Career-Life Updates
In celebration of the
D.V.M. Class of 1960
50 Year Reunion
October 14 & 15, 2010
Fort Collins, Colorado
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
D.V.M. Class of 1960
50 Year Reunion
In Memoriam
Frank C. Armer, Jr., D.V.M.
Kenneth G. Beaubien, Jr., D.V.M.
H. A. Carper, D.V.M.
Bailey L. Cotten, D.V.M.
Frank L. Enos, D.V.M.
Donald B. Hudson, D.V.M.
Robert G. Hutchinson, D.V.M.
William L. Lyall, D.V.M.
Robert A. O'Dell, D.V.M.
Arland L. Ranson, D.V.M.
Richard A. Rezzonico, D.V.M., P.L.C.
J. Eugene Schneider, D.V.M.
Alan E. Schwichtenberg, D.V.M.
Darrell M. Williams, D.V.M.
Charles C. Woodford, D.V.M.
Don A. Allen
Address:
822 Rodeo Drive
Cheyenne, WY 82009
Phone:
307-637-7487
Cell:
307-214-1259
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Deceased
Additional family information:
Son, John, retired DAV
Son, Brian, Director of Student Health Service, University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse.
Daughter, Lee, Director of Services for Disabled Persons in Cheyenne.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
- When Dr. O.R. Adams’ palomino stallion was found dead in the stall.
- Freshman first dinner in Estes Park.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Wyoming State Veterinary Association President in 1980
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Wyoming Grand Commander of Knight Templer
District winner in WY “Speak Humorous” speech contest.
Herman A. Anderson
Address:
Box 118
Castle Rock, CO 80104
Phone:
303-688-3647
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired teacher
Additional family information:
Two children, Eric and Vicki
Pets:
Dog, “Sally” and giraffe, “Ora”
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Graduation
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
40+ year of successful practice
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Concert pianist
Selling pencils on the street
Avoiding prison
Hobbies/Interests:
Skiing, golfing, reading and loafing
Leonard P. Blach
Address:
1907 White Mill Road
Roswell, NM 88203
Phone:
575-623-9119
Cell:
575-420-8119
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Veterinarian
Spouse:
Joanne
Spouse’s Occupation:
Housewife
Additional family information:
Three children: Serena Villnow, (Fall City, Washington), Kevin Blach, DVM (Roswell,
New Mexico), Pam Stonebreaker , Vet Tech (San Diego, California) and 9 grandchildren
Pets:
Horses “Mine That Bird” Winner of the Kentucky Derby 2009, #135
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
1. Someone in the Class of 1960 castrated Dr. Adams’ horse.
2. Meat launching in the anatomy hub – Dr. Voss got hit coming through the door.
3. Beer drinking at Horsetooth.
4. Gene – choking on spot quizzes.
5. Drinking cheap wine at vet dances.
6. Vaccinating sheep with Dr. Voss on ambulatory.
7. Caught imitating Dr. Ingram in hallway.
John M. Cheney
Address:
2350 Limon Drive #346
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Phone:
970-377-0482
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse’s Occupation:
Assisting Retirement
Additional family information:
Two daughters: Diane Cheney and Karen Hancock
What are the greatest accomplishments of your career?
1988 Veterinarian of the Year
Chief of Party for USAID project in Kenya
President, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association
Richard Coon
Address:
3029 Lavina Dr.
Forest Grove, OR 97116
Phone:
503-357-9582
Cell:
971-404-9150
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Arlene
Spouse’s Occupation:
Assisting Retirement
Additional family information:
Steven and Larry – engineers
Nancy – phone business, EMT
Pets:
Outlived all pets
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Graduation
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Still alive.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
30 lb. salmon
Hobbies/Interests:
Fishing, travel, condo at beach.
Donald J. Craig
Address:
24400 County Road 77
Calhan, CO 80808
Phone:
719- 347-2370
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Peggy Craig
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Our family consists of two sons and a daughter. We have four grandchildren.
Pets:
One dog.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
1) Being on ambulatory with Dr. Pierson and Dr. Voss.
2) Assisting Dr. O.R. Adams in equine surgery.
3) Spending the summer as a janitor for the Vet Hospital.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Staying at one practice for 30 years.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Having an enjoyable retirement and refurbishing a small ranch.
Hobbies/Interests:
- Elk hunting and refurbishing some mountain cabins.
- Spending time with family and friends.
Gary A. Deter
Address:
15921 Toro Hills Avenue
Salinas, CA 93908
Phone:
831-455-2230
Cell:
831-262-1489
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Property owner and wood worker
Spouse:
Jeanie, passed away 11/8/09
Additional family information:
Son: Phil and wife Shana and daughter Caitlyn live in Longmont .(Phil is a welder.)
Daughter: Ande and husband George Manos live in Santa Maria, CA (Both in the
vegetable business.)
Pets:
A Bernese Mountain Dog named Bernice
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
1. Worst: The endless anatomy lab and the smell of formaldehyde still haunts me
2. Best: Senior year living in the hospital as an intern. I learned more about veterinary
medicine than all the classes and books put together.
Francis P. Gradisar
Address:
8820 Grand Avenue
Beulah, CO 81023
Phone:
719-485-3642
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Family information:
Three children; two boys, one girl.
Pets:
One dog and one cat.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Graduation day
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Not being sued after 30 years of practice.
Hobbies/Interests:
Woodworking, world affairs, politics, history.
David R. Gross
Address:
17129 72nd Ave. W.
Edmonds, WA 98026
Phone:
428-582-7290
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Rosalie Gross
Spouse’s Occupation:
Homemaker
Additional family information:
Two sons, Theodore S. Gross and Jeffrey M. Gross, daughters-in-law Alison Crowe
(Ted) and Dana Gross (Jeff), Granddaughters Alana Gross, Danielle Gross, Sidney
Crowe-Gross
Pets:
None at present
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Charlie Vail and I were participating in the Skyline Conference Swimming Meet
representing CSU. It was just prior to final exams and whenever we weren’t in the
pool swimming or sleeping we were hitting the books hard. While we were gone Dr.
Davis took the class into the amphitheater and reviewed most of what would be on the
Anatomy exam. Dr. Swenson told the class we would not be responsible for all of the
several hundred pages in Duke’s physiology that had been assigned. Neither of us did
well but Charlie fared better on those exams than I did.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
I entered private veterinary practice in Sidney, Montana in 1960. In 1961 I opened the
Paradise Animal Hospital at 32nd St. and Bell Road in Paradise Valley, Arizona, north
of Phoenix. In 1971 I sold the practice and started graduate school. I was awarded the
PhD degree in physiology from The Ohio State University in 1974 and began a 36year career in academics that culminated as professor and head of the Department of
Veterinary Biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. My research career encompassed 58 funded projects totaling over
Gross, cont’d
$5.5 million and 91 papers published in refereed journals using a wide variety of
animal models. The third edition of my reference text “Animal Models in
Cardiovascular Research” was published by Springer in 2009. Ironically my three
most-cited research papers received no external funding. My colleagues and I showed
that feeding dietary cholesterol to rabbits induced Alzheimer’s-like lesions in the
brain. Our work also showed that surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass resulted
in Alzheimer’s-like brain lesions in pigs. With another group of colleagues I helped
pioneer minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting techniques using the pig
as a model.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Outside of my professional career the greatest accomplishment has been our two sons,
although I doubt I can claim responsibility. After concentrating on athletics during
their undergraduate years they both earned PhD degrees in engineering. Ted, our
oldest, is now a full professor with an endowed chair in the Orthopedics department at
the University of Washington and is an extremely successful researcher. Jeff, is
Executive Vice-President and responsible for all research and development for
Angiotech Inc. in Vancouver, B.C. a medical devices company. Both have stable,
wonderful families and we are the proud grandparents of three granddaughters.
Hobbies/Interests:
Fly fishing, woodworking, writing both fiction and non-fiction. My short story
entitled “Man Hunter” is scheduled to be published by Atlantic Pacific Press in the
summer of 2011. A memoir “Animals Don’t Blush” is currently being touted to
various publishers by my literary agent.
Additional information:
After retirement we moved to the Seattle area to be close to family. We eventually
found a house and after nine months of long days renovating it, mostly on my own,
we moved in. We have a partial view of the Puget Sound and are quite pleased with
the result. The house is comfortable and we are set up to welcome guests.
William Bruce Harbert
Address:
5512 S. Garfield St.
Spokane, WA 99223
Phone:
509-448-2754 home
Cell:
509-998-3920 cell
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Nancy Strand Harbert (deceased ) married 1954-2004
Spouse’s Occupation:
“Everything” – putting hubby through college and G.I. Bill, then homemaker
Additional family information:
Son: Dr. William Perry Harbert, Prof. of Geo Physics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, his
wife, Allison, their two daughters.
Daughter: Mrs. Heich Dianne Rossie-Nordstrom, works in Advertising/Marketing,
Spokane, WA, her husband, Barrett, their three cats.
Pets:
None presently – many in the past at home and at the clinic.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Part-time jobs (many, myself and Nancy), Vet’s Village (quonset hut) and our little
log cabin at 806 W. Magnolia (now hidden by a new BIG home). Friends, the J.D.
Forneys (multi-millionaires) on 1/3 of the block.
Nancy’s “PHTCol” degree (putting the hubby through college), she earned it!
The Honor System! The Jr. AVMA and Auxiliary – GREAT dedicated staff (LA &
SA). Our “Little Black Book” and partner system (as Soph/Jr./Sr). Dedicated faculty.
Dean, Rue Jensen, O.R. Adams, Maxine Benjaman, et. al. Jr. AVMA programs (inhouse and out, example: Montford DVM). The “partner system” especially junior and
senior years.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Establishing a veterinary practice, from scratch, in Spokane, WA. 900 sf and later
3500 sf. Myself, (18 years) later two other DVM’s and employees. I was USDA meat
inspector (1960-1961) just to stay in Spokane. My 6th practice, now about 50! The
“greatest” (?) having so many wonderful clients through the years, letting us care their
Harbert, cont’d
four-footed family members. Community involvement on all levels – professional,
church, etc.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Husband and father – caring for a wonderful woman who “put me through college”
with the G.I. Bill and our many jobs. Nancy gave up her art degree (two years) to
work six years in Fort Collins, many jobs, two children by graduation. Building a
successful practice in Spokane, WA, staff (DVMs/ employees) having wonderful
clients!
Hobbies/Interests:
First 17 years (1961-1978) work, work, work 24 hours a day! A 700 sf building
became 3500 sf in five years. Twenty Spokane veterinarians established an emergency
clinic (now 7-8 DVMs and 3 more specialists). Established Manito Veterinary Clinic
1961. Sold in 1962. Interests: Travel (including overseas), photography, family,
grandchildren, veterinary associations, civic groups, church, etc.
Additional information:
Believe our class of 1960 was the last to spend one year on the horse (later dogs) and
then “comparative anatomy.” Sisson and the other textbooks looked awesome at first.
Wonderful faculty throughout. Hands-on training (SA/LA/ambulatory). Honor
systems. We had to wear a tie – even if a bolo tie, jeans and flannel shirt!
Estes Park High School had four graduates in our DVM Class of 1960:
John Cheney, Bob O’dell, Jim Scott and Bill Harbert. I was on probation (pre-vet)
having left University of Colorado (engineering with two Ds, two Fs and one
Incomplete. For P.E., working out with the ski team counted. Was absent four years
(Navy) and marriage, and returned to A&M. Registrar (Stella Morris) gave me
“another chance” – bless her!
Lionel C. Ickes
Address:
1306 Lone Star Road
Nampa, ID 83651
Phone:
208-466-7924
Cell:
208-989-8478
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
LA practice
Spouse:
Jeannine Ickes
Spouse’s Occupation:
Business manager
Additional family information:
- Daughter, Lynette & husband Jose, 3 children (Madrid, Spain)
- Son, Jon & wife Bridget, 3 children (Durango, Colorado)
- Son, Mark (Boise, Idaho)
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
1. Being accepted into and graduating with the CSU class of 1960.
2. Dick Rezzonico, correctly, offering Dr. Adams the diagnosis of screw worms in the
sheath of a King Ranch stallion admitted for colic, after the faculty was unable to.
3. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a palomino stallion.
4. The dean instructing Dr. Adams to grade the surgery final on the curve and, in so
doing, saving several of us from failure.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
1. I am still able to be actively working, now in solo bovine practice.
2. I have been fortunate to have had a successful partnership with four different
veterinarians and my wife of 48 years, Jeannine.
Hobbies/Interests:
1. We have been fortunate enough to enjoy frequent visits to Europe and New
Orleans and, when at home in Idaho, we stay busy with our acreage and our five
old horses who have been able to retire before we have.
2. Jeannine and I serve on the board of directors for the Idaho Horse Park
Foundation.
Richard Jaggers
Address:
Box 508
Alliance, NE 69301
Phone:
308-762-4965
Cell:
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Janet
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Wife: Janet, 55 years married.
Children: Ken and family, Kansas City, KS is a commercial real estate appraiser.
Jim and family, Denver, CO is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Children’s Hospital
Jodene Hansen and family, Littleton, CO
Pets:
Two Wire Fox Terriers, four Welsh Terriers over 50+ years.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
- Ickes.
- Vet parties, occasional overindulgence of adult beverages.
- Town Pump softball team in summer. Summer employment at Vet Hospital between
junior and senior years.
- Playing pool in lieu of anatomy lab.
- Overall clinical instruction very good with very dedicated instructors.
What are other accomplishments of your career?
Clinical mixed practice for 45 years. Served on Nebraska Board of Examiners of
Veterinary Medicine and National Board of Examiners of Veterinary Medicine.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
??? Yet to be determined.
Three fine children and one good wife.
Hobbies/Interests:
Golf, hunting, fishing.
Joseph P. Jeffrey
Address:
43646 Road 749
Lexington, NE 68850
Phone:
308-324-3613
Cell:
308-325-0277
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired and Entertainer
Spouse:
Dianne (Grace) Jeffrey
Spouse’s Occupation:
Ranch wife and artist
Additional family information:
One daughter Amy Hill, one grandson Garrett Hill, son-in-law Scott Hill
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Great teachers and some not so great. Vet parties.
Rural vet calls.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Staying alive, working for eight other vets, solving other people’s problems.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Speaker – entertained at banquets & meetings in 28 states – on TV – in magazines,
and held many elected offices over the years.
Hobbies/Interests:
Speaking, fixing anything that breaks, joke books, politics.
Additional information:
- Life is good
- Stay around positive people
- Meet important people
- Pray for our country
Michael M. Jochim
Address:
13861 W. 54th Avenue
Arvada, CO 80002
Phone:
303-424-8973
Cell:
303-601-8802
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Veterinarian (Veterinary Diagnostic Technology, Inc.)
Spouse:
Dorothy Jochim
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Three children: Debbie, Scott and Diane; four grandchildren, Ryan, Jennifer, Allyson
and Sam; and, one great granddaughter, Amaya Marie.
Pets:
Izzabelle (Welsh Terrier)
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
The things I remember are: How really hard it was, how high the expectations were,
how close we were as a diverse group of students, but all trying to achieve that goal of
a degree in veterinary medicine – how sweet it was, a DVM!
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Starting my own practice, Veterinary Diagnostic Technology, Inc., after 25 years as a
research veterinarian for the USDA and spending the last 24 years providing
diagnostic reagents to laboratories both in and outside the U.S.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Helping to raise a family and trying to be a good husband, father and grandfather –
and now a long distance great-grandfather.
Hobbies/Interests:
I enjoy the outdoors, fishing and camping (when possible) and lately I have become a
“gun hobbiest.” I enjoy following current events, everything political, and have been a
decade’s long season ticket/fan of the Nuggets and the Avalanche.
Catherine Ada Johnson
Maurice Johnson
Address:
5201 Ponderosa Avenue N.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Phone:
505-881-8990 business
Current Occupation:
Ponderosa Animal Clinic
October 7, 2010
Howdy to all you old folks. Greetings from the land of enchantment. Our best regards
to all of you. We are still working seven days a week. Ada still loves it. I’m ready to
die!!!
Lionel called yesterday to see if we could drop a note. He asked if we traveled a lot
and I said, yes, we travel 30 miles to work every day. We are busy all the time what
with the clinic, two daughters and two granddaughters who are becoming world
champion equestrians (hopefully.)
Have a great time at the reunion. Say hello to Dr. James Voss if you see him.
God bless and be happy,
Maurice & Ada
Taka Kitashima
Address:
2324 South Forest Drive
Denver, CO 80222
Phone:
303-756-2472
Cell:
720-219-8148
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Veterinarian
Spouse:
Jean Kitashima
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
- Wesley and Mimi, Peachtree City, GA; daughters, Laura (23) and Leah (21)
- Stuart and Janet, Centennial, CO; daughter, Carol (12)
- Matthew and Molly, Centennial, CO ; daughter , Elliott (2)
Pets:
Duchess & Daisy, mutts.
David Luck
Address:
2237 Meade Street
Denver, CO 80211
Phone:
303-433-6413
Pager:
303-855-7467
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Veterinary Surgeon
Spouse:
Shirley Moran
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
We have four children and six grandchildren
Pets:
Zip, the feral cat
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
1. How excited, yet scared, when O.R. Adams’ prize horse was castrated.
2. Graduation!
3. Playing football for CSU.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Continuing to practice for 50 years and teaching in China.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
As an author, I have written two books of short-story fiction: Men Are and Scraps.
In addition, being married to Shirley for 25 years has been a very rewarding
accomplishment.
Hobbies/Interests:
Writing, photography, music, bicycling, reading, teaching, travel.
Additional information:
I was blessed with a great education at CSU and have been proud to use that education
in a very life-rewarding manner.
A.Reed Marbut
Address:
1107 Pawnee Circle S.E.
Salem, OR 97306
Phone:
503-363-2121
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired/Attorney – it’s a long story.
Spouse:
Kathy
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Two daughters, one granddaughter.
All living in Salem.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Tetracycline to a dairy cow on a clinic call.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
- Passing four vet licensing exams.
- And, three state bar exams.
- Also, delivering a two-headed calf by caesarean (alive)
- And, teaching law for 15 years.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Being healthy and hardy enough to attend my 50-year reunion.
Hobbies/Interests:
Golf (with wife and granddaughter) and teaching.
Robert R. Ormiston
Address:
P.O. Box 1138
Nashville, IN 47448
Phone:
812-988-6418
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Farmer
Spouse:
Yes
Spouse’s Occupation:
Former teacher
Additional family information:
One son, one daughter and one granddaughter
Son lives in Singapore and daughter in Mountain View, CA
Pets:
Annie, a lab
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Our first class party.
Comments:
“Sorry I won’t be at the party!”
Robert E. Raynor
Address:
9968 Desert Ranch Trail
Tucson, AZ 85742
Phone:
520-742-2754
Cell:
520-591-2848
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Cynthia Raynor
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Three children: Rebecca, 48 years, never married; Lisa, 46 years, registered nurse,
married with one boy and one girl; Brett, 45 years, Lilly Co. in Long Island, NY, never
married.
Pets:
Dogs, cats – no horses.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
The varied uses of the hospital alcohol. 
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
I enjoyed every day of my practice (limited to Equine) in the Hemet, CA valley. The
horse farms there produced Thoroughbreds for racing everywhere – mostly at the
California tracks. I really liked the challenge of getting the Thoroughbred mares,
which have a lot of breeding problems in foaling and following the offspring from a
35-day palpated pregnancy through the racing years and then some of them back to
the breeding farms.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Outside of practice I was:
1. President of the So. California Veterinary Association, Equine Division
2. On the Board of Governors of the California Association
3. Was appointed the “Board of Visitors” of the Veterinary State Teaching
Hospital at Davis, California
Raynor, cont’d.
4. Was on the So. California Veterinary Medical Association of Board Directors
Hobbies/Interests:
Golf has been my love. I could be out on the course and never think about a case with
the broodmares and that was therapy for my sanity. I was president of my club –
Soboba Springs Golf Club – in the 1964-66 years in the San Jacinto Valley near
Hemet. The Club opened in 1964 and that was my first year as president.
Additional information:
Veterinary medicine has been good to me. I loved it and I tried to give something back
and I hope I did. I now enjoy my retirement. God bless all of your from the Class of
1960. We were the best.
Tracy Rhodes
Address:
87 Johnson Creek Road
Buffalo, WY 82834
Phone:
307-684-7958
Cell:
307-752-1074
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
relief practice-part time; rancher
Spouse:
Phyllis Rhodes
Spouse’s Occupation:
Housewife and ranch hand
Additional family information:
One son, Bart. He is at Scott Air Force Base in Belleville, Illinois.
Have 3 grandchildren; 2 are in college, 1 is a senior in high school.
Pets:
3 cats; 2 horses
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
- Receiving a superior education and direction on a way of life.
- Also, associating with a diverse set of classmates, which turned out to be some of the
finest people I have had the pleasure to know.
- I remember loaning my model A Ford to Dr. Ed Carroll and the radiator blew up and
left him afoot and a long way from campus.
- Richard Jaggers also had a Model A Ford and one day we rented a spray paint gun,
bought some chartreuse color paint and sprayed our 2 model A’s in the back yard of the
apartment I was living in. The wind was blowing and we managed to get this great color
of paint on two of the neighbor’s cars from the drift. I was not really liked in my
neighborhood for awhile
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
- Probably being elected to the AVMA Executive Board and getting to represent seven
states at the Ex Board meetings. I also got to travel to each of the seven states for six
years to attend their annual meeting.
- Also, able to make a living for 50 years in a profession and job that was never boring
and often full of many surprises.
Rhodes, cont’d
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career? Developing good friends and neighbors. Got to serve as an
elected county commissioner for 12 years. Somehow survived the many disappointments
and loss of loved ones that seem to be a part of life.
Hobbies/Interests:
Still like to hunt Elk. We have lots of deer and antelope on our own place, but have to
travel to the mountain for Elk. We try to ride a snow machine a few times each winter.
Dabble in the stock market on occasion. This keeps your adrenalin level at up and down
spurts. We try to raise some hay and thus get some exercise walking around to irrigate the
meadows by diverting water out of the different ditches in order to flood the fields.
Additional information:
Had a little battle with colon cancer. Underwent surgery three times. I was not a very
happy camper while in the hospital for so many days. Had a nasal-gastric tube inserted
enough times to make me feel really sorry for all of the horses that I had made endure
that procedure. It does seem they got all of the malignant tissue cut out and at present
am feeling pretty good.
James H. Richards
Address:
2873 Brushwood Street
Albuquerque, NM 87122
Phone:
505-856-6130
James R. Scott
Address:
4203 Hayes Street
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone:
907-277-8808
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Carol Scott
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Five children: (three daughters, two sons)
Shari (deceased), has three daughters (Kaitie, AHT, married to Austin, stationed at
Minden Hall Royal AFB, Great Britain; Lindsay, Jr. at Mararian College, PA; Emily,
Freshman at Pacific Lutheran University, WA); Karen, has one son (Dustin, 10 years);
Christy, had an adopted Chinese daughter (Joye, 13 years) and is working on MSW;
Robert, working on MSW; Jon, our second son.
Pets:
Georgy, eight-year-old Corgi/Beagle mix with retinal atrophy/incipient cataracts
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
While in school, several ambulatory calls and:
• Dr. Adams stiff arming a bull by the nose ring, letting the bull push him to the
fence where he rolled under.
• Smoking cigars in anatomy class.
• Best of all was Dr. A and the trip to Alaska to go on a moose hunt with bow and
arrows. We took horses into the back country and stayed a week. Fished in a
stream, with willow poles, and yes, we caught fish for supper. The fourth day he
got his moose, one well placed arrow and a very nice bull – by the time we dressed
the bull out and got back to camp it was really late – had back strap as fixins for
supper. Had moose brains and scrambled eggs for breakfast about 10 a.m. the next
morning. No, I didn’t get a moose on that trip, just lots of great memories.
Best to all,
Jim
Larry C. Squires
Address:
P.O. Box 2158
Hobbs, NM 88241
Phone:
575-392-4861
Cell:
575-390-0707
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Land and cattle investments
Spouse:
Laura
Additional family information:
Three children: Two sons, one daughter
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Dr. O.R. Adams’ dead stud horse.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Still working on that. (Owning and operating a very successful ranch.)
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Defeating cancer.
Hobbies/Interests:
Flying, golf, bass fishing.
Dallas Cowboys
Atlanta Braves
R. James Stava
Address:
Box 595
Rushville, NE 69360
Phone:
308-327-2275
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Katherine (Kittie)
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired (?) Housewife
Additional family information:
Four grown children (2 boys, 2 girls), eight grandchildren (5 boys, 3 girls).
We all are blessed with good health and freedom from want.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
I can barely remember what happened yesterday.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
No “greatest accomplishment.” I tried to represent my profession well and to serve my
family and my clients, in that order. In so doing, I was mostly successful, tho’
occasionally I failed someone or something.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Fifty-one years of happy married life, yielding four well-adjusted children and their
offspring.
Richard C. Swanson
Address:
8415 N. 107th St.
Longmont, CO 80504-8437
Phone:
303-776-6304
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired Veterinarian
Spouse:
Bonnie M. Swanson
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired Librarian
Additional family information:
Daughter: Kristen K. Swanson, PhD - BS, CSU 1985; MS, CSU 1987; PhD, Texas Tech
1994; Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Married to James
W. Power. Son: Mark R. Swanson, MBA. BS, CSU 1986, MBA, CSU 2004. CEO of
Birko Corp. Denver area. Married to Tracy P. (Leasure) Swanson, BS, CSU 1985. Mark
and Tracy are the parents of Stephanie Kristen and Lindsey Jennifer Swanson. Mark is
currently the President of the CSU Alumni Association.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
President of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1998-99. AVMA Executive
Board member, 1988-94, Chairman of the Executive Board , 1992-93. Honor Alumnus
from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 1998. Inducted into
the Glover Gallery of the CVMBS in 1993. Past President of the CVMA and
Veterinarian of the Year.
Donald G. Tolman
Address:
372 S. Tolman Road
Powell, WY 82435
Phone:
307-645-3176
Cell:
307-250-1825
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Rancher
Spouse:
Jackie
Spouse’s Occupation:
Homemaker
Richard H. Tucker
Address:
13391 Woodcrest Ct
Rapid City, SD 57702
Phone:
605-348-3350
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Roberta L. Tucker
Spouse’s Occupation:
Homemaker
Pets:
One manx cat, Cinder
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Ran a three-man practice for all animals for 30 yrs.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Coaching baseball for 15 yrs, elected into the Colville Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
Hobbies/Interests:
Helping grandkids, coaching baseball & hockey
Golf :
- Forsyth, Montana city champion 1964
- Colville, Washington city champion 1974
Charles D. Vail
Address:
8025 South Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80120-4305
Phone:
303-794-6359
Cell:
720-273-7348
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
CFO Littleton Equine Medical Center
Spouse:
Jeannie
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired Teacher
Additional family information:
- Son David and wife Katie and Grandson Charlie live close by in South Denver
- Daughter Ellen and husband Kevin and Granddaughter Katie and Grandson Jackson
live in Pleasanton CA
Pets:
Grand dog “Griffey” is now in permanent residence at our house
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Aescelepian Staff installed in the Civil Engineers hyperbolic parabaloid College Days
l960
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
FAMILY
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
I’m still doin’ it . Stay tuned
Hobbies/Interests:
Lunatic fly fisherman, reading, classical music, grandchildren
Additional information:
Dr. Vail does not own anything made of Spandex and he has never played a single game
of golf so far in his short happy life.
Benjamin Wacker
Address:
408 Immigrant Trail
Windsor, CO 80550
Phone:
970-674-5114
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Lila
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
Additional family information:
Four children:
- David lives in Missouri and is in law enforcement.
- Cindy, a nurse, lives on a farm in SW Minnesota.
- Diane, a teacher, lives in Windsor.
- Dan is ranching in Sandhills of Nebraska.
- Also have 10 grandchildren.
Vance K. Weidle
Address:
904 Walnut Street
Wamego, KS 66547
Phone:
785-456-6265
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Ruth Weidle
Spouse’s Occupation:
Retired
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Admission
Graduation
Hobbies/Interests:
Woodcarving
Sidney Thomas Zarges
Address:
5820 Doniphan Drive
El Paso, TX 79932
Phone:
915-584-9471
Cell:
915-637-9804
Current Occupation:
Vet endurance rides and farming
Spouse:
Sue Zarges
Spouse’s Occupation:
Veterinarian
Additional family information:
Three married daughters, five grandchildren (two boys and three girls)
Pets:
Nine dogs, five birds, horses
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
The day that Dr. Booth lectured about using the accurate dose of curare on cattle and
Dr. Adams came in and guessed at the weight to calculate the dose and the cow died.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Being able to help injured horses get back to normal or better by arthroscopy and other
means.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Having a beautiful family.
Hobbies/Interests:
Fishing, hunting, horseracing
Virginia Sue Zarges
Address:
5820 Doniphan Drive
El Paso, TX 79932
Phone:
915-584-9471
Cell:
915-637-9804
Current Occupation:
Veterinarian
Spouse:
Sidney Zarges
Spouse’s Occupation:
Veterinarian, farmer
Additional family information:
Three daughters; all married. Oldest lives in Colorado Springs and is a computer
programmer and massage therapist. Middle daughter is in practice with us. Youngest
daughter is a nurse, does labor and delivery.
Pets:
Nine dogs, five birds, ? horses, one jackass.
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
The day that Dr. Voss roped a steer at the rodeo club and somehow or other got the
rope around his neck and was drug.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
Being able to help people by helping their pets.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Having a good relationship with my grandchildren.
Hobbies/Interests:
Music, horseback riding.
Louis L. Ziegler
Address:
7336 N. 15th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85021
Phone:
602-995-4210
Current Occupation:
Retired
Spouse:
Patsy M. Ziegler
Spouse’s Occupation:
Homemaker, tour guide, artist
Additional family information:
Four children, (three boys and one girl)
What is the most memorable event(s) from your vet school days?
Living in the military veterans village housing. We learned to live in close quarters
with other married students, many of which had children.
What is the greatest accomplishment of your career?
The development and management of a successful veterinary small animal hospital for
43 years.
What has been your greatest accomplishment outside of your
professional career?
Belonging to Rotary International for 43 years. We have accomplished many service
projects for the local community as well as projects in other countries. Belonging to
the Gideons International serving in 191 countries around the world for the past 20
years.
Hobbies/Interests:
Wood working, fishing, hunting and home maintenance. My wife and I love to travel.
We traveled with a veterinary group for quite a number of years visiting veterinary
schools such as Russia (1974), Yugoslavia and other countries.
Additional information:
I feel fortunate to have a wonderful wife of 55 years who has supported me in all that I
have accomplished these 50 years since graduation. She is truly a blessing to be in my
life.