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Fall 2023

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Fall 2023

Reunion stories from Cougs

The big reunions of June 2023 brought many Cougs back to Pullman and Spokane to visit their alma mater.

Washington State Magazine writers met with some of them at CougStoryCorps—a forum to hear their stories and share them with other Washington State University alumni recollections.

Here are some of their stories:

 

Nancy and Jim Lemery

Washington State University is her “happy place.”

As an undergraduate student in Pullman, she found the campus to be “a safe, encouraging, supportive environment with a lot of positives going on.”

Nancy (Mitchell) Lemery (’63 Ed.) is “forever grateful” for that. Her dad studied here, too. “So some of … » More …

Group of people in WSU gear with their dogs in a field
Summer 2023

Giving back

It takes scores of volunteers of help the Washington State University Alumni Association connect with Cougs across the country. Meet three of the alumni who help make it happen.

 

‘All about giving back’

It was her first Cougar football game. WSU was playing Stanford at Stanford, and the Cougs had just scored.

“I remember being in the stands,” says Katey Koehn, who attended the October 23, 2010, game with her husband. “There was a group of three or four Cougs behind us, and they started singing the Fight Song. I realized I didn’t know it. That moment made me think, ‘If I really … » More …