HOCKEY CLUB: The Puck Stops Here AV Teele AUT Te mY Mey VISTA Weber News Vol. 6, No. |, Winter 2001 for State Alumni University and Friends ig Jodi Kilcup ONTENTS Graphic Design Hillary Hegstrom ‘98 for Kinara Contributing Writers Joe Bartenhagen 98 Barbara Bernstein 6 Eugene G. Bozniak Bradley W. Carroll What CAN WE LEARN FROM ANCIENT GREECE? WSU professors trace the Bruce Davis '79 ancient roots of western culture. Linda B. Eaton David E. Feller Melisa Holmes 8& Jodi Kilcup Rod Kilcup Wetcome to Our WirReD WoRLD: Meet the team that created and manages WSU Online, our headquarters for virtual education. Robert Mondi Lori M. Reagan Sandy Sowerby ‘95 Peter Vernezze [OQ Sen Welles ocean ay Livine To THE Max: Three WSU alumni lead rich lives dedicated to creativity AC TLC)aS Barbara Bernstein Melisa Holmes and service. [2 Tyler A. Holt °99 Mark Peterson A DAY IN THE LIFE OF WSU ATHLETES: Think it’s easy? Follow two Sandy Sowerby ‘95 student athletes on their Semele Photographers daily rounds. Robert Casey Brian Griffin | 4 Vista is published biannually by University Communications ©2001. Postage paid at Ogden, Utah. Distributed without charge to alumni and friends of Weber State University. Comments and questions about Vista may be sent to the editor at the address below. Comments also may be forwarded by phone: (801) 6266571: fax: (801) 626-7069; or e-mail: jkilcup@weber.edu 16 CHaNGinG Minos: WSU alumni and students share the benefits of lasting generosity. Atumni UPDATES: Check out the latest news about WSU alumni—and find out how the Wildcat became the WSU mascot! WSU Davis: BUILD IT Now! RENDERING OF THE PROPOSED CAMPUS BUILDING. POSTMASTER: Send address changes Om MRIoe Ao am ccm eIVaRSIOY 4016 University Circle, Ogden, 84408-4016 UT Weber State University web site: _ www.weber.edu WSU Alumni Association home page: MUN AnUeel LULL TAT Niel oLel me) ce On the Cover Look intimidating? That's how these star hockey players want it. On the ice, their padded bulk blurs into streaks of pure movement, as they chase the elusive puck. Playing forward for WSU's Division II hockey club, Don Weisweaver (top left) takes a break from his morning workout, along with Brett Fuller (center) and Chad Wilcox (top right), the team’s assistant captains. If you're interested in some exciting Wildcat athletics, check out the performance of these players and their teammates. Roy Van Orman, professor of social work and the hockey club's advisor since 1991, notes that the team placed third in the nation last year, playing against powerhouse squads from the University of Indiana, University of Michigan, University of Southern California and Michigan State University. The athletes share credit for their success with coach Rob Larsen and their general manager, Bill McCloud. Only the division's top 16 teams are invited to play in the nationals, an honor bestowed on the Wildcats for the past six out of seven years. This season, they're aiming for the top slot and may well achieve it. Don't be surprised if this issue's cover photo is pinned next to a few bunk beds across the country. “Every kid in amateur hockey across the country knows Weber State’s standings,” says Van Orman. Photos by Robert Casey. BiLL McCLoub, GENERAL MANAGER OF THE WSU HOCKEY CLUB. VISTA Back Forward/tookii oo EXPANSION IN LAYTON From humble beginnings 25S years ago, with a few students in a classroom at Hill Air Force Base, WSU's presence in Davis County has grown to serve thousands of students at five locations throughout the county. WSU Davis now offers four certificate programs, seven associate degrees, two bachelor’s degrees and a new master’s degree in business administration. In addition, the campus features a library, bookstore, computer lab, student learning center, classrooms and a full slate of university services. At WSU Davis, students are the focus of all we do. Many students comment on the easy access, convenient parking, the ease of handling administrative chores such as admission and registration, and the non-intimidating atmosphere of the Layton campus. This is particularly important for new students and non-traditional students returning to school after several years in the workforce or raising children. TURN-AROUND SUCCESS STORIES Debbie Sheldon is one such student. After an | 8year career in retail management, and while facing the challenges of single parenthood, Debbie came to WSU Davis to continue her education. “The faculty and staff at the Davis Campus made it easy for me to come back,” she said. “Their support helped me believe in myself and gave me the confidence | needed WiN TER 200 1 to succeed in college.” As president of the WSU Davis Student Council, Debbie has developed leadership skills through community service, a central component of student activities at the campus. Students have organized food drives, collected clothing for refugees, and gathered hundreds of teddy bears for distribution to needy children by police, fire and community service agencies. “I'm proud to be a part of something larger than myself, to make a difference in my community,” she remarked. Another success story at WSU Davis is Todd Rose, last year’s student senator. Todd dropped out during his senior year of high school with a 0.9 grade-point average. After the birth of his first child, he decided he owed it to his family to continue his education. “I was lucky enough to begin my studies at the Davis campus,” said Todd. He soon proved himself as a student and graduated last year with university honors and a 3.97 grade-point average. He is now continuing his education at Harvard University, where he has been awarded a scholarship and admission to the school’s doctoral program in psychology. BRIAN GRIFFIN nyone who has lived in Davis County for any length of time can attest to the phenomenal growth that has taken place there. Davis is now the third largest county in Utah and can claim the state's third-fastest growth rate. It’s no surprise, then, that enrollment at Weber State University’s current Davis campus has increased by 214 percent over the past six years. With the Davis ~ campus already filled to overflowing, WSU is taking steps to prepare for the future. Several years ago, the university acquired a site for a new campus on 105 acres just south of Hill Air Force Base. This campus eventually will provide educational, cultural and economic development resources for communities in Davis County. Efforts currently are under way to secure funding for the first building. Eventually, the new campus will triple the daytime access and courses available to WSU Davis students. ROBERT CASEY GROWTH IN Davis CouNTY CALLS FOR A New Campus SMALL CAMPUS, BIG SERVICES WSU Davis also serves a large population of traditional students. Rachel Thurgood, who graduated from Clearfield High School last June, chose WSU Davis because of the location. “Taking classes at the Davis campus helps me to make the most of my time,” she said. “I also like the small campus feel with the big campus services.” Rachel got an early start on her college career by taking summer classes and is augmenting her learning through community service as a member of the student council. Reproduce these success stories by the hundreds and you begin to see the impact of WSU's presence in Davis County. Plans to expand WSU Davis are central to the future of Weber State University, building on 25 years of experience and commitment to educating the citizens of Davis County. "4 — Bruce Davis ‘79, WSU Davis Apove: Bruce Davis ’79, WSU Davis Campus DiIRECTOR AND THE PROPOSED SITE FOR THE NEW CAMPUS. BELOW: TO INCREASE AWARE- NESS OF THE.NEED FOR EX- PANDED FACILITIES IN DAVIS COUNTY, BUTTONS AND SWEAT- SHIRTS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED WITH THE SLOGAN, “WSU _ DAVIS — Buitp iT Now!” WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS STUDENTS SEE JAMAICA @weber.edu Hundreds of students traveled to WSU last April for a dose of literary mentoring from author Jamaica Kincaid (below) , during the 15th annual National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Born and educated CLICK HERE FOR NEWS ABOUT WILDCAT ACHIEVEMENTS, ACTIVITIES AND HAPPENINGS in the Caribbean islands, LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST Kincaid is the author of several books, Noemi Ban vividly remembers the last including At the Bottom of the River, moments she spent with her grand- which was nominated mother, mother, sister and baby brother. for the PEN\Faulkner It was summertime in 1943. The train Award. For the confer- had finally rolled to a stop after an ence’s keynote address, exhausting she eight-day journey to Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi con- read from her most recent book, My centration camp. Upon stepping out of Brother. The literature the cattle car, Ban was directed to a line conference gives stu- on the left. Her family was shuffled to dents the right. As both lines edged forward, opportunity to present HEADCOUNT HEADLINES accident. In the blink of an eye, Maw, Weber State University made history who had no insurance, was faced with last fall with a 7 percent rise in enroll- a new life as a quadriplegic. To support ment. The increase, one of the largest Maw, WSU students persuaded Reeve this year among Utah colleges and uni- to speak at WSU for 25 percent of his the confused teenager lost sight of her critical and creative papers to an audi- versities, gave WSU its highest overall normal fee. The event was held in the loved ones. She would never see them ence of their peers. The event is the nationwide the student enrollment Dee Events Center and raised thousands again. Ban shared her story of horror, nation’s largest undergraduate gather- surpassed 16,000. New freshmen num- of dollars. Reeve spoke on the rapid triumph and forgiveness with hundreds ing of its kind. bers were up 8 percent and transfer advancements in science that may one of WSU students and community mem- Students were up 10 percent. day change the lives of spinal-cord bers during Holocaust Remembrance FUTURE TECH TITANS injury victims. Week. Born in Hungary and deported to The U.S. Department of Labor listed Auschwitz at age 19, Ban later immi- computing and computer-related fields headcount when SUPERHERO SUPPORT among the 10 fastest growing occupa- He didn’t leap any tall buildings, but he POEM ON THE RANGE grated to the U.S. with her husband and did help make a devastating situation From his earliest days growing up on two sons, where she taught grade school tions in the country. That's just one reason better, capturing a lot of hearts along remote Nevada ranches, Waddie Mitchell until her retirement. Now in her 70s, why the College of Applied Science & the way. (at right) was immersed in the cowboy she travels tirelessly across the nation, Technology launched Utah's first com- Actor Christopher Reeve (below) was the centerpiece of a special way of enter- sharing her story with communi- puter engineering technology degree open-hour lecture to help one of WSU's taining—the ties who are working to foster program last fall. The new CET program own. Nearly a year ago, Matt Maw, a art of spinnin dialogue and tolerance. will offer both two- and four-year degrees. world-class tumbler and mascot for tales in rhyme broke his neck in a tumbling and meter that SHARP SHOOTERS over time has For the third year in a row, the bleshoot and modify tools ranging from become “cow- WSU women’s basketball team computers and electronic systems to was automated, programmable controllers. WSU, -_ Students enrolled in the program will boy poetry.” Mitchell, the 1 Biaii a. named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association learn to install, operate, specify, trou- academic honor roll. This year the Lady ON ToP OF THE WORLD Shared his stories of humor, tragedy, Wildcats ranked 11th in the nation, with The lure of high altitudes and exotic life, death, struggles and triumphs with a team grade-point average of 3.3. The culture attracted a group of WSU hon- Students and the public during the list was compiled from statistics sub- ors students, Western Region Conference mitted by WBCA members and reflects alumni, who joined Ogden physicians last spring. The event team GPAs from the 1999-2000 season. and dentists on an adventure designed world’s best-known held at WSU attracted dozens hundreds cowboy Honors poet, of students from of universities and throughout the western U.S. colleges professors, staff and to help others. The group (above right), led by by Mikel Vause *82, WSU Honors Program director, spent a month last summer trekking to a dozen remote VISTA shows, she made a few phone calls. That same day, the station agreed to donate its current set (including stage, anchor desk and backdrop) to WSU's the Olympic Youth Camp. Sponsored Communication Department. University by colors have been incorporated into the together 400 teens from nearly 200 upscale set, which can be seen weekly countries, a tradition of each Olympics. on KULC Connelly news Channel segments 9 during evening produced by WSU broadcast journalism students. McDonalds, the camp attended brought opening cere- monies, had breakfast with nine-time, track-and-field gold medalist Car! Lewis and learned about environmental OLymMPiIC COUNTDOWN issues and hundreds of cultures. The Six distinguished WSU alumni stepped Dane LeBlanc, a WSU campus police youth camp participants were selected into the spotlight lieutenant, headed “down under” last fall based on their academic achievements, Home- with a group of 32 security personnel community service and athletic back- coming awards ceremony in Septem- from Utah, to volunteer at the 2000 grounds. Connelly, the fourth-highest ber: WSU Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. In ranked of the awardees told inspiring stories 2002, security graduated early from Viewmont High about exemplary lives, careers, com- efforts at the Weber County Ice Sheet, School, in Bountiful, Utah, and enrolled at WSU last summer. WSU villages in the Himalayan region of Nepal, where they delivered medical and school supplies, hygiene packs and battery-powered computers. The 24-member crew also conducted several impromptu medical and dental clinics, where they distributed antibiotics and pain relievers, conducted minor surgeries, and diagnosed ments. Altogether, the group ailhiked some 175 miles—gaining and losing a total of 60,000 feet in elevation during SALUTES Alumni during Association's the WSU annual Salutes. Video biographies LeBlanc will manage mitment to service and contributions to campus. Since the event will be indoors, The Lewis W. Shurtliff Award was pre- LeBlanc sented to Ben H. Day, former president aspect of security operations at Sydney's Want a dose of campus life? Check out of Coca-Cola Darling which The Signpost Online, the Internet edi- such events as weightlifting, tion of WSU’s student newspaper. The Bottling Company of participated Harbour in nearly every Complex, housed ed community volunteer, received the fencing, boxing, judo and volleyball. New ‘W’ Distinguished Service Award. campus. For years, crews have strung more than 1,000 feet of incandescent light bulbs across Reeve's pattern to be lit throughout Homecoming festivities. To keep up with WSU's changing Ogden-based image, engineering scape company Reeve's and land- recently re-surveyed the hillside and reshaped the icon to represent the university's current logo —the “flaming W” (above). Powered by a 2,/00-watt generator, the new 150-foottall masterpiece presided over evening festivities during Homecoming 2000. guished Alumni Awards were given to can browse through the editorial section H. DeWayne Ashmead ’70, president March. The event, which drew hundreds for the latest news or visit sections of Albion in Clearfield, of participants and spectators, was held devoted ’69, presi- at the Ice Sheet. WSU will help facilitate sports, features, archives and classified dent of Sam’s Club and executive vice the 2001 world championship tourna- ads. Don't forget to share you president of Wal-Mart; and Jean Anne ment at the Ice Sheet this spring. Both and opinions by Waterstradt °43, professor emerita at events serve as practice runs for offi- Laboratories Utah; Thomas R. Grimm Brigham Young University. The association’s Emeriti Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bartelt W. Wolthuis 40, dentist and former mayor of Ogden. BROADCAST News anon It weighed 2,500 pounds and had to be ~ cut up into nearly 50 pieces just to fit through the door—but it WSU communication pro- fessor, heard KSL-TV in Salt Lake City was planning to install a new “set” for its news 200 1 Curling © 3 wore l - e rf i ga : est Championships www.weber.edu/signpost. Online readers last When Allison Barlow Hess, TER site is updated three times a week at WSU was home to the U.S. 2000 Distin- SITE WORTH SURFING National was a gift worth $100,000. WtN country, the success and reputation of WSU. Ogden. Beverly (Betts) Nye, a dedicat- giant “W” on the mountainside above in the the Olympic curling venue on WSU's their journey. In 1968, John Reeve ’65 mapped out a bobsledder aii e to arts and sendi entertainment, it WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE . ~ eaching classics often means having to explain | not only what you do, but why you devote your life to studying long-dead cultures. If you have listened to a debate, voted, watched the Olympics, attended a play, seen a doctor, or marveled at an astronomical discovery, you have participated in Greek civilization, still quite alive in its modern form. Imagine you are a time-traveler in fifth-century Athens. What issues of the day would you hear discussed? Perhaps it would be Euripides’ latest play, a gritty drama of adultery, incest and murder. Someone claims it really opened his eyes and made him think. Someone else sees it as typical of the corrupting filth that passes for drama these days—and paid for with public money! A group returning from a meeting of the Assembly continues to debate the pros and cons of capital punishment. And what about that newly proposed law that would make it more difficult to become an Athenian citizen? Then there is foreign policy. Should you buy Pericles’ argument that Athens is the greatest state in the world, a shining city on the hill for all to admire, and is, therefore, justified in deploying its military power to interfere in another state’s internal disputes? Eavesdropping on another conversation, you hear about the latest scientific theories of Anaxagoras, who suggests that thunder and lightning have nothing to do with Zeus at all, but are merely. ciouds pumping and rubbing together. ne And don't even get people. started about Socrates and his peculiar religious ideas! In spite of our astounding technological progress in the past 2,500 years, today's social and political issues are not much different-from. those of the ancient Greeks. The trouble with only looking at the present is that we don't know how it ends, and by the time we. do, it will be too late. With the hindsight of | history, we can see not only where we have been but —— where we may. be going. For in the realm of human ie relations, hile is very little new under the sun. — Robert Mondi, Foreign Languages ‘ WIV CIN V | ¥ magine a world where nobody asked, “Why?” In | Greece, at the beginning of the sixth century BC, nature was embodied by a pantheon of Greek gods who meddled with mortal affairs in a universe governed by divine whim. Only a few philosophers searched for natural, rather than supernatural, explanations. They asked, “What is the world made of? How large are the earth and the moon? What is our place in the cosmos?” Some of their answers seem strange to modern minds. Empedocles (fourth century BC) argued that everything consists of four primary elements: earth, air, fire, and water, in combinations determined by the balance of Love (attraction) and Strife (repulsion). We may be puzzled by the particulars of Empedocles’ scheme, but we must honor his intuition. The idea that every substance is a combination of fundamental elements is the core of contemporary chemistry. The balance between Love and Strife is today recognized as the balance between positive and negative electric charges. Seyeral Greek philosophers calculated Earth's spherical shape and size. Aristotle (third century BC) pointed out Earth's circular shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. Eratosthenes (second century BC) measured the lengths of shadows in the towns of Alexandria and Syene and accurately calculated that their separation is 1/50 of Earth's circumference. Greek measurements of Earth’s size and shape were -never lost and were later used by Columbus (who deliberately used Ptolemy's smaller value for Earth's circumference so his planned voyage would appear more plausible to the Spanish court). Today, scientists — are still asking questions that were first posed in ancient Greece. ~ — Brad Carroll; Physics ur world recently. passed the six--billion population mark and we live within a day's flight of its far-flung corners. This challenges us to understand and teach our students how today’s world came together in a distant region, where the descendants of African kings, Celtic warriors, Chinese nobles and VISTA : Arab traders rubbed shoulders, trading ideas as well as goods across distances that took months to travel. Consider the ancient Greeks. They formed the linchpin for ancient commerce between African and Asian traders and merchants in the West, now Europe. The earliest Greek civilization, the Minoans (1 900-1400 BC) passed wealth and ideas from eastern trading contacts to Greek mainland city-states like Mycenae (1 600| 100 BC), which in turn traded with counterparts in present-day Europe, Syria, Israel, India and China. Classical Greek thought continues to shape our ideas about civilized society, but we should remember that the Greek city-states did not arise in isolation. Occupying the fertile borderland between East and West, the Greeks were well positioned to profit intellectually and fiscally. Today's shrinking world is a network of trade routes, both actual and virtual, connecting peoples never known to our ancient forebears. We, like the ancient Greeks, have a world of opportunity before us. — Linda Eaton, Anthropology THE LEgACy OF SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION A ncient Greeks contributed to the healing arts and sciences through the use of drugs from plants, many of which we continue to use today. Their insights came from superb observation rather than experimentation. Aristotle (384-322 BC), the first great biologist, made a conscious decision to avoid the vicissitudes of artificially created experimental conditions, opting instead for carefully recorded observations of natural events. He was the first to correctly identify the sources of amber and ambergris, to connect tides to the phases of the moon, and to note that the offspring of dolphins and whales suckled and hence were not fish (a fact that seems to have escaped Miami Dolphins fans who call their team “the Fish”). Aristotle also gave us the notion of a tripartite soul (psyche). He taught that plants contained only vitality (vegetabilis), while animals also contained sensitivity (sensibilis) and humans additionally had rationality (rationalis). The consequent attitude that plants are slightly more advanced than “dirt” remains with us as we grant animals higher standing (zoochauvinism) and humans the highest (anthropocentrism). Theophrastus (371-287 BC), the “Father of Botany” and a student of Aristotle, tried to give plants their due without much success, as do contemporary botanists. — Eugene Bozniak, Botany IMAgININg THE SOUND oF Music R elics of ancient Greece bear witness to a flourishing musical art and heritage, which peaked during the classical age (450-325 BC), when music was woven into all aspects of Greek life: ceremonial rites, marriages, funerals, the harvest and singing competitions. Unfortunately, only a few fragments of the music survive. WINTER 20 0 1 But how did ancient Greek music sound? Opinions vary, but we are certain that songs were composed of one un-harmonized melodic line, with sounds similar to the music of many Eastern cultures. Text and music were linked; most poetry was sung or recited to an instrumental accompaniment. The “beat” in vocal music was related to the rhythms and natural speech inflections of the text, not unlike the strong pulse in today’s American popular music. Ancient Greeks played the lyre and “kithara” as solo instruments and to accompany singing and recitation in many forms of worship and celebration. The “aulos,” another popular instrument, was a double oboe consisting of two cylindrical tubes made of bone, wood or ivory, about 20 inches in length, strapped to the player’s head. Unfortunately, the aulos may have suffered from a touch of class stigma, when Homer suggested it was an instrument of common country people. — David Feller, Performing Arts SOcRATES: THE THIRD VVAy NX ietzsche called Socrates the most problematic character among the ancients. Notoriously, Socrates claimed to know nothing. Thus, many people think Socrates was a moral skeptic or, worse, a relativist who believed there was no right or wrong. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. Remember that Socrates died for his beliefs and, when offered a chance to escape from prison, refused—hardly the actions of someone without a moral compass. No, Socrates confronted the relativists of his day (the sophists) and found their arguments wanting. But he also spent time with those who were convinced that they knew right from wrong, and he made an interesting discovery. They, too, had no idea what they were talking about. Socrates concluded that humans are destined never to have ultimate answers in ethics; these are available to God alone. But if we can neither live in a moral vacuum of relativism nor attain absolute moral answers, what are we to do? Socrates suggested a third way, one I believe we desperately need to resurrect. We should search for the truth and arrive at our best answers, always recognizing the fact that we might be wrong. Acceptance of ethical fallibility is the insight behind Socrates’ claim of ignorance. If we acknowledge that we might be mistaken in ethical matters, we may be more likely to enter into dialogue with those who differ from us, less likely to demonize our opponents and dismiss their opinions, and more willing to cooperate. Given the polarized state of politics in this country and around the world, the Socratic recognition that ethical humility is not inconsistent with a search for the truth is a message that seems especially timely. — Peter Vernezze, Philosophy msi) Pane )eMali te 1e, PROFESSORS ROBERT MONDI, eyeyNBya @yv>1"16)EE. LINDA EATON, GENE BOZNIAK, DAVID FELLER, AND Malian fag N24 WELCOME TO OUR WSU ONLINE Mars THE NEW TERRAIN OF SAAS Puan VIRTUAL EDUCATION t could be any one of hundreds of Internet startups. The group is young and innovative; their customer base is growing rapidly. They are all online all the time and they work closely as a team. They use instant messaging to communicate among themselves, “because e-mail is too slow.” They are not only building their business, they are building the tools with which they do business. Their customers and content providers drive improvements. They almost never see their customers face-to-face. Yes, this could be any dot.com organization. But instead of a Silicon Valley start-up, this group is composed of Weber State University employees who develop and run the university's Internet campus, WSU Online. They don’t work 20-hour days (well, not usually) and they don’t take breaks for pizza or foosball in the office. But in most other ways, the WSU Online team is typical of how the Internet is carrying us into the wired world of work and learning. KUDOS FOR INNOVATION THE WSU ONLINE TEAM ASSEMBLES FOR A FACE-TOFACE PLANNING SESSION. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: KRAIG CHuGG °95, CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE PROFESSOR; TAMARA AirRD CHASE ’81, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR: Cinpy PaLumBo ’92, SECRETARY; JEFF WILLDEN °95, WEB DESIGNER; MARV ELLIS "96, WEB DESIGNER; SCOTT ALLEN, WEB DESIGNER; AND SUSAN SMITH ’83, SERVICE DEVELOPER. faculty and staff have made numerous presentations about WSU Online at regional and national professional conferences. WSU Online started out like most e-businesses; somebody had an idea. In this case, it was Alan Livingston, then director of CATS (Communication Arts and Technologies) at WSU, who met with a small group of Continuing Education staff in 1995 to bounce around the idea of a campus in cyberspace. Livingston and his colleagues shopped their proposal around campus the next spring, getting conceptual buy-in from key groups (the academic equivalent of venture capital). And the rest is history. The growth curve has been typical of successful Internet start-ups. WSU Online was launched in the Fall Quarter of 1997, offering 19 courses and enrolling around | 79 students. By Fall Semester of 2000, there were ten times as many course sections offered, with 20 times as many enrollments (see bar chart at right). WSU Online, the first virtual campus in Utah, has been highly successful. Not only has enrollment steadily increased every year, the project is widely recognized in the distance learning profession. In 1998, WSU Online received a national award for innovative distance education from the University Continuing Education Association. In 1999, WSU Online was invited to participate in a national benchmarking study conducted by the Institute for Higher Education Policy and was presented as a case study at an institute sponsored by the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommuni- cations. In the spring of 1999, WSU recognized the founding group of online faculty and staff with the university’s Faculty Collaboration Award. Both a so ROBERT CASEY VISTA CYBERSPEED GROWTH The group responsible for that growth line is small. It includes a project leader to manage finances and keep tasks moving, a course developer, two programmers, an individual who provides student support, an office manager and a couple of hourly student employees. Only one person has a degree in computer science; two have master’s degrees in instructional technology. Otherwise, their academic backgrounds include nursing, statistics, technical sales and family studies. All of them found their way to the wired world as a natural career step. As team member Marv Ellis ‘96 said during a recent planning retreat: “Isn't it weird that we're all making our living doing something that barely existed five years ago?” And yet none of them would trade it for a more traditional career. Working at the speed of cyberspace has provided them with exhilarating professional growth. The “Web” is a familiar metaphor to Internet users who surf the links between thousands of sites. In the case of the online team, the group itself functions like an interconnected web. They are in almost constant contact, even though one member telecommutes all the time, another one works from home frequently, and each of them works from home three or four days a year. The entire group meets face-to-face twice a month, for problem-solving and planning. Unlike the WSU Online Enrollment Class : Sections ~ Student Enrollments I assembly lines and iron-clad specialization of the old economy, this group brings different perspectives to bear on a single issue and values divergent opinions. When there is a problem to solve or an innovation to develop, they bounce ideas around like a verbal game of hacky-sack. “Couldn't we just...?” “Well, maybe. But then how would you...?” “| know. What about....” “Yeah. That’s right. And then we can...” Markers fly and the whiteboard is filled. Tasks are divided up (or “dynamically allocated,” as Jeff Willden ‘95 says), deadlines are set, and they all head back to their computers. Visit WitN WSU TE Online R 200 1 at This group looks for information online—they identify trends, check out new products and even buy them online. Susan Smith '83, who specializes in online support services for students, says, “We almost never go to the library.” Online students don’t need to go to the library very often either. Staff at WSU's Stewart Library provide many virtual services, including “ask a librarian.” Card catalogs, reference databases, and interlibrary loan can all be accessed via the World Wide Web and faculty increasingly are using electronic reserves to make materials available to their students. MORE, BETTER AND FASTER WSU Online students have much in common with customers of other Internet businesses. Two-thirds of them are 25 or younger. As part of the “Nintendo generation,” they expect online service to be “more, better and faster.” Students recently were asked “What advice would you give other online students?” One replied: “Get a high-speed cable modem.” Some online students expect immediate responses to every click of the mouse. One commented on the “slow” response from an online instructor, yet that instructor interacts with online students every single day. Not all WSU Online students are so aggressive or so young—20 percent of them are over the age of 30. Online staff work hard to provide an online environment that is comfortable for the novice user, according to project leader Tamara Aird Chase ‘81. The navigational structure is designed to be as intuitive as possible, and access to courses is controlled so that only enrolled students can participate in discussions and learn each other's e-mail addresses. The online team “deals with a system that deals with people,” as Willden puts it, a system that makes it easy for students to register, buy books, use the library and go to class, all via the Internet. Students with computer problems may e-mail a question to an online technical support tracker, which then routes messages, according to subject, to the staff member who can solve the problem. A few students (only one or two percent) phone the office with questions or problems, and it is a rare and much-talked-about occasion when a student actually walks into the office. Yet out of sight does not mean out of mind. Online faculty report that they sometimes know their online students better than students who sit in their classrooms. Instructors may go online to see a roster that includes ID card photos of students who allow their photos to be posted. Many online instructors include a photo of themselves in their course Web pages. And speaking of instructors, they come from all across the faculty spectrum, from straight out of graduate school through retirement. Even though online staff will create Web pages for them, most faculty seem to prefer to learn how to do it themselves. “This is the way the world is going,” they say. “We need to know how to do this.” http://wsuonline.weber.edu. — Peg Wherry, Continuing Education YouNG ALUMNI BALANCE FAMILIES, CREATIVITY AND SERVICE LIVING TO THE “People say that what we're seeking is a meaning por life. I don't think that’s what we're seeking. | think what we're seeking is an experience op being alive... 80 that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about...” — Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth Expanding the Boundaries of Music and Medicine hen Diane Wilson ’82 was a little girl, she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to become a lawyer or an architect. When she grew up and attended Weber State, she earned a degree in music. And then became a doctor. Today, she works as a family practitioner at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. And she fiddles. And rides horses. And doesn't appear to know the meaning of the word “leisure.” “People relax in different ways,” Wilson says. “Fiddling has always relaxed me. It's actually allowed me to get through some tough times.” Though she plays music to relax, Wilson seems to approach fiddling with the same passion most people reserve for their jobs. She plays in her family band, the Hales Family Fiddlers, which travels to Europe once a year to take part in folk-music festivals. According to Wilson, while medicine has offered her some rather vivid moments, the experience of playing” at the festivals has bordered on the overwhelming. “| remember playing in this square in Mexico surrounded by three-quarters of a million people,” she says. “When we finished /# playing, people sort of swarmed around us—they just wanted to touch us.” To other people, Wilson's schedule might seem too full to be enjoyable, but Wilson says it suits her fine. “| have a very understanding and supportive husband, who married me before | went to med school,” she says. “Couples don't usually make it through the intensity of that experience, but we did, and continue to do so.” Going to medical school meant spending two or three nights a week away from home. Other nights, filled with studying, went late, too. That, coupled with the fact that her husband was busy pursuing his master's degree in public administration, meant that their time together was limited. “Yes, it can be difficult juggling all those ROBERT CASEY 10 things,” Wilson says, “but you have to be committed to everything in your life. You have to approach everything you care about with passion. If you're passive about your relationships and committed to your job, then | suppose your relationships would suffer.” It sounds as if that passion will continue for some time. Wilson, who has already done a rotation in Fiji, says her next medical move will be to Central America, where she says she just wants to help. No doubt, she'll bring her fiddle. And her husband. And something to keep her busy in between everything else. Returning Home to Dinétah urtis Ray Benally ’96 views his life as a matter of balancing a traditional Navajo lifestyle and a modern one. After being away for 15 years, Benally recently chose to return home to the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region. Part of what brought him back was the fact that his mother, whose epilepsy had been steadily worsening, needed him. After graduating from WSU in 1996 with a bachelor of fine arts degree, Benally headed for New York City. In a world where it can take years to get a gallery show, Benally had a couple within a matter of months. It wasn't a problem being a Navajo artist on the east coast. The problem came when Benally didn’t act the way New Yorkers thought a Native American should. “Being a Native artist can be a double-edged sword,” he says. “People expect a certain persona or style in your artwork and try to categorize you in a particular genre. You are expected to say something profound right on the spot or be ‘one with Mother Earth.’ When it isn’t that way, people don’t know what to think. It’s difficult to break stereotypes.” Eventually, Benally left the east coast to pursue a master of fine arts degree at the University of Oklahoma. When he finished there in 1999, he knew Vista Creating a World of Images t's early in the morning, but Chad What he found is a culture that is struggling to preserve its traditional ways and language. He also returned to a society riddled with joblessness, alcoholism and political corruption, combined with new concerns related to gang activities, drugs and apathy. Perhaps most ironically, he’s found little opportunity to pass on his experiences or show his work. “| have great reverence for my culture,” he says. “lam determined to find my niche. | just have to be a little more patient. If someone in my family or if another native person is inspired by my accomplishments, then all my hardships and sacrifices weren't in vain. | don’t mean that in an arrogant sense. My grandmother and my mother used to tell me to ‘teach by example.’ Now, | know what they mean.” Benally found such an opportunity when he was asked to play the lead character in a movie called Lii Biyiin (Horse Song). Produced by Four Directions Health Communication and the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M., the film focuses on a Navajo man struggling to come to terms with diabetes. The movie was shot at Benally's family homestead in Cove, Ariz., and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year to critical acclaim. “Diabetes is ravaging Indian country across the nation,” he says. “My character in the film is not ready to accept that he is sick, so he won't accept any help and he takes it out on his family. While we were filming, | found myself kind of working through some of the things that have happened to me.” Although returning to Dinétah has been difficult, Benally says it is a choice that he would make again—because of his mom. “I'll get more opportunities for my art, | know. But | owed coming back here to my mom. She's given me her best despite her circumstances,” he says. WiNnN TER 20 0 1 ROBERT CASEY it was time to head back to Dinétah (Navajoland). Hawkins ’95 has been painting since before dawn. He’s on deadline, writing a book called The First 100 Temples, and it’s getting down to crunch time. Nestled in a grove of brush oak, Hawkins’ studio sits behind his house in the foothills of Layton, Utah. An LDS artist, Hawkins sold his first temple drawing at the age of seventeen to finance his mission. Since then, he has sold over one million pieces of his art. As he talks about his drawings, he holds his sketches out with one hand and narrows his eyes. He continues to look at the picture for a beat, as if he’s seeing it for the first time. “I like doing what I do,” he says. “I like the idea of what | do. I like being able to provide for my family. | like being able to walk out of here at noon and have lunch with my wife and children.” When he’s working, he logs long hours. If he’s starting on a new architectural drawing, for instance, he'll go on site and talk with the architect and even interview people who live nearby to find out what they see when they look at the building. He takes pieces of the building materials back to his studio and experiments with ways to render them realistically, conjuring brass, marble, wood, brick and cut glass on paper. He draws preliminary sketches from different perspectives. When he’s almost done with the drawing, he looks for a place to incorporate his signature element—a hidden image, such as a hand cradling a temple or a face in the clouds. “It can be hard putting in the hours, particularly now with the book,” he says. “When I have speaking engagements, it can be a little tough, too. But I'm doing all this to build something for my family, so from that perspective, it’s easy. When I was at Weber State, | wanted to be a dentist, and even applied to some post-graduate programs. This drawing thing just kept happening and happening, so | decided to go with this. I've been really fortunate that people have appreciated what | do.” Balancing his career with his family is a challenge, complicated by his work's high profile. But, he says, he has arranged his life to make this balance easier to maintain. His proximity to home softens the edge of |2- and 14-hour days. Echoing Wilson and Benally, he says the key to succeeding with work and family is to be passionate about both—and to remember that one of those competing interests is only a job. — Joe Bartenhagen '98, Contributing Writer CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: DIANE WILSON ’82, PHYSICIAN AND FIDDLER; “SONG OF TURQUOISEGIRL,” WATERCOLOR BY CURTIS Ray BeNALLyY °96; CuRTIS BENALLY, ARTIST AND ACTOR; CHAD Hawkins °95, ARTIST AND AUTHOR. GRAcE UNDER COLLEGE ATHLETES LIVE ON EASY STREET, RIGHT? THINK AGAIN. FOR A REALITY CHECK, FOLLOW ONE DAY IN THE LIVES OF WSU fia ENILLE ee OWE JOEL BARROW. AND 7 ~* ollege athletes have it easy. They major in shirted her freshman year, Tenille is a fifth-year “tx” since they will leave school early to turn pro, enticed by million-dollar paydays, they don’t bother to declare a major at all. Further, they never stud senior. Although she says her schedule is “not as demanding” as in past semesters, her load totals 16 credit hours. Joel also is a fifth- their research apes and iced year senior. He red-shirted during the 1997-98 them test answers. On game day, they ride in air- season, re-joining the team late after serving a conditioned buses with roomy, leather seats. Otherwise, they zip around in private, chartered planes. With so many perks, who wouldn't want to be a coe eet 1eniie HOWE, d a i€d INS her of th member O mission to Toronto for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 9 a.m. Tenille moves on to her presentations class, which applies to her major in technical sales. c women’s golf team, and Joel Barrow, a defensive tackle for the football team (both above left) —two Wildcats who want to set the record straight. Tenille has accumulated a shelf full of trophies in a short time. Named the Big Sky Conference Champion in 1999, she won the Utah State Women's Ama- teur golf competition last summer, which entitled her Joel puts Mm several hours at his on-campus internship with the Employee Wellness Program. For his major, he must complete 360 internship hours and, during Fall Semester, he worked around 20 hours every week. 17A.m. From now until 1:45 pu. on Monday and Wednes- days, you'll find Tenille in her photography class. to represent Utah at the national competition in North Carolina, where she made it to the “sweet six- teen.” There she competed against 64 contestants in rounds modeled on the NCAA For Joel, playing football is a venture from early August until players get two weeks off: the basketball tournament. seven-day-a-week May each year. The week after the final game and spring break. Otherwise, they are in training—even during winter break. S S lecture on health education. Since she red- non-academic fields like basket weaving. Or, because tutors ane Ge Noon Joel's school obligations are done for today, so he spends time at the athletics office analyzing the team’s performance, if the Wildcats have played recently, or preparing for the coming week's opponents. e Joel eats lunch with his parents at their home. since his dad was paralyzed in a car accident a year and a half ago, Joel performs any chores After college, Tenille hopes to try her luck that need to be done. He also plays with nis or the Futures Tour. When asked about his future in football, Joel recites his motto: . for this spring, when he and his wite are expecting their first child. with professional golf, either with the LPGA “Practice and train like it’s your only opportunity, but study like you don't have a chance [to turn pro].” _ These two want you to know that ) being a student athlete is not the } cake walk you may think it is. In fact, once you see what a typical day is like for them, you may be glad you are living your stressful-but-relatively-normal life and not theirs. 6 a.m. Tenille starts early, factoring in a 20-minute drive ~ to campus for her 8 a.m. class. 6:45 - 7 a.m. Joel gets up, mostly in sympathy for his wife, Lisa, who has to be up even earlier lor her job. 8 A.M. Tenille and Joel are both in class. She's learning about finance and he's absorbing today’s sisters new baby, racking up SOME Experience 2 P.M. Photography class ended 15 minutes ago, so Tenille grabs fruit and a power bar for lunch. She also tries to fit in another snack during practice, which may last anywhere from two to four hours at a designated off-campus course—Valley View, Dave's, Mulligan's or the Ogden Country Club. Football practice also starts now for Joel. For the first 50 minutes, practice consists of individual meetings with the coach. Team practice then lasts until 5 P.M. 4 p.m. Although practice is officially over, Tenille stays late on the golf course. “I like to focus on something in particular that I’m having trouble with,” she says. Her dedication explains how she has managed to excel in a sport to which she Is a relative newcomer. Although she received her first set of clubs on her 13th birthday, she claims golf didn't excite her very much the first few times she played. Then something clicked. “| love competing, the intensity and the pressure. There's not a sport with more pressure because it's all you,” she says. Despite the stereotypes about “dumb jocks,” Tenille earns a 4.0 grade-pointaverage and has been an Academic All-American for the past three years,— and Joel carries a grade-point average of 3.6. Team practice has wrapped up, but Joel lifts weights for another 90 minutes. A self-described “pretty big kid,” he says, “| considered myself a football player even before | set foot on a field.” Although Joel tried out for his seventh-grade team, he had to wait another year to play because the coach told him he wasn't cut out for football. It's a. good thing Joel didn't listen. “! wouldn't trade my experience as a student athlete for anything,” he says. “I’ve learned many lessons about overcoming adversity, leadership and dealing with extra responsibilities.” 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. Tenille drives home. One of the benefits of living with her parents, she notes, is a home-cooked meal. She also values any time she can spend with her family since, with golf's traveling schedule, she may be gone as many as four days a week. Tonight, Tenille and Joel return to campus for a meeting of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Both Tenille and Joel are involved in extracurricular projects. Tenille also serves on the Big Sky Student Athlete Advisory Committee. And Joel is president of a committee that plans an annual student conference sponsored by the department of health promotions and human performance. 4PM. Tenille goes to bed between 10:30 and 11, hoping to get enough sleep to have the energy to do it all again tomorrow. It's lights out at the Barrow residence, too. Although such a grueling schedule would exhaust most of us, both Joel and Tenille feel fortunate. Joel does not want to convey the impression that, “Boy, these athletes have it bad.” He empathizes with many other students who don't receive credit for their juggling acts—students who work full time, or parents who care for children while attending school. Adding another grace note, Tenille gratefully acknowledges, “I'm lucky to go to WSU and to golf on the team.” — Lori M. Reagan, Contributing Writer No PLACE LIKE New Associate ATHLETIC DiRECTOR Finps A “Goopb Pr It's time to crack open the books. Both students spend the rest of the evening studying. Tenille and Joel are aware of the perception that professors bend over backwards for athletes. But, Tenille Says, “Professors expect us to get things done.” at WSU he child of a career Air Force officer might well be confused about where ' ‘home’ is supposed to be. But for Melissa Freigang, who was appointed associate athletic director and senior woman administrator last fall, the question has a clear answer: the Wasatch Front. | i Her ties to the region began at the University of Utah where, as a es she competed for the national championship team and was named a three-time All-American. ACQUIS: friends, a bachelor’s eg and a Utah husband, she also developed a new , og sense of where she belonged. However, Freigang’s first position took her to Gonzaga University in Spokane, “A lot of times, teachers know your name and who you are, either for good or bad,” Joel agrees. Because of this, he has always tried to arrive at class on time, participate and do solid work, so his professors “have a good feeling about student athletes in general, he says. Wash., where she held the position of | PHOTOS: ROBERT CASEY 5 P.M: academic coordinator and compliance officer in the Athletic Department, and where she earned her master’s degree in organizational leadership. Then came the invitation from WSU. Drawing upon her background in the classroom and in competition, Freigang wants to ensure similarly strong experiences for student athletes at WSU. In her dual capacity, she oversees the academic performance of athletes, deals with NCAA compliance issues, attends and votes at league meetings, manages all home-game venues and represents women's issues within the Athletic Department. “It is a good fit,” she says. “There is strong support for women’s roles here and my job is to keep the momentum going. Weber State has been headed in the right direction in athletics and we just need to continue.” — Rod Kilcup, Contributing Writer iieereresag LASTING WSU ALUMNI AND STUDENTS CELEBRATE THE SCHOLARSHIP CYCLE rapped in a plain envelope, this gift wouldn't have stood out among the shiny ones at the bottom of Tamra Hamblin’s Christmas tree. The celebration surrounding its arrival was less spectacular than that of other holiday packages. There was no note from the giver, yet its contents were as personal and meaningful as any she'd received that season. As she tore into the envelope, Tamra quickly realized she had opened TAMRA HAMBLIN ’O0, AT LEFT, COMPLETED HER BACHELOR'S DEGREE AT WSU THANKS TO A SCHOLARSHIP FUNDED BY LEONA LIEN 99 AND HER HUSBAND MIKE, CENTER. THROUGH CONSISTENT GIVING OVER NEARLY 20 YEARS, BetvaA Moye ’51 AND HER HUSBAND RICHARD, AT RIGHT, BUILT A $22,000 SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT. “We've lived on macaroni and \ cheese and tuna wep night to an opportunity. “Congratulations!” the letter read. “It is a pleasure for me to inform you that you have been selected for a scholarship.” Big things certainly do come in small packages. “This was huge for me! And I'm not talking about the dollar value of the scholarship, but what it’s enabled me to do,” said the 33-year-old WSU student. “It makes me cry just thinking about it.” Recently divorced, Tamra had returned to college to finish what she'd started 12 years ago. She was juggling two part-time jobs, her two young sons and a full class load in an effort to reach her goal and ..provide a better life for her family. Despite her efforts ~ to do'itvall, she was faced with the reality that she “didn't conteh a was going to pay the rent that ROBERT CASEY HAVE pee in Unalakleet, and helped me out.” Lien - and her husband, struggles she faced as a re-entering student, Leona says she wanted to help someone else out now that she’s in the position “to do a little.” But to hear Tamra talk, this little bit meant quite a lot. “It was an absolute godsend,” she said. “One-thousand dollars may not seem like much to some people, but for me, at that time, it made all the difference. | was able to continue my studies and purchase the books and software I needed for my classes.” Leona, too, had relied heavily on scholarships when she was in school. “I don’t know where | would have been without that financial assistance. It gave me the time | needed to study when | was able to cut back to part-time work,” she said. Due, in part, to the support she received along the way, Leona graduated on time with numerous job options in her field. “Those scholarships opened so many doors for me. | just want to return the favor.” And she has. Almost one year to the day after Tamra received her scholarship letter, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree and already has her foot in the door of a promising career in e-commerce. “We've lived on macaroni and cheese and tuna fish almost every night to get here. But it’s thanks to that scholarship we got here at all,” Tamra said. “It’s like a pint of blood—it can’t make the whole body function, but it can make it function more smoothly. The same goes with scholarships. You don't need to give a whole lot of money, but every little bit helps. That's why I plan to do this for someone else in the future.” HARD TO FORGET Whether it was last semester or SO years ago, the impact is lasting. Belva Moyle ’51 remembers how difficult it would have been to find the $75 she paid VISTA CUAL US OF ALUMNI for three quarters of tuition at Weber, had she not earned a scholarship. “It sounds like nothing, but it was a lot then,” Belva said. “My folks were farmers who didn’t have much to spare. | worked at JC Penney part time, but that wouldn't have covered it. My scholarship really was a help and made it a little easier for me to attend college.” Her husband, emeritus geoscience professor Richard Moyle, later served on the university's scholarship selection committee off-and-on during his tenure at Weber State. “There just wasn’t enough to go around,” he said. “We always had plenty of qualified applicants, but not enough money to award. So | Recently, we invited nearly 5,500 WSU stuitin to tell us the unvarnished truth. We asked: “How would you assess your experience as a student at Weber Sile University?” Of the respondents, 95 percent rated their student experience as excellent or good; 92 percent felt the quality of WSU professors was excellent or good; and most had connected with an individual faculty or staff member after graduating. When asked what events would draw them back to campus, most alumni said they're interested in concerts, performances and athletics. Thirty-five percent said_ Vista and Weber Alumni are their primary sources of information about WSU today, while others said they stay abreast of the university's progress through stories in the print and broadcast media or through contact with a current student. What is distinctive about ine WSU oe Here's what alumni told us: | QO oY | “In my 1 day it was a junior college. Instructors were low ane but we had to make decisions that were quite hard.” The combination of their experiences at Weber convinced the couple to establish their own endowment to help deserving students. In 1981, the Moyles made a modest $100 donation to Weber State. Annual contributions to their own scholarship fund continued in the form of $250, $500 and $1,000 gifts. “It sounds like piddling amounts, but it’s exciting to see how it’s grown,” Belva said. Because endowments are permanent funds, the original gift is never spent. The fund is invested and a portion of the interest earned is used to make annual scholarship awards. The remainder is reinvested to help the endowment grow. Once an endowment is established, additional contributions may be made at any time to accelerate its growth. The Moyles’ consistent giving is now valued at $22,000 and provides a nearly full-tuition scholarship for a geoscience student each year. Jesse Stewart is the most recent recipient of their generosity. “As a student | am continually budgeting my time and dollars,” Jesse said. “What the Moyles have given me is freedom, both financially and in terms of focusing on my schoolwork.” Although he’s honored to have been selected for the scholarship, Jesse wishes more assistance were available for many of his classmates with needs similar to his own. “Someone invested in me,” he said. “I feel like | now have a responsibility not only to make the most of this experience, but to give back someday.” — Melisa Holmes, Development Communications WINTER 20 0 1 “lvalued the smaller class sizes at WSU and the attention given to each student bya prolessd rather than a teacher assistant.”a. dedicated. They liked teaching and classes were small. It was fun to ee We had a mau personal oe with our teachers.” “Keep on making Weber State my favorite to recommend wo my 0 er _ a Your Bnioren ae seem to be lust right.”a “lama ian way front you geographically but think of my days at a co often. [ _ WSU very a ~~ ( 0 1) “Keep Weber homey, yet competitive with the rest ofthe nation’ Suniversities. ° : | | “We loved WSU as5 studonts and now we are happy with wha it has = - done for ourir children. _ | “Don’ t lose sight of what made WSU what iti isae and that, my friend, is teaching... It was great to be taught by Ph.D.s in the field _ of their expertise.” Q 0 | i ‘lm proud of my Weber State mates i “lL was ae prepared for graduate experience than any of my peers.” yD “Please continue with the distance learning and extension programs. This is the only way | can obtain additional schooling.” Q ‘Go Wildcats!” — Melisa Holmes, Development Communications Alumni Updates 1970s Stephen M. Sill ’70, chief financial officer of Security National Life Insurance Company, in Salt Lake City, was elected to the board position of vice presid He is a former director of international banking and cash management for Mrs. Field’s Cookies. Mary Anne Reynolds ’78 received an $8, 500 pain research grant from the & Systems Association (IASA), this sum- , mer for a one -year volunteer term. A CPA and investment experience, is a me of the Utah Association of Certified School of Accounting at WSU. Kerry Bate ’72, director of the Utah 1960s 1930 ir “salad day he and classmates Dee Bramwell and Leonard Peterson joined Professor Leland H. Monson’s eloquent but low-budget debate team in the midst of the country’s Great Depression. They recruited free transportation in the back of an onion truck to a national debate meet at the University of Southern California, courtesy of a friend of Monson’s, who worked at the Ogden Orange Market. The three overcame a taunting introduction as “hitch-hike debaters” and received high evaluations from their competitors. 1950s Gary M. years as at Bank Security Peterson ’55 retired after 39 vice president and trust officer of Utah, Key Bank and First Bank, in Ogden. He is former Although fictional, it is an authentic account of life in the Great Depression era. She is retired from WSU, where sh taught English and literature for 24 years. Since retirement, she has written: and published prose and poetry and remained active in local, state and national writing organizations. On October |, she celebrated her sixtieth wedding anniversary with Darrel Carroll. Frank Salimeno ’65 was elected president of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry, an organization that represents optometry boards of licensing and regulation in the United States and Canada. Dr. Salimeno is a graduate of WSU and Pacific University College of Optometry. He has practiced optometry in Ogden since 1972. Erich-Peter H. Darr 69, a political science graduate, is chief of an information technology group in the Defense Logistics Agency Information Support Office in Columbus, Ohio. His group maintains the contract payment software used by the Defense Finance and Accounting Center in Columbus to pay Department of Defense contractors. Darr is a native of Wiesbaden, Germany, who moved to Utah when his stepfather, a US Air Force noncommissioned officer, was assigned to Hill Air Force Base. He recalls that tuition for his first quarter at Weber State in the fall of 1963 was only $75. Tuition for winter and spring was even less. A parking permit in those days was only three dollars a quarter. Darr took classes from Professor T.R. Reddy, while studying international relations, and enjoyed Reddy’s Indian and British perspectives. “Weber was a bargain for the price,” he said, “because the professors were there to teach, not for research or to write Division of Community Development in Salt Lake City, was named the state government’s Manager of the Year last July during ceremonies at the Capitol Building. With an annual budget of $65 million, Mr. Bate supervises 50 state employees and oversees 14 state programs, many of which are dedicated to housing, feeding and caring for the state's poor and needy. As a youth, Bate qualified for Upward Bound, a summer room-and-board program at WSU for needy youths. With that impetus, he attended WSU and graduated with a degree in political science and history. Chris Calver 74, an associate broker with the Ogden office of Mansell & Associates, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the Ogden Association of Realtors. Calver has been with Mansell for eight years, has earned the Graduate, Realtor Institute designation and recently completed requirements for the Certified Residential Specialist designation. Jerry Jensen °77 is vice president of operations for State Farm Insurance in Dallas, Texas, and hopes to retire to Arizona in a few years. He has five grown children and a 17-year-old daughter at home. Jensen, a sociology graduate from WSU, describes a faculty “fairy godfather” who helped him complete his education. During Jensen’s junior year, when his family was struggling to meet school expenses, Jensen approached Don Carpenter, professor of social work, and told him he would have to quit school University of Utah i in1 1997. She is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society and the Board of Directors of the BentonFranklin County American Cancer Society, and the international honor society for nursing, Sigma Theta Tau. Reynolds has received the ONS Foundation/Hoechst Marion Roussel Research Fellowship Award, the ONS Foundation/Knoll Pharmaceutical Company Research Grant, and the American Society of Pain Management Research Grant. Steve Holbrook ’79 has been named a senior project manager at Big-D Construction of Riverdale, Utah. He was formerly both president and vice president of sales estimating and engineering for Team Mechanical. His degree from WSU is in business administration. 1980s Blake D. Chard ’80 was appointed director of the Utah Division of Youth Corrections, Layton, Utah, in August, with a recommendation from Gov. Mike Leavitt and the unanimous approval of the Board of Youth Corrections. Chard is a former police officer and a Republican state representative. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from WSU and a master’s degree in public administration from Brigham Young University. He is vice president of SmartUTAH, Inc., a nonprofit foundation that promotes Internet use to provide government services and encourage electronic commerce. for lack of funds. Carpenter shepherded him through the financial aid office and Daniel Hawks ’80 has a private practice as a massage therapist in New Port Richey, Fla. He retired from the US Air junior year. The boost motivated Jensen as a building manager for the IRS and ensured Jensen was able to finish his to complete his senior year and pay the tuition himself. Val Petersen ’77 is senior vice president and chief financial offer for America West Bank in Layton, Utah. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from WSU, and has served as chief financial officer for six community banks in Utah. Force as a captain in 1993, then worked project manager for America First Credit Union. He graduated from the Ogden Institute of Massage Therapy in 1998 and worked for Chiropractic Health Center and Doxey Chiropractic in Ogden. In 1998, he married Vienne Jensen, a Floridian. His e-mail address is Dan@citicom.com. Vis TA Randy Watt ’80, a 21-year veteran with the Ogden Police, was recently named the department's assistant chief. A graduate chair of its next annual conference. He developed a collaborative research network web site for the National Reading Council, the department's Youth Crimes Bureau, which can be viewed at http://www.suu. edu/ed/faculty/lund/nrc/NRCColind.htm. He delivered a paper this summer in Auckland, New Zealand, at the World Congress of the International Reading Association on the integration of technology into balanced-literacy classrooms. which has responsibility for the Gang Task His e-mail address is lundd@suu.edu. resource officers, and the Domestic Glen Biddulph °89 has joined the practice of the FBI National Academy, Watt holds a WSU bachelor’s degree in police science and psychology and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. Before his recent appointment, he served as lieutenant of Force, youth sex crimes, DARE, school Violence Unit. He is also commander of internship and a three-year residency in Julie Porter 82, valedictorian of WSU's nursing program at the Dixie College from WSU and a medical degree from degree from the University of Utah last year. On the road to her medical degree, 1e also attended Bri THE WILDCAT — BeCaME THE of Dr. Jeffrey Call, in Ogden, after an the Ogden/Metro SWAT Team. campus, received her doctor of medicine How WSU internal medicine at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. He earned a zoology degree E we have something even more satisfying: a good story. Prior to 1928, there was no documented reference to the Weber Marsha L. Stanton ’89, of Stamford, Conn., recently accepted a new position Wildcats. Then a caption appeared in an edition of /he Acorn, as the associate director of medical edu- Weber's school yearbook. It seems that, during a tough day of foot- cation for Purdue Pharma, L.P, a leader 7 the team captain, Stewart “Monk” Holliday, Hearing the remark, aca a : human services from Columbia Pacific 3 2 Small Caliber Ammunition Company, a division of Alliant Techsystems. He was yelled back, “He's no pussycat, he’s a wildcat!” From that day on, ~ University. Her e-mail address is Wally Morris was known as “Wildcat” Morris and was later tiarsna Santon phar. cont inducted into the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame. In those days, Weber College athletes were called “Weberites.” formerly the director of composite pro- grams and facilities for Alliant Missile ProductsDetoureaoliinartatchelis's Company in Rocket Center,degree W.Vas in business from WSU and a master’s ; ball practice, a member of the Weber team insulted Wallace F: (Wally) Morris, by saying he played football like a “pussycat.” education and administration. She . health Iso holds a master’s in health and AL L be or years, the origin of Weber State University’s mascot was shrouded in mystery. While our archives contain no official declaration naming the Wildcat as the school's mascot, the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine. jin pain management pharmaceuticals. Her bachelor’s degree from WSU is in e Mascot | , oy I )) _” , a But Al Warden, a sportswriter for the local newspaper, wrote in an ; that the Weber College football players were as r “scrappy article as :a bunch of wildcats.” Between the staying power of Morris i nickname and Warden's simile, the name stuck. Aaron Tracy, Weber College's president at the time, opposed the degree in business administration from Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Under ATK’s contract to operate the Lake name. A man of high morals, he believed his students were demeaned City Ammunition Plant, the company will supply all the US Army's requirements for small-caliber ammunition, a contract AARON Wes TRACY sti, PRESIDENT, 19221935, FAVORED A LION FOR THE SCHOOL MASCOT. when they were likened to a bunch of wildcats. In turn, he proposed a more noble symbol...such as the lion. which is expected to generate total sales But short-tailed cats from the lynx family were native to the area's Wasatch Mountains, of approximately $1 billion over the next ten years, with annual sales averaging having lured fur trappers to the region long before the Mormon pioneers arrived. approximately $100 million. Bobcats, or bob-tailed cats, were sometimes called wildcats, and Weber fans enjoyed the Phil Garrett, ‘86 is director of US sales alliteration in “Weber Wildcats.” for Great Plains, a nationally-traded Fargo, With their mascot named, it remained to find a live mascot to preside at games. In fact, N.D., software company specializing in enterprise resource planning programs for back office, front office, manufacturing, during the 1950s, students kept a live wildcat to display in the football stadium. The animal, and service applications. He has worked named Judy Freeman on the nose. A kinder, gentler wildcat named “Waldo” was designed unhappy at being kept in a cage, ended its career as a mascot when it bit a cheerleader human resources, payroll, project tracking by Dean Hurst ’48 and appears today in WSU Junior Cats coloring books. for Great Plains for || years. A business administration graduate from WSU with a Later, Waldo was nearly preempted by a bird. Inspired by the San Diego “chicken” in management emphasis, he lives in Layton with his wife and four children. His e-mail 1979, the WSU Wildcat Club fielded "Primo the Peacock" as the campus mascot. Primo's address is pgarrett@greatplains.com reception was less than enthusiastic. He lasted for one year and Waldo the Wildcat has prevailed ever since. David M. Lund ’86 (BA); ’91 (MEd) earned his doctorate in literacy and language from Today, a ferocious Wildcat springs from the logo used by WSU’s Athletic Purdue University and is now teaching reading classes to future teachers and Department, representing the aggressive spirit of our men’s and women's intercollegiate sports teams. Are you wearing a Wildcat today? Check out the graduate students at Southern Utah University. Lund serves on the executive WSU Bookstore’s range of Wildcat apparel and memorabilia for sale online, by board of the Utah Council of the International Reading Association and will be visiting www.alumni.weber.org. — Sandy Sowerby, Public Relations WINTER 2001 17 GROWING A 1990s Rebecca Boyd 98 won first place in the Utah State American String Teachers Association solo competition. She is a WSU Acumni Cuttivate CHANGE FOR At-Risk TEENAGERS b& ere growing pickles!” exclaimed a novice farmer this summer when Wi:his first small cucumbers appeared. The teenager was enrolled in the Vision Program, an innovative project that puts repeat juvenile offenders to work in new territory: a one third-acre garden. There they learn the difference between pickles and cucumbers and, more importantly, how they can contribute to their community. Scott Riddle 94 and Richard Nielson ’97 developed the Vision Program three years ago for Davis County Mental Health and the county’s juvenile courts. With a population of 12 boys and girls, ages 12-18, the program yielded four tons of organically grown produce last year, including diverse varieties of pumpkins, Cheri Schuyler ’93 was named the Utah County Health Department Employee of the Month last September. She was a psychiatric nurse in Arizona and Utah before joining the Utah County Health Department in 1993. She is married to graduate student at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, N.Y. Last summer, she toured Europe with the Eastman school orchestra and performed with them at the Heidelberg Music Festival. Allen Schuyler. James Budge °91 is director of audit services at James & Co., a company that provides business advisory services, tax planning and auditing in Ogden and Salt degree in computer science and a minor Lake City. Budge has a master of accoun- tancy degree from WSU. He was formerly with KPMG’s audit team. Sue Boswell °92 is a school counselor for sixth graders who lives in St. George, Utah, with her female yellow labrador. guide dog, Ronnie. In a city wi John Bowden '94 is the new chief information officer for Lifetime Products Inc., Clearfield, Utah, where he was formerly information systems director. Bowden graduated from WSU with a bachelor’s in technical sales. He formerly worked at Boart-Longyear, a multinational manufacturing company specializing in diamond core drilling products, and at UNIX. Todd F. Cope 84, a graduate of the WSU nursing program, spent a week in California this summer acting as technical advisor for “The Last Dance," a movie public transportation, Ronni Boswell’s mobility and off company. Boswell and Ro tomatoes, potatoes, corn, okra, bell peppers, broccoli and green peas. It turns out those peas, like the cucumbers, are real stumpers. “They'd never seen peas in the pod,” Riddle said. “They'd ask me, ‘Can you eat these? Without cooking them?’ And I'd open the pods and show them, and they'd sit in the field and eat peas for an hour.” Besides “grazing” on site, Vision Program participants are encouraged to take produce home to their families. Heightened awareness Blind, Inc., to work with Ronnie her confidence near the scene,of 1 attack. Ronnie passed with flying colors and Boswell is back in service herself, program, according to Riddle. The teen-aged work at WSU as an adjunct instructor. healed enough to permit her to grasp Jeffrey T. Arrington 95 received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin the Davis County Food Bank and The Family Ronnie's harness. She has helped with getting new legislation passed to protect Utah's service animals and, when last Connection, which “gives them a chance to from the Rottweiler’s owner. gardeners donate the bulk of their harvest to feel like a part of things—to give something heard from, was still awaiting restitution i back to the community they've taken something from,” Riddle said. Community Service Is part of their sentencing and, Riddle says, they get more satisfaction out of gardening than their other two options: picking up trash along the highway or shoveling buffalo dung on Antelope Island. But the hard work continues yearround. In the winter, Vision students employ their shovels by clearing snowy sidewalks for their neighborhood and public agencies. Besides bushels of wholesome food, the program reaps a more valuable harvest, Riddle said. Over 70 percent of Vision Program graduates have improved their grade point averages—some by as much as 200 percent. Better yet, only 12 percent of the participants return to work from the University of Utah and teaches social although she had to have a knee replace- ment and her broken fingers have still not of nutrition is an important by-product of the master’s deme in sola C. Preston “Pete” Allen ’93 recently completed a three-year residency at McKay-Dee Porter Family Practice Clinic in Ogden, and is now practicing at North Ogden IHC Health Center. He has a medical degree from the University of Utah and a zoology degree from WSU. Chad Harward °93 is president of Pinpoint Marketing in Provo, Utah, which offers a wide range of marketing services, from one-time activities like grand openings Center in Milwaukee. He will be an obstetrics/gynecology resident in the Miracopa Medical Center Phoenix Hospitals Program in Arizona. Bob Hanover °95 is the new park manager at Fort Buenaventura State Park in Ogden. A native of Brigham City, Utah, Hanover has a degree in history from WSU. He was formerly a visitor-use assistant at the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Joseph Bowcutt 96 graduated with high through lengthy marketing plan implementation. A graduate in marketing from honors from physician's assistant training at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, and joined the orthopedic practice of Dr. Thomas Calton in Ogden. He graduated from WSU in microbiology. address is eharward@integrity.com. Sydney Burgess McKay 96 is working as a dental hygienist in Midway, Utah. She WSU, Mr. Harward has also worked with the Standard Examiner, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. His e-mail and her husband, Tom, a Salt Lake City fire fighter, moved to Heber City, Utah, this year. They have a new baby girl. criminal activity, compared to a national average of 80 percent. — Barbara Bernstein, Continuing Education Vis tA Lance Capener ’97 recently received a WITH doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the Kirksville, Mo., College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is currently an intern at the University of Wyoming Cheyenne Family Practice Program. WSU Alumni! ‘ CHOOSE FROM THREE POPULAR PROGRAMS... aenee “eo _-WSU's Alumni Campus Abroad adventures offer educational experiences euch in special settings that are conducive to learning, recreation and fellow- Tim F. Funk °97 is board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). He is also a first lieutenant in the US Army Reserves as a nurse practi- tioner and is employed at the WSU Student Health Center. He and his wife live in Roy and have two boys. Eric C. Satterthwaite ‘97 and Derrick Stanbridge 97 have opened Natural Health & Spine, in Ogden. They received their doctorates in chiropractic at Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas. Satterthwaite is married to the former Marci Boyle °97. Mark Scilley °97 has joined the dental practice of Dr. William Woodbury in Layton, Utah. After his graduation from WSU in zoology, he received a doctor of dental surgery degree from Northwestern University and completed a one-year residency in advanced general dentistry at Texas A&M University’s Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas. Mandy Medina °98 recently was appointed coordinator for WSU's student govern- Rebecca Cope °00, a fall graduate in keyboard performance and pedagogy, has been awarded a full graduate teaching assistantship and stipend at the University of Utah. Shari Cowan ’00 and Diana Lynn *00 are both employed at Central Valley Medical Center in Gunnison, Utah. They com- ship. Through a series of lectures, excursions and “Meet the People” exchanges, you become intimately involved in the local way of life. The resident campus director cares for your needs and assures that the program meets the highest standards. Accommodations ina first-class hotel (usually family-owned), meals, excursions and educational experiences are covered by the all-inclusive fee—an exceptional value! ALUMNI COLLEGE IN SPAIN pleted the two-year radiology Aucust 20-28, 2001 program at WSU while Travel to the Renaissance gem of Ubeda, often called obtaining clinical hours at CVMC and Primary Children’s Medical Center in the history, culture and heritage of this vibrant “the Florence of Spain,” where you will be immersed national landmark. Day excursions will take you to the and passed the American Grand Mosque of Cordoba and the world-famous Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) exam. Alhambra of Granada, among other adventures. Sample the diverse foods of the region and, best of Marcus Mose ’00 graduated all, meet Spain's friendly people, who will welcome you to this fabled land. $3,495 per person. with a BA in art and a minor in communications and also passed the Japanese language proficiency exam. He has taken a two- to three-year job teaching English to Japanese students in Northern Japan. A native Navajo speaker, aLunoni colLege in scotLano SEPTEMBER 26 TO OcToBeR 4, 2001 For thousands of years, Scotland's windswept moors ment and counselor in the Services for Women Students office. She has a master’s of public administration from Michigan State University. genealogists and pleasure-seekers alike. This adventure Mindy Mortensen ’98 is curator of the dances and visit storied Loch Ness and Edinburgh, the Ruth Pierpont Eccles Herb Garden at Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City. A botany graduate, she catalogs and tracks the plants in the formal herb garden, which contains culinary plants, edible flowers, dye plants, decorative and beverage plants. Wendy Stephens ’98 is secretary of WSU's Services for Women Students office. Her bachelor’s degree from WSU is in business education/office technologies. Gary Crittenden '99 is a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Morgan Middle School in Morgan, UT. He has a BS in social science composite teaching from WSU. and misty Highlands have beckoned adventurers, will carry you, too, back to Scotland's tumultuous, romantic past. Enjoy traditional Scottish dishes and grade point average. She was accepted for admission by 14 law schools. A Comanche, Pilcher served as the Native American senator at WSU for the past year and a half. In addition, she competed with the WSU mock trial team that took | Oth place in the national tournament. nation's dramatically beautiful capital, from your base in ancient Stirling, the “Gateway to the Highlands.” Immerse yourself in the history and literature of the land that gave us Rob Roy, William Wallace and Mary Queen of Scots! $2,495 per person. ALuant Your List of CoLLeerc NovemBer 13-21, 2001 Top Alumni This magical land in southern France attracted the WSU “alumni power” extends to every field of endeavor. We've all got a mental list of classmates who have accomplished remarkable things. Who’s on yours? Why not e-mail or fax us your picks? Give full names, graduation years and accomplishments. If you know a phone-number or e-mail architectural treasures abound. Your base will be in address, that would be helpful, too. While you’re at it, tell us what’s new with you. —Barbara Bernstein, Continuing Education Romans centuries ago. Spectacular monuments and Aix-en-Provence, the region’s traditional capital—an elegant and ancient town, well preserved and ideally located. From there, you will visit Avignon, the medieval fortress city, as well as the surrounding countryside and villages immortalized in paintings by van Gogh and Cezanne. $2,495 per person. Sign Up Today! Space is limited, so reserve your place at least three months prior to your departure date. For a detailed brochure, call Alumni Holidays at 800-323-7373 and let them know you're 2001 traveling with Weber State University. Or call WSU Alumni Relations at 801-626-7535. Visit our website at www.alumni.weber.org. WINTER In PROVENCE 15] SLC UT PAID Permit No. U.S. POSTAGE Non-profit Org. WSU ALumNus-BuILDsS NAPA VALLEY DYNASTY AND eA NTOTeeen NettNhS : out with football buddies in his party scene.” Recruited in 1966 to join the Wildcats as a linebacker, Trinchero believed he “stood a better chance of graduating at a smaller school.” GRIDIRON GUMPTION He was right. Trinchero quickly bonded with his fellow teammates, “a mish-mash of guys from all over the country,” and was recognized as an Honorable Mention AllAmerican athlete. Equally important, he recalls, “I pulled the grades. Weber was just right for me, scholastically and athletically.” A few years ago, fond memories of exploits in the classroom and on the field prompted Trinchero to contact WSU's Soon after graduating, Trinchero put his plans for graduate studies on hold when a draft notice sent him to Vietnam. Upon returning home, he joined the family business—a winery purchased in 1947 by his [talian-immigrant father and uncle. While Trinchero’s brother mastered the ancient art of wine production and his sister man- aged the family’s philanthropic activities, Trinchero tackled sales and marketing, the critical sphere of a winery's operations that is managed beyond the cellar door. Now responsible for 600 employees and an expanding list of brands and products, Trinchero acknowledges “it’s good to be your own boss.” Business success, howev- er, takes second place in his list of priori- ties. “The business exists for the benefit of the family,” he explains. “We work together as a family and, when we retire, the business will be good and healthy to pass on to the next generation. What they do with it is up to them.” Anticipating that generational legacy, Trinchero adds, “I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't carried away by my own success.” OGDEN, UTAH 84408-1010 etal wine in the United States, ranks as the fourth largest winery in the nation and grosses $300 million annually. Not bad for a kid who transferred to Weber State from UCLA to “get away from the Los Angeles FOCUS ON FAMILY —Jodi Kilcup, University Communications 0 He now heads a Napa Valley enterprise that produces the top-selling premium vari- me for two and a half years,” he says. 1010 UNIVERSITY CIRCLE back in school would say I’m basically the same, regular guy,” he says. There’s just one small difference, however. his alma mater. “I decided to give something back to the ‘old Weeb’ for putting up with WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY State College. His typical attire then, he recalls, was jeans and hiking boots. And today? Most days, the president and chief operating officer of Sutter Home Winery shows up for work wearing...jeans and hiking boots. “People who knew me Gridiron Club and renew connections with UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Promontory Tower dorm room at Weber