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[[Image:FrielTitle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo by Robert Hubner]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002

 

When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university presidents. They always have. She's known six of them personally.

In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the idea at a luncheon of graduates attending their 50-year reunion. She was unaware WSU regents were present. They got the message: Stevens Hall is special.

"Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let Stevens go." The women's residence hall was spared. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have nothing."

Prior to her 100th birthday November 18, Friel paused to count her blessings and reflect on a life spent almost entirely in Pullman, population 24,675.

"I've been so thankful that circumstances put me in a small college town, especially here." She lives alone in a three-story home off Greek Row, near the campus and the alma mater she loves. In her comfortable living room, surrounded by antiques and late Victorian furniture, the diminutive lady eases her four-foot-seven frame into her favorite chair. Nearby on a red couch are half a dozen manila envelops in a neat row. She's saving photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia for her children and grandchildren.

Two hours of conversation pass quickly. There's not enough time to cover a century of experiences and memories. She talks in detail about her childhood, her college days, and the University.

Her late husband, John Bryan "Jack" Friel, coached Cougar basketball teams for 30 years. That was one reason she stayed in Pullman. When their family was reared, she went back to WSU: there was more to learn. At 58, she completed a master's degree in English. She agreed to "fill in" as teacher in senior English at Pullman High. She enjoyed teaching and decided to stay seven and a half years.

But let's go back to the beginning.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily.jpg|thumb|left|The John W. Mathews family stop for a rest on their two-week trek via horse-drawn "hack" from their homestead near Buhl, Idaho, to their permanent home in Pullman. It was the summer of 1910. Pictured from the left are Homer Hamilton Mathews, 14; Charlotte, 7; Catherine's father, John Wilbur Mathews; and 9-year-old Catherine. Her mother, Serena Wallis Mathews, took the photo, developed the negative, and made the print. She learned photography through a course at Washington State College.]]Catherine Mathews was born November 18, 1901 in Colfax, Washington. Pullman had no hospital. Six weeks earlier, the family had moved into a new frame house on the present site of Kappa Delta sorority. Her father, Pullman attorney and one-time mayor John W. Mathews, planted the maple trees that still grace the yard. Some of the townspeople, she was told, questioned her father's wisdom "to build so far out in the country."

Her father died when she was 15, but Catherine says her mother, Serena, "made a wonderful life for the family. She was well versed. I learned a lot from her."

The State College of Washington, a few small buildings on the crest of the hill, opened in 1892. The following year, Enoch A. Bryan was named college president after the departure of two short-term presidents. Catherine and Bryan's youngest daughter, Gertrude, were childhood playmates and lifelong friends.

"I knew all six of the college's prominent presidents personally up to President [V. Lane] Rawlins," Friel says. She hopes to meet WSU's current top executive, and likely will.

Presidents Ernest O. Holland (1916-44), Wilson Compton (1945-51), C. Clement French (1952-66), Glenn Terrell (1967-85), and Samuel H. Smith (1985-2000) followed Bryan's administration.

Friel "got along well" with President Terrell. "He gives me credit for saving Stevens Hall," she says. Earlier, he neglected to tell her that Ferry Hall, the men's residence hall, was coming down to make room for a new science building.

When Friel asked Terrell why he hadn't informed her about Ferry's demolition, his response was "I didn't dare tell you."

[[Image:Mathewsfamily2.jpg|thumb|left|The Mathews family.]]Friel and President French were "very close friends." And she enjoyed her relationship--on and off the campus--with President Smith and his wife, Pat. President Holland, a bachelor, was a "very staid gentleman," Friel says. "The word 'gentleman' aptly applied to his whole demeanor."

Asked to comment on President Compton, she says his administration brought salary increases for faculty and additional construction on campus.

Growing up in Pullman, most of the children didn't think their education was complete until they had earned a college degree, she says. Attending college was a "wonderful aspiration." Going away to school wasn't an option. It was too expensive, and besides, "kids just didn't do that."

Friel enrolled at Washington State in 1919 and joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She held several house offices, was inducted into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honoraries; and served as president of the Army ROTC Women's Auxiliary or "Sponsors."

President Bryan, other early presidents, faculty members, and heads of campus living groups were invited to formal teas at the sorority houses, including Kappa Alpha Theta. There the women demonstrated their "social graces" and learned the "niceties of entertaining," Friel says. She was Theta house manager for 30 years and served as president of the building committee when a new addition was built. The living room in the renovated English Tudor house is named in her honor. 

During her freshman year, she met Jack Friel, a native of Waterville. He studied in the library where she worked evenings for 25 cents an hour. Was it love at first sight? She thinks so, at least from her point of view. He was three years older, a World War I veteran who served with an artillery unit in France.

"Freshman girls felt very sophisticated going with older men who had been to Europe," she says. The pair enrolled in a history class together and dated through graduation in 1923. Her degree was in English, his in political science, history, and economics. Both accepted three-year teaching assignments, a requirement then for a teaching certificate. When apart, they dated others, but the two "wrote each other every day." She taught high school English in Dayton. In addition to teaching, Jack coached football and basketball, first at Colville High School and then at Spokane's North Central High. His 1928 NC team captured the state basketball title.

[[Image:JackFriel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Catherine with the late WSU basketball coach Jack Friel. Photo by John Hoyt.]]After winning 495 basketball games at WSU, Coach Friel was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Despite his record and directing the Cougars to the 1941 NCAA Championship game--a 39-34 loss to Wisconsin--he failed to receive the required votes for induction.

"To his own detriment, he never went to the NCAA coaches meetings," his widow says. The College didn't have the money to send him.

Her husband didn't plan to be a coach. He was a teacher. After a game, he would come home and often pick up a thick book. "He was a real student of political science, history, and economics," she says.

In those days, Coach Friel didn't go out and bring in players. He took the boys who came, many of them off the farms, and "made basketball players out of them," she says. His former players still send her Christmas cards. Two--Scott Witt '43, Tacoma, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, and Robert Sheridan '47, Wilsonville, Oregon, a retired professor of dentistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center--always visit her when they come to campus.

The Friels' three eldest children are Washington State University graduates--Charlotte ('51 Speech), a former CBS administrator; Wallis ('53 Polit. Sci.), retired Whitman County Superior Court judge; and internationally known artist John ('62 Fine Arts). Their younger sister, Janette, earned a degree in psychology at Stanford. Both daughters went away to complete doctorates.

Catherine Friel has received numerous awards and honors. None is more cherished than the WSU Foundation's 1999 Outstanding Service Award. It is displayed near the front-door entryway of her home.

She traces her interest in English literature to her mother, a member of the Fortnightly Club, a women's literary club formed in 1893 by President Bryan's wife.

"She [Harriet Bryan] thought women should get out of the house and away from the children on occasion," says Friel, a third-generation member of the club. "We didn't give book reports. We really studied and evaluated the writers."

[[Image:FrielTaft.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Former president William Howard Taft visited the Washington State campus in 1920. During his stay, he awarded a silver trophy cup to the freshman class, winner of the annual Campus Day activity contest. Four "coaches" for victorious freshman teams are shown standing behind Catherine Mathews (Friel), chosen to represent the class. The setting is the dirt hillside south of the football field. She says there was much confusion. Athletic director "Doc" Bohler admitted he had forgotten to order the trophy. In desperation, he told a male student, "Run up to the Agriculture Building and take a silver cup out of the trophy case and we will use it." Neither the president nor Catherine knew what was inscribed on the substitute cup. Taft asked her why the trophy was being awarded. She explained that the freshman girls' team had been victorious in the class competition. Taft started to read the wording on the trophy, looked at the recipient, and kept shaking his head in puzzlement. The cup was inscribed, "Prize Bull Segus Pontiac Acme." "Thereafter that event became 'Doc' Bohler's prize story when he talked at banquets in other towns," Friel explained.]]Now, it is hard to fill the membership, which is limited to 25 for the twice-monthly afternoon meetings. "Everyone is working," she explains.

When Catherine was being interviewed for the senior English literature teaching position at Pullman High, she recalls, superintendent Louis Bruno pointed a finger at her and said, "I want you to get these kids ready for college."

She did. In fact, she quickly gained a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says.

Friel enjoyed working with students, many of them bright children of WSU professors. She tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every day," she said. "Now I bless you every day."

Reflecting on her life in Pullman, she says, "I feel so lucky that I live in a college town. You can walk a block to campus and have all this culture. You don't have to travel miles and miles to get it. The culture comes to you."

Friel Court in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named for her husband. After retiring from the University, he became the first commissioner of the new Big Sky Athletic Conference. When the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame opened in 1978, Coach Friel was an inaugural inductee. He died in 1995 at age 97. Jack and Catherine had been married nearly 70 years.

To what does she credit her longevity? The question has been posed before, many times.

"Some people say, 'I don't smoke.' Or, 'I don't drink,' " she says. Catherine Mathews Friel offers another option.

"I think it's the benefits of modern medicines." 

[[Category:Basketball]] [[Category:Residence_Halls]] [[Category:Student_Life]]

Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town

2009-04-24T16:23:29Z

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Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town

2009-04-24T16:23:01Z

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[[Image:FrielTitle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo by Robert Hubner]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002

 

When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university presidents. They always have. She's known six of them personally.

In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the idea at a luncheon of graduates attending their 50-year reunion. She was unaware WSU regents were present. They got the message: Stevens Hall is special.

"Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let Stevens go." The women's residence hall was spared. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have nothing."

Prior to her 100th birthday November 18, Friel paused to count her blessings and reflect on a life spent almost entirely in Pullman, population 24,675.

"I've been so thankful that circumstances put me in a small college town, especially here." She lives alone in a three-story home off Greek Row, near the campus and the alma mater she loves. In her comfortable living room, surrounded by antiques and late Victorian furniture, the diminutive lady eases her four-foot-seven frame into her favorite chair. Nearby on a red couch are half a dozen manila envelops in a neat row. She's saving photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia for her children and grandchildren.

Two hours of conversation pass quickly. There's not enough time to cover a century of experiences and memories. She talks in detail about her childhood, her college days, and the University.

Her late husband, John Bryan "Jack" Friel, coached Cougar basketball teams for 30 years. That was one reason she stayed in Pullman. When their family was reared, she went back to WSU: there was more to learn. At 58, she completed a master's degree in English. She agreed to "fill in" as teacher in senior English at Pullman High. She enjoyed teaching and decided to stay seven and a half years.

But let's go back to the beginning.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily.jpg|thumb|left|The John W. Mathews family stop for a rest on their two-week trek via horse-drawn "hack" from their homestead near Buhl, Idaho, to their permanent home in Pullman. It was the summer of 1910. Pictured from the left are Homer Hamilton Mathews, 14; Charlotte, 7; Catherine's father, John Wilbur Mathews; and 9-year-old Catherine. Her mother, Serena Wallis Mathews, took the photo, developed the negative, and made the print. She learned photography through a course at Washington State College.]]Catherine Mathews was born November 18, 1901 in Colfax, Washington. Pullman had no hospital. Six weeks earlier, the family had moved into a new frame house on the present site of Kappa Delta sorority. Her father, Pullman attorney and one-time mayor John W. Mathews, planted the maple trees that still grace the yard. Some of the townspeople, she was told, questioned her father's wisdom "to build so far out in the country."

Her father died when she was 15, but Catherine says her mother, Serena, "made a wonderful life for the family. She was well versed. I learned a lot from her."

The State College of Washington, a few small buildings on the crest of the hill, opened in 1892. The following year, Enoch A. Bryan was named college president after the departure of two short-term presidents. Catherine and Bryan's youngest daughter, Gertrude, were childhood playmates and lifelong friends.

"I knew all six of the college's prominent presidents personally up to President [V. Lane] Rawlins," Friel says. She hopes to meet WSU's current top executive, and likely will.

Presidents Ernest O. Holland (1916-44), Wilson Compton (1945-51), C. Clement French (1952-66), Glenn Terrell (1967-85), and Samuel H. Smith (1985-2000) followed Bryan's administration.

Friel "got along well" with President Terrell. "He gives me credit for saving Stevens Hall," she says. Earlier, he neglected to tell her that Ferry Hall, the men's residence hall, was coming down to make room for a new science building.

When Friel asked Terrell why he hadn't informed her about Ferry's demolition, his response was "I didn't dare tell you."

[[Image:Mathewsfamily2.jpg|thumb|left|The Mathews family.]]Friel and President French were "very close friends." And she enjoyed her relationship--on and off the campus--with President Smith and his wife, Pat. President Holland, a bachelor, was a "very staid gentleman," Friel says. "The word 'gentleman' aptly applied to his whole demeanor."

Asked to comment on President Compton, she says his administration brought salary increases for faculty and additional construction on campus.

Growing up in Pullman, most of the children didn't think their education was complete until they had earned a college degree, she says. Attending college was a "wonderful aspiration." Going away to school wasn't an option. It was too expensive, and besides, "kids just didn't do that."

Friel enrolled at Washington State in 1919 and joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She held several house offices, was inducted into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honoraries; and served as president of the Army ROTC Women's Auxiliary or "Sponsors."

President Bryan, other early presidents, faculty members, and heads of campus living groups were invited to formal teas at the sorority houses, including Kappa Alpha Theta. There the women demonstrated their "social graces" and learned the "niceties of entertaining," Friel says. She was Theta house manager for 30 years and served as president of the building committee when a new addition was built. The living room in the renovated English Tudor house is named in her honor. 

During her freshman year, she met Jack Friel, a native of Waterville. He studied in the library where she worked evenings for 25 cents an hour. Was it love at first sight? She thinks so, at least from her point of view. He was three years older, a World War I veteran who served with an artillery unit in France.

"Freshman girls felt very sophisticated going with older men who had been to Europe," she says. The pair enrolled in a history class together and dated through graduation in 1923. Her degree was in English, his in political science, history, and economics. Both accepted three-year teaching assignments, a requirement then for a teaching certificate. When apart, they dated others, but the two "wrote each other every day." She taught high school English in Dayton. In addition to teaching, Jack coached football and basketball, first at Colville High School and then at Spokane's North Central High. His 1928 NC team captured the state basketball title.

[[Image:JackFriel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Catherine with the late WSU basketball coach Jack Friel. Photo by John Hoyt.]]After winning 495 basketball games at WSU, Coach Friel was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Despite his record and directing the Cougars to the 1941 NCAA Championship game--a 39-34 loss to Wisconsin--he failed to receive the required votes for induction.

"To his own detriment, he never went to the NCAA coaches meetings," his widow says. The College didn't have the money to send him.

Her husband didn't plan to be a coach. He was a teacher. After a game, he would come home and often pick up a thick book. "He was a real student of political science, history, and economics," she says.

In those days, Coach Friel didn't go out and bring in players. He took the boys who came, many of them off the farms, and "made basketball players out of them," she says. His former players still send her Christmas cards. Two--Scott Witt '43, Tacoma, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, and Robert Sheridan '47, Wilsonville, Oregon, a retired professor of dentistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center--always visit her when they come to campus.

The Friels' three eldest children are Washington State University graduates--Charlotte ('51 Speech), a former CBS administrator; Wallis ('53 Polit. Sci.), retired Whitman County Superior Court judge; and internationally known artist John ('62 Fine Arts). Their younger sister, Janette, earned a degree in psychology at Stanford. Both daughters went away to complete doctorates.

Catherine Friel has received numerous awards and honors. None is more cherished than the WSU Foundation's 1999 Outstanding Service Award. It is displayed near the front-door entryway of her home.

She traces her interest in English literature to her mother, a member of the Fortnightly Club, a women's literary club formed in 1893 by President Bryan's wife.

[[Image:FrielTaft.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Former president William Howard Taft visited the Washington State campus in 1920. During his stay, he awarded a silver trophy cup to the freshman class, winner of the annual Campus Day activity contest. Four "coaches" for victorious freshman teams are shown standing behind Catherine Mathews (Friel), chosen to represent the class. The setting is the dirt hillside south of the football field. She says there was much confusion. Athletic director "Doc" Bohler admitted he had forgotten to order the trophy. In desperation, he told a male student, "Run up to the Agriculture Building and take a silver cup out of the trophy case and we will use it." Neither the president nor Catherine knew what was inscribed on the substitute cup. Taft asked her why the trophy was being awarded. She explained that the freshman girls' team had been victorious in the class competition. Taft started to read the wording on the trophy, looked at the recipient, and kept shaking his head in puzzlement. The cup was inscribed, "Prize Bull Segus Pontiac Acme." "Thereafter that event became 'Doc' Bohler's prize story when he talked at banquets in other towns," Friel explained.]]"She [Harriet Bryan] thought women should get out of the house and away from the children on occasion," says Friel, a third-generation member of the club. "We didn't give book reports. We really studied and evaluated the writers."

Now, it is hard to fill the membership, which is limited to 25 for the twice-monthly afternoon meetings. "Everyone is working," she explains.

When Catherine was being interviewed for the senior English literature teaching position at Pullman High, she recalls, superintendent Louis Bruno pointed a finger at her and said, "I want you to get these kids ready for college."

She did. In fact, she quickly gained a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says.

Friel enjoyed working with students, many of them bright children of WSU professors. She tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every day," she said. "Now I bless you every day."

Reflecting on her life in Pullman, she says, "I feel so lucky that I live in a college town. You can walk a block to campus and have all this culture. You don't have to travel miles and miles to get it. The culture comes to you."

Friel Court in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named for her husband. After retiring from the University, he became the first commissioner of the new Big Sky Athletic Conference. When the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame opened in 1978, Coach Friel was an inaugural inductee. He died in 1995 at age 97. Jack and Catherine had been married nearly 70 years.

To what does she credit her longevity? The question has been posed before, many times.

"Some people say, 'I don't smoke.' Or, 'I don't drink,' " she says. Catherine Mathews Friel offers another option.

"I think it's the benefits of modern medicines." 

[[Category:Basketball]] [[Category:Residence_Halls]] [[Category:Student_Life]]

Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town

2009-04-24T16:22:05Z

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[[Image:FrielTitle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo by Robert Hubner]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002

 

When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university presidents. They always have. She's known six of them personally.

In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the idea at a luncheon of graduates attending their 50-year reunion. She was unaware WSU regents were present. They got the message: Stevens Hall is special.

"Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let Stevens go." The women's residence hall was spared. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have nothing."

Prior to her 100th birthday November 18, Friel paused to count her blessings and reflect on a life spent almost entirely in Pullman, population 24,675.

"I've been so thankful that circumstances put me in a small college town, especially here." She lives alone in a three-story home off Greek Row, near the campus and the alma mater she loves. In her comfortable living room, surrounded by antiques and late Victorian furniture, the diminutive lady eases her four-foot-seven frame into her favorite chair. Nearby on a red couch are half a dozen manila envelops in a neat row. She's saving photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia for her children and grandchildren.

Two hours of conversation pass quickly. There's not enough time to cover a century of experiences and memories. She talks in detail about her childhood, her college days, and the University.

Her late husband, John Bryan "Jack" Friel, coached Cougar basketball teams for 30 years. That was one reason she stayed in Pullman. When their family was reared, she went back to WSU: there was more to learn. At 58, she completed a master's degree in English. She agreed to "fill in" as teacher in senior English at Pullman High. She enjoyed teaching and decided to stay seven and a half years.

But let's go back to the beginning.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily.jpg|thumb|left|The John W. Mathews family stop for a rest on their two-week trek via horse-drawn "hack" from their homestead near Buhl, Idaho, to their permanent home in Pullman. It was the summer of 1910. Pictured from the left are Homer Hamilton Mathews, 14; Charlotte, 7; Catherine's father, John Wilbur Mathews; and 9-year-old Catherine. Her mother, Serena Wallis Mathews, took the photo, developed the negative, and made the print. She learned photography through a course at Washington State College.]]Catherine Mathews was born November 18, 1901 in Colfax, Washington. Pullman had no hospital. Six weeks earlier, the family had moved into a new frame house on the present site of Kappa Delta sorority. Her father, Pullman attorney and one-time mayor John W. Mathews, planted the maple trees that still grace the yard. Some of the townspeople, she was told, questioned her father's wisdom "to build so far out in the country."

Her father died when she was 15, but Catherine says her mother, Serena, "made a wonderful life for the family. She was well versed. I learned a lot from her."

The State College of Washington, a few small buildings on the crest of the hill, opened in 1892. The following year, Enoch A. Bryan was named college president after the departure of two short-term presidents. Catherine and Bryan's youngest daughter, Gertrude, were childhood playmates and lifelong friends.

"I knew all six of the college's prominent presidents personally up to President [V. Lane] Rawlins," Friel says. She hopes to meet WSU's current top executive, and likely will.

Presidents Ernest O. Holland (1916-44), Wilson Compton (1945-51), C. Clement French (1952-66), Glenn Terrell (1967-85), and Samuel H. Smith (1985-2000) followed Bryan's administration.

Friel "got along well" with President Terrell. "He gives me credit for saving Stevens Hall," she says. Earlier, he neglected to tell her that Ferry Hall, the men's residence hall, was coming down to make room for a new science building.

When Friel asked Terrell why he hadn't informed her about Ferry's demolition, his response was "I didn't dare tell you."

[[Image:Mathewsfamily2.jpg|thumb|left|The Mathews family.]]Friel and President French were "very close friends." And she enjoyed her relationship--on and off the campus--with President Smith and his wife, Pat. President Holland, a bachelor, was a "very staid gentleman," Friel says. "The word 'gentleman' aptly applied to his whole demeanor."

Asked to comment on President Compton, she says his administration brought salary increases for faculty and additional construction on campus.

Growing up in Pullman, most of the children didn't think their education was complete until they had earned a college degree, she says. Attending college was a "wonderful aspiration." Going away to school wasn't an option. It was too expensive, and besides, "kids just didn't do that."

Friel enrolled at Washington State in 1919 and joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She held several house offices, was inducted into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honoraries; and served as president of the Army ROTC Women's Auxiliary or "Sponsors."

President Bryan, other early presidents, faculty members, and heads of campus living groups were invited to formal teas at the sorority houses, including Kappa Alpha Theta. There the women demonstrated their "social graces" and learned the "niceties of entertaining," Friel says. She was Theta house manager for 30 years and served as president of the building committee when a new addition was built. The living room in the renovated English Tudor house is named in her honor. 

During her freshman year, she met Jack Friel, a native of Waterville. He studied in the library where she worked evenings for 25 cents an hour. Was it love at first sight? She thinks so, at least from her point of view. He was three years older, a World War I veteran who served with an artillery unit in France.

"Freshman girls felt very sophisticated going with older men who had been to Europe," she says. The pair enrolled in a history class together and dated through graduation in 1923. Her degree was in English, his in political science, history, and economics. Both accepted three-year teaching assignments, a requirement then for a teaching certificate. When apart, they dated others, but the two "wrote each other every day." She taught high school English in Dayton. In addition to teaching, Jack coached football and basketball, first at Colville High School and then at Spokane's North Central High. His 1928 NC team captured the state basketball title.

[[Image:JackFriel.jpg|thumb|right|Catherine with the late WSU basketball coach Jack Friel. Photo by John Hoyt.]]After winning 495 basketball games at WSU, Coach Friel was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Despite his record and directing the Cougars to the 1941 NCAA Championship game--a 39-34 loss to Wisconsin--he failed to receive the required votes for induction.

"To his own detriment, he never went to the NCAA coaches meetings," his widow says. The College didn't have the money to send him.

Her husband didn't plan to be a coach. He was a teacher. After a game, he would come home and often pick up a thick book. "He was a real student of political science, history, and economics," she says.

In those days, Coach Friel didn't go out and bring in players. He took the boys who came, many of them off the farms, and "made basketball players out of them," she says. His former players still send her Christmas cards. Two--Scott Witt '43, Tacoma, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, and Robert Sheridan '47, Wilsonville, Oregon, a retired professor of dentistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center--always visit her when they come to campus.

The Friels' three eldest children are Washington State University graduates--Charlotte ('51 Speech), a former CBS administrator; Wallis ('53 Polit. Sci.), retired Whitman County Superior Court judge; and internationally known artist John ('62 Fine Arts). Their younger sister, Janette, earned a degree in psychology at Stanford. Both daughters went away to complete doctorates.

Catherine Friel has received numerous awards and honors. None is more cherished than the WSU Foundation's 1999 Outstanding Service Award. It is displayed near the front-door entryway of her home.

[[Image:FrielTaft.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Former president William Howard Taft visited the Washington State campus in 1920. During his stay, he awarded a silver trophy cup to the freshman class, winner of the annual Campus Day activity contest. Four "coaches" for victorious freshman teams are shown standing behind Catherine Mathews (Friel), chosen to represent the class. The setting is the dirt hillside south of the football field. She says there was much confusion. Athletic director "Doc" Bohler admitted he had forgotten to order the trophy. In desperation, he told a male student, "Run up to the Agriculture Building and take a silver cup out of the trophy case and we will use it." Neither the president nor Catherine knew what was inscribed on the substitute cup. Taft asked her why the trophy was being awarded. She explained that the freshman girls' team had been victorious in the class competition. Taft started to read the wording on the trophy, looked at the recipient, and kept shaking his head in puzzlement. The cup was inscribed, "Prize Bull Segus Pontiac Acme." "Thereafter that event became 'Doc' Bohler's prize story when he talked at banquets in other towns," Friel explained.]]She traces her interest in English literature to her mother, a member of the Fortnightly Club, a women's literary club formed in 1893 by President Bryan's wife.

"She [Harriet Bryan] thought women should get out of the house and away from the children on occasion," says Friel, a third-generation member of the club. "We didn't give book reports. We really studied and evaluated the writers."

Now, it is hard to fill the membership, which is limited to 25 for the twice-monthly afternoon meetings. "Everyone is working," she explains.

When Catherine was being interviewed for the senior English literature teaching position at Pullman High, she recalls, superintendent Louis Bruno pointed a finger at her and said, "I want you to get these kids ready for college."

She did. In fact, she quickly gained a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says.

Friel enjoyed working with students, many of them bright children of WSU professors. She tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every day," she said. "Now I bless you every day."

Reflecting on her life in Pullman, she says, "I feel so lucky that I live in a college town. You can walk a block to campus and have all this culture. You don't have to travel miles and miles to get it. The culture comes to you."

Friel Court in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named for her husband. After retiring from the University, he became the first commissioner of the new Big Sky Athletic Conference. When the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame opened in 1978, Coach Friel was an inaugural inductee. He died in 1995 at age 97. Jack and Catherine had been married nearly 70 years.

To what does she credit her longevity? The question has been posed before, many times.

"Some people say, 'I don't smoke.' Or, 'I don't drink,' " she says. Catherine Mathews Friel offers another option.

"I think it's the benefits of modern medicines." 

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Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town

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[[Image:FrielTitle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo by Robert Hubner]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002

 

When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university presidents. They always have. She's known six of them personally.

In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the idea at a luncheon of graduates attending their 50-year reunion. She was unaware WSU regents were present. They got the message: Stevens Hall is special.

"Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let Stevens go." The women's residence hall was spared. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have nothing."

Prior to her 100th birthday November 18, Friel paused to count her blessings and reflect on a life spent almost entirely in Pullman, population 24,675.

"I've been so thankful that circumstances put me in a small college town, especially here." She lives alone in a three-story home off Greek Row, near the campus and the alma mater she loves. In her comfortable living room, surrounded by antiques and late Victorian furniture, the diminutive lady eases her four-foot-seven frame into her favorite chair. Nearby on a red couch are half a dozen manila envelops in a neat row. She's saving photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia for her children and grandchildren.

Two hours of conversation pass quickly. There's not enough time to cover a century of experiences and memories. She talks in detail about her childhood, her college days, and the University.

Her late husband, John Bryan "Jack" Friel, coached Cougar basketball teams for 30 years. That was one reason she stayed in Pullman. When their family was reared, she went back to WSU: there was more to learn. At 58, she completed a master's degree in English. She agreed to "fill in" as teacher in senior English at Pullman High. She enjoyed teaching and decided to stay seven and a half years.

But let's go back to the beginning.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily.jpg|thumb|left|The John W. Mathews family stop for a rest on their two-week trek via horse-drawn "hack" from their homestead near Buhl, Idaho, to their permanent home in Pullman. It was the summer of 1910. Pictured from the left are Homer Hamilton Mathews, 14; Charlotte, 7; Catherine's father, John Wilbur Mathews; and 9-year-old Catherine. Her mother, Serena Wallis Mathews, took the photo, developed the negative, and made the print. She learned photography through a course at Washington State College.]]Catherine Mathews was born November 18, 1901 in Colfax, Washington. Pullman had no hospital. Six weeks earlier, the family had moved into a new frame house on the present site of Kappa Delta sorority. Her father, Pullman attorney and one-time mayor John W. Mathews, planted the maple trees that still grace the yard. Some of the townspeople, she was told, questioned her father's wisdom "to build so far out in the country."

Her father died when she was 15, but Catherine says her mother, Serena, "made a wonderful life for the family. She was well versed. I learned a lot from her."

The State College of Washington, a few small buildings on the crest of the hill, opened in 1892. The following year, Enoch A. Bryan was named college president after the departure of two short-term presidents. Catherine and Bryan's youngest daughter, Gertrude, were childhood playmates and lifelong friends.

"I knew all six of the college's prominent presidents personally up to President [V. Lane] Rawlins," Friel says. She hopes to meet WSU's current top executive, and likely will.

Presidents Ernest O. Holland (1916-44), Wilson Compton (1945-51), C. Clement French (1952-66), Glenn Terrell (1967-85), and Samuel H. Smith (1985-2000) followed Bryan's administration.

Friel "got along well" with President Terrell. "He gives me credit for saving Stevens Hall," she says. Earlier, he neglected to tell her that Ferry Hall, the men's residence hall, was coming down to make room for a new science building.

When Friel asked Terrell why he hadn't informed her about Ferry's demolition, his response was "I didn't dare tell you."

[[Image:Mathewsfamily2.jpg|thumb|left|The Mathews family.]]Friel and President French were "very close friends." And she enjoyed her relationship--on and off the campus--with President Smith and his wife, Pat. President Holland, a bachelor, was a "very staid gentleman," Friel says. "The word 'gentleman' aptly applied to his whole demeanor."

Asked to comment on President Compton, she says his administration brought salary increases for faculty and additional construction on campus.

Growing up in Pullman, most of the children didn't think their education was complete until they had earned a college degree, she says. Attending college was a "wonderful aspiration." Going away to school wasn't an option. It was too expensive, and besides, "kids just didn't do that."

Friel enrolled at Washington State in 1919 and joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She held several house offices, was inducted into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honoraries; and served as president of the Army ROTC Women's Auxiliary or "Sponsors."

President Bryan, other early presidents, faculty members, and heads of campus living groups were invited to formal teas at the sorority houses, including Kappa Alpha Theta. There the women demonstrated their "social graces" and learned the "niceties of entertaining," Friel says. She was Theta house manager for 30 years and served as president of the building committee when a new addition was built. The living room in the renovated English Tudor house is named in her honor. 

During her freshman year, she met Jack Friel, a native of Waterville. He studied in the library where she worked evenings for 25 cents an hour. Was it love at first sight? She thinks so, at least from her point of view. He was three years older, a World War I veteran who served with an artillery unit in France.

"Freshman girls felt very sophisticated going with older men who had been to Europe," she says. The pair enrolled in a history class together and dated through graduation in 1923. Her degree was in English, his in political science, history, and economics. Both accepted three-year teaching assignments, a requirement then for a teaching certificate. When apart, they dated others, but the two "wrote each other every day." She taught high school English in Dayton. In addition to teaching, Jack coached football and basketball, first at Colville High School and then at Spokane's North Central High. His 1928 NC team captured the state basketball title.

[[Image:JackFriel.jpg|thumb|right|Catherine with the late WSU basketball coach Jack Friel. Photo by John Hoyt.]]After winning 495 basketball games at WSU, Coach Friel was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Despite his record and directing the Cougars to the 1941 NCAA Championship game--a 39-34 loss to Wisconsin--he failed to receive the required votes for induction.

"To his own detriment, he never went to the NCAA coaches meetings," his widow says. The College didn't have the money to send him.

Her husband didn't plan to be a coach. He was a teacher. After a game, he would come home and often pick up a thick book. "He was a real student of political science, history, and economics," she says.

In those days, Coach Friel didn't go out and bring in players. He took the boys who came, many of them off the farms, and "made basketball players out of them," she says. His former players still send her Christmas cards. Two--Scott Witt '43, Tacoma, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, and Robert Sheridan '47, Wilsonville, Oregon, a retired professor of dentistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center--always visit her when they come to campus.

The Friels' three eldest children are Washington State University graduates--Charlotte ('51 Speech), a former CBS administrator; Wallis ('53 Polit. Sci.), retired Whitman County Superior Court judge; and internationally known artist John ('62 Fine Arts). Their younger sister, Janette, earned a degree in psychology at Stanford. Both daughters went away to complete doctorates.

Catherine Friel has received numerous awards and honors. None is more cherished than the WSU Foundation's 1999 Outstanding Service Award. It is displayed near the front-door entryway of her home.

She traces her interest in English literature to her mother, a member of the Fortnightly Club, a women's literary club formed in 1893 by President Bryan's wife.

"She [Harriet Bryan] thought women should get out of the house and away from the children on occasion," says Friel, a third-generation member of the club. "We didn't give book reports. We really studied and evaluated the writers."

[[Image:FrielTaft.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Former president William Howard Taft visited the Washington State campus in 1920. During his stay, he awarded a silver trophy cup to the freshman class, winner of the annual Campus Day activity contest. Four "coaches" for victorious freshman teams are shown standing behind Catherine Mathews (Friel), chosen to represent the class. The setting is the dirt hillside south of the football field. She says there was much confusion. Athletic director "Doc" Bohler admitted he had forgotten to order the trophy. In desperation, he told a male student, "Run up to the Agriculture Building and take a silver cup out of the trophy case and we will use it." Neither the president nor Catherine knew what was inscribed on the substitute cup. Taft asked her why the trophy was being awarded. She explained that the freshman girls' team had been victorious in the class competition. Taft started to read the wording on the trophy, looked at the recipient, and kept shaking his head in puzzlement. The cup was inscribed, "Prize Bull Segus Pontiac Acme." "Thereafter that event became 'Doc' Bohler's prize story when he talked at banquets in other towns," Friel explained.]]Now, it is hard to fill the membership, which is limited to 25 for the twice-monthly afternoon meetings. "Everyone is working," she explains.

When Catherine was being interviewed for the senior English literature teaching position at Pullman High, she recalls, superintendent Louis Bruno pointed a finger at her and said, "I want you to get these kids ready for college."

She did. In fact, she quickly gained a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says.

Friel enjoyed working with students, many of them bright children of WSU professors. She tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every day," she said. "Now I bless you every day."

Reflecting on her life in Pullman, she says, "I feel so lucky that I live in a college town. You can walk a block to campus and have all this culture. You don't have to travel miles and miles to get it. The culture comes to you."

Friel Court in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named for her husband. After retiring from the University, he became the first commissioner of the new Big Sky Athletic Conference. When the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame opened in 1978, Coach Friel was an inaugural inductee. He died in 1995 at age 97. Jack and Catherine had been married nearly 70 years.

To what does she credit her longevity? The question has been posed before, many times.

"Some people say, 'I don't smoke.' Or, 'I don't drink,' " she says. Catherine Mathews Friel offers another option.

"I think it's the benefits of modern medicines." 

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Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for life in a small college town

2009-04-24T16:19:41Z

MarisaSandoval: New page: Photo by Robert HubnerBy Pat Caraher From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002 When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, ...

[[Image:FrielTitle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo by Robert Hubner]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Spring 2002

When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university presidents. They always have. She's known six of them personally.

In the 1970s, when rumors were circulating on the Washington State University campus that historic Stevens Hall was to be razed, Friel spoke out against the idea at a luncheon of graduates attending their 50-year reunion. She was unaware WSU regents were present. They got the message: Stevens Hall is special.

"Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let Stevens go." The women's residence hall was spared. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "That is our [women's] heritage on campus," she said at the time. "If you begin to tear down your heritage, you have nothing."

Prior to her 100th birthday November 18, Friel paused to count her blessings and reflect on a life spent almost entirely in Pullman, population 24,675.

"I've been so thankful that circumstances put me in a small college town, especially here." She lives alone in a three-story home off Greek Row, near the campus and the alma mater she loves. In her comfortable living room, surrounded by antiques and late Victorian furniture, the diminutive lady eases her four-foot-seven frame into her favorite chair. Nearby on a red couch are half a dozen manila envelops in a neat row. She's saving photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia for her children and grandchildren.

Two hours of conversation pass quickly. There's not enough time to cover a century of experiences and memories. She talks in detail about her childhood, her college days, and the University.

Her late husband, John Bryan "Jack" Friel, coached Cougar basketball teams for 30 years. That was one reason she stayed in Pullman. When their family was reared, she went back to WSU: there was more to learn. At 58, she completed a master's degree in English. She agreed to "fill in" as teacher in senior English at Pullman High. She enjoyed teaching and decided to stay seven and a half years.

But let's go back to the beginning.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily.jpg|thumb|left|The John W. Mathews family stop for a rest on their two-week trek via horse-drawn "hack" from their homestead near Buhl, Idaho, to their permanent home in Pullman. It was the summer of 1910. Pictured from the left are Homer Hamilton Mathews, 14; Charlotte, 7; Catherine's father, John Wilbur Mathews; and 9-year-old Catherine. Her mother, Serena Wallis Mathews, took the photo, developed the negative, and made the print. She learned photography through a course at Washington State College.]]Catherine Mathews was born November 18, 1901 in Colfax, Washington. Pullman had no hospital. Six weeks earlier, the family had moved into a new frame house on the present site of Kappa Delta sorority. Her father, Pullman attorney and one-time mayor John W. Mathews, planted the maple trees that still grace the yard. Some of the townspeople, she was told, questioned her father's wisdom "to build so far out in the country."

Her father died when she was 15, but Catherine says her mother, Serena, "made a wonderful life for the family. She was well versed. I learned a lot from her."

The State College of Washington, a few small buildings on the crest of the hill, opened in 1892. The following year, Enoch A. Bryan was named college president after the departure of two short-term presidents. Catherine and Bryan's youngest daughter, Gertrude, were childhood playmates and lifelong friends.

"I knew all six of the college's prominent presidents personally up to President [V. Lane] Rawlins," Friel says. She hopes to meet WSU's current top executive, and likely will.

Presidents Ernest O. Holland (1916-44), Wilson Compton (1945-51), C. Clement French (1952-66), Glenn Terrell (1967-85), and Samuel H. Smith (1985-2000) followed Bryan's administration.

Friel "got along well" with President Terrell. "He gives me credit for saving Stevens Hall," she says. Earlier, he neglected to tell her that Ferry Hall, the men's residence hall, was coming down to make room for a new science building.

When Friel asked Terrell why he hadn't informed her about Ferry's demolition, his response was "I didn't dare tell you."

Friel and President French were "very close friends." And she enjoyed her relationship--on and off the campus--with President Smith and his wife, Pat. President Holland, a bachelor, was a "very staid gentleman," Friel says. "The word 'gentleman' aptly applied to his whole demeanor."

Asked to comment on President Compton, she says his administration brought salary increases for faculty and additional construction on campus.

[[Image:Mathewsfamily2.jpg|thumb|left|The Mathews family.]]Growing up in Pullman, most of the children didn't think their education was complete until they had earned a college degree, she says. Attending college was a "wonderful aspiration." Going away to school wasn't an option. It was too expensive, and besides, "kids just didn't do that."

Friel enrolled at Washington State in 1919 and joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She held several house offices, was inducted into Mortar Board and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honoraries; and served as president of the Army ROTC Women's Auxiliary or "Sponsors."

President Bryan, other early presidents, faculty members, and heads of campus living groups were invited to formal teas at the sorority houses, including Kappa Alpha Theta. There the women demonstrated their "social graces" and learned the "niceties of entertaining," Friel says. She was Theta house manager for 30 years and served as president of the building committee when a new addition was built. The living room in the renovated English Tudor house is named in her honor. 

During her freshman year, she met Jack Friel, a native of Waterville. He studied in the library where she worked evenings for 25 cents an hour. Was it love at first sight? She thinks so, at least from her point of view. He was three years older, a World War I veteran who served with an artillery unit in France.

"Freshman girls felt very sophisticated going with older men who had been to Europe," she says. The pair enrolled in a history class together and dated through graduation in 1923. Her degree was in English, his in political science, history, and economics. Both accepted three-year teaching assignments, a requirement then for a teaching certificate. When apart, they dated others, but the two "wrote each other every day." She taught high school English in Dayton. In addition to teaching, Jack coached football and basketball, first at Colville High School and then at Spokane's North Central High. His 1928 NC team captured the state basketball title.

[[Image:JackFriel.jpg|thumb|right|Catherine with the late WSU basketball coach Jack Friel. Photo by John Hoyt.]]After winning 495 basketball games at WSU, Coach Friel was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Despite his record and directing the Cougars to the 1941 NCAA Championship game--a 39-34 loss to Wisconsin--he failed to receive the required votes for induction.

"To his own detriment, he never went to the NCAA coaches meetings," his widow says. The College didn't have the money to send him.

Her husband didn't plan to be a coach. He was a teacher. After a game, he would come home and often pick up a thick book. "He was a real student of political science, history, and economics," she says.

In those days, Coach Friel didn't go out and bring in players. He took the boys who came, many of them off the farms, and "made basketball players out of them," she says. His former players still send her Christmas cards. Two--Scott Witt '43, Tacoma, a retired Weyerhaeuser executive, and Robert Sheridan '47, Wilsonville, Oregon, a retired professor of dentistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center--always visit her when they come to campus.

The Friels' three eldest children are Washington State University graduates--Charlotte ('51 Speech), a former CBS administrator; Wallis ('53 Polit. Sci.), retired Whitman County Superior Court judge; and internationally known artist John ('62 Fine Arts). Their younger sister, Janette, earned a degree in psychology at Stanford. Both daughters went away to complete doctorates.

Catherine Friel has received numerous awards and honors. None is more cherished than the WSU Foundation's 1999 Outstanding Service Award. It is displayed near the front-door entryway of her home.

She traces her interest in English literature to her mother, a member of the Fortnightly Club, a women's literary club formed in 1893 by President Bryan's wife.

"She [Harriet Bryan] thought women should get out of the house and away from the children on occasion," says Friel, a third-generation member of the club. "We didn't give book reports. We really studied and evaluated the writers."

Now, it is hard to fill the membership, which is limited to 25 for the twice-monthly afternoon meetings. "Everyone is working," she explains.

When Catherine was being interviewed for the senior English literature teaching position at Pullman High, she recalls, superintendent Louis Bruno pointed a finger at her and said, "I want you to get these kids ready for college."

[[Image:FrielTaft.jpg|thumb|right|Former president William Howard Taft visited the Washington State campus in 1920. During his stay, he awarded a silver trophy cup to the freshman class, winner of the annual Campus Day activity contest. Four "coaches" for victorious freshman teams are shown standing behind Catherine Mathews (Friel), chosen to represent the class. The setting is the dirt hillside south of the football field. She says there was much confusion. Athletic director "Doc" Bohler admitted he had forgotten to order the trophy. In desperation, he told a male student, "Run up to the Agriculture Building and take a silver cup out of the trophy case and we will use it." Neither the president nor Catherine knew what was inscribed on the substitute cup. Taft asked her why the trophy was being awarded. She explained that the freshman girls' team had been victorious in the class competition. Taft started to read the wording on the trophy, looked at the recipient, and kept shaking his head in puzzlement. The cup was inscribed, "Prize Bull Segus Pontiac Acme." "Thereafter that event became 'Doc' Bohler's prize story when he talked at banquets in other towns," Friel explained.]]She did. In fact, she quickly gained a reputation for the volume of written assignments she required of her students. "Some of their parents loved me, some hated me," she says.

Friel enjoyed working with students, many of them bright children of WSU professors. She tells of being stopped on the street a few years ago by one of her former students, then attending Washington State. "Mrs. Friel, I used to curse you every day," she said. "Now I bless you every day."

Reflecting on her life in Pullman, she says, "I feel so lucky that I live in a college town. You can walk a block to campus and have all this culture. You don't have to travel miles and miles to get it. The culture comes to you."

Friel Court in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum is named for her husband. After retiring from the University, he became the first commissioner of the new Big Sky Athletic Conference. When the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame opened in 1978, Coach Friel was an inaugural inductee. He died in 1995 at age 97. Jack and Catherine had been married nearly 70 years.

To what does she credit her longevity? The question has been posed before, many times.

"Some people say, 'I don't smoke.' Or, 'I don't drink,' " she says. Catherine Mathews Friel offers another option.

"I think it's the benefits of modern medicines."

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By Pat Caraher 

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2002 

 

As a result, five men and one woman were inducted into the Washington State University Athletic Hall of Fame in March. Drew Bledsoe, John Chaplin, Jason Hanson, John Olerud, Bob Robertson, and Sarah Silvernail join 99 athletes, coaches, and administrators enshrined since the hall was created in 1978.

Here's what Cougar colleagues have to say about the new honorees: 

[[Image:Olerud.jpg|thumb|left|John Olerud]]"When I made up the lineup, I always put Ole [John Olerud] in the third spot-where you want your best all-around player-and filled in around him," former baseball coach Bobo Brayton says of his first baseman/pitcher. As a sophomore in 1988, Ole set school single-season records for home runs (23), batting average (.464), and pitching (15-0).

"He led the world in everything," says Brayton. On the rare occasion when Ole faltered a little on the mound, Bobo would visit the big lefthander with words of advice: "Remember you are John Olerud. There's no one better." He was named national College Player of the Year in 1988.

After his junior year, Olerud signed with Toronto in 1989 and went directly to the major leagues. He helped the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series and won the 1993 American League batting title (.363). After two years with the New York Mets, he returned to his native Seattle and the Mariners, where he was a member of the 2001 All-Star team. His father, John Olerud, an All-America catcher in 1965, was inducted into the WSU hall of fame in 1986.

[[Image:Bledsoe.jpg|thumb|right|Drew Bledsoe]]Cougar football coach Mike Price calls former quarterback Drew Bledsoe and kicker Jason Hanson "the best players at their positions WSU has ever had." Bledsoe earned All-America honors after arriving from Walla Walla and directing WSU to a 1992 Copper Bowl victory. He finished his three-year collegiate career with 7,373 passing yards, 532 completions in 979 attempts, and 46 touchdown passes. Drafted by the New England Patriots in 1993, he became at 22 the youngest quarterback in NFL history to play in the Pro Bowl.

"Drew's the total package. He always has been. He always will be," says Price, in reference to Bledsoe's athletic ability, character, leadership, and deportment on and off the field. "The same could be said about Jason Hanson."

 [[Image:Hanson.jpg|thumb|left|Jason Hanson]]Hanson, who comes from Spokane, was a three-time All-America selection as a punter/kicker and three-time Academic All-America between 1988 and 1991. He made 63 of 96 field goals attempts, including 19 of 30 from 50-59 yards at WSU. His 62-yard field goal against UNLV is the longest in NCAA history without a kicking tee.

"When he's hot, no one can kick better or farther," Price says.

Drafted by Detroit in 1992, Hanson led the Lions in scoring nine consecutive years into 2001.

 [[Image:Chaplin.jpg|thumb|right|John Chaplin]]John Chaplin came to WSU from Los Angeles and set world indoor records in the 220- (22.1) and 330- (33.4) yard dashes. The 1963 team captain returned to the University in 1968 as cross country coach and added head-track-and-field-coach duties in 1973. The Cougars went undefeated in dual meets nine seasons en route to a 202-17 record during his 21-year tenure. WSU won four Pac-10 outdoor championships, was NCAA runner-up four times outdoors, and claimed the 1977 NCAA indoor championship. Chaplin's athletes earned 105 All-America certificates and 61 conference titles.

"John Chaplin put Washington State track and field on the map," says current coach Rick Sloan. In 2000, Chaplin coached the USA men's track and field team in the Olympics in Sydney.

 [[Image:Silvernail.jpg|thumb|left|Sarah Silvernail]]Sarah Silvernail, the fifth woman to be selected to the hall of fame, had "the greatest impact on the volleyball program of any player we've ever had," coach Cindy Fredrick says of the two-time All-America. The 1996 Pac-10 Player of the Year "completely dominated teams. She could take over a match."

Silvernail's WSU records for career kills (1,848), single-season kills (649), and most kills in a match (39) still stand.

The Fife High School graduate was a member of the 1997 USA National Team. She played with Chicago in the U.S. Professional Volleyball league and recently played professionally in Switzerland.

 

 [[Image:Robertson.jpg|thumb|right|Bob Robertson]]Last fall Bob Robertson completed his 35th season as play-by-play announcer of WSU football games. He began broadcasting Cougar sports in 1964. After a three-year absence, he returned permanently in 1972 as "voice of the Cougars" in football. He also broadcast men's basketball until 1993.

"There isn't much Bob hasn't seen in Cougar football or, for that matter, basketball," says sports information director Rod Commons. "He's the consummate professional in doing his homework and the way he treats people."

A product of Western Washington University, Robertson has broadcast Notre Dame football and basketball (1972-82), Pacific Coast League baseball (1984-98), North American Soccer League action (1972-82), and Spokane Indian baseball (1999-present). He has been voted Sportscaster of the Year in Washington 15 times. 

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Six join Hall of Fame

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Six join Hall of Fame

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By Pat Caraher 

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2002 

 

As a result, five men and one woman were inducted into the Washington State University Athletic Hall of Fame in March. Drew Bledsoe, John Chaplin, Jason Hanson, John Olerud, Bob Robertson, and Sarah Silvernail join 99 athletes, coaches, and administrators enshrined since the hall was created in 1978.

Here's what Cougar colleagues have to say about the new honorees: 

[[Image:Olerud.jpg|thumb|left|John Olerud]]"When I made up the lineup, I always put Ole [John Olerud] in the third spot-where you want your best all-around player-and filled in around him," former baseball coach Bobo Brayton says of his first baseman/pitcher. As a sophomore in 1988, Ole set school single-season records for home runs (23), batting average (.464), and pitching (15-0).

"He led the world in everything," says Brayton. On the rare occasion when Ole faltered a little on the mound, Bobo would visit the big lefthander with words of advice: "Remember you are John Olerud. There's no one better." He was named national College Player of the Year in 1988.

After his junior year, Olerud signed with Toronto in 1989 and went directly to the major leagues. He helped the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series and won the 1993 American League batting title (.363). After two years with the New York Mets, he returned to his native Seattle and the Mariners, where he was a member of the 2001 All-Star team. His father, John Olerud, an All-America catcher in 1965, was inducted into the WSU hall of fame in 1986.

[[Image:Bledsoe.jpg|thumb|left|Drew Bledsoe]]Cougar football coach Mike Price calls former quarterback Drew Bledsoe and kicker Jason Hanson "the best players at their positions WSU has ever had." Bledsoe earned All-America honors after arriving from Walla Walla and directing WSU to a 1992 Copper Bowl victory. He finished his three-year collegiate career with 7,373 passing yards, 532 completions in 979 attempts, and 46 touchdown passes. Drafted by the New England Patriots in 1993, he became at 22 the youngest quarterback in NFL history to play in the Pro Bowl.

"Drew's the total package. He always has been. He always will be," says Price, in reference to Bledsoe's athletic ability, character, leadership, and deportment on and off the field. "The same could be said about Jason Hanson."

 [[Image:Hanson.jpg|thumb|left|Jason Hanson]]Hanson, who comes from Spokane, was a three-time All-America selection as a punter/kicker and three-time Academic All-America between 1988 and 1991. He made 63 of 96 field goals attempts, including 19 of 30 from 50-59 yards at WSU. His 62-yard field goal against UNLV is the longest in NCAA history without a kicking tee.

"When he's hot, no one can kick better or farther," Price says.

Drafted by Detroit in 1992, Hanson led the Lions in scoring nine consecutive years into 2001.

 [[Image:Chaplin.jpg|thumb|right|John Chaplin]]John Chaplin came to WSU from Los Angeles and set world indoor records in the 220- (22.1) and 330- (33.4) yard dashes. The 1963 team captain returned to the University in 1968 as cross country coach and added head-track-and-field-coach duties in 1973. The Cougars went undefeated in dual meets nine seasons en route to a 202-17 record during his 21-year tenure. WSU won four Pac-10 outdoor championships, was NCAA runner-up four times outdoors, and claimed the 1977 NCAA indoor championship. Chaplin's athletes earned 105 All-America certificates and 61 conference titles.

"John Chaplin put Washington State track and field on the map," says current coach Rick Sloan. In 2000, Chaplin coached the USA men's track and field team in the Olympics in Sydney.

 [[Image:Silvernail.jpg|thumb|left|Sarah Silvernail]]Sarah Silvernail, the fifth woman to be selected to the hall of fame, had "the greatest impact on the volleyball program of any player we've ever had," coach Cindy Fredrick says of the two-time All-America. The 1996 Pac-10 Player of the Year "completely dominated teams. She could take over a match."

Silvernail's WSU records for career kills (1,848), single-season kills (649), and most kills in a match (39) still stand.

The Fife High School graduate was a member of the 1997 USA National Team. She played with Chicago in the U.S. Professional Volleyball league and recently played professionally in Switzerland.

 

 [[Image:Robertson.jpg|thumb|right|Bob Robertson]]Last fall Bob Robertson completed his 35th season as play-by-play announcer of WSU football games. He began broadcasting Cougar sports in 1964. After a three-year absence, he returned permanently in 1972 as "voice of the Cougars" in football. He also broadcast men's basketball until 1993.

"There isn't much Bob hasn't seen in Cougar football or, for that matter, basketball," says sports information director Rod Commons. "He's the consummate professional in doing his homework and the way he treats people."

A product of Western Washington University, Robertson has broadcast Notre Dame football and basketball (1972-82), Pacific Coast League baseball (1984-98), North American Soccer League action (1972-82), and Spokane Indian baseball (1999-present). He has been voted Sportscaster of the Year in Washington 15 times. 

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By Pat Caraher 

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2002 

 

As a result, five men and one woman were inducted into the Washington State University Athletic Hall of Fame in March. Drew Bledsoe, John Chaplin, Jason Hanson, John Olerud, Bob Robertson, and Sarah Silvernail join 99 athletes, coaches, and administrators enshrined since the hall was created in 1978.

Here's what Cougar colleagues have to say about the new honorees: 

[[Image:Olerud.jpg|thumb|left|John Olerud]]"When I made up the lineup, I always put Ole [John Olerud] in the third spot-where you want your best all-around player-and filled in around him," former baseball coach Bobo Brayton says of his first baseman/pitcher. As a sophomore in 1988, Ole set school single-season records for home runs (23), batting average (.464), and pitching (15-0).

"He led the world in everything," says Brayton. On the rare occasion when Ole faltered a little on the mound, Bobo would visit the big lefthander with words of advice: "Remember you are John Olerud. There's no one better." He was named national College Player of the Year in 1988.

After his junior year, Olerud signed with Toronto in 1989 and went directly to the major leagues. He helped the Blue Jays win back-to-back World Series and won the 1993 American League batting title (.363). After two years with the New York Mets, he returned to his native Seattle and the Mariners, where he was a member of the 2001 All-Star team. His father, John Olerud, an All-America catcher in 1965, was inducted into the WSU hall of fame in 1986.

[[Image:Bledsoe.jpg|thumb|left|Drew Bledsoe]]Cougar football coach Mike Price calls former quarterback Drew Bledsoe and kicker Jason Hanson "the best players at their positions WSU has ever had." Bledsoe earned All-America honors after arriving from Walla Walla and directing WSU to a 1992 Copper Bowl victory. He finished his three-year collegiate career with 7,373 passing yards, 532 completions in 979 attempts, and 46 touchdown passes. Drafted by the New England Patriots in 1993, he became at 22 the youngest quarterback in NFL history to play in the Pro Bowl.

"Drew's the total package. He always has been. He always will be," says Price, in reference to Bledsoe's athletic ability, character, leadership, and deportment on and off the field. "The same could be said about Jason Hanson."

 [[Image:Hanson.jpg|thumb|left|Jason Hanson]]Hanson, who comes from Spokane, was a three-time All-America selection as a punter/kicker and three-time Academic All-America between 1988 and 1991. He made 63 of 96 field goals attempts, including 19 of 30 from 50-59 yards at WSU. His 62-yard field goal against UNLV is the longest in NCAA history without a kicking tee.

"When he's hot, no one can kick better or farther," Price says.

Drafted by Detroit in 1992, Hanson led the Lions in scoring nine consecutive years into 2001.

 John Chaplin came to WSU from Los Angeles and set world indoor records in the 220- (22.1) and 330- (33.4) yard dashes. The 1963 team captain returned to the University in 1968 as cross country coach and added head-track-and-field-coach duties in 1973. The Cougars went undefeated in dual meets nine seasons en route to a 202-17 record during his 21-year tenure. WSU won four Pac-10 outdoor championships, was NCAA runner-up four times outdoors, and claimed the 1977 NCAA indoor championship. Chaplin's athletes earned 105 All-America certificates and 61 conference titles.

"John Chaplin put Washington State track and field on the map," says current coach Rick Sloan. In 2000, Chaplin coached the USA men's track and field team in the Olympics in Sydney.

 [[Image:Silvernail.jpg|thumb|left|Sarah Silvernail]]Sarah Silvernail, the fifth woman to be selected to the hall of fame, had "the greatest impact on the volleyball program of any player we've ever had," coach Cindy Fredrick says of the two-time All-America. The 1996 Pac-10 Player of the Year "completely dominated teams. She could take over a match."

Silvernail's WSU records for career kills (1,848), single-season kills (649), and most kills in a match (39) still stand.

The Fife High School graduate was a member of the 1997 USA National Team. She played with Chicago in the U.S. Professional Volleyball league and recently played professionally in Switzerland.

 [[Image:Robertson.jpg|thumb|right|Bob Robertson]]Last fall Bob Robertson completed his 35th season as play-by-play announcer of WSU football games. He began broadcasting Cougar sports in 1964. After a three-year absence, he returned permanently in 1972 as "voice of the Cougars" in football. He also broadcast men's basketball until 1993.

"There isn't much Bob hasn't seen in Cougar football or, for that matter, basketball," says sports information director Rod Commons. "He's the consummate professional in doing his homework and the way he treats people."

A product of Western Washington University, Robertson has broadcast Notre Dame football and basketball (1972-82), Pacific Coast League baseball (1984-98), North American Soccer League action (1972-82), and Spokane Indian baseball (1999-present). He has been voted Sportscaster of the Year in Washington 15 times.

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By Bill Morelock

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2002

[[Image:Coach_nollan.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Coach Nollan. Courtesy Janet Nollan Morelock '51.]]The Titans, in Greek mythology, were a family of primordial gods, children of Uranus and Gaea. Prometheus, humanity's benefactor, was a Titan. But their time and code passed, and they were supplanted by the nimble, charismatic, and vengeful gods of Olympus.

My grandfather, born in the mythical past of 1900 and living until 1981, was a titan. I have a vivid memory of him in a great coat and fedora, his proud, imperious Prussian (literally, Titanic: Teutonic) smile three miles above my eyes. He bent down to mortal earth and handed me a box. I tore it open with a hunger that surprised me even then. I kept that baseball glove close at hand for 15 years.

Forty years, and 20 after his death, is time enough for the usual reassessments, rich loam for the rooting and growth of resentments. He was a strong man, and a difficult one (What titan isn't?), and he left his marks. But whenever I find myself playing the game of myth-busting, trying to bring the old man down few notches, invariably a kind of heroic bedrock gets in my way and makes the whole exercise ridiculous. I run into a pile of letters he received from Pacific beaches and African deserts and French villages, remember who wrote them and some of what they said and what my grandfather did with them. And then I realize, still, that he was a titan.

This is the story of a story he told me once and never again.

My grandfather's name was Bill Nollan. He coached four sports at Seattle's Lincoln High between 1929 and 1956. He played three himself at Washington State College, graduating in 1926. He won city championships in football, baseball, and track, state championships in basketball, and became something of a legend during an era when the big-time sportswriters in town would spend serious thought and ink on high school sports. Full-page caricatures illustrated pre-season profiles. Even epithets and enmities developed. Royal Brougham of the Seattle P-I called Nollan "Weeping Willie of Wallingford" for his histrionics on the sidelines. Brougham and my grandfather maintained a kind of feud for years.

He also taught P.E., and seriously. For every boy he kept an index card with a record of his height and weight for each of his four years in school, plus his improvement, or lack of it, in basic skills and strength tests: pull-ups, sit-ups, sprints, and distance runs.

And he said more than once that his favorite sport to coach was track, because he never had to cut anyone, and excellence was all about improvement. He may have railed and stomped, but it wasn't in quest of the Great Prize. He just loved the order of excellence, loved to teach it and preach it, from performance to the care and maintenance of equipment. And, of course, I think it was just in his nature, like a rooster, to fill his lungs with air and let it out violently.

Extrapolating from an old photo, I see him on a sea of grass within a cinder track on a warm afternoon in May, standing with his legs apart, fists on his hips, surveying the carnival of exertion and exhaustion he orchestrated every day throughout the spring.

He wore, as always, grey sweats and a white t-shirt. A whistle on a leather lanyard was clenched between his teeth.

He'd encouraged and pushed and berated and praised hundreds of boys. He was, by the testimony of every athlete who'd ever had the fortunate ill luck to run and jump and throw for him, a tyrant, a drill sergeant, a martinet, a merciless fiend. A man of the better- to-be-respected-than-loved school. He was Coach.

I knew him years later-long after the boys, thin-clad or in spikes or helmets, had filled out and grown into men who wore suits, or overalls, or grey sweats with whistles in their teeth, or got left behind on beaches with fabled names. To me he was also tyrant, drill sergeant, martinet. But those were just synonyms I learned later for Grandpa. He hadn't changed. "Flat-bellied, ramrod straight, the youngest 67-year-old man in town," Royal Brougham admitted in the late 60s. Time spent with him was time spent in close order drill, at attention, mentally scrubbing latrine fixtures. He was demanding, unyielding. And as a teenager at the height of the great divide of 1970-when war and assassination and pursuits of pleasure and world views distilled into t-shirt slogans were constant, volatile flashpoints between old and young-I might naturally have turned away from his regimentation and his odd discipline in small things: how you say good morning, how you sit at a table, how well you understand by what path the food you eat came to that table. And I would have turned away. But he had these stories.

He'd debated with Ted Williams how to grip a bat.

He coached a quarter-miler named Ralph Mast, a high-schooler who ran 49.1, in 1937, without spikes, without blocks, on a cinder track. One watch got him in 48.9.

His very first coaching job was in Pasco in 1926. This tennis-basketball-baseball player was hired to coach football. Not knowing anything about the game, he stalled for time by making his players repeat a few blocking and tackling drills picked up from a Washington State College fraternity brother until they began to ask, "Coach, when are we going to run some plays?" Fundamentals mastered, plays added at the last minute, Pasco crushed its first opponent. The amazed young coach built a career on that lesson.

As a student himself at Lincoln he and his doubles partner Bob Hesketh dominated Seattle tennis. In 1921, on his way to college, a man approached him and asked if he wanted to become a professional tennis player and represent a little sportswear company he'd just started. It sounded interesting, but professional tennis was just a series of barnstorming exhibitions in those days. My grandfather had his heart set on college and coaching and he told Eddie Bauer thanks, but no thanks. 

[[Image:Allcity_football_champs.jpg|thumb|right|300px|All-city high school football champions, 1943. Courtesy Janet Nollan Morelock '51.]]He was too young for the Great War. He was 41 and a few weeks on December 7, 1941. The following summer he enrolled in an officers' training program at St. Mary's College in California. The intent wasn't preparation for service, but to learn, better and more systematically, the service of preparation. The boys at Lincoln High didn't know what hit them.

Beginning in the fall of '42, physical education became basic training. Bill Nollan set up army-style obstacle courses at Lincoln High School and began redefining the students' epithets for him.

I speculate here, perhaps recklessly. I don't, and never did know the man's mind. He only told the story once. The details aren't complete. But it was the best story he ever told. And I yield to the temptation of expanding upon a titan's tale and his tone of voice to a whole nest of emotions he never offered.

Here, in this world of his, where he commanded platoons of athlete-warriors battling with their legs and their strengths and their skills-only the prepared and the trained would win, would survive. So now he drove them with an added fury because the stakes were not only higher, they were off the charts, out of his ken, beyond his ability to map cause and effect, training and winning.

In June these boys would turn into soldiers and sailors. And they would face . . . the tyrant was humbled when he thought of what they would face; the war was like a personal affront to him. He was humbled because he didn't know, because he never would, and he couldn't imagine or presume to know.

He knew he didn't understand. He didn't like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it.

In the summer of '43, he said, he received the first of the letters. "I made corporal faster than anyone in my platoon because I was so physically well prepared," was a typical story, along with the inevitable, and likely for the boy writing it, astonishing addendum: "Thanks."

As the graduating class of '43 progressed from training to assignments the gratitude changed character. From the Pacific: "Coach, I think I may still be alive because of you." No more specifics in the old man's story, except that, "They told me things I wouldn't repeat."

After the war, he said, he began to send the letters back-along with each boy's P.E. card. It was a process of years, but he sent them all back. Either to the men or, in some cases, the men's families. He did this, I think, because of a certain code-Titan's code, now either discredited or smiled at-that he lived by and would have questioned about as often as he would have questioned the value of breathing. These boys, to whom he had nothing any longer to teach, who had lived, had existed to a degree he would never know, awed him. He had nothing left to give them but his gesture of respect (because a man wants to be respected more than he wants to be loved). My grandfather's gesture of respect acknowledged that a man who has known fear and confides it, would not want his confession at large in the world. And he sent the letters back.

He followed his code unerringly, though I doubt that the boys, the men, needed the letters back for the reasons the titan thought. They weren't ashamed of what they told Coach. They wrote to him in their pride and their terror and their triumph because they did love him-with that vigorous, outlandish love a boy can have for a man who drives him like a dumb ox, for some greater good. They saw and understood, that he had seen and understood before them, and did his best in his helplessness (an awful thing) to do what he had always done. To turn a boy into a man and give him the tools to survive.

 ''Bill Morelock '77 is a writer and broadcaster. He and Bob Christiansen created the NPR classical music radio show Bob & Billat WSU in 1988. Today he can be heard weekdays on WCAL-FM, Northfield, Minnesota (wcal.org) from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. Central Time. '' 

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From farm to College Hill, the migration continues

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[[Image:Appels.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Neil, left, talks farming with his father, Dick, on a stroll across the pasture near Dusty. Photo by Robert Hubner.]]By Pat Caraher 

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Fall 2002 

 

When Don Appel left the family farm at Endicott in the 1930s to enroll at Washington State College, he didn't know what he was starting. Or where it would end.

Unfortunately, failing eyesight ultimately forced him to withdraw from school one semester short of graduating. He returned to farming but continued to stress the importance of education. In 1979 he was awarded a degree in engineering. Now all nine of his children hold Washington State University degrees. They were followed by a third generation of graduates. A fourth is in the queue.

Dick Appel ('59 Agri. Engr.), Don's oldest, was the first in the family to graduate. David '61, Tony '63, Fred '65, Donna '67, Colleen '68, Steven '74, Laurette '78, and Renata '82 followed. Most of their spouses are WSU degree-holders, plus a host of cousins.

Early in his senior year, Dick met sophomore Helen Absher at a pep rally. They dated. The day before the newly commissioned Army second lieutenant left for Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the couple married. That union produced 10 children and a new generation of Cougar graduates.

The most recent of these, Neil Appel ('02 Agri. Econ.) graduated in May. Four brothers and three sisters preceded him.

Dick and Helen raise wheat, barley, and sheep on 1,700 acres near Dusty (pop. 12), 32 miles west of Pullman. After military service, he returned to work with his father. In 1969, he purchased the farm.

"I never pressured the kids to come back to the farm," Dick says. They were free to chart their own course. Several of his sons, like his brothers, are engineers. After completing an introductory course in biosystems engineering, Neil decided he didn't want to sit behind a desk all day. He yearned for the farming life he describes as "a little more laid back." In May, he joined his dad on the farm.

"I always hoped that one son would follow me on the farm," Dick said recently. The eldest child, Mike, did, but he died in 1987 of a brain aneurysm at 27. Eric, the fourth son, farms leased land four miles away.

"We taught them [the children] to work hard," Dick said, "and pushed them to accept responsibility." Neil was driving truck during harvest at 14.

The second and third generations of Appels have produced a long string of high school valedictorians and salutatorians. Their academic achievements have been rewarded by WSU and College of Agriculture and Home Economics scholarships and awards from the American Farm Bureau, Successful Farming, 4-H, and FFA, among others.

Dick was the first of many Appels to serve as president of Stimson Hall. For years, he has been a stalwart spokesman for Northwest agriculture and active in 4-H and FFA. Both he and Helen are members of the Washington State 4-H Hall of Fame. In April, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the WSU animal sciences department. The following evening, Neil was named the outstanding senior in animal sciences. And Lisa was cited as the outstanding student in her class in apparel merchandising and textiles.

Dick and Helen have 18 grandchildren, including Dan Appel, now a WSU senior in communications. Just when one generation graduates, another is waiting in the wings to take flight. 

'''The Appel Tree'''

*Mike ('84 Ag. Mech.), deceased
*Barb Appel Wollstein ('84 Landscape Arch.), Lacey
*Deb Appel Stavig ('85 Home Ec.), Vancouver
*Bruce ('87 Mech. Engr.), Boston
*Phil ('89 Material Sci.), Lewiston, Idaho
*Eric ('90 Ag. Mech.), farms near Dusty
*Caroline Appel Kunkel ('01 Civ. Engr.), Pullman
*Neil ('02 Ag. Econ.), Dusty
*Lisa (WSU junior)
*Susan (high school sophomore)

Five Appels are married to Cougars. 

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[[Www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm|'''www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm''']][[Www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm| ]]

By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xavery.html Frank Fuller Avery], who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

Next, check out [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707"], where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/bookarts/exhibit1.htm "Celebrating Book Arts in the West"], the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the [http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/rar/westward_bound/index.html J. Willard Marriott Library], University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/woolflibrary.htm Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection] and the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html Walker Family Library], "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

[[Image:Masc map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Detail, "A new map of North America: shewing its principal divisions, townes, rivers, mountains, etc.," by Edward Wells, published 1701.]]If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html "Early Washington Maps," ]where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art.

[[Image:McKay.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).]]

Another exhibit, [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/womensgraduation.html "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/wildlife.htm Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection] brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg663.htm Richardson's biography], which is worth a read in itself.

[[Image:Treatise of fysshynge.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Frontispiece from A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (1496).]]So is the intro to the papers of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/leol/index.html Lucullus Virgil McWhorter], an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks.htm "Online Books,"] where you'll find an html version of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/regla/contents.htm ''The Regla Papers''], a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/vetmed/contents.htm#contents Smithcors Veterinary History] Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=215 Coeur d'Alene] (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=217 ''Campus Courtesy''] (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun." 

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By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xavery.html Frank Fuller Avery], who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

Next, check out [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707"], where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/bookarts/exhibit1.htm "Celebrating Book Arts in the West"], the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the [http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/rar/westward_bound/index.html J. Willard Marriott Library], University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/woolflibrary.htm Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection] and the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html Walker Family Library], "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

[[Image:Masc map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Detail, "A new map of North America: shewing its principal divisions, townes, rivers, mountains, etc.," by Edward Wells, published 1701.]]If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html "Early Washington Maps," ]where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art.

[[Image:McKay.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).]]Another exhibit, [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/womensgraduation.html "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/wildlife.htm Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection] brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg663.htm Richardson's biography], which is worth a read in itself.

[[Image:Treatise of fysshynge.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Frontispiece from A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (1496).]]So is the intro to the papers of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/leol/index.html Lucullus Virgil McWhorter], an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks.htm "Online Books,"] where you'll find an html version of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/regla/contents.htm ''The Regla Papers''], a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/vetmed/contents.htm#contents Smithcors Veterinary History] Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=215 Coeur d'Alene] (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=217 ''Campus Courtesy''] (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun." 

[[Category:Library]] [[Category:MASC]]

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2009-04-22T16:25:10Z

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[[Www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm| ]]

By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xavery.html Frank Fuller Avery], who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

Next, check out [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707"], where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/bookarts/exhibit1.htm "Celebrating Book Arts in the West"], the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the [http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/rar/westward_bound/index.html J. Willard Marriott Library], University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/woolflibrary.htm Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection] and the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html Walker Family Library], "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

[[Image:Masc map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Detail, "A new map of North America: shewing its principal divisions, townes, rivers, mountains, etc.," by Edward Wells, published 1701.]]If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html "Early Washington Maps," ]where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art. 

[[Image:McKay.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).]]Another exhibit, [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/womensgraduation.html "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/wildlife.htm Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection] brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg663.htm Richardson's biography], which is worth a read in itself.

So is the intro to the papers of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/leol/index.html Lucullus Virgil McWhorter], an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

[[Image:Treatise of fysshynge.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Frontispiece from A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (1496).]]Another link takes you to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks.htm "Online Books,"] where you'll find an html version of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/regla/contents.htm ''The Regla Papers''], a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/vetmed/contents.htm#contents Smithcors Veterinary History] Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=215 Coeur d'Alene] (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=217 ''Campus Courtesy''] (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun." 

[[Category:Library]] [[Category:MASC]]

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2009-04-22T16:24:03Z

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[[Www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm| ]]

By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xavery.html Frank Fuller Avery], who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

[[Image:Treatise of fysshynge.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Frontispiece from A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (1496).]]Next, check out [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707"], where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/bookarts/exhibit1.htm "Celebrating Book Arts in the West"], the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the [http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/rar/westward_bound/index.html J. Willard Marriott Library], University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/woolflibrary.htm Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection] and the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html Walker Family Library], "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

[[Image:Masc map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Detail, "A new map of North America: shewing its principal divisions, townes, rivers, mountains, etc.," by Edward Wells, published 1701.]]If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html "Early Washington Maps," ]where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art. 

[[Image:McKay.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).]]Another exhibit, [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/womensgraduation.html "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/wildlife.htm Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection] brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg663.htm Richardson's biography], which is worth a read in itself.

So is the intro to the papers of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/leol/index.html Lucullus Virgil McWhorter], an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks.htm "Online Books,"] where you'll find an html version of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/regla/contents.htm ''The Regla Papers''], a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/vetmed/contents.htm#contents Smithcors Veterinary History] Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=215 Coeur d'Alene] (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=217 ''Campus Courtesy''] (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun." 

[[Category:Library]] [[Category:MASC]]

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2009-04-22T16:23:28Z

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By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xavery.html Frank Fuller Avery], who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/barkhuff.htm William Delbert Barkhuff], one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

[[Image:Treatise_of_fysshynge.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Frontispiece from A Treatise of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (1496).]]Next, check out [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707"], where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/bookarts/exhibit1.htm "Celebrating Book Arts in the West"], the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the [http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/rar/westward_bound/index.html J. Willard Marriott Library], University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/woolflibrary.htm Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection] and the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html Walker Family Library], "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

[[Image:Masc map.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Detail, "A new map of North America: shewing its principal divisions, townes, rivers, mountains, etc.," by Edward Wells, published 1701.]]If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html "Early Washington Maps," ]where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art. 

[[Image:McKay.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).]]Another exhibit, [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/womensgraduation.html "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University"] honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/wildlife.htm Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection] brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg663.htm Richardson's biography], which is worth a read in itself.

So is the intro to the papers of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/leol/index.html Lucullus Virgil McWhorter], an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks.htm "Online Books,"] where you'll find an html version of [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/regla/contents.htm ''The Regla Papers''], a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/onlinebooks/vetmed/contents.htm#contents Smithcors Veterinary History] Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=215 Coeur d'Alene] (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=217 ''Campus Courtesy''] (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun." 

[[category:Library]] [[category:MASC]]

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By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. 

[[Image:Matsura.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).]]For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the [http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Frank S. Matsura Image Collection]. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to Frank Fuller Avery, who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; William Delbert Barkhuff, one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and George Ritchey, an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

Next, check out "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707", where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to "Celebrating Book Arts in the West", the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection and the Walker Family Library, "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of "Early Washington Maps," where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art. 

Another exhibit, "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University" honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to Richardson's biography, which is worth a read in itself.

So is the intro to the papers of Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to "Online Books," where you'll find an html version of The Regla Papers, a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the Smithcors Veterinary History Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on Pullman (1911) and Coeur d'Alene (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult Campus Courtesy (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun."

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MarisaSandoval: New page: '''www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm''' By George Bederian From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002 Archives? Stuffy. Bo...

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By George Bederian

From ''Washington State University'', Fall 2002

Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven't logged on to Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of fascination. Matsura

"Leona Schaller and Two Friends," by Frank Matsura (ca. 1910).

For sheer quirkiness and creativity, for example, nothing beats the Frank S. Matsura Image Collection. A Japanese immigrant who lived in Okanogan, Washington, until his death at age 32 in 1913, Matsura broke all the rules of portrait photography in pursuit of his personal vision. In the process, he revealed the souls of his subjects, whose images speak to us after nearly a century with a sometimes unsettling immediacy. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.

Every one of MASC's digital collections of photographs is a world in itself. Among my favorites are the pages devoted to Frank Fuller Avery, who was connected to the Colville Indian Agency from 1898 to 1916; William Delbert Barkhuff, one of the first students to enroll at WSU; and George Ritchey, an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past.

Next, check out "Early Modern Printing 1480-1707", where you can view portions of MASC's largely unknown collection of early printed books, superb examples of typography and illustration. Then click to "Celebrating Book Arts in the West", the 1999 exhibit of artist books, fine press editions, and design bindings, to glimpse the astonishing exuberance and creativity of contemporary book arts. Be sure to link to the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, where you can view the complete exhibit.

You don't have to be a bibliophile to enjoy these exhibits or any of the other pages devoted to books, such as the Leonard and Virginia Woolf collection and the Walker Family Library, "possibly the first private library in the Pacific Northwest."

If you're into maps, you might enjoy the gorgeous offerings of "Early Washington Maps," where you can romp through the digital collections of both WSU and University of Washington. Aside from their historical importance, many of these maps hold their own as works of art. McKay

Elizabeth Margaret McKay was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at WSC (1934).

Another exhibit, "First Women in Graduate Education at Washington State University" honors the pioneering women students who, "through their determination and resolve to fulfill their own educational goals, laid the foundation and set the ground rules for the women who continue to follow in their footsteps."

The MASC site also includes catalog descriptions, fascinating in their own right, but tempting lures for your next non-virtual visit to campus. The Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Collection brings together two major private collections of books on angling and fishing lore-including a 1772 edition of Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler-with the personal papers of M.S. McGoldrick, Jack (John Woolf) O'Connor, Patrick "Pat" McManus, and Lee Richardson. You can link to Richardson's biography, which is worth a read in itself.

So is the intro to the papers of Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, an interesting character if there ever was one. A self-described "wild, rough and ready field delver" and adopted member of the Yakama Nation, McWhorter was a rancher, amateur historian, and advocate for the Nez Perce and Yakama people.

Another link takes you to "Online Books," where you'll find an html version of The Regla Papers, a guide to the papers of "a single extended Mexican elite family" spanning more than 125 years from the middle of the 18th century, and Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine, the catalog of the Smithcors Veterinary History Collection.

You can also browse through picture books on Pullman (1911) and Coeur d'Alene (1891) and several early WSU publications. And be sure to consult Campus Courtesy (1929-30).

There's a lot more for you to discover in this Website. Once you dive in, I guarantee it won't take you long to associate "archives" with "entertaining," "stimulating," and "fun."

Blackwell Makes His Mark: Noted Sociologist Receives WSU's Highest Honor

2009-04-20T16:52:36Z

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[[Image:Blackwell.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Regents' Distinguished Alumnus James E. Blackwell. ©2002 Irving Johnson/IRV3.com.]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Fall 2002

 

Imagine James E. Blackwell's reaction when he found a cross burning in his San Jose, California yard. Anger? Frustration? Fear?

No. Surprise.

After all, this was California in 1962, not the South. Blackwell was teaching at San Jose State University (SJSU), his first job after completing a doctorate at Washington State University three years earlier.

Throughout his life, the black sociologist has tried to bridge the gap between the races. As much as possible, he says, he sought to bring "a greater measure of social, economic, and racial justice to the community" by facilitating inter-group understanding.

Blackwell, 76, began that effort 40 years go. Under his presidency, the San Jose chapter of the NAACP increased its interracial membership from 250 to 1,200 in a single year. More important, the local chapter fought successfully to end discrimination in the community's public recreation facilities, pressured the city council to establish fair housing policies, protested against employment discrimination in local department stores, and helped six students enroll at SJSU on tuition waivers after being expelled from Alabama State University for protesting segregation in Alabama. The chapter also raised thousands of dollars in bail money for Freedom Riders in the South.

Now retired in New Orleans with his wife, Myrtle, Blackwell refers to the four years in San Jose as "a critical time" for him.

"We were outspoken about the goals we had articulated to change the pattern of race relations in San Jose," he says. The NAACP chapter didn't have an office. Members met in private homes, including Blackwell's, where the cross was found afire outside.

In mid-April 2002 Blackwell returned to Pullman to become the 31st recipient of the WSU Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor the University bestows. (See sidebar.)

When he enrolled at Washington State in 1955, there were only 15 black students on campus. Culture shock? "No," he says. There were even fewer blacks in his college at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he had earned bachelor's and master's degrees. "I knew each one by name."

Blackwell was attracted to WSU by the reputation of its new doctoral program in sociology and the opportunity to teach. He found the faculty helpful and "non-patronizing."

"I had to prove my merit just like anyone else. That's what I liked about Washington State. It was one of the most useful, intellectually stimulating, and challenging experiences I've ever had."

In the late '40s and early '50s, sociologists T.H. Kennedy, dean of the College of Social Sciences, and Wallis Beasley, chairman of sociology, recruited more than a half dozen promising graduate students from historically black colleges. Among them were Charles Ullman Smith '50 and Anna Harvin Grant '56, the first black man and woman to complete their doctorates in sociology at WSU. Blackwell came later. So did William Julius Wilson '66, who received the Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1988.

Beasley remembers Blackwell as "a very good teacher . . . articulate." He was elected president of the Associate Graduate Students; of South House, a men's residence hall; and of the Beta of Washington Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, the national honorary in sociology.

Sociologist James F. Short was Blackwell's advisor and chaired his dissertation committee. "He was a wonderful graduate student. Very personable, and a great teacher," Short says. Blackwell's dissertation was titled, "Involuntary Separation: Effects of Imprisonment on the Family." In the course of his research he interviewed inmates at prisons in Walla Walla and Monroe, as well as their wives, girlfriends, and family members. 

[[Image:Blackwell family.jpg|thumb|right|350px|James E. Blackwell, fourth from left, was photographed with friends and family following the 1959 Washington State University commencement on Rogers Field. From left are Joe Perry ('61 Ph.D. Soc.), retired sociologist at Bowling Green University, M. Jay Crowe ('59 M.S. Soc.), Evelyn MacDougall ('59 M.S. Soc.), Blackwell, Jean Conyers, wife of James Conyers ('62 Ph.D. Soc.), retired Indiana State University professor, who took the photo, and Blackwell's sister, Mary Louise Henderson, now deceased. A nurse in Los Angeles, she came to Pullman to attend the graduation. Photograph courtesy of James E. Blackwell.]]In 1970 the University of Massachusetts hired Blackwell to build its fledgling Department of Sociology and Anthropology at its five-year-old Boston campus. He intended to stay five or six years but remained for 20. Under his chairmanship (1970-76), the faculty in his department tripled from 11 to 34 members.

At a meeting shortly after his arrival, he found he was the only minority in the room. Thereafter, he made it a point to stick his head into every office looking for people of color. At the time, minorities filled only 3.5 faculty positions. He challenged the university president to improve the situation. An Affirmative Action office was established on campus in 1971, the first in the university system. "I thought it was important to sensitize officials to the need for a multicultural student body and faculty, particularly in an urban area like Boston," he says. By the time he retired, 18. 7 percent of the faculty and more than 25 percent of the students were minorities. Women comprised more than 40 percent of the employees.

"We became a model for New England colleges and universities. We showed what could be done without diluting the standards and quality."

Blackwell has always been a strong advocate of desegregation. He believes in access to higher education, and in equality of opportunities for all U.S. citizens. From time to time over the past 30 years, he has worked with various entities to desegregate public higher education, particularly in 18 southern and border states, and he's been called on as an expert witness in court cases involving desegregation. In the '80s and '90s, predominantly white institutions sought his assistance in devising programs that would enable them to recruit more African American students and faculty.

Between his positions at San Jose State and UMass, Blackwell and his wife spent more than two years in Africa. He was acting director of the Peace Corps in Tanzania, and then director in Malawi.

"We were young. We thought we could really make the world a better place," he says. Later, with the USAID and the American Embassy in Katmandu, he traveled to 51 of the 55 political subdivisions of Nepal, a task never before achieved by an American Foreign Service officer. Temporary assignments also took him to India, Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.

In 1986, a study reported in Social Forces ranked Blackwell number five among black holders of doctorates in sociology, living or dead.. He helped establish "the clout of black sociologists" as president of the Caucus of Black Sociologist of the American Sociological Association, according to Short. The founding president of the Association of Black Sociologist, Blackwell has also held the presidencies of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Eastern Sociological Society. He is the author of many books, including The Black Community: Diversity and Unity.

As a teacher, Blackwell's goal has been to help students gain an appreciation of knowledge, but not for the sake of knowledge alone. "I wanted them to put what they learned to use by going on to graduate and professional schools and becoming important, contributing citizens." 

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Blackwell Makes His Mark: Noted Sociologist Receives WSU's Highest Honor

2009-04-20T16:51:52Z

[[Image:Blackwell.jpg|thumb|right|Regents' Distinguished Alumnus James E. Blackwell. ©2002 Irving Johnson/IRV3.com.]]By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Fall 2002

Imagine James E. Blackwell's reaction when he found a cross burning in his San Jose, California yard. Anger? Frustration? Fear?

No. Surprise.

After all, this was California in 1962, not the South. Blackwell was teaching at San Jose State University (SJSU), his first job after completing a doctorate at Washington State University three years earlier.

Throughout his life, the black sociologist has tried to bridge the gap between the races. As much as possible, he says, he sought to bring "a greater measure of social, economic, and racial justice to the community" by facilitating inter-group understanding.

Blackwell, 76, began that effort 40 years go. Under his presidency, the San Jose chapter of the NAACP increased its interracial membership from 250 to 1,200 in a single year. More important, the local chapter fought successfully to end discrimination in the community's public recreation facilities, pressured the city council to establish fair housing policies, protested against employment discrimination in local department stores, and helped six students enroll at SJSU on tuition waivers after being expelled from Alabama State University for protesting segregation in Alabama. The chapter also raised thousands of dollars in bail money for Freedom Riders in the South.

Now retired in New Orleans with his wife, Myrtle, Blackwell refers to the four years in San Jose as "a critical time" for him.

"We were outspoken about the goals we had articulated to change the pattern of race relations in San Jose," he says. The NAACP chapter didn't have an office. Members met in private homes, including Blackwell's, where the cross was found afire outside.

In mid-April 2002 Blackwell returned to Pullman to become the 31st recipient of the WSU Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor the University bestows. (See sidebar.)

When he enrolled at Washington State in 1955, there were only 15 black students on campus. Culture shock? "No," he says. There were even fewer blacks in his college at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he had earned bachelor's and master's degrees. "I knew each one by name."

Blackwell was attracted to WSU by the reputation of its new doctoral program in sociology and the opportunity to teach. He found the faculty helpful and "non-patronizing."

"I had to prove my merit just like anyone else. That's what I liked about Washington State. It was one of the most useful, intellectually stimulating, and challenging experiences I've ever had."

In the late '40s and early '50s, sociologists T.H. Kennedy, dean of the College of Social Sciences, and Wallis Beasley, chairman of sociology, recruited more than a half dozen promising graduate students from historically black colleges. Among them were Charles Ullman Smith '50 and Anna Harvin Grant '56, the first black man and woman to complete their doctorates in sociology at WSU. Blackwell came later. So did William Julius Wilson '66, who received the Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1988.

Beasley remembers Blackwell as "a very good teacher . . . articulate." He was elected president of the Associate Graduate Students; of South House, a men's residence hall; and of the Beta of Washington Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, the national honorary in sociology.

Sociologist James F. Short was Blackwell's advisor and chaired his dissertation committee. "He was a wonderful graduate student. Very personable, and a great teacher," Short says. Blackwell's dissertation was titled, "Involuntary Separation: Effects of Imprisonment on the Family." In the course of his research he interviewed inmates at prisons in Walla Walla and Monroe, as well as their wives, girlfriends, and family members. 

[[Image:Blackwell_family.jpg|thumb|right|James E. Blackwell, fourth from left, was photographed with friends and family following the 1959 Washington State University commencement on Rogers Field. From left are Joe Perry ('61 Ph.D. Soc.), retired sociologist at Bowling Green University, M. Jay Crowe ('59 M.S. Soc.), Evelyn MacDougall ('59 M.S. Soc.), Blackwell, Jean Conyers, wife of James Conyers ('62 Ph.D. Soc.), retired Indiana State University professor, who took the photo, and Blackwell's sister, Mary Louise Henderson, now deceased. A nurse in Los Angeles, she came to Pullman to attend the graduation. Photograph courtesy of James E. Blackwell.]]In 1970 the University of Massachusetts hired Blackwell to build its fledgling Department of Sociology and Anthropology at its five-year-old Boston campus. He intended to stay five or six years but remained for 20. Under his chairmanship (1970-76), the faculty in his department tripled from 11 to 34 members.

At a meeting shortly after his arrival, he found he was the only minority in the room. Thereafter, he made it a point to stick his head into every office looking for people of color. At the time, minorities filled only 3.5 faculty positions. He challenged the university president to improve the situation. An Affirmative Action office was established on campus in 1971, the first in the university system. "I thought it was important to sensitize officials to the need for a multicultural student body and faculty, particularly in an urban area like Boston," he says. By the time he retired, 18. 7 percent of the faculty and more than 25 percent of the students were minorities. Women comprised more than 40 percent of the employees.

"We became a model for New England colleges and universities. We showed what could be done without diluting the standards and quality."

Blackwell has always been a strong advocate of desegregation. He believes in access to higher education, and in equality of opportunities for all U.S. citizens. From time to time over the past 30 years, he has worked with various entities to desegregate public higher education, particularly in 18 southern and border states, and he's been called on as an expert witness in court cases involving desegregation. In the '80s and '90s, predominantly white institutions sought his assistance in devising programs that would enable them to recruit more African American students and faculty.

Between his positions at San Jose State and UMass, Blackwell and his wife spent more than two years in Africa. He was acting director of the Peace Corps in Tanzania, and then director in Malawi.

"We were young. We thought we could really make the world a better place," he says. Later, with the USAID and the American Embassy in Katmandu, he traveled to 51 of the 55 political subdivisions of Nepal, a task never before achieved by an American Foreign Service officer. Temporary assignments also took him to India, Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.

In 1986, a study reported in Social Forces ranked Blackwell number five among black holders of doctorates in sociology, living or dead.. He helped establish "the clout of black sociologists" as president of the Caucus of Black Sociologist of the American Sociological Association, according to Short. The founding president of the Association of Black Sociologist, Blackwell has also held the presidencies of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Eastern Sociological Society. He is the author of many books, including The Black Community: Diversity and Unity.

As a teacher, Blackwell's goal has been to help students gain an appreciation of knowledge, but not for the sake of knowledge alone. "I wanted them to put what they learned to use by going on to graduate and professional schools and becoming important, contributing citizens." 

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Bhatia built Honors, International Programs

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By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2003

 

[[Image:Bhatia.jpg|thumb|left]]Career educator Vishnu N. "Vic" Bhatia was a builder. Not with bricks and mortar, but with vision, drive, and diplomacy. He demonstrated this during his 47 years (1951-98) at Washington State University as a teacher, administrator, innovator, and ambassador. His efforts were not limited to pharmacy, his chosen field, but were interdisciplinary, as well as international.

His greatest contributions were as head of the Honors Program (1964-93) and director of International Education (1973-90). Shortly after his arrival at WSU, he and other faculty colleagues, including mathematics professors Sidney Hacker and Donald Bushaw, began laying groundwork for an academic program that would rank among the very best-one with a balanced curriculum, designed to promote intellectual curiosity and critical thinking long past graduation.

The Honors Program was introduced in 1960, initially under Hacker's direction, and from 1964 to 1993 under Bhatia. He was very imaginative in how the program might be conducted, and rather paternalistic, according to Bushaw. Bhatia called most of the shots. "That was probably good, because he did it very well. He was very personable. He was the leader. The students were devoted to him."

Some of the best professors across campus were invited to teach in Honors. Its small class size attracted many of the University's top scholars, also by invitation. In 1979, Gene Maeroff, then education editor of The New York Times, wrote, "The extent to which an honors student pursues a deeper and more far-ranging education is seen at Washington State, where . . . the Honors Program . . . is widely regarded as one of the strongest in the country."

Honors became a model for other U.S. colleges and universities. It flourished under Bhatia's leadership, and that of his successors, Jane Lawrence (1994-99) and current Honors College dean, Mary Wack. In 1998 the Honors Program was elevated to the status of Honors College, which claims more than 3,800 alumni.

All of this pleased Bhatia, who died in Pullman January 16, 2003 at 78.

"The Honors curriculum gives students an opportunity to look at knowledge and civilization in the broadest perceptive," Bhatia would say.

Paul G. Lauren was an example. The1969 Honors graduate in history and political science went on to become the founding director of the Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, and write books on international history and diplomacy. Bhatia provided "a marvelous model of excellence, of the value of studying many disciplines, of compassion, and of deep commitment to his students and the program," Lauren said.

A native of Lucknow, India, Bhatia was the youngest of seven children. After earning a doctorate in pharmacy, he joined WSU's College of Pharmacy, where he held a faculty appointment for 41 years. Most of his efforts, however, were devoted to Honors and International Education.

Early on, Bhatia developed a fondness for Denmark, where the University developed a cooperative exchange program in business administration in Copenhagen. He liked Denmark, because it wasn't on "the beaten path of international programs." Over the last 15 or 20 years, more than 1,000 WSU students have studied in Denmark. In 1990, Bhatia was granted Danish knighthood for the decades he devoted to building bridges between the Scandinavian nation and WSU. His travels over the years on behalf of the University took him to Europe, Japan, China, South American, the Middle East and India. In the late '80s and early '90s, as many as 2,000 WSU students were involved in study abroad annually, three-fourths of them coming to the U.S.

"He was able to convey the importance of internationalism to the University and students, to have people look beyond their own little comfort zone, to look outside themselves, and discover how study abroad can benefit their lives," says Uta Hutnak, Bhatia's assistant in International Education from 1985 to 1990.

When Bhatia was considering retirement in the early 1990s, President Samuel Smith asked him to stay on as his special assistant. "Vic had built these two wonderful programs-and had a great influence on general education reform, and on the intellectual quality of our institution," Smith said.

Memorial contributions may be made to the V.N. Bhatia Lectureship, c/o the WSU Foundation, 255 E. Main, Suite 200, Pullman, Washington 99164-1927.

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2009-04-20T16:46:05Z

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Bhatia built Honors, International Programs

2009-04-20T16:45:34Z

MarisaSandoval: New page: By Pat Caraher From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2003 leftCareer educator Vishnu N. "Vic" Bhatia was a builder. Not with bricks and mortar, but with...

By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2003

[[Image:Bhatia.jpg|thumb|left]]Career educator Vishnu N. "Vic" Bhatia was a builder. Not with bricks and mortar, but with vision, drive, and diplomacy. He demonstrated this during his 47 years (1951-98) at Washington State University as a teacher, administrator, innovator, and ambassador. His efforts were not limited to pharmacy, his chosen field, but were interdisciplinary, as well as international.

His greatest contributions were as head of the Honors Program (1964-93) and director of International Education (1973-90). Shortly after his arrival at WSU, he and other faculty colleagues, including mathematics professors Sidney Hacker and Donald Bushaw, began laying groundwork for an academic program that would rank among the very best-one with a balanced curriculum, designed to promote intellectual curiosity and critical thinking long past graduation.

The Honors Program was introduced in 1960, initially under Hacker's direction, and from 1964 to 1993 under Bhatia. He was very imaginative in how the program might be conducted, and rather paternalistic, according to Bushaw. Bhatia called most of the shots. "That was probably good, because he did it very well. He was very personable. He was the leader. The students were devoted to him."

Some of the best professors across campus were invited to teach in Honors. Its small class size attracted many of the University's top scholars, also by invitation. In 1979, Gene Maeroff, then education editor of The New York Times, wrote, "The extent to which an honors student pursues a deeper and more far-ranging education is seen at Washington State, where . . . the Honors Program . . . is widely regarded as one of the strongest in the country."

Honors became a model for other U.S. colleges and universities. It flourished under Bhatia's leadership, and that of his successors, Jane Lawrence (1994-99) and current Honors College dean, Mary Wack. In 1998 the Honors Program was elevated to the status of Honors College, which claims more than 3,800 alumni.

All of this pleased Bhatia, who died in Pullman January 16, 2003 at 78.

"The Honors curriculum gives students an opportunity to look at knowledge and civilization in the broadest perceptive," Bhatia would say.

Paul G. Lauren was an example. The1969 Honors graduate in history and political science went on to become the founding director of the Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, and write books on international history and diplomacy. Bhatia provided "a marvelous model of excellence, of the value of studying many disciplines, of compassion, and of deep commitment to his students and the program," Lauren said.

A native of Lucknow, India, Bhatia was the youngest of seven children. After earning a doctorate in pharmacy, he joined WSU's College of Pharmacy, where he held a faculty appointment for 41 years. Most of his efforts, however, were devoted to Honors and International Education.

Early on, Bhatia developed a fondness for Denmark, where the University developed a cooperative exchange program in business administration in Copenhagen. He liked Denmark, because it wasn't on "the beaten path of international programs." Over the last 15 or 20 years, more than 1,000 WSU students have studied in Denmark. In 1990, Bhatia was granted Danish knighthood for the decades he devoted to building bridges between the Scandinavian nation and WSU. His travels over the years on behalf of the University took him to Europe, Japan, China, South American, the Middle East and India. In the late '80s and early '90s, as many as 2,000 WSU students were involved in study abroad annually, three-fourths of them coming to the U.S.

"He was able to convey the importance of internationalism to the University and students, to have people look beyond their own little comfort zone, to look outside themselves, and discover how study abroad can benefit their lives," says Uta Hutnak, Bhatia's assistant in International Education from 1985 to 1990.

When Bhatia was considering retirement in the early 1990s, President Samuel Smith asked him to stay on as his special assistant. "Vic had built these two wonderful programs-and had a great influence on general education reform, and on the intellectual quality of our institution," Smith said.

Memorial contributions may be made to the V.N. Bhatia Lectureship, c/o the WSU Foundation, 255 E. Main, Suite 200, Pullman, Washington 99164-1927. 

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They're back! Doba's Football Staff Includes Five Former Cougars

2009-04-20T16:33:13Z

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By Pat Caraher

From ''Washington State Magazine'', Summer 2003

 

[[Image:DobasCoaches.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Coach Bill Doba's staff includes five former Cougar football players, from left: Mike Levenseller, Timm Rosenbach, George Yarno, Ken Greene, and Mike Walker. Photo by Robert Hubner.]]As athletes they brought recognition to Washington State University. Now, as assistant coaches, Mike Levenseller, Michael Walker, Timm Rosenbach, Ken Greene, and George Yarno are being counted on to help shape the football future at their alma mater.

Who said you can't go home again?

Not Bill Doba.

He's been on the WSU football staff for 15 years, but this is his first as head coach. Cougar pedigrees are obviously important to him. For starters, he convinced assistants Levenseller (offensive coordinator/wide receivers) and Walker (defensive line) to stay, rather than follow former Cougar coach Mike Price to Alabama. He got the same commitment from two other top assistants from the Price regime-Robb Akey (defensive line) and Robin Pflugrad (tight ends/recruiting coordinator). Akey succeeds Doba as WSU defensive coordinator. Pflugrad has been given the additional title of assistant head coach.

Price relinquished his duties January 1 after WSU's 34-14 Rose Bowl loss to Oklahoma. Four assistants went with him to Tuscaloosa. In less than two weeks, Doba had his nine-man staff in place. Of the newcomers, Rosenbach will coach quarterbacks, Greene the defensive secondary, and Yarno the offensive line.

"We wanted to get those Cougars back in the program," Doba said. "They will make for good chemistry in the staff room."

Leon Burtnett (linebackers) and Kelly Skipper (running backs) fill the other vacancies. The former is a one-time head coach at Purdue with NFL experience. The latter spent the past two years as UCLA offensive coordinator.

Here's the rundown on the Cougars jocks-turned-coaches:

Levenseller joined the WSU staff in 1992. The former wide receiver from Tacoma (Curtis High School) caught 67 passes in 1977 for a WSU and Pac-8 single-season record of 1,224 yards. His career totals: 121 receptions, 2,061 yards.

Walker captained coach Jim Walden's 1981 team that defeated BYU in the Holiday Bowl, WSU's first bowl appearance in 50 years. The defensive lineman was All-Canadian Football League 1987-89. He played in four Grey Cup games-three with Hamilton, the last with Edmonton in 1990. During a 10-year CFL career, he logged 126 games. He has been a full-time Cougar assistant since 1997.

Rosenbach led the Cougars to a 24-22 victory over Houston in the 1988 Aloha Bowl. The fiery quarterback established WSU single-season records for total offense (3,422 yards), passing yards (3,097), touchdown passes (24), and touchdowns responsible for (34). His talent carried him through four seasons in the NFL with Arizona and one year (1994) with Hamilton in the CFL. Since 2001, the Pullman High School graduate has been offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at Eastern Washington University. In his debut year, the Eagles led the nation in total offense-more than 514 yards per game and nearly 42 points.

Greene, the pride of Omak, was a first-team All-America defensive back in 1977 at WSU and first-round pick in the NFL draft. He was a stopper for the St. Louis secondary, leading the team in tackles two of the four seasons there. He played out his final two years with the San Diego Chargers, retiring in '85. His college coaching background includes four years at Fresno State and the past three at Purdue.

Yarno was a three-year starter on the WSU defensive line, 1976-78. As a junior and senior, the Spokane native earned All-West-Coast and All-Pac-10 honors. Eight of his 11 years in the NFL were with Tampa Bay, the rest at Houston, Green Bay, and Atlanta. He was Price's offensive line coach at WSU 1991-94. Idaho, Houston, Arizona State, and Louisiana State have been other coaching stops.

Like Yarno, Burtnett is no stranger to the Palouse. The former Jim Sweeney assistant at WSU (1971) later was 1984 Big Ten Coach of the Year at Purdue, where he ran the show for five years. Doba was one of his assistants there (1983-85). Burtnett spent five seasons with the NFL Indianapolis Colts, including one as offensive coordinator and quarterback coach. A coaching gypsy, he also assisted at Montana State, Wyoming, San Jose State, Michigan State, Fresno State, Northeast Louisiana, and Arkansas State.

Skipper also has ties to Sweeney at Fresno State, both as a player and an assistant. An All-America honorable mention running back, he rushed for 2,237 yards and scored 28 touchdowns as a Bulldog, before he was hired full-time at his alma mater in 1991. UCLA hired him in 1998 and promoted him to offensive coordinator in 2001.

"I think this says a lot about the strength of our program and Bill Doba's leadership that we have that many Cougars with excellent coaching credentials who wanted to come back," said WSU athletic director Jim Sterk. 

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