Class Notes
Sarah Yates - 2020
The Unknowns, a five-person band that includes Kim Bowman, '09, B.A., music, Sarah Yates, B.Mus., music - history and literature, and Allison Bowman, is taking their vintage jazz, blues and pop sounds, on tour this summer to Montreal and Europe, including a stop the Aarhus Jazz Festival in Denmark.
Verdie Watson - STF
Verdie Watson, 105, a retired administrator in Western's Music Department, on May 28, 2023.
Colleen J. McElroy - FAC
Colleen J. McElroy, 88, a nationally known poet who served as an assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology at Western from 1966 to 1973, on Dec. 12, 2023. After teaching at Western and completing her doctorate, Dr. MmElroy became an English professor at the University of Washington (and the university's first Black woman full-time faculty member), and she mentored many young writers and poets.