Spring 2019
TalkBack for Spring 2019
Letters from Washington State University alumni on Stephenson Hall reunions and campus changes for women in the 1960s » More ...
Resources and Offices
Spring 2019
“Fight, fight, fight…” still flying high
The fight song of Washington State University, written by two women students, turns 100 years old on February 20, 2019. It's famous tune has appeared in movies, on the space shuttle, and in numerous WSU games and events over the last century. » More ...
Spring 2019
Monumental Seattle: The Stories behind the City’s Statues, Memorials, and Markers
Review of book, Monumental Seattle: The Stories behind the City’s Statues, Memorials, and Markers, by Robert Spalding and published by WSU Press » More ...
Spring 2019
Ron Shurer ’01
Former Special Forces combat medic and Washington State University alumnus Ron Shurer ’01, now serving as a member of the U.S. Secret Service, returned to his alma mater last November a national hero. He earned the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Afghanistan, and WSU bestowed the Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award on Shurer in 2018. » More ...
Spring 2019
WSU Fight Song in space and time
Since the Washington State University Fight Song was composed and adopted in 1919, it has taken flight on a space shuttle, adapted in several musical styles, sung by John Candy in a movie, and taken on great meaning for the Cougar Nation.
Listen to the first known recording of the Fight Song (from 1934), the Fight Song broadcast to the Space Shuttle Challenger to honor astronaut and WSU alum John Fabian ’62, and watch “Tom Tuttle from Tacoma” belt out “Fight, fight, fight for Washington State” in the 1985 movie Volunteers.
Read the history of the fight song in “Fight, fight, fight…” still flying … » More …
Winter 2018
Food security at WSU
Food maps, resources at Washington State University, and how you can help people get enough food
Students and others around the state increasingly face difficulty getting enough nutritious food for themselves and their families (read more in “Hungry”). Below are food maps of the Palouse (detailing farmers markets, food banks, community gardens, and other resources), resources on WSU campuses, and ways you can help.
Food maps
The Taste of Home: Local Food in the Palouse-Clearwater Region (University of Idaho resource)
Map the Meal Gap (Feeding America)
Food Atlas for the Puget Sound Region
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Winter 2018
A sacrifice, forgotten not
World War I ended 100 years ago this November 11, where 116,516 Americans gave their lives. Forty-two of them had attended Washington State College and their names grace a plaque on the Veterans Memorial at the heart of the Pullman campus.
Ivan Price was one of the fallen.
Price graduated from Pullman High School in 1915. He played football, basketball, and track, and helped Pullman High to the state football and basketball championships his senior year.
That fall he entered WSC and played on the freshman basketball team. The following season, Price started as forward in all 26 games for a Crimson and Gray varsity … » More …
Fall 2018
Influence
Abraham Lincoln, when nominated for president in 1860, apologized for his lack of formal education. No apology was necessary from the articulate orator and voracious reader whose desire to learn and improve himself continued into his adulthood. Even without school, Lincoln had teachers, people who influenced his education. He moved to New Salem, Illinois, in his early 20s and studied grammar and debate under the tutelage of his mentor, remarkably named Mentor Graham, who wrote about Lincoln: “No one ever surpassed him in rapidly, quickly and well acquiring the rudiments and rules of English grammar.”
Gladys Cooper Jennings ’48 similarly served as a mentor … » More …
Fall 2018
The curation crisis
More than 8,500 years ago, a group of people used a rock shelter at the confluence of the Palouse and Snake Rivers as a base camp. When rediscovered in the early 1950s, the shelter amazed scientists, including Washington State University archeologist Richard Daugherty, with its wealth of artifacts—and the age of its human remains. Named after the property owner at the time, the Marmes Rockshelter was soon inundated by waters from the recently closed Lower Monumental Dam on the Snake. Although a levee had been built by the Army Corps of Engineers to keep the shelter dry, the Corps neglected to take into account the … » More …
Fall 2018
WSU in 100 words
The Winners
When we asked for your memories of Washington State in 100 words or less, we had no idea we’d get such a flood of compelling stories. It wasn’t easy to choose winners from the dozens of entries, but the magazine staff and colleagues who evaluated the stories picked three that really spoke to us. They’ll get Cougar Gold or a WSU cap for their efforts.
Here are the winners:
Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and Pullman Transit. One winter morning, I was waiting alone at the bus stop near Cougar Crest Apartments. Heavy snowfall the night before. A thick mist … » More …