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Quality teaching, concern for students top president's agenda
Women golfers gain acclaim	Clinton picks Gonzalez for USDA post	Klipsch named to hall of fame	Now it's Delamater Activity Center

Conroy named president

NMSU's Board of Regents dismissed J. Michael Orenduff as president on June 3 and appointed William B. Conroy as his replacement.

The regents said they had lost confidence in Orenduff's management effectiveness.

Conroy, a 12-year veteran as executive vice president/chief academic officer, was appointed to a two-year term as president.

Conroy named John Owens, dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, to serve as interim executive vice president. Jerry Schickedanz, associate dean and director of the Cooperative Extension Service, was named acting dean of agriculture.

Quality teaching, concern for students top president's agenda

	Building on the university's strengths, from its reputation as a student-oriented campus to its research activities, tops President William B. Conroy's agenda for the next two years.
	This is not the first time Conroy has taken on the president's responsibilities. He was interim president in 1994-95 and has served as acting president on numerous occasions since 1995. Among the new CEO's priorities:
	Academics and student services - "We want to sustain and enhance NMSU's reputation for the quality of its teaching and its concern for students, and we want to engage the entire campus community in this effort. We also need to increase our efforts to turn around the enrollment declines we have had in recent years."
Conroy

Funding - "University employees need a significant increase in compensation, and the university must have full formula funding, as well as more capital project funds. We plan to work with the Commission on Higher Education and with representatives of the Legislature to accomplish these goals. We also need to continue to seek help from NMSUÕs alumni and friends to ensure that our Cornerstone Campaign is not only successful but surpasses its goals."

Strategic planning - "It is important that our strategic planning process continue and that we give everyone an opportunity to reflect and make suggestions on the goals and priorities of our university."

Economic development and research - "NMSU is engaged in a prodigious amount of quality research. We need to continue to seek ways to encourage and facilitate research and other creative activities by our faculty and professional staff, not only in our colleges but in other areas such as PSL (the Physical Science Laboratory) and other special laboratories and institutes."

Distance education - "Our Cooperative Extension Service has long been a fine example of how quality education in a variety of areas can be delivered to our citizens in every county of New Mexico. Examples of similar outstanding programs are under way in education, engineering and business. While continuing to foster our strong on-campus educational programs, we also need to be alert for additional opportunities to deliver educational programs by electronic and other means to our citizens."

Women golfers gain acclaim

Two NMSU women golfers distinguished themselves at the NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, in May.

A.J. Eathorne, a native of Penticton, B.C., Canada, became the third NMSU women's golfer ever to win all-American honors.

Kate Dunn of Townsville, Australia, earned the tournament's NCAA putting title.

The Roadrunners placed 15th in the tournament.

Eathorne finished the season with eight top-10 efforts in 11 tournaments. She earned medalist honors at the Big West Conference Championships and was named BWC player of the year. She broke the school record for stroke average at 74.4 shots per round and finished in a tie for 11th at the NCAA Championships.

Clinton picks Gonzalez for USDA post

I. Miley Gonzalez, associate dean and director of academic programs for NMSU's College of Agriculture and Home Economics, is President William Clinton's choice for under secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gonzalez will oversee four major agencies and a budget of $1.7 billion. He also will administer research and extension service funding for land-grant universities in every state.

Gonzalez has held his current position at NMSU since September 1996. He also has served as assistant dean and deputy director of the Cooperative Extension Service, head of the agricultural and extension education department and international programs director for the agriculture college.

Klipsch named to hall of fame

The namesake of NMSU's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be honored Oct. 16 with induction to the national Engineering and Science Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.

Paul Klipsch, '26, inventor of the Klipschorn loudspeaker system in 1943, was nominated for inclusion in the hall of fame by NMSU Engineering Dean J. Derald Morgan. NMSU granted Klipsch an honorary doctorate in 1981.

In addition to having invented one of the world's most well-known speaker systems, Klipsch also holds other patents in the fields of ballistics, geophysics and acoustics.

The 93-year-old Klipsch and his wife, Valerie, remain strong supporters of the NMSU College of Engineering.

His company, Klipsch and Associates, Inc., is based in Hope, Ark. Klipsch remains active in the day-to-day operations of the company.

Now it's Delamater Activity Center

Photo by R. Sterling Trantham, '79, '80
	NMSU's remodeled Activity Center has been re-named the James B. Delamater Activity Center. Delamater was head of the physical education and recreation department for 23 years. A dedication ceremony will take place in October during Homecoming week.
Delamater

NMSU acquires "deep Blue"-type supercomputer

NMSU researchers now have a supercomputer with the power of IBM's famous Deep Blue for doing extremely complex computations, from modeling the birth of the universe to simulating the heart's response to electric currents.

The IBM RS6000/SP supercomputer is the most powerful in the state outside the national laboratories.

NMSU's supercomputer is the same type as IBM's Deep Blue, which made international headlines by defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

The university's SP2 is in use 24 hours a day by 75 users on campus Ð students, faculty and post-doctoral researchers. Previously the complex calculations performed by the SP2 had to be done at remote supercomputer centers. NMSU is leasing its SP2 from IBM for $120,000 a year for five years. Including software, the system is worth about $2.5 million. It is designed to be upgradable - its processors can be swapped for newer, faster processors as technology advances.