Alumni Gazette

In the News

“You have to have great stuff.”

—Linda Deck ’80, director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History at Idaho State University in Pocatello, talking to the Idaho State Journal about the most important requirement in getting people to visit—and learn from—museum exhibitions.

Kelly ’73 Named to Federal Commission

Suedeen Kelly ’73, a former professor of law at the University of New Mexico, is returning as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Kelly was appointed last year to finish an unexpired term and was renominated for a full, five-year term that expires in 2009.

Graduate Heads Pharmacy College

The newest leader of the nation’s oldest college of pharmacy is a Rochester graduate. Russell DiGate ’80, ’87 (PhD), who has been a professor and dean for research and graduate education at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, has been named dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The college, founded in 1821, is one of four units of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Top Kentucky Professor Named

Vince DiMartino ’70E, ’78E (Mas), the Matton Professor of Music at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, has been named the state’s Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. DiMartino joined the Centre faculty in 1993.

Composer Honored for ‘Fight Song’

For more than 40 years, fans of the University of Memphis Tigers have been cheering their teams to a song by Tom Ferguson ’72E (PhD). Last fall, Ferguson received cheers of his own, when Memphis honored him for writing the music (the late Edwin Hubbard wrote the lyrics) that has become a staple at Memphis sporting events. Ferguson was the band director at what was then known as Memphis State in the early 1960s, when he decided the school needed a new fight song. Before that, Memphis had used a reworked version of Northwestern University’s song.

Photo Gets Cover Treatment

A magazine that promotes crosscultural understanding, foreign language study, and global awareness chose a photograph by Paul Brady ’04 for its cover last fall. The photo of a tranquil port at Caye Caulker, Belize, taken in 2003, was selected by Abroad View Magazine, which is produced by a consortium of American colleges and universities in cooperation with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.