1950s
Nancy Turnquist Sandbloom (’53 For. Lang. and Lit., Ed.) and her granddaughter Allison Dore (’13) celebrated reunions and graduations on their recent trip to Pullman.
1960s
Steven D. Aust (’60 Ag., ’62 MS Dairy Sci.) has been named as the Preston, Idaho, Citizen of the Year for his dedication to local community service.
Carol Lemon Allen (’61 Eng.) and her husband, owners of Arizona Boating and Watersports and Western Outdoor Times have won the “Media of the Year” award from the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Award of Merit from the National Water Safety Congress. Allen has also been awarded Outstanding Adjunct Faculty for Arizona’s Maricopa County College District.
Ken (’65 Bus. Ad.) and Bonnie Miller (’65 Home Ec.) were named 2013 Washington Tree Farmers of the Year.
1970s
Dr. Marvin Slind (’72 MA History, ’78 PhD History) retired from teaching at Luther College and has earned the title of professor emeritus. Slind taught at WSU from 1989 to 2000 in the history department after serving in the WSU Office of International Education from 1977 to 1989.
Dave Lester (’73 Com.) retired from the Yakima Herald-Republic after 37 years of service.
Dr. Alan Gross (’79 PhD Psych.) was awarded the newly established “Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring” at the University of Mississippi graduate school where he is a professor of psychology.
Steve Lutz (’79 Com.) has joined Washington tree fruit marketer Columbia Marketing International as vice president of marketing.
1980s
Peter Anderson (’81DVM, PhD Vet. Med), director of pathology undergraduate education in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project. Anderson will lead faculty-development programs and hands-on workshops at the Tzu-Chi University College of Medicine in Taiwan for two weeks.
Dan Peterson (‘82 Hist.) has been serving as the vice chancellor for institutional advancement at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign since December 2012.
Craig Cheek (‘84 Broad.) has been promoted at Nike Inc. to be the new vice president of men’s training, which oversees the company’s training, baseball, and football businesses, including the relationship with the NFL.
Laurie Leland (’84 HRA) was named president of the Assistance League of Seattle, taking over from fellow WSU alum Becky Bates-Shull.
Bret Wiggins (’84 Arch.) was promoted to principal at Global Architecture and Design Firm in Seattle.
Loretta Tuell (’88 Pol. Sci.) has started her own company, iNative Consulting LLC, which started operations on July 1.
1990s
Kevin Cash (’94 Land. Arch.) and Steele Fitzloff (’08 Land. Arch.) have been hired as a landscape architect and landscape designer, respectively, at the landscape architecture department of Bernardo-Wills Architects.
Keith Tyacke (’95 Bus. Admin.) joined Natural Molecular Test Corp. as chief financial officer.
Dr. Susana Reyes (’96 Elem. and Sec. Ed., ’07 EDD) was appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to the Washington Student Achievement Council in May.
Stacy Pritt (’97 DVM) became one of three charter diplomates by examination for the American College of Animal Welfare. Stacy is at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
2000s
Tom Cowan (’00 Architecture) has been hired as the Oregon sales consultant for Saxton Bradley Inc.
Laura Grunenfelder (’03 Bio., ’05 MS Hort.) has been named as the Northwest Horticultural Council’s science policy specialist.
Ana Cabrera (’04 Broad.) has joined CNN as a correspondent based out of Denver, Colorado.
Navy Seaman Christopher N. Franzese (’08 Eng.) has completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.
Jim Brown (’10 Pol. Sci.), a sergeant in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, has been named as the regional director for the agency’s North Central region based out of Ephrata.
Blake Jones (’12 Com.) joined Fidelity Associates Brokers in Spokane last December.