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In August, it will have been a half century since Kurt Roth stepped off an airplane in Albuquerque — an 18-year-old New York kid embarking on a college journey he’s yet to truly complete.
Now an accomplished Brooklyn real estate attorney, Roth graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1977. And while his subsequent career in law moved him back to the East Coast, the impact his time at UNM — and the Lobo basketball bug he was bitten with in those “Stormin’ Norman” Ellenberger days of the 1970s — has never left.