Jackie Lee Houston 1935-2011 Devoted Desert Dawg Jackie Lee Houston, ’56, known as Palm Springs’ highest-profile philanthropist and a lifelong supporter of the University of Washington, died Sept. 14. She was 76. Houston, who graduated from the UW with a degree in home economics and fashion design, was Seattle’s first female weather reporter and hostess of the Hoffman Easy Vision Talent show. She left Seattle for Los Angeles in the mid-1950s to pursue modeling with Oscar-winning fashion designer Edith Head, but eventually returned to Seattle to marry her college sweetheart, Jim, a star on the Husky football team. The Houstons, who supported a range of organizations and causes, were enthusiastic supporters of Dawg Days in the Desert, and even hosted the event’s premier gathering, Chow Down to Washington, in their Palm Springs home. She and her husband were also Presidential Laureates for gifts exceeding $1 million they made to the University. “Giving,” Houston once said, “is just a feeling of wanting to be proud of what you do.” She is survived by her husband, Jim, ’55; and their three children.—Katie Melton Jackie Lee Houston with husband Jim at Dawg Days in the Desert. Photo by Team Photogenic.
76, June 28. • JANICE MAE REICHELT JAROSZ, ’60, Ravensdale, age 73, July 31. • MARGIE LAATZ, ’60, Shelton, age 87, June 18. • LARRY ALLEN SCHAUT, ’60, ’63, Renton, age 74, Aug. 16. • MICHAEL J. SWOFFORD, ’60, ’63, Seattle, age 73, Aug. 16. • BRENT WOOTEN, ’61, Spokane, age 72, Aug. 29. • ANNE GARTLAND PAYNE, ’62, ’76, Arlington, Mass., age 89, July 7. • BERNARD HENRY BOOMS, ’63, Seattle, age 74, June 25. • CLARK W. TOWNSEND, ’63, ’67, ’78, Manchester, age 73, June 11. • AUDREY FONG KOBUKI, ’65, age 66, June 22. • MARION V. “MICK” LARSON, ’65, Seattle, age 71, May 31. • HERBERT I. LAKEFISH, ’66, Longview, age 69, Aug. 3. • BASIL MAYOGLOU, ’66, Erie, Pa., age 69, May 22. • MICHAEL ARTHUR CHURCH, ’67, Bellevue, age 66, June 10. • SUSAN LEVY EBERHART, ’67, age 65, July 30. • PAULINE LILLIAN PASCOE, ’67, Shoreline, age 87, July 18. • DAVID PETERSON, ’67, Boulder Creek, Calif., age 73, May 7. • JOSEPH CHARLES MCCARTHY JR., ’68, Gig Harbor, age 69, Aug. 20. • MICHAEL D. BENNER, ’69, ’73, Olympia, Sept. 14. • GERALD L. KNIGHT, ’69, Mill Creek, age 68, Aug. 15. • JAMES HAN LOCKE, ’69, Seattle, age 69. • CLAUDIA JEANNE (HAUGE) GILLIS, ’70, Seattle, age 62, July 30. • ROBERT BURTON FISHER, ’70, ’86, Portland, Maine, age 74, May 4. • JANET
• CYNTHIA JANE TAYLOR-DAY, ’78, ’80, Seattle, age
62, Aug. 14. • PAUL WOZNIAK, ’80, Seattle, age 55, June 21. • WILLIAM “BILL” HENRY HAAS, ’83, Seattle, age 57, July 14. • DOUGLAS B. WOLLEN, ’83, Kent, age 51, Aug. 16. • SHARON E. KOVACS, ’85, Seattle, age 71, July 18. • DEKANG DENG, ’86, Seattle, age 52, July 17. • THOMAS HOWE CECIL, ’87, Lake Stevens, age 72, July 18.
FACULTY AND FRIENDS WARREN D. BURKLUND, ’50, a UW staff architect
who worked in Health Sciences Facilities and Planning, died Aug. 20. He was 89. • NAVY LT. CMDR. JOSEPH R. CARMICHAEL JR., ’39, who received the prestigious Navy Cross for his acts to save nearly 2,900 crew members
KATHLEEN MILLER, ’72. • LAWRENCE L. PARRIS, ’72, ’76, Kirkland, age 60, June 17. • BARBARA ANNE ALTOSE ROSENWALD, ’72, Mercer Island, age 60,
Sept. 19. • JAMES THEODORE FENNO, ’73, Holt, Mich., age 60, June 12. • BONNIE GENEVAY, ’74, Seattle, age 83, Aug. 28. • GLORIA MARIA BUCE, ’75, Shoreline, age 61, Sept. 9. • STEVEN CLARK SHIPLEY, ’75, Seattle, age 64, June 11. • JACK TAYLOR NORRIS, ’76, ’78, Olympia, age 56, May 29.
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after the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Bunker Hill was attacked during Word War II, died Sept. 26. He was 96. • ARK GEOW CHIN, ’50, ’52, a Chinese American whose life personified the American Dream, died Nov. 13. Chin, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the UW in Civil Engineering, served on the UW Board of Regents from 1998 to 2004. He was born in a small Chinese village and emigrated to the U.S., at age 10. He was a decorated World War II veteran who went on to become a philanthropist, and President and CEO of a major Seattle engineering firm. • PAUL DEMITRIADES, ’55, ’75, who served as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Evans School of Public Affairs and as a visiting lecturer of the Foster School’s Executive MBA and MPA program, died Sept. 13. He worked 32 years with Boeing and had his name recorded in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian within “The Apollo/ Saturn V Roll of Honor.” He was 78. • WILLIAM C. DOLOWY, who served as professor and chairman of Experimental Animal Medicine at the UW School of Medicine from 1967 to 1974, died June 12. He was 84. • H. BARTON DOUGLAS, ’42, who captained two UW eightman crews to national championships, died Sept. 14. He was 91. • ROBERT JOHN ELLRICH, who taught from 1964 to 1989 in the Department of Romance Languages and was honored as a Professor Emeritus, died Sept. 23. He was 80. • MARGARET P. FENN, ’50, ’63, who in 1963 became the first woman to earn her Ph.D. from the UW School of Business, died April
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