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’50s Don Gale BA’58 MA’60 PhD’86 has been inducted into the Utah Broadcast Hall of Fame. Gale wrote and broadcast daily editorial comments for KSL radio and television for more than 20 years—some 6,000 editorials in all—and currently writes a monthly column for the Deseret News. He was on the faculty of the University of […]

Board of Directors Adds Four New Members The Alumni Association is pleased to welcome four new members to its Board of Directors this year. The board is composed of 24 alumni volunteers who oversee the activities of the four other affiliated groups: Emeritus Alumni Board (EAB), Young Alumni Board (YAB), Student Alumni Board (SAB), and […]

’50s Spencer Eccles BS’56 received the 2010 Distinguished Utahn Award from the Salt Lake City chapter of the BYU Management Society. Few philanthropists in Utah reside within the same stratosphere of giving as Eccles. As chair and chief executive of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, he presides over an organization that has […]

Building for the future. Alum Sarah Woodhead channels her dual passions for architecture and the Middle East into a career drawing on both. How does a young girl raised in small-town New England combine a deeply ingrained love of Middle Eastern culture with a profound interest in architecture? If that girl is Sarah Woodhead BA’80 […]

Awards and Accolades Par Excellence Award: Brad Wilkins Bs’01 Each spring, the Alumni Association and its Young Alumni Board (YAB) honor an alumnus/a who attended the University of Utah within the last 15 years with its Par Excellence Award, presented on the basis of the recipient’s outstanding professional achievements and contribution to the betterment of […]

’60s Lynn M. Hansen MS’66 PhD’70 was recognized with the 2010 Utah State University College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award. Hansen received a Fulbright Scholarship to Free University of Berlin before completing both master’s and doctoral degrees in German at the U, with studies at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellowship […]

An alum makes her way back to Utah after forging a groundbreaking career in litigation communications. When Andy Pettitte, a New York Yankees starting pitcher with a reputation for being straight and honest, got caught up in a Congressional investigation over performance-enhancing drugs, his legal team knew that he would need help in handling the […]

Founders Day 2010 Founders Day traditions date back to 1899, when the Utah State Legislature voted to move the University of Utah to its present location on Salt Lake City’s east bench. The event coincided with the University’s founding on February 28 and inspired a celebration that continues to this day. In honor of the […]

E. Gordon Gee BA’68 • Pramod Amin MS’71 • Michael Cotter MBA’73 • O. Randall “Randy” Woodbury BA’77 • James S. Fassio BS’77 • Lynn D. Malmstrom BS’77 • G. Paul Doxey MD’80 • John Robinson MD’80 • Patricia Berry MS’80 • Catherine M. Larson BS’82 JD’93 • Matt Berrett BA’85

For this composer, success was slow to come but is all the sweeter for it. By Catherine Reese Newton Marie Barker Nelson Bennett BA’47 MFA’52 PhD’80 is living evidence of the adage that good things come to those who wait. Bennett, now 83, studied with one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent composers—an accomplishment that was […]

Emeritus Alumni Recognize Outstanding Peers The Emeritus Alumni Board’s Merit of Honor Award is given each year to five alumni recognized not only for their impressive professional achievements but also for their commitment to the U and contributions to the community. The 2009 awardees were recognized at the Merit of Honor Awards Banquet in November […]

’60s Donald Yacktman BS’65 is the president of Yacktman Asset Management Co. and the co-manager (with son Stephen) of the Yacktman Fund and the Yacktman Focused Fund, which were ranked numbers one and two, respectively, in performance over the last 10 years among the 450 mutual funds classified as large cap value by Morningstar, a […]