1930s
Louis Manus Sr. (’32 An. Sci, ’47 Ph.D. An. Sci.) celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and family at his nursing home in Lynnwood.
Helen Dare Rose (’37 Math.) and her husband, Ralph, moved from Riverside, California, to Poulsbo to be close to their son’s family. They enjoy visiting old friends and watching the Cougars.
1940s
Myron D. Calkins (’42 Engr.) received the Presidential Leadership Award from the American Public Works Association. The award is given only on rare occasions.
Harold Wilfred Hill (’42 Ag.) is retired from farming but still lives on the ranch in Goldendale.
Ellen E. Keatts (’42 Home Ec.) has moved to an advanced senior citizens home in Lewiston, Idaho, with her husband, Wayne, and is enjoying the care and meals provided there.
Joseph Erak (’47 Bus. Admin.) keeps in touch with his college roommate, Dave Abbott. They have never missed a Cougar home football game since 1957. Erak is retired from AT&T and lives in Seattle.
Carol Morris Reardon (’48 Engl.) is enjoying her retirement in Dudley, Massachusetts. In her past travels, she found WSU alumni in unexpected places, including Japan in the 1940s and China more recently. She’s looking forward to her 60th class reunion in 2008.
1950s
Dennis Godfrey (’51 Gen. Stud.) spent 35 years in the Hollywood office of Kodak’s Motion Picture Film Division. He retired 21 years ago and is enjoying the vacation with his wife, Donna, to whom he has been married for 54 years. He enjoys playing the four-string banjo and lives in Camarillo, California.
Carol Morgan Severin (’51 Recreation) recently completed her second term as president of the East Bay Regional Park District board of directors. The district is the largest regional park district in the United States. She is retired from San Francisco State University after 41 years of teaching.
Richard Oltman (’52 Mil. Sci. & Tactics) was awarded the WSU Alumni Achievement Award. He founded Olympia’s Oysterfest 26 years ago to promote the seafood industry in Washington. Oysterfest has contributed $500,000 in financial awards for local students.
Clifford Phibbs (’52 Zool.) received the Minnesota Medical Association’s Minority Affairs Meritorious Service Award. As a retired surgeon and a former member of the MMA’s Minority and Cross-Cultural Affairs Committee, he has encouraged the use of mentoring to support minority youth in careers in medicine.
James Bradley (’53 Soc. Stud.), Orting, is a retired Air Force pilot, retired college administrator, past president of Orting Lions and Eagles, and has served as parade coordinator for the Daffodil Festival. He is married to Marilyn and has four grown children.
Donald Kittleman (’56 Bus.) is CEO of Sterling Financial Services Corp. in Walnut Creek, California. His youngest daughter, Holly, has joined the business as president.
C. Robert Swanbeck (’56 Zool.), Shafter, California, has been a board-certified M.D. for more than 53 years. He has traveled the world, was an officer in the MENSA Society, and looks fondly back at his time as a star athlete at Clarkston High School.
1960s
Duane H. Freeman (’60 Ed.) and his wife are opening Rough Ride Antiques in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Cougars are especially welcome.
Marvin Entel (’61 Ed., ’67 M.A. Ind. Tech.), a general contractor, has been involved in restoration of buildings in Uniontown, including the Sage Bakery, the Dahmen Barn, the Old Bank Building, the Cougar Café, and the Churchyard Inn, which his wife, Linda, operated from 1994 to 2005. He retired from Farmer’s Insurance in 2005 and now lives in Clarkston.
Bob Bell (’66 Civ. Engr.) recently celebrated his 35th year in business at F. Robert Bell & Assoc., an Anchorage-based engineering and surveying firm with projects throughout Alaska as well as in Korea and Russia.
J. Eric Schuster (’66 Geol.), a geologist with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, is the author of a 1:500,000-scale geologic map of Washington State. The map won the 2005 Map Publisher International Map of the Year award. It can be ordered through the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources.
Kathleen Stensland (’69 Ed.) and her husband, Paul, traveled to Hawaii last summer and visited the father of classmate June Inazu Tateishi ’69. They also saw Gary Yamamoto ’69 and his wife, Elsie, and June Souza ’68 and her husband, Kenneth. Stensland teaches kindergarten in the Tahoma School District.
1970s
Maris (Morris) Grobins (’70 Arch.) retired after more than 37 years in architecture. He has worked for architecture firms in Spokane, Tacoma, and Olympia.
Margie (Johnson) Reese’s (’71 Speech) work in arts administration has led her to West Africa as a grants officer. She is helping to restore arts and culture programs in Nigeria and the West Africa region. She would love to hear from any Cougars in the area.
Gordon Greenwald (’72 Ind. Tech.) has retired after 34 years of teaching seventh- to 12th-graders at Hoonah City School District in Hoonah, Alaska.
Harold Bradford (’74 FA, ’77 M.F.A.) painted the 8×153-foot mural at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. His work was featured in Jet Magazine on May 9, 2005. It also appears in the movie Ocean’s Thirteen.
Rick Ellingson (’75 Bus. and Econ.) was awarded the WSU Alumni Achievement Award. He is a leader in the foodservice industry, and is vice president of Bargreen Ellingson in Tacoma. He serves on the WSU Foundation board of trustees and on the advisory board for the School of Hospitality Business Management.
Mark C. Paxton (’76 Zool.) was named Citizen of the Year by the Washington State Dental Association. For the past 10 years he has gone to Guatemala on nine-day surgical missions to treat patients with cleft lip and palate, burn victims, and those with craniofacial tumors.
Bill Gaines (’77 Elec. Engr.) was named director of Tacoma Public Utilities. He will be responsible for the general management and administration of the organization, which includes Tacoma Power, Tacoma Water, and Tacoma Rail.
Steve Okerlund (’77 Bus.) plans to retire from Trident Seafoods Corporation. He was COO and has been an integral part of the growth and success of this company.
Charlene (Crow) Shambach (’77 Nurs., ’84 M.A. Child & Fam. Stud.) was named director of the Community Health Division at Snohomish Health District, which provides local public health care for 680,000 county residents.
Bob Guild (’78 Mktg.) has joined Robinswood Financial at Carillon Point in Kirkland as an investment advisor. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and specializes in retirement planning.
Barbara Ann Farnsworth (’79 Ed.) is in her 24th year teaching at Rogers High School in Spokane, where she works with alternative and high-risk students. She won the Chase Youth Award/Adult, and was recently inducted into the Rogers High School Walk of Fame. She has been a dual National Volleyball referee for 32 years.
Dan Layman (’79 Hotel & Rest. Mgmt.) was named director of dining services at Central Washington University. He owes it all to Prof. Denny Rutherford.
Scott Marshall (’79 Bus. Admin.) was named general manager of Ross Display Fixture Co. LLC. He has been with the company for 26 years.
Sheila McDougall (’79 Ed.) received a Master of Social Work degree from Eastern Washington University in June 2007.
1980s
Lawrence W. Flynn (’82 Comm.) conducts charity auctions all over the United States and helped raise $23 million for charity in 2006. He is married and has two teenage children.
Ron Rowbotham (’82 Biochem.) is a clinical trials manager at the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network Coordinating Center of Children’s Hospital in Seattle. In addition to his cystic fibrosis work, he has published numerous articles in the fields of breast and prostate cancer, urology, and laparoscopic surgery. He lives with his wife, Christi, and sons, Daniel and Sam, in Lake Forest Park.
Darrell W. Turner (’82 Arch.) has joined NAC Architecture as an associate in the firm’s healthcare studio, bringing 25 years of medical experience.
Michael James Vanvoorhis (’82 Mech. Engr.), West Jordan, Utah, is an engineer with Bigelow Aerospace. He has designed rockets, incinerated chemical weapons, tested gyroplanes, and is now helping to build a commercial “space hotel.”
William Craven (’85 Polit. Sci., ’02 M.B.A.) was named vice president of business management and chief financial officer at Columbia Energy and Environmental Services, Richland.
Dru (Coursey) Miller (’86 Sp., ’88 Sp. M.A.) lives in Boise, Idaho, with her husband, Jim, and daughters, Madison and Katelin. She is a speech pathologist in the Caldwell School District.
Kathleen Coleman (’87 Comm.) was named director for The Spokesman Review’s digital business operations and new product development in Spokane.
Victoria Guilfoil (’87 Vet. Sci.) was honored by the Oklahoma Journal Record as one of the “50 Who Make a Difference,” Oklahoma Woman of the Year 2007. She was also awarded a $5,000 scholarship to the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University.
Donald M. Lionetti Jr. (’87 Bus. Admin.) and Julie Lionetti (’87 FA), Bellevue, celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. Donald is an account manager for Microsoft’s Federal Business and serves on WSU’s Marketing Advisory Board. Julie is a flight instructor at Galvin Flying-Boeing Field. The Lionettis are WSU Benefactors.
Mike Utley (x’88) was honored with the WSU Alumni Achievement Award. After Utley suffered a spinal-cord injury that left him paralyzed in 1991, he founded the Mike Utley Foundation, which is dedicated to discovering a cure for such injuries.
Lisa Teske (’89 Comm.) completed her first 26.2-mile marathon on October 21, raising $7,300 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in honor of her father. The marathon was held in San Francisco.
1990s
Mark D. Jones (’90 Comm., ’91 FA) has made the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list. Jones is president and creative director of Jones Advertising Inc.
Michelle (Lindal) Carroll (’92 Ed.), Edmonds, celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary with her husband, Joe, who is currently enrolled in WSU’s M.B.A. program for engineers. They have three children: Jackson, 5, and twin 4-year-old girls, Annalyse and Julianne. She is an elementary-school principal in the Bellevue School District and would love to touch base with other ’90-’92 Alpha Phi’s and education graduates.
Kris (Lobb) Miles (’92 Mech. Engr.) and Peter Miles (’90 Mech. Engr.) celebrated Katherine Claire’s first birthday on October 4, 2007.
Dottie Morris (’92 Psych.) is the associate dean for student learning at the School for International Training in Vermont.
Matt Kirsch (’95 Crim. J.) has accepted a position as systems coordinator with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
Leona (Beatty) Harrison (’96 Biol. Sci., ’99 D.Pharm.), Snoqualmie, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Ace Harrison, August 2007.
Lisa (Evans) Bowen (’97 Crim. J.) and her husband, Chris, welcomed their first child, Addison Grace, May 31, 2007. Lisa is teaching eighth grade for Spokane Public Schools, and Chris is a supervisor at Northern Quest Casino.
Brian Ducey (’98 HRA) and Melissa Ducey (’98 Fin.) Atlanta, Georgia, welcomed their first child, Malana, April 2007.
Thomas W. Pitkin (’98 M.E.M. Engr. Mgmt.), Richland, is a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense’s ground-based midcourse defense program. He retired from Battelle and CH2M Hill Hanford Group in 2006 after working in New Orleans on the FEMA disaster relief project.
Chadd Cripe (’99 Comm.) has co-authored a book about the Boise State football program and its 2007 Fiesta Bowl victory. He covers Boise State for the Idaho Statesman in Boise.
2000s
Matthew Staples (’00 Biol.) has joined the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as an attorney in the firm’s technology transactions group.
Robert J. Yamasaki (’01 Ph.D. Mol. Gen.) joined the intellectual property law firm Woodcock Washburn LLP as an associate.
Sarah Sullivan (’03 Hist. Ed.) and Michael Takayoshi (’03 Engl. Ed.) married on July 28, 2007.
Patricia Heasler (’04 M.B.A.) has joined UBS Financial Services in Kennewick as a financial advisor specializing in wealth management, retirement, and small business. She served in the Washington State Gubernatorial Centennial Committee and has worked in the transportation, construction, public relations, and publishing industries.
Aaron Lee (’04 Comm.) is working at John L. Scott in Lynnwood.
EnRico Castelda (’06 Comm.) is a financial advisor with John Hancock Financial in Century City, California.
Erin Fuhrer (’06 Ag. Econ.) received the 2007 Washington State Conservation Commission’s South Central Area Employee of the Year award.