Profiles of Notable Alumni

David Brooks is Chief Operating Officer at Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group - China.

Jerry Buss is currently the chairman and majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, which he purchased in 1979.

Dick Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001-2009 under George W. Bush.

Griffin Corpening was the chief engineer for the unpiloted X-43A jet at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.

Marcia Dale was the first nurse from Wyoming to be accepted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

W. Edwards Deming is known as the father of modern Total Quality Management.

Brent Eastman was chair of the Committee on Trauma for the American College of Surgeons from 1990 to 1994.

Dave Freudenthal became the 31st governor of Wyoming in 2003 and was re-elected to a second term in 2006.

Harold H. Gardner is a pioneer in the creation of health maintenance organizations.

Nancy E. Gwinn joined the Smithsonian as Assistant Director for Library Collections Management in 1984 and became Director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in 1997.

William Heink was appointed Site Director of Florida Operations of the Boeing Space Shuttle Operation at the Kennedy Space Center.

Art Howe played for three major-league baseball teams during his career and then became an MLB manager for the Houston Astros and Oakland A's.

Mark Jenkins wrote four books and a monthly adventure travel column for Outside magazine called "The Hard Way" for seven years.

Marilyn Kite was appointed to the Wyoming State Supreme Court by Governor Jim Geringer and became the first woman to hold the position.

Judge Margaret McKeown was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1998.

Jim Neal is a former Chief Counsel to the US Senate Select Committee on Undercover Operations and Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General under Bobby Kennedy.

Jay Novacek won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the early 1990s, was invited to the Pro Bowl five times and was selected NFL Tight End of the Year in 1993.

Tom Osborne holds more than 60 patents and developed the first "shirt pocket" calculator.

Major General (Ret.) Susan Lewellyn Pamerleau was the first woman to command a US Air Force ROTC Corps.

Wayde Preston was a movie and television actor and a US Army pilot.

Marlan Scully, the "Quantum Cowboy," is a leading national authority on lasers and quantum mechanics.

Milward Simpson was a US Senator and Governor of Wyoming.

Todd Skinner was a world-renowned rock climber.

Gerald L. Spence is famed attorney, author and television host.

Bill Stall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Richard Taggart was the Executive Vice President and CFO at Weyerhaeuser.

Kevin Tripp is the Executive Vice President and President of Retail Midwest for SUPERVALU, which was acquired by Albertson's.

Robert J. Weimer is a distinguished engineer and professor.

Wayman C. Wing is the founder of Wayman C. Wing Consulting Engineers and a distinguished engineer.