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BOISE STATEUNIVERSITY f a L L 2009

Once upon a time The Power of Story A Novel Concept Tackling the ‘Impossible’ in Material Ways

Aye, Aye, Professor Algebra on a Navy Destroyer Urban Affairs A Field School for Civics and History

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An emeritus math professor takes 8 the classroom to the high seas, teaching intermediate algebra to sailors on duty in the Persian Gulf.

Novel materials research is making advances in areas ranging from space to the cell phone in your 10 pocket. John Kelly While storytelling is ancient and inherent in the lives of all people, the basic concept and elements of the craft too often are left out of discussions about 21 writing. A new center at Boise State A summer field focuses on this fundamental notion.

school of urban John Kelly affairs may be a unique prototype for future community partnerships for the community for the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.

page 2 | focus | fall 2009 Melissa Harris Hartley departments in this issue FIRST WORD ...... 5 CAMPUS NEWS 6

DISCOVERY ...... 20

ARTS 22

GIVING BACK ...... 23

SPORTS ...... 27

ALUMNI ...... 28

LAST PAGE ...... 36

CAMPUS NEWS 6 The university’s research program continues to advance and now is the John Kelly fastest growing in Idaho. Research funding brought in $37 million last year.

ARTS Visiting artists 22 add an important dimension to Boise State’s ceramic arts program. Ceramists come from across the U.S. to share their talents 14 and insights. GIVING DID YOU KNOW? 23 BACK Intent on helping HORIZON AIR A university on the rise, Boise State has gone to even the College of Business greater heights with the unveiling of a new Horizon aircraft and Economics grow, painted with university colors and marks. The Boise State- a Treasure Valley themed plane joins a fleet that includes the University businessman steps of Oregon, Oregon State University, the University of up to help “Meet the Washington and Washington State University. Match.”

boise state university | focus | page 3 FOCUS ON A SEASON OF BOISE STATEUNIVERSITY Fall 2009, Volume XXXV, No. 1 SHAKESPEARE Published twice a year by the Office of Communications Under the Stars and Marketing for Alumni and Friends President: Bob Kustra GET YOUR TICKETS Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs: Sona Andrews & Vice President for Finance and Administration: Stacy GIFT CERTIFICATES Pearson (MPA, ’85) ONLINE Vice President for Student Affairs: Michael Laliberte WWW.IDAHOSHAKESPEARE.ORG Vice President for Advancement: Howard Smith EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES Vice President for Research: Mark Rudin YEAR ROUND! Director of Communications and Marketing: Frank Zang Drama School, Educational Touring Productions, and much more Editor: Kathleen Tuck, [email protected] Mainstage Season Runs Staff writers: Mike Journee, Sherry Squires, Erin Ryan June–September, 2010 Photography: John Kelly (BA, ’91), Carrie Quinney (BFA, ’02) David Anthony Smith*, Jodi Dominick* Editorial assistant: Melissa Jensen Twelfth Night (2009). WWW.IDAHOSHAKESPEARE.ORG *Member Actors’ Equity. or call 336-9221 Office: M–F, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Graphic designer: Angela Krommenhoek Photo by DKM Photography.

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U.S. News & World Report lists Boise State among the colleges and universities making “the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus or facilities” in its annual review of the nation’s best colleges and universities. It is our most recent academic distinction and confirms our progress as a university of choice for talented students across the West.

In all, just 77 “colleges and universities that have recently made striking improvements or innovations” were mentioned, including schools like George Mason, Arizona State and the University of Cincinnati. Joining Boise State on the list in the West were Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and Santa Clara University.

Signs are everywhere that we are on the right path in our advancement as a metropolitan research university of distinction. Our ambitious agenda is showing strong results, demonstrated through higher-achieving entering students, stronger retention of continuing students, the planning and construction of new buildings, and record investment in research.

Our sole benchmark for success at Boise State is that of our students and alumni. Each and every day, we make decisions about the future of this university that are designed not only to improve our graduates’ potential but also elevate the value of their Boise State degrees. Acknowledgement from our peers that we stand out from the crowd is gratifying and energizing.

– Bob Kustra, President

Hailey Wilson, Spring Commencement student speaker “Your attitude will dictate your life. I chose to believe I could succeed.”

Vice President for Research Mark Rudin, commenting on a $9 million increase in sponsored project

ying funding for FY2009. a “Research conducted by Boise State faculty and students addresses some of the major health, environmental, technological and social issues of the day.” e S

r Chris Petersen, Bronco head football coach, after a $150,000 contribution to the College of Business ’

y building fund

e “We believe academic excellence and athletic prominence must go hand in hand.” h

T Bethine Church, after receiving an honorary doctorate at spring Commencement “You face a bright future with endless possibilities, so make no small plans.”

hat Michael Humphrey, Assistant Professor of Special Education, commenting on living in the residential college W “I’m getting to know students on a level I wouldn’t normally.”

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campus news A Record Year for Research Funding

Boise State’s research mission continued to advance in fiscal year 2009. A total of 268 projects garnered a university record $37 million in funding, easily eclipsing the previous highpoint of $28 million last year. Since 2000, the total amount of Boise State’s research funding has doubled.

President Bob Kustra reported the news at his annual John Kelly State of the University address, noting that Boise State’s research program is the fastest growing in Idaho. solutions to vexing problems, they also are improving quality of “The significant increase in support of our research is a clear life, strengthening business and providing inspiration.” indicator of our growing momentum and stature as a metropolitan research university of distinction,” Kustra says. “Our expanding The first quarter of fiscal year 2010 set another university record. research portfolio drives economic development, attracts With $16.1 million in external grant awards, it is the highest top-notch faculty and provides our students with tremendous quarterly total in school history. The figure marked a 77 percent opportunities to pursue creative activities that strengthen their increase from the previous year’s $9.1 million quarterly total and education.” includes $4.6 million through 12 National Science Foundation grants. Five of the grants awarded in fiscal year 2009 exceeded $1 million, and the average award was $138,330. More than 100 entities “Last year’s momentum has not been slowed by the economy,” provided funding, including federal, state and local agencies, Rudin said. “Instead, research is being viewed as a vehicle to private industry, other universities and not-for-profit organizations. jump-start the economy and keep our businesses moving forward through the development of new products and creative solutions.” “Research conducted by Boise State faculty and students addresses some of the major health, environmental, technological For more about Boise State research, visit www.boisestate.edu/ and social issues of the day,” says Mark Rudin, vice president research/. for research. “Our researchers not only are providing innovative

Friend, Fan or Follow Us by Melissa Jensen

Social media is not just for the younger generation. Alumni, faculty, staff and students have been coming on board as members of Boise State’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube sites. “As an alumnus, I like to hear current information on what’s going on at Boise State. And it’s fun to read comments from Boise State started using social media last spring as one more other Bronco fans,” says Diana Echeverria Coba (BBA business way for friends of the university to hear about breaking news and economics, ’86, MA, interdisciplinary studies, ’04). events on campus. An easy way to connect with Boise State’s social networks is to Many parents, including Kimarie Johnson, mother of a current visit the university’s Web site at www.boisestate.edu and click on Boise State student from Seattle, Wash., are following Boise the social media icons at the bottom. State’s social networks to keep abreast of university life. In addition to Boise State’s main social networking sites, the “I like to be connected to my daughter at Boise State,” Johnson Bronco Alumni Association has Facebook and Twitter sites for says. alumni connections. To connect to these sites, visit the Alumni Association Web site at http://alumni.boisestate.edu/ and click Alumni also are finding connections through the university’s social on the social media icons at the top of the page. networks. page 6 | focus | fall 2009 Pulitzer Winner Steve Fainaru is Next Distinguished Lecturer

Following a one-year hiatus, the Distinguished Lecture Series book on the topic titled “Big returns to Boise State with Washington Post reporter Steve Boy Rules.” In April, the Post Fainaru, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for international began running an ongoing reporting. Fainaru will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Morrison series written by Fainaru and Center. His lecture is free; no tickets are required. colleague William Booth. Titled “Mexico at War: On Fainaru will discuss his experiences covering the war in Iraq and the Front Lines,” the series the implications of a world without newspapers. For example, focuses on the increasing violence in the Mexican drug war. what if there was a war and nobody covered it? With newspapers disappearing and those that remain eliminating expensive foreign Learn more at www.boisestate.edu/distinguishedlectures/. coverage, information on how America conducts its business abroad is rapidly decreasing.

Fainaru won the Pulitzer Prize for his 10-part series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside many of the laws governing American forces. In December 2008 he published a

Academic Enrollment Continues Dynamic Trend In a year that marked the successful transition of approximately In addition to new freshmen, students are returning in greater 1,200 students from Boise State’s College of Applied Technology numbers to the Boise State campus for a second year, despite a to the new two-year College of Western Idaho, the national decline in freshman retention rates. university experienced increases in both academic student enrollment and the According to an annual survey conducted by return of first-year students for a ACT Inc., the percentage of freshmen across second year. the nation returning to their first-year colleges dropped from 68 percent in Boise State remains the largest 2006-07 to just 66 percent a year university in Idaho with later. Over that same time period, 18,936 students, including retention rates at Boise State rose an increase of 426 students from 63 percent to 68 percent, enrolled in academic putting it above the national programs. Through the years, average.

the university has grown 16.8 John Kelly percent from its enrollment of In 2004, Boise State created a 16,209 in 1999 and 51 percent freshman success task force to from its student population of determine why students do or do 12,586 in 1989. not return for a second year, review the effectiveness of current campus “With the transfer of our applied programs and make recommendations on technology programs, a number of our services that would increase the likelihood students transitioned to the College of Western of retaining first-year students. The result was the Idaho,” says Michael Laliberte, vice president for Freshman Success Task Force Action Plan. Recommendations student affairs. “We welcome in return those students who will for improvement identified in the plan include areas of staffing, transfer to Boise State University to complete a baccalaureate orientation, math education, student services, and academic and degree.” career advising.

boise state university | focus | page 7 campus news Emeritus Math Professor Teaches, Blogs on the Open Sea

Alex Feldman spent his summer on a 500-foot Navy destroyer personal diary into a called the John Paul Jones. After embarking from the Arabic island popular newsletter state of Bahrain, the emeritus math professor taught intermediate for crewmembers and algebra to sailors on duty in the Persian Gulf their loved ones. through the Navy College Program for Afloat College Education (NCPACE). “The blog was Fourteen accredited colleges probably the most and universities offer degrees appreciated part of through NCPACE, enabling what I did,” Feldman Marine Corps and Navy says. “It got to be, in service members to take a funny way, a mark undergraduate, graduate or of honor for people adult-learning courses while when they appeared in it. It became more than just something in at sea. place of sending e-mail to my friends and family.”

Feldman was the only civilian At the end of Feldman’s tenure aboard the John Paul Jones, he onboard for most of his was given a collection of the ship’s official coins and a meaningful John Kelly two-month engagement, but it compliment from several high-ranking officers. They said he was didn’t take long for him to become the most engaged NCPACE instructor they had ever encountered. part of the community. In addition to “It was a great experience,” Feldman says, “and I’m definitely teaching three classes, the former ultra- thinking about doing it again.” marathoner participated in physical training with the crew every day, talked physics with his 24-year-old roommate To read Feldman’s NCPACE blog, visit math.boisestate.edu/~alex/ and spent time in the pilothouse learning about navigation. He ddg53.html. blogged about his experience almost daily, and it evolved from a Popular ‘Beat Pete’ Scholarship Race Garners Award Boise State’s Beat Coach Pete Scholarship Run not only has recognizes an outstanding program that furthers the growth of sprinted to popularity within the local community, it also recently students and enhances life on campus. caught the eye of judges from the Western Region of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. The annual Beat Pete race is sponsored by Campus Recreation, in conjunction with the Division of Student Affairs and the Held in April, the second annual run was awarded the association’s Department of Athletics. Students, staff, faculty and community 2009 Innovative Program Award in November. The award members are invited to race against football coach Chris Petersen in a three-mile run along the Boise Greenbelt.

Participants who best Petersen’s time receive an “I Beat Pete” T-shirt. In addition, Coach Pete personally donates to the scholarship fund for each runner who finishes ahead of him. In 2008 he gave $2,000, and in 2009 the figure rose to $5,000. All race proceeds directly benefit the general scholarship fund and are dedicated to need-based scholarships and emergency funding for students.

The first two years of the race have resulted in $33,000 in donations to the Boise State general scholarship fund, and organizers are looking forward to the third annual event on April 10, 2010. Melissa Harris Hartley

page 8 | focus | fall 2009 Students Offer Energy audits, other outreach to Local Businesses

Boise State is continuing outreach efforts to the local business The program is part of an initiative launched last spring, when the community this fall in the form of free energy evaluations. College of Business and Economics rallied its faculty, students and various centers to assist more than 600 businesses. The college The Idaho Small Business Development Center is training established the Business Research and Economic Development Boise State students from a variety of disciplines — business, Center, a one-stop-shop for the local business community to engineering, construction management and environmental health tap into the expertise of Boise State faculty members and other and science — to analyze utility bills and complete on-site energy specialists. evaluations. The students will come away with valuable business skills, and it is hoped that the businesses will realize instant cost Business faculty and their students took on 102 class projects and reductions. 15 consulting projects, the TECenter assisted 22 callers with high- tech entrepreneurial ventures, and 478 other businesses were Although small businesses can save as much as 20 percent connected with small business and manufacturing experts in the on their utility bills through energy efficiency, there has been Idaho Small Business Development Center and TechHelp to meet relatively limited adoption of energy efficiency measures by small their specific needs. COBE even assembled a group of recent MBA businesses. graduates to offer free consulting.

“Often they are so busy running their businesses that they do The free energy evaluations will continue through spring semester. not have time to learn about energy saving options or available Learn more at idahosbdc.org. incentives,” says Joan Meitl, Idaho SBDC environmental assistance coordinator.

“An MBA at Boise State has been one of my best investments.”

Invest in Your Future. Apply online today! http://cobe.boisestate.edu/graduate/

Clay Young, MBA Alum CEO of Inovus Solar, Co-Founder, ProClarity

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Materials Are Everything

Researchers Push the Limit with Novel Materials By Mike Journee “ Materials are wide) – where even familiar materials material works and then find a system do unexpected things. where its attributes can be optimally everything, right?” used,” says Peter Müllner, director “It’s like cutting an apple in half and of Boise State’s Center for Materials The question – more of a statement, getting an orange,” says Jeunghoon Characterization and a professor of really – is less obvious than it sounds. Lee, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering. It is a simple way for Darryl Butt, chemistry and one of several Boise “I ask the question, ‘What can this head of Boise State’s Department of State researchers who create novel material do and why does it do that?’ Materials Science and Engineering, materials in their laboratories in and go from there.” to illustrate the complexity and wide- support of research initiatives on open potential of novel materials campus. From iPod to tennis racquet to research. advanced armored systems and the By learning the characteristics of batteries powering hybrid vehicles, Like Butt’s question, the study of materials at nanoscale, researchers novel materials are behind the materials and their uses seems fairly can manipulate them to enhance advancements that make the things we straightforward and routine on the qualities needed for a certain purpose, use every day smaller, faster, stronger surface. But under the surface, at the deemphasize unfavorable properties or less expensive to manufacture. They molecular level, the creation and study or create entirely new materials. of new or novel materials is having a also are making possible what once was impossible. profound impact on the development ‘Pushing the Limits’ of everything from next-generation “We are pushing the limits of materials In many ways, novel materials research microelectronics and space vehicles, to to operate in regimes and ways that is a world of trial-and-error coupled medical diagnostics and surgical tools, they could not before,” says Butt, with highly educated guesses. to nuclear energy and solar power. who works with oxides of uranium, Novel materials are newly engineered “In my work, I try to find out how a plutonium and other similar materials. materials that have properties His work explores possible nuclear allowing them to function in energy fuels that cannot be used in ways conventional materials weapons and have very little or no cannot. Much of this work waste stream – potentially eliminating is done at the nanoscale the proliferation of nuclear weapons level – between one and 999 and disposal of nuclear waste as nanometers (a human hair is hurdles to nuclear energy’s use on a about 100,000 nanometers large scale.

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Peter Müllner and Bernard Yurke are heading up two of Boise State’s most promising research initiatives in novel materials. A cornerstone of Boise State’s growing research agenda, novel materials research is having a profound impact on areas like microelectronics, biomedical questions and space exploration, to name a few. Carrie Quinney Airbags, Cartilage, they are working on in one sentence a professor of biology, uses special and their contributions to a potential scaffolds made of various materials to Satellites and Cancer cancer treatment in another. The foster the growth of cartilage. Oxford Work being done by materials science interdisciplinary nature of the work studies the molecular organization of faculty forms the heart of novel allows the unique properties of these cartilage so she can understand how it materials research at Boise State. Butt materials to be applied to questions in functions as a tissue. Arthritis or joint quickly points out, however, that the an ever-broadening range of fields. pain sufferers could one day benefit most creative and promising progress from her work, which is funded by Dmitri Tenne, an assistant professor the National Institutes of Health and being made in novel materials of physics, works with piezoelectric research is happening in areas where the Idaho State Board of Education, materials – materials that convert among others. traditional science disciplines overlap, electrical energy into mechanical allowing the unique perspectives energy – that could have applications Engineering professors Don Plumlee, of researchers from a wide range of for use in automobile airbags and Jim Browning, Amy Moll, Sin Ming disciplines to impact the work. ultrasound machines. Loo and Inanc Senocak are part of a Novel materials work can be so team working on electric propulsion Julia Oxford, director of Boise State’s in low-temperature, co-fired ceramic versatile that Boise State researchers Biomolecular Research Center and can mention a microelectronics project (LTCC) materials. Bringing together

boise state university | focus | page 11 materials science, mechanical, strand of DNA, called a “scaffold,” Materials, the leading research journal electrical and computer engineering, several times and bind it together with in materials science. the collaborative project is focused shorter “staple” DNA strands. The research is focused on a nickel- on developing an affordable, manganese-gallium alloy that changes micro-propulsion system that could By chemically attaching individual shape when exposed to a magnetic strategically point small satellites and gold nanoparticles to the ends of the field. The alloy retains its new enable them to maintain position while short DNA strands, the team hopes shape when the field is turned in orbit much more inexpensively than to fuse the nanoparticles to rows off but returns to its original traditional chemical alongside these DNA nanotubes, essentially shape if the field is rotated rockets. “It’s like cutting creating nanoscale-sized 90 degrees, demonstrating And a group of an apple in half gold wires that could be magnetic shape-memory. The physicists, biologists, electrified. alloy can be activated millions of engineers and chemists times and has potential applications The team also has continues its work using and getting an in next generation printers, green car attached miniscule zinc oxide nanoparticles engines and surgical tools, and it will semiconductors called to preferentially kill orange.” enable innovations in such fields as quantum dots to the immune cell cancers biomedicine and microrobotics. DNA nanotubes. By and fight infections that kill thousands running a pair of the gold nanowires of people. Using nanobiotechnology, to a quantum dot, Yurke hopes to Not New, these researchers are building on create a “nano light bulb” that can the work of physics professor Alex But Still Novel be illuminated by an electric current Punnoose, who started down the Müllner says that the wide-open flowing through the wires. path to cancer research by working on potential of novel materials research semiconductors and nanoelectronics “The main reason to do this is to is one of the main reasons for the (See Winter 2009 FOCUS). demonstrate a technology by which attractiveness to scientists and the we can make electrical devices government agencies, companies and A New Way to with components that are a few others that fund their work. In theory, See DNA nanometers in size,” Yurke every material known could have some said. While he knows his work hidden potential that could add value One of the most promising one day could be used to their goals. and visionary research to make smaller more Nothing has really changed since initiatives at Boise State powerful computers, he’s humans first began assessing is work led by Bernard near certain that “other materials and how to use them – today, Yurke, a materials science applications will be found just as then, everything around us is and engineering research professor. that we’re not clever enough to think made of materials, as Butt’s simple His aim is to build micro devices on about yet.” question illustrates. Yet it’s clear that tubes made out of strands of DNA, the excitement of discovery is just as a cutting-edge concept that could M etal Foam with a keen as it ever was, and that Boise take the inexpensive miniaturization State novel materials researchers of electronics to a new level – well ‘Memory’ are just scratching the surface of beyond the soon-to-be reached limits Müllner’s work with magnetic shape- possibility. of silicon-based electronics and memory foam is another of Boise computers. State’s most successful materials “This is not a new science,” says research initiatives and likely makes Müllner. “There are probably hundreds In research funded by the Defense him one of the top experts in the of papers published each week on Advanced Research Projects Agency world on the subject. Müllner and materials research. Still, when the right and the National Science Foundation, his collaborator at Northwestern ideas come together, the novelty of the Yurke’s team uses DNA’s ability to University recently published dramatic endless possibilities materials offer is “self-assemble” to fold a single long new research results in Nature revealed.” page 12 | focus | fall 2009 Carrie Quinney

Boise State undergraduates Amber Cox and Hieu Bui compare notes in their work with Bernard Yurke, an engineering research professor whose work focuses on DNA nanotechnology. Boise State research builds reputation for undergraduate opportunities and local investment

Boise State Vice President for Research that growing reputation around, and it $5.9 million in research investments Mark Rudin is fond of saying that is attracting the attention of more than by a number of interested entities, at Boise State, laboratories are undergraduates looking for something including federal funding agencies classrooms. His point is that very few extra from their college education. such as the National Science universities offer undergraduates Foundation, National Institutes of As the university’s reputation for the opportunity to stand shoulder to Health, the Department of Defense, high-quality research grows, Rudin shoulder with top-flight researchers NASA and others. says, its ability to attract more funding, working on some of society’s most build better facilities, hire bench And as Boise State’s newly created important questions and challenges. researchers into the faculty and foster Office of Technology Transfer ramps up, Rudin selected his undergraduate advanced degree programs that further more and more Boise State research alma mater for that very reason, and contribute to its mission will grow, too. will contribute to the local, state and he thinks Boise State is becoming national economy’s bottom line, Rudin And its good for local business, Rudin a similar school of choice for high- says. says. Local companies and agencies achieving students who crave the are benefactors and beneficiaries “As Boise State’s stature grows,” Rudin hands-on learning and achievement of the work being done in Boise says, “we’ll continue our success at that only research experience can offer. State labs. In fiscal year 2009, the bringing in more and more talent – Novel materials research is one of the Department of Materials Science faculty, students and staff.” cornerstones Boise State is building and Engineering alone accounted for

boise state university | focus | page 13 understanding backwards

John Kelly The Story Initiative page 14 | focus | fall 2009 understanding backwards by Erin Ryan Clay Morgan never thought he’d learn the meaning of life from a cocktail napkin. He was a graduate student sharing a beer in a Missoula bar with his mentor, the distinguished American writer William Kittredge. Kittredge, who was teaching at the University of Montana, had just sold the film rights for “A River Runs Through It” to Robert Redford. As Morgan jokingly puts it, “He had been charmed.” Cly a Morgan Creative writing “So we were crying in professor Clay Morgan is founder and director our beers,” Morgan of The Story Initiative, a new project of Boise says. “Then Bill State University devoted to teaching, exploring pulled out a napkin and celebrating story. and started outlining Aristotle’s Poetics, what a story is and how it works in a screenplay — the beginning, middle and end. I realized that in six years of higher education I had learned a lot about writing, but nobody had told me about story.”

boise state university | focus | page 15 While The Story Initiative Cocktail napkin Sketch of Chapter 1 includes all media, from Aristotle’s Poetics by Many years later, Morgan is a successful william kittredge the page to the screen, novelist and creative writing professor at Morgan thinks film is becoming a Boise State. He still has the napkin, and especially relevant successful the insight he gained from it is partly to in the 21st director, he had thank for The Story Initiative, a new project century. doubts about his of the university founded and directed by purpose. Morgan. Its mission is to teach, explore “When I was and celebrate story as a simulation of life, in college, “Some part of me felt it a system of communication, a means to I wanted to was indulgent,” Hoffman insight and a distinct way of remembering. be the next great says. “I asked myself, does novelist, a Faulkner or a making movies matter? And I While storytelling is ancient and inherent Hemingway. My own kids want me was not convinced that it did.” in the lives of all people, Morgan says the to be the next Spielberg,” Morgan says. basic concept and elements of craft too Then he had dinner with “Film is the dominant literature of our time, often are left out of discussions about Robert Redford, the very same and the cool thing is, most people are very writing. who played an indirect role in Morgan’s film literate.” awakening about story. Hoffman confided “Writing is simple to teach because it What they may not be is story conscious. that he wasn’t sure he was living a “real involves technique. Story, which everyone According to Morgan, movies seldom life.” Redford told him to spend a few days grasps intuitively, is harder to get across. fail because of actors, effects or subject at his house in Santa Fe —that something How do you teach art versus brushstrokes, matter. He asserts that if the action is not would happen that would change his life. music versus a succession of notes?” rooted firmly in story, it lacks what most While there, Hoffman stumbled on a tape Morgan says. “What I’m trying to do with people call “heart.” of the epic interview between journalist Bill The Story Initiative is help Boise State Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell. engage the community in an exploration and realization of what story really is.” Chapter 2 “It was six hours on the function of Michael Hoffman agrees. The Rhodes narrative in human drama. Campbell said The exploration began in May when the Scholar and Boise State graduate is an that for all cultures, there are four ways to Initiative partnered with The Cabin, Idaho inspired storyteller who wrote and directed get to God: singing, dancing, storytelling Writers Guild, Idaho Media Professionals, his first movie while a student at Oxford. and silence. It occurred to me that maybe Idaho Screenwriters Association and “Privileged” starred classmate Hugh Grant I was a storyteller,” Hoffman says. “Story SilverDraft Studios to bring veteran and sparked Hoffman’s career in film. stems from something fundamental, Hollywood director Donald Petrie to Boise’s biological. It touches every part of our Egyptian Theatre for a benefit screening of A trained stage actor known and respected lives, and the study of it is basically a study his romantic comedy, “My Life in Ruins.” In now as a writer, producer and director, of the human soul.” front of a packed house, Petrie expressed Hoffman’s directorial credits include his support for the Initiative. “Soapdish,” “Restoration” and “The Like Petrie, Hoffman plans to screen his Emperor’s Club,” among other popular new film in Boise to benefit The Story “The Story Initiative will increase people’s films. He says his mother loved books Initiative. Called “The Last Station,” it awareness of how stories work and what and movies and exposed him to narrative examines the end of iconic Russian writer we try to do in our movies,” he says. constantly in his youth. But even after Leo Tolstoy’s life. The screenplay is an adaptation of the novel by Jay Parini, and

The Cabin, Boise’s award-winning literary center, and Alley Repertory Theater (ART), a progressive arts organization in Garden City, are partnering with The Story Initiative on Story Story Night, an innovative performance series that will bring storytelling into the spotlight. The Cabin’s artistic and executive director Paul Shaffer and ART’s marketing director Jessica Holmes were key players in the creative process and will manage storytelling workshops at The Cabin and stage performances at the Visual Arts Collective. John Kelly page 16 | focus | fall 2009 the cast includes Christopher Plummer, called and said she and ART’s artistic Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti and James director Hollis Welsh were dreaming the McAvoy. The film is scheduled for release same dream. in select U.S. cities early next year, but It took shape as Story Story Night, an it already has generated Oscar buzz and innovative performance series that been honored with several major awards will kick off next year. The Cabin’s in Europe. Hoffman credits much of that workshops will help participants success to the graceful construction of polish materials and techniques, ART Hoffman: Academy the underlying story. will provide a performance venue and Award Hopeful “The whole notion of story is the most prizes, and The Story Initiative will offer compelling aspect of film,” he says. direction and support as the project Boise State alumnus Michael Hoffman is a “What’s essential about it and what evolves. Established talent will be given venerable writer, producer and director in generates its power doesn’t change, 10-minute blocks to tell their tales, and the film industry whose credits range from and that’s something I hope The Story new voices can enter a lottery for five Hollywood hits to small-scale projects close Initiative can convey.” minutes on stage at the Visual Arts to his heart. He has worked with dozens of Collective, where ART is housed. celebrated actors, and his forthcoming film, “The Last Station,” explores Leo Tolstoy’s “We’re hoping for stories across the Chapter 3 life through the inspired performances of Conveying the power of story has long spectrum, from cab drivers to mountain Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul been the charge of The Cabin, Idaho’s climbers,” says Holmes. “They have to Giamatti and James McAvoy. award-winning literary center. Founded be true stories, and there are no notes, in 1995, it is known for programs such no props, no music allowed — just raw The film premiered in September at the Telluride Film Festival, where the Los Angeles as Readings and Conversations, an storytelling.” annual lecture series that brings literary Times called it “the darling” of the event. “For some participants, that will involve heavies to Boise, from Michael Pollan to Mirren won the Rome Film Festival’s Best helping them recognize that they do Joan Didion and Richard Ford. Its Idaho Actress award for her portrayal of Tolstoy’s have a story to tell and that it has value,” wife, and Hoffman received the award for Best Writing Camps program was named one Shaffer adds. “Story is about making Adapted Screenplay at Germany’s Frankfurt of 10 model arts education programs in sense of experience, finding meaning in Book Fair. Distributor Sony Pictures Classics the U.S. by the National Endowment for the moments that change us and sharing plans to release the film in Los Angeles and the Arts, and with Writers in the Schools, it.” New York City in January, making it eligible for it sends world-class writing teachers the Academy Awards. throughout the state. While Hoffman’s work takes him around the “Our mission has always been about Epilogue For Morgan, the story doesn’t end with world, he makes his home in Boise with his helping people engage with language the Initiative. wife, fellow Boise State grad Samantha Silva, and the power of story, to become and their children, Atticus, Phoebe and Olivia. “I want to create a Center for Story at literate about their own lives,” says Hoffman graduated from Boise State with a Boise State,” he says. “As far as I know, Paul Shaffer, The Cabin’s artistic and B.A. in theater arts in 1979. While earning his it would be the first one anywhere.” executive director. degree, he co-founded the Idaho Shakespeare Crucial to that mission are The Cabin’s His vision includes an undergraduate Festival, was student body president and a workshops, and a new workshop focused film degree covering everything from Top Ten Scholar. At his own commencement, on storytelling will anchor a developing history to finance to screenwriting. He he was given a Silver Medallion Award, Boise partnership with The Story Initiative and is building a story archive and other State’s highest recognition of service. Garden City’s Alley Repertory Theater resources for the Initiative’s forthcoming Hoffman then attended England’s Oxford (ART). The collaboration grew from a Web site and designing classes that University as a Rhodes Scholar. It was there conversation between Morgan and would weave films and readings with that he directed his first film, “Privileged,” Shaffer, who have known each other traditional lectures on how story works. starring classmate Hugh Grant. That project for 20 years. Both had a hand in Boise When asked what he says to those who was the beginning of a distinguished career, State’s annual Writers and Readers believe story is understood and requires recognized in 1989 with Boise State’s Rendezvous, which happened in McCall no further examination, Morgan smiles. Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2004, Hoffman accepted the university’s first-ever back when Boise was, as Shaffer “If it’s so easy,” he says, “why is it so honorary doctorate. puts it, “a literary desert.” They were hard to tell a great one?” discussing a storytelling event when “Boise State has been a huge part of my ART’s marketing director Jessica Holmes life,” he says. “It’s where I began my directing career.”

boise state university | focus | page 17 page 18 Melissa Harris Hartley | focus | fall 2009 G o Big Blue It was a spectacle of blue, orange and white at Bronco Stadium for the highly-anticipated football season-opener against the University of Oregon Sept. 3. A record crowd of 34,127 fans witnessed the 14th- ranked Bronco’s 19-8 victory over the No. 16 Ducks, with quarterback Kellen Moore throwing for 197 yards and a touchdown. Boise State’s defense held Oregon to 152 yards and six first downs, to defeat the Ducks for a second consecutive season.

boise state university | focus | page 19 discovery Hot Idea: Boise State Takes the Lead on National Geothermal Data System By Erin Ryan Boise State geosciences professor Walter Snyder (bottom left) is helping address that need as director of the Geothermal Data Trapped within Earth’s crust, extreme heat holds the key to an Consortium, an innovative partnership of research institutions important source of alternative energy — geothermal. Unlike wind dedicated to establishing a national data system for geothermal and solar, it is an unconditional constant, a base-load source that energy. Boise State is the managing body and received a $4.9 never goes offline. Existing direct and hydrothermal methods of million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build a tapping that renewable source produce no emissions and recycle National Geothermal Data System (NGDS). all byproducts, leaving a carbon footprint so small it is almost immeasurable. Unfortunately, the International Energy Agency “More than a database, it will be a data system,” Snyder says. recently found that less than 1 percent of the world’s energy is “It requires an incredibly broad range of data types and has to supplied by geothermal power. deliver information in a format that’s useful to the public, schools, researchers, industry, financial institutions and state and federal The crux of the problem is data. Data are the underpinnings of agencies and lawmakers.” science and engineering, the basis for investment decisions and crucial indicators for land and natural resource management. The project was proposed in response to the American Recovery Plenty of geothermal data exists, but it has yet to be funneled into and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress in February 2009. a system that would provide organized, widespread access. Based largely on proposals made by the Obama administration, it created new funding opportunities for diversifying the nation’s energy portfolio. A comprehensive geothermal data system is essential to such a diversification, but building one will require considerable creativity, cooperation and work.

That’s why Boise State will lead the GDC’s team of major partners, including the Energy and Geosciences Institute (University of Utah), Geo-Heat Center (Oregon Institute of Technology), Stanford Geothermal Program (Stanford University), Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy (University of Nevada, Reno), and Geoscience Information Network (led by the Arizona Geological Survey). The team will use the DOE funding over the next five years to establish a core database and services developed and housed at Boise State and a network that will link partner data sites through secure and strict protocols, facilitate the exchange of data and increase access by all interested parties. At the same time, the Intermountain West Geothermal Consortium, also led by Boise State and including several other GDC members, is working to reduce the risks of identifying geothermal resources, creating new energy jobs and educational pipelines, and improving public outreach.

“Boise State continues to play a leadership role nationally in geothermal energy development research,” said Boise State Vice President for Research Mark Rudin, adding that U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo were instrumental in building awareness and support for the NGDS project on Capitol Hill. “The project recognizes Boise State’s prominence in this research area and will impact the development and use of geothermal energy across the country.”

“The interest in geothermal is just ratcheting up,” Snyder says, “and Boise State is a national leader.”

To learn more about the NGDS, visit www.geothermaldata.org. John Kelly

pagepage 2020 || focusfocus || fallfall 2008 2009 Investigate Boise Field School for Urban Affairs’ By Mike Journee

The success of a summer workshop for students interested in the wide swath of Boise’s history and the city’s inner workings could lead to similar offerings for Boise State’s College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs (SSPA).

“Investigate Boise,” a two-part, 10-day class billed as “a field school for urban affairs,” was so well-received by students that SSPA Dean Melissa Lavitt (below) is using it as a prototype for the kinds of partnerships and programs the college would like to offer the community.

“Downtown Boise’s place as the center of our civic, commercial and cultural life, and its fascinating and colorful history, make these kinds of partnerships a natural for our college, our students and the community,” says Lavitt. “I want us to be seen more and more as a force and a resource within the community.”

Led by Boise State history professor Todd Shallat and Boise City Councilman David Eberle, a doctoral-level economist, “Investigate Boise” was a first-of-its-kind program. The workshop featured a slate of expert guests from Boise State, governmental agencies and elected officials, as well as tours of the city’s historical, cultural and institutional landmarks. Melissa Harris Hartley Boise State senior and lifelong Boise resident Hayley Perkins says the unique class caught her attention because of her interest in city Incorporating a city’s classic architecture, such as Boise’s planning and the insight it offered into little known things about her turreted Idanha Hotel, into current urban design is key to hometown. successful city planning. A new class in the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs focused on the city’s past and “I had no idea about all of the old buildings that were razed in present growth. downtown Boise during the ’60s and the ’70s,” says Perkins, a communication major. Partly because of the class, she may pursue a master’s degree in community and regional planning, a planned master’s degree program at Boise State that could be up and running by the fall of 2010.

Plans to offer the workshop again are developing. Taught in a donated storefront in June and July, the class was “designed to be a place-based approach to a study of Boise in all its facets,” says Shallat.

Creating awareness about Boise’s past and an understanding of how today’s decisions impact the city’s future are at the heart of the lesson in citizenship that Shallat and Eberle hope to impart.

“My favorite buildings downtown are the old ones,” says Perkins. “It breaks my heart to know that we could have had so many more.”

boiseboise statestate universityuniversity || focusfocus || pagepage 2121 Carrie Quinney arts Firing the Imagination Visiting Artists Program Instructs and Inspires

by Kathleen Tuck The ceramists usually create unique pieces They have different areas of interest, of art during their varying techniques and a range of artistic workshops, and often styles. But in the end, they all have one they are willing to thing in common — dirty hands. sell or donate them to the university. The Since 1994, art professors Ron Taylor pieces are kept either in the Art Department for student reference and Jim Budde have invited dozens or displayed elsewhere on campus. of ceramists to the Boise State campus from across In addition to attending the workshop, students have a chance the nation to for one-on-one visits with the artists over lunch or at an evening present potluck. hands-on workshops for The program, which is unusual in its size, scope and access to students and community artists as part of campus and the community, has garnered enthusiastic responses the Visiting Artists in Ceramics program. from students over the years. The popular program was the brainchild Patricia Breidenbach, who attended a 2003 workshop, wrote the of art professor John Takehara, who died following in her evaluation: “Through this workshop with John in April at the age of 80. Balistreri, I found myself facing some creative issues that had Funded by proceeds from the been repressed. He opened a can of worms, so to speak, that is semiannual Clay and Fire ceramics now making me think on a deeper level when approaching clay.” sale, the program fills a vital need in the For Joy Fingerlos, who attended a 2001 workshop, the experience community. was liberating: “The Robert Brady workshop gave me new “The arts community in Boise is great inspiration. I am determined to play more and fear less. I’m going for the size of the town, but it’s not to force myself to work until it doesn’t feel like work anymore.” large enough to sustain a lot of ceramics Budde hopes the program will thrive and continue to shows,” Budde says. “It’s important that inspire students for years to come. students see all the different ways you can handle clay and create different types “This has always been rewarding of work.” for me,” he says, “and it’s great in what The two-day interactive workshops are it brings to offered free to faculty, staff, students and Boise.” alumni, and for a minimal charge of about $25 to community members. Comparable programs outside the university typically charge $400-$500.

Visiting artists often create unique pieces while on campus. Clockwise, from left, are works by Susannah Israel, Harris Deller and Eva Kwong.

page 22 | focus | fall 2009 giving back Taking Care of Business Treasure Valley businessman John D. Jackson has a knack for $35 million College of Business and Economics building to be growing his business. Now he is in the business of helping Boise constructed at the corner of Capitol Boulevard and University State to grow as well. Drive.

Jackson recently committed $500,000 to help construct Boise The Jackson Commons will be the heart of the building both State’s new College of Business and Economics building and structurally and metaphorically, a hub of activity with a café, an to create an inviting space for students, faculty, business and open computer lab, community bulletin boards, flexible seating government leaders to interact. The new building is one of several to accommodate small or large working groups and a welcoming initiatives in Destination Distinction campaign, the campaign for hearth. Boise State. The gift from Jackson “This gift is an investment is an important part of in the future of Boise the college’s Meet the State University and the Match effort. The Micron College of Business and Technology Foundation Economics,” Jackson says committed to a $12.5 million “Business education is all lead gift for the business about preparing today’s building in 2007, with $5 students to become million of it contingent tomorrow’s business on Boise State raising $5 leaders.” million in matching funds by the end of 2009. Thanks Jackson, the founder to Jackson and many other and owner of Jacksons alumni and friends, more Food Stores, Jackson Oil than $4 million of the $5 and Capitol Distributing, million match has been met serves on the Foundation John Jackson (second from right) presents a check to Mark Lliteras, Dean Pat to date. board of directors and Shannon and President Bob Kustra. Boise State’s Destination For more information on how Distinction campaign steering committee. He attended Boise you can help Meet the Match, visit http://cobe.boisestate.edu or State and majored in accounting. His gift will establish the Jackson contact Cheryl Larabee at (208) 426-2039. Commons, the grand entryway and first impression of the new

Steinway Play

Members of the Keith Stein Blue Thunder Marching Band take to the field of Bronco Stadium to recognize the gift of an elegant blue Steinway piano in memory of longtime band director David Wells, who passed away in May. The piano, presented by the Keith Stein family, is one of three purchased so far in the university’s effort to raise $2 million to upgrade most of the university’s pianos and thereby become one of the elite “All-Steinway” colleges and universities in the world. The piano, named “Rhapsody,” is used at high profile campus events to highlight the ongoing campaign. To contribute, contact Sunny Wallace at (208) 426-2124. Photo courtesy of Ryan Baker

boise state university | focus | page 23 giving back Faces of the Campaign

By Kathleen Tuck PEOPLE Focused — Josu At 65 percent of goal, the $175 Zubizarreta million Destination Distinction Josu Zubizarreta works with Boise State biology professor campaign already is benefiting Greg Hampikian on genetic studies Boise State’s people, places involving the Basque population in southwest Idaho in an effort and programs. New and to trace immigration patterns. He enhanced scholarships, new also collaborates with researchers in the Basque Country to study the doctoral and master’s level population’s health risks, including the programs, increased research increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Thanks to a Minority at Risk scholarship, opportunities and state-of- Zubizarreta graduated in May with degrees the-art buildings are lasting in both biology and Spanish. He currently is applying to medical schools and hopes to university. Off the field, legacies to the generosity of become a physician, possibly doing clinical they’re just as passionate research. university alumni and friends about the doors an education will across the nation and beyond. M otivated — Martha Mendoza open for them. McCoy, who is majoring in Spanish and biology, plans to use her Martha Mendoza has big plans to positively education to help preserve the environment impact the lives of children. A bilingual To celebrate the campaign’s in South America. Frane, who is working education major, she is studying to be a toward a degree in chemistry, wants to success to date, a series of schoolteacher — with a twist. Not content become a forensic scientist to help ensure with the materials now available, she intends oversized banners hung from that the innocent are not unjustly convicted. to create a new curriculum that will help buildings across campus teachers explore issues of social inequity PLACES trumpet the very real impact and injustice portrayed in Spanish-language children’s literature. Her dreams would be COBE Building of gifts to the university. impossible without a scholarship from the McNair Scholars Program through the Center A new building for the College of Here are the stories of those for Multicultural Education. “The scholarship Business and Economics, planned featured on the banners. provided me with support to continue my for the corner of Capitol Boulevard studies and [eventually] pursue a graduate and University Drive, will provide For more details, visit www. degree,” she says. a world-class facility for a boisestate.edu/campaign/. world-class college. In addition Passionate — Julia McCoy and to focusing on graduate and Nicole Frane undergraduate programs that enjoy a national reputation For Julia McCoy and Nicole Frane, music for quality and innovation, it is a passion. Both young women play also will serve as a gateway flute and piccolo in the Keith Stein Blue to campus representing Thunder Marching Band and both rely on the thriving partnership scholarships. Despite the enormous time between the business commitment, they feel deep satisfaction in school, state government performing for Bronco fans, mentoring high and the business school students and representing the community. page 24 | focus | fall 2009 Norco Building When it opens this winter, the spacious new Norco Building will allow the university to educate more nursing students and turn away fewer highly qualified candidates. This is especially important in light of the severe nursing shortage predicted by the year 2020. In addition, integrating the academic Department of Nursing with the Student Health, Wellness and Counseling Center, which will share the building, will enhance the quality of the learning environment. Stueckle Sky Center PROGRAMS The Stueckle Sky Center offers Boise’s I nnovator — Peter Müllner grandest view of the downtown skyline, Using high-tech instruments in the Boise the Boise foothills, the Boise State campus State Center for Materials Characterization, and Bronco Stadium’s famous blue turf. including the Analytical Transmission But there’s more to the popular new sky Electron Microscope or the X-ray optimize suites than meets the eye. Not only do Diffractometer, both academic and industry a closed fuel the facility’s suites, loge boxes and club researchers are able to study the atomic cycle for nuclear energy production. seats add to the viewing pleasure of the structure of substances on a scale well That means waste will be eliminated as university’s football fans, they also provide below that registered by the human eye. everything generated in the course of spectacular event venues for community Center director Peter Müllner says this is production is reused, recycled or processed organizations. The state-of-the-art facility a vital tool for industry, especially when to be non-hazardous. This is just the latest opened in fall 2008 and is named for Boise for problems like a newly developed of Russell’s inventions. She currently holds State benefactors Duane and Lori Stueckle. solar cell that’s responding oddly or a 17 patents — three for which Boise State is computer chip that is failing. Many small the assignee. to mid-size businesses rely on Boise State as a vital partner in their research and M entor — Anika Smulovitz development processes. In addition, undergraduate students get Since coming to Boise State in 2003, hands-on experience often associate art metals professor Anika reserved only for graduate Smulovitz has resurrected the Idaho Metal students at other universities. Arts Guild, encouraged service-learning projects, established an annual auction of I nventor — Dale student work at a local jewelry gallery and Russell created a visiting artists program. “All of Nuclear waste is nasty stuff — these activities affect students and create hazardous to humanity and the passion and interest in the field,” she environment. If Dale Russell, says. “To see a student who has very little a professor in the Department self-esteem learn to use power equipment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and create amazing objects filled with has her way, disposing of it will content and thought, to see them grow and be a thing of the past. Russell is develop self-confidence — that is why I working with the Idaho National love to teach.” Laboratory to develop and

boise state university | focus | page 25 giving back The Gift That Keeps on Giving Alumni and friends can elect to make financial contributions to deductible gifts of about $500 directly to the Foundation, and Boise State in many ways. A gift of life insurance is one option the Foundation pays the premiums. As an additional bonus, that can enable individuals to make a larger contribution than Northwestern Mutual matches his $500 gift annually. otherwise possible. Danny Richards and Dennis Ward are two alumni who have chosen to make a difference for the future Ward, who received his B.A. in elementary education in 1973, is through gifts of life insurance. owner and principal of D & DW Associates in Olympia, Wash. An active volunteer with the Boise State Who knew that young alumnus Alumni Association, Ward has been Richards, at the ripe old age of 26, a significant leader in establishing could make a gift commitment of the Puget Sound Alumni Chapter. more than $100,000? His gift of life As a business insurance consultant, insurance allowed him to do just he also is keenly aware of the that. Richards, who received his many advantages life insurance B.A. in history in December 2008, can have for families and charities. is a financial representative with He established his life insurance The Northwestern Mutual Financial planned gift for Boise State many Network in Boise. He and Jennifer years ago and is now working with Neil, CFRE, at the Boise State Office Neil to give presentations to alumni of Gift Planning, designed a plan and friends of Boise State. The Danny Richards Dennis Ward whereby Richards established a life presentation addresses the benefits, insurance policy and made the Boise State University Foundation rationale and choices individuals have when considering a life the owner and 100 percent beneficiary. He makes annual tax- insurance policy with their alma mater as the ultimate beneficiary.

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Membership Supports Education Contact us today for membership eligibility! page 26 | focus | fall 2009 sports P laying With Heart By Sherry Squires

There’s a whole other breed of Bronco athlete out there. They don’t play on the famous blue field, don’t draw scores of fans and aren’t awarded athletic scholarships. But their pride and passion run deep.

“I play purely because I love the sport,” says Dalton Smith, a member of the men’s ice hockey team and one of 400 student athletes at Boise State who participate in club sports.

Club sports fill a void between intramural sports and sanctioned collegiate sports, says program organizer Alain Rodrigue. Intramural sports are played in-house among Boise State students. Club sports athletes represent the blue and orange against other schools. Karl LeClarr Karl Dalton’s team plays as part of the west division of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. It includes 170 universities across the nation. There are 35-40 games per year with the possibility of advancing to regional or even national playoffs.

“Most of our club sports student athletes were very involved in high school sports,” Rodrigue says. “This is an opportunity for them to compete and still have that structure in their lives.”

Club sports require great dedication. The students develop and govern their own teams and must pay to play — sometimes hundreds of dollars. The program is partially funded by student fees, but student athletes fill in with fundraisers to cover travel and other expenses.

Ashley Goodell not only plays on the women’s club volleyball team, she also is president. The senior mass communication major spends about 15 hours a week running it, plus practice and play time. She helped launch the program two years ago after coming to Boise State from Pocatello High School.

“We’re paying a coach now and we come together every week and play our hearts out,” Goodell says. “I really care about the sport and want to see it grow here at Boise State for years to come.”

The 28 current club sports programs range from baseball and soccer to paintball and angling. Many have come online in the past few years — the newest COLLEGE OF EDUCATION sports under development include water polo, Serving professionals through masters’ degree programs in Bilingual Education/ESL, archery and, perhaps, women’s rugby. Counseling, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership, Early Childhood Studies, Educational Technology, Exercise and Sports Studies, Reading, and Special “It’s an exciting time for club sports,” Rodrigue says. Education. EdD in Curriculum & Instruction. “There’s a whole family of Broncos out there and I don’t think a lot of people know they’re here.” For information, visit our website at: http://education.boisestate.edu/grad/

boise state university | focus | page 27 alumni Alumni Profile Andrea Evans became involved with the Boise State Alumni Association to help it grow both in the number of students it reaches and in nationwide prominence. “It’s a way for me to get involved with people

Allison Corona who have this common Andrea evans Become a Bronco for Life goal.” Since 2003, she has served as chair of the Bronco The privileges and benefits that come Library, discounts at the Bookstore Advocacy Network with being a Boise State Bronco need and Outdoor Rental center, lunch at F aVOrite College committee, member of not end when your college experience the Bronco Zone in the Stueckle Sky Memory: “I loved does. As a member of the Alumni Center and much more. Go to alumni. the executive committee the Political Science Association, you can maintain and boisestate.edu to learn more about and board secretary. She Department – it was rediscover enriching, meaningful membership benefits and the Bronco currently is president of connections that enhance your quality For Life membership levels. the board of directors. small and I knew of life today and well into the future. Her degrees include a all my professors Your membership dollars will help bachelor’s in political personally. It felt The Alumni Association’s new Bronco fund alumni programs and student science in 1999 and an like a family.” For Life membership program allows scholarships that help ensure MPA in 2002. your alumni dues to accumulate the success, honor the traditions toward a paid-up life membership. and enrich the experience that is As senior director of business development for Bronco for Life levels start as low as Boise State University. Be a part of Corrections Corporations of America, she has $25, with full alumni benefits. something that is forever a part of you, been actively involved with the Political Science and together we’ll shine. Whether you’re a diehard football Department, working with students who are fan or you’re interested in academic Check alumni.boisestate.edu in interested in political jobs. and scholarship programs, there’s December to see details of the new something for every Bronco alum. membership program. Evans serves for a very simple reason: “I felt like Alumni membership opens the door Boise State University had awarded me such a great to enjoying the Rec Center, Albertsons Join. Belong. Shine. future. This is one of the ways I could give back.” Calendar of Events, 2009-2010 December May Saturday, 5, Bronco Bash Wednesday, 19, Quarterly before New Mexico State Alumni Association board Our game, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. meeting, 4-5:30 p.m. February June Bronco Wednesday, 3, Alumni Thursday, 24, Magic Valley Association Annual Alumni Chapter brings Network Meeting of the members Bronco football coach Chris and board, 4-5:30 p.m. Petersen to Twin Falls Tuesday, 16, Alumni Legacy Scholarship applications due April TBA, Top Ten Scholars Banquet

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Bronco Advocacy Alumni Links Network Founded by the Alumni Association in 2007 cost of tuition stays low so that future to inform and engage alumni and friends students have the same opportunity as to advocate on behalf of Boise State previous generations for a high quality, University, the Bronco Advocacy Network life-changing experience at Boise State. (BAN) is turning to its membership to expand the reach of its network and power Tough times also force attention to of its message. the changes necessary to increase efficiency. A state system for higher For 2009 and 2010, BAN has taken up the education, under the governance of the cause of promoting the university’s policy State Board of Education, that treats all and budget priorities to the Legislature public universities the same in terms of and public officials through its member state regulations for human resources, network. Filling this need is an essential insurance, construction and capital mission of the Alumni Association, and it is equipment purchases is needed to create for this purpose that BAN is increasing its operating, administrative and financial “What you outreach efforts to all Boise State alumni, efficiencies. Idaho’s current system need to with particular emphasis on recruiting new contains unnecessary and excessive membership and drawing alumni members bureaucracy for Boise State, a burden know” into the BAN sphere. that is not shared by the University of Idaho. A level playing field and • How to join Recent news of continued state holdbacks, consistent accountability to one coupled with the reduction to Boise governing authority for all public State’s budget last year, draws attention universities will set the stage for • Member Benefits to funding for public higher education in higher education in Idaho to grow Idaho and the need to mitigate further and flourish in a manner that best • Bronco Bash/Football reductions by whatever means necessary, serves the citizens of our state. Viewing Parties including tapping the state’s rainy day accounts. State support for Boise State BAN leadership supports Boise comprises approximately 22 percent State’s agenda and is asking for • Legacy Scholarship of the university’s overall budget, and alumni members to be ready to Application continued support is critical to serve the contact their representatives record number of students enrolling in when these issues are in front • Chapters/Bronco recent years and to meet the educational of the Legislature. For more and economic needs of a growing Treasure information, visit the Bronco Contacts Valley, the region and nation. State Advocacy Network at http:// support also is essential to ensure that the alumni.boisestate.edu. • New Alumni Center plans 0.88% 4.35% Be A Fan F&A Other Recovery 1.39% Check us out 6.41% One-Time 14.04% Private Gifts, Sales & Serv of 22.47% Stimulus Grts & Contr Aux Ent General Account

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boise state university | focus | page 29 alumni was named the 2008 Ontario IN Chamber of Commerce Educator 2009 Homecoming of the Year. Bicknese has taught TOUCH for 39 years and has been at Ontario High School for the past 15. In addition to serving Award Recipients 1950s as band director at OHS, he VERLENA ORR, AA, arts arranges music for Boise State’s The annual and sciences, ’59, who lives Keith Stein Blue Thunder in Portland, Ore., produced a Marching Band and is a member Presidential documentary film featuring her of two other bands. Recognition Gala, 75-year-old rancher cousin. STEVEN R. HILL, BA, art Shot on location on the Camas held Oct. 3, education, ’70, had two original Prairie, the film features many paintings accepted into the recognized the of Orr’s poems. The work prestigious 24th annual Chelsea premiered in April at the Blue International Juried Fine Arts following alumni for Fox Theatre in Grangeville. Competition in New York in July. their outstanding Hill lives in the San Juan Islands of Washington State and is an achievements, 1960s artist and art workshop teacher. passion and vision. FRANK TUNING, diploma, ’62; BA, art education, ’67, LEON JENSEN, BBA, judged the 2009 entries for the accountancy, ’71, was hired as Clockwise from left : Dr. Bob Kustra, James M. Kerns, Alumni Service Award Nampa Art Guild’s 47th annual the New Plymouth city clerk in April. Previously, he worked for Barbara Buchan, Jennifer Williams, Trent Johnson, Recipients Spring Show held in May at the Nampa Civic Center. the Canyon County Planning & Tom Beitia, Susie Schumacher Zoning Department. Tom Beitia, BBA, manage- ment, ’84; BBA, economics, ANNE MILLBROOKE, BA, Distinguished Alumni ’84; MBA, ’87, senior vice 1970s history, ’73, published a 700- Award Recipients James M. Kerns, BS, criminal president/cash management MARK BEEBE, BA, page reference book titled justice, ’82, deputy chief of for Banner Bank. accountancy, ’70, is a retired “Abbreviations, Acronyms, Barbara Buchanan, BS, operations for the Boise Police judge who served in the and Alphabets of Aviation, A physical education, ’78, 2008 Susie Schumacher, AS, Department. magistrate courts in Power Guide to Contemporary and gold medalist, United States health information technology, County for 23 years and Historical Terms Found in Paralympic team. ’85; BS, health information Jennifer Williams, MA, was awarded the Service to Aviation Literature.” Her award- secondary education-art, ’77, management, ’00; MHS, ’05, T rent Johnson, BS, physical Education Award from the winning textbook, “Aviation retired high school art teacher revenue integrity officer for education, ’86, head basketball American Falls Education History,” in an updated edition, and adjunct professor of art for Saint Alphonsus Regional Medi- coach at Louisiana State Foundation. remains in print for its 10th year. cal Center in Boise. Boise State. Millbrooke lives in Bozeman, University. PAU L “Skip” BICKNESE, Mont. BM, music education, ’70,

page 30 | focus | fall 2009 JON UDA, BS, physical CEO of the Idaho Foodbank in JAKKI MOHR, BBA, CAR OL GARDNER, BM, Sherrets Bruno & Vogt LLC in education, ’75, was named Boise. Vauk was a development marketing, ’82, published music, ’83, assists and sings in Omaha, Neb., and was admitted executive director of director for Boise State and, the third edition of her book, the Emmett Multi-Church Choir, to practice before the U.S. campus security and police prior to that post, served as the “Marketing of High-Technology a group that puts on Christmas Supreme Court in connection services at Boise State. His executive director of the Micron Products and Innovations,” performances each season. with submitting a writ asking responsibilities include leading Technology Foundation. co-authored by Sanjit Sengupta Gardner has been singing with the court to review a Nebraska a comprehensive security and Stanley Slater. She also the group since it started in case on the law governing R OBERT YERZY, BA, operation, working with the was appointed as a regents 1995. declarations of incapacity. elementary education, ’80, Boise Police Department as professor at the University of is involved with Global MAUREEN BOYLE, BFA, ROBERT M. MILLER, BA, the contract administrator for Montana in Missoula. Neighborhood Student visual art, ’84, was the featured criminal justice, ’85, was campus services and acting Ambassadors, which launched DENNIS BRADY, BBA, guest artist at the Nampa Art awarded the Legion of Merit as liaison with other law the Just One Box Compassion finance, ’83, is a special agent Guild Demo Night. Boyle’s work at Camp Pendleton, Calif., enforcement agencies and in Action project to raise for the FBI in Dallas, Texas, also was shown at the Artisan after retiring from 32 years private security companies for funds to ship boxes of books and is assigned to the North Gallery in Eagle and the Artizen of service with the Marine campus events and venues. to Looc Elementary School in Texas Joint Terrorism Task Gallery in McCall. Boyle lives in Corps. The Legion of Merit is JAN BYERS-KIRSCH, the Philippines. Yerzy lives in Force, SWAT and HMRT. He is a Meridian. awarded to servicemen serving BA, elementary education, Guangzhou, China. defensive tactics instructor and in “an extremely difficult duty DIANA VOGT, BA, ’76, Ed.D., curriculum and a licensed paramedic, and has performed in an unprecedented SHANNON BLAINE, BBA, communication, ’84, is a instruction, ’08, had the been deployed internationally and clearly exceptional marketing, ’81, was promoted new member of the law firm article, “Idaho’s Design for several times. manner.” to human resources director for Paraeducator Effectiveness,” Stinker Stores and its affiliated published in the March companies, Arrowrock Supply 2009 edition of The School and Westpoint Transportation. Administrator. Byers-Kirsch Blaine joined the Boise is an assistant professor of company in 2005 and is now education at Adams State responsible for staffing, College in Alamosa, Colo. organizational and employee ERWIN SONNENBERG, development, benefits BS, medical technology, ’77, management, employment and the Ada County coroner, was labor relations, and safety and a featured forensics expert compliance management. at a DNA conference for T ERRY GARDNER, BM, genealogists held in Boise in Tickets On Sale Now! music, ’81, directs the Emmett May. Multi-Church Choir, a group CATHERINE CHERTUDI, that puts on Christmas BS, environmental health, performances each season. ’79, of Boise, received the Gardner has been leading the 2009 American Public Works group since it started in 1995. Association Jennings-Randolph ALICE SCHENK, BS, physical Fellowship funded by the education, ’81, completed her Eisenhower Institute to study first year as adjunct faculty water management issues in teaching health and fitness Australia. She also had a paper classes for the College of selected for presentation at Southern Idaho at the Mini- the International Public Works Cassia Outreach Center in Conference in Melbourne, Burley. Schenk also completed Australia, in September. the Ford Ironman in Tempe, JULIA COCHRAN, AS, Ariz., with a time of 13:39. nursing, ’79, a U.S. Army DAVE GRATtoN, BA, political reservist, graduated from the November 17 December 18 & 19 science, ’82, a partner in the Officer Basic Leadership Course Boise law firm of Evans Keane in February. She is assigned LLP, was appointed by Gov. C.L. at Fort Bragg, N.C., for Civilian “Butch” Otter to a new seat on Affairs School and will be the Idaho Court of Appeals. deployed to Iraq with the 351st Civilian Affairs Group. STEVEN HALL, BBA, economics, ’82, published a BBA, accounting, DON DRUM, book titled, “Lost American ’79, was promoted to executive Principles.” Hill lives in Seward, director of the Public Employee Alaska. Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI). Drum previously WILLIAM LAURANCE, BS, served as deputy director, biology, ’82, along with friend where he oversaw day-to-day and fellow scientist Thomas Lovejoy, accepted one of the operations of PERSI. He lives in Get single-show January 9 & 10 Meridian. highest honors in the field of tickets at May 11 ecology, the BBVA Foundation IdahoTickets.com Frontiers of Knowledge Award Season Tickets 1980s in Ecology and Conservation Select-a-Seat GE ORGE TotoRICA, BBA, Biology in Spain. The two were (208) 426-1110 Still Available management, ’80, designed recognized for their work on a Morrison Center 50 and constructed the Freedom project designed to measure box office From $76 ! Course at Falcon Crest Golf Club the impacts of fragmentation Info: ADULT HUMOR AND Season: in Boise. The 36-hole course on tropical forests in Brazil. The LANGUAGE, COMIC www.BroadwayIn VULGARITIES, A Christmas Carol opened in August and is named award is the largest of its kind SEXUAL CONTENT, Boise.com AND FULL PUPPET for the brave soldiers serving internationally and includes a NUDITY. NOT The Wedding Singer prize greater than $520,000. RECOMMEND- our country. ED FOR Avenue Q Laurance lives in Balboa, CHILDREN. Avenue Q has not been authorized KAREN VAUK, BA, elementary Panama. or approved in any manner by The Call 208.426.1609 Jim Henson Company or Sesame education, ’80; MA education, Workshop, which have no responsi- bility for its content. ’85, was named president and BroadwayInBoise.com February 8–10

boise state university | focus | page 31 alumni SHARON BROWN, BA, unites hospital and health-care MICHAEL CONGER, BA, anthropology, ’86, had leaders. She has been the CEO communication, ’98, had an two poems published on at West Valley Medical Center exhibition during the Ketchum cowboypoetry.com, and one since 2006. Gallery Walk at the Boulder poem, “Hand on the Wheel,” Mountain Clayworks Studio and ALAN LLOYD, BS, geology, published in an issue of I.M. Gallery, which featured his Raku ’94, of Stan Lloyd Drilling LLC in Cowgirl magazine. Poetry for ceramic pieces and images of Elba, was awarded a contract to both these publications must the Raku process. Conger lives drill Malad City’s new culinary be accepted by a review panel. in Ketchum. well. The well is one of two Brown is employed at Boise planned for the city’s new water PA Tti ALLEN, AS, radiologic State in the Department of system. science, ’99, BS, radiologic Communication. science, general studies WESE POW LL, BBA, BS, emphasis, ’04, received STEVE JOHNSON, marketing/finance, ’94, is the biology/secondary education, the 2008 Honored Alumni director of customer experience ’86, was named the 2009 Award from the Boise State for 1-800-Flowers. Powell is Nevada Teacher of the Year Department of Radiologic responsible for achieving the by the Nevada Department Sciences. Allen was recognized service level agreements of the of Education on behalf of the for her personal, professional various gourmet food and gift U.S. Council of State School and clinical contributions to the brands categories and manages Superintendents. Johnson medical imaging profession. all agents that interact with the has spent his entire 23-year Allen lives in Gooding. group’s customers. teaching career teaching SUE VAHLBERG, BAS, chemistry and AP chemistry. He CHRI IST NA MARTINEZ, BS, applied science, ’99, was works at Churchill County High biology, ’95, received her DVM named Gem County Chamber of School in Fallon, Nev. Wells from Colorado State University Commerce Ambassador of the Fargo Bank featured him on all and owns a veterinary hospital Month. She works as director 270 ATMs in the state. He also in Covina, Calif., where she of community and employee has received the Presidential works with small and exotic relations at Walter Knox Award for Excellence in Science animals. Martinez lives in Memorial Hospital in Emmett. Teaching and the RadioShack Azusa, Calif. National Teacher Award. RICH STUPPY, BBA, FRED BARTEL, BBA, management, ’95, was 2000s management, ’88, joined the promoted to vice president RICHARD STACEY, BA, Nampa office of Silverhawk of information technology philosophy, ’00, was elected Realty. He has been an operations at Keynetics Inc., partner in the firm Meulman Idaho real estate broker for a privately held technology Mollerup LLP in Boise. Stacey 16 years and specializes company in Boise. Stuppy’s is a construction law attorney in new construction, new responsibilities include with experience representing home communities, real leading the company’s local general contractors, estate finance and first-time and wide area networks as subcontractors, suppliers, homebuyers. well as telecommunication sureties and owners in all and information security BA, visual phases of litigation and in MELANIE FALES, operations. art, ’89, MA, education, art, drafting and negotiating ’96, was promoted to executive DONNA HOOPES, BAS, construction contacts. director for the Boise Art applied science, ’96, BS, CASEYY TA LOR, MBA, ’00, Museum. Fales has been with nursing, ’99, was recognized was hired by Home Federal the museum for 12 years and as an employee of the month Bank as a small business previously served as curator of at Clearwater Valley Hospital relationship manager in Nampa. education. in Orofino. She has served as a discharge planner since June DUSTAN BRISTOL, AAS, LTC ROBERT “Bob” 2008, working with patients culinary arts, ’01, won the top SANCHEZ, BA, criminal and family to ensure a smooth award in the Idaho Preferred justice, ’89, was promoted transition when they leave Chef Contest. Bristol is a to battalion commander of the hospital. Hoopes lives in chef and owner at Brick 29 in the U.S. Army Recruiting Kamiah. Nampa. Battalion in Baton Rouge. He JANELLE FINFROCK, BS, is in command of eight U.S. PETER TROY, AAS, culinary political science, ‘01 joined Army recruiting companies arts, ’96, was named chef Zarian, Midgley and Johnson, and 54 U.S. Army recruiting manager at West Valley Medical PLLC as a litigation paralegal stations covering the fours Center in Caldwell. at the Boise patent and states of Mississippi, Louisiana, CLAOL EEN P XTON, BA, intellectual property law firm. Tennessee and Kentucky. elementary education, ’97, received the Homedale TIFFANY MURRAY, BS, School District Award of criminal justice, ’01, joined 1990s Excellence from the Homedale the Bonners Ferry Police KEVIN KRAFT, BBA, trustees for her dedication Department as the second marketing, ’90, was promoted to teaching. Paxton started person to serve full-time on the to store director of Albertsons with the Canyon-Owyhee city police force. Murray spent in Emmett. Kraft began as a School Services Agency as a five years with the Ada County courtesy clerk while attending classroom assistant in 1976, Sheriff’s Department and one classes at Boise State; after continued to work for COSSA year with Nampa Police before receiving his degree, he was while she attained her degree, returning to her hometown of approached by the area vice and eventually became the Bonners Ferry. president about a career in the special education teacher for BENJAMIN STEINER, MA, corporation. Homedale Middle School. criminal justice, ’02, has KATHY MOORE, BBA, CHRI IST NE CANNON, BS, been hired as an assistant accountancy, ’91, was named biology, ’97, a criminalist with professor in the Department the Idaho Hospital Association’s the Nampa Police Department, of Criminology and Criminal chairman-elect. Moore was the was a featured expert at a DNA Justice at the University of secretary-treasurer of IHA, a conference for genealogists in South Carolina in Columbia, nonprofit trade association that Boise in May. S.C. page 32 | focus | fall 2009 BETH JOHNSON, MS, TORREY ROBERTS, BSM, the play, “The Importance of education/earth science, ’03, mechanical engineering, ’05, Being Earnest,” at the Emmett In has been hired as a visiting returned to the engineering Community Playhouse. He also The following Boise professor at the University team of FDJ Engineering and acted as Lane, the butler, in the State graduates were Memory of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Construction Inc. Roberts performance. Moore owns and recipients of the 2009 after completing her Ph.D. in worked for FDJ from 2002-2006 operates Hometown Studio and Idaho Women of the geology from Northern Illinois then worked as an electrician in Foundry in Emmett. Fall 2009 University. Hailey before returning to the Year Award given by the VALERIE A. AGOSTA, BA, SHAWN HUNTINGTON, BS, Boise firm. Idaho Business Review: social science, ’74; MBA, ’78, LISA SHINE, BA, social work, math, ’07, was hired as the Boise. ’03, joined ROSE Advocates in STEVE THOMETZ, BBA, wrestling coach for the Wood Sherry Bithell, MA, Weiser and City Life in Emmett, management, ’05, has opened River High School Wolverine secondary education, business DTORO HY V. BAIER, working part-time at each a Nampa branch of the family grapplers. Huntington worked education, ’80, Boise. diploma, arts and sciences, ’40; center as a contract counselor. business, S&R Services, a as a paraprofessional at Hailey AA, arts and sciences, ’42, Oak Karena Boesel, BBA, Through funded grants, Medicaid-certified company Elementary while coaching Harbor, Calif. marketing, ’93, Boise. Shine’s counseling services are that specializes in wheelchair football and wrestling at Wood VERNON “Doug” BAKER, free to victims of sexual and transport. River High School and wrestling Rachael Daigle, BA, AAS, industrial electronic tech, domestic violence. She lives in at Wood River Middle School. philosophy, ’01, BA, English, JED BROADBENT, BBA, ’08, Kuna. Cambridge. He also was the assistant coach ’01, Eagle. accountancy, ’06, joined Eide for the Wood River Wrestling THOMAS BETTGER, MBA, CHRT IS BAT , MBA, ’04, was Bailly LLP, a regional certified Club. L ynda Friesz-Martin, BA, ’84, Boise. promoted to branch manager at public accounting and business communication, ’82, Middleton. the Caldwell location for Idaho advisory firm in Boise, as a tax KATRINA FISHER, BBA, MARY BOWEN, BA, Sonia Galaviz (Ridley), BA, Independent Bank. He was a associate. marketing, ’08, graduated elementary education, ’67, elementary education, ’02, commercial loan officer at the from the U.S. Coast Guard Idaho. ABRAHAM JACKSON, BA, MA, education, curriculum and Nampa branch. Recruitment Training Center in DARRELL BURNETT, communication, ’06, was Cape May, N.J. She currently instruction, ’05, Nampa. MICHELE STRUTZ, MA, appointed color analyst for the diploma, arts and sciences, ’61, is a member of the U.S. Coast Raquel Guglielmetti, BBA, curriculum & instruction, ’04, Peak Sports Radio Network. Boise. Guard. finance, ’00, MBA, ’01, Boise was awarded the National Jackson will provide stats, DONALD BUZGA, BS, Science Foundation Graduate descriptions, and courtside JOHNNY NUNEZ, BA, T racy Hall, BS, political physical education, ’07, Boise. Research Fellowship Program commentary for Boise State communication, ’08, was a science, ’98, Boise. Award. Strutz is a first-year men’s basketball games. participant on the reality dating E LLEN BYRNES, diploma, arts Deb Riedel, BM, music, ’77, engineering education Ph.D. show, “The Cougar.” Nunez is a and sciences, ’35, Portland, JEFF JENSEN, BS, criminal MM, music, ’99, Boise. student at Purdue University. mixed-martial arts fighter living Ore. justice, ’06, is employed by the She is the first NSF graduate in Las Vegas. Homedale Police Department. TOM CAESAR, diploma, fellow in Purdue’s School of Jensen completed his field machine shop, ’74, Sandpoint. Engineering Education and training officer program with College of Education. She also LARYNN C LSON, BBA, the Boise Police Department. is the first graduate research Moved? New Job? accountancy, ’70, Boise. fellowship recipient awarded ERIC MOORE, BFA, visual Click “Update My Info” at alumni.boisestate.edu LINDA CARRICO, BA, in the area of Engineering art, ’06, designed the logo elementary education, ’70, Education by NSF. used in advertisements for Camas, Wash.

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boise state university | focus | page 33 alumni MARJORIE CARROW, alumna DAVT ID FLAT , CER, refr/ JEANNE HIGGINS, alumna MARGARET MOULTON, JEFF RODWELL, AS, non-degreed, Caldwell. heating & air conditioning, ’89, non-degreed, Boise. alumna non-degreed, Boise. marketing, ’75, Caldwell. Caldwell. WAAR LTER C TER, BS, JAY HILL, alumnus non- WILIAM “Bill” MURDOCK, MARGARET “Maggie” criminal justice, ’84, Boise. PENNY FLETCHER, AS, degreed, Meridian. BBA, accountancy, ’83, Kuna. ROOT, CER, practical nursing, marketing, ’92, Boise. DARRE L CASE, diploma, arts MARYRUTH HOBSON, THOMAS MURPHY, alumnus ’74, Boise. and sciences, ’63, Boise. DAVID GEORGIADES, BA, alumna non-degreed, Boise. non-degreed, Fruitland. PAU L SANDMEYER, AA, arts history, ’72; MPA, ’86, Boise. MINNIE “Lois” CHAFFEE, WAYNE C. HOOPES, AS, arts SYLVIA MURRAY, BA, visual and sciences, ’41, Boise. distinguished alumni award, JUDITH GIBSON, AS, arts and and sciences, ’68, Boise. arts, ’91, Boise. ’96, Boise, worked 32 years sciences, ’64, Pullman, Wash. DEBBIE HORNER, BA, alongside her husband, Gene, GARY OLDENBURG, alumnus JEFFERY GOOD, BBA, advertising design, ’84, the former president of Boise non-degreed, Meridian. accountancy, ’87, Boise. Bainbridge Island, Wash. Junior College, in developing ANNE PETERSON, alumna the college into Boise State JOHN GRAY, AA, arts and CRAIG HOWARD, BA, history, non-degreed, Boise. University. Dubbed the “Grand sciences, ’41, Boise. ’08, Boise. Lady of Boise State,” she KENNETH “Beaver” POE, EDWARD GROFF, AA, arts and PAUSS L JAN ON, MS, helped with many college alumnus non-degreed, Boise. sciences, ’54, Boise. instructional and performance fund drives and was district technology, ’95, St. Maries. HARRY POULSON, alumnus chairman for the March of non-degreed, Garden City. Dimes and Cancer Fund. WILLIAM JOY, AA, arts and sciences, ’51, Florence, Ore. J. QUINN, diploma, business RUTH CLARK, alumna non- and economics, ’59, Boise. LAWRENCE “Larry” degreed, Boise. WAYNE KETCHUM, CER, practical nursing, ’76, Elk River. JOSEPH RAUCH, AAS, SANDS¸ BBA, computer JANET COSHO, alumna non- horticulture, ’82; BS, criminal information systems, ’84, Boise. degreed, Boise. GARY KURTZ, CER, auto body, justice, ’90, Boise. ’72, Nyssa, Ore. GENEVE A. SALOVE, BBA, REGINA DAVLIN, AS, nursing, KEITH REED, diploma, arts accounting, ’78, Boise. ’92, Nampa. JACK KYLE, alumnus non- and sciences, ’50, Boise. degreed, Nampa. JAMES D. SEARS, AA, arts WILMA H. DAVIS, AA, arts ROBERT REMAKLUS, AA, and sciences, ’56, Boise. and sciences, ’62, Auburn, Calif. DAVID T. LAMBERT, alumnus arts and sciences, ’44, Cascade. non-degreed, Boise. HAROLD SEELEY, AAS, JOE DICKINSON, BBA, N.X RO ANNE GUNNER, BBA, GLENDON “Glen” electronics technology, ’73, accountancy, ’73, Twin Falls. management, ’89; MBA, ’94, BEN E. LAPEYRE II, AA, arts RICHARDS, AAS, electronics Tremonton, Utah. and sciences, ’57, Hillsboro, SHARON DINGER, TC, Boise. service tech, ’80, Boise. Ore. RUSSELL “Russ” SLOAN, business technology, ’98, JAMES HARRIS, MBA, ’84, ROSALIE ROBERTS, AAS, MBA, ’90, Boise. Nampa. Boise. RSOY LAR ON, AS, arts and drafting technology, ’77, Eagle. sciences, ’65, Coeur d’Alene. FRANKLIN “Frank” SMITH, RICHARD DOHNER, BBA, NIKKI HEMMESCH, MS, NANCY ROBINSON, BS, alumnus non-degreed, Boise. accountancy, ’72, Caldwell. geology, ’04, Golden, Colo. ARTABEE MARQUART, BA, math/secondary education, elementary education, ’74, BRUCE “Cham” ELINOR EAKIN, AA, arts and ’93, Boise. ROBERT HERNANDEZ, CER, Boise. STODDARD, BS, construction sciences, ’41, Boise. industrial maintenance tech, JERRY RODMAN, BA, management, ’86, Long Beach, HELEN MORTON, AA, arts TED ECHOLS, AA, arts and ’82, Boise. accountancy, ’69; BBA, Calif. and sciences, ’36, Austin, sciences, ’48, Boise. computer information systems, Texas. ’96, Boise.

page 34 | focus | fall 2009 JAMES THOMASSON, diploma, arts and sciences, ’58, Sunset Beach, N.C. DALE THURSTON, BA, elementary education, ’72, Boise. BEVERLY M. WALKER, BBA, accounting, ’01, Boise. SHARON WALKER¸ AA, arts and sciences, ’53; BA, social work, ’71, Sandy, Utah. R OBERT WATSON, AA, arts and sciences, ’56, Boise. JOHN JENSEN, emeritus CLARICE WATSON, alumna associate dean, College of non-degreed, Boise. Education, 1969-2000. MICHAEL LLOYD WAYBRIGHT, BA, history, ’98, Eagle. L EROY WEBER, diploma, arts and sciences, ’53, Meridian. • Mexico JULIETTE “Judy” Travel with Boise State WICKBERG, BA, social • Scandinavia & St. Petersburg science/secondary education, ’68, Boise. this year. • New York MARI T N WOLPERT, alumnus non-degreed, Boise. Call or email to join our mailing list for RAY LEWIS, (above, left) MAR ILYN WRAY, BA, criminal emeritus coach of football, updates and new programs as they become available. justice, ’91; BA, social work ’94, track and wrestling. 1956-1994. Longmont, Colo. Call: (208) 426-3293 JANEY YENOR, BA, elementary education, ’67; Email: [email protected] MA, elementary education, ’74, Visit: boisestate.edu/extendedstudies/ Boise. studytours EXTENDED STUDIES Faculty and Staff OSHER PHYLLIS CARNAHAN, emeritus administrative assistant, Dean’s Office, College JEFFERY PELOQUIN, LIFELONG LEARNING of Arts & Sciences, 1969-1994. assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, 2003-2009. MARY COziNE, emeritus INSTITUTE secretary, Department of J OAN SUEDMEYER, Counselor Education, 1972- emeritus associate professor, 1985. Department of Elementary Education, retired 1996. JOHN TAKEHARA, emeritus professor, Department of Art, 1968-2009.

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boise state university | focus | page 35 last page JOIN US P ass ng the Torch BRENDA THORPE Dec. 5: Last home football game, Boise State vs. New Mexico State Brenda Thorpe, ’01 My fondest memories of Boise State center on the many enduring Dec. 6: Holiday Concert, featuring relationships I formed during my time as a student Boise State choirs and ensembles — while living in Morrison Hall, studying in the Anthropology and Instructional and Performance Dec. 18: Winter Commencement Technology departments, and through the many Dec. 21-Jan 14: Winter intersession dance classes and performances in which I term participated. Dec. 30: Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl The most significant relationship I formed at Boise State was with my now husband of eight years, Jan. 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Idaho Ben. We met while taking the same modern dance Human Rights Celebration class. It was through our common interest in dance and also through the opportunities we were given as students to create our own choreography Jan. 19: Spring semester classes begin that we were able to develop our long-lasting relationship. Jan. 30: Discover Engineering Day Since leaving Boise State and entering the “real world,” I am very fortunate to be involved in the Rainy City Bronco’s Alumni Chapter leadership team, Feb. 16: Distinguished Lecture through which I have formed new connections to people here in the greater Series featuring Steve Fainaru Portland area. Our common background as Boise State alumni has opened the door to new friendships and business contacts that I anticipate will last for a very long time. L ooking back

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