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The Communications Department at the University of Washington inducted five new members into its Alumni Hall of Fame on Oct. 25.

Read about the event or continue on to learn more about this year's inductees.

David Boardman: executive editor, The Seattle Times (MA, 1983)

Boardman started at The Seattle Times in 1983 as a copy editor and reporter. He has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects: an investigation of abuses in the federal tribal-housing program (1997) and coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath (1990).

 

Peter Clarke: professor, health communication expert, nutrition leader (BA, 1958)

Clarke is a professor of preventive medicine and communication at the University of Southern California. His most recent book, written with Susan Evans, is Surviving Modern Medicine (Rutgers University Press, 1998).

With Evans, Clarke co-directs From the Wholesaler to the Hungry, which has received awards from the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the UPS Foundation. The project has helped launch almost 150 programs that direct surplus produce to low-income Americans.

Clarke has chaired or served as dean at the University of Washington, the University of Michigan and USC.

Frank Garred: Publisher, community newspaper leader (BA, 1958)

Garred owned and operated community newspapers on the Olympic Peninsula from 1967 to 2002, including The Port Townsend Leader. He's been president of the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce, president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, and a member, representing the National Newspaper Association, of the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Bryan Monroe: Editor, newspaper and magazine executive (BA, 1987)

Monroe has been vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines since 2006. He joined the magazines following a long career at Knight Ridder, where he was assistant vice president of news. He's also president of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Monroe led Knight Ridder's efforts during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, helping the newspaper in Biloxi, Miss. publish continuously. His team's efforts were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. Monroe was also part of the team that helped the Grand Forks Herald win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1998, following the flood that devastated the community.

Mike Peringer: Marketing executive, civic leader (BA, 1957)

A Seattle native, Peringer is vice president of marketing/sale for Process Heating Co., a manufacturer in the Sodo industrial area south of downtown Seattle. In 1992, Peringer founded the Sodo Business Association to represent 2,000 businesses and 50,000 employees in Sodo. As president of the group, Peringer founded Artworks to help clean the area and remove graffiti. More than 5,000 youngsters, many of them at-risk, have gone through the program.

Peringer wrote Good Kids: The Story of ArtWorks, and all proceeds go to the program. He's also published Lifeline to the Yukon, a history of the Yukon River.

Dolores Sibonga: Seattle City Council member, community editor, attorney, civic leader (BA, 1952)

Sibonga became the first Filipina-American lawyer in Washington state, admitted to the bar in 1973.

She spent her childhood in the international District of Seattle, working at the Estigoy Café, her parents' restaurant and pool hall.

In 1968, years after she'd graduated from the UW with a degree in journalism, Sibonga purchased the Filipino Forum with her husband. Years later, after he was laid off from his job as a Boeing illustrator, she went back to school for a law degree, supporting herself, her husband and their three children on her scholarship.

Sibonga later worked as a public defense attorney, a legislative analyst for King County Council and a 12-year member of the City Council.

The induction, the department's fourth annual, begins at 5 p.m. at the University of Washington Club.

Past Hall of Fame Honorees

Hall of Fame, 2004

Hall of Fame, 2005

Hall of Fame, 2006

Stories and Photos

Open House and Hall of Fame, 2004

Open House and Hall of Fame, 2005

Hall of Fame, 2006

Hall of Fame, 2007

Department of Communication Distinguished Alumni

Starting in 2003, the Department of Communication has named four Distinguished Alumni from our Hall of Fame. The distinguished alumna/nus gives the keynote speech to our graduating students at our annual graduation celebration in June. Our distinguished Alumni are:

2003 - Norman Rice: BA, 1972
2004 - Governor Christine Gregoire: BA, 1969
2005 - Assunta Ng: MA, 1979
2006 - Ron Chew: BA, 2002
2007 - Micki Flowers: BA, 1973