COMING FALL 2016 Shoot for the moon, or in this case, Mars

When Greg Yardley AS ’09, BS ’10 graduated Because bones decrease in mass and density with his degree in radiologic sciences, he during long-duration missions, it is imperative had no idea that, one day, he’d be saying this to identify preventative measures and about his job: treatments that can be brought into space. “The best part is participating in biomedical Greg has extensive experience in DXA research that will hopefully get humans to scans, which require significant technical Mars and back safely, and, getting to meet expertise and quality control. “I was taught astronauts, past and present, especially those to produce the best scans possible. If they’re who walked on the moon.” not your best, you re-do them. You learn that at Weber.” Originally from Beaver, Utah, Greg is a registered bone densitometry (DXA) That emphasis on quality is the reason technologist and research assistant for Wyle Greg chose to earn his Master of Science in Laboratories, a provider of scientific services Radiologic Sciences from Weber State — his to NASA. He works at the Johnson Space third degree from the university. He is slated Center in Houston, performing bone density to graduate in 2016. scans on active and retired astronauts and For more information on WSU’s Department researching alternate methods of studying of Radiologic Sciences, which offers bone density in zero gravity and on Earth. associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees, A Mars mission could send astronauts to as well as outreach and regional programs, space for up to three years, Greg explained. visit weber.edu/radsci. Find everything you need for weber state university News for Alumni & Friends FOOTBALL GAME DAYS wildcat at our store downtown! Vol. 20, No.2, Fall 2015 editor in chief Creative director Amy Hendricks Hillary Wallace BFA ’98 Contributing writers designers Amy Hendricks Melissa Dallof Allison Barlow Hess J. Michaela Funtanilla Karin Hurst Amy Hajdas Marcus Jensen BA ’15 Becky Jorgensen Peta Owens-Liston photographers Michael Vaughan D’Arcy Benincosa Michael Wutz Sara Lleverino BS ’01 contributing editors Zac Williams BS ’01, MPC ’13 Nancy B. Collinwood ’94 Michael Wutz Margie Esquibel Special thanks John Kowalewski Jessica Corbran AS ’11 Brad Mortensen Janessa Richardson AS ’00 Amber Robson BS ’05 Greg Ward

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Can you guess what these brick patterns represent? Visit weber.edu/magazine to see if you’re right.

15 The Art of Construction

View the building of WSU’s new science center through English professor Michael Wutz’s lens.

12 A Wonderful Life 26 The Dark Side of the Internet Former provost and dean Michael Vaughan Criminal justice professor Bradford Reyns remembers John B. Goddard, the namesake of discusses cyberstalking and what you can do to Weber State’s business school. prevent online harassment.

20 Fueled by Curiosity 30 A ‘Habit of Not Quitting’ A microbiology professor for 35 years, Craig Read how alumnus Michael Beasley overcame Oberg answers questions about his commitment discrimination to become a successful corporate to students and comedic tendencies. executive.

39 Class Notes Wildcats share their successes and updates. WEBER WATCH Allison Barlow Hess and Marcus Jensen BS ’15 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

International Praise

During the 2015 International Town & Gown Association Conference, Weber State University and Ogden City were honored with the Larry Abernathy Award, recognizing the strong bond between the university and the city.

Weber State and Ogden City formally signed a College Town Charter in 2013, outlining a vision for continued collaboration. This College Town Initiative has since had a profound impact on the community, fostering an environment conducive to learning, growth and development for both students and residents.

WSU President Charles A. Wight (left) shakes hands with Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell BS ’01 during the signing of the College Town Charter.

Leading the Nation

Fifty universities lead the nation with innovative Master of Health Administration (MHA) programs, and Weber State University tops that list with the most affordable program, according to the online site Top Master’s in Healthcare Administration.

Departments were evaluated on a number of criteria, including national accreditation, variety of degrees, online and executive programs, active student and alumni groups, and faculty engaged in research.

Tuition for WSU’s on-campus MHA is $15,775. The average tuition nationally is $44,850. The most expensive program, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., costs $93,480.

In fall 2015, Weber State began a new online executive MHA designed for professionals. Students gather for in-class instruction just two days per semester. They meet at Weber State Farmington Station, a new professional education center that just opened in the Station Park outdoor retail development center in Farmington, Utah.

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Picture of Health

A community health assessment conducted by students from the Jerry & Vickie Moyes College of Education has given administrators in Weber and Morgan counties a better picture of citizens’ attitudes about health.

Under the direction of Laura Santurri, WSU assistant professor of health promotion and human performance, students conducted 11 community focus groups in Weber and Morgan counties. They asked participants their views of current services and unmet health needs.

Students and community photographers then created a photo exhibit, depicting messages shared in the focus groups, such as the need for clean air, water and access to quality health care.

Safe Haven

Homeless Utah teens can find shelter in a crisis thanks to a recent WSU social work graduate.

Kristen Mitchell BS ’15 was honored nationally as a Newman Civic Fellow for establishing a youth shelter in Ogden — the first of its kind in Utah.

The Newman Civic Fellow Awards honor extraordinary college students who demonstrate a commitment to solving problems in communities across the country. Mitchell was the only student from a Utah university to receive the award this year.

Mitchell founded Youth Futures, a nonprofit organization that opened its doors in February 2015, to provide safety, advocacy, guidance and resources to homeless and runaway youths.

Six years ago, Mitchell identified the need in the community and worked diligently in concert with fellow WSU students and professors to change laws and raise money for the shelter.

As of June 2015, Youth Futures had provided 249 shelter night stays and more than 1,100 meals to teens in need.

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Here Comes the Sun

Ogden homeowners can buy solar panels conveniently and at the best possible price thanks to a partnership with Utah Clean Energy, community volunteers and Weber State’s new Sustainability Practices and Research Center (SPARC).

Using bulk-buying power to negotiate discounts with installers, the Susie Hulet Community Solar Program helps homeowners purchase affordable residential solar paneling. Participants also are eligible for a more affordable and simplified solar-installation process. The last day to enroll in the program is Oct. 1, 2015, at weberstatesolar.org

The program is named in honor of the late Susie Hulet, a longtime advocate and benefactor to nature and sustainability programs, who worked with WSU’s Environmental Issues Committee. It is the newest addition to WSU’s innovative sustainability efforts. In 2015, Weber State was honored for the fourth year straight by Tree Campus USA and the Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges. New Role for Familiar Face

The nationwide search for a provost ended with the selection of a candidate who has already made a significant contribution to Weber State.Madonne Miner, who served as dean of WSU’s Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities for the past eight years, took over as provost in July.

“Weber State is on a marvelous trajectory, and I don’t want to see that stop or slow down,” Miner said.

Miner succeeds Michael Vaughan, who announced last fall that he would step down as provost at the end of June 2015. Following a sabbatical, Vaughan plans to return to the classroom and lead WSU’s Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (read more about Vaughan on page 47).

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’Cats Take Home Hardware The WSU Athletics Department has a few more trophies to add to its collection …

Softball

In its sixth season since being reinstated, WSU’s softball team won its first Big Sky title and played in the first round of the NCAA regional tournament in Louisiana. The Wildcats ended the season 38-17, including 13-6 in Big Sky Conference play.

Twelve Wildcats earned All-Conference Honors, and head coach Mary Kay Amicone was named Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year.

Men’s Tennis

For the second straight season, the men’s tennis team earned 10 consecutive conference victories, helping the Wildcats secure back-to-back Big Sky regular-season crowns.

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Waldo

Waldo won first place in the NCA Collegiate National Mascot Championship, beating out mascots from universities across the country, including Georgia Tech, Missouri, Wyoming and Utah Valley University. The competition was held as part of the Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship.

Waldo posted a final score of 59.10 in the competition that included character, creativity, crowd interaction, dance and the use of props. He won the event by nearly two points. See Waldo’s winning performance online at weber.edu/wsumagazine.

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Rookie of the Year, All-Star, WSU Grad

Mom knows best. That’s what motivated Damian Lillard BS ’15 to return to Ogden to get his degree during WSU’s 145th Commencement in May 2015. Lillard made a promise to his mother that, even though he hadn’t finished his degree upon entering the NBA draft, he would eventually walk as a college graduate.

“This is the best Mother’s Day gift I could ever get,” said Lillard’s mother, Gina Johnson, during a news conference on graduation day. “I know he is an NBA star, but this was the most important thing for me, for him to have a degree.”

Lillard left WSU three classes short of graduation. He took classes during three off-seasons to earn his degree in professional sales.

“Anything you start you should want to finish, especially with your education,” Lillard said. “That is something that goes a long way.”

With all the accolades he has received, Lillard views graduation as one of his top accomplishments. He credited his time at WSU with much of his personal and professional success.

“It was one of the most challenging things of my entire life,” Lillard said. “This is one of the better moments in my life.”

10 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 READY. SET.GO. A Weber State University MBA put Riley on the right track.

As a student-athlete, Riley Cook combined his passion for running and for business, ultimately winning the 2005 Big Sky title in the indoor mile and receiving his bachelor’s degree in business economics. He later returned to his alma mater to earn his MBA because it was “the best value, convenient and a great program.”

Riley’s MBA courses helped him hone his analytical and people skills, which he finds invaluable as a cost analyst for Hill Air Force Base. “Everything I learned in my MBA correlates perfectly with my work.”

Today, Riley, who is married with three daughters, still finds time to run. His 2015 goal: the Olympic Trials in the marathon.

Hear what other WSU MBA alumni have to say about the program.

Riley Cook BS ’07, MBA ’11 Cost Analyst, Hill Air Force Base

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n January 8, 2015, Weber State University said goodbye to a long-treasured friend, John B. “Jack” Goddard. A Ohighly respected businessman and philanthropist, Jack was instrumental in helping Weber State achieve university status in 1991 and later established an endowment for WSU’s school of business and economics, which now proudly bears his name. Michael Vaughan, economics professor, former provost and former dean of Weber State’s business school, recalls his first meeting with Jack and the wonderful partnership that ensued.

12 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 n some ways, Jack Goddard reminded me of the lead character in It’s a Wonderful Life. If you are familiar with the movie you’ll recall that Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, a man who runs aI small-town savings and loan. A series of flashbacks reveals George’s good works and the immeasurable mark he made on his Bedford Falls community. Jack grew up in Ogden and, like George Bailey, had a tremendous impact on his hometown and the entire northern Utah region. He was an entrepreneur, knew how to navigate the political waters, and with banker, builder and developer, and someone who his help, the MBA program was approved and started cared deeply about his city and its local college, in July 2000. Since then, more than 800 students have which he believed could be an economic engine for earned MBA degrees from Weber State. Today, the John Ogden. To illustrate the immense impression Jack B. Goddard School of Business & Economics bears Jack’s left on our community and university, I would like to name in recognition of his immeasurable contributions. share my own series of “flashbacks” on Jack’s life. Jack also knew how to have fun while doing good. In 1991, during my first weeks on the job as dean of One year, a few days before Christmas, he called me. Weber State’s business school, I scheduled meetings with He asked if the MBA students would enjoy buying alumni to ask for their advice and perspectives. One of some toys and other things for needy children so they these meetings was with Paul Neuenschwander BS ’70, would have a little better Christmas. Jack gave the who had earned a degree in economics from the school. students $10,000, and in the days before the holiday, I visited with Paul at his office at United Savings Bank. a group of students had a delightful time running After about 20 minutes he said, “The guy you really around Ogden playing Santa Claus. Because of Jack, a should be talking to is down the hall.” I asked who that lot of families had an unexpectedly nice Christmas. was, to which he replied, “Jack Goddard.” Paul led me I also crossed paths with Jack in my personal life, in to Jack’s office and introduced me. It was a fortuitous some delightful and curious ways. For the past 25 meeting. For the next 24 years, Jack was always ready years, my wife and I have lived in a neighborhood to provide resources, advice and help to improve originally developed by Jack. The house we the business school and Weber State University. live in was designed by Jack’s wife, Gerry. Jack passed away last January, but Weber State and the Ogden community continue to benefit from his good works. A couple of months before he passed away, Jack provided seed money to start a community solar program named after his late daughter Susie. The Susie Hulet Community Solar program officially started this spring. The program will provide homeowners with accurate information about the current state of solar energy and help them assess the feasibility of converting their homes to solar. Jack may no longer be with us, but his legacy will In the late 1990s, Jack told me that Weber State should forever remain strong. Just as George Bailey turned start a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Bedford Falls into a flourishing community, Jack program. I told him the faculty would love to, and I knew Goddard helped transform northern Utah into a place students would flock to the program. Yet I told him of opportunity and Weber State into a university that we didn’t believe we could get the degree approved by helps students achieve their scholastic dreams. the Utah State Board of Regents because of opposition Like George Bailey, Jack Goddard, too, had a wonderful from other institutions. Jack said to go for it. life, and I am honored to have known him. We did, and we encountered pretty intense opposition. The former president of a university to the north told the Regents that WSU would never attract enough students to have a viable program. The Regents refused to act upon the proposal when it was initially presented. Jack was by our side as we responded to our critics. You see, he had previously served as a member of the Board of Regents for 12 years. During that time, he was instrumental in WSU gaining university status. Jack LEARN DREAM GROW BUILD LEAD TEACH WEBEREXCEL SUCCEED

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A Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor, English scholar, photography enthusiast, and admirer of both the arts and sciences, Michael Wutz shares his thoughts on, and photographs of, the rise of Weber State University’s new Tracy Hall Science Center, slated to open in the fall of 2016.

Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 15 hen English physical chemist and novelist I also took an elective in photography, which helped me C.P. Snow famously declared the existence of understand questions of framing and composition together W two distinct cultures in the postwar Western with the chemistry of film developing in the good old days world — the culture of the sciences and the culture of the of analog. This was STEAM education (science, technology, arts — he created a division that, to this day, has provided engineering, arts and mathematics) avant la lettre and incredible fodder for discussion. Since Snow first diagnosed almost certainly laid the groundwork for my interest in the this state of intellectual schizophrenia in the 1950s, arts and sciences alike. countless writers — fiction or otherwise — have developed It is in that spirit that I want to offer these photographs of an impressive knowledge base in the sciences, just as the new kid on the block, Tracy Hall Science Center, rising numerous scientists are among some of the most elegant majestically next to Elizabeth Hall, bringing the sciences and beautiful writers working today. In my area of so-called and the humanities into close(r) symbolic proximity. If expertise, English literature, Barbara Kingsolver or Richard photography in itself is an oft-noted hybrid of art and Powers come to mind, but the list could, in other areas, trade, that is also true of architecture and the workers easily be extended to include, say, Jane Godall and Edward translating aesthetic design into the actual building. Both O. Wilson. Even the images of coastlines and snowflakes embody, in one form or another, science and the arts in circulating in the media during the heydays of “chaos action, from the brickwork containing patterns so subtle theory” in the 1990s, demonstrated not just the repetition that, when viewed from a distance, becomes akin to the of scale levels throughout the natural world, but also process of reading, to the industrial trapeze artists, the emphasized its elegance, (a)symmetry and, well, beauty. Houdinis of Hardware, wielding their torches, abiding by I, for one, have never subscribed to that stark division and the electrochemical processes of welding, performing am a firm believer in disciplinary fluidity. In my case, that science at every step. most likely started during my education in a German high school that emphasized, in equal measure, languages and Visit weber.edu/wsumagazine to see more of Wutz’s photographs. the humanities side by side with science and technology.

enerous funding from the Utah Legislature and donors have resulted in an outstanding learning environment for students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Today, you, too, can help support STEM G education at Weber State, by providing state-of-the-art laboratory equipment for Tracy Hall Science Center. Visit weber.edu/wsumagazine, or call 801-626-6138, to find out how you can make an impact on students.

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Photo by D’Arcy Benincosa Craig Oberg’s BS ’79 earliest a captive audience at Weber State my experiments home, put them University’s Last Lecture Series, on toast and have a grilled cheese memory is a tale fraught which honors professors — by sandwich.’ That was a lot of fun. with adventure, mischief giving them the opportunity to Most people just see cheese as and the brief appearance of a present the lecture of a lifetime — who inspire, entertain or challenge something you slice and put on substance so nauseating we their students. Oberg, a Brady bread. I look at it and see a whole microbial world. In fact, aged cheese won’t mention it here (but Presidential Distinguished Professor of microbiology, does all three. has a lot of different organisms in will later … be prepared). it doing lots of different things to For just a moment, imagine In late April 2015, I caught up with give it its flavor and characteristics. Oberg in his third-floor office in ______a 3-year-old Craig, sporting the Science Lab. We laughed about buckaroo gear, complete the spaghetti story. Afterward, as I What are you researching transcribed the interview, I couldn’t these days? with cowboy hat, boots and help but notice how often he said, fringed shirt, mounting his “That was fun.” You’ll see ... For a few years now, I’ve been trusty steed and furiously ______working with Dr. Michele Culumber (WSU’s microbiology racing around the hedge Looking back on the chair) and two colleagues at Utah separating his home spaghetti incident, is that State University, Dr. Jeff Broadbent when you knew you and Dr. Donald McMahon. We recently from his neighbor’s … discovered a new bacterium in the wanted to become a scientist? dairy world that, we believe, has I don’t know why exactly, been causing packages of sharp but I’ve just always been cheese to puff up and create defects interested in science. My in the cheese. Some of our Weber grandma gave me a book when I State students have helped us was just starting to read; it was a with that project, analyzing cheese giant field guide to everything. I samples from across the U.S. in an read that book about 20 times until effort to assess the scope of the I pretty much had it memorized. It new bacterium, which, by the way, talked about rocks, trees, ecology we’re going to name for the Wasatch and weather. I wish I still had it. Front. That’s been a lot of fun. We have a paper coming out soon. I discovered microbiology right here ______in this Science Lab as a student in the ’70s. It encompassed so many How does one come things about the natural world; it across new bacteria? intrigued me. At one point I thought I would go to medical school, but I “I wasn’t supposed to, and I knew You know, I keep this quote and just really liked being in the lab. I I would get in trouble, but I did it share it with my students. (He like seeing what grows. When I went anyway,” Oberg admitted some 40 pulled a push-pinned print out to graduate school at Utah State years later. But, his curiosity had off his wall and handed it to me. It University to get my Ph.D., I started gotten the best of him: “They had was a quote by biochemist and author out studying curly top beet virus. I a collie, and I just had to see it.” Issac Asimov: “The most exciting was working in the pathogenic virus phrase to hear in science, the one Now, here’s where it gets good. lab, you know, where you had to that heralds the most discoveries, is wear the big, white safety suit and not ‘Eureka!’ but, ‘That’s funny.’”) (Skip the next paragraph if gloves. One day, my professor came you’re squeamish.) in and said, ‘We’re out of money.’ So, the new bacterium is a funny I was taking a food fermentation story. I kind of intentionally left (You’ve been warned.) class at the time and asked the the plates (or Petri dishes) in the professor if he had any room for a fridge for six weeks. They normally “The dog had just regurgitated. I Ph.D. student. He said, ‘Yeah, I have a only incubate for two days. I came rode over to investigate, and my cheese project.’ I thought, ‘Pathogenic back and said, ‘Hey! There are first thought was, ‘They feed their viruses. Cheese. Yep, that’s perfect.’ teeny little colonies growing on dog moving spaghetti?!’” Oberg said, In one day, I went from a plant here.’ So, we figured out how to holding up a roundworm specimen. pathologist to a dairy microbiologist. grow the bacteria a little better. He told this story six years ago to I thought, ‘Great man, I can take

Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 21 You’re very passionate about allow the students to ask interesting Let’s go back to when you undergraduate research. Why? questions, and to have the tools, were a student. Why did equipment and mentors to help you attend Weber State? If I had to pick just one thing to them answer those questions. do in my career, it would be doing I hope the people who have My dad passed away when I research projects with students donated to undergraduate research was in high school. I was the so they have the chance to apply the and helped fund these projects oldest and the only son, so I scientific method, so they realize realize what this has done for our felt like I should stay around my science can be fun and applicable students and our faculty. Every year, mom’s house. I got a scholarship to everyday life. It’s fun for me just we’ve had students present their here for about $95 a quarter. After to watch them gather data. They’ll research at the American Society I paid my tuition and bought my come in and say, ‘These are kind of for Microbiology general meeting. books, I still had a little money left weird results.’ I’ll say, ‘That’s great! This year, four students went over — shows you how old I am. I Let’s figure out why they’re weird.’ and presented on the virosphere didn’t really have much knowledge of the Great Salt Lake and dairy about the college experience. It gets them to ask those questions microbiology. It’s been a lot of fun. Fortunately, I took a couple of classes they asked as a little kid — ‘Why ______early on where I rubbed shoulders does that do that? Why is the sky with faculty who had a positive blue? Why is that spaghetti moving?’ You’re known for being a influence on me. I think it surprised me because I had always liked the In recent years, we’ve had a lot of gifted lecturer and for hands-on lab experience, and every fun at the Great Salt Lake. To most bringing humor into the class I took up here had that. That people, it looks pretty sterile, but to classroom. Where did you kept me interested in things. microbiologists, it’s an undiscovered get your sense of humor? microbial jungle. Our students have ______discovered interesting bacteria, I think it came from being a interesting viruses. We let them science geek when I was a kid. It You’ve been a professor here name what they find and number the was a self-defense mechanism. since 1985. What made you strains because they’re so unique. Over time, though, I realized there return to your alma mater are a lot of crazy things that happen We’ve had some pretty spectacular to teach, and stay for 30 years? in science that, if we just take time adventures there, too. We’ve run to look, we would think, ‘Wow! I can’t When I was here as a student, into gigantic spider webs and been believe that happens.’ That’s what I thought, ‘This is awesome. attacked by biting gnats. One time, I try to get across in the classroom I get to learn from and be there were six or seven of us, and — the fun, interesting side of mentored by a number of faculty we all ran screaming up the hill, science — because no matter how who had Ph.D.s.’ One was Lee jumped in the car, drove to the important my course content is, if my Jackson. He was the department closest Maverik, got the water hose students are asleep, it just doesn’t chair of microbiology at the time. I out and hosed ourselves off. matter. At least it’s kept me awake just really admired him and how he I’m thankful for the resources that over the years. He said, chortling. could make science interesting. One

22 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 who’s still here is Stephen Clark interested in learning new things. BS ’64. I took a couple of botany Let’s do this.’ So, we did. It’s really classes from him and enjoyed that. a history class with a lot of science They helped me see that graduate hidden in it. (It covers everything Siblings Jed Lowe BS ’04 and Rachel Lowe BS ’13 school was a possibility, that I had from the English monarchies to have a lot in common. They were both English majors the potential to be successful. Vikings to Salem Witch trials, at Weber State University. They both decided to pursue and discusses how diseases and careers in the medical field. (“Their father,John Earl The same thing that happened to microbes have impacted history.) me way back then, still happens Lowe BA ’70, is a doctor. I’m a teacher and former today. I get to know my students’ Gene and I had a really great team English major. It’s a combination that’s just in their names, know a little about them. of instructional developers. We blood,” said their mother, Nancy Lowe BA ’71.) They learned a lot, and it was a lot of both attend school at Touro University Nevada, Jed in For me, it’s always been about the fun. We had to re-shoot a lot of the the osteopathic medicine (DO) program, Rachel in the students. I think I’ve sacrificed videos because we’d start chortling. some research opportunities for my It’s shown me that interdisciplinary physician assistant (PA) program. And, as their mom own personal edification, but it’s classes really do work, and that says, “They both have Craig Oberg BS ’79 to thank for been more than worth it to have you can take two pretty different helping them get there.” In fact, so does Jed’s wife, Tarris a student say, ‘Thanks. You got things, history and microbiology, Webber Lowe BS ’12, who is also in Touro’s DO program. me to a place I never thought I’d and mesh them together and get.’ This is an unusual institution get people interested in how the “Craig spent hours and hours with Jed, Tarris and in that, being open enrollment, world works in bigger pictures. students sometimes come not Rachel. He helped them with research projects and realizing what they can do. Being To see videos from the MOOC, papers that made them stand out in their graduate able to help them see what they visit weber.edu/magazine. school applications,” Nancy said. “And today, can become and to watch them ______you need that extra something. PA programs, for actually do it — that’s why I stayed. example, are extremely difficult to get into now.” ______What’s your favorite lesson from the MOOC? Nancy said her kids’ research projects were incredibly Recently, you and WSU history successful and well received when presented. professor Gene Sessions, Even though I get a kick out of also a Brady Presidential the syphilitic insanity in the European monarchs, I’ve always “Craig knows exactly what needs to be done, that projects Distinguished Professor, been enamored with the Lewis and and papers must have merit to be presented and published,” collaborated on a MOOC, a Clark Expedition. They were tasked Nancy said. “It’s a very extensive, time-consuming process. massive open online course, with going to a place that no one It sometimes takes a year or more. He didn’t have to put in knew anything about, and they titled “Microbes Rule the World: all of those hours, all of that extra work, but he did with my Effects of Disease on History.” discovered all kinds of plants and animals. They probably would’ve kids, and he does it for many others because he cares.” How did that come about? discovered microbes if they would Occasionally, I take classes have had the capacity, but they Today, Nancy’s kids know they have to work hard to be across campus. I’m just didn’t. There were a couple of times successful — something she and her husband taught them interested in learning. I’ve when microorganisms or diseases at home, and something Oberg reinforced at Weber State. taken zoology classes, history could’ve just ended it for them. Many classes, Spanish classes, here and of the people on the expedition “You can teach them to have a strong work ethic at home, were infected with syphilis when there when I can. I was taking but they need other people in their lives who push and a history class from Gene years they spent their first winter with encourage them,” Nancy said. “Craig’s students know ago, and I, of course, made a snide the Mandan Native American tribe. remark, something like, ‘Oh, you The treatment for that was mercury. they have to work hard. He tells them, ‘You have to work know, microbes and diseases are I don’t know how they didn’t die harder than the other person. You have to put forth that the things that drive history.’ He from mercury poisoning. Then, they extra effort. You have to be a little better. It’s up to you.’ Of just barely survived going over the said, ‘Prove it.’ So, I wrote a lecture course, it’s Craig saying that, so he does it in a wonderfully and presented it to his class. I’ve Lolo Pass from Idaho into eastern funny way, but in a way that gets through to them.” given that lecture quite a bit since, Oregon. The natives there gave to alumni groups and others. them tainted fish, and they all got really egregious food poisoning. The family’s experience with undergraduate research One day, Gene and I were sitting inspired the Lowes to create a fund to support students Just think, one sexually transmitted and talking, and I said, ‘I’ve who want to work on a rewarding, challenging, science- infection and one case of food always thought these MOOCs related research project. To learn how to make invaluable were interesting. I’ve always been poisoning could have ended interested in learning new stuff, and this unbelievable expedition opportunities such as this available to even more students, I think people all over the world are that opened up the West and contact the Development Office at 801-626-6194. the natural world to us. continued on next page ... Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 23 In the summer of 2016, you’ll be I’ll adjust rapidly to not having brown I challenge my students, anyone, to moving from the Science Lab to water and having electrical outlets get out and re-activate that gene. Weber State’s new Tracy Hall that actually work. He said, smiling. My wife complains that I’m a slow ______hiker. I like to poke around. I was out Science Center. Are you excited? hiking with my grandson Ashden It’s bittersweet. The new In a few of your lectures, you’ve once, and when we got back, I building will give students great mentioned something called a noticed his trousers were hanging experiences. I’m looking forward “Rocks In Your Pocket Gene.” a little low. His mom said, ‘Ashden, empty your pockets,’ and he started to it, but at the same time it’s kind What is that exactly? of like moving out of my ancestral pulling out sticks and rocks. ‘He does home. I took my first science class I believe each of us is born with this all the time,’ she said, to which in the Science Lab in 1973, so I’ve a gene that causes fascination my wife replied, ‘He comes by it been banging around this building with the natural world, a gene honestly. Craig, empty your pockets.’ for a while. I’ll miss it. It will be hard that causes us to explore, to pick up And I started pulling out to walk over with my box of books rocks and examine them when we’re rocks, sticks, lichen … and microscope (and his mini-fridge outside, to be curious. The gene often packed with Diet Cokes), but I’m sure gets de-activated as we get older.

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At first glance, the professor’s office offers few clues into the world of crime: there are the quintessential bookshelves lined with hefty textbooks, framed diplomas, and a neat, even sparse desktop. Yet, a closer look reveals hints of a world enmeshed in good and evil and the often deviating line that divides the two.

At the far end of the bookshelf, a model Star Trek ship awaits the opportunity to explore “where no man has gone before.” Perched on another shelf is a framed scene from the dark crime-drama series, Breaking Bad. Looking over Brad Reyns’ BA ’02, MCJ ’04 right shoulder is a colorful print of Dexter, the serial killer who kills bad guys in the eponymous television series. Emanating from his screensaver is the iconic Superman shield, with that unmistakable swoop of the “S.”

Yet it is in the dusky twilight zone of the Internet that Reyns, an assistant professor of criminal justice, is in his element, sleuthing and investigating. A place where good and evil play out on a much different terrain; where

2626 weber.edu/wsumagazineweber.edu/wsumagazine | | FallFall 20152015 time and space cease to be factors Prior to Reyns’ research, the only Offline stalking has generally and opportunities to stalk abound. national survey on cyberstalking been the attention grabber while — The 2009 National Crime cyberstalking drifts in the “There’s the devil you know and Victimization Survey — revealed shadows; yet studies the devil you don’t know,” quips a quarter of the stalking victims suggest cyberstalking is Reyns, referring to the infinite were cyberstalked. “If we updated much more widespread number of opportunities to that for 2015, it would be much, due to the borderless encounter others (“friends” and much higher,” asserts Reyns, and limitless nature strangers) on the Internet. citing the proliferation of new of cyberspace allowing social media sites and electronic victims and offenders to Reyns’ research focuses on criminal media just in the last five years. converge more easily. The anonymity victimization and more recently and of the Internet provides an invisibility specifically cyberstalking among SORTS OF STALKING cloak of sorts allowing individuals college students — a pioneering AND THE FEAR FACTOR to easily follow or suddenly appear study in a relatively new field. He in someone else’s ether space. has co-authored a victimology Cyberstalking is the repeated pursuit textbook and is the editor of of someone through electronic Stalking stole the spotlight in the the Journal of School Violence. devices, including online behaviors 1990s when several celebrities such as harassment or threats became victims, including Rebecca His research reveals that among via email, instant messaging, Schaeffer, an actress and model college students, 40 percent have chat rooms, message or bulletin who was stalked for three years by a been cyberstalked. It is especially boards, or other Internet sites. man who eventually murdered her. prevalent among females, non- Her death prompted the passage of whites and non-heterosexuals. The pursuit behavior includes the anti-stalking laws in California. persistent and unwanted electronic Young people are generally stalked at About a decade later, Jeri Lynn Ryan communications that can contain a higher rate than other ages as they (an actress on Star Trek: Voyager) messages are early adopters of technology and was stalked laced with most are single and dating; a lot of by a man coercive or stalking results from bad breakups, Fourteen of every 1,000 adults who was intimidating with offenders most likely being are stalked annually; convicted for wording men. Race tended to be a nonfactor. harassment or sexual 26 percent of those stalked are and accused “A relationship not going well, or that overtones. also being cyberstalked. of sending ends, or someone who is trying to In trailing her letters start one can instigate cyberstalking their target, with by sending unwanted messages or offenders might use devices such threats to sexually assault her pictures,” says Reyns, who overhears as cameras, computer programs, and torture her boyfriend. his students tell stories weekly GPS or listening devices. about their Internet behaviors. “They Though stalking is hardly new Inducing fear is the key legal sometimes have no idea they’re (all predators stalk their prey), criteria in determining guilt of getting close to what we’d call pursuit these celebrities brought attention stalking or cyberstalking. “Not a behaviors, such as sending unwanted to stalking and expedited it lot of crimes are based on how messages or leaving unwanted being established as a crime. the victim reacts that make it a comments.” When he calls them on Again, the link between stalking crime,” points out Reyns. According it, they rationalize and cyberstalking is notable: to state laws, the victim has to be that if you are going “Fourteen of every 1,000 adults fearful of what a stalker is doing to be on social are stalked annually; 26 percent and experience emotional stress. media, then that’s of those stalked are also being Every state has now implemented the risk you take. cyberstalked,” according to Reyns. laws in this area of victimization.

Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 27 Reyns’ previous research and involve the study of human and tablets, we’re not just working (2013) compared behavior — the focus is still on what primarily from a laptop or desktop victims of each of these questions do we have about people computer,” says Reyns, who ironically types of stalking. “We and how are we going to answer has an old push-button, corded wanted to find out if them,” points out Reyns, whose past phone on his desk. “Consider the cyberstalking is a unique WSU professors are now some of his apps we have now, like Instagram crime or a variation of current colleagues. To establish an and Twitter. Social networking traditional stalking.” While victims expertise in criminal justice, Reyns is constant and more tightly experience fear in both scenarios, earned his Ph.D. at the University of integrated than ever before.” the key differences were in the Cincinnati, which offers one of the level of fear and the money victims top three “Brad was spent to protect themselves. doctoral really programs Certain online behaviors increase creative and He found that victims of cyber- innovative in criminal the risk of being cyberstalked, stalking experienced less fear justice. in pursuing than traditional stalking victims such as allowing strangers to have his research,” (given that physical proximity His mentor access to your social networks or recalls Fisher. elevates alarm), yet they received and doctoral He essentially more threats and attacks than advisor, “friending” people you don’t know. took a theory traditional stalking victims. Bonnie developed in Cyberstalking victims also spent Fisher, influenced Reyns’ decision the 1970s, known as lifestyle-routine- twice as much money in self- to focus on victimization. Fisher activity theory, used traditionally to protection measures (e.g., change is a nationally recognized expert describe and predict opportunity for jobs, buy guns, miss work, alter their on victimization and one of the victimization in primarily face-to- appearance). Again, college-aged first people to conduct national face offensives, and adapted it to female students were at a higher studies on violence against cyberspace to explain why and how risk for both types of stalking. women in the United States. Her victimization happens. “He kept the research on stalking — common structure of the theory but had to He points out that there is a fine in cases where there is violence rethink the concepts in an online distinction between cyberbullying against women — got Reyns environment as opposed to offline,” and cyberstalking, yet they both wondering about cyberstalking. says Fisher, adding that because it fall under the same umbrella of had never been done before, there harassment. “Bullying used to be “This was in 2006, really before was no secondary data set to pull at school, but you were safe at smart phones took off, but Facebook from. Reyns and Henson had to home; now bullying is with you all and MySpace were growing rapidly; create a data set by developing and the time 24/7 via the Internet.” at that point, no one had really administering survey questions. studied online victimization,” recalls They have since continued to refine WHAT LURED HIM Reyns, who worked with fellow and more rigorously test the theory DOWN THIS PATH? investigator Billy Henson to delve in a cyberspace environment. into such research. Reyns admits Reyns’ first steps in becoming what that research studies in this area “Brad’s always pushing the envelope, might be termed an “academic need to continually evolve to keep not in an egotistical way, but in a cyber detective” began at WSU as up with the rapid proliferation and ‘I’m curious’ sort of way. He puts in an undergraduate. As he finished morphing of technology. He cites a the hard work to understand what his undergraduate degree in 2011 study he did that is considered happens,” says Fisher, who co-edited anthropology, the university old now because social the textbook Introduction to had just added a graduate networks are different, Victimology: Contemporary program in criminal justice. as is the level of Theory, Research, and connectivity. “Now we Practice. “Even when Brad “It seemed like a natural transition have smart phones doesn’t get the findings since all social sciences overlap

28 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 to support theories, he is still who keeps coming into my work able to explain why and what and says these things and gives that means for the next step — me gifts.” However, what strikes he is always thinking about the him most about his students — the next study,” adds Fisher. “This is very demographic his research one of the marks of a scholar.” involves — is their flippant attitude about it. He will overhear them DETERMINING THE RISK say, “I was Facebook stalking …” AND REVENGE PORN What’s next? Reyns anticipates Certain online behaviors increase “revenge porn” will become the risk of being cyberstalked, something states will have to such as allowing strangers to have grapple with criminalizing or not. Reyns’ research focuses on the access to your social networks An example of this is when a couple “opportunities” that can open someone or “friending” people you don’t who were in a relationship break up to being cyberstalked. These are know. According to Reyns’ up, and then one of them posts favorable circumstances for a crime to research, this triples your intimate photos or videos online occur; risk factors are those things that risk of being cyberstalked. to get revenge. Sexting (sending facilitate opportunities (i.e., deviant The number of social sexually explicit messages) is online behavior, “friending” strangers). networks you belong increasing as well, and if you to also increases risk. throw in the creep factor, can For concerned parents or social media users who want to reduce these devolve quickly into cyberstalking. “opportunities,” Reyns suggests the Adding strangers as “friends” Then there are the anonymous following: doubled the likelihood of unwanted spaces such as gaming forums contacts, harassment, unwanted that increase the opportunities Refrain from posting: sexual advances and threats of to brush up against all sorts of 1 - violence. “We found that it didn’t strangers. “All this new terrain • Your first and last name so much matter what info you opens up unexplored research (use your last initial) posted online — photos, where you questions in victimology that we • Your phone number work, your school—but rather who have yet to answer,” says Reyns. and/or email you let in to see that info,” adds Reyns. “Most of our findings were Admittedly, Reyns research has • Personal locator information such as your being driven by stranger stalking.” made him hyper aware of the work schedule, where you “stranger danger” around each work, or that you are going He also found that people who do virtual corner on the Internet, and to Hawaii for two weeks deviant things online are more at as a father of two girls — one that is risk of being victims (i.e., illegal already asking for a cell phone and Take it seriously. If you are downloading, 2 - a Facebook fearful, call the police. harassing account Track the evidence. others). Offenders sometimes don’t even (“not yet” Also pursuit realize they are stalking. and “no”) 3 - Exercise guardianship. Be behaviors — he is present and pay attention such as vigilant. to what your children are trolling (being mean online) or “Knowing what I know about doing online. being pugilistic increased the risk sexting and stalking and trolling, Belong to fewer social of being cyberstalked as well. I’m not sure what age will be 4 - media networks. the right age to say ‘yes’ to my Offenders sometimes don’t even daughter. We want to keep her realize they are stalking. Reyns uses Avoid “friending” strangers safe,” says Reyns. “And hopefully 5 - the example of one of his students (set privacy settings). not ruin her social life.” who complains about “this guy

weber.edu/wsumagazine 29 TURNING TRIALS I N T O TRIUMPH

How Michael Beasley battled adversity and discrimination

Karin Hurst MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

“And you, Mike … your job is to scrub the toilets.” It was a directive so degrading it caused a handsome, confident, 17-year-old high school athlete to hang his head in shame. Nearly 50 years later, Michael R. Beasley’s BS ’71 pain is palpable as he describes the time a Defense Depot Ogden warehouse supervisor announced to a group of eager teenage workers that Beasley, the only black kid in the bunch, would scour the depot restrooms. Permanently. It didn’t matter that the crew had previously rotated between closing-time chores. On that otherwise uneventful day in Ogden, in 1965, a white supervisor decided that his lone African-American student employee should be assigned the unsavory task of cleaning toilets. Permanently. “I remember not wanting to look up. I kept my head down because I didn’t want anyone to see how I felt. I couldn’t wait to get out of there,” Beasley recalls.

At the end of his shift, Beasley fought back tears as he sprinted home to tell his father what had happened. Breathlessly, he spat out the mortifying details, certain that his father would embrace his fury and champion a call for justice. Instead, the elder Beasley looked his

outraged son in the eyes and said quietly, “That’s why you’re going to college.” It was a St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle shockingly succinct, character-defining nugget of fatherly advice that would sustain Michael Beasley through an unpredictable roller-coaster ride from first-generation college student to IBM corporate executive, software development entrepreneur, education advocate and community activist. “From that moment on,” says the now-retired Beasley, “I saw learning as a tool to fight any battle.”

30 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 he worked was being shut down. Theodore was offered two alternative jobs: one in Huntsville, Alabama, the other in Ogden, Utah. “My father said, ‘I don’t know where Ogden, Utah, is, but I sure know where Huntsville, Alabama, is … so we’re moving to Ogden,’” Beasley says with a sly smile. “He did not want to move us back to the South in 1964.”

The Beasley family may have dodged Alabama’s violent clash over desegregation during the American civil rights movement, but racial prejudice was certainly no stranger to Utah in those years. Municipal and private swimming pools, including Ogden’s Lorin Farr Park and Farmington’s Lagoon, were off-limits to African-Americans until the 1950s, and the aura of white privilege lingered into the ’60s and ’70s. Restrictive real estate covenants and private business policies relegated African-Americans to certain neighborhoods and professions. “We lived between Washington Boulevard and Wall Avenue,” says Beasley. “First, because that’s really the only place we were allowed to live, and, second, that’s where we preferred to live to be around other people who were like us.”

NFL DREAMS A star athlete at Ogden High School, Beasley was offered a football scholarship to Weber State College. Initially, he BORN TO DO BATTLE dreamed of playing in the NFL, a dream that fizzled when f Beasley knows a thing or two about battles, it may former Wildcats Henry Owens BS ’74 and Lee White ’69 were be because of his first name. “My maternal both drafted by the New York Jets in 1968, and then cut. “Henry Igrandmother wanted to name me after an angel,” was faster than me, and Lee was bigger and stronger than me,” he says. Ironically, Willie G. Harrison chose the name says Beasley. “Right or wrong, I concluded that if they couldn’t of an exceptionally powerful archangel. (About as far make it in professional ball, then I couldn’t. The probability of from a pudgy cherub as you can get.) Accounts in the success just wasn’t there.” No longer seeing the point of playing Torah, Bible, and Quran all describe Michael as God’s college sports, Beasley quit WSC’s squad his sophomore year to feisty field commander, a celestial warrior who pursue a destiny he had inadvertently unearthed a year earlier. vanquishes evil and helps mortals overcome fear. Turns out, it is the perfect name for someone like Michael Beasley, who needed an archangel’s courage, insight TRADING TOUCHDOWNS and tenacity to withstand racial discrimination, FOR TECHNOLOGY sidestep a war draft, endure dashed dreams as a Before the start of his freshman year, Beasley was invited by college athlete, and overcome career obstacles. one of his best friends, Charles Johnson, to drive to Weber

Beasley was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, State to meet with Leonard Nicholas BS ’67, the college’s to Theodore and Dorothy Beasley. In search of higher then-director of data processing. Beasley told his buddy, “Hey, wages, the family bounced from North Carolina to I don’t know what data processing is, but, sure, I’ll ride with Michigan, where both parents found jobs at General you.” In Nicholas’ office, Beasley was mesmerized by the Motors, and back to North Carolina before settling conversation. “Instead of Leonard just talking to my friend, in Dayton, Ohio. Beasley was a sophomore at the he’s talking to me, too,” he remembers. “And I’m starting to predominately black Roosevelt High School when his get the feeling that I love this data processing stuff. That father announced that the civil service center where was the day that I determined what I was going to be.”

Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 31 The road to graduation was not without bumps. Nicholas pulled some strings to get Beasley hired as a computer operator in the Salt Lake City office of Kennecott Utah Copper. Beasley was grateful, but admits the job had its drawbacks. “Kennecott would not allow me to work part time, so I worked Photos by Sara Lleverino BS ’01 Lleverino Sara Photos by from midnight to 8 a.m., and my first class started at 9,” he says. On top of that, Beasley was struggling to stay out of a divisive war that seemed to be sending a disproportionate number of African- American combat troops to the front lines.

“The Vietnam draft had a school deferment,” Beasley explains. “If I didn’t carry a full course load, I’d get drafted, but I also had to work full time to pay for school.” Six months into this grueling schedule, Beasley was ready to throw in the towel. “I told my mother, ‘I’m depressed. I really don’t think I can handle this,’” he recalls. “That was a critical point in my life — to quit or not quit.” Ultimately, Beasley decided to fight through the adversity. “I figured if I didn’t quit this time, I probably wouldn’t quit the next time. If I was going to start a habit, I wanted to start a habit of not quitting.”

IT PAYS TO PREPARE Long before IBM first sent recruiters to the Weber State campus, the company had gained a reputation for hiring talented people its competitors rejected because of race, gender or sexual orientation. IBM’s president published an equal opportunity policy one year computer operator, Jim was kind of impressed, and when I told before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. him I had worked all night, he was really impressed.” Green Board of Education, and 11 years before the Civil Rights Act arranged for Beasley to meet with a group of managers in of 1964. So when Beasley blundered into a job interview with Boulder, Colorado, a process that happened several more times IBM representative Jim Green his junior year, he encountered over the next 12 months before Beasley was finally offered a a receptive environment. “Only seniors were supposed to be position contingent upon his graduation from Weber State. interviewed, and I’d been working all night,” says Beasley. “But I wanted to increase the probabilities of my being SETBACK IN SAN JOSE successful the next year, so I went there to ask someone from IBM what I should do to prepare.” The interviews were Beasley did extremely well at IBM in Colorado. He set a lofty scheduled to end at noon. “I got there around 11:45, and goal to become a manager within four years, and followed the interviewer saw me and started to apologize for not his career path to the company’s offices in San Jose, Cali- expecting me,” says Beasley. “I explained that I shouldn’t fornia. It was there the unthinkable happened. Beasley was even be there, but he decided to interview me anyway. Why? passed over for a promotion he was sure he deserved. “I knew I think when I mentioned that I was already working as a the guy who ran the West Coast software division, and had

32 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 even helped him once before,” says Beasley, who arranged a has a favorite catchphrase: “You can’t ensure success; all meeting with the executive and prepared what he felt was you can do is increase the probability of success.” He en- an open-and-shut case. “After my presentation, I knew I’d courages people from all walks of life to take the hand nailed it,” says Beasley. “I knew there was no way, he wouldn’t they’ve been dealt, and make the best of it. That simple say, ‘Mike you’ve been treated unfairly. Let’s fix this.’” philosophy has taken Michael Beasley from a low-income neighborhood in the “bad” part of Ogden, to Silicon Valley — Valhalla of technology innovation and development. No matter who you are, somehow, It was an arduous journey that required the courage, insight somewhere, someday, you’re still and tenacity of an archangel. going to get jerked around.

There’s no reason to argue or debate Michael R. “Mike” Beasley is the retired chairman of Rocket Software. about it. You just have to figure Before that, he founded Lagenta Inc., and initiated the formation out how to make the best of it. of Icing Software, a high-performing independent business unit of IBM Software. Beasley received an IBM Executive Leadership Award, and was named most prominent African-American in While the man liked Beasley personally and respected him high technology by Black Press Online. As chairman of the professionally, he nevertheless used the situation as a Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) teaching moment to introduce Beasley to the harsh reality program in California for 11 years, he mentored more than of corporate politics. “What makes you think everything in 60,000 kids. In addition to earning a bachelor’s degree in data life has to be fair?” he asked. “It was like a slap in the face,” processing from Weber State, Beasley received an MBA from Beasley reminisces. “But it taught me that no matter who the MIT Sloan School of Management. Recently, he collaborated you are, somehow, somewhere, someday, you’re still going with a team of WSU software engineering students to devel- to get jerked around. There’s no reason to argue or debate op a mobile app that helped California’s Santa Clara County about it. You just have to figure out how to make the best document its homeless population (see the next page for more). of it.” Beasley says that incident changed his definition Beasley and his wife, Wanda, live in Morgan Hill, California. of success. Once he recovered from the initial blow, he made an extra effort to broaden other aspects of life aside from IBM. “That disaster actually ended During a 2010 visit to WSU, Michael Beasley chats with Ogden middle school up making me more money and getting students about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. me to a much better place,” he reflects.

STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS Michael Beasley is a competitive man, a scrapper who likes to win. But when things don’t go his way, he shuns self-pity or regret. Instead, he uses disappointment to increase his odds of winning the next round. His formidable character was forged from hardship. “Going back to that incident at the warehouse, I don’t think the manager was a racist in the sense that he singled me out to be mean,” Beasley speculates. “It probably just seemed right having a black kid clean the toilets. I consider myself blessed that my father didn’t feed my shame or anger. He said exactly what I needed to hear. So I kept the job and cleaned the toilets.” Beasley

Fall 2015 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 33 Documenting the HOMELESS

At 5:15 on a nippy, Northern California morning in January which has several important advantages,” says Cowan. “Pens of 2015, a determined army of volunteers began rummaging and paper don’t require batteries; they don’t break when you through parts of Santa Clara County in search of men, women drop them; and they don’t cost $600 a piece.” Early on, CTA and children living in shelters or on the streets. Like volunteers seemed reluctant to change its method of data collection. Cowan in other cities throughout the nation, the crew was carrying out understands that. “Sometimes I think technology is a solution the Point-in-Time (PIT) Census and Survey, a yearly effort to doc- looking for a problem,” he says with a smile. “But in this case, ument the number of individuals experiencing homelessness on our HOME app proved to be so much more effective in gathering a single night. What set the Santa Clara County expedition apart the information they needed. Technology made the census was the use of a mobile app developed over the course of four faster, more accurate and more comprehensive. The data was semesters by Weber State University computer science students. also immediately available for analysis.” With the glow from their tablets and smartphones brightening the muted hue of the The story actually starts three years earlier, inside a California pre-dawn sky, outreach workers used the HOME app’s geolo- restaurant where Weber State graduate, former IBM executive, cation features to identify the precise locations of homeless California resident and community activist Michael R. Beasley encampments. They took photos that were instantly paired BS ’71 was eating lunch with David Ferro, dean of WSU’s with written descriptions of the people they encountered. In College of Engineering, Applied Science & Technology (EAST) high-priority cases, homeless women with children were able and development director Kelly Stackaruk. Beasley happened to to activate relief services by signing a mobile screen. All of mention his involvement with the Gilroy Compassion Cen- that information was immediately uploaded to CTA’s Home- ter, a nonprofit group he helped establish in 2011 to provide less Management Information System, a shared database that life-saving services to south Santa Clara County’s woefully allows various nonprofits and public agencies to coordinate aid. large homeless population. “Kelly really picked up on that and we started talking about ways Weber State could help out,” A total of 10 WSU students worked on the HOME app. Most says Beasley. Shortly after that discussion, Beasley arranged of them had no previous experience and had to teach them- a partnership between students in Ted Cowan’s BS ’89 selves the Android and iPhone operating systems. Just before upper-division software engineering class and one of the the app went live, CTA hired one of those students to do some center’s collaborators, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), last-ditch tweaking and cleanup. an award-winning Silicon Valley agency that harnesses technol- “Finding solutions to real-world problems is an invaluable ogy to coordinate homelessness relief efforts. CTA was looking experience for our students,” says Cowan. “I’m especially pleased to upgrade its current method of conducting the PIT census. with the work of my nontraditional students,” he adds. “You’d Traditionally, CTA’s homeless counts were conducted using tally think they were just there to get that diploma and walk away, but sheets and tick marks on maps. The information was manually I found a significant amount of commitment and performance tabulated and entered into spreadsheets in the days following from students who otherwise had jobs, spouses and children.” the census. “CTA had been using a pen-and-paper approach, According to Cowan, the HOME app is one of a growing number of service-learning projects taking place within his college. For example, another group of software engineering students just finished writing an application that tracks the number of meals the Utah Food Bank serves to children. “Students involved in these kinds of activities are making the most of their time here,” says Cowan. “They’re making the Weber State experience a success- ful one for themselves, their teams, their clients and for the university itself, which is now getting a little bit of street credit for the kind of work its students produce.”

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Thank you to Jessica Corbran AS ’11 for allowing us to use her 1961 classic car, to Janessa Richardson AS ’00 and the WSU Costume Studio for donating the wardrobe, 36 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2015 and Greg Ward and Stags Car Club for giving us access to Jack’s Garage and Oil. Photo by Zac Williams BA ’01, MPC ’13 US the in the A See ay W ALUMNI! W cat ASSOCIATION LEADERS 2015-16 Heatheri Halesl dBA ’91, Mackenzie Olsen BS ’09 M.Ed. ’06 President, WSU Young Alumni Council President, WSU Alumni Association Mackenzie moved from Ogden to Zanesville, Ohio, Heather graduated summa cum laude in 1991 when she was 10, but she scooted right back and was named an Outstanding English and after high school. She studied public relations, Honors Graduate. She later returned to her advertising and business, and served as the alma mater to complete a master’s program in Student Association’s vice president of events. education. These days Heather is a teacher at Mackenzie recently started a small business H. Guy Child Elementary School in Ogden. making head and wrist wraps. If I were a car I’d be a: Jeep because I’d always be heading out on a My first car was an: Ugly, blue Dodge van — definitely not a favorite. fun adventure! Best road trip ever: Helping my little sister move from Ohio to Utah. We Best road trip ever: A monthlong excursion to Alaska. We drove over 8,000 loaded our family into two cars and drove about 30 hours. I had been away miles and saw glaciers, tundra, 27 black bears, eight grizzly bears, a lynx, at college for two years, so hanging out again with my four siblings and caribou and bison herds, and huge moose. parents was really a blast. The person I’d most like to take on a road trip is: Shel Silverstein The person I’d most like to take on a road trip is: Gwen Stefani because because he was happy and funny, and he related to people of all ages. He she would have amazing clothes to share and she could serenade me. was also a talented musician, so he would definitely keep me entertained. The worst place my car broke down was: In front of all my friends at the The worst place my car broke down was: On Ogden’s very busy 12th busiest intersection in Zanesville, Ohio, on a Friday night. I wasn’t used Street. I hadn’t paid attention to the gas gauge. to driving a stick shift and stalled through an entire green light. I finally The type of music I usually listen to while driving is: Rhythm and blues. figured out I was in third gear, not first! As a WSUAA leader, I hope to: Provide more opportunities for alumni to The type of music I usually listen to while driving is: Anything but strengthen their ties to Weber State. country! On a road trip, I love listening to vintage punk. ______As a WSUAA leader, I hope to: Motivate recent graduates to fall in love with WSU all over again and have the desire to stay connected. Lee Crittenden BS ’69 ______President, WSU Emeriti Alumni Council As a student, Lee, a business management Parker DeYoung AA ’14 major, was an active member of the Excelsior President, WSU Student Alumni fraternity. He remains involved in his alma mater Association today, serving on the Wildcat Club and WSU Parker is a native Utahan who earned an Alumni Association boards. Lee owns Crittenden associate’s degree from Weber State and is now Glass in Ogden. a pre-engineering major. Proud of his Wildcat roots, Parker has served two previous terms on If I were a car I’d be a: Chevrolet Corvette to the Student Alumni Association. enjoy a good midlife crisis. If I were a car I’d be a: Toyota Prius because My first car was a: Red 1962 Volkswagen Beetle. My friends and I had I am efficient and I keep on going! some great adventures in that car. My first car was a: Honda Civic that ran like a champion … until the day Best road trip ever: Going to the East Coast to visit family. What an I totaled it in the canyon on my way to go skiing. education it was to see so many historic places! Best road trip ever: A high school graduation trip to California with The worst place my car broke down was: On the way to Lake Powell. friends before we all headed off in different directions. We hit some theme The boat trailer bearings went out when we were miles from help. We parks, major league baseball games and, of course, the beach. were traveling with several families and a zillion anxious kids. The worst place my car broke down was: My car has never broken down. The type of music I usually listen to while driving is: Anything quiet Knock on wood. and relaxing. The type of music I usually listen to while driving is: Country. (Sorry, As a WSUAA leader, I hope to: Increase the number of emeriti alumni Mackenzie.) volunteers who enjoy providing service to the university and renewing old friendships. As a WSUAA leader, I hope to: Help increase the student body’s school pride and support of the university. future rocket scientist We’ll help with the launch.

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He and his late wife, Janet State’s College of Engineering, also a full, tenured teacher ’40s Hadley Ostler AS ’55, ’56, have Applied Science & Technology education professor at Weber six children, 19 grandchildren and taught students in the State. Early in her career, she and five great-grandchildren. automotive technology was a teacher, school principal A Kenneth B. Knowles AS ’49 is a retired U.S. Air Force Lloyd lives in Syracuse, Utah. department the chemistry of and central administrator for colonel. He served as a judge paint used in collision repair. the Ogden School District. advocate for 31 years. His He lives in South Ogden, Utah, Linda has two children and last assignment was general A with his wife, Sharon Simpson two grandchildren. She lives counsel of the Army and ’60s Thorpe AS ’64 BS ’79, who is in South Ogden, Utah. Air Force Exchange Service. the chief financial officer of A For nine years, Lou Jean Kenneth traveled extensively A Stephen L. Clark BS ’64 Ogden Auto Parts and Glass. Flint BS ’69 worked as a while in the military. He has a recently completed his 50th All three of their children, and kindergarten teacher at Muir daughter and two grandsons year of service as a botany several of their grandchildren, Elementary in the Davis School and lives in Duncanville, Texas. professor at Weber State. He are Weber State graduates. District. She later worked He was married to his wife, teaches ethnobotany, herbal After earning her degree in abroad for the Department Clara Lou, for 58 years when medicines and vascular clinical laboratory sciences, of Defense, serving as an she passed away. He later plant taxonomy. Stephen A Barbara Greiner Anderson educational specialist and married his current wife, Julie. earned his master’s degree from Utah State University BS ’66 worked in various consultant. After returning to and his Ph.D. from Brigham lab positions at McKay-Dee the U.S., Lou Jean was hired Young University. He has Hospital until her retirement by Utah’s commissioner of ’50s lived with indigenous peoples in 1984. She was a member of higher education, becoming on five continents to learn the Utah Society of Medical one of the first full-time, A Sharon Fowles Macfarlane how they use plants in their Technologists. Barbara professional females to work AS ’55 is executive director of daily lives. He and his wife, lives in Ogden, and has four in the commissioner’s office. the Ogden Symphony Ballet Carol, live in Huntsville, children, 13 grandchildren She worked on the Western Association, a position she’s Utah. Three of their children and 13 great-grandchildren. Interstate Commission held since 2001. She previously graduated from Weber State. for Higher Education and worked at ZCMI in Ogden for A Linda K. Inouye Oda BS National Association of is the director of early 10 years, and for the Ogden- A Lewis (Lew) L. Thorpe AS ’67 State Scholarships and Weber Chamber of Commerce. ’64, BS ’65 was the president learning for United Way of Grant Projects programs. Sharon is a member of the and owner of Spies Hecker Northern Utah. Previously, Lou Jean has held offices in Rotary Club of Ogden. She lives Intermountain, a distributor she was the coordinator of the educational and community in South Ogden, Utah, and has of Spies Hecker vehicle English Language Learners organizations at the state and three children, 11 grandchildren refinishing products. Prior to federal program for the Utah national levels, and currently and three great-grandsons. his career with Spies Hecker, State Office of Education and serves on several boards. Lew taught English and history director for the office of Asian A Monroe L. (Lloyd) Ostler for the Weber School District. Affairs in the Governor’s A Sharon Eastman Marcyes AS ’58 retired as a buyer from He served as councilman for Office of Ethnic Affairs. BS ’69 retired as a project L-3 Communications after 40 the city of South Ogden, Utah, Linda received her Master of analyst from the U.S. years of service. He served and is a member of the Jaycees, Education from Utah State Department of Treasury as president of the Clearfield Mount Ogden Rotary, WSU University and her Doctorate in Washington D.C. She is Kiwanis and is a member of Alumni Association and more. of Education from Brigham secretary-treasurer of the the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Lew is a supporter of Weber Young University. She was Daughters of Utah Pioneers

L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association A Annual Member of the Alumni Association | Member of the Alumni Association’s 125 Club Fall 2015 alumni.weber.edu 39 and a service missionary for and regional information serves on the Utah Public Service Organization. John the LDS church. She also technology security Securities Commission. also served as a director for volunteers for the Phineas manager at the Bureau of Previously, he was a Utah the Salt Lake Chamber of Wolcott Cook Family Reclamation office in Salt State Tax commissioner. Commerce and the credit Organization. Sharon lives Lake City. Dale and his wife, union’s Education Foundation in North Logan, Utah, Phyllis, live in Roy, Utah, A Don N. Mueller AS ’77 in Utah. The Credit Union with her husband, Dave. and have four children and is president of Premier Executive Society recognized They have nine children five grandchildren. He is Appraisal Service, a real John multiple times for his and 36 grandchildren. a Wildcat Club member. estate appraisal company in leadership. He is a Boy Scouts Ogden. He previously worked of America volunteer. John A Scott L. Sangberg BS ’71, at Mountain West Savings, lives in Huntsville, Utah, BS ’85 retired after 27 years Zions Bank, Commercial with his wife, Julie. They ’70s with the Ogden City Police Security Bank and First have two sons, a daughter Department. He served in Security Bank. Don and his and four grandchildren. the U.S. Marine Corps for A wife, L Michael Douglas Jones Kim Tanner Mueller A BS ’70 is a senior systems 11 years. Scott and his wife, BS ’76, have three sons, Lynn Jones Merrill BS engineer for Geico in Stephanie, live in Pleasant two daughters and seven ’78, M.Ed. ’97 retired as a Washington, D.C. He View, Utah, and have a grandchildren. Kim is a science teacher from the previously worked at the son, a daughter and four consultant for KK LuLaRoe, Davis School District. He also Defense Logistics Agency grandchildren. He is a service a home-based clothing taught in the Granite School Central Design Activity missionary for the Church boutique. Don sits on the District. Lynn volunteers located at Ogden’s Defense of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Intermountain Relocation for the Ogden FamilySearch Depot. Michael and his wife, Saints Conference Center in Council and is a four-time Library. Lynn and his wife, Rosanne, live in Vienna, Salt Lake City, and volunteers Boston Marathon finisher. Kristy, live in Roy, Utah, Virginia, and have two as a trail patrol officer for and have eight children John B. Lund BS ’78 is sons and two daughters. Antelope Island State Park. and 15 grandchildren. president and CEO of Michael is an honorary Gary C. Cornia BS ’72 America First Credit Union, Chris Boardman directs the member of the Garden served as dean of Brigham a position he accepted three media writing and production Club of Fairfax, Virginia. Young University’s Marriott years ago after 37 years of program at the University of School of Management from service to the credit union. Miami Frost School of Music, A Dale J. Rogerson BS ’71 retired after 40 years 2008 until his retirement in He has held leadership where he teaches film scoring of service to the federal 2013. A professor emeritus positions in the Utah Credit and advanced music editing. government. He spent for the Marriott School, he Union Association, Credit He is also an assistant the last 27 years of his has been involved in tax Union Direct Corporation, professor of practice. Chris career as the regional data policy research in the U.S. and Member Business began his career in the film, communications manager and around the world. Gary Leading Credit Union television and recording

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| alumni.weber.edu40 weber.edu/wsumagazine | SpringFall 2015 2014 industries in 1974. He received to the International Reading an Academy Award nomination Association. She has four for The Color Purple. He also children and four grandchildren. received six Emmy Awards, 13 She lives with her husband, Emmy nominations, as well Steven J. Brown BS ’83, who is as awards from BMI and the a manager for the LDS church, American Society of Composers, in Uintah Highlands, Utah. Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), for work with artists such as Tom M. Humeniuk BS ’82 Quincy Jones, David Foster, is a compliance manager at Steven Spielberg, Julie Andrews, WebBank. Previously, he was a Shirley MacLaine, Barbra compliance manager for Ally Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Bank and Optum Bank. Tom Josh Groban. Chris also is the has two sons and lives in West founder of a social media content Jordan, Utah, with his wife, Julie. strategy consulting business. A Cindee Secrist Rummler BS ’83 retired as a deputy sheriff for Riverside County, California. Cindee also taught school ’80s for Jurupa Unified School District. She lives in Oak Hills, A Darwin R. Cox BA ’81 is California, with her husband, employed by Merck, a research- Keith, and their five children. driven health-care company, as director of biologic experience A Steven R. Hanline BS ’85 is a and operations for biosimilars Windows system engineer in PICK THE business. He previously worked the information technology in marketing, Six Sigma process department of Intermountain improvement, strategy and Healthcare (IHC) in West MEMBERSHIP innovation. Prior to Merck, Valley City, Utah. He creates Darwin worked for Unisys, virtual servers for all IHC holding global positions in locations. Previously, Steven finance and operations, and worked for KSL 5 TV-Bonneville leading the company-wide International as a systems implementation of Six Sigma. administrator responsible for THAT FITS He first trained as a Six Sigma servers in three states with nine Black Belt, then as a Master domains. He is a member of Black Belt. He spent 12 years VMWare Virtual Machine User working in Latin America Group, Microsoft Developer and Europe. He and his wife, Network and the Layton NEW GRAD Michele, have four children City Community Emergency One year $20 / Lifetime $295 Visit our new WSUAA website today to: and seven grandchildren. They Response Team. He volunteers live in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, with the American Youth Soccer where Darwin is involved Organization and Ogden City ANNUAL in Physicians for Peace, the GOAL Foundation, and also Single $35 / Couple $55 American Red Cross, Mother’s helps support the Layton High Monument Project and the School theater department. Boy Scouts of America. THREE-YEAR Steven lives in Layton, Utah, Single $95 / Couple $150 and has three children, one of A Lori Memmott Brown BS ’82, whom is attending Weber State. MS ’83 has been with the Weber School District since 1983 and LIFETIME A Frank A. Nolden BA ’87 has Single $550 / Couple $1,000 currently teaches fourth grade. worked 26 years for the Internal A Sam’s Club Teacher of the Revenue Service, where he Year, Lori also has received an currently is a field director SENIOR LIFETIME (65+) “Apple for the Teacher Award” managing over 2,000 employees Single $275 / Couple $550 for 15 years. She previously in two locations. He was worked for the Utah State Office selected for Senior Executive of Education as a Core Academy Service by the federal Office of instructor. Lori belongs Personnel Management. He Learn more at

L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association alumni.weber.edu/join A Annual Member of the Alumni Association or call 801-626-7535 Member of the Alumni Association’s 125 Club A and his wife, Nannette A David R. Allison BS ’88 is Teaching Excellence. She Utah Association for Adult, Shayne Slade Searles a community involvement was also named a 2015 NEA Community and Continuing Nolden BS ’93, live in coordinator for the Utah Foundation Global Fellow Education, the Utah Coalition Conyers, Georgia, and Department of Environmental (Peru studies). Allison is a for Educational Technology have seven children and Quality. He lives in Ogden. fifth-grade teacher at Foxboro and the Breakfast Exchange two grandchildren. Shayne Elementary and a district Club of Ogden. Michael received her master’s A Allison Parker Riddle BS mentor for the Davis School and his wife, Lori, live in degree in psychology from ’88 is the recipient of the District. She was the 2014 South Ogden, Utah. Portland State University 2015 National Education Utah Teacher of the Year. As and is a member of the Association (NEA) a member of the National Tracy L. Johnson-Faulkner board of directors for Foundation Award for Network of State Teachers BS ’89 is the owner/president View Point Health. Teaching Excellence and the of the Year, Allison served as of Wasatch Individualized 2015 Horace Mann Award for co-chair of the organization’s Services. She was previously 2015 national conference. She employed by the state of is also a math consultant for Utah and Enable Utah. a California company and is Tracy lives in Ogden with involved in staff development her wife, Marilyn. They are workshops for schools, parents to a number of pets. districts and universities across the country. Allison is Brian W. Motes AS ’86, BS Great, currently in WSU’s Master of ’89 is a buyer for Weber State Education program. She has University. His wife, Sondra a son and a daughter, and Jolovich Motes BS ’89, is an lives in Centerville, Utah. executive director with the Ogden City School District. Kirk K. Thor BS ’88 They have two children. is vice president of talent management and Plate! organization effectiveness at Flowserve Corporation in ’90s Dallas. He has spent the last 14 years consulting with A Christopher H. Bauco BS the NFL, assessing ’90, MAcc ’93 is an account draft picks and executive for Zions Credit predicting on-field Corporation in Salt Lake City. Support WSU performance and He recently surpassed his 17- potential off-field issues year mark with the company. students and of professional athletes. Chris serves on Weber State’s show Wildcat Kirk began his career at School of Accountancy the Pentagon profiling advisory board. He and his pride and selecting candidates wife, Angela, live in Kaysville, in U.S. Special Forces Utah, and have three children. wherever and covert operations. He you drive previously was vice president A Bryan K. Benard BA ’94 of talent management at works with Holland & Hart JCPenney and Centex LLP in Salt Lake City as a Corporation. Kirk also has led partner specializing in labor the organization development and employment law and team at Walt Disney World. defense. He was named the He received his master’s 2015 Employment Lawyer degree in organizational of the Year for Utah by effectiveness and a Ph.D. Best Lawyers in America. in industrial psychology Mountain States Super from George Mason Lawyers and Chambers University. He currently USA have recognized him lives in Irving, Texas. as a top management side employment lawyer. Bryan To learn more, visit alumni.weber.edu/lp A Michael F. Jacobazzi BS is an elected member 801-626-7535 ’89 is a business technology of Holland & Hart’s firm or call instructor for Ogden- management committee. He Weber Applied Technology is a member of the Weber College. He belongs to the School District Foundation

42 alumni.weber.edu | Fall 2015 board and a councilman for thee the city of South ingg th Ogden, Utah. in ee!! He also serves  mm hoo 889 on WSU’s Social & h IN 1 nss DED Behavioral Sciences ion UN diittioSU FO advancement board. ttrraad W Bryan is married to A Monique Cypers Benard BS ’94, an English Utah folk artist Eric Dowdle teacher for the Weber School District. They has captured the heart and live in South Ogden history of Weber State in Wildcat and have five children. Traditions. Get your keepsake A Caril Roblyer puzzle or print for $18.89. Jennings BIS ’95 is retired from Weber State’s Department of Performing Arts, where she served as marketing Also available director for 16 years and secretary prior to Canvas gallery wrap

that. Currently, Caril Framed giclée print is director of Universe City Lives, an arts 500-piece wood puzzle advocacy organization. 3-D shadow box She also helps market and produce Jazz at Be-Part-of-the-Art the Station, a monthly personalized artwork performance at Ogden’s Union Station. She assists with Weber Reads, the WSU Greek alumni.weber.edu/traditions Festival and the WSU Gospel Music Festival. She is director of the WSU Alumni Jazz Band and has won the Mayor’s Awards in the Arts for Arts Advocacy. She has been a Kase D. Johnstun BA ’98 is graduation, she went on change leader for the Utah an award-winning essayist. ’00s to have a strong amateur Division of Heritage and He recently published a golf career, capturing the Arts. She and her husband, book, Beyond the Grip of Sean J. Knighton BFA ’01 2000 Utah State Women’s LeRoy, live in Ogden. She Craniosynostosis: An Inside Amateur Championship. has two grandchildren. works as the Sony Pacific View of Life Touched by the Northwest regional technical Tenille also advanced to the Congenital Skull Deformity, a representative, teaching top 16 of match play at the Aaron M. Campbell BA first-hand perspective of his U.S. Public Links Tournament is a senior product photography to Sony ’98 own struggle with a cranial in 2000 and qualified for manager at Boston Scientific, photographic specialty stores birth defect. Kase is also the the U.S. Women’s Amateur. a company that provides in Oregon, Washington, co-editor/co-author of Utah She served as an assistant innovative medical solutions Idaho and Montana. Sean Reflections: Stories from the golf coach at WSU and to patients around the currently resides in Portland, Wasatch Front. His work worked in marketing for world. He previously was Oregon, with his wife, Lanisa. has appeared nationally and R&O Construction before a global sales training internationally in journals becoming a full-time mom to manager and executive A former member of the and magazines. He is a her four children. Tenille and territory manager. Aaron Weber State women’s golf full-time English lecturer her husband, Robert, live in and his wife, Aimee Wilson team, Tenille Howe Slack at Utah State University. Lehi, Utah, with their family. Campbell AS ’97, BS ’02, live BS ’01 is a 2015 WSU Hall in Grafton, Massachusetts. of Fame inductee. After

L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association A Annual Member of the Alumni Association | Member of the Alumni Association’s 125 Club Fall 2015 alumni.weber.edu 43 Nicole Bybee Carpenter nurse. They are the parents Medical Care in Ogden Distinguished Stewardship BA ’02 is the founder of, of a daughter and two sons. as a senior biotechnology Award. She was a National and author and speaker for, research and development Technical Honor Society MOMentity.com, an online A Rainie L. Ingram AS ’03, technician. He lives with honorary inductee. Nallely community for mothers. Her BA ’04 is the academic his daughter and son and has a daughter and son. book, 52 Weeks to Fortify Your advisor for the College of is active in Boy Scouts Family: 5-minute messages, Engineering, Applied Science of America, serving as a A Nicholas C. Mills BS ’07 hit bookstores recently. She & Technology at Weber State. Cub Scout den leader in works for the city of Layton, and her husband, Martin Previously, she worked as the Germantown, Maryland. Utah, as an associate city (Marty) G. Carpenter BA college recruiter and outreach attorney. He previously was ’01, live in Syracuse, Utah, specialist, bringing science, Pamela L. Page BS ’04 is a employed as an associate with their four children. technology, engineering dental hygienist for Booth city prosecutor for Salt Marty is director of and math (STEM) events Dental in Ogden. She and her Lake City and as a staff communication and senior to WSU, including Parent- husband, John, live in Plain attorney for the Nevada advisor for the office of Daughter Engineering Day City, Utah, and have one Supreme Court. He and his Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert. and FIRST Tech Challenge. daughter. Pam volunteers as wife, Ashley, live in Ogden Rainie is pursuing a Master the Utah program coordinator and have three children. A Miguel A. Aragon MBA ’03 of Education at WSU. for Casting Recovery Utah. is a regional information and She and her husband, A Jacob B. Priest BS ’07 communications services Jeff, have two sons. A Sarah A. Garcia BS ’05 is a is an assistant professor manager for the Corporation physician for Simi Obstetrics in the couple and family of the Presiding Bishop of L Steven E. Starks BIS and Gynecology in Simi therapy program at the the Church of Jesus Christ of ’03 was recently named Valley, California. She University of Iowa. Jacob Latter-day Saints in Riverton, president of Miller Sports attended medical school at lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Utah. Miguel and his wife, Properties. He oversees the Touro University Nevada. Vilma, live in Centerville, operation of the Utah Jazz, Kathleen Valberg Buck AS Utah, and have five children Salt Lake Bees and Miller A Penny Pongpommard ’08, BS ’09 and her husband, and four grandchildren. Performance, which consists Isolampi AS ’06, BS ’13 is Romney, recently celebrated Miguel volunteers for of Miller Motorsports Park, a development chemist for their 50th anniversary. the LDS church. the Ford Racing School and Albion Minerals. Previously, They have seven children, Oneiro, EnergySolutions she worked as a chemist for 25 grandchildren, and five Michael James Frost AS Arena, KJZZ 14 Television, Global Health Industries and great-grandchildren, with ’03, BA ’05 splits his time The Zone Sports Network, Genysis Nutritional Labs. another great-grandchild on as a senior advisor for the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah Penny and her husband, the way. Five of their children Norwegian Institute of Public professional cycling race, Andrew J. Isolampi BS ’09, are graduates of Weber State. Health in Oslo, Norway, and All-Star Catering. He is live in Sunset, Utah, with Kathleen’s lifelong goal was and as the director of JSI’s also president of Miller Retail their daughter and son. to complete her education, Center for mHealth (mobile Properties, overseeing the Andrew is an item manager which she did while in her health). Previously, he was Larry H. Miller Megaplex for the Department of 60s. She has volunteered at the technical advisor for Theatres, Fanzz Sports Defense at Hill Air Force the Hill Field Museum and The USAID Deliver Project. Stores, and Saxton Horne Base. Penny is a member is currently a volunteer at Michael has worked in Communications. Steve of Doxey Elementary PTA Heritage Elementary School, development and health has received the Larry H. and of the Buddhist temple helping students who have sectors across the globe, Miller Leadership Excellence Wat Dhammagunaram difficulty reading. She is also providing direct technical Award and was also named in Layton, Utah. a church volunteer. Kathleen support to assess health a Forty Under 40 awardee and Romney own and operate commodity supply chains, by Utah Business Magazine A Nallely Ruiz BIS ’06, MHA a trucking business. develop and deploy surveys in 2012. Steve serves as a ’14 is director of the health and research activities, and member of the Utah State and culinary programs A Madalyn Fogg BA ’08 is lead the implementation of Governor’s Advisory Board at Ogden-Weber Applied an academic advisor for mHealth activities. Michael and on the Weber State Technology College. Southern Utah University. received a master’s degree University Board of Trustees. Previously, she was a practice She previously worked at from the University of Texas director for Intermountain Broadview University as at Austin and serves on the A Mitchell J. Hill AS ’04, BS Healthcare’s Taylorsville a high school admissions mHealth Working Group ’09 is a technical specialist Clinic. She also worked as a representative, director of Steering Committee and the for Meso Scale Discovery, manager for Intermountain career services and associate International Association for which develops and produces Healthcare’s Porter Family dean of education. She Public Health Logisticians. biological assays for cellular Medicine Center. Nallely is lives in Cedar City, Utah. He is married to Kimberly biomarkers, cytokines, and the secretary for Image de A Sean R. Lewis BS ’08 is a S. McFadden Frost AS ’02, phosphoproteins. Previously, Northern Utah and received county land use planner for BS ’15, who is a registered Mitchell worked at Fresenius the Forrest C. Crawford Summit County, Utah. He is

44 alumni.weber.edu | Fall 2015 a member of the American Migliorini International. Planning Association and is An avid volunteer, Kay working toward his Master helped Weber State raise of Public Administration funds for an international degree at Brigham Young service project in Thailand, University. Sean was the and chaired a number of 2014 #ChappyAward winner community projects through in the “Best Ogden Tweep” Weber State’s Computer category. He lives in Ogden Labs. Kay also helped prepare A with his wife, Kari Richards taxes for WSU international Lewis BS ’03, a stay-at-home students through the mother to two children. university’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. She A Heike Bammann BS ’09 is and her husband, Pakorn a senior cost accountant for Kongjaroon BS ’96, have one Five Star Airport Alliance, child and live in Roy, Utah. which provides quality systems, products and service A Ashley Cross MA ’11 is the to the aviation industry. A founder/distiller of New member of Intermountain World Distillery, which Professional Photographers produces super-premium Association and Professional craft spirits. She taught Photographers of America, English at the secondary Heike is the owner of level for 24 years, 18 of HB1Photograpy. She which she taught Advanced is a volunteer for the Placement English at Davis Davis County Mounted High School. She and her Sherriff’s Posse. She husband, Christopher, live lives in Clinton, Utah. in Eden, Utah, and have a September 11-19, 2015 daughter and son. Ashley A Sofia Waugh Carrigan AS is secretary of the Ogden ’09, BS ’11 is an English and Valley Business Association. ballroom dance teacher at Events Include: Copper Hills High School in Morgan M. Bruderer AS West Jordan, Utah. She is a ’12, BS ’14 is an associate Sept. 17 member of the Utah Dance development director for WSU Salutes Judges Association and is Weber State University. She a cheerleader for the Rocky previously was manager Sept. 18 WSU Greek Life & Social Mountain Mudd Ducks in of customer relations for Club Reunion the Rocky Mountain Football BullySpeak Referral Service. League. She and her husband, Morgan has volunteered in Homecoming Dance James, live in Sandy, Utah. special education classes, Sept. for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and for 18 & 19 Alumni Band Reunion ’10s the 2013 Layton Marathon. Sept. 19 Football: WSU vs. Sacramento State A Sarah Borseth Morris BS is a dental hygienist Hailey Jean Brown Day ’12 Sept. 19 BS ’10 MBA ’14 works for for Morgan Family Dental and Dr. Scott Carlton. Her the Department of Defense Run for the Fund of It (5K plus as a financial technician A husband, Trevor G. Morris in Okinawa, Japan, while BA ’03, is the director of kid’s fun run & breakfast!) her husband, Technical marketing for TAB Bank. Sarah is a PTA volunteer, Sergeant Adam Day, serves For registration and details, visit in the U.S. Air Force. In the and Trevor is a volunteer future, she hopes to earn a coach for youth sports alumni.weber.edu/yac5k Ph.D. and open a business. teams in the Wasatch Front Football League, American Kornsuang (Kay) Youth Soccer Organization, Kraikongchit BS ’10, MA ’13 Junior Jazz and city baseball A complete list of events is available at: is an accountant for Parker- league. They have two sons.

weber.edu/ homecoming L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association A Annual Member of the Alumni Association Member of the Alumni Association’s 125 Club Petchompoo (Tara/Mo) Sanpanit A Nicholas A. (Nick) Berg BA ’13 is a Management Corporation and BIS ’12 works for Specialized Loan graduate assistant at the University of Sagemark Consulting. He and his Servicing’s investor reporting Utah, where he is pursuing his master’s wife, Riley, live in Farmington, Utah. department as an electronic default degree in educational leadership Andrew serves on WSU’s Olene S. associate. She was previously a human and policy with an emphasis in Walker Institute of Politics & Public resource assistant at InnovAge student affairs. He lives in Ogden. Service Board of Directors. Diversity Outreach and a recruitment coordinator for the U.S. Forest Kelsey E. Chugg BS ’13 is the Westin F. Scanlon BS ’14 is an Service. Petchompoo lives in Denver, membership director for the Utah Golf integrity data analyst for the Denver where she is finishing her Master Association. She is a two-time defending office of Willbros Engineers, a of Professional Studies in Strategic champion in the Utah Women’s State specialty energy infrastructure Human Resource Management. Amateur Championship. Kelsey has contractor serving the oil, gas, refinery, also worked at the Willow Creek petrochemical and power industries. L Cynthia Phelps Ulrich BA ’12 is an Country Club in Sandy, Utah, and the executive assistant for advancement at Wingpointe Golf Course in Salt Lake Brandi Lyn Fulmer Sibert BS ’14 is a the University of Missouri. Previously, City. She lives in Salt Lake City. dental hygienist for Dr. Scott Miller’s she worked for Downtown Ogden. She office in Roy, Utah. She is a member A L and her husband, Ryan C. Ulrich BS ’14, Andrew M. Gardiner BS ’14 is the of the American Dental Hygiene who is a law student at the University of e-commerce operations manager for Association. Brandi and her husband, Missouri, live in Columbia, Missouri. Fanzz. He was previously employed Cameron, live in West Haven, Utah. as an intern for Larry H. Miller

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Learn more at alumni.weber.edu/regionalchapters MICHAEL B. VAUGHAN Former Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Mike Vaughan is a quiet man with a resounding influence on campus. He is a former dean of the John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics, and he served as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs from 2004 until June 2015, when he JUDY ELSLEY returned to the faculty as an economics professor. As provost, Vaughan expanded and promoted the intellectual climate of Professor of English and Director of the Weber State University. Under his direction, WSU initiated 25 Honors Program new degree programs, including six at the master’s level. For 25 years, British-born English professor The scope of Vaughan’s responsibility as provost was Judy Elsley has helped Weber State University daunting. Ultimately it was he who answered the demand for students become competent and confident innovative, relevant instruction at WSU. Vaughan influenced readers, writers and thinkers. “I focus each of the university’s seven academic colleges, which saw on students as real people whom I honor enrollments grow from 18,000 to more than 25,000 students and respect,” said Elsley. “My teaching style during his tenure as provost. With support from his office, is student-based and interactive, rather WSU was able to purchase enough Steinway pianos to earn a than lecturing.” Unique to some of Elsley’s coveted All-Steinway School designation. lesson plans is a skillful weaving of her passion for quilting. Vaughan worked diligently to make higher education “My two great loves are fabric and language,” said Elsley. “My doctoral accessible and affordable. In 2008 he was instrumental in dissertation explored the semiotics of quilting, and many of my creating the Dream Weber program, which covers tuition and publications focus on quilts in literature and the relationship between fees for qualifying WSU students with a household income text and textile.” Over the past three decades, the self-described “fabric of less than $40,000. “It has made the dream of a college artist” has gradually moved from using commercial textiles and other education a reality for thousands of students,” Vaughan said. people’s patterns to designing her own quilts made with fabrics she has hand-dyed and printed. Upon establishing WSU’s Center for Community Engaged Learning, Vaughan appointed an enthusiastic director, Brenda Elsley is a tireless student advocate. From 1995 to 2000, she co- Kowalewski. Under her leadership, and with Vaughan’s coordinated WSU’s First Year Experience, a program that helps new guidance and support, the center has flourished and provided students learn the ropes of university life and connect with resources service and learning opportunities for thousands of WSU they need to succeed. She is a past director of WSU’s Writing Across the students. He also helped establish Weber State’s active Curriculum Program, and in 1999 she started the Rising Star Scholarship participation in the American Democracy Project, fostering for nontraditional students. She guided the Bachelor of Integrated Studies a future generation of informed, engaged citizens. For his program from 2000 to 2007 and is the current director of the university’s dedication, the Association of State Colleges and Universities Honors Program. (AASCU) awarded Vaughan the 2015 William M. Plater Award for Leadership in Civic Engagement, a national honor. Elsley is a Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor and a recipient of the John S. Hinckley Fellow Award for excellence in teaching. Former Vaughan has been appointed to serve on AASCU’s nationwide students post positive reviews online and describe Elsley’s courses as council to study economic inequality and its effects on transformative moments in their intellectual development. “Dr. Elsley is democracy. He will lead WSU’s new Center for the Study of the best professor I have had at WSU,” wrote one student. “I have never Poverty and Inequality. understood Shakespeare before, but she made it so relatable,” said another.

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