1930s
Dan Eagle (’39 Fine Arts), retired advertising man with The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, continues to make Cougar buttons as he has for a quarter-century. Earlier this year he created 2003 Rose Bowl ceramic mugs to honor WSU’s 2002 Pac-10 championship football team. He donated 150 numbered mugs to the WSU football team and coaches.
1940s
Jean Lancaster (’47 Phys. Ed., ’51 Educ.), Longview, spent 10 days on the Yangtze River, visited Siam and Beijing, and spent a week on Easter Island. Her schedule also allowed her to cross-country ski at Mt. Hood Meadows and Mt. Washington on Vancouver Island.
1950s
Raymond E. Reed (’51 D.V.M.), Tucson, was presented the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences “Lifetime Achievement Award” in April 2002 for his service to agriculture, his profession, community, and college.
After retiring, Jack McCulloh (’52 Agri. Sci.), Rapid City, South Dakota, began exploring the Black Hills with friends, tracking the 1874 Custer Expedition with a Global Positioning System unit, and mapping the results. The project has surfaced as a book entitled, Exploring with Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition, so others can become familiar with this aspect of the area’s history. (See www.custerstrail.com/Pages/researchteam.html) McCulloh also started an annual class for the Community Education Organization of Rapid City entitled, “Following Custer and Illingworth in the Black Hills with a GPS.”
Thomas M. Barlow (’57 Mech. Engr.) has been elected to the Board of Governors of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He joined the organization as a WSU junior, and has been active in many ASME committees and boards. He was named a fellow in 1990, and received the society’s Dedicated Service Award in 1991. From 1960 until 1998, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a variety of engineering and management assignments. He and his wife, Sandy, retired in 1997. They live in Lincoln, California.
Betty K. English England (’58 Home Ec.) is an equine artist in Newcastle, California. B.K. England Equine Art celebrates the horse in painting, photos, poetry, and more. Products include cards, commissioned art, and photo portraits. England was born in Wenatchee, and grew up on a ranch. She began her business in 1977 after moving to California. Her artwork has been featured on covers or editorially in such magazines as Equine Images, Chronicle of the Horse, Ride!, Creation, California Review, The Appaloosa Journal, Arabian Visions, and Conquistador.
Charles R. “Dick” Schaefer (’59 Phys. Educ.) retired as a lieutenant colonel and command pilot at the Pentagon after 20 years in the Air Force. He flew 5,000 hours and 135 missions during the Vietnam War, the subject of his book, The Final Conflict: The Loss of Innocence, published by Southern Charm Press in 2002. Following his military career, he worked eight years with TRW and 13 years with the Computer Sciences Corp. He is now a substitute teacher for Okaloosa County. He lives in Niceville, in the Florida panhandle between Panama City and Pensacola.
1960s
Carol Weitz Stueckle (x’60) is director of the Whitman County Hospital Foundation in Colfax. She writes, “Starting over at 65. A new career in national speaking combined with fundraising for our hospital keeps me working full-time.”
Rick Howell (’61 Agri., ’67 M.S. Agri.), Vancouver, has been named director of organization development and human resources at Columbia Forest Products, a Portland company. He will work closely with the operations and human resource managers at all mill locations.
During his 16-year tenure as president of Kansas State University, Jon Wefald (’61 M.A. Hist.) has seen KSU add more than 1.8 million square feet of new buildings and increase its enrollment from 13,000 students in 1986 to nearly 23,000. Over the past 15 years, KSU has had 91 recipients of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholarships. Wefald was Minnesota’s commissioner of agriculture, 1971-77; president of Southwest State University, Minnesota, 1977-82; and chancellor of Minnesota’s state university system, 1982-86.
Dan Pederson (’62 Elect. Engr.) is retired on Camano Island. He named the private road leading to his place “Cougar Lane.” He does consulting as Pederson Engineering.
Bruce Bayley (’63 Civ. Engr.), Portland, Oregon, is a retired structural engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He volunteers his time as treasurer for Portland Table Tennis Club.
James L. Lemery (’63 Bus. Adm., ’65 M.B.A.) joined Southwest Community Bank, Carlsbad, California, as executive vice president/chief financial officer in February after 11 years as chief financial officer at First National Bank in San Diego. He also served as chief financial officer at the former Torrey Pines Bank in Solana Beach during the 1980s. He is a former Cougar basketball player.
Louis Martin Holscher (’68 Gen. St., ’72 M.A. Soc., ’75 Ph.D. Soc.) has taught at San Jose State University for 15 years, the last six as professor and chair of Mexican American Studies. In 2002, he studied the border areas of southern Argentina and Chile. He is working on a history of the Chicano music industry.
Carroll Hayden (’69 Bus. Adm.) was the mastermind behind Pullman’s 2003 New Year’s Eve Rose Bowl Celebration at the Gladish Community Center. The Hog Heaven Big Band opened the evening with music from the swing era, followed by The Fabulous Kingpins with classic rock ’n’ roll. More than 110 people attended. “It was successful enough that we hope it will become an annual event,” he said. Proceeds were designated for the Gladish Community Center and for the Downtown Pullman Riverwalk Project. Hayden spent 33 years at the WSU Activities Center as a program advisor, recreation supervisor, and program director for recreation before retiring in 2001.
1970s
Merritt H. Ketcham (’74 Elect. Engr.), Kalama, was elected to a six-year term on the Cowlitz County Public Utility District Board of Commissioners. He is supervisor of engineering at Longview Fibre Co.
Matthew J. Wanchena (’74 Arch. St.) is employed by the Airport Building Department at the Sea-Tac International Airport.
Col. Bob Dickmeyer (’76 Fine Arts), expedition maintenance group commander with the U.S. Air Force at Guam, is responsible for the airplanes (24) and approximately 850 people who maintain the munitions and aircraft.
Sid Gustafson (’76 Vet. Sci., ’79 D.V.M.) practices veterinary medicine in Bozeman, Montana. His first novel, Prisoners of Flight, was released June 2002 by The Permanent Press. His guidebook, First Aid for the Active Dog, is also scheduled for a summer release by Alpine Publications.
Michael B. Rhea (’77 Crim. Just.) is the defense attaché in Managua, Nicaragua. He was commissioned through the Army ROTC program at WSU. Assignments have taken him to Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Bragg, North Carolina; Ft. Hood, Texas; Ft. Dix, New Jersey; Language School at the Presidio of Monterey, California; and San Diego. He has served in Panama City, Panama; Mexico City; and Caracas, Venezuela, where he was commander, U.S. Military Group.
Ann Parry Haley (’78 Psych.), former public relations executive with the Boston Celtics, was named executive director of the Oakland-Alameda (California) County Coliseum Authority in July 2002. Her role is liaison with the three teams who play in the Coliseum Arena—the Raiders, A’s, and Warriors. She reports to a board of directors, eight people from the City of Oakland and Alameda County, who jointly own the facilities. “Politics are a constant overlying concern and, in that regard, Oakland reminds me of Boston,” she writes.
Don Lynch (’79 Finance), Los Angeles, is author of Ghosts of the Abyss. The book describes the expedition filmmaker James Cameron conducted in August and September 2001, when he returned to the wreck of the Titanic to explore the interior of the ship. Published by Da Capo Press/Madison Press Books, and produced in association with Walden Media, LLC, Ghosts of the Abyss is a companion book to the 3-D, large format documentary Cameron produced as a result of the expedition. The book was scheduled for release March 25, and the film premiered in April.
1980s
Richard L. Domey (’80 Ph.D. Speech) was recognized as a “Pullman Treasure” at a February 8, 2003 reception. He was honored for helping with the acquisition and development of the Gladish Community and Culture Center (the former Pullman High School). He was a member of the group of Pullmanites who raised the money to purchase Gladish, and served as vice president of the board of directors for five years.
Mary M. Brutsche (’81 Child & Family Studies, ’90 Ph.D. Educ.), Arlington, is a child and family psychologist at The Everett Clinic. She also has a private practice one day a week, where she treats children and adolescents. She is a volunteer on the Snohomish County Head Start/ELEAP Health Advisory Committee, and is a mental health consultant for Head Start of Snohomish County.
John R. Weigel (’81 Ph.D. Econ.) was invited to Oxford, England, to present a merger case study based on his business performance analysis model at the Inaugural Strategy World Congress.
Sarah E. Lingle (’82 Ph.D. Agron.) was elected a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 2002. A plant physiologist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Station in New Orleans, she does research on sugarcane.
After 15 years as the assistant sports editor at The Spokesman-Review, Joe Palmquist (’82 Comm.) was promoted to sports editor earlier this year. He writes, “It has been quite a change after nearly 20 years of night shifts.” His wife, Laurie O’Dell Palmquist (’83 Comm.), is a program manager with Child Protective Services of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services. They have three sons.
Tom Eades (’83 Broadcast Comm.) has been appointed assistant fire chief of Friday Harbor. He has lived on San Juan Island for nearly 20 years, where he’s been a volunteer firefighter and dispatcher for the county.
Dan Jurdy (’83 Zoology) is athletic director at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle.
Dennis M. Kelly (’83 Comm.), president of News Talk Concepts, Inc., a consulting firm based in Mukilteo, was hired in late 2002 by KOMO Radio of Seattle to lead the station in a transition to an all-news format.
Erin D. Nuxoll (’83 Forest Mgmt.) has been elected vice president, Human Resources, for the Boise Cascade Corp. in Boise, Idaho. She joined the company in 1983 as a forester in the wood products manufacturing operation in Kettle Falls, Washington. In June 2002, she became senior manager and director of human resources. She earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University in 1991.
Dave Dooley (’85 Bus. Adm.) is the new director of tennis for Shadow Wood Country Club in Shadow Wood at The Brooks, Bonita Springs, Florida. The Seattle native previously worked at the Woodmont G&CC, Fort Lauderdale, and at the Boca Pointe Country Club, Boca Raton. The members-only Shadow Wood Tennis Complex earned the 1999 Outstanding Tennis Facility Award, the top recognition in the private club category from the U.S. Tennis Court and Track Builders Association. The Brooks is a 2,532-acre community being developed by The Bonita Bay Group.
Kenneth J. Fridley (’85 Civ. Engr.) has been named head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona’s College of Engineering. He previously was associate dean of research and interim chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada. Earlier he coordinated the structural engineering and materials division at Washington State University, where he was a professor of civil engineering.
R. Chris Longston (’86 Comp. Sci.) has been a truck systems manager at Paccar/DAF for 16 years. He has been living in the Netherlands for two years on an international assignment for Paccar.
Thomas Alvin Jones (’87 Geol. Engr.), Bothell, is an associate and geotechnical engineer for Zipper Seman Associates. He is serving as a volunteer on a bridge design study in Port D’Paix, Haiti.
Peter R. Mills (’87 M.A. Anthro.) received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, and now is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. His book, Hawaii’s Russian Adventure, a New Look at Old History, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2002. It deals with 19th-century encounters between Russian/Alaskan fur traders and Hawaiian Islanders.
John R. Woods (’87 Acct. & Finance), Portland, Oregon, is regional comptroller for Kinetic Systems in Wilsonville. He and his wife, Meagan, report the birth of their first child, Joshua, December 2, 2002.
Richard Cho (’89 Mech. Engr.) is assistant general manager and associate legal counsel for the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association. He serves as the bridge between the players and the complicated rules of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement. According to a March 21, 2003 story in the Puget Sound Business Journal, he has proven his worth as a software developer. The Sonics are considered one of the NBA’s most technically advanced teams in terms of software application.
Steven R. Woods (’89 Hotel & Rest. Adm.) is director of sales and marketing for Eddy’s Catering in the Kansas City Bartle Hall Convention Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
1990s
Scott Bleeker (’91 Ag. Econ.), Spokane, has joined Banner Bank as assistant vice president and commercial loan officer. He previously was a business banking officer at Sterling Savings Bank.
Alan Cunningham (’91 D.V.M.), American Fork, Utah, has published a book, Sleeping With Angels, directed towards animal companion loss. A second book he is compiling, On Angels Wings, is a collection of short stories from authors who have lost beloved animal companions. Cunningham is a full-time night emergency veterinarian at Animal Emergency South in Sandy. He also is enrolled in his first year of medical school at The School of Health Sciences, Antiqua.
Terrance R. Thomas III (’91 Bus. Adm.), a major in the Marine Corps Reserves, was called into active duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, while assigned to the Third Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company at Terminal Island, California.
Meghan Wiley (’92 Hotel & Rest. Adm.), assistant general manager of Pullman’s Holiday Inn Express, has been named Manager of the Year for 2002 by the Washington State Hotel and Lodging Association. She also was named 2002 Director of Marketing for the Year by Six Continents Hotels and Resorts. She started marketing blitzes when the hotel opened in 1994, and had WSU students call on WSU employees who booked rooms for out-of-town participants in college events. The students asked those people what hotels they were using and what hotel needs they had.
Nancy Barga (’93 Educ.) is assistant principal at Sehome High School in Bellingham.
Angelique S.C. Grant (’94 Comm., ’01 Ph.D. Higher Ed. Adm.) is director of development at Princeton University for the Princeton-Blairstown Center. The center is located in northwest New Jersey, but her office is on the Princeton campus. She reports that each year more than half of the freshman class starts its four years with a freshman outdoor leadership trip. “We also work with urban underserved youth in New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia, teaching them conflict resolution, team building, and leadership skills,” she says.
Carl Christoferson (’96 Bus. Adm.) has been named manager of sales for the west coast market by Windsor Mills. The manufacturer of high-quality specialty lumber, molding, and millwork makes its headquarters in Windsor, California.
Susan J. Tornquist (’96 Ph.D. Veterinary Path.), a Corvallis, Oregon, veterinarian and assistant professor of clinical pathology at Oregon State University, has been inducted into the Morris Animal Foundation. The foundation now claims 155 veterinary professionals on its honor roll. She was cited for her work on behalf of llamas and alpacas.
Shelley Goss (’98 Polit. Sci., ’98 Bus. Adm.) is recreation coordinator for the new city of Spokane Valley. She designs and runs recreation programs, including day camps, pre-school activities, dances, tennis lessons, and sports camps. She also works with the city’s senior center, planning events for seniors.
Brock Ledgerwood (’98 Agri., ’99 Teaching Cert. Elem. Educ.) and Adela Maldonado were married May 24, 2003 in Grandview. Brock is employed by Mabton High School, and Adela works for the Sunnyside School District and attends Heritage College in Toppenish.
Sandra Wilson (’98 Educ.) teaches English and journalism at Puyallup High School and is advisor to the school newspaper.
2000s
Chris Cashman (’00 Comm.) has joined KSTW UPN 11 as the station’s new on-air host for such projects as Mariners Bullpen, a locally produced, live, 30-minute pre-game show that was launched March 29, 2003. “Getting to do what I have dreamed about in the town [Seattle] I grew up in is an amazing thing,” he says. “I couldn’t be more excited.”
January 25, 2003, Bryce Littlefield (’01 Crop Sci.) and his dad, Gregory Littlefield, Moses Lake, were selected to carry the Olympic Torch in Pasco on its way to the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Russell Pillar Lucas (’01 Food Sci. & Hum. Nut.), Manteca, California, is supervisor of Leprino Foods, which he says is the world’s largest single-site mozzarella plant.
Farouk Dey (’02 Educ.) is assistant director for career development in the Career Counseling Center at the University of Florida.
Tonja L. Koob (’02 Ph.D. Civ. Engr.) has started her own engineering firm in New Orleans—GAEA Engineering Consultants, LLC.
Mike and Kristen Buckley Lee (’02 M.Ed.) report the birth of a son August 22, 2002. Kristen is a teacher in the Kennewick School District. Mike is a reporter for the Tri-City Herald.
Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew R. Olsen (x’02) has been called to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has been assigned to the Marine Corps Bulk Fuel Company “C” in Phoenix, Arizona. According to the Marine Corps, an armored division could consume an estimated 500,000 gallons of fuel per day, more than twice that consumed by Gen. Patton’s entire Army during World War II.
Haida Peterson (’02 Music Educ.) won the six-state regional Collegiate Artist Performance Competition of the Music Teachers National Association January 25 in De Kalb, Illinois. She is a graduate assistant in flute, and studies under Professor Christine Smith in the Western Michigan University School of Music in Kalamazoo. She has performed with more than a dozen orchestras and ensembles, including the Washington-Idaho Symphony, WSU Symphony, WMU Symphony Orchestra, and Western Winds, and for productions at the Kalamazoo Civic Theater.
Philip Rust (’02 Civ. Engr.), a graduate research assistant at the University of Idaho’s National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology, was chosen NIATT’s Student of the Year for 2002. He is pursuing a master’s degree in civil engineering with emphasis in traffic engineering at the UI.
Chris Storm (’02 M.S. Entomology) was hired in January 2003 by the Lodi-Woodbridge (California) Winegrape Commission as technical coordinator of sustainable viticulture. His thesis at WSU focused on integrated pest management of the grape leafhopper.