From: William E. Johns 
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:37:32 -0700
Subject: Wes Woods

I knew Wes, rode with him on several occasions.  One memorable
trip was down to Joseph, OR.  He wanted to do an overnight camping
around Hell's canyon and did not know the roads down in that part of the
world.  I got a few local riders together, hooked up with Wes in Asotin
and headed down as a pack.  It's a beautiful ride, Rattlesnake grade is
world class and we all had a good time.  The back roads down in that
part of the world aren't well marked, but we got Wes heading in the
right direction and headed back.  That was my last ride with him.

God Speed Wes,

Bill

From: Art Ellison 
Date: Apr 12, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: Wes Woods


I met Wes once.  It was I who rode with his daughter until she got her
MC license when she lived in Colville.
Jennifer and Wes and her Mom and I went riding together one day when I
lived there.

Art
Sorry to hear that.

From: Meredith Goldsmith 
Date: Apr 12, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Re:info re Wes Woods


Cards and flowers can be sent to:

Toni Woods
555 SW 3rd Street
College Place, WA 99324

There will be a memorial service Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the
College Church in College Place, WA. 

Best, Meredith Goldsmith

From: Whitman College President Tom Cronin
Date: Apr 12, 2005


Whitman Campus Community,

I am extremely sad to inform the Whitman Community that one of our greatly
valued WCTS colleagues, Wes Woods, died this afternoon as a result of a
collision he had on his motorcycle with a Valley Transit bus.  Wes was
returning to work having been home for lunch.

Wes joined the Whitman staff in September of 1991.  He was a dedicated
colleague who loved his family (wife Toni, Daughter Jennifer and son James)
and he loved his motorcycle, sailing and life.  His colleagues remember him,
among many other things, for coming in early and grinding and making the
coffee at 7:30 every morning, even though he no longer drank coffee.  We
will remember Wes for his countless projects upgrading our computer
systems.

Please keep Wes and his family in your prayers and thoughts.

President Tom Cronin

From: Randall Mietzner 
Date: May 25, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Motolist and Wes Woods


    I attended the recent Wetleather event, the
Lousisiana Fish Fry in Vancouver WA.   As I was dishing up some food,
Jon Diaz asked if I had gone to the services for Wes Woods.  I was taken
aback, and asked how/when and Jon helped me dish up the plate.

    I was a early poster on motolist, Wes and I both got
back into motorcycling in 1993.   We both had mid-80s Hondas and
conincientally, workked in similar capacities in IT admin systems for
Student Enrollment management of Online and Batch systems.   I was in
his neighborhood as I work and live in Pullman WA.    He was my first
riding buddy as a re-entrant rider.

     Lolo Pass assault 1993, Wes and I went on this ride to Lolo Pass on
Labor Day weekend.  with about 25 or so other riders who were part of
the MC List, Wetleather.    We rode up to Lolo Pass, Wes and I with
Chris SPindler.  Chris was on his old airheadBeemer and flet it was a
bit strained trying to keep up with Wes and I, on the 6-speed Hondas.
Somewhere after passing the 'Next 77 miles' w/curvy arrow sign we
took a break.   Chris took his helmet off and said 'You call that a
relaxed pace!'     Well, Wes and I had been into muscle cars as well as
motorcycles in the mid-1960s, so we were simply doing what comes natural
for ol'hot Rodders.  Both Wes and I I gave Chris our best inncoent Who
Us? look.   Chris was surprized to find out we were both re-entrant
riders with only a couple of monthss of recent riding experience.
We had a campout across from the commmercial hotsprings.   Wes and I
shared one of the TeePees.     Riding back we hooked up with Dave Wise.
Pretty uneventful, except for the time, Dave passed an RV and met a full
dress Harly bagger who saw him coming and had shifted over to the far RH
side of the lane, phew.  Coming into Lewiston, on US `12,  I had an ISP
behind me and I was flashing myhighbeam but Dave and Wes didn't notice
so I pulled over to the RH lane, and the ISP  went to Blue lights and
pulled over the guys.    I pulled in and waited for the ISP to do his
business.  I think the ISP let the 10 or so over go, but popped them
both for no insurance.    We went to saome eateerry with a salad bar.
I was going to hhead north and home and they both were heading west.
Wes was pissed at the amount and just the ISP's 'tude.

      The next time we rode together was a transit, mostly
slabbing to Vancouver and back to a WL event at the Goldings residence.
Wes was a great guy to ride with he always had a ready smile.   It's nice
having a riding buddy who usually brought along some steel for emergency
siturations.

     I dropped off motolist and have been acitve on
Wetleather, but I still got together or sent Wes private emails.
WHen he got his ST11  I replied I also had a new ride, a Ducati
Monster.  He replied in CAPS, "YOU GOT A WHAT!?!"   We only got together
infrequently  over the years but our friendship never wavered.  We met
up one time on the road, a ride and overnight camp at the OR St park
south of Ukiah.    We talked about bikes annd the differences in our
systems with his WHitman only 1500 in enrololement, and WSU about 10
times that more Main framed based, but si milar issures.

I liked the way he carried himself, his ready smile and comebacks. and
a straight shooter.    He will be missed.

Randall  aka BlackBbear 
(I got this nickname at the Lolo Pass ride when I got ticketed for no MC
endorsement - story told better over a beverage)