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In its 110 years as an institution, Idaho State University has grown from a small academy with big goals to a premier research institution known in-ternationally for the work of our faculty and students.

Southeast Idaho’s role in nuclear energy research was recently brought to a new level when the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $2 million grant to Nuclear Engineering Assistant Professor Eric Burgett for nuclear and radiation research. Burgett’s research will be one of many projects housed in the Ballard Building, a facility recently acquired by Idaho State University. The new facility

is home to the Idaho Joint Research Cen-ter, which has already garnered interest from many in the field of engineering research. Currently, Idaho State Univer-sity has collaboration with 172 federal,

state and local agencies and universities worldwide, and our reach continues to expand.

Our students and faculty are con-tinuing to make our future look even brighter. This year, two faculty and two students were honored with the pres-tigious Fulbright Scholarship Award,

President Arthur Vailas

enabling them to travel abroad and share their knowledge with others around the world. You can read their story on Page 8.

Our 12 University clinics saw thou-sands of patients this year, many who are uninsured or underinsured and might otherwise not be able to receive care. The new Delta Dental of Idaho Residency Clinic, which opened this summer, will allow us to serve even more community members, while offering students incred-ibly important experiences in the field.

Our future is bright at Idaho State University, and I have great hope for the future of today’s students. In this issue of Idaho State University magazine, we tell the stories of our alumni who are already making a great difference in their com-munities and the world, changing lives through the arts, sciences, social issues and even governmental issues abroad.

These people are just a few of many Idaho State University alumni and friends who are changing our world. I look for-ward to welcoming all of our alumni and friends to ISU this fall for our homecom-ing celebration. We will honor several new inductees to the Sports Hall of Fame, and honor many who have given time and talent to Idaho State University and their communities.

Arthur C. Vailas, Ph.D.President, Idaho State University

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6ISU sends out four more Fulbright scholars.

Occupational Therapy celebrates the successes over the program’s first 10 years.

News briefs including a new program, a new grant, a new television program and a new way to find campus.

12 ISU joins the Collegiate Licensing Company to promote the University.

13 An introduction to the 2011 Sports Hall of Fame inductees.

14 ISU Rugby has been earning respect on cam-pus and across the nation.

16 Fulfilling a promise to her son, Jessica Sotelo becomes a Truman Scholar and graduates from college.

10 Details of the academic reorganization.

11 Annual retired-employees outing set.


20 Idaho State University turns 110.

22 Five Guys Burgers and Fries turns to an ISU alumnus for potatoes.

24 Alumni filmmakers return to Southeast Idaho to produce a full-length film.

26 Alnselme Sadiki talks about the pride of help-ing an African nation move toward peace and democracy.

17 Alumnus and Lewiston mayor, Kevin Poole, reflects on his time at ISU. 28 Bart Hendrickson has gone everywhere from

ISU to Hollywood to the oncologist. See where he is heading now.

18 The Toddler Early Listening and Language program makes an impact for children. 30 Look back on Coach Kragthorpe and the 1981

national championship season.

32 You’ve seen him at sporting events, find out what it is like to ‘Be Ross.’

34 The Office of Alumni Relations gives insight for what to expect during Homecoming 2011.

36 Another round of the Brightest and Best that ISU has to offer.

40 See what your former classmates are up to in Trackings.

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Idaho State University’s new doctoral experimental psychology program, the only program of its type in Idaho, will accept its first three students this fall.

“The new program is good for the University and for our department, because it increases the research profile of both,” said Maria Wong, associate professor of psychology and program director. “Any time you get Ph.D. students who receive intense research training, it helps with the productivity of both the faculty and stu-dents. Students will be actively conducting research studies, writing research papers, and helping with grant applications.”

The new experimental psychology doc-toral program complements ISU’s doctoral clinical psychology program, created in the early 1990s. Eventually, the experimental

psychology program plans to accept six students annually.

Creating the program has been a long process, requiring about five years of effort. The Idaho State Board of Education ap-proved the program last summer. Previous-ly, ISU had a terminal Master of Science degree in experimental psychology. The ter-minal master’s degree will be discontinued, and attaining a master’s will be a part of the doctoral program. The new program, in-cluding a thesis and dissertation, is designed to take approximately four years.

“This program was created through the sustained effort of multiple deans, provosts and faculty members,” Wong said. “It has

been a lot of work, but we’re proud that we’re now offering this program.”

The ISU psychology department fea-tures 13 full-time faculty members. The ISU experimental psychology doctorate is designed to provide students with an educa-

tion and research training

in core areas of psychological science, such as personality, social psychology, learning, sensation and perception, cognition, de-velopmental psychology and physiological psychology. Although each of these areas is not considered a separate degree program, ISU’s mentor model will allow for individu-alized courses of study.

New Doctoral Program Added

The City of Pocatello, with the help of generous community members, Idaho State University faculty and staff and ISU boosters are paving the way to campus with giant Bengal spirit.

Idaho State University entrances are being marked with 4-foot bright orange paw prints on the street. This fall, workers installed prints on the roadway from the East Clark Street I-15 exit to the intersec-tion in front of Reed Gymnasium at the corner of Memorial Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

Next year the City of Pocatello plans to leave Bengal paw prints from the South

5th Avenue I-15 exit to the intersection of Cesar Chavez Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in front of the ISU Administration Building.

“We believe the paw prints will visibly express our community’s pride in ISU to all those who live here and pass through,” Mayor Brian Blad said. “We are proud to be the home of Idaho State University, and now, everyone will know!”

Paw print sponsorships are $150 per paw and all donors will be recognized with signs displayed at City Hall and Reed Gym. For more information, contact Mayor Blad’s office at (208) 234-6163.

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ISU Television Program Debuts

Idaho State of Mind is a 30-minute weekly public affairs program showcasing Idaho State University faculty, staff and students making a difference.

The show is a joint partnership between Idaho State University and Idaho Public Television, debuted Saturday, Sept. 10, and will air each week at 12:30 p.m. mountain standard time.

The program is hosted and anchored by Libby Howe, with student support in report-ing, directing and all other aspects.

Future shows will explore the effect recent world conflicts are having on higher education as millions of veterans decide to take advantage of the G.I. Bill; an inside perspective of ISU’s nationally-renowned nuclear engineering program focusing on solar power and medical isotopes; and the statewide “Go On” project, which examines the low number of high school students in Idaho that continue into higher education, as well as what high school students should do to prepare for college.

“ISU students have a tremendous opportunity to take their skills from the classroom to a whole new level of profes-sionalism,” said Thomas Hallaq, assistant professor of mass communication.

The Department of Energy has awarded two grants totaling about $2 million to Idaho State Uni-versity’s Eric Burgett to develop advanced radiation detectors and measure fuel inside nuclear reactors.

The DOE awarded $39 million to 51 projects at universities to bolster nuclear research and develop-ment; ISU received 5 percent of that total.

“This is huge for our nuclear engineering pro-gram and a credit to Eric that he is on the leading edge of radiation and nuclear research in two differ-ent areas,” said George Imel, dean of the ISU College of Science and Engineering. “It speaks well for the entire university.”

Burgett, an assistant professor in the ISU School of Engineering Department of Nuclear Engineer-ing and Health Physics, received one grant for $1.19 million to measure fuel inside of reactors and $800,000 to develop advanced radiation detectors.

Burgett said receiving these grants was made possible because ISU acquired the Ballard Building.

“The space and equipment provided at the new facility helps us move forward in a multi-disci-plinary effort, working with a number of different universities. We just couldn’t have done this with our old space.”

One of the huge issues in advanced reactor research is monitoring reactor core fuel behavior, Imel said, referring to the Burgett’s grant to mea-sure fuel inside of reactors.

“Research in this area is extremely difficult, but the payoffs can be amazing,” Imel said.

Burgett said he’s building on a multi-disci-plinary approach, including material sciences, electrical engineering and nuclear engineering to develop “game-changing” technologies.

“For measuring fuel inside a reactor, you can’t imagine a worse environment,” Burgett said. “The radiation levels, extreme temperatures and pres-sures are almost unimaginable. Our study is an ap-plication of nanotechnology. It is applied research to a real-world problem: not only do we push the theory, but we’re pushing a theory to drive a solu-tion to a real-world need.”

Burgett’s second study, developing new types of radiation detectors, is no less challenging.

“This is another leading-edge topic that has impacts in nuclear research, and many other fields. This technology has been difficult to demonstrate because of the extreme hostile environment these detectors have to operate in, or the high precision measurements these detectors are required to make,” he said.

$2M Grant Boosts EffortAdvancing Radiation Detection

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Two faculty members and two gradu-ate students received prestigious Fulbright scholarships to study and teach abroad this year.

Idaho State University’s Cynthia Pem-berton has been awarded a Fulbright schol-arship to teach at the University of Malta, in Misida, Republic of Malta, for the 2011-12 academic year.

“A Fulbright is like the academic Olympics,” Pember-ton said. “It is the gold standard in terms of academic achievement. I am thrilled, honored and delighted.”

Pemberton, associate dean of the ISU Graduate School and a professor of educational leadership, will teach in the University of Malta’s Department of Educa-tion Studies. She will be on Malta Island, which is the largest of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese archi-pelago and Republic of Malta, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy and north of Sicily. She has received a Core Fulbright Scholar Program award that will focus on lecturing.

Chikashi Sato, professor of environmen-tal engineering at Idaho State University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and do research at Tribhuvan University in Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara, Nepal.

Sato will spend about 80 percent of his time teaching students environmental sci-ence and engineer-ing by addressing issues of water qual-ity and proposing possible solutions to improve water quality and human health standards in their country. He will devote the rest of his time to research in the development of sustainable water treatment.

Idaho State University student Mike Adams will pursue his passions for sculp-ture, Viking ships, and Norse mythology – combining these interests into multi-media sculptural installations – during the 2011-12 academic year while working on a Fulbright grant in Oslo, Norway.

“I’ll be making sculptures that explore the themes of voyages and migration, in-corporating video projections,” said Adams,

whose works can be viewed at www.MikeAdamsArtist.com.

Adams earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986, and chose the graduate school at ISU because of the strength of the art program and the beautiful natural setting.

“It’s been incred-ibly exciting,” said Adams, who earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree in sculp-ture in May.

Idaho State University gradu-ate student Garth Lambson has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study the Irish language and folklore at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He recently attended a one-month study session at the NUI summer college in An Cheathrú Rua.

“This award gives me hope in ac-complishing my dreams,” said Lambson. “Education is an opportunity that does not have a limit. Anyone can find and achieve goals at any age.”

ISU Fulbrights Reach Around the World

Dr. Cynthia Pemberton Dr. Chikashi Sato Garth Lambson

Mike Adams



The Idaho State University Master of Occupational Therapy program is celebrat-ing its 10th anniversary of graduating new occupational therapists for Idaho.

According to Theodore Peterson, an ISU clinical assistant professor in the Depart-ment of Physical and Occupational Therapy, all of the program’s graduates have passed national certification exams, for a 100 percent pass rate.

Members of the first graduating class received their diplomas in May 2001 after three years of blazing the way for future classes.

Greg Hepworth, one of the members of that first class, remembers the camaraderie that formed between the students.

“We became a large extended family

for those three years,” he said. “Mostly, I remember the late evenings and early mornings of studying.

“The 10 students who made up that first graduating class responded as the faculty implemented the new curriculum and watched to see how it worked,” said Alex Urfer, who as department chair was instrumental in bringing the occupational therapy program to ISU. “That first year was somewhat experimental.”

Linda Hatzenbuehler, executive dean of the ISU Division of Health Sciences, said that the world views of occupational and physical therapy are different, but her intention was to develop the MOT program to avoid creating the “silos” that had developed in much of health

professions education. Additionally, she wanted to make sure that the administra-tive infrastructure already established for the physical therapy program could be used to maximum effect. Thus the Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy was created—a single department under Urfer’s leadership to house two unique yet comple-mentary programs.

That vision continues today with stu-dents of both disciplines educated together in their courses in the basic sciences, profes-sional communication, service delivery and resource management, Peterson said.

Occupational therapy is an allied health profession that is committed to a vision of health for all people through meaningful participation in everyday life.

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Vo l l e y b a l lS o c c e rF o ot b a l l

Idaho State University ReorganizationEncourages Collaboration

It’s been a little more than a year since Idaho State University was reorganized from seven colleges to six colleges and a Division of Health Sciences, a structural change that grouped academic units to-gether in a more cohesive manner.

“I think the reorganization has been really good for the University,” said Barbara Adamcik, ISU interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. “There was so much controversy when it was put in place, but it has enhanced interdisciplinary work and collaboration. The University’s academic units are now grouped more logi-cally and efficiently.”

Prior to the July 2010 reorganization, ISU’s seven colleges were Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Health Professions, Pharmacy and Technology.

The new organization features the Col-lege of Arts and Letters, College of Science and Engineering, and Division of Health Sciences. The College of Pharmacy has been moved under the umbrella of the Division of Health Sciences. The colleges of Business, Education and Technology, and the Gradu-ate School, remain the same.

“I applaud the deans and their faculty for working together to improve collabora-tion and leverage more opportunity for faculty and students,” said Arthur C. Vailas, ISU President.

college of arts and letters

The new College of Arts and Letters contains all the fine arts and humanities disciplines and behavioral and social sci-ences from the former College of Arts and Sciences.

“I’m very excited about the oppor-tunities the College of Arts and Letters has provided its faculty and students, in part because we can focus on areas that had not been focused on in the past,” said Kandi Turley-Ames, dean of the College of Arts and Letters.

The new college has been organized

into two divisions –Fine Arts and Humani-ties, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. The college has focused on identifying areas of excellence, increasing research and offering more educational opportunities to students.

For example, a new School of Perform-ing Arts integrates the theatre and dance department with the music department.

“Since these two areas have come to-gether and collaborated, they have become a greater presence on campus and provide students with exceptional training in the performing arts,” Turley-Ames said.

The Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences has increased its research output, and has attracted grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice and National Science Foundation, as well as grants from the state of Idaho.

“Our faculty are really stepping up in terms of research productivity and creative activity, and they have received national attention for their work. Importantly, we’re meeting and exceeding the expectations of students at the undergraduate and gradu-ate level,” Turley-Ames said. “The faculty in arts and letters are doing a great job in moving this university forward, and the College of Arts and Letters plans to be cen-tral to the growth and success of ISU.”

college of science and engineering

The new College of Science and Engineering is comprised of the science de-partments – biological sciences, chemistry,

physics, geosciences – and math department from the former College of Arts and Sciences. The College of Engineering has become the School of Engineering in the new college.

“I’m pleased about the College and proud of it,” said George Imel, new dean of the College of Science and Engineering. “The focus of the new college is clear: scientific teaching and scientific research. Science and engineering fit together better than arts and sciences. ”

He said that since the reorganization he has seen more collaboration between depart-ments and across disciplines, and the College has made a number of joint faculty appoint-ments.

“We could do joint appointments before, but we weren’t doing them as much as we are now,” Imel said. “There’s just a lot more synergy and interaction than we had before.”

This collaboration should lead to in-creased grant funding.

“We probably emphasize research fund-ing more than any other unit on campus. It is our bread and butter,” Imel said.

The reorganization has one other large benefit to the College, according to its dean.

“We have much more control over our budgets and our new hires, and, ultimately, our colleges’ future planning,” Imel said. “The reorganization has been very successful.”

division of HealtH sciences

The Division of Health Sciences includes the College of Pharmacy, and realigned departments and programs from the former

two new colleges and one new division

Dr. Kandi Turley-Ames

Dr. George Imel



Kasiska College of Health Professions. The new Division of Health Sciences is comprised of the College of Pharmacy, School of Health Professions, School of Nursing, Office of Medical and Oral Health, School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences, and the Institute of Rural Health. It offers educational programs for 18 professional health-related disciplines.

The reorganization brings two important changes to Idaho State University, said Linda Hatzenbuehler, division associate vice president and executive dean. For one, the new Division brings the College of Pharmacy under a single admin-istrative umbrella with the majority of other ISU health professions programs.

“Pharmacy is now a fully integrated partner with the other health profes-sions on campus,” Hatzenbuehler said. “Before pharmacy was a bit isolated as a stand-alone college, but the reorganization really brings it together with other health professions. We’ve already seen more collaboration.”

The second major change is that programs under the former Kasiska College of Health Professions have been subdivided into smaller units. For example, the School of Nursing is now free standing, and the School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences groups together the Department of Physical and Oc-cupational Therapy, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Education of the Deaf, and the clinics associated with these departments.

“By developing smaller sub-units, we’ve set up the opportunity for closer collaboration for the programs that have common interests,” Hatzenbuehler said.

Each program will have its own strategic plan and a strategic plan for the division is being developed.

“Our primary goals are to increase our research profile and increase collabo-ration on research and curriculum development,” she said. “We’re looking at re-search teams that are multidisciplinary and focus on a single issue, like diabetes, which may put researchers in a better position to attract external funding.

“Similarly, with curriculum,” continued Hatzenbuehler, “we’re looking at de-creasing duplicated courses across curricula, and offering more interprofessional experiences for students in classrooms and clinics.”

Hatzenbuehler is excited about the progress the Division has made.“It has been a great year,” she said. “There are many details yet to be ironed

out, but everybody seems to be willing to work on those details.” Andrew Taylor

Annual Retired Employees Outing

Idaho State University’s retired employees will hold their eighth annual reunion on Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Juniper Hills Country Club. All retired ISU faculty, staff and spouses, as well as spouses of deceased retirees are invited to attend.

No-host social activities start at 5:30 p.m., fol-lowed by a buffet dinner at 7 p.m.

The informal organizing committee of Dick and Donna Sagness, Bruce and Alice Ronald, Ron and Joan McCune, Ross and Anita Ruchti, Rita Bybee and Glenn Alford once again stresses that this will be an enjoyable evening with the opportunity to reconnect with longtime friends in the ISU commu-nity. There is no agenda of speeches or entertain-ment to interfere with the social function.

“The retired reunion is always a great time,” said Dick Sagness. “It’s wonderful to get together with old friends and enjoy each others’ company. And the food and beverages are always excellent.”

The dinner costs $28 per person, and prepay-ment before Oct. 20 is required. Payment should be sent to Ross Ruchti, 1435 B Ammon, Pocatello, ID 83201.

Retirees who know of other retired ISU employ-ees not receiving an invitation or who have moved are asked to inform a committee member.

For more information on the reunion, call Joan McCune, 233-8467; Anita Ruchti, 233-6594; Donna Sagness, 232-8298; or Alice Ronald, 232-1430.

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Idaho State University Bengal fans will be seeing an array of new merchandise dur-ing the coming school year. ISU is repre-sented by the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC). Founded in 1981, CLC is the oldest and largest collegiate licensing agency in the United States, representing nearly 200 colleges, universities, athletic conferences, bowl games and the NCAA. The company, headquartered in Atlanta, provides full capabilities in brand management, protec-tion, and development. CLC will allow the University to enforce the quality of ISU products through licensing, a chance for the community to show Bengal pride, and most importantly, raise scholarship money for students. Mark Levine, director of Market-ing and Communications and the Univer-sity’s licensing administrator, gives details on this company and how it will affect the future of Idaho State University.Who will benefit from the CLC?

Many people will benefit from the CLC. The consumer benefits because CLC assures quality merchandise, not ‘knock-offs’. Ben-gal supporters have a wide selection of ap-

parel and non-apparel items to show their school pride. The royalty income generated through sales comes back to the university and is used to underwrite scholarships.What changes will ISU see in the future with CLC?

We are aiming to generate a wider variety of products for sale and opportuni-ties for students and faculty to show school spirit. With CLC’s help we are looking to expand retail outlets and products. We are looking at new venues including retailers catering to the outdoor market. Also, we will be working with New Day Products to launch an ‘Orange and Black’ concept store which will include an expanded line of clothing and novelty items. We are in the process of implementing Internet shopping as well. An online store will provide Bengal fans worldwide with an array of merchan-dise to show their Bengal pride wherever they call home. Where can a person purchase CLC licensed merchandise?

Within the Pocatello area, officially li-censed merchandise is available through the

University bookstore, New Day Industries, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, T-shirts Plus, Idaho Unlimited, Fanzz, Walmart, The Popcorn Shop and Costco. Also, we are moving forward with plans to make it easier for Bengal fans to buy merchandise through online shopping.Why is ISU working with this company?

CLC is the gold standard of the industry with a 30-year track record. There are dozens of elements that are part of a licens-ing program, not the least of which is the reporting of royalty income and the licens-ing of approved product. CLC provides these resources in a professional, timely manner and provides services most universities could not afford to do on their own. What new products is ISU considering to market?

ISU is considering a variety of new apparel designs as well as non-apparel mer-chandise including jewelry, infant/toddler wear, new t-shirts for parents, stainless-steel canteens, popcorn, chocolate, ice cream and much more.

Kim Khan

More Ways to Show Bengal Spirit12 Idaho State University Magazine Fall 2011

BOYD HALLBoyd Hall was one of ISU’s most

explosive fullbacks. Recruited by Babe Caccia, Hall played for Idaho State Col-lege from 1957-1960. He set records in rushing and scoring in 1959-1960. He set a school record of 12 touchdowns, 76 points and 898 yards that stood until broken by Merril Hoge in 1985. After an injury-shortened career in the CFL, Boyd returned to Pocatello and he and his wife Bonnie have lived here ever since, raising their six children, three of whom attended ISU.

WAYNE HILLReferred to by his teammates as “The

General,” Wayne Hill led both on and off the field. A starter at linebacker from 1973-1976, he had 340 career tackles and was a two-time unanimous selection to the All Big Sky Conference first team. Hill was ISU’s first linebacker to be named twice to the first team All Confer-ence team. He received AP All American and Honorable mention and was selected to play in the North-South Shrine game.

Hill and his wife Donna live in Boise and all four of their children have at-tended ISU.

WILLIE HUMESOriginally from Indiana, Willie Humes

is the Bengal’s basketball all-time career scoring average leader with 31.5 points per game. In his first game at ISU, Humes scored 51 points and had to be carried off the court. He scored 1,510 points while at ISU. He was named to the 1987 Big Sky Conference Silver anniversary team and was a two-time all conference player.

KAREN THARPKaren Tharp was one of the most

versatile women’s basketball players in ISU history. She still holds two single season records of 171 assists and 6.58 assists per game (78-79) and had a free throw percentage of 81.4 percent. Tharp was team captain all four years and won MVP honors in 1976 and 1979. She continues to live and work in Pocatello for Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

SYLVIA PAPENBERGSylvia and her late husband Don “Pap-

py” Papenberg are now both in the ISU Sports Hall of Fame. Sylvia grew up in the shadows of the Tetons and excelled in athletics from a young age through college and beyond. She was a member of ISU’s one and only female tackle football team. Sylvia is being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her substantial charitable generosity to ISU Athletics and the creation of Miller Ranch Stadium for women’s softball and the future home of ISU practice football, Papenberg Field.

Sports Hall of Fame Inducts New Class

BOYD HALL

KAREN THARPWILLIE HUMES

WAYNE HILL

SYLVIA PAPENBERG

Saturday, September 17, 2011 Noon SPORTS HALL Of fAME INDUCTION CEREMONY Bistline Thrust Theatre Stephens Performing Arts Center

4 p.m. fOOTBALL GAME Idaho State vs. Northern Colorado Inductees will be honored on the field during half-time

13Fall 2011

Earning RespectHonor-Heart-team Help isu ruggers climb national ranks

Marlo Carducci came to Idaho State University from Las Vegas to play football, but he was soon drawn to another ISU sport — one that is recognized internationally.

Since reviving the club rugby program in 1996, Coach Ram Eddings has helped the team gain recognition, incentives for out-of-state players and support from the University and local community. Today they have their sights set on a national championship.

“I strongly believe that the experience of playing some of the best teams in the nation is key to improving each year and will lead to ISU winning a national champi-onship,” Eddings said.

The rugby team has more than 19 in-ternational players and is one of only a few in the nation that offer out-of-state tuition waivers to promising athletes.

The incentives have allowed ISU to recruit top-level players.

“The team is excited to have six new players from California this coming season, four of whom are from a high school that has won the National High School Champi-onship three times,” Eddings said.

Idaho State University rugby was first organized in 1981, but dwindled and ended mainly because the co-organizers gradu-ated and no one was left to continue the program.

In 1996, Eddings came to ISU to coach the team. He played competitive rugby in Portland, Ore. and Savannah, Ga. for 19 years and was ready to help ISU rugby reach its goal of winning a national cham-pionship. Eddings had previously coached both men’s and women’s rugby at Denver University and coached the USA Grey Wolves—a national all-star team. Recently, he has served as a member of the United States Rugby Union Board of Directors as the Collegiate Representative for more than 700 collegiate teams.

In 1999, the team set its best record at 8-4-1. They outscored their opponents 462

to 183 points. The ISU program then went from Division 1 to Division 2—giving the team a better chance at making the playoffs.

In 2003, the team took second place in a tournament in Oregon. They also made the national Division 2 playoffs for the first time in ISU rugby history. The team went on to place third in the region, going 1 and 1 in the playoffs. They barely missed the mark to play in the USA Rugby Football Union Elite 8, but they had earned respect in the world of collegiate rugby.

“We really give it all we have, and we re-alized we can do it,” said team captain Jordan Peterson. “It’s not a one-person game, so we play like a team.”

In 2004, the team made it to the playoffs, but due to a tragedy within the program, fell short of moving forward with the loss of a player. The team motto, “Honor-HEART-Team” is in remembrance of Michael Simms, who died of head injuries while playing in Oregon.

“We have heart. It’s our goal to win a championship and we have the team to do it,” said sophomore player Marlo Carducci.

Along with building a competitive force on the field, ISU rugby players have made a difference in the community. In 2010, 15 players helped the homeless by offering their labor and time by collecting donations for the Aid for Friends fourth annual Homeless Encampment in Pocatello’s Caldwell Park. For the last four years, the team has held Rugger Fest. This free clinic and tournament invites high schools to come to ISU to learn and play the game. The team plans to build it into a top high school event. ISU rugby has also developed an outreach program designed to take the collegiate sport to smaller communi-ties of Southeast Idaho.

“The success of the team comes from the support of the community,” said team captain Jordan Peterson. “A lot of people didn’t know about us, but the more word got out, the more support we received.”

Kim Khan

ISU Photographic Services/Jim Kluza


15Fall 2011

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Jessica Sotelo, Truman ScholarLooking AheadIn 1996, when she started at Idaho

State University as a single mother, Jes-sica Sotelo guaranteed her son, Ed, three things.

“My son was 6 years old at the time, and I worked throughout college, some years full time. It was a big sacrifice, so I promised him some day ‘I will buy you a horse, take you to Disneyland and buy you a house.’

“I’m glad to report,” continued Sotelo, “that I did all three.”

Sotelo didn’t start college until she was 36 years old, and had never been to college before. Today she is a past Truman scholar and current director of Partners for Prosperity, an entity devoted to reducing poverty in East Idaho.

A native and current resident of Black-foot, Sotelo spent about 15 years living in Connecticut working in the travel industry “before the Internet exploded, back in the day when people used to use travel

agents.” She returned to Idaho to get an education.

Sotelo’s determination shows through in her academic and professional life. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ameri-can studies from Idaho State University in 2000. Due to her commitment to public service and academic accomplishments, she was awarded a $30,000 Harry S. Tru-man Scholarship. She used the Truman Scholarship to attend Syracuse University where she earned a master’s degree in public administration and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in health services man-agement and policy in 2002.

“I have always said my education at ISU prepared me well for both my gradu-ate education and my career, including the volunteer work I do now for the Truman Scholars Association ” Sotelo said. “I feel like Idaho State University offers a quality education, and, if students are willing to make it their own and go the extra mile, they have many opportunities not just lo-cally, but nationally and internationally.”

After earning her master’s degree, she returned to Pocatello. As an employee of the ISU Center for New Directions, she wrote the competitive Partners for Prosper-ity grant proposal to the Northwest Area Foundation, a private, non-profit founda-tion dedicated to poverty reduction in an eight-state region. The proposal she authored landed the $11 million, 10-year grant that launched Partners for Prosper-ity. In 2004 she was hired as that entity’s first executive director, and has been at its helm since. She was charged with working with regional communities and groups to create a plan for poverty reduction and then to implement the plan.

“I was the first person they hired and we hit the ground running,” she said. “We had to create the necessary organiza-tional structure and begin implementation without any lag time between receiving the grant and implementing it. It was a challenge.”

Partners for Prosperity has focused on asset building for low-income people, workforce development, financial literacy,

continuing education, programs in minor-ity small business development, entre-preneurship and an earned income tax credit campaign. Partners for Prosperity covers the 16-county eastern Idaho region, including the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. It has a staff of 10 people working out of three offices and has gone on to leverage more than $20 million dollars to imple-ment programs.

“As an organization, we’ve had our ups and downs, learned some lessons and made some corrections,” Sotelo said. “Overall, we’ve been very successful, and all the programs we have now are very successful. We have a top-notch board that believes in innovative and effec-tive governance practices, and we really try to stay on the forefront of non-profit management.”

Sotelo credits the success of Partners for Prosperity to its collaboration with a wide assortment of nonprofit groups and government agencies, and understanding legal and fiscal responsibilities, remaining compliant to outside entities such as state and local government agencies and the federal Internal Revenue Service.

“The world of nonprofits is chang-ing, there is an increasing accountability,” Sotelo said. “You have to stay on top of the changes and remain involved in those areas to be successful.”

The Partners for Prosperity grant ends in October 2013, and Sotelo said she is not sure of its future after that time. It could receive partial or total funding from the Northwest Area Foundation, and many of its programs could continue either under the umbrella of Partners for Prosperity or as independent entities.

She is not sure what the future holds, but there are several directions she can go, including continuing to work for nonprof-its, or returning to school to earn a doctor-ate so she could teach about managing nonprofits and grant writing.

“The future is wide open,” Sotelo said. “I love this area and have roots here, but I’m open to opportunities.”

Andrew Taylor

Jessica Sotelo

Photos by ISU Photographic Services/Susan Duncan


Lewiston Mayor Reflects on His Time at Idaho State

He doesn’t have silvery hair or an elite group of commando buddies he travels around with helping people as mercenar-ies. He doesn’t have a sweet red and black van, but Kevin Poole does have one thing in common with Hannibal Smith from the A-Team: He loves it when a plan comes together.

By day, Poole works with a team of en-gineers to design bridges, roads and airports all over the Inland Northwest as senior project manager for Riedesel Engineering. By night, the 1980 ISU engineering gradu-ate works with the city council to guide the future of Lewiston, Idaho, as mayor.

“It was something I never thought I’d do moving here,” he said. But two years after moving to Lewiston from Pocatello in 1994 a group came to him with the idea he’d make a good council candidate. He thought it over and decided he’d give it a shot. He served two terms, six years as mayor pro tem.

He thought he was done for good in 2004, but a different group came calling in 2009 and asked him to run again, saying some changes needed to be made.

Poole agreed. He wasn’t happy with the direction the council was heading in his absence, so he ran again. Once elected, the council voted him in as mayor. His term as mayor will end in 2012, but he will be on the council until 2014. He hasn’t decided if he will run again.

“Switching from construction schemat-ics to budget sheets at the end of the day isn’t that big of a change,” he said. “It’s all planning.

“That’s a lot of what engineering is,

planning for the future and then trying to fit your designs to future growth to meet your needs,” he said.

Emergency services, police, water, sewer, basically all key departments look five years ahead in budgeting and even further out for strategic planning.

He wasn’t in student government in college. He’s not a politico, just a guy who worked for the first 25 years on the shovel side of the business and after getting an MBA from ISU in 1989, started moving toward the paper side of things.

His favorite memories from ISU are the bands he caught at Holt Arena — Foghat, ZZ Top, Crosby Stills and Nash — watch-ing the basketball team beat UCLA, and the year the football team won the NCAA Division II Championship.

But Poole got more than degrees, con-cert and sports memories from ISU. He got a wife and family.

He met his wife Grace in Holt Arena during their freshman orientation in 1975. In the beginning, they dated each other’s roommates, not each other.

But in the summer of 1977, he ran into her in Idaho Falls while he was working on a construction project. They married the next spring. Their oldest daughter, Amelia, is a senior at the University of Idaho and their youngest, Erin, just graduated from Lewiston High School and also plans to at-tend UI in the fall.

“I couldn’t convince them that they needed to be Bengals,” Poole said. “But anything but a Bronco. I finally took the tact ‘anything but a Bronco.’”

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Photo by Cody Bloomsburg

17Fall 2011

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Helping Deaf Children Learn to Speak

toddler early listening and language program

Paw prints lead down a hallway at ISU-Meridian, through the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and to the entrance of the Speech and Language Clinic.

A therapy room is decorated with panels of brightly col-ored fabric to resemble a circus tent. Lions, tigers, monkeys and elephants hang from the ceiling. There are books in one corner and a boom box in another. A kid couldn’t help but have a good time here.

And good times are an important part of the Toddler Early Listening and Language Program –known as TELL—which consists of group therapy sessions for children, ages 2 to 5, who have mild to profound hearing loss.

“Our goal is to give the children the opportunity to de-velop and practice spoken language skills as well as interact with their peers,” said TELL program supervisor Susie Jones, a licensed-speech language pathologist with the Elks Hearing & Balance Center in Boise and Nampa. Jones also serves on the Elks’ Boise Cochlear Implant Team.

“Many of the TELL toddlers were diagnosed with hear-ing loss at birth or during infancy and use hearing aids or cochlear implants to amplify sound and assist with language development,” said Jones, a 2004 graduate of ISU-Meridian’s speech-language pathology master’s program.

Jones notes that infants can be fitted with hearing aids as young as a month old, but “listening doesn’t happen auto-matically. Rehabilitation is necessary,” she said.

The toddlers meet with ISU student therapists twice a week in 30-minute private sessions, followed by an hour of group therapy where they work on listening, speech and social skills. By starting the rehabilitation process early, deaf children have the opportunity to overcome learn-ing deficits related to hearing loss and prepare for

mainstream school.The TELL program began at ISU-Meridian in 2010. Five

youngsters attended the 2011 summer session on scholarships, thanks to a $1,000 grant from the Idaho Community Founda-tion’s Walter and Leona Dufresne Fund.

A NIGHT AT THE CIRCUSOn a Tuesday evening in June, 5-year-old Omalola Onanu-

bosi, who goes by “Lola,” follows the paw prints to the clinic for her 30-minute session with student therapist Sarah Cook. They sit on the floor next to a doll house.

“Grab the doll, and place her in bed,” says Cook, using speech and sign language. Lola places the doll in her bed and repeats the word “bed.”

Lola, who wears a soft-band bone-conduction hearing aid called a BAHA—which looks like a sweatband an athlete might wear—is working on two-step directions and formulating two and three-word combinations.

“Lola speaks with limited vocabulary so improving her vocabulary is essential,” said Lola’s father, Dayo, who watches the session from behind a one-way mirror.

Jones, whose youngest son was born deaf, notes that ap-proximately 98 percent of deaf children are born to parents

Lola Onanubosi, 5, counts the number of dogs on a page of “Go,Dog. Go!” with student therapist Jenny Hoskins.


who have no hearing loss. Parents can feel lost because they lack the knowl-edge and confidence to help their child. TELL provides parents with strategies to develop spoken language skills, the opportunity to practice those strategies in group sessions and at home, and to share ideas with other parents.

After Lola’s session concludes, she moves into group therapy with 4-year-old Ryder Amestoy and 2-year-old Connor Davies. The kids greet each other and admire Ryder’s tennis shoes. Then they get to work.

As student therapist Jenny Hoskins reads the P.D. Eastman classic “Go Dog. Go!” she prompts the children to count the dogs on a page and call out the number.

In another listening exercise, the tod-dlers hold bean bags and sing to music playing on the boom box.

“Put that bean bag on your knee, on your knee, on your knee… Put that bean bag on your foot, on your foot,” they sing as they balance the bean bags on the appropriate appendage.

Then each child belts the chorus into a plastic microphone —“nah, nah, nah …” “fah, fah, fah …”

“It’s important for children with hearing loss to develop natural speech and rhythm, and music helps facilitate this process,” explains Jones.

Jones, Cook and Hoskins say the TELL sessions are as rewarding for them as they are for the children and parents.

“This is my first experience with this age group. It’s nice to apply what I’ve learned in class to real-world situations. The kids are so much fun,” said Cook.

“I love the kids, and the fact they

have so much potential,” said Jones. “We as parents, caregivers and students have to bring that out of them.”

Andrea Amestoy says the TELL pro-gram is helping her son, Ryder, reach his potential. She admits she was devastated when he was diagnosed with moderate to severe hearing loss at 5 weeks old and fitted with hearing aids.

“Questions were running through my mind. What caused it? What does it mean? Will he ever talk?” she said.

Through strong family support, intensive therapy and rehabilitation programs like TELL, Ryder speaks clearly and fluently. He’s thinking about a world beyond kindergarten and SpongeBob, topics that occupy many youngsters his age.

“We were driving the other day, just talking about things, and Ryder asked where he was going to go to college,” said Amestoy.

Chris Gabettas

TELL program supervisor and ISU clinical instructor Susie Jones sits with Lola Onanubosi and Ryder Amestoy as they do a listening and language exercise.

Photos by Chris Gabettas

19Fall 2011

ISU Turns

1101901: Academy of IdahoThe Academy was created on March 11, 1901, when Governor Frank W. Hunt signed Senate Bill 53 into law. The Academy opened its doors on September 15, 1902 with four faculty members and 70 students. Tuition was free for Idaho residents and out-of-state tuition was $5 per term.

1915The Academy of Idaho was renamed the Idaho Technical Institute, referred to by many as “the Tech.”

1917When the United States entered World War I, enrollment dropped by nearly 50 percent in just a few months. The Tech was saved by a contract with the federal government establishing a Student Army Training Corps. Four Tech stu-dents were killed in the war. The sundial in front of Frazier Hall is a memorial to those who served in the war.

1918“The year has been fateful but prophetic” -1918 WickiupIn October, the academy closed for nearly two months due to the Spanish Flu Epidemic. During this time, Principal

Miles Reed suffered a fatal heart attack. Shortly after reopening, the academy was affected by dropping com-modity prices which caused banks to close and farms to be repossessed. All non-essential functions and activities were cancelled for the rest of the school year.

1922The Quad was dedicated to Ralph F. Hutchinson, a former football coach and athletic director in the 1920s. After his death in 1935, his ashes were scattered over the field, which bears his name. In honor of their beloved mentor and friend, ISU vowed to never build on the Quad, which is why all the buildings circle it.

1927Under the 1927 House Bill 160 compromise, the Academy became University of Idaho-Southern Branch. Within the branch there were four divisions: Letters and Science, Engineering, Vocational Completion and Pharmacy.Coach Ralph Hutchinson, a Princeton alumnus, established Princeton’s orange and black and the Bengal Tiger as the branch’s colors and mascot.


1939The Administration Building was built in 1939 and served as the Student Union until 1959. The building used to be Pocatello’s hot spot for dances.

1942After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, many students and some faculty members had a desire to enlist in the military. When the spring semester started after the holiday break, enrollment was down to 698 students. Later that spring, the branch began the V-1 program. The two-year naval training course qualified cadets for further military training. Due to the Works Progress Administration program, the Branch had an airstrip and an aircraft hanger, which allowed for civilian pilot training. During the course of the war, 2,200 men and 96 women from the Branch served in the Armed Forces. Of those who served, there were 61 casualties.

1947On March 3, 1947, Governor Robins signed a bill to create a four-year degree granting institution called Idaho State College.

1951Named after Miles F. Reed, who was the Academy Principal from 1907-1918, Reed Hall was built in 1919. In 1951, Reed Gymnasium was built.When Reed Gym was proposed, the city of Pocatello and the students were upset that the gym was going to be built out of town with no road leading up to it. Now the campus and city surround the gym. 2004In October 2004, the L.E. and Thelma Stephens Performing Arts Center opened with a performance of “Man of La Mancha.” The state-of-the-art complex attracts performers and students from around the world.

2010The Student Recreation Center opened in August 2010 with nearly 100,000 square feet of recreational opportunities, including weight, endurance exercise facilities, tennis courts, racquetball courts, auxiliary gym, track, climbing wall, swimming pool and spinning/multi-purpose rooms.

21Fall 2011

Five GuysGuy

Miles, who attended Idaho State University from 1970-72 studying business, began servicing this chain in 2002 when it consisted of about eight restaurants. At that time he helped supply about 150 50-pound bags of potatoes every 10 days to Five Guys. Now, that number of 50-pound bags

of delicious fry-producing, genuine Idaho Russet Burbank potatoes has grown to

between 42,000 and 45,000 50-pound bags per week, supplied by Rick Miles Produce Service based in Rigby.

Since 2002, Five Guys has grown to more than 800 fran-chises in the United States and Canada, and the last couple of years has opened between 200

Idaho State University alum Rick Miles provides Five Guys Burgers and Fries with 2.1 to 2.25 million pounds of potatoes per week, and that amount will continue to grow as this franchise continues to expand.


and 220 stores annually. The company’s long-term plans are for another 2,200 or more franchises being opened in the next eight years.

The Rigby native met the owner and founder of Five Guys, Jerry Murrell, when the restaurant was growing from five stores in Virginia and the Washing-ton, D.C., area to 13 restaurants.

“When I met Jerry Murrell, the CEO and the father of the family that owns Five Guys Burgers and Fries, we hit it off and he indicated he had big plans for expanding,” Miles said. “We put ourselves in position to grow as they sold franchises, and it has worked out really well.”

Miles, 58, says that he has to hustle to meet the demands of supplying Five Guys. Miles and his relationship with Five Guys was featured last December in an MSNBC story “Behind the Counter.” According to that story, out of the 3 billion pounds of fresh potatoes shipped out of Idaho annually, Five Guys is

purchasing about 4 to 5 percent of them. Five Guys was the biggest buyer of Idaho potatoes in 2010, according to the MSNBC story.

“We’re in the process of putting the infrastructure in place to handle the growth,” Miles said. “We fortunately have good relationships with a lot of packing facilities and growers in Idaho, and those relationships help us.”

The quality of Idaho potatoes also helps and the potato growers who pro-vide the potatoes are prominently dis-played on signs in Five Guys restaurants.

“We often get emails and people call us and tell us how much they enjoy the French fries,” Miles said. “Idaho potatoes make excellent fries, but a lot of it is how Five Guys cooks them. They’re ex-tremely conscientious about the quality of product they serve.”

Miles, 58, has been involved in the potato business since he was 13 years old and worked at a packing company his uncle owned. Eventually, he started

his own distributor and brokerage busi-ness, which he has run for the last 18 years. Rick Miles Produce Service now has three full-time employees and two part-time employees, including Miles’ two daughters, Sheri Littleford and Brooke Holverson.

“They are an integral part of what we do,” Miles said. Miles and his wife, Betty, have four children.

Miles said the knowledge he gained as a student helped him with his busi-ness. He had this advice for current ISU students.

“You need to get as much higher education as you can, but hands-on experience is worth a lot,” Miles said. “It takes a while to get that experience and be effective.”

Work hard, and take advantage of opportunities that come your way, is another piece of advice from Miles.

“I was a small company, they were a small company,” Miles said in the MSNBC story of his initial contact with Five Guys, “and you never know when the little guy’s gonna end up being the big guy, and here we are today.”

Andrew Taylor

“… you never know when the little guy’s gonna end up being the big

guy, and here we are today.”- Rick Miles

Rick Miles and Klaren Coompin, of Coompin Farms, inspect a potato crop near American Falls.

Photos by ISU Photographic Services/Susan Duncan

23Fall 2011

It’s winter, bitter cold and snow all around. You and your spouse, who you are having major tensions with, are driving through the expanse of the Arco desert in East Idaho. You crash into a snowbank and now you’re trapped, indefinitely.

The movie “Craters of the Moon,” created by two Idaho State University

alumni from Blackfoot, explores just how bad this scenario could get and is billed as a “slow-burning psychological thriller that builds to a horrifying climax in a small car.”

“The way I’ve been pitching it is that a married couple becomes disorientated in the desert,” said Jesse Millward, 29, the film’s writer and director. “They get

stuck in the snow, alone for days, and all the problems in their relationship are magnified until they’re pushed to a breaking point.”

The 90-minute movie includes a fight at a rest stop, an attempt to elude police, and the isolation of a troubled couple trapped together for days in their car. Did we mention the wolves?

If all goes well for its creators, this movie shot on location near the Craters of the Moon, Driggs and Island Park in frigid weather last February, could be shown in the 2012 Sundance Film Festi-val at Park City, Utah, in January.

“We’re submitting the film in Sep-tember and we feel pretty good about our chances of getting in,” said Millward, who now lives in New York City, and recently earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in New York.

Millward, a 2000 graduate from Blackfoot High School, teamed up with 1999 BHS graduate Jacob Brumfield, an ISU alumnus who now lives in Boise and has a film production company, War Chief Films. Brumfield is the film’s producer.

craters of tHe moon proves to be fertile ground for isu alumni filmmakers

Top: Crew group photo, from left: Blackhorse Lowe, Drew Blatman, Breeda Wool, Cody Lightning, Lee Juan Tyler, Analisa Ravella, Jacob Brumfield, Paul Stoll, Eva Stoll, Jesse Millward.bottom row - Jean Simpson, Wolf, wolf trainerBottom: Director of Photography, Drew Blatman, and Actor Lee Juan Tyler getting ready for a scene.Photos provided by Jacob Brumfield


The premise for the movie arose from the lore of Southeast Idaho.“When I was growing up in Idaho,” Millward said, “almost everybody had a story

about the time their car stuck somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, and I thought that situation had great potential for a movie.”

A benefit of the film’s premise is that it primarily features two actors in one loca-tion, so it could be a feature-length film produced on a limited budget. This is a purely independent film; Millward and Brumfield raised the money for the film and paid for everything out of pocket.

“Filming at the Craters of the Moon was absolutely ideal,” Millward said. “Once the characters are stuck, you literally cannot see any sign of civilization. It really is isolated. You can see for miles, and you know nobody is going to come get you.”

There were challenges to producing the movie.“Filming it pretty much sucked. It was horribly cold,” said Brumfield, who

noted that temperatures dipped to as low as 15 degrees below zero. “We had to go through hell to get good production values, standing in the cold for seven to 10 hours a day to get the shots we wanted. The shooting was gorgeous, but really hard. It’s the coldest I’ve ever been and as a kid I used to feed and calve cows in the winter.”

If the film is shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the two ISU alumni plan to meet as many future collaborators for future projects as possible. They hope a studio or distribution com-pany will pick up the film. “The experience of going out and making a feature-length film was a huge experience and I got a lot out of it,” Millward said. “I think it shows what we can do.”

There is another ISU connection to the film: current mass communication student Chris Crampton worked as an intern during the film. Furthermore, one of the actors in the movie, Leejuan Tyler, is a resident of Fort Hall.

Andrew Taylor

To watch the trailer, visit www.cratermovie.com. If anyone would like to contribute or participate, contact director Jacob Brumfield [email protected].

Above: Car on location at sunset. Below: Producer, Jacob Brumfield, Standing in the cold on location in the middle of the night.

25Fall 2011

Helping A Nation

When Anselme Sadiki saw a 100-year old woman from South Sudan, with intense pride in her eyes, voting for the first time in her life, the feeling was indescribable.

“That part of the country has suffered greatly, from slav-ery to colonialism,” Sadiki said. “It was the same feeling you got when you saw the end to apartheid in South Africa. They were so proud to have the ink on their finger. They felt, at last, they could take control of their own destiny.”

Sadiki and his wife, Amy, both Idaho State University alumni, spent the last five years in South Sudan, working for the United Nations to help build a new government. Amy worked to provide social services for ex-combatants. An-selme assisted the semi-autonomous government of South-ern Sudan in setting up new governance institutions, from creating laws and a court system to developing economic programs and even constructing government buildings.

After 21 years of war, Southern Sudan signed a Com-prehensive Peace Agreement with the north on January 9th 2005. The agreement helped form the Autonomous Govern-ment of Southern Sudan and set a timeline for voting on a referendum to allow South Sudan to secede from the north. When Sadiki arrived, the government was still new.

“Helping to set up government services after more than two decades of war and generations of unrest, has been a difficult task,” Sadiki said. “Schools, health care facilities and most other services were destroyed, leaving an entire genera-tion without education, most living in extreme poverty.

“The only thing they knew was the use of a gun when they were in the bush,” Sadiki said. “It’s going to take time to change the mindset from freedom fighters to civil servants.”

In January, 2011, more than 95 percent of South Suda-nese voters chose independence from Sudan. Voter turnout was nearly 100 percent. For most, it was the first time they had ever voted for anything.

“Nothing would stop them from voting,” he said. “Every-body was in tears.”

On July 9, South Sudan raised its flag for the first time. Sadiki watched from his new home in Idaho Falls as people began dancing and celebrating the night before.

“It’s a history of a nation that we have been part of,” Sadiki said. “Being part of it, that’s a treasure for me.”


It was a long trip for Amy and Anselme since the day they met at Idaho State University in 1997 at a study group. Anselme, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and a for-mer refugee himself, came to Pocatello in 1994 to study social work. Amy also earned her degree in social work.

“(Pocatello) is where we met and fell in love,” Amy said.

Although Amy continued to pursue a career in social work, Anselme came to a realization while doing an intern-ship through an Idaho State University presidential grant. He went on a tour of African nations to help with ISU recruit-ing efforts.

“I couldn’t consider myself well equipped to counsel people,” he said. “After my mission in Africa, that’s when it hit me. I realized it had to be inter-

national affairs I needed to do for my future career.”

Sadiki’s recruiting efforts at Idaho State University were quite successful, and many of the students he helped bring to the United States are leading successful careers and making a dif-ference in the lives of others. Some are doing investment projects in their own home communities.

“In some ways, ISU is helping edu-cate the world,” he said. “This is a global world now. We are already intercon-nected.”

After graduating from Idaho State University, Sadiki earned a master’s degree at Columbia University ‘School of International and Public Affairs and received an internship from the United Nations. He was subsequently hired as Democratic Governance Specialist with

United Nations Development Pro-gramme. His work at the United Nations has included governmental issues and health care. He has worked with the In-ternational Center for Equal Health Care Access, where local health care providers were trained in HIV/AIDs treatments. Sadiki worked with the organization to write a grant that provided antiretroviral drugs to those afflicted with the disease.

Today, Anselme and Amy live in Idaho Falls with their daughter, Rehema while they decide on their next adven-ture.

“It’s been interesting work. I’ve en-joyed every part of it,” Anselme said.

Emily Frandsen

Left: Crowds try to pour into a polling center. Right: Anselme Sadiki addressing the commissioners.

Photos provided by Anselme Sadiki

27Fall 2011

Cancer interrupted Bart Hendrickson’s journey to becoming a rock star drummer.

“I had Hodgkin’s disease when I was 22,” said Hendrickson, 45, a Pocatello na-tive and winner of a 2011 ISU Professional Achievement Award. “It was epic in some kind of crazy way. I’m just glad to be alive to tell you the truth.”

The cancer didn’t stop his pursuit of a musical career, but it did change its direc-tion for Hendrickson, who co-wrote the hit single “Ordinary” by the band Train for the movie Spiderman 2. He has worked as a sample and sound designer for Academy Award-winning producer Hans Zimmer on a variety of popular movies. Now he writes songs and produces music for well-known bands and musicians such as Train, Don Gilmore, Good Charlotte and Escape the Fate.

“It’s kind of a crazy story,” Hendrick-son said. “I started out doing one thing, and I’m still doing music, but doing much more. There are these road blocks in life that you have to get around, and then you can end up on a whole other course.”

After graduating from Pocatello’s Highland High School in 1984, Hendrick-son, an avid drummer, “wanted to do the rock-and-roll thing.” He moved to Los Angeles in 1985 to attend the Percussion Institute of Technology. After finishing the institute, he played in rock bands in the Los Angeles area and Salt

Lake City, when he became sick. He moved back to Pocatello, living with his mother, Judy Barton.

“I did two years of treatment – chemo, radiation, surgery, the whole thing,” Hen-drickson said. “It was a long haul, but my mother and grandparents nursed me back to health. We got a lot of support. I kind of had the whole town rooting for me.”

After he recovered, he went back to Los Angeles to try to make it big.

“As fun as it is, there is about a one in a billion chance something is going to happen,” Hendrickson said. “It’s great when you’re a young guy and you go out to become a rich and famous rock star, but if you get to the point it doesn’t happen you better have a backup plan.”

Hendrickson’s backup plan morphed from his illness. While he was sick he couldn’t drum and he started program-ming music. When rock stardom didn’t pan out, he decided to pursue a career in music programming, and returned to Pocatello to attend Idaho State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in univer-

sity studies in 1996, 12

years after

graduating from high school.After graduating, he went to work for

Steele, Stoltz and Associates (now Steele and Associates), an advertising agency in Pocatello.

“It was valuable experience, kind of what I am doing now, producing and hiring out stuff,” Hendrickson said. “But there wasn’t enough going on in Idaho, so I moved back down to Los Angeles.”

Through a friend he got a job work-ing with Hans Zimmer doing anything he could for the renowned composer. He also moved into three rooms at a Day’s Inn, setting up a recording studio in one.

“Hans is a genius,” Hendrickson said. “He’s a composer, but he started sampling music and turned it into a legitimate art form. He is a pioneer of early synthesis.”

Zimmer generously offered oppor-tunities, however. He was in the process of moving from hardware-based music synthesis to software-based synthesis, and offered Hendrickson the opportunity to work with him on the endeavor. Zimmer also let Hendrickson move his studio from the Day’s Inn to Zimmer Media Ventures.

“I knew the general concept. I more or less bluffed my way into it, but I figured it out,” Hendrickson said. “If you want to do work like this you really have to want to do it, to work seven days a week and work for years. People like Hans still work seven days a week. It’s not a glamour thing. You put your heart and soul into it.”

He spent 11 years working for Zimmer, doing some music writing and producing. In the midst of his career taking off, he dealt with another challenge.

“The tides turned and my mother got colon cancer and we went through a long ordeal,” Hendrickson said. “It was a crazy

ride of roles reversing. It is devastat-ing what cancer does to

people.”

Photos provided by Bart Hendrickson


His mother, Judy, survived and now is a spokesperson for a local cancer survivor group.

“It was very challenging to keep everything going, but I’m happy to say she’s doing very well after several difficult years,” Hendrickson said. “On this end of it, I’d rather be the one that is sick instead of the one that is doing the caring. That’s really hard.”

Dealing with his mother’s illness

slowed Hendrickson down. The success of co-writing the Train song “The Ordinary” for Spiderman 2 soundtrack coupled with the success of some of his other collabora-tions have also freed up Hendrickson, so he hasn’t been working quite as hard.

He is now working on his own, and is primarily making a living writing and producing music.

“The revolution of the Internet killed the record industry and hurt music, so

now I write music, design it, produce it and record it,” Hendrickson said. “I’ve become kind of a one-man shop.”

He is part of a new music library com-pany “producing a bunch of music with no particular destination in mind.” Entities as varied as MTV to the Discovery Chan-nel have purchased music from the library.

“It seemed like I was working 24/7 for years,” Hendrickson said. “Now, when I record, I’m real busy for months, but then it slows down and I can spend time hiking or spend time with my wife.”

He said that he agrees with John Lennon: life is the stuff that happens in between your plans.

“I’ve just been doing my thing and flying by the seat of my pants since I got sick. It was weird coming up to the (ISU Alumni Association Professional) award thing because my grandmother had just passed away and I went to her funeral. Then I went to the awards ceremony later that day,” Hendrickson said. “My life has always been that way, always intense and going in different directions.”

Andrew Taylor

Bart Hendrickson, in the studio, was a Professional Achievement Award winner in the 2011.

29Fall 2011

It’s hard to believe it has been 30 years, but this year fans can relive the glory of the 1981 season as the team will celebrate winning the title once again the weekend of homecoming on Oct. 1. The team will be honored at halftime of the game.

Kragthorpe, who is a Utah State alum who earned all-conference honors in 1953-54, currently lives in Logan, Utah, where he is retired after spending 10 years volunteering in the Utah State University alumni office and athletic department. Now Kragthorpe spends his

Dave Kragthorpe was only the head football coach at Idaho State for three years. But his three years were magical as he guided the Bengals to the 1981 National Championship in his second season.


time watching his grandsons play sports, attending Utah State games and making trips up to Pocatello to watch Idaho State games.

Last year, Kragthorpe and his wife Barbara were able to see three ISU football games, and they make a trip up to Po-catello for basketball games once or twice a year.

“I enjoyed living in Pocatello,” Krag-thorpe said. “It was just a special place. I had as good as people at Idaho State as I had anywhere else.”

Kragthorpe attributes the success he had at Idaho State, especially during

his National Championship run, to several factors.

“We had players despite the fact we had lost 17 straight

games,” Kragthorpe said. “We got several junior college

players including quar-terback Mike Machu-rek. We got six to 10 junior college players

that were good players.”Kragthorpe said another factor to his

success was the opportunity to get play-ers from the United States International University when it dropped its football program. An assistant coach, Mike Shep-herd, had coached there previously, and was easily able to recruit players.

“When I hired Mike we did not know they were going to drop football,”

Kragthorpe said. “Two weeks later

they dropped it and we went and got six guys who all contributed. Everything meshed so well together.”

Kragthorpe said one memory he has of the 1981 season was beating Boise State 21-10 in Boise.

“Going there early and beating them gave us momentum,” Kragthorpe said. “We knew we would be pretty good because we won six games the previous year. That win was big and it got us started.”

After three years at Idaho State University, Kragthorpe left to become the athletic director at his alma mater, Utah State University.

“I thought that would be a lifetime commit-ment,” he said. “How many opportunities do you get to be an athletic director at your alma mater? Then I realized I missed coaching.”

After two years, he took a job as head coach at Oregon State University, where he was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1989.

“The opportunity to coach at a Pac 10 school was good,” Kragthorpe said. “To be honest, I was spoiled by the Idaho State experience. I thought I could do the same thing. We had to play money games, and at that level you shouldn’t have to.”

Kragthorpe left Oregon State in 1990 and the last year he did any coaching was 1994. During that span, he spent time helping friends coach a season at a time. In 1993, Kragthorpe was also named to the Utah State All-Century team.

Kragthorpe will follow the Bengals even more keenly over the next four years as his grandson Brad Kragthorpe joined the ISU foot-ball program this year.

Steve Schaack

ISU Photographic Services

31Fall 2011

(208) 282-2150 • www.isu.edu/graduate

William Ross Cunningham IV carries a giant flag attached to a 6-foot length of PVC pipe down the hallway of Idaho State University’s Kegal Liberal Arts Building, and nobody in the hall waiting for his or her classes to start seems surprised at all.

age where everyone generalizes histori-cal tragedies to make a dramatic point, I feel it’s important to do some actual research.”

Before attending ISU, Cunningham graduated from Pocatello High School, where he was also well known for his school spirit.

“I remember he was always at all the games, no matter what it was,” said former Pocatello High School student Kelly Kemmerer, now a junior at ISU. “It could be football, baseball, soccer. He was always there being Ross and his happy self.”

Cunningham was first introduced to enormous flags at Pocatello High School.

“I first started carrying gigantic flags back when I was a junior in high school,” said Cun-

Cunningham, widely known as “Ross” to students, faculty and the surrounding community, is about 5 feet 6 inches tall. Along with an ISU windbreaker, he often wears shorts that come to his mid-thigh. He is studying history, and is fascinated with topics ranging from the Byzantine Empire to the late Steve McNair. He is on the club rugby team and is the unofficial mascot.

Cunningham said that history was an obvious choice for his course of study.

“I picked it before I even officially enrolled,” Cunningham said, “because I excelled at it in all levels of school (from el-ementary to high school), and it’s something I’m deeply passionate about. Mom always would tell me that ‘Those who don’t know their history are damned to repeat it.’ In an


(208) 282-2150 • www.isu.edu/graduate

Recently, Cunningham had a bit of fun with the ASISU legisla-tion. He was given the floor during an Associated Students of Idaho State University meeting. According to several witnesses, Cun-ningham stood and delivered a monologue in the character of an oppressed, pipe smoking Irishman. The monologue, which lasted about five minutes, expressed gratitude toward the ASISU legisla-tion for their work during the school year. Cunningham, whose character was apparently from the distant past, also addressed England’s abuse of the Irish people.

“I knew Ross was just being Ross,” said Taigan Neibaur, an ASISU senator that was at the meeting, “and I just thought it was funny, but I think that a lot of people didn’t know what to think.”

“You know, I could have been more eccentric if I wanted to,” said Cunningham, chuckling. “I know those folks at ASISU. I know they’ve worked hard over the year, so I try to give them a little break here and there, but not often, because it’d be ridiculous to interrupt them all the time. I’ve figured out, over the years in deal-ing with people, just how far to go and not to go. I would never do anything to offend them on purpose. I’d never do anything to spite them.”

Even though ISU football has suffered in recent years, Cun-ningham remains optimistic about the program, and attends every home game when it does not interfere with his rugby schedule.

“I’ve always been behind the team,” said Cunningham. “[I] got into shouting matches, and almost fist fights, with Montana Griz football fans, and missed a lot of Ohio State football [Ohio State, along with the University of Miami, are two of Cunningham’s favorite college football teams] to see my boys in orange play.”

In an ISU era when almost no one seems to care about the football program, Cunningham stands as an unwavering beacon of encouragement.

Cunningham doesn’t just root for ISU football, though, and he has high hopes for many of the sports programs this year, including volleyball.

“Volleyball will be great to watch,” said Cunningham. “Coach Chad Teichert has done a hell of a job so far in making the volley-ball team competitive. They’re fun to watch, very energetic.”

Not so much known for its lively college atmosphere, Cunning-ham said students get from ISU’s campus life what they put into it.

“I would say that ISU is what you make it,” said Cunningham. “It’s only boring [to some students] because few people put any-thing into college.”

Mitch Christensen

ningham. “I was assigned to run the giant Poky flag after scores, and boy, oh boy, was that thing heavy.”

Cunningham even blew out his knee carrying the high school flag. Ignoring his doctor’s orders to stay off the joint for six weeks, Cun-ningham was back in three weeks, running the flag for the champion-

ship football game.Cunningham, when asked about his favorite

flag to carry, said, “That would be a three-way tie between: the giant ISU flag the cheerleaders wave – I ran it twice and Good Lord that thing was heavy; the giant ISU flag ASISU made four years ago; and my personalized ISU Rugby flag that I designed on my own.” Cunningham said.

Obviously, Cunningham is tough, so it is no wonder that many of his heroes are as well. In addition to the late Steve McNair, a former NFL quarterback renowned for playing through injuries, Cunningham relates to other characters from fiction and history that also had iron wills.

“In life, one of my heroes is Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor,” Cunningham said. “We’re a lot alike. We’re both temperamental at times but love a good time, and we’re both plenty misunderstood. Another hero of mine isn’t real but might as well be: King Theoden of Rohan from Lord of the Rings. The man is an inspira-tion to me. When life has you down, just charge straight into battle. I’d proudly serve under him, riding and killing orcs from Helms Deep to Pelennor Fields.”

Cunningham’s reference to a literary figure may come as a surprise to many who know him only for his cheerleading antics.

“In a day and age when everything is going online and books are dying out, I can proudly say I probably own around 350-400 books, and I have read them all,” Cunningham said. “I have a nifty

collection ranging from Byzantine history to Islamic studies, World War I, Impe-rial German history, Russian history, and countless books on military history and battles.”

33Fall 2011

Homecoming at Idaho State University is a very special time of year, when alumni from across the country come back to cam-pus to re-connect with classmates, former professors and friends. Every alumnus, regardless of location, is invited “home” for the 2011 Homecoming celebration.

The President’s Alumni Recognition Dinner is Friday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel. President Arthur C. Vailas will recognize 10 alumni and friends as the 2011 Homecoming award recipients. Everyone is welcome to attend. Cost for the dinner is $40 per person and reservations can be made by calling 1 (800) 933-4781 or by emailing [email protected] or online at ISUHomecoming.myevent.com.

The ISU Alumni Board of Directors will hold their fall meeting on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 8:30 a.m to 4 p.m. During this meeting, retiring board members Ted Messmore (outgoing president), Mike Nesbitt and Phil Luckey will be recognized and thanked for their service to ISU. New board members Jim Francfort, Josh Gehrke, Steve Kenyon, Blaine Nisson and Scott Phoenix will be recognized and welcomed as the newest members of the Idaho State Univer-sity Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Please complete the tear-out card included in this issue of the ISU Magazine and return it to the ISU Office of Alumni Relations to make your reservations for any or all events. We look forward to seeing you back on campus at ISU.

Returning alumni always enjoy the Campus Bus Tour to see familiar and new sites around the Pocatello campus. Much has changed but much remains the same. This tour begins at 10:30 a.m. and takes about an hour. The tour is free, and begins at the Bengal Theater entrance of the Pond Student Union. The bus will return to this location in plenty of time to attend the Founder’s Luncheon.

Catch up and share memories of student years at ISU. We hope you will make plans now to return to campus and join in the festivities. Golden Bengals are hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations. Cost for the luncheon is $15 per person. Reservations are requested.

Plan to join other ISU alumni, friends and community members for a relaxed get-together Thursday, Sept. 29 starting at 6 p.m. at Pinehurst Nursery, 4101 Poleline Road in Pocatello.

Dinner and beverages will be available, along with a no-host bar. The ISU Women’s Basket-ball coaches and team members will be on hand to assist in the annual raffle and silent auction. Special entertainment will be provided by the Sugarfoot Dancers. Cost for the event is $20 per person. Reservations are requested but not required. Call (208) 282-3755 or e-mail [email protected] or online at ISUHomecoming.myevent.com. Commemorative 2011 Homecoming gifts will be provided to all who attend.

Look for a complete schedule of events and information on all 2011 Homecoming activities on the ISU Alumni Homecoming website at www.isu.edu/alumni/homecoming.shtml or the ISU Alumni Association Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/idahostatealumni.

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Schedule of eventS

ThurSday, SepTember 29Alumni Board of Directors MeetingRendezvous Complex8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Homecoming Kickoff CelebrationPinehurst Nursery4101 Poleline Road6-10 p.m.

FrIday, SepTember 30Golden Bengals and Founder’s LuncheonWood River RoomPond Student Union11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

President’s Alumni Recognition Reception and DinnerRed Lion Hotel1555 Pocatello Creek Road6-9:30 p.m.

SaTurday, OcTOber 1Homecoming ParadeDowntown Pocatello10 a.m.

ISU vs. Portland State Football gameHolt Arena1:30 p.m.

Steve Eaton Homecoming ConcertJensen Grand Concert Hall7 p.m.

RSVP for any or all events to [email protected] or online at

ISUHomecoming.myevent.com

Jack R. Wheatley, Jr., Palo Alto, CaliforniaDistinguished Alumnus Award

The Distinguished Alumnus award recognizes exemplary professional or personal con-tributionresulting in national or international visibility. This is the highest award given by the University and Alumni Association.

W. James and Dr. Karen Y. Johnston, Pocatello, IdahoWilliam J. Bartz Award

The William J. Bartz award, named for former ISU Provost, Bill Bartz, recognizes continued support and development for Idaho State University through personal actions, participation in University affairs and events and financial support.

Dr. Scott E. Anderson, Pocatello, IdahoISU Achievement Award

The ISU Achievement award recognizes personal actions, professional accomplishment, personal generosity and self-sacrifice on behalf of the University by a faculty member.

Ann L. Howell, Idaho Falls, IdahoISU Distinguished Service Award

The ISU Distinguished Service award recognizes ISU staff members who have shown exceptional loyalty to the University over an extended period of employment.

Roger Williams, Encino, CaliforniaValorie W. Watkins, Pocatello, IdahoDavid A. Hill, Bellevue, WashingtonISU President’s Medallions

The President’s Medallion honors friends and alumni whose outstanding ac-complishments and exemplary service and support bring honor and distinction to

the University and advance higher education in general.

Bob and Jude Flandro, Pocatello, IdahoHomecoming Parade Marshals

The Parade Marshal Award is made jointly by the Associated Students of Idaho State University and the Idaho State University Alumni Associa-tion. It is awarded to faculty, staff, alumni or friends of the University who have made a significant impact in the Idaho State University com-munity, often enjoying great popularity among colleagues, students and community members.

2011 Homecoming Award Recipients

Williams

Watkins

Anderson

Wheatley

Flandro

Hill

Howell

Johnston

Photos by ISU Photographic Services

35Fall 2011

Ben Hazlett

PROfESSION: Bilingual Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist at St. Luke’s Elks Rehab in the Boise Valley; in charge of all continuing education for St. Luke’s Elks Rehab; member on the area’s Cleft Lip and Palate Team; assist in putting on one of the only augmentative communication camps (AAC Camp) in the country for children who have severe communication chal-lenges caused by autism, cerebral palsy or other delays in development.HOBBIES: I enjoy playing with my 2-year-old son and spending time with my family. I also enjoy whitewater rafting, camping/backpacking, swimming, basketball, wood-working, Web development and creating multimedia presentations.LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: I built a really cool toy chest for all of my son’s stuff … and, thanks to his grandmothers, he already needs another one!In February 2011, I accepted a position on the Cleft Lip and Palate Team at St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. I also taught myself the Web development application Dream-

weaver and began helping with the Idaho State Speech Language Hearing Associa-tion’s website.WHY I DO WHAT I DO: I had a patient once who had never said any word before. A few sessions into treatment, he looked at his mother and said “mama” and ran and hugged her. She started crying and said he had never said that before. The look in her eyes and the importance of that little bit of communication is why I do what I do.I also love speaking Spanish and being one of the very few bilingual speech-language pathologists. It is a great opportunity to help underserved children and families.ISU RECOLLECTION: I remember a day when I had spoken to one of my professors, Dr. Tony Seikel, and had noticed that he was particularly stressed (which he rarely showed to anyone). Five minutes later. I was sitting in class and in he walks with a huge smile, as if it was the best day ever: “Good morning, sports fans! We have so much to get to today!” he said. He taught every day and every subject as if it was the

education:Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology, Idaho State University, 2008Bachelor of Science with minor in Spanish, Idaho State University, 2006Certification for Spanish Medical Interpreting, 2003

most exciting information you could pos-sibly be receiving. That combined with the hemi-heads in his trunk (for our brain labs) and the classic bumper stickers plastered all over his little Honda, made for lots of good memories.ISU EXPERIENCE: I had the advantage of attending school on both the Pocatello and Boise (now located in Meridian) campuses and I liked both for different reasons. Being in the Treasure Valley gave me great oppor-tunities for placements, diversity, and jobs, including my current one.Beyond my training in my profession, which has opened many career doors, my experiences at ISU continue to help me in other ways. I had the opportunity to work for the Department of Communication Sci-ences and Disorders and the Instructional Technology Resource Center which gave me experience with Web development, com-puter information systems, and a variety of computer software. Those experiences have made me a more effective therapist and given me tools that continue to help me in many areas of my life. Thanks to Dr. Seikel and ITRC’s Randy Stamm for all their wisdom!WORDS Of WISDOM: Take advantage of opportunities to learn in every aspect of life. Don’t just learn the answers to the test, learn to create the test. You would be surprised how often something I learned in a supposedly “unrelated” class or bor-ing lecture comes back to help me with a patient, on the computer or in some other area. You can only get out of life what you put in. Also, take the time to learn another language.


Dr. Clark and Crystal Allen are ensuring that Idaho State University’s next generation of brightest and best have an easier time receiving a quality education without worrying about the financial burdens.

“We created our scholarship to as-sist local students in their pursuit of a career in nursing, physician assistant studies, or school counseling majors. We both remembered what it was like to struggle with finances as college students, and setting up a fund to help others in our position only seemed natural,” Crystal said.

Preference is given to those appli-cants from Idaho who have a desire to stay and practice in the state.

Dr. Allen grew up in North Caro-lina and Virginia, earning his bach-elor’s degree at the University of Virginia. He attended medical school at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Following his residency in neurosurgery, he moved to Idaho in 2000. He is the co-owner of Spine Idaho, LLC with offices in Pocatello, Blackfoot and Idaho Falls. He is a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, National As-sociation of Spine Surgeons and The American Association of Neurological Surgery.

Crystal grew up in Pocatello and Rhode Island, attending college at the University of Rhode Island, earning her bachelor’s degree in communi-cative disorders. She received her master’s degree in counseling from Idaho State University. She worked as a counselor at Aberdeen High School before starting her family.

Clark and Crystal first came up with the idea of a scholarship for ISU students when they were engaged in 2003. Instead of gifts, they encour-aged friends and family to donate

Dr. Clark and Crystal Allen

University Housing

www.isu.edu/housing

Did you know....at ISU, students who live in the residence halls have higher GPAs than those who live off-campus.

towards their new scholarship fund in lieu of a wedding present. From there, the first donations provided the base for the Crystal and Clark Allen Scholarship Fund.

“One of our first scholarship win-ners was a young woman in the phy-sician assistant program. A few years later, the graduate, now employed by Clark, was cleaning out her college papers and found her old scholarship award letter. Without anyone real-izing it we hired our own scholarship

winner! She is still a valued employee today,” Crystal said.

Clark and Crystal also provided the lead gift to fund the Counseling Merit Scholarship Endowment when Crystal served on the Kasiska College of Health Professions Dean’s Advisory Board.

The Allens are the proud parents of two children, Kristina and Connor, and enjoy spending time as a family and traveling to other parts of the country as well as within Idaho.

37Fall 2011

HOBBIES: singer/songwriterLATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Hosted the 10th annual ISU Accounting Career Vision Symposium; opened for Asleep at the Wheel at Sandy Downs.WHY I DO WHAT I DO: It’s all about touching peoples’ lives and staying creative one way or another.PERSONAL ANECDOTE, fAVORITE QUOTE, LIfE PHILOSOPHY, STORY OR QUIP: Use what you’ve got to do what you want to do. Accounting has taken me around the world (literally) and to the Antarctic.ISU EXPERIENCE: 16 years with the Col-lege of Business. I came to ISU because of the quality of my colleagues and the College of Business culture. I’ve stayed because of the quality of my colleagues and the College of Business culture. It helps that Pocatello is a gem and has a stellar creative scene.

Bob Picardeducation:Ph.D. - University of KentuckyMBA, University of St. ThomasBA, Northern Michigan Universityage:Old enough to have learned a few things, young enough to rock and rollprofession:Professor and Chair, Department of Accounting


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS(208) 282-4320 • www.isu.edu/iso

The International Programs Office is a necessary resource for international students seeking an education at ISU, as well as students who are looking to enhance their international experiences through study abroad, future employment, or other cultural activities. The International Programs Office is the destination for all things international at ISU.

HOBBIES: Shopping, working out, student involvementCAREER GOALS: I want to get a master’s degree and a Ph.D. It’s always been a dream of mine to go to graduate school and have people call me “doc-tor.” I want to educate the next genera-tion, and I want to inspire other girls. I want to show women, ‘yeah, I have a doctorate in physics, but I’m a chick and I’m fun.’WHY ISU? I started in Utah, and I

Christine McCrackenHometown: idaho falls, idahoHigH scHool: bonneville High schoolclass year: JuniormaJor: physics

didn’t like it there. ISU was close to home. I went in during the middle of the year to see what they had to offer. I got a huge welcome reception from the advisor. She saw my transcript, got me a scholarship and got me started. It was perfect for me.ISU EXPERIENCE: I’ve absolutely loved my ISU experience. It’s almost like a fam-ily (at ISU-Idaho Falls). ISU has defined me. The people I know now are the people I would like to know forever. The profes-sors are absolutely amazing.

39Fall 2011

John McKinney, BS pol sci ’65, who served as city attorney for Salmon since 1994, has retired. McKinney also worked in private practice in Boise and as a public defender.

Gary F. Peterson, BS bus engr ’65, has been named a senior vice president and financial consultant with D.A. Davidson & Co. in Boise. He began his career in the securities industry in 1969 and has been a financial consultant with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessor firms since 1977.

Mike Stayner, cert law enf ‘69/BS pol sci ’98, was awarded the Wilbert Cammack Award by the Region VI Mental Health Board. He has worked for the Pocatello Police Department for 40 years and served as deputy chief of police for the past seven years.

David Chris Carlson, MA Engl ’70, has written a book, “Cecil Andrus: Idaho’s Greatest Governor”

which relates a personal reminiscence of Andrus’ rise to the governorship, reveals the political rules Andrus

practiced, and unveils the exceptional personal qualities of the man who, inarguably, has had the greatest impact on Idaho in modern times. Carlson was a founding partner of the Gallatin Group and is now retired.

Dan Ralphs, BA phys ed ’74/MED ed admin ’86, who served as principal of Rockland High School since 1986, retired in May 2011. He was a teacher and coach at the school for 37 years.

Ralph Cottle, BBA mktg ’77, was appointed to the Idaho Housing and Finance Administration’s Board of Commissioners. He has 35 years’

experience in the banking industry and is president of Citizens Community Bank in Pocatello.

Cliff Merrill, AT civil engr tech ‘77/BS voc teach ed/corp train ’88/MED occup train mgt ’92, who was an instructor in the civil engineering technology program at the College of Technology for the past 26 years, retired in May, 2011. He also worked at the Idaho Transportation Department for 10 years.

Virgil Moore, MNS biology ’77, was appointed director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. He has 34 years’ experience in wildlife management and served as the deputy director for field operations at Idaho Fish and Game since 2007.

Jim C. Smith, BA journ ’78, of Woodland, Calif., has written his first novel, Dead Cat Alley. In his novel, Smith (who uses the pen name “James Chatfield”) chronicles a newspaper editor who uses advanced technology to solve a murder in Sacramento in 2005. Smith is the editor of the Woodland Daily Democrat and has won awards for column writing, photography and newspaper excellence. He is the son of the late Clarence Warren Smith (BS arch ’59) and Jean Mary Chatfield.

R. Lee Chapman, BBA acct info sys ’80, has been named chief financial officer and director of

Josephine Mining Corporation. He has 20 years’ experience in finance with the mining industry and was regional vice president of business for Newmont Mining Corporation.

Kelly De Hill, BA Engl ’81, was honored as outstanding corporate counsel by the Association of Corporate Counsel, Mountain West Chapter in January 2011. She is currently general counsel for Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

James Hall, BA journ ’82, a videographer at WTHR -TV in Indianapolis, Ind., is part of an investigative team that was awarded a Peabody Award for “Reality Check: Where are the Jobs?” He received a Peabody Award in 2007, 20 Emmy Awards, two Headliner Awards, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Dr. Robert E. Chambers, BA pol sci ’85/MPA pol sci ’88/DA pol sci ’95, has joined BYU-Idaho as a faculty member in the Religion department. He worked for the City of Pocatello for nearly 20 years and most recently was director of planning and development services.

James Potter, alumnus ’88, has been named an assistant coach for men’s basketball at ISU. He has played professionally for teams in Belgium the past 15 years. Potter participated in men’s basketball from 1991-1995 and was inducted into ISU’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

Teri Mitton, BS biology ‘90/MNS biology ’05, received the 2011 Simplot Inspirational Teacher Award. She has taught science, advanced placement

biology, and anatomy and physiology at Highland High School for 19 years.

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promoted to the human relations director at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She has worked at the hospital as the human relations/recruitment manager for the past 10 years.

Vernon P. Burke, cert prac nurs ’96/BS nurs ’00, completed his medical degree in oral and maxillosfacial surgery and will practice in El Paso, Texas. Burke earned his doctor of medicine

Michaelena Hix, BA elem ed ’95/MED ed admin emph ’01, was honored as the 2011 Outstanding Educator of the Year at the ISU College of Education and Kappa Delta 54th annual recognition banquet. She has served as director of curriculum and instruction for Bonneville School District 93 since July 2002.

Wendy Andersen, BS corp train ’96, has been

Matt Newman, MS spch path & aud ’92, has been named director of recreation and athletics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. He served as the commissioner of the NCAA’s Division III Northwest Conference for the past three years, where he oversaw operations in the nine-school, 18-sport league. Newman is completing a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Virginia.

Ronald Wuotila, MPE athl admin ’92, has been named the director of athletics and recreation at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. Since March 2007, he has been the head of operations and high performance manager for the British national basketball teams in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. He will continue to work with British Basketball through the end of the Olympics.

Tori Shaver, MBA bus admin ’83, and Lorri Gebo-Shaver, PharmD ’93, announced that Shaver Pharmacy and Compounding Center has received accreditation by the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board. This prestigious accomplishment has been achieved by less than 125 of the nearly 50,000 pharmacies in the United States, and Shaver Pharmacy is the only accredited compounding pharmacy in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah.

Danny Grimes, MPE athl admin ’93, was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. He was a distance runner for cross country and track and field teams from 1978-1980 and also ran professionally for 10 years. Grimes is in his 15th year of teaching math, social sciences and physical education at the Independent Alternative High School in Blackfoot.

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degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio and also earned a doctor of dentistry degree at the University of Connecticut in Hartford.

Bonnie Frantz, MED occup train mgt ’96, was honored by the City of Pocatello’s volunteer Human Relations Advisory Committee for

outstanding achievement in the areas of human and civil rights in May 2011. During her 24 year career at ISU, she initiated and directed the campus-wide Human Rights Celebration and the Social Justice Committee. Frantz also created and chaired the Campus Coordinated Violence Response Committee.

John Pearce, BS sec ed/chem ’96, has been selected as the new principal of Blackfoot High School. He has worked in education for 15 years and most recently was the principal for Maumelle and Robinson middle schools in Arkansas. Pearce was named Administrator of the Year in 2008 for the Arkansas Counselors’ Association Central Region.

Dr. Ed Galindo, MHE health ed ’97, was nominated to be a member of the board of trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation by President Barack Obama. He is a faculty member and director of the Natural Resources Tribal Cooperative at the University of Idaho Aquaculture Research Institute. Dr. Galindo is also an affiliate faculty member in the biology department at Idaho State University and an affiliate faculty member in the physics department at Utah State University.

Dr. Shaun Summerill, BS micro ’99, has joined the Pocatello Children’s Clinic as a pediatrician. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Summerill has worked in the emergency department of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin the past four years.

Kebai Bills, BA gen studies ’02/MPAS phys asst studies ’04, has joined Life Change Associates,

PLLC, in Pocatello as a physician assistant. Previously, she was a physician assistant with

Region VI Mental Health. She has also taught in ISU’s physician assistant program the past five years.

Graham Garner, BA pol sci ’02/MPA pol sci ’07, has been named associate vice president for marketing and communication at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. He previously served as vice president for university advancement at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.

Dr. Esther Machen, BS dent hyg ’02, has joined the practice at Machen Family Dentistry in Idaho Falls. She graduated with honors from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Dental School and has practiced dentistry in Independence, Mo.

Dr. Shane Machen, BS zoology ’03, has established his practice, Machen Family Medicine, in Idaho Falls. He completed a three-year residency program in family medicine and graduated from medical school from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.

Dr. Jeff Gregory, PhD clin psych ’05, has joined Benson Psychological Services in Fargo, N.D. He is also an adjunct professor in clinical psychology at the University of North Dakota.

Shaun Pohlman, BS ed interpret ’05, has been selected as the head volleyball coach at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo. He served as head volleyball coach for the past four seasons at Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kan.

Sandra Shropshire, MA Engl ’05, who served as interim dean of the Eli M. Oboler Library since July 2010, has been named dean. She was an associate university librarian from 2006-2010 and has worked at the library for 27 years.

Mindy Stosich, BS health care admin ’06, received the Emerging Leaders Award from the National Association of Community Health Centers in Washington, D.C. She has worked at Health West for five years and is the development and compliance officer for Health West in Pocatello.

Tiara Lusk, MED ed admin ’10, was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship in the amount of $26,000 for the Fall 2012 – 2013. She will study in Israel.

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