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Calling All Alums!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Yep, you guessed it! It is recruitment
crunch time again. And, who better to
help us recruit new students to WSU
than you, the valuable alums of WSU?
You, who know what the Cougar
spirit is like at a football game. You, who
know about the high-quality education
and experience you gain at WSU. You,
who know how dedicated CAHE faculty
are to their students. You, who know
that employers can’t wait to hire a WSU
graduate.
You are some of our best recruiters
because you have been through the
WSU experience. If every single alum
were to convince at least one new student to enroll at WSU for fall 2000, we
would exceed our expectations! Academic Programs is willing to supply you
with the necessary information and
brochures. Call us at 509-335-4562, or
send me an email at vibbert@wsu.edu.
The College of Agriculture and Home
Economics (CAHE) is scrambling like
crazy to bring students to WSU. We
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have CAHE faculty calling potential
students tempting them with our outstanding programs, caring faculty,
hands-on experience, and some new
scholarships for out-of-state students
who are children or grandchildren of
WSU alums.
The CAHE ambassadors are recreating their recruitment strategy by dividing
the state into regions for ambassador
teams of four to six members to tackle.
The ambassador executive team is holding office hours weekly to be more efficient in their duties and to be available
for visiting students. They have been on
the road to high schools and community
colleges around the state. They are
participating in 4-H events, FFA events,
and off-campus university events. Now,
we need you!
Thank you for supporting CAHE and
WSU. It’s time to rally the troops, brush
off that Cougar Spirit, and start telling
potential Cougars why you love Washington State University!
Christa Vibbert,
CAHE Recruitment Coordinator
http://academic.cahe.wsu.edu
April
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Design 2000: A Vision for the New
Millennium. Presentation by David
Hoglund (Spokane)
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Viability for a Regional City: Implications for Spokane’s Urban Core Symposium (Spokane)
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WAZZU Wednesday (Spokane)
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Design 2000: A Vision for the New
Millenium. Presentation by Dr.
Jacqueline Glass (Spokane)
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Mom’s Weekend
CAHE Awards Banquet
17-May 5 Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Final Works Display (Spokane)
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President and Mrs. Smith Day of
Recognition, Pullman
Golden/Diamond Grad Reunion
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Commencement, WSU Spokane
President and Mrs. Smith Day of
Recognition, Seattle
Please refer to our Web site for more
information and updates on events.
www.cahealumni.wsu.edu
Welcome Phyllis Baxter…
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CAHE’s New Assistant Director
of Development
Phyllis Baxter has been named the College of Agriculture and Home Economics’ new assistant director of development. She assumed her duties
September 1999. Baxter is stationed at
WSU’s Puyallup Research and Extension
Center, where she reports dually to
Dean Glawe, director of the Puyallup
center, and to Patrick
Kramer, CAHE director
of development.
Baxter, formerly
assistant director of
development for
WSU’s College of
Science, says her new
position is a “great fit”
for her.
“What I enjoyed
about fundraising in
the College of Science
was talking to people
about science and
WSU’s research.”
With a bachelor’s
degree from UCLA in
biology and a master’s Phyllis Baxter
degree from WSU in
environmental science, Baxter’s strong science background coupled with her joy of interacting with people made that job a natural
fit, she said.
“My new position in the College of
Agriculture and Home Economics is that
same ideal fit for me – working with
researchers in the natural resource
sciences and talking to alumni about the
work they do.”
In her new position, Baxter’s top
priority will be a major capital
fundraising project for new facilities and
renovations at WSU’s Mt. Vernon
Research and Extension Center. Soon,
Baxter and consultant Mary Lou
LaPierre will be conducting a feasibility study to determine the
community’s strength of support and
gifting potential. Once the study is
complete, Baxter will begin the
fundraising campaign.
In addition to her
fundraising activities, Baxter will be
working closely
with all of WSU’s
research and extension activities on
the West side in an
effort to increase
WSU’s visibility in
communities and to
area alumni.
“Many people
don’t know what
goes on at our
research stations
and that we are
working on projects
with relevance to
their communities,” Baxter said. “My
job is to help increase people’s
awareness of all the West side stations and be an ambassador for the
College of Agriculture and Home
Economics.”
As assistant development director
for CAHE, Baxter will be actively
raising funds for student scholarships,
research, teaching, and extension.
Phyllis Baxter can be reached at
pbaxter@wsu.edu.
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WSU’s Popular Abuela Project
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Bug’s Life in Grant County
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Late Season Strawberries
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Cover Story
Precision Agriculture—
the Future of Farming
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Preschool Partnership
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Children’s Center Looking
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Alumni Notes
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Private Giving and
Honor Roll of Donors
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Connections is published two times a year by
the College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Alumni and Development Office. Readers are
encouraged to share their ideas for articles and
to contribute items by writing to:
College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Alumni and Development Coordinator
Washington State University
PO Box 646228
Pullman, WA 99164-6228
Connections Staff
Publisher: James J. Zuiches, Dean, CAHE
Alumni and Development Director: Patrick Kramer
Development and Academic Coordinator:
Broderick Gant
Secretary: Tiffany Ross
Program Support Supervisor: Britta Nitcy
Writers/Editors: Dennis Brown, Joanne Buteau,
Mary Dey, Anna Sherwood
Graphic Designer: Doug Garcia
CAHE Alumni Board of Directors
President: Andy Moberg ’86
Vice President: Alison (Strotz) Lane ‘93
Secretary: Kristi (Rightmire) Harting ‘95
Board Members: Clint Adamson ’99, Nancy
Boettcher ‘75, Chuck Chambers ‘59, Lil Freese
‘48, Ginger Scobie ‘71, Clay Sprague ‘80,
Mary Palmer Sullivan ‘88, Tedd Wildman ‘84,
Mission: The College of Agriculture and Home
Economics Alumni Board of Directors is the
catalyst for uniting prospective students, current students, the college administration,
faculty and staff, industry, and alumni while
upholding
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ANIMAL SCIENCES
Tom Marsh, 1998 Ph.D., received the
1999 Honorable Mention Award for Best
Ph.D. Dissertation from the American
Agricultural Economics Association. Jay
Graham, a senior, was
selected president of the
student section of the
American Agricultural
Economics Association,
and Kelli Myers, a sophomore, was
elected vice president for the
association’s Western Region. Last year
Graham was the regional vice president
and Bonnie Schindler was journal editor. Two student teams entered the Academic Bowl competition for the American Agricultural Economics Association
annual meeting in Nashville. One of the
teams won fourth place out of 39 teams.
Yann Duval, assistant professor,
joined the department in the fall semester. Duval, from Kansas State University,
will work primarily in agribusiness.
Elwin Smith is a visiting bioeconomist
from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Ron Faas,
emeritus extension economist, received
the R.J. Hildreth Award for Career
Achievement in Public Policy Education.
Richard Carkner, WSU-Puyallup,
returned from professional leave with
the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations in Rome, Italy. Ken
Casavant returned from a year’s
change-of-duty station in North Dakota.
Richard Shumway, chair, completed his
year as president of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He will
continue as past president for another
year.
Joanna Mignano is a new technical
secretary. She has a master’s degree in
forestry from the University of Idaho.
Karen Jordan, administrative manager,
retired in February after being in the
department since 1988. Her replacement, Karen Johnson, has been interim
business manager at Walla Walla Community College.
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Cougar Cattle Feeders, a student cooperative in the department, obtained 30
donated steers from cattle producers,
alumni, and friends. Students will learn
feedlot management and marketing
skills. Profit from sales
will go to scholarships for
students interested in the
beef industry as well as
support for the Livestock
Judging Team. Ten students are enrolled
in the program and Jaime Meenach is
the chair.
APPAREL,
MERCHANDISING AND
INTERIOR DESIGN
Interior design student Shigeyuki
Hasegawa was one of 16 finalists in the
Design on the Edge National Competition sponsored by the
University of Kentucky.
His winning chair design
was created at WSU’s
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute. Pullman and
Spokane interior design students and
faculty participated in a national tele-
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WSU Spokane Students Finalists
in International Design Competition
Two teams of
students from
Washington
State University Spokane
have been
chosen as
finalists in an
international
design competition aimed at
practicing
professionals.
The student
teams were
chosen as
finalists from a
field of 268
entries from 31
different countries and 32
U.S. states.
The other 14
teams of finalists are all professionals.
The “Jubilee Year 2000 International Design Competition,” adver-
tised in Architectural
Record, is sponsored
by the Catholic
Diocese of Fort
Wayne/South Bend,
Indiana. The project
was to design a new
home for a rural
Hispanic parish, which also serves as
a regional center for Hispanic celebrations and devotion for Our Lady of
Guadalupe, in rural Milford, Indiana.
The students take interdisciplinary
design from Matt Melcher, assistant
professor at the WSU Spokane Interdisciplinary Design Institute, which
combines architecture, construction
management, interior design, and
landscape architecture.
Interdisciplinary design teams in
Melcher’s classes created two finalist
designs. Interior design finalists were
Josh Orona, Shawnda Roden, Francis
Willey, Stephanie Evenson, and LeeKyung Koo.
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conference where finalists were recognized.
Apparel faculty and students are in
the process of developing an undergraduate student affiliate chapter of the
International Textiles and Apparel Association. President of ITAA-WSU chapter
Adrien Tin and treasurer Boz Scribner
attended the annual ITAA conference in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, as delegates to
the second annual ITAA Student Affiliate
Chapter meeting. Graduate students
Kara Kelly (ID) and Dawn Okazaki
(AMT) also attended the meeting. New
Apparel, Merchandising and Textiles
Professor John Jacob led a panel discussion at the conference.
Apparel, Merchandising, and Textiles
faculty have joined with Extension and
the 4-H network to host a Fashion Institute 2000 program offered at WSUSpokane. The program’s purpose is to
help 4-H youth and leaders explore
career options with apparel.
CROP AND SOIL SCIENCES
Doctorate students Jaya Smith and
Andrew Haydock are recipients of the
O.A. Vogel Graduate
Student Fellowships in
wheat breeding and genetics. The fellowships
include a salary stipend
and payment of all tuition and fees.
Smith works in the spring wheat breeding program headed by Kim Kidwell.
Haydock works in the winter wheat
breeding program headed by Stephen
Jones. Haydock also received a
Geraldine Dodge Graduate Student Fellowship through the Land Institute.
Robert E. Allan, geneticist and
breeder, USDA-ARS, received the 1999
National Council of Commercial Plant
Breeders Genetics and Plant Breeding
Award for the Public Sector. The $2,000
award was presented at the 1999 National Meeting of the Crop Science Society of America last November in Salt
Lake City.
In November, a reception was held at
the Tree Fruit Research and Extension
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Center in Wenatchee to dedicate a recently remodeled meeting room in
memory of Vernon A. Stockwell.
Stockwell, who died in 1997, was well
known in the tree fruit industry and
supported WSU’s agricultural research.
The family established the Vernon A.
Stockwell Memorial Fund for Tree Fruit
Research. Donations were used to remodel and furnish the Stockwell Meeting
Room.
ENTOMOLOGY
Last June students attended the Entomological Society of America meeting in
Eugene Oregon. Mark Hitchcox, Chris
Looney, John Rumph,
and Jamie Strange beat
UC-Riverside and the
University of Hawaii to
win the ESA Pacific
Branch Linnean Games. They will now
go on to the national competition in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Beth Kahkonen (MS ‘99, S.
Sheppard) received the Pacific Branch of
the ESA’s Graduate Student Award for
Leadership in Applied Entomology.
Angela Bridges was named the
department’s Outstanding Senior last
year. Leslie Elberson was named Research Technician of the Year for the
Pacific West by the USDA-ARS last April
at Albany, California.
Keith S. Pike, entomologist at WSUProsser, was awarded the Entomological
Society of America Recognition Award
for Entomology for his significant contributions to agriculture in December in
Atlanta. Carol A. Sheppard was
awarded the 1999 Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award. Art Antonelli
was awarded the 1999 Interstate Professional Applicators Association
President’s Award. Wyatt Cone received
the Washington Association of Wine
Grape Growers award for distinguished
service to the industry and also received
awards from the Washington Hop Growers, Washington State Grape Society,
Washington Association of Wine Grape
Growers, and the Washington Red Currant Growers Association.
Elizabeth Beers, John Dunley, Jay
Brunner, and Ted Alway were among 13
area-wide codling moth researchers who
won the Federal Laboratory Consortium
Award for Technology Transfer. This was
a national competition that involved all
federally-funded ARS laboratories.
William J. Turner was the recipient
of the 1999 R. M. Wade Foundation
Award for Excellence in Teaching. Adjunct Professor Laurel Hansen has been
selected as one of six recipients of
Orkin’s 1999 Award for Research Excellence.
A number of department faculty won
awards at the annual meeting of the
Pacific Branch of the ESA. Receiving
awards were: Wyatt Cone, C. W.
Woodworth Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Entomology; Keith Pike,
Distinguished Recognition Award in
Entomology; Carol Ramsay, Distinguished Achievement Award for Regulatory Entomology; Gary L. Piper, Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching,
and Art Antonelli, Distinguished
Achievement Award in Extension.
FOOD SCIENCE AND
HUMAN NUTRITION
Sophomore food science major Kelly
Devine was honored with a National
Dairy Promotion and Research Board
Undergraduate Scholarship from Dairy Management, Inc. She was one of
20 students nationwide to
receive a $1,500 stipend
and plaque. She also received a WMFSA
scholarship along with senior food science major Darice McCabe. Stephanie
Ahlgren, R.D., a master’s student in
human nutrition at the Spokane campus,
received $2,000 from the Charles Glen
King Graduate Fellowship for her
project, “Identifying Diabetes Dietary
Quality of Life and Its Relationship to
Dietary Adherence in Type 2 Diabetes
Management.” Ahlgren and Jill Shultz,
her adviser, are collaborating with the
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CUOGD director’s duties will be asRockwood Clinic in Spokane to expand a
sumed by Louise Peck, current director
patient database with nutrition meaof the Generalist Prosures designed to monigram in Dietetics.
tor and improve patient
Searches are underway
care. Erich Blancafor, a
for replacements for the
senior in food science, is
generalist director and
the first recipient of the
the creamery manager.
Charles W. Nagel Food
A team of 10 food
Science Scholarship.
science students creThe scholarship was
ated a new food prodawarded to Blancafor by
uct using non-fat dry
Professor Charles
milk and/or whey. After
Nagel, for whom the
a successful first year,
scholarship is named,
Dairy Management, Inc.
on October 15 at the
Erich Blancafor, right with
announced the second
fourth annual FSHN
Professor Charles Nagel.
annual Discoveries in
Octoberfest luncheon.
Dairy Ingredients Contest. Last year,
Dorothy Pond-Smith, director of the
WSU won the most Marketable Product
Coordinated Undergraduate Option in
Award with its Jungle Moo-au flavored
General Dietetics (CUOGD) program,
Whey Coolers, a whey-based fruit bevand Marc Bates, creamery manager,
erage for kids.
both will be retiring this summer. The
Student Profile
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ARCHITECTURE
Professor Charlie Johnson was recently
given the Washington State Nursery and
Landscape Association Educator of the
Year Award for 2000. The award recognizes his work in developing and promoting
environmental horticulture education programs
statewide over the last
seven years. The award is given periodically to an educator who has demonstrated superior educational service to
the expanding “green” industries – one
of the largest agricultural industries in
the state, with a value of nearly $1 billion in annual sales. Johnson was commended by the association for his efforts
in the development of a new degree
program in environmental horticulture to
serve these industries. The award was
presented at the January WSNLA 2000
Convention held in Seattle.
Erika Hartliep receives national honor
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Erika Hartliep (Howell), who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in
December 1998,
was one of two
Washington
State University
students named
to the 1999 USA
Today AllErika Hartliep
American Team.
Hartliep received
honorable mention among the 120
students selected nationwide from 984
nominees. Rosannette “Rosie”
Hernandez Rimando (‘99 English) was
selected to the third-tier team.
In addition to grades, the judging
panel considers students’ activities,
leadership, and public service.
Hartliep, who graduated with a 4.00
GPA in the WSU Honors College, also
has been involved in many extracur-
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ricular activities throughout her college years. She served as president of
the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics Student Ambassadors; was
a member of the Mortar Board, a
service organization; and belonged to
the Agribusiness/Agricultural Economics Club and Student Alumni Connection. Other honors in the college included 1998 Junior of the Year, WSU
President’s Leadership Award, 1997
Freshman of the Year, and 1999 Department of Agricultural Economics
Senior of the Year.
Hartliep, who grew up in Prosser
and whose parents, Bill and Lynette
Howell, operate a small fruit farm
there, intends to keep her ties to agriculture. After law school, she is contemplating a career in agriculture
policy and eventually working in public relations for a Northwest agricultural commodity commission.
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Six students attended the annual Conference of the Washington Association of
Family and Consumer Sciences and the
Family and Consumer Sciences Education organizations in Wenatchee last
fall. Students participated in a pre-professional conference and
business meeting, as well
as the sessions and
meetings for the professional associations. WSU has two state officers this
year: Carisa White, president, and
Mandy Border, treasurer. The students
also are attending a pre-professional
conference in Ellensburg this month
(April).
Julie (Hedrick) Koesel, from Elk,
Washington, was the first student to
graduate from the Human Development
Extended Degree Program.
During the fall semester, the human
development student club participated in
the following activities: Back-To-School
BBQ; Land Grant Days; AHESS Flag
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Football competition; Future Cougar
Day. Students also provided child care
services in the Child Development Lab
while parents attended meetings.
Gary (Pete) Peterson is the new chair
of the Department of Human Development, as of July 1, 2000. He is from
Arizona State University.
The AIDS segment from Margaret
Young’s HD 360 course, Death and
Dying, won a 1999 Communicator
Award of Distinction, which is a national
award recognizing projects that exceed
industry standards in production or
communication skills.
The WSU Children’s Center, operated
by the department, received funding to
develop evening child care services that
will make child care more accessible to
student parents attending evening
classes. Funding also was obtained to
hire a teaching assistant who will facilitate a parent education program for
parents of children enrolled at the Center.
INSTITUTE OF
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Students Joshua Ford (major adviser is
Norman G. Lewis), Martha OrozcoCardenas (major adviser is Clarence A.
Ryan), Chotipa Sakulsingharoj (major
adviser is Thomas W.
Okita), and Catherine
Tide (major adviser is
Michael L. Kahn) are
recipients of the 1999-00
Loyal H. Davis Fellowship Award. These
graduate students received a $1,000
cash award, a $500 travel allowance to
attend a scientific conference, and $500
for supplies for their graduate research
projects.
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SCIENCES
The Weyerhaeuser Company and Oregon Department of Forestry visited the
department in February for summer
internship recruitment. The
department’s Wildlife Society sponsored
an elk feed.
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New AMID/Landscape Architecture
Building in Design Phase
The College of Agriculture and Home
Economics’ new AMID/Landscape Architecture Building is now in the initial
stages of the design phase, which will
extend until June 2001. In the next biennium, the college will request funds for
construction from the state legislature,
with plans to complete the building by
May 2003.
The 84,000-square-foot building will
be the new home for the Department of
Apparel, Merchandising and Interior
Design and the Department of Landscape Architecture. The total project
cost is estimated to be approximately
$30 million.
“This new building is important to
the college,” said Pete Jacoby, associate
dean of the College of Agriculture and
Home Economics. “It will bring much
needed classroom space to this end of
the campus and make it more convenient for faculty and students, who
currently have to walk across campus
for classes.”
Tentative plans are to build the new
AMID/Landscape Architecture facility in
the general area of Wilson Road, between Hulbert Hall and the Stock Pavil-
ion, forming the east end of the Glen
Terrell Mall. Through traffic on Wilson
Road would no longer be allowed, but
would eventually be replaced by a walkway connecting the Glen Terrell Mall
from the heart of campus all the way to
the new AMID/LA Building.
The building will include state-ofthe-art technology and computer equipment in all classrooms and labs. There
also will be design studios, critique
spaces, exhibit galleries, a photo documentation lab, materials resource library, model shop, conservatory and
visual display spaces. The historical
collection of the textile department will
have new archival storage and display
spaces and landscape architecture will
have a conservatory where plants are on
continuous display for students.
“Multi-media and computer-aided
design capacity built into studios and
classrooms in the new building and
expanded computer lab space will allow
us to keep pace with technological advances our current building cannot
accommodate,” said Carol Salusso,
AMID chair.
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P L A N T P AT H O L O G Y
Scholar Awards for highly qualified
entering graduate students. Each award,
which is matched 2-1 by the college,
totals $3,000 a year for two years. The
1999 scholars in the Graduate Program
in plant physiology are Barbara King
and Lucia Doherty.
Jane Choi, a graduate student in Lee
Hadwiger’s laboratory, received a prestigious Thomas S. Foley Institute Graduate Fellow for 1999-00.
The fellowship carries a
$1,000 stipend and the
opportunity to be involved
in the programmatic
activities of the Foley Institute. The
awards are based on academic excellence and a research agenda that addresses a public policy issue or problem.
Choi has written on the subject of
transgenic crops.
This academic year was the first year
that the Graduate School awarded 16
RURAL SOCIOLOGY
Emmett Fiske has just returned from a
yearlong sabbatical in Chile, where he
taught classes and developed material
on environmental conflict resolution.
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ew cases of salmonella poisoning
in Yakima County has Washington State University Cooperative Extension faculty busy again teaching Hispanic families safe food practices when
using raw milk in their cheese products.
In 1997, abuelas (grandmothers) were
trained to teach others in their community to use pasteurized milk when making queso fresco, a commonly used
homemade Mexican-style soft cheese.
“It’s now been over two years since
we began the first intervention after
cases of salmonella infection were reported in Yakima County,” said Val
Hillers, WSU extension food specialist.
“We were very effective for more than a
year, but we knew it wouldn’t last forever. Not everyone attended the workshops and some of the population is
transient. Thus, we need to continue
disseminating information about how to
make queso fresco from pasteurized
milk.” In addition to workshops, the
extension educators made a video demonstrating the process of making the
WSU-modified recipe.
The WSU Abuela Project gained
national recognition for its effectiveness
in dramatically reducing salmonella
cases in Washington State several years
ago. The program has since been
adopted in Oregon, and California also
has been looking at the program. Additionally, Hillers has sent more than
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1,500 flyers to people who request them
from around the world. The latest flyer,
she said, went to Palestine, where they
have a similar problem due to raw milk
cheese.
In 1997, Washington State’s Yakima
Valley was the site of more than 90
cases of food poisoning caused by a
strain of salmonella. The cause was
traced to queso fresco that was made
from unpasteurized milk. Hillers, along
with Theo Thomas, Anna Zaragoza, and
Frances Herrera from Yakima County
Cooperative Extension, worked together
with the Yakima County Health District,
the Washington State Dairy Products
Commission, and the Washington State
Department of Agriculture to educate the
public about the dangers of consuming
raw milk products. The team also encouraged home cheese makers to use a
modified recipe substituting pasteurized
milk for raw milk. Zaragoza and Herrera
taught 15 abuelas how to make the new
recipe, who in turn taught others in
their communities through workshops. Abuelas were chosen because they hold positions of respect and authority in the
Hispanic community.
The project was highly successful, with salmonella cases
in Yakima County dropping
from 90 to just two
the following year.
Eventually the
project was expanded to six other
Washington State
counties, which
was made possible with funding from the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The Abuela Project team has garnered a
number of awards over the past several
years, including:
• The 1999 USDA Honor Award for Group
Achievement in Public Service
• The first ever Dannon Institute Award
for Excellence in Community Nutrition
in 1998.
• Washington State’s Governor’s Award
for Service and Quality Improvement in
1999
• WSU’s 1999 College of Agriculture and
Home Economics Team Award.
According to Hillers, all award monies
have been used to help expand the
project.
The project has been an exemplary
demonstration of how the University’s
research and outreach efforts can greatly
benefit the citizens of Washington state,
as well as people worldwide. For Hillers,
the project has been satisfying in many
ways, including preserving cultural habits.
“With ethnic foods, we too often just
say ‘don’t eat it.’ It’s like saying our food
pattern is the good one and you should
just adopt ours because it is the safe,
nutritional way. That’s insensitive. Queso
fresco is very nutritional
and it’s a traditional
part of the Hispanic
diet. We feel very
proud that we’ve
been able to
preserve the
culture and
make this
homemade
product safe to
eat.”
It’s a
Bug’s Life
in Grant County
BY
DENNIS BROWN
Four species of beetles
imported from Europe seven years ago
are happy homesteaders in Grant
County. They are feasting on the leaves
and roots of an aggressive weed known
as purple loosestrife.
Within three years of the insects’
introduction, stands of the aquatic plant
have begun to disappear. “It’s been very
dramatic,” said Gary Piper, Washington
State University entomologist. “It’s probably the best biocontrol project I’ve
worked on in a long time.”
In its simplest terms, biocontrol is the
deliberate use of one living organism to
control another. “The aim of biocontrol
is to restore the natural balance between
a weed and the environment by introducing insects and pathogens from the
plant’s native homeland,” Piper explained.
Purple loosestrife, a Eurasian import,
is a worthy opponent.
According to various reports, Lythrum
salicaria, as it is known botanically, was
introduced to the East Coast both accidentally and intentionally in the fleece of
imported sheep or in ship ballast in the
early 1800s.
Immigrants probably brought purple
loosestrife to the country as well. It was
prized as an herb and as a garden plant.
It boasts colorful spikes of attractive
lavender flowers from late June into
early September.
But, its beauty belies its nature.
Not content to stay in one place,
purple loosestrife spreads along ditches
and along the banks of
streams, ponds, and lakes.
It crowds out cattails and
other native wetland vegetation, threatening wildlife habitat.
Purple loosestrife also infests irrigation canals and wasteways. Unchecked
by natural organisms that keep it under
control in Europe, it has marched west
and become naturalized in wetlands all
across the northern United States and
southern Canada.
Purple loosestrife was first discovered
in Washington state in 1929 in the Puget
Sound area. By the time anyone took
serious notice, it had taken root in
three-quarters of the counties in the
state. Perhaps the heaviest infestation
can be found in irrigation wasteways
south of Interstate 90 in Grant County.
“It was a sea of purple,” Piper said.
The weed is tough to stop
because of its tremendous reproductive
potential. Each
year an adult
plant releases
millions of tiny
seeds, about the
size of ground
pepper. Chop loosestrife down and it
will re-sprout from detached stems
and root fragments. Burn it, and it
will re-sprout from its roots. Its dense
root mass makes it difficult to pull.
“Chemicals, of course, were one of
the first things tried,” Piper said.
“There are a couple of chemical
products that do work against purple
loosestrife, but when you are dealing
with chemicals in an aquatic environment, you have to jump through all
kinds of hoops to get necessary permits and sometimes they are denied.”
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As part of a national effort, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding that enabled entomologists to look
for insect pests of the plant in Europe.
The first insects deployed in the
battle against purple loosestrife were
two leaf-eating beetle Galerucella species. “Both species are very similar in
their biology,” Piper explained.
The insects emerge as hungry adults
in the spring from overwintering sites in
the wetlands. They flock to young plants
and chew on the leaves. The leaves lose
water, shrivel and fall from the plant.
“It’s pretty impressive. You would
think the plant was hit with a blowtorch.
It just turns brown and dies.”
Since Galerucella, Piper has deployed
Hylobius tranversovitattus, a large, nocturnal beetle that feeds and develops in the
root system of the purple loosestrife
plant.
“We’re dealing with a perennial plant
that comes back from the roots every
year,” Piper said. “The more tissue you
remove, the weaker the plant becomes
and it is less able to compete with other
vegetation in the habitat.”
Piper has also introduced a fourth
beetle, Nanophyes marmoratus, that attacks the seed capsules.
During the last two years, the Washington Noxious Weed Control Board has
hosted field days at the Grant County
release site and has invited representatives of state and federal agencies and
private landowners to come and collect
insects to take back to their own weedinfested sites.
“Based upon the success we’ve had
in the last few years with biological
control, I think a lot of people are saying
this is better than chemicals and
cheaper, too. You only need a couple
thousand insects to start an infestation.
A couple people can collect that many in
an hour-and-a-half.”
For Piper, success brings more work.
He is tackling 16 other noxious weeds.
“I’m it as far as biocontrol of weeds in
the state goes. I’m running all the time.”
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New Strawberry Variety
Released for Late Season
WSU has released its 12th
strawberry cultivar, Puget Summer, a late season, fresh market berry
with excellent flavor that also appears
to be resistant to fruit rot.
Pat Moore, associate scientist and
plant breeder at WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center, said
there was much interest in planting
the new variety last spring, with several growers planting more than
50,000 plants. Because of grower
interest, Puget Summer was released
in only six years after the cross was
made. The average time from cross to
release has been 10 years.
Puget Summer’s strength includes
an excellent fresh flavor, Moore said.
California can produce strawberries
much more cheaply than growers in
the Pacific Northwest. The only way
Pacific Northwest
growers can compete is to offer berries
that have better flavor, so
flavor is very important.
But the distinguishing
characteristic of Puget
Summer is when it produces fruit, Moore explained.
The new berry produces fruit
later than other popular varieties.
This can be a great advantage to fresh
market strawberry producers, Moore
said. Up until two Oregon USDA varieties were released in 1998, strawberry production in the Pacific Northwest was pretty much confined to
June. The release of those two varieties and now Puget Summer will extend the season into July.
Puget Summer also appears to
resist fruit rot. Moore said in 1997,
fruit rot for the test planting at
Puyallup averaged 33 percent, and
Puget Summer averaged 14 percent. In
1998, the overall average was 22.2
percent, and Puget Summer averaged
7.3 percent. This was in unsprayed
plots. The possible fruit rot resistance
is of interest to growers, especially
organic growers.
“Only time will tell how important
Puget Summer will be,” he said. “My
guess is that it will
NEWS FROM
be a variety that is
W S U P U YA L L U P
grown as a major
fresh market variety in the Pacific
Northwest, but will not be grown as
widely as processing varieties. I would
highly recommend it for home gardens.”
Moore has had “very favorable”
responses to Puget Summer so far.
This year Spooner Farms, commercial plant propagators,
sold out of all its
Puget Summer
offerings, around
700 – 800,000
plants. He’s
also heard from growers who planted
the new variety and all of them liked
Puget Summer.
“The greatest challenge is that
growers are continually saying that
they need a new variety or the industry will not survive,” Moore said. “If I
can develop a new variety that helps
the growers, that is very satisfying.
Spring 1998, when I distributed some
test plants, Kirk Klicker (a Walla Walla
grower) was saying that this selection
might be what allows their family
farm to keep growing strawberries.”
—From WSU Week
Precision
Agriculture
the Future
of Farming
BY JOANNE
BUTEAU
Satellite artwork courtesy of NASA
A
s the tractor revolutionized farming in the 20th century, so will
technology significantly change agriculture in the 21st century. Precision agriculture, less than a decade old, is one
area that will greatly affect the way crop
and livestock producers operate. With
the use of sophisticated technologies
and information management systems,
agricultural producers will be able to
better manage their operations, thus
increasing efficiency, improving product
quality, and reducing negative impacts
on the environment.
Precision agriculture provides operators the information they need to make
smarter decisions. Sensors and computer monitoring devices can ascertain
the health conditions of an animal and
“By using the satellite-based global
determine the exact food ration it needs
positioning systems, you can determine
each day. Using satellites, global posiyour location in a field fairly accurately,”
tioning systems (GPS), remote sensors,
explained Bob Evans, WSU agricultural
and geographic information systems
engineer in
(GIS), farmers
Prosser. “This
can tell precisely
technology,
how much water,
“I think it is very important WSU take combined with
fertilizer, insectigeographic inforcides, and pestithe lead in pushing this new frontier
mation systems,
cides to apply to
in agriculture.”
which is a comdifferent sections
of a field at any
T E R R Y H E N G , puter program
time. This variC O R P O R AT E V I C E P R E S I D E N T designed specifiable-use appliM O T O R O L A cally for spatial
data, allows us
cation is unlike
to produce crop yield maps. With a GPS
past practices, where inputs were apunit on a combine, yields are monitored
plied to the whole field, regardless of
by location, as the crop is harvested.
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Agricultural Systems. Heng believes this
This data is then fed into the GIS propractice is the way of the future in farmgram, which then develops a very preing – and an imperative one.
cise yield map for the entire field.”
“For large-scale farmers, where uniWith that information, along with
formity of crops and quality are impordetailed data maps on other field conditant, this kind of micro control is absotions such as drainage, soil characterislutely necessary. It has to come. We
tics, and plant stress conditions, farmers
have to look at a farm like a factory,
can then vary the amount of water,
where we control
nutrients, and
every piece of
pesticides apequipment in the
plied to various
“Our hope is to have the technology
factory at high
small areas of a
and information management systems precision and
field using senattain minimum
sors attached to
available for commercial use at an
cost conditions.
chemical spreadaffordable level in the next few years.” We also need to
ers and centerpivot sprinkler
D E N N Y D AV I S , increase the
systems. The
I N T E R I M D I R E C T O R , quality of our
result is reduced
C E N T E R F O R P R E C I S I O N crops signifiinput costs,
A G R I C U LT U R A L S Y S T E M S cantly if we are
going to compete
optimal yields
on a global baand quality, and
sis. And, it will become even more imminimal impacts on the environment.
portant in the next 10 years as environTerry Heng is corporate vice presimental laws increasingly restrict the
dent at Motorola, a company that has
amount of water, fertilizers, and chemisupported WSU’s research in precision
cals a farmer can use. I think it is very
agriculture for the past several years.
important WSU take the lead in pushing
Motorola is now an industry sponsor of
this new frontier in agriculture.”
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Although precision agriculture holds
enormous potential, the technology at
this point is still ahead of science’s
ability to interpret the data, according to
WSU researchers. But regardless of the
science, in today’s precarious farm
economy, most farmers cannot rationalize the added expense of this new wireless infrastructure. Thus far, the practice
has largely been adopted by only a few
large, high-value crop producers in the
state, such as potato and wine-grape
producers. However, their use is only on
a trial basis; continued use will depend
on further research and assistance from
the WSU Center.
WSU Biological Systems Engineering
Professor Denny Davis says, “Precision
agricultural systems depend heavily on
having a lot of information and being
able to use this information to make
wise management decisions. With existing technologies, necessary information
may be unavailable or too costly. We
need to develop lower cost equipment,
improve methods for interpreting large
amounts of data, and then educate
farmers on how to use these technologies most effectively.”
Center for Precision
Agricultural Systems
That is the challenge of WSU’s new
Center for Precision Agricultural Systems
– to develop a complete, integrated
precision agricultural system utilizing
low-cost sensors and providing the
necessary training to use it effectively.
The ultimate goal is to work with industry partners in research, education, and
outreach endeavors to support competitive production of Washington’s agricultural commodities, stimulate economic
development in the state, and protect
the region’s environment and natural
resources.
“Our goal is to help farmers produce
better quality products more economically and increase their competitiveness
in the world,” said Davis, interim director of the Center for Precision Agricultural Systems. “But, we also envision the
center helping the agricultural community in a broader sense through more
economic development by generating
spin-off businesses at the Center. Businesses will be needed to produce sensors and software, as well as consulting
services. Another objective is to produce
farming practices that result in less
negative impacts on the environment.
We can do this with precision agricultural systems, because farmers won’t
have to use as much fertilizers, chemicals, and water. It clearly is a win-win
situation for everyone. Our hope is to
have the technology and information
management systems available for commercial use at an affordable level in the
next few years.”
This optimistic scenario is possible
because WSU scientists and researchers
have been working in precision agriculture for many years. In fact, WSU is a
world leader in irrigated precision agriculture today. With the university’s
background and expertise in the field,
coupled with its partnership with
Motorola, one of world’s major wireless
communication’s companies, the Center
is ideally positioned to accomplish its
mission. As an industry leader in precision agriculture technology, Motorola
will be key in moving the Center’s science and experimental systems into
affordable operational systems for farmers. Other industry partners also will
play important roles in guiding the Center and in supporting the development
and adoption of precision agricultural
technologies.
According to Motorola, another very
important element in the Center’s success will be WSU’s strong Agricultural
Cooperative Extension Program. Although the company was especially
interested in partnering with WSU because of the state’s tremendous diversity
of crops and climate, Motorola also was
impressed with the university’s extension service. In order for precision agriculture to be successful, farmers will
need adequate training. Outreach will be
essential, and Heng believes WSU is
exceptional in this area.
“I value Washington State
University’s agricultural extension department,” said Heng. “It’s highly reputable and has a lot of credibility in the
farming community. When your customers, the farmers, believe in what you do,
that says a lot. The program has grown
over the years and I think it’s now one of
the best extension departments in the
country.”
This June, a permanent director will
be appointed; later in the summer, the
Center will be fully operational, with its
team keeping WSU at the forefront in
precision agriculture.
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Human Development Forms
Preschool Partnership with Japan
BY JOANNE
BUTEAU
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ive years ago, a faculty family at
Washington State University
entertained friends from Japan. What
started out as a social visit eventually
evolved into a formal partnership between a consortium of private preschools in central Japan and WSU’s
Department of Human Development.
During their visit in 1995, Mr. and
Mrs. Hisayuki Wantanabe from Japan’s
Gifu Prefecture learned about WSU’s
long-established history and reputation
in early childhood education – a topic of
special interest to them, since they
owned two private preschools in their
country. Over 95 percent of preschools
in Japan are privately owned and include
children three to six years of age.
One event led to another and by
1997, WSU’s Department of Human
Development formed a working relationship with several Japanese preschools.
“Initially, the Japanese were primarily
interested in hiring WSU early childhood
education graduates to teach in their
preschools on a one-year contract,” said
Mary Wandschneider, the department’s
internship coordinator. “As an island
country, they’re somewhat physically
isolated from much of the rest of the
world, but want their children to feel
connected to it and be part of the global
economy. They want their children to
have exposure to Western culture and
the English language early in their education. Hiring our graduates, who are
trained in early childhood education,
made perfect sense to them.”
That is how the WSU-Gifu Prefecture
partnership started in 1997. The following year, the department expanded the
program to include student internships
as well. By doing this, students who
were interested in a short-term, crosscultural child development experience
would have that opportunity. And, the
Japanese would benefit by having stu-
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dents in their preschools teaching English and American culture, and sharing
American-style early childhood practices. To help student interns, the Japanese agreed to pay them a small
stipend, round-trip airfare,
and housing and transportation during their
stay.
“It’s a
tremendous
opportunity
for our students,” said
Wandschneider.
“Most students couldn’t afford to go otherwise
and this supported internship provides
them with a chance to learn about Japanese early childhood education, study,
and work abroad.”
In the first year of the internship
program, two WSU early childhood
education majors went to Japan. Eventually, the department hopes to send six to
eight student interns there every year.
In addition to recruiting teachers and
student interns through the partnership,
the faculty in the Department of Human
Development also have been engaged in
teaching and research endeavors in
Japan.
“The Japanese are quite aware of the
difference between their style of teaching young children and ours,” said
Brenda Boyd, director of WSU’s Child
Development Center. “They are very
interested in learning more about the
American-style of education – not to
replace theirs, but to augment it.”
The most apparent difference in early
childhood education between the two
countries revolves around a centralized
versus a decentralized approach to
teaching. In American early childhood
classrooms, children are engaged in
numerous activities simultaneously, with
several teachers
present. Some children may
be in a group painting, while other
groups are reading or playing a puzzle.
In Japan, however, teaching is more
centralized, with all children participating in the same activity at the same
time, directed by one teacher. “We both
have something to learn and gain from
each other,” Boyd said. “It’s not just
about us taking learning to them, but it’s
also about us learning from them.”
As part of the partnership, both Boyd
and Wandschneider have traveled to
Japan to give lectures on early childhood
education as taught in the United States.
Conversely, a group of 18 Japanese
teachers and school directors were on
the WSU Pullman campus last spring
touring the WSU Children’s Center and
learning more about its educational
program.
Additionally, Boyd is currently conducting a research study in Japan to
determine the attitudes and goals of
preschool teachers and parents. From
survey data she collected, Boyd is studying more closely the Japanese method of
teaching young children and how it
compares to the American style. Ultimately, she hopes to learn how the two
countries can benefit from each other.
“It’s pretty exciting,” said Boyd.
“What started out as a fairly serendipitous event several years ago has ballooned into a program I never anticipated.”
Help from Former WSU Students and Faculty
Can Fill in Gaps of Child Center’s History
W
ashington State University’s
Child Development Center, a
fixture in White Hall for decades, will
close and move to a new location this
spring. Before it does, Brenda Boyd, its
director, wants to celebrate its rich
history.
“The program has existed in White
Hall for 70 years,” Boyd said. “We would
like to commemorate all the training that
has gone on in that facility and all the
children who have been served.”
The Child Development Center is
located in the Fireplace Room on the
first floor. It serves as an observation
laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students studying child behavior,
helping them prepare for careers in
teaching, social work, and a variety of
other fields.
The center, as well as all other units
in the building, are being relocated so
that the 72-year-old building can be
converted into the home for the Honors
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College and a residence hall. The center
will be housed in the recreation center
at Nez Perce Village Apartment complex
until permanent quarters are ready in
the University’s new Children’s Center in
2001.
Boyd has sifted through old college
catalogs to trace the center’s beginning.
“I know there was a program in 1930
because I can find the course that reflects working in the pre-school lab in
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V. Lane Rawlins will become the next
president of Washington State University. Rawlins, who is currently president
of the University of Memphis, will take
over from retiring WSU President Samuel
Smith in July.
Rawlins will become the university’s
ninth president. He will earn a salary of
$245,000 per year plus deferred compensation of $50,000.
Rawlins says he is pleased to return
to WSU where he spent 18 years as a
faculty member and administrator. “This
is like coming home. It is very exciting to
return to the institution that has meant
so much to me in my professional life.
I’m especially thankful for the opportunity to contribute to the success of WSU
in a leadership role.”
Peter Goldmark, WSU regent and
search committee chair, says Rawlins
will be an extraordinary asset to the
University. “When we set out on this
search we had the task of finding the
very best president possible, someone who could
build on the foundation
that has been put in place
by Sam Smith. We are very
excited to have found Lane
Rawlins, who exceeds all
our expectations, for the
ninth president of WSU.”
Goldmark says Rawlins
will take the institution to a
new level. “He has unique
V. Lane Rawlins
capabilities, vast experience, and his leadership
will move this institution in new directions. We take great pleasure in welcoming him to the WSU family.”
Rawlins has been president of the
University of Memphis since 1991. He is
known for expanding academic programs and for a commitment to the
development and use of information
technology. Eight additional endowed
chairs and six new research centers have
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former WSU students and faculty
can fill in some
gaps of the
center’s history.
Boyd said a
separate childcare
facility was
opened on the
fourth floor of
White Hall after
World War II for
families of returning veterans. “A
full-day childcare program was offered
at the behest of President Compton,”
Boyd said. “Parent education was offered as part of it to help families make
the transition back to being families
again.”
Boyd invites former faculty who
taught there, former WSU students who
studied there and adults who matriculated there as children to send recollections of their experiences to her. Cards,
letters and even pictures will be dis-
the 1930 catalog. There’s a period of
years from about 1934 to 1938 where
that particular course number doesn’t
show in the catalog. I haven’t been able
to get anybody to tell me why it would
have gone away for so short a period of
time after its beginning.
“Interestingly enough,” she said,
“during World War II, the course was
still offered, so it wasn’t related to wartime constraints.
“Originally there was a single course
where students went in and worked in a
lab. Over the years there have been a
variety of courses that have utilized the
labs. A parent education course developed in the 1940s by Roberta Frasier
Anderson exists today. It’s now called
Parent-Child Relationships.”
Pictures from the 1940s show students observing youngsters at play from
benches around the edges of the room.
An observation booth was added later.
Boyd is not certain when. She hopes
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been created during his
tenure at Memphis. Research funding has more
than tripled.
Rawlins is recognized
for developing and implementing strategies to
bring the university and
community together. He is
also involved in many
national and community
activities.
He received a bachelor
of science degree in economics from Brigham Young University
in 1963 and a doctorate in economics
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969.
A native of Idaho, Rawlins and his
wife, Mary Jo, have three children and
nine grandchildren. He enjoys outdoor
sports, especially fly fishing and golf.
His interests also include travel and
writing.
played during an open house on April
28. She hopes some who write might be
able to attend the event, which is still
being planned.
Cards, letters, and pictures can be
sent to Brenda Boyd, assistant professor
of Human Development, Washington
State University, Pullman, WA 991646236. E-mails can be sent to her at
boydb@wsu.edu.
- by Dennis Brown
ALUMNI NOTES
Marietta Taylor Barron (’45 Home
Economics) had her book Two Worlds
published this year for pre-teens by
Royal Fireworks Press. She continues to
publish magazine articles.
Willie Bovard (’99 Agricultural Economics) moved from Columbia, South
Carolina, to Springfield, Illinois. He is
working for the USDA Livestock and
Grain Market News.
Jason Henry and Tracy (Adolphson)
Henry (’96 Landscape Architecture)
were married September 25, 1999, and
currently reside in Seattle.
Carolyn Lawson (’84 Adult and Continuing Education) certified recently as a
facilitator in the People Skills program
from the Effectiveness Institute. Carolyn
will use the certification to facilitate
communications programs in Whatcom
County. She also earned her Ed.D. in
Educational Leadership at Seattle University in 1992.
Patrick L. Oster (’92 Agriculture
Education) taught agriculture at South
Kitsap High School for five years. He
received his master’s degree in Education Administration in 1997. Currently
he is the Assistant Principal at Cedar
Heights Junior High in the South Kitsap
School District.
Katherine (Overnell) Roy (’88 Animal Science and ’93 Ruminant Nutrition)
and her husband Calvin Roy are pleased
to announce the arrival of Jacob Norman
Roy, born Sunday, August 15, 1999. He
weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces. Jacob
joins big brother Zachary who is 2.
Effective July 1, 1999, Katherine was
promoted to Associate Professor with
the University of Idaho Cooperative
Extension System. Tenure was also
awarded. She continues to work in the
Canyon County Cooperative Extension
Office in Caldwell, Idaho on livestock
and forage crop programs for area residents. She works as a livestock resource
person with the 4-H programs in Canyon and Ada counties.
Molly Welsh (’92 Agronomy) in June
of 1998 was appointed Curator for the
Phaseolus Germplasm Collection, part of
the National Plant Germplasm System of
the USDA-ARS. The collection is part of
the germplasm stored in Pullman at the
Western Regional Plant Introduction
Station. She attended WSU 1989-1992
and received a master’s degree. She
received her Ph.D. from North Dakota
State University in 1997, and served as
Postdoctoral Research Associate for Dr.
Randy Nelson, Curator of the National
Soybean Germplasm Collection at the
University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, until moving back home in
1998.
Ric Wesselman (’89 Agricultural
Economics) just got promoted to Key
Account Representatvie for Novartis
Crop Protection, a leading pesticide and
biotech company in the world. Ric’s first
assignments with Novartis after graduating from WSU were in Ohio, then Iowa
before returning to his home state. You
can see him at most any home football
game.
Dorothy Jean Wilson (’45 Home
Economics) died July 4, 1999, in Seattle.
She was born in Port Angeles, October
14, 1923, to Abner and Lenore Holland.
She graduated from high school in
Chehalis. At Washington State University
she was a member of Delta Delta Delta
Sorority. She taught school in
Vancouver, WA, prior to accepting the
position of District Home Economist for
Westinghouse in San Francisco. After
being transferred to Seattle, she continued with Westinghouse and as a
freelance home economist for several
years. In 1974, she joined the Department of Social and Behavior Sciences at
Seattle Pacific University where she
remained for twenty years. Survivors
include Bryce, husband of 50 years,
daughter Janet Hicks, and granddaughters Kellie and Brianne Hicks.
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IN MEMORIAM
Distinguished WSU Alumna Mrs. Yamamoto Dies in Japan
Richard G. Rightmire, B.S. ‘69, died
unexpectedly at his home in Blaine,
Wash., January 10. He was 53. He spent
30 years as Ferndale High School’s
agricultural teacher and 10 years as the
school district’s vocational education
director. He also was the school’s FFA
adviser and served as a statewide officer
for FFA. Recently he became the first
executive director of the Washington
Association of Agricultural Educators.
Rightmire was an avid Cougar fan
and an unrelenting WSU Cougar
booster. He was a member of the WSU
Cougar Club and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. In 1991, he was presented with
WSU’s Dad of the Year award. In addition to his allegiance to WSU, Rightmire
was active in many other professional
and civic clubs and organizations.
Among his many awards included the
Washington State Teacher of the Year
with the Best Program for Ag Education.
Rightmire is survived by his wife of
30 years, two children, his parents, two
sisters, one grandchild, and other relatives.
Gilbert Heggemeier, 4-H and livestock agent in Spokane county from
1946 to 1986, passed away December 7
at his home in Spokane Valley.
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Matsuyo Omori Yamamoto, the first
woman to receive the University’s Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award,
died August 10 in Japan. She was 90.
After earning a degree in home economics in 1937 at what was then Washington State College, Mrs. Yamamoto
returned to Japan where she pioneered
home economics extension work.
She received the University’s highest
award for her contributions to better
living in rural Japan through extension
work. The award was created in 1962 to
honor WSU alumni who have made
distinguished contributions to society, or
who through personal achievement have
brought distinction to WSU.
Edward R. Murrow was one of the
first recipients of the award in 1962.
Since that time, a total of 28 alumni,
including three women, have been so
honored. The most recent recipient was
entrepreneur Paul G. Allen last May.
During her career, Mrs. Yamamoto
received numerous awards for her work,
including the Ceres Medal from the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations in 1974. Mrs. Indira
Gandhi, late Prime Minister of India, was
the first recipient of the Ceres Medal.
Mrs. Yamamoto came to WSU in
1935, after earning a degree in English
from Tokyo Women’s Christian College.
She attended WSU as “the friendship
student of the Associated Women Students.” At the time, women were not
allowed to enter any of the higher colleges or universities in Japan, so she
was anxious to study abroad.
Two years of concentrated study in
home economics at WSU and a subsequent six-month experience as an apprentice at the Good Housekeeping
Institute in New York changed her life
and made her a “missionary” for improving home life in Japan.
She returned to Japan in the winter of
1938 and became head of the Home
Economics Division of the Tokyo YWCA
School, where she changed almost all
the curriculum and developed a new
system for homemaking education. She
also taught courses in family dietetics
and cooking science.
After World War II, she was asked by
the Japanese Ministry of Education to
take charge of the new program of
homemaking education for elementary,
middle, and high schools. In 1945, she
joined the Ministry of Education and
made the homemaking course compulsory for boys and girls from grades 5
through 12.
Later the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry asked her to start Home Economics Extension Service work, and she
was made the first woman section chief.
In the first year, she recruited 68 women
field workers or “home advisers” to
serve six million farm homes in Japan.
By the time she left in 1965, the number
of home advisers, superiors, and specialists had grown to nearly 3,000.
In the summer of 1965, she went to
Rome to join the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations.
There she became the chief of the Education and Training Section of the Home
Economics unit. She also supervised the
field work in all Asian and South Pacific
countries and some African countries. In
1968, she returned to Japan, but remained an FOA consultant.
While in Rome, she was notified that
she had been selected to receive the
WSU Regents Distinguished Alumnus
Award and flew to Pullman to be honored and also delivered an address on
“Ups and Downs in Pioneering Home
Economics Extension Work in Japan.”
- by Dennis Brown
P R I VAT E G I V I N G
T H E C O L L E G E O F A G R I C U LT U R E
AND HOME ECONOMICS
1998-1999 Honor Roll
of Donors
In appreciation of gifts to the College
from July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999
The Laureates of Washingotn
State University
($1 million or more
cumulative)
Anheuser-Busch Companies,
Incorporated
Arthur M. & Kate E. Tode
Foundation
AT&T, Incorporated
Audrey Burg Trust
Max & Thelma Baxter
Boeing Company
Lorenz Bohrnsen
Chevron USA, Incorporated
Lewis & Dorothy Cullman
Rick ’71 & Jacquelyne ’72
Doane
Herbert & Margaret Eastlick
Hewlett Packard Company
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Bob ’37 & Margaret ’38
McEachern
Edward Meyer ’38
Microsoft Corporation
NW Agricultural Research
Foundation
S.Fred ’40 & Jean Olsen ’44
Paul Lauzier Charitable
Foundation
Jeffrey & Patricia ’78 Raikes
Rockefeller Foundation
Seafirst Bank
Tektronix, Incorporated
Washington State Dairy
Products Commission
Washington Barley Commission
Washington State Potato
Commission
Washington State Tree Fruit
Research Commission
Washington Wheat Commission
The Benefactors of
Washington State
University ($100,000 or
more cumulative)
Catherine Addington Estate
Leo Addington
Alcoa Foundation
Alf Christianson Seed Company
Kenneth ’70 & Marleen Alhadeff
Otto ’37 & Doris ’40 Amen
American Malting Barley
Association
Roberta Anderson ’33
Applied Phytologics,
Incorporated
Indicates deceased
ARCO Products Company
Click-To-Learn.Com
Grady & Lillie Auvil
Avista Corporation
BankAmerica Foundation
BASF Corporation
Bayer Corporation
Ernest & Stanley Berg
Richard ’52 & Nancy ’51 Boge
Boise Cascade Corporation
Bonnie Braden Foundation
Francis Bradley
Ruth Brines
Joseph ’50 & Jean Buhaly
Kerry Burg ’50
Marilyn Burg
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Fnd.
Busch Agricultural Resources,
Incorporated
Leo Bustad ’68 & Jeanne Davis
Leo ’41 & Signe ’41 Bustad
Fredric Button
Callison Architecture
Jerry Camp ’34
Melvin & Donna Camp
Charles H. Lilly Company
Chateau Ste. Michelle
Robert Cheatham ’37
Janet Church ’34
Roderick Church ’29
Clifford Braden Trust
Colville Confederated Tribes
Coos Head Lumber & Plywood Co.
James ’44 & Louia Cottrell
Loyal ’32 & Helen Davis
Errett ’38 & Evelyn ’45 Deck
Robert ’48 & Genevieve ’48
DeVleming
Lowell & Stella DeYoung
Frances Dillon ’42
Jack Dillon ’41
Ronald ’50 & Carol Doane
Dow Chemical Company
Foundation
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours &
Company
Frank Feenan
Vitt ’44 & Mary Ferrucci
FMC Corporation
LeVern ’28 & Marion ’28
Freimann
Dick & Betty Garvey
General Telephone Northwest
Robert ’44 & Ruth ’45 Gibb
Albion Gile
Roy ’50 & Marcella Goss
Arnold & Julia Greenwell
Richard & Marcie Hammond
G. Thomas ’63 & Anita Hargrove
Edwin Hart ’31
Harvest States Foundation
Ferdinand ’42 & Audrey Herres
Noe Higinbotham
Hill’s Pet Products, Incorporated
Hoffmann-La Roche Foundation
HOP Research Council
Howard ’41 &* Ada ’42 Hunt
Elmer ’37 & Necia ’35 Huntley
IAMS Company
Idaho Pea & Lentil Commission
Claude ’34 & Kathleen ’36 Irwin
Helen James
Maurice James
William ’52 & Marjorie ’54 Johnson
Maynard ’50 & Mary Jones
Arnold ’59 & Marta Kegel
Everett & Helen Kreizinger
Norman Lenfest ’15
Iris Lloyd
Betty Loomis
Tim ’62 & Tuti Manring
Harry & Masie Masto
Helen Mc Elwaine
Edith McDougall
Merck Company Foundation
Monsanto Company
William Morkill ’50
Thomas Morris ’42
Motorola Corporation
Nabisco Brands, Incorporated
National Fish & Wildlife
Foundation
Northwest Turfgrass Association
Harold ’42 & Jeanne ’42 Olsen
PNW Pest Management Conference
Pacific Seafood Processors
Association
Louis & Mollie Pepper
Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
Incorporated
Frances Premo ’26
Puget Sound Energy
Rainier National Bank
Robert ’38 & Helen ’41 Reiley
Marvel Reinbold
Simon Reinbold
Research & Scholarship Found WSHA
Donna Rickard
Roscoe & Francis Cox Chari. Trust
Edith Ruply ’29
John & Alice Ruud
Mary Rymer ’23
Sacred Heart Medical Center
Lee ’47 & Joan ’49 Sahlin
Virginia Schafer ’52
Robert Schmidt ’53
Gary Schneidmiller ’71
Schweitzer Engineering
Laboratories
Silcon Graphics Incorporated
Lydia Sheffels
Dino ’37 & Dorothy Sivo
F. Willis Smith ’34
Students Book Corporation
Alexander ’41 & Elizabeth ’43
Swantz
Torleif Johnson Trust
Tri-City Herald
Unocal Foundation
US Bank of Washington
Van Waters & Rogers,
Incorporated
Harold ’49 & Joanne Vaughn
Martin ’62 & Judy Verbrugge
Charline Wackman
Washington State Dry Pea &
Lentil Commission
Washington State Federation of
Garden Clubs
Washington Hop Growers
Commission
Washington Trust Bank
Foundation
Washington Wheat Foundation
Kate Webster
Beulah Wilke
Minnie Wittenbach
Tula Young Hastings
Leonard & Edna Young
Zinpro Corporation
Paul Lauzier Charitable
Foundation
Silver Associate ($10,000 and
above annual support)
Catherine Addington Estate
Agro Pacific Industries, Limited
AG-BAG International, Limited
Douglas ’73 & Loretta ’72 Allred
Roberta Anderson ’33
Applied Phytologics,
Incorporated
AT&T Foundation
Alf Christianson Seed
Company
MAX AND THELMA
Loraine Bahr
BAXTER ENDOWED
Max & Thelma
CHAIR IN BEEF CATTLE
Baxter
Gustavo BarbosaRESEARCH
Canovas
The sale of the animals, land, and
Ruth Brines
Harold Brown
equipment from the Flying T Ranch,
Kenneth ’74 & Bonnie
donated by Max and Thelma Baxter
’76 Christianson
to Washington State University, will
Lewis & Dorothy
Cullman
be used to create the Max and
Coos Head Lumber &
Thelma Baxter Endowed Chair in
Plywood Co.
Beef Cattle Research.
Lucille Christianson
Consolidated Nutrition
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Youngs Leave
CAHE $100,000
Scholarship Fund
- BY DENNIS BROWN
T
he world has turned a few times
since Leonard and Edna Young
moved to Pullman in the midst of the
Great Depression. Time and progress
have transformed both the community
they moved to and the college where
Leonard worked for 34 years and Edna
for eight.
What hasn’t changed is their commitment to education and community.
With a gift of $100,000, the Youngs
have established the Leonard W. and
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Fnd
Roy ’50 & Marcella Goss
G. Thomas Hargrove Foundation
Hammond Ranch
Harold R. Brown Foundation
Heart Brand Cattle Company
Otto ’23 & Opal ’33 Hill
Johnson & Johnson
Betty Loomis
Microsoft Corporation
Novus International, Incorporated
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Incorporated
Stephen Pope
Jeffrey & Patricia ’78 Raikes
Research & Scholarship Found - WSHA
Rockefeller Foundation
SAFECO Insurance Companies
Texaco, Incorporated
US West Communications, Incorporated
Harold ’49 & Joanne Vaughn
Leonard & Edna Young
Washington Bulb Company, Incorporated
Zinpro Corporation
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Crimson Associate ($5,000 to $9,999
annual support)
Kenneth ’70 & Marleen Alhadeff
R. William & Milly Kay ’73 Baldwin
Wayne ’63 & Marianne ’64 Capps
Ann Catts
Cenex Harvest States Foundation
Columbia Bank
Continental Mills, Incorporated
Catherine Cross
Dannon Institute
Lowell & Stella DeYoung
Robert ’44 & Ruth ’45 Gibb
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Edna L. Young Endowed Scholarship
Fund at Washington State University.
The endowment will fund scholarships
in the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics fo r o u t s ta n d i n g i n c o m i n g
f re s h m e n , j u n i o r s a n d s e n i o r s m a j o r i n g i n a g r i c u l t u re.
“The Youngs have supported the
college and the university with their gifts
for more than 30 years,” said James J.
Zuiches, dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. “This generous gift is an investment in tomorrow’s
scholars.”
Leonard came to Pullman in 1936
from Pine Bluffs, WY, to become assistant to the dean of the College of Agriculture at the State College of Washington.
“Dean Edward C. Johnson of the
College of Ag was looking for a male
secretary for the college,” Young said.
“He got in contact with teachers all over
the country. My sister was a professor at
Montana State College and she thought
of me, so I applied.” He was hired, sight
unseen. At the time, the Greeley, CO,
native was teaching business classes at
Pine Bluffs High. The following year he
brought Edna after the couple was married in her hometown of Algonquin, IL.
Their honeymoon was a seven-day trip
to Pullman.
During his career, Young served on
several positions in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, including
experiment station editor. From 1949
until his retirement in 1968, he was
assistant to the director of agricultural
research.
Leonard’s experience as a news reporter before going into teaching proved
valuable when the research center
wanted to convince elected officials and
agricultural groups that scientists
needed to modernize equipment and
upgrade facilities throughout the state.
With words and pictures, he documented that need and helped secure
funding from the state and federal government and grants from farm organizations.
His history of WSU’s Agricultural
Experiment Station, issued in 1965 on
the 75th anniversary of the station,
continues to be a valuable resource on
the accomplishments of WSU’s agricultural researchers.
After he retired from WSU, the
Whitman County commissioners asked
him to serve as civil defense director for
the county. It was a part-time job for
about five years.
Edna worked in the Registrar’s Office
from 1957-1965. She is a 50-year member of Alpha Phi and has served as a
long-time volunteer at Pullman Memorial Hospital and worked with a Camp
Fire unit. The Youngs are members of
the Community Congregational United
Church of Christ in Pullman, where they
have served on boards and committees.
Edna and Leonard have strongly
supported Pullman’s hospital, library,
symphony, community theater and
Gladish Community Center.
The couple has traveled extensively,
visiting 44 countries.
They have one daughter, Barbara
Young Grutzmacher, who resides in
Pullman with her husband, Charles, two
grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Harry ’36 & Edith ’39
Goldsworthy
Richard & Marcie Hammond
International Dwarf Fruit Tree
Assn
J. Frank Schmidt Family Trust
Klaue Family Foundation
Larry Kopp
Karl ’71 & Lexie Kupers
Donald ’59 & Ione McKnight
National Fisheries Institute
Alice Niemi
Pharmanutrients, Incorporated
Ponderay Newsprint Company
Pro-Mar Select Wheat of Idaho
Rhone-Poulenc AG Company
Donald Roberts ’38
Virginia Schafer ’52
Jon ’65 & Sigrid Shepard
United Agri Products
Edward ’58 & Sally Veenhuizen
Elaine Vincent ’71
Washington State Potato Conf &
Trade Fair
Yakima Chief Ranches,
Incorporated
Zeneca Agricultural Products
President’s Associates
($1,000 to $4,999 annual
support)
Agrilink Foods/Pro-Fac
Foundation
AgriNorthwest
Alder Ridge Vineyard
Robert & Carolyn ’75 Allan
Stanley Allgeier ’29
Alltech Biotechnology Center
Altech Biotech Center
American Cyanamid Company
ARCO Products Company
ARCO Products Company
James Arneil
Asarco, Incorporated
Leon ’77 & Lorraine Baker
BankAmerica Foundation
BASF Corporation
Basic American Foods
Bayer Corporation
Robert & Michele Beckmann
Benton County Clean Air
Authority
B. Rodney & Eleanor Bertramson
Donald Blayney ’88
Boeing Company
Box 4 Ranch, Incorporated
Mark ’76 & Nancy Brandon
Leo Bustad ’68 & Jeanne Davis
James & Diana Carlson
Kenneth ’71 & Dorothy Casavant
Cenex Land O Lakes
Mark ’73 & Betsy Christianson
John ’74 & Jan ’76 Clerf
Walter Clore ’47
Columbia Ridge Orchards, LLC
Lance ’62 & Marilyn Colyar
R. James & Beverly Cook
Cougar Commodities,
Incorporated
Cyanamid
Denny ’67 & Irma Davis
David Dickson ’60
Distinguished Order of Zerocrats
Norman Donaldson ’40
Allene Dyer
Englar Food Laboratories,
Incorporated
Ed ’39 & Ayleen ’38 Erickson
Line ’50 & Ellene ’49 Estergreen
Fashion Group of Seattle
Baker Ferguson
Ferrite Company, Incorporated
Charitable Gift Fund
Fieldmen’s Assoc of N Central
Washington
Thomas & Patricia ’95 Fischer
Ann Fletcher
Flex-a-lite Consolidated
Foundation Northwest
Ronald Fowler ’69
John Froseth
Robert ’38 & Myrtle Fulfs
Charles & Jan ’81 Gaskins
George ’38 & Adeline ’40 Gault
Gelio Agra
General Dillingham Produce
General Telephone Foundation
Gisela
Global Agri Services, Incorporated
Gustafson, Incorporated
Frank ’56 & Margaret ’58 Hachman
Robert & Doris ’57 Harwood
Clifford & Margaret ’74 Hebdon
Edward ’39 & Arlene ’42
Heinemann
Alberta Hill
Joe & Virginia ’84 Hillers
Robert ’60 & Doris ’60 Hodge
Horticultural & Traffic Association
Andrea Howell ’95
Robert Hulbert ’51 & Toni DallyHulbert
Gary ’64 & Beverly ’78 Hyde
IAMS Company
Jim ’42 & Lois Izett
J.C. Penney Company,
Incorporated
Barbara Jacquot
Michael ’75 & Elizabeth ’75
Johnson
Maynard ’50 & Mary Jones
Key Bank of Washington
August Klaue
David Klaue
Rae Knott ’26
Peter Landolt ’76
John ’61 & Maureen ’61 Larsen
Laughlin Trading, Incorporated
Lawn & Garden Marketing & Dist.
Association
Lois Lehrer
Leon R. Baker Farm
Lincoln-Adams Crop Improvement
Assn
Garrell Long ’74 & Alice ’75
Hansen-Long
James ’52 & Janet ’55 Maguire
Monte ’80 & Carole ’80 Marti
Massey Services Incorporated
Harvey Massey
Roger ’60 & Kathleen ’62 McClellan
Walter McDevitt ’64
Dan McKay ’79
Mercer Ranches, Incorporated
Milton & Patsy ’92 Mercer
Richard ’68 & Rosie Meyer
Ron ’78 & Linda Mittelhammer
Monsanto Company
Mount Adams Orchards Division
Steven & Deborah ’79 Nelson
NYSEG Corporation
Northwest Fuchsia Society
Northwest Hay Cubers, Processors
Novartis Animal Health US,
Incorporated
Novartis Crop Protection,
Incorporated
Nutrilite
Thomas & Judy Okita
Michael Omalev
Oregon Logging Conference
Louis & Mollie Pepper
Francis Peryea & Elizabeth Beers
Pfizer, Incorporated
Edwin ’53 & Joan Phillips
Frances Pocock
Thomas ’74 & Diana ’73 Prenguber
Prima Frutta Packing, Incorporated
Pullman Home Economics
Association
Purina Mills, Incorporated
Thomas Quann ’53 & Mary Kohli
R.M. Wade Foundation
David Rhoades
Rhone-Poulenc
Richarz Associates
Wilbert & Ann Richarz
Ray Robbins
Leonard ’75 & Michele ’75 Roozen
Milton & Nancy Sackmann
George & Lynell Sarantakos
Donald & Lily-Ann Satterlund
Edward ’77 & Elizabeth Schneider
David Sclar ’85 & Tracy ’85 Skaer
Seattle Foundation
Seeds, Incorporated
Ole ’38 & Bertha ’37 Slind
Agnes Smick
F. Willis Smith ’34
St. James Episcopal Church
Robert ’76 & Cathy Stump
Stephen ’79 & Liann ’80 Sundquist
Michael & Winifred Tate
Bruce & Jo Ann Thompson
Charles Todd
Mary Tollett
Kenneth Trautman ’55
Robert ’87 & Kittie ’87 Tucker
Uniroyal Chemical Company,
Incorporated
USDA Western Wheat Quality
Lab
Robert Valicoff
Stanley ’40 & Lenora Walters
Washington Apple Education
Fnd
Washington Pesticide
Consultants Association
Washington State Federation of
Garden Clubs
Washington State Weed
Association
Washington Women’s
Foundation
Washington-North Idaho Seed
Association
Dale ’64 & Jane Wierman
Wilbur-Ellis Company
Raymond ’68 & Nancy ’69
William
Norman & Joan Willson
Robert & Marie Working
Steven Wortinger
YCC International Corporation
James & Carol Zuiches
Bryan Society ($500 to $999
annual support)
Robert & Carolyn ’75 Allan
American Dahlia Society,
Incorporated
Reginald Atkins ’77
Norman ’69 & Linda ’71 Baer
Henry Baur ’50
Buzz & Jean ’58 Berney
Donald Blayney ’88
William ’74 & Susan ’81 Bowe
Robert ’50 & Victoria ’52 Braden
Dennie Byram
Craig ’73 & Sharon Campbell
Captain Planet Foundation
Incorporated
Carolina’s Dahlia Society
Kenneth ’71 & Dorothy Casavant
Elsworth Roecks
E n d o w e d S c h o l a r s h i p i n Ag r i c u l t u r e
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As a bequest, Imogene
Roecks requested a scholarship be endowed at WSU
College of Agriculture and
Home Economics in memory
of her late husband,
Elsworth, a wheat farmer and
cattle rancher in Washington
State. The Elsworth Roecks
Endowed Scholarship in
Agriculture is a wa rd e d to
students studying in the
d e p a r t m e n t s of c ro p a n d
soil sciences and animal
s c i e n c e s.
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Cattlemen’s Association of
Washington
Cenex
Do & Okkyung Chung
Steven ’72 & Joni Clarke
John ’74 & Jan ’76 Clerf
Columbia Basin Horticulture
Society
Lance ’62 & Marilyn Colyar
El Oro / Agri-Beef Company
Entomological Society of
America
Ed ’39 & Ayleen ’38 Erickson
Euthenics Club
Robert Firman
Clement Fitzgerald ’83
William Garnett ’74
Peter & Georgia Goldmark
Grain Elevator & Processing
Society
Griffin LLC
Elizabeth Hayton ’43
Robert ’60 & Doris ’60 Hodge
Horse Foundation of Washington
Gary ’64 & Beverly ’78 Hyde
Inland Empire Dahlia Society
Jim ’42 & Lois Izett
J.R. Simplot Company
John ’43 & M. A. Killingsworth
Douglas Kitzmiller
Richard & Maryalis ’49 Klicker
Jim Kneebone
Nils ’57 & Lois ’57 Ladderud
John ’61 & Maureen ’61 Larsen
Merrill & Lorene Lewis
Thomas ’71 & Kathleen Lopp
Joseph Majka ’80
Mannet, Incorporated
Fred & Mary ’65 Marsh
Monte ’80 & Carole ’80 Marti
Master Beekeepers Cert.
Committee
Palmer & Evelyn McCarter
Roger ’60 & Kathleen ’62
McClellan
Minnesota Dahlia Society
Charles & Beatrice Nagel
Alice Niemi
Ohio Valley Dahlia Association
Greg Onstad
Alice Peterson ’38
David ’72 & Kay Picha
Pierce County Beekeepers
Gary & Susan Piper
Thomas ’74 & Diana ’73
Prenguber
Rhone-Poulenc
Charleyne Roberts ’50
Leonard ’75 & Michele ’75
Roozen
Russell Foundation
SAFECO Insurance Companies
Norman ’73 & Helen ’73 Schaaf
Snohomish County Dahlia
Society
Marilyn Spear ’49
St. James Episcopal Church
Chester ’39 & Ibbie Steen
Marvin ’82 & Bonnie Stone
Robert ’76 & Cathy Stump
Stephen ’79 & Liann ’80
Sundquist
Michael & Winifred Tate
Kenneth Trautman ’55
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Michael ’94 & Amy ’91 Valenti
Washington State Crop
Improvement
Washington State Federation of
Garden Clubs
Washington State Fruit
Commission
Washington St Nursery &
Landscape Assn
Western Feed Supplements
Northwest
Wilbur-Ellis Company
Raymond ’68 & Nancy ’69 William
Gordon Woods
Robert & Naomi Worthman
Yamagata Beef Producers
Tower Club ($100 to $499
annual support)
A. J. Gale Orchards
John ’68 & Linda Aarstad
Roberta Abel ’38
Adams Pest Control
Edward ’82 & Barbara Adams
Norman ’64 & Mary ’65 Adams
Paul Adams
Robert ’52 & Sylvia ’49 Adams
Aetna Life & Casualty Company
Ag Business Consultants
Agri-Stor Company, Incorporated
William Akert
Jack ’54 & Lorraine ’54 Albright
Julie Aldrich ’76
Anita Cabe ’51
Chris & Darlene ’79 Allahyar
Allan Bros. Incorporated
George ’68 & Kay ’69 Allan
James & Elaine ’37 Allen
Jay ’72 & Susan Allen
Allied-Signal Foundation,
Incorporated
Robert ’49 & Mary Allison
Mark ’86 & Ann ’85 Alvick
Lane & Susan ’79 Ambler
American Malting Barley
Association
Nathaniel Andersen ’95
Jeffrey ’86 & Donna ’86 Anderson
Wilbur & Sylvia Anderson
Karen Anghel ’83
Arthur Antonelli
Eric ’89 & Shannon ’88 Appel
Arrow Machinery, Incorporated
Lyle & Sandra ’78 Attebery
Sandra Auseth ’65
Lindsay ’77 & Heidi ’78 Austin
Jerry ’65 & Sarah Babbitt
Dean Backholm ’80
Larry ’57 & Shirley Bagnall
Malchus & Linda ’66 Baker
Dan & Lynn ’81 Bales
Kenneth ’74 & Patricia ’73 Bales
Julie Balmelli ’86
Bank of Pullman
Philip & Elaine Barden
Earl ’77 & Barbara ’76 Bardin
Richard & Betty ’50 Barney
Laura Barrentine ’94
Bart Berg Landscape
Danny ’65 & Judy Bartelheimer
Mary Baumhofer ’53
Donald ’60 & Alene ’62 Bea
Harold ’42 & Mae Beard
Jacqueline Beard ’83
Bechtel Foundation
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Eugene A. Bahr
Endowed Scholarship
Loraine Ehlers Bahr created the Eugene A. Bahr Endowed
Scholarship as a tribute to her late husband, Eugene.
Loraine and Eugene, both Wilbur, Washington, natives,
were married in 1942. Eugene bought the family farm from
his father in 1946. Although the Bahrs’ 300-acre farm was
one of the smallest farms in Lincoln County, they were
determined to make the most of their land. One way was
to adopt conservation practices in order to save their soil.
The Bahrs’ efforts were rewarded in 1954 when they were
presented the Conservation Farm of the Year award by the
Northwest Lincoln County
Soil Conservation District.
Their conservation work
included constructing three
dams that not only controlled
soil erosion on their farm,
but also increased their tillable acreage. The Eugene A.
Bahr Endowed Scholarship is
a wa rd e d to a j u n i o r o r
s e n i o r m a j o r i n g i n c ro p
a n d s o i l s c i e n c e s, a g r i c u l t u ra l e c o n o m i c s, o r h u m a n
d eve l o p m e n t .
Amos ’89 & Leonore ’87 Bechtel
Phoebe Beckley ’83
Dale ’66 & Judy Bedlington
Harold Beeman ’50
David Beguin ’82
Reed ’46 & Beverly ’49 Benedict
Barthrop ’73 & Dana ’73 Berg
Michael Berg ’92
Bestway Carpets, Incorporated
David & Patricia Bezdicek
Darrel & Betty Bienz
Biovance Technologies,
Incorporated
Vern ’52 & Adrienne ’47 Birdsell
David ’58 & Nancy ’58 Bishop
Joseph ’55 & Rose Blake
Sheldon ’72 & Janyce Blank
Mark & Elaine ’74 Blaufuss
Bonnar Blong ’48
Blue Rock Cattle Company
David & Judith ’62 Bluhm
BMS Consulting & Machine Works
Bob Colf Landscape Construction
Bob Mathison Orchards,
Incorporated
R. Joanne Bolick
Bon Marche
C. Duane Booker ’86
Mark ’69 & Sandra Booker
Marie Borg
David ’80 & Carol ’81 Borgens
William ’67 & Marla ’68 Borton
James ’78 & Donna ’77 Boulanger
Willie Bovard ’99
Landis & Lila Boyd
Paul Brandt ’55
Mark & Linda ’75 Bratonia
Stanton & JoAnn Brauen
Edmund & Darlene ’56 Braune
Sarah Briehl ’76
Robert Briggs & Virginia Lohr
Michael ’72 & Christine ’71
Brinton
Craig ’73 & Mary ’74 Brodahl
John Schneider & Shira
Broschat
William ’75 & Zena ’78
Broughton
John & Ruth Brown
Robert Bruce ’95 & Allegra
DePietro
Jay Brunner ’73
Gerald ’50 & Glenna Brunton
James ’65 & Suzanne Bryan
Joseph ’50 & Jean Buhaly
Clarence Bunge ’35
Louise Bunge ’35
Fred ’42 & Elizabeth Burgess
Edward Burke ’37
John ’58 & Marilyn ’58 Burke
Bonnie Burkett ’81
Edwin & Elaine Burkhardt
Everett ’54 & Willow Burts
William & Marie ’49 Busick
J. R. Bustad
Leo Bustad ’41
Luella Bustad
John Butkus ’38
Sue Butkus ’66
Melvin & Patricia ’45 Butterfield
Alan ’74 & Linda ’72 Bylsma
Richard ’51 & Lucille Caldecott
Daniel ’82 & Jodene Caldwell
Elsie Calhoun ’49
Douglas Call ’87 & Nina ’96
Woodford
Keith ’56 & Joyce Callison
Rex ’82 & Melva Calloway
William & Judith ’59 Camden
Fred ’51 & Dorothy Campbell
John ’68 & Gretchen ’69
Campbell
Steve Campbell ’72
Charlotte Carey ’44
Robert Carlson ’78
Cascade Farms
David ’66 & Catherine ’65
Cavanagh
Central Bean Company,
Incorporated
Central Washington Grain
Growers
Charles ’59 & Margaret
Chambers
Mildred Chambers ’61
Champion International
Corporation
James ’49 & Betty ’50 Chandler
Bernard ’62 & Sandra Chaplin
Donald ’57 & Marjorie ’57
Chaplin
Ronald ’52 & Fran Chard
Char-Hous Farms, Incorporated
Larry ’59 & Marilyn Charlton
James ’38 & Donna ’39 Chase
Chauncey’s Garden
Chevron USA, Incorporated
Chipman & Taylor Chevrolet/
Olds Co.
Charles ’69 & Denise ’95
Christensen
Craig ’84 & Julie ’84 Christensen
Elizabeth Christopherson ’69
Jerome ’89 & Caroline Chvilicek
Brandon ’75 & Carol ’75 Clark
Girard ’50 & Betty ’50 Clark
Clarke & Clarke Orchards
Debra Clarke ’80
Douglas Clarke ’75
Clearwater Landscape,
Incorporated
Craig ’97 & Pamela ’98
Cleveringa
CNA Foundation
Gene ’42 & Hazel Coe
Alice Colburn ’36
Robert Colf ’71
Barbara Collins ’40
Darrell ’73 & Janet ’72 Collins
Stephen Collins ’76
Sharon Collman
Helen Colville ’34
Wyatt ’62 & Vera Cone
Robert ’50 & Joan ’50 Congdon
Ray & Norma ’56 Conklin
Marc ’82 & Debra ’82 Connally
Connecticut Dahlia Society,
Incorporated
Jane Conrad ’74
Dean ’77 & Shelley ’75 Conti
Kristie Cook ’91
Richard & Stephanie Coon
Kirsten Cooper
Otto and Doris Amen
D r y l a n d Re s e a r c h E n d o w m e n t
Otto and Doris Amen established this endowment in recognition of the benefits they and other dryland producers
have received from research conducted by WSU’s Lind
D r y l a n d R e s e a rc h Station. Otto, who graduated from WSU
in 1937 in pharmacy, and Doris, who attended WSU, believe that agricultural research is essential in order to
improve dryland farming. By establishing this endowment,
they hope to benefit dryland agriculture today and for
future generations. The endowment, and the income from
it, will be used to 1) develop wheat varieties adapted to the
dryland area; 2) investigate long-term cropping systems
for profitable and sustainable production in dryland areas;
3) develop practices to conserve and protect soil from wind
and water erosion; 4) evaluate alternative crops suitable
for dryland areas; 5) perform conservation research for the
preservation of soil; and 6) fund other identified highpriority dryland research needs at the discretion of the
growers and WSU faculty serving on the endowment committee.
Cooperative Agricultural Producers
Incorporated
Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union
John ’66 & Lorna Coulthard
Richard ’59 & Joyce ’60 Cowin
Edna Cox ’31
Gary ’80 & Susan Cox
Kenneth & Deborah ’72 Cox
Karen Cozza ’66
Allen Craney ’73
Alan ’82 & Nancy ’81 Crowe
William ’54 & Marilyn ’49 Crozier
Charles ’82 & Elaine ’82 Culver
Paula Curry ’98
Bradley Curtis ’91
Dahlia Dandies
Darrell Collins Orchard
Elwood ’58 & Betty Dart
Daniel Davidson ’86
Philip ’79 & Linda Davidson
Robert & Jane ’42 Davis
Jeffery Dawson ’66
Dean Backholm Landscape Design
Dale ’62 & Carol ’62 DeChenne
Deerfield Foods
Alvin Dees ’68
Donald Deetz ’88
Gregory ’84 & Michele Deffenbaugh
Del Schwisow, Incorporated
Elizabeth DeMory ’96
Dorothy Denham
Jenneth Deno ’58
John Derrick ’92
Dan & Katherine ’74 Deuel
Robert ’83 & Mary ’86 Dey
Eugene ’77 & Molly ’80 Dight
Don & Joye Dillman
James & Cynthia Dillman
Double D Farms
Dick & Sharon ’70 Douglas
Donald ’34 & Myrle Douglas
Dow AgroSciences
Robert Drawsky ’48
Steve Druffel
Lisa DuFault ’97
Kenneth Duft
Glen & Barbara Dunlap
Herbert & Margaret Eastlick
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Jerrie ’69 & Sally Eaton
Robert Egeland ’74
G. Lee Ehmer ’69
Steven Eicker & Dorothy ’75
Ainsworth
Leonard ’79 & Jill ’85 Eliason
Douglas ’76 & Heidi Elliott
Lori Ellis ’77
John & Judith Elwanger
Arthur Enbom ’32
Engineered Technology Systems,
Incorporated
William English ’35
Lillian Englmann ’47
Audrey Ensminger ’43
Matthew Erwin ’90
Mac Evans
Tim Evans
Thomas & Alison ’80 Evert
Philip & Mary Jane ’44 Faris
Farm Credit Services
Greg ’73 & Kathie Farrens
Karl ’62 & Ione ’62 Felgenhauer
A. W. Fenstermacher ’40
Ferry County Action League
Gary Feser ’72
Douglas ’78 & Ann Field
Jim ’86 & Crystal Field
Theodore ’64 & Mary Filer
Guy ’58 & Patricia Fisher
D. Keith ’71 & Marcia ’72 Flagler
Fleener Incorporated
Chris Fleener ’82
Judy Fogelsonger ’75
Janice Foley ’70
H. Eugene ’51 & Vivian Forrester
Fossum Orchards, Incorporated
Chris Foster ’73 & Teresa ’75
Robertson
Diann Foster ’80
Robert Foyle ’77
Larry ’71 & Nancy Frank
Ella Frantsen ’36
Cline ’59 & Gretchen ’58 Frasier
Lafayette Frederick ’52
Leonard ’48 & Lillie ’48 Freese
Catherine Friel ’23
George ’54 & Jean Fries
Richard Fritsch ’57
Future Farmers of AmericaWashington State
Elizabeth Gailey ’47
Andrew ’87 & Tracey Gale
Gordon ’66 & Janice ’65 Gardner
Katherine Gausman ’76
Alice Gautsch
General Mills Foundation
Steven ’79 & Ann ’79 George
Paul ’71 & Dana Gibbons
Gies Farms, Incorporated
Dale ’75 & Wendy Gies
Kenneth Gilbertson ’66
Rodney ’44 & Mary Beth ’46
Giske
Glaxo Wellcome, Incorporated
Gold Digger Apples,
Incorporated
John & Mary ’51 Gonseth
Victor Gonzalez
Gregory ’86 & Kim Grattan
Greater Columbus Dahlia Society
Lita Green
Larry ’76 & Linda Greenwalt
David ’91 & Michelle Gross
Kenneth & Molly Gross
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Randolph Gross ’95
David ’71 & Gayla Guenther
Robert ’43 & Margaret ’43
Guitteau
Jerry Gutzwiler ’76
Guy Fisher Surveying
H. G. Etc.
David & Margaret ’58
Habersetzer
Randy & Margaret ’77 Hair
N. Gary & Kathy ’70 Hale
Perry & Linda ’77 Hall
David ’75 & Marilyn ’77
Hambelton
Hamilton & Dist Chrys & Dahlia
Soc
Hampton Inn
Marilyn Haney ’78
Richard ’83 & Anna Hannan
Carole Hansen ’67
David & Frances ’65 Hansen
Marvin & Laurel ’68 Hansen
Reed ’36 & Esther Hansen
Kurt Harder ’87
Keith & Bonita ’59 Harding
William Hardman ’67
Norman ’64 & Tovi ’64 Harris
Richard ’71 & Eileen ’71 Hartzell
Zille ’82 & Annemarie ’81
Hasnain
Kathryn Hatch
James ’50 & Beverly Hay
Mike Hayes ’81
Steven ’53 & Marjorie ’53 Hays
R. Dennis ’67 & Cheryl ’67
Hayward
Jeffrey ’77 & Janet ’77 Heath
Heathman Hereford Ranch
John Heathman ’61
Val Hecker ’77
Bruce ’67 & Carole HedderlySmith
Robert Heitman ’76
Richard ’52 & Beulah
Hemmerling
Curtis ’78 & Erika ’80 Hennings
Herd Health PLLC
Peter ’64 & Donna Herranen
Dennis ’65 & Christine Hill
Michael Himmelberger ’77
Judith Hiss ’37
Zana Hoffman ’62
Lyle ’61 & Jackie ’64 Holt
Jeanna Holtz ’79
Dennis & Marla ’79 Holub
James ’72 & Mary Hordyk
Earl ’40 & Martha Horner
William & Marsha ’78 Hoskins
Billie Ahrens ’51
Keith Houser ’79
Jack ’84 & Jacquelyn Houston
William ’69 & Lynette ’69
Howell
Steven ’71 & Suzannne Howes
Arnold ’55 & Danell ’55 Hudlow
Richard & Marian ’67 Hudnall
Brent ’89 & Michelle ’88 Hudson
G. Russell ’37 & Betty ’37 Huff
John ’74 & Cynthia Hulse
Robert ’71 & Anita ’72 Hutchens
Robert Huthman & Kelley ’82
Liston
Craig ’75 & Linda Illman
Gayl Inman ’65
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Ronald ’73 & Juliann ’74 Isaacson
Bradley Isaak ’97
Island Insurance Associates
J & S Progressive Seeds,
Incorporat
Jacklin Seed Company
Larry ’70 & Elaine ’69 James
Jensen Seed Farm
Bent ’67 & Inger Jensen
Kenneth ’60 & Elaine Jensen
Wayne & Jacie ’83 Jensen
Danver Johns ’50
Johnson & Johnson
Cynthia Johnson ’78
Eric ’77 & Arlene Johnson
Gregory ’85 & Kimberly Johnson
Harriet Johnson ’91
Robert ’52 & Laura Johnson
Wayne Johnson ’39
William ’47 & Beth Johnson
Johnston Dairy, L.L.C.
Leroy Johnston ’57
Lynn ’81 & Alison ’84 Johnston
Michael ’78 & Susan ’78 Jostrom
Mary Juckeland ’34
Robert ’82 & Gina ’82 Jungquist
Lorraine Juvet ’46
JW Lawrence & Sons, Incorporated
Donald Kagele ’78
James Kalamon ’70
Kallisbell Farms, Incorporated
Kansas City Dahlia Society
Richard ’80 & Stacy Keifert
Luther & Margaret ’44 Keithly
Thomas ’79 & Karen ’72 Kellie
David Kelly ’81
Mark & Carolyn ’81 Kelly
Robert Kennedy & Mary ’82
Rumpho-Kennedy
Ramon ’31 & Mae ’35 Kent
John Kersch ’69
Steven & Patricia Kessler
Delmer ’59 & Ewa Ketchie
Kalvin ’83 & Carla Keys
Shirley Kiehn ’43
John ’84 & Jean ’83 Kilian
Miles ’79 & Barbara ’79 Killian
F. Michael & Sally ’59 Kilpatrick
Michael ’64 & Gail Kincaid
Tracey Kipp ’84
Kiwanis Club of Pullman
Melvin ’57 & Judith ’61 Kleweno
George ’68 & Ann ’68 Kloeppel
Jeff & Terri Klundt
K. Wayne Knowles ’66
Wayne Knudson ’69
John & Iva ’54 Koch
Orville ’51 & Dolores ’51 Koch
Diane Kolb ’84
Mark ’75 & Victoria ’76 Kolmodin
Robert ’51 & Marguerite ’52 Koppe
Robert & Mardith ’63 Korten
Igor Kosin & Roberta ’58 SmithKosin
Patrick ’92 & Jennifer ’91 Kramer
Robert ’76 & Becki ’75 Krause
Snorri & Lois ’63 Kristjansson
Warren ’57 & Carol Kronstad
Joseph Kropf ’64
William ’52 & Mary ’50 Kuhlman
W. W. & Georgia ’55 Kurtz
Lacamas Dairy
Kay Landberg ’82
Jerome & Marian Landerholm
Torleif Johnson
A n i m a l S c i e n c e s Re s e a r c h E n d o w m e n t
Torleif Johnson died in 1976. At the death of the last surviving lifetime beneficiary, Johnson’s trust stated that
Washington State University’s Department of Animal Sciences was to receive one-fifth of the remaining trust. The
annual income from this endowment will be used to provide s u p p o r t to t h e D e p a r t m e n t of A n i m a l S c i e n c e s for
research purposes.
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Dave & Cindy ’83 Landgren
John Lane & Barbara ’68
Bushnell
Marvin ’64 & Judy Lapp
James ’71 & Christine Larsen
Louis ’49 & Shirley ’47 Larsen
Larson Casteel Company
Larson Gross PLLC
Richard & Beverly ’60 Larson
John ’68 & Laura Lawrence
Harding & Linda ’68 Lee
Andrew ’47 & Shirley Leiser
Glenn Leitz ’52
Larry & Karen ’65 Lesmeister
Allen ’60 & Karen ’66 Lewis
Darrell ’61 & Carolyn Lewis
Leonard Libbey ’61
Michael ’68 & Suzanna ’68
Liddell
Joseph ’68 & Beverly
Lineweaver
James Lippincott
Danny Litowitz ’76
James ’71 & Marilyn ’67 Loaris
Lone Acre Orchard
Blair Losvar ’80
Aaron ’77 & Denise ’77 Lowe
Thomas Lumpkin ’76 & Leslie
’88 Elberson
Dan ’78 & Ellen ’76 Lundberg
Marty ’74 & Mila ’74 Lyon
Wayne ’67 & Sandy Madson
Bryan ’90 & Tyran ’88 Mains
Paul Majer ’94
Warren ’58 & Donna Mallory
Duane ’64 & Patsy Marshall
Dale ’48 & Leila ’51 Martin
Thomas ’79 & Julie Mathews
Robert & Cleta Mathison
David ’52 & Georgia Matlock
Scott & Jo Matulich
David Maughan ’64 & Cathleen
’86 Gleeson
Beverly Mayer ’86
Sidney ’84 & Barbara ’84 Mays
Mark ’90 & Michelle Mazzola
Charles & Rae ’41 McCain
Bruce ’50 & Carmen McCaw
James ’67 & Linda McClelland
Carl ’66 & Patty McCrary
Alan ’67 & Sandra ’70 McCurdy
Elaine McDaniel ’52
Lee ’71 & Lorraine ’70 McDowell
Mike & Belinda ’84 McDowell
Marshall & Anne ’84 McFarland
McGregor Company
Alex & Linda ’73 McGregor
Samuel ’83 & Ellen McIlvanie
Donald ’64 & Charleen McKay
Gregory ’86 & Jennifer McKay
David McKinley ’79 & Dianne
Eaton-McKinley
Bruce McLane ’83
Dennis McLean ’75
Gary & Kathleen ’74 McLean
Thomas ’82 & Cherie ’82 McNabb
Brenda McPheeters ’96
Bradley ’86 & Molly ’85 McTigue
Harold ’74 & Robyn ’73 Meenach
Jack Meiners ’42
Glen Armstrong & Sharman ’72
Meiners-Armstrong
William ’72 & Sandra Meiser
Ricardo ’75 & Beatriz Menendez
Lloyd Mercer ’58
Sue Meverden ’71
Harold W. & Joanne N. Vaughn
Endowed Scholarship
At the time of his 50th WSU class reunion in 1999, Harold
Vaughn made a gift to establish the Harold W. and Joanne N.
Vaughn Endowed Scholarship. Harold graduated from WSU
in 1949 with a degree in horticulture. Following his graduation from WSU, he went into the insurance business in
Clarkston, Washington, and remained in the same business
at the same location for over 40 years. The Harold W. and
Joanne N. Vaughn Endowed Scholarship is awarded to students in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics,
w i t h p re f e re n c e to s t u d e n t s s t u d y i n g h o r t i c u l t u re.
Wayne ’72 & Karleen Meyer
Arland Michel ’51
Micro-Chem Laboratories,
Incorporated
George & Edwina Mielke
George ’52 & Riyoko ’50 Migaki
Mike Scott Orchards
Thomas ’80 & Barbara ’78
Mildner
Samuel & Kathy Millard
David ’57 & Mary Miller
James & Pamela ’78 Miller
Mac & Karen Mills
Eli & Fannie ’58 Milodragovich
Michael & Christine ’71
Milodragovich
Yasuho & Julia ’67 Miyakawa
James ’45 & Aiko Mizuki
Robert ’56 & Barbara Mock
Donald ’71 & Erin ’72 Moe
Steve Mohasci ’82
Momentum Textiles,
Incorporated
Michael & Ruth ’82 Monahan
Bruce ’51 & Elaine ’52 Monroe
Gary Monroe ’62
Monsanto
Monsanto Corporation
Dan Montgomery ’49
John Moorhead ’48
Joff Morgan ’79
E. I. Morrison
James Morrow & Cecile ’82
Babich Morrow
Laurence ’43 & Elizabeth ’44
Morse
Mountain Oil, Incorporated
Albert & Judith ’81 Mousseau
Peter & Cindy ’70 Mowery
Gerald Moyer ’75
James ’71 & Mary Moyer
Robert & Anna Moynahan
Gary Mueller ’82 & Vicki ’83
Rova Mueller
Joseph ’70 & Patricia Muller
Richard ’53 & Mary ’56 Munroe
Elizabeth Myhre ’85
Donald ’84 & Teresa Myott
Martha Nagle
Nakamura Farms, Incorporated
Tsugio Nakamura
Nalco Chemical Company
Nalley
National Dahlia Society
Arthur Nelson ’42
Bruce Nelson ’85 & Carolyn
Matthews
Bruce ’80 & Cheryl ’79 Nelson
Marie Nelson ’40
Raymond & Virginia ’60 Nelson
William & Karen ’79 Nelson
John & Kay ’59 Nesset
Donald Neuenschwander ’68 &
Carol ’70 Weaver
Ronald ’66 & Sharon ’66 Nicholl
James & Beverly Nielson
Doris Niemann ’45
John Noble & Susan ’76 WoodNoble
Mark Nocerini ’82 & Zara ’82
Abraham
James Nofziger ’52
Gregory ’77 & Joelle Noren
North Idaho Crushing,
Incorporated
Northwest District Beekeepers
Assn.
Northwest Research & Nutrition
Northwest Wholesale, Incorporated
Arthur Noskowiak
Akira Nozaka
Fred Nye
Larry ’76 & Linda ’76 Nygaard
Carl Nyman & Betty ’50
Spiegelberg Nyman
Ann O’Connor ’71
Iver ’85 & Mary ’84 Odegaard
David ’71 & Linda ’69 Odenrider
Mark ’78 & Tomi ’78 Oergel
Mark Oldenkamp & Laura HillOldenkamp
Olmstead Orchards, Incorporated
Donald ’69 & Barbara ’70 Olmstead
Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation Dist.
Ronald ’77 & Karen Osborne
Richard & Ellen ’66 Overby
Christopher Overdorf ’95
Pacific Plants, Incorporated
Frederick ’52 & Betty Paige
Dwight & Twila ’79 Palmer
Frank ’69 & Suzanne ’69 Palmiero
Alan & Lois Park
Gary ’76 & Julie ’77 Parkert
Steven Partridge
Robert ’55 & Carol Patton
Payton Power Products
Douglas ’76 & Anne ’79 Payton
Eriann Pearson ’63
Leonard & Marian ’47 Pearson
Suzanne Pease ’77
Larry Pederson ’81 & Joyce
Dickinson
Gary Pelter ’75 & Christine Stallard
Joan Pelto ’50
Peoples Bank
James ’70 & Carol ’71 Peterson
Kertis ’73 & Kathleen Peterson
George Petrich ’79
Bruce & Patricia Petty
Pharmacia & Upjohn Foundation
Jack ’62 & Lynda ’61 Pheasant
Philips Electronics
Gary ’73 & Geraldine ’75 Picha
Clarence ’50 & Betty Piper
Robert ’40 & Dorothy ’41 Pirie
Gerald & Jane Pittenger
Sherman ’64 & Phyllis Polinder
Kenneth Porter ’82
Richard ’57 & Camille ’59 Potter
Harold ’38 & Ruth Poulsen
Sheryl Powell ’78
Alwin & Helen ’45 Probst
Charles ’55 & Grace Prochnow
Edward & Patricia Proebsting
Puget Sound Dahlia Association
Bradley Pugh ’86
R.E. Redman & Sons, Incorporated
John Ralowicz ’82
Carol Ramsay ’87
Henry Ramsey ’61
Lowell Rasmussen
Ruth Rasmussen ’82
J. Brian Raupp ’91
John ’62 & Kay Raupp
Jeffrey ’80 & Jan ’80 Rea
Dennis ’80 & Vickie Reid
Robert & Joan ’77 Reid
Donn ’53 & Yoko Reimund
Reliance Insurance Co Foundation
Gary ’70 & Christine ’93 Remy
Michael Retter ’84
Becky Rettkowski
Lois Rianda
Richard T. Sterling, Incorporated
Douglas ’58 & Shari Richmond
Byron ’69 & Barbara Rickert
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Michael ’71 & Marline ’71 Riehle
Mitchell Ringe ’80
RNS Incorporated
Charles & Barbara Robbins
Dale Roberts ’98
Francis ’39 & Naomi Roberts
June & Ellen ’73 Roberts
John & I. Kathryn Robins
Douglas ’81 & Kathleen ’81
Robinson
Vernon ’46 & Sally Robinson
Brad Roesler ’74
Ronelee Farms
Kevin ’82 & Heidi Rose
Roderick & Alice ’44 Ross
Antonio & Constance Rossi
Dale & Suzanne ’69 Roundy
Homer ’65 & Karla ’66 Rowley
Mark ’78 & Deborah ’82 Roy
Mary Rozelle ’68
Richard ’60 & Karen Rubenser
William ’67 & Sandra ’67 Rudd
Karll & Barbara ’77 Rusch
Thomas & Cynthia Russell
Jotham ’35 & Evelyn Sackett
Timothy & Maureen ’79 Saffle
San Leandro Dahlia Society
Jeffrey & Teresa ’72 Santerre
Patricia Sauer ’74
Michelle Scannell ’92
Bernard ’70 & Debbie Schaaf
John ’42 & Joyce Schafer
Steven & Lynne ’98 Schauble
Schering-Plough Animal Health
Corp.
Schering-Plough Foundation,
Incorporated
Kenneth ’73 & Marsha Schilke
John ’64 & Janet ’75 Schlotfeldt
Ron & Wendy ’77 Schmidt
Dave Schodde ’63
Marian Schoel ’40
Brad Schu ’81
Ruth Schultz ’41
Thomas ’62 & Joanne ’62
Schultz
Delroy ’61 & Carol ’62 Schwisow
Alan Scott ’87
Marshall & Barbara Scott
Michael ’65 & Judieth ’70 Scott
Norman ’58 & Sharon Scott
Thomas ’81 & Wanda ’80 Seaman
Edward ’56 & Laura Seeborg
Gerald ’84 & Lisa ’84 Sehlke
Michael ’68 & Pamela ’68 Senske
Barbara Shaw ’65
Nabiel Shawa ’81
Russell ’87 & Hiroshi Shoji
C. Richard Shumway
Sonda Sibole ’88
Scott ’77 & Janet ’72 Simmons
Richard ’50 & Betty Simons
John Simpson ’58
Skagit Farmers Supply
Susan Skelton ’78
Skyhart Farms
Gene Slape & Marian ’66 Svinth
Kenneth ’79 & C. Denise ’79
Slauson
Christopher & Tammy Small
Jack ’54 & Alyson ’53 Smalley
Alan Smick
Damon ’53 & Lulu ’54 Smith
Daniel ’79 & Laura ’79 Smith
Edwin ’53 & Sylvia Smith
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Henry ’58 & Lois Vostral
Gale ’70 & Sally Vradenburg
Theodore ’50 & Margaret Waddell
Theron Waldo ’81 & Lisa ’82 Curry
Gloria Walker
Tom ’69 & Elaine ’71 Wang
Ronald & Margaret ’72 Ward
Warner Lambert Company
Wendy Warren ’62
WA Assoc of Wine Grape Growers
Washington Barley Commission
Washington Beef
Washington Mutual Foundation
Washington State Pest Control
Assoc
Carl Washington ’59
Michael ’75 & Barbara Watkins
LeRoy ’67 & Valborg Watson
Jason Watters ’98
James ’70 & Sharon Wedam
Ralph ’81 & Carol ’82 Weisheit
Duane Welborn ’80
Lawrence & Karen ’95 Weller
Gilbert Wells ’62
Peter ’54 & Jo Ann Weston
Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation
Michael ’89 & Suzanna ’90 Whalen
Whatcom Manufacturing,
Incorporated
Robert Whiting ’84
Whitman County Growers,
Incorporated
Gene ’72 & Michele Wiederspohn
Randy ’77 & Rise Wiggins
James ’93 & Jessica Wiggs
Wilbur-Ellis
Max Williams ’61
William ’77 & Pamela ’76 Williams
Brett ’86 & Sue Winterowd
Gene ’57 & Marcia Wirth
Donald ’70 & Sherri Wiseman
Michael Wohld ’60
Glenn ’64 & Nancy Wolf
Jasper Womach ’68 & Marilynne
Black
David Wood ’68
Douglas ’81 & Carla Woodworth
Larry & Wynona ’79 Woolf
Lois Wright ’71
Raymond & Patricia Wright
WSU Athletic Department
WSU West
Kathleen Wuthrich
Gary & Judith Wutzke
Paul & Rachel Xanthull
Youling ’89 & Aihua ’88 Xiong
Leslie ’50 & Phyllis Yates
David ’77 & Pamela ’77 Yorozu
Esther Yoshioka ’66
Jon ’88 & Carla Yrjanson
Clifford & Ann Zakarison
Huaping Zhou ’90 & Fengming Lu
Allan ’77 & Faye Zimmer
Robert ’80 & Trudy Zimmerman
John ’84 & Jennifer Zora
Robert ’61 & Helen Zuppe
Robert ’52 & Glenna Zwainz
Perry & Rachelle ’75 Zylstra
Ian Smith ’64
Joseph & Doris Smith
Laurence ’58 & Mary ’58 Smith
Maurice ’50 & Patsy Smith
Richard ’54 & Patricia ’54 Smith
Vivian Smith ’39
Gregory ’78 & Lyndia Smitman
Michael Smyth ’82
Stanley ’47 & Irene Sorgenfrei
Spokane Seed Company
Spragg Farms, Incorporated
Norman ’69 & Mary Spragg
Charles ’56 & Shirley ’57 Staib
Ronald ’64 & Sheryl ’64 Stanek
Roger ’66 & Catherine Stark
Steinfeld’s Western Acres
Richard ’50 & Betty Sterling
Joseph & Georgia ’78 Stern
Gerald ’74 & Carol Stevens
Stimson Lumber Company
Jeffrey ’85 & Lorita ’85 Stohr
Richard ’65 & Daphne ’65
Storwick
Michael ’89 & Tami ’89 Stubbs
Students Book Corporation
Richard ’50 & Irene ’52 Sund
Frank & Thea Swannack
Barry & Darcel ’89 Swanson
Stephen ’66 & Joanne ’66 Syre
John Syreen ’71
Martin Syverson ’33
Katherine Szabo ’70
T. J. Hayes Ranch, Incorporated
T.W. International, Incorporated
Mel & Alice ’84 Takehara
Jay Teachman
Michael Temple ’97
The Beez Neez Apiary Supply
Robert ’72 & Carol Thornton
John Thulen ’91 & Debra ’91
Wylie Thulen
Philip ’70 & Diana ’74 Tiegs
Tilted Acres Ranch
Barbara Timmer ’71
Henry Tingler & Mary ’78 Davis
Robert Tommervik ’66
Topcliffe Farm
Michael ’81 & Elizabeth ’83
Treiber
Donald ’57 & Claudia Tucker
Georgina Tucker ’33
Louise Turner
UAP Pacific
Ty Ullman ’94
United Methodist Women
United Way of Benton County
UpToDate, Incorporated
US Bancorp
US West Foundation
USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council
Roy ’66 & Joyce ’65 Van
Denburgh
Dan ’80 & Gayle Vance
R. Charles & Freda ’62 Vars
Arlen ’70 & Pat Veleke
John Verbrugge ’97
Sidney ’67 & Margaret Viebrock
Lucas Vos ’82
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Samuel Smith
D i s t i n g u i s h e d P r o f e s s o r s h i p i n P l a n t Pa t h o l o g y
Washington State University’s College of Agriculture and
Home Economics has established an endowment for a
distinguished professorship in plant pathology in honor of
WSU President Samuel Smith.
The endowment was initiated by the American Dahlia
Society (ADS), with the intent to s u p p o r t d a h l i a re s e a r c h
at the University. It was named in honor of Sam Smith
because of his earlier research work on dahlia as a plant
pathologist at Penn State.
Although approximately $1.5 million will be needed to
create the position, research has already commenced at
WSU. With the interest accrued from the current $300,000
in the endowment, plant pathologist and virologist
Stephen Wyatt, in collaboration with ADS, has identified
three major areas of interest. The areas include developing
diagnostic techniques to identify dahlia viruses, writing
publications on virus problems to assist producers, and
establishing a Web site with information on dahlia disease
and control strategies.
“There are three viruses that we will focus on right
now,” said Wyatt. These viruses were identified at a trial
dahlia plot at Manito Park in Spokane last spring when
Wyatt met with the ADS Research Committee.
Wyatt eventually hopes to enlist the help of a graduate
student, who will help with numerous greenhouse trials
and Web site development. “It would be a good project for
a student,” Wyatt said, “but we haven’t identified assistantship funds yet.”
More information on the Samuel Smith Distinguished
Professorship in Plant Pathology can be obtained from
CAHE’s Development Office. Call Patrick Kramer, Director
of Development, at 509-335-2243 or e-mail him at
kramerp@wsu.edu.
DEAN’S MESSAGE
Enrollment and Recruiting
E
nrollment and recruiting the next
generation of WSU graduates is
the most important and urgent topic on
everyone’s priority list here at Washington State University.
Why is enrollment important? The
legislature gives WSU enrollment targets, and WSU’s program funding is tied
to meeting these targets.
Why is enrollment an urgent issue?
This year, the WSU Pullman campus fell
below its target by 287 students. Although this is within two percent of
target, in which case the state does not
ask for money back, there is the potential to lose state funding if we do not
meet targets.
However, by meeting targets and
adding up to 377 new students, WSU
could receive an additional $1.7 million
to enhance its programs.
The College of Agriculture and Home
Economics (CAHE), like the entire University, is committed to a quality teaching and advising program for our students. Everyone in the college is
committed to increasing our enrollment.
Recruiting Efforts
1) We are increasing our scholarship
awards by over $110,000 this next
year, to over $500,000. Endowed and
annual scholarships are essential to
attract and retain the best students.
Thank you for your continuing support of both.
2) Faculty conduct phon-a-thons in the
evenings to answer questions from
students who have expressed interest
in CAHE majors. They call prospective students, those already admitted,
and those offered scholarships. This
personal attention says we care.
3) We have 31 student ambassadors
who will be visiting high schools to
talk about college life, WSU, and
CAHE. Nearly every major in the
CAHE has a student ambassador.
Thanks to a generous bequest, we
now have an endowment to help
support student recruiters’ travel.
4) The CAHE departments have submitted their Academic Action Plans to
increase enrollment by 50 percent in
five years. Implementation is next.
James J. Zuiches, Dean
Every department has a plan for
attracting and retaining students. For
example, some exciting new curricula
are being discussed in sustainable
agriculture and biomedical engineering, to name only two.
5) We are also planning a marketing
campaign in conjunction with the
rest of the University. The campaign
will focus on the great teaching and
advising at WSU that creates learning
for a lifetime. This is why WSU has
the strongest alumni support in the
nation.
We hope to profile alumni as part of
the marketing program. Look for some
exciting new ways to tell the story about
the College.
James J. Zuiches, Dean
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