KATHEE TIFFT
Single mom turns education into award-winning career
THE FAMILIAR SCENE had all the trappings of that classic off-to-college cliché: The mom and dad, sister, and brothers loading up the family car for the annual fall trek to campus.
But what seemed like a typical first-day-of-school story unfolding between Sandpoint and Moscow was anything but ordinary for Kathee Tifft. She was moving down for the spring 1985 semester, but her 1974 Datsun only made it as far as Coeur d’Alene before breaking down. Her family towed it through the snow to a friend’s house and loaded contents into her brother’s van, so she arrived in her dad’s Chevy Impala.
Earlier, her mom and dad had used a year’s income tax refund . . . . more>>
THE FAMILIAR SCENE had all the trappings of that classic off-to-college cliché: The mom and dad, sister, and brothers loading up the family car for the annual fall trek to campus.