Everett’s Chief of Police Kathy Atwood is well acquainted with the city that the officers on her force—more than 200 strong—patrol daily. While the city’s top cop no longer has a beat, Atwood knows these city streets through and through as an Everett native.
Read more about "Top Cop". When she heard the Seattle Art Museum would host a Paul Gauguin exhibition this spring, Marlow Harris, ’83, hopped into action. She started to plan a complementary exhibit of the works of lesser-known artist Edgar Leeteg, sometimes heralded as the “American Gauguin,” although his paintings are more provocative. And done on velvet.
Read more about "An Artful Life". For Serena Cosgrove, Matteo Ricci College is perhaps the best fit imaginable. Not only did she graduate from Matteo Ricci in 1985, with degrees in French and Humanities, but she is now an assistant professor there.
Read more about "Changing the World". Naomi Kasumi travels to Japan to hand deliver "Requiem 3.11," an exhibit she created to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged her native country. The artwork will be displayed inside a temple in Fukushima Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas in the country.
Read more about "Healing Power of Art". During a workout at Seattle University’s new William F. Eisiminger Fitness Center, you have feel gratitude toward the person who’s name is on the building. Bill Eisiminger says he has always had a passion for athletics and fitness and recognized the aging Connolly Center just wasn’t serving the fitness needs of today’s students. "It definitely was time" for a new fitness facility, he says.
Read more about "The Man Behind the Name". What people do to wriggle out of their woes and banish the winter blahs and blues says plenty about their creative strengths. Just ask any number of Seattle University folks what they do when they’re fogged in by a funk. Inventive? Playful? You bet. Sometimes a little surprising, too.
Read more about "Beating the Blues". For the past five years, seniors in the Albers' capstone course and students in the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) program have been working with inmates at Monroe Correctional Complex to develop plans for business ventures the inmates hope to launch when they’re released.
Read more about "Unlocking Potential". There is no other place that Dora "D" Krasucki-Alex, '74,'00, would like to be on a Saturday than the Mary McClinton home, a newly renovated house for women recovering from addiction.
Read more about "Home Sweet Home". A glance at Sherry Williams’ résumé reveals a rich and eclectic professional profile. It starts in the banking industry, when Williams was recruited from her home town of Boston to join a management training team at a Seattle bank.
Read more about "Community Voice". If fashion tells a story, Andrew Hoge sure has one to tell. The senior and onetime biochemistry major who wanted to be a doctor describes what he calls the thunderbolt effect of his decision to switch his major to business administration and strategic communications. Another pivotal point came his freshman year when he joined the SU Fashion Club.
Read more about "Student of Fashion".