Alumni in the News

Alumni in the News http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:40:38 MST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 360 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Dell Loy Hansen - B.S., Political Science, 1982 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8216 <h2>He loves the chicken cacciatore — and RSL</h2> Deseret News It all started with poli¬tics and chicken cacciatore. It wasn’t a well-kept secret, but it became official when SCP World Wide announced Wednesday afternoon at Rio Tinto Stadium that Dell Loy Hansen, the president of Wasatch Property Management, was becoming a partner in owning Real Salt Lake. While financial details of the deal were not disclosed, SCP Worldwide chairman Dave Checketts confirmed that the previously announced 49 percent ownership number “is pretty close.” As for how Hansen came into the pro franchise ownership fraternity, those details became clearer. It all began when Hansen was invited to a political fundraiser for Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan at the U.S. World Cup Qualifying game against El Salvador in September at Rio Tinto Stadium. Checketts was looking for a new partner and was discussing the issue with another guest, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. “I was talking to Eisner to see if he was interested in spending a lot more time here (Utah), and Dell Loy said, ‘Well, what about me?’ And I said, ‘You want to talk about it? We’ll talk about it,’ ” said Checketts. “It actually turned out better because he is a local guy. He’s the perfect partner. … It is not easy to find somebody to be a partner in this state that understands it, so I think he will be a great partner.” Until that moment, becoming an owner was not in Hansen’s long¬term ambitions. “It was pretty spontaneous,” said Hansen. “It wasn’t a really well¬thought- out plan. I was sitting there having more fun, and the food was really good. I was so impressed with the food — the chicken cacciatore was to die for. I thought, ‘I could come and have that every game.’ So that might have had something to do with it. For a round guy like me, the food is important. “But I was looking for some¬thing where I could bring my family together naturally. So now I have a box and they can come to any game and show up, and without sending out a lot of e-mails, we are all there together. So for me it is a long-term way for me to be together with my family.” Now that Hansen and his financial backing are on¬board, Real can plan on some upgrades. “There are a lot of things we are doing with the money,” said Checketts. “It is all staying in the club. We are substantially paying down some debt, and then putting working capital to work on finishing a few things around the stadium, and then a first¬class practice facility. … One thing I have is tons of plans.” Checketts said he would like to get the club a practice facil¬ity closer to Rio Tinto instead of in Lehi at Xango Field. As for Hansen, he plans to be in Seattle on Sunday for Real’s first appearance in the MLS Cup against the Los Angeles Galaxy at Qwest Field. “It’s a Cinderella story,” added Hansen of the team’s run to the MLS title game. “I’ve just fallen in love with this team. They are the little engine that nobody bet on, and you don’t get all that many Cinderella stories. It is usually the Goliaths. The Yankees or some mammoth team with the huge payroll.… You just have to have your heart go out to them as hard as they play.”   Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8216 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Merlin J. Olsen - B.S., Finance, 1962; M.S., Economics, 1971 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8214 Ogden Standard Examiner Utah State University will be holding a special ceremony during halftime of its men’s basketball game against Saint Mary’s on Dec. 5 to recognize and honor the outstanding achievements and contributions made by one of its greatest alumnus, Merlin Olsen. Olsen was a three-year lettermen on the defensive line for USU from 1959-61, earning All-American honors during both his junior and senior seasons. During his senior season in 1961, he won the Outland Trophy. Olsen also was a three-time academic All-American at Utah State and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Kappa Phi in 1962 with a degree in finance. Olsen is a member of the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, the Utah State University Sports Hall of Fame and USU’s All-Century Football Team. In 2000, he was selected by Sports Illustrated as one of the state’s Top 50 Athletes of the Century. Olsen, who retired from professional football in 1976, was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982.   Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8214 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Bruce G. Allen - B.S., Marketing, 1976 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8211 <h2>Allen honored by UHSAA</h2> Herald Journal For the last 29 years, Bruce Allen has been running up and down the sidelines of Utah high school basketball and foot- games, behind the plate at baseball games, keeping a close eye on the action. But on Nov. 4, the Utah High School Activities Association’s Executive Committee decided to turn the attention on him. Allen was named the UHSAA’s 2008-09 Male Official of the Year at an awards ceremony at Willow Creek Country Club. The former high school and college athlete, who now divides his time between jobs as a high school and collegiate referee (Big Sky) and at Willowbrook Cabinets, originally got into basketball officiating back in 1980 as a way to stay with the game — later taking on football and baseball.   Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8211 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Steven Tracy - B.A., Marketing, 1985 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8215 Herald Journal The Board of Directors of the Sunshine Terrace Foundation has appointed Steven Tracy as the interim foundation administrator. In addition to his current role as administrator of the rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility, Tracy will be responsible for the overall administration of the foundation. Tracy has extensive experience in healthcare environments. He has worked with skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in Washington and Utah. Tracy has specialized in training in culture change and is committed to “caring and service from the heart.” Tracy is licensed as a health facilities administrator and earned an undergraduate degree from Utah State University in 1985.   Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8215 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Lynn W. Heninger - B.S., Accounting, 1964; M.A., MBA, 1970 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8212 <h2>KSCW Welcomes New Vice President Lynn W. Heninger</h2> www.spaceref.com KSCW is pleased to announce that Lynn W. Heninger has joined the firm as Vice President of Government Relations, Defense and Aerospace. His extensive legislative expertise in the defense and aerospace realms will be a great asset as the firm expands and assists current clients through this ever changing landscape. Prior to joining KSCW, Lynn served as the Director, NASA Relations, Washington Operations for a major defense and aerospace contractor after a long career with NASA. Lynn had extensive experience with NASA where he served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Legislative Affairs. He began his career at NASA at the Johnson Space Center as Program Analyst. In 1977, he rejoined NASA's Office of Space Science as Chief of Program Support. Four years later, he moved to the Office of Legislative Affairs serving as a Legislative Affairs Specialist, Director of the Liaison Division, and as the Deputy Associate Administrator. His previous work experience included Budget Analyst with the Department of Transportation, Project Director with the Economics Department at Utah State University, and an Organizational Development Specialist with the United Nations in Bogota, Columbia. Lynn received his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Business Administration degree from Utah State University. After graduating from college, he served in the U.S. Army for three years as an artillery officer and helicopter pilot including a tour in Vietnam with the 1st Infantry Division.   Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8212 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Devin C. Glazier - M.A., Master of Business Administration, 2002; Craig E. Johanson - M.A., MBA, 2000 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7960 <h2>Is There A Benefit To Joining Qivana?</h2> www.searcharticles.net Qivana is a fresh company. It made it's debut in April 2009 and officially launched in September 2009. Qivana is a network marketing company that advertises organic health product. Members who join Qivana are called Independent Business Owners or IBO's for short. Founders include: - Derek Hall - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) - Rodney James - Chief Sales Officer - Devin Glazier - Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - Justin Banner - Chief Strategy Officer - Craig Johanson = Chief Marketing Officer When it comes to managing businesses and taking care of health care issues, Derek Hall is a veteran. His experience spans four decades. He also owns other network marketing programs. With a MBA from Utah State University, Craig Johanson is very dynamic in the sales, marketing, branding and event planning. The top five executives have a combined 75 years of experience in the network marketing industry. Each of them have been executives in other successful MLM companies; such as, XanGo, NuSkin, and Tahitian Noni. The company is headquartered in Provo, Utah. The Qivana Qore System: The Qivana Qore System product line includes three components designed to build immune defenses and enhance nutrient absorption, replenish the body with natural energy and optimize well being through natural body cleansing. 1. Quore Probiotics: Created to help replenish healthy bacteria in the stomach with an exceptional proprietary blend of probiotics and Japanese technology to assure these healthy bacteria are delivered to the intestines unharmed. 2. Qore Essentials: A daily proprietary blend of Asian herbs designed to help people reach their biogenic potential. Among the herbs in Essentials is Gynostemma pentapyhllum, also recognized as the Crown Herb, or the Immortality Herb, Chinese Skullcap and White Korean Ginseng. 3. Qore Detox: Contains Puratox, an exclusive blend of organic products, with a scientifically validated capability to rid the body of heavy metals, free radicals, and toxins. Qivana believes that if your Qore system is intact, the remainder of your health will stay inline. The Qivana Opportunity: To start an opportunity with Qivana, there are two options. You can be a retail customers by ordering products from an IBO or be a preferred customer by buying a replicated website from Qivana and receiving a monthly discount on the products ordered as well as commissions from retail customers. Those interested in earning an additional income have the capability to take advantage of team commissions, executive matching bonuses, and other kinds of bonuses offered. To be an independent business owner with Qivana costs between $65-$1000. The compensation plan is a hybrid binary. Qivana Marketing: Qivana offers a variety of tools to help IBO's successfully supervise their home based business, from company, to replicated websites to live support. Qivana hosts a number of events and conference calls that offer product trainings and other types of trainings, but based on what I have seen, a lot of of the marketing involves "belly to belly". The company does have replicated websites to send prospects and customers to but these website, alone, will not create leads and customers. Replicated, company websites work best when someone is able to walk the customer or prospect through the website and explains the different aspects of the contents of the website. Basically, a website should be one page web site that can capture the information of the visitors, hence, it should be a capture or squeeze page. Capture pages and squeeze pages, which are essentially the same thing, function best because they are not so confusing to the visitor. The contents of the capture page are focused on one topic, and it is frequently written in a way to grab the visitors attention enough to have him or her put in a name and email address. The reality is, on the web, you have only three seconds in which to capture a visitors attention. If you don't, then the visitor is gone. Company web sites often tend to have too much information on the web site, which can sometimes be too confusing for the visitor. The majority of the people surfing on the internet have "Attention Deficit Dysfunction"; i.e. A.D.D, figuratively speaking of course. Many visitors do not want to to spend a lot of time going through a web site. You either reel them in immediately or they are gone. "Belly to belly" style of marketing does work; especially if one has the skill to sell. In the past, using long-established marketing methods, that required "belly to belly" tactic to connect with leads, chasing after family and friends, often led to alienate IBO's from everyone. There are other efficient marketing strategies available. With the surfacing of the internet, more efficient marketing strategies have been created that utilize the internet, ones that involve new and advanced strategies to market the Qivana products and opportunity to extra people than the conventional marketing methods abundantly used in the past. Someone with an capability to sell can, most often times, get on an elevator with, say, five people and get off the elevator with three phone numbers in hand. If you are one of these persons who can accomplish this feat, congratulations, you have the gift of chatter. If you are not one of these individuals, you have several choices, either find out how to sell, or find out how to use the internet, or both. There are trainings on hand to instruct on you marketing strategies. I suggest you set the time to study marketing skills because you will fail in every opportunity without any kind of marketing skills in place, that is a guarantee. Any method you select to market your opportunity, either offline or online, you should not waste time marketing the business opportunity and products, and spend more time marketing YOU. In other words, commence thinking of your business as "YOU Inc." Why? Implementing this marketing style separates you from all of the other members in your business as well as any other business opportunity in existence. This is because there is only one of you. No one else can be you. Another thing to consider is that most people don't buy from strangers. They will only buy from those they know, like, and trust. So, you will need to concentrate on receiving more information about your leads and in return, allowing your prospects know a little about you. One last thing, since having a business is about people, people do not join businesses, people join people. This marketing technique, where you are marketing "YOU", is referred to as "Attraction Marketing". Attraction marketing involves just three essentials: 1. Creating leads and/or prospects 2. Building a relationship with those leads. 3. Marketing to those leads. Is this hard to do? No, of course not. Anybody can do this and in fact, many business owners, online or offline, are using Attraction Marketing with favorable results. Can you learn how to use Attraction Marketing? Yes, there are training courses online that can instruct you and there are a few that use Attraction Marketing offline. You have to first decide on the type of marketing you are going to do, offline or online, then do your due diligence online to find those resources that offer the trainings. In conclusion, no marketing training or marketing system is a pledge to your success, but no marketing training or marketing system can possibly work if you don't work. So, if you want to attain financial independence and have success in your opportunity, you must get to work!   Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7960 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Mr. Lars P. Hansen - B.S., Political Sci., ‘74; B.S., Mathematics, ‘74 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8217 <h2>Lars Peter Hansen named founding director of Milton Friedman</h2> Institute for Research in Economics Lars Peter Hansen, an internationally known leader in economic dynamics, has been named the founding director of the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Hansen, the Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College at the University, has been one of the forces behind the development of the Institute. He served as chairman of the faculty steering committee that recommended MFI’s creation and gave it scholarly direction, and he has helped build a robust program for the Institute following its launch in July 2008. Entering its second year, MFI has become a destination for top economists from around the world, who have come to Chicago to explore themes as diverse as market liquidity, computational economics and the economics of the family. Formed in collaboration with the University’s Department of Economics, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Law School, MFI builds upon the best of Chicago’s history of groundbreaking scholarship in economics, bringing together faculty, visiting scholars and students at every level to create new economic models based on the highest quality empirical evidence. “Lars Peter Hansen has set the standard for a new generation of Chicago economists who lead their field in intellectual rigor and empirical integrity,” said President Robert J. Zimmer. “There is no better choice to lead this endeavor, which represents the qualities that make scholarship here distinctive.” Hansen said that at a time when economic scholarship itself is receiving worldwide scrutiny, MFI best contributes to the field by supporting work that transcends traditional boundaries of study, and provides a place where the very best scholars can trade ideas and arguments. “By bringing together top–caliber scholars and truly original thinkers, MFI will stimulate new ideas and research, as well as provide a vehicle for disseminating those findings to key audiences around the world,” Hansen said. “It has the power not only to advance an academic field, but to encourage new directions of inquiry.” In its first year, the Institute hosted visiting fellows such as Pierre–André Chiappori of Columbia University; Ernst Fehr, Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich; former Chicago Booth faculty member Monika Piazzesi, now at Stanford University; and Jean–Marc Robin of University of Paris–Sorbonne and University College London. MFI also has hosted a robust schedule of guest lectures and a variety of workshops this year, including “Finance and Development” in May, “Heterogeneity in Labor Markets” in April, “Liquidity, Solvency and Bubbles in Financial Markets” in March and “New Economics of the Family” in February. Colleagues say those wide–ranging interests are a hallmark of Hansen’s work. “Lars Peter Hansen is a scholar's scholar who has devoted his academic life to using insights from mathematics and statistics to improve our understanding of how the economy works. He has been gifted in spotting interesting new problems and formulating long–standing problems in new ways,” said Thomas Sargent, Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. “This makes him an ideal choice to be the founding director of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.” Gary Becker, University Professor in Economics, Sociology and Chicago Booth, also noted Hansen’s research and leadership. “Lars is a pioneer in the development and application of rigorous methods to estimate, test and interpret financial and other macro data, and his work provides a foundation for research in that field. As chairman of the Department of Economics, Lars provided exceptional leadership. As MFI faculty steering committee chair, he has helped us develop a vision to make the Institute a center with the highest possible academic standards,” said Becker. Looking forward, MFI will host the upcoming workshops: “New Directions in the Economic Analysis of Education” in November, “Measuring and Analyzing Economic Development” in February and “New Developments in Monetary Economics” in May. The Institute also will co–host a number of other conferences on campus. Upcoming workshop participants and visiting scholars include Angus Deaton of Princeton University, Robert Hall of Stanford University, Neil Wallace of Penn State University, Alwyn Young of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Matthew Stephenson of Harvard Law School. At MFI, they will be able to take part in a deep tradition of interdisciplinary and innovative economic thinking on a faculty that has included 10 Nobel laureates, beginning with Milton Friedman. Three of those laureates serve on the MFI faculty steering committee. Hansen’s research looks at ways to bridge the gap between dynamic economic theories and data. His work has led to improved methods for formulating, analyzing and testing models of dynamic economies. He has applied these methods to study the determinants of consumption, savings and security market prices in the presence of uncertainty. Hansen joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1981 and later served as chairman of Economics. Among the many honors he has received are the 2008 CME–MSRI Prize for Innovative Quantitative Applications; the Faculty Award in graduate teaching from the University of Chicago; the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society, awarded biennially for the best empirical paper in the journal Econometrica; and the 2006 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Finance Association. He is a former John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow and a Sloan Foundation fellow. In 2007 he became president of the Econometric Society. Over the past century, the University of Chicago has shaped how academics, business leaders, citizens and governments worldwide think about economics and its relationship to society. Chicago economics is known for its intellectual rigor and for systematically employing economic theory and empirical evidence to address questions of fundamental importance. MFI was established in July 2008 to build on that legacy, developing ground–breaking economic applications relating to issues such as the cultivation of human capital, the economics of the family, human productivity, finance, entrepreneurship and wealth creation. The Institute has been carefully designed to create a new culture of scholarship that, by nourishing collaborations across disciplines and generations of scholars, results in highly creative approaches and transformative methods and theories in economics research.   Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=8217 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Mr. Richard L. King - B.S., Administrative Systems, 1972 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7963 <h2>34 Albertsons stores rebranded as ‘Fresh Market’</h2> Deseret News Associated Food Stores Inc. has a sweet deal to entice customers inside the 34 former Albertsons that the company reopened Monday under the name “Fresh Market.” Customers bringing in their Albertsons loyalty card to any Fresh Market will receive a free five-pound bag of sugar, said Dick King, Associated Foods vice president, who will be in charge of the new stores. King on Monday announced the completion of the deal between Minneapolis-based Supervalu Inc., which had owned the stores, and Associated Foods. The stores opened with the new branding beginning at noon, with some stores opening earlier. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. At midnight Friday, Associated Foods told Albertsons store directors the game plan for turning the stores into Fresh Markets. “We had crews of people arrive at 6 p.m. Sunday night,” when the Albertsons were closed, said King, who has worked for Associated Foods since retiring from Albertsons after 36 years. The crews wrote orders for fresh and perishable items, which were brought in from Associated Foods’ warehouse in Farr West, Weber County. On Monday, new bakery, service deli, meat and produce items had Fresh Market labels. Store employees had a meeting with store directors Sunday at 9 p.m., and some stayed all night to get the stores ready. Throughout the night, they built new displays, hung banners and began stocking Associated Foods’ private label, Western Family, on shelves. All stores have “Fresh Market” banners across the front. Electronic signs won’t go up until the beginning of the year, except for two stores in Park City, were Associated Foods will rebrand this month, before ski season. The remaining stores will have final rebranding next year, so that construction will not interfere with holiday shopping, which King described as an important part of sales. “We want to make sure we’re out of the way for customers,” King said. Customers interviewed at the downtown store, 370 E. 200 South, like Eduardo Simon of Salt Lake City, had a wait-and-see attitude toward the change. “This is my first time shopping with the new name,” Simon said. “I don’t know what changes are coming along with it.”   Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7963 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) John A. Tribble - P.D., Economics, 1975 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7961 <h2>Sage Realigns Graduate Schools Around Core Strengths, Names Founding Dean of New School of Management</h2> Press Release The Sage Colleges issued the following news release: The Sage Colleges have restructured Sage Graduate School around three key areas of strength and expertise to create the School of Education, School of Health Sciences, and School of Management. The newly formed schools capitalize on Sage's leading professional degree and certificate programs at the post-baccalaureate, master's, post-master's, and doctorate levels. The schools will also draw from the bachelor's programs at Sage's two undergraduate colleges: Russell Sage College for women in Troy, and the coeducational Sage College of Albany. In Sage's quest for university status, this marks one more important milestone in its evolution. Realigning Sage's academic structure was one of the first challenges that Susan Scrimshaw tackled as Sage's new president. "We have taken a set of strong graduate programs and academic schools and realigned them around core strengths to increase their visibility and synergy," she said. Two schools will be temporarily led by Sage academic administrators while national searches are conducted for permanent deans: * John Tribble, Ph.D. (Utah State University), will transition from dean of Sage Graduate School to interim dean of the School of Health Sciences. Tribble has been with Sage for more than 30 years and has served in various capacities, including Lawrence Professor of Economics and Finance, Management Department chair, and dean since 2003. * Nancy DeKorp, Ed.D. (Teachers College, Columbia University), will continue to serve as interim dean of the School of Education. She teaches health education, and led the team that earned successful reaccreditation for the school by the prestigious National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Sage names founding dean of new School of Management While the current configuration a School of Management offering degree programs at every level is new to Sage, providing business education is not. Sage opened the School of Business Education at Russell Sage College in 1935, and has graduated thousands of managers since. The new model and new era of excellence and growth will be led by the School's founding dean, Daniel Robeson, Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). Robeson worked for years in industry domestically and abroad before turning his attention to researching and publishing about innovation in large firms, and then teaching business, strategy, and entrepreneurship. He accepted the post of chair of the former Management Department last year, and has been busy raising its caliber ever since, by encouraging faculty development and research and hiring new faculty. "The School of Management at Sage has great potential for growth," Robeson said. "With the economy in a down-cycle, value-oriented programs like the MBA do very well." Robeson has published in the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Research Technology Management Journal, and the Journal of High-Tech Management Research and plans to use some of his dissertation research for a book on innovation and governance. He is a member of the Academy of Management's divisions of Business Policy and Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Innovation Management, as well as the Strategic Management Society. Robeson is leading the pursuit of higher levels of accreditation for the School of Management by streamlining the programs offered and hiring new faculty. The School is currently accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The School of Management specializes in educating managers in health care, government, and individual and family enterprise, and offers sub-disciplines in ecology, finance, marketing, strategy, organization behavior, and more. "I envision the School of Management as the fulcrum of cross-disciplinary exchange at Sage," Robeson says. "Faculty in the arts, health sciences, and management will teach across departments, and students will learn and practice alongside students from other disciplines. The result will be graduates who are uniquely prepared for today's synergistic world." Copyright Targeted News Services   Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7961 lindsey.Adams@aggiemail.usu.edu (Lindsey Coy) Brad Jay Galvez - M.A., Business Administration, 1988 http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7959 <h2>Changes made to Pioneer Days foundation, committee</h2> Ogden Standard Examiner The Ogden Pioneer Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees and Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo Committee have each added new faces and responsibilities. New leadership includes Brad Galvez, chairman of the board, and Steve Diamond, board vice chairman. The board also appointed Dave Halverson to serve as rodeo chairman with Jerry Shaw appointed as rodeo vice chairman. Galvez, a commercial real estate developer, said the changes will help the rodeo and celebration continue to improve. “In the last few years, the rodeo has been nominated for one of the top rodeos in the country,” he said. “I would like to be awarded one of the top rodeos.” A member of the board for the last two years, Galvez said he believes the rodeo’s progress is a result of numerous efforts since the foundation took over the rodeo from Ogden City in 2004. The foundation has a contract to oversee the celebration until 2018. “These changes come at a most important time for the foundation, which has several important initiatives under way,” said Wynn Covieo, executive director. “In addition to our ongoing efforts in improving the celebration and facilities, we are at a critical juncture in the development of the Utah Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center of Utah at Pioneer Stadium. We are also in discussions with Ogden City in taking over management responsibility of Ogden Pioneer Stadium.” The changes to the foundation and the committee were made last week by the foundation board as part of a biannual restructuring process that comes as the result of ending two-year terms and planning for the future, officials said. Also new to the foundation board are Matt Bartlett, an attorney and president of the Utah Horse Council; Alan Hall, founder and former chief executive officer of Ogden-based MarketStar and philanthropist; Richard Sadler, history professor at Weber State University; Robert Bell, president of River Printing Company; and Kyle Kossoff, a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association contestant. Galvez said these men were added as an expansion to the board, filling new positions created because of their specific expertise. The board now has 22 members but could have as many as 30 one day, he said. Galvez said Sadler will help with the creation of the Utah Cowboy Hall of Fame. In 2005, the Utah Legislature designated Ogden to be the home of the future museum.   Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/htm/news/alumni/articleID=7959