Ruth A. Davis Strampe BS’38 was a member of the University of Utah’s pistol team while a student and to this day remains a crack shot. While target shooting during a recent visit to a guest ranch in California, she hit five out of seven small targets during her first time out. At West High […]
Through the Years
Through the Years
Through the Years
’60s Eugene García BS’68, vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the Erikson Institute, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools in child development, and delivered its 2011 commencement address. García is one of the nation’s most eminent researchers in the teaching of language and […]
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The lobby of the Ogden [Utah] High School Athletic Complex has been dedicated in honor of Arnie Ferrin BS’66. Ferrin was a co-captain of the Ogden High basketball team in 1943 and led his teammates to the Region 1 championship that year. He went on to play for the University of Utah, where he was […]
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’60s Jim Gaddis BS’62 received the 2010 S.J. Quinney Award from the Utah Ski Archives for his significant contributions to the development of skiing in the region. In the late 1950s, Gaddis was a multi-year junior national champion and later dominated the national racing circuits, winning the NCAA combined title, the U.S. Championships giant slalom […]
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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 […]
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’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 […]
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’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 […]
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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
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’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 […]