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October 25, 2001

UNM Zia Award Recipients Announced

The University of New Mexico Alumni Association will honor the recipients of this year’s Zia Awards as part of UNM’s Homecoming at the all University Breakfast at the Albuquerque Petroleum Club at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Recipients of the Zia Awards include Laura Hueter Bass, executive director of the Albuquerque Community Foundation; J. Howard Mock, president and CEO of Jaynes Corporation; Sam J. Butler, president and CEO of Citizens Bank of Farmington; Michael J. Glennon, president of Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute; Angela J. Jewell, District Court Judge, Second Judicial District, Domestic Violence Division of Family Court; Randolph “Dolph” Barnhouse, attorney and partner in Rosebrough and Barnhouse, Gallup.

Bass is the former executive director of the New Mexico Bar Foundation and the National Counsel on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Albuquerque-area. She has served on the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation, New Mexico Governor’s Commission on Alcoholism and DWI, and the Manzano Day School and Bosque Prep Boards. Bass is a native New Mexican, both of whose parents graduated from UNM. Bass is also a former UNM Alumni Association Board president.

Mock took Jaynes Corporation from solely a concrete subcontractor to a major general contractor with 40-50 projects at any given time in seven western states. He is the past president of the Associated General Contractors of America. Mock is involved with many local non-profits and had headed the capital campaign for All Faiths Receiving Home. Mock received an executive MBA at Anderson Schools of Management.

Butler had been involved in international banking overseas and in Arizona for 15 years, before returning to Farmington. As a member and past president of the San Juan Medical Foundation, he has helped raise funds for the new Cancer Treatment Center. Serving on the San Juan College Foundation, he has raised significant scholarship funds. As “A New Mexico Amigo,” he has traveled nationwide to help put Farmington on the map.

Glennon has served as president of Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute since 1997. Under his direction, TVI has opened the Workforce Training Center, added a dozen new occupational majors, begun Project Drop-IN for 16 and 17 year old high school drop-outs, and focused on quality throughout the school, including “It’s About Students” leadership focus. TVI is also beginning work on $35 million construction projects approved by voters. Early in Glennon’s career, he worked at UNM as assistant budget director in other finance positions.

Originally in private practice, Jewell began working with Legal Aid Society to recruit lawyers for pro bono work with domestic violence victims. She then became special commissioner with the Domestic Violence Division of the Second Judicial District Court. Jewell trains numerous groups within the city about domestic violence issues including the Albuquerque Police Department, Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Southwest Indian Law Clinic, the Neutral Corner and UNM Emergency Medicine residents. Jewell is a member of Albuquerque’s Domestic Violence Task Force Committee, Public Safety Advisory Board and numerous other related organizations.

Barnhouse is a member of the state and Federal Bars of New Mexico and Arizona, and the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo Nation Bars. He is the founding president of a food bank in Gallup. He has worked with board and staff of Battered Families Services in Gallup to turn that organization into a model domestic-violence shelter. Barnhouse is a former UNM Graduate Student Association president and Alumni Association board member.

The Zia Awards are given to alumni living in New Mexico who have distinguished themselves in philanthropic endeavors, public office, service to the University, community and volunteer activities, business or professional fields, or who have made a contribution to education.

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