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1970-1979
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.
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 is assistant managing editor for administration and suburban news in The Seattle Times newsroom. She oversees staffing, policies, compensation and other human-resource issues in the newsroom and has responsibility for The Seattle Times' suburban news bureaus on the Eastside and in Snohomish County. She has been with The Times for 28 years.
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. Her assignments included arts-and-entertainment editor and lifestyle editor before leaving in 1986 to teach journalism at the University of Washington. She returned to The Times in 1990 as news features editor and was subsequently named assistant managing editor for features, and later for hiring and staff development.
Her professional memberships include the Society of Professional Journalists. The Times was nationally honored for its features sections during her tenure and she received The Times' Publisher's Circle Award in 1998.
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 ('72, '75) is featured in the September 16-22 issue of Northwest Asian Weekly. She is a 2006 nominee for the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's Entrepreneur of the Year award. As the chief executive officer of PRR, a public affairs consulting firm, Ms. Brogan oversees the 38th largest minority-owned company in Washington and the 74th largest PR firm in the United States.
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
Dr. Johansen has been at the University of Nebraska, Omaha since 1982. He is the senior ranking professor in the Department of Communication with a cross-listing in Native American Studies. He is the Frederick W. Kayser professor, which is a university research chair. His 18th book, "Indigenous peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia" was published early in 2004 by Greenwood Press and is now being translated into Japanese. His book "Exemplar of Liberty" (1991), was released in Japanese (Tokyo: Mizusu Shoban) in 2006. "Native Peoples of North America" (a textbook) was published in 2005. He has written mainly in Native American Studies, but also in various ecological sciences, notably "The Global Warming Desk Reference" (Greenwood, 2001). He is also the Native American series editor for the Greenwood Publishing Group.
Dr. Johansen recently lectured at the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. and on Native American legal history at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (this university was the teaching post of Pope John Paul II before he assumed the papacy). His new book, "Global Warming in the 21st Century," 3 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger, comes out in June, 2006. (For details: [www.greenwood.com], enter "Bruce E. Johansen"). He is also co-editing a 4-volume Encyclopedia of American Indian History with ABC-CLIO. That book is due out in 2007.
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 adviser, 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
Award-winning journalist and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times), city council member. She has been active in many community organizations, including League of Women Voters, Multiple Sclerosis Society, United Way Council of Planning Affiliates, Lake City Community Council, Lake City Elementary School Parent-Teachers Association, 46th District Democrats, King County Women's Political Caucus and the Uppity Ladies Book Club & Literary Circle.
Dr. Jerilyn McIntyre: PhD, 1973 Communications
2004 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
After earning a Ph.D. in communications and history from the UW, Jerilyn McIntyre began an academic career that took her to the University of Iowa, and then the University of Utah, where she served twice as interim president and seven years as vice president for academic affairs. McIntyre became president of Central Washington University in 2000. She continues to teach one course biannually. She is an innovative thinker in communication theory whose work helped define the nature of the field - a broader theoretical approach to communication. Her work on Jacksonville continues to inspire Communication faculty and students.
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.
Maggie Walker: BA, 1974; BA, 1987
2009 Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame
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 non profit 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., 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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David Horsey talks about his time as an editor for The Daily and as a UW student >>
Elaine Ikoma Ko: BA (Communications) 1975
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.
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. For a complete bio on Janet, visit her website.
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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Edward Pasatiempo: BA, 1976
Pasatiempo received his bachelor's degree in Communication from the University of Washington and then completed the Executive Management Program at Harvard. After Harvard, Pasatiempo held a series of increasingly demanding jobs that has led him to become partner at The Clarion Group.
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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
Currently the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, Randy Hirokawa also has taught at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Iowa. He 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," which is recognized as one of the three most influential theories of small group communication. His publications to date include three edited books, 36 refereed journal articles, and 24 book chapters.
Edmund K. Joyce: BA, 1977
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.
He’s worked as a reporter, anchor and editor for KPBS since 2006.
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 an award winning weathercaster, with 7 Emmy Awards to his credit. 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, Steve 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 $700K 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
Reporter (Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 (with Abigail Goldman, Nancy Cleeland and Tyler Marshall) for a seven-part investigative series on Wal-Mart.
Clarence Moriwaki: BA, 1978
Clarence Moriwaki graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in communications, advertising and broadcast journalism in 1978. Since then, Moriwaki has been successful in his career and active in community service.
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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
Harrell has held various management positions at InfoSpace, US West Communications and Microsoft, where she currently serves as Chief of Staff, OEM 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, NE. 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.
