TEN BYU graduates will return to campus during Homecoming 2002 to offer lectures and receive alumni awards from their respective colleges.
Engineering and Technology
In 1981 William G. Moon, ’76, helped form what became the world’s largest disk-drive company, Quantum Corporation, where he worked for 20 years as principal engineer and vice president of engineering. He was a cofounder of the Quantum subsidiary Plus Development and was key in creating a partnership with Panasonic, which led to the world’s first totally automated disk drive assembly.
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Charles M. Reigeluth, ’77, has been a professor at Indiana University since 1988 and is a former department chair of the Instructional Systems Technology Department. He was also department chair at Syracuse University and is the former president and CEO of Renaissance Learning Systems. The much-published professor has twice received the Teaching Excellence Award from Indiana University.
Fine Arts and Communications
James W. Thatcher, ’75, began his professional French horn career at age 16 in Mexico City and continued his studies at BYU. He has performed as principal horn for more than 900 motion pictures, including Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, and Beauty and the Beast. Such illustrious composers as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner request his services.
Health and Human Performance
At age 48, Werner W. K. Hoeger, ’74, was the oldest male Olympian in the luge competition at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. A professor of kinesiology and the director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Boise State University, Hoeger is the author of eight fitness and wellness books. His texts are used by more than 400 colleges and universities.
Humanities
Timothy E. Flanigan, ’76, is deputy counsel and deputy assistant to President George W. Bush. During the administration of President George Bush, Flanigan served as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. In this role he was a principal legal advisor for the president, the attorney general, and heads of the executive branch agencies.
Terryl L. Givens, ’81, is a professor of English at the University of Richmond. He wrote Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy and By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion. He received the Chipman Award for Viper on the Hearth and was named the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator in 1997.
Law School
Lorena Riffo-Jenson, ’93, began her career with the state of Utah in 1993 as a program manager for the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. For three years she served as the governor’s liaison with state and local agencies addressing issues affecting Utah’s Hispanic population. She developed a strategy to help Utah businesses during the 2002 Olympics, and she now serves as Utah’s director of metro business development, expansion, retention, and procurement assistance.
Marriott School of Management
Fraser Bullock, ’78, was the CFO and COO (and later CEO) of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002. He directed more than 30 functions of the games and played a key role in balancing the $1.31 billion budget, which ultimately produced a $56 million surplus. Bullock is managing director and founder of Alpine Consolidated, a specialized merchant bank that consolidates fragmented industries.
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Jean J. Pedersen, ’55, has taught in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Santa Clara University since 1966, the first woman to teach mathematics and be granted tenure in the department. In 1992 she won an award from Santa Clara University for outstanding teaching, research, and service, and in 1997 she received a teaching award from the northern California section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Nursing
Sandra Rogers, ’74, serves as the international vice president at BYU and is an associate professor of nursing. She served six years as dean of the College of Nursing. She also has coordinated the welfare services missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ. Current service includes membership in a multitude of committees, including serving as chair of the BYU Women’s Conference committee.
