R. Mark Allen, Esq.: BA, 1970
Mr. Allen is the President & CEO of the Washington State Association of Broadcasters. Allen is admitted to practice law in Washington State and Washington, D.C. He has practiced broadcast communications law and lobbied on behalf of the broadcasting industry since 1980.
Michael S. Eguchi: BA, 1970
On July 1, 2003 Mike Eguchi retired after a 34-year career with Fisher Communications, Inc., Seattle. He is currently serving as an At-Large Trustee with the University of Washington Alumni Association and is an adjunct Professor of Management at Seattle University’s Albers School of Business and a partner in a communications consulting firm, Storyteller Communications with fellow alum Doug Tolmie.
Susan K. Godfrey: BA, 1970
Susan Godfrey is working for the University of Washington and looking for network opportunities with other communicators.
Bill Lord: BA, 1970
Bill Lord became Station Manager at WJLA / NewsChannel 8 in September 2009. He oversees the complex, day-to-day operations of both the ABC affiliate and the 24-hour cable news operation in the Washington region. Lord’s responsibilities also include coordination of sales and marketing as well as news, promotions and technical operation of the two stations. Under his leadership since 2003 as Vice President of News at WJLA, the station has been one of the most honored news facilities in the country. WJLA has been recognized with the Associated Press Best Newscast for multiple consecutive years, the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, the Radio and Television News Directors Association Best Newscast Award, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and the DuPont-Columbia Award for Investigative Journalism. With close to 40 years in broadcast news operation and a Peabody Award winner himself, Lord began his career as a reporter and then network correspondent covering events from the civil war in Lebanon, Anwar Sadat’s visit to Israel, and the Watergate scandal. He gradated from the UW and received a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry with service in Berlin and Vietnam.
Steve Weiner: BA, 1970
Steve worked for the Associated Press in Washington State and Chicago for about nine years, ending up in Chicago as deputy bureau chief and news editor. He then worked for The Wall Street Journal in Chicago, covering agriculture, the commodities markets and Midwest retailing and consumer products. After working for the Eugene Register-guard as assistant city editor and city editor, The Seattle Times as a temporary assistant city editor, and back to The Wall Street Journal in Chicago as national retail correspondent (including coverage of the consumer economy), Steve spent five years with Forbes as their Chicago bureau chief.
In 1991 he started Readmore Communications, moved over to Alliant Foodservice (formerly known as Kraft Foodservice) as vice president of communications, and is now back running Readmore – splitting his time between K-12 education at the state board of education level, and corporate and non-profit clients.
He has this to say about his education and his experience in the real world: I certainly learned the difference between good writing and weak, formulaic writing. I have a much finer appreciation of how a university can contribute to a better-honed young journalist. I realize that I made a mistake by spending all my time in the Journalism school and The Daily. I should have learned more about the world, taking economics classes to give just one example, and spent less time in the very cloistered world of college communications.
Craig Andersen: BA, 1971
Craig Andersen is a Senior Partner at the law firm of Andersen & Bonnifield. The firm represents primarily contractors, engineers and waste management companies. He has two daughters, one of whom attends the University of Washington.
John Enger: BA, 1971
John Enger Started working after graduation for the Neighborhood Telephone Directories, headquartered in West Seattle, and retired from there in April, 2006. He has to his credit 35 years of publishing the local telephone directories known as the Banana Pages. He was the COO when the company was sold in 1998 and stayed on as the General Manager for the new ownership group until retiring. The company started the world’s first true Internet Yellow Pages and sold that technology to InfoSpace in 1997. In his response to the Communication Alumni Newsletter, spring, 2006 edition, he reports “I am married and have two wonderful children, plus 2 fantastic grandchildren. My son is stationed on a submarine at Bangor and my daughter is enjoying her first year in college at the UofW [2006]. Interests are travel, spectator sports, reading, hiking, but I also will be serving as President of the West Seattle Rotary Club next year, an organization I’ve belong to for 30 years.”
Delores Eyler: BA (Journalism), 1971
M.S. in Communications from Portland State University. M.A.T. from National University. Founded a community newspaper in Rye, NY in 1996 (sold majority ownership in 2002.)
Patricia Foote: BA, 1971
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Patricia Foote has worked as a reporter, arts and entertainment editor, news feature editor and was the Assistant Managing Editor/Administration in The Seattle Times newsroom for many years. She oversaw staff development and recruiting, policies, compensation, and other human-resource issues for the newsroom. She taught journalism at the University of Washington for four years and has remained active in supporting the journalism program and its students. She serves on the UW Department of Communication Visiting Committee and the UW Communication Alumni Club; she is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and a past winner of the Times‘ Publisher’s Circle Award. Foote started her newspaper career at age 15 as a vacation fill-in at The Highline Times, followed by other South King County weeklies. She was hired by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to edit its weekly entertainment section before becoming a reporter in The Seattle Times View section in 1973.
John Graham: BA, 1971, Editorial Journalism
John Graham graduated in the midst of the Great Seattle Depression of 1971 (there were billboards with the message “Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights?”), he finally got a job in communications in 1972 as a Public Information Specialist for the Army Medical Command at Madigan Army Medical Center near Tacoma. After a stint with the Easter Seal Society in Seattle, Graham got a job in Journalism–Editor of the Issaqah Press, a weekly. While there, he married Polly Rachford, a 1975 grad of the UW Medical School’s Occupational Therapy program. They then moved to the Portland area, where Graham began an almost 30-year career in energy efficiency for utilities and consulting companies. The couple had two daughters, one now living in Seattle and preparing to go to grad school at the UW, and the other with her husband in Tonasket, WA. Graham and his wife lived in Yreka, CA; Yakima, WA; Portland and Vancouver, WA before moving to Hawaii in 2006. They have lived there ever since, and love the climate, the physical beauty of the place, and the slower pace of life. He would love to hear from any Communications grads anywhere, and any Husky Alums in Hawaii! Aloha!
Sue Brockmann: BA, 1972
Sue Brockman is the University of Washington Alumni Association as the Director of Marketing Communications and Revenue Development.
Manjunath Pendakur: BA, 1972 (Radio-TV); MA, 1975 (Communication)
Dr. Manjunath Pendakur is Professor & Dean at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University.
David Workman: BA, 1972
Workman graduated in 1972, and in January 1973, he was hired as the editor of a small weekly newspaper, the Snoqualmie Valley Record, where he stayed until November 1979, then was hired by Fishing & Hunting News. During part of that time, he was also a stringer for the Associated Press. For the next 21 years, he worked as the Washington editor of F&H News, rose to senior staff editor and was named managing editor of two other publications, Hunter Education Instructor and Small Craft Advisory, owned by F&H News‘ parent company, Outdoor Empire Publishing.
In November 2000, he was hired as senior editor of a nationally-circulated firearms newspaper, Gun Week.
Workman is the author of “Washington State Gun Rights and Responsibilities,” and — with Alan Gottlieb — “America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age.”
Over the years, Workman have written opinion pieces that have appeared in such newspapers as the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ft. Worth Star Telegram, Hartford Courant, Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tacoma News Tribune, Washington Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
He still writes for F&H News, and his byline regularly appears in other firearms-oriented publications.
Rita Brogan: BA, 1972; MA 1975
2006 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Rita Brogan is the owner and CEO of PRR, Inc., a public affairs and communications agency, focusing on civic community and the environment with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C. Since Brogan has been in the lead, PRR has won numerous local and national awards in marketing and public relations. The company has been listed in 5 of the past 6 years by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the 100 fastest growth privately held businesses in Washington state. Media Inc., listed it as one of the 100 largest public relations firms in the U.S., 2001-2004. Brogan’s dedication to civic engagement and service is evident in her volunteer work in public service. She is a member of the Seattle Municipal League Board of Directors and served as chair in 2005. She serves on the board of directors for the Downtown Seattle Business Association, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Intiman Theater. She is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce Transportation. Her list of past service is extensive, and includes the International District Urban Design Advisory Committee, Washington State Women’s Council, Asian Counseling and Referral Service Board of Directors, Virginia Mason Research Center Board of Trustees and Washington Gives Board of Governors. She was a member of Gov. Booth Gardner’s transition team in 1984.
Robin Forrest Jacobson: BA, 1972
Robin Jacobson worked for King Broadcasting for years and is now a Public Relations Manager for The San Juan Island Visitors Bureau.
Christine C. White: BA, 1972 – Communications, Editorial Journalism
Christine White entered the UW in 1954 and left school to marry in 1955. After having five children she returned to school full time in 1970 with the help of an award from the Paul Ashley Fund and then an award from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The summer between her junior and senior years she was an intern reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune.
Her early jobs after graduation included: public information officer for Seattle Central Community College; information specialist, Health Sciences Information Services, UW; public relations specialist, Pay ‘n Save Corp.; and employee benefits communications specialist, Seattle Standard Corp. She did some freelance writing before ending 11 years with The Boeing Co. as a writer/editor.
She is active in advocating for the mentally ill, with memberships on a committee of the King County Mental Health Advisory Board, and the board of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Greater Seattle.
Hatti L. Hamlin, APR, Fellow PRSA: BA, 1972
In a career spanning 36 years, Hatti has counseled clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to government, non-profit and educational institutions. They have included household names like American Express, Clorox, Sara Lee, Microsoft and GE Capital, as well as local and regional companies ranging from wineries to consulting firms, Internet companies, hospitals, retailers, medical equipment manufacturers, utilities, banks and real estate companies.
Bruce Johansen: BA, 1972; PhD, 1979
2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Bruce Johansen has been teaching, researching, and writing in the School of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for 27 years as of 2009. During that time, he has held two endowed chairs: Robert T. Reilly (1996-2002), in the School, and Frederick W. Kayser (2003-2009), a university-wide research distinction. He is the senior ranking professor in the Department of Communication with a cross-listing in Native American Studies. He has published 31 books (with three more in various stages of production as of 2009). Johansen also merits distinction as a teacher. In 1991, he was presented with an award for creative approaches to teaching free expression by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Johansen has earned a national and international reputation as a scholar and public interpreter of Native American history and present-day issues, as well as environmental issues, most notably global warming and toxic chemical pollution. This work has taken him into many fields: history, anthropology, law, the Earth sciences, and many others, including his home field of intercultural and environmental communication. His work has been published in Spanish, French, Norwegian, Polish, German, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Chinese, and Japanese. As a scholar, he has been cited in more than 300 books and almost 300 academic journals around the world, including more than 75 legal journals. His work also has been used in more than 220 college courses, and several legal decisions, as well as at least 250 web sites. His books have been the subject of 175 reviews. When The Progressive celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009, a book of the magazine’s best writing during the century included Johansen’s on-the-scene reporting from the Arctic describing global warming’s effects on the Inuit.
Eunice Malley: BA, 1972
Eunice Malley has been working as a technical writer for over 15 years – for the last two years as an independent contractor. She is currently on contract with a State of California division. She has also taught communications courses for extended education programs, and has a resume writing service business specializing in career transition.
Norman Rice: BA, 1972 Communications
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
2003 Department of Communication Distinguished Alumnus
Public servant, bank president and CEO, community leader. He served 3 terms on the Seattle City Council and was Mayor of Seattle. As the mayor, he enhanced the quality of the city’s public schools, revitalized the downtown core and implemented a model welfare-to-work program. We was the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and joined the Federal Home Loan Bank as Executive Vice President in 1998, becoming President and CEO in 1999. He sits on or has sat on numerous boards, including SAFECO, Brooking Institution’s Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities, and the Bretton Woods Committee.
Mayumi Tsutakawa: BA, 1972; MA, 1976
2008 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Mayumi Tsutakawa has an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies and a master’s in communication. Her thesis dealt with James Sakamoto and the Japanese American Courier. She credits Communication Professor Roger Simpson, her thesis advisor, for not only helping her find her topic, but for understanding and being supportive of her interest in that topic.
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Larry Asher: BA, 1973
Larry Asher is the president of Worker Bees, an independent Seattle advertising and marketing communications firm serving clients such as Swedish Medical Center, Vulcan Real Estate, and Univar Corporation. He formed Worker Bees in 1992 after serving as a partner and creative director for the Portland-based ad agency, Borders Perrin & Norrander.
In addition to his advertising and marketing communications practice, Larry is a co-director and instructor at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts, a school that provides professional development and portfolio courses in graphic design, advertising, computer graphics, and web design.
Glenn Cassidy: BA, 1973
Mr. Cassidy is the Communications Director for Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, which operates 18 healthcare facilities in Washington and Oregon. He was the business manager of The Daily in 1973.
Wendy Cone Dore: BA, 1973
Wendy majored in Communications/Advertising & Public Relations. She holds several awards, is the Past President of the Seattle Professional Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications, and has worked as vice president of marketing for Seafirst Bank and Director of Marketing for AAA Washington. She is now a principal at The Marketing Partners, Inc., a Bellevue, WA marketing, advertising and public relations agency specializing in helping regional companies effectively market their products. Wendy has been there since 1993.
Micki Flowers: BA, 1973
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
A recently retired KIRO TV reporter and anchor who has been involved with professional organizations (including the Seattle Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists), community organizations (including Achievement Rewards for College Scientists as member and public relations chair, AIDS Housing of Washington as a board member and chair of fund-raising committee, Junior League of Seattle as a Sustaining Member), and the University (as co-chair of the UW Graduate Diversity Fellows Dinner in 2004-5). She has mentored many aspiring young journalists.
Jean Godden: BA, 1973
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Jean Godden attained recognition in Seattle serving as a city columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times. That status was achieved after years as an award-winning urban affairs reporter, editorial writer, editorial page editor, business editor and restaurant critic. She attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, later graduating from the UW School of Communications. She was propelled into community activism following a double school levy failure that resulted in the cancellation of her son’s kindergarten class. She worked with other parents to organize a cooperative kindergarten. That led to her election as PTA president. She then joined League of Women Voters, Citizens Against Freeways, the Municipal League and the United Way. She helped organize the Lake City Community Council, wrote its bylaws and served as an elected director. In the late 1960s, Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman appointed Godden to his charter review committee and later named her to the City’s Board of Adjustment. Godden chairs the Finance & Budget committee, which deliberates and makes recommendations on all matters relating to the financial management and budget policies of the city. During her first term, she was chairman of the Energy & Environmental Policy Committee and led the council in stabilizing City Light’s finances, lowering electric rates by 8.4 percent across the board and achieving three years of greenhouse gas neutrality. She orchestrated passage of a Critical Areas Ordinance that protects fish-bearing streams, wetlands and wildlife and curtails use of pesticides.
Jerilyn McIntyre: PhD, 1973 Communications
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Jerilyn McIntyre is one of five recipients who have been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Utah, the university’s highest honor. McIntyre became the 13th president of Central Washington University (CWU) in 2000. She was the first woman to serve as the president of CWU. The Ellensburg campus music building and the Student Union and Recreation Center, funded and constructed during her tenure, have been recognized with national architectural awards. Under her leadership, the university also completed extensive renovation and restoration of the historic Kamola and Sue Lombard residence halls. She initiated The Performing Arts and Presidential Speaker Series, bringing nationally recognized speakers and artists to Ellensburg. Under her leadership, the university began its first comprehensive fund-raising campaign, which reached its $21-million goal in June 2008. In addition, funding associated with grants and research has tripled since 2001 to $9.6 million. In September 2007, she won support from the board of trustees for the creation of the CWU Research Foundation, enabling the university to manage the significant increase in research. She has served as a member of the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board Advisory Council; the Central Southeastern Washington Advisory Board, U.S. Bank; the Economic Development Group of Kittitas County; the Washington Campus Compact board; and, the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention (Presidential Leadership Group). Prior to assuming responsibilities as CWU’s president, Dr. McIntyre served for 23 years at the University of Utah in several capacities including interim president twice and vice president for academic affairs for seven years. She was the first woman to serve in these positions. Before joining the University of Utah faculty in the Department of Communication, Dr. McIntyre taught at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and at Chico State College in California.
John Thompson: BA (Editorial Journalism), 1973
Mr. Thompson is a copy editor at The Register-Guard in Eugene, OR.
Bob Fullerton: BA, 1974
Mr. Fullerton is the Vice President of Corporate Relocation for Anchor Moving Systems and he is happy to help any of his fellow alumni with their moving needs.
Margaret K. Walker: BA, 1974; BA, 1987
2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Maggie Walker is very active in the nonprofit community. She is 2nd vice chair on the Board of Directors of The Seattle Foundation, a leading philanthropic nonprofit organization in creating positive community change. She is past president of the ARCS Foundation Seattle Chapter and board vice president of the Museum of History and Industry. She currently serves as board chair of the Bullitt Foundation an MOHAI, is co-chair of the Prosperity Partnership’s Cultural Task Force, and is president elect of the Seattle Art Museum. A strong advocate of the environment, education and the arts, Walker has led the boards of the Henry Art Gallery, the Woodland Park Zoological Society and the Washington Women’s Foundation. She is a founding member of the foundation, first chair of the board and planning committee, two-time grant committee member, and helped lead the development of the Foundation’s endowment. In addition, she is a past board vice president of Washington Audubon and Seattle Children’s Home. Walker chaired Art Fair Seattle for five years and headed up Campaign UW for the College of Arts and Sciences. She is co-founder of Social Venture Partners, a network of engaged donors and nonprofits teamed to leverage their knowledge and experiences for the good of the community.
H. Stuart Elway: BA, 1970; MA, 1975; PhD, 1983
2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
As president of Elway Research, Inc., H. Stuart Elway has directed research projects for large and small businesses, associations, not-for-profits, public agencies at all levels, candidates, ballot measures and media outlets, including The Seattle Times, Knight Ridder and NBC News. In addition to being regularly and widely quoted in Washington state media, Elway is looked to from outside the region as an expert on Northwest politics; he has been quoted in Time magazine, The Economist, and nearly every major daily newspaper in the country. He has also appeared or been quoted on all six television networks and has appeared as a guest on local and network news programs, including NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” and “To the Point,” CNN’s “Inside Politics,” and abc.com’s “Political Points.” He pioneered the use of random-sample interactive polls on live television. Elway has taught at both the UW and The Evergreen State College. He is a member of The National Council of State Polls and the American Association of Public Opinion Research. He is the publisher of The Elway Poll, the only on-going non-partisan, independent analysis of public opinion in the Northwest. He has directed The Seattle Times Washington Poll since 1984, and directed The Seattle Times/NorthWest Cable News Poll. He was also the research partner in the Front Porch Forum, a civic journalism effort of The Seattle Times, The Evans School, KCTS/9, KUOW and KPLU.
David Horsey: BA, 1975
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
David Horsey is the Department of Communication’s 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s award-winning editorial cartoonist, he has been driving and drawing throughout the United States as candidates for the 2008 presidential elections work for voters’ support.
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Elaine Ikoma Ko: BA (Communications) 1975
2012 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Magna Cum Laude
MBA, City University
Ko is the Director of the Office of Social Responsibility at the Port of Seattle; she began in January 2008. Her current responsibilities are to align the Port’s business practices with social responsibility objectives through programs and initiatives and champion the small business program for the Port of Seattle. Prior to joining the Port of Seattle, she was the Executive Director, Operations Director at Inter*Im Community Development Association for six years.
Her journalism work began as the editor for Cleveland High School newspaper. She has also worked as a writer for Asian Family Affair and the International Examiner in the 1970s. She was a guest writer for North American Post and has had extensive speaking on topics of public policy, women, community service; small business, and other topics.
Ko lists her background to include student activism in the 1970s at the UW and leadership in the Asian Student Coalition. She began community organizing in Seattle’s International District/Chinatown; led organizing for affordable housing and established the ID Housing Alliance as its first executive director in 1977, a non-profit that is still operating strong today. She served in Mayor Norm Rice’s cabinet in the 1990s as Director of the City of Seattle Office for Women’s Rights, and earlier as Coordinator of King County Women’s Program. She was named a Top Ten Contributor in NW Asian Weekly (1994) and operated her own financial services small business for seven years.
Her current volunteer activities include: Leadership Tomorrow Alumni Committee, Union Gospel Mission Women and Family Shelter; International District Rotary; National Association of Asian American Professionals; API
Women and Family Safety Center; Grants Committee for Japanese Community and Cultural Center (Nikkei Heritage Association), Tabor 100; Urban Enterprise Center Advisory Board. She coordinates makeover days for homeless women three times per year.
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Mohd Hamdan Adnan: MA, 1976
Upon returning home to Malaysia after graduation, Mohd Hamdan Adnan became a lecturer and retired as a professor of public relations. Currently, he is the president of the Institute of Public Relations, a voluntary post. He has been teaching for the past 30 years. At one time he was a commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission and headed its Working Committee on Complaints and Investigation. His latest book in English is “Government and Political Public Relations: An Introduction.”
Fiona Chew: PhD, 1985; MA, 1976
Fiona Chew is an associate professor in television, radio and film at Syracuse University. She teaches courses on electronic media research, theory and writing at the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Formerly a television and film producer, Chew now researches the media industry in which she once worked. Most notably, Chew’s body of scholarship focuses on message effects and analysis, as well as health communication. Since 2003, Chew has conducted two national surveys of family physicians to assess the use of health technologies, including the internet. Chew has also investigated the impact of television and mass media on audience perceptions, and was involved in a four-country project which looked at the impact of a television series on health.
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Ann D. Kirkwood: BA, 1976 Communication BA, 1976 English
Ann Kirkwood is the winner of an International George Peabody Award (2000) for a documentary, “Hearts and Minds,” concerning teens and mental illness. This documentary, and a second one called “In Our Own Voice” also won an excellence in public broadcasting award from the National Educational Television Association and an excellence in public education award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Recognized in 2003 by the Idaho State Planning Council on Mental Health for exemplary educational programs on children’s mental health, Ms. Kirkwood has advised the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill nationwide Technology and Communication Task Force. She is director of Red Flags Idaho, a school-based mental health program funded by the Idaho Governor’s Office and now in its fourth year. She worked for 18 years as a reporter, editor and publisher at various newspapers across the United States, wining two national awards for editorial writing from the National Newspaper Association and numerous regional and state awards for reporting and editing. Following newspaper work, she was employed nine years for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare as a senior public information officer. While with the agency, she was active in the International Association of Public Participation and taught classes on stakeholder involvement and facilitation techniques. She now specializes in mental health, disabilities and communication technology as a senior research associate for Idaho State University.
Janet Luhrs: B.A. 1976
Janet is the author of The Simple Living Guide, Simple Loving, and editor of the newsletter, Simple Living.
Temple Mathews: BA, 1976
templemathews@yahoo.comTemple Mathews is a successful writer and screenwriter living in Southern California. He welcomes alumni, Husky fans, and other screenwriters to contact him. His most recent writing credit is “Picture This” (2008) starring Ashley Tisdale.
Steve Maynard: BA, 1976
Steve Maynard is the South King County and religion reporter at The News Tribune in Tacoma. Maynard has written about religion for daily newspapers for 26 years. Prior to joining The News Tribune in 1987 as religion/higher education reporter, Maynard worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in communications (editorial journalism) at the University of Washington and also has a master of arts degree in theology. Maynard served for six years as a board member for the Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was Region 10 (Pacific Northwest) director for SPJ for two years. He is secretary-treasurer for the Religion Newswriters Association.
Ken Mochizuki: BA, 1976
Today, Mochizuki is a journalist and a renowned author of children’s literature. An alumnus of the Department of Communication, he made his first trek back to campus in three decades to visit with aspiring journalists on November 30.
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Devon O’Brien: BA (Speech Communication with an emphasis on Small Group Communications), 1976
Devon O’Brien is a consultant/trainer/mentor/coach for a Chinese College Counseling team in Shenzhen Foreign Languages School. College counseling, as known in the West, is relatively non-existent in China, though beginning to grow. The pressure to get into a good university has fostered a less-than-savory agent system. The system, in its most negative form, is fraught with fraud from doctoring transcripts and test scores, to writing Letters of Recommendation to crafting application essays. It is estimated that 80 percent of those Chinese students seeking a Western education will use the agent system.
No two days are alike and each involves helping colleagues, students and parents learn about the admissions process:
- Developing the college vision — a reflective process unfamiliar to those in China
- Exploring colleges from 5,000 miles away
- Building English-language proficiency to assure success in a Western classroom
- Developing solid SAT scores without spending 24/7 for four months in test preparation. This is a test-oriented (and memorization-oriented) education system. Countless hours are devoted to SAT prep including taking leaves from school to prepare. The leaves are a rather shocking concept for a Westerner where grades carry equal weight to test scores.
- Interpreting essay prompts that are solidly founded in the American culture. Many concepts are quite foreign to Chinese students; the questions are not in the students’ realm of experience or thinking.
- Honoring Chinese culture, values and traditions to create a rich blend with those of the West.
She and her colleagues doing this work in China are blazing a remarkable trail for both the Chinese students and the Chinese College Counseling profession that grows in strength each day.
E. M. “Eddie” Pasatiempo: BA, 1977
2010 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
E. M. “Eddie” Pasatiempo is a partner with The Clarion Group (a management consulting firm). Pasatiempo has more than 25 years of senior leadership experience. Most recently, he was a partner with Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive recruiting firm. Before that he served as
Senior Vice President of Global Sales and International Field Operations for Capartis. In this capacity, VAR Magazine recognized him as one of the “Top 75 Channel Executives in North America.” He was the Regional President for EDS. He also spent 16 years with IBM, finishing his term as the Director of Operations in the Asia Pacific Region, where he spent six years. His areas of expertise include global sales, marketing, executive coaching, management and organizational leadership. Pasatiempo has long been active in area advisory boards. He is the past president of the UW Alumni Association.
His current Board positions include the Washington Technology Industry Association as past Chairman of the Board and a current member of the Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Humane Society. He is an Ex-Officio of the University of Washington Regents, Foundation Board, the Tyee Board, and the College of Arts & Sciences. He is chair of the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board for the Seattle University, Albers School of Business & Economics; a member of the advisory boards of Harris Private Bank (Pacific Northwest), the Emerging ISV Ventures, and the Xconomy (aka: Xconomists); and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Washington Athletic Club.
Past volunteer board positions include the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the World Trade Center of Seattle and the Columbia Tower Club. He also sat on the Board of Advisors for the University of Washington Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Pasatiempo has also become a regular visitor to the UW Department of Communication, serving in a variety of mentorship roles for Communication undergraduate students. He is a member of the Big “W” Club, the Seattle Rotary Club, and the 101 Club. He also served as an MBA Program Mentor for
the UW School of Business. Pasatiempo has a degree from the Harvard IBM Executive Program.
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Peter Rinearson: Attended, 1976
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Writing for The Seattle Times as a result of “Making It Fly,” his account of the new Boeing 757 jetliner.
Mike Wiegand: BA, 1976, MA 1981
Mike Wiegand is the Executive Speechwriter and Executive Communications Director for Governor Gary Locke. He is also a freelance executive communications consultant and writer.
Bill Chamberlin: BA, 1967; PhD, 1977
Bill Chamberlin has been the Joseph L. Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communications at the College of Journalism and Communications of the University of Florida since 1987. He now serves as Director of the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project. He also is an affiliate professor of the UF College of Law.
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Phil Cogan: MA , 1977
pcogan@earthlink.net or phil.cogan@exim.gov
Phil Cogan recently left his position as executive vice president for Bernstein Crisis Management,Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona to begin work as Director of Public Affairs for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) in Washington, D.C. Ex-Im is the official export credit agency of the United States, helping create and sustain U.S. jobs by supporting U.S. exporters, large and small. Phil’s responsibilities include domestic and international news media relations, Internet based communications, internal communications, supervising speech writing, and communications support for Ex-Im marketing activities. For 23 years Phil provided public affairs support for emergency responses as a senior public affairs manager for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for seven years as deputy director of public affairs for FEMA. Phil retired as a Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve after 25 years of service in the Army and Navy. He lives with his family in Fairfax Station, Virginia.
Chris Douthitt: BA, 1973; Radio/TV Communications
Following graduation, and not knowing any better, Chris headed straight to Hollywood seeking a media career. Somewhat surprisingly he found one, starting literally on the ground floor (no room for a chair) as a sound effects sorter at a small-but-popular commercial audio production studio called SSI. Chris eventually worked his way up to an engineer’s chair where he helped produce national advertising for several top ad agencies as well as TV and radio promos for CBS and NBC and sound effects tracks for numerous Saturday morning cartoon shows.
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Thomas Eckhardt: BA, 1977
A criminal lawyer for 20 years, Thomas Eckhardt has 300 jury trials and a client list that includes lawyers, movie stars and the homeless.
Deborah Folka: BA, 1977 (Communications)
Folka earned her MA from the University of Arizona School of Journalism in 1981 and an APR designation in 1987. She is the owner and principal of DLF Communications Ltd., (Vancouver, B.C.) since 1993. DLF is an independent
public relations consultancy focused on crisis communications management. Current client of note: the 10 elite women ski jumpers fighting to get into the 2010 Olympics.
Randy Y. Hirokawa MA, 1977; PhD, 1980 Speech Communication
2006 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
A former Scheidel lecturer for the UW Department of Communication, Randy Hirokawa is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hawaii, Hilo and a former faculty member at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Iowa. Hirokawa is known widely for his expertise in the area of small group communication and decision-making effectiveness. His scholarship has contributed to the development of a theory called the “functional perspective.” This theory accounts for group decision-making performance in terms of the role that group communication plays in facilitating or impeding the group’s efforts to perform crucial cognitive and interpersonal decision-making functions. This theory has been identified as one of the three most influential theories of small group communication. His publications include three edited books, 36 refereed journal articles, and 24 book chapters. He has served as the editor of Communication Studies, the journal of the Central States Communication and on the editorial board for five journals (Small Group Research, Organizational Science, Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research). Hirokawa was the 2008 keynote speaker at the Department’s Alumni Hall of Fame celebration.
Edmund K. Joyce: BA, 1977
Ed Joyce is Editor, Breaking News for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC). He also oversees KPCC’s business/economy coverage. Joyce received first place from the Society of Professional Journalists San Diego Chapter in the “radio breaking news/live” category for his coverage of the La Jolla landslide. He won second place for “regular beat coverage (environmental beat)” and second place for “radio, use of sound,” in the SPJ competition. Joyce also won first place in the “Breaking News” category from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated as a member of the KPBS news team that covered the 2007 San Diego wildfires.
Susan Loomis : BA, 1977
Read any good books lately? How about the one about a journalist who goes to France to learn the language on the arts of cuisine? Try the life of UW alumni Susan Herrmann Loomis, who not only lives and works in France, but operates a cultural and culinary cooking school from her 15th century home in the city of Louviers across the street from Norte Dame.
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Steve Pool: BA, 1977 Communications
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Steve Pool is the principal weather anchor for KOMO-TV in Seattle, having joined the station as an intern while attending the UW. He joined in 1977 as KOMO’s principal science reporter, in addition to serving as weekend news anchor and weather forecaster. In 1984, he became KOMO’s primary weather forecaster. That same year, he began hosting a program on KOMO-TV titled “Front Runners” which aired every Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on KOMO. The show soon picked up nationwide syndication and featured the stories of people who beat all odds or had a unique talent, etc. “Front Runners” won many awards, including Emmys. The show ended in 1996. Pool has won seven Emmy Awards during his career to date, made more than 80 appearances as a guest weather talent on the television show Good Morning America, and appeared in the movies Vixen Highway (2001) and Life or Something Like It (2002). Additionally, he is the author of a book about weather and its forecasting, Somewhere, I Was Right. During the 1990s, Pool hosted a video series titled “I Wanna Be (astronaut, construction worker, pilot, TV news reporter, etc).” He is on the Executive Committee of the Museum of Flight Foundation trustees and supports KOMO’s annual Miracle Makers Broadcast, which raises millions of dollars for Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. With former NFL player Warren Moon, Pool organizes the Warren Moon and Steve Pool Golf classic — a two-day event that raises money for Children’s Hospital. In 2004 the event raised more than $700,000 to benefit the Children’s Hospital uncompensated care fund, helping to ensure that all children in the community have access to medical care, regardless of their financial situation.
Evelyn Keiko Iritani: BA, 1978
2005 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
For her work as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Evelyn Iritani received the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 (with Abigail Goldman, Nancy Cleeland and Tyler Marshall). The award was for a seven-part investigative series on Wal-Mart. She began her journalistic career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and spent 17 years there before moving to the LA Times. She received the 1995 Washington Governor’s Award for “An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States Told in Four Stories from the Life of An American Town and she is a Apast vice president of the Asian American Journalists Association. Her other awards are: Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Newspaper Reporting for “The Wal-Mart Effect,” 2004; Los Angeles Press Club first place award, Los Angeles Times Editorial award, and the George Polk Award for Economics Reporting for “The Wal-Mart Effect,” 2003; Los Angeles Press Club, first place and Overseas Press Club of America Malcolm Forbes Award, best business reporting from abroad for “China: The Giant Awakes,” 2002.; T.W. Wang Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2000; Times Mirror Journalist of the Year, 1999; Los Angeles Times Editorial Award for Analysis or Explanatory Journalism for “World Economic Crisis Stories,” 1998; The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, staff reporting for “Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions,” 1997; Hearst Newspapers, first place business reporting, 1994; National Asian American Journalists Association, second place writing award; and the 1994; and the National Asian American Journalists Association, first place writing award in 2000, 1990 and 1989.
Clarence Moriwaki: BA, 1978
Clarence Moriwaki is the CEO of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington. Moriwaki was most recently the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Committee and vice president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community.
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Doug Tolmie: BA, 1978
Following a 25-year career at KOMO-TV in Seattle that included 10 Emmys for producing more than 500 “Town Meeting” programs, numerous documentaries and live event specials such as the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon and the “4th of Jul-Ivar’s Fireworks Show,” and more than 500 news stories and special reports, Doug Tolmie left the station in June, 2004 to form his own consulting company. His new company, Storyteller Communications, which includes 1970 grad Michael S. Eguchi as one of the partners, is a group of broadcast and business professionals who enhance organizational performance and profitability through the art of storytelling.
Betty Houchin Winfield: PhD, 1978
Betty Houchin Winfield recently published a new book entitled, Journalism-1908: Birth of a Profession. The book describes how journalism transformed with the establishment of journalism schools and other institutions.
Winfield is on the faculty of the University of Missouri, School of Journalism. She has been there since 1990 and is the Curators’ Professor for the school. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and an affiliated Professor in the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs. She has had post-doc fellowships at the Freedom Forum, Columbia University (1988-89) and the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University (1991). Winfield has written three books, three monographs, and over 100 scholarly and reference articles, conference papers, and book chapters. Her interests are in the latest research in communications; mass media; and political communication. In 2005, Winfield married Barry Hyman, UW Professor, Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Joanne Harrell: BA Communications 1976; MBA Business 1979
2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
Recently named to the UW Board of Regents by Gov. Chris Gregoire, Joanne Harrell has held various management positions at InfoSpace, US West Communications and Microsoft, where she currently serves as chief of staff for the Original Equipment Manufacturing division. She has a commitment to continued learning that has led her to study management and marketing at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and the Brookings Institution. While executive director of the United Way of King County from 1997 to 2000, Harrell led the chapter to successive national fundraising records and wide recognition for excellence in marketing communications and brand management. She grew the non-profit from the 14th to the largest United Way program in the country. She serves and has served on a host of boards, including REI, Seattle Urban League, YWCA, the Salvation Army, the Seattle Art Museum, UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs, and the International Women’s Forum. Harrell is the 1997 recipient of the African American Achievement Award, Omaha, Neb., and the 1992 recipient of the “Women of Achievement Award,” Seattle.
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Scott MacFarlane: BA, 1979
Since graduating from the UW in 1979, Scott MacFarlane has transformed from a long-haired and free-spirited traveler to a slightly balding and successful writer and scholar.
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Assunta Ng: MA, 1979 Speech Communication
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
2005 Department of Communication Distinguished Alumna
Assunta Ng is the founder and publisher of the Seattle Chinese Post and its English-language sister newspaper, the Northwest Asian Weekly. She began college in Oregon. But her heart was set on the UW. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Asian History in three years, but she did not want to graduate. So, during her senior year, she took journalism classes. Before she knew it, she was writing for The Daily. Ng earned her teaching certificate in 1976 and taught for some years. She came back to the UW for a master’s degree in Speech Communication. She founded the Seattle Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly in 1982 and 1983 respectively.
William Parmenter: Ph.D., 1979
William Parmenter as been teaching English and English as a second language for the last fifteen years at Fremont High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. During vacations, he travels abroad to destinations such as Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
Lynn M. Spohn: BA, 1979
Lynn Spohn is co-owner of Oasis, a Seattle-based Event Marketing and Public Relations firm. Clients include Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and NASA.
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Linda Wilson: BA, 1979
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize (Local General or Spot News Reporting) with fellow alumni Dan McDonough (BA, 1979) and Laurie Smith (Attended, 1994 and 1995) for their coverage of the Mt. St. Helens story for the Longview (Washington) Daily News.
