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USU ALUMNI LIST

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Notable Alumni

Harry Reid BS '61, U.S. Senator, D-NV

Chris Cooley 2-time NFL Pro Bowl tight end

Notable Professors

Stephen Covey Author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Craig Jessop BS '73, Mormon Tabernacle Choir Music Director (1999-2008)

Rainer Maria Latzke, German artist

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Notable Alumni

Harry Reid BS '61, U.S. Senator, D-NV

Chris Cooley 2-time NFL Pro Bowl tight end

William Marion Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture (1925-1929); Ambassador to Egypt (1930-1933)

Lars Peter Hansen, B.S. 1974, Economist

John K. Cannon, 1914, Chief of United States Air Forces in Europe for whom Cannon Air Force Base is named.

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Main articles: List of Utah State University alumni, presidents, and faculty

The following is a partial list of notable Utah State University alumni. Utah State University is located in Logan, Utah and boasts more than 180,000 alumni in each U.S. state and more than 100 countries. This list does not contain the names of presidents or faculty of the university, unless they happen also to be alumni.

Utah State University has more than 180,000 alumni throughout the United States and in more than 100 other nations.

Particularly notable alumni include Harry Reid, current U.S. Senate Majority Leader; May Swenson, poet; Merlin Olsen, pro football hall-of-famer, actor, and TV personality; Rick Bass, writer and environmental activist; Charlie Denson, President of Nike Brand; Chris Cooley, pro-football tight-end for the Washington Redskins; and Mary L. Cleave, NASA astronaut.

Administration

Board of Trustees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Welling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_McKeachnie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_K._Granger
Provost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gogue
Athletics Director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_W._Spetman

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Politics

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Ezra Taft Benson			U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1953–61)
Kathleen Clark	1972	B.S. Political Science	First woman to be appointed Director of the Bureau of Land Management (2002–07)
Elizabeth Dowdeswell	1972	M.S.	Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (1993-98)
Norah al-Faiz	1982	MEd	Deputy Minister for women's Education in Saudi Arabia. First woman appointed to ministerial post.
John Gardner Ford	1975	B.S.	Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford, attended USU during his presidency.
Steven Ford			Son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford, attended USU during his presidency.
Kenny Guinn	1970	Ed.D. Educational Administration	Governor of Nevada
George D. Clyde	1921	B.S.	Governor of Utah
Paula Hawkins			First woman ever elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate without a family connection (1981-87)
Howard Jarvis			Anti-tax activist in California
William Marion Jardine	1925	PhD	U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1925-1929), U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Evan Mecham			Governor of Arizona
Michael W. Mosman	1981	B.S.	Federal District Judge
Deanna Okun	1985		Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
Harry Reid	1961	B.S.	U.S. Senator, D-NV; current U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Mike Simpson	1972	B.S.	U.S. House of Representatives, R-ID
Jean Westwood			First female Chair of the Democratic National Committee (1972)
Ardeshir Zahedi	1950	B.S.	Former Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the United States

Activism

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Rick Bass	1979	B.S. Geology	Writer and environmental activist
Gregory C. Carr	1982	B.S. History	Entrepreneur, human rights activist, and founder of the Gregory C. Carr Foundation which supports human rights, education and the arts.
Steve Carr	1981	B.S.	First-ever American elected to Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the organization's highest governing body
Sonia Johnson	1959	B.S.	Feminist
Choichirō Yatani	1980	B.S.	Peace activist and professor of psychology at Alfred State College and Alfred University

Business

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Vern Beuhler	1941	B.S.	Founder of the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence
Prasert Bunsumpun	1978	MBA	President & CEO, PTT Public Company Limited, Thailand's only Fortune Global 500 company
Nolan Bushnell			Founded both Atari Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's chain
Gregory C. Carr	1982	B.S. History	Entrepreneur. Founded the company that first developed voice mail; chaired Prodigy, an early global ISP.
Lulama Patricia Chakela	1989	MS	Head of Broadcasting, SABC
Charlie Denson	1978	B.S. Marketing	President of Nike Brand
Al Faccinto, Jr.	1972	B.S.	President & COO, MGM Mirage International, Inc.
Lars Peter Hansen	1974	B.S.	Award-winning economist
Jason Lindsey	1995	B.A. M.A.	Co-founder, President of Overstock.com
Ward Parkinson	1969	B.S. Electrical Engineering	Founder of Micron Technology, VP for Commercial Development of Ovonyx, Inc.
James H. Quigley	1974	B.S. Accounting	CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, named Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by "Accounting Today" in 2003. Serves on the Board of Trustees of the Central Park Conservancy and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Gary E. Stevenson	1979	B.A.	Co-founder, ICON Health & Fitness
Kay Toolson	1969, 70	B.S. Marketing, M.B.A.	CEO, Monaco Coach Corporation
Scott Watterson	1979		Co-founder, ICON Health & Fitness
J. Phillip Adams	1978	B.S. Business Administration	President and CEO, Flying J, the largest distributor of diesel fuel in North America.
W. Boyd Christensen	1948	B.S. Business Administration	Retired President and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for All-State Insurance.
John Forzani	1971	B.S. Physical Education	Founder, Forzani Group, Canada's largest sporting goods retailer with 215 company-owned stores under the names Coast Mountain Sports, Sport Chek and Sport Mart.
Ron K. Labrum	1983	B.S. Marketing	President and CEO of Integrated Provider Solutions for Cardinal Health
Robert B. Murray	1951	B.S. Business Administration	Chairman of the Board for Alpine Confections, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of candy products. Former President and Owner of the Steve Regan Company.
Jim Ryan	1971, 74	B.S. History, B.S. Business Administration	Retired President and CEO for Volvo Commercial Finance
James L. Sanford	1975	M.B.A.	Corporate VP and Treasurer for Northrop Grumman, a global defense company.
Don Wang	1972	M.S., Nutrition and Food Science	Chairman and President of MetroCorp Bancshares, a Texas corporation which, through its subsidary MetroBank, N.A., provides community banking services in Houston and Dallas.

Science

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Nathaniel Baldwin			Inventor of headphones
Mary L. Cleave	1975, 80	M.S. Biology, Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering	NASA Astronaut
Richard F. Daines	1974	B.S.	Commissioner of Health for New York State, head of the New York Department of Health
Niranjan R. Gandhi	1970, 72	MS, Ph.D.	President of Jeniel Biotech. World-renowned biotechnologist and food scientist.
Archimedes Plutonium	1979	MEd	(as Ludwig van Ludvig), notable Usenet personality
Shang Fa Yang	1963	Ph.D.	research unlocked key to prolonging freshness in fruits and flowers; 1991 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, considered the "Nobel Prize of Agriculture"

Education

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Randy L. Bott	1970, 75	B.S. M.S.	Named #1 Professor in the U.S. by RateMyProfessors.com
Richard Eyre	1968	B.S.	Co-author, with his wife Linda J. Eyre, of 33 books on parenting, including New York Times #1 Best Seller Teaching Your Children Values; developed and founded Joy Schools preschool system
Linda J. Eyre	1970	B.S.	Co-author, with her husband Richard Eyre, of 33 books on parenting, including New York Times #1 Best Seller Teaching Your Children Values; developed and founded Joy Schools preschool system
Mathana Santiwat	1978	MAcc	President of Bangkok University, Thailand
Bart Stevens	2002	B.S.	Director, Bureau of Indian Education
Andy Van Schaack	2002, 08	B.S., Ph.D.	Co-inventor of the Livescribe smartpen
Caryn Beck-Dudley	1980	B.S. Political Science	Dean of the College of Business at Florida State University, first female Dean of the Huntsman School of Business (2002-2005)
Rudy Castruita	1966, 67	B.S. Physical Education, M.S. Physical Education	Former Superintendent of the Sand Diego County Office of Education

Humanities and fine arts

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Michael Ballam	1972	B.S. Music	Renowned tenor. Founder and Director of the Utah Festival Opera. Author of more than 30 publications and music recordings.
Rick Bass	1979		PEN/O.Henry prize-winning novelist, essayist
Reed Cowan	1998	B.S.	Emmy Award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker
Glen Edwards	1962, 76	B.S.,M.F.A.	Award-winning watercolor and oil painter
Douglas Kent Hall			Writer and photographer
Craig Jessop	1973	B.S.	Music director; former director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Lee Jones	1979, 87	M.S., Ph.D.	President of Houghton Mifflin-Riverside Publishing
Greg Olsen			Prolific Mormon Painter
Don Quayle	1952, 63	B.S., M.S.	First President of National Public Radio
Bill Ransom	1998	M.A.	Science fiction writer; Stegner Fellow at Stanford
Chip Rawlins	1974, 83	B.S., M.S.	Non-fiction writer, poet
Jan Shipps	1961	B.S.	Historian of Mormonism
May Swenson	1934	B.S.	Renowned poet, Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
Brad Teare			American painter and illustrator
Mark Walton	1998	B.F.A.	Annie-nominated voice actor and story artist, known as the voice of "Rhino" in the movie Bolt
Kevin Wasden	2008	B.A.	Science fiction and fantasy artist and illustrator

Religion

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Ezra Taft Benson			President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Hugh B. Brown			Member of the First Presidency of the LDS Church
Quentin L. Cook	1964	B.S.	Member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church
David B. Haight	1929		Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church
W. Rolfe Kerr	1960, 66	B.S., M.S.	Commissioner of Education of the LDS Church
Boyd K. Packer	1949, 53	B.S.,M.S.	President of the LDS Church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles
Bonnie D. Parkin	1962	B.S.	14th General President of the Relief Society of LDS Church
L. Tom Perry	1949	B.S.	Member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church

Athletics

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
LaVell Edwards	1952	B.S. Physical Education	College Football Hall of Fame coach; head coach of 1984 National Champion BYU Cougars
Lionel Aldridge			former NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers
Kent Baer	1974	B.S.	Former head football coach, Notre Dame; defensive coordinator at many universities
Rick Baird	2000		U.S. Bobsled Team, 1998–2003; forerunner during 2002 Winter Olympics
Ed Berry			Former NFL defensive back, Green Bay Packers
Jay Don Blake			Professional golfer and PGA Tour winner
Anthony Calvillo			All-time leading passer and star quarterback in the Canadian Football League
Chris Cooley			2-time NFL Pro Bowl tight end, currently with the Washington Redskins
Kevin Curtis	2003	B.S.	NFL wide receiver, currently with the Philadelphia Eagles
Kyle Fiat			Professional lacrosse player, Philadelphia Wings
Mary Lou Ramm Flippen	1984	B.S.	Inaugural National Softball Hall of Fame inductee, played for Team USA
Gar Forman	1984	B.S.	Current General Manager, Chicago Bulls
Cornell Green			Former NFL defensive back, Dallas Cowboys. Played basketball at USU.
Donnie Henderson	1986	B.S.	Former defensive coordinator, New York Jets and Detroit Lions
Eric Hipple	1980	B.S.	Former starting NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions
Phil Johnson	1963, 65	B.S., M.S.	Former NBA head coach; currently longtime assistant coach, Utah Jazz; named NBA's top assistant coach three times
Rulon Jones	1987	B.S.	Former NFL defensive lineman, Denver Broncos. AFC Defensive Player of the Year, 1986.
Greg Kragen	2005	B.S.	Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive tackle, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, and Carolina Panthers
Dick Motta	1953	B.S.	One of top 10 winningest NBA head coaches of all time; NBA Coach of the Year, 1971; head coach of 1978 NBA champion Washington Bullets
Merlin Olsen	1962, 71	B.S., M.S.	College and Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle, later NFL analyst and TV personality. Selected to 14 Pro Bowls. 1974 NFL MVP.
Phil Olsen	1970	B.S.	Former NFL center and defensive tackle, Boston Patriots, Los Angeles Rams, Denver Broncos, and Buffalo Bills
Norm Parrish	1994	MEd	NJCAA Division I men's basketball Coach of the Year, 2009; NJCAA National Champions, 2009 (Salt Lake CC)
Len Rohde	1960	B.S.	Former NFL Pro Bowl tackle, San Francisco 49ers
Jay Silvester	1959, 71	B.S., M.S.	'71, 4-time Olympian discus thrower, silver medal (1972); broke world record four times, first to throw 60 meters

Military

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
John K. Cannon	1914		Air Commander-in-Chief, Allied Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, World War II; 4-star General
Russell Maughan	1917		Pilot of first-ever dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States
Chase Nielsen	1939		Participant in Doolittle Raid, career U.S. Air Force officer

Miscellaneous

Name	Class year(s)	Degree(s)	Notability	Reference
Freddy Deeb			Professional poker player, World Series of Poker; over $6,000,000 in live tournament winnings
Brandon Wright			Student trapped underneath a burning car rescued by fellow students, construction workers, and emergency responders. Video of the rescue made international news.
Mark Hofmann			Author of the Salamander Letter and convicted murderer.