Date archive: September 2014
Mosher Part V: Degree in hand, I venture into the real world
TERRY MOSHER I graduated from WesternWashington University on April 3, 1965 with a degree in political science and minors in economics and history and the next day I was in ...
Mosher Part IV: The move West and the dark years
TERRY MOSHER The last year I lived in Portville, N.Y. was the 1953-54 school year. I was an eighth-grader and I don’t remember much of it. My mother had died ...
Mosher part III: Sports and the day that changed my life
TERRY MOSHER Sports was always a big part of my life. My three older brothers were all good athletes and starred in high school. Ray, the oldest, played football and baseball ...
Searching for yelloweye rockfish in Hood Canal
A few weeks ago, Ray Fredrick from the Kitsap Poggie Club called me about helping to catch some yelloweye rockfish in HoodCanal for a DNA research project. HoodCanal has ...
Rice incident spotlights the ugly abuse of women, but what about men who are abused by women?
CLAY MOYLE AND SON CALEB Like many others I‘ve been following the story of Ray Rice and his suspension by the NFL for punching and knocking out his fiancé Janay Palmer ...
Stan Ward, former heavyweight boxer, weighs in on traits of successful athletics
CLAY MOYLE AND SON CALEB A couple of months ago a friend of mine told me about a former professional boxer he knew that he urged me to contact. He thought I ...
Kristi and Bruce ‘escape’ from Alcatraz
By Terry Mosher Editor, Sportspaper SAN FRANCISCO – The Waterbury’s came, they saw, and the conquered in the 19th Annual Alcatraz Invitational swim. “It was wild, a great time – loved ...
Bowlers, basketballers and Babe Ruth people shake off the cobwebs
Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...
Mrs. Deaton, near drowning, as Mosher travels through his life Part ll
TERRY MOSHER I had started reading when I was about five. A couple of my older brothers must have developed a taste for James Fenimore Cooper and I grabbed ...
Captain Anderson takes an untimely and tragic leave
TERRY MOSHER They called him Captain, and he was all of that and more. Athletic, strong, determined and always doing things the right way, that was Mike Anderson. So it ...
The Beginning 1: Tracking Mosher from humble beginnings in New York State
TERRY MOSHER My first memory is me standing with my back to the door leading out to the wrap around porch. Actually, there were two doors to the porch. Another ...
Let the Legion of Boom lower the boom on the Islamic State
TERRY MOSHER I don’t want to sound insensitive, but how stupid are the Islamic State murderers that they believe a threat against a captive and then follow that with ...