2015, Spring by UNM Alumni Association

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M A G A Z I N E THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO I ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Nutritionist Takes on Big Apple Alum Heads Uphill UNM’s Ebola Connections New Mexico Artist’s Colorful Career The Value of A Diploma

Digging Deep into Lost Gallina

Contents

Sandia Man David Hammack

5 ‘ LEADERS AND INNOVATORS’

message from UNM President A Robert G. Frank

5 ALBUM Keeping current with classmates

6 CAMPUS CONNECTIONS

Honors, promotions, research and other campus news

11 BY THE NUMBERS

18 SANDIA MAN

How UNM measures up

12 SHELF LIFE

Books by UNM alumni

14 TWEETING WHAT SHE’S EATING

Nutrition major’s meals are ready for their close-up By Leslie Linthicum

Trail ambassador keeps the pace By Leslie Linthicum

20 EBOLA

UNM’s connection to a killer By Leslie Linthicum

24 UNLOCKING ANCIENT MYSTERIES

Archaeology student explores lost culture By Rebecca Roybal Jones

On the cover: Graduate student Jacqueline Kocer is studying the mysterious Gallina people of northwestern New Mexico. Photo: Roberto E. Rosales (‘96 BFA, ‘14 MA)

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Mirage was the title of the University of New Mexico yearbook until its final edition in 1978. The title was then adopted by the alumni magazine, which continues to publish vignettes about UNM graduates.

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28 WEAVING HER OWN PATH

34 NEW NAME FOR THE PIT

Artist Joan Weissman’s grounded designs By Carolyn Gonzales

Same high expectations By Richard Stevens

36 UNEXPECTED FELLOWSHIP

A grateful alum looks back at a kindness By Carolyn J. C. Thompson

38 ALUMNI OUTLOOK Travel packages and alumni events 39 WEAR YOUR LOBO PRIDE Weaver Joan Weissman

30 DOLLAR$ AND SENSE

Adding up the value of a college degree By Leslie Linthicum

A message from Alumni Association President Brian S. Colón

40 STUDENT GOVERNMENT SPOTLIGHT

Student leaders Texanna Martin and Rachel Williams talk student engagement

41 ALUMNI NETWORK

A photo album of Alumni Association events

42 LOBOS OF DISTINCTION Alumni Association winter awards 43 IN MEMORIAM Provost Chaouki Abdallah

Spring 2015, Volume 35, Number 1 The University of New Mexico Robert G. Frank, President Karen A. Abraham, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations Leslie Linthicum, Editor Wayne Scheiner & Company, Graphic Design UNM Alumni Association Executive Committee Brian Colón ’01 JD, President Ann Rhoades ’85 MBA, President-Elect Tom Daulton ’77 BBA, Treasurer Randy Royster ’92 JD, Past President Sandra Begay-Campbell ’87 BSCE Harold Lavender ’69 BA, ’75 JD Donald “Duffy” Swan ’68 BA Ex Officio Rosalyn Nguyen ’03 BBA, ’07 MBA, JD Daniel Trujillo ’07 BBA, ’08 MACCT Mirage is published two times a year by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends. Address all correspondence to UNM Alumni Relations Office, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, 87131-0001, or alumni@unm.edu. You may also contact us at (505) 277-5808 or 800-ALUM-UNM (258-6866). Web: unmalumni.com. Facebook: facebook.com/ unmalumni. Twitter: @unmalumni. 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 Karen Abraham using the contact information listed above.

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“UNM knows my heritage. That’s how they knew surgery would save me.” — Candy R. neurosurgical patient

Neurological Sciences

“It’s one thing for your doctors to know your family medical history. It’s quite another for them to understand 500 years of your family’s heritage. In my case, it meant they knew me, they knew how prevalent my condition was in my family, and they knew how to help. Learn more about my story at UNMHSLifeStories.org.“

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The Value of a UNM Education Dear Fellow Alumni: I love reading about the amazing things that all of you are doing, so I look forward to reading Mirage Magazine each semester. Lobo alumni around the world accomplish much, and I think it goes without saying that you are all a testament to the outstanding value of a UNM education. The value of a college education is substantial. It opens doors for so many individuals, and leads to discovery and personal growth. I think that a UNM education stands out because our graduates are prepared for the many opportunities in New Mexico and worldwide, and because we have some of the best programs, researchers and faculty in the nation. Students come to UNM from every state, and nearly 100 countries, creating a diverse community so that all of our students can graduate with a better understanding of different cultures and ideas. UNM alumni are leaders and innovators. We are changing the world in many fields, from education to engineering, physics to philanthropy, and arts to advertising. I advocate the value of a UNM degree because I know that I would not be where I am today without the knowledge and experiences I gained while attending UNM. Considering how much the University has changed over the decades, and how much it continues to improve, there is no doubt that future graduating classes will achieve amazing things we cannot imagine. The students who will graduate in May are prepared for jobs that may not have existed when they became Lobos. Students applying to attend next year may graduate with degrees we do not even offer yet, because UNM will continue to adapt to the rapidly changing economic and academic needs. I hope that you all share your UNM pride with the world. In my letter here in 2013, I wrote about a recent alumna who was inspiring her young students to follow their dreams and pursue a college degree, hopefully at UNM. She explained why higher education is so valuable and why UNM is one of the best places to learn. I hope you think so too. Thank you all for promoting the University and encouraging students to become successful, productive and engaged citizens ready to serve New Mexico, the U.S. and the world.

Kind regards,

Robert G. Frank President, The University of New Mexico

Look for a friend on every page! Send your alumni news to Mirage Editor, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001. Or better yet, email your news to mwolfe@unm.edu. Please include your middle name or initial! Deadlines: Spring deadline: January 1; Fall deadline: June 1

1940s Phil Whitener (’41 SCME), Silverdale, Wash., was recently issued Patent No. 8,662,540 for a Quick Tube Connector. Phil, 94, retired from Boeing in 1984 and is still inventing with other patents pending.

1950s Frank E. McCulloch, Jr. (’53 BS), Albuquerque, hosted his annual one-person show at Sumner & Dene Creations Art gallery. William B. Keleher (’55 BA), Michael L. Keleher (’56 BA) and Thomas F. Keleher (’64 BSCE, ’74 JD), Albuquerque, were recognized for their contributions by National Jewish Health during the 32nd annual New Mexico Spirit of Achievement Awards Dinner.

1960s Don Perkins (’60), Albuquerque, was recognized by the UNM Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Chapter as a Living Legend in Lobo Athletics. Perkins is listed on the Dallas Cowboys’ “Ultimate 53-man Depth Chart.” He was inducted into UNM’s Lettermen’s Hall of Honor in 1986 and the Albuquerque/New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Richard W. Waggoner (’62 BAA), Roswell, N.M, and his wife, Lynn, celebrated 60 years of marriage. Rudolfo A. Anaya (’63 BA, ’69 MA, ’72 MA), Albuquerque, noted as the “godfather of contemporary Chicano literature,” is now part of the Albuquerque Wall of Fame. J. Ernest Simpson (‘63 BS, ‘66 MS, ‘67 PhD), Claremont, Calif., is chemistry professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and was named an American Chemical Society Fellow in 2012 for “outstanding achievements/ excellence in both scientific/professional accomplishments and service to the ACS community.” In 2013 he received the Provost’s Award of Excellence in Service at Cal Poly, where he taught from 1968 to 2008.

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Campus Connections THE ART OF A GIFT By Jennifer Kemp and Todd Staats There’s something artful about the way the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation chose to honor Beatrice Mandelman and her husband Louis Ribak by giving their art a new life – and the way it selected UNM as the beneficiary. The result: a gift valued at nearly $8 million and a permanent home for an important collection. Mandelman and Ribak were already well-known artists before they moved to Taos in 1944. In the early 1930s and ‘40s, Ribak regularly exhibited in New York and other cities and worked with the Works Progress Administration as a muralist. Mandelman’s prints were in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where they remain among the permanent collections today. The couple’s move to Taos gave them the freedom to evolve their artistic styles and to begin anew. Both drew inspiration from the vast landscape, color and light and diverse cultures of northern New Mexico, and they became part of a group of artists known as the “Taos Moderns.” When Ribak died in 1979, he left behind an extensive body of work that included paintings, drawings and hundreds of sketchbooks – artworks depicting a lifetime of observations of the natural world and reflecting a lifelong dedication to art. In 1997, Mandelman established the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, a

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November by Louis Ribak (Image: Courtesy of The Harwood Museum of Art, Gift of Mandelman-Ribak Foundation)

nonprofit dedicated to preserving the couple’s artistic legacies and supporting the arts in New Mexico. She died a year late at the age of 85, leaving behind thousands of paintings, prints, collages and works on paper,

and a legacy of passionate dedication to art. “Mandelman and Ribak were pioneering artists in the modernist movement in New Mexico,” explained Alexandra Benjamin, executive director

Ira Harge (’65 BS), Albuquerque, was recognized by the UNM Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Chapter as a Living Legend. He was inducted into the UNM Lettermen Hall of Honor in 1993 and the Albuquerque/New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.

of the MandelmanRibak Foundation. “Bea was aware of their pivotal roles and sought to find a place that could preserve and make accessible their artworks and archives. In her own mind, that place was always the University of New Mexico.” Last year, the foundation donated its collection of more than 900 pieces of art and hundreds of sketchbooks, prints, drawings and personal papers spanning 50 years to UNM. The collection has been

Adolph C. Plummer, Jr. (’67 BSPE), Arvada, Colo., was recognized by the UNM Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Chapter as a Living Legend. He was inducted into the Albuquerque/New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 and into UNM’s Lettermen’s Hall of Honor in 1988. Robert Leroy Mercer (’68 BS), Mount Sinai, N.Y., is co-head of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund firm based in Long Island. Rita Powdrell (’68 BA), Albuquerque, was recognized by the UNM Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Chapter as a Living Legend. Richard Storey (’68 BSED), Dillon, Mont., has retired as chancellor of the University of Montana Western. Originally from Roswell and a Lobo Baseball player from 1963-1965, Richard taught and coached at Manzano High School prior to achieving his Ph.D. in botany and plant physiology.

Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak in their Taos, N.M., studio, 1949. (Photo: Justin Locke)

transferred to Zimmerman Library’s Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. Once the archival process is completed, these materials will be accessible to the university community, citizens of New Mexico and researchers and scholars worldwide. Many of the works will enhance UNM’s art museums, providing art researchers insight into the modernist painting movement in New Mexico. Over time, other pieces will be sold to museums, galleries and collectors throughout the world, with proceeds benefiting art programs at UNM. Sun and Time by Beatrice Mandelman, (Image: Courtesy of UNM Foundation)

A version of this story appeared in the UNM Foundation’s 2013-2014 Annual Report of Giving

Ed Wolfe (‘68 BEDU, ‘73 MMU), San Dimas, Calif., was inducted into the California Alliance for Jazz Education Hall of Fame, placing him in a group of jazz education giants.

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Felipe de Ortego y Gasca (‘71 PhD), Silver City, N.M., celebrated 50 years of college and university teaching at Texas State University and Western New Mexico University. He has taught in Silver City, Gallup, Deming, Truth or Consequences and Lordsburg. Evelyn B. Rosenberg (’71 MA), Albuquerque, shows her artwork in the book, “Detonography: The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg,” published by the University of New Mexico Press. Anne T. Behl (’72 BA), Hobbs, N.M., is currently building a memorial to Lea County veterans at the Lea County Museum in Lovington. R. Dale Lillard (’72 BSEE), Phoenix, Ariz., is a 50-50 partner in Arizona Sun Wash LLC. He developed and is marketing a new product called Solise that allows sunscreen to be applied as a body wash.

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Campus Connections UNDERSTANDING CARBON IN VOLCANOES

CHIMPS VIOLENT ALL ON THEIR OWN Associate Professor of Anthropology Martin Muller’s research into aggressive behavior in chimpanzees found no correlation between the amount of human interference in an animal community and levels of lethal violence. Martin, co-director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, concluded in a study published in the journal Nature that chimps attack and kill other chimps in the wild to weed out male competitors and expand their territories. There was no uptick in violence where humans had intruded. “There has been a debate for a long time between anthropologists who contend that violence in chimpanzee communities might be the result of human interference, and those who argue that this is an evolved behavior,” Muller said. The paper, which looked at five decades of chimpanzee aggression in Uganda resulting in 152 chimpanzee deaths, found that chimps like to gang up on victims – the median ratio of attackers to victim is 8 to 1. Muller said male chimpanzees patrol the perimeter of their territory frequently and will kill a male from another community if he is alone, and thus vulnerable.

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Volcanologist Tobias Fischer is in the fifth year of a 10-year program compiling data on emissions from active volcanoes to better understand the role natural carbon emissions from the Earth’s mantle play in climate change.

Fischer and his students are able to collect and measure samples using solar-powered instruments – spectrometers and electrochemical sensors that make measurements several times a day from active volcanoes in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador and send the data to UNM. They also venture into hot zones, taking on-site measurements of hot gas.

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Fischer, a professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, heads a global initiative involving scientists from 16 countries, part of the larger Deep Carbon Observatory project funded by a $50 million pledge from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. While fossil fuel-burning humans are the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, volcanoes also spew the gas in much smaller amounts. “Humans account for about 100 times more than volcanoes,” Fischer says. “However, we need more data on the natural emissions to better understand how natural emissions affected the global climate in the past.” His research also aims to help understand why some volcanoes are able to emit large amounts of carbon dioxide without significant eruptions.

The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime. Most of us don’t think much about it as we roll our bins to the curb, but the UNM campus is talking trash – and reading it and teaching it – all throughout the 2014-2015 academic year. “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Edward Humes, was selected for the annual Lobo Reading Experience, which brings the university community together through one book. “Garbology” tells the story of America’s largest export – trash – and traces the ultimate destination of the discarded remnants of a disposable consumer society. Incoming freshmen were assigned the book prior to orientation and UNM faculty included “Garbology” in more than 40 university courses.

Jane Sanchez (’72 BA), Alexandria, Va., has been appointed chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the Library of Congress.

NEW DEANS AND INTERIM DEANS

Salvador Hector Ochoa

Salvador Hector Ochoa took over as dean of the College of Education in July. He comes to UNM from the College of Education at the University of Texas-Pan American, where he was professor and dean. Ochoa has a bachelor’s in psychology from St. Edward’s University, a master’s in Guidance and Counseling from Pan American University and a doctorate in school psychology from Texas A&M University. Ochoa’s research focuses on bilingual psycho-educational assessment and educational programming issues pertaining to Hispanic students. Richard W. Clement was appointed dean for the university’s College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences. He was most recently dean of libraries and adjunct professor of history at Utah State University.

At USU he transformed library services to provide digital content to six campuses and numerous centers Richard W. Clement across the state.Before coming to Utah in 2008, Clement headed the department of special collections at the University of Kansas, where he also taught a course in the History of the Book. Craig White has been appointed interim dean of the Anderson School of Management while the business school undertakes a national search for a permanent dean. White joined the Anderson School in 1998 and is the Moss Adams professor of accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting. The School of Engineering will also undertake a search for a new dean while Joseph Cecchi, dean emeritus, serves as interim dean. Cecchi, a professor of chemical and nuclear engineering, served as dean from 2000 to 2009.

HONORS & AWARDS Katie Witkiewitz, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes her work in the field of addiction.

David Raymond Salazar (’73 BA), Orlando, Fla., is president of Axis Data Solutions. The company was acquired by Cathedral Corporation. Daniel Thomas Eglinton (’73 BUS, ’78 DM), Asheville, N.C., an orthopedic surgeon, has opened a new office. He has been nationally and internationally recognized for his ongoing research and techniques in innovative stem cell therapy in orthopedics. Dewayne A. Matthews (’74 BSED), Indianapolis, Ind., is vice president of strategy development of Lumina Foundation. Larry W. Greenly (‘74 MARCH, ‘77 MSCE), Albuquerque, was awarded a 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award gold medal for his book, “Eugene Bullard: World’s First Black Fighter Pilot.” His book is also a finalist in three categories in the 2014 NM/AZ Book Awards. Gregory Lalire (‘74 BA), Leesburg, Va., has been editor of the history magazine Wild West since 1995. He has published his first novel (offbeat historical fiction), “Captured: From the Frontier Diary of Infant Danny Duly.” Gregory Louis Candela (’75 MA, ’82 PhD), Albuquerque, is a founding member of the folk fusion band “Dog Star.” Stephen Beckerman (’76 PhD), Bellefonte, Pa., has published “The Ecology of the Barí” with Roberto Lizarralde. The University of Texas Press is the publisher. William A. Sanchez (’76 BBA, ’80 JD), Los Lunas, N.M., retired after serving more than two decades as the 13th Judicial District Court judge. Norma Gail Thurston (‘76 BSN) Tijeras, N.M., had her debut contemporary Christian romance published by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas under the name Norma Gail. “Land of My Dreams” is set in Scotland and New Mexico. Norma is married to Dirk Holtman (’74 BS, ’76 MS). Spencer George Lucas (’77 BA), Albuquerque, is the curator of paleontology and geology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He is part of a team that has discovered a new dinosaur species unique to New Mexico, the Ziapelta sanjuanensis. Sheila C. Peyraud (’78 BUS), Minneapolis, Minn., is the general manager of Donaldson Aerospace & Defense.

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Campus Connections Education by the Ecological Society of America. The award recognizes an ecologist for outstanding work in ecology education. Molles was honored for his outstanding contributions in science, service and education.

Katie Witkiewitz

Witkiewitz is a scientist at the university’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, where her work has centered on addictive behavior relapse. Carmen Nocentelli, associate professor of English and comparative literature, received the Roland H. Bainton Prize in Literature for her book, “Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). The prize, awarded by the  Sixteenth Century Society, is given to the best new book on the period 1450-1660.

The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ graduate speechlanguage pathology program pulled in a nearly perfect score – 9.45 of a possible 10 – making it the top such program in the country, according to the annual Fall Graduate Program Rankings. The rankings are based on student ratings and reviews in 15 categories, including academic competitiveness, career support and financial aid.

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Sang M. Han, professor of chemical and biological engineering, is the new director of the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program, a collaboration between the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.

APPOINTMENTS Jeffrey Mitchell has been promoted to director of the university’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Mitchell, who holds degrees in economics and political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a

Claudia Barreto, professor of biology at the UNM Valencia branch, received the 2014 Community College Mentor Award from the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science. The organization recognizes outstanding individuals dedicated to excellence in science, mentoring and teaching. Manuel C. Molles, Jr., professor emeritus in the Department of Biology, was given the 2014 Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology

doctorate degree in geography from Clark University, joined BBER in 2003 as a senior research scientist.

Jeffrey Mitchell

Dorothy Anderson

Dorothy Anderson has been named the university’s vice president for Human Resources. Anderson, who was chosen after a national search, has 24 years of service in public education and human resources, including seven years in higher education. Her most recent appointment was as director of Human Resources Administration at New Mexico State University. John Quale has been named director of the architecture program in the School of Architecture and Planning. Quale, an expert in sustainable and affordable housing, comes to UNM from the University of Virginia, where he most recently served as director of the graduate architecture program.

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BY THE NUMBERS

Nuggets of University Trivia

265,000 360,000 Number of digital images, color and black-and-white slides and mounted photos illustrating the history of art and architecture from prehistory to the present in the Bunting Visual Resources Library

Number of mammal specimens – from bats and chipmunks to marmots and mice – in the collection of the Museum of Southwestern Biology – the fourth-largest collection in the world

62 Percentage of UNM grads receiving degrees since 1980 who live in New Mexico. Next in line: 4.6 percent live in California; 4.14 percent in Texas; 3.7 percent in Colorado; 3.2 percent in Arizona

ONE Number of recent freshmen from each of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming

1,509,943 Number of people entering and exiting university libraries in a year

Karen Alarid

Karen Alarid (’79 BAA), Albuquerque, is the UNM School of Architecture and Planning Distinguished Alumna for 2014-2015. Karen is the executive director of Capital for Albuquerque Public Schools, the 28th largest school district in the nation serving more than 90,000 students.

1980s Jay P. Jolly (’80 BA, ’83 MPA), Goodland, Kan., was named new CEO of La Familia in Santa Fe. Patricia Ann Bradley (’81 JD), Albuquerque, has opened a new law practice. Rebecca Ann Roh (’81 BA), Bosque Farms, N.M., was honored as the 2014 Professional Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women, the largest, most-recognized networking organization in the U.S. Roh owns Luminary Consultants. Kerry Neil Weems (’81 MBA), Fairfax Station, Va., has joined the board of directors for Targeted Medical Pharma, Inc. John C. Beeson (’82 MD), Santa Fe, N.M., is chief medical officer for Christus St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. Amy Seligmann Buesing (’82 BSPH), La Mesa, N.M., has been appointed to represent Las Cruces on the LifePoint Hospitals Patient and Family Advisory Board in the company’s efforts to involve patients in medical care decisions. John F. Davis (’82 JD), Placitas, N.M., is the judge for the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Division 7. Ronald Steven Moorehead (’82 BBA, ’95 MBA), Albuquerque, has been promoted by First Financial Credit Union to president and chief executive officer. James Gregg Bender (’83 PhD), Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., was appointed vice president, product development and manufacturing at Lion Biotechnologies, Inc., after more than 25 years of clinical development experience focused on cancer therapies, including tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Janine Celia Moss (’83 BS), San Rafael, Calif., is co-founder of Moss Wong Associates, a San Francisco-based, multidisciplinary architectural and interior design firm. Debra Arnold Riley (’83 BSPH), Artesia, N.M., is co-owner of Brown Drug in Artesia.

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Books by UNM Alumni

William Cather Hook: A Retrospective William Cather Hook (BFA ’71), Susan Hallsten McGarry and M. Stephen Doherty Fresco Books/SF Design, 2014 William Cather Hook, a master of acrylic landscapes, has gathered 200 of the more than 4,000 paintings he has made in his long career into a large-format retrospective. Full-page reproductions of landscapes from the Chama River Valley to Big Sur are creatively paired by editor Susan Hallsten McGarry with quotations from works by the painter’s ancestor, writer Willa Cather. McGarry and M. Stephen Doherty provide commentary and Hook, who lives and paints in Santa Fe, enlivens the book with personal stories and insights into his process. Accompanying an angular depiction of an alfalfa field in the village of Los Ojos, Hook writes, “The farther I travel down the painting path the more I want to simplify what I see.” About the author: Susan Hallsten McGarry is director of Plein-Air Painters of America and M. Stephen Doherty is editor of PleinAir Magazine.

Yoga For Lawyers

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Hallie N. Love and Nathalie Martin ABA Publishing, 2014

Clifton Snider (Ph.D. ’74) World Parade Books, 2012

Become a better lawyer, accomplish more in less time and feel better? Nathalie Martin, a professor at the UNM School of Law, teams with former lawyer and yoga therapist Hallie Love to produce an illustrated guide for practicing lawyers (and any other busy people) to de-stress and work more productively by integrating meditative techniques and therapeutic yoga stretches into their lives.

This collection of poetry runs almost 500 pages, a measure of the length of Clifton Snider’s career as a writer and also of his prolificacy. It seems as though Snider writes about everything – Lance Loud, Donna Summer, San Geronimo Feast Day, traveling with lovers, Mickey Mantle, Zuni fetishes, HIV tests, gay bashing, the Taos wind. This volume includes several of Snider’s earlier collections and serves as a sweeping introduction to the work of this acclaimed contemporary American poet.

About the authors: Nathalie Martin has been teaching at the University of New Mexico School of Law since 1998 and is the associate dean for faculty development. Hallie Love is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

How Chile Came to New Mexico Rudolfo Anaya (BA ’63, MA ’69, MA ’72) Illustrated by Nicolás Otero Translation by Nasario García (BA ’62, MA ’63) Rio Grande Books, 2014 Following up on their bilingual children’s book, “How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico,” Anaya, Otero and García turn to chile, the pepper that is a staple of the diets of Nuevo Mexicanos. Fighting river monsters, burning sand and an evil vulture, and aided by a helpful eagle, a young Pueblo Indian boy journeys to the land of the Aztecs to bring chile seeds to his people. His reward: the hand of a girl named Sage and a lifetime of food spiced with delicious red and green chile. About the author: Rudolfo Anaya is among the most beloved and decorated Hispanic writers today. Best known for his novel, “Bless Me Ultima,” Anaya has won the National Medal of Arts and is professor emeritus in UNM’s Department of English Language and Literature.

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About the author: Clifton Snider has taught in Southern California, primarily at Long Beach City College and at California State University, Long Beach, where he pioneered gay and lesbian literature studies in the English Department.

Power Branding: Leveraging the Success of the World’s Best Brands Steve McKee (MBA ’85) Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Steve McKee, who unlocks the secrets of how branding gives companies a competitive edge in his online “Power Branding” column for Businessweek, expounds further on his branding philosophy, using real-world examples ranging from to Tide to Listerine to Mountain Dew. “Of all the assets a company owns,” McKee writes, “its brand is its single most valuable.” In fact, he says, effective branding strategies can mean the difference between a startup fizzling and becoming the next big thing. About the author: Steve McKee is president of Albuquerque marketing firm McKee Wallwork & Company. He has written an online column for BloombergBusinessweek for the past 10 years and is the author of “When Growth Stalls.”

Two Hawk Dreams Lawrence L. Loendorf and Nancy Medaris Stone (MA ’91) Illustrated by David Joaquin University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Dianna L. Serio (’83 BA), Irvine, Calif., is vice president of enterprise data strategy at First American Financial Corporation.

Two Hawk, a young Shoshone boy, dreams of flying like a red-tailed hawk and helping his father hunt elk and sheep as he lives with his family in what will one day become Yellowstone National Park. The arrival of a hairy-faced stranger, a white man carrying a gun and bearing beads, presages changes to the family’s ways.

Andrea Mary Heckman (’84 MA, ’97 PhD), Taos Ski Valley, N.M., has directed and premiered the documentary film “Bön In Dolpo” exploring the story of one of the word’s oldest living religions.

About the authors: Lawrence Loendorf , an archaeologist and rock art researcher, is president of Sacred Sites Research. Nancy Medaris Stone, an anthropologist, is also a writer and editor.

Grandma’s Santo on Its Head Nasario García (BA ’62, MA ’63) University of New Mexico Press, 2013 The subtitle of Nasario García’s latest work on folklore is “Stories of Days Gone By in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico,” and that is what the book presents – a collection of folktales García heard as a little boy growing up in the village of Guadalupe in the Rio Puerco valley. La Llorona is one of the better-known tales, but García also entertainingly tells of the “evil eye,” the bride thief and Adelaida, the legendary rooster racer. Each chapter is presented in both English and Spanish. About the author: Nasario García is the author of many books, poems and stories that capture New Mexico’s folklore, customs and past. He lives in Santa Fe.

Forever We Serve R. Samuel Baty (BS ’60) iUniverse, 2012 The third installment in a continuing historical thriller finds American nurse Jennifer Haraldson engaged to U.S. Army intelligence officer Jack MacLaine and sent overseas to set up a mobile field hospital in South Korea at the start of the Korean War. Personal drama and romance are interwoven with real-life history and battlefield action in a mystery set during wartime. About the author: R. Samuel Baty spent 22 years in the United States Air Force. He has an M.S. in aerospace engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in engineering from UCLA. He lives in Albuquerque.

ATTENTION ALUMNI: If you have written a book, we’d like to read it and consider including it in Shelf Life in an upcoming issue of Mirage. Please send a copy to Kim Feldman, UNM Alumni Relations, 1 UNM, MSC01-1160, Albuquerque, NM 87113.

Delilah M. Montoya (’84 BAFA, ’90 MA, ’94 MFA), Houston, was featured in an exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. The exhibition showcased four of the photographer’s series: “El Sagrado Corazón” (the Sacred Heart); “La Guadalupana” (the Virgin of Guadalupe); “Women Boxers: The New Warriors” and “Sed: Trail of Thirst.” Richard J. Berry (’85 BBA), Albuquerque, is mayor of Albuquerque and one of the inaugural members of the Innovate Albuquerque board of directors. Rick Hendricks (’85 PhD), Las Cruces, N.M., presented a lecture at the Las Cruces Railroad Museum titled “Early History of Agriculture in the Mesilla Valley.” Susan Slater (’85 EDSPC), Palm Coast, Fla., has published “Rollover” with Poisoned Pen Press. Slater has two mystery series to her credit, one work of women’s fiction, two stand-alone novels, and a paranormal short story. Barbara J. Vigil (’85 JD), Santa Fe, N.M., is chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. She was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Spirit of New Mexico Awards luncheon. Dr. Jon Brian Bruss (’86 MD), Cincinnati, Ohio, is medical director of Medpace, Inc. He serves as a member of the advisory board for Aegis Therapeutics, LLC. He has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the University of Washington. Jamie Ann Silva-Steele (’86 BSN), Albuquerque, won the 2014 New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award. She is the president and CEO of the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center. She is credited with improving pediatric care throughout UNM Hospitals and extending interpreter services in the system. Keri Sutter (’86 BAFA), Albuquerque, was appointed one of 276 learning masters by Toastmasters International to reassess and update the communications and leadership curriculum for Toastmasters.

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Willow Jarosh (’03 BS), left, and business partner Stephanie Clarke, run C&J Nutrition and Instagram their healthy meals.

weeting What She’s Eating by Leslie Linthicum

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Bridget Smith Wilson (’87 MS, ’89 PhD), Albuquerque, directs the New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center at UNM. The center received a $12 million five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund operations through 2015.

Healthy eater Willow Jarosh leads by example Willow Jarosh had just finished a weekday lunch in her Upper East Side apartment in New York City, taking a break from working on a new cookbook to whip up some sautéed kale over red chile oats with a soft egg on top.

where they write the “Eat Clean” column. The two are in private practice in Manhattan, counseling clients on diet, and they consult with businesses looking to improve their employees’ health.

The meal looked picture perfect – deep green, nutty red and bright yellow– and so Jarosh shared it with the world, posting a photo of the dish on Instagram and sending out a link to her thousands of Twitter followers.

As if that’s not enough, they are teaming up on their first book, a cookbook for pregnant women. “The Healthy, Happy Pregnancy Cookbook” is due to be published by Demos Health later this year.

Jarosh, a registered dietician, has been sharing her daily diet via the Internet for several years now, trading off meal tweets with her business partner, Stephanie Clarke, at their Twitter handle @cjnutrition. It’s part of the 2003 UNM grad’s mission to show the world that it’s not difficult or time-consuming to cook fresh whole food and eat a healthy, balanced diet.

And last fall Jarosh shared a “Today Show” studio with hosts Hoda Kotb, Al Roker and Jenna Bush in a chatty threeand-a-half-minute segment focused on some of the healthiest, tastiest food products on grocery store shelves, as chosen by Self readers.

“We started the Twitter a few years ago just thinking it would be really fun to tweet out meals we were eating to give people ideas for things they could make that are not super time-consuming or super-elaborate or things you need a lot of gadgets or a gourmet kitchen to make,” Jarosh says. “I make almost all my meals at home and I definitely notice a difference in the way that I feel when I eat stuff that I make.” Since graduating from UNM with a B.S. in nutrition, Jarosh has carved out a national reputation in health and nutrition. She and Clarke are contributing editors at Self magazine,

While the former First Daughter sampled frozen yogurt, Roker munched on gluten-free frozen pizza and Kotb enjoyed sweet potato fries, Jarosh rattled off their nutritional benefits. “It was fun from start to finish,” Jarosh says. “They couldn’t have been any nicer.” Jarosh grew up in Silver City in a family that cooked and ate together. “My dad was always on breakfast duty. He makes a mean hash browns,” Jarosh says. “My mom was more into trying out new foods. We always had dinner together as a family and we always had breakfast sitting together at the table.” Her earliest cooking memory is of climbing on a stool in the kitchen and

Guy Carl Jackson (’87 BSCE), Albuquerque, has joined High Mesa Consulting Group. Everett Trollinger (’87 BSCE), Santa Fe, N.M., was honored by the U.S. Department of Energy with the Federal Project Director of the Year Award for his oversight of a $2 million project delivered on time and under budget. Patricia A. Combs (’88 MD), Los Alamos, N.M., will be practicing at Premier OB/GYN and Lea Regional Medical Center after 20 years in Los Alamos. Stephen Henry Lekson (’88 PhD), Boulder, Colo., is serving as curator of archaeology at the Museum of Natural History and professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado. He has directed more than 20 archaeological projects throughout the Southwest and is contributing editor for Archaeology magazine. Jennifer L. Stone (‘88 BA, ’91 JD), Albuquerque, is a director of the Rodey Law Firm and has received the highest Martindale-Hubbell peer rating after an extensive and confidential peer review by members of the bar and the judiciary.

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Kristine Wiest Webb (’88 MA, ’95 PhD) Jacksonville, Fla., was presented the 2014 Distinguished Professor Award during Fall Convocation at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Alan Reese Dils (’89 BBA), Albuquerque, retired after close to 30 years as UNM’s Men’s Tennis Coach. He is moving to UNM’s athletic administration, where he is taking a key role in fundraising for the completion of the school’s new McKinnon Family Tennis Center. Damon Paul Martinez (’89 BA, ’92 JD, ’93 MBA), Corrales, N.M., has been sworn in as New Mexico’s U.S. Attorney. Richard Stapp (’89 MSE), Arlington, Va., a retired Air Force brigadier general, has been appointed vice president of technology development for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.

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“I took an intro nutrition class and just felt like it combined biology and chemistry, the classes I really enjoyed, with cooking and education,” Jarosh says.

healthy eating experimenting with grinding up spices with a mortar and pestle. Jarosh thought she’d pursue a degree in economics until she happened upon a nutrition class and found her passion. “I took an intro nutrition class and just felt like it combined biology and chemistry, the classes I really enjoyed, with cooking and education,” Jarosh says.

“I always try for a high-fiber carbohydrate, some type of veggie and then some type of protein and healthy fat,” Jarosh says. “Balance is definitely a major guiding principal in determining what I’m going to combine to make a meal. And then time is definitely another factor that always comes in. And then just fun.”

That approach results in Instagram shots of spicy curry tofu and kabocha squash Jarosh made the most of her time at UNM. with red quinoa or pumpkin purée and She was a resident advisor in Alvarado and mashed pinto beans topped with sautéed Coronado halls, made lifelong friends – zucchini and kale pesto. including now-boyfriend Jared Thompson, Eating healthy doesn’t mean suffering: a 2005 grad – and was crowned Jarosh likes to focus on all the great things homecoming queen. available to eat, not on deprivation. Just Jarosh went on to Tufts University to look at the Instagram of her gluten-free pursue a master’s degree in nutrition vegan dark chocolate brownie topped with communications. She met Clarke there coconut milk yogurt, cacao nibs and the two launched C&J Nutrition. and toasted pecans. As Jarosh’s Instagram attests, hers is a Her Instagram album proves that it doesn’t clean, healthy, varied diet that relies on take hours over the stove or access to a a mix of vegetables, proteins, fruits gourmet kitchen to cook tasty, inventive and grains. meals. Her apartment’s kitchen is small

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– she has only 17 square feet of counter space – and that means she’s careful about acquiring kitchen gadgets. She toasts her bread the old-fashioned way, in a skillet, and likes to share pan space, sautéing her kale on one side of a frying pan and cooking her egg on the other. She’s also a fan of incorporating leftovers into meals. “It’s like having someone else do the cooking for you,” says the busy entrepreneur. And being healthy doesn’t mean always saying no to “bad” foods. In fact, Jarosh doesn’t believe in that approach. Her Instagram includes a photo of a box of doughnuts – doughnuts that she and her friends walked to Brooklyn to procure and that she thoroughly enjoyed sampling. “I really try to encourage people not to use the term ‘bad food,’” Jarosh says. “I really honestly don’t think there are bad foods. There may be foods that are not the right decision for you at that time or every day. I eat anything.” ❂

Margaret Anne Wienbar (’89 MS), Albuquerque, is executive director of HealthInsight New Mexico.

1990s Jean-Marc Daniel Grindatto (’90 BSCPE), Corrales, N.M., has been selected as CEO and president of the Sandoval Economic Alliance. Tania Susana Salgado (’90 BAA, ’96 MARCH), Denver, has started a new firm, “Handprint Architecture,” in Denver. Joseph R. Barr (’91 PhD), San Diego, Calif., is chief analytics officer for HomeUnion, an online real estate investment management firm. Lisa Ann Delpy (’91 PhD), Silver Spring, Md., is the director of the Masters of Tourism Administration and Sports Management programs at The George Washington University. Stephen Michael Quesada (’91 BSPH), Santa Fe, N.M., is the director of Pharmacy and Laboratory Services at Presbyterian Medical Services in Santa Fe. Michelle Nicole Pastel (’92 BSCPE), Horseheads, N.Y., has been elected secretary of the board of directors of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition. She is the manager of Measurements, Controls, and Systems Innovation in Corning’s Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division, Advanced Engineering Directorate.

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Willow Jarosh mak es healthy choice s by always having he althy foods on ha nd . These are her go -to foods: Some type of cook able leafy green. She loves kale, ar collards or spinach ugula, in her sauté pan. Canned beans. “T hey’re such a stapl e for me,” Jarosh “They make a he says. arty meal in a hurry . And they’re inexp ensive.” Eggs. “They’re su ch a good way to add protein.” Olive Oil Quinoa. “It’s the fastest grain to co ok. You’re done in minutes.” 10 Whole nuts Fresh fruit Peanut butter or almond butter Dark chocolate. “I eat a piece of

dark chocolate ev ery day.”

Mary Teresa Torres (’92 JD), Albuquerque, has been elected secretary of the National Bar Association. She will serve a three-year term. Beth Gillia (’93 MA, ’97 JD) Albuquerque, is the director of the Corinne Wolfe Children’s Law Center, which received the Outstanding Program Award from the State Bar of New Mexico. Patrick Raye James (’93 BA), Danville, Calif., is the chief operations officer of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions company in San Francisco. Jessica Montoya (’93 BA, ’96 JD), Alexandria, Va., was recognized by Latino Magazine as a “Power Player” lobbyist. She is vice president of government affairs and assistant general counsel of Sodexo and director of the Sodexo Foundation board of directors, focusing on programs to end childhood hunger. Kelly S. Smith (’93 JD), Santa Fe, N.M., has returned to New Mexico to work with the State Land Office. Todd Allen Resch (’94 BSED, ’97 MS, ’06 EDSPC), Albuquerque, oversees high school education at Albuquerque Public Schools, which includes 13 comprehensive high schools and 10 Schools of Choice. (continued, p. 27)

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Sandia Man

HARDY HIKER MAKES THE UPHILL CLIMB by Leslie Linthicum

Hammack was one of the early American rock climbers, tackling the Cathedral Spires, Royal Arches, Washington Column and other now-legendary rocks in Yosemite in the 1940s when climbers “Great day out here!” David Hammack said with the sunny disposition he brings wore tennis shoes, used hemp ropes and made their own pitons. After settling in to the trail two or three days a week. Corrales, Hammack began climbing the Wearing his green U.S. Forest Service rocky Sandias and established many of shirt, hiking pants and size 14 boots, Hammack was ready to make yet another the first routes up some of the mountain’s iconic craggy granite features – The La Luz trek. Thumb, The Needle, Yatagan. At 86, with an impressive resumé of Hammack, a 1961 University of New hiking, rock climbing and trail running Mexico graduate with a master’s degree that stretches back decades, Hammack in secondary education, has had a can’t say for sure how often he has laced lifetime of careers – chair of the science up and explored this mountain. He department at Menaul School, teacher guesses it’s been a few thousand times. at San Quentin prison, Presbyterian In the summer he dabs on sun screen minister, adobe home builder and and in the winter he straps on ice electrical contractor. He has five spikes. Whatever the weather, he keeps children with wife, Sondra, also a on climbing. UNM grad, and has always found time to get outside. “Thundershowers, intermittent rain — and especially when it’s snowing,” “I love the outdoors,” he said as he Hammack said. “That’s just fun.” trudged up La Luz, past piñons and cacti. It was cool and windy with the portent of rain at the bottom of La Luz, the hiking trail that zigzags up the western face of the Sandia Mountains.

Since 1994, Hammack has been a Forest Service volunteer, a “trail ambassador” for La Luz, which is one of the most challenging and most popular hiking routes in the Sandias. But he has been exploring the mountain since 1956 when he moved to New Mexico.

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“There’s the physical challenge of hiking and also all kinds of adventure.”

He’s summited Mt. Rainier in Washington and high peaks in Nepal and run the Grand Canyon rim to rim in six hours.

In his ninth decade, with a pacemaker and a metal right hip, Hammack takes a different pace now, but he hasn’t stopped reaching for summits. Last fall he made the trip to the top of 13,159-foot Wheeler Peak, New Mexico’s highest mountain. On his weekly La Luz hikes, he goes slow and steady and stops along the way to check in with hikers, ask them their destinations and give advice or warnings. Once every few weeks he aims for Sandia Peak’s 10,678-foot summit, something many people half his age can’t manage. And he revels in chatting with trail runners and rock climbers, a vicarious throwback to his younger glory years. “One of the frustrations is that I can’t do as much as I used to,” Hammack said as he reached a Ponderosa grove with a view out over the city, one of his favorite spots. “That’s age, I guess.” Instead of trying to beat the clock, he hikes now for the journey, not the destination, and so that others may enjoy the trail safely. Another hiker was coming down La Luz and Hammack got a weather report from further up the trail: temperatures just above freezing and sleet. Hammack clutched his hiking poles and pointed his boots uphill. “I think I’ll go a little farther,” he said. ❂

David Hammack (’61 MA) takes a break on La Luz, on one of his thrice-weekly hikes. Photos: Roberto E. Rosales (‘96 BFA, ‘14 MA)

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Jon Dunnum at the Museum of Southwestern Biology

UNM’s Connection to a Killer Bat and mice specimens from Zaire’s Ebola outbreak

Steven Bradfute

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Photos: Roberto E. Rosales

In a third-floor lab at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s Biomedical Research Facility, immunologist Steven Bradfute teases information out of Ebola genes, trying to find an effective vaccine against the deadly virus that has killed thousands in an epidemic in West Africa. Across campus, in the Museum of Southwestern Biology, mixed in among hundreds of thousands of mammal specimens, is a trove of bats and rodents collected from a previous Ebola outbreak. Preserved in fluid and in freezers, the animals are part of a scientific quest to identify what creature carries the terrifying virus and passes it to humans. And across the country, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a UNM alum is fighting Ebola on a different stage. The director of the CDC’s Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infection, Dr. Toby Merlin spends 14 hours a day in a buzzing emergency operations center, directing the defense to the virus’s intrusion in the United States. by Leslie Linthicum

Ebola, the hemorrhagic fever that has sparked fears of a global pandemic, was first identified in 1976 during an outbreak in the jungles of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, by a team from the CDC’s special pathogens laboratory.

understands the worry. Before coming to UNM four years ago, Bradfute was one of a small number of scientists in the world working with the live virus. As a researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., Bradfute went to work each day in a full body suit with an attached hood and air supply, protections against handling the virus, as he worked to understand how it so successfully shuts down the body’s immune response and how it might respond to vaccinations. Bradfute, a Portales native who studied political science as an undergrad before he discovered a love of biology, decided to devote his career to Ebola after receiving his Ph.D. because he recognized an opportunity to do groundbreaking work to combat a very dangerous and littleunderstood disease. “I thought, ‘You don’t get many opportunities like this,’” Bradfute says of the Fort Detrick offer. “The thing with Ebola is there’s so little known about it that it seemed like I could really try to discover something.” The risks were apparent: A needle stick through two layers of thick gloves could result in infection, and the death rate from the disease stands at about 70 percent.

Since coming to UNM, Bradfute has studied individual Ebola genes in his Dr. Karl Johnson, who established that laboratory and does no work with the lab and trudged through the jungle taking complete infectious virus. He can do his blood samples to identify and name what current research with normal latex gloves was then a mystery killer, provides another and in a white lab coat. UNM connection: he’s a former professor in both in the Department of Biology and His research still focuses on trying to understand how the virus immobilizes the the School of Medicine. body’s early immune response (one of the Under the microscope reasons it is so fatal) and on improving Ebola vaccines that have been found Since the first case was identified on effective in animal studies. U.S. soil in Dallas last fall, Ebola has become a household word, dominating news coverage and worrying health care workers and international travelers, those most likely to come in contact with what is still a rare disease. Bradfute, a research assistant professor at the Center for Global Health in the Department of Internal Medicine,

“Those vaccines all are focused on generating a response against a certain virus protein,” Bradfute says, “and so what I’m doing is modifying that protein to try to get better immune responses. I’m an immunologist, so a big part of that is trying to solve mysteries.”

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The race is on among scientists throughout the world to crack that code, and the disease’s current rampage through the countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone has only heightened the importance of work like Bradfute’s. But a vaccine against one or more types of Ebola – or better yet, a cure – are likely years away, he says. Bradfute, 38, has now been working with Ebola for a decade. “I try to look at the long view,” he says.

Fighting Ebola on U.S. soil Toby Merlin’s battle against Ebola is measured in days and hours, not years.

Toby Merlin

Since the disease’s most recent outbreak last spring – its 20th since it was discovered – the CDC had been aiding

West African nations in their response. And at the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta, Merlin had been making sure an accurate laboratory test for the disease was available throughout the United States, that state health departments were prepared and that the CDC had a command structure in place in the event of a U.S. outbreak. Merlin, who did his clinical pathology residency at UNM in the early 1980s and was the chief medical officer at Lovelace Health Systems in Albuquerque before joining the CDC, now divides his professional life into two phases – before Sept. 30, 2014, and after. That’s the day the CDC confirmed the first Ebola case in the U.S., in a Liberian man in Dallas. “My life changed radically,” he says. Overnight, Merlin moved from his office to the Emergency Operations Center on

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the CDC campus and became a key part of The CDC’s first responsibility is the health the largest team ever deployed by the CDC and safety of Americans, but Merlin says that’s a critical message. “We have an in response to an infectious outbreak. opportunity to stop this disease in Africa “It’s pretty crazy. Crazy busy,” Merlin and we’re not going to stop it in Africa says on a brief break from his breakneck schedule. “For a couple of weeks there,” he if we put impediments in the way of us working there,” he says. “We can do things says, “you’d work until 11 o’clock at night and think you’d be going to sleep and then that we think are going to make us safer and actually in the long term make you’d get called at 1 and work until 3 us less safe.” and go back to sleep and get up at 5 and go to work.”

The emergency operations center is a beehive of activity that Merlin says is effective but intense. “It’s a place of overwhelming visual and audio stimulation. Sometimes you’re just buzzing when you leave,” he says.

While it is much less easily spread than other common viruses, such as influenza or the common cold, Ebola presents a public health challenge because once it spreads it is much more deadly.

“Diseases like Ebola are very frightening to people,” Merlin says. “It’s a lethal disease and people are very afraid of contagion,

“We remain confident that Ebola is not a significant health threat to the United States.” Dr. Toby Merlin, director CDC’s Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infection.

When American health care workers began presenting with the disease, Merlin’s work turned to deploying the command structure to help manage the CDC response across the country. In public statements during the height of the U.S. outbreak, when nurses who treated the Dallas patient began to test positive for the disease, Merlin delivered a careful message that was both terrifying and reassuring. Testifying before a Congressional committee about the prospect of travel bans, Merlin called the disease “ferocious” and noted it was spreading exponentially in West Africa. But, he cautioned against panic. “We remain confident that Ebola is not a significant health threat to the United States,” he said.

very, very afraid of catching a disease from someone else or their environment. It’s really important for us to help people address the diseases that are really frightening to them, but it is frightening out of proportion to the risk, and in the long term, we as an agency need people to focus on the diseases that are the actual risk to their health.”

Cracking a mystery There’s nothing on the outside of a low-slung building on UNM’s campus to advertise the rich collection of biodiversity inside the Museum of Southwestern Biology. But in its drawers and preservation jars is the fourth-largest collection of mammal specimens in the world.

Steven Bradfute

Among the samples are jars filled with mice and trays of stuffed bats gathered in the 1990s during an Ebola outbreak in Congo. Fifteen different kinds of bats and hundreds of rodents were collected and tested by the CDC for Ebola, part of a scientific quest to find out which animal carries the virus and spreads it to humans. None of the specimens tested positive, but they joined hundreds of thousands of other specimens in storage where they serve as a baseline for researchers. Mammal curator Jon Dunnum points to the Hantavirus outbreak in the Southwest in the early 1990s as an example of the wisdom of that strategy. When that mystery disease began killing people and it was suspected mice might be a carrier, scientists went back through the museum’s archive of rodents from decades before. They tested their preserved tissue and

found the virus, solving the mystery of whether the virus had been present but previously undetected in the Southwest. The negative Ebola samples and the rest of the collection are examples of the slow and deliberative pace of science and its uncertainty, Dunnum says. “The vast majority of science today is dealing with change, and you’ve got to have baseline data,” he says. “In terms of viruses and emerging disease, this collection turns out to be really valuable. We’re talking about Ebola today, but down the road there will be an outbreak of something else.” When that “something else” arises – perhaps even a new type of Ebola – a specimen in the museum’s drawers or freezers might hold the key to the puzzle. Although Ebola has been identified for

more than 35 years since Johnson and his pathogens team discovered it in the jungle near the Ebola River, this is the first time it has spiraled out of control to cause widespread suffering in Africa and also cross the ocean to kill in this country. That has only served to focus the attention of those working on its containment and cure. For Merlin, there has been satisfaction is seeing his well-laid plans spring to life quickly in response to an unprecedented epidemic. For UNM’s Bradfute, there’s a renewed urgency. “You do your job. You go to work every day,” he says. But “this whole outbreak kind of refocuses you. This is not an academic issue. So it’s sobering. It makes you want to really hone the research and get results.” ❂

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Unlocking Ancient Mysteries

Jacqueline Kocer, at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, hopes to unlock the mystery of the Gallina people of northwestern New Mexico.

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Native New Mexican explores ancient culture By Rebecca Roybal Jones (’92 BA) Photos: Roberto E. Rosales

A picture posted on the University of New Mexico’s Facebook page features Jacqueline Kocer with one of her favorite pots. But for the dusty artifact she’s carefully holding in her hands, Kocer looks as though she’s ready for an evening out on the town – clad in a blue and black sleeveless dress, her hair long and flowing. But despite her fashion-model looks, Kocer, who is working on her doctorate in archeology, enjoys digging into the past – and letting her hands get dirty. Kocer, 31, recently was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship so that she can continue to sift through and examine artifacts of the people known as Gallina that date back to A.D 1050-1300.They are believed to have lived in a mountainous area northeast of Chaco Canyon before vanishing and they are one of the leaststudied cultures of the Southwest. For Kocer, a native New Mexican of mixed Hispanic and Oglala Lakota heritage, the study of outliers is a good fit. “I’m kind of a cultural hybrid myself and the topic of identity is of particular interest to me,” she says. “So I’m having fun with it.” Kocer grew up in Albuquerque, graduating from Eldorado High School in 2001, then heading to the University of California, Davis, on a soccer scholarship. After graduation, she entered a career in the world of finance, which she says she didn’t find fulfilling. And she had a passion that she’d buried. With her mixed racial background, she says she’d always been interested in identity. As a girl, she went on hikes with

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her dad and grandfather in New Mexico and South Dakota. “I’d see artifacts and thought they were cool,” Kocer says.

Kocer’s research explores such questions as whether the Gallina people shared common ways of building villages and crafting objects or whether they were Kocer says she’d always felt a pull toward more of a loosely affiliated group without archeology and so after three years, she any unifying cultural traditions. Did they cut her ties with the finance world and started taking classes to prepare to apply to interact with adjacent groups? And did graduate school. Her field classes took her those interactions influence the trajectory of Gallina identity? to Chadron, Neb., and to Alaska, where she was part of a field expedition studying “Few students have studied the Gallina 12,000-year-old early human occupations. and fewer yet come to these questions from the perspective of someone of “It was really cool,” she says. “I almost wanted to do Alaskan archeology. But my diverse background who is a native New Mexican,” Crown says. “Her research will passion is for Southwestern archeology.” unquestionably enhance our understanding Patricia Crown, distinguished professor of the history of New Mexico.” of anthropology at UNM and an expert Kocer finds the Gallina (which means in Southwestern archaeology, says that “chicken” in Spanish and “wild turkey” in Kocer’s background, paired with her New Mexico’s Spanish vernacular) to be curiosity and determination, is what intriguing. She’s discovered in her research makes her an asset to the department. that they have not been officially claimed “She is determined to examine the as ancestors by a native nation. Instead, archaeology of the Gallina in detail to she says, others considered them to be understand the nature of interaction “ancient enemies and even witches.” within this group and between the Gallina and surrounding peoples, including those This conclusion is drawn by the lack of evidence of trading between the Gallina occupying Chaco Canyon,” Crown says.

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and their neighbors. Despite their proximity to Chacoans, who planted corn widely, Kocer says the Gallina consumed only “marginal amounts of corn.” Instead, she says, they seem to have subsisted off of wild game, such as elk and deer. Another mystery is how the Gallina got their name. Two possibilities exist: the “culture area” is near the town of Gallina, and there are lots of turkeys in the area. Bottom line, she says: “I’m not sure why. That link is not really clear (for) the Chicken People.” The Gallina were first noted in the 1930s by Frank Hibben, the longtime UNM professor for whom UNM’s archeology center is named. Other archeologists have studied the Gallina over the decades but as a group, “they haven’t been fully examined,” Kocer explains. Her research on the Gallina so far is all based on artifacts Hibben dug up decades ago. Various archaeologists have excavated in past years, and she will “have to show a compelling reason to dig in the future.”

LeManuel (Lee) Bitsóí (BS ’95), Cambridge, Mass., is the first director of the Office of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Rush University.

LeManuel (Lee) Bitsóí elected to serve on the board of directors of the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The center is the nation’s second oldest and third largest LGBT community center and does work to achieve its twin goals of promoting LGBT health and human rights.

Abraham De La Cruz (‘97 BBA), San Diego, Calif., was recently

Abraham De La Cruz

Susan Kathleen Herrera (’97 BUS), Embudo, N.M., has retired as CEO of Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation after helping to found the organization in 1998. Kyle V. Lee (’97 MBA), Albuquerque, is the chief operating officer of Voxox, a cloud-based rich communication service.

Kocer studies artifacts left by the Gallina people, including this animal jawbone.

Kocer’s access to the tools and technology that Hibben and others couldn’t even have fathomed have allowed her to characterize materials based on elements. She uses statistical analysis to quantify variability on all the measurements she’s taken. Obsidian arrowheads can be sourced back to a particular volcano using X-ray fluorescence, and the same technique is used to understand the clay used to craft the vessels, she says. What fascinates her are the cooking pots that were nestled in hearths during cooking. Oxidation patches and sooting patterns were found on the bases of globular and conical vessels, she says. “Within the Gallina, they were using vessels differently than other tribes,”

she says. While some Gallina vessels are cone-shaped, the “Chacoans don’t have any conical vessels,” Kocer says. She’s also examined the Gallina arrowheads and measured their attributes. In addition to the vessels and projectiles, her study includes Gallina jewelry, Kocer says. Seashell-like charms with holes for twine were made from alabaster. Technology, Kocer says, has helped her to examine Hibben’s findings through a completely different lens, using new tools to unlock old mysteries. “There’s so much that hadn’t been done (with the artifacts),” she says. “Technology helps to improve understanding at a higher resolution.” ❂

Tina L. Newby (’97 BAED), Los Lunas, N.M., was honored with the Mountain Plains Adult Education Association Award of Excellence for her significant contributions to adult education. Katrina Hart Parks (’97, BAFA), Los Angeles, is the director and producer of “Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound,” a documentary film featuring the pioneering Harvey Girls. Damon Chronis (’98 BBA), Dallas, was honored with the 2014 Ryan Chairman’s Award by Ryan, a leading global tax services firm with the largest indirect and property tax practices. Patrick W. Gallagher (’98 BA), Plano, Texas, Damon Chronis has started a second career as a police officer. After retiring as a technology executive, at age 57 he will begin service as an officer in the Addison, Texas, police department. He also serves on the Plano City Council. Rochelle Begay (’99 ASNU, ‘05 BSN), Crownpoint, N.M., is the nurse manager of the Gallup Quick Care Clinic. (continued, p. 33)

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Workers outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, finish dying one of Weissmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large rugs. Photo: Chosang Tenzing.

Weaving Her Own Path By Carolyn Gonzales (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;96 BA)

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Joan Weissman

Pursuing a University Studies degree in UNM’s University College in the early 1970s, Joan Weissman designed her own course of study. A Los Angeles native and transfer student from the University of California, Berkeley, Weissman found the freedom of the degree a perfect fit.

Weissman designed Albuquerque’s Nob Hill gateways at Central and Girard and Central and Washington. Installed in 1993, the gateways are abstract tile structures with white stucco, numerous colored tiles and neon.

Sherri Brueggemann, the public art program manager for the City of Albuquerque and a professor of practice in the UNM College of Fine Arts, says For her, that meant taking art history, anthropology and literature, but none of the Weissman’s aesthetic is distinctly her own and transfers well into public art. technical courses that are building blocks for an art career. “Joan’s imagery and style are consistent and uniquely hers,” Brueggemann says. Luckily for her and for the art world, she “Her ability to translate her design work to found a mentor in Carl Paak, a UNM various media – terrazzo, ceramic, weaving ceramics teacher. – is amazing.” “Even after I decided not to pursue a Today, Weissman is known for large floor graduate degree, I took a one-credit nonpieces, either polished stone or weavings. degree course and he gave me access to Her designs can be seen on the UNM a studio,” she says. “He set me up for life. campus in the Center for the Arts, in I loved him.” “I knew I wanted to be a potter,” she says, “and I created my own track.”

Since then, she’s sculpted her own path, pursuing a career that has taken her across the world and across many media while allowing her to devote her energies to art full time. “I’ve been an independent self-supporting artist since my twenties,” says Weissman, whose studio in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill is only a short walk from the UNM campus where her art training began. Despite an early fascination with the potter’s wheel, Weissman discovered limitless possibilities in molded clay. The earth from which it came provided her with textures, patterns, designs and inspiration. She teased designs into it. She created weighty pieces and porcelain. She made vases and vessels of various shapes and sizes. Not restrained by the function of the piece, Weissman was challenged by it. “Handles, spouts and other considerations inspired unconventional solutions,” she says. But Weissman changed her approach when she started to get commissions to create public art pieces. “It kicked me out of the habit of creating small pieces for galleries in favor of largescale tile murals,” she says.

complete switch,” she says. “With ceramics, I made everything – from a commission for a public art piece to a gallery item or a piece someone bought – all were made by my two hands.” With rugs, however, Weissman designed the pieces, but weavers made them. Many of her designs are outsourced to Tibetan weavers living in Nepal. Weissman designed rugs for the area in front of the University Art Museum and Keller Hall, but because of heavy foot traffic the carpets got dirty, leading to another artistic transformation for Weissman. “I took the rugs out, cut them into 20 pieces, got them cleaned, bound and sold them as small souvenirs,” she says. “I then updated and recreated the rugs’ design in terrazzo.” Weissman enjoys working with terrazzo, which is a composite material of marble, quartz, granite, glass or other stones or

“Joan’s imagery and style are consistent and uniquely hers,” Brueggemann says. “Her ability to translate her design work to various media – terrazzo, ceramic, weaving – is amazing.” Albuquerque’s Hotel Andaluz and Parq Central and in Asheville, N.C.’s US Cellular Center, among other venues. The artist’s transition from ceramics to floors wasn’t as strange as it may seem. “The vocabulary is the same, but the medium has changed,” Weissman says. “It still has a botanical, organic abstraction to it, whether in ceramic or wool.” Her studio today is filled with colored yarns and rug samples. “I really like the function of applied arts,” she says. “I started with canvas floor cloths – like making your own linoleum. I enjoyed making them. It was a transition out of ceramics.”

chips. The aggregates are poured into epoxy material – which already has the base color. Once polished, the colors of the various materials shine. “It can be artistic or plain, but it isn’t much more expensive to make it artistic,” Weissman. “It compares to mosaic and marble, but it is more cost-effective, and maintenance-free. It suits many different design styles.” With an impressive portfolio of pottery, terrazzo and weaving, Weissman, 63, has found a comfortable perch.

“Working as an artist means always asking people to pay attention to you – see your Not interested in the craft circuit, Weissman work, check out the brochure, come to an opening,” she says. “Now I don’t need to ask started researching rug-weaving. “It was a people to pay attention to me anymore.” ❂

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Isaac AlaridPease Maya and Athena Combs-Hurtado

Kelly Haddad Provost Chaouki Abdallah

What’s the value of a college education? It takes only a dive into U.S. Census Bureau findings or an analysis of earnings data to answer the question of whether investing time and money in a college degree pays off. The short answer is yes. Despite the rising costs of college and a struggling economy, national studies continue to conclude that college graduates do better economically over their lifetimes than those who do not attend or graduate from college. The latest numbers come from a Brookings Institution affiliate: an American with a high school diploma earns on average $580,000 in his or her lifetime, compared

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“I’ve been thinking a lot about this because it’s not unlike asking whether water is more valuable than diamonds,” Abdallah says. “Diamonds are rare. Water is abundant. Diamonds costs more. But water is a lot more useful: we won’t miss it until it’s gone.”

The 2014 Brookings Institution study evaluating the earning power of various academic majors ranked fine arts in the bottom tier along with music, drama, theology, elementary education and social work.

UNM wouldn’t be doing its job if it only turned out intellectual baristas who followed their bliss during college but graduated unprepared to work, Abdallah acknowledges. But he worries about a society that looks only at the bottom line.

After he married and eventually became the father of three young sons, AlaridPease knew he had to earn more. But instead of turning away from the arts, he decided to double down, pursuing a master’s degree in art education at UNM in hopes the credential would make him a more attractive candidate for teaching jobs.

“If you spend 100 K on your education and you end up not getting a job and not

DOLLAR$ AND SENSE with the $1.19 million taken in by the college grad. In those calculations is a bitter pill for the arts and humanities: Only certain college degrees – pharmacy, engineering, business – are the really big economic winners. As college costs rise and families weigh the burden of college debt in an uncertain job market, evaluating a college education in terms of future earning potential has become the conversation du jour in higher education. “It’s the current conversation, but is it the right conversation?” asks UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah. “I think not, in general. I think it reduces the degree to one of the things that it does for you – basically economic wealth.” Abdallah points to all of the other benefits of an education – learning critical thinking, practicing working in teams, challenging assumptions, getting along with others in a diverse community and experiencing the deep pleasure of understanding how the world works – as just as important as training for a specific high-paying career.

earning a living, then we’re probably not doing right by the citizens of the state,” Abdallah says. “At the same time, if all we care about is economics, then the degree is not really a worthy thing to have. We won’t miss education until we’re no longer educating, until we’re doing just things to train people for a job.”

Expanding worlds Isaac AlaridPease arrived at UNM in 1994 from Barranca, a little village in Georgia O’Keeffe country near Abiquiu. He had a Presidential Scholarship that paid most of his costs and only a vague idea of why he was there.

He got his degree in 2013 and took a job at the Media Arts Collaborative Charter School, where he now teaches part time while also painting large, exuberant acrylicon-wood pieces that he calls abstract impressionist folk art. Despite having student loans now, the financial gamble paid off. But AlaridPease found more than financial returns in college.

“It was so enriching for me,” he says. “The intellectualism of it, finding enjoyment in reading and learning a way of thinking, It’s a tough place for kids to be in today because of the expense, but it’s so important in your development, hugely important. “As an undergrad I had a nebulous sense You just have all of these people with that I wanted to be an artist or a cartoonist,” such different views and coming from AlaridPease says. “When you’re 18, you significantly different cultural backgrounds don’t really know what you want to do.” and you’re all together and you can’t help but grow. Your world expands.” He studied color and technique in the Department of Fine Arts, where he learned how to really see things. When he graduated with a BFA in 1998 he was the clichéd starving artist – working as store clerk, sandwich maker, bartender and cook.

Bottom lines The broad beginnings of the college education that now is seen as a ticket to prosperity began with open-air lectures

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from sandaled philosophers and sophists – Plato, Socrates and Aristotle – holding forth in the Lyceum in classical Athens. It continued with the systemic study of grammar, rhetoric and logic for free men in the Roman Empire. While awarding college degrees is a more recent development that dates only to the late Middle Ages, the ideal of a liberal education that provides the skills necessary to take an active role in civic life has flourished uninterrupted for centuries. Today, it remains a fairly efficient means of taking a teenager and four or five years later turning out a citizen. “It’s still the best way to get people out of poverty and to get people in the world to solve problems that are not going to be solved by praying and simply wishing for a better day,” Abdallah says. It’s often said that a college degree is the only investment you can never sell. But if there was a market, some degrees would fetch much more than others. A recent study by UNM’s Bureau of Business & Economic Research dug into wage records to determine the real-world financial benefits of different UNM degrees. Using data from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, the study produced a picture of the earning power of graduates in various majors over a five-year period ending in 2012. The highest earners right out of school were graduates of the College of Pharmacy, averaging $160,000 a year. Engineers and MBAs were, not surprisingly, also top earners.

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At the other end of the spectrum were UNM graduates with education, arts and sciences, fine arts and University College degrees. While nearly every graduating class in every degree category earned more than the average New Mexican, a few didn’t. Provost Abdallah knows firsthand the power of certain college degrees to change a family’s economic status. One of eight children of a stonemason in a small town in Lebanon, he was encouraged to go to college by his mother, who hadn’t gone beyond elementary school but understood that professional degrees were the key to prosperity. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech while his siblings also found well-compensated careers they enjoy. “Four engineers, one architect, one M.D., one pharmacist and one lawyer,” Abdallah says.

A stable career Maya and Athena Combs-Hurtado, young fashionistas interested in design, signed up for the wrong computer-aided drafting class when they were students at Albuquerque’s Valley High School. They thought they were enrolling in an architecture course, only to find out they would be studying engineering. The mistake turned out to be a happy one. The twins found a discipline that married their interests in math and science and design. Today they are on track to graduate in December from UNM’s School of Engineering, both with degrees in mechanical engineering. As co-presidents of the university’s chapter of Hispanics in Engineering and Sciences Organization, they are well aware of the economic benefits that await them as newly minted engineers.

“I would be a fashion designer or an artist or something if it was economically stable,” But the world can’t only be made up of Athena says. “I mean, I love design. But lawyers, doctors, pharmacists and engineers. engineering is much more stable. It’s not Abdallah says it’s a university’s duty to like I picked it just because it’s stable. recognize economic realities without being That’s really great, but it has all those seduced only by the bottom line. elements I like.” “What’s happening if we say these college The 21-year-olds are using the Lottery degrees are more valuable than these other Scholarship to pay for tuition and they live college degrees?” he asks. “Well, what we’re at home. Scholarships cover the costs of telling people is these are the things you their books, and summer internships – at need to do in order to be middle class. Chrysler, OSO BioPharmaceuticals and That’s OK in principle, except now the Eclipse Aviation – have even allowed people who can become the philosophers, them to put a little money in the bank. the thinkers, the artists, may be only the It all fits perfectly with the college-as-aones who can afford to, which is not the credential model, but the twins don’t look way this country’s education system at it that way. was built.”

Both sisters intend to pursue master’s degrees and maybe even Ph.D.s and Maya wants to also get an MBA. But they look at those degrees as tools for more interesting and rewarding jobs, not necessarily more lucrative ones.

“I can’t lie; that was a very motivating factor,” says Haddad, now a pharmacist at an Albuquerque Walgreens. But for her it’s a happy coincidence that a job she’s passionate about was also a good economic bet.

“I’m not the kind of person to do that,” Maya says. “I understand that you have to have things in your life that are stable, but I also have to do things for me. We’re lucky because we found something we like.”

The only other job she could imagine is less practical. “I’ve always said I wish I could just be a professional student,” Haddad says. “I wish someone would just pay me to be in school, because I could just do that forever.”

‘Education is never wasted’ Kelly Haddad graduated from Albuquerque Academy in 1995 knowing exactly what she wanted to do – follow in her father’s footsteps and become a lawyer.

She had been working all throughout school as a pharmacy technician and realized she liked a lot of aspects of pharmacy – science, problem solving and dealing with people. So Haddad applied for UNM’s doctorate in pharmacy program and in 2007 received her PharmD., joining the ranks of some of UNM’s most affluent graduates.

Larry C. McNeil (’99 MFA), Boise, Idaho, a photographer, has work on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

2000s Mark A. Koski (‘00 BS, MS ‘03), Indianapolis, Ind., is the director of sports, events and development for the National Federation of State High School Associations, the national governing body for high school sports and activities, with more than 19,000 high schools and 11 million student participants.

“They make you get your feet wet in everything and that’s brilliant,” says Haddad, now 38. “When you’re in college you think you know who you are but you’re just finding out.”

“I was very goal-oriented and so that was a hard decision,” she says. “I had to admit, ‘You know, this just isn’t what I’m passionate about.’”

Elaine Carey (’99 PhD), Albuquerque has a new book, “Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime,” published by UNM Press.

Stephen Eric Williams (’99 BAA, ’02 MARCH), Albuquerque, has been promoted by Greer Stafford/SJCF Architecture to partner.

She spent a year at Colorado College, putting in a little too much time on the ski slopes before her parents brought her home and she enrolled at UNM. She took a broad array of classes, enjoying economics, creative writing and even racquetball while earning a double major in psychology and criminology.

Haddad followed her plan right up through the first year of law school when she got a surprise: She didn’t want to be a lawyer.

Marlene Laura Brown (’99 MS), Albuquerque, was selected as one of Albuquerque Business First’s 2014 Women of Influence. She was named “Solar Hero” in Solar Today magazine and has been listed as one of the top 10 women in renewable energy in Petroleum World magazine.

Mark A. Koski

Christopher Glenn Padilla (‘00 BS), and Stephanie Ashley (Baldwin) Padilla (‘09 BS), Albuquerque, have opened Padilla Family and Cosmetic Dentistry in Albuquerque.

Kelly Haddad

And when she looks back on her pre-law education, she doesn’t find a minute of it was wasted. “Everything I’ve learned – all those classes, all those lessons – I can apply them in daily life,” Haddad says. “Education is never wasted. If anyone has the opportunity, gosh, you’ve got to take it. You never know where it’s going to lead. It’s that investment in yourself, more than anything.” ❂

Nelson Capitan (’01 BA), New Laguna, N.M., won a 2014 New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award for his work bringing science to Native American children. Denise M. Chanez (’01, BA, ’06 JD), Albuquerque, of the Rodey Law Firm, has been re-elected president of the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association. Chanez has been serving in that capacity since July 2013. Cambria Happ (‘01 BS), Washington, D.C., is director of the Master of Science in Project Management degree program at The George Washington University.

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New Name for The Pit, Same High Expectations By Richard Stevens As the men’s and women’s basketball teams were preparing for the start of Mountain West play in December, their storied arena got a new name. In a $5 million deal – the largest ever in Lobo athletics – start-up pizza chain WisePies bought the naming rights to University Arena. The deal officially changes the name of University Arena to WisePies Arena, but only time will tell if it has much effect on the rowdy, loud stadium’s beloved nickname: The Pit. If you have ever sat in The Pit and listened to the roar of thousands descending down on the Lobos – or maybe the enemies of Lobos – you understand only a little bit of the pressure that noise represents to Yvonne Sanchez and Craig Neal.

“There is a great responsibility that comes with this job,” says Sanchez, an Albuquerque native who took over as head coach of the women’s team in 2011. “There always is the pressure to succeed for your team and even for yourself as a coach,” she says. “But you are always aware of how much Lobo basketball means to our state. That pressure is always there, too.” Neal, in his second season as men’s head coach, says the responsibility that comes as a keeper of The Pit’s keys is “just Lobo basketball.” “We have special fans here that help make Lobo basketball so unique and so special,” Neal says. “When you become a basketball coach here, there is pressure and expectations and you don’t want it any other way. There is a special basketball culture here, and this culture expects us to win.”

University of New Mexico basketball isn’t simply a game of Xs and Os – or dunks and layups – that puts numbers on a scoreboard. Lobo basketball is the In the 2014-15 season, Neal takes to the extension of a city, a community, a state and court without three of the more heralded a culture. It has deep, time-tested roots. players in Lobo history: Kendall Williams, Sanchez and Neal understand this passion, Alex Kirk and Cameron Bairstow. Williams is playing European ball. Kirk and Bairstow this love, this riveting link. are running the courts of the NBA. Coach Craig Neal

But that doesn’t mean Lobo fans don’t expect the Lobos of 2014-15 to win big. Neal expects the same thing. The challenge for Neal is putting together so many new pieces of the Lobo puzzle and finding enough of that winning formula to challenge for the Mountain West title and postseason play. It’s what the culture swirling around Lobo men’s basketball expects. It is what Neal expects. However, he won’t have an easy season. UNM lost 61.6 percent of minutes played in 2013-14, 73.5 percent of the scoring and 69.2 percent of the rebounding. Neal has some holes to fill, but he is not looking for excuses or lowering the expectations for his program. “We go into every season trying to win championships,” Neal says. “What I want from this team is for them to play as hard as they can, play as smart as they can, and play together as much as they can. “We need some guys to seize their moment. There is a lot of opportunity out there, but there is a difference between being aware of your opportunity and doing the work necessary to grab that opportunity. Everyone will get a chance early. A few positions will either be by committee, or maybe by one guy who steps up and seizes it and runs with it.” Coach Sanchez enters the 2014-15 women’s basketball season returning a lot of talented Lobos but without senior center Ebony Walker, who was dismissed early in the season. Sanchez is looking to return her program to the glory days of yesteryear. The Lobos have not been to the NCAA Tournament since 2008. That was the last year in a string of eight NCAA trips that ran from 1998 to 2008 under longtime coach Don Flanagan.

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Howard Jow (’01 BSCS), Glendale, Ariz., demonstrated FAA, EASA and ANAC certification authorities regarding next generation Flight Management System for the Embraer 170/ Embraer 190 series of aircraft in Brazil. He has also worked with Eclipse Aviation and Honeywell. Antoine S. Predock (’01 HOND), Albuquerque, recently completed the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Built at a cost of $350 million, the 260,000 square-foot museum is dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights. Predock was chosen from among design entries from 64 countries. Stacy L. Washington (’01 BBA), Albuquerque, is the UNM Summer Youth Sports Program director and is head coach for football and track at Highland High School. Byron Davis Bluehorse (’02 BUS, ’05 MCRP), Fairbanks, Alaska, is an assistant professor of Tribal Management at UAF Interior-Aleutians Campus. He received the 2014 Dan Moreno Award presented by the Alaska Mobility Coalition for his significant contributions supporting and developing tribal transportation across the state of Alaska. Mateo Delgado (’02 BA, ’05 JD), El Paso, Texas, is an assistant district attorney for the 34th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. He was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities. Dana L. Kleinman (’02 MFA), Albuquerque, and her sister, Ruth Avra, have a collaborative exhibit, “Land Lines,” in the Grand Bohemian Gallery at El Monte Sagrado Resort & Spa in Taos.

Coach Yvonne Sanchez

Sanchez is coming off a 2013-14 season (11-19) in which her Lobos went 3-12 in games decided by eight points or fewer. But the fourth-year coach also knows that the returning Lobos learned a lot in those “almost” wins. “We offer absolutely no excuses for anything — we just don’t,” Sanchez said. “We had to get a little tougher last year. We had to finish games. But at the same time, we got a little smarter.

we have to continue to bring them up. Our kids are ready for a new beginning.” A new beginning for both Sanchez and Neal is influenced by the past. The expectations for tomorrow are similar to the expectations of yesterday – but are fans ever satisfied? And don’t coaches and players want to reach further and further for those carrots of success dangling just beyond their fingertips?

There are bright lights, victories and new “I don’t want to put too much emphasis on horizons dancing in the dreams of all last year and what we did or didn’t do. It’s a Lobos. It’s just the way it is. Now, Sanchez, new team it’s a new era for us. We learned Neal and their Lobos will reach out and from those losses. I don’t necessarily think see what they can grasp. ❂ Follow the Lobos’ season at GoLobos.com

Miriam Lund (’02 MA), Silver Spring, Md., serves as an education specialist, for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is a program officer for the “Race to the Top” Early Learning Challenge Grant Program. Angie Wilcox (‘03 BAED), Redwood City, Calif., is assistant dean in the Student Affairs division at Stanford University after 11 years in Student Life at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She recently completed two terms on the board of directors for the UNM Alumni Association.

Angie Wilcox

Jason Wray Brooks (’05 BA), Blair, Neb., is a staff reporter with the Newton Daily News.

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UNM PEOPLE CHANGING WORLDS Unexpected Fellowship How a UNM president forever changed the life of a young Frenchman. By Carolyn J. C. Thompson

Like most parents, Edmond and Alice Melville insisted that their son, Phillip, go to school and study hard. Easier said than done, given that the family (then known as Meyer) was living in France in the early 1940s, under Nazi occupation. As the war unfolded, it would take a strong belief in the power of education, some remarkable New Mexico connections and the efforts of a generous university president to put their son on a path toward a college degree and save the lives of the entire family. Born into a bourgeois Parisian family in 1922, Phillip and his sister, Francine, knew that learning was of highest importance to their parents.

our grandparents’ home in Charente, back to school I went! But I knew I was lucky. Even though it was wartime, I was able to sit for and pass my graduation exams.” But as the war progressed, so did the danger. By 1941, his father became determined to get the family to the U.S., to a place he knew about called New Mexico. “My Uncle Leopold Meyer had left France for the U.S. sometime around 1904 and ended up in Albuquerque,” Melville says. “Even with the great distance, my father and uncle had remained close. So Father wrote to ask for help in getting us out of France.

“My father was a successful stockbroker, and both of my parents were free thinkers,” Phillip Melville recalls today. “They were extremely liberal, and committed pacifists. They made it clear that going to school was our first priority. We had a very good childhood, and then came Hitler.” When war was declared in 1939, Melville’s father expected Paris to be bombed, so the children were sent to a family farm in the countryside. “The first thing that happened when I got to Normandy, was that I had to enroll in school,” Melville recollects with a smile. “When we relocated again to

Phillip Melville (center) and his parents, Alice and Edmond, at their home in Albuquerque in 1944. (Photo: Courtesy Anne Hemmendinger)

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“Three things had to come together: We needed exit visas to leave, transport across the Atlantic and permission to enter the U.S. Transport was possible through Portuguese contacts, since Portugal remained neutral during the war and also was strongly against Nazi Germany’s actions. Uncle Leopold worked with the Americans to secure entry visas.” But a problem arose: While everyone else in the family was granted papers to leave, Phillip, who was of military age, was denied. In France, young men were being conscripted by the Nazi occupiers for their war effort.

UNM President James Zimmerman (Photo: Courtesy of UNM Archives) DonTrell Moore (’05 BA), Albuquerque, is the Lobo football analyst for KKOB-AM’s UNM games broadcasts. Moore was one of the premier running backs in the nation during his Lobo football career (2002-2005) and the most productive rusher in New Mexico and Mountain West Conference history. Amanda Kane (’06 BA), Santa Fe, N.M., is now a registered contract advisor for the Canadian Football League Players Association.

“My father called us together and said, ‘We are either all going, or we are all staying,’” Melville recalls. “He again wrote to Uncle Leopold, who happened to have made acquaintance with the president of the University of New Mexico. My uncle decided to take a chance.” Leopold called on President James Zimmerman and explained the situation. Zimmerman was impressed with the tenacity Phillip had demonstrated by earning his French baccalaureate against such odds. Touched by the story, Zimmerman was determined to help. He promised Leopold, “We will try to save this young man.” “I can still see the letter President Zimmerman wrote on my behalf,” Melville recalls. “It had a red ribbon, gold stamp, and the university seal. It was in English, and it said, ‘This is to inform you that Phillip Meyer has been granted a full fellowship to the University of New Mexico.’” Phillip’s father took that letter to the Vichy government in one last attempt to gain permission for his son to leave. This time permission was granted. By late spring 1942, the family, having changed their name to Melville, was headed to a new life in the U.S. “When we arrived at the train station in Albuquerque and saw the Native Americans on the platform, I knew my world had changed forever,” Melville says.

“At that moment, my father and Uncle Leopold turned to me and said, ‘The first thing you are going to do is pay a visit to President Zimmerman to thank him.’” “I was a little scared when we went to his office,” Melville admits. “The first thing Uncle Leopold said to President Zimmerman was, ‘Here is the young man whose life you saved,’ and I knew it was true.” Zimmerman asked Melville about his plans. “I said I wanted to become a civil engineer, and that I was also going to sign up for the draft and get a job.” Melville chuckles. “And so I cleaned classrooms at night for 45 cents an hour.” Melville entered UNM that fall as a junior and graduated in 1944 with a degree in engineering. He went on to become an American citizen and earn a master’s degree and Ph.D. Today, nearly 72 years after that meeting with Zimmerman, Melville still wells with emotion at the memory. “I was a complete stranger, but President Zimmerman understood what I was up against and immediately took action to help,” Melville says. “I am forever grateful for his kindness and brave generosity. Quite literally, he saved my life.” ❂

Darrell P. Garcia (’07 MA, ’12 MBA), Albuquerque, is the senior alumni relations officer for UNM’s Anderson School of Management. Othiamba M. Umi (’07 BA, ’10 JD), Albuquerque, has joined Think New Mexico as field director. Sandra Williams (’07 BBA), Albuquerque, serves The Private Client Group of U.S. Bank in New Mexico in the Albuquerque office. Wesley Chenault (’08 PhD), Richmond, Va., is a certified archivist and head of special collections and archives at Virginia Commonwealth University’s James Branch Cabell Library. William R. Consuegra (’08 JD), Santa Fe, N.M., received an AmeriCorps Alumni National Leadership Award from President Barack Obama as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the national service program. He was one of 20 recipients nationwide. Erin D. Muffoletto (’08 BA), Albuquerque, is the Business Advocacy and Leadership director for the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. She is also a “Forty Under 40 Recipient” and is developing a resource website for the Government Relations Association of New Mexico. Margarita A. Chavez (’09 BUS, ’13 MS), Washington, D.C., has been selected as a 2014-15 Health Graduate Fellow by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Daniel P. Roberts (’09 BA), Los Alamos, N.M., has been selected commander of the Army National Guard 1209th Area Support Medical Company. This deployable medical unit responds to natural and man-made disasters throughout New Mexico.

A version of this article first appeared in the UNM Foundation’s Developments newsletter. Liz Earls

Liz Earls (’09 BBA, ‘12 MBA), Albuquerque, joined The Private Client Group of U.S. Bank in New Mexico as an assistant relationship manager.

SPRING 2015

Alumni Outlook UNM Alumni Association 2015 Travel Program ALUMNI HOLIDAYS Ireland May 31 – June 10 Tuscany (Alumni College) June 3 – 11 GONEXT TRAVEL Baltic Marvels August 19 – 27 Sea of Antiquity (Mediterranean cruise) September 21 – October 4 Old-Fashioned Holidays in the South December 5 – 10 This is a preliminary schedule. Trips, dates and pricing are subject to change. For additional information, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866.

View online: UNMAlumni.com/Travel

Events Calendar FEBRUARY

February 25 February 27 February 27 February February

Washington, D.C. Congressional Reception, Russell Senate Office Building Trailblazers – Student Philanthropy and Engagement Day Dinner for 12 Lobos (through March 1) College Fair Recruiting Opportunities – Volunteers Needed UNM’s 126th Birthday

MARCH

March 1 March 3 March 5 March 7 March 9 - 14 March 11 - 14 March 13 March 14 March 22 March

Austin Chapter – Annual Crop Walk for Hunger The Howler E-newsletter in your mailbox! Lobo Living Room – Dr. Cheryl Willman, at UNM Cancer Center Austin Chapter – Annual Lobo Day Event Mountain West Conference Basketball Tournament, Las Vegas, Nev. San Diego Chapter – Tournament Game Watch Parties, McGregor’s Reno Chapter – Men’s Baseball at University of Nevada, Reno Chicago Chapter – Lobo Day Celebration D.C. Chapter – Annual Lobo Day Event, Ft. Belvoir, Va. College Fair Recruiting Opportunities – Volunteers Needed

APRIL

April 4 April 7 April 18 April 23 April

Austin Chapter – Wild Flower and Wine Tasting Tour The Howler E-newsletter in your mailbox! Los Angeles Chapter – Lobo Day Celebration Lobo Living Room – The Heart of Collecting Native American Art – Judith Lavender College Fair Recruiting Opportunities – Volunteers Needed

MAY

May 5 May 5 May 14 May 15 May 16

The Howler E-newsletter in your mailbox! Official UNM Ring Ceremony New Graduate Wine and Cheese Reception Golden Grads 50th Anniversary Dinner Golden Grads 50th Anniversary Commencement

JUNE June 2 June 4 June 5

The Howler E-newsletter in your mailbox! June Chapter Council Meeting Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting

JULY

July 7 July 18 July TBA July TBA

The Howler E-newsletter in your mailbox! Austin Chapter – “Beat the Heat” Ice Cream Social Lobo Living Room – Mariachi Academy Los Angeles Chapter – Holiday Bowl Tailgate and Performance

Events, dates and times are subject to change. Please contact the Alumni Relations Office at 505-277-5808 or 800-258-6866 for additional information. Get up-to-the-minute information on activities and events and at UNMAlumni.com

Farewell and Thank You Charlene Chavez Tunney (’75 BFA)

has retired after 32 years with the Alumni Association. As associate director, Tunney has been a familiar face for alumni and a key member of the Hodgin Hall team. She came on board 1983 and was promoted in quick succession to assistant director and then associate director of Alumni Affairs.

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Most recently she has overseen national chapters. “She’s been part of everything we’ve done,” Alumni Association Executive Director Karen Abraham says. “Her signature has been on many of our successes.” Chavez Tunney said one of the joys of the job has been interacting with interesting and accomplished alumni. “I’ve had an opportunity to meet an unbelievable number

of people.” And one special one; Chavez Tunney met her husband, Tom Tunney (’67 BA) when he helped coordinate a Lobo Day event at the D.C. chapter.

Stay engaged with the Alumni

Association on all your devices. Visit us online: unmalumni.com. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/unmalumni. And Follow us on Twitter: @unmalumni.

A Message from Our Alumni Association President Greetings Fellow Lobos and Happy New Year! One of the stories in this edition of Mirage examines a discussion that is going on today in universities across the country and around kitchen tables all across New Mexico. What is the value of a college degree? With increasing costs of tuition and a sputtering economy, is it still a worthwhile investment for families? The answer, in terms of both financial benefits and personal rewards, is still—ABSOLUTELY!

Brian Colón

There’s so much more to a university education than taking courses, taking tests and receiving a diploma.

The reality is that a university campus is a community made up of and supported by so many wonderful stakeholders. UNM is not just an institution comprised of beautiful campuses around the state. It is a community where students benefit from what the university has to offer them inside and outside the classroom while they engage in meaningful activities to develop and nurture strong intellect, character and values. This strong and healthy environment strengthens and enriches our students, our community and entities worldwide. When I was an undergraduate student at New Mexico State University and again when I came to UNM for law school, I participated in lots of organizations, including student government. They served as a meaningful way for me to develop my spirit of service to others. Students on UNM’s campus can find more than 450 student organizations and activities that enrich and facilitate relationships that will last a lifetime. My intellectual capacity and skills, along with long-lasting relationships I developed on campus, are among the best and most important “benefits” I received as a result of the “investment” I made in my education. When students graduate and join the great cast of UNM alumni, they become part of another important community with more opportunities to help, engage and lead. Active alumni groups provide social opportunities – check out a tailgate, a game watching party or an upcoming Lobo Living Room if you haven’t already. These events are more than just an excuse to don some Lobo gear or network with fellow grads. As UNM alumni, you also can engage in volunteer activities through your chapter, help mentor current students and recruit potential students. You can also bolster the university’s reputation for excellence by letting the Alumni Relations Office know when you’ve done great things. One of the keys to closing the circle of community for future Lobos, current students and alumni is simply to wear a sense of pride in our university wherever we go. Tell people where you went to school and what that has meant to you in your life and for your career. As always, the UNM Alumni Association is in place to serve you and Hodgin Hall is your “home away from home.” Stop by anytime because as we say in the Land of Enchantment, “¡Mi casa es su casa! And Go Lobos!”

Brian S. Colón, (’01 JD)

UNM Alumni Association President

Michaela (Brown) Sanchez (’09 BA), and her husband, Conor Sanchez, are serving in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua. Matthew T. Schottmiller (’09 MBA, ’11 JD), Roanoke, Va., has opened a law practice in Salem, Va. Jacqueline E. Baca (’10 BBA, ’12 MBA), Albuquerque, president of Bueno Foods, was the keynote speaker for the Hobbs Hispano Chamber of Commerce annual banquet. Drew E. Gordon (’12 BUS), San Jose, Calif., signed a one-year contract with the NBA’s Philadephia 76ers. Amy M. Greer (’12 MA), Albuquerque, opened a New Mexico Philharmonic concert with a Mozart piano concerto. Ashley S. Rhoades (’12 BAFA), Rio Rancho, N.M., is a new assistant coach for Eastern New Mexico University’s women’s volleyball team. Heidi J. Todacheene (’12 BA), Farmington, N.M., Ashley S. Rhoades is one of 12 students from five tribes and nine universities selected as a 2014 Native American congressional intern by the Udall Foundation. Luis G. Amezcua (’13 PhD), Rio Rancho, N.M., a surveillance assessment engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, received the New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year award from the American Society of Safety Engineers. Dillon Farrell (’13 BUS), Albuquerque, is on the NFL Roster for the San Francisco 49ers. Jason L. Marshall (’13 BA), Albuquerque, has joined The Waite Company as an account representative. Ramsey Rashid (’13 BSCS), Albuquerque, has joined the American Society of Radiologic Technologists as software engineer. Amanda L. Thatcher (’13 JD, ’13 MBA), Chandler, Ariz. has joined Lewis Roca Rothgerber in Phoenix as an associate. Alyssa R. Velasquez (’13 BA), Albuquerque, is an account manager at Griffin & Associates. Richard J. Chess (’14 BBA), Albuquerque, has joined Rainbow Ryders Inc. as an IT and projects representative. Alex R. Kirk (’14 BBA), Albuquerque, was on the opening night roster of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

SPRING 2015

Student Goverment Leaders Mirage asked the presidents of UNM’s graduate and undergraduate representative bodies to talk about their work. Texanna Martin is president of the UNM Graduate and

Professional Student Association (GPSA) and Rachel Williams is president of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM).

What’s the importance of student engagement in campus affairs and decisions?

And what’s your approach to collaboration among student groups?

TEXANNA MARTIN: It’s an essential element of student success. UNM is not a one-size-fits-all institution. In order to meet the diverse needs of our student population and ensure student success, degree completion and academic achievement, it is important that students have a voice in campus affairs and administrative decisions that ultimately affect them.

TEXANNA MARTIN: Food, funding, and fun. We are fortunate to have more than 450 chartered graduate and undergraduate student organizations on campus. It’s a reflection of the diverse interests of our 28,000 students. GPSA operates through a voting council composed of representative members of each graduate department. The very nature Rachel Williams of our governing structure calls for collaboration across student groups. Events such as the Welcome Back Party, Lobo Football Tailgates, and our Professional and Academic Workshops actively engage student leaders across academic departments to facilitate student group collaboration.

Texanna Martin

To address student concerns of transparency and communication, GPSA is working closely with the Daily Lobo to increase outreach on resources available to graduate students across the UNM campus. Decisions such as the ones involved in the Student Fee Review Board, a process that could not take place successfully without student input, are taken on by the student leadership of GPSA and ASUNM. RACHEL WILLIAMS: As an example, let’s look at the Student Fee Review Board. As the Board’s chair, I am tasked with recommending how and where to allocate student fees. I work with a team that represents a wide diversity of student opinion and interest. As a group we make decisions that consider both the benefit of programs for student success and the cost. As students who benefit but who also bear the cost, we recognize precisely what programs mean to us. Our voice contributes to the overall conversation in a way otherwise not considered when we are not seated at the table. It is this sort of student-centric perspective that is crucial to decision making and that occurs because of our engagement.

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RACHEL WILLIAMS: UNM, fortunately, hosts a wide variety of departments that work with different niches to elevate student success. The catch is, too often we become limited to our own spheres of activity. Because of this, promoting increased collaboration and connectivity were two priorities I wanted to address. One of my major initiatives this year is establishing the Joint Council, a group of students that represent the different constituencies at UNM. It serves as a venue for students to express concerns about university issues or simply share upcoming events. Via initiatives like this and constant outreach by capitalizing on the various tools I have available, including eight student service agencies, I try to bond students in meaningful ways that will extend to greater university networking. (This conversation has been condensed and edited.)

Alumni Network

UNM’s 2014 Zia Award Recipients: Damon Martinez ’89, ’92, ’93; Ruth Schifani ’70, ’76; Chuck Lanier ’43; Don Power ’71, ’03; John Draper ’75; Barbara Vigil ’85; Inspirational Young Alumnus Award Recipient: Michael Chicarelli ’97, ‘11.

Charlene Chavez Tunney retired from the UNM Alumni Association after 32 years of loyal, excellent service.

Sam Johnson and Barbara Simmons presented a UNM Black Alumni Chapter “Living Legends Award” to Rita Powdrell ’68.

Michael Green and Leslie Venzuela volunteer at UNM’s Welcome Back Days

Alumni Association President Brian Colón presents the 2014 Lobo Award to Tim Cass ’87.

Greater Albuquerque Area Alumni Chapter volunteers cook for families at Ronald McDonald House

SPRING 2015

Lobos of Distinction Each year the Alumni Association honors three outstanding alumni and one faculty member who have made outstanding contributions to the University of New Mexico, to their professions and to their communities.

The James F. Zimmerman Award is given to an alumnus who has brought fame and honor to UNM or to the state of New Mexico. The Bernard S. Rodey Award recognizes a UNM graduate who has excelled in the field of education.

The Erna S. Fergusson Award honors exceptional service to UNM. And the Faculty Teaching Award honors a full-time faculty member who is an outstanding teacher.

This year, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral John Mateczun (’73 BUS, ’78 MD) was honored with the Zimmerman Award for his long medical career in the Navy, which culminated in a four-year project overseeing the merger of the National Naval Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the nation’s John Mateczun (’73 BUS, ’78 MD) largest military medical center and rehabilitation facility. Mateczun, a psychiatrist, is now president of United Healthcare for veterans and military.

Garrett Sheldon (’77 BA) received the Rodey Award for his scholarship in the political and social sciences. Sheldon, a professor at Wise College, a branch of the University of Virginia, is an internationally recognized authority on Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He graduated summa cum laude from the UNM Honors Program in 1977 and earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He has been a Garrett Sheldon (’77 BA) visiting scholar at Oxford University, the University of Vienna in Austria and Trinity College in Dublin.

Michelle Coons (’83 BBA) was honored with the Erna Fergusson Award for her commitment to serving her alma mater. Coons is the first female president of First National Bank Santa Fe and First National Bank Rio Grande. She served as Alumni Association president in 1995 at the age of 34. Since then, in addition to helping many community organizations, she has served as chair of Michelle Coons (’83 BBA) the Anderson School of Management Foundation and a member of the Robert O. Anderson School of Management National Advisory Board. She is the incoming chair of the UNM Foundation.

The 2015 Faculty Teaching Award was given to Steven McLaughlin, MD, a Regent’s Professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNM’s Health Sciences Center. Dr. McLaughlin completed his residency in emergency medicine at UNM and returned in 1998 as a professor. His colleagues describe him as a “natural-born teacher” who is constantly looking Steven McLaughlin, MD for opportunities to help medical students, residents and even other doctors practice better medicine.

The winners were honored at the “Call to Honor” dinner Feb. 5 at Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque.

To read more about these Lobos of Distinction, visit UNMAlumni.com/awards.

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In Memoriam We remember the alumni who passed away between Feb. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2014

1920 - 1929 Gladys B. Smart, ’29

1930 - 1939 William F. Stamm, ‘36 Howard W. Benischek, ‘37 James A. Markl, ‘38 Elbert E. Earnest, ’39, ‘50 Johnny W. Eppich, ‘39

1940 - 1949 Clare S. Dreesen, ‘40 Jane R. Nowak (Black), ‘40 Elizabeth McMullan (Walker), ‘41 Martha Martin (Groton), ‘42 George W. Prothro, ‘42 Robert J. Stamm, ‘42, ‘09 Sewall T. Butler, ‘43 Marjorie (Russell) Goggin, ‘43 Edward Livingston Harley, ‘43 Jack D. Hines, ‘43 Paul H. Adams, ‘44 Betty Jo Fohr (Hatch), ‘44 Mario J. Menicucci, ‘44 Hazel B. Morrow-Stormo (Baker), ‘44 Gordon Rosen, ‘44 Robert C. Stern, ‘44 Margaret E. Anderson (Morrow), ‘45 Kathleen C. Barnhart (Williams), ‘45 Mary E. Donley, ‘45 Marvin E. Goldberg, ‘45

Ashlee R. Mills (’14 BA), Eagle Nest, N.M., was elected Eagle Nest’s municipal judge on a 77-36 vote. She is believed to be the youngest elected official in the village’s history.

H. Michael Hayes, ‘45

William P. Walker, ‘48

Lester G. Hinchcliff, Jr., ‘45

John S. Aragon, ‘49

Harriet L. Kelly (Kemper), ‘45

James C. Compton, ‘49

Bob Lockwood, ‘45

Carol S. Curry (Savage), ‘49

Fred Miller, Jr., ‘45

Robert J. Flanagan, ‘49

Harry Wooten Platter, ‘45

Peter J. Giannettino, ‘49

John D. Robb, Jr., ‘45

Richard Lloyd-Jones, ‘49

Ruth M. Smith (Kimball), ‘45

John A. Martin, ‘49

Nancy R. Briggs (Robb), ‘46

Ralph E. Pendleton, Sr., ‘49

Marriages

Mary C. Hurt (Darden), ‘46

Richard M. Shamp, ‘49

Molly K. Abbott (‘08 BBA) and Jason Fine

Mary-Jane Major, ’46, ‘73

Rudolph J. Walter, III ‘49

Margaret C. Robb

Charles R. White, ’49

Giovanna M. Archuleta (‘08 BBA) and David Archuleta

Lila F. Ross (Franklin), ‘46

1950 - 1959

Jacqueline E. Baca (‘10 BBA, ‘12 MBA) and Jeremy Baca

Ruth M. Simms Miksovic

Mary C. Arnold (Bussey), ‘50

(Simms), ‘46

Charles E. Baxter, ‘50

Amani Malaika Barnes (‘98 BUS) and Shabba Barnes

Paul E. Williams, Jr., ‘46

Helen M. Burson (John), ‘50

C. Xochitl Biggs (‘08 BA) and Matthew Biggs

Jo O. Davis, ‘47

Edward J. Capper, ‘50

Janeanne B. Doar (Braun), ‘47

Consuelo E. Chouinard, ‘50

Angelica M. Madrid Bruhnke (‘06 BBA) and Mark F. Bruhnke (‘08 BBA)

James F. Garliepp, ‘47

Richard C. Civerolo, ’50, ‘68

Rudolph G. Gerdin, ‘47

Joseph D. Duddleston, ‘50

Heloise N. Morris

Robert M. Ellis, ‘50

(Nadler), ‘47

Francis L. Fitter, ‘50

Martha B. Root (Hampton), ‘47

Frank H. Grubbs, ’50, ‘58

Mary E. Voller (Hannett), ‘47

Paul E. Heggem, ‘50

Wilburn W. Winkle, ‘47

Benjamin K. Horton, ’50, ‘53

Lydia E. Wright (Costales), ‘47

William H. Hughes, ‘50

Bette Bliss (Dewitt), ‘48

Glenn L. Krauth, ‘50

Albertha F. Gatewood

Edward E. Lopez, ‘50

(Young), ‘48

John E. Love, ‘50

Mary Sue O’Leary

Jim C. Ritchie, ’50, ‘52

(Jaggers), ‘48

John W. Stebbins, ‘50

Chester E. Otis, ‘48

George F. Stevens, ’50, ‘53

Ross D. Schmidt, ‘48

Paul N. Weaver, Jr., ‘50

Carol M. Snow, ‘48

Vicente T. Ximenes, ’50, ‘53

(Hight), ’46, ‘73

Ryan C. Outka (’14 BBA), Albuquerque, has joined Rainbow Ryders Inc. as a sales and customer service representative.

Michelle B. Budagher (‘86 BA, ‘96 MA) and George Budagher Amanda A. Bustos (‘09 BA) and Lawrence R. Bustos (‘12 BSCE) Amy Campbell and Nathan M. Campbell (‘08 BUS, ‘14 MCRP) Lilian Casias and Miguel Ernest Casias (‘06 BS, ‘06 BSME) Madison N. Cosio (‘13 BA) and Joshua R. Cosio (‘10 BSCM) Brigitte J. Duran (‘12 BSED) and Adam J. Duran (‘12 BA) Lisa M. Duran (‘06 BA) and Joseph A. Duran (‘12 BM) Ashely Duran and Ricardo R. Duran (‘12 AAS, ‘13 AA) Sonja T. Flowers (‘99 AAHS) and Travis Flowers Alexis M. Foutz (‘05 BS, ‘10 PHARMD) and Eric Foutz Nicole Gabaldon (‘12 BBA) and Eric Galbaldon Alisha S. Garcia (‘09 BS) and Adam Garcia

Have a Good Howl

Melissa E. Garcia (‘05 BS, ‘09 BA) and Paul J. Garcia (‘03 BAFA) Lia K. Gross (‘09 BS) and Jordan Gross

Our monthly email newsletter, The Howler, keeps Lobos up-to-date with

Mandy J. Grossi (‘01 BA) and Christopher Grossi

Alumni Association news and events, as well as additional alumni profiles not

Matthew W. Haas (‘09 PHARMD) and Miranda Elliott Haas

published in Mirage. You can read it online at unmalumni.com/the-howler.html or subscribe to the email version by emailing a request to alumni@unm.edu.

Margaret Florence Heck (‘93 MD) and Craig Spencer

SPRING 2015

In Memoriam

Alfonso A. Zamora, ‘50

Mary Davis Swayngim, ‘53

Harvey H. Morse, ‘57

Barry G. Cole, ’62, ‘65

Hershey Julien, ’65, ‘68

Joseph S. Aragon, ‘51

James F. Wood, ‘53

Gilbert K. St. Clair, ’57, ‘96

Winifred Fritzi Franks,

Sheldon Martin Kalberg, ‘65

Cecil Brininstool, ‘51

Suzanne S. Braden, ‘54

Richard R. Tafoya, ‘57

’62, ‘65

Ella S. Mantei, ‘65

Richard S. Carroll, ‘51

Charles A. Bruce, ‘54

Joan E. Acoya

Muiriel Kirchmeier

Eugene V. McLaughlin, ‘65

William J. Denison, ‘51

Nancy D. Erbe, ‘54

(Milbourne), ‘58

(Hite), ‘62

Betty H. Ruble

Marie N. Dolde

Mary E. Evans (Burke), ‘54

Judith Anne Bateman, ‘58

W. Douglas LaCoss, ‘62

(Heider), ’65, ‘77

(Nelson), ‘51

Thomas R. Grady, Jr., ‘54

Victor F. Barresi, ‘58

Chester D. Lucas, ‘62

William R. Schmidt, ‘65

James R. Elam, ‘51

Dorothy Swain Gutscher, ‘54

Evelyn S. Brannan

Elsie Charlese Spencer, ‘62

Richard K. Traeger, ‘65

Billy R. Goodrum, ‘51

Carl M. Hawkins, ‘54

(Sellars), ’58, ‘78

William E. Stein, ‘62

Edward J. Waldroop, ‘65

Philip R. Grant, Jr., ‘51

Elof B. Jensen, Jr., ‘54

Earle Bursum, ‘58

Max D. Taylor, ‘62

Louis D. Zenowich, ‘65

John M. Hart, ‘51

William Wesley

H. Gus Hampton, ‘58

James J. Thompson, ‘62

Antonio E. Armijo, Jr., ‘66

Gerald G. Hokanson, ‘51

McCoy, Jr., ‘54

William Howard Heath, ’58

John H. Tomasi, ‘62

Carl E. Brand, ’66, ‘71

Sherwood Y. Jackson, Jr., ‘51

Linda C. Moriarty

Robert D. Jordan, ‘58

Miguel P. Trujillo, ‘62

Lawrence W. Brisker, ‘66

Val R. McClure, ‘51

(Chess), ‘54

Claude E. Arnold, ‘59

Louise M. Wellborn

Tova Calloway

Alfred L. McLane, Jr., ‘51

Frederick M. Myers, ‘54

Marilyn K. Black

(McKinnon), ‘62

(Mathiasen), ‘66

Hal C. Miller, ‘51

Edsel E. Overall, ‘54

(Keith), ’59, ‘81

Jesse M. Ashbaugh, ‘63

Nathalia A. Elmquist

Stafford E. Polk, Jr., ‘51

Paul Roland, ‘54

Robert Braslau, ‘59

Michael Enright, ’63

(Massengale), ‘66

John S. Ross, ‘51

Ann B. Smith, ‘54

David R. Burke, ’59, ‘61

Kathryn M. (White)

Marie J. Guaderrama

Charles T. Weber, ‘51

Corinne K. Thompson

James V. Lamb, ‘59

Findley, ‘63

(Goss), ‘66

Keith R. Baltz, ‘52

(Kriege), ‘54

Frank C. Lisle, ‘59

Alice Haddock (Sharp), ‘63

George M. Guest, ‘66, ‘77

Lolita R. F. Binford (Fritz), ‘52

James H. L. Ford, Jr., ‘55

Joan R. Mellekas

John Burnoit Hayden, ‘63

Richard I. Moore, ‘66

Charles R. Bryan, ‘52

Joseph M. Griego, ‘55

(Orlebeke), ‘59

Jacqueline L. Hopson

Basil N. Nellos, ‘66

Bruce Caird, ‘52

Betty E. Hopkins (Toy), ‘55

Paul D. O’Brien, ‘59

(Guthrie), ‘63

Gary Bob Peeler, ‘66

James W. Caylor, ‘52

Frederick B. Howden III, ’55

Toby L. Salas, ’59, ‘69

Joseph G. Muhlberger, ‘63

Conan A. Reinken, ‘66

George H. Gass, ‘52

Joseph H. Liebert, ’55, ‘57

Mildred M. Sanders, ’59, ‘69

Frank J. Ortega, ‘63

Flo Stein, ‘66

Zita C. Gonzales

Trudy M. Moze (Brown), ‘55

Clint L. Trafton, ’59, ‘62

Christopher M. Pierce,

Kenneth R. Sutton, ’66, ‘69

(Debaca), ‘52

John J.D. Noel, ‘55

Patsy Marie Wheeler

’63, ‘67

Monna V. Utter, ‘66

David W. Jackson, ‘52

Beverly L. Officer

(Cox), ’59

Gary O. Robertson, ‘63

Nancy J. Cozby, ‘67

Dan A. Peterson, ’52, ‘56

(Woolfall), ‘55

John E. Wimberg, ‘59

Sandra Rockwell

Phyllis L. Francis, ‘67

Arthur F. Reeves, ‘52

William H. Richardson, ‘55

(Walker), ‘63

Ernest G. Lujan, ‘67

Jack W. Reynolds, ‘52

Charles W. Tucker, ‘55

Donald D. Royer, ‘63

Edward R. Shunk, ‘67

Maurice M. Rosenthal, ‘52

William J. Boan, ‘56

Ruth A. Blair (Lincoln), ‘60

James P. Acree, ‘64

Geraldine L. Stilphen

Gerald G. Russell, ‘52

Charles P. Carlson, ‘56

Jerry W. Brown, ‘60

Francis R. Barry, ‘64

(Lansford), ‘67

Edward Tarango, ‘52

Cleta H. Downey

Linda T. Cerri

Merrillee Ann Dolan, ‘64

Irl Mac Vance, ‘67

James T. Thompson, ‘52

(Honeyman), ’56, ‘70

(Timmerman), ‘60

Gary L. Finley, ‘64

Richard D. Williams, ‘67

W. Dale Treider, ‘52

Nino C. Garcia, ’56, ‘58

Jack L. Dailey, ‘60

Douglas W. Fraser, ’64, ‘71

Kirk J. Worley, ‘67

Wayne E. Woodworth,

Carl F. Kraemer, ‘56

Robert L. McGrane, ‘60

Benny J. Hill, ‘64

Gilbert L. Zigler, ’67, ‘69

’52, ‘56

Frank R. Lane, ‘56

John W. O’Neill, ‘60

Leon J. Keck, ‘64

Ted L. Aragon, ‘68

William E. Barker, III, ‘53

Donald G. Miller, ‘56

Lee J. Seligman, ’60, 63

Marjorie S. Muth

Mary H. Archer

Robert E. Burkhalter, ‘53

David E. Palmer, ‘56

Bob C. Thomas, ‘60

(Smith), ‘64

(Innis), ’68, ‘71

Lawrence S. Colwell, ‘53

Lisle W. Smock, ‘56

Wilbur J. Boegli, II, ‘61

Joan M. Pegues (Bliss), ‘64

Ladozia Askew, ‘68

Alfred M. Crow, ‘53

A. Jerry Adkisson, ‘57

Rosemarie Z. Espinosa

Ellen K. Rhodes

Veronica Bender, ‘68

Roger W. David, ‘53

Wayne A. Badsgard, ‘57

(Zegob), ’61, ‘84

(Henderson), ‘64

Joal P. (Hollinger) Carter, ‘68

JF Fallis, Jr., ’53, ‘57

James K. Economides,

Clifford A. Farfel, ‘61

Thomas F. Steely, ‘64

Taen-Yu Dai, ’68, ‘71

John E. Gurule, ‘53

‘57, ‘65

Valerie S. Malmont, ‘61

Ted J. Warner, ‘64

Joseph R. Doyle, ‘68

Jo Ann Hunter (Drake), ‘53

Donna Rae Esquibel

Adrian J. Martinez,

H. Alan Brown, ‘65

Harrell M. Haney, ‘68

Alfred H. Miller, ‘53

(Wise), ‘57

Jr., ’61, ‘64

Raymond L. Crommett, ‘65

Carol E. Higgins, ’68, ’78, ‘86

Sarah H. Nidel (Stark), ‘53

Millard L. Hammons, ‘57

John H. Saiki, ‘61

Jimmie J. Greathouse, ‘65

Eric H. Huggins, ‘68

Charles C. Scott, Jr., ‘53

James E. Meek, ‘57

Gregory Wright, ’61, ‘65

Robert C. Hendon, ‘65

Ladozia Minter-Askew, ’68, ‘76

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1960 - 1969

Randall F. Montgomery, Sr., ‘68

Gayl D. Day (Harris), ‘70

Janet Pearce Bloom, ‘72

Diane R. Myers

Elvidio O. Diniz, ‘70

William H. Fortenberry, ‘72

Atenas R. Hill (10 BBA, ‘12 MBA) and Austin B. Hill (‘13 BBA)

(Ridenbaugh), ‘68

John S. Gehrman, ‘70

Larry Albert Frieden, ‘72

Kelli P. Howie (‘12 BUS) and Daniel Howie

Janyce Preston, ‘68

Warren A. Henke, ‘70

Jeanne B. Garrett (Fuller), ‘72

Joseph G. Rinaldi, ‘68

Thomas J. Horne, ’70, ’73, ‘76

Jeanne Jensen Knight, ‘72

Brooke A. Irwin (‘11 PHARMD) and Daniel J. Irwin (‘12 PHARMD)

Fred Roach, ’68, ’72, ‘78

Frederick W. Johnson, ‘70

Kathleen L. Lew, ‘72

Katie M. Langston (‘13 BA) and Alex Langston

Ernesto J. Romero, ‘68

James S. Johnson III, ‘70

Robert A. Mannle, ‘72

Lois K. Viscoli, ’68, ‘74

Carl A. Lepisto, ‘70

Shirley Anne Mares, ‘72

Laura E. Maestas (08 BSED, ‘13 MA) and Randall J. Maestas (‘06 BA)

Gladys L. Ziemer, ‘68

David J. Lucero, ‘70

Jerry B. Monahan, ‘72

William M. Blackwell, ’69, ‘81

Roger P. Reyes, ‘70

Donald S. Richards, ‘72

Kathleen L. Dillon, ‘69

Kenneth G. Rustad, ‘70

Jose E. Ralph Sena, ’72, ‘75

Thomas H. Emmerson, ‘69

Ann Watters (Thompson), ‘70

Eddine M. Bingham

Trisha M. Mondragon (‘05 BSN) and Patrick Mondragon

Norman F. Gallegos, ‘69

Patsy E. Williams, ‘70

(Lawson), ‘73

Helen L. Grethel (Coomes), ‘69

Glenn F. Allison, ‘71

Laura G. Davalos, ‘73

Jennifer L. Montoya (‘10 BSN) and Juan Chavez

Katharine W. Hall

William H. Bradley, ‘71

Peter G. Duran, Jr., ‘73

(Witherspoon), ’69, ‘74

Jerry W. Cooney, ‘71

William J. Henning, ‘73

Sue B. Heil, ’69, ‘76

Donald C. Cutter, Sr., ‘71

Catherine M. Higgins, ‘73

Eldon E. Korpela, ‘69

Gary A. Garcia, ‘71

Loey Kirk (Cohen), ’73, ‘76

Wallis L. Lampson

F. Neal Gaskin, Jr., ‘71

Betty Hart Lemen, ’73

(Coomer), ‘69

Linda A. (Fitzpatrick)

Patricia A. Lewis, ‘73

Mary L. Lewis, ‘69

Green, ‘71, ’72

Thomas R. Parmer, ‘73

Cuvier A. McGarr, ‘69, ‘74

Varne Mertz Kimmick, ‘71

John G. Stapleton, ‘73

Rose M. Montoya, ‘69

Kenneth E. Probasco, ‘71

Mary Elaine Thornton, ‘73

William B. Nelson, ’69, ‘73

Gary L. Purdue, ’71, ‘75

Everett B. Breck III ’74, ‘85

Judith G. Newton (Gilbert), ‘69

Sharon L. Rausch, ‘71

Jay M. Castelbaum, ‘74

Nancy L. Norve (Lewey), ‘69

Emma R. Sousa, ‘71

Alfred L. Clemmons, ‘74

Christopher G. Whitson, ‘69

Rita L. Sturm, ’71, ’76, ‘85

Max W. Coll, II ‘74

Rosemarie G. Young

Ann M. Heinrich, ‘74

(Goecker), ’71, ‘73

Donald G. Hollenbeck, ‘74

Charles Baldonado, ‘72

Phyllis W. Keith (Wahl), ‘74

1970 - 1979 Kaybeth C. Camperell, ‘70

Brick Brigade

Chapel Tiles

The Hodgin Hall Brick Brigade provides an opportunity to commemorate your own or a loved one’s days at UNM with a personalized brick laid in a handsome walkway leading to Hodgin’s main entrance. Your brick purchase will assure Hodgin Hall’s maintenance and renovation while supporting the efforts of the UNM Alumni Association.

The Celebration Wall at the UNM Alumni Chapel is another place to make your mark on the UNM campus. The wall, a recent addition to the Chapel Garden, is adorned by photo tiles of faculty, staff, graduates and others. Each 4”x4” tile is designed to resist fading and scratching and does not include names or captions. The cost of a tile, $300, will help sustain the Chapel and its programs.

Standard pricing for each 10” x 3.5” brick is $100. Bricks for UNM students or recent grads (within the past five years) are just $75 each and bulk discounts are also available. To order your brick, visit UNMAlumni.com/ brick-order or contact us at (505) 277-5808 or alumni@unm.edu.

To order your tile or for more information on the Chapel Garden, visit UNMAlumni.com/ chapel-garden.

Christi C. Mazzei (‘11 BA, ‘13 MA) and Phillip M. Mazzei (‘11 BSEE)

Stephanie K. Montoya (‘13 PHARMD) and Chistopher Herrera Daniela Murphy and Thomas Francis Murphy (‘07 BA, ‘14 BA) Madeline E. Pacheco (‘14 BSN) and Antonio Pacheco Liliana S. Palmer (‘13 BA) and Chase H. Palmer (‘08 BAFA) Christine L. Petranovich (‘09 BS) and Sean S. Petranovich (‘09 BA, ‘11 MA) Joanetta P. Ramos (‘00 BS) and Phillip Ramos Rachel L. Reavis (‘09 BA) and Kenny Reavis Sarah M. Rockovitz (‘09 BS) and Steven Hahn Blanca E. Santistevan (‘11 AAS) and Dwayne Santistevan Laura M. Sarabia (‘10 BA, ‘13 MS) and Ryan Sarabia Alyssa A. St Louis (‘10 BFA) and Stuart St Louis (‘11 BFA) Vanessa C. Staak (‘12 BA) and Brian Staak Tamara R. Sutherland (‘08 BA) and John Sutherland Albert Christopher Trujillo (‘01 BUS) and Jennifer Trujillo Matthew M. Trujillo (‘12 BAA) and Monica Trujillo Estevan R. Vasquez (‘09 BS) and Jennifer E. Vasquez (‘11 BA) Nicholas L. Velasquez (‘09 BBA) and Carrie Velasquez Christina M. Wagner (‘13 BSME) and Kyle A. Wagner (‘12 BSCS) Denise M. Williams (‘02 BS) and Charles Williams Christina R. Young (‘13 BME) and Jesse M. Young (‘14 BS)

SPRING 2015

In Memoriam

Patrick Alan Lauth, ‘74, ‘90

Russell G. Sturtcman, ‘78

Joan Eyring, ‘85

Deborah L. Bower, ‘93

David L. Coleman, ‘03

Roger W. Pettenger, ‘74

Grant L. Thomas, ’78, ‘80

Susan E. Holloway, ‘85

Neil R. Collinge, ‘93

Cherilyn J. Peay, ‘03

Michael J. Shulman, ‘74

Lee Robert Benshoof, ‘79

Velma Faye McClure, ‘85

Gary W. Crook, ‘93

Stephen Alexander

Robert H. Taylor, ‘74

Calvin C. Bond, ‘79

Leah S. Sichel, ‘85, ‘86

Mozelle I. McKee, ‘93

Abbott, ’04

Carol A. Biefeld

Louis S. Campagna, Jr., ‘79

Roger Lynn Yeary, ‘85

Thomas W. Schott, ‘93

Robert A. Comer, ‘04

(Mandeville), ‘75

Barbara C. De

Margaret Requard

Colette M. Tiner

Tiffany M. Brown-Wright,

Carol Polk Briggs, ‘75

Genevieve, ‘79

(Goodman), ‘85

(Herrera), ‘93

’05, ‘11

Charles S. Brownrigg, ‘75

David B. Fritz, ‘79

Eugene T. Rodriguez, ‘85

Bill T. Tinker, ‘93

Jason L. Cummings, ‘05

Joseph H. Cowen, ‘75

Margaret A. Newman,

Peter K. Shams-Avari, ‘85

Kiet Tuan Truong, ‘93

Greg G. Gonzales, ‘05

Raymond J. Davies, ‘75

’79, ‘90

Sandra L. Stagnone

Robert R. White, ‘93

Gary O. Duttle, ‘06

Paul A. DeBlassie, Jr., ‘75

Cy T. Stockhoff, ’79, ’83

(Drebing), ‘85

Priscilla C.

Joshua S. Everist, ‘06

Marie D. Gallegos, ‘86

Gwin-Stollenwerk, ‘95

Caroline Y. Olguin, ‘09

Paulette H. La Force, ‘86

Robert McKeehan, ‘95

Shantelle D. Williams, ‘09

Laura Emanuel (Koch), ‘75 Robert J. Friedrich, ’75, ‘78

1980 - 1989

Eleanor Post (Kaye), ‘75

Mary Anne Biggs, ‘80

Elizabeth D. Lakind, ‘87

Christopher C.

Richard Roland

Nora L. Landavazo, ‘80

Eugene L. Nieri, ‘87

Osborne, ‘95

2010 - 2014

Romo, ‘75, ‘86

Essie M. Siglar, ‘80

James E. Payette, ‘87

Randal W. Wallace, ‘95

Dominic J. Baca, ‘11

Juanita M. Sanchez, ‘75

Gary P. Chervin, ‘81

Susan Lynn Clark, ‘88

Martin J. Whiteman, ’95, ‘97

Mitchell L. Lowery, ‘13

Edward P. Snyder, ‘75

Ellen Edwards, ‘81

John E. Gonzales, Jr., ‘88

Sylvia Ann Wicka, ‘95

Amy L. Hanson, ‘13

Samuel Herman Torres, ‘75

Wayne P. Fox, ‘81

Grace Jean Henderson

Jackson K. Baker, ‘96

James I. Stoddard, Jr., ‘13

Bette L. Vick, ‘75

Elliott L. Higgins, ‘81

(Stringer), ‘88

Robert N. Boll, ‘96

Lawrence H. Birkhauser, ‘76

Donald N. Koppenhaver, ‘81

Susan E. Sisneros, ‘88

Phyllis E. Burns Keeton, ‘96

FACULTY

Pat L. Brannen, ‘76

Patricia F. Krchmar-Lilley, ‘81

Charles R. Sorsby, ‘88

Suzanne P. Dowiatt, ‘96

George Omer

Terry J. Dalke, ‘76

Robert Mondragon, ‘81

David E. Greenway, ’89, ‘95

John D. Zoomer

Nancy J. Evans, ‘76

Siegfried E. Ristau, ‘81

James R. Mallard, ‘89

Hulbert, ‘96

OTHER ALUMNI

Christopher R. Fields, ‘76

Robert E. Seay, ‘81

Travis L. Silversmith, ‘89, ‘14

Shannon L. Lunsford,

Robert L. Burgan

Stephen T. Garcia, ‘76

J. Louise Wheeler, ‘81

Kenneth D. Sinclair, ’89

’96, ‘01

Nell W. Doyel (Irving)

John P. Gener, ‘76

Raymond Martin Abeyta, ‘82

Michael Edward

Marcelo R. Eizner

Harry D. Gilpin, ‘76

Nancy K. Chinappi, ‘82

Montoya, ‘96

Sammy L. Gholson, Sr.

Yvonne D. T. Jordan

Jane E. Hamlet, ‘82

Carla Jeanne Bingham, ‘90

Jerry M. Sedillo, ’96, ‘04

Helen D. Johnson

(Ingham), ‘76

Gayle L. Lewis, ‘82

Lynn E. Miller, ‘90

Renee F. Tafoya-Abeyta, ‘96

Jane Krumboltz (De Kraker)

Justin S. Lynch, ‘76

Michael S. McConaghy, ‘82

James R. Mooney, ‘90

Daniel A. Gutierrez, ‘97

William E. Lafferty

Stephen E. Skinner, ‘76

Robert R. Mowrer, ’82, ‘85

Stuart R. Opp, ‘90

Gabriel T. Magee, ‘97

Gerald A. Martin

Paul F. Becht, ‘77

Emily J. Tuttle, ‘82

Timothy F. Wawrzyniec, ‘90

Ellen Marie Benson

Thomas N. Norris

Craig B. Fretwell, ‘77

Steven Robert Bailey, ‘83

Peter K. Otto Hochla, ‘91

(Sandager), ’98, ‘99

R. L. Posey

Richard R. Gorman, ‘77

Carrie R. Kurzeka (Kirsch), ‘83

Anthony Jude Lahr, ‘91

Elizabeth W. Kiddy, ‘98

Lois Lee Thompson

Phillip M. Martinez, ‘77

Juan C. Levy, ‘83

Mark V. Nelson, ‘91

Peggy S. Pierce, ‘98

Arthur D. Unger

Joan H. Parker

Elizabeth A. Montano, ‘83

Carol A. Bailar

Madeline Bowman

(Humphrey), ‘77

Kathleen J. Woody, ‘83

(Troup), ’92, ‘06

Scott, ‘98

Lynne C. Tyroler

David J. Briones, ‘84

Valerie K. Begay, ‘92

Cris E. Landgraf, ‘99

(Purinton), ‘77

Steven W. Fitzgerald, ‘84

Katheanne M.

Robert P. McCarty, ‘99, ’02

Dave E. Wunker, ’77, ‘92

Carl J. Herman, ‘84

Brown, ’92, ‘97

William E. Colter, ‘78

Susan R. Horne, ‘84

Genevieve J. Hirsch

Dennis R. Cordova, ‘78

Shirley Hurwitz, ‘84

(Vandenheuvel), ‘92

Mario M. Benavidez, ‘00

David E. Ellison, ‘78

Margy A. VanDyke, ‘84

Cori L. Hyatt (Ray), ‘92

Robert J. Macy, ‘00

Richard G. Niehaus, ‘78

Michael A. Wellstood, ‘84

Thomas David Laury, ‘92

Frank R. Roanhorse, Jr., ‘00

Sylvia Y. Palacio-Aragon,

Amin L. Whitehorse, ’84, ‘85

Eileen C. Lonergan, ‘92

Luman Beno, ’01, ‘04

’78, ‘80

Tomas C. Atencio, ‘85

Christopher L.

Mark D. Johnson, ‘01

Josephine D. Rohr, ‘78, ‘83

Travis A. Corwin, ‘85

Sheets, ’92, ‘99

Jessica M. Cessieux, ‘02

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1990 - 1999

2000 - 2009

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‘And Many More…’

As you’re receiving this issue of Mirage, UNM is celebrating its 126th birthday – Feb. 28. No need to plan a big party; the university is still recovering from a year of festivities for a milestone birthday: 125. In honor of that quasquicentennial, “UNM@125” – a beautifully filmed documentary about the school’s history – premiered during Fall 2014 homecoming festivities. Sponsored by UNM’s Center for Regional Studies and produced and directed by Aracely Chapa, the hour-long film explores the university’s beginnings in 1889 and growth through the eyes of UNM alumni, administrators, students, staff and community. If you missed the premiere – or if you’d like to see it again – you can watch “UNM@125” online at UNMAlumni.com/unm125.

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