[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter from UI President White (June 3, 2005)

[Tom Hansen]

Copied and pasted below is today's (June 3, 2005) UI Friday Letter from UI
President White.

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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
June 3, 2005

Here's the latest news from the University of Idaho:

~ "I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat" is the title of an article in the
current issue of Vanity Fair magazine. UI alumnus W. Mark Felt'35 reveals he
was the informant to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein during the Watergate Scandal in the early 1970's. Felt served as a
top-ranking F.B.I. official at the time. Felt earned a bachelor's degree in
letters and science from UI, where he served as president of Beta Theta Pi
fraternity and was a member of the debate team, and the Bench and Bar
Association.  He was inducted into the UI Alumni Hall of Fame in 1972. Felt
joined the F.B.I. in 1942 after earning a law degree from George Washington
University.  The 91-year-old now lives in Santa Rosa, Calif. 

~ Artificial turf installation has begun on the former grass field east of
the Kibbie Dome. The days of muck and mire will be gone, and University of
Idaho students now will have state-of-the-art playing fields available for
year-round use.  The $1.2 million Sprinturf project also includes lighting
and fencing. The field that previously had approximately 300 useable hours
annually now will be playable for as many as 2,000 hours. "We're taking what
had been an intercollegiate athletics-only field and opening it to
everyone," said Rob Spear, UI Director of Athletics.  The project is funded
through the Kibbie Dome turf replacement fund and should be finished in
mid-July. The two 75-yard fields will be long enough for football and soccer
team practice as well as for intramural competition, but short enough to
have two fields in the space available. An added benefit is an estimated
$50,000 savings in annual field maintenance.

~ Idaho schoolteachers will learn about the state's most complex and
valuable resource - water - during a series of summer camps sponsored by the
UI and Idaho Water Education Foundation. During the IdaH2O camps, teachers
will tour wetlands, dams and irrigation districts, and hear from water
experts from the areas surrounding each camp location, said Julie Scanlin,
outreach coordinator for the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute. The
three camps will be held June 14-17 at Idaho Falls, June 21-24 at Twin Falls
and July 19-21 at Lewiston. The teachers will learn basic facts about
Idaho's complex system of managing its valuable water supply for
agriculture, industry and personal use.  More information is available by
contacting Julie Scanlin of the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute in
Boise at (208) 332-4414 or jscanlin at uidaho.edu

~ Wallace P. '33 and Dorothy Monnett gifted their estate totaling more than
$1.7 million to the College of Natural Resources to establish the largest
scholarship endowment in the college's history. The Wallace P. and Dorothy
Monnett Scholarship in Natural Resources is intended for sophomore, junior
or senior class students pursuing a college education in natural resources,
with academic merit, career promise and financial need as criteria for
selection.  Wally served in the U.S. Army, where he distinguished himself as
a decorated World War II officer. His professional career spanned 30 years
as a Southern California-area sales manager for Hunt Wesson. Dorothy was an
actress in a variety of stage plays in California and shared Wally's love of
golf and the outdoors. "The Monnett Scholarship is an outstanding leadership
legacy.  The Monnetts have established a high standard for our college,"
said Dean Steven Daley Laursen. "It is from the foresight and caring of
others like the Monnetts that we can provide others the opportunity to make
dreams reality - we are honored to steward Wally and Dorothy's legacy."

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Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they
are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say
about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."

-- Robert F. Kennedy