[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter for March 14, 2008

[Tom Hansen]

Copied and pasted below is the UI Friday Letter for March 14, 2008.

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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
March 14, 2008

Dear Friends,

The University has been recognized in the 2007 President's Higher 
Education Community Service Honor Roll - the highest federal recognition 
for commitment to service learning and civic engagement. Throughout the 
nation 528 schools made the list, and the University of Idaho was the only 
Idaho institution so recognized. Last academic year, 2,213 Vandals engaged 
in community service projects through the Associated Students of the 
University of Idaho Center for Volunteerism and Social Action, and the 
University's Career and Professional Planning Service-Learning Center. Our 
students volunteered an estimated 50,000 hours.

The Vandal commitment to service has been in full swing this week: 121 
students and advisers are in eight states for Alternative Spring Break 
projects. Their efforts range from helping build houses to working with 
neglected youth. Through the University's Volunteer Center, the Gay 
Straight Alliance are in Salt Lake City to work with youth runaways. 
College of Education students are volunteering in New Mexico to lend 
helping hands on an Indian reservation. 

College of Law students return to New Orleans and to Biloxi, Mississippi 
to provide pro bono legal services and manual labor to Hurricane Katrina 
victims. Other law students are volunteering in Boise with Idaho Legal 
Aid, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Wildland Firefighter 
Foundation, the State of Idaho Appellate Public Defender, Advocates for 
the West and the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. In 
Washington, D.C., students are working with the National Veterans Legal 
Service Program.

These efforts by our students are truly inspiring, and the positive 
impacts are felt by both those who are helped and the wonderfully engaged 
student-citizens who volunteer. My thanks and congratulations to 
University of Idaho's very dedicated citizen-students.

Tim White	
President

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

Dancers Drummers Dreamers runs March 20-22 at the Hartung Theater. This 
year's production is titled "Shoe-be-Shoe-be-do," and features quirky 
dance routines and high-tempo non-traditional percussion. Dancers Drummers 
Dreamers has become a tradition on the Palouse - an iconic event that 
showcases the talents and collaboration of undergraduate dance and music 
students. Tickets range from $7-$11 and are available at the Ticket 
Office, (208) 885-6466.

The University of Idaho will honor outstanding alumni Dennis Johnson '79, 
Wayne Thiessen '62, '65, and Wellington "Skip" Pierce '53, along with 
honorary alumna Bee Pierce, for their distinguished records of achievement 
and service at a public reception in Boise on Tuesday, March 18. The 
Silver and Gold Awards reception, which will include refreshments and no-
host beverages, will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Boise Centre on the 
Grove, 850 W. Front St. in Boise. Remarks and an official awards 
presentation will take place at 7 p.m.

The Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, one of the world's leading silver 
companies and a significant gold producer, has pledged a gift of $100,000 
to the College of Business and Economics. The funds will allow the college 
to reward some of its best faculty and invest in strategic programs like 
entrepreneurship and the newly launched executive education initiatives in 
northern Idaho. Coeur d'Alene Mines is led by two University of Idaho 
graduates: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis 
Wheeler '64 and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer James 
Sabala '78. Both have degrees from the College of Business and Economics.

To make a gift to the College of Business and Economics, contact Chandra 
Zenner Ford, assistant dean for development, at (208) 364-9908 or 
chandra at uidaho.edu.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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