1920s
Franklin Hart (’27 Pharm.), 96, August 16, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Salesman for E.R. Squibb & Sons for more than 25 years. Pharmacist for Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital for 15 years. Retired in the late 1970s.
Margaret Ellefsen (’28 Speech Comm.), 95, October 31, 2001, Lacey. Taught business, drama, and journalism. School librarian, 1951-72. Moved to Panorama City in 1973. Alpha Chi sorority.
Felix Byrne McLarney (’28 Bus. Adm.), 96, August 23, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Worked 41 years for Crown Zellerbach in Oakland, California, Seattle, and Portland. Retired as a purchasing agent in 1969.
1930s
Arlene Ulrich Aldrich (’30 Educ.), 92, October 2000, Walla Walla. Lived briefly in Chicago, Huron, South Dakota, and Long Beach, California, before settling in Walla Walla in 1946.
Margaret Hopkins (’31 Math.), 92, September 22, 2001, Milwaukie, Oregon. High school teacher in Washington and Oregon. Donated the Hopkins Memorial Tree Farm in Milwaukie to the non-profit organization Forests Forever Inc. in 1990.
Carroll Esplin (’33 Agri.), 90, October 14, 2001, Spokane. Farmer for 30 years. Member of Peyton Building maintenance crew in Spokane before retiring.
Aroa Fenn Ohme (’34 Office Adm.), 89, August 5, 2001, Spokane. Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Virginia Perkins (’35 Office Adm.), 88, October 23, 2001, Spokane. Resident of Spokane for 50 years. Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
Marjorie Barnum Hatch (’36 Speech), July 18, 2001, Riverside, California.
Harry Cross (’36 Econ.), 88, October 10, 2001, Kirkland. Captain of WSU Rally Squad, 1935-36. Taught at the University of Washington School of Law, 1943-84. As a two-term president of the NCAA, he helped tighten controls over ethical issues in collegiate sports. UW representative to the NCAA. Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Virgil Weidemann (’36 Civ. Engr.), 88, August 18, 2001, Walla Walla. Worked for Boeing in Seattle, and later for North American Aviation in California. Joined the Bureau of Reclamation in Ephrata in 1946. Civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla, 1960-96.
Josephine Wilcox (’37 Office Adm.), October 30, 2001.
Dwight Calkins, Sr. (’38 Agri.), 86, August 12, 2001, Spokane. Worked for Calkins Aircraft Co. during World War II. Later was test pilot at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego. Owned Calkins Manufacturing Co. in Spokane with his brother, Oscar.
Frances Conway (’38 Home Ec., ’38 Educ.), 85, October 11, 2001, Sun City, Arizona, congestive heart failure. Taught home economics at St. John, 1938-40; Walla Walla High School, 1951-63; and Walla Walla Vocational-Technical School, 1964-66. Registrar, head of the home economics department, and dean of admissions of Walla Walla Community College, 1967-70. Delta Zeta sorority.
R. Bert Carter (’39 Polit. Sci.), 84, November 5, 2001, Bountiful, Utah. Served with FBI, 1940-75, including assignments in Huntington, West Virginia.; Houston; Boston; Providence, Rhode Island; Salt Lake City; Puerto Rico; Phoenix; Cleveland; and Seattle. Associate editor of the FBI Investigator magazine, 1965-75. Earned many medals and honors, including the WSU Alumni Achievement Award in 1997. Member of the American Police Hall of Fame. Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Lawrence Leslie Darr (’39 Chem. Engr.), June 20, 2001.
Earl Harris (’39 D.V.M.), 89, August 10, 2001, Chiloquin, Oregon. Established an animal practice in Klamath and Lake Counties of Oregon. Owned ranch outside of Chiloquin. Beef producer and active in the beef industry for more than 50 years.
Gordon M. Todd (’39 Gen. St.) June 13, Toledo, Ohio. Retired physician. Editor of The Daily Evergreen as a senior. Son of C.C. Todd, early dean of the College of Sciences and Arts, for whom Todd Hall, one of the prominent classroom buildings on the WSU Pullman campus, is named.
1940s
Jack Holstine (’40 Phys. Ed.), September 19, 2001, Yakima.
Lowell Stack (’40 Elem. Educ.), 85, October 29, 2001, Spokane. Self-employed general contractor for 41 years. Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Stanley Walters (’40 Agron.), 83, July 25, 2001, Puyallup. Owned a wholesale nursery and bulb farm in the Puyallup Valley for many years. Past president of the Washington Horticulture Association. Served on the Soil Conservation District board of directors for 21 years. Delta Sigma Zeta (Delta Chi) fraternity.
Charles Hatley (’41 Journ.), 81, September 18, 2001, Lewiston, Idaho, Parkinson’s disease. Sports editor of The Daily Evergreen. Served in Navy, 1942-44, and Coast Guard, 1944-46, and later with the FBI. Farmed outside of Pullman until 1990s.
C. Robert Zimmerman (’41 Music Educ.), 83, September 9, 2001, Spokane. Taught music in Spokane and at Lincoln High in Portland, Oregon, 1941-45. Founder and director for 16 years of the Portland Symphonic Choir. Toured with the Robert Shaw Chorale, 1947. Taught at the University of Portland and Linfield College. Founding faculty member, chairman of the music department, and instructor of choral music at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, 1961-90.
Shirley Ryan Feroe (’42 Speech), 81, July 13, 2001, Enumclaw. Former ASWSU president. Red Cross volunteer in France during World War II. Worked for the Kent News Journal. Bookkeeper before opening a tax and personal finance practice. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
Bernice Crawford Myren (’42 Home Ec.), 80, August 4, 2001, Mercer Island. Lived in Germany for six years while her husband worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Returned to Bellevue when he retired in 1987.
Roger LeClere (’43 Chem. Engr.), October 26, 2001, Olympia, leukemia.
Clementine Wacula (’43 Music), 79, April 21, 2001, San Francisco.
Harold Ambuehl (‘44 Chem. Engr.), 79, July 18, 2001, Indian Lake Estates, Florida, lung cancer. Founder and publisher of Southern Book Services in Hialeah, Florida. Worked at Longview Fiber Co. in Longview. General manager of Cardenas Pulp and Paper Mill in Cardenas, Cuba.
Helen Shaffner (’46 Soc.), 76, July 1, 2001, Dillon, Montana. Partner with her husband, Don, in the Dillon Veterinary Hospital until his retirement in 1979. Dillon’s Woman of the Year in 1984.
Clayton Alford (’47 Animal Sci.), 77, November 3, 2000, Pasco. Navy carrier pilot during World War II and Korean War. Raised cattle, beets, and potatoes in Pasco, 1954. Director of Franklin County Cattlemen Association.
Charles Wilson (’47 Ag. Econ.), 78, July 7, 2001, Prosser. Played football at WSU, co-captain. Worked in Washington, D.C., for the USDA and later was an assistant agriculture attaché in Argentina. Later, Benton County superintendent for Farmer’s Home Administration and owner of a vineyard in Prosser.
Bill Bennington (’48 Ag. Engr.), 74, August 29, 2001, Walla Walla. Employed by Umatilla Tractor Co. in Pendleton, Oregon. Sales manager and vice president of Northern Harris Implement Co., until 1975. Later farmed and raised cattle. Walla Walla Cattleman of the Year, 1978. Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Clive Berry (’48 Hort.), 77, Spokane. Longtime Spokane florist. Retired as president and general manager of Spokane Flower Growers in 1989.
Quentin Jones (’48, ’50), October 26, 2001, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After teaching at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and at Michigan State University, he moved to Maryland, where he spent the majority of his career at the USDA Plant Industry Station at Beltsville.
Robert Strickler (’48 Mech. Engr.), 78, July 24, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration and Esco Corp. Partner in the KEI engineering firm in Portland until his retirement.
Howard Carson (’49 Bus. Adm.), 77, Hayden, Idaho. Served in the Navy during World War II. Owned C&S Glass in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Retired in 1985.
James Carty (’49 Pol. Sci.), 80, October 24, 2001, Vancouver, pneumonia. Woodland city attorney, 1952-73. Attorney for the ports of Woodland and Kalama. Clark County prosecuting attorney, 1973-1980. Political activist with “Mr. Democrat” nickname.
Esther Howe Wilson (’49 Foods & Nutr.), 86, November 7, 2001, Moscow, Idaho. Moved to Spokane from Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1947. Became a professor at the University of Idaho in 1962. After retirement, spent two years in Ecuador and Columbia as a visiting professor. Traveled to the Soviet Union with a delegation to extend friendly ties with the U.S.
1950s
Lee Connel (’50 Civ. Engr.), 75, June 29, 2001, Gig Harbor. Owned a non-destructive testing business, X-Ray Inc., in Seattle for over 30 years. Lived in Lakeridge and Renton much of his life.
Don Paul (x’50), 75, September 5, 2001, Eugene, Oregon, cancer. Played baseball and football at WSU. Third-baseman on the 1950 team that went to the College World Series. Defensive back for the NFL Chicago Cardinals, 1950-54. Signed with the Cleveland Browns in 1954. Team won the 1954 NFL title. Earned All-Pro honors in 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1958. Later became a general manager in the North American Soccer League. Inducted into the WSU Hall of Fame in 1980. Published autobiography, I Went Both Ways, in 1988.
David Rathbone (’50 Pharm.), 76, September 23, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Worked at pharmacies in Auburn, Kent, and Bellingham, and for The Eli Lilley Pharmaceutical Co. in Lewiston, Idaho, and Salem, Oregon, 1955-85. Managed Santiam Hospital pharmacy in Stayton, Oregon before retiring.
Robert Spinning (’50 Educ.), August 25, 2001.
Kenneth Clark (’51 An. Husb.), 80, September 24, 2000, Bickleton. Worked at Hanford, 1951. Moved to Grandview in 1952 and Bickleton in 1955 to farm wheat and work the family cattle ranch. Acacia fraternity.
Marybeth Crider Clark (’51 Office Adm.), 72, September 21, 2001, Portland, Oregon, progressive supranuclear palsy. Worked at Hanford, 1951. Moved to Bickleton in 1955 and farmed wheat and worked on the family homestead, Silver Sage Ranch. Taught home economics and business education at Bickleton High School, 1969-95.
William Johnson, Jr. (’51, ’53 M.S., ’58 Ph.D. Pharm.), 79, September 14, 2001, Coupeville. Taught pharmacy at the University of Wyoming. Member of WSU pharmacy faculty, 1953-87. Taught pharmacology at the University of Washington Regional Medical Program and nursing at WSU branch campuses.
Jack Hochhaus (’52 Hort.), 73, October 1, 2001, Ridgefield. Worked for Allied-Signal Co. for 25 years before retiring in 1981. Later sales representative for Wolfkill Feed & Fertilizer Co. in Monroe for 10 years.
Fenton Noyce Royal (’53 D.V.M.), 76, November 2, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Owned and operated West Hills Animal Clinic for more than 37 years until retiring in 1990.
Ralph Body (’54 Pharm.), 70, December 24, 2000. Pharmacist in Grandview and Seattle. Retired from the University of Washington after 30 years with the Department of Pathology.
Elbert Downing (’56 Educ.), 84, October 16, 2001, Soap Lake. Superintendent of the Boville, Deary, and McCall School Districts of Idaho. School principal in Soap Lake, 1957. Taught at Ephrata Junior High, 1959-64. Federal Aviation Administration flight examiner. Helped design and found the flight school at Big Bend Community College in 1964. Program’s chief pilot until retirement in 1977.
Kenneth Pollari (’56 Educ.), 53, October 5, 2001, Rising Fawn, Tennessee. Employed by Lucent Technologies for 27 years in Marietta, Georgia.
Maurice Allert (’57 Educ.), 72, August 3, 2001, Rosalia. Served in Air Force during Korean War. Briefly owned a cabinet shop and later farmed in Rosalia. Chairman of the board for the WSU Stadium Builders Fund to build Martin Stadium in 1972. Instrumental in starting “Bushels for Butch” and “Acre a Year,” two programs for farmers to donate money to build the stadium.
Mary Halloran Colgrove (’57 Hist., Teaching Cert.), 66, August 6, 2001, Woodinville, cancer. Taught at Shoreline High School. Moved to Woodinville in 1961 after marrying John Colgrove.
Howard Neary (’57 Soc.), 84, September 3, 2001, New Orleans. Served in Army Air Corps as radio operator in World War II. Did social work for more than 30 years in New York, New England, and North Carolina.
1960s
Weston Baker (‘60 M.B.A., ’71 Ag. Econ.), 77, December 23, 2000, Ashland, Ohio. Flight instructor with Army Air Corps during World War II and afterward. Accountant in Idaho, California, Illinois, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Taught at Bloomsberg State University and the University of Maryland in Korea, Japan, and Okinawa.
Curtis Franklin (’60 Elect. Engr.), 70, May 4, 2001, Livermore, California, ALS disease. Systems engineer for Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore for 25 years. Retired in 1985. Was a navigator on B-36s from 1954 to 1956 at Fairchild AFB, Spokane.
Ronald Hudson (’60 Agri.), 69, August 23, 2001, Vancouver. Sales representative for agriculture companies, golf courses, and industrial chemicals. Retired from J.R. Simplot in 1997.
H. Dale Collins (’61 Elect. Engr., ’63 M.S. Elect. Engr.), 67, September 10, 2001, Richland. Senior scientist for Sandia Corp., General Electric, Holosonics, and Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Pioneer in the development and application of acoustical holography, obtaining many patents and awards. WSU adjunct faculty.
Robert Harris (’63 Bus. Adm.), 67, September 26, 2001, Cherry Valley, California. Served in Air Force for 24 years before retiring as major in 1978. Computer operations manager at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Retired in 1994.
Wayne Brines (’64 Phys. Ed.), 60, November 19, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Taught at Portland-area schools. Retired in 1994.
Patricia Hayter (’64 Fine Arts), 79, October 31, 2001, Benton City. Served full-time mission for the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Toronto,1965-67. Moved to Kennewick in 1986.
Murlin Gillis (’66 D.V.M.), 66, June 27, 2001, Kennewick. After practicing veterinary medicine, he was a research scientist for Battelle at Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, 1966-95.
Paul Ahrens (’67 Vet. Med.), 58, September 16, 2001, Seattle. Served an internship at Rowley Memorial in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1967-68. Completed residency at Angel Memorial in Lee, Massachusetts, 1968. Owner of Ballard Animal Hospital since 1969.
Sandra Gundstorm Brown (’67 Engl. Educ.), 56, September 30, 2001, Tacoma. Employed by Washington Natural Gas Co. for 27 years.
Carol O’Donnell Smathers (’67 Bact.), 55, September 23, 2000, Albany, Oregon, uterine sarcoma. Employed as human resources manager for Panolam Industries.
Nancy Keeler (’68 Edu.), 59, July 29, 2001, Veradale. Spokane Lilac Festival Queen in 1960. English teacher at Spokane Falls Community College. Worked in the health policy and administration department at WSU Spokane, 1997-98.
Penny Woodward Farcy (’69 Phys. Ed.), 54, October 21, 2001, Maury Island. Taught at McMurray Middle School on Vashon Island for 31 years. Firefighter and emergency medical technician with Vashon Fire and Rescue for 25 years. Trained thousands as a CPR trainer.
N. Joseph Klunkel (’69 Educ.), 54, November 3, 2001, Twin Falls, Idaho, motorcycle accident.
1970s
Keith Crowell (’70 Engr., ’74 Ph.D. Engr.), 53, December 18, 2000, Eltopia. Taught engineering at Gonzaga University, 1974-80. Farmed alfalfa near Eltopia, 1980-2000.
Diane Abenroth (’71 Hist., ’71 Office Adm.), 51, November 13, 2000, Walla Walla. Taught junior high school in Coulee Dam, 1971-73. Moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and then to Walla Walla in 1975. She and her husband started Abenroth Builders.
Ken Wassermann (’71 D.V.M.), 56, October 21, 2001, Fresno, California. After graduation, worked for Diamond Veterinary Hospital. In 1986, opened a private veterinary practice that he operated for 14 years.
Theodore Beadle (’72 Elect. Engr.), 80, August 7, 2001, Spokane. Captain with the Army Corps of Engineers in the Aleutian Islands, 1942-46. Awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Service Medal and World War II Victory Medal. After WWII, worked with the Army Corps of Engineers on Grand Coulee Dam. Later employed by the Washington Water Power Co. until retirement in 1985.
Mark Trueblood (’74 D.V.M.), 53, July 30, 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona. Owned Glennex Animal Clinic in Glendale, Arizona. Merged practice with Apollo Animal Hospital, 1980. President of Arizona Veterinary Medical Association, 1987. Arizona Veterinarian of the Year, 1994. Co-founded “The Snip and Chip Foundation,” a non-profit organization dedicated to educating pet owners to make responsible choices regarding sterilization and identification of their pets.
Lee Davis (’75 Bus. Adm.), 49, October 2, 2000, Bellevue. Material Planner for Boeing Co. in Everett.
Donald Roberts (’75 Comm.), 53, August 17, 2001, Alexandria, Virginia, cancer. Covered Washington legislature and was an investigative reporter for King Broadcasting Corp. in 1978. Later promoted to Washington, D.C., to cover Congress, the White House, and federal agencies. Joined National Association of Home Builders in 1983 as assistant staff vice president for broadcast communications operations. Executive producer of two weekly television shows—Dream Builders and Old Homes Restored on the Home and Garden Television Network.
Margaret Seigneurt (’75 M.S. Bact.), 61, December 5, 2001, Kirkland, lung cancer. Research technical supervisor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Later worked in the Bone Marrow Transplant Research Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Involved with identifying new chemotherapeutic drugs in the R & D division of Baxter Diagnostics. Later involved with identifying novel drugs for therapy at Molecumetics.
Leslie Bennet Butterfield (’76 Hist.), 47, November 21, 2001, Edmonds, cancer. Branch manager, operations director, and human resources vice president for Doug Fox Travel for 23 years. Windermere Real Estate agent for the last five years. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
David Logan (’76 Biol.), June 7, 2001, Pacifica, California.
1980s
Tim Pring (’80 Acct. & Polit. Sci.), 43, July 26, 2001, Spokane, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Began career at Appleway Chevrolet, Spokane. Helped build the multi-dealership into the largest in Washington. It was sold in 1997 to Auto Nation, and Tim managed dealerships in several other states. Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Sharon Forrey Adams (’81 Nurs.), September 1, 2001, Liberty Lake. Whitman College Health Center director, 1978-89. Received the Ollie B. Moten Award for Outstanding College Health Director in 1989. Held medical positions in Wenatchee and Auburn.
Joseph Dougherty (’81 Biol.), 43, October 17, 2001, Olympia, tumor. Retired lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force. During 17-year career in the Air Force, he served as transportation officer in numerous assignments in Panama, Japan, and Philippines. Military decorations include two Oak Leaf Clusters and the Air Force Commendation Medal.
George Lengas (’83 M.S. Elect. Engr.), 70, of Pasco died October 24, 2000, while traveling in London. Worked as an electrical engineer in South Africa and as a consulting engineer in Athens, Greece, 1960-75. Worked for Vitro Engineering at the Hanford Project in 1976. Retired as principal project manager for Kaiser Engineers Hanford in 1994.
Julie Throm Stanley (’83 Home Ec.), 41, July 25, 2001, Fullerton, California, cancer. Partner with her husband, Dave, in binding manufacturing business in LaHabra.
Lisa Jones Wood (’84 Elem. Educ.), 39, November 30, 2000, West Richland, cancer. Elementary teacher in the Renton School District, 1984-1990. Taught at Tapteal Elementary in West Richland, 1990-2000. With other teachers, piloted a program team-teaching a class of first- through third-graders.
Patricia Mensinger Way (’89 Soc. St.), 70, October 10, 2001, Spokane, cancer. Long-time program coordinator in the WSU Lewis Alumni Centre. Retired in 1995.
1990s
Brian Ruetten (’97 Range Mgmt.), Mauston, Wisconsin, snowmobile accident. Employed by the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska.
2000s
Alex Velkov (’00 Comp. Sci.), September 2001, Pensacola, Florida, flight training accident. Served in the Air Force.
Faculty and staff
Harry Batey, 79, November 18, 2001, Nordman, Idaho, pneumonia. Received doctorate at Ohio State University. Member of the WSU chemistry faculty from 1951 to 1985, when he retired. Also taught courses in physical science.
Edmund Broch, 73, October 15, 2001, Pullman. WSU associate professor of zoology, 1964-94.
Charles Cole, 77, November 14, 2001, Sequim. WSU journalism professor in the Murrow School of Communication, 1956-86. Worked vacation relief during the summers at newspapers, mainly weeklies, including the Davenport Times.
Jim Coleman, 69, August 3, 2001, Duluth, Minnesota, pancreatitis. WSU women’s volleyball coach, 1982-84. Earlier coached at the University of Kentucky, George Washington University, and Whitman College. Leader for four decades in volleyball, including coaching in seven Olympic Games, eight Pan American Games, five World Cups, and six World Championships. Inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1992. Chemistry and physical education professor. Retired in 1998.
Irving Cummings, October 10, 2001, Storrs, Connecticut, Parkinson’s disease. WSU professor of English, 1955-59. Member, University of Connecticut English Department. Specialist in 17th-century British literature. Taught everything from Shakespeare to Dickens to Shaw to detective fiction until his retirement in 1996. Received the University of Connecticut Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1980.
Paul Fridlund, 80, of Prosser died November 22, 2000, while traveling in Lisbon, Portugal. World War II Navy officer. Research scientist at WSU Prosser Research Center, 1955-88. His project, called IR2, now named NRSP5, is an international repository for virus-free stone fruit trees.
Elizabeth “Betty” Hall (’52 Ph.D. Bact.), December 11, 2001, Pullman. WSU researcher and faculty member in bacteriology and public health for 32 years, 1944-1976. WSU Woman Faculty Member of the Year, 1966. Received the Carski Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Society of Microbiology in 1976. A scholarship in her name was established at WSU in 1972 to support students majoring in microbiology. Gifts may be sent to College of Science Development, PO Box 643520, Pullman, Washington 99164-3520.
Paul Heilman, October 17, 2001, Tacoma, cancer. Taught at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon and at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks until 1966. Later held position at the WSU Research and Extension Center in Mount Vernon and Puyallup. His research in collaboration with WSU and UW scientists developed the fast-growing hybrid poplar trees now widely cultivated throughout the Northwest and internationally. Retired in 1996.
Eldon Hendriksen, 83, February 10, 2001, Cupertino, California. WSU professor in the business administration department,1955-75. Author of award-winning text, Accounting Theory.
Chin Shung Hsu, 53, October 29, 2001, Pullman. Served in the Chinese Air Force as an officer of electronics and radar systems in 1971. Arrived in the U.S. in 1972 and became a citizen in 1988. Moved to Pullman in 1978 as a visiting professor at WSU. Became an associate professor in electrical engineering in 1980. Named Outstanding Professor in the College of Engineering and Architecture in 1985. Research fellow at the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio in 1990.
Keith Monaghan, 80, November 6, 2001, Marin County, California. WSU professor in fine arts for 39 years, 1947-86. Chairman of fine arts department for 25 years, during the period when the Fine Arts Building and the WSU Museum of Art were built. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Josephine (known to most as “Dodi”), their four children, and four grandchildren. He was a noted artist and enjoyed painting “Palousescapes.”
Denice Williams Murphy, 57, October 9, 2001, Spokane. Faculty member of the Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education for 10 years. Awarded the Jan Holloway Award for Excellence in Clinical Instruction in 1994.
Ernest Schrenk, 85, October 17, 2001, Spokane. Chief of WSU Police Department, 1948-74. Later did security work at Washington Trust Bank in Spokane.
Vincent Schultz, 79, September 12, 2001, Pullman, cancer. WSU professor emeritus of zoology and wildlife. His 1982 book, Radioecological Techniques, co-authored by Ward Whicker, is considered the seminal work in this field. Wrote more than 100 publications.