1920s

T. Myron “Mike” Davis (’25 Math.), 93, February 21, 2002, Studio City, California. Cougar halfback and member of the 1931 Rose Bowl football team. Employed by Shell Oil in various management capacities. Retired in 1965.

Catherine Amundson Searles (’26 Phys. Ed.), 98, December 26, 2001, Bellevue. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

1930s

Arthur Brunstad (’31 Chem., ’33 M.S. Chem.), 94, March 13, 2002, Pullman. Born in Norway, came to U.S. at 12 and settled in Port Orchard. Chemical officer in the 4th Air Force, and later served with the OSS in Burma during WWII. Employed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, General Electric, and, finally, the Atomic Energy Commission in Richland, where he retired as chief of nuclear safety in 1971. Moved to Port Ludlow in 1977, and then to Pullman in 2001. He and his late wife of 65 years, Helen Severance Brunstad, received the Weldon B. Gibson Distinguished Volunteer Award from the WSU Foundation in 1992. Their two sons, George ’56 and Hal ’66, and two of their five grandchildren, Kevin Brunstad ’94 and Signe Brunstad ’95, are graduates of the WSU Honors Program. The Brunstads were WSU Benefactors. Contributions may be sent to the WSU Foundation in memory of Art Brunstad, PO Box 641042, Pullman, Washington 99164-1042.

Army major (ret.) Edna Cox (’31 Institutional Mgmt.), 92, January 18, 2002, Moss Beach, California. Joined the Army Women’s Auxiliary Corps in 1942. Served as a contract officer during WWII. Served in the Occupational Army in Germany after the war. Retired from the Army in 1959. Inducted into the San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame. Received WSU’s Alumni Achievement Award. Kappa Delta sorority.

Evelyn I. Miller (’31 Home Ec.), 94, December 21, 2001, Colfax. Taught in Hay, Washington. Became a homemaker in 1934 when she married Adolph “Jack” Miller.

Josef Hansen (’32 Bus. Adm.), February 17, 2002, Portland, Oregon. Member of the WSU 1931 Rose Bowl football team. One of three former players honored at the 1998 Rose Bowl.

Alice Gutmann Smith (’32 For. Lang. & Lit.), 94, March 3, 2002, St. Michaels, Maryland, Alzheimer’s disease. Social worker. Active horsewoman and swimmer. Ran for fitness until her 80s.

Russell Long (’33 Econ.), 90, February 22, 2002, Spokane. Worked at Seattle First National Bank for many years. Retired as assistant auditor in 1972.

Alfred Chase (’34 Elect. Engr.), 90, December 28, 2001, Spokane. Worked for family business, W.E. Chase Engineering. In 1949 purchased the general store in Marshall, Washington. Postmaster there, 1951-75.

Helen Burr Tilford (’34 Bact.), 88, March 13, 2002, Spokane. Medical technologist at St. Luke’s Hospital, Spokane. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Arlene Macy (’36 Comparative Lit., ’36 French, ’66 Master of Lib. Sci.), 89, February 12, 2002, Walla Walla. Teacher and reference librarian. Retired in 1976. Moved from Richland to Walla Walla in 1996.

Shirley Stewart Waugh (’37 Home Ec.), 86, March 25, 2002, Centralia. Taught home economics at Clarkston High School for two years. Worked four years for the home economics staff of the Agriculture Extension Service. During WWII, served three years as a Navy lieutenant after officer training in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. After receiving a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, spent 15 years working for college libraries.

Gatlin Randall Brandon (’38 Bact.), 86, November 25, 2001, Sacramento. Received master’s degrees from University of Oregon Medical School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Director of Oregon’s Public Health Sciences Laboratory in Portland for 20 years, retiring in 1976.

U.S. Army colonel (ret.) Barney Brooks Asbury (’39 Bus. Adm.), 84, May 15, 2001, Prescott. Served with the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII. Received the Bronze Star. Assignments included tour as inspector general and commandment of cadets at the University of Illinois.

Charles Boothe (’39 Gen. St.), 84, February 25, 2002, Spokane. Flew in the South Pacific during WWII. Member of the Naval Reserves for 30 years. Employed in the state Auditor’s Office for 30 years. Retired in 1974.

Harald R. Egbert (’39 Zool.), 84, March 4, 2002, Spokane. Worked for the USDA, the Washington State Game Department, and the U.S. Postal Service for 27 years. Retired in 1972.

Ivan Shirk (’39 Mech. Engr.), 87, January 27, 2002, Spokane. Worked at Willamette Hyster in Portland. Taught mechanical engineering at Gonzaga University for 45 years.

1940s

Clark Cordill (’40 Ani. Sci.), 84, Gilbert, Arizona, car accident. Flew 52 missions as a B-26 pilot during WWII. Served on Gen. Eisenhower’s staff and helped plan air strikes for D-Day. After the war, worked with POWs and refugees. Later purchased a farm and was the plant production manager for Darigold in Spokane.

Richard “Dick” Farman (’40 Phys. Educ.), 85, May 5, 2002, Seattle. Member of the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame, former Cougar football player. Played in 1938 East-West Shrine Game. Played professionally with the Washington Redskins. Named to the All-Pro team and was a member of the Redskins’s 1942 NFL championship team. In 1944, he and his brother, Fred, formed the Farman Pickle Co. in Enumclaw, adopting the name “The Pickle People.” They sold the company in 1987 to Curtis-Burns Food.

Ruth Zier Adams (’41 Music Educ.), 83, December 13, 2001, Spokane, complications from open heart surgery. Founded Pullman Montessori School. Retired in 1974 to Pacific Beach. All five immediate family members graduated from WSU.

Norman Street (’41 Music, ’42 Educ.), 84, December 23, 2001, Portland. Music teacher at Benson Polytechnic High School, Madison High School, and in Reynolds School District before retiring in 1974. Private flute instructor and co-founder of Northwest Bandmasters Association. Directed Forest Grove Gleemen, a church choral group.

Lawrence “Tag” Christiansen (’48 Phys. Ed., ’51 Educ.), 79, March 25, 2002. WSU football starter. During WWII and Korean War, served as a Marine Corps captain. Coached high school football at Concrete, Mercer Island, and Mariner high schools.

Keith Wooldridge (’48 Agri., ’49 Educ.), 81, March 14, 2002, Portland, Oregon. Taught high school in Washington state before moving in 1957 to be a chemistry teacher in the Portland Public Schools, primarily at Madison High School, for more than 20 years.

Howard Carson (’49 Bus. Adm.), 77, September 12, 2001, Hayden, Idaho. Owner of C&S Glass in Coeur d’Alene. Retired in 1985.

Phyllis Jean “P.J.” Curtis (x’49 Soc.), 74, January 20, 2002, Westport, cancer. Taught for more than three decades in Raymond, Aberdeen, and Port Townsend. Withdrew from WSC to join U.S. Marine Corps Reserves for financial reasons. Served on active duty in WWII as an accountant. Played professional baseball in the late 1940s in the Seattle area.

Gale McManus (’49 Music), 79, February 18, 2002, Kirkland. Taught music at East Wenatchee Junior High School for two years. Directed the Apollo Club, a men’s choral group. Professional fundraiser for many years. Later was a personnel supervisor for Boeing. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

1950s

Irl Baldwin (’50 Physics), 81, February 19, 2002. Studied chemical engineering at WSC, 1938-40. Joined the Army Air Corps during WWII. Received the Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals. First B-17 pilot to finish 25 missions in the European Theater. His plane was the famed “Hell’s Angels,” for which the 303rd Bombardment Group was also named. Returned to WSC in 1948. Graduated with honors. Physicist for the Air Force, retiring in 1978 as a lieutenant colonel. Second career was in the Civil Service. Retired in 1983.

Clement Heath (’52 Bus. Adm.), 74, May 20, 2002, Eatonville. Served in the Army Signal Corps in Alaska during WWII. In 1954 purchased a printing shop, Schick Printing, in Seattle’s Pioneer Square with his brother, Howard. Moved the company to Capitol Hill in 1960. He and his brother founded four printing companies in four decades in the Puget Sound area.

Calvin Hempel (’50 Fine Arts), 77, December 12, 2001, McMinnville, Oregon. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII. Received the Purple Heart. Taught arts at Hermiston High School, and in Rainier, Washington. Retired in 1977.

John Lawson (’50 Agri.), 73, December 27, 2001, Kent, heart attack. Graduate of the University of Washington Law School. Worked briefly in private practice before becoming Redmond’s city attorney. Appointed to the King County Northeast District Court in 1979. Won the seat in subsequent elections, serving for 11 years before moving to pro-tem assignments.

William Johnson, Jr. (’51 Pharm., ’53 M.S. Pharm., ’58 Ph.D. Pharm.), 79, September 14, 2001, Coupeville. Taught at WSU while earning a doctorate and later at the University of Wyoming. Moved to Pullman in 1964 as a professor in WSU’s College of Pharmacy. Moved to Coupeville in 1988.

Richard King (’51 Bus. Adm.), 73, November 29, 2001, Spokane. CEO of URM Stores for 38 years, retiring in 1989. Served on the WSU School of Business board of directors.

Ronald Leslie Chard, Jr. (’52 Phys. Ed.), 71, May 14, 2002, Kirkland, cancer. Member of WSU boxing team, and Sigma Nu fraternity. Earned physical therapy degree at Duke. Graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Clinical director of Hematology and Oncology at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, 1969-92. Principal investigator with the Children’s Cancer Group, a national research organization. Author of 40 publications on childhood cancer and treatment. Trained 80 pediatric hematologists/oncologists.

G. William Staggs (’52 D.V.M.), March 26, 2001, Albuquerque.

Winston Robert Saimons (’54 Civil Engr.), 69, October 10, 2001, Yreka, California, heart attack. Served in the Air Force in England. Later worked for Morrison Knudson and then Kaiser Engineers, designing and building dams. Acacia fraternity.

Fletcher Newby (’57 M.S. Wildlife Bio.), 75, March 2, 2002. Headed the Environmental Quality Council in Helena, Montana, in 1974. Returned to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks in 1974 as deputy director. Retired in 1981. Helped establish a wildlife habitat area next to Sapphire Retirement Center in Hamilton. His writings about wildlife became the book, Wildlife Notes from Beaver Lake.

Tom Hougen (’57 Speech Comm.), March 3, 2002, Portland, Oregon. Worked in the Advertising and Sales Promotion Department of the General Electric Co. Later spent 30 years at Gerber Advertising in Portland, retiring in 1995 as president and CEO.

1960s

Clyde Basthol (’60 Forestry), February 9, 2002, Springfield, Oregon, cancer. Worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Retired in 1982.

Robert Harris (’63 Bus. Adm.), 67, September 26, 2001, Cherry Valley, California, cancer. Served in the Air Force for 24 years until 1978. Computer operations manager at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Retired in 1994.

Clyde Berg (’66 Ph.D. Plant Genetics), 65, May 15, 2002, State College, Pennsylvania. WSU assistant professor in 1965. Employed by the USDA at the U.S. Regional Pasture Research Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania, as a research geneticist and later as a research agronomist in forage grass breeding, 1966-95. Published more than 50 refereed papers. Served as an adjunct professor of agronomy at Penn State University.

Jon Gustafson (’67 Fine Arts, ’72 Teaching Cert.), 55, April 13, 2002, Lewiston, Idaho. Worked several years as an illustrator at WSU. Active in the field of science fiction from the 1970s on. One of the founders of MosCon, the annual science fiction convention in Moscow, Idaho.

Nancy Falk (’68 Engl.), 66, April 1, 2002, Auburn. For many years, taught English and language arts in the Evergreen School District, near Vancouver. Published several articles in the Morgan Horse Magazine.

Lonney Hart Posey (’68 Ani. Sci.), 60, March 11, 2002, Boise, Idaho, multiple sclerosis. WSU President’s Academic Achievement Award winner. Worked 25 years with the USDA Farmer’s Home Administration as Kittitas County supervisor and community program specialist.

1970s

Donald Tarver (’70 Ph.D. Phil.), 71, January 5, 2002, Baton Rouge. Served in the Korean War with the 82nd Airborne Division. Later became a high school teacher, principal, and superintendent. Assistant to the chancellor of Louisiana State University’s Baton Rouge campus and chancellor of the LSU Agriculture Center.

Gerald Rippy (’72 Arch.), 55, January 30, 2002, Sunnyside. Served as a U.S. Army officer on active duty 1972-78, and then in the Army Reserves until 1996, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Project engineer at Hanford for various contractors for 23 years.

Dennis Kraft (’72 Bus. Adm.), 51, May 28, 2002, Spokane. Vice president of Sun Runner Boat Manufacturing Co. for several years. Owned and operated G.T. Graphics, 1983-99. Retired for two years, then purchased Advanced Telephone and Data Inc.

James Moe (’73 Hort.), 51, January 17, 2002, Colville. Worked for the Washington State Department of Transportation for five years. Owned and operated James L. Moe Insurance agency for 15 years and was president of the United Security Insurance Agency for 10 years.

Kearney Jo Rietmann (’73 Home Ec.), 51, February 4, 2002, Half Moon Bay, California, malignant brain tumor. Served in Peace Corps in Morocco and Algeria, teaching English as a second language. Original editor of Mac World, a magazine published by Apple Computer Co.

Mary Elliot (’74 Fine Arts), 49, February 20, 2002, Battle Ground, cancer. Battle Ground School District instructional assistant for 13 years.

David Stiers (’74 Ph.D. Plant Path.), 59, March 12, 2002, Bethany, Oklahoma. Worked in medical research at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Surgery Research.

Leslie Bennett Butterfield (’76 Hist.), 47, November 21, 2001, Edmonds, cancer. Branch manager, operations director, and human relations vice president for Doug Fox Travel for 23 years. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

1980s

Linda Maria Joos (’80 Gen. St.), 44, April 27, 2002, Longview, cancer. President of Coman Hall at WSU. Worked in Seattle for Clinical Research and Biostatistics and for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on the Hanford study. Lived in Federal Way.

Richard Shultz (’82 Psych.), 52, November 29, 2001, Great Falls, Montana. After serving in the Army during WWII, returned to Great Falls to work for General Mills. Worked as an alcohol and drug counselor for the Spokane County Health District and became the executive director of Alcohol/Drug Network and Methadone program for Spokane County.

Tammy Wulff (’87 Psych., ’90 M.S. Psych.), 39, March 13, 2002, Cheney, cancer. Aerobics instructor. Wife of former Cougar football player Paul Wulff, head football coach at Eastern Washington University.

Faculty & Staff

Mildred Brislawn, 96, February 17, 2002, Mercer Island. Moved to Spokane in 1941 from Lewistown, Montana, and then to Pullman in 1944. Worked as WSU staff until 1966. Moved to Allyn and then Lacey.

Harold Abbott, 95, February 22, 2002, Sandpoint, Idaho. Moved to Spokane in the mid-1930s and helped design Comstock Park. Became the assistant park superintendent in 1938 and then superintendent, 1942-59. WSU professor of landscape architecture, 1959-71. Instrumental in getting the department accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Randall Spicer, 87, March 4, 2002, Pullman. Associate director of bands at the University of Colorado and supervisor of public school band music in Boulder, 1942-53. WSU director of bands and music faculty member, 1953-77. In 1986, a floor in Rogers Residence Hall at WSU was dedicated as the “Spicer Music House.”

Harry E. McAllister (’43 M.A. Econ.), 85, March 28, 2002, Sun City, Arizona. WSU professor of business and economics. Two-term president of the Washington Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Authored textbook in statistics and co-authored a book of readings in economics. Retired from WSU faculty in 1982.

Claud Lomax, Jr., 83, March 9, 2002, Moscow, Idaho, cancer. Served during WWII and Korean War in the U.S. Navy as a naval architect, attaining the rank of Captain. Worked numerous jobs including the Bureau of Reclamation, Stanford University, City of San Francisco, University of Idaho, and Washington State University. WSU professor of civil engineering, hydraulics. Retired in 1982.

Gertrude Cossalman, 80, March 21, 2002. Administrative assistant in the College of Education, 1958-76.

Merle I. Sargent, 74, February 28, 2002, Moscow, Idaho, cancer. Rural sociologist at the University of Idaho, WSU, and the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. Wrote numerous publications on rural demographics and rural health delivery systems.

Herbert Howard, December 16, 2001, Vancouver. WSU photographer in the College of Engineering, 1965-82.

Myrtle Rach, March 9, 2002. Assistant to the director of the WSU Office of Admissions.