ELLENSBURG — The first female president of Central Washington University says she will retire at the end of 2008, after eight years on the job.
Jerilyn McIntyre, 65, became Central’s 13th president in 2000, at a time of enrollment declines and budget cuts. She announced Friday she will leave Dec. 31. The school has seen a period of enrollment growth, new construction and stable budgets.
“The first year or two were very challenging years,” McIntyre said.
Enrollment at Central has increased 27 percent since 2001, and McIntyre gives Central’s branch campuses partial credit for the growth. The university now offers bachelor’s degree programs on the campuses of community colleges in Lynnwood, Des Moines, Yakima, Moses Lake, Wenatchee and Lakewood.
Seattle: Fortuneteller sentenced for scam
A 79-year-old fortuneteller convicted of scamming $220,000 from a Seattle woman who wanted help getting her ex-boyfriend back has been sentenced to 11/2 years in prison.
Sophie Evon and her daughter-in-law persuaded the 26-year-old woman to give them the cash in 1999 so they could pray over it and break a spell another woman had cast on the man. The victim took much of the money from her mother’s retirement account, authorities said.
When the victim returned to Evon’s home the next day, the fortunetellers were gone, along with the money.
Evon was later arrested in Canada, but faked stroke symptoms in an unsuccessful effort to be found mentally unfit for trial and then escaped, court documents said. She was arrested again in Alberta last fall.
Her daughter-in-law, Sylvia Lee, received an 18-month sentence in 2001.
@3. Headline Briefs 14 no:Man burrows into dirt to evade police
A Maple Valley man who was stopped for speeding near Renton nearly evaded state troopers by burrowing into soft ground along Highway 169 and covering himself with dirt and leaves.
Trooper Jeff Merrill said the man hid for nearly an hour Wednesday and sent a text message to his girlfriend to pick him up. Officers caught the man when he left his hole.
The 20-year-old was jailed in Kent. He had outstanding arrest warrants for failing to appear in court on charges of marijuana possession, harassment and drunken driving.
Associated Press
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