![]() Prior to his time in Olympia, Cherberg was the Huskies’ head football coach. First elected in 1956, he never lost a statewide election. He was a driving force in the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair-and a UW regent for seven years.Ĭo-founder of the Washington Institute, a newspaper columnist and radio/TV commentator, Carlson led three statewide initiative campaigns, including the “Three Strikes, You’re Out” and I-200 anti-affirmative action initiatives.įor 32 years, he served as Washington’s lieutenant governor-longer than any other lieutenant governor in U.S. Made local Westin Hotels into an international giant and rescued an ailing United Airlines, which prompted Fortune to place him into its Business Hall of Fame. Director and writer of the short subject film Number One, nominated for an Oscar in 1976. ![]() Was Judge Whipper Cone on TV’s Ally McBeal. Nominated for best supporting actress Oscar for Bob & Carol &Ted & Alice and Heaven Can Wait, her films also include Revenge of the Pink Panther and Deathtrap. She was reinstated in 1994 and unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1998. Her story became the TV movie, Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close. He also led the 1997 United Way of King County drive and is currently a UW Regent.Īwarded a Bronze Star in Vietnam and was the VA’s Nurse of the Year, military nurse Cammermeyer was discharged in 1992 after she admitted she was a lesbian. Their big hits included “Greenfields,” “The Green Leaves of Summer,” and the theme song for the TV show “Hootenanny.”īrotman is best known as a founder and president of Costco, the wholesale warehouse chain that sells everything from cauliflower to computers at a discount. He told President Gerald Ford to consider a 10 percent personal income tax rebate in 1974-and the President and Congress took his advice, resulting in an $8.1 billion tax break.įraternity brothers at Phi Gamma Delta, Bob Flick, ’60 Dick Foley, ’61 John Paine, ’59 and Mike Kirkland, ’61 rode the folk music craze to fame and fortune. Newsweek called him “the Donald Trump of the West Coast,” and in 1998 Forbes set his net worth at $2.5 billion.įirst African American on Federal Reserve Board of Governors, he served the “Fed” from 1966 to 1974. His memoir as a pilot and Japanese POW, Ba Ba, Black Sheep, was a best seller and the basis for a TV series starring Robert Conrad.Ĭhairman of the Irvine Company, the world’s biggest developer of master-planned communities, which owns nearly one sixth of the land in Orange County, Calif. Today his festival pulls the largest attendance of any non-profit theater in the U.S.įighter pilot who downed 28 planes in World War II, setting a record for the Marines and winning him the Medal of Honor. His operas include McTeague (1992) and View from the Bridge (1999).įounder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., Bowmer got his inspiration while acting in two summer Shakespeare productions in Meany Hall. His recordings helped revive ragtime and his George Gershwin LP was Record of the Year in 1973. He sold his company to Hasbro in 1999 for $325 million.Ī founder of the American Legion and Washington Supreme Court justice from 1928 to 1952, he presided over a war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, hearing the case of 23 Nazi doctors accused of torturing POWs.Ĭomposer and pianist, his “New Etudes for Piano” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. rights to the latest card fad among kids-Pokémon cards. Co-founder and CEO of Wizards of the Coast, his company publishes Magic cards and holds the U.S. ![]()
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