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College of Arts and Humanities
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Distinguished Alumni Awards |
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Jill Jones ('81, communication) is the 2007 Distinguished Alumni for the College of Arts and Humanities. The chief creative officer of jill jones creative, she has become a leader in licensed merchandising for entertainment industry giants such as Universal Studios, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, and the Walt Disney Company. Her projects include developing products and marketing plans for television and films, including well-known characters like SpongeBob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, and Winnie the Pooh.
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Michele Weir is currently a faculty member at UCLA and previously taught at USC and the Phil Mattson School. She is recognized internationally as a jazz clinician and performer, and as an arranger, teacher and writer. As a performer, she has toured internationally as a pianist with various well-known artists like Bobby Vinton and has served as vocalist and arranger for the Grammy-nominated "Phil Mattson and the PM Singers." As a songwriter, Michele's arrangements and compositions have been performed by the Boston Pops, the Buffalo, Long Beach, Cincinatti and Pacific Symphonies, the Holland American Cruise Line, and many, many other groups. Michele is also an extraordinary teacher both in the classroom and through her widely-praised books, Vocal Improvization and The Jazz Singers' Handbook. Michele also runs an online publishing business. It's clear that the word "versatility" is synonymous with Michele Weir.
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Cawley-Murphree is the communications coordinator for the Office of Gov. Christine Gregoire. She has also served as a policy analyst with the Housing Authority of Snohomish County and executive director of the Institute for a Democratic Future. In addition, as a CWU student, she was a state House of Representatives legislative intern during the 2000 session and, in 1999, was a public policy intern with the American Geological Institute in Washington, D.C. A member of the Douglas Honors College, she graduated from CWU with bachelor’s degrees in political science and geology in 2001.
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Topmiller, an assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University, served as a United States Navy hospital corpsman in Vietnam from 1966 to ’69. A prolific author, he wrote the 2002 book "Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966," published by the University Press of Kentucky. It is one of a small number of studies to examine how internal Vietnamese politics affected U.S. decision-making and the role the nonviolent movement played in that conflict. Topmiller received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in history, from Central. |
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