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Alumna earns top California teacher award

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – She hasn’t been out of college 10 years yet, but Washington State University alumna Jessica Pack is one of five teachers, out of 300,000 statewide, recently named a California teacher of the year.

Communist Hungary escapee, WSU alumna honored

Helen and John Szablya, center, with their family.     The Szablyas after 1956 escape. SEATTLE, Wash. – Helen M. Szablya and her family in the 1950s made two dangerous but unsuccessful attempts to escape communist Hungary.   Faced with the threat of prison, the Szablyas armed themselves with false identification and made a third […]

Support of Cougs propels sales and fun

      SEATTLE – Rows and rows of small brown boxes sit on the shelves in a warehouse near Boeing Field in Seattle. Inside the boxes are lip balm, salt and popcorn. The unique thing is, virtually all the products taste like bacon.   The small warehouse is home to J&D’s Foods, which boasts the philosophy: “Everything should taste like bacon.”   […]

Nominate Women of Distinction, Woman of Year

PULLMAN – Submit nominations for the WSU Women of Distinction and Woman of the Year awards.  The Women of Distinction awards are presented to a WSU alumna, an employee, a student and a woman from outside the university. All nominees are eligible for the Woman of the Year award. The CUB Ballroom is set to […]

WSU alum wins national teacher award

Washington State University alumna Lisa Cartwright, a fourth-grade teacher at Pullman’s Franklin Elementary School, received a 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest honor for teaching in these fields. Cartwright received the award at an April 15 ceremony in Washington, D.C. With the award she receives a $10,000 gift […]