1930s
Glenn Karl Hall (’31 Educ.), Sedro Woolley, a former high school science teacher, has been retired for 32 years. His hobbies are fishing and gardening. He volunteers one day a week at the food bank. He has traveled to Europe three times and to Hawaii twice. He also has gone around Africa and has visited the Orient, Japan, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.
Winnifred Castle Olsen (’38 Soc.), Olympia, is still busy at “85 plus” giving programs on the black pioneers—“Women in the Media and Women Who Were First”—in Olympia and Tacoma.
Dan Eagle (’39 Fine Arts), Spokane, is self-retired and chairman of the Cougar Coffee Club in Spokane. He designed and donated the four flags, containing the letters W, S, and U, plus the Cougar-head logo, used by the yell leaders at WSU football games.
1940s
Virginia Storm Throssell (’41 Engl.) is a member of the West Contra Costa (California) branch of the America Association of University Women. She served as an observer at the math/science conference on the UC Berkeley campus in March. The conference attracted about 275 junior and senior high school students. “It was a worthwhile endeavor,” she writes.
Mary Lou Cosby-Monroe (’49 Music) of Portland enjoyed taking a cruise. The party included all four children and spouses, plus six grandchildren, as she and her husband, Joe, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. She writes, “I’m still singing at age 75, doing solo work with the Portland Community Orchestra.” Joe is her accompanist when she does solo work. “We enjoy our grandchildren’s sports, traveling, and staying healthy.” They are volunteers at an Alzheimer’s home.
1950s
Donald Hughes (’50 Elect. Engr.) and his wife, Gladys (x’51), of Longview write, “For a number of years we have had a reunion with five or six couples who were in our wedding party. This year we are looking forward to meeting in Pullman, and hope to see the WSU-Idaho football game. By that time, four out of five couples will have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries.”
Since retiring early from the San Diego State University faculty, Bob Hanson (’53 Rec., ’54 M.A. Rec.) established California Camp Realty. The Walnut Creek resident says he is the only person in the Western U.S. exclusively selling children’s summer camps. He owned and operated his own camp in the Sierras for seven years and earlier had a river rafting enterprise.
Last February Dean Mitchell (’56 Speech/Comm.) sold KONA AM and FM Radio stations in the Tri-Cities to Commonwealth Communications. The Montana firm operates a network of news, country, and oldies stations in Great Falls and Dutton.
1960s
D. Michael Jones (’64 Bus. Adm.) of Spokane was been named president and chief executive of Banner Bank’s 30 Pacific Northwest branches and now works out of Walla Walla. He formerly was president of West One Bancorp with headquarters in Boise, and earlier was president of Old National Bancorporation, Spokane.
Janan Watts (’64 Agri. Bus.) of Hagerman, Idaho, received the Western Regional Outstanding Performance Award from the J.R. Simplot Co. at its winter 2001 meeting in Boise. She has been a crop advisor with Simplot for eight years.
Elizabeth Fritz Nettleton (’67 Soc.) has moved from Fox Island to Vancouver. She is a volunteer with the CASA Program (Court Appointed Special Advocate), working with children removed from their homes by the state.
Larry Dixon (’68 Hist., ’70 M.A. Hist.) is serving his fifth term in the Alabama Senate after one term in the House. He is executive director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners. Last December, he received the Auburn University Montgomery Alumni Association’s 2001 Community Service Award for “improving the quality of life of residents and increasing the stature and prestige of AUM.”
Paul J. Sager (’68 M.Ed.) retired in 1997 from teaching fifth grade. His teaching career spanned 33 years, including the last 27 with the Mukilteo School District.
1970s
Ken Alhadeff (’70 Gen. St.), Seattle, received the Al Heglund Lifetime Achievement Award from the Big Brothers Big Sisters of King and Pierce Counties in February. Al Heglund (’49 Bus. Adm.) was a founder of the BBSS in King County. Alhadeff, a member of the BBSS board for more than six years, was cited for “his energy, creativity and leadership.” Alhadeff is a member and a past president of the WSU Board of Regents.
Attorney James Britain (’72 Polit. Sci.) is a partner in the new Bellingham law firm of Carpenter, Hardesty and Britain, which opened January 1, 2002. He earned his law degree at Duke University and has extensive experience in construction litigation. For the past four years, he has been an organizer of the Cougar Club’s annual fund-raising golf tournament in Bellingham.
Washington governor Gary Locke has appointed Rob Fukai (’72 Bus. Adm./ Acct.) director of the Department of General Administration. The former Avista Corp. executive assumed his new post in February. Fukai was appointed a WSU regent in 1997 and serves as board president. He spent nine years on the Spokane School Board.
Linda Olson King (’72 Off. Adm./Educ.) has been teaching for 30 years, including the last 22 in the Business Division at Clark College in Vancouver, where she received the Exceptional Faculty Award in 2001.
Judi M. Kosterman (’73 Educ.) has moved from the White House Drug Policy Office, where she directed the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, to eGetgoing, Inc. The affiliate of CRC Health Care Corp. has delivered substance abuse treatment in 28 locations across the country for over 20 years.
Summer Selby Berry (’75 Clothing & Textiles) works in staging and costuming for the Theatre Arts program at Gonzaga University. Before moving to Spokane, she was involved in costuming with the civic theatre in Fargo, North Dakota.
Since 1991 Lawrence M. Reisinger (’75 M.S. Env. Engr.) has been an environmental compliance manager at Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Earlier, he worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority for 15 years. He writes, “Your magazine is a hit with me…interesting articles and good looking.”
Richard Duval (’77 Comm.) of Bothell owns and operates PhotoTunes.com—the only online e-card service that offers virtual greeting cards created from original scenic photography and original piano compositions. He honed these skills at WSU via his one and only photography class as a journalism student, and the piano in the lobby of Goldsworthy Hall, where he taught himself to play. Duval is married to Leslee Porta (’78 Bus. Adm.). Providing technical support for PhotoTunes.com is former Cougar track star Larry Minor (‘78 Bus. Adm.).
James Howard Clark (’76 Civ. Engr., ’76 M.S. Environ. Engr.) has been elected president of the Water Environment Federation, an international technical, scientific, and educational water quality organization. He is vice president of the engineering and construction firm Black & Veatch, located in Los Angeles.
Col. Robert Dickmeyer (’76 Fine Arts) is deputy commander of the 366th Logistics Group at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. He writes, “In my current assignment, I am part of the air wing that sent more airplanes/people and dropped more tonnage for Operation Enduring Freedom (in Afghanistan) than any other Air Combat Command,” although he was not sent there. At WSU, he was a member of coach Bob Peavy’s gymnastics team and Pac-10 champion in vaulting.
Robert Phillips (‘76 Econ., ‘76 Math.) is a visiting professor at the Columbia School of Business during the 2002 calendar year. He is developing and teaching courses in pricing and revenue optimization, as well as performing research and writing a book. Robert and his wife, Doria, have a permanent home in Palo Alto, California.
Mary “Jan Hageman” Clement (’77 Ph.D. Soc.) was a Fulbright Scholar to Birzeit University Law Center on the West Bank (occupied territories of Israel) in 1998-99. She completed a dual degree in law and social work (1990). In 1999, she retired from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she taught criminal justice courses for more than 18 years and wrote the second edition of her textbook, Juvenile Justice System: Law and Process. She established a private counseling business in Montana and Tennessee. She lives in Portland, Tennessee, where she has a retreat center and a Native American sweat lodge.
James Donaldson’s (’79 Soc.) new physical therapy clinic in Tacoma had its grand opening November 9, 2001. The former WSU and pro basketball player also has clinics in Mill Creek and Cashmere.
Lonnie Dunlap (’79 M.A. Child & Fam. St., ’92 Ph.D. Sci. and Arts) accepted a job in January as director of career services at Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois. She was employed at WSU for 21 years, most recently as director of career services.
1980s
In March, long-time Windermere Real Estate executive Jeanne Grainger (’80 Comm.) was named to direct the company’s expansion in the Southwest as president of Windermere Services Southwest, Inc. She joined the company in 1988. Grainger is a former assistant sports information director at WSU.
Scott Hulbert (’80 Hort.), professor of plant pathology, received the 2002 Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Member Award at Kansas State University in April. He joined the K-State faculty in 1989 and specializes in bioinformatics and host/parasite genetics and cytogenetics.
Douglas Nancarrow (’80 Ph.D. Speech) was appointed in March as provost and senior vice president at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth after a national search and assumed his new position August 1. He previously was dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Agriculture at Lincoln University, Missouri.
Frank Blecha (‘81 Ph.D. Ani. Sci.) is head of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Manhattan. He was appointed University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University in 2001.
Patrick Martin (’83 Bus. Adm.) has opened his own commercial real estate firm—Martin Partner’s Real Estate Inc. in Phoenix. He has been in the commercial real estate business for more than 13 years and holds broker’s licenses in Arizona and Washington.
After working in Seattle for 17 years, Keith Shipman (’83 Comm.) and his family enjoy living in Bend, Oregon. He is one of the founders and president of Horizon Broadcasting Group. He writes, “We own or operate 12 radio stations—five in Bend, Ore., five in the Boise area, and two in Twin Falls, and the Boise Hawks (Class A Northwest League baseball team).” He and his wife, Julie Poppe Shipman (‘83 Elem. Educ.), have three children “all wearing Crimson and Gray in Beaver/Duck country!”
Michael Griffin (‘84 Polit. Sci.) has been named chief operating officer of Kappes Miller Risk Management, LLC, Bellevue. He has been awarded the professional designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter.
Brian P. Ward (’84 Polit. Sci.), Mercer Island, has been named president of the U.S. Real Estate Division of Stellar International Holdings, with U.S. offices in Seattle. Stellar is best known as the founder of both Princess Cruise Lines and Admiralty Cruise Lines, which merged with Royal Caribbean Cruises in 1988. He is an actively licensed attorney and real estate broker in Washington state.
Chang H. Oh (’85 Ph.D. Chem. Engr.) is a project manager at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls. Last November he was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the organization’s International Congress and Exhibition in New York. His INEEL contributions include original work in the field of nuclear reactor safety.
Sydney Stephenson Clevenger (’86 Broadcasting) is a freelance writer based in Portland, specializing in education, health, medicine, science, and technology.
Scott Maystrovich (’87 Chem. Engr.) opened Scott Chiropractic Center in Spokane last February. He previously worked as a nuclear engineer for the Navy in Bremerton. Deciding to change careers, he went back to school and graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.
Dean Pierose (‘88 B.A. Hotel and Rest. Adm.) lives in the Salt Lake City area, where he owns a restaurant. He writes, “During the Winter Olympics, we catered for Sting, The Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews, Bon Jovi, Christine Aquilara, Desmond Tutu, the Canadian gold medal winning hockey team and friends, Rudolph Giuliani, Robert Redford and others.” He adds, “I fly fish, golf and stay single. Life is good.”
Robert J. Caldwell (’89 Econ.) joined the Spokane law firm of Witherspoon, Kelley, Davenport and Toole last November. He completed a law degree in 1992 at the University of Idaho College of Law. He specializes in health care and corporate law.
1990s
Laura Leist Bishop (’90 Bus. Adm.), Bothell, was voted one of 40 Entrepreneurs of 2001 by the Puget Sound Business Journal. She is president and founder of Eliminate Chaos, Inc. The company provides professional organizing services to corporations, small businesses, and individuals. It is dedicated to providing clients with “more time for life.”
Roberta Sangster (’90 M.A. Soc., ’93 Ph.D. Soc.) is a research psychologist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, D.C. In August she will be presenting an invited paper in Copenhagen on Internet survey design to the International Conference on Improving Survey Quality.
Sandra Franklin Van Valkenburg (’90 For. Lang. & Lit.) of Poulsbo has been married for nearly three years and has returned to the education field. She writes, “I teach at Bremerton High School. My husband and I recently bought a motor sailboat and intend to spend our summer sailing through the San Juans.”
Daniel F. Vaughn (’91 Hist.) has joined the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP in the Seattle office as an associate. His practice concentrates on corporate finance and securities. He received his jurisprudence degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Angela Mawer Barrie (‘92 Hotel Adm.) has joined Right Management Consultants as vice president of client services. The firm is a leader in the areas of career transition and organizational consulting. Her husband, Ben Barrie (‘92 Hotel Adm.), is the operations manager for Chaffey Custom Homes, which builds high-end residential homes on Seattle’s Eastside. They live on Mercer Island.
Davenport DeMeyer (‘92 Soc. Sci.) married Amy M. Szutowicz June 23, 2001. He is the state manager of Maryland for The Wine Group, Inc., a California-based wine company. They live in Centerville, Maryland.
Khristie Lines (’92 Soc.) is the social services director of a geriatric facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
Patrick Hungerford (‘93 Arch.) and his wife, Lori Lawrence Hungerford (‘92 Int. Design), of Bainbridge Island report the birth of a son, Kellen Patrick, October 26, 2001.
Kammie L. Lewis (’93 Bus. Adm.), Bothell, a supervising CPA with Hascal, Sjoholm & Co. of Everett, has earned the professional designation of Certified Specialist in Estate Planning. She specializes in trust and estate practice.
Kevin J. Wright (‘95 Bus. Adm.) is a product manager at Globus & Cosmos, the world’s largest tour operator, based in Denver. He is the author of three Catholic travel guidebooks.
Greg Wendt (’96 M.S. Env. Sci. and Reg. Planning) has been Franklin County senior planner in Pasco since February 1999.
Lester S. Portner (’97, Ed.D.) retired June 30, 2001 as superintendent of schools in the East Valley School District, Spokane. He spent 31 years in education, including 28 years as a school administrator. Now he is the part-time director of educational leadership for Eastern Washington University.
Christian Walters (‘97 Crim. Just.) is a police officer in Kennewick. His wife, Jan Noble Walters (’99 Elem. Educ.), is a first-grade teacher there.
U.S. Air Force first lieutenant Scott Alford (’98 Math.), an A-10 fighter pilot stationed at Osan Air Base, Korea, married his junior high school sweetheart, Stacy, on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2002. This fall they will be off to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, for his new assignment.
Sean Stewart (’99 Soc.) is working for the Department of Corrections at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center. He supervises offenders and manages all correctional sports programs within the institution. “It is an interesting, and challenging profession,” he writes.
Colin Walters (’99 Mech. Engr.) is a production supervisor with Lamb Weston. His wife, Carrie Newton Walters (‘01 Pharm.D.), is a pharmacist for Fred Meyer. They live in Kennewick.
2000s
Robert R. Biskeborn (’01 Bus. Adm.) was commissioned as a Navy ensign upon completion of Officer Candidate School at the Pensacola, Florida Naval Air Station.
Navy ensign Shane J. McKinnie (’01 Bus. Adm.) recently received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida.
Katy Andrew (’02 Hist.) has joined the staff of Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) as scheduler and office manager. She interned for Smith while in college at WSU.
Bernard Lagat (’02 Bus. Adm.), former WSU All-America distance runner from Kenya, won the men’s mile at the Los Angeles Invitational for the fourth consecutive time earlier this year. His time of 3 minutes, 56.34 seconds was the meet’s fastest since 1985.