On Sept. 12, 2025, we take a moment to remember the wrenching, unbelievable, stunning, awful, it-can’t-be news about that plane crash in Mexico that took 16 Huskies from us the day after 9/11. So, we take a deep breath and do what the sadly apt headline in the December 2001 Columns magazine said: Remember the Huskies. “We sometimes would ride our bikes from our home down to Husky Stadium to tailgate before games,” recalls Ron, ’66, ’67, ’79. Styer, Burks and Dalton went on the cruise together, and Burks was on the plane with Styer when it crashed. A 1957 graduate of the UW School of Law, the Oak Harbor born-and-raised Zylstra was a community volunteer and successful attorney before he retired last year.