'97 Rita Hynes
BA social work, 56, died April 13, 2000. She worked for the YWCA as a counselor in the battered women's shelter.

'91, & '92 Amy Norton
BAE and CER, physical education and physical science, 36, died April 20, 2000. She was a teacher and worked in the daycare center at Pines Baptist Church in the Spokane Valley, where she was a member. She also volunteered with the Student Parent Alternative Classroom Experience, (SPACE) at South Pines Elementary School.

'83 Joan Green
BA, communication studies, 59, died May 6, 2000. Along with her deep dedication to the Spangle Christian Church, she was a devoted family member. She worked as a postal carrier and custodian at EWU until her retirement in 1989. She was 59.

'78, Virginia Lee McMillan
BA social work, 62, died May 21, 2000. She was a member of Eastern Star of Wyoming, and lived in Cheney where she and her husband of 25 years were grain framers.

'76 Michael R. Jacobs
BA business education, 50, died April 2, 2000. He taught for 10 years in Pomeroy and Ritzville, Wash. He was a highly regarded and beloved teacher at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Memorials may be made to the Mike Jacobs Memorial Marysville School District Foundation, c/o Marysville-Pilchuck High School, 5611 108th NE, Marysville, WA 98271.

'76 Jean Silver
BA, business administration, 73, died in March, 2000. She worked for the city of Spokane in Economic Development, and was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997. Contributions can be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

'73 Kathryn Jean England (Mullen)
BA physics, died April 6, 2000. She was a mother to five children, one daughter and four sons, ranging in age from 12 to 21. She was a devoted Catholic and military wife.

'71 Terry Vaughn
BA mathematics, 56, died April 11, 2000. He received a master's degree in deaf education from Lewis and Clark College in Portland after graduating from EWU. He worked with deaf and hearing-impaired students at East Valley High School in Spokane.

'66 Byron Gjerde
BA music, 53, died on February 25, 1998 in a car accident. He was a long time professor at Columbia Basin College in the Tri-Cities, Wash. He also served on the Kennewick school board from 1988 to 1994, including two terms as president. He leaves a wife and two children.

'66 Rosalie Zehm
BA art, died at the age of 62. She attended EWU and Pacific Lutheran University, and the Lutheran Bible Institute. She taught for 24 years in the Ephrata School District, but her true passion was travel. She took trips to locations including the Middle East, Hawaii, Germany and Alaska.

'64 Raymond Card
BA geology and geography, died at the age of 66. He served as a radio operator in the army and then as a building inspector for the cities of Rathdrum and Post Falls, Idaho.

'62 & '68 Lyndell Reinbold
BA education, 60, died July 3, 2000. She taught in and around Spokane until 1992, when she settled in Plummer, Idaho. There she participated in the educational Upward Bound Program. She also worked with inmates at the county jail as part of the ministry program.

'55 & '65 Richard Thomas Anderson
BA & MA education, 69, died July 22, 2000. He was a teacher in the Spokane area and Seattle's Highline school district for many years. He was Highline's first elementary counselor, and worked with youth summer programs in the Seattle area.

'54 Helen Fisher
BA education died January 11, 2000. She moved to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula in 1961 where she taught until 1978. She began work for the Alaska Department of Education in the correspondence division. She did community work for the Alaska Mental Health Association and the Kenai Garden Club. Contributions may be sent to the Women's Resource and Crisis Center of Kenai Alaska.

'54 Fern O'Bleness
BA childhood education, died July 6, 1997 in Worley, Idaho. She grew up in Kansas and moved to Bonner County, Wash. in 1934. She taught elementary school in Quincy and Portland, Ore. before retiring in 1969. She moved to Worley in 1992.

'51 & '58 Douglas G. Anton
BA child education, MA industrial technology, 75, died May 16, 2000. He worked much of his life as a teacher and as an administrator until he retired in 1987. Along with his two degrees from EWU, he received an education degree from the University of Missoula in Montana in 1967.

'51 Gerald Willmering
BA social science, died April 20, 2000. He worked for Northwest Airlines until 1959 when he became a teacher at Evergreen Elementary. After receiving his master's in education from Whitworth he became a teacher and counselor at Salk Jr. High and retired in 1988.

'42 Delia Krehbiel
BA education, 89, died on July 14, 2000 in Spokane. She taught in Eastern Washington for 36 years before retiring. Contributions can be made to Hospice of Spokane, 1325 W 1st, Suite 200, Spokane, WA 99204.

'41 J.L. Johnson
BA education, died at the age of 81. He taught in Colville until 1943 and served in Okinawa during W.W.II. He then taught in Grandview, Wash., and in California until returning to Cheney to take over the family dry cleaning business. For a time, he also worked for The Spokesman-Review and the Ramada Inn.

'39 Howard W. Moos
teaching certificate-early childhood education, died in June. Moos started the first band program in Grand Coulee, Wash. in 1940. He worked at Kaiser Aluminum during W.W.II, and started selling cars in the late 1940's. He eventually started his own automobile dealership in Moscow, Idaho. He sold the dealership in 1966 and moved to Tacoma, when he suffered a massive stroke, leaving him unable to speak or move his right side. At that time he was just 50. He continued to live in care centers until his death.

'36 Earl Dalquist
BA education, died January 13, 1999, in Spokane. He was born in North Dakota, and attended school at Eastern. During W.W.II, he served as a naval officer. After the war he taught in and around Spokane until his retirement. He was 84.

'31 Carroll Coe
Education, 93, died July 19, 2000. He taught in Hooper, Wash. until joining the professional rodeo circuit. In 1953, he and his wife bought a cattle ranch north of Spokane. They lived there until 1953, when they moved to Waverly, Wash., where he returned to teaching for the Liberty School District until retiring in 1972.

'29 & '32 Gertrude Siegert-Bloomfield
Education, 90, died March 29, 2000. She taught elementary school in Kahlotus and Kamiak Butte, Wash, until moving to St. John in 1948. She and her husband, Floyd, farmed in St. John and eventually moved to the family farm south of Pullman.

'26 & '29 Florence McMongale Sherfey
Education, 92, died in October 1997. She worked for six years as the secretary to Eastern's director of student placement. She also helped to organize the Spokane Junior Symphony and wrote several books about Eastern Washington history.

Faculty

Patricia Coontz Waddington
81, died March 23, 2000. She was a professor of English at EWU and founded the Women's Study Program in 1974. Retired on January 1, 1983.

Felix E. Mutschler
67, died on May 9, 2000. He was one of the first two males to graduate the all-female Hunter College in NY during 1954. He became a geology professor at EWU in 1969 and retired in 1995, but remained active in scientific research.

Harold Stevens
88, died May 29, 2000 after a long battle with an illness. Mr. Stevens worked at EWU from 1946 to 1976 as the Chairman of the Drama Department and the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters.

William L. Wilkerson
71, died April 16, 2000. He was a geology professor at EWU for 21 years. He lived in Cheney for 42 years, where he enjoyed outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing.

William C. Wilson
80, died May 5, 2000. He taught education at EWU for 5 years and lived in Cheney for 33 years.