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Judy Dingle Soule

I left Pullman for Michigan State University and ended up marrying the first person I met in East Lansing, Bob Soule, by the time I was 19 and here we are still married after all those years-and Bob is still teaching highschool English. After some time in Bellingham, I ended up back at MSU for a PhD in plant ecology mixed around the birth of Jacob and then Bethany. When Jake was a week old we hauled him along to the Rocky Mountain Biologic Research Station to help with my field work. The result of this is that he is now getting a PhD in Plant Ecology at UT in Austin, TX. He's planning to marry his sweetheart, Stavana, in March. Bethany now lives in Portland with Bob and me and with her husband Danny and their two kids, Faire (5) and Cantor (3). B&D are working on a start up internet goal-tracking business (see Beeminder.org). Erica, our youngest, spent her youth riding horses and learned to speak like a Michigander in the stables, but has switched to a smaller saddle - both riding and building bicycles while finishing up a degree at Virginia Tech. She and husband, Stephen, road cross country from VA to Portland, OR, in 2010. Actually, we all talk Michigander, as we ended up staying mostly in Michigan, Bob teaching at East Lansing High, me working in conservation and sustainable agriculture, but avoiding straight academia, for 30 years in all. When we moved to Virginia (D.C. area) in 2004, it was for me to work for NatureServe a science-based conservation organization. I was the director of member relations, meaning I'm the only one crazy enough to try and represent and take care of all 82 member programs flung across the Western Hemisphere. The job is often too stressful, but never dull. However, I chose to leave the stress behind in 2012. Bob officially, and for the last time, retired and we moved to Portland, OR, in Feb 2012. I officially ended my employment May 15, after putting on a great organization-wide conference in Portland in April.Life is good, though it is a shock to have 6 people living together. Ever since the ride through the Canadian Rockies with Nancy Stevens, Judy Ashworth, et al, at age 16, I've been a biking nut - culminating in true nuttiness - the STP double century in 2006. Pullman has been a frequent destination over the years, as my parents were still there. My dad died in 2008 and in 2011 my sister and I moved my mom to Portland. But I'll be back to Pullman - there is nothing on earth like the Palouse Hills in Spring.

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