1930s
Ruth Walker Willard (’33 Phys. Ed.) celebrated her 95th birthday in November. She taught physical education in the Shelton School District for more than 25 years, which is why she is in such great shape today! She also rides her exercise bicycle daily. She raised two Cougar daughters, Betsy Willard Close ’72 and Cindy Willard Zapotocky ’70, and still lives in Shelton.
1950s
Burton K. Peterson (’57 Pharm.) and his wife, C. Jean (Phillips) Peterson x’58 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in June 2006. Their grandson is in his second year at WSU.
Gay Cox (’59 Phys. Ed.) retired in June 2006, after 44 years teaching in the exercise science and wellness department at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. She is looking forward to golf, home projects, and RV travel.
1960s
Terry F. Steiner (’62 B.A. Hist., ’67 M.A. Sp. & Drama) was named outstanding civilian volunteer by the Sandpoint Ranger district for work on trails and recreation projects. He is Idaho board chairman for Back Country Horsemen of Idaho. He retired in 1999 after 32 years as director of theater at Spokane Falls Community College.
Hugh Campbell (’63 Phys. Ed., ’69 M.A. Teaching) retired as president and CEO of the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos in October 2006. He came to the Eskimos as head coach in 1977. He also coached the Los Angeles Express and the Houston Oilers. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Judy (Sanders) Fletcher (’63 Ed.) and husband Bill have moved off their boat and become “land animals” again. They’ve moved to Houston, Texas.
George Murdock (’64 Ag.) is the new editor and publisher of the East Oregonian newspaper in Pendleton. Previously, he was superintendent of the Umatilla-Morrow Education Service District for eight years. He and his wife have three children and four grandchildren.
Gregory Goodrich (’68 Psych., ’74 Ph.D. Psych.) is supervisory research psychologist and optometric clinical research fellow program coordinator at the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center, at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. A researcher in the field of blindness and low vision, his current projects are in low vision reading and mobility, low vision devices, and eccentric viewing.
John Swenson (’68 Pharm.) celebrated his 62nd birthday in the summer of 2006 by climbing Mt. Rainier with his three sons. It was hard work, but the awesome views made it all worthwhile.
1970s
Heidi Behrens-Benedict (’70 Int. Des.) completed the restoration of her family Craftsman home in Asotin, Washington, and opened it as a week-stay hunting and fishing lodge that sleeps six. The Web site is www.thecreeksidelodge.com.
Gary Bennett (’70 Phys.) is chair of the science council of the newly created Center for Space Nuclear Research at the Idaho National Laboratory. He gave three presentations at the Fourth International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference in San Diego in June 2006. And he participated in two Pullman book singings of his novel, The Star Sailors.
William O. Carter (’73 Polit. Sci.) has been appointed to the board of directors for the Pinnacle Bank of Oregon. Carter has been the president of Pacific Northwest Title of Oregon since 1988.
Bruce Johnson (’74 Comm.) is now a consultant working on Navy programs for a Virginia Beach defense contracting firm.
Richard Duval (’77 Comm.) has published his first book of photographs, SternWords and BowLines, in which he focuses on wooden boats throughout the Northwest. In the past year he was selected by Northwest Cellars as a supplier of images for labels in custom wine orders, had three images chosen by a national card company, and received awards from the Kenmore, Port Townsend, and Magnolia arts festivals. His work can be seen online at www.duvalimages.com.
Donna Randall (’79 Soc., ’82 Ph.D. Soc., ’84 M.B.A.) is the first woman to be chosen as president of Albion College in Albion, Michigan. She starts the job July 1, after wrapping up her duties as provost of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. She will be the 15th president of the 172-year-old liberal arts school.
1980s
Jeanne Grainger (’80 Comm.) is senior account supervisor at E.B. Lane, a Phoenix, Arizona-based advertising and public relations agency.
Mariano Morales Jr. (’81 For. Mgt.) practices personal injury law as a trial lawyer in Yakima, where he has owned a practice since 1994. After graduating from WSU, he obtained a law degree at the Catholic University of America. He is involved in youth and safety issues through various community programs, including Toys for Tots and Coats for Kids.
Sherill (Lambruschini) Zemek (’81 Psych.) graduated with a master’s degree in organizational psychology in 2005 from Antioch University-Seattle. She is a staff analyst and is doing some internal consulting at the Boeing Company.
Gregory S. Porter (’82 Bus. Admin., ’83 M.B.A.) has been named the 2007-08 chairman of the Washington Policy Center, a Washington state non-partisan public policy research organization. Porter is a principal of Berntson Porter & Company, certified public accountants and business consultants in Bellevue.
Steve Ellersick (’83 Elec. Engr.) has worked for Boeing for 24 years. In November 2006 he was selected as an associate technical fellow in displays, optics, and lighting systems.
Tim McGillivray (’83 Comm.) is communications director for Pomona Unified School District. His wife, Dr. Aniko Imre, is an assistant professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. They live with sons Fergus, Finnian, and Simon in Claremont, California.
John Mueter’s (’83 M.A. Mus.) one-act opera, Everlasting Universe, will premiere in August at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsored by the Kansas City Opera. As an artist in residence last November at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, he supervised the premiere staging of his opera, Music on the Waters.
Robert Rayborn (’83 Ph.D. Ed.) was named head of Northwest Regional Education Laboratory’s Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment. Previously he was president and chief operations officer of TruNorth Research, an educational assessment and publication company in Concord, California.
Shelley Patterson (’84 Crim. J.) is the new assistant coach for the Seattle Storm, Seattle’s Women’s National Basketball Association team. After playing college ball at Washington State University, she went on to play in the WNBA and serve as head coach for the National Women’s Basketball League’s Chicago Blaze. Most recently Patterson was assistant coach for the Charlotte Sting.
Dwight D. Dozier (’86 Soc. Sci.) has been named interim associate vice president of university advancement at the University of Louisville. He has been with the university since 1989. He is active in the Louisville community and is chairman of the board of the local Public Radio Partnership. He is also a jazz drummer, has toured Italy and Switzerland, and released two CDs.
Jim Drinkwine (’88 Comm.) joined Green River Community College as a business program developer. He is working at the college’s Kent campus.
Mike Utley x’89 was named 2006 Walter Camp Man of the Year. After suffering a spinal cord injury as a defensive lineman with the Detroit Lions in 1991, Utley worked towards his own rehabilitation and inspired many others. The Walter Camp award acknowledges individuals with football histories who have contributed to their community, country, and fellow man, as Utley has done by establishing the Mike Utley Foundation to help people with spinal cord injuries.
1990s
Erin (Bergin) Voorheis (’91 Engl.), her husband, Mark, and children, Robbie and Peyton, celebrated the birth of Thomas Carmichael and Lillie Jean November 21, 2006. The family lives in Oakton, Virginia.
Scott Hatter (’92 HRA) and his wife, Teresa, received the Baja Fresh National Franchise of the Year award for the three restaurants they own and operate in the Boise, Idaho, area.
Steven Reames (’92 Comm.) is the executive director of Genesis World Mission, a faith-based organization providing charity medical care locally and internationally. He and his wife, Tami (’95 Soc. Sci.), live in Boise, Idaho, with their four children.
Michelle Scannell (’92 Land. Arch.) has owned her own business, Garden Designz, since 1999. She provides landscape designs, consultations, and horticultural services for gardens. She and her husband, Ray Mayes, live in Bothell.
Peter F. Galbreath (’94 Ph.D.) has contributed to a chapter of Salmon 2100: The Future of Wild Pacific Salmon, featuring the opinions of 36 fisheries professionals. Recently published by the American Fisheries Society, the book is about how to save wild salmon runs. It can be ordered at www.afsbooks.org/x55050xm.html.
Robert Pagliarini (’95 Psych.) is celebrating the success of his book, The Six-Day Financial Makeover. He recently appeared on ABC’s 20/20 to provide a financial makeover on a family struggling with its finances.
Katie Christiansen (’97 Wom. Stud.) and her husband, Eric Christiansen (’98 Crim. J.), of Seattle welcomed baby Sophia Grace June 16, 2006. Sophia already has her own tiny cougar sweatshirt and wore it all through Apple Cup.
Matt Drew (’97 Adv.) was voted employee of the year for 2006 at the marketing company Campbell-Ewald for his work on the Chicago Chevrolet account.
Jennifer (Foisy) Lech (’97 Comm.) is vice president of academic affairs at Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona.
Keri (Fuller) Doolittle (’98 Hum.) and her husband, Mark, welcomed Ryland Steven Doolittle into the world October 4, 2006. The Doolittles live in Spokane.
Josh Meek (’99 Ed., Engl.) and his wife, Courtney, welcomed their first son, Hayden Thomas, in September 2006. They live in Moses Lake.
2000s
Garett Fisher (’00 Bus. Admin.) and his family welcomed daughter Allison Nicole February 4, 2007.
Matt Staples (’00 Biol.) has moved to the Seattle law office of Perkins Coie LLP, where he will focus on licensing, e-commerce, and issues of privacy and data security.
Julie Stern (’00 Comm.) is a reporter and editor for KVOS-TV in Bellingham.
Kelly Cordell (’01 Wildlife Mgt.) is a full-time wildlife biologist with Chelan County’s public utilities district.
Farouk Dey (’01 M.B.A., ’02 MED Counseling) and his wife, Amel Rais-Dey, were blessed with the birth of their son, Ilyas Dey, in December 2006. Farouk is the associate director for career development at the University of Florida.
William Craven (’02 M.B.A.) was named head of pricing and analysis of the British Nuclear Group in Sellafield, England. He lives in the UK with his wife, Sheri, and children, Amanda, Holly, and Will.
Ying Yvonne Du (’03 Ph.D. Engr.) passed the Civil Engineering PE exam in October 2006.
Kristy Leber (’03 Chem. Engr., ’05 M.B.A.) married Cameron Smith (’05 Hist.) October 7, 2006. Kristy is a nuclear engineer at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and Cameron is the assistant manager for Bank of America in Bremerton.
Vitaliy Shved (’03 Bus. Admin.) is a financial reporting accountant for Tully’s Coffee in Seattle.
Stephanie (Spencer) Van Riper (’03 Bus. Admin.) married Scott Van Riper August 19, 2006. They live in California.
Kathleen Davey (’04 Movt. Studies) and Matthew Taylor (’04 Lib. Arts) were married September 3, 2006. They live in Spokane with their golden retriever, Marley.
Rebecca (Babka) Day (’04 Comm.) and her husband, Ashley Day (’03 Polit. Sci.) were married last spring. In July 2006, they welcomed their son, Peyton Grant. The family lives in Tacoma.
Kristina (Hunter) Newhouse (’04 Elec. Engr.) and Adam Newhouse (’04 Comp. Engr. and Elec. Eng.) were married in Kennewick July 2006. They live in Spokane.
Sarah Skilling (’04 Comm.) is copy editor for Homebuyer’s Guide in Irvine, California.