Wenatchee

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 …

Music Theatre of Wenatchee performs Guys and Dolls

Summer 2018

Of soil and stage

Born into a family of orchardists in Wenatchee, the “Apple Capital of the World,” Paul Atwood’s future in agriculture was practically a given from birth. As a high school senior with every intention to continue down the fruit-lined career path of his parents, Paul’s first audition for a musical was the result of a classmate’s playful dare. Despite no prior performing experience, Paul ’91 not only made the cast of the high school’s big autumn production, he landed the lead role.

With one foot planted on soil and another on stage, Paul ultimately made the switch to a performing arts degree after taking a handful … » More …