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Kathleen Murray
M.Lib, 1976
Kathleen is Head of the Alaska Medical Library, a fee-based service that provides library services to healthcare providers throughout Alaska. She also serves as an academic librarian at the University of Alaska Anchorage, working with the School of Nursing and WWAMI collaborative medical school program.
Alice Shands
M.Lib, 1976
In 2012, Alice retired after a long career as a public librarian in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Over the course of her career, Alice worked as the director of the Sunflower County Library System (Indianola, MS), the director of the Columbus-Lowndes Library System (Columbus, MS), the senior manager of the LINC Department (telephone reference and community information database) of the Memphis Library and Information Center, a consultant to public libraries for the Arkansas State Library, a branch manager for the Central Arkansas Library System, and a children's librarian for the Memphis Public Library and Information Center.
Alice also established the patient and family library at the Arkansas Children's Hospital, served as the executive director of the Arkansas Division of Volunteerism, the executive director of the Wilowe Institute (a rural leadership development agency in Arkansas), and the executive director of the Arkansas Library Association.
Sue Swanson
M.Lib, 1976
Although she technically retired in 2011, in 2015 Sue filled in as a short-term replacement at her last job, working as the school librarian at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India. The school is a well-respected, US-accredited, K-12 private residential school located in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. The Library and the Learning Resource Centers generally are well-supported by the administration, staff and students, which made it a really exciting place to work!
Penny Hazelton
M.Lib, 1975
After revising her chapter on banking law, Penny edited the 900-page revised edition of Specialized Legal Research, a reference work for law librarians and lawyers. Sold to over 270 law libraries, the 2014 edition was published in-house at the UW Law School's Gallagher Law Library.
David Ticen
M.Lib, 1975
David retired from the Victoria College/University of Houston Victoria library in Victoria, Texas, in 2014 after a 20-year career as bibliographic instruction librarian and part-time English instructor. He now spends his time traveling and playing bridge.
Marna Tisdel
M.Lib, 1975
Marna retired in 2014, after working first as a librarian for many years, followed by a second career as a teacher for another 25 years. She's happy to be footloose and fancy free!
Ellen Crosby
M.Lib, 1974
Throughout 2012, Ellen photographed at sunset a Kentucky coffeetree located on Boise's Military Reserve above St. Luke's Hospital. To commemorate the city's sesquicentennial, she combined a number of the resulting images into "150 Boise Sunsets: Pod Tree on Eagle Ridge." In 2013, the work was shown in "Local Color Boise 150," a juried exhibition by the Treasure Valley Artists' Alliance; in 2014, it was chosen for the collection of the Boise Visual Chronicle and is now on permanent display on the third floor of Boise City Hall. Ellen also took part in a Berber-style jewelry-making workshop taught by Dore Stockhausen in Morocco in May 2014, and joined friends in June 2014 to see the Rolling Stones in Berlin and Paris.
Makiko Doi
M.Lib, 1974
Makiko has been practicing Japanese calligraphy since her retirement from the library at Central Washington University in 1993. In 2014, a collection of her calligraphy works was published in Japan.
Grove Koger
M.Lib, 1974
As of 2024, Grove Koger’s poetry chapbook "Not" was published by Finishing Line Press. His article “Staying On: Paul Bowles’ Later Years in Tangier” appeared in the 2024 edition of The Limberlost Review, and his short story “That Bittersweet Taste” was included in Boise’s 2024 Cabin/ Writers in the Attic anthology Tart.
Rebecca Pixler
M.Lib, 1974
As of 2024, Rebecca was retired and living in Bellingham, where she volunteered at the NW Regional Branch of the Washington State Archives. She also finished writing a collection of her adventures on public transportation titled, "Outbound to Wonderland". Prior to retirement Rebecca was an archivist/records manager, a records coordinator for the UW Schools of Medicine and Public Health and an assistant archivist at the King County Archives.