Summer 2022
Chasing Ghost Trout
Review of book by Dennis Dauble » More ...
Family
Winter 2020
We put them through
After World War II at Washington State College and other institutions, wives were honored for work outside the classroom, from earning money to support their households to caring for their young children. The practice dwindled and disappeared with changing times and gender roles. » More ...
Spring 2020
The Rightmires—Five Cougar generations
Since the early years of Washington State, the Rightmires have been Cougs. » More ...
Fall 2019
Return to Red Mountain
The Williams family at Kiona Vineyards knows a legacy is like a good wine: it takes time. » More ...
Fall 2017
My Father Before Me: A Memoir
Chris Forhan ’82
Scribner: 2016
As Chris Forhan approached his mid-forties, feelings about his dead father began erupting in dreams and poems. Ed Forhan killed himself at age 44 in 1973, leaving behind his wife and eight children, including his son Chris, without explanation. Questions left unanswered in Chris’s family for so many years drove him to face, with an unrelenting eye, the legacy of the father who had abandoned … » More …
Summer 2012
The Murrow boys
In 1913 Ethel and Roscoe Murrow moved their family from their small farm in North Carolina to the Puget Sound community of Blanchard hoping to find a better living for themselves and their three sons.
The worldwide fame of their youngest, Edward ’30, the broadcast journalist, over-shadowed the stories of the rest of the family, particularly the two older brothers. But Dewey x’26 and Lacey ’27, ’35 forged the path for him to follow to Washington State College in Pullman. They, too, led interesting and productive lives and influenced the development of the state. They deserve some attention in their own right, says J. Clark … » More …
Fall 2011
A Leonard legacy
Elmer O. Leonard started as a student at Washington State College in 1915. When the call came in 1918, he headed to Europe and the Great War as a soldier. Like a number of other young men, he was killed in combat and never returned to Pullman and the college.
His nephew and namesake Elmer F. Leonard was born a year later. He followed in his uncle’s footsteps to Pullman, enrolling at WSC in 1939, joining the Army and serving in World War II from 1942 to 1946, and eventually graduating from WSC in 1949.
Ever since the first two Elmer Leonards, WSU has … » More …
Spring 2011
The Strength of Moral Capital
For people living on the margins of U.S. society, struggling with both poverty and job loss,there is still a desire to conceive of themselves as inheritors of some version of the American Dream.
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Black Leapt In
Chris Forhan ’82
Barrow Street Books, 2009
In Chris Forhan’s latest collection of poems, Black Leapt In, the writer draws upon his childhood in Seattle, using striking natural images and startling honesty and insight. He balances straightforward description of the environment he grew up in with an older, wiser voice that recollects, sometimes sarcastically, that time in his life. Forhan dedicated Black Leapt In to his father, who died in 1973, and many of the … » More …
Summer 2003
Don Zajac named WSU Dad of the Year
Like the husband in O. Henry’s famous story, “Gift of the Magi,” who sold his prized watch to buy his wife a comb for Christmas, Don Zajac sold his vast collection of vintage metal lunch boxes to take his daughter, Meggan Zajac, on a month- long European tour last summer.
As a way of showing her appreciation, Meggan successfully nominated her father for Washington State University’s Dad of the Year. He was honored November 2 at the annual Dad’s Weekend breakfast in the Compton Union Building.
Don Zajac, a single father, has been there for his daughter “all of my life, and our relationship has … » More …