Opening Doors to the Future - University of Alaska Anchorage

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Summer Engler receives first
Parasca Science Research Award
The Parasca Science Research Award, made possible by a
generous gift to UAA by Dorin and Argentina Parasca, supports a
significant undergraduate project in any area of science or social
science. A Biological Sciences major and University Honors
Program student, 21-year-old Engler received the award for her
project “Maintenance of copper homeostasis: Effects of Cup1p
overexpression, Mac1p-dependent gene expression and survival
of S. cerevisiae.” Summer is also a Muscular Dystrophy
Association award recipient.
UAA grad Lyndsay Miles awarded Fulbright
Bartlett High School and University of Alaska Anchorage
Associate of Arts graduate Lyndsay Miles received a 2005-2006
Fulbright Full Student Grant for research in Economics. She
began her research in September 2005 at Vladivostok State
University of Economics and Service. Her research topic
was “Business and Economic Partnerships between the Russian
Far East and the Pacific Northwest: Prospects for Future
Cooperation.” Miles sought better understanding of the current
level of American investment in the region and analysis of local
business environments and investment potential.
Miranda Lynn Zindel wins coveted
Truman Scholarship
Honors Student Miranda Lynn Zindel of Kenai, a UAA junior
majoring in Business Administration, was named winner of a
highly coveted Truman Scholarship. The annual award recognizes
college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are
committed to careers in government, the non-profit or advocacy
sectors, education or elsewhere in public service.
UAA Accolades
Fall 2006
Volume 5, Number 2
Published by the UAA University Advancement
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8Degrees of Change
UAA graduates bring passion and
dedication to thier chosen careers
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Our Generous donors
-Thank You
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Augie Heibert
leaves telecommunications
legacy to Alaska, UAA
P R O G R E S S I V E
P R O G R A M
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Dollars & Sense
Nation’s “best” center for economic
education teaches teachers to teach state’s
greatest resource, its young people
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2005 Sports Highlights
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Dear Friends,
Autumn finds UAA on the move. As I enter my third academic year as
Chancellor, I am delighted to see a campus, a community, and nature’s whole
palette breaking out in green and gold energy.
Major alumni gifts are on the rise. In recognition of this enthusiasm among
UAA alumni, the Rasmuson Foundation has awarded us $100,000 to match
first-time alumni donations of $1,000. Our brand new alumni relations
manager, Stacey Marsh, is working hard with the UAA Alumni Association to
build a vibrant program of activities and engagement. This issue of Accolades
includes features on five UAA alumni who are out in the world making a
difference–inspiring the next generation of students to continue the tradition
of excellence.
Our green and gold energy paid off in Juneau when the Alaska Legislature
approved the final funding for our new $87million Integrated Science
Facility. In dollars, this building is double the scope of anything ever
built at UAA. In impact, it's even bigger. Bringing together the major
strands of science instruction at UAA will enable Alaska students to see the
interconnections of twenty-first century science. We are grateful for the
enthusiastic support of the community and the united efforts of legislators
from all over the state to make this opportunity possible. Students and
faculty should be at work in the building by fall of 2009.
On a different scale, but equally important, a beautiful new building opens
this fall, on time and on budget, to house the Alaska Native Science and
Engineering Program (ANSEP). Architecturally, the ANSEP Building reflects
the shape of the longboat common to many Alaska Native cultures. Funded
mostly with private contributions, the ANSEP building is a milestone
reflecting the influence of Alaska Native culture on the university’s work.
In June, Dr. Michael Driscoll became our new Provost and Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs. Coming to us from Portland State University, where he
served as vice provost and executive dean of Engineering, Mike brings a
wealth of new experience and ideas to UAA.
The public square came alive this past year. Pulitzer prize-winner Jared
Diamond, human genome project leader Francis Collins, MacArthur 'Genius'
award winner Bill Strickland, a definitive panel discussion about the
natural gas pipeline, and the major Anchorage mayoral election debate all
enlivened campus. We look forward this fall to hearing from civil rights
historian Taylor Branch, Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, and Alaska
gubernatorial candidates taking part in the last major debate of the 2006
election season. Anchorage is a great city partly because its university
offers great civic and intellectual opportunities.
Enrollment is rising, financial resources are growing, facilities are
improving, and alumni are getting involved. It's a great time to be a
Seawolf, and the indicators are all around us.
Elaine P. Maimon, PhD
Chancellor
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Augie Hiebert and his dog and fellow KFAR on-air personality, Sparky, log the hourly
transmitter reading, as required by law, when this photo was taken in about 1946.
Sparky had just one vocal responsibility - on cue from the studio announcer six miles
away at the downtown KFAR Studio, the dog would bark a "happy birthday” greeting
to a child having a birthday that day. The KFAR announcer had to call Sparky for
the“birthday bark” between 7:15 and 8:30 a.m. to catch kids before they left for
school. Some actually resisted going to school until they’d heard Sparky’s birthday
greeting, Hiebert said.
It’s in the air
Augie Hiebert leaves
telecommunications legacy
to Alaska, UAA
Though he never enrolled in a class at the University of Alaska
Anchorage, Augie Hiebert has an honorary doctorate from
the university, a Meritorious Service Award and
honorary membership in the Alumni Association.
All are honors bestowed on him over the years by the university
for his contributions of time and talent. Hiebert also donated
$50,000 several years ago to purchase television cameras for the
video department.
He received an honorary doctorate for Public Service from UAA
in May 1973 “for his pioneering achievements in bringing modern
radio and television services to Alaska, and for his outstanding
contributions to the development of the state and its university.”
Over the years since the university was created, Hiebert has lent a
hand in many ways.
He was part of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Anchorage
Community College, which became UAA; he’s served as chairman of
the Advisory Council for the Department of Journalism and Public
Communications; and he helped students get an FCC license and
equipment for KRUA 88.1 FM.
“My role with UAA has been one of admiration for an organization
I was very privileged to be part of,” Hiebert said. “You have an obligation to give it back.”
He said he feels a responsibility to repay what was gifted him as a young man by folks like
Austin (Cap) Lathrop. Surviving a series of childhood
accidents also convinced him he owed others a
helping hand in recompense for his good fortune.
UAA journalism students designed an award for
him by the same name, “Helping Hand,” in 1994.
A long list of firsts
Hiebert owns a personal place in Alaska history for
a long list of telecommunications “firsts.”
He helped to start the first AM radio stations in
Fairbanks and the second AM station in Anchorage;
started the first TV stations in Anchorage and Fairbanks; licensed the first permanent TV
translator in Alaska; he helped establish Alaska's first satellite earth station, and the list goes on.
“I don’t like to copy. I like to innovate,” he said.
Hiebert also has received civic honors ranging from “Augie Hiebert Day” in Anchorage
Nov. 28, 1992, to the Alaska Legion of Merit Award in 2000 for his work with the State
Emergency Coordination Center and the statewide mini radio service.
His real accomplishment, according to Hiebert, is linking even the remotest villages in
Alaska to the rest of the state, nation and world by satellite.
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Left to right: Mirror Lake Middle School
Video Team members Kelsey Johnson and
Savannah Cluff work on the final morning
newscast of the school year.
Jon Butler and Austin Kinney offer a weekly
Healthy Living Tip during the five-minute
close-circuit television news broadcast.
Kelsey Johnson shows Alaska communications
legend Augie Hiebert and former Lt.
Gov. Fran Ulmer how various digital images
are edited together to produce the daily
show.
Jeff Waldron, Philip Scott, Trenton
Schneiders and Savannah Cluff work on the
June 2 program.
“If I hadn’t done it someone else would have sooner or later,”
Hiebert said. “What I have so-called ‘contributed to Alaskan telecommunications’
is not unusual or noble. (It was a) simple case of observing
what needed to be done to benefit this distant, little known or
understood land, and what people needed to feel at home when they
came here.”
“Airwaves Over Alaska,” by Hiebert’s eldest daughter Robin Ann
Chlupach credits Lathrop’s executive secretary Miriam Dickey for
promoting radio as a way to make Alaska feel less remote and isolated.
But, Chlupach said, Lathrop didn’t buy into the idea until Dickey
suggested he build a radio station as a living memorial.
“In the early days this place was not liked, by women especially,”
Hiebert said. The isolation from home seemed harder on women than
men, he said.
Augie and wife Pat Hiebert had four daughters. Pat died in 1994.
When Lathrop died in 1951, he left Hiebert $25,000 from his $17-
million estate, which Hiebert used to start Alaska’s first TV station.
KTVA Channel 11 went on the air Dec. 11, 1953.
“The best years of my life were the 13 I spent working for Cap,”
he said.
Hiebert: First in Alaska to hear the
news of the Pearl Harbor bombing
Augie Hiebert also holds a unique place in
World War II history.
Hiebert was surfing the ham radio dial the
morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard the
news that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.
Immediately, he called the local commander at
home, who was sleeping in that Sunday
morning.
“Do you know we’re at war?” Hiebert
asked the sleeping commander.
In disbelief, the commander made the
eight-mile trip from Ladd Field to the KFAR
transmitter where Hiebert played the
recording for him.
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He said the commander contacted his
superiors with the information and two hours
later word came back from the Army that the
U.S. had entered World War II.
Augie Hiebert’s list of firsts in Alaska
communications history also includes:
Helping to build the first commercially successful
AM radio station in 1939 in Fairbanks.
Starting Alaska’s first TV station, Channel
11 KTVA, in Anchorage, on Dec. 11, 1953.
Starting the first TV station in Fairbanks,
KTVF Channel 11 went on the air Feb. 17, 1955.
Receiving a license to operate the first permanent
television translator in Alaska in 1959.
The land of ice and snow and Eskimos
It took two days on a bus to traverse the one-lane Richardson Highway from
Valdez to Fairbanks in 1939. He came to help build Alaska’s first radio
station, which was financed by Lathrop, owner of the Healy Coal Corp.
The 22-year-old Hiebert had purchased a ticket on the steamship
Baranof bound for Valdez after his friend, Stan Bennett, wired and
offered him $185 a month to help build Lathrop’s KFAR-AM.
“I wasn’t sure I wanted to go to the land of ice and snow and
Eskimos; but I liked to build things,” Hiebert, 89, said from his downtown
Anchorage home.
On the way to Fairbanks, the young radio engineer stayed overnight
at Black Rapids Lodge where he observed first-hand the state of
Alaska’s communication system.
Coming in one side of the hunting lodge was a two-wire metallic
phone system and on the other, a one-wire grounded system. That was
a real puzzler, as he knew the two systems lines couldn’t be linked, he
said.
Inside the lodge Hiebert saw Alaskan ingenuity at work: two handcrank
phones, one connected to each wiring system. When one would
ring, Sue Ravelle – the woman who ran the lodge, would answer one
phone and ring the other in order to “link” calls from Fairbanks to Valdez.
“You saw what wasn’t there and what was needed,” Hiebert said.
“Everything that a new country like this needed had to be fixed for it
to move forward.”
Establishing Alaska's first FM radio station
in 1960.
Helping to start and being chosen the first
president of the Alaska Broadcasters
Association in 1964.
The first live satellite broadcast of the
Apollo moon landing in 1969 and arranged for
Anchorage’s two other stations to share the
simulcast.
Helping establish Alaska's first satellite earth
station activated in 1970.
Being the first inductee into the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences -
Northwest Chapter Gold Circle in June 2005.
Focused on the future
Hiebert started Northern Television in 1952 and sold his interest in the company in 1997. Since
then, he’s turned his focus to growing broadcasters and broadcast engineers through programs like
Mirror Lake Middle School’s broadcasting class and the Alaska Teen Media Institute.
He and daughter Cathy visit Mirror Lake’s broadcasting class once a month or so. Usually, on
these visits he’s flanked by station managers, working journalists, business people, politicians, civic
leaders, or professors from the UAA's Department of Journalism and Public Communications –
anyone Hiebert thinks can contribute to the program.
After Shana Sheehy saw the Mirror
“You saw what wasn’t there and
what was needed –everything that
a new country like this needed had
to be fixed for it to move forward.”
–Augie Hiebert
Lake program she was inspired to start the
Alaska Teen Media Institute, Hiebert said.
“It’s a place for kids go to if they are
interested in the news,” he said.
Executive Director for UAA’s Institute for
Social and Economic Research, Fran
Ulmer was his guest at the school June 2.
“ In a state like Alaska it’s even more
important to have telecommunications,” Ulmer said during an impromptu interview on “Good
Morning Mirror Lake.”
The Video Team arrives at school an hour early to produce the daily five-minute broadcast,
which airs on close-circuit television in every classroom and every office in the middle school
at 9:55 a.m.
“The main thing out there is teamwork or they would never get it on the air,” Hiebert said of the
fledgling newscasters. “What it has done is give them a work ethic they can use no matter where they go.”
Mentor, teacher, friend
Hiebert said these programs pique middle and high school students’ interest and some have gone on
to enroll in UAA broadcasting courses and to work at Anchorage TV stations.
Middle School program adviser Emily Blahous said Hiebert’s been a phenomenal mentor.
“Just look at all the people he’s brought out here. Because Augie asks them to, they come,” she said.
Blahous is the a past BP Teacher of the Year.
Hiebert also helped the school navigate the Federal Communications Commission licensing
system to get approval for a low-power FM license. It’s the country’s only Class D low-power
license issued to a middle school, he said.
Blahous said he also found a radio station transitioning to digital equipment willing to donate
some of its old analog equipment to help the station get started.
For his help and friendship, students dedicated their 2005-06 Mirror Lake yearbook to Hiebert.
“Augie Hiebert is our mentor, our teacher, but most of all our friend.”
Hiebert’s eyes twinkle and he smiles as he proclaims the recognition “better than most.”
Civic honors and historic firsts aside, what this visionary really wants to talk about is the future of
telecommunications.
“What will the next 70 years bring by comparison?” he asked, via e-mail.
Augie Hiebert has received
seemingly every honor one
Alaskan can award another. He’s
had his own day, buildings
named in his honor and most
recently, a yearbook dedication.
Hiebert’s honors include:
Anchorage Mayor Tom Fink proclaimed
Nov. 28, 1992, as “Augie Hiebert Day.”
University of Alaska Anchorage
University Service Award, 1998.
William A. Egan Alaskan of the Year
Award from the State Chamber of
Commerce, 1999.
Alaska Legion of Merit Award, 2000.
The Alaska Broadcasting Company Inc.
named its facility at 1007 West 32nd Ave.
“The A.G. Hiebert Broadcast Center”
in 2000.
Alaska Legislature picked Hiebert
Alaskan of the Year in 2001.
Hiebert received the 2002 Robert B.
Atwood Award, recognizing his contributions
in support of the military in Alaska.
The U.S. Senate commended August
Hiebert for his Service to the Alaska
communications industry in June 2003.
Alaska Legislature honored him in
2004 for his work to bring Alaskans
closer together.
Rotary International named him
“Pioneer Alaska Broadcaster and
Exemplary Rotarian” in May 2006.
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Degrees
of
Change
UAA graduates bring passion and
dedication to their chosen careers
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Roosevelt Banks
Photo by Michael Dinneen
A Champion of Education
Described as an inspiration and champion of education,
Roosevelt Banks is beginning his fourth year helping
students at East High School plot a course for their futures.
In his role as counselor he helps students see what options
are available for their lives after high school. And then he
shows them the steps they will need to take to achieve their
dreams, Banks said
What's the secret to his success? “Youth today want adults
to listen to them and treat them with respect. They are looking
for stability," he said. "They absolutely want structure. Because
life happens in steps,” he added.“Education gets you thinking
and targeting the things you need to do.”
In his time at East, Banks said he’s seen a jump in the number
of students starting down the road to college. “About 60
percent do go on to some kind of post–secondary education,”
Banks said.
Originally from Columbus, GA, Banks and family decided to
remain in Alaska when he retired after serving 25 years in the
Air Force. During his military career, he also taught Professional
Military Education and spent 12 years as a career counselor in
the Air Force.
His three children have chosen to follow in their parents’
footsteps. Footsteps leading to advanced education.
Lakhita, received her master’s in education from the
University of Alaska Anchorage and is a history teacher at
Bartlett High School. Marque earned an associate’s degree in
Culinary Arts and is the former catering manager for the
Anchorage School District, and a senior cook at Fort
Richardson. Monnikha, is an Anchorage School District graduate
and an All-American cheerleader at Columbus State University.
While wife, Joyce, is a teacher at Wonder Park Elementary.
“My whole family is involved in education,” he said.
Banks holds four college-level degrees: an associates of arts
in personnel administration, a bachelor’s of science in business
commerce, a master’s of arts in human resources management,
and master’s of education in counseling and guidance.
Of these, Banks said the master’s degree he earned from
UAA in 2002 means the most.
“My degree from UAA is extremely special because it lends
credibility to the school’s commitment to personalize, support
and recruit state residents who may possibly give back to the
community,” he said.
Banks said the way the program is set up allowed him to
work and go to school at the same time. “You can work at it
over a period of time,” he said.“And it’s very, very affordable.”
Mike Graham, principal of East High School in Anchorage,
said Banks is a terrific role model for students. “He’s very good
at listening, and stays calm and thoughtful no matter what the
crisis may be. He’s clearly an inspiration and champion of
education,” Graham said.
Want to see a UAA alum featured in Accolades?
For more than 50 years, University of Alaska Anchorage alumni have been making
a difference as leaders in Alaska and around the world.They work with children, they
volunteer their time for dozens of organizations, they make a difference in our
community and abroad. Do you know a UAA alum who is making a difference?
Tell us about them. Future issue of Accolades Magazine will include more stories
about our alumni and their post UAA endeavors.
To nominate a UAA alumni for this honor, tell us in 300 words or less what’s
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For more information, or to submit a nomination, email Stacey Marsh
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A R C H E O L O G I C A L
Photo by Michael Dinneen
Erin Kinavey
Providing Early Intervention
Aaska’s at-risk children have a powerful ally in Erin Kinavey.
She manages two statewide programs for the
Department of Health and Social Services’ Office of
Children’s Services. She has seen firsthand the crushing need for
early intervention for Alaska's childen who are the victims of
abuse and neglect.
Kinavey spent a couple of years in Bethel managing a local
early intervention program that evaluated children with
moderate to severe disabilities.
And when she left the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta for the big
city last fall she took with her the memories of the abused and
neglected children she met in her two years in the region.
There she saw children younger than four years suffering from
post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders and
depression.
"We need to build capacity to serve those kids,” Kinavey said.
It’s not enough just to identify that a child has
been abused or neglected and not provide
early intervention services to help them
recover, she said.
Of the children in Alaska and the nation
identified as suffering from abuse and neglect,
50 percent are under the age of 5, according
to state and national estimates.
“Across the state we have a tremendous
need for funding to provide early intervention
to these children,” Kinavey said.“It’s also a
huge problem."
People are most familiar with the special
educational services schools deliver under
Part B of the federal Individuals with
Disabilities in Education Act, Kinavey said.
Kinavey manages the state’s efforts under
Part C of the same federal law. She has been
the intervention manager for the Department
of Health and Social Services, Infant Learning
Program statewide since November 2005.
It was as an undergraduate student at the
University of Alaska Anchorage that she
became interested in early childhood
development, she said.
Kinavey enrolled at UAA after working as a nanny in
California for three years.
“I’ve always loved working with kids,” she said.
At UAA, Kinavey worked on an autism project for four years
that considered the abnormal acquisition of language.
“I got very interested in the benefits of early intervention,”
she said.“That’s why I have a dual degree in languages and
psychology.”
Kinavey was in Chile finishing her degree in languages when
she met her husband,Anders Wennerstrom.A few years later,
the California girl turned Alaskan married the Swedish man she
met in South America.
Kinavey is an Alaskan by choice. She was accepted into
another graduate program for early childhood development, but
opted to study at UAA.
“We have a wonderful master’s program in Alaska,” Kinavey
said.“And there is training money available for students, too.”
Kinavey completed bachelor’s degrees in psychology and
languages at UAA in 2001. She also earned a master’s degree
from UAA in early childhood development in 2005.
Kyle Stevens
Degree Without Borders
UAA is proud of the fact that “studies” show eight out of
ten of its graduates stay and work in Alaska. Helping
meet the state’s workforce needs is more than just a
talking point, it’s an achievable goal.
Kyle Stevens apparently didn’t get the memo. Probably
because where he now lives and works is halfway around the
world helping save lives in war torn Sudan, in Northern Africa.
A May 2006 College of Business and Public Policy graduate in
logistics, the affable young man is testing his education to the
limits working to help keep supplies flowing to support the
efforts of the Doctors Without Borders program.
It’s not that he doesn’t love Alaska. And he certainly knows
his market value as a UAA logistics graduate. Even before the
spring ceremony marking their graduation, Stevens said the
Alaska market place had already snatched up all of UAA's other
May logistics graduates. “Alaska has more logistics work than
you are going to find most places,” he said,“There aren’t a
lot of us."
Even knowing all of that, Stevens still signed-up for a sixmonth
assignment with the well-respected non-profit group
after seeing an online job posting, he said. He's part of a
17-person staff at the hospital in Akuem where his duties range
from managing the car pool to keeping track of inventory and
ordering supplies.
Sometimes you just have to take the path less traveled.
Although the government of Sudan and the southern Sudan
People's Liberation Army signed a peace agreement in January
2005, those most affected by the 20-year conflict have yet to
see any real improvement in their living conditions, according to
Doctors Without Borders literature.
Many patients walk for days to Akuem, Bahr-El-Ghazal in
order to reach the hospital there - one of the only functioning
hospitals in the entire province.
Although the facility is located a mere 500 miles from the
fighting in Darfur, Stevens said the hospital in Akuem isn’t
treating trauma from that conflict. Rather, he said, the hospital is
treating mostly vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and
treatable endemic diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.
Sometimes you have to follow your heart.
In 2005, the non-profit medical group said it treated
thousands of children for severe malnutrition in Upper Nile,
Jonglei, and Bahr el Ghazal. Stevens left a good-paying job with
Alaska Supply Chain Integrators in June to embark on the
six-month adventure.Although his skills are greatly in demand in
the business world he will only receive a small stipend during
these six months.
“I won’t get a chance to do this again,” he said.“I couldn't get
this kind of work or life experience anywhere else.”
Photo of children in Darfur by John de Csepel, MD, Doctors Without Borders
Career fields, such as logistics and supply chain management,
are receiving more attention today due to increasing
globalization and the growing need for an efficient and
productive supply chains, Stevens said.
Disasters like hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Sumatra
also have helped to highlight the role logistics plays in moving
supplies, he said.
If and when he returns to Alaska, Kyle Stevens will have more
than just stories worth listening to; he’ll have an understanding
that only those willing to put others ahead of themselves
ever find.
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Fundraising Fish Out of Water
As the Community Relations Coordinator for the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local
Union 1547, Jackie's Endsley's life isn’t likely to be shocking.
Even her duties working on volunteer coordination, event
planning, sponsorships and media seem fairly routine. But these
days she’s best known for the "wild" ways she volunteers
her time.
As a member of the "Wild Salmon on Parade" committee
since its inception in 2003, Endsley is part of one of Alaska's
most creative fund-raisers. Each year the committee invites
artists to decorate fiberglass fish, which are displayed throughout
downtown Anchorage before being auctioned to the
highest bidder.
The annual fish display and auction are greatly anticipated,
and not only raise huge amounts of money for charity, but are
well known and greatly appreciated by the city’s residents and
many downtown visitors. Endsley has been an integral part of
the program since its inception.
Combined, Endsley said the salmon
fund-raiser and the "Mayor’s Charity Ball"
committee, which she has worked with since
2004, have raised hundreds of thousands of
dollars for Alaska charities. Endsley also is a
member of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce’s City of Lights committee.
She was 35 when she realized she needed
more education to move into a career
position she truly desired. So, she left her job
at Matanuska Electric where she had worked
for 16 years and enrolled at UAA. “Thanks
to my husband Jeff’s support I was able to
complete my education with bachelor's
degrees in Psychology and Journalism and
Public Communications in four years,
graduating in December of 2000,” she said.
UAA also introduced her to volunteerism.
”In some cases, it was more like "you have to
volunteer as part of this class" and in other
cases I did it because it felt like the right
thing to do,” Endsley said.
One of those volunteer opportunities was
with the Public Relations Student Society of
America (PRSSA) where she served terms as
vice president and president of the
organization.
Under her leadership, the UAA group earned an award from
the National PRSSA for a community program that collected
used prom dresses and tuxedos and sold them to high school
students for $10 each. Endsley said her experience with the
student organization led her to join the Public Relations Society
of America’s Alaska Chapter after graduation. She said the
professional organization is a great tool for networking and
problem solving.
When she's not volunteering, working or spending time with
her family, Endsley said she enjoys camping and fishing during
the summer and watching movies under a warm blanket with a
nice fire during the winter.
Endsley married husband, Jeff, after meeting him on a blind
date 23 years ago. The couple has a very close family, including
a granddaughter who lives in Las Vegas and visits often. Endsley's
mother, her brother and a sister live in Alaska and two more
sisters live in the “lower 48,” she said.
Jackie Endsley
Tlisa Northcutt
Nurturing Relationships...
and Trees
When celebrating a job well done, a plaque is often
presented, a few hands are usually shaken, an
awkward hug may be exchanged, and a thank you
punctuates the success. That about wraps it up.
Well, not if Tlisa Northcutt is in charge. As Donor Relations
Manager at the University of Alaska Anchorage you’re more
likely to have a tree planted on your behalf. In fact, there’s a
new tree pushing roots into the soil on the campus at UAA
today, thanks to Northcutt, who at 34 is wise beyond her years
in appropriately recognizing success.
In this case, she selected a blooming 20-foot Columnar
Siberian Crabapple tree and had it planted in a prominent
location near the center of the campus to mark the successful
conclusion of the university’s first capital campaign that doubled
UAA’s donor base and raised nearly $13 million.
“It means so much more to everyone on campus than a
plaque. Anyone can put up a plaque,” coworkers said.“Tlisa put
a lot of thought into this and chose to plant a tree as a
beautiful reminder. It’s a good example of her style.” Style she
attributes to her Southern roots having been born in Georgia.
Her family moved with the military to Alaska in 1978 and
following graduation from East Anchorage High School in 1990,
and a brief stint at the University of Georgia, she chose to
return to Alaska and begin her long relationship with UAA.
Northcutt earned her bachelor's from
UAA in Journalism and Public
Communications in 1995 and went to
work for Porcaro Communications in
Anchorage where she honed her
PR skills.
When the opportunity to join the
UAA staff in 2000 as the Special Events
Planner came up, she didn’t hesitate.
“Tlisa loves UAA,” her co-workers said.
“She’s an ambassador and a
spokesperson for the university
everywhere she goes.”
The bulk of her time now at UAA is
spent implementing a hugely successful
stewardship program that serves as a
model for all University of Alaska
development (fundraising) programs.
She describes what she does as nurturing
relationships with donors after a gift has been made, thanking
them and letting them know how their gift was used in supporting
UAA. Basically,“I help foster a mutually beneficial relationship
by following through on a commitment,” she says. She has
been a member of the UAA Alumni Association Board and also
served four years as the special events committee chairperson.
Northcutt is passionate about helping others, especially
children. She is the chairwoman of the Friends of the Alaska
Children’s Trust, which funds programs statewide that help raise
awareness of and prevent child abuse and neglect. She has also
recently participated in the Alaska Humanities Forum’s
Leadership Anchorage program and was named one of the “Top
40 Under 40,” by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce and
the Alaska Journal of Commerce in 2002.
“I believe that providing a conduit between potential donors,
volunteers, and those with need, is invaluable and a true litmus
test of how well you serve a community,” she said.
For fun, co-workers say she loves to make gourmet meals
and invite friends over to share in an evening of fine food and
conversation. She says,“it’s my way of relaxing.” She also
enjoys teaching etiquette classes to children through community
schools. A softball enthusiast, Northcutt said her softball
career is on hold for now while she focuses on her role as
mom. She and husband Scott have been married for five years
and have two daughters Avery, 3, and Aubrey, 1.
Still she’s set a physical challenge for herself:To complete a
marathon - 26-miles, 385-yards - before she is 35. And don’t
bet against her, co-workers said.
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Dollars & Sense Nation’s “best” center for economic
education teaches teachers to teach state’s
greatest resource, its young people
It’s been called the best Center for Economic Education in the United States. That’s
what John Morton said when he was teaching a class earlier this year through the
Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
He ought to know, he literally wrote the book on Advanced Placement (AP) Micro and
Macro Economics.
Most recently, Morton traveled to Alaska to share his vast knowledge and to help
educate local high school teachers taking courses through the Center that better
prepare them to teach economics to the state’s greatest resource, its young people.
Most of the 12 Alaskan teachers in last June’s two-credit college class were veterans
of the Center’s other exceptional programs. In fact, many had earned interdisciplinary
master’s degrees in economics and education.
Teaching teachers how to teach economics is more than a tongue twister. It’s the
essence of what the Center is all about. There are programs training teachers in the
nuances of teaching “Mini-Society,” an elementary school program that explores basic
economic principles through creation of an in-class mini-society that often mimics the
trials and tribulations of everyday life in our country. There is even a comic book for
economic education for high school students that features pre-statehood Alaska
history as a model.
The success of any educational program, especially the high school AP program,
is the quality of its teachers and the Center produces some of the very best.
Melanie Sugita, typifies teachers in the program. She teaches AP economics at South
High School in Anchorage, and she’s back for more training after completing her
Top of page: Ignite Program teacher Alana Haider works
with students to tally their earnings at a multi-school Mini
Society event at Trailside Elementary School. The Anchorage
School District and other schools nationwide use Mini-
Society course materials to teach students about economics.
Above: The Center for Economic Education at UAA designed
and printed this comic book that traces Alaska’s economic
history. In its sixth printing, the book is an invaluable tool for
teachers of Alaska history and economics.
master’s degree as one of 19
students who benefited from a
$700,000 grant from the private,
non-profit Alaska Council on
Economic Education (ACEE).
“The non-profit program and
director Steve Jackstadt offered us
opportunity,” Sugita said of the
Center for Economic Education.
She said Jackstadt also hired
adjunct economics instructor Ann
Lyon to mentor new high school
AP teachers.
“The mentorship was invaluable,”
Sugita said.
According to Morton, ACEE is
unique among the 50 other state
councils operating under the National
Council on Economic Education.
Technology like calculators - and slide
rules – may have made the abacus
obsolete, but it was a hot item at a Mini
Society auction in June. The auction’s
highest bidder holds the ancient
counting device triumphantly.
“It’s significant that the Alaska Council does programs like this,” he
said of the class he taught to train AP teachers. “I don’t think anyone
in the country has a better program.” Students and their parents really
seek out AP classes, Jackstadt said, but in order to earn the potential
college credits offered, students must first pass a placement test.
Anchorage and UAA are fortunate to have economists like Morton
teaching local teachers to better prepare students to do well on the
exam, he said.
“The main business that we’re in is training teachers. And the
nearly 400 teachers we train each year are in touch with 40,000
students a year,” Jackstadt said.
Juneau teacher Chris Carte said she took the class hoping she will
be able to add the higher-level course to her school’s AP course
offerings. “There’s so much to it. It’s a lot different than the regular
economics class,” she said. “There’s a whole lot of economics out
there. This helps you focus on sorting the wheat from the chaff.”
Mini-Society provides children with an opportunity to actually
experience self-created economic realities resulting from the building
of a mini society in their classroom. Patty Gunnarson and Theresa
Reich spend part of their summers teaching other grade school
teachers to use the Mini-Society program in their classrooms.
“Scarcity, opportunity costs – it’s the same thing in both classrooms,”
Reich said during a multi-school Mini-Society event at
Trailside Elementary School in June.
The Anchorage School District’s Ignite Program teaches the
nationwide Mini-Society course as one of four elective units students
study each year.
Jackstadt said ConocoPhillips has funded the program for about 20
years. “Any success we’ve had with Mini-Society is because of their
generosity,” he said. The last time the Anchorage School District was
surveyed, about half its schools had one or more classrooms using the
economic education program. A few schools in Fairbanks and Kenai
also teach Mini Society, Jackstadt said.
Reich said the program relates economic ideas like scarcity to real
life things like using the computer at home or getting time on the
swings at recess.
“Economics is about choices,” she said.
Mini-Society asks students to brain-storm business ideas, do market
studies, design and vote on a currency for their country, and get a
business license before they can market and sell the product that fits
their unique skill set, Reich said. The whole group votes on some
things, like what the currency will look like and the name of their
imaginary country, she said.
So the official currency of Chocoslovakia is called “Chocobukz.”
And of course, Pumpkinville’s money is called “Seeds.”
“They decide as a society what they want,” Reich said. Jackstadt
said the center also designed and printed the comic-type book that
traces Alaska’s economic history for high school students. The stories
were priviously published serially in the Tundra Times, he said.
For its exemplary partnership with an external partner, the center
was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2003.
Jackstadt has been the director of the Alaska center since the ACEE
signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UAA to provide office
space, a secretary and a course release for a center director in 1985.
The center generates about 1,100 credit hours annually, he said.
Founded in 1977, the state council is a partnership of leaders in
Mini Society uses events like the live auction to teach students about economic
concepts like supply and demand.
business and education devoted to helping students in grades
kindergarten through 12 learn more about economics.
Supporters include ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., BP, ExxonMobil,
the Rasmuson Foundation, NANA Development Corp. and the
National Council on Economic Education. Jackstadt said ACEE puts
up money for programs – about $200,000 each year – and sets the
center’s direction. The Center for Economic Education is located in
Rasmuson Hall on the UAA campus. It offers three main programs
annually: Mini Society; Meaningful Economics Challenge; Exxon
Spring Economics Forum. For more information, visit cee.alaska.edu
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Nancy Godorth
Steven and
Barbara Goggans
Elizabeth Gogolowski
Patricia and
William Gohring
Lisa and Rex Good
Jerry N. Goodman
Sadie Goodman Robertson
Martha Gould-Lehe and
John Lehe
Kathleen Grace
Dee Gratrix
Dirk Greeley and
Alison Till
Sanna S. Green
Amy Grove
Janet Guarini
Rosemary J. Gute-Gruening
Ronald and Eleanor Hadden
James E. Haga
Cathleen and Ned Hahn
Heather C. Hall
Christopher and
Deadra Hall
Nan S. Hallock
Laurie and Timothy Halter
Dianne and
Clayton Halverson
Connie and Peter Hamlett
Brandy Hand and
Juston Dixon
Peter A. Hannon
Dale and Hansen
Mary A. Nelson
Donald and Sandra Hanson
Annette M. Hard
Joel Hard
Anonymous
Anthony B. L. Harduar
Amy E. Harmon
Michael and Jane Harper
Michael S. Harr
Shelly and Van Harry
Elizabeth and
Jeremiah Hartley
Robin L. Hartlieb
Brian and Kristy Harman
Lisa M. Corbin
Genevieve A. Hartz
Loretta E. Harvey
Kim Hastings-Randell
David and Jeannie Haugen
Lorrie and
Timothy Hawkins
Wendy K. Hawn
Manon and Eugene Heck
Robert A. Hedin
Mark and
Meredith Hedlund
Diana L. Hedstrom
Bonnie and
Floyd Heimbuch
Joyce M. Helens
La Rue M. Hellenthal
Julie Hendricks
Carolyn M. Henry
Jill and James Herbert
Pearlene F. Hernandez
Dave Herndon
Daniel Herring and
Candace McKenzie
Larsen A. Hess
Jeanette M. Hickok
Pat Hicks
Elaine R. Hicks
Jeffrey L. Higgins
Heath E. Hilyard
Leah J. Hoffman
Lucia J. Hofmeister-Grow
Terri L. Hokanson
Susan and Timothy Holder
Bradford C. Holifield
Patricia and Neil Holland
Natalie M. Holland
Amy E. Holonics
Russell W. Hood
Steven Horn and
Lisa Parker
Morris and Lorrie Horning
Thomas N. Horton
Michelle Hough
Tim and Mary Hudson
Constance E. Graffis
Dora J. Hughes
Birgitta M. Humphrey
Anonymous
Stephanie L. Huru
Lynda Hyce
Grace M. Ingrim
Jaylyn G. Ireland
Wayne Irion
Gail V. Irvine
Cricket M. Ives
Hisakazu Iwasaki
Jean C. Jackson
Wilton and Karen Jackson
Lydia A. Jackson
Debbie Jamieson
Tracey Janssen
Thomas A. Janvrin
Bethel K. Jarrell
Virgil R. Jefts III
Fred G. Jenkins
Marie H. Moody
Patricia H. Jensen
Julia C. Jessal
Karey Jessee
Amy Johns
Margy Johnson
Lisa and Jay Johnson
Paula and
Richard E. Johnson
Priscilla A. Johnson
Brenda M. Oelrich
Susan J. Johnson
Tyler and Ariane Johnson
Cheryl A. Jones
Corey Jones
Pamela and Victor Jones
Philip and Eileen Jordan
Margaret S. Joyner
Virginia W. Juettner
C. Magro and
C. Leonard Karge
Theodore L. and
Marjorie R. Kassier
Marilyn and
David Kebschull
Maggie Kelly
James A. Kemplen
Joffia and Kenyatta
Chester and Shirley Kern
Rosemary Kershaw
William C. Kiger
John and Barbara Killian
Hwa and Chuck Kim
Richard A. King
Pamela D. King
Donald Kinney and
Suzanne Lombardi
Robert and Robin Kirk
Keiko Kishaba
Rhonda R. Kitter
Mia Klinkner
Andrew D. Kliskey
Mary and Tom Klopfer
Joanna M. Knapp
Sandra L. Knight
Jessica D. Knowles
Jonny and Francis Knutson
Karole A. Kohl
John and Karol
Kolehmainen
Cindy A. Koplin
Rosanna and Koppelmann
Cassandra and
David Kosinski
Elmer and Vera Koskela
Michael and Fraya Krukar
Paul Krumrey
Erika L. Kubik
Shirley Kuczek
Mary and Stephen Kuffner
Karen Kulin
Anonymous
David and Pamela Kyzer
Josephine LaChance
Terry and Peggy LaGrone
Steve A. Lambert
Richard B. Lanctot
Virginia M. Landry
Martin Langlois and
Jean Brinich
Dorothy B. Langworthy
Jon Larson and
Gina Angelone
Rhonda and Terry Larson
Ann and Delbert Larue
Anthony. and
Mary Lastufka
Tuomo and
Jennifer Latva-Kiskola
Marie Lavigne
Donna M. Law
Dorothy Law Doubleday
Janie Leask
John and Claire LeClair
Ted Lee and
Catherine Murphy
Randal J. Lee
Tracy Lee
Haechung Lee
James and Stephanie Lee
Chipp and
Jacqueline Leibach
Annette J. Leier
Nancy L. Lesh
Barry Levine
Sarah R. Lewis
Mary Leykom
Kimberly A. Hartsock
Diane D. Lind
Cheryl M. Lipps
Carolyn M. Long
Douglas Lottridge
Debra Y. Lovaas
Cheryl and
Mark Lovegreen
Susan Low
Kevin and Elena Lowery
William M. Luck
Christopher A. Lund
Michael and Joan Lynch
Susan S. Lyons
Carolyn and Monte Lyons
Patricia L. Macklin
Dawn L. Madara
John Madler
Jim and LeAnn Magnuson
Gabriel Mahns and
Maiko Nagaoka
Bob and Kathie Maloney
Alexandra and
Patrick Maloney
Tatsuo Manabe
Naomi Manabe
Lester and Dorothy Mann
Cheri and
Michael Mansfield
Melissa A. Marks
Victoria Marmora
Cathlene C. Marshall
Kurt Martens
Ervin P. Martin
James and Cindi Martin
Nancy S. Martin
Barbara and G. Martin
Glenn F. Massay
William and Norita Matara
Silverio and
Kathleen Mattero
Lou and Scott Mattison
Willard and Karen Maxell
Sue and Thomas May
Claude and Evelyn Mayer
John Maynard and
Martha Boersch
Michelle D. Maynor
Edward J. McCallum
Jane A. McCarty
Tadd E. McCauley
Julie and
Patrick McChesney
Johnny McClain
Barbara L. McClintock
Mark McCloud and
Rebara Karmen McCloud
Robert McCoy
Vernie McCrohan
Gloria M. McCutcheon
Daniel L. McDaniel
Janet E. McDermott
Piper McDevitt-Warren and
Michael Warren
Rickey J. McElfish
Paul and Heather McEwen
Judith O. Jones
Gail McGuill and
James Bragg
Brian and Beverly McKay
Sally L. Mead
Linda and Roger Mechon
Michael and Sherryl Meek
Jenae and James Meinel
Jeanne E. Meinert
Melissa Mendez
Susan K. Metcalf
Deborah and
Michael Methvin
Michael D. Metteer
Angela Meyer
Jennifer M. Meyer
Betty J. Meyer
Jennifer A. Meyer
Alex and Carol Meza
Daniel M. Mielke
Joan Tovsen, 55, received the Atwood Scholarship for the spring 2006 semester to aid in her pursuit of a
degree in journalism and public communications with an emphasis in public relations.“ As a nontraditional
student returning to UAA, finances are challenging. When I placed my store in storage, the cash register
ceased to ring. For two years, I have attended UAA full-time with student loans, small grants and very
part-time work. The Atwood scholarship is very much appreciated and will help me complete my degree
in journalism. Thank you so much. I wish Bob and Elaine Atwood were still with us to thank personally.
My sincere gratitude goes to the Atwood Foundation and Bob Reeves, a delightful gentleman with great
insights into the history and culture of our community. Thank you from my heart.”
Nicole A. Mikes
Susan Miller
Candice Y. Miller
Mitzi and Clark Mishler
Joann C. Mitchell
Anonymous
Phillip and
Barbara Mitchell
Kim M. Moats-Barnes
Kenrick J. Mock
Kristina E. Moffett
Kade and Jamie Monlezun
Katherine and
Ronald Moon
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Ronald and Connie Moore
William B. Moore
Roberta H. Morgan
and Ronald M. Cupples
Linda Morgan Marley and
Steve Marley
Joyce and John Morrison
Sunshine and
Michael Morrison
Kurt and Margie Mueller
Margaret T. Mullen
Jennifer A. Munro
Dena Munroe
Seigo Murakami
Matthew A. Murray
Phillip and Nicole Murray
Nancy N. Neely
Dale and Elaine Nelson
David and Theresa Newell
David P. Newell
Suzanne and Richard
Newkirk
Kelly and Dale Nichols
Mearl A. Nichols
Douglas North and
Ellen Cole
Peter Norton
David and Marilee Nufer
Michelle Nurmi and
Michael Broadhead
Charles and Bonnie Nygard
Susan and Randall Oakley
Scott and Angela Oberlitner
Robert and
Karen Obermann
Leo E. Obermiller Sr.
Megan O'Brien
Charles L. O'Connell
Susan and David Oesting
Alvin and Gloria Okeson
Shari Olander and
Willy Tonguet
Judith K. Olson
Merritt C. Olson
J.L. Olver
Maureen O'Malley and
Michael Nave
Melanie and Jim O'Rourke
Juliana L. Osinchuk
Vicki and Ronald Otte
Diane K. Owens
Jean Paal
Lee R. Page
Philip and Mary Pandolfi
Laura R. Fleishauer
Kimberly L. Parcells
Earl T. Pargeter Jr.
David and Janet Parker
Dayna L. Parker
Carolyn L. Pas
Denny Patella
Stephanie and
Winston Patton
Bob Pearson
Linda Pearson
Theodore and Claire Pease
Wanda F. Peel
Michael G. Peltier
Teri and Clifford Penn
Lisa and Penny
Jill and Bradley Perkins
Keith and Suzanne Perrins
Disa J. Perry
Jamar and Tasha Perry
Kenneth J. Pesta
Colleen M. Peterson
Alice Petrivelli
David C. Pfeiffer
Jacqueline Pflaum
Jean B. Phillips
Noi Phonphan
Alan R. Piccard
John W. Piercey
Steven and Tracy Pifer
David Pike
Rosemary R. Avery
Anne W. Pitkin
Bobby L. Pitts
Joan K. Plank
Christina K. Platt
James Plumley
and JE Petroske
Shelley Larson, 33, graduated in August 2006 with a bachelor’s of science in nursing and minor in
gerontology. Larson is a 2005-06 Alaska Kidney Foundation Scholarship recipient.“Scholarships have
enabled me to enjoy my experience at UAA School of Nursing, make lasting friendships, and achieve
academic success.” Larson was recently inducted into the International Nursing Honor Society, Sigma
Theta Tau. Her professional goals are to gain employment at the Alaska Native Medical Center and
further nursing research regarding Alaska Native Elders.
Robert Poe and
Terzah Tippin Poe
Kyle Horne and Mary
Pomeroy-Horne
Pam Porter
Linda and Donald Porter
Michael and Pradeep Prater
S. Byron Preston
Michael R. Price
Nina E. Prockish
Capri I. Aga
Miles Pruner
Mary Ellen and
Robert Purcell
Steven L. Pyle
Carole C. Quam
Pamela J. Husson
George and Carolyn Rakos
Judith D. Ramos
Charlotte A. Palaniuk
Janet and Dennis Randa
Judith K. Redmond
Don Reed
Jennifer D. Reeves
Michael and Connie Reinart
Marian and Reindorf
Robert and Mildred Renkert
Jim F. Renkert
John and Lucile Rense
Helen D. Rettie
Quentin B. Reuer
Roberta L. Rice
Alice Richard
Charles Richardson
Jennifer L. Richerson
Cynthia and
Martin Richman
William P. Ridgway
George and Marcia Riley
Ronald and
Genevieve Risch
Roxanne Risner
David Roberson
Sharon and Alan Roberts
Peggy A. Robinson
Virginia and
H.E. Robinson
Amy M. Robinson
Chris and Nel Roche
Wayne M. Rockne
Fara and Dennis Roe
Mark and Kristi Roehl
John and R'Nita Rogers
Penny and Jerry Rohacek
Raina Rooney
Beatrice K. Rose
Burt Rosenbluth and
Darcy Mollett
Justin and Ross
Kenneth Rowedder
Kenneth A. Ruby
Donna Rulien
Gregory Russell
Herbert G. Russell
Dorothy and Robert Ruth
Agatha G. Rutka
Douglas M. Salik
Cheryl J. Samples
Alice and
Timothy Samuelson
Frank N. Sanders
Rita and Sanders
Paul F. Sandhofer
Marjorie M. Saul
Eva L. Saulitis
Brian and Pamela Saylor
Martin and Marian Schafer
Eugene B. Scheer
Charles and
Vicki Scherbaum
Anne and Randall Schlapia
John A. Schlomer
Sharon and Wyane Schmidt
Kelly and Terry Schnese
Patricia G. Schnitzer
Denise and Jerry Scholze
Cynthia and David Schraer
Forrest E. Schroeder-
Einwiller
Anonymous
Chris M. Schutte
William Searle
Jack and Debby Sedwick
Paul Seibel and
Judith Green
Julie and Thomas Semmens
Keita and Elizabeth Senaga
Lisa Servent
Richard E. Sewell
Roy D. Shaffer
Paulette R. Novy
Kaira G. Shaw
Bobby Shaw
Robert Shefchik and
Barbara Sundberg
John C. Sheldon
Laura Sheldon
Barbara K. Sherman
Lenora E. Sherwood
Lor Vel J. Shields
Kimberly A. Shillinger
Gary R. Shinn
Leslie and Tobin Shipp
Don Shockey
Mary Shreves and
John Anderson
Earl and Annette Shuman
Joan Siegel and
Joel Solonche
Carol M. Silva
Jennifer and
Edwin Simeonoff
Bernard and Marion Simon
Adam C. Simonds
Bardon Simons
and Andayline Fernandez
Peggy and Chester Simton
Elizabeth A. Sirles
Sarah and Brandon Skeel
George and
Elizabeth Skladal
Jayson and
Mary Beth Smart
Steven and Jane Smith
Kerry and Chris Smith
Christy Smith and
Lawrence Weiss
Ruth and Gordon Smith
Gregory and JoAnne Smith
Gregory N. Smith
Margaret S. Smith
Collin M. Smith
James and Ramola Smith
Kathryn H. Smith
Mary and Thomas Smith
Shawn and
Casey Snisarenko
Michael K. Snyder
Richard and Gail Snyder
Shook-Ming So
Andrea and Mitchell Soland
Charles Somerville III
Sheila and Jerome Soukup
Cynthia and
Mario Spagnoli
George and Roberta Spartz
Sarah M. Spencer
Timothy J. Spernak
Joellynn P. Spivey
Pete Sprague
Steven W. Spranger
Anonymous
William A. Stark
Claudia and Ronald Starr
Sharon Starry
Judy and Peter Staveley
Marie C. Steele
Karen and Paul Steinman
Pete Stelling and
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
Donna and Chris Stephens
John and Catherine Stepp
Ben and Elizabeth Stevens
Kathryn and
Thomas Stevens
Anonymous
Sharon and Stiassny
Anna and Mark Stiller
Hannah C. Stiver
Anastasia M. Stocker
Julie A. Stoneking
Thomas and Janice Storm
Joel C. Stout
Roxanne and Norman
Stowers
Catherine M. Straub
Jane E. Straus
Linda C. Stromquist
Margaret Stutzer
Faye and Joseph Sullivan
David G. Summerfeldt II
Martin F. Summers
Jeanne and
Robert Sundberg
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Stephen and
Shara Sutherlin
Laurie Svec
Joy and James Swartz
Barbara E. Swartz
Krisjon M. Tabisola
William W. Talmage
Laurie A. Tanner
Anna C. Tappel
Alex and Pearl Tatum
Suzanne and Robert Taylor
Lawrence P. Terch III
Gary and Virginia Test
William and Karen Theuer
Charlot E. Thickstun
Jean and Michael Thomas
Carol and Jay Thomassen
Mark W. Thompson
Priscilla J. Thorsness
Yvonne F. Thrasher
Della and Lance Throp
Barbara J. Thurston
Barbara and
Leonard Tillman
Sally Tilton
John and Ruthann Timmer
Julie E. Tisdale
Kathleen A. Tocke
Taisuke Toda
Alden Todd ◆
Pearl and Max Todhunter
Marthon G. Tolman Jr.
Tabetha M. Houston
Galina and
William Tomisser
Ruth Tong
Karen L. Toohey
Candelario and
Maria Torres
Brian and Karrie Trautman
Philip J. Treuer
Kenna Sue and
Howard Trickey
Barbara and Gene Tromly
Fay and Richard Trudell
Ted B. Trueblood
Marti and James Tryck
Ruth A. Tweto
Christi Tyler
Christopher and Erin Ulmer
Linda and Roy Uttech
Roland and
Christine Vandenberg
Stan and Donna Vaughn
Irene and Joseph Venes
Pam Ventgen
Caroline Venuti
Yvette L. Vergnetti
Tina L. Verheyen
Patricia and Martin Victor
Lydia and Arthur Vinson
Sally J. Vonada
Carolyn and Frederick Voss
Michael Votava
Benjamin F. Waldrop Jr.
Jean Wall
Linda and Dennis Wallace
Lisa and David Wallach
Bettie G. Wallace
Delia M. Wallis
Daniel Walter
John Walter
Margaret and Carl Walter
Dorothy Walukiewicz
Christine and
William Wascisin
Karol and Eric Weatherby
Roberta and
Howard Weaver
Nathan Webb
Lu Ann S. Webb
Sandra and Larry Weihs
John and Rita Wells
Gary and Mary Wells
Steve Welsh
Janet Welsh
Stacy and Gary Wesolowski
Robin K. Wetherell
Lory Wetzel
Jeanine M. Wheeler
Coleen White Fett and
Shane Fett
James and Mary Whitehurst
Dwain and Lenora Whitley
Chuck and April Whitlock
Bonnie and James Wickes
Edward G. Wickham
Jill D. Widdicombe
Tim Wiepking and
Barbara Brown
Warren and Diana Wilcox
Norman and
Kathleen Wilder
Sally and Greg Wiley
Diane Wilke
Daniel Williams
Jack and Carol Williams
Barbara and
Randy Williams
Carol Wilson
William and Janet Wilson
Allison C. Wilson
Dorothy and
Michael Wilson
Shelly Wilson-Schoessler
Donald Wingate and
Nancy Bruno
Colleen Winkelman
C. Harold Wirum
James M. Wojciehowski
Mark and Miok Wolbers
Gerald W. and
LaVonne E. Wolf
John G. and
Margaret Wolfe
Kathleen and
Thomas Wood
David and Aimee Woodley
Mary E. Woodring
Mary Anne and
Travis Woods
Andrew J. Workman
Alice Wright and
George Crawford
June and Dudley Wright
Sarah A. Wright
Sun and Clarence Wright
Phyliss and Rand Wulf
Matthew C. Wyeth
Dave and Joanne Wyrick
Sergey A. Yagodin
Ji-Liang Yang
Gayle and Young
Jim and Velenak
Judy A. Besh
Chris and
Corinne Zimmerman
Dorothy and
Benjamin Zvolanek
Supporters who have
passed away are gratefully
acknowledged and marked
with a ◆
CORPORATE DONORS
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
$50,000 +
Alaska Airlines*
Alaska Native Tribal
Health Consortium
Alaska Regional Hospital
Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company
Bartlett Regional Hospital
ConocoPhillips Alaska*
Costco Wholesale
Denali Center
Fairbanks Memorial
Hospital
Estate of Marie George
Estate of
Mary Jean McManamin
First National Bank Alaska
JL Properties
Microsoft Corporation
Primavera Systems
Providence Health System
in Alaska
Providence Kodiak Island
Medical Center
Rebounders Booster Club
Safeway*
Totem Ocean Trailer
Express
Valley Hospital
VECO
Weidner Investment
Services
Wells Fargo*
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health
Corporation
AURORA CIRCLE
$10,000 - 49,999
3 Point Booster Club
Alaska Kidney Foundation
Alaska Sales & Service*
Alaskan of the Year
Alex Hills Associates
Anaconda Sports*
Anchorage Chrysler Dodge
Center*
Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage Economic
Development Corporation
Anchorage Marriott*
ARAMARK*
Army National Guard*
Aspen Hotels of Alaska*
AT&T Alascom*
Avis Rent A Car*
Benton Bay Athletic
Lions Club*
Blockbuster Video*
Blueliner Booster Club*
BP
Cellular One*
ChevronTexaco Products
Company*
CIRI
Clarion & Hawthorne
Suites*
Construction Industry
Progress Fund
Davis Constructors
and Engineers
Egan Memorial Cancer
Foundation
Electrical Sales Agents
ERA Aviation*
Hunter A. Scholz, 35, is working toward an associate’s degree in welding /nde. He said the $300
Acuren UT scholarship he received for the spring 2006 semester couldn’t have come at a better time.“I
used the money for bills, nothing too exciting, but as a student father of four, I can assure you the award
was greatly appreciated.”
Flint Hills Resources
Alaska
GCI*
Hilton Anchorage*
Holiday Stationstores*
Horizon Services Group
Hotel Captain Cook*
K & L Distributors*
KeyBank*
Municipality of Anchorage
Nerland Agency Worldwide
Partners*
Northern Dynasty Mines
NYE Frontier Family of
Dealerships*
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S E A W O L F S P O R T S
Osborne Construction
Pepsi-Cola*
PND Inc. Consulting
Engineers
Princess Cruises and Tours*
Prudential Jack White/Vista
Real Estate*
Pythian Sisters Friendship 2
Rho Zeta Chapter
Kappa Delta Pi
Sheraton Anchorage Hotel*
Siemens Building
Technologies
Spenard Builders Supply*
Subway of Alaska*
The Official ACS
Directory*
Thomas H. Maren
Foundation
Tryck Nyman Hayes
University of Washington
USKH
Vito's Auto Sales*
Wendy's North-Wend
Foods*
GOLD CIRCLE
$5,000 - 9,999
10th & M Seafood*
Alaska Distributors*
Alcan Electrical
& Engineering
All Seasons ARGO
& Equipment
Alyeska Resort*
Anchorage Fracture &
Orthopedic Clinic
Anchorage Homer Builders
Care Endowment
Capital Office
Systems/Supply*
DOWL Engineers Alaska
Testlab
Gray Line of Alaska*
Horizon Lines*
Horizons Cafe & Catering*
Leo Rhode Charitable Trust
McKinley Capital
Management*
Millennium Alaska Hotel*
NANA Regional Corp.
PDC, Inc. Consulting
Engineers
Reebok International*
Round Table Pizza*
Seibu Alaska
Sholton Foundation
Sourdough Mining*
The Alaska Club*
The Superior Group
Totem Inn
UAA Book Store*
Union Pacific Matching
Gifts Program
US Travel Alaska*
Valdez Harbor Inn
Westmark Anchorage
Hotel*
GLACIER CIRCLE
$2,500 - 4,999
Active Ankle Systems*
Alaska Bar Foundation
Alaskan Memories*
Stephen Casey, 20, received the Tony Prockish Memorial Scholarship and the Norbert Muller
Scholarship for Spring 2006. Casey is pursing his associate of applied science degree in
automotive technology.“Receiving the Tony Prockish Memorial and Norbert Muller Scholarships
allowed me to complete my education and receive my degree in excellent standing financially
and academically.”
Anchorage Convention
& Visitors Bureau*
Bagoy's Florist*
Coca Cola Bottling
Company*
Cruise West*
Doyon Universal Services
Frito Lay*
Full Swing Golf of Alaska*
Glacier Sound Inn
Hilltop Youth*
IKON Office Solutions
of Alaska*
Kiewit Building Group
Knik Construction
Magic Bus*
Muffin Man Cafe 817*
RE/MAX Properties
Rise Alaska
Roger Hickel Contracting
Sea Galley Restaurant*
Stellar Designs*
Super Signs*
The Northern Light*
Triad Engineering*
US Arctic Research
Commission
CHANCELLOR'S
CIRCLE
$1,000 - 2,499
Action Security
Alaska Central Chapter ICC
Alaska Customer Service
Association
Alaska Hospitality Alliance
Alaska Rock Gym*
Alaska School Activities
Association*
Alaska Signs & Barricades
Alaska Society of
Professional Land
Surveyors
Allen & Petersen
AMC Engineers
American Society of Civil
Engineers
American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
Anchorage International
Rotary Club
Anchorage Republicans
Women's Club
Anchorage Sand and Gravel
Apple Computer*
ASPRS Alaska Region
Bruce Pozzi Public
Relations*
CH2M Hill
Chilkoot Charlies’
Cornerstone Construction
Craig Taylor Equipment
Criterion General
Cruz Construction
DiTomaso
Emulsion Products
ESS Support Services
Worldwide
Exclusive Paving
Finely Alaskan
GPS Alaska
Habitat Housewares
Hawk Construction
Consultants
Holland America Line
Holland Consulting
Intercollegiate Studies
Institute
Ken Brady Construction
Company
Koniag
Linford of Alaska
M - B Contracting
Meridian Management
National Association of
Social Workers
National Association of
Women in Construction
Olgoonik Corporation*
Portfolio
Quality Asphalt Paving
Rain Proof Roofing
Ramona Munsell
& Associates
Royal Caribbean
International & Celebrity
Cruises
Sheri Stears Scholarship &
Employee Recognition
Award Funds
Skinny Raven Sports*
Snow Goose Restaurant
& Brewery
Swalling Construction
Sysco Food Services
of Seattle
Tam Construction
University Redi-Mix
Concrete Products
Valdez Community
Hospital Auxiliary
West Construction
Corporate sponsors are
denoted by an asterisk*
The following companies
matched gifts to UAA made
by their employees.
Alaska Airlines
Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company
AstraZeneca
BP
ChevronTexaco
Chugach Electric
Association
ConocoPhillips
ExxonMobil
GlaxoSmithKline
LabCorp
Maytag
Northrop Grumman
State Farm
Union Pacific
We account for, acknowledge
and steward our donors on a
fiscal year giving basis,
July 1 – June 30. The above
also reflects pledges and
in-kind donations.
Although every effort has
been made to ensure the
accuracy of this report, we
acknowledge that errors may
have occurred. If you have
questions about the list,
please contact Tlisa
Northcutt, Donor Relations
Manager at 907.786.1211.
2005-06 UAA Athletics Season Highlights
Men’s Basketball
■ Qualified for 12th NCAA Tournament in school history
■ Senior guard Kemmy Burgess named honorable mention All-American
and UAA Athlete of the Year
■ Senior Eagle River native Adam Fitt-Chappell named Great Northwest
Athletic Conference’s NCAA Sportsman of the Year
Women’s Basketball
■ Rebecca Kielpinski named Freshman All-American and was only
non-senior to make GNAC All-Conference Team
■ Tim Moser hired as new head coach in March 2006
Cross Country
■ Both men’s and women’s squads qualified for NCAA Championships –
a first in both school and conference history
■ David Kiplagat earned GNAC Freshman of the Year honors
■ Head coach Michael Friess swept men’s and women’s GNAC Coach of
the Year honors
Gymnastics
■ Sophomore Anchorage native Jessica Portlock named Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation Gymnast of the Year and won all-around at league
championships
■ Freshman Lauren Agostino places eighth in all-around at NCAA Div. I
West Regional, the second-best finish ever for a Seawolf at the meet
■ Seawolves hosted national power Nebraska and rival Seattle Pacific in
first-ever home tri-meet
Hockey
■ Head coach Dave Shyiak completed first season on Seawolf bench as
fourth coach in school history
■ Seawolves placed 10 student-athletes on WCHA All-Academic Team,
including five repeat selections from last season
Skiing
■ UAA skiers nearly equaled their best-ever finish at NCAAs with a
sixth-place effort – the 22nd consecutive year the Seawolves have finished
top 10 at Nationals
■ Seawolves claimed six All-America awards (4 Nordic, 2 Alpine)
■ Sophomore Alpine racer Daniela Anguita represented Chile at 2006 Winter
Olympics in Torino, Italy
Track & Field
■ Anchorage native Mary Pearce (400 meters) and Mandy Kaempf (5000
meters) became first track & field All-Americans in school history
■ Pearce chosen Women’s Athlete of the Meet after winning the 200- and
400-meter races at the GNAC Championships
■ Junior high jumper Eric Draper and Pearce named GNAC Men’s and
Women’s Newcomers of the Year
Volleyball
■ Michelle Earl completed first season as Seawolves’ head coach
■ Posted season sweep of arch-rival Alaska Fairbanks
Photos by Michael Dineen
Jessica Portlock
Kemmy Burgess
22 Accolades
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G E N E R O U S D O N O R S
A Teaching Legacy
T
hree teacher education students at the
University of Alaska Anchorage were
picked to receive Fall 2006 semester
Sheri Stears Education Scholarships.
Heather Johnson received $500 for two
semesters. And Catherine Taylor and Michelle
Musgrove each received $500 for one semester.
Stears, 45, worked with her family and UAA
to create the Sheri Stears Education Scholarship
before her death from cancer Dec. 18, 2002.
Recognizing that she had a terminal illness, her
brother Dan Stears said she wanted a
scholarship to be developed for students
pursuing a career in education.
“She believed that all students should have
access to a quality education, which would provide
them the skills and opportunities to succeed later in life,” he said.
Stears spent 23-years with the Anchorage School District - first as
an English teacher and gymnastics coach at Service High School, then
as an assistant principal at Bartlett High School and finally as principal
of Clark Middle School.
“This scholarship will allow Alaska school districts the opportunity
to work cooperatively with UAA in developing our finest students to
become the future educators of Alaska,” the Stears family said.
Photo courtesy of the Stears family
Scholarship recipient Johnson was a student at Bartlett when Stears
was the assistant principal there. She said she made a point of asking
her high school friends for their memories of Stears.
The Stears scholarship is open to College of
Education students pursuing an undergraduate
education degree or a master’s of arts in teaching
who have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Due to the high quality of this year’s
applicants, the Stears family decided to also
award $500 one-semester scholarships to
Musgrove and Taylor.
Sheri Stears was the 2001 Alaska Middle
School Principal of the Year. That fall, the
National Association of Secondary School
Principals also named her one of its top three
middle school principals in the nation.
The family has increased the 2007 scholarship
Sheri Stears to $2,500.
Dan Stears said his sister's vision was to invest
in the educational excellence of UAA to train Alaska's finest students
to become educators in local school districts.
The family's goal is to work with UAA and Alaska school districts
to provide a self-sustaining scholarship fund through the donations of
the family and others, he said.
“Sheri was, and will always be, a true leader and an inspiration to
all that knew her,” Dan Stears said.
For more information, about this scholarship contact the Office of Student
Financial Aid, (907) 786-1586 or at financial.aid@uaa.alaska.edu.
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