1950s
Dick Hannula (’50 Bus.) was recently named to the Washington State University Athletics Hall of Fame. The retired Tacoma teacher and swim coach led 24 high school teams to state titles and managed two USA Olympic teams.
Rex Davis (’53 Phys. Ed.) is coach of the Pullman High School Boys’ Tennis team. Davis coached WSU Cougar Tennis from 1966 to 1994 and has been retired from teaching and coaching at WSU for 12 years.
Donald B. King (’54 Psych.) recently published A Harvard Law School Professor: Warren A. Seavey’s Life and the World of Legal Education, in which King interweaves his own comments and observations with Harvard law professor Warren Seavey’s writings on life and law in the United States.
1960s
Carol Lemon Allen (’61 Engl.) is editor of Arizona Boating & Watersports, a monthly publication based in Tempe, Arizona. Allen’s husband, Jim, is the publisher. Allen also teaches English classes online for Maricopa County Community College District.
Ronelle Alexander (’64 For. Lang. & Lit.) co-wrote two textbooks released in the summer of 2006—Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook with Basic Grammar and Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Grammar with Sociolinguistic Commentary.
Bob V. Conger (’67 Ph.D. Genet.) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for In Vitro Biology in June 2006 and an Honored Alumni Award from the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University in September 2006.
Chuck Stewart (’68 Mech. Engr., ’93 Ph.D. Mech. Engr.) recently authored Hanford’s Battle with Nuclear Waste Tank SY-101: Bubbles, Toils, and Troubles. Stewart managed the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s activities handling the waste tank’s flammable gas releases and waste growth from 1993 to 2001.
Shaik Mohammed Ghazanfar (’69 Ph.D. Econ.) has published Islamic Civilization: History, Contributions and Influence: A Compendium of Literature. The book is meant to show the connections between the Arab world and European and Western cultures and to show the influence of those connections on today’s global society.
1970s
Douglas N. Hastad (’72 M.S. Phys. Ed.) became president of Carroll College July 1, 2006. Hastad was previously chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is the school’s 14th president.
J. David Turner (’72 Biol.) and Margaret Slagle-Turner (’72 Biol.), Redmond, have retired. Dave was a software engineer for Quest and Margaret a cardiac nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center.
Gary Baranzini (’73 Ed.) recently received a Master of Science degree in traditional Chinese medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco.
Bob Wieking (’78 Voc. Tech. Ed.) retired as a full professor from Central Washington University. He taught in the Industrial and Engineering Technology Department at CWU for 24 years and was active in both power/technology and the preparation of industrial technology teachers.
1980s
Ron Faoro (’81 D.V.M.) was installed as president of the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) in June 2006 at the CVMA’s annual conference.
Susanne Wolff Vander Heyden (’81 Nurs.) has been elected to a second term as regional director for alumnae for Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity. Vander Heyden has served as a member of the Advisory and House Board Committee (2002-04), assistant to the director of alumnae (1998-2002), and a Province Director of Chapters (1997-98).
Jeanne Helfer (’82 Ed.) has left her coaching job at Mt. Spokane High School, after coaching students in the Mead School District for 23 years, to spend more time with her family. Helfer is the all-time leading scorer for the WSU women’s basketball team. In 1994 she was the first woman from Washington inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame.
Kathleen (Dillon) Flenniken’s (’83 Civ. Engr.) first book, Famous, is the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and was published in September by the University of Nebraska Press. She lives in Seattle.
Michael E. Howell (’84 Ag. Engr.) is a Civil Air Patrol lieutenant and member of the Twin W Squadron in Walla Walla. He has been appointed director of safety for the patrol’s Pacific Region. Civil Air Patrol units search for missing or overdue aircraft and assist local police in missing-person searches and disaster relief.
Robert Lowery (’84 Comm., Pol. Sci.) received the Central Washington University 2005-06 Presidential Award for Staff Member of the Year. He has also twice been named the university’s Civil Service Employee of the Month (July 2001 and March 2006). For his broadcasting work, Lowery was inducted into the CWU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003 and, in a public vote, was named Best M.C. or Public Speaker in the June 2004 edition of the “Best of Kittitas County,” published by the Ellensburg Daily Record.
Lt. Col. Don Klinko (’86 Ph.D. Amer. Stud.) retired in March from the military after 33 years of service. Klinko was awarded his fourth Meritorious Service Medal in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
William Warren (’88 Ag.), Dayton, was selected to participate in the 2006 agriculture program of Eisenhower Fellowships. He owns and manages Warren Farms and will travel to the European Union to examine the impacts of trade liberalization on renewable fuels.
1990s
Jason Wandler (’94 Pol. Sci.) and his wife, Carrie, welcomed their son, Lachlan Conner Wandler, September 5, 2006.
Tina Martinez-Greene (’95 Ed.) was selected Teacher of the Year for Central Elementary and Pike Township, Indianapolis, Indiana, where she is currently an English as a New Language (ENL) teacher for grades K-5.
Jeffery Higens (’96 Hosp.) is a sales manager at Spokane’s Davenport Hotel, recently named one of the top-10 hotels in the nation by Expedia.com. His primary markets will be group corporate and sports.
Joaquin M. Hernandez (’98 Pol. Sci.) has been appointed litigation attorney to the firm of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt’s Seattle roster. Before joining the firm, Hernandez served as an associate for Marston Heffernan Foreman, PLLC in Redmond.
James. M. Pjura (’98 Gen. Studies) is assistant port operations manager for Turbana Corp., Bridgeport, Connecticut. Turbana imports tropical fruit from Central and South America.
2000s
Thomas Edgley (’00 Comm.) recently acquired his CPA license and is now working for Moss Adams in Everett. He and his wife, Kelly (Hageman) Edgley (’01 Vet. Sci., ’04 D.V.M.), live in Lake Stevens.
Amanda (Stafford) Johnson (’03 Engl., Ed.) was married to Chess M. Johnson of Colorado May 14, 2006. Chess is in the United States Army, and the couple will live in Olympia.
Sara Matuska (’03 Comm.) was promoted to promotions coordinator at Citadel Broadcasting in Spokane. She has also been doing on-air work for Oldies 101.1 as a weekend talent and as the morning show’s “Hollywood Reporter.”
Lynelle Brode (’04 Phys. Sci.) has been promoted to staff geologist for Apollo Geophysics in Bellingham.
Gabriel Gandia (’05 Mvmt. Stud.) is at Fort Benning, Georgia, training to become a U.S. Army officer.