William (Daniel) Arms of Taos recently received the Alumni Award from the University of Arizona for his metal work. Arms graduated from the University of Arizona in 1963 where he studied architecture, engineering and theater arts.

Arms has shown his work at the Salt Lake City Museum of Fine Arts. He has designed and installed projects for designers Arthur Elrod, Bill Reiser and Stephan Chase, and continues to design projects for Andy Gerhard Designs in California.

He is also the designer of the baseball sculpture outside Isotopes Park in Albuquerque. He is organizing a young artists baseball art show for next season.


Two local fencers, Jake Harbour and Gavin Medley, both 15, recently competed in the World Cup Cadet Men's Epée Competition in Bonn, Germany. The event featured 263 fencers from all over the world. The U.S. sent a squad of 12 fencers, all of whom had to qualify in the under-17 age group before being accepted for the World Cup.

The New Mexico Fencing Foundation, coached by James Odom, was the only club in the U.S. to have two fencers qualify. Harbour placed 16th overall and Medley placed 27th. Both will take home "points" from finishing in the top 32.

The fencers will be in Dallas Nov. 9-12, for the national epee event, the North American Cup.