Author: Richard H. Miller
5 article(s) found by this author.
Howard Copp ’57—From houseboy to husband
Summer 2015
Howard Copp was a houseboy at Alpha Gamma Delta at WSU, until his future wife Martha pulled him away.
Categories: WSU students, Alumni
Tags: Marriage, Sorority
Matthew Heatherly ’12—Serving and learning
Spring 2013
After high school Matthew Heatherly decided to delay his college education in order to enlist and serve his country in the Army. Now he has earned his online degree with WSU in 2012, with much of the work done while he was in active service.
Categories: Global Campus, Alumni
Tags: Online education, Veterans, Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Brian Carter ’06—On the same garden path
Spring 2010
Brian Carter ’06 is a natural
resource specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but he often
uses a shorter description.“I’m a curator,” he says, while offering up the Latin name for a tree
at Seattle’s Ballard Locks. “I m...
Categories: Alumni, Global Campus, Agriculture
Tags: Gardening, Parks
Yolandé McVey '07—Taking life back
Winter 2009
The heroine of Love’s Secrets puts on perfume, goes to a
barbecue, and meets Rod: caramel skin, wavy hair, muscles, and commitment issues. The author of Love’s Secrets can never do two of those
three things. Exposure to perfume or barbecue smo...
Categories: Alumni, Literature
Tags: Distance education, Novelists, Writers
In from the fields
Summer 2009
A dozen preschoolers puff into plastic wands, shrieking as soap bubbles kite across the classroom. Sylvia Guzman, 29, sits cross-legged on the floor, next to a poster showing ways to calm down (put hand on tummy, take deep breaths). She reads alou...
Categories: Education
Tags: Latinas, Distance education