Wayne Nelson '49 was named Tennis Coach of the Century by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The former Mesa State College skipper coached the Mavericks from 1955–89 and served as the school's men's basketball coach for 18 years and its athletic director for 26 years.

Fred Eiserman '50 was inducted into Wyoming's Outdoor Hall of Fame, joining such notables as Jim Bridger and Teddy Roosevelt. Sponsored by the Wildlife Heritage Foundation, the honor recognizes exceptional people and their service to Wyoming. One of USU's first fisheries graduates, Eiserman was district fisheries supervisor and fisheries management coordinator during a 28–year career. He is past recipient of the Award for Excellence from the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society and is also a Hall of Excellence inductee.

LaDell Andersen '51 was named an inaugural inductee to the Oneida County Idaho Hall of Fame. The former Aggie player, coach and athletics director was previously inducted into the Utah State University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Southern Utah University Hall of Honor, the Utah Sports Hall of Fame and the State of Utah Basketball Hall of Fame.

Alma H. Winward '66 was inducted into The University of Idaho Alumni Association Hall of Fame as a recognized leader in the advancement of rangeland research, teaching and management throughout the Intermountain West.

Linda Weaver Clarke '68 , is the author of a series called “A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho.” Her new historical fiction novel, “David and the Bear Lake Monster,” centers around Idaho's legendary Bear Lake Monster and a young man who is trying to understand life and love.

Rick L. Gold '68 '70Ms was named as a Diplomate Water Resource Engineer by the American Academy of Water Resource Engineers. He is currently a water resources engineering consultant in Salt Lake City.

Paul T. Moxley '70 was recently named Lawyer of the Year (2009–2010) by the Utah State Bar. ýIn addition to his career as a trial lawyer in commercial and securities litigation and white–collar crime, he has lectured on the law in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (Central and East European Law Initiative). He also served as delegation leader in the People to People Ambassador Program for Utah Lawyers and Judges to China in 2006. He isýa partner at the law firm of Parson Kinghorn Harris in Salt Lake City.

Thomas E. Bingham '72 is president of the 104–year–old Utah Manufacturers Association. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Utah College of Applied Technology in 2008.

Former Logan High School English teacher and debate coach, Annette Randall Haws '72, is receiving awards for her first novel, “Waiting for the Light to Change.” Featured in Midwest Book Review's “Library Bookwatch” as a top pick for community library fiction collections, the novel secured the 2009 Utah Best of State Fiction Award and the Whitney Award for “Best Novel by a New Author.”

Richard W. Shaw '72 will receive this year's American Society of Landscape Architects Design Medal. He is a partner at Design Workshop, Inc., in Aspen, Colo. He has served both the national and Colorado chapter of ASLA, Landscape Architecture Foundation, advisory councils at Utah State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Aspen Institute.

Kent Jones '75 (not '72—we apologize for getting our engineering Kent Jones' mixed up last issue) was nominated by Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., (and later confirmed by the state Senate) to direct the Division of Water Rights. Prior to his appointment, Jones was responsible for reviewing all applications filed for water use in the state.ýHis experience also included directing the well drilling program, dam inspections and administering the Stream Channel Alteration program.

Martell Menlove '76 '96Ph.D. is the new deputy state schools superintendent, serving Utah's school system of 405,000 students in 41 school districts. He served 12 years as superintendent of Box Elder School District.

Hawk Terry Mendenhall '77 has been named associate general manager and director of broadcast and content for KUT–FM at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as program director for seven years. KUT is one of the most successful public radio stations in the country.

Jeffrey M. Lucero '78 has been selected Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior.ý His responsibilities in Reclamation's Washington D.C. office involve a variety of assignments serving as confidant and key staff member in management, and policy making in support of the Commissioner's initiatives and the Reclamation mission.

Corinne M. Bromley '79 is serving as interim associate dean of Washington State University's College of Education. She has been chair of the department of teaching and learning since 2005.

Jay S. Miller '80Ms , chief of interpretation for Arkansas State Parks, has received the Fellow/Lifetime Achievement award, presented by the National Association for Interpretation Region VI, which represents six south central states.

Suzanne Pierce–Moore '80 was unanimously selected to chair the USU Board of Trustees. She previously served as vice–chairwoman and replaces outgoing chairman Richard Shipley '68 '69MA who will continue to serve on the board as a member.

Linda Snyder '81 has been appointed Chief Facilities Officer at Dartmouth. Since 2005 she served as Associate Executive Dean of Physical Resources and Planning of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.

Dean Meservy '82 is a State Department foreign service officer in Moscow, Russia. He was recently asked to emcee the ambassador's annual Fourth of July V.I.P. reception, which is attended by high–ranking Russian officials and foreign diplomats in Moscow.

Curtis Anderson '86 has joined SouthWest Federal as the vice president of business services. He will oversee the credit union's business lending, including loans for small businesses and all other commercial lending and deposit services.

Kurt Zalar '87 has been appointed General Superintendent, transportation services for the Denver Service Unit of Union Pacific Railroad. He is responsible for safe train operations on more than 2,700 miles of track in Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.ýPrior to the appointment, Zalar was superintendent, transportation services at the Wichita, Kansas, Service Unit.

John Higham '88 '90Ms — who has to his name 10 U.S. patents on various aspects of satellite design —has co–authored a book with his wife, September, about travelling around the world with their two young children. “360 Degrees Longitude,” has garnered national media mention in such places as “The New York Times,” “Budget Travel,” and “The Weekly Reader.” He also wrote a Google Earth companion for the book, the first ever to use the technology to layer events, locales and characters in order to enrich the reading experience.

Sheldon Woods '88 , president and CEO of Pitney Bowes Bank, has been elected chairman of the board for the Utah Bankers Association.

Scott Rich '94 , a senior officer with Bank of America Merchant Services in Portland, Oregon, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Three River Land Conservancy, a non–profit organization that works with landowners in conservation efforts in the Portland area.

For the fourth consecutive year, Doug Andersen '95 , was recognized as the Idaho Sportscaster of the Year by the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. He has worked the past eight Olympic Games beginning with the Lillehammer Games in 1994. He has recently left KPVI, the NBC affiliate in Eastern Idaho, to become Public Affairs Manager for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints. He is married to MiKelle Merrill Andersen '91 who teaches math/science at Highland High School in Salt Lake City.

Teresa Burns '95Ph.D. has been named Director of Core Curriculum/General Education at Coastal Carolina University.

Dr. David R. Drake '95 has been named the Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomist for the agency's 23–county west central district, headquartered in San Angelo.

Cheryl Douglas '96 currently serves as the ICWA liaison for the Washoe Tribe in California and Nevada, working in collaboration with Sacramento Child Protective Services. She has been involved with Indian Child Welfare in various tribes since 1996, most recently as an interim social service director. Her new position serves all 550 federally recognized tribes as well as the unrecognized tribes in the State of California.

Adam Ward '96 has released his debut solo CD, “The Door.” An alumnus of 11 CDs with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, he now splits his time between Ogden and Lompoc, Calif. “The Door” consists entirely of Ward's own compositions.

Brian J. Roth '97 has been designated a Certified Golf Course Superintendent by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. He oversees Oquirrh Hills Golf Course in Tooele, Utah.

Wei Wang '97, a professor in industrial and graphic design at Auburn University, has been awarded an Alumni Professorship by Auburn Alumni Association. The alumni professors are selected on the basis of outstanding teaching, research and publishing.

Peter A. Jensen '00 has been promoted to the rank of major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He is an intelligence analyst with nine years of military service and is assigned to the 547th Intelligence Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base.

Paul Belcher '02 '03MBA is an owner of Mountain Crane Service in Riverton, Utah, recently awarded Best of State 2009 for Commercial Building Services.ýThe company is also listed in the Top 50 largest crane companies in North America.

David Bailey '03 is vice president for organization in the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. He serves as a link between the state's regional managers and the state office, as well as advising the Young Farmer and Rancher program and the local collegiate chapters of the Farm Bureau.

Lindsay Thacker Maxfield '05 was promoted to manager of communications at Children's Miracle Network. Initially hired as the writer for the communications department in December 2007, she now manages external communications projects and campaigns for the Salt Lake City–based international non–profit.

UBATC President Paul Hacking '05Ms has been appointed to serve as Commissioner on the National Accrediting Council, known as the Council on Occupational Education (COE). The COE services occupational education institutions in 11 states.

Andy Woolstenhulme '05 has been named vice president at Zions Bank in Kamas, Utah. He was previously branch manager.

Janae Forsey '08MBA was recently honored by the Utah CPA Foundation as this year's “Rising Star,” an award given an accounting teacher who has “done an exemplary job of teaching accounting principles in the classroom and has developed and/or maintained a strong accounting program in the school.” She teaches at Lone Peak High School, in Highland, Utah.