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NMSU awards honorary doctorates
George Carl Everett Jr. and Andrea Carter Everett, above, and Don Kidd, below, with his wife Sarrah, have been awarded honorary doctorates at New Mexico State University. Photos by Darren Phillips
George Carl Everett Jr. and Andrea Carter Everett received honorary doctorates at the fall 2005 New Mexico State University commencement ceremony and Don Kidd was honored at the Spring 2006 ceremony.

The Everetts were honored in December 2005 for their distinguished careers and for their many contributions to New Mexico State University. Kidd was honored in May for his advocacy for higher education, for his service to NMSU as a supporter and former regent and for his service in the New Mexico Legislature.

George Everett earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from NMSU in 1973. He had a 20-year career with Intel Corp., where he helped lead Intel’s strategic marketing, including North American and worldwide sales. He also served as senior vice president and general manager of the organization’s Microprocessor Products Group and Desktop Products Group. In 1998, he joined Dell Computers as senior vice president of the Personal Systems Group. Today, he is a partner at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Palo Alto, Calif., where he helps outstanding entrepreneurs build category defining companies.

Andrea Everett graduated from NMSU in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in lementary education and a minor in early childhood education. She left teaching to raise three children, but remained involved in education. When her youngest started kindergarten, she became a certified childbirth educator, teaching repared childbirth classes through Kaiser and Mercy San Juan hospitals in the Sacramento, Calif., area.

Kidd is president and chief executive officer of Western Commerce Bank in Carlsbad, N.M.; chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Western Bank in Alamogordo, N.M.; and president and chief executive officer of Western Bank in Clovis, N.M. He served three terms in the New Mexico Senate representing District 34 in Eddy, Lea and Otero counties. He was coauthor of New Mexico’s predatory lending law and has said serving as co-sponsor of the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship is one of his most memorable accomplishments during his tenure in the Legislature. From 1985 to 1991, Kidd served as a member of the NMSU Board of Regents.
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