Vol. 44, No. 1, Arches Fall 2016

University of Puget Sound Sound Ideas

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Fall 2016

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President Isiaah Crawford, an introduction

PLUS: 75 years of life in Kittredge • Rare bird: the creations of Lara Webster ’17 photojournal by Ross Mulhausen MOONLIGHTING

September 2: LogJam this year concludes with an outdoor showing of Zootopia. Careful observers of campus geography will note that the film is projected here on the backside of Warner Gym, and viewers are sitting where Hugh Wallace Memorial Pool had been since 1956. The white-painted outline of the old pool building’s interior north wall makes a fine, if temporary, movie screen. (The brick facade will be restored this fall.) For a look at the new Wallace Pool, turn the page.

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2 arches autumn 2016 JUST ADD WATER

October 22: Fun times and fast laps at the 33rd annual Don Duncan Alumni Swim Meet, during Homecoming weekend. Current varsity swim team members vs. alumni. The alumni won—like they always do. The pool was dedicated the previous night, and Don Duncan, the godfather of Puget Sound swimming, was there. It retains the name of the original 1956 structure: Hugh Wallace Memorial Pool. photojournal

SWING TIME

Seen late in the spring semester in the West Woods (near where the old A-frames used to be), when the weather at last turned warm and sunny after the seemingly interminable winter of 2016. In hand: James Watson’s The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. HANG TIME

September 14: Here’s Katherine Gieseke ’19 at the grand opening for the new climbing wall, part of the renovations to the athletics center. The wall was built by Ryan Spence ’99, who as a student built the college’s first climbing wall in a disused racketball court in 1996. Ryan has been building climbing walls professionally ever since.

autumn 2016 arches 5 the quad Four pages of thoughts, news, trends, and phenomena

NEW FACULTY BOOKS The Master, in context

Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, Professor of Music Geoffrey Block’s Experiencing Beethoven presents Beethoven’s compositions within the changing context of his life and times. The book paints a portrait of Beethoven’s childhood and adolescence in Bonn, his early triumphs and artistic maturation in Vienna, and, despite the A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE CLASS OF 2020 challenges posed by his • Students have come from as near • A quarter are students of color. • The most common first name music to contemporaries, as Tacoma and as far as China. Sixteen percent are the first in their in the class is Emma. The most the recognition he received States best represented: California, families to attend college. common last name is Johnson. Washington, Oregon, Colorado, There are no Emma Johnsons. during his lifetime as the Minnesota, Hawai’i, in that order. • High school senior classes ranged • They are the most accomplished most acclaimed composer There are just as many students from as large as 1,000 students to as class in terms of both GPA and from Wisconsin as from Wyoming. small as one student. of his era. Professor Block standardized test scores. conveys the range and scope of Beethoven’s achievement, from his heroic style to his lyricism, grappling throughout READERS RESPOND with Beethoven’s power to communicate his idealistic The Carillon musical vision to listeners, and About the “From the Archives” story it explains why Beethoven’s on the history of the campus carillon, music continues to enjoy an in the summer 2016 Arches: “I played unwavering appeal in an age the Sunday afternoon carillon concerts crowded by other musical for about two years, from 1961 to competitors. 1963, while studying for my Bachelor of Music degree. The console and automatic player were in a small room on the west side of the second floor of the Music Building. I had to turn off the internal speakers and open the windows so I could hear the sound coming from the library to tell what I was doing. I also had to change the paper rolls in the auto player; we didn’t have much of a variety. I don’t remember anyone complaining, so I guess what I played either way was OK!” — Julie Forsberg Roberts ’63

“After the carillon speakers were installed in the tower of the library, the carillon was set up to chime on the hour. But campus neighbors complained. Near the end of 1954, I think it was, after the complaints, the chimes were discontinued between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. That is until the night that I and an accomplice who had keys to the library tower wired an old 45-RPM phonograph to the speakers in the library. The song we chose to play was “Rock Around the Clock.” The music blared over the speakers for nearly 45 minutes until university staff realized it wasn’t coming from the programming console in the Music Building and instead was somehow coming from the library where the speakers were.” — Charles Waid ’62

6 arches autumn 2016 QUOTE, UNQUOTE THEN AND NOW GREEK LIFE Best-sellers in the Puget “The amount of THC required Sound Bookstore ∆∆∆ would have to be financially Autumn 1986 Tri Delta is back Last of the Breed, Louis L’Amour ludicrous for anyone to do this Wanderlust, Danielle Steel The Phi Zeta chapter of Delta It, Stephen King Delta Delta, which closed in as a practical joke. It’s probably a Whirlwind, James Clavell 1998 due to declining member- His Way, Kitty Kelley ship, will re-establish its chapter false positive from the test kit.” A Day in the Life of America: in spring 2017. Tri Delta national Photographed by 200 of the Executive Director Karen White said Puget Sound was identified — Dan Burgard, associate professor of world’s leading photojournalists on one day, May 2,1986 as a top extension prospect chemistry, in a July 22 article in The Denver due to the sorority’s history in Post about the discovery of the marijuana Autumn 2016 Tacoma, the commitment of ingredient THC in the public water supply The Magicians, Lev Grossman local alumnae, and the caliber of Hugo, Colo. Professor Burgard has The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James of UPS student academic excellence and community engage- been studying THC and other drug Brown ment. Tri Delta will become the traces in Washington wastewater. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein fifth National Panhellenic Con- Subsequent testing in Hugo did in fact The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ference organization on campus show that the initial tests were false- In Defense of a Liberal Education, and begin recruiting members positive, The Post reported. Fareed Zakaria in January.

THE ‘NET SEEN ATHLETICS

Get your two-legged, four- As we were strolling through Does Puget Sound have a fight song? legged, or two-winged fix the Wheelock parking lot during Indeed we do, and the football team chants it after every game. You’re probably familiar with the first week of classes, this It was John O’Connor, director of Puget Sound’s bands in the late 1940s, Humans of New York and possibly window sticker on the car of Zöe who adapted UCLA’s fight song for the Logger faithful. “I made a band (secretly) sites like Daily Dose of Johnson ’20 caught our eye: arrangement out of it, and my wife, Ermajean, wrote the lyrics,” he told Puppies or F*** Yeah Funny Cats Arches in 2005. (we don’t judge), but how about these:

Humans of Puget Sound (HOPS), now facebook.com/ HumansofPugetSound Crane Flies of Puget Sound instagram.com/ crane_flys_of_puget_sound Dogs of Puget Sound instagram.com/dogsofpugetsound

Cats of UPS now instagram.com/catsofups And, yes, even Crows of Puget Sound instagram.com/crowsofpugetsound

autumn 2016 arches 7 the quad

KUPS a new mascot. He wanted some- THE FACULTY: Why an alligator? thing that was really fun. He asked WHAT I’M WORKING ON Louise Blake ’13, then the KUPS Every time we go past the Why do some U.S. director of alligators, to design an states welcome KUPS studios, down there in alligator logo. After several iterations immigrants and the no-windows subterranean she came up with the now famous others shun them? reaches of the SUB, we picture of the KUPS alligator wear- wonder about the radio ing shades. They named it Doug, In 2010 Arizona’s legislation station’s logo, rendered the size of a after me, since I taught them about allowing police detention of took this position very seriously. We garbage-can lid and displayed next the importance of keeping alligators people suspected to be in never once saw an alligator in the to the entrance. What’s with the out of the radio station. (The irony!) the country unlawfully stood station! Many subsequent directors alligator? Why not a headphones- in baffling contrast to neigh- of alligators followed in Ryan’s But wait, if alligators aren’t allowed and-hatchet-toting human or boring New Mexico, where footsteps to keep alligators out of in KUPS, why is the mascot an something? We asked Doug Herstad undocumented immigrants KUPS at all times. alligator? ’03, who held many different were being granted driver’s positions at KUPS, for the story: Fast-forward to 2005: I returned to “I think mascots are often creatures licenses. California, once KUPS as operations advisor to teach that people fear,” Louise said. a proponent of Chinese In 2001–02, Ryan Cunningham ’05, radio classes to the on-air staff. “Though the alligators are kept at exclusion, became seen then a very ambitious freshman, One of the very important rules bay by the director of alligators, the as a bastion of immigrant wanted to get more involved at that I reiterated every semester station still likes to exemplify them inclusion. Why? And what the station. There were no staff was that alligators were never as an analogy of our strength and are the implications? Under positions open at the time, but he allowed at KUPS. If anyone ever ferocity. We firmly do not permit a $200,000 grant from the was so excited to help out that we saw an alligator in the station, they gators to enter, but we do view National Endowment for the decided to create a new one. We must call the director of alligators them with awe and respect.” Humanities, Robin Jacob- called it “Director of Alligators.” His immediately! son, associate professor job was to ensure that alligators Want a KUPS alligator sticker? It’s of politics and government never came into the radio station, Next, in 2013, Nick Carroll ’13, the available online from the Puget at Puget Sound, and col- and if they did he must remove general manager of the station, Sound Bookstore (bookstore. leagues at Bucknell Univer- them as quickly as possible. Ryan decided it was time for KUPS to get pugetsound.edu). sity and the U of Oregon are trying to find out. Their groundbreaking project, LOGGERS NEED THIS STUFF States of Immigration, will focus on two sets of bor- dering states—Arizona and New Mexico, and Virginia and Maryland—and analyze geography, politics, demo- graphics, history, attitudes, and historical flows of immigrants to help policymakers Giant bear sleeping bag. Plaid flannel shirt. When in Beard hat. All the face Sandal socks. (No, seriously.) And bonus! They come in understand the conditions You do know our mascot is Rome … bit.ly/psplaidflannel warmth, none of the shaving. Grizz, right? bit.ly/psbearbag bit.ly/psbeardhat plaid. bit.ly/pssandalsocks under which some places become welcoming commu- With thanks to our colleague Sarah Stall, assistant director nities and others become of communications and online sites of exclusion. “With media, downstairs from Arches World Headquarters. that fuller understanding,” said Professor Jacobson, “we as a nation can focus on the kinds of immigration policies that best serve our Log pillow. Because Loggers Big Foot garden (dorm) Giant coffee mug. Be sus- values and our needs.” saw logs even in their sleep. statue. Sasquatch will tainable. Make fewer trips bit.ly/pslogpillow sas-quash your enemies. to the coffee shop. bit.ly/psbigfootstatue bit.ly/psgiantcoffee

8 arches autumn 2016 LIKE BEING THERE VERSE

Schneebeck LIVE In The American Scholar each week, poet and editor David Lehman chooses a line from the work of a famous poet and offers it as a prompt for readers to concoct new poems. On Sept. 20 Lehman threw down a fragment line that Emily Dickinson wrote late in her life: “A woe of ecstasy.” Professor of African American Studies and English Hans He’d Ordered a Wow of Ecstasy Ostrom’s“Wow of Ecstasy” tied A woe of ecstasy it was for first place for the week and not supposed to be. packed in several literary allusions: The package was to contain “The play on ‘woe/wow’ occurred a Wow of Ecstasy, to me, and I turned the ‘wow’ into and version 12.3, at that. a commodity. I also wanted to improvise with sound a bit,” Profes- To open it, therefore, sor Ostrom told us. “‘Zero’ came was to be surprised by Oy, to mind-—and that seemed good to see nothing but because of Dickinson’s famous a bit of mica in a grain of sand, ‘zero at the bone’—what one feels and once more to face upon seeing a snake—from ‘A Nar- Can’t make it to campus to hear the Adelphians’ fall choral concert? Now row Fellow in the Grass.’ ‘Surprised the math: expectation you can get a virtual seat up-front and center, streaming over the ‘net from by Oy’ is a riff on a Wordsworth minus actuality the control room in Schneebeck Concert Hall with stunning audio quality phrase, ‘Surprised by joy.’ And then equals woe, which is oh too close and first-rate video. Point your browser to pugetsound.edu/music for a list there’s William Blake’s line, ‘To see to zero, as you know. of upcoming performances—look for the “Schneebeck LIVE” link. a World in a grain of sand.’”

OUR TOWN Loggerhythms by Roger Dahl ’75 So long, rusty old towers of power Beginning in spring 2017 Tacoma Power plans to tear down the 20 erector-set transmission-line towers on N. 21st Street and replace them with 12 galvanized steel poles like the one at right. The old lattice towers are in a state of significant deterioration, Tacoma Power says. They are part of the Potlatch Transmission Line, which was originally built in 1925 to bring power from the Cushman hydroelectric project out on the Olym- pic Peninsula. In the fall of 2017 the Cushman Substation on 21st Street will be deactivated; no word yet on the future of that cool-looking Greek Revival building.

WHOOPS

To our horror we saw too late that in the summer edition of this magazine, in the item on retiring faculty, we said that Martins Linauts was a retiring clinical associate professor of physical therapy, which was incorrect. Pro- fessor Linauts taught functional anatomy and neuroscience to occupational therapy students here for 25 years and was, after all, the man who was a major force in facilitating the occupational therapy exchange with Gunma University in Japan. Our fervent apologies, good prof.

autumn 2016 arches 9 at college Accepting my passions

BY MAYA MAKINO ’19

While many students had already been back in town for days, I Kittredge Hall pulled into campus late on the Sunday afternoon before classes 75TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS started. My lonely boxes were the only ones left in the storage room in Anderson/Langdon Hall, where I lived last year. Past and Present Faculty I had been in denial about the new school year, and it was hard Exhibition: Oct. 3–Nov. 5, 2016 to tear myself away from my summer routine of sunny days spent Works by faculty members from the walking at the beach or in the redwood forest, reading embarrass- 1930s through the present will be ingly nonliterary novels (um, Twilight?), and eating avocados at the shown. river with friends and family. But it turns out that coming back to school for my sophomore year feels much different from arriving as Alumni Exhibition and Art a freshman. I am distinctly less terrified, and I also have a greater sense of control. Sure, History Colloquium: Jan. 17–Feb. I’m a year older and (hopefully) wiser, but I think this new ease is at least partially due to 18, 2017 the fact that I am now taking classes I truly enjoy. Works by alumni of the art and art My schedule was inspired by the fun I had this summer working at an art camp. history department will be displayed Although it included being chased around the playground by second-graders wielding at Kittredge Gallery. An Art History handfuls of bark chips, those same hooligans sent me home each day with lovingly hand- Colloquium will take place Friday, crafted gifts such as puzzle piece earrings or insects made of corks and straws. That experi- Jan. 27, and Saturday, Jan. 28. ence is partly why, two days into the semester, I switched from an introductory sociology Opening reception Friday, Jan. 27, class to Art 201, a drawing class. So far I’m thrilled with the decision. I’m also loving my 5–7 p.m. Keynote speaker: Carolyn intro to English class and intro to poetry class, where we have been reading and writing Dean ’80, professor of history poems weekly. Even Communication Theory, a class with a dry-sounding name, has of art and visual culture at the proved to be thought-provoking. What a change from struggling through required classes University of California, Santa Cruz. like math (which, readers of my last column may recall, was my personal kryptonite). She will give a talk titled “Masonry In fact studying English and art feels pretty close to what I would be doing in my free and Meaning at Machu Picchu time anyhow. My classes this semester are so attuned to my interests that when I spend and Beyond.” Participants in the six hours straight in the art studio working on a charcoal figure drawing, or stay up until colloquium will include alumni, and 2 a.m. reading Walt Whitman for my poetry class, it barely even feels like I’m doing past and present faculty members. homework. For the first time that I can remember, my classes are the central drama occupying my Abby Williams Hill Exhibit: head. The real estate formally used for mulling over crushes, social dramas, and weekend Feb. 27–April 15, 2017 plans has been usurped by musing over which words can best describe a mountain range Paintings from the University (spine, vertebrae, elephantine?) or how to apply communication theories to my interac- of Puget Sound collection of tions in the SUB. I keep bringing up ideas I’ve been studying in casual conversation. Northwest pioneer and artist Abby My artist mother often reminds me that “if you find work you love, you’ll never work Williams Hill will be curated by a day in your life.” That idea has become clearer to me now that I am closer to living such students for the public exhibition. an experience. Even though I know it’s not the ticket to riches, I plan to declare English as Hill’s work provides a vision of many my major and minor in studio art. of the iconic sights of the American I have realized that if I spend my college years struggling through a major I don’t love, West, and a picture of life between chances are it will only land me a job I don’t love. I would rather cut to the chase by going the Civil War and World War II. right for the subjects I am passionate about. My hope is that potential employers will Opening reception: Wednesday, value that enthusiasm and skill enough to justify the cost of tuition! And if not I may still March 22, 5–7 p.m. find a career playing tag with feisty 7-year-olds.

Maya is the Arches intern. She started with us as a freshman and will be writing about her college experience in each issue until she graduates.

10 arches autumn 2016 from the archives

75 years of Kittredge Hall, a building that made a difference

Welcoming Army Specialized Training Unit soldiers outside their Kittredge Hall headquarters, December 1943.

It is September 1941. You are back on Student government, The Trail, and president. Hard to imagine. You guess you’re campus for your sophomore year and move Tamanawas are housed in Jones. The book- really going to miss the guy. into Anderson Hall, perhaps, or one of the store is in the basement. Weekly chapel You march right up the front steps of approved off-campus residences, then head (attendance required) is in Jones auditorium, Howarth—you couldn’t do that as a fresh- for Jones to check on your classes at the reg- and there is a real chapel—called The Little man either. Howarth is where all the science istrar’s office. Because you are a sophomore Chapel—on the second floor. If you need classrooms and labs are, and on the top floor now, you can enter Jones through the front to call someone there’s a student telephone, is the natural history museum. Most import- door—you weren’t allowed as a freshman. and your $7.50 student activity fee includes ant right now, though, is The Commons in Things are looking up. the privilege of using it. Not very private, the basement, where students eat their meals. Almost everything that happens on though, there in The Trail office. And don’t It costs you $18 a month to eat there. What campus takes place in Jones—most classes, forget the college library. It’s in Jones’ base- do they think you are made of, money? And for example. Jones is full of classrooms, and ment. Not open on Sundays. The third and that’s in addition to your room and the $175 offices for faculty and administrators. Then fourth floors are mostly art galleries. tuition for the year. Man! there are all the clubs and organizations that Next door, Howarth Hall is jammed up, Nice to know, though, that if you get sick meet in Jones, and the social events that take too. You head over there for lunch. Coming you can go see Dr. Hermann or Dr. Sleep in place there. You’re a member of the Inter- up the steps of Jones as you leave is Dr. Todd, the medical office on the second floor of the national Relations Club, you’ll help SPURS and you say hello. At first you thought he gym. They are there every weekday afternoon and Intercollegiate Knights put the Log Book was stern and gruff, but he isn’t really. He for one hour, 12:30–1:30 p.m. You wonder if together, and you belong to Pi Kappa Delta was tough when he had to be to save the Dr. Sleep ever prescribes sleep—probably the debate honorary. You meet wherever you can school back in the ’20s. But now, at age 79, cure for most student ailments. find a cubbyhole, and sometimes you have to he’s a genial grandfather of a man in his final Yup, the campus sure is crowded. All go off campus. year at Puget Sound. Twenty-nine years as the faculty and more than 600 students are

autumn 2016 arches 11 The noontime lunch crowd in the Kittredge Hall Commons, seen At work on the 1953 edition of Tamanawas in The Trail/ from the balcony, facing south, 1949. Tamanawas office. crammed into Jones and Howarth and the merchants and anyone you could buttonhole a whole bunch of people worked hard to move gym and the old music conservatory. The only to raise money for this building. A “bricks- all of the gas stoves and kitchen equipment dorm is Anderson Hall, and you have to be krieg,” they called it. You don’t like to think from Howarth to the new student center. a woman to live there. That’s it—that’s the about the things going on in Europe—it seems You go inside and walk around. Beautiful! whole campus—five buildings. so far away, but you’re worried. The U.S. isn’t Upstairs you hear Jim Paulson—he’s student After lunch you wander down to see in it yet, but it seems inevitable. Anyway, the body president—giving an impromptu tour, how building number six—the new student “brickskrieg” raised a lot of money—about and you join the group. center—is coming along. You feast your eyes $9,000, not an insignificant percentage of the “Look at all these fabulous wood walls—this on it—man, it looks big. Really? This whole $57,000 total cost of the building. You feel stuff is called plywood, something new, and building for the students? Amazing. You get good about that. Dr. Todd got some manufacturers to donate excited at the thought. The bookstore will On Nov. 14 you are there for the laying of it—told ’em Kittredge would be ‘a lumberman’s move into this new space—it’ll be on the the cornerstone, when Dr. Todd announces showcase.’ Get it? We’re the Loggers, after all. ground floor just to the right as you enter that the building will be named Kittredge There are 18 different kinds of plywood in this from Lawrence Street. Wow, look at that bay Hall, for John M. Kittredge. You aren’t sure building. Neat, huh? window up there on the second floor—that’s who he was—later you learn that he never “But hey, I want to show you my favorite where Dean Drushel’s apartment will be. She’s even set foot on the campus. But he gets his room in the whole place. Follow me.” You all dean of women, and she’ll be in charge of the name on the building because his daughter troop downstairs and walk through The Com- building. She’s so great. You heard that there gave a bunch of money to the college in his mons to the southeast corner of the building. will even be a couple of rooms for girls to live memory. You guess that’s OK, but you think And there it is. “We have our own, genuine in and a room in the basement for a couple about old Senator Davis—Professor of His- soda fountain—a snack bar, where you can get of guys. tory Walter S. Davis—and the more than 400 a hamburger any old time. Isn’t it great? We You go up to the building and look in students and faculty who signed a petition to don’t need to go off campus anymore just to get one of the windows—they made a lot of name the new student center Davis Hall. You a milkshake.” You marvel at the green stools all construction progress over the summer. You call him “Senator” because he was one for a around the counter. can see almost all the way across the interior long time, in the Washington State Legisla- The group re-enters The Commons, and you of the building. That’ll be The Commons, ture. Man, if it hadn’t been for Senator Davis stop and stare. This one big room extends from moving over from Howarth, and it’ll be a lot of the school’s early history might have one end of the building to the other, north to huge, open to skylights on the roof, with a been lost. He wrote about it back in 1907. But south. And between the two big windows at the big balcony all the way around on the second Dr. Todd said the building couldn’t be built north end is a fireplace that Jim tells you cost floor—magnificent! without the Kittredge money. Oh well, it’ll $500, just for that one fireplace. You notice the There will be rooms on the second floor— be worth it. We’ll name some other building carpeting and the plush sofa and chairs, and Jim for ASCPS, The Trail, Tamanawas, the YWCA Davis Hall. demonstrates how sliding doors close off the group, and Kappa Phi—wow. And the chap- When you return to campus after Christ- whole north end to make it a student lounge. ter rooms, don’t forget about the sorority mas vacation things are really different. Over the next few days Kittredge fills with chapter rooms. You heard just the other day Because of Pearl Harbor. Everybody is on students, and with faculty, too, and—before you that Professor Tomlinson’s daughter, Barbara, edge. The country is at war with Japan and know it—is the social heart and activity center drew names out of a hat that assigned a spe- with Germany, too. A lot of the guys didn’t of the campus, like a beehive. When Kittredge is cific room to each of the four sororities. even come back to school, they just signed up. officially dedicated on Jan. 16, 1942, the whole You and your friends spent a lot of time Your spirits lift when you see that Kittredge campus is opened up for inspection, and you last spring downtown “selling bricks” to Hall is finished! You hear that over Christmas help lead tours of the buildings.

12 arches autumn 2016 The lounge at the north end of The Commons. Here, a discus- Bookstore manager Lela “Shifty” Schiffbauer, second from right, and sion during the annual Religious Life Emphasis Week, 1952. student employees wait on student customers, 1949.

At the end of spring term Dr. Todd number 3966, for the training of soldiers the excitement you felt as a student when retires. One of the most popular students in engineering. The campus scrambles to Kittredge Hall opened. Your very own student on campus, his granddaughter, Ruth accommodate the 243 men who will arrive in center—it symbolized in bricks and mortar Pauline Todd, graduates—she was this year’s December. Enrollment doubles, overnight. a promise to you and to all students that this Tamanawas editor. But there were some stu- The gym is established as housing for the small college was really going places. dents who should’ve graduated but didn’t— soldiers. They call it “the barn.” Some of the After the war enrollment explodes, and your pals of Japanese ancestry. Seniors, lucky ones live in “the palace”—Kittredge Kittredge Hall, perfect for 600 students, is juniors, sophomores, freshmen—three dozen Hall, unit headquarters. The Commons is inadequate for 2,000. In late 1959 a new stu- in all—hauled off to camps, even though off-limits to regular students except for the dent center opens across the street. Kittredge they were U.S. citizens, the nicest kids you snack bar at the south end. The sororities Hall becomes the home of the art department. could ever hope to meet. It made you cry, give up their beautiful chapter rooms, and all You walk around. The Commons is now an and it still does. student activities disperse across campus once art gallery. A ceiling over the gallery creates A new man, R. Franklin Thompson, is again. But you and the others vacate your second-floor space for art studios. The old introduced as Puget Sound’s 10th president. wonderful Kittredge Hall with the knowledge student lounge is a small art gallery. Later You can’t believe how young he looks com- that you are contributing to the war effort. on the fireplace is covered up, but you smile pared to Dr. Todd. Dr. Thompson—you In fact it seems that everyone on campus knowingly—it is still there, an archaeological come to call him “Doc T”—is only 34 years welcomes the soldiers with open arms. You treasure waiting to be discovered and perhaps old. You look at him hopefully, and you can- serve on the war coordination committee to restored someday. not even begin to imagine how much energy promote smooth relations between campus You understand that Kittredge isn’t a stu- he has. and Army. You hear that some of the girls dent center anymore. And you see that it is have set up a “date bureau committee,” now still plenty busy and well used. The second- September 1943: You return to Puget Sound that men are once again present in reasonable floor corner rooms aren’t sorority chapter for your senior year. Martha Lucille is born ratio. All of this takes place with Dean Drush- rooms. But they are alive with the energy of Oct. 25 to “Doc T” and Mrs. Thompson and el’s guidance, of course. The soldiers integrate students engaged in artistic expression. You is immediately “adopted” by the students. easily, and they reinvigorate the campus. feel that Kittredge is still a great place—it still Kittredge Hall has been part of the fabric of has spirit. campus life for almost two years now. The Your last semester begins: spring 1944. You new student center has made a huge differ- learn why much later (it’s because of the January 2017: Getting around is more diffi- ence to the college. Where before, student buildup to the D-Day invasion), but, disap- cult for you now, but you return to campus groups were scattered all over the place, pointing to you and the whole campus, the for the 75th anniversary of the opening of there is now a central place to come to. Paths ASTP units across the country are called from Kittredge Hall. The campus is off-the-charts are worn in the grass from all points of the their college homes early to prepare to fight. spectacular these days—hard to believe there compass leading to Kittredge. School spirit is Puget Sound’s soldiers leave in March. They were only five buildings your freshman year. high—except for the war, of course. Enroll- were with you only three months. As they Man, you would love to stroll the grounds ment is half what it was, fewer than 300, leave, you realize they are part of the heart and arm in arm with Dr. Todd and show him what with so many of the guys, including faculty, soul of the school and of Kittredge Hall and the campus has become. And Kittredge—you away fighting. will be always. You pray for them. love the place as much as ever. It was a student In October comes word that Puget Sound You graduate, and over the years you center for only 18 of its 75 years, but you has been selected to host one of the country’s return to campus as often as you can for were there at the beginning. You know what it Army Specialized Training Program units, Homecoming. You are always reminded of meant. — John Finney ’67, P’94

autumn 2016 arches 13 14 arches autumn 2016 ‘Get about it!’ Meet Puget Sound’s 14th president

by Chuck Luce

His mother’s idea of a bedtime story was reading him the dictionary. In elementary school he got a perfect attendance certificate nearly every year. In high school he was the kid you went to for help with your homework. He’s got the unpretentious, dependable, affable traits and quick smile attributed to Midwesterners, but he is also an unapologetic workaholic, putting in desk time at home before and after office hours. He likes Halloween, Game of Thrones and Suits, and Tex-Mex, but he doesn’t like surprises. He’s more of a city person than a country person. Do not bring up the sport of tennis in his presence. Unless, that is, you want to hear how Serena Williams did at the U.S. Open or about the lesson he once got from Mary Jo Fernandez. At the faculty awards dinner this past August he jumped up with his phone and snapped a pic of every winner. And this we note with admiration because it is a trait evolved in all of us Loggers and yet he’s been among us for only a few months now: He is not one to use the personal pronoun “I” a lot. When talking about the work of the college, he almost always says “we.”

autumn 2016 arches 15 “All of life revolved around St. Roch’s Parish,” he says. But unlike nearly every other kid he knew, Crawford didn’t go to the neighborhood parochial school. “My mom felt it would be better for me to go to the public school. She thought I needed to be engaged with life beyond our neighborhood, Photo TK and also engage with other African Ameri- cans and people of color.” His dad continued in the military, but after a few years his parents went their sepa- rate ways; Crawford has no siblings. From the beginning it was expressed— ceaselessly—by Crawford’s mother, grandmother, and aunt, who together raised him, that he would be the first in his family to get a college degree. Crawford says his mother was smart, capable, and fearless; she did not take “no” for an answer. She was a fanatic joiner of community organizations and civic societies. She enjoyed reading (mostly nonfiction) and music of all types. And, he says, above all she laughed heartily and often. Mrs. Reed’s 8th-grade class, siaah Crawford was born in 1960 at “She certainly taught me that it was Hamilton School in St. Louis, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in important to work hard and to apply myself 1974. That’s the future President Bethesda, Md. Both his parents were in fully at all times, but she also thought it was Crawford in the front row. the Air Force: his father, a staff sergeant important to not take yourself too seriously, Imechanic; his mother, an airman third class which is a credo I have tried to follow. teletypist. During the first year of Crawford’s “We struggled in a variety of ways,” life, his mom, Arthurine, decided that the Crawford says. “My mom, aunt, and grand- frequent repostings common for military mother worked very, very hard to provide families were no way to bring up her boy. and to make it possible for me to take So she returned to her family, who at that advantage of the opportunities available at point had moved from McGehee, Ark., to St. that time. There were expectations, though. Louis. I was expected to make a contribution in the Ah, St. Louis: The gateway. The departure world. Go and have your fun, they would point for dreamers. Toasted ravioli and gooey say, but don’t get into trouble. Don’t mess butter cake. Anheuser-Busch and McDonnell up. That’s just how it was. I was to focus on Douglas. Chuck Berry and Tina Turner. The my schoolwork.” confluence of two great rivers, the Missouri Not that hitting the books was always his and the ancient unconfinable Mississippi, which first focus. “I played every kind of sport you has not yet met an obstruction it cannot dance can imagine,” Crawford says. He played bas- over and laugh at. ketball and football in the neighborhood and St. Louis in the 1960s was a starkly seg- baseball for Soldan High School. He played regated city. Crawford’s family was one of a tennis at the public courts and took lessons few African-American families living near there. He played tennis in high school, too, what is now known as the Central West End, but says he was better at baseball than tennis. and also one of only a few families there who And of course, with Busch Memorial Sta- were not Catholic. dium just down Delmar Boulevard, he was a

16 arches autumn 2016 FRIDAY, JUNE 24 Mariners 4, Cardinals 3 St. Louis 000 000 030 - 3 4 0 huge baseball fan, a savant of the game. The disorder. What was abnormal psychology? Seattle 000 001 003 - 4 6 1 kind of guy who could tell you the slugging What was psychotherapy? I think I missed St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. percentages of not only his hero Cardinals my first class because I was so enthralled with Carpenter 2b-1b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .296 but of every other baseball star at the time. Diaz ss 2 0 0 1 2 0 .307 what I was reading. From that moment on I Holiday dh 4 0 0 1 0 1 .249 The kind of guy who knew a pitcher should wanted to be a psychologist.” Piscotty rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .293 never ignore Lou Brock’s first-base lead. The He received reinforcement for that resolve Perelta 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Moss lf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .257 kind of guy who could tell when Bob Gibson when the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks, then Molina c 2 0 0 0 1 0 .257 was going to throw his famous high fastball. executive director and CEO of the NAACP, Fryer c 1 1 0 0 0 0 .394 The kind of guy who could look at a box came to speak at St. Louis U. Gyorko 1b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .230 Garcia 1 1 0 0 0 1 .425 score (like the one at right) and recite an “I don’t recall exactly how it came to pass, Pham cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .222 inning-by-inning narrative of how the game but I was tasked with going to the airport Totals 30 3 4 2 4 5 went. to pick him up. That I remember like it was Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. With the adults in his household, though, yesterday. Rev. Hooks was inquisitive—about Martin cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .249 Smith lf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .265 recreational time was a little different. Craw- me and my goals and what I planned to do Cano 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .295 ford and his mom both liked museums, mov- with my education. I hesitantly shared with Cruz rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .281 ies, and music. (His first big concert: Tom him that I was thinking about going to grad- Seager 3b 2 1 2 0 2 0 .266 Lee 1b 3 0 0 1 1 0 .234 Jones at the venerable Kiel Auditorium. “The uate school to become a psychologist, and O’Malley pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .204 lights, the screaming fans, the music—made I’m sure the doubt in my voice was evident. Lind dh 4 1 1 3 0 0 .234 quite an impression on a 10 year old!”) But Iannetta c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .236 I remember him asking me very nicely to Marte ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .276 mostly, he says, “We spent a lot of time in pull the car over. When I did, he turned and Totals 30 4 6 4 4 5 church.” He was an usher on Sundays and in looked directly into my eyes and said, ‘Of LOB: Seattle 13, St. Louis 14. 2B: Moss 2 (10). Baptist Training Union, a kind of boot camp course you can do it! We do not have time RBIs: Diaz (36), Holiday (41), Lee (28), Lind 3 (32). SB: Seager (17). HR: Lind (11). RLSP: St. Louis 0 for 6; for church evangelists. for you to have doubts about yourself. Get Seattle 1 for 5. E: Seager (6). DP: Marte (Cano-Lee). “I have a singing voice that’s best heard about it!’” St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA alone in the car, so that at least kept me out Crawford says he also enjoyed his college Martinez 7.0 4 1 1 3 4 0 3.03 of the choir.” classes in theology and philosophy. Oh 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.66 Rosenthall 1.0 2 3 3 1 0 1 5.63 When it came time to start thinking “For a while there, I actually thought PS: Martínez 109-66; Oh 12-8; Rosenthal 12-7. about college, Crawford says he was pretty about double-majoring in philosophy and GB-FB: Martínez 12-6; Oh 0-2; Rosenthal 0-2. BF: much on his own. psychology. Or maybe majoring in philoso- Martínez 28; Oh 3; Rosenthal 3. “My family didn’t have a history of doing phy and minoring in psychology. I remember Seattle IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA LeBlanc 6.0 3 0 0 1 3 0 0.00 that sort of thing.” telling my mom that on the phone and … Vincent 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3.06 He chose St. Louis University because it dead silence. You could hear crickets in the Benoit 0.1 0 3 2 3 0 0 4.50 was close to home and because of its good backyard. To her I was going to be a medical Roach 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 WP: Roach (1). HBP: García (by Benoit). P-S: LeB- academic reputation and financial aid offer. doctor or a lawyer,” he says. “But when I lanc 87-58; Vincent 11-9; Benoit 24-9; Roach 24-17. “Also,” he says, “Maybe because of the told her I could get a Ph.D., that I could be GB-FB: LeBlanc 6-6; Vincent 0-2; Benoit 0-0; Roach 5-0. BF: LeBlanc 21; Vincent 3; Benoit 5; Roach 7. constant Catholic presence in the neighbor- a doctor of psychology, she responded, ‘OK, IR-S: Roach 3-2. hood, the opportunity to go to a Jesuit uni- Baby. You can do that if you want to.’” Umpires: HP: Sam Holbrook. 1B: Gerry Davis. versity appealed to me.” Crawford lived on campus his first three 2B: Carlos Torres. 3B: Rob Drake. He entered determined to become a psy- years at SLU. During his senior year his chology major, an ambition that came about grandmother developed Alzheimer’s, so he because of an old movie. Awake in the wee moved home to help his mother and aunt hours one night watching TV when he was care for her. Grandma Velma passed away in in 10th grade, he happened upon the 1957 December of his senior year. film The Three Faces of Eve, about the real-life There was deeper heartbreak ahead. Later Chris Costner Sizemore, who suffered from that spring his mother, the woman who had dissociative identity disorder. worked her whole life to get her son the “I was absolutely fascinated, he recalls. college education that circumstances did not “The next morning I got to school early so allow her to complete, died of a heart attack I could be the first person in the library. while at her office, a week before graduation. I wanted to look up multiple personality “She had gone out and bought a

autumn 2016 arches 17 commencement outfit. She never got to use “‘Dr. Jason, I just don’t think that’s going it. We buried her in that dress, and we buried to be right for me.’ my diploma with her.” “To which he responded, ‘Isiaah! Apply for the damn job!’ A career in colleges “I didn’t have full-time work lined up, “I had been admitted to DePaul University’s so I thought, OK, well, if I get the teaching Ph.D. program in Chicago. That’s what my position I could do that while I study for the mom would have wanted me to do. Plus licensing exam, and then move on. the idea of living independently and taking “Thirty years later, here I am.” advantage of all that a bigger city had to offer At Loyola, Crawford was indeed able really appealed to me.” to get his professional certification and Crawford says he went to graduate school set up a practice specializing in addictive thinking he’d eventually be a therapist work- behaviors and depression (he is still a licensed ing at a psychiatric hospital, a community psychologist), while also continuing research mental health center, or a counseling center on human sexuality, health promotion, and at a university. the psychotherapeutic process. (See sidebar, “Never for a moment did I think I’d be an page 21.) academic,” he says. “So I’m finishing up my It turned out Crawford loved working dissertation [back when HIV/AIDs was not with students. His Ph.D. advisor had seen yet well understood, it was on developing an in him something he had not yet realized awareness and prevention program for high himself—that he would find the demands of being a good teacher and staying informed and current in his field would satisfy his Crawford says he went to graduate intellectual curiosity, and that he also could satisfy his sensibility to assist others in school thinking he’d eventually be achieving their goals, as he himself had been assisted. a therapist working at a psychiatric “That’s been the story of my life,” he says. “I’ve been very fortunate that the universe hospital, a community mental health has brought me in contact with people who wanted to be helpful, who offered encourage- center, or a counseling center at a ment and support when it was necessary. And those examples served me later, when I was the one in a position to be a mentor.” university. “Never for a moment did I “Even as a graduate student in the 1980s he was ahead of his time, working on AIDS think I’d be an academic,” he says. prevention and minority issues,” his former professor, Leonard Jason, says. “I always school students], and one of my primary knew that his independence, creativity, and professors, Leonard Jason, who was a very good sense of humor would propel him to encouraging and supportive advisor, calls me positions of leadership where he would be up on the phone and says, ‘Isiaah, Loyola able to help others gain academic credentials University Chicago has an opening for an for success.” assistant professor. I think you should apply.’ It was this capacity for empathy that got “I said, ‘Well, Professor Jason, thank you him started in university administration. for bringing it to my attention, but I don’t He had observed that his colleague at the think I want to do that.’ I was much more time, Patricia Rupert, who directed Loyola’s focused on the clinical side. clinical psychology training program, was “Jason said, ‘Yeah, I know. But I would swamped, and so he offered to be her volun- really like for you to apply for the job.’ teer assistant.

18 arches autumn 2016 “I was able to take some burden off her Thompson Robin so she could do other, higher-level things,” Crawford recalls. “It also allowed me to work more directly with our graduate students and prospective students. Still, to this day, if I can identify some way, somehow that I can be helpful to someone—to help them overcome an obstacle that was in their way or solve a problem that was before them or remove a frustration so that they can continue to pursue their aspirations, that is very satisfying to me. That’s a good day. I really do perceive myself as being a service-oriented leader. I’m a psychologist, you know, so that kind of runs consistent with that.” Loyola clearly knew administrative talent when it presented itself. Crawford was a natural successor for leading the clinical psych program. He then became chair of the department of psychology, and, later, dean of arts and sciences. In 2008 he was recruited to be Seattle University’s provost. In that role he directed the Division of Academic Affairs and oversaw the university’s schools and colleges, libraries, enrollment, information technology, institu- tional research, and offices supporting aca- and the principles of social justice, run by “I’m an aging weekend warrior demic achievement, faculty affairs, and global Catholic priests. sort of guy,” Crawford says. “At engagement. “Isiaah has extraordinarily high academic this mature age I’m still out there It was a big move in some ways, with expectations,” says Sundborg. “He will seek playing in a softball league, vastly different cultural, geographical, and that in every decision he makes. He elevated running around pretending I am meteorological attributes to get used to. (“I the role of scholarship at Seattle University. in my mid-30s.” learned that there really are 50 shades of gray He set up a center for faculty scholarship, got out here in the Pacific Northwest,” he says.) national grants for scholarship, planned days Stephen Sundborg, president of Seattle to recognize scholarship, set up monetary University, says indeed Crawford needed a scholarship awards. And he also naturally little time to adjust to life in the Northwest. brought a strong influence on inclusive excel- “He had always been a city kid,” says lence and diversity because of who he is and Sundborg. “The whole outdoors thing was how he connects with people.” new to him. His first year here we had a “At Seattle U I didn’t have the opportu- meeting of the administrators’ cabinet in nity to work as directly with students as I had Sun Valley, Idaho. Nine of us. One day we as dean,” Crawford says, “but I tried to do as took a break and went fly fishing. There was much as I could to stay in contact with them. Isiaah, out there in waders fishing on the Big For example, I had regular meetings with Wood River, laughing so hard he could barely groups of 10 to 12 students—just regular breathe but gamely giving it a go.” students, not student government officers or In other ways, though, Isiaah found superstar students. I’d buy them lunch, and himself in a familiar academic environment: we would sit and just talk. Also, President a school that encourages in its students the Sundborg, Executive VP Tim Leary, and I rigorous application of intellectual curiosity would meet with faculty and a group of staff

autumn 2016 arches 19 committee with his candor, collaborative nature, commitment to community, and passionate belief in the ideals of a liberal arts education. He rose throughout the process to become the clear choice—best suited to this institution at this place and time, and best equipped to leverage the opportunities and meet the challenges that face us now and in the future. As a college that derives so much of its identity from the culture, values, and opportunities of the Pacific Northwest, we were especially pleased to have found Puget Sound’s next president so close to home.” “I wouldn’t say that becoming a college president was an ambition,” Crawford says. “It certainly crossed my mind, and it seemed to cross the minds of other people I worked around. I got to the point where I thought I could be helpful to the right institution if we could find each other. But it wasn’t a linear path in my thinking.” And it’s not exactly a job that someone just cruises into. Especially these days. As America drifts ever more from public support of higher education, access and affordability are huge challenges. So are shifting demo- Crawford and his spouse, Kent for breakfast—different people each time— graphics, accountability, keeping up with Korneisel, have rented their four times a year. We didn’t really talk about technology, meeting the expectations of Title house in West Seattle and made university business, just got to know people. IX—we could go on. But the task is noble, the president’s house on campus I really enjoyed that. These are practices I and Crawford says he believes wholeheartedly their primary residence. hope to continue here.” in the transformative power of a liberal arts The process of getting him “here,” of education. finding a new president, was long, complex, “This is a year I want to be out of the interesting, and not without its surprises. office. A lot. So I can learn about the history It took a year. A 14-member committee and people of Puget Sound, and so people comprising Puget Sound trustees, and fac- can learn about me. I hope to continue the ulty, student, staff, and alumni representa- trajectory that President Thomas and pre- tives started out by identifying leadership vious presidents have set the college on, to priorities and personal qualities that they continue to elevate its national profile and thought would be a good fit for the college. to carry forward its commitment to foster an After the call went out, the applicant pool inclusive campus community. My own iden- included sitting presidents and other leaders tities as an individual, and the intersectional- at some truly outstanding colleges in more ities among them, differ from my predeces- than 30 states, plus three international uni- sors in this role. But my charge—to support versities. These were winnowed down to 10 the institution in achieving new levels of semifinalists. excellence—remains the same. Diversity is an In introducing him to the campus, then- important part of that charge, and an essen- chair of the board of trustees Rick Brooks tial component of a truly liberating liberal ’82 said: “Crawford impressed the search arts college experience.”

20 arches autumn 2016 Out of the office “And I have forced him to become a Curriculum vitae “I’m an aging weekend warrior sort of guy. At sports fan,” Crawford says. “Primarily of ten- this mature age I’m still out there playing in a nis, but we also watch baseball and football President Crawford maintained a private softball league, running around pretending I together.” clinical practice in Chicago from 1987 am in my mid-30s.” They have rented their house in West through 2002, and has been published Our mountains and rivers and forests have Seattle and have made the president’s house in numerous scholarly journals over the little by little drawn him to them. He says on campus their primary residence. past 30 years on topics including human he has taken up snowshoeing and is looking sexuality, health promotion, and minority forward to the winter season. He also remains Observations stress. interested in tennis. “I’m in love with the Wil- For the past several months this correspon- He has served on a number of liams sisters and have been able to see them dent has been listening to our new president review panels and editorial boards for play in person.” every chance he gets: at formal gatherings and professional publications, including the He enjoys traveling. “I’ve been to all but going about the quotidian campus grind, and International Journal of Sexual Health, three states of the United States—Vermont, for several hours in private interviews. On the Journal of Visual Impairment & West Virginia, and North Dakota, and I have freshmen move-in day he was everywhere, Blindness, and the Journal of HIV/AIDS been blessed to travel throughout Europe, with that smile you wish you had, introduc- Prevention & Education for Adolescents China, and South America.” ing himself and making conversation like a & Children, as well as the National Insti- Among the more stark cultural intersec- neighbor. At the annual start-of-the-school- tutes of Health Panel Review for AIDS tions for him was getting the news that his year meeting with faculty and staff, during and Related Research. beloved Cardinals had won the 2006 World which he lightened up the usual stats about He currently serves on the board Series while he was on the Great Wall of the new freshman class and other administra- of directors for Providence St. Joseph China. Loved visiting Spain. “One of the most tive details with feelings about the beginning Health (Renton, Wash.), and he is a impressive structures I’ve seen is La Sagrada of this, his own freshman year in Tacoma. member of the Northwest Committee of Familia in Barcelona. And who doesn’t like Here is a man, I think, who genuinely the Metropolitan Opera National Council Paris?” he says. gets great satisfaction from being a facilita- and Seattle Art Museum Education & “I’ve been known to enjoy a good wine or tor—from making it possible whenever he Community Engagement Committee. other adult beverage now and then—shaken can to help people achieve what they are try- Crawford is director emeritus and former not stirred.” (OK, we get it.) ing to achieve. I have observed in him a ded- president of the board of directors of “I don’t have time to read for pleasure as ication to the work, an insistence on effort, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, and he much as I would like, but when I do I love an insistence on nothing less than perfection, served as chair of the Clinical Psycholo- murder mysteries, the schlockier the better.” but these things are overlain with humility gists Licensing and Disciplinary Board of On his bedside table when I interviewed him: and good humor. And we (I emphasize “we” the Illinois Department of Professional the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train. because as I noted at the top of this introduc- Regulation. Movies remain a favorite pastime, too. “I tion that is how he thinks), we are looking In August the American Psychologi- like that genre of film from the 1930s and forward to getting about it and together cal Association presented Crawford with 1940s, like Double Indemnity, Maltese Fal- continuing the succession of good—making its 2016 Training Advisory Committee con, All About Eve. Can’t wait to see the new it possible for another generation of Puget Special Award, recognizing his leadership Bourne film. Sound graduates to get out there and do what role in higher education. Crawford is an “Restauranting is one of my hobbies with they do—for the benefit of us all. alumnus of the APA Minority Fellowship Kent.” Program, which provides training, mento- That would be his spouse and partner of Chuck Luce has been the editor of this magazine ring, and career development to promis- 15 years, Kent Korneisel. The two were mar- since 1998. ing graduate students, postdoctoral train- ried in June. Kent was born in Britt, Iowa. ees, and early career professionals who Population about 2,100. He got his under- You can hear President Crawford talking about work or study in areas related to ethnic graduate degree at Iowa State and then went his move from Chicago to Seattle, thoughts on minority psychology. It is the third award to Illinois College of Optometry, where he the role of a college president these days, first Crawford has received from the APA. earned a doctoral degree in optometry. He is impressions of Puget Sound, and other topics working in an optometry practice at Costco in at the college’s just-launched podcast site: Tukwila. Kent is an avid chef and gardener. pugetsound.edu/whatwedo.

autumn 2016 arches 21 WINGING IT

Last spring, when we heard that Lara Webster ’17, a volunteer in Puget Sound’s Slater Museum of Natural History, entered the Washington State Taxidermy Competition with five birds that she had worked on, and that each of the five won an award, and that one of them, her peregrine falcon, won best bird overall, and that she had started learning taxidermy less than a year ago—well, we had to find out more.

22 arches autumn 2016 autumn 2016 arches 23 All five of the birds that Lara entered in the Washington State Taxidermy Competition in Ellensburg last spring won prizes. Previous page: Her dusky-headed parakeet received a blue ribbon (first place). The flying adult Cooper’s hawk (above) took a red ribbon (second), the great horned owl got a red, and the juvenile perching Cooper’s hawk also got a red ribbon.

24 arches autumn 2016 Lara loves birds. She has been a licensed falconer since she was 14, and she has a 3-year-old Harris’s hawk that she works with, heading out to the prairies of Eastern Washington nearly every weekend. Sol, her name is. The bird boards at a fellow falconer’s house in Tacoma, and Lara transports her in a very cool super-light crate that she made herself. Total package, including Sol: 5 pounds. As a freshman Lara began volunteering in the prep lab at the Slater, learning from Collections Manager Gary Shugart about how to prepare specimens that will be added to the museum’s research and teaching collections. Lara is a biology major, interested in body mechanics, and Top: Lara and Sol, her Harris’s hawk. Above: Two examples from among the also is remarkably patient and detail focused. She became 26 articulated bones projects that Lara did, a robin (left) and a varied thrush. fascinated by articulated bones projects, studying the underlying structural frame of birds and small mammals, and assembling the dauntingly complex and fragile skeletons in postures typical for the animal—a falcon, say, with wings retracted in a dive. Lara says she was having tremendous fun with these projects, but the museum collection isn’t really focused on osteology. Did she want to try taxidermy, the Slater folks wondered? It was a natural evolution of skills for her, the naturalist who also has studied art, and in February last year she

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took up taxidermy as an independent study. She was initially almost completely self-taught, picking up the craft from reading and watching YouTube videos. Gary helped her with the birds’ behavior for poses and offered technical advice. She also shadowed a taxidermist on Whidbey Island, the only person in Washington who specializes in birds. He’s the one who told her about the competition. It was in Ellensburg in May, the first such gathering in the state in almost a decade. Lara says she entered not really for the competition; she was more interested in the feedback she could get from the judges in the open class. She wasn’t satisfied that her creations looked natural enough, she says, and advice from more experienced taxidermists would help her improve. She entered five birds from among the 50 or so mounts she has made, and to her astonishment two of her birds were awarded first-place ribbons and three received second-place ribbons. Her peregrine falcon got best bird in the open class and best bird overall, and it won the taxidermists’ choice prize, a high honor from her colleague competitors. And so the apprentice becomes a master. Her new project is recreating, in 3-D, scenes from Audubon’s The Birds of America. She has Lara’s latest project—she is recreating in It took Lara about three completed one and is now busy on three more. weeks to build this diving 3-D scenes from John James Audubon’s After graduation in December, Lara wants juvenile peregrine falcon and The Birds of America. The one above is to go into wildlife rehabilitation. She has a get the pose just right. It won an American coot. She’s also working on a blue ribbon, best bird in job waiting for her at Sky Hunters in Alpine, Audubon’s saw-whet owls (top), merlins, the open category, best bird California. and barred owl. overall, and the taxidermist’s choice award for birds. autumn 2016 arches 27 WHAT WE DO: Amanda Smith ’05 Painter

In 2015 Amanda became director of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a residency program for artists, writers, and composers in Nebraska City, Neb. Previously she was a visiting artist at Temple University, Rome, Italy, and was awarded residencies at Fljótstunga in Iceland and Art 342 in Fort Collins, Colo. She has taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Minnesota State University, Mankato, and most recently was a visiting assistant professor and gallery director at Doane University in Nebraska. Amanda was an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2014. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. You can see more of her work at amandasmithart.com.

Quilted Northern, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 45” x 60”.

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autumn 2016 arches 29 WHAT WE DO: to say. And if the writer isn’t clear about it, the reader won’t be either. It’s also a matter of pride Steve Harvey ’84 and professionalism. If your writing is full of grammatical and spelling errors, people won’t take you seriously. You may have great ideas, but Professor of international health, if you don’t take the time to present them in a polished and compelling way, people won’t lis- field researcher, photographer, and ten. You wouldn’t apply for a job without check- ing the grammar and spelling in your CV. You crusader for good grammar wouldn’t submit a report to your boss without proofreading it carefully. So why would you do it for a class assignment? Steve Harvey is an belong to at-risk populations and why those assistant professor in decisions make sense within the context of their What do you say about unclear writing in the Department of lives even if they don’t appear to make sense public health? Zohaib Akhtar International Health from a biomedical or health-system perspective. Words are important. Unclear writing leads to at the Johns Hopkins You could apply that lens to many different unclear policy, and in our field that can lead to Bloomberg School of health issues. I have worked in malaria, I have people dying from ineffective or harmful in- Public Health. He is worked in maternal health. Now I have projects terventions. When I was applying to graduate an international health in Chagas disease [a tropical parasitic disease school, one of the places I applied was the Yale researcher with field ex- caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi School of Public Health. I went to admitted perience in Africa, Asia, and spread by insects known as kissing bugs], students’ day and heard a talk by the head of the and Latin America. His principal focus is malaria and food waste, and indoor air pollution from Department of Global Health. He said, some- prevention, maternal health, and quality improve- biomass cook stoves. So what interests me isn’t what wryly, that public health was much more ment and cultural adequacy of health services. so much the dynamics of a particular disease as dangerous than medicine. As a clinician you can He describes his research focus as more qualitative the way humans interact with one another and only kill one patient at a time. A poorly designed than quantitative. This article is excerpted from the surrounding environmental and social con- public health intervention can kill people by the an interview by Zohaib Akhtar, a physician at text, and how that affects health. thousands. A little melodramatic, maybe, but I Hopkins and one of Steve’s students. think we need to take the responsibility seriously. Why qualitative research? Why public health? Human beings and society are complex. I’m What’s the story behind your hat? When I left college I worked as a community always skeptical of simple, definitive answers. When I was a child my mother use to subscribe organizer for a number of years in a variety of Qualitative methods offer a great way to un- to The New Yorker. I read the cartoons every social justice positions and found that I was do- derstand the complexity of human experience. week. The magazine always had an ad for an ing more and more health-related work. Before Quantitative research is important, too. We Australian outback-style canvas hat made by a Bill Clinton was elected president in 1994, I need both. But qualitative provides an opportu- Canadian company. The company’s marketing was working on a campaign for single-payer nity to tell people’s stories—to present a narra- gimmick was that their hats were indestruc- national health care in the U.S. Maybe Hillary tive that goes deeper than numbers. tible—guaranteed to last forever. The ad told the will get it for us now. [Laughs.] Because I was story of a guy who went to Africa—or maybe doing so much work on social justice issues Probably a misconception, are you OCD it was Asia—where his hat was eaten by an ele- related to health care, I thought I’d better get about grammar and spell checks? phant. He waited a few days for it to come out some public health training in grad school. I [Laughs.] I know a lot of people think that. I the other end, washed it off, and, voila! Good also wanted to work internationally, so I delib- am concerned about grammar and spelling, but as new. I decided right then that I had to have erately chose a program where I would have the it’s part of a bigger issue. Our research is meant one of those hats. They’re expensive, so it took a opportunity to work abroad. to influence policy and practice that affects a while before I could afford one. Mine’s about 10 lot of lives, so it’s critical that we explain our years old now. So far, no elephants, and it’s hold- Malaria and maternal health are your ideas clearly and unambiguously. Good research ing up pretty well. principal focus? is the first step, but good research doesn’t help I have done a lot of work in malaria, but I if the researcher can’t explain his or her results What was the scariest non-paranormal thing don’t see my work as focused principally on a and recommendations effectively to others: that has happened to you? particular disease or condition. I’m interested researchers, public health practitioners, policy Being pulled off a bus by the Sri Lankan military in the relationship between people and their makers, and the public. Weak writing—includ- when I was trying to go to Jaffna. I had been in social, environmental, cultural, and political ing poor grammar—is often a sign of insuffi- Sri Lanka as an undergraduate and this incident context. I’m interested in understanding health ciently formed ideas. The writer hasn’t thought happened a year after I graduated from col- decisions from the perspective of people who through clearly enough what she or he is trying lege. It was 1985, the beginning of the ethnic

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Community-based malaria diagnosis in Zambia. Zambia was the Midwife, mother, and children, Ecuador. This photo comes from a project to first African country to introduce community-based malaria rapid di- improve the cultural adequacy of labor and delivery care in health facilities serving agnostic tests. RDTs make diagnosis possible when there is no lab, indigenous women in the Ecuadorian Andes. The mother (third from left) has five microscope, or even electricity. Steve was part of a team that helped children, four pictured here. The midwife (left) helped deliver two of the five, the develop the first RDT training materials for rural community health mother delivered the other three on her own. Since the mother spoke no Spanish, volunteers. “When we arrived at one village to work with volunteers,” the midwife translated back and forth from Quichua, the local language, during Steve said, “we found this group of children gathered around a sign Steve’s interview with her. announcing testing.” violence, the civil war that lasted 26 years. I to cross into Jaffna. He flagged down a lorry they stopped again. Nervous about the late hour, wanted to be a journalist and was trying to [trailer truck] with two Tamil drivers and or- I asked again why we were stopping. They point- write something about the ethnic conflict. I dered them to take me back south. They had ed to a stall by the side of the road and said, wanted to go to Jaffna, the center of the Tamil no choice but to agree, and I half expected to “Tea. You take tea?” So we had some tea. This resistance, to interview people and take a look wind up in a ditch with my throat slit, since happened five or six more times over the course around. I took a bus from Vavuniya up to Ele- I assumed they wouldn’t take kindly to some- of our trip. By the time we reached Vavuniya, it phant Pass, the gateway to the Jaffna Peninsula. one being foisted on them by the army. The was well after dark, and we were best of friends. It’s only 91 km, but the journey took more than truck drivers didn’t speak much English, but five hours. This highway was in terrible shape, they managed to make me understand that we Tell me about your interest in photography. pockmarked by bomb craters from constant needed to be off the road by dark; otherwise the I did a lot of photography in high school and shelling by the military. When the bus reached Sri Lankan military would start shooting at us. did my own processing and printing. This was Elephant Pass, there was a military checkpoint I knew this meant a five-hour drive, as I had back when there was processing and printing. and some soldiers came on board. I was hold- just made the trip up on the bus, and it was When I was younger I photographed landscapes ing my breath, praying they wouldn’t shoot or around 4 in the afternoon, headed toward dusk. and looked for interesting angles, geometric detain anyone, but I figured as a foreigner I’d be About 10 minutes after leaving the checkpoint, shapes, and patterns. I also liked to do macro safe. Then a soldier walked straight back to my the driver pulled off to the side of the road. photography. I wasn’t much good at people. I seat and ordered me off the bus. He pointed to “This is where they slit my throat and leave me think I’m a little better at it now. a building about 30 meters away and told me in the ditch,” I thought to myself. Trying not to to go speak to the commanding officer. To get sound too terrified, I asked why we were stop- Two books you would recommend? there, I had to cross a fenced-in dirt lot, empty ping. One pointed over the embankment and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and One except for two sand-bag bunkers with machine said something about a shrine and pooja. They Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García guns pointing out towards the road—toward bought a coconut and some flowers, set them Márquez. A new one I just read—don’t know if me. I wasn’t sure I’d make it across the yard before the altar, recited some prayers, and we it will be a classic, but a very promising young alive. The commanding officer interrogated me were back on the road. I started to breathe a talent—Homegoing by Ghanaian-American and announced that he was not allowing me tiny bit more easily, but about 10 minutes later author Yaa Gyasi.

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Roger stands in front of one of Seattle’s newest microhousing projects. Marx was a great explainer of capitalism and economics.” WHAT WE DO: Affordable-housing advocates often look to rent control or taxation on development Roger Valdez ’90 as answers, but Roger doesn’t think those ap- proaches add up. He often uses a loaf of bread as an analogy to explain why. Free-market housing advocate “If you have a bread shortage, and the baker is only allowed to bake 10 loaves of bread, It is difficult to find an easy pigeonhole for Nonprofit housing organizations have a and he is slicing them thinner and thinner but what Roger Valdez does as director of an or- strong lobby, Roger notes, as do bigger devel- people keep coming for the bread, the price is ganization called Smart Growth Seattle. Roger opers. The many builders of smaller projects— going to keep going up,” he contends. “Adding has been called obnoxious, an enfant terrible, microhousing, mid-rise, and low-rise develop- taxes to the bread or setting aside a few slices a “mustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash,” and ments—do not. for people who have less money is not going to one of the smartest people in Seattle politics. “They frankly don’t have time to go down solve the shortage. What you need to do is let And those were all from one Seattle Times ar- to city hall and advocate for big policy chang- the baker bake more bread.” ticle last summer. es,” Roger says. “That’s the niche we’ve carved To most observers it seems like that’s al- Roger calls himself a housing advocate. out with Smart Growth Seattle.” ready happening in Seattle. Everywhere you “When people hear that, they think of The organization’s premise—build enough look there’s a new apartment building going nonprofit, low-income housing, tax-credit housing to meet demand, and the cost of up. But Roger says people still are moving to housing,” Roger says. “What we’ve done housing will drop (smartgrowthseattle.com)— Seattle faster than those units can be built. with Smart Growth Seattle is expand on sounds like basic economics. Ultimately, Roger says there’s no such thing those things; we’re advocating for more hous- “I didn’t take Econ 101 when I was at as expensive housing. “There’s scarce housing ing supply at all levels of income, including UPS,” Roger laughs. “I took Marxism, though, and there’s plentiful housing, and scarce hous- subsidized.” which has benefitted me greatly because ing is more expensive,” he says.

32 arches autumn 2016 Smart Growth Seattle is pretty much on its FACULTY CHECK IN ON THEIR FORMER STUDENTS: own in its approach. Roger’s free-market talk stirs memories of Ronald Reagan and doesn’t often land well in left-leaning Seattle. But be- Christian Manthei ’06 ing the lone voice is a role in which Roger is comfortable and experienced. He worked on a From geologist to oenologist successful smoking ban in 2005, an effort that got him tagged “poster child for the nanny by Jeff Tepper, professor of geology state” by the Seattle Weekly newspaper. He notes that things change over time. “In a few years, the people who were the What does a geology major do after gradua- ogy and Petrology class. He subsequently took crazy people sometimes end up being the tion? This is a common question, asked by pro- Igneous Petrology and Volcanology, and Envi- visionaries. They haven’t changed their point spective majors as well as their parents, and the ronmental Geochemistry, discovered he liked of view, but the world shifts,” Roger says. answer is “Anything you want! The research, geochemistry, and completed a senior thesis “Right now it might be out of fashion to be critical thinking, and communication skills that examined the distribution of heavy metals advocating for free-market ideas, but that will you’ll learn are applicable to a wide range of (a legacy of the former ASARCO smelter) in change.” fields.” Thus, while many geology graduates go the sediment of Tacoma-area lakes. It’s hard, though, to tell someone who just into environmental consulting or the minerals After graduation Christian headed to The got priced out of an apartment to wait for the industry, others have gone into law, medicine, University of Arizona and there earned an solution to appear. Roger says his work is a or education. But none that I know has fol- M.S., studying the geochemistry of igneous constant tug-of-war between the short term lowed a career path as far-ranging and unpre- rocks in British Columbia. We crossed paths and the long haul. dicted as that of Christian Manthei. at professional meetings, and he was clearly ex- The free market, Roger says, is not perfect. I first met Christian in the spring of 2004, cited by his research. In 2011 he moved to the He notes that it’s a problem when people are when he took my Introduction to Mineral- Massachusetts Institute of Technology to begin too poor to access the market. Their solutions, like living in tent camps or in their vehicles, are not perfect either, but Roger believes that governments should focus resources on cor- recting these undesirable outcomes and help people improve their lot, not simply brush homeless camps aside. Smart Growth Seattle works on such issues, as well as transit and transportation considerations that can also af- Christian Manthei Courtesy fect housing cost and availability. Roger majored in philosophy and religion at Puget Sound, then earned a master’s degree in religious studies at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara. “I felt like what I was doing was gaining an education so I could change the world in some way,” he says. He worked in politics during the 1990s and got into neighborhood planning and organizing. He developed an interest in urban planning and ways to make a better city. “That captured me in my mid-20s, and that’s been my trajectory,” Roger says. He adds that it’s important to think beyond the dollars and cents when it comes to housing issues. “There’s an economic argument for growth and density, but there’s also a human, spiritual element to it, too, that I think is important and is often missing,” he says. “We’re too busy fighting about policy and economics to talk about the human dimensions of it.” — Greg Scheiderer Christian with celebrity chef Alain Ducasse, in whose kitchen Christian worked for a while.

autumn 2016 arches 33 work on a Ph.D. involving two research proj- “Hopefully I helped in some small way.”) WHAT WE DO: ects. One focused on diamond-bearing meta- Working for Ramsay, who is known for his morphic rocks in Morocco, and the other was a harsh temper, was demanding, and Christian Jessica Frank ’09 continuation of his earlier work on metal con- left after only a short time: “18-hour physical tamination of lakes in the Puget Sound area. days were typical,” he says, and “verbal abuse is Although graduate work at MIT was de- commonplace in that level of kitchen, unfor- Yoga behind bars classmates manding, Christian found time to volunteer tunately.” After that experience he was hired in the kitchen at Pigalle, a French restaurant as a chef de partie, or section chef, at another Dylon was in his early 20s when he got locked (since closed) in the Boston theater district. Michelin-starred restaurant in Chelsea: Medlar, up for life without the possibility of parole. Now, Knowing this, when my wife and I had plans to which focused on British seasonal cuisine but more than a decade later, he’s a yoga student travel through Boston in the summer of 2012 with French influence. who’s learning to teach other prisoners a path to we made a reservation for dinner at Pigalle on Although cooking remained a passion, freedom through the Yoga Behind Bars (YBB) a night when Christian was working. I had na- Christian took another side-step in 2015. Fol- program. Dylon says for the first time in his life ively assumed that “volunteering in the kitchen” lowing an inclination that had been “ferment- he feels a sense of purpose and that he can help meant that Christian made salads or helped ing” for several years, he moved into the wine others, according to his teacher, Jessica Frank, with food prep. I was mistaken. Christian was industry. He was also fascinated by wine from director of the program. the head chef that night. Over three and a half an academic point of view. After volunteering for nearly two years as hours we savored a When you study an instructor for the nonprofit, Jess was hired seven-course meal wine, he explains, on staff a year ago. Jess refers to the population that included a confit In 2011 Christian began work “You study so many she serves as students, not inmates, and she sees duck salad presented different disciplines many students transformed through yoga. Some in an apple, sliced sir- on a Ph.D. at MIT. Although all at once. A book put words to their experience. Eduardo, who’s loin with root vegeta- graduate work there was on French wine will served 11 of a 13-year sentence, told Jess that bles, and Dover sole. necessarily include yoga has taught him to feel love, respect, and It was and still is the demanding, he found time to details about the gratitude for himself. most amazing dinner volunteer in the kitchen at Pigalle, Romans transporting Most prisoners have suffered a lot of trauma I have ever had. wild grapevines to that they hold in their bodies, Jess says, and At the same time a French restaurant in the Boston Gaul, why fermenta- yoga offers a way to regulate the nervous system, Christian’s talents as tion leads to different allowing them to be more in control of their a chef were becoming theater district. This ignited a new flavors, and why the actions. apparent his passion passion. Christian left MIT with a geology of Burgundy “Being arrested, interrogated, on trial, and for graduate study is so important.” Tru- living with prison violence is stressful. Week to at MIT was waning, second master’s degree and moved ly great wines convey week, my students learn to strain less, develop a and later that year to Paris. With a recommendation a sense of place, what sense of ease, and release tension in their bodies. he decided to follow the French call ter- Yoga slowly relaxes their hypervigilance. I notice a new career path. from Pigalle, Christian went to roir, which includes their shoulders slip down from their ears, a sign He left MIT with a work for the famed chef geology, micro- and of a return to equilibrium. second master’s de- meso-climate, plus “We rest a lot in class. We learn how to gree and moved with Alain Ducasse in a seafood all of the factors that choose when to rest and when to be alert. We his brother to Paris, go into making the talk about life skills, not just poses,” Jess says of where they rented restaurant called Rech. wine. the two-hour weekly sessions that are open to the a small apartment. Today Christian general population and often have waiting lists. With a recommendation from Pigalle, Chris- works for a wine company in London called The program has 66 teachers at 15 differ- tian went to work for the famed chef Alain Vagabond, managing one of its flagship loca- ent correctional facilities across Washington, Ducasse in a seafood restaurant called Rech. He tions. He is interested in becoming a wine including Remann Hall for youth in Tacoma, started as a commis chef, the lowest level within buyer for the company and has recently been Washington Corrections Center for Women in the rigorous French kitchen hierarchy, breaking on tasting trips to vineyards in California, Gig Harbor, and Monroe Correctional Complex down and processing whole fish for long hours Bordeaux, and Bulgaria. He credits his training for men. A year ago Jess’ organization launched each day, but eventually was invited upstairs to in geosciences with giving him a deeper under- the nation’s first yoga teacher training in a prison cook in the main kitchen. A few months later standing of the process of growing grapes and at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Christian was hired by celebrity chef Gordon producing wine. Aberdeen. Jess will be one of the instructors for Ramsay to work at his signature three-Mi- And now when a student asks what he women’s training in Gig Harbor. chelin-star restaurant in the Chelsea neighbor- or she can do with a geology degree, I can “We occupy a unique space within Washing- hood of London. (Rech earned one Michelin add French chef and wine buyer to the list of ton’s correctional system. Leaders see we’re hav- star shortly after Christian left, and he jokes, options.

34 arches autumn 2016 Jess instructs at Monroe Correctional Complex, where her yoga class has grown from 12 to 28 students in class in the last two years. ing a positive impact on the prison population. Jess, who grew up in Missoula, Mont., where At the Post-Prison Education Program, she They notice inmates are calmer,” she says. her social justice interests emerged. helped ex-cons get into community colleges. She teaches multiple classes at various facili- While in high school she became ac- Through University Behind Bars, she taught ties throughout Washington state and mentors tive in Amnesty International, Model U.N., writing in Monroe Correctional Complex. incarcerated yoga students who are training to and a student organization against the “War What’s her greatest hope for the people she be yoga teachers inside prisons or outside after on Drugs.” At Puget Sound she gained the serves? She pauses and breathes. release. tools to be an effective communicator and “There are so many things they need. We In the highest-security unit that YBB serves, leader but had yet to meet anyone who’d been don’t have to treat people with regard to the men are shackled in chairs during class. incarcerated. worst they’ve done. If we witness the best, we “We focus on mindfulness and breathing She participated in the Pacific Rim pro- draw out the most whole part of that person. for them. Witnessing people with a lot of suf- gram, graduated, and went to India for two Their crime doesn’t define who they are. They fering can be heartbreaking,” says Jess. years with the IDEX Fellowship in Social En- can be seen as people capable of change and She teaches an all-veterans class at the City terprise, where she managed 21 international goodness. Society can see them that way,” she of Kent Jail, and YBB offers a class for impris- fellows. In India, she studied yoga as a way to says. oned women with mental health issues. confront her own challenges. Stepping behind razor wire and prison bars “Our society is warehousing people with “After PacRim and India, I realized, ‘Wow, on her way to work, some days are daunting, mental health issues. There’s such a need for I’m an outsider in other countries. Maybe I some energizing. mental health care in prisons,” Jess says. can be more effective within my own commu- “I feel really grateful to do work that impacts Her hardest challenge is seeing children nity,’” she says, adding that’s why she believes so many lives,” she says. — Sandra Sarr locked up in small cells for a very long time. in training yoga teachers who live within pris- “That’s something I can’t get used to,” says ons and understand the communities there. Additional info at yogabehindbars.org.

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Karen Kasselman ed from school. The suspen- he was named communica- the Chinese Reconciliation Brenda Bodmer Beverly ’61, sion changed the course of tions manager for the Student Project, and other initiatives af- Kneeshaw and M.Ed.’67 retired eleven years his life. Unable to talk a friend Nonviolent Coordinating Com- fecting Tacoma. After his wife husband Tom Kneeshaw were ago, but she continues to into going to Mississippi with mittee, under the leadership of 44 years, Ilse Silins Flanni- subjects of an August Whitman teach, primarily middle school him to register black voters, of notable civil rights activist gan ’63, passed away in 2009, County Gazette article that special education classes. he left for Ohio instead to train Stokely Carmichael. Dennis Dennis decided to try new was part of a series titled “My She also continues to enjoy to join the Freedom Riders, returned to Tacoma the follow- things, including standup com- Favorite Recipes.” The two are

classmates interviewing prospective Puget activists who rode buses into ing year to work as assistant edy. He also was reacquainted longtime residents of Colfax, Sound students and talking segregated cities to challenge director of the then-Hilltop with a former colleague who Wash. The article shared how about UPS—a continuation of non-enforcement of the U.S. Housing and Relocation of- was a widow. The two married the two met at Puget Sound, her student job with the Ad- Supreme Court ruling on the fice, finding housing for low- in 2015. married on Jan. 3, 1970, honey- mission Office. unconstitutionality of segre- income families. He was so mooned on the Oregon Coast, Dennis Flannigan was the gated public buses in Missis- good at it that then-Gov. Dan and then returned to finish their Richard Wiley’s subject of a sippi and in other parts of the Evans appointed Dennis to run last semester at UPS. Brenda Tacoma Weekly latest novel, Bob article about his life as a Ta- South. The same week he was a newly created program to taught in the Clover Park training, three Freedom Riders bring minorities into the state’s Stevenson (224 pages, Belle- School District in Lakewood, coma resident for the past 75 vue Literary Press, soft cover years. According to the article, were murdered in an ambush department of public welfare. Wash., for a couple of years set up by a county deputy Dennis was appointed to the and Kindle edition), tells the before they moved to Colfax, as a junior at Puget Sound, tale of escaped psychiatric Dennis started an underground sheriff, who also was a Ku Klux Pierce County Council in 1988 where Tom had an opportunity Klan member. Dennis and his and later served four terms in patient Archie B. Billingsly, who to farm. Brenda went on to newspaper called The Brail. He alternately assumes the iden- published articles in opposition fellow trainees went to Missis- the Washington State Legisla- earn a master’s degree at the sippi the following week, even ture. A longtime Democrat, he tity of Robert Louis Stevenson University of Idaho and taught to the Vietnam War, discussed and a good civil rights issues, and pretty though the news about the fought for the Murray Morgan in the Colfax School District killings “scared the hell out of Bridge restoration, the Univer- many char- for 38 years. Since retiring six much quit attending classes. acters from At that point he was suspend- us,” he told the reporter. There sity of Washington Tacoma, years ago, Brenda has had Stevenson’s a service contract with the novels, includ- district and works as an instruc- ing of course tional coach and helps with This just in … Dr. Jekyll and testing and curriculum develop- Mr. Hyde. ment. Brenda enjoys vegetable Richard will gardening, is a dedicated walk- read from Bob Stevenson on er, kayaks, knits, and is an avid Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at reader. She and Tom raised the Wheelock Branch of Taco- their four children in Colfax and ma Public Library in Proctor. He now have four grandchildren. is the author of eight novels, including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner An Amherst [Mass.] article in Award for Fiction; and Ahmed’s Bulletin August chronicled the history Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Profes- and preservation of Janet sor emeritus at the University Colglazier Brongers’ and of Nevada, Las Vegas, Richard husband Johan Brongers’ now divides his time between M.B.A.’74 1805 South Am- herst home. The house is Los Angeles and Tacoma. Bob included in Stevenson can be purchased Amherst: A Guide on amazon.com. More on to its Architecture, and at one Richard and what he’s been up time was part of the Under- to at richardwileyauthor.com. ground Railway for fugitive slaves. It still has a secret compartment behind the wall Bryan Ross was inside a closet next to the fire- RETRO COLBY named to Wells place. Prior to the Brongers’ Fargo Advisors’ Premier Advi- purchase, the building was Professor Emeritus of Art Bill Colby’s retrospective (in Kittredge Gallery Aug. sor Program. The distinction owned by Hampshire College 29–Sept. 24) kicked off a yearlong schedule of events to commemorate the 75th an- recognizes Bryan’s professional and used to house college niversary of the opening of Kittredge Hall. Professor Colby taught in Puget Sound’s achievement—meeting or staff. When Johan was hired as art department for 33 years, from 1956 to 1989, and many among the generations of exceeding Wells Fargo Advisor Hampshire’s treasurer, the college offered to rent the house his former students came out to hear his artist talk on Aug. 31. Ineffable as ever, Bill standards in revenue generation, educational attainment, to them. Janet and Johan loved shared highlights of his 61-year career in art, which he continues at age 90. Citing and client-service best practic- the stately old home, but it nature as a constant inspiration, he spoke about his methods for new printmaking es. Bryan joined Wells Fargo’s needed a lot of work. Since it and painting designs. Bill has exhibited his work locally and nationally throughout financial advisor team in Coeur didn’t make sense to put so his career, and he is a longtime member of Puget Sound Sumi Artists. You can see d’Alene, Idaho, four years ago, much effort into something some of his art at billcolbyart.com. Upcoming Kittredge anniversary events include bringing 34 years of experience that wasn’t theirs, they offered to buy the house from the an exhibition of past and present faculty beginning in October, an alumni exhibition in the brokerage industry. He is a member of Coeur d’Alene college. For nearly 20 years and art colloquium in January, and an Abby Williams Hill exhibit in spring 2017. More Sunrise Rotary and Profession- they little by little fixed dam- at pugetsound.edu/kittredge. als Serving Seniors. Bryan and aged clapboards, replaced the his wife live in Sagle, Idaho. roofs on the house and barn,

36 arches autumn 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] installed a French drain sys- U.S. National Team for several school seniors with their col- an hour. When he decided for- and nonprofit groups, in- tem, added insulation, replaced years. In 1972 Kaye transferred lege education goals. Previous to pursue higher education, cluding Qualis Health, Abacus windows—in a 200-year-old to WWU and completed a fundraising concerts have fea- Boeing paid for it, starting at Engineered Systems, Lifelong house you can imagine the Bachelor of Arts degree in tured performances by Puget Everett Community College AIDS Alliance, and the Seattle punch list. They had moved education there. She went on Sound alumni such as Robert through his graduation from Symphony, among others. He to Amherst after 27 hears liv- to a teaching career at Explorer McPherson ’91, tenor on the Puget Sound. John’s entire 37- is a licensed certified public ac- ing in Europe and Asia, where Middle School in Mukilteo, roster of the Metropolitan year working career was with countant in Washington state. they raised three children. Wash. Kaye and her husband, Opera in New York City; and Boeing. He retired as director Johan worked for German auto also a teacher, have two grown Megan Parker Chenovick ‘02, of program management for company Opel. In 2007 Johan children. well-known Northwest opera the 777 program. The article Wayne Wong was offered an administrative and musical theater performer. notes that John, now with a M.B.A.’81, Maui Marcia Lynn Sigler Miller’s center director of the Hawai`i position at the University of book, You Go Girls! The Wom- Bob Jean M.P.A.’75 was ap- little more time on his hands, Afghanistan in Kabul, and in has traveled as far as Israel Small Business Development an’s Guide to Great Travel (216 pointed interim city manager Center Network, was elected 2010 he helped launch the pages, Inkwater Press, soft for Bothell, Wash., in June. to visit former clients who American University of Iraq. had become friends over the to the Maui Native Hawaiian cover) was published on Sept. He retired from full-time city Chamber of Commerce board Janet worked as director of 1. Marcia contends that wom- management in 2010 after 15 years. He also adds that Boe- admission at both schools. The ing’s ethos to give back to the of directors this summer. Ac- en travel differently from men, years as city manager for Uni- cording to a MauiNow.com two returned to South Amherst and not just because they pack versity Place, Wash., guiding community led to his involve- in 2012. The couple met at ment with Economic Alliance article announcing his latest more shoes! She says societal the redevelopment of the town post, Wayne has 30 years of Puget Sound when Johan was norms, cultural expectations, center there. Since then he has Snohomish County, which attending as an exchange stu- provides business advising and information technology experi- and physical differences are served in an interim capacity ence. He also is a four-time dent from the Netherlands. just some of the challenges for various communities as technical assistance for small businesses. Grammy Award recipient as In July Keith Richardson was that women must overcome in they face leadership changes. Best Hawaiian Music Album named the Father Raymond J. order to travel comfortably and Bob has more than 40 years of Producer. Treece Endowed Accounting safely. Whether traveling alone, local government management Pat Cathey Chair at Bellarmine University’s with a friend or partner, with experience. He also teaches M.B.A.’80 is W. Fielding Rubel School of children, with a group tour, or local government leadership at ClearDATA’s new chief rev- On May 16, Lenda Business in Louisville, Ky. Keith on business, from planning, the University of Washington enue officer. He brings more Crawford began is a professor of accounting at prepar- Evans School of Public Policy than 30 years of sales and work as assistant city mana- Bellarmine and has held teaching, and and Governance, according to marketing, consulting, and ger of Vancouver, Wash., an- ing positions at Indiana State packing, a post on the city of Bothell client relations expertise to nounced The Columbian. She University, Central Washington to staying website announcing his ap- ClearDATA, where he’ll lead most recently was deputy University, and Saint Martin’s safe and pointment. the sales and marketing team. exe-cutive and executive di- healthy, University in Lacey, Wash. Tom McCarter sends this Pat worked with IBM for rector for Snohomish County. and ad- Keith earned his M.B.A. at news: “I have a new radio more than 15 years and has Lenda also was deputy director justing Pacific Lutheran University and show on KZSU Stanford 90.1 held posts at Fujitsu America, of the Seattle Department of to the holds a Ph.D. from the Univer- FM here in the Bay Area. My Rackspace, Avnet, and Arrow Transportation, finance director return home, Marcia covers it sity of Oregon. show is on Saturday afternoon Electronics. of the city of Redmond, and all in She includes You Go Girls! from 3 to 5 p.m. PST and can chief administrative officer of information about dressing for After a national search, be heard online.” Tom was a nonprofit Thrive By Five Wash- A recent post on your location, spa etiquette, Michelle Reid was unani- student DJ at KUPS the entire ington. She is a certified public the Western Wash- buying art, developing a travel mously selected as superin- time he was in college, and he accountant and earned her ington University website wardrobe, foreign currency ex- tendent of Northshore School served as program director for M.B.A. at Regis University in summed up the accomplish- change, electrical conversion, District in Bothell, Wash. She one year. He also had a show Denver. ments of Tacoma native Kaye and more. As the owner of You most recently was the super- on KUSP in Santa Cruz, Calif., Jeff Gauger became exe- Hall Greff, who won two Go Girls! Travel for 17 years, intendent of the South Kitsap for several years. He says he cutive editor of The Times in Olympic swimming gold med- Marcia specializes in small- School District. A former plays a wide range of music Shreveport, La., on Aug. 1. als and set one world and two group tours for women and has teacher and school principal, from different eras, and still He formerly was editor and Olympic records at the 1968 nearly 70 country stamps in her Michelle has been a leadership collects records and goes to publisher of the Greensboro, Mexico City Olympic Games. passport! The book is available facilitator at both the University concerts. This fall Tom partici- N.C., News & Record. Jeff She was a Pan-American on Amazon. of Washington Center for Edu- Games silver medalist in 1967, pated in a community project cational Leadership and at the holds a master’s in journalism and U.S. All-America swimmer. with his men’s group, filling Harvard Institute for Manage- from Northwestern University. Kaye won three gold med- Patrick Castro backpacks with school supplies ment and Leadership in Educa- He previously was assistant directed the per- als while representing Puget for kids whose families can’t tion, according to the district’s managing editor at the Omaha formance of the vocal quintet Sound at the World Univer- afford them. website. She earned her mas- World-Herald and managing Common Ground on June 5, at sity Student Games in Torino, ter’s degree in educational ad- editor of the Rockford Register a fundraiser for the Snohomish Italy, in 1970. She was the ministration and a doctorate in in Illinois, and over the course Education Foundation’s Excel- John Monroe was first woman to break the one- educational leadership, both at of five years held several editor lence in Vocal Music Scholar- one of the employ- minute mark for the 100-yard the University of Washington. positions for the GateHouse ship. The group’s repertoire ees interviewed by The Daily backstroke. Kaye is a member Ohio Newspapers. ranges from sacred to secular, Herald in Everett, Wash., in a Robin Shuler M.B.A.’80 of the International Swimming, Don Kirkpatrick ’82, P’11 from doo-wop to cowboy yearlong special report cover- joined Seattle Metropolitan Washington State Sports, and (on viola), Christopher Leach songs. Pat was a music teacher ing the people, airplanes, and Credit Union’s board of direc- University of Puget Sound halls (cello), and Grant Mack ’81 at Snohomish High School for defining moments of Boeing. tors in June. According to of fame. While at UPS, Kaye (piano) were known as the nearly 25 years before retiring The company turned 100 on CUInsight.com, he has 25 remained a member of the Longview Trio when they were in 2005. He continues to help July 15. John began working as years of experience as a chief Tacoma Swim Club, coached in college. In August they raise money to assist Sno- a draftsman for the Minuteman financial officer. Robin has by the legendary Dick Hannula, teamed up with two other homish and Glacier Peak high missile program at south Boe- served as interim CFO and who went on to coach the ing Field in 1965, making $1.92 financial consultant for several R.A. Long High School alumni

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[Longview, Wash.] to perform residential design in May.” His in Williamsburg, Va., and she tions, showing how to take length in a feature article about a three-day chamber music work focuses on residential plays more than 40 concerts a advantage of local knowledge the Foundation for Vancouver series. The concerts benefitted additions, remodels, and new year for the Candlelight Con- and collections to create ex- Public Schools, in the May the Lower Columbia School houses. Clark says business cert Series offered by Bruton hibits on American military his- 16 edition of The Columbian Gardens program. According is great so far, and that he ap- Parish. Rebecca also previously tory. It provides an introduction newspaper. The foundation to Longview’s The Daily News, preciates the ability to focus sang with and served as assis- to the field and a chronological provides food, clothing, and Don is now a physician and closely on the work. Find out tant director for the chorus. survey of the issues, events, other basic needs through classmates teaches medicine in Denver; more at frame-ak.com. Bruce Sadler completed work and works related to the sub- a principal’s checkbook pro- Grant is pursuing doctoral on a master’s degree in edu- ject, as well gram, the district’s Family- studies at the University of cation leadership at Western as a bibliog- Community Resource Centers, Rebecca Evers Oregon; and Christopher owns Washington University and raphy and and a mobile unit. It also offers and operates The Beautiful Pig, Davy took over as case studies health services, after-school director of the Williamsburg earned Washington principal a producer of European-style certification this summer. He of exemplary enrichment programs, and handmade dry cured salami Women’s Chorus for the military his- early-learning and mentoring 2016–17 season. According to was then hired as the dean of and meat. students at Henry Foss High tory exhibits programs. More than 1,000 the Virginia Gazette, Rebecca around the Vancouver students are home- Clark Yerrington sends holds two master’s degrees in School in Tacoma. Bruce for- this news: “After 33 years merly was an ESL and world country. less, and about half of the music from the University of Marc’s supplementary pod- district’s students qualify for at various architectural firms Southern California: in organ history teacher at Foss. in Anchorage and Seattle, cast, America at War, can be free or reduced-price lunches. performance and music histo- Kent Torrey, longtime owner heard on iTunes. Marc was a Steve and the district have working my way up from ry. Since 2004 she has served of The Cheese Shop in Carmel, drafting/production to design history major at Puget Sound been recognized nationally for as music director and organist Calif., was the subject of a and earned a Ph.D. at Temple their community school model. and project management, I for the Bruton Parish Church profile article in the Monterey started my own practice in University. He has worked for County Herald in July. He the National Park Service for purchased the shop from the 22 years. In February, Suzie original owners in 1999, having Hall’s Cornerstone This just in … first been an employee. Kent The Gospel According To Design, which specializes marked 30 years on the job St. Rage, Karen Meyer in interior design, in Boise, on July 4. His personal motto: Eisenbrey’s debut novel (306 Idaho, will celebrate 25 years Eat cheese, drink wine, live pages, Amazon Digital Servic- in business. Suzie recently was life happy. Find out more at es, paperback or Kindle) hit the named the 2016–17 president thecheeseshopinc.com. streets in July. The protagonist of the Entrepreneurs’ Organi- of this smart, funny garage- zation Idaho chapter. The En- rock fairy tale is Barbara trepreneurs’ Organization is a Mark Leland was Bernsen, a high school junior global nonprofit formed in 1987 elected to Deltic who has been “invisible” since to help entrepreneurs support Timber Corporation’s board of third grade, but when a magic one another. directors in June. He retired hat finds her she suddenly as president of the Midstream becomes Division of El Paso Corpora- less ethereal. Ann Trebon tion, a subsidiary of Burlington Barbara real- Henninger ’88 and Northern Inc. izes she has Ray Henninger ’89, M.P.T.’91 superpowers. Angela Pratt was included celebrated their 25th wedding Or maybe she in Honolulu magazine’s 2016 anniversary on July 27. They always had Faces of Hawaiì, a black and met in 1987 during summer them—we all white photo feature about session classes at Puget do if we only prominent Hawaiì leaders and Sound. The couple now lives in TALK ABOUT PERSEVERANCE! know how to use them, eh? businesses. She is chair of the Sequim, Wash.; they have over Find out more about the book Jiri Senkyrik ’10 was first to finish and came in sec- department of obstetrics and the years fostered 13 children and what Karen is up to at ond overall (for corrected time) in the Singlehanded gynecology at Kapiòlani Medi- in long-term placements. kareneisenbreywriter.com. Transpac 2016 race from San Francisco to Hanalei, cal Center in Honolulu and co- Kaaren Watson Winkler is In June Ray Oen became chief Hawaiì. The race started July 2. Jiri blew across the founder of Hawaiì Beauty and the Tacoma-Pierce County Wellness Center. Angela has financial and administrative Association of Realtors’ new finish line three minutes short of 13 full days. After been listed as one of the Best officer for Treehouse, a non- executive officer, reported graduating from Puget Sound, Jiri and his friends Doctors in America and also profit that provides support for the Business Examiner in Au- used to bike around Lake Washington in Seattle, was on the cover of Honolulu children in foster care. Ray will gust. Kaaren holds an M.P.A. dreaming about one day owning their own boat. That magazine as one of the Top oversee Treehouse’s account- degree from The Evergreen “one day” came when Jiri broke down and made the Doctors in Hawaiì. More at ing, information technology, and State College and was formerly purchase. He taught himself how to sail by watch- hawaiibeautyandwellness.com. human resources. He has more director of member policy for than 25 years of management ing YouTube videos and the “figure it out as you go” the Washington Association of experience at large companies, Realtors. method. Four years later, after moving to San Fran- Marc Blackburn’s among them Romac Industries, cisco, Jiri bought his second Olson 30 (named KATO) Interpreting Ameri- Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, and spent two years completely rebuilding the boat in can Military History at Muse- and Exxon, as well as the U.S. Paige Werlech preparation for the epic 2,120-nautical-mile solo race ums and Historic Sites (276 Navy. He earned his M.B.A. at Cabacungan was pages, Rowman and Littlefield, the subject of an article in the to Hawaiì. With only 500 offshore miles of previous Dartmouth. hard- and soft covers, Kindle 2016 edition of Who’s Who in sailing experience, Jiri pulled in to Hanalei Bay first in Steve Webb, superintendent edition; rowman.com) was Business of Arizona. Her cur- of the Vancouver, Wash., the fleet—a truly impressive feat! published in April. The book is rent gig is area director of sales public schools, was quoted at a primer for smaller organiza- and marketing, The Phoenician

38 arches autumn 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] Resort, Starwood Hotels and a brain aneurysm before the to ride my bike by the old punctuation. lives in a small cabin on Filucy Resorts, in Scottsdale. Former- family was permitted access. ASARCO plant on Tacoma’s (We can Bay on the Key Peninsula. ly she worked in the hospitality A lawsuit was filed against the waterfront, I had no idea my relate, Dale.) Kansas Whispers and Midnight business in Hawai’i. hospital as a result. The judge family played such an important Dale earned Blues is available through in the case dismissed the suit, part in that once-huge com- his master’s Amazon.com. The Virginia Gazette reported pany. Slag is a two-generation while work- that Carolyn Kaltenbach stating that Janice had no relief On July 4 the Carnegie true story that begins in 1859 ing in the Keurajian, executive director under Florida law. Two days Corporation recognized Hari with 19-year-old German im- Puget Sound of the Williamsburg Symphony later, in part as a result of Jan- Sreenivasan, anchor and migrant and mining engineer Library for Orchestra, spoke about the or- ice’s story, President Barack senior correspondent for PBS Anton Eilers. It weaves through more than seven years. He chestra’s upcoming season at a Obama issued a memorandum NewsHour, among its 2016 six decades, culminating in the Williamsburg Kiwanis ordering hospitals that receive early 1920s, when Anton’s son, luncheon this past August. Medicare and Medicaid fund- Karl, also a mining engineer, Carolyn has been the sympho- ing to allow patients to decide This just in … carries out a very public fight ny’s director since 2013. who can visit them. President Obama called Janice on the against the Guggenheim broth- On July 1 Wendy Lee same day, expressing his sor- ers for control of the American Stewart started work as vice row for the events. The rule Smelting president for international pro- went into effect in January and Refining grams and extended learning at 2011. Janice was one of 13 Company. It’s Green River College in Auburn, Americans awarded the 2011 a grand story Wash. She is responsible for Presidential Citizens Medal, full of fasci- self-support, entrepreneurial traveling to The White House nating charac- operations including internation- to receive the award from ters—Horace al marketing and recruitment, President Obama. The cita- Greeley, international student services, tion read: “Janice Langbehn Rossiter Ray- intensive ESL, study abroad, transformed her own profound mond, Cooper & Hewitt, Mark international grant programs, loss into a resounding call Twain, the Guggenheims—who and eLearning support. As of for compassion and equality. shaped the modern West and fall 2015, Green River ranked When the woman she loved, spurred America’s second in- 10th out of 1,200 community Lisa Pond, suddenly suffered dustrial revolution.” colleges in international student a brain aneurysm, Janice and enrollment, with 1,747 students her children were denied the coming from 64 countries. In June, Newmark right to stand beside her in her Pat Krueger, professor of music education, reads the Wendy tells us: “I am excited Grubb ACRES an- final moments. Determined to award citation for Karla (right) on campus Oct. 7. to continue helping students spare others from similar injus- nounced Rusty Bollow’s achieve their dreams, trans- tice, Janice spoke out to help appointment as industrial/ form their lives, and make the ensure that same-sex couples investment senior vice presi- PLAYING HER PART world a better place.” Wendy dent. Newmark Grubb ACRES can support and comfort each Karla Anderson Epperson ’64 is the 2016 School of has been at Green River for 22 other through some of life’s (American Commercial Real Es- Music Distinguished Music Alum. Karla spent 30 years, in a variety of capacities. toughest trials.” tate Specialists), based in Utah, provides asset, brokerage, and years teaching choral and orchestral music in the leasing services, and invest- Olympia School District. She was named Outstanding Janice Langbehn Troy Anderson ment sales, appraisals, and Teacher of the Year for 1981–82. In 1994, in the Bethel tells us: “I am in is the founder and financing for businesses. Rusty School District in Spanaway, Wash., she began an or- my second year at Seattle director of Speak Up for the holds a Master of Real Estate University School of Law and Poor, which began operations Development degree from the chestral program, which continues to thrive. Karla is have finished an internship in Bangladesh in 2008. The University of Utah. Outside of a cellist and was a member of the Tacoma Symphony with Washington Supreme nonprofit serves girls through work he is a member of the ex- Orchestra for many years. She was also an adjunct Court Justice Mary I. Yu. Upon an education program that ecutive board of the Repertory professor at her alma mater from 1999 to 2011, and graduating with my J.D. I hope helps them to stay in school Dance Theatre in Salt Lake. she continues to tirelessly mentor music education to give back to members of the and thus avoid child marriage. students, student teachers, and new alumni/teachers LGBTQ community who are The program also provides as they enter the public schools. Karla has served in in need of legal services.” In a home for girls who are In May the Key February 2007 Janice and her removed from brothels and Penninsula News many capacities for the Washington Music Educators partner, Lisa Pond ’89, and partners with police and local reported that Dale Goodvin Association, including as secretary (1976–78), on the three of their four children were authorities that investigate M.E.D.’95 has published a book board (1978–84), as president-elect (1978–80), and of poems and photos in Miami preparing to leave on a cases of rape and abuse of president (1980–82). She received a Distinguished vacation cruise. Lisa collapsed titled Kansas Whispers and girls. Before creating Speak Service Award from the National Association of Mu- before the ship departed and Up, Troy earned a law degree Midnight Blues: Dodging De- sic Educators at its national conference in 1995 and was rushed to the Jackson Me- at UCLA and was a deputy spair, Deception, and Clowns morial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma district attorney in Los Ange- (162 pages, Back Seat Press, was a member of the inaugural class of the Wash- Center. When Janice and the les. More about this amazing soft cover). Dale did his own ington Music Educators Hall of Fame in 1998. Karla children arrived, a hospital so- organization here: editing and formatting for the has been on the board of the Tacoma Symphony and cial worker told Janice she was speakupforthepoor.org. self-published book. “I worked continues to serve as string coach and conductor for in an “anti-gay city and state” to make this as high quality as the Tacoma Youth Symphony. She also conducts be- and required a health care proxy David Eilers has a new book: any book out there,” he told before she could see Lisa. A Slag: & The Golden Age of the News. He proofread more ginning orchestras for the Peninsula Youth Orchestra power of attorney was faxed to Lead-Silver Ore (556 pages, times than he can remember Association, and she has served as an arts commis- the hospital within an hour of Create Space, soft cover). and said his sleep was often sioner for the city of Gig Harbor, Wash. Lisa’s arrival, but Lisa died from Dave tells us, “When I used interrupted by nightmares about

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class of Great Immigrants: The Allied World Assur- playing with bubbles were meaningful campus and com- Making communities stronger Pride of America. Carnegie ance Company her inspiration for the book. munity support for students is what Erika Holt Tucci does. annually salutes the legacy of Holdings has appointed Jason “Bubbles warp what we see, of color.” Rashad is director She was recently appointed Andrew Carnegie and other im- Glasgow as U.S. vice presi- and they change the light. As of community engagement, to the board of Serve Wash- migrants for the role they play dent, Practice Lead–Technol- I looked at the changes within outreach services at Highline ington, Gov. Jay Inslee’s com- in strengthening our country ogy, Privacy, and Network the bubbles my brain would College. He earned a master’s mission to help advocate for and democratic society. There Security Professional Liability. envision individuals who were degree at The Evergreen State more robust corporate social were 42 honorees this year, classmates In that role Jason will manage enclosed in worlds different College. responsibility programs. She representing 30 countries of Allied World’s domestic cyber than the world I was living manages a similar program for origin and a wide range of per- platform. Previously Jason was in. The imaginary worlds led NAIA All-American Tacoma Public Utilities, which sonal immigration stories and vice president and cyber risk to an adventure featuring a softball star Erin was recognized this year with professional accomplishments. product manager at Travelers. young hero- Peterson hit a home run in the first Governor’s Volunteer He earned a J.D. at the Univer- ine named her weekend job as a softball Service Award for an employer- sity of Connecticut School of Erin” (after based program. “My work on In June we learned umpire. In July she was one Law. one of Lori’s of 22 umpires making the calls the commission will focus on that Stacey Wilson daughters). encouraging Washington busi- Hunt’s Hollywood Reporter at the World Cup of Softball The book is XI in Oklahoma City. The inter- nesses to develop strategic cor- interview with Dana Carvey The Tacoma Weekly the first in a national tournament included porate philanthropy programs took third place in the Person- interviewed Lori series; next that encourage employees to ality Profile/Interview category Forrest in June about her teams from 13 countries play- up is The Un- ing about 50 games. Half the get involved in making our com- of the 58th Annual Southern children’s book, The Castle in derwater Bubble. Follow the umps were American, the rest munities stronger,” she said. California Journalism Awards. the Bubble (122 pages, Cre- progress (and order books) at She also is president of the Stacey has since left THR to ateSpace, soft cover or Kindle from other countries. “It’s magicbubblewand.com. extraordinarily humbling,” she board for Comprehensive Life become the Hollywood editor version). Lori told the Weekly Resources, one of the largest Jennifer Swanson Grafton said. This is the eighth year for New York Magazine. that childhood memories of community mental health agen- is one of the Denver Busi- as an umpire for the UPS Hall cies in Pierce County. ness Journal’s Top Women in of Fame inductee. “I still get Energy, the paper announced the butterfly jitters before This just in … in July. Jennifer is chief admin- games,” she told a reporter for Heather Lindley istrative officer at Westmo- the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. McClung is the reland Coal Company, head- “There’s nothing that quite owner and manager of Schoo- quarterd in Englewood, Colo. matches 2,500 people booing ner EXACT Brewing Company, After Puget Sound she went you simultaneously.” Erin lives which won two awards in the on to earn an M.B.A. at the near Seattle with her spouse, 2016 Washington Beer Awards University of Michigan and a Lauren, and works full time as competition. Heather is also law degree at the University of a physical therapist. She um- president of the Washington Denver. At Westmoreland she pires on weekends all over the Brewers Guild. At Puget Sound started out in 2008 as associ- country. “I call it a hobby on she majored in studio art and ate general counsel, then was steroids.” then went on to get a master’s promoted to general counsel degree in teaching at Seattle before advancing to her cur- University. rent position. Cameron Grant is executive chef at Osteria Langhe, a restaurant Kerry Sinnott Michael Miller is in Chicago that serves Pied- Caranci is the CEO the new principal montese cuisine. (Piedmont and a board member for the at Steilacoom High School in is an area in Northern Italy Shasta Regional Community Steilacoom, Wash. He had where Cameron previously Foundation, working with do- been assistant principal at the cooked.) Cameron has also nors to establish funds to help school for five years, including been executive chef at several communities in Shasta and athletic director responsibilities other restaurants, including the Siskiyou counties. She joined for four of those years. Mike Michelin-starred La Ciau del the foundation in 2006. Kerry previously was dean of stu- Tornavento in Treiso, Italy. is a member of Redding West dents at Peninsula High School Elizabeth Greger Hills is the Rotary, as well as a Leadership in Gig Harbor, Wash. He fundraising captain for Lake Redding graduate and a 2011 earned his master’s in teach- Grove Elementary School. “20 under 40” recipient. Kerry ing in 2001 and completed She’s responsible for contact- lives in Redding, Calif., with her WHERE SMALL-BATCH RULES the Educational Leadership ing other families at the school son, Mitchell, and her husband, program at City University in and rallying them around the Michael Caranci ’03, who Ross Hudspeth inspired his Logger parents, Mary 2008. Lake Oswego Schools Founda- works at The Fly Shop in Michener Hudspeth ’83 and Mike Hudspeth ’82, to In July the Highline Times not- tion. Elizabeth is described as a Redding. support his beer brewing passion, and the result is their ed that the Multicultural Stu- “rock star” in the foundation’s family venture, Four Generals Brewing. Opened in July in dent Services Directors Coun- fundraising campaign, which Old City Hall in Renton, Wash., Four Generals has eight cil awarded Rashad Norris its raised more than $1 million in Lucie Cerna is an analyst in the Di- of its own beers on tap, and usually offers one guest tap annual Rhonda Quash Coats her second year as a school Award for Excellence in Multi- captain. She said, “I’ve rallied rectorate for Education and and three different apple ciders. Sounds like an excellent cultural Student Services. The quite a little army of volunteers Skills at the Organization for locale for an alumni gathering! Taproom hours and more award recognized Rashad for to help me out.” When she’s Economic Cooperation and De- at fourgenerals.com. local and statewide contribu- not volunteering, Elizabeth is a velopment (OECD), Paris. This tions in creating “authentic, personal trainer. year she published her book

40 arches autumn 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] Immigration and tells a story that, unlike department, helping to calm In May, Michelle Policies and the movie, doesn’t have a feel- the chaos. JB helps at NW Har- Reynolds graduated SAVE THE DATE! the Global good ending. The article can vest in Kent and with the Emer- from Syracuse University with Competition be viewed at pugetsound.edu/ gency Food Network. He also a master’s degree in art his- for Talent, kevinbacon. supports NW Furniture Bank tory and a master’s in museum which exam- and the local blood bank. studies. Summer ines different immigration When Jessica Reunion policies in OECD countries and Columbo signed Wingman Brewers, In the last issue of how successful they are at up on Facebook in her sopho- co-founded by Arches we reported attracting talented people more year at Puget Sound, she Derrick Moyer (see Arches, that Eric Hopfenbeck was 2017 to their workforce. More never anticipated that social autumn 2013), turned five this helping to set up the website information can be found networking would become her past April, and the microbrew- for the organization now called June 9-11 at luciecerna.com. career. In the fall of 2015 Jes- ery isn’t so micro anymore. the National Cybersecurity sica launched Med|Ed Digital, These days Wingman beer can Center, based in Colorado Dan McLean moved to a company that works with be found throughout Washing- Springs. Since then, Eric has Anacortes, Wash., in August national medical institutions ton, in Portland, and in North- completed a two-year leader- For classes with his wife, Lindsay, who and organizations that want ern Idaho. Wingman was voted ship development fellowship accepted a job there in the ending in 2s to build online communities Best Microbrewery by the program at El Pomar Founda- medical field. According to a for their patients, students, readers of the Weekly Volcano. tion, a group that provides Tacoma News Tribune article and 7s; and customers, while avoiding Our favorite: The Wingman grants to nonprofit organiza- in June, Dan will be teaching legal landmines. Med|Ed also P-51 Porter. tions in Colorado. 50th reunion at Anacortes High School. provides social media training Caz Tomaszewski is a can- Dan has taught math and AP for clinical providers, commu- for the nabis farmer and the executive economics at Peninsula High nicators, and HR professionals. Isaiah Dowdell is a director of Calaveras Cannabis Class of 1967! since 2008. At Puget Sound he It also develops social-media hiring manager for Alliance, a group that advo- was an All-American runner, marketing programs. Jessica the Tacoma Rainiers baseball cates for the “social and eco- and he is still racing and run- was an English major at Puget team. Isaiah was interviewed nomic benefits” of locally regu- Details at ning almost every day. Notably, Sound, with a creative writing in the News Tribune’s Sept. 6 lated marijuana trade, stated a pugetsound.edu/ in 2015 Dan won the Tacoma emphasis, and was a sports issue about hiring high school Sacramento Bee article in June. Sound to Narrows 12k with a writer for The Trail and editor students for summer jobs. reunionweekend He was interviewed about time of 39:38. of Crosscurrents, the literary Isaiah told them he makes it plans to enact cultivation fees review. his goal to teach the students from medial marijuana grow- how to be professional at work series. The group played Latin In May, Robert ers in Calaveras County, Calif. and to learn skills such as flex- American music interspersed Whiting returned Caz said the new commercial This year Peter ibility and customer service with poetry and stories that to his hometown of Telluride, cultivation rules could provide Kowen got his mas- that will help them later in life. focused on shared connections Colo., as a prosecutor for the ter’s degree in film and video substantial tax income for the Louisa Raitt moved from between various societies. 7th Judicial District Attorney’s communication at American county and be a valuable tool Tacoma to Manhattan this Office. At Puget Sound, Robert University in Washington, D.C. for law enforcement, too. In June, Nick Navarro majored in political science and summer to begin a master’s published his first book, environmental science. After In June, Lael Wilcox fin- program in art history at New Dialogues with Phil and Sophia: a few years of bartending in ished the Transamerica bike Melissa Farage is York University’s Institute of Who’s Moving (60 pages, Telluride, Robert went to Lewis race—from Astoria, Ore., to a core contributor to Fine Arts. After spending a CreateSpace, soft cover). The & Clark Law School. He then Yorktown, Va., 10 states, 4,400 Seattle Backpackers Magazine, year working full time with book is about two siblings who worked in Denver, specializing miles—in 18 days and 10 min- with posts dating back to 2011. Tacoma College Ministry, she move to a new house and start in business law and working as utes. She is the first American Melissa is an avid backpacker, was ready to jump back into questioning everything they a part-time ski instructor to pay to win the race, and her time is climber, and trail runner. In her coursework. Louisa plans to encounter. On Amazon, where the bills. Robert told the Tel- the second fastest in race his- free time she paints, writes po- specialize in 12th- through his book can be purchased, luride Daily Planet that he had tory. She beat the women’s re- etry, and is working on a novel. 18th-century Iberian religious Nick writes: “I think the most not planned to get into criminal cord by nearly three days. Lael art, with an emphasis in pil- important way I can impact law; however, he was attracted averaged 235 miles per day grimage culture and hagiog- people’s lives is to teach them Liz Weil is editor- to the job by the prospect of in the self-supported event, raphy. She says she wants to to think philosophically. … Phi- in-chief at the spending so much time in the which means no outside assis- pursue a career in academia. losophy inher- University of Denver Criminal courtroom, where he says he tance such as support vans. ently teaches Law Review. Her interest in likes to think on his feet. James “JB” Wilson was rec- people to think criminal justice began while at In August, Faithlina ognized in the Business Exam- critically about Puget Sound, when she volun- Chan started work- iner 40 Under 40 Program for the decisions teered at the Pierce County ing for her alma mater as a Greg Groggel his numerous civic volunteer they make and published an article Juvenile Court and at the technology support analyst roles. JB works at Tacoma’s to become in in Crystal Judson Family Justice with Technology Services. As Sports Illustrated Online Cornerstone Financial Strate- more ac- July. Greg wrote about Charles Center, supporting domestic a student, Faithlina worked on gies, where he is director of cepting of others’ views.” At Gitonga Maina, Kevin Bacon’s violence survivors. After gradu- the client support team for four client services and a certified Puget Sound, Nick majored in co-star in the 1994 film ating with a degree in foreign years. The financial planner. At Truman philosophy and psychology. He , in which a col- languages and international Air Up There Middle School, he’s president Sophia El-Wakil played violin is pursuing a M.S.Ed. in com- lege assistant basketball coach affairs, Liz went on to work of the PTA, and he is treasurer with Trio Guadalevín at the munity and social change at the recruits a player from a remote for Teach For America and in- of his homeowners’ associa- Harbor History Museum in Gig University of Miami. After that, African village. To research the terned with the Denver District tion. Several hours a month Harbor on July 28. This perfor- Nick says he plans to apply article Greg traveled to Nairobi Attorney’s Office and with a he can be found at Tacoma mance was a part of the popu- for the Peace Corps and write with only rumors of Charles’ judge on the Federal District General Hospital’s emergency lar Third Thursday performance more philosophy for children. whereabouts. He found him, Court for Colorado.

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Alumni litem and volunteered for preceded him in death in 2010. Navy Reserve, stationed at and loaded up their blue Nash, FISH Food Banks of Pierce Weldon’s son and daughter-in- Navy Pier in Illinois. There he named Alice. Bob’s credentials Bernice Christensen ’42 was County. Betty was a dedicated law, nieces and a nephew, and attended radio school. A seri- were then transferred to the born in Tacoma and a resident Democrat and was passionate cousins including Ronald Rau ous attack of asthma landed Pacific Northwest Conference, of the city her entire life. She about social justice. Universally ’41 survive him. him in sickbay. Since the war where he was appointed to progressive, she sent text was winding down Bob was died at home on June 27 at Janice Stenson Goodman the Redmond United Metho- messages on her smartphone honorably discharged as a sea- the age of 96. Bernice was a ’44 died on June 17. She dist Church. In Redmond until her death. Survivors classmates man first class in June 1945. 1938 graduate of Stadium High was 94. Janice was born and the couple’s son, Mark Lyon include three children, seven He was an active Methodist School and was employed raised in Tacoma. She was a ’77, was born in 1955. Bob grandchildren, and 11 great- and had planned to enter the as the secretary at Wilson member of Pi Beta Phi sorority went on to serve churches in grandchildren. ministry, enrolling in a Metho- High School for 29 years. She at Puget Sound. She enjoyed Okanogan, Malott, Stanwood, dist college near home in enjoyed sports and other activi- Mary Elizabeth “Bette” winter and summer sports Tacoma (St. Paul’s), Camas, Wisconsin to save money by ties at the school. Her brother, Myers Kelly ’43 passed away and excelled in tennis. Early in Spanaway, and Eatonville, living at home with his parents. Richard, preceded her in death on June 18 at age 95. She her career, Janice worked for Wash., retiring in 1991. He was Bob was disappointed when last year. Two siblings and nu- was born in Wichita, Kan. the American Red Cross and for many years on the confer- he heard that his parents were merous nieces and nephews Three children and the many as the executive director of ence camping committee, and moving to Tacoma, Wash., to survive Bernice. grandchildren and great-grand- the Tacoma council of Camp he was interested in Scouting. work for his aunt. But he soon In one of his churches a Boy Elizabeth “Betty” Heaton children who survive Bette Fire Girls. She was active discovered that the Methodist- Scout who knew Bob had been Spence ’42 died on May 23 remember her laughter and in Junior League of Tacoma founded College of Puget in radio school asked him to at the age of 95. She was smiles. philanthropic events. In 1951 Sound was in Tacoma, and he help him earn his Communica- born and raised in Tacoma and she married Capt. James Weldon Rau ’43 died on June was able to transfer his credits tions Badge. In appreciation was a graduate of Stadium Goodman, while he was serv- 1 at the age of 95. He was from high school and the Navy. for his help the scout’s family High School. Betty earned a ing with the U.S. Army 101st born in Tacoma and raised His parents packed up their presented Bob with a short- master’s degree at the Uni- Airborne Division. After his in Puyallup, Wash. After he belongings and headed west wave radio. Bob studied for versity of California, Berkeley. tour was complete in 1954, the earned his undergraduate at the end of August. The first and received his HAM radio She married Jack Spence in couple moved to Coral Gables, degree in geology, Weldon’s Sunday in September, Bob’s license, but as an active pastor 1944. He was a member of Fla., where James opened a graduate studies at the Univer- mother, a Methodist minister’s at the time he didn’t have time the military, and the two lived private medical practice, which sity of Iowa were interrupted daughter, scanned the ads for to keep it up. The first summer in various states around the Janice managed. In 1977 Jan- by war service in the Navy. He the closest Methodist Church. after he retired, Bob attended U.S. while raising their three ice earned her master’s degree was stationed in Hawai`i after Bethany Methodist on the the Olympia Radio Society’s children. The family returned in social work at then-Barry the bombing of Pearl Harbor. south side was closest to their classes at the Thurston County to settle in Tacoma in the early College. She was a member of Prior to deployment Weldon home. The pastor and his wife Fair, and that experience con- 1960s. Betty’s husband of 61 several professional associa- married Jane Hudson ’42. Af- warmly welcomed Bob and vinced him to become active in years predeceased her in 2005. tions, including the Academy ter the war the couple moved his mother. Bob was invited HAM radio again. He obtained A son and daughter also pre- of Certified Social Workers back to Iowa, where Weldon to the Methodist youth fel- his Extra Class License to ceded her in death. A daughter, and the National Association completed his master’s and lowship meeting that evening operate on the air as AA7YD. five grandchildren, and three of Social Workers. As a volun- doctoral degrees. They then at the parsonage. When they Bob was more interested in great-grandchildren survive teer and social worker, Janice returned to Washington learned that Bob would be at- equipment and antennas than Betty. advocated for children in the state, and Weldon began his tending CPS, the pastor’s wife Miami area for nearly 50 years. talking on the radio, though. He Betty Cook Troxell ’42 passed career as a geologist with quickly introduced him to Sara Her experience led to her role signed Sara up. She went on to away peacefully on May 21. the U.S. Geological Survey. Jeanne Mather ’48, the church as a clinical instructor at Barry get her license as AB7PS and She was 97. Betty was born in His job took their family first organist, who was beginning College. Janice worked with remains an active member of Tacoma and grew up in Tacoma to Chehalis, Wash., then to her sophomore year at the col- the South Florida Evaluation a couple of radio clubs. Bob’s and in Portland, Ore. She met Portland, Ore., and finally to lege. It was the beginning of a and Treatment Center until she wife and son survive him. Con Troxell ’40 while the two Menlo Park, Calif. Weldon romance that lasted 70 years. was 79. She was a member of James Crews ’51 died on May were singing together in the was a founding member of the Bob graduated from CPS in the Coral Gables Music Club, 24 at age 89. Born and raised Adelphian Concert Choir. They USGS Menlo Park campus. 1949 with honors, and majors the Women’s Panhellenic As- in Tacoma, Jim attended Grant were married in 1942 and were He later accepted a job offer in philosophy and drama. He sociation, the Junior League Elementary School (and was together until Con’s death in to work for the Washington was a member of the Choral of Miami, United Methodist a member of the 1939 cham- 1994. Betty was a teacher at State Department of Natural Readers, and of Campus Play- Women, and the Coral Gables pionship soccer team there) Downing Elementary School in Resources, Division of Geol- crafters as a director and stage Orchid Society, among other and Jason Lee Junior High. Tacoma for 23 years. She was ogy and Earth Resources, and manager. Meanwhile Sara and organizations. Her husband of He graduated from Stadium a member of the League of moved the family to Olympia, Bob were married at Bethany 53 years predeceased Janice High School in 1945. Jim was Women Voters, the Municipal Wash., remaining a resident Methodist Church on April 20, in 2004. Survivors include her a center on the football team League, AAUW, First United there until his passing. After 1949. Bob had been accepted only child, daughter Ann; and at Stadium under Coach John Methodist Church, and the retiring in 1982, Weldon turned at Garrett-Evangelical Theo- many nieces and nephews. Heinrick. He played in the first Filthy Four Bridge Club. She his attention to researching logical Seminary, and attended Grid-Go-Round in 1943 and and Con sponsored two South- and writing a book about his Robert Lyon ’49, P’77 passed his first year of schooling at in the big Thanksgiving Day east Asian immigrant families maternal grandparents’ jour- away on April 29 at the age of the Evanston, Ill., campus. He game against Lincoln High in through their church affiliation. ney West. Washington State 89. He was born in Eagle Riv- asked for a student appoint- 1944. After high school gradu- Betty and Con also enjoyed University Press published the er, Wis., and was an only son. ment and spent his last three ation, Jim and two classmates travel, the Seattle Opera, and resulting book, Surviving the Most of his high school years years serving small churches joined the U.S. Merchant the Pacific Northwest Ballet. In Oregon Trail, 1852, in 2001. In were spent in Lake Geneva, in rural Indiana. He graduated Marine, serving in the South retirement Betty continued to his later years, Weldon contin- Wis., where Bob was active from Garrett in spring 1953, Pacific before the end of World volunteer at her church, as well ued to write biographical and in Boy Scouts. He graduated and in June was ordained as an War II. He was awarded the as at Lakewood and Mason autobiographical books, while from Lake Geneva High in May elder in the Northwest Indiana Merchant Marine World War II United Methodist churches. also tending his home and 1944. He then enlisted as an Conference. Bob and Sara de- Victory Medal and the Pacific She served as a guardian ad garden. His wife of 65 years apprentice yeoman in the U.S. cided to return to Washington War Zone Medal. Returning

42 arches autumn 2016 Send In Memoriam notices to [email protected] to Tacoma, Jim earned his for several summers. He and Paul Burton ’53 passed away service division manager in the the board of the chamber’s degree in history at CPS. He wife Patti Lemley Chapman on May 31 at age 86. He was early 1990s. A career highlight Better Business Bureau, and was affiliated with Phi Delta ’51 spent their honeymoon at born in Snoqualmie Falls, was assisting with the food on the boards of the Youth Theta fraternity and played a Mowich Lake in the northwest Wash., and moved to Tacoma catering for Friendship One, Marine Foundation and Camp role in bringing the national corner of Mount Rainier Na- with his family when he was the Boeing 747SP that set an Fire Orca. He helped found fraternity to the college as its tional Park. John also was a young. When Paul was 12 he around-the-world speed record the Tacoma Waterfront As- Washington Delta Chapter. Af- member of Pete’s Patrol hiking lost his father to heart disease. in 1988, with several notable sociation and was involved in ter graduation he went to work group for more than 40 years. Four years later his mother passengers on board, including bringing several tall-ships fes- for Crews Auto Parts, founded Another highlight was climbing passed away due to breathing Neil Armstrong. When Paul tivals to Tacoma, including the by his father in 1935 on South Mount St. Helens with his son. complications. Paul and his and Annette retired, they came upcoming 2017 Tacoma Fes- Tacoma Way. Jim took over John was a lifelong learner and younger sister then lived with back to the Pacific Northwest tival of Sail. In retirement he operations in 1966 and retired avid reader. He enjoyed this cousins in Olympia, Wash., to settle in Gig Harbor, Wash. and his wife, Joanne, traveled from the business in 1989. In past summer with his family in where he graduated from high They renewed old friendships, throughout the world, making 1957 Jim became a 32nd De- Kalispell, Mont., and at Rocky school in 1949. He loved the joined the “lunch bunch,” trips to Tehran and to trace the gree Mason and was a lifetime Bay, Wash., which is where outdoors and summited Mount enjoyed hiking and boating, Silk Road trade routes. Joanne member of Evergreen State he had spent the summer for Rainier in the fall of 1949. Paul and switched loyalties to the and Stan’s four children sur- Lodge #68. He also became the last 79 years. John’s wife then began classes at the Col- Seahawks and Mariners. With vive him. a midget race car enthusiast, of 64 years, two children, five lege of Puget Sound. He met retiree flight benefits, Paul and Evalyn Emert Ocheltree ’55 eventually winning the Wash- grandchildren, and a great- Annette Lee Ogden ’51 before Annette often visited their chil- died on July 14 at age 83. She ington Midget Racing Associa- granddaughter survive him. being drafted into the Army. dren and grandchildren. After was born in Omak, Wash., tion Championship in 1970. Jim He served in Germany and 47 years of marriage, Annette Ross Tolles ’52 died at home and early in life worked for the was president of the associa- received an Army Occupation passed away after battling on June 16. He was 85. Ross Omak Chronicle newspaper, tion in 1971 and again in 1999, Medal. Paul hurried back to cancer in 2001. Paul spent the served in the Army for two which was owned by her fa- and in 2008 was inducted into Tacoma to marry Annette in fall next several years volunteer- years during the Korean War. ther. After earning her degree the Tacoma-Pierce County 1953. The couple then moved ing with hospice and spending He played on Puget Sound’s in education, Evalyn taught Sports Hall of Fame for his to the Bay Area, where Paul time with family. In 2009 he first tennis team, along with elementary school in New longtime involvement in auto studied hotel and restaurant and Jackie Thurber Stenger longtime friend Earl Schalin Jersey, and in Chimacum, racing. Jim also was a member management at City College of ’51, P’80 began to spend time ’52. (See photo below.) Ross Kirkland, Kennewick, and Ta- of AMVETS and The American San Francisco. He worked at together. Paul joined St. Mark’s remained an avid tennis player coma, Wash. She then worked Legion. Survivors include his the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Lutheran Church by The Nar- and sports enthusiast through- at Tulalip Elementary School wife of 38 years, Dee; two San Francisco before he took a rows, and the two moved to out his life. He was employed in Marysville, Wash., for many sons; two grandchildren; and job with United Airlines, which Tacoma Lutheran Retirement as a sales representative for years, retiring from the Marys- two great-grandchildren. first took him to Las Vegas and Community, where Jackie Weyerhaeuser, retiring after 42 ville School District. Evalyn later to Memphis, Tenn. Paul still lives. Along with Annette, Ray Walberg ’51 passed away years with the company. His was a lifelong member of enjoyed long drives with his Paul’s oldest son preceded after a brief illness at age 89. wife, Dolores “Dee” Weeks the United Methodist Church young family to many national him in death. Survivors are his He was raised in Marysville, Tolles ’75; three children; and an active member of the parks, as well as trips to beach- partner, Jackie; four children; Wash., and served in the Navy seven grandchildren, including Marysville UMC beginning in es and to Hawai`i. He was a six grandchildren; and three during World War II. Ray at- Karina Caprez ’12; brother-in- 1981. She sang in the church sports fan, particularly of the great-grandchildren. tended Everett Junior College law Robert Weeks ’57; other choir, participated in the San Francisco 49ers and the before transferring to the Col- family; and many friends sur- Stan Selden ’53 died battling handbell choir, sewed quilts, Giants. Paul retired from United lege of Puget Sound. He spent vive him. cancer on July 3 at age 84. and enjoyed her weekly Bible as a catering operations food his entire 30-year career in the He was a Tacoma native and a study group. Evalyn traveled grocery business. His wife of graduate of Clover Park High extensively. She toured Eu- 63 years, Pat, preceded him School in Lakewood, Wash. rope several times and made in death. Two children, five After college Stan served in trips to Australia, Japan, the grandchildren, and six great- the Coast Guard for two years Middle East, and to most of grandchildren survive Ray. before joining his family’s busi- the 50 states in the U.S. She John Chapman ’52 passed ness as the second-generation enjoyed puzzles of all kinds away on July 31. He was 88. leader of Selden’s Designer and handcrafts. Four children, John was born in Seattle and Home Furnishings, started a foster daughter, and eight grew up in North Tacoma, by his father in 1940. Today grandchildren survive Evalyn. the business is under the graduating from Stadium High Edson Elliott ’57 passed leadership of third- and fourth- School. He served in the Army away April 21. He was 83. Ed generation Seldens, with loca- as an X-ray technician and then was born and raised in Ever- tions in Fife and in downtown attended Puget Sound before ett, Wash., graduating from Bellevue, Wash. As a longtime going on to George Wash- Everett High School in 1950. community advocate and civic ington University School of He attended Everett Junior leader, Stan received a New Medicine and Health Sciences College before serving in the Tacoma Award from the Taco- to earn his M.D. John had Navy during the Korean War. ma-Pierce County Chamber, fellowships in adult and child Ed then entered the College recognizing “business organi- neurology; in 1960 he became of Puget Sound and was a zations and individuals making the first pediatric neurologist in member of Phi Delta Theta outstanding contributions to the Pacific Northwest. He was fraternity. After graduation he 1952 Logger tennis team, front, from left: Morris Brande- the revitalization of downtown in private practice at Northwest started his 33-year career in Tacoma.” He was an emeritus Hospital in Seattle for 40 years. gee, Bob Allen, Ross Tolles, and Roger Anderson. Back, from banking with then-National member of the group’s Eco- John was passionate about the left: Earl Schalin, Bill Medin, Peter Weiskopf, and business Bank of Commerce. The bank nomic Development Board, on outdoors and served on the administration professor and tennis coach Willard Gee ’42, became Rainier Bank and later which he served for more than Mount Rainier fire lookout crew M.B.A.’48, P’65, who will be 97 in December. Security Pacific Bank before 10 years. Stan also served on

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Ed retired in 1990. In 1976 he as exalted ruler of the Puyallup in 1951 before serving four youth sports and helped start cooking, woodcarving, and married Marie Switzer Abkeh Elks in 1999. Jim’s wife of 58 years in the U.S. Air Force. youth leagues in the Salem writing. In retirement she ’48, whom he first met when years; and two siblings and Marvin then worked full time area. Rich enjoyed fishing and volunteered to teach children Marie was a member of his sis- their children and grandchil- as a psychiatric aide while camping with his family over and adults to read. She also ter’s (Mary Lu Elliott Pearson dren, survive him. he studied business at Puget the years, and he was an avid became an avid quilter and ’48) wedding party in 1949. Carolyn Cross Avery ’61, Sound. He went to work for Oregon Ducks fan. His wife of donated many quilts to CARES The couple enjoyed traveling P’90 died at home in Brier, the IRS for 25 years as a CPA, 53 years, three children, and Northwest, a medical program

classmates in their motorhome throughout Wash., on June 5. She was 76. revenue agent, and expert tax two grandchildren survive him. to assess, treat, and prevent the U.S. and internationally. witness. In retirement Marvin Carolyn grew up in Seattle and Mary Ellen Zevenbergen child abuse. Alberta’s husband They were happily married until and Narene explored the coun- graduated from Queen Anne Sand ’66, M.Ed.’70 died on preceded her in death. Her Marie’s passing in 2009. Ed try in their motorhome, finally High School before attending June 9. She was 83. Mary daughter, two grandsons, five was a member of the Tri-Cit- settling in Puyallup, Wash. Puget Sound to earn a degree Ellen graduated with honors great-grandchildren, and two ies, Wash., Optimist Club for Survivors include two children, in music. In college she was a from Lincoln High School in siblings are survivors. more than 30 years and served three grandchildren, four great- member of Delta Delta Delta Tacoma. During her teaching Linda Kay DeYoung Cooper as its president. He also was grandchildren, other family, and sorority and sang with the career, she taught first grade ’68 passed away on Aug. 3 af- a member and chair of the Tri- friends. Adelphian Concert Choir and at Tacoma’s Edison, Wash- ter battling cancer. She turned Cities Salvation Army advisory Madrigal Singers. In 1963 she Hazel Jones Askren ’63 was ington, and Hoyt Elementary 70 on July 21. Linda graduated board, a member of the United married Terry Duits; the couple 95 when she passed away on schools. She retired in 1983 from Bothell High School in Way board, a president of the had two daughters. Terry and May 23. In addition to UPS she after 30 years of service, first 1964. At Puget Sound she Tri-Cities Bankers Association, Carolyn later divorced. In 1980 also attended Pacific Lutheran as a school secretary for 13 was a member of Delta Delta and a president of the Bankers Carolyn married Thomas Avery University and taught school years and then as a teacher for Delta sorority. Linda’s priority Administration Institute for in Newcastle, Wyo., where at Washington Elementary in 17. Mary Ellen was active in was her children, and she is southeast Washington. Along both were junior and senior Tacoma until retiring. Hazel needlepoint groups and was remembered for her generos- with Marie, his sister preceded high school teachers—Carolyn then became a bookkeeper in asked to design and create a ity, hospitality, and loyalty to Ed in death. Survivors include taught music and English. She her husband’s insurance busi- Christmas ornament from the her family. Once her children two stepdaughters; a step- and Tom directed numerous ness. She spent much of her Nutcracker ballet for the White left home, Linda worked as a grandson; nephew Tom stage productions together, free time reading and travel- House Blue Room tree during property manager at Queen Pearson ’74; two nieces, in- including The Sound of Music ing throughout the U.S. and the Clinton administration. In Anne Marketplace in Seattle. cluding Jane Pearson ’79; and with a cast of elementary- to around the world. Hazel was a 2012 she was awarded grand She enjoyed Arabian horses, four grandnephews. high school-age students. member of First Presbyterian champion at the Puyallup Fair her book club, and especially Donna Moller Thomas ’58 Carolyn also was a semipro- Church Tacoma, beginning in for her Hardanger embroidery. spending time with her grand- died on July 26 at age 80. fessional singer, teaching and 1948. She taught Bible studies Mary Ellen was a longtime sons. Linda’s parents, two She was a 1954 graduate of singing wherever she lived. to various age groups, from member of Redeemer Luther- daughters, two grandsons, Lewis and Clark High School in She had teaching posts in young children to seniors. Ha- an Church in Fircrest, Wash. and sister Lucy DeYoung ’71 Spokane, Wash., and earned Sheldon, Iowa; Camas, Wash.; zel’s husband of 59 years and Her husband of 51 years, T. survive her. her bachelor’s degree at Puget and Casper, Wyo., where she a daughter predeceased her. Warren Sand ‘53, predeceased Ron Ness ’70, P’91 died at Sound in occupational therapy. was a founding member of the Three children, five grandchil- Mary Ellen. Survivors include home on Aug. 6 from cardiac During college Donna was a Casper Civic Chorale. Carolyn dren, and six great-grandchil- a sister, a niece, and three complications, according to member of Chi Omega soror- and Tom later taught in Italy, dren survive her. nephews. the Kitsap Sun. He was 68. ity. She was a resident of Dal- Japan, Germany, and in the Se- Richard DeVries ’63 passed Alberta Vawter Vander Mei Ron was a graduate of South las, Texas, at the time of her attle area. After Tom’s death in away on June 13. He was 78. ’66 died on June 3 at age 93. Kitsap High School in Port Or- passing. No survivors were 2000, Carolyn remained busy Rich was born in Nampa, Ida- She was born in Grand Junc- chard, Wash., and was affiliat- noted. teaching private music lessons, ho, and grew up participating tion, Colo., during the Depres- ed with Beta Theta Phi frater- participating in camping and James Shook ’59 passed in a variety of music and sports sion. Alberta graduated from nity while at UPS. He played sailing groups, as a member of away at age 81 on Aug. 6. activities. He was a member of high school in Neosho, Mo., in football in college and later the Seattle Symphony Chorale He was born and raised in the All-Northwest Choir in high 1941. She was married to Earl tried out for the San Francisco and other choirs, cooking, exer- Spokane, Wash., moving to school and played the trumpet. Hawkins in 1942 and had her 49ers football team. After not cising, and volunteering in the Tacoma in the late 1950s to Rich played for several fast- only child, daughter Connie. being signed by the team, he community. For the past six work for The Boeing Company. pitch softball teams in Idaho, Her marriage ended in 1951. attended law school at the years, she and her daughters In 1957, while attending Puget Washington, and Oregon. He As a single mother, Alberta University of Montana. Li- dealt with Carolyn’s diagnoses Sound, Jim met his future earned numerous awards, worked as a nurse’s aide at censed in 1973, Ron returned of progressive supranuclear wife, Edie Gysin ’58. The two made many all-star teams, and then-Multnomah County Hos- to the Kitsap area to practice palsy. Carolyn’s family re- were married in 1958. In the was ranked as one of the top pital for more than three years. law. He was a well-known members her lifelong strength 1960s Jim enjoyed autocross pitchers in the Northwest. He She worked seven days a criminal defense attorney and independence, as well racing, taught ballroom dancing and his brother drove delivery week and went to school two and was preparing for a first- as her display of courage and on cruise ships, and served as trucks for their family’s oil busi- nights a week for 18 months to degree murder trial at the time grace during her final years. exalted ruler of the Puyallup ness. While Rich was on ac- earn her LPN degree in 1955. of his passing. His family, co- Her daughters, Nicole Wright Elks Lodge. Jim and Edie went tive duty in the Army National Alberta then worked as a surgi- workers, and friends remem- and Melissa Duits ’90; two on to teach ballroom dancing Guard, he served as an exe- cal nurse for eight years. She ber Ron as “very loyal and pro- grandchildren; and other family locally for 27 years and oc- cutive chef. He attended the completed two years at then- tective of those around him.” members survive Carolyn. casionally on cruise ships until College of Idaho and the Uni- Portland State College before His wife; son Ronald Ness ’91, 2003. They taught ballroom Marvin Campeau ’61 died on versity of Puget Sound; it was transferring to UPS to earn her M.A.T.’94, P’16; daughter-in- dancing on 19 of the 51 cruises July 21. He was 84. Marvin at UPS that he met his future degree in occupational therapy. law Lysandra Ness M.A.T.’99, they ultimately took. Jim and was born in then-American wife, Sharon Van Hess ’64. Alberta went to work as a P’16; grandchildren, including Edie both worked at Boeing Lake, now-Lakewood, Wash., The couple moved to Oregon, therapist in public schools. She Miranda Ness M.A.T.’16; a until retirement. Jim served as and graduated from Clover and there Rich had a career in met and married Gerrit Vander stepdaughter; a stepgrandson; president of the Boeing Recre- Park High School in 1949. He banking and insurance. In the Mei in 1968. Throughout her and his mother, Louise Ness, ation Council in 1990 and again married Narene Dieffenbach 1970s he was involved with life she enjoyed oil painting, survive him.

44 arches autumn 2016 Send In Memoriam notices to [email protected] Everett Thompson M.A.’70 was born in New York City and John Stamper M.Ed.’76 City University. She taught his wife of 25 years, Linda; passed away at home on Bain- raised in Seattle. After graduat- passed away on July 11 at age elementary school for 17 his children; four siblings; and bridge Island, Wash., on Aug. ing from Seattle University he 91. He joined the Army Air years in the Bethel School other extended family. 5. He was 76. Everett was born was commissioned in the U.S. Corp at age 17. John flew more District, was self-employed Gail Hansen Rogers ’78 died and raised in North Carolina Army as a second lieutenant. than 15,000 documented flight as a massage therapist for 14 on July 29, exactly two weeks and was a graduate of Duke Ed served in Germany and hours as a pilot and flight en- years, and worked for Pierce prior to her 79th birthday. She University before serving in then, as a captain, volunteered gineer throughout his 31-year County for the last five years was born in Neenah, Wis., and the Army and relocating to the to serve in Vietnam. He was career in the U.S. Air Force. of her career. Debbie and her married her college sweet- Pacific Northwest. After com- awarded a Bronze Star. Fol- He retired as a captain, having husband, Richard Viafore, heart, Conrad Hansen. The two pleting military service, Everett lowing his military service, Ed served in World War II, the retired and moved to Florida later divorced. While raising earned his master’s degree in registered with the New York Korean and Vietnam wars, and in 2012. The couple often three daughters and working English at Puget Sound and Stock Exchange and worked during the Cuban Missile Cri- traveled to Hawaiì to enjoy full time, Gail earned her bach- began a longtime teaching ca- as a portfolio manager and sis. John received many cita- the sun and beaches. Debbie elor’s degree in accounting at reer at Bainbridge High School. investment advisor. He later tions during his service career, excelled in sports, in particular Puget Sound. She later married He served as the high school’s worked in Washington as a including the Air Medal, earned softball and golf, and was an Thomas Rogers of Tacoma. yearbook advisor for many cabinet official and managed for meritorious service during avid and lifelong baseball fan. Gail worked in the insurance years and was key in helping Washington state’s natural and the Vietnam War. At that time Her family remembers her for field for many years, rising to develop the school’s American other disasters, including the John’s air unit flew more mis- her adventurous, kind, and senior management in internal studies program. Everett loved Mount St. Helens eruption. Ed sions in a war conflict zone generous nature, along with audit. In retirement and prior American literature and all was a city administrator for the than any previous unit had in her sense of humor, strength, to her illness, Gail volunteered types of music, especially folk city of Kent, Wash., for three the history of the Air Force. and honesty. Survivors include with Community Health Care music by Woody Guthrie and years beginning in 1989, and John met his wife, Dorothy her husband of 41 years, four and supported Tom’s interest Pete Seeger. In retirement he then was appointed as deputy Stamper ’64, on a cable car siblings, and numerous nieces in, and volunteer efforts with, became active in local poetry assistant secretary for policy in Denver at the end of World and nephews. the Sea Scouts. Tom grew up at the U.S. Department of Vet- groups and readings. Everett War II. They were married, ex- Mark Stevens ’77 died at in Hawaiì, and the couple trav- erans Affairs in 1993, retiring volunteered at the Bainbridge iting the church through a tun- home in Lee, N.H., on June eled there many times to visit in 2001. From 2007 to 2009 Island Historical Museum, and nel of crossed swords formed 7. He was a week shy of his his family. Gail decorated their he was director of programs published books through NW by the officers in John’s 61st birthday. Mark had been home Hawaiian-style and en- for the Asian Pacific American Trillium Press, owned and squadron. During their 70-year diagnosed with cancer in May joyed nature photography. Her Institute for Congressional operated by him and his wife, marriage, they lived throughout 2015. He was born in Nashua, husband, three daughters, two Studies, and most recently Nancy Rekow. Survivors in- the country but spent most of N.H., and lived in New Hamp- stepchildren, 11 grandchildren, served as Maryland secre- clude his wife, his two children, their time near then-McChord shire, Hawaiì, Washington and a great-grandchild survive tary of Veterans Affairs, from and two brothers. Air Force Base. John was a state, Massachusetts, and in her. 2009 to 2015. Ed advocated founding member and past David Holland ’74 died af- Ireland. Mark held a variety for veterans for more than 30 president of the McChord Air Dawn Powell Strohecker ter a long illness on July 19. of jobs during his life and years, beginning as president Museum. Having been raised ’83 passed away on May 28 in He was 65. Born in Toronto, enjoyed them all. He finally of Washington state Vietnam on a farm in Oklahoma, John Fredericksburg, W.Va., after a Canada, David moved to the worked from home as an in- Veterans of America (VVA) in was known for being able to courageous battle with cancer. U.S. with his family when he vestor. Mark enjoyed time the 1980s. He later was elect- fix anything. Survivors include She was born in Summerville, was 4. He grew up in Derby with his family, gardening, ed national vice president of his wife, three children, four S.C., and her family settled Line, Vt., graduating from traveling, reading, and ponder- VVA and was president of the grandchildren, and five great- in Tacoma when she was 4. Vermont Academy in Saxtons ing the many mysteries of life. VVA Maryland state council. grandchildren. Dawn graduated from Clover River. David went on to earn He was especially proud of Ed also was a member of The Park High School in Lakewood, his master’s degree in educa- Debra Keegan Viafore ’76 his two children, Melissa and American Legion, AMVETS, Wash., before attending Puget tion at Cambridge College. He died on June 16, a month Justin, who exceeded all his Disabled American Veterans, Sound and earning her Bache- had been a resident of Acton, shy of her 64th birthday, af- expectations of what a per- The Society of Hispanic Vet- lor of Arts degree in English. Mass., for the past 32 years. ter battling cancer. She was son should be. They always erans, Japanese American She was a member of Puget David and his wife, Michele, born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., amazed him with their intel- Veterans Association, and Vet- Sound’s Gamma Zeta Chapter were active in Saint Matthew’s and moved with her family to ligence, patience, humor, and erans of Foreign Wars, and he of Alpha Phi sorority. Dawn United Methodist Church in Tacoma in 1960. Debbie at- good judgment. Late in life, received the Legion of Honor leaves behind her husband, Acton for 30 years. David had tended Holy Cross Elementary Mark turned to Jesus Christ Award from the Four Chaplains friend, and companion, Bill lifetime interests in Nepal and School and Aquinas Academy for help with his disease and Memorial Foundation in 2000. Strohecker; her father, Ronald India, and in politics and teach- before her family relocated was blessed to find relief. As a longtime member of the Powell; brother Greg; nephew ing. His wife, twin daughters, to Olympia, Wash. There she Mark was grateful to everyone American Contract Bridge Gregory; and many friends in a grandson, and his mother graduated from North Thurston who prayed and helped him League, Ed became a Gold Life Tacoma and Seattle, some of survive him. High School in 1970. After during his cancer treatments. Master in 2015. His life partner, whom remembered Dawn by earning her degree in educa- He was especially grateful to Edward Chow Jr. M.P.A.’76 Sara McVicker; two children, spending time at her favorite tion at UPS, Debbie went on his family during the time of died at home on July 22 of pan- both medical doctors; and six area park, Sunnyside Beach, in to receive her M.B.A. from his illness. Mark leaves behind creatic cancer. He was 77. Ed grandchildren survive him. Steilacoom, Wash.

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p Karen Peterson Finney ’67, P’94 and John Finney ’67, P’94 recently completed their fourth A Prairie Home Compan- p The annual Phi Delta Theta day at the Vashon Island home of Lee McFarlane ‘59 and ion cruise, this time north to Alaska. During the Anchorage Julie Peck McFarlane ‘62 took place on Aug. 17 with two honorary guests in attendance this stop they rode the Alaska Railroad south toward Seward. This year, also Vashon residents. Fom left: Chris Jensen ’64, Art Whitson ’53, Puget Sound Presi- photo was taken at a rest stop at Grandview. They report be- dent and Trustee Emeritus Ron Thomas, Wayne Downer ’61, Ron Stone ’61, Jerry Thorpe ing toasty warm in their Puget Sound togs. And their One [of ’62, Ron Lange ’59 (peeking from the back), Paul Llewellyn ’58, Les Crowe ’62, Lloyd a Kind] campaign umbrellas kept them dry in Alaska’s rainy Filkins ’59, Mary Thomas, Ken McGill ’61, Fred Hoheim ’58, Dale Wirsing ’58, and Lee. August weather.

u The Tau Epsilon Chapter of Chi Omega sorority held a reunion on June 16 at the Kirkland Woman’s Club in Kirkland, Wash., to coincide with Puget Sound’s Summer Reunion Weekend. Many of these ladies had not seen each other in more than 50 years! They enjoyed the opportunity to catch up as well as share fond memories and pictures of their times at UPS. Some traveled from beyond Washington to attend. Their gathering was such a success, plans already are in the works to do it again. Front, seated, from left: Beverly Muller ’69; Marilyn Minnitti O’Malley-Hicks ’69; Sandy Smith Mabbott ’67; Anita Sterling ’67; Sue Walker Wright ’66; Ruth Davis Tedder ’70; and Adrienne Linnemann Nelson ’68, M.A.’85. Middle row, from left: Becky Blair Helm ’66; Nola De Caro Tresslar ’63; Karen Loomis-McLean ’79; Lynda Ring- Erickson ’70; Pat Garber Chesebro ’68; Sara Peck Langton ’61; Elaine French Laursen ’62; Judy Adams Thomas ’62; Rosalie Watson Colbath ’65; and Nancy Emerson Holl ’67. Back row, from left: Cindy Charkow ’70; Charlene Tilton Jones ’68; Carolanne Matheson Aosved ’68; Joan Calisewski Burbridge ’69; Corinne Crawford Reiels ’68, ’90; Arlene Brown Salamone ’70; Patty Mason Deal ’68, M.Ed.’92; Marilyn Alexander Riddick ’66; Sandy McGilchrist Huggins ’69; Diane Longanecker Drake ’65; Margie Carlson Callahan ’66; Sue Whipple McCormack ’66; and Joanne Williams Peterson ’65. Present though not pictured: Rochelle Shimitz Plenkovich ’62; the large-group photo was taken before she arrived. The small-group photo (right) includes Rochelle. From left: Judy Adams Thomas ’62, Nola De Caro Tresslar ’63, Elaine French Laursen ’62, Rochelle, and Sara Peck Langton ’61.

46 arches autumn 2016 Send Scrapbook photos to [email protected] p Four Gamma Phi Beta pledge sisters and their husbands got together for a mini reunion this summer. From left: Sharon Wells Selden ’69, Rick Selden ’68, Jean Dolan Cash ’69, Gary Hagstrom ’68, Paige Rasmussen Hagstrom ’69, Susan Knudsen Nelson ’69, and David Nelson ’68. The Nel- sons hosted at their home in North Tacoma. Jean’s husband, Don (the only non-alum), kindly snapped this shot.

p Puget Sound Sigma Nu fraternity brothers Steve Walker ’78 and Bruce Reid ’78, P’12 celebrated milestone birthdays this year and began their celebration season with Steve’s birthday in May. First stop: Anthony’s HomePort restaurant in Kirkland, Wash., with other Sigma Nu friends and family, before boating to Gig Harbor to continue the celebration at JW restaurant. Photo upper left, from left: Steve, Doug Gillespie ’78, Bruce, and George Jewett ’79. Also among the revelers, though not pictured: Padraic Riley ’81 and Larry Olli ’75. More celebration ensued at Tides Tavern (photo upper right). Their celebration then headed south for Bruce’s birthday on July 4 in Sunset Beach, Calif., with more UPS Sigma Nu friends and family. Photo lower left, from left: Jim Mallory ’77, Russ Stenquist ’78, Steve, Bruce, Louise Pierce van Delft ’76, Hans van Delft ’76, Grace Reid ’12, and Brynn Blickenstaff ’12, D.P.T.’16. To “cap off” their revelry, Steve and Bruce took in a game at Dodger Stadium (lower right).

p These Gamma Phis stayed at their old house on campus during Summer Reunion Weekend, June 10–12. p Another Sigma Nu landmark event took place July 1, when several members of Puget All reported having a great time and are looking forward to Sound’s 53rd fraternity pledge class got together at the home of Bill Day ’78 in Richmond next summer’s reunion! From left: Wende Walker Carroll Beach, Wash. Brothers, from left: Bill; Bruce Reid ’78, P’12; Ned Rozzano ’76; Mike Lloid ’79, Jody Bredeson Callan ’79, Sandy Creek Baker ’79, ’79; Bill Binder ’80; Mike Dollard ’78; Bill Stewart ’79; Doug Gillespie ’78; Lance Arita Krista Pearson ’80, Carol Headden Reid ’80, and Barbara ’77; and Keith Officer ’77, P’18. Present but not pictured because he was behind the camera: Headden Tall ’79. Ray Berryman ’77.

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p On June 25 Betsy Campbell Stone ’79, P’14 earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative non- p In August these Puget Sound friends were able to fiction at Bennington College get together. From left: Michele Moyer Eaton ’88, Mark in Bennington, Vt. For her Eaton ’88, Teresa Myoraku Trail ’87, Galen Trail ’88, master’s thesis she com- p Elizabeth Stean ’82 and Lorraine Bardeen were mar- Beth Downing Ha ’89, and Hoon Ha ’89. The gathering pleted the initial draft of The ried on Dec. 21, 2013, at Salish Lodge & Spa at Snoqualmie took place at Teresa and Galen’s home in Issaquah, Wash.; Henry Chronicles, a memoir Falls, Wash., on the terrace overlooking the falls. Beth took Teresa is a senior software engineer at the Collinear Group, about her relationship with Lorraine’s name and is now Beth Bardeen. Their beautiful and Galen earned his Ph.D. in sports management at The her father, especially during blended family includes Beth’s two adult sons and Lorraine’s Ohio State University and is currently teaching in Seattle the last seven years of his two children. From left: Tyler Rosenbaum, Beth, Lorraine, University’s Sports Administration and Leadership program. life, when Betsy was his Terry Rosenbaum, Amelia Rowe-Bardeen, and Oliver Rowe- Hoon is a planning engineer for Snohomish County PUD, caregiver. A short excerpt of Bardeen. They live in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Se- while Beth is an art instructor at Creative Souls and an the memoir was published in attle. Beth is a business consultant for Cisco, and Lorraine is enrichment coordinator at Pinewood Elementary School in Cleaver Magazine in Decem- a general manager at Microsoft. An amazing small-world UPS Marysville, Wash. Michele is an administrative assistant in ber 2015 at cleavermagazine. connection is that Professor Emerita of Comparative Sociol- the attendance office at Kentlake High School. Mark also is a com/my-fathers-arms-by- ogy E. Ann Neel is Lorraine’s stepmom! senior software engineer at the Collinear Group. betsy-campbell-stone. Here, from left: Peter Trachtenberg, one of Betsy’s faculty mem- t Katheryn Cordero bers and author of Another Norris ‘98 was awarded Insane Devotion and other the Washington Osteo- works, and Betsy. She cur- pathic Medical Associa- rently is serving on the Puget tion’s 2016 Physician of Sound Alumni Council’s Ca- the Year award in June. reer and Employment Servic- She is a doctor at the Ya- es Committee, and she and kima Valley Farm Workers son Thom Stone ’14 served Clinic Grandview [Wash.] on the Parents’ Council for a Medical-Dental Clinic, and couple of years. Congratula- she serves as the residen- tions, Betsy! cy director for the Sollus Northwest Family Medi- cine Residency Program. According to YVFWC’s press release, Katheryn was chosen for this honor because of her mentor- ship of young physicians, including in the residency program as well as other pre-med forums she has participated in over the years. Congratulations, Katheryn! p Matt Mandrones ’91 married Shawn Chapman in Port- land, Ore., on March 6. The celebration took place in the Sun- nyside Church with Kevin Strong ’92 as best man. The bride and groom honeymooned throughout British Columbia. They make their home in Camas, Wash. Matt is a string orchestra teacher in the Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, Wash., and Shawn is a kindergarten teacher.

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The Classmates editor is Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17. You can call her at 253-879-2762 or email ctollefson@ pugetsound.edu.

Where do Classmates entries come from? About half come directly from you, either in letters or in email updates. The rest are compiled from a variety of public sources such as newspaper and magazine clippings, and press p Scott Higashi ’91 (left) was promoted to releases sent to us by employers when, for ex- president and CEO of Locations, Hawai`i’s largest ample, a Puget Sound grad at the company gets a residential real estate brokerage. He’s pictured new job. We publish Classmates information both here with Bill Chee, who has been president and in the print edition of Arches and on the Web in CEO of Locations since its founding in 1969. Bill the online version. It is our policy not to publish will now serve in an executive advisory role after pregnancy or engagement announcements, or growing the firm to 300 agents and establishing candidacies for political office. However, we are happy to print news of births, marriages, and the Locations Foundation to help underprivileged elections to office. Classmates submissions are children and families in Hawai`i. Scott joined edited for style, clarity, and length. We put a lot Locations in 2004 and served as executive vice of effort into making sure entries are accurate, president of sales, leading the sales team to the but sometimes we slip up. Please let us know largest market share of transactions on Oahu. if you see incorrect information published in He will continue to oversee the day-to-day sales Classmates. p Washington State Patrol Detective Sergeant team and operations until a new sales executive is Kurt Adkinson ’90 (left) and Lieutenant Mark named. Scott previously held leadership roles at Scrapbook Tegard ’83 discovered their shared UPS lineage Colliers Monroe Friedlander, Hawaiian Airlines, and High-resolution digital photos or prints preferred. several years ago while serving as instruc- American Hawaii Cruises. He’s been on a number Kindly identify alumni in the snapshot. Also, tors at the WSP Training Academy in Shelton, of community boards and committees during his please, for baby pictures, include alumni parents Wash. Mark currently is assigned to the Field professional career and is currently on the board of in the photo. Operations Bureau at WSP Headquarters in Olym- the American Red Cross. Scott also is a member Publication deadlines pia, and Kurt is supervisor of the WSP Criminal of Cohort IV of the Omidyar Fellows. Cohort is a Aug. 15 for the autumn issue, Nov. 15 for winter, Investigation Unit for North Central Washington 15-month leadership training program designed Feb. 15 for spring, May 15 for summer located in Moses Lake. This photo finds them to cultivate emerging executives and to give them once again crossing paths in the lobby of WSP the skills to be transformative leaders in their To send Classmates entries or to change your Headquarters. communities. address Electronically: pugetsound.edu/infoupdate or email Classmates Editor Cathy Tollefson at t Alika Antone ’00, D.P.T.’05 [email protected]. and wife Jenilee happily welcomed Post: Arches, University of Puget Sound, Office their fourth child on Aug. 14. Alika of Communications, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma Anthony arrived early, weighing in WA 98416-1041. at 7 pounds, 12 ounces. He joins When submitting a change of address, please his big brothers Kalei, 5; Kainoa, 3; include your old address. and Micah, 1 1/2. The family lives in Tacoma’s North End, where Alika A note on names and abbreviations owns and operates A2 Physical Undergraduate class years appear after names Therapy (a2pt.family) on 6th Ave. He as numerals preceded by an apostrophe (e.g., was voted Best Physical Therapist ’73). “P”= parent. “GP”= grandparent. “Hon.”= in the South Sound by South Sound honorary degree. For graduate degrees, “M.S.”= Magazine in 2012. master of science; “M.B.A.”= master of business administration; “M.A.T.”= master of arts in teaching; “M.Ed.” = master of education; “M.P.A.”= master of public administration; “M.M.”= master of music; “M.S.O.T.,” “M.O.T”= master of occupational therapy; “D.P.T.”= doctor of physical therapy; “J.D.”= doctor of law.

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p At a ceremony in Olympia on July 4 Sean Donohue ’02 was promoted p Patrick Karjala ’03 and Brooke Jones were married on June 10 at Haiku to the rank of Army major. Since 2002 Sean and his wife, Lexey, have trav- Gardens in Kaneohe, Hawai`i. Puget Sound alumni were there to help cele- eled the world, living in Germany and Italy as well as locations throughout the brate. From left: Evan Zhao, Angelica Baca ’08, Peter Cameron ’05, the States. In 2010 Sean deployed to Afghanistan as a physician assistant and, groom and bride, Robert “Miles” Thayer ’04, Chelle Thayer, and Hanna more recently, traveled to Uganda and Zambia to support military and medical Woodward ’03. Patrick works at The University of Hawai`i at Manoa College missions as the senior physician assistant assigned to U.S. Army Africa Com- of Education, where he creates new online learning platforms; he also is a mand. Sean currently is the command surgeon at the National Training Center master’s in computer science candidate there. Brooke is a master’s student in at Fort Irwin, Calif., and trains and mentors military medical providers for de- the creative writing program at UH Manoa. Both are regular participants in the ployments around the world. He and Lexey are the parents of three boys and Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (where they met!). Patrick has also participated are in the process of adopting a set of sisters from Colombia. Here, from left: in local theater productions and opera with Hawaii Opera Theatre. Maximus, 11; William, 19; Lexey; Sean; and Jack, 13.

p Here are Kelsey Weidkamp Hines ’04, D.P.T.’09 (left); son Garyn, 3; and dad John Hines ’05, M.A.T.’06 at the Tacoma Rainiers game on July 28. By coincidence the family had tickets to the game on the same night as the UPS Tacoma Regional Club gathering at the Rainiers. Garyn re- portedly loves baseball and the Rainiers … always a Logger!

p Lucas Bierlein ’04 and Alex George were married on March 18 at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. Family and friends joined them from New York City, Washington, D.C., the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, and beyond to help celebrate. Alex and Lucas are now living in Los Angeles after years in NYC. Lucas is an administrator at Loyola Marymount University, and Alex works in digital marketing. From left: Kyle Skubas, Pippa Fordwood Rorem ’03, Sarah Laub Skubas ’04, Alex and Lucas, Erin Boni ‘04, Aimee Rawlins ’04, Sarah Russell ’04, and Chelsea Waliser ’04.

50 arches autumn 2016 Send Scrapbook photos to [email protected] p Erin Culbertson ’05 and Patrick Conrick were married on Feb. 13 in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. Classmate and current assistant professor in the Theatre Arts Department at UPS Jess K Smith ’05 served as the p Laura Kukulan ’05 and Zach Baker were married on June 18 in wedding officiant. Lots of Loggers came out for their happy day. From left: Healdsburg, Calif. Pictured, from left: Cara Christensen Mazer ’06, the Melanie Reed ’96, Kiyo Peterman Patrick ’05, Lisa Confehr ’03, Courtney groom and bride, Kendra Gurnett Anderson ’05, Lindsay May McQuiston Stringer (former Puget Sound development officer), the bride and groom ’05, and Travis Anderson ’04. Laura and Zach live in San Francisco, where (he’s a Husky, but we’ll forgive him that), Ben Shelton ’03, Jess, Brigetta Laura is an HR business partner at ClearCompany, and Zach is a user experi- Schmuck Shelton ’04, Susan Graf Perleros ’03, and Rebecca Harrison ’01, ence (UX) architect at Macys.com. current director of Donor Relations at UPS. Erin is director of development at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent school for grades 6–12, and Patrick is the tissue processing manager at SightLife, a human eye bank focused on eliminating corneal blindness worldwide. The couple live in Seattle.

p Ashley Mills ’05 married Jason Goldberg (Northwestern alumnus) in Washington, D.C., on April 30. Ashley and Jason live in D.C., where Ash- ley is a gender specialist for the Peace Corps, and Jason is a medical resident at Georgetown Univer- sity specializing in ophthalmology. p Megan Ahiers ’06 and Shawn Belyea were married on May 7 in Seattle. Loggers at the wedding included, from left: Jerin Falkner Howard ’05, Susan Graf Perleros ’03, Nik Perleros ’04, Jodi Paul Wooster ‘91, the bride, “dude of honor” Sam Ziff ’05, Kaeline Kine ’12, Danielle Cote-Schiff Kolp ’05 with son Nathaniel, and Ryan Kolp ‘05. Alumni there for the wedding, though not pictured: Mary Hunn Edry ’05, Phil Edry ’04, Meredith Ott ’06, and Marty Mukhalian ’80. Megan and Shawn run a nonprofit theater group called The 14/48 Projects in Seattle (the1448projects.org).

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u LesliAnn Kikuchi ’07, D.P.T.’10 and Kevin Fong were married on Aug. 13 at the Ko`olau Golf Club, with a reception following in the Grand Ballroom. Some of her Punahou School and classmates Puget Sound classmates, from left: Kris Sumida ’11; Courtney Kim Hirayasu ’06; Mieko Matsumoto Takara ’07; Krischel Pen ’07; Stephanie Wong ’06, D.P.T.’10; Amanda Zen ’05; Melissa Ng ’09; Ashley Asao Nakatsuka ’06, M.S.O.T.’07; Emily Lau ’07; Melissa Char Hayashi ’08; Brandon Morita ’06; Bryce Sumida ’06, D.P.T.’10; Leigh Sumida Nohara ’10; Jarvis Nohara ’10; Ian Wong ’06; Marcus Asahina ’07; and Lars Mitsuda ’06. Front and center: the beautiful bride and Tricia Usagawa Mabellos ’06. Present though not pictured: Matthew Kwock ’09.

p Ben Johnson ’06 was a speaker on campus Sept. 15 as part of the weekly Thomson Hall Science and Mathematics Seminars. His talk, “Nitrogen Cycle History in the Earth System: From Planet Birth to Snowball Earth,” was about where nitrogen came from when our planet formed and how organisms used it during the pe- riod when the Earth was entirely frozen, or nearly so. Ben is a Ph.D. candidate at the p Dirk Karn ’08 and Devin Bemman (University of Idaho ’10) were University of Victoria (B.C.) School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and will complete married on July 29 at the historic Crow Creek Mine in Girdwood, his doctoral degree in December or so. He works on Earth system sciences and Alaska. Several Logger friends made the trek north to celebrate. From is interested in how planets evolve and how geology, biology, and chemical cycles left: Nick Amland ’08, Alisha Edmundson Amland ’09, Andy Lum interact through time. After earning his undergrad degree at Puget Sound, Ben got ’08, Devin, Joe Engler ’08, Dirk, Will Holden ’08, Erin Karn Webb a master’s in geology at The University of Utah in 2009. He then lived in Seattle for ’06, and Emily Engvall Holden ’08. Dirk earned his CPA license and a few years before moving to Victoria in 2012. Non-science interests for Ben include works in his family’s business, Karn and Associates PC; and Devin sailing, playing music, and getting out and about on Vancouver Island. works for KeyBank. The newlyweds make their home in Anchorage.

52 arches autumn 2016 Send Scrapbook photos to [email protected] p Lindsay Akoni ’10, M.A.T.’11 and Jackson Guzzo were married in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawai`i on July 16. The wedding took place at Hulihe`e Palace, which was built in the 1800s and was once used as a summer home by the Hawaiian monarchy. Although it was technically a “destination wedding,” more than 160 guests attend the nuptials, including 21 Loggers! From left: Tracy Waseen M.A.T.’11, Ben Schau ’09, Selma Kettwich ’09, Corinn Perry ’11, Jessica Cafferty ’11, Lizzie Raudenbush ’08, Leah Kennebeck ’13, Laura Calcagni ’10, Chloe Tollefson ’13, the groom and bride, Bijou Felder ’11, Mark Rosasco ’08, Rachel Dawes ’10, Leah Marsters ’11, Grace Oppenheimer ’10, Shawna McElroy Potter ’10, Jenny Anderson ’10, Graehme Morphy ’10, Daniel Lee ’10, Cory Dunn ’10, Taylor Brown M.Ed.’16, and Derek Woodworth ’10. This fall Lindsay started her fifth year as a third grade teacher in the Clover Park School District in Tacoma. Jackson works in the same school district. They live in University Place, Wash.

t Robert Hildebrand ’08 and Jocelyn Price (Scripps College ’11) celebrated their marriage with their friends and family on June 18 at the Forest House Lodge in Foresthill, Calif. The two met in Davis, Calif., while Rob was pursuing his Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Davis. After graduation the couple moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where Rob continued his postdoctorate work at ETH University. In 2015 Rob received the prestigious IBM Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship to advance his research in mathematical science. The happy couple live in New York, where Rob is employed at the IBM Watson Research Center. Logger (and UPS- related) family and friends in attendance, from left: aunt of the groom Sue Hildebrand Pickrell ’78; Adam Moulton ’09; Kirsten Wright ’08; father of the groom Dave Hildebrand ’75, P’08; the groom and bride; brother of the groom Bryan Hildebrand (WWU ’05, UM M.B.A.’09); mother of the groom Terri Rutherford Hildebrand ’76, P’08; aunt of the groom Carol Rutherford Smith ’74; uncle of the groom Barry Smith, former assistant to the Puget Sound president in the Office of Planned Giving; Meredith Reinecke Frost ’08; and Peter Frost ’09. Rob is the grandson of Phyllis Rutherford, who was the secretary and office manager for the science de- partments in Thompson Hall for 10 years back in the ‘70s. Phyllis was 95 when she passed away in April 2016 (Arches summer 2016).

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p Miles Murphy ’10 and Melissa Maier ’10 were married in Walla Walla, Wash., on June 4. A slew of Loggers came out to celebrate their big day! Far back, from left: Bryce Levin ’10; Brian Eggers ’09; Katie Stock Eggers ’10; David Mensonides ’08; Kalli Kamphaus Mensonides ’10; Darrell Stewart ’09; Lindsey Denman ’10; Shawna McElroy Potter ’10; Graehme Morphy ’10; Kevin Wright ’10; Duncan White ’11, M.A.T.’14; Tyler Vlasak ’11; Craig Driver ’11; David Skolnik ’11, D.P.T.’15; Spencer Crace ’10; Wade Essick ’12; Chaz Kramer ’11; Chris Dugovich ’11; Kaysha Bowton ’10; Vince Ghiringhelli ’10; Blair Udwin ’08; Matt Manzella ’10; Eric Borton ’09; Kayla Matsunaga ’11, D.P.T.’14; Brie Davis ’10; Jessica Scarsella ’10; Derek Woodworth ’10; A.J. Middleton ’08; Andrew Kloppel ’11 with daughter Norah; Conner Gehring ’10; Cory Dunn ’10; good friend and photobomber Cade; Jesse Young ’10; Kayla Boortz Young ’11; Chelsea Corser-Jensen ’11; Katelyn Stinde Manzella ’10; Hannah Horsfall ’10; Chris Subia ’11; Daniel Lee ’10; the bride and groom; Andrew Kitchel ’10; and Michael Pannier ’10. Miles and Melissa live in Shoreline, Wash.

p Hannah Perlmutter ’08 married Cole Fisher on July 23 in Santa Rosa, Calif. Alumni in attendance, from left: Aika Andercek ’08 (formerly Aika Krecek), Sarah Kingston ’08, Hannah, Lizzie Raudenbush ’08, and Spencer Naar ’08. Hannah and Cole live in Campbell, Calif. Hannah works as p Chelsea Asher ’11 married Daniel Hansen on June 4 in Reno, Nev. Puget Sound friends in a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at the Palo attendance, from left: Jason Hagerup ‘11, D.P.T.’14; Averyl Lundquist ‘11, M.A.T.’12; Betsy Alto Medical Foundation in Santa Cruz, and Cole is a service Bayliss ‘11; Tasha Adams ‘10; Chelsea, Julia Kruper ‘11; Jay Nuske ‘11; and Zoe MacLeod operations program manager at Tesla Motors in Palo Alto. ‘11. The couple currently live in Las Vegas.

54 arches autumn 2016 Send Scrapbook photos to [email protected] t Logger alumni friends converged in Seattle from as far away as Alaska and Ethiopia for a reunion on May 14. Because they’re huge Ron Thom fans, they pulled out a copy of the spring 2016 Arches, the Thomas farewell edition, to include him in their gathering. Back, from left: Dmitri Brown ‘12, Garner Andrews ‘12, Fallon Boyle ‘12, Nora Wahlund ‘12, Caitlin Van Patten ‘11, Erin Van Patten ‘12, Luke Jesperson ‘12, James Ray ‘12, Justin Roberts ‘12, Casey Wall ‘12, and Susanne Congress ‘12. Front, from left: Stella Mosher ‘12, Becky Ferrell ’13, Abbey Yaron ‘13, Ellen Want ‘13, Polly Membrino ‘12, Sophie Sessions ‘12, and Andy Lasnik ‘12. James Ray wins farthest traveled, having come from Ethiopia (!) after finishing his first year in the Peace Corps. The 2012 alums say they can’t wait for their five- year reunion next summer!

p Kristan Shuford ’14 and Paul Makl ’14 were married on July 30 at historic Log Haven restaurant in Salt Lake City. A load of Logger friends was in attendance. From left: Heidi Parker, Abby Osborne ’15, Sarah Wallis ’15, Casey Anderson ’14, Jaki Nestor ’14, Sofie Arroyo Reilly ’14, Megan Konrad ’14, Alana Roth ’14, Emily Menk ’14, the bride and groom, Nate Forman ’14, Jacob Fuhrman ’13, Mark Frankle ’14, Jake Howser, Jesse Taylor-Vermont ’14, Tessa Brott ’15, and Jordan Cox ’14. The UPSers had a great time catching up before the newlyweds headed off to the Olympic Peninsula (after a quick stop in Tacoma, of course!) for their honeymoon. Paul currently is a software engineer at Sample- minded, and Kristan is in the process of starting a handcrafted wedding- and event-decor business. The couple make their home in Salt Lake City with their Pembroke Welsh corgi, Sookie.

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Chuck Luce, Editor Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17, Associate Editor, Classmates Julie Reynolds, Designer Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless credited otherwise Maya Makino ’19, Intern

classmates Alumni Council Executive Committee Leslie Skinner Brown ’92, President; David Watson ’92, Past President; Andrea Tull ’02, Vice President; Darrell Frost ’04, Vice President for Communications; Eric Herzog ’94, Secretary; Isabelle Dupont ’10, Admission Chair; Allison McCurdy Kalalau ’03, M.A.T.’04, Affinity Groups Chair; Heidi Winkenwerder Schooley ’97, Alumni Fund Chair; John Hines ’05, M.A.T.’06, Athletics Chair; Ted Meriam ‘05, Class Programs Chair; Joe Kurtis ’87, P’17, Career and Employment Services Chair; Deb Bachman Crawford ‘80, Regional Clubs Chair; Ken McGill ’61, Student Life Chair; Alana Levine-Gorelick ‘17, Student Alumni Association President

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