Mugs of the Quarter 2020 - Q1

Travis Nelson - Custodial Travis, a Facilities Services Custodian, Yellowstone Park to attend their spring has been with us nearly two years. He fair. He also likes to visit Las Vegas, currently works in the Eames Building. where he enjoys time with his family His favorite part of working at Idaho and, of course, the Las Vegas shows. State University is the community of He also likes to watch Gold Rush friendly people. episodes and eat Thai or Mexican Travis likes to hunt, ski, fish, and food. enjoy the outdoors on a 4-wheeler. For a favorite vacation, he went to West Favortie Color: Green

Joanna Wells - Idaho Falls Joanna is a Custodian on the Her favorite outdoor activity Idaho Falls campus. She will hit her is swimming. She also enjoys one year mark with Facilities in April. boating at Palisades. She enjoys Joanna enjoys her co-workers and these activities with her kids and appreciates the team environment that family. Her favorite vacation was to is on the Idaho Falls campus. Joanna Cancun, Mexico. She got to spend graduated from Boise State, and is time by the pool at the resort, and looking forward to continuing her spend time at the ocean. She also education at ISU. She plans on going visited Chichen Itza, a famous to graduate school to further her Mayan pyramid. degree in education. Thank you Joanna for being Joanna enjoys the outdoors, such a great member of the especially in the summer time. Facilities Services team.

Tony Razo - PDC Tony has worked at ISU for including the Hobbit, and anything three years now, and is currently by Quentin Tarantino. When it our Drafter. He loves being able comes to reading, Tony’s favorite to watch the campus develop and authors include Michael Crichton, improve. In his free time, Tony enjoys Stephen King, and Khalid Hussain. any sort of sport or activity that gets Tony’s favorite vacation spot is his blood going; two of his favorites the Oregon Coast, where he goes include soccer and biking. Tony is for his family reunions. While there, also an amazing artist and loves to they stay at a house on the beach draw. When asked what his favorite and enjoy the touristy stuff, including color was, he thought for a moment whale tours. and then replied, “Every color.” Tony has two dogs, Indiana and His favorite foods are anything Frankie. A fun fact that you might his dad cooks. Tony’s favorite movies not know about Tony is that he can are the Lord of the Rings series, not juggle. Darwin Lee - Meridian Darwin has worked as the BMX biking. When Darwin gets the Mechanical Systems supervisor on chance to fish, he likes to go to Arrow the Meridian campus for about two Rock Reservoir. One thing Darwin has and a half years. Darwin’s favorite always wanted to do was to go deep sea part of the job is making the faculty fishing. & students happy. He enjoys Darwin’s favorite food is ribs and providing an environment where his favorite restaurant is Goodwood they can learn and work and be BBQ in Boise. The potato salad at successful. Goodwood BBQ is the best he has ever Some of Darwin’s hobbies include had. Darwin’s favorite vacation was to motorcycling, bicycling, and fishing. the Oregon Coast. He got to spend Darwin likes to ride motorcycles at time doing some beach combing and he Pickles Butte. Darwin does a lot of visited a number of lighthouses. different types of bicycling; mountain biking, biking around town, and

Sterling Ritcheson - Idaho Falls Sterling has worked as the and cheers for Notre Dame and the Landscape Foreman for the Idaho Green Bay Packers. Sterling’s dream Falls campus for a little over a vacation would be to go to Indiana year. Sterling’s favorite thing about or Wisconsin to see these teams play working for ISU is the team that he in person. Every year, Sterling tries works with. Idaho Falls has had a to make it to a college bowl game. lot of snow this year, so Sterling has This past year Sterling went to the been busy keeping the grounds safe. Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona. Sterling graduated from ISU Thank you Sterling for taking such in Athletics Administration, and good care of our grounds in Idaho athletics plays a big part in Sterling’s Falls! life. Sterling enjoys staying active, and rides his bike to work when he Favorite Superhero: can. Sterling is a huge football fan Batman

James Rhoades - Custodial James has worked at ISU woodworking, hunting, fishing and for two years and really likes his being in the great outdoors. He schedule. He appreciates the likes to vacation in Michigan where faculty, students, and his co- he watches the ships come and go, workers because they are great to visits the lighthouses, checks out the work with. tugboat museum, and enjoys the James’ heroes are Mom and Dad. waterfront restaurants. Stephen King, Belle, who is a plott hound, and author of the Dark Tower Series, is Nemesis, a pug, are the pets that his favorite author. hang around James’ house. Thank you for your hard work and He has too many hobbies dedication! to count but he does enjoy Todd Adams - PDC Todd has been a Project Manager include banana cream pie, steak, and at ISU for three and a half years now. dark chocolate. His favorite restaurants One of his favorite thing about his are Texas Roadhouse and PF Changs in job is being able to work on projects Boise, which he highly recommends you that help improve the campus for our visit the next time you go to Boise. students and faculty. Todd’s favorite vacation was his Todd enjoys spending his free time 23rd anniversary when they went to the outdoors. He loves fishing, horseback Oregon Coast. This was the first time riding, and woodworking. He also he spent time on the ocean. Some his enjoys watching mysteries that make favorite activities there were walking you think, like National Treasure and along the coast and picking up rocks the Da Vinci Code, as well as classics and shells. like James Bond and the Fugitive. Some of Todd’s favorite foods

Josiah Nielsen - Custodial Josiah has been working the for some delicious curry. past two years as a Custodian in the Josiah considers Christina Tosi, Facilities Services Department. For a real life chef and blogger, a super him, the best thing about his job is the hero who inspires him in his baking quiet work environment. ventures. He also follows the blog He likes to spend time playing of Mandy Lee who wrote The Art of Dungeons and Dragons and Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story. entertaining his cat, Patches. When he is hungry, he likes to make a batch of his favorite cheesecake or visit his Favorite Color: Pink favorite restaurant, the Everest Kitchen,

Louisa Cattabriga - Grounds Louisa is in her third year of Louisa’s favorite restaurant in working with Facilities Services. town is El Herradero, and one of her Louisa enjoys the Grounds team, and favorite foods to get there is tacos. appreciates the support from her co- Louisa also enjoys Italian food. workers. Louisa works on the athletics Louisa’s family is Italian, and they can grounds areas and spends a lot of make some amazing Italian food. time at Davis Field and Miller Ranch Louisa has done quite a bit of Stadium. She loves to be around the traveling, but her favorite trip was athletes and enjoys helping them. visiting her grandmother in Florida; Louisa is currently in school, which she got to spend time with family, and keeps her very busy. She is in the relaxed at the beach. Medical Coding program. When Louisa is a hard worker, and is Louisa does have some spare time, she valuable member of the Grounds likes to spend it outside. She enjoys team. hunting, fly fishing, and skiing.

Congratulations to all our Mugs of the Quarter Recipients! Brian Hiltbrand - Custodial Brian is an outdoors kind of Brian has three real life heroes: guy who likes walking, hiking, and Alexander Fleming who discovered capturing the beauty of nature with penicillin, Albert Einstein who is his camera. He has made several responsible for many inventions and fun visits to the Cub River area near discoveries, and Alfred Nobel who Preston, Idaho where there is a invented dynamite and founded the glacier fed spring and no cell service. Nobel Prizes. Another favorite pastime for Brian is Brian has been with Facilities as reading. A good book allows him a Custodian for almost a year and the luxury of just leaving the world appreciates the type of work, the behind. He also likes playing games, environment, the tuition benefits and and watching TV and Batman the schedule that are a great fit for movies. him.

Steve Kingery - M&O Steve has worked in the Heat Plant favorite vacation was his trip to for two years. In this short time, he has Hawaii where he went snorkeling, come to value and appreciate the sense body surfing, hiking, and sightseeing. of teamwork that his coworkers show. Steve has several dogs and mouser Steve enjoys many hobbies including cats that roam his property. hunting, fishing, and woodworking. He loves Dutch oven cooking and cast iron cooking. He also enjoys watching Favortie Color: Green mystery and action movies. Steve’s favorite foods are wings, pizza, and diet Mountain Dew. His

Troy Burge - M&O Troy has worked at ISU for two wrote the Mountain Man series and half years. Troy’s hobbies and the Ashes series. He also include camping and riding ATVs. enjoys watching college football, He has a Bichon poodle cross that and roots for ISU and Louisiana wears googles and rides on the State. back of his wife’s ATV. It won’t Troy’s favorite restaurant is Red be a surprise to hear that Troy’s Lobster, and he enjoys a nice steak favorite vacation was riding his ATV whenever he gets the chance. in the mountains. Another one of Troy’s hobbies Favorite Movie: Tombstone includes reading. His favorite author is William Johnstone who

Thank you to Kim Wright, Lindsey Solomon, Darlene Anglesey, and Brad Paige for interviewing our employees and writing up these fun facts.