News Release

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May 6, 2005

Alumni Association Elects New Officers, Presents Service Award To Davis, Lundell
 

The Boise State University Alumni Association elected officers and new directors and recognized two longtime members with service awards at the organization’s annual meeting this week.
 

Filling one-year officer positions on the executive committee are:

  • President: Brian Yeargain, ’95, partner, Little Morris CPA

  • First vice president: Susie Schumacher, ’85, ’00, revenue integrity manager at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center

  • Second vice president: Tom Beitia, ’84, ’87, financial adviser, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

  • Treasurer: Travis Jensen, ’94, senior manager, audit, KPMG LLP accounting firm

  • Secretary: Cheryl Myers,’91, creative services manager, Micron Technology

  • Past president: Alex LaBeau, ’91, ’00, executive director, Idaho Association of Realtors

“Our alumni association has a rich history of outstanding volunteer leadership and this group certainly strengthens that tradition,” said Lee Denker, Alumni Association executive director.


Directors nominated by the incoming president and elected to serve one-year terms are Jean Basom, ’98; Krystal Brown, ’97, ’98 and ’04; Travis Burgess, ’98; Celia Gould, ’79; Ted Martinez, ’74; Steve Rector, ’68; and Ren’e Rhoades, ’01.

 

Directors elected for three-year terms through 2008 are Gloria Beattie,’97; Jess Byrne,’99; Ward Hooper,’87; Merritt Swartley,’95; and Tim Tyree,’93.

 

Ex-officio board members named are Stacey Mitchel,’96, Kappa Sigma Chapter; Annie Dalton, Student Alumni Association president; and Joe Holladay, ASBSU president.

 

Carol Hoidal,’72, was elected to serve a three-year term on the nominating committee through 2008.

 

In addition, the association honored Jeanne Lundell, ’40 and Jim Davis, ’75 at the event with its third annual Service Award.

 

Lundell has been involved with Boise State since the university’s early years and has served as an active member of the Alumni Association board since 1982. In 1938 she and a small group of fellow students led a drive to gather voters’ signatures to support a Boise Junior College taxing district. Those local property taxes allowed for the first building on the new riverside campus that opened in 1940. Lundell and her late husband, Dick, helped found the Keith Stein Blue Thunder Marching Band.

 

Davis, a Boise attorney, has been a member of numerous Boise State committees and has taught as his alma mater as an adjunct faculty member. He served on the Alumni Association board from 1991-1997, when he served a term as president. More recently he has filled a three-year term on the nominating committee. He is also a member of the Bronco Athletic Association and a former member of the BSU Foundation.

 

The BSU Alumni Association sponsors numerous events that enrich the Boise State experience for students, alumni and friends of the university, including the biennial auction, the annual graduation celebration picnic, Bronco football tailgate parties, and scholarships and awards honoring high-achieving students and alumni. For more information about the Alumni Association, visit alumni.boisestate.edu or call (208) 426-1698.

 

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Contact: Lee Denker, Alumni Association executive director, 426-5790

Media contact: Bob Evancho, University Relations, 426-1643

 


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