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Cheryl Goodwin
M.Lib, 1982
Cheryl is currently the Director of Institutional Assessment & Library Services at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Prior to that, she spent 24 years as a medical librarian at hospitals throughout the Puget Sound.
Eric Palo
M.Lib, 1982
Eric retired as director of the library at Renton Technical College in 2016 and moved to McMinnville Oregon. Since then, he has occasionally filled in part-time as the librarian for the Wilsonville campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology. He continues as an accreditation evaluator for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Anina Coder Sill
M.Lib, 1982
Anina is in her 47th year with the King County Library System where she started as a page at her local Richmond Beach Library branch. She has been a library technical assistant, branch manager, and children's librarian and have seen things cycle around in the library world more than once. Still enjoy it immensely.
William Parton
M.Lib, 1981
In October 2014, Bill retired from his position as the Library Director at Arkansas Tech University, a position he held for 24 years.
Wesley Cochran
MLIS Law, 1980
Wesley was elected president of the Texas Tech University Faculty Senate for the 2019-20 academic year.
Virginia Reynolds Williams
M.Lib, 1980
Virginia had her first book published by WestBow Press. It's called "Consider the Raven: Meditations Beside a Vernal Pool."
Judith Alexander
M.Lib, 1979
Since Judith retired early in 2001 from the Edmonds School District as a Learning Resources Specialist (aka an elementary school librarian), she has lived part-time near Munich, Germany. The late iSchool Professor Spencer Shaw and Margaret Read MacDonald (M.Lib 1964) inspired her to tell stories, and Judith is active in storytelling guilds in both Seattle and Munich, where she tells stories to adults and in schools, mostly in English. This has led to invitations to Scotland, Latvia and Estonia, as well as to festivals in Germany.
Jeanne B. Clark
M.Lib, 1979
Jeanne retired in March 2012, after 33 years of working as a freelance librarian specializing in health sciences literature. Over the course of her career, she provided medical literature research to over 100 clients in both the Pacific Northwest and further afield. Jeanne continues to serve as a book review editor for Trial News, the Washington State Association for Justice’s monthly publication.
Patricia Devine
M.Lib, 1979
As of 2024, Patricia Devine was the Director, Community Outreach & HEALWA, an online library for healthcare providers in Washington State. Prior to that, she was the Outreach & Communications Coordinator at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for the Pacific Northwest region. She taught online health information to health-care professionals, librarians and health-care consumers. She also led the Health Disparities Special Interest Group of the Medical Library Association and served as president of the Association of Librarians of the University of Washington for 2017-18.
Patricia Hedtke
M.Lib, 1979
Patricia is the Instructional Design and Curriculum Coordinator for the University of Washington School of Pharmacy.