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OQ1 cover WI05_02.indd 4 11/9/05 5:31:49 PM OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 VOLUME 85 N UMBER 2 FEATURES 16 AMAZING GRACE Photography by Michael Kevin Daly, text by Brett Campbell Sometimes you gotta dance. Photographer Michael Kevin Daly captures a particularly exuberant expression of that maxim in downtown Eugene. 20 VERTICAL GAIN by Kim Stafford Two teenagers climb the world?s tallest mountain ? in Portland. 22 OREGON FEAST by Christine Cunningham and Pete Peterson You can put on quite a holiday spread with the products of Oregon?s farmers, ranchers, and fishers. 27 REPAIR BY DESIGN by Linda Baker Mark Lakeman is trying to rebuild a sense of community in Portland, one intersection at a time. DEPARTMENTS 2 Letters 5 Currents Endurance, Faith, and a Future by Wilma Mankiller Heartache, Heartsong by Brian Doyle Impressive Legal Talent by David D. Kirkpatrick One Take John from a book edited by Robert K. Elder The Doors of Perception The Class of 2009 by Tom McBride and Ron Nief 32 University A Changing Campus / Insight Seminars / A Lifelong Learner / Musical Light for Nagasaki / Overcoming Fear: Yasuo Ishida / New UO Homepage / PROFile: Joshua Roering 39 Old Oregon Katrina Volunteer / Germs and Hospitals / Art at Chemawa School / Athletic Hall of Fame / UOAA Events / Class Notes / Profile: John Malecki Ph.D. ?69 52 Oregon Trails I Never Told My Father by Paul Keller ?72 Cover: University of Oregon chefs Tim Perkins, Ron Schrodt, and Doug Lang. Photograph by David Loveall / Loveall Photography Michael Olfert Chris Michel Michael Kevin Daly Dancing p. 16 Climbing p. 20 Mark Lakeman p. 27 OQ2 toc letter WI05_04.indd 1 11/9/05 5:33:56 PM W ASTE AND S PECTACLE I had to congratulate you on perhaps the most poignant juxtaposition of the developing world groveling for existence and American gluttonous excess that I have ever seen. I almost gasped when I turned from ?Waste Not? in the Autumn issue, showing young Chinese workers extracting recyclables from electronic junk, to the following pages. There was a six-page photo extravaganza [?Saturday Spectacle?] showing America at its beer- soaked, overweight, pork- and beef-fed, gas-guzzling extreme. The belches, diesel fumes, barbecue smoke, stale beer, noise, and inane con - versation seemed to lift off the pages, nauseating me with the extreme waste - fulness of America in the face of people throughout the world scratching and clawing to survive harsh conditions and the toxic refuse of our excess. I do not think you could have put together a more fabulous guilt-trip for your readers, although being Americans, I doubt many will notice the contrast. On a separate note, I had to laugh at the undertones of the Third-World labor issue oozing out of ?Shades of Green? [sidebar to ?Waste Not?]. The renewable fiber crops grown in Asia could easily grow in the Mississippi embayment and make lots of good paying jobs for poor Americans. Clifford P. Ambers Sweet Briar, Virginia W RITERS R EMEMBERED I was intrigued to see an article titled ?Giants: Literary Luminaries at the Uni - versity of Oregon? [Autumn 2005]. But lo and behold, all I found was a recount - ing of guest authors coming to the Uni - versity. Almost every university has its share of literary figures coming to read and professors who can recall a snippet of their visit. With such talent as the UO has in its own departments, why not tout that? Those of us who have benefited from the great teachings of those profes - sors and become successful at our craft because of it, know what impact UO faculty have had. Martha Clarkson ?83 Kirkland, Washington A famous writer who visited the UO in the 1950s that Professor Weatherhead did not mention [?Giants?] was Robert Frost. I remember him speaking and read - ing poetry to an overflow audience in the Erb ballroom in about 1956 or 1957. Phil Chadsey ?58 Portland The article by Kingsley Weatherhead brought back memories of attending the reading by W. H. Auden on February 21, 1967. After the talk I met Auden and had him autograph my copy of his Col - lected Poetry. I still have the autographed book with my note of the place and date of the event. I remember how many of us backstage were excited by the presence of Sonia Orwell. I also enjoyed Weatherhead?s memory of Aldous Huxley?s visit since I recently finished reading a lengthy biography of Huxley by Sybill Bedford. His priceless trove of anecdotes enhanced my impres - sion of this great literary figure. I lived in Eugene from 1964?1968 while my husband Val was a graduate student in physics. I worked for Professor Albert Kitzhaber in the English department. I believe his son became governor of Oregon. We have lived in Ithaca, New York, since 1968 where Val teaches at Cornell University. Winnie Kostroun Ithaca, New York I find it puzzling that Kingsley Weath - erhead did not identify the ?Creative Writing professor? in the anecdote about William Faulkner in his article ?Giants.? The professor in question was James B. Hall, who taught at the UO for many years, several of them as Weatherhead?s colleague. Hall loved the story and told it often. To me, Faulkner?s remark illustrates his abiding lack of pretension. After all, the occasion was a cocktail party, not the parting of the Red Sea. Robert LaRue MFA ?64 Lincoln, New Mexico Congratulations on a great fall issue. The wife and I were particularly interested in the article by Professor Kingsley Weath - erhead [?Giants?], our long ago next-door neighbor on Fairmont Street. Though he probably didn?t intend it, Professor Weatherhead?s piece on Faulkner tapped into a timely reservoir of thought. To those of us who think about such things, there is a strong affin - ity between Faulkner?s masterpiece ( The Sound and the Fury) and the current administration in Washington. Both are (in Shakespeare?s immortal words) ?a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.? Joe and Mary Datri ?57 Tucson, Arizona C LARK M EMORIES Your story on Bob Clark [?Robert Donald Clark,? University, Autumn 2005] was The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request: (541) 346-5048. OREGON QUARTERLY EDITOR Guy Maynard MANAGING EDITOR Ross West ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Susan Thelen DESIGNER Tim Jordan CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Jack Liu E-MAIL quarterly@uoregon.edu OREGON QUARTERLY is published by the UO in March, June, August, and November and distributed free to alumni. 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Send your comments to Editor, O rego n Q u a r t e rly , 5228 Univer sit y of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5228; v i a f a x a t ( 5 4 1 ) 3 4 6 - 5 5 7 1 ; o r v i a e - m a i l a t quarterly@uoregon.edu. OQ2 toc letter WI05_04.indd 2 11/9/05 5:33:57 PM www.uoregon.edu Michelle Flanigan is a 2003 grad of the UO Lundquist College of Business and a huge fan of its Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. ?They instilled in me a desire to make sports better, instead of sitting in the bleachers.? As conceived by alum Jim Warsaw , the Center?s main goal is to nurture a new breed of leader in sports. People with a superstar knowledge of the sports industry, plus a high level of integrity. That?s transforming lives, big time. Today, our grads are elevating the game in places like the NFL, NBA and ESPN. Keep your eye on Michelle. She?s already a key player in sales and marketing with the Seattle SuperSonics. We? re Changing The Face Of Professional Sports. ? 2005 University of Oregon Michelle ad OR Quarterly 10/28/05 9:48 PM Page 1 OQ2 toc letter WI05_04.indd 3 11/9/05 5:33:58 PM 4 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 well done. There is an irony in it, how - ever, for those of us who were graduate students in the Speech Department dur - ing his time on the faculty. Bob helped to put the Ph.D. program in that discipline into both existence and respectability, but the University later chose to shut down the department and major, which is a bit of a slap at this great man and those of us who were his students. David H. Grover Ph.D. ?62 Napa, California I echo the positive thoughts expressed regarding former University President Robert D. Clark in the Autumn 2005 issue. To that I would add further com - mendation for Dr. Clark?s position and stance that a commitment is a commit - ment. During the era referred to in the article as the ?tumultuous years,? many people did not act or feel that way. Clark was then president of San Jose State. The event showing such thinking occurred in the fall of 1968 (following the so-called victory stand black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics by two San Jose students who were medal winners). It involved a season-ending football game at San Jose State versus Brigham Young. As a referee assigned to that game, I was involved on the periph - ery of what took place. Pressure was created to not play the game. The African American players on the San Jose team had urged the game be cancelled and indicated they would boycott the game if played. The bottom line: Clark said that San Jose State had previously entered into a multiyear, home-and-home contract with Brigham Young, that the commit - ment would be honored. I am told he also stated that no adverse action (like loss of scholarships) would be taken against players who elected not to participate. The San Jose State black athletes did not participate. The San Jose State coaches had a week to reassign and drill the remaining players. A host of law enforcement officials surrounded the stadium, many with bomb-sniffing dogs. Thankfully, there were no adverse incidents. Surprisingly, San Jose State won the game 25?21. Dr. Clark and I talked about events related to that game after he returned to the UO as president. He indicated that he probably was the recipient of more pressure and lobbying from all sides about what to do regarding that game than any other event he could recall. An interesting sidelight in the career of a great man. William E. Love MA ?50 JD ?52 Portland A Q UIET P LACE ?Quiet Neighbors? [Old Oregon, Autumn 2005] is a wonderful article and brought back many memories, starting about age seven. . . . I often walked through the cemetery on my way to Condon Elemen - tary despite instructions to the contrary from my mother. During high school years I participated in some clean-up projects there and was touched by the stories, real and imagined, told by the gravestones. In my years at the UO it became a place to walk and reflect and remained years later an important place to visit from out of town with my young daughter, then son. More recently, the cemetery was a place to bring my hus - band to sit in filtered sunlight and come to terms with my father?s passing. My father, who owned McAlpin Vault Co. in Eugene, dug some graves in Pioneer Cemetary. He enjoyed working there. On occasion a student would stop to chat with him and more than one were surprised to find him listening to classical music as he worked. I enjoy the magazine so much. May Oregon Quarterly and Pio - neer Cemetary live on! Janet Knitter Carter ?70 Augusta. Montana D EATH P ENALTY This letter is in response to Joshua K. Marquis?s essay [?Crime and Punishment? Currents] in the Summer 2005 issue of Oregon Quarterly. Perhaps, if the pros - ecutor was not so hell-bent on showing toughness with state-sanctioned killing, Oregon taxpayers would not have to pay so much in defending the individual. D. Haldane Harris MBA ?87 Klamath Falls C ORRECTION A story in the Autumn issue, ?Journal - ism Achievers Honored? (University), contained two errors. Jack Williams ?68 is a four-time Emmy recipient, and Milly Wohler ?43 (1922?2001) was the ?Day? editor and ?Travel? editor for The Oregonian. OQ2 toc letter WI05_04.indd 4 11/9/05 5:33:59 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 5 CURRENTS SEEN AND HEARD AROUND THE UO E NDURANCE , FAITH , AND A F UTURE Former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller is a nationally recognized author and activist. As the UO?s 2005?6 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, Mankiller recently deliv - ered a public address on campus, excerpted here, titled ?Context Is Everything: History and Culture in Contemporary Tribal Life.? B ETWEEN 1836 AND 1838, THE U NITED States Army marched Cherokee - eastern homelands to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. The forced removal, known as the Trail of Tears, or the Trail Where They Cried, resulted in the loss of approximately 4,000 people, or one quarter of our entire tribal population. It is truly remarkable that Cherokee people who had been forced to leave behind everything they had ever known for a new land and had suffered a stag - gering loss of lives, almost immediately began to rebuild their families, communi - ties, and nation in Indian Territory. * * * When Cherokee people lived in our old country in the Southeast, there was little ambiguity about what it meant to be a good person. A good person was prudent in relationships with others and conducted his or her affairs with honor, respect, and dignity. Everyone had clearly defined roles, and the rules of conduct governing right and correct actions were understood. Cherokee people gathered once a year for the recitation of ancient laws given to them by the Creator. These laws, sometimes memorialized on wam - pum belts, gave people guidance on how to properly live their lives. Every year a ceremony was conducted in each settlement for the purpose of rekindling relationships, requesting for - giveness for inappropriate conduct dur - ing the previous year, and cleansing the mind of negative thoughts towards oth - ers. Everyone who participated in the ceremony was forgiven for past offenses. And participants could never again speak of the offense. It was erased. Therefore, no one left the ceremony with grudges or animosity toward one another. A symbolic but very important feature of this ceremony was that each house in the village put out their home fires and relit them from a central ceremonial fire. A very high premium was placed on restoring harmony and balance in the community and encouraging Cherokee people to keep a good clean mind. * * * We have endured war; removal; loss of life, land, resources, and rights; and wholesale attempts to assimilate us. But we are still standing and we continue to have strong, viable Native communities. If we have managed to hold onto a robust sense of who we are, despite the stagger - ing amount of adversity we have faced, how can we not be optimistic about the future? After every major tribal upheaval, we have almost had to reinvent ourselves as a people but we have never given up our sense of family, of community, of clan, of nation. * * * We acknowledge the hardships of the past without dwelling on them. Instead, we look to the future with the same faith that has kept us together thus far. The Mohawk speak for all of us when they recite my favorite proverb: ?It is hard to see the future with tears in your eyes.? This image, Last Chance Gas, by Garry Fritz ?73 is part of ?The Long View ? Eastern Oregon Landscapes by Garry Fritz,? a retrospective show of more than twenty photographs taken by the longtime UO architect who died in 2004. Fascinated by the desert, he used the panoramic format and the long view as tools for capturing images of vast landscapes. The show will be on display at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History through December 22. OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 5 11/9/05 5:36:31 PM 6 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 H EARTACHE , H EARTSONG The joy of bringing a child into the world is tempered by the discovery of the boy?s defective heart. In Brian Doyle?s most recent book, The Wet Engine , the Oregon author, editor of Portland Magazine, the University of Portland?s fine publication, and 2004 judge of OQ ?s Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest considers the organ as well as the ecstasies and suffering that sometime go with it. In the following excerpt, ?Dave? is Dr. Dave McIrvin, a pediatric cardi - ologist who helped treat Doyle?s son, Liam. McIrvin did post-graduate work at the UO in 1977?78. W HEN MY SON WAS LITTLE , AND all this was happening to him, icing and stitching and worrying and weeping and beeping and not sleeping, I used to lie awake thinking about what I would tell him about this time. Someday, if he lived, he would ask me what hap - pened then, and I would have to answer him with all the honesty and eloquence demanded of love. This finally happened a month ago. We had a moment alone, which is rare, and we were sitting at the dining-room table having a burping contest and he suddenly said: Explain to me my heart stuff? Well, essentially you were born with three chambers in your heart and you need four. What?s a chamber? Like a room for pumping blood. They?re little but if you don?t have four you lose. Where did the other room go? I don?t know. Good question. So Dave fixed me? Dave and some other people. How did they do that? They opened your chest and moved things around so your heart worked bet - ter. They couldn?t add a fourth chamber so they tinkered with veins and things and built you a new engine. Essentially. Did they take my heart out? No. They hooked it up to a machine and the machine kept it going during the operation, while they worked on things around the heart. Essentially. How long was I plugged into the machine? Ninety minutes, twice. Which is how long? Figure it out. Pause. A hundred and eighty minutes. Yup. Which is three hours. Yup. So am I three hours behind everyone else? Pause. Dad. Am I in a different time zone? Yup. Cool. Yup. * * * I remember thinking that the opera - tions would either work or not work and he would either live or die. There was a certain clarity there. I used to crawl into that clarity at night. I spent a lot of time thinking about him dead, about his small coffin, about what I would miss, about the extra bed, about his clothes, about his favorite stuff. Would I put his stuffed pig in his coffin with him or keep it so I could hold it sometimes? I used to think, what if they don?t fix him all the way and he?s a cripple all his life, a pale thin kid in a wheelchair who has Crises? What if his brain gets bent during all this and he ends up bad retarded? What if he ends up alive but without his mind at all? What if his brain and his body never grow up at all? What then? Who would he be? Who would I be? Would he always be what he might have been? Would I love him still? It?s easy to love someone healthy and happy. What if I couldn?t love him? What if he was so damaged that I prayed for him to die? Would those prayers be good or evil? I don?t have anything sweet or wise to say about those thoughts. I can?t report that I found new courage in God, or that God gave me strength to face my fears, or that my wife?s love saved me, or anything cool and poetic like that. I just tell you that I had those thoughts, late at night, in the dark, and they haunt me still. I can?t even push them across the page here and have them sit between you and me unattached to either of us, for they are bound to me always, like the dark fibers of my heart. For our hearts are not pure; our hearts are filled with need and greed as much as with love and grace; and we wrestle with our hearts all the time. The wrestling is who we are. How we wrestle is who we are. It never stops. We are never complete. We are verbs. What we want to be is never what we are. Not yet. Maybe that?s why we have these relent - less engines in our chests, driving us forward toward what we might be. I MPRESSIVE L EGAL T ALENT The death of one Supreme Court Justice and retirement of another has opened the door for some interesting possibilities on the recon - stituted court. New York Times writer David D. Kirkpatrick filed a story on this subject, excerpted below, under the headline ?Senate Democrats Are Shifting Focus From Roberts to Other Seat.? W ASHINGTON , S EPT . 8 ? S ENATE Democrats say the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has eased the pressure on them to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. but has set the stage for a more contentious battle over the other vacancy on the court . . . . Democratic senators and strategists say they are weighing whether to save their ammunition for the next nominee, who would succeed retiring Justice San - dra Day O?Connor, often the swing vote on social issues . . . . Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Dem - ocrat of Massachusetts and a veteran member of the Judiciary Committee, sent his own letter to [President Bush] suggest - ing several Republicans or Republican appointees ?of impress ive legal talent,? including Judges Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Ann Claire Williams of the Seventh Circuit and Edward Charles Prado of the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Kennedy also mentioned David Frohnmayer, former attorney general of Oregon and current president of the University of Oregon. E U G E N E : UO Bookstore / Moshofsky Center / Autzen Stadium / Valley River Center PORTLAND: SW 2nd & Yamhill / Washington Square UODuckShop.c om Yo u r D u c k S h o p h a s e v e r y t h i n g y o u n e e d t o s h o w y o u r t r u e c o l o r s . UOB-123.OR QTR.WNTR.FIN 10/27/05 10:10 AM Page 1 CURRENTS OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 6 11/9/05 5:36:35 PM E U G E N E : UO Bookstore / Moshofsky Center / Autzen Stadium / Valley River Center PORTLAND: SW 2nd & Yamhill / Washington Square UODuckShop.c om Yo u r D u c k S h o p h a s e v e r y t h i n g y o u n e e d t o s h o w y o u r t r u e c o l o r s . UOB-123.OR QTR.WNTR.FIN 10/27/05 10:10 AM Page 1 OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 7 11/9/05 5:36:38 PM 8 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 CURRENTS T HE D OORS OF P ERCEPTION On a walk through the corridors of Prince Lucien Campbell Hall we discovered that doorways lead - ing into faculty offices may sometime take the attentive reader to other places as well. Here are some examples. Let Us Trim Our Hair in Accordance with Socialist Lifestyle ? Title of a TV series in Nor th Korea where the government is directing men to see their barbers twice a month. Here There Be Dragons . . . . (PLC 453 ? Randall V. Mills Archive of Northwest Folklore) Please do not disturb.* We are busy synthesizing the manifold of possible experience *on Tuesdays from 10-12 (PLC 318 ? Philosophy GTF office) Bib-li-o-hol-ism: [Gr. Biblion] n.: the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess. It takes a heap of loafing to write a book ? Ger trude Stein It is so much easier for the uninformed to paddle in a sea of ignorance than it is for the lucid to sail in the turgid waters of reality T-shirt for sale in the economics department office: Front: University of Oregon Economics Back: Learning that nothing in life is free . . . Priceless The past is never dead. It?s not even past. ? William Faulkner Shall we have our kids enlist? (Handwritten caption applied to a photograph of George W. Bush talking with Dick Cheney.) 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Elder ?00, John Woo: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2005) includes the following exchange between Woo and interviewer Barbara Scharres. For more information, go to www. johnwoointerviews.com. B S: C OULD YOU TELL US SOMETHING about how different it is working with people in Hollywood as opposed to Hong Kong? I know it is a very different star system in Hong Kong and that [Hol - lywood] seems like a much more formal way of working. In Hollywood where everyone?s working through their agents and it?s just more a system of hierarchies. I remember being on your set of Once a Thief in Hong Kong and your stars were helping carry the W IDER N ET , B IGGER C ATCH Much has changed in college sports since 1985 ? UO football recruiters now range farther in their quest for talent, and that talent keeps getting, quite literally, larger. 2 1985 (Record: 5-6) 2005 48 1 1 4 41 Hawaii (2) 2 2345 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 6 1 24 Top T en Counties of Origin 1. Los Angeles, CA 22 1 5 2. 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San Diego, CA 2 4 County 2005 1985 Average Player Weight , by Positio n 0 5 0 100 150 200 250 300 Receivers and Secondary Offensive and De fensive Lineme n Running Backs and Linebackers 1985 2005 180 197 203 214 239 279 1985 2005 1985 2005 0 Number of Player s 1 2 - 5 6 - 25 26 - 50 Players by State of Origin InfoGraphics Lab, UO Department of Geography CURRENTS ??????????????? ??????????????????????? ????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? ? ????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???? ?????? ?? ?????????? ?????? ???????????????? ?????????????? ???????????????? ????? ????? ???? ??????????????????? ????????????? ??????? ???????????????????? ??????????????????????? ?????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? ??? ?????? ?? ?????????? ??????? ????????????????????? ?????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????? ????? ????? ??????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? ???????? ?????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???? ?????? ?? ?????????? ?????? ?????????????????????????????? ???? ? ?????????????? ??????????????? ????? ? ????????????????????????????????????? ? ????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? ? ???????????????? ? ??????????????????? ? ????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ??? OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 10 11/9/05 5:36:57 PM props a round, and that doesn?t happen here. I don?t think Nicolas Cage was carrying the props around for Windtalkers. JW: He did. BS: He did? Yeah? So what?s it been like working with stars in Hollywood and how different is it from working with Chow Yun- Fat in Hong Kong, or some of the other stars you worked with there? JW: Well, basically not much big differ - ence. First of all, I?ll say that when I?m working with my actors, I like to work with them as a friend before we start shooting. I like to spend some time with them, talk to my actors. I need to see how they feel about life and what their philosophy about the char - acter ? about everything ? is. And then also I love [to talk] to my friends. I need to find out what is his special qual - ity from him, and even what is the best camera angle for my actors. I also like to observe, I like to see some little movement from my actors. I am so much interested to hear their story. Chow Yun-Fat in The Killer he is betrayed by his good friend. And then I talk to him and [I] say, ?Is there any simi - lar situation happen in your life?? If he had [been] betrayed by good friend I want him to say what he did, and what he felt. Then he will tell me the story and then he tells me how he felt, and then I will encourage my actors to put their feelings into the scene. I even let them improvise the dialogue and let them say what they would say in their real life. I used it the same way with John Travolta and Nic Cage. After that con - versation, we don?t need to talk much on the set. It?s so funny when we were working with Nic Cage, especially in Windtalkers . Sometimes when he came on to the set after I get everything ready, he looked at me. I look at him, and then he look at me. ?Ready?? ?OK, let?s do it.? It?s just the eye contact for a few sec - onds. He knows what I want from him and I know what he wants. Then when I work with John Tra - volta . . . I believe the first take is the best take, and have never liked to take more than two takes in action or in drama. I remember when we work together in Face/Off, the first day there was a scene with John Travolta and Joan Allen. It was a pretty emotional scene. And after the first take I said, ?OK, good cut. Let?s move on.? He said to me, ?John, are you sure you?re happy with that?? ?Yeah, I?m really happy with that. It felt very natural, that?s what I want.? He said to me, ?John, they pay me a lot of money, you know, I don?t mind doing it 30 or 50 more times.? I said, ?I don?t care how much they pay you. It?s one take.? He was happy, so happy then. From that day they called me, ?One Take John.? OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 11 11/9/05 5:37:00 PM 12 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 .................. ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM PO Box 3346 Eugene OR 97403-0346 T (888) 863-4483 (541) 346-1676 F (541) 346-2052 I N T H I S U L T I M A T E T E S T of school spirit , the university with the most donors wins! I T T A K E S T H E W H O L E F L O C K . Y O U R G I F T will help us attract the best students, recruit top faculty, pr ovide world- class learning facilities and increase the prestige of the univ ersity in national rankings. E V E R Y G I F T helps push us to the top ? show your Duck pride and make your g ift today! Help us beat the Beavers in the Civil War Challenge. Make your gift now! ? Isupport.uoregon.edu w w w . c i v i l w a r c h a l l e n g e . o r g T HE C LASS OF 2009 From the Mindset List for the Class of 2009. Each year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, releases a list illuminating the worldview and expe - riences of eighteen-year-old freshmen class. Below are some of the items on this year?s list, compiled by Beloit?s Professor Tom McBride and Director of Public Affairs Ron Nief. A NDY W ARHOL , L IBERACE , J ACKIE Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead. They don?t remember when ?cut and paste? involved scissors. Heart-lung transplants have always been possible. Boston has been working on ?The Big Dig? all their lives. Pay-Per-View television has always been an option. Al-Qaida has always existed with Osama bin Laden at its head. Voice mail has always been available. The federal budget has always been more than a trillion dollars. Condoms have always been advertised on television. They have always had the right to burn the flag. Ferdinand Marcos has never been in charge of the Philippines. Money put in their savings account the year they were born earned almost 7 percent interest. American Motors has never existed. Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars. Southern fried chicken, prepared with a blend of eleven herbs and spices, has always been available in China. There has never been a ?fairness doc - trine? at the FCC. Aretha Franklin has always been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have grown up in a single super - power world. There has always been a pyramid in front of the Louvre in Paris. Snowboarding has always been a popu - lar winter pastime. The Hubble Space Telescope has always been focused on new frontiers. Digital cameras have always existed. Lyme disease has always been a ticking concern in the woods. Jimmy Carter has always been an elder statesman. America?s Funniest Home Videos has always been on television. Miss Piggy and Kermit have always dwelt in Disneyland. Saving for college may not be easy, but it helps if you have a plan. That?s why families all over Oregon are investing with the Oregon College Savings Plan . SM - i n v e s t o r s e n j o y t h e s e b e n e f i t s - S t a t e t a x d e d u c t i o n u p t o $ 2 0 0 0 p e r y e a r 1 Ta x - f r e e g r o w t h a n d w i t h d r a w a l s 2 U s e y o u r s a v i n g s a t s c h o o l s n a t i o n w i d e C a l l t o l l f r e e t o d a y f o r y o u r f r e e e n r o l l m e n t k i t . 1-866-772-8464 w w w . o r e g o n c o l l e g e s a v i n g s . c o m We have a plan for college. The Oregon College Savings Plan is administered by Oregon State Treasurer Randall Edwards. The Plan is managed by OppenheimerFunds, Inc., a registered investment advisor and distributed by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., a registered broker dealer. Some states offer favorable tax treatment to their residents only if they invest in the state's own plan. If you are not a resident of Oregon, you should consider whether your state offers its residents a 529 plan with alternative tax advantages. The tax bill exempting earnings on qualified withdrawals from Federal income taxes expires December 31, 2010, requiring Congress to take further action to extend those provisions beyond that date. Not FDIC insured nor guaranteed and may lose value. Prior to invest- ing, read the Plan Description and Participation Agreement for more information, including objectives, fees, expenses and risks. 1 Oregon state tax deduction for contribu - tions of up to $2000 per tax filing. 2 Tax-free withdrawals for qualified expenses. The Oregon College Savings Plan is distributed by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Member NASD, SIPC Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281-1008. OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 12 11/9/05 5:37:05 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 13 .................. ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM PO Box 3346 Eugene OR 97403-0346 T (888) 863-4483 (541) 346-1676 F (541) 346-2052 I N T H I S U L T I M A T E T E S T of school spirit , the university with the most donors wins! 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OQ3 currents WI05_04.indd 15 11/9/05 5:37:19 PM 16 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 It?s a party and a performance. It?s dancing in the street. It?s people who never imagined they could dance discovering great joy in moving with other people of all abilities. It?s the culmination of summer DanceAbility workshops at the UO. DanceAbility cofounder Alito Alessi of Eugene has con - ducted more than 100 workshops around the globe, opening a world of movement to people who are blind, deaf, autis - tic, missing limbs. An adaptation of what is called ?contact improvisational dance,? DanceAbility is a method that allows participants to engage in highly structured movements while leaving plenty of room for individual expression and interper - sonal communication. OQ4 features WI05.indd 16 11/10/05 1:39:39 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 17 or Alessi, who this year won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work, DanceAbility is less about creating art and dance than about personal trans - formation ? expanding participants? perceptions, awareness, and sense of possibility. In 1992, Alessi?s five-year-old DanceAbility proj - ect was drawing scores of participants from all over the world, proving so popular that he needed a bigger facil - ity to accommodate the program?s various workshops and instructional sessions. He turned to Jenifer Craig, the head of the University of Oregon Department of Dance. Alessi had worked with the UO in 1979, when the department hosted a summer residency by his Joint Forces dance company. ?That kicked off a great relationship,? Alessi says. For Craig, DanceAbility provides a uniquely valuable edu - cational experience that ?expands your perspective of dance. When you see someone who?s in a chair with severe cerebral palsy, who?s controlling everything with her head, and she?s dancing with a person working on an MFA [in dance] with full body ability, you learn so much ? why they find move - ment in dancing fulfilling or enriching or necessary,? she explains. ?It?s not therapy: it?s people of all abilities working together. Everyone?s learning from everyone else.? For the past two summers, the UO has hosted workshops that certify teachers in DanceAbility instruction, including three UO faculty members and a number of students. ?What was once a professional relationship,? Alessi says, ?has become a big family.? The summer workshops culminate in the down - town happening that photographer Michael Kevin Daly chanced upon this year. ?Chance should play a part in people seeing it,? Alessi explains. That way, everyone ? not just the dancers ? can expand their perceptions of what is dance, of what is possible. ? B RETT C AMPBELL MS ?96 Left: warming up at the Eugene Public Library, Lisa Wells, Stella Lastre, Pier Zonzin; Below: Lastre, Greg Vigil, Wells, and Alicia Bingley; Upper middle: dancing at the library caf?, Fernanda Amaral, Wendy Petersen, Tonya Rivera, and Zonzin; Lower middle: ?In or Out,? Rivera and Zonzin; Upper right: DanceAbility class participants, group circle inside the library. OQ4 features WI05.indd 17 11/10/05 1:39:50 PM 18 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 Upper left: Action Response Quartet lying down, Dan King, Chiara Corradin, Kathy Coleman, and Beate Danereder; Lower left: ?Fast, Slow, or Still,? Tim Cohort, Mary Bryan, Andra Bryan-Coberly, Stella Lastre, Greg Vigil, and Alicia Bingley; Upper center: ?Weaving the Web? at the Latino Market, Laura Hiszczynskyj and Vigil; Upper right: ?Constructive Support? at the Hult Plaza, class participants; Middle left: ?Mutual Support,? Lastre and King; Middle center: ?Sensation Relation,? Tonya Rivera, Shannon Knight, Jerry Maxwell, and Pier Zonzin; Lower center: ?Tango for Two? at Jacobs Gallery, Maxwell and Amaral; Lower right: ?Change? at the Latino Market, Shara Weaver, King, Liz Harrington, and the group. OQ4 features WI05.indd 18 11/10/05 1:40:01 PM OQ4 features WI05.indd 19 11/10/05 1:40:12 PM 20 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 vertical gain OQ4 features WI05.indd 20 11/10/05 1:40:19 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 2121 by kim stafford climbing everest in portland t here is much to take us down these days. Just open the paper. Turn on the news. It?s dark. Even the beauty of Oregon can be tarnished by strife, far and near. This year my nephew, Sam, has departed for college. What will sustain him? Books, athletics, friendship? I imagine him zipping to class on his skateboard, hungry for what is real. Then I remember: this string-pole of a boy accomplished last summer a feat beyond what is physically possible. He climbed Everest in a day. Sam and his friend Reed got to think - ing about vertical gain. What?s the greatest on Earth? Everest, of course ? at 29,028 feet in older records, and 29,026 feet today, this eroding pinnacle is yet the landmark. They got to thinking about that mountain. What would it be like to climb that far? Not from base camp, but from sea level. They got to looking at geographic websites, topo maps, and the hills of Portland. It turns out if one were to start at Chapman School on Northwest Twenty-fifth, and stride uphill through a maze of twisting streets to the Pittock Mansion ? cutting across a friendly lawn here and there ? that would be 780 feet of vertical gain. And 780 into 29,026 equals 37.2128 trips ? or ?laps,? as Sam and Reed came to call them. So . . . if you climbed this pitch thirty-eight times you would achieve the vertical equivalent of a hike from the Bay of Bengal to the top of Everest. A little over forty miles of steady walking to gain the summit. Why not? Twenty-four hours. Everest. They chose June 18th, and started at 6:30 P . M . at Chapman School, each with a Razor scooter slung over the shoulder. The first few laps were, well, easy, Sam says ? the heart-thumping climb, and the brake-squealing descent by scooter. t ell me a story, Reed, a long one.? Were they really able to talk as they climbed? ?We had to,? Sam said. ?Reed told me the whole story of his house burning when he was a kid ? the long version.? The sun climbed the sky. The boys climbed the mountain. Tap the Pittock Mansion?s lower gate . . . tag a goal post at Chapman. ?This is crazy.? ?We can?t stop.? ?I?ve got to lie down.? ?Don?t.? Neighbors came out at dusk to see what was making that screech. ?What the . . . !? Sam tried to shout an explanation as they sped by. But with just over thirty- eight minutes per lap, they needed every minute. By dusk, the scooter brakes were almost gone, the little wheels shredding, and Sam and Reed began a series of desperate cell-phone calls to friends as they trudged and scampered up the mountain. ?Do you have any wheels? Take ?em off your scooter ? or your in-line skates! We?ll replace ?em later. Just meet us at Chapman!? Like their own race-team pit-crew, they repaired their scooters while ascending the mountain, then rode the new wheels down, brakes squealing, shoes burning from the friction heat of their careening ? headlamps lighting up the pavement cracks they came to memorize. At 5 A . M . they paused to consume a batch of blueberry pancakes, their only real meal for the twenty-four hours. And then they headed up the mountain again, grabbing water from the hands of amazed family and friends. On the thirty-eighth ascent, they thought they would have to sprint. But gradually, striding the hilly streets, they realized that would not be necessary. ?Keep the pace.? At 6:25 the evening of June 19th, with five minutes to spare, they reached the lower gate at Pittock Mansion. Next day? ?Oh, a little sore. But it was Father?s Day. We went for a hike.? The last time I saw him, I looked at my nephew. Thin, long, glowing with life where he lounged on the couch, spinning out the story to his uncle. Where did those calories come from? How was this possible? There was nothing there but a boy. Kim Stafford ?71 MA ?73 Ph.D. ?79 is director of the Northwest Writing Institute and William Stafford Center at Lewis & Clark College. The author of numerous works of poetry and prose, Stafford?s most recent book is A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems . His last piece in Oregon Quarterly was ?Practicing to Be an Elder? (Spring 2002). ? Chris Michel OQ4 features WI05.indd 21 11/10/05 1:40:20 PM OQ4 features WI05.indd 22 11/10/05 1:40:24 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 23 b y C h r i s C u n n i n g h a m a n d P e t e P e t e r s o n R ON S CHRODT , CATERING CHEF , D OUG L ANG , CENTRAL KITCHEN CHEF , AND T IM P ERKINS , SOUS CHEF OQ4 features WI05.indd 23 11/10/05 1:40:34 PM O r e g o n f o o d p r o d u c t i o n ? b y t h e n u m b e r s O REGON ? S DISTINCT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS , microclimates, varied soils, and changing Pacific waters provide opportunities for abundant and diverse products. Consider the numbers. ? A GRICULTURAL INCOME , 2004: $4.1 billion, an all-time record ? $2.3 billion (56 percent) from edible products, $1.8 billion (almost 44 percent) from nonedible products ? O REGON FARMS : 40,000 farms (98 percent family-owned or -operated) ? C ENTURY FARMS AND RANCHES : 1,056 (continuously operating on the same land for 100 years or more) ? F ARM STANDS : 412 ? F ARMERS ? MARKETS : $22 million in sales ? C ATTLE AND CALF PRODUCTION : $503 million (about 800,000 head of beef cattle ? the state?s highest valued food commodity) ? M ILK : $363 million (2.3 billion pounds ? second-highest state food commodity) ? W HEAT : $201.6 million (56 million bushels) ? P OTATOES : $91 million (10 million tons ? ranked seventh in U.S. production) ? P EARS : $76 million (210,000 tons ? third in U.S.) ? O NIONS : $74.4 million (645,000 tons ? second in U.S.) ? H AZELNUTS : $53 million (36,800 tons ? first in U.S.) ? C HERRIES : $48 million (42,000 tons ? third in U.S.) ? E GGS : $47 million (783 million eggs) ? D UNGENESS CRAB : $43 million (27 million pounds ? second in U.S.) ? B LACKBERRIES : $33.4 million (46.9 million pounds ? first in U.S. production) ? G RAPES FOR WINE : $32.2 million (19,400 tons) ? M INT OIL : $29 million (2.1 million pounds ? spearmint and peppermint each rank second in total U.S. production) ? S WEET CORN : $28.2 million (260,300 tons) ? S ALMON : $12.9 million (5.9 million pounds) ? A LBACORE TUNA : $9 million (10.5 million pounds) ? CC AND PP Sources: Oregon Department of Agriculture; Oregon Agricultural Statistics Service; OSU Extension Service; Oregon Century Farms and Ranches Program. OQ4 features WI05.indd 24 11/10/05 1:40:42 PM w i l l be v u l nerable to insec ts nex t season. ?We? l l f lood or leave t he water on for t wo or t hree week s. That w i l l k i l l a ny bugs,? says Russel l, who t ries to ma nage pests w it h minima l impac t on t he env ironment. Most of t he Russel ls? v ines ? conta ined in t went y-nine sa ndy bogs ra ng ing f rom one to f ive acres ? a re t went y to t hir t y yea rs old. At ha r vest, t hree generat ions of t he Russel l cla n come toget her to f lood t he bogs a nd, w it h wooden booms, corra l t he berries t hat have f loated to t he top. The Russel ls t ruck t heir berries to ha n - d lers, or ?midd lemen,? who buy t hem a nd sel l to processors such as Ocea n Spray, Welch ?s, a nd Smucker?s. Russel l says juice processors desire Oregon?s cra nberries because of t he da rker f ruit a nd juice, t he resu lt of a g row ing season t hat lasts longer t ha n t hose in ot her cra nberr y-producing states such as Wisconsin, Massachuset ts, a nd New Jersey. The cra nberr y indust r y is sma l l a nd t herefore sensit ive to t he slig htest shif ts in supply a nd dema nd, Russel l says. Growers received $ 64 per ba rrel in 1998 but just $10 in 1999. The fol low ing yea r, t he Cra nberr y Commission ordered cuts in produc t ion, forcing fa rmers to dispose of 35 percent of t heir crops. The Russel ls t i l led t heir berr y ?waste? back into t he soi l ? for mu lch a nd to cont rol erosion. At f irst, ?I cried,? Russel l says. ?A l len just sta red. It was unbelievable t hat a whole yea r?s work was dow n t he dra in.? Yet t ime a nd ex perience seem to help t his fa mi ly keep such disappoint ments in perspec t ive. ?We a re proud of what we do,? Russel l says. A f r u i t f u l v a l l e y ? I N THE FERTILE H OOD R I V ER VA LLEY , COM - mercia l fa rmer Sa m Asa i watches a helicopter whirring overhead, t he dow n - draf ts f rom its blades pushing recent ra inwater of f his cherr y t rees. Sweet cherries a re a most delicate f ruit. If t he sun shines too soon af ter a ra in, t he wa rmed cherr y w i l l soa k up moisture a nd swel l. ?Twent y minutes of sunshine, a nd t he cherr y splits,? says Asa i, who a long w it h son A ron g rows cherr y, pea r, a nd apple t rees on 10 0 plent if u l acres. Helicopter-dr y ing is a relat ively new met hod a nd at $ 60 0 a n hour, doesn?t come cheap. However, it work s faster a nd bet ter t ha n g round dr y ing w it h a irblast spray - ers hinged to t rac tors. ?When you get to a point where you have $ 40,0 0 0 to $ 50,0 0 0 in g ross income, it probably pays to dr y cherries,? says Asa i, who, as a cer t if ied public accounta nt w it h a n MBA deg ree, k nows t he numbers. ?I consider it a not her operat ing ex pense.? Asa i at t ributes t his yea r?s spa rse cherr y crop to ?a lack of pol linat ion. . . . We rely on bees to cross-pol linate, a nd it was just too wet a nd cold. Our f ruit did n?t set.? Consequent ly, Asa i w i l l hire on ly a dozen laborers ? ma in ly f rom Mex ico ? to pick t he f ruit, instead of t he for t y or more he usua l ly hires. Cherr y season spa ns about t hree week s in Ju ly. Pea r season beg ins in Aug ust w it h Ba r t let ts a nd cont inues t hroug h November w it h w inter pea rs such as Bosc, Comice, a nd Red A njou. Even w it h t he United States? ex tended g row ing seasons, A rgent ina a nd Chi le a re st rong compet itors. Those t wo count ries now have g reater produc t ion capabi lit ies a nd sophist icated storage a nd pack ing faci lit ies. These adva ntages, a long w it h reg u la r sun lig ht, good soi l, a nd abun - da nce of water, a l low A rgent ina a nd Chi le to sel l t heir produce in t he United States most of t he yea r. ?Our w inter pea rs a re what [Oregon is] k now n for,? says Asa i, whose g ra ndpa rents emig rated f rom Japa n a nd sta r ted t he orcha rds in t he ea rly 190 0s. ?Mot her a nd fat her worked side-by-side in t he orcha rds. This is t heir legac y for me, a nd t his w i l l be so for my son.? The Asa i fa mi ly preser ves ma ny of t heir f ruits to enjoy later in such mout h-water - ing delicacies as delu xe cherr y pie. A c e n t u r y o f h a z e l n u t s ( f i l b e r t s ) ? T HE R ODA KOWSK I FA MILY SAVORS THE TE X - ture a nd subt le f lavor ha zel nuts g ive to so ma ny foods : smoked sa l mon in a lemon sauce, a r t ichoke a nd w i ld rice sa lad, g rat in of sweet potatoes, a nd even cra nberries at Tha n k sg iv ing, says Nena Roda kowsk i ?77 . ?A nd I roast a nd mince t hem as a topping w it h raw suga r on cobblers.? Her husba nd, Ga rr y, even eats ha zel - nuts g reen, li ke he did as a k id : ?They tend to be more mi l k y, li ke raw coconut, a nd crunchy.? A t hird-generat ion g rower, he ma nages t he Dorris Ra nch Orcha rd for t he Wi l la ma la ne Pa rk Dist ric t in Spring f ield, as wel l as a private eig ht y-acre spread in Mohawk a nd t he fa mi ly?s si x t y acres on t he McKenzie R iver. He st i l l ca l ls t he sma l l, lig ht-brow n, ha rd-shel led nuts by t heir old na me a nd f lat-out decla res t hat whi le Turkey pro - duces t he big qua nt it ies, ?Oregon f i lber ts a re t he best in t he world. They?re la rger in shel l a nd kernel si ze, a nd hig her in oi l t ha n Mediterra nea n a nd Eastern Europea n f i lber ts.? Ga rr y g rooms t he g round beneat h each t ree, fer t i li zes, prunes, a nd sprays to f ig ht worms a nd f i lber t blig ht, a disease t hat, unchecked, cou ld devastate t he indust r y. At t he Dorris Ra nch, sur vey ing t he a rch - ing columns of t he old Ba rcelona va riet y pla nted in 1905 as a commercia l crop, he WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 25 OQ4 features WI05.indd 25 11/10/05 1:41:05 PM 26 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 says w it h reverence, ?t hey?re ha rdy t rees? to which ha lf t he state?s 28,0 0 0 acres now in produc t ion t race t heir orig in. In Oc tober, when mature nuts fa l l f rom t he 2,50 0 f i lber t t rees on t he t hree orcha rds, Nena drives t he sweeper, pushing t he nuts by t he mi l lions into rows for t he ha r vester. ?I love t he daw n-to-dusk tea mwork of ha r vest t ime,? a nd ra ising sons Myles a nd Ada m nea r t he t rees, Nena says. ?There is not a bet ter playg round a ny where.? The Roda kowsk is wa nt t heir boys ?to get a good educat ion a nd prepa re to ma ke a liv ing f rom t he fa rm, work ing ha rd to f ig ht t he blig ht, insec ts, a nd world compe - t it ion, whi le enjoy ing t he peacef u l beaut y of t he orcha rd.? Because, says Ga rr y, ?The f i lber t is a n Oregon icon.? N i c h e m a r k e t s ? O R EGON ? S SM A LL FA R MS A R E A LWAYS EX PER I - menting. For examples, ?chestnuts, w i ld rice, f idd lehead ferns, wasabi, and specia lt y hops are among t he unique and possibly up-and-coming Oregon products,? says John Henr y Wel ls of t he Food Innovation Center in Por t land, an Oregon State Universit y and Oregon Depar tment of Agricu lture (ODA) program. If t hese crops seem odd, he says to remember t hat w ine g rapes sta r ted as a niche ma rket in t he 1970s. A nd, t hese days, Oregon Pinot Noirs a re receiv ing internat iona l at tent ion. The accolades don?t come as a sur prise to Ed K ing III MBA ?82, who founded t he K ing Estate Winer y in 1991 w it h fat her Ed K ing Jr. ?Our genera l ly cool climate ? a nd t he hot summer days fol lowed by cool nig hts ? is t he idea l env ironment,? K ing says. His 230 acres of v ineya rds nea r Lora ne in t he sout hern Wi l la met te Va l ley include Oregon va rieta ls, Doma ine Pinot Noir, a nd Pinot Gris. The v ineya rds a nd sur - rounding ga rdens a nd orcha rds a re cer t if ied orga nic. ?We see it as a responsibi lit y to fa rm susta inably a nd to be proponents of a resurgence of loca l food g rowers,? K ing says. ?We t hin k Oregon oug ht to have st rong loca l fa rm economies.? East of t he Cascades, nea r t he tow n of Red mond, a not her ent repreneur, Pierre Kolisch JD ?80, produces wheels of ha rd cheeses a nd spheres of sof t, herb-f lavored chev re on his goat fa rm. The former cor porate at torney lea rned old-world techniques from a master cheese- ma ker in Norma ndy a nd t hen g raduated f rom Eni lia (Nat iona l Food a nd Da ir y Col lege) in Polig ny, Fra nce. He?s one of just t hree reg istered goat- cheese ma kers in t he state who doesn?t buy mi l k f rom a n outside source. He relies on his ow n herd of 120 goats for da i ly cheese produc t ion. The cheeses disappear quickly in farm - ers? markets and at better groceries and restaurants across the countr y. ?We are just able to meet the growing demand from our regular customers with the planned growth of our business,? Kolisch says. A nd buf fa lo now roa m t he state?s g rass - la nds a nd t he Internet. From Big Va l ley Buf fa lo in Eastern Oregon?s Jorda n Va l ley, Sa ra a nd Pau l Neiberg sel l rib eye, sta nd - ing rib roasts, chuck, a nd ha mburger to hig h-end ma rkets a nd restaura nts, a nd ma inta in robust sa les on line. They promote buf fa lo?s lea n meat for its hig h iron, protein, a nd potassium levels, a nd lower cholesterol levels t ha n beef, t he long-t ime sy mbol of Oregon ra ngela nds. The Neibergs believe t hat buf fa lo w i l l be a susta inable Oregon venture ? because t hey don?t t ra mple river ba n k s a nd water - ing holes li ke cat t le. A nd t hey don?t g ra ze g rass dow n to t he g round.? Such compet it ive at t itudes a nd pio - neering spirit a re necessa r y to create a nd incubate new ma rkets. According to ODA economist Brent Sea rle, 20 04 was a record-brea k ing yea r for fa rmers, ra nchers, v int ners, a nd f ishermen a nd -women, who gave us ?sumptuous produc ts t hat decorate t he la ndscape, ta nta li ze our pa lates, a nd diversif y our economy.? Oregon?s food producers a re adopt ing business a nd science techniques to susta in t his v igorous ag ricu ltura l economy ? a nd t hey?re in it for t he long hau l. Chris Cunningham ?76 MS ?80 is a Eugene writer. Her last feature for Oregon Qua r terly was ?A Mountain with a Vie w? (Summer 20 04) . Pete Peterson MFA ?68 MS ?77 is also a Eugene writer ? and mar - ried to Cunningham . His last feature for this magazine was ?Track s T hrough the Outback ? (Winter 20 03) . A n o t h e r O r e g o n D r e a m M e n u P ER HAPS YOU CR AVE HEART Y FAR E FOR YOUR GUESTS THIS EVENING ? Let ?s begin with Yaquina Bay oysters on the half-shell and a three-pepper champagne vinaigret te, paired with Willamet te Valley Riesling. For soup, may we sug gest hubbard squash bisque with Oregon bleu cheese cr?me fra?che and Willamet te Valley Chardonnay. A cranberry-apple sorbet will cleanse the palate nicely before the entr?e. Now the pi?ce de r?sistance ? succu - lent buf falo or beef prime rib with a light morel mushroom sauce, hazelnut?sweet potato croquet tes nestling with braised emerald-green chard, and golden oven- roasted turnips ? their contrasting colors lustrous like a still-life composi - tion. Simply delectable. Grif f in Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is a well-matched and robust companion. The chefs sug gest leaving room for smoked Oregon steelhead salad with endive, pears, and mustard seed vinai - gret te. Mingle these f lavors with King Estate Pinot Gris. Dessert is decadent indeed : Try just a smidgen of dense chocolate-cherry truf f le torte alongside a brandied pear upside- down cake, and savor the last bites with Belle Vallee Pinot Noir Port. Ed King of King Estate says, ?Forget wine rule books ? drink what you like. Sure, you will f ind that some of the heavier, oakier wines like to match up with heavier, grilled meats and that some lighter wines pair up well with more deli - cate dishes. I like to say : ?Drink what you like, and like what you drink ? and don?t make it more dif f icult than that.? Voila ! ? CC A ND PP OQ4 features WI05.indd 26 11/10/05 1:41:13 PM I Repai r by Design by Li n d a B a ke r p h otos by M i c h a e l O lfe rt Sunnyside Piazza, an intersection repair at the corner of Southeast Thirty-third Avenue and Yamhill Street launched in 2001, features a painting of a sunflower. M a r k La ke m a n la u n c h e s a m ove m e nt w i t h a ci rcle of c h a l k WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 27 OQ4 features WI05.indd 27 11/10/05 1:41:30 PM 28 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 ince that epiphany in the rain forest, Lakeman has been in Portland ? a city nationally recognized for com - munity activism and placing a high value on public spaces ? trying to bring to life his newfound notion of what makes communities work. He is the principal of a design-build firm, Communitecture, and is the cofounder of the City Repair Project, a local non - profit that has helped create more than a dozen neighborhood gathering places and sponsors an annual, ten-day natural building extravaganza, Village Building Convergence. Over the past few years, Lakeman?s projects have garnered widespread acclaim. Among the most notable are a stunning remodel of Portland?s Rebuilding Center incorporating hundreds of reclaimed windows, com - pleted last June, and the master plan for Dignity Village, Portland?s tent city for homeless people, which has earned international renown as an ecological village. He has become a sought-after speaker on community building and civic engagement, and last year won the endorsement of several neighbor - hood groups and mayoral candidate Tom Potter in an unsuccessful bid for city council. ? both professionally and personally ? has not always been so focused. In fact, for a man enamored of Joseph Campbell and patterns of the collective unconscious, Lakeman is something of an archetype himself ? the prodigal son. Today, he is a living example of the power of the transfor - mation he preaches: the potential of grass-roots activism and design to reinvigorate individuals and the communities they inhabit. ?For a time I felt such a sense of separateness; I couldn?t see how to move forward,? says Lakeman, who once contemplated committing suicide by jumping off the Sellwood Bridge. ?Now, I?m swimming in rewarding action, creative challenges, and I feel a very strong sense of direction.? Lakeman is the son of Richard Lakeman, a founder of the Portland Planning Commission and one of the forces behind the creation of two semi - nal public spaces, Waterfront Park and Pioneer Square. His mother is Sandra Lakeman M.Arch. ?77, a designer and architectural historian with a special interest in light and public space. ?In my family there was no sense of limits,? says Mark Lakeman. ?Not in the sense of entitlement but of possibility ? the ethic that humans can do anything. They imparted that sensibility to me and gave me a sense of direction around service.? But by his own account, Lakeman didn?t find an outlet for these aspirations until he was in his thirties. He spent his twenties oscillating between depression, despair, and ?total disengagement.? At one point at the University of Oregon, he was called before a special advisory committee to discuss subpar academic performance. ?It was utterly humiliating, like being naked in front of a group of people,? Lakeman recalls. But he also had his moments of inspiration at the UO, particularly from Professors John Reynolds, for his ?brilliance and dedication,? and Leland Roth, for his ?ability to make history a great story.? Reynolds, for his part, remembers Lakeman as a ?bright and creative? student. Following graduation, Lakeman worked for several years at two Portland architecture fir ms but left after real - izing he wasn?t a good fit for cor porate culture. For the next seven years, he supported himself with odd jobs and traveled widely, including a trip wit h his mot her to study pia zza s in Italia n hill tow ns, a venture t hat led to his illustrating his mot her?s book, Natural Light an d th e It alian Piazza . He capped his wa nderings wit h t he trip to Naja, where he says he wa s str uck by t he ?open-ended a nd communal nature? of village life. ?My parents had taught me that through design you could directly trans - form the world,? says Lakeman. ?But in education and practice, the spectrum of investigation is terribly limited. Then when I got to indigenous cultures, I saw that planning was a conversation that goes on and on, one that?s unmade and remade endlessly. You don?t isolate design from society to get something you call architecture. It was something everyone was participating in.? Lakeman ? s life S OQ4 features WI05.indd 28 11/10/05 1:41:50 PM returned to Portland, he put to work the insight he gained in Naja by building ? at first alone and then joined by others ? a variation on an indigenous meetinghouse, fashioned from recycled mate - rials, tree branches, and plastic sheeting. Eventually sited on a corner in Lakeman?s Sellwood neighborhood, the ?Moon-Day T-Hows? dispensed free tea and dessert every Monday evening ? first to dozens of neighbors, then, as word spread, to more than 100 people from around the city. ?The T-Hows was literally taking that ethic of creating a place and people will come,? Lakeman says. ?But I wasn?t building a T-Hows. I was building a catalyst, the potential for people to con - verge, to care. I knew if we kept focusing on that energy and potential, it would be self-propelling.? And it was. After the T-Hows was dismantled in 1996, more than thirty Sellwood residents took to the street, painting the intersection at Southeast Sherrett Street and Ninth Avenue with a colorful trompe l?oeil crossroads design. Twenty years earlier, Portland activ - ists had painted the top of a downtown parking garage ? a piece of art that eventually led to the dismantling of the parking garage and the creation of Pioneer Square, one of the best-known public places in the country. ?We took the same concept and applied it to neighborhoods,? says Lakeman, who struck the first blow by drawing a circle in chalk connecting all four corners of the intersection ? ?painting in order to take space and make place.? The city?s reaction catapulted Lakeman and his cohorts into the public eye. Officials tried to fine neighbors for violating city code and demanded residents strip the paint. ?That?s public space. Nobody can use it,? one staff person famously said. But the neighbors prevailed, and Lakeman presented a defense of the project to aides of City Councilors Charlie Hales and Gretchen Kafoury. City council staff members were so taken ?with Mark?s enthusiasm and sales ability,? says Hales, now a transportation consultant, that Lakeman didn?t need to finish the presentation. The city granted an exemption for the Sellwood project, and in 2000 passed an ?intersection repair? ordinance permitting residents to turn neighborhood intersections into public gathering places. Around the same time, with the goal of inspir - ing intersection repairs around the city, Lakeman cofounded City Repair with Saskia Dresler, Charla Chamberlain, and Daniel Lerch. ?At first, the bureaucracy didn?t know what to think of Mark,? Hales says. ?But one of the striking things about City Repair is the level of community partici - pation it inspires. Now they think he?s on to something.? Since that first paint job, Sellwood residents have created structures on all four corners of the intersection, including a solar-powered teahouse, a children?s playhouse, a lending bookcase, an information kiosk, and, most recently, a bench fashioned out of cob, a natu - ral building material. Share-It Square, as the intersection was dubbed, won the 1997 People?s Choice Award from the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and it was cited by Portland State University professors in the 2004 book The Portland Edge as a prominent example of the community activism that marks Portland?s history. button-down shirt and black slacks, Lakeman speaks to the City Club in downtown Portland. A group of about twenty people listen, rapt, as he delivers a wide-ranging critique of the layout of American cities and the urgent need for citizen involvement in neighborhoods. ?What we?re after is the demos ,? explains the eloquent and charismatic Lakeman. ?People engaged in their place.? His talk revolves around the ?grid? system that governs most American cities, in which rows of streets are laid out at right angles. According to Lakeman, intersecting parallel streets limit the possibility of community gath - ering spaces. ?The grid is the antithesis of democracy. It is about empire and patriarchy driven by a few people who actually have the audacity to impose macropatterns on other people. ?I look at the grid, and whether you?re talking about the Syrians, the Romans, the Babylonians, or the Americans, this is a policy-driven landscape, not par - ticipatory,? says Lakeman. ?The social isolation in the United States is perhaps the most intense in world history, and that has to do with the lack of public gathering spaces,? he says, project - ing contrasting images of indigenous WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 29 From left: The Rebuilding Center on North Mississippi Avenue; a dome at Dignity Village, a tent city for homeless people; T-Station at Share-It Square, Southeast Sherret Street and Ninth Avenue; Memorial Lifehouse, Southeast Thirty-seventh Avenue and Taylor Street. WhenLakeman Dressedin a white ?You don?t isolate design from society to get something you call architectu re. It was something everyone was partici pating in.? OQ4 features WI05.indd 29 11/10/05 1:42:17 PM 30 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 villages, European piazzas, and fast food- dominated suburban landscapes. Then he shows a series of intersection repair photos. ?City Repair says let?s just do a layer and transpose a few catalytic points, as if we were acupuncturists, onto the body of the grid. We don?t know where they need to go, but the social capacity will call out for assistance and we will go.? When he?s done, a woman raises her hand to comment and says, ?You?re an amazing, beautiful, and idealistic young man.? seven intersection repairs in Portland neighborhoods. Other public spaces inspired by the organization include a poetry garden, a solar-powered light - house with a shrine dedicated to an eighteen-year-old cyclist killed by a car, and a red labyrinth painted in the middle of an intersection with herbs planted on the corners. These designs, Lakeman explains, serve as a counter - point to Portland?s big infrastructure projects such as the revitalization of the Pearl District and the plans to add light rail to the transit mall. ?For the last couple of decades, Portlanders have learned that they can not only be heard but can also undertake initiatives that directly transform their environment,? he says. ?City Repair kind of takes the conversation and really focuses it in neighborhoods, not just downtown but where people live.? Lakeman was called ?one of the city?s most gifted designers,? by Oregonian architecture critic Randy Gragg in an article last June. But as Lakeman has moved into the mainstream, he has picked up his share of detractors, too. His claim that architects are removed from the communities they serve has alienated some local practitioners, including one prominent Portland architect who said he?d prefer not to comment for this article. Some plan - ners also temper Lakeman?s overarching critique of the grid with a firm reminder that the system has value in establishing a sense of place and ameliorating the dominant effect automobiles can have on landscapes. ?One aspect of a regular grid is that it is a connected network, and a connected network of pathways is critical to making walking work in cities,? says Ellen Vanderslice, a planner with the Portland Office of Transportation and founder of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition. ?Too often in this country the alternative to the grid is the disconnected suburban street plan of cul-de-sacs and oversub - scribed arterials.? Lakeman?s public profile has also generated some internal resentment in City Repair, an all-volunteer organiza - tion that tries to practice the democratic principles it preaches. ?Mark?s got such a magnetic quality that sometimes people think Mark Lakeman is City Repair, when actually a lot of other people are involved in the process,? says Lisa Libby, a graduate student in urban planning who is facilitating an intersection repair project in North Portland, City Repair?s first partnership with the Portland Development Commission. For his part, Lakeman says he views himself as the ?underseer? of City Repair. ?But to me, all we are doing is a continuation of work that is actually very old,? he says. ?So, I don?t like to take credit for it.? lives communally with his sister and two close friends in Sellwood and met his current partner, natural builder Lydia Dolman, while planning a straw- bale structure for Dignity Village. Last spring, Lakeman spent several weeks at Sunnyside Park in southeast Portland building a variant of the T-Hows called the T-Whale, which was intended to launch the 2005 Village Building Convergence. He arrived every day in a Datsun truck, fueled by biodiesel, and hammered nails as curious students from Sunnyside Environmental School looked on. ?Mark has this incredible energy and work ethic,? notes John Black, a neighbor who had worked with him on Share-It Square. But after some community members complained that the T-Whale attracted homeless people and made it harder for daycare providers to keep children in sight, Lakeman was forced to take it down prematurely. ?People are so acclimated to isolation,? he says. ?City Repair people know this going in. They know some people will be upset and they?ll defend their right to isolation to the death. They are literally acculturated to being separate.? It?s a familiar challenge to Lakeman. His parents divorced when he was in the third grade, and Lakeman says they have not been on speaking terms for many years. ?I?ve thought about that paradox a lot,? he says. ?They?re two activists, talk - ing about the public commons so people can communicate. A big part of my drive to create ways for people to come together is so I can figure out some way, so I can engender enough will, for my parents to interact.? So what does his father, who recently retired from private practice, think about his once aimless son? ?He?s getting it now,? says the younger Lakeman. ?It took him a long time because at first I wasn?t making any money. I?d say: ?Dad, it?s about social capital. I?m rich. The money is going to come.?? Linda Baker is a freelance journalist who lives in Portland. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times , Vogue , and Salon . Her last piece for this magazine was ?In Search of a Black Community? in the Winter 2004 issue. Lakeman , now forty-four , There are now Lakeman in front of the Rebulding Center OQ4 features WI05.indd 30 11/10/05 1:42:27 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 31 ????????????? ??????? ????????? ????????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????? ????? ????????? ??????????? ??? ??????????????????? ???? ? ? ? ??? ?? ? ???? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???????? ???? ????? ????????????? ?????????? ? ? ?????? ?????? ??????? ?????????? ??? ??????? ????????? ? ? ????? ??????? ?? ??? ?????? ??? ? ????????? ?????????? ???????? ??? ?? ???????? ????????? ????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ? ? ??????? ???????? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? ???? ???? ??????? ???? ? ????? ? ???? ?????????? ? ?? ? ? ???? ? ?? ? ??? ???? ??????????? ??? ???????? ???????? ???????????? ??? ???? ???????? ??????? ?????????? ????????????? ?????? ????????? ???????? ??????? ???????? ?????? ????? ??????? ???? ??????????? ??????? ??? ???????????? ??????? ???? ????? ????? ??????????? ??????????? ???? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??? ???? ???????? ??????? ?? ???? ?????? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ??????? ??? ?? ??? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ?? ? ?? ? ?????? ??????? ???? ? ??????? ?????? ? ???? ? ?????? ??????? ???? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ?? ? ?????? ??????? ???? ? ??????? ??????? ???? ? ?????? ??????? ??? ??????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????? ????????????????????????????? ????????????????????? OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 31 11/9/05 5:44:18 PM 32 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 CONSTRUCTION A C AMPUS T RANSFORMED I N THE PAST TWO DECADES , THE UO has planned and completed more than 2.4 million square feet of building and renovation, with a total project cost of almost $400 million, including the $89.7 million expansion of Autzen Stadium in 2003. Chris Ramey ?81 has guided much of this change. Director of University Plan - ning since 1992, Ramey is responsible for all major campus renovation and construction projects during the design phase. ?The way that we do our planning is unusual for the high degree that we involve users in the decision-making pro - cess,? says Ramey. Each project includes a user group of around ten faculty and staff members led by a UO project plan - ner; the group is charged with making nearly every decision about the building project, from hiring the architectural firm to choosing doorknobs and plumb - ing fixtures. Making users active participants in planning mirrors the UO?s ethic of fac - ulty governance and shared leadership responsibility, says Ramey. ?Time and time again we?ve seen that really good decisions result from dispersing control down that far in the decision-making chain.? The character of the campus ? lush open spaces, mature landscaping, and carefully detailed buildings ? doesn?t happen by accident. It is the end result of the UO?s inclusive design process. Those large green areas are not only beauti - ful, they also provide access to nature, sunlight, and pleasant walkways between buildings. ?They allow almost 30,000 students, staff, and faculty to co-inhabit a rather small 295-acre site on a daily basis,? says Ramey. That classic campus look and feel is also a factor for many potential students considering various schools to attend ? a subtle but effective recruiting tool. Back in the Sixties and Seventies, design trends leaned toward creating a more traditional urban landscape ? densely packed groups of buildings with nearby parking lots ? and the UO was in danger of succumbing to the stark panoramas of the era. ?The project that really turned the tide was the science facilities project [in the mid-Eighties],? says Ramey, noting that the inclusion of courtyards, benches, and artwork around those buildings went a long way towards reinstituting a campus-like feel. ?A lot of UNIVE RSIT Y NEWS AND PEOPLE OF THE UO S NAPSHOT OF CHANGE Since 1986 the UO campus has undergone an unprecedented transformation ? with more improvements planned for the not-too-distant future. This map presents an overview of the changes and identifies individual projects. For a detailed interactive campus map, go to http://www.uoregon.edu/maps.shtml. Inset and main map drawn to different scales. InfoGraphics Lab, UO Department of Geography OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 32 11/9/05 5:44:20 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 33 that is a direct result of users participat - ing in the process,? says Ramey. ?Show - ing them how the campus could be, then listening to what they say and allowing them to do the work.? Ramey and his staf f have a busy year ahead of them. The Oregon leg - islature recently approved $26.65 mil - lion in general obligation bonds for UO capital constr uction projects. The bond proceeds will provide significant funding for three projects identified in Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives, the University?s $600 million fundrais - ing campaig n. Pla nning sessions are scheduled for the UO College of Educa - tion building and complex, the James F. Miller Theater Complex project, and the renovation of Gilbert and Peterson Halls at the Charles H. Lundquist Col - lege of Business. Other cur rent projects include additions and alterations to the UO School of Music and Dance and new constr uction for both the Oregon Na noscience a nd Microtech nologies Institute (ONAMI) a nd the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. Ramey?s office recently landed a $190,000 grant from the Getty Foun - dation to develop a campus heritage landscape plan. Part of the grant is for a cultural resource survey, which will provide information useful in develop - ing guidelines for the preservation of the UO?s historic open spaces, as well as assuring their inclusion in future campus development. Fostering a sense of stewardship in the campus community ?is one very rewarding aspect of what we are doing here,? says Ramey. ?It?s great to see that the users who are charged with making these decisions understand that the cam - pus must be maintained as a whole and continually developed. And they really put an emphasis on that as they develop their projects.? ? K ATHERINE G RIES ?05 LIFELONG LEARNING 20/20 I NSIGHT Wit h g r a dua t io n, t he l if e o f w r it ing papers, thinking deep thoughts, and pre - paring for the next exam often fades, giving way to the realities of student loan payments, mortgages, and health insurance. ?Grown-up? commitments to work and family drain time and energy from the pleasures of contemplation and exploration. But why should education end just as we become adult and have more experi - ence to give additional depth to learning? The question has been on the mind of Jim Earl, UO professor of English, for a long time. Similar questions had swirled in the head of Russ Carpenter, a Vida resident who had long envisioned creating a kind of educational bridge between the Uni - versity and the city. The two men met a few years ago, and on discovering their shared interests, asked a group of friends to meet and discuss what they?d want from an ?adult university.? This group Jim Earl interacting with Insight Seminar participants. Jack Liu ??????????????????????????????????????? ??????? ????????????? ????????????????????????? ?????????????? ????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ?????? ???????? S e a s o n ? s G r e e t i n g s f r o m t h e OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 33 11/9/05 5:44:21 PM 34 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 planted the seeds for the Insight Seminars and crafted a mission statement. ?In middle life the questions a ddressed by the humanities take on a new reality. Our society offers little guidance for this stage of life, though other cultures consider it a time for thinking and writing, wisdom and understanding, and coming to g rips with ultimate questions. This is when we should make time for philosophy, literature, history, relig ion, art and music ? even language study, which exercises the mind! Anyone can dabble in these without a university; but there?s no comparison between the random rea ding most people do and the sort of experience a university can provide: the joys of real study and deep learning, with a g roup of motivated peers, facilitated by experts you can respect.? The group also developed a list of the kind of topics suitable for the seminars, titles such as Understanding Islam, The Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi, The Life of the Mind, Romancing the West, Life Writing, War and Peace, and The Cul - ture of Tolerance. Next year marks the third annual series, and about 250 people have taken the classes. The seminars have earned rave reviews from attendees. In The Culture of Tolerance seminar, students read The Ornament of the World, the surprise 2002 bestseller about how Christians, Muslims, and Jews cooperated in Medieval Spain. Some seminar members grew so absorbed in the subject they created their own class field trip ? to Cordoba, Spain. Bobbye Sorrels taught business ad- ministration for thirty-two years, with her final five years of teaching at the UO. She?s taken several Insight Seminars ? Life Writing, The Art of Reading, and the recent War and Peace series. ?To articulate the full benefit derived from the seminars is impossible,? she says. Without the worries of exams and grades, she could do more thinking, more intro - spective challenging, and more compara - tive analysis. And think new thoughts. The series on war and peace, for example, spurred her toward unsettling self-reflec - tion and a fresh examination of values. C OLLEGE IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG , according to Phyllis Kerns ?44, AKA the eternal student. Earning her undergraduate degree at the UO and an MA at Yale in 1950 was only the start of Kerns?s college education. Since then she?s taken over 500 hours of classes, including 193 hours at the UO. Here?s a partial list of her UO course menu: Advanced Dramatic Screenwriting, Elementary Sculpture, Russian Film and Literature, Cause and Prevention of War, Poets of the Northwest, Advanced Creative Writ - ing, Basic 3D Design, Great Russian Writers, History of Theater, Cinemagraphics, Avant Garde Theater, Semi - nars on Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Producing New Plays , Asian Theater, Women Directors, Film Directors and Genre, Play Direction, Play Writing, and the History of Motion Pictures. Maybe her love of education is genetic. Great-grandfather George Collier was one of the first five professors at the UO ? a building in the heart of campus, Collier House, was his home. Forty-six of his descen - dants are UO alumni. Kerns?s college education, now in its seventh decade, is continuing this fall with a course in digital video editing. ? SM UNIVERSITY ???????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????????? ? ? ????????????????????? ?????????????????? ????????????????????? T HE E TERNAL S TUDENT Ben Kerns Photography OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 34 11/9/05 5:44:22 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 35 ?I finally accepted a reality that had remained unformed until the readings made it congeal to me with a thud: War is the norm and peace is the aberration,? she notes. The concept of adult education is nothing new, as the abundance of adult education courses available through the UO, community colleges, and numerous other programs attests. Sue Keene M.Mus. ?72 of Eugene, a prominent advocate for the arts, has tried many adult education programs. She finds the programs? differ - ing approaches to education provide a variety of results, all valuable. While she enjoys the lecture formats used in some other programs, she finds Insight Seminars ?different in that we prepare ahead, listen to experts, and discuss the topic at round tables in a true seminar fashion. Because your mind?s engaged in many different ways (read - ing, viewing, discussing, and listening) over a month, there?s more participatory involvement ? and greater take away.? ? S COTT M AC W ILLIAMS 2006 SEMINARS FOCUS ON ?ANCIENT WISDOM ? T HE UPCOMING 2006 I NSIGHT Seminars will explore wisdom as it has come down to us through the spiritual and cultural knowledge of some of histor y?s great societies and deep thinkers. D E C E M B E R 1 0 The Art of Reading J A N U A R Y 7 , 1 4 , 2 1 , 2 8 Wisdom in Greece (Socrates, Plato) F E B R U A R Y 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 Wisdom in Israel (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes) M A R C H 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 Wisdom in India (Dharma, Karma) A P R I L 1 , 8 , 2 2 , 2 9 Wisdom in China (Confucius, The Tao) M AY 6 , 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 Wisdom in Japan (The Zen masters) J U N E 3 , 1 0 , 1 7 , 2 4 Wisdom in America (Emerson, Thoreau) For more information call (541) 346-3475 or go to http://uoinsight.uoregon.edu. Declar e your devotion to the Ducks while y ou fund academic scholarships. ( Warning : May induce nostalgia, chest-thumping pride and constant whistling of the fight song.) Who are you rooting for this season? Visit us at uoalumni.com for details. License plate illustrated for promotional purposes only. Vanity plates not available. OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 35 11/9/05 5:44:24 PM 36 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 MU SIC AND MEMORY L IGHT INTO A SHES INTO L IGHT U NIVERSITY OF O REGON P ROFESSOR OF Composition Robert Kyr presented the score of his tenth symphony, ?Ah Naga - saki: Ashes into Light? to representatives of the city of Nagasaki at a ceremony on August 10. At the event, which commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, a chorus of Japanese and American singers performed the world premiere of ?Living Peace,? an eight-minute a cappella por - tion of the larger piece. Kyr developed text for the symphony in collaboration with renowned Japa - nese writer Kazuaki Tanahashi. Kyr and Tanahashi visited Nagasaki in November 2004 to talk with survivors and ?absorb the soundscape and sights at ground zero,? says Kyr. The first of the symphony?s three movements is titled ?Light into Ashes,? and evokes August 9, 1945, the day of the bombing. The second movement, ?Lament,? features various forms of Japa - nese chanting and taiko drumming. The final movement, ?Ashes into Light,? emphasizes healing and peacemaking, with the merging of two choruses, previ - ously separate, into a single ensemble. The work, commissioned by the Nagasaki Peace Museum, is unique in NEWS IN BRIEF TEACHING CHINESE The UO Center for Applied Second Language Studies and Por tland Public Schools received a $700,000 National Security Education Program grant to jointly oversee the first National Flagship Language Initiative Chinese language program. The grant will help develop a national model for a compre - hensive kindergar ten through college Chinese program. WHEN PHYSICISTS COLLIDE The UO is one of twenty-four col - laborating universities that received a total of about $800,000 in federal grants to suppor t preliminar y work on the Inter national Linear Collider, a ?big science? project that will shed light on questions such as the existence of extra dimensions beyond space and time. Physics professor Jim Brau, who directs the UO Center for High Energy Physics, ser ves as principal investigator on the collaborative project, scheduled for completion in 2015 at a site yet to be deter mined. TOWARD CLEANER AIR Two consor tia led by the University of Oregon and Har vard University School of Public Health have received nearly $2 million from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aerospace Medicine to study possible links between aircraft air quality and employee health. ROSE CITY MBA The Oregon Executive MBA degree program operated by the UO, OSU, and PSU will move to the 200 Market Place building in downtown Por tland late this year. The new quar ters will house the Oregon Business Institute, a cooperative new initiative between the three state business schools. FROHNMAYER NAMED TO INTERNET2 BOARD Dave Frohnmayer has been named to the board of trustees of Inter net2, a consor tium of more than 200 U.S. uni - versities. Inter net2 works with industr y and gover nment to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education. UNIVERSITY F EAR R ULED Smithsonian magazine?s August issue commemorated the end of World War II by printing the memories and experiences of people who lived through those tumultuous days, including this contribution from Dr. Yasuo Ishida ?58. I N SPRING 1945, OUR FAMILY EVACUATED FROM T OKYO TO T OYAMA , SOME 150 miles to the northwest. Two weeks later, another daily air raid, with incendiary bombs, turned the Ginza District, in downtown Tokyo, into piles of debris and dead bodies. That summer I turned fourteen. Soon, the newspaper reported the total destruction of Hiroshima. The enemy had deployed a new type of bomb, an official report said. Rumors were that only one plane and one bomb had done the damage. Why so much destruction from a single bomb? Why was it not challenged by our fighters? We were doubly afraid. Then Nagasaki was struck to the same horrible degree. Is this the end for us? Fear ruled. Then a notice went around: the emperor will address the nation over the radio at noon on August 15. Be sure to listen. He spoke haltingly in an obscure, courtly way, but the message was obvious ? the war was over, no more fighting. This meant that: 1. I no longer had to work in a factory, 2. I could go back to school full-time, and 3. We didn?t have to shade the light any longer. My school building had been destroyed. A dormitory for former factory workers served as a temporary facility. There was no heat or air condition - ing. The next several years were very bleak. Food and fuel were scarce. My father died from pneumonia in 1945. In 1947, I quit school and started working at a U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka. I was the sole wage earner for a family of six. I returned to school, taking night classes from 6 P . M . to 10 P . M . , Monday through Saturday. In 1954, angels smiled on me, and I enrolled at the University of Oregon. I cannot thank enough the generosity of the late George and Edith Woodrich and the state of Oregon for four years of scholarship. Ishida has established the Woodrich Memorial Scholarship to help deserving students at the UO. OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 36 11/9/05 5:44:25 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 37 the world of symphonic music because of the way it interweaves English and Japanese text and blends Western and Japanese musical instruments and styles. ?Every aspect of the work is intercul - tural,? Kyr says, ?In about two years the full symphony will receive its premiere by a variety of Japanese and American ensembles that will give performances in both Japan and the United States. It will truly be a journey of reconciliation.? Since Kyr joined the Oregon fac - ulty in 1990, he has received numer - ous inter national awards, grants, and composer-in-residence appointments at universities and festivals worldwide. Pres - tigious ensembles routinely perform and record his music. N EW H OMEPAGE W ELCOMES V ISITORS The University of Oregon introduced a new homepage this fall, designed to help all visitors find what they need easily. The UO homepage gets about half-a-million hits per week, and 56 percent of these clicks come from off the UO campus. Navig atio n li n ks provide quick access to campus of fices, events, people, and other information. The new Maps and Directions page includes an interactive campus map. User g r ou p head i ngs lead to pages with clusters of links most likely to be of interest to various kinds of visitors. For example, the Alumni page includes prominent links to the Alumni Association , a new page called Eug ene and Local Area , and the Care er C enter . Key li n ks provide quick access to impor tant information and are especially helpful to students interested in at tending the UO. About the UO is a new page of facts, figures, statistics, histor y, and more. Featu r es tell stories about the people and the programs that give the UO its par ticular strengths in teaching, research, and ser vice to the state, region, and the world. News a n d events columns spread the word about what ?s happening at the UO. The UO is still working to fine -tune the homepage and the rest of its website. Click on the feedback link on the bot tom of the page to send comments or suggestions. Robert Kyr (right) conducting singers in practice session of ?Ah Nagasaki.? Jennifer Brinkman / Brinkman Photography OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 37 11/9/05 5:44:27 PM 38 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 F OR J OSHUA R OERING , AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES , THE most engaging laboratory is the natural world. He uses this lab with his upper- division students at Field Camp, a six-week research ?boot camp? that serves as a rite of passage for beginning geologists. Students camp and conduct research among the sagebrush, scorpions, and jackrabbits in the arid high deserts of Eastern Oregon. Although the work is sometimes grueling, Roering says, it?s ?about the doing, [about] giving the students the initial tools ? tape measures, data requirements ? and watching them make the little tiny decisions to get data that tell a story.? While experiencing malfunctioning equipment, bad weather, and hostile terrain, students learn important lessons about the differ - ence between ideal laboratory conditions and real fieldwork, ?It?s messy in the field,? says Roering. ?Research papers only show how the measurements and tri - als worked out in the best case scenario.? Students return from the wilderness as field-tested researchers, empowered with their own hard-earned experiences. Even in his non-major, classroom course, Geology 102: Environmental Geology and Landscape Development, Roering requires that students get their hands a little dirty. For example, undergraduates inject food dye into a terrarium- sized representation of a landscape to get a hands-on understanding of the prob - lem of groundwater pollution and how industrial waste contaminates rivers. Roering?s lessons extend beyond lectures and in-class experiments. ?The modern definition of being a good scientist includes being a good communica - tor,? he explains. ?It isn?t all lab coats and beakers.? He replaces the practice of requiring students to write lab reports with a different kind of assignment: using the information collected in lectures and demonstrations to write a clear and concise news story. The course?s landslide unit concludes with a writing assignment about home-destroying Southern California landslides. Roering stresses that the writing shouldn?t fall back on jargon or hide behind technical terms; he advises students to write as if they were explaining the issue to their relatives at Thanksgiving dinner. Name: Joshua Roering. Age: 34. Education: BS, Stanford, 1994; MS, Stanford, 1995; Ph.D., Berkeley, 2000. Accolades: Winner of the UO?s 2004 Ersted Award for Distinguished Teach - ing. Recipient of two grants from the National Science Foundation for his research in landslides and erosion. Off-campus: Married to Michele, father of Oscar, age three, and Stella, age one. The family enjoys the outdoors, from canoe trips to Waldo Lake and hik - ing trips in the summer to snowshoeing during the winter. Roering is also an avid tennis player and a tireless Neil Young fan. Last word: ?I don?t take myself too seriously. It?s not about you; it?s about how you bring the material to the students.? ?M ARGARET M C G LADREY PROF ILE JOSHUA ROERING UNIVERSITY Courtesy Joshua Roering ?????????????????????? ????????????????? ????????????????????? ??? ???????????????? ?????????????????????? ???? ???????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????????????? ???????? ??????????? ??????????????????????? ????????? ? ???????????? OQ5 univ WI05_06.indd 38 11/9/05 5:44:28 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 39 OLD OREGON NEWS OF UO ALUMNI HECKUVA JOB , HOUSTON H EL PI NG H A N DS I N H U R R ICA N E A F T ER M AT H E m e rge nc y shelt e rs dre w volunt ee rs f ro m a s far a s O regon . J ENNIFER C ASEY ?99 ARRIVED AT THE Houston Astrodome at the same time as the buses from New Orleans. In her rental car were two other employ - ees of the University of Oregon Alumni Association, in town to organize UO alumni festivities around the September 1 Oregon versus University of Houston football game. In the buses were thou - sands of evacuees f leeing their hurricane- ravaged city. The Astrodome and two adjacent buildings were commissioned as shelters for victims of Hur ricane Katrina. The crowded buses came directly from evacu - ation points in New Orleans such as an elevated section of Interstate 10, where people had escaped the f loodwaters that swirled below, but then waited days in the open air for evacuation without adequate food, water, or medical care. As Casey set up for a party in a convention center overlooking the Astrodome, she watched the exhausted and bedraggled evacuees file from the buses into the massive shelter. Eventually, more than 27,000 New Orleans residents took ref - uge in the four shelters of the Astrodome complex, creating a makeshift city that included a twenty-four-hour clinic, a post of fice set up in the dome?s box of fice, and a playground in the parking lot. Although Oregon won the football game played in Reliant Stadium, a new sports facility beside the Astrodome, it was a relatively joyless affair. ?It was hard to have a good time knowing what was going on outside,? says Casey. A scene emblematic of the incongruous situation occurred when she and her co-workers drove to their hotel after the game and noticed a woman standing in the same spot where they?d seen her on their way to the stadium. In one arm was a baby in diapers; in the other arm was a garbage bag containing her belongings. Appar - ently, nothing had been done for her. It was obvious that more help was needed. The next morning Casey stopped by the Astrodome to drop off donations col - lected at the pre-game party. But instead of continuing on to the air port to f ly back to Eugene, she found herself attend - ing a volunteer orientation in the same room of the convention center where the alumni party had been held only hours before. ?Coming home seemed so irrelevant compared to being there and doing whatever I could,? she says. That was Friday. By the time she finally left her post at Reliant Park at 6 A . M . on Tuesday, to catch a f light to Oregon, she?d put in seventy hours of volunteer time and twice pushed back her f light. With experience in communications at both the UO and with the Portland Trailblazers, Casey was quickly drafted into the shelter?s infor mation center, where she served as a media liaison for the operation?s unified command. She worked closely with television reporters covering the event and wrote fact sheets for the press, but most important, she says, was her work on the first day she volunteered. She spent ten hours on the Astrodome f loor, amidst the swarm of evacuees ? 17,000 in the Astrodome alone ? set up on green folding cots on the main f loor as well as in the con - courses and hallways. She served meals and helped deliver food to people still too exhausted to make it to the dining area. Mainly, though, she served as a sympathetic ear. She heard stories of people who?d had to swim through the New Orleans f loodwaters to the Superdome, where they?d spent long, frightening days awaiting evacuation; the storm had torn holes in the roof, but the damage inside from 20,000 frustrated, marooned people was worse. She talked to people separated from their families by machine-gun?wielding soldiers when the evacuation buses finally did arrive and who were still frantically searching for them on the Red Cross Internet reg - istries. (Many of the buses had dispersed to shelters as far away as San Antonio and Dallas.) Casey?s experience was far f rom unique. That first day, she met a Hous - ton high school student who was cutting class to volunteer. That was at 2 P . M . ; he?d been there since four that morning. Vol - unteers were everywhere, setting up cots, handing out literally tons of donated toys and clothing, helping people locate loved ones with the aid of laptop com - puters. In all, during the twenty days the shelters operated, 59,679 individuals volunteered there, coming from as far away as Atlanta, New York, and Mexico. Included in that number were 2,700 medical personnel who staffed an on-site medical clinic with seventy exam rooms around the clock. Clinic staff cared for 15,000 patients, gave 10,000 tetanus Katrina evacuees camped out on floor of Reliant Center. Harris County Joint Information Center / Reuters OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 39 11/9/05 5:46:50 PM shots, and transported 900 people to nearby emergency rooms for treatment of more serious problems. In contrast to the famously inept stor m evacuation operations in New Orleans, Houston?s efforts in sheltering displaced Katrina victims were performed with urgency, competence, and grace. From Houston Mayor Bill White?s com - mandeering one city convention center for a shelter with the proclamation that, ?If it entails someone suing us, then OK,? to city police officers working double shifts to provide extra security, Houston was a model neighbor. That compassion, it seemed, was con - tagious and irresistible. Jennifer Casey volunteered to work the night shift, from 8 P . M . until 8 A . M ., but always stayed lon - ger. ?I?d just be sitting there in the hotel thinking, ?I should be down there help - ing,?? she says. She remembers volunteers showing up at 2, 3, and 4 in the morning, so many that they were sometimes turned away. Despite all they?d suffered, the first words out of most evacuees? mouths were expressions of gratitude for all the atten - tion and resources that had been lavished upon them. ?So many people just hugged us and said ?thank you for being here,'? says Casey. ?People would notice my Uni - versity of Oregon T-shirt and ask what I was doing here all the way from Oregon. I told them that if anything ever happened to us, I?d hope people would treat me the same way.? ? F REDERICK R EIMERS A RT A N D S OU L Don Baile y t e aches life lesson s through ar t at C he m awa In di an School . D ON B AILEY ?85 BELIEVES IN TOUGH LOVE . All of his high school students arrive at 125-year-old Chemawa Indian School near Salem from Indian reser vations across the United States where poverty, alcoholism, and violence can tear apart Native communities. Although some stu - dents join the school to follow their par - ents? or grandparents? footsteps, others are forced to enroll by juvenile court judges. Some at-risk kids attend the boarding school to escape their social problems ? before they end up in court. Many of Bailey?s students bring bright, enthusias - tic smiles to the classroom, but they can be three or four grade levels behind their peers. Regardless of the high schoolers? backgrounds, Bailey says he doesn?t cut them any slack. ?For twenty-seven years, at the start of every term, I tell them, ?I was born on the Hoopa reservation in northern California. I?ve lived in foster homes since the sixth grade. I?m just like you. But I have an education.?? Bailey will always remember his first art class ? when his second-grade teacher took his paper away from him and escorted him to the principal?s office. ?I thought I was getting in trouble,? he says. ?But my teacher wanted to show the principal my multi-perspective drawings. At the time, I didn?t know what I was doing.? During his primary school years, Bailey drew for fun. But in high school, he explored art as ?a kind of therapy? to reconcile his troubled childhood. His foster parents encouraged his creativity while making it clear that he needed concrete career goals. After high school, they expected him to go to college. Bailey enrolled at Western Oregon State College in 1974 to earn a degree in secondary art education. By his senior year, he painted with both confidence and sophistication, says Emeritus Profes - sor James Mattingly. Talk of this young, talented Indian artist soon found its way to Chemawa administrators, and they hired him before he even graduated from WOSC. They gave Bailey free rein to set up a fine arts program. ?I had a blast my first year,? he says. But during the next few years, he recognized that he needed better teaching skills. ?UO?s always had a great reputation,? he says. ?It was the next logical step.? Bailey enrolled at Oregon in a master of fine arts program, but quit and returned to Chemawa one year into his coursework after realizing he was honing his studio skills, not his teaching skills. A few more years of classroom frustration brought him back to the UO. This time he joined the art education program, examining Chemawa?s history from 1880 to 1952. He found that in the early days, students lost much of their cultural heritage through forced assimilation. After the Second World War, students could not find post- graduate employment on the reservation because administrators cut Chemawa?s vocational programs. With improved teaching skills and a better understand - ing of students? needs, Bailey returned to Chemawa to remedy its shortcomings. While encouraging his students to celebrate their heritage through art, he began to show them how to make a liv - ing by selling their works. His classroom NEWS IN BRIEF ALUMNI NETWORKING The inCircle Duck Pond, a new online networking tool exclusive to more than 155,000 UO graduates, provides social and professional networking oppor tuni - ties at no cost. A registered alumnus can develop a personalized web page and post a profile, photo albums, blogs, event listings, and a personal message board to the entire online community or just his or her designated network. Users can also create and join various groups to instantly connect to alumni, or old classmates, with similar interests. Other features include job listings, an area to list ?for sale? items, housing and ticket listings, and spor ts and general forums. The Duck Pond is online at uoalumni.com. EUGENE WINS OLYMPIC TRIALS USA Track & Field, the spor t?s gover n - ing body, selected Eugene for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. Craig Masback, the organization?s CEO, described the UO?s Hayward Field as ?hallowed ground in our spor t? and noted that Eugene?s vision for connecting ?track?s past, present, and future won the day.? Eugene nosed out Sacramento, which hosted the trials in 2000 and 2004. The ten-day 2004 trials attracted more than 170,000 fans and an estimated $20 million in event- related spending. BRING ON THE BOWL We?re not sure just yet where the Duck football team is headed, but we do know they?re bowl bound. Staff of the Official UO Alumni Association Bowl Tour are making travel arrangements now. By calling (877) 373-7377 or checking out the Alumni Association website (uoalumni.com), you can star t planning and be among the first to be contacted with official tour details. CAMPAIGN UPDATE Campaign Oregon: Transfor ming Lives, the $600 million fundraising effor t designed to help the UO attract top students and professors, maintain premier facilities, and continue ground - breaking research, has passed the $370 million mark. OLD OREGON OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 40 11/9/05 5:46:51 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 41 manner, according to one instructor, is ?as easy as water in a crick ? when he teaches 134 students the fundamentals of drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, and printmaking. He also runs advanced classes for students who want further instruction. His perseverance in pushing them to reconcile their pasts and get seri - ous about their art paid off last year when three of his students won second place, third place, and honorable mention rib - bons at a Salem art competition for high schoolers. Earlier this year, his students sold their works at a Native American art exhibition in Keizer. ?These kids have so much innate talent,? Bailey says. ?They are in tune with where they live on the reservations. . . . They have initiative and they want to experiment. That makes my job easy.? As an artist, Bailey practices what he preaches. James Mattingly says Bai - ley takes traditional Native American images, such as dance ceremonies and regalia, and drives them forward with simplified, expressive forms. His bright colors are rooted in Native culture: his iridescent greens come from mal - lard feathers, his reds resemble pileated woodpecker plumage, and his grays and browns conjure the Hoopa reservation?s deep canyons. Indian artist Rick Bartow says that, although Bailey paints Native American images, he?s fully aware of Western art. ?He knows about Jackson Pollock and he knows about Rembrandt. But he doesn?t try to be any other painter than himself. There are thousands of painters in Salem, but Don has risen to the top through his integrity and multi - cultural views.? Bailey?s paintings were first exhibited in Oregon art galleries in 1986. Ten years later, he won first place in mixed media in an art competition in Beaverton. This year, the Salem Art Association will per - manently install four of Bailey?s painted salmon sculptures in the city?s conven - tion center. As part of the ?Salmon in the City? series, Bailey?s students exhib - ited their painted salmon sculptures at Salem?s Bush Barn art gallery. ?I paint and I exhibit my work,? Bailey says. ?That?s what I teach my students to do.? ? M ICHELE T AYLOR MS ?03 M E D I CINE G ER M W A R FA R E R ese arche r fight s un see n foes on hos pit al bat tleg roun d s I T ? S S C A RY : 8 0,0 0 0 PAT I E N T S M AY D I E each year from infections contracted in U.S. hospitals and treatment centers, according to a commentary in the July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association. And it seems sinister that nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections are mostly preventable. Seriously ill patients ? vulnerable from other infections, stress, chemother - apy, and invasive surgeries ? can succumb to complications caused by exposure to bacteria and viruses that breach hospital hygiene security measures. So, who?s to blame? ?Patient safety is a ?systems problem? more than a ?person problem,?? says Dr. Mary A. M. Rogers MS ?81, an epidemi - Don Bailey (center) with students and their paintings. ? Geoff Parks University of Oregon Alumni Association Your Lifelong Connection These freshmen are attending the University of Oregon this year, thanks to members of the UO Alumni Association. Members support scholarships that make the difference between the brightest students attending Oregon or going somewhere else. Thanks to You! If you would like to help students choose the UO, join your Alumni Association today. Call (541) 346-5656 or visit us online at http://alumni.uoregon.edu OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 41 11/9/05 5:46:53 PM 42 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 ologist ? a disease detective. As research director of the University of Michigan health system?s Patient Safety Enhance - ment Program, she?s ?at ground level,? assembling science teams that study the modus operandi of stealthy microbes. ?We have free rein to think. We collect information for a database. We know what happened, look at the variables, and analyze it.? Then the teams publish proposals for revised medical methods and protocols. Rogers?s interest in public health began as a Peace Cor ps science teacher in Swaziland, where, in addition to explain - ing theoretical science, she alerted her students to local health threats, like schistosomiasis, a parasite that can pen - etrate skin and migrate to the kidneys and liver. While engaged in community health studies and research at the UO in 1980 she was awestruck by the potential of scientific methods for tracking and eliminating infectious organisms: ?Every - thing about it ? it just hooked me,? she admits. Since earning her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Washington in 1989 and per forming research at a half-dozen hospitals and medical schools, she?s become convinced that the battle against germs in hospitals OLD OREGON W E B S I T E S O F I N T E R E S T T O O Q R E A D E R S D U C K S I T E S ALUMNI EVENTS DECEMBER 7 Washington DC National Capital Annual Holiday Par ty 9 Portland Holiday Music Fest JANUARY 17 Portland UO Alumni Networking and Career Connection FEBRUARY 24 Hawaii ?Ducks on the Beach? Wine and Auction Dinner MAY 4?6 Eugene 50th Class Reunion For more infor mation and complete details on all UOAA events, check out uoalumni.com . ?????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? http://osher.uoregon.edu (800) 824-2714 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Two Locations: ? Eugene/Spring? eld ? Bend/Central Oregon 2005-10-28 OR Quarterly Ad.indd 1 10/28/05 12:07:03 PM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??????????????? ??? ?????? ? ???????? ??? ?? ????? ? ?????? ?????? ? ? ???? ??? ????? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 42 11/9/05 5:46:59 PM WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 43 requires an investment in technology and the adoption of science-based practices throughout health-care systems. At one extreme of the health-care spectrum, in Zimbabwe where she served as a consultant for a non-government organization, Rogers was deeply saddened while witnessing a third-world hospital?s limitations in preventing infection: ?Dis - posable gloves were washed and hung on makeshift laundry lines in between the patient wards.? But even in sophisticated U.S. medi - cal centers where ?virtually all the nurses and physicians that I have met are very enthusiastic about making sure the patient has a good outcome,? she and her teams have discovered loopholes in procedures and uncovered f laws in hos - pital infrastructure that weaken defenses against contamination. Such analysis requires developing pre- cise questions, and Rogers has that gift, says Dr. Sanjay K. Saint, a UM inter - nist who, along with Rogers and col - leagues, may have solved the decades-old mystery of unusually high urinary track infection rates among hospital patients catheterized during medical treatment. They posited that the devices are likely left in place longer than necessary. In a controlled trial they found that includ - ing simple ?catheter reminder forms? in patient charts and requiring physicians to justif y continued catheter use can sig - nificantly reduce risk. In this case, it was a no-cost, no-tech solution. Hospitals using advanced technology may dramatically improve all infection treatments, she says. In computerized facilities, when physicians get quick lab reports, for instance, they can instantly order antibiotics, ?and the software iden - tifies which other medications the patient is on and provides links to information about that infection and that drug.? How - ever, only about 10 percent of American hospitals and clinics use such electronic systems for maintaining patient medi - cal records. ?Some doctors in outpatient clinics still use index cards for day-to-day file management.? She shrugs, frustrated. ?The technology is there, but it?s not being used.? Fans of CSI , the forensic science TV drama, would certainly applaud Rogers?s plans to apply new technology for infec - tion detection. Working with husband Dr. Scott Rogers ?76 MS ?80, a molecular biologist and chair of the Bowling Green State University Department of Biologi - cal Sciences, she proposes to circumvent problems inherent in the old technol - ogy of culturing pathogenic microbes in petri dishes. Instead, she would use the latest DNA methods ?to investigate patterns of infection transmission, iden - tif y organisms faster, and know which antibiotic to give at a certain time.? It might reduce America?s 80,000 yearly nosocomial deaths, a number that clearly offends Rogers. ?Hospital-acquired infections should be in the national spotlight,? she says. But most U.S. medical centers won?t discuss the issue candidly: Only Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, New York, and Virginia require infection rate reporting. And collecting national data is difficult, even for scientists studying the problem, she says. Compared with the world?s top-ranking health-care systems ? the Scandinavian countries and Japan are stand-outs, with computerized reporting requirements and coordinated oversight ? America has ?a fractured system, with rudimentary surveillance? of the hun - dreds of autonomous hospitals. Changes in the complex U.S. health- care system come slowly, acknowledges Rogers. In the meantime, she and other science sleuths continue searching for ways to track down and wipe out those dirty germs. ? P ETE P ETERSON MFA ?68 MS ?77 KUD OS V IC TORY L A P A thle t es , t e a m s honored in UO s por t s H all of Fa m e C H A R LIE W A R R E N ?62 FONDLY R ECA LL S the day he found out he would be inducted as a charter member in the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame. ?I couldn?t have been more honored and humbled,? says Warren, a basketball player who energized Mac Court crowds between 1959 and 1962. ?It?s kind of everybody?s ultimate dream to be chosen for a hall of fame in anything at any level.? Oregon has been honoring its greatest athletes since 1992, when the first class of Hall of Famers was inducted ? a group of twenty-seven individuals and three Dr. Mary A. M. Rogers MS ?81 Inductee Jack Morris ?58, a fullback on the 1957 Rose Bowl team Pete Peterson Jack Liu OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 43 11/9/05 5:47:02 PM U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N www.msim.washington.edu msim@ischool.washington.edu 206.543.1794 The Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) offered by the Information School of the Universit y of Washington develops leaders who can strategically manage knowledge resources and information technologies to improve the ef?ciency, productivit y, competitive advantage, and pro?tabilit y of any organization in any setting. Tracks are available for traditional students who attend classes full-time during the week, as well as executives who attend classes part-time on Friday evenings and during the day on Saturdays. For complete program information and to view a schedule of our upcoming information sessions (offered both on the UW Seattle campus and as live webchats) please visit our website. M A S T E R O F S C I E N C E I N I N F O R M AT I O N M A N A G E M E N T OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 44 11/9/05 5:47:03 PM teams that included Warren, who now serves as chairman of the Hall of Fame selection committee. With the induction of four individuals and one team at a cer - emony in October, the total has grown to 144 individuals and fifteen teams. The inductees date back to the begin - ning of athletic competition at the Uni - versity and run the gamut of sports, some of them no longer sponsored by the Uni - versity, such as bowling and gymnastics. Athletes from the early days of UO sports are well represented, according to Bill Moos, UO director of athletics and another member of the selection commit - tee. ?We have also paid special attention to make sure female athletes are getting their deserved attention.? The year?s honorees are Dick Boyd (see below). Lisa Martin ?84 , a three-time all- American for the women?s track and field and cross-country teams who went on to win the silver medal in the marathon at the 1988 Olympics. Jack Morris ?58 , a fullback on the 1957 Rose Bowl team who set a UO sin - gle-game rushing record and also ran the sprints and hurdles for the track team. George Rasmussen ?51 , who tied for first place in the pole vault at the NCAA championship meets in 1947 and ?48. The 1994 football team , which claimed Oregon?s first league championship and Rose Bowl berth in thirty-seven years. Plaques for the latest honorees will be added to Oregon?s Hall of Champions, located on the second f loor of the Casa - nova Center. This area is open to the public from 9 A . M . to 5 P . M . each weekday and for four hours before home football games. There is no cost for admission. The UO also is developing an Internet site to increase public access to the Hall of Fame. ? B OB C LARK ?73 D ICK B OYD D ICK B OYD ?65, ONE OF THE INDUCTEES this fall into the Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame for his exploits as a swim - mer at Oregon four decades ago, has a special appreciation for what the sport meant to him. A graduate of Cleveland High School in Portland, he turned down offers from other universities and decided to join the swimming program at Oregon, then in the process of rebuilding under coach Don Van Rossen. ?High school swimming in this state was not very well developed then,? Boyd said. ?We?d have maybe two or three workouts a week; it was just not very intensive at all. When I got to the University of Oregon and really got into a training program where we had double workouts every day it made a significant difference for me.? Boyd went on to score in three NCA A championships, ear ning All-American honors each year. He served as captain of the team in those seasons, which made the team accom - plishments as rewarding to him as any of his individual honors. Oregon was brought back into the Pacific conference in Boyd?s senior season of 1965, and the Ducks hosted the league championships at Leigh - ton Pool. Boyd won a stirring race against an Olympian in the grueling 1,650-meter freestyle, and it helped the Duck team place second behind USC, outscoring the other California members of the conference that tradi - tionally dominated the sport. That was quite an accomplish - ment for a program that had to hold a benefit to raise money for a training trip to Hawaii, and got by on mini - mal scholarship aid from the athletic department. ?It was a great experience for me,? says Boyd, a third-generation member of the Portland-based Boyd Coffee family business, which was founded in 1900 and is about to be passed along to a fourth generation. ?What I?ll always remember is how those [swim - ming] teams bonded and not just from working out together. We did a lot to get that program re-established.? ?BC WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 45 Dick Boyd and his family at the 2005 Oregon Atrhletic Hall of Fame awards ceremony N OMINATE A S TAR T HE SELECTION COMMITTEE for Oregon?s Athletic Hall of Fame accepts nomina - tions from the public. To be eligible, an athlete or team must have completed their competition in an aca - demic school year at least ten years prior to induction. A limit of five individuals or teams can be inducted each year. To make a nomination to the committee, contact Debbie Nankivell at (541) 346-5432. Jack Liu OQ6 oldoregon WI05_05.indd 45 11/9/05 5:47:05 PM 1940 ? At the age of eighty-two, F. Warren Lovell ?49 is still working part time as a consulting patholo - gist at UC Irvine. He began his studies at the UO after returning from his service in WWII, and he went on to work as Chief Medical Examiner/ Coroner in Ventura County, California. He fondly remembers getting a great education and having a lot of fun at the UO! 1950 After serving as conductor of the Southern Or - egon Concert Band for fifteen years, John E. Drysdale ?53 M.Mus. ?65 retired in June. 1960 Joe M. Fischer ?60 MFA ?63 and his wife, Alona, continue to support the art scholarship program at Lower Columbia College. He is an artist in Longview, Washington. ? John Gustafson ?60 retired this summer as director of the U.S. National Response Team. A winner of the Commandant?s Meritorious Public Service Award from the U.S. Coast Guard, he was given the Continuing Challenge Conference?s 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. Andrew Vincent ?60 has formed a new land- scape architecture and planning firm with UO architecture graduates Ron Kidder ?92 and Sean Stroup ?02. Alaby Blivet ?63 has developed a prototype portable digital device he calls the ?iBlivet? that combines the functionality of the BlackBerry, cell phone, GPS receiver, laptop computer, Xbox, porto-digi-cam and, of course, iPod in a fashion - able ?suspenders and utility belt? design. Blivet?s wife, Sara Lee Cake ?45 , is dubious of the gadget?s marketability, commenting, ?Who in their right mind would want a beeping, buzzing, cumbersome contraption like that?? A professor at Dartmouth College since 1968, Gordon Gribble Ph.D. ?67 is the recipient of a newly endowed chair as the Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry. ? At the UO?s 2005 commencement ceremony, architect Johnpaul Jones ?67, FAIA, was honored with a Distinguished Service Award. Jones is a principal with Jones & Jones Architects and Land - scape Architects in Seattle. The firm?s recent work includes the Smithsonian?s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and the Many Nations Longhouse on the UO campus. The Distinguished Service Award commended his designs? incorporation of both the practical and the spiritual as well as his service to Native American communities in Oregon and throughout the nation. Roger O. Weed ?67 MS ?69 received two lifetime achievement awards in 2005 for his work as a pro - fessor and coordinator of graduate rehabilitation counselor training at Georgia State University. Diane Richardson Marsh ?69 and her husband, Tim, have joined the Pullman, Washington, Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes the couple?s volunteer activities with the chamber and the Washington State University track and field programs. Diane edits technical documents for Schweitzer Engineering Laborato - ries, and Tim works at WSU. 1970 Counting the Days , a film featuring Frank X. Mur ?72, screened in Los Angeles at the New York In - ternational Independent Film and Video Festival and in San Francisco at the San Francisco World Film Festival. Stephen M. Poff ?74 continues his career as a social worker with the state of Washington and as a field representative with the Census Bureau in Ellensburg, Washington. He recently received an award for efficient use of computer-assisted interviewing processes in generating data for the American Housing Survey. Patrick Jay Malone ?76 is the new Director of Finance and Human Resources for Volunteers of America Oregon. He is also active in the Portland community as a volunteer in the Boys Without Fathers Mentoring Program and as a member of the Business Plan Review Panel and the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum. Brooke (Fryburg) Owen ?76 received the Medal of Meritorious Service from the Federal Way, Washington, Police Department. Her thirty-two- year law enforcement career in both Oregon and Washington began with the Eugene Police Depart - ment while attending the UO. George Dillon ?77 has been appointed operations manager for Keller Williams Realty East Portland Market Center. He and his wife just returned from an eighteen-month assignment for the company in Stuttgart, Germany. ? Clatsop County District Attorney Joshua Marquis ?77 JD ?80 has been elected Vice Presi - dent of the National District Attorneys Associa - tion (NDAA), an organization that represents America?s prosecutors. As a representative of the NDAA, Marquis testified before the United States House of Representatives Crime and Ter - rorism Committee and published an article on capital punishment in the Winter 2005 issue of Northwestern University Law School?s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. ? John Henderson ?78 won first place in the Football Writers Association of America Feature Writing Contest for a story on former Gram - bling coach Eddie Robinson and his battle with Alzheimer?s disease. 1980 ? In January 2005, Brandt A. Handley MBA ?80 joined Stanton Chase International in Santa Bar - bara, California. As director, he is responsible for executive recruitment on the West Coast. Richard Potestio ?80 has joined Mahlum Archi - tects in Portland as a principal. He has earned service awards from the city of Portland and the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Ar - chitects for pro bono work and is president-elect of the Portland-Bologna Sister City Association. He was also the architect of record (in partnership with M1C2 of Portland) for the new state-of-the- art locker room and gym at Autzen Stadium. 46 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 OLD OREGON CLASS NOTES CLASS NOT ABLE Lance Armstrong leading the pack at Courchevel, Stage 10 of the 2005 Tour de France D UCKS PARTY FOR L ANCE Living on the Tour de France route, Jean-Luc Villeneuve MA ?90 invited American friends, including avid cyclist and fellow Duck Sean Matt JD ?91, over to watch the summer spectacle. A group rendezvoused for a week of bike rides, nightly par ties, tour watching, and cheering on even - tual tour winner Lance Ar mstrong. Photo courtesy Jason Matt OQ7 classnotes WI05_03.indd 46 11/9/05 5:49:28 PM Eric Malin ?81 is a volunteer for the Portland Alliance monthly, an alternative progressive news - paper in Portland. He writes news, coordinates special events, and manages circulation for the publication. Dane Claussen ?84 recently assumed his new posi - tion as faculty development coordinator at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also an associate professor and director of graduate programs in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Point Park. In August, he was elected head and program chair of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, a non- profit educational association. Veronica Rinard ?84 is the new cultural tourism manager at the Portland Oregon Visitors Associa - tion. Previously, she worked for the Oregon Film and Video Office for fourteen years, beginning as a project manager and assuming the executive director?s position in 2001. David House ?85 is spokesman for two divisions of the Oregon Department of Transportation: the DMV and the Transportation Safety Divi - sion. He continues to work as an on-call copy editor at the Salem Statesman-Journal, where he worked full time before joining ODOT. In 2006, he plans to self-publish the first in a series of ten science fiction novels for young adults called the Space-Worthy Chronicles . See details at www.space- worthy.com. ? Donald Ehrich MS ?86 is a self-employed as - sociate and manager working with Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. Previously he worked as a district manager with the Oregon Department of Trans - portation. Kristine (Knock) Keener ?88, her husband Pat - rick, and their son Noah (age four) returned from China after adopting Kaara Patricia Shu-Ping from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. Kaara was born July 7, 2004, and ?gotcha day? was July 10. Kevin (Landers) Landskroner ?88 received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his Amber Alert story for WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. He has also been nominated a second time for a regional Emmy in recognition of his work as a general as - signment reporter for WBNS-TV. Ted Austin ?89 is one of Portland Business Journal?s forty most outstanding business people under forty years old. He is the managing director of the U.S. Bank Private Client Group. 1990 Elise Child ?90 shot a documentary film on eco- travel and cultural immersion in Ladakh, India, during the summer of 2004. Lori Hinton ?96 worked as a writer on the project. In April 2004, Harold S. Shepherd JD ?90 opened his own law practice in Pendleton. He has worked for various American Indian tribes in Oregon and Washington for the last fourteen years, and he started the nonprofit Center for Tribal Water Advocacy in May 2003. The Center held the First Annual Tribal Water Rights Conference at the UO?s Knight Law Center in October 2004. ? Stephen Burton ?91 MS ?93 has joined SRC Software, Inc. in Portland, negotiating, drafting, and managing international contracts and intel - lectual property licensing for the company. As an active member of the Lundquist Alumni Network (LAN), a club within the UOAA-Portland, he encourages all Lundquist College of Business grads in the Portland area to get involved and create an active professional network. He looks forward to hearing from his fellow business and political science classmates as well as other Oregon alumni, especially during football season! ? Mark Spear ?91 owns Portland-based Mark Spear Entertainment, an event company that spe - cializes in setting up tents and generators, and was contracting on a film in Saint Francisville, Loui - siana, when Hurricane Katrina hit. The former tight end for the Ducks football team rode out the storm with the heavy equipment and provided the generators that powered a hotel, the main police station, and even the communication command center in Baton Rouge. ? Priscilla Warren ?91 is a social worker at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico. She works with chemotherapy, home health, and hospice patients, and she underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2003. She is an avid Duck fan who enjoys networking with other Ducks in Silver City and attending games in Tuc - son and Tempe. Greg Young ?91 recently joined the staff of En - gineering Ministries International, a nonprofit Christian organization made up of architects, engineers, and surveyors who donate their skills to projects around the world. He is a staff architect and administrator at their Canadian office in Calgary. Previously, he worked for eight years at Raymond Letkeman Architects Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia. ? After a national search, Peter Asmuth ?92 was selected as the new executive director of Serenity Lane, a family oriented not-for-profit substance abuse treatment center based in Eugene. Currently Serenity Lane assistant executive director, he be - gins the new position in 2006. Diane Tarter MFA ?92 is the chairperson of the creative arts division at Western Washington University. After fourteen years working for the UO, most recently at the Lundquist College of Business, Mick Westrick ?92 will take a position as direc - tor of Information Technology for the University of Washington?s Business School. However, he assures fellow Ducks that ?while my livelihood is now provided by the Huskies, my heart remains pure Duck.? Melissa (Moriarty) Fryback ?93 won outstand - ing performance recognition for her development of the 1909 House Marketing Campaign. Her company, Studio M, won first place in the 2005 Marketing Award of Excellence program of the American Marketers Association?s Oregon chap - ter. In February, Shawn Gerwig ?93 married W. Theo - dore Wickwire in Falmouth, Maine. They are living in Brunswick, Maine, where Shawn is an administrative secretary at Bowdoin College. Amy Ognall Klee ?96 and her husband, Jim, welcomed their second son on May 23. She has worked as an executive assistant for a mortgage servicing company in Portland for the past five years. The family looks forward to seeing friends and classmates at Duck football games this season! For the past eighteen months, Jill Warner ?97 has worked as a house manager at the Ronald Mc - Donald House in Seattle. She recently accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps in Macedonia, where she will serve as an English education development volunteer. ? Katie Yahns ?98 received her master of divinity degree in May at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, after studies in Vancouver, B.C., and Berkeley, California, and an internship in Anchor - age, Alaska. She looks forward to being assigned, called, and ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Tarn Cheon ?99 traveled to Baker, Louisiana, in September to help America?s Second Harvest, a hunger-relief organization, set up a food donation inventory system. Her extensive experience with the Oregon Food Bank helped her in efforts to set up a temporary warehouse in Baker replacing the New Orleans center, which was rendered inacces - sible due to floodwaters. ? Anthony Clark ?99 Ph.D. ?05 received an assis - tant professorship in Chinese history at the Uni - versity of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he and his wife, Amanda Clark ?01 MA ?05, now live. ? Tom Pinit ?99 and his wife, Kirstin, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Casey Panya, on July 13. The Pinit family lives in Lake Oswego. 2000 Amelia (Reising) Reising-Hymer ?02 married Eugene Shawn Hymer in summer 2003 at Mt. Pisgah. In May 2005, she and James Squires ?05 opened an independent bookstore, Books Without Borders, in downtown Eugene. Shunney (Chung) Nair ?03 was promoted to senior vice president of Family Services of Greater Houston, Texas, a nonprofit social service organi - zation. She and her husband celebrated the birth of their first child, Caelan, on February 28, 2003. ? Erin Fullner JD ?04 will move to Seattle, Washington, after concluding a judicial clerkship with the Hon. Steven L. Maurer in December. Tim Shinabarger MA ?04 has joined Satre Associ - ates, P.C., a Eugene consulting firm, as a land use planner. ? Betsy Williams ?04 is attending UC Hastings Law School in San Francisco, where she has en - joyed hanging out with the many Ducks who live in the Bay Area. ? Austin Browning ?05 is an account executive with the Idaho Stampede of the Continental Bas - ketball Association. He is also a graduate of the Game Face Executive Academy in Portland. ? Alysia Cox ?05 and Kevin Cleys are engaged to be married in December 2006 in Guanajuato, Mexico. WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 47 ? INDICATES UOAA MEMBER OQ7 classnotes WI05_03.indd 47 11/9/05 5:49:29 PM 48 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 In Memoriam Louise (Smith) Little ?33 died August 14. She was ninety-seven. In 1942, she joined the Red Cross as part of the war effort, serving in England, France, and Belgium. In 1948, she married George Cherry, whom she met at the UO. They founded Tropi - craft, a woven blind company, and established outlets in San Francisco, New York, Paris, and Ho - nolulu. Mr. Cherry died in 1967. Louise married Robert Little in 1970; they enjoyed world travel and spending time in Honolulu until his death in 1995. Louise continued to travel and manage her properties until her health failed in the last year. L. Samuel Fort ?38 died July 3 at the age of eighty-nine. He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. After serving as a captain in the Navy during WWII, he worked as a salesman for Master Engravers, Inc. until he bought the company with two partners. He loved woodwork - ing, gardening, stamp collecting, photography, and participating in sports with his friends at the Multnomah Athletic Club. He was active with the Old Church, the UOAA, and the Friars Club. He and his wife of sixty-four years, Esther, had four children, nine grandchildren, and two great- grandchildren. Elizabeth ?Kay? Elle ?39 died September 19 at home after a brief illness; she was ninety-two. At the UO, she was a Mortar Board member and a founder of Hilyard House, a women?s co-op. She and her husband, George, settled in Lubbock, Texas, where she was a homemaker, an active volunteer, and a librarian. She continued her volunteer activity in the Texas Tech Mortar Board chapter, receiving a national award in 1999 for her lifetime of service, as well as with the Texas Tech Gamma Phi Beta sorority, the Girl Scouts, and the Lubbock Public Libraries. Former UO trustee Robert Vadnais ?40 died May 19 at age eighty-seven. He served in the Philip - pines as a Navy bomber pilot from 1941 to 1946, earning the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1954, he founded Totem Equipment Company in Seattle. He was an avid golfer and also enjoyed playing bridge and gin rummy. Margaret, his wife of fifty-seven years, died in 2003; they had three children. Thor Henry ?Hank? Anderson ?41 died Sep - tember 5 of heart problems. He was eighty-four. He was a starting forward for the Ducks basketball team for two years. While serving as an officer in the Army Air Corps, he married Betty; they were together for sixty-three years. 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I n 1999, a physician asked John Malecki Ph.D. ?69 to provide a seriously ill patient some counsel - ing ? not an unusual request to a man a half-centur y into a career as a psychologist and Catholic priest. The doctor explained, sotto voce, that the patient, given her diagnosis of Alzheimer?s disease, had little hope and fewer prospects; the disease had stolen her humanity ? lights on, nobody home. See what you can do for her, Padre. After six months of what Malecki, then nearly eighty, con - sidered caring and compassionate therapy sessions, the woman rocked the foundations of his self-image and challenged his professional under - standing with her enraged outburst, ?You?re not listening to my soul ! ? This event helped jolt Malecki into a new way of thinking about the inner lives of Alzheimer?s and dementia sufferers. Could it be, he wondered, that these people are less diminished than commonly believed, that the disease changes their minds, but doesn?t destroy them. Might they understand their own loss and suffer - ing? Might they have the capacity to experience a meaningful spiritual life? With passionate intensity ? imag - ine the Energizer Bunny on a mission from God ? Malecki launched a yearlong research study. The inves - tigation took the form of a thesis project, capping a ten-year course of study ? begun at age seventy ? at the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston (to which he commuted from his hometown of Albany, New York). This setting was especially appropriate since he took inspiration from Carl Jung (1875 ?1961), the pioneering Swiss psychologist who had respect - fully talked with, listened to, and carefully analyzed mental patients at a time when conventional medical treatment consisted of little more than restraints and warehousing. At the outset of his study, Malecki vowed he would relate with his sub - jects ?as persons, not as a diagnosis.? But in his systematic reading of the scientific literature on Alzheimer?s disease, he discovered that nearly all the studies had a strictly neurobio - logical focus. ?I found an abandonment of the person, feeling, hope, desire, mean - ing, suffering,? he says. ?That shook me.? Shaking Malecki was like rattling an open bottle of well-aged cham - pagne, releasing his effer vescent energy in an increased commitment to the work. He tried one tool after another for exploring the unconscious minds of his test group of a dozen individuals living in a Catholic senior care facility. But the group had little patience when he showed them the Rorschach test inkblots ( ? What ?s wrong with you? ? one complained), and word association tests proved similarly unproductive. He had them draw pictures, and he used symbolic stories as star ting points for discussion. Finally, suc - cess. Analysis and interpretation of the drawn images produced sur - prising and rich results, specifically ?representations of faith, hope, and belief in immor tality,? he says. The symbolic stories spurred meaningful and therapeutic conversations when previous attempts to communicate had gone nowhere. A key in working with Alzheimer?s patients is to ?go where they are going,? Malecki says; to do other wise, to tr y to impose the straight lines and right angles of logic on the non-recti - linear experience of these patients, is doomed to failure. He put this lesson into practice in weekly celebration of Mass in an Alzheimer?s unit. Rather than following a prescribed order of worship, he modified the ser vice, building it around those elements that resonated with the worshippers. The basic symbols of the Church ? the chalice, the Cross, the Eucharist, the vestments ? elicited especially strong responses. Malecki knows he won?t be doing a great deal more research ( ? Look at me,? he jokes, ?I?m 140 years old ! ? ), but he hopes his work encourages others to see beyond the neurobio - logical aspects of the disease and into the ver y essence of the sufferers. Malecki didn?t enroll in the UO?s doctoral program in counseling psy - chology until he?d already been a priest for more than twenty years, ordained by the Diocese of Albany in the 1940s. For a quar ter centur y after graduation, he worked for the dio - cese in various capacities, continuing these duties while he studied at the Jung Institute. Currently, he ser ves as a staff psychologist at a diocese facility where he directs spiritually based wellness groups for those with cancer and chronic illnesses. He also ser ves as a hospice chaplain. Out of his extensive experience, he wrote Working Manual of Compassionate Care for the End of Life. To stay ahead of the ravages of age in his own body, Malecki star ted running marathons at the age of sixty-five. He?s notched twenty- five so far, though his times have slowed considerably over almost two decades, from the five- to the ten- hour range. He runs about two miles daily, six days per week, and gives himself extra time on weekends for a six to ten mile jog. A personal obser vation: Before our inter view, we had lunch together at an Italian restaurant near campus. I?ve never seen a person take delight in the simplest things ? a bowl of soup, talking with the waitress ? with such profound and infectious joy. ? R OSS W EST MFA ?84 Jack Liu OQ7 classnotes WI05_03.indd 49 11/9/05 5:49:32 PM 50 OREGON QUARTERLY WINTER 2005 twenty-one seasons. His family includes five chil - dren and eight grandchildren. Charles N. Tripp Jr. ?41 died June 13; he was eighty-six. A Chi Psi fraternity member, he served in the Army in Europe during WWII. An invest - ment banker for thirty-three years, he worked for and later owned his father?s company, Chas. N. Tripp Inc. He married his wife, Florence, in 1941, and they had three children. Gerald Huestis ?42 died December 24, 2004, at age eighty-four. He married Hildegarde Schoeler in 1945 and graduated the next year from the UO Medical School (now OHSU). He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1947 to 1949, then opened a surgical medical practice in Santa Ana, California. He served as chief of staff at Western Medical Center. He divorced, and later married Alice Bonsall, who preceded him in death in 1996. Survivors include seven children; seven stepchildren; a brother; two sisters; twenty-three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews. His father, former Professor of Biology Ralph Huestis, taught at the UO for nearly forty years and is the namesake of Huestis Hall. George E. ?Duke? Warner ?42 died on June 5; he was eighty-seven. After attending the UO, he served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a juvenile counselor in the Oregon Welfare Department. He enjoyed making music with bands in the Bend area and competing in horse shows. He and his wife, Kitty, founded Duke Warner Realty in 1967 and had seven children and stepchildren. Robert Monti Reynolds MS ?50 Ph.D. ?65 died August 21; he was eighty. After serving in the Navy during WWII until 1946, he married Patri - cia, his wife for fifty-nine years. He was the first physical education major at Walla Walla College. He retired in 1990 after teaching college students for forty years and receiving professor emeritus status at Pacific Union College in Angwin, Cali - fornia. Throughout his life, he served the Ameri - can Red Cross and the Pathfinders Ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The devoted father, husband, and friend always reminded his loved ones to ?Keep smiling!? James A. Thompsen ?50 died March 25 as the result of a remodeling accident. He was seventy- seven. During WWII, he joined the Navy at the age of seventeen and served in Hawaii. He mar - ried Francelle Jackson ?46 in 1949, and they had two daughters. Jim worked as a CPA for more than fifty years, and in the ?off-tax season,? he enjoyed his 1965 Chevy. June Winter ?52 died March 25 from a recurrence of cancer; she was seventy-five. After graduating from the UO, she did graduate work in library science at the University of Washington. She then worked as a counselor, dean, and assistant principal at Amador Valley High School from 1964 to 1990. Ed Bingham ?57 died in Medford on July 31; he was seventy-one. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega at the UO, and was a four-year letterman in basketball and track. He also joined the Air Force ROTC and, after graduation, he flew F101 and F102 fighter jets over Texas and the South Pacific. He was honorably discharged from the ser - vice in 1966. He married Rita Joy Miller in 1968; they had two sons. He worked for Pat & Mike?s The independent campus newspaper for the University of Oregon GET CONNECTED 10006 www.dailyemerald.com ??????????????????????????????? ? Making a better home for tomorrow campaign.uoregon.edu ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? E R B M E M O R I A L U N I O N Where memories of a lifetime happen everyday. emu.uoregon.edu W E B S I T E S O F I N T E R E S T T O O Q R E A D E R S D U C K S I T E S OLD OREGON OQ7 classnotes WI05_03.indd 50 11/9/05 5:49:38 PM Builders Service for twenty-four years and retired in 1997. He was an active community member and volunteered for many years with the Boy Scouts of America. Myron ?Jerry? Smith ?58 died April 29; he was seventy-one. He and his wife, Sharon McCabe Smith ?58, married the same year they gradu - ated and had three children. Smith was an Army veteran who served during the Korean War. He worked for Moore Business Forms until his retire - ment. He was a Ducks sports fan who volunteered with the Duck Athletic Fund. He was also an avid reader and a fly fisherman. Romaine ?R? (Lovelace) Archer ?59 died June 7 in Medford; she was sixty-seven. At the UO, she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta. She married Jerry Archer ?59 in Portland in September 1960; they moved to the Rogue Valley in 1966. She retired in 1997 from the Oregon Department of Employment. Kathy James ?63 died in August after a yearlong battle with cancer; she was sixty-three. She had lived in Laguna Beach, California, for nearly thirty years and was a successful realtor for twenty-one years. She was an active member of the Laguna Board of Realtors and a trustee of the Neighbor - hood Congregational Church. On May 7, Floyd L. Paseman ?63 died of compli - cations from bone cancer; he was sixty-four. He chronicled his long career as a senior CIA official in the clandestine service in his memoir, A Spy?s Journey, which was published in January. The book follows his CIA career from field spy to division chief, as well as his overseas tours in Asia and Europe from the 1960s to the 1980s, when he re - cruited foreign spies to work for the U.S. Paseman began his service for the government at the UO through the ROTC program, receiving a commis - sion as a second lieutenant in the Army. John Eads ?69 died at his home on July 21 after a four-year battle with cancer; he was fifty-eight. The former Medford city attorney was a leading land-use expert and an advocate for drug and alcohol treatment. Remembered for his sense of humor in even the most difficult situations, John and his struggles with addiction and cancer have been an inspiration for his friends and colleagues in Medford. Vinnie H. ?Radha? Miller Ph.D. ?72 died Sep - tember 22 at the age of seventy-seven. After a ca - reer as a math teacher, she earned her doctorate in psychology at the UO and was a psychotherapist in Eugene until her retirement in 1993. She and her husband, Bill, taught computer skills to senior citizens. She remained active until a stroke in 2003, enjoying swimming, meditation, Qi Gong, contra dancing, yoga, hiking, ocean kayaking, and attending arts performances. Faculty and Staff Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Theodore Stern died June 20 of heart failure; he was eighty - seven. He served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, and earned his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1948. He taught at the UO from 1948 until his retirement in 1987. Stern studied Indians of Oregon and spent sum - mers with the Klamath and Umatilla tribes. He published three books on Indian culture and was honored in a 2004 celebration by the Confeder - ated Tribes of the Umatilla Indians for his work in preserving their heritage. He also served on the board of the Eugene Symphony, volunteered with the Boy Scouts, and was a member of the Obsid - ians. Clyde Iddings died on July 20 at the age of sev - enty-seven. After serving in the Air National Guard, he worked as a plumber at the UO for twenty years. Clyde loved bowling, camping, danc - ing, horseshoes, and hunting. After retirement, he volunteered at the Eagles Lodge in Eugene. He and his wife, Myrtle, had six children and eleven grandchildren. Marlene Koines , former office coordinator in comparative literature, died August 17 of com - plications from diabetes. She worked at the UO for seventeen years, playing a leadership role in the creation of the Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee (CSTDAC). In 1998, as CSTDAC co-chair, she was given the UO?s Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for her time, insight, and thoughtfulness in developing the UO?s classified staff programs. WINTER 2005 OREGON QUARTERLY 51 DECADES 192 5 An easter n college president criticizes frater nity brothers who listened to the Victrola while dressing, saying that a young man who couldn?t put on his shir t without being enter tained could hardly possess indepen - dent intellectual resources. Old Oregon editors rush to the boys? defense, praising ?the efficiency of the young chaps who . . . can dress while imbibing culture via the black and whirling disc.? 1935 The chancellor of the State Board of Higher Education addresses UO students on the theme of contributing to society. He holds that six universal laws remain constant: the existence of a scientifically proved God, the monogamous family, patriotism without nation - alism, private proper ty, instinctive love of liber ty, and love of education. 19 4 5 Bolstered by the GI Bill, campus enrollment jumps to a record 5,600 students, a 40 percent increase from the top pre-war level. Students demand a student union, arguing that the UO lacks many student essentials, such as a soda fountain, hotel facilities, and a banquet hall. 1955 Construction begins on a new dor mitor y ? at the cost of $3,658 per room. Because the average height of college men has increased two-and-a-half inches since 1900, the beds in the new rooms will be built five inches longer than in older residence halls. 19 6 5 The UO?s 12,000 students line up to register for classes at 5 A . M . , resulting in what the Oregon Daily Emerald declares ?the most messed up registration in years.? Frustrated students call for registration with a new computer system like that of Washington State University, where each student feeds a card into a computer that generates up to 5,000 possible schedules per student. 1975 The Foreign Languages Depar tment separates the Classics and Oriental Languages depar tment into distinct units. Classics faculty joke that the two depar tments were originally put together because they were ?of convenient size,? that is to say, ?esoteric, impractical, and tiny .? 198 5 UO President Paul Olum gives a speech on the for tieth anniversar y of the Manhattan Project, reflect - ing on his par ticipation as a theoretical physicist. He says, ?I still feel strongly that the dropping of a bomb on Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima was unconscion- able. The Japanese had no time to recover, no time to even find out what happened at Hiroshima . . . no time to surrender if they wanted to.? 19 95 The UO makes histor y with the first broadcast of a collegiate spor ts event on the Inter net. The cybercast of the Duck?s 34?31 victor y over Illinois, coordinated by the newly developed Warsaw Spor ts Marketing Center, reaches football fans in thir ty-five countries. Repor ts from previous Winter issues of Old Oregon and Oregon Quar terly. OQ7 classnotes WI05_03.indd 51 11/9/05 5:49:39 PM J immy Piersall is screaming. All these terrified swear left field. Over in our section, where my dad and I watch the game from the grandstand above third base, every - one turns to see. It?s 1965. We?re at a California Angels spring training camp game in Palm Springs, California. I?m four - teen. My dad is fifty-two. Piersall is waving his mitt and kicking his legs in berserk circles ? like he?s square dancing and being electrocuted at the same time. He?s looking up with his head twisted back all funny over his shoulder. We see it, too. This huge black cloud that quickly swirls down onto Piersall and chokes the air between the neatly clipped grass and bright desert sky. It gags and darkens the entire left field. Piersall, suddenly a tiny smudge of white inside this moving black, ducks and waves and tries to run. Bees. Jesus. Bees. I swear, it?s just like one of those fantasy out-of-control gigantic cyclones in a Disney cartoon. But this is real. And, it?s moving closer. Shrieks and gasps shoot up all around us. Bodies erupt into the aisles. I jump to my feet. But my dad doesn?t budge. We?re about to be smothered and attacked by the terrible wrath of poisonous f lying insects gone amok, and, yet ? some - how ? he stays nonchalant. I?m pretty sure he even smiles and says something like: ?Don?t worry. Stay here. We?ll be okay. They?re not going to hurt us.? But I am too afraid. The panic all around us has found its way inside me. Fear. Like wind-driven wildfire. The ebony cyclone circles even closer to our heads. I have to get away. I could get hurt. I have to run. I mean it. On both sides of me, waves of people bump and shove to get away. I don?t say anything, just turn up into the concrete steps and slip away with so many strangers. I try to look back for my father, but all I can see are ballplayers running for the dugouts. And everywhere, eyes opaque with fear. At the top of the stadium, I swim with the panicked crowd toward the safety of the men?s bathroom. As I reach its doors, a man in a sleeveless T-shirt pushes hard into my back. His biceps f lash a large purple and blood-red tattoo: the nostrils of a dragon, tongues of hissing snakes, swords stuck in a skull. I realize this adult is more afraid than I am. Inside, the crowded bathroom is strangely quiet and sub - dued. No one seems to know what to say or do next. And absolutely every - one seems to downplay their fright. Or else joke about it. I decide I do not like these men. I do not want to be here with them. I?m embarrassed for all of us. I?ve made a big mistake. The T-shirt with tattoos is smoking a cigarette. He inhales and turns his eyes away from mine. I want to be back with my father. Even now, as I write this, I have yet to recover from the fact that ? sixteen years later ? cancer somehow strikes my dad down. This tall, gentle guy whose big hands smacked me hundreds of grounders and backyard pop-ups. The father who gladly bought a catcher?s mitt so he could crouch down again and again to help nudge this Little Leaguer into finding his fastball. The man whose only son never told him how proud he was of him that day. As I moved on from my thirties into my forties, there were so many questions I wanted to ask him. About his life; about mine. Even about baseball. About that very day. I make my way over to the bathroom?s exit door and force myself back out. A few maverick bees shoot past like bullets. For the first time, I realize these little winged creatures are totally oblivious to me. Some people scurry past ? their hands locked over their heads ? too afraid to even look up. From down inside the ballpark, a voice on the public address system is mumbling the same inaudible phrase over and over. Fear for myself has turned into fear for my father. What if he?s covered with bees? What would we do if my dad got stung to death? Why did I leave him? The corridor that opens down into the bleachers is now eerily deserted. Bees loop circles ? dark and thick ? over the infield and third base seats. Our seats. My dad is still down there. All by himself. He is holding our program up over his head ? like someone waiting for an incon - venient rain squall to pass. And, as I watch him, the bees ? just like a rain cloud ? do pass. They careen around the left field bleachers and disap - pear up into the enormous California sky. My dad puts down the program, turns his head, sees me, and smiles. And I walk to him. And I smile right back. Paul Keller is the manag ing editor of Fire Management Today. He lives outside Rhododendron, which is in the Cascades near Mt. 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