1950s

Florence Wager (’50 Speech, ’54 Ed) was honored as Clark County’s First Citizen in June for her advocacy for parks, trails, and bike paths.

Kenneth Schmauder (’54 Ag., ’70 EdD) has been named by City University of Seattle as faculty program coordinator for school principal and superintendent credential programs in southwest Washington.

1960s

Grant Thorsett ’62 retired after 41 years teaching genetics at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he chaired the biology department for 14 years.

Roger Budke (’67 Civ. Engr.) and his wife Janet (Henning) Budke (’67 Home Ec.) have retired to Salem, Oregon, where they follow straight ahead jazz and grow heirloom tomatoes in their garden.

Marilyn (Gish) Young ’67 has retired from the State of Washington Employment Security Department after 34 years. She worked in Employment and Training Programs as a supervisor.

1970s

Cathy (Seeley) Grindle ’72 was awarded Court Manager of the Year for the State of Washington for her contributions to the state and King County District Court.

Robbin A. Anderson (’75 Gen. Stud.) works for Providence Health Systems as a Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician in Portland, Oregon. Anderson’s daughter married in August 2008. She currently lives with her oldest and youngest children.

Kevin Tomlinson (’75 Comm.), an Emmy-award winning cinematographer, was featured in the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival for his first feature documentary Back to the Garden: Flower Power Comes Full Circle. The film will also be featured in the Berlin World and Culture Documentary Festival in August. The documentary follows a twenty-year story of several “back-to-the-land hippies” of eastern Washington.

Nancy Curry (’76 Wildlife Biology) has retired after 18 years of managing the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge near Cheney, Washington. She first worked at the refuge as an intern while at WSU in 1975. She later served with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service before returning to the Cheney area to manage the 16,000-acre site.

1980s

Michel R. Jolivet (’82 DVM) is medical director/lead veterinarian with the Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project (FeralCatProject.org), a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to saving the lives of homeless cats by providing access to high quality, high volume spay/neuter surgery. Prior to joining FCSNP, he was a veterinarian at the Burien Veterinary Hospital from 1983 to 2009.

Jeff Butler (’84 Comm.) was elected to the Make-A-Wish Foundation Board of Trustees in April 2009. Working for Alaska Airlines for the past 23 year years, Butler currently serves as the vice president of customer service⁠—airports. In 1995, Butler received the Alaska Airlines’ prestigious “#1 Leader” Award.

Hasan Sohaib Murad (’86 MBA) is rector of the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He invites his colleagues who remember him to come to Lahore and be his guest on tours of the beautiful mountain scenery and historical sites.

Frank Chase Jr. ’88 was awarded a doctorate degree in theology from North Carolina College of Theology on June 5, 2009.

Jim Drinkwine (’88 Comm.) received an Exceptional Faculty award at Renton Technical College.

1990s

Tod Gilbertson ’92 has been named executive director of McKinley Irvin, the oldest and largest family law firm in Washington. He is headquartered in Seattle and lives with his wife and four children in nearby Sumner.

Michael McCullough (’93 Pol. Sci.) is the Chief of Defense Cooperation in the United States Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia. On a day to day basis, he maintains contact with the U.S. State Department, Millennium Corporation, USAID, Peace Corps, and the military. McCullough welcomes and supports WSU students and alumni affiliated with these organizations.

Todd Edmiston ’94 and his family have returned to Tacoma where he will set up his practice after completing his orthopaedic surgery residency and a fellowship in adult reconstruction.

Matthew Marner ’98 was recently admitted to the State Bar of California. Matthew currently practices law as a criminal defense attorney in Yuma, Arizona.

Kenneth Archer ’99 and Leslie (LaMotte) Archer ’98 welcome their son, Edward LaMotte Archer, born September 25, 2008. The Archers reside in Seattle.

Josh Meek (’99 Engl., TC) was recently named the Principal of Moses Lake High School.

2000s

Beaux Kemp ’03 and Melissa (Johnson) Kemp ’02 were married January 21, 2009, on Kauai, Hawaii.

Ben Larson ’03 is currently an investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Mitch Lackey ’04 has been selected as the chief of police for the City of Camas, Washington. Lackey graduated with a degree in public affairs from WSU Vancouver.

Jeff Griffin (’05 Ed.) was promoted in September 2008 to general manager of the Missoula Osprey Professional Baseball Club, a Pioneer League Affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is in his fifth year with the organization.

Tristan Bullington (’06 Philosophy) graduated from University of Illinois College of Law and will begin as an attorney at Prairie State Legal Services in Bloomington, Illinois, in August.

Lorene Leider (‘06 Soc. Sci.) earned her bachelor’s degree from the WSU Distance Degree Program at age 55. Leider is now an English/Spanish ESL instructor for Hispanic students with the nonprofit Literacy Council of Kitsap County.