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8 Inspired to Walk Free A journey to the Middle East

Features

11 Operation Education Scholarship program for wounded veterans

12 Links That Last Building relationships with Native American Tribes

18 Art and Architecture Back to the future

24 A “Wil” to Succeed Virtual Technology and Design program

26 Vandaleers Score a Milestone 75th anniversary celebration

Departments Campus News 4 Letter to the Editor 6 Quest 7

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Vandal Sports 33

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where a Physicians for Peace program, “Walking Free,” provided prosthetics for amputees. Cover photo by Chelan M. Pedrow.

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CAMPUSCLONE UPDATEHere We Have Idaho

The University of Idaho Magazine

FALL 2006 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 3

University President Timothy White

Vice President for Advancement Chris Murray

Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Communications

Wendy Shattuck

Editor Jeff Olson

Alumni Association President Jim Dickinson

University of Idaho Foundation President Keith Riffle

Magazine Design Julene Ewert

Illustrations Nathan Nielson

Class Notes Editor Annis Shea

Writers and Contributors Jennifer Karinen Bauer

Amy Calabretta Hugh Cooke

Leslie Einhaus Donna Emert Tim Helmke Jeff P. Jones

Joni Kirk Ian Klei

Bill Loftus Sue McMurray

Gail Miller Becky Paull

Barbara J. Smith Kallee Hone Valentine

Kelly Yenser

Photographs as credited

www.uidaho.edu/herewehaveidaho

The University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educational institution. © 2006, University of Idaho

Here We Have Idaho magazine is published three times a year, in January, April and August. The magazine is free to alumni and friends of the university. ❚ Send address changes to: PO Box 443147, Moscow, ID 83844-3147. ❚ Send information, Class Notes and correspondence regarding alumni activities to: Annis Shea, Alumni Office, PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail: alumni@uidaho.edu. ❚ Send editorial correspondence to: University Communications and Marketing, PO Box 443221, Moscow, ID 83844-3221; phone (208) 885-6291; fax (208) 885-5841; e-mail: uinews@uidaho.edu.

Letter PolicyWe welcome letters to the editor. Correspondence should include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for purposes of clarity or space.

From the President

Chelan Pedrow is a remarkable woman who is teaching all of us a lesson about the transformative

power of giving back to others through uncommon compassion, courage and conviction. Her time at the University of Idaho reflects her growing involvement on an international scale to help amputees, as both a volunteer and researcher. This spring, Chelan chose not to attend commencement ceremonies where she was to receive her baccalaureate degree in biological systems engineering, but rather, traveled to Amman, Jordan. There, as a volunteer in a humanitarian program with Physicians for Peace, she provided prosthetics and support to those in need. Chelan’s experience in Jordan is featured on the cover of this magazine, and her story is on page 8.

Chelan’s dedication to help others has inspired the University to create a new scholarship program to support a most-deserving group; veterans who have suffered significant life-changing injuries since 9/11. The Operation Education Scholarship program provides an avenue for veterans with severe and permanent injuries and their spouses to pursue an education at the University of Idaho that will prepare them for the next phase in their lives. The University has received wonderful support for the program from the Idaho congressional delegation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Please contact me if you would like to contribute to this effort.

I am pleased the College of Art and Architecture resumes its status as a professional college at the University of Idaho this fall semester after four years as a department in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. Some of the college’s stellar alumni are featured in this issue of “Here We Have Idaho.” We

also are highlighting an amazing and entertaining student project from the college’s Virtual Technology and Design program. In “Wil to Fly,” students created a series of animated segments that tell a story about a flightless bird who works to achieve his dream to fly.

Enhancing and promoting diversity at the University of Idaho enriches the learning environment for all of us. We are moving forward with several initiatives in this regard, including establishment of a new position of director of Diversity and Community, and creating two additional positions of Native American tribal liaison and director of the Native American Center. Our students also have funded development of a multicultural center in the Teaching and Learning Center, and are actively engaged in the design and programming effort with an eye to opening this fall.

This issue of the magazine features “Links That Last,” a look at the connections our faculty, staff and students are building with regional Native American tribes. The article also highlights some of our outstanding Native American faculty, staff and students. I strongly believe that our community, enriched by diversity, will help create the transformational experience of discovery, understanding and global citizenship we wish to guarantee for all our students.

Karen joins me in wishing you a pleasant and productive fall season, and we invite you to visit campus soon to enjoy the feel the vibrancy of progress by our faculty, staff and students on so many fronts.

BY BILL LOFTUS

The University of Idaho’s two racing mule clones, Idaho Star and Idaho Gem, won their first races this spring and again attracted worldwide attention.

The mules, including their identical-triplet brother Utah Pioneer, have become role models for animals’ importance in science and the prospect of improving human health.

“They both showed they are healthy, vigorous and capable of competing,” said Dr. Gordon Woods ’79, Idaho professor of animal and veterinary science and the leader of the cloning team.

Woods continues to pursue his idea for using equines to investigate calcium regulation and its role in human disease. He was issued U.S. Patent 7,033,615 in April, which outlines a new approach to treating and screening for human disease.

The clones posted near identical times in trial races during the Winnemucca, Nev., mule races in June. Then they showed that every race is different in the

final. Idaho Gem showed his potential by placing third and Star finished seventh.

“We are disappointed but not disheartened,” added Dr. Dirk Vanderwall ’92, Idaho associate professor of animal and veterinary science, who worked with Woods and Utah State University animal scientist Ken White on the project.

Don Jacklin, the Post Falls, Idaho, businessman who sponsored the cloning project and now leases Idaho Gem

from the University for racing, said he and Roger Downey, who leases Idaho Star, saw a lot of upside in their performances.

Idaho Gem turned in his best performance of the year, so far, at the San Joaquin Fair in Stockton, Calif. His winning time there was the best of the season for 3-year olds at the midpoint. He finished fourth at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, but Bay Area reporters noted he still gained fans. The mule-racing season ends in October at the Big Fresno Fair.

Mule clones Idaho Gem and Idaho Star take to the track at Winnemucca, Nev., this spring. Idaho Star is at the far left and Idaho Gem is third from the right.

Left to right: Idaho Star and Dr. Dirk Vanderwall ’92; Utah Pioneer and Prof. Ken White; Idaho Gem, Dr. Gordon Woods ’79 and Don Jacklin.

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CAMPUS NEWS CAMPUS NEWS

For more on these stories and for daily University of Idaho news, go to www.today.uidaho.edu.

The College of Natural Resources will benefit from a $250,000 gift from Tom ’59 and Teita Reveley to help establish a Remote Sensing and Spatial Ecology Complex. The Reveleys’ commitment will help Idaho researchers and educators integrate a package of sensor technologies and planning processes to address natural resource assessment, environmental monitoring and land-use decision making.

Three researchers in the University of Idaho Environmental Biotechnology Institute will assist in a collaborative bioremediation project at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls. Professors of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Ron Crawford and Andrzej Paszczynski, along with postdoctoral fellow Janice Strap, are part of a team that will work to better understand how microbes in the subsurface are degrading the TCE by a natural process. The project may lead to establishing new environmental clean-up procedures for other TCE-contaminated sites around the U.S. The team will collaborate with the Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and North Wind, Inc., an Idaho Falls-based environmental engineering firm, who share in the three-year, approximately $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Environmental Remediation Sciences Program.

Two moms shared this year’s University of Idaho Mom of the Year Award. Linda Williams of Moscow and Sheri Speare of Coeur d’Alene were nominated by their daughters and tied for the title.

The University’s First Lady, Karen White, announced the winners at the Moms’ Weekend brunch in April. Each will receive a framed certificate, mug and embroidered sweatshirt.

Inquisitive Students Full of BrightnessFour University of Idaho scholars have earned Fulbright Scholarship Awards to study abroad. They were selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstrated leadership

potential in their fields of study.

Dana Elliott, a 2004 graduate of the University’s resource recreation and tourism program will teach English and American culture in Germany. Elliott is from Orofino and has completed a master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language.

Adair Muth, from Missoula, Mont., is a senior studying ecology and conservation biology. She will live on the Island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos and collaborate with the Ecuadorian government and

Aicha Elshabini Paul Rowland Christopher Murray

Warm welcomes to...Aicha Elshabini, dean of the College of Engineering. She comes

to Idaho from the University of Arkansas where she was distinguished professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

Paul Rowland, dean of the College of Education. He previously was dean of the School of Education at the University of Montana.

Christopher Murray, vice president for University Advancement. Murray was most recently associate dean for external affairs for the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.

Award-winning FacultyProfessor Esmaeil “Essie” Fallahi has

been elected a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science – the highest honor bestowed on scientists in horticulture. He is the first individual from Idaho to receive the prestigious award. Fallahi’s contributions to the Idaho and Northwest fruit industry include introduction of new “Fuji” and “Gala” apple cultivars, several new varieties of fruit crops and establishment of a new table grape industry in Idaho. Fallahi is the research director of the Pomology Program based at the Southwest Idaho Research and Extension Center at Parma.

local agencies to assist in the eradication of an invasive species of mosquito that transmits Dengue and yellow fever.

Third-year law student Richard Alan Eppink will conduct rigorous research

on public legal education in Canada in order to

institute a similar program in the U.S.

He will conduct his research under Canada’s leading public legal education scholar, Lois Gander, director of the University

of Alberta’s Legal Studies Program.

Jessica Rowe, a graduate student from

Paul, received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to

Romania to teach university-level English and culture courses. She also will work as an educational adviser.

The Fulbright program, established by the U.S. Congress in 1946, is the nation’s largest international exchange program.

Wildlife professor J. Michael Scott’s innovative contributions to conservation science have earned him recognition from the U.S. Department of Interior. Scott, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest departmental award that can be granted to a career employee. Scott helped coordinate a comprehensive assessment of the legal, legislative and policy actions that have occurred in response to the Endangered Species Act’s implementation 30 years ago. His work influenced recent Congressional review of the Endangered Species Act. He also is co-editor of two books on the Endangered Species Act.

Esmaeil “Essie” Fallahi J. Michael Scott Lynn J. “Doc” Skinner

Lynn J. “Doc” Skinner is the recipient of DownBeat magazine’s Achievement Award for Jazz Education Hall of Fame. Skinner retired in June after 35 years as the executive director of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. The award honors the significant work of music educators who have opened doors for and the minds of students through jazz. Skinner was featured in the June issue of DownBeat, as part of the magazine’s annual student music awards issue.

A New Rhythm for the Jazz Festival

Bass player John Clayton is no stranger to the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. Clayton and his upright bass have strummed out a lot of exciting rhythms at the festival for the past 10 years.

Now, the three-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician, composer and conductor will provide even more excitement for the festival as its artistic director.

“Having been a fan of Lionel Hampton’s and participating in his festival, I have grown to understand the impact that it has on the lives of young artists and jazz supporters,” said Clayton. “I think that everyone can understand what an honor it is for me to be in this position.”

Cami McClure, current director of conference services and community programs at the University of Idaho, will join Clayton in heading up the festival. McClure will serve as interim executive director and will handle the festival’s day-to-day business affairs.

Clayton and McClure replace Lynn J. “Doc” Skinner, who served as executive director of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival for 35 years. Skinner will continue to serve as a part-time consultant this year. The University plans to dedicate the 2007 jazz festival, Feb. 21-24, as a celebration of Skinner’s four decades of service to the community, jazz and the arts.

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NEWSCAMPUS NEWS QUESTRESEARCH NEWS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY NATHAN NIELSON

From Idaho to Kenya—Pure Water

A team of Idaho students planted the seeds of better health among the Maasai people of Kenya last winter.

Working with professors Tom Hess and Don Elger, Nate Cropper, Jenn Miller, Sam Creason, Michelle Lebaron and Cami Johnson designed a filter that could clarify and purify drinking water from African mudholes.

The student team named itself “Clearwater Idaho Aid” and built a prototype based on moringa seeds, which could settle the sediment and were locally available.

Realizing that onsite testing would be essential, the team designated Miller to travel to Kenya in February. She raised her own funds for the trip and completed the necessary school work in advance.

Once in Africa, she found the filter needed to incorporate more of the seeds. The Maasai villagers were jubilant at the result.

A Mentor for Innovation

Moscow High School physics students consulted with Idaho weed scientist Donn Thill to tackle a tough problem and impressed some of the best engineering minds in the country this spring.

The Moscow High team set out to find a solution to the heated issue of bluegrass field burning, a topic Thill and a team of Idaho agricultural scientists have spent years studying.

The physics students, who included Erin Morra and others, developed a better field burning device that used a propane burner to produce less smoke.

The high school team won a design competition sponsored by MIT and traveled to Boston in June to present its work.

Thill praised the students for their innovative approach, which used temperature sensors to keep the burners adjusted to minimize smoke.

Scratching for Information

Wildlife professor Lisette Waits worked with the world’s leading snow leopard experts to develop a new way to assess the health of wild populations

of the rare and elusive cats from Central Asia’s mountains.

Applying her expertise in DNA analysis, Waits worked with colleagues

at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and the National Institutes of Health to use hair and scat samples to better estimate the size of snow leopard populations.

“I am really excited to provide new tools that will aid in the conservation and management of this threatened species,” Waits said.

Using genetic samples provided by the zoo, the geneticists adapted the technique to leopards. Conservation scientists now will be able to test field collected specimens, such as feces and shed hairs, to identify individuals or determine sex.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The List Keeps GrowingI enjoyed the article “The Best Seat

in the House,” written by Doug Bauer. Would you add one more name to that list? I am writing about Suzy Goss who is manager of Partner Services with the Portland Timbers soccer team and the Portland Beavers, a minor league baseball team. Suzy is a recent graduate from the University and played basketball for Julie Holt and Mike Divilbiss.

Kenneth Jones ’69, ’75Boise

A Distinguished Honor for the Renfrews

They have been distinguished features of the University campus for, well…decades. Malcolm ’32, ’34 and Carol ’35 Renfrew, now both in their 90s, continue to be vibrant members of the community as they support and attend a wide variety of University events.

In June, the Alumni Association presented the Distinguished Idahoan Award to the Renfrews. It is only the eighth time since 1979 it has been awarded, and the Renfrews are the first couple to be honored. More than 150 friends and alumni attended the award reception.

“We were fortunate in being able to afford attending our University during the great depression when so many eager, capable students were forced to leave college,” said Malcolm and Carol. “We learned to appreciate scholarship funds for those qualified who needed financial help. With the good foundation built here, we later gained graduate training important for professional advancement, and we remembered friends whose college education had been cut short.”

Malcolm earned national recognition for his work at E.I DuPont de Nemours, Inc., for his work assisting in the

development of Teflon. He later served as director of research at General Mills and at Spencer-Kellogg. He holds 17 U.S. patents and a number of foreign patents.

In 1959, Malcolm left industry and the Renfrews returned to the University of Idaho. Malcolm initially served as head of the Department of Physical Science and later as head of the Department of Chemistry. He returned to teaching in 1973 until he retired in 1976.

Carol is a former president of the University of Idaho Library Associates and is a member of the University of Idaho Phi Beta Kappa chapter. She has served on numerous community groups and boards in the Moscow area.

“Our return to the University has been a gratifying experience,” said the Renfrews. “Now, our retirement in this lively academic setting continues to

Carol and Malcolm Renfrew

be a pleasure. We humbly accept our unexpected selection by the UI Alumni Association for this Distinguished Idahoan Award. Looking back now has renewed cherished memories.”

Campus Day Is Back On April 11, UI students,

faculty and staff, along with community members, renewed the nearly-forgotten tradition of Campus Day. Groups planted shrubs, mulched landscaped areas and cleaned up their offices and work spaces. Campus Day, initially proposed by Dean of Women Permeal French, was first instituted on May 23, 1910. Campus Day eventually morphed into May Fete, which evolved into Parents’ Weekend. The University now celebrates a Moms’ Weekend in the spring and a Dads’ Weekend in the fall.

Faculty and staff chip in to complete campus projects as part of the renewal of Campus Day.

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Fast Forward Four YearsAs a biological systems engineering

major, Pedrow was required to identify and solve an engineering problem for her senior design project. She recalled the plight of a four-year-old Chinese orphan who lost his leg in an automobile accident. She was inspired to design a prosthetic leg that would grow as a child grew. The innovative team project was sponsored by Hanger Orthotics and earned an award for excellence at the 2005 Engineering Design Expo. Pedrow plans to develop a second prototype using the newest technology available as part of her continuing studies.

Pedrow’s compassion for amputees around the world continued to grow. She was accepted as a volunteer for a program with Physicians for Peace, an international, humanitarian, nonprofit medical education organization. This spring, she took early finals and missed her graduation in order to contribute to the project in Amman, Jordan, dubbed, “Walking Free.” The program assists developing nations in establishing sustainable prosthetic and rehabilitation centers.

“My mental inventory of the Middle East came solely from the media—the daily updates of our sorrow or successes with flashes of worn eyes and faces that are too quick to capture, but none of it coincided with the serenity I saw before me,” recalls Pedrow.

What Pedrow saw were city lights infused with warm hues of red and orange sprawled out in patches across the flat desert sands. She fell in love with the oasis of Amman where the breeze is soft and the call to prayer rolls from the mosques at sunset with an eerie and yet exhilarating sound. Her love for the city was surpassed by her growing love for the people.

Because it was too dangerous for the team to enter active, war-torn areas of Iraq, the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman was selected for education and services. Each morning, a charter bus picked up the volunteers and transported them a short distance to the military hospital. The hospital was well guarded by soldiers who monitored the flow of personnel entering the grounds.

Chelan Pedrow ’06 Journeys to the Middle East

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At left: Chelan Pedrow spent 12 days at the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan, with Physicians for Peace to provide prosthetic devices for people in need. Above: top, Pedrow received three marriage proposals, one from an 11-year-old boy who was fitted with a prosthetic leg. Middle, hours were spent making prostheics for nearly 20 patients. Bottom, a Bedouin sheep farmer appeared at the door of the clinic. The cause of his amputation was unknown, but the difficult fitting required the expertise of the American medical team.

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A Pioneering Scholarship Program for Wounded Veterans

BY WENDY SHATTUCK

The University of Idaho is leading the nation in an effort to provide

scholarships to veterans severely and permanently wounded as a result of service since Sept. 11, 2001. The spouses of wounded veterans also are eligible for the scholarship.

“We want to do anything we can to assist these individuals and their families,” said First Lady Karen White. “It’s one way we can say ‘thank you’ for the sacrifices they have made for this country.”

White is serving as chair of the new Operation Education scholarship program. She introduced the pioneering access-to-higher-education program in Washington, D.C. at a June news conference. Among those joining her were U.S. Senator Larry Craig ’69, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee; the Honorable R. James Nicholson, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne ’75—the former governor of Idaho.

“Many members of the U.S. armed forces have sustained life-changing injuries that seem to limit their options when their time of service is complete. We are providing an avenue for them to pursue an education that will prepare them for a new life, as well as career opportunities,” said White, who holds degrees in physical therapy, human nutrition and kinesiology.

The scholarship will provide wounded veterans with financial support and resources—such as tuition, fees

and books, on-campus housing, transportation, medical assistance, child care, adaptive equipment, tutoring and mentorship—to assist veterans and their families as they re-enter civilian life. The University also has plans to partner with corporations around the country to offer internships and assist in job placement.

The program is open to veterans’ spouses in order to provide educational opportunities for those who may need to financially support a disabled veteran.

The University hopes to welcome the first Operation Education Scholarship recipient(s) this fall semester, which begins Aug. 21.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Nicholson praised the program. “Education programs have been a cornerstone of V.A. benefits throughout its 75-year history,” he said. “This Idaho initiative is good for veterans and good for America.”

The Helping Our Heroes Foundation, which provides funding, services and volunteers to veterans wounded in operations in Iraq or Afghanistan, has pledged both initial

funding and continued support of the program. Major funding for the scholarship program will be provided by Idaho alumni and friends, and from individuals, corporations and foundations who share the University’s interest in assisting America’s wounded veterans.

For more information or to obtain an application, veterans should contact John Sawyer at the University of Idaho: (208) 885-7979, johns@uidaho.edu. Gifts may be made in support of Operation Education by calling the University of Idaho at (208) 885-7069 or 866-671-7041, or online at www.uidaho.edu/givetoidaho.

At the Washington, D.C. news conference where the Operation Education Scholarship program was announced, left to right: Pres. Tim White, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne ’75, ASUI Pres. Humberto Cerrillo, Sen. Larry Craig ’69, University of Idaho First Lady Karen White, Sen. Mike Crapo and U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson.

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Pedrow worked with medical teams from Basra, Jordan, and the U.S. Word spread that the Americans were fitting limbs. Farmers from the fields, mothers with deformed children, rich and poor alike approached the facility. No one was turned away.

During the 12-day clinic, “Walking Free” was scheduled to fit 10 prosthetics to six amputees. However, walk-ins nearly doubled the patient numbers.

Each Person Had a StoryOne Iraqi soldier, who lost his foot in

the Iraq-Iran war in 1988, managed to stay in the military, become a colonel and now fights for Iraq’s democracy and freedom. Pedrow simply called him “Bear” in honor of his stature.

Bear wept alone one day after he heard news that his best friend had been killed. Feeling anger about the loss and concern for the future of Basra, he shared his grief in broken English. Tears from the young American girl reminded Bear that compassion is still global. They sat silently side-by-side in the courtyard. In that moment, cultural differences melted—he gave her his prayer beads and called her daughter.

A boy of 11 lost his leg at a young age and learned to motor on crutches faster than most people could walk. After he received his new limb, he walked with the same remarkable skill.

“The fabrication of limbs is magical, but the feeling one gets when you watch a person walk on that limb is indescribable,” exclaimed Pedrow, who received one of three “marriage proposals” from the young boy.

“My mental inventory of the Middle East came solely

from the media—the daily updates of our sorrow or successes with flashes of worn eyes and faces that are too quick to capture, but none of it coincided with the serenity I saw before me.”

— Chelan Pedrow

Walking Into the Future “I was able to see what is possible

through the actions and encouragement of educators at the University of Idaho,” said Pedrow. “They recognized me as an individual, not a student ID number, and with relentless energy, they extracted the potential they saw.”

Pedrow explains that it was a bumpy road, but the adventure has been rewarding. She begins graduate studies this fall at Georgia Tech in the prosthetics and orthotics program. Her goal is to work with U.S. military personnel and Middle Eastern civilians whose lives have been irrevocably changed by war.

With her international experience, she feels that her journey is just beginning with “Walking Free.” Along the way she plans to continue her study of the Arabic language, keep Jordanian and Iraqi contacts intact, and remind people that there are “positive steps” being taken in the Middle East.

Top: A Jordanian mother brought her daughter to the clinic, requesting help for a missing arm from a birth defect. The child was fitted with a prosthetic limb.Second: Bedouin children at Petra offered two camels for Pedrow’s hand in marriage, but settled for a picture of her on their cell phone. Third: Iraqi citizen who lost both legs due to disease was carried in by a fellow Iraqi. Bottom: She walked out with new limbs and without assistance.

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He shares a vision with many faculty, staff and students of a more diverse university. “It’s so ironic. We sit between two native nations—to the south the Nez Perce and to the north the Coeur d’Alene. We should be swimming in happy round brown faces,” he said with a hearty laugh. “I’m looking at myself as a faculty member. What can I do to contribute to the solution? I see research as a way to do that.”

Fellow professor Aaron Thomas, a member of the Navajo Tribe, also works on recruitment. As one of only a handful of American Indians in the U.S. with a doctorate in chemical engineering, his exceptional status underscores the need to attract native students to the sciences. Thomas conducts science demonstrations for visiting groups and volunteers time to travel to reservations and national conferences specifically to recruit inquisitive new students.

With the small number of native students at the University, getting them to feel comfortable on campus is important. So, like Galindo, Thomas also focuses on native student retention. For three days before fall semester, he helped run an orientation camp for incoming freshmen.

“One goal is to make campus more welcoming and more like a family. We’re trying to create a sense of place,” he said.

One big step toward this goal has been the Native American Center, which opened in its new location in 2006. The center is a mini-oasis for students, offering computers, a couch, a refrigerator and a comfortable home-like atmosphere.

“The center is the key way we will strengthen recruitment and retention of our native students,” Yolanda Bisbee said. A Nez Perce tribal member, she is director of the College Assistance Migrant Program, which shares the center, and she works quarter-time as Native American recruiter.

“We see our efforts with CAMP working and we want that same thing for our native students,” she said.

Bisbee is optimistic for the future. “One thing we would like to see developed is a dedicated cultural center in the middle of campus. We anticipate that will come with joint ownership from the tribes. We’ve got a good start now. We’ll grow from here,” she said.

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Forging Strong Tribal Connections

In his State of the University address this spring, University of Idaho President Tim White announced the creation of two new positions: a full-time director of the Native American Center and a tribal liaison. The positions will benefit

relations between the University and Native American tribes by making campus a more welcoming place for native students and by adding a direct communication link. The landmark announcement affirmed hopes for a renewed spirit of collaboration.

Many of the University’s current tribal connections are rooted in the 1970s, when the Center for Native American Development, led by Jack Ridley, was active.

Jack Morris, associate dean of the College of Business and Economics, who worked closely with Ridley, said, “CNAD really helped to populate Native American enterprise around Idaho with some excellent people who are today’s leaders. That’s how the University got our links and contacts that we continue to have.”

Hopes run high for a new era of engagement that will build on those links. Provost Doug Baker said, “My hope is that we can partner with the tribes to help address some of their needs and in the process learn from them. I believe that such positive interactions will create a rich learning environment for University of Idaho students and inform the scholarship and creative activities of our faculty. The president and I feel that in this time of renewal at the University, it really is an opportune time to meaningfully reinvigorate our efforts with the tribes.”

The new staff members will join others at the University who are working with tribes.

Native American Faculty and StaffOne Idaho professor at the forefront of tribal outreach

is Ed Galindo ’79, of the Yaqui Tribe in Arizona. His lab in the Aquaculture Building is a resource for attracting native students to the University.

“This is where our hydroponic plants are growing,” Galindo said, standing in a room filled with greenery. The air, thick and humid, hummed with the sound of turbines, which were circulating water for both fish and plants. “We want to try to grow our medicinal plants in here with the least amount of water to simulate a lunar base.”

In addition to advising the Native American Student Association—NASA—Galindo conducts research with the “other” NASA, and his experiments have flown on five space missions. At the summer camp he leads, research is the “hook” he uses to get younger students interested in science.

Professor Ed Galindo has had five experiments conducted on NASA space missions. He now is studying ways to grow plants on the moon. Galindo also is an adviser to the “other” NASA, the University’s Native American Student Association.

A goal of Professor Ed Galindo ’79 is to attract young Native American students to the sciences at the University of Idaho. “We should be swimming in happy round brown faces,” said Galindo, a member of the Yaqui Tribe in Arizona.

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Two Student LeadersTwo Idaho students taking leadership roles are Trina

Villalobos and Amber Thomas. Villalobos, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, studies professional chemistry. Her primary work involves designing a drug to improve treatments for type II diabetes.

Under the mentorship of chemistry Professor Nicholas Natale, Villalobos examined the medicinal properties of qáws-qaws, a Nez Perce root used in sweat ceremonies. They found that it shares a common chemical component called ligustilide with a Chinese healing plant of the same family. Her presentation of that and other research has won national awards.

With Natale, Villalobos makes time for tribal outreach, and visits reservations and works chemistry booths at regional powwows.

Thomas, an Alaska Native and member of the Iñupiat people from the Native Village of Barrow, studies the effects of nicotine on Alaska Native pregnant women and their children. In collaboration with her tribe, her summer internship included research aimed at improving Alaska Native people’s health.

Though she’s careful not to generalize her experience to other native students’, she has encountered stereotyping at Idaho, and her transition to campus life was difficult.

“It’s been hard, but it’s strengthened my passion for fixing things. If I had stayed home, I might not have become so passionate. Now I’m focusing on how we can fix the University of Idaho for future native students,” she said.

With the consensus of NASA, Villalobos, Thomas and others worked to propose a new Core Discovery class. They hope that “Shared Places: An Introduction to Tribal Cultures and Histories” will help educate non-native students.

“The tribes have a definite interest in this place,” Villalobos said. “I don’t know how many people know this used to be tribal land. We want this course in order to create a stronger awareness on campus.”

American Indian Studies ProgramOne of the co-instructors of “Shared Places” is Jan Johnson,

an American Indian Studies professor who also teaches American Indian literature. In 2003, she volunteered to start a film festival of native-produced films. Each year it’s been a hit.

Yolanda Bisbee and Professor Aaron Thomas at the campus Native American Student Center. Bisbee is the University’s Native American student recruiter and director of the College Assistance Migrant Program. Thomas, a professor of chemical engineering, also works to recruit and retain Native American students.

“Indian people in particular have endured decades of seeing themselves portrayed on the screen in really inaccurate and often demeaning ways. To see themselves on the screen in a way they can relate to and they feel is reflective of their lives and experience is really an incredible thing,” Johnson said.

The director of the American Indian Studies Program, Professor Rodney Frey, has been “working Indian country” since the mid-1970s.

In 2006, one master’s degree project Frey oversaw was a 200-page single-spaced thesis by Jennifer DeRose, about trees that have been culturally modified by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

“What Jennifer’s done here hasn’t been done before. She’s used archeology, ethnography, interviewed elders, and looked at all the legal issues around protecting culturally sacred sites. She’s also inventoried the trees and put it all together in one package. Someday that will be a very useful tool for the tribe,” Frey said.

In addition to an academic minor, the American Indian Studies Program offers an annual speaker series and two years of Nez Perce language, as well as bringing elders into classrooms. It also uses field trips to extend the classroom to reservations.

“Indian culture has so much to share with everyone,” Frey said.

Service LearningStudents and faculty have experienced profound changes

through service learning projects with tribes. When staff at the Benewah Medical Center on the Coeur

d’Alene Reservation were looking to increase interest among tribal youth in medical careers, they contacted Andrew Turner, Idaho/WSU director of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Medical Education Program. Together they developed two service learning activities.

About three times per year, first-year medical students from the WWAMI Program travel to Plummer to interact with tribal youth.

Amy Eddy, one of the medical students, said, “Some visits were purely fun, like skiing and dancing, and others were more educational, like drug and alcohol awareness discussions.”

In 2005, Eddy engaged in another form of service learning. Through a Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program experience, she lived on the Coeur d’Alene reservation for an intensive four-week clinical training placement with physicians at the Benewah Medical Center. Being involved in both the community and in patient medical care helped her better understand the role that family and culture play in medical care on the reservation, as well as continue her discussions with youth about careers in medicine.

During her stay, the community celebrated the 15th anniversary of the medical center, and she experienced her first powwow. “One of the dances was an honor dance and even I—someone who had been there for only a few weeks—got to join in. Besides being a wonderful opportunity to experience part of the tribe’s culture, it made me feel very welcomed,” she said.

Last year, in another service learning project, Theater Professor Rob Caisley helped Idaho become the first university outside Los Angeles to host the Young Native Playwrights Project. The project paired eight theater students with eight Coeur d’Alene Tribal School students. For a week, the mentors helped students write a five- to 10-minute play that was then read onstage by American Indian actors from Los Angeles.

At the end of the performances at the Hartung Theater, the packed house erupted into a standing ovation.

Maaike Davidson, a mentor, said, “The plays created by these young people were brilliant, funny and heartbreaking, and I always left writing sessions feeling that these young people had become my teachers. It was a fabulous experience.”

In 2006, Steve Drown, chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, oversaw two student-designed projects: for the Coeur d’Alene, a trail between Tensed and Plummer; and, for the Nez Perce, a conceptual master plan for the Spalding Site of their National Historical Park.

Drown also heads a group of faculty on a strategic initiative to create a bioregional planning program that will engage tribes as one of the most significant cultural resources in Idaho and work toward sustainable communities.

“What we’re looking at is essentially the ability to take the strengths at the University of Idaho in the natural sciences, geography, architecture and elsewhere, and create an accredited program that’s unique and will extend the university’s outreach through the state,” Drown said.

The College of Business and Economics also has links with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Through the Professional Golf Management program, each year they send several interns to the Circling Raven Golf Course at Worley.

John Lawrence, professor of operations management, has worked to start a campus chapter of the American Indian Business Leaders, and intermittently teaches “The Business of Powwow” course to assist students with the annual Tutxinmepu Powwow planning.

Trina Villalobos is a professional chemistry major and conducts research to design drugs to improve treatments for type II diabetes.

Above: Professor Jan Johnson and student Jennifer DeRose display the poster for the 2006 American Indian Film Festival. Johnson coordinates the film festival and teaches in the American Indian Studies program. DeRose conducted research for her master’s thesis on protecting culturally sacred sites.Left: Amber Thomas is a student leader and researcher. She studies food and health aimed at improving young people’s diets.

Amy Eddy, a student in the WWAMI Medical Education Program, leads a discussion at the Benewah Medical Center on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation.

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Innovative By Design: Art and Architecture StudentsConnect with Tribes

BY JEFF P. JONES

University of Idaho architecture and design students have been responsible for creating, perhaps, the most visual collaboration between the University and regional tribes. Both the Shoshone-Bannock and Coeur d’Alene tribes challenged Idaho students to create designs for new facilities—a Veterans Benevolence Center and a Cultural Institute. The challenge centered on architecture and design, but the final results spoke more to a sharing of cultures.

Schitsu’umsh Cultural Institute

“This design evolved from the face of a coyote,” said Anne Marshall, associate professor of Architecture. “The coyote, the trickster, is an important teacher

of the Coeur d’Alene people.”The design, an intricate fusing of functional spaces

within an organic form, is one of 12 concepts created last fall by Marshall’s fourth-year architecture students for the Schitsu’umsh Cultural Institute, a facility to be built at the starting-point of the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes in Plummer.

“The students’ designs reflect different aspects of Coeur d’Alene culture,” Marshall said. These include orientation to the cardinal directions, circular form, references to traditional longhouses and, as with Stephen Springer’s coyote design, unification with the natural world. “The different students had very different takes on the project.” The energy in Marshall’s voice expresses pride in her students’ work.

The service learning project grew naturally out of Marshall’s own work, which focuses on the expression of American Indian culture through contemporary architecture.

Each design ultimately found expression in site and floor plans, three-dimensional drawings and physical models.

“Our students work really hard,” Marshall said with a laugh that conjures long hours in the studio.

For students, the project culminated on Nov. 9, 2005, when they made PowerPoint presentations to 50 tribal

River RestorationSome of the most intense collaboration with tribes occurs in

the natural sciences. Several University scientists work with tribes on river restoration, and their research draws significant outside funding.

Joe Cloud, associate dean of the College of Science, works with the Kootenai Tribe to develop a way to cryologically preserve white sturgeon sperm. He speaks with awe of the fish.

“White sturgeon are lovely, docile animals, and they’re just absolutely huge. It takes four grown individuals to handle some of these females,” he said.

Another fish species scientists and the Kootenai Tribe are working to restore is burbot, a freshwater cod. Ken Cain, a professor of fishery resources, leads that effort.

At the campus aquaculture lab, Cain’s team attempts to recreate the burbot’s natural spawning conditions, including 35-degree water. So far it’s been successful, and the next step is to grow the burbot larvae large enough so that they can be tagged and released.

Fellow College of Natural Resources professor Chris Peery works with several tribes on river restoration projects. Peery recounted one meeting with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, which resides on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula.

“To hear tribal members talk about how the salmon were a sacred animal and how they want to be able to show their children how to fish a salmon and do the salmon ceremony gives you a totally different perspective on the importance of a resource to a particular area,” Peery said.

A Look to the FutureThough the University of Idaho’s relationships with tribes

cover a range of fields—science, business, art, medicine—ultimately, what will bring vitality to them are two things: more incoming native students and creating a place where they can be comfortable.

“One of the things I like most about the University of Idaho is that it’s really close to home,” Villalobos said. As connections continue to grow, it is hoped more native students, like Villalobos, will begin to link the concept of the University with home.

Professor Joe Cloud works with the Kootenai tribe to cryologically preserve white sturgeon sperm. Above: Chris Lewandowski, the assistant hatchery manager at the Kootenai Tribal Sturgeon Hatchery in Bonners Ferry, with an “absolutely huge” sturgeon.

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members at the Coeur d’Alene Casino. For the tribe, that presentation was a beginning—the chance to use student designs to envision their cultural center, which they hope to begin building soon.

“Working together with the tribe was the most positive aspect to this project,” said David Sare, one of the student designers. “Trying to understand their perspective, their values and ideals and incorporate that into a design—it was a fantastic experience.”

Shoshone-Bannock Veterans Benevolence CenterThe same semester, Rula Awwad-Rafferty, associate

professor of Interior Design, led a group of design seniors on a service learning project with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. The proposed project: to design an $8-10 million Veterans Benevolence Center that will provide communal and ceremonial spaces.

During the site visit, one of the most moving experiences was the students’ connection with Arnold Appeney, Veterans Association president for the tribes, who shared stories.

“As Mr. Appeney’s visit came to an end,” student designer Kori Arthur reflected, “he spoke in his native tongue to ask that we find success in the quest to design their new center. It was as we stood there, in a circle holding hands, listening to Mr. Appeney, that time and place really did stop.”

The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes provided $6,000 for student expenses, and ultimately, they selected a winning design by Desiree Haas, who drew inspiration from the circle. As she was driving back from the site visit, she said, “It hit me all at once, this idea of the circle, how it looks inward and also to the future. I wanted to create a building that reflected the tribe’s history as well as the carrying-on of tradition.”

Awwad-Rafferty, who has led numerous service learning projects in the past, insists that this one was different. “It wasn’t just a project for me,” she said with an infectious vitality. “It was so powerful that I can still see the impact on how my students design, how they work, how they talk about the design process.”

Both professors agree that the ability to offer service learning projects is a shared strength of the programs within the College of Art and Architecture. Awwad-Rafferty said, “This project taught us to see how we are really interconnected, even within our new college, and how together we can provide the best environment, the best places, both for students and for communities.”

Rendering of the Benevolence Center interior and site plan.

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Among them: Tim Guthrie ’96 is an associate professor of Graphics Design

and Visual Communications at Creighton University, in his hometown of Omaha, Neb.

Architect Tracy Johnson ’94 goes home after work to a cabin halfway up a mountain in Alaska.

Landscape architect Christian Zimmerman ’88 takes care of “the last forest” in the country’s liveliest city.

David Overstreet ’01, lately thrilled by being able to find an affordable apartment in San Francisco with a kitchen big enough for some art work, is teaching at the Art Institute of California—San Francisco.

They, and others, all remember with great fondness their time on campus in Moscow as students in a vital and energetic College of Art and Architecture.

Tim Guthrie ’96A multi-talented artist, Guthrie has worked in sculpture

and painting, in design and animation, and he has exhibited in many spaces. One of his recent projects was a large site-specific installation in the Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha. The multimedia project, in a “bunker-like space,” explored the United States nuclear testing program. It included “some reference to all the 1,000 nuclear tests we have done,” Guthrie said.

“I wanted the viewer to understand the extent of the testing,” he said.

The installation included large and small pieces and some projection and video, a subject area in which he became interested as a graduate student at Idaho.

Guthrie remembers especially the class of Frank Cronk, whose course on Web site design was particularly useful in expanding Guthrie’s artistic horizons. He characterized himself as a somewhat “traditional” art student when he first arrived in Moscow. He also recalls the classes of Byron Clercx.

The study of art “is a vital aspect of any serious academic institution,” said Guthrie. “Art is one of the extraordinarily unique and valuable programs that help make the finest institutions what they are.”

The College of Art and Architecture resumes its status as a professional college at the

University of Idaho this fall semester. After four years as a department in the reorganized College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, the new A&A offers its traditional disciplines in architecture, art and design, landscape architecture and interior design, as well as studies in the emerging fields of sustainable design and virtual technology.

Art and architecture have been a vital and energetic part of the campus for almost 80 years. The college’s new beginning and renewal will allow its distinctive top-tier programs to serve the needs of the 21st century.

The interim dean of the college, Bill Woolston, welcomes the “new” beginning.

“We are excited that the College of Art and Architecture has been re-activated by the State Board of Education,” he said. “We have been enthusiastically engaged in a renewal process of strategic planning. The college was returned because of the committed and energetic support of faculty, students and alumni, and this renewed linkage with the alumni and professional communities will continue to be an essential ingredient in the bright future of the college.”

That future is bright because of the illuminated past—stellar alumni who have represented the ongoing vitality and diversity that characterizes so many of this college’s graduates.

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Tim Guthrie, both artist and sculptor, with some of his paintings.

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Angel Luna ’02Luna arrived in Moscow in 1999, not knowing exactly what to

expect as a master’s of fine arts student, but he did know Idaho would afford him a chance to teach. He figured, rightly, that teaching experience would help him in the job market.

As he was getting ready to leave Moscow three years later and thinking hard about a career, Luna had “one of those life-changing conversations” with Art Professor David Giese. The professor reminded Luna that he had begun MFA study with the aim of sharing his enthusiasm by teaching others.

Two years ago, Luna started at his current position as one-half of an art department at Arizona Western College, a two-year institution in Yuma.

It’s hard work, he says. And he likes it. ’”I’m here with my gente,” he says, “my people.” Luna grew up in the Yakima Valley. He and his

family worked in the fields. He earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Eastern Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in history at Whitworth College before coming to UI. He is the first member of his family to earn a college degree.

A ceramicist and sculptor, Luna makes both craft items like functional vessels and sculptural works of more obvious aesthetic intent. But he quickly points out there is artistry in vessels and that function does not mean lack of aesthetic concern.

In this part of his professional life, Luna tries to enter his work in four or five juried shows a year. Earlier this year, he had a solo show at Washington State University. Professor Sally Machlis was helpful in that show and “has been a fantastic mentor” for the young artist.

David Overstreet ’01Overstreet is plying his trade in San Francisco, where he

makes art and teaches a variety of courses. He works in various media, including electronic. His Web site, http://homepage.mac.com/overstreet/ is “a piece of art,” but he adds, “it’s not the same thing as doing something physical. I love the technical problem-solving, but I have to make things with my hands or I go crazy.”

For Overstreet, one of the challenges to making art with his hands is that the space in which to do that comes at a dear price. San Francisco is just expensive. In his current apartment, he uses part of the kitchen as a studio where he can work on small, “quiet projects.” But he has no room to do woodworking.

Overstreet sometimes misses the wide-open spaces of the Palouse, and he misses the community of Moscow... the “accessibility of rural places.”

It is this accessibility that is so vital to the study of art and architecture at the University of Idaho.

“As the world’s spaces expand and contract and become increasingly homogenized, art in particular is vital in encouraging creative thinking, in celebrating something other than the corporate/consumer world,” said Overstreet.

Tracy Johnson ’94Tracy Johnson pursues the “simple life” in a vast land. She

works as a project architect at the largest firm in Fairbanks, Alaska. When Tracy goes home after work, she drives 10

miles to the top of a hill, and settles into her cabin—a single room with a partial loft, and no running water.

Reminded that she is an architect who thinks about such problems, she laughs and acquiesces and then says, “I like simple things...hiking, hunting and fishing.”

Besides, she says, “Water in Alaska can be a hassle. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it flowing in the winter, you know?”

Yes, she does have an outhouse. No, she’s not completely isolated. “It’s not that I don’t have

neighbors. I do. I just can’t see any of them.”Professionally, her life seems a little more hectic.

Her firm, Charles Bettisworth and Company, which she joined about 10 years ago, does a variety of jobs and she is involved in a fluid, busy workload. She recently was working on two projects: the creation of a downtown cultural and visitors’ center in Fairbanks and the construction and renovation of a K-12 school in Haines.

Haines is not in the neighborhood—it’s about 800 miles southeast of Fairbanks, and Johnson uses several modes of travel—car, airplane and ferry—to get there to visit clients.

Variety had something to do with her choice of a university, too.

“I liked the setting...the small town...and I especially liked the integration of the architecture school with the design disciplines like art, landscape and interior design,” she said. “We didn’t always sit down to computer terminals. We used a variety of media...we did water color and we did models in clay, for instance.”

She likes to stay in touch with her classmates, and organized a Class of ’94 10-year reunion. There she saw her friend, Edwin Hoffman, has a position with Victoria’s Secret in New York. She laughs when she notes that he lives in a loft in Soho and works for a lingerie company and she lives across the continent on a hilltop in the woods. Two friends and classmates, but “we’re pretty much opposites.”

“Art is not a mirror to reflect

the world but a hammer with which to shape it.”—Vladimir Mayakovsky

Tracy Johnson pursues a simple life as an architect in Alaska.

Angel Luna is a ceramicist and sculptor, and teaches at Arizona Western College in Yuma.

David Overstreet makes art and teaches in San Francisco.

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Christian Zimmerman ’88Also across the continent, in Brooklyn, N.Y., lives landscape

architect Christian Zimmerman.Even though he lives in this storied borough in the busiest

city in the country, smack in the middle of hustle and bustle and big-time sophistication, Zimmerman goes to work every day with a “walk into the green space [and a] look at the long meadow and the water.” Even on the worst day of work, Zimmerman can say, “This is my office.” He’s talking about Prospect Park.

“It’s not the typical New York experience,” he admits. He works in the middle of what many people think is the finest example of an urban green space in the country.

Zimmerman is the vice president for design and construction of the Prospect Park Alliance. His position is relatively unique for a landscape architect because he supervises both landscape architects and architects. All aspects of design and construction, which includes restoration, preservation and new construction, are his responsibility.

The park is a 526-acre urban green space designed by the great Olmsted and Vaux team that was responsible for New York’s Central Park, the “Emerald Necklace” in Boston and many other classic spaces. Prospect Park contains the only remaining “forest” in Brooklyn—a 150-acre woodland.

“The core of the park, after our restoration efforts, still looks like it did in the 1860s and 1870s,” he says, although the trees are different and even some species have changed. It turns out that warming trends have made it possible for certain species to grow now that could not flourish 125 years ago.

Is this the ideal job for a landscape architect? Zimmerman thinks it might be. “It is the most beautiful park,” he said.

“Sometimes, when I give tours, there are landscape architects from all over the world. It is a subtle but exemplary park.”

Rich Dallam ’81Rich Dallam says with characteristic energy, “I’m

happy to be in a profession that rewards life-long learning.”

When Dallam left the University of Idaho, he joined a highly regarded Seattle-based firm, NBBJ. He is now a partner in the firm and he has been involved in many notable projects that include the Samsung Global Gateway Project in South Korea and projects for the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Dallam, who has degrees in the philosophy of science from UC-Davis, a master’s degree in analytic philosophy from the University of Arizona and an architecture degree from Idaho, sometimes refers to architecture as “applied philosophy.”

“Architecture is the physical realization of how we want to live our lives,” says Dallam.

His approach to design is sophisticated and integrative. Design is decidedly not a “commodity...it is the ultimate business tool.” That said, he never overlooks the aesthetic side.

“Every project I have been involved in my career has included artists, and that I attribute to the education I got at Idaho.”

Dallam traces the early development of his inclusive understanding of architecture to a pair of “young, motivated

professors” who taught him at Idaho—David Giese and Bill Bowler.

“Architecture in our age is about building renaissance teams with diverse intelligence and perspective,” he said.

He may be happy in his work, but he is not complacent about the profession. Dallam continues to push forward, challenging himself and his profession.

“Architects have been engaged in a strategic retreat for decades,” Dallam said, lamenting a reluctance to understand design as something more the arrangement of bricks and mortar and steel. Design is in everything, and Dallam recently traveled to London to meet with international experts on health care systems. Why? Because, Dallam believes health care systems can be designed and, of course, and should be.

Who thought that a degree in architecture would lead to this application? Rich Dallam did.

Jim Heid ’80Jim Heid has been everywhere. Or maybe it just seems like

it. He has lived in upstate New York, Vermont, Tucson, New Orleans, Denver, Phoenix, Hong Kong and Moscow.

Heid now lives in San Francisco, where he has formed a company called UrbanGreen. Founded in 2000,

UrbanGreen specializes in community development and sustainability issues.

Heid left Idaho in 1980 and began a versatile and far-flung career. He worked at both large and small firms in a variety of capacities. Immediately before starting his own company,

he worked in two of the country’s best-known firms, Design Workshop and EDAW.

His University of Idaho years constituted a “great nuts and bolts education,” Heid said. He vividly recalls

several instructors, especially Bill Snyder’s “passion for design” and Dan Murabito’s practicality. These two were the “yin and yang,” he says. He also praises Bill Sloan, who taught urban design.An articulate spokesman for a comprehensive

understanding of urban development—from real estate and design to financing and sustainability—Heid is a widely known speaker at national conferences and

symposia. “The increasing awareness and visibility of issues surrounding

green design and sustainability point to an important shift in the way design is taught,” said Heid. “Integrative design, collaboration and life cycle analysis will no longer be points of differentiation for one program over another—they will be essential to design education in the future. Programs that don’t embrace these ideas will not only fall behind, they may risk becoming irrelevant.”

These alumni have created careers that embody the energy

and diversity of the related disciplines of art and architecture, and represent the College of Art and Architecture’s overall vitality. If vitality resides in change and adaptability, then this college has a handle on its future. The possibilities are nearly unimaginable.

Welcome back, College of Art and Architecture.

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Christian Zimmerman is responsible for design and construction at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of the country’s finest examples of an urban greenspace.

Rich Dallam blends philosophy and architecture and says; “Architecture is the physical realization of how we want to live our lives.”

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Much like the character they brought to life, University of Idaho students in the Virtual Technology and

Design program had their share of setbacks while trying to reach a common goal.

In six short weeks, a group of 16 undergraduate VTD students produced a series of animated segments about a flightless bird named Wil, who worked diligently to achieve his dream of flight.

“I wanted something about the intellectual pursuit and how it drives emotional need,” said Dave Eames-Harlan, a graduate student in dramatic writing, who drafted the initial script about Wil’s efforts toward flight.

The “Wil to Fly” project was created specifically for the 2006 DNA Festival, a performance showcase of one-page plays

sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film. “Wil to Fly” was shown in brief “segisodes” during set and wardrobe changes throughout the evening.

Students worked in various teams charged with tasks of animation, sound effects/audio, character development and environment/setting. A material development team, for example, created much of the texture and color for the project, adding bark to trees and creating scene lighting. They used Adobe Premiere for video editing and Studio Max, a 3-D animation software program. In total, the students produced 18,000 frames of usable animation for the 9.5-minute project.

The real-world nature of the project appealed to senior Ryan Otto. “We worked through problems quickly and efficiently, worked with other people while having to share the same vision, and most of all had to meet deadlines.”

As a character developer, Otto sketched more than 100 story boards, although, he says, “it felt like 1,000.” The storyboards, he explains,” gave a vision to the actual animation. “They emphasized motion, timing, camera angles, screen cuts and what objects and characters would be shown in each frame.”

He was very much awe-struck by the collaborative process:

“There were so many things to be done by so many people. It was amazing to see everything come together in the end,” said Otto.

Not About the CreditFor the duration of the project, “Nobody really worried

about their grades,” explained senior Michele Ohanesian, project art director. “We just wanted it to be the best project it could be.”

Like Ohanesian and others, Jason Helt, a junior, was a jack-of-all trades. The project lead animator says he worked on a lot of different tasks “some of which did not translate to a spot on the credits list.”

Helt says the project taught him the importance of having definitive lines of authority. “When working in a group setting, that’s very important.”

Such observations resemble the wise words of a seasoned veteran, not a college student.

He’s also garnered another nugget of wisdom: “Working with individuals, who are interested in the same field of study is

always a great experience.”Once the main character came alive and the story unfolded,

Ohanesian said she grew attached to the process and to the character Wil, in particular.

Evoking an emotional response from an animated character is not easy, according to VTD Adjunct Professor Brian Cleveley. The students definitely cleared that hurdle with hard work, which impressed University President Tim White, who gave the project rave reviews. “The segisodes are very creative, engaging and that quirky combination of thoughtful and amusing,” he said. “This is the type of project that makes me proud.”

To see the segisodes for yourself, go to: http://www.caa.uidaho.edu/vtd/htm/w2f_02.asp.

RewindIntensive as it was with communication hang-ups, trouble-

shooting and deadline tackling, it is work that many would do again. It’s a heck of a résumé-builder, for starters.

Ask Ohanesian. Looking back, “I loved every minute of it.”

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“…we’ll go singing, singing of you, Alma Mater, our Idaho.”

On an April morning that feels like the first day of summer, the song fills the University of Idaho Administration Building Auditorium. Some in the choir have been singing of Idaho for years. Others are just beginning.

The group represents generations of Idaho’s best voices. They are Vandaleers, an elite singing group with a storied history in the state and beyond, who have gathered for their 75th Anniversary Reunion.

“Why are we taking these songs to Ireland? This is our heritage. This is the heritage of 75 years of singing,” conductor Rager Moore tells the group.

In May, Moore, director of choral activities at the University for three years, led student singers on a tour of Ireland. It was the Vandaleers’ first time on an international stage in more than 30 years.

Moore stamps, hops, snaps and chops the air, pulling sound from the choir. Many alumni say being a Vandaleer was the highlight of their college experience. Several couples met in the tight-knit group. The four-day reunion is a chance for alumni and students to meet and sing.

The Vandaleers formed in 1930. They came to prominence in Idaho and the Northwest in the 1950s and 60s and toured Europe and Latin America in the 1970s. They rose to recognition with the arrival of Professor Glen Lockery, who taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1981.

Lockery and the Vandaleers toured Idaho by Greyhound bus throughout the 50s and 60s. Students stayed with host families in small towns where there were few outlets for live music.

Memories include milking cows in tuxedos, singing at the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise, Amish host families and always a welcome reception.

“We were so well-received,” said Mary Melquist of Longmont, Colo., who was a Vandaleer in the late 1950s. “The quality of music was so wonderful. It was so great when we went out in the community. People were just thrilled to hear young people sing like that.”

“One of the objectives of the Vandaleers was to bring good music to smaller communities,” said Jerry Shively of Idaho Falls, who graduated with a music degree in 1961.

“And bring the University of Idaho, too. We were the ambassadors,” added his wife, Ann. “It was a lot of pride.”

Ann Shively admits she didn’t make the cut the first time she tried out. Entrance is still by audition. Well-known Vandaleers include actor Bill Fagerbakke, a 1981 grad who starred in the TV show “Coach” and is the voice of the animated Patrick Starfish in “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and Anne Bollinger of Lewiston, who sang for New York’s Metropolitan Opera in the 1940s.

The present choir consists of 35 to 45 members and, like all ensembles at the University, is not exclusive to music majors. Many past and present members were not, including former Idaho Senator James McClure, who met his wife, Louise, when they were Vandaleers.

Women performed in high heels, explained Louise, a student from 1946 to 1950. “Everybody had aching feet. Jim rubbed my feet. A way to a woman’s heart is through her feet,” she said with a laugh.

“She was a music major and I just loved music,” said Jim, who graduated from the College of Law in 1950. “It just worked out well.”

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“It was a prestigious group to be in,” said Margaret Trefren, a Spanish major from Spokane, Wash., who was with the group in 1955. “I just always heard about the Vandaleers, even though they didn’t tour outside Idaho. I just knew when I went to the UI, I wanted to be in the Vandaleers.”

“I loved my sorority and the music department, but the finest memories and the most fun I had was with the Vandaleers,” said Sunny (Arlene Kinney) Bertheau of Bellingham, Wash. Bertheau, a music major in the late 1950s, recalls Lockery finding her smoking cigarettes at the campus hangout, The Perch. He threatened to drop her from the choir. “He wanted us to be really good people and citizens. We were Vandaleers.”

Moore is working to continue the mark of pride Vandaleers traditionally have worn.

Today’s student Vandaleers begin the year with a weekend retreat to the McCall Field Campus, where they sleep in rustic cabins, eat in a dining hall and rehearse.

“We get to know each other and try to become a family,” said Moore. “That’s of equal importance to what we do. We have to be of one mind when we decide what we’re singing about.”

Debbie Brudie, who was studying office administration when she traveled to South America as a Vandaleer in 1974, is part of the choir’s active alumni group.

“I think the group was important to us and we want it to continue and proliferate and be important to the students now,” she said.

“It gave every one of us a greater and deeper understanding of what the arts are and how they’re really just the icing on the cake,” Louise McClure said of the Vandaleer experience. “No matter what your profession.”

Vandaleers Score a MilestoneLet’s Hear It for the Band

Over the decades, members of the Vandal Marching Band have maintained some unique traditions—such as tuba players dressed in skirts and cigar-smoking drummers in the Homecoming parade.

How some of these traditions began is a mystery, according to Barb Kirchmeier, who was with the band from 1997 to 2004. She and other alumni want to piece together the group’s history at the Marching Band Reunion, to be held during Idaho’s Homecoming weekend, Oct. 6-7.

This is the third year alumni are invited to join current band members for Homecoming festivities. Last year’s event drew about 35 alumni.

Alumni who choose to perform with the band will participate in Friday’s Serpentine and Saturday’s Homecoming parade. At the game, they’ll join the band in the stands and on the field during halftime. Other activities are planned for those who do not wish to perform.

“One of the goals I have with the alumni band is to write the history of Idaho’s marching band,” Kirchmeier said. “I would encourage people who don’t necessarily want to participate on the field with the band to come back and talk to each other and help us build this history.”

Information on the reunion is available online at www.uidaho.edu/marchingband or by e-mailing alumniband@idahovandals.com.

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A New Vandal GovernorJames Risch ’65, ’68 took the oath of office as Idaho’s 31st governor on June 2. Risch, who served three years as lieutenant governor, will serve out the term of former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne ’75 who became U.S. Secretary of the Interior in May. Risch also was a state senator for 22 years and held the position of majority leader for 12 years. Gov. Risch earned a University of Idaho bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1965 and a law degree in 1968. Idaho alumni serving on the governor’s staff include Chief of Staff John Sandy ’70, Deputy Chief of Staff Barbara Strickfaden ’63, Deputy Chief of Staff Ryan White ’01 and Executive Assistant Bibiana Nertney ’82.

Nation’s Capital Chapter Shines Silver and GoldMore than 50 alumni and guests attended a University of Idaho Alumni Silver and Gold Celebration in Washington, D.C., in April. The Alumni Association thanks event co-hosts Tom Hill ’73 and Greg Casey ’77 both members of the University of Idaho Foundation, and Kay Bacharach ’69 alumni board member for coordinating the evening. Pictured above: Greg Casey, President Tim White and Tom Hill.

ALUMNITo be profiled, mail information, including graduation year, to Annis Shea, Alumni Office, PO Box 443232, Moscow, ID 83844-3232 or e-mail information to alumni@uidaho.edu. Photos can be e-mailed in a jpg format.

CLASS NOTES

30sArtist Marie H. Whitesel ’38 was honored by the Prichard Art Gallery in Moscow with an exhibit of her work, “Marie H. Whitesel: Retropective.”

50sJim Duncan ’57 received the “Spotlite Award” in March 2005 for his television program “Senior Showcase.” Duncan started the program in 1997 and it has been airing regularly in the Portland, Ore., metro area since that time. He is executive producer.

Tom Reveley ’59, a Merrill Lynch financial adviser from Seattle, Wash., was recognized in Washington CEO magazine as one of the

“Top 25 Wealth Managers in Washington.” He was selected for this honor based on his high ethical standards and integrity, client satisfaction and community involvement, and assets under management.

60sWilliam A. Fletcher ’62 retired as managing director of the British Columbia Forensic Commission. He previously was executive director of Mental Health Services for British Columbia and chairman of the Mental Health Society, the governance body for psychiatric hospitals.

Dean Lundblad ’62 was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Richard L. Maki ’65 retired from the Boeing Company in June 2006 and is living in the Seattle area. He spent 25 years as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with two tours in Southeast Asia during combat time. Maki garnered three Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Silver Star along with 16 Air Medals. He joined the Boeing Company in 1990 as a manager and led the development of F-22 Raptor “Schoolhouse” academics

and levied specific training requirements for all the F-22 Raptor training devices.

70sRichard N. Hauver ’72 retired in May 2006 from the USDA Forest Service after 37 years on the Tongass National Forest in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Rajindar Singh ’72 published a book titled “Hybrid Membrane Systems for Water Purification.”

Gerry D. Galinato ’75 was honored with the 2006 Gintong Butil (Golden Grain) Award for Professional Achievement by the Central Luzon State University Alumni Association. The award is the highest recognition bestowed on alumni who have excelled and created significant impact in their chosen fields. In addition, he received the 2006 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Achiever Award presented by the CLSU College of Engineering. Galinato is a principal energy specialist for the Idaho Department of Water Resources, Energy Division, in Boise.

Russ McCollister ’76 is leaving as leader of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. operations in Green Bay, Wis., to head up the company’s Savannah River mill in Georgia.

Byron Defenbach ’77 is Market Products and Services manager for Intermountain Gas Company in Boise. He also is a member of the Friends of Idaho Public Television, KAID/KIPT, Inc. Advisory Board.

Jim McClaren ’79 of McClaren, Wilson and Lawrie notes that the company is starting its second decade of architectural practice. They now have offices in Arizona and Virginia, and have completed the design of more than 265 police facilities and forensic science crime labs in 38 states and two Canadian provinces.

Marty Trillhaase ’79 opinion editor at the Post Register daily newspaper in Idaho Falls has won one of journalism’s highest awards in the United States.

The Post Register received the Edward Willis Scripps Award, which honors the best in print journalism.

80sCandis Claiborn ’80 has been named dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University.

Diane Rowen-Garmire ’80 has been asked to teach as a visual arts workshop clinician during summer 2006 at the Tennessee Arts

Academy at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. The academy is the premiere summer teacher training institute for arts educators in the United States. She teaches in the Spokane, Wash., public school district.

Sean Richarz ’80, ’85 received a grant from the Fulcrum Foundation to research and write a musical based upon the period of Napoleonic history known as the “100 Days,” and then share the process with the history, French and performing arts students at Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle, Wash.

Mark A Vance ’80 has been selected to the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. He serves as deputy director, Deep Blue, N3, Office of the Chief Naval Operations in Washington, D.C.

Caryn Beck-Dudley ’83 has been named dean of the College of Business at Florida State University. She is the college’s first woman dean.

Jerry Eikum ’83 joins Potlatch No.1 Federal Credit Union as a financial adviser.

Brian Kellerman ’83, former Idaho basketball player, was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ken Hobart ’84, former Idaho football player, was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Brian K. Buckles ’87, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, completed a National Security Affairs Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his year at Stanford, he conducted research on Chinese national defense policy and the international relations of East Asia. He now serves as the director of the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Paul J. Grier ’88 is a tenured associate professor of biology at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. He and wife, Karla Feist, have two children, five-year-old Jonah and Angela, age three.

Mark Bechtel ’89 has joined the practice of Radiology Consultants in Moscow as one of three physicians serving Gritman Medical Center’s radiology department. Bechtel specializes in orthopedic imaging.

Hal T. Nelson ’89 has received a doctorate in public administration and policy with a focus on energy policy from Portland State University. He is a visiting professor in the Politics and Economics Department at Claremont Graduate University for the 2006-07 academic year.

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Susan Bruns Rowe ’89 has joined Oliver Russell, a Boise-based brand marketing agency, as a public relations manager.

George Pfeifer ’89 has been named men’s basketball coach at the University of Idaho. Pfeifer was an assistant coach during the 2005-06 season and the former coach at NAIA Division I Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston.

90sJulie Rediker ’90 has received a master’s degree in geographic information systems (GIS) from City University

in London, England. She is employed by Veritas DGC, a worldwide geophysical data provider headquartered in Houston, Texas, as a GIS geophysical technician in the Marine Surveys Division.

Robert D. Barclay ’92 has been appointed to the Board of Governors of Shiners Hospital for Children in Portland, Ore.

Michael C. Lewis ’92 covered his third Olympics for the Salt Lake City Tribune, where he has been a sportswriter since 1993. He reports on major sporting events, such as the Utah Jazz and the NBA finals and NCAA tournaments in a variety of sports. He would like to announce that he is finally getting married for the first time to fiancé Janna Jensen.

Erik Moeller ’93 has been hired as a mortgage loan consultant at American Home Mortgage.

Mike Hollis ’94, former Vandal football player, was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Douglas W. Miller ’94, Army Reserve sergeant first class, has been decorated with the Afghanistan Campaign Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal for participating in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Miller is a force protection superintendent with 18 years of military service.

Clint Stein ’94 has joined Columbia Banking System, the parent company of Tacoma, Wash.-based Columbia Bank and the Bank of Astoria (Oregon), where he will assume the position

of senior vice president and chief accounting officer/controller. He will provide oversight to Columbia’s Accounting Department as well as to the Bank of Astoria’s controller.

Scott J. Jones ’95 has been promoted to vice president of operations and will oversee development of Waterset, a 2,300-

acre, master-planned community in Tampa, Fla., by national developer Newland Communities.

Kurt Pipal ’96 graduated from the FBI Academy in January 2006 and is now assigned to the Sacramento office as a special agent.

John Evans III ’97 was featured in Accomplished Under 40 magazine in March 2006. He serves as the executive vice president for D.L. Evans Bank where he has supervised the expansion of the bank to five branches and the creation of a real estate mortgage lending office.

Eric T. Johnson ’97 has joined Advanced Input Systems as a mechanical engineer. He previously worked at Stryker Endoscopy in California.

Angella Eckert ’98 has been named senior manager in the Boise office of KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and advisory firm.

Matt Gillis ’98 has been hired as an engineering project manager at Welch Comer & Associates. He previously worked for the Idaho Department of Transportation.

Jamee Watson Rowley ’99 was featured in North Idaho Business Journal in March 2006 for her success as sales director for Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises where she has worked since 2002.

Dennis P. Wilkinson ’99 has joined the law firm of White Peterson as an associate. He will focus his practice on civil litigation, personal injury and matters related to business and commercial law.

00sChristiane Waters ’00 has opened Waters Financial

Planning LLC, an hourly fee-only financial planning firm in Eagle.

Jennifer Warnick ’01 was named Perteet’s new technical writer and editor for transportation planning and engineering documents. Perteet Inc. is a 95-person, comprehensive engineering and planning firm with offices in Everett, Lakewood and Snoqualmie, Wash. For the past three years, Warnick was an award-winning reporter for The Daily Herald in Everett, and last year, the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her first place for feature writing.

Joseph T. Horras ’99, ’04 has joined the firm of Filicetti Law Offices in Boise.

Danielle R. Baker Horras ’02, ’04 is the director of Student Services at Stevens Henager College, a small, private college in Boise. She was promoted to associate director of training in October 2005.

Nate Emery ’02 was selected by the U.S. Marine Corps to attend the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., to pursue a

master’s degree in management. He will then be assigned to the Manpower and Reserve Affairs Division of Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps in Quantico, Va.

Whitney Jenkins ’02 is senior art director at JWT in Detroit, Mich., and works on projects for Ford Motor Co. JWT is the largest advertising agency in the U.S., and the fourth largest in the world.

Chad Harbig ’03 has joined CSHQA, a Boise-based architecture/engineering firm.

Diana Warrington ’03 was promoted to program coordinator for Eastern Washington University’s Alumni Relations.

Jillian Browning Tueller ’04 conducts marketing consulting for a small skin care company in southern Idaho.

Timothy Norman ’04 has joined Global Credit Union as a systems analyst.

Stephen Tueller ’04 completed a master’s degree in research and evaluation methodology at Utah State University this summer, and will start a doctoral program in quantitative psychology at Notre Dame University this fall.

Ben Johnston ’05 has joined Magnuson, McHugh & Company as a staff accountant.

Jared McFarland ’05 has joined Century 21 Beutler & Associates of Coeur d’Alene as an agent.

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Alumni Hall of FameBY LESLIE EINHAUS

Carl Berry’s business destinations are seen on postcards, in coffee table books and travel magazines—La Jolla, Calif.; Stowe, Vt.; Sun River, Ore.; and Vail, Colo. These places

are all about getting away from it all—something that Berry ’62 and his clients value and enjoy.

Berry, a resident of Marin County, Calif., is a leader in the vacation ownership industry. He is CEO of the Star Resort Group and was the mastermind behind World’s Finest Resorts, which has become a global leader in luxury vacation property trading and travel benefit services.

A fellow business associate noted: “His contributions to the resort industry are immeasurable. His name will forever be recorded in the industry’s annals as a leader and honored servant.”

At the start of his career, Berry helped develop the concept of vacation timeshares. He narrowed his focus even further to bring about the concept of urban timeshares. His projects include the Manhattan Club of New York City and three projects in San Francisco, Calif. Berry now is immersed in what he calls “fractional development” that allows travelers a chance to stay longer—weeks-at-a-time—at high-end luxury spots.

Berry has just as much vision and passion for the University of Idaho as he does for his career projects. At the University, he is well-known for his dedication, innovation and loyalty.

During spring semester 2006, for example, Berry traveled to the Moscow campus to celebrate the unveiling of the newly renovated Sigma Nu house. At a Saturday afternoon ceremony, Berry was joined by nearly 200 well-wishers, including fellow fraternity brothers Steve Symms ’60 and James McClure ’50, to witness the redesigned sleeping porches, new kitchen and wireless Internet capabilities now available. It is his volunteerism and financial

Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Carl Berry is an innovator in the timeshare industry.

ALUMNICLASS NOTES

20sCleo V. Brown ’27, Eugene, Ore., Sept. 17, 2004

Mary E. Angell DuSault ’25, Moscow, Feb. 23, 2006

Esther Shamberger Foulk ’29, Boise, March 12, 2006

Rose Preuss Sowder ’27, Manchester, Wash., March 18, 2006

30sBetty Bandelin Black ’36, La Jolla, Calif., April 30, 2006

Marjorie A. Jones Blood ’32, Coeur d’Alene, Feb. 21, 2006

Neva G. Homan Bohman ’39, Moscow, Feb. 21, 2006

Jayne Jones Brown ’35, McCall, April 19, 2006

William R. Craner ’39, Preston, April 8, 2006

Glendon V. Davis ’38, Sonoma, Calif., March 24, 2006

Annette Wein Eaton ’37, Wendell, March 13, 2006

Zona Gesas ’34, Lompoc, Calif., Jan. 8, 2006

Pearl Walters Gillespie ’32, Boise, April 3, 2006

IN MEMORY

Juanita J. Bennett Rust ’35, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 11, 2005

Don E. Springer ’39, Genesee, Jan. 19, 2006

Bruce W. Stoddard ’39, Boise, June 15, 2004

Harold A. Taylor ’38, Boise, March 9, 2006

Margaret King Trout ’30, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 19, 2006

Josephine C. Mitchel Vann ’36, Portland, Ore., March 13, 2006

Julia Conway Welch ’34, Eagle Point, March 1, 2006

Ronald B. Wilson ’34, Portland, Ore., Feb. 16, 2006

FUTURE VANDALS

Dashiell Degory Baker, son of Loren Baker and Michael Van Buskirk ’93

Morgan Joshua, son of Joshua and Janelle Baillie ’01, ’03 Baker

Isabelle and Sophia, daughters of Jason ’00 and Jennifer Bennett

Nina, daughter of Christopher ’98 and Dionne Doering

Lloyd Robert, son of Lloyd ’96 and Brenda Hinnenkamp ’96 Knight

Carson Todd, son of Kelly ’97 and Courtney Peters ’98 Kolb

Cooper and Kellar, son and daughter of Henri ’96 and Cinda Lester ’96 LamBeau

Zachary, Logan and Joshua, sons of Shawn ’95 and Jill Egland ’98 Mann

Kade John, son of John and Laci Osburn ’01 McRae

Evelynn Joy, daughter of Scott ’98 and Lisa Jenkins ’97 Mizee

Jenna, daughter of Kevin ’00 and Andrea Jenkins ’99 Rigg

Lillee Ann, daughter of Olaf and Cindra Lee ’98 Solvie

Madison Elizabeth Marie, daughter of Rich ’02 and Christin Beebe

Maila, daughter of Matt and Kelli ’03 Jensen

Mckenna Sarphina, daughter of Mike and Mauri Brooks ’02 Knott

Sophia Ater, daughter of Yanko ’04 and Ashley Ater ’96 Kranov

Corbin Joseph, son of David ’98 and Kristine Sears ’04 Prestwich

Jackson D., son of Brant ’03 and Lyndie Schroeder

Gretchen William, daughter of William and Shannen Fleener ’05 Stokes

Zachary and Chayce, son and daughter of Stephen ’04 and Jillian Browning ’04 Tueller

Kellan Joel, son of Jake ’95 and Susan Baily ’91, ’00 Weaver

Araya Mylynn, daughter of Randy ’02 and Marci ’00 Wood

Danielle R. Baker ’02, ’04 to Joseph T. Horras ’99, ’04

Shawna M. Casebolt to Joshua P. Wright ’04

Barbara Cooper ’00, ’03, ’05 to Benjamin Kirchmeier ’02, ’04

Bethany A. Eckroth ’03 to James A. Lennox

Amy Feldhusen ’05 to Daniel Watt ’02

Aubree Holt ’99 to Kenneth Wright

Claire Kincaid ’06 to Shane Slate

Deborah Marshall ’03 to Jesse Davis ’03

Stacy McFall ’98 to Jeff Sitton

Tiffany L. Moran to Eric D. Wendt ’97

Jennifer Patoray to Beau Woodford ’05

MARRIAGES backing that helped make the renovation a reality.Berry also has been involved in larger-scale projects for his alma

mater. He served as co-chairperson of the National Campaign Council of the Campaign for Idaho, which raised more than $128 million. He is a past president of the University’s Foundation and remains active as a Foundation volunteer. He has served there in some capacity since the mid 1970s. He also is a past president of the Alumni Association.

The University Alumni Association honored Berry at spring Commencement 2006 with its prestigious Hall of Fame Award. Berry’s first thought: Why me? “It wasn’t something that I thought

I could be honored with,” he said. “I am sincerely humbled by it.”

For current University of Idaho students to achieve their own fame and success, Berry has some words of advice: trust your instincts and rely on the knowledge you’ve gathered so far. “It is important to gain some perspective,” he said. “You have to look back on the lessons you have learned.”

Berry travels to the University of Idaho at least once a year. He constantly is in awe of the campus transformations, especially the impact of the Idaho Commons. “It is so welcoming,” he said. “It exceeds my expectations.”

He is impressed by the building’s lighting and panoramic views from the fourth-floor meeting rooms. Berry said even the rotunda has a special purpose. “I’ve seen graduates snap photographs in the rotunda with the State of Idaho seal in the background.”

For Berry, Idaho always is in the foreground. For example, he revels in the political bent of Idaho and the connections he’s made at the University of Idaho are

still very much part of his life. In fact, a former Idaho classmate and fellow Sigma Nu fraternity brother introduced him to his No. 1 vacation spot. It’s yet another home-away-from-home in the Northwest: the Flathead Valley of Montana. Berry and his wife, Linden, enjoy hiking the trails nearby in Glacier National Park with their ambitious Yorkie pup. “I fly out of San Francisco to Kalispell whenever I get the chance,” he said.

Stephanie Pelton ’01 to Michael Zerba ’02

Marissa L. Peterson ’04 to Nicholas G. Cayor ’06

Christine Robbins ’04 to Richard Knight ’03

Storie Santschi ’00 to Jon Belden ’01

Mary E. Schlichting to Todd A. Mordhorst ’99

Kyra Tiersma to Joshua Hightree ’06

Amelia Ware ’84 to Richard K. Seelnacht

Britt Warren ’00 to Chris Towery ’00

Lisa Winter ’02 to Benjamin Davis ’01, ’03

Richie Lynn Zesiger ’06 to Jason E. Kuipers ’06

David L. Hicks ’38, ’54, ’74, Boise, March 4, 2006

James C. Hicks ’39, Newark, Calif., Oct. 4, 2005

Kathryn Graham Holmes ’37, Moscow, March 19, 2006

Charlotte Togstad Hurst ’31, Nampa, Feb. 17, 2006

Elva Smith Jensen ’37, Twin Falls, Feb. 22, 2006

Carl F. Jockheck ’32, Troy, N.Y., Dec. 27, 2005

Frank J. Kapel ’38, Spokane, Wash., April 28, 2006

Robert Kirkpatrick ’38, Salem, Ore., Feb. 18, 2006

Elaine Hersey Laird ’35, Dubois, April 6, 2006

James N. Marshall ’33, Lewiston, April 22, 2006

James Munson Moore ’39, Milwaukie, Ore., March 11, 2006

Lorraine Stewart Morris ’34, Oakland, Calif., April 10, 2006

Floyd L. Norgaard ’34, Stanwood, Wash., April 21, 2006

Glenn Owen ’36, Moscow, March 9, 2006

40sEvelyn Lois Frank Bell ’44, Richland, Wash., April 15, 2006

George B. Bennett ’40, Boise, Feb. 12, 2006

Wynne M. Blake ’48, Clarkston, Wash., March 27, 2006

Joseph F. Brashear ’40, Clark Fork, April 19, 2006

Ray F. Brookhart, Jr. ’47, ’49, Carlsbad, Calif., Jan. 31, 2006

Harold D. Brown ’41, Peoria, Ill., March 27, 2006

Elizabeth Rich Chester Des Aulniers ’44, ’78, Boise, July 25, 2005

Beverly Silverthorn Douglass ’49, Cheney, Wash., Feb. 2, 2006

Guilbert DuMont ’41, Sacramento, Calif., March 24, 2006

Delmer F. Engelking ’41, ’74, Boise, March 4, 2006

Geneva L. Kraemer Epperson ’47, Stockton, Calif., March 29, 2006

Margaret Marcus Gale ’40, Portland, Ore., April 5, 2006

William R. Gould ’41, Long Beach, Calif., March 11, 2006

Dorothy T. Hunter Grannis ’43, Tucson, Ariz., April 30, 2006

Bill J. Hawkins ’46, Twin Falls, March 2, 2006

Nancy Knowles Higgins ’49, Brunswick, Maine, April 21, 2006

Herman M. Johnson ’49, ’51, Tucson, Ariz., March 14, 2006

Norman S. Johnson ’49, San Jose, Calif., March 29, 2006

Bertha McGrath Johnson-Lough ’41, Orofino, April 21, 2006

Jack E. Jones ’49, ’50, Boise, Feb. 19, 2006

James R. Kircher ’43, Burley, Feb. 22, 2006

Sam McKinney ’43, Lemhi, Nov. 20, 2005

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Hello, Friends of Idaho!It is time for a new look. This issue of Idaho Outlook offers

a fresh, redesign of the newsletter. We hope you like our new format, colors and style, and will find it not only more

eye-appealing, but more readable as well.The 2006-07 school year is upon us and with it all the

excitement and optimism of a fresh start. Our first football game will be September 2 and in keeping with an athletic theme, this issue of Idaho Outlook focuses on our student-athletes, as well as folks who have made—and are making —a difference with their scholarship gifts.

We hope you’ll find the stories of just a few of Idaho’s truly outstanding student-athletes, and the donors who helped make their dreams come true, inspiring and uplifting.

As you read through the next few pages, let us know how we can help you help a student reach his or her highest potential. You’ll find our contact information on page 8 of this insert.

Go Vandals!

Ed McBride Director of Gift Planning

Heidi Linehan Associate Director of Gift Planning

Student-athletes on their way to class.

Idaho OutlookUNIVER SIT Y OF IDAHO | FINANCI AL AND ESTATE PL ANNING NEWS | FALL 2006

Robert M. Nelson ’43, Boise, Jan. 29, 2006

Torger L. Oaas ’42, Butte, Mont., March 12, 2006

Gene F. Payne ’41, ’43, Bozeman, Mont., Feb. 23, 2006

Helen J. Church Pohlig ’46, Richmond, Va., March 22, 2006

Arthur C. Racine ’42, Boise, April 3, 2006

Jack F. Ramsey ’41, Boise, March 1, 2006

Glenn E. Rathbun ’41, Boise, Feb. 17, 2006

Warren Y. Rawlins ’49, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1, 2006

Arthur S. Riddle ’48, Reseda, Calif., Feb. 25, 2004

Girard M. Riddle ’47, Boise, May 25, 2004

Mack Saunders ’41, Salem, Ore., Feb. 4, 2006

William E. Schaill ’41, Fort Meade, Fla., May 3, 2006

Robert H. Seale ’42, Moscow, Sept. 27, 2005

Donald J. Singer ’48, Ione, Calif., Feb. 10, 2006

Lucile Halversen Sperry ’44, ’46, Bountiful, Utah, Jan. 28, 2006

Buhl W. Sutton ’42, Midvale, March 13, 2006

Bonnie L. Speer Taylor ’44, Milwaukie, Ore., April 7, 2006

Dorothy Holden Taylor ’40, Lake Oswego, Ore., March 26, 2006

Grant Wayne Thomas ’41, Portland, Ore., Feb. 13, 2006

Marion E. Thompson ’43, Fallbrook, Calif., Dec. 28, 2005

Evelyn Cox Yenney ’40, Kooskia, March 17, 2006

Roberta E. Swanson Zimmerman ’42, Stockton, Calif., Nov. 12, 2005

50sStewart G. Ailor ’54, ’55, Spokane Valley, Wash., Feb. 2, 2006

Stanton E. Atkinson ’59, Ketchum, May 8, 2006

Vernon A. Bahr ’51, Franconia, N.H., March 27, 2006

Edward D. Benjamin ’54, Fruitland, March 5, 2006

Constance Teed Brady ’52, West Linn, Ore., March 6, 2006

James L. Brockie ’50, Dallas, Texas, March 24, 2006

Don L. Bunge ’50, Coeur d’Alene, April 9, 2006

William F. Ekern ’55, Fairfield, Calif., Jan. 2, 2006

David T. Ellis ’56, Spokane, Wash., April 17, 2006

William S. Emerson ’52, Coeur d’Alene, April 2, 2006

Robert B. English ’50, Lake Oswego, Ore., March 1, 2006

William R. Fahringer ’57, Boise, March 16, 2006

James L. Gneckow ’59, Alamo, Texas, March 31, 2006

William T. Good ’51, Whidbey, Wash., March 12, 2006

Constantin S. Innes ’57, Simi Valley, Calif., Nov. 2, 2005

Ann C. Foley Kennedy ’58, Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 24, 2006

Robert C. Kline ’53, Auburn, Wash., April 26, 2006

Walter L. Koepl ’57, Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 14, 2006

Quentin W. Larson ’50, Coeur d’Alene, July 9, 2005

Harry M. Little ’55, Boise, March 2, 2006

Chauncey Martin ’52, Boise, Feb. 10, 2006

James E. Morgan, Jr. ’50, Grand Junction, Colo., March 22, 2006

Claude W. Morrow ’50, ’60, McMinnville, Ore., March 16, 2006

James W. Nelson ’52, Sandpoint, May 7, 2006

Clarence D. Parrish ’54, Stockton, Calif., Feb. 1, 2006

Wallace R. Pohlod ’51, Richland, Wash., March 21, 2006

Clyde Porter ’51, Calabasas, Calif., April 18, 2006

Don L. Royster ’59, Burley, Dec. 24, 2005

Ruth E. Johannesen Shane ’55, Moscow, Feb. 8, 2006

John W. Shrum ’56, Glenns Ferry, April 21, 2006

Peter G. Snow ’54, ’59, Burley, March 11, 2006

Artys M. Stauff ’51, Sacramento, Calif., March 7, 2006

Gale V. Taylor ’51, Portland, Ore., March 10, 2006

Sandra L. Compton Teilmann ’59, Boise, Feb. 18, 2006

Richard Wartena ’52, Atascadero, Calif., March 20, 2006

60sLawrence H. Bardsley ’62, North Fork, Dec. 7, 2006

Patricia Carlson Bennett ’62, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 4, 2005

Stephen W. Boller ’63, Caldwell, Aug. 10, 2005

Khristeen Allen Dietz-Knowlton ’62, ’67, Buhl, May 8, 2006

David B. Donaldson ’66, ’86, Portland, Ore., April 14, 2006

Charles H. Edwards ’66, McKinleyville, Calif., April 11, 2006

Harvey L. Hanson ’61, Renton, Wash., Dec. 18, 2005

Anna Jane Heron Kissinger ’71, Grangeville, March 19, 2006

James R. Lucas ’60, Moscow, Feb. 2, 2006

Simon S. Martin ’68, ’71, Idaho Falls, Jan. 10, 2006

William Townsend Martin Jr. ’65, Boise, Dec. 16, 2005

Stanley D. Myklebust ’62, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 9, 2006

Dorothy Ralstin Nelson ’61, Hermiston, Ore., Feb. 17, 2006

Wayne R. Nugent ’64, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 31, 2006

Norman E. Pace ’67, Idaho Falls, April 26, 2006

Allen R. Parkins ’67, Butte, Mont., Feb. 21, 2006

Leile Estes Poppleton ’68, Twin Falls, April 17, 2006

Miles M. Rice ’69, Boise, May 7, 2006

James J. Rosenthal ’64, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., March 2, 2006

Gordon M. Stobie ’60, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, Feb. 2, 2006

Harry R. Stunz ’61, Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 25, 2006

Sharon Kay Herrett Tanaka ’67, Dry Prong, La., Feb. 16, 2006

70sJames A. Bussiere ’73, Westchester, Calif., March 28, 2006

Elizabeth J. Eisele ’72, Caldwell, April 7, 2006

Jacob Graeber ’74, Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., Feb. 7, 2006

Terry D. Lester ’74, Boise, Nov. 5, 2005

Robert J. Lyman ’76, Dayton, Wash., Oct. 13, 2005

David G. McGrath ’74, Boise, March 21, 2006

Elizabeth L. Arneson Nelson ’75, Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 27, 2006

Raymond F. Orr ’70, Buhl, Mont., Feb. 13, 2006

K. Darcy Sorenson Read ’71, Kent, Wash., May 3, 2006

Dorothy Viets Schell ’73, Moscow, March 19, 2006

Stephen S. Spacek ’76, Spokane, Wash., March 26, 2006

80sJack B. Britton ’80, Boise, Feb. 25, 2006

Barbara J. Warner Butler ’81, Nampa, May 1, 2006

Rebecca K. Asker Durham ’87, Lewiston, April 22, 2006

William H. Heidel ’87, Boise, May 4, 2006

Johnna Morgan Schmidt ’84, Coeur d’Alene, Oct. 18, 2005

Delmar M. Skaret ’85, Franklin, Tenn., Jan. 1, 2006

Skip Staffel ’87, Idaho Falls, Feb. 13, 2006

Robert W. Townsend Jr. ’80, Spokane, Wash., April 10, 2006

Cathy Jean Case Vlastos ’88, Casper, Wyo., March 31, 2006

90sRobert Brennan Jr. ’94, Coeur d’Alene, Jan. 5, 2006

Libby Rae-Hamilton Forsberg ’93, Millbrae, Calif., Jan. 14, 2006

Tanya D. Hayden-Hogge ’99, Elizabethtown, Ky., Feb. 17, 2006

Thomasina J. Kagi ’93, ’95, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 13, 2006

Bryan D. Steinberg ’98, Rock Creek, Mont., May 7, 2006

Thomas A. Turner VIII ’93, Duvall, Wash., March 31, 2006

00sDonald J. Ewy ’00, Eugene, Ore., Nov. 3, 2005

Gilbert Matare ’00, Gainsville, Fla., Nov. 12, 2005

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One of the most-recognized names on the University of Idaho campus over the last three decades is Kathy Clark. She served the Athletics Department from 1974 to 1999 in a variety of roles, including volleyball coach, senior associate athletics director and interim director of athletics. Kathy was a strong advocate for women’s athletics, academic success and student-athlete citizenship. Her family and friends created the Kathy D. Clark Scholarship for Women’s Athletics, for a member in good standing of a women’s athletics team.

Haley Larsen, a sophomore volleyball player from Canyon Country, Calif., and a marketing major with a 3.73 GPA is the current recipient of the scholarship. Last fall, Haley was a major force on the Vandal volleyball team as a true freshman. She led the team in kills and was chosen to the All-WAC second team and to the All-Freshmen WAC team. She also was named 2005 WAC Academic All-Conference for fall sports.

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Bill Belknap says his greatest career achievements were hiring Don Monson in 1978 to take over

Idaho’s basketball program and Dennis Erickson in 1981 as head football coach. As athletics director for almost 10 years in the tumultuous ’80s, Bill oversaw some great years in Idaho sports. Bill and his wife, Donna ’87, raised their two children, Bill and Kim, in Moscow, and both graduated from Moscow High School and attended the University of Idaho.

Following his successful stint as athletics director, Bill served for several years as director of development and executive director of the University of Idaho Foundation during the University’s

Adviser for Men’s Basketball Officiating. It’s a new position, and while not full-time, it no doubt will be pretty intense during round-ball season.

Bill and Donna epitomize the sense of commitment and support that is so prevalent with many of Idaho’s alumni and friends. Contact us (see page 8) if you would like to learn more about how you, too, can participate as the Belknaps have.

Being a member in good standing of the men’s intercollegiate track team is the primary criterion for the Bruce Sweeney Athletic Scholarship created by Bruce ’54 and his wife, Marilyn ’54. Bruce was a member of the track and field team and set records in the low and high hurdles and as highest team scorer. Bruce has been active in Idaho politics, and both he and Marilyn have served in a variety of community and civic roles.

The current student-athlete recipient of the Sweeney scholarship is Matthew Wauters, a junior from Bainbridge Island, Wash., who is a general studies major with a GPA of 3.02.

Matt set a school record in the hammer throw and was named WAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week for May 4, 2006. He contributed a second-place finish in the shot put and a third place finish in the hammer at the WAC Outdoor Championships to help the Vandal men’s team secure a strong third place showing.

Centennial Campaign.Bill was then commissioner of the

Southland Athletic Conference for three years, followed by several years at Wichita State University as athletics director. He retired in 1999, and the Belknaps hit the road as fulltime RVers. They spent two years traveling the United States in their pickup and fifth wheel trailer.

When ready to settle down again, Moscow drew them back. With grandkids in Moscow and north in Priest River, it was a natural choice. But besides that, Bill said, “Moscow is just a great town. With the University atmosphere and the small-town flavor, it’s a wonderful place to live.”

In addition to their ongoing support, the Belknaps have included the University in their estate plan, in essence making Idaho a part of their family. Both agree that, “If you’re going to ask others to support the place, you’d better be ready to do so yourself.”

Their gifts go primarily to The Bill Belknap Athletic Scholarship Endowment, a fund initiated by longtime Vandal supporter Duane Rimel when Bill stepped down as athletics director. Their estate gift will supplement this fund.

Bill says one of his most memorable moments as A.D. was the phone call he got in 1980 from legendary Idaho State coach and athletics director I. J. “Babe” Caccia. Babe told Bill that ISU’s planes were grounded and they wouldn’t be coming to Moscow to play. Since they were making the trip on game day, there was little time to alert the media. Bill and his staff rushed around the Dome for hours advising would-be fans of the game’s cancellation.

Donna, a teacher with her master’s degree from Idaho, taught school in the various places they lived, and even now substitutes in the Moscow School District. Bill hasn’t taken a break either, recently taking on a new challenge as NCAA Regional

Matthew Wauters

A Long Journey Back

Volleyball player Haley Larsen is the recipient of the Kathy D. Clark Scholarship for Women’s Athletics.

Bill and Donna Belknap

Bruce Sweeney Athletic Scholarship recipient Matt Wauters is a general studies major with a 3.02 GPA.

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be able to do that,” Skip said with a chuckle.Skip did play one year of intercollegiate

tennis while at Idaho. It was in the days of no scholarships and he worked his way to his college degree. After earning a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley, he returned home to Idaho where he established Treasure Valley Laboratory with a group of doctors.

The idea of using scholarships to build a bridge between athletics and the University’s colleges was born at a Vandal Scholarship Fund board meeting. As a member of the board, Bee, who is an Oregon State education graduate, was visiting with a fellow board member about ways to involve younger alums. She found the opportunity to give back to their college was an avenue to reach them.

“We hope if we get something like this started,” Bee said, “then others will do the same. We hope it encourages those who don’t give to athletics but want to give back to the University.”

Judy Parrish, dean of the College of Science, and Rob Spear, director of Athletics, both applaud the Pierces’ ingenuity and generosity.

“Athletics is an important part of the University, and the College of Science is delighted to partner with them through The Skip and Bee Pierce Athletes in Science Scholarship,” Parrish said. “Student-athletes are students first, and this scholarship will help ensure that those science and mathematics students who also are athletes will get the support they need to successfully accomplish their goals at the University of Idaho.”

“Skip and Bee always have been true friends to athletics and to the University,” Spear said. “This is a tremendous way to encourage and develop bridge-building across campus. It’s a win-win.”

For the Pierces, fostering an all-for-one, one-for-all philosophy is one step toward building a stronger Idaho.

“By involving the colleges, their administrators and their faculty,” Skip said, “we hope to bring them closer to athletic events and to bring athletes closer to their respective colleges.”

Lawrence Lineberger ’38 has lived virtually all his life in Idaho. In fact, until he moved into assisted living in

2005, he lived on the family farm his parents bought near Homedale in 1917. Lawrence graduated with a Commerce degree from the College of Business and Economics.

Lawrence said, “Times were really hard. There weren’t jobs for all that had graduated. I worked with my dad until he died.”

Once he stepped foot on campus, Lawrence was a Vandal. As he put it, “I never missed a game if I could help it,” He has followed Idaho Athletics ever since. Still, at the age of 90, he keeps up with the victories and defeats of its many teams. His favorite is Vandal football and he has high hopes with the return of Dennis Erickson.

Through his estate, Lawrence is providing scholarships for student-athletes. Though he had family support for his college costs, he knows the rigors of being a student-athlete; it takes a huge commitment, leaving little or no time to work. Lawrence is confident that his contribution will help the University of Idaho remain viable and competitive in all its intercollegiate sports programs.

Following his marriage to his first wife, Menna, Lawrence lived alone for many years until he married Bea in 1985. Lawrence and Bea traveled extensively, both domestically and abroad. Bea suffered a debilitating stroke that put her in a nursing home in 2000.

Idaho Spirit Cultivated

The C. E. “Chet” and Marabel Rodell Athletic Scholarship was established by the Rodells in 1993. The student-athlete recipient for this year is Efrat Leopold, a native of Ra’anana, Israel, and a junior majoring in biology with a GPA of 3.56.

Efrat is on the women’s tennis team and she played the #3 spot in singles as a sophomore after sitting out her freshman year due to surgery. She earned a place on the 2006 WAC Academic All-Conference roster for spring sports.

“This award means a lot for me,” said Efrat. “It gives me motivation to keep up my academic and athletic performance. I also want to thank the donors of these awards that help me further my education.”

Efrat Leopold

Match Point for Athletics and Science Serving Up Success

Pierce is a name that can be found on the rosters of just about every volunteer board associated with the

University of Idaho. Whether it be athletics, the Foundation, the College of Science, the Idaho Commons, or even his fraternity, Skip ’53 and Bee Pierce have established a strong tie to Skip’s alma mater.

That across-the-board approach to their volunteerism sparked in them a notion to put together a plan to link two of their favorite parts of the Idaho campus—the College of Science and Vandal Athletics. The result: the Skip and Bee Pierce Athletes in Science Scholarship Fund and Endowment.

“Our hope is this will bring alums and friends closer to UI athletes and our athletics programs, which is the major showcase to sell our university and all our great programs to the world,” Skip said. “We need to think big and outside the box.”

This notion clearly is novel as much as it is enticing. The Pierces plan to give $10,000 each year for the next five years. Of that, $5,000 will seed the endowment while the remaining $5,000 will go to a deserving student-athlete who is majoring in science. Ultimately, the objective is to contribute $250,000.

“That’s our goal,” Skip said. “It’s nothing concrete right now but we want the intent there.”

The money goes to the College of Science, which then will work with Idaho athletics staff to select a deserving student-athlete. The primary requirements are, naturally, a major in science in addition to maintaining a 3.2 grade-point average.

“That’s what I did when I was in school. They ought to at least

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Lawrence only missed visiting her three or four times in the three years she was there before her passing.

Lineberger attributes much of his career accomplishments to the great start he got at the University of Idaho. “It was one of the best places in the United States to go to school . . . and still is a great school academically.” He is proud to be able to give back to the University in a way that will continue to help students achieve their own successes in the years to come.

Because his investments remain in his name, Lawrence can access his funds while he is living, but knows that upon his passing whatever remains will come to Idaho and be applied to the scholarships he has established. This is the ideal arrangement for him.

Let us know if you have named the University in your estate plan, or would like to hear more about how to do that.

Joslynn “Jo Jo” Miller, a Portland, Ore., native, is a junior on the swimming team. Her major is marketing and she has a 3.62 GPA. She is this year’s recipient of the Melvin Lang Vandal Booster Scholarship, which was established in 1998.

In her second year on the swim team, Jo Jo won the WAC championship in the 100-meter breaststroke, and set a new University of Idaho record. She also broke the school record in the 400 individual medley. Coach Tom Jager commented after the season, “Jo Jo was our best swimmer. She works the hardest and she earned her success. Jo Jo is the heart of our program.”

She earned 2005-06 WAC Academic All-Conference honors for winter sports.

Said Jo Jo, “As a recipient of the athletic endowed scholarship, I have the privilege of swimming for and representing the University of Idaho. The newly developed Vandal swim team has established the foundation for becoming a dominant force in the WAC. I am honored to be given the opportunity to work with my coaches and teammates as we create new traditions.”

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From almost as early as he can

remember growing up in Wallace, Wray Featherstone’s dream was to fly. His

dream came true: for more than 35 years he criss-crossed the skies of the world, first as an Air Force instructor and then as a pilot for Northwest Airlines.

Following what he says was an excellent education at Idaho—he received a bachelor’s degree in Education in 1962—Wray was commissioned through the ROTC program. Flight School at Laredo Air Force Base in Texas led to a four-year stint as a T-38 instructor. In 1969, he began his long association with Northwest, flying 707s, 727s, DC-10s and, at the time of his retirement, he

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was a captain on the vaunted 747. Wray said he never got tired of flying and sometimes mused, “They actually pay me to do this!”

Wray, known affectionately by his wife and friends as “Feather,” and Barbara Ware ’65, daughter of prominent Lewiston attorney Marcus J. Ware, met on a blind date. Wray’s Phi Delta Theta brothers set him up with Barbara for the fraternity Christmas Dance.

Wray and Barbara—Wray calls her “BWare”—feel a great loyalty to the University of Idaho and to Vandal Athletics. They followed Dennis Erickson’s career since his first stint as Idaho football coach, and they are extremely happy to see his return to the Idaho gridiron. They will be in the stands this fall to once again cheer the Vandals on.

Both of the Featherstone’s children are Idaho graduates, so Wray and Barbara have added reasons to stay in touch with their alma mater. In addition, Barbara remained active with her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, as a province officer. A firm believer in education, Barbara also has a long, active association with P.E.O., a women’s philanthropic educational organization which supports its own two-year women’s college in Nevada, Mo.

As a way of expressing their appreciation for the fine education they and their children received at Idaho, the Featherstones are creating the Wray and Elinor Featherstone

Wray ’62 and Barbara ’65 Featherstone and Dennis Erickson.

High Flying Vandals

The Robert E. (Bob) and R. H. (Dick) Ross Athletic Scholarship has been awarded to men’s basketball senior Desmond Nwoke, from Kano City, Kano, Nigeria. The scholarship can be awarded to a member in good standing of any athletics team with first preference to members of the men’s or women’s basketball teams. Desmond has a GPA of 3.20 and is a communication studies major.

Desmond started in 16 games last season while battling injuries. He received his bachelor’s degree in May and starts graduate school this fall. He earned 2005-06 WAC Academic All-Conference honors for winter sports.

Bob Ross is a 1971 Idaho graduate who played basketball for Coach Wayne Anderson. He and his wife, Marcia, are avid Vandal boosters. Bob’s father, Dick Ross, came to the University in 1947 and worked for the Department of Animal Industries until his retirement in 1979.

“I would like to personally thank you for your contribution to my athletic and academic careers at the University of Idaho,” said Desmond. “I have been given a wonderful opportunity to learn and to grow throughout my time spent here. It’s a great honor to be featured here as a student-athlete. It really means a lot to me, my family and friends. I look forward to representing the Vandals, as well as you, in the upcoming year. Thank you again for your continued support for the program. You have helped me and the young athletes of the University of Idaho build a strong future.”

David Vobora, a junior football scholar, has been awarded the Rimel Family Athletic Scholarship. David, from Junction City, Ore., is majoring in communication studies and has a GPA of 3.38. Last season, the linebacker tied for fifth in total tackles and ranked fifth on the team for tackles for loss. He also had two fumble recoveries. He earned 2005 WAC Academic All-Conference honors for fall sports.

“Being a scholarship recipient is a privilege,” he said. “This University is truly a family that believes in its students being successful both in the classroom and in competition. ‘Honor’ is the only word I can find to describe what it means to represent this University.”

Duane Rimel is a 1968 Idaho graduate and a longtime Vandal Booster and football season ticket holder. He has been actively involved in Vandal Scholarship Fund chapters and is a former VSF National Board member. He and wife, Phyllis, are avid Vandal fans and all of their children graduated from Idaho.

David Vobora, who wears #40 on his football jersey, is a communication studies major with a 3.38 GPA and recipient of the Rimel Family Athletic Scholarship.

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Excellence in Athletics Endowed Scholarship in honor of Wray’s parents. Wray’s father was a 1934 Idaho graduate of the School of Mines with a degree in Mining Engineering. They also are establishing an endowed scholarship in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences in honor of Barbara’s parents, Marcus J. and Helen Ware.

In addition to funding the athletics scholarship now to get it up and running,

Vandal Scholarship FundThe Vandal Scholarship Fund will celebrate its 60th year in 2007. The VSF is overseen by a 40-

member Board of Directors and is led by President Rich Allen this year. The Vandal Scholarship Fund supports more than 300 student-athletes involved in 16 NCAA

Division I sports. The University is required by the NCAA to provide 200 scholarships—that is an annual cost of more than $2.2 million. VSF helps meet that commitment through annual gifts and endowments. Last year, annual gifts to VSF totaled $1.6 million and nearly $1.2 million was pledged or gifted toward endowments. Today, more than 80 endowments with a value of about $7 million generate interest income for scholarships.

The student-athletes at the University of Idaho are students first. • For the second straight year, 13 of the 16 Idaho athletics teams had an average team GPA

above 3.0.• The average overall GPA of a UI student-athlete is 3.04. • For the past three years, 90 percent of the student-athletes who complete their eligibility at

the University of Idaho graduate. Truly, these students are worth investing in because they are making an impact in the

classroom and within each college on campus. The VSF is committed to executing the best practices to fully fund our annual scholarship

costs. Our goal is to add 115 endowed scholarships in the coming years. Please consider joining the Heritage Society by making a planned gift for a future Vandal through a bequest in your will, a designation in your revocable living trust, a charitable gift annuity, life insurance designation, a charitable remainder trust or a gift of stocks, real estate or cash. You can leave a legacy for generations to come by creating an endowed scholarship for a student-athlete.

they plan to make future additions during their lives, as well as via an ultimate estate bequest. Wray wants to give first preference to Wallace High School graduates, especially those with financial need. As he put it, “If it makes a difference for even one student, then it’s worth every penny. Our education at Idaho was a life-changing occurrence, and we want to help give future students the same opportunities.”

ContactsRick Darnell, executive director(208) 885-0258rdarnell@uidaho.edu

Shelly Femreite, development coordinator for northern Idaho (208) 292-2548shellyf@uidaho.edu

Mahmood Sheikh, assistant athletics director for regional development, Boise(208) 364-4027sheikh@uidaho.edu

Web site: www. vandalscholarshipfund.com

Western Athletic ConferenceAcademic Program Rate* Standings 2004-05

The Academic Program Rate is a NCAA-mandated assessment of retention and eligibility for all scholarship student-athletes.

Rank University Score 1 University of Idaho 955 2 Utah State University 952 3 University of Hawaii 950 4 University of Nevada 937 5 Boise State University 930 6 Fresno State University 923 7 New Mexico State 921 8 Louisiana Tech 914 9 San Jose State 908

*Information is based on multiyear average for each team at its respective university.Scores taken from NCAA.org on July 12, 2006

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Ways to Give Through Your Estate PlanThere are many ways you can fund a scholarship endowment. Below is a brief listing of how you can participate in this vital component of the University of Idaho’s mission.

Type What is it? What are the tax benefits?

What are some other benefits?

Bequest in Will or Revocable Living Trust

A gift you make by naming the University of Idaho in your will for a certain dollar amount, percentage or the residuary.

Reduces size of taxable estate.

Gives you flexibility in providing for family needs first. You become a member of our Heritage Society.

Charitable Gift Annuity

A contract in which the Foundation agrees to pay you back a percentage of your gift annually for your lifetime.

Immediate income tax deduction for part of gift’s value, capital gains spread out over life expectancy, a portion of the income is tax-exempt.

Gives you and/or another beneficiary a set income for life.

Life Insurance Gift

A gift of an existing or new policy with the Foundation named as beneficiary and owner.

Immediate income tax deduction for gift’s value, plus possible estate tax savings.

Provides a way to make a significant gift with minimal capital outlay.

Retirement Plan Gift

A gift made by naming the Foundation as remainder beneficiary after your death.

Heirs avoid income tax and possibly estate tax.

Preserves 100 percent of plan’s value and allows you to leave heirs other, less costly bequests.

Retained Life Estate

A donation of your home or farm, but with the right to remain there.

Immediate income tax deduction for the charitable value of the gift, plus no capital gains tax due.

Allows you to live in your home or farm and still receive charitable deduction; assures immediate passage of title on your death.

Charitable Remainder Trusts

Trusts that pay a set or variable income to you or those you name before the University receives remainder.

Income tax savings from deduction, no capital gains tax liability, possible estate tax savings.

Provides guaranteed annual income that could increase if trust value increases.

Charitable Lead Trusts

Trusts that pay the University an income for a period of years before you or heirs receive the trust remainder.

Gift or estate tax savings for value of payments made to a charity.

Allows you to pass assets to heirs intact at reduced or even no estate or gift tax.

Wealth Replacement Trust

Life insurance for your heirs to replace the asset funding your charitable gift.

When properly established through a trust, the insurance passes to heirs estate-tax free.

Tax savings and cash flow from a life income plan may be enough to pay the premiums.

SPORTSVANDAL SPORTS

BY BECKY PAULL

When it comes to impact players, the most significant addition for the University of Idaho Vandals will be on the sideline—in the form of head coach Dennis Erickson.

Erickson’s return to Moscow didn’t create a ripple among the Vandal faithful. It was a tidal wave of excitement and enthusiasm; increasing donor pledges and buying season tickets like never before.

It’s what the Vandals needed as they head into their second season in the Western Athletic Conference.

The veteran coach, however, is quick to remind there is work to do before the Vandals regain the form that eventually propelled them through a 20-year streak of winning seasons. While he likes what he sees, he nevertheless sees gaps that need to be filled before the season kickoff Sept. 2 at Michigan State in East Lansing.

OffenseSenior Steve Wichman returns at quarterback with a solid group

of youngsters—sophomore Chris Joseph, and freshmen Nathan Enderle and Jon Tobin—grooming to fill the No. 2 position.

“Steve’s experience is a very big plus for us,” Erickson said of Wichman.

Familiar faces abound at running back. Jayson Bird is back from a broken collarbone injury, and Rolly Lumbala and Tracy Ford also are in the mix.

“We have to be able to find a way to run the football,” said Erickson.

And catch it. Erickson views the crop of receivers he inherited as a group in need of significant improvement.

But, one of the true strengths is at tight end where Luke Smith-Anderson returns along with senior Keith Greer, sophomores Eddie Williams and Rick Harrison, and redshirt freshman Peter Bjorvik.

“Those five guys I’m pretty happy with,” Erickson said.

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Edward J. McBrideDirector of Gift PlanningE-mail: mcbride@uidaho.eduCell: (509) 336-9368

Heidi C. LinehanAssociate Director of Gift PlanningE-mail: hlinehan@uidaho.eduCell: (208) 310-6425

Rick DarnellExecutive DirectorVandal Scholarship FundE-mail: rdarnell@uidaho.eduPhone: (208) 885-0258

DefenseThe schemes might be the same on defense, but some of the

players are finding themselves in new roles.“We’re a lot faster than we were,” Erickson said. “We are faster

than people realize.”A dilemma is depth, where there is very little. Young players are

going to have the opportunity to find playing time immediately.The linebacker corps is one with experience with the return

of junior Josh Bousman and sophomore David Vobora. The cornerbacks—junior Reggie Jones, junior college transfer Stanley Franks and senior Jason Martin—drew praise from Erickson.

“The corners are probably the strength of our team,” he said. “They’ve improved a lot.”

KickersThe specialists are another strength. Senior kicker Mike Barrow

had a stellar junior season that netted him first-team all-WAC. After punter T.J. Conley now a sophomore, broke his leg midway through the season, Barrow filled that role as well and didn’t disappoint with the best average in the WAC and one of the top in the country. Sophomore Joel Jones has proven he has a true knack of the position.

“There is some strength in those areas,” Erickson said.

The Vandal’s home opener in the Kibbie Dome is Sept. 16 against Idaho State, and Western Athletic Conference action begins Sept. 30 at Utah State. More information is available at www.uiathletics.com. For tickets, go to www.dfa.uidaho.edu/ceis/tickets.

Vandal FootballWhy All the Excitement?

It’s Erickson Era – Part Two

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Senior Jenny Springer is an offensive force for the Vandals. She led the team in scoring last year with four goals and eight points.

On Idaho’s Pitch, It’s Called FútbolBY IAN KLEI

Soccer has become fútbol in 2006 for the University of Idaho women’s team. Second-year coach Pete Showler, a native of England, hopes the name change will generate attention for his team by adding an international flair while serving to educate Americans to the way fútbol is perceived worldwide.

With increased competition at every spot and high expectations from a knowledgeable coach, the 2006 Idaho fútbol team is poised to gain attention for more than just its name change.

The improvements on the pitch were evident throughout last season, but the

results did not necessarily follow as the Vandals finished the season with a 3-16-0 overall record. Eight of Idaho’s losses were by just one goal, and the team suffered through 11 games without scoring a goal. Showler felt his team outplayed most opponents without getting the results, and the overall experience should prove invaluable for the 2006 team.

The Vandals will add 11 new players to the 2006 roster that includes 12 returning letter-winners. Showler stresses no spot on the field is safe, and knows the competition for playing time can only be healthy for a team looking to turn some heads in the Western Athletic Conference.

BY AMY CALABRETTA

The Vandal volleyball team has posted three consecutive winning seasons and is eager to return to the NCAA Tournament after missing the cut in 2005. A young Vandal team finished fifth in its inaugural season in the Western Athletic Conference but returns the core of last year’s team along with a solid group of redshirts and newcomers.

“We are a young, athletic team and fundamentally we have some good things in place,” said coach Debbie Buchanan. “Now, we just need to keep training, build up our team chemistry and become good volleyball players. This group of kids is exciting and it is hard to tell what is going to happen.”

The Vandals are no longer on unfamiliar ground as they begin their second season in the WAC after posting an 8-8 record in 2005. Idaho is more experienced this season. All-conference sophomores Haley Larsen and Sarah

Loney return, along with seniors Saxony Brown, Erin Curtis, Amanda Bowman and Stacy Sode. The Vandals also will benefit from the services of five redshirt freshman and two exciting true freshman.

The Schedule The 2006 schedule has the Vandals

pitted against some of their toughest competition in recent memory. They will face nine teams that advanced to the 2005 NCAA tournament.

The Notre Dame Tournament could be the most challenging. Idaho will face Valparaiso, who lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament; Missouri, a team that advanced to the 2005 Elite Eight; and host Notre Dame, a 2005 Sweet Sixteen team.

The tough non-conference schedule should prepare the Vandals for the WAC schedule where they will face 2005 NCAA Tournament teams Hawaii, Utah State and Nevada.

The Idaho women’s volleyball team is young and athletic. “This group of kids is exciting and it is hard to tell what is going to happen,” predicts coach Debbie Buchanan.

Pete’s Terminology American Terminology Boots Cleats Pitch Field Kit Uniform Match Game Fixture List Schedule Shinnies Shin-guards Squeeze on/Squeeze up Push up the field quickly, closing down the

opposition. Let the dog see the rabbit Run as fast as you can with a quick change of

pace, with or without the ball. (Reference is to greyhound racing and the dog coming out of the traps after the rabbit.)

Stick a heed on it Head the ball/win the ball in the air. Get on yer bike Run as quickly as you can, with or without

the ball/Go at the defender. Give it some welly Kick the ball as hard as you can up the field. Put it in the mixer Play the ball into the opposition 18-yard box. Bob’s your uncle Everything is OK/There we have it! Wey aye But of course! Ha’way the lasses Come on, let’s get going girls. Ta’ Thanks.

You can download additional phrases from the Media Center at www.uiathletics.com/pages/sport.asp?SportID=10&PageID=21.

Vandal Volleyball—Ready To Be Tested

Sports BriefsThe men’s cross country team

has earned All-Academic with Distinction honors from the United States Cross Country Coaches Association. To earn the honor teams have to have an average GPA of 3.25 or higher. The Idaho men had the ninth highest GPA in the nation with an average of 3.44. The Vandal women also earned All-Academic honors from the Women’s Intercollegiate Cross Country Association with a team average GPA of 3.30.

Jason Giuffre, a four-year letter winner with the track and field program, has been selected as a 2005-06 recipient of the WAC Stan Bates Award. The awards signify the conference’s most outstanding male and female student-athletes, and include a $2,000 postgraduate scholarship. Giuffre is a mechanical engineering major and expects to graduate in December. He currently has a 3.77 GPA. He is a three-time All-Academic Big West Team member and a 2006 WAC All-Academic Team member. He was a member of 1600-meter relay team that most recently placed second at the 2006 WAC Outdoor Championships.

At least six Vandal football games will be televised in 2006. Beginning with the opener at Michigan State, which is on ESPN Plus Local and the Go Vandals Network, Idaho’s first five games will be televised. The Sept. 9 game at Washington State and the Sept. 23 game at Oregon State are on Fox Sports Northwest with the home opener on Sept. 16 against Idaho State and the WAC opener at Utah State on Sept. 30 on the Go Vandals Network. The Oct. 21 home game against Boise State also will be broadcast.

Idaho fútbol coach Pete Showler

Don’t expect Idaho women’s fútbol coach Pete Showler to speak in tired, old clichés. Showler is one coach who will light up an interview with sparkling, new terms—at least to many readers in the United States. The Idaho Sports Information Office has posted a page on its Web site of helpful “English-to-American” translations of some of Showler’s often-used phrases.

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EVENTSCOMING EVENTS

October

November -December

8-9 College of Art and Architecture celebration

13-16 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Ag Days

15-16 Dads’ Weekend

4-7 Homecoming, “Forever Idaho”

6-7 College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences “College Days”

8 UI Boise Open House, Idaho Water Center Auditorium Chamber Music Series

presents Onyx Brass

14 New York area alumni gathering

14-21 Beat BSU Week

21 College of Science Day

25-29 Vandaloha 2006, Idaho at Hawaii volleyball and football

Nov. 30 Auditorium Chamber Music Series presents American Chamber Players

Dec. 8 Alumni Awards for Excellence banquet Holiday Concert

9 December Commencement

ON CAMPUSTHEN AND NOW

BY GAIL MILLER

On crisp fall, or warm, sunny spring days, Art and Design students can be found outside

sketching the beautiful Idaho campus. This tradition has been going on for many years, as you can see from the photo to the right of a student painting outdoors during the 1950’s.

Sally Machlis, professor and former chair of the Art and Design Department, remarked: “Idaho has a gorgeous campus and we take advantage of that. In the fall and spring we always have students out drawing the buildings and foliage when the weather gets nice enough. In the College of Art and Architecture, all students take observational drawing classes of landscapes, people and buildings, and the campus is a wonderful environment for that. On a beautiful spring day you can see students sketching as part of their curriculum.”

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w w w . V a n d a l G a m e D a y . c o m2006 University of Idaho Football Game/Event Schedule

N O V E M B E RS E P T E M B E R O C T O B E R

2 at Michigan State Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, Michigan Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game*

9 at Washington State Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game*

16 Idaho State – Ag Days

ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game

23 at Oregon State Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Oregon 9/22 – Portland Alumni Event – TBD* Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game*

30 at Utah State Romney Stadium, Logan, Utah Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game*

7 New Mexico State ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game

14 at Louisiana Tech Joe Aillet Stadium, Ruston, Louisiana

21 Boise State – Blackout the Dome

ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow BEAT BSU WEEK / VANDAL PRIDE DAYS Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game

Vandal Air – same day air service from Boise to Moscow and return.

28 at Hawaii Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii Friday Night: Reception* Volleyball at Hawaii Tailgate: 3 hours prior to game* Travel packages available

4 Nevada – CommUniversity Day &

Armed Services Appreciation Day

ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game

18 at Fresno State Bulldog Stadium, Fresno, California Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game*

25 San Jose State – Senior Day & Jr. Joe Day

ASUI Kibbie Dome, Moscow Tailgate: 2 hours prior to game

*Away Tailgate event tickets can be purchased in advance through the ticket office by calling 208-885-6466.