1930s
Lewis Danes (’39 Elect. Engr.) writes from Smithburg, Maryland, “I enjoy reading Washington State Magazine.” He is retired from the Federal Aviation Administration.
1940s
Max Schoening (’40 Phys. Ed.) of Puyallup writes, “I’m catching up on my reading and working crossword puzzles.“ His wife, Barbara, is in a rest home. Max is retired from the Spokane School District.
Melvin C. Schroeder (’42 Geol., ’47 M.S. Geol., ’53 Ph.D. Geol.) retired May 2001 as professor emeritus at Texas A & M University in Bryan. In January 2000, he was inducted into the Texas Science Hall of Fame and cited for the innovative use of science to benefit teachers and their students in public schools.
1950s
V. Lennie Husa (’50 Ag. Engr.), a retired engineer in Spokane, writes, “We are enjoying retirement and do some traveling and things with our children and grandchildren.”
Clayton Wray (’50 Forestry) and Mary Butler Wray (’50 Fine Arts) are retired on Lummi Island. Clayton taught forestry at the college level for 31 years and was a real estate broker for 15 years.
James Hyde (’51 Entom.) and Marylin Oliver Hyde of Kennewick celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary September 9, 2001. James retired in 1990 after working for General Electric, Westinghouse Hanford, and several Hanford contractors. He was Benton-Franklin County Master Gardner of the Year in 1996 and Washington State Master Gardner in 1999. He met Marilyn at WSU. She is a former chair of the Kennewick Parks and Recreation Commission and was Kennewick Woman of the Year in 1999.
Carol Raney Kelm (’52 Hist.) of Oak Park, Illinois, is active in the Elderhostel program. Since December 2000, she has participated in programs in Malta; Pasadena, California; Sagamore and Chautauqua, New York; Bermuda; and the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. She writes, “In between, I have a part-time job at the Chicago Historical Society.”
Claude Nelson (’53 Fine Arts), Seattle, a retired technical illustrator for Boeing, paints and sketches. Last fall he traveled in Europe.
Bruce Eldridge (’56 M.S. Entom.) is a fellow of the Entomological Society of America. The retired Army colonel and medical entomologist served as chief of the entomology department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He was also professor and head of the entomology department at Oregon State University and professor at the University of California, Davis, where he directed the UCD Mosquito Research Program.
1960s
Eight years ago, Dan L. Smith (’60 Math.) retired from Lockheed Martin after 32 years. He and his wife, Jan, live in Sunnyvale, California. They travel to Europe and around the U.S., visiting art museums and historic sites. On a recent trip to London and Paris, he took photos and did research on the Louvre for his slide show, which he presents at the local adult education center.
Barbara Teel (’61 Home Ec.), an En-glish and history teacher at Davenport High School, was selected Eastern Washington University’s Teacher of the Month for November 2001.
Richard M. Johnson (’62 Bus. Adm.) was elected to a four-year term on the Oro Valley, Arizona, city council. He also serves on the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Board, the Greater Tucson Economic Council, and the Arizona Senate Task Force on Effluent Water. Last year he completed an eight-year term on the WSU Alumni Association Board of Directors.
John Chaplin (’63 Geog.) was inducted into the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in Spokane in 2001. During his 21-year career (1973-94) as head track and field coach at WSU, the Cougar men’s team compiled a 202-15 win-loss record in dual meets. Chaplin takes pride in the fact that 97 percent of his athletes graduated. He was head coach of the U.S. men’s track and field team in the 2000 Olympic Games.
Maurice Leigh Simmons (’63 D.V.M.) is president of Veterinary Resources Americas, Inc., in Vero Beach, Florida. The company’s most important current project, he writes, “is the breeding and conservation of the endangered red-fronted macaw of Bolivia.” For more details see www.macawworld.com.
Gary P. Anderson (’65 Elect. Engr.) retired December 2000 after 36 years with the National Security Agency. He and his wife, Sandy, live in Severna Park, Maryland, 20 minutes from Annapolis. He completed a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins Evening College. “Tennis, traveling and tending the garden are a big part of our retirement plans,” he writes.
Since 1995, Richard Hammerstrom (’66 Comm.) and the Oregon Symphony have collaborated to produce seven television broadcast specials and videos that have won an Emmy and four Tellys. On September 14, 2001, the Oregon Symphony presented the concert “In Memoriam,” honoring victims and families of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Richard Lahti (’66 Math., ’01 Social Sci.) is involved in ethnographic research on Scandinavian immigration to the U.S. in the early 1900s. He previously worked for the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C., and was a branch manager for several banks in Vancouver for 25 years.
John W. Hough (’68 Polit. Sci.) has been elected a partner at the Olympia law office of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky. His practice focuses on governmental and regulatory matters, general litigation, telecommunication law, and natural resource law. His prior experience includes 25 years with the state Attorney General’s Office. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Gregory Canova (’69 Polit. Sci.) of Seattle was elected to the King County Superior Court Judge position in fall 2000.
Gail Campbell (’69 Phys. Ed.) is a middle school physical education teacher and coach in the Everett School District, after substitute teaching for 18 years. Sons Joseph (’93) and Jack (’96) are WSU graduates.
Linda Sheridan (’69 Phys. Educ.) was inducted into the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. She coached Spokane’s Shadle Park High School girls’ teams to five state volleyball championships and two state titles in basketball before retiring.
1970s
Carol Fidler (’70 Educ.), Walnut Creek, California, is an administrator in a continuation high school in Concord. She writes, “Working with teens who would otherwise not graduate is interesting and challenging.”
Mike Peterson (’70 Arch.) has started Design Services, a consulting firm in Walla Walla. He works on residential and small commercial structure and landscape design, site planning, and recreation facilities. Last July, he retired after a 31-year career in municipal parks and recreation. In 1993, he served as president of the Washington Recreation and Parks Association and was a national organization representative in Tokyo and Washington, D.C. During his 24 years as director of Walla Walla Parks and Recreation, the parks grew to encompass 380 acres with a $1.5 million budget.
Denise Garceau (’71 Office Adm.) has been promoted to senior associate business manager for Integrus Architects, Spokane.
Cheri L. Brennan (’72 Comm.) was elected 2001-2002 president of the Seattle Chapter of Marketing Communications Executives International, a professional association. She is one of four partners in a new venture, Golf Marketing Team, which provides marketing communications services to golf industry clients. She also continues to operate Alliance Communications, a Bellevue-based marketing public relations firm she established in 1990.
John Fulton (’72 Chem. Engr.) has joined CH2M Hill Hanford Group in Richland as the senior vice president for environmental safety, health, and quality.
Tim Mellin (’72 Comm.) is in his 24th year as a medical information specialist for the Los Angeles County Health Department. He still keeps his hand in media work, sports, news, film, and occasionally theater. He writes, “I had a great time in El Paso at the Sun Bowl. On our flight back to L.A., I got the stewardess to announce on the P.A. that members of the Cougar football team were aboard and had just beaten Purdue.”
Donald Schreiweis (’72 Ph.D. Zool.) is the director of preprofessional health studies and associate professor of biology at Saint Louis University. In 2000, he was elected national treasurer of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a national honor society for premedical students.
Steve Burnett (’73 Bus. Adm.) has been promoted to senior vice president of U.S. Bank, Bellevue, private client group. He has been with the bank for more than 25 years. The Sammamish resident has been involved with Corporate Council of the Arts and serves on boards of United Way of Pierce County, the Federal Way Philharmonic, and the Bellevue Downtown Association.
Jack Nevin (’73 Soc.), Tacoma, sent the following e-mail message: “I serve as a judge in Pierce County. Recently I traveled to Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia where I served as a representative to a United Nations Tribunal.” He was part of a United Nation’s judicial panel asked to consider whether to release or hold three Albanian men accused of planting a bomb on a bus carrying Serbians in November 2000. Eleven people died when the bomb exploded. The panel ordered the defendants be held until trial, fearing that they were likely to flee or might destroy evidence that could be used against them. During his week in Kosovo, he described the country as being “in disarray.”
Bob Guptill (’74 Comm.) was inducted into the Central Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2001. The former CWU sports information director for two decades is now public relations director for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference with headquarters in Billings, Montana.
After 31 years, Pat Bafus (’75 Phys. Ed., ’75 Educ.) retired last summer from teaching physical education at Pioneer Middle School in Walla Walla. She taught from a wheelchair, since being injured in a 1970 car accident. At WSU she was a member of the women’s field hockey and basketball teams. She continues to swim and bicycle regularly. On the last day of school she said, “I love my job, but I will not ‘be’ anymore if I keep it up.”
Len Nelson (’75 Rec.) retired as assistant manager of Long Beach-area state parks after 25 years. In 1979 he was presented with the U.S. Coast Guard Silver Lifesaving Medal and the Governor’s Lifesaving Award for saving a troubled person 250 yards from the Gray’s Harbor shore. He has formed the Friends of the Columbia Gateway. His passion is telling visitors about natural and human history and makes videos for interpretive centers.
James Howard Clark (’76 Civ. Engr., ’76 M.S. Environ. Engr.) has been elected president of the Water Environment Federation, an international technical, scientific, and educational water quality organization. He is vice president of the engineering and construction firm Black & Veatch, located in Los Angeles. Earlier he was the senior engineer and project manager for the design of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Treatment Plant, which was named one of the 10 most outstanding public works projects of the 20th century by the American Public Works Association.
Col. Robert Dickmeyer (’76 Fine Arts) is deputy commander of the 366th Logistics Group at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. He writes, “In my current assignment, I am part of the air wing that sent more airplanes/people and dropped more tonnage for Operation Enduring Freedom (in Afghanistan) than any other Air Combat Command,” although he was not sent there. At WSU, he was a member of coach Bob Peavy’s gymnastics team and Pac-10 champion in vaulting.
Robert Phillips (‘76 Econ., ‘76 Math.) is a visiting professor at the Columbia School of Business during the 2002 calendar year. He is developing and teaching courses in pricing and revenue optimization, as well as performing research and writing a book. Robert and his wife, Doria, have a permanent home in Palo Alto, California.
Mary “Jan Hageman” Clement (’77 Ph.D. Soc.) was a Fulbright Scholar to Birzeit University Law Center in the West Bank (occupied territories of Israel) in 1998-99. She completed a dual degree in law and social work (1990). In 1999, she retired from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she taught criminal justice courses for more than 18 years and wrote the second edition of her textbook, Juvenile Justice System: Law and Process. She established a private counseling business in Montana and Tennessee. She lives in Portland, Tennessee, where she has a retreat center and a Native American sweat lodge.
James Donaldson’s (’79 Soc.) new physical therapy clinic in Tacoma had its grand opening November 9, 2001. The former WSU and pro basketball player also has clinics in Mill Creek and Cashmere.
Lonnie Dunlap (’79 M.A. Child & Fam. St., ’92 Ph.D. Sci. and Arts) accepted a job in January as director of career services at Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois. She was employed at WSU for 21 years, most recently as director of career services.
1980s
Greg Graham (’80 Civ. Engr.) is chief of planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Walla Walla District, which covers the Snake River drainage in six states. He previously was involved in salmon recovery efforts and project manager for the Corps’s Lower Snake River Juvenile Migration Feasibility Study.
Shaun Callan (’82 Home Ec.) has been promoted to relationship development officer from assistant and branch manager of Baker Boyer Bank in Walla Walla. She began her career in banking in 1982 as teller and new account representative for Capital Savings.
John Adami (’83 Mech. Engr.) is vice president of engineering and sales for GT Development, a Seattle-based manufacturing company that provides custom engineered components to the heavy-truck industry. He and his wife, Sandi, live in Bellevue. They and their two children enjoy worship and fellowship at University Presbyterian Church, “right in the heart of Seattle’s U- District—a great place to display the Crimson and Gray,” John writes.
Timothy McGillivray (’83 Comm.) and Aniko Imre report the birth of a third child, Simon, June 5, 2001. Tim is director of community relations for North Thurston Public Schools in Lacey.
Kurt Mettler (’84 Forestry) is a forest manager for the Spokane Tribe. He worked for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe for 16 years.
Keith Williams (’84 M.A. Hort., ’91 Ph.D. Hist.), director of the Wenatchee Valley Museum, has been elected a trustee of the Washington Commission for the Humanities.
Irene Gonzales (’85 Educ.) is a principal at Green Park Elementary School in Walla Walla. She is participating in WSU’s two-year, field-based superintendent certification program. She has received the $25,000 Milken Family Foundation Educator and $2,500 Washington State Christa McAuliffe awards. She has taught in Pasco and Richland and was a principal in Yakima for nine years.
Joe Goodwin (’85 Elect. Engr., with honors) works for the Federal Aviation Administration in Renton. He was responsible for engineering the no-fly zone for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah.
Raile Kerppola (’85 Biochem.) is the managing director of the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor at the University of Michigan, where her husband, Tom Kerppola (’85 Biochem., ’88 M.S. Biology), is the Howard Hughes Endowed chair in biochemistry. He has a $1 million grant to support his lab, which focuses on how proteins signal each other to change gene expression.
Jeffery Lewis (’85 Hotel Adm.) is a front desk agent for Phoenix Inn Suites in Olympia.
Casey O’Dell (’87 Const. Mgmt.) is the facilities manager at Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas in Camas. His serves on the Camas Educational Foundation board of directors, the city design committee, and Camas-Washougal Chamber of Commerce board.
Martin Sweet (’87 Arch.) has been promoted to associate project manager for Integrus Architects, Spokane.
1990s
Mark Mazzola (’90 Ph.D. Plant Path.) does fruit tree research for the USDA Agriculture Research Service in Wenatchee. Last year, his work took him to Italy and Amsterdam. His wife, Michelle, accompanied him on the Italy trip. She is employed by the Cascade School District, administering a new $1.5 million grant the district received for after-school and summer-school programs for kids and a community school of hobby classes for adults. She writes: “Leavenworth is a friendly community with just enough outside people like us having moved in so that we are not viewed as ‘outsiders.’ ” Four years ago they built a cedar home on 12 acres near Leavenworth.
Shelly Morris Mumma (’90 Comm.) is associate director of student life at Nebraska Wesleyan. She writes from Lincoln, “I am surprised to think that the students who were freshmen when I started will be graduating this spring. I’ll really miss them.” Shelly is applying to the Ph.D. program in leadership studies at the University of Nebraska. He husband, Mark, is a case manager at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.
Trina M. Burroughs Weeks (’92 Bus. Adm.) and her husband, Vern Weeks, announce the October 10, 2001 birth of a son, Jack Thomas. She is telecenter manager with Dun & Bradstreet in Tucson, Arizona.
Carrie Ann Horton (’93 Psych., M.A. Counseling ), Cheney, is a parent education instructor for a family literacy program at Community Colleges of Spokane.
Andy Sugden (’93 Comm.) won the national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Directors Association for 2001. He is a photographer-editor with WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received the award for a sports story about a special-needs boy in Holland, Michigan, who helped a high school basketball team for four years. In gratitude, the coach told him that if the team was ahead by 10 points or down by 10, he would play the boy in the last minute of his senior year. The team was down by 13 points. The boy came in and made a final basket. The fans stormed the court, caring less that the team lost, but cheering for the boy.
Joshua Almy ’95 is the principal at Pioneer Middle School in Walla Walla. Previously he completed an administrative internship in the South Kitsap School District and spent five years teaching math, English, and special education classes.
Angela Lee DeWees (‘95 Civ. Engr.) obtained her Indiana Professional Engineering license in February 2001. She is a transportation project engineer for The Schneider Corp., a consulting firm with 200 employees in Indianapolis.
Dan Wareham (’96 Bus. Adm.) has joined Wheat & Associates Insurance in Spokane.
Lara Fey (’97 D.V.M.) joined the Vineyard Animal Clinic of Walla Walla last July after working at the Mid-Columbia Pet Emergency Service in Kennewick for four years.
Paul Honeyford MacGregor (’97 Comm.) is sales education manager for New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Inc. The company designs and delivers sales training for a network of computer training franchises. The firm also produces corporate training videos and helps coordinate company-wide events. He married Katy Shaff (’98 Hum. Dev.) in 2000. They live in Huntington Beach, California.
Jeff Newgard (’97 M.B.A.) has been promoted to assistant vice president and business banking manager of Baker Boyer Bank at its Tri-City business center.
David Young (’97 Bus. Adm.) has joined the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in Seattle as an associate. His concentration is in complex commercial litigation. He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law.
As marketing director of the Tri-City Area Chamber of Commerce, Jonni Dron (’98 Bus. Adm.) is responsible for member relations, sales, and retention.
Brandon Franklin (’98 Civ. Engr.) has joined the engineering office of Anderson Perry & Associates in Walla Walla. She previously managed construction for a civil engineering firm that had projects in Oregon and California.
Michael Thomas (’98 Acct.) is a financial analyst for First Union National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. He previously spent two years in audit tax work for a Bellevue firm.
Jodi Freytag Miller (’99 Fine Arts) won a graduate scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology but decided to go for an M.F.A. at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. While attending classes, she’s also serving her second internship at Electronic Arts, one of the world’s largest gaming companies. She is working on an EA project regarding a famous person’s golf game.
2000s
Joseph Davis (’00 Material Sci. & Engr.) received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida.
Jeff Evan (’00 Comm.) reports, “things are going well for me down here in the Valley of the Sun.” The former student intern in the WSU sports information director’s office accepted a job in the SID office at Arizona State University. He is responsible for Sun Devil baseball and volleyball. He also is official scorer in the Arizona Rookie Baseball League.
Rian Rosa (’00 Comm.) and Grady Emmerson (’99 Math.) were married August 4, 2001 in Kenmore. Grady is a math teacher and coaches football and baseball at Gonzaga Prep High School in Spokane. Rian is an account executive for Adventures in Advertising.
After graduating from WSU Spokane, Heidi I. Heidel (‘01 M.A. Crim. Just.) moved back to Los Angeles, where she is working as a federal agent for the Department of Justice in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.