The Rocky Mountain Association of
Student Financial Aid
Administrators
A Brief History of
The Rocky Mountain Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators
The States Represented At the 1st Meeting:
*Colorado
*Idaho
*Montana
*Utah *Wyoming
RMASFAA Was Organized To:
1.
Promote and facilitate the coordination of student financial aid programs.
2.
Advise and assist in the promotion and development of effective
programs of student financial aid.
3.
Promote and facilitate communication between higher education
institutions and the sponsors of student aid funds.
4.
Foster and promote high standards of professional preparation of
financial aid administrators and counselors in institutions of higher
education and other public and private agencies.
Clark J. Wold
President
Education Assistance Corporation
PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1968-69
Oscar R. "Jack" Hendrix University of Wyoming
1969-70
James Sanderson
University of Utah
1970-71
Harry E. Collins
University of Northern Colorado
1971-72
Richard Winder
College of Idaho at Caldwell
1972-73
James Craig
Montana State University
1973-74
Wayne Tesmer
North Dakota State University
1974-75
Donald Scott
Augustana College
1975
Mark Heffron
University of Colorado-Boulder
1975-76
Sylvia Webster
University of Northern Colorado
1976-77
James Bishop
Northern State College
1977-78
James Gordon
Colorado State College
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Date incorporated and
charter states.
RMASFAA
Origination
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Wyoming
NATIONAL EVENTS
Martin Luther King
and Robert
Kennedy
assassinated.
•Richard Nixon
elected president.
•“The Graduate”
Simon & Garfunkel
album
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Neil Armstrong
became 1st person to
set foot on the moon.
•Woodstock attended
by 500,000+
World Series
NY Mets d. Baltimore
(4-1)
RMASFAA HISTORY
NATIONAL EVENTS
Conference Site:
•Movie-M*A*S*H
•Midnight Cowboy- Best
Picture Oscar
•First Earth Day
celebrated
•IBM introduces the
floppy disc, bar codes
first used
•RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site:
Montana
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Sports – Nebraska NCAA football
champions (13-0-0)
•Intel develops the microprocessor
•June 30, 26th Amendment ratified
lowering voting age to 18.
RMASFAA HISTORY
NATIONAL EVENTS
•New – Electronic mail started
•Video games –
Higher Ed Reauthorization
Created:
Basic Opportunity Grant
First federal need analysis
methodology
RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site:
Wyoming
•Idaho leaves RMASFAA
NATIONAL EVENTS
•New – TCIP/IP designed
•Vietnam peace pacts signed in
Paris
•Movies – The Godfather
•North & South Dakota
join RMASFAA
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Utah
NATIONAL EVENTS
*
•President Nixon resigned and
Gerald R. Ford sworn in as 38th
U.S. President.
•People with Mia Farrow on the
first cover of People.
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Colorado
NATIONAL EVENTS
•T.V. – Saturday Night Live premieresGeorge Carlin first host
•Music – “I Honestly Love You” Olivia
Newton-John
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
South Dakota
FEDERAL
•
LEGISLATION
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•July 4, U.S. celebrated 200th
Anniversary of
Independence Day
Higher Education
Amendments of 1976
*Reauthorized Title IV
programs
*Created student
consumer information
requirements
*Authorized processing
of need analysis data
by Multiple Data Entry
Processors(MDEs)
•Sports – Dorothy Hamill
figure skating gold medalist
in Winter Olympics
• Movies – “Rocky”
RMASFAA
HISTORY
•
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Movies"Star Wars” & “Saturday
Night Fever”
Higher Education
Amendments
*Reauthorized Title IV
programs
*Created student consumer
information requirements
*Authorized processing of
need analysis data by
Multiple Data Entry
Processors (MDE’s)
•New – Space Shuttle
Michael Johnson
Policy & Training
Utah Higher Education
Assistance Authority
PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1978-79
William Jones
South Dakota School of Mines
1979-80
Michael Johnson
Utah Technical College
1980-81
Donald Mullen
University of Montana
1981-82
Robert Pike
University of Nebraska
1982-83
Mary Lou Hildebrandt
Northern State College
1983-84
Gary Schultz
Colby Community College
1984-85
Bruce Anderson
North Dakota State University
1985-86
Richard "Dick" Koontz
Bethel College
1986-87
Craig Walker
Colorado State College
1987-88
Dan Klock
Wyoming Technical Institute
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
North Dakota
Middle Income Student
Assistance Act (MISAA)
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•First test tube baby
born in Great Britain
•Movies – The Deer
Hunter, Superman,
Grease
additional dollars to
*Appropriated existing
aid programs.
*Expanded BEOG
eligibility to include
middle-and upper-middle
income families.
•TV Shows – The
Mary Tyler Moore
Show
•RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site:
Montana
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Three Mile Island Partial Meltdown
•Larry Bird (Indiana
State) NCAA Basketball
Championship Game
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Nebraska joins
RMASFAA
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Higher Ed
Reauthorization
•Conference Site:
Salt Lake City, UT
What new loan program
was created by the 1980
Higher Ed
Amendments?
PLUS Program
Allowed Middle-income
parents to borrow
No restrictions on
income
$3,000 per year per
dependent
•Ronald Reagan
becomes 40th US
President
•Music – Call Me Blondie
•Sports – Miracle on
Ice US Hockey Team
wins Olympics over
USSR
•TV Shows – Magnum
PI
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Kansas joins RMASFAA
•Conference Site:
Snow King Resort
Jackson Hole, WY
•
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Movies – Raiders of the
Lost Ark
Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act
(OBRA)
NEED was
reintroduced as a
condition for
eligibility for
guaranteed loans.
• Prince Charles and
Lady Diana Spencer
Wed
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Articles of
Incorporation are filed
in North Dakota
1st Summer Institute
held at University of
Colorado – Boulder, CO
Conference Site:
Red Lion Hotel
Omaha, NE
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Movies – E.T.
Defense
Authorization
Acts
•T.V. Shows – Cheers
Student
Financial
Assistance
Technical
Amendments
Music – Eye of the Tiger
– Survivor
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
Vail Manor
Vail, CO
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Population:
233,791,994
•Median Household
Income
(current
dollars): $20,885
•Wimbledon
Women:
Martina Navratilova d.
A. Jaeger (6-0 6-3)
Men: John McEnroe d.
C. Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2)
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Sports – Los
Angeles hosts the
Olympic Games
Holiday Inn
Rapid City, SD
•Movies – Back to
the Future
•TV Shows – Miami
Vice
RMASFAA
HISTORY
•
The Initial Year of the
Distinguished Service
Award
Mary Heidrick
Keith Ninemire
Gary Schultz
Glenn ‘Skip’ Sharp
Larry Viterna
The Initial Year of the
RMASFAA Hall of Fame
AWARD
Jim Gordon, Colorado
State University
Conference Site:
Crown Plaza Hotel
Wichita, KS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Consolidated
Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•"What's Love Got to Do
With It," by
Tina Turner
“New Coke” introduced
and fails.
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
Holiday Inn
Bismarck, ND
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act
*Credit bureau reporting
required for all lenders and
guarantors
*Schools required to
determine student’s Pell
Grant eligibility before
certifying a GSL
application
*Guarantors required to
ensure a Lender-of-LastResort program be
available
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•January 20, First officially
observed Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day
•Space shuttle “Challenger”
exploded killing 6.
•
RMASFAA
HISTORY
•Conference Site:
Holiday Inn
Billings, MT
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Bill Gates becomes a
Billionaire
•Aretha Franklin becomes
the first woman inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.
Janet Dodson
Vice President, Policy, Research
and Education
National Student Loan Program
PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1988-89
Karen Webber
Regis College
1989-90
Glenn "Skip" Sharp
Northwest Kansas AVTS
1990-91
Robert Walker
Creighton University
1991-92
John Gritts
Black Hills State University
1992-93
Dale Gehring
Minot State University
1993-94
Dean Obenauer
Northwest College
1994-95
Larry Moeder
Kansas State University
1995-96
Roger Koester
Colorado School of the Mines
1996-97
Janet Dodson
Doane College
1997-98
Sandy Calhoun
Colorado State University
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
President’s Special
Award
Dan Lau, US
Department of
Education, Washington
DC
Paul Tone
Department of
Education, Region VIII
Conference Site:
Cornhusker Hotel
Lincoln, NE
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
GSL renamed
Stafford
Senator Robert T.
Stafford
(R-VT) honored by
renaming
GSL program the
“Stafford Loan”
•Movie-“Rain Man” won
an Oscar for the best
movie.
•Cost of a first-class
stamp: $0.22
CDs outsell vinyl
records for the first
time.
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Bruce Anderson, North
Dakota State University
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Student Loan
Reconciliation
Amendments of 1989.
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•After 28 years
the Berlin Wall is
open to the West.
•Movies:
Conference Site:
Hitching Post Inn
Cheyenne, WY
Born on the
Fourth of July,
Field of Dreams
•
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Mike Johnson
Student Right-toKnow and Campus
Security Act
Utah Valley State
College
*Required
Conference Site:
Prospector Square
Park City, UT
T.V.-Seinfeld debuts
institutions to
disclose:
*Certain graduation
and job-placement
rates.
*Campus security
policies and campus
crime statistics.
•Movie-Dances with
Wolves
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
•
Movie-Beauty & the
Beast
NASFAA Leadership Award
Dick Koontz
Bethel College (KS)
Top 100 Hits of 1991:
Everything I Do I Do It
For You Bryan
Adams
From A Distance, Bette
Midler
Conference Site:
Westin Inn
Vail, CO
Losing My Religion,
R.E.M.
Perfect Game in Baseball
Dennis Martinez
Montreal at LA
7/28/1991
Play That Funky Music,
Vanilla Ice
2-0
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Don Siemsen
Manhattan Area
Technical College
Conference Site:
Howard Johnson Hotel
Sioux Falls, SD
•
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Lawrence Welk passes
away.
Higher Education
Reauthorization
*Renamed GSL Program to
“Federal Family Education
Loan Program,” or FFELP
loans.
*Created a Federal
Unsubsidized Loan.
*Eliminated PLUS loan
limits.
*Required development of
common FFELP application,
promissory not, &
deferment forms.
•Johnny Carson hosts
The Tonight Show for
the last time.
•
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Committee of the Year
Professional
Development
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Rita Bayless
St. Mary’s of the
Plains (KS)
Conference Site:
DoubleTree Hotel
Overland Park, KS
RMASFAA 25th
Anniversary
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Student Loan
Reform Act
•Mississippi River
Flood
•Mark Twain-“The
Mississippi River will
always have its own
way, no engineering
skill can persuade it to
do otherwise…”
“Unforgiven” Clint
Eastwood’s movie
wins the Oscar.
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
The Initial Year of the
Oscar R. ‘Jack’ Hendrix
Award (Rookie of the
Year)
Deb Riding, University
of Utah
NASFAA Leadership
Award
John Gritts, Black Hills
State University
Conference Site:
Holiday Inn
Fargo, ND
•January 1, North
American Free Trade
Agreement took effect
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
•U.S. Senator Tom
Daschle of SD became
the U.S. Senate
minority leader
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994
Improving America’s Schools
Act of 1994
Ed began unannounced federal
program reviews.
•Cheryl Crow Tops
charts with “All I wanna
do”
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Glenn ‘Skip’
Sharp,Northwest
Kansas
Technical School
Conference Site:
Grouse Mountain
Lodge
Whitefish, MT
NATIONAL
EVENTS
U.S. rescues Mexico’s
economy with $20billion aid program.
Russian space station
Mir greets first
Americans and docks
with U.S. shuttle.
Toy Story tops the
movie charts
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Summer Institute moves
to Colorado College –
Colorado Springs, CO
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Robert Walker,
Creighton University (NE)
Conference Site:
Red Lion Hotel
Omaha, NE
First sightings of Corn
Cob Man
MACARENA
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Omnibus Consolidated
Rescissions and
Appropriations Act of 1996
*For the 1996-97 award year,
established
maximum Federal Pell Grant
of $2,470 for 1996-97
*Prohibited a student from
receiving a Federal Pell
Grant at a school that is
ineligible to participate in the
FFEL or Direct Loan programs
as the result of high cohort
default rates
•Music-Macarena (Bayside
Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
•Median Household
Income
(current dollars): $35,492
•Population: 5.760 billion
•Clinton signs line-item
veto bill
•Michael Johnson fastest
man in the world
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Donna Johnson,
Norwest Banks
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
President’s Special
Award
Gary Schultz
Target Marketing, Inc.
Tax Relief Act of 1997:
Conference Site:
Holiday Inn
Sheridan, WY
*Life Time learning Tax
Credit
*Created the HOPE
Credit
*Restored the
deductibility for student
loan interest for 60
months
*Created new Education
I.R.A.’s
•Comet Hale-Bopp is
the closest it will be to
Earth until 4397.
US spacecraft begins
exploration of Mars
• Hong Kong returns to
Chinese rule .
•Mother Theresa dies at
87.
Curt Martin
Director of Financial Aid
Mesa State College
PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1998-99
Sue Weinreis Montana State University
1999-00
Joan Zanders Northeast Community College
2000-01
Wilma Kasnic Emporia State University
2001-02
Darry Voigt Casper College
2002-03
Jim Swanson University of Nebraska
2003-04
Mary Sommers University of Nebraska
2004-05
Peg Mason Colorado School of Mines
2005-06
Sally Schuman University of Wyoming
2006-07
Cristi Easton Millard
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Larry Moeder,
Kansas State
University
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Higher Ed Reauthorization
Conference Site:
DoubleTree World
Arena
Colorado Springs, CO
Allowed Financial Aid
Administrators authority to
limit borrowing
In specific majors
For years in school
Allowed Financial Aid
Administrators authority to
refuse to certify a loan
For students they believe
have no intention of
repaying
•Movies: Titanic
becomes the
highest-grossing
film of all time
•Science: The FDA
approves the male
impotence drug
Viagra.
•Europeans agree
on single currency,
the euro.
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA
Leadership
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Roger Koester
Colorado School of
Mines
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Direct Lending
introduced loan
discounts:
Conference Site:
Dixie Center
St. George, UT
*1% reduction in
origination fees
*0.25% interest rate
reduction for auto debit
Why did DL introduce
these discounts?
*Y2K loomed as a
ticking time bomb.
The world awaits the
consequences of the
Y2K bug with more
drastic millennial
theorists warning of
Armageddon.
The first human hand
transplant is performed
in the U.S.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average
closes above 11,000 for
the first time
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA
Leadership Award
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Dean Obenauer,
Creighton
University (NE)
Lenders sued Department
of Education
• Conference Site:
*To block ED from offering
loan discounts without
offering similar discounts to
FFELP borrowers
Holiday Inn
Rapid City, SD
ED countered
*Would save students
money by reducing costs
*Necessary for parity with
FFELP discounts
•U.S. Presidential
Election closest in
decades. Florida
recounts take months.
•I LOVEYOU Virus
trashes computers
world wide
•Tiger Woods becomes
the youngest player to
win a Grand Slam in
Golf
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NATIONAL
EVENTS
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Phil Van Horn
Wyoming Student Loan
Corporation
•Anthrax scare rivets
nation, as letters are
sent to various media
and government
officials.
Conference Site:
Hyatt Regency
Wichita, KS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
The Economic Growth and
Tax Relief Reconciliation
Act
•Artificial heart
implanted in man.
*Increased contribution
level for Education IRAs
•Record of the Year:
"Beautiful Day,“ U2
*Qualified Tuition Program
expanded
*Student loan interest
deduction 60-month limit
repealed and increased the
income phase-out for use
of the deduction
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NATIONAL
EVENTS
Initial Year for the Ron
Smout Award for
Teaching and Mentoring
•Movies- Spider Man,
Lord of the Rings
Larry Viterna, USA
Funds Services
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Bob Neas,
North Dakota State
University
Conference Site:
Radisson Inn
Bismarck, ND
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Higher Education Relief
Opportunities for
Students Act
*Gives Secretary of
Education broad
authority to waive
regulatory or statutory
requirements to
respond to the
needs of students,
families, and student
loan borrowers in the
aftermath
of the
September 11 attack.
•Queen Elizabeth
dies in UK
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Summer Institute held
at Regis University,
Denver, CO
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Sue Weinreis,
Montana State
University - Billings
Conference Site:
Big Sky Resort
Big Sky, MT
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
•Deaths
*John Ritter
*Bob Hope
*Fred Rogers
Supreme Court
Upholds Affirmative
Action in University
Admissions
•Movies: Pirates of the
Caribbean
•Apple Computer introduces
iTune Music Store
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NATIONAL
EVENTS
•Indian Ocean Tsunami:
The Deadliest in History
Summer Institute relocated
to Colorado School of Mines,
Golden CO
NASFAA Leadership Award
Sandy Calhoun,
Colorado State University
Conference Site:
Embassy Suites
Omaha, NE
Magnitude=9.0
•2004 Olympics in
Athens
* 201 nations
*10,625 athletes
•Movies-Shrek 2
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NATIONAL
EVENTS
NASFAA Leadership Award
•Worldwide aid pours in to
help the eleven Asian
countries devastated by
the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami.
Joan Zanders,
Northeast Community College
(NE)
President’s Special Award
Roger Koester
Colorado School of Mines
Conference Site:
Snow King Resort
Jackson Hole, WY
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Higher Education
Reconciliation Act
•Record of the Year:
HERA is a HERO
* Stafford max to $3,500
*Grad PLUS
Katrina- Historic
destruction
•About 11 million Iraqis
turn out to select their first
permanent Parliament
since the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein.
*Broadened teacher loan
forgiveness
HERA is no HERO
"Here We Go Again," Ray
Charles & Norah Jones
RMASFAA
HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Jim Swanson
Colorado College
President’s Special
Award
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
*ACG
Grant
Brett Lief
NCHELP
Conference Site:
Sheraton City Centre
Hotel
Salt Lake City, UT
*SMART Grant
•Spacecraft “New
Horizons” launched for
nine-year journey to
study Pluto
• Dow Jones Industrial
Average closes above
12,000 for the 1st time
•Academy Award, Best
Picture: Crash
•Korea tests its first
Nuclear weapon
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Conference Site:
Beaver Run Resort
Breckenridge, CO
NATIONAL
EVENTS
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
College Cost Reduction
& Access Act (CCRA)
Most Livable Countries 2007
1.Iceland
2.Norway
3.Australia
4.Canada
5.Ireland
6.Sweden
7.Switzerland
8.Japan
9.Netherlands
10.France
*Published annually by the
UN. Criteria for calculating
rankings include:
life expectancy, adult
literacy, school enrollment,
educational attainment, and
adjusted real income.
NATIONAL
EVENTS
RMASFAA
HISTORY
Summer Institute held
at University of Utah
in Salt Lake City, UT
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Janet Dodson
National Student
Loan Program
Conference Site:
Sheraton Sioux Falls
& Convention Center
Sioux Falls, SD
RMASFAA Celebrates
40 Years!
FEDERAL
LEGISLATION
Ensuring Continued
Access to Student Loans
Act
*Raised Stafford loan limits
*Established new optional
repayment terms for Parent
PLUS
*Eased credit criteria for
Parent & Grad PLUS loans
*Loosened eligibility
restriction on who is eligible
for LLR loans
•National
Mortagage Crisis
erupts
•Oil breaks $100
/barrel barrier
•Gas Prices Clear
$4.00 Gallon
• First Women
nominated to
Republican
presidential ticket
•African American
wins democratic
nomination for
president
Congratulations
RMASFAA on 40 years of
service to students,
financial aid, and
training of colleagues.
Best Wishes on many
more years of success
and service!
RMASFAA 40th
Anniversary Committee