Memories Still Fresh From Freshman Year
"Yes" Responses
Yes, “UW Master of Librarianship—class of 1977—first job found via recommendation from Dr. Page. I was looking at the jobs board in the Library School (now Information School), and Dr. Page happened to walk by and express surprise that I was still looking for a job. He knew of a job opening at Weyerhaeuser R&D Library in Federal Way, and put my name forward. Voila! First job!”
Yes, “Back in 1960 I was sitting in the Communications Building coffee shop and overheard two of my professors talking. One said, “too bad they came all the way down here and we had no one to suggest to them.” The other added “And the job included a house on the water and the use of a sailboat.” That’s when I jumped in and asked, “What job is that?” It was Bill Ames and Alex Edelstein talking and they explained that the owners of the Whidbey News-Times at Oak Harbor were looking for an editor. They said they hadn’t thought of me as I had a quarter to go before my B.A. Anyway, our discussion continued and resulted in an offer by Bill and Jan Ames to offer me free room and board for my final quarter if I took the job. I got the job and worked that summer on Whidbey Island. Then I left my wife and three sons in Coupeville while I completed my degree and lived with the Ames.
Three years later, Bill suggested to me that I should move on from the job I loved but had no real future and he praised me to Don Pugnetti, then managing editor of the Tri-City Herald and again I moved. I credit Bill and Alex with getting me started in a lifetime of journalism.
Jerry McRorie, Class of 1960.”
Yes, “I finished up my NP (Nurse Practitioner) Post-Master’s study with a rotation at a clinic which hired me on as soon as I finished my UW program in 2002. My preceptors became my colleagues. It was a wonderful transition into professional practice. “
Yes, “A fellow classmate recommended me to fill a temporary design engineer position with WSDOT. I am still with the agency (BSCE, 1993).”
Yes, “MBA Finance ’74—A classmate who graduated a year before me, started working for a commercial bank and asked if I wanted to interview for a position with the same bank prior to my graduation. I became a management trainee with the bank started my banking career. I now own a firm providing consulting services to community banks due to my banking experience.”
Yes, “The encouragement of a business school professor named Schrieber—a most enthusiastic educator—led me directly into employment just prior to graduation, and a subsequent career. I am indebted to him. While lecturing in class on the subject of “industrial production,” he suggested to the class that we enter an essay contest sponsored by a national trade group of purchasing agents. Two in the class did so; a classmate named Gordon Hendrickson, and myself. My essay was on relationships between buyers and suppliers, focusing on mutual respect, with suggestions for implementing courtesy. My essay won second prize, and my classmate won first place. We both received cash prizes; however, my essay was published in a national purchasing agent’s journal. Best of all, however, at the local awards ceremony, where we both spoke, I was approached by the purchasing agent for a fledgling national company, who offered me employment that evening. I became quite interested, joined the company, and subsequently was tasked with setting up national distribution of the new and unique product line. Within five years, I became national sales promotion and advertising manager, and assisted in the sale of the company and its patents to a larger Eastern firm.
Thank you UW, and Professor Schrieber!
Yes, “I taught swimming and worked for Doris Pieroth while studying at the UW. Nine months after graduating I got a call from someone at Tumpane Co. in Vancouver, WA about a job as a lifeguard in Saudi Arabia on a government contract. I interviewed, was offered the job on the spot and went to Saudi Arabia as a lifeguard for one year. I got this job because Mrs. Pieroth recommended me to the recruiter at Tumpane Co. As a result I ended up living and working in Saudi Arabia for 17 1/2 years in recreation, administration and finally in human resources. I want to thank Mrs. Pieroth for her recommendation. My life has been so exciting because of the opportunity of working overseas, even though my career ended up having nothing to do with my major (History) from the UW.
Albert E. Priidik 1975”
Yes, “B.A. ’72, M.U.P. ’74. I was sitting in my thesis advisor’s office when he received a call from a local planning agency asking if he could recommend someone for a job opening. He suggested me, and after an interview, I got the job. I’m sure his recommendation helped a lot.”
Yes, “A fellow 1994 aero/astro engineering graduate referred me to a rare employment opportunity in an otherwise severely down-turned aerospace industry.—1994”
Yes, “While looking for work in 1951, I ran into an old friend at a party; John Gladding. John worked in downtown personnel dept. for Boeing. He told me there was a great job available in the library at Boeing. I stopped by the following morning and was told John was in a meeting, but … as I was his friend and was recommended for the library job, John’s boss also had a friend who was interested. I got the picture. I was then sent to the plant to interview for Industrial Eng. (in which I had absolutely no interest.) The head macho there was out to lunch so the interviewer suggested I might like Purchasing. I worked in materiel for the next ten years and made a career in that field. Thank you, John. R. W. Jefferis Class of 1949 (Business)”
Yes, “Class of ’85. A classmate who had graduated a quarter before me got a job at Microsoft. When I told him that I had applied, he sent my name to his manager. I interviewed and got the job.”
Yes, “Not sure if this is what you are after, but my UW connection occurred when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I discovered some very interesting trash cans three doors down from my house, full of wonders and surprises. I discovered the elderly couple living there. She tended her garden faithfully and he wandered around with an insect net and killing bottle. I discovered their name was “Kincaid” and he was a retired professor from the UW, just 4 blocks away from where we lived. This meeting developed into a friendship where he took me under his wing and showed me the wonders of science. His lab in the basement was full of wonderful sights and smells. He taught me about science. He taught me how to catch and identify insects. He taught me how to make microscope slides, preserve specimens and how to document my finds. Photography is still a big part of my life. I decided I would become a science teacher to give to others what he was giving to me. My parents supported me through this. All kinds of strange creatures lived in my room, and the basement was a well-equipped lab. They would cringe if they knew of some of the things I mixed up down there. Some of my brothers and sisters and my neighborhood friends got into the act, too. We are even mentioned in the biography about Trevor Kincaid "The Windows to His World‚" by Muriel L. Guberlet, though for some reason I picked up a Viennese accent. Today's parents would cringe at the thought of a small boy spending so much time in the house of an elderly man, and that is a sad commentary on today's society. I owe my work ethic and much more to my parents, but I owe 33 years of teaching science to the elderly retired UW professor who lived just down the block.
Aram Langhans ’72, ’80
Yes, “1987—MATESL in the English department. Professor Jim Tollefson helped me get my first job, a classmate helped me get my second job, and both Dr. Tollefson and Dr. Silberstein were really helpful when I decided to get a Ph.D. 10 years later. Through Dr. Tollefson, I also got to know a professor at the university where I now teach, and I think her letter of recommendation (in 2004) helped me get my current job.”
Yes, “I graduated from the UW in the autumn of 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. I was recently married and had no job prospects. Robert Mansfield, who taught magazine article writing in the School of Communications, recommended me to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for a temporary copy editing job. The P-I was hiring a few extra people to help produce record-size newspapers made necessary by a Newspaper Guild strike against the Seattle Times which shut that paper down for several months. I worked on the P-I copy desk for the duration of the strike (the last such strike in Seattle). When it ended I was hired as a reporter for the Daily Olympian where I spent two and one-half years. I was hired again by the P-I in 1956, as a reporter, and spent the next 40 years there as a reporter, columnist and eventually editorial page editor until my retirement in 1996. I’ve always been grateful to Professor Mansfield for giving me that first helping hand to launch my career.
Charles J. Dunsire, ’53, Issaquah.
dunsire@cablespeed.com “
Yes, “My answer is more of a “maybe.” The positive factor was my association with the College of Forest Resources.”
Yes, “I graduated with an MS in Elec. Engr. in 1971 with a thesis project in Bioengineering. I took a job with IBM in San Jose, but was ready to quit after just 10 months due to heavy overtime demands. Meanwhile my fiancée, whom I had met while we were living in McMahon Hall, made it clear she wasn’t moving out of town. The brilliant solution was to use the Bioengineering contacts to land a job in the department. We’ve celebrated 34 years of wedded bliss and still live in Ballard. Our younger daughter is UW class of 2009 and loves the school.”
Yes, “One of my fraternity brothers graduated in June and taken a job at Rockwell International. After I graduated the following December, he arranged an interview for me and based on the interview and his recommendation I was hired, thereby beginning a to this point 24 year career as an aerospace engineer. Class of ‘82”
Yes, “UW College of Forest Resources, Bachelor of Science 2003. Both an internship and a faculty member, Dr. Kathleen Wolf, helped me begin my career in urban forestry. I am now the urban forester for the City of Kirkland. “
Yes, “Participation on the UW Daily and in the journalism major. 1941”
Yes, “1933—The middle of the Depression, the library school recommended me for a position as librarian at Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah. I stayed there six years, then went on to another career. I was a Professor in a theological seminary in Manila, Philippines, when there was a need for a librarian, and thus I served as librarian and professor for nine years before retiring. It was only the first one where the UW helped, but what could I have done without it? Many of my friends had no job at all.”
Yes, “I graduated in 1993 with an M.A.I.S from the Jackson School. I was awarded a paid internship overseas that started me in an international business career”
Yes, “1980 (B.S.) 1982 (M.S.) A professor told me that he had seen a job posting and that he thought I had the type of personality that would fit. I decided to interview, just for practice, although the position was far from what I had planned. I walked out from the interview having taken the job, shaking my head about what I had just done. Taking that position has turned out as the best thing I could have done to launch an intellectually challenging, rewarding, and superb career in fisheries oceanography.”
Yes, “When I was doing cheer camps as an undergrad a UW alum asked me to come and student teach with him—his expertise in student leadership and as one of the founders of student leadership and cheer-leadership programming in the state gave me career salability—and amazing skills for teaching, activity advising and coaching—(His name is Conrad “Coke” Roberts—GO DAWGS, Mark Gwaltney”
Yes, “It was through the business school’s career center that I met with representatives from the first company I joined out of my MBA program—Hewlett-Packard. I stayed with them for 14 years.
Beth Gorell, BA ’83, MBA ’86”
Yes, “Ph.D.,1975: My committee, composed of two business school profs and two geography profs, were continually at war with one another. I quit school to let egos cool and went to work for a transportation consulting firm. One of my geography professors steered me to that job. I returned nine months later, completed my dissertation and graduated.”
Yes, “My employer recruited at UW at an engineering job fair. Graduated 1999.”
Yes, “A good friend and now owner of McKinstry (Voted #1 Place to Work by Employees) have worked together for over 28 years...We met when we joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity in 1972.”
Yes, “A former classmate of mine recommended me for his job when he returned to UW to pursue his doctorate. BSCE ‘91”
Yes, “An employee of UW told me about a job opening with his son in Alaska. Within 6 months —before I actually graduated—I had the job with the Alaska Dept. of Labor in the fall of 1975.”
Yes, “Class of 1981—One of the women I met living in the dorms worked part-time at Chevron, where I networked and ultimately interviewed and obtained an entry-level job. This first position helped me move through the organization, finally into human resources. Although I was laid off 10 years later, my resume was built and I was able to land another HR position at PEMCO, where I’ve been for 15 years, as of last Friday!”
Yes, “MFA 2003. Two department faculty wrote a reference for me. One is a highly respected alumnus from the school at which I now teach and I am sure that was a persuasive factor in my getting an interview.”
Yes, “Campus Recruitment”
Yes, “The degree I got was directly required and relevant to my library job. The recommendations I got helped me to get the job. ’68, ’69”
Yes, “In 1968 an older classmate helped me get a job in civil engineering where he was working. I only stayed with that firm for 2 years but it was a good job to let me see what being an engineer was all about. “
Yes, “A contact with the business school BITS group put out the job opportunity while I was a senior (class of 2001) and ended up offering me a job following the interview. I started work two days after receiving my diploma and stayed with the same company for five years.”
Yes, “My part-time instructor in industrial design (class of ‘56) was the local director for a national design firm and offered two of us jobs.”
Yes, “I found my first job (way back when) through a series of on-campus interviews. Fantastic program, and way ahead of its time in 1983!”
No, “Class of ’61. I went directly to MIT for masters. MIT connection helped a great deal.”
Yes, “I was introduced to JC Penney through recruiters on campus. This directly led to a 25-year career. Class 1959.”
Yes, “ ’69—UW has an outstanding reputation. Mention that I graduated from UW helped open the door.”
Yes, “I used the UW Alumni Career Connection service which led to my first internship. I have since graduated and become a contact myself. Having a network of alumni like the University of Washington is an incredible advantage that too few students and alumni utilize.”
Yes, “The owner of the a local construction firm (UW grad) was instrumental in the hire of a professor in the civil engineering department (Hinze) and following graduation posted a notice on his door for a job opening, which I was hired to fill. I was a product of the construction oriented curriculum in the civil engineering department promoted and supported by my first boss.
Yes, “My professor, the late Dr. Grant Sharpe, helped me make the contacts necessary for a key summer position, which then turned into a full-time job, and now a 30-year career, with Washington State Parks.”
Yes, “My faculty advisor recommended me to a representative of a publishing company for a job in academic publishing. I was hired two weeks prior to graduation and enjoyed 37 years in publishing, retiring as general manager of the international division.”
Yes, “A UW counselor, Pat Lunneborg, recommended I consider the school psychology program in EdPsych at Miller Hall, which I did, earning a master’s degree and have worked for 32 years in school psychology.
Tom Delaney
BS Psych., 1972”
Yes, “My story may be a little different than your typical UW alumnus. I attended the UW Family Medicine Residency Training Program from 1986 to 1989. I did not know what I wanted to do once I completed my specialty training. There happened to be a steady stream of residents from our program (Jonathan Sugarman, Allen Craig, Chris Percy, and Bob Munoz, to name a few) who were going to Shiprock, NM, on the Navajo Reservation after their training. They all spoke highly of their experiences in the Indian Health Service, so I signed on at Shiprock, as well in 1989. Since then, I’ve had a tremendous career with the IHS, and was recently named as the chair of the National Council of Clinical Directors. Others from that group have gone on to do very notable work. Jonathan Sugarman, I believe, is on faculty with the UW network. Allen Craig is now the State Epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health. Chris Percy is still in Shiprock, and has developed a health promotion/disease prevention program that is considered the premier program of its kind in the entire IHS.
One of the great ironies of my life is that although I am a native of New Mexico, it was my UW connection that brought me back to New Mexico into what has been a fantastic job.
By the way, my daughter Bianca is now a freshman undergraduate at UW, and loving every minute of it.
Bret Smoker, MD
Clinical Director
Santa Fe Indian Hospital
Bret.Smoker@ihs.gov”
Yes, “ ’64 Faculty and friends helped me get a very valuable internship and later I was asked to become a full time staff member of the same firm.”
Yes, “Prof. Donald Anderson linked me up with the Anaconda Copper Company. Anaconda, with only a telephone interview, offered positions as associate mining engineer to the entire class. I accepted on behalf of the Dec. 1955 class of one and began work in the Belmont mine in Butte right after New Year’s 1956.”
No, “I was a CMB major, aka pre-med. The classes were large, which was fine. But the counselors/advisors really didn’t have much contributions besides glancing through my checklist for graduation. No one ever guided me through options others than medical school or even life as a doctor, had I chosen that route. I graduated in 3/2000 and never heard from the UW until 2004—asking for a donation. I identify so much more with my graduate school than the UW, which is sad in a way. Just because your med school is top notch and you can draw thousands of students to pre-med majors effortlessly, please pay some attention to them.”
Yes, “A fraternity brother gave me part-time work before graduation then full-time after. This led to gaining experience and eventually to starting my own business. That business is 50-years-old this year and a major factor in its field. John Proctor BA Business ’53”
Yes, “Just before WWII, I dropped out of UW to work in a shipyard as a draftsman. As a part of the war effort, the UW offered a government-sponsored course in naval architecture in which I enrolled, augmented by further engineering night school studies. By the end of the I accumulated enough knowledge of naval architecture and marine engineering to obtain a professional license in the field and build a successful business career. “
Yes, “Met a colleague, Mary Jo Ludwig, MD at the UW Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship who referred me to my current faculty position at the UW affiliated Valley Family Medicine Residency.”
Yes, “Actually, no, then yes. I was not able to get any help from the university when I graduated with my masters. I ended up doing non-professional work for a year. I then applied with the federal government via a newspaper ad. The person who ultimately hired me was a UW alumni.”
Yes, “Graduate/Law School 2003—a former professor hired me on a contract basis about a year after I graduated. There was a recession going on, and anything to get the ball rolling helped. That position then led to other related hires elsewhere.”
Yes, “After graduation from UW engineering in 1954, I spent four years flying with the US Marine Corps. Subsequent contacts with Boeing resulted in my application being evaluated by an AE classmate. I spent the next 27 years at Boeing Flight Test. “
Yes, “I was a newlywed, brand-new class of ’58 communications grad bored with keeping house in a small Capitol Hill apartment when Prof. Bill Ames, communications, called. He told me there was an opening at the Seattle Times and who to contact for an interview. I got the job and so began my career in journalism. I retired as managing editor of the News Tribune, Tacoma.”
Yes, “UW helped me in the classic way: I was recruited by GE Capital when they came to campus in 1998 to hire prospective MBAs. I’ve been a risk manager in the financial services industry ever since.”
Yes, “Fraternity alumni at employer showed interest in me. 1962”
Yes, “During my interview with the dean of the College of Agriculture at Virginia Tech in 1968, the department head sponsoring me made a big issue out of the fact that at that time I was a graduate of the U of W “College of Fisheries,” not a department or school. He was impressed. I got the position of asst. prof. of fisheries. Michael, Ph.D. 1968”
Yes, “Absolutely. Mae Benne, then a professor in UW’s library school, provided a wonderful written recommendation to my first potential employer. I got the job and went on to get many more and in 2006 was named Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year. That support in 1978 meant the world to me!”
Yes, “I was informed of an opening by Prof.
Dean of Instruction was a UW grad.
Library Director was a UW grad.”
Yes, “In 1989, I was pregnant with my first child when I graduated with a master of social work degree. My mentor, Dr. Gilchrist, referred me to local agencies ,which started a 15-year long career as a work-from-home statistical data analysis consultant. I now contract at Microsoft as a usability engineer and have only been through one job interview in my whole life! Thank you Dr. Gilchrist!”
Yes, “2001 graduate. My connection is through a sorority sister. I went to work for her mom right after graduation, and she has helped me get promoted and move up in the organization. “
Yes, “I got a job with somebody I met through my activities at UW. Class of 2005.”
Yes, “1989 (BA in political science), 1992 (JD) I did an undergraduate internship in Olympia as a senior. They assigned me to work for the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who became a mentor (and employer) for me and has remained a mentor and now colleague for nearly 20 years.”
Yes, “Graduation year was 1968. A fraternity brother introduced me to an intern opportunity that turned into 15 years of employment. What was learned at this first company set me up for a very successful/productive business career.”
Yes, “Prof. Stan Brewer at the UW Business School played a key role in my landing a job General Mills. I was in my last year of MBA studies when the firm came to UW for on-campus interviews. Prof. Brewer had been an instructor for both my undergraduate and graduate courses and was overseeing my final MBA project. He was well regarded within General Mills for work he had done with them back when General Mills had a flour mill and export grain terminal in Tacoma. Prof Brewer joined the recruiter and me for conversations over lunch which I am sure helped open doors. A 30-year career followed.
Yes, “Professor Reno Patti [Graduate School of Social Work] told me about a social worker job opening at the Seattle VA Medical Center in 1974. That started my life- long social work career at the VA until I retired in 2002. I’m still actively involved in advocating for homeless veterans. And I hold Dr. Patti in the highest regard! Alan F. Castle , MSW [Class of 1971 ]”
Yes, “Would not be a law librarian now without the I School/Gallagher Law Library program. 2001”
Yes, “Fisheries— December 1975. Dr Jerry Stober recommended me to a friend of his who was starting a consulting firm in New York state. The firm was studying the effects of power plants on striped bass. The firm is know today as EA Scientist and Engineers. “
Yes, “I was already working at Boeing in 1996 when I bumped into a former UW classmate. He helped me get a resume to a different organization where I was ultimately hired—11 years ago! I work in Boeing Commercial Aviation Services where we are responsible for updating and maintaining airplanes in their service life, long after they were produced here at Boeing.”
Yes, “He was a fraternity brother. In fact I believe that has been more important than the actual UW connection. They are the first I think of for open positions.”
Yes, “I obtained a part-time job at a local bank (National Bank of Commerce) in my third year at UW, as a result of a connection through UW’s ‘Placement Center in Schmitz Hall. That was December 1970. I’m still in banking. “
Yes, “Year 1959—during that time jobs were much more limited for graduates than today and through connections from parents of classmates I was able to secure my first job. Also, I worked in school, which helped as well. “
Yes, “I was hired by the director of my internship while in graduate school in 1990.”
Yes, “MBA ’81. I was on the dean search committee as the student rep for the Graduate School of Business. I met Bob Truex, then chairman of Rainier Bank, there. He found out I was looking at jobs at Rainier Bank and he “helped” matters along. The rest was history, as that career spanned 20 years and numerous banks through acquisition.”
Yes, “Graduated 1966, journalism major, Swedish minor. Spent a year as an au pair in Sweden, came back, picked berries in Puyallup to earn money to buy material for a job-hunting dress, went to U and asked Dr. Samuelson if he knew of any jobs, he suggested I call Bill Asbury. I did, and got an interview the following Monday. Picked more berries, made the dress, went for the interview. Asbury said he’d asked about me at the School of Communications and when could I start. So I had a job within two weeks of returning from a year abroad. That job got me another when I married and moved to Virginia, and jobs kept building upon jobs until I left the Richmond Times-Dispatch to come home. After being fired from the West Seattle Herald (a grand tradition for editors of that paper), I worked as a copy polisher at China Daily in Beijing for a year. Coming home, I found the newspaper jobs all going to younger folk. I temped. One job was at a law firm. I liked it—interviewing clients and witnesses and writing up interrogatory answers were a lot like reporting—so I took the certificate course in paralegal studies through UW continuing education. That course got me a job as the entire staff of a solo practitioner, and now I’m working in a larger (but still small) law office and loving it.”
Yes, “I was involved with the Seattle-King Co. Health Dept of Environmental Health as an intern in 1960. I moved into a position with the Dept. of Environmental Health upon completion of my B.S. degree in December of 1960. Although I was only with S-K. Co. for fur years, I went on for a successful 25-year career in that field with the U.S. Public Health Service as a commissioned officer.”
Yes, “Class of 2004—Mathematics. A former UW graduate, also in mathematics, used the math major e-mail list-serve for job postings. I applied, got the job within two months of graduating in December 2004, and have been progressing in my career with the same company ever since.”
Yes, “The job (and career) I took out of graduate school was in response to the ad I saw in the placement center bulletin. I’m not sure I would have seen the position announcement without that notice from that office.”
Yes, “After graduation I was still looking for work in the accounting field. I was working but in retail. A friend who graduated with me from the University of Washington, Tacoma, came into the store I was working at and we started talking and she said to send her my resume and she would turn it in where she was working at. A few weeks later I received a call from the company for an interview. The position that I first was interviewed for I felt was not a fit. However the company called me back a few days later for another position. It was a fund accounting position which I was excited for and I was hired on with the company. It goes to show how important networking with graduates is.
Boyd Ackerson 99’ Business Administration, University of Washington, Tacoma”
Yes, “I interviewed with several companies on campus during my senior year and eventually went to work for one of them. As I recall, I interviewed in the spring and was hired pending my graduation in August at the end of the summer quarter. As I result of the interview I began a career in the insurance industry that lasted 32 years and enabled me to retire at 57. I graduated in business in 1969. “
Yes, “I was hired by one of my professors. 1955”
Yes, “Class of ’00. I started working at UW as an RA which led to me working as a resident director at the University of Washington. Following that position, I attended graduate school in the field of student affairs because of my work in residence life. ”
Yes, “During the summer between my junior and senior year in the business school, I secured an internship with Microsoft thanks to a notice at UW. Prior to graduation, I secured a permanent position with them.”
Yes, “I graduated in chemical engineering in 1969. My first job was at UW as a research assistant in the “Chem E” department. Later, a UW professor, Bjorn Hrutfiord, was very helpful in my getting a job at Monsanto for which he was a consultant in a wood chemistry byproduct. That was the beginning of my career in the pulp and paper industry, very interesting and rewarding.”
Yes, “I was about to reach out to UW alumni who spoke about their jobs. After a couple, I was recommended into a program called MAIP, for aspiring advertisers. I was able to get into the program, and now I am in New York working in advertising.
Yes, “I did not go to the alumni association or the school for help finding that first job, it just turned out that the guy who got me in was a family friend and UW alum. Class of 1976.”
Yes, “My interests were in human resources management (known then as personnel management) and I took every course that was offered on this and related topics. Upon graduation, I signed up at the Business Placement Office and was referred to a vacancy in the UW Staff Personnel Office where I got my start in my career. Michael Brownell, ’59”