Roseville, Calif., Jan. 4, 2016

Vernon Leyde ’66, Tampa, Flor., Jan. 5, 2016

John Parker ’66, Meridian, Nov. 23, 2015 Jon Warren ’66, Moscow, Dec. 29, 2015

Jimmie Renz ’64, ’67, Twin Falls, Oct. 24, 2015

Vanner Hegbloom ’67, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 16, 2015

Ernest Brown ’65, Wenatchee, Wash., July 30, 2015

Richard Johnson ’67, Nampa, Oct. 19, 2015

Sue Solomon Flammia ’65, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 16, 2015

Curtis Seymour ’67, Redmong, Ore., Oct. 6, 2015

Lenard Vaughn ’64, Lewiston, July 22, 2015

Marjorie Patrick Huggins ’67, Pullman, Wash., Oct. 30, 2015

Anna Moore Cochrane ’65, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 16, 2015

Robin “Bob” Luchini ’67, Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 1, 2015

James Gregg ’65, Moses Lake, Wash., Oct 3, 2015

Dennis Eichhorn ’68, Bremerton, Wash., Oct. 8, 2015

Gareth LaCelle ’65, Puyallup, Wash., Aug. 21, 2015 Gene Lightner ’65, Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 6, 2016

Willard Spalding ’68, Glenns Ferry, Dec. 16, 2015

Terry Carlson ’69, Clarkston, Wash., July 22, 2015

Craig Minzel ’65, Port Orchard, Wash., Nov. 4, 2015

Terrance Gough ’69, ’75, Eugene, Ore., Dec. 28, 2015

Millie Deen Rambo ’65, ’74, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 19, 2015

Ralph Schaefer ’69, Post Falls, Nov. 22, 2015

Cecil Patterson ’65, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 22, 2014

James Sullivan ’65, Castle Rock, Colo., Jan. 12, 2016 Jon Trail ’65, Weiser, Oct. 6, 2015

Claridon Whitney ’65, Spokane, Wash., Nov. 3, 2015 George Wolff ’65, Nampa, July 21, 2015

John Church ’66, Lewiston, Nov. 11, 2015

John Culley ’66, Fountain Hills, Ariz., Dec. 17, 2015 H.W. “Pete” Felsted ’66, American Fork, Utah, Nov. 17, 2015

Richard Graeber ’69, Endicott, Wash., Dec. 6, 2015

’70s Gail Nuttman Church ’70, Fruitland, Aug. 23, 2015

Arnold Finkbeiner Jr. ’70, Ontario, Ore., Aug. 18, 2015

Jannet Arrington Hatch ’70, Idaho Falls, Aug. 12, 2015 Robert Holmes ’70, Caldwell, Sept. 15, 2015

Dawn Barnes Mattmiller ’70, ’71, ’72, Denver, Colo., Sept. 17, 2015

Beverly Buising McHenry ’70, Hayden, May 3, 2015

Larry Weeks ’70, ’77, Boise, June 6, 2015

Charlotte Townsend Allen ’71, Palmer, Alaska, Dec. 15, 2015 Joan Young Campbell ’71, Clarkston, Wash., Dec. 3, 2015 David Hilton ’71, Penn Valley, Calif., Jan. 2, 2016 Wayne Lyon ’71, Firth, Dec. 29, 2015

Kathleen “Kay” Johnston Montgomery ’71, Moscow, Nov. 3, 2015 Donald Shepherd ’71, Nampa, Nov. 8, 2015 Dale Tweedy ’71, Boise, Oct. 29, 2015

Ernest Tweit ’71, Lewiston, Jan. 8, 2016

Julie Henry Williams ’71, Clarkston, Wash., Dec. 2, 2015 Charlotte Rucker Johnston ’72, Pocatello, Sept. 15, 2015 William Little ’72, ’76, Caldwell, Oct. 15, 2015

Alda Choate McIver ’72, ’77, Lewiston, July 27, 2015 Lois Boyd Samuelson ’72, Moscow, Nov. 25, 2015

Louis Etcheverry ’73, Bakersfield, Calif., Jan. 1, 2016 Janice Baer Gaylord ’73, Boise, Jan. 17, 2016

John Grieneeks ’73, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 30, 2015 John Ritchie ’73, Blackfoot, Sept. 1, 2015

Barbara Fitzgerald Sjostedt ’74, Lake Forest, Calif., June 5, 2015 Douglas Freeman ’75, Lewiston, Nov. 5, 2015

Glenn Lee ’75, Fruitland, Iowa, Sept. 5, 2015

Thomas Moore ’75, Sandpoint, June 19, 2014

Gary Floan ’76, Spokane, Wash., March 9, 2015

Craig Larson ’76, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13, 2015 Philip Rietze ’76, Boise, Dec. 10, 2015

Craig Steedman ’76, Cottonwood, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2015 Janet Brooks Wilfert ’76, Sandpoint, Aug. 13, 2015

Kathy Goade Arritola ’77, Vale, Ore., Nov. 13, 2015 Brian Hamlett ’77, Nampa, Dec. 10, 2015

Paul Hedler ’77, Moscow, Feb. 20, 2015 Betty Hoffman Johnson ’77, Boise, July 22, 2015

Hettie Richardson Jones ’77, Pasco, Wash., Aug. 26, 2015 Thomas Thurow ’77, Monticello, Wisc., Jan. 13, 2016

Lois Redington Carter ’78, Boise, Nov. 14, 2015

James Haight ’78, St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 28, 2015

Steven Herndon ’74, Boise, Oct. 22, 2015

Michael Jernegan ’78, ’86, San Antonio, Texas, July 8, 2015

Grace Bardes Koehler ’74, Twin Falls, Oct. 3, 2015

Joe Pellegrini Jr. ’78, Meridian, Dec. 23, 2015

Halvor Johansen ’74, Idaho Falls, Aug. 6, 2015

Doris Diettert Johnson ’78, Huson, Mont., Oct. 22, 2015

Thomas Mohrlang ’74, Burley, Aug. 12, 2015

Frank McDonald ’79, Eden, Dec. 3, 2015

John Peacock ’74, Lewiston, Dec. 9, 2015

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES ’80s Steven Adams ’80, Portland, Ore., Sept. 1, 2015

Tracy Stevens ’88, Miyazaki, Japan, Jan. 28, 2015 Thomas Thoreson ’88, Boise, Dec. 2, 2015

Wesley Hartman ’80, Jacksonville, Ore., Oct. 25, 2015

Dale Maxwell ’89, Chicopee, Mass., July 16, 2015

Darlene Duff Olson ’81, Beaverton, Ore., Nov. 1, 2015

Jeffrey Barnett ’90, Boise, Aug. 2, 2015

Emmett Choate III ’81, Parrish, Ala., Oct. 25, 2014

Kyle Wilson ’81, Lapwai, Nov. 6, 2015

Thomas Allen ’82, Helena, Mont., Nov. 30, 2015 Gordon Bunch ’82, Lenore, July 12, 2015

Gretchen Grabow ’82, Seattle, Wash., July 31, 2015

William Rainey Jr. ’82, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26, 2015 Mary Armstrong ’84, Moscow, Oct. 22, 2015

Aimee Townsend Bancroft ’85, Bend, Ore., Nov. 28, 2015 Thomas Frye ’85, Boise, July 30, 2015

Michael Mortemore ’85, Eugene, Ore., Jan. 10, 2016 William Petersen ’85, Boise, April 30, 2014

Roger Smith ’85, Idaho Falls, Nov. 27, 2015

Mitzi Richards Brooks ’86, Burley, Oct. 23, 2015

’90s Paul Freund ’90, Twin Falls, May 31, 2015

Maia Greenwell ’90, Moscow, Dec. 11, 2015

David Rouse ’02, Phillipsburg, Mont., Nov. 30, 2015

August “Gus” Leavitt ’03, ’07, Idaho Falls, June 25, 2015 John Spratt Jr. ’03, Boise, Sept. 3, 2015

Michael Naethe ’05,

Cheri Moran Vitek ’08, Gooding, Oct. 1, 2015

’10s Sarah Broden ’11, Coeur d’Alene, Sept. 14, 2015 Shane Meyer ’12, Boise, Sept. 14, 2015

Ronald Johns ’91, Grangeville, Dec. 2, 2015 Mildred Popenoe Mcgahey ’91, Clarkston, Wash., Aug. 23, 2015

Dean Boehm ’93, Indian Valley, Ore., Dec. 23, 2014

Marcia Elkins Moroz ’93, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 30, 2015 Jennifer McAvoy Lonn ’96, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 26, 2013 Evan Myler ’96, Rigby, Nov. 18, 2015

Bret Aitchison ’87, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20, 2015

Rick Osborne ’97, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Oct. 23, 2015

Donna Wallen ’96, ’02, Moscow, Jan. 2, 2016

Billie Cothern ’87, Dalton Gardens, Oct. 30, 2015

Ray Wilmot ’97, Boise, Aug. 24, 2015

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Kristy Roberts ’02, Lewiston, Nov. 5, 2015

Anthony Duclos ’08, ’12, Post Falls, June 17, 2014

Henry Hamill ’91, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 11, 2015

Lelace Coleman Gregory ’86, Boise, Nov. 12, 2015

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Renata Winters ’01, ’10, Clarkston, Wash., July 23, 2015

Norma Wright Abell ’91, Sandpoint, July 13, 2015

Nancy Johnstone Nishimura ’96, Spokane, Wash., Sept. 22, 2015

Ned Stokes ’87, Homedale, Sept. 24, 2015

Henderson, Nev., Aug. 3, 2015

Eric Holt ’90, Saint George, Utah, Oct. 11, 2015

Kristin Galecki ’86, Spokane, Wash., Aug. 25, 2015

Lorraine Parton Landwehr ’87, Bayview, Nov. 24, 2015

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Chad Nelson ’99, Coeur d’Alene, Dec. 14, 2015

Vandals in Partnership, or VIP, is a program designed ato equip Vandal alumni to help in the recruitment of future Vandals. Learn more about recruitment initiatives and the potential of becoming an area alumni representative.

For more information:

uidaho.edu/VIP

Community Connection The Potlatch Train Depot in Potlatch, Idaho, will wrap up its nearly two-decade renovation project this summer, thanks in part to a group of University of Idaho students in the professional writing emphasis program in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences.

The English program’s capstone course pairs student groups with area nonprofits to teach client-based writing skills. In spring 2015, three students worked with Jim West of the Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway History Preservation Group to identify and write a grant for the depot project. The group received $24,900 from the Inland Northwest Community Foundation as a result of the project.

Read more about the Potlatch Train Depot project and the professional writing program at uidaho.edu/magazine.

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Members of the 2015-16 Vandaleers Concert Choir

AND HERE WE HAVE IDAHO, WINNING HER WAY TO FAME! Music is at the heart of our campus, and it resonates to every corner of the state. In fact, the state song, “Here We Have Idaho,” was first used as the University of Idaho alma mater, and later adopted by the Legislature as the official song of the Gem State.

Please help by making a gift today at uidaho.edu/givetomusic, or contact:

The Vandaleers Concert Choir, the university’s premiere touring choral ensemble, is one of the many UI musical groups that perform the UI alma mater.

PETER MUNDT Director of development for the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences peterm@uidaho.edu 208-885-5013

Like the Vandaleers, UI’s musical performing groups from the Lionel Hampton School of Music require financial support from our generous donors to keep the UI music traditions alive and thriving for future generations.