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Cecilia McGowan
M.Lib, 1984
Cecilia is the 2019-20 president of ALSC, the Association of Library Service to Children. This ALA division confers many prestigious awards, including the Newbery, Caldecott and Sibert.
Marjorie Doyle
M.Lib, 1983
In 2021, Marjorie reports that she continues to volunteer at Missoula Public Library in its Memory Cafe program that she helped start five years earlier. She also trains volunteers in various areas and frequently recommend new programs for consideration. Marjorie retired as a reference librarian from the library in 2015.
Barbara Rose
M.Lib, 1983
Barbara is now retired.
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.