1920s
Florence Cotton (’25 Educ.), 101, January 29, 2002, Seattle. Taught in college and then junior high until she married in 1928.
Thomas Onstot (’29 Forest & Range Mgmt.), 94, November 19, 2001, North Shoreline. Worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Georgia and Tennessee and for the Department of Agriculture in the Western states. Retired in 1969.
1930s
Virginia Kuhn Ellingsen (’31 Educ.), 90, January 18, 2002, Spokane. Moved to Spokane in 1938. Became a fourth-grade teacher in 1950 and later a teacher for homebound disabled students. Retired in 1972. Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Widow of Carl “Tuffy” Ellingsen, who played for WSU in the 1931 Rose Bowl.
Ramon “Ray” Kent (’31 Agri.), December 1, 2001, Lacey. Employed by the Soil Conservation Service for 35 years. Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
James Johnston (’34 Hort.), 90, December 2, 2001, Oroville. Started career in King County in 1936 as assistant extension agent and became head extension agent in 1948. Transferred to Clark County in 1960. Retired in 1976.
Eileen Wexler-Johnson (’36 Chem.), 86, January 10, 2002, Pullman. Active in local and national politics as a Republican. Avid Cougar sports fan. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
Marion “Tex” Brotherton (’37 Bus. Adm.), 85, December 20, 2001, Walla Walla. His father, Frank Brotherton, founded a Walla Walla car garage in 1916 that became a Chrysler-Plymouth franchise in 1933. Tex worked full-time at the dealership after his father’s death. Named a Time magazine quality dealer in 1976.
V. Lauren Shelton (’37 Bus. Adm., ’42 M.A. Econ.), February 25, 2002, Bellevue, Alzheimer’s disease. WSU auditor, 1948-57; comptroller, 1957-66; and vice president for finance, 1966-74. Recipient of the WSU Alumni Achievement Award in 1975.
Lawrence Wickline (’37 Pol. Sci), 89, September 25, 2001, Fresno, Arizona. Salesman and manager for Burroughs Corp., now Unysis, in Fresno for 28 years. Moved to Riverside, California. Theta Chi fraternity.
Roy “Pooch” Petragallo (’38 Gen. St.), 86, January 12, 2002, Spokane. While boxing in the 118-pound division, he won Pacific Coast Intercollegiate titles (1935 and 1937); the Idaho (1933), Washington (1936), and Pacific Coast (1936) Golden Gloves championships; and the NCAA championship (1937). Won 112 of 115 intercollegiate matches, avenging each of the three losses before his career ended. Inducted into the State of Washington Athletic Hall of Fame in 1962, the Inland Empire Sports Hall of Fame (Spokane) in 1974, and the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980. Successful softwater businessman in Spokane, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
1940s
Max Beard (’40 Gen. St.), 90, December 20, 2001, Silver Spring, Maryland, heart failure. In 1942, he joined the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance in Washington, D.C., as its first photographer. Established a photographic lab and procedures which helped in the development of aircraft-launched torpedoes, underwater mines, and ocean mine depth charges and fuses. U.S. representative to the International Congress on High-Speed Photography for 10 years. Life fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Employed 30 years by the Federal government. Split time between homes in Glacier National Park in Montana and Silver Spring for the next 29 years.
James Maston (’40 Bact.), 85, November 24, 2001, Colfax. Army Public Health Officer. Later owned Top Notch Cafe in Colfax. Retired in 1985.
Ruth Zier Adams (’41 Music, ’41 Educ.), 83, December 13, 2001, Spokane, open heart surgery complications. Founded Pullman Montessori School in 1968. Retired to Pacific Beach in 1974. All five immediate family members graduated from WSU.
Asa “Ace” Clark (’41 Agri.), 83, January 18, 2002, Albion. Air Force pilot during WWII. Returned to Pullman-Albion area in 1945 to farm with his family. President of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. His father, Asa Clark, played on WSU’s 1916 Rose Bowl team, and a building on the WSU Pullman campus is named after him.
William Humphrey (’41 Elect. Engr.), 84, February 2, 2001, Bothell. Engineer for Austin Co. for 24 years. Retired in 1980.
Darwin Nealey (’41 Ag. Engr.), 82, January 21, 2002, LaCrosse. Worked for Army Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla after WWII. Returned to family farm in Rosalia in 1948. Moved to LaCrosse in 1978. Held a seat in the Washington State House of Representatives, 9th District, for five terms, 1982-1992.
Irene Luelloff Towne (’41 Music), 81, June 30, 2001, Kennewick, cancer. Employed by Reynolds Aluminum Co. in Longview in 1941. In 1954, involved with the family business, Irrigation Equipment Supply Co., in Pasco. Wrote a history of churches in the Tri-Cities.
Carl Beckley (’43 Mech. Engr.), 82, November 21, 2001, Benge. Worked on family farm and operated Beckley Seed Ranch. Manufactured plot- harvesting combines for use at the WSU Lind Dryland Experiment Station.
Mark Youell (’45 Gen. St.), 76, January 13, 2001, Pullman. Worked for Standard Breads in the bakery and restaurant division. Later managed Ace Concrete Co. in Moscow, Idaho. Owned Alice’s Restaurant in Missoula, Montana. Worked for Eagle Hardware in Lacey.
Dorothy Mitchell Braman (’47 Fine Arts), 77, November 25, 2001, Issaquah. Taught in high schools in Bellevue, Hillsboro, Oregon, and San Rafael, California. Docent at the Seattle Fine Arts Museum, 1951-59; at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1964-81; at the Colorado Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, 1982-95; and at the Bellevue Art Museum, 1997-99.
Gordon Livengood (’47 Polit. Sci.), 80, August 18, 2001, Kirkland. Practiced law for nearly 50 years with Powell & Johnson in Kirkland and Bothell. The firm is now known as Livengood, Carter, Tjossem, Fitzgerald & Alskog.
Quentin Jones (’48 Agri., M.S. ’50 Botany), October 26, 2001, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Worked at the USDA Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Maryland.
G. Kay Kaiser (’48 M.S. Phys. Educ.), 80, October 26, 2001, Sumner. Taught in women’s physical education at WSU while working on her master’s degree. Later taught P.E. in high schools at Tenino and Ridgefield and 12 years at Fife High School. Helped her husband, Duane, manage the Green Branch Ranch Christmas Trees Farm in Tacoma. Honorary lifetime member of the Puget Sound Christmas Trees Association.
Max Nicholls (’49 D.V.M.), 81, December 30, 2001, Redmond, heart failure. Started the Redmond Animal Clinic in 1949. Opened the Blue Spruce Clinic in Redmond in 1957. Practiced veterinary medicine until last December, making rounds with an oxygen tank strapped to his back. Contributions in Dr. Nicholls’s name may be made to the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 647010, Pullman, Washington 99164-7010.
1950s
Nancy Roberts Bernett (x’50), 73, December 28, 2001. Active in the Republican Party. Ran the office of Governor Dan Evans during his reelection campaign in 1972. Ran for the Washington State Senate in 1974 and for the Washington State House in 1978. Lobbyist for the City of Spokane, 1978-81.
John Lawson (’50 Animal Sci.), 73, December 27, 2001, Kent, heart attack. Graduated from University of Washington Law School, 1957. Redmond city attorney for 20 years. Appointed to a vacancy in King County’s Northeast District Court and won the seat in subsequent elections. After 11 years, changed to pro-tem assignments, filling in while other judges were unavailable.
Robert Wallenstien (’50 Agri. Educ., ’68 Ed.D.), 80, February 6, 2002, Moses Lake. Awarded a Presidential Unit Citation and an Air Medal with Oak-Leaf Clusters for his Navy service during WWII. Taught at Kalama High School and Centralia Junior College. Dean of instruction at Spokane Community College, 1965-68. President of Big Bend Community College, 1968-77, where the performing arts building is named after him.
Richard Ballard (’51 Agri.), 74, November 7, 2001. Moved to Moses Lake in 1954 to be a field man for U & I Sugar. Later sold fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, managed a large irrigated farm, and retired in 1995 as manager of the Puregro Co. in George.
Jack Hochhaus (’52 Hort.), 73, October 1, 2001, Ridgefield. Worked for Allied Signal Co. for 25 years until 1981. Sales representative for Wolfkill Feed & Fertilizer in Monroe for 10 years.
Dale Blair (’54 Phys. Ed.), 69, November 15, 2001, Elk. Taught at Kahlotus and Waterville High Schools, and then taught biology and coached numerous sports at North Central High School in Spokane for 27 years. Retired in 1987.
Whitney Smith, (’54 Material Sci. and Engr.), 70, January 28, 2002, Bellevue. Employed 37 years by Boeing. Highlights of his career include working on such projects as the Saturn booster, Apollo, Jetfoil, and International Space Station.
Darlene Braune (’56 Home Ec.), 68, January 6, 2002, Spokane, heart condition. Retired from the Washington Water Power Co. in 1983.
Roy Henderson (’57 Police Sci.), September 17, 2001, Clinton, Alzheimer’s disease. Retired in 1979 from the U.S. Border Patrol.
Donald Peterson (’58 Arch. Engr.), 69, January 5, 2002, Arlington. Had a successful career as an architect and in other business ventures.
Hazel Crowder Southworth (’58 Music), 65, December 16, 2001, breast cancer. Spent 17 years with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Accountant for two family-owned businesses, including an art gallery and frame shop.
1960s
Curtis Franklin (’60 Elect. Engr.), 70, May 4, 2001, Livermore, California, ALS disease. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories as a systems engineer for 25 years. Retired in 1985.
Dorothy Halvorson (’62 M.A. Home Econ.), 82, January 20, 2002, Pullman. Moved to Pullman in 1957 with her husband, Al, from Lafayette, Indiana. After graduating from WSU, she became a WSU Home Economics staff member, where she did food research and taught lab classes.
Marsha James (’66 Clothing and Textiles), 58, October 10, 2002, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Worked for the Ellensburg newspaper before becoming an extension agent in Wenatchee. Pursued interest in interior design in Olympia before moving to Spokane in the 1970s. Edited Rosauer’s magazine, Aisle One, until 1987, when she moved to Hawaii. Returned to Spokane and Coeur d’Alene area. Delta Delta Delta sorority.
1970s
Shelley Bauguess (’74 Educ.), 49, November 19, 2001, Longview. Vocational rehabilitation counselor for 20 years.
Glenn Jarstad (’74 Wildlife Bio., ’81 M.S. Forest & Range Mgmt.), 80, January 27, 2002, Bremerton. After WWII, purchased Toy and Glenn’s Food Center in Bremerton. Elected mayor in 1964 at the age of 42. Held the office through four terms, the city’s longest-serving mayor. During his 16-year term, he built the paramedic program, increased parkland from 100 to 400 acres, and helped pass a bond to build a city pool, which is named after him.
Gregory Colburn (’75 Pol. Sci.), 48, December 24, 2001, Payette, Idaho, car accident. Counselor for the Department of Social and Health Services in Colville. Later was the director for Children’s Services in Ontario, Oregon. Was recently auditor for Boise State University.
Margaret Seigneuret (’75 M.S. Bact.), 61, December 5, 2001, Kirkland, lung cancer. Had a distinguished and lengthy career in cancer and drug research. Research technical supervisor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Lori Arthur-Morman (’76 Rec.), 47, November 26, 2001, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Became director at the Playcare Center in Puyallup before moving to Korea in 1978 as recreation center director for the U.S. Army at Camp Aimes. In 1979, moved to Centralia as city recreation director. In 1981, moved to West Germany with husband and worked for many Army bases as athletic director. Settled in Coeur d’Alene in 1988.
Robert Odne (’77 Finance), 49, September 22, 2001, Tacoma, brain tumor. Cost accounting supervisor at Boeing for 23 years.
Scott Thorson (’77 Hist.), 46, November 12, 2001, Vancouver. Worked construction and traveled around the country. Member of the Heat and Frost Insulation Union.
Joseph Reshey (’79 M.S. Physics), 48, November 23, 2001, Portland, Oregon. Engineer for Tektronix in Portland, 1980-1997.
1980s
Georgia Bakke (’85 Mech. Engr.), 42, January 31, 2002, Edmonds. She and her husband, Lawrence Duff, died in a backcountry avalanche while skiing in the Selkirk Range in Canada. She tested backpacking stoves for Mountain Safety Research in Seattle. He was a paralegal.
1990s
William Stowell (’92 Comm.), 32, December 15, 2001, Bainbridge Island. Returned to the Puget Sound area last year after five years in Chicago.
Faculty & Staff
Edna Young, 101, January 2, 2002, Pullman. Moved to Pullman in 1937 after teaching for 13 years in Illinois, Florida, and Wyoming. Worked in the WSU Registrar’s Office for eight years. Attended all WSU home football and basketball games for 55 years.
Frank Kottke, 88, February 14, 2002, Spokane. Earned a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1940. Taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1938-42, and University of North Carolina, 1946-51. Employed by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., to work on enforcement of laws directed at control of monopoly powers. Joined the WSU faculty in 1961. Researched and taught courses in industrial organization and advised graduate students. Published a book, The Promotion of Price Competition Where Sellers Are Few, in 1978. Retired in 1979.
Adolph Hecht, 86, December 4, 2001, Lacey. Joined WSU faculty in 1947. Eventually became the chair of the biology department. Specialist in botanical genetics and taxonomy. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retired in 1979.
Glen Oman (’47 Bus. Adm.), 82, February 18, 2002, Spokane. WSU athletic department business manager and assistant director for 32 years. Retired as associate athletic director in 1981. Received the WSU Alumni Achievement Award in 1983.
H. Paul Castleberry, 80, February 1, 2002, Moscow, Idaho. WSU political science professor, 1949-82. Fulbright lecturer on international relations at American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1953-55. Conducted research and wrote on continuing problems of American national government, United States, and international organizations in Washington, D.C. and New York.
James “Jack” Mattoon, 78, October 30, 2001, Moscow, Idaho. Helped his father operate the Uniontown Journal. Later worked for the Idahonian, 1948-57. Supervisor of the composing room in the WSU print shop. Retired in 1982.
Grover Krantz, 70, February 14, 2002, Port Angeles, pancreatic cancer. Joined the WSU anthropology department in 1968 and lived in Pullman until his retirement in 1998. Known best publicly for his 34 years of research on the existence of Sasquatch. He was one of the world’s leading authorities concerning the evolution of hominoids. Published 10 books and 60 articles.
Randall Spicer, 87, March 4, 2002, Pullman. Director of bands and professor of music at WSU from 1953 until he retired in 1977. Ran high school summer camp for musicians at WSU for many years. Past president of the Northwest College Band Directors’ Association and member of the Colorado and Washington Music Educators Hall of Fame. Guest conductor and clinician in 28 states and three Canadian provinces. Contributor to many music publications. One of the floors in the Rogers residence hall at WSU was named “Spicer Music House” in his honor. Remembrances may be sent to the Randall and Lucille Spicer New Talent Award, School of Music and Theater Arts, PO Box 643632, Pullman, Washington 99164-3632.