Kay Grant Powers

Jenn Jacobsen. Class of 88´ Believe it or not a picture showed up with kids walking to a Portable. I instantly thought of Ms. Powers and I wasn´t the only one in that post. I had her for Creative Writing but as everyone knows it was so much more than that. She would listen to every single one of us. She was also a friend. She helped me to be strong and stand up for my truth.... Knowing how scared I was. She always made time for me even if it was just to offer a safe place to scream. To see...

I just learned that Ms. Powers passed away (Jan 26, 2021). I did a random search for her name..,. and here I am writing my belated condolences to Pat and Rosa. I remember Rosa as the pretty young girl she was in the late 80s, when I met her mother, my English teacher at Cascade High School. I was an exchange student from Chile in Everett, Wash., in 1986-87. Ms. Powers... wow, so many vivid memories of her class, even today: Second period at Portable 820, getting published twice in TYRO,...

When Kay was pregnant with Rosa the two of us went down to the beach in Coeur d’Alene park. Kay dug a hole in the sand so she could lay on her tummy and tan her back she was very pregnant and looked darling in her bikini we always have a lot of fun together laughing. She would also recite some Shakespeare now and then .

Dear Rosa & Pat,
I think of Kay often. Always with a smile and the humble gratitude of having the amazing fortune to have been one of her students. I lost my mother this year as well. It's given me a new insight into grief that I wish I didn't have. It helps me to hear that my mom is still loved and remembered by others. I hope it is some comfort to you that your mother is loved and remembered by so many.

Dear Rosa and Pat
Your Mother influenced the lives of all her students and people around her. She was a special person and always so much fun.
Kay and Pat came to "take care" of my flat for two weeks in London while I went skiing. Patrick was three. They drove me to Heathrow which took about 30 min. from my flat but it took then 4 hours to find my flat again. My 1972 MGBGT still sits in my garage. Kay said she felt it was to close to the road. Over the years when I came...

I'll miss your bright outgoing personality. So full of life and energy. Sleep in peace beautiful.

Kay was my teacher/mentor and remains a flame of inspiration to me. She touched so many people and her message of equity lives on. I would be happy to be half the teacher she was!

Wow what a life. Ms. Powers was my high school teacher and someone I'll never forget. She was unique, bold and brave.What an interesting person she was and life she lived.

I remember very clearly the first time I met her in Spokane at a meeting of the New Left in 1969 or so. She and Pat had enough light in their eyes to set the world on fire and particularly the world of GU students suffering through the mire of Vietnam who were desperate to find a path of action meaningful enough to vent our rage. She was so engaged, so present and so damn smart. Later, visiting her in CDA she became the my role model for teaching as a subversive activity. The fact that I was...