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WINTER 1 Help Us Keep Idaho’s Best and Brightest in Idaho You can make a difference to students’ lives by investing in the power of scholarships.

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The University of Idaho Magazine HERE WE HAVE WINTER 2003 • VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 IDAHO University President Robert A. Hoover Vice President for University Advancement Features Joanne Carr Director of University Communications and Marketing 10 Campaign for Idaho Bob Hieronymus Celebrating success Alumni Association President 12 Jan Selberg University of Idaho Foundation President 12 Lionel Hampton J. Patrick McMurray A legacy of learning and a love of music Editor Jeff Olson Magazine Design 15 Young Researcher Julene Ewert A presidential honor Illustrations 16 Nathan Nielson Class Notes Editor 16 It’s Academic Angela Helmke Supporting football supports UI Writers and Contributors Hugh Cooke Kathy Barnard 25 A Dream Season 26 Leslie Einhaus Nancy Hilliard Celebrating a World Series Dan Hunt Bill Loftus Sue McMurray 26 UI in Spokane Julie Monroe Becky Paull Rise to the occasion Lana Weber

Photographs 29 The Triumph of as credited Jennie Hughes Smith

The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/ Departments affirmative action employer and educational institution. © 2003, University of Idaho 5 Calendar of Events Here We Have Idaho magazine is supported by private funds from the University of Idaho Foundation, Inc. Published three times a year in January, April and August, 6 Campus News the magazine is free to alumni and friends of the university. ❚ Send address changes to: PO Box 443147, 9 Quest Moscow, ID 83844-3147. ❚ Send information, Class Notes 29 and correspondence regarding alumni activities to: Angela Helmke, Alumni Office, University of Idaho, PO 20 Class Notes Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232. ❚ Send editorial correspondence to: University Communications and 9 Marketing, University of Idaho, PO Box 443221, 23 Letters to the Editor Moscow, ID 83844-3221; phone (208) 885-6291; fax (208) 885-5841; e-mail [email protected]. 30 To Be Considered

Letter Policy We welcome letters to the editor. Correspondence should include the writer’s full name, address and On the Cover: daytime phone number. We reserve the right to Photo by Al Wildey for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. edit letters for purposes of clarity or space.

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Feb. 16-18 — Vandaleers’ Reunion

○○○○Feb. 19-22 — Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

February ○○○ ○ March 28 — Vandal Road Trip March 15-23 — Spring Break

March ○○○ ○ April 4-6 — Moms’ Weekend April 25 — Spring Football Silver and Gold Game April 26 — The Tom Cable Golf Tournament April

May 2 — Engineering Design Expo May 2-4 — Class of 1943, Class of 1953 and

Golden I Reunion ○○○ ○ Commencements May 8 UI-Idaho Falls May May 10 UI-Boise May 12 UI-Coeur d’Alene May 17 UI-Moscow

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he University of Lionel was an inspired artist, composer Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, the T Idaho lost a very and arranger, a worldwide ambassador and a International Jazz Collections that will hold special member of its savvy businessman. He was the complete, the treasures of some of the greatest jazz family this past summer. gifted teacher. And even if he was only with artists in the world, and an education and As you’ve probably us for just a short time each year, he was a performance center on the Moscow campus. heard, jazz great Lionel beloved member of the University of Idaho It was Lionel’s dream that the center be a Hampton died August 31 at age 94. family and the Moscow community. home for jazz for all ages. That dream is a There have been two celebrations of Like a favorite out-of-town relative, he natural extension of the work he did at the Lionel’s life since then. In New York City, would come to the Palouse each February, University of Idaho for the past two decades. jazz musicians, politicians — including former rekindle relationships and share his magic That dream is his greatest gift to us. The President George Bush — and friends with thousands of students and fans at the legend may be gone, but his legacy will live for gathered at the Riverside Church to honor Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and the Jazz in generations to come. him. It was a privilege for me to represent the the Schools program. UI at that service and speak of UI’s For the past several years, Lionel played an Regards, wonderful relationship with Lionel. Closer to integral role in planning for the Lionel home, students, faculty, staff as well as jazz Hampton Center. This four-part initiative is artists held a grand musical celebration in the aimed at raising the private dollars to support Administration Auditorium. the Lionel Hampton School of Music, the Bob Hoover

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UI aquaculture expert Ronald W. Hardy was selected by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman to join the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board. He is the first person from Idaho to serve on the board.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Idaho Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) $2 million to expand educational and research benefits to Idaho colleges. UI also received a separate $2 million NIH grant to fund renovation of life sciences laboratories on the Moscow campus involved in NIH research.

Frank Sweeney of Poipu, Hawaii, is this year’s Dad of the Year. UI student Patrick Sweeney nominated his father to “thank the greatest man in the world.”

Teresa J. Kennedy, UI education faculty member, has been named deputy chief educator for NASA’s International GLOBE Program. More than one million students, teachers UI achieves “TOP 50” ranking and scientists are involved in the science The University of Idaho has been chosen one of America’s Top education program. 50 universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. UI jumped to 48th among the 100 best public colleges in the country. Others in The UI Health and Wellness the top 50 include The Ohio State University, Clemson University, Program is joining forces with the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin Madison, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research University of California Berkley and UCLA. Center of Seattle to assess student It’s the first time UI has made Kiplinger’s Top 50. Two years ago opinions about smoking and to gauge UI ranked 69th. student awareness of cessation programs Just what has allowed UI to make such a dramatic leap? available to help smokers who want to • Efforts like the UI Scholars program have dramatically increased the quality of quit. students enrolling as freshmen. UI now has 31 National Merit Scholars on campus, one of the highest totals in the Pacific Northwest. A UI research project may help • The number of UI freshmen who return for their sophomore year is well above communities reduce levels of the national average. UI’s retention rate is just above 80 percent compared to 71 arsenic in their drinking water to meet percent for most public, four-year institutions. new federal regulations. Greg Moller, a • Despite recent fee increases for students at UI, the university continues to be UI environmental scientist, leads the one of the best college values in the country. project that developed chemically active • More than $9 million in both merit- and need-based scholarships and more arsenic scrubbers. Recent testing than $46 million in other forms of financial aid are awarded annually. That has indicates the process shows promise in resulted in a low average debt students accumulate before graduation. supplying a simple and less expensive way “This recent ranking by Kiplinger’s confirms the University of Idaho reputation

IDAHO to remove arsenic from community water for high quality residential undergraduate education at a very competitive cost,” systems. said UI President Bob Hoover. “It is an extraordinary achievement for our faculty, staff and students.”

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Celebrating the opening of the Jacklin Science and Technology Building were, left to right, UI President Bob Hoover, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, Duane and Susan Jacklin, Don and Dorothy Jacklin, and Doyle Jacklin.

PhotoSport Northwest - Doug Berger ‘Heaven’s a four-wheel drift at maximum speed’ Post Falls Research Park Tony Opheim, UI Information Technology Services whiz, proved his off- Continues to Grow Dedication ceremonies were campus speed by winning the regional Formula Continental car-racing conducted in October for the championship this fall. cornerstone building at UI’s Post Falls This kind of race car, says Opheim, is “two steps below an Indy car. It’s an Research Park. The $4 million facility open cockpit, open wheel, 900-pound car with wings.” With a 143 horsepower is named the Jacklin Science and Technology Building to honor Don, engine, he’s taken it to the limit at 132 mph. The thrill, he says, “is to be in a Duane and Doyle Jacklin. The Jacklins corner going 100 mph and all four wheels are sliding. Heaven is a four-wheel donated the land for the research park drift at maximum speed.” in 1997. Opheim says now that the race season is over, “it’s going to seem like a The 30,000-square-foot building is long, slow winter.” envisioned as a place where business, industry and scientists can work, share and grow their enterprises side by side. Currently, eight companies are at work A New Living and in the building along with three UI Learning Community research entities. Student expectations about living on campus have Gulping his changed dramatically over way to fame the years. Residence halls Brad Byers is a need to be more than just a regular guy by day, place to live, they also need delivering mail on to be a place to learn. the UI campus. A new $32-million Living But evenings and and Learning Community, weekends, he is the located at the corner of Sixth Amazing Brad and Line streets on the Moscow campus, Village,” which will house students Byers, who can will address those expectations. from around the world. swallow 10 swords The facility will house theme halls The eight-building complex is at once, juggle where students with similar majors and designed to accommodate as many as bowling balls, and interests will live and study together. 600 students. strike a match with a yo-yo. The first phase of the Living and The International Programs Office, This type of talent can get a guy Learning Community will feature the five multipurpose rooms, classrooms, noticed, and in October, Byers Scholars, Engineering and Natural study areas and a large retail café also appeared on the national television Resources halls. Each will have living, will be housed in the complex. program “30 Seconds to Fame,” where dining and family rooms, a full kitchen Construction of a new he swallowed five 27-inch swords and study areas, as well as suites that undergraduate housing facility has not before taking his bow. include individual bedrooms, a living taken place on the Moscow campus in “Most sword swallowers hold their room and kitchenette. This phase will be nearly three decades. The project is breath,” said Byers. “I breathe and use open for occupancy in fall 2003. funded by bonds and will be paid back positive mind control over my The second phase — to be finished in through room and board fees. involuntary reflexes.” summer 2004 — will include a “Global

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“What I came here to really say is UI Honors Program that we need to understand that the ideas Marks 20th Year in our mind are not enough to confront injustice. Ideas must be fueled by a By Nancy Hilliard films, lectures, and other excursions. conviction in your heart. You must believe They also are encouraged to engage in in things you haven’t seen; you must “In UI honors classes, you learn to foreign exchange programs and believe in the concept of equal justice. We love to think,” reads the program’s laboratory or field research. ought to be talking about hope.” brochure. The statement has proven true A recent example is Melanie Coonts —Bryan Stevenson, executive over time — the University Honors Samuel ’02, who earned undergraduate Program is celebrating its 20th year at degrees in microbiology, molecular director of the Equal Justice Initiative in UI. biology, biochemistry and English. She Montgomery, Ala., presenting an Oct. Joe Nelson ‘88 earned a degree in now pursues graduate studies in virology 10 Bellwood Lecture. English in the program’s early years. Now at Washington University in St. Louis, an attorney, Nelson handles energy and Mo. She had conducted research in natural resource issues for the zoology, studied abroad in Ghana and government in Washington, D.C. helped organize a national conference on “UI Honors Programs taught me to rural HIV issues. As an intern at the U.S. analyze matters critically,” he said. Embassy in Paris, she provided scientific “Energy law is a fairly technical field, so background on HIV/AIDS issues my exposure to subjects in forest policy, affecting public policy. entomology, economics, history and “My honors classes defined my literature was excellent preparation.” university experience and helped me see Another Honor Program alumna is the world from new and varied Erika Johnston, who received a chemical perspectives,” says Coonts Samuel, who engineering degree in 1988. Currently, also received a prestigious national Barry she is a research scientist for the M. Goldwater Scholarship. Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology firm UHP director Stephan Flores says “It’s Genzyme Corp. Johnston says the UI wonderful to see students flourish as they “What we leave on the land is more honors program stimulated her to “think develop expertise within their majors and important that what we take— the number, about things I wouldn’t have considered as they address issues that can be size and variety of trees left will determine otherwise in my engineering education.” explored across diverse fields of study the long-term ecosystem and watershed “The theater, modern music, and into their postgraduate careers.” health.” extracurricular programs, movie series The UI Honors Program has been and other liberal arts have made my life recognized in the “New York Times —Dale Bosworth, U.S. Forest more enjoyable. I find many of my Guide to the Best Buys in College Service chief, presenting a McClure engineering colleagues didn’t get the Education” and “How to Get an Ivy Lecture Sept. 19. same breadth of education.” League Education at a State University.” Today, more than 500 advanced The latter ranks UI’s program among the

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The Secret Life of a Spy Sidney Reilly, the supposed real-life model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond, also earned the dubious title of “International Crook of the Highest

Order.” Along with espionage and Nathan Nielson behind-the-scenes deal-making, Reilly was a skilled practitioner of fraud, murder and blackmail. Predator Triangle UI history professor Richard Spence spent seven years researching Reilly, and The growing presence of wolves in has written “Trust No One: The Secret Yellowstone National Park may explain Life of Sidney Reilly,” published this fall why pronghorn antelope fawns are by Feral House Books. surviving in larger numbers, University “The question I wanted answered of Idaho zoologist John Byers believes. most was: ‘How much influence did he It is not a case of the wolf and the have?’” Spence concluded Reilly antelope lying down together, however. In 1999, a $90,000 cooperative Nathan Nielson “certainly had an influence in the secret world of business and politics — in the research agreement with the National Son of a Gunslinger environment he worked in and around.” Park Service allowed Byers to begin The UI professor also has written a studying the park’s pronghorn does and The Sheep Research and Teaching biography on Reilly’s sidekick, Boris the survival of their fawns. Center will focus on a bit of the old and Savinkov. He has published numerous He found that antelope fawns born the new as it rebuilds its flock. scholarly articles on the espionage within or at the edges of wolf territories The center essentially was cleared of exploits of Aleister Crowley, Kurt stood a much greater chance of survival sheep in 2001 after two ewes tested Jahnke, Xenophon Kalamatiano and than those born elsewhere in the park. positive for scrapie, which is similar to Sergius Riis. The reason, Byers believes, is tied to a mad cow disease but does not infect controversial “mesopredator release” people. The center chose Hired Gun to hypothesis by conservation biologist John serve as the new foundation sire for its Soulé. historic Suffolk flock established in Returning wolves to Yellowstone 1919, the first west of the Rockies. essentially put them atop the canid Paul Kuber, assistant professor of predatory pyramid. Pronghorns benefit meat science, purchased Hired Gun at because as the top dogs in the park, the National Suffolk Show and Sale in wolves kill coyotes relentlessly. In the Sedalia, Mo. The ram was the top seller past, coyotes targeted pronghorn fawns in his category at $6,600. Sired by and now fewer coyotes mean more Gunslinger, Hired Gun was produced by pronghorns. Lost River Livestock near Howe, Idaho. The center also is adding a flock of Montadale sheep, a breed that is only a few decades old. The center will recreate the breed’s origins by crossing Columbia and Cheviot sheep.

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WINTER 9 Celebrating Success Just how successful has The Campaign for Idaho been? Describing it as hugely successful would be an understatement.

I’s fund-raising campaign has • Support for academic programs totaled Idaho,” said campaign Chair Gary Uraised $125 million in four-and-a- more than $13 million. It came in the Michael, UI alumnus and retired CEO of half years. Not bad, considering form of programs like the Dean D. Albertson, Inc. “The university has been the original goal was to raise $100 million Thornton Faculty Fellowship transformed by our efforts and we can be over a six-year period. Endowment, which rewards proud of what our support has achieved.” “The Campaign for Idaho has been an outstanding teaching and research in In October, Hoover joined campaign unparalleled success for the University of an effort to keep the very best faculty leaders in announcing the campaign Idaho,” said UI President Bob Hoover. members at UI. officially would close December 31, 2002. “The differences the campaign has made •A look around the Moscow campus Both Michael and Hoover credited the are visible in our teaching, research and tells the story of the campaign’s success hard work of hundreds of volunteers, outreach throughout the state. We are in raising money for facilities. Private donors, alumni, friends, students, faculty counted among the top public universities dollars have helped support and staff for the unqualified success of the in the country as a direct result of our construction of the Idaho Commons, campaign. donors’ generosity.” the Vandal Athletic Center and the While the formal campaign is coming While the total dollar figures are Agricultural Biotechnology Lab. The to a close, Michael urged all UI donors to impressive, the real story lies in what those College of Business and Economics’ continue their support for the university. dollars have helped UI accomplish. new J. A. Albertson Building will be “We all have so much affection for UI, • Almost $27.5 million was raised in paid for completely with private and we must remain committed to support of scholarships. Dozens of new donations. providing the financial assistance scholarship endowments were created “The Campaign for Idaho, with its necessary for UI to meet its goals,” he and existing scholarships, such as the goals of supporting scholarships, academic said. UI Scholars program, were programs and facilities, has had an significantly enhanced. extraordinary impact on the University of

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Original art from the collage by David Fleming 1992 “If I could only take two things from Lionel Hampton, it would be to always

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HE HE Lionel Hampton Scholar 12 hat happens to the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival now that its namesake has passed away? WIt’s a question Lynn J. Skinner has heard hundreds of times in the months following Hampton’s death in late August. It’s a question Hampton and Skinner were able to discuss in the months prior to jazz legends’ death. For nearly 20 years, Skinner and Hampton collaborated to produce the annual jazz festival. They transformed the small regional event into an internationally recognized four-day jazz extravaganza. In the process, they became the best of friends — the kind of friends who could talk about a future when one of them was gone. “Hamp wanted the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival to be the world’s best for generations to come,” said Skinner, who serves as executive director of the jazz festival. “Hamp asked me to carry the torch. This year’s festival will be a celebration of Lionel Hampton and his music, and then we’ll continue to carry the torch to realize his dream.” That dream, envisioned by Hampton, is for the University of Idaho to become a home for jazz — a place where jazz and jazz history are studied, performed and shared with the world. A Lionel Hampton and Lynn J. Skinner What has Lionel Hampton meant to UI? Since 1984, when Hampton and his New York Big Band first appeared at the jazz festival, the number of music majors Legacy at UI has doubled. This fall, 260 students are at work earning music degrees. their personal memorabilia to UI and the Jim Murphy, director of the Lionel International Jazz Collections were born. Hampton School of Music points to Since then, the collections have grown at information gathered from an annual a phenomenal rate, through donations survey of new music students. from both jazz artists and their families, “Over 50 percent of the students say and jazz fans and collectors. the name Lionel Hampton was a “We have the opportunity to become significant factor in their choosing UI,” one of the premiere archives in the world says Murphy. dedicated to the preservation of jazz,” The school continues to incorporate said Lewis Ricci, director of the IJC. jazz studies into its curriculum. It now A recent U.S. Congress appropriation offers jazz emphases in degree programs established the IJC as an Institute for the in performance, composition, music Historic Study of Jazz. education and music history. Private support also has played an important role. The Paula Knickerbocker Jazz Piano Artist-in-Residency program allows professional musicians to visit campus to teach jazz piano and make presentations to music students. Donors also support the Lionel Hampton Scholars program. This year, five music students have earned the Hampton scholarship. Over the years, Hampton and other jazz artists attending the jazz festival often voiced their concerns about preserving the history of jazz. In the early 90s,

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WINTER 13 The jazz festival, which grew phenomenally with his support, also is expanding - not in February, but year- round. A Four Seasons of Jazz program now brings jazz concerts to UI throughout the year, and a weeklong, intensive summer jazz camp is planned to coincide with a summer jazz festival. Additionally, the Jazz in the Schools program, which brings jazz artists into elementary schools to perform and discuss the heritage of jazz, is considered a model for music education. The program has the potential to grow into a regional and national outreach effort for the jazz festival. There is another important element to Hampton’s legacy at UI — the lessons his life and music brings to students. Ed Littlefield, a Lionel Hampton Scholar, addressed the impact of those lessons at the campus memorial service for Hampton in October. “If I could only take two things from Lionel Hampton, it would be to always be full of life, and to always have fun doing what you love to do.”

It’s a four-part harmony The Lionel Hampton Center Initiative is transforming Hampton’s dream of a home for jazz at UI into his greatest legacy. The $60 million fundraising campaign has four objectives. • $8 million for scholarships and professorships for the Lionel Hampton School of Music • $6 million to support the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival • $6 million to support the International Jazz Collections • $40 million for an education and performance facility, housing the International Jazz Collections, offices for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, School of Music classrooms, faculty offices and student rehearsal space, and a performance hall. The Lionel Hampton Center Initiative will be funded through a combination of private, state and federal funds. For more information on the Lionel Hampton Center Initiative,

contact Sherry George, director of HARMONY development, (208) 885-5553,

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fascination with clay minerals and At the ceremony Strawn represented Athe complex way they interact with the USDA National Research Initiative, Daniel G. Strawn contaminants helped earn Daniel G. which supports basic research. His UI assistant professor of soil chemistry Strawn, UI assistant professor of soil fundamental study explores ways clay chemistry, one of the nation’s top awards minerals or aluminosilicates associate for young scientists and a visit to the with lead and copper rather than tying in substance. White House. with a specific place or problem. Linus Pauling, one of the 20th In a sense, Strawn’s focus on ways clay Strawn uses some of the most Century’s most noted scientists, minerals interact with metals, namely sophisticated scientific equipment performed some of the first experiments lead and copper, plows old ground. available, a U.S. Department of Energy- on clay mineralogy, before career turns Efforts to understand the structure of the funded synchrotron at Stanford helped him win two Nobel Prizes. At the finest soil particles and how water and University. With some 1,700 scientists Washington ceremony, President Bush other materials interact with clay rank using the equipment each year, time is noted past winners of the Presidential among the earliest realms of soil science, precious, so the Idaho scientist’s time Early Career Award for Scientists and itself more than a century old. there is limited to three periods of two or Engineers had gone on to win Nobels of Strawn’s studies of how heavy metals three days each year. their own. interact with clay recast the old science The synchrotron, a massive ring of a Clay minerals now serve in numerous and made it newly pertinent, particularly machine used to accelerate particle industrial processes such as petroleum in Idaho. He has an ongoing research beams to near light speed, produces processing. So powerful is their role in project in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin extremely bright X-rays. The equipment chemical reactions that some scientists focusing on current environmental is used in a relatively new field practiced believe clay minerals played an integral issues. He also teaches a geochemistry by Strawn and others: molecular role in the origin of life. class geared to professionals at the Idaho environmental science. For his part, Strawn wants to know National Engineering and Strawn also works closely with the how lead, copper and other heavy metals Environmental Laboratory. staff of the Pacific Northwest National associate with clay minerals, and under President George W. Bush honored Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to work what conditions. Results from his study Strawn and other recipients of the with advanced equipment there. will reveal the nature of the clay-metal Presidential Early Career Award for Ever since an Englishman in the mid- associations and the likelihood that they Scientists and Engineers. Strawn was one 1800s poured ammonium into one end will contaminate the environment. “This of three scientists funded by the U.S. of a tube packed with clay minerals and is an age-old question, that now with

Department of Agriculture to receive the retrieved calcium ions from the other modern science, we’re able to use cutting- 2003 award. end, scientists have been intrigued by the edge tools to gain new insights,” he said. I

WINTER 15 Supporting Football It’s Supports UI Academic The college football bowl season is over, and while there were winners and losers on the field, NCAA Division I-A football came away the winner in terms of national visibility. With that much exposure, it is no wonder Division I-A football schools are regarded across the country as the nation’s top tier universities. The University of Idaho is a top-ranked university. In fact, it has been rated a Top 50 public university as a great school with a reasonable price tag. Its academic programs and research are recognized at the national level. UI is regarded as one of the “most wired” universities in the country and is home to a nationally recognized jazz festival. “Division I-A football is another important element in UI’s goal to become a residential campus of choice in Idaho and the West,” said UI President Bob Hoover.

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UI’s Football History No One Said it Would be Easy The athletic department placed a ootball has been a part of the UI In 1998, the Vandals completed a 9-3 greater emphasis on fundraising and took Fcampus since 1894 when its season season and achieved a dream of all advantage of the higher profile Division consisted of two games against football programs — a bowl I-A football offered by increasing Washington State and Lewiston Normal. championship. The 42-35 victory over corporate sponsorships. UI also earned Idaho won the Northwest League in Southern Mississippi in the increased revenues from game 1905 with a 5-0 record, giving up a total Humanitarian Bowl, carried live on guarantees, the money UI receives as of two points. ESPN2, brought national attention and compensation for playing on the road. From 1922 to 1958, Idaho was a recognition to UI. In 1998, UI traveled to Baton Rouge, member of the Pacific Coast Conference “But the bowl win may have given the La., to play LSU and pocketed a game and developed long-lasting rivalries with illusion that the move up would be easy - guarantee of $325,000. A five-year Montana, Washington State and as easy as changing the letterhead on the agreement to play the University of Oregon. Idaho played as an independent Athletic Department stationery,” Bohn Washington in Seattle provides a total for several years, then in 1963, Idaho said. “That isn’t the case.” payout of $2 million. became a charter member of the Big Sky There were new requirements that So while Division I-A football was Conference. came with Division I-A status. more expensive, the rewards also In the early 80s, the conference made • The number of football increased. the decision to move to Division I-AA scholarships UI could offer grew Another hurdle UI faced was meeting football. The Vandals tasted success as a from 63 to 85, for a total of 174 the NCAA requirement for an average Division I-AA team, claiming eight scholarships in all sports. That’s a home attendance of 17,000 once every conference championships and making $1.6 million annual commitment. four years. Since the Kibbie Dome only 11 appearances in the NCAA Division I- • Another women’s sports soccer, holds 16,000 fans, Idaho moved its home AA playoffs. was added to address Title IX games to WSU’s Martin Stadium for two But success on the field did not result requirements. Another women’s years. Fans and donors supported a in financial success. “Football had sport, probably swimming or water “Twelfth Man” program to help fill the become the income-producing sport for polo, will be added in 2005. stands and Idaho averaged almost 25,000 college athletic programs, generating • UI had to achieve home football fans in the 1999 season. revenues to support the rest of the sports attendance requirements. Idaho now has moved back to the teams which had grown substantially to As a result, the UI Athletic friendly confines of the Kibbie Dome, meet Title IX requirement for women’s Department operations budget grew and NCAA attendance requirements athletics,” said Mike Bohn, director of from $3.9 million in 1996 to $8.1 have been lowered to 15,000, but must athletics. “Division I-AA football million currently. But UI has a plan to be achieved each year. revenues simply couldn’t pay the bills.” successfully make the move — a plan that In 1996, both UI and Boise State counts on support from the community, University received approval from the donors, fans, faculty, staff and students. Idaho State Board of Education to join the Big West Conference and move to Division I-A football status.

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• In Spring 2002, the average Other NCAA funding cumulative GPA for all Vandal $250,000 $300,000 student-athletes was 2.8. Ticket saless $300,000$ Graduation Rates Institutional Media support • More than 90 percent of $100,0 000 $500,000$ student-athletes who complete their eligibility at UI graduate. Private State support State Financial Support donations Ad sales $450,000 (Including gender of Athletics $1,500,000 equity support) • Nearly all state institutions in Game $1,600,000 the Western Athletic guarantees Conference, Mountain West $1,200,000 Student fees Conference and Sun Belt $1,900,000 Conference are supported with state funds, which include student fees, some as high as 68 percent. UI is 25 percent state PROGRAM REVENUE NON-PROGRAM REVENUE funds and 25 percent student fees. Economic Impact of Athletics While UI was successfully achieving Why is Division I-A •A recent independent the move to Division I-A football, Football Important? economic impact study shows another wrinkle developed — conference “Football is the financial engine for UI athletics contributes more affiliation. the athletic department,” said Bohn. It than $23 million in sales to the In 2000, the Big West Conference generates 40 percent of the athletic regional economy annually. eliminated football, and UI was invited department budget and substantially to join the Sun Belt Conference as a supports the 14 other sports in the UI Gender Equity football member while remaining in the • UI continues to make progress athletic program. Big West for all other sports. This will A primary goal of the UI’s strategic in gender equity requirements. need to change by 2005. New NCAA plan is for UI to become a residential The UI student population is Division I-A membership criteria dictate 54.2 percent male and 45.8 campus of choice in Idaho and the West. that a school must have a single That requires strong academic programs percent female. Student-athlete conference home. numbers are 57.8 percent male and vibrant campus activities, including and 42.2 percent female. athletics. “A successful, quality, competitive intercollegiate athletic program enriches all students’ lives,” Bohn said. It’s a part of a full college experience. Athletic scholarships provide an educational opportunity to many students who might not otherwise gain a college education. In addition, athletics enhances the image of the university and builds on its academic accomplishments. Division I-A athletics also brings national exposure, not just for sports teams, but for the entire university and its academic accomplishments. “That benefits both student recruitment efforts and fundraising,” said Bohn. It also is a matter of comparisons. UI’s peer institutions, land-grant

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HE 18 University, Utah State University and Washington State University. They all play Division I-A football. The goal of the UI athletic program is to compete in a Division I-A all-sports conference in the West — to compete athletically against its peers.

Taking the Next Steps — Vandal Victory Campaign Vandal Victory is the next phase in UI’s plan for athletic and academic success. “We cannot control when and how conferences will realign in the future,” said Bohn. “But we must be prepared, and Vandal Victory positions UI as an attractive, viable member of an all-sports conference with regional membership.” There are four cornerstones to the plan: • Increase season ticket sales from 1,600 to 5,000 by the 2005 football season and inferior to Division I-A levels. intercollegiate athletic teams are still • Increase Vandal Scholarship Fund Work has begun on renovation of the excelling in the classroom, graduating membership from 2,500 to 5,000 east-end of the Kibbie Dome, home to with degrees in their chosen fields of • Move current VSF members to the Vandal Athletics. The priorities are a study, being good citizens all while next highest giving level new strength and conditioning center, competing in a Western conference, • Expand sponsorships and locker rooms, athletic training/sports winning conference championships, advertising support by $250,000 medicine facilities and an academic going to a bowl game, and participating The athletic department also is support center and computer laboratory in NCAA championships.” addressing issues concerning its facilities. worthy of one of the “most wired” Vandal fans have been cheering for UI has basked in the glory of the Kibbie campuses in the U.S. It is a $13 million the Silver and Gold for more than 100 Dome since the early 1970s. Other project, funded by private and corporate years, from Idaho’s first win — 12-6 over universities in the West were building donations. Washington in 1900 — through new facilities in the 80’s and 90’s. As a Says UI President Bob Hoover, “In legendary performances by Wayne result, UI’s athletic facilities are outdated five years, I’m hopeful that Idaho’s Walker, Jerry Kramer, John Yarno and Ken Hobart. Football continues to be a PRIVATE DONATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS rallying point for Vandals around the STUDENT ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP COMMITMENT world. It really is more than just a game, 1996 $657,000 football plays a major role in UI being $769,000 recognized nationally as a top ranked public university. It's academic, 1997 $720,000 supporting football supports UI. I $867,000 1998 $660,000 $1,005,000 1999 $696,250 $1,095,000 2000 $640,000 $1,246,000 2001 $1,242,000 $1,341,000 2002 $1,252,000 $1,463,000 $1,475,000

2003 2003 (estimated) $1,542,000

WINTER 19 Alumni Association Awards 2003 UI ALUMNI CLASS NOTES HALL OF FAME Compiled by Angela Helmke, UI Alumni Office Recognizes living alumni who have achieved national or international (To be profiled, please mail information, including graduation year, to Angela Helmke, Alumni Office, distinction by their accomplishments PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to [email protected] (photos can be e-mailed in a jpg format). In the interest of accuracy and privacy, we will list only items and leadership. Induction ceremonies will be submitted by an alumnus or their family. Submission deadline for the spring issue is February 8, 2003.) conducted in Moscow during Commencement Weekend, May 15-17. John O. Gray ’49 40s Connie Linda Fleetwood Kincer ’69, ’73 George Russell ’43, ’60 was Brookins Paul R. Krausman ’76 inducted into the Idaho DeMile ’58 Engineering Hall of Fame for recently had a Peggy Phillips ’74, ’76 outstanding contributions to the showing of her engineering profession. oil paintings at SILVER & GOLD AWARD the Emmett Recognizes living alumni who have a 50s Public Library. distinguished record of achievement and Orval H. Hansen ’50 was Gary Kenworthy ’58, was service in their specialized area of honored by Sigma Chi Fraternity honored in April by the UI- endeavor, thus bringing honor and as a Significant Sig for bringing Alumni Association for long- recognition to the university. honor and prestige to the Sigma term community service and leadership in his hometown of Ruben Moncada Guevara ’80, ’82 Chi Fraternity through his professional endeavors. Placerville, Calif. Gary and his Richard Hermens ’63 wife, Carol, have retired from Lucinda Weiss ’73 Don Johnston ’51 served as school teaching but remain grand marshal at Coeur active in the Placerville d’Alene’s Fourth of July Festival. JIM LYLE AWARD community. Recognizes living individual or couple Thomas C. Wright ’53 was who has shown long-term dedication and honored by Sigma Chi Fraternity 60s as a Significant Sig for bringing Kelly Yost ’62 service to the university and/or Alumni honor and prestige to the Sigma Association through volunteerism. Chi Fraternity through his has released professional endeavors. another CD Emma ’68 and Clen ’66 Atchley “Brand New Robert ’59 and Jan ’59 Cowan Ray F. Zoellick Feel: Piano Elaine Ambrose Romano ’73 ’53 is retired Reflections” on Larry ’55 and Kathryn ’55 Knight from hospital the Japanese Frances Ellsworth ’71 administration label RASA and now Point. spends his time Jim Frisby ’64 To learn more about the Alumni Association awards program tutoring lives in Seattle, visit www.uidaho.edu/alumni/awards elementary Wash., and works for ET students with Environmental Corp. whose their reading skills. He also management team recently serves on the Spiritual Care purchased the company’s Committee at Swedish Hospital. business interests from its former parent companies, Turner Judith Flomer Construction and EMCON, and Zoellick ’56 is is now an independent firm. serving her Karen Fisher Rosholt ’64 second year as is the president of the new president of the Blue Lakes Edmonds Country Club in Twin Falls, and branch of the is the first woman in the Pacific American Northwest to hold this position. Association of Gail E. Hanninen ’66, ’89 Alumni Directory Services on the Web... University retired from public education Women. She has an art studio in and the Sumner School District Looking for your college friends and classmates? Edmonds, Wash., and recently where she was the director of Want to update your address? had her paintings and special services. She is now the photographs in the Shoreline director of Seabury School in Want to tell UI what your interests are? Arts Festival and the Arts of the Tacoma, Wash. Now you can do all that at one stop — Terrace Art Show. www.findavandal.com. For more information, call

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HE 20 CLASS NOTES Gary E. Strong ’66 won the 21st- Jess Craig ’71 is Ray Stark ’75, Susanne Ashland ’81 is a Century Librarian Award at the new vice ’79 has been licensed massage therapist and is Syracuse University’s School of president of promoted to opening her own massage Information Studies. The award student services senior vice therapy practice in Medford, recognizes librarians who have at Orange president of Ore. been leaders in the evolution of Coast College Governmental Karl Hipple ’81, the profession. Strong is the in Costa Mesa, Affairs and NRCS state soil director of the Queens Borough Calif. Economic scientist for Washington State, Public Library. Development was recently promoted to Greg Sanford for the Boise Metro Chamber of national leader for soil Jim Headley ’67 recently was ’72 retired as a captain in the Commerce. interpretations at the National named the campus events U.S. Navy after 30 years of Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, coordinator at North Idaho service. He has started his Robert Calvert ’76 recently had Neb. He has worked for the College in Coeur d’Alene. second career as a government his new book “The History of USDA’s National Conservation service employee working for the Massage: An Illustrated Survey Service for 27 years. The American Society of Department of the Navy. From Around the World” Agricultural Engineers awarded published. He is the founder and Susan Fisher Stevens ’82 has Melvin L. Myers ’67 the 2002 Tom Spofford ’72 is the national president of Massage Magazine. recently been admitted upon NAMIC Engineering Safety water management engineer for examination to the practice of Award recognizing outstanding the USDA’s Natural Resources Jeffrey G. Eisenbarth ’77, ’86 is law in Kansas, where she serves engineering contributions to the Conservation Service in the new vice president of as corporate counsel for Cinergy advancement of agricultural Washington, D.C. He oversees financial affairs at Willamette Communications Co. in safety engineering. the agency’s engineering University in Salem, Ore. Overland Park, Kan. technology and policy activities Don H. Brigham ’79 Shelly Torrey Young ’82 Michael Burney ’69 recently had for irrigation, drainage and was is the his book “Tribal Cultural wetlands. selected as vice president for director of operations and new Resource Management: The Full information and professional business for the children’s book Circle to Stewardship” Ron Wendle ’73 was the project practice for the American publisher Zoobooks in San published. Burney is the architect for the Spokane, Society of Landscape Architects. Diego, Calif. She resides in San consulting tribal archaeologist Wash., Steam Plant Square and Brigham teaches at UI and has a Diego with her husband, Stan for the Northern Cheyenne received numerous awards private practice in Clarkston, and son, Derek. Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux including the National Honor Wash. Kim Zentz ’82 Tribe. Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is was recognized Randy Rice ’69 was appointed with Wells and Company, a 80s as the 2002 to the Idaho Parks and design-build firm specializing in Matthew J. Espe ’80 was Engineer of Recreation Board. Rice has historic renovation. appointed president and chief Merit by the served as director of Parks and executive officer of IKON Office Inland Recreation for the city of Judith Sayler Solutions in Valley Forge, Pa. Northwest Moscow. ’74 was Chapter of the honored with Army JAG Corps Lt. Col. Frank American the Professional Hruban ’80, ’84 has returned to Society of Civil Engineers. Zentz 70s Services the U.S. after seven consecutive is the president of Avista Labs, R. Alan Management years of overseas service. He an affiliate of Avista Corp. Giltzow ’70 Association’s serves as the Madigan Army Sarah Haub Marshall ’83 recently retired 2002 Medical Center Judge Advocate lives from ZGA Management in Tacoma, Wash. in Bandung, Indonesia with her Architects and husband Craig, and four Achievement Award for J.R. (Ron) Langrell III, ’80, ’81, Planners, excellence and innovation in children, and is involved in ’84 has been elected president of Chartered in marketing management. She is community development work. the Washington State Workforce Boise after 29 the vice president of business Education Council. Lt. Col. Richard Dean ’84 years with the development for Don Todd recently graduated from the firm. Associates, Inc. in San Francisco, Walter G. Army Management Staff College Calif. Gerald G. Koester ’70 is a Reuter ’80 in Ft. Belvoir, Va., and received received a 2001 teacher and coach at Cascade Mark Castelin ’75 is a senior leadership and writing awards Fracture High School in Everett, Wash. portfolio strategist with Frank for his efforts. He is stationed Mechanics Russell Company’s Institutional with the Regional Support The Outdoor Writer’s Medal from Investment Group in Tacoma, Command, Fort Snelling, Minn. Association of America recently ASTM Wash. named Indian Creek Nature International Darby Stapp ’84 recently had his Center Director Rich Patterson Rick Meddock ’75 is the new for his effect on book “Tribal Cultural Resource ’70 to the Circle of athletic director at East Valley the development of the scientific Management: The Full Circle to Conservation Chiefs. One High School after 25 years as the discipline of fracture mechanics. Stewardship” published. Stapp is outstanding conservationist is head boys’ basketball coach at Reuter is an engineer and the director of the Hanford admitted each year by vote of Potlatch, Riverside and East scientific fellow with the Idaho Cultural Resources Laboratory existing chiefs. Valley High Schools. National Engineering and in southeastern Washington. Environmental Laboratory in UI athletic trainer Barrie Steele Idaho Falls. ’84 received the 2002 Athletic Trainer Service Award presented by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. Submit your class notes online. Visit www.uiaho.edu, go to alumni and click on the class notes button.

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WINTER 21 CLASS NOTES Michael Bails Kent A. LeFevre ’89 was named ’85, art director an associate at the architectural for KIRO-TV firm of KGA Architecture in Las in Seattle, Vegas, Nev. Wash., received his second Rod Tinnemore ’89 is the state Emmy Award coordinator of Washington this past year Master Gardener programs. for his art direction and implementation of 90s the KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Robin Jack ’91 graphics package. works for AeroMap US, an aerial Gerald R. Lefler ’85 is an photography, digital mapping, operational planner on the GIS company and currently is NATO staff of Commander in working as a subcontractor doing Chief Eastern Atlantic/ GIS for the Environmental Commander Naval Forces North Department at the Ted Stevens in London. Anchorage International Airport. Jack Mousseau ’85 has joined Michael John Lee ’91 recently M+O+A was granted tenure at Columbia Architectural Basin College in Pasco, Wash. Partnership in He teaches literature and Denver, Colo., composition. as partner and Lt. Cmdr. Bill Photo by Spiker, 1987 Gem principal-in- Schlemmer ’91 charge of Using a makeshift slingshot, Norm Semanko ’88, Lee Magnus ’91 and Craig design. He has participated in returned home McCurry ’89 prepare to send a water balloon skyward. Alpha Tau Omega numerous international design after more than members spent an unusually warm March day in 1987 bombing neighboring competitions including the six months fraternities and sororities. winning submittals for the aboard the USS Incheon International Airport in Theodore Melissa Butler Tillman ’95 is Lt. Randy L. Rocci ’97 recently Seoul, Korea and the National Roosevelt in the Ada County Sheriff’s sewing transferred to the Naval Cowboy Hall of Fame in the North program supervisor in Boise. She Postgraduate School in Oklahoma City, Okla. Arabian Sea serving in Operation Enduring Freedom as works with female inmates to Monterey, Calif., and is working John Sowell ’85 was named vice a catapult and arresting gear create all the clothing, bedding towards a master’s degree in president for academic affairs at officer. and material needs for the jail. information technology Western State College in management. Jeff Walker ’91 Allison J. Gunnison, Colo. lives in Boise and is the director of marketing Lindholm Crystal Halstead Wilson ’97 was Jayne Blomdahl Hesley ’86, ’91 for Access Idaho, the state’s e- Touchstone recognized as Registered Young recently was promoted to government initiative and home ’95, ’97 was Dietitian of the Year for the state marketing product manager for a page. named Idaho of Idaho. laboratory instrument sold by Vocational Bill Van Dyck Johanna Kirk ’98 won a Molecular Devices Corp. in Agriculture ’93 received his Compass Award of Merit from Sunnyvale, Calif. Teachers the Northern California master’s of Association’s Rob Moore ’86 was named business in chapters of the Public Relations Outstanding Young Member and Society of American for Alameda president and chief operating managerial the Career and Technical officer of Lipman Hearne, Inc., leadership from Power and Telecom’s power Educators of Idaho’s New management program. the nation’s leading marketing City University Professional of the Year. She communications firm serving in Bellevue, teaches agriculture and is an FFA Teresa K. Olson ’98, ’00 and the nonprofit sector. Wash. He is a adviser at Kuna High School in husband Jeffrey D. Olson ’90 quality project leader for Mark Blas ’87 is now in private Kuna. purchased the Baskin Robbins in Kenworth Truck Co. in the Twin Falls. practice as the chief of cardiac process engineering group at the Rachel Turner-Bensen ’96 is a anesthesiology at South Georgia Renton truck production facility. city council member in Rainier, John Scott ’98 was promoted to Regional Medical Center in Wash. manager of Buy Side Valdosta, Ga. For the past five Robert Hickey ’94 was recently Integrations for Amphire years, he was an assistant promoted to associate professor Kindra Beitelspacher Gordon Solutions. The Buy Side unit is professor of anesthesiology at the of geography at Central ’96 is the executive editor of the responsible for connecting food University of Florida. Washington University. Tri-State Livestock News in service industry trading partners Spearfish, S.D. Erin Fanning ’88 and her Darrel L. Hammon ’95 is to an e-commerce exchange. husband Keith Radwanski had president of Miles Community Brett Madron ’97 passed his Erin A. Moseley ’99 was their book “Mountain Biking College in Miles City, Mont. professional examination and is accepted into the University of Michigan” published. Fanning’s now a professional engineer. Don Maraska ’95 is a captain in Pittsburgh School of Dental writings also have appeared in Medicine. American Profile, Silent Sports the U.S. Marine Corps. He is

IDAHO and Oregon Outside. serving as an aviator, flying C- Timothy Tillman ’99 was 130s and returned from promoted to counselor and case Afghanistan after completing a manager at the CCA Prison in tour in Operation Enduring Kuna. Freedom.

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HE 22 CLASS NOTES 00s MARRIAGES LETTER TO Steven J. Meade ’00 moved his law practice to the firm of Charles M. Diede ’80 to Jill Sauvageau ’99 to Cantrill Skinner Sullivan & Martha Kalnin Chris Murphy ’00 THE EDITOR King in Boise where he works in Jeff Walker ’90 to Aimee Traver ’00 to education law and family law. Mindy Schoonover John Kuhn ’96 Cover criticism The cover of the Fall 2002 Ensign Sean P. Gray ’02 was Leslie A. Alexander ’93 to Amy “Katie” Moore ’00 to University of Idaho magazine commissioned after completing David Knight Chad E. Roe Aviation Officer Candidate is shockingly ill conceived as School at Naval Aviation Schools Eric Dahl ’93 to Laura Morgan Anne E. Brainard ’01 to it gives the impression of a Brandon L. Johnston ’99 Command, Naval Air Station, Julie Cathey ’97 to hand raised in the Nazi salute. Pensacola, Fla. Scott Aljets ’97 Amanda Felts ’01 to This not only calls up a Craig Thomas Miller ’00 Ensign Clayton V. Roberts ’02 Justin B. Oleson ’97, ’01 to horrific historical specter, but received his commission as a Christie A. Johnson Sarah A. Kroese ’01 to also reminds us of certain naval officer after completing Brant P. Borchert ’03 groups in northern Idaho Officer Candidate School at Jodi Putnam ’98 to with whom few people would Naval Aviation Schools Steve Wall ’97 Sarah M. Thompson ’02 to Command, Naval Air Station, Brian R. Buckham ’01 like to be associated. Megan M. Reed ’99 Pensacola, Fla. to Sincerely, Spencer D. Shaw ’99 Brenda von Wandruszka Gina Williams ’00 to Moscow Sean P. Coyle ’99

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Andrew Walker Emma Alice and Emma to Jeff Wyatt Davis to Connor James Jacob Walker to Emma Claire to Kyle Jackson to and Joseph Lucy Margaret to Walker ’91 and Jayne to Terence’93 Angela Matt ’95 and Charles (Ryan) Edward to Don Stephen J. ’94 Mindy Walker (Blomdahl) and Rebecca (Largent) Heather (Scott) ’98 and Jennie Maraska ’95 and Lisa A. Hesley ’86 and (Latshaw) Helmke ’98 and Williamson ’96 (Grubb) Fiske ’98 and Keturah (Hampton) Robb Hesley Quinn ’96 Mathew Helmke Maraska French ’94

Cole Daniel to Steven to Doug Joshua and Joseph to Kelly Kahtiana Elaine Camden Rajcich Daniel Colin Matthew Jacob Daniel Andersen Ohms ’81 and Henggeler ’86 and Holly Henggeler and Ahkailia to Frank Hill Haskins to to Mark Blas ’87 ’86 and Holly Danielle Ohms Hope to Robert ’84, ’85, ’86 and Tamitha and Danielle Andersen Stoicheff ’89 and Cheryl Hill Hammond ’01 Blas Joahalee Stoicheff and William Haskins ’98, ’00

Paige Lynn to Danika Grace to Andrew Carter Chance’96 and Kindra to John ’98 and Crystal (Beitelspacher) Lora Suzanne (Halstead) Gordon ’96 and Scott ’00 Wilson ’97 Bruce Gordon Wyatt Marion to Hayden Mikayla Kay to Thomas D. ’99 James Edward to Eliza Clare to Max Gregory and Jake Thomas to Chance Michael Christopher to Joseph ’84 and and Shalene Alexa Lewis ’98 Daniel D. ’01 Eric Dahl ’93 and Laura Dahl to Dwight Chris Bingley Lisa Rimsa ’82 Metzger ’00 and Bill Lewis and Cameron Bershaw ’91 and ’01 and Tonya

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WINTER 23 CLASS NOTES J. Francis Fowles ’41, IN MEMORY Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 11, 2001 Kenneth T. Kofmehl ’41, West 20s Lafayette, Ind., March 9, 2002 Helen Wood ’23, April 15, 2001 Laurabelle Booker Lacy ’41, Elk Dorothy S. Bucks ’29, Hanover, Grove, Calif., May 15, 2002 Ind. John W. Rowe ’41, Jan. 26, 2002 30s Walter H. Snodgrass ’41, Helen Nelson ’30, Orofino, Seaside, Ore., July 22, 2002 June 25, 2002 Chester M. Southam ’41, ’43, Evelyn Betty Tucker ’30, Boise, East Stroudsburg, Pa., April 5, Aug. 9, 2002 2002 Chester G. Whittaker ’30, Wayne D. Hudson ’42, Eagle, Avondale, Fla., June 30, 2002 July 11, 2002 Herb Wickstrand ’31, June 13, Ann “Macky” C. Somers ’42, 2002 Coeur d’Alene, May 28, 2002 Harry J. Lewies ’43, ’77, Warm

Gus Carr Anderson ’32, ’34, The Gem of the Mountains 1960 Pocatello, April, 1, 2002 River, Aug. 20, 2002 Vandal Spirit shines in the Homecoming parade 1959. Virgil LeRoy Wilson ’32, Boise, Ted Pence ’43, Buhl, July 20, May 24, 2002 2002 Jeanne Thompson Doty ’55, Marilyn S. Meyers Low ’65, Sandy, Ore., Sept. 13, 2001 Gooding, June 15, 2002 Virginia M. Montgomery Robert D. LaRue ’44, ’49, ’51, Beglan ’33, Boise, July 8, 2002 Boise, Aug. 12, 2002 Donald H. Tingley ’55, Idaho Duane Andrews ’67, Moscow, Falls, July 2, 2002 July 5, 2002 Virgil S. Haugse ’33, Palo Alto, Richard G. Crowther ’45 Calif., March 21, 2002 Ethel Jane “Scotty” Whaley ’46, Robert A. Peterson ’56, Karen K. Fisher ’67, Boise, Aug. Bremerton, Wash., July 3, 2001 11, 2002 Lilly E. Powell ’33, Boise, Aug. Pocatello, June 17, 2002 C. Randall Byers ’68, 20, 2002 Eldon Beus ’47, Boise, July 21, Robert “Mouse” Faraca ’57, Moscow, Kellogg, July 13, 2002 Aug. 17, 2002 Evelyn M. Hintze ’34, Jerome, 2002 March 25, 2001 Donald N. Ferguson ’49, Patricia “Pats” Harrington ’57, Sheri L. Michener ’69, ’71, ’87, Silverton, May 25, 2002 Costa Mesa, Calif., Aug. 17, Belton, Mo., March 10, 2002 Loren G. Strawn ’35, ’37, 2001 Seattle, Wash., July 1, 2002 Martin G. Isaacson ’49, 70s Kennewick, Wash., March 13, David C. Yule ’57, Bellevue, Reuben Hager ’36, Edison, N.J., Wash., March 27, 2002 Sheryl Thompson Blakley ’70, Jan. 17, 2002 2002 Harrison, July 29, 2002 John Pearson ’58, Ellensburg, Walter G. Hoge ’36, Blackfoot, 50s Wash., Aug. 24, 2002 David N. McIntyre ’71, Liberty Nov. 8, 2001 Lake, Wash., June 14, 2002 John Caple ’50, Feb. 28, 2002 Robert M. Ferguson ’59, ’60, Elmer Fenn Chaffee ’37, Chapel Evelyn S. Weiss ’71, William A. Kirk ’50, McCall, Coeur d’Alene, June 19, 2002 April 11, Hill, N.C., Aug. 5, 2002 2002 July 4, 2002 Edro W. Miller ’59, Boise, Sept. Iola Grover Denton ’37, Twin 6, 2002 Charles W. Spilker ’73 Falls, July 27, 2002 Edward Donald Savaria ’50, Twin Falls, Aug. 14, 2002 Dorothy Purser ’59, Ellensburg, Michael G. Stoeger ’75, June 25, John N. Faick ’37, June 29, 2001 Harry James Townley ’50, ’52, Wash., July 28, 2002 2002 Fern L. Arms ’38, Boise, July 31, Auburn, Calif., July 9, 2002 Harold A. Simmons ’59, Salt Jamie H. Dater ’79, Eagle, June 2002 Homer Williams ’50, ’63, Lake City, Utah, Feb. 3, 2002 21, 2002 Peter F. Dodds ’38, Sandpoint, Sacramento, Calif., March 20, Cory Fujiki ’79, ’86, San Jose, Feb. 3, 2001 2002 60s Calif., July 15, 2002 Claude Hart ’38, ’41, Fruitland, Bernice P. Gunnell Zobell ’50, Clive Walker Lindsay ’61, July 25, 2002 Cheyenne, Wyo., June 28, 2002 Mountain Home, July 13, 2002 80s Harrell A. Thorne ’38, Herbert E. Millheisler ’61, Eunice M. Paloutzian ’81, May Kathleen McEvers Behler ’51, 15, 2001 Meridian, July 21, 2002 Renton, Wash., Aug. 3, 2002 Austin, Texas, April 22, 2001 Thomas J. Dorsett ’87, Margie Butler ’39, May 9, 2002 Donald W. Largent ’51, Edwin E. Ulrich ’61, Lewiston, July 16, 2002 Hillsboro, Ore., July 27, 2002 Margaret Ritzheimer Gordon Spokane, Wash., July 27, 2002 ’39, July 2, 2002 Joseph H. Hoage ’62, Lakewood, Michael R. Myers ’87, Hayden, Alan Atwood ’52, McCall, Sept. July 9, 2002 24, 2002 Colo., July 17, 2002 40s Jerrold L. Rathbun ’62, Martha F. Geaudreau ’88, Harvey W. Gissel ’53, Fallon, Lewiston, June 12, 2002 Robert P. Schroeder ’40, Coeur Nev., Dec. 5, 2001 Lewiston, July 15, 2002

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d’Alene, May 31, 2002 Cecil L. Moore ’54, Bonners Jerry K. Weaver ’64, Anchorage, 90s Romaine E. Carringer ’41, Fort Ferry, June 23, 2002 Alaska, June 22, 2002 Worth, Texas, April 29, 2001 Nick Conant ’92, ’94, Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 24, 2002

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HE 24 hen Anaheim Angel centerfielder Darin Erstad Wspread his wings, glided to his left and clutched the final out of the World Series, few realized that a Vandal was behind it all.

The once-feeble Angels had won Bill Stoneman’s Photo by John Cordes at The Lovero Group Anaheim’s first World Series, and the city exulted thankfully in a mass of red plastic sticks and jumping monkeys. Dream Among all the red there was one glimmer of silver and gold — but only if you knew Season where to look. by Dan Hunt Bill Stoneman ’66 wanted it this way. The Angels’ general manager and vice president had been in Anaheim since 1999. As a GM, he had always wanted the celebrating to take place on the field — away from the front office, where the decisions were made. So when that World Series trophy finally came to Anaheim, Stoneman spread credit all over Edison International Field. Obviously, the coaches and players had done their job. Then thanks went to the ticket sellers and those who “take care of our fans.” Then the fans themselves were thanked. “People ask me how this compares to throwing two no-hitters,” said Stoneman, who spent eight years as a pitcher in the major leagues. “There’s no way you can even compare the two because a collective achievement is so much more satisfying than individual achievement.” Stoneman, who spent the majority of his career with the Montreal Expos, earned a legacy as a solid pitcher who never had the supporting cast to win a championship. Now, in his second baseball career, Stoneman directs his own team’s personnel. Under his guidance, that team has proven a winner at all levels. “This was not just players,” Stoneman said. “It involves so many people because the whole year went off so perfectly.” Celebrating a World Series Championship are Anaheim Angels General Manager Bill Stoneman, Angels That’s Stoneman, again, thanking Manager Mike Scioscia and Jackie Autry, widow of former Angels owner Gene Autry. those around him. It seems to be a common theme with him — a baseball history. Before his latest internationally-televised triumph, the 1966 Vandal benevolence that stood out even when he season was Stoneman’s last championship. That year the Vandals went undefeated in was an ace pitcher at Idaho. the Big Sky before losing to Arizona in a playoff game for the College World Series. “That’s the kind of guy he is,” former Stoneman, who lived at the Beta Theta Pi house while at Idaho, has seen a lot since Vandal coach Wayne Anderson said. “He leaving Idaho. Only a year after his last game at Guy Wicks Field, he was pitching for does think of everybody else, he does try the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. He’s remained a Vandal since then. to spread the credit around. When he Not surprisingly, he prefers to talk about those he was with at Idaho, rather than was here, he was an outstanding athlete, the great things he accomplished. an outstanding student and an “I still have a lot of friends up at Idaho,” Stoneman said. “After the World Series, I outstanding guy. Just a beautiful person.” logged on to my e-mail and the first seven messages were from Betas.”

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WINTER 25 The Palouse version of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn — Grant( left) and Lee Rodkey stand in front of the well-traveled “shack” at Whitworth College. Wendell Satre called this cabin “home” from 1935-36 when it was located on the Moscow campus. The black-and-white

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Spokane photos by Julene Ewert

HE 26 Wendell Satre ’39 Kathleen Irwin ’37 and Kay Rowley ’63, ’87 Margi Hollifield ’02 UI’s ‘Children of the Sun’ — Spokane alumni rise to the occasion

By Leslie Einhaus

nstead of attending parties and and enlarging,” Satre says. condominium. “The view at night of the dances, Wendell Satre worked nearly Although he has been to some of the Spokane Valley is spectacular.” Ievery hour of every day to fund his most remote regions of the world, “you UI education. He earned wages cleaning don’t have to travel outside the U.S. to For Margi Hollifield, Spokane has cow barns and working as a clerk in the find the best of everything.” been an eye-opening experience. university store. Kathleen Irwin ’37 and Kay Rowley She graduated from UI in 2002 in “Things were much different then,” ’63, ’87 are the perfect mother-daughter marketing, and now works as a division says Satre, a’39 graduate in electrical pair — both super stylish, good-natured project manager of Farm Credit Services, engineering and retired executive of and bursting with goodwill and a grin. an agricultural cooperative in Spokane. Washington Water Power, who lives in In 2001, the mother-daughter duo set “Spokane is a lot bigger than what I Spokane. up an endowment in the UI College of am used to,” says Hollifield, originally Satre was the first in his family to Education. from Hansen, Idaho. “I like it, though. receive a college education. When his “We always wanted to do something There is something going on all the time. workday was over, the determined young for our alma mater,” says Kathleen. It wasn’t like that growing up in student often carried water from the “This, we thought, would be a perfect Hansen.” university’s heating plant to the shack he way to show our appreciation.” Living in Spokane has taken the lived in on the bank of Paradise Creek. Daughter Kay spends her time alumna out of her comfort zone of small- This shack was one of five or so located traveling, visiting family, contra dancing town life. Attending UI gave her a near the corner of Sixth and Line streets. and writing a book. It’s quite the juggling similar opportunity to push past any Many evenings, Satre cooked cracked act for Rowley, who has been suffering inhibitions she might have. “Living in a wheat on the stove and slept in a bunk from primary amyloidosis, a rare bone sorority and working in team settings in bed. The leaves of the study table — when marrow disease. the classroom helped improve my lifted — left little room for guests. “I can’t concentrate on the ‘why,’” communication skills,” she says. “There were hard times,” he admits. Kay says. “I can’t blame it on anyone Those team settings are a trademark “But I try to remember the good things, either. That would be a waste of time.” of UI’s Integrated Business Curriculum, and forget the bad things.” On some occasions, Kathleen tells which provided Hollifield with These days, the good things come in stories of her childhood in Spokane. Her invaluable tools — tools she uses at her the form of photographs — those he’s family home, she says, was one of the current job. “I have to give presentations taken of family — mainly grandchildren — first in town to have a swimming pool. in front of the company CEO and I and photographic vignettes he’s created Now, Kathleen delights in her wouldn’t be able to do it without my IBC while traveling to South Africa, China magnificent view of the Spokane Valley. experience. It gave me a taste of what the and southwest Alaska. “I’ve always loved Spokane,” says real working world is like. I use what I

2003 “I’ve done a lot of my own finishing Kathleen, gazing from the window of her learned every day.”

WINTER 27 Steve Larson ’75 Dick ’63 and Carol ’64 Wendle Carol Ann Haddock Lange

Steve Larson ’75 believes whole- “I had an absolute fabulous time. I Lange remembers one year when her heartedly in giving — time, money and was quite sad at graduation,” admits pledge sisters were under the impression talent. Among his many roles, he is a Carol Wendle ’64. Dick, her husband, they wouldn’t have a Christmas member of Rotary International and the calls her “Queen of the Volunteers.” celebration before winter break. Arriving Spokane Club. Carol is a longtime Spokane school back at the Kappa house one evening, “When you give,” he says, “you board member and a retired member of they wandered into a holiday receive so much in return. It is important the Whitworth College Board. Carol also wonderland. The house was bedecked in to give back to your community. That’s is an active supporter of the Hutton the colors of Christmas, and even Santa what I always tell my children.” Children’s Home, a place for abused and Claus was on site. Lange remembers, “It Along with volunteerism, Larson is neglected children. was a huge surprise.” deeply invested in his career. Larson is Dick also is making his mark on Not surprising is the fact she has president of the firm, Richards, Merrill Spokane. This year, “Mr. Wendle” stayed so close to her college roots. and Peterson, Inc. of Spokane. “Do received Time Magazine’s Quality Dealer Lange, who was born in Spokane, something you like to do,” he says. It Award for “outstanding performance as admits: “I can’t imagine living any shouldn’t be an obligation.” an automobile dealer and valuable citizen farther away from Moscow.” The alumnus even makes smart of his community.” investments when he’s relaxing. Several “Nothing is so firmly days a week before work, he likes to Carol Ann Haddock Lange has only canoe near his home on Liberty Lake. missed one Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival impressed on the mind of The Spokane native also enjoys water since 1987. In 1992, she married Jerry the visitor to Spokane, as skiing, tennis and running. Lange on Feb. 22. Perhaps she should regards its appearance, as the Larson focuses on the long-term goals. have exchanged vows a week earlier — or “I don’t react to the daily market,” he a week later. “Now I ask myself, ‘What great gorge into which the river says. “It’s best to always look ahead.” was I thinking? It was the Jazz Festival,’” falls near the center of the city. she says. It is a tremendous feature In Spokane, the name Wendle means Lange is a charter member of the of the landscape.” one thing — cars. They’ve been selling Lionel Hampton Center Advisory Board. Fords in Spokane since the ’40s. They “UI has an opportunity to provide a — Olmsted Brothers report, 1908 also are all about Idaho — the black and higher quality of education. We have an gold. Each year, the family donates a opportunity for future generations to Just as Spokane Falls is “a tremendous vehicle to the Vandal athletic learn more about the arts and how jazz feature of the landscape,” the UI alums department. fits in,” she notes. “My greatest wish is to who live in eastern Washington are a Since 1917, more than two dozen see Lionel Hampton’s dream come true.” tremendous treasure to their university. members of the Wendle family have The Lionel Hampton Center Margi Hollifield exemplifies the spirit gained an education in Moscow. Initiative, a $60 million fund-raising of UI alumni living in Spokane. “I loved “Only one defected,” says Dick, who effort, will fulfill Hampton’s dream of my time at UI,” she says. “I want to give graduated from the College of Business creating a home for jazz at UI. back any way I can.” I and Economics in 1963. At UI, Lange studied music It is an impressive record for the education, and was a member of the Wendle family, whose members all Vandaleers. She also enjoyed life as a

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t the cusp of the 20th century, AJennie Eva Hughes wrote these optimistic words of advice for her classmates as they graduated from the University of Idaho in June 1899. Jennie’s counsel to “overcome every barrier” with cheerfulness takes on a special poignancy when we learn that Jennie was African-American and that her parents most likely had been slaves.

But because she left no diary, no Jennie Hughes Smith Collection, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho. letters — nothing to tell us what was in her heart and mind — we never will know just what those words meant to this extraordinary young woman. Fortunately, though, there is much we do know about Jennie’s life — as a student, wife and mother, and as an American. Jennie Eva Hughes was born on July 20, 1879, in Washington, D.C. Her As a student at the University of Kenneth says, the Smiths departed, at mother, Louisa, married Lewis E. Idaho, according to historian Keith least in part, because Jennie did not Crisemon shortly after Jennie was born. Petersen in “This Crested Hill: An consider the rough-and-tumble Like other Americans during the 19th Illustrated History of the University of atmosphere of the mining towns “a century, the Crisemon family moved Idaho,” Jennie “accumulated an suitable place to raise children.” westward, first to Pennsylvania, then to admirable academic record.” She won Jennie and George had three sons and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and the prestigious Watkins Medal for one daughter. The eldest, Berthol, was finally to Idaho. The Crisemons settled Oratory in 1898, and graduated with a the second African-American student to in Moscow in the early 1890s. According Bachelor of Science degree, one of seven enroll in the University of Idaho. He to the Census of 1890, there were only students in the Class of 1899. died in 1919, while still a student. 201 blacks in the state. “Miss Jennie E. Hughes, ’99, will visit In 1943, Jennie died at the age of 60 They were, in fact, Moscow’s first Oakland, Cal., during the summer,” in Spokane. black family. Lewis was a successful reported the June 1899 Argonaut. The In her June 1899 address to her businessman, operating either a October 1899 Argonaut reported, classmates, Jennie urged them to “occupy restaurant or a barbershop — two “Jennie Hughes Smith is living in positions of usefulness.” We never will occupations traditionally open to Wardner, Idaho.” know if Jennie felt she had succeeded in African-Americans on the western Sometime between June and October, this regard. We do know, however, that frontier. According to Jennie’s University Jennie married George Augustus Smith. the life of Jennie Eva Hughes Smith was of Idaho registration card dated George and Jennie’s grandson, Kenneth remarkable. September 23, 1898, her mother’s Smith, understands that his grandfather At a time when less than one percent occupation was housekeeping. was a “galena” or lead miner in Wardner, of Americans earned a bachelor’s degree, Although some western states and Kenneth adds that his grandfather an African-American woman born less restricted enrollment of black students in was both a miner and a mine owner. than 20 years after emancipation, seized public schools, Jennie had not been Despite the success George enjoyed in the opportunity of education and left us prohibited from attending Moscow’s the Silver Valley, Jennie and George, and with a legacy of determination and public schools. She graduated from their four children, left Wardner and distinction that enriches the lives of not

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Athletes are Students First

By Dave Goss

I athletics has been a part of my But in the last 20 years there have life — as a participant, a booster, been no major improvements to athletic Ua fan and a father of a UI department facilities. During the 1980s athlete. I appreciate what athletics brings and 1990s, our peers were building to the campus environment, and I value athletic facilities to address growing the role athletics plays in providing demands in academic opportunities to student- strength and athletes. conditioning, UI Student In 1996, when UI moved up to academic support NCAA Division I-A football, boosters and injury Athletes said they would step up to help fund prevention and in the additional scholarships for student- treatment. 327 athletes. That happened. Private support An upgrade of Classroom Number of student to Vandal Athletics has nearly doubled, athletic facilities is from $657,000 in 1996 to more than underway. The athletes at UI — fall

Number of 16 $1.2 million in 2002. Vandal Athletic 2002 (including What does that mean to the Center will put UI 228 student

university? athletics on a level student trainers) Engineering athletes on • More than 300 students are playing field with Letters, Arts participating in intercollegiate other regional scholarship 74 athletics at UI this year. universities. The and Social Sciences • Nearly 230 receive either a full or energies of UI partial scholarship. boosters, fans, friends 11 Science Natural 9 • Athletics provides $1.6 million in and alumni are being 75 scholarship support that benefits the channeled toward Education Resources entire university, from agriculture to providing the financial Business and 50 English to zoology. support for the project. General Studies Here’s another number that indicates But we’re not there 71 Economic the value UI student-athletes put on their yet. the education: I’m a proud alumnus of Agricultural • More than 90 percent earn their the University of Idaho, and I delight in and Life degree within one year of completing reading and hearing about the many 21 their athletic eligibility. accomplishments of UI faculty, staff and Sciences Most student-athletes realize their students. A UI story in the morning future lies in preparing for careers, as paper that provides bragging rights makes only a few will be talented enough to my day. So now is the time to join consider professional sports as a career. together to guarantee our student- That’s been true for generations of athletes leave UI with the same warm Vandal student-athletes, my generation feelings and enduring memories that are included. the bond that binds us together as When I played basketball at UI, Vandals forever. I games were at Memorial Gym. The year I graduated from law school, UI finished Dave Goss is an attorney in Boise. work on the Kibbie Dome. The Dome was a fantastic facility in 1972. It still is an awesome place to watch a sporting

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