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  • ...for photos next to the sign at the university's main Stadium Way entry in Pullman. But most people don't know the sign has a link to another, much earlier, W Pullman, WA 99164-1227
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  • ...Science. Construction started in 1891, on land donated by the citizens of Pullman, and it opened in 1892 under the name of Agricultural College, Experiment S ...downright chicanery to ensure that the land-grant institution would be in Pullman. See ''Historical Sketch of the State College of Washington 1890-1925'', by
    21 KB (3,483 words) - 21:52, February 3, 2009
  • Looking back to 1940 and the little cow college on the hill at Pullman, Washington, I can hardly believe the changes that have taken place in the ...wn then, offered a three-year course in forestry and that is why I came to Pullman to go to school.
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  • On his first morning back in Pullman, world track and field champion Bernard Lagat ’01 pulled on his running s ...e, I was looking past college. My focus was the 2000 Olympics,” he says. Pullman was the place to train, learn, and prepare. 
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  • ...a, and the a wall of sandbags extended all the way down the riverbank into Pullman. While the river rose to a full three feet higher than the trailer court's ...er than January's flood. Extensive work by the university students and the Pullman townspeople resulted in an even larger dike, and once again the trailer cou
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  • ...s. Milk House also sold some dairy products at a retail outlet in downtown Pullman.
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  • ...gender equity law enacted in the 1970s and tested at WSU in the 1980s. The Pullman-based case, Blair v. WSU, resulted in a Washington State Supreme Court deci
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  • ...0 faculty and 799 buildings across the state. At graduations this May from Pullman to Vancouver, the 217,000th student will receive his or her diploma from Wa Life after WSU: Stayed in Pullman, died five years after retirement.<br>
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  • The students wanted the station to be available throughout Pullman and to play to the eclectic tastes of the college audience, offering progre
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  • ...how he had no transportation costs because he hitchhiked between home and Pullman. As the first place winner, Kragt received $15. The original essay is in Pr
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  • ...otes, Edward got on another train bound for Spokane, as he made his way to Pullman where he was a student at Washington State College. Among them are notes he jotted off to her before class in Pullman, meandering letters written late at night, and postcards from his travels a
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  • ...e 1930s, told to me last year by his son. The said undergrad hitchhiked to Pullman from the West side, catching a ride with a regent. The regent, learning abo
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  • ...late broadcaster’s 100th birthday. It reminded me of a graduation day in Pullman nearly 46 years earlier. Murrow died just three years after that last visit to the Pullman campus. He was an unfortunate victim of the unfiltered Lucky Strike cigaret
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  • ...the state's land-grant institution, WSU has grown from a single campus in Pullman to an internationally respected, multi-campus system.
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  • ...space and dirt. Students, mostly kids fresh from the farm, walked from the Pullman train depot up the hill to start lives different from what their parents kn ...fessors, here they went on wagon rides together. How much the isolation of Pullman brought everyone together can be debated, but not ignored.
    21 KB (3,430 words) - 22:24, September 21, 2009
  • ...en I attended college, the Theta house was my home. As an Alumna living in Pullman and serving over forty years on the Facility and Advisory Boards, observing ...left it was often within hours of each other. You could feel the change in Pullman as the town emptied, especially within the Friday afternoons before breaks.
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  • [[Image:WSU-Chuck-Cole 1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Chuck Cole. April 19, 1986, Pullman Daily News/Moscow Idahonian]]Professor Cole was waiting in 1965 when I retu ...00px|Maynard Hicks. May 25, 1972, Pullman Herald]]Maynard Hicks arrived in Pullman via Michigan in 1937. He never left. During 37 on the WSU journalism facult
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  • ...an so that he could see that his two kids got a college education. Kids in Pullman were blessed by living in a college town, especially during the great deprs ...ate football stood high in my life from the time I was a kid growing up in Pullman. It all started when Dad took me to the USC game which, by winning, took WS
    10 KB (1,959 words) - 17:42, January 11, 2010
  • ...o last fall, had had no exposure to the Nez Perce culture before coming to Pullman. He became involved after Dr. William Elmendorf, former WSU anthropologist
    7 KB (1,129 words) - 16:21, April 8, 2009
  • ...tually skiing on the campus was something that added to my desire to go to Pullman. Granted, the skiing consisted of a rope tow on a tiny hill next to the mus ...ge. However, I’m sure I saw a clipping from my husband’s first year in Pullman, 1940-1941, and there was a woman who went with the men to meets. I’m ver
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  • ...was the first overall pick by Los Angeles—after two successful years in Pullman, Donaldson played for five different NBA teams. But he knew early on that t
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  • ...en filled with love and encouragement, Anderson didn't find such warmth in Pullman. Instead, many of her classmates mocked her or avoided her, frightened by h ...broadcasting, but it was of Murrow that she was most proud. After he left Pullman, she kept close watch on him and his career. Her health tore her away from
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  • ...e seeing it on a broadcast from Texas on a day the Cougars were playing in Pullman. ...t broadcast in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Cougs were playing Oregon State in Pullman.
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  • ...grew up among Husky fans, but his interest always pointed inland, because Pullman was a place where underdogs often excelled.
    6 KB (1,039 words) - 16:15, April 8, 2009
  • ...ord, means “people of the rolling hills,” referring to the area around Pullman. Over the years, the two-day celebration with singing, dancing, and crafts
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  • ...ts, says Vanessa Ross (’00 Biol.), a graduate student in anthropology in Pullman. Beth Horton, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology in Pullman and a supervisor at the field school, says Fort Vancouver is prized for his
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  • But that era ended December 16, 2004, when Pullman’s hospital moved its last patient from the brick building it shared with
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  • ...009/Spring/ Spring Issue, 2009]) triggered my thoughts of my four years at Pullman. ...thern Pacific Engineman, my first of many trips from my home in Spokane to Pullman’s nice depot were by train, in 1936.
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  • ...g|thumb|right|300px]]DAVID, PAUL, AND W. LOWELL MAUGHAN never forgot their Pullman roots or their Washington State University professors. More than anything, ...om) Judy Busch, Patty Wixon, and Sally Kilpatrick dedicated a bench on the Pullman campus to honor their mother (seated) after she died. The inscription reads
    9 KB (1,375 words) - 16:48, April 13, 2009
  • ...h zeal. “I was part of a group of folks that marched down the streets of Pullman to President Terrell’s house with torches, demanding that the Black Studi
    9 KB (1,469 words) - 16:28, April 15, 2009
  • ...ches from just south of Spokane to the Snake River valley, near Moscow and Pullman. Today, it is a fertile farmland, covered in wheat and other grain crops. B
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  • All of this pleased Bhatia, who died in Pullman January 16, 2003 at 78. ...e V.N. Bhatia Lectureship, c/o the WSU Foundation, 255 E. Main, Suite 200, Pullman, Washington 99164-1927.
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  • ...furniture and stairs," says Bob Jarosch, training officer with the WSU and Pullman fire departments. ...ost-efficient service to the campus and community. Under the pact, veteran Pullman fire chief Pat Wilkins added the WSU Fire Department to his responsibilitie
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  • ...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 a
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  • In mid-April 2002 Blackwell returned to Pullman to become the 31st recipient of the WSU Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award ..., 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 19
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  • ...//www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xritchey.html George Ritchey], an early Pullman resident. Each of these collections opens a window to the past. ...tent.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/univmats1&CISOPTR=216 Pullman] (1911) and [http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=
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  • So collectively I have been very lucky, spending over thirty years in Pullman, raising a family of four there and getting to know the community and the c
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  • ...t, 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 p *Caroline Appel Kunkel ('01 Civ. Engr.), Pullman
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  • When Pullman centenarian Catherine Mathews Friel talks, people listen--even university p "Catherine Friel is the preserver of WSU's legacy," says Pullman native and University historian Bob Smawley. "She was determined not to let
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  • ...Courtesy WSU Libraries-MASC.]]In the "airly days" of the State College at Pullman, before the old Ferry Hall burned, and in the bleak month of November when
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  • ...r. His name is Railroad Sam, because he appears when the trains go through Pullman. He watches the trains from the windows of Orton Hall and has been spotted
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  • ...pring practice showed a half dozen aces from last year’s rook squad whom Pullman fans will probably see cavorting in regular berths before the season is far ...University of Idaho at Moscow. <br>November 13—University of Oregon at Pullman (Homecoming). <br>November 25—Gonzaga at Spokane.
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  • As Mr. Goodyear recently stated in the Pullman Herald, ‘The whole community is proud of the team and its coaching staff ...to the usual leaves of absence. He said Hollingbery was eager to return to Pullman, the only obstacle being presented by the long illness of his mother, who l
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  • ...owever, was not unexpected by the Crimson and Gray warriors, for they left Pullman with but [[The Football Situation - October 1926 Alumnus magazine|one thoug
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  • Image:Gaines album48 Pullman street.jpg|A street in Pullman. ...album53 painting Pullman house.jpg|An unidentified man painting a house in Pullman.
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  • ...niversity assumed responsible leadership of a party of experts—most from Pullman—who sought to improve Pakistan's university system. Their work encompasse ...he project ended in 1961, thirty—seven Americans, most of whom came from Pullman, had spend [sic] a tour of duty in Pakistan. Although the original contract
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  • ...for photos next to the sign at the university's main Stadium Way entry in Pullman. But most people don't know the sign has a link to another, much earlier, W ...r this story include WSU news releases, WSU Chinook, WSU Today, and Moscow Pullman Daily News.''
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  • ...r had been notified through Baptist channels that the two were arriving in Pullman for a university education.
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  • ...he spring of 1916 with a degree in electrical engineering, Dietz stayed in Pullman to serve as an assistant coach to Lone Star during the 1916 season.<br><br>
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  • Carlton spent the best part of the summer in Pullman taking a six hour academic load and acquainting himself with people and fac
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  • ...20s.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Pharmacy students at Washington State College in Pullman work in the medicinal plant garden in the 1920s. ]]For a few decades at the
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  • Silent film from home movies created in 1928-1929 by Dr. J.L. Gilleland of Pullman, WA, and his family. This shows students tobogganing down the slop from wha
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  • ...ton State University veterinary students and faculty who took a train from Pullman to Spokane, after permission was granted by the veterinary dean, Dr. Sofus
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  • ...Degree, I started at WSU in 1991. A couple years later, Steve returned to Pullman in pursuit of a Bachelors and Masters in Civil Engineering, so we were actu
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  • ...orts of academia, athletics, and campus life. Take a look back and see the Pullman school through the lens of the college's yearbook, the ''Chinook.'' ...to Palouse, Spokane, Deer Park, Colville, Davenport, Reardan, and back to Pullman, serenading the locals.
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  • ...rschner (1953–1993) provides an irreverent but touching picture of 1950s Pullman, an absorbing account of his career in biological science, and a hilarious ...hicago. In fact the first time I ever lived in a house was when we came to Pullman. I have, and I’ve just become aware of this, I have very, very few recoll
    31 KB (5,976 words) - 22:47, August 6, 2012
  • ...llman, I was on my way to Palouse and I said gee, I thought that sign said Pullman, so I turned around and came back and sure enough, and I said (can’t unde '''F''' - and she’d never been; she’d never seen Pullman either
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  • '''F''' - Right. What was your impression of the campus when you came or Pullman or your department '''F''' - Now where did you meet your wife, was it here in Pullman
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  • ...nted me to take, uh, the year after I was to arrive here and so we came to Pullman thinking we were only gonna be here 1 year and still haven’t left ...ory sense, about these projects but the people down there on the street in Pullman or Spokane or go out here and talk to a farmer, you know, should we irrigat
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  • ...and Bryan Hall along the Terrell Mall. They are the main libraries on the Pullman campus.
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  • ...led for one of the two towers to end in a platform, and an October 6, 1893 Pullman Tribune article about the early stages of construction notes that “of the
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  • ...ic field in that spot dates to March 1892, when the state college defeated Pullman's military college there, 26-0 in baseball. The first bleachers were built
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  • ...group of 25 stockholders consisted of university and business people from Pullman who formed the Community Building Corporation. Each stockholder held two sh
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  • Pullman gave students plenty of social activities and events...and a chance to prac
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