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Alumna named National Teacher of the Year

April 20, 2018 by easternmagazine

Picture: Student teaching kids

EWU alumna Mandy Manning ’98 was named the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, announced on Friday, April 20, on CBS

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Tapping into the Craft Beer Business

March 7, 2018 by easternmagazine

Photo: EWU alumni beer on tap

A by-no-means-complete guide to Eastern alumni working to make every hour happy. This story has been fermenting for a while. We

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Doug Clark – A Man of Many Talents

March 6, 2018 by easternmagazine

Newspaper Columnist, Doug Clark

I’ve always wanted to write a celebrity interview. You know, the kind that appears in Harper’s Bazaar: “On a clear

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Hampson Sings Hometown Praises

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Baritone Thomas Hampson

It would be easy to assume that baritone Thomas Hampson has moved on from his eastern Washington roots. The Eastern

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Vestal Wins Washington State Book Award

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Author, Shawn Vestal

Shawn Vestal ’08, ’05, MFA creative writing, BA interdisciplinary studies, won the Washington State Book Award for fiction for his debut

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Against All Odds

September 8, 2017 by easternmagazine

Couple wearing law enforcement uniforms

Cristina Santana’s small stature and quiet, comforting manner are nearly lost in her sizable bulletproof vest. She roams the streets

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Ahead of the Curve

by easternmagazine

Photo: Jon Hammermeister

At the highest level of professional competition, all athletes relentlessly search for ways to gain an edge over their opposition.

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Family, Faith & Football

by easternmagazine

Family posing on the football field

Rodrick Jackson’s life changed forever Dec. 21, 2016. It was his 18th birthday – the day he changed his name

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Honor Flight

March 20, 2017 by easternmagazine

Veterans on the honor flight

In October 2016, Rear Admiral (Ret.) George Lotzenhiser ’47 and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jerry Mellick ’67, Eastern alumni from different

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Skyler Oberst celebrates the interfaith community

by easternmagazine

Skyler Oberst outside with prayer beads

Skyler Oberst is easy to pick out of a crowd of young professionals. It isn’t his fashionable eyeglasses, his watch

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