The Buzz, The Skinny, The Sizzle
Stanley Perryman was born to
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e c n a d “He danced even before elementary school with our older sister,” recalls his sister Anna.
The Garfield High School graduate auditioned for Seattle’s All City Dance Group, danced with Black Arts West. In 1975 he moved to New York to perform with the
Alvin Ailey Dance Company, the Dance Theater of Harlem and on Broadway. He left New York during the AIDS crises of the
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As a teacher at Rainier Beach High School, Muffy Johnson was assigned to be the adviser for the school’s class of 1966, for an extra $5 a month. Johnson, ’57, and her husband, George, ’57, adopted the class as their second family. For the past 55 years, Muffy and George have attended class reunions, weddings, funerals, graduations, retirements, paid for the entire class to take boat rides, and donated an annual scholarship to low-income students. More than two dozen multi-millionaires came out of that class. She helped launch doctors, lawyers, teachers, psychologists, policemen, firemen, business owners, musicians, cartoonists, mechanics, artists, not to mention a legion of UW grads. In fact, many of her students’ kids and grandkids went on to graduate from the UW. “For the 360 students in the class, she was like a second mother to us,” says Frank Erickson, ’72, a Burien real estate developer. And those warm feelings go both ways. In August, the class honored Johnson by having the high school’s music room named in her honor.
STUDENT REGENT For the first time since 2008, an undergraduate has been appointed to a one-year term on the UW Board of Regents: Austin Wright-Pettibone. The chemical engineering major spent 2015 lobbying state lawmakers to lower tuition. Good guy to have on our side.
—From The Seattle Times obituary of Jack Allbritton, ’47, who as a UW student sold sandwiches and other fast food treats to the dorms and Greek Row. Allbritton died April 26 at the age of 95.
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1980s, telling friends that there were only two people in his address book left alive. Eventually, Perryman returned to Seattle, where he danced in musicals and theater venues until his forties. With the encouragement of Hannah Wiley, professor and longtime director of the UW Dance Program, Perryman completed his bachelor’s degree in 1996. During the past decade, Perryman and his partner, Robert McCroskey, devoted themselves to raising their daughter, Avalee Fray-McCroskey, who is now 14. “He was a great dad and a great cook,” Avalee recalls. “He made these really great chicken pot pies.” Perryman died suddenly May 6 in Seattle at the age of 62. But his spirit will dance on.
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Some birthdays are just too big for party games Pin the Tail on the Dreamliner is no way to celebrate Boeing’s 100th. But you can bet that plenty of Boeing birthday cake ended up in the bellies of many UW grads, since alumni have played a big role in building Boeing into the world’s preeminent airplane manufacturer. Take a bow! Now get back to work.
Two-thirds of all Washington residents who apply to the UW are accepted. | This year’s fall freshman class was selected from a record-breaking number of applicants. COLUMNS
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