Ashley Bean Wilson graduated from Silverwood in 1996, then attended Ridgetop Junior High and graduated from Olympic High School in 2002. While at Ridgetop and Olympic, she was active in Drama Club, Swim Team, Track, Knowledge Bowl, Choir and Jazz Choir. After making full use of the Advanced Placement curriculum in high school, Ashley attended Brigham Young University – Idaho on a full scholarship, and earned her first degree in 2004. She was then accepted to the University of Washington Pharmacy program where she became a Doctor of Pharmacy in 2008.

When Ashley was at Silverwood, she was involved with several winning Odyssey of the Mind teams. She has fond memories of her fifth grade team particularly when she played a rhyming mad scientist who builds a time traveling machine. Ashley, with other classmates, also very realistically re-created a scene from Renoir’s famous “Luncheon of the Boating Party.”

When asked about her favorite Silverwood memory, Ashley answers, “OPI (Olympic Park Institute) – it was so much fun to spend a few days away from home at camp with my class, and I learned a great deal while I was there. I still use some of the fun facts I learned at OPI on hiking trips I take with my husband and our friends.”

Ashley credits her Silverwood education with, “helping me to build a strong base for a lifetime of learning.” She also notes, “My Silverwood experience gave me skills for learning throughout high school and even into college. I was continually amazed at material appearing in classes that I had been introduced to in elementary school.”

At her current job as a clinical pharmacist at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle (www.swedish.org), Ashley splits her time between the outpatient pharmacy and the Intensive Care Unit. Ashley particularly enjoys the opportunity “to participate in direct patient care as part of the healthcare team.”

Ashley is married to Brandon Wilson, a doctoral student in Materials Science Engineering at the University of Washington. He’s planning to graduate in 2010. Ashley and Brandon love cooking new recipes and hiking and roller blading. They’ve been on cruises to the Caribbean and Alaska and spent a week in Brazil this fall. Brandon is fluent in Portuguese and Ashley is learning! Ashley recently (June, 2009) completed an Olympic Distance Triathlon and did the Seattle Marathon in November 2007.

Rachel Bean Andrist, Silverwood Class of 1994 is now a Sixth grade teacher in Utah. Whitney Bean, Silverwood Class of 2002 is a junior at Brigham Young University.

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