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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.
Bruce Keck
M.Lib, 1979
In October 2013, Bruce attended the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, TN. Using his banjo, he told his story.
David Kent
M.Lib, 1979
David is retired after 40 years working in libraries in the United States and Colombia, including libraries in K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities, and medical libraries. He has been traveling to see grandchildren in California, New York and Texas, and to other places such as India, Japan and Colombia from his home in southwestern New Mexico.
Melinda (Mindy) McCormick
M.Lib, 1979
Mindy was recently appointed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to the Adult Education Advisory Council, representing libraries, for a three-year term.
Melinda "Mindy" McCormick Coslor
M.Lib, 1979
Mindy completed a Ph.D. in Education in 2015. The title of her dissertation is "Libraries and the Community College Baccalaureate: Meeting the Challenge," a multi-case study of Washington state community college libraries whose institutions implemented baccalaureate degrees.