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Happy New Year!
Alumni Center Groundbreaking, Oct. 22, 2005
Distinguished: Honoring Iowa State Alumni and Friends
Come Back to Fisher-Nickell
Alumni Days Class Reunion: May 11-12, 2006
Focus on Family
You shop; we reap the benefits
Cheer contest update
Deanne Stuart joins Association team

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (return to top)
Dear Alumni, Students, and Friends:

There is so much I want to tell you about! I’ll just get right to it:

• Excitement is building! We unveiled the ISU Alumni Center design during a special groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 22 at the future building site just south of C.Y. Stephens Auditorium. I have to say thank you to Bobbi and Roy Reiman and the other donors, campus colleagues, architects, board and staff members, and many others who have helped make this project come to life. See the photos and design drawings on the next two pages, and read how you can get involved in this exciting project!

• We reached our membership goal! As of Dec. 14, the ISU Alumni Association is 50,000 members strong and growing! We are thrilled to have reached this important milestone goal set during our recent 125th anniversary celebration. Iowa State’s Alumni Association is the second largest in the Big 12, and our student membership program, the Student Alumni Association, is the largest program in the country. Thanks for making all of this happen! But don’t quit now! We still need you to renew your annual membership, purchase gift memberships, and encourage your family and friends to join the Association. (Go to www.isualum.org/join) We want to be No. 1 in the Big 12!

• And speaking of membership, another special thank you goes out to our life members who participated in the 2005 Sustaining Life Member program. The generosity of these 572 individuals and couples yielded more than $114,548, providing the Association additional revenue to serve students, our members, and Iowa State.

If you are a current life member and would like to make a sustaining life gift, go to www.isualum.org/sustaining or call us toll-free at 877-ISU ALUM.

• Show your loyalty and support for Iowa State by displaying your ISU Alumni Association member window decal on your vehicle (if you don’t have a decal, call the toll-free number above) and by using your official Cyclone or Campanile credit card. If you are one of the 32,000 cardholders currently using the card, thank you! You are supporting Iowa State students, athletics, the university, and the Alumni Association. The university benefits because MBNA makes an annual payment to us equal to a percentage of the collective charges made on all cards. You also benefit if you use the mileage program version of the card; each dollar spent on the card is worth one mileage point. To see our new card designs and learn more about the credit card program, see the ad on the back cover.

• Keep in touch! Make sure we have your current e-mail address so we can send you the bi-weekly ISU News Flash electronic newsletter as well as other important e-mail communications. And use the online alumni directory to keep in touch with old college friends and to learn of alumni in your community or workplace.

• Get involved in a local Alumni Association club and join fellow Cyclones at one of our gamewatch sites during football and basketball seasons. Through the involvement of area alumni, we now have 30 local alumni clubs and a total of 44 gamewatch sites established. To see a complete listing, go to www.isualum.org/clubs

• Finally, please join me in saluting your Alumni Association staff. I work with the greatest staff anywhere on the planet! These folks are smart, passionate, and dedicated to the success and future advancement of Iowa State and this Alumni Association. They do great work, and every detail is
done to perfection. Learn more about our staff at www.isualum.org/about/staff.

Thanks again for all you do to make us worthy of your trust and involvement. Together we can do powerful things for Iowa State!

Yours for Iowa State,

Jeff Johnson
President, ISU Alumni Association

P.S. Happy holidays from all of us here at your ISU Alumni Association.

P.S.S. Congratulations to Iowa State’s sports teams who had or are having GREAT seasons this year!

ALUMNI CENTER GROUNDBREAKING: OCT. 22, 2005 (return to top)

Roy and Bobbi Reiman lead a procession along the red carpet through the ceremonial "door' of the new alumni center.

"Today, we continue our journey toward the realization of a more-than-30-year dream...the Iowa State University Alumni Center will be a place all of us will be able to call home." -- Jeff Johnson, ISU Alumni Association President

Project donors Sandy and Roy Uelner with the architect's drawing of the ISU Alumni Center.

Connie Cher and her husband, former ISU Alumni Associatoin Board of Directors chair Choy Leow ('85, MAR '88), with current board director Ruby Talley Trice ('87).

The ISU Alumni Center

• Location: Beach Avenue, south of Stephens Auditorium, in the Iowa State Center complex
• Approximately 33,000 gross square feet
• Built into the hill, with three levels visible on
  the east side and one level on the west side
• Featuring a banquet hall, visitors’ lounge, library and memorabilia archives, display areas, staff offices, meeting rooms, board room, welcoming space, outdoor gathering space, limited hillside parking, and office space for the Student Alumni Leadership Council
• Architects: Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck,
  Des Moines, Iowa
• Completion date: Late 2007

Funding the Center
Although most of the fundraising ($11.5 million of
the needed $13 million) has been completed, there
are still naming opportunities for Iowa State couples,
families, and individuals who would like to be part of
this building project (including memorial gifts). For
more information on making a gift to this project,
please contact:

Dan Saftig, President or Jeff Johnson, President
ISU Foundation | ISU Alumni Association
515-294-4077 | 1-877-ISU-ALUM
dsaftig@iastate.edu | jjohnson@alumni.iastate.edu

DISTINGUISHED: HONORING IOWA STATE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS (return to top)
Iowa State University Alumni Association
Sponsored Awards

Distinguished Achievement Award

Lauro F. Cavazos
PhD ’54 Physiology
Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Concord, Mass.

Luis Ernesto Derbez*
PhD ’80 Economics
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

Deborah A. Diersen-Schade*
BS ’78 Animal Science; MS ’81 Nutritional Physiology; PhD ’84
Research Fellow and Nutrition Scientist, Global Regulatory and
Scientific Affairs, Mead Johnson & Company
Evansville, Ind.

James L. Oblinger*
MS ’70 Food Technology; PhD ’72
Chancellor, North Carolina State University
Raleigh, N.C.

Honorary Alumnus/Alumna Award

Christina M. Hixson
Trustee, Lied Foundation Trust
Las Vegas, Nev.

Bobbi Reiman**
Philanthropist
Greendale, Wis.

Neal E. Smith
Attorney, Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors, and Roberts
Des Moines, Iowa

*Annual member, ISU Alumni Association **Life member, ISU Alumni Association
Note: Only ISU degrees are listed

Iowa State University Foundation
Sponsored Awards

Order of the Knoll Campanile Award

Gerald A. and Karen A. Kolschowsky**
BS ’62 Agricultural Business (Gerald)
Chairman Emeritus, OSI Industries, Inc.
Oak Brook, Ill.

Order of the Knoll Cardinal and Gold Award

Jack Cosgrove**
BS ’56 Electrical Engineering
Retired President of Rockwell Collins
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Order of the Knoll
Corporate and Foundation Award

Monsanto Corporation
Ankeny, Iowa
Represented by Ted Crosbie**, Vice President
BS ’73 Agricultural Education, MS ’76 Agronomy, PhD ’78

Order of the Knoll Faculty/Staff Award

James and Katherine Melsa**
BS ’60 Electrical Engineering (James)
Retired Dean, ISU College of Engineering
Naperville, Ill.

You are invited to attend
The 2006 Distinguished Awards Ceremony
Thursday, April 20, 2006
4:15 p.m., Sun Room, Memorial Union
Reception following at 5:30 p.m.
in the South Ballroom

COME BACK TO FISHER-NICKELL (return to top)
A reunion for all former Fisher-Nickell Hall residents is
being planned for July 28-30, 2006. This could be the last opportunity for former residents to see their old residence hall rooms, as Fisher-Nickell has been identified for future demolition.

The event will kick off with registration and an open house from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, July 28. On Saturday, there will be a bus tour of Ames, Campustown, and campus, including a visit to Fisher-Nickell Hall, which now houses the ISU Alumni Association offices. Lunch on campus will be followed by a tour of Reiman Gardens. A dinner banquet with music will end the evening. If there is interest, a golf outing can be added for early Friday afternoon. Registration forms and reunion details may be found at www.isualum.org/reunion/fn.

Please contact your fellow Fisher-Nickell friends and room-mates and encourage them to join you for this memorable weekend. As people register, their names will be posted on the Association’s Fisher-Nickell Reunion Web site.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Linda Leier Thomason (’82) at lindathomason@knology.net.

ALUMNI DAYS CLASS REUNION: MAY 11-12, 2006 (return to top)
Join your 1956 ISU classmates for your golden 50-year class reunion. Among the many activities planned is the Gold Medal Dinner, during which you will receive your 50-year class medallion and become a member of the Gold Medal Club.

Other members of the Gold Medal Club (alumni who graduated before 1956) are also invited to attend Alumni Days 2006.

A detailed brochure will be mailed to members of the class of 1956 in February. A schedule of Alumni Days activities and a list of reunion attendees are posted online at www.isualum.org/AlumniDays/2006
A waiters’ reunion will be held in conjunction with Alumni Days 2006.

FOCUS ON FAMILY (return to top)
ISU paid tribute to families on Oct. 8 during Family Weekend 2005, providing activities and opportunities for families of current students and honoring the university’s 2005 Families of the Year. This year, the Albright family of Lytton, Iowa, and the McNutt family
of Iowa City, Iowa, were recognized as ISU’s Families of the Year.

The Albright family includes Alan (ag business ’77) and Lisa (sociology ’78) Albright and their three children: Ben (ag studies ’04), Nick (ag studies ’05), and the late Andy Albright, an ISU student who was tragically killed in a car accident Sept. 13. Andy had been working on the nomination materials for his family at the time of his death, so his brothers and father completed the paperwork on his behalf.

The McNutt family includes Jim (DVM ’70) and his wife, Susan, and Jim’s two daughters, Alana, an ISU junior, and Ashton, an ISU freshman. The McNutts have a long tradition of ISU alumni in the family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Family of the Year and Family of the Year Society are programs of the ISU Alumni Association.

YOU SHOP; WE REAP THE BENEFITS (return to top)
This is the best deal we’ve heard about in a very long time: It’s called CareClicks.com, and it’s an online shopping mall that links you to more than 1,000 online stores, including Barnes & Noble, Eddie Bauer, eBay, Old Navy, and Orbitz. Every time you purchase something from merchants through our Web site, your purchases generate income for the Alumni Association. These funds will be used to support the Alumni Association’s student and alumni programs and services – and it doesn’t cost you a dime more to do it! There is no fee to use this new feature. You just have to enter each merchant’s online site through www.careclicks.com/group.php?groupID=259 (you can also get to this site through the ISU Alumni Association home page at www.isualum.org).

If you have an Iowa State/MBNA Visa, MasterCard, or American Express, even better! Just make sure to use your Cyclone or Campanile card for your online purchases, as these cards provide revenue for Association programs.

Thank you, and happy shopping!

CHEER CONTEST UPDATE (return to top)
We announced in the fall 2004 issue of VISIONS that we were looking for an additional musical chant or cheer to be used at athletic events. The contest was re-advertised with more specific requirements in the spring 2005 issue. Members of the committee regret that they still did not choose a winning chant, but they thank all the participants for their entries.

DEANNE STUART JOINS ASSOCIATION TEAM (return to top)
Deanne Stuart (’85 management) joined the Alumni Association on Sept. 26 as a part-time staff member of the Outreach and Events Team. Stuart is responsible for spirit rallies in conjunction with bowl games and Big 12 tournaments, and for alumni outreach in the greater Des Moines area and Story County. Stuart earned a master’s degree in management from St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., in 1993. She has extensive experience working with volunteers and planning fundraising events for the American Cancer Society and March of Dimes.