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Fall 2024

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Fall 2024

The Late Truck Driver: Excerpts from the book

David Longanecker retired at 70 after a 45-year career in higher education policy. Then he went back to school.

Truck driving school.

Longanecker (’68 Socio.) “loved big trucks” for as long as he could remember.

As a kid, he relished stories of his father’s and uncle’s trips in an 18-wheeler. Later, he loved riding in the cabs of semi-trucks when he hitchhiked to Washington State University.

Here, enjoy excerpts from his book, The Late Truck Driver: Following the Dream (Archway Publishing, 2021).

Book cover of The Late Truck Driver

 

From “Training to Drive Truck”

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Black and white photo of veterinarians with horses
Fall 2024

Veterinarian voices

The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1899, is the fifth oldest veterinary college in the country. It turns 125 this year. To celebrate, Washington State Magazine asked a couple of alumni to reminisce. Here are their stories.

 

Linda Lee H. Wood ’76 DVM

I’m from Idaho Falls in southern Idaho so the WICHE program helped me be able to go to veterinary school in Washington. When I was looking at schools to complete my undergraduate studies, I spoke with Floyd Frank, who was head of the veterinary science program at the University of Idaho. He … » More …

Illustration of Cheryl Grey Bostrom
Fall 2024

Love on the Palouse: Q&A with author Cheryl Grey Bostrom

Cheryl Grey Bostrom (’80 MA English) independently published her best-selling award-winner Sugar Birds in 2021. Tyndale House re-released it in 2023 and has now published Leaning on Air, a standalone sequel set on the Palouse.

Here, Washington State Magazine catches up with Bostrom about prairie restoration, her writing process, and more.

 

Talk about seeing the Palouse for the first time.

A Port Angeles girl, I rarely ventured farther than the Olympic Peninsula before college. But in September 1975 I set off cross-state in my 1966 Impala to visit my boyfriend, newly enrolled in WSU’s Veterinary College. Two things happened that … » More …

Molly Philopant
Summer 2024

Traveling with a Coug

After graduating from Washington State University, Molly (Malone) Philopant (’76 Busi.) became a certified public accountant and spent 36 years in Spokane, 10 years as an auditor for an accounting firm and the rest in financial management with various nonprofit organizations.

Molly Philopant

She’s been traveling with WSU Alumni Association—to the Italian Riviera, Cuba, Iceland, Croatia, and more—since 2010. Here, she talks about her experiences and future travel plans.

 

How did you learn about WSUAA travel experiences?

If I remember correctly, I … » More …