Class Notes

Erin Sheckler, B.A., journalism – public relations, became head of national commercial services for Stewart, a global real estate services company.

Tyrean Martinson, BAE, secondary ed, is a writer and teacher. Her latest book is “Nexus,” the second in the Rayatana Series, a science fiction series for teens.

Mare Sullivan, elementary education certificate, is an adjunct faculty member at Seattle Pacific University, where she works with science teachers-in-training. She is also a curriculum author and workshop facilitator for the POGIL Project, a science education pedagogy (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning), which recently honored her with the POGIL Impact Award.

Fred Poyner IV, B.A., art history, recently completed two books: “Pacific Fishermen, Inc.: 150 Years of Norwegian Heritage Shipbuilding,” published by Classic Day Books of Seattle, explores Ballard’s oldest continually working shipyard. “One Family, Two Continents: The Story of the Swasands and Aleutian Spray Fisheries, Inc.,” from Legacy Isle Publishing of Honolulu, is about three generations of a Norwegian-American family and the fishing company they forged together.

Erin Gunter, B.A., sociology, was elected to the Ferndale city council in 2019.

John Boyd, M.Ed., secondary ed., became superintendent of Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, after serving for a year in the role as interim superintendent.

Terrence Osier, B.S., geology, is vice president of exploration for Strathmore Plus Uranium Corporation in Wyoming. He was recently named to the board of directors of F3 Uranium Corp.

David Lyon, B.S. chemistry, is a senior fellow for Global R & D at Lonza in Bend, Oregon.

Cathy Lamet, B.A., business administration, recently spoke at the Lakewood History Museum about her book, “Titanic Remembrance.”

Marty Schafer, B.A., urban and regional planning, is a consultant/ coach with FranklinCovey Education and the former president of the Clover Park School Board.

Gregory Hansen, B.A., business administration, became the chief credit officer at Numerica Credit Union in Spokane.

The Rev. Joyce Parry-Moore, B.Mus. performance, recently became parish priest of the Anglican Parish of St. Aidan and St. Bartholomew in Gibsons, B.C. Previously, she was the rector at St. James Episcopal Church in Kent.

Lake Union Publishing recently released “A Dangerous Education,” the latest by Megan Chance, B.A., broadcast communications. It’s a historical fiction novel set in 1950s Cold War Seattle, where a modern new teacher at a school for troubled girls challenges the narrow curriculum meant to tame restless young minds. Megan has written more than 20 novels, including “A Splendid Ruin,” “Bone River,” and “An Inconvenient Wife.”

Annie Davis, B.A., human services, sold her business, Annie’s Nannies Inc., in 2021 at age 81. She was also president of the Association of Premier Nanny Agencies for 10 years. Now retired, she plans to continue traveling the world with her husband.

Becky Bruhn, B.A., economics, started a video production business and joined the board of the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.

After creating a variety of computer games at Western in the early 1980s, Jon Pugh, B.S., computer science, went into scientific computing on Cray supercomputers at the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center, and then moved into the desktop realm at Apple working on AppleScript, and Adobe developing Adobe InDesign and InCopy. After many years, he’s finally made it back into games, working for Maxis on The Sims at Electronic Arts.

Lisa McCarthy, B.Mus., performance, is the senior instructor of flute and Woodwind Area coordinator at Western. She plans to retire in June after 24 years on the faculty.

Cheryl Louie, MBA, spent several years in finance as the vice president of Marketing at Westminster Savings in Vancouver, B.C. She has two grown children and has wonderful memories of her time at Western.

Chuck Lennox, B.S., environmental education, has been working internationally with botanical gardens in Ukraine and, most recently, in the country of Georgia. In the fall of 2019, he trained garden education staff at three locations in Ukraine. Due to the pandemic, planned staff exchanges were postponed and then cancelled in 2022 with the Russian invasion. But support continued with virtual training sessions and fundraising for ten botanical gardens.

Judy Irving, '82, BAE, elementary education and general science, and ’93, M.Ed., school administration, lives and teaches in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she was recently visited by her basketball teammates Keri Worley VonMoos, ’80, BAE, physical education/secondary education, and Jo Metzger-Levin, ’81, BAE, physical education/secondary education, and ’85, M.Ed., physical education, who were on a three-week tour of five countries in Southeast Asia.