Fall 2021

The Norvilles met in Illinois, where Alfie ran a small contracting business. Their encounter was the beginning of Allan’s decades of admiration for the exceptional intelligence, strength and beauty of the woman he would soon marry.

Donna Swaim, a revered teacher and mentor whose 50-year University of Arizona career stretched across campus from humanities to medicine to athletics, passed away in November 2020. She was 86.

Jedd Fisch’s Arizona T-shirt reads: It’s Personal. The all-encompassing mantra encourages his team to build personal relationships with each other. One might ask what that has to do with winning football games; the Wildcats’ head coach would argue: Everything.

It is often through adversity that our best innovation arises. It is no surprise, then, that our core values of exploration and adaptation were as much a feature of the pandemic as compassion and determination.

With a $291,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an archival film collection from historian J. Fred MacDonald, the American Indian Film Gallery is inviting southwestern tribal members to re-narrate films from their point of view.

When Sierra Teller Ornelas ’05 first came to campus, being a trailblazer was part of her lineage. She hailed from a long line of world-class Navajo weavers, after all, so talent had percolated through her family for generations.