​Richard Pelto (3 B.A.s and a Masters from University of Washington) has been a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, wire editor of the Aberdeen Daily World, and reporter with the Wenatchee Daily World. In 1966-67 he edited the Neighborhood House social-service agency newspaper. He also was co-editor of the Naval station newspaper he was assigned to in El Centro, California. He has also been a high school and community college English teacher. While on the executive board of the Washington Federation of Teachers, he edited the Washington State AFT newspaper. He wrote his Master’s thesis on the role of the press in the creation of the Washington State House Un-American Activities Committee (known as the Canwell Committee). He is now the proud father of two sons and five grandchildren, and lives in Kenmore, Wa.