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| Alumni News |

winter 2014 byu | magazine

that lies ahead. I urge you to consider the ways in which you can stand up for religious freedom.”

life sciences Craig M. Meyers (BS ’82, MS ’84)Hummelstown, Penn.Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Pennsylvania State University

Best BYU class: Virology with F. Brent Johnson (BS ’66, MS ’67, PhD ’70). Second favorite? Film appreciation. “We’d just go to the theater and watch a movie every week.”

Student labor: “I [worked] with Dr. Marcus M. Jensen on the turkey farms in Sanpete County with turkey vaccines. It was a job, but it wasn’t like a job. That’s how I feel now about what I do: I have a job, but it’s what I like doing.”

Hobby: Swimming. “I’ve competed in the YMCA national meet and some regional meets and actually have won ribbons. Every time I get up on the blocks, I wonder if I’m too old for this.”

Next up: “We’re working on a cure for breast cancer, so we’re trying to get the funding to move it into clinical trials.”

Speaker notes: “When I did this study [on growing human papillomavirus in culture], nobody believed that it would work. . . . Sometimes naïveté works in science. You get down with so much dogma that you’re afraid to try new things. This is what drives science, and this is where things get real exciting.”

nursingSandra Stonehocker Mangum (BS ’58, BA ’59)Orem, UtahRetired BYU nursing faculty and humanitarian

Why nursing: “When I was 4 years old, I’d bring home birds with broken wings and mangy, sick cats and try to heal every-thing. My dolls had pencil-mark incisions on their abdomens.”

Student labor: At LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. “The first two patients I ever cared for died the day after, and I almost recon-sidered becoming a nurse.”

Y nostalgia: “Because my class of 30 nurses were working and sleeping [at LDS Hospital], we stuck together and had a lot of good times. . . . We still get together about once a year. This year is our 55th anniversary from graduating.”

Professional rewards: “Nurses develop an ability to tell what patients and their families are thinking or feeling without ask-ing—to understand different people and see what others might not notice.”

Hobby: Playing the harp. “I play for my own enjoyment, and I’m not awesomely good at it, but I will play for others if I am asked.”

Speaker notes: “Develop and keep a caring attitude. Make that attitude primary in every hour of working. Being patient-centered, not job-centered or self-centered, will take a person far and create joy in every minute.”

Winners of Alumni Achievement Awards, (from left) Art Rascon, Sandra Mangum, Craig Meyers (seated), David Harris, Nathan Sheets (seated), and Hannah Smith enjoy celebrity status in the 2013 Homecoming parade.

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