1930s
Winnifred (Castle) Olsen (’38 Soc.) was honored as a distinguished graduate by the Olympia High School Alumni Association in April for her service to the community.
1940s
Robert W. Stephens (’43 Mining Engr.) and Mary Helen (Laney) Brimple (’43 Pharm.) were married and went on a seven week trip to Australia and New Zealand.
1950s
Jay Rockey (’50 Gen. Stud.) was honored as a distinguished graduate by the Olympia High School Alumni Association in April for his service to the community.
Neil Moloney (’53 Police Sci.) has released Renaissance Cop, his second in a series of police crime novels. Moloney is the former chief of Washington State Patrol and director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Larry Dodd (’57 Geol.) had a room in the Walla Walla Public Library named after him in February because of his life’s work with the library. The room will be called the Lawrence Lowden Dodd Room.
Nancy Ann (Bagott) Graham (’58 Home Ec.) was honored with the Legacies in Learning award by the University of Arizona’s Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in 2005. In the past, she has been named Teacher of the Year in Arizona and Honorary Alumna of the University of Arizona.
1960s
Paul Tomlinson (’62 Pol. Sci.) was the recipient of the 2006 Jefferson Award, honoring individuals in service to others. Tomlinson is the acting life coach supervisor for the Congregations for the Homeless, a single-men’s shelter in Seattle. He helps shelter residents find housing and employment.
Clark Colwell (’66 Police Sci., ’68 Soc.) has retired from the Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney’s office after working as a special deputy for 10 years. He also worked for 21 years as a deputy prosecutor for Spokane County.
1970s
Sam Carroll (’70 Math.) retired from 33 years of teaching mathematics. He received a diploma of accounting from the local technical and further education institute. Carroll was recognized by the Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers for his years of service. He is currently doing part-time bookkeeping and banking, and is volunteering time at the homework help center.
Mark Schlichting (’70 Music Ed.) was named School Orchestra Teacher of the Year by the Washington String Teachers Association and National School Orchestra Association, and was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame. He has been teaching in Bellingham since 1970.
Bill Kleinert (’71 Hort.) has retired for the third time after moving from Alaska. Bill says he likes being his own boss in the many hobbies he enjoys.
Shari Eglington (’72 Ed.) and husband Doug went to a reunion of Volunteers in Service in America (VISTA) in Casa Grande, Arizona, in March. Shari and Doug met in 1973 while participating in VISTA. Shari is a teacher at Issaquah’s Cougar Ridge Elementary.
Peter T. Kong (’72 Chem. Engr.) was appointed corporate vice president and president of Arrow Asia/Pacific in April. Arrow is a provider of products, services, and solutions to users of electronic products.
Joseph A. Soldati (’72 Ph.D. Engl.) published a poetry chapbook, Apocalypse Clam. The book can be found at www.josephsoldati.com.
Steve Whybark (’75 Police Sci.) has retired after being Mason County sheriff for 12 years. He now lives in Kitsap County.
Dino DiCianno (’77 Econ.) was named director of the Taxation Department in Nevada last March. He was deputy director of the department’s tax compliance division since 1996.
Robert Romero (’79 Comm.) was
appointed general director of the YMCA of Yakima in May.
1980s
Tom Pounds (’81 Elec. Engr.) is working as an electrical engineer in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is doing his best to keep the WSU flag flying on ESPN College Game Day shows. Look for him this coming football season.
Glenn Getter (’83 Math.) is a human resources specialist for the United States Department of Agriculture-
Forest Service. He lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Greg Fenich (’84 Bus. Admin.) returned to Tokyo in 2005 as the financial controller for Microsoft Japan after three years in Singapore as the Asia regional business controller for Microsoft.
Lewis Lee (’88 Elec. Engr., Bus. Admin.) is cofounder of the Spokane-based Lee & Hayes. The law firm represents large technology companies and in the past two decades has grown to include 35 attorneys in offices in Seattle and Denver, as well as Spokane.
Frank Chase Jr. (’89 Comm.) has republished his book, False Roads to Manhood: What Women Need to Know, What Men Need to Understand. Visit www.fcpublishing.com for more information.
1990s
Brenda Morrow Baker (’90 B.A., ’92 M.A. Comm.) is the enrollment and public relations director for the Olympia Waldorf School.
Thomas Rockefeller (’91 Elem., Sec. Ed.) is superintendent of schools for the Mead School District. He was previously superintendent of the Pullman School District.
Maria Kalafatich (’93 Gen. Stud., Soc. Sci.) was hired as a realtor by the Windermere Tacoma-Professional Partners Office in March. She is a Gig Harbor native.
Kenneth Lisaius (’93 Pol. Sci.) was named special assistant to the President and deputy press secretary by President George W. Bush in March. Lisaius was previously the deputy director of media affairs at the White House.
Yong Wang (’92 M.A., ’93 Ph.D. Chem. Engr.) was named the 2005 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Inventor of the Year. He has developed highly active catalysts to help reduce energy consumption and address environmental concerns in the chemical industry. Wang has won many awards, including a Presidential Green Chemistry Award, and holds 57 issued patents.
Ian A. Ivey (’95 Bus.) joined the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in Washington, D.C., as program officer in management development. Ivey married Karen Marakowski in October 2003 in Philadelphia.
Steven Davidow (’97 Civ. Engr., ’99 M.S. Civ. Engr.) earned his structural engineering certification from the state of Washington. Steven has been working at DCI Engineers in Spokane for six years.
Andrew Jordan (’97 Bus.) and his wife, Michelle, announced the birth of their daughter, Delaney Jean, July 8, 2005. The family lives in California.
Ryan William Young (’97 Bus. Admin./Mgmt.) has received his M.B.A. from Rollins College and was married March 3. He is a senior financial analyst for the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Kenneth Archer (’99 Soc. Sci.) and Leslie La Motte (’98 Fin.) were married February 17, 2006, in Lahaina, Maui. The couple lives in Seattle.
Michael Mortimer (’98 Bus. Admin., Comm.) was hired by Blue541, a small ad agency in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, as a production supervisor.
Matthew John Perkins (’99 Pol. Sci.) married Stephanie Marie Herzik November 26, 2005, in St. Petersburg, Florida. Matthew is a beer ranger for the New Belgium Brewing Company and lives with Stephanie in Castle Rock, Colorado.
2000s
Aubrey Johnson Anderson (’01 Ed.) and Sam Laidlaw Anderson (’00, Fine Arts) were married April 1, 2006, in Pullman.
Jeff Jaeger (’02 Comm.) was hired as a morning and weekend evening reporter at CBS affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sara Matuska (’03 Comm.) is promotions coordinator at Citadel Broadcasting. She has been doing on-air work for Oldies 101.1 FM in Cheney as weekend talent and the morning show’s “Hollywood Reporter.”
Jennifer Mayer (’04 An. Sci.) and Robert Phipps (’05 Landscape Arch.) are engaged to be married. Jennifer is attending the College of Veterinary Medicine at WSU, and Robert works for Hopper, Dennis and Jellison in Vancouver.
Casey Elizabeth Christman (’05 Comm.) is a leadership consultant for the sorority Alpha Gamma Delta. Her most recent assignment was colonizing a new chapter of the sorority at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Abbie (Kammerzell) DeMeerleer (’05 Ag. Comm.) is married to Chuck DeMeerleer (’01 Ag. Econ.) and is working for the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine as the assistant director of admissions.
Reginald Earl Duncan (’05 Sport Mgmt.) is a para-educator in the Tacoma School District. He is planning to attend graduate school in fall 2006.
Angela Kolczynski (’06 Comm.) has accepted the position of director of communications and event planning with the Renton Chamber of Commerce.