Author: Pat Caraher
114 article(s) found by this author.
Review :: WSU Military Veterans: Heroes and Legends
Summer 2006
With three engines lost on a B-29 bombing run over Tokyo December 3, 1944, pilot Robert Goldsworthy and his crew bailed out. For the next nine months, he would endure brutal beatings as a Japanese prisoner of war. Far worse, he said, was the cold and...
Categories: Biography, Military sciences
Tags: World War II, Veterans
The Hospital Doctor
Summer 2005
When the elderly couple moved into the nursing home in Tonasket,
one of their main concerns was who would take care of their
chickens. Gordon C. McLean ('67 Ag. Econ. '73 M.A. Speech),
administrator of the North Valley Hospital and Nursing Home,
...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Health care policy
The Best of All Worlds
Spring 2005
"Never judge a person by the way they are dressed," says Erianne
Pearson. "People are people. We treat them with respect."That philosophy has kept Pearson in business since 1983, when
The Best of All Worlds, her upscale gift and decorative accessor...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Small business
Erik Falter strives to keep alumni connected
Spring 2005
Erik Falter was in his element at the Washington
State University Alumni Achievement Award presentation event for
Merle Sande last September (see WSM, winter 2004-05, p. 49).
Keeping alumni connected with WSU and each other tops Falter's
prioriti...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Alumni Achievement Award
Channel Swimmer
Spring 2005
Pushing back the age barrier The young swimmers at the YMCA pool in Wilton, Connecticut, call
him "Grandpa."They even ask their seasoned coach, "Are you the oldest person
in the world?"No. But lean and fit George Brunstad is the oldest person ever...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Swimming, Age
Training Table
Winter 2004
Cougar Etiquette DinnerSkillfully sidestepping the busy wait staff, Mylene Barizo
circulates among the 100 diners attending the Cougar Etiquette
Dinner in the Todd Hall atrium. She stops, chats casually with
student-athletes seated around tables f...
Categories: Food, Athletics
Tags: Etiquette, Cougar pride
Guiding Student-Athletes to Academic Success
Winter 2004
Balancing academic and athletic commitments in college can be a
tough. On top of classes, labs, assignments, studying, and tests,
student-athletes devote an enormous amount of time to conditioning
and practice, plus travel and competing. Some 450 ...
Categories: WSU students, Athletics
Tags: Education
Marissa Lemargie—Busy providing humanitarian assistance in Africa, South America
Winter 2004
Marissa Lemargie tends to take things in on a global scale. An
interest in other cultures and societies led to an anthropology
degree at Washington State University in 1999. A master's degree in
international development from the London School of ...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Humanitarianism, Africa, South America
WSU honors alumni Sande, Finch, Norris, Habereder
Winter 2004
The Washington State University Alumni Association created the
Alumni Achievement Award in 1969 to honor alumni who have rendered
significant service and contributions to their profession,
community, and/or WSU. Four individuals were recognized
r...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Alumni Achievement Award
Abelson shaped thinking as a scientist, editor of Science
Winter 2004
Regents' Distinguished WSU AlumnusDuring a life spanning 91 years, Tacoma native Philip Hauge
Abelson left an indelible imprint on science. As a scientist and as
longtime respected editor of Science magazine (1962-83), he
shaped thinking in the sc...
Categories: Physics, Chemistry, Alumni
Tags: Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award
Kemble Stout left mark as WSU music educator, administrator, performer
Winter 2004
Growing up the son of a music store owner in Kirksville,
Missouri, Kemble A. Stout may have been predestined to pursue a
career in music. He could take any instrument home. His favorites
were the bassoon and clarinet."His main interest never varie...
Categories: Alumni, WSU faculty
Tags: Music, Education, Composers
Maughan Brothers
Winter 2004
Following the death of her husband, H. Delight Maughan raised six
children-while teaching full-time. Despite the challenge, she clearly
did it right. All three of her scientist sons, Paul, David, and Lowell,
have been honored with alumni achievement awards.
Categories: Education, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Achievement Award, Family
Recycled shoes furnish Kid's Cave
Fall 2004
FieldTurf now provides soft landings for more than 160
pre-school children playing in the "Kid's Cave" at Washington State
University. In April the 16- by-21-yard carpet was installed in the
alcove beneath the WSU Children's Center, formerly Roger...
Categories: Recreation
Tags: Children, Recycling
Review :: Is Self-Employment for You?
Fall 2004
Anyone can start a business, but only a few can sustain one. That's the premise of Paul. E. Casey's new book, Is Self-Employment for You? Casey Communications Inc., the company he founded in Seattle in 1988, is still going stron...
Categories: Business
Tags: Employment, Entrepreneurs
Big little man Bill Tomaras touched many lives
Fall 2004
Father of Washington State High School WrestlingBill Tomaras discovered early there wasn't much demand
for a five-foot-three, 120-pound basketball player. So he turned to
wrestling. The repercussions of that decision have been felt in
Washington w...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Wrestling, High school students
Broadcasting as public service: Peter Jennings refreshes the Murrow vision
Fall 2004
What would veteran newsman Peter Jennings tell students seeking
a career in broadcasting today?His wife posed the question to him when they were in Pullman for
Washington State University's 30th Edward R. Murrow Symposium April
14. The answer came...
Categories: Media, Communication
Tags: Public service, Edward R. Murrow, Broadcasting
WSU honors five alumni
Fall 2004
Washington State University created the Alumni Achievement Award
in 1969 to honor alumni who have rendered significant service and
contributions to their profession, community, and/or WSU. In recent
months, five individuals have been recognized.Wi...
Categories: Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Achievement Award
Keating Johnson: A passion for music
Fall 2004
L. Keating Johnson's passion for music was sparked in the fifth
grade, after he saw the Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty. That
year he started tuba lessons. A few years later, at Denver's George
Washington High School, he talked Antonia Brico into gi...
Categories: WSU faculty, Alumni
Tags: Music
Tracking Trucks
Fall 2004
One heavily-loaded eighteen-wheeler can cause the same highway damage
as 7,000 cars. Ken Casavant and other transportation economists are
trying to make sense of the effects of trucks on the state's highways.
Categories: Engineering, Economics
Tags: Transportation, Highways, Trucks
McDonald at home on the range
Fall 2004
At 77, Esther Johnson McDonald is still active in the day-to-day
operation of the 9,000-acre Triangle Ranch in Philipsburg, Montana,
with her husband of 51 years, John W. "Pat" McDonald. The two met
at a bull sale in Missoula. Her mother operated ...
Categories: Agriculture, Alumni
Tags: Cattle, Ranching
WSU Mom of the Year listened to her heart
Fall 2004
In the early 1980s, Susan Jackson of Lakewood wasn't interested
in marriage, but longed for a child. Although single-parent
international adoptions were rare in those days, within four years
she adopted two little girls from India. Jennifer gradua...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Adoption, Family
Among old friends in Lahore
Summer 2004
WSU has long-standing ties to PakistanM. "Ghazi" Ghazanfar (front row center, red tie) is among
friends, many of them Washington State University or University of
Idaho alumni. (See caption below.) In December 2003 he was invited
to Pakistan to le...
Categories: Alumni, Veterinary medicine
Tags: Pakistan
Short Shakespeareans
Summer 2004
In a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Demetrius
calls for a sword. His request produces instead a yellow rubber
chicken tossed from off stage."Shakespeare should be fun," says Sherry Chastain Schreck,
founding director of the "Short Shakespea...
Categories: Performing arts
Tags: Children, Theatre, Shakespeare
Racial profiling in Washington—policy and perception
Summer 2004
The likelihood of being stopped by the Washington State Patrol
on state roads and highways is not affected by a driver's race or
ethnicity, according to Washington State University researchers who
analyzed two million WSP contacts between May 2000...
Categories: Sociology
Tags: Criminal justice, Race
WSU Hall of Fame adds 5 who excelled
Summer 2004
Carol GordonOn February 21, the day of her induction into Washington State
University's Athletic Hall of Fame, Carol Gordon offered a silent
prayer. That evening she shared her petition with 180 guests at the
induction banquet in the Compton Union...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Women athletes, Coach, Basketball, Football, Track and field, Hall of Fame
Pathfinder Award winner recognized early in career
Summer 2004
Washington State University alumnus Brad Rawlins has earned one
of the nation's top scholarly awards in public relations.The assistant professor of communications at Brigham Young
University received the Pathfinder Award November 20 in New York
Ci...
Categories: Alumni, Communication
Tags: Awards, Public relations
Pediatrician, music educator, engineer, wood researcher honored
Summer 2004
Washington State University created the Alumni Achievement Award
in 1969 to honor alumni who have provided significant service and
contributions to their profession, community, and/or WSU. In recent
months, four individuals have been recognized.Ri...
Categories: Alumni, Awards and honors
Tags: Wood, Pediatrics, Music, Civil engineering
Arlington National Cemetery hallowed ground for Carson
Summer 2004
Rarely do people have their work viewed by U.S. presidents,
congressmen, and millions of tourists. But that's the kind of
scrutiny Kent Carson encounters. He is construction engineer at
Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C.The cemet...
Categories: Alumni, Engineering
Tags: Construction
Harrison National Public Radio pioneer
Summer 2004
Whether plinking on the piano or pounding out scripts for public
radio on his manual typewriter, Burton D. "Burt" Harrison enjoyed
life to the fullest. During 27 years on the Washington State
University communications faculty, including 17 as mana...
Categories: Media, Alumni
Tags: Radio
Patterson enjoyed best of both worlds as alumni director, state legislator
Summer 2004
Eugene G. "Pat" Patterson always thought there was something
special about the loyalty of Washington State University alumni.
Analyzing that phenomenon, he concluded the University's location,
traditions, and residential campus, which provided the...
Categories: Law, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Legislation
Crossing the line
Spring 2004
Snoqualmie singer-songwriter Garr Lange released a new CD last
fall. Crossing the Line, recorded at Rainstorm Studios,
Bellevue, and released by Sentry Records, includes a 12-song mix of
the blues, country, and rock.Lange ('79 English) tested his ...
Categories: Music, Alumni
Tags: Writers
Scientists and researchers honored by WSU
Spring 2004
Washington State University created the Alumni Achievement Award
in 1969 to honor alumni who have provided significant service and
contribution to their profession, community, and/or WSU. In recent
months, three individuals have been recognized.Ri...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Research, Alumni Achievement Award
WSU alumni president has a grasp on things
Spring 2004
After graduating from Washington State University in 1989, Lorie
Dankers headed for the other Washington--the one on the East
Coast-with no job in sight. Her first Saturday there she attended a
WSU alumni event. Mingling with other Cougars provide...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association
Cougar finds a home in faternity house
Spring 2004
After roughly 45 years, S.J. "Bill" Monro's prized Cougar has a
new home. The longtime San Francisco restaurateur donated the
stuffed animal to the Washington State University chapter of Sigma
Nu Fraternity.His wife, Barbara, discovered the specim...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Fraternity, Cougar pride
Bridges, docks, and dams
Spring 2004
Some of General Construction's best work is under waterRon Morford was only 19 when he built his first house. A quarter
century later, he's still in construction-only on a much larger
scale. The president and district manager of General Constructio...
Categories: Engineering, Alumni
Tags: Water, Civil engineering, Construction
Grandfather Extraordinaire
Spring 2004
Jordi Kimes had been a teacher before becoming a stay home mom.
She dreamed of returning to Washington State University and earning
a doctorate in pharmacy. But she didn't want to put her daughters,
ages 7, 3, and 1, in daycare. So she called her ...
Categories: WSU students
Tags: Family, Children
Keith Lincoln, Barn Builder
Spring 2004
Over 25 years at Washington State University, alumni director Keith
Lincoln built many things, including friendships and a place where
alums can go to sit in the shade.
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Volunteer, Alumni Achievement Award
Cougar cruise spreads good will on 1,700-mile voyage
Spring 2004
To many, Washington State University is a landlocked university.
But Tom and Barbara Wilson beg to differ. The Seattle sailors
covered 1,700 nautical miles last summer aboard their 53-foot boat
powered by twin 700-horsepower Caterpillar engines. T...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Boating
Late history professor, chairman was popular with students, faculty peers
Spring 2004
Raymond Muse became a teacher at the urging of his father, a
farmer in the Ozarks, who didn't want to see his son spend the rest
of his life "looking at the hind end of a team of mules."During more than three decades at Washington State University,...
Categories: History, WSU faculty
Tags: No Tags
Long-Hitting Kim Welch Puts WSU on the Golf Map
Spring 2004
Kim Welch has a surprising knack for hitting a golf ball long
and straight. The rest of her game isn't bad either. She finished
fifth in the 2003 NCAA Women's Golf Championship, two strokes back
of the winner in a field of 140 golfers. And she was...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: WSU golf
On top at last: John and Jess Roskelley scale Everest together
Winter 2003
"The goal you set for yourself is
to stay the course . . . to stay focused. At any time you get tired
of the glare off the snow, the dust, the miles of glacial terrain,
the travel, the lack of sleep, the altitude. The altitude just
takes a huge t...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Mountain climbing
Philip Phibbs's legacy
Winter 2003
"No decisions are easy,
particularly when you are a university president and you are
changing an institution." —Philip PhibbsMore than a decade removed from the presidency of the University
of Puget Sound, Philip M. Phibbs remembers the job as t...
Categories: Education, Alumni
Tags: Leadership, Universities
Washington's marine highway
Winter 2003
Washington state ferries appear in a million tourists' photos. But they are also a vital link in the state's transportation system. Mike Thorne '62 aims to keep them that way--in spite of budgetary woes.
Categories: Public affairs
Tags: Ferries
On call
Winter 2003
Student firefighters at Washington State University have a long tradition of protecting their campus.
Categories: Campus life
Tags: Firefighters
A magnet for entertainment: Beasley celebrates 30th anniversary
Winter 2003
As Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum marks its 30th anniversary
this year, there's been much to appreciate about the multi-purpose
building. It has a great sound system and sightlines. The
entertainment is big time and varied—Broadway shows (Jesu...
Categories: WSU history, Campus life
Tags: Beasley Coliseum, Buildings
Matt Potter puts positive spin on Cougar soccer
Winter 2003
Matt Potter is a disciple of the school of positive thinking.
His life's philosophy and his approach to coaching are interwoven.
Teaching and soccer are his passion. "In combining the two, we can
learn a lot about life," says the Mere, England, na...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Soccer
Petland owner started from the ground up
Fall 2003
What happens when Fluffy dies?David Bielski knows where the bodies are buried. "Samantha."
"Bubbles." "Fluffy." In fact, the owner-president of Petland
Cemetery, Inc. lives on the grounds of the adjoining Fern Hill
Cemetery, which has been in the ...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Animal health
Brayton has his day in the sun, as WSU retires his number
Fall 2003
Dan Wodrich couldn't attend Bobo Brayton's banquet. He wanted to
be there when Washington State University honored its winningest
coach May 24 by retiring baseball jersey no. 14. He played
second base for Brayton in 1977-80, fulfilling a dre...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Coach, Baseball
WSU Mom of the Year supports family, community
Fall 2003
Chris Rettkowski learned firsthand the positive impact his
mother has on other people's lives, including his own. When his
father died of a brain tumor four-and-a-half years ago, Chris and
his sister, Lynne, were left looking for answers.Their mot...
Categories: Awards and honors
Tags: Community activists, Mom of the Year
WSU Alumni Association honors Seals, Sharratt
Fall 2003
Rupert Grant Seals, one of WSU's first Black Ph.D.sRupert Grant Seals was honored twice by Washington State
University, where he gained distinction as the fifth African
American to earn a doctorate ('60 Animal Science).He received the Alumni Achiev...
Categories: Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Education, African Americans, Alumni Achievement Award
Summer busy time for Canadian canoe and kayak executive
Fall 2003
Surrounded as she is by an inventory of 600 canoes and kayaks,
one would think Pamela Robertson spends her summers on the water
near her Waverley, Nova Scotia home.She'd love to. But as vice president of Old Creel Canoe &
Kayak Inc., she's too...
Categories: Alumni, Business
Tags: Water
Dick Bennett's mantra: "Play hard, smart, and together"
Fall 2003
In more than three decades of coaching, Dick Bennett has developed
a simple philosophy about basketball. It's a team game.
"Once players understand and embrace that concept, basketball
becomes simple-at both ends of the floor," he says." Viewed
s...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Basketball, Coach, Education
Learning through collaborative research
Fall 2003
In the world of research things aren't always what they seem, or
are supposed to be. Psychology students at Washington State
University learned that last spring while working together,
interpreting data, and writing up results. At an undergraduate...
Categories: Education
Tags: Research
Street vet
Fall 2003
Every other weekend, Stan Coe '55 turns the dayroom of Seattle's Union Gospel Mission into a veterinary clinic.
Categories: Veterinary medicine
Tags: Public service
Cooking for 7,000
Summer 2003
So what are students eating? Just about everything. And how much?
Categories: Food, WSU students
Tags: Dining halls
Whitney Evans: All-America high jumper has a head for finance
Summer 2003
Whitney Evans leaves little to chance. Whether competing in
sports or analyzing a stock portfolio for a finance class, her
attention to detail pays dividends. The fifth-year scholar-athlete
from Calgary is a straight-A student, a six-time track an...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Track and field, Finance
Don Zajac named WSU Dad of the Year
Summer 2003
Like the husband in O. Henry's famous story, "Gift of the Magi,"
who sold his prized watch to buy his wife a comb for Christmas, Don
Zajac sold his vast collection of vintage metal lunch boxes to take
his daughter, Meggan Zajac, on a month- long E...
Categories: WSU students
Tags: WSU parents, Dad of the Year, Family
Gassing up in the Wild Blue: Cadets get a taste of their future
Summer 2003
For all but one of the Air Force cadets, this is their first
flight aboard a KC-135R Stratotanker. Someday all six want to
jockey Air Force F-16 fighter jets, helicopters, or the big
refueling planes."Aviation is a field people want to pursue at a...
Categories: Military sciences
Tags: Aviation, Air Force, ROTC
With Eyes Wide Open
Summer 2003
Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama is on the lookout for crooks, "really slimy crooks."
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Social justice, Leadership
Picha, Herrick, Murdock honored by WSU Alunmi Association
Summer 2003
Washington State University created the Alumni Achievement Award
in 1969 to honor alumni who have provided significant service and
contributions to their profession, community, and/or WSU. In recent
months, three individuals have been recognized.D...
Categories: Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Children, Education, Alumni Achievement Award
White gave students and colleagues "a sense of hope and pride"
Summer 2003
More than half of Washington State University's living pharmacy
alumni graduated during Allen I. White's 39-year tenure (1940-1979)
as professor and/or dean of the College of Pharmacy. He was
appointed dean in 1960, a position he held until retire...
Categories: WSU faculty
Tags: In memoriam, Pharmacy, Education
Adjusting to life during college and after
Summer 2003
By the time he graduated from Washington State University, Terry
Arndt ('93 Horticulture) had accumulated $20,000 in student loans,
$5,000 in credit card bills, and car payments.Fortunately, he found a job right away, and a financial advisor.
She ...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Books, Budget, Entrepreneurs
The best organizations are run by lovers
Summer 2003
Counseling psychologist Allen Johnson has been called everything
from a "headpeeper" and "bug doctor" to a "shrink." He takes issue
with the latter label. In reality, he says he's "an expander."He believes in the human capacity to create a better, ...
Categories: Business, Psychology
Tags: Self-improvement
Eliminating chaos: "Organization isn't about shifting things around"
Summer 2003
Laura Leist Bishop is organized. She says she always has been.
That's doesn't mean her office is tidy all the time. But ask her
for anything, and she can find it. At home everything is arranged
in her kitchen-canned food in one area, appliances in...
Categories: Business
Tags: Organization
Late-Night Dining
Summer 2003
...
Categories: Campus life
Tags: Dining halls
Bhatia built Honors, International Programs
Summer 2003
Career educator Vishnu N. "Vic" Bhatia was a builder. Not with
bricks and mortar, but with vision, drive, and diplomacy. He
demonstrated this during his 47 years (1951-98) at Washington State
University as a teacher, administrator, innovator, and ...
Categories: WSU faculty
Tags: In memoriam, Education, WSU Honors Program, Students
They're back! Doba's football staff includes five former Cougars
Summer 2003
As athletes they brought recognition to Washington State
University. Now, as assistant coaches, Mike Levenseller, Michael
Walker, Timm Rosenbach, Ken Greene, and George Yarno are being
counted on to help shape the football future at their alma
ma...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: WSU staff, Football
Cooking for 7,000
Summer 2003
...
Categories: Campus life
Tags: Dining halls
Foundation honors Creighton
Spring 2003
John W. "Jack" Creighton, Jr., Bellevue, received the Weldon B.
Gibson Distinguished Volunteer Award at the Washington State
University Foundation Dinner Gala in the Beasley Performing Arts
Coliseum last fall.The annual award, established in 1981,...
Categories: Awards and honors
Tags: WSU parents
Patient Doba pays his dues, realizes his dream
Spring 2003
Washington State didn't need to conduct a national search for a
new head football coach when Mike Price resigned December 17. His
successor was already on campus. He was familiar with WSU, Pullman,
and the Pac-10.Bill Doba, defensive coordinator a...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
Harris takes volleyball to heart
Spring 2003
"I've
always believed that size doesn't matter..." -LaToya
HarrisIt's late November. LaToya Harris's red-knit stocking cap is
pulled down tight over the tops of her ears. She's wearing a gray
2002 Apple Cup t-shirt, blue jeans, running shoes,...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Volleyball
Philip & Neva Abelson: Pioneers on the knowledge frontier
Spring 2003
Philip Abelson '33 developed the process, adopted by the Manhattan Project, for separating U-235 from U-238. He went on to make significant contributions to biochemistry, chemistry, engineering physics, and other fields. Neva Abelson '34 developed the test for the Rh factor in newborns. What was once Science Hall now carries their name.
Categories: Physics, Alumni
Tags: Nuclear physics, Pediatrics
Drake enlivened the college experience
Spring 2003
For 36 years Charles H. Drake was a popular, well-respected
professor at Washington State University. His introductory class in
bacteriology attracted many non-science majors, as well as students
preparing for careers in health care."He was an ext...
Categories: Biological sciences, WSU faculty
Tags: Bacteria, In memoriam
Hedlund Christmas trees selected for White House
Spring 2003
For the second time in three years, trees from the Hedlund
Christmas Tree Farm in Elma, Washington, graced the White House
during the holidays."I never dreamed that my passion for growing Christmas trees
would get me to the White House to meet the...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Christmas trees
Alumni Association recognizes Woods, Prince, past presidents
Spring 2003
A professional forester and a former state senator have received the Washington State University Alumni Achievement Award.Richard I. Woods ('58 Forestry Mgmt.), a 44-year veteran of timber harvesting, marketing, and appraising, was recognized at a su...
Categories: Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Alumni Achievement Award, Politicians
Keeping busy in the bus business
Spring 2003
After nearly three decades as a successful high school teacher
and coach, Peg Motley launched Wheatland Express Charters &
Tours in 1988. The venture proved to be a whole new ballgame.The Pullman entrepreneur, mother of four, and grandmother of...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Buses, Transit
Eldridge sees WSU as a tight-knit family
Spring 2003
Ray Eldridge doesn't usually recommend hitchhiking. However, he
didn't have many options a few years ago, when his car gave out
near North Bend enroute to Pullman from Seattle. Not to worry. From
the back seat, he retrieved a Washington State Univ...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Education, Alumni Association
World health care: "Many countries have their priorities wrong"
Spring 2003
"Evidence shows that the family medicine model is the most cost
effective and provides the best care for most people." —Dr. Robert
HigginsIf you are sick enough and have enough money, you can get very
good medical care in most countrie...
Categories: Awards and honors, Health sciences, Alumni
Tags: Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award, Health care policy, Pharmacy
The Puyallup Fair
Winter 2002
Every year in late summer, more than a million people gather in Puyallup to eat cotton candy, endure the latest thrill rides--and watch 4-H-ers show their stuff.
Categories: Agriculture, Education
Tags: Fairs, 4-H
Friendly People
Winter 2002
William Hewitt built his dream on Blake Island. Hewitt is gone, but his dream lives on in Native tradition and the rich aroma of roasting salmon.
Categories: Business, Cultural studies
Tags: Tourism, Dance, Native Americans
Paul Castleberry sharpened minds
Winter 2002
During 40 years in teaching, including 34 at Washington State
University, H. Paul Castleberry touched the lives of many students.
He taught courses in American government, international law and
organizations, and U.S. foreign policy."He was never ...
Categories: Political science, WSU faculty
Tags: In memoriam
Herbert Eastlick mentored thousands
Winter 2002
Zoology professor Herbert L. Eastlick was devoted to preparing
students for professional careers in medicine, dentistry, and
veterinary medicine. He once described himself as a "taskmaster and
autocrat in the classroom," motivated by his overridin...
Categories: Biological sciences, WSU faculty
Tags: In memoriam, Zoology
Deeter recalls demise of college boxing as a sad day
Winter 2002
More than four decades have passed since intercollegiate boxing
was dropped, first at Washington State University following the
1959 season, and nationally in 1961.Isaac "Ike" Deeter established the college boxing program at
Washington State Colle...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Boxing
Ershlers complete Seven Summits with Everest climb
Winter 2002
Phil and Susan Ellerman Ershler can scratch one more thing off
their "to do" list. On May 16 they conquered 29,035-foot Mount
Everest and became the first husband-wife team to top the Seven
Summits together. (See sidebar.)The Ershlers' quest to su...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Mountain climbing
Hyslop, Damon earn WSU Alumni Achievement Award
Winter 2002
Longtime Spokane residents William D. Hyslop and Dwight Damon
received Washington State University's Alumni Achievement Award at
a July 16 WSU wine tasting event at Wyvern Cellars in Spokane.Hyslop, an attorney with the law firm of Lukins & Ann...
Categories: Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Alumni Achievement Award
From Russia with Love: Cougar matryoshka dolls a big hit
Fall 2002
Sue Senner’s (’80 Comm.) travels occasionally take her to places
like Chornobyl, Ukraine, and Moscow, Russia. She is a project
manager for the International Nuclear Safety Program (INSP) at
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Ric...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Russia, Cougar gear
Graduate School alumni honored during centennial
Fall 2002
To mark a century of graduate education at Washington State
University, nine alumni, one from each academic college, were
honored with the Graduate Alumni Achievement Award at an April 16
recognition luncheon. The award was established in 2000 by ...
Categories: Alumni, Awards and honors
Tags: Graduate School
Each on his own merits
Fall 2002
Identical triplets Donald, Jack, and Joseph Claros appear to be
mirror images—5 feet, 4 inches tall, 125 pounds, whitewall
haircuts, small wire rimmed glasses. They are soft-spoken, polite,
and typically respond to questions from their elders wi...
Categories: Alumni, Military sciences
Tags: ROTC
Palmers want to give others hope for the future
Fall 2002
Sometime in the near future Perry Palmer and his wife, Marcie,
want to return to the Colville Indian Reservation. Young students
there lack good role models, as well as incentives, Perry says.
They need to be made aware of opportunities for advanc...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Native Americans
"D" is for Doba
Fall 2002
“I missed
those butterflies.” - Coach Bill DobaBill Doba doesn’t think the football turf is greener elsewhere.
He likes his coaching job at Washington State University and living
in Pullman, where “the only traffic congestion is on foo...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
From farm to College Hill, the migration continues
Fall 2002
When Don Appel left the family farm at Endicott in the 1930s to
enroll at Washington State College, he didn’t know what he was
starting. Or where it would end.Unfortunately, failing eyesight ultimately forced him to
withdraw from school one seme...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: WSU parents
Blackwell makes his mark
Fall 2002
James Blackwell helped establish the clout of black sociologists. This spring he returned to Pullman to receive the University's highest honor.
Categories: Sociology, Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Awards, Alumni Achievement Award, African Americans
"Why do you believe this?"
Fall 2002
"I now think twice when I look in the mirror."Wes Leid remembers the advice Leo K.
Bustad, late dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, offered
him when he was hired at Washington State University 22 years ago.
“You may not think you teach e...
Categories: Education
Tags: Ethics
Murrell to chart new basketball course
Fall 2002
Sherri Murrell may need a pair of steel-toed shoes.“I’m going to be kicking down doors of all the coaches in the
Northwest,” said Washington State’s new women’s basketball
coach.Even before she was introduced at WSU in late March, she had...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Basketball
Right on CUE
Fall 2002
Today students are finding new ways to work collaboratively,
across academic disciplines and distance, and often in ways not
convenient before at WSU.The hub of this activity is the new $32 million Samuel H. Smith
Center for Undergraduate Educatio...
Categories: Architecture and design, Campus life
Tags: Administration
Gillies receives Alumni Achievement Award
Fall 2002
Cliff Gillies, longtime executive director of the Washington
Intercollegiate Activities Association (WIAA, 1982-93) and former
president of the National Federation of State High Schools
Association (1990-91), has received the Washington State Univ...
Categories: Athletics, Awards and honors, Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Alumni Achievement Award
Bulbs and blooms
Fall 2002
"Roozen" may mean "roses" in Dutch. But in Washington, it means tulips--to the tune of 50 million a year.
Categories: Agriculture, Business
Tags: Tulips, Flowers
Lt. Col. Stinemetz wanted to convey his condolences
Summer 2002
Word of CIA agent Mike Spann’s death November 29, 2001 in
Afghanistan struck a chord with Washington State University
graduate Lt. Col. Kurt Stinemetz (’76 Anthro.), U.S. Marine Corps.
Spann was the first U.S. casualty in the war on terrorism ...
Categories: Military sciences, Alumni
Tags: In memoriam
The pull of rowing
Summer 2002
Because rowing is more timing and rhythm than just strength, top athletes sometimes become frustrated. They must learn to be patient and accountable to their teammates.
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Rowing
Six join hall of fame
Summer 2002
When opportunity knocked, they answered. Their athletic prowess
overshadowed that of their peers. And their accomplishments have
stood the test of time.As a result, five men and one woman were inducted into the
Washington State University Athletic...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Hall of Fame
"Adapt, improvise, overcome"
Summer 2002
“They know the war on
terrorism won’t go away, even when we finish in
Afghanistan.”
- Lt. Col. James M.
ZubaA four-by-two-foot map of Asia is
tacked to a wall of Army Lt. Col. James M. Zuba’s office.
Forty-five blue dots designate locat...
Categories: Military sciences
Tags: ROTC
Forcing students to think critically
Summer 2002
“Dr. McNamara wants you to take everything you know and figure out the solution on your own.”
- Barbara ZawlockiRather than being “the expert” in the classroom, animal
scientist John McNamara wants to shift that role to his students.
Those...
Categories: Education
Tags: Animal nutrition
Early leader of WSU’s Native American students
Summer 2002
Ki Tecumseh learned to work within the system—or stretch it"Indian people don’t consider themselves to be a minority people." - Ki TecumsehGrowing up on the Yakama Indian Reservation, Kiutus “Ki”
Tecumseh, Jr. learned to put his finger up to...
Categories: WSU history, Alumni
Tags: Native Americans, Native American leaders
Ehlo inducted into Pac-10 Hall of Honor
Summer 2002
Former Washington State University basketball coach George
Raveling once described Craig Ehlo (x'86 Soc. Sci.) as “playing on
the ragged edge of being out of control.” In other words, Ehlo made
things happen. His full-speed-ahead approach on t...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Hall of Fame, Basketball
Review :: Breederman
Spring 2002
Author Murray Anderson ('50 Dairy Husbandry) weaves his experiences as a herdsman, milk tester, milking machine salesman, artificial inseminator, and fieldsman into a novel that describes the struggle for survival of small farmers in northwest Washin...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: American West
Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for...Life in a Small College Town
Spring 2002
Catherine Friel has lived in Pullman nearly 100 years, and she has some stories to tell.
Categories: Alumni, WSU history
Tags: Pullman life, WSU staff
Alumni president Ed Little: "I always wanted to work with children"
Spring 2002
It’s been almost 30 years now, but Ed Little, president of the
Washington State University Alumni Association, remembers it like
yesterday.A sophomore and a member of the Cougar Yell Team, he was in
Eugene, Oregon, for WSU’s 1974 football game...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Alumni Association, Education
Mooney banking on improved pitching
Spring 2002
Good pitching is like money in the bank. It’s there when you
need it, and it can carry you over the rough spots.That’s the philosophy of Washington State University baseball
coach Tim Mooney.Last season, Mooney’s first at WSU, quality pitchin...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Baseball
Opening Day...a great way to reunite Cougars
Spring 2002
Cougars batten their hatches and hoist their mainsails.
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Boating, Seattle
Mariner Mania
Winter 2001
“You kinda have to pinch yourself every day.”
—Alex WoodEVERYONE LOVES A WINNER. Home attendance at Seattle’s
47,116-seat Safeco Field exceeded three million in 2001. Baseball fans
arrived early. They came to watch batting practice, se...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Baseball, Seattle Mariners
Peter Van Sant Thrives on a "48-Hour" Day
Winter 2001
SEASONED CBS NEWSMAN Peter Van
Sant hasn’t seen it all. But he hasn’t
missed much either.In 16 years with CBS News, the
award-winning correspondent has covered
presidential campaigns, the space
program, and the airline industry. He
...
Categories: Communication, Alumni
Tags: Television broadcasting
South African experience important to WSU alumna
Winter 2001
“It is hoped that
in Africa, as in
the U.S., the process
will speed the move
from poverty and
unemployment to
steady jobs.”
—Liz Peterson May and early June
2001 found alumna Elizabeth
C. “Liz” Peterson
teaching...
Categories: Social work, Alumni
Tags: Job skills, South Africa
Rucks consistently responsive to WSU needs
Winter 2001
“We knew it would help students
who were struggling.”
—Jim Ruck Last spring alumnus Jim Ruck of Everett
made Washington State University an offer it
couldn’t refuse. The chemistry graduate visited
his old department and asked for...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: Gifts, WSU library, Philanthropy
Review :: Hungry for Wood: An American Memoir from the Shores of Iwo Jima to the
Winter 2001
An Alaska sourdough with Washington State University credentials, C. Herb Rhodes has written his memoir book, Hungry for Wood: An American Memoir. The book derives its name from an Indian translation of the author's hometown of Hoquiam. ...
Categories: Memoirs
Tags: Alaska, Autobiography