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1971 Terry Cavender works for the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. After 33 years of teaching, he was inducted last spring into the Washington Secondary Schools Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame. Diane and James Morgan, Jr., live in Salado, Texas, where Diane teaches third grade and James is a nurse-anesthetist at Scott & White Hospital.

1973 Eric Nordquist and his wife, Yvonne Van Ligten, live in Lake Forest, Calif., and are the parents of a 19-year-old son and 17-year-old twin daughters.

1975 Julie (Hardt) Reynolds lives in Bridgeport, Wash., and is the mother of two grown daughters. She has been teaching for the past 27 years and hopes to retire to Spokane in 2008. Patricia (Carlson) Hughes has been elected to the board of directors of the American College of Nurse Practitioners, in Washington, D.C. She is currently in the doctor of nursing practice program at Case Western Reserve University/Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, in Cleveland, Ohio. Eric Olson is living in St. Louis, Mo., where he is lead estimator for Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems Headquarters.

1977 Nancy (Wendlandt) Matthews spent the past year on sabbatical in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and two teenage sons. They enjoyed "watching newly hatched turtles toddle back to the sea on the Great Barrier Reef, visiting lighthouses, and living by the ocean." Matthews continues to write travel articles and is working on a book. Fidel Diaz Huliganga and his wife, Adeline, and son, Timothy, live in Marikina City, in the Philippines, where Fidel has been involved with mission work since 1980.

1978 Sarah Stephens recently moved from Geneva, Switzerland, to Tirana, Albania, where she is the head of a USAID project assisting the Albanian government in developing programs to combat human trafficking. Lori Lyford is living in Chandler, Ariz., and is the director of the Scottsdale Chorus, which won first place at the Sweet Adelines International Chorus Competition this year.

1979 Connie Rae McKnight has moved back to Spokane after living in England for the past 15 years. Thomas Krausse underwent a successful heart transplant inJune at Providence Medical Center's Heart Failure/Transplant Clinic, in Portland, Ore. He is recovering well and plans to return to work at the U.S. Bank of Oregon soon.

DEATHS

1970 Vesta Benker, Jan. 22 • Robert Bundy, July 7

1975 Isabel (Stacey) d'Urbal, died June 27. She was the widow of Spokesman-Review writer John d'Urbal, who died in 1995. Isabel earned her degree in English from Whitworth and later established a scholarship at the college. • Dolores Gibler, Jan. 27

1977 Mark Pfeifer died March 10. He made his home in Spokane and was an avid sportsman. He is survived by his wife, two sons, two daughters, his parents, two brothers, one sister and one grandson.

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