Alumni
March 1, 2007
House rules
After 30 years of waiting in the wings, Norm Dicks finally gets to set the agenda in the other Washington.
December 1, 2006
Changing the game
Ward Serrill found his passion in the form of a documentary called "The Heart of the Game," a film that chronicles seven years with the Roosevelt High School girls’ basketball team and its unconventional coach. Film Critic Roger Ebert called it “a triumph.”
September 1, 2006
Revisiting Nuremberg
Whitney Harris, '33, is one of only two surviving prosecutors from the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, and the only one who was present for the entirety of the historic trials.
Spreading the word
When they start classes this month, more than 6,000 new UW students will already have something in common — they’ll all have read the same book about a remarkable doctor trying to bring 21st-century medicine to the poorest corners of the planet.
Making his name
Though he was thrust into the spotlight after his father, "Today Show" movie critic Gene Shalit, sparked nationwide controversy, Seattle physician Peter Shalit, ’81, ’90, doesn’t need a media flap for attention—his reputation and credentials stand on their own.
June 1, 2006
Tech visionary in HD
Richard Citta, '71, and a team of Zenith Electronics Corp. engineers invented a delivery system that makes HDTV possible.
March 1, 2006
Winning chord
Grant Alden, '82, knew there was a market for the kind of country music Nashville wasn't producing. To appeal to that audience, he co-founded the magazine No Depression.
Mr. Washington
Stepping down after two terms as a UW regent, Dan Evans reflects on his many UW connections.
Peabody winner
On May 17, 2004, Mathew Shaw and his wife, Juleen, were wide-awake at 5 a.m., and they were nervous. The Peabody Awards would be announced that morning.
December 1, 2005
Racing to Beijing
Now 27, around the age when most runners peak, Washington’s fastest human is training to qualify again for the U.S. Olympic team and show that he is one of the world’s fastest at the 2008 games in Beijing.
September 1, 2005
Working in a war zone
In 2004, a 59-year-old Army sergeant named Clarence Kugler enjoyed a few moments of minor celebrity as the “oldest enlisted soldier in Iraq”—a title, he jokingly told the Los Angeles Times, that no one was likely to challenge him for.
Bronze Star finally comes
When Emanuel “Sonny” Marks saw a recent article announcing that certain combat veterans were still eligible for the Bronze Star, he figured there was no harm in inquiring. And that’s how he came to receive the medal in the mail on Jan. 10, more than 60 years after he earned it.
Dream weaver
From Lever House to the White House, from Fallingwater to the Louvre, Jack Lenor Larsen’s fabrics have graced the world’s most inspiring spaces.
March 1, 2005
Gossett up for challenge
Larry Gossett became Region 10’s first — and it now appears last — representative on the King County Council.
June 1, 2004
Role of a lifetime
This spring, Jim Caviezel hit the big time playing Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s controversial movie The Passion of the Christ.
Idol in the making
Matt Rogers, ’01, first tasted the limelight when he played on the Husky football team that won the 2001 Rose Bowl. This year, he reveled in more adulation as a finalist on the TV show American Idol.
Cleary honored
Beverly Cleary, who has been honored many times for her work, received the honor of a lifetime when she was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush.
Husky hands on Mars
In seventh grade, Scott Carpenter, ’97, decided he wanted to be in the space industry. Today he can look into the sky and see a planet being explored with his help.