Satellite in a box | Glacier girls

Spring 2016

For alumni and friends of the University of Alaska Fairbanks UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS

INTERIM CHANCELLOR Michael Powers

VICE CHANCELLOR FOR UNIVERSITY AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT Mike Sfraga ’, ’

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Michelle Renfrew ’ AURORA MAGAZINE

MANAGING EDITOR Kim Davis EDITORS Interviews by Kim Davis Sam Bishop Tori Tragis ’, ’

DESIGNERS Kari Halverson n fall 2014, we asked several members of #NanookNation — freshmen, grad students, Venus Sung ’, ’

CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER sta , faculty and new alumni — to participate in a rst-year portrait project. We took Todd Paris ’

PRODUCTION SPECIALIST their photos and asked them why they came to UAF. We checked in with them again Andrea Swingley

WEB DESIGNER the next fall to nd out how that rst year went. Sherrie Roberts ’ I

AURORA ADVISORY BOARD Andy Angaiak Joan Braddock ’, ’, ’ Michael Campbell ’, ’, ’ Amber Darland Jordan ’ This sketch and the one on page  were done by Gabby Katsma, a member of the  Girls on Ice David Marusek expedition on the Gulkana Glacier. The story about their adventure, including excerpts from diaries of Charlene Ostbloom ’ Paul Reichardt some of the young women, starts on page . Lorna Shaw ’, ’ Peggy Shumaker A Nanook’s fi rst year  Ice teens By Kim Davis By Tori Tragis ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD  e Girls on Ice program takes nine Dani Bickford ’ Several students, faculty Michael Campbell ’, ’, ’ teenage girls from all over the country, Gail Dabaluz ’ and sta illuminate their puts them on a glacier in Alaska, and Jim Dixon ’, ’  rst year at UAF, while teaches them the science of ice, the art Wayne Donaldson ’ Sam Enoka ’ alumni talk about their of observation — and about themselves. Jason Gootee ’  rst year on the job a er Shannon McCarthy ’  A hitchhiker’s guide to low-Earth Jordan Shilling ’, ’ graduation. orbit Peter Van Flein ’ By Sam Bishop Rhonda Widener ’ A student team built a tiny satellite and brought it to launch in October Produced by Marketing and Departments 2015.  ey haven’t heard from their Communications. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not  Briefl y cubesat since, but that doesn’t negate necessarily refl ect o cial positions of News from around our campuses the University of Alaska Fairbanks. the accomplishment or lessons they learned. Send comments or letters to the editor  On the shelf to [email protected] or to Books by alumni P.O. Box , Fairbanks, AK , or call --. We reserve the  Full frame Volume No.  right to edit for grammar and length. Scenes from UAF Visit us on the web at www.uaf.edu/ Published twice a year for alumni and aurora/.  Social connections friends of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Stay in touch with UAF UAF photos by Todd Paris unless UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution. otherwise noted. Class notes photos provided by alumni unless otherwise  Class notesIn memoriam noted. / News about alumni and friends  Nanook Nook Submissions from alumni students and friends UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS

INTERIM CHANCELLOR Michael Powers

VICE CHANCELLOR FOR UNIVERSITY AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT Mike Sfraga ’, ’

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Michelle Renfrew ’ AURORA MAGAZINE

MANAGING EDITOR Kim Davis EDITORS Interviews by Kim Davis Sam Bishop Tori Tragis ’, ’

DESIGNERS Kari Halverson n fall 2014, we asked several members of #NanookNation — freshmen, grad students, Venus Sung ’, ’

CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER sta , faculty and new alumni — to participate in a  rst-year portrait project. We took Todd Paris ’

PRODUCTION SPECIALIST their photos and asked them why they came to UAF. We checked in with them again Andrea Swingley

WEB DESIGNER the next fall to  nd out how that  rst year went. Sherrie Roberts ’ I

AURORA ADVISORY BOARD Andy Angaiak Joan Braddock ’, ’, ’ Michael Campbell ’, ’, ’ Amber Darland Jordan ’ This sketch and the one on page  were done by Gabby Katsma, a member of the  Girls on Ice David Marusek expedition on the Gulkana Glacier. The story about their adventure, including excerpts from diaries of Charlene Ostbloom ’ Paul Reichardt some of the young women, starts on page . Lorna Shaw ’, ’ Peggy Shumaker A Nanook’s fi rst year  Ice teens By Kim Davis By Tori Tragis ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD  e Girls on Ice program takes nine Dani Bickford ’ Several students, faculty Michael Campbell ’, ’, ’ teenage girls from all over the country, Gail Dabaluz ’ and sta illuminate their puts them on a glacier in Alaska, and Jim Dixon ’, ’  rst year at UAF, while teaches them the science of ice, the art Wayne Donaldson ’ Sam Enoka ’ alumni talk about their of observation — and about themselves. Jason Gootee ’  rst year on the job a er Shannon McCarthy ’  A hitchhiker’s guide to low-Earth Jordan Shilling ’, ’ graduation. orbit Peter Van Flein ’ By Sam Bishop Rhonda Widener ’ A student team built a tiny satellite and brought it to launch in October Produced by Marketing and Departments 2015.  ey haven’t heard from their Communications. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not  Briefl y cubesat since, but that doesn’t negate necessarily refl ect o cial positions of News from around our campuses the University of Alaska Fairbanks. the accomplishment or lessons they learned. Send comments or letters to the editor  On the shelf to [email protected] or to Books by alumni P.O. Box , Fairbanks, AK , or call --. We reserve the  Full frame Volume No.  right to edit for grammar and length. Scenes from UAF Visit us on the web at www.uaf.edu/ Published twice a year for alumni and aurora/.  Social connections friends of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Stay in touch with UAF UAF photos by Todd Paris unless UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution. otherwise noted. Class notes photos provided by alumni unless otherwise  Class notesIn memoriam noted. / News about alumni and friends  Nanook Nook Submissions from alumni students and friends Carie Green Age 38, hometown: Wichita, Kansas 2014 2014 2015 Assistant professor of education

“When I visited Alaska 14 years ago, I didn’t want to leave at the end of the summer. I got o the ferry to [Prince Rupert] twice on the way out, but I was worried about the winter with my two dogs so I eventually le . When this position came open it described me so well — my background working with indigenous communities, my research interests on place iden- tity development and environmental education — so I applied. I feel like I’m in a place where there’s potential to do some- thing great, even though I don’t know what that is yet. It’s exciting. A poem I wrote in 1997 is about everything having its place and that’s how I feel. I was able to do a really great research project this summer, taking young children from the Bunnell House [the child care center on campus] out to the forest wearing GoPros to collect and analyze their own data. I’m not sure there would have been a more perfect environment to do that sort of project Destination anywhere else but here. UAF rocks.” By Carie Green

Everything has its place And when taken away It loses its face An object occupies a space For a limited time 2015 In this world of disgrace Movement is only natural Evon Peter ’98 In a world of such high pace Age 39, hometown: Arctic Village and Fairbanks, Alaska But we can’t forget the atmosphere That the object should appear Vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education Because without its setting Its meaning would disappear “A year ago, I realized I had a responsibility to o er my leader- fell ill and passed away in his late 40s, he did so much for our As we spin around this sphere Objects lay in disarray for years ship to the broader Alaska community, to build upon the work I people and le a tremendous legacy during his short life. It’s a One picked it up and moved it was doing through the private company and nonpro t I started reminder to me and an inspiration of why it’s so important to And forgot it belonged somewhere with my wife. I preferred to stay in Fairbanks, so the vice pursue postsecondary education for our people and continue to Now it seems natural chancellor job was a great  t. I felt that it was cra ed to meet have commitment of service to our people and our community. That the fl ower should grow here my skill set, knowledge and background. I can inspire younger  is past year I experienced a dramatic learning curve, But as we journey into the past This blossoming seed did not appear Alaskans to attend UAF and see directly its bene ts, not only for having to spread my wings across the whole expanse of edu- As time takes its path their own life but in how their life can be a contribution to the cational, workforce development and research opportunities And we migrate further and further from where state in a broader sense. I could also help build upon the  eld of at the university and begin to understand all we do here. It far The Creator set it from his hands indigenous studies at UAF and throughout the state. exceeded my expectations. One day I am meeting with clima- And knew it would travel from there  e photo of John Fredson, the  rst Denaa (Athabascan) tologists, the next day geologists, the next psychologists, all in As the decades take their toll college graduate, who is Gwich’in like myself, was gi ed to me di erent departments and research centers, immersed in con- The objects become less whole Sinking from reality by his granddaughter Diana Campbell [a sta member at the versations about the cutting edge of the work we’re doing here. And depleting in their souls Geophysical Institute] when I was appointed to the vice chan-  e blending of the exploration of academic and workforce As we depart further from the Creator’s face cellor position. He symbolizes the  rst person in the Interior development, and being embedded in the management and We seem to forget and the Gwich’in nation to bridge a path between postsecond- administration of the institution, has really helped to broaden Everything has its place ary education and our people’s lives. He helped establish our my horizons. It is an honor to serve in this capacity and help be But as evolve through the age Objects are masked with a new face tribe’s 1.8 million-acre Venetie Indian Reserve. Even though he a part of shaping the future at UAF.” In and out of ordinary space.

2 aurora | spring 2016 Carie Green Age 38, hometown: Wichita, Kansas 2014 2014 2015 Assistant professor of education

“When I visited Alaska 14 years ago, I didn’t want to leave at the end of the summer. I got o the ferry to [Prince Rupert] twice on the way out, but I was worried about the winter with my two dogs so I eventually le . When this position came open it described me so well — my background working with indigenous communities, my research interests on place iden- tity development and environmental education — so I applied. I feel like I’m in a place where there’s potential to do some- thing great, even though I don’t know what that is yet. It’s exciting. A poem I wrote in 1997 is about everything having its place and that’s how I feel. I was able to do a really great research project this summer, taking young children from the Bunnell House [the child care center on campus] out to the forest wearing GoPros to collect and analyze their own data. I’m not sure there would have been a more perfect environment to do that sort of project Destination anywhere else but here. UAF rocks.” By Carie Green

Everything has its place And when taken away It loses its face An object occupies a space For a limited time 2015 In this world of disgrace Movement is only natural Evon Peter ’98 In a world of such high pace Age 39, hometown: Arctic Village and Fairbanks, Alaska But we can’t forget the atmosphere That the object should appear Vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education Because without its setting Its meaning would disappear “A year ago, I realized I had a responsibility to o er my leader- fell ill and passed away in his late 40s, he did so much for our As we spin around this sphere Objects lay in disarray for years ship to the broader Alaska community, to build upon the work I people and le a tremendous legacy during his short life. It’s a One picked it up and moved it was doing through the private company and nonpro t I started reminder to me and an inspiration of why it’s so important to And forgot it belonged somewhere with my wife. I preferred to stay in Fairbanks, so the vice pursue postsecondary education for our people and continue to Now it seems natural chancellor job was a great  t. I felt that it was cra ed to meet have commitment of service to our people and our community. That the fl ower should grow here my skill set, knowledge and background. I can inspire younger  is past year I experienced a dramatic learning curve, But as we journey into the past This blossoming seed did not appear Alaskans to attend UAF and see directly its bene ts, not only for having to spread my wings across the whole expanse of edu- As time takes its path their own life but in how their life can be a contribution to the cational, workforce development and research opportunities And we migrate further and further from where state in a broader sense. I could also help build upon the  eld of at the university and begin to understand all we do here. It far The Creator set it from his hands indigenous studies at UAF and throughout the state. exceeded my expectations. One day I am meeting with clima- And knew it would travel from there  e photo of John Fredson, the  rst Denaa (Athabascan) tologists, the next day geologists, the next psychologists, all in As the decades take their toll college graduate, who is Gwich’in like myself, was gi ed to me di erent departments and research centers, immersed in con- The objects become less whole Sinking from reality by his granddaughter Diana Campbell [a sta member at the versations about the cutting edge of the work we’re doing here. And depleting in their souls Geophysical Institute] when I was appointed to the vice chan-  e blending of the exploration of academic and workforce As we depart further from the Creator’s face cellor position. He symbolizes the  rst person in the Interior development, and being embedded in the management and We seem to forget and the Gwich’in nation to bridge a path between postsecond- administration of the institution, has really helped to broaden Everything has its place ary education and our people’s lives. He helped establish our my horizons. It is an honor to serve in this capacity and help be But as evolve through the age Objects are masked with a new face tribe’s 1.8 million-acre Venetie Indian Reserve. Even though he a part of shaping the future at UAF.” In and out of ordinary space.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 3 Tushar Gupta Age 26, hometown: Hoshangabad, India 2014 Grad student, mining engineering

2015

2014 2015

“I’ve been working with the coal industry in India for two years. I want to learn more about how Jacob Harris of another state that starts with A. Maybe I’ll have a beard by to use low-grade coal for industrial purposes, and then I will return to India to apply what I’ve Age 20, hometown: Three Creeks, Arkansas next year. learned here. I became an RA in Moore Hall this fall. Freshmen are pretty I’d never seen snow in my life before coming here. But a er two months, it’s all the same. Sophomore standing, anthropology rowdy, especially when the toga dances come around [during  is is a photo of my goddess. She is in a temple 600 miles from my home. I traveled there every (archaeology emphasis) with minor in history Starvation Gulch, at the end of September] because they realize year and have carried her photo with me for eight years. She’s a source of inspiration and serenity. there are no parents around to restrict them. By the second She brought me here to UAF. “When I was seven I went to live with my current legal guard- semester they’re usually turned around.  ey realize they don’t My personality has completely changed over the past year.  ere’s a saying in India, ‘When ians. My life story could have been very di erent if I hadn’t gone have to make complete fools of themselves to have a good time. you’re a frog in your own well, the well is your world. When you come out of the well, you realize to live with them. My buddies thought I was crazy and awesome My parents surprised me by visiting in August. I didn’t real- the world is a bigger place.’ I wasn’t aware until I came here that there are bigger issues to be for moving to Alaska so they gave me this shirt to remind me ize how much I’d missed them until then.” addressed. I’ve learned two new skills I’d never done before, cooking and driving. My family had people doing those for us in India. A lot of wisdom has come in.”

2014 Jessica Zimmerman Mejia 2015

Age 23, hometown: Milford, Connecticut I was most worried about the winter, the cold, Grad student, glaciology worried whether Zeus would be OK, but we made it through just  ne. I’ve had him since he was a puppy, “I came here because UAF has one of the best glaciology pro- eight years, and he’s traveled with me from Con- grams. Other universities may have only one or two professors necticut to Texas and drove up here with me from researching glaciers so there aren’t as many options for special- Dallas. izing. I wasn’t sure what I’d like so I wanted as many options  e people in Fairbanks are really great. I just as possible. It’s a great program. I de nitely made the right moved into a dry cabin with my husband, so getting decision coming here. the ‘real’ Alaska experience.” Tushar Gupta Age 26, hometown: Hoshangabad, India 2014 Grad student, mining engineering

2015

2014 2015

“I’ve been working with the coal industry in India for two years. I want to learn more about how Jacob Harris of another state that starts with A. Maybe I’ll have a beard by to use low-grade coal for industrial purposes, and then I will return to India to apply what I’ve Age 20, hometown: Three Creeks, Arkansas next year. learned here. I became an RA in Moore Hall this fall. Freshmen are pretty I’d never seen snow in my life before coming here. But a er two months, it’s all the same. Sophomore standing, anthropology rowdy, especially when the toga dances come around [during  is is a photo of my goddess. She is in a temple 600 miles from my home. I traveled there every (archaeology emphasis) with minor in history Starvation Gulch, at the end of September] because they realize year and have carried her photo with me for eight years. She’s a source of inspiration and serenity. there are no parents around to restrict them. By the second She brought me here to UAF. “When I was seven I went to live with my current legal guard- semester they’re usually turned around.  ey realize they don’t My personality has completely changed over the past year.  ere’s a saying in India, ‘When ians. My life story could have been very di erent if I hadn’t gone have to make complete fools of themselves to have a good time. you’re a frog in your own well, the well is your world. When you come out of the well, you realize to live with them. My buddies thought I was crazy and awesome My parents surprised me by visiting in August. I didn’t real- the world is a bigger place.’ I wasn’t aware until I came here that there are bigger issues to be for moving to Alaska so they gave me this shirt to remind me ize how much I’d missed them until then.” addressed. I’ve learned two new skills I’d never done before, cooking and driving. My family had people doing those for us in India. A lot of wisdom has come in.”

2014 Jessica Zimmerman Mejia 2015

Age 23, hometown: Milford, Connecticut I was most worried about the winter, the cold, Grad student, glaciology worried whether Zeus would be OK, but we made it through just  ne. I’ve had him since he was a puppy, “I came here because UAF has one of the best glaciology pro- eight years, and he’s traveled with me from Con- grams. Other universities may have only one or two professors necticut to Texas and drove up here with me from researching glaciers so there aren’t as many options for special- Dallas. izing. I wasn’t sure what I’d like so I wanted as many options  e people in Fairbanks are really great. I just as possible. It’s a great program. I de nitely made the right moved into a dry cabin with my husband, so getting decision coming here. the ‘real’ Alaska experience.” 2014 2015

2014 Stanley Edwin ’07, ’09, ’14 Age 55, hometown: Chalkyitsik and Fort Yukon, Alaska Grad student, atmospheric science

“I  rst came to UAF a er leaving eighth grade and getting my GED. I was too young, so I quit a er about a year, joined the military, got out, went home, lived life as expected in the village but never felt like I  t in. I came back to UAF, earned two asso- ciate degrees, then my bachelor’s.  e key was all the support I got, all the people telling me I could do it no matter what, helping me when I stumbled. I always wanted to be a physicist. My grandfather lived in the woods all his life. He could go outside, look around and tell you what the weather would be like the next day because he had 80 years of observation. I wouldn’t be able to do that today because of all the changes, the human impact on the Earth. In Alaska, we live in the northern hemisphere, so pretty much everything that goes up into the atmosphere or that comes down from space comes down on the northern and southern poles. With Erin Rose McGowan ’08, ’14 climate change there’s weather pattern changes so the skills of Age 28, hometown: Fairbanks, Alaska 2015 my grandfather are not attainable the way he did it. My objec- tive is to understand the atmosphere in Alaska, so one of my Purchasing and travel program analyst, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., Anchorage projects is studying funnel clouds. Biggest thing this past year is I almost died. I was hunting for “I was born and raised in Fairbanks, so I wanted to stay here for applied for an internship at Alyeska my senior year and got a geese and got thrown o a boat into the Tanana River. No life school. I  rst got an associate in process technology and worked job o er a erwards in the Anchorage o ce. jacket, wearing steel-toed boots, Carhartts and a thick leather as a mill operator for Pogo Gold Mine.  e pink hardhat was Anchorage is a big change but a good one. Outside my com- jacket.  ey say people don’t survive the Tanana. Well, they’re given to me by a friend at the mine who died just a few months fort zone. I told myself I’d give it a year and if I wasn’t happy I’d wrong. When I went o the boat I thought this was it. I didn’t later. While I’m in an o ce job now, I know I can take it out to look elsewhere, but it’s going to work out great. I got promoted try to swim anywhere, just tried to stay a oat.  e boat turned the  eld any time and stand out. in April to purchasing and travel program analyst, and bought around and I was hauled out. Lucky to be here. Guess I’m not A er two years at the mine I realized I’d need a bache- a condo in Anchorage, so I’m there to stay for a while. I still done yet!” lor’s degree if I wanted to get into any management jobs. I come back to Fairbanks as o en as I can.  is week I’m here to knew I wanted to stay in Alaska and work in one of our main see family, and I’m taking in the garden with my mom while industries — oil, gas, mining — on the coordination side of my dad’s out moose hunting. We’re doing lots of canning and operations support. Developing my interdisciplinary bachelor’s pickling.” degree helped me focus. I got a bachelor’s in technology and industry management through the School of Management. I

6 aurora | spring 2016 2014 2015

2014 Stanley Edwin ’07, ’09, ’14 Age 55, hometown: Chalkyitsik and Fort Yukon, Alaska Grad student, atmospheric science

“I  rst came to UAF a er leaving eighth grade and getting my GED. I was too young, so I quit a er about a year, joined the military, got out, went home, lived life as expected in the village but never felt like I  t in. I came back to UAF, earned two asso- ciate degrees, then my bachelor’s.  e key was all the support I got, all the people telling me I could do it no matter what, helping me when I stumbled. I always wanted to be a physicist. My grandfather lived in the woods all his life. He could go outside, look around and tell you what the weather would be like the next day because he had 80 years of observation. I wouldn’t be able to do that today because of all the changes, the human impact on the Earth. In Alaska, we live in the northern hemisphere, so pretty much everything that goes up into the atmosphere or that comes down from space comes down on the northern and southern poles. With Erin Rose McGowan ’08, ’14 climate change there’s weather pattern changes so the skills of Age 28, hometown: Fairbanks, Alaska 2015 my grandfather are not attainable the way he did it. My objec- tive is to understand the atmosphere in Alaska, so one of my Purchasing and travel program analyst, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., Anchorage projects is studying funnel clouds. Biggest thing this past year is I almost died. I was hunting for “I was born and raised in Fairbanks, so I wanted to stay here for applied for an internship at Alyeska my senior year and got a geese and got thrown o a boat into the Tanana River. No life school. I  rst got an associate in process technology and worked job o er a erwards in the Anchorage o ce. jacket, wearing steel-toed boots, Carhartts and a thick leather as a mill operator for Pogo Gold Mine.  e pink hardhat was Anchorage is a big change but a good one. Outside my com- jacket.  ey say people don’t survive the Tanana. Well, they’re given to me by a friend at the mine who died just a few months fort zone. I told myself I’d give it a year and if I wasn’t happy I’d wrong. When I went o the boat I thought this was it. I didn’t later. While I’m in an o ce job now, I know I can take it out to look elsewhere, but it’s going to work out great. I got promoted try to swim anywhere, just tried to stay a oat.  e boat turned the  eld any time and stand out. in April to purchasing and travel program analyst, and bought around and I was hauled out. Lucky to be here. Guess I’m not A er two years at the mine I realized I’d need a bache- a condo in Anchorage, so I’m there to stay for a while. I still done yet!” lor’s degree if I wanted to get into any management jobs. I come back to Fairbanks as o en as I can.  is week I’m here to knew I wanted to stay in Alaska and work in one of our main see family, and I’m taking in the garden with my mom while industries — oil, gas, mining — on the coordination side of my dad’s out moose hunting. We’re doing lots of canning and operations support. Developing my interdisciplinary bachelor’s pickling.” degree helped me focus. I got a bachelor’s in technology and industry management through the School of Management. I

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 7 Bryan Hall Age 27, hometown: Kernersville, North Carolina Rachel Blackwell ’06, ’12, ’14 Term instructor, violin “I was  nishing my doctorate at the University of Texas-Austin music faculty up here. It was made in 1863 by Gand Frères, a Age 30, hometown: Marietta, Georgia when one of my teachers told me about the faculty opening up famous French violin maker. Kindergarten teacher, Ladd Elementary, Fairbanks here. I’ve always loved to travel. It’s part of my adventurous I love it up here. I’m getting the chance to build something 2014 spirit, and growing up I always thought Alaska sounded pretty new in a place that already has a great musical tradition.  e “I  rst came here as an undergrad in 2003 from cool. Every day someone asks me if I’m ready for winter. People Music Department here is really personal, and I get free rein to Atlanta. I found UAF in a  espian Society maga- are more worried for me than I am. Turns out it wasn’t as bad as build my studio. Overall it’s a very positive thing.” zine. I chose it over other schools because I wanted I thought it would be. to go to a school where I could do it to learn it; at  e violin is on loan to me from my mentor at UT, Brian most schools freshmen can’t even try out for plays, Lewis. He wanted me to have something nice to represent the and I wanted to perform right away. Plus I got a talent scholarship to come here. Fairbanks has a very lively arts community. A er I got my bachelor’s in theater performance in 2006, I went to grad school in New York for a year and a half but decided to come back here. I started my MBA because I thought a business degree might give me some background to help launch my own performance business. A er my son was born in 2011, I worked at the 2014 Boys and Girls Club in the a er-school program and started thinking about teaching. I decided to get my teaching certi cate at UAF. It was hard to do a full year of full-time, unpaid work. Luckily my dad came up here to live with us so I wouldn’t need to pay for daycare. I got my certi cate in May 2014 and started teaching sixth grade at Joy Elementary the next fall. 2015 I started my second year there this fall, but four days 2015 into the school year I got moved to kindergarten at Ladd with just a day’s notice. Teaching kindergarten is a whole di erent everything but lots of fun. I’m way more exhausted at the end of the day with kin- dergarteners than I ever was with sixth-graders!”

8 aurora | spring 2016 Bryan Hall Age 27, hometown: Kernersville, North Carolina Rachel Blackwell ’06, ’12, ’14 Term instructor, violin “I was  nishing my doctorate at the University of Texas-Austin music faculty up here. It was made in 1863 by Gand Frères, a Age 30, hometown: Marietta, Georgia when one of my teachers told me about the faculty opening up famous French violin maker. Kindergarten teacher, Ladd Elementary, Fairbanks here. I’ve always loved to travel. It’s part of my adventurous I love it up here. I’m getting the chance to build something 2014 spirit, and growing up I always thought Alaska sounded pretty new in a place that already has a great musical tradition.  e “I  rst came here as an undergrad in 2003 from cool. Every day someone asks me if I’m ready for winter. People Music Department here is really personal, and I get free rein to Atlanta. I found UAF in a  espian Society maga- are more worried for me than I am. Turns out it wasn’t as bad as build my studio. Overall it’s a very positive thing.” zine. I chose it over other schools because I wanted I thought it would be. to go to a school where I could do it to learn it; at  e violin is on loan to me from my mentor at UT, Brian most schools freshmen can’t even try out for plays, Lewis. He wanted me to have something nice to represent the and I wanted to perform right away. Plus I got a talent scholarship to come here. Fairbanks has a very lively arts community. A er I got my bachelor’s in theater performance in 2006, I went to grad school in New York for a year and a half but decided to come back here. I started my MBA because I thought a business degree might give me some background to help launch my own performance business. A er my son was born in 2011, I worked at the 2014 Boys and Girls Club in the a er-school program and started thinking about teaching. I decided to get my teaching certi cate at UAF. It was hard to do a full year of full-time, unpaid work. Luckily my dad came up here to live with us so I wouldn’t need to pay for daycare. I got my certi cate in May 2014 and started teaching sixth grade at Joy Elementary the next fall. 2015 I started my second year there this fall, but four days 2015 into the school year I got moved to kindergarten at Ladd with just a day’s notice. Teaching kindergarten is a whole di erent everything but lots of fun. I’m way more exhausted at the end of the day with kin- dergarteners than I ever was with sixth-graders!”

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 9 Wylie Rogers ’08, ’14 Age 30, hometown: Fairbanks, Alaska CEO, Wylie Inc., www.thewyliepost.com 2014 2015 2014 2015 “Fairbanks is my hometown. I le home to play hockey my junior and senior year of high school in Michigan so I could pursue my dream of playing collegiate and pro hockey. Of all the schools on my list, I knew I could play as a freshman at UAF and Kilah Thom make an immediate it to my father, and he said, ‘You can’t go to school in Alaska.’ impact, so I came back home. Since then I’ve been focused on a new, now. I had no idea this was coming last Age 19, hometown: none (military dependent) Even though he had gone here! But he couldn’t say no when he I played pro hockey for  ve years a er safe and e cient way to anchor hockey year but we unveiled it in April [2015] at Junior class standing, psychology and fire science found out how much it cost for dependents of alumni. graduation, returning every summer to nets to the ice. When I started my MBA, I the American Hockey Coaches Associa-  e past year I  nally realized I’m an adult now. Can I return work at a landscaping business. While welded a prototype to show my professor, tion, and we’ve had an overwhelmingly “I moved here from Virginia, but I like to say I’m from Arizona. my membership? My parents used to handle so many things, playing in Europe I was pushed into the Ping Lan. He saw the potential right away, positive response at all levels of the game. My father (Maxie  om ’90) was military, so we traveled a lot. and now if I need help, I need to ask for it.  ey don’t just goal post by another player, resulting in really pushed me to make the Wylie Post I could not have done any of it without People in Virginia were shocked that I would go all the way to automatically do stu like they used to. Super trippy but in a a head injury. I wanted to help my team, safe and usable for everyone. It’s been Dr. Lan and the MBA program.” Alaska by myself. Not having fear of being out on my own has good way. so I continued to play through my injury. patented. played a huge part in my life and who I am. My father said I In February I got to go to Burbank, California, and meet my Web extra: Read more about the Wylie Post at Eventually I was forced to look beyond  is past year has exceeded by far could go to school anywhere in the U.S. so long as it had reason- childhood heroes — the entire main cast and crew of the ‘Xena: http://bit.ly/WyliePost. my career as a hockey player. where I thought the post would be by able out-of-state tuition. When I learned about UAF, I proposed Warrior Princess TV show.’”

Kinsey Laine ’11 Age 27, hometown: Silver Lake, Washington 2014 Assistant coach for Alaska Nanooks swim team 2015 “I swam here as a student and was assistant coach the year I graduated.  at still a lot of incredible things about being part of was di cult because I was coaching former teammates. I le to work for a a college athletics program. We’re trying not to let money management  rm in Anchorage, but it didn’t suit my personality. them see how the coaches are struggling with what’s Current athletes treat me like a coach, a much better dynamic. going on.” Fairbanks is a pretty special place, and I want my swimmers to have the same experiences I had and come away with lasting friendships, good Kim Davis, Aurora’s managing editor, has called the Fairbanks memories and a degree. campus her second home for more than  years. She really  e biggest change over the past year has been dealing with university enjoyed getting to know all of these wonderful people and hear- budget cuts,  guring out how to stay positive and sell the program to new ing their stories. girls. It [the program] is going to be di erent than before, but there are Wylie Rogers ’08, ’14 Age 30, hometown: Fairbanks, Alaska CEO, Wylie Inc., www.thewyliepost.com 2014 2015 2014 2015 “Fairbanks is my hometown. I le home to play hockey my junior and senior year of high school in Michigan so I could pursue my dream of playing collegiate and pro hockey. Of all the schools on my list, I knew I could play as a freshman at UAF and Kilah Thom make an immediate it to my father, and he said, ‘You can’t go to school in Alaska.’ impact, so I came back home. Since then I’ve been focused on a new, now. I had no idea this was coming last Age 19, hometown: none (military dependent) Even though he had gone here! But he couldn’t say no when he I played pro hockey for  ve years a er safe and e cient way to anchor hockey year but we unveiled it in April [2015] at Junior class standing, psychology and fire science found out how much it cost for dependents of alumni. graduation, returning every summer to nets to the ice. When I started my MBA, I the American Hockey Coaches Associa-  e past year I  nally realized I’m an adult now. Can I return work at a landscaping business. While welded a prototype to show my professor, tion, and we’ve had an overwhelmingly “I moved here from Virginia, but I like to say I’m from Arizona. my membership? My parents used to handle so many things, playing in Europe I was pushed into the Ping Lan. He saw the potential right away, positive response at all levels of the game. My father (Maxie  om ’90) was military, so we traveled a lot. and now if I need help, I need to ask for it.  ey don’t just goal post by another player, resulting in really pushed me to make the Wylie Post I could not have done any of it without People in Virginia were shocked that I would go all the way to automatically do stu like they used to. Super trippy but in a a head injury. I wanted to help my team, safe and usable for everyone. It’s been Dr. Lan and the MBA program.” Alaska by myself. Not having fear of being out on my own has good way. so I continued to play through my injury. patented. played a huge part in my life and who I am. My father said I In February I got to go to Burbank, California, and meet my Web extra: Read more about the Wylie Post at Eventually I was forced to look beyond  is past year has exceeded by far could go to school anywhere in the U.S. so long as it had reason- childhood heroes — the entire main cast and crew of the ‘Xena: http://bit.ly/WyliePost. my career as a hockey player. where I thought the post would be by able out-of-state tuition. When I learned about UAF, I proposed Warrior Princess TV show.’”

Kinsey Laine ’11 Age 27, hometown: Silver Lake, Washington 2014 Assistant coach for Alaska Nanooks swim team 2015 “I swam here as a student and was assistant coach the year I graduated.  at still a lot of incredible things about being part of was di cult because I was coaching former teammates. I le to work for a a college athletics program. We’re trying not to let money management  rm in Anchorage, but it didn’t suit my personality. them see how the coaches are struggling with what’s Current athletes treat me like a coach, a much better dynamic. going on.” Fairbanks is a pretty special place, and I want my swimmers to have the same experiences I had and come away with lasting friendships, good Kim Davis, Aurora’s managing editor, has called the Fairbanks memories and a degree. campus her second home for more than  years. She really  e biggest change over the past year has been dealing with university enjoyed getting to know all of these wonderful people and hear- budget cuts,  guring out how to stay positive and sell the program to new ing their stories. girls. It [the program] is going to be di erent than before, but there are

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 11 Photo by Suzie Teerlink, courtesy of School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Sciences. Ocean and Fisheries of School of courtesy Teerlink, Suzie by Photo NMFS research permit . permit research NMFS BRIEFLY HELP WANTED: STRONG LEADER BP BOOSTS ALASKA CENTER FOR OUR FUTURE FOR ENERGY AND POWER UAF’s new chancellor may be announced by the time you BP gave $1 million at the Chancellor’s Gala in February read this. Four fi nalists visited the campuses in March: to help complete the fourth fl oor of the new engineering Tony Haymet, distinguished professor of oceanography building in Fairbanks. and director and vice chancellor emeritus at the Scripps The fl oor will house the Alaska Center for Energy and Institution of Oceanography at the University of Cal- Power, which develops and tests new energy systems. ifornia San Diego; M. Duane Nellis, past president of The building’s interior remains incomplete pending Texas Tech University; Sandra Woodley, past president additional state funding. Raising the $6.5 million needed of the University of Louisiana system; and Laura Wood- to fi nish the fourth fl oor alone is one of UAF’s primary worth-Ney, provost and vice president for academic fundraising initiatives as it enters 2017, its centennial year. a airs at Idaho State University. The new chancellor will ConocoPhillips and Usibelli Coal Mine also have each replace Mike Powers, who agreed to serve as interim after contributed $500,000. Brian Rogers’ retirement in August 2015. Read more about the center at http://acep.uaf.edu. HUMPBACKS LOVE FAST FOOD UAF’s new leader will arrive at a challenging time. In Four humpback whales in Southeast Alaska have their fi scal year 2017, which begins July 1, the Legislature likely own fast-food restaurant. They’re eating juvenile chum Sciences. Ocean and Fisheries of School of courtesy Schollmeier, Tanja by Photo will cut at least $24 million from the statewide university’s and coho salmon at hatchery release sites near Baranof adjusted base budget of $351 million in state unrestricted Island, which could have a substantial e ect on revenue general funds, according to the Legislature’s fi nance for the region’s fi sheries. division’s March 7 fi gures. (The division estimated the Ellen Chenoweth, a Ph.D. student at the School of university’s total statewide base spending for 2017 at Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, is studying the phe- $925 million, counting $151 million in federal funds and nomenon. If she can pinpoint why certain whales are $423 million in designated and other state money such as choosing the hatchery fi sh when it’s time for a meal, she tuition and fees.) At UAF, the state cuts during the past can work with hatchery managers to suggest release three years already have reduced annual spending by $42 strategies so hatcheries aren’t creating all-you-can-eat million. UAF eliminated about 150 positions to adjust for bu ets for hungry whales. There’s more to chew on at the fi scal year 2016 cuts. http://bit.ly/uaf101436. GLACIERS GOING, GONE Find out more at www.uaf.edu/chancellor/search/ Alaska’s glaciers will lose 30 to 60 percent of their volume and . www.alaska.edu/state/ and contribute half an inch to 1 inch to global sea level rise by 2100, predicts a new study by researchers Regine Hock ANCIENT WALRUS COULD HELP CUNEIFORM ON DISPLAY of the Geophysical Institute and Matthias Huss from Switzerland. MODERN SUBSISTENCE Around 2040 B.C., some 9,450 gallons of barley left a Depending on carbon dioxide emissions, glacier melt Hormones stored in ancient bones are revealing how mill in Umma, a Sumerian city in what is now south- worldwide will cause a sea-level rise of 3 to 6 inches. Pacifi c walrus populations react to environmental change. eastern Iraq. The shipment was noted in cuneiform on a Alaska’s glaciers, which make up only 12 percent of the Identifying what puts stress on walrus populations is 4-by-4-centimeter tablet that ended up in the Rare Books worldwide mass, would contribute a disproportionately particularly important in Alaska because walruses are a Collection at the Rasmuson Library. How the cuneiform large amount to the rise. subsistence resource for many coastal communities. The — possibly the only one in the state — got to UAF is a Glaciers also have a profound e ect on the quantity, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UA Museum mystery, but timing and temperature of river fl ow, which makes them of the North, Eskimo Walrus Commission and Native this unusual critical to fi sheries and hydroelectric power generation. harvesters collaborated on the research. Learn more at little piece of Learn more at http://bit.ly/uaf092810. http://bit.ly/uaf101510. clay can be viewed on the ANCIENT INFANT DNA fourth fl oor of SUMMIT OF SCIENTISTS The remains of two infants from an 11,500-year-old the library for There wasn’t much relaxing during spring break on the grave in central Alaska have revealed connections to two the next few Fairbanks campus, but researchers and sta didn’t mind. ancient lineages of Native Americans. years. That’s UAF hosted four overlapping meetings among Arctic UAF archaeologist Ben Potter ’97, ’05 and University a long time by researchers, policymakers and students from around the of Utah geneticists Dennis O’Rourke and Justin Tack- library-display world, plus an all-day public forum. Some 1,000 people ney deciphered the ancient mitochondrial DNA, which standards but attended meetings for the Arctic Science Summit Week, showed the babies had di erent mothers and were just a blip to a Arctic Council Senior Arctic O cials, Arctic Observing descended from two distinct lineages not previously iden- 4,000-year-old Summit and Model Arctic Council, a student-centered UAF photo by Lily Eberhardt. tifi ed in the Arctic. Learn more about the site and human inventory receipt. enterprise similar to the Model United Nations. migration in the Americas at http://bit.ly/uaf102822.

12 aurora | spring 2016 Photo by Suzie Teerlink, courtesy of School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Sciences. Ocean and Fisheries of School of courtesy Teerlink, Suzie by Photo NMFS research permit . permit research NMFS BRIEFLY HELP WANTED: STRONG LEADER BP BOOSTS ALASKA CENTER FOR OUR FUTURE FOR ENERGY AND POWER UAF’s new chancellor may be announced by the time you BP gave $1 million at the Chancellor’s Gala in February read this. Four fi nalists visited the campuses in March: to help complete the fourth fl oor of the new engineering Tony Haymet, distinguished professor of oceanography building in Fairbanks. and director and vice chancellor emeritus at the Scripps The fl oor will house the Alaska Center for Energy and Institution of Oceanography at the University of Cal- Power, which develops and tests new energy systems. ifornia San Diego; M. Duane Nellis, past president of The building’s interior remains incomplete pending Texas Tech University; Sandra Woodley, past president additional state funding. Raising the $6.5 million needed of the University of Louisiana system; and Laura Wood- to fi nish the fourth fl oor alone is one of UAF’s primary worth-Ney, provost and vice president for academic fundraising initiatives as it enters 2017, its centennial year. a airs at Idaho State University. The new chancellor will ConocoPhillips and Usibelli Coal Mine also have each replace Mike Powers, who agreed to serve as interim after contributed $500,000. Brian Rogers’ retirement in August 2015. Read more about the center at http://acep.uaf.edu. HUMPBACKS LOVE FAST FOOD UAF’s new leader will arrive at a challenging time. In Four humpback whales in Southeast Alaska have their fi scal year 2017, which begins July 1, the Legislature likely own fast-food restaurant. They’re eating juvenile chum Sciences. Ocean and Fisheries of School of courtesy Schollmeier, Tanja by Photo will cut at least $24 million from the statewide university’s and coho salmon at hatchery release sites near Baranof adjusted base budget of $351 million in state unrestricted Island, which could have a substantial e ect on revenue general funds, according to the Legislature’s fi nance for the region’s fi sheries. division’s March 7 fi gures. (The division estimated the Ellen Chenoweth, a Ph.D. student at the School of university’s total statewide base spending for 2017 at Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, is studying the phe- $925 million, counting $151 million in federal funds and nomenon. If she can pinpoint why certain whales are $423 million in designated and other state money such as choosing the hatchery fi sh when it’s time for a meal, she tuition and fees.) At UAF, the state cuts during the past can work with hatchery managers to suggest release three years already have reduced annual spending by $42 strategies so hatcheries aren’t creating all-you-can-eat million. UAF eliminated about 150 positions to adjust for bu ets for hungry whales. There’s more to chew on at the fi scal year 2016 cuts. http://bit.ly/uaf101436. GLACIERS GOING, GONE Find out more at www.uaf.edu/chancellor/search/ Alaska’s glaciers will lose 30 to 60 percent of their volume and . www.alaska.edu/state/ and contribute half an inch to 1 inch to global sea level rise by 2100, predicts a new study by researchers Regine Hock ANCIENT WALRUS COULD HELP CUNEIFORM ON DISPLAY of the Geophysical Institute and Matthias Huss from Switzerland. MODERN SUBSISTENCE Around 2040 B.C., some 9,450 gallons of barley left a Depending on carbon dioxide emissions, glacier melt Hormones stored in ancient bones are revealing how mill in Umma, a Sumerian city in what is now south- worldwide will cause a sea-level rise of 3 to 6 inches. Pacifi c walrus populations react to environmental change. eastern Iraq. The shipment was noted in cuneiform on a Alaska’s glaciers, which make up only 12 percent of the Identifying what puts stress on walrus populations is 4-by-4-centimeter tablet that ended up in the Rare Books worldwide mass, would contribute a disproportionately particularly important in Alaska because walruses are a Collection at the Rasmuson Library. How the cuneiform large amount to the rise. subsistence resource for many coastal communities. The — possibly the only one in the state — got to UAF is a Glaciers also have a profound e ect on the quantity, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UA Museum mystery, but timing and temperature of river fl ow, which makes them of the North, Eskimo Walrus Commission and Native this unusual critical to fi sheries and hydroelectric power generation. harvesters collaborated on the research. Learn more at little piece of Learn more at http://bit.ly/uaf092810. http://bit.ly/uaf101510. clay can be viewed on the ANCIENT INFANT DNA fourth fl oor of SUMMIT OF SCIENTISTS The remains of two infants from an 11,500-year-old the library for There wasn’t much relaxing during spring break on the grave in central Alaska have revealed connections to two the next few Fairbanks campus, but researchers and sta didn’t mind. ancient lineages of Native Americans. years. That’s UAF hosted four overlapping meetings among Arctic UAF archaeologist Ben Potter ’97, ’05 and University a long time by researchers, policymakers and students from around the of Utah geneticists Dennis O’Rourke and Justin Tack- library-display world, plus an all-day public forum. Some 1,000 people ney deciphered the ancient mitochondrial DNA, which standards but attended meetings for the Arctic Science Summit Week, showed the babies had di erent mothers and were just a blip to a Arctic Council Senior Arctic O cials, Arctic Observing descended from two distinct lineages not previously iden- 4,000-year-old Summit and Model Arctic Council, a student-centered UAF photo by Lily Eberhardt. tifi ed in the Arctic. Learn more about the site and human inventory receipt. enterprise similar to the Model United Nations. migration in the Americas at http://bit.ly/uaf102822.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 13 BRIEFLY KUDOS DID YOU KNOW... The community of College, just east of the graduating but stayed in touch with people in Fairbanks campus, drew its name from the Fairbanks. He died in 1971 in New York. university but didn’t stop there. • Margaret Thomas, who grew up in Fair- Lawson Brigham, distinguished College’s three main east-west streets — banks and married naturalist Olaus Murie. professor of geography Shanly, Thomas and Cameron — are named She became a nationally known advocate for and Arctic policy, School for the fi rst three graduates of the Alaska wilderness in Alaska and elsewhere. She died of Natural Resources and Agricultural College and School of Mines. in Wyoming in 2003. Extension, American Polar The fi rst classes at AACSM began in fall • Jamie Cameron, who attended Kansas Society Honorary Member 1922, and one student graduated in each of State Agricultural College and briefl y taught in Polar Medal the next three years. They were, respectively: Hawaii before following several KSAC alumni DENALI DIMINISHED http://bit.ly/uaf011520 • Jack Shanly, who arrived with enough to Alaska. Cameron returned to Hawaii and Ph . o am to gh The Great One is 10 feet less great than previously thought. cou Bri rtesy of Lawson college credits to graduate in one year. He passed away there some time after 1982, but The Geophysical Institute’s Tom Heinrichs was part of a homesteaded near campus, left soon after the exact year could not be found. survey party that climbed Denali last summer to assess the mountain’s true height, now estimated at 20,310 feet. You can Amy Cooper, instructor, credit — or blame — new technology for the revision. Get the School of Management, specifi cs at http://bit.ly/uaf090220. CPA Practice Advisor’s ON THE 2015 40 Under 40 SHELF ALASKA FIRES RELEASE MORE http://bit.ly/Cooper40 CARBON THAN TREES ABSORB More-frequent forest fi res have turned Alaska’s Yukon Flats into a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. This is worri- some, researchers said, because Arctic and sub-Arctic boreal Mary Ehrlander, forests like those of the Yukon Flats contain roughly one-third professor and director of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores. of Arctic and northern Researchers often assume that present-day fi re activity studies, Alaska Historical mirrors that of the ancient past. But scientists in a new study Society Pathfi nder Award found that fi re frequency in a 2,000-kilometer swath of the http://bit.ly/uaf100835 Yukon Flats is higher today than any time in the last 10,000 years. The research team plugged their data into a computer Savage Mountain Surviving Bear Island Diving Seals and Meditating model of carbon cycling for the study area developed by co-authors Hélène Genet and A. David McGuire ’83, ’89, John Smelcer ’86, ’87 Paul Greci ’14 Yogis both with the Institute of Arctic Biology, and by colleagues at Carolyn Kremers, 2015, Leapfrog Press 2015, Move Books Robert Elsner, professor emeritus UAF and the U.S. Geological Survey. adjunct lecturer, 2015, University of Chicago Press The new model more accurately refl ects the history of English Department, In summer 1980, brothers Sebas- Tom is kayaking with his father carbon accumulation, storage and release, McGuire said. Fulbright scholar tian and James Savage decide to in Prince William Sound near  e comparative physiology of “We interpret those results with respect to how they are http://bit.ly/uaf082414 climb one of the highest mountains Bear Island. When the waters turn seemingly disparate organisms relevant to the real world, to inform people involved in making in Alaska to prove themselves to rough and the boat overturns, o en serves as a surprising pathway decisions related to climate policy,” McGuire said. Read more their father, a tough and unloving Tom is stranded and alone with to biological enlightenment. How P r. hot lke man.  e brothers develop di erent at http://bit.ly/uaf102232. o by Tom Wa a pocket survival pack his father appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner ways of coping with this rejection, insisted he carry. But is it enough? sheds new light on the remarkable but each yearns to  nally have his Will he survive on the desolate COOPERATION FOR COMMON USE John Walsh, chief scien- physiology of diving seals through tist, International Arctic respect. Inspired by true events, this island where his only company are comparison with members of our Common use of fi sh and wildlife “in their natural state” is Research Center, 2016 is a story of two brothers who test bears, other wild animals own species on quests toward enshrined in the Alaska Constitution, but managing that use International Arctic their limits and realize,  nally, that and the harsh terrain? His dad enlightenment: meditating yogis. can be tricky in practice, which is why the College of Rural and Science Committee Medal their worth is not dictated by their would know what to do, but — Publisher’s description Community Development held a comanagement symposium http://bit.ly/WalshMedal father, and that no matter how di er- is Tom savvy enough to sur- in November. More than 200 people attended, including ent they might be, the strongest bond vive? — Adapted from publisher’s U o. AF t-It state and federal authorities, tribal representatives, Alaska photo ri Bul by Yu of all is brotherhood. — Adapted description; for middle-school Native leaders, university o cials, and students interested in from publisher’s description; for mid- readers learning about current issues in Alaska. dle-school readers Book cover images courtesy of the publishers.

14 aurora | spring 2016 BRIEFLY KUDOS DID YOU KNOW... The community of College, just east of the graduating but stayed in touch with people in Fairbanks campus, drew its name from the Fairbanks. He died in 1971 in New York. university but didn’t stop there. • Margaret Thomas, who grew up in Fair- Lawson Brigham, distinguished College’s three main east-west streets — banks and married naturalist Olaus Murie. professor of geography Shanly, Thomas and Cameron — are named She became a nationally known advocate for and Arctic policy, School for the fi rst three graduates of the Alaska wilderness in Alaska and elsewhere. She died of Natural Resources and Agricultural College and School of Mines. in Wyoming in 2003. Extension, American Polar The fi rst classes at AACSM began in fall • Jamie Cameron, who attended Kansas Society Honorary Member 1922, and one student graduated in each of State Agricultural College and briefl y taught in Polar Medal the next three years. They were, respectively: Hawaii before following several KSAC alumni DENALI DIMINISHED http://bit.ly/uaf011520 • Jack Shanly, who arrived with enough to Alaska. Cameron returned to Hawaii and Ph . o am to gh The Great One is 10 feet less great than previously thought. cou Bri rtesy of Lawson college credits to graduate in one year. He passed away there some time after 1982, but The Geophysical Institute’s Tom Heinrichs was part of a homesteaded near campus, left soon after the exact year could not be found. survey party that climbed Denali last summer to assess the mountain’s true height, now estimated at 20,310 feet. You can Amy Cooper, instructor, credit — or blame — new technology for the revision. Get the School of Management, specifi cs at http://bit.ly/uaf090220. CPA Practice Advisor’s ON THE 2015 40 Under 40 SHELF ALASKA FIRES RELEASE MORE http://bit.ly/Cooper40 CARBON THAN TREES ABSORB More-frequent forest fi res have turned Alaska’s Yukon Flats into a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. This is worri- some, researchers said, because Arctic and sub-Arctic boreal Mary Ehrlander, forests like those of the Yukon Flats contain roughly one-third professor and director of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores. of Arctic and northern Researchers often assume that present-day fi re activity studies, Alaska Historical mirrors that of the ancient past. But scientists in a new study Society Pathfi nder Award found that fi re frequency in a 2,000-kilometer swath of the http://bit.ly/uaf100835 Yukon Flats is higher today than any time in the last 10,000 years. The research team plugged their data into a computer Savage Mountain Surviving Bear Island Diving Seals and Meditating model of carbon cycling for the study area developed by co-authors Hélène Genet and A. David McGuire ’83, ’89, John Smelcer ’86, ’87 Paul Greci ’14 Yogis both with the Institute of Arctic Biology, and by colleagues at Carolyn Kremers, 2015, Leapfrog Press 2015, Move Books Robert Elsner, professor emeritus UAF and the U.S. Geological Survey. adjunct lecturer, 2015, University of Chicago Press The new model more accurately refl ects the history of English Department, In summer 1980, brothers Sebas- Tom is kayaking with his father carbon accumulation, storage and release, McGuire said. Fulbright scholar tian and James Savage decide to in Prince William Sound near  e comparative physiology of “We interpret those results with respect to how they are http://bit.ly/uaf082414 climb one of the highest mountains Bear Island. When the waters turn seemingly disparate organisms relevant to the real world, to inform people involved in making in Alaska to prove themselves to rough and the boat overturns, o en serves as a surprising pathway decisions related to climate policy,” McGuire said. Read more their father, a tough and unloving Tom is stranded and alone with to biological enlightenment. How P r. hot lke man.  e brothers develop di erent at http://bit.ly/uaf102232. o by Tom Wa a pocket survival pack his father appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner ways of coping with this rejection, insisted he carry. But is it enough? sheds new light on the remarkable but each yearns to  nally have his Will he survive on the desolate COOPERATION FOR COMMON USE John Walsh, chief scien- physiology of diving seals through tist, International Arctic respect. Inspired by true events, this island where his only company are comparison with members of our Common use of fi sh and wildlife “in their natural state” is Research Center, 2016 is a story of two brothers who test bears, other wild animals own species on quests toward enshrined in the Alaska Constitution, but managing that use International Arctic their limits and realize,  nally, that and the harsh terrain? His dad enlightenment: meditating yogis. can be tricky in practice, which is why the College of Rural and Science Committee Medal their worth is not dictated by their would know what to do, but — Publisher’s description Community Development held a comanagement symposium http://bit.ly/WalshMedal father, and that no matter how di er- is Tom savvy enough to sur- in November. More than 200 people attended, including ent they might be, the strongest bond vive? — Adapted from publisher’s U o. AF t-It state and federal authorities, tribal representatives, Alaska photo ri Bul by Yu of all is brotherhood. — Adapted description; for middle-school Native leaders, university o cials, and students interested in from publisher’s description; for mid- readers learning about current issues in Alaska. dle-school readers Book cover images courtesy of the publishers.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 15 By Tori Tragis Photos courtesy of Girls on Ice program

“INSPIRATION IS A BIG WORD.” So writes a teenage girl in her journal, four days into an Alaska adventure that has taken her to a tent on the Gulkana Glacier, a thousand miles from her Oregon home. She is one of nine young women — some still in high school, others getting ready for their  rst year of college — who, with three instructors and a guide, are learning about science, climbing, glaciers and art.  ey are also learning about themselves.

16 aurora | spring 2016 By Tori Tragis Photos courtesy of Girls on Ice program

“INSPIRATION IS A BIG WORD.” So writes a teenage girl in her journal, four days into an Alaska adventure that has taken her to a tent on the Gulkana Glacier, a thousand miles from her Oregon home. She is one of nine young women — some still in high school, others getting ready for their  rst year of college — who, with three instructors and a guide, are learning about science, climbing, glaciers and art.  ey are also learning about themselves.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 17 Above: Two of the instructors discuss a crevasse on the Gulkana Glacier. Many girls wrote in their journals about the amount of mountaineering and safety training during the expedition. Inset, right: Costumes enlivened skits the girls wrote about what they were learning.

he girls come from Alaska, Cal- Girls on Ice is a wilderness education met their guides and instructors, four ifornia, New York, Oregon camp. Two are o ered each year, one in women as diverse as they: Alaska artist and Washington. One is from Alaska, one in Washington. For 12 days, Klara Maisch ’12, Swiss oceanographer T Napaskiak, in Southwest Alaska, the girls learn from their teacher-guides Claudine Hauri, American glaciologist population 405. Another is from the about glaciology and ecology, and how Ulyana Nadia and Canadian mountain- Bronx, population 1.419 million.  eir to use art to closely observe the natural eer Cece Mortenson. ( e program is cultures are di erent, but their culture world.  ey learn mountaineering and directed by Erin Pettit, a glaciologist shock is the same. Many of them joined outdoor and survival skills.  ey learn with the College of Natural Science and Girls on Ice thinking they knew some- how to pose scienti c questions, make Mathematics.) Main photo: Everyone was fully outfi tted with mountaineering boots with cleats, backpacks, thing — about science, the outdoors, the a hypothesis, test it and uncover new  e  rst two days were spent getting helmets, safety harnesses and hiking poles. Above: The girls learned to move carefully on the world. By the time they went home, the questions. oriented in Fairbanks, which included ice. One noted ruefully in her journal: “I have fallen  times.” Inset, above: Inspecting glacial sums making up the total of what they  e 2015 Alaska group converged team-building exercises and an extensive striations on a rock. know had altered drastically. in Fairbanks in June, under hot blue gear and clothing check. ( e girls bring skies that sometimes gave way to the some gear, but much has been donated, bitter gauze of wild re smoke.  ey including some by the leaders.)  en the

18 aurora | spring 2016 Above: Two of the instructors discuss a crevasse on the Gulkana Glacier. Many girls wrote in their journals about the amount of mountaineering and safety training during the expedition. Inset, right: Costumes enlivened skits the girls wrote about what they were learning. he girls come from Alaska, Cal- Girls on Ice is a wilderness education met their guides and instructors, four ifornia, New York, Oregon camp. Two are o ered each year, one in women as diverse as they: Alaska artist and Washington. One is from Alaska, one in Washington. For 12 days, Klara Maisch ’12, Swiss oceanographer T Napaskiak, in Southwest Alaska, the girls learn from their teacher-guides Claudine Hauri, American glaciologist population 405. Another is from the about glaciology and ecology, and how Ulyana Nadia and Canadian mountain- Bronx, population 1.419 million.  eir to use art to closely observe the natural eer Cece Mortenson. ( e program is cultures are di erent, but their culture world.  ey learn mountaineering and directed by Erin Pettit, a glaciologist shock is the same. Many of them joined outdoor and survival skills.  ey learn with the College of Natural Science and Girls on Ice thinking they knew some- how to pose scienti c questions, make Mathematics.) Main photo: Everyone was fully outfi tted with mountaineering boots with cleats, backpacks, thing — about science, the outdoors, the a hypothesis, test it and uncover new  e  rst two days were spent getting helmets, safety harnesses and hiking poles. Above: The girls learned to move carefully on the world. By the time they went home, the questions. oriented in Fairbanks, which included ice. One noted ruefully in her journal: “I have fallen  times.” Inset, above: Inspecting glacial sums making up the total of what they  e 2015 Alaska group converged team-building exercises and an extensive striations on a rock. know had altered drastically. in Fairbanks in June, under hot blue gear and clothing check. ( e girls bring skies that sometimes gave way to the some gear, but much has been donated, bitter gauze of wild re smoke.  ey including some by the leaders.)  en the

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 19 group drove roughly 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks to where Cautious analysis of themselves. Sometimes quiet misgivings, the Gulkana Glacier slides out of the Alaska Range. Volunteers and sometimes quiet pride. met them there and helped them backpack in everything they’d need for nearly a week on the glacier: food, shelter, clothing, Tori Tragis is a writer and editor for UAF Marketing and Communications. scienti c equipment and art supplies. Unsentimental by nature, even she was moved by what was clearly a  e girls also kept journals — pages of sketches,  eld notes life-changing experience for the young women she met. and data gathering. Impersonal observations of cloud forma- Web extra: See more cool stu from the 2015 trip at www.uaf.edu/aurora/. tion and wind direction.  oughtful observations of each other.

Daily group discussions allowed team members to share observations, questions, commiserations and funny stories. Each day featured a question for the girls to consider or answer. The questions ranged from the straightforward to the more philosophical.

20 aurora | spring 2016 group drove roughly 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks to where Cautious analysis of themselves. Sometimes quiet misgivings, the Gulkana Glacier slides out of the Alaska Range. Volunteers and sometimes quiet pride. met them there and helped them backpack in everything they’d need for nearly a week on the glacier: food, shelter, clothing, Tori Tragis is a writer and editor for UAF Marketing and Communications. scienti c equipment and art supplies. Unsentimental by nature, even she was moved by what was clearly a  e girls also kept journals — pages of sketches,  eld notes life-changing experience for the young women she met. and data gathering. Impersonal observations of cloud forma- Web extra: See more cool stu from the 2015 trip at www.uaf.edu/aurora/. tion and wind direction.  oughtful observations of each other.

Daily group discussions allowed team members to share observations, questions, commiserations and funny stories. Each day featured a question for the girls to consider or answer. The questions ranged from the straightforward to the more philosophical. FULL FRAME odd Paris ’83 has been UAF’s campus photographer for more Tthan 14 years, and his photos have graced the pages of Aurora since the rst issue in fall 2008. In April he retires a er a long and illustrious career showcasing UAF’s inspiring beauty. We asked him to choose his favorite photo from all of those years and tell us about it.

 ere’s so much I like about this photo: the red legs askew and the iconic Xtratufs, the ice on the water, the expressions and colors and ages in the crowd, the textured sky, the lines of the log and shoreline guiding your eyes into the frame. I can’t say I actually planned the shot this way — so much of photography is luck — but it brings to mind the famous quote a Pulitzer Prize-winning photogra- pher once uttered when asked the secret to taking great pictures: “Set your camera to f/8 and be there.” To get this shot, I had to stand for about 45 minutes in icy, chest-deep water (thanks to my friends at UAF Outdoor Adventures for loaning me a dry suit) and shoot a couple hundred photos.  is was number 177. I feel the picture illustrates the attitude I’ve tried to maintain throughout my career taking photos at UAF: try some- thing di erent, push the boundaries and put myself in the position to take compelling, memorable and ultimately successful photos.  is image won the Best of Show award in the University Photographers’ Association of America’s annual print competition in 2009, an achievement of which I’m extremely proud. Ultimately, it’s been an incredible honor and privilege to serve UAF and the Marketing and Communications o ce as the campus photographer over the years. I hope I’ve helped create a meaningful and useful visual record of daily achieve- ment and accomplishment at this unique and exemplary university. spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 23 oe Hawkins stepped into the electrical engineering lab at 242 Duckering with an urgent question. “Has E.T. called home?” the retired engineering professor asked.  e E.T. that Hawkins had in mind was not an extraterrestrial being but a tiny cube satellite built by UAF students. It had  own into space  ve days earlier and hadn’t yet sent a signal home. “No, but you’ll be one of the  rst to know,” said Denise  orsen, an electrical engineering professor who followed Hawkins as director of the UA Alaska SpaceJ Grant Program. It was mid-a ernoon on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015.  orsen and several students who helped build the cubesat were in the lab working on various projects — and waiting. On a central table sat a 4-inch-square cube of anodized aluminum bars screwed together to form a frame.  e cube enclosed several green  berglass boards laced with tiny metal lines and studded with electrical components.  e cube was an early prototype of the cubesat  ying at 17,450 mph hundreds of miles above the Earth at that very moment.  at cube satellite, launched from California on Oct. 8, should have been broad- casting bursts of signals at 437.565 megahertz — an ultra-high frequency that can be tracked by amateur radio hobbyists and others across the globe. Instead: radio silence.

24 aurora | spring 2016  orsen and the students knew their cubesat wouldn’t orbit into view of a tracking station north of Fairbanks again until the evening, so they tuned into a di erent passing satellite to assure themselves that their reception antenna worked. “Whoa, really big,”  orsen exclaimed as a blob of rainbow colors pulsed on a screen, marking a transmission from the other satellite. “ at’s what we’re hoping ours will do.” As this magazine went to press,  orsen and her students were still hoping, although their optimism waned as time passed. “It’s common for satellites to take a while to start their routine,” electrical engineering mas- ter’s student Morgan Johnson explained optimistically while in the lab that Tuesday a er the launch. In fact,  ve of the 13 cubesats sent up with theirs had not yet communicated. Matt Pacheco, a mechanical engineering undergraduate, noted from his A PROGRESSION OF seat at a nearby computer that another cubesat recently launched by Cal- 36 STUDENTS HAD JUST ifornia Polytechnic State University  nally “woke up” a er three months in space. DESIGNED, BUILT AND LAUNCHED “I don’t think they ever  gured out exactly why that happened,” Pacheco said. “One day it started beeping.” THE FIRST ALASKA RESEARCH Despite initial disappointment with the lack of communication from CUBESAT, ARC-1. their cubesat, the team members described the entire enterprise as a suc- cess, given all they learned during  ve years of work. A progression of 36 FROM SCRATCH. students had just designed, built and launched the  rst Alaska Research Cubesat, ARC-1. From scratch. A new student team led by Johnson has already begun to use those learning experiences to build the next cubesat. “When I  rst started this project, I was basically this freshman-standard student, completely naïve about the world, didn’t know anything about engineering — and was scared,” Johnson said. “And now that that satellite’s  nished, I’m helping an entire new team of students build a new satellite.”

Small is big When the Atlas V rocket roared out of Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:39 a.m. Oct. 8, ARC-1 and 12 other cubesats rode along in several poly picosatellite orbital deployers.  ese P-PODs were spring-loaded boxes wedged into places that otherwise would have held mere ballast. At the appropriate point, the P-PODs popped open and  ung the cubesats into space. Several cubesats on the Atlas V caught their rides as part of a NASA e ort to promote development of these tiny satellites.  e rocket belonged to United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and carried a classi ed military project as its primary payload. As with so much technology today, small is the big thing in satellite development. “Using these cubesats is a great way to try using these technologies and go, ‘Well, we know this works. It’s been successful. So maybe you want to try using this technology instead, and you can save money and save time because it’s more e cient,’” Johnson said. ARC-1 took  ve years to build and cost between $100,000 and $150,000, but the Alaska Space Grant Program’s next cubesat could be  nished in two years for $10,000 because of the groundwork laid by the students,  orsen said.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 25 Much of the money went to paying stipends to stu- “Our tolerances are incredibly tight,”  orsen dents, who came from multiple disciplines at UAF. said. “I don’t know how many times we built these Many simply volunteered. things and it was like, wrong size, wrong whatever. “We use mechanical students for the structure. We  is is just on the mechanical side. It’s not just the use electrical students. We use computer science mechanicals but it’s the electricals too.” students. Pretty much any student who wants to play Students designed the electrical circuits on com- in the lab, we have room for them,”  orsen said. puters. An Outside company then used that design to sandwich the circuits into sturdy  berglass and Try and try again epoxy boards. Working in the Duckering Building’s machine shop  e boards end up covered with hundreds of tiny during the academic year and at the Geophysical blobs of solder. To those, the students attached elec- Institute in the summer, students cut the cubesat’s trical components — switches, sensors, a camera, a frame from rectangular blocks of aluminum. radio, batteries, solar cells. In the Duckering electrical lab, Pacheco held up “I can’t actually see some of the pieces, so I do use a  nished piece with several protruding knobs and the microscope, but we have a couple of young guys threaded holes. who can do it with tweezers,”  orsen said. To receive the cubesat’s signals, the team also built a computer-controlled, moveable antenna.  e apparatus sits atop a tower on a building at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Gilmore Creek Tracking Station o the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks. Given the interplay between the Earth’s rotation and the cubesat’s orbit, the Gilmore Creek station can only receive a potential signal from ARC-1 during 8-hour periods that come around every 12-14 hours. During each such period, the cubesat makes  ve or six passes, once every 95 minutes, with the strongest radio signals possible in Electrical engineering Professor Denise Thorsen, left, and student Jesse Frey work on the ARC- cubesat with antistatic devices connected to their wrists. the middle few passes. Frey, who earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering while working on the project, designed the cubesat’s directional control system. Hitching a ride To launch ARC-1, the team looked for a rocket that met two criteria. First, it “Everything you don’t see had to be cut out,” he needed a trajectory that would set the cubesat in an said. “For most of the components, we used a ver- orbital path that rose well above the horizon when tical milling machine. It has a three-axis bed. You “viewed” from the antenna at Gilmore Creek. Second, hold it in a vise, and you’re able to move it on the x, y the rocket needed a primary payload owner that plane. And then you actually li the bed up on the z would agree to share space with the cubesat. plane.” A er a few years of searching, they  nally found  e milling machine’s specialized bits cut not only a rocket that had a willing primary payload owner in a forward direction, like a traditional drill press, and that would set their cubesat on an elliptical orbit but also sideways, like a saw. on a plane tipped 64 degrees north of the equator Pacheco pulled a  stful of rejected frame pieces — almost directly above Fairbanks, which sits at 64 from a plastic storage box. degrees 50 minutes north latitude.

26 aurora | spring 2016 ULA set a  nal Oct. 8 launch date for their launch rocket at Vandenberg. The ARC-1 cubesat is about 4 inches square. The  orsen stayed in Fair- team cut the frame from blocks of aluminum, and banks to manage the ground the pieces were then anodized. They designed the electrical circuits that were printed on the fi berglass station. Johnson, Pacheco and epoxy boards, leaving hundreds of solder and fellow team members points. To those points, the students attached Chic O’Dell, Jesse Frey and components such as switches, sensors, a camera, a radio, batteries and solar cells. Patrick Wade attended the launch in California.  e day before the launch, Johnson sat on a panel with other cubesat developers and took questions from the press during a live news conference fed online via NASA TV. “We use cheap, o -the-shelf parts,” Johnson explained to the audi- ence at Vandenberg and viewers worldwide. “For our antenna, you can see we have a tape measure. It works for UHF connections. For the launch environment data logger, we’re just using triple-A batteries. We are using a webcam for our camera, and we’re also using the radios we learned to use in our wireless sensor network class.”  e next morning, the team woke at 2 a.m. in their motel rooms in nearby Lompoc and caught a bus to Vandenberg, where they entered a hangar with a view of the Atlas V. Five miles away, the 191-foot-tall, 12.5-foot-diameter rocket “was kind of a pinprick,” O’Dell said.  e blast-o , though, was “super bright,” Johnson said. Pacheco recorded the sound on his cellphone and “WE USE MECHANICAL played it over his computer speakers in the Duckering lab. STUDENTS FOR THE “It was a low rumble. It wasn’t STRUCTURE. WE USE explosive,” Pacheco said as the roar  lled the room. ELECTRICAL STUDENTS. “Which I guess is a good WE USE COMPUTER thing,” O’Dell added. “Explo- sive sounds are usually bad.” SCIENCE STUDENTS. Control and capture PRETTY MUCH ANY  e violent launch was just STUDENT WHO WANTS what the team wanted ARC-1 Patrick Wade takes a close look at the completed cubesat to investigate. in early  before it was delivered to the launch TO PLAY IN THE LAB, WE site in California. Wade earned a bachelor’s degree in “When you are a large sat- mechanical engineering with an aerospace emphasis HAVE ROOM FOR THEM.” ellite and you are paying for while working on the project. your ride, you get to ride up in the nose cone, which is a nice pristine beautiful environment,”  orsen said. “And if you’re the secondary payload, you’re riding under- neath the primary, and you’re kind of riding in coach class. “Cubesats don’t even rate that. Cubesats ride in steerage.  ey ride down by the motors. We’re ballast weight — for weight and balance of the rocket,” she said. ARC-1’s job was to document just how rough that ride was so future cubesat designers would know what their machines must survive. Johnson designed the launch environment data logger to do the job. She started with a simpli ed microprocessor called a micro-controller. To it she connected a temperature sensor, an accelerometer and a gyroscope. Each device produces data that are stored on a SanDisk card like that used in a digital camera. Commands can be forces generated by their compass-like interaction “ e Aerospace guys said that was a terrible idea,” Even so, the cubesat could still awaken as tem- sent from Gilmore Creek to download that data — if with the Earth’s magnetic  elds mechanically torque O’Dell said. perature changes in space stress its frame. “ ere’s the cubesat wakes up enough to talk. the entire cubesat, aligning it in predictable direc- Many other complications could explain the still the o chance that thermal cycling will eventu-  e data logger was unlike most other cubesat tions. To change the cubesat’s direction, bursts of cubesat’s silence, though. ally release that pin,”  orsen said. devices in that, to do its job, it had to be powered up electricity are sent to the coils. No one actually saw the cubesat a er it went into during the launch.  at’s a potential problem.  e “When you pulse a current through that coil, you the P-POD in March. “ ey close it up.  ey bolt Learning by trying usual rocket launch rules resemble a commercial can  ip the direction that the magnet is polarized it down. No more touchy,” said Pacheco, who was “We’re not an industry that’s done this for 50 years,” airliner’s at takeo — all devices must be turned o . in,” Frey said. Flipping the polarization reverses there for the delivery.  orsen said. “So every step forward we  nd things So Johnson had to make a special trip to San Jose, the e ect of the magnetic  elds and therefore turns So the cubesat’s rechargeable batteries could have that we don’t know and then we have to  gure California, for two days of electromagnetic interfer- the cubesat. Several coils were needed to dampen faded during the seven-month wait.  e tiny solar them out.” ence testing of her data logger. It passed easily. oscillations. panels on the cubesat’s surface might require a long  orsen became director of the Alaska Space Her accelerometer was the key to recording how “We’re looking to sort of explore how that works time to recharge the batteries. Grant Program in 2008, taking over from Neal rough the ride was.  e device consists of a small and how well that works in orbit,” Frey said. Other challenges could have arisen on the trip Brown and Joe Hawkins before him.  orsen and mass suspended between two plates in an electri- At its apogee, above the northern hemisphere, the into space. the  rst students began working on the satellite cal circuit, Johnson explained.  e accelerometer cubesat is about 484 miles from the Earth’s surface. “ e thing shook really, really hard, right?” project in 2009. detects changes in capacitance — the ratio between At its perigee in the southern hemisphere, it is 292  orsen said in October. “We have mechanical Many of the cubesat’s components could have the circuit’s voltage and the plates’ electrical charges miles high. At those elevations, the atmosphere is switches that need to release in order to turn the been purchased o the shelf, but “that’s not who we — as the mass bounces between the plates, thus indi- still present but is extremely thin. satellite on. Have those switches actually released or are,”  orsen said. “We’re an engineering college, cating the severity of jostling during a launch. “ ere is very little friction and very little that’s are they jammed a little bit?” and I’m training engineers. We are A er the cubesat is  ung from the P-POD, the pushing our satellite, so we don’t need to push very As they investi- about training our students to design gyroscope records whether the cubesat is rotating hard to turn it,” Frey said. “And the goal for this gated the potential and build space hardware, not just and, if so, how fast. Because ARC-1 carries a camera mission was just to point the satellite at the ground, problems in the “THE AEROSPACE GUYS SAID THAT put Legos together.” to take pictures of the Earth, the team wants to so we’re not making quick movements.” months following WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA.”  e cubesat work gives students control that rotation. Earlier systems have controlled the direction in the launch, the team a type of instruction not found in Frey got the job. He used a system invented by which cubesats face in a similar way by running strapped a prototype textbooks and lectures, she said. NASA engineer Michael Polites in 1971 and power through coils, with no magnets, to create cubesat to a vibration table at the Geophysical Insti- “ ere’s the technical aspect of being an engineer,” re ned by Donald Mentch for his Ph.D. at  elds that interact with the Earth’s. But those sys- tute.  e shaking jammed a spring-loaded switch she said, “but there’s this larger organic aspect of UAF in 2011.  e system also earned Frey tems only produce torque when current is  owing. — the very one designed to turn on the power when actually ful lling what needs to be ful lled for a a master’s degree in December 2014. Frey’s system, by using only occasional pulses, leaves the cubsat launches from the P-POD. particular project.” Frey’s system starts with 1-inch-long, more power for other functions on the satellite. “We believe we have the smoking gun,”  orsen Across the  ve-year span, the students also have 1/16-inch-thick magnetized rods of “You’re trying to use the power the most e cient said in early February. ful lled her hopes for them, she said. alloyed aluminum, nickel and cobalt. way possible to do the science you want to do,” “ ey go out and they’re like, ‘Wow, there’s this  e rods are then coiled in copper Frey said. really cool thing here, what if we do this?’” she said. wire and attached to electrical “And I’m like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know anything about circuits on a board. Troubleshooting that. Teach me, how does that work?’  e rods, being magnetized, A er the launch at Vandenberg, the UAF students “And the act of them teaching me teaches them.” behave just like a compass met a few engineers from  e Aerospace Corp. who needle. Because the rods also had a cubesat on the Atlas V.  e Aerospace Sam Bishop is a writer and editor at UAF Marketing and are wired  rmly to a board engineers were skeptical of ARC-1’s antenna design, Communications. Born and raised in Alaska, he worked pre- within the cubesat, the the students said. viously as a newspaper journalist for  years in Fairbanks, Pop-up tape measures are common Anchorage, Juneau and Washington, D.C. This story reintro- duced him to terms he fi rst encountered while earning an ama- on cubesats, but the Aerospace engi- teur radio license at age , after which his knowledge steadily neers didn’t like the  shing line that the The cubesat team used a tape regressed. measure for an antenna, an innovation Alaska team used to keep it folded out of devised by previous cubesat designers. the way in the P-POD. Web extra: Watch the cubesats pop from their P-PODS The antenna was folded around the “It ties down to a resistor, and when on the Atlas V rocket after the launch on Oct. 8 at satellite and held with fi shing line. Jesse Frey, Morgan Johnson and Patrick Wade hold http://bit.ly/ulalaunch. For more about the latest in cubesat According to the plan, electricity would the resistor heats up, it melts the  shing the completed ARC- cubesat. Johnson designed the work at NASA, visit www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/. heat a resistor after launch, melting the line that we used to tie it down with,” system to capture data on the conditions experienced line and allowing the antenna to pop up. Johnson explained. by the cubesat during launch. Now a master’s student in electrical engineering, she is working with the next student team developing a cubesat at UAF. that used in a digital camera. Commands can be forces generated by their compass-like interaction “ e Aerospace guys said that was a terrible idea,” Even so, the cubesat could still awaken as tem- sent from Gilmore Creek to download that data — if with the Earth’s magnetic  elds mechanically torque O’Dell said. perature changes in space stress its frame. “ ere’s the cubesat wakes up enough to talk. the entire cubesat, aligning it in predictable direc- Many other complications could explain the still the o chance that thermal cycling will eventu-  e data logger was unlike most other cubesat tions. To change the cubesat’s direction, bursts of cubesat’s silence, though. ally release that pin,”  orsen said. devices in that, to do its job, it had to be powered up electricity are sent to the coils. No one actually saw the cubesat a er it went into during the launch.  at’s a potential problem.  e “When you pulse a current through that coil, you the P-POD in March. “ ey close it up.  ey bolt Learning by trying usual rocket launch rules resemble a commercial can  ip the direction that the magnet is polarized it down. No more touchy,” said Pacheco, who was “We’re not an industry that’s done this for 50 years,” airliner’s at takeo — all devices must be turned o . in,” Frey said. Flipping the polarization reverses there for the delivery.  orsen said. “So every step forward we  nd things So Johnson had to make a special trip to San Jose, the e ect of the magnetic  elds and therefore turns So the cubesat’s rechargeable batteries could have that we don’t know and then we have to  gure California, for two days of electromagnetic interfer- the cubesat. Several coils were needed to dampen faded during the seven-month wait.  e tiny solar them out.” ence testing of her data logger. It passed easily. oscillations. panels on the cubesat’s surface might require a long  orsen became director of the Alaska Space Her accelerometer was the key to recording how “We’re looking to sort of explore how that works time to recharge the batteries. Grant Program in 2008, taking over from Neal rough the ride was.  e device consists of a small and how well that works in orbit,” Frey said. Other challenges could have arisen on the trip Brown and Joe Hawkins before him.  orsen and mass suspended between two plates in an electri- At its apogee, above the northern hemisphere, the into space. the  rst students began working on the satellite cal circuit, Johnson explained.  e accelerometer cubesat is about 484 miles from the Earth’s surface. “ e thing shook really, really hard, right?” project in 2009. detects changes in capacitance — the ratio between At its perigee in the southern hemisphere, it is 292  orsen said in October. “We have mechanical Many of the cubesat’s components could have the circuit’s voltage and the plates’ electrical charges miles high. At those elevations, the atmosphere is switches that need to release in order to turn the been purchased o the shelf, but “that’s not who we — as the mass bounces between the plates, thus indi- still present but is extremely thin. satellite on. Have those switches actually released or are,”  orsen said. “We’re an engineering college, cating the severity of jostling during a launch. “ ere is very little friction and very little that’s are they jammed a little bit?” and I’m training engineers. We are A er the cubesat is  ung from the P-POD, the pushing our satellite, so we don’t need to push very As they investi- about training our students to design gyroscope records whether the cubesat is rotating hard to turn it,” Frey said. “And the goal for this gated the potential and build space hardware, not just and, if so, how fast. Because ARC-1 carries a camera mission was just to point the satellite at the ground, problems in the “THE AEROSPACE GUYS SAID THAT put Legos together.” to take pictures of the Earth, the team wants to so we’re not making quick movements.” months following WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA.”  e cubesat work gives students control that rotation. Earlier systems have controlled the direction in the launch, the team a type of instruction not found in Frey got the job. He used a system invented by which cubesats face in a similar way by running strapped a prototype textbooks and lectures, she said. NASA engineer Michael Polites in 1971 and power through coils, with no magnets, to create cubesat to a vibration table at the Geophysical Insti- “ ere’s the technical aspect of being an engineer,” re ned by Donald Mentch for his Ph.D. at  elds that interact with the Earth’s. But those sys- tute.  e shaking jammed a spring-loaded switch she said, “but there’s this larger organic aspect of UAF in 2011.  e system also earned Frey tems only produce torque when current is  owing. — the very one designed to turn on the power when actually ful lling what needs to be ful lled for a a master’s degree in December 2014. Frey’s system, by using only occasional pulses, leaves the cubsat launches from the P-POD. particular project.” Frey’s system starts with 1-inch-long, more power for other functions on the satellite. “We believe we have the smoking gun,”  orsen Across the  ve-year span, the students also have 1/16-inch-thick magnetized rods of “You’re trying to use the power the most e cient said in early February. ful lled her hopes for them, she said. alloyed aluminum, nickel and cobalt. way possible to do the science you want to do,” “ ey go out and they’re like, ‘Wow, there’s this  e rods are then coiled in copper Frey said. really cool thing here, what if we do this?’” she said. wire and attached to electrical “And I’m like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know anything about circuits on a board. Troubleshooting that. Teach me, how does that work?’  e rods, being magnetized, A er the launch at Vandenberg, the UAF students “And the act of them teaching me teaches them.” behave just like a compass met a few engineers from  e Aerospace Corp. who needle. Because the rods also had a cubesat on the Atlas V.  e Aerospace Sam Bishop is a writer and editor at UAF Marketing and are wired  rmly to a board engineers were skeptical of ARC-1’s antenna design, Communications. Born and raised in Alaska, he worked pre- within the cubesat, the the students said. viously as a newspaper journalist for  years in Fairbanks, Pop-up tape measures are common Anchorage, Juneau and Washington, D.C. This story reintro- duced him to terms he fi rst encountered while earning an ama- on cubesats, but the Aerospace engi- teur radio license at age , after which his knowledge steadily neers didn’t like the  shing line that the The cubesat team used a tape regressed. measure for an antenna, an innovation Alaska team used to keep it folded out of devised by previous cubesat designers. the way in the P-POD. Web extra: Watch the cubesats pop from their P-PODS The antenna was folded around the “It ties down to a resistor, and when on the Atlas V rocket after the launch on Oct. 8 at satellite and held with fi shing line. Jesse Frey, Morgan Johnson and Patrick Wade hold http://bit.ly/ulalaunch. For more about the latest in cubesat According to the plan, electricity would the resistor heats up, it melts the  shing the completed ARC- cubesat. Johnson designed the work at NASA, visit www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/. heat a resistor after launch, melting the line that we used to tie it down with,” system to capture data on the conditions experienced line and allowing the antenna to pop up. Johnson explained. by the cubesat during launch. Now a master’s student in electrical engineering, she is working with the next student team developing a cubesat at UAF. Cli ord Wells ’ — “Still going to work SOCIAL CLASS every day at NASA Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Met and married my CONNECTIONS NOTES wife of 49 years, Andree, in Maryland. Big plan is to retire and rest in mid-coast Maine in a town of beautiful restful views and  lled ™ NANOOK 1940s with early American history. Raised two sons: one served in Iraq and Afghanistan, now retired Army major with B.S.E.E., MBA; second is a doctor of internal medicine, cardi- “Reached 100 ologist, MD, Ph.D.” Stephen J. Young ’, ’ — “Has been years August doing research in physics for the last 43 years for the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.” .” LENT More than 100 people took part in reunion activities in September, including two alumni couples from out of state who visited the Fairbanks campus for the —Patrick O’Neill ’, ’ , ’H* to opportunities for research and conserva- tion e orts with black rhinoceros.  e  nal “If you are retired  rst time since their graduations. Paul Sander ’ and Kate Sander ’, journal article (co-authored) resulting from from Ellensburg, Washington, met at Starvation Gulch in the 1990s and were 1950s this rhino work has just come out, exactly and not enrolled, voted most outstanding woman and man in their graduating class. Ed Lewison ’ — “Despite  unking inte- 50 years a er publication of my  rst peer-re- Lei Zhu ’ and Yuqi Zhao ’ traveled from Logan, Utah, for Lei’s 25th gral calculus twice, I managed to graduate viewed paper on caribou in Alaska. Now we you are missing reunion. A erward Lei wrote, “ e severe storm that occurred during the with the class of 1951.  e years following have settled just outside Portland, Oregon. Our daughter is nearby, and we are a bit reunion weekend actually helped to quickly bring back our fond memories were mostly kind and what I learned at U of A made a big di erence in those later years. I closer to our four granddaughters, who live fantastic learning of the winters when we lived and studied at UAF as graduate students.” send my best wishes to those who remember with their parents just a few miles from UAF.” Sherry Simpson ’, ’ At the awards luncheon in Wood Center, me, regrettably a diminishing number. I Sharon Boko ’ — “Have served on the opportunities.” received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, given in recognition of her retired a chief engineer, married to a cardi- UAF Face-o Club Board of Directors for the literary accomplishments. She recently won the John Burroughs Medal ologist (Connie Hayes, matriculate). She past several years.” —Rachel Thomas ’ keeps me alive!” for her book “Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska.” In her Julie Folta ’ and Richard Folta ’ — Theodore Bier ’ — “Received M.S. acceptance speech she said, “When I was in high school, our teachers Stuart Ya e ’ — “[At] age 88, continue Julie has mostly retired from teaching and her engineering management in 1965. Would be pushed us to go Outside for college. But I  gured that if I planned to live to practice medicine a er 59 years. Family consulting business. Richard has retired from interested in hearing from other students physician fortunate to practice with my and work in Alaska, it made more sense to come here and learn about engineering and practice of law.  ey retired who attended at that time.” daughter, also an FP.  e U of A was excellent to Haines, Alaska. (Editor’s response: Contact the alumni o ce Alaska and Alaskans. And this turned out to be true. For me, UAF was the in guiding me into the medical profession.” at [email protected] or 907-474-7081 kind of place where professors didn’t say, ‘No, you can’t do that’ but rather Edward Ashby ’ — “In the Pioneer for information about getting in touch with ‘Yes, how can we help you do that?’” Home in Fairbanks now, and it is great.” “She keeps me former classmates.) Libby Eddy ’ couldn’t attend to receive her Alumni Achievement Alan Eddy ’ and Linda Eddy ’ — Sylvia Ruscett ’ and Ron Ruscett ’ — —Ed Lewison ’  Award for University Support but asked Tiana Elkins ’  to say a few “We are both retired. We summer in Michigan alive!” “Retired for 12 years. Traveling, gardening, words on her behalf: “I had no intention of working for the university for and winter at Voyager in Tucson.” and enjoying hobbies and family.” Robert Leonard ’ — “Not much new. 30 years. I just got a job to pay the bills while I decided what I wanted to be Bob Taylor ’ — “I was honored by the Living in a retirement community near Helen Roxana (Crabb) Ericsson ’ — when I grew up. Somehow 30 years  ew by. When I started working in 1978, Simpson County Bar Association in Franklin, Sacramento, California.” “I’m from the class of 1965 so always look for parking decals cost $7.50, and when I took classes tuition was $32 per credit.” Kentucky, on Law Day (May 1, 2015) in recog- news from other classmates. My husband and Rachel Thomas ’ — “I’m enjoying I (nearing 50 years) have spent most of that Ann Ringstad ’, ’ was awarded the other Alumni Achievement nition of my 51 years serving the community in several capacities as an attorney. I presently the Osher Lifelong Learning sponsored by in Latin countries, teaching and preparing Award for University Support and said, “I have invited my three young grand- serve as trial commissioner for Kentucky’s UAF. If you are retired and not enrolled, nationally for ministry (Christian). We’ve had children here today — Kierra, Brayden and Addison — to demonstrate the 49th Judicial District and continue to operate you are missing fantastic lectures/learning a wonderful life! I thank the U of A for a good importance of keeping up your advocacy e orts.  ese   h-generation Alaskans my law o ce.” opportunities.”  rm education and have enjoyed learning from other great institutions along the way. and future college students are counting on you!” Paul Hunter ’ — “Just got home [in Feeling blessed!” All of the alumni award winner photos and bios can be seen at www.uaf.edu/ 1960s August] from six weeks on our boat Chimaera. Cruised in Washington’s San Juan Islands alumni/awards/. Please mark your calendar for the 2016 Nanook Rendezvous, Russ Redick ’ — “Fully retired in Carol E. Bush ’ — “I am a widow since and Canada’s Gulf Islands, Desolation Sound Anchorage.” coming Sept. 23-24. We hope to see you! July 14, 2013. Live alone in a new condo with and Discovery Islands. Overall weather was one spoiled cat.” great. Chimaera is a 37-foot trawler.” Bette Smith ’ — “I’m a retired educator having taught grades 1 through 11 and four New agreement reached Save the date for next year! Peter Lent ’ — “From caribou and Gary Eisebraun ’ — “A er ’63 I was semesters in the College of Education at UAF Alumni Association and UAF o cials signed a new memorandum of agreement in October muskoxen to black rhinos it’s been a long employed in mining for 34 years and enjoyed Western Kentucky University. My master’s 2015 as recommended by an alumni task force. It can be read at www.uaf.edu/alumni/about/moa/. Sept. 23-24, 2016 journey. A er early retirement from the some world traveling. More importantly was degree and Rank I are from the University federal government, I  nished a book on the experience of a loving wife, four children, of South Carolina and Western Kentucky Photos from top: ) Sherry Simpson ’, ’, winner of the  Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds her award platter with, from left, Sam muskoxen and spent several years working in eight grandkids and six great-grandkids. University.” Enoka ’, Mike Sfraga ’, ’ and English Professor Derick Burleson. ) Students enjoy the Starvation Gulch bonfi res, held the same weekend South Africa, mostly at the University of Fort Have been retired 18 years and live in a great as Nanook Rendezvous. ) Tiana Elkins ’ speaks on behalf of Libby Eddy ’, a  Alumni Achievement Award recipient. ) Ann Ringstad Hare, the oldest historically black university town, Las Vegas.” ’, ’, a  Alumni Achievement Award recipient, stands with Enoka, Sfraga and her grandchildren. ) DeShana York ’, holds her  in the country. My wife, Lesley ’ , also William R. Cashen Service Award, with, from left, Shane York, Teresa Lowe ’ and Marta Mueller ’. served as a volunteer there.  at a liation led *H=honorary degree

30 aurora | spring 2016 Cli ord Wells ’ — “Still going to work SOCIAL CLASS every day at NASA Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Met and married my CONNECTIONS NOTES wife of 49 years, Andree, in Maryland. Big plan is to retire and rest in mid-coast Maine in a town of beautiful restful views and  lled ™ NANOOK 1940s with early American history. Raised two sons: one served in Iraq and Afghanistan, now retired Army major with B.S.E.E., MBA; second is a doctor of internal medicine, cardi- “Reached 100 ologist, MD, Ph.D.” Stephen J. Young ’, ’ — “Has been years August doing research in physics for the last 43 years for the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.” .” LENT More than 100 people took part in reunion activities in September, including two alumni couples from out of state who visited the Fairbanks campus for the —Patrick O’Neill ’, ’ , ’H* to opportunities for research and conserva- tion e orts with black rhinoceros.  e  nal “If you are retired  rst time since their graduations. Paul Sander ’ and Kate Sander ’, journal article (co-authored) resulting from from Ellensburg, Washington, met at Starvation Gulch in the 1990s and were 1950s this rhino work has just come out, exactly and not enrolled, voted most outstanding woman and man in their graduating class. Ed Lewison ’ — “Despite  unking inte- 50 years a er publication of my  rst peer-re- Lei Zhu ’ and Yuqi Zhao ’ traveled from Logan, Utah, for Lei’s 25th gral calculus twice, I managed to graduate viewed paper on caribou in Alaska. Now we you are missing reunion. A erward Lei wrote, “ e severe storm that occurred during the with the class of 1951.  e years following have settled just outside Portland, Oregon. Our daughter is nearby, and we are a bit reunion weekend actually helped to quickly bring back our fond memories were mostly kind and what I learned at U of A made a big di erence in those later years. I closer to our four granddaughters, who live fantastic learning of the winters when we lived and studied at UAF as graduate students.” send my best wishes to those who remember with their parents just a few miles from UAF.” Sherry Simpson ’, ’ At the awards luncheon in Wood Center, me, regrettably a diminishing number. I Sharon Boko ’ — “Have served on the opportunities.” received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, given in recognition of her retired a chief engineer, married to a cardi- UAF Face-o Club Board of Directors for the literary accomplishments. She recently won the John Burroughs Medal ologist (Connie Hayes, matriculate). She past several years.” —Rachel Thomas ’ keeps me alive!” for her book “Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska.” In her Julie Folta ’ and Richard Folta ’ — Theodore Bier ’ — “Received M.S. acceptance speech she said, “When I was in high school, our teachers Stuart Ya e ’ — “[At] age 88, continue Julie has mostly retired from teaching and her engineering management in 1965. Would be pushed us to go Outside for college. But I  gured that if I planned to live to practice medicine a er 59 years. Family consulting business. Richard has retired from interested in hearing from other students physician fortunate to practice with my and work in Alaska, it made more sense to come here and learn about engineering and practice of law.  ey retired who attended at that time.” daughter, also an FP.  e U of A was excellent to Haines, Alaska. (Editor’s response: Contact the alumni o ce Alaska and Alaskans. And this turned out to be true. For me, UAF was the in guiding me into the medical profession.” at [email protected] or 907-474-7081 kind of place where professors didn’t say, ‘No, you can’t do that’ but rather Edward Ashby ’ — “In the Pioneer for information about getting in touch with ‘Yes, how can we help you do that?’” Home in Fairbanks now, and it is great.” “She keeps me former classmates.) Libby Eddy ’ couldn’t attend to receive her Alumni Achievement Alan Eddy ’ and Linda Eddy ’ — Sylvia Ruscett ’ and Ron Ruscett ’ — —Ed Lewison ’  Award for University Support but asked Tiana Elkins ’  to say a few “We are both retired. We summer in Michigan alive!” “Retired for 12 years. Traveling, gardening, words on her behalf: “I had no intention of working for the university for and winter at Voyager in Tucson.” and enjoying hobbies and family.” Robert Leonard ’ — “Not much new. 30 years. I just got a job to pay the bills while I decided what I wanted to be Bob Taylor ’ — “I was honored by the Living in a retirement community near Helen Roxana (Crabb) Ericsson ’ — when I grew up. Somehow 30 years  ew by. When I started working in 1978, Simpson County Bar Association in Franklin, Sacramento, California.” “I’m from the class of 1965 so always look for parking decals cost $7.50, and when I took classes tuition was $32 per credit.” Kentucky, on Law Day (May 1, 2015) in recog- news from other classmates. My husband and Rachel Thomas ’ — “I’m enjoying I (nearing 50 years) have spent most of that Ann Ringstad ’, ’ was awarded the other Alumni Achievement nition of my 51 years serving the community in several capacities as an attorney. I presently the Osher Lifelong Learning sponsored by in Latin countries, teaching and preparing Award for University Support and said, “I have invited my three young grand- serve as trial commissioner for Kentucky’s UAF. If you are retired and not enrolled, nationally for ministry (Christian). We’ve had children here today — Kierra, Brayden and Addison — to demonstrate the 49th Judicial District and continue to operate you are missing fantastic lectures/learning a wonderful life! I thank the U of A for a good importance of keeping up your advocacy e orts.  ese   h-generation Alaskans my law o ce.” opportunities.”  rm education and have enjoyed learning from other great institutions along the way. and future college students are counting on you!” Paul Hunter ’ — “Just got home [in Feeling blessed!” All of the alumni award winner photos and bios can be seen at www.uaf.edu/ 1960s August] from six weeks on our boat Chimaera. Cruised in Washington’s San Juan Islands alumni/awards/. Please mark your calendar for the 2016 Nanook Rendezvous, Russ Redick ’ — “Fully retired in Carol E. Bush ’ — “I am a widow since and Canada’s Gulf Islands, Desolation Sound Anchorage.” coming Sept. 23-24. We hope to see you! July 14, 2013. Live alone in a new condo with and Discovery Islands. Overall weather was one spoiled cat.” great. Chimaera is a 37-foot trawler.” Bette Smith ’ — “I’m a retired educator having taught grades 1 through 11 and four New agreement reached Save the date for next year! Peter Lent ’ — “From caribou and Gary Eisebraun ’ — “A er ’63 I was semesters in the College of Education at UAF Alumni Association and UAF o cials signed a new memorandum of agreement in October muskoxen to black rhinos it’s been a long employed in mining for 34 years and enjoyed Western Kentucky University. My master’s 2015 as recommended by an alumni task force. It can be read at www.uaf.edu/alumni/about/moa/. Sept. 23-24, 2016 journey. A er early retirement from the some world traveling. More importantly was degree and Rank I are from the University federal government, I  nished a book on the experience of a loving wife, four children, of South Carolina and Western Kentucky Photos from top: ) Sherry Simpson ’, ’, winner of the  Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds her award platter with, from left, Sam muskoxen and spent several years working in eight grandkids and six great-grandkids. University.” Enoka ’, Mike Sfraga ’, ’ and English Professor Derick Burleson. ) Students enjoy the Starvation Gulch bonfi res, held the same weekend South Africa, mostly at the University of Fort Have been retired 18 years and live in a great as Nanook Rendezvous. ) Tiana Elkins ’ speaks on behalf of Libby Eddy ’, a  Alumni Achievement Award recipient. ) Ann Ringstad Hare, the oldest historically black university town, Las Vegas.” ’, ’, a  Alumni Achievement Award recipient, stands with Enoka, Sfraga and her grandchildren. ) DeShana York ’, holds her  in the country. My wife, Lesley ’ , also William R. Cashen Service Award, with, from left, Shane York, Teresa Lowe ’ and Marta Mueller ’. served as a volunteer there.  at a liation led *H=honorary degree

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 31 Judy Cameron ’ — “Retired high school Bobby Gaddis ’ , ’  — “Owner, Future Joan Osterkamp ’ and Tom Byron Young ’ , ’ — “I have recently Robert Duncan ’ — “Worked for principal, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1996. Retired 1970s Resources Engineering (water and energy Osterkamp, professor emeritus — retired from the [U.S. Army Corps of Horizon Air in Portland, Oregon, then went co-owner of Property Management Company, projects). Retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. “Tom retired from teaching at UAF to Engineers] Cold Regions Research and to work for Fred Meyer/Kroger Company for Las Vegas, 2015.” Eugene Ashley ’  — “My son Glenn Army (2010). Take heart, the energy sector instructing civilian and law enforcement han- Engineering Lab located in Hanover, New 27 years. I am now retired and living in Sun works for the FAA in Fairbanks. I’m retired will recover.  e roller coaster is due to poor dlers for search and rescue. His specialty is Hampshire, a er a successful career as the City West, Arizona, with my wife, Carol. We John Trent ’ and Gerda (Wild) Trent, U.S. Air Force and enjoy visiting Alaska and U.S. policy and lack of world leadership.  at scent theory and its application in the train- site environmental o cer. I have attended are enjoying our retirement.” matriculate — “Moved from Anchorage Hawaii. It’s 4,000 miles to drive from here can be corrected by electing better leaders. Be ing of the dogs.  e last year saw us traveling the University of Ohio, Harvard School of to a small retirement home we built in Kenai, Lenita Sheridan Graves ’ published [Michigan] to Fairbanks, and I really enjoy sure to vote in 2016.” from our home in Missouri to Maine, Alaska, Medicine and have completed another degree where there are  sh to be caught and Cook her second book, “Guardian of the Gauntlet, doing it.” Texas, California and most states in between from the University of New Hampshire. I Inlet agates to be found. John is a retired Robert Wilkins ’ — “In July appointed Book II,” in January 2015. She writes under for work with the dogs and visits with our now live with my wife and family in White (2012) Alaska wildlife biologist and Gerda a Lynndeen Barnett Knapp ’  — as municipal judge for the City of Philippi, the pen name Lenita Sheridan. For more four sons and their families.” River Junction, Vermont. It all started with a retired registered nurse.” “Celebrated my mother’s (Doreen Wood West Virginia.” information, visit www.LenitaSheridan.com. summer class at UAF.” Barnett ’-’) 90th birthday with a Leon Sanders ’ — “Manhattan, Kansas, Joyce Mann ’  Kurt (Pfi zter ’ ) Connie Lamb ’ ’ decade party.” — “ was my place of birth 77 years ago. It is a , — “I have retired and I visited my mother’s  rst cousin and from teaching at Noorvik’s Aqqaluk High “We have Thomas Egan ’ is an industrial appeals state university town with a large Army base “Age is creeping family in Krakow, Poland. A er more than a nearby. I am retired living in an apartment School. I taught in Noorvik for 20 years. judge for the Board of Industrial Insurance century, the family was reunited.” Made a lot of friends and enjoyed my time experienced fi ve Appeals in Olympia, Washington. there now. Recently my faithful 15-year-old cocker spaniel passed away. I am missing up but we there. I now live in Fairbanks.” Colleen (Schwienberg) Heberer ’ — “I have been him greatly. I have pleasant recall of my time Jim Winslade ’ — “Teaching at the glorious years “Retired a er 25 years owning and operating at UAF.” still enjoy our Environmental Resources Training Center Whatnot Consignments in Eagle River. Timothy Smith ’ — “Now retired and at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Previously taught in Wrangell and eastern doing 3D facial Have been teaching water treatment and on ‘permanent Washington before moving to Anchorage living in my ancestral homeland of Yorb adventurous County in southcentral Pennsylvania.” wastewater treatment to operators as adjunct where I was an administrative assistant for reconstructions instructor for the last 12 years.” vacation.’” Arctic Slope/Wright Schachart Construction Patricia Wilson ’ — “I am a retired jour- Bush life.” Roger Nicholas ’ — “I’ve been working —Tom Young ’ and Laurel during pipeline building boom. Daughter nalist now living in central North Carolina.” Lark and grandsons Blaze Shellhamer and from skeletal —Julie and Miki Collins ’ for the City of Unalakleet for 13 years,  ve Young ’ Cruz Boseman live nearby.” Susan Gamache ’  — “Just livin’ it one years as a general laborer and eight years as a day at a time.” water plant operator. I credit UAF with giving Joyce Gatlin ’ — “Retired as an elemen- Ellen Lester ’ — “Teaching sewing remains.” me the mindset to constantly strive for higher tary principal from the Hillsborough County classes at a local quilt store.” Guy Urban ’  — “Recently retired from 1980s —Louise Renhard ’ education and better positions.” Florida School System in 1991. I’m now enjoy- National Tsunami Warning Center. Now Phyllis Collins ’ — “I am from the class Linda Rinard ’ — “I’m a retired Jeannie Romig ’ ing life with my husband in the Florida Gulf spending my time at the Gravity Institute of of 1980, A.A.S. in food service technol- — “Alaska-certi ed Anchorage School District teacher but sub a Geo ry Carroll ’  — “I retired a er Coast community of Steinhatchee, Florida.” Alaska.” ogy. Since then I have obtained a bachelor teacher, retired now. Taught in [Fairbanks lot to get money for travel.” working for 27 years as the area wildlife of technology in food service manage- North Star Borough] School District and Patricia Nichols ’ — “Living on the biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish Kevin Corbett ’  — “M.S. geology, Texas Thomas Ager ’  — “Retired from U.S. ment, a master’s in education curriculum Christian schools.” coast of Oregon in North Bend. Visit Alaska and Game. Before that I worked for the A&M, 1982; Ph.D. geology, UCLA, 1987. Geological Survey in 2012. Continuing to do and instruction and a Ph.D. candidate in and Fairbanks every two or three years.” North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife President and CEO of Channel Energy Judy Smith ’ — “Taught with Fairbanks research on Alaska as an emeritus scientist.” organizational leadership. I have worked at Management. I plan to do more dog sled- in Lakewood, Colorado. We are a private North Star Borough School District full- Kees Van Weel ’ — “Retired from Delaware State University in Dover since Jerry Bowers ’  — “I remain a resident ding, traveling and working with local youth equity-backed oil and gas exploration and time 1981–1997. Taught with Adult Learning USDA Forest Service. Living in southeast 1993.” of Fairbanks. I am a Seahawks fan and will programs.” production company.” Programs of Alaska 2003–2006. Member of Ohio. Gardening, hiking, messing around again visit Century Link Stadium in Seattle Findlay Abbott ’ had a career building Fairbanks Retired Teachers Association.” with muzzleloaders. Fixing up an old, small John Dufseth ’  — “Retired, living on Kenneth Humphreys ’  — “Retired, for the home games. Go ’Hawks!” architectural and topographic scale models, sailboat and trailer. Missing Alaska.” coastal North Carolina.” doing New England archaeological research Brad Sworts ’, ’ — “Predesign and on pre-Columbian contacts; also a little gold carpentry and boat repair. He lives in Homer engineering division manager, Matanuska- Allan Crawford ’ — “In 2014, I received Linda Millimaki ’  — “A er graduation panning in Vermont in White Mountains. and on Yukon Island, the family homestead. Susitna Borough capital projects department.” the  omas Je erson Award from the “Take heart, the [Linda] moved to San Diego, where she still  ere’s also copper and silver, not much but  ey are planning archaeological work on the Darrell Dinges ’ National Weather Service for being a coop- lives with her husband, Bruce. She is a CPA a er all the years of no mining,  akes and Yukon Island Fox Farm site. People interested — “I was a candidate for erative observer and also involved in the energy sector and they own a CPA  rm in San Diego.  ey small bits show up. During the Civil War, in participating may write to Abbott at P.O. the Colorado State Senate in 2014 in Denver, weather spotter program as well. My observa- have three daughters and four grandchildren. Vermont was a top copper producer.” Box 3000, Homer, Alaska 99603. Colorado.” tions are turned in to the Anchorage forecast She loves living in San Diego!” Kenneth Coe ’ worked as an emergency Sara Hannan ’ and Mark Stopha ’ — center by monthly reports and daily call-ins. will recover.” Karen Ladegard ’  — “I retired two years Louise Renhard ’  hire in smokejumper parachute lo all “Sara is completing a career as a high school I have done this for 37 years and have nearly — “A er U of A I ago a er 22 years with the Iditarod Area summer [2015]. teacher at Juneau-Douglas High School. completed my 38th.” —Bobby Gaddis ’ joined the Peace Corps and went to Lesotho. School District and moved with my husband A er that I spent three years backpacking in Mark and she are plotting a retirement that to Wasilla. I am currently working part-time Julie Collins ’ — “My sister, Miki Tom Young ’ and Laurel Young ’ — Terri Foster ’  — “I live in Happy Valley, Africa. I am now a senior crime scene analyst includes more  shing and time at their cabins as adjunct faculty with the education depart- (Collins ’ ), and I have recently contrib- “We have experienced  ve glorious years ‘on Oregon. Have three grandchildren, all with Las Vegas Metro Police Department in in Southeast and Cooper Landing, Alaska.” ment at the Mat-Su Campus.” uted two major articles to the National Park permanent vacation’ — traveling (via air, land girls.  ey are all doing well and have lots of the CSI section. I have been doing 3D facial Service. Both can be found online. Our three Dirk Nielsen ’ and Amy Nielsen and sea in Alaska and afar), exploring Prince friends, plus a Great Dane named George and reconstructions from skeletal remains. I Bob Mattson ’ , ’ and Maria books are still in print, available at Gulliver’s ’ — “Both of us are retired and living in William Sound ( shing, shrimping, beach two cats. I miss Alaska greatly but when the teach an intro to 3D facial reconstruction Mattson ’ — “During June and July 2015, Books and other outlets. Age is creeping up Washington state as of 2015. Looking forward combing and berry picking) and enjoying family moved to Oregon, I also moved to stay class at schools ITT Tech and Kaplan College, Bob and Maria returned to Finland with but we still enjoy our adventurous Bush life.” to the next chapter.” time with family (two sons, one daughter, close to them.” and chemical  ngerprint processing and nine other family members from Alaska for a family reunion.  ey joined over 30 Finnish George Wandover ’, ’ — “We have their spouses and  ve grandchildren). Our Susan Braund ’ — “Homer, Alaska. documenting, and understanding cases of Russell Klapchuk ’ — “I retired from relatives from Bob’s father’s side of the family relocated our MEP design and consulting latest venture is planning our 50th anniver- Owner of Firestar Media Services (writing strangulation, at the CSI Academy.” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric for a wonderful time. Bob returned to take a business to Port Clinton, Ohio, on Lake Erie.” sary celebration in Kona over spring break and editing); Sew-Tu (mending and repairs); Administration Dec. 31, 2014. I was a relief 2016.” new position with [the Alaska Department of and Above the Bay (Airbnb).” able seaman on the R/V Sikuliaq this Christy Andrews ’ — “Retired in 2013 Environmental Conservation] as Southeast [past] spring. I’m driving a truck on the regional manager for the new Prevention, from the Anchorage School District; kinder- Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest this garten and  rst-grade teacher.” Preparedness and Response Program in [2015] summer.” Juneau.”

32 aurora | spring 2016 Judy Cameron ’ — “Retired high school Bobby Gaddis ’ , ’  — “Owner, Future Joan Osterkamp ’ and Tom Byron Young ’ , ’ — “I have recently Robert Duncan ’ — “Worked for principal, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1996. Retired 1970s Resources Engineering (water and energy Osterkamp, professor emeritus — retired from the [U.S. Army Corps of Horizon Air in Portland, Oregon, then went co-owner of Property Management Company, projects). Retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. “Tom retired from teaching at UAF to Engineers] Cold Regions Research and to work for Fred Meyer/Kroger Company for Las Vegas, 2015.” Eugene Ashley ’  — “My son Glenn Army (2010). Take heart, the energy sector instructing civilian and law enforcement han- Engineering Lab located in Hanover, New 27 years. I am now retired and living in Sun works for the FAA in Fairbanks. I’m retired will recover.  e roller coaster is due to poor dlers for search and rescue. His specialty is Hampshire, a er a successful career as the City West, Arizona, with my wife, Carol. We John Trent ’ and Gerda (Wild) Trent, U.S. Air Force and enjoy visiting Alaska and U.S. policy and lack of world leadership.  at scent theory and its application in the train- site environmental o cer. I have attended are enjoying our retirement.” matriculate — “Moved from Anchorage Hawaii. It’s 4,000 miles to drive from here can be corrected by electing better leaders. Be ing of the dogs.  e last year saw us traveling the University of Ohio, Harvard School of to a small retirement home we built in Kenai, Lenita Sheridan Graves ’ published [Michigan] to Fairbanks, and I really enjoy sure to vote in 2016.” from our home in Missouri to Maine, Alaska, Medicine and have completed another degree where there are  sh to be caught and Cook her second book, “Guardian of the Gauntlet, doing it.” Texas, California and most states in between from the University of New Hampshire. I Inlet agates to be found. John is a retired Robert Wilkins ’ — “In July appointed Book II,” in January 2015. She writes under for work with the dogs and visits with our now live with my wife and family in White (2012) Alaska wildlife biologist and Gerda a Lynndeen Barnett Knapp ’  — as municipal judge for the City of Philippi, the pen name Lenita Sheridan. For more four sons and their families.” River Junction, Vermont. It all started with a retired registered nurse.” “Celebrated my mother’s (Doreen Wood West Virginia.” information, visit www.LenitaSheridan.com. summer class at UAF.” Barnett ’-’) 90th birthday with a Leon Sanders ’ — “Manhattan, Kansas, Joyce Mann ’  Kurt (Pfi zter ’ ) Connie Lamb ’ ’ decade party.” — “ was my place of birth 77 years ago. It is a , — “I have retired and I visited my mother’s  rst cousin and from teaching at Noorvik’s Aqqaluk High “We have Thomas Egan ’ is an industrial appeals state university town with a large Army base “Age is creeping family in Krakow, Poland. A er more than a nearby. I am retired living in an apartment School. I taught in Noorvik for 20 years. judge for the Board of Industrial Insurance century, the family was reunited.” Made a lot of friends and enjoyed my time experienced fi ve Appeals in Olympia, Washington. there now. Recently my faithful 15-year-old cocker spaniel passed away. I am missing up but we there. I now live in Fairbanks.” Colleen (Schwienberg) Heberer ’ — “I have been him greatly. I have pleasant recall of my time Jim Winslade ’ — “Teaching at the glorious years “Retired a er 25 years owning and operating at UAF.” still enjoy our Environmental Resources Training Center Whatnot Consignments in Eagle River. Timothy Smith ’ — “Now retired and at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Previously taught in Wrangell and eastern doing 3D facial Have been teaching water treatment and on ‘permanent Washington before moving to Anchorage living in my ancestral homeland of Yorb adventurous County in southcentral Pennsylvania.” wastewater treatment to operators as adjunct where I was an administrative assistant for reconstructions instructor for the last 12 years.” vacation.’” Arctic Slope/Wright Schachart Construction Patricia Wilson ’ — “I am a retired jour- Bush life.” Roger Nicholas ’ — “I’ve been working —Tom Young ’ and Laurel during pipeline building boom. Daughter nalist now living in central North Carolina.” Lark and grandsons Blaze Shellhamer and from skeletal —Julie and Miki Collins ’ for the City of Unalakleet for 13 years,  ve Young ’ Cruz Boseman live nearby.” Susan Gamache ’  — “Just livin’ it one years as a general laborer and eight years as a day at a time.” water plant operator. I credit UAF with giving Joyce Gatlin ’ — “Retired as an elemen- Ellen Lester ’ — “Teaching sewing remains.” me the mindset to constantly strive for higher tary principal from the Hillsborough County classes at a local quilt store.” Guy Urban ’  — “Recently retired from 1980s —Louise Renhard ’ education and better positions.” Florida School System in 1991. I’m now enjoy- National Tsunami Warning Center. Now Phyllis Collins ’ — “I am from the class Linda Rinard ’ — “I’m a retired Jeannie Romig ’ ing life with my husband in the Florida Gulf spending my time at the Gravity Institute of of 1980, A.A.S. in food service technol- — “Alaska-certi ed Anchorage School District teacher but sub a Geo ry Carroll ’  — “I retired a er Coast community of Steinhatchee, Florida.” Alaska.” ogy. Since then I have obtained a bachelor teacher, retired now. Taught in [Fairbanks lot to get money for travel.” working for 27 years as the area wildlife of technology in food service manage- North Star Borough] School District and Patricia Nichols ’ — “Living on the biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish Kevin Corbett ’  — “M.S. geology, Texas Thomas Ager ’  — “Retired from U.S. ment, a master’s in education curriculum Christian schools.” coast of Oregon in North Bend. Visit Alaska and Game. Before that I worked for the A&M, 1982; Ph.D. geology, UCLA, 1987. Geological Survey in 2012. Continuing to do and instruction and a Ph.D. candidate in and Fairbanks every two or three years.” North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife President and CEO of Channel Energy Judy Smith ’ — “Taught with Fairbanks research on Alaska as an emeritus scientist.” organizational leadership. I have worked at Management. I plan to do more dog sled- in Lakewood, Colorado. We are a private North Star Borough School District full- Kees Van Weel ’ — “Retired from Delaware State University in Dover since Jerry Bowers ’  — “I remain a resident ding, traveling and working with local youth equity-backed oil and gas exploration and time 1981–1997. Taught with Adult Learning USDA Forest Service. Living in southeast 1993.” of Fairbanks. I am a Seahawks fan and will programs.” production company.” Programs of Alaska 2003–2006. Member of Ohio. Gardening, hiking, messing around again visit Century Link Stadium in Seattle Findlay Abbott ’ had a career building Fairbanks Retired Teachers Association.” with muzzleloaders. Fixing up an old, small John Dufseth ’  — “Retired, living on Kenneth Humphreys ’  — “Retired, for the home games. Go ’Hawks!” architectural and topographic scale models, sailboat and trailer. Missing Alaska.” coastal North Carolina.” doing New England archaeological research Brad Sworts ’, ’ — “Predesign and on pre-Columbian contacts; also a little gold carpentry and boat repair. He lives in Homer engineering division manager, Matanuska- Allan Crawford ’ — “In 2014, I received Linda Millimaki ’  — “A er graduation panning in Vermont in White Mountains. and on Yukon Island, the family homestead. Susitna Borough capital projects department.” the  omas Je erson Award from the “Take heart, the [Linda] moved to San Diego, where she still  ere’s also copper and silver, not much but  ey are planning archaeological work on the Darrell Dinges ’ National Weather Service for being a coop- lives with her husband, Bruce. She is a CPA a er all the years of no mining,  akes and Yukon Island Fox Farm site. People interested — “I was a candidate for erative observer and also involved in the energy sector and they own a CPA  rm in San Diego.  ey small bits show up. During the Civil War, in participating may write to Abbott at P.O. the Colorado State Senate in 2014 in Denver, weather spotter program as well. My observa- have three daughters and four grandchildren. Vermont was a top copper producer.” Box 3000, Homer, Alaska 99603. Colorado.” tions are turned in to the Anchorage forecast She loves living in San Diego!” Kenneth Coe ’ worked as an emergency Sara Hannan ’ and Mark Stopha ’ — center by monthly reports and daily call-ins. will recover.” Karen Ladegard ’  — “I retired two years Louise Renhard ’  hire in smokejumper parachute lo all “Sara is completing a career as a high school I have done this for 37 years and have nearly — “A er U of A I ago a er 22 years with the Iditarod Area summer [2015]. teacher at Juneau-Douglas High School. completed my 38th.” —Bobby Gaddis ’ joined the Peace Corps and went to Lesotho. School District and moved with my husband A er that I spent three years backpacking in Mark and she are plotting a retirement that to Wasilla. I am currently working part-time Julie Collins ’ — “My sister, Miki Tom Young ’ and Laurel Young ’ — Terri Foster ’  — “I live in Happy Valley, Africa. I am now a senior crime scene analyst includes more  shing and time at their cabins as adjunct faculty with the education depart- (Collins ’ ), and I have recently contrib- “We have experienced  ve glorious years ‘on Oregon. Have three grandchildren, all with Las Vegas Metro Police Department in in Southeast and Cooper Landing, Alaska.” ment at the Mat-Su Campus.” uted two major articles to the National Park permanent vacation’ — traveling (via air, land girls.  ey are all doing well and have lots of the CSI section. I have been doing 3D facial Service. Both can be found online. Our three Dirk Nielsen ’ and Amy Nielsen and sea in Alaska and afar), exploring Prince friends, plus a Great Dane named George and reconstructions from skeletal remains. I Bob Mattson ’ , ’ and Maria books are still in print, available at Gulliver’s ’ — “Both of us are retired and living in William Sound ( shing, shrimping, beach two cats. I miss Alaska greatly but when the teach an intro to 3D facial reconstruction Mattson ’ — “During June and July 2015, Books and other outlets. Age is creeping up Washington state as of 2015. Looking forward combing and berry picking) and enjoying family moved to Oregon, I also moved to stay class at schools ITT Tech and Kaplan College, Bob and Maria returned to Finland with but we still enjoy our adventurous Bush life.” to the next chapter.” time with family (two sons, one daughter, close to them.” and chemical  ngerprint processing and nine other family members from Alaska for a family reunion.  ey joined over 30 Finnish George Wandover ’, ’ — “We have their spouses and  ve grandchildren). Our Susan Braund ’ — “Homer, Alaska. documenting, and understanding cases of Russell Klapchuk ’ — “I retired from relatives from Bob’s father’s side of the family relocated our MEP design and consulting latest venture is planning our 50th anniver- Owner of Firestar Media Services (writing strangulation, at the CSI Academy.” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric for a wonderful time. Bob returned to take a business to Port Clinton, Ohio, on Lake Erie.” sary celebration in Kona over spring break and editing); Sew-Tu (mending and repairs); Administration Dec. 31, 2014. I was a relief 2016.” new position with [the Alaska Department of and Above the Bay (Airbnb).” able seaman on the R/V Sikuliaq this Christy Andrews ’ — “Retired in 2013 Environmental Conservation] as Southeast [past] spring. I’m driving a truck on the regional manager for the new Prevention, from the Anchorage School District; kinder- Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest this garten and  rst-grade teacher.” Preparedness and Response Program in [2015] summer.” Juneau.”

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 33 Michael Donnell ’ — “Wyoming P.E. Kevin Pauli ’ — “I am currently associate Ron Miller ’ — “A er graduating with Alaska Otterbacher ’ , ’ — “I con- (Civil) No. 5982 since 1991; do most all city professor of management and MBA director my M.S. in natural resources, I worked tinue to be an avid backcountry extreme engineering for Worland, Wyoming, for the at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. with Native American tribes across the hiker. I hike national parks around the past 20 years. Married to Mary Beth Donnell I completed my MBA and Ph.D. in manage- southwestern United States. I am currently western U.S. My next hike will be my 50th since 1979; three grown children: Cody (born ment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln a supervisory forester on the Fort Apache trek in Death Valley, followed by southern in Fairbanks in 1981), Lori (28), Nick (26); in 2001.” Indian Reservation. Our oldest daughter, Utah and northern Arizona. Yes, I still live in one granddaughter Evelyn Martinez, Billings, born in Fairbanks, now has a master’s degree Fairbanks. Love the extremes! I also continue Montana, now 2 ½. Amateur radio license of her own. I love to travel and have climbed to volunteer for the Red Cross on major disas- AD7XI (I worked on air at KFRB, KCBF/ “Congratulations to the highest point of 46 states. I also enjoy ters. ‘If it is the right thing to do, DO IT!’” KTVF Channell 11, KAYY 101 in Fairbanks).” the Caribbean and plan on being there again Susan Fisher ’ this December. Congratulations UAF on your — “Retired as CEO of Dorothy Goldsborough ’ — “Got my UAF on your  rst 100 years!” Tongass Federal Credit Union.” Ph.D. at age 71. Taught criminology/criminal Meranda Moran ’ justice at Chaminade University of Honolulu fi rst 100 years!” Sam Winch ’ — “Sam recently retired — “Back home enjoy- and University of Hawaii at Manoa. Still do from Penn State Harrisburg, where he was ing a subsistence lifestyle a er 10 years of volunteer educational work in correctional —Ron Miller ’ associate professor in communications, SASSI teaching. Enjoying my Native culture!” OLSEN facilities and am heavily involved in civic teaching photography; moved to Lubec, Terri Marie Ramsey ’ — “I am currently Bud Rice ’ engagement for high school and college — “I changed jobs with the Maine, where he sails and hikes.” Kelly (Duklet) Sassi ’, ’ earned working full-time as a social worker (pro- Inuuteq Holm Olsen ’ was a foreign students.” National Park Service from environmental Renee Dreiling ’ her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan tective services specialist II) for the State of exchange student who earned his degree at protection specialist completing [National — “I make frequent appearances at local poetry readings and in Ann Arbor in 2008 and is now associate Alaska, Division of Public Assistance, Work UAF as part of an agreement with the Home Environmental Policy Act] documents for the professor of English and education at North Services Unit. I have been working there for Rule Government of Greenland. Since grad- server to management biologist. I track Board was featured poet at Bayliss Public Library “Got my Ph.D. at (Michigan; available on YouTube). Self- Dakota State University and director of the over 16 years and my current focus is working uating he has held a number of diplomatic of Game and Board of Fisheries proposals Red River Valley Writing Project. She co-au- with Families First clients.” positions. He is minister plenipotentiary at that may a ect wildlife in park areas. I also published chapbook, ‘Clichés on the Rocks, age 71.” With a Twist,’ will be available this fall.” thored three books about writing on demand Richard Anderson ’ — “Life in Nome the Greenland Representation at the Danish compare these with federal subsistence with Anne Gere and Leila Christenbury. Embassy in Washington, D.C. —Dorothy Goldsborough ’ regulations.” Todd Heinrichs ’ was promoted to exec- is adventuresome as ever. We had a beautiful summer and lots of blueberries to pick. My David Hembro ’ — “A er  nishing Je Roach ’ has been appointed as the utive director from senior manager at Ernst & Young. He is a member of EY’s national 1990s son has one more year of college in Oregon, up a career in the U.S. Air Force, I now teach Dick Melvin ’ — “Since 2009 my Fairbanks International Airport manager. so that has been a change for me, not having high school dual credit courses in physics, tax practice and has more than 23 years of Amy Ash ’ — “Retired from the State wife, Mary, and I have worked as freelance “Fairbanks International Airport is a vital part him around home.” chemistry and AP calculus at a small private experience in property taxation. of Alaska a er 15 years as an environmental writers through online sources. We enjoy of the Alaska International Airport System, school in northwest Montana.” our homestead lifestyle on our 160 acres of providing a gateway for access, while serving Susan McIntosh ’, ’ and Robert scientist. Also [U.S. Forest Service-Bureau meadows and hardwood forest in northeast as an economic engine for our community, McIntosh ’ — “Susan: Retired teacher of Land Management] Intermountain “If it is the Heather Juno ’ — “I received my M.S.W. Missouri. Prior to 2009, I worked 13 years the region and the state of Alaska.” and now Alaska statewide mentor. Robert: Experiment Station in northern Idaho and from the University of Southern California in as a PR person in eastern Montana and six research assistant/TA at UAF. Spouse is a 2014 and now am a mental health therapist at John Keller ’ — “Burdett [New York] is Retired teacher and now real estate agent with years as editor of small weekly newspapers in Century 21 in North Pole and Fairbanks.” retired architect.” right thing to do, Crater High School in southern Oregon.” northern Minnesota.” on Seneca Lake, east side. Winery country. My wife and I canoe and mountain bike in Curtis Thayer ’ was named the pres- Deborah Krienke ’ — “I have moved six Leslie Turner ’ — “I am a wastewater the Fingers Lakes National Forest just up the ident and CEO of the Alaska Chamber in DO IT!” times since my stay in Alaska. When the U.S. management specialist with the Washington road. Only one in New York. Most people November 2015. Previously he served as —Alaska Otterbacher ’, ’ Air Force tells the family to move, you move. I State Department of Health in Olympia.” know me as Jack! I’m landscaping and doing commissioner of the Alaska Department of still perform the same kinds of duties I did at a lot of vineyard work, and some bartending Administration under Gov. Sean Parnell and the School of Management, just with di erent Dan Alden ’ is working as a senior elec- Eileen Dolson ’, ’ — “I am missing of weddings!” prior to that was deputy commissioner of the groups of people. Marketing, public relations, trical engineer at Harvard University. He has Alaska and UAF. I am now an intensive state Commerce, Community and Economic in-home counselor working with young promoting ideas and people, supporting the lived in Massachusetts since moving there to Development Department. wellness of my community.” attend grad school at MIT. people and the family unit. I buried my Kelli Cardenas ’ — “Since graduating 103-year-old uncle; my promise to my father Lori Learned ’ , ’ moved to Spear sh, Colleen Behen ’ — “Been living in Cynthia TENIENTE-MATSON ’89 with a B.A. in history, I earned an M.A. is ful lled. Also I am caring for four of my South Dakota, to be closer to family. Homer since 1992 working a variety of in history in 1995 from Fayetteville State grandchildren as co-parent. Regards to my jobs related to my human services A.A.S. “To the great Nanook Nation: University, and in 2006 I earned a Ph.D. in ‘adopted family,’ the Charlies.” Janice Cobb ’ — “I am currently an I received an occupational endorsement It is with great honor I announce adjunct professor for four schools, am active history from the University of South Carolina. Mary Feiler ’ — “Mary has freed herself certi cate in medical coding from UAA in that I have been inaugurated as the in my schools and love teaching! All that I I am currently an associate professor of his- from the traditional expectations of career May 2015 and am looking for employment in second president of Texas A&M most treasure in my life came through UAF!” tory at Fayetteville State University in North ful llment and is a homesteader in the billing and coding department of a hospital University-San Antonio. During my Carolina.” geological wonderland of southern Utah. Her William Hainer ’ — “Regional vice or medical clinic. Meanwhile you can  nd undergraduate years at UAF, becom- UAF experience was instrumental in forming president, sales, Docusign. Living in Seattle, me at the Pratt Museum admit desk and store. ing the president of a university was Carolyn Kremers ’ — “I received another her adventurous spirit and in cultivating a Washington.” Come visit!” not part of the vision I had for myself. Fulbright Scholar award (my  rst one was for dynamic outlook on life.  anks, UAF!” 2008-2009) and will return to teach/write at Paula Rogers ’ — “We’ve moved back Bonnie Borba ’ — “Career in biology I’ve learned that although we may Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude, Russia, to the Great Land! Working as an RN working as a Yukon River salmon research have a plan, it doesn’t always play Beth Leonard ’, ’, ’ was invited to (just north of Mongolia) this September for at Providence Alaska Medical Center in biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish out the way we envision. I genuinely participate as a U.S. regional peer reviewer for 2015-2016.” (Note from editor: see more about Anchorage.” and Game. Direct from college to the  eld! believe my pursuit of higher edu- the 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholar program cation at UAF prepared me for this her award in the Kudos section on p. 14.) for East Asia and the Paci c. She will serve on Still love my job!” Monica Shelden ’ — “My interests audacious task. Although I lead the the Australia and New Zealand Peer Review include cultural and language preservation Keith Johnson ’ — “I am currently A&M-SA Jaguar family in creating a Committee. for the indigenous groups. My position has living in Dillon, Montana. I am assistant  eld path of prosperity, I stay true to the been oral historian for the past 14 years with manager of [Bureau of Land Management] blue and gold of UAF. I thank the UAF Kelly Lincoln ’ has been the owner and the Association of Village Council Presidents. in Beaverhead. I have four children: Dustin, community who have led and paved publisher of the Delta Discovery newspaper I work on the BIA collection of oral history 25; Ben, 23 (graduate of U of M in geology); the way for me to be where I am today.” in Bethel, Alaska, along with her husband, Photo courtesy of Texas A&M University-San Antonio. for the Yup’iit group in Western Alaska.” Madison, 16; and Zane, 14.” Greg, since 2004.

34 aurora | spring 2016 Michael Donnell ’ — “Wyoming P.E. Kevin Pauli ’ — “I am currently associate Ron Miller ’ — “A er graduating with Alaska Otterbacher ’ , ’ — “I con- (Civil) No. 5982 since 1991; do most all city professor of management and MBA director my M.S. in natural resources, I worked tinue to be an avid backcountry extreme engineering for Worland, Wyoming, for the at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. with Native American tribes across the hiker. I hike national parks around the past 20 years. Married to Mary Beth Donnell I completed my MBA and Ph.D. in manage- southwestern United States. I am currently western U.S. My next hike will be my 50th since 1979; three grown children: Cody (born ment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln a supervisory forester on the Fort Apache trek in Death Valley, followed by southern in Fairbanks in 1981), Lori (28), Nick (26); in 2001.” Indian Reservation. Our oldest daughter, Utah and northern Arizona. Yes, I still live in one granddaughter Evelyn Martinez, Billings, born in Fairbanks, now has a master’s degree Fairbanks. Love the extremes! I also continue Montana, now 2 ½. Amateur radio license of her own. I love to travel and have climbed to volunteer for the Red Cross on major disas- AD7XI (I worked on air at KFRB, KCBF/ “Congratulations to the highest point of 46 states. I also enjoy ters. ‘If it is the right thing to do, DO IT!’” KTVF Channell 11, KAYY 101 in Fairbanks).” the Caribbean and plan on being there again Susan Fisher ’ this December. Congratulations UAF on your — “Retired as CEO of Dorothy Goldsborough ’ — “Got my UAF on your  rst 100 years!” Tongass Federal Credit Union.” Ph.D. at age 71. Taught criminology/criminal Meranda Moran ’ justice at Chaminade University of Honolulu fi rst 100 years!” Sam Winch ’ — “Sam recently retired — “Back home enjoy- and University of Hawaii at Manoa. Still do from Penn State Harrisburg, where he was ing a subsistence lifestyle a er 10 years of volunteer educational work in correctional —Ron Miller ’ associate professor in communications, SASSI teaching. Enjoying my Native culture!” OLSEN facilities and am heavily involved in civic teaching photography; moved to Lubec, Terri Marie Ramsey ’ — “I am currently Bud Rice ’ engagement for high school and college — “I changed jobs with the Maine, where he sails and hikes.” Kelly (Duklet) Sassi ’, ’ earned working full-time as a social worker (pro- Inuuteq Holm Olsen ’ was a foreign students.” National Park Service from environmental Renee Dreiling ’ her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan tective services specialist II) for the State of exchange student who earned his degree at protection specialist completing [National — “I make frequent appearances at local poetry readings and in Ann Arbor in 2008 and is now associate Alaska, Division of Public Assistance, Work UAF as part of an agreement with the Home Environmental Policy Act] documents for the professor of English and education at North Services Unit. I have been working there for Rule Government of Greenland. Since grad- server to management biologist. I track Board was featured poet at Bayliss Public Library “Got my Ph.D. at (Michigan; available on YouTube). Self- Dakota State University and director of the over 16 years and my current focus is working uating he has held a number of diplomatic of Game and Board of Fisheries proposals Red River Valley Writing Project. She co-au- with Families First clients.” positions. He is minister plenipotentiary at that may a ect wildlife in park areas. I also published chapbook, ‘Clichés on the Rocks, age 71.” With a Twist,’ will be available this fall.” thored three books about writing on demand Richard Anderson ’ — “Life in Nome the Greenland Representation at the Danish compare these with federal subsistence with Anne Gere and Leila Christenbury. Embassy in Washington, D.C. —Dorothy Goldsborough ’ regulations.” Todd Heinrichs ’ was promoted to exec- is adventuresome as ever. We had a beautiful summer and lots of blueberries to pick. My David Hembro ’ — “A er  nishing Je Roach ’ has been appointed as the utive director from senior manager at Ernst & Young. He is a member of EY’s national 1990s son has one more year of college in Oregon, up a career in the U.S. Air Force, I now teach Dick Melvin ’ — “Since 2009 my Fairbanks International Airport manager. so that has been a change for me, not having high school dual credit courses in physics, tax practice and has more than 23 years of Amy Ash ’ — “Retired from the State wife, Mary, and I have worked as freelance “Fairbanks International Airport is a vital part him around home.” chemistry and AP calculus at a small private experience in property taxation. of Alaska a er 15 years as an environmental writers through online sources. We enjoy of the Alaska International Airport System, school in northwest Montana.” our homestead lifestyle on our 160 acres of providing a gateway for access, while serving Susan McIntosh ’, ’ and Robert scientist. Also [U.S. Forest Service-Bureau meadows and hardwood forest in northeast as an economic engine for our community, McIntosh ’ — “Susan: Retired teacher of Land Management] Intermountain “If it is the Heather Juno ’ — “I received my M.S.W. Missouri. Prior to 2009, I worked 13 years the region and the state of Alaska.” and now Alaska statewide mentor. Robert: Experiment Station in northern Idaho and from the University of Southern California in as a PR person in eastern Montana and six research assistant/TA at UAF. Spouse is a 2014 and now am a mental health therapist at John Keller ’ — “Burdett [New York] is Retired teacher and now real estate agent with years as editor of small weekly newspapers in Century 21 in North Pole and Fairbanks.” retired architect.” right thing to do, Crater High School in southern Oregon.” northern Minnesota.” on Seneca Lake, east side. Winery country. My wife and I canoe and mountain bike in Curtis Thayer ’ was named the pres- Deborah Krienke ’ — “I have moved six Leslie Turner ’ — “I am a wastewater the Fingers Lakes National Forest just up the ident and CEO of the Alaska Chamber in DO IT!” times since my stay in Alaska. When the U.S. management specialist with the Washington road. Only one in New York. Most people November 2015. Previously he served as —Alaska Otterbacher ’, ’ Air Force tells the family to move, you move. I State Department of Health in Olympia.” know me as Jack! I’m landscaping and doing commissioner of the Alaska Department of still perform the same kinds of duties I did at a lot of vineyard work, and some bartending Administration under Gov. Sean Parnell and the School of Management, just with di erent Dan Alden ’ is working as a senior elec- Eileen Dolson ’, ’ — “I am missing of weddings!” prior to that was deputy commissioner of the groups of people. Marketing, public relations, trical engineer at Harvard University. He has Alaska and UAF. I am now an intensive state Commerce, Community and Economic in-home counselor working with young promoting ideas and people, supporting the lived in Massachusetts since moving there to Development Department. wellness of my community.” attend grad school at MIT. people and the family unit. I buried my Kelli Cardenas ’ — “Since graduating 103-year-old uncle; my promise to my father Lori Learned ’ , ’ moved to Spear sh, Colleen Behen ’ — “Been living in Cynthia TENIENTE-MATSON ’89 with a B.A. in history, I earned an M.A. is ful lled. Also I am caring for four of my South Dakota, to be closer to family. Homer since 1992 working a variety of in history in 1995 from Fayetteville State grandchildren as co-parent. Regards to my jobs related to my human services A.A.S. “To the great Nanook Nation: University, and in 2006 I earned a Ph.D. in ‘adopted family,’ the Charlies.” Janice Cobb ’ — “I am currently an I received an occupational endorsement It is with great honor I announce adjunct professor for four schools, am active history from the University of South Carolina. Mary Feiler ’ — “Mary has freed herself certi cate in medical coding from UAA in that I have been inaugurated as the in my schools and love teaching! All that I I am currently an associate professor of his- from the traditional expectations of career May 2015 and am looking for employment in second president of Texas A&M most treasure in my life came through UAF!” tory at Fayetteville State University in North ful llment and is a homesteader in the billing and coding department of a hospital University-San Antonio. During my Carolina.” geological wonderland of southern Utah. Her William Hainer ’ — “Regional vice or medical clinic. Meanwhile you can  nd undergraduate years at UAF, becom- UAF experience was instrumental in forming president, sales, Docusign. Living in Seattle, me at the Pratt Museum admit desk and store. ing the president of a university was Carolyn Kremers ’ — “I received another her adventurous spirit and in cultivating a Washington.” Come visit!” not part of the vision I had for myself. Fulbright Scholar award (my  rst one was for dynamic outlook on life.  anks, UAF!” 2008-2009) and will return to teach/write at Paula Rogers ’ — “We’ve moved back Bonnie Borba ’ — “Career in biology I’ve learned that although we may Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude, Russia, to the Great Land! Working as an RN working as a Yukon River salmon research have a plan, it doesn’t always play Beth Leonard ’, ’, ’ was invited to (just north of Mongolia) this September for at Providence Alaska Medical Center in biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish out the way we envision. I genuinely participate as a U.S. regional peer reviewer for 2015-2016.” (Note from editor: see more about Anchorage.” and Game. Direct from college to the  eld! believe my pursuit of higher edu- the 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholar program cation at UAF prepared me for this her award in the Kudos section on p. 14.) for East Asia and the Paci c. She will serve on Still love my job!” Monica Shelden ’ — “My interests audacious task. Although I lead the the Australia and New Zealand Peer Review include cultural and language preservation Keith Johnson ’ — “I am currently A&M-SA Jaguar family in creating a Committee. for the indigenous groups. My position has living in Dillon, Montana. I am assistant  eld path of prosperity, I stay true to the been oral historian for the past 14 years with manager of [Bureau of Land Management] blue and gold of UAF. I thank the UAF Kelly Lincoln ’ has been the owner and the Association of Village Council Presidents. in Beaverhead. I have four children: Dustin, community who have led and paved publisher of the Delta Discovery newspaper I work on the BIA collection of oral history 25; Ben, 23 (graduate of U of M in geology); the way for me to be where I am today.” in Bethel, Alaska, along with her husband, Photo courtesy of Texas A&M University-San Antonio. for the Yup’iit group in Western Alaska.” Madison, 16; and Zane, 14.” Greg, since 2004.

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 35 ‘hi’ to everyone!” to ‘hi’ 20 Alaska State Council on the Arts by Gov. Bill by Gov. Bill Arts on the Council State Alaska Valley School in Healy, Alaska, in fall 2015. fall in Healy, Alaska, in School Valley Walker in September. Pat is a Pat is September. in Walker lmmaker, was the 2014-2015 the was ’ George Osier Jill Jonathan JohnsonJonathan ’ U.S. Air Force in 2013 amil- now work as Force in and Air U.S. it at UAF. not doing Say regret and University video art.” video Council for the Arts. for the Council Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio. I Ohio. Columbus, in University Otterbein Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico.” Puerto Buchanan, Fort due out with CutBank Books in 2016. in was She Books CutBank due out with achapbook is of poetry collection Her next New Mexico where I own a small yoga and and yoga asmall Iown where Mexico New Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter at Phillips Fellow Bennett right now. I use my rural development degree degree development now. my rural right Iuse Grant Hedman ’ for the GPS constellation.” GPS for the skills every day in running my businesses!” running in day every skills good pretty is Life country. the around shops an Alaska Literary Award Winner for poetry for poetry Award Winner Literary Alaska an and promoted to associate professor of art at of art professor associate to promoted and my loved and at UAF. alot of friends Made Marisa WolfeMarisa ’ — “I retired from the the from —“I retired ’ Coulter Matthew taking online courses to complete abache- complete to courses online taking I’m [Washington], and of Bothell City the teachers. I got a master’s at Portland State State Igot at Portland amaster’s teachers. teach courses in photography, cinema and and photography, cinema in courses teach in November, awarded by the Alaska State State Alaska by the November,in awarded Navy.” enlisted is my youngest and areservist as Navy the in is itary contractor performing mission analysis analysis mission performing contractor itary illustrator and small-business owner, as well well owner, as small-business and illustrator locales and teaching  teaching work- and massage yoga locales ai exotic and interesting in retreats yoga leading lor’s degree in graphic design. My oldest son son My oldest design. graphic in lor’s degree Laura (Princic)Laura Moon ’ body work studio. I fuel my wanderlust by my wanderlust Ifuel work studio. body Paul ’ Hartman Patrick Race ’ Patrick Nathan Pitt ’ 36 HARTMAN

00 aurora s | spring 2016 | spring became the principal at Tri- principal the became was reappointed to the the to reappointed was — “I’ve settled in sunny sunny in —“I’ve settled —“Fire at EMT ghter — “I loved my time my —“I loved time —“Awarded tenure —“I work for Anchorage working as a geologist for BP. for geologist a as working Anchorage Army at Kwajalein Atoll.” at Kwajalein Army Alaska and continues to think about our our about think to continues and Alaska Alaska.”  you!” ank Escanaba, Michigan.” Escanaba, Coming Out in the South,’ an anthology, anthology, an South,’ the in Out Coming 2014. 6,  Sept. Emerson Grant have ason ey M.S.W. from Florida State University and am am and University State M.S.W. Florida from nutrition her incorporating Massachusetts, Middle School to sixth, seventh and eighth eighth and seventh sixth, to School Middle co-owner also He is Society. Picture Motion work students I’ve encountered along the way. the along I’ve encountered work students and treatment abuse substance in working essays can be found in ‘Crooked Letter I: I: Letter ‘Crooked in found be can essays boy.” old Inupiaq language and culture at Hopson at Hopson culture and language Inupiaq Robotics. date, December 2015, University of Oregon of Oregon 2015, University December date, culturally rich education that UAF provided UAF provided that education rich culturally of the downtown Juneau gallery Alaska Alaska gallery Juneau downtown of the Christina Holzhauser ’ Holzhauser Christina Caroline Locke ’ — “Juris Doctor candi- Doctor —“Juris ’ Knix Colleen named Hamish Patrick Emerson. Living in in Living Emerson. Patrick Hamish named now a licensed clinical social worker. I am worker. Iam social clinical now alicensed graders. It’s my 10th school year in Barrow, Barrow, in year It’s school my 10th graders. mom to an enthusiastic, creative 14-year- creative enthusiastic, mom an to from New South Press.” South New from School of Law.” of School and research learned while at UAF. while is She learned research and as co-founder of the Juneau Underground Underground Juneau of the co-founder as adventures there. I’ve never forgotten the the forgotten I’ve never there. adventures — “Physics “Physics — ’ Krynicki Matthew teaching Head Start for years.” 23 Start Head teaching to me, or my instructors. I’ve shared that that I’ve shared or my instructors. me, to  misses health mental family the Our eld. western in acupuncturist alicensed as tices instructor, Bay de Noc Community College, College, Community Noc de Bay instructor, knowledge with interns and other social social other and interns with knowledge Katie Bowers ’, ’ ’, Bowers Katie married married ’ Emerson (Bailey) Rebecca teaching —“I am ’ Hugo Beverly now prac- —“Emma ’ Rombach Emma Derek Miller ’ HOLZHAUSER — “I’m working for U.S. for U.S. —“I’m working — “I’ve obtained my —“I’ve obtained — “I retired a —“I retired er —“One of my Andrea is a student at San Diego Zoo Global Global Zoo Diego at San astudent is Andrea Anne Aleshire ’ Andrea ’ Bartusch —“A ’ Troy Williams I graduating, er 2015. She studied model community-based community-based model 2015. studied She John ’ Neubauer Disney Company for eight years now.” years for eight Company Disney UAF’s instructor of Spanish, through EF EF through of Spanish, UAF’s instructor versary with the company.  the with UAF!” you, versary ank Cairo, Egypt. All in all, a most wonderful wonderful amost all, in All Egypt. Cairo, and Shelli, Group Tours. partner, My travel Miami University’s Earth Expeditions Expeditions Earth University’s Miami Mexico for the winter. I love exploring and and Ilove exploring winter. for the Mexico Kinabatangan River in Sabah (East Malaysia). Malaysia). (East Sabah in River Kinabatangan Program. I took advantage of being in Europe to enjoy to Europe in of being advantage I took career. I just celebrated my eighth year anni- year my eighth celebrated Ijust career. Wainwright. at Fort stationed pilot copter e orts to preserve Bornean species along the the along e species Bornean preserve to orts uate course in pursuit of her master’s degree degree master’s of her pursuit in course uate  summer global in Borneo in course eld from Miami University’s Advanced Inquiry Inquiry Advanced University’s Miami from started a career in electrical design. Ihave design. electrical in acareer started a Mediterranean cruise and a quick trip to to trip aquick and cruise a Mediterranean Matt Rawlings ’ Rawlings Matt trip.” trip.” to Italy with Kimberly Aragón Stewart, Stewart, Aragón Kimberly with Italy to Itraveled area. local the in painting plein-air in San Diego, California, and took the grad- the took and California, Diego, San in been successfully moving forward in my in forward moving successfully been ALESHIRE BARTUSCH — “Snowbirding in New New in —“Snowbirding , ’ — “Working for the for the —“Working participated in in participated is a Blackhawk heli- aBlackhawk is ’  e Alaska Community Foundation. Penny Penny  Foundation. Community eAlaska 2015. Previously she was a program o aprogram was she 2015. Previously at cer Jordan Springer ’ has served as an an as served has ’ III Nichols John Council Host Committee as the U.S. chairs chairs U.S. the as Committee Host Council Computer Music Conference, Society Society Conference, Music Computer Competition]! Go UAF!” Go Competition]! 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I miss cross-country skiing and and skiing cross-country Imiss Institute. employed as a solutions architect at the SAS SAS at the architect asolutions employed as cool temperatures.” cool Heart For Change and decided to return to to return to decided and For Change Heart ever tasted, the unique people I met, and and Imet, people unique the tasted, ever the Ihad, experiences new the enjoyed all o le adventure cially for my next Alaska I until summer the during of Management cannot wait to return for a visit this year! 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I’m currently working toward my toward working I’m currently bathroom. ’ ’ ‘conquering heroes.’ A great experience, experience, Agreat heroes.’ ‘conquering Ashland, Oregon. Oregon. Ashland, Nanook memory Nanook — “Living in Los Los in Tedd —“Living ’ Wallace Jose) with our three grandchildren, and and grandchildren, three our Jose) with Wilber ’ During Christmas vacation 1952, I, vacation Christmas During years. We have a daughter nearby (in San (in San nearby We have adaughter years. Edmonton Meany Hotel. Our  Our Hotel. 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Bill by Gov. Bill Arts on the Council State Alaska Valley School in Healy, Alaska, in fall 2015. fall in Healy, Alaska, in School Valley Walker in September. Pat is a Pat is September. in Walker lmmaker, Jonathan JohnsonJonathan ’ 2014-2015 the was ’ George Osier Jill U.S. Air Force in 2013 amil- now work as Force in and Air U.S. it at UAF. not doing Say regret and University video art.” video Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio. I Ohio. Columbus, in University Otterbein Council for the Arts. for the Council Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico.” Puerto Buchanan, Fort due out with CutBank Books in 2016. in was She Books CutBank due out with achapbook is of poetry collection Her next New Mexico where I own a small yoga and and yoga asmall Iown where Mexico New Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter at Phillips Fellow Bennett right now. 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Florida from co-owner also He is Society. Picture Motion Middle School to sixth, seventh and eighth eighth and seventh sixth, to School Middle work students I’ve encountered along the way. the along I’ve encountered work students and treatment abuse substance in working old boy.” old Robotics. date, December 2015, University of Oregon of Oregon 2015, University December date, at Hopson culture and language Inupiaq essays can be found in ‘Crooked Letter I: I: Letter ‘Crooked in found be can essays of the downtown Juneau gallery Alaska Alaska gallery Juneau downtown of the culturally rich education that UAF provided UAF provided that education rich culturally Caroline Locke ’ Christina Holzhauser ’ Holzhauser Christina — “Juris Doctor candi- Doctor —“Juris ’ Knix Colleen named Hamish Patrick Emerson. Living in in Living Emerson. Patrick Hamish named now a licensed clinical social worker. I am worker. Iam social clinical now alicensed graders. 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Energy Authority as an energy development development energy an as Authority Energy Colombia, while embracing the culture and and culture the embracing while Colombia, working on a postdoc with Mark Boyce at Boyce Mark with on apostdoc working May 2015, I continued to work for the School School work to for the 2015,May Icontinued Institute. I miss cross-country skiing and and skiing cross-country Imiss Institute. Iam region. Carolina, North Raleigh, cool temperatures.” cool SAS at the architect asolutions employed as Heart For Change and decided to return to to return to decided and For Change Heart ever tasted, the unique people I met, and and Imet, people unique the tasted, ever the Ihad, experiences new the enjoyed all o le adventure cially for my next Alaska I until summer the during of Management cannot wait to return for a visit this year! Go Go year! this for avisit return to wait cannot and tremendously Alaska Imiss here. career Nanooks!” Corrine Noel Knapp ’ new master’s of environmental management.” of master’s environmental new gorgeous sceneries, the most fresh fruit I’ve fruit fresh most the sceneries, gorgeous sustainability at Western State Colorado Colorado State at Western sustainability my home state, Texas, to start an entry-level entry-level an Texas, start to my home state, specialist.” selection.” an assistant professor of environment and and of environment professor assistant an school students for  students school Medellin, in ve months and I LOVE it ILOVE here!” and —“A ’  Combs Monica in graduation er pronghorn population dynamics and habitat habitat and dynamics population pronghorn  of Alberta. on is University the epostdoc project. hard work! I completed my contract with with my contract Icompleted work! hard the life I lived in a Latino culture. It was an an It was culture. aLatino in Ilived life the Ithoroughly country. of the language the land management program in their brand brand their in program management land last November collecting data for Ph.D. her data collecting November last incredible experience and exactly what I was Iwas what exactly and experience incredible high to English I taught America. 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I’m currently working toward my toward working I’m currently bathroom. ’ ’ ‘conquering heroes.’ A great experience, experience, Agreat heroes.’ ‘conquering Ashland, Oregon. Oregon. Ashland, Nanook memory Nanook — “Living in Los Los in Tedd —“Living ’ Wallace Jose) with our three grandchildren, and and grandchildren, three our Jose) with years. We have a daughter nearby (in San (in San nearby We have adaughter years. During Christmas vacation 1952, I, vacation Christmas During Wilber ’ Edmonton Meany Hotel. Our  Our Hotel. Meany Edmonton game rst Gonzaga U and  Uand Gonzaga of the spite In home. ew Gatos, California, with wife, Judy, of 50 wife, with California, Gatos, we canceled our last game scheduled at scheduled game last our we canceled basket- JV Uof Washington the with was Recalling my wonderful years at U of A: at Uof A: years my wonderful Recalling eled by bus through much of Washington of much Washington through by bus eled our other daughter makes her home in home her in makes daughter other our gave me.”gave members of the  of the members team Uof Aathletic rst facility was huge, the UW team was huge huge was team UW the huge, was facility many ‘once in a lifetimes’ the Uof A the alifetimes’ ‘once in many Seattle, stayed at the fancy (at us) to least fancy at the stayed Seattle, and some names I can’t recall, became became recall, Ican’t names some and along with Alfi ’ with along eBaumiester and Oregon until, from sheer exhaustion, exhaustion, sheer from until, Oregon and We us. trav- against score the was so and a time to remember and just one of the one of the just and remember to a time to ever compete intercollegiately. We intercollegiately. compete ever to humbling experience we returned the the we returned experience humbling le Fairbanks on the midnight le midnight on the to ight Fairbanks ball team — a sobering experience.  experience. —asobering e team ball Walt Stevens Walt Stevens Eckert, , William ’ Burkett Loyal , Roy Torwick, KERLEY Jim Moore ’ Moore , Jim Bob Gray Gray , Bob 37 Don , Don Lucy (Rabold Murdock) O’Brien ’  — “I Jane Sandstrom — “A er retiring from Stephen J. Harcharik ’, Sept. 19, 2015, Emma Irene Mead ’ , Oct. 28, 2015, Delta Richard E. See ’ , ’, Sept. 14, 2015, am the new middle school counselor at the the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Bremerton, Washington Junction, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Kodiak Middle School! I graduated in May District and [taking] a year o , I returned Dennis E. Holden, matriculate, Nov. 14, 2015, Susan Merritt ’, Sept. 9, 2015, Anchorage, Edward Spaulding Sisson ’ , ’ , Nov. 30, 2015 and then got married a week later! Glad to the science classroom in Monument, San Marcos, California Alaska 2015, Ester, Alaska to be at the middle school now.” Colorado. I missed the energy of the Brian Earl Jackson ’ , Nov. 22, 2015, Fairbanks, Katherine M. Monteith, former Geophysical Hardy M. Smith ’, ’, Dec. 1, 2015, North students!” Alaska Institute sta member, Aug. 24, 2015, Pole, Alaska Christopher Smith ’  — “I am working in Fairbanks, Alaska Wasilla, Alaska, as an advocate for homeless Gail Bakken Johnson ’, Aug. 1, 2015, John W. Smith ’, Sept. 1, 2015, Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska Eva M. Nielsen-King ’ , Dec. 13, 2015, South Alaska youth and victims of sex tra cking, while Naknek, Alaska attending school for my master’s in public IN Frederick J. Kent ’ , ’ , Dec. 24, 2015, Claribel Snider, matriculate, Aug. 19, 2015, William Eugene Northrup, matriculate administration from UAA. Loving the moun- Anchorage, Alaska , Sept. Belfair, Washington 15, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska tains and my life.” MEMORIAM Patricia A. Kling ’, Nov. 19, 2015, Spokane, Joyce H. Upham, matriculate, Jan. 28, Aiken, Washington Janice Reeve Ogle ’ , Oct. 13, 2015, Anchorage, South Carolina Robert Spiller ’  — “I’m working as an Maudene “Deanie” Adams ’, ’, Dec. 30, Connie L. Lamb ’ , ’, Sept. 28, 2015, Alaska John P. Usibelli ’ , Nov. 17, 2015, Healy, Alaska engineer at GVEA. I’m getting married in 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Wallace M. Olson ’ and former faculty , Andrew Thaddeus Weaver ’ , Nov. 13, 2015, January 2016.” Dec. 21, 2015, Auke Bay, Alaska Gerald D. Alborn ’, Aug. 21, 2015, Dover, Marian O. Larson, matriculate and Palmer, Alaska MORRISON Delaware Kathleen L. Peterson ’ former employee, Sept. 1, 2015, Saint Paul, , July 16, 2015, Juneau, Greg Williams ’, Nov. 5, 2015, Galena, Alaska Ramon Ralph Balut ’ , Dec. 29, 2015, Harpers Alaska Matriculates Alice Morrison — “I grew up on the U of A Minnesota Elaine R. Williamson ’, Dec. 12, 2015, campus in the 1960s when my father, Peter Ferry, West Virginia Miriam T. Polan ’ , Dec. 25, 2015, Deland, David Anderson — “General manager for Thomas T. Maillelle ’, Jan. 23, Holy Cross, Fairbanks, Alaska Morrison, was director of the Institute of Charles J. Barber ’, Nov. 16, 2015, Eagle River, Florida KBBI Homer Public Radio (AM 890) since Alaska Merle Gregory Wilson ’ , ’, Sept. 15, 2015, Arctic Biology. He turned 96 in November Alaska Dennis J. Ponder ’, Nov. 25, 2015, Palmer, summer 2004. I sit on the Board of Directors Stephen T. McPhetres ’, Nov. 24, 2015, Bend, Oregon and lives in Friday Harbor, Washington. I James F. Bartlett, matriculate, Aug. 10, 2015, Alaska of the Alaska Broadcasters Association.” Juneau, Alaska Cheryl E. Yelek ’ , Dec. 21, 2015, Johnstown, remember watching the totem pole being Los Angeles, California Eva L. Saulitis ’ , ’, Jan. 16, Homer, Alaska Colorado *H=honorary degree Dale Bosworth — “My professor of wildlife carved as I walked home from elementary Amanda (Rosie) Lynn Bee ’, July 27, 2015, management, Jim Rearden ’H*, has school. My interest in traditional old things North Pole, Alaska Professor Emeritus D.A. Bartlett died Jones. A member of the UAF English Department for more than 20  nished his latest book, ‘Old Alaska #2’ with continued and led me to end up living in a Gregory J. Berger ’ , Nov. 1, 2015, Fairbanks, in Fairbanks Sept. 5, 2015. She was born in years, she taught many courses, including composition and Alaska two chapters about my life as a commer- house built in 1795 near the Connecticut Alaska 1934 in Washington, D.C., where her father, Native, northern and world literatures. Her excellent teaching was cial  sherman. I recently lost two friends River in Vermont. I enjoy reading about the U E.L. “Bob” Bartlett, worked for Alaska’s recognized with an award from the Honors Program. She was also Annette Bray, matriculate, Jan. 26, North Pole, part of the 50th-anniversary “Creating Alaska” celebrations. Paul Garceau John delegate to Congress. and classmates, and of A continuing to thrive and produce gradu- Alaska  e Bartletts returned to Alaska in 1935. Always interested in the life of the mind, the heart and the world, Johnson ’.” ates with their varied careers. I still miss the Christopher John Bringhurst, matriculate, D.A. spent her early years in Juneau and the she took great pleasure in sharing experiences and ideas with others, smell of fall in the hills around the college Circle Mining District. In 1945, Alaskans and she had an extraordinary ability to make each person feel Dale Durrwachter — “Since establish- Oct. 4, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska and the colors of the highbush cranberries in elected Bob as their delegate to Congress, so unique and valued. ing a scholarship fund in education at the Barry Lee Butler, matriculate, Aug. 13, 2015, September during the Equinox Marathon.” they moved back to Washington, D.C. D.A. is survived by her children and stepchildren and their U of A, I’ve also established a similar fund Oregon A er graduating with honors in history from Middlebury College families, and countless loving and beloved friends. at my B.A./M.A. alma mater at University Nancy Ott — [From August 2015] “Just Cathi Carr-Lundfelt ’ , ’ , Oct. 10, 2015, in 1955, D.A. worked as a researcher and librarian at Alaska’s  ose who would like to make a gi in D.A.’s honor are invited to of Western Washington and at my tiny visited Fairbanks a few weeks ago! Spent a Laramie, Wyoming Constitutional Convention. She completed master’s degrees in contribute to Save the Children, the American Civil Liberties Union K-12 alma mater country school Crescent couple of weeks at the family cabin in Salcha. English and classics, and a doctorate in English, at the University of or the University of Alaska scholarship fund. Richard Eugene Church ’ , Dec. 25, 2015, Oregon. She moved to the Fairbanks area in 1980. D.A.’s family is planning a memorial commemoration of her life Consolidated School, in Joyce, Washington,  anks again, UAF, for the wonderful paint- Roseville, California D.A. knew Old and Middle English, classical Greek, Latin and June 25 in Fairbanks, with more details to come in the Fairbanks on the Olympic Peninsula west of Port ing classes! I am also remembering Charles Beatrice H. Courtnage ’, Oct. 19, 2015, Old Norse, and studied Koyukon Athabascan with linguist Eliza Daily News-Miner. Angeles.” Keim, my journalism professor.” Eugene, Oregon Robert Grove — “Retired in 2007 a er 20 Gerry Wahto — “At 94 there is not much James Everett Cox, matriculate and former Stanton H. Patty ’H*, 89, died Sept. Sidney Huntington ’H*, 100, died years at the Geophysical Institute. We are going on.  ank God for memories of my Facilities Services employee, July 8, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska 2, 2015, in Woodland, Washington. He Dec. 8, 2015, in Galena. He was a founder of living on our boat in Valdez in the summer years in Alaska and the many friends I met at was the middle son of UA’s third president, the Galena school district and a longtime and still call Ester our home. Go Nanooks!” the U of A.  e years I went there (1939-1943) Billy J. Culpepper ’ , July 22, 2015, Ernest Patty, and his wife, Kathryn. During member of the Alaska Board of Game. UAF produced many prominent students.” Warrensburg, Missouri his 34 years at  e Seattle Times, Stan granted him an honorary doctorate in 1989. Timothy James — “Promoted to lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham ’, July 7, 2015, Delta became known as Mr. Alaska for his Sidney’s mother was a Koyukon commander in the U.S. Navy on Sept. 1, 2015. Pam (Woods) Webster — “Moved to Junction, Alaska writings about his home state. Athabascan woman and his father was a Stan was born in Fairbanks in 1926, Caucasian trapper and trader.  ey settled Received master’s degree in civil and environ- Vancouver, Washington, in summer 2014. Jacqueline J. DeCicco ’ , July 5, 2015, Seattle, mental engineering from MIT in June 2012. I have a private counseling practice in La four years a er his father began teaching near the con uence of the Hogatza and Washington Koyukuk rivers in 1919.  e next year, his Currently working in D.C.” Center, Washington, and am glad to see engineering at the new Alaska Agricultural Barbara J. Engebretson, former employee, College and School of Mines. “ e university was the cog, the mother died while his father was away. Sidney, 5, cared for his Alaskans in transition who have moved to the Jim King — “I  rst registered at U of A in Aug. 25, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska main cog I think in making Fairbanks the civilized place it was,” younger brother and sister for two weeks in June until they were Portland/Vancouver area.” Stan said in a 1991 interview. His “privileged” family entertained found. 1949. My only degree was honorary in 1989 at Jackie S. Fenno ’ and former employee, Sent away for schooling, Sidney  nished third grade before Sept. 29, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska polar explorers and other prominent visitors, he said. “It  red UAS. I spent 30 years as a biologist/pilot with up things for me. I knew early on what I was going to do as a returning home at age 12. His father, in poor health, soon had the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska Friends Rex G. Fisher, matriculate, Aug. 3, 2015, newspaperman.” to move away, so Sidney, at 16, made his own living by hunting, mostly doing duck surveys and duck banding, Fairbanks, Alaska Stan’s father le UA in 1935 to start a gold dredging operation trapping and  shing. He then mined with a company that bought Fenton Heirtzler — “Currently writing which in uenced decisions about Rampart at Coal Creek along the Yukon River. Stan said a favorite memory his father’s claims, and he worked at military bases in Anchorage more applications for academic jobs from Patricia Eagan Sather Franklin, matriculate, Dam and wildlife refuges established by [the July 25, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska was of riding sternwheelers to the mine upriver from Circle. and Galena during World War II. Palo Alto. Have a really cool idea about how In 1934, Sidney married Jenny Luke, and they had six children Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Stan moved to Seattle when he was in high school. His father to improve organic photovoltaic cells.” Dorothy Marie Goldsborough ’, Dec. 19, returned to the university as president from 1953 to 1960, but before divorcing a decade later. Sidney then married Angela Pitka. Act]. My memoirs were published in 2010, 2015, Kaneohe, Hawaii Stan was already grown, married and working as a journalist. His  ey had 14 children and adopted another.  ey lived  rst at Hog ‘Attending Alaska’s Birds,’ with a foreword by Kay Kindt — “I am a registered nurse. I Linda Ann Gutoski ’ , July 9, 2015, Olympia, stories ranged from the Vietnam War to a 1964 Beatles concert, River and then Huslia until 1963, when Sidney took a job as an Jim Rearden ’H*.” have trained as a research diver. I am getting Washington but he came to focus on travel writing. A er Stan retired, he Air Force carpenter in Galena. He later operated a  sh processing near retirement. I want to volunteer on the donated the Patty family papers to the archives at the Rasmuson business there. Raymond S. Hadley ’ and former School Sikuliaq!” Library. UAF granted him an honorary doctorate in 2005. Sidney helped found the Galena K-12 school and served on its KEEP IN TOUCH of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences employee, Stan’s wife of 67 years, Mabel, died in 2014. Survivors include board for 21 years. He joined the Alaska Board of Fish and Game Dec. 24, 2015, Ester, Alaska Send us your news at Dale Rosene — “A er traveling with a total daughters Kathryn Danielson and Virginia DeFreitas, and a son, in 1972. When it split in 1975, he continued on the Board of Game Stanton Jr., all of Washington.  e family plans to spread Stan’s for another 17 years. www.uaf.edu/alumni/classnotes/ or email of over 1,000 students and 300 adults over 25 Stella N. Hamilton ’, July 26, 2015, Seward, Alaska cremated remains, with those of his wife, on a blu overlooking Sidney is survived by his wife, Angela, many children and [email protected]. years, the project ended with the 2014 trip. the Yukon River near Coal Creek. several more generations of grandchildren. For more information visit www.aglp.com.”

38 aurora | spring 2016 Lucy (Rabold Murdock) O’Brien ’  — “I Jane Sandstrom — “A er retiring from Stephen J. Harcharik ’, Sept. 19, 2015, Emma Irene Mead ’ , Oct. 28, 2015, Delta Richard E. See ’ , ’, Sept. 14, 2015, am the new middle school counselor at the the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Bremerton, Washington Junction, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Kodiak Middle School! I graduated in May District and [taking] a year o , I returned Dennis E. Holden, matriculate, Nov. 14, 2015, Susan Merritt ’, Sept. 9, 2015, Anchorage, Edward Spaulding Sisson ’ , ’ , Nov. 30, 2015 and then got married a week later! Glad to the science classroom in Monument, San Marcos, California Alaska 2015, Ester, Alaska to be at the middle school now.” Colorado. I missed the energy of the Brian Earl Jackson ’ , Nov. 22, 2015, Fairbanks, Katherine M. Monteith, former Geophysical Hardy M. Smith ’, ’, Dec. 1, 2015, North students!” Alaska Institute sta member, Aug. 24, 2015, Pole, Alaska Christopher Smith ’  — “I am working in Fairbanks, Alaska Wasilla, Alaska, as an advocate for homeless Gail Bakken Johnson ’, Aug. 1, 2015, John W. Smith ’, Sept. 1, 2015, Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska Eva M. Nielsen-King ’ , Dec. 13, 2015, South Alaska youth and victims of sex tra cking, while Naknek, Alaska attending school for my master’s in public IN Frederick J. Kent ’ , ’ , Dec. 24, 2015, Claribel Snider, matriculate, Aug. 19, 2015, William Eugene Northrup, matriculate administration from UAA. Loving the moun- Anchorage, Alaska , Sept. Belfair, Washington 15, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska tains and my life.” MEMORIAM Patricia A. Kling ’, Nov. 19, 2015, Spokane, Joyce H. Upham, matriculate, Jan. 28, Aiken, Washington Janice Reeve Ogle ’ , Oct. 13, 2015, Anchorage, South Carolina Robert Spiller ’  — “I’m working as an Maudene “Deanie” Adams ’, ’, Dec. 30, Connie L. Lamb ’ , ’, Sept. 28, 2015, Alaska John P. Usibelli ’ , Nov. 17, 2015, Healy, Alaska engineer at GVEA. I’m getting married in 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Wallace M. Olson ’ and former faculty , Andrew Thaddeus Weaver ’ , Nov. 13, 2015, January 2016.” Dec. 21, 2015, Auke Bay, Alaska Gerald D. Alborn ’, Aug. 21, 2015, Dover, Marian O. Larson, matriculate and Palmer, Alaska MORRISON Delaware Kathleen L. Peterson ’ former employee, Sept. 1, 2015, Saint Paul, , July 16, 2015, Juneau, Greg Williams ’, Nov. 5, 2015, Galena, Alaska Ramon Ralph Balut ’ , Dec. 29, 2015, Harpers Alaska Matriculates Alice Morrison — “I grew up on the U of A Minnesota Elaine R. Williamson ’, Dec. 12, 2015, campus in the 1960s when my father, Peter Ferry, West Virginia Miriam T. Polan ’ , Dec. 25, 2015, Deland, David Anderson — “General manager for Thomas T. Maillelle ’, Jan. 23, Holy Cross, Fairbanks, Alaska Morrison, was director of the Institute of Charles J. Barber ’, Nov. 16, 2015, Eagle River, Florida KBBI Homer Public Radio (AM 890) since Alaska Merle Gregory Wilson ’ , ’, Sept. 15, 2015, Arctic Biology. He turned 96 in November Alaska Dennis J. Ponder ’, Nov. 25, 2015, Palmer, summer 2004. I sit on the Board of Directors Stephen T. McPhetres ’, Nov. 24, 2015, Bend, Oregon and lives in Friday Harbor, Washington. I James F. Bartlett, matriculate, Aug. 10, 2015, Alaska of the Alaska Broadcasters Association.” Juneau, Alaska Cheryl E. Yelek ’ , Dec. 21, 2015, Johnstown, remember watching the totem pole being Los Angeles, California Eva L. Saulitis ’ , ’, Jan. 16, Homer, Alaska Colorado *H=honorary degree Dale Bosworth — “My professor of wildlife carved as I walked home from elementary Amanda (Rosie) Lynn Bee ’, July 27, 2015, management, Jim Rearden ’H*, has school. My interest in traditional old things North Pole, Alaska Professor Emeritus D.A. Bartlett died Jones. A member of the UAF English Department for more than 20  nished his latest book, ‘Old Alaska #2’ with continued and led me to end up living in a Gregory J. Berger ’ , Nov. 1, 2015, Fairbanks, in Fairbanks Sept. 5, 2015. She was born in years, she taught many courses, including composition and Alaska two chapters about my life as a commer- house built in 1795 near the Connecticut Alaska 1934 in Washington, D.C., where her father, Native, northern and world literatures. Her excellent teaching was cial  sherman. I recently lost two friends River in Vermont. I enjoy reading about the U E.L. “Bob” Bartlett, worked for Alaska’s recognized with an award from the Honors Program. She was also Annette Bray, matriculate, Jan. 26, North Pole, part of the 50th-anniversary “Creating Alaska” celebrations. Paul Garceau John delegate to Congress. and classmates, and of A continuing to thrive and produce gradu- Alaska  e Bartletts returned to Alaska in 1935. Always interested in the life of the mind, the heart and the world, Johnson ’.” ates with their varied careers. I still miss the Christopher John Bringhurst, matriculate, D.A. spent her early years in Juneau and the she took great pleasure in sharing experiences and ideas with others, smell of fall in the hills around the college Circle Mining District. In 1945, Alaskans and she had an extraordinary ability to make each person feel Dale Durrwachter — “Since establish- Oct. 4, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska and the colors of the highbush cranberries in elected Bob as their delegate to Congress, so unique and valued. ing a scholarship fund in education at the Barry Lee Butler, matriculate, Aug. 13, 2015, September during the Equinox Marathon.” they moved back to Washington, D.C. D.A. is survived by her children and stepchildren and their U of A, I’ve also established a similar fund Oregon A er graduating with honors in history from Middlebury College families, and countless loving and beloved friends. at my B.A./M.A. alma mater at University Nancy Ott — [From August 2015] “Just Cathi Carr-Lundfelt ’ , ’ , Oct. 10, 2015, in 1955, D.A. worked as a researcher and librarian at Alaska’s  ose who would like to make a gi in D.A.’s honor are invited to of Western Washington and at my tiny visited Fairbanks a few weeks ago! Spent a Laramie, Wyoming Constitutional Convention. She completed master’s degrees in contribute to Save the Children, the American Civil Liberties Union K-12 alma mater country school Crescent couple of weeks at the family cabin in Salcha. English and classics, and a doctorate in English, at the University of or the University of Alaska scholarship fund. Richard Eugene Church ’ , Dec. 25, 2015, Oregon. She moved to the Fairbanks area in 1980. D.A.’s family is planning a memorial commemoration of her life Consolidated School, in Joyce, Washington,  anks again, UAF, for the wonderful paint- Roseville, California D.A. knew Old and Middle English, classical Greek, Latin and June 25 in Fairbanks, with more details to come in the Fairbanks on the Olympic Peninsula west of Port ing classes! I am also remembering Charles Beatrice H. Courtnage ’, Oct. 19, 2015, Old Norse, and studied Koyukon Athabascan with linguist Eliza Daily News-Miner. Angeles.” Keim, my journalism professor.” Eugene, Oregon Robert Grove — “Retired in 2007 a er 20 Gerry Wahto — “At 94 there is not much James Everett Cox, matriculate and former Stanton H. Patty ’H*, 89, died Sept. Sidney Huntington ’H*, 100, died years at the Geophysical Institute. We are going on.  ank God for memories of my Facilities Services employee, July 8, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska 2, 2015, in Woodland, Washington. He Dec. 8, 2015, in Galena. He was a founder of living on our boat in Valdez in the summer years in Alaska and the many friends I met at was the middle son of UA’s third president, the Galena school district and a longtime and still call Ester our home. Go Nanooks!” the U of A.  e years I went there (1939-1943) Billy J. Culpepper ’ , July 22, 2015, Ernest Patty, and his wife, Kathryn. During member of the Alaska Board of Game. UAF produced many prominent students.” Warrensburg, Missouri his 34 years at  e Seattle Times, Stan granted him an honorary doctorate in 1989. Timothy James — “Promoted to lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham ’, July 7, 2015, Delta became known as Mr. Alaska for his Sidney’s mother was a Koyukon commander in the U.S. Navy on Sept. 1, 2015. Pam (Woods) Webster — “Moved to Junction, Alaska writings about his home state. Athabascan woman and his father was a Stan was born in Fairbanks in 1926, Caucasian trapper and trader.  ey settled Received master’s degree in civil and environ- Vancouver, Washington, in summer 2014. Jacqueline J. DeCicco ’ , July 5, 2015, Seattle, mental engineering from MIT in June 2012. I have a private counseling practice in La four years a er his father began teaching near the con uence of the Hogatza and Washington Koyukuk rivers in 1919.  e next year, his Currently working in D.C.” Center, Washington, and am glad to see engineering at the new Alaska Agricultural Barbara J. Engebretson, former employee, College and School of Mines. “ e university was the cog, the mother died while his father was away. Sidney, 5, cared for his Alaskans in transition who have moved to the Jim King — “I  rst registered at U of A in Aug. 25, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska main cog I think in making Fairbanks the civilized place it was,” younger brother and sister for two weeks in June until they were Portland/Vancouver area.” Stan said in a 1991 interview. His “privileged” family entertained found. 1949. My only degree was honorary in 1989 at Jackie S. Fenno ’ and former employee, Sent away for schooling, Sidney  nished third grade before Sept. 29, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska polar explorers and other prominent visitors, he said. “It  red UAS. I spent 30 years as a biologist/pilot with up things for me. I knew early on what I was going to do as a returning home at age 12. His father, in poor health, soon had the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska Friends Rex G. Fisher, matriculate, Aug. 3, 2015, newspaperman.” to move away, so Sidney, at 16, made his own living by hunting, mostly doing duck surveys and duck banding, Fairbanks, Alaska Stan’s father le UA in 1935 to start a gold dredging operation trapping and  shing. He then mined with a company that bought Fenton Heirtzler — “Currently writing which in uenced decisions about Rampart at Coal Creek along the Yukon River. Stan said a favorite memory his father’s claims, and he worked at military bases in Anchorage more applications for academic jobs from Patricia Eagan Sather Franklin, matriculate, Dam and wildlife refuges established by [the July 25, 2015, Fairbanks, Alaska was of riding sternwheelers to the mine upriver from Circle. and Galena during World War II. Palo Alto. Have a really cool idea about how In 1934, Sidney married Jenny Luke, and they had six children Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Stan moved to Seattle when he was in high school. His father to improve organic photovoltaic cells.” Dorothy Marie Goldsborough ’, Dec. 19, returned to the university as president from 1953 to 1960, but before divorcing a decade later. Sidney then married Angela Pitka. Act]. My memoirs were published in 2010, 2015, Kaneohe, Hawaii Stan was already grown, married and working as a journalist. His  ey had 14 children and adopted another.  ey lived  rst at Hog ‘Attending Alaska’s Birds,’ with a foreword by Kay Kindt — “I am a registered nurse. I Linda Ann Gutoski ’ , July 9, 2015, Olympia, stories ranged from the Vietnam War to a 1964 Beatles concert, River and then Huslia until 1963, when Sidney took a job as an Jim Rearden ’H*.” have trained as a research diver. I am getting Washington but he came to focus on travel writing. A er Stan retired, he Air Force carpenter in Galena. He later operated a  sh processing near retirement. I want to volunteer on the donated the Patty family papers to the archives at the Rasmuson business there. Raymond S. Hadley ’ and former School Sikuliaq!” Library. UAF granted him an honorary doctorate in 2005. Sidney helped found the Galena K-12 school and served on its KEEP IN TOUCH of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences employee, Stan’s wife of 67 years, Mabel, died in 2014. Survivors include board for 21 years. He joined the Alaska Board of Fish and Game Dec. 24, 2015, Ester, Alaska Send us your news at Dale Rosene — “A er traveling with a total daughters Kathryn Danielson and Virginia DeFreitas, and a son, in 1972. When it split in 1975, he continued on the Board of Game Stanton Jr., all of Washington.  e family plans to spread Stan’s for another 17 years. www.uaf.edu/alumni/classnotes/ or email of over 1,000 students and 300 adults over 25 Stella N. Hamilton ’, July 26, 2015, Seward, Alaska cremated remains, with those of his wife, on a blu overlooking Sidney is survived by his wife, Angela, many children and [email protected]. years, the project ended with the 2014 trip. the Yukon River near Coal Creek. several more generations of grandchildren. For more information visit www.aglp.com.”

spring 2016 | www.uaf.edu/aurora/ 39 Govinda Gurung, a community leader who recently retired from the Indian NANOOK army as a captain, suggested we continue up the mountainside to see the rest of the NOOK village. Along the way, he pointed out damaged homes while residents greeted him Witnessing the 2015 with great respect. Near the middle of the village, we rounded a corner and came face to face with earthquake’s devastation an undamaged modern, two-story house made of concrete and painted white with a reddish-brown trim. When we expressed surprise, Govinda explained that he had recently built the house with his life savings and some of his annual pension from the Indian government. It was his home, he said. he great Nepal earthquake of 2015 struck the central hill district of Gorkha at 11:56 a.m. on a balmy Saturday, April 25. How remarkable, we thought, that a house such as his, which looked like it  e devastating tremor registered a 7.8 magnitude and lasted 55 seconds — an eternity when the earth convulses so belonged in urban Kathmandu, had been built in this remote place, and that it had wildly that you can’t stand up. During the next six months, more than 400 a ershocks rocked Nepal, some as strong as withstood the quake virtually unscathed. Surrounded by so much devastation, it magnitude 7.3. appeared to be the last house standing.  e tragedy and trauma experienced in Nepal’s hinterland and the capital city of Kathmandu are Govinda invited us for tea on his veranda, from beyond measure. Close to 9,000 people died, another 18,000 were injured, and many are still unac- I was which we could see more of the earthquake damage. counted for. In Gorkha District, 80 percent of the schools collapsed, but because they were empty Soon, his smiling wife appeared with a tray laden on that weekend holiday, a much higher death toll was averted.  e villagers have moved on with with sweet, milky chiya in fancy porcelain tea cups, remarkable resilience and determination to rebuild so scared, “ a plateful of fresh, hot, sweet rice- our doughnuts their homes, their schools and their lives. called sel roti, and spicy grilled meat called cheula.  at morning, Suman Gurung, a 16-year-old boy, it felt like We thanked them for their generous hospitality. Had was grazing the family cows in the forest. He and his we courteously demurred, Govinda would have friend Anil had climbed a box myrtle tree to gather reminded us that serving guests was his proud duty kaphal fruits (bay berries).  ey heard a sudden roar my heart as the village leader and as a Gurkha o cer. and felt a jarring motion. Anil shouted, “Stop shaking While we enjoyed the mida ernoon snack, Gov- the tree!” and Suman said, “No. You stop!” Losing Host and community leader Govinda Gurung. fell out. inda described his vision of the future. He would their grips, they tumbled to the ground, where they move the village to a safer location, he said, where every house would have electricity and piped clung to a sapling to keep from falling over. “I didn’t water and would be constructed like his, to survive future earthquakes. know what to do,” Suman recalled. “I was so scared, it felt like my heart fell out.”” Later, as we set out for the village where we were encamped a half an hour’s walk around the When the shaking stopped, the boys ran home to scenes of utter devastation.  eir mountain, Govinda accompanied us to a high viewpoint overlooking Birauta. We could see parents, siblings and neighbors were outside crying. Large cracks had many tents and tarps, some bright yellow, some blue, out on the open terraces, along with a few split open the walls of their homes, slate roofs had fallen in and stored Top: school children under a bamboo frame structures covered with corrugated, galvanized iron sheeting. temporary shelter. grain baskets had burst open. Because village houses are typically “ at’s where the homeless families now cook and eat, and sleep,” he said. Bottom: a temporary family shelter. constructed of stone with mud mortar, many had collapsed to heaps “My tent is also there,” he added. “It’s where I sleep at night.” of rubble. Fortunately, while there were some injuries, nobody died “Why?” we asked. in their small village. But sharp a ershocks during the a ernoon and Govinda’s reply reveals a great deal about his character, about the sort of leader he is, and about empathy and sel essness: evening prolonged their terror. Late in the day, Suman went back to “It wouldn’t look right for me to sleep at home,” he quietly told us, “when all my neighbors are out there in the open.” bring in the cows. By then it was raining, and along the way he slipped It is winter in the Himalayas now, and in Birauta and other villages many people are still living under and fell. It was a frightful time. temporary shelters in the bitter cold. For them, the earthquake is far from over. Suman lives in Birauta, a village of several dozen houses. A few weeks a er the quake, a Nepalese companion and I went there to see the village primary school in ruins. At the school site we met mem- Don Messerschmidt ’ lives and writes at home bers of the school committee — the middle-aged principal, the young in Vancouver, Washington, when not leading treks school board chairman and an older gentleman who also served as the and tours in the Himalayas. He fi rst traveled to village headman.  ey showed us the destruction.  e roof and parts Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer a few months of the walls had collapsed, most of the school furniture was smashed, after earning a bachelor’s degree in education at and colorfully illustrated primers were strewn across the  oors in a UAF. He has worked as a development advisor, mishmash of rain-soaked pages. anthropologist, writer, editor and teacher. While A temporary school had been set up nearby under two dark, living in Kathmandu during the s and ’s, he and his wife, Kareen, raised their two children and a big Tibetan dog, which fi gures prominently in his award-win- military-grade tents donated by an international relief agency.  e ning  book, “Big Dogs of Tibet and the Himalayas.” Along the way, he earned schoolchildren greeted us cheerily from benches that had been a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Oregon. He has visited the recovered from the rubble and repaired.  at’s where we met Gorkha District twice since the  earthquake to help with recovery work and Suman and heard his story. documentation. He also raises money to rebuild schools through the all-volunteer, nonprofi t Gorkha Foundation (www.gorkhafoundation.org). Contact him at [email protected]. Top photo: A temporary shelter made of tin and tarps. Bottom: What is left of one family’s home after the earthquake. The Nanook Nook showcases the talent of our alumni and students. If you have an original poem, essay, short story, artwork or photograph(s) you would like to share with our readers, contact [email protected] for submission guidelines. Govinda Gurung, a community leader who recently retired from the Indian NANOOK army as a captain, suggested we continue up the mountainside to see the rest of the NOOK village. Along the way, he pointed out damaged homes while residents greeted him Witnessing the 2015 with great respect. Near the middle of the village, we rounded a corner and came face to face with earthquake’s devastation an undamaged modern, two-story house made of concrete and painted white with a reddish-brown trim. When we expressed surprise, Govinda explained that he had recently built the house with his life savings and some of his annual pension from the Indian government. It was his home, he said. he great Nepal earthquake of 2015 struck the central hill district of Gorkha at 11:56 a.m. on a balmy Saturday, April 25. How remarkable, we thought, that a house such as his, which looked like it  e devastating tremor registered a 7.8 magnitude and lasted 55 seconds — an eternity when the earth convulses so belonged in urban Kathmandu, had been built in this remote place, and that it had wildly that you can’t stand up. During the next six months, more than 400 a ershocks rocked Nepal, some as strong as withstood the quake virtually unscathed. Surrounded by so much devastation, it magnitude 7.3. appeared to be the last house standing.  e tragedy and trauma experienced in Nepal’s hinterland and the capital city of Kathmandu are Govinda invited us for tea on his veranda, from beyond measure. Close to 9,000 people died, another 18,000 were injured, and many are still unac- I was which we could see more of the earthquake damage. counted for. In Gorkha District, 80 percent of the schools collapsed, but because they were empty Soon, his smiling wife appeared with a tray laden on that weekend holiday, a much higher death toll was averted.  e villagers have moved on with with sweet, milky chiya in fancy porcelain tea cups, remarkable resilience and determination to rebuild so scared, “ a plateful of fresh, hot, sweet rice- our doughnuts their homes, their schools and their lives. called sel roti, and spicy grilled meat called cheula.  at morning, Suman Gurung, a 16-year-old boy, it felt like We thanked them for their generous hospitality. Had was grazing the family cows in the forest. He and his we courteously demurred, Govinda would have friend Anil had climbed a box myrtle tree to gather reminded us that serving guests was his proud duty kaphal fruits (bay berries).  ey heard a sudden roar my heart as the village leader and as a Gurkha o cer. and felt a jarring motion. Anil shouted, “Stop shaking While we enjoyed the mida ernoon snack, Gov- the tree!” and Suman said, “No. You stop!” Losing Host and community leader Govinda Gurung. fell out. inda described his vision of the future. He would their grips, they tumbled to the ground, where they move the village to a safer location, he said, where every house would have electricity and piped clung to a sapling to keep from falling over. “I didn’t water and would be constructed like his, to survive future earthquakes. know what to do,” Suman recalled. “I was so scared, it felt like my heart fell out.”” Later, as we set out for the village where we were encamped a half an hour’s walk around the When the shaking stopped, the boys ran home to scenes of utter devastation.  eir mountain, Govinda accompanied us to a high viewpoint overlooking Birauta. We could see parents, siblings and neighbors were outside crying. Large cracks had many tents and tarps, some bright yellow, some blue, out on the open terraces, along with a few split open the walls of their homes, slate roofs had fallen in and stored Top: school children under a bamboo frame structures covered with corrugated, galvanized iron sheeting. temporary shelter. grain baskets had burst open. Because village houses are typically “ at’s where the homeless families now cook and eat, and sleep,” he said. Bottom: a temporary family shelter. constructed of stone with mud mortar, many had collapsed to heaps “My tent is also there,” he added. “It’s where I sleep at night.” of rubble. Fortunately, while there were some injuries, nobody died “Why?” we asked. in their small village. But sharp a ershocks during the a ernoon and Govinda’s reply reveals a great deal about his character, about the sort of leader he is, and about empathy and sel essness: evening prolonged their terror. Late in the day, Suman went back to “It wouldn’t look right for me to sleep at home,” he quietly told us, “when all my neighbors are out there in the open.” bring in the cows. By then it was raining, and along the way he slipped It is winter in the Himalayas now, and in Birauta and other villages many people are still living under and fell. It was a frightful time. temporary shelters in the bitter cold. For them, the earthquake is far from over. Suman lives in Birauta, a village of several dozen houses. A few weeks a er the quake, a Nepalese companion and I went there to see the village primary school in ruins. At the school site we met mem- Don Messerschmidt ’ lives and writes at home bers of the school committee — the middle-aged principal, the young in Vancouver, Washington, when not leading treks school board chairman and an older gentleman who also served as the and tours in the Himalayas. He fi rst traveled to village headman.  ey showed us the destruction.  e roof and parts Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer a few months of the walls had collapsed, most of the school furniture was smashed, after earning a bachelor’s degree in education at and colorfully illustrated primers were strewn across the  oors in a UAF. He has worked as a development advisor, mishmash of rain-soaked pages. anthropologist, writer, editor and teacher. While A temporary school had been set up nearby under two dark, living in Kathmandu during the s and ’s, he and his wife, Kareen, raised their two children and a big Tibetan dog, which fi gures prominently in his award-win- military-grade tents donated by an international relief agency.  e ning  book, “Big Dogs of Tibet and the Himalayas.” Along the way, he earned schoolchildren greeted us cheerily from benches that had been a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Oregon. He has visited the recovered from the rubble and repaired.  at’s where we met Gorkha District twice since the  earthquake to help with recovery work and Suman and heard his story. documentation. He also raises money to rebuild schools through the all-volunteer, nonprofi t Gorkha Foundation (www.gorkhafoundation.org). Contact him at [email protected]. Top photo: A temporary shelter made of tin and tarps. Bottom: What is left of one family’s home after the earthquake. The Nanook Nook showcases the talent of our alumni and students. If you have an original poem, essay, short story, artwork or photograph(s) you would like to share with our readers, contact [email protected] for submission guidelines. University of Alaska Fairbanks PO Box 757505 Fairbanks, AK 99775-7505 Duplicate mailings? Update your address or change your subscription options at www.uaf.edu/aurora/subscriptions/.