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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.
Arlene (Kairoff) Cohen
M.Lib, 1973
Arlene volunteers at the Historical Visual Materials Collections, a part of the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections describing and preserving historical photographs relating to the Pacific Northwest. Some of her projects include working with photographs of ferry boats and terminals from the 1950s; photographs from a Seafair Milk Carton Derby held on Seattle's Green Lake; and photographs from a 1917 expedition on the Kalmor II launch up the Inside Passage in British Columbia looking at logging operations. In working with these photographs, she is having great fun discovering the rich history of this region.
Lynne De Merritt
M.Lib, 1973
Since Summer Quarter 2017, Lynne has been volunteering in the Digital Collections of the UW Libraries Special Collections and reports that it's an interesting place to volunteer and has a great staff. She encourages iSchool retirees to consider volunteering their skills with UW Special Collections.
Michael Moffitt
M.Lib, 1972
Michael died on May 5, 2016. He was a reference librarian at Seattle Public Library for 31 years before his retirement in 2000.
Lawrence Onsager
M.Lib, 1972
Lawrence has served as Dean of Libraries at Andrews University since 2003.