1930s

William “Bill” Hull (’33 Educ.), 95, August 23, 2004, Seattle. Worked for Texaco for many years.

Stephen Joseph Christopher (’34 Educ.), 95, May 31, 2004, Monroe. Worked as a public school teacher for most of his career.

Lucille Reiman Barron (’36, Home Ec.), 90, September 19, 2004, Bellingham. She was president of Chi Omega while at WSC and was a member of American Association of University Women. Taught for seven years before earning her master’s degree and joining the faculty at Western Washington University. She retired in 1977.

Wilbur “Gil” Gilbert (’36 Phys. Educ.), 89, August 1, 2004, Silverdale. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and ROTC while at WSC. Served three years in the South Pacific during WWII. Worked in Whidbey schools and was superintendent of Oak Harbor Schools before moving on to be superintendent of the Public Instruction Office in Olympia.

Jack Emerson Winn (’38 Agri. & Forestry), 91, October 18, 2004, Poulsbo. A longtime supporter of WSU football, he was nicknamed “Cougar Jack.” Received the Outstanding Alumnus Award by WSU’s forestry and range management department in 1981.

1940s

Ralph G. Torney (’40 D.V.M.) 92, August 25, 2004, San Diego. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and retired in 1980 after working for 24 years as a veterinarian in Spokane and as a USDA veterinary medical officer in Bloomington, Utah.

William A. Wooten (’41 Wildlife Bio.), 85, April 20, 2004, Eureka, California. As a student he was involved in Phi Sigma Kappa and Army ROTC. He was on the Martin Stadium Builders Committee executive board. Later he worked for the United States Air Force.

Ernest ‘Ned’ Gnaedinger (’42 Chem. Engr.), 85, October 9, 2004, Wallace, Idaho. Worked for the Aluminum Co. of America and enlisted in the U.S. Navy to serve as a radioman. After earning a medical degree, he worked as general practitioner for 30 years and was the chief administrator at Wallace Hospital until its closure in 1965.

James O. Holland (‘42 Engr.), 83, August 27, 2004, Vancouver. He played football at WSC. Served in WWII, was a major in the Army Corps of Engineers, and was awarded the Silver Star. Later he was a civil engineer and businessman.

Warren A. Brown (’43 Arch. Engr.), 85, November 26, 2003, Olympia. He was a state architect during Governor Dan Evans’s tenure.

Willis Daniel “Woody” Woodward (’45 D.V.M.), 82, July 26, 2004, Modesto, California. Founder and chief executive officer of Veterinary Service Inc. and co-creator of Maze Animal Hospital. In 2003, he was awarded the Good Egg for playing a key role in the development of California’s poultry industry.

Leta B. Baumann Cipriano (’48 Fine Arts), 76, November 24, 2003, Kennewick. Member of Delta Zeta Sorority. Taught elementary school at Molokai, Hawaii, and later worked in advertising in Spokane and Philadelphia. She and her husband, Charles, owned a bookstore in Santa Rosa, California, for more than 20 years.

James H. Conway (‘48 Civil Engr.), 90, September 11, 2004, Seattle. A WWII veteran, he retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Carl Frederick Hanneman (’49 Soc.), 78, September 2, 2004, Seattle. Drafted into the U.S. Army and served in Kansas, the Philippines, and Japan during WWII. Worked as a social worker for many years and in the School of Social Work at University of Washington.

Arthur P. Wilkins (’49 Elec. Engr.), 82, August 19, 2004, Vancouver. Served in the U.S. Navy 1942-45, then attended WSU. He was an administrator at Bonneville Power Administration until his retirement in 1994.

1950s

Danver Johns (’50, Ag. Engr.), 79, September 29, 2004, Davenport. Farmer and lifelong resident of Davenport.

Kenneth Hanlon (’51 Agri.), 81, September 29, 2004, St. George, Utah. World War II veteran and chemical salesman; worked on the family farm. He was manager of Edwall Grain Growers and member of the Agricultural Advisory Board at WSU.

Walter “Gene” Swanson (’52 Civil Engr.), 78, July 22, 2004, Portland. Served in the U.S. Army and worked as a civil engineer for CH2M Hill for 33 years.

Glen Richard “Doc Dickey” Vandervort (’52 Vet. Med., D.V.M.), 82, August 24, 2004, Vancouver. Served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. After graduating from WSU, practiced veterinary medicine until retirement.

Oliver E. Hammer (’53 Ag. Econ.), 78, September 22, 2004, Spokane. Served in the U.S. Navy and worked on the railroad for many years. Enjoyed a 30-year teaching career.

Eugene B. Turner (’53 Bus. Adm.), 72, September 6, 2004, Bellevue. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity while in college and went on to join the U.S. Air Force. He later joined the Air Force Reserves and received a medal for meritorious service. Worked as a flight engineer with Pan American World Airways until he retired in 1992.

William O. Palmer (’58 Gen. St.), 71, July 24, 2004, Chino Valley, Arizona. A veteran, he took part in the testing of H-bombs in the Pacific. Operated a second-hand shop and a cleaner’s, and sold antiques.

Mary Jane Smith (’58 Home Ec.), 68, November 27, 2004, San Ramon, California, cancer. Born in Bellingham, Mary Jane was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She was an avid bridge player and an American Contract Bridge League bronze life master. A lover of the outdoors, she enjoyed going to the ocean, taking walks, and traveling. She was giving of both her time to loved ones and her renowned cooking.

Richard Baker (’59 Phys. Educ., ’65 M.S. Phys. Educ.), 66, August 17, 2004, Gladstone. He was a physical education, social studies, and math teacher, football and wrestling coach, counselor, and athletic director at Gladstone High School. Also helped establish the Gladstone Education Foundation. Gladstone High School dedicated its football stadium to him in September.

Elvin Loyal Kulp (’59 Agron., ’61 Agron.), 67, August 21, 2004, Ephrata. WSU-Grant County extension agent from 1961 until he retired 42 years later. His passion was farming and farming techniques. Work took him to Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and twice to Armenia to aid those nations’ agricultural systems. Trained two generations of farmers in the Columbia Basin. Had been approved to receive WSU’s Alumni Achievement Award before his death.

1960s

Joseph E. Zaice (’63 M.A. Police Sci.), 76, August 14, 2004, Alexandria, Virginia. Served as a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel providing protection to nine secretaries of defense. He retired from the army in 1968 as an assistant to the secretary of defense in charge of personal security. He continued in that position as a civilian and retired in 1988.

Duane “Boro” Borovec (‘64 Speech/Comm.), 60, February 13, 2001, Lodi, California. Worked in broadcasting and advertising, and started his own media company, DHB media, before spending years in the auto racing industry. He died after battling cancer for many years.

Henry H. Fanelli (’65 Animal Sci., D.V.M.), 72, August 13, 2004, Frenchtown, New Jersey. Practiced veterinary medicine for 39 years. Recently completed a long-term study of neurological defects specific to Arabian horses.

Lucia S. Hawthorne (’66 M.A. Speech/Comm.), 68, July 5, 2004, Morgan Park, Maryland. Taught public speaking in Maryland. Was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., the Speech Communication Association, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Gordon Gustav Uran (’66 Music), 61, September 29, 2004, Seattle. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity at WSU and was on the ASWSU Board of Control. Also a member of the Intercollegiate Knights and Phi Mu Alpha. He was a teacher at Cordell Hull, Shoreline, and Shorewood high schools and vice-principal at Kellogg Middle School, Shorecrest, and Shorewood high schools from 1981 until his retirement in 1996.

Peter Burke Kresge (’68 Hist.), 58, August 9, 2004, Washington, D.C. Taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia from 1968 to 1970, then worked in Washington, D.C., as director of the International Center for Language Studies. Later he was associate director for education in Morocco. He was an employee with the U.S. Agency for International Development at the time of his death.

Joyce “Connie” Stelter (’68 Educ.), 58, July 24, 2004, Seattle. Died after a long battle with breast cancer. She loved the outdoors and had a passion for fly-fishing.

Farrell Beatty Howell (’69 Biol.), 64, July 24, 2004, Denver. Taught biology, chemistry, and physics at Denver schools. He became the first American Indian principal in the Denver public schools system. After retiring as principal, he directed the University of Denver’s American Indian Studies program and the Denver Indian Center.

1970s

Robert Lyle Beardemphl (’70 Ed.D. Educ.), 67, September 10, 2004, Langley. Worked in the Highline School District and went on to be occupational dean for Highline Community College, dean of instruction at South Seattle Community College, and vice president of Everett Community College. After retirement, worked as an educational consultant.

Richard Bostrom (’70 Political Sci.), 56, July 30, 2004, Seattle, cancer. Served in the U.S. Army reserves as a captain and practiced law for 21 years.

Paul Macomber (’71 Comm.), 58, September 4, 2004, Jakarta, Indonesia. Journalist and business editor of Mail Tribune in Oregon for 10 years. He was also a reporter, photographer, copy editor, and news editor. Worked in Jakarta for Tatler magazine as a writer and editor until shortly before his death.

Robert Roderick Owen (x’71), 53, July 2, 2004, Newport, brain aneurism. Managed Rosauers grocery store in Pullman for a number of years. Returned to Newport in 1988 to take over the family business, Owen’s Grocery and Deli. He is survived by a son, Rob Franklin (’88 Bus. Adm.), and a daughter-in-law, April DeChenne Owen (’88 Bus. Adm./CPA).

1980s

David Thompson Stefanoff (’81 Acct.), 46, August 21, 2004, Seattle. Was an accountant, then owner of Modular Video Systems of Seattle. Also served as business consultant and CFO for various firms throughout the U.S. and Canada, including chemical manufacturing, Internet, and software companies.

John Potter (’83 Crim. J.), 53, August 3, 2004, Spokane. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and worked several years for the Washington State Department of Corrections.

1990s

Peter Fournoy (’92 Ph.D. Psych.), 44, August 23, 2004, Waterville, Maine, cancer. Founded the Central Maine Psychological Society and served as president. He was also a neuropsychologist at Maine General Medical Center.

James Shull (’95 Crim. J.), 32, Nov. 17, 2003, Baghdad. Army captain and devoted Cougar fan.

2000s

Mary T. Remsing (’01 Gen. St., Social Sci.), 59, August 10, 2004, Vancouver. Attended Providence Academy and Concordia College.

Faculty and Staff

Gladys Huff Campbell, 93, September 12, 2004, Pullman. Retired from the WSU Registrar’s Office in 1977, following 15 years of service.

Norma ‘Dell’ Day, 77, September 18, 2004, Spokane. She was a secretary at WSU for more than 20 years and a member of the WSU Retirees Association from 1993 to 2004.

Richard Dillingham, 68, July 28, 2004, Spokane. After selling his company, Dillingham Engineering and Surveying Co., in 1984, he went to work as a facilities project officer at WSU. Later went on to work as a city engineer for Chelan and retired in 1996.

Donald Fenton, 68, August 25, 2004, Emida, Idaho. Worked in the WSU housing department as a control technician from 1975 until he retired in 2001. Active in the Boy Scouts of America, American Legion, and Spokane Naturists. Founded the Running Bears of Moscow.

Suzanne Lee Mathews Fulton, 58, August 4, 2004, Bellingham, cancer. Worked in the WSU Graduate School, Bookie, and anthropology department, and at WSU Vancouver in various departments. Member of the Western Washington University staff at the time of her death.

Robert Hungate, 98, September 21, 2004, Davis, California. Was professor of microbiology at WSU and president of the American Society for Microbiology. His father and son both went to WSU, and his grandfather helped scout the location of the WSU campus.

Tillie Steiger, 77, August 23, 2004, Pullman. Was a cook at Sigma Nu fraternity. Later she worked as the breakfast cook at Wilmer-Davis Residence Hall at WSU until her retirement in 1989.

Norman Travis, 81, July 18, 2004, Pullman. Worked in the WSU food and housing department for 23 years before retiring in 1980. Member of the WSU Retirees Association.

Nancy Weller, 63, October 11, 2004, Spokane. Worked at University of Idaho before joining WSU for three years. Went on to work for Washington Department of Ecology in Lacey, then transferred to the Spokane regional office, where she was working at the time of her death.

Hazel Woodworth, 59, October 20, 2004, Garfield. Worked in food service at WSU for 25 years. She was the food service lead worker and served as chairperson for staff planning. She was also a safety representative for central production.