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Spring 2024

It’s cool to be a Coug couple

At the Coug. In the CUB. On the mall.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Coug couples share the stories of where and how they met at Washington State University.

WSU, it appears, is quite the matchmaker.

Want to add your love story to the mix? Email your anecdote along with then-and-now photos to associate editor Adriana Janovich at adriana.janovich@wsu.edu.

Meantime, enjoy these Coug love stories.

 

From Syria to Pullman

Munir Abdel-Massih Daud (’67 Civ. Eng., ’72 Arch.) came to the United States to get a degree. He planned to return home to Syria after that. He didn’t plan on falling in love, … » More …

Tom Foley
Spring 2024

Ask the Authors: John Pierce and Kenton Bird, authors of Tom  Foley: The Man in the Middle

John Pierce and R. Kenton Bird were fellows in the same program nearly 20 years apart.

Pierce served as an American Political Science Congressional Fellow from 1970 to 1971, working part of that time in Tom Foley’s congressional office. Bird was a fellow from 1988 to 1989. Ten years later, he wrote his WSU dissertation on Foley’s congressional career. Pierce, chair of the Department of Political Science for eight years and dean of the College of Liberal Arts for eleven years, was on the committee for his doctoral degree. They spent nearly eight years working on their 2023 biography of Foley, which was … » More …