in the news Mark Mitsui, ’03, is leaving his position as president of North Seattle Community College to become deputy assistant secretary for community colleges in the U.S. Dept. of Education. Mitsui’s goal is to improve the nation’s college completion rate. Mitsui previously was vice president of South Seattle Community College, which was one of the first six members of a national group of institutions serving Asian Americans, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Sheila Edwards Lange, ’00, ’06, Vice President for Minority Affairs and Vice Provost for Diversity, received the Women in Engineering ProActive Network Founders Award and was named the UW College of Education Distinguished Graduate Awardee in June.
Mark Mitsui, ’03
The UW’s Native Voices Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in May. Documentaries produced by the Native Voices Center have won awards and been screened at Sundance, the American Indian Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian and other venues.
Kelly Aramaki, ’97, has been named executive director of schools for the Southeast Region of Seattle Public Schools. He had been principal of Beacon Hill International School. Morgan Cassell, ’10, received a 2013 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. Cassell, who received a MAP Scholarship in 2010 while she was a UW student, plans to pursue a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. The fellowship is funded by the U.S. State Department and managed by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University. Leonard Forsman, ’87, chairman of the Suquamish Tribe, was appointed to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by President Obama.
Three alumni were honored at the Women of Courage event in May: Dr. Carol Simmons, ’68, retired educator and co-founder of the UWAA Multicultural Alumni Partnership; Pamela Banks, ’81, President and CEO, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle; and Winona HollinsHague, ’75, who serves on the Advisory Board of the UW Health promotion Research Center and is immediate past chair of the UW School of Social Work’s Practicum Field Work Advisory Committee. Two prominent alumni were named to the UW Board of Regents by Gov. Jay Inslee, ’81: Constance Rice, ’70, ’74, managing director for Knowledge Management for Casey Family Programs, and Rogelio Riojas, ’73, ’75, ’77, president and chief
executive officer for Sea Mar Community Health Centers. Rice is filling the seat formerly held by Sally Jewell, ’78, who left to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Riojas will succeed Craig Cole on Oct. 1.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS October 17 GO-MAP’s Getting Connected Reception > 4-10 p.m., UW Club RSVP: gomap@uw.edu
October 26 The Weekend > Celebrate UW Homecoming with the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity and campus partners. $75 package includes admission to the OMA&D tailgate in The Zone and one ticket to the UW vs. California football game. Time TBA. www.washington.edu/omad/ the-weekend/
in memory Roy Flores, who served as the first director of the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center from 1970 to 1974, died March 12. Flores was Assistant Director of the State Board for Community College Education and the longtime Vice President for Student Development Services at North Seattle Community College. He was 69. Takashi Hori, ’40, whose family owned the Panama Hotel in the International District for many years, died May 6. Born in Littell, a small sawmill town near Chehalis, he earned a degree in business from the UW in 1940. He was interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho. Before World War II, his family bought the Panama Hotel, where many families stored their possessions when they
were forced to leave Seattle during the war. Hori owned and operated the hotel until his retirement in 1985. He was 95. Akira Moriguchi, ’65, who worked in his family business, Uwajimaya, Inc., for many years and was president and chief operating officer, died Dec. 22, 2012. From 1965 to 1988, he headed Seasia, Uwajimaya’s wholesale division and he helped establish Food Service International. He was 73. Lois Price Spratlen, ’76, School of Nursing professor emeritus and former longtime UW ombudsman, died March 30. She was the first female ombudsman at the UW, serving in that role from 1988 to 2009. She was also the ombudsman for sexual harassment from 1982 to 2009. She was a member of the UWAA’s Multicultural Alumni Partnership and received its
2005 Dr. Samuel E. Kelly Award. She and her husband, Thad Spratlen, UW professor emeritus of marketing, are UW Laureates, having given $1 million to the UW. She was 81. Kip Tokuda, ’69, ’73, who as a state legislator worked to protect budget cuts to the vulnerable, especially economically disadvantaged children, died July 13. Tokuda, a former member of the UW President’s Minority Community Advisory Committee, was former executive director of the Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. He served in the Legislature from 1994 to 2002 and was a founder of the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington and the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leader Foundation. Last year, he received the Order of
Kip Tokuda, ’69, ’73
the Rising Sun award from the Emperor of Japan for his work strengthening and promoting good relations between the U.S. and Japan. He recently retired as the director of the City of Seattle Human Service Department’s Family and Youth Services Division. He was 66.
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