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he UNM Alumni Association has created a new award—the Aluminaria Award—to celebrate UNM alumni who make the world a better, brighter place. Their acts may be small but they are inspirational. We take pride in these alumni and want to thank them —the Aluminarios who make life shine. For example:

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shining examples!

Joe Vivian, ’64 BSHP, for faithfully delivering Meals on Wheels with caring and good cheer.

Gilbert Arizaga, ’74 MD, for his warm heart and empathy with the patients and children in his care.

Diana Duncan, ’94 BSNU, for the caring competence she demonstrated in tending wounded soldiers in Iraq.

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Do you know a UNM alum whose good deeds go unsung? Someone who brightens your community? Who lights up the lives of others? Nominate this person for one of our UNM Aluminaria Awards.

www.unmalumni.com/aluminarios

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letters to the editor

In their element

Soul Bridge

contents

“Poetic Expression,” spring 2008

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. UNM alumni have made careers of each.

34 Athletics: Pro Lobos

earth 12 drying: Richard Levine, by Cynthia Schaedig 14 digging: Florence Lister, by Terry Gugliotta

On the Cover:

Look for these Lobos in the pros

WORKING WITH FIRE:

Anthropologist and arson investigator Joe Lally, ’80 JD, ’00 MA, ’05 PhD probes the causes of ancient fires

for a living. Joe is one of our alumni whose job depends on the elements.

Norman Johnson Photography

take a look

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wind 16 flying: Paul R. Smith, by Rachel Miller 18 empowering: Tom Ashwill, by Karen Wentworth

Looking Around:

fire 20 investigating: Joe Lally, by Randy McCloud 22 fighting: Edith Meadows, by Mary Conrad 24 barbecuing: Joe Powdrell, by Rachel Miller water 26 swimming: Dave Barney, by Randy McCloud 28 conserving: Jennifer Norris, by Randy McCloud 30 managing: John D’Antonio, by Steve Carr

3 Letters to the Editor 5 UNM & Sustainability… for Future Generations A message to alumni from UNM President David J. Schmidly

34 Mirage was the title of the University of New Mexico yearbook

22 Winter 2009, Volume 27, Number 2, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: David J. Schmidly, President; Karen A. Abraham, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations; Mary Conrad, Editor; Kelly Ketner, Echo Creative, Art Director. UNM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Judy Zanotti, President, Albuquerque; Ruth Schifani, President-Elect, Albuquerque; Gene Baca, Treasurer, Corrales; Lillian Montoya-Rael, Past President, Santa Fe; Jennifer Riordan, Albuquerque; Randy Royster, Albuquerque; Waneta Tuttle, Albuquerque; Kathie Winograd, Albuquerque. MIRAGE is published three times a year, in April, August, and December, by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association for the University’s alumni and friends. Address all correspondence to UNM Alumni Relations Office, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Send all Album information to the attention of Margaret Weinrod. Send all changes of address to the attention of Records. Send all other correspondence to the attention of Mary Conrad. To comply with the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, UNM provides this publication in alternative formats. If you have special needs and require an auxiliary aid or service, please contact Mary Conrad. Phone: 800-258-6866 (800-ALUM-UNM) or 505-277-5808. E-mail to Mary Conrad: mconrad@unm.edu or alumni@unm.edu. Web address: www.unmalumni.com

Where’s Luce?

A bit of everything that says UNM

“Above the Line,” fall 2008

11 Al Bearce and the Lawrence Legend UNM’s longest-running employee dies on the ranch. B Y

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32 Development: Labor of Love Bob Ellis’ devotion to UNM’s Harwood Museum shines.

in 1978. Since that

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adopted by the alumni magazine which continues to publish vignettes of UNM graduates.

oetry is, according to Levi Romero, “the door that allows us to enter each other’s lives and experiences.” Poetry invites us to intimacy. In a world where the masks and myriad mirrors of the ego create a gulf that separates us from the landscape of the soul, we may be searching for the intimacy that is lost. Intimacy with the soul of self and the soul of the other may be bridged through the creative expressions… If we find this soul expressed in a poem we have found the alchemical gold of what it means to be human… If poetry can be created for humanity’s sake and not for poetry’s sake or academia’s sake (as too often we find it…) then, indeed, we have, as Romero has pointed out, come upon a “door that allows us to enter each other’s lives and experiences” without being “slammed” as is often the case when poetry is for anger’s sake… Kimberley Williams, ‘99 AAGS, ‘03 BUS Los Angeles

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until its last edition

time, the title was

Look Now: 38 UNM Homecoming 2008: A Lobo’s Life for Me It was Lobo fun for all!

ice article… Too bad [you] failed to mention Luce Rains directly behind Russell Crowe who had a supporting role as Marshal Weathers in 3:10 to Yuma. Luce Rains also attended UNM way back in the 70s and has gone on to work in 50 films and over 30 professional stage productions. He was co-founder of the New Mexico Repertory Theatre and founding artistic director of Shakespeare in Santa Fe and has taught acting and directed plays at the College of Santa Fe. Luce Rains is currently working on a feature film, Kites, and scheduled for a role in Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges and Robert Duval. In October he will be working on The Americans in Mexico… Luce Rains, via email Mirage welcomes letters to the editor. If you would like to comment on something you’ve read in the magazine, please write us. Letters will be published as space allows and may be edited for clarity and brevity. Letters must be signed. It’s helpful if you include your location and degrees. Our address is Mirage, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001. Email: mconrad@unm.edu.

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letters to the editor

In their element

Soul Bridge

contents

“Poetic Expression,” spring 2008

Earth. Wind. Fire. Water. UNM alumni have made careers of each.

34 Athletics: Pro Lobos

earth 12 drying: Richard Levine, by Cynthia Schaedig 14 digging: Florence Lister, by Terry Gugliotta

On the Cover:

Look for these Lobos in the pros

WORKING WITH FIRE:

Anthropologist and arson investigator Joe Lally, ’80 JD, ’00 MA, ’05 PhD probes the causes of ancient fires

for a living. Joe is one of our alumni whose job depends on the elements.

Norman Johnson Photography

take a look

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wind 16 flying: Paul R. Smith, by Rachel Miller 18 empowering: Tom Ashwill, by Karen Wentworth

Looking Around:

3 Letters to the Editor 5 UNM & Sustainability… for Future Generations A message to alumni from UNM President David J. Schmidly

34 Mirage was the title of the University of New Mexico yearbook

Where’s Luce?

A bit of everything that says UNM

“Above the Line,” fall 2008

11 Al Bearce and the Lawrence Legend UNM’s longest-running employee dies on the ranch. B Y

L A R R Y

T O R R E S

32 Development: Labor of Love Bob Ellis’ devotion to UNM’s Harwood Museum shines.

in 1978. Since that

B Y

C Y N T H I A

S C H A E D I G

44 Alumni Outlook

adopted by the alumni magazine which continues to publish vignettes of UNM graduates.

6 Connections

until its last edition

time, the title was

Look Now: 38 UNM Homecoming 2008: A Lobo’s Life for Me It was Lobo fun for all!

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URBAN ECOLOGISTS

Bobby Tamayo

AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN GORMAN AND BLAIR BROWN

UNM & Sustainabilityâ&#x20AC;Ś for future generations A message to UNM alumni from UNM President David J. Schmidly

As the principals of PioneerWest, an Albuquerque-based

Blair: From what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen of the plans and in talking with the

urban ecology firm, Susan and Blair have gone everywhere

folks from Mesa del Sol, we are very encouraged that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

from Bangkok to Barcelona, London to Los Angeles studying

going in the right direction.

exactly what makes a people-friendly city. One of their conclusions: they like what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing in Mesa del Sol. (Obviously, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very flattered.)

Susan: It was really an interesting idea to us to think that you could build a place thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walkable and bikeable, and that we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go everywhere in a car. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really one of

Susan: As weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve traveled around, visiting cities and developing

the great charms of what Mesa del Solâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be. Also, Mesa

our principles of people-friendly cities, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been tempting for

del Sol envisions a variety of different styles of homes, which

us to think about Mesa del Sol and how closely it aligns with

I think is a good thing. One of the things that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve observed in

our principles.

cities of distinguished design and charm is that there are many different styles blended together. Blair: In a nutshell, we wish we could be the first to live there.

A smart new district designed to celebrate art and industry, the individual and the community, Mother Nature and common sense. Located on Albuquerqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south mesa.

To watch more of the interview with Susan and Blair, go to:

NM has made enormous strides during the first semester of the 2008-2009 academic year. The freshman class is the largest in UNMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an inspiring vote of confidence in us by New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young people and their families. The word is getting out: UNM is an institution of excellence, a place where the success of our students comes first. In part due to our progress in energy efficiency and sustainability, the university will continue upon its successful path for generations to come. Just last year, our new Energy Education Program was responsible for saving more than $1 million in energy costs, with $57 million in savings projected to occur over the next 10 years. Our physical plant department developed the Energy Management Control System Center where we can now monitor energy use and temperature at more than 60 buildings across campus. In 2007, UNM and the City of Albuquerque joined together to allow our students to ride Albuquerque buses for free. This fall, free bus rides were extended to every member of the UNM faculty and staff. To further encourage car pooling, UNMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parking and transportation services is working

on a plan that will allow co-workers to share a parking pass, alleviating the cost of both gas and parking. As a pioneer in individual and institutional energy conservation, UNM is especially proud of our new Sustainability Studies Program. Created in the fall of 2007, it offers our students an interdisciplinary minor in the development of innovative and practical solutions for a more sustainable future. We will produce more environmentally conscious architects, business persons, chemists and health care professionals. Our graduates will be at the forefront of the energy-conservation challenge. This issue of Mirage contains a number of profiles of professionals who have dedicated their careers to sustainability in the Southwest. I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll agree that their efforts, together with those at your alma mater, present a hopeful and positive approach to one of the most challenging issues facing us, our children, and our grandchildren. As always, if you happen to find yourself back on campus and have a moment, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a stranger. Please stop by Scholes Hall and say hello.

J O I N T H E C L U B : UNM Alumni Association executive director Karen Abraham, left, and UNM President David J. Schmidly congratulate Grace Hernandez Fink, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;58 BSHP, upon her induction into the UNM Alumni Heritage Club (honoring alumni who graduated from the university 50 or more years ago) at Homecoming 2008.

Look for a friend on every page! Keep us posted! Send your news to Margaret Weinrod, The University of New Mexico Alumni Association, MSC 01-1160, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 Better yet, email your news to mweinrod@unm.edu. Please include your middle name or initial! Fall (August) deadline: May 1 Winter (December) deadline: September 1 Spring (April) deadline: January 1

Richard E. Greenleaf, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;53 BA, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;54 MA, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;57 PhD, has had a graduate fellowship awarded in his name through the Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM. He lives in Albuquerque. Pete Domenici, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;54 BSED, is retiring his winter after 36 years of service in Washington, DC as New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senator. JosĂŠ Villa, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60 BA, was appointed interim executive director of the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Areas covering Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Taos Counties. He lives in Alcalde, New Mexico. William Conger, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;61 BAA, will be honored by a retrospective of his paintings, 1958-2008, at the Chicago Cultural Center in January-March 2009. A concurrent exhibition of new paintings will be held at the Roy Boyd Gallery in Chicago. He is professor emeritus of art at Northwestern University, and lives in Chicago. Sandra Salo Deutchman, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;61 BFA, has had a retrospective exhibition of her paintings shown at the Museum of Art at Washington State University where she is professor emerita of fine arts. George Kennedy, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;62 BS, has received the 2008 ER Frank Award from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and its Veterinary Medical Alumni Association. George lives in Manhattan, Kansas.

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URBAN ECOLOGISTS

Bobby Tamayo

AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN GORMAN AND BLAIR BROWN

UNM & Sustainabilityâ&#x20AC;Ś for future generations A message to UNM alumni from UNM President David J. Schmidly

As the principals of PioneerWest, an Albuquerque-based

Blair: From what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen of the plans and in talking with the

urban ecology firm, Susan and Blair have gone everywhere

folks from Mesa del Sol, we are very encouraged that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

from Bangkok to Barcelona, London to Los Angeles studying

going in the right direction.

exactly what makes a people-friendly city. One of their conclusions: they like what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing in Mesa del Sol. (Obviously, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very flattered.)

Susan: As weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve traveled around, visiting cities and developing

the great charms of what Mesa del Solâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be. Also, Mesa

our principles of people-friendly cities, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been tempting for

del Sol envisions a variety of different styles of homes, which

us to think about Mesa del Sol and how closely it aligns with

I think is a good thing. One of the things that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve observed in

our principles.

cities of distinguished design and charm is that there are many different styles blended together. Blair: In a nutshell, we wish we could be the first to live there.

A smart new district designed to celebrate art and industry, the individual and the community, Mother Nature and common sense. Located on Albuquerqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south mesa.

To watch more of the interview with Susan and Blair, go to:

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research connections molecular discovery center: The

National Institutes of Health has selected UNM as one of only nine national molecular discovery centers in the US, with a six-year, $15.5 million grant. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output /index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=7162 biomass breakdown: In the first

year of a $2.5 million, five-year NSF grant, Abhaya Datye, director, Center for Microengineered Materials, is leading an international team of researchers and students investigating how biomass can be converted into chemicals and fuels

cleanly and efficiently—a potential long term solution to energy needs. http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgibin/archives/003096.html#more alcohol research center: UNM has

been designated an Alcohol Research Center by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. The New Mexico Alcohol Research Center has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant to study Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=7068 smart thinking: The National

Science Foundation is establishing a new Engineering Research Center whose goal will be to

supplant the common light bulb with next-generation Smart Lighting. The core institutions in this prestigious award are Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the lead university, UNM, and Boston University. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003257.html#more

cancer research: Postgraduate

vacuum fellows: Joseph L. Cecchi,

researcher Karen Cowden Dahl has received a Howard Temin Pathway to Independence Award in Cancer Research for nearly $1 million to support her study of the progression of ovarian cancer at the College of Pharmacy.

dean of the School of Engineering, and Julia Fulghum, interim vice president for research, have been named Fellows of the American Vacuum Society, a professional organization devoted to the science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing.

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003071.html#more

tiny images: Physics department

researchers have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the WM Keck Foundation to support a research program for real-time images of biological processes at nano and pico scale resolutions. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003181.html

“PROMISE”

D E N N I S L I B E RT Y P R E S E N T S 1 0 1 V I E W S O F T H E S A N D I A S :

#8, “PROMISE”

droplets & particles: Two mechanical

engineering professors and their graduate students are putting together a shock tube research facility for studying the movement of droplets and particles.

Archival Innova paper

For details and purchasing, go to www.dennisliberty.com A portion of sales is donated to the UNM Alumni Association

Dennis Liberty 505-345-3254 | dliberty@swcp.com

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003028.html#more epilepsy study: The Mind Research

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003259.html#more

Network has received a two-year, $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study high-frequency brain activity in infants with epilepsy. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003109.html#more

honorable connections have been promoted to the rank of distinguished professor, meaning they must have demonstrated outstanding achievements and be nationally and internationally renowned as scholars. The five: C. Jeffrey Brinker, chemical and nuclear engineering; Patricia Crown, anthropology; Suleiman Kassicieh, ASM Endowed Chair in Economic Development and Regents’ Professor of Management of Technology; Barbara McCrady, psychology, and director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions; and Gerald Vizenor, American studies. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003067.html#more

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m a g a z i n e

nursing online: The College

of Nursing has received the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award for its online educational program, The Neighborhood.

distinguished profs: Five professors

A 20” x 26” fine art giclée print from the original oil painting

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003232.html#more

book biggie: Associate professor of

history Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz has won the 2008 American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award for his book Hotel: An American History, Yale University Press, 2007. The prize is awarded for the best first book in any field or period of history by a scholar living in western US or Canada.

album David C. Schultz, ‘62 MSME, has retired from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and has returned to Taos. He and his wife, Barbara, enjoy skiing and many other outdoor activities – especially seeing the sun again after many years in Houston. Rudolfo Anaya, ’63 BAED, ’69 MA, ’72 MA, is author of ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO, a young adult mystery published by UNM Press. Also, his Rio Grande Fall is out in paperback. Barbara Harrelson, ’65 BA, is the author of Walks in Literary Santa Fe—-A Guide to Landmarks, Legends, and Lore, published by Gibbs Smith. The guidebook received favorable reviews in New Mexico Magazine and many national newspapers, among them the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Detroit News. Doris Steider, ’65 MA, an Albuquerque egg-tempera artist, has been juried into the 2008 Paint the Parks 100 Competition. She won the Grand Canyon Purchase Award. Bill ‘Siggy’ Siegenthaler, ’66 BA, has retired from the Currier Abstract Company in Artesia, New Mexico, where he will remain as he again pursues his artwork.

Tom Dawe

connections

unm

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003110.html#more top grades: For the second year, the

UNM School of Law ranks No. 1 among top 10 law schools for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business. The UNM School of Engineering is ranked No. 3 among top engineering schools, and the UNM School of Medicine is ranked No. 6 for top medical schools. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003155.html#more one of the best: UNM is one of

the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review’s 2009

Tom Dawe, ’67 BA, is chair-elect to the Senior Lawyers Division of the New Mexico State Bar. Tom is a partner in Lewis and Roca in the firm’s Albuquerque office where he is a member of the commercial, bankruptcy, and tort litigation practice groups. Conrad ‘Rod’ Krebs, ’67 BS, has retired from a career that for the most part consisted of conducting clinical research as a physician in the pharmaceutical industry. He lives near Binghamton, New York, with

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research connections molecular discovery center: The

cleanly and efficiently—a potential long term solution to energy needs. http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgibin/archives/003096.html#more alcohol research center: UNM has

Science Foundation is establishing a new Engineering Research Center whose goal will be to

cancer research: Postgraduate

vacuum fellows: Joseph L. Cecchi,

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003071.html#more

tiny images: Physics department

“PROMISE”

D E N N I S L I B E RT Y P R E S E N T S 1 0 1 V I E W S O F T H E S A N D I A S :

#8, “PROMISE”

droplets & particles: Two mechanical

engineering professors and their graduate students are putting together a shock tube research facility for studying the movement of droplets and particles.

Archival Innova paper

For details and purchasing, go to www.dennisliberty.com A portion of sales is donated to the UNM Alumni Association

Dennis Liberty 505-345-3254 | dliberty@swcp.com

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003028.html#more epilepsy study: The Mind Research

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003259.html#more

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m a g a z i n e

nursing online: The College

of Nursing has received the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award for its online educational program, The Neighborhood.

distinguished profs: Five professors

A 20” x 26” fine art giclée print from the original oil painting

http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003232.html#more

book biggie: Associate professor of

Tom Dawe

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http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003110.html#more top grades: For the second year, the

the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review’s 2009

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universities â&#x20AC;&#x153;doing the right stuffâ&#x20AC;? as cited by the National Council on Teacher Quality in teaching future teachers to teach elementary math.

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university had four National Merit and 10 National Hispanic scholars.

Gallup ranking: UNM-Gallup is ranked third among the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community colleges for granting associate degrees to American Indian students, according to preliminary figures issued by the US Department of Education. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003061.html#more

Medicine student Justin Taylor was one of 11 first and second year medical students nationally to receive a 2008 American Medical Association Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Minority Scholar Award in recognition of scholastic achievement. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release& EntryID=7033 new Fulbrights: In the past five

years, UNM has produced 13 Fulbright scholars, most recently, Alberto Palma and Zachery Watkins. John Smeltzer, who graduated from UNM in May, received a posthumous Fulbright grant.

student connections

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well merited: UNM has 15 National Merit Scholars and 24 National Hispanic Scholars in the freshman class this fall. That is a major increase over last year when the

A for athletes: The combined GPA of the Lobosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 21 athletics programs for the 2008 spring semester was a school-record 3.11 according to the UNM registrarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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album his wife, Katherine Chapman, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;67 BA. Kathy is director of the office of study abroad at Binghamton University. George Bunch, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;68 MD, a former Las Vegas pediatrician, has received the New Mexico Pediatric Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lifetime Achievement in Pediatrics Award. George now lives in Santa Cruz, California. Duff Taylor, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;68 BS, is executive director of gaming operations at Buffalo Thunder Casino for the Pueblo of Pojoaque (New Mexico) Enterprises. Jeff Harris, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;69 BBA, is now president of the Houston CPA Society. Jeff is chief financial officer of Boxer Property, which manages office buildings and retail centers and develops residential communities across the US. RJ Mirabal, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;69 BAED, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;76 MA, has retired after 39 years at Los Lunas (New Mexico) High School. His career included teaching AP classes, music, and drama, and coaching speech teams. He is president of the Land of Enchantment BMW Riders. He looks forward to pursuing creative interests in music, writing, painting, and travel. William Hook, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 BAFA, had a one-person exhibition of his paintings in June at the Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe. He lives in Carmel, California. Felipe de Ortega y Gasca, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 PhD, is Scholar in Residence at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. He was the 2005 recipient of the Patricia and Rudolfo Anaya CrĂtica Nueva Award from UNM. Alex Pattakos, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 BA, was featured as the first â&#x20AC;&#x153;Author of the Monthâ&#x20AC;? on Basil & Spice, a blogsite for syndicated authors and book reviews on a healthy life (www.BasilAndSpice.com). The Spanish edition of his book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Franklâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work, is a Top-10 bestseller in Spain. Alex lives in Santa Fe. Gregory Sargovetz, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 BAR, retired last year after more than 35 years with Shell Oil Products Company and moved to Henderson, Nevada. Retirement lasted four months; he now has a part time job at Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Entertainment at the Flamingo Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas as a lobby ambassador.

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universities â&#x20AC;&#x153;doing the right stuffâ&#x20AC;? as cited by the National Council on Teacher Quality in teaching future teachers to teach elementary math.

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years, UNM has produced 13 Fulbright scholars, most recently, Alberto Palma and Zachery Watkins. John Smeltzer, who graduated from UNM in May, received a posthumous Fulbright grant.

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well merited: UNM has 15 National Merit Scholars and 24 National Hispanic Scholars in the freshman class this fall. That is a major increase over last year when the

A for athletes: The combined GPA of the Lobosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 21 athletics programs for the 2008 spring semester was a school-record 3.11 according to the UNM registrarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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recycling market: UNM master of architecture student Antonio Vigil received a first place award for his entry in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and Portland Cement Association’s sustainable concrete student design competition. Antonio designed an Albuquerque-area recycling center within a local market. More than 800 students from 33 architecture schools around the world submitted designs. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003069.html#more

office. The Lobos have now reached a GPA of 3.00 or better for 11 of the last 12 semesters. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003058.html#more

on the road: Over the summer, teams of UNM and New Mexico State undergraduates examined every mile of every highway in New Mexico.

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students built and raced a small formula-style racing car in the 2008 Formula Society of Automotive Engineers West competition, placing in the top 20 in three major categories. The international competition is one of seven that comprise the largest engineering competition in the world. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003055.html#more

funding connections nursing fund: The UNM College of

Nursing has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust to be used for baccalaureate student scholarships. $450,000 will be used to establish a scholarship endowment fund.

easy transition: Representatives of UNM and Central New Mexico Community College signed a transfer agreement today that allows CNM students who earn an associate degree in liberal arts to transfer into UNM’s College of Arts and Sciences. http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgibin/archives/003048.html#more major building: UNM is working

with the Sandia Foundation to finance two important projects: the first building on the Rio Rancho campus (for administrative and classroom space and UNM Health Sciences Center, CNM, and NMSU activities) and for expansion of the Children’s Campus for Early Care and Education. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003260.html#more sustained studies: While many initiatives aim to make UNM’s campus greener, a program created last fall brings sustainability into academics. The Sustainability Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary minor where students learn to innovate and implement practical solutions for a sustainable future, e.g. in architecture or chemistry. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003234.html#more

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n September 6, the DH Lawrence Ranch in San Cristobal, New Mexico, was the scene of yet another celebration of life. This time though, those who gathered there didn’t come to honor the great writer or Frieda or Brett or Mabel. They came to pay their last respects to Al Bearce, 92, the man who took care of the ranch for the past 52 years. “The watchdog of the Lawrence Ranch” was focused on one mission: preserving the ranch as a recreational and educational facility as Frieda Lawrence had charged him to do. At first, after the death of DH Lawrence, Frieda had thought of donating the 160-acre property to the University of Texas. Al Bearce convinced her to donate it to UNM instead. “Somebody had to have the dream,” says Al’s widow, Mary Barrett. “Al was about seeing the possibilities of things.” After Frieda Lawrence died in 1956, Al moved into the Homesteader’s Cabin on the property. The original homesteader had been John Craig of Illinois in the 1880s. Craig sold the property to William McClure who sold it to Mabel Dodge Lujan. “Mabel wanted it because she was married to Tony Lujan of Taos Pueblo and Tony knew that the property sat right on the Kiowa Trail through which the Indians would ride on horseback once a year to get face paint [almagre],” says Mary Barrett. Al maintained the facility with a scant $1,000 a year budget from the UNM physical plant. “He was a complicated man who knew people,” says Mary. “He knew how to get things done.” Albert Bearce was born in Lewiston, Illinois. He was married three times: first to Irene, then to Margaret, and lastly to Mary. He had two sons and one daughter. As a young man he had been a Boy Scout leader, worked with the Indians of Zia and Cochiti, and trained Peace Corps volunteers while staying on the ranch. UNM hired him in 1951. He was still on the payroll up to this year, making him the longest-running (57 years) employee in UNM’s history. For the facility’s educational component, Al moved some grain storage bins from southern New Mexico up to the ranch to form part of Lobo Lodge. He assembled them into multiple dorms and classrooms, a dining hall, a lounge, a pantry, a laundry room, a kitchen, and an auditorium. Working with a small trickle from a mountain spring on site, he diverted water to a 1,000-gallon storage tank and turned Angelino Ravagli’s (Frieda Lawrence’s lover and eventual husband) old swimming pool into a reservoir to guard against fires. Al brought the 21 Hanford cabins on the property from Los Alamos, where they had been used to house staff for the Manhattan Project. Both Al and Mary got a charge out of tourists who came to the ranch to try to channel the spirit of the writer. “Some visitors claim that the place is haunted and they come up here to meet the spirit of Lawrence, but he never came to me,” says Mary. Al lived only about five hours at the nursing home next to Holy Cross Hospital before he died on July 8, 2008 back at the ranch, a world that he had made his own.

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album Judith Espinosa, ’72 BSNU, ’80 JD, was appointed by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson general manager of Expo New Mexico (the New Mexico State Fair). She lives in Albuquerque. Joe Gandert, ’72 BA, is recipient of the 2008 Charles Driscoll Award by the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He has practiced criminal defense with the Federal Public Defender since 1991. William “Bill” Pesch, ’72 BSEE, has been named CEO at McBride, in San Diego. McBride is a national electrical, data infrastructure, and solar power contractor. Bill lives in Escondido, California. Christi Williams Rich, ’72 BSNU, after 17 years in Phoenix, has returned to Albuquerque to build her dream house in the South Valley. A two-time breast cancer survivor, she is board president of the Central New Mexico affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Kathi Schroeder, ’72 BA, ’82 MBA, has been promoted to editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly in Albuquerque. Kathi serves on the UNM Alumni Association board of directors. Alfredo Vigil, ’73 BS, ’77 MD, of Taos, is the new president of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary for the New Mexico Department of Health by Governor Bill Richardson in 2007. Linda Lepard Weathers, ’73 BUS, retired from teaching at Goddard (New Mexico) High School in 2000. She now teaches dancing at the same place she began taking lessons as a 6-year-old – the Roswell Adult and Senior Center. She is also active in dance in the Senior Olympics. Randy Black, ’74 BA, ’79 MD, has joined Southwest Eyecare in Albuquerque. Jason Shaffer, ’74 BA, ’75 MBA, has joined Washington Federal Savings in Albuquerque as manager of commercial real estate lending in New Mexico. Charles Heasley, ’75 BAFA, is chair of the art and art history department in the School of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Cortland.

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office. The Lobos have now reached a GPA of 3.00 or better for 11 of the last 12 semesters. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003058.html#more

on the road: Over the summer, teams of UNM and New Mexico State undergraduates examined every mile of every highway in New Mexico.

vroom! Mechanical engineering

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funding connections nursing fund: The UNM College of

Nursing has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust to be used for baccalaureate student scholarships. $450,000 will be used to establish a scholarship endowment fund.

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A D O B E A RT I S T: In Albuquerque’s north valley, Richard Levine has been producing adobe bricks for more than 35 years.

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n the south frontage road in Alameda a large white sign

leans against an adobe wall: ADOBES. An arrow points the visitor down a dirt lane alongside an acequia to

New Mexico Earth Industries. Large trees shade an adobe-walled courtyard and a two-story house that serves as NMEI’s office. Drying adobe bricks cover most of the property beyond.

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NMEI’s owner, Richard Levine, ’60 BS, has been making adobe bricks commercially since 1972. He began making them as a moonlighting job while working days as a librarian at Albuquerque Model Cities Library (now the South Broadway Library). A friend from his undergraduate days in geology at UNM was building homes and needed adobes. The bricks netted Richard 5 cents apiece—a good addition to his income. In 1972, he decided to go into brick-making full-time, establishing New Mexico Earth Industries with a business partner. After three or four years, Richard perfected his brick-making technique. He likens the learning period to his stint as a cook in the army: cooking eggs for a large group of soldiers was very different from cooking an egg for himself. Richard could easily make single adobe bricks, but it took him some time to work out the intricacies of mass production. Here’s how it works. First, dirt, water, and straw are mixed in a mud pit (under a cottonwood tree, if you’re at New Mexico Earth). Using a loader, a crew hauls the mud to wooden forms treated with oil so the mud won’t stick after drying. Once full, the forms are leveled and left in the sun. When the bricks are sufficiently dry, the forms are removed. The bricks are stood on their sides to cure, then stockpiled and covered with a tarp. Richard and his current business partners—daughter Helen and son Mark—plus various helpers produce 300,000 to 400,000 adobes per year. Most are made during the summer when curing time can be as short as a week. They can make 2,000 to 3,000 bricks per day when conditions are optimal (good weather, no equipment failures). Bricks not sold during the

summer are stockpiled for sale during the cooler months. Richard says they sell all they make. They once tried making bricks during the winter, carefully tenting the bricks in mini-greenhouses until they were fully cured. At the end of their experiment, they had made the same number of bricks that they could make in one good summer day. That ended that. Adobe is a first-class building material, says Richard. Adobe homes are very quiet inside. If well-built, they use fewer fossil fuels than almost any other type of construction. They combine well with solar applications. They are also forgiving. “You can make a lot of mistakes and still come out with a fine-looking building,” he says. In 1972, Richard sold his adobes for 18 cents apiece. Today, he charges 80 cents per brick. Richard has shipped adobes as far east as the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. They have been used for such unusual purposes as soundproofing a recording studio in Chicago. The horno in UNM’s Maxwell Museum courtyard was built with Richard’s adobes. In 1982, there were 46 commercial adobe makers in New Mexico, according to the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources. Today, according to Richard, there are only five, one of which operates only occasionally. Old adobe makers die and no one replaces them, he says. It’s nice to know that this brick maker has a succession plan: Helen and Mark (two of his seven children). Asked if he lives in the adobe home on the property, Richard laughs and says, “No. It’s a case of the shoemaker’s children having no shoes.” Richard and his wife live in a stick home near UNM.

Joel Johnstone, ’75 BA, retired after 31 years with the USDA Forest Service where he was integrated IT engineering supervisor in the Chief Information Officer’s office. Joel now restores his 1965 Mustang convertible in Albuquerque. Carol Redman, ’75 BAMU, and her husband, Thomas O’Connor, founders and directors of Santa Fe Pro Musica, were 2008 Grammy nominees for their CD recording in collaboration with the Smithsonian Chamber Players of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Dorian/Sono Luminus). The arrangement was for woodwind quintet (flute/piccolo played by Carol and oboe/English horn played by Thomas). Frederick L. Ricker, ’75 BSEE, is vice president of the military systems division for Northrop Grumman in the space technology sector. He lives in Manhattan Beach, California. Dave Sabo, ’75 BS, ’77 MS, has been selected the senior advisor of hydropower at the Bureau of Reclamation. Dave lives in Salt Lake City. Karl S. Ricker, ’77 BS, ’98 MBA, is a member of the technical staff at Lockheed Martin (Sandia National Labs) and does consulting work. He lives in Albuquerque. Richard Irland, ’78 BSCE, of Albuquerque, has joined the Goodman Realty Group as construction manager. Gretchen Cady Kuhn, ’78 BS, has been licensed by the State of Missouri Board of Geologist Registration. She is now working from her home in Springfield, Missouri, as an adjuster for the Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund. Debra M. Sandoval-Woodward, ’78 BAFA, ’83 MA, has received the Distinguished Alumni award from the UNM College of Education in recognition of her teaching and commitment to New Mexico’s children. Debra is an art teacher in the Belen Schools and has taught in central New Mexico for 28 years. She lives in Bosque Farms. Pat Tagart, ’78 BA, is teaching special education in Boise, Idaho, where her classroom serves students with severe and profound disabilities.

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n the south frontage road in Alameda a large white sign

leans against an adobe wall: ADOBES. An arrow points the visitor down a dirt lane alongside an acequia to

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D I G G I N G D U O : Florence Cline Lister and her late husband, Bob Lister, unearthed archeological finds around the world.

t was a time when women weren’t exactly welcomed into the

archeology field, but Florence Cline Lister, ’41 BA, didn’t let that slow her down. The moment her father returned from a trip

to New Mexico in the late 1930s, Florence began a lifelong quest into archeology. Armed with her father’s stories of ancient cultures and burial sites he had seen, she headed straight across her hometown of Los Angeles to the Southwestern Museum to learn more.

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There, Florence peered through a magnifying glass mounted over a piece of pottery. “Somehow, it just reached out to me that this lady [who had used the pot] was from 800-years-ago and her fingerprints were still here,” says Florence.* In 1939, Florence abandoned her UCLA scholarship and transferred to UNM as a junior. To earn money, she worked as a proctor in the women’s dorm and as a secretary in the anthropology department. Florence struggled through her first class in southwestern pottery— a class she says she never should have been allowed to take since she didn’t know anything about New Mexico or pottery. But she made it through and attended the Chaco Canyon Field School that summer. Her project was to locate hematite that had been used in decorating pottery in Chaco Canyon. It was at the field school that Florence eyed Chaco Park Ranger Bob Lister, ’37 BA, ’38 MA, who visited the camp in the evenings to play volleyball and pitch horseshoes. But Florence wouldn’t get to know Bob until the fall when he taught anthropology classes for Donald Brand who was on sabbatical. By spring 1941 the romance between Florence and Bob was in full swing. They married that summer and Bob went off to war, serving with distinction under General George Patton’s command. When he returned, Bob tried his hand at being a cowboy before taking a job at the University of Colorado where Florence spent a year in graduate school. They settled into married and academic life with two new additions to their family: Frank, born in 1947, and Gary, ’78 MBA, born in 1950. The Lister Team was complete.

Not even a 2-year-old and a 5-year old could keep Florence from her beloved fieldwork. Determined to “have it all” at a time when women didn’t have careers much less camp and wear jeans, Florence admits it wasn’t easy. “I washed out diapers and hung them over the nearest sage brush,” she laughs. Despite being around adults most of the time and growing up fast, Gary says that life in the field was like the Indiana Jones movies. “(Anthropologists) Margaret Mead, the Leakeys, and Earl Morris would drop by our house, ” he recalls. Indeed, the Listers gave Gary and Frank a romantic upbringing, camping and living around the world. The boys learned to play soccer on the sands of Wadi Halfa (Sudan). They were accidentally locked in the Tomb of Pakal in Palenque (Mexico). At ages 12 and 15, they gave up a year of school to participate with their parents in the excavation of ruins along the Nile. Gary laughs that “the glamour of digging up dead people became work,” and Frank jokes that he and his brother were raised by graduate students. The Lister Family was truly a team, excavating sites not just in Egypt, Africa, and Mexico, but also in Spain, Morocco, Central America, New Mexico, and Colorado. Together, Florence and Bob authored over a dozen books. Bob died in 1990 while on a field visit to a pueblo cliff dwelling in southeast Utah. Florence lives in Mancos, Colorado. Her most recent book is Chaco’s Vanished Past (Durango Herald Press), published in 2007. Pot Luck (UNM Press), published 10 years earlier, is a personal account of the family’s expeditions. *From an oral history of Florence Lister by Carol Joiner, August 1990.

Amy Wohlert, ’78 BUS, ’80 MS, has been named among the most outstanding and influential women in the business community by the New Mexico Business Weekly. She is interim dean of UNM’s Anderson School of Management. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, ‘79 BUS, is now associate dean for clinical affairs and professor of law at UNM. She was director of a summer law institute in Guanajuato, Mexico, this summer, and is currently working on an article about cultural issues in law to be published by Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. Mike McMaster, ’79 BBA, is co-editor (with Kenneth Hagan) of In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History. Mike is a retired Navy commander and has been a professor for the US Naval War College since 2001. He lives in Carmel, California. Louis J. Medrano, ’79 MSCE, has donated his engineering library to New Mexico Highlands University. Retired from the New Mexico State Highway Department, Louis has recently been involved in major asphalt recycling projects in Juarez, Mexico. Louis resides in Santa Fe. Leslie A. Morrison, ’79 BSPT, ’87 MD, has been honored with a fellowship by the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women. She is a professor at UNM School of Medicine. William A. Ricker, ’79 BSME, practices dentistry in Burleson, Texas, and is a contracting dentist with Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. Ethan F. Goodman, ’80 BBA, ’94 MACTG, has joined the public accounting firm of Porch & Associates in Albuquerque. Kim Hedrick, ’80 BS, ’97 MBA, is administrative director for Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque. Patrick C de Baca, ’81 MD, is a surgeon at the Colfax Medical Center in Raton, New Mexico. Charles R. Farrar, ’83 MSCG, ’88 PhD, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Tina Young, ’84 BSPE, spent the summer in Siberia helping high-school-age Russian w i n t e r

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his is autumn in Albuquerque: clear sunny days, crisp cool

nights, the smell of roasting chile, and hot-air balloons dotting the blue sky.

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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the city’s balloon launch, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

quintessential fall event. The average person taking in a mass ascension from the field has an awe-inspiring view. But as executive director of Balloon Fiesta, Paul R. Smith,’79 JD, has a more global perspective on the event.

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A pilot himself, Paul says flying in a hot-air balloon is “very peaceful and quiet. There’s something about being off the ground and looking down.” As a kid growing up in Albuquerque, Paul used to look up often to see balloons going by on a crisp morning. But he never dreamed of flying one until shortly after he finished law school at UNM. A friend who was interested in ballooning took him for a ride. It turned out that the balloon’s pilot needed some legal work done. Paul helped him in exchange for flying lessons and got hooked. The sport gradually took on a greater importance in his life—he even met his wife, Beth Wright-Smith, through ballooning. Beth is a professional pilot, and flies the Wells Fargo Stagecoach balloon. Part of what makes the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta unique is the sheer number of people involved. The Balloon Fiesta has a full-time staff of 15, including independent contractors. The rest of the work—everything from parking cars to stuffing packets for the pilots of around 750 balloons—is done by about 1,000 volunteers. Another 2,000 or so people volunteer on the chase crews that follow the balloons and help the pilots pack up after they land. “Balloon fiesta isn’t just our staff— it’s the whole city of Albuquerque,” Paul says. He likens the organization to a three-legged stool, with pilots, guests, and sponsors forming the three legs, and staff and volunteers forming the seat that holds the stool together. The challenge is to keep a balance among all three legs; if one is neglected, the whole structure fails. Paul took over as executive director of the Balloon Fiesta in 1997. While

many changes have taken place since then, probably the biggest general change has been the growth and development on Albuquerque’s north side, on what used to be open fields perfect for landing. With less wide-open space there is less room for error. Pilots’ landings have to be very precise. To address this issue, the city of Albuquerque has purchased 16.7 acres of land, preserving it for balloon landing space. The city has also given blanket permission for balloonists to land in all city parks and public golf courses. Albuquerque Public Schools, Central New Mexico Community College, and UNM have all given permission to use their campuses as landing sites. Ballooning is definitely not a sport for control freaks. Once the pilot makes the decision to fly that day, the only control he or she has is to go up or down. Once in the air, pilots look at the weather conditions and make educated guesses about whether to go higher or lower to catch a breeze that might take them where they want to go. Paul says that in ballooning contests he has hit targets precisely in the middle, and on other days he’s missed them by miles. Overconfidence is the enemy of the balloon pilot. Paul says it is important for pilots to remember that they cannot control every flight factor once they are in the air. “The main thing that comes with ballooning is learning what you can do and what you can’t do,” he says. “When you start thinking you’ve got everything under control, you get in trouble.” Most days, Paul enjoys the peace and the view and lets the wind carry him where it will.

students to improve their English skills, before returning to teach at Ernest Stapleton Elementary. She lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Clara Garcia, ’85 AAED, ’91 BSED, ’97 MA, is now assistant editor of the Valencia County News-Bulletin in Belen where she has worked for ten years. The longtime reporter is in training to become the next editor. Marietta Leis, ’85 MA, ’88 MFA, exhibited her paintings this fall at the University of Dallas. She lives in Sandia Park, New Mexico. Robert Masterson, ’85 BA, ’87 MA, is author of Artificial Rats and Electric Cats: Communications from Transitional China, 1985-1986 (Camber Press), a mixture of poetry and short prose pieces chronicling a handful of American students’ adventures in China pre-Tiananmen Square protests. Robert lives in Yonkers, New York Sam F. Bradbury, ’86 BSPE, has received the Certified Professional Ergonomist credential. Sam lives in Santa Fe. Marte D. Lightstone, ’86 JD, has joined the Modrall Sperling law firm in Albuquerque to work in its natural resources practice group. Vicky M. Peltzer Stormo, ’86 MAPA, has retired after 29 years in law enforcement, most recently as Chief of Police at the University of Washington-Seattle. Before that, she worked 20 years for Albuquerque Police Department. She and her husband, Emmet, are retiring in Chelan, Washington. Charles Vigil, ’86 BBA, has been appointed to a 3-year term on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Client Protection. He is attorney and managing director of the Rodey Law firm in Albuquerque. Elaine Rivera, ’87 MA, has joined the UNM Foundation as controller. Elaine lives in Albuquerque. Ann Higgins Varela, ’87 BSED, ’90 MA, is president of Eastern New Mexico University Women, a service organization that benefits charities in Roosevelt County. She has taught in the mathematical sciences department for nine years. Ann lives in Portales. Jami Jacobson, ’88 BUS, ’93 MA, ’99 EDSP, is now principal of Tierra Antigua Elementary School in Albuquerque. w i n t e r

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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the city’s balloon launch, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

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om Ashwill, ’75 BSCE, ’76 MSCE, is working on ways to

tame the wind. He leads the wind turbine blade research efforts at Sandia National Laboratories, experimenting

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“I was always interested in large-scale and challenging engineering problems,” says Tom, adding that the extra challenge of making the blade production “economic” also appealed to him. After graduating from UNM, Tom worked for several private companies before going to the national laboratory in 1981. He worked first in the development of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, sometimes termed “eggbeaters.” His goals were to make the blades work efficiently at variable speeds, and to build unusually large blades using advanced composite materials. He then moved into research of technologies, such as advanced-design tools, manufacturing processes, and fatigue loading for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, the primary style used today for utility-grade power production. Now in Sandia’s Wind Energy Technology department, Tom says one of his primary objectives is to reduce the cost of wind-supplied power by decreasing the weight of the blades and increasing aerodynamic and structural performance. The blades Tom and his colleagues construct are tested at Sandia and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory test site in Boulder, Colorado. A civil engineer, Tom has specialized in structures, design, and dynamics. He says one of the challenging—and most interesting—parts of his work is

collaborating with manufacturers and designers to test new designs and materials to increase the efficiency of the blades. He says he has built blades that look like scimitars for companies. Many times Tom’s team is called on to find and solve problems with existing wind turbine blades, for which they will do non-destructive testing. Tom believes there might be ways to build even longer and more efficient wind turbine blades. He says one major limitation on the growth in blade length is the problem of transporting anything longer than 45 meters, but he is examining ways to place joints in the composite blades so the blades can be assembled at the site where they will be used. Currently the largest wind turbine blade in the world is 60 meters long. Tom says he is now in the process of designing a 100-meter blade. It would power a 13-megawatt turbine, and has the potential to dramatically increase the efficiency of large-scale wind generation operations. Tom says his work is an evolving challenge. Tom’s wind-related interests go beyond his work. In 1987 he got his private pilot’s license and co-owned and flew a private plane for several years. On a less lofty plain, he has been a licensed general contractor since 1983.

Jennifer Stone, ’88 BA, ’91 JD, has joined the Healthcare Planning Council of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. She practices in the business and litigation departments of the Rodey law firm in Albuquerque. Jennifer Bryant, ’89 BS, ’05 MS, is an analyst with the New Mexico Medical Review Association. She lives in Albuquerque. Kathleen Donalson, ’89 BS, ’90 MA, has completed her PhD in curriculum and instruction from Texas Tech University and was named Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year. She is an assistant professor of reading education at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. William Gilbane, ’89 BAFA, ’90 BAFA, taught elementary education from 1996-2005. He received a master’s in science from Wheelock College in 2006. Since then he has taken some time off to catch up to the revolution that has taken place in his first major, photography. Danny W. Jarrett, ’89 BS, ’96 JD, is managing partner at the new office of Jackson Lewis in Albuquerque. His practice focuses on representing employers, government entities, and tribal organizations in labor and employment disputes. Mary A. Johnson, ’89 MA, ’94 PhD, specializes in grief and loss issues at her counseling office in Albuquerque. Mary Payton O’Hara, ’89 BA, and Havona Madama, ’92 BA, have joined with another partner to form the law firm of Madama Griffitts O’Hara, a boutique business law firm in New York City, representing innovative private and small public companies. Denise Torres, ’89 BBA, ’93 JD, has been elected president of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Bar Association. She is a partner in the Las Cruces firm of Saenz and Torres. Susan Brill de Ramirez, ’91 PhD, who we reported in the last Mirage as being an associate professor at Bradley University, is in fact Caterpillar (endowed) Professor of English there. She and novelist Evelina Zuni Lucero, ‘89 MA, chair of the creative writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, are co-editing Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance, a collection

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om Ashwill, ’75 BSCE, ’76 MSCE, is working on ways to

tame the wind. He leads the wind turbine blade research efforts at Sandia National Laboratories, experimenting

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F I R E F I N D E R : By closely examining archeological evidence, Joe Lally can tell you when and where ancient fires originated.

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bout a thousand years ago, somewhere in New Mexico, a

raging fire swept across the primitive walls of someone’s simple little house on the prairie.

We know this happened because the stones are still there, tossed by the ages but still offering at least a vague outline of where walls once stood and still showing the unmistakable signs of soot and smoke.

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His computer models and the scientific method he created to study ancient fire sites gained such a following that when archaeologists working on the second century “Terracotta Army” site in China wanted to reconstruct the fires that occurred there, they called on Joe. Although he didn’t get to travel to the site, he says, the results of his work were detailed in The Terracotta Army (Bantam Books, 2007). When he’s not investigating ancient fires, Joe walks the land where modern fires are about to be sparked – intentionally. “The BLM goes around setting a bunch of fires,” Joe says, “and it’s my job to check out the area first and tell them about any archaeological sites that might be damaged by a burn. … There are still lots of wooden structures with historical value all over New Mexico. Old hogans, sweat lodges, homesteaders’ cabins.” These burns aren’t necessarily the underbrush-clearing “prescribed burns” that New Mexicans know all too well. In some cases, the fires are designed to restore an area’s native habitat. “Sometimes you’ll have an area that’s a native grasslands, and the trees have migrated downhill,” Joe says. “The BLM will go in there and torch the area – get rid of the trees. Burning is a big part of the BLM’s job.” But not before Joe has spent plenty of time wandering around, exploring, paying close attention to those places where the soil appears to have been disturbed. “New Mexico is loaded with archaeological sites,” Joe says. “We’ve documented 150,000, and we’re still counting. It’s not unusual for me to come across a site that has never been documented before.”

of essays and creative pieces about the Native American writer, to be published by UNM Press. Theodore A. Flores, ’90 BA, recently celebrated 14 years at Intel Corporation. He is a lithography process engineer, currently working on Intel’s newest processor project.

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Joe Lally, ’80 JD, ’00 MA, ’05 PhD, an archaeologist and fire specialist for the Bureau of Land Management, has carved a unique niche in his field by approaching these ancient sites with the deliberate, methodical eyes of an arson investigator. A former DA who prosecuted arson cases and who still teaches a course in arson investigation at CNM, Joe says his goal is to provide a few missing pieces to the puzzle of New Mexico’s past—and to remove the pieces that don’t fit. “Some archaeologists like to spin yarns,” Joe says. “They’ll see evidence of a fire, and they’ll start producing theories that it was a ceremonial fire, or it was the result of warfare or ritualistic cleansing, but they won’t offer any explanation, and they might ignore the evidence that is right in front of them. Instead of warfare, it might have been a simple case of, ‘Oops. Sorry, Mom. I dropped the fire.’” As a simple introduction to his work, Joe has a first-glance analysis that anyone stumbling upon such a site can make on their own. “If the site is in a heavily wooded area, and the stones are primarily burned on the outside of the walls, that’s an indication that the fire came from an external source, like a brush fire, something natural or accidental,” he says. “But if the stones are burned from the inside, then you might want to look at human causes.” Pretty straightforward. But hard-core investigations like Joe’s go far beyond that. He uses computer models to help determine the intensity of the fire, whether or not the vent over the hearth was open, whether or not the area vegetation was right up against the structure –perhaps indicating that the site had been abandoned before the fire started.

Marcus E. Garcia, ’90 BA, has opened The Law Office of Marcus Garcia in Albuquerque. The firm provides legal services to individuals and companies for disputes and litigation in construction, personal injury, insurance, business, and employment. Of Counsel to the firm is Kristin Potter Thal, ’96 MA, ’00 JD. Wayne Propst, ’90 JD, is the new executive director of the New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority. He lives in Santa Fe. Cdr. Darrell LaRoche, ’91 BSCE, has graduated from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and is assigned in Rockville, Maryland, as deputy director of the Indian Health Service Emergency Services Program.

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Linda Gabaldon Maxwell, ’91 BAED/MA, has been named Lincoln County’s “Teacher of the Year” and given the “Big Apple”

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aybe there’s more to a superhero’s costume than

meets the eye. It gives the superhero hyper-strength, confidence, and focus. Take it off and the hero may

go unnoticed. for emergencies.

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A lieutenant with Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue, Edith has seen things the rest of us can’t even imagine much less deal with. So Edith’s uniform serves another purpose. When she takes it off, she not only removes some of the grime, ash, or blood she’s encountered, she also leaves behind some of the day’s trauma. Then she can return to regular life. Of course, Edith doesn’t think of herself as a hero. She thinks of herself as a public servant. “It’s not about the glory,” Edith says. “It’s about helping people.” So if you’re looking to help someone out, you might consider it… provided you can deal with the stress. Stress is a firefighter’s near-constant companion. “We go from sleeping at night to 100 percent full on,” Edith says. “There’s no time for waking up and thinking about what happens next. You just do what you’ve been trained for.” When the rest of us go to work, we know basically what we’ll find, even if there are variations on a theme. But when firefighters respond to a call, they don’t know what sort of crisis or danger awaits them. Smoke and flame are the dangers we associate with fires, but Edith adds explosions to the list. “Anything from pressurized cans to bullets to tires will pop on us during a fire,” she says. Does she get scared? “Oh, yeah,” Edith says. “Everyone does, although some won’t admit it.” The scariest calls of all, Edith says, are those that involve children. There’s a huge sense of responsibility in treating and comforting a child. On the other hand, she says, “there’s nothing like having a kid come up to you after you’ve helped out their parent or sibling and give you a big old hug. That’s such a wonderful feeling.”

Edith had thought originally about going into law enforcement, but a college classmate—and firefighter—offered class members a ride on a fire engine and a visit to the station. Edith’s grandfather had been a volunteer firefighter in San Antonio, New Mexico, so she went. After the tour, she was hooked. She enrolled in the New Mexico Firefighters Training Academy in Socorro for firefighter classes and in T-VI (now CNM) for her basic EMT training. (Bernalillo County requires all its firefighters to be EMTs.) After hiring on in 1992, she furthered her training to become a paramedic, and completed her BS in emergency medicine. She was promoted to lieutenant five years ago, and is now the highest-level EMT in her station, in charge of both the engine and the rescue jobs. At the ten Bernalillo stations, four of the lieutenants are women. Occasionally, a task will require more strength than the women might have, but Edith hasn’t found that an obstacle. For one thing, she cross-trains regularly and is strong. For another, she says, “I’ve noticed that when I lack the strength to move something like the guys would, I come up with other ways and still get the job done. I have to think outside the normal box—in the same amount of time!” Bernalillo County firefighters work 24 hours on/48 hours off. Asked if it’s true that firefighters become good cooks in their down time, Edith says, “Some are really wonderful, but others might fix macaroni and hot dogs.” Regardless of the food’s quality, it’s left on the table when a call comes in, Edith says, so “a lot of the time it’s just cold.”

award sponsored by the Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce and State Farm Insurance. She serves as an adjunct professor in the English department at Eastern Kentucky University. She lives in Richmond, Kentucky. Ed Abeyta, ’92 BA, the registrar and director of academic services at UC San Diego Extension, has been selected as the staff advisor-designate to the regents for 2008-09 by the University of California Office of the President. David Loaiza, ’92 BSME, ’93 MS, ’97 PhD, ’01 MBA, has been chosen for the 2008-2009 class of White House Fellows. The Washington, DC resident will be assigned as a special assistant to a member of the White House staff. Havona Madama, ’92 BA, and Mary Payton O’Hara, ’89 BA, have joined with another partner to form the law firm of Madama Griffitts O’Hara, a boutique business law firm in New York City, representing innovative private and small public companies.

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Michael W. Stockham, ’92 BA, has been elected to serve on the central regional advisory board for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas for the 2009 fiscal year. Michael is a health attorney at Thompson & Knight in Dallas. Gary W. Crook, ’93 BAFA, in addition to practicing his art and teaching at several colleges, has started his own radio show, Art Business Mentor – The Radio Show, which airs on Talk Radio 1080 in Louisville, Kentucky. Website links are ArtBusinessMentor.com, and GaryCrookArtist.com.

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namesake elementary school in Odessa, Texas. Young Joe Powdrell, ’70 BSHP, used to look at that portrait and

wonder why the man looked so stern. What made the fire in his hickory-smoked barbecue.

eyes? Joe realized that the difference between a man like Frederick Douglass and his father, Pete Powdrell, was education and access to opportunity. Since then, education has been Joe Powdrell’s calling and the way he approaches the world.

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The Powdrell family moved to Albuquerque when Joe was 11. A sharecropper and laborer by trade, Pete Powdrell had a talent and passion for making excellent barbecue. The family started selling smoked meats with Pete’s Louisiana-inspired sauce to make ends meet. Mr. Powdrell’s Barbecue House soon evolved into an Albuquerque landmark. Joe worked through high school and college in the family’s restaurants on Central and on Fourth Street. After he finished his degree at UNM, he taught high school in California and Albuquerque. Joe eventually took over the day-to-day operations of the Albuquerque restaurants. “When I came into this I had no idea of the intricacies of it all,” he says with a chuckle. “My folks made it look so simple.” Though his business is selling barbecue, Joe is a teacher at heart. He brings the power of education to everything he does. When he returned to the family business, he discovered that it had grown beyond the capabilities of his family members to do everything. His contribution has been to conceptualize their product, create a system for making it, and teach that system to his employees. Texas-style barbecue is a fairly simple combination of a long, slow cooking process, wood smoke, and a sauce that complements the smoky flavor and natural tenderness of the meat. That is, the process is simple when you have a ready source of well-seasoned hickory wood to provide the necessary heat and flavorful smoke.

Hickory wood is strong yet flexible. It produces a fire that burns steady and long. Joe says that his parents’ natural integrity was like hickory. “The fire that fuels our family legacy is hickory,” he says, “…which is strong and natural.” Joe’s parents did not set out to build an empire. They simply supplemented Pete’s income by doing something they loved and were good at. If Joe inherited his sense of entrepreneurship from his father, it was his mother, Catherine, who gave him his educational vision. “She would say things like, ‘you have a good mind; you could be something,’” Joe says. “That’s the hickory fire she started in me.” Joe enjoyed track in high school, and made UNM’s world-class track team as a walk-on. He had the “divine” experience of winning the Western Athletic Conference championship in 1966, competing in the pole vault, and earned a track scholarship to finish his education. He says that he did not know how to wear the honor and glory of track stardom at that time. “I’m from Albuquerque,” he says. “Albuquerque is really modest.” Joe says that when he was drafted and went to Viet Nam, people would ask him where he was from, as in, “What piece of real estate do you give your life for?” It forced him to think about the wealth of pride that the state has adorned him with, and how he wears it. “There is something real special about this place,” he says. “Just by the fact of the location, the way the sun hits it, the people who live here, how they speak, and what they eat. New Mexico allowed the Powdrells to be who we are.”

Kathy Kimball, ’93 BSNU, ’01 MSNU, is the outpatient nursing director with Banner Health Systems at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colorado, but is being promoted to director of case management at Northern Colorado Medical Center, a Banner Health Facility in Greeley, Colorado. Robert Yaksich, ’93 BS, is the instructional coordinator for New Mexico State Parks’ outdoor classroom program. Rob lives in Santa Fe. James Alarid, ’94 BSCE, ’98 MS, is deputy utilities manager of engineering with Los Alamos County department of public utilities. James lives in Santa Fe. Kenny C. Montoya, ’95 JD, adjutant general of the New Mexico National Guard the past five years, has been promoted by the US Army to the rank of brigadier general. Kenny lives in Albuquerque. Anne Weaver, ’95 MA, ’01 PhD, was the first speaker in the “Voices of the Southwest” lecture series at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. She spoke about teaching evolution. Anne lives in Santa Fe. Rachel Anne Alarid, ’96 BA, is returning to the Office of Textiles and Apparel at the US Department of Commerce after a year detailed to the Executive Office of the President, Office of the US Trade Representative. She has completed her master’s degree in public and international relations at Virginia Tech. She lives in Washington, DC. Audrey Shannon, ’96 BA, is a licensed veterinarian practicing traditional Chinese veterinary medicine in Santa Fe. Her mobile business, Animal Acupuncture Vet, includes treatment for dogs and cats, as well as farm animals and alpacas. Michelle Linn-Gust, ’96 MS, ‘08 PhD, of Albuquerque, is the author of a new book, Ginger’s Gift: Hope and Healing through Dog Companionship. Naomi Clancy, ’97 BS, ’01 MD, and her husband, Raphael Clancy, ’00 BUS, and family have moved to Silver City, New Mexico. Naomi is a family practice physician with emphasis on women’s health at the Hidalgo Medical Services community health clinic in Bayard.

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as a high school swimming coach, Dave Barney, ’59 BSHP, ’61 MS, has plenty of trophies—so many, in fact, that he

coached winning swimmers and studied their sport.

can’t keep them all in one place. Some are shiny and golden, sitting on a shelf, and others are walking around Albuquerque today, volunteering for the Special Olympics, perhaps, or raising their children to be kind and respectful. Many are still competing, and they’re enjoying the same sense of

album As a coach and a former teacher at Albuquerque Academy, Dave says his job goes far beyond the dynamics and mastery of moving through water. “The best coaches and best teachers will teach the whole person, not just the student or the athlete,” he says. Seen in that light, Dave could be described as a great coach even if the scoreboard never agreed, but with 30 state champion teams, 191 individual and relay state champions and 62 state-record times, there’s no question about it. The 76-year-old Barney, who was a three-sport athlete for the Lobos back in the day, is a member of the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame and the UNM Athletic Hall of Honor. In 1995, he was the inaugural recipient of the National Swim Coach of the Year award, presented by the National Federation of High School Athletics. In school-against-school swim meets, his Academy Chargers boys and girls have compiled a jaw-dropping won-loss record of 616-63, dating back to his 1967 debut at the school. Still, Dave says the thing that keeps his retirement at bay is the continued opportunity to work with and engage the young men and women under his tutelage. “They are what keep me going,” he says. Dave says he has never shied away from engaging a student on a personal level, and that’s a trait that he says goes all the way back to John Williams, his first swimming coach at UNM back in 1958.

“He was a big influence on me, and not just as a coach,” says Dave, who was an all-conference swimmer in addition to playing baseball and football for the Lobos. “He would talk to us about how we should carry ourselves and about common courtesy. He had a saying, ‘Be natty in your dress and gentlemanly in your manner.’ Not that I always followed his advice in the natty dress part. …” Gary Simon, ’00 BSEE, an All-America swimmer and six-time individual state champ under Barney in 1991-94, says it “was obvious he knew everything there was to know about swimming,” so it was easy to develop that all-important level of trust between athlete and coach, but beyond that, Simon says, it was just plain fun to be on Barney’s teams. “There was a real focus on the team aspect, Gary says. In addition to being a fun, approachable coach, Dave is a serious investigator of the scientific aspects of swimming and of the sport’s history, particularly its Olympic history. This year, as part of the Olympic festivities in Beijing, Dave was a guest lecturer at an academic symposium. His topic was the 1920 US Olympic swim team, which was notable for its historic inclusion of female athletes. Back at home, trying to keep up with the latest incarnation of the spry, young Chargers—practices for the current season began in November— Dave says he gets asked from time to time if he’s considering retirement. “Well,” he says, “I’ll know it’s time to hang ’em up when my enthusiasm goes away, and that hasn’t happened yet.”

Kyle Lee, ’97 MBA, has been promoted to vice president of operations by MIOX in Albuquerque. Erin Ferreira, ’98 BUS, ’02 MA, ’07 JD, is an associate with the Martinez & Hart law firm in Albuquerque. Christy Sigmon, ’98 BSED, is now the principal of Ventana Ranch Elementary School in Albuquerque. Kurt Steinhaus, ’98 DED, was recently selected as the director of the Community Programs Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He lives in Santa Fe. Zack Zazula, ’98 BA, has just received an MS in the management of information technology from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He lives in Ashburn, Virginia. Corrina Burns, ’99 BBA, ’03 MBA, is tourism marketing manager at the Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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Jessica M. Hernandez, ’99 BA, ’02 JD, has been named Young Lawyer of the Year by the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association. She is an associate at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb in Albuquerque. R. Nicole Allman, ’00 MS, has joined Howlin’ Coyote Productions in Albuquerque as a sales consultant. Matthew E. Vitek, ’00 BA, has joined the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as counsel in the Office of General Counsel in Washington, DC. Matthew lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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of the Rio Grande.

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on the planet and became an endangered species in 1994. “I spend a lot of time on conference calls,” Jennifer says. “We’re running out of ways to keep the water flowing. What we want is bigger than what’s on our plate, and as it stands now, we’re over-allocated.” Jennifer says that her office doesn’t really issue YES or NO stamps on water-usage proposals. Rather, a proposal gets reviewed, and the Fish and Wildlife Service then issues an “opinion,” and if the opinion says that a particular plan would lead to the extinction of a federally protected species … well, that’s when the negotiations get a bit trickier. Passed by Congress in 1973, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Nixon and reads as if it was written specifically for our own little minnow. The Act protects species threatened by economic growth and development, which is what got the minnow in trouble, and it also protects the ecosystems where they live, which is what keeps the Rio Grande a sanctuary for fish, migrating birds, bosque plants, and nature lovers. “It’s a very big system that depends on this capacity to move water,” Jennifer says. It’s a tough job, a tough balancing act, and Jennifer says it also includes the occasional emergency run to rescue minnows that have found themselves stranded in a quickly evaporating pool. But despite the urgency of the work and the inevitable collisions with disappointed water seekers, Jennifer says she’s quite comfortable in her own habitat. “This is a dream job for me,” Jennifer says. “I’ve always been interested in public policy and the law, and now I’m able to mix that with work to protect the natural environment.”

Daniel Herbert, ’01 BA, recently completed his PhD in critical studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of California and relocated to Ann Arbor to begin a post as an assistant professor in screen arts & cultures at the University of Michigan. Kassey LeBow, ’01 BAMU, is part of a professional chamber music ensemble, Areon Flutes (www.areonflutes.com). The group recently won the bronze medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the world’s largest chamber music competition. She had her Carnegie Hall debut with Areon Flutes in September 2007 to rave reviews. Kassey lives in Sunnyvale, Virginia. Doreen Winn, ’01 MA, is now the principal of Fort Sumner (New Mexico) High School. Joel Blackman, ’02 BBA, ’03 MAAC, has joined Meyners + Company in Albuquerque as a staff accountant in the assurance department. Valerie Trujillo, ’02 BA, ’05 MA, has been accepted to the University of Florida for a PhD program in Spanish, focusing on Hispanic linguistics. Valerie lives in Davenport, Florida. Jessica A. Yockers, ’02 BBA, has been promoted to the position of manager of the audit practice at KPMG in Albuquerque. Andres Calderon, ’03 MBA, a program analyst for the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General, has completed work on two separate audits of two EPA grant programs focused on water infrastructure improvements along our border with Mexico. He lives in Dallas. Daniel Garcia, ‘03 BUS, has been promoted to cash management consultant in the Southwest Division of Bank of the West, in Albuquerque. Thomas Giordano-Lascari, ’03 BBA, ’05 JD, has joined Valensi Rose, in Century City, California, as an attorney in the practice of tax and wealth planning and transactional law. Anthony Murphy, ’03 BSEE, has joined Intel Corporation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, working as a yield engineer. He is most involved with process control development for the SORT department.

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of the Rio Grande.

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New Mexico state engineer John D’Antonio, ’79 BSCE, and his brothers grew up looking for things to do.

For fun, the trio would ride their bikes out to the drainage ditches that were part of the North Diversion Channel.

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album “We used to ride our bikes down there all the time,” John says. “We used to call them the ‘big ditches or twin ditches’ and a lot of times in the afternoons we’d wait for the water to come down if there was thunderstorm activity up in the mountains. It was pretty interesting just to see the flood flows and some of the flash floods that would come down the ditches.” Those bike-riding days led to John’s first interest in looking at water and its properties. As it turned out, he and his brothers ended up cornering the engineering scene with degrees in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering. John began work as a hydraulic design engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers on his 22nd birthday, and has been involved with water ever since. He helped design water projects, dam structures, and flood conveyance structures for the Corps. In 1998, John began serving as the District I supervisor of the State Engineer’s Water Resource Allocation Program, then as the director of the program from 2001-2002. After spending the next year as Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, he was appointed State Engineer by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. The Office of the State Engineer has a difficult and complex job administering water resources in arid New Mexico. It is tasked with measuring, appropriating, distributing, and supervising all the state’s surface and groundwater, including streams and rivers that cross state boundaries. If that isn’t enough, as Secretary of the Interstate Stream Commission, John is charged with additional duties that include protecting New Mexico’s right to water under eight different interstate stream compacts. He has to assure state compliance with each of those compacts, and plan for water use.

With more and more people moving to western states, all those tasks become even tougher. Demands on water are increasing as quickly as the precious resource evaporates. “New Mexico, Albuquerque in particular, is growing and we need to be able to accommodate that economic development with a supply of water that’s not getting any bigger. One of the things in managing water is making sure that we’re not causing depletions to our systems that are going to put us in a bind later on.” John looks at changes in place and purpose of use. For example, instead of water going into agriculture, where 77 percent of it now goes, some might go into municipal and industrial development to help accommodate the state’s growth. Obtaining buy-in from stakeholders, including water-rights owners and users, and transparency in the processes are important to John. “We try to engage the stakeholders because really they are the ones affected by everything we do,” he says. John points to another of his more important responsibilities—working out a sort of emergency action plan. “What happens if we go through a prolonged drought?” he asks. “There’s a lot of discussion about warming temperatures and precipitation and our snow pack being less. How do we prepare ourselves to avoid some of the crisis and conflict that would happen? What I’m trying to do with the tools I’m putting into place is help manage us through those drought times and the down times.” Then he adds, “I’d like to be remembered as the engineer that was proactive, did the right thing, and put the tools in place for New Mexico’s future. That comes with making hard and (sometimes) unpopular decisions.”

He also spends time advising local Native American students to pursue science and engineering-related occupations. Allison T. Siebern, ’03 BS, earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, completed her internship training at Miami Children’s Hospital in the department of neurology/behavioral medicine, and accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. She will specialize in behavioral sleep medicine and be a part of the multidisciplinary team at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic. Bruce E. Thompson, ’03 JD, has been named a shareholder in the Martinez & Hart law firm in Albuquerque. He practices in the areas of personal injury, insurance disputes, and consumer rights. Jennifer Dawn Herrera, ’03 BA, had her first documentary, Bulldigger, premiered at the Alabama SHOUT Film Festival. She is currently at work on her second documentary. She and Mark Walpole were married in August, and they live in Alexandria, Virginia. Angela Chavez, ’04 BA, is president of the Region XV Hispanic National Bar Association’s law student division. She lives in Albuquerque. Mario R. Perez, ’04 MBA, has been appointed as discipline scientist in the astrophysics division at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. He is in charge of several national and international space science missions and research and analysis programs. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia Denise Sena, ’04 BA, now works as a writer/editor at the National Propane Gas Associations located in Washington, DC. She resides in Rockville, Maryland. Carol E. Briney, ’05 BAFA, is co-author of Prison Coffee Table Book Project, vols. 1 & 2, a collection of art and writings from over 150 of America’s incarcerated individuals, presented in specific format to appeal to all academic disciplines. Carol lives in Canton, Ohio where she continues her liberal studies graduate field research in the calamities of

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revitalizing UNM’s Harwood Museum Sixty-eight is a wonderful age to begin a new career. At least, it was for Robert Ellis, who in 1990 took over as director of Taos’ Harwood Museum of Art, UNM’s oldest art museum and the second oldest art museum in New Mexico, after teaching

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happened to it if he hadn’t taken over,” says Penny Rembe, a UNM regent at the time. Bob came to UNM in 1964 as assistant director of the relatively new UNM Art Museum on the main campus. He later served as director, then taught in the art department before retiring in 1987. Once retired, he moved to Taos to paint. Initially, he had a small house built. Without a lot of money, and recovering from a painful divorce, he did most of the finishing work inside the house and all of the landscaping. Two years later, ready to return to painting, he received a call from UNM Provost Emeritus Chester Travelstead asking him to take over as acting director of the Harwood Museum of Art for six months while the university figured out what to do with it. Bob agreed. 32

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director search and six more months as temporary director, Bob took the position on a permanent basis. The first couple of years, the Harwood limped along. Bob knew it was not going to get a lot of funding from UNM, so he started raising funds for new galleries on his own. Bob thought the Harwood library, vacated by the Town of Taos for a new building, would make great gallery space. Asked how much the renovation would cost, Bob told UNM Provost Mary Sue Coleman, “$400,000,” a number he made up on the spot. Then he added, “I’ll raise $200,000.” She agreed and the first major renovation of the Harwood since Meem’s addition began.

Then a wonderful coincidence occurred. Bob reconnected with internationally known artist Agnes Martin, whom he’d encountered years earlier in California. Martin had just moved back to Taos. One day Bob said to Agnes, “If you ever want to have a show before you ship your paintings to New York, the Harwood would love to do it.” Nine months later, Agnes called. She had 10 paintings, the first she had completed since her return to Taos. She invited Bob and his new wife, Caroline, to her studio to see them and told Bob he could show seven of them, only seven. Bob quickly freed up the Harwood’s schedule. He created an eight-sided room out of the gallery by building temporary walls across the corners. The entry was on one wall, and each of the other seven had a single painting hanging on it. While Bob and his staff were hanging the show, they brought in a chair and had Agnes Martin join them. She sat in the middle of the room and commented as the hanging and lighting proceeded. “The Whitney never lets me do this,” she said, obviously pleased. Halfway through the show, Bob asked if Agnes would donate the paintings, promising her a permanent gallery to exhibit them. She agreed.

The $1.6 million project was finished in 1997. Bob and the board he’d recruited had raised all of the money except the initial $200,000 from the Provost. “I never saw myself as a fund raiser, but when you believe in something, you just talk to people and they give you something,” Bob says.

Opportunity Presents Itself Bob retired from UNM for the second time in 2001. In the 11 preceding years, in addition to realizing the renovation, expansion, and Agnes Martin Gallery, he had convinced UNM to purchase property for a parking lot, added significantly to the Harwood’s collection, and, according to the UNM Foundation, increased the Harwood’s endowment from $11,000 to $1.4 million. Six years after Caroline died, Bob began involving himself with a second Harwood expansion, for a gallery in memory of Taos artists Louis Ribak and Bea Mandelman. Bob’s eyes still sparkle and his affection for the Harwood would be hard to miss. “My life seems to have been guided by opportunity,” says Bob, now 86. His remarkable track record is a result of this simple philosophy of embracing what presents itself.

album America’s prison societies. See more at www.PrisonCoffeeTableBookProject.org. Christine Brown, ’05 BAFA, is curator for the Los Alamos (New Mexico) Historical Museum. Trevor Lucero, ’05 BAFA, ’08 MFA, had a show of his paintings last summer at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Trevor is an Albuquerque resident. Christine Schwatken, ’05 BUS, has joined Daniel B. Stephens & Associates in Albuquerque as marketing coordinator for the sales and communications division. She specializes in technical writing, promotional material development, website design, and customer relations. Justin Taylor, ’05 BS, a third-year medical student at UNM, has received a 2008 American Medical Association Foundation’s Minority Scholar Award, a $10,000 scholarship in recognition of his scholastic achievement as well as promise for the future. Christina Adams, ’06 JD, has joined Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb as a member of the litigation department. Rasa Herzog, ’06 BS, is now program manager for Youth Link, New Mexico Voices for Children. She makes Albuquerque her home. Monica Meihack-Schmutz, ’06 BBA, has joined Granite Transformations in Albuquerque as inside salesperson.

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Ion C. Abraham, ’07 JD, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, has been promoted to associate at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, an intellectual property law firm in Concord.

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Patrick Patten, ’08 BBA, is a bookkeeper with Stride in Albuquerque. Sunnie Redhouse, ’08 BA, of Fruitland, New Mexico, was named to the inaugural UNWIRE 100, honoring the nation’s top collegiate journalists for excellence in collegiate journalism. Sunnie has been writing for a Native American online student newspaper called reznetnews.org.

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Jennifer Herrera, ’03 BA, and Mark Walpole Louis Herring, ’03 BA, and Felicia Anna Marie Herrera

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Warren Hunt, ’04 BSCS, ’07 GCRT, ’07 MS, and Diana Daleo Angela M. Montoya, ’04 BA, and Richard M. Ortiz, ’00 BS, ’04 MS

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Matt Gonzales, ‘04 | Nike

Dionne Marsh, ‘08 | Greek A1 Women’s League

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Charlie Beljan

Lance Watson

Andrew Weber D.J. Brigman

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Homecoming Week—September 29-October 4—welcomed the return of many alumni to their alma mater. Months in advance, the Homecoming committee kept busy planning for the many reunions and educational workshops that took place throughout the week. The Alumni Association sponsored the 7th Annual Campus Decorating Contest on Tuesday. Campus departments decorated their doors and lobbies according to the pirate theme. The winners were announced at the annual Alumni Faculty and Staff Appreciation Luncheon held Wednesday at the SUB Ballroom. The honors went to the UNM Physical Plant which had entertained the judges with fighting pirates, wenches, and cowboys walking the plank. The annual Heritage Club Dinner was highlighted by the induction of the class of 1958 at the Four Hills Country Club. Many who participated in the spring Golden Grad Commencement returned to reunite with fellow classmates. They met for their 50th Reunion Brunch the following day in the Bobo Room at Hodgin Hall. A myriad of alumni reunions took place throughout Friday afternoon and evening, including University Honors, Jewish Foundation, Alumni Lettermen, Spirit and Marching Band, Anderson School of Management, College of Education, Young Alumni, and many more. Several departments hosted educational seminars and demonstrations during Homecoming Week, including Maxwell Museum tours and an Art Museum seminar. The All University Breakfast Saturday honored its Zia Award winners with presentations by UNM President David J. Schmidly and Alumni Association President Judy Zanotti. The recipients were Jimmy Santiago Baca, Teresa Balcomb & James Tryon, Joe Garcia, Patrick Gurley, Terry Huertaz, and Carol Radosevich. Anne Brown received the Lobo Award. The annual Southwest Fiesta Tailgate and Silent Auction was the place to be (and stay dry) before the game kickoff. Alumni and Lobo fans were treated to traditional southwest cuisine served by Cervantes Restaurant. The Alumni Association Silent Auction featured an NFL game day package, lunch for six with President Schmidly, many hotel and spa treatments, ski packages, UNM sports gear, and much more to benefit alumni scholarships and programming. Despite the downpour, the Lobos took charge from the kickoff to defeat Wyoming in a rare shutout, 24-0. The halftime coronation of Homecoming King Nas Manole and Homecoming Queen Aileen Currier was celebrated in style as fireworks lit the sky. Thanks to all our volunteers and staff for making “It’s a Lobo’s Life for Me!” a successful homecoming for all!

Dorothy "Dottie" Lipp Hiller, '36 Geraldine D. Perkins, ‘27 Ernest L. Harp Jr., ‘32 Hazel Berry, ‘37 Victor Glenn, ‘38 Susan Buol Hacker, ‘40 Miriam H. Syme, ‘40 Tonie L. Angel, ‘41 Betty Burton Perkins, ‘41 Erline Dunaway, ‘43 Sidney Presberg, ‘43 Lucille W. Smoll, ‘43 Donald S. Dreesen, ‘44 George Van Lemmon, ’44, ‘55 Margaret “Peggy” Ellen Brannan, ‘45 Seledon C. Martinez, ‘45 John M. Nutter, ‘45 Daniel Ely, ‘46 Harold L. Amoss Jr., ‘47 James Fred Melton, ‘47 Maurine Grace Romme, ‘47 Joe Teeley, ‘47 Arthur L. Valdez, ‘47 Dena Domenicali, ‘48 E. Laverne Dorchak, ‘48 Paul Charles House, ‘48 William H. Huffman, ‘48 Robert G. Schrandt, ‘48 William R. Widner, ’48, ‘52 Alfred H. Zachmann, ‘48 Francis A. Dahlen, ’49, ‘52 Ralph Detzell, ’49, ‘50 Joseph D. Schauer, ‘49 Ralph Girard Stevenson Jr., ’49, ‘50 Oscar Charles Abramson, ‘50 Rose Ellen Martin Calkins, ‘50 Bonifacio D. Fernandez, ’50, ‘57 Ruth Rebecca Giunta, ‘50 John V. Horacek, ‘50 Herbert C. Hyde, ‘50 Robert A. Savage, ‘50 Bradley L. Clark, ‘51 Ronald Hammershoy, ‘51 Githa Lewis, ‘51 Robert Philip Sanna, ‘51 Wesley Thomas Selby, ’51, ‘52 Dorothy J. Sievers, ‘51 Barry P. Barnes, ‘52 James A. Bridge, ‘52 Robert S. Clemmensen, ‘52 Gypsy Jo Hall, ‘52 Herbert C. Johnston, ’52, ‘53 John B. Peterson, ‘52 Henry A. Anderson, ‘53 William Glenn Cordell, ’53, ‘54 Barbara Goss Johnston, ‘53 Arthur Leon De Volder, ‘53 Jerry A. Russell, ‘54 James Lee Gober, ‘55 Louise Wilson Hensley, ‘55 Robert Breckenridge Glascock, ’56, ‘58 Peter Lujan, ‘56 Allen V. Mercer, ‘56 Alice Ruth Morgan, ’56, ‘69 William J. Moulds Jr., ‘56 George Form, ‘57

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Homecoming 2008 Thank You’s and Acknowledgements