Tim Newcomb
Tribune assistant editor

  SEATTLE -- Bill Bremner does it all at the University of Washington when it comes to internal medicine.
  He has now served 10 years as chair of the medicine department for the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, a post responsible not only for the teaching and research of the school of medicine, but also for the clinic treatment at the UW Medical Center.

Mark Reimers
Tribune reporter

  FEDERAL WAY -- Vince Blauser never considered the possibility of being a school administrator before finishing the graduate counseling program at Western Washington University.
  Now, as principal of Sequoyah Middle School in the Federal Way School District, the 1981 graduate of Lynden High School can’t think of any other place he would rather be.

Calvin Bratt
Tribune editor

  ACME – Ray Bakke can reconnect with his deepest roots from his secluded hillside house above the Saxon valley. From here, it’s hard to imagine that he’s most well known for leadership in Christian mission to the world’s largest cities.
  He can talk about his years at Mount Baker High School, where best friend and classmate Norm Maleng headed the state championship debate team, with David Syre also a member. He spent summers as a teen in the woods with Pat Mitchell, who now is the designer of Ray and Corean Bakke’s retirement perch.

Brent Lindquist
Tribune intern reporter

Jack Byeman

REDMOND -- Jack Byeman has seen a lot during his lifetime.
  He was born in downtown Amsterdam two months before the end of World War II, and his family stayed in the Netherlands for six and a half years more.

Brent Lindquist
Tribune intern reporter

Roy Clark

“2000 men for 2010.”
  These words splash across the front page of the Mentor1 Web site. The goal is high, but the organization’s founder believes it can be achieved.

Mark Reimers
Tribune reporter

Jodi (Shea) Hammond

LYNDEN -- Jodi (Shea) Hammond got the job she wanted the day she graduated from law school.
  Granted, it was only a conditional hiring until she took and passed the Arizona bar exam. Still, the 1997 graduate of Lynden High School is now working as a deputy county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., the home of Phoenix.

David Lewis
Tribune reporter

Craig Smith

LOS ANGELES -- After a childhood spent growing up on 17th Street in Lynden, Craig Smith has gone on to an exciting and rewarding career in the nation’s defense industry alongside military servicemen and women.

Mark Reimers
Tribune reporter

Lynda Kuwahara

IDAHO CITY, Idaho -- Lynda Kuwahara liked working with people. That is why she pursued nursing after graduating from Nooksack Valley High School in 1969.
  But she didn’t stop there. Lynda, a daughter of Ted and Dolores Maricle of Everson, was one of the first nurses in the nation to follow up her nursing degree at the University of Washington in 1973 with an MBA from Boise State University in 1984.

David Lewis
Tribune reporter

  LYNDEN -- Alan Fritzberg recalls spending his early years growing up on the Stickney Island Road, west of Everson, enjoying the pastoral surroundings in the Pacific Northwest.
  Outdoors a lot, he and a friend even floated the Nooksack River on a raft that they crafted themselves all the way from Everson to Ferndale.
  But since his graduation from Nooksack Valley High School in 1962, Dr. Fritzberg has become so accomplished as a medical researcher that it is hard to believe that he has not only kept up, but cultivated, his passion for the outdoors in his leisure time. In fact, it’s hard to believe he has had any leisure time at all.

Calvin Bratt
Tribune editor

Dan Castles

LYNDEN -- Dan Castles knows that he will be associated with the 1974 Mount Baker High School basketball team that took second in state, losing to Nook-sack Valley five times that season including for the state title.