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Dear Alumni and Friends, Do you remember the first time you stepped foot on campus? The excitement, the nerves and the uncertainty of beginning such a big chapter in your life?

This fall, nearly 1,500 freshman will begin their Eastern journey. As we embark on another academic year, they will become part of a student body of more than 12,500.

I am quite certain this will be one of the best years for all of our students. After several years of double-digit tuition increases during the economic downturn, the university is not increasing tuition for our in-state students this fall. Our careful budgeting decisions, an improving economy and a decision by state lawmakers to reinvest in higher education makes this possible. While rates are surely higher than when you went to Eastern, I am proud to say EWU’s tuition remains the most affordable among Washington’s public institutions.

To make sure our students are getting their money’s worth, one of my goals has been to ensure Eastern retains and recruits high quality faculty. Due to past budget constraints this wasn’t always easy. I am thrilled to be able to tell you the university recently reached a new three-year contract agreement with our faculty. The compensation package will bring their salaries up to market averages so they are more in line with faculty salaries at peer institutions. As the president of the faculty union stated, “This agreement comes with a renewed sense of teamwork and shared goals” between the union and the administration.

I couldn’t agree more. The faculty pay increases and tuition freeze combined should inject fresh energy into our educational environment, and this will help us achieve our number-one goal of student success.

There are so many things to be excited about right now. Renovation on the main academic building, Patterson Hall, will be completed by winter quarter. The state-of-the art facility will enhance the teaching and learning experience. And the brand new residence hall will be home to more than 350 students this fall, and will serve as the hub of the residential district. Both of these improvements should also infuse new energy into our thriving campus.

So here’s to a great year! I pledge to continue to encourage the state to keep reinvesting in higher education so we can maintain an affordable tuition rate and guarantee Eastern remains accessible for all students.

Sincerely,

EASTERN

Rodolfo Arévalo, PhD President

F A L L 2013

THE MAGAZINE for Eastern Washington University Alumni and Friends

Editor Kandi Carper ‘05 ART DIRECTOR Ryan Gaard ‘02 Contributing Writers Kandi Carper ’05, Brian Lynn ‘98, Dave Cook, Dave Meany Graphic Design Ryan Gaard ‘02, Reesa Anderson, Steve BATEMAN Copy Editors Brian Lynn ’98 Photography David Lane, Brenda Howe ‘99, Ryan Gaard '02

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Editorial Board Steve Blewett ’69, Gina Mauro Campbell ’90, Jason Clerget ‘07, Brendan Genther ’00, Nick Lawhead ’07, Lisa Leinberger ’98, Kayla Carter Northrup ’08, Robin Pickering ’03, ’97 and Nancy Tsutakawa ‘70 Vice President for University Advancement Michael Westfall Director of Alumni Advancement Lisa Poplawski ’01, ‘94 EWU Alumni ASSOCIATION President Gina Mauro Campbell ‘90 Director OF marketing & Communications Teresa Conway

Contact Us Email: easternmagazine@ewu.edu Phone: 509.359.6422 Write: Eastern Magazine, 300 Showalter

Hall, Cheney, WA 99004-2445 Eastern magazine is published fall, winter and spring by EWU Marketing & Communications and is mailed free to alumni of record in the United States. View this and previous issues, online at www.ewu.edu/easternmagazine.

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16 10 2013 Distinguished Alumni Awards

Meet this year’s winners

16 EaglePalooza

Eastern has rocked the campus with A-list talent throughout the years

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20 Street Smarts

Laura Moulton’s mobile library brings books to Portland’s homeless

24 Sage Advice

Todd McFarlane returns to campus to share his perspective on life, love and success

28 Lotzenhiser: an Eastern Original

As alumnus and retired faculty - George Lotzenhiser has left his mark at Eastern

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note from the editor We want to hear from you! Send us your letters.

Letters may be edited for length, clarity and civility.

Tell us what you think and enter to win an EWU Bookstore gift card.

Dear Readers, It’s been four years since I took the helm as editor of Eastern magazine and it’s been four years since our last readers’ survey. It’s time to check in with you to see how we’re doing.

We’ve recently made several changes to the magazine’s design, paper quality, size and number of pages, while trying to keep the content relevant and interesting.

Whether you’re a regular reader of the print issues or prefer to read the magazine online, you’re hearing from us on a regular basis, but we’d like to make this a two-way conversation. What do you like and what, if anything, would you like to see changed in Eastern magazine?

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at www.ewu.edu/easternmagazine.

It should take less than 10 minutes to complete and your answers are confidential, so don’t worry about being diplomatic - just be honest.

If you cannot complete the survey online, or prefer to receive a copy of the survey in the mail, please call me at 509.359.6422 and I’ll send you one.

There is an incentive to participate: if you choose to give us contact information, separate from the answers to your questions, we will include you in a drawing to win one of four $25 gift cards to EWU’s Bookstore.

We are also surveying a random sample of alumni to increase the number of responses, so don’t be surprised if you get an email asking you to complete the survey.

Thank you for your feedback. I’ll share the survey’s results with you in an upcoming issue of Eastern magazine. Until then, happy reading!

Editorial Board Shares Alumni Views ’69 Steve Blewett, ’70 Nancy Tsutakawa, ’08 Kayla (Carter) Northrup and ’00 Brendan Genther (pictured) are new members of the Eastern magazine editorial board.

They join current board members, ’07 Nick Lawhead, ’03, ’97 Robin Pickering, ’98 Lisa Leinberger, ’90 Gina Mauro Campbell and ’07 Jason Clerget.

These volunteers are committed to help Eastern magazine tell the stories of our amazing alumni, and in doing so, assist in advancing the mission of the university. The board provides valuable feedback related to their individual expertise and helps us produce a magazine that strives to provide informative and entertaining content.

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on the road with eastern magazine Where will Eastern magazine be spotted next? You are invited to send photographs holding up the current issue. Include some information about yourself with your submission. We may not be able to publish every submission. Extras will be posted on the Eastern magazine Facebook page and on the magazine’s website. Send to easternmagazine@ewu.edu or Eastern Magazine, 300 Showalter Hall, Cheney, WA 99004-2445.

‘09, ‘95 Monte and ’95 Sherry Syrie took Eastern magazine with them to Las Vegas in July. Monte is a 10th grade English teacher in Cheney, Wash., and adjunct professor at Eastern. Sherry teaches middle school visual arts classes in the Cheney School District.

’90, ’87 Michael Cardwell, the Quinault Indian Nation member and community services director is pictured as he prepared for the 2013 Tribal Journeys Paddle to Quinault. More than 100 ocean-going canoes arrived at Point Grenville on the Washington coast in August.

‘68 Jerry and ‘68 Gail (Johnson) Jantz hang out with Mickey at Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel during a family vacation to California in July. Jerry and Gail are retired educators. They live in Spokane and enjoy traveling and EWU football.

’64, ’63 Rich Bernave, ’92, ’88 Kate Venneri and ’76 Gordon Venneri are pictured at the vineyards of Girolamo Russo Winery at the base of Mt. Etna, Sicily, in June.

’89, ’85 Killi White-Mellish is pictured at Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, in June. Killi lives in Langley, Wash., where she is the educational planner, outreach liaison and an adjunct English instructor for Skagit Valley College’s South Whidbey Center in Clinton.

’10, ’07 Rae-Lynn and ’05 David Barden at the Kenai River in Alaska in August. They are EWU football seasons ticket holders and can’t wait to take their son (due in November) to next year’s games.

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Did You Know? $28 of every $30 from EWU special license plate renewal fees goes to fund scholarships!

Thirty scholarships of $1,000 will be awarded this year!

The one-time cost of the special plates, is $67.75. (Tab renewal fees vary by location and type of vehicle.)

To apply for an EWU license plate, complete the application form at www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/spewu.html or visit your local vehicle licensing office.

Chaves Named AD of the Year Athletic Director Bill Chaves was honored by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) as one of 28 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year Award. Chaves, 47, is concluding his sixth year at the helm of the EWU athletic department.

The award was presented June 15 at NACDA’s 48th Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla. The award spans seven divisions (NCAA FBS, FCS; Division I-AAA, II, III, NAIA/Other Four-Year Institutions and Junior College/Community Colleges).

As athletic director, Chaves has brought stability, leadership and innovation to EWU since his arrival in 2007. During his tenure, the first synthetic, red football surface was installed in 2010. After garnering tremendous attention for Eastern with this installation, the football team went undefeated (8-0) on the turf en route to the program’s first-ever FCS national title.

Chaves has also overseen several recently completed projects, including new seating at Reese Court, a $1.5 million locker room update project and video scoreboard installation at both Roos Field and Reese Court.

Eastern’s football program is just one of five schools nationally who has made the FCS Playoffs six of the past nine years (four of six since 2007). The school’s women’s basketball program has made two national post-season appearances in the past four years.

In 2009-10, EWU won its first-ever Big Sky Presidents’ Cup, which is determined by overall athletic and academic performance.

Big Sky Celebrates Anniversary The Big Sky Conference will commemorate a pair of anniversaries during the 2013-14 athletic season. The conference will pay tribute to 50 years of men’s athletics and 25 years of women’s athletics.

EWU will join in the celebration as a longtime member of the conference.

The 50th anniversary will celebrate the all-time individuals, teams and moments in the Big Sky’s history, including the selection of the league's top-50 male student-athletes and the top-25 female student-athletes. Along with the lists, the league will unveil the most memorable moments for both men’s and women’s competition.

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Roos Returns Current Tennessee Titan and former EWU football player Michael Roos joined forces with the Eagle football team on June 21, to host members of the Spokane County Boys and Girls Club for an afternoon of football at Roos Field.

The clinic was part of the fourth annual Michael Roos Foundation Fish & Chip weekend in the Spokane area. Eastern head football coach Beau Baldwin, assistant coach Aaron Best and EWU football players Allen Brown, T.J. Lee, Steven Forgette, John Goldwire and Ashton Clark helped provide instruction to the youth who took part.

Roos has supported the Boys and Girls Club since the inception of the Michael Roos Foundation. The Fish & Chip event includes NFL players, EWU supporters and several corporate sponsors for two days of competition featuring golf and bass fishing, an autograph session and dinner.

Since 2007, the Michael Roos Foundation has also provided funds and support for Special Olympics and Eastern Athletics.

Eastern honored Roos by retiring his jersey in 2009. Woodward Field was renamed “Roos Field” in 2010 upon completion of the Red Turf Project that he and his wife Katherine pledged $500,000 toward supporting.

EWU: Where Athletics Meets Academics For the eighth year in a row, the EWU men’s cross country team was honored with a Public Recognition Award, making them one of five Eastern teams with a perfect Academic Progress Rate of 1,000.

Joining the men’s cross country team on the prestigious list was the EWU women’s golf team, which garnered a Public Recognition Award for the second-consecutive year with a perfect multi-year rate of 1,000. Also having a perfect APR of 1,000 this year for the Eagles were women’s basketball, women’s cross country and women’s tennis.

EWU is one of 61 schools recognized by the NCAA for winning public recognition awards for the past eight years in a row. The honor is given to teams with APRs in the top 10 percent in each sport.

Eastern’s remaining nine varsity sports also fared well in the latest APR report, which was released in June by the NCAA. Ten of the EWU teams improved their APR from the 2012 report.

APR is an annual scorecard used by the NCAA to track the classroom performance of student-athletes on every Division I team. The score measures eligibility and retention each semester or quarter and provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on scores from the 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years. Teams scoring below certain thresholds can face sanctions, such as scholarship losses and restrictions on practice.

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Hall of Fame Inductees Announced Tom Ackerman, Larry Hattemer and Mick Landmark will join the 1986-87 EWU Women’s Basketball Team when they are inducted into the 13th class of the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 5, 2013. Harold “Hal” L. Warner will be inducted posthumously, as the former student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach passed away on Aug. 4, at the age of 82. Vic Wallace will be given the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Service and Contribution Award.

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This year’s class is a celebration of the legacy of outstanding offensive linemen Eastern has produced. The group includes Ackerman, who was an All-American offensive lineman in 1995, and went on to play eight seasons in the National Football League for New Orleans and Tennessee. He started 32 of 43 games he played as an Eagle, and played 105 games in the NFL. Hattemer was Eastern’s offensive line coach from 1979-91 under head coach Dick Zornes. Also Eastern’s offensive coordinator, Hattemer helped Zornes win 70 games during the school’s rise from NAIA to NCAA Division I. He coached nine All-Big Sky performers (EWU joined the league in 1987), four All-Americans and helped develop future NFL standouts Ed Simmons and Kevin Sargent.

Landmark earned honorable mention All-American honors in 1966, helping Eastern win 20 of 26 games in three seasons in Cheney. He went on to play briefly in the Canadian Football League, but spent most of his postcollegiate career playing in the Continental Football League.

Werner was an Eastern javelin thrower in 1950-51, and returned for four seasons as Eastern’s head coach (1966-70) and seven more as an assistant. He won the Evergreen Conference title in 1951. He coached five NAIA All-Americans at Eastern, including four in 1969 when EWU finished fourth at the NAIA Championships.

Coached by Bill Smithpeters and led by Brenda Souther, the 1986-87 Women's Basketball Team became the first Eastern team to earn a berth to the NCAA Division I Championships. The squad knocked off second-seeded Weber State in the Mountain West Conference (now Big Sky) Tournament semifinals, then upset host Montana in the title game. Eastern went on to lose in the NCAA Championship to Oregon.

Vic Wallace, Eastern’s former police chief, will be honored with the Service and Contribution Award. In retirement, Wallace has become an Eagle Athletic Association member and one of Eastern’s biggest supporters. This award, created in 2007, is selected by the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Executive Committee and honors individuals who have contributed not only to EWU, but to other outside endeavors such as education, community service and coaching.

The induction breakfast/ceremony is at 9:30 a.m., Oct. 5, 2013, at the Pence Union Building. The public is invited to attend and the cost is $15 per person. Guests must RSVP to 509.359.2463 or 800.648.7697. Inductees will also be honored at halftime of EWU’s football game against Weber State later that day.

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2013 Commencement The stands of Roos Field were filled to capacity on June 15 as family and friends of the class of 2013 proudly watched the graduates cross the stage. This year, 2,651 bachelor degrees and 729 master’s and doctoral degrees were awarded.

The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Social Work, and the College of Business and Public Administration conferred degrees at the 9 a.m. ceremony. The commencement address was given by Hattie Kauffman, the first Native American national news correspondent.

At the 2 p.m. ceremony, degrees were conferred by the College of Science, Health and Engineering, and the College of Arts, Letters and Education. Todd McFarlane ‘84, who created the famous Spawn comic book series, was the keynote speaker.

Kauffman and McFarlane were each presented with an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters during their respective ceremonies.

At EWU at Bellevue, commencement was held June 18, with more than 200 degrees conferred.

To view photos from all of the commencement ceremonies, visit: www.flickr.com/photos/ewuphoto/sets.

Football Unveils New Uniforms The EWU football team will be sporting new Adidas TECHFIT uniforms at home games this season, blending into the red turf of The Inferno like never before.

Wide receiver Ashton Clark

The new uniforms are 30 percent lighter, resulting in increased mobility and comfort, and allowing players to move faster and more freely.

Along with the new duds, the Eagles will wear gloves featuring EWU’s logo surrounded by the state of Washington’s outline. To complete the look, Eastern will sport new red and black Adidas CrazyQuick and 5-Star cleats that provide superior traction on the red turf.

In preseason polls, Eastern was ranked second in the Big Sky Preseason Coaches Poll , third in the preseason NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Coaches Poll and fourth nationally in the The Sports Network Preseason FCS Poll.

Visit www.goeags.com for the 2013 game schedule.

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Outstanding Alumni

Alumni Association honors Eagles who are making a difference

The EWU Alumni Association announced the recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Awards at its annual gala, “Celebrating Awesome,� on May 18.

Since 1973, the Alumni Association has recognized more than 100 alumni for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the community, the university and their professions.

Nominations are reviewed by the EWU Alumni Awards Selection Committee made up of past award winners, EWU faculty, EWU Alumni Association board members and various community members.

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Cher Desautel ’98, ’94 Lifetime Achievement Award As the highest honor bestowed upon alumni, the Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to those individuals who have inspired, served and celebrated excellence throughout their lives.

Desautel earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at EWU while working full time. She completed her doctorate degree from Gonzaga while serving as CEO of Desautel Hege Communications, which she co-founded with her husband Jim Desautel.

A committed mentor to aspiring public relations students, Desautel has helped countless EWU students and graduates

with job-search advice and community connections. Desautel Hege currently employs seven EWU grads and is always looking for ways to support the university and ensure more students have the opportunity to attend and succeed at EWU. Over the years, Desautel has served on boards and committees for numerous non-profit organizations, including the YWCA, YMCA, Spokane Area Workforce Development Council, PRSA, Northeast and West Central Community Centers, GSI’s health care and diversity committees and advisory groups for EWU’s College of Business and Public Administration and Gonzaga’s Professional Studies program.

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Jason Clerget ‘07

Inspirational Young Alumnus Award This award recognizes up-and-coming leaders among EWU’s alumni who have graduated within the past 15 years. Recipients demonstrate a commitment to excellence in their life after graduation and a commitment to extraordinary work, research or volunteerism.

Jason Clerget is a serial entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of Dollar Per Month Charitable Foundation, a cuttingedge organization that combines the best of social media and micro-donations with crowd-sourced philanthropy, as well as Propaganda Creative, which specializes in social media marketing. In addition, he is the owner of The Basement, a proverbial hot spot in Cheney, where many Eagles have showcased their awesome dance moves.

While at Eastern, Clerget served as the Associated Students of EWU (ASEWU) president, making many significant contributions, including the first online student elections, free student STA bus rides and the addition of the University Recreation Center.

Clerget continues to give back to the university by volunteering on Eastern magazine’s editorial board and working with the Alumni Office’s Young Professional Network. He’s likeable, dedicated, multi-talented and accomplished, but also humble, selfless and someone who embodies the true meaning of Eagle pride.

Maj. Gen. (R) Ken Privratsky ‘69

Exceptional Military Service Award Maj. Gen. Privratsky retired in 2003, after more than 30 years in the Army. His career began on Eastern’s campus with an ROTC scholarship. After graduation, as a commissioned officer, he served as a Rifle Platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. It was the beginning of an illustrious career that eventually made him responsible for all logistic operations in the military, to include worldwide transportation and military terminal operations.

Privratsky has continually demonstrated outstanding leadership and he has exemplified meritorious service throughout his military career. He has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal.

Privratsky’s military career alone provides enough to celebrate, but there’s more. He has an MBA from Adelphi University, an MA in English from Purdue and a master’s in military art and science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College.

Privratsky has also found professional success as the vice president of the Pacific Group at Horizon Lines. He has served on the board of directors of the Armed Forces YMCA, the World Trade Center Alaska and Special Olympics Alaska, where he served as the chair.

Melanie Monek ‘04 Distinguished Mentor Award This year, the Alumni Association presented its first Distinguished Mentor Award. The recipient of this award has been a consistent presence on EWU’s campus. She’s a positive example, a role model, an advisor and a guide for students and young alumni who are starting their professional lives.

Melanie Monek’s career as a human resource professional has taken her to some of Spokane’s largest organizations, including LeMaster Daniels and currently Washington Trust Bank.

The field of human resources is described in many different ways, but she once explained her job to her son by saying “Mommy goes to work to help people.” But just saying “help people” doesn’t begin to describe it.

Monek has spent countless hours visiting campus, conducting workshops, mock interviews and résumé reviews to help students prepare for life after graduation. While it’s impossible to track numbers, many of our alumni likely landed their first job after graduation because of her advice.

She sets a positive example and blazes trails in her own career. She heads the Inland Northwest Sharepoint User Group, a technology-based professional organization in which she’s the only female member as well as the only member from outside the technology industry. She remains active with the Inland Northwest Society for Human Resources and has achieved her Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification.

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The College Success Foundation

Organization of Excellence Award The College Success Foundation (CSF) was founded in the spring of 2000 by Bob Craves and Ann Ramsay-Jenkins to provide college scholarships and mentoring to low-income, high-potential students.

Much of what happens at EWU is because of community partners and their support. CSF has been instrumental in Eastern’s success during the past decade. Since 2002, the College Success Foundation has awarded 548 scholarships worth nearly $10 million to EWU students.

College Success Foundation is recognized with this award because it has demonstrated outstanding dedication to supporting EWU in achieving its mission and enhanced the experience and education of Eastern students.

Patrick McManus

Distinguished Faculty This award recognizes faculty who have made an important impact on EWU alumni. Professor Emeritus Patrick McManus is this year’s award winner, as selected by popular vote.

It’s hard to believe, but McManus failed the second grade. His mother, a rural school teacher, took him with her into the classrooms where she taught. She was accustomed to his going outside whenever he pleased, but as his second grade teacher, she was forced to fail him for “too many absences.” Since he lived at the school, McManus claims that failure as his major accomplishment in life.

But thankfully, this was his only educational setback. After receiving his undergraduate degree at WSU, he was hired to teach at Eastern Washington State College. Soon he was teaching, writing and freelancing at places like Sports Illustrated, TV Guide and Field & Stream and he realized that he could earn just as much money by making stuff up as by researching it. So he became a humor writer and was named associate editor for Field & Stream, and then editor-at-large for Outdoor Life, writing for both magazines for more than 40 years.

McManus, who retired from EWU in 1983, challenged students to reach beyond what they imagined they could do and always strive for more. He especially encouraged them to attend class so they wouldn’t fail like he did in second grade.

Lori Wyborney ’95, ‘86

Alumnus of Service Award When Cheney Normal School was founded in 1882, it committed to provide the region and the state with the best educators possible. Eastern is, at its core, a university of service and education.

The Alumnus of Service Award recognizes alumni who have upheld this mission.

This award recognizes someone who demonstrates outstanding leadership and serves as a role model and mentor within their school, community and/ or organization and who displays creativity and imagination in their lesson plans and teaching methods that inspire students to learn.

Lori Wyborney is the principal of Rogers High School in Spokane. Named the 2012 Spokane Public Schools’ Principal of the Year, Wyborney is also a teacher, a coach and an athletic director. Her leadership has transformed a school in one of the state’s poorest areas to one of its greatest success stories. The graduation rate at Rogers High School went from 50 percent in 2009, to 84 percent in 2012.

Nomination Deadline: Dec. 1, 2013 Nomination Categories: Lifetime Achievement Award The highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association recognizes our most accomplished alumni.

Inspirational Young Alumnus Award Recognizes up-and-coming leaders among EWU’s young alumni.

Alumnus of Service Award Recognizes alumnus who contributes significantly in the area of educational or community service.

Exceptional Military Service Award Recognizes alumnus who contributes significantly through their military service.

Distinguished Faculty Award Presented as the voice of our alumni community to the faculty member (current or past) who receives the most nominations.

Save the Date for the Alumni Awards Gala: May 31, 2014 Submit nominations online: http://alumni.ewu.edu/2014nominations

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Godforsaken Idaho

By Shawn Vestal, ’08 MFA Creative Writing, ’05 BA Interdisciplinary Studies In his book, Godforsaken Idaho, Vestal transports us to the afterlife, the rugged northwest and the early days of Mormonism through a series of short stories.

From “The First Several Hundred Years Following My Death,” an absurd, profound vision of a hellish heaven, to “Winter Elders,” in which missionaries calmly and relentlessly pursue a man who has left the fold, these nine stories illuminate the articles of faith that make us human.

The concluding triptych tackles the legends and legacy of Mormonism head-on, culminating in “Diviner,” a seriocomic portrait of the young Joseph Smith, back when he was not yet the founder of a religion but a man hired to find buried treasure.

Vestal grew up in a Mormon family in Gooding, Idaho, but he left the faith as a young adult. He is a columnist and reporter for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, where he’s worked for many years as a journalist and editor.

His stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, American Short Fiction, EcoTone, Best American Fantasy and other places.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A Little Harmless Fun

By Colin Conway, ’95 BA Business Administration A Little Harmless Fun is a fast-paced crime novel from Spokane author Colin Conway. In the book, no one is innocent, not even police detective Wade Kellmer. Already investigating the suspicious death of a young man linked to illicit affairs, Kellmer is on the wrong side of truth and he’s faced with cleaning up the consequences of his own choices, or coming clean to his partner and losing his career.

Kellmer, melancholy and troubled by his relationships with women, is an authentic mess.

In A Little Harmless Fun, Conway explores the darker side of human nature and delivers an exciting, page-turning story that twists and turns and keeps you hooked until the surprising conclusion.

Colin Conway is a former police officer who works as a commercial real estate broker and investor in Spokane. His next novel, Where We Fall, is due for release in late 2013. Conway’s last novel, Some Degree of Murder, co-authored with Frank Zafiro, was released in 2012 and has sold more than 10,000 copies to date.

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing

Half as Happy

By Gregory Spatz, EWU associate professor of English The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal, with startling clarity, their characters’ secrets, losses, and desires. These insightful portraits of the darkness and light within us reverberate long after they’ve ended.

The stories include a grieving couple who rent a desperate landlord’s house in an effort to recover lost intimacy, twins who are irrevocably separated by events both beyond and within their control, and a nighttime prank and its gruesome aftermath that forge human connections no one could anticipate.

Spatz is the author of Inukshuk, Fiddler’s Dream and No One But Us, and the story collection Wonderful Tricks. His short stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines and he has published numerous book and music reviews for The Oxford American. He is the winner of a 2012 NEA Literature Fellowship as well as a recipient of a Michener Fellowship, an Iowa Arts Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award.

Spatz lives in Spokane, Wash., where he teaches in the MFA Program at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, Eastern Washington University.

Publisher: Engine Books

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’97 Laura Moulton Writer, teacher and founder of the world’s first library on three wheels

Given that most of her clientele slept outside, Laura Moulton assumed she wouldn’t see the books again. Yet by summer’s end in 2011, most found their way back to the world’s first bicycle-powered street library, as did a growing number of homeless Portlanders filling a basic cultural need that most take for granted.

“I biked up to my library shift and saw this guy named Keith waiting there with his book to return it to me,” said Moulton, recounting the waning days of August when she’d exhausted a grant supporting her idea to bring literature outdoors. “I realized that I couldn’t just high five them and say, ‘Have a great life – thanks for participating in my art project.’

And I decided to just keep it going.”

“In terms of writing and starting a workshop, it is hugely helpful to have that experience many times over – the experience of reading and giving a good critique to someone and getting feedback and making those alterations in the text. All of that was invaluable for having a writing life, having the potential to publish books,” she said.

On that last front, Moulton said she’s working through the second draft of a novel about undergrads at a religious college, noting, “Motivation is high. Interest is high. Time is very low.”

With three librarians, a growing catalogue and bona fide 501(c)(3) tax status, Street Books became a permanent Portland, Ore., fixture earlier this year. It’s a concept that churned plenty of buzz in a town saturated with cyclists. Yet it’s only the latest waypoint in a long trail of projects blending art and service since Moulton explored both as an Eastern graduate student.

She’s also been in discussions with a publisher regarding a potential non-fiction project associated with Street Books, and last year she helped organize a group of parents to teach arts and writing at her neighborhood’s school. In what free time she and her author-husband Benjamin Parzybok can find, they enjoy cruising Portland’s bike paths with their 9-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter or rock climbing – another interest Moulton picked up while at EWU.

The 42-year-old Idaho native earned her bachelor’s from Brigham Young University, then joined EWU’s master of fine arts program in creative writing after a year of teaching English in Taiwan. Advised by celebrated Northwest author and Professor Emeritus John Keeble, she balanced her own writing workshops with leadership in the long-standing Writers in the Community Program. Moulton connected her classmates with at-risk youth in Spokane schools and inmates at Geiger Corrections Center. She began helping people well outside the literary world explore the stories of their own lives, and she hasn’t stopped since.

Street Books entered its third season of operation this spring, following the months-long process of establishing itself as a formal non-profit. Its supporters also held fundraisers with other groups serving the homeless and set up a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $5,000. When it’s not in use, the three-wheeled library bicycle (designed

by Moulton’s architect brother) lives in a rented garage populated by pedicabs downtown. Thousands of donated books fill shelves in the basement of a different building nearby, and the mobile librarians fill the bike with about 40 volumes at a time.

“It’s impossible for me not to construct a narrative about someone and sort of feel empathy for them,” said Moulton. Her published essays touching on perceptions of poverty and homelessness reflect that compassion. The same went for her widely viewed art installation commissioned at Portland State University in 2009 entitled Object Permanence, which invited students and passersby to record stories about everyday items in their lives that carry deep personal meaning.

“People don’t know what it is. They come up thinking they’re selling ice cream,” said Beth Chapman. Now the non-profit’s board president, she approached Moulton about helping with Street Books after reading a newspaper story soon after the project began. Since then, she’s watched the mobile library grow its community of patrons seeking titles as diverse as Louis L’ Amour westerns and a biography of Albert Einstein. Lending the books and talking about them seems a natural outgrowth of Moulton’s personality, as well as her years of listening closely for stories yet to be written.

After graduating in 1997, another stretch in Taiwan and founding a literary journal that dispensed slips of poetry from gumball machines, Moulton settled in Portland and began teaching English as a second language. She’s worked as a writer in residence at eight Portland schools over 13 years. She also leads creative writing courses for adults at Marylhurst University and Lewis and Clark College, often encouraging her students to interview people at the margins of the city. It’s been a career as entrepreneurial as it is creative, with much of her work as a teacher enabled by her MFA.

“She was made for this job," Chapman said. "She is approachable, she’s a good listener. She puts people at ease, and she draws them in. She provides these people with a lot of dignity and respect. I’m describing something very simple; we’re talking about books and having conversations.”

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There have also been noticeable changes to the campus with the renovations of Hargreaves Hall, Patterson Hall, the installation of the nation’s first red turf at Roos Field and the new state-of theart residence hall that opens this fall.

The EWU Foundation is responsible for all fundraising activity on behalf of the university. It seeks to engage EWU alumni and friends in philanthropic support of the university’s mission.

Bill Simer, EWU Foundation chairman, graduated from Eastern in 1978. “The past several years have certainly posed challenges,” said Simer. “But, under the leadership of Dr. Arévalo and Eastern’s Board of Trustees, as well as faculty, staff and supporters of the university, the funding challenge afforded us the opportunity to create a culture of philanthropy at Eastern.”

Simer added, “As this culture has taken root, the response has been both encouraging and generous. Eastern Washington University is clearly poised to continue its ever-increasing role in the life of our community. Continued financial support of the university enables us to better serve the variety of economic, social and educational needs of our region, while ensuring the success of generations of students to come in their quest to build big futures.”

To learn more about the campaign and some of the top fundraising initiatives, as well as ways you can give, visit http://sites.ewu.edu/foundation/bigfutures.

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EWU President Rodolfo Arévalo and Vice President for Advancement Michael Westfall announced the launch of the university’s first-ever comprehensive campaign, bigFutures: The Campaign for Eastern, in May. The fundraising effort will engage the university and the EWU Foundation as it works to raise $15 million for critical new programs at Eastern.

The campaign is a significant step for the university as it works to enhance a culture of giving and philanthropy during a period of record enrollment, while at the same time, as the chart below indicates, state funding for the university has continued to decline over the years.

“Eastern proudly produces the educators, city planners, business leaders and healthcare workers who are the fabric of every community,” said President Arévalo. “It is a critical time to embrace EWU’s vision to have a big future.”

Arévalo said to ensure that big future, the university must navigate the modern realities of higher education. In addition to declining state funding and shrinking budgets, there is increased competition for new students. Expanded offerings in engineering, high-demand programs in the growing health sciences field and a commitment to access and support for all students are some of the reasons why EWU is positioned to succeed in this competitive climate.

The campaign is closely tied with the university’s new strategic plan, “Inspiring the Future,” which focuses on four goals: student success; creating an institution of innovation; community engagement and increasing the visibility of the university.

The campaign will help EWU create innovative ways of doing business and launch new projects, such as the Alternative Energy Education Demonstration Site, an applied Finance Lab and Master of Public Health Program. It will also increase EWU’s visibility and lead to new partnerships for Eastern in the surrounding communities.

The campaign continues to build on the momentum and success the university has enjoyed under the leadership of President Arévalo in recent years – projects which enhance access and student achievement, such as the Veterans Resource Center, the Student Success Center and the Learning Commons.

Veterans Resource Center Opens (July, 2012) EWU Begins Hosting Regional Robotics Finals (April, 2012)

d Eagles Helping Eagles The Quinton Baker Story Ujima is Swahili for collective work and responsibility; to build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together. That concept truly defines Quinton Baker and guides his life’s goals.

When he was a little boy, Quinton’s mom worked two jobs to pay for their one-bedroom apartment. He learned from her that he would have to work hard to get what he wanted in life. Along the way, he also learned that he had a passion for helping people.

In high school, he fell in love with psychology. He wanted to find answers to complex questions: Why do we act the way we do? What causes emotion? When his mother was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease, Quinton focused on another question: Could psychology, alternative medicines and a healthy lifestyle cure her?

“Doctors of Western medicine told my mom there is no cure for her disease,” Quinton said. “But I believe there is a cure, just not with the conventional prescription pill.”

In an effort to help his mom and others, Quinton set a goal to attain an undergraduate degree in psychology, and eventually a PhD in health psychology.

Quinton attended community college, and then, thanks to scholarships made available by generous donors, he transferred to Eastern. In his first year at EWU, Quinton fulfilled his goal of making the Dean’s List. His current academic goal is to graduate near the top of his class. Quinton has another goal that aligns with his desire to help others: “To volunteer for causes as long as I live,” he said. Last year, he was a mentor for Eastern’s Ujima Summer Bridge Program, which provides incoming African American freshmen with tools for academic success.

Quinton has volunteered for American Red Cross’ Natural Disaster Unit, DSHS’ Homeless Count, Special Olympics and many other community events and projects. He volunteered at a marital and domestic-violence counseling center, and he spoke at a domestic-violence seminar for police, clergy, politicians and citizens, and on a Spokane radio station.

After graduation, Quinton plans to give back so that future students may also achieve success. “Giving back is a critical part of keeping an organization or a foundation alive,” Quinton said. “Not only should alumni give back financially, I feel they should also invest professionally. Alumni hold the keys to professional doors, and they should be looking to employ qualified graduates as they transfer from the classroom to the boardroom. Eagles helping Eagles!” He’s got the right idea for achieving “Ujima.”

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By Kandi Carper '05

I have a different philosophy: build it and then stand in front of it and make them run you over. Make them pummel you.You can’t be shy.If you want to be in music, or acting, or 10,000 other jobs, you can’t be sensitive.

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Alumnus Todd McFarlane returns to campus to share his perspective on life, love and success You don’t need to be a comic book aficionado or an action-figure collector to admire the work of Todd McFarlane. After hearing his speech at Eastern commencement ceremonies on June 15, thousands of people who weren’t familiar with his work are now his fans.

McFarlane lives in Phoenix and this was his first trip back to Cheney since graduating from EWU in 1984. It’s a pretty safe bet that, back then, he probably never imagined that one day he’d return to campus to offer advice to graduates and receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters on a red-turfed football field. Or, that he would pack a Spokane hotel ballroom to share his life story. In the early ‘80s, McFarlane was busy attending classes, playing on the Eastern baseball team, working as a janitor in Showalter Hall and honing his skill as a budding comic book artist.

As a kindergartener growing up in Calgary, Alberta, McFarlane knew he had artistic talent. Teachers always asked him to illustrate math problems on the board. He was also the child whose painting of a farm was a bit unusual – not the typical picture with a blue sky and yellow sun – everything was green. “I didn’t know the word – but it was perspective,” said McFarlane. “I was up in the tree looking down at the barn, so when I’m looking down all I see is the ground, and the ground is green.”

McFarlane continues to view the world with a quirky and intriguing perspective and he was gracious enough to share some words of wisdom and career advice during his return to the Northwest.

“Road Trip to Creative Autonomy,” a special speaking engagement presented by EWU on June 14, gave McFarlane fans a rare up-close and personal experience with him, as well as the chance to acquire a limited-edition Spawn comic book with an EWU Grad special cover. McFarlane stayed until almost midnight as the crowd patiently waited for him to sign their comic books and memorabilia.

Jim Raskell, age 54, and his son Ian, 23, arrived early to get a good seat at the event.

They wanted to meet McFarlane together. “Ian wouldn’t be the nerd he is today, if it wasn’t for my love of McFarlane’s work,” said Jim Raskell. “When he was doing art for Marvel Comics he single-handedly saved Spider-Man. The (McFarlane) toys are a work of art, like Rembrandt. I had to buy two of each – one for my son to play with and one saved in the original box for my collection. I have all of the KISS action figures.”

McFarlane’s wit and expressive humor didn’t disappoint the crowd as he recounted the highs and lows of his career in the comic book industry.

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enough artwork to submit to comic book publications. “You only need one of those editors to say yes – you don’t need all 100 of them,” said McFarlane. “I just bombarded them. I had 700 samples and 300 rejections. It’s kind of a cool way to get autographs.

They said, ‘Todd you suck, stop sending me stuff.’ Eventually I got a call three weeks before I graduated from Eastern.” McFarlane’s work ethic, talent and determination landed him a job at Marvel Comics.

“People say, ‘build it and they will come.’ That’s a lie,” said McFarlane. “I have had too many people that have done their artwork and then they did nothing about it. I have a different philosophy: build it and then stand in front of it and make them run you over. Make them pummel you. You can’t be shy. If you want to be in music, or acting, or 10,000 other jobs, you can’t be sensitive.”

McFarlane’s advice wasn’t just about how to succeed in business.

He talked about love. There was a cute bat girl on the opponent’s baseball team when McFarlane was in high school. Somehow he convinced his coach, who also happened to be his dad, to trade him to that team. “I said, ‘dad look at me, I’m kind of over-thehill. It’s my last year – trade me for two 17-year-olds, build for the

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future.’ So my dad traded me and I went to the Red Devils, the team with the cute bat girl. That 13-year-old girl is my wife (’85 Wanda Kolomyjec, BS biology) and we’ve been together for 35 years. The reason I tell you that, it’s the biggest thing in my life.

You just have to go through walls sometimes. You just have to be stubborn, immature and delusional sometimes to get to your goal.”

McFarlane offered the graduating class of 2013 advice on responsibility and self-reliance. He told them that some of the best counsel he ever received in life, besides from his parents, came from a bear in a cool hat telling him, “Only YOU can prevent forest fires!” Smokey the Bear’s advice made a lasting impression on him. “Here’s what I took from that,” said McFarlane. “It was on me, it was my actions.

I wasn’t going to sit there and blame the world. It’s your life, and you get to define it.”

McFarlane told the graduates that he understood their desire to get on with life and a career. He talked about his jobs as a janitor working in Showalter Hall and a six-month stint at a diaper factory. Yes, he admitted, he’s had some crappy jobs over the years, but it’s all just a means to an end. “I know when you’re young this is a tough one,” said McFarlane. “I couldn’t see it when it was right in front of me. Slow down and enjoy this thing called life. It’s pretty good. Grab the joy that’s around you and hold it as tight as you can.”

McFarlane left the graduates with one final test. He asked them to imagine that they just found out they only had three weeks to live. Their life is shattered and there’s no time to get their affairs in order. Who is the one person you can count on to help after you’re gone? Ten seconds to pick. Who will take care of the people you love? “This is who you pick,” said McFarlane. “It’s not the guy with the best job, or the guy with the biggest house, or the guy with the coolest car. You pick the best person you know.

If you want to bring honor, if you want to bring prestige to this university, and you want to make these people proud, I ask you to be that person. Now go tackle the world. You’re going to be awesome.”

Who is Todd McFarlane?

After graduating from EWU in 1984, McFarlane launched his career as a comic book superstar with his work on the Marvel Comics Spider-Man franchise.

In 1992, he co-founded Image Comics and released his own bestselling comic book, Spawn, which became an Emmy Award-winning animated series on HBO and a live-action feature film that grossed $100 million.

McFarlane Toys, an international award-winning company and one of America’s top action-figure manufacturers reshaped the sports collectibles market with the introduction of McFarlane’s Sports Picks for the NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB action figure lines. The company also produces action figures of some of the world’s top entertainment properties, including AMC’s The Walking Dead TV and Comics, Assassin Creed and HALO video franchises. McFarlane Entertainment continues to develop projects in film, television and video games.

McFarlane has won two Emmys, two MTV Video Music Awards, a Grammy and hundreds of international awards for his work in the arts and actionfigure industry. And that painting he did in kindergarten – it also won an award.

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When people think of Eastern’s official song, the fight song usually comes to mind. But, did you know that the university also has an Alma Mater?

Alma Mater typically describes the school from which someone graduates, but it also refers to a song associated with a university. Every year, All Hail to Eastern Washington, EWU’s Alma Mater, is performed at commencement.

Alumnus George W. Lotzenhiser composed the music and lyrics for Eastern’s Alma Mater in 1947. As a member of the chorus, he said he was tired of singing the former song, a musical piece from one of Brahms’ symphonies. “It wasn’t ours,” said Lotzenhiser. “So I came up with a new one. The music and the words came together simultaneously. I was just humming along Head of Eastern’s Department of Creative Arts, photo: 1962 Kinnikinick one day. My wife said it sounded like a hymn.” Writing Eastern’s first original Alma Mater is just one of Lotzenhiser’s many contributions to Eastern to serve as a professor of music and to create the college’s first School of Fine Arts with the consolidation of the Art, Theatre, to the university.

Born in Spokane, Lotzenhiser graduated from North Central High RTV, Speech Correction, Communications and Music departments.

School and came to Eastern in 1941 on a trombone music scholarship Lotzenhiser worked with architects to design the campus’ first Fine Arts – the first ever awarded. Lotzenhiser’s degree plans were interrupted Complex in the early 1970s and served as the first Dean of the School when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, for the express assignment of Fine Arts until his retirement in 1983. to play trombone in the Navy Band at the Naval Reserve Air Base in Pasco, Wash. It was there that Lotzenhiser met his future wife of 63 years, Kathryn (B.K.), who was the first woman from Tacoma to enlist in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (the WAVES).

After the war, Lotzenhiser returned to complete his studies at Eastern. He served as the school’s first married student body president. He assisted in petitioning the state legislature to give Eastern Washington College of Education permission to grant a Liberal Arts degree. A “degree bill” was passed and the state’s colleges of education were able to grant degrees in fields other than education, making EWCE a true liberal arts college. Lotzenhiser (because of where his name fell alphabetically) was the first graduate to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern in 1947, with a major in music.

Lotzenhizer went on to earn his master’s degree in music from the University of Michigan and his doctoral degree in education/music from the University of Oregon. He served as faculty and marching band director at the University of Arizona before returning to Eastern in 1960.

Eastern President Don Patterson requested that Lotzenhiser return

After retiring from Eastern, Lotzenhiser and B.K. moved to Whidbey Island. She passed away in 2006.

In addition to his career in academia, Lotzenhiser has had a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy. He served on active duty in the Naval Reserves during WWII and Korea, and was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in 1977.

Lotzenhiser’s music career began at an early age. He played trombone with vaudeville bands (including a gig with comedian Jack Benny), as well as with orchestras throughout the country. He’s a published composer and accomplished conductor. Over the years, he’s served as a guest director with his son Jon’s musical theatre in Walnut Creek, Calif., and he came out of retirement to take up the baton for a concert with the Navy Band Northwest in 2009.

At age 90, Lotzenhiser remains active and continues to support the university. In March 2013, he traveled from his home in Coupeville, Wash., to Spokane to be the guest speaker at EWU’s Military Ball- a Navy Rear Admiral at an Army ROTC event – another first, and like all Lotzenhiser’s contributions, much appreciated.

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class notes Hege Takes Helm at Desautel Hege Communications Michelle Hege (’95 MS communications) has been named president and CEO of Desautel Hege Communications, a leading Northwest public relations and marketing company based in Spokane.

Hege joined the firm in 1998 as the company’s first employee and became a partner in the business in 2000. She is accredited in public relations through the Public Relations Society of America.

Desautel Hege employs 16 professionals, seven of whom are EWU alums, including Sara Johnston (’98 BS communication studies) a partner in the firm.

Former CEO Cher Desautel (’98 BS communications, ’94 BA general studies) and her husband Jim, founders of the firm, will remain actively involved with the company as shareholders and counselors.

The company provides strategic and research-based communications consulting, public relations and marketing services. Avista Corp., Eastern Washington University, Kalispel Tribe of Indians and Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital are clients, as well as numerous companies and organizations in the energy, health care, higher education, manufacturing, finance and nonprofit sectors, along with local, state and tribal governments.

00s ’12 Bergen McCurdy, MA teaching English as a second language, married John Spring, Nov. 24, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. She is teaching at the University of Idaho in Moscow. ’12 Jessica Rauth, BA education, married Ryan Garner, May 11, 2013, in Spokane. The couple resides in Usk, Wash. ’12 Tracy Restock, MA history, has become the branch manager of the Southwest Region Branch of the Washington State Archives. ’11 Michael Schaffer, BS exercise science, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. ’10 Patrick Fanning, BA visual communication design, has been hired by Range Inc., as a senior designer in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He was previously with Signal Point Advertising. ’10 Matt Gardner, BA finance, was recently hired by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as a financial adviser in its Kennewick (Wash.) office. ’10 Ashley Lewan, BA English, a content editor with Exchange Publishing, has been recognized as a Rising Star for the Association of Free Community Papers. This recognition

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is given to those under the age of 30 who are actively involved in the Free Paper industry. ’10 Michelle Reid, MA history, has accepted a position as executive director of the Rosson House Museum in Phoenix, Ariz. ’09 Amanda Swan, BA studio art, has joined Numerica Credit Union in Spokane, as chamber and sponsorship coordinator on the marketing team. She previously worked as development director for the Lands Council. ’08, ’04 Justin Shamion, MBA, BA business, has been promoted to vice president of Colmac Industries. He has been with the company for seven years and has held positions in production and operations management. ’07 Teanna Meinhold, BA business management, married Kaleb Gentry, Sept. 29, 2012, in Kettle Falls, Wash. Teanna is a medical sales territory manager. The couple resides in the Seattle area. ’07, ’05 Shannon Webb, MSW, BA sociology, is the new director of Resident and Family Services at Silverado Senior Living in Bellingham, Wash.

’06 Jacqueline (Hudson) Arnett, BA criminal justice, is a detective with the Lynnwood (Wash.) Police Department. ’06 Nathan Hauber, BS technology, has joined NAC|Architecture Inc. in Spokane, as an electrical engineer. He previously worked for L&S Engineering Associates Inc. ’05 Dominic Pugliese, BA recreation management, was recently appointed by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors in California to serve as the business representative for the River Management Advisory Committee. The committee oversees the implementation of the county’s plan for the south fork of the American River, one of the most popular whitewater recreation rivers in the western United States. ’04 Terri Alvarado, BA business, has been elected to the Spokane Teachers Credit Union board of directors. She is the president of TMA Business Consulting Services LLC. ’04, ’02 Jebadiah Lillejord, MA and BA history, BAE social studies, has received his doctorate degree in education from Seattle Pacific University.

class notes ’04 Susan Thorpe, BA Spanish education, with the Coeur d’ Alene Library, has received the Edward Ziggler Innovation Award for her work with Read to Me’s First Books Program.

She is a youth-services supervisor at the library. ’03 Lisa Cargill, BS journalism, has been promoted from account director to senior account director at Desautel Hege Communications in Spokane. She has been with the firm for 10 years and currently serves as the president of the Spokane Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. ’03, ‘00 Masami Kimura, MA and BA history, has earned her PhD from the University of Arizona. ’03 Ann Stuckart, MSW, has gone into private practice in the Medical Center Building on the Providence Sacred Heart campus in Spokane.

She was previously with Frontier Behavioral Health.

’01 Chad McKinney, BA business, and Cristy Izatt, both of Liberty lake, Wash., are engaged to be married. He is a buyer for Huppin’s Hi-Fi Photo & Video. ’00 Alyse Day Fritz, BA education, manages the library information and technology program at Eatonville High School in Spanaway, Wash. She earned a MEd in reading and literacy from City University of Seattle in 2004 and National Board Certification in Library Media in 2010, where she serves as board secretary (2012-14). She received Outstanding Teacher Librarian of the Year from the Washington Library Media Association in 2012. She was published in Washington Library Media Association Journal: The Medium (spring 2013). She’s married to Greg Fritz and they have two children.

90s ’98 Nikki Easterling, BS developmental psychology, has opened Breakthrough Recovery Group, a new counseling and treatment service center specializing in substance abuse treatment in Spokane.

’98 Tamsen Leachman, BA general studies, a partner at Fisher & Phillips LLP law office in Portland, Ore., has been featured in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2013. She represents employers in a wide variety of employment-related lawsuits, administrative hearings, arbitrations and collective bargaining. ’97 Sara Bigelow, BA developmental psychology, has opened Soul Soup & Coffee House in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. ’97 Joe Hamilton, BA outdoor recreation, owner of Pilgrim’s Market in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has been awarded the Community Business Award by the Kootenai Environmental Alliance. ’96 Jeanette Radmer, BA recreation management, has been promoted to a business development manager at Numerica Credit Union in Spokane. She has more than 17 years of experience in the banking industry.

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class notes Tawankans Reunite Memebers of the Tawanka Alumnae Association residing in Spokane met April 27 at Holman Gardens in Spokane Valley.

Tawanka was organized in 1926 and inactivated in 1959. Tawanka Alumnae Association was organized in 1934.

Membership dues go into the Tawanka Endowment Fund, which was established in 1982 to financially assist EWU sophomores, juniors and seniors in education/child service fields via the Tawanka Alumnae Scholarship.

L-R: Karen Bart ‘70, Dorothy Phillips ‘40, Janet Shaffer ‘49, Sally Fox ‘49, Margaret Soderberg ‘58, Jeannine Sigler ‘55, Donna Lucht ‘55, Patsy Wold, JoAnn Giffing ‘55; Harriette Cassidy ‘41, seated.

80s ’95 Casey Jones, MPA, has joined Standard Parking Corp. as vice president of Institutional Services in Chicago.

‘94 Matthew Coulter, BA education, earned his doctorate degree in education from Washington State University. Matthew and his family live in Olympia, Wash., where he teaches at Tumwater High School. ’93, ‘89 Susan P. Beamer, MA and BA history, was recently honored with the 2013 EWU History Department’s Alumni Award.

She is the Records and Archives manager for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman, Wash. ’93 Jason Catlin, BA business, has been hired by First Priority Financial as a branch manager. He has more than 19 years of experience in the home and loan industry and was previously the president of Catlin Capital Inc. in Vancouver, Wash.

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’88, ’76 Dorothy L. Sawyer, MA and BS nursing, took the reins as chief executive of Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake, Wash., in August. She was previously the CEO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz. ’86 J. Frank Armijo, BA management information systems, has been honored by the Boy Scouts of America Blue Mountain Council for his contributions to youth. He is the president and general manager of Mission Support Alliance, LLC, a Hanford Site prime contractor for the Mission Support contract with the Department of Energy, Richland, Wash. ’85 John Kruse, BA counseling, educational and developmental psychology, earned prestigious Excellence in Craft awards from Outdoor Writers Association of America, with recognition at OWAA’s annual conference, Sept. 16, 2013, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Kruse is the host and producer of Northwestern Outdoors Radio, heard on more than 30 stations in Washington,

Oregon and Idaho. He is also the author of Great Places Washington, a guide to outdoor recreation and is currently working on Great Places Oregon. ’83 Richard Dalke, BA counseling, educational and developmental psychology, has opened Deerhawk Enterprises, LLC, which provides voice-over recording and editing for commercials, narrations, audio books, corporate training scripts and more. ’83 Bonnie M. Tapscott, BA journalism, has joined Hibu as a client services representative. She spent most of her professional advertising career with Lamar, Emerald and Sun Outdoor Advertising companies. She is active on both the West Central Community Center and Our Place Ministries boards in Spokane.

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Kinne-Clawson Wedding Former ASEWU president Alicia Kinne (’07 BA government) and Mike Clawson (’07 BS biology) married Aug. 17, 2013 in Snohomish, Wash.

EWU alums joined Alicia’s sorority sisters from Alpha Xi Delta and Mike’s fraternity brothers from Sigma Phi Epsilon to celebrate their marriage.

The couple met at Eastern their freshman year.

All in the Family Daniel L. Dodge, ‘08 BS biochemistry (pictured center), graduated May 25, 2013, from Des Moines University with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree.

Pictured with him are siblings and fellow EWU alumni Christina (Dodge) Lyons, MD, ‘98 BS biology, and Justin Dodge, MD, ‘98 BS chemistry and biology.

Daniel is doing his internal medicine residency at the University of Iowa program in Des Moines, Iowa. Christina graduated with an MD from University of Washington in 2002 and is currently a practicing dermatologist in Bellingham, Wash. Justin also obtained his MD in 2002 from Uniformed Services University and is a neuro-radiologist stationed at Landstuhl Army Base in Germany.

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in memoriam Philip R. Marshall, PhD 1926-2013 Philip Marshall passed away March 18 in Seattle at the age of 86. During the early 1970s he served as dean, and later, as vice president of Academic Affairs at Eastern. In 1976, he briefly served as acting president, following the term of Emerson Shuck and prior to George Frederickson. In 1981, he received the President’s Medal Award.

Marshall was born in Decatur, Ind., and grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Earlham College and Purdue University, both in Indiana.

His 40-plus-year career as an educator included teaching assignments in Barnesville, Ohio; Albion College in Michigan; Cornell College in Iowa, where he was chairman of the chemistry department; and Lycoming College in Pennsylvania, where he was the dean.

Marshall served as associate program director for the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.; as a researcher for the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio; and as faculty director at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

After his time at Eastern, he became chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

He and his wife Helen retied to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and later moved to Seattle to be near family.

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’12 Rose J. Stauffer, age 28, died June 10, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’89 Stephen G. DeBow, age 63, died April 23, 2013, Olympia, Wash.

’75 Donald R. Hodgson, age 61, died Feb. 2, 2013, Dayton, Wash.

’10 Lynnette Wigen Munk, age 42, died July 28, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’88 Florence C. Ames, age 73, died May 30, 2013, West Richland, Wash.

’75 Marilyn Lee Mensinger, age 74, died March 7, 2013, Silverdale, Wash.

’00 Lawrence D. Brake, age 40, died May 11, 2013, Vancouver, Wash.

’87 Maxine E. Kerns, age 83, died April 27, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’75 Muriel May Stanton Resen, age 76, died July 27, 2013, Cheney, Wash.

’84 Dorothea A. Landt, age 85, died July 1, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’73 Harold “Jim” Whitaker, age 88, died June 1, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’83 Karol Kay Smith, age 73, died June 7, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’72 Phillip W. Codd, age 64, died July 1, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

90s ’97 Patricia R. Ryan, age 73, died June 7, 2013, Port Townsend, Wash. ’95 Paul Wilkinson, age 40, died June 16, 2013, Durham, N.C.

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’71 Ronald Horne, age 83, died April 22, 2013, Brigham City, Utah

’94 Alonzo C. Livers, age 72, died Feb. 10, 2013, Medical Lake, Wash.

’79 Rena Kennedy Searles, age 66, died July 3, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’94 William D. “Bill” Pancake, age 47, died July 18, 2013, Walla Walla, Wash.

’77 Lynda Rae Knight, age 62, died June 8, 2013, Phoenix, Ariz.

’91 Karen (Popp) Wilhelm, age 66, died March 5, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’76 Lonnie McGee, age 65, died April 1, 2013, Fort Smith, Ariz.

’67 Donald M. Barrows, age 76, died May 25, 2013, Kent, Wash.

’75 Donald R. Bowman, age 82, died June 20, 2013, Medical Lake, Wash.

’67 Patrick N. Miller, age 68, died April 19, 2013, Lacey, Wash.

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’71 David B. Loop, age 69, died May 29, 2013, Everett, Wash.

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Jones, recipient of the prestigious University Trustee’s Medal of Honor in 1981, retired from the EWU Music Department in 1994 after 27 years of service.

For 14 years, the Eastern Washington University Symphony Orchestra played under maestro Jones’ baton as he conducted more than 300 works, including several world premieres and many fully staged major productions.

He conducted EWU Bands and Chorus, as well as the Spokane Riverfront Park Concert Band, the University of Arizona Symphony, Spokane Junior Symphony, University of Iowa Bands, Olympic College Bands and the University of Arizona Wind Ensemble. Jones was also a freelance conductor and arranger for Capitol Records.

Jones wrote numerous compositions throughout his career with two of his works commissioned by the Spokane Symphony Orchestra.

A professional musician at the age of 12, Jones started with the Dean Bushnell Jazz Orchestra. He later was principal bassoonist with numerous symphonies and orchestras. For 40 years, he played alongside his wife Virginia in the Spokane Symphony Orchestra.

Jones was also a brilliant mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He revolutionized the manufacturing process for the production of double reeds with the use of factory machinery. Jones Double-Reed Products became the leading supplier of double reeds for oboists and bassoonists worldwide.

The Jones gave nearly a half million dollars back to the communities that supported them – academic institutions, as well as national and local organizations such as the American Lung Society, Women Helping Women, the Union Gospel Mission of Spokane and Spokane Public Radio. Jones also established several scholarship funds throughout his career, including the Eastern Washington Friends of Music Trust, funding opportunities for those following him in the music field. ’66 Gary Price, age 74, died April 15, 2013, Olympia, Wash.

’56 James W. Berry, age 83, died June 28, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’65 Dell Ray Schanz, age 72, died July 3, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’56 Dewayne “Doc” Gower, age 77, died July 21, 2013, Bremerton, Wash.

’64 Jeffrey A. Brown, age 71, died April 24, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’56 Richard “Dick” Laughbon, age 79, died June 19, 2013, Arvada, Colo.

’63 Patrick Hunt, age 74, died May 19, 2013, Olympia, Wash.

’56 Stan Scheibe, age 83, died March 16, 2013, Richland, Wash.

’61 Marjorie L. Downing, age 94, died July 1, 2013, Richland, Wash.

’55 Charles R. “Dick” Potter, age 81, died June 29, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’61 Joan E. Kalin, age 96, died Jan. 15, 2013, Portland, Ore.

’54 Alfred Clark Benton, age 89, died May 9, 2012, Stockton, Calif.

50s ’59 Paul Morigeau, age 79, died May 12, 2013, Carson City, Nev. ’58 Bernie L. Hancock, age 80, died July 1, 2013, Bellevue, Wash. ’57 Thomas McKay, age 94, died July 1, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

’54 Eugene L. Lister, age 83, died March 20, 2013, Spokane, Wash. ’53 Archie L. Allenbach, age 85, died Feb. 18, 2013, Colfax, Wash.

’52 Barbara Jean (Henderson) Berry, age 83, died May 5, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

40s ’41 Dean, age 94, died July 13, 2013, Pullman, Wash.

30s ’39 Maxine (Potts) Reitmeirer, age 94, died March 18, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

Staff and Faculty John E. Torno, 85, died May 25, 2013, in Cheney. He retired in August 1989 from the Physical Plant after 24 years of service.

Norman V. Vigfusson, PhD, 82, died June 30, 2013, in Spokane. He taught genetics in the Biology Department, retiring in 1986 after 17 years of service.

’53 Stuart R. Kosnick, age 85, died May 19, 2013, Kennewick, Wash. ’53 Arnold A. Thompson, age 86, died June 24, 2013, Spokane, Wash.

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final thoughts Final Thoughts from Lisa Poplawski, director of Alumni Advancement General George S. Patton once said: “Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

He didn’t actually say it to me, but he really did say it.

I took the advice of George this summer and competed (and completed) the Seattle to Portland Bike Classic. It was 202 miles of bike riding over two days. It was a challenge! And, yes, it was also a very exhilarating moment when I crossed the finish line in Portland after two big days sitting on that little seat. The second day of my ride I proudly wore my EWU cycling jersey because I wanted everybody to know that Eagles are up for challenges.

My friend Gina (Mauro Campbell) appreciates a good challenge too. She is the volunteer president of our Alumni Association board. She serves as the leader and guide for the other 20 board members who volunteer their time and energy to mentor students, network at events, plan coffee stops and raise money for the alumni scholarship endowment.

“It’s been an honor to serve on the alumni board as president,” said Gina (Mauro Campbell). “The best part is meeting alumni and hearing how their Eastern experience makes a difference for them. The stories are inspiring and poignant. Our challenge as an alumni board is to tell the collective story of Eastern, its alumni and students. We challenge you to help us with that! Share your story in your community and networks and encourage others with your Eagle pride. And as always, let us know how we can help you become and stay connected to your alma mater.”

Gina and I encourage YOU to take your own Eagle challenge. Select a challenge that will be meaningful to you. Try something that gives you a chance to engage in a way that strengthens your relationship with Eastern. Find an EWU student intern, attend your first alumni event, email a former faculty member who changed your perspective, give your first gift to an area at EWU that impacted your life (Eagle Ambassador Club, intramurals, Biology Department) or tell a student athlete “thank you.”

Regardless of the challenge, enjoy your moment of exhilaration and share it with us on Facebook or email us at ewualum@ewu.edu. Go Eagles!

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events calendar 23 Pass Through the Pillars (EWU Campus)

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Young Professionals Network (Spokane)

EWU Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Brunch

Eagle Fan Tailgate EWU vs. Weber State

EWU Library Oktoberfest

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REDWHITE&SWOOP

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September

Join your fellow alumni and friends at these exciting upcoming events.

For more information and to register, visit alumni.ewu.edu or call 888.EWU.ALUM.

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Homecoming Week

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Golden Grad Reunion

Eagle Fan Tailgate Homecoming EWU vs. SUU

Eagle Fan Tailgate EWU vs. UM

(class of 1963)

(Roos Field)

(Missoula, Mont.)

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Young Professionals Network

Eagle Fan Tailgate EWU vs. Montana State

Eagle Fan Tailgate EWU vs. Cal Poly

Eagle Fan Tailgate EWU vs. Portland State

(Spokane)

(Roos Field)

(San Luis Obispo, Calif)

(Roos Field)

3 Young Professionals Network Yuletide Social (Spokane)

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