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1961 Priscilla Small
is with Wycliffe Bible Translators
in Mexico and is currently working on the Mixtec-Spanish dictionary.

1965 Betty Jean (Garrett) Steinbach has retired after teaching for more than 30 years as a music specialist in California's Lodi Unified School District. She is currently a member of the Sacramento Symphonic Band Association and has toured in Canada, China, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and Denmark.

1967 Errol Schmidt is retired after teaching and coaching for the past 35 years at St. George's Preparatory School in Spokane. A new $7 million athletics building on the St. George's campus has been named in his honor.

1968 Dean Jamieson has been installed as dean of the Seattle Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He recently retired as a classroom teacher from Washington's Edmonds School District, but he continues to teach in off-campus programs at Western Washington University. Dean and his wife,
Lela, are the parents of two Whitworth students,
Becky Jamieson, '06, and
Gavin Jamieson, '07.

DEATHS

1961 Elaine Olson died Feb. 16. A Spokane resident since 1959, she was a teacher and counselor at Sacajawea Junior High and Shadle Park High School. She is survived by one brother, two nieces, and four great-nieces and nephews.

1962 Earl MacEnulty died June 15 in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was president of MacEnulty Realty and is survived by a son.

1966 Edmund Hill died last spring. He was an art major and P.E. minor at Whitworth, where he also played football. He completed his M.F.A. at Otis Art Institute, in L.A. He taught art and coached at Albany High School, in California. In 2004, he and his wife, Patty, moved to La Quinta, where Ed pursued his passion for "plein air" painting.

1967 Henry Hoshino died Mar. 21. Following his graduation from Whitworth, he began a long career as an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After retiring from the FBI, he worked for Bank of America, where he became a vice president. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, one sister, and several nieces and nephews. • Shirley (Hawley) Hook died May 23. In 1941, she married LeRoy Hook, '40, at Spokane's Knox Presbyterian Church, and through the years she was involved in a variety of church and community activities She is survived by her husband, a sister, Gladys (Hawley, '42) Rosenquist, one daughter, Janice (Hook, '67) Knoll, two sons, Brian Hook, '70, and Clifford Hook, '69, four grandchildren, and one great-grandson. • Catherine (Fisher) Hewitt, June 13

1968 Paul Bupp

1969 Mary Praetorius, Jan. 4

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