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Letters at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Libby is a Bellevue-area native, and though her undergraduate degree is from Dartmouth, she is a current UW law student. She is also extremely active in sports physiology and psychology for women and youth athletes in the Seattle area. As my daughter says, “Libby Rocks!” —Pat McCabe B.S., Architecture, ’85 B.S., Buiulding Construction, ’86 seattle
) A UW Winter Olympics medal winner
LANDER'S LAST LEGS This photo by Jon Marmor, made July 26, 2012, was taken with a Holga camera using Kodak Ektachrome film that expired in 1986. The film was then cross-processed.
Longing for Lander ) Thank you for a particularly interesting issue of Columns. Though not much of a sports fan (even of UW sports), I read it from cover to cover. I am following the rebuilding of Husky Stadium with particular interest, since my deceased husband’s father was football coach in the “new” stadium in the 1920s. I hope you will write more about all the new dorms, which either have been built recently, or are about to be built. I remember when Lander Hall was new. I was a student adviser in the very beautiful red brick Women’s Residence Halls near 45th Street. Perhaps these four “halls” are now dated inside, but on the outside, no other living facility on campus can compare with their beauty. Regarding the rebuilding of Lander Hall, you ask ‘What’s not to like?” My response is “The cost of living there, perhaps?” Is there now, or will there be, a range of living facilities at different prices? —Elizabeth Jallie Bagshaw B.A., Sociology, ’53 M.S.W., ’76 seattle
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) As one of the first residents of Lander Hall—I moved over from Terry Hall as soon as construction was complete—I read the article in Columns with mixed feelings. Compared with the needs of current students, Lander may have seemed spartan, but for us it was great. All the deficiencies of Terry had been corrected. The food at Lander, while not great was OK, by ’50s standards. All in all, a good experience; I lived there for three years. I have recently learned that my high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina is to be torn down, property sold and a new campus created; now this. I haven’t been on campus for at least 40 years. Until I go back, I guess Google Earth will have to keep me up to date with changes. —Anthony Aguirre B.S., Chemistry, ’60 Master of Librarianship, ’72 ann arbor, mich.
Hail the Olympians ) Your excellent article regarding UW Olympians (June 2012) omitted Libby Ludlow. Libby competed in alpine skiing
not mentioned in the recent Columns article is Peter Kennedy, who holds a 1955 B.A. degree in economics and whose UW career stretched from 1946 to 1955 in large part because of the demands of a highly successful ice skating career. Peter and his sister Karol (non-UW), known as “The Kennedy Kids,” participated for the United States in pairs figure skating in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics, earning silver medals in the latter; they skated in six World Championships, winning gold in 1950 and silver in four other years; and they won five U.S. Championship titles from 1948 to 1952. Also, unless it’s been moved within the past year, the classic Pocock-built cedar eight-oar shell that the UW-Olympic crew rowed to victory in Berlin is suspended from the ceiling in a place of honor in today’s Conibear Shellhouse. —Mike Dederer B.A., Communications, ’53 Certificate of Military Science, ’53 seattle
Don’t Dis the Tri-Cities ) In the June 2012 edition of Columns, we read of a book of poetry published by University of Washington Press: Plume by Kathleen Flenniken. We have lived and worked in the Tri-Cities for almost 35 years. We want to assure your readers that Ms. Flenniken’s growing up “in Richland ... next door to the Hanford Reservation” was not, in any sense, a “tragedy.” We are very proud of the contributions the Hanford Project made over the years to national defense, scientific knowledge, energy production, and economic prosperity. Even now, in the waste cleanup and res-