The University of New Mexico Alumni Association elected eight new members to its Board of Directors for 2008-09 recently. New members include Monica Armenta, Penny Beaumont, Brian Burnett, Henrietta Mann, Gail Rosenblum, Kathi Schroeder, Lynn Slade and Angie Wilcox.
The new board members bring diverse and varied backgrounds to the Alumni Association. Armenta, a 1985 UNM grad, is the executive director of communications for Albuquerque Public Schools. A 1963 graduate, Beaumont is an associate director emerita for the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. Burnett, who earned a bachelor’s (’78) and master’s (’80) from UNM, is an attorney for Bohannon Huston, Inc.
Mann earned her Ph.D. from UNM in 1982 and is president at Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribal College. Both Rosenblum (’80) and Schroeder (’70) have ties to the newspaper business. Rosenblum is a reporter for Star Tribune Company, while Schroeder is the editor for the New Mexico Business Weekly. Slade earned a law degree from UNM in 1976 and is an attorney for the Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris and Sisk Law Firm, while Wilcox, a 2003 UNM graduate, is the assistant director for student activities in the Student Life Office at the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
They join 2008-09 Alumni Association officers including: Judy Zanotti, president; Ruth Schifani, president-elect; Lillian Montyoa-Rael, past president; and Gene Baca, treasurer. The executive committee at large consists of Jennifer Riordan, Randy Royster, Waneta Tuttle and Kathie Winograd.
Other board members include: Marion Fleck (distinguished member), Charles Barth, Karen Bayless, Penny Beaumont, Lila Boyden, Brian S. Colón, Steve Chreist, Tom Daulton, Rich Diller, Kathy Gordon, James Jimenez, Alice Loy, Arthur E. Lindberg, Lenton Malry, Jr., Matthew Martinez, Laurie Moye, Pat Mulhall, Hilary Noskin, Gail Rosenblum, Erma Sedillo, Jane Shuler Gray, John E. Thorson, Jimmy Trujillo, Karen Abraham (ex officio), Thelma Domenici, Patricia Dominguez, Misty Salaz and Student Representative Ashley Fate.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at July 30, 2008 12:08 PM