Fall 2024
A life of saving animals
Many dogs and cats can thank Jane Wardrop for starting a blood bank for pets. » More ...
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Fall 2024
Clean Food, Messy Life: A food lover’s conscious journey back to self
Review of Clean Food, Messy Life by Jamie Truppi » More ...
Fall 2024
Too hot on the feedlot
Washington ranchers and feedlot owners, like Washington State University alums Will and Nicole Derting, must deal with rising temperatures. » More ...
Fall 2024
A Life Impossible
Steve Gleason’s memoir tells of his will to live through the excruciating and incurable disease ALS. » More ...
Fall 2024
Witness to flight history
Otto Ross, 98, says he’s one of the few people left who witnessed Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon’s 1931 achievement of the first nonstop, trans-Pacific flight.
No one really knew where Pangborn and Herndon would land after they took off from Japan; they didn’t have a radio on the plane to save on weight.
“Mrs. Pangborn (Clyde’s mother) and his brother (Percy), who was a jeweler in Wenatchee, were convinced he was going to land in Wenatchee,” Ross (’49 Hort.) says. “It was just electrifying that something like this would happen.”
Ross says Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic got so much press, but … » More …
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 …
Fall 2024
Resolve: An excerpt from A Life Impossible
Michel and I went swimming in the shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico to get in some light exercise without putting too much strain on my body. I waded along the shoreline in chest-high water so I could still touch the sand with my feet. Then, very gradually, a subtle undertow pulled me into deeper water. In astonishment and with raw, primal fear, all I could do was look at Michel, and do my best to cry “Help.”
I had always been a strong swimmer, but now I was seeing and comprehending in stark detail just how much my body had withered. My … » More …
Fall 2024
Journey to self through food: Q&A with author Jamie Truppi
Jamie Truppi (’00 Liberal Arts) doesn’t sugarcoat. The Idaho nutritionist recently released an unapologetic food-and-marriage memoir and is already contemplating a prequel and a sequel.
Clean Food, Messy Life: A food lover’s conscious journey back to self details her early dating life through divorce via her complicated relationship with and passion for food. Here, she dishes on everything from her writing process, lessons learned, and more.
How did Clean Food, Messy Life come about?
I’ve always been a writer, even … » More …
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 …
Spring 2024
Keeping the beat: Q&A with former Cougar Marching Band drum major Reanne Nakapa’ahu
Reanne L. Nakapa’ahu (’14 Music Ed.) was a member of the Cougar Marching Band drumline from fall 2009 to spring 2011, when she became drum major. She held that leadership position until she graduated in spring 2014. Here, she answers some questions about her time with CMB.
What instrument did you play?
I played tenors on the drumline and was also a drum major for three years.
How many years were you in CMB?
Five years.
Were you in band in high school or middle school, too?
Yes! I started my music and journey in 2003 at King Intermediate School in Kaneohe, Hawai’i … » More …