Photos by Tag: wallie
It’s now official!
After more than six decades, it’s official! Anacortes resident Wallie V. Funk was acknowledged officially as a UW graduate at a ceremony conducted on June 10 by the Department of Communication. It’s been 62 years since Funk last banged about the campus as a student. Photo courtesy of UW photographer Kristina Courtnage Bowman. See AnacortesToday […]
Deceptive
This image came up in conversation last week with former boss, now morning coffee companion Wallie Funk. Wallie mentioned this photo among the short list of favorites he recalled from the work I did as his employee at the Whidbey News-Times. Lo and behold, I ran across a ragged print Thursday morning while going through […]
Journalism honors
I was sitting on this exciting piece of news, but the Skagit Valley Herald reported it this morning, so the cat’s out of the bag: Wallie V. Funk of Anacortes has been named to the University of Washington Department of Communication Alumni Hall of Fame. Funk, 85, was born in Anacortes and spent most of […]
Community journalists
It was a combination power lunch and sentimental journey for me Thursday when I joined this group of community journalism “characters” at Flounder Bay Restaurant. Instigator of the gathering was Wallie Funk, ex-newspaper publisher and one-time employer of several in attendance. Pictured are Kasia Pierzga, publisher of the Whidbey Examiner; Dave Pinkham, publisher of the […]
Display
I got a big kick out of this clever effort on someone’s part to put a Christmas spin on the Wallie Funk photo display at the Anacortes Museum. Someone tacked a Santa hat onto the photo cutout of a young Wallie Funk performing publisher/editor duties at the Anacortes American in the 1950s. Funk, now retired, […]
Now it’s official
Mayor Dean Maxwell partnered with Wallie Funk Monday morning to make it official at the city’s newest financial institution. With the snip of a ribbon, The Bank of the Pacific opened its first full week of activity at 801 Commercial Avenue. Pictured with Funk and Maxwell is Branch Manager Mike Trafton. Visiting from the bank’s […]
Grand Marshal Wallie
If ever there was an excellent choice for 4th of July Parade Grand Marshal it was Wallie Funk. Wallie, an Anacortes native, spent the better part of his life as a photojournalist, capturing a massive collection of photos such as this through the lens of his Leica cameras. Wallie was editor and publisher of the […]