Outreach and Continuing Education's Maggie Barklind will retire on Aug. 26 after a 36-year career at Western.

Barklind started as a student employee in the Testing Center. After graduating from Western, she was working in Alaska when her former supervisor called and asked if she wanted a full-time job. Thinking she’d take it for a year and then move to Seattle, an unexpected but wonderful 36-year career unfolded instead. 

Barklind has served in a variety of student and program support service roles at Western, including the Testing Center, Admissions, the Registrar’s Office…