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The Magazine of the University of Oregon Spring 2009 • Volume 88 Number 3

26 Truly Transforming Lives Features Departments

26 4 EDITOR’s note transformers Letters by Eric Apalategui 6 How do you transform a great university 8 UpFront | Excerpts, Exhibits, to a greater one? Ninety thousand donors Explorations, Ephemera giving more than $853 million is a good place to start. i'll Take the Cash “This Here’s Heilman Land . . .” by Joseph S. Miller 34 Whoops! 34 by Daniel Pope Why We Celebrate sweet and Sour Globalization by Sona Pai by Robert Leo Heilman Home, love, and 150 years of statehood. 16 UpFront | News, Notables, Innovations 38 Fanfare for Oregon The Logic of wildflowers Oral Histories by Michael Strelow Journey to the Center of the Earth Blooming Heritage Throughout Oregon’s history, wildflowers 38 have been here to remind us of our place Rural Renewal and time. PROFile: Dennis Galvan

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UO The Right Stuff MulLer v. Oregon: A class BY Herself? Getting Away with Murderball ushman / / C ushman by John Dvorak Oregon’s Loss, Democracy’s

obin obin Gain R A landmark Oregon case pitted labor protections against women’s equality— UO Alumni Calendar essner / / L essner and its effect is still being felt. Class Notes

41 Working Toward Equality Decades COVER | Illustration of UO campus improve- 64 duck tales ment supported by Campaign Oregon by James the Inspiration of Osprey Cloutier ’62, M.F.A. ’69. See key on page 33. Web by Melissa Hart Extra: View some of Cloutier’s work from the ichael mcdermott / michael J. M ichael mcdermottmichael J. / days of Old Oregon at OregonQuarterly.com. From top: top: From

2 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 3 Editor’sNote | Guy Maynard, Editor

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SPRING 2009 • VOLUME 88 NUMBER 3 An Oregon Story EDITOR Guy Maynard Raymond had the thickest fingers I ever saw, muscled and callused, worked to a MANAGING EDITOR machined hardness, worn to a leathery shine. Fingers formed by a lifetime of wrenches Ross West and winches, of hammers and handsaws, of building and fixing and getting by in the ADVERTISING DIRECTOR lush and rugged country where the South Umpqua River starts to flatten out after its Susan Thelen ART DIRECTOR rush down from the mountains. Yet those oversized fingers could nestle a quarter-inch Tim Jordan nut and guide it around fans and manifolds and whathaveyou into the godawfulest CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS crook of an engine and thread it on the barest tip of the bolt where it needed to be. And Jack Liu, John Bauguess that, of course, after our young and nimble fingers had failed a dozen times. Raymond, OFFICE MANAGER Shelly Cooper smiling, patient, encouraging, would wait as we tried and cursed and declared the PROOFREADERS impossibility of getting that particular nut on that stupid misplaced bolt—and then, John Crosiar, Scott Skelton matter-of-factly, do it. INTERNS Mindy Moreland, Melissa Hoffman, Bethany Schmidt Raymond Spore was into his seventies when we met him. We were a common EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD early-’70s story, a bunch of long-haired kids from the East looking for a place to create Betsy Boyd, Kim Evans, David Funk, Cathy Hamilton, new lives in the wild and open West. We landed in the South Umpqua town of Tiller, Kathleen Holt, Mark Johnson, Ann Mack, Alexandra Mock, Barbara West, Tom Wheeler about sixteen miles upriver from Days Creek, where Raymond lived. He dropped by WEBSITE to say hello to the early settlers of our group. My friend, Bruce Gordon, who still lives OregonQuarterly.com on the South Umpqua, bought a white ’52 Chevy pickup from him and a remarkable OFFICE ADDRESS 204 Alder Building friendship was born. 818 East 15th Avenue I don’t know when Raymond got to Days Creek. Delbert “Deb” Moore, who lives Eugene OR 97403-5228 Phone (541) 346-5045 not far from Raymond’s old place, recalls “driving a nail or two into the Days Creek Fax (541) 346-5571 Store with Raymond Spore back in 1942.” Raymond ran the store and the gas station, EDITORIAL (541) 346-5047 which were next to his house near where Highway 227 takes a quick southwest turn ADVERTISING to a bridge over the river. (541) 346-5046 When my wife, Shelley (always, for some reason, “Shirley” to Raymond), and I got SUBSCRIPTIONS to Tiller in 1971, Raymond had sold the store, his first wife, Leona, had died, his chil- $30 per year domestic $40 per year international dren were off on their own. We bought a red ’52 Chevy pickup from him (at least three E MAIL other friends bought Raymondmobiles—you couldn’t beat the lifetime warranty). His [email protected] small house, hand built in seven days, surrounded by an assortment of sheds full of OREGON QUARTERLY is published by the UO in March, June, August, and November and distributed every imaginable tool and auto part and canned good, was a regular stop on our trips free to alumni. Printed in the USA on recycled paper. to town (Canyonville or, for big trips, Roseburg). Often some sort of car repair was Copyright 2009 University of Oregon. All rights reserved. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect involved—Raymond was a graduate of the first class of the Ford auto repair school— the views of the UO administration. but we always spent some time in his small, smoke-flavored living room, visiting. He CHANGE OF ADDRESS Alumni Records, 1204 University served instant coffee with evaporated milk in hard plastic cups, sat in his rocker, his of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1204 little old dog Queenie curled at his feet, and we talked. (541) 302-0336, [email protected] Raymond died in 1975. He had remarried and moved into Myrtle Creek. Shelley ADMINISTRATION President: Dave Frohnmayer and I had left Tiller after a year and a half, tried to go back East but realized how Senior Vice President and Provost: James C. Bean; deeply Oregon had gotten into us, and wove our way back to Eugene. We visited with Vice President for University Advancement: Michael Redding; Vice President for Finance and Administration: Raymond a few times after our return. Our son was born in 1976 and we used a C for Frances Dyke; Vice President for Research and Graduate his first name for Shelley’s grandfather Carl, and his middle initial was R for Raymond. Studies: Richard Linton; Vice President for Student Affairs: Robin Holmes; Associate Vice President for Public We never did attach a name to that initial, but we have a Rachel and Raswan among and Government Affairs: Betsy Boyd; Executive Director of the UO Alumni Association: Daniel Rodriguez the offspring of our Tiller cohort. UO INFORMATION In our early Tiller days, most locals didn’t like us. The post office routinely opened (541) 346-1000 and examined our mail. We were harassed and hassled by law enforcement and civil- ians alike. But Raymond welcomed us, helped us, tried to shelter us from the onslaught of our ignorance and naïveté about country life. He was our bridge to this wondrous but hard place called Oregon. He was our friend. Happy 150 years of statehood, Oregon.

The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, [email protected] affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available Web Extra! Go to www.OregonQuarterly.com in accessible formats upon request: (541) 346-5048. to see photos of Raymond.

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The Magazine of the University of Oregon Winter 2008 traced the Kims’ cell phone pings, and the search likely would never have been “ A couple of sleeping focused on the correct geographical area. bags in the trunk James Kim’s death is a tragedy, but Katie’s and her children’s survival is a testament or back seat may to what the technology can do to save lives. Is Everywhere Here? Indeed, the dedicated men and women of make the difference Technology and search-and-rescue organizations throughout the country use wireless technology as the in surviving if stuck Wilderness backbone of their communications efforts. Dreams change. Possibilities change. Kevin Griffith ’02 in a winter storm but your creDit union will always be yours. Life brings with it an ever-changing string of choices, chances and possibilities. But, no matter Portland how you choose to grow, the credit union you knew on campus can be there to support you. With branches in Eugene, Salem and Portland, the products and financial services you want are close by. someplace.” So, no matter how much life changes, you can still do business with a fellow Duck. Learn more at OregonCommunityCU.org. I can relate to the issues raised in the story about James Kim and Bear Camp Road couple and their baby got stuck in the snow Eugene: 541.687.2347 Portland: 503.295.2347 Salem: 503.588.2347 Out of Area: 800.365.1111 OregonCommunityCU.org [“Everywhere is Here”]. I have been across that and after a day or so attempted to walk to

OCCU 1195 - Change new ad_3.indd 1 2/13/08 11:37:38 AM road. My family and I took it in summer 2003 safety. When finally found, they were in some going from Gold Beach back to our home in cover under a large log in a sort of cave. The Central Point. Why? It was on the map, and woman, who was nursing her baby, used up Everywhere and Here it looked like the fastest way. Fortunately it so much energy, she died from hypothermia, was summer, and we could see the large por- but the man and the baby survived. I find the treatment of cellular technology tions where the road disintegrated down the You should print an article about wilder- in the article about the Kim Family’s ordeal side of the mountain. It was a slow drive back. ness survival, especially to remind folks that, [“Everywhere is Here,” Winter 2008] one- The road re-entered our lives again in sum- sided and poorly informed. The author, Lisa mer 2008 on a trip from Nevada to Oregon CORRECTIONS Polito, apparently set out to write a piece Caves National Monument. The map from regarding the false sense of security cellular Google said the fastest route was straight technology has given us. Plenty of speculation across from Phoenix, through Jacksonville, to and blame is laid at the feet of a false faith in Oregon Caves. The directions didn’t mention technology, but we see no actual evidence that that it involved a dirt road several thousand the Kims continued as a result of their faith feet up on the side of a mountain. We even- in cellular telephone communication. She tually backed down the road, like the Kims. asserts that “[t]hey never turned back because Then we went back to a store we’d seen at an they had all-wheel drive and cell phones.” intersection marked on our map at Williams. Likewise, Polito doesn’t explore the reason I asked directions, and the owner told me the the Mount Hood climbers she mentions story of the Kims and Bear Camp Road. For- were so confident. Again, she fails to pro- tunately he put us on a paved road over the We owe Phil Hansen ’67, J.D. ’70, a triple vide any evidence. Polito has no grounds mountain, which was perfect in the summer. apology. In “Better Late” (Old Oregon, Winter to infer that “cellular overconfidence” Thanks for the reminder about wisdom, cau- 2008), we misidentified the cannery where was fatal in the two cases she examines. tion, and the limits of technology. he worked. It should have been Diamond A, As a former colleague of Noah Pugsley, Lou Bubala, J.D. ’04 though he found some humor in our hearing the “resourceful if unauthorized cell phone Washoe Valley, Nevada it as “dime-a-day”—“the cannery didn’t pay engineer,” I’m disappointed by her dismis- that well, now that I think about it.” We also sive treatment of him. Noah is nothing The article about the tragic events of the Kim were wrong with his finish in the 1967 Pac-8 short of a hero and has been recognized as family [“Everywhere is Here”] omits one very championship steeplechase. He finished fourth such. Were it not for the technology Polito important fact. James Kim drove around, or as attested to by his place on the left of the seemingly reviles, Noah could have never lifted and went under, a barrier installed by medal stand in the photograph above. Finally, the Forest Service to stop people from driv- in his letter to the editor, we got the name of Oregon Quarterly ing up Bear Camp Road. To lay any blame his teammate Bruce Mortenson ’66 wrong. We Letters Policy on the searchers’ timeliness or the Forest owe him. Service is ridiculous based on this fact alone. The magazine welcomes all letters, but The Great Rotary Duck Race (“The Delight reserves the right to edit for space and I’ve been involved in outdoor activities since of the Duckie” Old Oregon, Winter 2008) is clarity. Send your comments to Editor, my school days at Oregon in the early ’60s, Oregon Quarterly, 5228 University of and it’s my opinion that the Kims made some organized by the United Rotary Clubs, which Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5228; via irrational decisions based on a lack of under- includes eleven clubs representing Spring- fax at (541) 346-5571; or via e-mail at standing of what it takes to survive in the wil- field, Cottage Grove, and Fern Ridge, as well [email protected]. derness. The story brings to mind a similar as Eugene. event that happened in the early ’60s when a

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should they get lost, be sure to stay with the [Old Oregon] you show 63,000 duckies being Duck Race tell us that between a “catch” at the car. It is the best place for safety and keeping dumped in the river, which ends up in the finish line and 150 volunteers in the water and as warm as possible. We never travel in the Pacific! While for a good cause, there’s no on shore, all ducks are removed from the river. Oregon mountain passes in the winter with- chance all those many thousands of duckies out supplies to last a couple of days in the get pulled out of the river, and they are bound Mistaken Identity car, especially extra water. A couple of sleep- to end up in the aforementioned patch. So, ing bags in the trunk or back seat may make what are the priorities being displayed here? Recent extensive research reveals that every- the difference in surviving if stuck in a winter Angela Perstein ’84 thing attributed to Alaby Blivet ’63 was actu- storm someplace. Seattle, Washington ally done by a classmate of the same name. Kenneth E. Ehlers ’65 Chuck Chicks, M.A. ’56, Ph.D. ’60 Sisters Editor’s note: Organizers of the Great Rotary Sunnyvale, California Stunning Optimism

Thomas Hager’s “Thin Air, Fat People” [UpFront, Winter 2008] was stunning in its optimism. Hager tells us that world famine is no longer a worry thanks to chemical fertilizers, and we need only improve food distribution and everyone can be fat, literally. Population will peak mid- century and all is well. To thank petroleum- based fertilizer for allowing human population to grow geometrically to the point where humans are pushing many vertebrate species to extinction is hardly a point of reassurance. Perhaps we won’t have famine to worry about but other problems are rushing in. Just before the economic crisis hit in November, world food prices were skyrocketing, largely because high oil prices were making food distribution and fabricating chemical fertilizers from petroleum expensive. The runoff from nitrogen fertilizers is creating huge marine dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, off Oregon, and elsewhere, and these fertilizers kill necessary microbes in soil and fill rivers with algae. Producing and transporting nitrogen fertilizer contributes to global warming. The answer is not to celebrate petroleum fertilizers but to move away from them rapidly toward organic, ecologically sustainable, locally based agriculture. This would help restore rivers and oceans and make people healthier. Even so, population is far too high, and our ecological problems and pandemics will take their toll well before Hager's natural population declines take place. Tom Ribe, M.S. ’90 Santa Fe, New Mexico Mixed Messages?

In “Slithy Toves Gimbling in the Gyre” [UpFront, Winter 2008], about “the patch” in the Pacific Ocean where all the plastic accu- mulates, you seem to express concern for our environment. Then in “Delight of the Duckie”

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 7 Excerpts, Exhibits, Explorations, Ephemera

Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and campaign worker Joseph S. Miller in Hawaii, 1959. I’ll Take the Cash Federal investigators filed shocking allegations in December that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the Senate seat left vacant following Barack Obama’s election. In a wiretapped conversation, Blagojevich responded to the suggestion he should “suck it up” and simply appoint the replacement Obama wanted chosen. “For nothing?” Blagojevich thundered. “(Expletive) him.” The tarnishing effect of money on the political process was an all too common sight for Joseph S. Miller ’43 throughout his decades-long career as a political operative and a Washington, D.C., lobbyist. He reflects on his life’s work in The Wicked Wine of Democracy: A Memoir of a Political Junkie, 1948–1995.

      wine” analogy a little better. If Utopians PACs to seek the political dollar. Almost and lobbying, anything to be said took over and political money were out- overnight, Washington was awash in new that hasn’t already been said a thou- lawed, slick operators would still find ways political money. Elected officials are human sand Certaintimes over? UpFront Senator Excerpts John McCain to infuse it into the process. . . . beings; they lined up at the new troughs as Iaired materialit all in his isearly unable run for to the be presi- Passage of Thompson-Hansen [post- if it was Bank Night in Canarsie. And the dency in 2000. Washington is being run, Watergate era reform legislation that made cost of campaigns skyrocketed. he reproducedsaid, by an “Iron for Triangle” the web of lobbyists, due it legal for labor unions, corporations, and As an example, Al Ullman of Oregon, money, and legislators, with the filthy lucre business trade associations to use union who became chairman of the House the connectingto copyright link. . .restrictions . and corporation money to finance the rais- Ways and Means Committee, spent less An old friend, the late Jesse Unruh, ing of money for partisan political ends] set than $10,000 in each and every campaign enhanced his political celebrity with the off a stampede similar to the Great Okla- from 1954 to 1974. In 1980, when he was wry observation: “Money is the mother’s homa Land Rush. Corporations, business defeated in the Reagan rush, his campaign milk of politics.” True, but I like the “wicked trade associations, and law firms formed cost $796,000. That is how the price of PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS WASHINGTON OF UNIVERSITY COURTESY PHOTO

8 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 politics shot up. Ullman’s case was not person or PAC could dominate. Possibly. dious Rayburn House Office Building office unusual. Congressional districts where a Yet, we all know that Washington is and opened a huge, old-fashioned safe. I sat good campaign could be made for around laced with smart lawyers who make careers in the main office, sipping the fine bour- $50,000 now demanded a million dollars of figuring ways around such obstacles. bon his secretary had poured for me. Some or more. Fundraising suddenly became a Soft money and independent expendi- time went by, and finally Watts called to me necessity and an all-consuming proposi- tures are obvious loopholes, but there for help. He was nearly blind, but hated to tion, and lobbying changed with it. . . . are others, too. Plenty of them. Short of a admit it. I entered his inner sanctorum— The new PACs proliferated. With draconian thunderclap that would ban all and was almost blinded myself! A moun- expensive media consultants suddenly money except federal financing (Theodore tain of green sat in that ancient safe, and becoming the new vogue and television Roosevelt’s idea), I don’t see anything— Watts had spilled some of it on the floor. It entrenched as the main medium of poli- McCain-Feingold or whatever—curing was high-denomination stuff, piles of $50s, tics, costs increased many fold. Entrenched the disease. $100s, and $500s. I had seen bundles of incumbents, such as Ullman, now felt the And how do you regulate the oldest cash before, but never anything like this, an need to wage full-scale media campaigns. loophole of all—cash? In all the campaigns emerald cornucopia that made me salivate. Some, who heretofore had never taken I worked, cash made up around one-third Many of the piles still had lobbyists’ cards a nickel in contributions, began shaking of contributions. That cash was historically attached. Calling in his secretary to observe every money tree in the new PAC forest. a principal coin of the political realm was the counting, I left shortly with the $52,000. My exemplar of what went wrong When I told [Kentucky Democratic politi- was a man I considered to be the mod- cian Earle] Clements about it, he chuckled ern personification of Thomas Jefferson’s Short of a draconian and his cheeks dimpled in appreciation. citizen-legislator—Dr. Thomas E. Morgan, “John’s a businessman, my boy. John’s a Democrat of Pennsylvania. First elected thunderclap that businessman!” in 1944, for decades “Doc” doubled as Lyndon Johnson loved cash and hated his district’s congressman and its leading would ban all money checks. “Cash is clean and leaves no finger- general practitioner. Tuesday to Thursday, except federal prints,” he informed me when we first met he legislated in Washington, D.C.; Friday in 1957. “Stay away from checks. Always to Monday,Certain he UpFront took care Excerptsof his patients financing . . . I don’t ask for cash. Checks can trip you up when in Washington, Pennsylvania. He seldom you least expect it.” spent materialmore than ais few unable hundred to dollars be to see anything— The late Tip O’Neill had a story about getreproduced reelected and never for thesolicited web campaign due John F. Kennedy that he loved to tell. “In contributions.to copyright Everyone restrictions in his south-of- McCain-Feingold or the 1960 campaign,” said Tip, “I was a Pittsburgh district knew him; he didn’t nobody, consigned to a minor-league cir- need to remind them at election time. He whatever—curing cuit of tank towns where I beat the drums was just what Jefferson had in mind. the disease. for money with the Democratic pols. On Then came the new PACs. Doc had my first swing from Massachusetts across a nice fellow on his staff, and he and the New York, Ohio, and Indiana, I did pretty PAC money-givers discovered each other. spotlighted when Idaho’s famous sena- good and arrived in Chicago on the eve They staged a “birthday party” for Doc at tor, William Edgar Borah, died in 1940. of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate with a $500 a head. Then an “anniversary party,” In his safety deposit box at the Idaho First bundle. Jack was in a suite at the Morrison same price. Hardly a month went by with- National Bank in Boise, investigators found getting ready, so I went there and checked out some kind of a party for Doc, belatedly $215,000 in cash, a huge sum at that time. in with my pal Kenny O’Donnell, told him basking in all the attention and money that Unspent campaign contributions, they what I had. He said for me to wait while he he didn’t need. Now, mind you, it was all decided, and finally gave the money to his checked with JFK. Then he came back and legal, and Doc did nothing wrong. No one widow. On a number of occasions, I slipped said Jack wanted to see me. He was lying bought his vote. Yet, somehow, I found it a cash-filled envelope into a legislator’s on a bed, nursing a beer, reading briefs for sad. pocket and mumbled that it was for his the debate. There are still some who will argue campaign, knowing that it would never get “Without even saying hello, he asked, that Thompson-Hansen and the 1974 there. There is, I once heard Senator Rus- ‘What you got, Tip?’ I told him, so much reforms worked, that they brought cam- sell B. Long observe, “a fine line between in checks and the rest in cash. I asked him paign finance out of the shadows and into bribery and campaign contributions, but what he wanted me to do with it. Kennedy the sunlight of full disclosure so that there I’ve never determined where it was.” waved his arm. ‘Give the checks to Kenny,’ was no longer any doubt about who was Some years ago, I was asked to put he said, ‘and leave the cash here.’” contributing to whom. True and conceded. together a media campaign for John C. Tip chuckled in appreciation. “When I It is further argued that the creation of so Watts of Kentucky, the ranking Democrat told my roommate [Massachusetts Demo- many PACs greatly expanded participa- on the tax-writing House Ways and Means cratic congressman] Eddie Boland about tion in the democratic process, the goal Committee. I did, and then told Watts that it, Eddie said: ‘It doesn’t matter whether of the American system. And with the $52,000 was needed to reserve his radio- they’re running for alderman or president $1,000 limit on individual contributions TV time and billboards. He nodded and of the United States. It’s always: Give him and $5,000 on PAC contributions, no one padded off to an anteroom of his commo- the checks. I’ll take the cash.’”

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 9 Whoops! As gasoline prices soared to more than $4 per gallon recently, cries for American energy independence grew ever more intense. One candidate to help achieve that goal, nuclear power, has vigorous supporters and detractors, all of whom might benefit from considering the issues raised by and lessons learned from the Northwest’s most notorious nuclear misadventure as chronicled in Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System by longtime UO history professor Daniel Pope. This excerpt is from the book’s preface.

 J , , P George W. Bush journeyed to the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in southern Maryland, about fifty Omiles outside Washington, D.C. Speaking there, he proclaimed, “It is time for this country to start building nuclear power plants again.” The president’s endorsement came as no surprise. The press pointed out that he was the first president to come to a nuclear plant since Jimmy Carter had gone to Three Mile Island during the Pennsyl- vania reactor’s 1979 crisis. Fewer reported two days later that President Carter himself visitedCertain the Cook UpFront Nuclear Plant Excerpts in western Michigan and offered his own support for a revivalmaterial of nuclear is unablegeneration. to “Ibe think the reproducedfuture holds great for theopportunities web due for nuclearto power,” copyright Carter restrictions stated. Although Carter had served as a nuclear submarine engineer prior to his political career, he had been viewed as generally unsympathetic to nuclear power’s growth during his term in office. Yet by 2005 a pronuclear political consensus seemed to be emerging. Even before the two presidents spoke, there were many signs of revived interest in nuclear power. Utilities, reactor vendors, and construction firms had formed three consortia to explore potential projects in the United States. The Nuclear Regula- The unfinished Satsop Nuclear Power Plant in Satsop, Washington tory Commission had, as far back as 1989, streamlined licensing procedures. The vey, 70 percent of those polled indicated sites. However, the greatest impediment Energy Policy Act of 2005 contained sev- support for nuclear power in 2005, up from to resuming nuclear construction in the eral inducements to start a new round of 46 percent a decade earlier. Communities United States is financial. Not only the nuclear construction. Rapidly rising oil and under consideration as sites appeared foes of nuclear energy but also many of natural gas prices, along with projections receptive. its corporate backers agree that investing of an imminent peak in world petroleum Yet prospects for a full-fledged nuclear in nuclear power at this point would be a output followed by a long, painful period revival in the United States are cloudy. risky venture. “Moody’s would go bananas of decline, persuaded analysts and policy Construction of the long-delayed perma- if we announced we were going to build makers to look afresh at nonpetroleum nent waste repository planned for Yucca a nuclear plant,” said Thomas E. Capps. energy sources. Even some environmen- Mountain, Nevada, seems to recede end- Capps is CEO of Dominion Resources Inc., talists had come to view nuclear power as lessly into the future. The attacks of Sep- a major electricity and natural gas supplier a preferable alternative to fossil fuels’ car- tember 11, 2001, raised concerns about and the lead firm in one of the consortia bon emissions and the climate change they terrorist attacks on reactors and raised investigating nuclear construction. Mari- caused. Public opinion was also shifting in questions about the vulnerability of lyn Kray, the president of NuStart Energy a positive direction. According to one sur- spent-fuel storage ponds at nuclear plant Development, the largest of the consortia, CREATIVE COMMONS PHOTOS BY MICAH LEMKE

10 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 the troubled history of American nuclear Rapidly rising oil projects. The court case that brought on the 1983 default was surely a legal anomaly and natural gas for the nuclear power industry. The political climate for nuclear energy, especially prices, along with in the aftermath of Three Mile Island, was substantially less welcoming than it is projections of an today. The stagflation of the 1970s and the sharp recession of 1981–1982 posed daunt- imminent peak in ing problems for finance. In 2005, only a world petroleum Pollyanna would state that such conditions could never be repeated; only a Cassandra output followed would claim they were inevitable. Nevertheless, although circumstances by a long, painful and protagonists have changed since the Supply System’s undertakings, an under- period of decline, standing of what happened in the Pacific Northwest a quarter-century and more ago persuaded analysts should prove illuminating. Will policymak- and policy makers to ers turn unquestioningly, as they did in that era, to supply-side solutions for electrical look afresh at non- energy? In a competitive utility environment, will utilities and other players strive petroleum energy to build organizational empires without the resources to succeed or the judgment to sources.Certain UpFront Excerpts know whether organizational growth will solve problems or create new ones? A gen- material is unable to be eration ago, WPPSS, the Bonneville Power wasreproduced more guarded: for “There the webis much due more Administration, and others in the utility confidenceto copyright in the new restrictions process [of regula- community professed a democratic ethos tion and licensing], but not enough yet to but often reacted to popular pressures with make a new investment. Financiers are say- hostility. Can institutions be open and ing they are not yet comfortable.” responsive to citizen, consumer, and envi- The story of the Washington Public ronmentalist concerns? When conflicts Power Supply System’s attempts a genera- arise over complex technical, legal, and tion ago to build five large nuclear power economic issues, can the judicial system plants should give utilities and financiers resolve them acceptably? In the past, civil- further reason to proceed with great cau- ian nuclear energy was intertwined with tion. The results of the Supply System’s the Cold War and nuclear weaponry. Will efforts are simple to recount: one plant our energy policies in decades to come be completed, two terminated in 1982, and calibrated with military ambitions? another two canceled in 1994, after more The Washington Public Power Sup- than a decade-long construction morato- ply System’s story is not simply about rium. Shortly before the 1982 terminations, nuclear power. It touches on some of the the agency estimated costs for building most important developments in contem- the five plants at $23.9 billion, more than porary America’s political economy: the five times the total of the projects’ initial shift from buoyant expectations of growth estimates. In 1983, legal difficulties forced to an awareness (though not always an the Supply System to default on $2.24 bil- acceptance) of limits; the intermingling of lion in municipal bonds that it had sold; military and civil institutions; the complex- this, in turn, led to a securities fraud suit ities of prediction and planning in an era of of enormous magnitude and Dickensian large-scale institutions and undertakings; complexity. the problems that arise when technological The lessons of the Washington Public possibilities outrun organizational capaci- Power Supply System debacle are ambigu- ties for large-scale projects; new forms of ous. Nuclear proponents can rightly point environmental and consumer activism; and out that the Supply System’s organizational the costs of making decisions and resolving failings were unusual if not unique, even in disputes in a litigious society.

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 11 Sweet and Sour Globalization Happy memories of food from the old country are as old as emigration and as current as globalization and gamma rays. Sonia Pai, M.S. ’01, published “Mangoes, memories—and motorcycles: The complicated politics of a beloved fruit” in the online food magazine Culinate. The article, condensed below, was selected to appear in Best Food Writing 2008. The full article is available online at culinate.com (search for “mango”).

  ,  I make room for American Harley-Davidson heard that the U.S. govern- motorcycles on its already choked roads. ment had lifted its eighteen- Do I really want to add to India’s pollution year ban on importing mangoes from problem just so I can eat some tropical fruit AIndia, I felt a little giddy. I remember eat- in America? ing these mangoes—these amazing man- And third, there’s the catch. Still wor- goes—while visiting my grandparents, ried about pests—particularly the mango aunts, uncles, and cousins in India. These seed weevil, which bores through a mango’s mangoes weren’t like the stringy, pale yel- flesh and then matures within its seed—the low ones we ate back home in Missouri, the United States is accepting Indian mangoes ones that were often sour and so fibrous on one condition: They must first be irradi- they made me feel like flossing. These were ated to destroy the weevils, which haven’t deep orange inside, buttery soft, and sweet yet made their way into North American as honey. crops. That means those delicious fruits— Indian mangoes are known as the the ones that you can spoon like custard world’s finest because they have the com- and that taste like sunshine—would have petitiveCertain advantage UpFront of being Excerpts the world’s to be zapped with gamma rays before they first. The mango tree, Mangifera indica, reached my plate. originatedmaterial somewhere is unable between to India be and All of this is, frankly, more than I want Myanmarreproduced about 4,000 for theyears web ago. dueIndians to deal with when it comes to mangoes. I have tobeen copyright cultivating restrictions them ever since, ship mangoes to the United States in 1989. don’t want to think about carbon emissions selecting and propagating the sweetest But rather than choose between two agri- and food miles or Harleys and gamma rays; fruits with the least fiber, and planting cultural evils—invasive pests or the high I just want to eat my favorite fruit. I guess, more than two million acres of them. levels of pesticides required to eradicate like my parents did when they came to this Mangoes, a symbol of love, fertility, them—the U.S. government barred the country as immigrants more than forty and good fortune, infuse Indian life and Indian fruits from American shores. Since years ago, I’ll simply have to make some culture. On special occasions, like wed- then, the Indian population in the U.S. has compromises. dings, New Year’s Day, and Diwali, mango grown from just under 800,000 in 1990 to When I have children, I’ll tuck paper leaves adorn the doorways of Indian homes more than 2.2 million in 2004, and demand towels into their shirts after dinner, like my and temples. The shape of the mango fruit for Indian mangoes has increased along mom did for me and my little brother. I’ll inspired the distinctive Indian pattern, with it. cut a mango in slivers they can slurp right known in the West as paisley, that swoops When news of the Indian mango’s off of the peel, just like my mom did, and and swirls across Indian fabrics, artwork, arrival hit, Indians all over America I’ll watch them get sticky with mango juice and the henna-inked hands and feet of a cheered. As I searched for information all over their faces and arms. Like my mom, bride-to-be. about when and where I could get them, I’ll stand over the sink, slurping the pulp Portuguese colonists brought mangoes I read as much as I could about their from the mango’s large, flat seed, until the to Africa and the Americas, where they impending arrival. Steadily, with each bit day my kids figure out it’s the best part. now grow in the Caribbean, Latin Amer- of new information I found, the thought of When they’re old enough, I’ll take ica, Florida, California, and Hawaii. But eating Indian mangoes in America became them to India during mango season, even commercial interests led growers in these a little less sweet. though it’s blistering hot. I’ll take them to a parts to breed mangoes with more, not First, there’s the rub. To get from India bazaar and let them smell the mangoes and less, fiber; the stringy fiber gives mangoes to me, these mangoes would of course have squeeze them. I’ll feed them the mangoes a more shelf-stable structure and, unfortu- to travel thousands of miles. How would their grandparents and great-grandparents nately, the texture of a wool sweater. These that fit into my growing insistence on local grew up eating. I’ll tell them how the hot, mangoes are cheaper and easier for Ameri- produce? hot sun and the brutal monsoons give man- cans to get their hands on, but as anyone Second, there’s the tradeoff. Maga- goes just what they need to grow soft and who has ever tasted an Indian mango will zines and newspapers widely reported sweet and perfect, and I’ll tell them they tell you, there’s no comparison. Period. that, in exchange for the mangoes, India won’t find mangoes like these anywhere India first applied for permission to would ease its emissions standards to else in the world. CREATIVE COMMONS PHOTO BY AMIT GUPTA

12 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 13 BOOKSHELF

Selected new books written by UO faculty members and alumni and received at the Oregon Quarterly office. Quoted remarks are from publishers’ notes or reviews.

Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) by Michael Aronson, assistant professor of English. “A fascinating and intimate view of a city and the socioeconomic factors that allowed an infant film industry to blossom.”

Frontier Publisher (Deschutes County Historical Society, 2008) by James L. Crowell ’60, M.S. ’66. The book is “the romance of a young man in a young land,” relating the life and times of George Palmer Putnam, publisher of The Bend Bulletin and twenty-three-year- old mayor of Bend at the turn of the twentieth century.

Views from Over the Hill (Vantage Press, 2008) by Victor W. Doherty ’47, M.A. ’48. “An informative collection of interesting and highly opinionated essays” covering topics from advertising to politics to sex to the author’s twenty-six-year tenure in the Portland public school system.

The Power of Sustainable Thinking (Earthscan, 2008) by Bob Doppelt, M.S. ’75, ’76, a research assistant at the UO’s Institute for a Sustainable Environment. “With practical outlines, numerous examples, and proven methods, this book gives readers the courage to transform thinking and achieve real and sustainable change.”

Live through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) by former UO journalism instructor Debra Gwartney whose “journey as a parent begins with her holding fast to a vision of a perfect family. It ends on a complex note of reckoning—she gives us a window onto her helplessness, Certain UpFront Excerpts her mistakes, anger, and fiercely overwhelming love for her children.” material is unable to be Lincoln Lesson: Reflections on America’s Greatest Leader (Southern Illinois University reproduced for the web due Press, 2009) edited by Frank Williams and William Pederson ’67, M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’79. “This excel- to copyright restrictions lent collection of essays is not only enlightening but a genuine treat to read. With such a brilliant group of contributors, how could it be otherwise?” (See story, page 50)

Excerpted in this issue:

THE WICKED WINE OF NUCLEAR IMPLOSIONS: BEST FOOD WRITING DEMOCRACY: A MEMOIR THE RISE AND FALL 2008 (Da Capo Press, 2008), OF A POLITICAL JUNKIE, OF THE WASHINGTON edited by Holly Hughes. 19481995 (University of PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY Washington Press, 2008) by SYSTEM (Cambridge Joseph S. Miller. University Press, 2008) by Daniel Pope.

14 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 An Ailey School dancer executes a grand jeté against the Manhattan skyline. Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Brian Lanker’s new book, Shall We Dance, represents his yearlong exploration of dance in its many dimensions. Lanker, a Eugene resident and longtime friend of the UO, was on campus recently discussing the book. (Image from Shall We Dance © 2008 by Brian Lanker. Used by permission of Chronicle Books LLC of San Francisco, ChronicleBooks.com)

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Music and Dance Fanfare for Oregon The University of Oregon composes a music and dance facility for the twenty-first century.

he School of Music and footage by 50 percent to 90,000, providing runoff and quiet-running, energy-efficient Dance has long been one desperately needed teaching studios, staff lighting, air conditioning, and heating of the University’s brightest offices, rehearsal areas and practice rooms that provides the controlled temperatures beacons. One of the oldest comprehen- (students were known to practice in rest- and humidity needed for temperamental Tsive music programs in the West, it’s also rooms and stairwells at night), and commu- instruments. Many of the rooms are flex- become one of the best in recent years, nity spaces. Financed by legislative bonding ible, easily converted to accommodate with faculty quality and enrollment num- approved in 2001 and a private fundrais- various kinds of teaching and performance bers soaring. The 600-seat Beall Hall, one ing campaign that exceeded matching it by practices students need to succeed in a tur- of the nation’s finest concert venues of nearly $3 million, the project was designed bulent music business that’s changing more its size, provides a splendid showcase for by a team led by Portland’s Boora Archi- rapidly than ever. everything from student recitals to faculty tects, nationally renowned for their work The project also looked beyond class- performances to appearances by some of in educational and performing arts facili- rooms. With artistic boundaries falling the world’s top chamber music ensembles. ties, including the Portland Center for the everywhere, and musical creativity ris- The school serves not only University stu- Performing Arts. ing as a result, it’s essential that students dents and faculty members, but also many The new Thelma Schnitzer Perfor- from various disciplines (performance community groups, and it hosts statewide mance Wing boasts a 3,000-square-foot and composition, say, or electronic music contests and workshops for Oregon middle instrumental rehearsal hall capacious and jazz) have informal places to talk and and high school students. enough to accommodate the entire UO show each other new ideas. “It’s common Yet the school has been a victim of its symphony. It also adds practice rooms, in almost all educational planning now own success, as the burgeoning ranks of faculty teaching studios, jazz and percus- to recognize that a lot of learning occurs top-notch students and faculty musicians sion studios, a new recording studio, and a not just in the classroom but in the cor- put untenable pressure on the 1920s-era freight elevator, which will save the backs ridors” and elsewhere, explains Tom Pene facilities, still used despite its outdated of many future percussionists who have to ’71, M.Arch. ’74, who headed the design acoustical properties. Building additions in haul literally tons of gear. team along with fellow Boora principal 1951 and 1978 failed to keep pace with the The other substantial addition, the Amy Donohue, UO adjunct professor for school’s growth. Designed for 300 music Leona DeArmond Academic Wing next architectural design. “But the building was majors, the building strained under the to Pioneer Cemetery, adds twenty-eight defined by hallways—there was no there presence of 500 majors and 4,000 nonma- faculty teaching studios, office space, there.” The spacious new lounge area and jors; the faculty and staff size has increased teaching studios for the Community Music a number of other comfortable crannies by a third in the past decade. But this spring Institute, three new classrooms (including provide such social spaces. “The idea was the school is being reborn as an architec- a sixty-five-seat music education teaching to create an area where students felt they tural makeover provides new space and lab that can double as a small and informal had a home and a center—what the Uni- facilities suitable for a twenty-first-century performance space), and more studios and versity describes as a hearth space, a gath- music school. practice rooms. The new learning spaces ering place for students to perform and just The expansion and renovation, coor- are acoustically isolated, bright with natu- hang out,” says Pene, whose class in music dinated on the school’s side by assistant ral light, and environmentally friendly— appreciation with professor Robert Trotter to the dean and project manager Janet earning a LEED Silver rating for features kindled a lifelong love of classical music, Stewart, increased the building’s square including a “green” roof that captures rain including service on the board of Portland’s

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The new Leona DeArmond Academic Wing will provide teaching studios, classrooms, performance space, and student practice rooms.

Chamber Music Northwest. The remodel designed to match the classic old building, cas. “It’s taken the building this long to brings the building into compliance with which was also spruced up. The music catch up. That’s a good problem to have. health, safety, and disabled-access codes school refurbishing, along with similar We’re going to see even more success in and adds restrooms, some of which had improvements to the College of Education the future because of the quality of these been converted to faculty offices (produc- now nearing completion, should give the new facilities.” ing both bathroom humor and long lines at University’s south side a more welcoming Still, this round of rebuilding omitted concert intermissions). And it dramatically face, and better connect the area to the a major proposed item that had to be left improves the acoustics. A stroll through the heart of campus. The project’s price tag off the list, as it would have consumed the halls of the old building was a symphony— came to $19.2 million, with the new wings entire budget: a new, flexible performance or actually a cacophony—in motion. In named after two of the three lead donors; hall that can stage the kind of multimedia, various rooms, students practiced dozens the third, Lorry Lokey, asked that the main dance, and theater performances that Beall of different instruments, playing in numer- building be named the MarAbel B. Frohn- Hall’s concert-only setting can’t. Neverthe- ous styles—not just orchestral music, but mayer Music Building, after UO President less, the architects made sure that the rede- also voice, electric and electronic sounds, Dave Frohnmayer’s mother. She gradu- signed space could easily accommodate a world music, jazz, even rock. Sound leaked ated from the school in 1932, followed by new hall someday. Maybe that’ll be the from one area to the other, giving students two of her children, both of whom went coda to the never-ending composition that an additional obstacle to overcome as they on to became music professors. “Music is the School of Music and Dance. worked to learn their already challenging was really the theme of her life,” said one —Brett Campbell, M.S. ’96 passages. of them, Philip Frohnmayer ’72, “the glue Not all the improvements took place that held the family together.” The school hosted an open house on Sunday, inside. Along with two new wheelchair The remodel produced a much more March 1, followed by a concert at Eugene’s ramps, the design included a new service inviting, embracing, efficient, and educa- Hult Center for the Performing Arts. The road, a new campus gateway structure tionally advanced music building. “Our official dedication ceremony was scheduled along East 18th Avenue, bike parking, success makes us always have to play catch for March 6. landscaping, drainage improvements, and up with facilities and furnishings,” says a brick floor for the courtyard that will Brad Foley, dean of the School of Music Web Extra! make it usable for events throughout much and Dance, who inherited the project Go to music.uoregon.edu more of the year. The new additions were from his predecessor, Anne Dhu McLu- for more information. Jack Liu

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Anthropology Oral Histories Professor John Lukacs explains why prehistoric women had bad teeth.

few 100,000 years ago, the plat du jour was fire-roasted woolly mammoth with sprin- klings of nuts, and berries on the side. AMobile bands of stone-wielding men chased migrating beasts while women for- aged for edible roots and established temporary cave shelters. In time, the constant moving got old. Quitting their nomadic lifestyle in favor of crop cultivation, most of these primitive peoples survived long enough to reproduce. They evolved into Homo sapiens farmers. Saber-tooth tigers ate the unlucky ones, who rather rapidly devolved into teeth and bones. By studying prehistoric teeth and bones, UO anthropology professor John Lukacs has shown that as hunter-gatherers settled down into agrarian communities— about 10,000 years ago—the incidence of dental caries (cavities) in women rose in comparison to their male companions. He says our ancestors’ increasingly sedentary lifestyle gave rise to women’s higher fertility rates. Linking pregnancy with higher levels of sex hormones, calcium-depleted saliva, food cravings and aversions, Lukacs says that prehistoric women’s dramatic decline in oral health was inevitable. He recently published his findings in Current Anthropology. The article ques- tioned long-standing assertions among dental anthropologists. Most of his col- leagues believe diet change and division John Lukacs examining teeth in a 250,000-year-old skull from Africa of labor among the sexes associated with agrarian cultures resulted in the difference anthropology. He wanted “to figure out who before-and-after conditions to serve as a in cavity numbers between prehistoric men is related to whom by determining biologi- model for investigating these questions. and women. Another popular theory posits cal affinity through tooth morphology.” Lukacs gathered data from 142 scien- that women have a genetic predisposition For his recent work on cavities, Lukacs tific reports on cavities—about 150,000 to cavities. But Lukacs is “absolutely con- began by comparing teeth from persons teeth—in humans living from 12,000 to vinced” that higher fertility rates also play living in western India with teeth exca- 800 years ago. He calculated that, among a significant role in explaining the disparity vated from archaeological sites on the hunter-gatherers, less than 1 percent of in oral health between the sexes. Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After finding men’s teeth showed signs of cavities while Lukacs first studied anthropology in that females suffered from cavities more about 4 percent of women’s teeth had cavi- the late 1960s at Syracuse University. His than males—both in living and ancient ties. During the transition time between father was a physician, and he says he was peoples—he wondered how lifestyle, ecol- hunter-gatherer and agriculture-based naturally drawn to biology and anatomy. ogy, genetics, and the environment affected societies, men’s cavity rate was about 2 per- In 1977 he received his Ph.D. in evolution oral health. Our ancestors’ transition from cent while women’s cavity rate was about ow l and anthropology from Cornell University, spearing woolly mammoths to grow- 6 percent. Those numbers jumped to 10 where he was first introduced to dental ing wheat and barley offered the perfect percent and 18 percent, respectively, when Jim Bar

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agrarian communities were firmly established. Lukacs’ results were clear: farming females had more cavities than their male counterparts regardless of when or where they lived. The transition from hunting-gather- ing to farming promoted a comparatively sedentary lifestyle for both sexes. Diets changed because both men and women became less reliant on hunting and more reliant on grains. Historically women had greater access to food because they were processing, storing, and cooking it. Lukacs says that all of these factors dramatically increased fertility rates. Further, he says that multiple pregnancies caused women’s saliva to become calcium depleted—the mineral was needed for fetal development—and therefore more acidic. And high mouth acidity promoted tooth decay. Lukacs expected his work to raise a few eyebrows, particularly among anthropologists who maintain diet and behavior, and not increased fertility rates, explain why agrarian women have more cavities than men. But since such research is generally considered neither glamorous nor of general interest he was surprised to learn that, earlier this year, the popular magazine Glamour ran an article on his work: Quick Journey to the Center of the Earth question: Who’s the cavity king or queen in your relationship? “My work was relevant The University’s National Geography Awareness Week celebration took on gigantic proportions 10,000 years ago,” he says. “The objective this fall when the Department of Geography hosted a twenty-foot-tall inflatable globe in the EMU of my research was not to provide health Ballroom. The hand-painted Earth balloon traveled to campus under the care of Celeste Frazier—a guidelines for modern women.” seasoned geography educator who offers “tours of the world” with her giant globe exhibit. The Lukacs is now examining the teeth of sphere’s outside shows physical features such as continents, oceans, and mountain ranges—same nonhuman primates—orangutans, goril- as any globe, only much bigger than most. What really sets this globe apart is on the inside. las, chimpanzees—for evidence of dental Groups of elementary school students visited the University to see the globe and participate disease. The project started when a stu- in geography-related events. Each group of thirty-plus children, along with parent chaperones and dent asked him to identify a skull, which a teacher, huddled together inside the globe, sitting on Antarctica. In this curious, nearly spherical turned out to be a juvenile orangutan with classroom the world’s political boundaries are all visible at a glance in accurate geographic relation a complete set of baby teeth. Four of them to one another. Frazier pointed a laser pen to highlight on the dome’s interior walls different parts had enamel defects that looked exactly like of the world included in her lessons—topics ranged from plate tectonics and climate zones to the humans’ enamel defects. “I was startled, historic silk trade route and shifting population distributions. impressed to find the same defect in not so Geography graduate student Leslie McLees helped coordinate the week’s activities. “Everyone closely related species. No one had docu- that walked inside looked awe-inspired,” she says. “We always see the Earth from the outside, and mented this before.” you can’t see that all at once. You go inside and you can. You can see it all. It’s really something, Luckacs has extended his studies to especially on that big scale.” include australopithecines—a distant The Earth balloon was a special addition to the other events (guest lectures and presentations) human ancestor—who lived about four making up this year’s National Geography Awareness Week and was sponsored by a donation from million years ago. With funds from the a UO student’s father. Geography professor Susan Hardwick met with Paul Weatherhead and his L. S. B. Leakey Foundation, Lukacs travels daughter Katie while they toured the University a few years ago. When Katie decided to attend to archaeological museums in Ethiopia, Oregon, her father contacted Hardwick and offered to cover the cost of bringing Frazier and her South Africa, and Kenya to examine their gigantic globe to campus. Australopithecus tooth collections. “The Hardwick and McLees agree the event was a success—and a lot of fun for everyone involved. results will give us a window into the health They recall with a laugh how Frazier brought the exhibit to campus rolled tightly in a duffle bag. She spread the giant balloon out across the ballroom floor and inflated it with a small fan, McLees says, of our ancestors at a stage we know nothing ESS U

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resource assistance For rural enVironMents rare prograM Rural Renewal Planners roll up sleeves to help big state’s smaller cities.

ith the econoMy tanK- ing, cities—especially rural cities—are struggling to cope with present conditions and to plan Wfor the future. A University of Oregon program is helping with that prepara- tion. Twenty-five college graduates and graduate-level students have fanned out to all corners of Oregon—from Pendleton and Vale to Warrenton and Port Orford— to work in community planning projects. The Resource Assistance for Rural Envi- ronments (RARE) program, administered by the University of Oregon’s Commu- nity Service Center, is focused on helping improve the economic, social, and environmental conditions of Oregon’s rural communities. Laurel Reimer, a twenty-two-year-old UCLA graduate, is a RARE participant working as a hazard mitigation specialist. Reimer is helping Clackamas County cities develop plans to prepare for and recover from natural hazards such as floods and earthquakes. In search of a job related to urban planning and the environment, Reimer welcomed the chance to participate in the program. “I saw the RARE program as a great opportunity for professional development, personal growth, and a chance to experience a new community,” she says. RARE participants come from a vari- Team members of this year’s community service internships from the University of Oregon’s ety of backgrounds and bring to their RARE program (photo) are now working in towns across Oregon. The map shows the communities a wide range of experiences. communities in which RARE has been active in the past fifteen years. They receive special training in areas such as citizen involvement, outreach and com- local farmers’ markets. to gain practical experience before applying munication, land-use planning, grant writ- Participants are attracted to the RARE to graduate school. ing, and project management. A full-time program from all over the country. Vir- The program is now in its fifteenth RARE worker provides community service ginia Elandt graduated from the Uni- year and has provided more than 300 par- for eleven months (1,700 hours). versity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, with ticipants to work for local communities Examples of the kinds of RARE proj- degrees in geography and urban planning. (see map). In recognition of the long-term ects that have taken place across the state She’s working with the City of Roseburg to benefits of the RARE program, The Ford include implementing a county-wide improve and revitalize the downtown area Family Foundation, based in Roseburg, has tourism master plan, facilitating the coor- and find creative ways to use vacant space given the program a three-year $235,000 dination of a “green business” campaign, and empty buildings. “I’m working directly grant. The funding will help the program designing a citizen involvement program with the City Council, Chamber of Com- plan for its own long-term growth and for a watershed council, assisting rural merce, Economic Development Commis- sustainability. The UO provided match- residents with small business skills, coor- sion, and local business owners to improve ing funds of $110,000 from the provost’s dinating development of a citywide eco- the economic conditions and provide more office and the Office of the Vice President nomic revitalization plan, and enhancing stability.” Elandt sees RARE as a great way for Research and Graduate Studies. map aNd pHoto courtESy rarE proGram

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New UO Arena to be Named for Matthew Knight The 12,500-seat arena that will replace McArthur Court will be named Matthew Knight Arena in honor of the eldest son of Nike founder Phil Knight ’59 and his wife, Penny. Matt Knight drowned in 2004 at age thirty-four. The arena, to be located at East 13th Avenue and Franklin Boulevard, is scheduled to open by the start of the Pac-10 Con- ference basketball season in 2011. Excavation work has begun and a groundbreaking ceremony took place in early February. The new arena will feature several elements of Mac Court that made the venerable building appealing to fans and student- athletes—and intimidating to opponents. Almost 2,000 seats, including nearly 1,000 in the lower level of the arena, will be allocated to students. This total is about 400 more reserved student seats than in Mac Court. The pitch of the seating—while not quite as vertical as Mac Court—is significantly steeper than almost any other arena in the country, allowing fans to be right on top of the action on the court. “The economic impact of the arena in our community, region, and state will be significant and sustained,” says UO President Dave Frohnmayer, who conservatively estimates that more than $300 million will be injected into the local economy from the construction of the facility alone.

Website Dedicated to East Campus Transformation The Matthew Knight Arena complex will dramatically change the Arena Developments look of the east side of campus. Located on the former Williams Bakery site, the arena (center) A new website allows fans to keep updated on the will face Franklin Boulevard on the north and be directly adjacent to student dormitories. The construction of the Matthew Knight Arena. Current alumni center (bottom, left and right) will help welcome visitors to campus. or soon-to-be-added content on GoDunks.net c. includes drawings of the arena’s exterior; seating s In and Allyn Ford Alumni Center will serve as the

ct Athletics Succession e configuration; ticket prices; a lighthearted compar- it University’s official welcome center for alumni, h ison of amenities between Mac Court and the new Plan Announced rc students, benefactors, and general campus visi- arena; a construction webcam; student-produced es A tors. The 60,000-square-foot facility will feature a In December, President Dave Frohnmayer and YouTube videos; comments from Oregon athletics athletics director Pat Kilkenny outlined a suc-

ociat public lobby, welcome and reception areas, a ball- director Pat Kilkenny, coaches, and administrators; room, large boardroom, several conference rooms, cession plan for several key positions in the UO d Ass n a grand opening countdown clock; and an archive multipurpose event spaces, a library and lounge Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Frohn- of some of the most memorable play-by-play calls mayer said he intends to promote Mike Bellotti, oda a area, an outdoor courtyard, and plaza spaces. The v from Jerry Allen. In addition, fans will be able to center will also serve as headquarters to the UO head football coach, to athletics director when , Vai n post their own images, videos, and comments. o Alumni Association, Office of Development, and Kilkenny steps down from the position at a time s the UO Foundation, a total of approximately 125 yet to be determined. When that occurs, Chip omp employees. Prospective students and their fami- Kelly will assume the role of head football coach. y Th Alumni Center Also es lies will meet at the center to begin campus tours Kelly has masterminded the Ducks’ offensive in the Works offered by the Office of Admissions. attack for the past two seasons as offensive coor-

ges court Matthew Knight Arena will not be the only addi- For more detailed information on the Cheryl dinator and quarterbacks coach following eight tion that will help create a dynamic new gateway Ramberg Ford and Allyn Ford Alumni Center, go to years in those same positions at the University of ng ima New Hampshire. di to campus (see map). The Cheryl Ramberg Ford www.uoalumni.com/center. l Bui

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PROFile Dennis Galvan Associate Professor International Studies

century Europe to modern-day China, Galvan’s students apply their historical and theoreti- cal knowledge to advocate for their particular position as they collectively try to solve Misericordia’s many problems. The result is an experience Galvan fondly calls “chaotic,” as students suggest ideas, challenge each other’s positions, cajole, compromise, clash, and bargain their way toward a new government. For many students, Galvan says, the Misericor- dia experience provides the moment when the term’s individual facts and ideas suddenly form a bigger truth about the complexities and challenges inherent in solving the problems of any society. Galvan’s hope is that his students—regardless of whether or not they decide to major in international studies—will be inspired by their experiences governing a fictional nation to travel, work, or study abroad in very real foreign countries. “No matter what the career you’ve chosen for yourself,” Galvan says, “international experience and exposure The Popular Republic of Misericordia isn’t a pulls you out of your comfort zone and starts country you will find listed in any atlas. You to make you look at the world through differ- can’t buy its exports and will never travel ent eyes.” there on vacation. But for the 240 students in Name: Dennis Galvan Dennis Galvan’s Perspectives on International Development class, the political, social, and Education: B.A. ’87 in international relations, economic future of Misericordia is a subject Stanford; M.A. ’90 and Ph.D. ’96 in political science, of impassioned debate. University of California at Berkeley. Galvan, an associate professor of international Teaching experience: Member of the UO inter- studies, created the fictitious nation to give his national studies and political science faculties since undergraduate students a skin-in-the-game 2001, head of the International Studies Program learning experience that sums up the course’s since 2004. Assistant professor at the University lessons. As an undergraduate at Stanford, of Florida from 1997 to 2001. Visiting lecturer at Galvan participated in a role-playing simula- Berkeley, 1996–97. tion similar to the one he’s designed for his Awards: Numerous teaching awards, including students, and he cites the experience as one the UO’s Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement of the most memorable lessons of his entire Award for Distinguished Teaching for 2008, as well education. “There’s something about it that as UO Mortar Board Professor of the Term for fall really sticks with you,” he says. 2007. On the last day of class, students convene at Off campus: A self-proclaimed “tinkerer,” Galvan Misericordia’s national conference, where they is currently building a fourteen-foot wooden sail- elect a new leader and determine the coun- boat and loves to go flat-water kayaking with his try’s economic future. Each student plays a wife and their two sons. specific role at the mock conference, acting as, for example, foreign aid donors, business peo- Last word: “We have to come to grips with ple, representatives of political parties, mem- the fact that we have one view, and it’s part of a bers of the former royal family, and leaders conversation. We need to be engaged in that con- ESS

U versation.” G of the military junta. After a term of studying AU the development of societies from sixteenth — Mindy Moreland, M.S. ’08 HN B O J

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Yes we can now show this photo taken during President Obama’s visit to the UO in May (we avoid anything remotely partisan during election campaigns). With Obama at the rally on the quad are Oregon Congressman David Wu and UO basketball coach Ernie Kent ’77.

UN in Eugene English Studies, a program that provides Iraqi The UO Center for Intercultural Dialogue is the students a self-directed online learning course new home for the UNESCO Chair for Transcultural with feedback and guidance from Oregon-based Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace—one instructors. About 300 Iraqi educators and Eng- of fifteen similar chairs worldwide. Directed by lish language learners have participated in the You’re just a click College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Pro- program so far. away from the world’s fessor Steven Shankman, the center will encour- Walker Receives greatest music. age faculty research and teaching in transcultural studies and interreligious dialogue and will initi- Distinguished ate and coordinate public programs and events. Achievement Award UO Profs Win Oregon Education professor Hill M. Walker, who has led Book Awards the UO Center on Human Development since 1982, received the 2008 Distinguished Achieve- Three UO faculty members won 2008 Oregon ment Award from the Association of University Book Awards. Law professor Steven Bender won Centers on Disabilities. In a career spanning forty- the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Non- five years, Walker, who also is codirector of the fiction for One Night in America: Robert Ken- Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, nedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity studies emotional and behavioral disorders. (excerpted in OQ, Autumn 2008). Creative writing associate professor Ehud Havazelet’s Bearing the Body won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Bartlein Named Journalism and communication professor Lauren AAAS Fellow Kessler’s Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Patrick Bartlein, professor of geography at the Land of Alzheimer’s (excerpted in OQ, Autumn University of Oregon, has received the honor of UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 2007) won the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Cre- being named a fellow of the American Association RADIO KWAX-FM 91.1 ative Nonfiction. for the Advancement of Science. At the UO since NOW BROADCAST English Online 1982, Bartlein was cited for his “major research ON THE WEB AT contributions involving modeling and visualiza- The UO’s American English Institute is helping tion of synoptic climatic and vegetation dynam- KWAX.COM Iraqis learn the English language from thousands ics, including feedback effects, across time scales of miles away via Oregon-Iraq Guided Online ranging from recent to geologic.” Jack LiuJack

24 OREGON QUARTERLY | Spring 2009 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 25 From the nun to the Knights By Eric Apalategui After hearing the stories of a few of the more than 90,000 donors to Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives, the one we most want to share is about the nun. If anyone could have taken a pass at coming to the aid of her alma mater, it’s this nun. But, honestly, we’d be remiss if we didn’t first dispatch this important bit of business:

he University of Oregon’s campaign ended December 31 There’s been a story or two about him, but none about the nun, as the largest fundraiser in state history, bringing more who didn’t forget her conversation with the student fundraiser. than $853 million to the University and raising its profile Sometime later, she calls the folks in the UO’s annual giving pro- among the nation’s outstanding educational and re- gram and says something like, “I can’t stop thinking about the stu- search institutions. dents at the University of Oregon,” recalls director Carlyn Schreck Certainly that needed to be said. Anyway, there’s this ’95. Remember, the nun has some important work of her own. Tnun who gets a call from a student fundraiser seeking alumni dona- “She felt like what we were doing here at the University was the tions in the early days of Campaign Oregon, but she must politely same as that and wanted to be part of it.” decline. Her vow of poverty made a contribution impossible, we We’re reminded here of those legions of other alumni and other can only assume. friends of the University who also made sacrifices great and small That’s obviously not the whole story, but we can’t go too far to be a part of Campaign Oregon. We can’t overstate this: Their along without telling you how the campaign actually will transform donations will change our world. They will increase our collective lives. How, for example, there is enough money to offer scholar- knowledge, boost employment and our economy, enrich our cul- ships and fellowships to hundreds of additional talented students ture, and enhance our lives. It’s even possible those dollars, put in every year, and even more support for recruiting and retaining the the right hands, one day will help cure cancer, end global warming, best faculty. Or how, once opportunity brings all those bright folks or get the Ducks into the BCS title game. here, they will find so many new hubs of discovery, including amaz- Whoa, there. Let’s come back to Earth a moment to the day ing, top-of-the-line facilities for the sciences, business, music, edu- an envelope arrives from Mexico. Inside are a collection of U.S. cation, theater, art, and other disciplines, with more new buildings coins— nickels, dimes, quarters—adding up to five dollars. Most of and major renovations on the way. Or how a new baseball park, a us have that much in a dish somewhere, but it’s everything the nun future basketball arena, and other athletic upgrades will keep the can spare. Schreck couldn’t be happier if it were a million dollars Ducks soaring and fans flocking to Eugene, giving a booster shot and deposits it in the general scholarship fund. to a swooning economy. “We talk to so many people,” she says. “Every now and then, All right, you can read quite a bit more about that success else- somebody reminds you of the great work you do.” where in this issue and online (campaign.uoregon.edu). Back UO President Dave Frohnmayer, whose passion helped drive to the nun, who after that chat with the student returns to Mexico, this campaign to unprecedented heights, appreciates everyone where her sacred calling is helping at-risk children. who contributed: “The number and range of people who cared Let’s be real, here. This anonymous nun really isn’t the reason enough about the University to contribute to Campaign Oregon is Campaign Oregon exceeded its fundraising goal by well over simply stunning. They range from a woman who has taken religious $200 million. We believe in giving credit where it’s due. The Uni- vows of poverty to an Oregon native who gave to an institution in versity is fortunate to have a few donors capable of making a big the state of his origin even though he never attended the University difference, including the UO’s all-time leading booster. Let’s ex- and lives elsewhere. All are united by a common mission to help tend the favor of anonymity and just say he’s an entrepreneur who our students, reward our distinguished faculty, and build an endur- has built up a bit of an apparel business since the days he sold ing institution of excellence in one of the world’s most beautiful track shoes out of the back of a Plymouth Valiant. And added a places. swoosh. And became one of the UO’s most famous graduates and “My response to this generosity is both professional and per- Oregon’s richest resident. And over the years, with his wife, gave sonal. Everyone who gave to the University made a sacrifice. I can- millions of dollars to University athletics and academics. And, quite not tell you how moved I am by each of those sacrifices and the literally, changed the campus landscape. evident affection for the University each reveals.”

26 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 “It’s a pretty great place” Megan Ward ’08 When she was fi ve, her mother prospective medical student showed her the hospital neonatal unit where she spent her fi rst days clinging Megan Ward is no stranger to the long to life. “I tapped my Mom and said, ‘I’m haul. going to be a doctor someday, and I’m not A long-distance runner who qualifi ed going to make the babies cry.’” for this year’s Boston Marathon, the 2008 Ward went on to compete in track, graduate in human physiology took time volleyball, and basketball at Henley High off from studying for her Medical Col- School near Klamath Falls, and her excel- lege Admission Test (MCAT) to sit for an lent academic and extracurricular record interview. earned her one of the fi rst Giustina Foun- Ward’s in an enviable position now, dation Presidential Scholarships endowed especially considering she narrowly sur- during Campaign Oregon. vived being born two-and-a-half months She already had attractive offers to premature. attend other colleges, but her parents’ “I was pretty sick the fi rst couple of alma mater was her fi rst choice. years of my life,” she says. “My parents “The atmosphere on campus and always joked that they think that’s where Eugene as a whole—it’s a pretty great I got my determination. They say I was a place,” she says. “With that [scholar-

Michael Michael McderMott fi ghter from the moment I was born.” ship], how could you not come here?” “Not today” W. Andrew Marcus geographers using exciting advances in professor aerial photography and satellite imagery technologies to document even minuscule Professor Patricia McDowell, then head changes in river systems. Tracking those of the UO geography department, sum- changes, in turn, teaches us how human moned colleague W. Andrew Marcus activities inﬂ uence water quality and to her offi ce one day two years ago and habitats necessary to sustain fi sh, wild- handed him a letter announcing his selec- life, and people. tion for one of the University’s fi rst twenty His spirits soaring, Marcus stopped Fund for Faculty Excellence awards. by his mailbox on the way back to his The prizes, funded with a $10.4 mil- offi ce. There among the envelopes was lion gift from super-donor Lorry I. Lokey, an invitation to apply for a position with a include salary supplements and research research group that a large public univer- support in an effort to retain and recruit sity was forming in Marcus’ specialty. world-class faculty members. The offer was ﬂ attering. “I’m pretty “Having a really formal acknowledg- sure I would’ve applied for that position ment that the University values you and about fi fteen minutes earlier,” he says. wants you there goes a long way in mak- “Literally, I just looked at it and said, ‘Not ing you happier in your home setting,” today,’ and put it in the recycling.”

says Marcus, who is among the pioneer Michael McderMott

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 27 “Busting his buttons” George Weyrens Weyrens retired in 1987 and died UO staff donor in 2001, not long after Perrin convinced him to make a will so his money wouldn’t His attorney thinks George Weyrens must simply go to the state, because Weyrens be up in heaven “busting his buttons” over had no close living relatives. He didn’t the idea that his life savings one day will designate a beneficiary for the bulk of his help young people get a college degree. estate, but he entrusted Perrin with that Weyrens, who was developmentally responsibility. disabled, went to the UO not as a student Perrin donated $22,000 from Wey- but for his job as a janitor. He was gentle rens and added $3,000 of his own money and kind—but so reclusive he had no so- to meet the minimum requirement to cial life and so frugal he wore his uniform endow the George Weyrens Scholarship at home and ate all meals with his one Fund in 2004, during Campaign Oregon. plate, fork, spoon, and knife. Whenever possible, the scholarship “Nobody knew George Weyrens,” will be awarded to children of UO Facili- says Marc Perrin ’78, J.D. ’81, of Eugene. ties Services employees or to special- “They might’ve seen him in the back of needs students. “I know George, in his Emerald Hall, pushing dust bunnies.” own way, would have been very proud.” p rovided Perrin by Marc Photo Photo “Nothing more honorable” John Manotti never attended the University. fundraiser The fact is, Manotti initially resisted being the subject of this story because When you walk around the Lorry I. Lokey he likes it behind the scenes and doesn’t Science Complex, you won’t see “John feel like he should be singled out for the Manotti” on any of the buildings. But if spotlight. Or, in his words: “It’s such a you dusted for figurative fingerprints, the team effort. It is by no means that ‘Mr. UO fundraiser’s mark is all over the place. Fundraiser’ goes out and does this all by Lokey’s the headline story. He’s the himself.” Stanford graduate who has given $132 But his work undeniably illustrates million during Campaign Oregon, the guy how fundraising is changing the face of who relishes the transformation that shar- the campus. ing his wealth has made possible at the “People don’t have to give to charity. University, the guy whose contributions It’s our job to inspire them, in a way. The President Dave Frohnmayer says have reality is, a dollar goes further here than “the potential to change the world as we at Stanford or Berkeley,” Manotti says. know it.” “If I don’t ask these people for money, Manotti’s the charismatic guy who nobody’s going to,” he adds. “There’s first sat down with Lorry in the Bay Area nothing more honorable than raising

to tell him about the potential for great money for a cause you believe in.” Michael Mcder m ott things in Eugene, even though Lokey

28 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 Big Pie Science allie McKenzie ’02, M.S. ’03, stud- ments help archaeologists track nanodia- ies the chemical properties of monds as clues of the possible impact of a nanoparticles to unlock their po- comet that wiped out early inhabitants of tential for human progress without North America, assist geologists evaluating unleashing perils upon the planet. the eruption hazards of volcanoes, allow Over in the psychology depart- geneticists to study zebrafish in ways that L ment, Cara Bohon interprets the human could lead to cures for human diseases, and brain’s unique responses to stimuli to help enable chemists to advance solar-cell tech- discover the devastating mysteries of eating nology to help some day to reverse global disorders. warming. “The sky’s the limit,” Donovan These 2009 doctoral candidates are says. Michael Michael Mc D er m ott two among the many faces who make up The lab brings together the University’s the future of science—a future that seems student and faculty researchers with indus- Lallie McKenzie ’02, M.S. ’03 to have arrived early at the University of Or- trial scientists who can lease access to the egon, thanks in large part to the fundraising equipment and even rent lab space on site. success of Campaign Oregon. Sharing the instruments not only makes the “We’re building on a tradition of excel- lab more cost-effective but also lends to lence and innovation and creative discov- productive collaborations between public ery,” says Rich Linton, vice president for and private researchers across the scientific research and graduate studies. He says spectrum, Donovan explains. the UO, long a leader in interdisciplinary “The idea here is,” he says, “let’s make research, is at the forefront of what’s now a really big pie and everybody gets a slice.” called “supradisciplinary science,” where Lallie McKenzie’s slice of the pie, for different areas of scientific research cross- example, is working with Hutchison to find fertilize and strengthen one another. “We’re ways to make chemical processes involved in the process of a major culture shift that in the creation of nanomaterials less waste- way in the sciences.” ful or toxic. “If you look at chemistry as B auguess Nowhere is this shift more evident a solution to the world’s problems,” says than at the new Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories, McKenzie, winner of the prestigious 2008 John named after the University’s record-setting Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award for Cara Bohon academic donor. green chemistry, “it gives you a more hope- Stepping into the complex, burrowed ful view of your ability to change the world.” form the University as their contributions below the lawn next to Huestis Hall, is a Bohon’s research, working with lead attract matching funding from public and little like walking onto the set of a fantasti- scientist Eric Stice ’89 of the Oregon Re- private sources to support students, faculty cal futuristic science fiction movie. The lab search Institute in Eugene, similarly benefits members, and other researchers and im- contains one of the world’s best collections from access to the functional magnetic prove the places where they do their work. of high-powered electron microscopes resonance imaging (fMRI) machine at the Next, work will begin in 2010 on the and other advanced instruments, allowing Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, made pos- $65 million, 100,000-square-foot Robert and scientists to “see farther, deeper, and with sible with a donation from Beverly Lewis ’48 Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building, more clarity” than just about anywhere and her late husband, Robert ’46, who met which not only will house an improved neu- else, says John Donovan, director of the while UO students. roimaging center and connect to the Lokey Microanalytical Facility. Just as critically, “We are a very unique site, in that we Laboratories, but it will also open doors of the building is carved into the top ten feet of don’t have to share with anyone else and discovery to even more students and scien- rock that extends deep into the Earth, giving that we were designed from the get-go for tists across campus. it the fewest disruptive vibrations among research,” says MRI technologist Scott Wa- “I think there’s a lot of excitement similar labs. trous ’82, M.S. ’85. about the future,” says Karen Guillemin, an “There’s no facility that we know of in “It’s a humdinger of a magnet,” says associate professor of biology who hopes the world that is like that one,” says Jim Helen Neville, director of the Brain Develop- to expand her research using zebrafish as Hutchison ’86, the UO’s associate vice presi- ment Lab, whose research using the fMRI models to learn more about human diseases dent for research and strategic initiatives already is demonstrating exactly how such as cancer. and among the world’s leading research- fostering language development with young Even with a building boom in the sci- ers in nanoscience and green chemistry. Head Start children is promoting beneficial ences, the UO’s overall program won’t be Financed by one of Lokey’s donations, state physical changes in the brain. “Everybody as massive as those at the nation’s largest bonds and lottery funding, and other private likes the idea that you’re taking the results research institutions. The point is not to be gifts and industry support, the lab opened of basic science and looking at the implica- the biggest but—with talent, focus, and last year. tions of those results for real practices in funding—to be among the best. Even Donovan, who left the University the world,” she says. “The Lewis gift just Or, as Linton likes to put it, “We’re large of California at Berkeley for the opportunity made it all possible.” enough to be great and small enough to be to help design and operate the facility, can’t Lokey, the Lewises, and the many other greater.” imagine all of its possible uses. The instru- donors to UO science will continue to trans- —E.A.

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 29 “A new angle in understanding” Jennifer Pfeifer assistant professor. “There’s a nice, broad neuroscientist level of support for what I do.” Campaign Oregon helped boost fund- Jennifer Pfeifer arrived on campus in the ing for research and established the Lewis fall prepared to unlock one of the great- Center for Neuroimaging, which houses est and most frightening mysteries of the Pacific Northwest’s only functional humankind—the inner workings of the magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adolescent brain. machine devoted entirely to scientific With degrees from Stanford and discovery. UCLA and a reputation as an up-and- With the fMRI, Pfeifer and her re- coming psychology researcher, Pfeifer search team can detect differences in could have landed just about anywhere. brain processing as children transition She fondly recalls band concerts at the into puberty and seek to answer for University while attending high school themselves such questions as, Who am I? in Clackamas, but she wouldn’t have re- Where do I fit in? What am I good at? turned to Oregon just for that. Now Pfeifer is focusing some of her “The psychology department here in research efforts on children with develop- general is fantastic. They’re really strong mental disorders such as autism, explor- in the cognitive neurosciences and in de- ing “a new angle in understanding what

Michael Michael Mcder m ott velopmental psychology,” says Pfeifer, an difficulties they face.” “The generous choice” Steve Sandstrom ’78 has branded products at small agencies, graphic designer and donor for Nike, and now as founder and creative director of Sandstrom Partners. The Port- Steve Sandstrom says he transferred to land graphic design firm has had mega- the University to watch one campus icon clients such as Levi’s and Miller Brewing, (Steve Prefontaine) run, but he left nearly but it is best known for creating a brand having run another (Donald Duck) out of image from scratch, like they did for Tazo town. Tea Company, or refreshing the images “That was always a thrill to go watch for existing companies such as Full Sail your hero trounce everybody,” Sandstrom Brewing. says about Prefontaine. His UO mentor’s death inspired It was another person’s idea to have Sandstrom to again stoke change on the the outspoken Mallard Drake replace Don- UO campus, where he contributed to the ald as the UO mascot, but as the cartoon David Foster Endowment to support inno- character’s creator, Sandstrom became vative education. He now is on the School the face of the campaign. This time, it of Architecture and Allied Arts’ advisory S andstro m was Mallard who got trounced. board of visitors. He also annually donates Sandstrom drew “Duck Soup” for the both cash and creativity to the University S teve Oregon Daily Emerald as a special studies in part because Foster and other out- ourtesy

project under art professor David Foster, standing educators made “the generous C who gave his student both the guidance choice” to go into teaching, even though and the freedom to develop his own tal- the pay would be better in business or ent. entertainment or sports. If Sandstrom’s edgy cartoons helped “We as a society don’t support that shape the UO culture of the late 1970s, enough,” Sandstrom says. “A guy could his success today as a graphic designer is have a decent four days of golf and make doing much the same on a wider canvas. more money than a Nobel Prize winner.” Since graduating in fine arts in 1978, he

30 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 “The chances that I’ve had” Rhea Cramer ’08 some kind of tragedy,” Cramer says. “Hav- graduate student ing a single mom and seeing the sacrifices that she made makes me appreciate When Rhea Cramer was growing up in everything.” Oakridge, her mother worked as many as One thing she appreciates is the three jobs. Yet Cramer didn’t realize she Oregon Community Credit Union tuition was poor until she applied for college finan- scholarship that enabled her last year to cial aid. Nor did she recognize until starting become the first in her family to earn a course work in family and human services college degree. During Campaign Oregon, at the University how much her mother, the credit union expanded its long-standing Gienia Baines, overcame to provide a scholarship program to reach more stu- stable environment for six children, includ- dents like Cramer, who is now a role model ing an autistic youngest son and three in her own family. Brother Jacob attends drug-affected nephews she adopted. Oregon, and Baines is now following her Baines’ four siblings have struggled daughter’s footsteps into the family and with drug addiction, mental health prob- human services program. lems, homelessness, or incarceration. “My Cramer, who is married, is working on mom’s the only one who’s come from the a master’s degree in special education, same background and been able to turn with an emphasis in early intervention. Her

Michael Michael Mcder m ott that around and break that cycle,” even career plan? Throwing lifelines to pull chil- though she left home young and was a dren and families from tumultuous lives. teen mother. Her marriage to Cramer’s “I know what kind of life people lead father didn’t last. when they don’t have the chances that “I don’t want my life to sound like I’ve had.”

Campaign Oregon ended without one of its heroes.

Randy Papé ’72, campaign chair, died in November 2008. “Though Randy is no longer with us, his bright spirit lives on, in the people and programs being transformed as the result of his absolute certainty that Campaign Oregon would be a success,” said UO President Dave Frohnmayer. A noted Eugene businessman, Papé was CEO of The Papé Group, the company his grandfather started in 1938. He also cofounded Liberty Financial Group and served for seven years on the Oregon Transportation Commission. He and his wife, Susie Yancey Papé ’72, met at a Duck football game, and Randy’s unwavering support of the University continued throughout his life. He served on the UO Foundation Board of Trustees for a decade. He also served on the boards of numerous community nonprofits, including the Nature Conservancy, the Boy Scouts of America, and the United Way. He is survived by three sons—Christian ’01, Ryan ’97, and Jordan, MBA ’06— and six grandchildren. Michael Michael Mcder m ott

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 31 Michael Michael Mcder m ott What’s Next?

ampaign Oregon: ample, Oregon is among the smallest ishing the UO’s new Academic Plan, Transforming Lives didn’t public schools of sixty-two research a broadly ambitious blueprint for the just raise $853 million for institutions in the influential Associa- future. Priorities established in that the University of Oregon. It tion of American Universities, where plan will suggest many of the goals of raised expectations. it must keep up with larger public and University fundraising for the coming “It’s an interesting exer- wealthier private campuses to main- decade. cise to walk around the campus and tain that status. Expectations are starting high. Ctry to find a spot not affected by the “It basically is our ticket to being The University could use a confer- campaign. It’s nearly impossible to at the table in defining how higher ence center and at least one more do,” says Allan Price, former UO vice education develops,” Bean says of science building. Prince Lucien president for university advancement. AAU membership. “You want to be Campbell Hall needs an upgrade. “This campaign will go on transform- among the people who are writing the The School of Architecture and Allied ing lives for generations.” book, not the people who are reading Arts, now scattered around campus, When Price, who now leads fund- the book.” would benefit from a central building. raising efforts at Oregon Health & Bean believes the broader base Undergraduate and graduate stu- Science University in Portland, arrived of supporters built during Campaign dents, and their professors, will need in Eugene earlier this decade to be- Oregon leaves the UO prepared to more support. And so on. come chief architect of the campaign, attract a steadier $90–$100 million a So while everyone celebrates the the UO’s state funding had been cut year in donations to continue to raise transformational successes of Cam- to the bone. “There was a great deal expectations for students, faculty paign Oregon, “There’s still a lot of of pride in being a place that did more members, and alumni. work that needs to be done,” Bean with less. That’s a good thing in that a These days private fundraising says. “We’re better than we would dollar invested here goes a long way. helps fill the gap left by shrinking sup- be [without the campaign] and not What’s more important is becoming a port from state coffers, which at one as good as we could be. That means university that wants to do more with time contributed about 40 percent of that we don’t have a party and shut more. Then we can take control of our the UO budget but now accounts for down.” own destiny.” just 13 percent, Bean says. “There “The impact of the current cam- are those who probably still pine for Eric Apalategui ’89 is a Beaverton paign will still be felt for many years,” the days when the state funded the writer who suspects his very modest says Jim Bean, UO senior vice presi- University, so that fundraising wasn’t donation to Campaign Oregon, rather dent and provost. “It really raises the necessary,” he says. “That’s not an than that “high cost of bronze vowels” capabilities of both our students and argument worth having. The reality is, excuse, is the real reason his name our faculty here.” this is how the University will be suc- has not been attached to any new UO Bean says the campaign’s successful in the future.” buildings. His last piece for Oregon cess “certainly keeps us in the arms Bean already is plotting that future Quarterly was “The $7 Billion Call” race among elite institutions.” For ex- success by shepherding a group pol- (Winter 2008).

32 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 Campaign goals Outcome

• Raise $600 million • $853,120,266 raised

• Raise $100 million for student support • $99. 8 million raised

• Raise $167 million in endowed funds • $362.5 million raised

• $106.1 million raised • Increase faculty support ($96.7 endowed)

• Increase academic and program support • $186.1 million raised

• Improve academic facilities • $138.2 million raised

Number of Individual Donors: 90,418 • Double annual fundraising from $45 million to $90 million per year • Average of $106 million, 2001–08 ALUMNI 36,943 • Increase alumni giving rate from 12 percent to 18 percent • 17 percent in fi scal 2008 CORPORATIONS/FOUNDATIONS 4,992

FACULTY/STAFF 1,240

FAMILY FOUNDATIONS 426

FRIENDS 3 5,14 5

PARENTS 11,672

Building Key for Cover Artwork Projects supported by Campaign Oregon

Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building HEDCO Education Building MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building James F. Miller Theater Complex Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn Ford Alumni Center Matthew Knight Arena Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Museum of Natural and Cultural History Many Nations Longhouse Lillis Business Complex, including Peterson Hall Autzen Stadium P.K. Park Lewis Neuroimaging Center Powell Plaza/Hayward Field Lorry I. Lokey Education Building

For more campaign facts, stories, and videos go to campaign.uoregon.edu

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 33 Home anD oregon’s 150TH annIversary of sTaTeHooD By robert Leo Heilman | Photos by michael J. Lessner

e made our three-hundred-and-sixty-third, and fi nal, monthly land payment, just a few weeks ago. Well, actually, I puttered about in the kitchen while my sagacious wife, Diane, wrote out the check and addressed the envelope. It was a good feeling to know that a full third of a century after our arrival in Oregon the old shack by the railroad tracks andW two acres of serpentine soil was wholly ours. Seeing her sitting there at the dining- room table, two thoughts occurred to me nearly at the same moment. “Sine qua non,” I thought fi rst—Without whom nothing. We never could have made it through the past thirty-eight years without each other. And then, sudden-like, a shotgun- toting TV hillbilly appeared in my imagination. I looked at my dearest, frowned at her, and in my best pseudo-Ozarkian accent deadpanned an old movie cliché, “Th is here’s Heilman land, mister.” It worked; she smiled.

34 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 individual protests against an arid equivalent of a homestead shack of the death, heroic somehow in their struggle sort that used to house my grandpar- to survive. Here in western Oregon ents, a temporary solution to the need I saw a tangled forest feast of living for a roof over our heads, run-down things busily devouring the dead and now and not much longer for this each other. It just didn’t seem right— world. The trailer was moved here to the vegetation was predatory. this hillside in 1972, onto a thin, mar- I couldn’t escape the feeling that this ginal strip of ground wedged between overly verdant land might eat me, too, the county road and the railroad tracks. and hide my skinny young corpse be- I hope that the next house will fit our neath a dimly lit blanket of green oxalis needs and the needs of the land better and red duff. It seemed a frightening than the old one. After three decades thought back then, even though, at age here on the place, I know that I under- eighteen, I felt sure that I would live stand this place more fully and I hope forever. Now, with the passage of time, that time has given me the insightful the notion of lying beneath blankets of wisdom to do better. hardwood leaves and evergreen needles forever comforts me. he phone rang the other night and the caller iane and I went to a turned out to be a pollster, housewarming the other mispronouncing my surname day. Shannon’s place up at and eager for answers to the the north end of the county Tquestions of the day. has been in her family since “Do you think that Oregon is head- theD 1840s, and the event celebrated ing in the right direction?” he asked the renovation of the newer of the first without so much as a neighborly property’s two houses, this one a mere “How do you do?” 120 or so years old. She and Daniel had I couldn’t come up with an honest done a wonderful job, but it was a hot answer because a sudden swarm of im- day and a crowded house and I took pertinent questions hovered about me. my sweetheart for a short, cool walk “Heading” somewhere? The whole state down to “The Old Place,” built in the of Oregon is going some place? Why mid 1850s, back in the pre–Civil War wasn’t I told about it? Come to think Oregon Territory times. of it, I had heard that it was heading There is a certain sort of beauty to due east at about 500 miles-per-hour old homesteads, one that accrues over along with everything else at this lati- the long years of human habitation. tude. Then there’s the other direction, Home and Oregon’s 150th anniversary of statehood ’d had my doubts about the After the early mistakes have been westward with the drifting continental place when I first saw it. It corrected and generations have added plates. And then, given the erosion rate, By Robert Leo Heilman | Photos by Michael J. Lessner seemed too exposed, too small, to their comfort and shaped the land- it is true that this entire county is head- too thick with yellow star thistle scape to fit their ways, the place itself ing downriver to Reedsport. And none and poison oak. But then, at matures, though slowly, much more of these physical movements are of oneI time the landscape of Oregon slowly than the shorter lives of those much concern to me. seemed downright creepy to me. In who shape it. With maturity comes real Of course, I knew that he was talk- the spring of 1970, about a week after character, for the older it gets and the ing metaphorically, as if the passage of the Kent State University shootings, longer that people live there, the more time in Oregon and the occurrence of I passed through the state after living it becomes distinctly itself. social and political changes here were in northern New Mexico for several By contrast, our own wholly owned aspects of an actual journey, which it months. Being accustomed to walking piece of Oregon has barely begun to clearly is not. But if it were, well, what through the austere, open high-desert adjust to the land and to time. We then? Some things Oregonian seem to country, this tall and green land felt live in a 1968 Nashua trailer, already me to be going quite well, others not threatening, closed-in, a dark and dangerously obsolete by any building- so well. It was all much too compli- dampish place where things rot and code standards and probably a good cated. What could I honestly say? I had decay. The desert’s scattered and small ten years past what anyone expected of reached a state of mental overload in a plants had seemed beautiful, little its planned lifespan. It is the modern matter of seconds.

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 35 “Dude,” I pointed out, “you went and of Oregon”—but I can’t really bring political, cultural, and other societal skipped a step—you never asked me myself to care much about either of ties. Love—the act itself rather than whether I want to answer your ques- those. I suppose that, like myself, when the associated emotion—requires tions or not.” most Oregonians say “Oregon,” what personal engagement. At best I can “Oh . . . Well, then, would you be they mostly mean is “my home.” include the “Great State of Dela- willing to take part in the survey?” People cannot love abstractions ware” within a generalized patriotism This second question was much (though they may be fond of speak- that embraces the nation itself. easier to answer honestly, “No, not ing in them). Even what isn’t abstract Of course, whenever I return across really.” but is merely remote cannot be as ef- the state line back into my Oregon, fectively loved as what is near. There I feel a sense of relief and a content- ’m not sure what people mean is a sort of geographical hierarchy ment that I can only feel here. But when they say “Oregon.” It seems of affection that is natural to all hu- then, I feel it again, only stronger, when simple enough—a geographical mans. I cannot, for example, honestly I enter Douglas County and see any designation for a part of the say that I love Delaware, a place I’ve of my beloved Umpqua River valleys Earth and for the 150-year-old never been and which I have never and strongest yet when I turn down Ipolitical entity spoken of in quaintly desired to visit—yet one to which I my own driveway. Within me my al- ornate rhetoric as “The Great State have very real historic, economic, legiances lie in layers like a set of those

36 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 only inevitable and unremarkable. works out to be a very good thing for We are happy because we continue most people. We learn, over time, to to exist in spite of all the things be more decent in our treatment of that could have destroyed what we each other. Oregon’s 1859 constitution love—each other and our place here. provided for whipping black Ameri- So many things can pull apart a state, cans for the crime of residing within a society, a marriage, and a family the state for longer than two years that we feel lucky to have survived. and also denied all women the right Death is our constant companion, to vote. We learn how to do things sitting patiently by us all of our lives, better, and that is cultural change, teaching us to appreciate life and each from which political change follows. other, bringing us to understand the roots of compassion. In the end, each ur road is old—older of us must die. Someday, all that we than both of us put have worked for will be lost and for- together—though not gotten. Someday this Oregon we’ve as old as the hillside it loved so carefully for a century and crosses. We walk, two a half now will no longer exist. This agingO lovers who are friends, two is what makes it worthy of our af- golden retrievers who are sisters, fection, that it, like us, is transient, and, trailing behind, a half-Siamese and our triumph, only temporary. kitten who adores the dogs. We walk Appreciating our luck is a part of through tunnels of bright early-fall this urge to celebrate, but only a part. leaves, yellow big-leaf maple and now- We also celebrate the necessary good golden oaks, and, below them, the work without which there would be bright red of poison oak back lit by no surviving. Skillful work, attentive the glow of late afternoon sunlight. work, informed work, lovingly done As we walk, it occurs to me that I work: these are essential aspects of can no longer walk this road without both a well-lived life and of a truly vi- being in sight of some place or an- able culture. It is not through the great other to which we’ve attached stories: enterprises nor as a mass that we do here we found a kitten, there a naked good in the world but by individual midnight hitchhiker stood, and be- small, immediate, and informed acts. yond that the slope where our errant At heart, it is caring that keeps an cow was wandering, the places where individual sane and that keeps a fam- various teenagers have driven over ily intact and a society from collapse. the bank, old landslides, and the fallen What is a well-run state if not a place trunks of once-tall trees. Overlaid on Russian nesting-dolls: my little bit where people can and do care about the road of today is another, a road of of land enclosed by Orchard Valley each other and about their land? memories, of old desires, of triumphs which contains it; the valley contained People, it seems, are overwhelm- and tragedies, and both roads stretch within the county; the county within ingly decent—otherwise there would on. We walk, hand-in-hand, not just the state; the state within the nation; be no continuation of life. It is the through space but through time as well and on out toward the world itself. fact of continuing survival that gives and, once in a great while, we pause to us hope. For many years I have been consider just how unlikely we are. regon has reached the fond of telling people that I’m always venerable age of 150 years, optimistic in the long run and pes- Robert Leo Heilman lives in Myrtle and we have lived on our simistic in the short run. Everything Creek and is the author of Overstory: place for 30 years. What is always seems to be heading straight Zero: Real Life in Timber Country. it that we celebrate when off to Hell in a handcart when weO commemorate an anniversary if looked at on a day-to-day basis. Web Extra! Go to not some large or small triumph over Democracy, like marriage, is often OregonQuarterly.com to read two entropy, chaos, and death? The mere a messy, uncomfortable, and doubt- Robert Leo Heilman essays, “Death passage of time is not something ful way to manage things. But, looked of a Gyppo” and “Of Terror,” previously worthy of celebration. In itself it is at over the long haul, it somehow published in Oregon Quarterly.

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 37 The Logic of

WildBy Michael Strelowfl • Photoso by Robinwers Cushman

ome time ago I was how north, south, east, west I was. In living in Madrid for Madrid, I realized I needed to know all a year, and about the these things flowers tell before I got . . . middle of February what? Comfortable? Acclimated? Lo- I felt an uneasiness, cated? At home? a kind of malaise I Years later, I now live with house couldn’t identify. My plants that I push and shove into work went well, my bloom—African violets, Cyclamen, family was with me, life was a daily a persnickety Phalaenopsis orchid— adventure—what was wrong? I took out of season, out of rotation. They a walk on a sunny, cool afternoon in a begrudgingly bloom for me (except Slarge park, the Retiro, and found daf- the African violets, which seem to like fodils blooming against a wall where being pushed around). I wrench their the day heat had seduced these bulbs to clocks and calendars around with heat be the first bloomers of spring. I looked and food like a cranky god amusing at more plants and found buds, and himself. But I know outside my door suddenly I felt the unease melt away. are the wild rhododendrons, bear grass, I realized that on the city streets I had Penstemon of the high Cascades, the not been able to locate myself in the Lewisia and Clarkia—all my Oregon seasons. I knew it was somewhere in and western guides. They are my par- spring, but I was missing all the clues I ents in the cosmic sense; they explain was used to in Salem—heather, crocus, my location and teach me where I am:

daffodil, star magnolia, Photinia—each Alpine meadow wildflowers—lupine, Indian they father my moods and mother my in turn telling me where my days were paintbrush, and arnica. facing page: Hillside yearnings after a place in the world. located in the year. I returned to the of Nootka rose and field lupine. Perfectly comfortable within the park nearly every day for an hour or so world’s absurdity, I could find myself to keep my sense of when I was, so I the first time a patch of Central Oregon homeless without its natural logic. I could work on where I was in that for- Clarkia that looked like it had been grew up absurd. To save ourselves in a eign land. sewn in one toss of a giant hand, down nuclear attack we were taught in grade Back in Oregon and remembering a small depression and up the other school to duck under our desks. Later my Spanish adventure, I began to think side—one swipe of hot pink in the gray- a dropout from the London School of about how the wildflowers must have green high desert. Then came a succes- Economics in a band called the Rolling done the same job of locating in time sion of other wildflowers: buckwheat, Stones sang in an American country- for Native Americans and the early Eu- mullein, stonecrop, Arnica, cinquefoil, and-western twang: “I cain’t get no, sat- ropean settlers and how they still locate and later (and higher) scarlet Gilia, isfaction . . . ” (Did Mick Jagger ever use me now. Penstemon, lupine, columbine, trefoil cain’t in his real life?) We got tomatoes Early in my Oregon years, 1973, pea, yarrow, balsamroot, aster, saxi- and strawberries in the middle of win- I traveled over the Cascades out of frage, hellebore. And the more names ter; no fruit or vegetable had its own Eugene in the spring, end of May and I learned the more I could not only season, just a price tag. Malls created early June, and remember seeing for tell when I was but how high, how dry, artificial daylight and artificial nightlife.

38 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 39 Some of the drugs in the 1960s ber learning about the mullein’s proffered variable realities as preference for disturbed ground weird as Mick’s cain’t. The logic and thought immediately of of the world was negotiable ev- soldiers of fortune moving from ery day, every hour. My genera- one disturbance to another, Ko- tion’s experiments with drugs sovo to Sierra Leone to Sudan had the unsettling effect of sug- to Iraq. That’s the other logic of gesting that there were always wildflowers: where, like music, other realities available. The re- they send our imaginations. sult was a displacement not en- I was recently at a concert tirely unlike the “lost” of the lost in Portland’s Rose Garden in generation named by Gertrude which the audience—right at Stein in the 1920s. Wildflowers the beginning of the show, in present a location in all this lost, unison—whipped out camera a spiritual GPS to find a steady phones and cameras to pho- state among competing forms tograph the giant-screen Jum- of real. Wildflowers locate our boTron to capture the featured sensibilities on a grid of neces- act. Zeroes and ones grabbing sity and beauty—the protein at other zeroes and ones while connection of seed, the allure of the actual people on stage went color and surprise. unrecorded. Zoo animals on Wildflowers give us their Clockwise from top left: camas, five point, ersatz ice floes and on faux Afri- species-memory, their evolu- columbine, and Pacific coast iris. can savannahs. Video games of tionary clocks: each one calcu- car heists and wars. Our reali- lates the bloom for the year—earlier, deer graze together. The surrounding ties are manifold and legion, our choic- later, wetter, dryer—that gives it the Strawberries run up to over 9,000 feet, es are to stay here or go there. The new best shot at reproducing. The logic of so that walking a switchback trail from human brain, craving this muchness of that need is incontrovertible and com- valley floor to the talus slopes near the the world, is just waiting to evolve. pelling. And that logic, the pattern of top will take you through the logic of And there are the wildflowers of rhythms and interdependencies incum- wildflowers. Those flowers that have Oregon, with bloom cycles fluctuat- bent on it, is what I think I was missing finished blooming below are just begin- ing less than the peregrinating date of in Madrid. Part of the logic: in Oregon’s ning up higher. Lupine has the most Easter. Sometimes we must choose to high desert, all the seed protein is avail- obvious logic. locate ourselves with what is alive in the able in a very short time span; it moves The lupine has become leggy in landscape rather that what is dead or from flowers to rodents and birds, then the lower valley under the trees while false or concocted. Sometimes we need up to predators in the quick, passionate stretching for sun. Higher on the trail it to find the ancient rhythms and cycles logic of hunger. has changed color to add more pink at that invented us and still inform our be- the base of its blue flower and becomes ing. Sometimes we will reach out to the he Strawberry shorter and shorter along with most wildflowers in the preserved wild places Mountains drain other plants as it ascends the mountain. of Oregon to remember where we are south through East- Exactly what its logic is—which insects and who we are. ern Oregon’s Logan it attracts, stem thickness and length, Valley at about 5,000 even adaptations at the cellular level of Michael Strelow, Ph.D. ’79, is a professor feet, runnel and stomata and chloroplasts—is the stuff of English at Willamette University. He creek forming the of botany. But another logic is appar- edited Northwest Review from 1973 to branches of the Malheur river system ent, too. The blossom catches the eye, 1979. His novel, The Greening of Ben that flows toward the great Malheur attracts the insect, makes the seed the Brown, was a finalist for the Ken Kesey bird refuge. The valley itself is informed ground squirrel eats, and then replants Award in fiction from Oregon Literary Tby high and low, south slope and north the flower. Then a new logic of place Arts in 2005. This essay was written slope, and various microclimes, but the kicks in to accommodate the new con- for Citadel of the Spirit: A Literary division of wet and dry is most spectac- ditions. Compendium Commemorating ular. At the edges of the valley, one step The scarlet Gilia prefers the lower Oregon’s Sesquicentennial, edited by up puts you in sagebrush dry. One step valley and refuses more altitude. The Matt Love and published on February down and the grassland stretches for trefoil pea likes the roadside. The mul- 14, 2009, the 150th anniversary of miles where cattle, antelope, elk, and lein wants disturbed ground. I remem- Oregon’s statehood.

40 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 MULLER V. OREGON

A Class By Herself?

Oregon’s 1903 law to protect women factory workers triggered a national debate about the equality of women and men—a debate that continues today.

BY JOHN DVORAK

On Monday, September 4, 1905, the overseer of the Grand Laundry in northwest Portland told one of the female employees that she would have to work beyond her usual ten hours. She fi led a complaint and the laundry owner, Hans Curt Muller, was summoned to appear in circuit court and answer the charges. At issue was a new state law that prohibited women from working “in any mechanical establishment, or factory” for more than ten hours a day. Th e law specifi cally mentioned laundries.

Women labeling cans of salmon, circa 1901 oregon historical society– oregon historical 56468 orhi

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 41 By 1905, more than a dozen states Muller had obviously defi ed the law, Court. In Lochner v. New York, the high had enacted laws that limited the num- but Sears was against the law intrud- court had ruled on a New York law ber of hours an employer could require ing into private enterprise. Th e judge that limited the maximum number of an employee to work, and many of was also reluctant to overrule a legisla- hours a person could work in a bakery those laws were being challenged and tive act. In the end, he decided that to ten hours a day and sixty hours a overturned in the courts. And so, when Muller was guilty of a misdemeanor week. Most bakeries were then small, Muller made his appearance in Mult- and ordered the laundry owner to pay family-owned operations. Th e work nomah County Circuit Court, he, too, the minimum fi ne of ten dollars. As areas were often dark and overheated. expected the Oregon law to be over- expected, Muller appealed the decision Insects ran over tables and fl our dust turned. He pleaded not guilty. A trial to the Oregon Supreme Court. fi lled the air. Th e law primarily ad- by judge followed. dressed sanitation issues, but also Th e seven women who worked at included a provision that limited work the Grand Laundry were subpoenaed hours. Th e New York legislature had and testifi ed, including Lenna Gotcher, passed the law unanimously and three who fi led the complaint. Gotcher was times state courts had upheld it, but twenty years old and married for two the federal Supreme Court reversed years to Edward Gotcher, who also those decisions, saying that the state worked at the laundry. Th e testimony legislature had interfered with an was overwhelming. Muller had re- individual’s right “to contract in rela- peatedly required female employees tion to his own labor.” Th e majority to work beyond the ten hours limited of justices had found this new right by law. Furthermore, he had probably in the due process clause of the Four- instructed his overseer to require one teenth Amendment, which, the court of the women to work additional hours said, implied a liberty of contract, that on September 4, 1905, Labor Day, the is, the right of two entities, including new holiday celebrated, as it is today, two people, to bargain freely between by many businesses closing for the day. themselves the terms of any contract Th e testimony indicated that Lenna without government interference. Now Gotcher might have been singled out it was a question whether the Oregon because she and her husband had been legislature had also gone too far and members of the now-defunct Shirt- had abridged that right. waist and Laundryworker’s Union. Ed- Chief Justice Robert Bean wrote ward Gotcher was elected a member of the opinion for the Oregon Supreme the union’s board of trustees in 1903. Court. Bean was a member of the fi rst Th at same year, the Oregon legis- Woman packer at a graduating class from the University of lature had passed its maximum work- biscuit company, circa 1900 Oregon, which consisted of three men hour law for women. Th e laundry and two women who received their owners of Portland reacted by locking William Fenton, one of Portland’s diplomas in 1878. In the opinion, the out union members. After six weeks, leading attorneys, argued Muller’s court rejected the relevance of Lochner the union essentially dissolved. Th ose appeal. Fenton, a benefactor of the because the Oregon law was funda- who still regarded themselves as mem- University of Oregon for whom Fen- mentally diff erent from New York’s. bers met once again and voted to go ton Hall is named, was a new type of Th e New York bakery law was to be back to work—if they could fi nd any. lawyer—a corporate lawyer. His major applied to all workers. Th e Oregon Muller and the other laundry owners clients included the American Steel law, the justices noted, applied only to were now determined to challenge and Wire Company, Standard Oil, the women. the Oregon law and have it declared Pacifi c Coast Biscuit Company, and the In writing the decision, Bean cited unconstitutional—and Lenna Gotcher Equitable Assurance Society, a large two recent decisions by other state was a good target to set that process in insurance company in New York. supreme courts. In 1902, Nebraska’s motion. In the argument he presented at court ruled in favor of a state law that Th e judge in Muller’s trial was Al- the state supreme court, Fenton re- limited work hours for women, reason- fred Sears, a former district attorney. minded the justices that a similar case ing that a woman’s “physical limita- Sears took three months to decide had been decided the previous sum- tion” made it necessary for the state what should have been a simple case. mer by the United States Supreme legislature to intervene and establish oregon historical society– oregon historical 56468 orhi

42 OREGON QUARTERLY | SPRING 2009 protective legislation. Th e same year, in Th e rulings against Anthony and long, that contained only two pages of Washington, the court ruled that pro- Bradwell, and similar decisions on legal precedents. Th e remainder was tective legislation for women was nec- other cases, made clear that the federal sociological data taken from a wide essary because it advanced “the public court maintained that there was a legal variety of experts and government and welfare and the public morals.” distinction between men and women. private reports. Th e Oregon Supreme Court agreed Exactly how the distinction was to be On January 15, 1908, the nine jus- with both rulings. And that changed drawn was yet to be determined, but tices of the Supreme Court heard oral everything. Th e Muller case was no the Muller case would change that. arguments in Muller v. Oregon, Bran- longer about protection for labor. It In October 1907, the U.S. Supreme deis and Fenton standing before the was now a question whether women Court announced that in four months court. Nineteen other states still had and men had the same fundamental it would hear Muller’s appeal of the laws similar to Oregon’s. Whatever the rights. Oregon ruling. Th at left little time to outcome, the court’s decision would prepare briefs, and so the State of Or- have national implications. egon sought outside assistance. It soon Brandeis began his presentation settled on Louis Brandeis, a Boston at- by quoting the dissenting opinion in torney, to argue its case. Lochner, then launched into his main Brandeis was one of the most argument. N JUNE 1873,* SUSAN * B. A*NTHONY was put famous—and highest-paid—attorneys “Th e dangers of long hours for on trial for attempting to vote in in the country and would be appointed women arise from their special physi- the 1872 presidential election. Her to the Supreme Court himself in 1916. cal organization,” he read from the fi rst attorney invoked the Fourteenth His lifestyle, however, was decidedly sentence of the major part of the brief. Amendment and due process as austere. His two enjoyments were his Eleven authorities were cited in the guarantees that women had the association with close friends and brief as proof of the statement. “Th e Iright to vote. Th e judge, Ward Hunt, a solving intellectual problems. Known evil eff ect of overwork before as well justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as- as “the people’s attorney,” because he as after marriage upon childbirth is signed to that New York circuit court, often took on cases that involved social marked and disastrous.” Nine authori- rejected the defense, later writing that issues, Brandeis agreed to defend the ties supported that statement. “Th e voting was not a fundamental right, Oregon law for free. heightened eﬃ ciency of the workers, but a privilege that was extended only Brandeis realized that if he followed due to the shorter day, more than bal- to certain citizens, decided indepen- the normal route and argued from le- ances any loss of time.” And that, Bran- dently by the various states. gal precedent, the Oregon law would deis told the justices, was a conclusion Also in 1873, Myra Bradwell ap- probably be overturned. He needed found in thirty government reports pealed a decision by the Illinois Su- a novel strategy. He would have to from other nations and several states. preme Court that prevented her from convince the nine justices of the Su- Brandeis then described for the becoming a member of the Illinois Bar preme Court to accept an exception to court the dangerous working conditions Association and practicing law in that liberty of contract and the Fourteenth found in modern laundries and the fa- state. She had suﬃ cient training and Amendment. tigue suff ered by those forced to work had passed the bar exam, but the Bar Lochner (the New York bakery case) long hours. A commercial laundry was Association had rejected her simply had been decided by a 5–4 vote. Th e not the simple enterprise most people because she was a woman. Th e U.S. dissenting opinion had left the door associate with a woman working over Supreme Court upheld the decision. open to challenge liberty of contract if a wash basin. It had become a highly A majority of justices held that the it could be shown that a law was neces- mechanized industry. Huge metal cyl- choice of a profession, like voting, was sary to ensure the health and welfare of inders spun constantly, blasting out a privilege, not a fundamental right. the general public. Th at would be the steam. Th e hands and faces of work- Th ey justifi ed Illinois excluding women opening that Brandeis would use. He ers were constantly exposed to strong from the law profession because, the would argue the case from an extraju- detergents and bleach. One had to be court said, it was evident to everyone dicial view. He instructed assistants to alert if a fi nger inadvertently got caught that the two sexes were destined to oc- gather expert opinion from doctors, on a piece of clothing or entangled in cupy diff erent “spheres of action,” and, economists, social workers, and others a loose string to avoid the hand being hence, to play diff erent roles in society. who knew of the negative health eff ects pulled into and crushed between the Men were protectors and defenders, that poor working conditions and long rollers. Th e fl oors were wet constantly, a while women’s primary role was raising work hours had on women. Th e result worker sometimes standing for sixteen the next generation of citizens. was a legal brief, a hundred-plus pages hours a day in water. It was an industry

THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 43 in need of regulation—all the more OST LEGAL SCHOLARS ATTRIBUTE the An editorial in the Oregon Journal, so because, in places like Portland, 80 success of the State of Oregon published at about the same time, was percent of the laundry workers were in Muller v. Oregon to the more circumspect. “Th e supreme court women and most of them either had Brandeis brief. Other shorter evidently takes the view,” wrote the edi- children or were of child-bearing age. and similar briefs had been tor of the Journal, “that women are not Fenton began his argument by cit- fi led with the court, but the citizens in the fullest sense of the term.” ing precedent, emphasizing the ruling Mdecision in Muller secured the strategy. And that, in essence, was the long- in Lochner, but then off ered his own It introduced a new means of legal rea- term fallout of the Muller decision. novel strategy to defend Muller. soning, one that is taught today in law Woman’s suff rage was approved in “Women, in increasing numbers, schools as “sociological jurisprudence.” Oregon in 1912 and throughout the are compelled to earn their living,” he Its usefulness in other cases soon be- nation with passage of the Nineteenth stated as a matter of fact. “Th ey enter came apparent. Amendment in 1920. Th at alleviated the various lines of employment ham- In 1917, in another case from Ore- one of the legal distinctions between pered and handicapped by centuries gon, a Brandeis-style brief of more than the sexes, but the basic thrust of Muller of tutelage and limitations and restric- a thousand pages was fi led with the fed- remained in force and a rash of protection of freedom of contract.” Women eral court to support the need of a state tive legislation for women was passed, must have the same fundamental right law that limited work hours for both maintaining women’s status as “wards to contract their labor as men did for men and women to ten hours a day at of the state.” Passage of the Civil Rights them, eventually, to attain the same so- regular pay and no more than three Act in 1964 partially changed that, but cial equality as men. To do otherwise, hours a day of overtime. Th e court a legal inequality was still maintained. to decide the case against his client and upheld the law. Th e strategy used by In 1972, Congress passed the uphold the limitations of the Oregon Brandeis in Muller would eventually be Equal Rights Amendment and sent law, the Portland attorney concluded, used to establish the constitutionality of it to the states for ratifi cation. More would be the same as announcing “that minimum-wage laws. Its most famous than two-dozen states did so quickly. women are wards of the state.” application, however, was in a case far Oregon gave its approval in 1973 and Except for a change of one justice, removed from labor. In 1954 in Brown reaﬃ rmed its support in 1977. But the the court sitting before Brandeis and v. Board of Education, a Brandeis-style necessary three-fourths of the states Fenton was the same as the one that brief helped to overturn more than a did not ratify the amendment before had decided Lochner, and so court century of segregation laws. the end of the ten-year time limit watchers anticipated that Muller v. Th e decision inMuller v. Oregon placed by Congress. Oregon would also be decided by a nar- was heralded immediately as an ad- An identically worded amend- row majority. But they were surprised. vance of the rights of labor. Th at deci- ment, renamed the Women’s Equal- Th irty-nine days after oral arguments, sion supported a proliferation of laws ity Amendment, was introduced in the nine justices issued their ruling. It over many years that established safety Congress in March 2007. Nearly two was unanimous in favor of Brandeis and health guidelines for working con- hundred members of the House of and the State of Oregon. ditions. But there were those, besides Representatives signed their names as Th e court had accepted fully Bran- private business owners such as Muller, cosponsors. Th e debate over whether deis’s contention that protective leg- who decried the decision. women’s rights are adequately pro- islation for women was needed. Th e A month after the Muller decision, tected under existing laws—whether unanimous opinion also agreed com- Th e Woman’s Tribune, a daily Portland a constitutional amendment is neces- pletely with Fenton’s conclusion that a newspaper that supported woman’s sary to ensure that men and women ruling for the Oregon law meant that suff rage and promoted women’s rights, are treated as equal citizens—is about women and men were not equal citi- published a letter on its front page that to resume. Many of the arguments, on zens, but the court saw that as a reason scolded those who wanted to limit the both sides of the issue, will echo those for upholding the law rather than over- hours a woman could work and earn a used in Muller v. Oregon, a case that turning it. In particular, the opinion wage. “Who ever heard of limiting the still governs the legal status of women stated, woman “is properly placed in a working woman in a home?” the letter and that began as a dispute between a class by herself.” asked. “If the government is interested Portland laundry woman and her male in the welfare of women, one would boss. think it would stop discriminating against them in civil-service exami- John Dvorak, born in Camas, Washing- nations and pay them as well as men ton, is a freelance writer whose articles * * * when they do work for Uncle Sam!” cover history and science.

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The Right Stuff Ducks played key roles on presidential candidate John McCain’s communications team.

ucker Bounds ’02 has been planners, strategy meetings, near-constant campaign messages border on the improb- busy since the national elec- consumption of the news, and an endless able. tion in early November. There gauntlet of interviews and TV spots, field- In the beginning of the campaign, was lunch at the Navy Mess in the White ing questions about McCain, vice presi- months before the caucuses and primaries HouseT West Wing, attending President dential candidate Sarah Palin, the Bush had even begun, McCain was emerging as Bush’s arrival from his trip to the Middle administration, the foundering economy, the front-runner. But the campaign stalled East, a visit to the floor of the U.S. House attacks from the Obama camp. “Everything in the summer of 2007. of Representatives, a private tour of Senate became such a blur when we were working “When you say stalled, it means a cam- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office, seven days a week, and things seemingly paign staff of about 250 people became 30,” a jaunt to Mount Vernon, a parade of cock- never slowed down.” Hazelbaker says. “People believed the cam- tail and Christmas parties. There was even a brush with fame. paign was over at that point.” Anything else? You might remember: It was Septem- Bounds was out of a job, let go from his They were able to bowl some frames ber 1, and Bounds was speaking with CNN post as regional spokesman (representing “down at the White House, which is kinda anchor Campbell Brown, who grilled him McCain in the West as well as in the vig- cool,” says Bounds, who pulled a few strings on Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience. orously contested state of Florida) because to get his out-of-town guests into places, Bounds said that Palin’s experience running the campaign was running dangerously low well, a little more interesting than the the Alaska National Guard made her more on money. Figuring he was finished with everyday D.C. tour stops. qualified than Obama to be commander in politics for the time, Bounds took a job with “The trip wasn’t too exclusive,” says chief, but Brown didn’t buy it. The combat- the American Insurance Association. Bounds with a laugh, something the ive interview itself made a news cycle or Hazelbaker, twenty-seven, stayed on smooth-spoken thirty-year-old does often. two, became a hot clip on YouTube. Bounds with McCain as his regional spokeswoman But “having friends around town that I’ve even got ribbed for it on The Daily Show. in New Hampshire, where the Arizona worked with over the years is helpful.” The McCain campaign cried foul, saying senator upset President Bush in the 2000 Bounds has been catching up with Brown treated Bounds unfairly. primaries. In 2008, McCain pulled off an friends and relatives whom he hadn’t really For his part, Bounds says it’s difficult upset there again. Fueled partly by that been in touch with since early spring, when to say if he was abused. “You have to con- impressive win, McCain gradually rose past he began working in the top echelons of sider the format the interview took place Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani Senator John McCain’s presidential cam- in, the time, that freeze-frame moment in and Mitt Romney, eventually winning the paign, where he teamed with Jill Hazelbaker the campaign: Governor Palin was a new nomination. With the turnaround, McCain ’03 to form an integral part of McCain’s candidate not only to the national media, also did some house cleaning, revamp- communications wing. but to our campaign in many respects. And ing his communications office by putting As communications director, Hazel- while I think my argument was completely Hazelbaker in charge. baker developed McCain’s message, and as defensible, I think there were probably bet- Falling far behind early in the campaign national spokesman, Bounds delivered it. ter arguments to make. But our campaign before shooting back to the fore “is not the And if Bounds’ days are busy now, filled was making that argument that day, and I way you should run a presidential cam- with tours of the Capitol and meals at Belt- did what I could and felt like I was success- paign,” Hazelbaker says, laughing. “But it’s way restaurants—“I sort of go to lunch now ful.” the way we had to do it.” as a job”—they were insane then: Work- The circumstances that led Bounds to At the turnaround, Bounds was settled ing from six in the morning to late into the daily appearances on television and Hazel- in as the insurance association’s vice presi- night, conference calls with top Republican baker to a position of shaping McCain’s dent of public affairs when Hazelbaker, who

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Jill Hazelbaker and Tucker Bounds pose while working on John McCain’s campaign. Share yours at www.isupport.uoregon.edu had met Bounds in a University of Oregon hired Bounds for a short-term, entry-level political science class, contacted him about position in what turned out to be a busy returning to the campaign. 2002. After that, Bounds worked for Dan “Even before I came back, it was pretty Lavey ’88, who was a consultant to the clear that they had a need for someone to Oregon Majority Political Action Com- be more actively engaged—they needed a mittee, before being hired by John Easton national spokesman,” Bounds says. “They ’91 to be Senator Gordon Smith’s deputy needed someone who would end up being press secretary. someone at the frontline with the message. While it might seem ironic that two of It was a rare opportunity and something I the GOP’s young stars are products of the didn’t hesitate to jump on.” UO and what many people feel is a bas- “Tucker’s very good at what he does,” tion of liberalism, Bounds doesn’t see it Hazelbaker says. “And he’s an inexhaust- that way. ible worker.” “I think people forget that some of the Even though there was no shortage of greatest charm of the University of Oregon memorable moments during the charge is that there are people with all different to the presidential election, it’s the early perspectives, and it’s not just those who moments that stick out for Hazelbaker. “I’d are stereotypically U of O grads,” he says. fly to New Hampshire from Washington “There are a lot of moderate, mainstream Lectures ARTS with Senator McCain on Southwest [Air- conservatives who have gone on to work in Friends lines], and he’d carry his own bag. We’d Republican politics. Congressman Walden STUDY ABROAD the Emerald have a volunteer pick us up in a minivan,” isn’t someone who is viewed as being out of DORMS she recalls. “I don’t think many people the mainstream but certainly is a Republi- Volunteering would have that opportunity.” can, and he’s a proud University of Oregon LATE NIGHT STUDY SESSIONS For Bounds, who hails from Herm- grad.” Greek Life iston, the road to Washington began in Hazelbaker, a native of Salem who Choir LANGUAGES Biking Eugene and made a number of stops in transferred to the University after a year Mac Court the Oregon, and the list of UO graduates who at Loyola Marymount, says she loved her PROFESSORS Thesis have influenced him reads like roll call at a experience there, even if Republicans were AUTZEN SCHOOL College Republicans alumni dinner. outnumbered. Graduation Internships His first job in politics was working for She remembers going for a run in MOUNTAINS Club Sports Tracy Olsen ’93 on his Eugene City Council Eugene one day while wearing a Greg FINALS race in 2000, while he was still a student. Walden for Congress T-shirt. “I found Willamette School Spirit Later that year, Bounds worked for Jon myself in an antiwar rally,” she says. “I’m Kvistad in his campaign for Oregon state pretty sure I was the only Republican treasurer. He then interned in Washington there.” for Representative Greg Walden ’81, who —Matt Tiffany, M.S. ’06 Bill Bill Putnam

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Getting Away with Murderball Determined Duck excels in international competition.

ulling the ball in tight against his chest and spinning to survey the court, Seth McBride ’06 of Team USA looks for a clear path through aP jumble of players. Pushing his custom- made, lightweight aluminum sport chair forward, the twenty-five-year-old powers through the defense. His teammates throw themselves in harm’s way to set blocks for McBride, and loud cracks from the metal- on-metal contact fill the gym. He lowers his head and sprints down the court with arms working like furious pistons, crosses the goal line, scores a point. The sport is wheelchair rugby and McBride is playing against China at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, the Olympics for athletes with disabilities. Representatives of nearly 150 countries compete in seventeen events. Wheelchair rugby, often called “murderball” for its aggressive nature, combines elements of traditional rugby, ice hockey, and bumper cars. Knocking opposing players to the ground from the force of collision is legal and encouraged. Raised in Juneau, Alaska, McBride grew up skiing. He ripped expert lines, dropped big cliffs, and could land double backflips and other aerial acrobatics—all before high school graduation. In the summer of 2000, at age seventeen, McBride raced down a Ramming Speed Seth McBride grapples for control of the ball while slope toward a fifty-foot jump, misjudged playing the Chinese team at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. the takeoff, over-rotated, and crashed, fracturing the C-6 and C-7 vertebrae in his tice. “I loved it from the get-go, it’s a totally didn’t attend many tournaments, but used spinal column. He is now paralyzed from new, more natural feeling in a sport chair,” his enthusiasm and what playing time he the waist down, with limited mobility in his McBride says. Despite starting the game got to make a positive impression on his upper body and trunk. out of shape, using borrowed equipment, teammates. “I guess [the accident] changed things and being surrounded by more experienced But after McBride played two seasons, a bit,” he says in typical understated man- players, he never considering quitting. one of the veterans on the Portland team, ner. After his first practice, his competitive Will Groulx, told him he had the potential His ski dreams dashed, he enrolled at spirit was reignited, spurred by the rush to be a U.S. national player—if he was will- the University of Oregon. One day toward of zipping around the court and smashing ing to do the work required to get there. the end of freshman year, while surfing the into other players. Less than two years after It was a turning point. Now McBride had Internet in his dorm room, he discovered the skiing accident, he was again ready to a goal to strive for. The encouragement the Portland Pounders, a regional wheel- take on a sport, to drive his mind and body from Groulx, who would be playing a few chair rugby club team ranked among the to their limits. months later on the world stage at the Para- best in the country. He had never seen or “The first few years were pretty slow,” lympics in Athens, spurred him to commit heard of the game but was attracted to he admits. His schedule only allowed him to the training and dedication necessary to the hard-hitting physical contact and fast- to make one practice a week, and some of play at an elite level. paced action. McBride called the coach, Ed the players with the least mobility could American wheelchair rugby is fiercely Hooper, who invited him out for a prac- outsprint him. During these seasons, he competitive. The United States has the Jared Jared Curé

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most successful program in the world with At the UO, McBride’s developing by nineteen-year-old wunderkind Ryley the largest pool of players to draw from. interests led him to pursue majors in both Batt, who outscores, outmaneuvers, and The sport received international media international studies and political science. outsmarts virtually every other player in attention following release of the 2005 doc- He visited El Salvador his junior year to the world. Thousands of rugby devotees umentary Murderball. The film follows the immerse himself in Spanish and teach packed the venue. McBride was a defensive U.S. national team at the 2004 Paralympics English. A career where he could apply force and scored three goals to go with his in Athens, pulling no punches in its frank his studies seemed to beckon. But after two assists. In the end, Team USA’s depth, portrayal of the combative, sometimes hot- graduation in 2006, he postponed launch- experience, and balance proved too strong headed, win-or-die mentality of the Team ing that career to train nonstop for the Bei- for Australia’s superstar and the Americans USA players. Team Canada overcame that jing Paralympics, a decision he has never won 53–44. At the final buzzer, players col- mentality, however, and took the gold regretted. lapsed on each other in a joyous heap, and medal in an upset. In December 2007 he officially made the usually reserved McBride hollered in Watching the Americans compete in the U.S. national team along with ten exultation. Athens further strengthened McBride’s others, including his old teammate and After the victory, McBride backpacked commitment. To improve his speed, he inspiration Groulx. He was now a part of through four countries in Southeast Asia began pushing his chair around the run- the top-ranked rugby squad in the world for two months with a group of friends— ning track at the UO rec center and rid- and headed to China and the Paralympics keeping his shiny gold medal tucked away ing his hand-powered bike around his (which are held two weeks after the Olym- tightly in his backpack. south Eugene neighborhood. To work on pics and use the same venues, medaling The future? Ideas range from teach- strength, he lifted weights outside of prac- system, and organizational structure as the ing English abroad to working as a Spanish tice. His improved skills and conditioning more famous competition). interpreter to going back to grad school combined with driving 300 miles per week In Beijing, after winning against China to study creative writing. As for rugby, he to practices (in addition to attending games and Japan by large margins, the U.S. wheel- wants to compete at the London Paralym- and tournaments) earned him more play- chair rugby team took revenge by defeat- pics in 2012. After that, he’s tentatively plan- ing time. In 2005 he traveled with the U.S. ing Canada. They then held off Great ning still another adventure: biking from team to compete in—and win—a tourna- Britain and went on to the gold medal northern Alaska to southern Chile. ment in Brazil. round, playing an Australian team led —Dave Zook ’05

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Oregon’s loss, Democracy’s Gain The little-known story of how Oregon nearly ended up with a governor named Abraham Lincoln

ondering “What iF Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect . . . ” second-guesses from Illinois. Nicholas H. Shepherd, pho- life choices and con- tographer. Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847. templates the role of chance in life. This daguerreotype is the earliest-known Poet Robert Frost addressed such con- photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken W at age thirty-seven. Within a few years templation in his iconic “The Road Not he would be offered the governorship of Taken.” Because history often turns on the Oregon Territory. seemingly small decisions, it especially lends itself to “what if” scenarios. For instance, what if Abraham Lincoln husband, Mary Todd Lincoln drew had accepted President Zachary Tay- on her social background and pro- lor’s offer to become governor of the vided a home where he could enter- Oregon Territory? tain in a manner prerequisite to There are so many “what if” political advancement. She worked moments in Lincoln’s life that Fortuna, diligently to transform her rough- the ever-fickle Roman goddess of fate, hewn husband from frontiersman appears to have singled him out for her to gentleman. Mary’s insight into attention—both good and bad. Abraham’s potential was right on Lincoln was a product of the raw target. Kentucky frontier. There was little in Having been encouraged by a Todd his upbringing to suggest he would relative to read law in the custom of the eventually win the nation’s highest time, Lincoln began a legal practice, but elective office. Young Lincoln’s chief it wasn’t long before he ran for politi- assets were native intelligence, strong cal office. ethics, and ambition, all of which helped He first set his eyes on a seat in the Illi- him make the most of the uniquely Ameri- What if Mary Todd nois legislature at age twenty-three while can opportunity to rise in life. By contrast, serving in the state’s militia. Though he Mary Todd, who would become his wife lincoln had not put lost the race, he wasn’t ready to abandon and political partner, was born into genteel her foot down and his political aspirations. Running in the next Kentucky society and expected to marry electoral cycle for the same office, he hand- someone equally positioned. Among her refused to move to ily won. Lincoln served four terms in the rejected Lexington suitors was Democrat legislature, where he quickly emerged as the Stephen Douglas, whose success eclipsed the Oregon Territory? leader of the Whigs. He then served a single Lincoln’s when Mary first met her future term in the U.S. House of Representatives. husband. history would have Immediately after his term ended on Born into the high society that created March 4, 1849, Fortuna tempted Lincoln the so-called “Athens of the West” in Lex- doubtlessly been with a career offer that had the potential ington, Mary Todd epitomized the classic to change his life and history. Lincoln had southern belle of the era, with one impor- altered dramatically. campaigned loyally for Zachary Taylor, the tant distinction—she was highly educated Whig elected president in 1848, and he for a woman. a southern heritage. But most importantly, had expectations of being rewarded with Although both Abe and Mary were they shared a love for politics and relentless a political appointment. Taylor in August born in Kentucky, their lives were worlds political ambition. 1849 offered Lincoln, Illinois’s most active apart, divided by money and power, until Not content with bringing the couple Whig, an appointment as secretary of the Fortuna chose to play matchmaker for the together, Fortuna engineered a second new Oregon Territory. Lincoln quickly unlikely pair. twist of fate. The strong-willed and opin- rejected the offer. The following month, Mary was visiting her older sister, who ionated Mary Todd ignored the advice of Lincoln was offered the governorship of the had married into a prominent Springfield, her in-laws and married Lincoln, who was Oregon Territory. At the time, Democrats Illinois, family, when she was introduced well below her social status, following a controlled Oregon and after it was admit- to Abraham Lincoln, an affable and eligi- rocky courtship that foreshadowed their ted to the Union there was little prospect ble young Springfield attorney, his lack of tempestuous marriage. that a Whig governor would be elected. But social pedigree notwithstanding. Each had As ambitious as her up-and-coming it was Mary Todd Lincoln whose refusal to liBrarY OF COnGreSS liBrarY

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move even further West tipped the scale to about slavery also served to catapult Lin- What if Mary Todd Lincoln had not “no,” and Lincoln turned down the gover- coln into the national limelight. put her foot down and refused to move to norship. Mary Todd had traded her birth- Fortuna again intervened in Lincoln’s the Oregon Territory? History would have right of privilege and social prominence for life through the debates. Had Lincoln “won” doubtlessly been altered dramatically. But a political future when she married Lincoln, the debates and captured the U.S. Senate when Lincoln and his wife looked down and she had no intention of ending up in seat, it seems unlikely that he would have the Oregon career path, they recognized such a distant and unpromising outpost. stepped down to run for the presidency in it would not lead them to their dream of Mary’s political instincts proved sound. 1860. Even more so than with the Oregon being president and first lady of the United John P. Gaines (1795–1857) took the gover- decision, by keeping him from winning States. In retrospect, Oregon’s loss became norship of the Oregon Territory after Lin- the Senate seat, fate conspired with Mary’s the nation’s gain. coln turned it down. After just two years political strategy for her husband and left in the job, he stepped down and later died Lincoln available to seek the presidency. Political scientist William D. Pederson in obscurity. The state of Oregon’s first With Lincoln’s election as president ’67, M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, is the founder of elected governor—150 years ago—was of a deeply divided nation, the world soon the American studies program at Louisi- indeed a Democrat, John Whiteaker. recognized the leadership traits that Mary ana State University in Shreveport, where Out of the U.S. Congress and having Todd had earlier discerned in her seem- he is the first person to hold the American turned down the governorship, Lincoln ingly unlikely suitor. In short order, Presi- Studies Endowed Chair. He serves on the found himself out of office for the first dent Lincoln was lauded as the “Great National Advisory Committee to the Abra- time in his adult life. During this hiatus, Emancipator” at the same time he earned ham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to he pondered the dilemma of slavery that the moniker of “Great Reconciler,” and commemorate the two hundredth anni- was dividing the nation and developed his served as the modern model for magna- versary of Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, political solution for that “peculiar institu- nimity in politics. As a result of his endur- 2009. Coinciding with the bicentennial is tion.” Mary’s former beau, Stephen Doug- ing contributions, governments at home publication of his most recent book, Lincoln las, sought to sell voters on his concept of and abroad have named countless streets, Lessons (see Book Shelf, page 14). In Decem- “popular sovereignty” as a compromise schools, statues, and stamps in honor of ber, Pederson participated in an academic solution to slavery. Douglas’s platform America’s sixteenth president—more such conference—“the first Lincoln symposium in did win him reelection to the U.S. Senate. tributes than any other American president a Muslim country”—at East West Univer- However, the Lincoln-Douglas debates has ever received. sity in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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March 21 Upcoming UOAA Travel of the Phoenix, Arizona Opportunities Oregon Alumni Day with the Life Phoenix Suns Canary Islands Mind The Arizona UOAA chapter invites all area InsIght semInars alumni to participate. April 7–15 April 18 China and the Yangtze River Looking for the meaning of life? Sheraton San Diego Hotel Sometimes wish you could go back to and Marina April 15–27 college? Sixth annual Taste of Oregon River Life: Dutch Waterways— Insight seminars are college-level The San Diego chapter invites alumni, family, and friends to enjoy Northwest wines and select Heidelberg noncredit courses designed for adults hors d’oeuvres. who want to improve their reading and April 24–May 2 thinking habits by studying great books April 30–May 2 Greece: Athens and the University of Oregon and important ideas. island of Poros Classes meet weekly on Wednesday Class of 1959 Fiftieth Reunion Attendees will enjoy a weekend of fun, reconnect- May 22–30 evenings in the Knight Library, or ing, and seeing what’s happening on campus. on Saturday mornings in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Parking is May 16 easy. A month-long seminar costs $90. San Diego, California More information and registration Seventh annual Pac-10 online at uoinsight.uoregon.edu or Day at Petco Park call (541) 346-3475. Padres vs. Cincinnati baseball with the San Diego UOAA chapter. satUrDaYs, 9:30–noon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Lane

april 4, 11, 18, 25 aaa.uoregon.edu/pdx shakespeare’s Henry V England’s ideal king, as portrayed in films by Lawrence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. (Professor Jim Earl, English) Summer in the City

may 2, 9, 16, 30 June 15 to August 14 the Bill of rights What gives you the right? Historical Study art, product design, architecture, and digital arts with the University perspectives on American rights. of Oregon school of Architecture and Allied Arts engaged faculty members (Professor Matthew Dennis, History) and students. Both one-week intensive classes and eight-week summer session courses are available. WeDnesDaYs, 6:30–9:00 p.m. Browsing Room, Knight Library Registration begins May 4, 2009 1501 Kincaid Street Visit the Continuing Education website center.uoregon.edu/arts/pdx Visit the Summer Session website uosummer.uoregon.edu april 1, 8, 15, 22 american medicine To register: Community members who have not taken a UO course in the last year How did we get here? Regulation, epidemics, should call UO Continuing Education for registration assistance, (800) 824-2714. ethics, and malpractice. (Professor James Mohr, History) Current UO and CEP students and faculty and staff members can register through DuckWeb at duckweb.uoregon.edu. may 6, 13, 20, 27 art and society What do works of art offer groups and 70 Northwest Couch Street, Floor 4R • Portland, Oregon 97209 individuals searching for meaning? (503) 412-3718 • [email protected] (Associate Professor John Lysaker, Philosophy)

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Larry Erickson ’72, M.Mus. ’76, is a retired Portland public school music teacher. Last year he played clarinet in 1950s 1960s the Western International Band Clinic Directors Band in n Cornelia “Corky” Hoppe ’51, a member of Delta Delta Tom Doggett ’60, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Seattle. He also is principal alto saxophone in the Beaver- Delta, lives in San Francisco, California, where she has a recently retired as vice president of television program- ton Community Band. Last July in Vancouver, B.C., he was private practice as a marriage and family therapist. Hoppe ming at Oregon Public Broadcasting. The Pubic Televi- concertmaster of the ClarinetFest Conference Choir. sion Programmers Association recognized Doggett with recently published a book titled Growth on the Path. Marel Kalyn (formerly Marcia Pander-Lynch) ’72, M.F.A. a Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual meeting in n Norm Hill ’53 is a retired pharmacist. Hill writes, “The ’79, is proud to announce that her son’s feature film, Self- Boston last August. good news is that . . . I have been born again, and I am a less, won four major awards at the Bend Film Festival and believer. My name is in the Book of Life.” Stan Wisniewski, M.F.A. ’62, lives in Pennsylvania, where has screened at film festivals in Portland and Santa Fe, Joe Rigert ’56 has published his third book, An Irish his paintings were displayed at a one-man show at the New Mexico. Tragedy: How Sex Abuse by Irish Priests Helped Cripple the Clinton County Arts Council for the month of September Kerry Harms Taylor ’73, M.A.’76, was appointed executive Catholic Church. Rigert is retired from the Star Tribune 2008. director of the Pay It Forward Foundation in November newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In honor of Oregon’s sesquicentennial, Alaby Blivet ’63 2008. The foundation is dedicated to helping individuals John Hendrickson ’57, a member of Sigma Nu, and Mar- and wife Sara Lee Cake ’45 plan to drive their solar- and change the world, one favor at a time. lene Grasseschi Hendrickson ’57 celebrated their fiftieth biofuel-powered tour bus to every location in Oregon Robert Huffman ’74 is principal pianist at Pacific Artists wedding anniversary with more than two hundred friends “from Ada to the Zigzag Mountains” and at each stop cel- Dance Center in Southwest Portland and serves as master and relatives at the Turlock Golf and Country Club in Tur- ebrate by cooking and eating an “etymologically appropri- class dance accompanist for Whitebird Inc. One of the top lock, California. ate sesquipedalian hot dog.” ballet accompanists in the nation, he recently completed Twelve drawings by Terry Melton, M.F.A. ’64, are featured his twenty-fifth summer at Whitman College as principal in the Fall-Winter issue of Northwest Review. The drawings pianist for the Summer Dance Lab. are taken from a limited edition serigraph portfolio titled Leslie Martin ’76, M.M. ’78 and ’79, presented concerts “Leda and the Swan.” at two European organ festivals last summer. Martin is an Stephen Scott ’67 was chosen as a United States Artists adjunct professor of organ, harpsichord, and keyboard fellow for 2008. Scott and his compositions for “bowed harmony at Seattle Pacific University and is organist piano ensemble” were the subjects of an article in the and choirmaster at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Summer 2008 issue of Oregon Quarterly. Seattle. n Victor Marshand Webb, M.S. ’68, has retired from his Van Edwards, M.F.A. ’77, was one of two photographers position as journalism professor at the University of South- featured in an exhibit at the University of Houston, Clear ern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Lake titled, “Along the River Grande: A New World Becom- ing,” on display from November 2008 through January Vivian Wilson Edersheim ’69 retired in October 2008 2009. from U.S. Air Force public affairs after more than twenty- one years of service. She and her husband, Les, have Thomas J. Fullmer ’78 is enjoying his third year as vice moved to Raymond, Washington, where they plan to president and business development officer for IronStone pursue a variety of hobbies and enjoy time with their Bank in Portland and Lake Oswego. Tom has been mar- friends and family. ried for twenty-eight years to Maureen Casey Fullmer ’78, a member of Alpha Phi. Their daughter Chelsea is a Jerry Wright ’69 is five years into his second career as a junior at Beaverton High School, and son Ryan Fullmer professor of advertising. Wright was honored in 2008 for is a sophomore at the University. Tom is a member of the exceptional teaching in the College of Communications at Rotary Club of Portland and board director for the Oregon CLASS NOTABLE California State University, Fullerton. International Air Show and the State Games of Oregon. Gaylord Reagan, Ph.D. ’78, recently completed training Ninety-one-year-old Frederick Arthur in earned value management systems and received his Six Lowther ’42 is a former city manager of 1970s Sigma Green Belt certification. He also published an article critique in the journal CrossTalk and is currently serving as Golden, Colorado, an author of several Kathleen Alban Tahja, M.L.S. ’71, retired after twenty- a member of the team redeveloping Northrop Grumman’s books (including his autobiography seven years with the Mendocino Unified School District, enterprise search capability. and The History of Golden and Its Golden and is now concentrating on her work as an author. She City Cemetery), and an active blogger published two books in 2008: Early Mendocino Coast, a n Tom Sullivan ’78 is a board member of the Lane County chapter of the UO Alumni Association. He assisted with interested in questions related to the photo history of the Mendocino Coast 100 years ago, and Rails Across the Noyo: A Rider’s Guide to the Skunk Train, which the Tailgate Auction to raise funds for scholarships and is Bible. features information on the local tourist train line. She lives donating 10 percent of his commissions from his day job as in rural Mendocino County with her husband, David. a life insurance agent to the Ford Alumni Center fund. toDD LoWthER toDD

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DUCKS AFIELD You Can Take It with You Mike ’69, D.M.D. ’72, and Peggy (Remington) Mellum ’72 and a dozen friends traveled to South America this summer, a trip that included a four-day, twenty-six-mile trek along the Inca Trail to the ruins of Machu Picchu, shown in the background.

1980s R. Daniel Lindahl ’80 has been elected a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Academy membership is by invitation only and is limited to lawyers who have established a reputation for excellence while focusing substantially on appeals during at least the last fifteen years. Joy Green, M.S. ’82, has been teaching dance and physical education for more than two decades at Kodiak High School in Alaska. She plans to retire this year. Maria E. Rodriguez, M.A. ’84, was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary Museum of Balti- more, Maryland. Rodriguez is a partner at the Baltimore office of the law firm Venable, LLP, where she focuses on business and commercial litigation. She is a member of the American Bar Association, and serves as editor-in-chief of Litigation magazine. Edgar Beals ’85 married his life partner, Michael Maz- Declare your zaferro, in October 2008. Their two children, Angela and Carlo, as well as friends and extended families, were in attendance. devotion to the Jason Ruderman ’86 is starting his own DJ business in the San Francisco Bay area, where he plays at weddings and Ducks while you parties. He cites his years in the Oregon Marching Band and Pep Band as evidence of his long-standing devotion to music. fund academic scholarships. Kathie Fenton Stanley ’86 was named chief of staff to the UO vice president for student affairs in May 2008. Her (Warning: May induce nostalgia, chest-thumping pride husband (John) Brian Stanley ’85 is assistant director of admissions and residency officer for the UO. Much to their and constant whistling of the fight song.) delight, their son Matthew Stanley is now a freshman at the University. Jennifer Thompson ’86, who teaches elementary school in Juneau, Alaska, received an Albert Einstein Distinguished Who are you rooting for this season? Educator Fellowship for the current school year. Thompson is one of fifteen science, math, and technology educators Visit us at uoalumni.com for details. selected to spend the year in Washington, D.C., working with policymakers to advance educational programs. License plate illustrated for promotional purposes only. Vanity plates not available.

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CLASS NOTES Continued explores the concept of birds as both vocalists and instru- Susan Lyle, D.M.A. ’97, wrote and directed Marian Ander- mentalists and examines a variety of compositions from son—Her Life in Song, a retrospective program featuring nar- Joe Arndt ’87 is the proud new father of Beatrice Anna- Western music that feature birdsong. ration, film clips of the great singer, and live performers, in bella Arndt, born in October 2008. Joe and his wife, Les- Michael Waite, M.F.A. ’93, lives in Redmond, Washington, honor of the installation of a bronze sculpture of Anderson lie, were married in early 2008. Joe is managing editor at with his wife and two children. He is the studio head of at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lyle is KGW-TV in Portland and serves on the Oregon Associated Amaze Entertainment, a video game production company, on a research sabbatical from the Petrie School of Music, Press board. He is also a member of the Oregon State and recently published a young-adult novel, The Witches of working on adapting techniques used in functional voice Bar’s Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council, a group committed Dredmoore Hollow, under his pen name, Riford McKenzie. to promoting understanding between Oregon’s legal sys- training for the rehabilitation of injured voices. tem and news media. Adam Wendt ’94 started an educational media company Don Addison, Ph.D. ’98, has been the music and language in 1999 called Iris Media, which has secured more than $9 Sandra Dunn Stevens ’88, a member of Kappa Alpha producer, writer, and host for the “Wisdom of the Elders” million in federal grants to develop, produce, and distrib- Theta, owns and operates Ohana Arts in Florida. The com- public radio programs. The series covers tribal groups ute media programs. Adam lives and works in Eugene with pany’s mission is to instill the values of Hawaiian culture along the Lewis and Clark Trail from Native American his wife and three children. through workshops and performances. viewpoints, with materials drawn from on-site reserva- n After thirteen years as a freelancer, Tim Clarke ’89, M.A. Lyn Travis Hooper ’95 has received awards for her tion interviews of tribal elder historians. ’93, is living in New York, having taken a senior-level audio efforts to support historic preservation in the rehabilita- Keri Janssen ’98 is executive director of the American engineering position at Fisher-Price, where he composes tion of the historic Antlers Hotel in Lemoore, California, and arranges instrumental pieces, works with a lyricist and the Hotel Fresno Rehabilitation Feasibility Study for Heart Association’s Silicon Valley division. Janssen joined writing songs, and designs sounds for a number of Fisher- the city of Fresno, California. The latter received the pres- the medical nonprofit in 2005, and most recently served Price products. tigious Governor’s Historic Preservation Award, granted as senior business director. by California’s Office of Historic Preservation on behalf of Jack M. Coelho, M.S. ’89, retired from a career teaching Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lysley Tenorio, M.F.A. ’98, received a 2008 Whiting Writ- fine arts in public schools and now operates a ceramic ers’ Award. The Whiting awards are given to ten young design company in Joseph, Oregon, where he specializes Kristina Britton ’96, a member of Sigma Kappa, serves writers each year who display extraordinary talent and as vice president of operations at Moore Information in in pottery, sculpture, and architectural ceramics, and leads promise. Tenorio teaches English and creative writing at Portland. Britton has worked for the company since 2000 ceramic design workshops. Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. and now manages data collection and processing, human resources, and information technology for the national Sarah Beth (Smith) Byrum ’99 founded All That! Dance 1990s opinion research and strategic analysis firm. Company the year she graduated and was honored by Though no longer dancing due to an injury, Chikako the National Dance Educators Association for her work in Robin A. Keister ’91 coauthored (with California Academy Narita-Batson ’96 is a successful financial analyst at dance education. Her company is growing, with studios of Sciences ornithologist Luis Baptista) a paper titled “Why KPMG in New York City and says “most of my basic work in Eugene and Springfield. Birdsong Is Sometimes Like Music,” which appeared in the philosophy comes from my experiences in the UO dance Continued on page 60 journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. The paper department.”

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Deady Hall, 1876 1919 Old Oregon launches. One headline the class of 1923 initiated a pledge drive for a reads “Alumni Magazine at Last” over an arti- student center. cle proclaiming “College friendships are said to be the most durable and precious of life. 1959 On the occasion of Oregon’s centen- Strengthen and keep them ever fresh through nial year, assistant professor of architecture Old Oregon.” The inaugural issue also includes Lewis Crutcher bemoans the dismal appear- LIVE GAME BROADCASTS “When Oregon’s Doors Opened,” a reminis- ance of Oregon cities, areas that “crush people PRESS CONFERENCES cence by Ellen Condon McCornack ’78 who together like cattle” among billboards, subdivi- PLAYER INTERVIEWS writes that in the University’s first year the sions with treeless expanses of roofs and utility HUGE VIDEO ARCHIVE campus was “a bare rolling hillside” and that poles, parking meters, parking lots, and cars. PREMIUM CONTENT! “Deady Hall stood alone” with no trees or vines In late January, 41.7 inches of snow “to soften the austerity of its lonely dignity.” 1969 fall on Eugene, causing the first-ever closing 1929 Melissa Hall ’94 visits campus and of the UO. recalls how the women of her graduating class 1979 Animal House, filmed in and around were given to “revolutionizing”: not joining the Eugene and the UO, is a huge box office hit. organized yelling at athletic events, remov- “As an alum, I’m suddenly gaining a certain ing their hats during lectures, and taking gym amount of prestige, particularly among cur- classes—a first for women on campus. One rent undergraduates,” beams Cathy Castillo barrier remained unbreached, however, as her ’65. female classmates refrained from leaving the city limits without written permission from the 1989 UO president Paul Olum announces a powered by dean of women. recent gift pushing the Campaign for Oregon OSN past the halfway point toward its five-year 1939 The Oregon “Tall Firs” beat Ohio State goal of $60 million. 46 to 33 to win the National Intercollegiate basketball championship. 1999 A Mac Court celebration marks com- ZONE pletion of the Oregon Campaign, the largest AUDIO & VIDEO 1949 The Erb Memorial Union is rising in fundraising effort in state history. Surpassing the heart of campus, the result of decades a “wildly optimistic” goal of $150 million, the of dreaming, planning, and fundraising since campaign brings in $255 million.

58 OREGON QUARTERLY | SpRiNG 2009 Congratulations to Mike russo!

Professor Mike Russo was named the 2009 Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Professor at the Lundquist College of Business. Russo has been instrumental in enhancing the University of Oregon’s reputation for sustainability:

• Research among the most cited on environmental management issues

• Award-winning business cases for teaching sustainability in the classroom

• Leading efforts to partner students with companies to address real-world sustainable business challenges and opportunities.

MakING a DIffeReNce Tom Stewart ’72 created an endowment to reward faculty whose accomplishments enhance the visibility and strategic directions of the Lundquist College of Business and the University of Oregon.

To make a similar impact, please contact the Lundquist College of Business, Office of External Affairs and Development, (541) 346-3370, fax (541) 346-3341, www.lcb.uoregon.edu.

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CLASS NOTES Continued Joanna Bristow ’05 is in her third year at Dancers’ Work- for Best Orchestrator in the 2007 Academy of Film and TV shop, a nonprofit dance studio and presenting organiza- Music Awards, finishing as runner-up in the competition. Matthew K. Clarke ’99 has joined the aviation division tion in Jackson, Wyoming. In addition to teaching modern Jerry Hui, M.M. ’07, won the 2008 Robert Helps Prize in of Portland’s Landye Bennett Blumstein law firm as a dance and ballet, Joanna’s full-time position includes mar- Composition from the University of South Florida for his partner following several years with the Wolk law firm, keting. She says, “Thought you’d all like to know that what new choral work, Of Water and Love. a well-known plaintiffs’ aviation law firm in Philadelphia, you taught me is being appreciated and applied every day Delia Johnson, M.Actg. ’07, received her CPA license Pennsylvania. He has worked on such notable commer- out here in Wyoming.” in July 2008 and has been working for the Alexandria, cial aircraft cases as the US Airways Flight 5481 crash in Tyler Mack ’05 was named one of the best and bright- Virginia, accounting firm Kositzka, Wicks, and Company Charlotte, North Carolina, and the American Airlines Flight est young professionals in the newspaper business in the since October. 1420 crash in Little Rock, Arkansas. December 2008 edition of Presstime magazine’s annual “20 Bill Belardo ’08 works as an environmental specialist for under 40” selection. The feature is designed to recognize the Cuyahoga County Emergency Management Agency in those who have proven themselves as “change agents Ohio. His job entails ensuring that HAZMAT facilities abide within their companies and the industry, providing much- by EPA standards. 2000s needed leadership and vision.” Mack is director of online Mazdak Khamda, M.M. ’00, was hired to teach piano at sales and marketing for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Napa Valley College in California. In 2008 he released a Washington, where he lives with his wife, Sally. In Memoriam new solo piano CD titled Grey, containing original compo- Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, Ph.D. ’05, became the sitions that mix Iranian and American cultures. Betty Jean Taylor Bartholomew ’45 died in October first Native American woman to ascend to the presidency 2008 of pancreatic cancer at age eighty-five. She had a Andrew M. Wenrick, M.Arch. ’02, practices architecture in of an accredited university outside the tribal college sys- long and distinguished career as a pianist and organist, Lucerne, Switzerland, where he lives with his wife, Andrea, tem when she was inaugurated as president of Seattle’s winning many awards for her service to churches and com- and their six-month-old daughter, Ashtyn. Antioch University in October. munities in five states. She is survived by her five children Dan Flanagan, M.M. ’03, was appointed acting concert- Dave Camwell, D.M.A. ’06, assistant professor of saxo- and five grandchildren. master of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and phone and jazz studies at Simpson College in Indianola, Alva Granquist Treadgold ’45, J.D. ’47, a member of Sacramento Opera. He’ll be a soloist with the philhar- Iowa, has had four recent articles published by Saxophone Sigma Kappa, died in August 2008. After graduating at monic this season in the Beethoven Triple Concerto and Journal. Camwell and wife Jillian welcomed a baby boy the top of her law school class, Treadgold and her hus- Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. He also was into the world in November. band, Don Treadgold ’43, moved to England, where he appointed lecturer of violin at the University of California Christopher Thomas ’06 attended USC’s graduate pro- was a Rhodes scholar. After their return to the states, Don at Davis, where he will be a soloist this season with the gram, Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, after took a job teaching Russian history at the University of University Symphony. his UO graduation. He interned on ABC’s hit show Lost as Washington, while Alva was active in a number of UW Jonathon Banks ’05 is a video game designer currently orchestrator and conductor. Thomas was a music editor on organizations, and later worked at a Seattle law firm. The at work on the PlayStation Network title, Pain, an action Sony Pictures’ Dragon Wars, which became the highest-sell- two raised three children and a foster child. comedy with downloadable expansions. ing film in Korean history. He was the youngest nominee Continued on page 62

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CLASS NOTES Continued Donald Harry Stanton ’49, a member of Phi Delta Theta, died in October 2008 at age eighty-four. His role as cocap- tain of the 1949 football team helped carry the Ducks to the Cotton Bowl that year and earned Stanton a place in the Hall of Fame. After a career in the lumber industry, Stanton retired to San Carlos, Mexico, with his wife of sixty- two years, Polly Stanton ’47. Frances Robson Brown ’50, a member of Sigma Kappa, died in August 2008 at age eighty. A lifelong Oregonian, Brown worked as a teacher’s assistant in the special education department at West Albany High School. In her later years, she enjoyed wintering in Palm Springs and always remained an avid Ducks fan. Diane Mecham Williams ’50, a member of Delta Delta Delta, died in November 2008 at age seventy-nine. Wil- liams was the society editor at the Santa Rosa, California, Press-Democrat from 1948 to 1950, and later owned a string of clothing shops in the Bay Area. Her two children learned principles of running a successful business while working in her stores, and Williams and her daughter operated shops side by side in Santa Rosa until 2005. Lawrence Blunt ’52, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, died in September 2008. Kendall E. M. Nash ’57 died in August 2008 at age eighty- two. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II and completing his education, Nash practiced law in Newport and the Portland area. In later years, he and his wife, Nancy Peterson Nash ’49, operated a travel company, escorted tour groups abroad, and taught courses in low-cost travel. He is survived by his two sons, Robert and Douglas Nash ’84, and four grandchildren. John R. McCulloch Jr. ’63, L.L.B. ’65, a member of Alpha Tau Omega, died in July 2008 at age sixty-seven. McCulloch spent three decades as a trial attorney for the Oregon Department of Justice, serving as solicitor general and chief trial counsel, until he retired in 1999 to enter private practice. He was a Salem city councilor in the late 1970s and helped to create Minto-Brown Island Park’s running paths. Equally devoted to his family and the constant pursuit of mental excellence, McCulloch required each of his children to read a book a week in order to stimulate conversation during Sunday waffle brunches. Faculty In Memoriam Emeritus professor of political science Jim Klonoski died in late January due to a brain tumor. He was eighty-three. Klonoski earned his doctorate from the University of Mich- igan in 1958 and came to the UO in 1961. He was an expert Now through on constitutional law and politics and on the American presidency. Klonoski chaired the Lane County Democrats from 1970 to 1974 and then the state party from 1974 to 1980. In 1978, he married Ann Aiken ’74, J.D. ’79, now April 12 a federal judge in Eugene. Klonoski retired in 1996, but returned three years later and taught until 2002.

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The Inspiration of Osprey By Melissa Hart My husband and I had already labored “That’s right,” I chuckled. “The male two months to remodel our bathroom does the heavy lifting while the female when osprey began to build a nest in a directs.” nearby park. On hikes, we laughed at their “Not so. Look.” Jonathan pointed at messy conglomeration of sticks and shrill the female who flew off and returned with communications in a Douglas fir. I never a hunk of old man’s beard. We found, in suspected these noisy birds of prey would the hour we watched, that she preferred teach me the value of perseverance. lichen while her mate gravitated toward The previous year, Jonathan and I had sticks. delved into home improvement as we “We’d better get back to remodeling,” waited to adopt a child. Both processes Jonathan said at last. operated on a fickle, seemingly inter- “The birds’ll have that nest finished by minable timeline. “Remodeling gives us tonight,” I muttered, envious. something constructive to do,” I reasoned But they didn’t. When we returned the as we finished building a fence and moved next week, muscles strained from lifting on to the bathroom. drywall, the osprey were still working. The Demolition comes easy to me. I strap nest wasn’t much larger than it had been; on goggles, shoulder a sledgehammer, still, they labored, one twig at a time. and topple walls. It’s putting them back I watched the female fly down to an together that’s problematic. I resent hours spent indoors on a hikeable day, oak, rip off lichen, and transport it to the nest. What compelled her to keep breathing paint and adhesive fumes and replacing lumber riddled with termite working? Did she trust that eventually, her home would be finished and the tunnels. babies would come? One afternoon, faced with gutted walls and a dirt floor, I collapsed in a Such faith eluded me. We’d already waited so long for a child. Sometimes, mess of two-by-fours. “We’ll never be finished!” I wailed. “What if we get a as I struggled to screw drywall into studs, I wondered if we’d even need the child and there’s no bathroom? What if we finish the bathroom but there’s toddler commode or the little rubber ducky. no child?” Still, if a four-pound bird could devote herself to home remodeling, I could, Jonathan looked at me, sawdusted and sweating. He assessed his thumb, too. I painted the ceiling and picked out a light fixture, illuminating our newly bruised in the line of duty. “Let’s go for a hike,” he said. tiled shower. “Buford Park!” I leapt up to exchange my hammer for binoculars. The next week at Buford Park, the skies were devoid of osprey. I climbed The Howard Buford Recreation Area outside Eugene boasts 2,300 acres a hill and peered through my binoculars. “The nest looks finished,” I reported, on which visitors can glimpse numerous different species of birds. We spot- “but the birds aren’t around.” ted red-tailed hawks, vultures, bald eagles, and violet-green swallows before Jonathan and I fell silent, listening. “They’re gone,” he concluded. Jonathan pointed to an osprey with something long and stringy clutched in We drove home glumly. We returned to the park several times, but the its talons. “What kind of fish is that?” he asked. osprey had vanished. I’d read about how osprey hunt, snatching a fish from the river and turning It took us six months to complete our bathroom. During that time, I read it in midair to ride next to their body, streamlined. I lifted my binoculars. “That’s more about osprey—learned that pairs often return to the same nest for years, no fish!” I said. “It’s lichen—old man’s beard.” remodeling it for the season’s babies. What had compelled our pair to aban- The osprey sailed over us and disappeared into a fir. The previous autumn, don their nest? In the absence of eggs, had they migrated early toward South we’d spotted a nest high up in the limbs of the same tree, but now we glimpsed America, heartbroken? only a few sticks above which two birds presided, shrieking. In July, Jonathan and I planned a cross-country trip, distracting ourselves “Their nest must’ve blown down in a storm,” Jonathan said. from another summer without a child. Then the phone call came. “Congratula- Looking at the larger bird, likely the female, I felt a sudden kinship. “Poor tions,” said our social worker. “You have an eighteen-month-old daughter.” bird.” I dropped to the sun-warmed grass. “She’s probably outraged that she’s That August, we took our toddler to Buford Park. “Look!” We pointed to got to rebuild the nest before she lays eggs.” the nest in the fir. “Osprey built that. But then they went away.” Osprey nests are complicated affairs. Approximately three feet deep and Suddenly, a movement in the sticks caught my eye. I peered through the four feet wide, they can weigh up to 400 pounds, lined with sticks, bark, leaves, binoculars and spotted a black-striped head. “It’s the female!” I told Jonathan. and human detritus. In his book Return of the Osprey, David Gessner monitors a “She’s on the nest!” series of osprey nests on Cape Cod. One contains a naked Barbie doll. Our new daughter clapped her tiny hands. And I—in a silly but heartfelt Jonathan and I assumed that osprey merely picked up debris and carried effort to reciprocate for the bird’s inspiration—lifted her into the air, hoping it to their nesting site. Not so. As we watched, the smaller bird took off again. the osprey could see her. Suddenly, he swooped toward a branch, talons outstretched, and broke off a twig. Grasping it in his talons, he carried it to his mate who chirped from Melissa Hart is the author of the upcoming memoir, Chica (Seal, 2009). She her station. teaches journalism at the University of Oregon. Jonathan B. Smith B. Jonathan

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