Author: Kathie Meyer '92
10 article(s) found by this author.
Review :: American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
Winter 2006
What most baby boomers know about the legendary frontier figure David "Davy" Crockett has been gleaned from the Walt Disney movie and television series starring Fess Parker. In American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett, WSU English ...
Categories: Biography
Tags: United States history, Davy Crockett
Brewing Up Business
Winter 2005
The Small Business Development Center celebrates 25 years of success.Mark Burr and his business partners, Nina Law and Skip Madsen,
dreamed of owning their own beer brewing business. After a visit to
Port Townsend a few years ago, the trio began to...
Categories: Business
Tags: Small business, Beer
Review :: Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country
Winter 2005
In this year of 2005, the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, we are again reminded of the role Sacajawea played in that long journey westward. However, Sacajawea's tribe of origin, the Lemhi, has gone largely ignored. Only recently have ...
Categories: History
Tags: Native Americans
Review :: Dancing to the Concertina's Tune
Summer 2005
Educating the incarcerated is not an undertaking for the faint of heart. In Dancing to the Concertina's Tune: A Prison Teacher's Memoir, Jan Walker '60 explores her unusual career in correctional education and seeks to give the reader an understandin...
Categories: Education, Memoirs
Tags: Prisons
Review :: Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
Spring 2005
In Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, Linda Carlson provides much insight into the rewards and trials of life in the small, isolated communities of a bygone Northwest. A company town was generally a glorified camp establish...
Categories: History
Tags: Company towns
Review :: Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives
Summer 2004
To be or not to be a devoted mother, corporate executive—or both? These are the choices and challenges facing career women more than ever. In Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives, former Washington State University soci...
Categories: Gender studies, Sociology
Tags: Women's studies
Is the sky still blue in Emerald City?
Spring 2003
Now that the economy has
stalled, are the Seattle unemployed here to stay, or are they
packing the U-Haul?When I moved to Washington's west side, I pursued a different
career and landscape. When I was laid off last year, I decided to
stay...
Categories: Business
Tags: Seattle, Employment, Careers
Paying it forward
Fall 2002
Under the right conditions,
mentoring will snowball.One of the simplest pleasures I have is turning on the radio and
hearing the voice of Frank Shiers ('77 Communications), a Seattle
deejay working the mid-day shift on MIX 92.5. I've known Fra...
Categories: Business
Tags: Careers
Finding what's right for you
Spring 2002
OK, so you're looking
for work, and you're getting good, bad, and ugly job offers.
How do you determine which one to choose?It's no secret. The economy is drooping like a vase-full of
two-week-old flowers. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Th...
Categories: Business
Tags: Employment
Beginning again
Winter 2001
...attaining any worthwhile goal is really a matter of taking one small step at a time.GEOFF GAMBLE, former interim provost
at Washington State University and now president
of Montana State University, once told me
studies show that mos...
Categories: Business
Tags: Careers