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Westhill Care Team honors former principals made a difference and inspired all of us,” said Easton, who is part of the Westhill Elementary Care Team that Ron Belcher and Stacy Murphy is raising funds to purchase the mewere voracious readers, and they morial statue in honor of the princiinvited students and staff members to pals. follow them along that path. The team began raising “That’s why we’ve chomoney in September, and “I think it’s sen this statue for both at press time had garnered important for the principals — to remind $2,134.10 of its goal amount kids to understand us of them,” said Westhill of $3,198.95 to purchase the this — these people 2 ½-foot-by-4 ½ foot statue. Elementary second-/thirdmade a difference With the help of donations, grade teacher Kathy Easton and inspired while pointing to a picture a small grant from a state reall of us.” of a bronze statue featuring tirement organization, some two children sitting on a Kathy Easton PTA money and cash from bench and reading a book. a few raffles (for Easton’s Belcher — who died from sticky buns and a chocolate Lou Gehrig’s disease in cake), the team is 67 percent 2010 at age 65 — and Murphy — who of the way there and hopes to have died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma the statue at the school by springtime. in 2011 at age 45 — both served as They’d like to place the statue in an principals at the Bothell school and area near the library that needs to be are both remembered as strong, carspruced up with flowers like another ing people who lived their days to the spot on campus that Easton had a fullest. hand in beautifying, said Westhill Each person rarely had a book far officer manager Deanna Taylor, who from their hands and stressed literacy has been at the school for 28 years. wherever they went. Belcher hired Easton at Westhill 23 “I think it’s important for the kids years ago. to understand this — these people [ more PRINCIPALS page 8 ] BY ANDY NYSTROM
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Westhill Elementary’s Deanna Taylor, left, and Kathy Easton are helping raise money for a memorial statue for deceased former principals Ron Belcher and Stacy Murphy. (MAIN PHOTO) ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
Bastyr University is a hotbed for national award winners BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
Leanna Standish gives a slight smile when discussing her recent Natural Products Association Clinician Award. It’s fine, she notes, but the Bastyr University clinical researcher has her sights on the big picture: “I don’t feel as though we’re even close to having our work done. There’s so much we don’t know, there is so much work to do.” Standish, who’s also medical director for the Kenmore institution’s Integrative Oncology Research Clinic, was joined by Bastyr founding President Emeritus Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr. and Bastyr alumnus
Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr.
Michael T. Murray
Michael T. Murray in garnering awards “to licensed health-care practitioners whose work exemplifies the best standards and dedication to responsible holistic, non-invasive and integrative, complementary and alternative medicine modalities,” according to the Natural Products Association. Both Standish and Pizzorno won Clini-
cian Awards and Murray won a President’s Award. Awardees will be honored during Natural Products Association MarketPlace 2012 on June 14-16 in Las Vegas, Nev. “It’s really quite remarkable that the three clinicians honored are all associated with Bastyr University. It’s quite a compliment,” Pizzorno said. “It’s all about helping people become healthy. My whole career has been to promote credible sciencebased natural medicine.” According to the University of Maryland Medical Center Web site, naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a system of medicine based on the healing power of nature. [ more BASTYR page 2]
Leanna Standish relaxes in her office at Kenmore’s Bastyr University, which has three Natural Products Association award winners affiliated with the school. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
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