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Class Notes
Frank Garred
B.A., 1958
The Western Washington chapter of Society of Professional Journalists recognized Garred in 2008 for his lifetime of journalistic achievement. Garred is a member of the Communication Alumni Hall of Fame.
Ruth Pumphrey
B.A., 1964
Pumphrey retired after 20 years with KING-TV, most recently holding the position of assignment editor. Read more about Pumphrey in a story by journalism student Michael Carter.
Mike Peringer
B.A., 1957
A 2007 recipient of the UW Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame award, Peringer is the founder of Artworks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping youths through public art projects designed to counteract graffiti. Most recently, Peringer reports that there is interest in doing a six-part television miniseries based on his book: Good Kids: The Story of Artworks.
Dave Ammons
B.A., 1970
Ammons, a 37-year veteran state government correspondent for the Associated Press, retired earlier this year. After almost four decades covering the state Legislature, Governor's office and state government in general, Ammons joined Secretary of State Sam Reed's staff as chief spokesman. Ammons also worked as the resident host of the TVW program Inside Olympia, interviewing prominent elected and appointed government officials.
Mayumi Tsutakawa
B.A., 1972
The Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation's annual Asian American Pioneer Dinner honors Tsutakawa, a 2008 UW Communication Alumni Hall of Fame honoree. The dinner is Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008.
Robb Weller
B.A., 1972
Weller is a prominent television producer and host (A&E's Top Ten, The Home Show and Win, Lose or Draw). He was recently honored with the UW Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award, given to individuals who make outstanding efforts on behalf of the Alumni Association. Read more about Weller...
Dave Workman
B.A., 1974
A long-time journalist and editor, Workman spent 21 years as the Washington editor and senior staff editor of Fishing & Hunting News. He 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 2000, he was hired as senior editor of a nationally circulated firearms newspaper, Gun Week. He is the author of Washington State Gun Rights and Responsibilities, and—with Alan Gottlieb—America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age.
David Horsey
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| David Horsey, '75, at the department's graduation celebration addressing the class of 2008. |
B.A., 1975
Horsey is the UW Department of Communication's 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. He was the keynote speaker at the Department's annual graduation celebration this past June. Read a recent profile of Horsey by journalism student Meghan Peters.
Robert Laing
B.A., 1969; PhD, 1975
Laing is the diplomat in residence for the State Department at Arizona State University. He visited the UW campus this year and spoke to students about a career as a diplomat. He has spent more than 20 years working in foreign countries and is considering another tour for the State Department. Read a recent profile of Laing by journalism student Michael Carter.
Bill Chamberlin
B.A., 1967; PhD, 1977
Chamberlin is retiring from academic life after serving as 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. Chamberlin is the co-author (with Kent Middleton and William Lee) of a major undergraduate textbook in mass media law, The Law of Public Communication.
Eddie Pasatiempo
B.A., 1977
Pasatiempo is a partner at The Clarion Group, working at the firm's Kirkland office.
Scott MacFarlane
B.A., 1979
MacFarlane's new book, The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture, was published in 2007. Read more about MacFarlane in a story by journalism student Meghan Peters.
Angela Rosette-Tavares
B.A., 1984
Rosette-Tavares is a digital projects designer at the University of Washington Libraries. She has worked for the University since 1993 and is married to UW alumnus Joseph Tavares (BS and MS in Electrical Engineering); they have two children.
Deb Caletti
B.A., 1985
Caletti is a best-selling author with four books published and a fifth to be released in 2009. She is a National Book Award finalist for her second book: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart.
Greg Lane
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| Greg Lane, '88 |
B.A., 1988
Lane is the president and chief executive officer of the statewide public affairs cable television network. He took over this position in April 2008. Lane had been deputy chief of staff for Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna since 2006. Before that he was the attorney general's communications director, after also serving as a communications director in the Washington State Legislature from 1998 to 2005.
Robert W. McChesney
M.A., 1986; PhD, 1989
Monthly Review Press recently published McChesney's new book, The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas. This volume culminates the research in his career to date, and includes his latest thinking on journalism, the Internet, global political economy and the burgeoning media reform movement and our broader changing political climate.
Barbara Clinton
Ph.D., 1990
Clinton has been the director of the Honors Scholars Program at Highline Community College since 1994. Read more about Clinton in a story by journalism student Will Mari.
Robyn Lattaker-Johnson
B.A., 1992
Lattaker-Johnson left Black Entertainment Television (BET) where she was vice president of program development. She is currently consulting.
Tina Kim
B.A., 1993
Kim, a Los Angeles-based comedian, recently appeared on The INSIDER with Pat O'Brien and is headlining at several comedy clubs on the West Coast. Visit Kim's Web site: www.tinakim.com.
Drew Mikkelsen
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| Drew Mikkelsen,'93 |
B.A., 1993
Mikkelsen reached his career goal when he returned to work in Seattle for KING-5 News last December. He's the South Sound bureau chief. After graduation Drew worked in television news in Yakima (for free) before moving to Las Vegas and then Portland. If you hear of any "hot" news stories e-mail Drew at dmikkelsen@king5.com.
Marlena Parker
B.A., 1994
Parker graduated with a degree in Speech Communication. She is a limited practice officer for Chicago Title Insurance Co. and has been with the company since 1996.
Carlene Cross
M.A., 1995
Cross is an academic counselor for rehabilitation medicine at the UW. She is also the author of Fleeing Fundamentalism and has a B.A. in history from the UW.
Candice R. Douglass
B.A., 1995
Douglass is the communications director for the UW College of Arts & Sciences.
Joanna Karas
B.A., 1997
Karas works in investor relations for Imperium Renewables, a start-up biodiesel company in Seattle.
Glenn Kuper
M.A., 1990; PhD, 1998
Glenn Kuper is the communications director at the Washington state Office of Financial Management (the governor's budget office). He has served as executive speechwriter for Govs. Gary Locke and Chris Gregoire, deputy communications director for Gov. Locke, and communications manager at the Department of Ecology.
Courtney J. Martin
B.A., 1998
Martin is working on her master's in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She is also managing a small branch of the Monterey County Free Libraries in Aromas, Calif., and working on-call for the Monterey Public Library.
Alex Quade
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| Alex Quade, '92, left, interviewing a U.S. Marine. Photo courtesy CNN. |
B.A., 1992
Quade is a CNN news correspondent. Most recently, she returned from a six-month embedded tour in Iraq and Afghanistan with U.S. Special Operations Forces. Read more about Quade in a story by journalism student Will Mari.
Scott Gutierrez
B.A., 2000
Gutierrez is a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
La'Chris Jordan
B.A., 2001
Jordan is a playwright and actress based in Seattle.
Andy Altman
B.A., 2002
Altman is a writer and producer KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
Ron Chew
B.A., 2002
Chew was awarded the 2008 Board Award of Excellence by the Washington Museum Association at the group's annual conference in Vancouver, Wash.
Jenni Hogan
B.A., 2002
Hogan is KOMO morning news traffic anchor and she reports on transportation issues for the station. She is member of the Communication Alumni Club and a dedicated mentor to Communication students looking to break into broadcasting.
Erin Combs
B.A., 2003
Combs is a project manager for Pyramid Communications, a public relations company specializing in serving organizations working toward socially conscious causes. Her clients include The Seattle Foundation and California HealthCare Foundation. She recently spoke to a Communication class about her work at Pyramid.
Lucas Mack
B.A., 2004
Mack is an on-air, freelance reporter for KOMO-TV. He started his broadcasting career post-gradation at KNDU-TV in Kennewick, Wash., then moved on to KABB-TV, the Fox affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, before returning to Seattle.
Allison Cabellon
B.A., 2005
Cabellon works in New York City at Allied Live, an entertainment marketing agency whose clients include Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. She is an associate account executive in the Internet division.
D. Travers Scott
M.C., 2005
Scott is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He has published two book chapters based on his UW thesis research: "Tempests of the Blogosphere: Presidential Campaign Stories that Failed to Ignite Mainstream Media" in Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (Megan Boler, Ed., MIT Press, 2008) and "Pundits in Muckrakers' Clothing: Political Blogs and the 2004 Presidential Election" in Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media (Mark Tremayne, Ed., Routledge, 2007). Visit his Web site: www.dtraversscott.com.
Laura Cruikshank
B.A., 2006
Cruikshank has founded Women's Wellness & Integrated Social Health (WWISH), an online magazine, forum and virtual women's resource center for those facing crisis, adversity and transition in all stages of life. Learn more about WWISH at www.wwish-inc.com.
Hillary L. Holman
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| Hillary Holman, '06 |
B.A., 2006
Since graduation, Holman has worked with a peace building and reconciliation program in Croatia where she has served on the facilitating team and as a small-group facilitator. She has also taught English in Croatia, and has traveled in and around much of Eastern Europe. She is currently trying to learn the Croatian language and is hoping to spend more time in the former Yugoslavia.
Piper Hopkins
M.C., 2006
Hopkins is an artist based in New York City. She has a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y. See samples of Hopkins' work at www.piperhopkins.com.
Carol Insalaco
B.A., 2006
Insalaco works at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the External Affairs and Communications department. Her time is split between publications (internal and external communications) and media and public relations.
Lauren Leeds
B.A., 2006
Leeds recently moved back to Seattle from San Antonio, Texas, and is working in KOMO-TV's sales department. She was an advertising executive and TV co-host at KENS-TV in San Antonio, moving there from eastern Washington, where she worked as a TV news reporter for KVEW, the ABC affiliate in Kennewick, Wash.
Erin Hicks
B.A., 2007
Hicks accepted a job as assistant editor at menshealth.com, based in Allentown, Penn. She is excited to start her first full-time job, and happy that Allentown is only 90 miles from New York City because she plans to spend her free time with friends and family living there.
Giorgio Aiello
Ph.D., 2008
Aiello is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.
Alex Daniel Bash
B.A., 2008
Bash's first book, The Imbible: Drinking Games for Times You'll Never Remember with Friends You'll Never Forget, went on sale in August 2008.
Ted Coopman
Ph.D., 2008
Coopman is a lecturer in the Communication Studies and the Television, Radio, Film & Theatre departments at San Jose State University in California.
Sheryl Cunningham
Ph.D., 2008
Cunningham accepted a tenure track position at Wittenberg University, a few hours from where she grew up in Ohio.
Tony Docan
Ph.D., 2008
Docan accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse in the Department of Communication Studies.
Sara Docan-Morgan
Ph.D., 2008
Docan-Morgan accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse in the Department of Communication Studies.
Sue Lockett-John
B.A. 1969; Ph.D., 2008
Lockett-John is working as a research associate for The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma headquartered at the UW. Read more about the Center at www.dartcenter.org.
Nika Pelc
M.C., 2008
Pelc earned her Master of Communication in Digital Media this year. She is a senior computer specialist for the Department.
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