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2 ARIZONA DAILY SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Tuesday, May 2, 1995 Key NAU figure McDonald dies at 88 so quietly that most students really didnt hear him. Dr. McDonald explained. After graduation in 1931, Dr. McDonald returned to Jerome as a teacher, and later became superintendent of schools.

He spent 21 years there before returning to teach at NAU in 1952. In the meantime, he had earned a masters degree at NAU. He received his doctorate from University of Southern California in 1956. In 1957, McDonald took a leave of absence from NAU to become principal and superintendent of what then was called the accomodation school at Page, built to teach the children of construction workers building Glen Canyon Dam. Following retirement from NAU in 1976, Dr.

McDonald represented Legislative District 2 in the Arizona State Senate for one term. In Jerome, he was active as a By PAUL SWEITZER Sun Correspondent Lewis J. McDonald, longtime Arizona educator and founding superintendent of the Page public schools, died April 29 in Gallup, N.M. He was 88. Dr.

McDonald, who had lived in Gallup since 1990, spent 29 years as a student, faculty member and administrator at Northern Arizona University, where he became a key member of the executive team of former President J. Lawrence Walkup. He retired as executive director of university relations in 1976, nearly a half-century after first arriving at NAU as a student Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Gallup. Dr.

McDonald was bom Oct. 29, 1906, in Butte, Mont He moved leader in Boy Scouts and received Scoutings Silver Beaver Award. He also was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and served as exalted ruler of the lodge in Jerome. In 1978, NAU granted Dr. McDonald an honorary doctorate of laws in recognition of his long association with and many years of service to the institution.

Also, McDonald Hall on the NAU campus is named in his honor. He is survived by his wife, Irene, a former infirmary supervisor at NAU; daughters, Jan Kauzlaric and Martha Mackler, all residents of Gallup; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. The family requests contributions to the McDonald-Rolle Scholarship Fund, co NAU Foundation, P.O. Box 4094, Flagstaff, 8601 1 with his family in 1915 to Jerome, where his father was employed in the United Verde Mine. After graduating from Jerome High School in 1926, Dr.

McDonald worked at the mine for a year before enrolling in 1927 at Northern Arizona State Teachers College, which is now NAU. He served two terms as student body president at the school. On the morning of March 13, 1930, in that role, he introduced Dr. C.O. Lampland, of Lowell Observatory, to a student assembly.

A few minutes later, Lampland announced a new planet had been discovered at the observatory a short time before. In 1980, Dr. McDonald was part of a celebration at NAU marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery. He recalled that he and most other students present did not appreciate the importance of Lamplands announcement. The astronomer spoke Ml, J- J.

Leon Keith City Editor We need to have a chat Flagstaff will soon be getting in on a National Conversation. The National Endowment for the Humanities is embarking on the project to get Americans talking about the countrys identity and diversity. The NEH gave $37,000 to the Arizona Humanities Council for the endeavor. Arizonas conversation is entitled Immigrant Culture, Values and Identity in Arizona. It will take place in six communities Flagstaff, Chandler, Ganado, Maryvale (where I grew up), Tucson (where I went to school) and Sierra Vista (where I worked before coming here), so I plan on having a nice, long discussion with myself.

Details will be forthcoming, and people interested in getting involved should call the Arizona Humanities Council at (602) 257-0335. ONE STOP Saturday recycling at Bashas on Woodlands Village Boulevard has collected 71 tons of paper, glass, plastics and metals since the program began in October 1991. Upcoming One Stop days are Saturday, May 20, June 3 and June 17. Special thanks are in order for the community volunteers who help with collecting and sorting the recyclables. Volunteers who have given up more than four hours of their time during the past six months include: Patty Barkin, Si Davis, Howard Teller, Bobbie Long, Debby DeWolfe, Naomi Rae, Vance Anable, St.

Columbias Church, Kim and Josh Benson, Kevin and Wendy Steiner, Regina and Christina Whitehouse, Don Paul Benjamin, Kathy Flaccus Sinagua High School chemistry class, Peter Johnson, Coconino County Juvenile Court workers and employees, Henry Galvin, Bob Reynolds and Alan Heinze. WANT TO learn more about composting? Of course, we all do! The Compost Demonstration Project, funded by an Arizona State Parks Heritage Fund grant, is providing tours and workshops for the community through June 1995. Twelve bins are at the community gardens on the comer of Mogollon Street and Dale Avenue, operating with material collected from New Frontiers Grocery and the Beaver Street Brewery. Backyard composting systems can manage all household compostable food and yard waste, amounting to a 25 percent reduction in waste generation. For more information about a tour or workshop, call coordinator Ellen Alexander at 779-7624.

IF YOU WANT to go to the Cayman Islands, itll cost you. Ten bucks, to be precise. The American Heart Association, in cooperation with the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and the Womens Clinic of Northern Arizona, are selling 1,000 tickets for a four-day, three-night vacation in the Caribbean, airfare included. Proceeds, naturally, benefit the heart association. Call 526-4081 for tickets, but youd better hurry.

The drawings May 13, and the association wont be selling more than a thousand chances to win. 1995 fir tmgyT) by finiyarul SyMOf Life is tike a treasure chest. Kachina Village and Pinewood firefighters treat the driver of a Jeep Cherokee that rolled while heading north on Interstate 17 Monday afternoon about 1 0 miles south of Flagstaff. A Chevy Sean OpenshawArlzona Daily Sun coupe the Cherokee was towing 'also rolled over. William 27, of Cave Creek, suffered head injuries in the accident, the Department of Public Safety reported.

Sean Open: Obituaries Gordon Wheeler Gordon D. Wheeler, 60, died April 27 in Sedona. Visitation will be from 1 1 aun. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Sedona Funeral Home, 2725 W.

Highway 89 A. Private graveside services will follow. Mr. Wheeler was bom in Taylor, Texas, and in 1970 moved to Arizona from Minot, N.D. He' served 20 years in law enforcement and owned his own business for 18 years.

He also served in the U.S. Army from 1956-58. Mr. Wheeler was member of the Rock of Ages Church in Camp Verde. He is survived by his wife, Lois Wheeler; his parents.

Buck and Dorothy Wheeler; sons, Lee and Jim Wheeler; sister, Sandra Jensen; and six grandchildren. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the charity of the donors choice. Arrangements are being handled by Sedona Funeral Home. Reuben Joe Pena Flagstaff resident Reuben Joe Pena died April 28 iq, Phoenix. He was 40.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight, with a Rosary service at 7 p.m., at St. Marks Catholic Church in Phoenix. The funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Marks.

Mr. Pcfia was bom in Flagstaff on July 31, 1954. He worked as a self-employed salesman. He is survived by his mother, Tana Pefia; a son, Adrian; a daughter, Jennifer; sisters, Doris Lizarraza, Paublita Chavez; Pauline Ortiz, Gloria Nuanez and Evelyn Johnston; and a grandfather, Joe Y. Pefia.

Services are being handled by Botimer Funeral Home in Phoenix. Lloyd Newhouse Lloyd Newhouse, 76, died April 30 at his home in Page. Visitation will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Page Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Center. Funeral Services will follow at 2 p.m., also at the church.

Burial will be in Page Cemetery. Mr. Newhouse was bom March 15, 1919, in Daniels, Idaho. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the Army Air Force. After serving he went to work in the Union Carbide Company in Los Angeles.

Mr. Newhouse married his wife, LaVon, in 1947 in Salt Lake City. That same year he went to work for the United States Bureau of Reclamation, remaining in power plant work until he retired in June 1974. Survivors include his wife; a grandson, Tyson Newhouse of Columbia, a daughter-in-law, Barbara Newhouse of Belton, a sister, Lula Ward of Wofford Heights, and a brother, Oliver Newhouse of Bellevue, Wash. Flagstaff Mortuary is handling the arrangements.

-w, 'f ing to depart for the Grand Canyon and the probabilities are that this summer will see more work done than has ever been accomplished before. 50 YEARS AGO Following the receipt of a telegram telling him that his son Lorenzo Lolomai was alive and safe in a prisoner-of-war camp, Horace Lolomai, Hopi Indian of Oraibi, immediately called on the American Red Cross representative there and presented him with a $100 donation. 25 YEARS AGO Powerful U.S. and South Vietnamese forces began overrunning base camps in Cambodia today. 10 YEARS AGO Police said an honest woman was prompt about turning money over to management at Little America Wednesday.

And a California man was relieved that he got his $2,700 back. No Fantasy winner PHOENIX (AP) None of the tickets sold for Monday nights drawing of the Arizona Lotterys Fantasy 5 game matched all five numbers that were drawn. Those numbers were: 6-9-20-28-30. Players with all five numbers win $50,000. Tickets with four numbers are worth $500 and those with three numbers are worth $5, and there were 24 of the former and 1,118 of the latter in Mondays game.

vi Crime Lab at, 306 E. Pine Knoll Drive. The building is now being used for environmental science. According to an NAU police report, the machine is used for trapping a virus from water. A 19-year-old Northern Arizona University student told NAU police another student took pictures of her without her consent.

She fears the man is taking photos of people, then altering them on his computer to make them sexually explicit, she told NAU police. The woman told police that a 22-year-old male student was taking photographs of her Sunday evening, at one point hiding behind some bushes to snap them. The victim told police she asked the man to give her the film and he refused. The woman did not want to press charges, she only wanted the case documented. The male student denied the allegations, an NAU police report says.

A 27 -year-old Cave Creek man was admitted to Flagstaff Medical Center Monday after the Jeep Cherokee he was driving rolled over on Interstate 17. The accident occurred at 1:59 p.m., about 10 miles south of Flagstaff, the Arizona Department of Public Safety reports. A DPS dispatcher said the Jeep was traveling northbound and towing a blue Chevy coupe when it lost control while going downhill and rolled. William Bagley, 27, of Cave Creek, was admitted to FMC for head injuries, the dispatcher said. No one else was injured in the accident, she said.

Charged with DUI Christopher M. Budd, 19, Box 06220, Flagstaff, arrested by Northern Arizona University police at 1:10 a.m. Sunday. James Curtis Bellar 23, Traverse City, arrested at 2: 14 a.m. Monday.

Dionysius Spencer Fox, 24, 2317 N. Fust Eagstaff, arrested at 12:51 a.m. Monday. New Citizens APRIL 7 Alison MacKenzie of Flagstaff, a girl, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. APRIL 8 Becky and Thomas Myers of Grand Canyon, a boy, 7 pounds, 1 1 ounces.

Kathleen Nez of Flagstaff, a boy, 7 pounds. APRIL 9 Debra and Paul Paothatat of Flagstaff, a boy, 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Kathy Padilla of Flagstaff, a boy, 7 pounds, 62 ounces. Juanita and Joseph Goitia of Flagstaff, a girl, 5 pounds, 6 ounces. Danita Begaye of Flagstaff, a girl, 7 pounds, 7 ounces.

Helen and Joseph Johnson of Flagstaff, a boy, 6 pounds, 1 ounce. Pathways of Memories a 100 YEARS AGO Prospecting parties are commenc The Arizona Dally Sun guarantees a value equal to or greater than the cost of your newspaper, EVERY DAYI Only coupons clipped directly from the Arizona Daily Sun accepted. No facsimilies. Public record Police Log The condition of a 13-month-old Kachina Village infant who nearly drowned last week has been upgraded from critical to serious, Phoenix Childrens Hospital reported this morning. Tamra Rathman fell in a creek near her home last Wednesday night while she was hiking with her father and the familys dog.

The infant was initially not breathing and was transported from Flagstaff Medical Center to Phoenix Childrens Hospital in critical condition. Flagstaff police on Monday morning were called to Coconino High School on a report of a bomb threat. A search of the school turned up nothing unusual, a Flagstaff police report says. According to a police report, an unknown juvenile caller telephoned the school at 9:40 a.m. and said, A friend of mine said he is going to bomb the school.

I dont want anyone to get hurt so Im calling to let you know. The caller then hung up. Northern Arizona University police are investigating the reported theft of a $1,000 virus filtering machine. The machine was allegedly stolen sometime during the weekend from the old Department of Public Safety IDM A I ZONA Mis' Sum Flagstaff Publishing 1995 Official Legal Newspaper for City of Flagstaff and Coconino County Publication No. (USPS 030-560) Published daily Monday through Friday and until 930 a.m.

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