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TBA UNM School of Medicine Reunion: Start with parties: the classes of ’68 and ’73 at University House, the class of ’78 at the home of Dr. Szalay, and the classes of ’83 and ’93 at the home of Dr. Bordenave. Add Continuing Medical Education, a tour of the Albuquerque Zoological Park, led by the zoo’s veterinarian, an all-class dinner and dance at the Albuquerque Museum, and some golf, and you’ll have a great time! Watch your mailbox for more information. If you have any questions, or would like to help, please call Rachel Miller at 505-272-3748 or e-mail rrmiller@salud.unm.edu. Your class representatives are: Class of ’68 – Effie Medford Class of ’73 – Manny Archuleta Class of ’78 – Elizabeth Szalay Class of ’83 – Linda Stogner Class of ’93 – Kris Bordenave
Sunday, September 21 8 a.m. 7th Annual Run for the Hills at High Desert: Support the UNM Track and Field Program by participating in this annual event. 10K and 5K all-terrain run with 5K walk and kids 1K. For more information, contact Matt or Mark Henry at 505-975-5735.
5-7 p.m. Young Alumni Social: If you graduated within the past 10 years, please join the Young Alums for a Homecoming Kick Off Social at Rebar, 2216 Central SE.
Tuesday, September 30 10 a.m. UNM Bookstore Homecoming Kick Off Party: Sidewalk Sale High Noon Concert - Bookstore Patio Come on over to the UNM Bookstore to help us kick off Homecoming 2003! Refreshments, Fun, and Special Deals! Discount coupons available at Hodgin Hall for all alumni. 2 p.m. Campus Decorating Contest: Campus departments will decorate lobbies and offices to get into the spirit of Homecoming. For more information, contact Eleanor Sanchez, Communications and Marketing, at 505-277-1813.
Wednesday, October 1 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Students will vote on UNM Homecoming Royalty and choose their King and Queen of Carnival on the Rio. Noon University of New Mexico Faculty and Staff Alumni Luncheon: Current UNM faculty and staff employees who are UNM alumni will be invited to an appreciation lunch at the Student Union Building. Reservations required. Please call 505-277-5808 for more information.
7:30 p.m. KNME-TV presents Peter Cincotti, 19-year-old jazz sensation. Don’t miss the charismatic vocalist and jazz pianist. KiMo Theater, 423 Central Ave. NW. Tickets available at the KiMo Box Office, or call Ticketmaster at 505-883-7800. $50, $45, $40. Call KNME at 505-277-2922 for more information.
Thursday, October 2
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6 p.m. Presidential Scholars Reunion Reception: All past Presidential Scholarship recipients are invited to attend a reception to recognize the new recipients of this prestigious scholarship. For more information, call Mary Wolford at 505-277-5688.
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2 p.m. Students carry on the tradition of the Annual Cherry/Silver Games to attain the coveted Cup. Come down to the Duck Pond and watch them compete in numerous wacky and hilarious games including the Lobo Howl! For more information contact the Student Activities Office at 505-277-4706.
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Friday, October 3 TBA Golf Scramble: Members of the 1953 Baseball Team and 1963 WAC Football Championship Team will gather for a round of golf and fun. Please contact Kim Feldman at 505-277-9092 to make your reservation. 10 a.m. Campus Carnival and Lobo Spirit Day: Wear your UNM cherry and silver on campus and show your Lobo pride! Join students for a Campus Carnival and Pep Rally at the Duck Pond. 10 a.m. Alumni Memorial Chapel: Open for time of reflection for the Class of ’53. 10:30 a.m. Class of ’53 Reunion Brunch: The Class of ’53 and one guest each are invited to enjoy a tasty brunch and visit with fellow classmates. Hibben Archeological Center, UNM Campus. $7/person. Reservations required. Please call the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808. 10:30 a.m. Mortar Board Class of 1953: The Mortar Board Class of ’53 will meet at the Reunion Brunch noted above. $7 per person. Reservations required. For more information, e-mail Dorcas Doering at dorcaspaul@aol.com, or call the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808. noon-2 p.m. SUB Open House: The wait is over! All alumni are invited to visit the newly renovated Student Union Building on the main campus. Come and check out the new atrium, foodcourts, and meeting rooms. Find out why the SUB has been labeled “state-of-the-art.” 2-5 p.m.College of Pharmacy: Visit the College of Pharmacy on the North Campus. For more information, please contact Julie Moss at 505-272-9933 or jmoss@salud.unm.edu. 5-7 p.m. Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of UNM’s Anthropology Department with a dinner at the new Hibben Archeological Center. Pre-registration is required. Pre-payment of $15/person for Friday meal and special Sunday trip*; $8/person for the Friday reunion only. Checks should be payable to UNM Department of Anthropology and mailed to: 75th Reunion, Department of Anthropology, MSC01 1040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. RSVP to Bruce Huckell, 505-277-4491 or anthro75@unm.edu. *Sunday will be a guided tour of the Pueblo San Marcos site in the Galisteo Basin 4
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and the Cerrillos Hills turquoise source. Dr. Ann Ramenofsky will be the trip leader, and transportation will be via vans. The tour will last approximately 4-5 hours. 5 p.m. University Honors Program: Honors alumni are invited to an open house and reception. Meet faculty, staff, and current students at the Honors Forum, lower level of the University College Building. For more information, call Karen Rand at 505-277-4211 or e-mail karen@unm.edu. 5 p.m. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity: The gentlemen of Phi Delta Theta invite all alumni to an open house at the Phi Delta Theta house, 1801 Mesa Vista NE. For more information, please call 505-247-7447. 6 p.m. The Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus will host a Jewish Alumni Reception to welcome the Sabbath. Aaron David Bram Hillel House, 1701 Sigma Chi Road NE. For more information, call Dina Berger at 505-242-1127 or e-mail hillel@unm.edu. 6 p.m. Past Student Government Leaders Reception: All past presidents and vice-presidents of ASUNM and GPSA are invited to this annual reception. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Debbie Morris at 505-277-4706. TBA Former ASUNM Senators Reunion: Please contact Debbie Morris at 505-277-4706 for more information. 6 p.m. UNM ALUMNI LETTERMEN ANNUAL MEETING/SOCIAL: Join fellow UNM Lettermen for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres while you reminisce about your playing days and UNM’s greatest athletes. Joining the group will be members of the 1963 WAC Football Championship Team and the 1953 Baseball Team, celebrating their 40th and 50th Reunions. The annual meeting will be held at 7 p.m. to announce the Honorary Letterman for 2003. For more information, call Kim Feldman at 505-277-9092. Reservations required. President’s Pavilion, Tow Diehm Athletic Complex, University Stadium. $10 for guests and non-members. 6:30 p.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni Reception: Sigma Alpha Epsilon House, 1811 Mesa Vista NE. For information, call the SAE House at 505-843-6426. 6:30 p.m. Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Reception: Lambda Chi Alpha House, 1815 Sigma Chi Road. For information, e-mail David Dominguez at davevd50@hotmail.com. 6-8 p.m. REUNION REVELRY: Several schools/colleges/alumni groups will gather under the Southwest Carnival Tent at University Stadium for a fun-filled evening
of reuniting with fellow grads, faculty, and staff. Music, dancing, and refreshments will be provided. Reservations are recommended. The following reunions will take place under the tent: UNM Young Alumni: If you’ve graduated from UNM within the last 10 years, you’re invited to join the group and have some fun. As they say, “Network, network, network!” If you’ve never been to an alumni event, this is the one to attend! Your reunion coordinators will gladly take your reservations. Call Yvonne Peña at 505-277-3361 or email Danny Milo at milodanny@hotmail.com. Anderson School of Management: Keep up with fellow graduates, faculty, and staff at this annual fun-filled reunion. To RSVP or get more information, contact Lisa McHale at 505-277-0880 or mchale@mgt.unm.edu. School of Public Administration: Alumni are invited to join the fun, share your best SPA stories, and visit with faculty and staff. Contact Lisa McHale at 505-277-0880 or mchale @mgt.unm.edu. School of Architecture and Planning: Build new friendships at the Reunion Revelry under the Carnival Tent. Join fellow architects, faculty, and staff for great conversation and refreshments. For more information, contact the Pam Hurd-Knies at 505-277-7421. College of Education: The College of Education invites all their alumni to join them for this annual fun-filled event. Meet fellow educators and share ideas about what’s been happening in your field. For more information, contact Margaret Duran at 505-277-0835. School of Engineering: Build new friendships and bridge lasting memories with the engineering alums at our annual Friday night reception. Come listen to live music, and find out what fellow graduates have been up to. For more information, contact Tim Davis at 505-277-5541 or e-mail twdavis@unm.edu. College of Nursing: Join fellow grads and share stories about your days at UNM and what’s happening in the world of nursing. Please contact Rosemary Gregory at 505-272-0200 or Susan Fox at 505-272-3330 for more information. College of Pharmacy: Alumni are invited to join the fun under the big top. Meet with faculty and staff during this fun-filled reception. For more information, contact Julie Moss at 505-272-9933 or jmoss@salud.unm.edu. UNM Marching Band Alumni: If you played in the UINM Marching Band at UNM, meet us at the Reunion Revelry for a fun social. If you’d like to perform at halftime
with the UNM Spirit Marching Band, we will provide the music and instruments (if you didn’t keep yours). A band rehearsal will take place before the game on Saturday. For more information, contact the Band Office at 505-277-8998.
3-6 p.m. Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Open House: Join Pi Beta Phi Alumnae at 1701 Mesa Vista Rd. NE prior to the football game. 3 p.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni Tailgate Party: For more information, contact the SAE House at 505-843-6426.
8-11 p.m. MASQUERADE BALL: Have you always wanted to attend a masquerade ball? Here’s your chance to dress up and pretend to be someone else! Live music and dancing will take place under the large Carnival Tent at the NE corner of University Stadium. Prizes for the best costume! For more information, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808.
3 p.m. Kappa Sigma Fraternity Tailgate Party: Look for the Kappa Sig flag and join fraternity brothers in celebration.
Saturday, October 4 All Day Family Day at UNM: All parents and family of UNM students are invited to attend the many events scheduled throughout the day. For more information, contact Yvonne Peña at 505-277-3361. 8 a.m. UNM Naval ROTC Alums will meet for their annual breakfast and open house at the NROTC Building located at 720 Yale Blvd. NE. We will also meet prior to game time in the Southwest Carnival Tent. A table will be reserved for NROTC. 8:45 a.m. The School of Architecture and Planning will host a continental breakfast and reception for alumni. 2414 Central Ave. SE. For more information, contact Pam Hurd-Knief at 505-277- 7421. 9 a.m. ALL UNIVERSITY BREAKFAST recognizes the accomplishments of New Mexico resident alumni through the presentation of the Zia Awards as well as the Mortar Board Lobo Award. Please contact Margaret Dike at 505-344-2590 to submit nominations for the prestigious Lobo Award. The Mortar Board Class of 1953 will reunite at this event. Albuquerque Petroleum Club, 500 Marquette NW. $12/person. Reservations required. Please call 505-277-5808. 2 p.m. Lambda Chi Alpha Tailgate Party: Look for the Lambda Chi Alpha flag and join the activities. University Stadium Tailgate Lot, east of the stadium. For more information, e-mail David Dominguez at davevd50@hotmail.com. 3-6 p.m. Chi Omega Alumnae Open House: Stop by the XO House at 1810 Mesa Vista Rd. NE and visit with fellow alumnae. For more information, contact Lichele Peete at 505-822-0091. 3-6 p.m. Alpha Chi Omega Alumnae Open House: Located at 1635 Mesa Vista Rd., Alpha Chi Omega will host an open house for all Alpha Chi alumnae before the football game.
3 p.m. Lobo Engineers Tailgate BBQ: The Engineering Chapter of the UNM Alumni Association will host a Tailgate BBQ for alumni, students, staff, and their family and friends. Look for the “Welcome Lobo Engineers” banner in the NE corner of the east tailgate lot. 3 p.m. UNM Alumni Lettermen’s Tailgate Party: ALL UNM Lettermen are invited to a tailgate party at the Lettermen’s Tent, located in the tailgate lot northeast of the UNM Football Stadium. For more information, contact Kim Feldman at the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-9092. 3 p.m. SOUTHWEST CARNIVAL: EVERYONE’S INVITED! Join fellow alumni and Lobo fans for the biggest tailgate event under the big top! We’ll serve our traditional southwest buffet, provide live entertainment, and more…all for only $7/person. You can’t miss the giant tent in the tailgate lot northeast of the University Stadium. Reservations recommended. 505-277-5808 3-5:20 p.m. TENTH ANNUAL UNM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SILENT AUCTION: Also under the giant tent during the Southwest Carnival. Come and check out the great auction packages, including two roundtrip tickets to anywhere Southwest Airlines flies. All proceeds benefit the UNM Alumni Association Scholarship Fund and programs. If you’d like to donate an item for the auction, please call Donna at the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808. 6 p.m. UNM LOBOS VS. UTAH STATE: Cheer on the Lobos at University Stadium in the traditional Homecoming game against Utah State. Half-time festivities include the coronation of the Homecoming Queen and King and an extravaganza by the UNM Spirit Marching Band. Stick around after the game to celebrate our win with a fireworks display. Discount tickets available at $10/each. Please call the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808.
Come to the Rio Air Travel: Southwest Airlines is offering a 10% discount on most of its already low fares for air travel to and from Homecoming. You or your travel agent may call Southwest Airlines Group and Meetings Reservations at
1-800-433-5368 and reference identifier code #K0189. Reservations sales agents are available 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, or 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. You must make reservations five or more days before your travel time to take advantage of this offer. Lodging: The official hotels for Homecoming 2003 are listed below. All hotels are located within a 2-mile radius of the University. Reservations are limited and will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Keep in mind this is the same weekend as the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, so make your reservations early to receive special rates for Carnival on the Rio! The Marriott TownePlace Suites, located at 2400 Centre Ave. SE, offers a modified continental breakfast, complimentary shuttle service to the airport, and fully equipped kitchens. A limited number of rooms are available at $89/night plus tax. Reserve by September 10 for this rate. Call 505-232-5800 and refer to group name “UNM Alumni Association.” For more hotel information, check the TownePlace Suites website at www.marriott.com. The Radisson Hotel, located at 1901 University Blvd. SE, offers a complimentary American breakfast and complimentary shuttle service to the airport. A limited number of rooms are available at $89/night plus tax based on single/double occupancy. Reserve by September 17 for these rates. Call 505-247-0512 and refer to group name “Homecoming-UNM Alumni.” For more hotel information, check the Radisson website at www.radisson.com. The Hotel Blue, a chic boutique located in the heart of downtown Albuquerque offers complimentary breakfast and free shuttle service to the airport. A limited number of rooms are available at $69/night plus tax for single/double or $89/night plus tax for suites. Reserve by September 19 for these rates. Call 877-878-4868 and refer to the group name “Homecoming/UNM Alumni.” Check the website at www.TheHotelBlue.com. Car Rental: Enterprise Car Rental will offer alumni a 10% discount on car rental reservations made through the Albuquerque office. Please contact Jennifer Brahl or Katie Clark at 505-880-9797 ext. 210 or ext. 208 to receive this discount. All reservations must be made before September 17, 2003, for this special offer.
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Lobos Louie and Lucy know that
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and into the laboratory, the classrooms,
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the library, the museums, the theaters…
7 Reflection:
Photo by Matthew Dunn.
”Friedman House” by Kirk Gittings
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Look for a friend on every page!
10 Look Out! Mirage readers make their opinions known.
12 Connections Recent accomplishments by UNM faculty and staff
22 Cartwheels for the Cherry and Silver BY
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Why do cheerleaders lead cheers? Bands play fight songs? And fans go wild? Lobo Lucy and others clue us in.
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Fall 2003, Volume 22, Number 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: Louis Caldera, President; Judy K. Jones, Vice President-Institutional Advancement; Karen A. Abraham, Director, Alumni Relations; Mary Conrad, Editor; Kelly Ketner, Ketner Design, Art Director. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Steve Bacchus, President, Albuquerque; Coleman Travelstead, President-Elect, Albuquerque; Michelle Hernandez, Treasurer, Albuquerque; Steve Ciepiela, Past-President, Albuquerque; Lillian Montoya-Rael, Santa Fe; Roberto Ortega, Albuquerque; Angie Vachio, Albuquerque. MIRAGE is published three times a year, in April, August, and December, by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends. Address all correspondence to UNM Alumni Relations Office, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC 01-1160, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Send all Album information to the attention of Margaret Weinrod. Send all changes of address to the attention of Records. Send all other correspondence to the attention of Mary Conrad. To comply with the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, UNM provides this publication in alternative formats. If you have special needs and require an auxiliary aid or service, please contact Mary Conrad. Phone: 800-258-6866 (800-ALUM-UNM) or 505-277-5808. E-mail to Mary Conrad: mconrad@unm.edu or alumni@unm.edu. Web address: www.unmalumni.com
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16 Louis Caldera: UNM’s Neo-Traditional President
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BY MARY CONRAD The new guy on campus is optimistic about the leadership tasks ahead.
18 Conversation: Anthropology’s Allure MODERATED BY VB PRICE, EDITED BY MARY CONRAD Why do students continue to flock to the UNM anthropology program? Three anthro professors discuss the field’s appeal, and its history at UNM.
26 School Spirit—The Real Thing BY MARY CONRAD Is there school spirit beyond the Pit? Students, alumni, and others give their opinions.
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30 David Gibson: Character Counts BY LAURIE MELLAS-RAMIREZ David Gibson’s horizons are far wider than the span of a basketball court.
34 Pearl Burns: Sanctity on High
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BY RANDY MCCOACH At 80, Pearl Burns finds her spiritual fill atop the tallest peaks.
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36 Athletics: She’s Got Game!
New Mexico yearbook until its last edition in 1978. Since that time, the title was adopted by the alumni magazine which continues to publish
BY JANICE MYERS It takes spirit to be the only female player on the football team. Lobo kicker Katie Hnida takes it in stride.
38 Development: California Givin’ BY VALERIE MCKINNEY Manuel Pino knows firsthand students’ struggles to make ends meet. He’s endowed a scholarship fund to help Hispanic students.
40 Friends for Life: (Baseball) Diamonds Are Forever BY JANICE MYERS Lobo Lettermen Rick Ronquillo and Larry Harrison have been buddies since Little League days.
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42 Alumni Outlook UNM graduates.
44 Lobo Gear 46 A Longing Look: “Passing Thunderhead, The Great Kiva,” by Kirk Gittings
Look for a friend on every page! Keep us posted! Send your news to Margaret Weinrod The University of New Mexico Alumni Association 1 University of New Mexico MSC 01-1160 Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Better yet, e-mail your news to mweinrod@unm.edu. Fall (August) deadline: May 1 Winter (December) deadline: September 1 Spring (April) deadline: January 1
Barbara Bailey Heberholz, ’45 BAFA, ’53 MA, has written eight articles for the “Walking Through History” series (homes and studios of artists that are open to the public) in Arts and Activities Magazine. She and Donald live in Gold River, California. Robert Taichert, ’49 BA, has been elected to the board of directors of the UNM Foundation. Bob is an attorney in Albuquerque. Marshall Farris, ‘50 BAED, ’52 MA, serves on the UNM School of Engineering Board of Visitors, the department of mechanical engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, and the engineering alumni group. He also is a consultant in technology transfer. He and Jo Margaret, ’48 BA, live in Albuquerque. Willis W. Pickel, ’50 BA, has recently retired in Gold River, California, from an active private practice of ophthalmology. Gen. John K. Davis, ’51 BAED, was honored by the General Council of Phi Delta Theta by establishing an annual Gen. J.K. Davis award to honor Phis who have demonstrated outstanding service in the defense of liberty as a member of the armed forces. The Marine Corps Historical Center in Washington DC published his 150-page oral history memoir. He lives in San Clemente, California. Evelyn Curtis Losack, ’51 BAFA, has been honored by the New Mexico State Council, Epsilon Sigma Alpha International, for her leadership and service. A music educator for more than 50 years, she was named Music Teacher of New Mexico in 2000. She is active in the Corrales Historical Society, the Corrales Cultural Arts Council, the Corrales Harvest Festival, Growers Market, Garden Club, and the College of Fine Arts alumni chapter.
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ell, like, I didn’t, ya know, realize that when students are, like, interviewed, that you, ya know, write down every word they, like, speak. Umm… Wow, how cool to also learn that one freshman dude was totally surprised by the “classes themselves.” Get out of town. Ya know, like, “the way they are taught, the teachers, just, like, telling you all this stuff and you need to take notes and listen. It’s pretty different.” Different?! From what? Did this student come to UNM from, like, an accredited kickin’ high school in the United States? How encouraging, fer sure, for those of us who give to the alumni fund, to hear about the, like, gnarly academics at UNM, to hear that a professor, like, couldn’t “handle” class and stuff one day and just handed out homework and the students left, in like, ya know, 10 minutes. When I first read that, I was, like, no way! Whatever. Steve Whiteley, ’89 MS York, Pennsylvania
W We want to hear from you… Mail: Mirage, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC 01-1160, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 Fax: 505-277-6844 E-mail: mconrad@unm.edu Web: www.unmalumni.com Please include an address and daytime phone number. Letters should be a maximum of 200 words and may be edited for length, clarity, and civility. Letters addressing subjects covered in the magazine have the best chance
e read with shock the recent article in the Mirage where many new incoming freshmen were quoted. Nearly each of these students found it necessary to pepper their comments with “like” at inappropriate points to the point of nauseating the reader. Is this a reflection on the disgraceful state of public education in New Mexico or the admissions department’s inability to screen for people to admit that are conversant with the rules of English grammar? Or does it indicate the lacking editing skills of the Mirage staff? Regardless of the reason, the article was not a good reflection of UNM. Lee Horner, ’71 BABA Sacramento, California
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Albert Simballa, ’75 BUS Tijeras, New Mexico
Editor’s Note: In a state school with nearly 3,000 freshmen, not all are as articulate as mature academicians. The students in the interview were young, eager, and learning the ropes. I chose to leave their speech patterns as they were—although I did edit out all but about 25 of the 189 “likes”—to convey the flavor of the conversation. Perhaps after four years we can interview the same students again; it will be interesting to see if their skills as university students and public speakers have grown.
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loved VB Price’s interview with the freshmen in the latest issue of the Mirage. I can remember (barely) my first year of college and the tone of their remarks brought it all back. (I think we said more “ya knows” than “likes.”) I work in a high school, so I know how teenagers really sound, and this story captured how a person-toperson conversation would have gone! Susan Walton, ’76 BA Albuquerque
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was extremely disappointed with the last issue of the Mirage. My major complaint is the way in which the recent recipients of the Zia Award were buried in the magazine. My husband and I nominated one of the recipients and spent considerable time collecting information. If the award means anything, I feel that other alumni should be able to read about these recipients. Sammie Neal, ’62 Arvada, Colorado
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Editor’s Note: Your point is well taken. We have been sporadic in the coverage of our awards recipients, remarkably accomplished. We will try to do better! While the current issue is dedicated to Homecoming 2003 coverage, we have included the 2002 Zia recipients’ photos here.
album Charles “Mike” Taylor Jr., ’52, lives on a farm near Granville, Ohio, and is 90 percent retired, tending his many gardens, and “wood turning.” He writes, “Never give up or quit!” Rita Cummins Adkins, ’53 BS, ’63 MA, taught continuing insurance education until her retirement in 1998. She served on the Alumni Board and the Anderson Schools of Business Board. She lives in Albuquerque. John Clatworthy, ’53 BS, has retired twice, first from the US Marine Corps, and then from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He works part time as a consultant in emergency preparedness and lives in Pleasanton, California. He still orders green chile from Hatch, New Mexico. Dorcas Knudsen Dorering, ’53 BA, recently retired as pt resource specialist at a nonprofit management service organization in Kansas City. She lives in Overland Park, Kansas. David D. Evans, ’53 BS, is retired from careers as a jet fighter pilot in the Air Force and as an engineer/manager participating in the robotic exploration of the planets while at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. George L. Downing, ’53 BS, is retired as a mathematics professor at Emporia State University, having taught there for 38 years.
S E E A Z I A : UNM Alumni Association President Steve Ciepiela, top left, congratulates the winners of the 2002 Zia Awards, granted to New Mexico alumni for professional and community service. Holding their awards are (clockwise, next to Ciepiela) Tom Chávez, ’77 MA, ’81 PhD, executive director, National Hispanic Cultural Center; William Federici, ’39 BA, former New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice; Fred Begay, ’61 BS, ’63 MS, ’73 PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist; Ramón Huerta, ’50 BAED, ’56 MA, ’80 EDSP, retired Highland High School Spanish teacher and former New Mexico state legislator; Breda Bova, ’70 PhD, associate dean, UNM College of Education; and Alex Doyle Beach, ‘69BSHE, community volunteer. Photo by Lewis Jacobs.
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Frank C. Stuart, ’54 BA, ’64 PhD, has retired after a 33-year career at the University of Miami. He is active in planning and conducting history-oriented tours to Great Britain, Greece, and Turkey. Currently, he is preparing a tour of the Reformation lands of Europe. Francis M. Phillips, ’56 PhD, has been active in the Lifetime Learning Institute of Austin, Texas, which provides informal classes for people over 50. Last fall he taught “The Gilded Age,“ using material from research papers he did as a grad student at UNM. Don Perkins, ’60, of Albuquerque, does a Chautauqua impersonation of Frederick Douglas. Don lives in Albuquerque where he has been with the Albuquerque Police Department for 10 years and is a nationally certified crime prevention specialist. Valerie Skuse Malmont, ’61 BA, has published her fifth novel, Death, Bones, and Stately Homes (Perseverance Press), a mystery set in rural Pennsylvania. She lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Penny Naughton Beaumont, ’63 BUS, of Bryan, Texas, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Women’s Resources that oversees the new national Women’s Museum in Dallas. She is also vice president of the Board of Directors of Texas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates).
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To learn more good information about
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UNM’s people, places, and programs, click on the “Accomplishments” web page.
Bill Richardson has appointed John M. “Mel” Eaves, ’69 BA, ’71 JD, to the UNM Board of Regents, replacing the late Donald Salazar of Santa Fe. An Albuquerque attorney, Eaves is a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, the New Mexico Board of Educational Finance, and the Commission of Post-Secondary Education. He has also served on the UNM School of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors.
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funding connections Healthy Grant: The UNM Health
Sciences Center and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute have received a $4 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences to study asthma, cancer, and other environmental health issues that affect the Southwest.
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-04-03eaves.htm Continued Success: Rita Martinez-
’83 MAPA, ’94 EdD, was appointed dean of the Division of Continuing Education and Community Services.
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Bettering BIA Schools: The Office of
Indian Education Programs/Center for School Improvements of the Bureau of Indian Affairs has awarded a four-year, $2.88 million grant to the UNM Center for Development and Disability, department of pediatrics, Health Sciences Center, to develop a comprehensive system of personnel development with 83 BIA-funded schools in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
program director in ecological studies at the National Science Foundation, has been named director of UNM’s Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-02-27collins.htm Matthew Dunn
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Family and Community Partnerships in the College of Education has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the US Department of Education to strengthen literacy efforts in early childhood education. The project is one of 30 funded across the nation. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-02-20coegrant.htm 12
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assistant professor of radiopharmacy, has been named a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association. The appointment recognizes Norenberg’s exemplary service and achievements in his field. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=1499 Fine Fellow: The American Nuclear
Society has elected Anil K. Prinja, professor in the chemical and nuclear engineering department, an ANS Fellow. Additionally, Prinja received the 2002-03 School of Engineering Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-05-13prinja.htm Democracy Defender: Tim Canova,
professor, School of Law, is one of 20 US professors named a 2003-04 academic fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a non-profit, non-partisan group based in Washington DC seeking to educate Americans about the terrorist threat to democracy. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-05-15canova.htm
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The Right Chemistry: Chemistry
River Riveted: The North American
professor Chris Enke has received the 2003 J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education presented by the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society. The top honor emphasizes higher education for analytical chemists and recognizes Enke as one of the best analytical chemistry educators of all time in the United States.
Benthological Society, the largest organization of stream and river ecologists in the world, has elected biology professor Clifford Dahm as its president. NABS is an international scientific organization whose purpose is to promote better understanding of the ecology and biotic communities of streams, rivers, and lakes.
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http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-04-23dahm.htm Athletics Ace: Sports Illustrated
Star Teaching: Michael Zeilik, professor
recently honored athletics director
of physics and astronomy, has been selected as the 2003 recipient of the Excellence in Introductory College Physics Teaching Award by the American Association of Physics Teachers. The award recognizes significant contributions to undergraduate physics teaching.
Rudy Davalos among 101 most influential
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High Healthcare Honor: The American
First Rate First Year: Joel Nosoff, director
College of Healthcare Executives has named J. Russell Dilts, chief administrative officer of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, a Fellow. Fellowship status represents a continued demonstration of high standards of professional development, excellence, and leadership as a healthcare executive.
of UNM’s New Student Programs, was among 10 individuals in the nation named “Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates” at the Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Atlanta. The award honors college faculty, administrators, and staff for positive contributions to students and the culture of their institutions.
minorities in sports. Ranked 94, Davalos was one of six athletics directors on the list. The article cited Davalos’ oversight of 21 sports programs and fundraising capabilities that bring in more than $6 million annually.
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Fulbright V: Gary Scharnhorst, professor
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of English, is the recipient of his fifth Fulbright to study and teach in Germany next spring. Scharnhorst will teach at the University of Heidelberg, marking the third time he will teach at that institution.
is among 10 New Mexicans appointed by Governor Bill Richardson and confirmed by the New Mexico Senate to the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Board of Directors.
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album Rita Burmeister Griffith, ’63 BA, practices appellate law in Seattle. She was honored by the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as the recipient of the William O. Douglas Award. Karen Smith Kenyon, ’63 BSN, is the author of Sunshower, The Bronte Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses. She teaches creative writing at Mira Costa College in San Diego and at San Diego State University’s College of Extended Studies. She lives in La Jolla, California. Ed Lewis, ’63 BA, ’65 MA, was listed as one of the 100 Most Powerful Minority Business Leaders in Crain’s New York Business. Ed launched both Essence and Latina magazines. He lives in New York City. Jane Stilley, ’63 BA, of Meadows Place, Texas, was named one of 11 CEOs for the Day at Halliburton Corporation, serving as vice president, Investor Relations, on March 7, 2003. David Brosman, ’65 BSCE, has been awarded a life membership in the American Water Works Association. He was a founding member and former president of the AWWA Chapter serving the Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, and Las Cruces area. He lives in El Paso. M. Carlota Baca, ’66 BA, ’68 MA, has taken the position of executive director of the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers. She lives in Santa Fe. Richard B. Dow, ’66 BS, ’71 MS, of Camarillo, California, has retired from Morgan Stanley after a 33-year career as a financial planner. He spent 14 years as vice president and regional annuity coordinator for Southern California and Hawaii. In retirement he tends a 125-tree avocado orchard in Ventura County, California. Robert Adler, ’68 BS, is expecting his second book, Medical Firsts: Medical Milestones from Hippocrates to the Human Genome (Wiley & Sons) to be out later this year. We previously placed him in Santa Rosa, New Mexico in error. Actually, he lives in Santa Rosa, California. Felix D. Almaráz Jr., ’68 PhD, performs on the Chautauqua circuit in Texas as Senator Sam Houston. His biography of historian Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Knight Without Armor, received a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History in 2001. Eric Berryman, ’68 MA, ’71 PhD, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has retired from the US intelligence community after almost 40 years of combined military and federal civilian service.
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Distinguished Speaker: David A. Bader,
assistant professor in the UNM electrical and computer engineering department, has been selected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Distinguished Speaker. Bader is named to a group of about three dozen speakers from around the country and will serve a three-year term.
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Distinguished Engineers: The UNM
Truman Triumph: Regents’ Scholar
School of Engineering, along with the Engineering Chapter of the UNM Alumni Association, honored four engineers at its Distinguished Alumni Awards banquet in the spring: Jack E. Bresenham ’59 BSEE, Victor J. Chavez ’67 BSCE, ’68 MSCE, Lorenzo A. (Larry) Larranaga ’71 BSCE, ’80 MSCE, and Raymond J. Leopold, ’73 PhD.
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a student of music and Russian, has been named a 2003 Truman Scholar. She is one of 76 US students chosen, based on leadership potential, intellectual ability, and the likelihood of “making a difference.” http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-03-25peck.htm
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Governor Bill Richardson has appointed ’74 MA, ’81 JD, director of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center in the School of Law, to the New Mexico/Chihuahua Border Commission.
Security Matters: UNM and Sandia
Marilyn O’Leary
National Laboratories are looking into opportunities to collaborate on national security and technology research. Lockheed Martin Corporation has provided $250,000 per year for five years to establish the Office for Policy, Security, and Technology on campus.
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Water Maven: Law Professor Denise
has been appointed a member of the State of New Mexico Water Trust Board by Governor Bill Richardson. The board authorizes funding of water-related projects such as storage and delivery of water to end-users, implementation of the Endangered Species Act, restoration of watersheds, and flood protection.
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Science Foundation has awarded $10,000 dissertation fellowships to political science department PhD candidates Nancy Carrillo and Douglas Hecock. The awards are the most prestigious available to graduate students in the political science discipline. Fellowships are awarded based on the research proposal’s technical creativity and the project’s educational impact and potential benefit to society. http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/ 03-05-07nsf.htm
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Louis Metzger Good Thinking: The UNM Health Golden Opportunity: Regents’ Scholar Louis Metzger,
a junior majoring in biochemistry, has been named a 2003 recipient of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. He is among 300 students selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,093 mathematics, science, and engineering students nationwide.
Science Center’s Clinical & Magnetic Resonance Research Center has formed a partnership with the MIND Institute to develop a centralized imaging research center to better understand the human brain and mind in health and disease. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=1276
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Developing Technology: A memo
Top Marks: For the 13th consecutive
of understanding between the UNM Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has been signed formalizing their joint initiative to promote science and technology in developing countries.
Higher Education rates UNM 16th or higher for awarding degrees to Hispanic students from bachelor to doctoral levels in the magazine’s May 5 issue, “Top 100 Colleges for Hispanics.”
year, US News & World Report has ranked the UNM School of Medicine in the top 15 primary-care-oriented medical schools. Four additional Health Sciences programs also cracked the top 10: the School of Medicine’s rural medicine program (2), primary-care curriculum (7), and family medicine program (5), and the College of Nursing’s nursing/midwifery program (6). The School of Law remains in the top 100 (76), and was identified as having one of the most racially diverse student bodies in the country. The Fine Arts College’s photography program tied for second place in the nation, and the Master of Fine Arts program ranked 51. Also, the School of Engineering was ranked 67.
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Good Neighbor: The Frontier
Legislators Catch Bricks: The UNM
Restaurant has been named Restaurant Neighbor of the Year by the New Mexico Restaurant Association. Several letters of support were sent from individuals and groups at UNM including the School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, the UNM Foundation, Friends of the UNM Presidential Scholarship Program, and the New Mexico Lobo Club. Larry and Dorothy Rainosek, owners of the Frontier Restaurant, received the award.
Alumni Association Lobos for Legislation Committee has awarded its inaugural “Legislative Service Award” to 14 New Mexico legislators who have each served over 20 years in the State Legislature. Each received a UNM brick engraved with their name to serve as a permanent reminder of their service to the state and UNM. Identical bricks have been placed in the walkway leading to Hodgin Hall.
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Joe H. Casas, ’68 BSHP, is head football coach and athletic director at Bowie Jr. High in Odessa, Texas. Gordon Jorgensen, ’68 BABA, is assistant to the regional director in the National Labor Relations Board, Phoenix office, and will assist in processing unfair labor practice cases and representations petitions. He has worked for the NLRB for 34 years. Michael A. Mares, ’68 BS, is a 2003 Oklahoma Book Award Winner for A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape. He is the curator of mammals at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Thomas Panzlau, ’68 BAED, ’77 BSNU, has been selected as School Nurse of the Year by the Overseas School Health Nurses Association. Carlos E. Cortes, ’69 PhD, has been active in diversity issues since retiring from the University of California, Riverside, in 1994. He serves on the faculties of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Higher Education Summer Institute and the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. He lives in Riverside, California. Roger D. Alink, ’70 BSIE, ’78 MA, founded eight years ago—and still maintains—the 122-acre Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood, New Mexico. It is part of the Special Survival Plan sponsored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Vern H. Curtis, ’70 MBA, has been inducted into the Valparaiso University Athletic Hall of Fame. He is with UBS PaineWebber in Albuquerque. His wife, Diana Behnke Curtis, ’74 MA, has taught elementary school in Albuquerque for 34 years. Upton Ethelbah Jr., ’71 BA, retired from a career in education and social programs to take up stone and tools to make sculpture his second career in Albuquerque. J. Michael Ortiz, ’71 BUS, ’72 MA, has been named president of California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. He lives in Carrizozo, California. Jeannette Williams, ’72 MA, a retired art teacher in Albuquerque, has her photographs featured in her book, Reality Check, Portraits of Teenagers. They are portraits she took over ten years of her high school students. The book includes a special project, “Walk a Mile In My Shoes,” by her colleague, Cathe Collard, ’89 BAED, ’92 MA, which involved asking students about their lives. Cathe also lives in Albuquerque.
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The new president of the University of New Mexico comes from a new type of background for academia—but don’t call it “non-traditional!” “I’m not sure there’s anything non-traditional about picking someone who has proven leadership experience to lead a large and complex organization,” he muses in a May phone interview. Caldera, with two years’ experience in higher education, as vice chancellor for university advancement at the California State University System, brings to UNM his own collection of rich—even eclectic—experiences.
In Brief The son of Mexican immigrants, Caldera graduated from West Point in 1978 and served five years in the US Army. He subsequently earned both a law degree and a master’s of business degree from Harvard in 1987. He returned to Los Angeles, where his family had lived since 1960, to begin a legal career with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers, and then to serve 16
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as deputy county counsel for the County of Los Angeles. Never wanting for motivation, Caldera ran for the California State Assembly, and served three terms. In 1997 he began work heading the Corporation for National and Community Service. The following year, he was appointed Secretary of the Army, a post he held until the end of the Clinton Administration. He made the move to higher education in 2001.
Help Along the Way To advance so quickly in the political arena takes not just talent, expertise, and a belief in oneself, but the support of others in key positions. “In a number of different points in my life there were either teachers or senior people who took an interest in me and offered encouragement, advice, and even helped open a door or two,” Caldera says. While Caldera’s professional mentors have aided him in the practicalities of career decisions, Caldera says his “Uncle Johnny” may have had greater
impact on his relationships with people. “He was a very affirming person, who really believed in you, and in people,” says Caldera. “He never sought to take credit for anything he did to help others out. He had a sense of social responsibility that he met in a quiet, dignified manner.”
Mentoring Minorities As UNM’s second Hispanic president, Caldera takes mentorship seriously. “Those of us from immigrant or minority backgrounds,” Caldera says, “recognize that we are an example for a lot of young people that they can beat the odds. The circumstances you were born into don’t have to determine what you will be. You can set your sights on any goal and have faith that your hard work will be rewarded.” As a leader, Caldera says, you have an obligation to be a good role model— “in the standards you set, in how you treat people and conduct yourself, in your integrity and openness to others, in your respect for others, in your
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C A L D E R A C O M M E N C E S : Louis Caldera began work as UNM’s 18th president on August 1, intent upon articulating the university’s contributions and needs. “When you have tremendously creative intellectual activity, every new discovery opens up new avenues of possible inquiry,” he says. “You have to have the resources to take the path to the next level.”
willingness to chip in and work hard, and in your sense of optimism.”
Civility on Tap Caldera’s sense of optimism shows in the way he anticipates the faculty will receive him, an academia-outsider. “I start with the assumption that people I deal with are people of goodwill,” he says. “For the most part I will be given the courtesy, the chance to prove myself.” Still, Caldera is not naïve, and he has spent considerable time reflecting upon leadership. He laughingly acknowledges that there will always be diversity of opinion among the faculty about the top administrator. However, he says, “the hallmark of faculty opinion isn’t that they agree with everything you do, but that you have [inspired] a common vision of what the university is trying to do and are working together to achieve that vision.”
Imperceptible Change In a university, change is not venerated as it is elsewhere. We act deliberately, and honor tradition—as we understand it. But sometimes changes have already arrived that we don’t perceive. Caldera may shift our perceptions. The “non-traditional” president may actually be neo-traditional. The non-traditional students at UNM—as we often refer to working, older, part-time students with families and responsibilities outside school—may also be the new tradition. “Higher education has changed from a system that served a small, well-prepared elite to one that now serves a much broader segment of society,” Caldera says. “You have to learn new ways of doing things to meet the challenge of educating a broader section of students to the same high standards that were used to educate a much narrower segment.”
Alumni Ahead Alumni associations—including UNM’s—have long relied on their idea of “traditional” alums as their stalwart volunteers and contributors. The shift in UNM’s student population could have a radical impact upon alumni programming and participation. Caldera, with his experience in university advancement, knows better than most the role alumni play. “Alumni are extraordinarily important to the life of the university,” he says. “Their success is evidence that the university is achieving its educational mission. When alumni come on campus, they help students visualize what they may become someday, and help faculty better appreciate the kinds of challenges alumni are facing in their lives and professions. “Alumni support is vital to the success of the university. To the extent it allows us to be the best, and recognized as among the best, it increases the value of each graduate’s degree. “Alumni more than anybody appreciate what is special about an institution. [That affinity inspires them] to help the next generation achieve their goals. It is one of the wonderful traditions in American higher education.” How do we inspire this new demographic of students, with their multiple commitments, to include the university among their loyalties? “We have to engage students. We must have excellent student services so students have a wonderful, rewarding educational experience,” Caldera responds, so they’ll feel great about the university when they leave. “We have to teach them that their tuition dollars don’t cover the costs of their education. So much comes from other sources,” he says, “including alumni. We have to teach students that someday they will be expected to do the same.” Some traditions don’t change.
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album Thomas F. Burrage, ’73 BABA, and Sandra Morgan Little, ’78 JD, have co-authored a financial adviser’s guide highlighting Divorce and Domestic Relations Litigation, a training guide and reference tool to assist advisers and their firms. Thomas is principal for litigation and valuation services at Meyners + Company in Albuquerque. Sandra is a shareholder in the Albuquerque firm of Little and Gilman-Tepper, PA. Conroy Chino, ’73 BA, has been appointed secretary of the New Mexico Department of Labor by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. The former investigative reporter resides in Albuquerque. Julie Weaks Gutierrez, ’73 BA, ’83 EMBA, has been named to the New Mexico State Investment Council. She is vice president for business and finance at UNM. Floyd Haberkorn, ’73 PhD, recently published a collection of short stories, Bloody Bones in the Coal Shed and Other Stories (Xlibris Corp.). He lives in San Francisco. Herbert J. Hammond, ’73 BS, has been included in D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Dallas” list. He is a partner in the intellectual property practice group of Thompson & Knight, LLP. Petra Jimenez Maes, ’73 JD, of Cebolla, New Mexico, has been named chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic woman both in New Mexico and the nation to be so named. She also serves on the National Review Board set up by Roman Catholic bishops to monitor clergy sexual abuse reform. Earl Souza, ’73 PhD, a retired secondary school teacher/administrator, is author of Step Nine, a school discipline/behavior intervention program and serves as consultant to districts installing the program. He is also proprietor of The Vagabond Rose, an art gallery and custom framing shop in Chico, California. He lives in Gridley, California. Frank Deen, ’75 BA, writes on www.unmalumni.com that he has recently accepted a position at Caledonian Energy in Dahlonega, Georgia, as routing manager. He had been employed previously as an elementary school teacher. He writes, “I decided it was time for a job change. After all, I’m only 50!” Laurie Maak, ’75 BA, Albany, California, is working with the California legislature to develop an online web dialogue to discuss pending education bills with Californians and experts. It will enable citizens to take part in the policy-making process.
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Anthropology’s Allure A conversation among three distinguished UNM anthropology professors upon the occasion of their renowned department’s 75th anniversary. *
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* See page 4 for a listing of Anthropology celebration activities during Homecoming 2003.
Schwerin: I had the same reaction when I
took my first anthropology class. I’d been searching for an undergraduate major and taken all kinds of different things. But when I took anthropology I thought, wow! What appeals to me is the breadth and diversity of the discipline. It can apply to so many different areas, to so many different issues and questions. It ranges from the first human beings, four plus million years ago, right up to the current situation in Iraq. No other social science discipline even begins to approach this. Lamphere: If there’s something going on,
there’s an anthropologist who has studied it. If there’s a hurricane, there’s an anthropologist who has studied disasters. If there’s an epidemic, there’s an anthropologist looking at epidemics. If there’s a war, there are anthropologists studying it. The difference between the policy analysts and the anthropologists is that the anthropologists know the native languages. They’ve been in the country for a long time. They have a sense of the local cultures. It’s a qualitative approach, so you can read something with either a few voices or many voices. That’s the difference between the way a sociologist or an economist would do this work and the way an anthropologist would. Weigle: I’ve been using a book in my class,
Scherezade Goes West, by Fatema Mernissi, a feminist sociologist from the University at Rabat, Morocco. She was born in a harem and has written a lot on the dynamics of the veil, male and female stuff. She remembers her grandmother, who lived all her life illiterate in a harem, telling her about Sufis who gained mystical insights because they unfailingly addressed foreigners. They looked at them and got everything they could from them. They never averted their eyes. That’s a problem we have in this world today. It’s not just foreigners. We need to estrange the familiar. We’re as peculiar and as interesting as anyone else, and there’s as much you can find out, as much you can see, by opening your eyes and not flinching.
Lamphere: That’s the anthropological gaze. Price: For our readers who don’t know anything about anthropology at all, what are its major issues and have they changed that much? Lamphere: Anthropology has always been
about understanding human diversity in its largest sense. It includes biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology. But the way we look at diversity now has taken new forms. In cultural anthropology we try to understand diversity by being more inclusive—by beginning to include in graduate training and in undergraduate classes and so forth people of more diverse backgrounds, minority students, and foreign students. We’re also trying to build diversity through more collaborative relationships with the people we work with, co-authoring things, bringing others into the design and conducting of research, reaching out to the public, and presenting cultural materials to a broader group. Weigle: What we’re trying to get to is a
notion of community scholars. These are people within the community who are indigenous intellectuals with whom you work from the very beginning. You become associated with them from the ground up. Schwerin: It’s what we now call practicing
anthropology. After the Second World War they talked about applied anthropology, but it was still narrowly focused. Now we apply anthropological concepts and insights to a broad range of activities, whether in the corporate world, the government world, or non-governmental organizations. Lamphere: And to a whole range of issues too. Schwerin: Even what we call policy issues.
How does public policy get made and what can anthropologists contribute that can make it more responsive to the needs of the people it’s addressing?
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Price: When I took my first anthropology class, my peers and I were thrilled. What makes it such an exciting subject?
Price: What are the major contributions anthropology has made to the state?
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contributions around the preservation of archaeological sites and the understanding of prehistory. We do a lot around the issue of diversity. As we said, ethnographic research tries to understand cultures from their point of view.
Lamphere: By the 1920’s, Columbia was the
has some elements of anthropology—the museums, the Indian Market, the Spanish Colonial Art Society, Las Golondrinas, and so on. We’ve certainly had a part in cultural tourism, for better or worse. Tourism is the state’s second largest industry.
center of anthropology. There was a transition from looking at cultures in terms of the diffusion of traits to a concentration on the individual and culture. Because of anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, the interest in culture and personality was on the rise. In the 1930’s, anthropologists in the US started becoming interested in Mesoamerica and South America, but it wasn’t until after World War II that American anthropologists became interested in peoples outside Native North America and Latin America.
Schwerin: We can’t forget too that until the
Weigle: I’m interested in the relationship
1970’s, no student came into UNM without taking an anthropology course. I think we made a significant contribution to the liberal education of much of the population of this state.
that went up and down La Bajada, having to do with the cultural and educational institutions in New Mexico. UNM always lagged a little bit in that discourse, and Santa Fe was always kind of snotty to UNM, in terms of what you do with the state’s cultural resource management—what you see as worth studying and so on. We’re talking about a time (1930’s) when Taylor Museum for Southwestern Studies/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was assembling a huge collection of santos and penitente art. Nobody in New Mexico was thinking that you would study Hispanics; only certain Indians were studied. This whole state is an “anthropologized” state. It has very self-consciously constructed itself. You get the first wave of Santa Fe style in 1912. Artists, writers, intellectuals, Bohemians, art colonists are coming in and having a go at representing New Mexico as the colorful state. Add to that the WPA, and we become the place to go to consume culture, to knowledgeably be a collector of Indian things…
Schwerin: We’ve built bridges to our neighbors
to the south as well. The whole university has emphasized Latin America, and we’ve certainly made our contribution. Weigle: The whole presentation of the state
Price: How did the UNM anthropology department get started? Schwerin: Edgar Hewett—who headed the
Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Research—was very active in anthropology here from around the turn of the century. UNM President William George Tight tried to get him to set up the School of American Research at UNM, but he didn’t want to do that. He wanted to stay in Santa Fe where the political power center was. But then, the Eastern establishment universities and museums were coming out to New Mexico, excavating and hauling everything back East. He got very concerned about that. UNM President James Zimmerman, Tight’s successor, also wanted to emphasize the university’s regional strengths. He said, we can’t compete in all the disciplines but there are certain areas we have strengths in, like anthropology and Spanish. So Zimmerman hired Hewett to found the department of archaeology and anthropology. They decided to buy up as many of the major archaeological sites in New Mexico as they could as university property, protecting them from the Easterners. I think the
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about taking away the Eastern anthropological establishment’s hegemony over the cultural materials of the Southwest. Hewett’s idea was to keep New Mexico a cradle for anthropology that would grow on its home ground rather than be colonized by the Eastern establishment.
Schwerin: The Southwest had also become
a proving ground for new archaeological techniques in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Price: Could you give a timeline of the anthropology department, in terms of its leaders? Schwerin: The Hewett era was trying to
preserve and protect the cultural heritage of New Mexico. He did involve Native Americans in interesting ways. He was always sort of paternalistic, but he tried to draw them in and get them involved in his projects. Weigle: He also set up the field school at
Jemez in 1928. Schwerin: We’ve had annual field schools
every year since except for a couple during the Second World War. It draws anthropologists who were never students in our program, but who went to the field school and later became leaders in the field. Donald Brand (1935-1947) took the position after Hewett. He was a geographer and a caretaker. He wanted to promote the graduate program, but, as I said, there was the Depression and the War. Brand left in 1948 and “Nibs” Hill (1948-1967) became chair. He kept the department going. The 50’s were an interregnum time. Then came the 60’s and the Cold War and government money— we’ve got to beat the Russians at everything, even anthropology. Nibs had put in his 16 years, and I don’t think he had the will or the energy for a big expansion, so he brought in Jack Campbell. Campbell had the full support of the administration, and we got lots of money. We went from seven to 23 or 24, between 1964 and 1972. Lamphere: There was a huge expansion of
the discipline as a whole, because Margaret Mead was president of the American Anthropological Association in 1960 and Cora Du Bois was president in 1969. In that nine-year period, the membership in the Association more than doubled, from something like 2,000 to 5,000. Every department in the country was going from medium to big. Schwerin: And new departments were created.
Price: What was the significance in the intellectual controversy around Dr. Binford? Schwerin: Campbell hired Lewis Binford in
1969. He was, shall we say, a self-centered, brilliant genius. He didn’t have a lot of patience for people who disagreed—or agreed—with him. He was very attentive to students. He turned out some top-notch people who have major positions around the country today. Price: What was the gist of his method? Schwerin: He was a proponent of the “new
archaeology,” which essentially tried to bring more scientific methodology into the field, instead of leaving it the historical enterprise it had been. Ecology was big at the time, too, because Lew was looking at the environmental circumstances under which people operated. Lew stimulated a lot of intellectual excitement in the department. Lamphere: He also brought a national
reputation to the department. People knew that this was a place to come and study archaeology, because there was a good, avant-garde archaeologist here.
Schwerin: Jeremy Sabloff came in the early
to mid-1970’s. He had been trained in a more historical kind of archaeology. But Sabloff and Lew actually ended up working well together, and the combination contributed to the flourishing of our archaeology. In the early 1980’s, Sabloff became chair, and then Linda Cordell. Lamphere: Linda was a Southwestern
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archaeologist. We had a good core of Southwest archaeology here plus an interest in Mayan archaeology. We have a very diverse archaeology program.
Steven Becerra, ’79 BABA, of Albuquerque, left IRS after 18 years and went into private practice eight years ago. He is a partner in Becerra-Wells & Co., LLC, and also runs the South Valley Small Business Development Center.
Weigle: Alfonso Ortiz brought direct
Daniel Gibson, ’79 BA, of Santa Fe, is editor of Native Peoples magazine. Last year, his Pueblos of the Rio Grande: A Visitor’s Guide (Rio Nuevo Publications) was awarded the Gold Prize for the best travel book of 2001 by ForeWord Magazine.
knowledge of Indian affairs. Schwerin: He was another high profile
individual who put the department on the map. People like Binford and Sabloff and Ortiz had stature in and beyond the discipline… Editor’s Note: Following Linda Cordell, Karl Schwerin (1987-1993), Erik Trinkaus (1994), and then Marta Weigle (1995-2002) served as department chairs. Carole Nagengast is the current chair.
Deborah Ulinski Potter, ’79 BS, ’96 PhD, Albuquerque, has been honored by the New Mexico State Council, Epsilon Sigma Alpha International, for her leadership and service. She is among the few women certified as a senior ecologist with the Ecological Society of America. She has received the Forest Service’s highest honor, the Chief’s Award, for her role in wilderness protection. Alfred M. Sanchez, ’79 BABA, ’82 JD, has moved his Albuquerque law office. Phillip J. Casaus, ’80 BA, is the new editor of The Albuquerque Tribune.
Louise Lamphere is a Distinguished Professor of Anthology at UNM and past president of the American Anthropological Association. She taught briefly at UNM between 1976 and 1979 and returned to campus in 1986. She is best known for co-editing with Michelle Rosaldo a collection of essays on feminist anthropology: Woman, Culture and Society (1974). She has written on Navajo culture and the lives of working women in New England and New Mexico, and has edited collections on new immigrant populations. She is currently completing a biography of three Navajo women, Weaving Together Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. Karl Schwerin came to the UNM anthropology department in 1963. He served as department chair from 1987-1993, and as president of the Latin American Faculty Concilium from 1994-1998. Karl’s career has focused upon cultural anthropology in Latin America, studying culture change in Venezuela and Ecuador, and ecological adaptation to the tropical environment in Venezuela and Honduras. Other interests include comparative agriculture and the origins of cultivated plants, ethnohistory, and the history of anthropology. Early attraction to the study of cultural evolution led to an interest in contemporary industrial societies as well. He retired in 2001 but continues his research and writing. Marta Weigle is University Regents Professor who began teaching at UNM in 1972 as a member of the anthropology and English departments and later the American Studies department. She has chaired both American studies (1984-93) and anthropology department (1995-2002). A folklorist, she has written extensively on Southwest studies and on women and mythology. Moderator: VB Price, ’62 BA (anthropology), has taught classes in UNM’s Honors Program since 1986 and the UNM School of Architecture and Planning since 1976. He co-edited the book Anasazi Architecture and American Design, and has edited New Mexico Magazine, Century magazine, and The New Mexico Independent. Barrett’s latest book of poems is 7 Deadly Sins. He writes a weekly column on politics and the environment for the Albuquerque Tribune.
Kim A. Griffith, ’80 BA, ’83 JD, is a shareholder and director with Albuquerque’s Sheehan, Sheehan & Stelzner, PA. Her practice includes contract, commercial, construction, employment, and corporate business law. Stephen Doerr, ’80 JD, of Portales, has been named a member of American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal, a professional liability insurance carrier. Steve Parrish, ’80 BABA, works for The Father’s Table, a frozen dessert company in Orlando, Florida, but also is a recalled reserve Marine and has returned to Iraq for a second war. He is commanding officer of the 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion from Tampa, Florida. Susan Anderson Ritchie, ’80 BA, of Albuquerque, has been re-elected province director of alumnae for Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity. Edward L. Chavez, ’81 JD, of Albuquerque, has been appointed to the New Mexico Supreme Court by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Rick Fairbanks, ’81 MAPA, has been elected to the board of directors of IRC Inc. in Albuquerque. He is the regional director of medical advocacy services for health care in New Mexico and Montana.
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And for a certain segment of the population, even those extremes aren’t enough. These folks find themselves drawn to the organized spirit squads of UNM: cheerleading, band, and many others. Why do they do it? Lots of reasons, it turns out.
READY? O-KAY! The essence of “spirit” is cheerleading. Developed over a century ago by Thomas Peebles (Princeton) and Johnny Campbell (University of Minnesota), cheerleading still reigns as the ultimate spirit activity. To the non-cheerleader, questions abound about this strange amalgam of sport and entertainment. Why do it? Is perpetual perkiness required? What is the deal with pompons? “I do it because it’s fun,” says senior cheerleader Marina Chavez, who’s majoring in elementary education. “I like being an ambassador for my school.” “I was a dancer and gymnast my whole life,” senior Jeanine Dubois (majoring in exercise science) says. “I wanted to keep tumbling and thought cheerleading was a good
way to combine my fitness goals with a desire to be involved with my school.” The cheerleaders’ mission is to transfer the crowd’s energy to the team. They are energetic, but Chavez says perkiness is not a requirement. “It helps to be a positive, outgoing person, but perky? No. That’s kind of the stereotype of cheerleaders.” “People don’t realize we have to maintain a certain grade point average and carry a minimum number of credit hours each semester in order to remain eligible to cheer,” Dubois says. “We’re definitely not like the stereotype of the dumb cheerleader.” And what, exactly, are pompons for? “They definitely have shrunken over the years,” Chavez says. “They’re smaller now than the old, fluffy pompons. I think they’re to make us look bigger, so people can see us better.” “Pompons are traditional,” Dubois adds. “They’re just an attention-getter.” The role of the cheerleader has been to focus attention on the athletes, many of whom are local if not national celebrities. In an ironic twist, many cheerleaders now have become celebrities in their own right.
Wayne Barger, ’82 BSPE, ’85 MSPE, received the Distinguished Athletic Trainers Award from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainers’ Association. He is head athletic trainer at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Floyd Lopez, ’82 JD, has been appointed to the Bosque School Board of Trustees. He practices law in Albuquerque. Matthew Martin, ’82 BABA, is the 2003 president of the New Mexico Building Branch, Associated General Contractors. He is president and chief operating officer of Gerald Martin General Contractor in Albuquerque. Rita M. Padilla-Gutierrez, ’82 MA, was recently appointed to the Commission on Higher Education’s Education Trust Board by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. She lives in Jarales, New Mexico. Ron D. Smith, ’82 BABA, has been named Albuquerque city president for Compass Bank. He will be responsible for all commercial banking activities. Carolyn Baca, ’83 BUS, of Los Lunas, New Mexico, has been named New Agent of the Year for Allstate in New Mexico. Mary Poole, ’83 MAPA, of Albuquerque, won one of five annual Ethics in Business Awards presented by the Samaritan Counseling Center. She was recognized for her contributions to the community with the Public Service Award for Individual Excellence in Ethical Business Practice in honor of John Ackerman. Mirabai Starr, ’83 BA, ’85 MA, has completed translations of St. John of the Cross’ mystical writings, Dark Night of the Soul, and of St. Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle. Both are published by Riverhead Books. Mirabai has taught philosophy, religious studies, and Spanish at UNM-Taos for 10 years. Azadeh Mehrnoosh, ’84 BS, has been promoted to manager in the Technology Applications Group at Meyners + Company, LLC in Albuquerque. Doug Branom, ’85 MBA, has joined First State Bank as vice president of commercial lending for Rio Rancho and the Albuquerque metro area. David A. Graeber, ’85 BAE, ’89 MD, of Albuquerque, has been promoted to chief of staff for the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Albino Carrillo, ’86 BA, is professor of creative writing and contemporary poetry at the University of Dayton. His book of poetry, A Chicano Book of the Dead, will be published by the University of Arizona Press in January 2004.
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“The first time a child asked for my autograph, it really surprised me,” Chavez says. Can cheerleaders for the cheerleaders be far behind?
A Little Fanfare, Please Some members of UNM’s spirit corps perform not by choice but by command: participation in the Spirit Marching Band (SMB) is a requirement for music education majors. That answers the “why” question. But that’s not to say SMB members don’t also play for the love of it. “I am intrinsically dedicated to the unique medium of marching band,” sophomore clarinetist Emily Schluter
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says. “From the flip folders to the old pair of sneakers you practice marching in, from the smell of a freshly marked field to tirelessly running drill in the scorching heat, I am addicted to it all.” SMB members must be part musician, part boot-camp recruit, and part marathon dancer. They’re required to march in formation, reading multiple music charts and playing an instrument all at the same time—in any kind of weather, with splashy showmanship touches like poses and horn flashes. A typical halftime show will have about two dozen “sets” (different marching formations) and three music charts. A special event may be twice as complex.
Obviously, teamwork is a key element to succeeding in the SMB. “The members who benefit most from the group and, in turn, have the most influence, are those who appreciate and enjoy working as a team toward an expressive product,” Schluter says. “These people are proud, they are cooperative, they are hardworking, and they are passionate.” But, isn’t playing in the marching band fun, too? Definitely, according to Schluter. “The reason for my participation is simple: it is fun. Performing with the UNM Spirit Marching Band fosters my Lobo spirit and creates a way for me to actively support my school.”
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Martha Curran, ’86 BA, is the music director at the Grace Church in Albuquerque. She is a member of a Christian music group, “Curran & Evans.”
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Nothing embodies the essence of Lobo athletics like the mascot: a powerful, graceful wolf. OK, so maybe Louie and Lucy Lobo tend more towards the comical side, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful forces in the spirit community. Lucy Lobo is a relative newcomer to UNM. She joined her pal Louie Lobo around 1980 and has become a fixture at sporting events and special appearances, such as the State Fair. She’s never regretted her decision. “One day, I heard there was an opening for a lady mascot at UNM. I knew my sassy attitude and ability to boogie with the big girls would wow the coaches, so I tried out. Not surprisingly, I got the job,” she says. After 20-plus years on the job, Lucy has become very proficient at what she does. Nonetheless, she indulges the attentions of a student assistant, who attends to her needs and helps her improve her craft. For the past three years, that person has been Natalie Umphrey, now a senior majoring in nursing. “I adore Natalie,” Lucy says. “She does an excellent job keeping track of my schedule. I mean, it’s hard to mark my fourteen special appearances a year on the calendar when I can’t hold a pencil.” For her part, Natalie says she enjoys accompanying Lucy on her adventures. “It was through an appearance of Lucy’s at a nursing event that I got the bug to become a nurse,” Natalie says. Lucy sees her role as one of fostering Lobo spirit in spectators of all ages. She’s particularly fond of children.
“Don’t let the teeth fool you,” the wolf says. “I love children! The best moment of my career came when a young boy spotted me in the Pit and was rendered speechless. I have that effect on people, you know. I gave him a hug, and I know he’ll be a Lobo fan for a long time to come. That’s the sort of thing that makes me proud to be a Lobo.” Still, for as fun as Lucy makes it sound, it’s not always easy being Lucy Lobo. “Lucy has to perform under all sort of environmental conditions and has to maintain a good attitude even if she’s not feeling well,” Natalie says. “All that fur can make Lucy very warm, but she loves her job so much, she always comes through. Especially for the kids.” And what, exactly, is the relationship between Louie and Lucy? Romantic? Familial? “We share the same last name,” Lucy replies enigmatically. “Figure it out for yourself.”
Ruth Lambert, ’86 MCRP, is cultural program director for the San Juan Mountains Association. Most recently, she worked for the US Geological Survey at the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. JK “Jake” Deuel II, ’87 BSME, ’89 MS, Albuquerque, is the youngest department head in Sandia Labs organization 5800, heading vehicle safety.
Take Our Advice, Please Not everyone has the ambition or ability to serve in the spirit corps of UNM, but everyone can show their Lobo pride. Just take this advice from the experts on how even a rank amateur can show their school spirit. “Paint your face, carry signs, and support your team,” says Jeanine Dubois. “Put on some cherry red clothes and cheer loud,” recommends Marina Chavez. “Show up for the games and HOWL,” advises Lucy Lobo.
R E G A L B E A T : The UNM Spirit Marching Band sets the rhythm for Lobo fans at a homecoming game.
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Daryl Schwebach, ’87 BA, ’89 MAPA, of Santa Fe, is director of the Administrative Services Division of the New Mexico Human Services Department. Jennifer Nez Denetale, ’88 BA, is assistant professor of history at UNM. She is currently the Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, where she is writing a Navajo history. She received her PhD in history from Northern Arizona University in 1999. Ruby Ethridge, ’88 EDSP, is the new principal of Kennedy Middle School in Albuquerque.
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If school spirit were red, loud, and in the presence of athletic events, you could identify it. In fact, it does travel in that guise from time to time. And, if you were to ask a group of Greek (as in sorority and
fraternity) students about school spirit—which we did—they might describe it just that way, adding that we don’t have much of it. “My pep rallies in high school were bigger!” says one. “No one
knows the fight song,” says another. “I wish I were somewhere more traditional,” says yet another.
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The students agree that school spirit is a group esprit, and conclude that non-traditional students put a damper on it all.
Rather than focus upon the breadth of choices at UNM, Aaron Kugler, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Association and third-year law student, looks at school spirit as a matter of collaboration. “It means realizing that your school would not be where it is without the collaborative hard work of the students, faculty, staff, and administration,” Aaron says. While some members of the university community have a lot of school spirit,
“People can find their own niche… It’s not all for one and one for all.” — Debbie Morris But the sort of traditional school spirit these students seek relates more to mascots, school colors, and sports-related events and rivalries than to student or campus-wide accomplishments. Depending upon how you define spirit, UNM may in fact be quite a spirited place.
Spirit Smorgasbord Debbie Morris, director of student activities, says that while the more traditional students may show more
many “place little value on the university,” says Aaron. He rues their apathy, and hopes that in the near future, people will realize “UNM is the flagship university of our state and a rising player in national higher education.”
Spirit in Aggregate Regents Scholar Louis Metzger’s view of school spirit also embraces the various constituencies on campus. A senior majoring in bio-chemistry, Louis calls
Torry L. Edwards, ’89 BA, is assistant city manager in Terrell, Texas. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, University of Phoenix, teaching management and organizational development. Betina Gonzales McCracken, ’89 BA, is director of communications at the New Mexico Human Services Department. She lives in Albuquerque. Michelle Rinaldi, ’89 BA, senior video editor for KOB-TV, has been elected president of the Hispanic Women’s Council. She lives in Bernalillo. Paul Ritzma, ’89 MA, is chief legal counsel at the New Mexico Human Services Department. He resides in Placitas, New Mexico. Charles Brown, ’90 MCRP, is project development specialist and e-plaza partners’ liaison at The Regional Development Corporation in Albuquerque. Donovan Gomez, ’90 BA, is a new member of the New Mexico Board of Education, named by Governor Bill Richardson. He is the director of the education talent-search program for the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., and serves on the New Mexico Tribal Higher Education Commission. He lives in Santa Fe. Philip Heise, ’90 BS, writes on www.unmalumni.com that he received an MS in biology from Penn State University in 1995 and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Tennessee in 1998. He is now an instructor of biology at Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Niceville, Florida. He lives in Crestview, Florida. Kim Noves, ’90 BSPT, owner and manager of Special K Fitness, has been named Woman of the Year of the Ya At Eh Chapter of The American Business Women’s Association. She lives in Bloomfield, New Mexico. Gayle Williams, ’90 MA, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she recently accepted a position at Emory University in Atlanta as Latin American and Iberian Studies librarian. Previously, she was employed at the University of Georgia as bibliographer for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Mahmood Reza Zamanian, ’90 BSPH, ’95 MD, has joined the physicians group of Sandia Health System in Albuquerque. He will work at the Medical Towers and Geriatric Medicine Clinic. Jocelyn Amberg, ’91 BSNU, is a senior instructor in the LPN certification program at the Albuquerque Public Schools Career Enrichment Center. Bruce Bachelor, ’91 MAPA, has been appointed director of the Labor and Industrial Division of the New Mexico Department of Labor. He lives in Santa Fe. f a l l
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Reflection of our Culture Such action doesn’t have to be monumental or “ostentatious,” says Dean of Students Randy Boeglin. It can be as simple for alumni as “referencing what the university experience has meant for you day to day.” Boeglin distinguishes Lobo spirit from the spirit of the university. Lobo spirit, he says, is “the pep-rally moment, the zeal that goes with the undergraduate experience. It has a mythology about it.” Lobo spirit may touch just a “small spectrum” of the student body, he says, since so many students work. “Their discretionary time is highly valued, and their free moments delineated by the mundane realities of financing their education.” University spirit, Boeglin says, stems from the nature of the campus and New Mexico culture. “There is not a lot of bombast about who we are,” he says. “True, we’re better than we think, but we remain quietly prideful.” There is a connection between the two types of spirit, Boeglin says. “Lobo spirit is celebratory—drama, zeal, enthusiasm. But without the taproot in institutional spirit, it is episodic.
It surges and wanes with times and people, and depends upon success.”
Student Trailblazer and resident advisor Brian Lucero agrees with Boeglin that UNM spirit is unique. “It may seem lacking to other schools,” Brian says, “but the spirit matches the culture of our school. Unlike other schools, we don’t have as many 18- to 21-year-olds without other responsibilities. It’s not a lack of spirit: it’s different.” School spirit to Brian means involvement, having so much pride that you want to “have a say in what the future of the school is.” The spirit of the school Brian describes as “open-minded, liberal, free,” unique once again to UNM. It can thrive here, he says, “because of the diversity, the type of thinkers we have here.”
The current Los Angeles Chapter president, Patrick Conroy, ’71 MATS, agrees with his predecessor that UNM spirit is alive and well among alumni in Los Angeles. School spirit, it would appear, is not limited to the UNM campus. And alumni, according to Patrick, show their school spirit by giving back to the university, “making it possible for new generations to enjoy what we experienced.” Lobo spirit, on the other hand, “is the fun part, attending various sporting activities and vicariously enjoying the teams’ successes and hurting with their losses.” Patrick faithfully volunteers at college fairs, and has recruited two students this year from the high school where he substitute teaches. “I sure envy them!” he says.
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The broader-community sense of Lobo spirit strikes Gary Bednorz, ’87 BA, a UNM Alumni Association board member and past president of the Association’s Los Angeles Chapter. “I’ve met people who love the Lobos but never attended UNM,” he says. Gary says he attended many sporting events as a student, and still takes advantage of every opportunity to do so as an alum. But now he shares his Lobo enthusiasm with other alumni in Los Angeles, socializing as well as recruiting new students for UNM at local college fairs. Green chile roasts—not the Pit— now fill Gary with Lobo spirit. Every fall the Los Angeles Chapter (and others) hosts a chile roast, bringing in more than 1,600 pounds of New Mexico green chile for 150-plus UNM alumni. Lobo spirit is a lot like “chile euphoria,” he says.
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Irvin Harrison, ’01 BUS, moved to San Diego after graduation. There he works fulltime and attends graduate school at SDSU. To Irvin, school spirit is “the attitude and sense of ownership” about one’s alma mater, and “the confidence and
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pride” to recommend it to potential students. His own UNM spirit is so strong that he says, “Funny as it sounds, I feel I’d be cheating on my alma mater by being involved on the SDSU campus.” Irvin expresses concern over his fellow Native Americans’ lack of involvement at UNM, partially due to lack of a Native American role model in traditional
UNM school spirit differs from enthusiasm for higher education in general because “you’ve been a part of the UNM community at some level. It has meaning for you,” says Abraham. “In retrospect, you realize how your life has been shaped differently, your horizons expanded,” because of your association with UNM.
“Lobo spirit is a lot like ‘chile euphoria.’” —Gary Bednorz activities. By becoming involved in the San Diego alumni chapter and eventually with alumni board activities, Irvin hopes to encourage more Native American participation and, ultimately, pride in the university. Irvin returned to the UNM campus as a representative of the San Diego chapter this summer. It was his first trip back as an alum. “Now I know what school spirit means,” he says. “No matter how far away I am from UNM, I will always have good memories and a sense of comfort to know I can return to friends and family.”
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The University Endeavor In some universities, the executive director of the alumni association ranks second only to the mascot in terms of traditional school spirit. Clad in school colors, driving the booster bus, and wielding a megaphone, the alumni director epitomizes team spirit with a capital Rah. Fortunately, UNM’s alumni director, Karen Abraham, ’67 BA, ’68 MA, ’71 EdD, takes a more cosmopolitan approach— not just in style but in philosophy. Given her understanding of school spirit, it’s hard not to cheer. School spirit, says Abraham, means supporting the university’s endeavor. It’s easy, she says, in light of what the university is about: “the wonderful and diverse world of minds, people, cultures, ideas, improvement of the individual and society, finding new frontiers and preserving the old.” What’s not to like?
Although traditional students “have a more structured way of expressing it,” says Abraham, they don’t hold the monopoly on school spirit. “While the university may not be primary in their lives, non-traditional students often take more pride in their degrees, since they may have had to struggle and sacrifice for them. Real alumni directors—not the rootin’ tootin’ booster-bus driver—well know that neither their university nor the university experience of their alumni is perfect. But they also know, says Abraham, that alumni can have university spirit, regardless of their alma mater’s imperfections. “Little in life is unconditional,” says Abraham. “The university is a huge, political enterprise. You may be disappointed or disagree with its direction, but if you look at its goals, it’s hard to be down on the whole institution, unless you totally personalize it.” The spirit of the university, says Abraham, “lies in the legacies it has created.” After 35 years in student and alumni relations, Abraham says she loves to watch the lives of people who have attended UNM unfold. After they graduate, says Abraham, “you hope people have a willingness to show and express their pride—not by wearing red (although that’s great!) but by saying where they graduated and saying something good about their experience. It shows a respect for what they achieved and what their achievement means.” That’s what it’s all about.
album Sandra Coca, ’91 BABA, of Port Hadlock, Washington, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she was recently promoted to accounting supervisor at Port Townsend (Washington) Paper Corporation. Celia Dale, ’91 BAFA, choreographed a production of “Cinderella” for the Ballet Theatre of New Mexico in Albuquerque last spring. Andréa Schartz Regula, ’91 BABA, is an executive senior partner with the Lucas Group, an executive search firm. She works in the military division which specializes in transitioning x-military people into corporate America. She lives in Carrolton, Texas. Cynthia Graves, ’92 MA, is part owner with her husband of Wired? Coffee and Cyber Café in Taos. She also owns Oné, called GuestCurator.com, which takes art exhibits on the road. Robert Scales, ’92 MS, ’98 PhD, is now cardiac rehabilitation coordinator for the Lovelace Heart and Vascular Center in Albuquerque. Ruth Cummings, ’93 BA, owns Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage in Albuquerque, which offers therapeutic massage and classes for therapists and clients. Monica Summers, ’93 BA, has been accepted into the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which recruits and trains mid-career professionals to teach in the city’s neediest public schools while providing funds to pursue an MA degree. She will begin teaching English in the fall. She had worked as a journalist for 10 years for Reuters and the AP. Nancie Wozniak, ’93 JD, is secretary and legal assistant to New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Petra Maes, ’73 JD. She lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Shannon Unruh Hill, ’94 BA, of Andover, Kansas, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she has passed the Bar exams in Kansas and South Dakota. Lori Rabinowitz-Guckenberger, ’94 BS, is province director of chapters for Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity. She lives in Denver. Marc Brotherton, ’95 BAFA, received an MFA in painting and drawing from Brooklyn College in 1999 and has maintained a career in New York as an artist for the past six years. He recently exhibited paintings at White Columns’ “Random Order” show. He lives in Brooklyn. Henry Chung, ’95 BABA, has been promoted to assistant vice president with Wells Fargo Bank in Albuquerque.
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On a blustery Albuquerque afternoon that happens to mark former Lobo point guard David Gibson’s 28th birthday, the student athlete who lived under a media microscope during the celebrated 1994-98 basketball seasons manifests wisdom beyond his years as he recalls his special place in school history. Lobo fever reached fervor as UNM advanced to the NCAA four
times during Gibson’s tenure. Personable, handsome, and always aiming higher, like many athletes he played to adulation, but also felt the sting of fan and media criticism. Those who watched from the sidelines say the experience further defined his integrity.
Described as unselfish, caring, and just plain “nice” by all who meet him, Gibson, ’98 BS, ’01 MBA, defies the notion that good guys finish last. After college, he chose to step out of the limelight and into the Sandia National Laboratory organization lab.Working as a construction project manager for Sandia National Laboratories, he displays leadership skills honed on the court and an aptitude for science and math polished in the classroom. Gibson’s ascent from basketball breakout to motivational manager reflects his upbringing, his education, team spirit, and the drive to beat his personal best.
Learning the Plays An only child born in Roswell, New Mexico, Gibson, at age 7, moved with his mother to the “big city.” A bright, busy, latchkey kid attending Albuquerque’s Governor Bent and Comanche elementary schools and then Madison Middle School, the local Boy’s Club became a fast friend. “It’s where I got interested in everything. Kids need accountability. I knew I was expected to be there and to be involved in activities,” Gibson says. His mother, Connie Jefferson, on staff with the UNM Cancer Research and
Treatment Center, recalls that David showed athletic prowess early on, running track at age 8. Four years later, scrawny but tenacious, he played a year for the Young America Football League. “He and I used to shoot the ball at Comanche Elementary. I guess he played some basketball at the Boy’s Club and he would go to the park and play—that was his little time for himself,” she says. While still in the eighth grade he was approached to try out for a summer junior varsity league by Sandia High School. He scrambled up the JV ranks playing some senior varsity as a freshman and advancing to the state tourney his freshman through junior years. After completing his freshman year, he left town for a short time to live with his father in Schaumburg, Illinois, where he played JV and Varsity basketball for Conant High School. “At 15, a boy needs a father. It was something I needed to do,” he says, sharing that he soon returned to Albuquerque to stay with friends, the Botts family, for his junior year in high school. Constrained by economics, Gibson recognized early he would need to excel on the court or in the classroom if college were to be on the horizon. Gifted not only in sport but science and mathematics, when he graduated from Sandia in 1993
album Douglas McDonald, ’95 BUS, recently was promoted to eServer Territory Manager for Arkansas and Central Missouri at IBM and relocated to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Kenny C. Montoya, ’95 JD, has been named the new Adjutant General of the New Mexico National Guard. The Albuquerque resident will receive a promotion to Brigadier General with his new position. Carlos M. Quiñones, ’95 JD, has been selected to serve on the board of directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He is a partner in the Narvaez law firm in Albuquerque. Justin Treat, ’95 BS, is graduating from Midwestern University– Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. His education will continue with Legacy Health System in Portland, Oregon, where he will receive training in internal medicine. Hamilton Bean, ’96 BA, is director of government services for Intellibridge Corporation in Washington DC. His wife, Brooke E. Evans, ’96 BSED, ’99 MA, has completed a PhD in mathematics education at American University. Josh Hardy, ’96 BA, has joined Tricore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque as national sales and account manager in the genetics and cytometry division. Taihi Jones, ’96 BUS, ’98 MA, is the new Del Norte High School head football coach in Albuquerque. Denise Laframboise, ’96 MS, is a post-doctoral associate at the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. She lives in Colchester, Vermont. Jeffrey H. Albright, ’97 JD, is a shareholder in the Albuquerque law firm of Jontz Dawe Gulley & Crown, PC. Romie Willis Baker, ’97 BSTT, and her husband are the new owners of It’s A Small World Daycare in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Chris Peterson, ’97 BSCP, writes on www.unmalumni.com that he was recently promoted to group program manager at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Bill Jimenez, ’97 BABA, is vice president of operations at ITG NM LLC, an accounting software firm in Albuquerque. Jason Olivieri, ’97 BABA, has joined Meyners + Company, LLC, in Albuquerque as a senior accountant in the audit department. Shelley A. Rael, ’97 BS, ’00 MS, of Albuquerque, is president-elect of the New Mexico Dietetic Association, an affiliate of the American Dietetic Association.
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the university extended him a UNM Scholars Scholarship. Basketball Head Coach Dave Bliss telephoned to say if Gibson would attend UNM in the fall as a walk-on redshirt – a player who practices but doesn’t dress out for games – Bliss would sign him and award a basketball scholarship the following year. “Some people were leery and thought I was taking a risk. But he gave his word. I had peace about it and it worked out,” Gibson says. “That first year I was able to learn the system, establish some trust, gain confidence, and develop physically.” Designated as starting point guard the next year, he held the title the remainder of his Lobo career – a feat he recalls with tremendous pride. “There are talented guys joining the team every season who could take it
Georgetown prevailed, Gibson held All American and future Philadelphia 76ers hotshot Alan Iverson to 25 points. In 1997, at play in their second straight tournament fighting for a Sweet Sixteen spot and trailing Louisville 64-63 in the final seconds of play, Gibson made a drive to the basket and missed. It marked the first time in 23 games that UNM led at halftime and lost. Although the team’s leading scorer, Kenny Thomas, fouled out with only eight points and three rebounds, the Albuquerque Journal salted Gibson’s wound, running a front page photograph of him on the bench hanging his head in his hands. It wasn’t the first or last time the media took aim. Constant analysis fed fan frenzy, his mother says, but Gibson’s flair for communication and willingness to
Gibson’s ascent from basketball breakout to motivational manager reflects his upbringing, his education, team spirit, and the drive to beat his personal best. away from you,” he explains. Bliss, who admits fan expectations could exceed what was realistic, recalls a minority of Lobo followers each season requesting that he replace Gibson. “Every year they would ask and every year I would put David out there and he would lead us to 25 wins. The majority knew he could be counted on and that his performance was remarkable,” Bliss says.
Slam dunks and disappointments Gibson looks back on the 1994-95 season as “my most difficult. We had a 15-15 season. It was a tough year for Lobo basketball,” he says. The following year however, the Lobos surprised many, winning the WAC Tournament Championship and finishing with a 28-5 record. The Lobos advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tourney, and although fourth-ranked
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give interviews eventually softened media criticism. Journalist Andy Katz covered the basketball team for the Albuquerque Journal and is now a senior writer for ESPN.com. He recalls Gibson as a consistent, productive member of the team who received more or less similar scrutiny as other Lobos. “He was a local player, and he was recruited as a walk-on, so he was judged a little bit differently. He got knocked a lot for whether or not he could shoot, but he persevered and in the end turned out to be one of the better players of the Bliss era,” Katz recalls. Bliss, now head coach at Baylor University, recounts, “I always thought they [the media] underestimated his value to the Lobos. He scored a lot of big baskets and made of a lot of great defensive plays,” he says. Gibson’s success on the court is
chronicled in the team’s winning record, Bliss adds, touting him one of his “all-time favorites.” A photo of Gibson and Bliss embracing after a 1994 WAC win has a place on Bliss’ mantle alongside former players who went on to play professional ball. “He was a terrific player and a better person,” Bliss says. “He was a great leader and not only an inspiration to his teammates but to his coaches. His willingness to step up and be counted set him apart from a lot of the Lobos.” Assistant to the UNM president Scott Alley, a family friend, recalls that Gibson would remain on the court after games to shoot baskets in an effort to strengthen his skill. “By the last season he was one of the best free-throw shooters on the team,” Alley says. Loyola Chastain, Lobo basketball fan and Gibson’s MBA advisor in the Anderson Schools of Management, also recollects a stellar young man with incredible drive. “David was looking at what went right, but always accountable for what went wrong. And it’s not like he made that many mistakes,” she says. “He was an exemplary student athlete. His grades mattered, his education mattered. He didn’t put all his stock in basketball.” “David’s mother was the driving force behind him,” Alley says. “She raised him right. She was always there for him, and she still is.” Gibson says the continued support of family and friends and a strong religious upbringing offset the harried lifestyle afforded some high school and college athletes. “God has always surrounded me with great family and friends who are extremely supportive,” Gibson says. “People like the Botts family helped me to become the man I am today. My life is a tremendous testimony of how wonderful God is.”
Key Performer After a go at architecture—“it was too subjective,” he says—Gibson was drawn to the School of Engineering. UNM
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professor Deborah Fisher taught his civil engineering course. She recalls Gibson as a top student who downplayed his role on the team. “In fact, it embarrassed him. He really didn’t want to be treated any differently,” Fisher says. A traditional end-of-semester class picnic at her home revealed Gibson could play more than basketball. “He came in and sat down at my piano and started to play,” she says. “‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ I said. ‘What other surprises do you have for me, David?’” Sandia National Laboratories investigators seeking security clearance for Gibson interviewed Fisher. “I told them, ‘You are not going to believe this guy. He is just too good to be true.’ The investigator replied, ‘You know, everyone we have talked to said the same thing.’” While on sabbatical conducting analysis on a systems approach to employee training, Fisher had an opportunity to witness Gibson in action off the court. “I got to interview him in his role as project manager at the Lab. He has excellent leadership and people skills, which he says come from playing basketball. David uses his civil engineering background and quietly motivates people to do a quality project,” she says. “I am really very proud of him.” At Sandia since 1999, Gibson is currently managing the construction of a new weapons-testing facility at a remote site in Texas. “The value of my engineering degree really comes through. I know enough of the technical aspects to manage all the parties. The skill most beneficial to me now is my team perspective,” he says. Like many engineers who advance quickly to project management, Gibson chose to pursue a master’s in business administration after a short time in the field. “He knew it was going to enhance his engineering degree and give him the opportunity to advance in his career,” Chastain recalls.
Giving back Gibson was recently selected to present the keynote address at the first athlete/academic banquet hosted by the UNM Provost’s Office and athletic department. “He has a great attitude,” says Breda Bova, the UNM associate dean who made the selection. “It’s not easy to get an engineering degree while playing basketball. Kids like him are what make intercollegiate sports so great.” Recently, Gibson has been spotted not on the basketball court but on the greens. “I’m still an athlete. I’ve got to have something to practice and to make myself better at,” he says. Gibson stresses that he thinks more about relationships with his fellow student athletes than outcomes of past basketball games. “The fans and media are fickle. You can’t let them dictate how you feel about yourself,” he says. “True fans know that when the time runs out in a game, no one play can be looked at as the only play that mattered. The most valuable players on a team make large contributions each time they step on the court, and I feel that I always did that. “Of the disappointments, I remember very few that are actually from the basketball court. I remember the teammates who didn’t finish a season because they were homesick, or who felt they had a diminished role on the team, and then left without their degrees,” he says. An assistant basketball coach at alma mater Sandia High School, and active volunteer with youth through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the remarkable Gibson has already come full circle and feels a need to give back. “He and I talk about the fact that character is what you see and what you feel when you are alone,” Jefferson says. “There is no one like David. He is the special person in our family.” She says her son was truly blessed to have had the “Lobo experience. He got a great education and that was the goal.”
album Janeen Vilven-Doggett, ’97 PhD, ’01 JD, is an associate in the Corrales law firm Roberts Abokhair and Mardula, LLC. She resides in Albuquerque. Marc Gurrola, ’98 BABA, of Albuquerque, has been promoted to New Mexico customer operations manager for Cricket Communications, Inc. Marisa Maez, ’98 BA, has rejoined KOAT Action 7 News. She lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Brent Moore, ’98 PhD, is an assistant professor in psychiatry with the division of substance abuse at the Yale School of Medicine. Ava Yetter, ’99 BA, of Albuquerque, won the QVC Emerging Designer Awards Competition for jewelry designers last year. She now has a manufacturer in Albuquerque making copies of her work for sale on QVC. Joel Matthew Young, ’97 MA, is the author of a forthcoming children’s book, 12 short stories, seven feature screenplays, and five stage plays, including “The Dark Ages,” a fall 1999 benefit for UNM Children’s Hospital about the effects of child abuse on adult behavior. He resides in Albuquerque. Reina S. Martinez, ’98 BABA, works for Ford Motor Company in Albuquerque as customer and retail manager. Her education continues in the 2002-04 Executive MBA program at UNM. Ruth Nichols, ’98 MS, is a new clinical educator in the undergraduate nursing program at UNM. Bryan A. Otero, ’98 BA, ’01 JD, has joined Jontz Dawe Gulley & Crown, PC, in Albuquerque as an associate attorney, focusing on intellectual property law. Mark Carrara, ’99 BS, writes on www.unmalumni.com that he received an MSc in engineering mechanics/physics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 2001. He is a PhD candidate in aerospace engineering from the State University of New York. He and his wife, Michelle Carrara, ’98 BABA, are the parents of two daughters. Rene Vanessa Coleman, ’99 BA, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she has been chosen a 2003 Presidential Management Intern at Case Western Reserve University. She graduates this summer with her JD and a master’s of medical ethics, and is a recipient of the Law Leadership Award. She lives in Euclid, Ohio. Anna Sampson, ’99 BA, writes on www.unmalumni.com that she has been accepted to the master’s in public administration program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has completed a four-year stint in advertising.
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Burns, who will be 81 in September, is a mountain climber, and she says that being with dear friends on top of the world brings a feeling of spirituality that’s hard to match. “I can go into a church and not feel the presence of God,” she says. “But when you see those wonderful mountains and the things growing there … yes, God’s there. This is a creation of God. And you can feel more in awe there than you can in a lot of churches.” She should know. Burns has the distinction of seeing the views from 15 summits measuring 14,000 feet or higher, and she didn’t even get started until she was 64 years old.
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“I had retired and then was widowed, and this hiking group was a salvation for me,” she says. That salvation was the Happy Hoofers, a loosely affiliated assembly of women with a similar passion for the outdoors. Burns was the leader of the group for years, which isn’t surprising considering her other achievements.
Mortal Toil After growing up in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Burns came to UNM in 1940, planning to study biology. But World War II began to rage, and the resulting call for nurses led Burns to what would become her career.
She left the university, became a nurse, and started climbing the professional ranks. She had married and was raising four children while she worked. Back then, of course, being a full-time mom and a full-time employee wasn’t nearly as common as it is today. In the late ’60s, she says a feeling of unfinished business led her back to UNM, where she completed her degree in biology nearly 30 years after her freshman year. She worked in the Presbyterian Hospital system for about 20 years and retired in 1980 as the director of nursing for Kaseman Hospital. So, being an 80-year-old mountain climber isn’t her single claim to fame, just the latest.
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album Sara Traub, ’99 BUS, ’02 MBA, has joined the Albuquerque firm of Pulakos & Alongi, Ltd., as a staff accountant. Marcella Hackhardt, ’00 MFA, had a show of her photographic essay, “Flesh and Blood,” at 516 Magnifico Artspace in Albuquerque in 2001. She lives in Albuquerque. Maura Lewiecki, ’00 MLA, has been appointed by Governor Bill Richardson to the Natural Lands Protection Committee for the State of New Mexico. She is employed by Sites Southwest, a landscape architect and planning firm in Albuquerque, where she has been involved with the Bosque Restoration Project in the Middle Rio Grande Valley.
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Seeing the (Mountain) Light Burns says she began her pursuit of mountain peaks after a year of abrupt transition. Her husband, Vurley Burns, died less than a year after their retirement. But then came the deliverance of the Happy Hoofers and the men-included offshoot—the Meadow Muffins. Burns says a love of wildflowers is a big part of what drives her to extreme environments on far-off mountain peaks. “I get to see different kinds of flowers up there, and I love ’em. In a month’s time, they have grown, bloomed, and produced seeds. It’s a very harsh environment. “They are survivors.” Freelance writer Randy McCoach, ’93 BAjournalism, (rlmcyd@aol.com) owns Lasting Legacy, a professional interviewing service dedicated to preserving the oral histories of Albuquerque senior citizens.
David Askwith, ’02 MBA, has joined Pulakos & Alongi, Ltd., in Albuquerque as a staff accountant. David Joseph Blunier, ’02 BABA, is working part-time at PNM in Albuquerque and beginning graduate school in business. Alfred Lobaina, ’02 BA, has graduated from basic combat military training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Jonathan M. Lund, ’02, has joined KPMG LLP’s assurance practice department in Albuquerque as an associate. Lisa Martin, ’02 BABA, has joined Atkinson & Co. in Albuquerque as a staff accountant in the audit department. Jessica A. Yockers, ’02 BABA, is now an associate in KPMG LLP’s assurance practice department in Albuquerque.
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room—at the Las Vegas Bowl on Christmas Day, no less—would go to Lobo football kicker Katie Hnida’s head. “They specially constructed me a space out of crates,” she chuckles. Then she hastens to add,
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The Men’s Team It hasn’t always been that way. Katie joined the Lobos in fall 2002 after a stressful experience on the football team at the University of Colorado. Players there made no secret of their objections to playing with a woman, and they did what they could to intimidate her. “The quarterback would actually throw rocks and things at my head when I was kicking,” she explains. Eager to leave the unhappy situation, the resourceful 21-year-old sent play tapes of herself to several schools. “Coach Long responded in a few days with the offer of a trip out here,” she says.
“It’s rare to get that quick a response.” “Katie fit right in, after a couple of days,” says Coach Long. “She’s a member of the team. We don’t even remember we have a girl around.”
The Homecoming Queen Kicks! It’s not as though Katie pursued a career in football. On the contrary, football pursued her. “I was playing with my younger brother one day,” she recounts. “I had a pretty good kick. The guys on the school football team noticed and recruited me for the team.” In senior year she was simultaneously honored as the state of Colorado’s best kicker and high school homecoming queen. “I know it sounds incredible,” she laughs. “It was all a big surprise.” A mental picture forms of Katie both playing and cheerleading in the same game. She could probably pull it off. Fall 2003 will mark Katie’s eighth football season. “Playing here is the best experience I’ve ever had,” she says. “Rocky Long is a great coach. He is an alumnus, he was a walk-on, he’s not into fancy clothes and cars. He’s really down to earth and he’s not pushable.” Long guaranteed Katie a place in the record books as the first woman to get into an NCAA division I game when he
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ot Game! BY JANICE MYERS asked her to kick in the Las Vegas Bowl. “He had been dropping little hints,” she says, “so I had some inkling that I might get in the game. But it seemed so improbable. When he told [kicker] Kenny [Byrd] to let me do the first kick, I said, ‘Well, thank you, Coach.’” After that, she made a beeline to the team chaplain and asked him to pray with her. Unfortunately, her game kick was blocked. “That was the biggest disappointment of my life,” she says. “Usually I don’t have a problem with accuracy. That first night was pretty tough.”
Keeping Perspective Katie’s life has been tinged with sadness as well as disappointment. A native of Littleton, Colorado, she
DOWNED BUT NOT F O R G O T T E N : Her kick was blocked, but Katie Hnida made the record books at last year’s Las Vegas Bowl. The Lobo kicker was the first woman to enter an NCAA Division I game.
attended a high school that neighbored Columbine High. “Those are some hard emotions to deal with,” she says. Katie has never been physically injured playing sports, despite the fact that some prime football flesh has been aimed in her direction. “I used to work out with Jason Elam [of the Denver Broncos],” she says. At 5'9" and 140 pounds, she gets cut no slack when it comes to training. “I have to be strong enough to keep up with the rest of the team,” she says. But no matter how hard she works, she acknowledges that she will never kick a goal from the 55-yard-line. “Women are just anatomically different from men,” she says. Every kicker has a forte, however, and she’s content to specialize at “the 40 and in.” As for her status on the 2003 Lobo team, the coach says “she’ll compete with the other kickers” to determine it. This Lobo is majoring in psychology and history. She plans to go to grad school at UNM, and will probably petition the NCAA for a fifth year of eligibility in addition to the year she lost transferring from CU. In demand as a public speaker, Katie tries to serve as a role model for younger players. She recently became a Big Sister to a young woman here in town. “No matter what happens,” she says, “I try not to lose my empathy for people. We’re all fighting our own battles.”
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album Renee Maxine Rodarte, ’85 BSED, and Keith Alan Keeling Lean Lumley, ’87 BA, and Les Fraser, ’75 BA Annette D. DiLorenzo, ’89 BA, and Murray N. Thayer, ’90 JD Kathleen Edwards, ’90 BA, and Tor Kingdon Doug Jones, ’91 BABA, and Melissa Ann Alexander Brenda Ruth Steinberg, ’91 BA, and Russell Earl Enoch Connie (Lynn) Lovett, ’92 BA, and Mark Lane Morry Lawrence Roybal, ’92 BA, ’00 MA, and Sara Renee Miller Dana Ellen Brown, ’93 BS, ’00 MBA, and Bob Cialone Ken Gutierrez, ’94 BAA, and Cyra Franco, ’94 BA, ’97 BSPT Maria Dominquez, ’95 JD, and Bruce Fox Vincent Andrew Summer, ’93 AABU, ’97 BUS, and Courtney Yates L. Leticia Cruz, ’96 BS, and D. Dean Hinson II Lee Dixon, ’96 BABA, and Victoria Wiley, ’97 BA Brooke E. Evans, ’96 BSED, ’99 MA, and Hamilton Bean, ’96 BA Brandi Greenholt, ’96 BSEE, and Chad Monthan, ’97 BSME Valerie Marie Garcia, ’97 BBA, and Jeremy J. Clark Kristle Batchelor, ’99 BA, and Aaron Kugler, ’99 BA Adam Aspera, ’00 BUS, and Kimberly Pieart Benjamin J. Collar, ’00 BSCS, and Jessica A. Allman, ’00 BA Justin Nelson, ’00 BSCS, and Karli Massey, ‘00 BA James Schloss, ’00 BUS, and Tatum Simpson Rachel Yvonne Torres, ’00 BA, and Chris P. Maestas
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Pino also identifies with students who find it challenging to get a degree while trying to make ends meet financially. “I had to work very hard to earn my way through college,” Pino says. “I’ve never forgotten how hard I worked.” By establishing the Manuel A. Pino Endowed Scholarship Fund, he hopes to make the road to graduation a bit easier for Hispanic students at UNM. “I want to assist others who are in the same situation I was in then, so they can get their education,” he says.
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A native New Mexican now living in California, Manuel Pino identifies with the importance of understanding one’s legacy. Born and raised in Albuquerque, Pino can trace his lineage back to the 1300s, and takes great pride in his Hispanic heritage. In fact, he has prepared a diagram tracing his roots to Spain and Portugal. The diagram currently measures 10 feet long by 3 feet wide.
S M O O T H I N G T H E R O A D : Now retired and traveling the world with his wife, Verna Rae, Manuel Pino still remembers how it was to be a struggling student. He has established a scholarship endowment to make the road a bit easier for current Hispanic students. The Pinos are shown here at The Great Wall of China.
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While earning a BS in engineering chemistry, awarded in 1944, Pino worked about 20 hours per week and carried a full class load. His jobs included working in the UNM chemistry-laboratory stockroom and in his father’s shoe store repairing boots. During his sophomore and junior years, he assisted his instructors by grading papers. An exemplary student, he was initiated into three fraternities: Kappa Mu Epsilon for mathematics, Theta Chi Delta for chemistry, and Sigma Tau for engineering. During Pino’s senior year he was activated into service in the US Navy, so he didn’t have to work while taking classes. (“That was an easy year,” he recalls.) Immediately following graduation he went to midshipman’s school at Northwestern University. After receiving his commission, he was sent by the Navy to Princeton University for intensive training in electronics, followed by further training in radar at MIT. He was then assigned to the Third Fleet aboard a light cruiser off the coast of Japan. Pino was responsible for maintaining all of the radar equipment. After the war ended, his ship returned to San Francisco, where it was based for more than a year. Pino was discharged from the Navy in July 1946 with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He returned to
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Inventiveness Settling in Northern California, he began work as a chemical engineer in the research unit of Chevron Company, known then as Standard Oil Company of California. During his 22-year career with Chevron, Pino earned nearly 20 patents, many of them reaching commercialization. Among them were the formula and manufacturing process for the aviation hydraulic fluid used in the Concorde SST, and the manufacturing process for the hydraulic fluid adopted by the US Air Force for the latest supersonic combat aircraft. Following his retirement in 1968, Pino made his home in Salinas, California, where he met his future wife, Verna Rae, a retired high school teacher, at a travel slide show. Since that serendipitous meeting, the couple has traveled to more than 50 countries during their 21-plus years of marriage. They also enjoy playing bridge (both are bridge Life Masters) and listening to music.
Creating a Legacy The Pinos have no children, and brought individual financial assets to their “late-in-life” marriage. Pino decided to benefit his alma mater by making a charitable bequest to UNM. This
endowed fund will exist in perpetuity with annual earnings made available for scholarship awards. The Manuel A. Pino Endowed Scholarship is awarded annually and paid on a semester basis. It covers tuition, books, and fees. Pino has set up a trust that, upon his and his wife’s death, ensures the full amount of his estate will be added to the scholarship. “My hope is that the fund will last in perpetuity,” says Pino, and thus benefit countless UNM students in the future. A committee selects the recipients of the annual scholarship. Scholarship recipients must: have a Hispanic surname; have been born in New Mexico; demonstrate academic achievement; demonstrate financial need for scholarship assistance; be enrolled at UNM as undergraduate or graduate students carrying at least 12 units of course instruction; and be studying toward a degree in engineering, the physical sciences, the life sciences, mathematics, medicine, law, or pharmacy. Currently there are two Pino scholars at UNM—a dental hygiene student and a biology undergraduate student. Several students with various majors have benefited from the Manuel A. Pino Endowed Scholarship in previous years. With his generous planned gift, Pino has created a significant and sustaining legacy to UNM and the Hispanic community of New Mexico.
New Horizons Society Honors Future Generosity The UNM Foundation established the New Horizons Society to honor donors like Manuel Pino who have notified the university of their intention to make a planned gift to UNM. Planned gifts may take the form of a bequest intention in a will or living will, a life insurance or other beneficiary designation, a gift annuity or a charitable remainder trust, or several other life income arrangements. The Foundation does not require knowledge of the amount of a donor’s planned gift for membership in the Society. Membership in the New Horizons Society is voluntary, and may be anonymous. Members receive newsletters, major university publications, and invitations to special events, and they are welcomed into the Society with a special lapel pin. Lobo Legacy members are automatically included in the New Horizons Society. Please contact the UNM Foundation Office of Planned Giving, 505-277-6543, or visit the Foundation’s website at www.unm.edu/foundation for more information.
album in memoriam Betty V. Njos, ‘26 Mary M. McDonald, ‘27 Catharine Fee Davies, ‘31 Louis H. McCain, ‘31 Dorothy Parham Flowers Teer, ‘31 Allen Stamm, ‘32 Irene R. Moore, ‘33 Vena Loree Gault Cochran, ‘34 Edward G. Roberts, ‘33 Landrum Brewer Shettles, ‘34 Carlos M. Creamer, ‘35 Madge F. Griggs, ‘35 Beatrice A. Cottrell, ‘36 Robert Howard Gleasner, ‘36 Marguerite Abbel Hover Johnson, ‘37 Edward Wortmann, ‘37 Robert Buchanan, ‘38 Martha Curtis, ‘38 Roy J. Roberts, ‘38 J. Mike Romero, ‘38 Fred B. Evans Jr., ‘39 Miriam G. Bramel, ‘41 Richard W. Crawford, ‘41 Dorothy K. Gillespie, ‘42 Petrita S. Marquez, ‘42 James McDow Neill, ‘42 Jack L. Kearney, ‘43 Marx Brook, ‘44 Mickey Miller, ‘44 Lawrence O. Wilson, ‘44 Betty Jane Dickerson, ‘45 John E. Moore, ‘45 John Allison, ‘46 Ralph R. Denton, ‘46 James W. Knox Jr., ‘46 Patricia O’Grady Browne, ‘47 Herbert O. Ellermeyer, ‘47 Marilyn L. Jorden, ‘47 John “Jack” D. Vogel Jr., ‘47 RN Whitley Jr., ‘48 Lloyd Edward Anderson, ‘49 Barbara K. Craft, ‘49 John Edward McNerney, ‘49 John Martin Baum, ‘50 Seldon Burks] Jr., ‘50, ‘55 Julius H. Darsey, ‘50, ‘69 John Woodrow Foster, ‘50 David Lee Irion, ‘50 Cliff Long, ‘50 Burton E. Milnes, ‘50 Kirby D. Schenck, ‘50 Leiber B. Wallerstein, ‘50 Derrell D. Dollahon, ‘52 Sherman E. Galloway, ‘51, ‘56 Dolores E. Giron, ‘51 Mary Etta Huning, ‘51 Harold R. Pick, ‘51 Dolores Montoya Duran, ‘52, ‘60 Aurelio Brito, ‘52 Blanche Amberg Fitzpatrick, ‘52 Albert Earl Lucas, ‘52 Gaspar Gus Martinez, ‘52 Howard Charles Peterson, ‘52 Donald Robison, ‘52 L. Grant Waterman, ‘52 John McConville, ‘53 Mozelle Waters, ‘53 Andrew “Jack” Potter, ‘54 Adele Brown Granum, ‘55 Cornelius Arnett III, ‘56 Joseph I. Lynch, ‘56 Thomas Scott Birdsong, ‘57 Clark W. Manwarren, ‘58 Glenn E. Reeling, ‘58 Thomas A. Burt, ‘59 Sally Lind, ‘59
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Former Little League opponents Larry Harrison and Rick Ronquillo teamed up at UNM.
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BASEBALL BUDDIES: Lobo Lettermen Larry Harrison
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Albuquerque Isotopes stadium.
ago they were sometime-opponents on the playing field in a pastime where kids quickly learn who plays what—with whom—and how well. When you’re 12 years old, it’s hard to forget the face of someone who snatches your fly ball out of the sky or throws a smoker over the plate when the count is 3 and 2. A low-key mutual admiration simmered between the two
exceptional outfielders (Rick played center and Larry played right) until one day in 1979, when they found themselves teammates on the Lobos. Each had received a partial scholarship.
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Teammates Larry and Rick were coached by Vince Cappelli, who died about a year and a half ago. Cappelli was inducted into the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame last year. Vince had come from professional baseball, and he brought about half of the Lobo team with him from the New York/New Jersey area. Asked about the experience of playing for the legendary coach, Larry and Rick chuckle. “Let’s say he was a gruff New Yorker,” says Rick. “I’m sure he was soft on the inside somewhere.” Larry laughs, “Vince wasn’t reluctant to share his opinions—often right there in front of everybody.” But he adds that his current perspective is far different from the one he held as a 20-year-old. “When you’re 20, you resist authority,” he explains. “Nobody can tell you anything, and you all think you’re going to the majors.” But Cappelli knew that wasn’t going to happen for most of the team, and he stressed the importance of graduating. Because the baseball program was extremely short on staff, Cappelli had no assistant coaches and had to maintain the fields himself. “He spent at least two hours a day maintaining the field,” says Larry. This in spite of the fact that he had a bad back that kept him awake nights. Although the players developed camaraderie as a team, the difference in backgrounds tended to sort them into two categories: native New Mexicans and East Coasters. “I think that part of the reason that Larry and I are still so close is that we were New Mexicans and we had a different attitude towards being Lobos,” Rick says.
At Home Larry and Rick won a double header when Larry married Saundra, who had gone to Manzano High School with
Rick, and Rick married Kim, whom Larry had known at Sandia High School. “They were sitting in the stands for almost every game,” says Rick. Both men ultimately earned degrees in business. Larry founded Harrison Construction with his dad and Rick, who returned to UNM to earn an MBA, recently joined Wells Fargo as a commercial loans officer. Both Rick and Larry are on the board of the UNM Lettermen’s Association, where they raise money for fifth-year-scholarships for students who lose athletic eligibility but still need support to finish their education.
Full Circle Every year Rick and Larry coach Little League teams. That would be two teams each. For those unfamiliar with the Little League experience, this means that, for at least 16 hours a week, they put themselves at the mercy of the elements. Classic Little League meteorology consists of dust devils that fling dirt and small gravel in enthusiasts’ faces. Players and spectators often leave the game covered with a fine layer of grit. Some coaches might find dealing with ambitious parents more daunting than the extremes of cold and heat. “Little League is a lot different now than it was when we were kids. People are giving their kids private lessons, and have their lives planned out for them,” says Larry. Neither has had any real problems with parents, however. “It’s a matter of communicating early and regularly,” adds Rick.
True Friends In a stressed-out, fast-paced world, Larry Harrison and Rick Ronquillo are as refreshing as the old-time game they represent. Chances are they’ll be buddies for a long time. After all, diamonds are forever.
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Great friendships are rare treasures. We hope this story of two baseball buddies prompts you to think about your own special friendships formed at UNM—whether in their incipiency, in their heyday, or of days past. Tell us what brought you together, what makes you laugh, how you’ve kept in touch through the years. While some of our stories have been written by one of the “friends,” don’t let your writing skills hold you back! Just drop me a note (at mconrad@unm.edu) highlighting your shared times. You can look forward to more stories in Mirage and on our website at www.unmalumni.com. f a l l
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MIRAGE IS ONLINE! Our webmaster, Merlyn Liberty, has mastered Mirage! Check it out at www.unmalumni.com (click on Mirage Magazine). The format is formidable! www.unmalumni.com
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ometimes it’s hard to tell who is being honored. In the early spring, the UNM Alumni Association bestowed four major awards upon three alumni and one professor of such note that guests felt honored to be in their presence. John Palms, ’66 PhD, received the James F. Zimmerman Award. Palms is president emeritus and professor of physics emeritus of the University of South Carolina. Jim Hulsman, ’58 BS, received the Bernard S. Rodey Award. Hulsman was a longtime director of athletics at Albuquerque High. He coached track, baseball, football, and basketball for 48 years in Albuquerque. John Morrison, ’55 BS, received the Erna S. Fergusson Award. A Chicago attorney, a Rhodes scholar, and honorary officer in the Order of the British Empire, Morrison is president of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. His legal career spans more than 40 years. Diane L. Marshall, UNM biology professor, the Alumni Association Faculty Award. Marshall has been a professor of biology at UNM since 1997. Her general field of research is plant population.
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Newman Notice The St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center will be celebrating its 50th Jubilee in the fall of 2004. In order to update the mailing list, all former members are asked to contact the Center at www.AquinasNM.org, 1815 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque NM 87106, 505-247-1094. The center looks forward to hearing from you and hopes you will join in celebrating this momentous occasion.
You’ll Soon Be Howling! Next month you’ll be hearing from us in a brand new way as we initiate our new e-mail newsletter, The Howler. If we have your e-mail address, you’ll be first to know about campus events and news, and alumni benefits and activities. Sign up now at www.unmalumni.com.
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Take a Hike into History UNM Alumni Educational Travel Adventures 2004 Following is our new line up of educational travel opportunities coming up in 2004. We hope to see you on one of them in the near future! January March May August Nov.
Cuba: A Cultural & Historical Exchange Prague/Budapest Escapade Italian Riviera Alumni College Alumni College in Ireland—Kilkenny Austrian Holiday Markets
Trips and dates are subject to change. For additional information, contact Charlene Chavez at the UNM Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808, or 800-258-6866.
Book It! Alumni Chapters Calendar July 20 July (tba) August 2-3 August 3 August 10 August 16 August-November September 7 September 7 September 20 September 20 September 13 or 20 October 3 October 4 October 18 October (tba) November 7 November 17 December 6 December 7 December 14 January 3 February 22
Los Angeles Chapter Women’s Pro Basketball—LA Sparks Chicago Chapter Summer Celebration Los Angeles Chapter Deep Sea Fishing Adventure Austin Chapter Ice Cream Social Los Angeles Chapter Hollywood Bowl Picnic & Concert Seattle Chapter Island Getaway Engineering Chapter Lobo Football Pre-Game Tailgates Washington DC Chapter Chile Roast & Picnic Los Angeles Chapter Chile Roast & Picnic New York Area Chapter Country BBQ and Dance Norcal Chapter Green Chile Roast & Picnic Austin Chapter Green Chile Roast & Picnic Architecture & Planning Homecoming Reunion Architecture & Planning Membership Meeting & Continuing Education Lobos vs. SDSU Tailgate and Game Las Vegas, Nevada Chapter Green Chile Roast & Picnic Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Football TV Viewing Party Los Angeles Chapter Beach House Bistro Get-together Austin Chapter Holiday Potluck New York Area Chapter Holiday Chile Supper Los Angeles Chapter San Antonio Winery Tour & Dinner Los Angeles Chapter Lobo Basketball TV Viewing Party Austin Chapter Lobo Day Event
All dates are subject to change. For additional information, visit our website at unmalumni.com, call our office at 800-258-6866, or refer to eventfliers sent to chapter areas before events.
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Ryan Lindquist hefts the ball during the Carry Tingley Hospital Mudd Volleyball Tournament. Ryan is a member of the UNM Young Alumni who fielded two teams for the fundraiser.
• We’ll unmask a great time at UNM Homecoming 2003: Carnival on the Rio, September 29-October 4. It will be fun to walk onto the field (for the crowning of the king and queen) instead of the court.
• www.unmalumni.com expands by leaps and bounds. Order your Lobo gear, look up lost friends, explore new job possibilities, check our calendar of events, read Mirage, update your address, and write us a note—we have virtually everything you want from your alumni association.
• This issue of Mirage explores the meaning of school spirit. To me, school spirit means giving back to my alma mater. By serving as president of the Alumni Association Board, I hope to do that.
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Gear Here! We’ve joined with the UNM Bookstore for a whole new line of alumni gifts this year. Check us out online and order now for fall fiestas and holiday gifts.
Alumni Polo Sport Classic $37.95
Alumni Hat $18.00
UNM Alumni Lobo Sweatshirt $39.95 Alumni Sweatshirt $38.00
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• Our new president, Louis Caldera, will bring new insight and opportunities to the university. As the university excels, your degree grows in value.
• Our remodeled Student Union Building is a "site" to be seen! I encourage you to visit it over Homecoming.
UNM Alumni Hooded Sweatshirt $36.95
• Our research shows once again how important word-of-mouth support is for the university. We need your good words!
Karen Abraham Executive Director, UNM Alumni Association
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• Because of UNM President Louis Caldera’s background in university advancement, he understands how important alumni are to the future of UNM. • Because we always want to communicate with you in a way you appreciate, we’re beginning a bi-monthly Alumni Association e-mail newsletter, The Howler.
Find more gear and gifts at www.unmalumni.com Order online of call 800-981-BOOK or 505-277-5451
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