We were searching grocery stores and markets around Ho Chi Minh City, trying to find apples. Not just any apples but Cosmic Crisp® apples, bred at Washington State University.
After a long day of looking, we stumbled across an assortment of Cosmic Crisps at a grocery store within a mall more than 7,500 miles from WSU’s Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center—the birthplace of the Cosmic Crisp.
“To see something that we’d been anticipating so heavily for so long was really satisfying. I felt a huge sense of pride as a Coug,” says Andrew Perdue of Bonney Lake, a senior studying broadcast production at WSU.
To celebrate, Washington State Magazine asked faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to reflect on the legacy of the almost-annual event, its namesake, and more.
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Written by Pat Caraher (’62 Soc. Sci., ’66 Comm.) in 2009. Read a remembrance of Caraher in the Fall 2025 magazine.
Without a doubt the best years of my life so far were spent at Washington State University—11 semesters as a student and 35 bonus years as an employee.
My best professors were the most demanding. The journalism program in the ’60s seemed to have a corner on them—Charles O. Cole, Maynard Hicks and Tom Heuterman. Each taught for three decades or more at WSU. Two others in communications also left their mark on me—Bob Mott and Bill Hall.
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka
