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Show in public policy and service, has been elected president of the national Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO ). With roots going back to the battles against cholera epidemics in the 1800s, ASTHO is the leading voice for state and territorial public health initiatives across the nation. Sundwall is executive director of the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. After 23 years of working in various government and private sector health posi-tions in Washington, D.C., he returned home to Utah to lead the UDOH beginning in early 2005. LM Mary Dickson BA'73's play Exposed, a personal story about the effects of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada on the American population, had its world premiere Oct. 19-Nov. 4, 2007, at Plan-B the ve rs Theatre in Salt Lake City, of the Year Award from The accredited private academic where it played to sold-out American Society of Civil institution with 18 campus houses and critical acclaim. Engineers (ASCE ). Smith is locations in 12 states The play, which is Dickson's currently senior director of offering associate, bach-first, was named Best Drama the ASCE Sacramento elor's, master's, and doctoral of 2007 by Utah's Deseret Section. The award recog- degrees. He has also been Morning News and has been nizes distinguished civil appointed by the U.S. nominated for the Harold and engineers for significant secretary of education to Mimi Steinberg/ American engineering contributions as serve a three-year term on Theatre Critics Association practitioners in public the 15-member National New Play Award, which each service. Smith has 33 years Advisory Committee on year recognizes outstanding of service with the Army Institutional Quality and original plays produced Corps of Engineers, and is Integrity (NACIQI), which around the U.S. outside of New currently the chief of advises the secretary of York City. construction of the corps ' education on matters Sacramento District, where related to accreditation and he is responsible for a staff to the eligibility and certifi-of 130 employees and a $300 cation process for million annual budget for institutions of higher military, civil, and disaster education. Swenson had construction in eight previously served as provost Western states. He has also and vice president of served as a volunteer academic affairs for the firefighter for 28 years and is Western Governors pictured here in uniform as University in Salt Lake City. a captain/EMT with the He holds a doctorate in Rescue Fire Protection education/ adult and District in Rescue, Calif. organizational learning from Walden University and a Larry J. Smith BS'73 MS'75, Craig D. Swenson BS'77, master's degree in organiza- PE, received the 2007 Ph.D., is the new president tional communication from Government Civil Engineer of Argosy University, an Brigham Young University. Art Hansen BS'73, who was active in the Utah folk music revival of the 1960s and performed at the January 2007 "Urban Pioneers" reunion concert in Salt Lake City, was inadvertently left out of the Fall2007 Continuum article "The Revivalists" {www.continuum.utah.edu/2007fall/alum_note. html ), which profiled many University of Utah alumni who had been active in the '60s revival and regrouped for the 2007 event. Hansen became involved in the urban folk revival in 1961, playing banjo and initially performing Kingston Trio-style music with a group in junior high school. He later played bluegrass with a group called the Wilshire Valley Boys before joining The Stormy Mountain Boys in the late '60s. He performed with them until1989, rejoining in 2004. (He is, in fact, onstage with The Stormy Mountain Boys in the concert image on page 40 of the Fall issue, but was mistakenly cropped out by the photographer. He is pictured here during that same performance.) Hansen worked for the Utah Department of Corrections for 22 years in various management positions before retiring in 2005. He now teaches employment-ready workshops to inmates at the Utah State Prison for the Department of Work Force Services. LM Life Member AM Annual Member spring 08 Continuum 45 |
