Idaho poet receives governor’s award
Robert Wrigley, University of Idaho creative writing director, received the 2004 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts presented Oct. 2 at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. Of the 16 Idahoans honored, he is the only one to be given an award in the literary arts.
The Idaho Commission on the Arts established the biennial awards in 1970 to recognize extraordinary achievement and increase awareness of Idaho arts and artists.
Wrigley’s work has appeared in national journals and magazines, including Poetry, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and has received recognition from Poetry Magazine and the Poetry Society of America.
His published books of poetry include “The Sinking Of Clay City,” Copper Canyon Press, 1979; “Moon in a Mason Jar,” University of Illinois, 1986; “What My Father Believed,” Illinois, 1991; “In the Bank of Beautiful Sins,” Penguin, 1995; “Reign of Snakes,” Penguin Putnam, 1999; and “Lives of the Animals,” Penguin, 2003.
Wrigley, who has lived in Idaho since 1977, taught at Lewis-Clark State College until joining UI in 1999 and now directs the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. He also has taught at the University of Oregon, the University of Montana and Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. His past honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and two fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. He also served as the state of Idaho’s Writer-in-Residence from 1987 to 1988.
• Area University of Idaho students were recently inducted to be among the 1,700 members who live in the nine sororities and 18 fraternities on the Moscow campus.
The number of sorority recruitment participants was higher than it has been since 2001, and 96 percent of those who participated in recruitment ended up joining a chapter.
North Idaho pledges and their Greek houses are listed.
Sororities
Athol: Amy Fuqua, Delta Gamma.
Bonners Ferry: Yvonne Christenson and Elisabeth Mackey, Alpha Phi.
Coeur d’Alene: Nichole Dahmen, Kristin Emmett, Constance Faller, Kristina Gittel, and Katie Larsen, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jaime Chamberlin, Kappa Alpha Theta; Andrea Hall, Megan Sebring, Alpha Phi; Kelly McFarland, Delta Gamma.
Genesee: Sierra Holben, Delta Delta Delta.
Hayden: Kirsten Canady, Alpha Gamma Delta; Jenessa Ross, Delta Delta Delta.
Moscow: Johanna Bandur, Gamma Phi Beta; Kristina Broenneke and Christina Lish, Kappa Delta; Megan Broyles and Lisa Polley, Alpha Gamma Delta; Katherine Christian and Sarah Oman, Kappa Alpha Theta; Erin Jehn, Delta Delta Delta.
Nordman: Kristen Magers, Delta Delta Delta.
Oldtown: Nina York, Delta Delta Delta.
Post Falls: Amy Larson, Delta Gamma.
Priest River: Lisa Heuvel, Kappa Delta; Randi Miller, Delta Gamma; Lisa Naccarato, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Sagle: Brook Ament, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
St. Maries: Jessica Christensen and Heather Lares, Delta Delta Delta; Sarah Hughes, Alpha Phi.
Sandpoint: Megan Brewington, Alpha Gamma Delta; Colista Rodriguez, Gamma Phi Beta.
Fraternities
Bonners Ferry: Jacob High, Julian Langness, Joseph Lowther, and Rhys Sandaker, Farm House.
Coeur d’Alene: Tyson Deschamp, Phi Gamma Delta; Philip Shiplett, Delta Sigma Phi; Jesse Tranfo, Phi Kappa Tau.
Hayden: Dustin Hetrick, Alpha Tau Omega; Ryan Squires, Delta Tau Delta.
Kellogg: John James, Delta Chi.
Moscow: Robert Atkinson, Josh Davis, Wesley Potratz and Elliott Toevs, Theta Chi; Devon Broenneke and Mica Koefod, Phi Gamma Delta; Nickolas Fullwiler, Delta Chi; Ross Gittins, Jimin Lim, Farm House; Philip Kleffner, Beta Theta Pi.
Post Falls: James Beck, Phi Gamma Delta; Shaun Lacy, Alpha Kappa Lambda; Ronald Moss, Sigma Chi.
Priest Lake: Joseph Bailey, Delta Tau Delta.
Sagle: Logan Jones-Olson, Beta Theta Pi; Andrew Pratt, Alpha Kappa Lambda.
St. Maries: Wade Samford, Ian Harpole, Phi Delta Theta; Jacob Craner, Alpha Kappa Lambda.
Sandpoint: Rory Fawley and Matthew Wilson, Delta Chi; Ryan McNally, Phi Delta Theta
Silverton: Vincent Lee, Alpha Kappa Lambda.