[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter

Fri, 7 May 2004 15:41:33 GMT

University of Idaho
Office of the President
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3151
Phone: 208-885-6365
Fax: 208-885-6558

The Friday Letter
A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and Friends
May 7, 2004

Here's the latest news at the University of Idaho:
* Sharon Allen of Los Angeles, an accounting alumna from the 1970s 
and a leader in corporate America, will be the featured speaker at 
UI's plenary commencement ceremony May 15. She was named one of the 
Top 100 Most Influential People in 2003 by Accounting Today. Allen 
also is one of five who will receive honorary doctorate degrees for 
outstanding citizenship and leadership. She is chairman of the board 
of directors of Deloitte & Touche where she has had a 30-plus-year 
career. Her civic life includes board membership on many Los 
Angeles-area and national charities, colleges and business 
organizations. Others to receive honorary degrees are:

Robert W. Halliday, Boise, an Army veteran who earned seven Purple 
Hearts, CPA and former financial executive for Boise Cascade, a founder 
of Princess Cruises and many other enterprises. He also sits on various 
corporate and charitable boards. He is particularly devoted to higher 
education support through the Halliday Foundation.

Scott R. Simplot, Boise, chairman of the board of the J. R. Simplot 
Co., a leading agribusiness company for potatoes, turf grass and 
cattle. He has shepherded science-based research and technology and 
joint industry projects with higher education. He also is a founding 
member of Micron Technology's board of directors. He has volunteered 
with Boise's Chamber of Commerce, the Salvation Army and the Idaho 
Food Bank.

Karen Stedtfeld Offen, Woodside, Calif., historian, scholar and 
authority on women's history, cross-cultural roles and European and 
American feminism, has dedicated her career to pursuing women's 
history. Over three decades, she has documented unknown achievements 
by women, given international women's history more substance and 
revealed accomplishments of European women emerging from behind the 
Iron Curtain.

James E. Rogers, Las Vegas, is a champion of excellence in higher 
education and helps shape legal and other education by funding faculty 
and student incentives, libraries and law schools, athletic and music 
programs and more. Time Magazine listed him among the country's top 12 
philanthropists. He endorses "public trusteeship of educational 
excellence." 

* UI has learned that its Army ROTC program last year ranked 36 out of 
271 units nationwide, placing it in the top 15 percent of the nation's 
senior ROTC programs. At this year's May 15 Commencement in Moscow, 14 
Army ROTC cadets will be commissioned as second lieutenants. When they 
complete officer's training, they will be assigned to Army units in 
the U.S. or abroad. 

* UI and the Palouse Discovery Science Center Tuesday celebrated the 
first birthday of Idaho Gem, the mule that last year became the first 
clone born in the horse family. Dr. Gordon Woods and Dr. Dirk Vanderwall, 
both animal and veterinary science professors at UI, teamed with Dr. 
Ken White, a Utah State University animal science professor, to clone 
an equine. The Project Idaho team produced two more foals, Utah Pioneer 
on June 9 and Idaho Star July 27.

* Eight UI students elected as student body senators took office May 5. 
They are Elizabeth Bento, Gooding; Natasha "Natalia" Bespyatova, Kiev, 
Ukraine (Twin Falls); Julia Brumer, Pocatello; Tom Callery, Chris Worden 
and Alex Stegner, all of Lewiston; Shazada Hashmi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan; 
and Gretchen Smythe, Spokane, Wash.

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