1940s
C. Stanley Locke (’46 Mus.) is now known as columnist Ormly Gumfudgin for Entertainment Today of Los Angeles. He is being filmed in a documentary, Ormly Gumfudgin—A Living Obituary, by filmmakers who recently graduated from University of Southern California. Ormly has released a CD of his bazooka playing, written a children’s book called The Littlest Jingle Bell, and helped found the World’s Championship Chili Cook-off, which he has attended annually for 40 years.
1950s
Marvin Roy Reed (’52 Wildlife Biol.) is featured in a new book titled, Voodoo Warriors. Several of his missions as an RF 101 Voodoo Recon pilot in 1965 in Vietnam are discussed in the chapter titled, “The Great SAM (Surface to Air Missile) Hunt.” Reed now lives in Orofino, Idaho.
Roger C. Smith (’57 Hort.) is retired after 25 years as a salesman and branch manager for Wilber-Ellis Co., in Spokane. He’ll play some golf, travel, and enjoy the fruits of his labors.
George Forbes Jr. (’58 Bus.) announced his resignation as chairman of the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission (MERC) of the Metro Council in Portland. Forbes has spent more than 40 years in the hospitality industry, and six as the MERC chairman.
Uriah Newton Orr (’59 Mining Engr.) has spent the last two years writing The Last of the Horse Soldiers. The recently published book tells of Orr’s life after joining an ROTC cavalry unit in Arizona and, during the Second World War, getting transferred to the Corps of Engineers. His book is about his service to his country, especially in Normandy, where he was in charge of engineer intelligence as the Americans pursued the German troops back to Germany.
1960s
Denise Byrnes (’68 F.A.) retired after 37 years in art education. She moved back to southwest Washington and can see the WSU Vancouver campus from her deck.
Suzanne D. Lonn (’68 Engl., Ed.) is working on her second novel. A wife, mother of two, and grandmother of three, she taught high school English until retiring to Wilbur, Washington, and settling in to write. She self-published her first book, Game of Hearts, in 2003. It is a fictionalized version of her own adoption in 1946 by a single woman in rural Washington. She also enjoys reading, photography, gardening, and travel.
Patricia Scott (’68 Gen. Stud.) spent three years as a doctoral academic counselor for the University of Phoenix. She is now a doctoral mentor, shepherding learners through their dissertations.
Daniel M. Blake (’69 Ph.D. Chem.) received the H.M. Hubbard Award for 2006 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. The award was for his sustained contributions at the lab, where he is a principal scientist, to renewable energy technologies and their scientific underpinnings.
Lenny Kanner (’69 Police Sci.) has retired in California. He hopes to visit WSU soon to see the campus after graduating 38 years ago.
Frank Nickels (’69 D.V.M.) has been inducted into the International Equine Veterinarians Hall of Fame. Nickels is a senior on-staff surgeon in the large-animal clinic at the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He pioneered numerous procedures now considered standard practice, and mentored many now-eminent veterinarians. When not in surgery, he often does consulting for cases nationwide.
1970s
William E. Anderson (’72 Bacteriol. and Pub. Health) retired from the FBI in March 2007 at age 57 after a career of more than 23 years as a special agent. He lives in Edmonds.
Dennis Bunday (’73 Bus. Admin.) was named Portland, Oregon’s public CFO of the year by the Portland Business Journal. As CFO of Williams Controls, manufacturer of foot pedals for large vehicles, Bunday led the company’s financial comeback from near-bankruptcy in 2000 to having net sales of $9.6 million in fiscal 2006. Bunday was also recognized for his efforts supporting the Portland Rose Festival through raising funds, building floats and displays, and acting as parade marshal.
R. Timothy Rice (’77 Pharm.) was named president and CEO of the five-hospital Moses Cone Health System. He is on the North Carolina Hospital Association Board and is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Rice ran his sixth marathon in November 2006.
Sid Gustafson (’79 D.V.M.) is now professor of equine studies at the University of Montana-Western, where he is also program director of the Natural Horsemanship Program. His second novel, Horses They Rode, was published last fall. See wsm.wsu.edu/bookreviews/alumni/horses.html.
1980s
Karl Schmidt (’81 Speech) has received a silver Telly award for his most recent documentary, During the War Women Went to Work. You can see it online at www.wwiihistoryclass.com. Schmidt works for Bristol Productions Ltd., a digital media production company in Olympia.
Glenn Williams (’82 Bus. Admin.) is vice president of development for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Lori (Lee) Williams (’82 Clothing and Text., ’89 M.B.A.) is a product licensing manager for the foundation.
James Dougan (’83 M.S., ’85 Ph.D. Psych.) is a full professor of psychology at Illinois Wesleyan University. He has been a faculty member at IWU since 1990.
Rick Nishino (’83 Arch.) is a principal at Weber + Thompson architecture firm in Seattle. He oversees the construction administration of projects, including high-rise and mid-rise residential and commercial developments. He has been working in architecture for more than 20 years.
Wolf Saar (’83 Arch.) is a principal at Weber + Thompson architecture firm in Seattle. He oversees numerous mixed-use projects in Seattle and elsewhere. He is on the board of the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and led the National AIA Continuing Education Audit Review Committee. He is also an active member of the WSU School of Architecture and Construction Management Professional Advisory Board.
Robin Collins (’84 Math, Phys.) is a professor of philosophy at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He joined the private Christian college in 1994 and helped develop the philosophy major there. His areas of interest include science and religion.
Bryan Corliss (’86 Comm.) received a master of science degree from Columbia University, after completing a year as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in business journalism. Corliss recently received a national Best in Business Award for project reporting from the Society of Professional Business Editors and Writers, for his reporting on Boeing for the Everett Herald in 2006.
Colleen Crook (’86 Ed.) graduated summa cum laude with a M.S.B.A. from San Francisco State University on May 25, 2007. She is the winner of the Distinguished Student Achievement Award and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.
William Warren (’88 Gen. Ag.) was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for Agriculture and recently completed a study of policy developments, technology, and trade of biodiesel and renewable fuels in Austria, Germany, and Belgium.
Andy Bronson (’89 Comm.) was named the National Press Photographers Association’s Region 11 Photographer of the Year for 2006. He is currently working at the The News-Review in Roseburg, Oregon.
1990s
Randy Dickey (’91 Comm.) and his wife, Heather Gardner, are proud to announce the arrival of daughter Finley Ella in March, 2007 at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland.
Sheldon Oshio (’91 Ed.) was appointed principal of Waimalu Elementary School in Pearl City, Hawaii, January 2007. Previously he was the three-year principal of Makakilo Elementary. His first teaching job was in Tacoma.
Steve Jacobson (’92 Engl.) graduated from the University of the Pacific in May 2007 with a doctorate in educational administration. He lives in Sacramento, California.
Chris William Parkinson (’95 Crim. J.) provides care and training to developmentally disabled adults in a residential habilitation center. He cares for 16 clients. He also helps care for his mother, who has Parkinson’s disease, and his father, who has heart problems, and volunteers with the American Red Cross disaster team. He lives in Kirkland and keeps up his ties with WSU and the Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity.
Jennifer Miller Brown (’96 Child, Consumer, & Fam. Stud.) with co-author Pam Hopkins, is anticipating the summer ’07 release of her first book, What Angry Kids Need: Parenting an Angry Child Without Going Mad, available from parentingpress.com.
Dave Erickson (’96 Gen. Stud.) is weekend anchor/reporter at KXLY-TV (ABC) in Spokane. He has 10 years experience in broadcasting and worked previously at KOIN-TV (CBS) in Portland, Oregon.
Josh Huff (’97 Bus.) and his wife, Jessica (Flink) Huff (’05 Ed.), celebrated the birth of their son, Randy, August 2006. Josh Huff is personal lines manager at Inland Insurance in Spokane.
Sandra (Wilson) Coyer (’99 Comm., Ed.) received the Puyallup School District Secondary Teacher of the Year award for 2007. She teaches English and journalism at Puyallup High School, where her newspaper students recently won a national fifth place for newspapers of 13-16 pages at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association spring conference. Coyer lives in Maple Valley with her husband, Brian Coyer (’99 Crim. J., Soc.).
Richard Cody George (’99 Bus. Admin.) opened a winery, Vintage Hill Cellars, in Spokane last spring.
2000s
Julie Stern (’00 Comm.) launched PandaShrimp Media Company in Anacortes. She also does on-air reporting on KGMI NewsTalk 790 in Bellingham.
Robert Casey (’01 Phil.) and his wife, Patricia Casey (’02 Genetics), started a successful electrical contracting business in Kitsap County, called Home Tech Wiring, Inc.
Angela (Gomez) Campbell (’02 Ed.) and Shaun Campbell (‘01 Soc. Stud.) welcomed daughter Jenna Christine May 2007. Their first child, Lauren Marie, was born November 2003. They live in Longview.
David Sampson (’02 Bus. Admin, ’04 M.B.A.) has left Las Vegas after working three years at MGM Mirage Corporate. He has accepted a job as an IT manager for the new MGM Grand Macau Casino in China.
Charlotte Kelly (’03 Comm.) and
Justin Lewis (’04 Comm.) were married in March in Spokane. They both work in advertising and live in Dallas, Texas.
Anna (Hewitt) Unruh (’04 Comm.) celebrated the birth of her son, Byron Scott, October 2006.
Delonna Carillo (’05 Nursing) graduated from University of Washington, Tacoma, with a Master of Nursing degree. She lives near Tacoma.
Abbie DeMeerleer (’05 Ag. Comm.) and husband Chuck DeMeerleer (’01 Ag. Econ) welcomed daughter Grace Miriam March 2007. The couple resides in Colton.
Justin Michael Read (’05 Crim. J.) works at Google in Kirkland and is interviewing for a career in law enforcement. He has taken to running marathons and can be easily spotted, thanks to the “Go Cougs” and “WAZZU” slogans he writes with permanent markers on his arms and legs. During races his fellow runners often encourage him by calling out “Go Cougs!”
Brandi Visker (’05 Bus. Admin.) has completed her master’s degree in education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.