General News

Five Long-Time ENMU Employees Honored at Retirement Reception
Five long-time ENMU employees were honored at a retirement reception on Wednesday in the Student Academic Services Building.

In addition to accolades, the five received ENMU pewter plates which glowed almost as brightly under the atrium skylight as their Eastern careers.

The five honorees were Linda Custer, Danny Earp, Carmen Gentile, Karyl Lyne and Jim Zupancic. (Carmen and Karyl were not able to attend.)

Linda and Danny are from Business Affairs, Karyl from Student Affairs, and Jim and Carmen worked at the Broadcast Center.

To find out more about their sterling careers, click here: [more]
(photo by Richard Salas)

State Senator Stuart Ingle to Give Spring Commencement Address
by Colleen Wright/Wendel Sloan
Communication Services

State Senator Stuart Ingle, (Republican, District 27 – Chaves, Curry, DeBaca and Roosevelt Counties), will give the commencement address at Eastern New Mexico University's One-Hundred-Fourth Commencement Convocation at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 10 in Greyhound Arena. There are 407 candidates for graduation.

Sen. Ingle has lived in Portales all of his life except when he went to Oklahoma State University to receive a degree in Animal Science and Industry. He was elected senator in 1984, and has been able to secure many benefits for ENMU even during the worst of economic times.

He says he decided to run for office because he felt with his background he could be of service to the surrounding areas. He also farms wheat and grain sorghum in Roosevelt County.

The graduating seniors of the Swanee Singers will perform the National Anthem at the commencement ceremony.

Other graduation activities will include a Board of Regents meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, May 9 in the Regents' Room of the Administration Building. There will be a Nurses' Pinning at 1:30 p.m. that day in Buchanan Hall in the Music Building. At 3 p.m. there will be an Honor's Convocation in the University Theater. The New Graduates Reception, sponsored by Alumni Affairs, will be at 4 p.m. in the Campus Union Ballroom.

The public is invited to all activities.

Faculty Emeritus Luncheon Set for Wednesday, May 7: Four Faculty Emeriti to be Honored
by Lisa Obenhaus, Office of Development
and Colleen Wright, Communication Services

The Friends of Eastern Foundation will host the annual Faculty Emeritus Luncheon on Wednesday, May 7 at noon in the Zia Room of the Campus Union Building. The Distinguished Faculty Emeriti awards will also be presented at the luncheon. This year's recipients include Dr. Penney Stewart-Fawcett, Dr. Gary Pfaffenberger, Mr. Jack Scott and Dr. Paul Stangle.

Members of the University community are cordially invited to attend on a dutch-treat basis. Reservations can be made by calling the Office of Development at 505.562.2412 by Monday, May 5.

Jack Scott

Coach Jack Scott led the Greyhound football team to a number of triumphs after he came to Eastern New Mexico University in 1970. Jack received his bachelor’s degree from Dana College and his master’s degree from University of South Dakota.

Before coming to ENMU, Jack coached at Wesmar College in Iowa, Willow Lake High, and Madison High in South Dakota.

Over his many years at ENMU, Jack was respected for his support of his team on and off the field. He believed education was the soul of football; he encouraged his players to work hard in their college curriculum and involved himself in all aspects of their lives.

Dr. Penny Stewart-Fawcett

Dr. Penny Stewart-Fawcett taught for 22 years at Eastern New Mexico University. Before coming here in 1973, she taught one year in an American high school, three years in a Brazilian middle school, and 14 years at the English Language Institute of the University of Southern Mississippi.

While at ENMU Penny co-founded the High Plains Language Institute, with the hope that the specialized instruction could provide foreigners some “breathing time” before they became full-fledged university students.

After retiring in 1995, she had several works published, including Voices of Three Women, a book of poetry to be used during public presentations.

Dr. Gary Pfaffenberger

Dr. Gary Pfaffenberger was a professor of biology at Eastern New Mexico University for many years. He came to ENMU after receiving his Ph.D. in zoology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

While at ENMU he was heavily involved in and the leader of numerous organizations, including: chair of Natural Sciences Research Institute; president of Faculty Senate; chair of Curriculum Committee; chair of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee; and member of the University Graduate Committee.

Gary has also been published numerous times. Currently, he holds a leadership position at his church and is building a house.

Dr. Paul L. Stangle

Dr. Paul L. Stangle came to Eastern New Mexico University in 1958 to be an associate professor in business administration. He swiftly moved up to being dean of the College of Business. He received his bachelor’s degree from Denver University, and a master’s in management just one year later.

He served in the United States Air Force for a number of years before retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1967 he received his doctorate from the University of Colorado. He and his wife, Marie, are the proud parents of three children: John, JoAnn and Judith.

In his spare time he loves woodworking.

Command Sergeant Major Jim McGee to Address GED Graduates at ENMU-Ruidoso
by Dr. Jim Miller
ENMU-Ruidoso

Command Sergeant Major Jim McGee of the New Mexico National Guard will be the featured speaker as the Adult Basic Education program at Eastern New Mexico University at Ruidoso holds its fourth annual GED High School completion graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 3 at 10 a.m. at the ENMU Center in Ruidoso's Sierra Mall.

About 36 Lincoln County/Mescalero students will be receiving GED certificates. For adults who did not complete high school, the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) provide an opportunity to earn a high school credential.

McGee was born in Elida and attended the Elida Schools, graduating in 1971. He entered the Army in 1971 and began attending college the same year. [more]

ENMU Announces New Web-Based MBA Courses
by Rose Clark-Hitt
MBA Graduate Student

The Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) College of Business (COB) announces the introduction of Web-based courses for their Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Dr. Lee Weyant, MBA Program Coordinator, said that the initial Web-based courses will be offered as business electives for the MBA program.

According to Dr. Weyant, “Web-based instruction provides us with an excellent opportunity to provide graduate business education for individuals who traditionally do not seek educational opportunities due to time or distance.”

The COB has been using the Internet to enhance the educational experience of the ENMU MBA student for several years. “The time is now right for the MBA program to incorporate more Web-based courses within the curriculum,” said Dr. Weyant. “This does not mean we are offering the entire MBA on the Web, but rather focusing on specific courses,” he added.

The first course, E-Commerce, will be offered during the summer semester, June 2 through July 31. Individuals wishing to attend the E-Commerce course must have completed an undergraduate degree, including successful completion of a Principles of Marketing course. The second course, Project Management, will be offered during the fall semester, beginning Aug. 25.

Individuals interested in these Web-based courses or the ENMU MBA should contact Dr. Lee Weyant at 505.562.2352 or Lee.weyant@enmu.edu.

Two ENMU Professors Named SIFE Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellows
Drs. Lee Weyant and John Humphreys have been named Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellows for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). Active on more than 1,400 college and university campuses in 33 countries, SIFE encourages students to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations, and to use their knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach projects.

Under the direction of Drs. Weyant and Humphreys, assistant professors of management, the ENMU SIFE Team recently presented its educational outreach projects at the 2003 SIFE Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair in Denver, Colo. The ENMU team won Rookie of the Year and 1st Runner Up in their league competition.

The students presented their program to a panel of local and national business leaders and entrepreneurs who rated the overall effectiveness of each team’s efforts. Regional champions named at 22 competitions held around the country will present their projects at the 2003 SIFE USA National Exposition, hosted by the Kansas City Business Community, May 11-13 in Missouri. The national champion in the four-year division will travel to Mainz, Germany, to compete at SIFE World Cup 2003, October 12-14.

More than 400 Sam Walton Fellows nationwide train and motivate more than 30,000 SIFE team members annually. The Fellowship was created in 1990 by the Wal-Mart Foundation and is named for Samuel More Walton, founder and Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

“We are proud that the Walton family invited SIFE to use Mr. Walton’s name to give the Free Enterprise Fellows a standard by which to lead and be recognized,” said Alvin Rohrs, President and CEO of SIFE. “The Sam M. Walton Fellows inspire their students and are America’s most effective teachers of free enterprise.”

For information about the ENMU SIFE team contact Dr Lee Weyant at 505.562.2352 or wwwstd.enmu.edu/enmusife/welcome.htm.
(photo by Colleen Wright)

ENMU SIFE Team Wins Two Awards at Denver Competition
by Dr. Lee Weyant
Assistant Professor of Management

The Eastern New Mexico University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) recently matched its educational outreach projects against the programs of other SIFE Teams at the 2003 Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair in Denver, Colo. The ENMU team, in their first year of competition, won Rookie of the Year and 1st Runner-Up awards.

Team members are: Sun Wiltse, Angela Huskey, Karissa Huskey, Melanie Retenari, Julie Whitney, Kip East and Shannon Eder. [more]

ENMU-Roswell Community Band Presents Concert
by Donna Gutierrez
ENMU-Roswell

The ENMU-Roswell Community Band will present its free Spring Concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 5 in the ENMU-Roswell campus Performing Arts Center. Selections will feature the trombone section in “Trombone King” and “Lassus Trombone.” In addition, the percussion section and band soloists will be featured in the Latin favorite, “Malaguena”. The entire band will play the well-known concert band selections “Blue Ridge Saga” by Swearingen and “Overture for Winds” by Carter.

The Community Band is comprised of musicians of every age who practice weekly with director Kent Jordan. The group presents a concert each spring and fall. In addition, they participate in performances with guest organizations like the ENMU-Portales Symphonic Band and guest artists from the area.

A summer community band will meet in a concentrated series of practice sessions from 6:30-8:30 pm on Monday, June 30 through Thursday, July 3 with a patriotic concert planned at 7 p.m. on July 3. The cost is $10 for this short session, and musicians of all ages are invited to participate. Guest conductor for this short session will be John Batson, graduate of Baylor University School of Music and Head Band Director at Moody High School in Temple, Texas. He is familiar to area musicians as a graduate of Roswell High School and former director for the City of Roswell summer band program.

For information, contact Jane Batson, ENMU-Roswell Division Chair of Health Occupations, at 624.7233.

He's At It Again: ENMU-Roswell Professor Published by UFO Digest
(Editor's Note: The following article is from UFO Digest, an on-line publication.)


I had the opportunity of interviewing Donald R. Burleson, Ph.D., by phone Thursday April 24, 2003, regarding his new book, "UFOs and Murder of Marilyn Monroe."

Dr. Don Burleson has been fascinated with the death of Marilyn Monroe for many years. In fact, as a certified UFO field investigator, research consultant, and New Mexico State Director for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), he had heard rumors of a UFO connection with Marilyn's death.

One of the linchpin's of Dr. Burleson's hypothesis is a CIA document, that has come to be known as the Marilyn Monroe document, which mysteriously surfaced in 1994.

The document has a subject line "Marilyn Monroe" and a project line "Moon Dust."

According to Burleson, "Project Moon Dust" had existed since 1953 and whose purpose was the recovering of debris from fallen space vehicles, certainly to include UFO crash debris.

According to "UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe", the document has an apparent reference, in the routing data at the bottom of the page to MJ-12.

This reference to MJ-12 further associates the Marilyn Monroe document with the whole question of governmental secrecy about unindentified flying objects. [more]
(courtesy photo)

Candid Camera

Feel the Spirit (photo by Richard Salas)

Lift Us Up Where We Belong – The Department of Music at Eastern New Mexico University present a choral concert, "Feel the Spirit," on Tuesday, April 29 in Buchanan Hall of the Music Building. "Feel the Spirit" featured the University Singers and the Chamber Singers (two student groups) with guest solos by ENMU faculty members Ms. Marsha Brandon, adjunct voice instructor; Dr. Jeanie Wozencraft-Ornellas, professor of voice; and Dr. David Duke, assistant professor of voice. Instrumentalists included Ms. Cheryl Pachak-Brooks, instructor of piano, on piano; Dr. Tracy Carr, assistant professor of music, on oboe; and Brandon Boerio, timpani. It was directed by Dr. David Gerig, dean of the College of Fine Arts and professor of music. Approximately 75 students performed.

(photo by Richard Salas)

Steel Drum Band (photo by Richard Salas)

Feel the Rhythm of the Night – The Department of Music at Eastern presented a steel band concert at 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30 on the Dallan Sanders Memorial Plaza. The Steel Drum Band is a student ensemble that performs Caribbean-style music, including calypso and Cuban salsa. The 12-member band is under the direction of Neil Rutland, associate professor of percussion and music technology.

Scenes and Conversations from Retirees' Reception (photos by Richard Salas)

"Really, we came to honor our KENW colleague. The food had nothing to do with it."

"We are authorized to hear this, right?"

"Can you hear them now?" " Yes, but can they can see us?"

"I better grab another one – just in case that performance thing doesn't work out this year. (Besides, I'm pretty sure everyone will be distracted by that waving woman.")

Dental Documentation at ENMU-Roswell (photo by Donna Gutierrez)

By Kellogg Foundation – Dr. Judy Armstrong (right), provost of ENMU-Roswell, talks with writer Mary Cohen while photographer Brett Bowers adjusts his shot. Dr. Armstrong was one of several interviews conducted recently by a documentation team from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on the Chaves County Community Dental Initiative. The dental initiative is one of 75 projects selected worldwide as representative of milestone projects to be highlighted by the Foundation for its upcoming 75th anniversary celebration. Documentation teams will be producing a coffee-table style book, a video, and an electronic archive featuring each project on the Kellogg Foundation web site at www.wkkf.org. The dental project is one of only 20 health-related projects chosen by the Foundation for this honor. [more]

Twin Towers (photo by Donna Gutierrez)

On Display at ENMU-Roswell – Sociology and psychology instructor Bob Phillips stands next to the calligraphy work he created, which was framed to represent the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The artwork was purchased by the Faculty Senate for the Faculty Resource Room in the Instructional Center at ENMU-Roswell. The words of an Old Chinese proverb, John Donne, and Martin Luther King Jr. become visual images with layers of lettering done in inks and a variety of crayons, pencils, gold leaf and watercolors.

New Meal Plan (photo by Richard Salas)

Reputed to be high in Omega-3 fatty acids.

Cinco de Mayo Celebracion (photos by Wendel Sloan)

Working Together: City of Portales and ENMU

Breaking of the Piñata: (Sponsored by ENMU's Hispanic Affairs)

Gary Demonstrates Proper Follow-Through

Apt Pupil

The Pay-Off

(Piñata Says He'd Just Like to Open Up to Someone)

Conference Call with ENMU-Roswell (photo by Richard Salas)

ENMU-Portales Webmaster Jennifer Poyer participated in a follow-up conference call on Tuesday with the ENMU-Roswell committee to select a company to upgrade the ENMU-Roswell Web site. (She traveled to Roswell on April 25 for a face-to-face meeting.) Bryan Yates, the Programmer/Webmaster at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, was selected. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University in 1999. The new and improved ENMU-Roswell Web site is expected to go on-line in August.

Meet Another Monday Memo Staffer (photo by Richard Salas)

Graduating Senior Shane Brown, long-time student writer for the Monday Memo, was tutored in interviewing skills by Webmaster Jennifer Poyer. Jennifer says that, in her opinion, Shane has taken what she taught him to a whole new level.

Employee Briefs

Dr. Robert Long, assistant professor of physical sciences, made a presentation at Eastern Kentucky University on Apri 25. The title of the talk was "Nanotechnology: The Next Frontier?".

Michele Wood, Extended Learning/ILL Librarian, presented "Providing Affordable Digital Reference Services" at the New Mexico Library Association conference in Albuquerque on April 25.

Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy and Bill Poorbaugh, student at ENMU-Roswell, have had " An Interview with Steve Forness" published in the International Journal of Special Education. Steve Forness is at UCLA.