Distinguished Alumni Awards

Welcome to all of our Distinguished Alumni & Guests

2007-2008 Distinguished ProfessorKathy Eastwood

A willing victim of the Society for Physics Students Pi-Day

Annual P & A Dept. Christmas Caroling

Dr. Elbert D. Brooks

Class of 1935 Physical Science

NAU in 1935

NAU was 36 years “young” and was known as the Arizona State Teacher’s College at Flagstaff.

116 students graduated this year Gasoline was $.17/gal. Average income/year was $1,600

The College's a cappella choir, under the direction of Eldon Ardrey, performed in an Easter sunrise service at the rim of the Grand Canyon and is broadcast and heard by millions on NBC.

……they would later become the

much-lauded Shrine of the Ages Choir.

College Band

Chain Gang

Elbert

The World in 1935

Franklin D. Roosevelt is President

Monopoly board games goes on sale for 1st time

Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H Carothers

Persia officially renamed Iran

Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)

US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal“

The Hoover Dam is dedicated.

VW Bug is launched in Germany

The year of the birth of "Swing" by Benny Goodman.

Dr. Jo Anne Vasquez

Class of 1965 Biology

NAU in 1965

143 students graduated this year.

Gasoline was $.31/gal. Average income/year was

$6,450 Within a year the college

would officially be known as Northern Arizona University.

ABOR recommends that ASC become Northern Arizona University effective May 1, 1966.

Stretch bus

The World in 1965

Lyndon B. Johnson is President

Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery

US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

The Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3

Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast

Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created

Sony introduces it's doomed Betamax Recorder

First year of mandated health warnings on cigarette packets.

Dr. Gary A. Batsell

Class of 1970Chemistry

NAU in 1970

NAU was 71 years old and was now officially known as Northern Arizona University

1,034 students graduated

Gasoline was $.36/gal.

Average income/year was $9,400

Men’s Dorm Room

Kappa Delta Pi members off to a national convention.

The World in 1970

Richard Nixon is President.

Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

Age of voting is now lowered to 18 in the US.

The Concord makes its first supersonic flight.

Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand“

Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles

Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!"

1st Earth Day held internationally

Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage

Dr. Karen E. Steinbronn

1971 Biology

NAU in 1971

1,092 students graduated

Gasoline was $.40/gal.

Average income/year was $10,600

1st woman Forestry Grad

South Campus looking west

Aerial view of campus in ‘71

Mrs. Sherry A. Baca

1971 Mathematics

The World in 1971

Richard Nixon is President.

Microprocessor is invented.

Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

-40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)

1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)

Amtrak Railroad begins operation

The birth of Greenpeace

Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS

US ends ban on China trade

Dr. Charles F. Kluth

1973 Geology

NAU in 1973

1,293 students graduated Gasoline was $.40/gal. Average income/year was

$12,900

In 1968, NAU received authorization to offer Doctorates of Philosophy and Education. The first doctoral candidates graduated in 1973.

Engineering Bldg.

Washburn Bldg.

North Campus

Dr. Roger W. Clark

1973 Forestry

The World in 1973

Richard Nixon is President

Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza“

Roe vs Wade is adopted

Watergate hearings start in the US Senate.

"Monster Mash" goes gold

Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into Little League

Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

Professor Ernie Kurmes (far right) overseeing the crosscut saw

competition at a Forestry Field Day - 1973

Dr. Paul C. Begovac

1978 Biology

NAU in 1978

1,489 students graduate Gasoline was $.63/gal. Average income/year was $17,000

Hon. Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator receives Doctor of Letters

South Campus

New Skydome

Dorm room

The World in 1978

Jimmy Carter is President

The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves the plant

Velcro was 1st put on the market

"Star Wars" released

The US stops production of the Neutron Bomb

The world's first "test tube baby" is born.

Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays, thought to damage the earth's protective ozone layer.

Illinois Bell Co. introduces first ever Cellular Mobile Phone System

98% of all American homes have a television

Mr. Hedayat E. Daie

1980 Electrical Engineering

NAU in 1980

1,469 students graduate

Gasoline was $1.19 /gal.

Average income/year was $19,500

Aerial view of campus

Skydome

The World in 1980

Ronald Reagan elected president of the US

Japan becomes the world’s largest automaker

Former Beatle John Lennon is shot to death

CNN becomes the first 24 hr News Station

Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet

Mt. St. Helen’s erupts

Ms. Cheryl A. McMillen

1981 Mechanical Engineering

The World in 1981

Ronald Reagan is president

Iran releases 52 American hostages, held for 444 days

Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales

The introduction of the first Frequent Flyer Miles

Scientists identify the Aids Virus

The term INTERNET first mentioned

“Post It” Notes launched by 3M Corp

Simon And Garfunkel Reunite for concert in NYC’s Central Park

NAU in 1981

1,551 students graduated

Gasoline was $1.25 /gal.

Average income/year was $21,050

University Library

Ms. Lisa L. Bagwell

1989 Electrical Engineering

NAU in 1989

1,658 students graduated

Gasoline was $1.09 /gal.

Average income/year was $27,450

Student Rec Center opens

Cline Library

The World in 1989

George Bush (Sr.) becomes President

Collapse of the Berlin Wall

U.S. Supreme Court rules that flag burning as a form of political protest is an act of protected speech under the 1st Amendment.

Exxon Valdez spills 11 million gallons of oil

The 486 series of microprocessor introduced by Intel.

The Government provides a $150 billion bail out for hundreds of saving and loan associations

First release of Microsoft Office

Congratulations to our 2008 Inductees

Dr. Peter H. Wiebe ’62Ms. Virginia L. Korte ’79Mr. Gary L. Bishop ’80

Dr. Peter H. Wiebe

1962 Zoology/Mathematics

NAU in 1962

Activity Center

New Science Bldg.

109 students graduated

Gasoline was $.28/gal.

Average income/year was $5,556

The World in 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Marilyn Monroe is found dead of apparent suicide

The First Wal-Mart discount store is opened

John H. Glenn, Jr., becomes first American to orbit the earth

Johnny Carson begins as presenter for The Tonight Show

Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal

90% of US households own a Television Set

Beatles Turned Down By Decca Records

Dr. Wiebe at various work locations

Mr. Gary L. Bishop

1980 Physics & Mathematics

The World in 1980

Ronald Reagan elected president of the US

Japan becomes the world’s largest automaker

Former Beatle John Lennon is shot to death

CNN becomes the first 24 hr News Station

Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet

Mt. St. Helen’s erupts

Ms. Virginia L. Korte

1979 Biology

NAU in 1979

1,497 students graduated

Gasoline was $.86/gal.

Average income/year was $17,500

Campus Overview

Some of Virginia’s endeavors

The World in 1979

For the first time in history, a woman, Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime minister in the UK.

Sony releases the Walkman a worldwide success costing $200

The first Snowboard is invented in the USA

Three Mile island Nuclear Accident

63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran

Trivial Pursuit is Launched

Average Cost of new house $58,100

President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him in Iraq

NAU in 2008

Noted Flagstaff historian Dr. Platt Cline has

characterized NAU as an institution that survived against the odds…..He rightly credits strong

leadership, the devotion of former students and faculty, and community support for the school's

success.

NAU in 2008

Thank you for joining us this evening

Alumni serve as the memory of the best we have been and as the hope for the best we can

be.