Bradburd |
Bradburd coaches basketball in Ireland
Rus Bradburd ’02, former New Mexico State University assistant
basketball coach, recently started his new job as head coach
of the Tralee Tigers, a basketball club team in Ireland.
Bradburd learned of the position from the coach of the Irish
Olympic basketball team during a vacation in Ireland.
Bradburd has 15 years experience coaching basketball —14
years as assistant coach and one year as head coach. He was
assistant coach to Lou Henson from 1997 to 2000 and Neil McCarthy
from 1994 to 1997. Bradburd also worked as assistant coach under
Don Haskins at the University of Texas-El Paso from 1983 to
1991. From 1981 to 1982, Bradburd was head coach at Von Steuben
High School in Chicago.
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Bradburd also published a scouting newsletter on Chicago-area
high school basketball. In Las Cruces, he founded the Pistoleros,
a free dribbling program for area youth, and the annual Joe Somoza-Keith
Wilson prize for graduate poetry students.
Bradburd earned his master of fine arts degree in creative
writing from New Mexico State in May.
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Beem |
Aggie grad captures PGA Championship
New Mexico State University has a new claim to fame after Rich
Beem ’92 captured the PGA Championship in August.
This was the second victory for Beem in two weeks, as he won
the International in Castle Rock, Colo., in early August. He
also won the Kemper Open in 1998.
Beem had been selling car stereos and cellular phones in Seattle
seven years ago for $7 an hour, nowhere close to the $990,000
he took home for his victory over Tiger Woods at the Championship.
This made Beem the first person Woods has ever finished second
to in a major tournament and the 12th golfer to make the PGA
Championship his first major victory.
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Beem is a 1988 graduate of Las Cruces High School
and played golf at New Mexico State from 1989 to 1992. He and his
father, New Mexico State University men’s golf coach Larry Beem,
are the only father and son in the New Mexico State Athletic Hall
of Fame. Beem lives in El Paso with his wife Sara.
Sarah Wheeler
Villagrana |
Villagrana named top Spanish-language
journalist
Pedro Villagrana ’80 ’83 of El Paso, Texas, was recently
chosen as one of the top 100 Spanish-language journalists and
media people in the United States by the Hispanic Media 100.
Villagrana was honored Sept. 20 in Miami, Fla. Honorees were
selected by a nationwide panel of judges, based on their local
influence, community contributions and journalistic talent.
Villagrana is currently a field reporter at KINT-TV/ Univision
in El Paso, where he has worked since the station first went
on the air in 1984.
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As a student, Villagrana was a reporter and anchor for
a nightly news broadcast on KRWG-TV, host at KOBE-AM and producer,
writer and moderator of a Spanish-language program on KRWG-TV. He
also taught Spanish as a graduate assistant.
Villagrana received his bachelor’s degree in broadcast
journalism and his master’s degree in Spanish from New Mexico
State.
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Garcia |
Garcia appointed to RHS
Arthur A. Garcia ’76 was appointed administrator of the
Rural Housing Service by President George W. Bush. He will manage
and administer more than 20 programs and support functions.
RHS, located in Washington, D.C., is the largest agency in
the Rural Development mission area and assists rural Americans
and their communities in obtaining adequate and affordable housing
and access to community facilities.
Garcia has taught at Webster University, the University of
Phoenix and the College of Santa Fe. He was a lending manager
at Sunwest Bank, now Nations Bank, and vice president of retail
banking at First State Bank in New Mexico.
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A past president of the Hispanic Bankers Association,
Garcia also was a member of the Board of Directors for the Banking
School at the University of New Mexico.
Garcia earned a bachelor’s degree from New Mexico
State and master’s degrees from Webster University.
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Covington |
Covington leads disaster relief efforts
L. Ross Covington ’58 of Huntsville, Ala., returned home
from Israel in July after he and a team of six men delivered
25 tons of food to the homes of Palestinian refugees in Gaza.
This was Covington’s latest effort as District 1 Disaster
Relief Coordinator for the Alabama Baptist Convention, where
he also trains volunteers in disaster relief efforts in mass
feeding, cleanup and recovery, water purification systems and
emergency childcare.
He also led a team of 15 people to New York City to feed workers
at Ground Zero.
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Covington is involved in church-related activities and
has served on mission teams in Alaska, Brazil, Colombia, Germany,
Spain and Venezuela. He also has helped with church construction projects
in Alabama, Alaska, New Mexico and Spain.
Covington is a retired engineer. He received his bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University.
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Distinguished Alumni
The Alumni Association honored distinguished alumni as part
of Homecoming 2002:
W.H. (Bill) Cantrell ’67 of Clayton, N.M., a real estate
appraiser at Cantrell Appraisals, was honored by the College
of Agriculture and Home Economics.
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Santistevan |
Teri Schultz ’88 of Arlington, Va., Fabian
Samaniego ’64 of Zephyr Cove, Nev., and Katherine Ganz
’77 of Corrales, N.M., were honored by the College of Arts
and Sciences. Schultz is the State Department reporter for the
Fox News Channel and travels with Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Samaniego is a retired educator and author of books on Spanish
for native speakers. Ganz is self-employed as a physician to
Hispanic, Navajo and Pueblo people in New Mexico and Arizona.
Lisa Donnini ’76 ’78 of Laingsburg,
Mich., was honored by the College of Business Administration
and Economics. She is assistant vice president of the Securities
Industry Association in Laingsburg and directs the Stock Market
Game, in which more than 700,000 students nationwide participate.
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Robert Ogas ’68, principal of Mayfield High School
in Las Cruces, and Olivia Ogas ’68, a retired teacher and principal,
were honored by the College of Education.
John Eugene Scruggs ’64 of Loveland, Colo., senior
vice president at Agilent Technologies, was honored by the College
of Engineering.
Anne Stege Anderson ’93 of Roswell, N.M., a clinical
social worker at Counseling Associates, was honored by the College
of Health and Social Services.
Nasser A. Al-Aulagi ’71 of Sana’a, Yemen,
president of Sana’a University and author of numerous agricultural
resource textbooks, was named International Distinguished Alumnus.
Julie Ann Hall ’83 of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
an engineer at Lockheed Martin, received the James F. Cole Memorial
Award for Service.
Maj. John David Sedillo Jr., training officer of the
93rd Troop Command in Santa Fe, received the Honorary Alumnus Award.
Corina Aurora Santistevan ’46 of Taos, N.M., was
awarded the Conquistador of the Year Award. She is currently working
on a book on the history of Taos.
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