Alumni Stories
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Got Beef?
New technology 'beefs up' cattle care
Finding their park
After 12 years of working in traditional Hopi homelands at the Petrified Forest National Park, Sarah Herve, ’03, got to introduce a group of young people from the Indigenous tribe to her own origins in the San Francisco Bay Area.
From generation, to generation
When you have a great-grandma and a great-great grandma who were both among the first students at your alma mater, you know the blue and gold roots run deep.
Baseballer to bestseller
Paul Phillips, ’82, didn’t plan to go to college. Nobody else in his family had done it, but a clandestine visit to campus led him to baseball coach Howard Fetz’s office and the rest was history.
Writing Under a Western Sky
Garrett Christensen Home means something different to everyone. Amelia Ettinger, a 2021 MFA graduate, expresses home, or rather how to find home, through poetry in her 2020 collection “Learning to Love a Western Sky.” “It really is looking for home in many ways,” she said. “I think that a lot of the collection is a...
Just Like Dad
After five years working as a mentor and supervisor, his bachelor’s degree gave Damien Tracy the boost he needed to obtain a management position.
Making women veterans visible
It was 1977 in La Grande, and Elizabeth Estabrooks, ’01, hadn’t really planned on joining the U.S. Army. She had just accepted a higher paying job and bought a new Nova SS, but the job fell through and a friend talked her into going down to the recruiters’ office together.
Wrestling: More Than A Sport
A student-athlete utilizes the sense of community that team sports allows as he continues his passion for wrestling, all while completing his MAT.
Willard Carey: Founder, Mentor, Leader
The first EOU Foundation president went business to business building the foundation we know today. His legacy now lives on through the military scholarship dedicated to him that creates college opportunity for military men and women.
Mentorship on a molecular level
EOU graduate conducts doctorate research in Chemistry at the University of Oregon.
A living legacy
Alumna Kelly Chadwick talks plants when her horticultural story at UM is shared.
Fire District One
EOU alumni creates new fire services in Umatilla County.
