1950s
Brooks RW Gunsul (’52 Arch.) retired from Portland, Oregon-based Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Architects, where he was a founding partner with the firm.
1970s
Steve Clough (’70 Pol. Sci.), a judge in Snohomish County, was honored and presented with a Chief’s Coin for his service to the city of Monroe.
Joe Baker (’74, ’77 DVM) was selected as the new Washington state veterinarian. He has almost four decades of experience in veterinary medicine.
1980s
Paul Evans (’80 Business) joined Opus Bank as managing director in their structured finance division.
Dan Hutchinson (’80 MBA) was appointed by the Boise Cascade Company Board of Directors as executive vice president of the wood products division.
John Muramatsu (’80 Zoo.) was recognized by Field and Stream magazine in their “Heroes of Conservation” feature.
Doug Burnett (’81 HBM) was appointed to his second term as president of the Idaho Lodging and Restaurant Association. Burnett is also a representative to the Idaho Travel Council.
Mary Heimbigner (’81 Accounting) was hired as chief financial officer of BSQUARE Corporation.
Ron Claudon (’82 Mgt. & Op.), president of Valley Buick GMC & RV in Auburn, was nominated for the 2015 TIME Dealer of the Year award.
Yvonne Higgins Leach (’83 English) published her first collection of poems, Another Autumn.
Jim Bartko (’88 Sport Mgmt.) was named director of athletics at Fresno State University.
1990s
Scott Holt (’91 Agribusiness) was promoted to North American marketing manager at Allflex USA, an animal identification systems company.
Ryan Snider (’95 Comm.), a Spokane police officer, was recently assigned to oversee the department’s new body camera project.
Algerian Hart (’97 MA, ’04 PhD Ed.) received an “Excellence in Internationalizing the Campus” award at Western Illinois University’s College of Education and Human Services.
Stephan Hall (’98 MBA) started his own printing business, Columbia Label Division, in Seattle.
Nancy Rodriguez (’98 PhD Crim. Jus.) was appointed as director of the National Institute of Justice by President Barack Obama.
Kris Strickler (’98 Civil Eng.) became director of transportation for Vancouver, Washington-based MacKay Sposito.
2000s
Steve Gleason (’00 MIS) was inducted into the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame during the 2014 Apple Cup for his outstanding accomplishments as a WSU football linebacker and baseball player, professional athlete, and his work on raising awareness of ALS.
Ryan Belnap (’01 MFA) co-directed and filmed the documentary, Taking Earth’s Temperature: Delving into Climate’s Past.
Mathew Colley (’01 MA English) joined the Portland, Oregon, law firm Black Helterline, LLP.
Michael Kirkpatrick (’01 Music) won the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour contest.
Nick Zitzman (’01 MIS) is a user interface developer at Wolfram Research, Inc. in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Curtis (’05 Fine Arts) and Shelby Jurgensen (’06 Int. Bus) welcomed baby Cole Patrick Jurgenson in September 2014. Curtis is a senior web developer at Eddie Bauer. Shelby is a finance manager at Microsoft.
Tammy Thueringer (’05 Poli. Sci. and Comm.) was hired as a weekend White House reporter for Bloomberg News in October.
2010s
Lindsay Kalin (’10 Liberal Arts) participated in Miami University’s Earth Expeditions global field course in Namibia to study cheetah physiology and ecosystem management.
Megan Leigh O’Neal (’10 Poli. Sci.) joined the Tharp Planning Group headquarters in Dallas, Texas. She was previously an associate planner for the city of North Bend.
Courtney Hathaway (’11 Int. Des.) was featured in Icon magazine as an emerging interior designer.
Scott Shigeoka (’11 Journalism) was selected as a Fulbright-mtv fellow to explore global music and to promote environmental sustainability abroad.
Dave Cohen (’12 MBA) began his second career as
a manager with Disney after 26 years as an officer and a pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
Ted King-Smith (’12 Music) received third place nationally in The American Prize competition, student band/wind ensemble division, for his composition entitled “Manhattan.”
Destiny Johnson (’14 Nursing) graduated from the nursing program last year, joining her sister Tiffany Christianson ’09, a hospitalist and family nurse practitioner in Spokane.