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Anna Bugge ’03

Alumni

From Fleece to Fleek

But there, among the fleece pullovers and down jackets, that’s exactly what happened. She had just graduated from Puget Sound with an English degree and didn’t know…

Alumni

A Wild Ride

Frances “Franny” Gilman ’10 had always wanted to be a veterinarian. But a trip to Belize as a Puget Sound pre-vet student changed her mind. There, she was given the chance…
Tony Gomez ’93 (holding a Neapolitan tambourine called a tammorra)

Alumni

A Nonlinear Career

Today, he’s associate director of education at Tacoma Arts Live, but his career also has included being a K-12 teacher, arts administrator, percussionist, and PBS education…
Erik Waterland DPT’05

Alumni

Ask the Expert: Erik Waterland DPT’05

Just south of campus, Erik Waterland DPT’05 runs Waterland Performance, a physical therapy practice he founded in 2019. Waterland has been practicing physical therapy…
Galvin Guerrero ’96

Alumni

A College President and More

As a high school senior, Galvin Guerrero ’96 couldn’t wait to escape the stifling familiarity of Saipan—an island within the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,…
Jeff Hanway ’09, Kegan Hanway ’10, and Kaitlin Chandler ’11 reading books on benches on campus.

Alumni

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Lost your copy of The Iliad? Need to check out contemporary queer fiction? Want to cry happy tears as you thumb through a best-selling romance?  Then you’ve come to the…
Water on a leaf

Alumni

Inside the Brain of Scott Bateman '86

He’d long harbored an affinity for the bizarre comedy of Monty Python and experimental filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and would frequently play those movies…
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Alumni

Cloud Pleaser

Margaret Dawson ’86 used to have an office at Red Hat, the open-source software giant where she’s vice president of product marketing. It was at the company’s…
Man on sculpture

Alumni

The Drunken Tenor

Robert McPherson ’91 has been singing since he was a very young boy. “I was a preacher’s kid. I grew up singing gospel,” he says.  Decades have passed since he…
Chase Curtiss ’06

Alumni

Concussions? There's an App for That

Back then, says Curtiss, who graduated as one of the leading three-point shooters in school history, the treatment was still pretty rudimentary, and trainers often relied on…