Ninth UI-Boise Commencement May 8
Wednesday, April 28 2004
April 28, 2004^BOISE - Approximately 135 candidates may be conferred degrees at the University of Idaho-Boise ninth Commencement Ceremony set for 3 p.m., Saturday, May 8, at the Boise Centre on the Grove.^UI Boise enrolls approximately 2,700 students annually in graduate and professional courses and programs in agriculture, architecture, education, engineering,and law. ^Commencement speaker will be Carolyn Terteling-Payne, who also will receive the President's Medallion. The interim Boise mayor and Idaho native has spent her life making Boise a better place. Her civic commitment has included the public library, art museum, historic preservation, performing arts, Junior League, Idaho Law Foundation, zoological society, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center and the Warm Springs Counseling Center, among others.^Another President's Medallion will be awarded posthumously to the late Robert H. LeBow of Nampa. The former medical director at Terry Reilly Health Services, a low-income clinic, dedicated his career to serving uninsured and under-served people in southern Idaho and beyond through Peace Corps missions.^Also to be recognized are UI Interim President Gary Michael, who will receive UI's highest honor, the UI Alumni Association Distinguished Idahoan Award, and James Hawkins, who will be inducted into the UI Alumni Hall of Fame May 14. ^The Distinguished Idahoan Award recognizes one who has achieved a national reputation and has rendered extraordinary service to the state. It goes to a limited number of people, such as Michael, who has served UI as its interim president since July at the request of the governor and the State Board of Education. He put aside his retirement and fulfilled his duties without pay. The former CEO of Albertson, Inc. has been promoting excellence in education through private fund raising and industry partnering for years. His recent hands-on exercise in leadership also required tough problem-solving and high ethical decision-making.^Hall of Fame inductee Hawkins, a Boisean formerly from Coeur d'Alene and a 1959 graduate from UI's College of Business and Economics, is a partner in a venture capital company based in Idaho. Prior, he directed the Idaho Department of Commerce. His UI involvement includes serving as president of the foundation, advising the business college, and receiving the Alumni Association Silver and Gold Award.^Inspiring student graduates include two assistant superintendents for the Meridian School District who earned doctoral degrees in education. Janet Marie Horning's dissertation was "Inside an Alternative Middle School: Student Perspectives;" Bruce Wayne Gestrin's was "A Case Study of Sunami Professional Technical Charter School." Pam Twilegar earned a master's in adult and organizational learning after six years of part-time study and full-time mothering to 10-year-old twin boys. She works for Hewlett-Packard in Boise, as a training program manager, and formerly was a school teacher. HP supported her master's pursuit, which transformed her career into training adults.^The following are the May UI-Boise graduates: ^Doctor of Philosophy^BOISE Gerald Bell, Education; Bret Adam Bowcutt, Education; Cynthia Rae Clapper, Education; Wiley Joel Dobbs, Education; Michael John Farruggia, Education; Jon Peter George, Education; Bruce Wayne Gestrin, Education; Janet Marie Peterson Horning, Education; Rita J. Miller, Education; Donna Biemiller Vakili, Education^EAGLE Meredith St. Clair, Education^REXBURG Ralph Madsen Kern, Education^TWIN FALLS LueLinda Egber, Education^DHAKA, BANGLADESH Shawkat Ali, Civil Engineering^SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA Milos Manic, Computer Science^Doctor of Education^TWIN FALLS John Willis Graham; John Samuel Miller^NAMPA E. Michael Poe^PARIS, ARK. Robert Dale Ranells^Education Specialist in Educational Administration^BOISE James Edward Buschine; William John McKitrick; Claudia Virgin^CALDWELL Julie K. Yamamoto Sasaki^TWIN FALLS Jeffrey C. Jones^Education Specialist in Educational Leadership^BANCROFT Mary E. Kren^BOISE Dean Hugh Jones; Roger Cleveland Quarles; Vicki Jan Renshaw; Sandra Kay Rumpel; Cindy Sisson; Joseph Ellsworth Yochum; ^MOUNTAIN HOME Jackie L. Miracle Harper; Regina Hoffman-Flock^NAMPA Nancy E. Freeby^RUPERT Daniel T. Rogers^ST. MARIES Nichole Cathleen Cruser^Educational Specialist in Professional-Technical Education^BOISE Ivan Alfred Rebensteiger^Education Specialist in School Psychology^IDAHO FALLS Marian Fife Rash^SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Bryan W. Beddoes^Master of Arts in Teaching^CALDWELL Nicole Ann Anderson^Master of Science^NEW PLYMOUTH Richard Lee Dozier^BOISE David Shawn Hunter, Stephen W. Lipscomb^BOISE AND CHINA Xiangli Li^NEW PLYMOUTH Rebecca Lynn Settlage^READING, PENN. Robert D. Weber^Master of Architecture^BOISE John Thomas Meissner^FIRTH Ryan Patrick Mackowiak^IDAHO FALLS Aaron L. Harrigfeld; Joshua K. Privett; Dustin Keith Rowland^KAMIAH Anne Marie Clapperton^KIMBERLY Skipper Tab Young^SAGLE Matthew James Kerr^TWIN FALLS Adam Joslin^WILDER Jason W. Slawson^Master of Education^BOISE Joan Adele Bigelow; Rose Marie Blazicevich; Janet L. Cherry; James Ross Clark; Mary Irene De Shazo; Diane L. Demarest; Jessica Anne Dessert; Christina L. Elrod; Derek Christopher Gardner; H. Kozette Holley; Julie G. Hulvey; W. Eric Landis; Shawna Marie Messuri; Lorri A. Morgan; Lee T. Neumann; Christine A. Packer; Jamie Ann Sims; Pamela Kay Twilegar; Diana Homi Vania; Frances E. Wolfe^BURLEY Dana S. Bradley; Carolyn Hondo; Jeffery Phillip Lords^CALDWELL Sheryl Lura Lane^EAGLE Casey J. Hawkins; Mariah M. Rodeghiero^EMMETT Larry C. Parks; Mary Jean Stout^FILER Carleen Alexis Grinsted Schnitker^GOODING Jeffrey L. LaCroix; Patrick J. Pacheco^HEYBURN Cynthia M. Fulcher^JEROME Eric C. Anderson^LEWISTON Michael A. Farris^MERIDIAN Kenneth Judd Benedick; David L. Moser^MIDDLETON Lisa Diane Colon^MOSCOW Penny Neibaur Ralphs^MOUNTAIN HOME Deborah Ruth Clarence^NAMPA Lyle James Bayley; Paul Mathew Benzel; Alison Kathryn Crane; Matthew Lawrence Turnbow Crist; Korey Dean Mereness; E. Heath Thomason; Stuart Hartley Vickers^NEW PLYMOUTH Jeff Farden^PAYETTE Brett Clevenger^POCATELLO J. William Knickrehm^TWIN FALLS Deborah M. Barker; Christine Adele Bonnett; Pamela Dawn Houston-Powell; Sherri Johns; Robert Tim Miller^UCON Randy Scott Stocking^WEISER Debra Kaye Jochem Cant^LAFAYETTE, CALIF. Jeffrey Calvert Maffly^ELK GROVE, ILL. Susan A. Mayernick^GREAT FALLS, MONT. Bruce G. Christopherson; James Gary Gilbert^PORTLAND, ORE. Carolyn S. Newman^SPOKANE, WASH. Sara Elizabeth Daly^Master of Engineering^PAYETTE Michael Wayne Davis, ^Bachelor of Science in Business^PARMA Nadina LaRae Gillette, ^Bachelor of Architecture^COLBERT, WASH. Michael Kenneth Ray, ^Bachelor of Science in Architecture^BOISE John Thomas Meissner^FIRTH Ryan Patrick Mackowiak^IDAHO FALLS Aaron L. Harrigfeld; Dustin Keith Rowland^KAMIAH Anne Marie Clapperton^KIMBERLY Skipper Tab Young^SAGLE Matthew James Kerr^TWIN FALLS Adam Joslin^WILDER Jason W. Slawson^Bachelor of Science in Education^BOISE Mona L. Bourbonnais^TWIN FALLS Rebecca Lynne Jones^KUNA Janell Margaret Vogel^Contacts: Sydney Sallabanks, UI Boise PIO, sydneys@uidaho.edu, (208) 364-9916, or Nancy Hilliard, University Communications, (208) 885-6567, hilliard@uidaho.edu^Photos, bios are available at www.uidaho.edu/commencement^ ^-30-^NH-4/27/04-UI-Boise^^
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