Margaret Andrews

mwa-jlb@telus.net
604-688-6407

Margaret lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is busy with a range of volunteer work. In Vancouver she guides school tours as a docent at the Vancouver Art Gallery and tutors adult-education students. In October 2002 she volunteered in Rajgarh, a village in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Official retirement photo from 1996.

Susan Armitage

Sue lives in Pullman, where she is hard at work on several writing projects that she never got around to when she was teaching.

Her email remains armitage@wsu.edu.

LeRoy Ashby

His essay, "The Church Committee's History and Relevance," was published this summer in Russell Miller (ed.), U. S. National Security, Intelligence and Democracy: From the Church Committee to the War on Terror (Routledge, 2008), and he is editing a special issue on "Popular Culture" for the Organization of American Historian's Magazine of History, which is scheduled for publication in April 2010.

Ashby now resides at 174 S. Coeur d'Alene St - H303, Spokane, WA 99201. His e-mail address is still ashby@wsu.edu.

Edward Bennett

embennet@wsunix.wsu.edu

Edward completed his study of FDR and Anglo-American relations in the spring of 2002. Separated by a Common Language: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anglo-American Relations, 1933–1939: The Roosevelt–Chamberlain Rivalry has been published by i Universe. Margery Bennett, who was research associate as well as editor on this as in Bennett's other books, claimed the reward of a trip on the Seine in October.

Fritz Blackwell

blackwell.fw@centurytel.net

Academic & Professional Interests
Blackwell taught courses on South Asia and world history and was the former director of the Asia Program at Washington State University.

Publications
He is an associate editor for the Journal of South Asian Literature and has co-edited a volume of Indian poetry and a collection of American letters from East Pakistan. Blackwell has published numerous reviews and articles in Ariel, South Asia in Review, Asiaweek, Journal of South Asian Literature, and Indian Literature. His lastest book, India: A Global Studies Handbook, was published by ABC-CLIO, Inc. spring 2004.

Official retirement photo from 2004.

O. Gene Clanton

Gene welcomes correspondence with scholars and history students interested in his area of expertise. He remains active in retirement and continues to work with scholars and students throughout the country.

O. Gene Clanton's Web site
O. Gene Clanton's blog

Official retirement photo from 1997.

David L. Coon

Edwin P. Garretson

Thomas Kennedy

kennedyt@wsunix.wsu.edu
509-335-5139

Tom recently has published an adapted translation of the memoirs of Ms. Zeng Baosun entitled Confucian Feminist: The Memoirs of Zeng Baosun (1893–1978) from the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA.

He presented a paper on Ms. Zeng's life and philosophy at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast conference of the Association for Asian Studies at Western Washington University in June 2002.

Currently he is working on an annotated translation of Zhou Daguan's A Record of the Customs of Cambodia, written in 1293 and submitted to the Court of Khubilai Khan by China's first ambassador to the Khmer kingdom, in cooperation with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Official retirement photo from 2001.

Kathryn E. Meyer

Roger Schlesinger (Professor)
Mary Watrous-Schlesinger (Senior Instructor)

schlesinger@starband.net

Roger and Mary retired at the end of the 2006 spring semester. They are enjoying their new life and homes on the Hawaiian island of Molokaíi and at Port Angeles, Washington, with plans to visit various destinations around the world.

Roger joined the department in 1968. During his 39 years of service, he taught Renaissance and Reformation, published 4 books, received several teaching awards, and served as chair of the department from 1993 to 2005.

Mary came to WSU in 1984 to pursue a doctorate in Latin American history. After her career as a graduate student, she remained in the department as a senior instructor. She developed popular courses on the history of world trade and food, co-edited one book, and also received a number of teaching awards.

Official retirement photo from 2006.

David Stratton

509-335-9898
dstratton@wsu.edu

Professor Stratton is busy in retirement teaching an occasional class at WSU and working on research for a book involving, as a case study, the influence of railroads and major highways on a western town.

In 2002, at the College of Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony, he was awarded the Dean's Distinguished Contribution Award and a Certificate of Appreciation (in grateful acknowledgement of 40 years of dedicated service to Washington State University).

His most recent contribution to the college was the publication of 2 booklets: The Liberal Arts at Washington State University and The Grand Old Lady: Albert W. Thompson Hall (Old Administration Building). He is the author of Tempest over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).

Official retirement photo from 1993.