It's been an honor It's been an honor It's been an honor

This is my final issue as editor of University of Washington Magazine. After nearly 33 years at the UW Alumni Association, I am retiring, hopefully to a world where the word “deadline” won’t be spoken in my vicinity.

In 1991, I arrived in Seattle from California with my wife to start a new chapter. I enrolled in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design to pursue a BFA in photography, and little did I know that I would walk the same halls as alumni legends Patti Warashina, Alfredo Arreguin and Art Wolfe.

The changes at the University and the magazine have been nothing short of astounding since I arrived. In that span, six UW faculty and four alumni received Nobel Prizes. The U-Pass, which debuted in 1991, got people out of their cars to ride the bus and light rail to campus. UW Bothell and UW Tacoma, which were born in 1990, brought educational opportunities to people all over the Puget Sound region. (My youngest daughter just graduated from UW Bothell.) And in 2028, the Ana Mari Cauce Welcome Center will open on the Seattle campus.

Walking the Seattle campus always filled me with pride as I passed by buildings where students became Boeing commercial airplane designers, teachers, computer-science engineers and leaders in health care, public health, social work, mathematics and the arts.

During my time here, the magazine (which went from being called Columns to University of Washington Magazine) told incredible stories. There was founding editor Tom Griffin’s two-part series about Japanese American UW students who were taken to World War II incarceration camps; my profile of Tom Lantos, ’58, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress; Julie Garner’s story on transgender students and alumni—the first on that subject to appear in any university magazine in the nation; and David Volk’s touching piece on Social Work professor Jennifer Stuber, who created Forefront, a suicide-prevention program after her husband died by suicide.

And there were the fun stories. My favorite? Karla Tofte’s “interview” with Dubs in the September 2013 issue (it accompanied the cover story on the Husky Stadium renovation).

I am so glad to report that, thanks to incredible alumni association and University support, print magazines will live on here while peer institutions have either reduced the number of print issues or done away with print to go 100% digital.

We know how much the print issue keeps readers connected and makes them feel like insiders. That means we are doing our job. And I am honored to have been a part of it.

Jon Marmor was the editor of University of Washington Magazine for so long, we don't know how we'll go on without him.