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1970 Melvin Taylor is living in Lakeport, Calif., and is the human resources and payroll director at Lakeport Skilled Nursing Center. He has been an organist at a multi-denominational (Presbyterian, Methodist, United Brethren) church for the past seven years. David Strachan is retired and doing volunteer work for Project Open Hand, an AIDS service organization, and for Organization Intersex International. In addition, he is a board member for the Institute for Intersex Children and the Law.
1971 Linda (Morris) Childs is a first-grade teacher for the U.S. Department of Defense in Wiesbaden, Germany.
1972 Dorothy (Larson) Hay lives in Maple Valley, Wash., and is a high-school counselor at Issaquah's Liberty High School. For the past 20 years, she has been the music director for the Issaquah Singers, a 45-member community choir.
1975 Carolyn (Curley) McNeil lives in Coulee Dam, Wash., and is a kindergarten teacher with the Grand Coulee Dam School District. She was awarded the Washington State PTA Outstanding Educator Award for her exceptional work. Brett Webb-Mitchell is the author of a recently published book, Being a Gay Parent, a practical guide to gay Christian parenting.
1976 Paul McLarren and his wife, Janet, are living in Waxhaw, N.C., after serving abroad for many years as Wycliffe translators. Paul hopes to use his experience as a translation consultant to write for translators working worldwide, and Janet is considering using her experience as an anthropologist to help train new Wycliffe members in cross-cultural communication skills.
1978 Jon Flora is the president of The Franciscan Foundation, which raises money for five hospitals in Washington's south Puget Sound area. Beth (Strong) Andrews has joined Spanish Peaks Mental Health Center in Pueblo, Colo., as program supervisor for co-occurring disorders. She is responsible for staff training and for developing a new program to treat clients who have mental-illness and substance-abuse issues.Her second book, I Miss You! A Military Kid's Book about Deployment, was published recently by Prometheus Books.
1979 Ian MacInnes-Green is the pastor of Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church, in Barrow, Alaska. Terry and Kerry (Taylor) Cooper live in Yakima, Wash., where they continue to teach school. Their son, Brooks Cooper, graduated from Whitworth in 2006.
Rodney Shinn, '70, died Oct. 2. He taught physics, algebra and traffic safety at Spokane's St. George's School and West Valley High School and at Ritzville High School. He retired in 1998 and four years later opened Coffee & Books, a Christian-worldview bookstore in Colville, Wash. He is survived by his wife, a son and daughter, his mother and four grandchildren. Phillip Lowder, '70, died Feb. 20. Prior to graduating from Whitworth, he owned a body and fender business, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and, following the war, opened his own insurance-adjusting service in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. After receiving his degree in education, he taught middle school for many years in Coeur d'Alene. He is survived by a brother, two sisters, two sons, four daughters, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Nancy (Freeman) Davis, x'71, died Sept. 12. She taught elementary school for 33 years in the Spokane area. She is survived by her husband, Gerald Davis, '69, and two daughters. Joy Fitzgerald, '71, died June 5. In the late '70s she moved to Portland, Ore., where she was an administrative assistant for Bonneville Power Administration. She is survived by one brother, a niece and several nephews. Eleanor (Raney) Hornall, x'72, died Aug. 27. She was an elementary-school teacher for 10 years before becoming a reading specialist in both public and private schools in the Seattle area. She is survived by one son, John Hornall, x'62, two daughters, Anne (Hornall) Roberts, '67, and Jeanne (Hornall) Walsh, '69, a brother, seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Linda (Hamilton) McGlocklin, '72, died April 16. She was a teacher at Evergreen Elementary School in Spokane for more than 33 years. She is survived by her husband, two sons, her mother and father, and a brother and sister. Bruce Farley, '72, died Oct. 7. He worked for many years as a certified public accountant before finding his niche in construction. He was the chief financial officer of Power City Electric Contracting, Inc., for 10 years before starting Mountain States Electrical Contracting, Inc. He is survived by his wife, Debi (Anderson) Farley, '71, two sons and a daughter, his parents, five brothers, three sisters, three grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. Robert Flora, '73, died June 30. He worked in the lumber industry in Oregon, Arkansas, California, and Wisconsin for more than 30 years. He is survived by his wife, three sons, his mother and one brother, Jon Flora, '78. Philip Snowdon, x'74, died March 21. His lifelong career in education included serving as a teacher, principal, and director of special education in the Spokane School District and as the superintendent of schools in Cheney, Wash. He is survived by his wife, his mother, two brothers, three children and four grandchildren. Verna Carr, '75, died March 21. She was a registered nurse at Valley General Hospital in Spokane for 20 years before opening a massage-therapy business. She is survived by her husband, three brothers and sisters, and numerous nieces and nephews. Rena (Stephens) Hunt, '76, died July 12. Stanley Rizzuti, '76, died Feb. 23. For 40 years, he worked as a water-service foreman for the City of Spokane Water Department. He was active in Spokane's Civic Theatre productions for two decades, winning three Best Character Portrayal awards. He is survived by his wife, one son, two grandchildren, two brothers, two sisters, and several nieces and nephews. Sheri Noah, '77, died March 3. She was a missionary in Uruguay for two years before receiving her master of divinity degree from Chicago's McCormick Seminary in 1985. She was a pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Stockton, Calif., for six years and then served at a local food bank with her husband, David Hacker. Following a move with her family to Detroit, she directed the Fort Street Presbyterian Open Ministry to the homeless before relocating to Yakima, Wash., where she and her husband directed the Campbell Farm, a conference/retreat center and 40-acre working farm located on the Yakama Indian Reservation. She is survived by her husband, one son, two stepchildren, her mother, two half-sisters, a half-brother, and numerous aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews. James Plumb, '78, died May 10. A lifelong resident of Spokane, he worked as a support enforcement officer with the DSHS Division of Child Support. Plumb and his wife, Judi, served for many years on the board of Northwest Teen Jamboree, with the goal of reaching young people for Christ. He is survived by his wife, a son and daughter, one sister and two grandchildren.
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