The University of Texas at San AntonioMAGAZINESummer 2003Vol. 19, No. 3

IN THIS ISSUEExploring Texas’ missionsWhy we love our canine companionsClimbing Mexico’s highest mountain

SUMMER 2003

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FEATURES12 MISSION MAN

Exploring The Art and Architecture of Texas Missions with ProfessorEmeritus Jacinto Quirarte.

16 DOG DAYS OF SUMMERAn academic’s best friend. Meet purebred and pound-puppypooches and the professors andstaffers who love them.

22 ORIZABAAssistant Professor Stephen Brownclimbs the highest mountain inMexico—and determines just how high it is.

TABLE OF C ONTENTS

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DEPARTMENTS5 In the Loop

Breaking ground on the Biotechnology,Sciences and Engineering Building; newsfrom the Texas Legislature; a history ofvideo games; fun at the Folklife Festival;and more campus news.

8 InvestigationsDigging for Toyota; putting pavement in the fast lane; simplifying the Rules.

9 Q&ARobert McKinley’s job is to keep his nose in other people’s business. A chat with the director of the Institute for Economic Development.

12 Roadrunner SportsFreshman golfer talks about his long gameand his long-term goals. Also, sports briefs.

24 Class NotesA preview of Alumni Gala.

27 PerspectiveRetiring art professor James Broderickshares his photographic point of view.

28 Looking BackMaking friends at the first Roadrunner Camp.

On the coverProfessor Emeritus Jacinto Quirarte. See “Mission Man,” beginning on page 12. Photo illustration by Mark McClendon and Karen Thurman.

On this pageFrom “Dog Days of Summer.” Story begins on page 16. Photography by Mark McClendon.

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I recently attended a conference sponsored by the Council for the Advancementand Support of Education where I picked up a lot of new ideas and inspirationfrom experienced teachers and colleagues. One of the sessions that drew a faircrowd was titled “Measurement and Accountability.”

Those of us who took a seat in the stadium-style classroom wanted to learnhow to quantify our day-to-day accomplishments, how to measure our effective-ness, and of course, how to communicate those numbers back to our bosses andconstituents. In this day and age, we all want our money’s worth. My colleaguesand I learned a lot in that session, but it also got me thinking about the limits—aswell as the benefits—of measurement.

In this issue of Sombrilla,our feature stories lend themselves to some impres-sive numbers. For example, Jacinto Quirarte, professor emeritus of art history,has spent a good portion of his 70-something years filling in a great gap ofknowledge about the art and architecture of Texas’ missions. He traveled hun-dreds of miles and spent thousands of hours in libraries, archives and the mis-sions themselves—looking, drawing, thinking. He produced a book that has wonthree awards (so far). But, despite these statistics, when freelance writer Retha Oliver returned from her first interview with the Quirartes, she characterized the feature in a way we didn’texpect— “It’s a love story,” she said.

Environmental scientist Stephen Brown’s mountaineering challenge couldalso be reported by the numbers. He was part of an expedition that climbedOrizaba, the third-highest mountain in North America. Why? Ostensibly, to testand study some GPS equipment—to measure the mountain! Yet, Brown’s endear-ing first-person account of his team’s determination and joy upstages the story ofscientific discovery. Perseverance, yes, but passion, too.

Which brings me to our dog stories. By featuring these portraits of campus“dog people” we bring our readers a different view of UTSA staff and facultymembers . . . one that goes beyond such measurable quantities as salary level,win-loss record, or the amount of federal funding brought to campus. Our staffand faculty (including me and my dog, Ollie) were more delighted to pose withtheir dogs than we could have imagined.

Can we calculate the amount of joy these companions bring to the lives ofthese teachers and staff people? Maybe, but it would have to be in dog years.

— Lynn Gosnell

UTSA

EDITOR’S NOTE

Sombrilla MagazineSummer 2003, Volume 19, Number 3

The University of Texas at San AntonioRicardo Romo, President

Editor: Lynn GosnellArt director: Karen ThurmanAssociate editor: Rebecca LutherWeb design: Juan FitzmauriceCopy editor: Judith LipsettContributors: Tim Brownlee, Randy Degner,Jeanne Lassetter, Tina Luther ’01, Stephanie Mota ’01, Retha Oliver, Kris RodriguezPhotographers: Patrick Ray Dunn, Mark McClendonAssistant director of multimedia imaging: John PoindexterAssistant director of publications: Frank SeguraDirector of publications: Elton Smith

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The dogged pursuit of knowledge

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LOOPin the

UNDER CONSTRUCTION UTSA brokeground for the new Biotechnology, Sciencesand Engineering Building in a May 28 cere-mony that marked the beginning of con-struction for the $83.7 million project. Thefive-story atrium building will be the largestat UTSA when it is completed in 2005. It willhouse faculty offices and research andinstructional labs to accommodate graduatestudents studying biotechnology, biology,biomedical engineering, electrical engi-neering, civil engineering and chemistry.The 227,000-square-foot facility wasdesigned by FKP Architects Inc., Houston,and will be built by J.T. Vaughn ConstructionInc., San Antonio.

Luis Haro, assistant professor of cell andmolecular biology, elected president of theSociety for Advancement of Chicanos andNative Americans in Science; architecturestudent Natalia Berdyukova Beard, award-ed second place in the 2002–2003 StudentDesign Competition sponsored by theAssociation of Collegiate Schools ofArchitecture and the American Institute of Steel Construction for the design of a50,000-square-foot fine arts center indowntown Chattanooga, Tenn.; communi-cation students Leslie Hennig, CatherineJung, Ana Marinez, Mandie Monkhouseand Nicole Nuese recognized with honor-able mention for their public relationscampaign at the Public Relations StudentSociety of America’s National BatemanCase Study Competition; student StevenDaLuz awarded “Best in Show” at theRegional Artist Consortium of San Antonioexhibition for his oil/acrylic-on-panel painting “Immersed”; AssociateProfessor Ali Kanso El-Ghori honored for the best practitioner-oriented paper forhis study, “Struggling to Restore a BatteredCorporate Reputation: The TobaccoDilemma Facing Philip MorrisExecutives,” and communication studentLisa Pfeiffer honored for the best under-graduate student paper for her case study,“H-E-B’s Commitment to the Community:A Case Study of a Grocery Chain’sPotential Public Relations Problem,” at the

15th Annual International Academy ofBusiness Disciplines Conference; commu-nication student Brett Owen awarded sec-ond place and philosophy student JamieFurrh awarded fifth place in the 78th annu-al Battle of Flowers Association OratoricalContest, “Barbed Wire: The Taming ofTexas”; Richard Gambitta, chair of theDepartment of Political Science andGeography, named chair of the board ofdirectors of Goodwill Industries of SanAntonio; Professor of History Felix D.Almaraz Jr. awarded the King of Spain’sMedal of the Order of Civil Merit for his“long-term commitment to research andcomposition devoted to the SpanishBorderlands in North American History”;Betty Travis, chair of the Department of Mathematics andScience Education, named chair of the9–12 Assessment Committee for theNational Council of Teachers ofMathematics; student Miriam Juckettnamed Outstanding Student Majoring in Chemistry for 2003 by the AmericanInstitute of Chemists; Harvey Graff,Department of History, elected to the exec-utive committee of the Society for the History of Children and Youth; studentWilliam Tiemann awarded Best of Show and recognized with fellowstudents Yvette Shadrock and TessaMartinez as Emerging Texas Artists at the Texas State Arts and Crafts Fair.

10 AND COUNTING In July, the CoordinatingBoard approved plans for two new doctoralprograms, one in cell and molecular biologyand the other in environmental science andengineering. The latter is a joint degree pro-gram between the College of Engineering andthe College of Sciences. This brings the totalof doctoral degrees offered by UTSA to 10.BIOTECH FUNDING The U.S. SenateAppropriations Committee approved

$2.8 million to support the Center forBiotechnology and Bioprocessing Educationand Research (CEBBER), a joint programbetween UTSA and Brooks City-Base.Construction, renovation and equipmentcosts have been funded largely by federaldollars, primarily through the efforts of Sen.Kay Bailey Hutchison.INTERNET2 ARRIVES Several universities(including UTSA, UT Health Science Centerat San Antonio, UT Austin and Texas A&M

University) provided funding to make theInternet2 Abilene Network available at anaffordable price to K–12 schools, collegesand universities, libraries and museumsthroughout Texas. The network will allowTexas students to exchange large data files,participate in videoconferences and onlinecourses and perform other class projectswithout the worry of network tie-ups orinterruptions .

¡Bravo!Faculty, staff and student achievements

Campus News in Brief

in the loop

The 78th Legislature ended on June 2, withseveral bills directly affecting students,faculty and staff at UTSA and public uni-versities throughout Texas.

Overall state budget cuts resulted in a5 percent decrease in UTSA’s generalfunds and a 12.5 percent cut on all specialitems. The impact will be felt in fewer newfaculty hires, a requirement that all classeshave at least 20 students and a delay in theimplementation of some Ph.D. programs.

Texas Excellence Fund and UniversityResearch Fund Gov. Rick Perry vetoed theappropriations for the Texas ExcellenceFund and the University Research Fund,totaling $45 million in support of researchat several public universities. The governorstated that the research for the general aca-demic institutions has been met with HB1887. (HB 1887/SB 1630 will allow UTSAto retain all indirect costs related to federalresearch dollars. Current law requires uni-

versities to forfeit 50 percent of indirectcosts to the State of Texas.) However, forUTSA that means retaining an additional$800,000, and losing $2.8 million from the University Research Fund.

HB 1649 and HB 1650 Last February,UTSA students voted to increase theirstudents fees for more services, but legisla-tion was needed for UTSA to implementthese fee increases. HB 1649 will allowUTSA to upgrade shuttle services, increaseathletics scholarships, and add women’ssoccer and golf teams to the athletics pro-gram. HB 1650 provides funds to expandthe University Center. Students will notpay an increase in fees until the UC expan-sion is completed in 2007. HB 1650 alsoenables UTSA to add programs for theWellness and Recreation Center, such asoutdoor adventure activities, club sportsteams, fitness classes, intramural sportsactivities and special events.

HB 3015 This bill will allow universitygoverning boards to adopt flexible tuitionrates that respond to the needs at variouscampuses rather than having one statewiderate. The flexible tuition rates will allowfor selected discounted rates that varyamong campuses, academic programs,classes offered at different times, and vari-ous types of courses. The flexibility willallow universities to use tuition rates as amechanism for enrollment management.

Texas Grants The Legislature provided $324 million for all general academic institutions for the next bienni-um, 2004/2005, an increase from $282million last biennium. In FY 03/04 UTSAhas received $5,724,220 to date, whichwill be awarded to an estimated 1,820students. UTSA is ranked seventh in thestate in amount of Texas Grants awarded.

An eye on AustinUTSA and the Texas Legislature

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FOOD, FUN AND FACE MASKSBluegrass players and bagpipers. Chinesefolk dancers and cloggers. Storytellers andcowboy poets.

For 32 years, the Institute of TexanCultures has been celebrating the diver-sity of the people who call Texas homewith the annual Texas Folklife Festival.This year’s event, themed “B.Y.O.C.—Bring Your Own Culture,” was held June5–8. More than 45 cultural groups repre-senting 57 countries participated in fourdays of music, dancing, food and crafts; an estimated 64,000 people attended the festival.

The 33rd annual Folklife Festival is scheduled for June 10–13, 2004. TheInstitute of Texan Cultures is one of UTSA’sthree campuses. For more information onthe Folklife Festival or other events andexhibits at the institute, go to www.texan-cultures.utsa.edu.

Art of changeKen Little, professor of art, has a retrospective exhibition at the Southwest School of Art & Craft’s Russell Hill Rogers Gallery,Navarro Campus, through Sept. 7. The exhibition, “Little Changes,” is a survey of his work over a 30-year period, plus a seriesof new works. In September, the exhibition will travel to additional venues in Utah, Montana, Nebraska, Missouri and Texas.

“Ken Little has attained a level of achievement in contemporary art that deserves further recognition and documenta-tion,” says Paula Owen, director of the Southwest School of Art & Craft. “Throughout his longcareer, he has consistently employed unconventional materials—clay, neon, paper, foundleather—to express his ideas. He is counted among the first crossover artists who usedprecepts of the craft arts in nontraditional ways and for nonfunctional purposes.”

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In the 1970s and ’80s, Pong and Pac-Manintroduced a generation of young people to the arcade. Those young people, nowgrown, can revisit that experience through“Videotopia,” an interactive exhibit on display through Nov. 9 at theInstitute of Texan Cultures.The exhibit focuses on theimpact of video games on ourculture while teaching visitorsabout basicelectronics,the natureof interactivity and the links between science, technology and society.

“Videotopia” presents the history ofvideo games through informational kiosks,and features more than 50 restored and newarcade video games. After viewing the exhibit, visitors may play such games as Space Invaders, Asteroids, Tempest,Robotron and Donkey Kong.

The exhibit is the brainchild of KeithFeinstein, who calls “Videotopia” a “funtrip back in time” that is also informative.

To create the exhibit, Feinstein traveled thecountry to gather historical informationabout the design of the games. He alsosought out and purchased intact games

and even bought parts of games(sometimes entire warehouses) fromdifferent owners in order to re-createone working game. The exhibit hasbeen traveling the country since 1992and has been continually updated.

Feinsteinwas inspiredto develop

“Videotopia” out of his concern that manyearly games were disappearing and thatarcade games should be preserved as thefirst examples of interactive media.Through the exhibit, he hopes to conveythe role of video games in launching theinformation age. For example, prior tovideo games, text and images were not displayed on the same screen.

“We often hear about the ill effects of games,” he says. “I wanted to show that they can also be a positive force.”

Most children touring “Videotopia” are interested in the simple games from the 1970s, ones they’ve heard of but never had the opportunity to see or play. Feinsteinsays he has received letters from childrenwho have been so intrigued by the exhibitthat they are now researching careers ingame design or computer technology.

“You can talk all day long about ROMchips and what advantages they can give acomputer system,” Feinstein said, “but youcan’t give anyone a clearer understandingthan when they walk up to the first game[Tank, invented in 1974] to use it and real-ize ‘Hey, with a ROM chip to store datathey can make a tank look like a tank.’ ”

Sponsored in part by Blockbuster Inc.,the exhibit is included with regular ITCadmission: adults, $6.50; children 3-12, $3; seniors and military personnel (withcurrent I.D.), $4; children 2 and under, free.For more information, call (210) 458-2330or visit www.texancultures.utsa.edu orwww.videotopia.com.

— Tina Luther

Learning in the arcadeVideo game exhibit teaches visitors about technology

FATHER, 2002, $1 bills on steel frame, 50 x 53 x 75 inches

DAWN, 1999, bronze, 39 x 69 x 20 inches

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Digging for ToyotaIn late 2002, UTSA’s Center forArchaeological Research (CAR) was contacted by an engineering firm to evaluate the cultural resources found on a2,000-acre triangle of land in south BexarCounty. The general area under investiga-tion, a brushy patch of ranch land bound-ed by Leon Creek, the Medina River andApplewhite Road, was well known toSteve Tomka, CAR’s director. In the early1980s CAR staff carried out one of theearliest archaeological surveys on thisproperty, and in 1995 members of theCenter for Environmental Archaeology atTexas A&M University and the SouthernTexas Archaeological Association exca-vated 8,700-year-old remains from one ofthe oldest prehistoric sites in the regionon the south bank of the Medina River.

What Tomka also knew, but could notreveal, was that the land being surveyedwas under consideration for developmentby Toyota for its newest North Americantruck plant. The project became known as Starbright. By the end of June, the

Getting down to earthFrom the sponsored research files at UTSA

investigations

archaeological team documented fouradditional prehistoric archaeological sitesand revisited numerous others, includingthe historic Kiker-Gimbler Ranch complexthat was built on land that has been in thefamily’s possession since the mid-1700s.

Tomka was impressed with Toyota’sconcern for the archaeological resourceson the property. “Toyota has been quitedeliberate about not disturbing theseresources,” he said. The majority of the sites will remain undisturbed—andunmarked—in the plant’s park-like setting.

Putting pavement in the fast laneIf you drive, chances are you have an opinion about the quality of highways.

“Everyone’s a traffic engineer,” saysJosé Weissmann, associate professor ofcivil engineering. But not everyone knowshighway construction and managementlike this professor, and he wants to makethose frustrating highway constructiondelays a bit, well, less frustrating.

Specifically, Weissmann has beenresearching ways to safely speed up theprocess for constructing and repairing

heavily traveled roads like major high-ways and urban freeways. High-volumeroads in Texas are usually built usingPortland Concrete Cement pavements,which last a long time with zero mainte-nance. Such roads require a large amountof layered materials, with long construc-tion schedulesand associated congestionand emissions costs.

Through a grant from the TexasDepartment of Transportation, Weissmannis studying ways to minimize the numberof pavement layers and monitor concretestrength gain, thus compressing the con-struction schedule and reducing conges-tion, accidents and emissions associatedwith construction work zones.

Simplifying the RulesDonde Plowman, professor of manage-ment in the College of Business, studiesstrategic decision-making in complexorganizations, particularly in health careorganizations. Recently however, sheturned her insights closer to home byapplying complexity theory to the UTSystem Board of Regents’ Rules andRegulations. The Regents’ Rules, as theyare known, are the governing rules of all UT System institutions.

Plowman’s findings suggest that the Regents’ Rules are too numerous,complex and redundant. In a presentationbefore the Regents, she noted that, “Themost abundant but least used resource inorganizations is human ingenuity. It doesn’t get used becauseorganizations are cluttered with over-specified and complicated rules thatmake creativity impossible. What weneed is more ‘mindfulness’ and less mindless rule-following.”

Plowman believes that universitiesare systems that are emergent and thatco-evolve, and they should be managedand led with this in mind, relying less on rules and more on the university’smission and values to guide people’sbehaviors. One implication of her sug-gestions would be for local campuses tohave more say over decisions that mostdirectly affect them.

— Lynn Gosnell

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Q&A

Can you give an example of oneor two small businesses that werehelped by the programs here? One is David Spencer of OnBoardSoftware. We got involved with him sever-al years ago when Kelly [Air Force Base]was closed. He was a supervisor in civilservice doing military work. When Kellyclosed down, we were called upon to helpindividuals in the workforce who wouldpotentially continue to perform functionsfor the government but on a contract basis.

What kind of trainingdid you provide?When you become a business owner, all of a sudden you have to wear all the otherhats. You have to be the HR manager, youhave to learn how to hire, be the account-ing manager, handle all the tax issues, allthe legal issues of becoming incorporated.… So when David decided to open a business, he took courses in the develop-ment of business, studying the market andall the financial projections to determinewhether he could make it in business, andthen he went forward to prepare a businessplan and launch his business. David hasgone on to be tremendously successful; infact he’s one of our prominent donors tothe university and the College of Business.

The institute has grown to include10 centers each with a specific mission. Where aremost of your clientele? Our principal program covers 79 countiesof Texas. We have 10 offices spread outaround here and we sub-contract withother colleges and universities and non-profits to run centers in those areas. Wehave other programs, too. Our trade adjust-ment program covers three states—Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas. And ourSmall Business Development Centerresearch network is nationwide. What’simportant is how the IED fits into UTSA.We have a three-part mission: teaching,research, and public service; this is a mani-festation of the public service mission of

UTSA. … About 53 percent of the nation-wide jobs are in small business, 47 inlarge. In South Texas it’s more like 80-20.We don’t have corporate headquarters[here]. We have a few, SBC and others, butnot like Dallas or Houston or most otherparts of the country. For our economy togrow, we have to really focus on helpingthese small businesses succeed.

Is this important during an economic downturn like the one we’re experiencing now? Yes. The structure of the economy is critical, because it’s a pipeline issue forUTSA. What’s our student body? It’s high-ly Hispanic, with many first-generationstudents, and when you figure 80 percentof the South Texas work force works insmall business, that’s where the parents are who are going to afford or not afford tosend their kids to college.

Say I want to open a business,like a bed and breakfast. Call the main number, 458-2020, and we will basically do triage. We will listen to where you are in your thought processof wanting to open a business, or maybeyou’ve opened and you’re losing money,or you’ve hit a wall and you need help toget over that wall. Just call and we’ll takeyou from whatever stage you’re at and go forward.

From its humble beginnings in a former HemisFair Plaza pavilion to its recent move into a 33,000-square-foot facility at theDowntown Campus, the Institute for Economic Development (IED) has helped spur growth in South Texas and beyond fornearly a quarter of a century. Robert McKinley, the institute’s director, talked with Sombrilla Magazine about the IED’s phe-nomenal growth, diverse services and what finding a permanent home at the Downtown Campus means to UTSA.

An Interview with Robert McKinley

What else would I need to know?The other side is the personal skill build-ing. What makes you think you’re evengoing to like running a bed and breakfast?What are the hours, what are the skillsinvolved? Do you have those skills? Weinventory what skills are needed and whatmay be lacking and then you would cometake our seminars and workshops on thosetopics.

What difference will it make to the IED to be in this permanent location?One of the main things we want to do is align our public service function moreclosely with the teaching and research missions of the university.

We’ve always had some studentinterns … but we were always extremelylimited in space and money and the rolesthat they could play. And instead of doinga hypothetical market research project fora grade, we assign them to a real smallbusiness in San Antonio and they get intothe computer and do market research…That market research is then given to thebusiness person and the student gets agrade for it. So there’s a dual benefit.

Can you talk a little bit aboutyour involvement with Toyota’sdecision to come to San Antonio?We conducted the economic impactresearch for the Toyota plant establishmenthere. We did the assessment of what thejob creation would be, both direct job creation and the spin-off jobs from theToyota plant; we did an assessment of theincentive package, and what the internalrate of return and payback period would be for the $133 million that San Antoniospent bringing Toyota here. So that hasmajor public policy implications related to economic development. We hope to domore of that type of work, we hope to getinvolved in research on economic develop-ment topics for this region, such as minori-ty businesses, women-owned businesses,those type of things.

—- Lynn Gosnell

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“I wanted to help out this year with somejunior clinics and maybe help someonewho would have never thought about play-ing golf until now,” said Elizondo.

His own golf career has the makings of a rags-to-riches story, though one withseveral chapters yet to be written. Born onSan Antonio’s South Side, Elizondo pickedup the game relatively late, when his juniorhigh school basketball coach talked himinto trying it. He purchased his first clubsfor $80 from a local pawn shop (and stillplays with those original irons). He could-n’t afford lessons or even buckets of ballsfor driving practice, so he would gatherballs at driving ranges late in the day whenbusiness had slowed down.

Elizondo, now 19, went on to becomethe San Antonio Junior Golf Association(SAJGA) Player of the Year in 2001 and2002 and was the leading scorer in 2002.

“I remember [John’s] first tournament,when he shot a 26 on a nine-hole tourna-ment,” said Joe Leatherwood, executivedirector of the SAJGA. “We immediatelyput him in with the advanced kids . . . Heis an inspiration for a number of SouthSide kids . . . he helped them understandthat they could be good golfers.”

Elizondo earned all-state honors in hissenior year at Brackenridge High Schoolby winning five of six tournaments andfinishing in a tie for second place at theUIL State Golf Tournament, one strokebehind the champion. His achievementsearned him a golf scholarship to UTSA.

“I never really looked past UTSAbecause San Antonio is where I wanted tobe. You can play some of the state’s bestgolf courses every day, the weather is greatand the school is good,” Elizondo said.

Last spring, Elizondo averaged 75.5shots per round and helped UTSA to a second-place finish at the SouthlandConference Golf Championships inHattiesburg, Miss. He set the course recordwith a final round 65 on the 7,003-yard,par-71 Canebrake Golf Course, and he fin-ished third individually with a three-under-par score 210 for the tournament.

“He’s 140 pounds soaking wet andaverages about 290 yards on his drive andhits up to 320. . . He’s probably the bestgolfer I’ve seen in 10 years,” said golf coach Chris Donielson, who coached atOklahoma and Tulane before coming toUTSA in 2001. “John is the best I’ve seenat turning a bad round into an acceptableround. His strength of mind, strength ofcharacter has the respect of everyone in thegolf community because he works so hardat the game.

“He is a perfectionist and has a greathead on his shoulders. It shows in every-thing he does—he maintains a 3.0 GPAand he is one of top golfers as a true fresh-man,” Donielson said.

Though Elizondo aspires to become a professional golfer on the PGA tour, he plans to first complete another goal:becoming a college graduate.

“I am going to stay for my degree,”Elizondo said. “Playing at UTSA gives mea chance to see some of the best golfers inthe country and I can see where I am andwhat I need to work on.”

— Bill Petitt

A freshman with driveYou won’t find UTSA freshman golfer John Elizondo working at Wal-Mart or waiting tables this summer. Instead, Elizondo is spend-ing his vacation at San Antonio driving ranges and youth clinics,helping young golfers enjoy the game that has given him so much.

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NIEMEYER IS COACH OF THE YEARWomen’s tennis coach Brenda Niemeyer was named the Southland Conference (SLC)Coach of the Year, as well as Wilson/Intercollegiate TennisAssociation SouthwestRegion Coach of theYear, after leadingthe Roadrunners to aschool record 21-4mark and its first regularseason conference champi-onship. UTSA, which finished the SLC 10-0,beat nationally ranked Texas Tech, UTArlington and the University of New Orleans.

Niemeyer completed her fourth seasonat UTSA, compiling a 66-23 record.

ROADRUNNERS EARN ACADEMIC HONORSUTSA track and field athlete KatiePoindexter (Seymour, Texas) and baseballpitcher Mike Srp (Boerne, Texas) were eachnamed to 2003 Verizon Academic All-DistrictVI teams. Poindexter, who completed her eli-gibility following the 2003 indoor season,was named the SLC Indoor Track and FieldStudent-Athlete of the Year after compiling a3.53 GPA in biology. Srp graduated thisspring with a 3.97 GPA in construction man-agement. A three-year letterman, he isUTSA’s all-time leader for complete gameshutouts (4) and is third in career wins (19).

UTSA tied for the most student-athletes(63) named to the SLC Spring StudentAcademic Honor Roll.

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR . . . AND MVP, TOOFormer UTSA men’s basket-ball player Devin Brown wasnamed the 2002–03National BasketballDevelopment League MostValuable Player and the league’sRookie of the Year after completing his firstseason with the Fayetteville (N.C.) Patriots.He helped lead the Patriots to the best regu-lar-season record in the league.

In July, Brown signed a two-year dealwith the San Antonio Spurs.

GOING, GOING . . . GONE!The UTSA softball team hit 80 home runs this season, setting a conference and schoolrecord. The Roadrunners ranked first in thenation in home runs per game, sixth in slug-ging percentage and 10th in double playsper game. Five players were named to the2003 All-Southland Conference team: sophomore first baseman Krystal Gibsonand freshman third baseman Jessica Rogersto the first team, junior shortstop ChristyBrownlee and sophomore outfielderJennifer Davis to the second team, and sophomore designated player Jessica Ellison received honorable mention.

SCHRAMEK CALLED UPFormer UTSA base-ball standout MarkSchramek was pro-moted to the CincinnatiReds AA affiliate ChattanoogaLookouts on June 4. The UTSA All-American was called up after hitting .296 forthe Class A Dayton Dragons with 18 doubles,two triples, three home runs, 37 RBIs and twostolen bases.

FINAL FOUR UPDATEThe NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’sBasketball Committees announced July 1that San Antonio and the Alamodome havebeen chosen as sites for the 2008 Men’s and2010 Women’s Final Four events. UTSA will

serve as host instition for both NCAAchampionship events. The university,

which has already hosted two FinalFour competitions and three men’sbasketball regional championships,also will play host to the 2004 Men’s

Final Four on April 3 and 5.

WHAT’S THE LATEST?Visit www.goutsa.com for the latestRoadrunner sports news.

— From staff and press reports

Sports Briefs

Illustrations by Dave Curd

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By Retha Oliver

13Summer 2003

“That,” Jacinto Quirarte says, pointing to the photograph, “iswhere I went to high school.” Mission High. Perhaps it was that earlyimprinting, plus decades of wanderlust and curiosity, that inspiredQuirarte’s recent, award-winning publication, The Art and Architectureof Texas Missions(University of Texas Press, 2002). Then again,maybe it was a subject too long ignored, a subject just waiting for theright person to do it justice.

Quirarte, professor emeritus of art history, has researched and writ-ten extensively on Spanish colonial art in the Southwest since coming toUTSA in 1972. With Art and Architecture,he draws on decades ofresearch to answer the question: What did the missions look like duringtheir heyday, the colonial era? The book offers a detailed analysis andreconstruction of the six extant missions—San Antonio de Valero (theAlamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de laPurísma Concepción, San Juan Capistrano and San Francisco de laEspada in San Antonio, and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad,Texas.

The task would become a detective effort, leading Quirarte throughchurch archives, museum documents and musty mission storerooms.Inventory sheets, letters home from troops stationed in Texas’ secular-ized missions, tourists’ sketches and descriptions by visiting clericswere all fair game. For old photographs, he dug through collections atthe Witte Museum and tourist publications dating back to the 19th cen-tury. Still other references were buried in the library of the Daughters ofthe Republic of Texas. He also examined documents and publicationsfrom collections in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Mexico.

“The thing that distinguishes this book from other works,” saysMarion Oettinger, curator of Latin American art at the San AntonioMuseum of Art, “is that there are no others. This is the first scholarlyexamination that has been done of Spanish missions, the most impor-tant architectural structures in the state.”

Similar studies on the missions of California date back to the early20th century, and Yale art historian George Kubler—Quirarte’s men-tor—published his seminal work on mission architecture, The ReligiousArchitecture of New Mexico,in 1940. But scholarship on Texas’ mis-sions has dealt primarily with folk customs and military history.

“There were a lot of tour guide publications, but nothing system-atic, and much of the information in those was anecdotal,”

Quirarte explains. Quirarte’s goal was to evaluate the dis-parate documents and develop one comprehensive refer-

ence. He also spent countless hours at each missionobserving, photographing, drawing and record-

ing structural details. The book relies on images created

by 19th- and 20th-century pho-

tographers and draftsmen, but it also has a personal touch: Quirartehimself created the detailed, drawn-to-scale illustrations of the originalaltars. And, while most of the modern photographs in the book weretaken by photographer (and UTSA alumna) Kathy Vargas, the cover

image, among others, was shot by the author.Scholarship and imaginationTo visit a mission today is to look at the careful reconstruction of a ruin. Although some have been returned to use for religious cere-monies and weddings, they nonetheless appear as austere and unpopu-lated as an ancient Roman ruin.

Imagining what they were like in their prime requires more thansimply peopling the spaces with bodies. Today the exteriors are unfin-ished stone, but 200 years ago they were stuccoed, and some were dec-orated with brilliant and colorful patterns, like the elaborately paintedAlhambra in Granada, Spain.

Yet while few of the texts Quirarte examined made reference to the art inside the churches, he knew that statues, paintings, reliquaries,textiles and ornate objects adorned every niche and nook. Quirartemade it his goal to retrace those objects, and to the greatest extent pos-sible, figuratively refill the empty interiors with the original art.

Quirarte painstakingly pieced together a history of what shouldhave been in each location, then looked for works among known arti-facts that fit those described. Sometimes he found them—like the por-trait of St. Francis that is currently being restored in Mission Park andwhich Quirarte suspects originally reposed in the Alamo. (This is theonly extant artwork, Quirarte believes, from the Alamo mission.) Someworks still exist and can be seen in collections of other churches,museums and institutions. Others have simply disappeared—destroyedor taken as souvenirs.

Still other objects had been altered beyond immediate recognition.One example is a statue of St. Francis, ornamented in glittering goldleaf, which is the cover image for the book.

Among the yellowing pages of an old high school yearbook is a two-page spread of the city of San Francisco,

viewed from the park at 18th and Dolores streets. A teenage couple smiles for the camera while the city

towers behind them, and off to one side tilts the distinctive shape of a Spanish mission bell tower.

The main altar of San Antonio de Valero,1772. Drawn to thescale of the sanctuarywall. The images are no longer extant, withthe possible exceptionof the portrait of St. Francis (image D).Diagram by JacintoQuirarte.

Today the exteriors are unfinished stone, but 200 years agothey were stuccoed, and some were decorated with brilliantand colorful patterns . . .

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“It had just been restored when we chose the cover,” Quirarte says,“and I wanted it, because it reflects the history of these works. Originallyit was in gold, as it appears now. But somebody in the past painted theskirt a drab brown. They didn’t think it was fitting that St. Francis, knownfor his poverty and love of animals, be adorned in gold.”

Even the portals required some imaginative reconstruction, as thebuilding facades suffered during a century of abandonment. The crucifixthat once crowned Mission San José has vanished, to be replaced by whatQuirarte dismisses as a “curio version.” The statuary and stone carvingsof the portal were used in the 19th century for target practice by occupy-ing American troops. Later attempts to reconstruct San José have resultedin imperfect recovery of the original intent, including well-meaning buthistorically inaccurate additions like the wrought-iron balcony. Quirarte’sjob was to reverse time by adding some elements and removing others.

Art and Architectureis also distinguished by its attention to the waysthat mission culture and priestly evangelism influenced the architecture:The art and carvings were used as illustrations in the conversion of indige-nous people.

“[The book is] going to make a big difference,” says Oettinger, of theSan Antonio Museum of Art. “It will excite people to work in even moredetail, with this book providing the overview.”

Home and abroadWhen Quirarte isn’t pursuing his scholarly interests, he is working on thehilltop home he shares with Sara, his wife of 49 years. They designed a homemodeled after the courtyard traditions of Mexican architecture, andQuirarte himself designed and built the fireplace mantels, among otherfeatures.

His hands-on approach helped hone a sensibility about what shouldcomprise a structure. In Art and Architecture,this sensibility results incohesive thinking about architectural expectations in historic structures; athome, it results in an elegant bookcase. Sara, a talented painter, has alsolent her artistic gifts to their Helotes home. In the kitchen, a detailed muralof flora and fauna fills the walls and wraps over the patio doors.

“It’s my ‘Peaceable Kingdom,” she says. “It’s what I did to fill the timewhile he worked on that book.” At the end of the writing process was a newbook, dedicated to Sara—and a colorful addition to the dining area.

The book’s dedication is fitting for another reason. According toQuirarte, without Sara, he might never have become steeped in the artistictraditions of Central and South America—and found his academic calling.In the early 1950s, Quirarte entered flight school and studied navigation.The Air Force thought he was a promising officer and trained him on radaroperations and nuclear weapons. When the Korean War ended, without hishaving ever been posted abroad, Quirarte headed south of the border forgraduate school.

“When we left San Francisco for Mexico City, we stopped off inSouthern California to visit my relatives, and all of my family membersthought I was crazy for going to Mexico,” he recounts. “They pulled Saraaside, and kept telling her, ‘You have to stop him, he’s crazy. Tell him tostay in California.’ But Sara said, ‘You don’t understand, I’m the one whowants to go.’ ”

“We both had a greaturgency to see the world,”Sara explains.

Quirarte completed hisPh.D. at the UniversidadNacional Autonoma deMexico in 1964. He tookaway with him a solid knowl-edge of colonial art and archi-tecture. He also developed a mastery of the Spanish lan-guage, which has allowedhim to write essays and arti-cles in Spanish and translatethe work of others.

Beyond the academicopportunities Mexico pre-sented, the Quirartes soakedup the social, artistic and political culture of the day. Itwas an era when blacklistedscreenwriters changed theirnames to send scripts toHollywood from their new

Above: Quirarte drew this diagram of pendentive paintings, or sacred images, that onceexisted in these locations in Mission Concepción; reported in the records of Fr. Sáenz in1772. Right: Sara and Jacinto Quirarte at home in front of the mural painted by Sara.

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homes in Mexico City, and dissolute American heirs and heiresses were sentaway by their families to become socialite expatriates south of the border.

“We used to say that everyone we knew in Mexico was either wantedin the U.S., or unwanted there,” Sara quipped.

The Quirartes next traveled to South America, where Jacinto spent twoyears as a cultural affairs representative for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas,Venezuela. When he learned the preeminent scholar of colonial Americanart was lecturing in South America, Quirarte brought him to Venezuela tospeak there as well. George Kubler ended up inviting Quirarte to teachpre-Columbian art history as his temporary replacement at YaleUniversity.

After his one-year stint at Yale, Quirarte found himself a sought-aftercommodity as the hand-picked replacement of the nation’s preeminentLatin American scholar. Among his options was the University of Texas atAustin. Sara, who is originally from the Rio Grande Valley, wanted to becloser to family. Quirarte took the post in Austin and from there wasrecruited for the team that started UTSA. Quirarte, who was one ofUTSA’s founding deans, headed what was then called the College of Artsuntil 1977. From 1978 throughout the 1980s, he taught art history anddirected the Research Center for the Arts, an outreach program thatemphasized multidisciplinary exploration of Hispanic and Colonial influ-ences on art and culture. A project on the missions in the ’80s lead to a con-tract with the University of Texas Press for his book.

Accolades and awardsFor producing a book that doubtless will become essential source materialfor generations of future scholars, Quirarte is receiving recognition. Thisspring, the Sons of the Republic of Texas awarded him the Presidio laBahia Award, for “distinction in the colonial history of Texas” and theTexas Historical Association honored the book in March. The San AntonioConservation Society recognized his contribution toward the preservationof historic buildings with an award in 2002.

It’s an achievement that many scholars aspire to, yet few can be cer-tain to achieve: creating a book that enters the canon for one’s field. Still,Art and Architecturewas uniquely satisfying, says Quirarte, in that itechoed the work done in New Mexico by Kubler, who had a hand inQuirarte’s career: “It became a sort of academic homage.”

For his next research project, Quirarte is venturing further back in timeto examine Mayan vases. These elegant vases were once used as cocoa con-tainers. Again, he is pursuing a subject that has not been adequatelyaddressed in the historic record. It is, he says, “my career wrap-up. This is it.”

Retha Oliver is a freelance writer and editor in San Antonio.

Reconstruction of the facade of Mission San José. Painting by Ernst Schuchard, 1927.Schuchard Collection. Courtesy of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library.

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A faithful companion? A loyaland trusted friend? Sombrillaasked UTSA faculty and staffmembers known around campusas dog lovers to tell us about the

bond they have with their canine companions.

And, yes, each talked about the typical qualities that haveearned dogs the moniker of“man’s best friend.” But theyalso talked about what makestheir dogs unique. We met dogswho would, if they could, spendevery moment chasing balls,and ones who would ratherspend the day sleeping in thelaundry basket. Among the dogsfeatured here (and in our onlinemagazine) are a therapy pet, anescape artist and a puppy whojust may be looking to replacethe roadrunner as the schoolmascot.

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Dog

Stories by Rebecca Luther

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Physically, the way you can tell Pepper and Dali apart is that Dali has the dark ears.But Ellen Riojas Clark, associate professor of bicultural-bilingual studies, says her two dalmations are more distinctive in their personalities. “Pepper is very demure, he’s a very quiet dog,” she says. “Dali, on the other hand, he’s younger, so he’s just a very rambunctious fellow.”

Dalmations have long been Clark’s breed of choice. “Over 40 years, we’ve hadmaybe 101 dalmations. I’m serious,” she says with a laugh. “We’ve had up to fourdogs at a time, and once we had a litter of 13.” Clark says she’s never had a problemfinding dalmations at animal shelters when she wants a new dog, and suspects thatpeople give them up because they’re not good house dogs. “They just need to run,”she says. Dali and Pepper have the run of two acres at Clark’s house and, in additionto being companions, serve as guard dogs for the property. “They bark wheneversomebody comes to the gate,” Clark says. “They are our front door bell, in a sense.”

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Paul Jurena isn’t bothering to build a fence for his dog, Hector, because Hector has proven capable of climbing even six-foot fences. (“Hisjumping instinct is tremendous,” Jurena says.) Nor would an electric fence do the job, becauseHector’s already shown that shock collars can’t stop him, either. (“He’s immune to electricity.”) So Jurena’s relying on a dog run to contain Hector in his back yard, although Hector has alreadybitten through one inferior lead. (“He’s got good teeth.”)

While some might say Hector’s too mischievous, his owner tends to marvel at the Australiancow dog’s abilities, which have included learning how to open doors with lever handles (a featHector displayed at the greenhouse on UTSA’s West Campus) and chasing a cat 10 feet up amesquite tree. “Let’s put it this way: Hector marches to his own beat,” says Jurena, who adoptedHector earlier this year. To keep Hector’s attention directed positively, Jurena plays Frisbee and fetchwith the dog and takes him for long walks daily. Not that Hector doesn’t know how to unwind, too.“If I’m watching TV, he’s on my lap,” Jurena says.

Lots of people keep a little photo of theirpets on their desks. English professorAlan Craven has an oversized black-and-white portrait of his Yorkshire terriershanging over his. Craven and his wife,Jan, a former UTSA staff member, haveowned four Yorkies; their current dogsare Samantha and Jorvik (which is theViking name for the city of York, Cravenexplains). “I’ve had all kind of dogs,” hesays. “I like Yorkies because they havereally distinct personalities.” Plus, hesays, they’re “small enough they can sitbeside me on the sofa.”

Like most small dogs, Yorkies areconsidered by some to be high strungand yappy. Craven has a theory that thesmaller the dog, the more likely they areto show those tendencies. Four-and-a-half-pound Jorvik, for example, hateslightning, is fussy about his food andprefers the solitude of the laundry basket.Ten-pound Samantha, on the other hand,is more calm and sociable, Craven says.“If dogs could smile, she’d always besmiling.” The one trait both dogs doshare is a fondness for the same treat:“They go crazy for Gerber babysausages.”

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Just a week or two after Jake showed upon her doorstep, Kathy Pope learned thatthe little black dog actually belonged to a neighbor down the street—but that wasOK, because the owner didn’t want himanymore. About a month later, Pope, whois assistant director for graduate studentservices in the College of Business, foundanother dog—this one a large, white Labmix—wandering in the neighborhood.Once again, the dog’s owner told Pope to keep her. Pope has had Jake andGinger for about three years, and of hermismatched mutts, she says, “They are the sweetest dogs in the world. Oh, theyare so sweet.”

Rescuing stray animals is somethingof a family trait. One of her sisters foundher dog Trixie looking for handouts at aWal-Mart; another sister adopted a dogshe found on the side of the road. “Mymother did the same thing,” Pope says.“My mother’s kind of an animal collector,so I guess we got it from her.”

Though it was not unusual for thefamily to have five or more dogs when she was growing up, Pope insists that two is her limit . . . at least until the next one shows up at her front door.

“He just loves to get in the car and ride,” David Senseman says of hisPembroke Welsh corgi, George. The fact that George can climb into hisowner’s Jeep, over the emergency brake and between the seats without assis-tance shows just how motivated the dog is, says Senseman, an associate pro-fessor of biology. “They’re short, and they’re not particularly thin dogs. . . .[But] he can jump up in the Jeep, which takes all his little might to do.”

Though riding in cars is George’s favorite activity, as a corgi, he’s a natural-born herder, and at Senseman’s home on San Antonio’s North Side,George has ample opportunity to herd deer that wander onto the property—if only the deer would cooperate. “Deer are really arrogant animals,”Senseman says. “They kinda figured out that George was not really much of amenace and now they sit there and just watch him, chewing their cud.” SoGeorge, Senseman says, developed his own face-saving technique when thedeer he’s chasing doesn’t bother to run away: “He turns and casually sauntersoff at a right angle to the deer as if nothing were there.”

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With every step we moved closer to the summit of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s highestpeak. In the thin air above 18,000 feet, every breath, step and plunge of an ice axeplaces a huge demand on lungs and legs. A sustained 40-m.p.h. wind combined withsub-freezing temperatures made for daunting conditions. Our team—environmental

engineer Mike Lewis, San Antonio attorney David Cain, Austin rock climber Chris Roach and I—had spent the last six months planning and preparing for this expedition. Now, three of us were in the final painful hours of our climb. “Is this really worth it?” we wondered.

Breathe. Step. Plunge.

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by Stephen BrownORIZABA

BREATHE. STEP.

PLUNGE.

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We had traveled from San Antonio to Central Mexico to begin a long-term research program on global climate change. Our goal was to explorethe glaciers on two of North America’s tallest mountains, Iztaccihuatl(Izta) and El Pico de Orizaba (Orizaba). Mountain glaciers, which arevery sensitive to fluctuations in temperature, are like coal-mine canaries,acting as a kind of early warning system for environmental change.Around the world, glaciers have been melting at an unprecedented rate.While global warming is nothing new in the long geological history of theearth, the question we want to explore is whether humans are responsiblefor this current trend.

Our plan was to climb Izta’s 16,500-foot glacier first, take sonarsoundings of the ice and do some mapping with a special GlobalPositioning System (GPS) receiver loaned to UTSA by TrimbleNavigation. (Trimble is the manufacturer of a new kind of GPS receiverthat can be used with a heavily mittened hand.) After Izta, we wouldtravel to Orizaba and attempt to reach the summit to make an accuratedetermination of the volcano’s height.

We took a bus to the colonial city of Puebla. We learned from previoustrips to that a personal automobile is more of a liability than an asset inthe Mexican backcountry. That makes getting from the bus station to the

backcountry a little more challenging, but luckily for us, we met a cabdriver named Jesus who agreed to drive us to our 13,000-foot base campand return a few days later to pick us up.

Following a 3 a.m. breakfast of oatmeal, hot chocolate and lots ofwater, we began our ascent under low-hanging clouds. High altitudeascents begin early to avoid storms and take advantage of hard glacier iceconditions going up and slushy ice conditions going down. The early startleft each to his own thoughts as our tiny headlamps pointed upward intodarkness.

Plenty of loose volcanic scree made climbing the un-glaciated lowerslopes of Izta difficult. In fact, one literally climbs Izta twice—for everythree steps upward, you slide down two. By 7:30 a.m., we had reached analtitude of over 14,000 feet, but Izta’s glacier was still a long way off withnearly one mile straight up to go. It was here that Acute MountainSickness (AMS) struck one of our party. Chris, a world-class rock climberwith many Yosemite National Park credits to his name, recognized thesymptoms of AMS and decided to turn back while he could still safely doso. Much beyond this point, his shortness of breath and fatigue couldendanger not only himself, but also the entire group.

By 8 a.m. conditions on Izta were deteriorating. The fast-moving,low-hanging lenticular clouds coated the rocks with a treacherous sheet ofice. We needed to move quickly because of the danger of white-out. By 9a.m. we had traversed our final ridgeline and were dropping to Izta’s gla-cier. We had arrived!

Izta’s flat glacial plain is ideally suited for research using GroundPenetrating Radar (GPR), which can “see through” ice, in effect peelingback the environmental history of the glacier. Unfortunately, the weatherwas deteriorating rapidly, visibility was almost zero and the wind wasblowing so hard that it was snowing horizontally. It was time to make ahasty retreat.

The route down Izta followed a complex series of ridgelines and gul-lies, and missing the path could lead us onto very dangerous ice-coveredcliffs. Eventually we made it down, however, and there was no bettersight than Jesus’ waiting yellow cab!

On to OrizabaA day later, the second part of our trip began in the little town ofTlachichuca, where we hired a four-wheel-drive truck to take us to our14,000-foot base camp on Pico de Orizaba. Because of its elevation(more than 18,000 feet), Orizaba is a popular international climbingdestination. Our plan was to summit the volcano and use GPS technol-ogy to document its actual height.

Despite our experience on Izta, we didn’t know what to expectfrom Orizaba. Three climbers had been killed there in the weeks priorto our visit, a situation that made us wary and careful.

We began our climb at 4 a.m. For Orizaba, this was a luxuriouslylate start. Two other climbing parties (a team from Quebec and a filmcrew from Denver) had left at midnight. As we shouldered our packs,we could see the faint glow of their headlamps in the distance. To oursurprise, we caught up with the Denver crew at about 6 a.m. justbeneath the start of Orizaba’s glacier. They had called it quits and werewaiting for sunrise before heading down.

As the sun was just beginning to rise, we strapped crampons(sharp metal spikes that allow mountaineers to climb ice) onto ourmountaineering boots, broke out ice axes and began creeping up the

tongues of ice. As much as they help, crampons can also be a hazard.Catching a crampon on a pant leg or rope can initiate a lethal fall. Eachstep must be very carefully placed.

By 7 a.m. we had met up with the Canadians. Due to fatigue andinexperience, they too had decided to turn back. Chris, who was stillsuffering the ill effects of mountain sickness, also turned back not farbeyond this point. He took solace in the fact that he achieved a per-sonal altitude record for himself.

Although the volcano began to get very steep, we made the deci-sion not to rope ourselves together. “Roping up” had been a factor inrecent deaths. We believed the group would be safer climbing individu-ally.

Mountaineering is portrayed in movies as action-packed adven-ture. In truth, it’s mostly a numbingly boring and painful experience.And so it was for us as we carefully placed our steps, plunged our iceaxes into the glacier and paused to breathe deeply. Over and over andover again, until we reached the summit about noon (in full sunshine!).The summit of Orizaba is a study in contrasts. The glacier endsabruptly. The temperature can change from single digits outside thecrater to a relatively pleasant 45 degrees inside. The interface wherethe glacier meets the beginning of Orizaba’s crater is of great interestto environmental scientists because of the many similarities to theenvironment on Mars. But a further investigation of that interfacewould have to wait for another trip.

We took 1,200 GPS altitude samples while on the summit and calcu-lated Orizba’s height to be 18,490.5 feet (UTSA’s altitude is approxi-mately 1,000 feet). This was also the highest I had ever been!

After a quick lunch, we packed up our equipment and headeddown. We’ll go back, though, with many UTSA graduate students whowill help us understand the glacial climate secrets these volcanoes hold.

Stephen Brown MS ’92 is an assistant professor in the Department ofEarth and Environmental Sciences. He specializes in the environmen-tal applications of Geographic Information Systems and GlobalPositioning Systems.

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Eventually we made it down, however, and therewas no better sight than Jesus’ waiting yellow cab!

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“Looking Back, Moving Forward” is the theme of the alumnigala which this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the UTSAAlumni Association. The gala will be held Saturday, Sept. 6, at theOak Hills Country Club.

Now in its fourth year, the annual gala has become the premierfund-raiser for the association, raising scholarship dollars to attractand retain deserving students, as well as honoring those who havehelped our university grow. Dell Senior Vice President Jeff W.Clarke will be honored as Alumnus of the Year, and this year’sDistinguished Service Award recipient is Tom C. Frost, seniorchairman of Frost National Bank (see profiles below).

Over the years, the association has helped 227 students financetheir college education by raising more than $400,000.

For details and reservations, go to www.utsa.edu/alumni/gala,or call (210) 458-4133.

Alumnus of the Year

Jeff W. Clarke ’86Jeff serves as senior vice president and general manager, DellProduct Group. He is responsible for worldwide development,marketing, quality and delivery into manufacturing of all Dellclient, workstation, networking, server and storage systems, aswell as the strategic technology direction for those businesses.Jeff joined Dell in 1987 as a quality engineer and has served in avariety of engineering and management roles. In 1997, he wasresponsible for launching Dell’s Precision workstation productline, which attained the No. 1 worldwide market share position.Jeff serves on the UTSA College of Engineering AdvisoryCouncil. He and his wife, Loretta, are UTSA Presidents’Associates and joint life members of the Alumni Association.

Distinguished Service Award

Tom C. FrostThis award seeks to recognize and honor individuals, alumni orothers, who have made significant contributions to the UTSAAlumni Association and/or UTSA. Tom Frost is the first non-alumnus to receive the Distinguished Service Award. Having ledthe UTSA Development Board since its inception, Tom has pro-vided his leadership and vision to four UTSA presidents. Tom’sphilanthropy at UTSA has been far-reaching: it includes supportfor scholarships, the biotechnology initiative, the Institute ofTexan Cultures and the UTSA College of Business Frost LectureSeries. He and his wife, Pat, established the UTEACH program atUTSA, which is designed to increase the number of secondarycertified math and science teachers and to prepare those teachersfor future work in inner-city schools. Tom is a member of theUTSA Presidents’ Associates and associate life member of theUTSA Alumni Association.

Alumni Associationcelebrates silveranniversary at gala

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76George Muller, M.B.A. in business,was promoted to vice president andchief information officer at ImperialSugar Company in Sugar Land, Texas.George was the keynote speaker at theNovell Software User Conference inSalt Lake City in April.

77Guadalupe Cisneros Ruvalcaba,B.A. in early childhood education, isdirector of Adult and CommunityEducation for the San AntonioIndependent School District.

79Roger D. Cunningham, M.A. inhistory, a retired Army officer wholives in northern Virginia, recently wontwo writing awards for his military his-tory articles. In April, his article onblack participation in the 19th-centuryVi rginia militia won the VirginiaHistorical Society’s Rachal Award forbeing the best overall article to appearin the Virginia Magazine of Historyand Biographyin 2002. In June, hisarticle on the Mexican PunitiveExpedition of 1919 (Army History,Winter 2002) won the Army HistoricalFoundation’s 2002 distinguished writ-ing award in the “army professionaljournal” category. The latter article wasan expanded version of the firstresearch paper Roger wrote as a gradu-ate student at UTSA in 1977.

80Paul Mitchell Jacob, B.B.A. in economics, is senior vice president at Countrywide Securities Corporationin Los Angeles.

81Scott E. Moore, B.B.A. in finance,retired from the United States AirForce on Feb. 1 after 20 years of com-missioned service. Scott is a staff engi-neering planner for Lockheed MartinInformation Systems in Fort WaltonBeach, Fla.

82Herman Otis Powers Jr., B.B.A. inaccounting, was elected president ofthe board of trustees of the BrownsvilleIndependent School District on whichhe has served for six years.

83John W. Probst, B.A. in anthropolo-gy, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Air Force and is commander, 790thSecurity Forces Missile Squadron, F.E.Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.Susan Schulte Shires,B.A. in English,M.A. in education ’91, is pre-APEnglish teacher and Gifted and Talentedcoordinator at Samuel Clemens HighSchool in Schertz, Texas. Susan is alsothe facilitator for the independentstudy/mentorship program for the highschool, and is looking for academicmentors in all career fields for herstudents. Interested alumni can e-mailher at ssshires@scuc.txed.net.

84Salvador A. Alvarez, B.B.A. infinance, is proud to announce that hisdaughter Vanessa Nicole Alvarez hasbeen admitted to the UTSA HonorsCollege and will attend UTSA in the fall.

Janet L. Frerich,B.B.A. in management,is an associate credit representative withMartin Marietta in San Antonio.

85Madolyn Douglas Fallis, M.Music,is a freelance organist for weddings,concerts and other events. E-mailMadolyn at Efalis@stic.net.Lee Homar Ramos, B.S. in biology,announces his engagement to marryLoretta Hernandez on Sept. 28.

86Daniel A. Jolly, B.B.A. in account-ing, is vice president of Holamon Jollyand Associates, a provider of medicaloffice management services, inBrownwood, Texas.Bertha A. Mireles, B.B.A. in manage-ment, is a teacher at Briscoe ElementarySchool in the San Antonio IndependentSchool District.Nadine L. Roy, B.B.A. in accounting, isan info tech specialist with the Depart-ment of Veteran Affairs in Austin, Texas.

87Thomas David Dyer, M.S. in mathe-matics, Ph.D. in computer science ’02, isa staff scientist at Southwest Foundationfor Biomedical Research in San Antonio.Stephen Koebele, B.B.A. in manage-ment, is an attorney with the firm ofGardere Wynne Sewell LLP in Austin,Texas. Steve formerly worked with theJustice Department in Washington,D.C., was an aide to then-Gov. GeorgeW. Bush, and worked in the TexasAttorney General’s Office and theTexas Comptroller’s Office.Linda C. Montgomery, B.A. in politicalscience, and her husband, Jim,announce the opening of his practice,James Montgomery P.C. in SanAntonio, where Linda is a paralegal.

88Tammy Webb Ledbetter, B.B.A. in accounting, married Don Ledbetterin June 2001. The couple live in SanDiego. Tammy is an online instructorfor management and psychology oforganizational development for theUniversity of the Incarnate Word, SanAntonio. She expects to receive herdoctorate in management and leader-ship in July 2003 from the University of Phoenix-Online.Margaret R. Romaine Moore, B.B.A. in accounting, announces the birth of a son, Nicholas Ryan, on Feb. 28.

89Brenda Davidson-Shaddox, B.A.inEnglish, wrote Naga Festival,whichgives a brief history of the MyanmarNaga tribes and the Naga New Year’sEve Festival. The book made its debut inJanuary at the annual festival where 300copies were donated to help raise fundsfor a Naga Tribal Museum. A secondbook, Guide to Out of the Way Shrinesand Monuments of Myanmar,wasreleased April 1. Both books are avail-able through www.myanmarbook.com.Brenda also has accepted a one-yearcontract to work as assistant editor forthe Myanmar Times in Yangon. The Times is the largest English-languagenewspaper in Myanmar, owned by an

Australian company. “I will also pursuemy personal work of photographing theethnic tribes of Myanmar and continueto work on other writing projects whileI am living there,” she writes.

90Monica Guerrero, B.A. in politicalscience, was elected judge of BexarCounty Court No. 7 in November 2002and took office Jan. 1.

91Mike Flores, B.B.A. in political science, was appointed dean ofInstitutional Effectiveness andCommunity Development at Palo Alto College in San Antonio.Arnulfo “Arnie” Gonzalez, B.S. in civilengineering, M.S. in civil engineering’95, started a private engineering prac-tice (e-sol, Engineered Solutions) in2002.

92Mark A. Everett, B.B.A. in manage-ment, M.B.A. in business ’94, is publichealth administrator for the City-CountyHealth and Environmental District in ElPaso, Texas.Jeffrey John Makusky, B.S. in comput-er science, and Andrea Gail Whitlock,B.S. in computer science ’93, announcethe birth of Thomas Orin Makusky onMay 7, 2002.Loren D. Park, B.A. in psychology, isan attorney with Dykema GossettPLLC, in Bloomfield Hills, Conn.Robert A. Parr III, M.A. in education, isa project manager in business develop-ment for T.J. McCulloch ConstructionCompany in Devine, Texas.

93Mary E. Brown, M.A. in bicultural-bilingual studies, is director of theNationalities Service Center, DonBosco Centers in Kansas City, Mo.Annette Marie Flores Castro, B.B.A. inmarketing, is casualty supervisor atProgressive Insurance in San Antonio.Annette and her husband, Bill,announce the birth of a daughter,Kathryn, on July 9, 2002.David Liserio, M.A. in history, waselected president of the Texas chapterof the Special Libraries Association for2003–2004.Chris Ranney, B.S. in kinesiology, and Monica Reygadas Ranney,B.A. in interdisciplinary studies ’98,announce the birth of their first child,son Noah Michael, on Aug. 28, 2002.

94Ben M. Barton,B.A. in sociology, is director of ballpark operations for the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club inSeattle. Ben and his wife, KatherynD’Ambrosio Barton, B.B.A. in account-ing ’95, announce the birth of a daugh-ter, Emily Elizabeth, on April 13, 2000.

95James Gordon III, B.A. in interdis-ciplinary studies, is a substitute teacherfor the Judson Independent SchoolDistrict in Converse, Texas.Joseph Anthony Ortega, B.S. in civil engineering, is a senior engineeringassociate with the City of San Antonio.Joseph and his wife, Maria, announcethe birth of a daughter, Alyssa, on Sept.

21, 2002.Cindy K. Skiles Slavin, B.B.A. in per-sonnel/human resource management, ishuman resources director for RSMMcGladrey Inc. in Dallas.

96Andreia Geromie Brown, B.S. inkinesiology and health, is a full-time,tenure-track instructor of kinesiologyfor the Alamo Community CollegeDistrict in San Antonio.Kyle Matthew King, B.S. in biology, ispresident of Cureseeker ClinicalServices in San Antonio.Carlos A. Rivera, B.S. in kinesiologyand health, is employed with theCrystal City Independent SchoolDistrict. He and his wife, Aida, havethree children: Revae, 12; Carlos Jr.,11; and Gregory Nathaniel, 4.Merry Katherine Courtney Salinas,B.A. in political science, and her hus-band, Carl, announce the birth of a son,Conor Mychal, on April 1, 2002.Justin Skopal, B.S. in kinesiology andhealth, is a seventh- and eighth-gradealgebra teacher for the Sacramento CityUnited School District. Justin alsocoaches seventh- and eighth-grade soc-cer teams at Sam Brannan MiddleSchool and is a MESA (Mathematics,Engineering, Science Achievement)adviser.Yvonne Reyes Wheeler, B.A. in com-munication, announces the birth of adaughter, Madison Alexis, on Feb. 26.

97Cynthia Ann Geerdes, B.A. in inter-disciplinary studies, is employed withthe North East Independent SchoolDistrict in San Antonio.Norma Esther Valdez Hernandez, B.A.in interdisciplinary studies, M.A. inbicultural- bilingual studies ’00, is abilingual teacher at CrockettElementary in San Antonio. Norma andher husband, Richard, announce thebirth of a son, Richard Anthony, onOct. 16, 2002. E-mail Norma atNormita1104@yahoo.com.Richard Q. Moralez, B.B.A. in infor-mation systems, is COO/software com-pany owner of Teamworks SolutionsInc. in San Antonio.Becki Simmons Scribner, B.S. in biolo-gy, was promoted to group recruitingsupervisor for Enterprise Rent-A-Car ofSouth Texas, where she previously wasbranch manager of the downtown andtwo satellite locations in San Antonio.

98Mayra A. Almeda, B.B.A. inaccounting, is fiscal operations manag-er for the City of San AntonioEnterprise Resource ManagementProject.Charles Claville, B.B.A. in accounting,married Kelly Nicole Giles on Aug. 24,2002.Brad William Jauer, B.S. in mechanicalengineering, is president of DolphinPetroleum LP in San Antonio. Bradmarried Valerie Christopher on Nov.16, 2002.Susan Joy Leigh, B.S. in geology, is ageologist with Pioneer NaturalResources in Irving, Texas.

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Gina Maranto-Castro,M.A. in educa-tion, has been promoted from physicaleducation teacher to SAFE and DrugFree Schools/CATCH Facilitator for theHarlandale Independent School District.Heather M. Nicholson, B.B.A. inaccounting, is a senior financial analystwith USAA in San Antonio.Tamara A. Pfeil, B.A. in interdiscipli-nary studies, announces the birth of ason, Ryan Scott, on Jan. 4.Melissa Jean Usner Wente, B.A. ininterdisciplinary studies, is a first- grade teacher with the San AntonioIndependent School District. Melissaand husband, Christopher, announce thebirth of a son, Kyle Christopher, on Dec. 17, 2002.

99Homero Rene Balderas, B.S. inkinesiology and health, is a sheriff’sdeputy with the Comal County Sheriff’sOffice in New Braunfels, Texas.Alonzo Garcia, B.A. in criminal justice,a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army fromFort Story, Va., is serving in OperationEnduring Freedom. Alonzo has a newson, Diego, born May 7.Sandy Jimenez-Huizar, B.F.A. in art,announces the birth of a daughter,Kaitlyn, on Aug. 2, 2002.Duane Miller, B.A. in philosophy, ispursuing a master’s in theology at St.Mary’s University in San Antonio.Duane married alumna Sharon Babiak,B.S. in math ’02, on May 17.Leticia Yates, B.A. in communication,is store manager for Dolce & Gabbanain Los Angeles.Michelle Miles Woodard, B.S. in math-ematics, is a senior database analyst forCyberonics in Houston.

00Tracy Sajbel Bruce, M.A. in education, is a reading specialist withWheatland Elementary School Districtin Wheatland, Calif. She was anEducator Who Makes a Differencerecipient from the Yuba CountySuperintendent of Schools for 2001–02.Monica Y. Miles Hurd, B.A. in psy-chology, married Brevenando R. Hurdon Dec. 27, 2002.

Shirley Jones Jeffery, B.F.A. in art,received a citation from the InternationalFoundation for Ewha Woman’sUniversity in 2002 for a lifetime of serv-ice to the Korean people and for hermany years as chair of the promotionand public relations committee of theInternational Foundation. EwhaWoman’s University is located in Seoul,Korea. Founded in 1885 with onestudent and one teacher, it has grown tobe the largest women’s university in theworld with over 22,000 students.

01Robert Deleon Barrientos, B.B.A. in finance, was named U.S. Air ForceMedical Enlisted IMA (individualmobilization augmentee) of the Yearfor 2001.Misti M. Beckham, B.A. in communi-cation, is engaged to marry RamonRenteria on Oct. 11. Misti is employedwith USAA in Phoenix, Ariz.Wendy J. Jackson Cordova, B.A. inpolitical science, is a second-gradeteacher at Clarke Elementary in theKilleen Independent School District,Fort Hood, Texas. Wendy is engaged tomarry Wynell Jenkins on May 1, 2004.Gregory A. Dobie, M.A. in bicultural-bilingual studies, was awarded a gradu-ate internship with the educationdepartment of the J. Paul GettyMuseum in Los Angeles. Greg willwork on an art education project foradult ESL students and compile anannotated bibliography of museum edu-cation source materials.Phillip Falgout,B.B.A. in general busi-ness, is operations manager at Medi-DynInc.-Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio.Belinda Garza, B.B.A. in management,is office manager for the NationalFederal Government RelationsDepartment for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. inWashington, D.C.Henry Gonzales, B.A. in physics, is employed with Smith BarneyInvestments in San Antonio. Henry has one son, Brian Matthew, 14.Maricela A. Gonzales, B.S. in multidis-ciplinary science, is a high school science teacher with the United

Independent School District in Laredo,Texas. Maricela was nominated for theH-E-B Rising Star award by her princi-pal, Mary Molina.Rebecca Melissa Gonzales, B.Music, isassistant band/choir director at RogersMiddle School in the San AntonioIndependent School District.Barbara Dean Hendricks,M.S. in man-agement of technology, was elected tothe National Board of the Associationfor Women in Communications.Holly Janousek Houston, B.Music, isassistant camp director at YMCA CampFlaming Arrow and Roberts Ranch,where she received the Eagle Award forexcellence in leadership. “I have had avery full year, to say the least,” Hollywrites. “It’s a very rewarding but chal-lenging job.” She directed a specialcamp for children from the San AntonioHousing Authority over spring break;started an outdoor education program atCamp Flaming Arrow; and started thefirst Teen Adventure Camp at RobertsRanch. Over the Labor Day weekend,Holly will direct a family camp for chil-dren and their parents. She lives on siteat the camp in Hunt, Texas with her hus-band, Jeff, and their dog, Sackett.Maria Theresa A. Lorenzo, B.S. inbiology, is a physician’s assistantstudent at the University of TexasHealth Science Center in San Antoniowhere she is receiving a TexasAcademy of Physician Assistants grant.Samuel Alfredo Moore, B.B.A. in per-sonnel/human resource management, isstore manager for the Pottery Barn inSan Marcos, Texas.Janette A. Nevels, B.S. in biology, is acytogenetic technologist, for EsoterixOncology in Austin, Texas. Janette is amember of the Association of GeneticTechnologists.Sylvia A. Rossett, B.B.A. in marketing,is a marketing specialist with SanAntonio Credit Union.Daniel E. Sazera, B.A. in English, is aloan servicing representative, withWashington Mutual Bank in SanAntonio. Daniel married LeticiaGutierrez on July 20, 2002.

02Louise M. Botts, M.B.A. in busi-ness, is a contracts manager, with M7Aerospace in San Antonio.Jessica L. Cihal, B.A. in English, iscompleting a year of teaching Englishas a second language in Prague, CzechRepublic, where, she says, she isenriching her life by living and learn-ing the culture in her ancestors’ home-land. Jessica plans to continue teachingESL in Costa Rica in 2004.Paula Ann Gillespie Guerrero, M.S. inbiotechnology, is a research scientistassistant at the University of Texas atAustin Department of Pharmacology.Paula married Oswaldo Guerrero onFeb. 23, 2002.Dora Hilburn-Morales, B.B.A. inaccounting, is an accountant withBarrio Comprehensive Family HealthClinic in San Antonio.

I N M E M O R I A MVincent A. DiMartino, M.B.A. in busi-ness ’79, died Feb. 27. He was 58. Anadjunct faculty member in economicsand finance, he had taught at UTSAsince 1987. He earned the 2000–2001President’s Distinguished AchievementAward for Teaching Excellence. Anadvocate for team learning and problem-based learning approaches, DiMartinowas a faculty associate for the UTSATeaching and Learning Center. Hetaught core curriculum undergraduatecourses and managerial economics forgraduate students, and he supervisedinternship students and independentstudy. He was an adviser to the studentchapter of the Financial ManagementAssociation and the Turkish StudentAssociation. He taught FreshmanSeminar, was a faculty mentor and afinance and economics tutor in theExecutive M.B.A. Program. He is sur-vived by his wife, Mary Jane Sorrells;children, Lisa, Danielle, Lauren,Nicholangela, and Florentina; threegrandchildren; brothers, Phillip andDonald; and sister, Geraldine Allgeyer.

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“THE NEXT STEP” By James Broderick“As you know, one may ‘take’ a photograph by acceptance of the visual circumstances that are evident at the time of exposure. One may also ‘make’a photograph by modifying or manipulating the visual circumstances at and/or after the exposure,” says retiring faculty member Jim Broderick, who has been aUTSA professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History since 1983. This image, which Broderick titled “The Next Step,” combines bothpractices: The upper portion of the image is a manipulation of storm clouds and trees taken in New Mexico, while the lower portion was shot on hisdeck at home. Of the image, Broderick explains, “Consideration of changing weather and a choice of making the next steps in shoes or boots suggestthe need to be flexible in entering all adventures.”

At the first Roadrunner Camp, held in 1993 at Heart O’ the Hills in Hunt, Texas, new students competed in a three-legged race, attended a dance with a DJ, and sat around the campfire listening to alumni tell stories from their col-lege days. Though the activities at Roadrunner Camp have changed a bit over 10 years, one tradition that startedback in 1993 remains: Camp always ends with a reading from Oh, the Places You’ll Goby Dr. Seuss. “. . . You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

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