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 President
Randy Sleight,
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From the Class of '71, Randy Sleight
ran on the JV Cross Country team and played JV Baseball as a
sophomore. As a junior, he lettered in Cross Country,
Soccer, and Tennis and was voted Most Inspirational on the
Tennis team. As a senior, Randy was elected Captain of the
first West Seattle Cross Country team to win the Metro League
Southern Division title. In the Spring, he was
ranked #1 on the Tennis team and was
again voted Most Inspirational.
Randy graduated from the University of
Washington in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering degree. He became a PLS (Professional Land Surveyor)
and PE (Professional Engineer). He retired in 2019 as a
Chief Engineering Officer of Snohomish County, although his
engineering expertise has remained in demand since then.
Over his distinguished career, Randy earned a number of
professional awards including Washington State Government
Engineer of the Year in 2005, and was honored also that year as a
Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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 Treasurer
Don Conners,
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Don graduated from West Seattle with
the Class of '58.
While at West Seattle, Don was a
Forward on the Basketball team.
In the Spring, Don ran on the Track &
Field team. He competed in the hurdles and the 440 yard
run. His mile relay team finished first at the City Relay
Meet held at Husky Stadium.
After high school, he attended Seattle
University, graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Education
degree.
Now a retired school teacher, Don
taught for 37 years in Seattle and one in St Helens, Oregon.
He also coached Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country, and Track &
Field.
His hobbies include photography, model
trains, and reading a variety of books.
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 Vice President
Nancy Rutherford Sleight
Nancy excelled in both ballet and
gymnastics.
She was on the Metro League championship
gymnastics team in 1972 as a junior and earned multiple All
Metro honors as a senior, competing in All Around and
specializing in Floor Exercise and Balance Beam.
Beyond her many gymnastics
accompishements, she was a cheerleader, was voted "Most
Accomplished" by her senior class, and was a valedictorian of
the Class of '73.
As a freshman at Cottey College in
Nevada, MO, she earned awards in ballet, then transferred to
Seattle Pacific
 University where she earned varsity letters in
gymnastics. Nancy graduated Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics
in 1977.
After college, she worked as a
Systems Engineer with IBM from 1978 to 1988.
In 1981, Nancy
married West Seattle classmate Dick Sleight. Nancy
designed and served as the General Contractor for their new
home in Bellevue in 1992-93.
Dick and Nancy's son and two
daughters earned
22 varsity letters between them in high school, including
fourteen trips to State. At Seattle Pacific University, son Nathanael earned ten varsity letters
and three team awards running Cross
Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track.
From the Seattle Times.
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 Secretary/Webmaster
Dick Sleight,
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Dick ran JV Cross Country in 1970, and
lettered in Track & Field in '71, '72, and '73.
He
lettered in Cross Country in '71 as a member of the Metro League
Southern Division champions, and was voted Captain and Most
Inspirational on the 1972 Cross Country team, finishing second
in the Metro Southern Division championship race of 49 runners.
He was chosen as Captain of the 1973 Track & Field team and took
4th place in the 2-mile run at the Metro League championships at
Husky Stadium with a time of 9:52. He also
 lettered
in 1973 in
Swimming.
Dick graduated in 1977 from the
University of Washington with a B.A.
in Economics (after his first two years in Engineering) but
was hired onto the University of Washington College of
Engineering faculty at the age of 22. He taught there from
1978 to 1989 while earning his M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees.
Beginning in 1989, Dick served and
taught at Seattle Pacific University and was named an emeritus
faculty member upon his retirement in 2021 from the SPU School
of Business, Government, and Economics.
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