Keith Godfrey of Oakland, Calif.; $100,000 from an anonymous donor; $65,000 from the estate of Althea Bond of Sellersville, Penn.; $20,000 from Charles Cearley of Ogden; $10,000 from Kelly Ward of Sacramento, Calif.; and $5,000 from Chuck Peterson of Provo. In addition, Sid Foulger of Potomac, Md., has willed the yearly interest on $100,000 to the University. Alumni wishing more information about the “Legacy Society” may contact the development office at (801) 626-6568. At a time in life when most men retire, “Dutch” Belnap, at 63, has no plans to “eat soft mush and walk in the mall.” Instead, Mr. Belnap, Class of 56, has become the University’s ‘Dutch’ Belnap athletic director. He replaces Tom Stewart who resigned to join his family in Illinois. “Somebody asked me about my age,” Mr. Belnap said. “I’m about eight years younger than Bob Dole and he wants to be president of the United States.” Mr. Belnap has spent 25 years in sales, marketing and promotion at First Security Bank, most recently as a vice president. But he has strong ties to athletics. He coached basketball at Utah State University for 12 seasons, winning regional “Coach of the Year” honors in 1974-75. He served two seasons as general manager of the Ogden Dodg- 4 CAMPUS ers, a Los Angeles Dodgers farm team, earning the Pioneer League’s general-manager-of-the-year award in 1967. He has worked as a television and radio broadcaster covering Weber State and Utah State athletics events. Mr. Belnap said the key to his department’s success lies in aggressive promotion and sales activities. He plans to pursue corporate sponsorships; provide entertaining events appropriately priced for families; and push for as much fan support as possible through alumni, student and community organizations. “We want everybody to be proud of us,” Mr. Belnap said. “We’re going to be the best we can be.” Arts Director Takes Final Bow Daniel L. Martino has taken his final curtain call. After 34 years of bringing world-class culture to Ogden, Mr. Martino will retire June 30. During Mr. Martino’s tenure as director of cultural affairs, he has attracted top international symphonies, ballet Daniel Martino University include the Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the Chinese Acrobats. “T wanted to put Weber State on the map,” Mr. Martino said. The University twice has CURRENTS become the only Utah organization designated a “National Center of Cultural Excelfence.” Mr. Martino built the program into a national center after he convinced the late Val A. Browning to create a $1 million endowment for a cultural-arts program. Impressed with Mr. Martino’s efforts to keep ticket prices down, Mr. Browning created a second $1 million endowment. Mr. Martino has received the H. Aldous Dixon Award from the alumni association and two presidential citations from University presidents. Nursing Goes Program ‘Curbside’ When Kristy Chambers enrolled in the University’s nursing program, she did not envision herself at St. Anne’s Center doing tuberculosis skin tests and serving food to the homeless. But Ms. Chambers is part of a nursing class that studies a variety of cultures and circumstances by working in homeless shelters and innercity clinics. They also do research and hold panel discussions with migrant workers, AIDS patients and single parents. “This is a totally new experience for me,” Ms. Chambers said. “But it’s good because it’s not something I would seek out.” The community nursing course actually is a precursor to changes the nursing program will undergo beginning in September. Instead of just listening to lectures and working in hospitals, students also will volunteer their time in community shelters and inner-city clinics. Instructors also will change teaching strategies to give students more responsibility, hands-on experience and critical thinking skills. It is all part of a plan to meet the health-care needs of the future, said Gerry Hansen, the University’s nursing program director. “Nurses of today no longer provide care only in clean, white, sterile environments,” said nursing Professor Mary Ann Anderson. “They go where people live and provide care at the bedside, chairside and curbside. Nursing faculty began working on curriculum changes two years ago. “The change has been painful,” Dr. Hansen said. “Most of us are comfortable teaching the way we were taught. This is a complete turnaround for the faculty.” Likewise, some students have felt uncomfortable at shelters or inner-city clinics. But the change has provided valuable experience. Student Julie Yeaman said, “This has just been a wonderful experience. It’s an eye-opener. As nurses, we often don’t see this and it is definitely beneficial to be exposed to what is really going on out there.” “This is the real world of nursing,” Ms. Anderson said. “Our students need to understand the culture and circumstances of their patients so they can provide the best health care possible.” 9 This adapted article by Lori Bona Hunt appeared Feb. 27 in the Ogden Standard-Examiner. All-American Alumnus Uses Love of Basketball To Climb Ladder of Success in Business two “impossible” goals for himself: to one were pinstriped suits and earn an MBA at Harvard and to play limousines. Forgotten were Division I college basketball. Mr. boardroom clashes over mergArchibald’s success at Dixie College ers, acquisitions and millionled to many scholarship offers from dollar profits. Instead, Nolan four-year schools. Archibald, 52, wore gym shorts and He elected to attend Weber State, fought for a rebound on the basketball where Mr. Motta and two professors, court at the Dee Events Center. Quinn McKay and Gary Carson, beMoments later, Mr. Archibald fell to came his mentors. the floor, upended by players in the “These three are among the greatest “Backcourt Alumni Basketball Game” influences in my life,’ Mr. Archibald who didn’t realize they had dumped the said. “They were tough, but it is expresident and CEO of Black & Decker actly that toughness and the quality of — aman heralded as one of this their instruction that helped me. Weber decade’s greatest executives. State doesn’t need to take a back seat to Mr. Archibald sat on the hardwood anyone when it comes to the quality of floor and laughed. He was home, in INGER-TIP CONTROL — Nolan its classroom instruction.” touch with his roots. Archibald has more than a basketball under The professors encouraged Mr. “T haven’t played with guys that control. He’s credited with turning Black & Archibald in his quest for a Harvard young in quite some time,” Mr. Decker into a world leader. education. In 1968, when he graduated Archibald said. cum laude and as the Scholar Athlete of the Year from Weber To be exact, 27 years have passed since the 6-foot-5-inch State, Harvard accepted Mr. Archibald. center earned All-America honors and helped Weber State make That same year, Mr. Motta became head coach of the Chiits first appearance in an NCAA tournament. Since then, Mr. cago Bulls. He invited Mr. Archibald to try out for the team, but Archibald has built an international company that leads the Mr. Archibald elected to finish his MBA. Two years later, Mr. world in the sale of power tools, electric outdoor products, lock Archibald tried out but did not make the team. sets, mechanical fasteners, glass-making equipment and true“They had no vision,” he quipped. tempered golf clubs. In addition, Black & Decker produces Professional basketball’s loss was the business world’s gain. more small-kitchen appliances than any other U.S. company. In a quick succession of promotions, Mr. Archibald became vice “Some of the same things that helped me succeed in basketpresident of two divisions of Conroy, a Canadian company. He ball helped me in business,” Mr. Archibald told the Washington later became general manager of Conroy’s Snowjet Division. Post in 1988. “The competitiveness, the hard work, the same In 1977, Beatrice recruited him as a vice president of marketprinciples you learn in basketball have application in business.” ing. He subsequently received promotions within divisions of Mr. Archibald also credits basketball with helping him deBeatrice — as president of Del Mar Window Coverings, presivelop a down-to-earth common sense that’s been an important dent of Stiffel Lamps, president of a home-products division, part of his success. and finally as chief operating officer for Beatrice. “You experience people from all walks of life and that adds In 1985, Black & Decker, suffering losses of $159 million, to your street smarts,” he said. “Some of that street smartness selected Mr. Archibald as president. Four years later, the comcomes from getting kicked around the locker room a little.” pany posted record earnings of $97.1 million and record sales of Mr. Archibald received his fair share of locker-room kicks, $2.28 billion. Fortune Magazine named him one of the nation’s mostly from then-head basketball coach Dick Motta. He now “10 Most Wanted Executives.” Business Week selected him as refers to Mr. Motta as “the Vince Lombardi of basketball,” but one of the nation’s “Six Best Managers of 1987.” didn’t always agree with his coach. Since then, Mr. Archibald’s company has set industry stan“Dick and I didn’t get along my junior year,” Mr. Archibald dards for growth despite a worldwide recession. said. “I forgot who was the coach.” “Some of my success is luck — being in the right place at the Mr. Archibald joined the Wildcats after two years as a junior college All-American at Dixie College in southern Utah. He had right time,” he said. “But I also believe we must set high goals. We must dream impossible dreams and work as if we can do not played basketball in high school, but saw an athletic scholarwhatever we set out to do” — traits he said he learned on the ship as a way to finance his education. He entered Dixie Colhardwood floors and in the classrooms at Weber State. lege after completing a mission for the Mormon Church and set