Former state lawmaker and NAU professor John Wettaw dies

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Former Northern Arizona University professor and longtime state lawmaker John Wettaw died on Sunday.
He was 79.
Wettaw taught chemistry at NAU for 47 years before retiring in 2014. In 1999, the university named its biology and biochemistry building after Wettaw after he successfully lobbied then-Gov. Jane Hull for funds to furnish the building.
NAU President Rita Cheng tweeted Sunday, “Today the Lumberjack community mourns the loss of a university icon, John W