Author: Hannelore Sudermann
205 article(s) found by this author.
Review :: We Are the Bus
Summer 2013
This small book of poetry plays on themes of reminiscence, travel,
and the bliss of simple things like being a boy with a Racket Box full
of fireworks. This collection of 42 poems won the 2011 X.J. Kennedy
Poetry Prize.
In it McKean transports...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Basketball, Memory
Web Extra :: Video: A history of Alderbrook resort
Summer 2013
A history of Alderbrook resort. Coming soon....
Categories: Business
Tags: Hotel management, Hotels, Video
Soldiering on
Summer 2013
In the two years since WSU Tri-Cities leaders pledged to become a
veteran-supportive campus, the school has increased its resources to
accommodate veteran students and their families. At 8 percent of the
student body, a disproportionately high number of students on campus are
veterans.
Categories: WSU Tri-Cities, WSU students
Tags: Veterans
Gun Show Nation—a conversation with Joan Burbick
Summer 2013
Guns and gun shows are a part of American culture, and Joan Burbick, WSU emeritus English professor and author of Gun Show Nation, talks about the place of guns in the life of the United States.
Categories: History, Public affairs
Tags: Guns, American West
Something Old Something New—A history of hospitality
Summer 2013
When Washington State College introduced its hospitality program in
1932, no one had yet imagined an airport hotel, a drive-through
restaurant, a convention center, or the boom of international travel.
Eighty years later, as the industry grows in new and unexpected ways,
the School of Hospitality sends its graduates out to meet its evolving
needs.
Categories: Business
Tags: Hotel management, Hospitality, Hotels, Restaurants
Marcia Steele Hoover ’90—Running with a mission
Summer 2013
Marcia Steele Hoover '90 promotes creativity and health as global director of the Nike Communications Center of Excellence at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Nike, Organizational communication
Web Extra :: A Night to Remember: Looking back at four decades of the Bell Hop dance
Summer 2013
The 1969 Bell Hop
The 1956 Bellman of the Year
By turning the women’s gym into a nightclub for an annual dance, the students in Washington State’s Sigma Iota hospitality club drew attention to the hotel and restaurant program and raised m...
Categories: WSU history, Business
Tags: Hospitality, Hotel management
Web Extra :: A Nate Taylor (’02 Fine Arts) sampler
Spring 2013
Here is a small collection of the lively illustrations Taylor has created for his friend and WSU Classmate, fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss ’02 MA as well as some of Taylor’s other work. The first images are linked to Rothfuss’s on-line blog at...
Categories: Alumni, Visual arts
Tags: Artists, Illustrators
Web Extra :: Tribble Trouble
Spring 2013
The trouble with going through the Icons of Science Fiction at Seattle’s Experience Music Project without WSU professor emeritus Paul Brians is that you might miss some tantalizing stories behind each display.
Image from Star Trek: The Original S...
Categories: Visual arts, Media
Tags: Science fiction, Experience Music Project, Television programs, Movies
Web Extra :: Training for good eggs: Winter School at Puyallup
Spring 2013
The first winter school for farmers was held in 1916 at the Washington State College research and experiment station in Puyallup. It offered a variety of classes including veterinary medicine, plant pathology, dairying, and the most popular by far, t...
Categories: WSU Extension, Agriculture
Tags: Poultry, Eggs
Review :: Treasure, Treason and the Tower: El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh
Spring 2013
Years ago while doing research in Stockholm, Sweden, Paul Sellin, a
scholar who specializes in literature and history of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, chanced upon some correspondence about Sir
Walter Raleigh and gold that he m...
Categories: History
Tags: Exploration, England, South America
Patrick Rothfuss ’02—World Builder
Spring 2013
Life’s a fantasy for best-selling author Patrick Rothfuss. He invites us into his worlds, one real and one of his own invention.
Categories: Literature, Alumni, Fiction
Tags: Fantasy, Authors, Philanthropy
Sick stocks
Spring 2013
Brian McTier, a WSU Vancouver-based business school faculty member, and his colleagues explored the impact of influenza on the U.S. stock market.
Categories: Business
Tags: Stock market, Influenza, Infectious diseases
The Essential Egg
Spring 2013
More than a century ago, Washington State College's chicken farming course helped Judson Wilcox and others start up what would become Washington's 1.9 billion-egg-a-year industry.
Categories: WSU Extension, Food, Agriculture
Tags: Puyallup, Chickens, Poultry, Eggs
Spinach is suspect: A pathological mystery
Spring 2013
Seed pathologist Lindsey du Toit at WSU Mount Vernon has been sleuthing out why spinach has been suffering from wilt, and whether the problem comes from spinach seed mostly grown in northwestern Washington.
Categories: Biological sciences, Agriculture
Tags: Spinach, Plant diseases, Plant pathology
Web Extra :: Reading in the Genres
Spring 2013
Here’s a small selection of suggested authors and works in a variety of genres provided by Paul Brians, professor emeritus, and clinical faculty member and writer Buddy Levy, who last spring taught advanced creative writing to undergraduates.
Bria...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Authors, Books, Literary genres, Reading
Web Extra :: Video: Twin Vista Ranch donated to WSU
Winter 2012
In October 2012, the Jefferson County community celebrated the donation of Twin Vista Ranch to Washington State University.
The 26-acre site, which was a strawberry farm in the 1920s, was
purchased by Lisa Painter and Jeanne Clendenon in 1972. The...
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Video, Organic foods, Local food
Review :: Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Winter 2012
Alpha Phi Alpha is the only black fraternity to be founded at an Ivy
League school. Starting at Cornell in 1906, its founders were just a
generation away from slavery and intent on creating an organization to
foster academic scholarship, build ...
Categories: History, Cultural studies
Tags: Black fraternities, African Americans
What I’ve Learned Since College—An interview with Ruth Bindler ’01
Winter 2012
Ruth Bindler '01, spent her life working on children's health as well as heading up the graduate programs at the WSU College of Nursing.
Categories: Alumni, Health sciences
Tags: Nursing, Obesity, Public health
A place of taste
Winter 2012
The local food scene is evolving and growing in Jefferson County on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Categories: Food, Agriculture
Tags: Organic foods, Local food
Spirits on the rise
Winter 2012
Craft distilleries are popping up all over Washington, like Golden Distillery, Dry Fly, and Fremont Mischief, to great acclaim.
Categories: Business
Tags: Liquor, Distilleries
The Law and the Land
Winter 2012
Indian law attorney and Colville tribal member Brian Gunn ’95 took on
the challenge of his grandfather and brought home a gratifying
settlement for years of federal mismanagement of Indian trust lands.
Categories: Law, Washington state history, Alumni
Tags: Indian Law, Colville Tribes, Native American leaders, Native Americans
Review :: Finding the River
Fall 2012
In 1992, President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Elwha Act,
which called for the removal of two hydroelectric dams from the 45-mile
river that flows from Washington’s Olympic Range to the Strait of Juan
de Fuca. Over the past year, th...
Categories: History, Environmental studies
Tags: Dams, Fish
Engineers in the Making
Fall 2012
At a time when Washington is a net importer of engineers, a more
appreciative vocabulary could tempt a new generation of students into
studying engineering.
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Engineers, Inventors, Science education
Gene Callan ’76—A dream for today and tomorrow
Fall 2012
The Maryhill Museum of Art received a major renovation that will showcase more of its amazing collection, thanks to Portland architect Gene Callan ’76.
Categories: Architecture and design, Alumni
Tags: Museums, Columbia Gorge, Art museums
Review :: Dove Creek
Fall 2012
While more known for her short stories, Paula Coomer takes the novel
form to tell the story of Patricia Morrison, the daughter of Kentucky
hill folk who leaves her hardscrabble life in Appalachia to discover a
new existence in the West. After a...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Fiction, Eastern Washington
Summer Blues
Fall 2012
Glenn Aldrich ’58, ’62 carries on a family tradition of growing blueberries in Lewis County. The blueberry's popularity due to its healthy properties has helped production triple in Washington in recent years.
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Blueberries
Review :: Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist of Emma Smith DeVoe
Summer 2012
At a time when women’s rights and politics are dominating our national
discourse, it would be good to consider our past. Emma Smith DeVoe’s
story, for example, enhances our understanding of our nation’s Women’s
Suffrage movement a...
Categories: History, Political science
Tags: Suffrage, Voting, Women, American West
The Murrow boys
Summer 2012
In 1913 Ethel and Roscoe Murrow moved their family from their small
farm in North Carolina to the Puget Sound community of Blanchard hoping
to find a better living for themselves and their three sons. The worldwide fame of their youngest, Ed...
Categories: Alumni, Washington state history
Tags: Edward R. Murrow, Skagit Valley, Family
Scoring position: A man buys his hometown team
Summer 2012
In the 1970s, when Mikal Thomsen ’79 was a budding business student
at WSU, he earned his tuition by compiling the stats for the football,
basketball, and baseball teams. The job not only let him parlay an
interest in numbers and sports into ...
Categories: Athletics, Business
Tags: Baseball, Tacoma
Raising queens
Summer 2012
Few things are as mysterious and amazing as the life of the queen
bee, says bee breeder Sue Cobey. Just a few days after she hatches from
her cell, the queen’s fertility is optimal and she has just a brief time
to mate for the rest of her fou...
Categories: Breeding, Entomology
Tags: Genetics, Honey bee, Queen bees
The Collectors
Summer 2012
In 1988, hundreds of rare documents from colonial Mexico disappeared from the WSU Library archives. The author and readers go on a hunt through history to explain how they came to Pullman in the first place, and describe the investigation that led to their welcome return.
Categories: Library and museum studies, WSU history
Tags: Collections, Collectors, Archives, Colonial Mexico, Crimes
Historically Yours
Summer 2012
Paul Philemon Kies, a popular professor of English, was one of the
keenest collectors at Washington State College. When he wasn’t teaching,
advising, or shooting photographs on campus, he was filling his office
and home with rare books, autog...
Categories: WSU faculty, History
Tags: Collections, Autographs, Collections
Web Extra :: Recipe: Swiss Chard with Garlicky Chickpeas
Spring 2012
It was hard to pick just one recipe from Tender. But given the winter season, the ingredients (chickpeas, chard, and garlic) that we’ve recently featured in our magazine, and the smart simplicity of this dish, we chose this one to share.Serves 4 to...
Categories: Food
Tags: Recipe, Chickpeas, Garlic, Garbanzo beans
Web Extra :: How to cook lean beef
Spring 2012
Most of us are accustomed to eating beef from cattle finished on grain. The finishing process builds up intramuscular fat and can result in tasty, fat-marbleized meat. But many of Washington’s small and medium-scale cattle ranches finish their catt...
Categories: Food
Tags: Beef, Cooking, Cattle
A Cattle Drive
Spring 2012
Penn Cove may be known for its mussels, but just across the Whidbey
Island bay from Coupeville is another operation—the Muzzall family
farm, known to local grass-fed beef fans as the Three Sisters Cattle
Company.The farm was founded in 1910...
Categories: Food, Agriculture
Tags: Farmers, Beef, Cattle
A Feast of Good Things
Spring 2012
How do we Washingtonians eat? The author travels from farm to table to explore and explain Washington cuisine.
Categories: Food, Agriculture, Culinary Arts
Tags: Cuisine, Northwest history, Restaurants, Farmers, Farmers markets
Web Extra :: A delicious dilemma:
Ingredients for a photographic still life
Spring 2012
...
Categories: Food, Photography
Tags: Cuisine, Photography
Doug Forseth ’71—Snow business
Spring 2012
Doug Forseth ’71 believes in “management by skiing around.”He is kidding, kind of, playing on the concept of the popular business book Management by Walking Around. But the senior vice president of operations for the Whistler Blackcomb Ski Reso...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Hotel management, Skiing, Resorts, Canada
John R. Gorham 1922-2011—Veterinary pathologist
Spring 2012
In the early 1940s, John Gorham ’46 DVM, MS ’47 left his family
home in Sumner to attend Washington State College as an undergraduate.
He found a life here, marrying fellow student Mary Ellen Martin and
staying on to earn his doctor...
Categories: Veterinary medicine, WSU faculty
Tags: Animal diseases, Pathology, Animal health, In memoriam
A Hidden History
Spring 2012
In 1992, Frank Hirahara ’48 sent his daughter Patti to Yakima to help
his elderly parents pack up their home for their move to Southern
California.What had at first seemed a chore turned into a treasure hunt as Patti
unearthed letters, ...
Categories: Library and museum studies, History
Tags: Photography, World War II, Internment camps, Japanese-Americans
Review :: The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Spring 2012
It may appear to be a scholarly approach to beaches, but once you wade in to this book, you will find an entertaining and informative read. With a light touch, Pilkey and his co-authors manage to describe some heavy concepts like erosion, tsunamis,...
Categories: Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Ocean, Beach
Jim Dunlap ’70—Tugs, tides, and time
Winter 2011
Jim Dunlap ’70 says he learned the family business “from the mud up.” Today one of several Dunlaps in the water transportation business
runs a tugboat and freight company with ports in Everett and LaConner.
But his first job workin...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Tugboats, Towing, Puget Sound
Bringing history and historian together
Winter 2011
Historian Douglas Brinkley recently visited Seattle to interview
William D. Ruckelshaus, the founding head of the Environmental
Protection Agency and advisor to a variety of Northwest clean water
and community groups.Ruckelshaus first mad...
Categories: History, Public affairs
Tags: Ecology, Government, Public service
All About Everett
Winter 2011
The blue-collar Snohomish County city just 25 miles north of Seattle recently asked WSU to take over the University Center where graduates of its community college can go on to complete four-year degrees in a variety of disciplines, including engineering. Snohomish, Skagit, and Island counties have been underserved by the state's four-year programs.
Categories: Washington state history, Education
Tags: Everett, Boeing, Ports, Higher education
Homes for art
Winter 2011
Few of us will ever see inside the homes of some of the Pacific
Northwest’s major art collectors. But this fall we get a glimpse when
the Museum of Art at Washington State University hosts an exhibit of
internationally-known architect...
Categories: Architecture and design, Library and museum studies
Tags: Architects, Northwest architecture, Art museums, WSU Museum of Art
Pumpkins
Fall 2011
It’s a rare fruit that can fit in the palm of your hand or grace your
table with colorful aplomb and also grow to the size of a small car.
But such is the pumpkin. Our long Northwest days are a dream for
growing the embodiment of Americ...
Categories: Food
Tags: Pumpkins
Above & Beyond
Fall 2011
In the spring of 1792, George Vancouver praised “the delightful serenity
of the weather.” A few years later, William Clark complained of a dour
winter that was “cloudy, dark and disagreeable.” How right they both
were. Weather patterns
determined by mountains and ocean grant the Pacific Northwest a
temperate climate that also has a dark and unpredictable side.
Categories: Earth sciences, Natural sciences, Environmental studies
Tags: Weather, Meteorology, Storms, Climate
Web Extra :: Looking into the Admiralty Head Lighthouse
Fall 2011
Admiralty Head Lighthouse, designed by architect Carl Leick in 1898 and opened in 1903, was built to guide ships into Puget Sound. It is now located at the Fort Casey State Park on Whidbey Island.Put your cursor on the squares below to look at the to...
Categories: Washington state history
Tags: Lighthouse
Seeing the trees
Fall 2011
At the south end of Whidbey Island, off a tree-lined road, Linda
Kast ’75 pulls her station wagon up to a gate and jumps out. She opens
her hatchback and extracts a thick folder containing maps, a history,
and an inventory of her smal...
Categories: Alumni, WSU Extension, Forestry
Tags: Forest management
To the lighthouse
Fall 2011
For more than a century one of Washington’s earliest man-made
landmarks has perched 120 feet above the sea on the bluff at Admiralty
Head on Whidbey Island. In its early years, the lighthouse beacon
guided the sailing ships that helped ...
Categories: History, Architecture and design
Tags: Parks, Lighthouse
Darnell Sue ’02—A girl and her power
Fall 2011
This thing called Girl Power is at work well before the scheduled
hour of 6 p.m. A peek into Bellevue’s Pure Barre gym one evening in
May offers a view of more than a half dozen women in dresses and high
heels setting up tables, filli...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Networking, Women
Kristine (McClary) Vannoy ’87—The facts of fudge
Summer 2011
“I’m easy to spot. I’m six-foot-two,” says Kristine (McClary)
Vannoy, as we plan our meeting at an upscale grocery in Seattle. But
when she appears, it’s not her height that’s eye-catching, or even her
long red hair. It’s th...
Categories: Culinary Arts, Business, Alumni
Tags: Food, Fudge, Entrepreneurs
Business is blooming
Summer 2011
On a sunny weekend in early spring, 40 farmers and would-be cut
flower growers fill the second floor of the barn at Jello Mold Farm in
the Skagit Valley. Bundled in their coats against the cool morning,
they eagerly listen to more exper...
Categories: Business, Agriculture, WSU Extension
Tags: Flowers, Gardens
The Things We Do for Our Dogs—and what they do for us
Summer 2011
In 1974 between 15 and 18 million dogs and cats were killed in animal control
centers. To address what he perceived as “wide-spread irresponsible animal
ownership,” Leo Bustad ’49 DVM created the People-Pet Partnership and
promoted research into the human-animal bond. Although it is impossible to
assess the total impact of his work, the number of animals killed today is down
to four million. And the pet-people bond manifests itself in ways beyond his
comprehension.
Categories: Veterinary medicine, Alumni
Tags: Dogs, Pets, Animal-human interaction, Animal behavior
Review :: A Home for Every Child
Summer 2011
At the end of the 19th century, adoption became part of a broader
movement to reform the orphanage and poor farm system in the United
States. In her most recent book, Patricia Susan Hart, who teaches
journalism and American studies ...
Categories: Social work, Washington state history
Tags: Children, Adoption
A plan for Washington
Summer 2011
In 1972, as Scott Carson was preparing to graduate from Washington
State University, a counselor told him he was still six credits shy of
his degree. The Vietnam veteran was astonished. “He said I had to
complete these physical educat...
Categories: Alumni, Education
Tags: Campaign for Washington State University, Philanthropy, Gifts, Volunteer
Review :: Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties
Spring 2011
There are communities of people who live their lives in two places at
once. Residents of Detroit, Michigan, and the small town of San
Ignacio, Mexico, for example. In her book, historian Luz Maria Gordillo
sets out to explain the history of thi...
Categories: History, Gender studies
Tags: Immigration, Mexican Americans, Women
An art history
Spring 2011
Worth D. Griffin
stepped off the train in Pullman in the fall of 1924 to find
Washington State College’s art
department barely four years old and with just one other full-time
faculty member. Prior to that, the only art instruction offe...
Categories: WSU faculty, WSU history, Fine Arts
Tags: Native Americans, Painting, Artists
George Nethercutt Jr. ’67—Knowing our nation
Spring 2011
George
Nethercutt Jr. ’67 may not be in Congress anymore, but he still yearns
to shorten the distance between Washington, D.C., and his home state of
Washington.The effort has kept the Spokane native busy since he left the House
of Repres...
Categories: Education, Public affairs, Alumni
Tags: Politicians, Civic education
Dungeness crab
Spring 2011
A few weeks ago, Brian Toste ’99 and his three-man crew set out from Westport, in southwest
Washington, in Toste’s 45-foot
vessel Huntress in search of
Dungeness crab. They spent the
first few days tying line and setting out ...
Categories: Business, Food
Tags: Commercial fishermen, Fishing, Dungeness, Crab
Outside In—Architecture of the Pacific Northwest
Spring 2011
Architecture in the Pacific Northwest has always had to contend with the environment. The results are enchanting.
Categories: Architecture and design, Alumni
Tags: Northwest architecture, Seattle, Buildings
Where land and water meet
Winter 2010
For Todd Mitchell '97, the purchase of Kiket Island near Deception Pass meant the return of a cultural resource to his people. For the other myriad residents of the Puget Sound area, it is another decisive step toward restoring a priceless resource.
Categories: Washington state history, Environmental studies
Tags: Conservation, Parks, Deception Pass, Puget Sound, Kiket Island
A sinking economy sparks scholarships
Winter 2010
Two years ago, Lou Pepper watched the bank he once managed become the largest bank failure in U.S. history.Pepper, a former Washington State University regent, had retired from
Washington Mutual in the early 1990s when the bank was sound. But then ...
Categories: Campus life, WSU students
Tags: Economy, Scholarships, Financial aid, College costs
Mary Kaufman-Cranney ’78—Call of the wild
Winter 2010
Last summer Mary
Kaufman-Cranney culled a batch of black dresses from her closet and
replaced them with hiking boots and trail shoes. Having left her job
with the Seattle Opera, where she was director of development, she has
less use for the ...
Categories: Environmental studies, Public affairs, Alumni
Tags: Conservation, Fundraising, The Nature Conservancy
Betty and Peggy Lee in 1936
Winter 2010
One day in 1936
Betty Lee and her twin sister Peggy, about four years old, posed for
their mother in the Washington State College shirts given to them by
Carl Morrow, then Dean of Men at WSU.Their parents, Don and Julia Lee, moved to Pullman in...
Categories: Alumni, WSU history
Tags: 1936, College Hill, WSU staff
Joe Fugere ’84—Feeding his interests
Winter 2010
Joe Fugere opened
Tutta Bella pizzeria in Columbia City in 2004. A veteran of several
Northwest-based companies, including Starbucks and Taco Time, he decided
it was time to go into business for himself and produce true
traditional Naples-st...
Categories: Food, Culinary Arts, Alumni
Tags: Pizza, Restaurants
Back to the city
Fall 2010
As King County's farm specialist, Steve Evans '78, '82 has watched agriculture disappear from the area. But now some of the land is going to smaller farms with high value crops. Meanwhile, small farms agent Bee Cha helps East African refugees farm in the urban Pacific Northwest.
Categories: Agriculture, WSU Extension
Tags: Seattle, Urban farming, Tacoma, Extension, Farmers markets
A measure of time and history
Fall 2010
Matthew Cohen started wondering if what he knew of
Renaissance architecture was true when he stepped into the San Lorenzo Basilica in
Florence with a measuring tape.The Italian city, known as the birthplace of the Renaissance, is home
to many o...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Renaissance, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi
Round-Up and recovery
Fall 2010
Locals often see
Mike and Jill Thorne on the two-lane highway between their ranch outside
Pendleton and the Oregon city’s rodeo grounds. As the 100thanniversary of the Pendleton Round-Up comes in September, the
couple is busy preparing both t...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Rodeos, Pendleton
Kevin Tomlinson ’75—Back to the garden
Fall 2010
On a roadtrip
with a friend in 1988, Kevin Tomlinson stumbled onto what would be the
seed of a great story. At the time, he just knew he had to collect it
and save it.“We were out to see the American West,” says the filmmaker, who
graduat...
Categories: Visual arts, Alumni
Tags: Film, Back to the Land movement, Movies, Documentary
Hans Breivik ’88—About a bridge
Fall 2010
Tacoma
certainly has had its share of broken bridges. But lately Hans Breivik ’88 has been coordinating the repair of one of them.The double-bascule bridge across the Hylebos Waterway at the Port of
Tacoma was built in 1938 and has been frozen ...
Categories: Engineering, Alumni
Tags: Civil engineering, Bridges
Dan Nelson '89—25,000 miles of trails
Summer 2010
Dan Nelson knows his way around Washington’s woods. As the author of a
dozen books on hikes, snowshoe trips, and trails throughout the
Cascades, Eastern Washington, and the Olympic Peninsula, he’s logged
thousands of miles for research.“I...
Categories: Alumni, Recreation
Tags: Hiking, Trails, Writers
Annie Thiessen '99—The pacemaker
Summer 2010
“I wasn’t
always fast,” says Annie Thiessen, a Tacoma veterinarian who in the past
10 years has won well over 30 marathons. “I just don’t know what
happened.” But she does know when it happened. It was 2005 and she was
competing i...
Categories: Athletics, Recreation, Alumni
Tags: Marathons, Running
The best berries
Summer 2010
These are not your ordinary grocery store strawberries. They are nothing like those California berries, bred for size, long
truck rides, and shelf-life, locked in plastic clamshells under the
florescent lights of the produce section,. The berries...
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Skagit Valley, Strawberry, Strawberries, Fruit
Time Out in the World
Summer 2010
Today's graduates aren't just dropping into the rat race. They're going to Africa, South America, Seattle and Spokane. They're out to see the world and make a difference.
Categories: Social work, Alumni
Tags: Charity, International development, Housing, Volunteer
WSU myths and legends
Summer 2010
Every school has its myths and legends. Washington State’s include
miles of secret underground tunnels, a ghost, giant cows, and an icon of
the psychedelic 60s. We decided to define, dispel, and debunk these
stories. The results may surprise ...
Categories: WSU history, Campus life
Tags: Myths, Legends
Derren Patterson '07—Dangerous beauty
Summer 2010
Derren
Patterson went out to see the world and landed in Bolivia leading
bicycle tours down the world’s most dangerous road.Patterson is one for adventure. After graduating from WSU with a
history degree, he decided to travel, paying for it f...
Categories: Alumni, Recreation
Tags: Mountain biking, Bolivia
Review :: Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington
Spring 2010
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in
Washington state. As the fifth state in the Union to allow women to
vote, Washington’s landmark was more than a half-century in the making.
In fact, in 1883, when Washington wa...
Categories: History, Washington state history, Political science
Tags: Women
Skagit Valley studies
Spring 2010
One student has
been wading into Padilla Bay to look at eelgrass, another hikes into
spinach fields to see if lime can protect the plant from fusarium wilt,
and a third is studying the dynamics of conflict among farmers,
landowners, environme...
Categories: WSU students, Agriculture
Tags: Research
Cougar Links—Palouse Ridge homecoming
Spring 2010
A little more than a year
after the grand opening of the Palouse Ridge Golf Club in Pullman, the
315-acre course has garnered national attention as one of the best new
courses in the country. It has also gained a cadre of Cougar alums who
hav...
Categories: Business, Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Palouse Ridge, Golf
What I’ve Learned Since College: Joni Earl ’75—CEO of Sound Transit
Spring 2010
When Joni Earl ’75 joined Sound Transit in 2000, she was unaware of
the crisis facing the agency, which provides public transportation for
Snohomish, King, and Pierce counties. As the new Chief Operating
Officer, she was asked to review the s...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Sound Transit, Transportation, Trains
Leave it to beavers
Spring 2010
As we crunch
through the snow in the hills above Winthrop, Steve Bondi ’02 and Ryan
Anderson ’08 are eager to see evidence that their project to improve
riparian habitat and provide late season water to the Methow Valley is
working. They...
Categories: Biological sciences, Environmental studies
Tags: Ecology, Beavers
Vancouver Lake: A Search for Solutions Great and Small
Spring 2010
This is the second time WSU scientists have worked on a plan to clean up Vancouver Lake. The first, in the 1960s, was monumental. This time it's microscopic.
Categories: Engineering, Biological sciences
Tags: Microbiology, Lakes, Vancouver
Desperately Seeking Sherman
Spring 2010
Although his work is increasingly ubiquitous, the writer Sherman Alexie ’94 is a little harder to pin down. Our correspondent is undaunted.
Categories: Literature, Alumni
Tags: Native Americans, Authors, Writers
Stormwater central
Winter 2009
There’s nothing
mundane about the new parking lot at the WSU research and extension
center in Puyallup. It is a state-of-the-art polluted water collection
system. The 70-some parking spots are specially designed to drain the
water from each spa...
Categories: WSU Extension, Environmental studies
Tags: Sustainability, Ecology, Water quality, Stormwater
Housing by the numbers
Winter 2009
From his corner
office in Johnson Tower in the midst of Washington State University’s
Pullman campus, Glenn Crellin is far from the most populated parts of
the state. Still, from his vantage, he contemplates rental rates around
the Puget Sound,...
Categories: Business, Economics
Tags: Real estate, Housing, Homebuyers
Paper cuts
Winter 2009
Not that many years ago Washington's legislature was covered by more than 30 journalists from around the state. Now that number is eight. The Seattle Times no longer has a bureau on the east side of Lake Washington, and a print Post-Intelligencer no longer exists. Who will give us information and investigation when the papers have all gone?
Categories: Communication, Media, Public affairs
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Blogs
Clams
Winter 2009
Displaced by the salmon and eclipsed by the oyster, the clam is
perhaps the forgotten star of the Puget Sound. But once it was the main
seafood symbol of the region. Even before restaurateur Ivar Haglund
made his “Acres of Clams” restaurant a ...
Categories: Food
Tags: Clams
Nöel Riley Fitch '65, '69—At Julia's table
Winter 2009
As a graduate student at Washington State University in the late 1960s, Noël Riley Fitch found her calling in an issue of Ladies’ Home Journal.
A two-page story about Sylvia Beach and her little bookshop called
Shakespeare and Company in Paris i...
Categories: Alumni, English
Tags: Writers, Julia Child, Cooking, Biographers
Track to the future
Winter 2009
It was only a few decades ago that Northern Pacific Railroad ran
daily trains from Spokane through Pullman and down to Lewiston. And
train cars loaded with students and steamer trunks came over the
Cascades delivering their lively loads to packed ...
Categories: Architecture and design, WSU Spokane
Tags: Trains, Railroad, Transportation, Palouse
Puppy mills closed for good
Fall 2009
Last January
investigators in Mount Vernon raided one of the largest puppy mill
operations in state history. They found close to 400 animals. Many of
the dogs were sick, in filthy cages, and had insufficient food and
water. Days later a similar r...
Categories: Veterinary medicine
Tags: Puppy mills, Animal rescue, Dogs
Curbing aggressive driving
Fall 2009
There’s something about youth and speed and cars.Criminal justice doctoral student Yu-Sheng Lin tapped into it in his
study of risky and aggressive driving behaviors. Surveying Washington
State University students, who averaged the age of 19, he ...
Categories: Psychology, Social sciences
Tags: Aggressive driving, Criminal justice
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with Maurice (Sandy) Pearson
Fall 2009
Maurice Pearson was born in Chicago in 1904. When he was just a year
old, his family moved west and settled in Ferndale on 40 acres near the
Lummi Indian reservation. Everyone called him Sandy because of his red
hair.After high school, Pearson wor...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Dance
WSU Presidents—An evening of honors
Fall 2009
In late June nearly 200 people gathered to recognize Washington
State University’s presidents emeriti Glenn Terrell (1967–1985), Sam
Smith (1985–2000), and V. Lane Rawlins (2000–2007). The event kicked
off a fundraising effort for need-bas...
Categories: WSU history, WSU faculty
Tags: WSU presidents
S.R. Martin Jr.—A life in the West
Fall 2009
“Rudy” Martin started out with a plan to collect the history of his
family from its Texas roots to his home in Washington. It was at first
a project for himself and his children. But the American studies
scholar yearned for context, color, and...
Categories: History, Alumni
Tags: African Americans, American West
Review :: Greenscapes—Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
Fall 2009
John Charles Olmsted, nephew and stepson of world-famous park designer Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and half brother of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., spent much of his life in the shadows of his more famous relatives. Even so, on the...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Gardening, Landscape architecture
Master Gardeners
Fall 2009
"Cultivating plants, people, and communities since 1973" is how the Master Gardeners explain themselves. The concept has worked well. Washington, where it all started, now has over 3,000 volunteer Master Gardeners, who in exchange for training in turn give their knowledge and expertise to others in their communities. These communities have now spread across the United States and Canada.
Categories: WSU Extension, Agriculture
Tags: Gardens, Gardening
Living Large: In search of the elusive large animal veterinarian
Summer 2009
Nearly 500 counties in the United States have large herds of cattle, but no veterinarians to care for them. Although veterinary student Sam Nielson claims that it’s the life of the large animal veterinarian that he’s after, not money, fewer and fewer feel that way, moving to other types of practices that offer both better working conditions and compensation.
Categories: Veterinary medicine
Tags: Animal health, Large animals
Review :: 1200 Weeds—of the 48 States & Adjacent Canada
Summer 2009
When you don’t know what you’re dealing with, weedy plants may be hard to handle. Richard Old, a longtime Pullman resident and weed identification expert, has put together this comprehensive database of weeds for both public and private use.
...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Invasive weeds
Review :: Uncle Phil and the Atomic Bomb
Summer 2009
I was lucky enough to meet Philip Abelson in 2002 on the occasion of his visit to Pullman for the dedication of Abelson Hall (formerly Science Hall) in honor of the scientist and his wife
Dr. Neva Abelson ’34.
During our brief interview, Abelso...
Categories: Physics, WSU history
Tags: Manhattan Project, Atomic bomb
A Seat at the Table: Senator Patty Murray '72
Summer 2009
When Patty Murray '72, after a year as a state legislator, set her
sights on the U.S. Senate, she got little encouragement. “You haven't paid your dues,” they said. “You don't have enough money. You don't know the right people.” None of that made any difference to Murray.
Categories: Public affairs, Alumni
Tags: Politicians
Spring is the season for chèvre
Summer 2009
After a winter’s break, the goats at Rhonda Gothberg’s farm have kidded and their milk is rich and sweet. The soft French-style cheese she makes is delicious with just a nuance of that goat tang. Maybe it’s because the animals have added ten...
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Goats, Cheese
Jacqueline van Wormer–Advocacy for juveniles
Summer 2009
One morning this winter, the Benton County Juvenile Justice Center is quiet since most of the residents are in classrooms and only one teen waits in lock-up. A couple of the guards are having an early lunch at a table at the end of the long corrid...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Criminal justice, Juvenile justice
Art Still at Large
Summer 2009
An episode of the Antiques Road Show television program last winter stirred some memories across the Palouse and brought to mind one of the most influential alumni to graduate from Washington State’s fine arts program.
A woman from California b...
Categories: Fine Arts
Tags: Artists, Clyfford Still
Whatever Happened to Home Economics?
Summer 2009
Lately, you may have considered tightening your home budget, planting a vegetable garden in your yard, eating at home, making food from scratch instead of out of the box, teaching your kids instead of hiring a tutor, mending your sweater instead ...
Categories: WSU history, Culinary Arts
Tags: Extension, Home economics
Roger McClellan - A suitable combination
Spring 2009
As a teen, Roger McClellan ’60 D.V.M. went to work at his high school farm. By helping manage a flock of sheep that were a control group in a Hanford nuclear facility study, he became part of a major research project on radioactivity in animals. ...
Categories: Alumni, Biological sciences
Tags: Biochemistry
Jason Ambrose '99 - Counting beans in Costa Rica
Spring 2009
Jason Ambrose learned to drink coffee as a college freshman. “Then it was more about function than flavor,” he admits.
These days, Ambrose starts his morning with a French press. He heats milk for his son Jackson, who is not yet two, and water ...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Coffee
Space Chronicles
Spring 2009
Working on her doctorate at Washington State University, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal ’04 was drawn to public history–a field that combines academic history with non-traditional methods of collecting and presenting historical information. The program...
Categories: Space sciences, History
Tags: Space exploration, NASA
The Love Letters
Spring 2009
In 1907, Othello had no high school, so Xerpha Mae McCulloch '30 traveled 50 miles to Ritzville to finish school. There she met, and fell in love with, Edward Gaines, a few years her senior. The recent gift to Washington State University of her steamer trunk reveals the life of a woman whose story is not only threaded through the University's, but also through the story of agriculture in Washington State.
Categories: Memoirs, WSU history, Agriculture
Tags: WSU staff, Xerpha Gaines, Botany
Hotel at the Top
Spring 2009
Pioneer James “Cashup” Davis dreamed big. At a time when most Washington settlers were carving farms out of the Palouse, he was so awed with the panoramic views of the Palouse from Steptoe Butte, he decided to build a hotel at the top.
Davis’s...
Categories: Washington state history, History
Tags: Palouse, Hotels
Living free from addiction
Winter 2008
When an alumnus like Bus Hollingbery '44, a former Cougar
linebacker and son of football coaching legend "Babe" Hollingbery,
comes to the university with a good idea, the university
listens.
A few years ago, Hollingbery, a recovering alcoholic, w...
Categories: Campus life, Social work
Tags: Addiction, Rehabilitation
On the waterfront
Winter 2008
Tacoma's past may be a key to its future :: Twenty years ago, the City Club of Tacoma approached the city with a plan to unify the waterfront and build a walking path from the Tacoma Dome to Point Defiance. The painstakingly researched report urged that the entire waterfront be redesigned as a people place. Lara Hermann '95 was thrilled when a city hall worker handed her the document. "It was like a present just lands in your lap," she says.
Categories: Geography, Public affairs
Tags: Tacoma, Urban planning
Who moved my cupola?
Winter 2008
During a quiet weekend last July, a crew came to campus to steal
away one of the University's oldest landmarks--the Ferry Hall
cupola. The quaint 12-foot by 12-foot Georgian-style structure had
already survived more than a century and a major relo...
Categories: WSU history, Architecture and design
Tags: Ferry Hall
Murrow's door
Winter 2008
First came the doorknob.The workers in the office of Washington State University's
school of communication didn't know what to expect when the first
of two shipments arrived from New York last spring. But they opened
the box, took out the old door...
Categories: Communication
Tags: Edward R. Murrow
Everybody reads
Winter 2008
When Mary Roach was researching her book on human cadavers, she
attended a seminar where plastic surgeons practiced techniques on
severed human heads. She also visited a body farm in Tennessee to
see remains in various states of decay. And she sto...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Cadavers, Reading
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with Sonny Spearman
Winter 2008
Sonny Spearman '86 has traded technology for toys. As co-founder
and chief marketing and operating officer of Matter Group, she
leads a company focused on creating products to foster awareness of
the environment.Spearman started her career in tech...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Games
A Season for Seeds
Winter 2008
STRANGE THINGS sprout in Skagit Valley's fields: Monster plants
with six-foot stalks covered with yellow flowers, delicate
ferny-leaved things with round white heads holding hundreds of tiny
blossoms, and unruly tangles of leaves, spears, and spik...
Categories: Food, Agriculture
Tags: Seeds
The end is the beginning. A photo essay
Fall 2008
A Chinese native who was born during the Cultural Revolution, Jian Yang '08 found his artistic self somewhere in between his home country and the United States. That understanding of the in-between is perhaps why, on a visit home after spending some time here in graduate school, he discovered a fascination for the disappearing tradition of rural Chinese opera.
Categories: Visual arts
Tags: Photography, China, Theatre
BJ Duft - Of meals and missions
Fall 2008
At age 24, BJ Duft found himself in Bill Marriott's
private jet face-to-face with the CEO of Marriott International.
They were headed back to Washington D.C. from Penn State University
where Duft '86 had gone to do some on-campus recruitin...
Categories: Alumni, Agriculture
Tags: Restaurants, Organic foods
The Higher Costs of College
Fall 2008
When it comes to paying the tuition, creative savvy may be a Cougar characteristic. Some do the expected—sell blood at the plasma center in Pullman, offer themselves up for psychology studies on campus, and find jobs either at the university or at a local restaurant. Others, over history, have been even more creative.
Categories: Campus life
Tags: Tuition, College costs
60 minutes with Don Hewitt
Fall 2008
This spring, while a reporter from a Spokane TV station
sat face to face with 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt, two Washington
State University communications students waited quietly in the hall
for their turn with the television legend.
Jamie Gro...
Categories: Communication
Tags: Television broadcasting
A new college guide
Fall 2008
The market is full of books on how to get into and succeed
in college, but few of those books are targeted at students who may
be the first in their family to go beyond high school. Even fewer
are targeted specifically to the needs of Native Ameri...
Categories: Education, Campus life
Tags: Native Americans
Parkinson's house
Summer 2008
For a Parkinson's patient, every day is different. One day the
symptoms could include tremors and muscle stiffness. Another might
bring difficulty eating and swallowing. But every day, Parkinson's
is a progressive, chronic, debilitating disease th...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Parkinson's disease
A home for hotel history
Summer 2008
One day in the late 1920s, hoteliers Severt W. Thurston and
Frank Dupar met by chance in a coffee shop in Yakima, Washington.
Unbeknownst to one another, each had gone to Yakima to make
separate hotel deals. But by the time they parted company tha...
Categories: History
Tags: Hotel management, Hotels
Dahlias
Summer 2008
When Dan Pearson was eight years old, his father brought a batch
of brown tubers home and planted them in the yard. Intrigued, Dan
helped tend the vigorous plants that sprang from them and watched
them bloom into flashy, brightly hued flowers, som...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Flowers, Dahlias
Age of Identity
Summer 2008
Debbie Lee journeyed across an ocean and traveled back two centuries to find some of history's most infamous imposters. She came home with a new understanding of culture and identity.
Categories: History, Literature
Tags: England, Identity
An interview with Edward Heinemann - a life of horse sense
Summer 2008
Ed Heinemann was just a freshman in
the spring of 1936, when the students at Washington State decided
to strike. A group calling themselves the Student Liberty
Association wanted more freedom from the administration's
puritanical social regulatio...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Horses
A taste of history
Spring 2008
Methow Valley, best known for its miles of Nordic skiing and
other outdoor recreation, has developed a new note, one that lands
it in Seattle's culinary scene. The rare heritage grains from Sam
and Brooke Lucy's Bluebird Grain farms have found the...
Categories: Food
Tags: Emmer, Heritage grains
Closing minds: How layoffs can be bad for business
Spring 2008
One of the best ways to kill a worker’s creativity is to tell
him his job is on the line.
Tahira Probst, an associate professor of psychology at
Washington State University Vancouver, has explored that notion
through a combination of laboratory...
Categories: Business
Tags: Employment
A school in the woods
Spring 2008
Many of the children who visit IslandWood have never been to the woods. Some are afraid to try new things, to walk in the woods at night, to touch a slug or pull apart a wild mushroom. Now, they're as much a part of the place as the wildlife.
Categories: Education, Environmental studies
Tags: Environmental education
Ode to a tea set
Spring 2008
A HANDCRAFTED STERLING SILVER TEA SET, its long rectangular
surfaces modern in design, gleams from its perch on a bookshelf in
an apartment high above Seattle, the home of the man who designed
it.The simple geometry of the set’s four serving pie...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Dishes
Bernard Lagat comes home
Spring 2008
On his first morning back in Pullman, world track and field
champion Bernard Lagat ’01 pulled on his running shoes and said a
quick goodbye to his wife, Gladys Tom ’00, and son, Miika.
It was 8 a.m. and about 19 degrees outside. But the mornin...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Track and field
What I've learned since college: An interview with Johnnetta B. Cole-anthropologist, author, activist
Spring 2008
Johnnetta B. Cole launched her career as an educator and
activist at Washington State University in 1964. While in Pullman,
she taught anthropology, helped found the Black Studies
Program, and served as the program’s first director. In 1970
she...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: African Americans, Anthropology, Writing
Into the woods
Winter 2007
Unseen worlds live behind the bark and beneath the trees in Pacific
Northwest forests. Scientists Jack Rogers and Lori Carris have made
careers out of discovering these worlds and studying them. We go into
the woods with them to glimpse the secret lives of fungi and their
roles in nature.
Categories: Botany, Biological sciences
Tags: Mushrooms, Mycology, Fungi
Language lessons
Winter 2007
When Saad Alshahrani came to graduate school at Washington State
University, he didn't speak a bit of English.Addled by the long flights from Saudi Arabia, he tried to walk
out of the airport in Seattle. He didn't understand that his new
home was ...
Categories: Cultural studies, Languages and linguistics
Tags: Arabic
Secrets & Spies
Winter 2007
The Office of Strategic Services, our country's first centralized
intelligence agency, was formed during the Second World War to train
men and women in the arts of sabotage and espionage and then to send
them around the world to protect our nation's interests. Among the many
Washington State College students and alumni who served in that
conflict, five friends and classmates trained together in the OSS, then
went to North Africa, Italy, England, and China to help win the war.
Categories: Alumni, Military sciences
Tags: World War II, OSS, Spies, Espionage
History was made...The fight for equity for women's athletics in Washington
Winter 2007
Back in the late 1960s, when Jo Washburn was athletic director for
women's intramural sports at Washington State University, she had
to stretch $1,200 to cover all the expenses of the volleyball,
gymnastics, basketball, field hockey, skiing, and t...
Categories: Gender studies, Athletics
Tags: Women's studies, Women's sports, Title IX, Women athletes
One Hundred Apple Cups
Winter 2007
The first contest between cross-state rivals Washington State
and the University of Washington took place on a muddy field in
Seattle in November 1900. The Washington Agricultural College
"Farmers," as we were known then, made the 290-mile trek fr...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Apple Cup, Football
Celebrating a century at Seattle's liveliest landmark
Fall 2007
It started a century ago, on August 17, 1907, when a small group
of farmers set up stalls at the corner of First and Pike in Seattle
and sold their produce right on the street. They claimed their
little city-sponsored market experiment was born ou...
Categories: Washington state history, History
Tags: Farmers markets, Seattle
Police in the dorms: Security or invasion of privacy?
Fall 2007
One Friday night last winter, a Washington State University
police officer walked past the open door of a student's room in
Stephenson East and looked in. She smiled and said "Hey," and
received a cool "Hi" in reply. As soon as she walked past, th...
Categories: Campus life, WSU students
Tags: Residence halls
Their place in history: WSU women athletes made their mark
Fall 2007
One day in 1948 four Washington State College students tugged on
their white rubber swim caps, adjusted their nose plugs, and
plunged into a cold swimming pool. Three of them locked together
head to foot to form a vertical underwater ring, and the...
Categories: Gender studies, Athletics
Tags: Women's sports, Women athletes
A burning mystery
Fall 2007
During spring break in
April 1970 an arson fire destroyed the wood stands of
Washington State University's football stadium. The Cougars
were forced to play off campus for two years while the
University built a new stadium. To thi...
Categories: WSU history, Athletics
Tags: Football, Crimes
Food fights
Fall 2007
Four children died in the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli
outbreak. Attorney Bill Marler's client survived, but only after
spending six months in the hospital. Marler sued and won a $15.6
million settlement for Brianne Kiner. Even more significant, the work
he produced for the case made him an expert not only on E. coli, but on the whole food production system.
Categories: Alumni, Public affairs, Law
Tags: Food-borne illness, Food poisoning
Behold the blackberry
Fall 2007
Blackberry is a flavor of fall in the Pacific Northwest. Whether
you sample blackberries straight from the bush, still warm from the
sun, or bake it into a pie and top it with a cool scoop of ice
cream, it's a deep, sweet taste that conjures up th...
Categories: Food
Tags: Blackberry
It felt like coming home
Summer 2007
With Lane Rawlins, Washington State University has "become what a lot
of people envisioned it could be." Even though he has plenty of ideas
of what to do next, it is time to hand over the presidency.
Categories: WSU faculty, WSU history
Tags: WSU presidents
Hoop dreams
Summer 2007
Cougar fans are still shaking themselves awake from the dream
that was the 2006-07 basketball season.The sweet reverie set in early this winter during a game against
Gonzaga at Friel Court. For the first time in years, a scrappy
bunch of mostly ju...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Basketball
Hops & beer
Summer 2007
Raising the raw ingredients for beer can be just as complex and
interesting as growing grapes for wine, says Jason Perrault '97, '01.
Like grapes, hops have different varieties and characteristics.
Perrault, fourth-generation heir to a hops-farming legacy, runs a hops
breeding program for Yakima Valley growers, helping to ensure that
Washington continues to provide three-quarters of the hops grown in
this country.
Categories: Business, Agriculture
Tags: Hops, Beer
Anatomy of Murder: Robert Keppel '66 Police Science, '67 MA Police Science
Summer 2007
In 1974, during Robert Keppel's second week as a major
crimes detective with the King County Sheriff's Office, he was
assigned the cases of two women who had gone missing on the same
day from Lake Samammish. They turned out to be two of Ted Bundy'...
Categories: Law, Alumni
Tags: Criminal justice, Police
Dana Patterson: The path ahead
Summer 2007
Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a small college community with a rich
history of social justice. It was a stop on the Underground
Railroad and, much later, home to Antioch College, where civil
rights activist Coretta Scott King went to school.Dana Patter...
Categories: Public affairs, Alumni
Tags: Social justice, Civil rights
Vaulting ambition
Spring 2007
Despite the icy air of the late October afternoon, Todd
Griffiths strips down to his skin-tight spandex uniform and lifts
himself atop a bay horse named Darby. His legs move forward and in
one fluid swing are back behind him, pulling him into a ha...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Horses, Vaulting
John Leitzinger: Racing with the wind
Spring 2007
On a small boat with six other guys, with about two weeks to
travel 2,300 nautical miles, you really want to be with agreeable
people.That was John Leitzinger's philosophy when he was looking for
teammates to sail with him in the 2006 Vic-Maui Int...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Yacht racing, Sailing
Spillman memorial rededicated
Spring 2007
A memorial marker for William Jasper Spillman, a crop research
pioneer and one of Washington State College's first professors, was
returned to campus last fall.Spillman was the sixth faculty member to be hired at WSC, and
the researcher responsibl...
Categories: WSU faculty, Agriculture
Tags: Memorials
WSU welcomes a new president
Spring 2007
Elson S. Floyd was named the 10th president of Washington State
University in December. He and his wife, Carmento, will be moving to
Washington from Missouri this spring.
Categories: WSU faculty, WSU history
Tags: WSU presidents
Foraged foods: Serving up a traditional meal from the Columbia plateau
Spring 2007
In a wooded spot a half-mile from Washington State University's
Pullman campus, an older woman with long braids and an apron
emblazoned with the words "got buns?" tended an alderwood fire.
Geraldine Jim, a salmon expert from the Warm Springs Reser...
Categories: Food
Tags: Forage, Native Americans
An interview with Horace Alexander Young, musician and teacher
Spring 2007
Horace Alexander Young '83 teaches
woodwinds and jazz studies at Washington State University and tours
the world as a member of Abdullah Ibrahim's jazz sextet, EKAYA. He
plays woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion. He also sings and
composes, and ...
Categories: Music, Alumni
Tags: Jazz
An equation for beauty
Winter 2006
The painter spends his days on the third floor of an ancient biscuit plant in a seedy section of industrial Ballard. The building, just a block from the Ballard Bridge, houses a collection of artists, mostly ceramicists whose main-floor kiln warms...
Categories: Fine Arts, Visual arts
Tags: Painting, Artists
Web Extra :: Video: The wonderful world of printed ephemera
Winter 2006
View an exclusive
slide show about printed ephemera and to hear Trevor Bond of
WSU's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections talk about
his experience working with English chapbooks. Photos are by
Trevor Bond. Read the story, "...
Categories: Library and museum studies, History
Tags: Chapbooks, England, Ephemera, Video
The brave new world of college recruiting
Winter 2006
Recruitment used to mean visiting high schools and mailing out applications. Today, with fierce competition for Washington's top students, recruitment is a complex program of target marketing, scholarships, campus visits, and the close attention of admissions counselors.
Categories: WSU students
Tags: Enrollment
What color is your potato?
Winter 2006
Remember when picking a potato was easy? You had your choice:
bake or boil?Today there are dozens of decisions. Waxy? dry? fingerling?
yellow? red? blue? banana?That world of choice started the early 1980s, when the Yukon
Gold emerged from a breed...
Categories: Food
Tags: Potatoes
Jeff Clark: Elegant antiques
Winter 2006
The object of Jeff Clark's desire once belonged to the Shah of Iran. The shiny black 1939 Bugatti Type 57C was originally commissioned by the French government and given to the Shah as a present on the occasion of his first marriage. Today the roa...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Charity, Antiques, Automobiles, Cars
The sportswriter
Winter 2006
If Janie McCauley were telling this story, she wouldn't bury the
lead. She'd say right away that she is the Associated Press's 2006
Sports Writer of the Year. Add a little color, some solid quotes like, "I was
surprised to get the award. Ther...
Categories: Athletics, Communication
Tags: Sportswriters, Journalism
Vicki Owens: Into Africa
Winter 2006
Twenty-one years ago Vicki Owens stepped off an airplane into
the hot air of Kampala, Uganda, thinking she had come for a brief
stay, just long enough to help Christian missionary pastors start a
primary school."I thought I'd do my little thing fo...
Categories: Education, Alumni
Tags: Africa, Uganda
Blogger's world
Fall 2006
Amelia Veneziano, a junior at Washington State University, has a
weakness when it comes time to do her homework. When she settles in
to her Pullman apartment and turns on her computer, instead of
researching a paper or e-mailing a professor, she k...
Categories: WSU students, Communication, Websites
Tags: Internet, Blogs
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with R. Dale Storr
Fall 2006
On February 2, 1991, during the first Iraq war, Capt. R. Dale
Storr ('83 Mech. Engr.) was captured by Iraqi soldiers after his
A-10 Thunderbolt was shot down near Kuwait. The 29-year-old Air
Force pilot from Spokane was a prisoner of war for 33 da...
Categories: Military sciences, Alumni
Tags: Air Force, Iraq
The coming of age of teen films
Fall 2006
As a teen, Sarah Hentges had Wonder Woman and Princess Leia as her pop culture role models. One flew an invisible plane, and the other lived in another galaxy. Neither offered much of an idea of how a young American woman should be.As a Washington...
Categories: Gender studies
Tags: Movies, Film, Adolescence, Girls
Bellevue metropolitan
Fall 2006
Since 1869, Bellevue has morphed from pioneer settlement to Norman-Rockwell small town to burgeoning suburb of Seattle. Now, with the help of a handful of WSU-trained architects, it's high-stepping into its new role as one of Washington's most vital urban centers.
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Seattle, Bellevue
A home for music
Fall 2006
You don't always need an address to find the Friel House. Just
follow the music.A short walk from campus, a group of music-minded students have
found a home on C Street. The house looks small from the curb, but
its three stories shelter seven stud...
Categories: Campus life, Music
Tags: Buildings, Music
The making of mountaineers
Summer 2006
Danielle Fisher gave herself five years to become the youngest person to climb the highest mountain on every continent. The Washington State University student did it in two, joining the ranks in 2005 of an elite fellowship of climbers who got their start on Washington's peaks.
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Hiking, Leadership, Mountain climbing
Foreign stories
Summer 2006
Crista Ames and Junko Matsumura are both bright, friendly, and soft-spoken. They are just a few months apart in age. And both want to go out and see the world.It was these common interests that brought the student from Kennewick and the student fr...
Categories: WSU students, Campus life
Tags: On Campus Living, Foreign Exchange
Cherries—The sweet fruit of worry
Summer 2006
In March, Don Olmstead Jr. ('70 Hort.) watches over his cherry trees night and day, ready to activate a heating system or switch on the wind machines to protect the tender buds from a killing frost. It's a task he shares with his son and business ...
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Horticulture, Cherries
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with Robbie Tobeck
Summer 2006
Seahawk Center Robbie Tobeck ('94 Phys. Ed.) has spent the past
13 years playing professional football. After going to both the
Super Bowl and Pro Bowl last February, he took some time off to
focus on his four children, McKenzie, Mason, Mia, and M...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Football
Busting out
Summer 2006
One rainy afternoon this spring filmmaker Francine Strickwerda
entered the El Diablo coffee shop in Seattle. She ordered a cubano
latte and then sat at a table overlooking Queen Anne Avenue. She
looked around the busy room. The scene brought back ...
Categories: Visual arts, Alumni
Tags: Movies, Breast cancer, Documentary
Iraq fallen remembered: Jaimie Campbell, James Shull, Damien Ficek
Summer 2006
In late January students, friends, and faculty gathered on the
Pullman campus for a memorial service and candlelight vigil for
First Lieutenant Jaime (Krausse) Campbell, who died when the
BlackHawk helicopter she was flying went down in northern I...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: In memoriam, Iraq, Veterans
Cooking is its own reward
Spring 2006
Betsy Rogers '89 had her eureka moment while sitting in a
cooking class.
It was 2000, and the Seattle-based public relations specialist had
recently lost her job in a downsizing. Instead of jumping back into
a new job, she decided to freelance an...
Categories: Alumni, Culinary Arts, Food
Tags: Careers, Food
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with Rebecca Miles
Spring 2006
Last May, Rebecca Miles became the first woman and, at age 32,
the youngest person to be elected chairman of the Nez Perce tribe.
In her one-year post representing the 3,000 members of the tribe,
Miles has traveled the country speaking on issues l...
Categories: Alumni, Cultural studies
Tags: Nez Perce, Idaho, Native Americans
Growing as an Artist
Spring 2006
windows along the north wall look out over Martin Stadium. They
offer quite a view, especially on game days, says Powell.
On one wall hang two of his latest pieces, paintings on birch
plywood, a medium he says gives him more of a feeling of perman...
Categories: Visual arts, Fine Arts
Tags: Artists
Digital Daddies
Spring 2006
Aaron Johnson and Cliff Knopik, the odd couple of young
parenthood, sit together in Johnson's Puyallup dining room while
his newborn daughter, Brooklyn, sleeps in a bedroom nearby. His
wife, Heather, makes dinner in their small apartment kitchen.A...
Categories: Communication, Alumni
Tags: WSU parents, Child development, Broadcasting
Ghost Towns of the Anasazi
Spring 2006
For the past three decades, WSU archaeologists and their students have been searching the Southwest with tools ranging from trowels to computers to uncover the story of a vanished people.
Categories: Archaeology, Anthropology
Tags: Southwest United States, Anasazi, Native Americans
Doggy Dream House
Spring 2006
Basil was a dog in need of a home. And with just 30 hours to
assess the whippet's personality and create and execute a design, a
group of Washington State University design students were
determined to give him one.It was an intense competition wit...
Categories: Engineering, Architecture and design, WSU Spokane
Tags: No Tags
Bridging two cultures
Spring 2006
A small school district radically retools to serve its Hispanic students.
Categories: Education, WSU students
Tags: Latinos, Latinas, Diversity, High school students
Growing as an Artist
Spring 2006
Isaac Powell, a graduate student in the Department of Fine Arts,
recently won national attention for his work when a piece took grand
prize in a juried competition for young artists with disabilities. The
competition winners are now part of a trav...
Categories: Fine Arts, Awards and honors
Tags: Museums, Artists
Washington's wine crush
Winter 2005
From Whidbey Island to Woodinville to Walla Walla, Washington's wine industry is coming of age.
Categories: Agriculture, Food
Tags: Wine tasting, Wine, Grapes
What I've Learned Since College: an interview with Theodore Baseler
Winter 2005
Ted Baseler is president and CEO of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.
The interview with Hannelore Sudermann took place in his
second-floor office at the Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville in
late July. Journeying from advertising and marketing into t...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Wine
Medieval Missive: An ancient document rediscovered
Winter 2005
A sacred and significant artifact of European history-a genuine
papal bull from the Middle Ages-was recently found tucked among the
books and papers of Washington State University's Manuscripts,
Archives, and Special Collections.The bull, or bulla...
Categories: Religion, Literature
Tags: The Pope
A Sweet Buzz: Honey
Winter 2005
Entomologist Steve Sheppard has never gotten over his wonder at
how people came to raise swarms of stinging insects for the honey
they produce."To see this guy dumping out thousands of bees to collect honey
from their hive. . ." He shakes his head...
Categories: Entomology, Food
Tags: Bees, Honey
Being Sacagawea
Winter 2005
For the past two years historian Jeanne Eder has been traveling
in Sacagawea's footsteps. Donning a traditional dress as well as
another woman's persona, Eder has toured the West performing her
interpretation of an older and wiser Sacagawea who, y...
Categories: Alumni, History
Tags: Native Americans
The Fixer
Winter 2005
A new hotel in an old
Seattle landmarkAt Fourth and Virginia in Seattle, where Belltown meets downtown
a few blocks from Pike Place Market, a trendy restaurant and
residential district meets up with the city's retail center. It's
here that hoteli...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Hotel management
Web Extra :: Grape expectations: A look at Washington's wine
Winter 2005
From the biggest winery in the state to the smallest boutique
producer, Washington State University alumni are making wine and
growing grapes in every one of Washington's appellations. Here's
the list of the wineries with WSU connections that we'v...
Categories: Agriculture, Alumni
Tags: Wine
Web Extra :: Tortilla soup recipe from American Diabetes Association
Fall 2005
This is a wonderful and easy soup to prepare. Epazote is a Mexican herb with a strong flavor, so adjust the amount to your preference!Serves 4. Serving size: 1 cup6 6-inch corn tortillas
1 Tbsp canola oil
1 medium onion, peeled and finely cho...
Categories: Food, Health sciences
Tags: Recipe, Diabetes
Web Extra :: If clothes could talk...but they do!
Fall 2005
Photographs by Hannelore Sudermann
There's
more than one way to be Coug, as our gallery of student styles
demonstrates. If clothes could talk, they'd speak volumes about the
lifestyles and affiliations of their wearers. And, in fact,
they ...
Categories: WSU students, Campus life, Visual arts
Tags: Apparel design, Fashion
How Coug Are You?
Fall 2005
Would you paint your airplane crimson and gray? Or drive hundreds of
miles to wave the Cougar flag at a non-Coug game? Or keep a concrete
cougar in your yard? Well, how Coug are you?
Categories: Alumni, WSU students
Tags: Fashion, Cougar gear, Cougar pride
What I've Learned Since College: an interview with Judy Dann
Fall 2005
Judy Dann graduated from Washington State University in 1985
with a degree in engineering and soon found a job with the City of
Tacoma. Her life changed dramatically one day when she was hit by a
car while crossing a street in Seattle. The acciden...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Disabilities
Cracking the Code
Fall 2005
Nevins
talks quickly and waves his hands when describing his own special
tools, the challenges of making rings out of fragile marble ...
"I get daily requests for plans," he says.Justin Nevins loved all the riddles in The DaVinci Code, the
secret...
Categories: Puzzles, Alumni
Tags: Cryptex
Heart Trouble
Fall 2005
Last fall workers planted a painted bronze heart sculpture by
internationally known artist Jim Dine just steps from Stadium Way
on one of Washington State University's busiest intersections.Painted bright blue, the sculpture stands about 12 feet hi...
Categories: Campus life, Fine Arts
Tags: Sculpture
Camp Larson—a heritage reclaimed
Fall 2005
For the first time in maybe a century, ceremonial songs of the
Coeur d'Alene tribe floated across Cottonwood Bay on Lake Coeur
d'Alene last spring. The Coeur d'Alenes were reclaiming a portion
of their ancestral lands, a place where they can conne...
Categories: WSU history
Tags: Native Americans, Education
Where Have You Gone, Edward R. Murrow?
Fall 2005
Edward R. Murrow '30 broadcasted reports from a London rooftop during
the Blitz. He confronted Joseph McCarthy on national television. And he
admitted "an abiding fear regarding what . . .[radio and TV] are doing
to our society, and our heritage."
Categories: WSU history, Media, Communication
Tags: Edward R. Murrow, Journalism, Radio, Broadcasting
What I've Learned Since College: an interview with King County Sheriff Sue Rahr
Summer 2005
Sue Rahr graduated from Washington State University in 1979
with a degree in criminal justice. In January 2005 she was promoted
from King County chief of field operations to sheriff. She is the
first woman to be sheriff of King County. The followi...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Law enforcement
Washington State loves its literature
Summer 2005
In a report released last summer, the National Endowment for the Arts
warned that literary reading has declined over the last 20 years. Scary
stuff, huh? So we did our own informal survey of faculty, students, and
alums. Their response? Read on!
Categories: Literature, Campus life
Tags: Books, Reading, Library
Happy 25th, KZUU!
Summer 2005
It was a rock 'n' roll idea in a Bee Gees world.In 1977, a time of flared pants and patchwork shirts, a small
group of determined students at Washington State University wanted
a voice that could reach beyond campus. They wanted an outlet that
was...
Categories: WSU history, Music
Tags: KZUU, Radio
Asparagus
Summer 2005
Toppenish-area farmer Kevin Bouchey has an affinity for
asparagus, which his family has been growing since 1979. "It's a
funny crop," says Bouchey, who also farms wheat and potatoes. "In a
given farm year, you usually grow a plant and then harvest...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Asparagus, Farmers
Bear Bones: A Murder Mystery
Summer 2005
It must have been easy to drop the body into this part of Pullman, a
section that sees so little traffic. The old county road was research
land where hardly anyone but the groundskeepers ventured. But somebody
had an ugly secret to hide.
Categories: Campus life, Entomology
Tags: Crimes, Death, Forensics
Shock Physics: Power, Pressure, and People
Summer 2005
After the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear device, the U.S.
determined that staying ahead in the arms race would require the best
scientists and the best weapons. A new federal funding model emerged,
channeling money into universities around the country for research and
the training of the next generation of national scientists. By the late
1950s, WSU had started on shock-wave research.
Categories: Physics
Tags: National laboratories, Shock physics, Nuclear physics
The End of an Era
Spring 2005
Broken bones, lacerations, and late-night illnesses were among
the thousands of maladies that brought students through the doors
of Pullman's community hospital during its 57 years on Washington
State University's campus.But that era ended Decembe...
Categories: WSU history
Tags: Health and Wellness Services, Pullman life
Anna Grant—A life of firsts
Spring 2005
Anna Harvin Grant, the first woman to earn a doctorate in
sociology from Washington State University, died November 6, 2004,
of heart failure. She was 81.A nationally recognized expert in Black family life and former
chair of the Department of Soc...
Categories: Alumni, Sociology
Tags: African Americans