IKE = 2013-2017,
WSU men’s basketball
KYLE =
2004-2008, WSU men’s basketball
WSU MEN’S
BASKETBALL
Ike Iroegbu
becomes second ex-Washington State player to join German club Science City Jena
UPDATED: Fri.,
July 13, 2018, 3:47 p.m./ By Theo Lawson
Spokane S-R
PULLMAN – Former
Washington State basketball players aren’t necessarily an abundant species in
Europe, but now two of them will be playing for the same German Bundesliga
team.
Ex-Cougars guard
Ike Iroegbu signed with Science City Jena on Thursday, his agency Wasserman
Mdeia Group announced. The Jena, Germany-based professional club is also the
current home of former WSU forward Kyle Weaver, who signed with Science City in
January.
Iroegbu spent
his first professional season with the Agua Caliente Clippers of the NBA G
League and this last week has represented his hometown Sacramento Kings at the
NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. Iroegbu has played in four summer league games,
averaging 9.8 minutes, 0.8 points and 0.8 rebounds.
Weaver played in
only 17 games for Science City Jena last season, but he was the second-leading
scorer at 12 points per game and posted a field-goal percentage of 57.7. He
also grabbed 4.2 rebounds per game and dished out 3.6 assists per game as the
team’s starting small forward.
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Capturing the
Palouse
By Mark
O'English. university archivist at Washington State University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections in Pullman
Moscow Pullman
daily News 7/14/2018
*Photo posted
with this story shows WSU women students participating in indoor baseball.
Until the mid-1920s, women’s indoor gym classes and events took place in the
top floor of Thompson Hall, as seen here.
Myron Samuel
Huckle was hired in 1916 as a workman by W.E. Boeing of Seattle as one of the
very first employees in Boeing's new airplane business. In short order, Huckle
was promoted to head of Boeing's Woodworking Department, where he rigged
seaplanes and flying boats for the U.S. Navy during World War I, including a
period in charge of trial U.S. Army flights at Camp Lewis.
By 1920-21, he
described what he called the "airplane game" as now being "very
precarious," and got out of the business, focusing instead on his own
personal interest in photography. In 1921, he moved to Pullman, was hired by
Washington State College as a part-time staff photographer, and within a couple
of years entered the college himself, graduating from WSC in 1927 with a B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering.
After
graduation, Huckle left Pullman for good, spending the rest of his life in
professorial roles in aeronautics and thermodynamics at Harvard and MIT, and as
President of the Army's U.S. Engineering School. Two of his children would
later come back to WSU for their own educations.
In the midst of
this impressive life, for the six years Huckle lived in Pullman, he served as a
campus photographer and also sold his own images of campus life on the side.
The WSU
Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections holds 14 fragile
scrapbooks of his photographs, an estimated 1850 images documenting those six
years in wonderful detail. At the moment, we're in the middle of scanning and
describing these, our intent being to make every one of them available in an
online collection within the next year.
The region's
history is full of these type of photographers and their photo studios, where
they popped up, prospered for a few years and then vanished. Some, like the
Ralph Raymond Hutchison studio (located in downtown Pullman in the Kamiaken
bridge building now housing Porchlight Pizza) were present for as much as a
half-century; others, like Huckle, remained only a relatively few years. Each,
however, brings their own unique viewpoint to the region's people and events
and allows us to view the Palouse through their very distinct eyes.
Mark O'English
is the university archivist at Washington State University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections.
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*NOTE:
Information from Washington State Magazine says “Thompson Hall is the oldest
extant building on campus … Thompson Hall was constructed in 1894 for less than
$50,000 using local red brick made from clay deposits in back of what is now
Stevens Hall. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972.
It was
originally known simply as the Administration Building” (the university
president’s office was located in the building) “and renamed Albert W. Thompson
Hall on April 15, 1972. Thompson served as Dean of Humanities in the College of
Sciences and Arts. Until 1968, it served as the main administration building as
well as housing a number of other university functions.”
The name change
from Administartion Building to Thompson Hall because WSU administrators,
including the university president, moved from the Ad Building to what is now
known as French Adminstration Building. French Ad was completed in late 1967
and dedicated on April 27, 1968, in honor of former University President C.
Clement French. French retired October
31, 1966.
