Alumni News
Ready to launch
After nearly six years of training, astronaut Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger ’97 is more than ready for liftoff.
Whitman history 101
With the backdrop of a stunning Whitman fall, this panoramic shot of the historic bell in the Memorial Building clock tower is made possible through modern photo technology.
Founder of "Women in Leadership Symposium" earns national award
Colleen Seidelhuber Willoughby ’55 of Seattle has earned The Association of Junior Leagues International’s highest honor — the Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award.
Where in the world
Jan Salisbury ’72 writes: “I am enclosing a picture of myself and Jesica Mitchell ’97, who is a graduate of Whitman 25 years after me. It was a fluke that we ended up on the same women’s tennis team...”
Mary Deming Barber ’78 joins Alumni Board
Mary Deming Barber ’78 of Anchorage, Alaska, joins the Alumni Association board. Barber, with more than three decades of public relations experience, formed her own firm in 2000. She continues to serve as president and CEO of the Barber Group Inc.
Professor Howells’ obiter dicta live on
When in 1977, then-Colorado-based Melinda Jones ’70 wrote to 40 years of Whitman English majors asking for their “Howellisms” from past notes, she could not have guessed that it would take more than 30 years for a publication featuring Tom Howells’ wit to come to fruition
Is wine justice blind?
The lead papers in the last two editions of the “Journal of Wine Economics” have drawn the ire of winery owners and the attention of media from The Los Angeles Times to The Wall Street Journal.
Five competitors, “coach of the spirit” inducted into Hall of Fame
Five of the most accomplished competitors in the history of Whitman College athletics, along with the school’s much beloved “coach of the spirit,” were inducted into the Whitman Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony Oct. 3, 2009.
2003 alumnus writes episode of TV’s “Cold Case”
“I made hundreds and hundreds of cold calls trying to get my scripts read,” said Jerome Schwartz ’03. Now a script he wrote for an episode of the popular CBS police drama “Cold Case” is set to air Dec. 6.
Alumni book collection
Newly published by Whitman Alumni.
In Memoriam
The Whitman family lost a cherished and devoted member with the Nov. 15, 2009, passing of Overseer Emerita Cora Dee Hunt ’55.