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Alumni Center Donors
Hold your next event in the ISU Alumni Center
Alumni Wall expanded to include all ISU friends
Construction progress report
New staff members join the ISUAA
Association receives district awards
Wallace E. Barron recipients announced

Alumni Center Donors (Return to top)
A huge "thank you" to the following donors to the ISU Alumni Center project. Through the financial generosity of these individuals, especially the $9 million lead gift from donors Roy and Bobbi Reiman, this future home for alumni, students, and friends of ISU is on target to be completed by the end of April, furnished in May, opened in June, and dedicated at Homecoming 2008 on Oct. 25. To date, the following donors have given/pledged $11,024,053 toward construction, furnishings, art, and other amenities, plus $2,870,937 toward the Center's operating endowment.

Ron and Faye Abbes
Roseva Albertson
Alan and Elizabeth Albright
Kenneth and Mary Allbaugh
James and Anne Almquist
Bob Anderson
Carol Anderson
James and Wendy Anderson
Martha Anderson
Anonymous
Marlene and Paul Armbrecht
Mary Aspengren
John and Joan Axel
Rodd and Evolue Baxter
Robert and Rachel Beatty
Irene Beavers
Craig and Janet Beer
Stephen and Debbie Beer
Benjamin and Vicki Biller
Mark Bohner
Douglas and Jinita Boyd
James and Gayle Boyd
Scott and Mary Braucht
Janice and Jeffrey Breitman
George and Agatha Burnet
Linda and Willis Bywater
Virginia Clark
Timothy and Janice Coble
Barbara Correll
Jack and Dilla Cosgrove
Daniel and Ruth Crawford
Harold and Rachel Crawford
John and Kathryn Crawford
Kenneth and Lila Crawford
Lawrence and Sarah Crawford
Peter and Jolene Crawford
Russell Crawford
Robert and Lucille Crom
Janice Cross
Roger and Carole Custer
Eric Dolbeare and Roberta Simpson-Dolbeare
Kevin and Jeanne Drury
John and Kay Dunn
Dennis and Julie Earhart
Donald and Martha Eddy
Robert and Judy Eddy
Steven and Karen Eddy
Loren and Alma Elliott
David and Joyce Emmert
Thomas and Janet Erickson
Norman and Joyce Farrington
Jon Fleming
Craig and Barbara Foss
James and Dorothy Foster
Charles and Joanne Frederiksen
Harvey and Marcia Freese
Lucy Futrell
Thomas and Martha Gleason
Allen and Sandra Glenn
Golden K Kiwanis Club of Des Moines
Richard and Betty Grant
Donald and Yvonne Greiman
Gregory Gustafson and Peg Armstrong-Gustafson
Timothy and Wendlyn Haight
Ronald and Pamela Hallenbeck
Brian and Paige Hamilton
Donald Hanson
Mary Harms and Joshua Sharlin
Craig and Kathryn Harris
Randall and Elizabeth Hertz
Charles and Anne Hesse
Clifford and Monica Hinkhouse
Labh and Tahira Hira
William and Judith Hoefle
Gary and Donna Hoover
James and Judy Hopson
Dick and Sandy Horton
Jack and Susan Huff
Gerald and Carol Hunter
Gary and Christine Hunziker
Albert and Ann Jennings
Gerald and Gwen Johnson
Jeffery and Peggy Johnson
Donald Jordahl
David and Sharon Juon
Steven Kane
Henry and Barbara Kinney
Marcia Klindt
W.A. and Lois Kreofsky
Daniel and Sharon Krieger
Phil and Martha Krone
Gary and Margaret Krull
Melvin and Darlene Larsen
Jeffrey and Pamela Larson
John and Julie Larson
Choy Leow and Connie Cher
Brian and Elisabeth Levine
Kim and Rhonda Lloyd
David and Cheryl Lowe
Craig and Michelle Rinker Mahoney
Martha Mangas
Richard and Marijo Marshall
Charles J. Maxwell and Barbara Nelson
Earl and Helen Maxwell
Stee Maxwell
Glen and Mary Jo Mente
Kenneth and Adele Mikesell
Steven and Michelle Mores
Eleanor Munger
Donald and Charlotte Neumann
Wayne and Margaret Northey
Charles and Elaine Notis
Charles and Barbara Oldham
James and Frankee Oleson
Scott and Penny Olson
Les and Barbara Omotani
David and Bonnie Orth
Frank and Peggy Parks
Richard and Marilyn Pecaut
James and Nancy Pellett
Ken and Debra Portsche
Douglas and Nancy Pringnitz
Thomas and Peggy Radio
Harold and Nancy Rathert
Bobbi and Roy Reiman
Lester Rhodes
Luetta Rhodes
Carolyn Ringgenberg
Curt and Darcy Ringgenberg
Martin and Sue Roepke
Kay Runge
Dan and Leslie Saftig
Duane and Alpha Sandage
Verne and Mary Simson
Norm and Erma Skadburg
Delores Skinner
Ned and Paula Skinner
Richard and Shirley Snyder
Beverly Soshea
Vaughn and Meg Speer
Marcia and Steven Stahly
Kyle Staley
Chelon Stanzel
Jeffrey and Jane Stautz
Stephen and Cheryl Stefani
Michael and Jean Steffenson
Robert J. and Jamie Lucas Stensland
Elizabeth Stephenson
Dorothy Stewart
Brent and Jennifer Swanson
Todd Swanson
Deborah Tharnish and Nicholas Roby
Stan Thompson
Kurt and Kristyn Tjaden
Ramon and Ruby Trice
Alan and Myrna Tubbs
Ed and Elaine Tubbs
Roy and Sandra Uelner
David and Sally Van Wert
Dwayne and Lori Vande Krol
Craig and Sara Vander Leest
Merlyn and Dorothy Vander Leest
Robert and Lois Vohs
Randy Waldorf and Annette Ackerson-Waldorf
Robert L. and A. Loy B. Walker
Marvin and Janice Walter
Melvin and Kathryn Weatherwax
Douglas and Lori Wenzel
Jeffrey and Cheri Whiton
Steven and Michelle Whitty
Timothy and Mary Wolf
James and Nancy Wong
Terry and Dianne Wycoff
Patricia Yungclas
Donald and Carolyn Zuck
Kathy and Steven Zumbach
James and Mary Zych

Making a gift to the Alumni Center
Gifts to this project can be made in cash or paid in full over a three- to five-year period. Naming gifts must be cash. Deferred gifts to the operating endowment are also welcome. Donors interested in upgrading their gifts or alumni and friends interested in making outright gifts and/or naming one of the remaining spaces, please contact: Jeff Johnson, president, ISU Alumni Association, 877-ISU-ALUM, jjohnson@alumni.iastate.edu, or Dan Saftig, president, ISU Foundation, 515-294-6511, dsaftig@iastate.edu. Gifts to this project are tax-deductible, count toward one's total lifetime giving to the university and in the university's current campaign, Campaign Iowa State: With Pride and Purpose, and qualify or support one's membership in the Order of the Knoll.

Remaining Naming Spaces
West Plaza & Alumni Gardens, $500,000
East Plaza & Grand Staircase, $350,000
Hall of Alumni Leadership, $125,000
General Production Room, $75,000
Communications Production Room, $50,000
Hall of Studet Organizations, $50,000
Covered Drop-off (west entrance), $50,000
Director of Finance's Office, $25,000

Hold your next event in the ISU Alumni Center (Return to top)
Reservations for wedding receptions, meetings, banquets, and other events to be held in the ISU Alumni Center (beginning in November 2008) are now being accepted. For more information, go to www.isualum.org/en/alumni_center/reservations/. To reserve a space or make an inquiry, call Emily Trevillyan, Alumni Center events manager, toll-free at 1-877-ISU-ALUM (478-2586), locally at 294-4625, or e-mail alumnicenter@iastate.edu.

Alumni Wall expanded to include all ISU friends (Return to top)

The early response to the Alumni Wall has been overwhelming! Many of you are telling us that this is a wonderful way to honor loved ones as well as to acknowledge your own ISU connection.

The one reaction we received that we didn’t expect was the number of alumni who wished to purchase a plaque for a spouse who helped them through college but didn’t attend himself/herself, or purchase a plaque for a deceased parent who loved Iowa State but never attended. We also heard from long-time faculty and staff members who have devoted many years of service to Iowa State but did not receive an ISU degree and from others who simply consider themselves close friends, fans, and supporters of Iowa State University.

Based on this enthusiastic request from so many
of you, the ISUAA Board of Directors voted to open
up the Alumni Wall, which will be located on the
east plaza of the new Alumni Center, to include all ISU alumni, students, former students, donors, fans, and friends, as well as current and former faculty and staff. This policy also includes the memorial plaques to honor deceased individuals.

In keeping with the ISU Alumni Association’s mission of connecting alumni, students, and friends to Iowa State and to each other, the name of the Alumni Wall will now be: The Wall of Alumni and Friends.

And here’s one more change: The deadline to reserve a plaque at the introductory rate has been extended until June 30, 2008.

Reserve a plaque now for yourself, family member, or friend. Go to www.isualum.org/wall, call toll-free 1-877-ISU-ALUM (478-2586), or locally call 294-6525.

Construction progress report (Return to top)

As we put this issue of VISIONS together, much of the Alumni Center construction has moved indoors. Crews are finishing interior walls, floors, and ceilings; windows and doors are expected to be installed by early spring. By the end of April, the carpet should be installed, walls painted, and the building should be complete. It will be a very busy spring for the contractor! In addition to interiors, the covered drop-off will be constructed; the turn-around drive, parking spaces, and sidewalks will be laid down; the east plaza, terrace, exterior grand staircase, and Wall of Alumni and Friends will be constructed; and some planting will be done. Office furniture will arrive and
be assembled in May, then public furnishings will be delivered, finishing touches will be put on the building, and staff will begin to move in. The building is scheduled to be operational sometime in June. Watch our progress: www.fpm.iastate.edu/webcam/alumni/

New staff members join ISUAA (Return to top)

Three new professional staff members have recently joined the ISU Alumni Association:

Michelle Stotts (’88 business admin-istration, M.S.’99 industrial relations) is the Association’s new vice president and chief operating officer. In this new position, Stotts’ primary responsibilities will be to oversee human resources, staff training and development, day-to-day operations, and strategic planning, as well as to manage special projects. Stotts has been with Iowa State for 17 years, most recently as a program coordinator for ISU’s office of Information Technology Services.

Don Behning (’79 agricultural business) is the new director of finance. He will oversee accounting and financial operations as well as serve as the facilities manager for the new ISU Alumni Center, scheduled to open in June. Behning comes to the Alumni Association from the Iowa 4-H Foundation. He has worked at Iowa State for 20 years, including a position as an accounting manager for the ISU Foundation.

Katie Bruxvoort (’05 marketing) is the new assistant director for reunions and special programs. She had been the public relations coordinator at McFarland Clinic in Ames and was a special events intern with the ISU Athletics Department.

In addition, Diane Smith is the Association’s new office coordinator. She was formerly the assistant for travel and education.

Association receives district awards (Return to top)

The ISU Alumni Association received seven awards at the 2008 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VI conference Jan. 13-15 in Denver. The awards were:

Gold
- Excellence in Institutional Relations: “Celebrating the Sesquicentennial”
Silver
- Excellence in Editorial Design: “Preserving Your Memories,” fall 2007 VISIONS
- Excellence in Writing/Feature Story: “The Power of One,” winter 2007 VISIONS
Bronze
- Excellence in Photography: “Romancing the Grape” photo series, fall 2007 VISIONS
- Excellence in Writing/Column: “Teacher Appreciation,” winter 2007 VISIONS
- Excellence in Communications/Periodicals/Magazine: “VISIONS”
- Excellence in Alumni Programming: “ISUAA Club of Linn County Kernels Baseball Outing”

Wallace E. Barron recipients announced (Return to top)

The following ISU students received the Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award for 2008:

- Amanda Crawford, a journalism/mass communication/international studies major from Grinnell, Iowa
- Charles Fisher, a materials engineering major from
Mt. Auburn, Iowa
- Rachel Iheanacho, a chemical engineering major from
Baker, La.
- Margaret McManemin, a dietetics major from Dallas, Texas
- Tyler Strom, an agricultural business/economics major from Elgin, Ill.