Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Faculty, Staff

Black and white photo of a young college-age smiling man in a newspaper editorial room
Fall 2025

My best and toughest journalism professors at WSU

 

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.

It’s been a … » More …