1950s
Dave Parker ’50 was honored on his 99th birthday by family and friends at a gathering at Mason United Methodist Church in Tacoma in May. Dave graduated from Stadium High School in 1942, enlisted in the Army, and served on the front lines in Germany during World War II. After returning to the States, he enrolled at Puget Sound, where he met his future wife, Donna Bennett ’49. (She died in 2011.) Parker owned Mercury Press in Tacoma until it closed in 1996.
Edson Gilmore ’59 wrote in to say, “I am now 86 and going strong. I have been married 59 years and have four children, 11 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.” Upon graduating from Puget Sound, he received a commission through ROTC as an Air Force second lieutenant and spent five years on active duty as a navigator. He later attended Asbury Theological Seminary and served as a Methodist pastor in Oregon and Idaho for 38 years. He is an active gardener and has traveled to all 50 states and all continents except Antarctica. Gilmore, who learned to ski in the phys ed program at Puget Sound, has skied throughout the U.S. as well as in Canada, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and New Zealand. “Puget Sound was a fantastic starting point for life’s great journey,” he says. He lives in Woodburn, Ore.
1960s
Jerry Hines ’69 is a retired IT administrator for the Seattle Times. He reports that he “remains an active car nut and event organizer,” and that 2024 will be the 40th anniversary of the Alcan 5000, an endurance road rally that he has organized since 1984 (www.alcan5000.com). The event was spotlighted in Motor Trend in 2022. Hines and his wife live on Anderson Island, Wash.
1970s
Margaret Pauley Riddle Kingrey ’75 has a new book, North Mt. Tabor Road, released by Amazon Publishing in April 2023. She says, “It’s a book about moving to the country in Indiana, then downsizing and moving again eight years later.” She lives in Blair, Neb.
Bob Emerson ’78 and his wife, Mary, who live in southwest Florida, wrote to share their latest adventure: swimming with sperm whales and pilot whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica. (That’s Mary in the photo.) Bob and Mary frequently seek opportunities to swim with marine mammals in the wild; they recommend such activities for creating and strengthening your physical, emotional, and spiritual bonds with the natural world.
Dr. Randall S. Fowler ’78, P’08 retired from emergency medicine last fall after 42 years in the medical field. He agrees with Mark Twain that if you’re lucky enough to find a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life! He still volunteers with the Medical Reserve Corps and with Doctor Patrol at Grand Targhee Ski Resort in Wyoming, and will go to Turkey this fall to help refugees as part of Global Health Outreach. Most recently, he’s become a volunteer firefighter. He celebrated his retirement and 42 years of marriage to Keri Lu by spending 10 days on a small island in the middle of French Polynesia “with no cellphones, texts, emails, or internet!” He has fond memories of Thompson Hall and the “terrific faculty and students” of Puget Sound. He welcomes mail at RSFowlerMD@gmail.com.
Sarah B. George ’78 retired on April 1, 2023, after 30 years at the University of Utah, where she spent 27 years as executive director of the Natural History Museum of Utah, was an adjunct professor of biology, and closed her career as the university’s chief philanthropy officer. Under her leadership, the museum moved to a newly constructed facility and grew to serve 500,000 people a year, and as she retired, the university wrapped up a successful $3 billion fundraising campaign. She volunteers on the boards of Hawkwatch International, the National Center for Science Education, and KUER radio, and with her husband, Rick Ford, is embarking on long-delayed natural history travel, starting with Antarctica.
1980s
Bruce Sadler ’83 was recently inducted into Sigma Chi fraternity’s Order of Constantine. Bruce has long been involved with Puget Sound’s Delta Phi chapter of Sigma Chi: He has served as its advisor, helped it earn the “Peterson Significant Chapter Award” three straight years, and helped the chapter navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. He also has served as secretary and treasurer of the Tacoma alumni chapter.
Karen Meyer Eisenbrey ’85 has a new novel, Ego & Endurance (Not a Pipe Publishing), which she describes as a “a hard sci-fi workplace rom-com/survival story in space, inspired by and modeled on the Shackleton expedition.” It’s her sixth novel. “These books won’t make me rich,” she reports, “but in spite of that, I retired from paid work this summer.”
1990s
After 30 years in corporate sales and leadership in the employee benefits industry, Dani Getrich Stang ’90 has transitioned to joining her husband, Rick, in his Denver-area real estate business—The Perfect Home Group/Keller Williams DTC. They continue to be on the local leadership team for Sleep in Heavenly Peace, building and providing beds for children in need. “If any Loggers are interested in getting involved, please reach out,” she says. Her email: daneenstang@ gmail.com.
After earning his economics degree from Puget Sound, Daniel Talley ’90 moved with his wife, Aisha Ahmed Talley ’90, to Eugene, Ore., where he finished his Ph.D. in economics in 1996. Daniel has worked his way up the faculty ranks at Dakota State University in South Dakota for the past 27 years and recently became the school’s most senior full professor. Recently he carried the university’s ceremonial mace when leading the faculty into graduation ceremonies.
Greg Heartman ’91, vice president of product management at TraceGains, guest-authored a piece, “Ingredient Agility: The Cornerstone of CPG Supply Chain Success,” in Food Industry Executive.
Patrick Mullaney JD ’92 has joined Schwabe’s Seattle office as part of the Real Estate and Construction industry group. He brings more than 30 years of experience in land development and permitting matters, as well as expertise in negotiation with government agencies, land use litigation for public and private developers, negotiaton of development agreements, and dispute resolution.
Carolyn Ingram ’93 has been named to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She is an executive vice president at Molina Healthcare, Inc., which provides managed health care services.
Tracy Fagan ’94 wrote a book, When Love Isn’t Love, published by Kingdom Publishing in November 2022. The novel is about a promising college grad who is lured into a marriage of deceit, shame, and heartache. “God hears her cry,” Tracy says of the protagonist, “but will she escape before it’s too late?” Tracy lives in Lone Tree, Colo.
Danielle Lemieux ’98 recently won the principal horn role for Northwest Sinfonietta, a professional chamber orchestra based in Tacoma and Puyallup. (“‘Horn’ means French horn,” she explains.) After graduating from Puget Sound, she earned a master’s in horn performance from New England Conservatory of Music and spent a year in Oslo on a Fulbright Scholarship for horn performance in 2001–02. She has been a tenured musician in the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra since 2003, the Auburn Symphony Orchestra since 1998, and Northwest Sinfonietta since 1998; she’s also been principal horn of the Vashon Opera for the past six years.
Stephanie Muggli Menefee ’99, MAT’00, and Renata Kwong ’03 met up at the Sing! Say! Dance! Play! workshop, held in Austin, Texas, in July 2023. The two-day event was put on by MusicPlay and, according to Stephanie, “was two days of great learning and music fun for music teachers.” Stephanie teaches elementary music in Tacoma and Renata teaches music in Hong Kong.
2000s
Allison Young Crane ’01 writes: “I have had the pleasure of teaching in the math department of Enumclaw (Wash.) High School alongside fellow Logger Kathie Kuechler Ross ’85 for the past 17 years. Kathie recently celebrated her last first day of school—she is retiring next summer after 39 years in education.”
Andrew Miller ’04, MAT’05 has been working in schools in China and Singapore, and recently returned to Washington state to serve as the associate director of social studies for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Patricia Toole MSOT’04 of Seattle partnered with Eleanore’s Project and local therapists in Lima, Peru, to bring postural care education and properly fitted custom wheelchairs to the kids of Yancana Huasy school. “It was an amazing opportunity to help grow local capacity and give back from my great education,” she writes.
Britta Strother Chou ’05 and her husband, Solomon Chou ’04, welcomed twins, Elise and Emerson, in July 2023. Britta is a business development manager/water regulation expert for JMT, and Solomon is a financial advisor for JPMorgan Chase. They live in Littleton, Colo. At Puget Sound, both were on the crew team, and Solomon was in the Adelphian Concert Choir. In the photo, Solomon is holding Emerson; Britta is with Elise.
Keahi Makaimoku ’05 has been named CEO of the Hauàoli Mau Loa Foundation. Based in Honolulu, the foundation aims to provide opportunities for people less fortunate and to protect the environment. Makaimoku has been on the staff since 2012.
Jonathon Brown ’06 is associate chief of the Division of Arthroplasty at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute. He lives in Greenville, Del. At Puget Sound he majored in biology, played football, and was active in Phi Delta Theta.
Alexandria Galvan Maurer ’07 earned a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in May 2023 from Pacific University. She is now job-seeking and working to publish her research on indigenous students’ experiences as dual citizens in U.S. social studies classes. She and her husband, Vincent Maurer ’04, DPT ’07, live in Flagstaff, Ariz., with their four young children. The two have started Wingman Physical Therapy, offering specialized physical therapy and fitness training for dirt bike riders and offroad motorcyclists.
Nani Vishwanath ’09 and her husband, Matt Hoffman ’08, met at Puget Sound and say “the university holds a special place in both of our hearts.” Earlier this year, they commemorated their shared love of campus in a distinctive way: by each getting tattoos of the giant sequoia. “Recently, we made it back to Tacoma and snapped a picture of our tattoos with the original tree, and enjoyed showing our kids—Sameer, 6, and Amaya, 3—around campus.” The family lives north of Seattle.
2010s
Dr. Siri Erickson ’14 has completed residency training at the University of Kansas School of Medicine–Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program at Ascension Via Christi. She is now in a fellowship program in family medicine obstetrics with CoxHealth in Springfield, Mo.
Peter Davidson ’16 finished his Ph.D. in geology at Oregon State University in February 2023. A chapter from his dissertation was published as an article, “A younger and protracted emplacement of the Ontong Java Plateau,” in Science magazine in June. The article focuses on a massive underwater plateau near the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Haley Westman ’18 (at left in photo) and Maddy Powers ’17 both graduated from Seattle University School of Law with honors on May 13, 2023.
2020s
We caught a few glimpses of Zoe Gilbert ’20 during TV coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in late August/early September. Zoe was working as a production runner for ESPN. Her dad was at the Open, too—Brad Gilbert just happens to coach Coco Gauff, this year’s women’s singles champion. Dad posted a photo to X (formerly Twitter) of himself, the champ, and his daughter.
Katline Barrows ’21 graduated from Duke University in May 2023 with a master’s degree in environmental management. Her master’s thesis, Do Federally Managed Fish Stocks Have a Better Stock Status than State-Managed Fish Stocks?, compares the stock statuses of fish managed by East Coast federal fishery management councils to those managed by the Atlantic Marine States Fisheries Commission and four selected states. Preliminary results reveal that federally managed fish stocks have a statistically significantly better overfishing status (related to harvest/fishing effort) than state-managed fish. Katline’s sister, Kyra Barrows ’23, is also a Logger.