Iowa State University Alumni Association| online edition | spring 2006

SPRING 2006
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The 20 Most Ingriguing People on Campus

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An Iraqi hero

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Putting the fun in functional

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Three wishes for Stephanie Kobes

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Roy Reiman: I could write a book

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Hugh Sidey
He was with John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. He was along when Richard Nixon went to China and on the plane that carried George H.W. Bush back to Texas when his presidential days came to an end. For four decades, his Time magazine “The Presidency” column and multiple books enlightened the country about its chief executives. But on Nov. 21, a heart attack took the life of Hugh Sidey (’50 Journalism), one of the most prominent journalists of our time, at the age of 78. Sidey was a native of Greenfield, Iowa, who began his career at Iowa State and wrote for newspapers in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., before launching a 50-year career with Time Inc., in 1955. He covered presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, penning individual books about JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Gerald R. Ford.

Vine Deloria
Vine Deloria, Jr. (’58 Gen. Sci.), whose 20-plus books about the experience of Native Americans have helped shape anthropological and governmental relations with tribal people in the U.S. since Custer Died for Your Sins was published in 1969, died Nov. 13 in Golden, Colo. He was 72. Deloria had been working as a professor at the University of Colorado until his retirement in 2000, but he will perhaps best be remembered as an activist. A Standing Rock Sioux and former U.S. Marine who was a scholar in science, theology, and law, Deloria served as director of the National Congress of American Indians from 1964-67. Deloria’s bold writings challenged conventional anthropology, and he was named one of Time magazine’s 10 most influential theologians of the 20th century.

Dave Serfling
Dave Serfling (’81 Farm Op.; MS ’05), who recently received media attention when he earned his ISU master’s degree in December after nearly17 years of distance education studies, died Jan. 8 in an automobile crash in Fillmore County, Minn. He was 46 years old. Serfling’s son, 15-year-old Ethan, survived the crash with minor injuries. Serfling will be greatly missed by the ISU community, his family, and
the Minnesota farming community – in which he was one of the state’s most visible advocates for sustainable agriculture and conservation.