THE MAGAZINE OF THE NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Mercury Rising NAU climate researchers work to make sense of soaring global temperatures

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Two for the Road to Gold Alums Mike Jankowski, ’98 B.S., and Michele Gleich, ’92 B.S., go Olympic in Torino p. 12 Behind the Mike Phoenix radio personality and former class clown Tim Chelgren (attended) gets serious—sort of p. 14

Left to right: associate professors George Koch and Bruce Hungate

ALSO: For NAU students who spent spring break rebuilding after Katrina, it was a labor of love. p. 16

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Olympic

FEATURES Ringers 12 Mike Jankowski, ’98 B.S., and Michele Gleich, ’92 B.S., carry a torch for NAU—and the Olympic Winter Games in Torino.

Top of the Dial 14 Meet Tim Chelgren, aka Tim Hattrick (attended), the NAU half of Phoenix’s famous “Tim & Willy in the Morning” radio show on KNIX.

Thoughts What matters 4 most? Sharing old—and making new—memories. Join us for Homecoming and do both.

Links Casting calls, new 5 faces, Fulbright Scholars and all the newsletters fit to email.

Journeys NAU spring 16 breakers help rebuild Mis- sissippi after Hurricane Katrina.

Connections Find out

DEPARTMENTS 18 what’s been happening with your NAU classmates.

▲ Lake Powell through the arch. —Photograph by Corbis International

Cover Photo NAU was one of four universities selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to par- ticipate in The Climatic Change Research Project to study the effects global warming. NAU associate professors Bruce Hungate and George Koch are leading the charge. —Photograph by Michael Mertz

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PUBLISHER, Molly Williams MANAGING EDITOR, Krista Perkins, ’98 Most [email protected] It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things EDITOR, Anne Walden [email protected] are infinitely the most important. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle NAU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT, Sam Leyvas, ’97, Phoenix t seems that we only realize what is truly important to VICE PRESIDENT, us when we are faced with disaster. With the annual Clifford E. (Kip) Alexander III, ’94, Flagstaff IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT multitude of fires and other devastating weather in Rhian Evans Allvin, ’94, Vail, Ariz. I TREASURER the nation and around the world, I have entered a dialogue John M. Clark, ’77 & ’81, Oracle about what people would take if they had a limited amount PARLIAMENTARIAN Barbara McCloud, ’78, Phoenix of time to gather their most prized possessions. Evacuees Marc Atonna, ’95, Tempe take photos, artwork, childhood remembrances, jewelry, Mike Beatty, ’77, Prescott important papers and the like. It is not the “retail” goods LaTrice Brewster, ’92, Tucson Wayne L. Connelley, ’76, Phoenix that are important to us, but the things that evoke special Joy Gaeraths, ’98, Chandler times, places or people—our memories. Ira Greenspan, ’71, Phoenix José E. Herrera, ’96 & ’01, Gilbert Huddle up. NAU spring We hope you can join us this year for Homecoming, Debra Himes, ’75, Gilbert Gerald P. (Jerry) Marchal, ’60, Fountain Hills breakers aid victims of Katrina. October 21, to solidify and rekindle your memories of Yvette Martin, ’92, Phoenix NAU. We would love to see you, so make plans to join us Dick Nothstein, ’59 & ’63, Palmerton, Pa. Kimberly Ott, ’82, Flagstaff on the mountain campus. A great variety of events and activities are planned (see Marvin Peterson, ’61 & ’70, Redding, Calif. the back cover for listing). Paul J. Peterson, ’00, Phoenix Heidi Shoen, ’72, Flagstaff In this issue of PINE, read about the tremendous role NAU’s faculty play in moni- Daniel Slayton, ’78 & ’91, Flagstaff toring climatic change (page 8). Live vicariously through two alums whose day jobs Gary Tom, ’71 & ’75, Fredonia, Ariz.

included the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino (page 12). And learn how the class EX OFFICIO clown became a successful radio personality (page 14). We are humbled to bring you NAU PRESIDENT, Dr. John D. Haeger photos and updates from the amazing work of NAU students in hurricane-ravaged VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY Mississippi in Journeys (page 16). And as always, join us in celebrating your class- ADVANCEMENT, Molly Williams NAU ATHLETICS DIRECTOR, Jim Fallis mates’ successes in Connections (page 18) and remember those whom we have lost LIFETIME MEMBER, Dr. Joseph C. Rolle, ’41 in Memoirs (page 21). I leave you with a message from our PINE editor: LIFETIME MEMBER, Robert E. Crozier Jr., ’53 & ’71 Whenever we offer a reader’s survey, there’s some nail biting as we wait for STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT, Eric Norgard results. We want you to like us, really like us. Because so much of our work life is NAU OFFICE OF ALUMNI & CONSTITUENT RELATIONS dedicated to creating the magazine, it’s wonderful to hear that you appreciate its ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR, subjects, style, and institutional message. We also hope your answers will convert Krista Perkins, ’98 COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS, into metrics that encourage continued funding for PINE and other related pro- Anne Walden grams. Most of all, your response means your relationship with NAU is reciprocal, VOLUNTEER AND STUDENT PROGRAMS, Julie Ward and that by keeping connected you remain a dynamic participant in the university’s REUNIONS AND EVENTS COORDINATOR, evolution (see results, page 7). Beth Martin ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE, Judith Burk Please remember that you are always welcome to weigh in on PINE, alumni EVENTS COORDINATOR, SENIOR, Toni Fox events, the Alumni Association in general, and the university’s present and future. REUNION AND EVENTS COORDINATOR, SENIOR, Erin Bertelsen, ’01 Just email me at [email protected], or send your comments via our website, PUBLISHING CONSULTANTS naualumni.com/feedback. We look forward to hearing your side of the story. EDITOR, Allison Thomas ART DIRECTOR, Lisa Altomare Until next time, PREP SPECIALIST, Julie S. Fong PRODUCTION MANAGER, Laura Marlowe NAME AND ADDRESS CHANGES V.P./CREATIVE SERVICES, Beth Tomkiw To submit address and name/marital status ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR, Robyn LaMont ’96 Krista Perkins, ’98 MCMURRY CEO, Chris McMurry, ’87 changes, call the NAU Office of Alumni Relations Managing Editor PINE is published twice annually by McMurry, toll-free at 888-628-2586 (888-NAU-ALUM), 1010 E. Missouri Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85014. For more information about custom publishing, call McMurry at 888-626-8779. All editorial content © 2006 NAU Alumni or email [email protected]. Association. All rights reserved. PINE is a registered trademark of NAU Alumni Association. Anne Walden Vol. 7, No. 4. Editor Send your letters to the editor to: PINE Box 6034 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6034 4 Fall 2006 I naualumni.com Or email [email protected]

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Corrections • In the spring 2006 PINE, we printed the wrong grad year for Dorothy Jean “Dee” Strickland Johnson. The correct year is 1956. •The AIS article on page 6 misidentified graduate students Shawn Kelley and Fulbright Scholars, Pharaohs Ferrell Secakuku’s funding, which was actually from and Far Away Stars Hooper Environmental Research awards. ong ago and far away. This phrase aptly Cruz-Uribe will teach ancient history at • In response to our recap of describes the research targets of NAU’s Egypt’s South Valley University, while recording the 1965 Blue and Gold Class 2006-2007 Fulbright scholars, Professors and translating Egyptian graffiti from historic sites L Reunion, ’64 grad Paul Dodds Kathy DeGioia Eastwood and Eugene Cruz-Uribe. dating back from 600 B.C. until A.D. 300. Written and several others reminded us Eastwood’s telescopic sights will take her to in demotic, the vernacular of the day, these writ- the University of La Serena in Chile, where she’ll ings reveal Egypt’s reaction to its loss of internal that NAU wasn’t Arizona State teach a stellar astronomy course for the fall semes- control and suppression by the Persians and later Teachers College back then, but ter and continue her work: measuring massive the Greeks and Romans. “The discovered texts rather Arizona State College. stars only visible from the Southern Hemisphere. provide the framework for analysis of social struc- For the record, the university’s Eastwood’s research determines the mass of tures and change over time,” Cruz-Uribe says. name changes are as follows: stars by measuring their orbit around one another. Popularly known as “The Egypt Guy,” Cruz- Northern Arizona University, Theoretical models are then compared to her Uribe integrates the results of his research into May 1, 1966 research, which determines whether or not the the courses to bring the concepts to life for stu- Arizona State College, theories were modeled correctly. dents. His ability to vivify history has brought July 1, 1945 Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff him international acclaim; he was recently quoted Arizona State Teachers College collaborates with Eastwood in her research. “A in a Discovery News article on the recovery of the at Flagstaff, July 1, 1929 theoretical understanding Tut mummy’s sex organ. Northern Arizona State Teachers of these unusual stars is While in Egypt, Cruz-Uribe also hopes to host important to under- a study tour as part of NAUAA’s Travel Program. College, July 1, 1925 standing the evolu- Those lucky enough to recall his guest turn at last Northern Arizona Normal tion of our galaxy year’s King Tut Exhibit event—he had the Tut School, March 11, 1899 and of the universe crowd rocking, leading them in spelling out the as a whole,” hieroglyphic version of N-A-U: “Water! Vulture Paul was kind enough to forgive Eastwood says. Sign! Quail Chick!”—will be eager to join him on our goof: “I suspect that we old The layout of the another spirited quest. timers have made mistakes stars surprised Eastwood the first now and then—but we have, of UPDATE: Check in with the Alumni Office for time she visited South America. course, forgotten about them.” “My favorite constellations were details on a special trip to Egypt with Eugene upside down,” she laughs. Cruz-Uribe. It will fill up fast! 888-NAU-ALUM

To Be or Not to Be? Definitely to Be

Preliminary casting calls are out for the 30-year Theatre Reunion, set to premiere in spring or summer 2007. A variety of roles are available (Revelers, Reminiscers, Leading Ladies, Characters); stage managers and supernumeraries (beer-carriers?) are welcome. Have your agent contact reunion coordinator Erin Bertelsen, [email protected] or Rev. Curt Miner, ’77, [email protected].

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he NAUAA National Superintendent/Principal of same sense of excitement, Board of Directors is the Igo-Ono-Platina School ownership and commitment T pleased to welcome District. “I was born and raised to NAU in other alumni.” four new members as of July 1, in Flagstaff, and probably spent •Gary L. Tom, ’71 & ’75, Music 2006. Each member will serve more time on campus than and Education, Fredonia, Ariz. three years, with an option to re- some of the staff. No matter Gary is Chairman of the Kaibab up for a second three-year term: which organization I was in Band of Paiute Indians. “Educa- •Kimberly A. Ott, ’82, Mass at NAU, we spent most of our tion has always been a priority,

Communications, Flagstaff. Kim time on traditions and service, and NAU has been a big part Ph t h b A d W d/Lif Fil serves as Public Information helping others.” of that process to me. I have a Officer for the City of Flagstaff. •The Honorable Daniel Slayton, particular concern that Indian She says, “I loved the quality edu- ’78 & ’91, Sociology and Justice students who attended NAU cation I received at NAU – the Studies, Flagstaff. Dan is a should be active and informed.” best university in the State of Judge for the Coconino County We’d also like to take this Arizona. Being a proud graduate Superior Court. “As a fourth- opportunity to thank our out- and working to get other alumni generation native of Flagstaff going board members for their involved and active is a great way and third-generation graduate outstanding service and invalu- for me to give back to NAU.” of NAU, I believe I bring a very able friendship: Mark D. Popejoy •Marvin Peterson, ’61 & ’70, deep sense of history and com- ’93, Harry W. Sloan, Jr. ’72, The Elementary Education, Redding, mitment...and would endeavor Honorable John T. Sprott ’59, Calif. Marvin retired in 2001 as to encourage and reinforce that and John A. Trujillo ’92.

CALLING ALL NEWSHOUNDS

Even though the PINE is now a quarterly publication, we know that’s not enough for your inquiring minds. Fortunately, our access to new technology is allowing the NAUAA to keep pace with news on the gallop, through our cutting edge e-newsletters: • Now in its fifth year, the inimitable LouiE-News is a fast, timely, and occasionally playful monthly e-newsletter dedicated to alumni events, university news and athletics, spotlights on university initiatives and reflections on the people and ideas that create NAU’s remarkable community. Get on the inside track at naualumni.com/LouieNewsSignup. • NAU Alumni Who’s News is our new monthly online publication, dedicated to the latest alumni happenings—weddings, births, alumni gatherings, new jobs, job promotions and more—from NAU alumni around the world. Compiled in an easy-to-read format (no ads or edi- torials) and organized by class year, Who’s News keeps you informed about the friends and classmates who made your college years extraordinary. Sign up now at naualumni.com/wn. The NAUAA online newsletters are available free, in both graphic and text formats. Stay connected with friends and classmates and the dynamic NAU universe. Subscribe today!

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Alumni Campus Abroad: Italy May 25 - June 5, 2007 Photograph by Andrew Ward/Life File Ward/Life Andrew Photograph by But Will They Learn to Play Bella Italia beckons with la the Didgeridoo? dolce vita! Spend five days in both Sorrento and Orvieto—an n a dead cert, fair dinkum trip Down Under, the NAU Shrine of the Ages Choir, under the exclusive educational, cultural direction of Dr. Edith A. Copley, will tour Australia and New Zealand in May 2007. Alumni and travel experience. I and friends are invited to accompany their “mates” on this incredible adventure. The tour begins on the North Island of New Zealand, with concerts in Auckland and Napier. NZ Scandinavia Discovery stops include Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World & Antarctic Encounter, the Auckland Museum, July 26 - August 5, 2007 the Sky Tower, the Wairakei Thermal area in Rotorua, Huka Falls, the glowworm caves and a Maori Experience the romance and Hangi Feast and Concert. drama of the Nordic lands. Next stop is Sydney, Australia, where the group will perform with a local university choir and Enjoy first-class accommoda- chamber orchestra. They’ll tour the famous Sydney Opera House, with the option of buying opera tickets for an unforgettable evening. In Melbourne they’ll visit Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary, tions while visiting Norway’s St. Paul’s and St. Patrick’s Cathedrals, Parliament House, the Botanical Gardens, and Victoria most beautiful cities, Bergen Market, ending on a harmonious note with a second concert accompanied by chamber orchestra. and maritime Oslo, and then it’s Shrine and University Chorale alumni are invited to sing the final set on to cosmopolitan Stockholm. of the concert. Cost per person is $3,450, including round-trip airfare from Alumni Campus Abroad: Phoenix, internal flights to and from Australia, full breakfast and To learn more, please Rhine River Cruise dinner every day, motor coaches in New Zealand and Australia, contact the NAU September 19 - 27, 2007 and all tips and entrance fees. Choral Studies office Sail the legendary Rhine River Pack your kit and call today—the wonders of Oz await! at 928-523-2642. from historic Bonn, Germany to the beautiful French city of Strasbourg aboard the Dutch river cruiser MS Heinrich Heine. You S aid It Special lectures at unique loca- Many thanks to all who responded to our spring 82.5% say that PINE has positively tions will enhance your insight 2006 PINE Reader’s Survey. Congratulations to influenced their opinion of NAU. into this remarkable region. Chris Brooks, ’99 B.A.I.L.S., who won the $100 42.2% keep PINE for future refer- Amazon gift card. The survey results were both ence, and 41.1% pass along information interesting and helpful, as we strategize the For more information from the magazine. direction of future communications: on these or future travel 43.8% apparently haven’t visited the programs, please call 888- 95.7% of respondents rated PINE articles website, naualumni.com—and we’re thinkin’ NAU-ALUM (628-2586) or interesting to very interesting. it’s time you did! email [email protected].

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he way Bruce Hungate sees it, make sense of today’s rising global Heglobal warming is more thana a temperatures, melting ice packst and T discussion for politicians or just changing temperature and precipitation another item on the six o’clock news. “It patterns. NAU is one of four national has the potential to radically change life universities—along with Duke, Penn on earth and impact plants and animals in State and Michigan Tech—that the a profound way,” says the associate pro- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has fessor in the Department of Biological selected as a regional center for the Sciences at NAU. “It’s important that we National Institute for Climatic Change understand how global warming affects Research (NICCR). precipitation, changes in the atmosphere The climate study promises to influ- and how plants, animals and microorgan- ence both scientific understanding and isms respond and react.” public policy. Sponsored by the DOE’s Hungate is determined to find Office of Biological and Environmental answers to today’s vexing questions. Research, The Climatic Change Research He and fellow NAU associate professor Project will fund approximately $42 George Koch have spent years investi- million in grants over the next five years. gating how greenhouse gases impact Scientists will examine the effects of atmospheric and climatic change. Now, potential climatic changes on U.S. ter- they’re leading a broader initiative to restrial ecosystems and how terrestrial Photography by: Nano Calvo (top), Michael Mertz (bottom) (top), Nano Calvo by: Photography

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FFdPNFA06_08-11_DOEdPNFA06_08-11_DOE GGrant.inddrant.indd 8 88/22/06/22/06 9:25:329:25:32 AMAM BRUCE HUNGATE Title: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Education: A B.A. in music and English from Stanford University, a B.S. in biological sciences and a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Expertise: Ecosystem processes, particularly biogeochemical responses to global changes, such as rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change and altered land use. On his work: “It’s rewarding to shape the future of climatic research.”

GEORGE KOCH Title: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Education: A B.S. and Ph.D. t in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Expertise: Over the last 14 years, he has studied the effects of carbon dioxide on plants and terrestrial eco- systems—having worked for Swedish research institute International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme before coming to NAU. On his work: “This initia- tive will help us understand how ongoing and predicted changes in climate will affect the distribution of forests, grasslands and deserts.”

FFdPNFA06_08-11_DOEdPNFA06_08-11_DOE GGrant.inddrant.indd 9 88/22/06/22/06 9:28:189:28:18 AMAM ecosystems affect climatic systems. a reality.” Adds Koch, who specializes years, powerful hurricanes, extreme NAU’s regional office will oversee in plant ecophysiology: “This project temperature variations and marked approximately $8 million in grants, has the potential to make a significant differences in precipitation patterns which cover a 13-state Western region, impact. It is a coordinated effort among have become commonplace. Retreat- including Alaska and Hawaii. the scientific community.” ing ice caps and changing ocean Says Hungate: “There is a tremen- currents have forced scientists and dous amount of climatic change research Winds of Change policymakers to examine possible going on in the U.S. The challenge is for Although global warming is a contro- outcomes. “There’s a need to better everyone to pull the data together and versial topic, the disagreement isn’t understand changes in terrestrial figure out what it means. This project over whether it exists but how it is ecosystems,” says Jeffrey S. Amthor, goes a long way toward making the goal changing the planet. Over the last few Program Manager for the NICCR.

Weather’s Wrath

Unless you’ve been living in the storm cellar for the last decade, you’ve encountered headlines about extreme weather and climatic shifts. It’s changes of this nature that make the work of NAU weather researchers and others so important. “Ecological and environmental research could prove invaluable as global warming takes hold,” says George Koch. Here are a few sobering weather stats: record levels and led to the melting of ice at the poles…and • Storm Warning Last year, 28 tropical storms pounded the beyond. In fact, Greenland’s glaciers are melting twice as fast Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, an all-time record. Fifteen as in the mid-1980s. Researchers at UC Berkeley report that developed into hurricanes, including three “superstorms” that the average worldwide temperature could spike by nearly reached Category 3 (111 to 130 miles per hour). The worst, 14 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the 21st century. Katrina, briefly reached Category 5 and destroyed much of • Growing Concerns As ocean levels rise, many prime agricul- New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast. Likewise, record tural areas will be threatened and urban areas, from Manhattan numbers of tornadoes have hit the U.S. in recent years. to Miami, could wind up under water. Already, global warming • Heat Wave Temperatures have shattered records in the U.S., is killing vineyards in southern Spain and forcing vintners to Europe and elsewhere. Scientists say that the ongoing release move to cooler regions of the Pyrenees Mountains. In Africa, of “greenhouse gases” has increased global temperatures to crop failures have increased and the threat of famine is growing.

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FFdPNFA06_08-11_DOEdPNFA06_08-11_DOE GGrant.inddrant.indd 1010 88/22/06/22/06 9:28:509:28:50 AMAM According to Hungate, the GIVING TREE project will focus on four pri- NAU associate mary areas: the actual changes professor George taking place in climates; how Koch gathers various ecosystems will adapt, research samples from a magnifi- move or evolve; how changes cent redwood. in carbon dioxide (CO2) will affect plants, animals and microorganisms; and what all the data, information and knowledge mean when researchers examine the big picture. “It’s important to determine how big of a prob- lem global warming is and how it might affect food, water and resources,” Hungate says. A key scientific concern lies in understanding the relation- ship between living organisms and global warming. “When we ask the question, ‘How much warmer will the earth become over the next 50 or 100 years?’ a lot of factors enter into the equation,” Hungate says. “Part of the puzzle is how

much CO2 humans will release into the botany Kina Ogle, who will explore two researchers review grant requests atmosphere. But the other component is desert ecosystems of the Southwestern and oversee the selection process. how plants, animals and soils will react.” U.S.; Russell K. Monson, a professor of They also communicate with officials NAU’s role in the project is central biology at the University of Colorado, at the other regional centers. Says Rob to its success. Each regional center is who will examine subalpine forest Jackson, a professor in the department responsible for weighing grant applica- ecosystems; and Edward Schuur, an of biology at Duke University: “Although tions and making project funding deci- assistant professor of ecosystem ecol- DOE split the U.S. into four regions of sions. Since the NAU regional center was ogy at the University of Florida, who research, we know that questions about established in August 2005, Hungate and will study black spruce forests. the environment don’t stop at state Koch have sifted through more than 90 boundaries. We work closely to coordi- solicitations of interest from various uni- Climate Control nate our research.” The peer-review versities and research institutions and When NICCR announced its climatic research papers that result from the pored over 25 proposals. “Researchers research project in 2005, Hungate and grants will play an important role in have submitted many interesting and Koch decided that they wanted to take setting public policy in the future. worthwhile projects,” Koch says. an active role in guiding its future. “It’s “The goal is to make the research In May, the center announced that an opportunity to set a direction for an results available to the scientific it will award four major grants totaling important area of research and science,” community and to the general public, about $350,000. Recipients include Koch explains. In May 2005, the pair mainly through peer-reviewed publi- NAU biology professor Neil S. Cobb, submitted a proposal to make NAU one of cations,” says Amthor. While NICCR who will study pinyon pine forests the four regional centers and the NICCR focuses only on the basic science, “The along the Colorado Plateau; University selected the school through an open peer information is used by policymakers of Wyoming assistant professor of review and evaluation process. Today, the and the public as they see fit,” he says. NAU has received funding Although global warming is a to run the center through 2011. During that time span, Hungate and Koch hope to controversial topic, the disagreement oversee somewhere between 20 and 30 projects. Concludes isn’t over whether it exists Koch: “It’s an exciting oppor- tunity and one that will pay but how it is changing the planet. dividends for years to come.”

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Mike Jankowski, ’98 B.S., and Michele Gleich, ’92 B.S., carry a torch for NAU—and the Olympic Winter Games in Torino

Mike Jankowski, ’98 B.S.: Dialed In

Mike Jankowski the school gave him the opportunity to and setting a precedent for the whole doesn’t use snow- work with better and better riders— country and the whole games.” boarding slang during among them, a young Lindsey Jacobellis, Upon head coach Robert “Bud” our interview, but you who went on to silver medal fame in Keene’s retirement this year, Jankowski can feel it lurking at the Torino’s grueling Snowboard Cross. readily assumed his own key leadership Mike Jankowski fringes. His laid-back role. Looking to Vancouver in 2010, he delivery embodies this Road to Glory Runs Downhill emphasizes a flexible strategy: “We’re “sick” (cool, awesome) Even though the ethos of snowboarding going to have to change with the times, sport, born of the freewheeling skate- is very much outside the box, Jankowski and keep the organization progressive.” board/surfing tradition. In the Torino has followed a neatly linear progression Still, for both coach and athletes, games, Jankowski helped forge this in his career. He worked with the Junior snowboarding is more than a sport. joyous rogue element into a new National and Junior Olympic teams, “It’s not about [orders] coming from Olympic tradition as assistant coach signing on as assistant halfpipe coach the coaches or the CEO. It’s about the of U.S. Snowboarding, and now looks for U.S. Snowboarding in ’03. riders, their heart and soul. They’re the to keep the team “dialed-in”—tuned “My life path has fortunately taken pilot, the masters of their fate, pushing to perfection—as its head coach. me to the Olympic experience. I’ve been it because they love it and want to take Jankowski was introduced to snow- able to gravitate towards it,” he says. it to the next level.” boarding at Snowbowl’s Hart Prairie The Torino games were “a very dra- Jankowski grins, and you can almost during his freshman year at NAU. Soon matic experience for everyone,” says hear him thinking, “Phat!” he was an instructor. At the same time, Jankowski. “The team isn’t actually he immersed himself in the Outdoor selected until three or four weeks before Mike personally tests Leadership track of NAU’s Parks and the Games, and it doesn’t seem like it’s the halfpipe in Torino. Recreation Management program. actually going to happen. I remember Helmed by Prof. Pam Foti, the program Shaun White (aka the Flying Tomato) trains students to work as leaders, guides was in a fog, but when we got our uni- and educators in outdoor environments. forms he said, ‘Now I really feel like “We had a great class at NAU. Leading I’m part of the team.’” outdoor trips with Pam, backpack trips, Jankowski notes that with so many river trips, worked well for me. Because extraordinary individuals on the roster, Flagstaff was such an athletic town, it such as White and Danny Kass, who helped my interest in coaching.” recently got President Bush to autograph After graduating in 1998, Jankowski a Bush bobblehead doll, “We definitely was hired as head freestyle coach at the had a bit of status, and everybody was Stratton Mountain School in Vermont. happy to meet us. We had a leadership A sort of Hogwarts for Alpine athletes, role there, winning medals early on,

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Michele Gleich, ’92 B.S.: A Family Business

When we ask Michele Gleich I assigned,’ but afterwards they would for sound bites, she understands say, ‘You’re really onto something perfectly. A savvy veteran of the media here. This is your vision, your personal trenches, Gleich has parlayed a longtime passion. Stick with it. It’s going to take love of both sports and broadcasting you far.’” into a thriving career as an Olympic Sure enough, Gleich landed her announcer—a success made sweeter first postgrad job working for National by her professional collaboration with Geographic as production assistant, husband Carl F. Roepke, III, a former creating rock climbing, kayaking and member of the U.S. Luge team. backcountry skiing films. “My dream job Gleich vividly recalls the instant was my first job,” muses Gleich. “You of her professional genesis. “I was 10 think, where do I go from here? But years old, watching the Olympics, and [the exposure] allowed me to pursue I thought, ‘That is what I want to do my goal of working with the Olympics.” with my life.’ I had to be involved some- For Gleich, “The entire Torino Games The Center and how with this thing I barely under- were a highlight! My husband and I stood, but I felt the passion in my gut worked together in a tiny broadcasting the World and my heart.” booth announcing bobsled, luge and The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Her vision was intensified when she skeleton.” Next came the Paralympics recently selected NAU as its sixth was a broadcast journalism major at (announcing alpine ski racing and Community Partner. As Director of NAU, as the university exposed her to sled hockey). But although the couple the Center for High Altitude Training a lifestyle that was to be the subtext of offered to stay and help with the setup, Natalie Harlan explains, this designa- her work. “Flagstaff and NAU are about the Torino powers-that-be encouraged tion kept the Center’s staff traveling: being out in the mountains. My friends them to travel Italy during the interval: • The first U.S. Olympic Community and I found many outdoor activities and “They insisted, ‘You’re the talent!’ Partner meetings for all the desig- extreme sports…it was just a way to blow Definitely a high point in our career.” off stress. But it became a huge funda- A longtime volunteer, coach and nated cities was June 21-23 in La Jolla, mental part of how I live my life now.” personal friend of many Paralympic ath- Calif. Harlan and alum and chair of letes, Gleich was thrilled to announce the Center’s National Advisory Board, More “March of the Penguins” their medal-winning races. “They’re Chris Bavasi, learned about opportu- than CNN the real sports luminaries to me. Just nities to host Olympic events. Gleich eagerly recalls her own maverick the fact that they are going on with • Harlan and Assistant Director inclination and “the amalgamation of their lives make them role models. It’s Sean Anthony attended the Olympic profs” who encouraged her reportorial not the big names, it’s the big spirits Assembly June 23-24, for updates on style. “They would assign that are important.” the State of the Olympic Movement us to shoot the news. My During the Games, Gleich and and preparations for the Beijing classmates would cover Roepke were pregnant with their first Olympic Games in 2008. car accidents, robberies, child. “It was amazing to know that my • The next USOC/NAU Altitude domestic violence. But professional and personal goals were all I would shoot a docu- being met at the same, exact moment.” Training Symposium will be held mentary of my friends Now, while awaiting their next-generation September 27-29, 2006 in Colorado climbing or kayaking, luge-champion-broadcaster at home in Springs. The session will focus on or a nature reel on the Park City, Utah, Gleich is writing a book practical application issues associ- red mountain squirrel. on women in sports. ated with altitude training as a means “The professors The NAU profs were right. Gleich’s of performance enhancement. would reprimand me career will take her far. Look for the in front of the class— entire Gleich-Roepke entourage in ‘That’s not exactly what Vancouver in 2010.

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Perfecting Their Shtick

So, what really goes into producing the “Tim & Willy” radio show? Tim Hattrick explains the behind-the- scenes “work” that brings their show to life:

A radio consultant came to the sta- tion years ago and asked us how we come up with our ideas. It was a star- tling question since we had never really thought about ‘‘it. Our answer was simple: We entertain and amuse ourselves and that seems to translate into something people have liked over the years. We really just try to crack each other up. Willy is very musically gifted, whereas I think in terms of music—parody songs, funny spins on stories. Willy is great at a lot of things I am Photograph by Michael Mertz by Photograph not and vice versa, so we Tuned In have a good marriage of two Meet Tim Chelgren, aka Tim Hattrick (attended), personalities. the NAU half of Phoenix’s famous “Tim & Willy in the Morning” radio show on KNIX

Tell me about your time at NAU. atmosphere for learning broadcasting; you could transferred to NAU in the early 1980s really get hands-on in the student station and and spent 2 ½ years there. I loved it. It receive a well-rounded education. That turned ‘‘ was far enough from home that I felt like out to be true. I really couldn’t have had a better I I was away, and yet it wasn’t so far that experience than going to NAU. I think all the time I couldn’t go home on the weekends and do laun- about stuff that I learned there. dry. I met a couple guys working at the public station in Phoenix who had gone through the pro- From the 1980s to now, the broadcast gram at NAU and highly recommended it. They landscape has changed quite a bit. What do sold me on the fact that NAU was the perfect you think has changed for better or worse

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FFdPNFA06_14-15_QnA.indddPNFA06_14-15_QnA.indd 1414 88/22/06/22/06 10:14:2910:14:29 AMAM It is funny how I used to get guy I was a big fan of, Jonathan Brandmeier, who had been in Phoenix a few years before that. We Kid Stuff yelled at in school for being found out all of this during the dinner party, and I When it comes to the Tim the class clown, and I turned felt like we already knew each other a long time. & Willy Kids Fun-Dation, From that night, we became golfing buddies and self-proclaimed wiseguy that into being the guy who worked our way into being partners through a Tim Hattrick gets serious: gets paid to be a smart few different odd turns in the business. We’ve “Every year we do a been working together since 1990. Christmas performance aleck. It is awesome. and compile highlights You’ve been able to meet from the show on a since you first began your career on the many country music CD to sell and raise airwaves? legends. Who stands out in money. We formed the I work for KNIX, which is part of the biggest your mind? radio company in the world, Clear Channel We got to golf with Garth 501(c)(3) to improve Communications. When I first started, a single Brooks, I got to sing a duet with the quality of life for entity might own an FM and AM station. Now I Wynonna [Judd] at one of our live children and use it to work at a company that has more than 1,400 sta- shows, something I never expected. concentrate on charities tions around the world and eight here in Phoenix We also got to play guitar with Keith Urban, who that matter to us. In addi- alone. Their interests are on a bigger scale and has been great to us. Probably the biggest star tion, two dental offices in how they measure success is different. Then, it and the nicest guy—and the biggest surprise to town are donating all the was an “all for one, one for all” mentality within me—was Kenny Rogers. He came into the studio money they receive from our building and everyone you saw that day had and hung out with us. He’s been a big star since whitening procedures to something to do with the final product and how I was in high school, and if there was anyone our foundation. well the station did. Now, it is much more global entitled to divalike behavior, it would be him. “Since its inception with many departments, layers and aspects of But he couldn’t have been cooler. He even said, in February 2001, more the business within the building. I almost feel “Make as much fun of me as you want, you can’t like instead of a radio station, we’re a department hurt me or take anything away from me, so have than $700,000 has been within a Super Wal-Mart. fun with it.” raised. Our Fun-Dation board gets together to How did you choose Hattrick as your on-air You’ve won several major industry awards decide where the money last name? for your work. Is there one that’s goes. We have been lucky When I left NAU, I started at KDKB in particularly meaningful to you? to be able to do this for Phoenix as an intern and worked my way up Right after Willy and I started on country so long and we don’t want to the morning show. After two weeks on the radio in 1994, we won the Academy of Country to ruin our karma. It has air the boss said, “I can’t tell what your name Music award for Deejays of the Year. It is given been a great vehicle to is when you say it on air, so I want you to pick to one radio show in the entire country and we give back.” one of these three names and start using it.” I wondered, “How on earth did we win this?” But picked Hattrick because I always liked hockey. it was eye opening. They had given us the award The most ironic part was the guy who told me the night before the actual show. If you ever go he couldn’t understand my name had a really to an awards show, get your hands on an award difficult name to say. before you go. It is amazing what a kind of VIP pass that is! We won the same award last year, too. You and your partner Willy have such great on-air chemistry. How did you first begin If you weren’t a radio personality, what else working together? could you see yourself doing? Willy and I met at a dinner party through a I would be either a doctor or a fighter pilot— mutual friend who thought we might find each really, I have no idea. It is funny how I used to get other funny. At the time, I worked at a station in yelled at in school for being the class clown, and Phoenix and needed a new radio partner because I turned that into being the guy who gets paid to mine was leaving, and Willy had worked with a be a smart aleck. It is awesome.

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Stacie Leach and Trent Shumway remove debris NAU student volunteers

Photography by NAU student Tyanna Burton

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Mike Davis tears out the interior of a home

Volunteers’ lodging

Resting on the road

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Submissions to Connections are published in order of receipt and are edited for length; What’s Nu accompanying high-resolution It was wonderful to hear from alumnus Tom Pyle, ’64 B.S., ’68 M.ED., who photographs are welcome. bridged the technological gap between his Mac and our PCs to file this report: In late October 2005, many of the earliest initiates into the Eta Iota 1940s chapter of ASC/NAU’s Sigma Nu fraternity gathered in Laughlin, Nev. We Wesley A. Darby, attended, were thrilled to renew old acquaintances and share memories of our college is Pastor Emeritus of West High and fraternity-building years. We had tried to contact initiates from 1962 Baptist Church in Phoenix. Author (the chapter’s first year of existence) through 1967; 32 were able to attend the reunion of “Old Nus,” of a history of the Arizona Baptist along with a number of spouses and other alums with close ties to the fraternity. Convention, he particularly recalls Prof. Downum’s teaching of the Sigma Nu Eta Iota actives attending were: Tony Baker, Dennis Bender, Ken Bond, Frank history of Western civilization. “It Cowdrey, Tom Dingman, Bill Ekstrom, Larry Grady, Dennis Hossfeld, Thomas “Skip” Hoyle, really turned me on to history, and Gary Johnson, David Klensin, Bill Lafferty, Tim Madigan, Bob McGuinn, Bob Meador, Dennis I used it as I taught the history of English literature at Southwestern Meador, Bill Moffitt, John Monsegur, Dale Mullen, Mark Mullen, Bill Neill, Bob O’Connor, College for some 23 years.” Max Peterson, Chad Porter, Jim Purtill, Tom Pyle, Jay Richey, Rex Schmid, Tim Shuey, and Carl Winters. Former pledges Doug Knox and Sonny McDoniel also came, as did Ray Gillespie, 1950s a former Sigma Nu roommate. Larry Schnebly, ’52 B.S., a past Spouses who attended and/or graduated from NAU included: Judy McClurg Baker, Sara president of the NAUAA, reports that Redman Besser, Diane Duffy Cowdrey, Dianne Haydon Ekstrom, Kathleen Tath Maurer Jim Cook, ’58 B.S., often sends him Hossfeld, Jane Ann Shockley Hoyle, Toni Oonk Purtill, Amanda Butler Pyle and Barbara reminiscences from his Journal of Prevarication. Jim’s title, incidentally, Dirst Winters. is Offi cial State Liar of Arizona. To read The old Nus hope to have another reunion each fall. For further information, please contact some of Jim’s yarns, visit http://www. the NAU Alumni Office, [email protected]. wickenburg-az.com/?cat=14.

1960s education by a California school tion into the National Wrestling Hall fi ght this fi re. “We all love the red rocks Dennis D. Murray, ’68 B.S., administrator. Dennis, who can give of Fame. Two of Neil and Barbara’s of Sedona, and I love fi refi ghting.” superintendent of the Perris Union the $5,000 award to any California children have followed in their parents’ (Calif.) High School District, received high school graduating senior in 2007, footsteps, earning degrees at NAU Jon Reyhner, ’73 M.ED., the Marcus Foster Leadership Award, says, “I am always proud to relate to and working as educators. ’77 ED.D., the author of American which recognizes outstanding leader- others that my basic educational Indian Education: A History ship and signifi cant contributions to foundation began with my training Paul Broyles, ’73 B.S.F., a third- (University of Oklahoma Press) at ASC/NAU!” generation National Park Service with Jeanne Eder, has recently employee, led the attack against completed Education and Language the Brins Fire near Sedona, Ariz. For Revitalization (Chelsea House). 1970s Incident Commander Broyles, fi ght- Reyhner also maintains www2. C. Neil DeWitt, ’71 B.S., ’76 M.A. ing the fi re is much more than a job: nau.edu/~jar/AIE/index.html, and wife Barbara DeWitt, ’80 it’s personal. Broyles was born in the #1 website on American Indian B.S.ED., ’87 M.A.ED., are retiring Yosemite National Park, and spent education according to Yahoo. to their farm in Safford, Ariz. A public his youth in states throughout the He is a professor at NAU’s College school administrator for 28 years, West. He paid his way through NAU of Education. Neil has worked as principal at every fi ghting fi res, working in the Kaibab school level in the state, and recently and Coconino national forests. On Archie Beauvais, ’74 B.S.ED., served as superintendent of the his off time, he would take his college ‘76 M.A.ED., was honored in March Whiteriver Unifi ed School District. He girlfriend Gini—now his wife of 35 by Harvard University, where he has also earned a plethora of honors years—on dates to Slide Rock State received his ’82 ED.D., with an “Alumni Paul Broyles, ’73, worked to in athletics, with a stint as coach of Park. “It’s like coming home,” said of Color Conference Award.” He has control the Brins Fire. Junior Olympic wrestling and induc- Broyles of returning to Arizona to recently published new articles in

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FFdPNFA06_18-23_connections.indddPNFA06_18-23_connections.indd 1818 88/30/06/30/06 4:06:284:06:28 PMPM the American Indian Graduate Center the top fi eld distribution leaders in difference in their lives and the lives magazine, the Tribal College Journal the nation, “epitomizing the value of those around them.” and Indian Education Today. Beauvais Allstate places on professionalism and worked for 20 years at Sinte Gleska displaying the standard of excellence 1990s University on the Rosebud Sioux the company holds for its leaders.” Peter Fulé, ’90 M.S.F., ’96 PH.D., reservation in South Dakota. He is an associate professor at NAU’s currently a correspondent/columnist Kenneth R. Leeser, ’82 M.B.A., School of Forestry and associate Carroll Klein, ’76, and Ian A., for the Lakota Country Times. whose wish is to become a CEO. is marketing manager for Roche director of the Ecological Restoration Diagnostics’ CoaguCheck system, Institute, recently traveled to Europe Joseph DeTevis, ’74 M.A., writes activities and his exemplary action, which uses a fi nger-stick test to on sabbatical, where he saw Arthur from Uvalde, Tex., “Although I’m now sustained leadership and advancement check PT/INRs on patients who take Reinelt, ’91 M.S., and future alumni retired, I started a monthly art exhibit of the profession at the local, regional warfarin. “My wife and I have lived in in the snow in “Arizona.” in our El Progreso Memorial Library and national level.” the Indianapolis area since ’99, but in 1996. Each month I put up artwork my heart is still in Arizona.” The fam- Sue Sisley, ’91 B.S., recently by local and surrounding area artists, Richard Schell, ’75 B.S., retired ily includes Kirsten, an elementary performed the role of Lita Encore— with great publicity in our Uvalde in April as chief of fi re planning and school teacher, and Kyle, a college “a razor-tongued, dragon lady of Leader News.” engineering after nearly 30 years with sophomore, both in Kansas; younger a theatre critic”—in a production of the California Department of Forestry children Sasha and Victor are in fi rst Ruthless! at Scottsdale (Ariz.) Desert Karen Butterfi eld, ’75 B.S.ED., and Fire Protection. He is providing and second grade. Stages Theatre. ’80 M.A.ED., ’92 Hon., ’95 ED.D., consulting services in wildland fi re is associate superintendent of aca- loss mitigation through his own com- Tim Propps, ’88 B.S.ED., owns an Andrew Fine, ’92 M.B.A., has been demic achievement at the Arizona pany, RWS Consulting and as a senior Allstate Insurance Agency in Chandler, appointed vice president of member Department of Education. She is associate with The McMullen Com- Ariz. He lives in Ahwatukee with his services for Boutique Hotels & Resorts charged with overseeing the largest pany in Davis, Calif. “My wife Alta and wife, Michele Corabi Propps, ’88 International, a global alliance of division of ADE, including the federal I still reside in Carmichael, and spend B.S., who has taught in the Kyrene independent boutique hotels. After 15 entitlement areas of No Child Left as much time as possible traveling district for 17 years. With their daugh- years of managing hotel and resort Behind, and serves as state team leader this great nation in our motorhome ter, Bella, they enjoy spending time at properties coast-to-coast, Andrew now for high school renewal. Husband Ernie and visiting our grandchildren.” Tim’s parents’ home in Munds Park oversees public relations, manages Butterfi eld, ’76 B.S., remains busy and “driving through the NAU campus liaison responsibilities and program in his career in Flagstaff, while daugh- Carroll Klein, ’76 B.S., ’77 M.A., to reminisce.” development and the Asian production ter Amanda Butterfi eld, ’04 B.S., has been named CEO of Make-A-Wish division. He and wife Terra, an artist, live is in NAU’s physical therapy doctoral Foundation of Arizona. He has also Kathy Sohn, ’89 M.A., writes and kayak on serene Orcas Island, Wash. program. Daughter Katie has fi nished served as the executive director of that her book, Whistlin’ and Crowin’ her freshman year at U of A. Habitat for Humanity and executive Women of Appalachia (SIU Press), Gayle L. Gemmill Mabery, ’92 director of Greater Phoenix Youth is now available online at both B.S.B.A., received a $10,600 at Risk, and led a variety of fundrais- Amazon and Barnes and Noble. scholarship to attend a three-week ing functions at the American Red “Any reader can identify with the seminar for senior management at Cross and St. Mary’s Food Bank. stories of these women; they the John F. Kennedy School of Govern- Before joining the nonprofi t world, overcame great adversity to get a ment at Harvard University. Gayle Carroll spent nine years as associ- college degree, and I am sure that has been Clarkdale (Ariz.) town ate dean of students for DeVry NAU has many such students manager since 1998. She is married Institute of Technology in Phoenix. who have graduated and made a to Scott Mabery, ’91 B.S.

Alice Brew, ’78 M.M., recently re- turned from Ukraine where she was a Peace Corps volunteer. “While teach- ing art to severely mentally challenged children, I wrote a book, Art Recipes, Cooking Up Some Art With Things Secret Handshake: At a recent Around the Home. Although it was gathering, Ernie Calderón, ’79, written for ‘special’ children, it is for all and Beverly Bellwood Burns, ’50, little children to play around with art.” compare their Gold Axe awards. The book sells for $12, and all monies go to sustain Center Nadiya (Hope). Blair Moody, ’75 B.S.F., has been To fi nd out more, please contact elected a Fellow by the Society of Alice at [email protected]. American Foresters (SAF), an honor accorded to only an elite few. A forester for the Bureau of Land Management 1980s in Medford, Ore. specializing in small Pat Meldrum, ’81 B.S., a Southwest diameter trees and the development Region sales leader for Allstate, of biomass programs, Blair was rec- received a 2005 Spirit of the Eagle ognized for “strong continuing com- Award in the Agency Consulting mitment through direct SAF volunteer Leader category. The award honors Arthur Reinelt, ’91 M.S., and future alumni, in a European “Arizona.”

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Mike O’Donnell, ’93 B.S., has been currents of fear and woundedness into in radio for over 10 years as an on-air streams of divine acceptance and love.” host, in concert and event sales and Karen has been adjunct professor at currently as sales manager with the Fuller Theological Seminary while also CBS Radio properties in Phoenix. Mike teaching various seminars on spiritual also owns and operates an off-road formation and healing. racing team as well as a marketing and advertising fi rm. With a second Ruth Botwinik, ’95 M.A., has home in Flagstaff’s Continental, he been awarded a prestigious Fulbright can be found with wife Jaye and Scholar Grant to teach English and daughter Shea “grabbing a slice of work with teacher trainers at the pizza at NiMarco’s on any given Uzbekistan State University of World Saturday.” Mike misses his NAU Languages in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. friends, and welcomes email at [email protected]. Brian Bond, ’97 B.S., and Karen Martin Bond, ’98 B.S., are enjoying Barton J. Boma, ’02 (second from right), with his boss, President Bobby Yazzie, ’93 B.S.ACCY., life in Arizona. After working for fi ve Bush, who seems unbruised. and Marietta Rodriguez, ’96 years as a systems analyst for the City B.S.ACCY., were spotted by NAU of Mesa GIS, Brian is doing Internet Flagstaff Festival of Science and was child and I was named chief fi nancial accounting professor Nancy Wilburn mapping and programming for Yavapai Festival president twice. “I am offi cer by the board of directors. watching their daughter play soft- County MIS. Karen uses her teaching delighted to see Steve assume this Hawaii is a beautiful place to live but I ball. Marietta works for Southwest degree instructing four of their six new role,” says Arboretum benefactor can’t wait to get back to visit Flagstaff Windpower, and Bobby was recently (number seven due in September!) Frances McAllister, ’02 Hon. “He has and Sedona.” promoted to controller at Tuba City children at home. proven his dedication, and will provide Regional Health Care. solid leadership as we head into the William B. Zemblidge, ’99 B.A., is Steve Yoder, ’97 M.A., has been next 25 years.” now a United States postal inspector Karen Buchan, ’94 M.ED., is the appointed executive director of The in San Francisco, Calif. author of Visio Divina: A New Prayer Arboretum at Flagstaff. He has previ- Chuck Murray, ’98 B.S., lives in Practice for Encounters with God ously served as education director, Hawaii and works with UHA, the 2000s (Crossroad Publishing). The book assistant director, vice president of state’s third largest commercial health Adam Barrows, ’00 M.A., has explains a new prayer technique that operations and acting director. Steve carrier. “2005 was a great year for my accepted a tenure-track, assistant “can tap into and transform profound has also been on the board of the wife and me. We welcomed our fi rst professor position in British Common- wealth and Postcolonial Literature at the English department of Salisbury University in Maryland. Future Terence Mok, ’00 B.S.B.A., is work- NAU Alumni ing for a mortgage broker fi rm in San Mateo, Calif., as a senior underwriting analyst. Before that he co-founded a mortgage company in San Jose. “Hon- estly, I still miss the studying life at NAU, and feel happy that I did not transfer to U of A as a sophomore.”

Jacob Matthew Sona Eriksen Lori Couture, ’01 B.S.B.A., ’04 Mom is Erin Sona Eriksen, ’99 M.ED., has formed an unusual and B.A.I.L.S., ’05 M.S. humorously scatological product line, shop.browntowns.com. She writes that she and the artists she hired to “make it all happen” are all NAU alumni. Lori currently teaches several web-based classes for the university.

Samuel Barton J. Boma, ’02 B.S., a KC-10 Blackmore Extender pilot (USAF) with the 6th Mom is Stacie Aerial Refueling Squadron, recently Blackmore enjoyed a perfectly normal Saturday Ruppert, ’01 biking through Los Posados Park in B.M.E. Napa Valley, Calif.—with his boss, Natalie Marie Auker Logan Robert Allen President Bush. “It was a once-in-a- Parents are Joy Belisle Auker, ’99 Parents are Michelle Allen, ’95 B.S.ED., ’97 lifetime opportunity and a great way to B.S., and Chad Auker, ’99 B.S.E. M.ED., and Bob Allen, ’96 B.S.ED., ’05 M.ED. spend Earth Day.” Accompanied by a few fellow corpsmen and appropriate

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Stefanie A. Murphy, ’03 B.S.B.A., was recently promoted to project James A. “Jim” Carr manager for the Maricopa County Offi ce of the Board of Supervisors. February 4, 2006. When Jim Carr passed away, the NAUAA received She and husband Ryan Murphy, ’98 two extraordinary, impassioned letters, from an administrator and a B.S.T., live in Ahwatukee, Ariz., with former student. Their words demonstrate eloquently just how valuable son Connor. NAU’s instructors of different educational backgrounds are to the Pete Corbell, ’04 B.A.I.L.S., was university’s tradition of academic excellence—including those recently promoted to general man- whose amassed knowledge doesn’t come with a doctoral seal. ager of Quality Inn in Flagstaff. A mem- “Dates, names, ber of the Navajo Nation raised on From Chuck Pilon, ’59 B.S., ’66 M.A., former director of state- his family’s sheep camp in Kaibeto, wide academic programs for Maricopa County and past president and places were all Pete worked for the Navajo Housing of the NAU Alumni Association: in his mind, clear Authority as an internal auditor and as As an adjunct professor of history for NAU, Jim taught thou- an accountant for Navajo Community as a bell; some- Development. He and wife Dora have sands and thousands of NAU undergraduates in the Maricopa times I wondered four children. County Bachelor of General Studies degree program. He taught over 90 classes for NAU; his evaluations were always the highest if he might even Peter M. Krahenbuhl, ’04 B.S.B.A., is in sales for a condominium conver- of the adjunct teaching staff and he received the outstanding be able to tell you sion company and high-rise towers in adjunct professor award. what the weather downtown Phoenix and Scottsdale. A teacher, lecturer, researcher, and author, Jim was among the conditions were Matthew K. Galbraith, ’05 B.S., most outstanding academicians at NAU, a peer with Dr. Garland completed U.S. Navy basic training Downum and Dr. William Tinsley. like on the day of at Recruit Training Command, Great From Michele D. Pettit, ’97 B.G.S., ’00 M.A., now a doctoral a certain battle.” Lakes, Ill. candidate at Boise State University: Chad Jans, ’05 B.S.B.A., began I must give credit for my academic success to Mr. Carr—or as many of his students fondly called working for ISEC, Inc. as a project him, “Professor Carr.” He was a true fi nd, a rare individual, who always went above and beyond a engineer assisting in the manage- course’s outlined objectives to make sure you understood and could apply what he was teaching you. ment of several projects with varying scopes throughout Arizona. He writes, Mr. Carr never carried any lecture notes or opened a book if there was a question. Dates, names, “I don’t think I would have found that and places were all in his mind, clear as a bell; sometimes I wondered if he might even be able to tell I wanted to call project management you what the weather conditions were like on the day of a certain battle. I never liked history before Mr. a career without Professor Williams’ BA 499 course.” Carr’s classes, but he was so good at depicting historic scenarios, at locating you in a particular time and place—he captivated us. You could not help loving the subject matter, as well as the man explaining it with all of his heart and soul. I’ve always had wonderful experiences at NAU, and never hesitate to tell others. But Mr. Carr is beyond the realm of exceptional. We were extremely blessed to have such a superb instructor, a kind and highly dignifi ed gentleman who lived to teach history.

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in California. Retired in 2001 from the federal government, where he was a Head Start Program Specialist. Valeen Tippets Avery ’81 M.A., ’83 PH.D., April 7, 2006. Award-winning biographer, history Nancy C. Dvorak, ’58 B.S.ED., December 23, 2005, a “down- professor, Homecoming Dedicatee, cook, storyteller, grandmother, bar- winder,” from cancer. A member gain shopper and intrepid explorer. Those who knew Val Avery could easily of the Top-Hatters, she was also a add a wealth of complimentary epithets. At her memorial service, son Nate charter member of Tri-Delta. She and husband Leo Dvorak (Sigma said he could describe his mother in one word: fi erce. Pi) were the fi rst fraternity-sorority A westerner by birth and temperament, Val grew up on ranches and alfalfa farms in the Sun River pinning on the ASC campus. Taught Valley, west of Great Falls, Mont. Graduating magna cum laude from Rocky Mountain College in 1959, in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and she worked several years for World University Services and spent time in Europe leading tour groups. California, where she retired as a kindergarten teacher from the El Following her husband Charles Avery’s career in the Forest Service, she lived throughout the West and Centro Elementary School District. Southwest, settling in Flagstaff in 1971. For six years starting in 1972 she hosted an educational program, Thrifty Kitchen, on northern Arizona television. Mary Ray, ’61 B.S.ED., March 8, 2006. While researching material for a biography on Emma Hale Smith (see below), Val completed two advanced degrees at NAU and began her career as a history professor, specializing in women’s history Ronald A. Terrill, ’62 B.A., and Colorado Plateau studies. Both of her key biographical works, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, March 11, 2006. Resided in Las Vegas for the past 35 years, working Prophet’s Wife, Elect Lady, Polygamy’s Foe (1984) and From Mission to Madness: The Last Son of the in the gaming industry. Past Master Mormon Prophet (1998), won the Evans Award for the best biography in Western history. of the Acacia Masonic Lodge #49 In 1996 she married fellow NAU professor Bryan Short, and continued life’s adventures with their of North Las Vegas. combined family of six children. A beloved member of the NAU community, Short passed away in 2003. Frankie Marianito, ’64 When Val died unexpectedly in the spring, regional media could not fi nd enough praise for her depth B.S.ED., March 15, 2006. and versatility. The Salt Lake Tribune wrote about the pitfalls of her sometimes controversial work: Earl R. Putman, ’64 M.ED., February What most Mormon historians know about 19, 2006. Recruited for football by both Woody Hayes and Bear Bryant, Avery is that she co-wrote the first scholarly but chose ASU. Served in the Korean War and was All-Service champion biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of LDS in shot put and discus. Drafted to founder Joseph Smith. They might also have the new York Giants, Hamilton Tiger Cats, and Chicago Cardinals. 25-year heard of the LDS Church’s refusal to allow football coach at Moon Valley (Ariz.) Avery and her co-author, Linda King Newell, High School, winner of the 1982 AAA Arizona State Championship, and a to talk about Emma Smith at church meet- “gentle giant of a man in stature, character, and accomplishments.” ings after their book was published in 1984. It has been popularly known in Mormon circles as “the silencing.” Kenneth J. Orms, ’67 B.S.B.A., ’69 M.B.A., March 19, 2006, in a In the same article, friend and colleague Jan Shipps, an emeritus historian at Indiana University/ plane crash. A fi fth-generation Purdue University at Indianapolis recalled, “Val had the essential empathy that is key to great biography, Arizonan who owned Platinum Mort- gage and Real Estate in Scottsdale. and that empathy made her one of the world’s greatest friends.” It was this personal touch that Val’s students recall most gratefully. Kathy Farretta, ’04 M.A. in A. John Swartz, ’66 B.S., ’67 M.S., history, recalls her indebtedness to Val for chairing her master’s thesis committee. “Professors don’t March 28, 2006. Attended NAU get any extra money for serving on these committees,” says Farretta. “But Val agreed to be my chair on a band scholarship. Avid French Horn enthusiast, studying under despite her incredibly busy schedule, because she personally knew what it would take for me to get Herr Stocker of the Stuttgart Sym- the work done. When it was time for my thesis defense I was petrifi ed, but Val took me in hand and phony and playing with the Austin said, ‘We’re on your side.’ It was important to her that I wasn’t scared and knew what the experience was going to be like.” After the defense, Farretta waited anxiously in the hall as the committee debated; and then “Val came out with a huge smile on her face and said, ‘Congratulations, Master.’ She cared so much about learning and scholarship—and more than anything else about teaching.” Dr. Avery’s papers are being donated to Utah State University, an important hub of Mormon schol- arship. In tribute to her incomparable life and work, the Avery family set up an endowment, the Valeen T. Avery Scholarship. For more information, please contact the NAU Foundation at 928-523-2012.

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FFdPNFA06_18-23_connections.indddPNFA06_18-23_connections.indd 2222 88/24/06/24/06 12:10:5312:10:53 PMPM Symphony. He was also a career Kermit C. Smith, ’81 M.B.A., April 21, Charles A. “Chuck” Milam, January computer engineer—working on mili- 2006. Served two years as an Army 22, 2006. Long career in law enforce- tary, aerospace, and health/human M.P. in Germany. Held a variety of ment at NAU, winning “Offi cer of the service projects—and a voracious high-level positions throughout the Year” twice and named Homecoming reader, member of the Austin Writers’ Arizona educational system, spending Dedicatee in 1992. After retirement League and country-western dancer. the last several years as behavioral served as judge pro tem for Coconino health technician and director of County Justice Court. Raymond W. Angel, ’69 B.S., education at Mingus Mountain March 22, 2006. In the U.S. Navy for Academy in Prescott Valley, Ariz. Mary Jeanne Brand Minor, February 27 years, retiring as a Chief Hospital 20, 2006. Widow of former School Corpsman. Served the County of San Caroline Baer, ’87 B.G.S., of Forestry head Charles Minor. Diego as a health inspector until 1999. October 26, 2005. Committed involvement in Flagstaff community, serving on the Coconino James E. Moore, ’69 M.ED., Janu- Frederick J. Bellanger, ’83 B.S., Country Board of Health and the ary 13, 2006. Served in the Marines ’87 M.ED., February 7, 2006. Served board of the Flagstaff Summer during WWII. Worked for the Vinnell U.S. Army in Cambodia, Vietnam, Festival of the Arts; helped found Corp. in Saudi Arabia. In Arizona, he and Hawaii, receiving an NCO of the Flagstaff Cooperative Preschool. was employed by the Gila County Year award in 1958. Employed by Indian Reservation, the Scottsdale Sperry Flight Systems (Honeywell) Guy Monthan Jr., May 19, 2006. school district and the YMCA. for 31 years. Dedicated volunteer Advertising and design teacher, for Heard Museum and fi rst Native established one of the fi rst NAU Arlene C. Nard, ’69 B.S.ED., ’75 American to serve as president for photography courses. Professional M.ED., September 24, 2005. the Heard Guild. Talented silversmith photographer, collaborating with his and Native American jewelry artisan. wife on numerous books and articles Jim Kuykendall, ’72 B.S.B.A., detailing contemporary American April 14, 2006. Owner of Canyon Julie Anne Gannon, ’87 B.S., 2006, Indian art. County Tires in Logan, Ut., for of cancer. Juvenile corrections worker, 23 years, where he enjoyed tak- probation offi cer and dedicated DUI Tremaine “Whitey” McKinstry ing care of customers fairly and evaluator for Colorado’s 9th Judicial Penrose, January 10, 2006. Worked honestly. Cultivated a lifetime love District. Traveler, bicyclist, triathlete. as a plumber at NAU for 24 years. of travel; frequent participant in National Bowling Championships. George W. Marshall, ’83 B.S.B.A., John W. Prather, February 20, April 23, 2006. Pilot for the U.S. 2006. Science lead on NAU’s Forest Howard Chrisman, ’74 B.S.ED., Navy and SkyWest Airlines. Ecosystem Restoration Analysis January 25, 2006. A career Air Force Project. Accomplished researcher in man as well as a member of The Constance L. Erickson, ’93 the ecology, behavior, and distri- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day B.S., December 12, 2005. bution of terrestrial vertebrates, Saints and Woodmen of the World. with an emphasis on birds. Ricky Morrison, ’95 B.S., ’98 David B. Czarnecki, ’78 PH.D., M.ED., February 5, 2006. May 4, 2006. Known by many as “Dr. Diatom,” for his research Leslie Ann Emmert, ’99 M.ED., interests with diatom algae, with ’02 M.ED., January 26, 2006. experiments aboard the space Preschool and kindergarten teacher shuttle and an internationally in Gilbert (Ariz.) public schools, known culture collection. Professor Alhambra preschool and Cartwright at Loras College since 1984, with head start program. Expert grant previous positions at the University writer and peer grant reviewer. of Minnesota, University of Arkansas, and Iowa State University. Friends and Associates Look for contests, Lorraine Frank, December 22, surveys, and other 2005. Member of the Arizona ways to get involved Board of Regents and longtime civic and community leader. atweb naualumni.com.

Jeanne B. Franklin, March 24, 2006. Assistant professor of music at ASC in the late ’40s and early ’50s who helped found ASC’s opera department.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 about exciting developments in Alumni Award winners. Contact HRM Chuckwagon Homecoming Dedicatee SBS departments from Anthropol- Beth Martin at 888-628-2586. Tailgate, time TBD, Sky- Banquet, 6 p.m., Ashurst Audi- ogy to Women’s Studies. Contact dome parking lot. As Billy Crystal NAU Baseball Reunion. Golf, lun- torium. Honor the Homecoming Michelle Brown at 928-523-2672 learned in City Slickers, you just cheon, football game and post-game Dedicatee. Students $6; others $10. or [email protected]. need to know “one thing”: your way dinner. Contact Alan Flitcraft at Contact Art Farmer at 928-523-5181 to HRM’s Chuckwagon Tailgate. Cost College Of Arts & Letters Alumni 928-380-8949 or alan.fl itcraft@nau. or [email protected]. is $5 for adults, free for children under and Friends Reception, 5 to 7 p.m., edu, or Mark Grant at 602-757-1691 12. We also have a block of free game NAU Art Museum, Old Main, Bldg. 10. or [email protected]. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 tickets for HRM alums, available on a Meet the College of Arts & Letters’ Homecoming Traditions Day, Homecoming Parade, 11 a.m., fi rst come/fi rst served basis. Con- new Dean, Dr. Michael Vincent, and times TBD, Tinsley, Wilson, Allen downtown Flagstaff. Saddle up for tact Kathleen Birch at 928-523-8346 mingle with faculty and friends. An Quad (weather permitting). a Wild, Wild, Wild! West show. The or [email protected]. outstanding international ceramics Bonfi re and other activities. Con- perennial favorite starts at the corner exhibition from our 20 + 1 Years of the Letterwinners Tailgating Party, tact Art Farmer at 928-523-5181 of Elm and Beaver. Contact Blue Key’s Tozan Kilns, An International Wood Fire time and location TBD. Reconnect or [email protected]. Connie Mapoles at [email protected]. Conference will be on display. Contact with former Lumberjack letterwin- School Of Forestry 1960s Re- Elizabeth Hellstern at 928-523-8656 College Of Business Administra- ners while tailgating before the 2006 union. Welcome back to the Colorado or [email protected]. tion Open House/Tours, Homecoming football game. Contact Plateau! Reunion events continue 1 to 3 p.m. See previous entry. Leala Wegwerth at 928-523-6785 College Of Business Administra- through Sunday, October 22. For or [email protected]. tion Alumni & Faculty Hall of College Of Business Adminis- details, schedule and reservations, Fame Dinner, 6 p.m., Coconino tration Football Tailgate Party, Gamma Phi Beta Homecoming contact Pam Plude at 928-523-7417 Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Val- 1 p.m., Skydome Parking Lot. Join Social Event, time and location or [email protected]. ley Rd. All CBA alumni are invited to CBA alumni, faculty, staff and friends TBD. For details, contact Joy this event recognizing the achieve- for an annual tradition of fun times Belisle Auker at 928-527-0640 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 ments of outstanding CBA alumni with fun people. The event is free or [email protected]. College of Business Administra- and faculty. Cost is $35 for non-hon- and no RSVP is required. Contact tion Open House/Tours, 8 a.m. NAU Homecoming Game vs. orees. RSVP required. For more in- Betsy Putman at 928-523-7128 to 5 p.m., New CBA Bldg. 81 (South Sacramento State, 3:05 p.m., formation about the CBA Alumni Hall or [email protected]. campus, McConnell & Knoles). See J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome. The of Fame, please see wwwcba.nau. the magnifi cent new CBA Building! College Of Education Tailgate Lumberjacks take on the Hornets edu/publications/dqr/Q4_2005/ Students will provide tours. Contact Celebration, 1 to 3 p.m., Skydome from Sacramento State in a key AlumniFiles_HallofFame2005.asp. Betsy Putman at 928-523-7128 Parking Lot. COE welcomes alums, Big Sky Conference matchup. Contact Betsy Putman at 928-523- or [email protected]. friends, retirees, students, faculty, Contact NAU Central Ticket Offi ce 7128 or [email protected]. staff and families to our Homecoming at 928-523-5661 or visit their Consortium Of Professional Axer Auction, 5 to 9 p.m., Rolle pre-game party. Light refreshments website, www4.nau.edu/cto. Schools, School Of Nursing Activity Center. NAU Athletics and the will be served. Stop by and visit Simulation Folk Roundup, Award Recognition At The Lumberjack Athletic Association will with old and new friends. Contact 2 to 6 p.m., Nursing Sciences Bldg. Game, halftime, J. Lawrence Walkup host the Axer Auction, which benefi ts Laura Theimer at 928-523-8746 72. Our high fi delity simulation Skydome. It’s a hearty cowboy howdy Lumberjack athletic scholarships. or [email protected]. manikins—used in teaching nursing for the 2006 Alumni Award winners If you’re interested in attending or students—will have just participated College Of Engineering And and the Blue and Gold Class of 1966 donating items for auction, contact in a rodeo. See the aftermath of Natural Sciences Tailgate Party, during the halftime hoedown. Contact Maria Bruggeman at 928-523-6785 true-life cowboy shenanigans. It’ll be a 1 p.m., Skydome Parking Lot. Join the Offi ce of Alumni Relations at or [email protected]. rootin’ tootin’, good ol’ time with some college alumni, faculty, staff and 888-628-2586. nice fi xins to chow on. Con- Blue And Gold Reunion. Welcome, friends for pre-game cookout. The Powerful Good Time, 6:30 to 10:30 tact Ilene Decker at 928-523-2159, Class of 1966! Reunion events con- event is free, and a great opportunity p.m., Heritage Square, downtown [email protected] or Dian Allred, tinue through Saturday, Oct. 21. Con- to catch up with old friends. Contact Flagstaff. Wind up your Homecoming 928-523-2671, [email protected]. tact Beth Martin at 888-628-2586. Bonnie O’Donnell at 928-523-8765 with music, food and giveaways for or [email protected]. SBS Alumni And Friends Social, alumni. Please check naualumni.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 4 to 6 p.m., School of Communication, for updates or call 888-628-2586. Café au Louie, 9 to 11 a.m., Zane Bldg. 16. Join the Dean, faculty, staff, Grey Ballroom at the Hotel Weather- alumni and friends of the College of ford. Join us for a delicious break- Social & Behavioral Sciences for a fast on Homecoming morning, and Events and times are subject to change. Please visit www.naualumni.com for details reception in the beautifully renovated meet this year’s inductees to the or contact the individuals listed. 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