We congratulate our colleague Sharon Hargus on her retirement from the Department of Linguistics in June 2025. Her hard work for the department and collegiality will be sorely missed. Sharon started her career at UW in 1985 after receiving a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UCLA. She served the Department of Linguistics as Associate Chair, Graduate Program Chair, and numerous other vital roles. Sharon taught classes in phonetics, phonology, and morphology, as well as field methods and introduction to language documentation. Her primary area of research has been the description and documentation of Native American languages, particularly those of the Pacific Northwest. As part of this research agenda Sharon has compiled and collaborated on dictionaries of Witsuwit'en (2022), Tsek'ene (2019) and Ichishkíin Sínwit (2009). In 2021 the Linguistic Society of America presented her with the Kenneth L. Hale Award for her work in language documentation. Most recently, she is involved in projects related to the documentation of four Native American (or First Nations) languages: Sahaptin (Yakama (or Yakima) dialect) (spoken in Washington state), Deg Xinag (spoken in Alaska), Kwadacha (Ft. Ware) Sekani (Tsek'ene), and Witsuwit'en (spoken in British Columbia). Although Sharon now has Emeritus status at UW, she will continue her research on Witsuwit’en via a 2025 National Science Foundation grant.