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Robert Gough

Dr. Bob Gough has retired three times but cannot seem to make it stick. Most recently, he retired from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in Vienna, Austria, where, as the senior American in the On-Site Inspection Division, he planned and directed several large-scale practice inspections in places like Kazakhstan and Slovakia. The success of those realistic field activities drew largely on his previous systems engineering work at Sandia National Laboratories, where he led efforts to develop technology and procedures for verifying other countries’ compliance with nuclear, chemical, and missile arms control treaties. While at the Labs, he was asked to serve as the Department of Energy representative on U.S. delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and multilateral arms control conferences in Geneva, Switzerland, where he helped negotiate the global Chemical Weapons Convention, and the CTBT, as well as leading discussions on a possible radiological weapons ban.  Before retiring from Sandia, he applied those experiences to Sandia’s strategic planning efforts, as well as to so-called “backstopping” activities of both the State and Energy Departments for various diplomatic initiatives.

Arms control verification activitieswhich required integration of such disparate functions as technology, diplomacy, national security policy, intelligence, and analysiswere a natural follow-on to Bob’s earlier highly varied military service. Air Force assignments included directing the specialists who analyzed data from operational tests of all-new Air Force electronic equipment, performing proprietary assessments for the Secretary of Defense of broad military investment strategies for long-term competitions with adversaries, strategic weapon system development, civic action duties during combat operations in Southeast Asia, and teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy. During two tours on the faculty at USAFA, Dr. Gough designed and taught courses in decision theory, statistics, operations research, systems theory, and economics, as well as directing the largest academic major chosen by cadetsManagement. Bob has also taught both graduate and undergraduate courses as an adjunct professor at numerous universities across the U.S., including the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School.

His academic education includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems and PhD from Stanford University, where his research was awarded the top prize in the Decision Sciences Institute’s national dissertation competition. Other professional service and honors have included national and regional boards of DSI, the Military Operations Research Society, and several academic honor societies.

Although retired from full-time employment, Bob has had consultancies with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna and Kazakhstan, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Office for Policy, Security, and Technology at the University of New Mexico. For the latter, he helped formulate and conduct research on strategic defense technology management, arranged discussions with numerous former senior government officials, and tailored materials for both the final report and briefings.

Bob has served on several community service boards, including that of Albuquerque’s Committee on Foreign Relations (now World Affairs Council), which he also served as Executive Director before moving to Vienna, the national Board of the American Committees on Foreign Relations, Albuquerque’s Youth Symphony Program, and his homeowners association. He has also served in virtually all elected offices of his church, chaired its three Building Committees and its Strategic Planning Committee, as well as its “safety net” endowment-like Foundation, and was asked to chair the Diocese’s Strategic Planning Committee. He has also been elected to the Board and Executive Committee of Albuquerque’s Jewish Committee Center, having also served as its Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair.

When not involved with his son and grandkids, or trying to play some golf, Bob and his wife Jean love to travel, and to enjoy and support the New Mexico Philharmonic.

Meet the Musicians

FIRST VIOLIN
Carmelo de los Santos
Karen McKinnon Concertmaster Chair
Sarah Tasker •••
Assistant Concertmaster
Ana María Quintero Muñoz
Heidi Deifel 
Juliana Huestis
Barbara Rivers
Nicolle Maniaci
Barbara Scalf Morris

SECOND VIOLIN
Rachel Jacklin •
Carol Swift •••
Julanie Lee
Liana Austin
Lidija Peno-Kelly
Sheila McLay
Jessica Retana
Brad Richards

VIOLA
Laura Chang
Kimberly Fredenburgh •••
Allegra Askew
Christine Rancier
Laura Steiner
Michael Anderson
Lisa DiCarlo
Joan Hinterbichler
Laura Campbell

CELLO
Amy Huzjak
Carla Lehmeier-Tatum
Ian Mayne-Brody
Dana Winograd
David Schepps
Lisa Collins
Elizabeth Purvis

BASS
Mark Tatum •••
Katherine Olszowka
Terry Pruitt
Marco Retana
Frank Murry

FLUTE
Valerie Potter
Esther Fredrickson
Noah Livingston ••

PICCOLO
Esther Fredrickson

OBOE
Kevin Vigneau
Amanda Talley

ENGLISH HORN
Melissa Peña ••

CLARINET
Marianne Shifrin
Lori Lovato •••
Jeffrey Brooks

E-FLAT CLARINET
Lori Lovato

BASS CLARINET
Jeffrey Brooks

BASSOON
Stefanie Przybylska •+
Denise Turner +
Zoe SirLouis •++
Avery Dabe ++

HORN
Peter Erb •+
Allison Tutton
Maria Long
Andrew Meyers

TRUMPET
John Marchiando
Brynn Marchiando
Sam Oatts ••

TROMBONE
Aaron Zalkind
Byron Herrington

BASS TROMBONE
David Tall +

TUBA
Richard White

PERCUSSION
Jeff Cornelius
Kenneth Dean
Emily Cornelius

Principal •
Associate Principal ••
Assistant Principal •••
Assistant ••••
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