Seattle evening honoring Sam & Pat Smith March 11, 2020

From: Singbeil, Margaret msingbeil@wsu.edu (Business Operations Manager, WSU West)
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:18 PM
Subject: Event Cancellation Notice: A Crimson Legacy of Leadership March 11, 2020

Colleagues and friends of the Smiths,

Given the COVID 19 outbreak, upon advice of local and state authorities, as well as the university advisory group’s advice regarding vulnerable populations and large gatherings of people; we have made the difficult decision to cancel next week’s event on March 11^th. While we very much all wished to give the Smiths a send-off fitting of their indelible legacy post-retirement in the past 20 years in Seattle, we do not want to put anyone’s health at risk.

We thank you for the outpouring of support for the Smiths.

If you would like to send any additional photos, recounts of memories, or wishes to the Smiths, please send them to msingbeil@wsu.edu or via mail to 901 5^th Avenue, suite 2900, Seattle, WA 98164. Margaret will still be compiling the ones we have received in order to present them to the Smiths in a different format. 

Sincerely, The Office of the President Emeritus Sam Smith

https://from.wsu.edu/WSU-West/2020/Samuel

-Smith/165161-browser.html

Please join us for an evening honoring WSU’s 8th president,  
Dr. Samuel H. Smith and his wife Patricia.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:00–8:00 p.m.

Sunset Club 1021 University St  Seattle, WA 98101

Valet parking is available.

In lieu of gifts, please consider a gift to the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Arts Endowment Fund.

Register here

Unable to attend but would like to share photo/video memories that will be displayed at the event? Please visit the registration webpage to upload content.

Registration or event questions? Please email msingbeil@wsu.edu.

Washington State University 901 5th Avenue, Suite 2900, Seattle, WA 98164

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From: Singbeil, Margaret <msingbeil@wsu.edu>

Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:18 PM

Subject: Event Cancellation Notice: A Crimson Legacy of Leadership March 11, 2020

To:  XXX

Colleagues and friends of the Smiths, Given the COVID 19 outbreak, upon advice of local and state authorities, as well as the university advisory group’s advice regarding vulnerable populations and large gatherings of people; we have made the difficult decision to cancel next week’s event on March 11th. 

While we very much all wished to give the Smiths a send-off fitting of their indelible legacy post-retirement in the past 20 years in Seattle, we do not want to put anyone’s health at risk. We thank you for the outpouring of support for the Smiths. 

If you would like to send any additional photos, recounts of memories, or wishes to the Smiths, please send them tomsingbeil@wsu.edu or via mail to 901 5th Avenue, suite 2900, Seattle, WA 98164. 

Margaret will still be compiling the ones we have received in order to present them to the Smiths in a different format. 

Sincerely,

The Office of the President Emeritus Sam Smith


Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:00–8:00 p.m. 


Sunset Club 1021 University St  Seattle, WA 98101 


Valet parking is available. 


In lieu of gifts, please consider a gift to the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Arts Endowment Fund. 


Register here (link)


Unable to attend but would like to share photo/video memories that will be displayed at the event? Please visit the registration webpage to upload content. 


Registration or event questions? Please email msingbeil@wsu.edu. 


Washington State University 901 5th Avenue, Suite 2900, Seattle, WA 98164

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---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Singbeil, Margaret <msingbeil@wsu.edu>

Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:18 PM

Subject: Event Cancellation Notice: A Crimson Legacy of Leadership March 11, 2020



Colleagues and friends of the Smiths, 

Given the COVID 19 outbreak, upon advice of local and state authorities, as well as the university advisory group’s advice regarding vulnerable populations and large gatherings of people; we have made the difficult decision to cancel next week’s event on March 11th. 

While we very much all wished to give the Smiths a send-off fitting of their indelible legacy post-retirement in the past 20 years in Seattle, we do not want to put anyone’s health at risk. 

We thank you for the outpouring of support for the Smiths. If you would like to send any additional photos, recounts of memories, or wishes to the Smiths, please send them tomsingbeil@wsu.edu or via mail to 901 5th Avenue, suite 2900, Seattle, WA 98164. 

Margaret will still be compiling the ones we have received in order to present them to the Smiths in a different format. 

Sincerely,

The Office of the President Emeritus Sam Smith

Glass salmon art work in WSU Terrell Library, Pullman

An installation of glass salmon art work by Lummi Nation glass artist Dan Friday will be commemorated Jan. 30, 2020, in the Washington State University Terrell Library atrium, Pullman. 

More info here... 

https://news.wsu.edu/2020/01/28/glass-salmon-installation-reception-set-jan-30-terrell-library

This editorial cartoon appears on opinion page of the Jan 16, 2020, edition of the Whitman County (Colfax) Gazette.

This editorial cartoon appears on opinion page of the Jan 16, 2020, edition of the Whitman County (Colfax) Gazette.

WSU Cheez-It Bowl 2019 & Phoenix Dec 2019 slideshow

Presented by News for CougGroup ….

WSU HAS A NEW HEAD FOOTBALL COACH: Nick Rolovich (KXLY Spokane story/photo 1/14/2020)

WSU HAS A NEW HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

Story/photo from KXLY Spokane, 1/14/2020

Meet Nick Rolovich, the new head coach in charge of Cougar football. He recently completed his fourth season as head coach at University of Hawai'i, where he led the Rainbow Warriors to three bowl games. Not only that, Rolovich helped make program history for the seventh time when the Warriors had their first back-to-back winning season in years.

Learn more:

https://www.kxly.com/washington-state-officially-announces-rolovich-as-new-head-football-coach

Former WSC football coach 'Lone Star' Dietz in 1920

Wed., Jan. 8, 2020 Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review


PHOTO (Spokane Daily Chronicle newspaper clipping) CUTLINE: The sentencing was the culmination of a long-running courtroom saga, spiced by sensational testimony. (Spokane Daily Chronicle archives)


By Jim Kershner,  jimkershner@comcast.net


William Henry “Lone Star” Dietz, a former Washington State College football coach, pled guilty to draft evasion and was sentenced to one month in Spokane County Jail, the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported.


This was the culmination of a long-running courtroom saga, spiced by sensational testimony. The woman he considered his mother claimed she was not his mother and Dietz was the illegitimate child of her husband. The woman he considered a sister denied any kinship with him. Serious questions were raised about whether the famous Native American football coach was actually Native American.


The first trial resorted in a hung jury. Dietz had now avoided a new trial by pleading guilty to the charge of falsifying his draft questionnaire for the purpose of evading service.

On his questionnaire, he claimed he was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation, but the government produced evidence indicating he was born in Wisconsin. He also claimed he was already engaged in an “essential war enterprise” by producing motion pictures, but no such pictures had been made.


Dietz played football alongside Jim Thorpe at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and later went on to become the coach of Washington State team in Pullman for three years. He became a local celebrity after leading the team to victory in the 1916 Rose Bowl. Fans marched through Pullman wearing Indian costumes in his honor.


He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame posthumously, in 2012.

Alcohol sales at Beasley Coliseum enliven gameday experience for Washington State basketball fans

By Theo Lawson, Spokane S-R 1/3/2020

PULLMAN – In more ways than one, Washington State fans are promised a more refreshing experience at home basketball games this season.

WS Coach Kyle Smith and his defensive philosophies have already made the Cougars more competitive on the court and earlier this week, WSU’s athletic administration introduced another amenity that should enliven the gameday experience for alumni, students and casual fans who gather at Beasley Coliseum over the next few months.

On Thursday, as WSU opened Pac-12 Conference play against USC, the school debuted the “Cougar Den” – a beer/wine garden situated behind sections 18-20 on the concourse of Beasley Coliseum. 

The fenced off area will serve fans up to one hour before basketball games and close 10 minutes into the second half of men’s games and at the end of the third quarter of women’s games.

 “This is really about amenities,” athletic director Pat Chun said Thursday. “We are in competition with HDTV and convenience at home, so we need to think of ways we can get all of our consumers, all of our patrons, all of our fans to come to Washington State events and having enhanced amenities is a piece of it.”

The Cougar Den’s first customer was Jason Janosky, a Kennewick resident and 2001 WSU graduate who’s held football season tickets for a decade but decided to spend more time at Beasley Coliseum this winter when the Cougars hired Smith and announced they’d be retiring Klay Thompson’s jersey.

“Definitely I think I’ll get some more buddies that’ll come up specifically for this (Cougar Den),” Janosky said. “I think this Saturday for the UCLA game.”

Janosky was already sipping on a Citrus Mistress IPA, produced by Eugene’s Hop Valley Brewing Co., as a long line formed behind the concession booth just minutes after the Cougar Den opened. Patrons can purchase Citrus Mistress, Coors Light, Coors Banquet or Smith & Forge Cider for the not-outrageous price of $7, while Blue Moon is even less at $6. Two wine varieties, Townsend Pinot Gris and Townsend Red Blend, are available for $7.

“Frequently, when we come to the (Hollingbery) Fieldhouse, we have two or three (beverages) before we go to football,” said Leanne Ellis, who commuted from Ellensburg on Thursday with her husband Ray, also a 1980 WSU grad. “This is great, there’s a little growing pains. I don’t think they anticipated the attendance. And it needs to be a little bit bigger and include more tables, but they’ll get there.”

Cougar Den attendees also have access to three food items not available anywhere else at Beasley Coliseum. Frito pie, poutine and bangers & mash, provided by Fork in the Road – the catering arm of Pullman’s South Fork Public House – can be purchased for $8 each.

“When we went to the Arizona State-WSU game down there in Tempe,” Ray Ellis said, “they serve beer at the stadium there.”

Leanne added: “It was a little magical.”

At least six other Pac-12 basketball venues serve beer and wine in some fashion – the University of Washington most recently adding alcohol sales at Alaska Airlines Arena last October. 

Chun said a committee of WSU marketing/fundraising specialists surveyed the Pacific Northwest, attending a basketball game at Gonzaga, a Portland Trail Blazers game at the Moda Center and a Portland Timbers MLS game to “benchmark” against other colleges and professional teams in the region. 

“We made a decision that we need to figure out how to make basketball a revenue source,” Chun said. “There’s two pieces, one is the performance piece of the team, which obviously that has been addressed. The other thing is, we recognize we can’t put out a consistent basketball schedule relative to TV times anymore, so we need to be able to have some amenities here that let people know, hey if I come to a Washington State basketball game, we’re going to work hard on the basketball court but all the things I could have at home may be more fun because we’re going to also work to get more students out.”

Janosky pointed out that on-site alcohol sales will prompt fans to spend money at Beasley Coliseum, rather than at a bar or restaurant in Pullman prior to arriving at the arena. 

His wife being a USC fan, Janosky had planned to attend Thursday’s game regardless, “but once I knew there was beer, I was like, ‘Heck yes.’”

He’s also encouraged with what Smith’s Cougars are doing on the court, noting “Just our style of play, it’s going to take them awhile to jell, but I like where they’re going.”

For now, fans must consume beverages within the confines of the Cougar Den – similar to the Fieldhouse and Cougville areas at WSU football games – although Chun indicated the school may eventually explore options that would allow customers to take containers to their seat.

“We’re going to try to stay nimble enough where as our consumer needs change, as our consumers wants are identified,” he said, “that we have all the data, that we have the team, that we have all the amenities we need that hopefully get a few more people to come out.”