WILDCAT WSU Alumni Magazine | FALL 2019 Weber ’s First “Wildcat” Celebrating 100 Years of Weber Football WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY She didn’t have to leave California to be a Wildcat. News for Alumni & Friends ✄ 25% off WILDCAT Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2019 Creative director Hillary Wallace BFA ’98 Contributing writers Matt Gerrish BS ’10, MPC ’15 Amy Renner Hendricks Allison Barlow Hess Karin Hurst Ross Rosier BS ’18 Jaime Winston designers Emily Caraballo Amy Hajdas Hillary Wallace BFA ’98 contributing editors Nancy B. Collinwood BS ’94 Rebecca Gibson AS ’09 John Kowalewski Betsy Mennell Amber Robson BS ’05, MPC ’17 Lisa Kiyohara’s first trip to northern Utah was in April 2019. Her husband and two daughters came with her for a “mini vacation.” Item number one on Lisa’s itinerary: Graduate from Weber State University. Yes, graduate, from a university she had never even visited, but one she had come to know well over three years as a student in the School of Radiologic Sciences’ independent study program. An ultrasound technologist at a busy acute care hospital in California, Lisa had been taking online classes from her home base in Los Angeles County since 2016. Lisa already had an associate’s degree from a community college in Costa Mesa, California, but she wanted to explore the options that having a bachelor’s degree would offer in education and health care leadership. So, she started to research universities. “I first heard about Weber State from a colleague who graduated from WSU,” she said. “I visited the school website and was impressed with the graduate testimonials. When I learned that I could obtain my bachelor’s degree in diagnostic medical sonography and advanced radiologic sciences, I was convinced Weber State was perfect for me.” With 28 years in the field of radiology, Lisa already had enough clinical hours; she just needed to finish a few courses. She appreciated being able to do that on her own time. “My family and work commitments made it challenging to have consistent timeframes to attend traditionalscheduled classes,” she said. “The program director, Diane Kawamura, was instrumental in tailoring my education to my needs.” Lisa plans to pursue a leadership role in radiology. “The radiology field continually ignites my interest, as each patient presents with unique signs and symptoms,” she said. “There is no one-size-fits-all diagnostic answer.” 1 WSU APPAREL ITEM editor in chief Amy Renner Hendricks at WSU Downtown NO CASH VALUE Clearance not included. 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The WSU Alumni Association also hosted two trips to Greece and Costa Rica. It’s Tradition WSU turned 130 this year, and therefore has some deep-rooted Wildcat traditions. Read about the importance of traditions, hear from three Wildcat “mystery traditions” and learn how one alumnus became an official “Traditions Keeper.” When asked what they enjoyed most, participants had a hard time choosing. “I can’t quite pick one experience because my entire experience was absolutely amazing and life changing,” said one. Another 22 Let’s Talk About Speech Hate speech seems to be on the rise, especially online. Campus experts answer questions like “Should the U.S. ban hate speech?” Plus, get historical insight into two landmark free speech cases. One turns 100, the other 50. 28 reported, “I loved the architecture th Happy 100 Anniversary, Weber State Football and the food! I loved to see the culture up close and personal — how people eat, live, work. It was great!” Weber State celebrates a century of Wildcat football. 34 The Call of the Wildcats Meet your adventure-seeking alumni leaders. 36 Class Notes Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 5 WEBER WATCH WEBER WATCH WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY The Doctor Nurse Will See You Now Presenting WSU’s First Doctoral Program, the Doctor of Nursing Practice Weber State’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree for Intermountain Life Flight who enters the program this meets a community need, while training students for the fall. “I thought it would be exciting to be part of history at highest level of nursing practice. the university and in the community.” Beginning this fall, the DNP will help combat issues The DNP offers two educational pathways: The Leadership stemming from a physician shortage by preparing nurses to program prepares nurses for executive roles, and the Family care for patients as physicians would. Nurse Practitioner program trains nurses as leaders in “Our Doctor of Nursing Practice allows the graduate to clinical practice. become completely independent in the state of Utah and “Once I obtain this degree, there are so many different practice at a level where they can give diagnoses, order labs opportunities I can go toward,” Maynard said. “I really have and take care of their patients in every way,” said Susan no idea which path I will pursue, but having options is a Thornock, Annie Taylor Dee School of Nursing chair. good problem to have.” “The DNP is the first doctoral-level degree in the allied health program at WSU,” said Bryan Maynard, a flight nurse 6 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 7 WEBER WATCH Costume Design History Theatre arts graduate Victoria “Toria” Snow from those around her and transform it captured a Weber State first: the Kennedy into something new,” said performing arts Center American College Theater Festival grand professor Catherine Zublin, Toria’s faculty prize for costume design. mentor. “She uses materials from her study of Snow was recognized for her creations for the art and theater to craft both her artwork and WSU production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, a theatrical designs. Her costume designs are dark comedy about a young man in the 1930s well researched and conceived and always help who dreams of escaping his remote town on the actors create believable characters.” the Irish coast when he’s cast in a Hollywood The prize included a trip to the 2019 Prague movie filmed on the island. Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Snow created intricately designed, traditional the largest international festival of theater and clothing worn by the people of Inishmaan, stage design. complete with complex stitches and patterns Snow is currently pursuing a master’s degree in that represented the isle’s different clans. Her costume design at California State University originality and authenticity led to a regional Fullerton. Training Photo by Benjamin Zack Making WEBER WATCH Cyber Security Defenders Fifteen Weber State University management information systems (MIS) graduates from the Class of 2019 continued their educational pursuits at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), home to the U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1-ranked graduate program for information technology and management. Six completed a summer fellowship program; nine began their master’s degrees. Recognizing the need for highly skilled cybersecurity and information systems professionals, WSU associate professor of MIS Randy Boyle collaborated with industry leaders to develop an innovative formula of curriculum and instruction to meet industry demand, and first place honor and subsequent trip to the prepare students for advanced degrees. Kennedy Center, where she wowed a panel of Boyle’s students have been successfully national judges with her costume designs “Toria has a unique ability to collect knowledge Photos by dav.d photography, courtesy of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities and presentation. competing for placements in the CMU summer fellowship for several years. In 2018, Parade of Homes Showcase The Northern Wasatch Parade of Homes nine of the 25 students in the fellowship were selected from WSU, and in 2019, six of the 30 were from WSU. CMU covers all fellowship costs. Students who finish the program and are admitted to a master’s program at CMU automatically qualify for a scholarship covering at least half of tuition, a $55,000 value. featured its first affordable net-zero home In 2019, Boyle also spearheaded a partnership where his this summer thanks to a unique partnership students vie for limited spots in CMU’s master’s programs. with Weber State, Habitat for Humanity of Weber and Davis Counties, Dominion Energy, Rocky Mountain Power, Davis Technical College and Ogden-Weber Technical College. The 2,160-square-foot house belongs to a mother and six children who lost their home to the tornado that hit Ogden in 2016. After the tornado, the family was separated, with some of the children living with relatives. The home, located at 450 15th Street in Ogden, demonstrates the ways in which existing houses can be retrofitted to achieve net-zero energy, meaning the home is fully powered by renewable energy sources. 8 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 9 Expanding Apprenticeships With $2M Grant Advancing Weber State The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded $2 million to Weber State University to lead a collaboration of Utah technology groups Following a national search, Betsy Mennell has been and businesses in an effort to expand apprenticeships. named vice president of University Advancement. Known as the Utah Computing Apprenticeship Collaborative (UCAC), Mennell comes to WSU from Regis University in the group has made a long-term commitment to supply computing Denver. No stranger to the Big Sky Conference, talent to Utah companies. she spent 18 years at Northern Arizona University in a variety of roles, including vice president for According to the DOL, the apprenticeships are specifically intended Development and Alumni Engagement. She is for underrepresented groups including veterans, women, people of especially proud of her philanthropic work to provide color and Americans transitioning from the criminal justice system. opportunities for underserved populations. Mennell Those who receive an apprenticeship will begin at 60% of full holds a doctoral degree in educational administration salary and receive a wage increase with each training or education from The University of Texas at Austin. benchmark met, with the ultimate goal of full employment. Mennell said she was impressed by WSU’s Weber State will manage the overall project and its funding and also commitment to student success and its outstanding lead a higher-education consortium through the creation of new and reputation as a dual-mission university, serving innovative curriculum and training materials. a wide variety of students, from those seeking In My Shoes … When you tell a story from your perspective, it helps certificates and workforce training to those pursuing graduate degrees. An outdoor enthusiast, Mennell also plans to take advantage of Ogden’s mountains and trails. the listener better understand and connect to you, the Celebrating Inauguration storyteller. To encourage an empathetic approach to hearing others’ viewpoints, opinions or beliefs, WSU’s Center for Community Engaged Learning has chosen Oct. 5-12, 2019 the theme of “In My Shoes … ” for its 2019-20 Engaged Events will focus on finding and sharing stories and perspectives that may otherwise be untold or underrepresented and will encourage civil dialogue. Since 2012, the Weber State community has engaged in a Photo by Benjamin Zack Learning Series (ELS). Weber State University is planning a full slate of events to warmly welcome its 13th president, Brad Mortensen. Join us for the festivities! Oct. 5: Mt. Ogden Hike three years focused on themes of water, air and food. Oct. 7: National Summit on Dual Mission Institutions in Higher Education Civility and matters of fact were recent discussions. The Oct. 9: Day of Service series attempts to raise awareness, impact personal Oct. 10: Inauguration campuswide conversation around a single topic. The first behavior and increase public engagement. Oct. 11: WSU Salutes Oct. 12: Homecoming football game versus Southern Utah Details will be posted at weber.edu/inauguration as they become available. Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 11 & QA with New WSU Film Program Director Weber State University recently launched its film and digital media studies program. Award-winning filmmaker Ashkan “Ash” Soltani-Stone, newly hired assistant professor of film and digital media studies, answers questions about the program and about his filmmaking. Q: What excites you most about the new film and digital media studies program at WSU? A: Innovative Degree Combines Love of Language, Culture W hat happens when a business’s wildly popular U.S. slogan means something entirely different in another country? The business suffers a blunder of international proportions. Take I am excited about the interdisciplinary approach among the visual Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), for example. Its slogan, when art and design, communication, and English departments, which translated into the Chinese language for the fast-food chain’s will promote collaboration between film students and faculty from opening in Qianmen, Beijing, in 1987, changed from “It’s Finger different fields of study. Lickin’ Good” to the not-so-appetizing “Eat Your Fingers Off.” While KFC made a comeback, becoming the most popular fast- Q: What will students gain by pursuing a degree in film and digital media studies? A: Students who enter the program will gain skills that are immediately marketable. Educated film and digital media professionals are being sought not only by the entertainment industry but also by regional and international businesses, nonprofits, health care providers, and science and research foundations that are searching for specialists who can tell their stories to the public and to potential donors. food restaurant in China, the translation oversight demonstrated the need for translators with localization skills — experts in language and culture. Demand for these individuals is even higher today due to increased globalization. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of interpreters and translators to grow 18 percent from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations, and for starting salaries to begin at $50,000. DAVID BROOKS JAN. 19, 2020 · 7:30 p.m. SAVE THE DATE! On the forefront of localization education, Weber State University’s Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities is Q: If you could make one film right now and had the resources for it, what theme would it have? A: In addition to localization, the Lindquist College is also offering a new bachelor’s degree in Spanish translation. For an overview length comedy about the misadventures of two aging “headbangers” of these two exciting and industry-needed programs, visit who escape the nursing home to attend a heavy metal festival. I weber.edu/foreignlanguages. as melancholy and mortality in a subtle way. Soltani-Stone earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Production from the University of Utah. In his films, Soltani-Stone explores a wide range of topics such as affordable housing, immigrant workers, indigenous land rights and subversive music. Soltani-Stone’s latest project, Rez Metal, is a feature-length documentary about the heavy metal music scene and underground youth culture on the Navajo Nation Reservation. Soltani-Stone established the film production program at Minnesota State University, Mankato and taught at the AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts and Whittier College in Los Angeles before joining WSU. weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 localization. I recently wrote a screenplay (inspired by a true story) for a feature- believe comedy is an ideal format to deal with serious themes such 12 the only state institution in Utah offering an associate’s degree in Currently a commentator for PBS’ Newshour and NPR’s All Things Considered, David Brooks has years of experience as a journalist, having worked for The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly and The Wall Street Journal. Brooks will take the stage as part of the Browning Presents! program, previously known as the Office of Cultural Affairs. Each season, the program features public performances and educational residencies of artistic excellence in a diverse range of disciplines. The series has included visits from Cornel West, Marcus Roberts Trio, Parsons Dance, Ronan Farrow and more. Arts@Weber t a s t n e v e ss i Don’t-m ll! a f s i h t e t a t Weber S “A singer with a strong and luscious tone and an amiably regal presence on stage.” – New York Times CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL I Am the Folklore SEPT 4 SEPT 7 Villa-Lobos+ DEPARTMENT OF PERFOMING ARTS SEPT 6 Jane Austen’s classic tale of love is brought to life in this adaptation by Kate Hamill. a j u t a l O OCT 11-12 & 16-19 ALICIA WSU Symphony Orchestra Inaugural Concert SEPT 13 13th Annual Bonneville NOV 9 Perspectives in Printmaking: An Evolving Dynamic Opening Reception at 7 p.m. with a lecture from Hurst Artist-In-Residence Susanna Castleden at 6 p.m. Exhibit runs Sept. 13-Nov. 9 Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony e r t a e h T e c Dan OF HARLEM Orchesis Dance Theatre NOV 14-16 WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY THEATRE Bravo Bassoons! NOV 15-16 & 20-23 Thomas Priest & Daniel Lipori OCT 13 OCT 5 World-premiere musical based on the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm and Frances Sargent Osgood WSU Chamber Orchestra Fall Concert OCT 8 OCT 25 Fall Jazz Concert OCT 29 Hurst Artist-In-Residence: Ada Limón Poetry Reading Fall 2019 BFA Thesis Exhibition WSU Symphony Orchestra NOV 22-DEC 13 Movie Music Magic NOV 2 Holiday Concert DEC 8 FOR TIMES, LOCATIONS & MORE INFO: weber.edu/artscalendar TICKETS: weberstatetickets.com or 801-626-8500 The Truth About CAMPUS TRADITIONS Karin Hurst Packing his suitcase for a trip to Cuba, You might think the 75-year- Willard Z. Maughan insisted on including old former WSU Alumni Board a 4-inch tall, cardstock cutout of Waldo the Wildcat. Not only did the Ogden native wedge the affable feline between passion for Weber State’s lovable mascot one step beyond sanity. But, as Maughan nestles into a miniature tubes of lip balm, Caladryl comfy, cloth patio chair lotion and sunscreen — he is a retired and begins talking over dermatologist after all — he also made the burble of spring didn’t miss a single vacation photo-op. snowmelt rushing into the creek bed that intersects his verdant A quick swipe through the images Maughan captured on backyard, his story his trusty mobile phone reveals: Waldo, propped up by a starts to make can of Ciego Montera tuKola (Cuban Coca-Cola); Waldo, sense. precariously perched atop what appears to be a slightly perturbed baby alligator at Everglades National Park; and Waldo, lounging in the cabin of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship next to a white elephant. (Well, technically, it’s a white bath towel folded into the shape of an elephant.) And that’s just a random sampling of Waldo portraits. weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 president has taken his layers of breathable-cotton clothing and sure that his die-cut traveling companion 16 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Fun or Function? of being betwixt and between” childhood and adulthood. of school traditions and rituals. (By the way, you can meet Relations Executive Director Nancy Collinwood BS ’94 and A college campus, therefore, serves as a safe, acceptable your alumni leaders on page 34.) Rebecca Gibson AS ’09, alumni engagement coordinator, met Nearly every university has time-honored traditions. From location for younger students to act out the dramas, annual celebrations to goofy competitions to fight songs, performances and rituals of becoming grown-ups. While campus traditions encourage students to let loose, have fun most of us think campus traditions are lighthearted and and display school pride. But some scholars and researchers trivial, Bronner believes that when scrutinized at a deeper believe there’s more to college traditions than what meets level, campus traditions expose significant symbols and the eye. Simon J. Bronner, distinguished professor emeritus metaphors about a college student’s life experience, values, of American studies and folklore at Pennsylvania State aspirations and anxieties. University, views campus traditions as important coming-ofage rituals. According to Bronner, there are very few ways of One behavior generally indicative of alumni loyalty is charitable giving. Today, in higher education’s precarious Traditions Keeper, Maughan felt an urge to participate. economic climate, it’s imperative for public universities to foster active, dedicated alumni to garner financial support for scholarships, programs and facilities that can’t be solely sustained through state funding. Statistics show that donors tend to support things they truly care about. Maughan’s annual gifts to WSU are perfect examples. “My wife and I Building a Tradition of Giving with the emeriti council to outline a new program called support Spanish and nursing scholarships at Weber State,” he explains. “Now, why would I want to do that if I didn’t care Tracking Wildcat Traditions Traditions Keeper seeks to build school pride and bond students, alumni and friends through shared involvement in Wildcat traditions. The program is targeted at freshmen, who usually have four years to complete and track 50 preselected activities. However, alumni and friends, in Utah and elsewhere, are also invited to participate and earn incentive acknowledging adulthood in America. While other nations Then there’s the monetary value of school traditions. In a have recognized rites of passage that mark a young person’s 2015 study, researchers set out to determine factors that transition into adulthood, American society is vaguer about impact alumni loyalty and giving at institutions of higher Which brings us back to the question of why Maughan that. Folklorists, like Bronner, say students who attend education. They found that alumni who perceive their alma lugged Waldo the Wildcat all the way to Cuba. college immediately after high school are at a “liminal stage mater has valued, well-established traditions and a vibrant By standard definition, Maughan is not a Weber State & Communications to choose 50 well-established Wildcat alumni organization, exhibit stronger behaviors associated alumnus. Although he took advanced placement courses traditions, research their origins and create a website, with loyalty than alumni who don’t feel their university at Weber as a high school senior, he spent the bulk of weber.edu/traditionskeeper, to house historical information and has valued, well-established rituals and a high-functioning his educational career at other institutions. And yet, he anecdotal stories. Rules specify that current WSU students alumni organization. The study concluded that university considers himself a bona fide Wildcat and voluntarily must complete all 50 traditions before they earn the right to about Weber State or feel connected to the university?” prizes along the way. In its role as “keeper and promoter” of Weber State traditions and rituals, Alumni Relations teamed with WSU Marketing initiatives designed to enhance and strengthen alumni serves on the WSU Alumni call themselves a genuine WSU Traditions Keeper. Friends relationships are crucial. The researchers recommended that Association’s Emeriti Alumni and alumni, however, are only required to do 35. alumni associations, in particular, be viewed as strategic, Council. Why? “Because Ogden vital university assets that serve as “keepers and promoters” is home, and Weber State is in Ogden,” he says with a heap of purple pride. After WSU Alumni As you already may have guessed, Maughan’s favorite activity was tradition No. 16: Travel with Waldo. But he also enjoyed No. 2: Eat Purple Pancakes. To fulfill that tradition, Maughan added blue and red food coloring to pancake batter and poured the mixture onto a hot griddle in the shape of a wildcat. “It didn’t really look too much like a wildcat, but it had ears,” he chuckles. Tradition No. 4: Visit Legacy Wall sparked a flame of nostalgia in Maughan. As a youngster, 18 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 19 A Loud and Proud Defense Mystery Tradition No. 3: with a singing group led by Glenn Hanson, Shockingly, no Weber State Wildcat tradition made the top Those irksome quackers and honkers splashing who taught music at Weber from 1945 to 1962. 25! Because we feel unjustly overlooked, we’ve invited three around the Ada Lindquist Plaza retention pond “We practiced in the old Moench Building,” Wildcat “mystery traditions” to explain why they deserve would never admit this, but insiders agree — I’m Maughan recalls. “The thing I remember national recognition for their great-great-greatness. WSU’s most famous campus icon. I’ve been here, marking time and performing hourly, since 1971. most about that place is how loudly the floors As far as I know, I was the first campus structure to Explore Wildcat Store got him into the most Mystery Tradition No. 1: trouble. “I can’t remember what I bought Standing over 9-feet tall and weighing at least a ton, I’m there, but it had to be something because I “Moench Building” on our old 25th Street campus. the original “big man on campus.” I was created by prolific I, on the other hand, was dedicated during a fierce, can’t leave a souvenir shop, hardware store or American sculptor Avard Fairbanks, the same Utah artist who, December blizzard. (I guess I’ve always had a flair for bookstore without bringing something home.” in the 1920s, designed the iconic ram head logo for Dodge. First, the dramatic.) Nothing at WSU escapes my attention. Maughan says the most enlightening tradition Fairbanks molded me from clay; then, he sent me to Italy to (With four faces, I see it all.) Generally speaking, I’m he completed was No. 30: Explore Something be cast in bronze. I moved to Weber State on Oct. 22, 1964, but not one to “kiss and tell,” but that’s exactly what has New at WSU. While touring the university’s was relocated to the center of a prominent crosswalk in 1972. been going on here for decades. Couples from near new Dumke Center for Interprofessional Facing east for many years, I kept silent watch over Weber State and far come to my plaza to steal a midnight kiss students and faculty. Then, in 2006, university administrators during Homecoming Week. Afterward, they thought I should be rotated to face west so I would appear proclaim themselves TRUE Wildcats. Considering to embrace the greater Ogden community. With this fresh my elevated stature, who could have predicted that perspective, I now symbolize the university’s famously friendly I’d ever be linked to such a scandalous campus. I’m not sure exactly when, or how, it began, but, over practice? (Luckily, it’s dark, so you don’t time, students and other passersby started giving my toe a see me blush.) cadaver. The cadaver lies embedded in a 6-foot, interactive table. (Think gigantic iPad.) With the flick of a finger, a student can “slice through” skin, bone, muscles, organs and tissue to peer closely at anatomical details of brisk rub for good luck, especially during finals. Hey, I figure it’s the human body. “That was really cool,” says a win-win situation — they get higher test scores, and I have Maughan. perpetually polished boots! It took Maughan about four months to earn Who am I? his WSU Traditions Keeper title. He claims his most difficult task was uploading photos to an online account. “I’m technologically challenged,” he confesses. “So, I took my phone over to the Lindquist Alumni Center and had Rebecca do that for me.” Ranking Campus Rituals Naturally, any self-respecting college or I consider myself Weber State University’s “coolest” tradition. I made my campus debut in the winter of 1995, an exciting time in Wildcat basketball history. With 10 wins and two losses, the “Lady ’Cats” — yes, that’s what our women’s basketball team was called back then — were on their way to breaking a pre-conference record. Meanwhile, the men’s team was on a red-hot, 11-home game-winning streak, and ramping up to scorch BYU-Hawaii in the Dee Events Center on Friday, traditions a cut above the rest; an official Jan. 6. To celebrate what would become the team’s 200th ranking would be largely subjective. home-court victory that evening, Farr Better Ice Cream, Nevertheless, BestColleges.com, an online Utah’s oldest ice cream manufacturer, introduced — me, company that posts various rankings to help a yummy, vanilla- and grape-flavored frozen concoction prospective students decide which schools designed especially for fans and supporters of Weber State best meet their needs, has taken a stab at University. Of course, I’m a little older now, but just as it. With a rubric based on uniqueness and sweet, delicious and available at the company’s original of Best Campus Traditions in 2019. Who am I? Mystery Tradition No. 2: university would deem its own campus longevity, the company compiled a top 25 list never an official naming ceremony for the so-called shop, 286 E. 21st Street, Ogden. Every so often, you’ll also find me at Farr’s South Ogden location, 4013 Riverdale Road. Mystery Tradition Answers: Education in Healthcare, he saw a 3D virtual be named in honor of someone. It’s true. There was 1. Statue of Louis F. Moench creaked.” Maughan says tradition No. 43: 2. Wildcat Wripple Ice Cream College’s 25th Street campus. He performed 3. Stewart Bell Tower he lived within walking distance to Weber Who am I? 20 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 21 FREE SPEECH, HATE SPEECH and a History of the FIRST AMENDMENT Amy Renner Hendricks MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 22 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 O n July 3, 2019, a trending Buzzfeed post titled “The Whole World is Wondering Why Americans Say This on the Fourth of July” poked fun at the fact that most Americans refer to Independence Day as the Fourth of July, the British format for dates, day/month, instead of July Fourth, the American format, month/day. And, “Didn’t North American colonists spend seven years fighting for independence from Great Britain?” the author quipped. The majority of commenters asked, “Who really cares?” Certainly not the whole world like the clickbait title inferred, but the story was sort of funny, in an ironic way, and it made some sense. The colonists had a different speech pattern at the time, and the colonies had been tied to Great Britain for so long that it seems natural they’d adopt the British way of saying Fourth of July. It’s easy to see both sides when the subject is trivial, like online. Some questioned whether America, where freedom of the formatting of calendar dates, but not so easy when the speech is a revered national value and protected by the First subject triggers deep-seated emotion, when the subject is, Amendment should also try to ban hate speech. Adrienne say, Colin Kaepernick — the former NFL quarterback who, Andrews, Weber State University’s assistant vice president for in 2016, opted to kneel during the pregame singing of The diversity, had an emphatic response to that question: “No,” Star-Spangled Banner, and this year, spoke out against Nike’s she said. “Censoring hate speech does more harm than good. Fourth of July-inspired shoes featuring a Betsy Ross-designed History shows that punishing hate speech rallies even more American flag with 13 stars for the 13 original colonies. Both people to hate.” times, Kaepernick said he was protesting wrongdoings against Richard Price, assistant professor of political science at WSU, minorities. Both times, he ignited a firestorm of conversations said other countries, Germany for instance, aggressively about patriotism, which, consequently, sparked heated crack down on hate speech from extremist groups, but, as a arguments on, among other things, freedom of speech. Both result, the censorship pushes those groups underground — a times, the comments were especially harsh online, from dangerous place for them to be. “Those countries might have people on both sides of the debate — those who thought made it harder for vicious hate groups to organize, but it also Kaepernick had the right to protest and those who didn’t. Both made them less visible,” said Price, who teaches a class on times, their conversations often went beyond civil discussions, free speech and who also is part of a group that received a crossing the line from hateful to hate speech, with offensive National Science Foundation grant to maintain a comparative name-calling and vicious attacks on each other’s race, religion, free speech database. “We can better monitor hate groups national origin and even physical characteristics. if we allow them to express themselves, as vile as their Also, on the Fourth of July or July Fourth, whichever you expression might be. One of my students made a great point prefer, news sites across the world were reporting that about this in class, saying, ‘I don’t like those people, but I French lawmakers had approved a measure intended to force like the fact that I can see them publicly and decide search engines and social networks to block hate speech how to respond.’” Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 23 HATE SPEECH Defined of ideas. “It’s the same as a marketplace of goods. We allow be very clear that Schenck is no longer good law. Clear and a revolution for tomorrow at 6 p.m. He was talking in the goods to compete, and we hope that, through competition, present danger is defunct. Actually, by today’s standards, abstract — that there may need to be violence in the future. the best goods win. And so it is with free speech. We have to Charles Schenck probably would not have been indicted.” With the Brandenburg ruling, the threat of violence in the look at the marketplace of ideas and allow ideas to compete … Clear and present danger was replaced by imminent lawless abstract became protected speech.” unless the idea presents imminent public danger.” action in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. Clarence Brandenburg, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, made a speech at a KKK rally. Technically, hate speech doesn’t have a legal definition, but During the speech, he made anti-Semitic and anti-black Supreme Court justices throughout the years have offered statements and alluded to the possibility of “revengeance” (sic) their opinions on the subject during specific cases. IMMINENCE In the 2011 case, Snyder v. Phelps, for example, the U.S. Explained Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment prohibited the imposition of civil liability upon Fred Phelps, leader of Westboro Baptist Church, whose members picketed the in the event that the federal government and Court continued to “supress the white, Caucasian race.” He was convicted of violating Ohio’s criminal syndicalism law, which made it a INFURIATING, Not Imminent crime to “advocate … the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a Could hate speech enrage people to the point they retaliate means of accomplishing industrial or political reform.” against the speaker or riot? Yes, of course. Would the speaker’s funeral of a Marine, whose father, Albert Snyder, sued Phelps It’s 1919. The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled against for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The court Charles Schenck, the general secretary of the Socialist Party Brandenburg was fined and sentenced to serve one to 10 years words then be considered to have produced imminent lawless reasoned that, while highly offensive, the picketers protested of Philadelphia, in a case that would give rise to the saying, in prison. action? “Generally, no,” Price explains. “There was a time at peacefully on a public street and that their “speech” was “You can’t shout fire in a crowded theater,” a paraphrase of a Ironically, the American Civil Liberties Union appealed a matter of public concern, mostly dealing with the moral sentence in Justice Wendell Holmes Jr.’s opinion, in which he Brandenburg’s case to the Ohio intermediate appeal court, conduct of the U.S. In his conclusion, Justice John Roberts said, originally said, “falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing which upheld his conviction without opinion. The Ohio a panic.” Supreme Court declined to hear the issue. “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and — as it did here — inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker. As a nation, we have chosen a different course — to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.” Price explains further: “Yes, what Westboro Baptist Church did was vile, but it was political in nature. That’s key. The church’s signs were about public policy. The church complied with all of the rules — time, place and manner restrictions. They stayed peaceful. The court says you can’t punish that.” Price says it’s helpful to think of free speech as a marketplace 24 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 According to a textbook titled Constitutional Law in a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice, which associate criminal justice professor Mark Denniston uses in his classes, Schenck “printed fifteen thousand pamphlets urging resistance to the draft. He mailed these leaflets, described by the government’s case as ‘frank, bitter, passionate appeal[s] for resistance to the Selective Service Law,’ to men listed in a local newspaper as having been called and accepted for military service. Federal authorities charged him with violating the Espionage Act; specifically, the United States alleged that Schenck conspired to obstruct military recruitment and illegally used the mail to do so.” Schenck was convicted on three counts and sentenced to 10 years in prison for each count. Denniston points out that you have to view Schenck from a historical perspective. When Schenck distributed his fliers in 1917, the world was at war. The U.S. had just drafted over 2 million men to the World War I effort. This infuriated people, like Schenck, who were anti war. Ultimately, the Supreme Court decided that wartime circumstances change the rules The U.S. Supreme Court took up the case and, ultimately, overturned Brandenburg’s conviction and issued a new test for all future restrictions on speech, the imminent lawless action test, which says the government may prohibit speech advocating the use of force or crime if the speech is directed to AND likely to incite imminent lawless action. In upholding the convictions, the Supreme Court created “What Brandenburg did was almost a threat,” Denniston the “clear and present danger” rule. For 50 years, the rule explained. “It wasn’t analyzed as a true threat because he helped the courts determine whether words used in certain didn’t have a definitive victim, and he didn’t give a specific circumstances created a clear and present danger that would timeline for violence. He only advocated for violence in the bring about “substantive evils,” as Holmes called them. abstract sense — ‘revengeance,’ whatever that meant. It clear and present danger,” Denniston explains, “but I want to people riled up. The criticism of that is it encourages a mob to silence others, which had very negative consequences.” Price brings up an incident of campus violence at the University of California Berkeley two years ago. “The related to free speech, and it upheld Schenck’s convictions. “So yes, Schenck was a landmark case because it gave us which the court could punish speakers for essentially getting wasn’t imminent. He wasn’t exhorting his followers to go burn university had a controversial speaker presenting on campus. They took every measure to protect him, but a riot broke out. People were throwing bottles, Molotov cocktails even. At that point, the university had to choose between actual violence or allowing the speaker to continue. The university decided that, since it could no longer protect the speaker, to move the speaker off campus. Whether or not that’s constitutional is a difficult question. I think it was fair, but the point is, you can’t arrest the speaker for the violence. He wasn’t encouraging anyone to break the law. “You also have to realize there are loopholes in all of this. It all still comes down to this very powerful idea of a marketplace of ideas. The marketplace is how we take information in, how we come to get ideas, and it makes politics better.” down the courthouse at 9 p.m. that night. He wasn’t arming Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 25 COMBATING Hate Speech Andrews relayed a story about a community vigil after the 2019 attack on a Muslim mosque in New Zealand. “Members of the Ogden community held a vigil with Muslim members of the community to show support and to share in the grief of losing people, people we will never have the pleasure of Andrews agrees, but adds that we need to communicate better knowing because they were murdered because of their faith. with each other about those ideas. “So often, we don’t have In the midst of having that vigil, individuals in vehicles with healthy debates,” she said. “During the Richard Nixon-John very loud mufflers drove up and down the street in front of F. Kennedy presidential debates, the candidates agreed that, city hall and shouted at the people. There has to be a more although they saw the world very differently, they had the continuous showing that we are inclusive. We need to believe same goal. I’m sad we’ve moved away from that, that we can’t we can have different traditions and different cultures and talk about big, important ideas as engaged communicators still have the same value as part of a common humanity.” who are able to disagree and still maintain a relationship. Andrews encourages everyone to counter hate speech with Now, if we don’t exactly agree, either I’m the devil or you are. positive speech. That is not a civil society. That is not who we are as a nation.” “Hate has the capacity to invade and infect any segment of I have certainly learned a great deal from the program. It has helped to round out areas that I society. That’s why I love Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so much. He said, ‘Hate is too big a burden to bear.’ He chose love. I didn’t even understand I had a gap in. aspire toward love, because as a human being, there is nothing in me that makes me better than what is in you. Do you know? Penned by James Madison, the Bill of Rights includes the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The amendments make specific prohibitions on governmental power. The First Amendment, for example, prevents Congress from “prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,” and establishes other rights, such as freedom of press, assembly, petition and the right to a fair and speedy trial. A common misconception is the First Amendment was first because it was the most important. “Technically, the First Amendment wasn’t “If we allow it to, hate will take over our lives. Hate closes doors. Hate shuts windows. Hate closes the flue on every fireplace, stifling us. “Love, on the other hand, love opens conversations. Love demonstrates willingness. 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The first two American Library Association FindLaw The First Amendment Encyclopedia National Constitution Center Oyez United States Courts amendments weren’t approved, so the third of 12 became the first of 10.” 26 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 No out-of-state increase APPLY NOW ON-SITE ORIENTATION Attend one orientation ONLINE COURSEWORK Online degree NATIONALLY RANKED Top 10 online healthcare management degrees in the nation ALUMNI DISCOUNT Weber State alumni who are accepted into the 2019 eMHA cohort will be eligible for an additional one-time 5 percent loyalty discount on the first semester’s tuition. weber.edu/mha Onward and Upward, Fighting Wildcats! Celebrating 100 years of football at WSU Matt Gerrish BS ’10, MPC ’15 with a win. schools. At the time, Weber Normal College was owned and They lost 20-0. operated by the church and was in its final few years as a high One month later, Weber Normal College earned its first victory school of 820 students. In September 1919, Weber Normal over Davis High School. College athletics coach Malcolm Watson announced that the school would field a team that fall. But there was a lot to be learned, on both the part of the coach and the players, and it had to be learned quickly — the first game was scheduled for Oct. 8, 1919. Sadler provided more details: “During this first football season, Weber played eight games, six in Ogden and two away. The away games were played at Brigham City and Granite High School. Weber won two games, defeating Davis High School 1924: After transitioning and LDS High School, and lost games to Box Elder, Brigham to a junior college, Weber Richard Sadler, retired WSU history professor and dean of Young College, the American Legion, Ogden High School and was primarily known as a the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, recounted those Granite High School. Weber played its football games on a “football” school, especially hurried months before Weber’s first football game in his dirt playing field at Glenwood Park (later known as Lorin Farr during the interwar years, book Weber State College: A Centennial History. He wrote, Park).” winning eight straight “Watson had been the coach of Weber’s athletic teams during the past five years and now would add football to the sports he coached. Watson spent the summer of 1919 ‘studying the science of football’ and also spent some time in Salt Lake City with Tommy Fitzpatrick, the football coach at the University of Utah to learn the rudiments of the game.” The football team boasted 27 student-athletes, with Joe Brewer as captain. The players — they wouldn’t be called Wildcats until 1928 (see the timeline to read more about In 100 years, fans have watched the Wildcats evolve from a high school team that played games on a small grass field in a local park to a collegiate national-title contender that plays in a 16,500-seat stadium that boasts, hands-down, one of the most beautiful views in northern Utah. The history is packed with great achievements, heartbreaking moments and phenomenal heroics. Join us as we take a look back. Intermountain Conferences beginning in 1924, when the 1 team earned a 33-0 victory over Phoenix Junior College in the Western States Championship. 5 6 YEAR policy permitting football teams to be organized at church historic autumn day in October, hoping to kick off the program YEAR The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted a — traveled 20 miles north to Box Elder High School on that YEAR It started in August 1919. MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Weber’s original “Wildcat,” football player Wallace Morris) 1925: Star player Wallace Morris was nicknamed “Wildcat” Morris, inspiring a local sportswriter to refer to the football team as “scrappy as a bunch of wildcats.” The name stuck, and the team became the Wildcats. 28 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 29 1966: In an effort to accommodate more fans, Wildcat Stadium was expanded with the construction of the west grandstand, nearly doubling its capacity. 46 YEAR YEAR 21 1942: Halfway through the season, Weber 47 College — along with YEAR many other programs around the country — was forced to abandon the football program as a 34 YEAR result of World War II. 1946: Football returned as a sport with the end 28 YEAR of World War II. 1953: After decades of 1965: Guided by coach playing home games Sark Arslanian, the at Lorin Farr Park, the Wildcats won a share Wildcats benefited from of their first Big Sky the school’s move to championship in 1965, and Harrison Boulevard, would eventually win it where Wildcat Stadium again three years later. The offered wooden success and camaraderie bleachers that seated of Arslanian’s teams (1965- 3,800 fans. 1972) led his players to self identify as “Sark’s Boys.” 1963: With Weber having 68 changed its status to a YEAR four-year institution in 1962, the Wildcats joined the Big Sky Conference in 1963 after playing one year as an independent. 1987: The Wildcats ended their 19-year drought in which the program had only three winning records in conference play, as Mike Price’s squad went 7-1 in Big Sky play to win the college’s first conference title in almost two decades. These Wildcats were also the first in school history to compete in the Division I-AA (now known as the FCS) playoffs, finishing the season ranked No. 9 in the nation. 30 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 Fall 2019 | weber.edu/wsumagazine 31 1998: After more than 40 years of use, Wildcat Stadium was renamed to Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Stadium. YEAR 100 YEAR 98 YEAR 82 YEAR 72 2001: Stewart Stadium was upgraded with a 38,000 square-foot Sky Suites & Press Box 1991: Weber State complex, growing the quarterback Jamie Martin stadium’s capacity to set a new standard in 16,500 fans. Wildcat record books, shattering various school and conference passing records en 2008: After another route to winning the long conference title Walter Payton Award, drought, Ron McBride’s honoring him as the team defied preseason nation’s top Division expectations to win a 1-AA player. share of the 2008 Big Sky crown with a 7-1 record, earning the Wildcats a trip to the FCS Playoffs, where Weber State advanced to the YEAR 85 32 weber.edu/wsumagazine | Fall 2019 quarterfinals. 2019: Weber State football will celebrate its 100th anniversary by opening its latest expansion of Stewart Stadium, Sept. 6 from 4-6 p.m. The 27,000-square foot north end zone expansion will include the Barbara and Rory Youngberg 2017 and 2018: For the first time in school history, the Wildcats Football Center, the Sark’s Boys Gateway, the Stromberg won back-to-back Big Sky championships, led by coach Jay Hill. Strength and Conditioning Complex, the Marquardt-Kimball Weber State earned its first ever home playoff win in the 2017 Plaza and the Behnken Plaza. Former players and coaches campaign, finishing the season ranked No. 5 in the country, the are invited to celebrate 100 years of Wildcat football as highest in school history. The 2018 season saw the Wildcats finish part of the Sept. 28 game against Northern Iowa. For more No. 6 in the nation after another FCS quarterfinals appearance. information, visit weberstatesports.com. The Call of the Wildcats: Alumni Association Leaders 2019-20 Clint Costley BA ’98 Alexa Rosen BS ’11, MBA ’15 President WSU Alumni Association President Young Alumni Council What’s your favorite outdoor destination? The Grand Canyon. I run the Rim to Rim trail every fall; it’s the most physically demanding and spiritual place I’ve found in nature. A close second is Ben Lomond Peak. What’s your favorite outdoor destination? Southern Utah, because I love the desert and the red rocks. While hiking, would you rather meet a rattlesnake, a grizzly bear or a mountain lion? A grizzly bear. (I’ve already met the other two.) If you could choose one celebrity to be your hiking partner, who would it be? Abraham Lincoln — because he’s Abraham Lincoln. Clint Costley Describe your wildest outdoor adventure or misadventure: Hiking Kings Peak with my son. It involved lightning strikes, torrential rain, fishing for food, purifying water, altitude sickness, a limited window to make a safe ascent and one long hike out in the dark. Amazing memories! Alexa Rosen After a rigorous outdoor adventure, would you rather return to a tent, a travel trailer or a hotel room? Hotel room. I need a shower and nice sheets. What’s your favorite outdoor adventure book? I like nonfiction accounts of events that test the boundaries of the human body and spirit. Into Thin Air and Everest: Alone at the Summit are both about the dangers and exhilaration of being on Mount Everest — at the top of the world. Hayden Bickley What’s your favorite WSU tradition? Traditions Keeper No. 9: Celebrate WSU Homecoming. My earliest WSU memories include attending athletic events at Stewart Stadium and the Dee Events Center when I was a kid. James Starley After a rigorous outdoor adventure, would you rather return to a tent, a travel trailer or a hotel room? A travel trailer because I like the in-between option of wilderness living with a few modern conveniences. Name something that tastes better eaten outdoors than indoors: Cheddar jalapeño sausages. Normally, I wouldn’t eat them, but when you’re camping and cooking over a fire, they’re a go-to! What’s your favorite outdoor adventure movie? Quigley Down Under starring Tom Selleck. It’s a quirky mix of romantic comedy and Wild West adventure with an inspirational theme of standing up for those facing difficulties. What’s your favorite WSU tradition? Traditions Keeper No. 17: Volunteer in Your Community. I’ll be forever thankful for the education and opportunities I received while attending Weber State. Now, as a Young Alumni Council member, I have an opportunity to give back to my university and community. Hayden Bickley BIS ’19 President Emeriti Alumni Council President Student Alumni Association What’s your favorite outdoor destination? Exploring the incredible scenery of Grand Teton National Park. What’s your favorite outdoor destination? Zermatt, Switzerland. A few friends and I skied there while backpacking in Europe. If you could choose one celebrity to be your hiking partner, who would it be? Tim Allen because his sense of humor would keep me laughing if the going got tough. Describe your wildest outdoor adventure or misadventure: In 2001, my sonin-law led my wife, my two daughters and me on an expedition to Grand Teton, the highest point of the Teton Range. We left the Lower Saddle at 8 a.m., but got lost in a steep, knobby section called the Golden Stair. It took us nine hours to reach the summit. After a rigorous outdoor adventure, would you rather return to a tent, a travel trailer or a hotel room? To a hotel room for a long, hot shower. What’s your favorite outdoor adventure book? My favorite stories involve 19th century mountain men. John Colter’s Escape From the Indians by Addison Sheldon is one of my favorites. What’s your favorite WSU tradition? Traditions Keeper No. 9: Celebrate WSU Homecoming. Everything about the homecoming game, from the beautiful setting at Stewart Stadium to the cheer squad and band to the various ceremonies, makes this event special. weber.edu/wsumagazine | Spring 2018 If you could choose one celebrity to be your hiking partner, who would it be? Miranda Lambert, so we could talk about gender equality and shelter pets, and sing country music together. James Starley BS ’85 While hiking, would you rather meet a rattlesnake, a grizzly bear or a mountain lion? A rattlesnake, because I think I could outrun it. 34 While hiking, would you rather meet a rattlesnake, a grizzly bear or a mountain lion? None of the above! But, I’d probably stand a better chance with a rattlesnake. Read about Traditions Keeper on page 16. While hiking, would you rather meet a rattlesnake, a grizzly bear or a mountain lion? A grizzly bear, just because I’ve never seen one in the wild, and it would be pretty awesome. If you could choose one celebrity to be your hiking partner, who would it be? Bear Grylls from the TV survival series Man vs. Wild. He could teach me outdoor survival tricks and entertain me with his cool accent. Describe your wildest outdoor adventure or misadventure: I lived on an Indian reservation in Paraguay for a time. We slept outdoors in hammocks, showered with buckets of well water and packed all of our food for weeks at a time. We also shared the area with crocodiles, snakes, spiders, wild horses, goats and bees. I woke up one night with a tarantula on my face! What’s your favorite outdoor adventure movie? Growing up, my brothers and I loved a movie called Wild America. It’s about three fearless brothers who travel the U.S. filming wild animals. We especially liked the part where the boys entered a cave with sleeping bears. What’s your favorite WSU tradition? Without doubt, it’s Traditions Keeper No. 12: Become a “True” Wildcat. After a WSU Homecoming dance, I kissed my date, a pretty girl named Courtney, under the Stewart Bell Tower at midnight. That’s how we both became true Wildcats, and the next summer, we got married. Fall 2019 | alumni.weber.edu 35 CLASS NOTES have two sons, two daughters The Church of Jesus Christ and eight grandchildren. The of Latter-day Saints, and Ramptons live in Lehi but he volunteers at the Ogden are currently serving in the Rescue Mission and as a Adriatic North Mission for mentor for WSU’s Leadership The Church of Jesus Christ of to Legacy program. David Latter-day Saints. and his wife, Gayle Foulger Nancy Hartog AS ’75 enjoyed a 30-year career in the A L U M N I U P D AT E S Imaging Services Department of Intermountain Healthcare’s McKay-Dee Hospital. She performed CT scans and MRIs, and spent Tensmeyer AA ’74, live in Layton. They have four children, two of whom are WSU graduates, and 14 grandchildren. Don’t miss out! The WSU Alumni Association awards a number of scholarships every year — over $65,000 worth in 2018-19. ’80s the last 16 years specializing in ultrasound imaging. Nancy lives in North Ogden. A MJ Quinn BA ’76 is an author and attorney who has won ’60s A the University of Utah in a second mission in Western certified middle school math 1967. Ric served on the board Australia. Marilyn has four teacher and a volunteer math Truman Carver AS ’63, of directors for the Utah sons, three daughters and club advisor for the Lake BS ’65 is a guidance Food Bank, as president 18 grandchildren. She lives Washington School District counselor in the Davis School of the board for the Utah in Ogden. in King County, Washington. District. He completed his Tennis Association, and he graduate studies at Brigham volunteered for Salt Lake Young University, where he Senior Transportation for 10 received his Utah counselor years. He married Claudia certification. Truman Ann Russell, and together operates the Pioneer Photo they raised three sons. Ric Gallery, a classic antique and Claudia live in Holladay portrait studio he opened and two great grandsons. in 1976. He is a member Following graduation, C. Robert “Bob” Day BS ’69 retired from the U.S. government after 38 years. He worked for the Department of Defense in logistics management and resource management. Bob and have 11 grandchildren at Lagoon amusement park of WSU’s Emeriti Alumni L received his master’s degree from Webster University in L 1974. He and his wife, Nancy Her husband, Kevin Folkman BS ’74, is an information technology specialist for the Issaquah School District, also in King County. Kevin has written articles on The Church of Jesus Christ of United Kingdom. He lives in New England. University of Tennessee in 1998. Duane has worked with child development and family programs for over 30 years and has been active in organizations at the state and national levels. He served of Family & Consumer Intermountain Healthcare. Sciences. He married Lisa Association for Mormon He still teaches in the (Call) Whitbeck AS ’83, who Letters. Katie and Kevin live residency program at McKay- has been a pediatric, nursery in Redmond, Washington. Dee Hospital. David received and neonatal intensive care They have six children and 10 his Doctor of Medicine unit registered nurse since grandchildren. degree from the University graduating. Duane and Lisa of Utah School of Medicine. have three children. where they recently F. Ric Hammond AS ’63, Paulo, Brazil. She then celebrated their 50th wedding BS ’64 retired after 34 years taught English at North Davis anniversary and where Bob with O.C. Tanner, where he Junior High. She speaks recently completed his 10th Edward Rampton BS ’73 served as vice president of Portuguese and German. year as an elected judge of retired after a 44-year client relations. He previously Marilyn lived in Thailand for elections. career in public power, worked for American Oil, two years, and then moved formerly Standard Oil of to Indiana, where she was Indiana and now Amoco a substitute teacher for alumni.weber.edu | Fall 2019 in the U.S., Germany and the and Instruction from the as a family physician with of Latter-day Saints in São 36 New York. He was educated Education in Curriculum he reviews books for the in Kaysville. having served as the chief BS ’73 is a national board workshopped and staged in in 1985 and his Doctor of and other groups, and live in York, Pennsylvania, Schools. She later served 2016. MJ also has had plays Dakota State University the American Association The Church of Jesus Christ after earning his MBA from which was published in master’s degree from North Mormon History Association wife, Kathy Carver, live Brownsburg Community novel series, Book 1 of Sciences. He earned his as the 2016-17 president of and six grandchildren. They Corporation, for five years writes the Periston Manor of Family & Consumer retired after nearly 40 years BA ’66 served a mission for Catherine “Katie” Folkman and comparative law. He University’s Department Latter-day Saints for the Jo Day, have three children ’70s and articles on international is chair of Pittsburg State David Tensmeyer BA ’76 Marilyn Hartog Porter Council. Truman and his awards for his short stories Duane Whitbeck BS ’82 governmental affairs officer for Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. He and his wife, Jana Rampton, He also holds a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. For 37 years, David has volunteered as a team physician for Weber State University Athletics. He twice served as a bishop for John D. Johnson BS ’83 is a professor of management information systems at Utah State University’s To request email notification of when to apply, visit alumni.weber.edu/scholarships. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, where he previously served as head L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association A Annual Member of the Alumni Association Fall 2019 | alumni.weber.edu 37 of the Department of Training Institute, the Iraqi coach and a national an English teacher, assistant Management Information version of the FBI Academy. competitor, coach and referee principal and principal. He Systems. John serves on He currently teaches law and in both powerlifting and USA also served as a member WSU’s Department of public safety at Walden Grove Weightlifting. He is currently of the school district’s Economics Advisory Board. High School in Sahuarita, a personal trainer at Foothill administrative cabinet for 13 He is a co-founder of PoliticIt Arizona, where he also chairs Personal Training in Salt years. He and his wife, Susan and RedBird Metrics. He is the Career and Technical Lake City. Eric received his Godfrey BS ’93, live in Sandy. also a co-founder, former Education Department. master’s degree in exercise chief technology officer and Douglas is a professor in the and sport science from the board member for FNC Inc. Administration of Justice University of Utah in 1994. John received his doctoral Studies program at Pima He serves as president of degree in economics from Community College in the board of directors for the Texas A&M in 1987. He and Tucson, Arizona. He and his Weber State Wildcat Club. wife, Colleen C. Hansen Eric is married to Dominique BS ’84, live in Sahuarita. M. Aragon. He has three his wife, Heather Johnson, L have eight children. They live in North Ogden. L L children and two pugs. Eric Aragon BS ’87 worked Jim Neal BS ’88 is the sales manager for Altria Group and Distribution Co. He previously worked as a store manager for Smith’s Food and Drug/ Fry’s. Jim volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and St. Mary’s Food Bank, and he is a member of the Rotary Douglas Hansen BS ’84 as a certified fitness Anthony Godfrey AA ’88, Club in Chandler, Arizona. retired from the FBI in 2006 professional for 29 years. BA ’93 was named He and his wife, Cheryl, and spent the next five years He has been a Division I superintendent of the Jordan have three children and in Iraq, where he helped assistant strength and School District in May 2019. two grandchildren. They establish the Iraq National conditioning He worked in the Jordan live in Chandler. Information & Investigation School District for 26 years as Join the WSU Alumni Association to honor outstanding alumni, students and friends for their contributions to the university and to the community. E A R O T N E BE M M CO r) inne acy D o Leg hip t Celebrate With Us to ship der a e help lL nua and n ure. r a e inn l fut the u d n f i p s i s rt cce orsh e pa ent a su Tak r m o y f ac re Leg epa s pr 19 t n de , 20 4 stu er 2 tob c O a y, rsd u h T . p.m 8 6 er ent C i n lum t A s i r. u ento dq Lin u/m Date: Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 Time: 7 p.m. Location: The Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts rs de (Lea Date alumni.weber.edu/wsusalutes : Time : Locat ion: d ber.e t tor a m Beco en eam i.we lumn a Fall 2019 | alumni.weber.edu 39 ’90s category during the 2019 books published in the last his Chartered Retirement Sarah Penn ASN ’04, BSN ’05 care business that he has Music City Distance Carnival two years. Her books are Planning Counselor© (CRPC) is a family nurse practitioner managed for 12 years. Lisa Hardin-Reynolds in Nashville, Tennessee, interactive. Each page asks designation. Kirk and his (FNP) for Lander Medical He volunteers with the BS ’90 was named CEO of where he finished in under a question, and the answer wife, Marcy Johnson BS ’03, Clinic in Lander, Wyoming. ZimbabWECare medical Girl Scouts of Utah (GSU) in 4 minutes, 20 seconds — comes by shining a flashlight have five children and live in She previously worked as missions to Africa. Zach and March 2019. She has worked 4:19:59 to be exact. Brad behind the page to reveal South Ogden. an FNP for Rocky Mountain his wife, Courtney Bergen, for the organization for 29 teamed up with WSU track a hidden image. Shauna is Emergency Specialists live in South Ogden. years, previously serving as coaching legend, Chick Hislop also a graphic designer who interim CEO, chief operating AS ’57, to train. With Hislop’s designs book covers and officer and vice president mentoring, Brad has also set interior layouts for Deseret of outdoor programs and masters world and American Book Company. She and property. Lisa has been records in the 1,500-meter, her husband, John Gibby, instrumental in building 3,000-meter and 3,000-meter have five children and 16 GSU’s outdoor program, steeplechase races. When grandchildren. helping thousands of girls he isn’t running, Brad is a create memories and gain a professional leadership and love of the outdoors at Camp inspirational speaker. He and Cloud Rim and Trefoil Ranch. his wife, Melissa Barton, and Kirk R. Johnson BS ’01 is a She has two daughters. several of their children make financial advisor with Edward their home in Spanish Fork. Jones in Ogden. He advises Shauna Nielsen Gibby individuals, small businesses world record-holder in the BS ’94 is a writer and author and nonprofits as they plan mile for the men’s 50-54 age who has had four children’s Masters runner Brad Barton A BS ’91 became the new ’00s L Rebecca Bennion BS ’04 is the running program coordinator for The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Salt Lake City, where she has worked in the physical therapy department, the sport science lab and the sport training program. Rebecca has professional certifications through the National Strength and and invest for the future. Kirk recently completed DRIVE — and PARK — and SUPPORT STUDENTS with Pride! Reserved parking spaces in lots A2, A6, A9 and W8 on the Ogden campus are now available for vehicles with official Weber State University license plates.* $25 of each plate purchased helps fund student scholarships. Visit alumni.weber.edu/licenseplate for more information. *Valid parking permits also required. Conditioning Association and USA Track and Field as a certified strength and and for Intermountain Healthcare. Sarah earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wyoming and is a volunteer with the local 4-H horse program. Sarah and her husband, Nate Penn, have three children and live in Lander. conditioning coach, and as Sgt. Shane Kibler BS ’06 has a level 1 certified track and worked for the state of Utah field coach. for 18 years, supervising a juvenile probation unit in and is the commissions and payroll accounting manager at Instructure Inc., an educational technology company in Salt Lake City. She earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Westminster College. Krissy and her husband, Fernando Soto, have two sons. They live in Salt Lake City with their two dogs. ’10s TalentMarks CAREER SPEAKER Webinar Series Gear up for your job search with the WSU Alumni Association’s online career speaker series, where top career authors share their tips and best practices for interviewing, networking, using social media and more. Timothy Reed BS ’10 is a served for 13 years as a freelance lighting designer security forces technical for productions on Broadway. sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He has served as the lighting He and his wife, Lindsay designer for Lewis Black: Kibler, have three children, Black to the Future and the two of whom received Broadway Cares/Equity bachelor’s degrees from WSU. Fights AIDS shows, Broadway The Kiblers live in Bountiful. Backwards and Gypsy of the For more information, visit Zach Smith AA ’06, Year. Timothy also has served as an associate lighting alumnicareerservices.org/weber. BS ’11 is the CEO and co-founder of Funded Today LLC, a crowdfunding agency that has raised funds for more than 3,000 new ideas and businesses Smith Investments Holding Group LLC, a hard money and real estate holding group. Zach is also CEO and founder of Unplugged LLC, a professional landscaping, fertilization and lawn alumni.weber.edu | Fall 2019 AS ’08 is a licensed CPA Salt Lake City. He previously worldwide. He also owns 40 Krissy Bigelow Soto designer for All My Sons, Meteor Shower, War Paint and The Illusionists, and as an assistant lighting designer for The Cher Show, Frozen, and others. Some of his national tours include Frozen, Finding Neverland, Elf The Musical, Twelfth Night, and Into the Woods. Timothy has also worked with Disney Cruise Line® - Norwegian Cruise Line, Cirque “R.U.N.” L Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association A Annual Member of the Alumni Association Fall 2019 | alumni.weber.edu 41 Stacy Bernal AS ’12, BA ’13 Adam Huffield MS ’13 is a Brent Jenkins BS ’13, MS ’14 Church of Jesus Christ of from Southern Utah Concert Series at Disney is a professional speaker and continuing lecturer at Purdue is a certified management Latter-day Saints. Brent University. Taylor’s World. He lives in New York coach for See Stacy Speak University in the nutrition accountant (CMA) and and his wife, Shelley husband, Sean Bishop City. LLC. In 2019, she became a science and health and finance professional for Johnsen Jenkins BS ’12, BA ’12, is a deployment U.S. founding member of the kinesiology departments. Goldman Sachs’ Human have three children and analyst for Workday in global organization, Keynote He is currently pursuing a Capital Management division. live in Plain City. Salt Lake City. They live Women Speakers, whose doctorate in educational Brent previously worked mission is to bring more leadership. Adam has over 15 for Allegiant for five years diverse female speakers to years of experience working as the manager for fleet stages around the world. in the health, fitness and planning and corporate Stacy founded the Awesome sports industries. He is a finance. He also has worked Autistic Ogden event, as well registered dietitian and a as a business analyst for the as a local nonprofit. She is a board-certified specialist in U.S. Institute of Languages. contributing writer for Scary sports dietetics. Adam is also Brent has a master’s degree Mommy, Autism Parenting a certified athletic trainer in global finance from Magazine and Thrive Global. and a certified strength Thunderbird School of Stacy also serves on the WSU and conditioning specialist Global Management, a unit Alumni Association Board through the National of Arizona State University’s of Directors. She and her Strength and Conditioning Knowledge Enterprise husband, Dusty Bernal Association. Development. He served a in Las Vegas, and the Disney L Ben Larsen AA ’11, MHA ’17, MBA ’17 is a patient experience leader for Baylor Scott & White Health in Central Texas. He previously worked for Intermountain Healthcare. Ben volunteers for Flying Doctors of America, United Way and the Boy Scouts of America. He and his wife, Kailene Wallentine Larsen AS ’09, BS ’11, have three children. Kailene is a dental hygienist and stay-athome mother. They live in Waco, Texas. BS ’03, live in Ogden. A mission in Cambodia for The CALLING ALL Callers! Know a student who needs a part-time in Ogden. Brenda Smith AS ’13, BS ’14 is the A Nina Morse AS ’16, development director BS ’17 is the for Weber State’s Jerry communications & Vickie Moyes College specialist at Northrop of Education and the Grumman Aerospace College of Engineering, Structures, where Applied Science & she manages internal Technology. Brenda communications. She started the Anything For serves on the West A Friend Foundation, a Haven Special Service local nonprofit that has District community raised over $2 million board. Nina is to assist more than pursuing a master’s 40 families in Davis degree in professional and Weber counties. communication. She Her husband, Blaine and her husband, Smith AS ’12, AAS ’12, Nate Morse, have one BS ’14, is a software daughter and two sons. engineering manager They live in West Haven. for Davis County. Brenda and Blaine are certified health coaches for Optavia. They have three sons, one daughter, and live in Layton. Ann Parry MPC ’17 is president of Harper She is a community the development director working with nonprofit for the annual phonathon, an important, for Weber State’s Division groups in Weber County student-led fundraising effort. of Academic Affairs. He and surrounding areas previously served as for 17 years. Ann has And alumni, remember, when a student development director for served as chair of the the Ogden Symphony board of trustees for Ballet Association, the Boys & Girls Clubs now Onstage Ogden, of Weber-Davis and is happening at Weber State. Please and as the community currently serving as an pick up. services coordinator for executive board member United Way of Northern and chair of the RAMP Utah. Taylor earned Tax Advisory Board of his master’s degree in Weber County. 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