‘I Sing Because:’ Slide show of WSU choirs in Korea

June 27, 2016 WSU News, by Tim Marsh, retired from University Communications

PULLMAN, Wash. – Thirty-seven Washington State University Concert Choir and Madrigal Chamber Singers toured and performed in South Korea May 10-19.

They were accompanied by conductor Lori Wiest, WSU School of Music choral activities director and voice area coordinator, and Julie Wieck, WSU music faculty and a soloist in the concerts.

In the slide show, the choirs perform “I Sing Because,” composed by Will Todd, which was in the tour repertoire. Slide show photos are by Spencer Knudson, choir member from Spokane, and Wiest. Tim Marsh, retired from WSU, produced the slide show.

UFO report from Pullman 1/25/1956

What’s your recollection of UFOs in Pullman?

Here’s the “Flying Saucer Reports” column from the Parkland (Tacoma metro area), Wash., Times-Journal newspaper from Dec. 5, 1957. Note report from 1/25/56 in Pullman.

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Pullman, Washington – 1/25/56 – On the basis of numerous

Substantial reports from Military and Sunnyside Hills and GOC sky-

watchers, a rapidly moving luminous object buzzed down over

College Hill and the Airport just before 9:00 p.m. “The object

Seemed to whip into town, was brilliantly white,” says one ob-

Server. “Then it turned green, reddish, then disappeared in a trail

of what looked like smoke.” At first sight the object was thought

to be an airplane, but was too large. “It looked like a big moon,”

said Mrs. T. A. Merrill.

Mrs. Ed Wagner, who was at the Gardner Stacy home, was

another of the many who saw the object. “It was bright bluegreen,

looked a little bigger than the Bryan Hall clock, from the Stacy

home,” says Mrs. Wagner, “and seemed to have a red fire or sub-

stance dropping away from it. It lasted about a minute, long enough

for other women at the meeting to see it.”

The Ground Observer Corps who also observed the phenomen-

on, reports there were no aircraft in the area at the time.

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At the end of the column is this, “Information contained in this series courtesy of Aerial Phenomena Research Group, Seattle, Washington.” 

And, also, “PLANNING A SPACE TRIP? BEFORE YOU LEAVE, STOCK UP AT THE Bargain Basket.”

Thanks to Archives & Special Collections at Pacific Lutheran University for scan of the Times-Journal.

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Jack Brown was publisher/editor of Parkland Times-Journal for nearly 20 years
http://generalaviationnews.com/2011/12/22/jack-brown-93

Jack Brown of Parkland Times-Journal flew in from Mazatlán, according to the Issaquah Press of Feb. 28, 1963 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=986&dat=19630228&id=mu88AAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1284,11196356&hl=en

Herbert Eugene Stark and wife, Velzora, purchased the Parkland Times-Journal in 1971. They operated it for a year. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37133327

Doodlle-bug motorized railcar served Colfax and Pullman

Photo (see it here) in 5/26/2016 Whitman County (Colfax) Gazette of Main Street banner depicting "the one-time former doodle-bug railroad car (sometimes called the "bug")

that served Colfax..."

The Doodlebug was a motorized railcar used in various locations. It linked Spokane with Lewiston. Inbetween stops included Colfax, Pullman and Moscow.

More info at these links:

http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/ref/collection/whitman/id/1583

http://pullman-cupofpalouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/bug-passenger-train-linked-pullman-with.html?m=1

http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/ref/collection/whitman/id/1583

Emi Dickens painting: Clouds over the Palouse

PHS Hound Track & Field at CVHS Spokane Valley 4-30-2016

Old Bookie at WSU bites the dust 4/25/2016

Whitman County auditor Eunice Coker says plan to retire at end of 2018 not related to a run of findings on mistakes by the elections office for the past three elections

From Bulletin column of Whitman County (Colfax) Gazette of 4/21/2016 

COKER PLANS 2018 EXIT

County Auditor Eunice Coker has announced she plans to conclude her public service career when she completes her present term of office at the end of 2018. Coker was elected to a fourth four-year term in the fall of 2014.

She said she announced her plan to retire at the county’s GOP convention in March and had made it known to others before that time.

Coker noted 2018 will mark more than 34 years in public service, and she and her spouse, Jerry, have planned her retirement to start at that time. She added the decision is not related to a run of findings on mistakes by the elections office for the past three elections.

Coker began employment with the county in February of 1984 when she was hired as a deputy in the treasurer’s office. She was appointed to the auditor’s post in August of 2003 after David Repp left the job earlier that year. Coker and Kirk Suess of Steptoe at that time were in an election race for the auditor’s job, and county commissions opted to appoint her to the position after she edged Suess in the primary election returns that year. She and Suess subsequently tallied a close finish in the 2003 general election, and she eventually was pronounced winner with a one-vote edge after a hand count of the ballots.

Coker, who was raised in Colfax and graduated from high school here, returned to Colfax after she served three years in the U.S. Army military police.