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Ewu’s ‘Perspective’ Wins Golden Shoestring Award

Compiled By Mary Beth Donelan

Perspective, the alumni publication of Eastern Washington University, won the Golden Shoestring Award from the Education Press Association of America for exemplary work with a limited budget and/or staff.

Perspective is distributed three times a year to some 60,000 alumni and friends of the university and contains feature and issue stories, news of EWU, alumni and development information and class notes. John Soennichsen is editor.

Three Spokane-area students were selected to attend the 1995 Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp on Flathead Lake, north of Polson, Mont. The students are:

Mackenzie Koppa, Spokane, who is in the sixth grade at Indian Trail Elementary School.

Ashley Goodrich, Spokane, who is in the sixth grade at East Valley Middle School.

Melissa Shaw, Spokane, who is a junior at North Central High School. Melissa also was nominated for honorary award recognition and will have her biography published in Who’s Who Among American High School Students, 1994-95.

Jennifer Hay, Tekoa, Wash., visited the Chicago Board of Trade this summer as a winner of the eighth annual Commodity Challenge, a high school economics competition sponsored by the CBOT. She was allowed the rare opportunity to stand alongside traders at the opening of the board’s grain markets. She was accompanied to Chicago by her teacher, Dan Hutton.

The Board of Directors of the Greater Spokane Substance Abuse Council recently elected officers for 1995-96: Michael Rembolt, president; Ed Neunherz, co-vice president for membership/ outreach; Keith Turpin, co-vice president for youth programs; Thea Carter, secretary; and Dennis Johnston, treasurer.

Mark Sterk was elected to the board of directors.

Melanie Bell, Gonzaga University registrar, was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious organizations for higher education professionals. She has been in the admissions/registrar profession 25 years, and has been GU’s registrar since 1992.

Bill Dezellem was elected president of the Spokane Society of Financial Analysts. Other elected officers are Mike Barcelo, vice president/programs; and Tom Nesbitt, treasurer/membership; Paul Steenblick, secretary/notices. Steve Scranton is past president.

Research reports coordinated by David Sclar, pharmacy professor at Washington State University, won the 1995 literature award from the American Society of HealthSystems Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation.

The research paper on the economics of antidepressant pharmacotherapy won the annual “Pharmacy Practice Research Award.” The journal article on studies into the cost-effectiveness of the drug Diltiazem-CD was picked for the “Drug Therapy Research Award.”

Sclar is an associate professor of health policy and administration and the Boehringer Ingelheim Scholar in Pharmaceutical Economics at WSU.

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