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Dear Friends: Cover Story Fall 2009 Vol. 2, No. 3 ‘Best of’ Showing...... 12 12 With the start of the fall semester, we are beginning to see some significant benefits from the Angelo State is turning some heads nationally as three integrated marketing and communication effort we began nearly two years ago. Our goal to publications this summer name the university to their top lists. increase enrollment to 10,000 students depends greatly on how we present Angelo State Uni- Angelo State University Member, Texas Tech University System From Princeton Review’s “Best 371 Colleges” to the Chronicle versity to student and parent audiences across the region, the state and the nation. Our Angelo of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For,” more Board of Regents State University Magazine and a sophisticated interactive Web site are important aspects of Larry K. Anders, Chair, Dallas people are learning about ASU. Jerry E. Turner, Vice Chair, Blanco crafting that message. So, too, is a marketing and branding budget which has grown from L. Frederick “Rick” Francis, El Paso $30,000 to nearly $400,000 to refine our institutional message and create a family of publica- Mark Griffin, Lubbock Features John Huffaker, Amarillo tions with a consistent theme. Now these campus initiatives are paying off through three very Mickey L. Long, Midland Nancy Neal, Lubbock Mission Specific...... 14 important external recognitions for ASU. John Field Scovell, Dallas ASU is refining its mission and value statements to help Daniel “Dan” T. Serna, Arlington provide a roadmap to the university’s future. First among these is our inclusion by Princeton Review in its listing of the “Best 371 Colleges” Kyle Miller, Plainview for 2010. The Review has a national audience and is viewed as one of the premier measures Chancellor Mourning Newspaper...... 16 Kent Hance, Lubbock of institutional quality when high school students and their parents seek information about The era of the print newspaper is fading. The San Angelo Standard-Times, like other newspapers nationally, is having 16 college. ASU’s first-ever inclusion in the Review occurred as the result of a competitive pro- Joseph C. Rallo Angelo State University President: Dr. Joseph C. Rallo to adapt to the challenges of the Internet and a weak cess of data collection that included completion of a 79-page questionnaire and an electronic Vice President for Finance and Administration: Sharon Meyer economy. Its success has implications for Angelo State. survey of ASU students. This recognition and the Princeton Review logo will be included in our marketing materials for Vice President for Strategy, Planning the next academic year, as well as in a special mailer this fall to high school guidance counselors throughout the state. and Policy; Interim Provost and One Life to Live...... 20 Vice President for Academic and As a caregiver, nursing faculty member Pam Darby was well Student Affairs: Dr. James M. Limbaugh Our second recognition was inclusion in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s national list of “Great Colleges to Work For” in prepared to tend to her husband with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Angelo State University Magazine Today, though, she better understands the true challenges 2009. ASU was one of 150 higher education institutions to be selected by the Chronicle after surveying faculty and admin- The Angelo State University Magazine is published three times a year by the ASU of such care and wants to help others in her situation. istrators on job satisfaction in 26 categories. As the major news source for college and university faculty and administrators, Office of Communications and Marketing, the Chronicle is seen by thousands of readers on a daily basis. Since all of our faculty and senior staff positions are advertised ASU Station #11021, San Angelo, TX 76909-1021; Alumni Honorees...... 22 (325) 942-2248; Fax: (325) 942-2238; Mickey and Renee Long … Clayton Weishuhn …Dale Chase … in the Chronicle, this recognition should ensure an even more diverse and quality applicant pool for our open positions. [email protected]. Jeff Sefcik … Sarah Garcia … LeRoy Olsak … Alan Bloebaum … ASU Magazine Staff Finally, we have been recognized by G.I. Jobs magazine as one of its “Military Friendly Schools” for 2010. The Holm Editor: Preston Lewis Bonnie Amos … Harriet Lewis … Ed Olson … Director of Graphics: Michael Martin Kathleen Price … Norm Sunderman Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development at Maxwell AFB, Ala., already lists Angelo State as No. 7 on Graphic Artist: Bree Walker its AFROTC “Enlisted Friendly” schools that work with ROTC students to complete their bachelor’s degrees. The new Design Assistant: Leonor Constancio 30 Photographers: Danny Meyer G.I. Jobs recognition will extend our reputation even farther among active military personnel and veterans. As colleges Tina Doyle Sections Writers: Tom Nurre Jr. and universities brace for a campus influx of veterans who bring with them enhanced G.I. Bill benefits to pay for college Roy Ivey President’s Message...... Opposite expenses, these recognitions will position ASU well in that growing market segment. Jayna Phinney Dave Wester Along the Mall...... 4 Ronn Rowland Big Dreams … ‘The Streak’ … Dark Days, Memories … Unfolding Answers … Briefs … While these tributes are important, the greatest measure of ASU’s success rests with the careers of its graduates. Thus, it Student Assistants: Ashlea Haney Timothy Lester Angelo Staters is fitting that this issue also honors Mickey and Renee Long, both Class of ’76. They have been active members of their Alumni Association Athletics...... 30 community and have supported ASU in so many ways, from athletics to academics. Mickey’s January appointment to the News: Sande V. Harrison Photo Finish … Eighth Is Enough … Forever Young … Rambelles Unleashed … Rams Return … Texas Tech University System Board of Regents makes him the first ASU alum to serve on the board since Angelo State Julia Valles Golf Awakens … Back in the Huddle Again … Making Connections … Briefly joined the system. Renee and Mickey are great ambassadors for ASU and the Texas Tech system. They and the other © 2009 Angelo State University members of the ASU family who are profiled in this magazine for the recognition they will receive during Homecoming All Rights Reserved Alumni Association...... 40 Let Tradition Ring … Class Notes … Donors are testament to the vitality of this university. Online Enjoy these bonus features at On the cover: With landscaping completed for Centennial Village, the new residence hall is Best wishes for an enjoyable and safe fall season. www.angelo.edu/ASUMagazine Looking Back drawing attention on the west side of campus just as ASU is getting some national notice, thanks Sincerely, Dire Predictions to recognition in three major publications this summer. (Photo by Danny Meyer) Paperless or Not? Back Cover: Sophomore Aisha Adams earned national acclaim for Angelo State by claiming the NCAA Division II National Championship in the heptathlon and then appearing in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section this summer. (Photo by Danny Meyer) Joseph C. Rallo, President

2 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 3 news ALONG the MALL Big Dreams ‘The Streak’by Tom Nurre will also coordinate development activities Secondary teacher certification calculus, abstract algebra, number theory, in line with the broader fundraising goals of students in the ASU Mathematics Depart- statistics and probability. It also includes for ASU the Texas Tech University System, includ- ment are riding a 12-year winning streak. evening meetings and end-of-semester re- ing a major capital campaign. Since 1998, 100 percent of the ASU views with several mathematics faculty. Sold on the university’s mission, “Dr. Penry’s solid fundraising experi- students who have completed the program Flexibility in the curriculum is also a key as Dr. Jason C. Penry joined the administra- ence plus his youth and enthusiasm will and taken the Texas Examination of Educa- the course must continually evolve to keep tion in July as Angelo State University’s serve the university well,” Rallo said. tor Standards (TExES) teacher certification up with changes in the TExES format. new executive director of development. In Penry said, “I am excited about Dr. Ral- test for secondary mathematics have passed “The capstone course was extremely ef- the coming years as ASU’s chief fundrais- lo’s and the Texas Tech University System’s on their first attempt. A passing grade on fective in preparing our class for the TExES ing officer, Penry will be selling others on vision for Angelo State. Without a doubt, we the TExES is required to teach in Texas exam,” said Ashlee Noland, who passed the the university as well. are moving toward big goals and big dreams public schools. Not only is the ASU pass exam in January. “The course was some- “I have a great appreciation for higher and it is something I want to be a part of.” rate much higher than the state average of what labor intensive, but it was well worth education and for the impact it has on lives,” On top of that, the appointment meant a about 65 percent, its average individual stu- it. It was very rewarding to go back to the Penry said. “Higher education has greatly return to Texas for him and his wife, Erin, dent test scores of 270 out of 300 are well basics of math and see how much we have Jason Penry influenced my life and the lives of many of who grew up in Monahans. He comes to above the state average of about 226. developed during our time at ASU. Besides Paul Swets my family members. Higher education is ASU after two-plus years as executive di- “It is validation of what we know our preparing us for the exam, the class also something I truly believe in. Coming from rector of the Oklahoma State University program is doing,” said Dr. Paul Swets, helped us get into the ‘teacher’ mindset and a regional institution for my undergraduate POSSE, the fundraising arm of athletics. head of the Mathematics Department. “It is take a different approach to math.” and in the classroom, and then fiddling with degree, I see the value of a campus of this In that capacity he managed an 11-member one thing to say we have a strong program, In addition to the 12-year streak on the our curriculum. It is a group effort among size and scope, and I believe in the mission staff and a $3.95 million budget. During his but it is another thing to have this kind of secondary certification test, the Mathemat- all the faculty that teach those classes.” so much more because it is student-focused, tenure, the organization raised $26 million data that shows it is strong. It’s not just my ics Department also boasts a six-year 100 The streak has also spawned a couple of student-based.” in annual fund revenues. opinion, so that is really nice.” percent pass rate on the middle school exam. traditions. Swets gives the students a pep In making the appointment, ASU Presi- Prior to serving OSU, he worked three The foundation of the streak can be That streak is only six years old because the talk every spring right before they take the dent Joseph C. Rallo said Penry will oversee years with the 12th Man Foundation at Texas found in the capstone course MATH 4322 test has only been offered for six years. TExES and Moreland meets them right af- the university’s advancement program, in- A&M University. Most of his time with the Survey of Mathematics that was formulated “When the state announced that the ter the test for lunch. cluding the annual fund, donor cultivation, foundation was as development officer for by then-department head Dr. Johnny Bai- middle school certification was going to “I tell them that we are 100 percent major gifts and foundation support. Penry major gifts. In that capacity he assisted in ley and mathematics senior instructor Ellen be available, we used our secondary pro- and not to be the ones that blow it,” Swets the successful completion of a $50 million Moreland in 1997 in response to ASU’s 65 gram as a model to help set up a middle joked. “It is all in good fun, but I know capital campaign for A&M athletics. percent pass rate on the old Examination school program,” Swets said. “We have that nobody wants to be the one that breaks The Houston-area native holds his Ph.D. for the Certification of Educators in Texas never had a student not pass the middle the streak.” in higher education administration from (ExCET). Students take the class during school exam.” “When they walk out of there,” More- Texas A&M. He earned a Master of Science the fall semester that precedes their spring The middle school certification cap- land said, “I have never had one of them in sport management from Louisiana State certification exam. stone course is taught by mathematics think that they did not pass. They know University in Baton Rouge. Penry received “It is basically a survey of everything senior instructor Cathy Talley. However, they did well.” . his Bachelor of Arts in secondary educa- they have ever learned in math,” Moreland while the two capstone courses have played tion from LSU-Shreveport, where he was a said. “It is putting it all together and mak- a major role in both streaks, they are not member of the intercollegiate baseball team ing connections in places they didn’t make the only factors. and student body president for the 2000-01 connections before. You name it and it’s “We have a very strong curriculum for academic year. . in there. Everything they have learned is our students,” Swets said. “They have to fair game.” work really hard to earn a mathematics de- The course covers everything from pre- gree. We are constantly looking at where calculus, trigonometry and geometry to their weak points might be, on the TExES

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by Jayna Phinney Finding ways to keep our bodily systems he was sent to a labor camp and is the working properly as we age is now at the Dark Days, Memories only survivor from his family. His older forefront of Dobson’s research. As diseases brother died of typhus just six weeks be- like Alzheimers, Parkinson’s and adult- Some memories may fade over Jews at the end of World War II. She espe- fore liberation. onset diabetes become more common, they time, but for two Holocaust survivors, the cially enjoys talking to children about her Having his brother with him gave are also generating more interest from other horrors of what they lived through seven experiences because few know about the Feiger strength to keep working. Feiger scientists and drug manufacturers. decades ago are still vivid enough to en- Holocaust. She finds that youngsters pay spoke German, which helped him obey “There are now a lot of scientists active- thrall an Angelo State University audience close attention to what she is saying because German orders to avoid some of the abuses ly involved in researching and investigating with their recollections. it is so far removed from their experiences. that others endured. these diseases,” Dobson said. “There are The Polish-born survivors, Walter Feiger Wolosky survived the Warsaw Ghetto, “They kept us busy, they kept us hungry also pharmaceutical companies interested and Wanda Wolosky, shared their personal where Nazis crowded some 445,000 Jews and they beat us,” Feiger said. in generating potential therapies … because experiences with a hushed crowd of more into a 3-square-mile section of the Polish The starvation had a lasting effect on there is now money to be made in this. than 500 during Holocaust remembrance city in a virtual concentration camp. She Feiger, who now volunteers at a food bank People may very well have to take drugs for events on campus this spring. risked execution to scavenge for food at because he doesn’t like the idea of anyone prolonged periods of time to combat these Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo “I’ve made it my responsibility to edu- night, just to survive. going hungry. “aging” diseases and that is a strong motiva- cate people about it,” Feiger said. “History’s “We had to bow our heads to Germans “No one should have to experience that,” tion for the drug companies.” very easily forgotten. Genocide is still going and give them the whole sidewalk,” Wolo- Feiger said. “I used to fantasize about hav- “I think it is going to be a process of on. No country is immune to it.” sky said, adding that failure to do so could ing a loaf of bread to myself, and today I can Christopher Dobson gradual improvement,” he added. “But, Both speakers today reside in Tucson result in death. have pie, so I’m doing really good.” from what I know of companies around the and traveled to San Angelo with Gail Wal- She remembers at night in the Warsaw Hunger drove prisoners to desperate by Tom Nurre world, there are drugs going into clinical len, Ph.D., director of Holocaust services for Ghetto that the sky was red because the acts. His barracks, despite the squalor, had trials that, to me, look as if they are likely to the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of ghetto was burning. The only people al- no problems with cockroaches, he said, Unfolding Answers be successful.” Southern Arizona. The Angelo State Multi- lowed out after the 7 p.m. curfew were those because the prisoners ate them when they Dobson said he accepted the WTMA cultural Center helped sponsor the event. picking up the dead bodies. found them. Sometimes the lab experiments that ciates (WTMA) Distinguished Lectureship lectureship at ASU because it allowed him Wolosky said requests to speak about Feiger spent three and a half years in It was easy to spot the people at the go awry lead to the biggest breakthroughs. in Science Honoring Dr. Roy E. Moon. to impart his enthusiasm for science to the her experiences usually come every March, the labor and concentration camps Gross- camps who had given up and were close Such was the case for Dr. Christopher According to Dobson, about 100,000 students on a personal level. April and May to mark the liberation of the Rosen and Mauthausen. He was 15 when to death because they were the ones who Dobson’s research team at England’s pres- different types of proteins make up the hu- “If I can play a small part in getting stopped washing up after working all day, tigious Cambridge University, where inves- man body. Each is formed by stringing to- students excited about science and maybe Feiger said. tigation into an unrelated disease spawned gether amino acids in long, complex chains. motivate them to think about it as a career, Wallen, who gave a Holocaust overview important discoveries about some of the To become functional, each protein string then I think that is a worthwhile activity,” as part of the presentation, said the Nazis world’s most debilitating neurodegenera- must fold itself in a particular way. When it Dobson said. “It is fun to do science and it operated with the idea that if they could de- tive ailments. fails, the mis-folding leads to several neuro- is a tremendous benefit to mankind, when stroy people’s spirit, they could destroy the “It gradually led us to realize that a degenerative diseases. you look at what science has done and still body. As the victims of the Holocaust are whole set of diseases, including Alzheim- Dobson’s team has also discovered needs to do to solve the great problems of dying off, Wallen said their stories should er’s, Parkinson’s, the so-called Mad Cow a direct link between mis-folding and the world, like poverty, global warming be shared so people of subsequent genera- disease and adult-onset diabetes, all arise our longevity. and energy shortages. It is a great voyage tions will not forget. from the same fundamental cause, which “I sometimes call them post-evolution- of discovery.” . Both Wolosky and Feiger said their is that proteins mis-fold,” Dobson said. ary diseases because they are associated Holocaust memories never go away, but “They don’t reach their functional state with living longer than evolution expected that they do not dwell on their recollec- and are not just non-functional, they actu- us to,” Dobson said. “Eating the types and tions. Wolosky, who only began talking ally become toxic.” quantities of food we do and not taking any about her experiences four years ago, said As the John Humphrey Plummer Profes- exercise are also things that are not part of you have to take those memories and “put sor of Chemical and Structural Biology at the normal biological process. I think we them on a shelf” to be able to go on with Cambridge, Dobson leads a team exploring are seeing the effects with small changes in

Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo your life. why the body’s proteins mis-fold and seek- the balance of processes in the body, which “I’m alive,” Feiger said. “I have a lot to ing possible treatments for the resulting dis- ends up losing control of parts of our funda- be grateful for. I have a great appreciation eases. He detailed their findings this spring mental biology, which, in turn, gives rise to for my freedom.” . rd these diseases.” Wanda Wolosky and Walter Feiger at the 33 annual West Texas Medical Asso-

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Major NSF Grant their English language skills. nurse educator master’s pro- is an authorized provider of Worldly Chapter Dr. Connie Russell of the bi- ELLI is a non-credit pro- gram is offered totally online, it professional development in ASU has been approved to ology faculty has received a gram to assist non-native also has statewide and national accordance with the No Child charter a new chapter of the National Science Foundation English speakers who want to appeal since the NFLP will also Left Behind law. Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for (NSF) grant of almost $1 mil- hone their command of Eng- pay out-of-state tuition. International Scholars to recog- lion to increase by 20 percent lish for academic and profes- A second grant of $21,952 Fish Tale nize the scholarly achievement the number of ASU science, sional purposes. The majority from the Health Resources ASU Bass Club members Aus- of international students and technology, engineering and of the classes are designed for and Services Administration tin Adcock of Leander and academics who have studied mathematics majors and those who have an interest in will help fund the depart- Josh Seale of Breckenridge abroad and to broaden the ap- graduates, particularly in un- studying at U.S. colleges and ment’s Advanced Education landed five bass, totaling 15 peal of international program- derrepresented populations. universities. However, people Nursing Traineeship program lbs., 12 oz., to win the third ming in general. Her project “Angelo Sci- who would like a short-term for the 2009-10 school year. place and a $4,000 prize last The new organization will

ence Partnership for Un- American study experience This year’s grant will be uti- May in the National Guard be named the Eta Eta chapter Meyer Danny by Photo dergraduate Recruitment, to improve their English are lized to provide traineeships FLW College Fishing Texas of Phi Beta Delta and is slated Retenti o n and Succe s s,” o r A n - also encouraged to attend to graduate students enrolled Division Tournament on Lake to conduct its first induction gelo SPURRS, is being funded the institute. in the Master of Science in Amistad near Del Rio. ceremony this fall. The honor through the Texas Engineer- The program coordinator Nursing program with the op- Adcock and Seale placed society is open to everyone ing Experiment Station. The is Carole Simpson, who came tions of medical/surgical clini- fifth in an earlier National on campus, not just students. Honorary Doctorates – Jean Ann and Dr. Robert LeGrand acknowledge the crowd at May first installment is a three-year to ASU after 25 years of train- cal nurse specialist or nurse Guard-sponsored tournament Phi Beta Delta was founded commencement after the San Angelo couple received Doctors of Humane Letters for their long- award of $581,474. Pending ing teachers and designing educator. The students can to qualify for the Texas Region- in 1986 with 38 chartered time philanthropic support of Angelo State University. Their contributions over the years have a successful third-year review, English programs in a variety use the traineeships to help al Championship in November chapters. It is the first honor provided both academic and athletic scholarships as well as new and upgraded ASU facilities. Russell will receive an addi- of countries, including United pay for tuition, books and at the Grand Ecore Recreation society dedicated to recogniz- tional $417,820 for years four Arab Emirates, the former Yu- other fees. Area in Natchitoches, La. ing scholarly achievement in and five of the project, for a goslavia, Brunei, China, Ma- Full-time students enrolled international education and get settled in their careers or ters over a four-year period. “We take them from total award of $999,294. laysia, Morocco and England. Strand of Six Pearls in four-year colleges or univer- now has more than 170 chap- take the next step in higher ed- Finally, they must maintain their environment to a cen- The ASU project was one ASU’s Pearl of the Concho sities are eligible to participate ters worldwide. ucation by pursuing a graduate the grade point average for tral location where we can of only 22 chosen from 186 Nursing Grants Writing Project received a in the FLW College Fishing se- degree. Additionally, graduat- their major and file an appli- remove feed differences, applications to the NSF’s Sci- The Department of Nurs- $46,000 continuation grant ries, which is organized into On-Time Dividend ing on time will allow parents cation for graduation before location and elevation dif- ence, Technology, Engineer- ing has received two federal from the U.S. Department five geographical divisions. Beginning this fall, entering or students to save a semester the deadline. ferences based on where ing and Mathematics Talent grants to enhance nursing of Education through the Schools can send two-person ASU freshmen who fulfill re- or more of tuition and fees.” they were born, plus heat Expansion Program. education opportunities. National Writing Project, teams to each of four qualify- quirements for their bache- Like the State of Texas, Where’s the Wool? and environmental differ- Under Russell’s guidance, A $46,425 grant from the aimed at providing continu- ing events in their division. lor’s degrees and graduate in ASU has initiated the program The Management, Instruc- ences,” said Dr. Mike Salis- the project director will be Dr. U.S. Department of Health ing education and training for four years will stand to receive to help improve retention rates tion and Research (MIR) Cen- bury, associate professor Kit Price Blount, a research – Health Resources and Ser- area teachers to improve the Test Tube Wonders $1,500 in cash as part of the and to encourage students to ter this summer conducted of animal science and test scientist in ASU’s College of vices Administration will be writing skills of the region’s ASU’s student affiliates university’s new “Graduation graduate in four years. a Dorper Ram Performance director. “We put them all Graduate Studies. An associ- used to continue the depart- elementary and secondary chapter of the American Incentive Program.” The Graduation Incen- Test, the first-ever U.S. test in the same health program ate professor of biology, Rus- ment’s Nursing Faculty Loan school students. Chemical Society (ACS) has re- ASU President Joseph C. tive Program is open to bona dedicated exclusively to the and provide them nutri- sell is president of the Society Program, which awards low- Dr. Marilyn Eisenwine, as- ceived a “Commendable” des- Rallo announced the program fide Texas residents. To be Dorper breed of sheep. tion where it meets all their for College Science Teachers. interest loans to selected ASU sociate professor of teacher ignation from the national ACS in April. When combined with eligible, they must declare The test was conducted in body’s needs for growth. graduate students to pay for education, received the grant for the third consecutive year. a similar $1,000 incentive a major before registering, conjunction with the annual That way, it allows us to re- English Language tuition, fees, books and sup- which funded ASU’s Summer The chapter was recog- from the State of Texas, suc- complete any required devel- ASU Meat Goat Performance move all those environmen- Institute plies as they work towards Writing Institute for the sixth nized for its participation in cessful students could gradu- opmental courses mandated Test and utilized the same prin- tal factors so that the true ASU’s Center for International master’s degrees in nursing straight year. chemistry outreach activities, ate with their diploma and by their test scores or major ciples to identify rams as po- differences are genetic.” Studies opened a new English with a nurse educator focus. The Pearl of the Concho attendance at national meet- $2,500 cash. and follow published catalog tentially superior breeding sires. “Just like in goats or any Language Learners Institute The ASU Nursing Depart- Writing Project is a non-profit ings, and fundraising and so- “It’s not like winning the requirements for their major. Dorper sheep are more com- other breed of sheep, the (ELLI) with classes this past ment has been funded by the organization funded by the cial events. The ASU chapter lottery,” said Rallo, “but for a Additionally, they must meet monly known as “hair sheep” faster we can get them to summer to benefit internation- NFLP since 2003 and this year’s Department of Education boasts about 35 members and new graduate the incentive each semester with their aca- since they do not produce wool grow, the more economical al students and members of grant total is the largest ever through the ASU Department is advised by Kevin Boudreaux, monies can provide some fi- demic adviser and enroll in and are bred mainly for slaugh- they are,” Salisbury said. the public wanting to improve awarded to ASU. Since ASU’s of Teacher Education and senior chemistry instructor. nancial comfort until they can eight consecutive long semes- ter and consumption. “But, we have to have a

8 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 9 briefs – continued from previous page angelostaters way to try to measure that to see how fast we can get PEOPLE WHO MAKE ASU GREAT them there.” In recent years, with both the availability of shearing crews and the price of wool in decline, some West Texas Kyle Ratliff Moreland was recognized Top Undergrads has also been on the SCST Ex- and his wife Patricia, both A math major from Kauf- sheep ranchers are turning to the Dorper breed over the Senior government major Kyle for her “demonstrably effec- Jason Layne Strickland re- ecutive Board for a decade. ASU alumni. man, Eyre will receive $1,000 traditional Rambouillet, Suffolk and cross-breeds. ASU ag Ratliff, who aspires to attend tive” classroom teaching in ceived ASU’s 2009 Presiden- from the consortium for the faculty have seen the potential for the Dorper breed and law school after graduation, courses ranging from remedial tial Award while five other Top Grad Students Nancy Allen, 2009-10 academic year. Only currently maintain a flock of about 30 at the MIR. will have a nice addition to his mathematics up to the senior undergraduates received Dis- The College of Graduate Stud- Leslie Mayrand about 40 students nation- résumé this fall after he com- capstone course, which she tinguished Student Awards ies announced the top gradu- Two ASU faculty members wide receive the scholarships Making Progress pletes a four-month internship designed for prospective high from their respective colleges ate students for 2009 during are among only 38 nation- each year. The College of Education has met a pair of programmatic at the U.S. Supreme Court. school math teachers. (See as the top graduates during the college’s annual awards ally selected to participate The scholarship program benchmarks in the process to receive accreditation from The Seminole senior is ‘The Streak’ on Page 5) Since May commencement. banquet in April. in the 2009 Air Force ROTC was established in memory of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education becoming quite familiar with she designed the capstone The Distinguished Student The honorees by major and Distinguished Educators Tour. the seven Space Shuttle Co- (NCATE), the agency which provides national accreditation Washington, D.C., after spend- course more than a decade Award recipients were: Scott college were: Gina Council- Dr. Nancy Allen, interim as- lumbia astronauts who were for teacher education. ing the summer as an intern in ago, 100 percent of the ASU Henrich of Mason, College of man of San Angelo, account- sociate vice president for killed during shuttle re-entry in ASU’s Teacher Education Department’s Early Childhood the office of 23rd District Rep. students completing the high Business; Jessica Nichols of ing, College of Business; Shan- academic affairs, and Dr. 2003. The scholarships aim to to Sixth Grade Certification Program has been awarded Ciro Rodriguez of San Antonio. school mathematics certifica- San Angelo, College of Edu- non L. Sturm of San Angelo, Leslie Mayrand, dean of the recognize high-quality under- “nationally recognized” status by the Association for Child- The Supreme Court intern- tion program have passed the cation; Erin Marie Marks of history, College of Liberal and College of Nursing and Allied graduate students and encour- hood Education International. Also, ASU’s Special Educa- ship is much more exclusive state certification exam on Midland, College of Liberal Fine Arts; Audrey Brynn Rich of Health, joined other national age them to go to graduate tion Preparation Program attained “nationally recognized” than a Congressional appoint- the first try. By contrast, the and Fine Arts; Kali Gerber, a Colorado City, reading special- recipients in June at Maxwell school in science, technology, status, with conditions, from the Council for Exceptional ment as generally no more statewide average is approxi- native of Hereford, College of ist, College of Education; Cyn- AFB, Ala., to observe and engineering and mathematics, Children, which has asked the program to upgrade a hand- than five interns are appointed mately 65 percent. Nursing and Allied Health; and thia K. Voyce of San Angelo, participate in a variety of Air possibly leading to careers in ful of areas within 18 months. for each internship session. As De León, the C.J. “Red” Jennifer Kathleen Hendryx of nurse educator, College of Force activities. space-related fields. The status reports are based on self-studies the ASU pro- an intern, Ratliff will become Davidson Professor of History Alpine, College of Sciences. Nursing and Allied Health; and The Distinguished Educators grams conduct to compare their standards against organiza- familiar with the workings of at ASU, was honored for his A biology major and Danyelle Nicole Lee of Houston, Tour shows educators viable Logan Hancock, tions’ national standards. Upon reaching those standards, the Supreme Court clerk’s of- historical research, which has chemistry minor, Strickland biology, College of Sciences. Air Force career opportunities Kunal Bhatnagar they receive the “nationally recognized” status. fice and the Supreme Court re-shaped contemporary un- was nominated by the De- for their best students. Tour Two ASU physics students Dr. John Miazga, dean of the College of Education, said Bar Association to which all at- derstanding of Texas history, partment of Biology. Dur- Alexa Nichols, participants are selected for have received leadership the recognitions are preliminary steps in affirming accredi- torneys who file cases before particularly as it relates to Mex- ing his undergraduate ca- Jamie Mandujano the all-expense paid trip from a awards and corresponding tation from NCATE, which will send a visiting panel of vol- the high court must belong. ican-Americans. He is the au- reer, he received multiple Two ASU Honors Students – nomination list compiled by the scholarships from the national unteer peers to campus in April 2010 to evaluate those and Ratliff will graduate in De- thor of 15 critically acclaimed scholarships and grants. His Alexa Nichols of San Angelo 24 Air Force recruiting squad- office of the Society of Physics other teacher preparation programs necessary to give ASU cember after receiving credit books and monographs as well research efforts won first and Jamie Mandujano of Coy- rons located around the U.S. Students (SPS). national accreditation. for the internship and com- as the editor of 11 more. His place for oral presentation at anosa – served summer in- Emphasis is placed on finding Logan Hancock, a senior Currently, ASU’s education programs are accredited by the pleting an independent re- book They Called Them Greas- the 2009 Texas Academy of ternships in Washington. educators with little or no mili- from Brownfield, received Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and by the State search study course under Dr. ers: Anglo Attitudes toward Science Conference. Nichols, a junior biology tary experience. a 2009 SPS Top Leadership Board for Educator Certification/Texas Education Agency. Casey Jones of the Govern- Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 major, served a six-week in- This is the third year since Award, including a $3,000 ment Department. Ratliff ul- is a standard and considered Connie Russell ternship in the office of U.S. 2006 that at least one ASU scholarship. Hancock is presi- Bio Wizards timately hopes to practice in- by some scholars to be one of Dr. Connie Russell of the bi- Rep. Mike Conaway. Man- faculty member has received dent of the Angelo State SPS Angelo State University’s Epsilon Sigma chapter of the Beta ternational or corporate law. the top 10 books ever written ology faculty, has assumed dujano, a senior international the Air Force ROTC Distin- chapter and is a member of Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) National Biology Honor Society was on Texas history. the role of president of the business major, served a 10- guished Educator designa- the group’s Peer Pressure named the top chapter in the South Central Region/Texas Ellen Moreland, They, along with distin- Society for College Science week Washington Center tion. Dr. Crosby Jones in 2006 Team that conducts annual District at the Tri-Beta Regional Convention in April. Arnoldo De León guished teaching award final- Teachers (SCST). internship with international and Dr. Andy Wallace in 2007 spring road trips to give phys- More than 150 students and faculty from 13 Tri-Beta Faculty members Ellen D. ists Dr. Micheal W. Salisbury After serving the past two trade consulting company were previous honorees. ics demonstrations at area chapters in the region, including 26 representatives from Moreland of mathematics of the Agriculture Depart- years as president-elect, Rus- Management Dynamics. public schools. ASU, attended the meeting that included contests for un- and Dr. Arnoldo De León of ment and Dr. Russell Wilke sell is now serving a two-year Expenses for both Nichols’ Janell Eyre Kunal Bhatnagar, a junior dergraduate research posters and oral presentations. history this past spring be- of the Biology Department, term as president. As the and Mandujano’s internships For the second straight year, from New Delhi, India, re- ASU’s top winners were Jared Bird and Marie Tipps, who came the first ASU recipients were recognized during the chief executive officer of the were offset by funding from ASU senior Janell Eyre has re- ceived a 2009 SPS Leadership won first place in their research poster sessions, and Jason of the Distinguished Teach- spring general faculty meet- organization, she will preside the Alvin and Patricia New ceived a prestigious national Award, including a $2,000 Strickland, who took first in his oral presentation competi- ing Award and Distinguished ing sponsored by the ASU over all meetings of the SCST Honors Program Enhance- Columbia Crew Memorial Un- scholarship. He is active in the tion. By winning first place in their respective sessions, Bird, Research Award, respectively, Faculty Senate. All received and its Executive Board. ment Fund, established last dergraduate Scholarship from Angelo State SPS chapter and Tipps and Strickland will receive expense-paid invitations to from the Texas Tech University plaques and monetary awards A 10-year member of the fall by former Town & Country the Texas Space Grant Con- is a member of the Peer Pres- the 2010 Tri-Beta National Convention in Gunnison, Colo. . System Chancellor’s Council. for their accomplishments. ASU biology faculty, Russell Food Stores CEO Alvin New sortium (TSGC). sure Team. .

10 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 11 Chancellor Kent Hance of the Texas After the new responsibilities were de- filling his promise, which nonetheless helped Tech University System, ASU’s governing fined, C&M staff began to contact various provide adequate returns for consideration. body, said “We have always known what publications, gathering information on dif- “We brought a different eye to this pro- a great university Angelo State is and this fering criteria they used to rate universities, cess,” C&M director Lewis said. “Instead makes us proud that we are now being rec- and to determine possible “distinctives” or of just seeing the surveys as another set of ognized on a national basis.” designations ASU might be able to secure. questionnaires to be filled, we looked for When Rallo became ASU president in The possibilities were limitless, ranging ways we could market the university with June of 2007, one of his first instructions to from a “Tree Campus USA” recognition for those answers. One of the reasons that we the Office of Communications and Market- colleges that excel in planting and caring focused on Princeton Review is that they ing (C&M) was to identify some “distinc- for trees to various “green” designations for are amenable to explanations as opposed to tives” that could be used to promote Angelo campuses with strong conservation/envi- merely accepting numbers.” SHOWING State. That charge, along with the strategic ronmental programs to – don’t laugh – uni- For instance, Lewis pointed to student decision in the summer of 2008 on how the versities with the best bathrooms. retention as a perfect example. While the uni- university would handle the dozens of sur- No kidding, the higher education market- versity is working to improve its retention rate veys it receives each year from various pub- ing firm TargetX earlier this year started its of 56 percent, a mitigating factor is the high lications, culminated this past summer with TargetXBowl to identify classy college water percentage of first generation students who the multiple recognitions. closets. At first flush, it might sound silly, enroll at ASU. In recent years, more than half eople across the nation are Until the fall of 2008, all external sur- but TargetX officials make the point that a of each entering fall class has been made up learning what those familiar with veys were handled by the Office of Insti- great impression made in the admissions of- of first generation students who begin higher PAngelo State University have tutional Research and Effectiveness (IRE). fice can be quickly undermined by a lavatory education without the college support system long known – ASU is a great place to earn a While some data requests were mandatory that is outdated or poorly maintained. of other students whose parents have gone to degree and to work. from accrediting, federal and state offices After reviewing more upstanding pos- college. Many college surveys do not account Over a seven-week period from early such as the Texas Higher Education Coor- sibilities for recognition from various pub- for such mitigating circumstances. July to mid August, three national publica- dinating Board, other surveys came from a lications, including U.S. News, Peterson’s “Something that should be stressed,” tions gave ASU high praise in their respec- variety of publications, which used the in- Guide and The College Guide, among oth- Lewis said, “is that while communica- tive editions. Princeton Review included formation in various rankings and college ers, C&M focused on Princeton Review tions and marketing may have made certain Angelo State in its “Best 371 Colleges” for guides, the most widely recognized being with an emphasis on securing a “Best Re- Princeton Review received the complete 2010. The Chronicle of Higher Education the annual college guide from U.S. News gional University” designation in its 2010 story, this recognition would not have been awarded ASU high marks as one of its 2009 and World Report. IRE responded to those edition. In addition to completing the Princ- possible without the hard work of students, “Great Colleges to Work For” and G.I. on a time-permitting basis. eton Review’s annual survey questionnaire, alumni, faculty and staff, who have shaped Jobs magazine saluted ASU as a “Military As the newly named vice president for which printed out at 79 pages, the office Friendly” campus for 2010. strategy, planning and policy in the sum- reallocated $4,500 in branding and mar- “These types of recognition are impor- mer of 2008, Dr. James M. Limbaugh ap- keting monies for an enhanced university tant,” said ASU President Joseph C. Rallo, proached Preston Lewis, ASU’s director of profile on both the Princeton Review Web “because they provide external validation of communications and marketing, about the site and in its annual publication. The office our university by an impartial publication. C&M office splitting up the reporting du- then completed a separate best regional uni- This recognition comes not from buying ties with institutional research. Although versity questionnaire and agreed to allow ads, but rather by providing detailed infor- IRE would still provide the base data for all Princeton Review to survey undergraduate mation on the university so that these publi- reports, C&M would become the contact students. Student comments are a major cations can judge for themselves. and responding office for those originating component in the Princeton Review selec- “Their selection of ASU for recognition with various publications or with marketing tion process, another reason C&M focused provides legitimacy to the messages we are potential for the university. Meanwhile, IRE on this guide. conveying to prospective students,” Rallo would continue to provide requested data To encourage undergraduates to par-

Photo by Jim Bean Jim by Photo said. “In the case of the Chronicle, the des- for state, federal and accrediting agencies. ticipate in the survey, then Student Govern- ignation of ASU as a great employer will “Our goal was to better evaluate and ment Association President Seth Chomout help us with our national faculty recruiting capitalize upon the marketing opportunities promised to “paper” Dr. Rallo’s home if 75 efforts. In the coming months these desig- that these surveys offered Angelo State,” percent of the students responded. As Princ- nations will be featured prominently on our said Limbaugh. “The results have certainly eton Review does not release the number of major publications and our Web site.” justified our joint decision.” responses, Chomout was off the hook for ful-

12 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 13 ASU’s reputation for excellence over the years. All of them share in this honor.” Angelo State joined a prestigious list of Texas universities to make the list. Other ASU Mission Statement honorees were Baylor, Rice, SMU, South- western University, Texas A&M, TCU, Angelo State University, a member of the Texas Tech University Trinity University, University of Dallas and System, delivers undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal University of Texas at Austin. arts, sciences, and professional disciplines. In a learning-centered In addition to the more than two dozen surveys handled by C&M during the 2008- environment distinguished by its integration of teaching, research, 09 academic year, the Office of Human Re- he eight-month process that end- countability are being demanded by to oversee completion of the academic creative endeavor, service, and co-curricular experiences, ASU prepares sources responded to a questionnaire by the Ted in April with a new mission various constituencies nationwide master plan after he accepted an inter- students to be responsible citizens and to have productive careers. Chronicle of Higher Education and coordi- statement for Angelo State University and by the federal government, Lim- im, one-year appointment as provost nated that publication’s request for a survey produced a critical document for a baugh said. and vice president for academic and of faculty and staff. The July 10 issue of the changing environment in how higher The mission statement is one student affairs following the decision Chronicle recognized ASU as one of the education is evaluated and how uni- third of the strategic triad all uni- by previous provost Don Coers to re- ASU Value Statements year’s best college employers. versities are accredited. versities are now establishing. The turn to teaching at the conclusion of President Rallo said, “Angelo State has “Our mission statement,” said Dr. second component is a statement of the spring semester. Learning: Our Focus long been recognized locally as a fine em- James M. Limbaugh, “is a fundamen- values while the third element is a vi- The academic master plan will ASU holds student learning as the center of everything that we do. ployer, winning the San Angelo Standard- tal statement about why we exist and sion statement. help chart the university’s future as it Times Readers’ Choice Award for best place what we do.” “A statement of values represents identifies programs and opportunities Excellence: Our Standard to work for the last three years. It is grati- Limbaugh, ASU’s vice president the principles that guide us,” Lim- that ASU can develop and enhance ASU embraces excellence in teaching, scholarly activity, creative fying to know that our work environment is for strategy, planning and policy, led baugh said. “These are the principles both to distinguish the university from endeavor, and service. now receiving national recognition, which is the campus-wide effort, involving that we hold inviolate as educators.” its competitors and to develop areas of a testament to the many dedicated ASU fac- faculty, staff, students and alumni, ASU developed its value state- recognized expertise in the state and Transformation: Change for the Better ulty and staff who have made a career com- to produced a 53-word mission state- ments as it wrote its mission. in the nation. The results will help mitment to our students and their success.” ment concise enough to fit on the “The vision statement represents shape how ASU grows academically ASU prepares its students for a life of contribution and accomplishment TTUS Chancellor Hance said, “This is back of new ASU business cards. Its our aspirations and where we see and utilizes its resources to address by instilling a respect for learning and intellectual inquiry. a well deserved honor for the university and cumbersome 675-word ASU prede- ourselves going as an institution,” priorities in the future. we are proud of them. It shows that Angelo cessor would barely fit on a standard Limbaugh said. “Our vision articu- “These are exciting times for An- Integrity: Social and Ethical Responsibility State is not only a great place to go to col- piece of stationery. lates both what we hope to do and to gelo State as we look to the future and ASU expects a high standard of social and ethical responsibility from lege, it’s also a great place to go to work.” The new mission statement re- be in the future.” embrace the change that will allow us all members of the campus community. The Chronicle of Higher Education is ceived approval from the Texas Tech As the vision for ASU must be to grow in enrollment and in reputa- the primary national source for job listings University System Board of Regents interwoven with the university’s aca- tion,” Limbaugh said. . Engagement: Participation and Community Service in higher education, and each issue is read on March 6 and from the Texas High- demic master plan, its development ASU encourages participation and community service both on and by up to a half-million people in the profes- er Education Coordinating Board on was delayed, pending the comple- off campus by faculty, staff, and students. sion. Jesse Gomez, ASU’s director of hu- April 30. With its formal adoption, the tion of the document this man resources, said the Chronicle exposure mission statement becomes a critical year. Limbaugh will be Innovation: Teaching, Service, and Scholarship comes at a critical time as the university element in the university’s accredita- in a critical position ASU promotes innovation in teaching, scholarship, technology, col- looks to fill two vice presidential vacancies tion by the Southern Association of and to increase overall campus diversity. Colleges and Schools, or SACS. laborative partnerships, support services, and co-curricular activities. “I believe one of our weaknesses in em- “SACS wants to make sure every- Diversity: Cultures, People and Ideas ployee recruitment,” Gomez said, “is sim- thing we do supports our mission,” ply that ASU is not well known. It’s hard to Limbaugh said. “Now everything is ASU believes that everyone should experience a diversity of cul- get attention when no one is looking. With predicated on our mission and what tures, people and ideas in order to better appreciate the world the ‘great college to work for’ designation, we do to support our students and around them. I think this will draw attention to ASU as their needs.” well as pique the interests of prospective ap- In essence, SACS has elevated Collegiality: Getting Along plicants as to what makes us great.” outcomes over the processes that pre- ASU fosters – among students, faculty, and staff, and across ASU was one of 150 institutions of viously validated accreditation. disciplines – a culture of shared governance, open communication, higher education so recognized nationally by This is the direction of higher edu- the Chronicle, which surveyed faculty and cation as greater transparency and ac- transparent operations, and mutual respect. administrators on job satisfaction in 26 cat-

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14 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 15 Countless SAC and ASU journalism leave – and through consolidation of op- Editor Tim Archuleta and communication students have interned erations with other newspapers. While the or worked after graduation at the Standard- paper also uses many part-timers, Brackin Times. Even today, the Standard-Times prints said their numbers fluctuate. the Ram Page for the university, even though To adapt to changing tastes and times, the weekly paper is now trucked from Abilene the Standard-Times has also reduced a cir- rather than from its downtown San Angelo culation area that once was the size of Ohio offices. Beyond that, the Standard-Times has and encompassed 53 counties extending been the window through which many people, south to Laredo, north to Lamesa, east to both regionally and beyond, have viewed the Lampasas and just short of El Paso on the university, either in news accounts of Angelo west. Today, Standard-Times circulation State events or through sports stories tracking extends to 18 counties, an area smaller than the Rams and Rambelles. West Virginia. The news hole and even the What remains as the great irony in the size of the paper has shrunk. Some services dilemma of the Standard-Times is that the were outsourced. Meyer Danny by Photo World Wide Web, which makes it simple to On Jan. 5, the Standard-Times ran its read up on San Angelo and ASU from nearly press for the final time, then transferred any place on the globe, is the very instrument the printing operation to its sister paper, the that is challenging the newspaper industry. Abilene Reporter-News. The news produc- “Journalism as we know it is changing,” tion desk, which provided copy editing and from its own reporters and with contribu- said Dr. Cathy Johnson, Ram Page adviser layout, moved soon afterward to a consoli- tions from citizen journalists. The tradition and associate professor of journalism at ASU. dated operation in Corpus Christi, which of local news remains deeply entrenched at “It has changed more in the past year than now provides those services for the Abilene the Standard-Times, going back to Houston perhaps at any other time in history. I hope and San Angelo papers as well as for the Harte, who felt so strongly about his news- we don’t evolve into a Twitter society where Wichita Falls Record-News and the Corpus paper focusing on local news that in 1922 he that is the only level of information we crave. Christi Caller-Times, all owned by the E.W. coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which Historically, younger people didn’t read the Scripps Co. of Cincinnati. Each move fur- alludes to filling the news hole with for- newspaper until they were more established ther reduced the Standard-Times payroll. eign stories. Harte believed that Standard- by Roy Ivey in their careers. Now, I wonder if in-depth in- Despite their declining numbers, the Times readers wanted to see stories about formation even matters to young people.” Standard-Times management is committed themselves and their neighbors rather than That shift in where and how more people to keeping the local news local with reports accounts of occurrences half a world away. are getting information – especially when hile today’s Standard-Times Times situation special is that no newspaper combined with a weak economy, stiff com- may still carry San Angelo as and possibly no organization or company petition from other advertising sources and Publisher Becky Brackin its first name, the newspaper’s has had so close a relationship with Angelo the rise of free Internet content purveyors, Wbattle to remain a viable hometown publi- State over the course of the university’s 81- who many times purloin their reports from, cation means its stories are sent to Corpus year history. The Standard-Times backed you guessed it, online newspaper sources – Christi for final editing and page production efforts to start a local college in San Angelo presents practical problems for Brackin and and then relayed to Abilene for printing. after the city’s unsuccessful effort to secure Editor Tim Archuleta. The same electronic communication Texas Technological College. The newspa- “Many companies are responding with which makes possible that 828-mile produc- per supported the expansion to a four-year drastic cuts,” Brackin said. “One of the tion triangle to deliver hometown papers to college 40 years later and then the transi- quickest ways to see expense cuts is on the the front yards of San Angelo residents con- tion to a university. When some alumni and personnel side because, obviously, that’s tributed to its necessity. Over the last decade, local residents initiated a move for ASU to where a lot of your expense is. Unfortu- the 24/7 electronic world of the Internet, in become part of the Texas Tech University nately, cutting expenses is one of the first concert with the more recent recessionary System in 2007, the Standard-Times en- places we’ve had to look.” economy, has cut into the paper’s circula- dorsed the idea early on. ASU’s Houston From the time Archuleta became editor tion and print advertising as well as changed Harte University Center is even named for in 2003 until the present, he has watched the the reading habits and expectations of a new the late publisher of the paper. paper’s newsroom staff shrink from more generation of Americans, whose hands are “I know that Houston Harte had a huge than 40 full-time positions to just 20, a de- more accustomed to holding an iPod or a impact on the university,” said Standard- crease of seven coming just in the past year. Blackberry than a daily newspaper. Times Publisher/President Becky Brackin, Today’s newspaper staff totals the equiva- Meyer Danny by Photo Challenges faced by the Standard-Times Class of ’85, “and obviously there is a univer- lent of 87 full-time employees, compared to mirror issues being addressed by newspa- sity center named after him. That speaks to a 140 a year ago. Most of the drop has come pers nationally. What makes the Standard- longstanding and pretty close relationship.” from attrition – not replacing people as they

16 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 17 The Standard-Times never gave up com- underwent a redesign and its second size re- cially if you multiply that by the pass-along Even with all the challenges and staff vice Semester in Washington internship to pletely on foreign and national news, which duction in nine years, pages had shrunk to a readership. Right now, the multiplier is reductions, the Standard-Times over the her résumé in the spring of 2008. does appear daily in abbreviated form and width of 11½ inches and a depth of 22 inches. about 2.1.” past 18 months has navigated the winds of “They brought in five or six interns and touches major news events, including the Many newspapers nationally had undergone That translates into more than 56,000 change well enough to be named the 2009 let us write whatever we wanted,” Rios said. wars in Iraq and, yes, even Afghanistan. the same reduction as cost savings. sets of eyes on the newspaper. Although the “Newspaper of the Year” in its circulation “I liked the cultural experience, working at But local news is job No. 1 at the Stan- Despite these size reductions, Brackin Internet has been a nemesis of newspapers category by the Associated Press in April. the hub of government so close to the White dard-Times, Archuleta said. said Standard-Times’ retail and classified across the country, the Standard-Times has Despite the online trend and the emer- House and Congress.” “We are focused on producing content,” advertising, both critical to the newspaper’s been utilizing the competing medium as an gence of social-networking vehicles like Rios and other journalists her age are he said. “With the production staff in Corpus long-term viability, remains strong, espe- ally to expand readership online. The Stan- Twitter, Johnson and Brackin both agree on setting out on an uncharted course to the fu-

Christi, we can concentrate more resources cially on the weekends. That fact reflects dard-Times’ Web site, gosanangelo.com, the ongoing need for trained journalists in ture with many possible career pitfalls and Austin American-Statesman the of courtesy Photo on reporting and less on mundane tasks.” the newspaper’s value not just as a news me- recorded 1,825,882 page views and 182,029 a democratic society. Brackin also said she rewards often complicated by the pace of Archuleta said he considers the pro- dium but also as an advertising medium for unique visitors in April. believes journalism-based content delivery change in communications. duction employees in the Corpus Christi the community. The Audit Bureau of Circulations re- will remain a vibrant part of the news busi- “We are in a very fluid time now,” Rios office as part of the Standard-Times staff, The Audit Bureau of Circulations, a non- ported in April that paid weekday circula- ness, no matter how information reaches the said. “Our ASU intern now at the Standard- as they produce the pages for the newspa- profit association of advertisers, ad agen- tion over the past year among 530 surveyed consumer in the future. Times, Lara Johnson, is having a different per’s readers. cies and publishers, which provides media newspapers had dropped from 42.6 million Students who hope to have a career in the experience than even I had two years ago. “It makes economic sense for one opera- performance numbers, reported that as of to 41.1 million, a 3.6 percent decrease. By news business and their professors, including We are shooting video and working on the tion to produce all the comics and other such March 31, the Standard-Times circulation contrast, an analysis released in April by the Johnson, are closely watching the ongoing Web and it’s instantaneous.” Arnold Garcia Jr. pages for all four newspapers,” he said. stood at 26,856 on Sundays and at 23,533 on Nielsen polling company for the Newspaper metamorphosis and, in some cases, actually In the past, newspapers fought a los- Some newspapers are outsourcing pro- Mondays through Saturdays. Those totals Association of America showed that 73 mil- benefitting from it. In a way, the current situ- ing battle with television and radio over “We will deliver information in what- duction and even some reporting to foreign approximated about half of the paper’s peak lion unique visitors logged on to newspaper ation has made it easier for them to get a foot breaking news. The electronic media could ever way the consumers want – print, online countries. The Orange County (Calif.) Reg- circulation during the 1960s and 1970s, Web sites, a 10 percent increase from the in the door and actually write for the paper. immediately report on events while news- or through mobile devices,” Archuleta said. ister, for example, announced in July 2008 when it covered almost a third of Texas and previous year. “The Standard-Times is more interested papers were delayed for hours by the pro- “And, we’ll produce niche products for that it was sending stories to India for edit- printed both morning and evening editions. “My gut tells me that our market is than ever in having part-timers and free- duction and delivery process. whatever the market is passionate about.” ing. Just over 30 miles to the north, the Pas- Brackin said the Standard-Times’ latest particularly attached to the print product lancers write stories,” she said. “Now the A positive development in the complex Austin American-Statesman Edito- adena Now Web site has contracted with a circulation figures still reflect a 60 percent and, in my opinion,” Brackin said, “the ar- hardest thing for us is to keep them work- relationship between newspapers and the rial Page Editor Arnold Garcia Jr. hopes company in India to cover Pasadena City penetration rate in San Angelo, defined as rangement of the print edition is something ing on the Ram Page while they are here Internet means “print” reporters can put a regional newspapers like the Standard- Council meetings via the streaming Web. the percentage of homes receiving a news- people enjoy. Now they can see it online as instead of going to work there.” “flash” story on the newspaper’s Web site Times and his own newspaper find ways to While most American newspapers have paper, for the Sunday edition. well. I think the print edition will be around Johnson encourages her students to get immediately and add details as they be- effectively continue delivering the news in avoided that extreme, they have cut back “That is a penetration rate most news- for a long time and the ‘e-dition’ may be the as much experience as they can before they come available. the new environment. on coverage. The Standard-Times Sports papers would die for,” she said, “and espe- next best thing to that.” enter the job market. “As a breaking news reporter,” Rios said, “Particularly in an area like West Texas,” Department no longer sends reporters to “They can work on the Ram Page and “I love how I can build on my stories. I get Garcia said, “the newspaper’s role in impart- routine away games for many of its teams then at the Standard-Times before trying to the information, call it in and it progresses ing information that people need, whether it’s but trades coverage with the Reporter-News go to a bigger newspaper, for an additional in- throughout the day. I can end up with a 15-20 the time of a funeral in an obituary or what’s and other newspapers looking to whittle ternship,” she said. “They can’t graduate and inch story, but I have to be more careful about going on at city hall, is important.” down their own expenses. expect only good grades to help them get a errors with everything happening so fast.” Garcia, an ASU Alumni Association Even such once-bitter rivals as the Fort job. Those who get internships at the Stan- Archuleta said that universities must board member, was a government and his- Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morn- dard-Times will get more clips working there keep up with the quickly evolving news tory student at Angelo State when he took his ing News are now pooling resources and than they would get perhaps anywhere else.” business model to properly equip their stu- first newspaper job at the Standard-Times. splitting coverage of many events, such as Standard-Times Editor Archuleta said dents for careers in journalism. “Through the years,” Garcia said, professional sports, that are of mutual inter- one or two students hone their writing skills “Universities, by nature, are creative “whether it was (an ASU) journalism pro- est to their readers. at the newspaper each summer, thanks to and can adapt quickly, and journalism is fessor like Wayland Yates working slot on Cost-saving reductions are vividly illus- the Scripps scholarships. still journalism,” he said. “Universities will the weekends or students doing internships, trated in areas of the Standard-Times build- “They can work during their final two still have to teach core elements of Ameri- the connection between ASU and the Stan- ing. Some desks sit empty. The press is quiet years of college and many of the interns can journalism, such as fairness and libel dard-Times was always strong.” and could be sold to another newspaper or as take their first jobs at the Standard-Times,” laws. They will have to teach students to “ASU and the Standard-Times still need scrap metal. Even renting some of the vacated he said. “Those students have a built-in ad- ask those in powerful positions the tough one another,” he added, “not just as a source space remains an option. The news hole – the vantage when they move to their next job.” questions and to verify facts in stories.” of talent for the Standard-Times but to keep total number of column inches available for Johnson said, “The Scripps internship Archuleta said the newspaper business people informed about what ASU is doing news – has gradually decreased over the last program is a big one for us. It is open to other likely will still be operating at a reduced and to reinforce the importance of ASU to decade. Besides that, the size of the newspa- schools, but it has been especially helpful in level in five years, but retooled and aimed at the region. It’s probably still true to this day per has withered over the same period. On Meyer Danny by Photo placing our students in internships.” meeting readers’ needs. As for news deliv- that young people who don’t have financial the first day of the 21st century, the Standard- Jennifer Rios, a fall 2008 ASU graduate, ery, he said it will be consumer-driven, just alternatives wouldn’t get an education if it Times was 13½ inches wide and 22¾ inches took a reporting job at the Standard-Times as the contraction of the newspaper industry deep. By May 12 of this year when the paper Reporter Jennifer Rios after adding the Scripps Howard News Ser- has been. – continued on page 43

18 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 19 “It sounds boastful, but there wasn’t letters and raised $8,000 for the Dallas ALS She has also started her own business, or- anything left that I really wanted to do,” he Walk, so it was really Sarah who inspired ganizing and conducting nursing symposia. said. “I had satisfied all my dreams.” me. After that, I told the local ALS support “I believe in continuing education and Most of their activities immediately fol- group that I wanted to have a walk here.” I have a real passion for this,” Pam said. Life lowing the diagnosis were family-oriented, She organized the first local ALS Walk “I think nurses should attend these events including getting their estates and wills in in October 2008. It attracted more than 300 regularly to keep current on medications order and having a family portrait made. walkers and raised $25,000 that went to the and diseases.” However, in spite of his rapidly progressing ALS Association Southwest Chapter. There Additionally, her goals for the immedi- to disease, Pres did make a farewell trip to Af- will be another walk this October and Pam ate future include organizing international ghanistan in 2005. is trying to determine an option to keep the missions for ASU nursing students and “He was in bad shape,” Pam said. “He money in San Angelo. honoring her husband with a John Preston had to take his breathing machine. He Through her experiences with the sup- Darby Symposium for physicians. could barely carry his suitcases and walk- port group and at home with Pres, Pam has With only so many hours in a day, ing was a problem. Afghanistan was still dealt with everyone from physicians and though, sometimes even Pam gets worn by Tom Nurre dangerous, but Pres wanted to see some old patients to caregivers and patients’ families. down. But, she stays upbeat. friends there one more time.” She has developed an idea of the best thera- “If I get enough rest, I’m okay because I n an unforgettable August day in “It was an uplifting experience,” Pres py for ALS sufferers, a theory that is shared stay pretty happy all the time,” she said. Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo 2004, Pam Darby’s personal life said. “Before, I was just one of the Afghans, by her husband. When times get rough, she draws collidedO with her professional life as an but this time, I was treated like a king. In “Visit them and give them hope,” she strength from family, friends and her favor- fact, I met the king, had a state dinner held said. “Bring a meal or a DVD. Share a ite quotation by ALS patient Kenneth Lill- Angelo State University nursing educator. Pres and Pam Darby Each day since, the line between Pam’s for me by the vice president and talked book or a new joke. Show them you care back, who said, “To maintain your quality personal and professional lives has blurred with many Afghan intellectuals and busi- and give hugs and love.” of life, don’t dwell on what is gone, but en- as she has devoted herself to caring for her Those adventures, however, came be- handle some of the more personal aspects nessmen. I also visited my old friend (mu- “Many ALS patients just give up,” added joy what you can still contribute today.” husband, Dr. John Preston “Pres” Darby, fore ALS. of his care. jahedeen leader) Ahmad Shah Massoud’s Pres. “I know how they feel. It’s a devastating, “I could take the easy way out and put who was diagnosed that fateful August with “After the diagnosis, I thought that “Then, it takes me about a half hour to shrine as well as clinics, hospitals and or- debilitating and depressing disease, seeming Pres in a nursing home,” Pam said, “but I’m amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a ter- I would probably be dead in two or three get him ready for bed,” Pam said. “He has phanages I helped establish.” to seek out those who are healthy and fit. proud of the way I take care of him and I minal ailment commonly known as Lou years,” Pres said. “As a physician, I knew peripheral vascular disease, cannot move As his condition continued to dete- There are many times when I thought it was think he looks damn good.” Gehrig’s disease. that there was no treatment and it was just a his legs and even if just a sheet touches his riorate after his return from Afghanistan, just not worth struggling. But I changed my Faced with the inevitable outcome of The loving wife assumed the role for matter of accepting the fact that, to me, life toes, they become painful. So, I have to get many trips followed to consult his doctor in mind due to the tender mercies of family and Pres’ illness, though, Pam admits to plan- which she was professionally prepared as was pretty well over.” him situated just so.” San Antonio. There Pam learned that of the friends. They are my medicines.” ning her own future when that day does the faithful caregiver. In the process, she ALS is a degenerative disease that re- Her other duties include cleaning the roughly 30,000 cases of ALS in the U.S., With his daily activities limited to read- come, while also hoping that it does not vowed to set an example for other families duces a person’s ability to control voluntary various breathing and feeding machines, about 10 were in the Concho Valley, earn- ing, listening to music and watching TV, come any time soon.” with terminally ill members. muscle movement, affecting all or parts of transporting him with a Hoyer lift to the ing it the dubious “black hole” nickname Pres is fortunate that his family is never “I am going to continue on with all the “My whole day is geared around Pres,” the body. The average survival time after shower or bathroom, keeping in touch with given to areas with unusually large numbers far away. Besides Pam’s constant presence, things Pres and I planned to do together,” Pam said. diagnosis is only two to five years and only his doctors and generally just making him of cases. Sensing the need for a local sup- their son, Hayne, is available to help with Pam said. “I want to work in clinics in Afri- “To be perfectly honest,” responded about 20 percent of patients live more than as comfortable as possible. To Pam’s credit, port group, Pam vowed to get one started. Pres’ care. Their daughters, Mary, a phar- ca, Tibet, Honduras and, of course, in Pres’ Pres, “I would not be alive right now if it five years. Pres’ condition has gradually since he was diagnosed, Pres has never had “I was just so upset whenever I left San macy school student in Abilene, and Sarah, beloved Afghanistan.” weren’t for Pam, not only as a wife but as deteriorated to the point that he is confined any major complications of the disease. Antonio,” Pam said. “I thought that if people an animation programmer in Dallas, are “His thirst for adventure inspired me to my nurse as well.” to a wheelchair and requires a feeding tube feel the way I do, I just wanted to reach out regular visitors, as are Pres’ older children, do all this,” she added. “This is his legacy “She has brought all of her nursing . Living day-to-day contrasts sharply with and breathing machine. skills to taking care of me and I have lasted to others in this community because I felt John and Cathy. Their house in southwest to me.” how the couple had lived life to the fullest Faced with Pres’ diagnosis, it would have a whole lot longer than I ever expected,” so alone and isolated. I also thought I could San Angelo also enjoys a constant stream before the ALS diagnosis. There had been been easy for Pam to throw in the towel on Pres said. help other people with my nursing abilities of friends, well-wishers and even musicians mission trips to Honduras and Guyana, life. Instead, she has embraced her new role “But, there are down times,” he added. because I feel like I have done a real good who have come to perform. scuba diving, rapelling, boating, working as caregiver and is even more energetic than “It gets to me sometimes, usually when I’m job with my husband and I wanted to pass on Though caring for Pres, meeting with the outdoors, jogging, flying and hiking. They before, albeit with very different activities alone, the frustration of not being able to do what I know and just be there for others.” support groups and her duties on the ASU had raised three children. Pam was teaching that begin about 7 a.m. every day. anything. I was always such an independent But, she wasn’t satisfied with just start- nursing faculty already fill her schedule, full-time at ASU and spearheading the an- “I have to shave him, brush his teeth and cuss, sometimes to my detriment. Having ing a group. As always, if she was in for a Pam still finds a way to teach online ASU nual ASU Nursing Symposium. Pres was a give him his pills and daily tube feedings,” to depend on someone to feed you, take you penny, she was in for a pound. nursing classes fulltime from her home. busy physician, former Air Force flight sur- Pam said. “I’m also constantly tweaking to the bathroom and everything else is de- “Two years ago, my daughter, Sarah, “I love interacting with the students geon, runner and weightlifter. He had even things to make sure he doesn’t have any grading, but I have become accustomed to it went to an ALS organization meeting in and I miss seeing them face-to-face,” Pam spent several months in Afghanistan treat- problems. An aide and my son assist with much better than I would’ve thought.” Dallas and then wanted to participate in its said. “But, now I connect with them on ing rebel mujahedeen fighters injured by the heavier tasks and sit with him so I can Numerous movies have been made activities,” Pam said. “We wrote numerous the computer.” Russian troops in 1985, then writing about run errands.” about what people do when faced with a the experience upon his return in a book But, she cannot stray far or stay gone terminal illness. But for Pres, there was no titled Tears for the Oppressed. long, as she is the only person Pres will let “bucket list.” 20 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Distinguished Alumni A Love of Family

Alumni Award Criteria For Mickey Long, it was love at first sight. these two institutions are truly making a Shortly after enrolling at Angelo State difference in the great State of Texas.” Homecoming Dinner Distinguished Alumnus University, Mickey knew it was his college For their steadfast support of the ASU, An alumnus previously enrolled at home. He loved the campus, the people Mickey and Renee Long, both Class of The ASU Alumni Association’s Wells Fargo Homecoming Dinner, honoring 13 SAC, ASC or ASU and a former and soon recognized the great opportuni- ’76, have been named 2009 Distinguished members of the extended ASU family, is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 9, during student for at least 10 years and ties within his reach. Shortly after classes Alumni by the Angelo State University Homecoming festivities on campus. recognized by the Alumni Association began, he met and fell in love with a San Alumni Association. Association honorees for 2009 are Mickey and Renee Long and Clayton Wei- for outstanding achievement in his/ Angelo native, Renee Heckaman. Mickey is president of Westex/WLP shuhn as distinguished alumni; Dale Chase as honorary alumnus; Jeff Sefcik as Carr her business, profession, lifework or “It was definitely love at first sight,” Well Service, L.P., in Midland. He received alumnus; Sarah Garcia as ROTC alumnus; Alan Bloebaum as outstanding retired worthy endeavor. Long said, “or at least it was for me.” a Bachelor of Science degree from ASU. faculty; LeRoy Olsak as golden ex; and Bonnie Amos, Harriet Lewis, Ed Olson, Distinguished Carr If Renee had any reservations, she quick- He is a member of the Association of Ener-

Kathleen Price and Norman Sunderman as distinguished faculty. Photo courtesy of Mickey and Renee Long Scholar Alumnus ly lost them. For the last 33 years they have gy Service Companies and the Texas Tech The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in the C. J. Davidson Conference Center in the An alumnus who attended ASU on been partners in life and have created a strong University Hall of Legacy. Before being Houston Harte University Center. Tickets are available for $30 per person. Table a Carr Scholarship and recognized by family that they are very proud of today. To- named a member of the TTUS Board of sponsorships for eight may be purchased for $300. Patron sponsorships, including a the Alumni Association for career and/ gether they have become true philanthropists Regents, Mickey was an active member of reserved table with preferential seating for eight, are available for $800. or community service and leadership. and support many causes close to their hearts, the Texas Tech University Foundation, An- Valet Parking will be provided by ASU Block and Bridle. Special including Angelo State University. gelo State University Alumni Foundation dinner music will be offered by the ASU Jazz Band. Cash bar Distinguished ROTC Alumnus Mickey was appointed to the Board of and the Red Raider Club National Board service will be available. An alumnus who attended ASU Regents of the Texas Tech University Sys- of Directors. Information on tickets or reservations is as part of the Air Force ROTC tem on Feb. 6. He is currently a member Renee was born and raised in San Mickey and Renee Long available by calling the ASU Alumni Detachment 847 and recognized by of the Audit Committee and serves as vice Angelo. She received a Bachelor of El- the Alumni Association for significant Association at (325) 942-2122 chair of the Board of Trustees of the Carr ementary Education from Angelo State traveling, reading and bicycling. While impact in his/her career or lifework. or by visiting the association Scholarship Foundation. and spent over 28 years in the classroom she still enjoys teaching her children and online at asuexes.com. Honorary Alumnus “I love Texas Tech University and An- as an elementary educator. Renee, who is granddaughter, Renee now spends her time A special friend and supporter of gelo State University,” he said. “Together always planning a trip, is passionate about with her friends and family. ASU who has made a significant Throughout the year Mickey and Renee impact on the university or the enjoy many sporting and cultural events Alumni Association through around the country. In addition, they are de- support, recognition or career. voted members of Grace Lutheran Church of Midland. Golden Ex of the Year They were married in 1976 and soon An individual enrolled at SAC or began their family. They have two won- ASC at least 50 years ago who has derful daughters, Amy and Andrea. Both continued a lasting relationship with Amy and Andrea reside in Lubbock with ASU and/or the Alumni Association. their husbands, Brad King and Christopher Outstanding Retired Faculty Tirey. Mickey and Renee have one grand- A former ASU faculty or staff daughter, Katherine King. member who had a distinguished Mickey and Renee enjoy each and ev- career at ASU and has continued his/ ery day and have taught their family to her support and involvement with do the same. Whether it be at the beach, ASU and/or the Alumni Association in the mountains or in West Texas, they after retirement. always take time each day to be thank- ful for the many blessings that have been Distinguished Faculty bestowed on them. Achievement “Our main objective,” said Mickey, “is to A current ASU faculty member help the students. We understand the finan- selected from each ASU College cial struggles and scholarship needs students by the Alumni Association for his/ face today. We want to help the university in her profound effect on the lives and Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo any possible way so these young adults can careers of ASU students. get the same opportunities we received from an ASU education. We are truly honored to Regent Long serve Angelo State University.” .

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Clayton Weishuhn graduated from His on-field accomplishments and A career in the petroleum industry took out that way to a great degree. We had a fun Wall High School in 1978 with a lot of Di- continuing support of ASU’s athletic pro- Dale Chase all over the world, but he time with it.” vision I football scholarship offers, but he grams, including his current membership never forgot his hometown of San Angelo. Another thing the Chases always had stayed close to home with ASU. on the ASU Athletic Association Board of While he worked in such exotic locales fun with was art. They amassed a consid- “I made up my mind that this was where Directors, as well as his successful farm- as Alaska, Indonesia, Libya, India and Aus- erable collection of western art, much of I wanted to go,” Weishuhn said. “I enjoyed ing career earned him the 2009 Distin- tralia, Chase remained a true West Texan it housed in the Museum of Western Art farming and ranching and my wife, Diane, guished Alumnus award from the ASU and, along with his late wife, Joy, continued in Kerrville. who was my high school sweetheart, played Alumni Association. to champion ASU, as he does today. For his “We got real involved in art, mostly a big part in my decision.” Numerous postseason honors marked wide and varied support of the university, western art, as sort of a hobby,” Chase said. Diane was a student at ASU. His fami- Weishuhn’s days as a Ram, including con- Chase has been named the 2009 Honorary “Through the museum in Kerrville, we got ly’s farm was nearby. And, Weishuhn knew sensus first team All-American his senior Alumnus by the ASU Alumni Association. to know most of the real good artists. Pretty the Rams had a good football program, so year, second team All-American his junior His many contributions include cre- soon we had a herd of money in that stuff.” the choice was easy for him. year and first team All-Lone Star Confer- ation of the Dale and Joy Chase Scholar- ASU’s West Texas Collection boasts “I played for a great coaching staff in ence each of his final three years. In ad- ship, support of the Athletic Department several pieces donated from the Chase’s col- college with Jim Hess, Jerry Vandergriff and dition, he earned two J.V. Sikes Awards for and donations for the Dale and Joy Chase lection and the LeGrand Center is decorated Mike Martin,” he said. “It was just a blast.” outstanding lineman in the LSC. Courtyard at ASU’s LeGrand Alumni and with seven donated paintings and sculptures. ASU’s football opponents found the Weishuhn’s college play drew the atten- Visitors Center. Chase served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps much-honored linebacker’s 1978-81 col- tion of National Football League scouts and “We thought the promotion of ASU during WWII, then got his degree from the lege career less enjoyable. Weishuhn the New England Patriots made him the sec- would be something beneficial to the com- University of Texas. He now lives in San Clayton Weishuhn played during a golden era for the Rams, ond pick in the third round of the 1982 draft. munity,” Chase said. “We both had a great Antonio and also owns a ranch in Sterling Dale Chase who racked up a 39-8-1 record, including He played five seasons for the Patriots and interest in ASU and hoped the promotion County. His son, Chip, is an investment a perfect 14-0 season and a National Asso- one for the Green Bay Packers before knee would benefit everyone. I think it has turned broker in Kerrville. . ciation of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) injuries and the desire to return to farming national championship his freshman year. convinced him to hang up his cleats. The Rams followed that with three-straight “I was healthy my last year at Green postseason appearances. Bay,” he said, “but I decided it was time to Weishuhn finished his playing career at head back to the farm. I am my own boss Carr Scholar Alumnus Behind the Scenes ASU in 1981 as the Rams’ all-time tackling and get to be outside watching crops grow. leader with 523, a record which still stands I compare it to winning the national cham- today, and includes a single-season record pionship. You start with nothing and when While Jeff Sefcik has worked in relative in 1992. For his many years of stellar perfor- of 173 tackles in 1981. you get a big crop, you get a big reward.” anonymity for more than two decades, his mance, he has been named the 2009 Distin- Weishuhn remains an avid fan of ASU continuing impact on the ASU campus touch- guished Carr Scholar Alumnus. and Wall High School athletics. He played es every student, faculty and staff member. Additionally, Sefcik was co-leader of the his last game 22 years ago but still follows A 25-year member of the Information three-year Portico project that transformed the Rams and Hawks as much as his farming Technology staff, Sefcik is director of process and updated all of ASU’s administrative chores will allow. He has carved out extra integration and senior technical architect. He computer systems. At the end of that project, time the past four years to watch his daughter, oversees all the administrative computer sys- he received a 2006 Staff Excellence Award. Lauren, play basketball for the Rambelles. tems, including the student system, finance, Sefcik served as president of the ASU Clayton and Diane also have two other adult human resources and financial aid. Under his Alumni Association from 1997-99. During children, Brandi and Shannon. watchful eye, the campus community con- his tenure, the LeGrand Alumni and Visitors Besides Clayton and Lauren, five other stantly utilizes those systems that many just Center project evolved. members of the Weishuhn family have take for granted. But, Sefcik doesn’t mind. His wife, Sherry, is an ASU alumna. played sports at ASU. Clayton’s brothers, “There are a lot of good people who work They have three children, Jordan, Kristen Darryl and Doyle, played football and Lau- here,” Sefcik said. “It’s easy to come to work and Joshua. ren’s cousins, Chase and Paige, currently because you are going to end up laughing “ASU has defined me and I think I would play basketball at ASU. Chase’s and Paige’s with somebody and really enjoying the peo- bleed blue and gold if somebody cut me,” brother, Trey, played quarterback for the ple you work with. So, it’s not hard to roll out Sefcik said. “It has been a big part of my Rams through the 2006 season. For their of bed and come to work in the mornings.” life and I’ve got two kids coming here now. I contributions to ASU sports, the Weishuhn A 1984 ASU graduate, Sefcik was one of feel very strongly about the school having at- Jeff Sefcik clan was honored as the ASU Athletic Fam- the first Carr Scholarship recipients in 1981. tended as a student and working here as long . ily of the Year in 2006. Sefcik also received his M.B.A. from ASU as I have.” .

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Col. Sarah L. Garcia is drawn to Garcia’s military experience includes For almost 40 years, Dr. Alan Bloebaum to teach one more class in the spring of leadership roles because they allow her to being a deployed commander in Southwest dedicated his professional life to helping 2008. He is also an active member of the have a positive impact on people’s lives Asia for one year. ASU students achieve their dreams of going ASU Alumni Association. and careers. “Being a commander in the war zone to medical school and now, even in retire- For his many years of past and pres- In her 25 years with the Air Force, Gar- area was very challenging, probably the most ment, he continues to support the university. ent service, Bloebaum has been named the cia has risen through the ranks and is now difficult yet most rewarding,” Garcia said. After spending time as a pre-dental stu- Alumni Association’s 2009 Distinguished commander of the 6th Field Investigations She also made an impact when she was put dent and two years in medical school, Bloe- Retired Faculty. Region at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. in charge of starting up a new international of- baum turned to teaching as a career and “It is one thing to get up there and read In recognition of her Air Force service and fice at Headquarters NATO. She and another found an ASU opening that fitted his unique notes to students, which I didn’t do,” Bloe- her many achievements, Garcia is the 2009 Air Force member were able to affect policy combination of talent and experience. baum said. “But, it’s another thing to wan- ASU Distinguished ROTC Alumnus. and the advancement of women in the NATO “They needed a jack of all trades, mas- der around the room, look them in the eyes, Upon graduation from ASU in 1984, armed forces in several countries. That office ter of none kind of person,” Bloebaum and see that they understand and join in the Garcia started as a second lieutenant in the is still operating in Brussels, Belgium. said. “Someone to come in and teach a lot learning. I’ll miss that interaction and I’ll Air Force. She said her ROTC experience Now, as a commander, one of Garcia’s of things, teach my specialty of parasitol- miss advising the health professions students at ASU helped her build character, hone her favorite things to do is visit airmen and ogy, fill in for microbiology, medical-type because I was good at it. We had a lot of suc- interpersonal skills and make her aware of talk to them. Having motivated and dedi- courses and physiology, and develop some cess and it really helped the students.” humanitarian efforts. cated people is essential to being an effec- courses. So, they handed me the job.” Also the recipient of the Alumni As- “My senior year was the best because I tive leader, she said. In ROTC, she learned A member of the biology faculty from sociation’s first-ever Distinguished Faculty was senior ranking and could help mold the about the importance of teamwork and that 1971-2007, Bloebaum shaped ASU’s pre- Achievement Award, Bloebaum holds a Sarah Garcia younger cadets,” Garcia said. “I’ve essen- is something she still stresses. health program that consistently main- bachelor’s degree from the University of Alan Bloebaum tially done that my whole career, as others Garcia’s parents and her extended fam- tained one of the highest medical school Texas and his Ph.D. from New Mexico have helped me.” ily still live in San Angelo. . acceptance rates in the state, a legacy that State University. continues today using his blueprint for Bloebaum and his wife, Laura, have two success. He was so popular with students daughters, Gretchen and Heidi, who are that they talked him out of retirement both ASU graduates. . Golden Ex of the Year Long History with ASU

Angelo State University and San Angelo After the war, Olsak completed his edu- College have played a big part in LeRoy cation at Texas Tech, earning a bachelor’s Olsak’s life as he and many family mem- degree in agricultural engineering. He bers have roots here. worked for Texas Electric Service Co. for Olsak, the ASU Alumni Association’s 38 years in the Big Spring/Lamesa district 2009 Golden Ex, attended San Angelo Col- as customer representative, district com- lege in 1940-41 and his late wife, Sally, mercial manager and local manager. graduated from SAC in 1944. Olsak said he was proud to be an ASU “A lot of my family and friends have gone alumnus and was thrilled when ASU joined here and to Texas Tech,” Olsak said, “so we the Texas Tech University System in 2007. have a lot of connections to those schools.” The timing was ideal to present the newly “SAC was a small enough communi- published history of the Red Raider Bomb ty college where you knew everybody,” Group, The Revenge of the Red Raiders, to Olsak said. “It was highly respected with ASU’s West Texas Collection and TTU’s a good administration and classes that Southwest Collection in memory of his were thorough.” classmates who died in World War II. Olsak transferred to Texas Tech in 1941 Olsak and Sally, who passed away in 2005, but had to put his education on hold to join moved back to San Angelo in 1985 to care for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War their pecan orchard near Eldorado where they LeRoy Olsak II. As a bomber pilot, he flew 20 missions won many awards for their pecans. Earlier in the Pacific Theater with, coincidentally, this year, he completed a 10-year term as a the Red Raider Bomb Group. director of the Texas Pecan Board. . Bloebaum in trademark suspenders

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Instead, what he found encouraged him grandfather had his leg amputated due to “It has certainly been quite a year,” to stay three decades in the ASU Depart- circulatory problems. I learned at an early Sunderman said. ment of Government. age that life goes on and that a disabil- A 22-year veteran of the Department “When I first came, I had never heard ity wasn’t something that had to stop you of Accounting, Economics and Finance, of San Angelo,” Olson said. “I debated from living.” Sunderman actually started his career coming here, but I liked the people, the That positive outlook and can-do atti- as a band and music instructor, teach- teaching orientation of the school and the tude helped Price earn the Distinguished ing in Ohio public schools, at Nebraska- camaraderie within the department. My Faculty Achievement Award from the Col- Wesleyan University and at Texas A&M- colleagues became my friends.” lege of Education. Kingsville. But, after 16-years as a music The veteran professor has made a last- “It’s been neat for me,” Price said, “be- teacher, he got his M.B.A. and M.P.A. and ing impact on his department and is cited cause I have been able to look at the ex- began chapter two of his teaching career by former students like Kelby Hagar, presi- ercise physiology and biomechanics side – in accounting. Bonnie Amos Harriet Lewis Ed Olson Kathleen Price Norm Sunderman dent and chief executive officer of Digital of why a person with cerebral palsy walks “There were more opportunities in ac- Witness, LLC, and a Harvard Law School that way or look at muscular dystrophy or counting than there were in teaching clari- graduate, for his guidance. mental retardation characteristics and what net,” Sunderman said. “Plus, I’ve always For the Love of Nature wildflowers while telling me their names That dedication has garnered Lewis “I took a lot of classes from Dr. Olson,” implications they have in terms of exercise been a numbers person, even way back a Winning awards is becoming a habit for and interesting things about them,” the ASU Alumni Association’s 2009 Hagar said. “He was always helpful and a or mechanics of walking.” long time ago when I was a music major.” biology professor Dr. Bonnie Amos. Amos said. “My parents both loved the Distinguished Faculty Achievement good adviser.” Price also focuses on physical edu- However, music has remained a big Already the recipient of the 2008 outdoors and my dad was an avid hunter Award for the College of Nursing and For his efforts supporting students, cation for elementary school where she part of Sunderman’s life. After playing for ASU Teaching Excellence Award, Amos and fisherman, so I was often outside Allied Health. Olson was named the 2009 Distinguished teaches kinesiology students to look at age, the Lincoln (Nebraska) and Corpus Christi was named a Piper Distinguished Pro- with him. I think that early introduc- “There are people who have been on Faculty Achievement Award recipient from developmentally appropriate activities and Symphonies, he has spent the last 22 years fessor this spring by the Minnie Stevens tion to nature made a big difference in campus a lot longer who might be more the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. classroom management techniques. as a member of the San Angelo Symphony. Piper Foundation in recognition of her my interest in nature and appreciation of deserving,” Lewis said. “So, I was com- Despite recent challenges to higher “We look at what you do to get kids His wife of 45-years, Carolyn, is a retired outstanding achievements in the teach- plants and animals.” pletely blown away by being selected and education, Olson said he has had a satisfy- broken out into teams,” she said. “We also music teacher. ing profession. In addition to being one Amos holds her bachelor’s and master’s I am just thrilled to be the first one from ing career and plans to continue molding teach classroom teachers to use tasks that Sunderman holds a bachelor’s degree of the top statewide honors for professors degrees from ASU and her Ph.D. from the this college.” young minds. give kids a chance to get up, wiggle and from Bowling Green State University, mas- in higher education, the Piper designation University of Oklahoma. She shares her Her impact on PT education also ex- Besides leading the Government De- move a little bit.” ter’s and doctoral degrees in music from carries with it a $5,000 honorarium. Dove Creek home with four rescued dogs, tends beyond ASU. In March, Lewis partment, Olson also helped develop Price received her bachelor’s and mas- the University of Michigan, and his M.B.A. Now, she can add the ASU Alumni Dottie, Lucy, Rosie and Sugar. was appointed to the American Physical the ASU Honors Program. From 1993 ter’s degrees from Baylor University and and M.P.A. from Texas A&M-Kingsville. Association’s 2009 Distinguished Faculty Therapy Association’s Clinical Instruc- through 2008, he directed, or co-directed then taught and coached at several public He and Carolyn have a son, Kurt, who is an . Achievement Award for the College of Sci- Classroom and Clinic tion Education Board, which oversees the with Dr. Sharynn Tomlin, 13 study-abroad schools before coming to ASU in 1991. investment banker in Chicago. ences to her list of honors. Harriet Lewis has spent the last decade Clinical Instructor Education and Creden- programs in Europe with an average of 23 She received her Ph.D. with an emphasis A member of the ASU Biology De- making sure ASU physical therapy stu- tialing Program (CIECP). She is the only students per year. in exercise physiology and biomechanics partment since 1987, Amos spent 13 years dents get the clinical training they need instructor in Texas and one of only 49 in Before coming to ASU, Olson was a in 1992 from Texas Woman’s University. as department head before stepping down to succeed. the U.S. qualified to teach the advanced lecturer and teaching assistant at the Uni- to concentrate on teaching and research. The State College, Pa., native joined CIECP program. versity of California–Davis, where he re- By the Numbers She is also curator of the Angelo State the ASU faculty in 1999 after 27 years in Lewis earned her B.S. from Baylor, ceived his doctorate in 1978. He earned The awards just keep rolling in for account- Natural History Collections’ Herbarium, clinical practice. As the PT Department’s her PT certificate from the University his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the ing professor Dr. Norm Sunderman. which contains more than 60,000 plant academic coordinator of clinical educa- of Texas Southwestern Medical School University of California–Santa Barbara. For the third time in 18 months, Sun- specimens from Texas, the U.S. and tion, Lewis finds facilities where students and her M.S. from Texas Tech. She and derman is receiving accolades for his around the world. get their clinical training. She prepares her husband, Preston, have two children. Learning to Adapt teaching ability, having been named re- “It’s amazing to be able to study a plant both students and the clinical therapists Their son Scott, daughter-in-law Celeste Dr. Kathleen Price never planned to teach cipient of the ASU Alumni Association’s that lived a hundred years ago or grew in a for the experience. Lewis also teaches and granddaughter Hannah live in An- adaptive physical education even though 2009 Distinguished Faculty Achievement habitat that no longer exists,” Amos said. “I classes in documentation, clinical prac- chorage. Their daughter Melissa Kemp, she knew about it through friends in the Award for the College of Business. would want to work there even if it wasn’t tice and practical skills. son-in-law John and granddaughter Cora profession and because her grandfather The latest award completes a trifecta part of my responsibilities.” “I enjoy interacting with the stu- reside in Round Rock. needed it. of honors for Sunderman, who also won a While she credits an ASU taxonomy dents and finding ways to engage them The Wisconsin native got up to speed 2007-08 “Rammy” Award for Teacher of class for piquing her interest in botany, in different topics,” Lewis said. “I also Finding a Home quickly, however, when she learned she the Year in the College of Business and the Amos’ love of nature goes back to her ear- enjoy watching them when they discover Dr. Ed Olson came to Angelo State 30 would be teaching that area of kinesiology 2008 Outstanding Accounting Educator ly childhood. things, when they really ‘get it.’ Some- years ago to spend two years getting some at ASU. Award for small colleges and universities “My grandmother would walk me times you can almost see the light bulbs teaching experience before moving on to a Price said, “I was familiar with it from the Texas Society of Certified Public around their property and show me the coming on.” bigger university. because when I was seven years old my Accountants (CPAs).

28 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 29 the nationally televised competition, placing eighth, and qualified for the U.S. Team for Eighth is the Thorpe Cup, held in August in Frank- furt, Germany. The Rambelles found themselves in po- sition to contend for the national title in the Enough final race, thanks to a pair of senior throw- ers. Adree Lakey earned All-America hon- For the 25th time in university his- ors in all four throwing disciplines, includ- tory, the Angelo State men’s track and field ing a national championship in the shot put team recorded a top 10 finish in the NCAA with a school-record throw of 52’10”, while Division II Outdoor Track and Field Na- Culley Jo Dawson was a three-time All- tional Championships. American at the meet. Lakey became just This year they did it before a home the second female in NCAA D-II history to crowd, finishing eighth at the LeGrand collect career national titles in three differ- Sports Complex as Angelo State hosted ent throwing events, including the hammer the national meet for the fifth time. ASU throw as a sophomore and the discus throw was well represented at the championships, last year. She was named a finalist for the sending 13 Ram athletes, the third-most by NCAA D-II Female Athlete of the Year after any school this season. Seven Rams earned the national meet. All-America honors as the team collected Lakey ended the meet as the top individ- 27 points and recorded ASU’s highest finish ual scorer, picking up 29 points on her own, since placing sixth in 2002, the last time the while Adams was second with 26 points, university hosted the event. giving the Rambelles one of the best combi- “We are extremely excited of how our Adree Lakey nations in meet history. Dawson ended the men finished,” said head coach James Reid. Photo by Danny Meyer meet with 10 points. “It was only the fifth time in school history In all, nine Rambelles collected All- that both the men and women finished in the by Dave Wester America honors. Byrd earned recognition in top 10. Our goal every year is to get into the both the 100- and 200-meter dashes, placing top 10, so we are very pleased.” eighth in both events. Nussey added a fifth- Senior Ryan McWilliams, who missed place finish in the long jump. Junior Chrystal the 2008 season due to injury, shone for the Ruiz earned All-America recognition in the Rams, earning All-America honors in three Photo Finish 400 hurdles with a seventh-place finish but events – the decathlon, 110-meter hurdles and placed just out of the points in the heptathlon. 4x400-meter relay. In the decathlon he be- A mere three points were all that ended up in second place, the highest finish scheduled to run at the national meet due to Junior Kris Crockett and sophomore Sara came ASU’s third-ever three-time All-Amer- separated the Angelo State women’s track in school history. With 85 points, Lincoln her already full slate that included a second- Hooker each picked up honors after running ican with a runner-up finish, just 377 points and field team from the national title at the collected its sixth title in seven years. place finish in the 400-meter hurdles earlier in the prelims of the 4x400 relay. shy of becoming ASU’s third athlete to claim 2009 NCAA Division II National Champi- “We wanted to be No. 1,” said ASU that afternoon. Prior to the national meet, the Ram- a national title in the event. Fellow senior onships before a friendly home crowd at the head coach James Reid, “but we don’t want A day earlier, Adams had claimed a belles earned their third Lone Star Con- Chase Moore added a sixth-place finish in the LeGrand Sports Complex in May. it to take away from an extremely success- national championship in the heptathlon ference title in school history, tallying a decathlon, giving ASU two All-Americans in Even so, the Rambelle’s scored a school ful meet. It was a little disappointing know- and had added another second-place fin- meet-record 331 points and outdistancing the event for the third time in school history. record 82 points and came within 1.52 sec- ing that we were so close to a national title, ish in the long jump two days earlier. She rival Abilene Christian by 156 points, the McWilliams also finished seventh in onds of winning their first championship in but we had a lot of school records that went had also competed in the triple jump, high largest margin of victory in the 27 years the 110-meter hurdles while senior Jeremy the final event of one of the most exciting down this season. When we look back, jump and 100-meter hurdles during the of the event. ASU had the top seven point Jones placed fourth in the 400-meter hur- D-II finishes in years. there’s nothing to feel badly about.” three-day meet. scorers in the meet and had 17 individu- dles and junior James Howell became just Going into the last race of the competi- Adams, who was named the NCAA D-II “Whatever role I needed to play in the als earn all-conference honors. The Ram- the third-ever All-American for the Rams tion, the Rambelles trailed perennial power- National Female Field Athlete of the Year final race, I was willing to do,” Adams said. belles brought home 10 individual confer- in the 400-meter dash, placing seventh. house Lincoln University by just one point as on the eve of the national meet and who four “If I wasn’t running, I would have been in ence titles, including four by Adams, and Sophomore Tyler Orlando gave the Rams both teams lined up for the 4x400-meter relay. weeks later was featured in Sports Illus- the stands cheering my lungs out.” one relay crown. their first All-American in the javelin throw Even though ASU’s All-America foursome trated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section, was Adams’ already impressive sophomore Reid, who was named the LSC Women’s in more than 10 years with a seventh-place of junior Daunyae Harris, junior Celethia called upon to run the final race after com- season was extended into the summer Coach of the Year for the sixth time in his ca- finish. By placing fourth in the 4x400-meter

Byrd, sophomore Aisha Adams and junior peting in six events earlier in the weekend. months as she qualified in the heptathlon reer, was honored as the NCAA D-II National relay, McWilliams, Jones, Howell, sopho- Meyer Danny by Photo Andria Nussey ran a school-record 3:41.38 in She ran the third leg of the 4x400 relay even for the U.S. Outdoor National Champion- Women’s Track and Field Coach of the Year. more Brian Holik and freshman Terence the event, they finished 1.53 seconds behind though it was an event that she had seldom ships, June 25-28, in Eugene, Ore. There Assistant coach Tom Dibbern was named Na- Holland, who ran in the prelims, all gar- . . Lincoln’s time of 3:39.45. The Rambelles run during the season and one she was not she scored a personal-best 5,636 points at tional Assistant Coach of the Year. nered All-America honors as well. Ryan McWilliams

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The call came in the wee hours of the Rambelles’ volleyball locker room in ing to get family members and teammates ance at the Texas Wesleyan tournament to preview an October morning 30 years ago, but it still the Junell Center/Stephens Arena. here for the ceremony.” attend the funerals. While the Rambelles rings in the memory of Kathleen Brasfield “We always wanted to do some kind Borron and Cooke, along with Todd were victorious over Lubbock Christian in for it was the phone call that no head coach of tribute to them but the Center for Hu- Carlisle of San Angelo and Michael Stucky their next two matches, Brasfield noticed in their – or parent – ever wants to receive. man Performance building did not have a of Peabody, Kan., had flown to Sonora for the desire was gone. Two members of her second Angelo suitable space,” Brasfield said. “One of the dinner. They were on their way back to San “Getting back on the court was hard Memory State volleyball squad gone. Forever. first things we did when we moved into the Angelo when the Cessna 182 plane, believed for everyone, including myself,” she said. Beverly Borron, a sophomore from Im- Junell Center in 2002 was honor Beverly to have been piloted by Carlisle, crashed “While we had some players step up and perial, and Jennifer Cooke, a junior from and Jennifer.” shortly after takeoff from Sonora Regional take a leadership role, the accident still took After their tragic deaths, an endow- COACH: Chuck Waddington nd Odessa, had perished in an airplane crash Learning of the darkest day in ASU vol- Airport at 9:30 p.m. that Oct. 23. Borron, the wind out of their sails. The spirit was ment was established at Angelo State (2 year, 20-14 overall and at ASU) in Sonora. leyball history, current head coach Chuck Cooke and Stucky were pronounced dead at not there when we came back.” University in the memory of Beverly th “One of the girl’s sisters called me Waddington, who begins his second season the scene while Carlisle died a week later. Brasfield not only understood but also Borron and Jennifer Cooke. LAST YEAR: 20-14 (8-5, t-5 in LSC) around 3 a.m. to let me know,” recalled at the ASU helm this fall, decided to honor Jodi Grant Gibson, who had played on shared their feelings. After all, Borron had Each year, monies from the Jen- Brasfield, then a second-year ASU volleyball their memory in a more public way. As part the 1978 team with Borron and Cooke before arrived at ASU the same year as Brasfield, nifer Cooke – Beverly Borron Memo- OUTLOOK: Angelo State gained valuable coach and today the university’s director of of this year’s homecoming activities, the graduating from ASU, was beginning volley- who knew both very well, having coached rial Scholarship endowment assist a experience last season under first-year head athletics. “I knew I needed to start calling volleyball team will hold a remembrance ball practice at John Glenn Middle School in against them in high school. current or incoming volleyball player coach Chuck Waddington. Off of their first the team immediately. I did not want them ceremony in the VIP Room of the Junell San Angelo when she heard the news. “Something like that makes you re- with her educational needs. Lone Star Conference Tournament appear- to first hear about it on the news.” Center Saturday, Oct. 10, after the match “It was horrendous for the team, the think what is really important,” Brasfield Individuals wishing to make a do- ance in four years, the ’Belles look to build Nor did Brasfield want Borron’s and against Texas Woman’s. school and the families,” Gibson said. said. “Before the accident, I mentioned to nation to the endowment in memory upon the successes of 2008 and reach the Cooke’s memory forgotten. The next season “We are inviting all former Rambelles “They were both full of life and funny. Now a friend that God was testing me. Coaches of Borron and Cooke should contact next level. Angelo State permanently retired their jer- back to San Angelo to participate in an that I am an air traffic controller, it makes it are not supposed to bury their players just the ASU Office of Development by sey numbers, Borron’s No. 16 and Cooke’s open gym before the match,” Waddington more tragic because of my knowledge of the like parents are not supposed to bury their phone at (325) 942-2116 or by e-mail TOP RETURNEES: Five starters from last No. 24. Their framed jerseys along with said. “After the match there will be a re- air traffic system.” children. After the accident, I found out at [email protected]. season’s squad will return. Seniors Kimber plaques in their honor today hang outside ception and special ceremony. We are try- The team missed its scheduled appear- what a real test was.” . Duncan and Alaina Sivells, both second team All-LSC selections, will lead the way while senior Adrienne Taylor and sopho- more Kayla Smith will provide the leader- ship that Coach Waddington seeks.

TOP NEWCOMERS: Of the 11 new faces donning ASU uniforms, three could make an immediate impact. Alex Allard, a junior transfer from Laredo Community College, inherits the setter position after redshirt- ing in 2008. Freshman outside hitter Claire Chomout arrived at ASU in the spring, hav- ing graduated from Dripping Springs High School in December, and worked with the team during spring workouts. Freshman middle blocker/outside hitter Kaitlyn Stan- dard will not have far to travel to play col- legiately, having lettered four years at San Angelo’s Central High School.

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The 2009 Rams baseball team posted Junior designated hitter Keith Towne Rambelles Unleashed ASU’s second-best season in wins and and junior utility player Chris Adamson made the university’s fourth straight trip to both picked up second team All-America recap the postseason. honors while senior pitcher Kenny Elkind The Rams finished the 2009 campaign received an honorable mention nod. Towne, with a 45-20 record and second-place fin- the South Central Region Player of the Year, ishes in both the Lone Star Conference reg- hit 26 home runs to set a new school and ular season and in the LSC Championship conference record while Adamson led the Tournament. The Rams were rewarded with Rams with a .409 average and a school re- the school’s second-ever berth in the NCAA cord 26-game hitting streak. Elkind led the South Central Regional Tournament, ad- ASU pitching staff with 10 wins, six com- vancing to the semifinals. plete games and 88 strikeouts. “It was a very good year. We fought and Five other Rams were honored with LSC competed all year long and won some big postseason recognition. Senior catcher Trey games along the way,” head coach Kevin Carter was named to the first team while se-

Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo Brooks said. “We lost one of our top pitch- nior pitcher Joe Key, junior outfielder Isaac Photo by Tim Lester Tim by Photo ers and top hitters midway through the Garcia, infielder Austin Lasprilla and fresh- Lester Tim by Photo season, but we battled through it. We con- man pitcher Craig Blair were tabbed as sec-

Macy Baker Laura Lopez tinuously showed resiliency and our seniors ond team selections. Blair was also named Keith Towne displayed tremendous leadership.” the league’s Freshman of the Year. .

The 2009 Angelo State softball team used Senior shortstop Macy Baker and se- Photo by Jeremy Enlow 91 home runs to collect a third 50-win sea- nior catcher Laura Lopez hit the long ball son and make a third trip to the NCAA as well. Lopez slugged 18 home runs, in- Division II National Championship, where cluding a school- and LSC-record three in they finished third in the country. a single game. Baker ended her final sea- The Rambelles’ school and conference son with second team All-America honors record homer tally was the third-most in and 17 homers, finishing her career with 39 Golf Awakens D-II history and lifted ASU to a second home runs and 220 runs batted in, plus 265 straight Lone Star Conference title, its hits, the most-ever by a Rambelle. When the Angelo State women’s golf team began practice last fall, co-head fourth in seven years, and the third NCAA “We will truly miss our two seniors,” coaches Jason Hase and Jimmy Tidwell knew the team was going to be D-II South Central Region title in the pro- Scott said, “but we have high expectations competitive and would open a few eyes. They were right. gram’s eight-year history. for another great season of ASU softball After the spring season was done, the Rambelles had garnered top-five “What a special season this was for our in 2010.” finishes in eight of the nine tournaments, including two team titles. Junior student-athletes,” head coach Travis Scott As a team, ASU found itself in the re- Raelyn Smith represented ASU in the NCAA D-II West Regional Tournament said. “Our team chemistry and competi- cord book as well, blasting an NCAA D-II in the individual competition, earning a third-place finish and a trip to the tive nature created some memorable ex- record nine home runs in a 19-9 win over national championships. Battling the elements, she plodded her way to a tie for periences that these athletes will hold onto West Texas A&M on March 22. ninth in the individual standings and earned All-America honors. Smith also forever. I am very proud of the manner in James and Baker were joined by sopho- received league recognition as an All-LSC first team selection. which these young ladies represented An- more second baseman Alix Dean as first “For a first-year program,” said Tidwell, “we have a lot to be proud of. gelo State University.” team all-conference picks while Lopez, Two team wins and an individual making it to the national championship Five players hit 10 or more home runs along with junior pitcher Chelsea Nel- says it all. Returning all players with an additional three will only make us this season, but first baseman Sandy James, son and junior Megan Pumphrey, earned stronger next year.” the LSC South Division’s Freshman of the second-team honors. Dean, who picked up The Rambelles began the season with a fourth-place finish in their first Year, captured most of the attention, even third team All-America honors, was also two events, followed that up with back-to-back team titles at the Schreiner appearing in the May edition of NCAA On recognized for her efforts in the classroom Classic in Kerrville and at the Cactus Thaw in Silver City, N.M., and ended Campus, which aired on ESPN Classic. The as she was named the LSC South’s Aca- the regular season with a fifth-place finish at the LSC Championships. second team All-American belted 25 home demic Player of the Year. Individually, two golfers earned medalist honors in tournaments. Smith runs, the third-highest total ever in NCAA The Rambelles, ranked No. 1 for five took the top spot in five events while freshman Megan Cisneroz tied Smith D-II and the most-ever by a freshman at any straight weeks during the season, ended the in the medalist standings at the Cactus Thaw. . level. James added 21 doubles this season, year with a 50-10 record after advancing to breaking that ASU record as well. the national semifinals. . Raelyn Smith

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In an instant, Josh Neiswander’s coming the season without him. A devoted team out party was over. member, Neiswander made every road trip The Texas State University crowd of with the squad, spending time both on the Football preview nearly 14,000 fell silent in the waning mo- sideline and in the coaching booth, serving by Dave Wester ments of the 2008 season opener in San as a mentor for the two freshmen who were COACH: Dale Carr les with a team-best six quarterback Marcos when the Angelo State junior quar- called upon to take his place. (5th year, 17-26 overall and at ASU) hurries. Junior Cody Smith returns to terback went down as he tried to lead his “I love football and it is part of who I anchor the defensive line after leading team to one of the biggest upsets in recent am,” Neiswander said. “I prayed a lot and LAST YEAR: 3-8 the Rams in sacks. history. He failed to get up from a hard embraced my new role. It’s definitely easier (3-6, 9th in LSC; 1-5, 6th in LSC South) tackle and had to be carted off the field. to play than to coach someone else, espe- TOP NEWCOMERS: Junior wide “I first thought I had a concussion as I hit cially when you wish you could be on the OUTLOOK: With his largest group out V’Keon Lacey and junior fullback my head so hard on the turf,” Neiswander field. I earned a lot of respect for the coach- of upper classmen since his arrival, Johnathan Norcott will be the top offen- said. “A couple seconds later my leg started ing staff during the season.” head coach Dale Carr is excited about sive newcomers Lacey spent last season hurting and I could tell it was snapped. I Neiswander returned to the field in the the upcoming season and looks to as a starter at Cisco Junior College while knew right then that I was done.” spring. Able to start running in December, break a string of three straight losing Norcott comes to ASU after two years at Until that painful realization, Neiswander he was at full strength when spring drills campaigns. Eleven seniors and 26 Dean College (Mass.). On the defense, stood within an arm’s throw of the Rams’ first came around in April. He didn’t miss a beat juniors will bring maturity to a pro- junior transfers Cornelius Rosenbaum win over an NCAA Division I opponent since during the off-season workouts and made gram that looks to get back atop the and Devin McDonald will bolster a 1997, a 24-17 victory at Sam Houston State. everyone forget about his injury during the Lone Star Conference. solid returning defensive line while red- After all, Neiswander had already tossed team’s annual spring game. shirt freshmen Austin Benson from Del two touchdown passes to overcome an early “I was ready to get back to work,” Neis- TOP RETURNERS: The return of Rio and Shiloh Hickman from Houston seven-point deficit and take a 14-7 advantage wander said. “We had a great spring as a junior quarterback Josh Neiswander (Westfield) will add speed and size to the midway through the third quarter. The Bob- team and that was more important than me and sophomore running back Michael linebacking corps. Redshirt freshman cats, however, had answered with a pair of having a good month. I really started to get Simpers is much anticipated. After Alvin Johnson will provide more stabil- fourth-quarter scores, and ASU trailed 21-14 my confidence back when everything was being injured in the season opener last ity in the Ram defensive backfield. when Neiswander’s went back to pass. clicking around me. It felt good.” fall, Neiswander is set to take back The Winnsboro native rolled to his right As a sophomore in 2008, Neiswander the role of starting signal caller. Also NEW FACE: Russell Gaskamp was to hit wide out Sam Tindol for 14 yards be- started all 10 games for the Rams after sidelined with injury last fall, Simpers hired in the offseason to take on the fore being tackled from behind by Bobcat making five back up appearances as a fresh- is now ready to take over where all- role of offensive line coach. Gaskamp defensive lineman Wellington Deshield and man. He averaged more than 190 passing conference tailback Daniel Thomas comes to ASU after spending the past breaking his left leg. The Rams’ 21-14 deficit yards per game with seven touchdowns as a left off. Defensively, the Rams return three seasons as the offensive coordina- would stand, even if Neiswander could not. sophomore. Before suffering injury against four of their top seven tacklers, in- tor at Southwestern Oklahoma. In his That night in his hospital room he re- Texas State, he had tossed for 213 yards and cluding senior linebackers Ian Ritchey playing days at the University of Texas, ceived several encouraging text messages two touchdowns. Now at 22 years of age and and Edward Cantrell. Ritchey led the he was an All-Big 12 selection, block- from teammates. At that moment he decided thanks to a medical hardship granted to him Rams with 71 stops, including 10 for ing for Heisman Trophy winner Ricky that he was not going to be defined by his in- by the NCAA, Neiswander is poised to take losses, while Cantrell added 56 tack- Williams as a senior. jury. He would prove that he was more than the reins of the Rams in his second “junior” a “one-trick pony.” He still had his faith guid- season. He’ll wrap up his playing career in 2009 SCHEDULE ing him, and he was, after all, a student first. 2010, just in time to put his M.B.A. to work, August 29 Texas A&M-Commerce 6 p.m. Neiswander focused on the classroom unless he gets the opportunity to play foot- September 5 at Texas State 6 p.m. and was rewarded in May with a bachelor’s ball professionally. September 12 Southwestern Oklahoma 6 p.m. degree in business administration. He’s now “The way I look at it, I have an extra September 19 at East Central 6 p.m. working toward his M.B.A., which he will year to get more physical,” Neiswander September 26 Midwestern State (Family Day) 6 p.m. complete in December 2010. said. “I would love to get paid to play foot- October 3 at Eastern New Mexico 3 p.m. “I was already on track to graduate, ball. That is my ultimate dream. It’s like but I wasn’t going to let this injury slow graduating high school and instead of be- October 10 Abilene Christian (Homecoming) 6 p.m. me down,” Neiswander said. “The first few ing done, you get to go back and play an October 17 at Southeastern Oklahoma 2 p.m. October 24 at West Texas A&M 6 p.m.

Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo weeks were rough because of the crutches extra year. But when my football career is and the pain meds, but it got easier.” over I know I’ve got a great education and October 31 Tarleton State (Military Appreciation Day) 6 p.m. But what didn’t get easier was watch- I’ll be ready to take on any other challeng- November 7 at Texas A&M-Kingsville 7 p.m. Josh Neiswander ing his teammates play the remainder of es that may be in my way.” .

36 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 37 Soccer Preview Briefly COACH: Travis McCorkle LSC Hall of Honor Making nd (2 year, 10-7-3 overall and at ASU) Joshua K. Owusu, who ran track for the Rams from 1971-74 and became ASU’s first track and field Olympian, has been named a 2009 inductee into LAST YEAR: 10-7-3 the Lone Star Conference Hall of Honor. Connections (4-4-2, t-7th in LSC) By the time Owusu graduated from ASU, he had become a nine-time OUTLOOK: After missing the Lone Star All-American and holder of the top six all-time ASU performances in the Conference Tournament for the first time in long jump and triple jump. During his collegiate career, Owusu collected six seasons, Angelo State will look to return three national titles in each event while ASU was a member of the Na- to the postseason with a mix of seasoned tional Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). To this day Owusu veterans and highly-touted newcomers. holds the ASU records for the triple jump (54’1.75”) and the long jump (26’10.75”). TOP RETURNEES: Midfielder Chris- Owusu will be recognized for his selection into the LSC Hall of Honor tian Willman and forward Jennifer Bu- during halftime of ASU’s Sept. 26 Family Day game against Midwestern kowski, both seniors, will lead the front State. Previously, he was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1990 and line for a squad that finished fifth in the the ASU Athletics Hall of Honor in 2006. league in points and goals per game. Se- A native of Ghana, Owusu represented his home country in the 1972 nior defender Lucy Thompson and junior Munich games, finishing fourth in the long jump. Four years later, he was goalkeeper Melanie Peterson will anchor among the favorites in the long jump at the Montreal games but did not a defense that finished second in the LSC compete due to a last-minute boycott by the African nations. Travis McCorkle at family soccer clinic. with nine shutouts. Owusu becomes the eighth ASU inductee into the LSC Hall of Honor.

Photo by Tim Lester He joins Kyle Freeman (football/track, 2003); Phil George (coach, 1996); TOP NEWCOMERS: Twelve new faces Pierce Holt (football, 2000); Ed Messbarger (coach, 2006); Shirley Mor- will dot the Rambelles’ roster with three ton (administrator, 1997); David Noble (coach, 2004); and Lloyd Vincent ready to make an immediate impact. Ash- First, the team conducted a free fam- (administrator, 1999). hen Travis McCorkle be- ley Brown, a transfer from Iowa Western ily soccer clinic that drew more than 70 came head coach of the Community College, was one of the top spring participants and allowed parents to Council of Presidents Angelo State soccer team point collectors in the junior college ranks. join their children on the field in drills to in the spring of 2008, he realized some- Freshman midfielder Lauren Carnes is a ASU President Joseph C. Rallo has begun a one-year term as president of W sharpen soccer technique and skill. The thing was missing from the winning two-time all-district selection from Ama- the Council of Presidents for the Lone Star Conference. Rambelles then held their first-ever Easter women’s program. rillo High School. Freshman defender The LSC Council of Presidents, which meets twice annually, serves as Egg Hunt in April, inviting children from Despite inheriting a program that was a Lauren Sanders, an all-district honorable the governing board of the athletic conference and has final decision-mak- around the area to the soccer field for the perennial Lone Star Conference contender, mention from Plano’s John Paul II High ing authority regarding any legislation, policy or activity pertaining to the free event. McCorkle discovered the links between the School, will look to fill the void left by conference and its member institutions. “I felt we needed to change the culture current players and both ASU soccer alumni the departure of four-year starters Amber Previously, Rallo served the council as second vice president for 2007- of the program,” McCorkle said. “First and the San Angelo community were lack- Korb and Marianne Glutz. 08 and first vice president for 2008-09. His term as president will run of all, I wanted players to enjoy their time ing. He set out to make connections. through June of 2010. . at ASU and feel like they would be wel- Under McCorkle’s leadership, the comed back when they were alumni. I Rambelles held their first-ever Alumni think we’ve made some great strides in Game in March, hosting nearly 20 former reaching out to groups that may not have players on campus. He also initiated two been reached before.” community projects that helped polish McCorkle’s commitment to the lo- the program’s image. cal area has carried over to recruiting. During his signing period this spring, he added five high school players from West Texas, including three from San Angelo. Eleven of his 12 newcomers this fall call Texas home. .

38 FALL 2009 Angelo State University Magazine Angelo State University Magazine FALL 2009 39 rom sounding the arrivals and businesses. Since 1978, the bell has been a departures of Santa Fe Railroad fixture at Rams football games, Homecom- steam engines to helping cel- ing parades and other university and frater- Febrate ASU Rams touchdowns, the Spirit nity functions. Bell has been a West Texas tradition for “It got to be where, if the town saw that more than 60 years. bell, they knew it had be something to do With ASU now part of the Texas Tech with ASU,” Bird said University System, it is also fitting that the Through all that exposure, though, the Each issue of the Angelo State University Magazine will highlight selected alumni original idea of obtaining the bell and using bell has seen its share of wear and tear. In and then invite readers to visit the Angelo State University Alumni Association it to spur school spirit came from a Texas 1980, the cast iron yoke had to be repaired Web site for the latest on your former classmates. To learn more about Angelo Tech transfer student and was modeled after after the trailer flipped over on its way to the State alumni, visit asuexes.com. Better yet, see what your friends are up to and a Red Raider tradition. Homecoming Bonfire, landing the bell in a then update the site with news about you, your family and your accomplishments. “During a Sig Ep (Sigma Phi Epsilon vacant lot off Jackson Street. A later Sig Ep fraternity) pledge retreat, we came up with pledge class donated a custom vinyl cover that the idea of doing that for the active brothers,” has since deteriorated, and further repairs to 1977 said Randal Bird, the transfer student who the yoke and paint were undertaken in 2000. spearheaded the project. “So, very quietly Upkeep and repairs to the bell had been With his nomination by the President of the United States and in the spring of 1978, we went around town a Sig Ep responsibility since 1978, but when his confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Ronnie D. Hawkins Jr. and got the bell, then went to Hirschfeld the fraternity’s ASU chapter disbanded a becomes the first graduate of ASU’s AFROTC Detachment 847 Steel and a whole list of other people who couple years ago, it loaned the bell to the to achieve the rank of major general in the U.S. Air Force. gave us things for the project. We presented Block and Bridle Club. At the time of his appointment, Hawkins was director of infra- it in May of that semester.” “We asked for them to continue on with structure delivery, Office of Warfighting Integration, and chief That sounds easy, but getting their hands the tradition,” Bird said. “This fall will be information officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, at on a suitable bell was actually a formidable 31 years. People will call every once in the Pentagon. He was promoted to brigadier general in 2005. task. The Santa Fe Railroad had stopped us- awhile and ask how they are treating it, and ing them on their engines. they are doing fine.” Hawkins, a distinguished graduate of ASU’s AFROTC program, “They had searched all the way through Block and Bridle (B&B) now handles earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the univer- the national office in Chicago and they two of ASU’s longest-running football side- sity. His Air Force career has taken him to bases throughout couldn’t find one,” Bird said. “But, they did line traditions – the Spirit Bell and Dominic the United States and to recent tours in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. know of one and told us it had been given to the mascot. the Willeke family and it was in a chapel out “Block and Bridle and the Sig Eps al- on their land off the Mertzon Highway. They ways had a really good relationship, with said ‘if you go out and talk to her (June Willeke many students being members of both,” said Hudson), she might give it to you because the Dr. Mike Salisbury, B&B faculty adviser. chapel has not been used in a long time.’” “During games and pregame events, the “We went out and presented her the bell, like Dominic, becomes a focal point. plans on what we wanted to do with it, and Being responsible for both is a big honor.” she gave it to us,” he added. “So, we all Now under the auspices of the Block went out to the chapel and took it down.” and Bridle Club, though still owned by the Hudson donated the bell in memory of Sig Eps, the ASU Spirit Bell continues to Mr. and Mrs. Doc Willeke, long-time San celebrate every Rams touchdown and be a

Photo by Danny Meyer Danny by Photo Angelo ranchers. Bird’s Theta pledge class symbol of ASU school spirit and pride. used the blueprints from the Texas Tech bell “It has been 31 years out there and it to construct the trailer that still carries the continues to go on,” Bird said. “It is a real Spirit Bell, with materials donated by local tradition, our legacy, I guess.” .

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All as of July 10, 2009 egories. Institutions were divided into ing to increase its ties with Goodfel- three groups based upon the number low AFB and to provide more edu- donors of employees. ASU, which was clas- cational opportunities attuned to the sified as a medium-sized institution needs of the service men and women with 500-2,499 employees, was one stationed there. The university is Foundation Century Club Skip Foote, Chantilly, Va. Hector and Rebecca Cantu, Darryl and Robyn DeSeve, Valerie Lopez, Uvalde Steven Shelton, League City Wayne T. Franke, Austin San Angelo Manassas, Va. Dr. David and Judy Loyd, San Angelo Lt. Col. Lisa Shoemaker, of only four Texas institutions of its also establishing a new Center for FOUNDERS CIRCLE DIAMOND Col. (Ret) Kevin and Rita Gamache, Corina Casas, San Angelo Marvin and Janis Dierschke, Jane Lunn, Sandia Park, N.M. Bellevue, Neb. College Station Dr. Cornelius Chinn, San Angelo San Angelo Larry and Judy Lusby, Ballinger Steve and Linda Simmons, Bedford size to be recognized in the survey. Security Studies to address a grow- Mickey and Renee Long Randy and Debbie Dews, Dallas Arnold Garcia, Austin Scott and Cheri Cotton, San Angelo Gary and Angela Donaldson, Jared and Heather Marks, Mission Eddie Smith, Plano Lloyd and Sheri Norris Oscar and Corina Gomez, Southlake The survey polled almost 41,000 ing necessity in what at times seems Jim and Dana Glossbrenner, Dr. R. Danny Daniel, Carrollton San Angelo Gary and Gretchen Book Massingill, Guy Smith, Newark, Del. Mickey and Renee Long, Midland San Angelo John and Elaine Diggins, San Angelo Dr. Robert and Paula Dowler, Plainview Dr. Shivraj and Suzanne Sohur, faculty, staff and administrators na- to be a more insecure world. PILLARS CIRCLE Mark Low, Dallas Marc Gonzales and Karissa Mark and Pam Duncan, San Angelo San Angelo H. Dan and Judy Mathews, Houston Arlington, Mass. Alvin and Patricia New Mike Millegan, Basking Ridge, N.J. Willhite, Washington, D.C. Richie and Dara Eisenbach, Dr. Russell and Linda Dressen, Ryan Mathews, San Angelo Jess A. Stephens, Lubbock tionally for the 2009 recognition. “No group makes greater sacri- Jim and Marion Ratcliff Louie and Amy Perez, San Angelo Laren Green, San Angelo San Angelo Abilene Dr. Brian and Patti May, San Angelo Gary and Patty Stokes, San Angelo J. Milton and Terri Swift, Montgomery Angelo State was one of 10 Texas fices for our country than the men and David and JoNell Harlow, San Angelo Larisa Elliott, San Angelo Paxton Dunn, Allen Harold May, Spur Lauren and Tim Stone, Southlake SUSTAINERS Jay and Michelle Young, Dallas Ronny L. and Carol Harrison, Dane Green, San Angelo Jim and Diana Dyer, San Angelo Donna and Jason McCarver, George and Evelyn Strebeck, colleges or universities recognized in women of our armed services,” said Kyle Box San Angelo Sebastian and Carmen Guerrero, Dirk Dykstra, Carrizo Spring San Angelo San Angelo Ruby Crook any of the 26 categories. Rallo, himself a retired Air Force col- PLATINUM Gunn Haydon, San Angelo San Angelo Robbie and Amy Eckhoff, Alvin Sam P. McClellan, Bedford Willie Tambunga, Lewisville Willie Ruiz Eddie Bates, Beaumont Bryan and Renee Heflin, Monahans David and Leigh Heath, San Angelo Eric Etter, Boca Raton, Fla. Mark E. McClung, Austin Jimmy and Pamela Taylor, As of this past summer, Angelo onel. “We are pleased that this honor Jay and Michelle Young Terry Blair, San Angelo Joe and Su Henderson, San Angelo Jim Jones, San Angelo James and Tracy Farley, Lubbock Dr. Mack and Dixie McCoulskey, San Antonio Jeffrey and Debbie Brennan, Joey and Lezlye Henderson, John and Tamara Kinyon, San Angelo Cynthia Feagin, Sonora San Angelo Bill Taylor, Bryan State had 757 employees. Of those, tells all who have served that ASU Mill Creek, Wash. LeGrand Center San Angelo Tatina Mahanay, San Angelo Robert and Eileen Felton, Lakeway Dr. Dale and Ellen McDonald, Mark Taylor, Schertz Richmond 323 were faculty and the remaining will treat them with the respect and Larry Clark, David and Carol Herreman, Lewisville Joseph and Audrey Medley, Col. Ernest and Sharon Felts, San Angelo Phillip and Sharon Templeton, Randy Russell, Hamilton, Va. Dale and Joy Chase Dr. H. Lee Higdon III, Central, S.C. San Angelo San Angelo T. Dean and Lisa McInturff, San Angelo 434 were staff. gratitude they deserve as they contin- Frank and Brenda Sturzl, Lakeway Lloyd and Sheri Norris Joe and Jenny Hoelle, San Angelo Mark and Lisa Murphy, San Angelo Dr. Diane Fischer, Knoxville, Tenn. San Angelo Kimberly Thomas, San Antonio Joel and Suzanne Sugg, San Angelo “ASU Employees are willing to ue their education, whether as a ser- A-B Distributing Co. Felix and Yolanda Huerta, San Antonio Chad and Justina Reel, San Angelo Col. Dean and Janice Fox, Dean McIntyre, San Angelo Les Titus, Plano Virginia Hunt-Edmiston, Murphy Elvia Saborio, San Angelo Kaneohe, Hawaii Dr. Bill McKinney, San Angelo Larry Trantham, Fredericksburg ASU Nursing Department GOLDEN get involved in their jobs and in ex- vice man or woman or as a veteran.” Jo Carr Col. (Ret) Joe Hurst, Boerne David Starnes, San Angelo Doug and Shelia Fox, San Angelo Richard McKinney, San Angelo Steve Troy, Fort Worth Dr. Marsha and Steve Arvedson, Charles Dibrell Michael Kent, San Angelo Dr. James L. Studt, San Angelo Mark and Karen Fraley, San Antonio Carole and Steve McNabb, Richard and Sue Vaughan, Lubbock tracurricular activities around cam- In assessing the honors from the Houston Dr. Joel Dunnington Donald L. Klein, Fort Worth Pamela Venable, San Angelo George and Joanne Gamache, Brownwood Larry A. Venne, Jr., San Angelo Gary Baty, Singapore pus,” Gomez said. “I have found that Princeton Review, the Chronicle and Dr. Dale Brancel Jim Kramer, San Antonio Michele and Phil Webb, San Angelo Bloomington, Ill. Jesus and Delilah Mercado, Alpine Mike Virdell, Llano Kyle and Pam Box, San Angelo Hannah Nokes Dr. W. Bonham and Marcille Will and Brendy Welch, San Angelo Chancey Garza, Grand Junction, Colo. Dee Michalewicz, Buda Dr. Tommy and LaJan Walter, despite the ups and downs of our dai- G.I. Jobs magazine, Rallo said they Scott and Shelly Bratcher, Lubbock Jim Nokes Magness, Houston Phil and Toddy George, San Angelo Thomas E. Minton, Aledo Jacksonville, Fla. Dale Chase, San Antonio Jerry and Sandra Mayo, Palestine CENTURY CLUB Susan H. Golden, Roswell, N.M. Leesa Monroe, Arlington Mindy Warren, Midland ly work lives, employees love to work reflect what he soon realized after he Randy Coleman, San Angelo Jeff and Amy McCormick, San Angelo Donald and Jean Abell, San Angelo Honorable Pete Gomez Jr., Sonora Diana Munoz, San Angelo Dr. Michael Wedin, Sweetwater at ASU. In our recent staff attitude applied for ASU’s presidency. Norman and Linda Dierschke, Mark McNiel, San Antonio Dr. Gus Alexander, San Angelo Scott and Maricela Gray, San Antonio Ewell Murphy Jr., Houston Dr. Whitney Whitworth, San Angelo Loyd and Elaine Moore, San Angelo Dr. John and Sharon Alexander, Candyce Gregston, San Angelo Ed R. Nalepka, Midlothian Monticello, Ark. survey, many employees stated that “Angelo State is a great univer- Robert and Jenny Eubank, San Angelo Blake Moorhead, Spring San Angelo Gary and Frances Grogan, San Angelo Edward Nalepka, San Angelo Troyce and Rebecca Wilcox, Sande Harrison, San Angelo Mike and Brenda Morris, San Angelo Gary and Debra Anstice, Arlington Clifford and Susan Guess, Arlington Karen Nelson, Hewitt San Angelo working with and among students is sity,” he said. “Certainly, we have Maj. Gen. Ronnie D. Hawkins, Shirley and Chuck Morton, San Angelo Nita and Bill Archer, San Angelo Randal and Tammy Gully, San Angelo Sean and Jennifer New, Susie Willyard, San Angelo an enjoyable aspect of their jobs.” issues and we are addressing them, Alexandria, Va. Carrol “Pinto” Nokes, Arlington MV and Lizbeth Armour, Midland Dr. Charles and Donna Hall, Bangs North Richland Hills Kimberly Woods, Houston Marc and Amy Hayes, Lubbock Linda Norris, San Angelo Kirk Banfield,Plano Charlie and Vicky Hall, Georgetown Bill Nikolauk, San Angelo Cydnie Worley, Christoval Just as timely as the Chronicle but the bottom line is that we have a Dan and Terri Herrington, San Antonio LeRoy Olsak, San Angelo Jerry and Jana Barnard, San Angelo Dan and Anne Hamilton, San Angelo Darrell O’Neal, Victoria Lyle S. Zant, Plainview honor was the “Military Friendly solid university supported by a dedi- Steve and Lisa Holifield, Midland Eric and Kimberly Peterson, Michael and Kay Barron, Jeff and Mindy Hamilton, Lubbock Richey Oliver, San Angelo Angie Zavoico, Port Charlotte, Fla. Buddy Johnson, Houston San Angelo Iowa City, Iowa Shawn Hancock, Irving Clovis and Bettie Olsak, San Angelo Eric and Kelly Zeitler, San Antonio Schools” designation from G.I. Jobs cated faculty and staff as well as by Dr. Robert and Jean Ann LeGrand, Billie Phinney, Mereta Stratton and Jean Beesley, Syble Haney, San Angelo Jay Orr, Austin San Angelo Laurin and Sharon Prather, Lubbock San Angelo Dr. Patrick J. Hanford, Lubbock Corey and Shauna Owens, San Angelo ACCESS ASU magazine. With the adoption of the devoted alumni and friends. These Darcy Maloney and Dale Werner, Jim and Marion Ratcliff, Georgetown Eugene and Ethel Berger, San Angelo Randy Harbin, San Angelo Joshua and Doris Owusu, Frisco Susann Brundrett, San Angelo new G.I. Bill, campuses across the recognitions help others, who are San Angelo Dick Robertson, San Angelo Dr. Jaynell and Michael Bodine, Benny and Laura Harkey, San Angelo Meghan Pace, San Angelo Roger Collins, San Angelo Allen and Mesha Millsap, San Antonio Qualtrust Credit Union, San Angelo Sterling City Edgar Harris, San Angelo Mark and Marsha Pape, San Angelo Jean V. Corley, San Angelo country are expecting an influx of less familiar with ASU, see what we John Norman, Houston Dr. Angel Salazar, Dallas Robert and Jane Boothe, San Angelo David and Katie Harrison, San Angelo Dean Parnell, Universal City Angel Flores, San Angelo Lloyd and Sheri Norris, San Angelo Brian and Jeannie Shannon, Lubbock David B. Boswell, Austin Dr. Tracy R. Henson-McBee, James and Blossom Parry, Donna Fowler, San Angelo veterans from the Mideast conflicts see. That will help us prosper in the Steve and Susan Timms, Humble Jacqueline Shannon, San Angelo Dr. Russ and Frances Boyles, Odessa Brownfield San Angelo Kristie Frank, San Angelo as well as their family members on short term and meet our strategic ob- Mrs. Lloyd D. Vincent, San Angelo Arthur Shaw, Beaumont Dr. Dale and Susan Brancel, Patricia Hernandez, Eagle Pass Linda Patrick, Plano Yantis Green, San Angelo . Mike and Ruth Wheeler, San Angelo Bobby Sims, Santee, Calif. Colleyville Carlynn Hicks, Boerne Hal and Marshell Peter, San Angelo Grady Harlow, San Angelo campus. Additionally, ASU is work- jectives over the long haul.” Dr. Spencer and Julie Sincleair, Tim and Bonnie Brewster, Eden Jean Hierholzer, Kerrville Fred J. Petmecky, San Antonio John Hemphill, San Angelo SILVER Salado Hon. Mike and Debby Brown, Karen Hildebrand, Odessa Faron and Barbi Pfeiffer, San Angelo David Jacobo, San Angelo Ronald and Alice Adams, Austin Carlton and Betty Lou Smith, San Angelo Doray J. Hill Jr., San Angelo Michael and Lisa Phillips, Spring Sherri Jones, San Angelo Mourning Newspaper – continued from page 19 Dr. Ross Alexander, San Angelo San Angelo Tommy Burson, Silverton Peggy Hodges, San Angelo Don A. Pickering, Lubbock Jerry Jones, San Angelo Maurice and Barbara Archer, Lamesa Harry Theriot, Houston Jef and Wendy Butcher, Artesia, N.M. Jeff and Diane Holbrook, Donna Polk, Universal City J.W. Lown, San Angelo Craig and Kim Bagley, Weatherford Larry Thorp, Santa Fe, N.M. Steve and Rosemary Calvert, Universal City Sylvan and Carol Polunsky, Valerie Matthews, San Angelo weren’t for Angelo State. It’s hard to In the final analysis, the Stan- Randall and Maia Baker, Harlingen Michael Vallandingham, Austin San Angelo Dr. E. James and Bobbie Holland, San Angelo Robert L. McGraw, San Angelo imagine one without the other.” Pat and Lori Barton, San Angelo Jerry and Rose Vandergriff, Curry and Bonnie Lou Campbell, San Angelo Debrah Powell, San Angelo Lenora Mercer, Vancourt dard-Times management team has Betty Serface Blakely, Georgetown San Angelo Sonora Cynthia Hudec, San Angelo Victor and Trish Probandt, San Angelo Phil Neighbors, San Angelo He said the Standard-Times also responded to change as well if not bet- Nathaniel and Melissa Booker, Austin James Waterbury, Bel Air, Md. Mike and Claudia Caraway, Cathy Hughes, San Angelo Bill and Patsy Purser, San Angelo Megan R. Newton, San Angelo Gary and Leslee Bowen, San Angelo Brian and Doxie Watson, Midland San Angelo Charles Hughes, San Angelo Jeff and Tonya Rainey, San Angelo Deborah Painter, San Angelo provides a forum to help promote the ter than most newspapers of similar Lane and Elaine Bowen, San Antonio Richard Way, San Angelo Thomas Carpenter Jr., Boerne Roy Ivey and Sarah Logan, Kerry and Jamie Rainey, San Angelo Caleb Pettit, San Angelo vitality of the university. size. Certainly, the public still craves Bo and Michelle Brannon, Granbury Melody Wilkinson, Fort Worth Glen and Marcie Carter, Midland San Angelo Joseph Ramos, Shallowater Wade Powell, Mason Dean Buchanan, Cedar Park Dr. Noel and Jacque Williams, Steve and Kay Castle, Midland Elizabeth Jacobo, San Angelo Gary and Patricia Rodgers, Austin Gerald R. Ratliff, San Angelo “There needs to be an outlet news, but how that information that Jerry and Nidia Casillas, Katy Franklin, Ky. Mark and Karen Clark, San Angelo Carolyn Johnson, San Angelo Jennifer R. Rodriguez, San Angelo Willie Ruiz, San Angelo Andrew and Rebecca Caudal, Ronnie and Pauline Willmann, Ron Cole, The Woodlands Joanne F. Gass Jones, Lubbock Raquel Rosales, Fort Worth Charlotte Seitz, San Angelo to let the people know what ASU once was the domain of newspapers Southlake San Angelo Rev. Frank Coniglio, Dubois, Wyo. Kathryn Kelly, Austin Dr. Michael and Tara Salisbury, Eric Smith, San Angelo is trying to do and the broaden- is delivered and who provides it in Guy and Eva Choate, San Angelo Jerry Wilson, San Angelo Barry and Karla Cooper, Edmond, Okla. Maggie Kerr, Mertzon San Angelo Gwendolyn Smith, San Angelo Lana Choate-Pierce, Englewood, Colo. Rodney and Betty Winn, San Angelo Cary and Lota Corthron, Buffalo Gap Dr. LeeRoy and Betty Kiesling, Norm and Diane Schaule, Canyon Lake Dr. W. Truett Smith, San Angelo ing of its mission in the public eye, the future remains unsettled. Kirk and Patsy Cleere, San Angelo J. Nelson Word, San Angelo Kevin and Lacie Corzine, Abilene San Angelo Doyle and Lynn Schniers, San Angelo Jo Valliant, San Angelo including in Austin where they do Bill Coggins Jr., Minneapolis, Minn. Donnie and Francis Young, Donald and Pat Cox, San Angelo James Kirkland, Corpus Christi Gordon and Jackie Schrank, St. Enrique Vasquez, San Angelo For Angelo State University, X B Cox Jr., San Angelo San Antonio Kim Cox, San Angelo Laverne and Robert Knezek, Arlington Cloud, Minn. Edward Welch, San Angelo the funding,” Garcia said. “That’s the resolution of those issues is sig- Alex and Kay Decuir, San Angelo Dr. Susan Crain, Crane JD and Kathy Koehn, San Angelo Oron and Dorothy Schuch, San Angelo Alice and Donald Wellen, San Angelo Dale Dodson, Plano ACCESS ASU-SILVER Ruby Crook, Houston Kent and Nevie Lacy, San Angelo Jeff Schwertner, The Colony Kelly Wilson, San Angelo where the newspaper comes in. nificant because the Standard-Times Dr. Joel Dunnington, Missouri City Janet and Bryan Abernathy, Jerry Curry, San Angelo Lance and Judy Lacy, San Angelo Kenny Scudder, Odessa Chris Yedica, San Angelo You’re not going to get that any- remains a window through which Van and Angela Echols, Lubbock San Angelo Darla and Dwain Custer, San Angelo Annabeth Lee, Georgetown Jeff and Sherry Sefcik, San Angelo David and Delta Emerson, Dallas Dr. Scott and Shelley Blanton, Danny Daniels Jr, Lake Jackson Jerry A. Lee, Bedford Cyndi Seger, Fort Worth where else. Legislators still read many people locally and nationally Becky Fitch, Flower Mound San Angelo Brad Davis, Fort Worth Jack and Betty Lieber, San Angelo Eric Seidenberger, Coppell . Brad and Mercyla Fly, San Angelo Luke Burnett, San Angelo Curry Dawson, Water Valley Susan Looka, Uvalde J. Keith and Debra Shahan, San Saba those newspaper clips.” still see the university.

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