Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM

WORLDS CHANGED

CHANGING WORLDS 2020: THE CAMPAIGN FOR UNM SUMMARY

Thanks to you — all 77,022 of you — Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM exceeded its ambitious fundraising goal of $1 billion. The combined gifts from a large and generous extended family of UNM supporters totaled $1,164,785,722 when the campaign closed out on June 30, 2020. In 2006, UNM launched the third giving campaign in its history. It was called The Campaign for UNM and its goal was ambitious: to raise $675 million in private donations in eight years. That campaign exceeded its goal and was extended until 2020 with a new name and a larger goal. Now, with more than $1.16 billion achieved, it is a perfect time to reflect on what those donations translate into and what they can inspire. Your donations have already planted seeds that are beginning to grow across UNM campuses in the form of scholarships and financial aid to help UNM students, grants to help UNM faculty and labs and centers devoted to discovery, improved care for patients at UNM’s hospitals and clinics and enhanced programs for community neighbors across New Mexico. What does your record-setting generosity mean? It means that children with cerebral palsy, scoliosis and other musculoskeletal disorders at UNM’s Carrie Tingley Hospital gait and motion analysis lab no longer have to travel to Arizona or Colorado for therapy, thanks to a new state-of-the art oxygen sensor. It means students studying the French horn, pharmacy, engineering, the cello, chemistry and bilingual education can worry less about money and concentrate more on their studies, thanks to endowed scholarships. It means access to fresh produce and healthy food for people living along the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico, thanks to a health disparities donation to the UNM Office for Community Health. It means a boost for the UNM Anderson School of Management’s New Mexico for Good initiative to encourage students to pursue socially responsible business ventures. And it means one UNM undergraduate student living with a disability will receive tuition assistance to honor the legacy of an alumna who navigated UNM as a student in a wheelchair. Every donation tells a story. And you can read about more donors, what inspired them to support The Campaign for UNM and how their gifts changed worlds in the following pages. If you saw the promise that UNM holds for New Mexico and opened your heart to help, thank you. If you’re inspired by UNM, and can join the thousands of supporters whose donations are vital to the University’s continued excellence and growth, please consider a gift. Large or small, it can plant a seed and from a seed remarkable things can grow.

PURPOSE Academic Divisions Athletics Faculty and Staff Library Other Restricted Physical Plant Public Service Research Student Financial Aid Unrestricted Total

SOURCE Alumni and Friends Corporations Foundations Other Organizations Total UNMF GIFTS TOTAL $256,197,119 $96,969,247 $51,491,084 $19,180,574 $202,149,139 $39,325,323 $107,375,346 $180,210,542 $206,988,618 $4,898,731 $1,164,785,722

UNMF GIFTS TOTAL $473,620,842 $213,704,159 $213,157,611 $264,303,110 $1,164,785,722 PERCENTAGES 22.0% 8.3% 4.4% 1.6% 17.4% 3.4% 9.2% 15.5% 17.8% 0.4%

PERCENTAGES 40.7% 18.3% 18.3% 22.7%

THE NEXT GENERATION

A FAMILY’S LEGACY OF LOBO PHILANTHROPY ENDURES

By Leslie Linthicum

Tom Daulton’s father always donated anonymously to various causes and never talked much about his philanthropy. “He kept that private,” Daulton says. “And he liked it that way.” His father, Paul, was a man of few words and led by example. That example lives on in his son, who today carries the Daulton family’s tradition of philanthropy, especially in regard to UNM. Sue and Paul Daulton both attended UNM in the Tom Daulton 1940s. Paul was raised by a single mother and came to UNM from Colorado on an ROTC scholarship. He took a break to serve in the Pacific in the U.S. Navy in World War II and returned to UNM to graduate with a degree in English in 1947. Sue left college just short of a degree and went to work after the couple married. After Paul graduated, he went into the family business, the 7UP Bottling Co., joining Sue’s brother, John C. Marshall, also a UNM graduate. When Sue’s father died in 1952, the Daultons and Marshall took over operations. In 1980, the family sold the business. Daulton’s parents started giving money to UNM in the 1980s. “UNM allowed my dad to go to college, to come to Albuquerque and meet my mom and have a livelihood that ultimately was successful,” Daulton says. “He felt loyalty to UNM.” Sue Daulton took a special interest in the College of Nursing and donated annually. She also gave to the School of Architecture & Planning and always funded at least three Presidential Scholars each year. Daulton is an only child, and after his parents died he established the Daulton Family Fund at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. Through the fund, gifts continue to be made to the UNM nursing program, three Presidential Scholarships and other local causes. “The praise goes to Mom,” Daulton says. “I’m just keeping it going.” As part of Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM, Daulton himself recently made a generous gift to the University in his will and he is in the last of a three-year annual pledge to support the women’s swim team. Daulton came to UNM to swim and play water polo and, by the time he graduated in 1977, he had captained the water polo team and earned two degrees — in business and in mathematics. “Even though there isn’t a men’s swim team anymore, I wanted to support “I needed a role model, the sport,” says Daulton, who made and I saw how generous the pledge when the swim team was my parents were. So I’m in danger of being cut. still learning about philanthropy from them.” After he graduated, Daulton earned his MBA at the University of Texas at Thomas Daulton Austin. He worked in banking in Dallas for eight years and another seven as CFO of a printing firm before going out on his own as a private equity investor in 1995. With their three children educated and launched as adults, Daulton and his wife, Jan, knew it was time for them to continue the Daulton family legacy. “For a long time, the thought of giving my own money away didn’t resonate at all with me,” says Daulton. “I needed a role model, and I saw how generous my parents were. So I’m still learning about philanthropy from them.”

DIGGING DEEP TO HELP MINERS

ENDOWED CHAIR BRINGS UNM TO THE FIGHT AGAINST BLACK LUNG DISEASE

By Glen Rosales

Yanking minerals from the ground, even in the best of cases, is a backbreaking, health-draining occupation. And all too often, it can lead to long-term illness and even death. In the West, particularly in the tiny villages sprinkled through the backcountry of the Rocky Mountains, miners frequently inhale coal dust that can lead to lung disease called pneumoconiosis — better known as black lung disease. It varies in severity, but sufferers may experience shortness of breath and scarring of lung tissue, which can cause ongoing respiratory issues. “Black lung has increased all across the country, but the capability of rural health centers to treat it has decreased,” says Akshay Sood, MD, a tenured professor in The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Akshay Sood, MD Center’s School of Medicine. “Many medical schools don’t even teach about black lung disease adequately. Not only did it not become extinct, it came back with a vengeance.” The Miners’ Colfax Medical Center in Raton, N.M., is the leading health center for treating black lung disease in the Rocky Mountain region, thanks in large part to an endowed chair it created at UNM’s School of Medicine in 2015.

Through a $1.5 million endowment, Miners’ Colfax is able to retain Sood as its Miners’ Colfax Medical Center Endowed Chair in Mining-Related Lung Disease. The endowment enables Sood, a noted pulmonologist for 30 years, to conduct research, train younger physicians, treat miners and provide outreach. “There’s four legs to the stool,” Sood said of what he does. “I have to be able to conduct, manage and supervise the clinical responsibilities, the educational responsibilities, the community advocacy responsibilities and the research responsibilities. That’s what the chair really does and I think we’ve accomplished all four of these responsibilities really well.” One of the attributes that makes the program so successful is a mobile screening capability in the form of a decked-out, 18-wheeled rig that is able to visit the remote, generally poor, post-extractive towns. Sood visits patients in Raton at least once a month, but via the Internet he is also capable of quickly completing a diagnosis from his office at UNM. The mobile program, Miners’ Colfax’s Mining Advisory Council, of which Sood is a part, and the Miners’ Wellness TeleECHO Programs have been recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for their innovation. The honors speak to the success that the program has seen since its inception. The endowed chair is actually a continuation of a pulmonary program Miners’ Colfax started in 1980 in conjunction with UNM, said Charles Pollard, who manages the program. The endowed chair now allows that program to exist in perpetuity. “We’ve been working at this for a long time,” he said. “We got our first mobile unit in the early ’80s. We take that program and we go throughout the state and the Western states to provide occupational lung disease screening. We look specifically for coal miners, but work with all miners with any sort of lung disease.” When Sood arrives at a black lung diagnosis, it sets off a chain of actions going beyond medical care for the patient. The miner is connected with a benefits counselor to begin immediate claims preparation, Pollard said. And because mine owners generally contest the claims, legal representation is consulted, as well.

“It’s a new and innovative approach to training individuals in the care of miners, fulfilling a critical gap.” Akshay Sood

“We can help the miners out during their claims process and help with all the paperwork,” he said. “And we prepare them to a point to where they can comfortably go in front of a court to make their case known. It’s the backbone of our legal program. We can see what these miners have wrong with them, assess them and further their claim.”

The ongoing collaboration between Miners’ Colfax and UNM allows research to continue even as the miners are being treated, Sood said. “It’s a new and innovative approach to training individuals in the care of miners, fulfilling a critical gap,” Sood said.

GENEROSITY IS ALWAYS ON THE MENU

FRONTIER OWNERS DOROTHY AND LARRY RAINOSEK DO WELL BY DOING GOOD

By Leslie Linthicum

Just about every college town has a beloved local joint that students and professors treat as a campus annex and alumni return to, often with their children and grandchildren, to relive their college days.

For The University of New Mexico, that place is the Frontier Restaurant. And its owners, Larry and Dorothy Rainosek, have done more than feed the UNM community and keep the coffee cups full for nearly 50 years. From their first lean weeks in business, when they didn’t know a breakfast burrito from a bowl of posole, these Texas natives have built a thriving operation that has knitted tightly with the campus across the street. And starting in the early 1980s, with their first gifts supporting the Presidential Scholarship Program, the Rainoseks have given generously to UNM. Dorothy, bustling around the cavernous dining rooms in her turquoise jewelry and Southwestern garb, says modestly that the couple’s four decades of philanthropy to UNM have been part of a relationship of mutual generosity. “What really motivates us is that the community has been so good to us. We have been so blessed.” Dorothy Rainosek “What really motivates us is that the community has been so good to us,” she says. “We have been so blessed.” The list of UNM buildings, programs and individual students that have benefited from the Rainoseks’ generosity over the years is almost as long as the Frontier’s breakfast menu. They have endowed two Presidential Scholarships and fund another four each year. Their names, in recognition of sponsorships, appear on a gallery at the School of Architecture + Planning and in the foyer at The Pit. Most recently, the couple made a major endowed gift to the School of Architecture’s Indigenous Design + Planning Institute, which offers degree programs and works with communities to foster culturally responsive design and planning. Larry, also a fixture at the Frontier and at the couple’s four Golden Pride BBQ, Chicken & Ribs restaurants, says the couple’s parents taught them by example that there’s always a little money available for charity if you dig deep enough in your pocket. Larry, one of five kids raised on a dairy farm in Central Texas, and Dorothy, who grew up in Austin, where her father drove a cab, knew their parents didn’t have much.

The Rainosek family, 1973 “But every Sunday there was a little bit for the church,” Larry says. Dorothy and Larry Rainosek When Larry graduated from high school, he went to work for a chain of restaurants in Austin, married the former Dorothy Garza and they had two children. When Larry wanted to strike out on his own, they rented the 99-seat space at the corner of Central and Cornell. They hoped to become a university gathering place. Selling burgers and breakfast staples, it took the Rainoseks a few years to learn about green chile and breakfast burritos and to begin making their own tortillas. “We really didn’t have much connection to the campus until the early 1980s when our son decided to go to UNM and received a Presidential Scholarship,” says Dorothy. When they told their son, Mark, they could afford to pay his tuition, he suggested they sponsor a Presidential Scholarship themselves, allowing another student to benefit.

That was the beginning of a long relationship between the Rainoseks and UNM. When then-President Richard Peck’s wife, Donna, wanted to raise money to help the UNM Marimba Band replace aging instruments, she called on Dorothy for help. And when Donna invited the Rainoseks to sit with her and her husband at a Lobo basketball game, the native Texans raised on football got bit by the basketball bug. When their daughter, Shannon, also received a Presidential Scholarship and attended UNM, she introduced her parents to the women’s basketball team and they became fast fans and supporters of that as well. As the restaurants did better, the Rainoseks first bought the property to the west, then the Frontier building and expanded to the east, becoming next-door neighbors to the original School of Architecture. “Those students were in here all the time,” says Dorothy. “They were good customers.” First, they decided to offer a scholarship to an architecture student. Soon they realized there should be two scholarships since it is the School of Architecture + Planning. “Then they added landscape as a major,” Dorothy says, laughing, “so we thought we’d better do three scholarships.” Both of their children received advanced degrees from UNM — Mark an MD and Shannon a JD — and they also donate to the University. The Rainoseks, who were awarded honorary degrees in 2014, encourage others to give to UNM, too, no matter the amount.

“Especially the Presidential Scholars,” Dorothy says. “So many of our scholars have said, ‘If it weren’t for this scholarship, I wouldn’t be able to go to college.’ They’re great, great students and they’re our future. It just makes us feel good that we can help.”

HARD WORK PAYS OFF

LEAN YEARS INSPIRE GENEROUS GIFT TO SUPPORT GRADUATE STEM STUDENTS

By Leslie Linthicum

It took Chuck Griffith six years to complete his bachelor’s degree in psychology at UNM. Paying his own way, he chipped away at a degree while working at Kmart and gratefully accepting the homemade meals his concerned coworkers brought him. There was no way he could afford graduate school, even though he would have loved to continue his studies. “That informed my whole life,” Chuck says. After Chuck received his BA in 1976 he went to work, making a living in the tech industry in San Francisco before retiring to Arizona with his husband Michael Lawrence, where they turned their lifelong hobby of making quilts into a small business.

“Education has always been important in Chuck’s world view because of what he had to go through to get his degree,” Michael says. “He understands how difficult it can be and how that impacts your studying.” Chuck and Michael (an NMSU grad in political science in 1978) have made a $3 million estate and immediate cash gift to UNM to fund graduate students in STEM fields, hoping to ease the burden of promising innovators and allow them to pursue the advanced degrees Chuck couldn’t afford. Irma Rocio Vasquez is the first recipient of the Charles Griffith Graduate Fellowship in Science and Technology, and she knows a bit about scrimping through lean undergraduate years. Vazquez moved with her parents to Albuquerque from the Mexican state of Chihuahua when she was three years old. As she was graduating from West Mesa High School and making plans for college, she found that her immigration status as a Dreamer prevented her from accessing federal financial aid. So she cobbled together some scholarships and waited a lot of tables.

“Every single weekend, double shifts,” she says. “It was hard, but I learned from it and grew from it.” She received a BS in mechanical engineering with honors in 2019 and decided to immediately pursue a PhD. “When I received this scholarship, I was incredibly grateful,” she says. It covers her full tuition, allowing her to put her waitressing apron away and concentrate on her work with Assistant Professor Nathan Jackson’s research group, working to develop a new more efficient class of piezoelectric polymer components. She hopes to one day create a technology that might be wearable — for example a patch that could sense a wearer’s heart rate or blood sugar level. That is exactly the kind of student Chuck, 68, and Michael, 69, had in mind when they decided to make gifts to UNM. They hope Irma and others who benefit from their endowed graduate fellowships for decades to come might help make the world a better place.

Irma Rocio Vasquez

The two met in Oakland in 1979. Chuck was working for the Social Security Administration and Michael was at ADT Security. Their offices were blocks apart. They were in the Bay Area at the birth of the tech industry and both picked up programming and made careers in computer science. “We were fortunate to be at the right place at the right time for the tech boom,” says Michael, who worked with Microsoft as a software analyst while Chuck worked for pharmaceutical companies. “And we lived below our means. That’s just kind of who we grew up as. And we were fortunate and we just want to give that back.” The couple lived and worked in San Francisco for 40 years and married in 2013. They have no children and decided together that UNM would be the best recipient of their living trust. “UNM has a history of putting out really talented people,” Michael says. They chose to direct their donations to scholarships to have an immediate impact. “We believe that a person makes differences,” says Michael. “If you can invest in a person, that can be 60 years’ worth of them giving back to society.” And they restricted their gift to the hard sciences, because they believe that is where innovations can occur that might solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. “We focused specifically on graduate fellowships, because at that point they’ve proven themselves to some degree. If we can help them in fields that are important to us — science, technology, engineering and math — we think they might be able to contribute and make a difference.”

HONORING LIVES WELL LIVED

PARENTS FROM THE GREATEST GENERATION INSPIRE $1.7 MILLION ESTATE GIFT TO UNM STUDENTS AND POPEJOY HALL

By Maryellen Missik-Tow

Mary Cathren Harris’s parents valued hard work and saving a dollar. Her father, Jay J. Harris, a native of Mississippi, was born in 1911, the son of a railroad engineer, and proudly served in World War II. He graduated from Texas Christian University and began a successful career in the Southwest as a consulting geologist. He was resourceful, diligent and hardworking. Her mother, Cathren Schnorr Harris, the daughter of a Kansas coal miner, was an accomplished writer, poet and loved all things connected with Native Americans. She would frequently share stories with Mary Cathren about her life and the struggles her family endured during the Great Depression and World War II. Mother and daughter co-owned the Turquoise Lady of Old Town and worked together side-by-side for nearly 30 years.

Mary Cathren Harris, a UNM alum, and her husband Tom Barger, a University of Florida graduate, both earned master’s degrees and had successful careers. They met each other dancing in Albuquerque of all things, married in 1981 and share a love of the arts, ballroom Cathren Schnorr Harris Jay J. Harris dancing, and a passion for animals. They also have discovered the rewards of sharing their success with others. The couple started planning an estate gift initially to honor Mary Cathren’s mother, after she passed away at the extraordinary age of 103 in 2018. The Cathren Schnorr Harris Endowed Scholarship will benefit a UNM undergraduate student working as an intern at Popejoy Hall. In addition, $200,000 will be awarded to the Popejoy Hall Excellence Fund, the first endowment for programming, operations and outreach. The Jay J. Harris Memorial Scholarship supports promising and deserving undergraduate students in the department of Earth & Planetary Science in the College of Arts and Sciences by assisting them with the cost of their education. Donating in the memory of Mary Cathren’s parents gave the couple such joy they decided to continue giving with a third scholarship in their names and in a tribute to Tom’s 38-year career as an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. The Tom Barger II and Mary Cathren Harris Scholarship in Engineering will support students pursuing STEM degrees. Harris and Barger hope the UNM scholarship recipients will achieve their career goals, value the importance of hard work and make a difference in their community, just like Cathren Schnorr Harris and Jay J. Harris did so many years ago.

Photo: Kim Jew Portraits

Mary Cathren Harris and Tom Barger

ENGINEERING A LEGACY

GIFTS OF $4.4 MILLION REFLECT DANA WOOD’S PASSIONS

By Amanda Gardner

His colleagues called UNM engineering alumnus Dana Wood the “Code Master.” That’s because he was so fast at writing computer code, says his brother, Doug Wood. Sadly, Dana Wood, who received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from UNM, died of cancer in 2013. But his gifts to UNM — a total of $4.4 million over the course of Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM — are helping train new generations of Code Masters and ensuring that the UNM School of Engineering and other departments stay at the top of their fields.

“There is no doubt that this generous gift by the Dana Wood family has been a game-changer,” says Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering Chair and Distinguished Professor Mahmoud Reda Taha.

The most recent gift from the Dana Wood Estate was $3 million given in 2018 to the School of Engineering. The lion’s share of that — $1.5 million — went to the UNM Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) LOBO motor sports program, now named the Dana C. Wood FSAE Racing Lab. The program, one of the few of its kind, gives Dana C. Wood students course credit for designing, building and ultimately racing Formula-1/Indy-style race cars, which program founder John Russell, PhD, describes as “Indy-500 cars cut in half.”

“The biggest impact is room to build the cars,” says Russell, who is also professor of mechanical engineering. The program now has just over 7,000 square feet (up from 1,000) in which to simultaneously build internal combustion vehicles and its first electric car, set to debut in 2022. The funds also enable the program to purchase equipment and supplies to build the cars in-house. Race cars were one of Dana Wood’s passions. He flew his jets (another passion) to events around the country. “He met both the older and younger Unsers at races and he flew to the Indianapolis 500 two or three times,” remembers Doug. Another portion of the gift — $500,000 — has gone to the Dana C. Wood Materials, Structures and Computer Lab at the School of Engineering, which opened in May. Two new 3D concrete printers, as well as 3D carbon fiber printing technology, place UNM firmly in the forefront of creating a radically different future for construction. 3D may pave the way for new materials to replace cement. That, in turn, may one day help build settlements on Mars or the moon. “You just need to send the robot and the 3D printer,” says Taha. The remaining $1 million creates an endowed department chair in the Department of Civil

Engineering. Wood’s estate has also donated money for scholarships at the School of Engineering.

After doctors diagnosed Wood, a Gallup native, with cancer, he sought treatment at some of the biggest names in cancer care, including MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic, but eventually came home to New Mexico, where doctors at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center cared for him. In gratitude, his estate bequeathed $750,000 to create an endowed chair at the Center and, more recently, $200,000 for general operating expenses.

Wood took a job at Bohannan Huston Inc. right out of college and was instrumental in a spinoff company called Diginetics, where he helped develop one of the first Computer Aided Design programs for civil engineering. He eventually rose to lead Diginetics and later developed a software called PowerMerge that synced files on different computers — a precursor to the Internet and cloud storage. He and associates later launched Leadertech, a software firm with offices in Albuquerque and Los Angeles.

As his career flourished, Wood kept tight ties with the place that built the foundation of his career in engineering innovation.

“Dana was passionate about UNM,” says Doug Wood.