Summer 2022
A fond farewell to one swell … cat
Washington State University Alumni Association executive director Tim Pavish ’80 leaves a sizeable legacy. » More ...
Retirement
Fall 2019
Bryan Slinker
After 11 years as dean of Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Bryan Slinker (’80 DVM, ’82 PhD Vet. Sci.) is retiring. » More ...
Spring 2018
Communities for the golden age
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made…(From poem Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning)
It’s never easy to find a new home.
Just ask Barbara Nelson, a former account manager from Seattle. When her husband passed away, she moved from the century-old house where they had lived for 48 years. She has piercing eyes and a strong voice, but it trembles slightly as she explains: “It was so traumatic. After the estate sale, I took five things out of that house and walked away. I felt like I … » More …
Winter 2015
Take to the sea
Four years ago, at a wedding in Spokane, Cathy Simon ’71 was seated across from a woman named Kay LeClair. Like Simon, LeClair was in her 60s. Unlike Simon, she had recently climbed to the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
It made Simon think, “I’m not done. I need to do something more.”
A sailor, she started exploring her options and lit upon the World Cruising Club’s World Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a 26,000-mile circumnavigation of the earth. Speaking to her husband, Charles Simon ’89 MS, she said, “We’re going to need a new boat.”
This May, the couple sailed their 58-foot sailboat into Rodney … » More …
Winter 2013
Second Acts
Bernice “Bunny” Levine ’51 is free for lunch. She thinks. But first she has to call her agent to make sure she doesn’t have an audition.
The last time I checked in with her, the 80-something actress was on her way to shoot a Hooters commercial. Her life has gotten so much more interesting since she retired, she says. Especially now that she has moved to California and thrown herself into her lifelong dream of being an actress.
Levine grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. She had a sister whom she describes as the pretty one, but, she admits, she got the attention. “I’ve … » More …