Spring 2020
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Faculty, Staff
Spring 2020
Mao’s Kisses: A novel of June 4, 1989
Alex Kuo
Redbat Books, 2019
Deng Xiaoping learned to play bridge in the early 1950s. Little did he realize that appropriating state transportation to take him and his team to tournaments would result in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and his being transported far from Beijing for reeducation through manual labor.
But Deng wasn’t just a Goren Prize-winning bridge player. He was, after his rehabilitation, China’s paramount leader during a time of civil crisis. The spring of 1989 brought … » More …
Spring 2020
In memoriam
1930s
Grace Weller Gilmore (’36 Home Econ., Kappa Alpha Theta), 106, September 1, 2019, Irvine, California.
Helen Lois Irby (’39 Home Econ., ’40 Ed.), 100, August 20, 2018, Lynnwood.
Dorothy M. Tombari (’39 Home Econ.), 101, December 6, 2017, Spokane.
1940s
Janet Elizabeth Fothergill (’41 Bacterio.), 101, September 4, 2019, West Hartford, Connecticut.
Laura Jean Shaw (’41 Pharm.), 98, March 7, 2018, Oregon City, Oregon.
Eileen E. Griffith (’42 Fine Arts), 98, October 26, 2019, Denver, Colorado.
Donald D. Anderson (’44 Civ. Eng.), 97, August 7, 2019, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Irene Sears (’44, ’46 MA Ag.), 98, November 19, 2019, Keizer, Oregon.
Dorothy “Dotty” K. Mead … » More …
Winter 2019
In memoriam
Alumni, faculty, and staff of Washington State University who have passed away » More ...
Spring 2019
In memoriam
Alumni, faculty, and staff of Washington State University who have passed away, as listed in the Spring 2019 issue of the magazine » More ...
Winter 2018
In memoriam
1930s
L. Owen Clinton (’39 Fine Arts, ’40 Ed.), 100, January 30, 2018, San Diego, California.
1940s
Gordon A. A. Smith (’40 Elec. Eng.), 99, September 19, 2017, Spokane.
Jack McVicar Hayne (’43 Busi., Lambda Chi Alpha), 97, February 26, 2018, Conrad, Montana.
James Conrad Stover (’43 Civ. Eng.), 96, March 19, 2018, Richland.
Robert Pearse Gibb (’44 Pre-Med.), 95, July 16, 2018, Bellingham.
Dorothy B. Davidson (’47 Chem.), 92, June 5, 2018, Monroe, Wisconsin.
William F. Johnson (’47, ’70 MS Civ. Eng.), 94, January 10, 2017, Clarkston.
Donald R. “Don” Taylor (x’47, Alpha Tau Omega), 94, July 9, 2018, Kalispell, Montana.
Walter D. Buehler … » More …
Fall 2018
Being best
A 9-year-old slave girl fanned her young mistress to keep the flies off her while she learned her lessons. Because she picked up enough education to be able to read and write a little, she ended up teaching other slaves and ex-slaves.
Her daughter became a schoolteacher, married to a Presbyterian minister in segregated Columbus, Ohio. The couple passed on the family mantras to their children: “You must get an education to get ahead” and “you must be a credit to our race.”
Their children, the second generation born free, took the advice to heart, attending college and becoming teachers and professionals. One of them, … » More …
Fall 2018
In memoriam
1930s
John Baecher (’39 Ani. Sci.), 101, April 11, 2018, Salem, Oregon.
1940s
Manley Kjonaas (’40 Gen. St., ’42 Chem. Eng.), 101, April 6, 2018, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lester Stanley King (’41 Mech. Eng.), 98, June 8, 2016, Puyallup.
Roy V. Lewis (’42 Elec. Eng.), 96, July 30, 2014, Syracuse, New York.
Jack McVicar Hayne (’43 Busi.), 97, February 26, 2018, Conrad, Montana.
Jean C. Sharp (’44 Elec. Eng.), 93, February 19, 2018, Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.
Rodney Guy Hoff (’45 Phys. Sci.), 92, November 25, 2014, Yorba Linda, California.
Eleanor Baker Macy (x’45 Speech and Hearing Sci.), 95, April 17, 2018, McMinnville, Oregon.
Evelyn J. … » More …
Fall 2018
James F. Short Jr. 1924-2018
I am privileged to have known Jim Short and to have worked with and learned from him. When we met in 2000, Jim (’51 PhD, University of Chicago) recently had become professor emeritus of sociology at Washington State University and was beginning to “unwind” after an illustrious career spanning half a century. I was a graduate student in my second year of the doctoral program and had just learned that my first mentor would be departing WSU for what were very understandable personal reasons. I am forever indebted to him for walking me three doors down the hall to introduce me to Jim.
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Summer 2018
Nella Ludlow comes home
Nella Ludlow knew who she really was from an early age. “As I got older, I thought, I just can’t do this anymore,” she says. So she came out as a transgender woman.
After earning a degree in math and physical sciences at Washington State University, the 1982 graduate joined the Air Force. There she trained as a fighter pilot, worked in military intelligence, and earned a doctorate in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and did post-doctoral studies at Cambridge University.
She retired at the end of the Cold War and entered the business world at the height of the dot com … » More …