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1956

BOB WARREN was recently elected to the Washington state Music Educator Hall of Fame.

1957


GRETEL GROENEVELD and her sister traveled to Israel in May 1997 with a tour group. On the trip, they visited Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethany, Cana and other sites. They also crossed the Sinai Desert and Red Sea to see the pyramids, sphinx and Nile River in Egypt.

1962


JOHN MOFFITT and SHIRLEY PAULI MOFFITT '64 visited their newest granddaughter in Chatham, New Jersey, in July. John is retired and serves as a board member and marketing team member for the Foundation House at Northgate, a retirement facility sponsored by the Seattle Education Foundation. He loves to golf and travel. Also retired, Shirley "enjoys volunteer work and being able to do things she never had the time to do before retiring." The couple has three grandchildren.

1976


DON REES returned this summer to Washington from Ecuador, South America, where he served three years as a "tech missionary" with the Evangelical Covenant Church. Don lives in Gig Harbor.

1977


MARTIN LEE FRACKER retired from the United States Air Force after 20 years of military service, and has joined IBM as a software user interface design consultant. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Espee, and their four children: Marlo, Maeliz, Marty and Monica.

1981


RACHEL ENGLEBERTH SAWYER won four gold medals and a silver medal rowing at the Nike World Masters' games in August. Rachel runs her own State Farm Insurance office in Edmonds, Washington, and is an alumni representative on the SPU Intercollegiate Athletic Committee and Falcon Club Board.

1983


WENDY WORRALL REDAL completed her Ph.D. in media studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder in December 1997. She is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication there. Wendy did research and analysis on media coverage of the JonBenet Ramsey murder case in conjunction with a British television documentary critiquing the subject. Her husband, LEIF REDAL '83, is a family physician in Louisville, Colorado. The couple lives in Boulder with their son and new baby daughter.

1985


DONNA HARTMAN JACOBSSON and her husband, David, are serving as managers of the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) base in Nyankunde, DRC (formerly Zaire), Africa.

CHERYL PAHL WABLE left her 12-year nursing career in the infant unit at Seattle's Children's Hospital to care for her newborn son. Her husband, Dean, works as an RN at Twin Rivers Correctional Facility in Monroe, Washington. The couple lives in Lynnwood.

1987


SCOTT FEIR is an associate at the Seattle law firm of Montgomery Purdue Blankinship and Austin. He recently completed law school and took the bar exam at the end of July. Scott and his wife, KIM TEEL FEIR '90, celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary this past summer.

1988


TAMMY GOLDSMITH-REPPERT is assistant director of the Shoreline Community Church Preschool of the Monterey Peninsula, California. Tammy and her husband, Brian, have three children: Rachel, Jacob and Nathaniel.

JANICE CARLSON SWETLAND is a financial analyst at Osram Sylvania in Danvers, Massachusetts. Her husband, Reid, graduated in May 1998 with a counseling degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is now a therapist.

1990


JEFF GEORGE received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in July 1998. He and his wife, GAYE STUBBS GEORGE, now live in Arcadia, California, where Jeff has a post-doctoral position at the California Institute of Technology. Gaye works at home, caring for the couple's two children: Natasha and Spencer.

1991


MARK TELLOYAN, M.ED. '91, graduated from Notre Dame Law School in May 1998 and has accepted a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Sanford Brook in South Bend, Indiana.

1992


KIM WONG AIMI and her husband, Alan, live in Brisbane, Australia, where they are completing MBAs at the University of Queensland.

SETH MURRAY recently completed a master's degree in theology from the University of Dallas. He works as a pastoral associate at St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Portland, Oregon. TYRA MURRAY works part-time as a religious education coordinator in the same parish. The couple lives in West Linn with their two children.

1993


TERESA HICKMAN graduated in June 1998 from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, with a master of arts degree in theology and a concentration in family life education. She completed her degree while working full-time as human resources associate at the Seminary. Teresa lives in Arcadia, California.

CAROL LUCAS recently released her first vocal contemporary Christian CD, "Songs of Joy," a compilation of her own original songs. She sings at Western Washington churches and last summer performed at the Evergreen State Fair. Carol lives in Oak Harbor, Washington, where her husband, Chris, a former SPU security officer, works as a policeman. The Lucases have one son, Levi.

1994


WENDY SMEDES BICIUNAS and her husband, Neris, live in North Bend, Oregon. Wendy teaches kindergarten at Kingsview Christian School and Neris works for Menasha.

ANGELA KALNIN-TIMMERMAN is living with her husband, John, in his homeland -- the Netherlands. They live in the village of Meerkerk, 40 minutes southeast of Amsterdam. Angela is studying the Dutch language while John teaches the Dutch equivalent of fourth grade.

KAREN ANUNSON LOWDER is a computer systems consultant for Berger & Co. in Denver, Colorado. She formerly worked as a lead programmer for FourGen Software in Seattle and Choice Builder Systems in Redmond, Washington. Karen is currently working on her MBA. She and her husband, JEFF LOWDER '95, live in Castle Rock.

1995


STEPHANIE SCHERTZ BODGER is currently a full-time mom to two small children. Her husband, WILLIE BODGER, works in Web database development at AGRA Earth and Environmental, an engineering firm located in Kirkland, Washington.

PAUL HUBER began work in September on his master of divinity and master of Christian education degrees at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.

JEFF LOWDER is a first lieutenant in the United States Air Force and the chief of network security at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He will leave the Air Force in August 1999 and plans a career specializing in network/computer systems security. Jeff and his wife, KAREN ANUNSON LOWDER '95, live in Castle Rock.

DENISE RAINVILLE works in the SPU School of Business and Economics as the receptionist and undergraduate coordinator. She is also a ministerial candidate with the Free Methodist Church of North America, appointed as a pastoral intern to Seattle's First Free Methodist Church. Last year, Denise served as director of preschool ministries at the church, and this year she will continue to lead a single young adult Bible study and be involved with outreach.

AMY ROBERTS received her master of library and information science degree from the University of Washington in June 1998. She is currently the children's librarian at the Asotin County Library in Clarkston, Washington.

1997


JENNIFER ESTERLY is attending a five-and-a-half-month Youth With a Mission (YWAM) discipleship training school in Pune, India. In January 1999, she will join the international YWAM staff in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as assistant editor of The YWAMer newsletter.

1998


LISA PASSAGE, MBA '98, began a new position at Wildfire Communications in Bellevue, Washington, this past summer. She is working in the sales and marketing department at Wildfire, a voice recognition technology company. Lisa wrote her School of Business professors that "my MBA got me a great job!"


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