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FEATURES 14 TRAIL GRACE by Kirsten Rudestam The winner of the 2005 Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest student category finds unexpected gifts along the Pacific Crest Trail. 17 WASTE NOT by Rosemary Camozzi Businesses need to start thinking about what happens to products when consumers are done with them — and the UO wants to help. 22 SATURDAY SPECTACLE Photography by John Bauguess On six Saturdays every fall, Autzen Stadium’s parking lot is home to a green and gold festival. 28 GIANTS by Kingsley Weatherhead Faulkner, Lowell, Huxley, and Auden all made stops at the UO in the mid-twentieth century.

DEPARTMENTS 4 Letters 6 Currents The Wages of Peace by Meg Krugel Angels in the Architecture by Patricia Wheeler Seeking Transcendence in the New Old World by George J. Sheridan, Jr. Crime Scene by Laurie Lynn Drummond 33 University Rome Digitized / MarAbel Frohnmayer Honored / PROFile: Linda Kintz / Portland Journalism Program / Outdoor Pursuits 39 Old Oregon Spokane Journalism Innovators / Pioneer Cemetery / Robert Clark Brian Truong of Beaverton is a math and science whiz. He knew his multiplication tables at five. Finished all his calculus courses as 1910–2005 / UOAA Events / Class Notes / Profiles: Tom Levak ’61, a sophomore in high school. Was even a member of the state champion Brain Bowl Team in 2003. Then he applied to fourteen Collins Hemingway ’79 universities—got accepted to twelve, including UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of Michigan—and picked Oregon, thanks to the 52 Oregon Trails power of a Presidential Scholarship. The obvious lesson: Do the math. Financial aid keeps Oregon’s best students at home. That’s why we’re Worming for Walleye by Nancy Wilbur Woods ’72 MA ’86 committed to transforming lives by raising millions in private support for student scholarships to keep Oregon strong.

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RE OETRY passed even your usual standards. One of veying the route ahead, but rather more P P them was “The Undiminishing Uncer- on looking down the long road back Editor’s note: We received two poems in tainty of the West” [Currents]. This piece as far as memory will reach. Too many response to "Where Glory Stays” (Summer includes an extraordinary passage about stone-like heaps of near misses, strike 2005). We don't have space to print both the imperfections of human knowledge. outs, and outright errors I have made Your citation, in the material at the — our apologies to Bill Enyart of Bend obscure the view and any likelihood of top of the article, does not make clear — but we have a portion of one below. making sense of it. Thus it appears to me whether “Uncertainty and Other Sure that life is an absurdity. Bayles’ effort to Bets” is a chapter in the book Notes on a Haven’t read the article yet. The picture make sense of the West and our place Shared Landscape or if it is a free-standing was enough to inspire this poem. Pre had in it strikes me in this vein. I enjoyed publication that is merely hard to find. greatness written all over him and we the sample of his writing and wish him I’d like to know, because I’d like to buy miss him still. Saw him that night and well. whatever the source of that passage is. then heard the news the next morning Calvin Boyd ’48 Don Killian Ph.D. ’71 Portland on TV. Williamsburg, Virginia The Last 10,000 Meter Run GONZO Editor’s note: The book is Notes on a . . . The chance to perform Shared Landscape by David Bayles. The I enjoyed Arik Hesseldahl’s piece on For all of us excerpt in Currents is one of its chapters, Hunter S. Thompson [“Going, Going, In full deer-like grace “Uncertainty and Other Sure Bets.” Gonzo,” Summer 2005]. Like the author, And be the best I attended Dr. Gonzo’s 1991 lecture at That God and man I applaud David Bayles for the intrigu- the Eugene Hilton. I had also seen him at Could be ing essay in the Summer 2005 Oregon McArthur Court in 1984 and the EMU Quarterly [“The Undiminishing Uncer- Ballroom in 1977. In 1984, I took several When the two tainty of the West,” Currents]. I share rolls of photographs, and I had a num- Were blended his obsession with the West and our ber of them framed. In 1991, knowing Into one place in it. Having been born and raised Gonzo’s penchant for tardiness, a friend On a circular in Bend, I have been disappointed with and I attended a Duck basketball game the change in the place I knew in the Track that eventually prior to heading to the Hilton. With one 1930s to what it is now. This change was Has an end, of my framed photos in tow, I was hop- probably inevitable but, nonetheless, it’s ing for an autograph. After the session depressing. 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THE WAGES OF PEACE

For the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), nonviolence is the strategy for winning hearts and minds in Iraq. UO journalism major Meg Krugel profiles CPT member Matt Chandler and his work to investigate the experiences of the Iraqi people in an article, excerpted here, titled “Waging Peace.” The story appears in the 2005 issue of Flux, the UO School of Journalism and Communication’s award-winning student-produced magazine.

BLACKENING SKY BEGAN TO FALL with caution until he saw a friend inside. Iraqi victims and their families, Chan- on the war-torn country of Iraq, The Iraqi video shop owner embraced dler had spent the day finalizing reports A signaling the end of another day his American friend with one arm. His detailing the abuse of Iraqi detainees. of conflict. For thousands of Iraqi and right arm, which was injured by gunfire According to these documents, military American families, the closing of the near his home in Sadr City, was bound in actions designed to ensure the short-term day brought another sleepless night with- a makeshift sling. It had been an impor- security of the American guard, such as out a loved one and another morning tant day for the twenty-three-year-old strict control of detention camps like of uncertainty, danger, and heartache. American, Matt Chandler, and the two the Abu Ghraib prison, actually com- Beneath the night sky, a man in a red men had much to discuss. promised the long-term security interests baseball cap walked along the wounded That was Thursday, September 30, of Iraqis. The reports of extended abuse street. He approached the video store 2004. After hundreds of interviews with and the work of Chandler’s human rights

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OQ3 currents AU05.indd 6 8/16/05 4:31:19 PM advocacy would soon spread to media NGELS IN THE not often provoke religious awe in me, outlets around the world. It would ignite A like places in nature created by God, and the emotions of both pro- and anti- ARCHITECTURE yet this was nothing short of miraculous. war proponents. The September Report I found the Pantheon sublime because, on Detainees, published in 2004, would The world is the classroom for UO despite its urban setting and man’s desire to become one of the milestone achieve- English professor John T. Gage and change and modernize, it remains, watch- ments for Chandler and his ongoing work the students who took his travel ing patiently, omnipotently, and the city with Christian Peacemaker Teams. writing course in Siena, Italy. Gage evolves around it. Four months after his college gradu- edited the results of his students’ If a mountain range or desert is con- ation, Chandler made his first trip to reflections on their studies abroad sidered sublime because it is unchange- Iraq as a full-time member of CPT’s Iraq into Free Time and Independent able by man and will last as long as time Project team. Inspired by the idea that Lunch: Travel Writing from Siena itself, places like the Pantheon, which peacemakers must be willing, just as (Wine No War Press, 2005). Patricia are vulnerable but have lasted anyway, soldiers, to die for their cause, Chandler Wheeler, a UO business major from must also possess something sublime. It has completed four round trips to Iraq Roseburg, experiences the transcen- seems ironic that something created by since September 2003 as a volunteer with dent beauty of the Pantheon in “A man, constructed to honor the gods, can the nonprofit human rights organization. Sublime Discovery,” reprinted here. become sublime in its own right. Perhaps The group strives to serve as a watch- this is possible because there is something dog of military actions in conflict zones EFORE TRAVELING TO ITALY, I CON- sublime in the nature of mankind itself. throughout the world. CPT workers hold sidered myself well-versed in peace activist training groups for Iraqis B the sublime and the beautiful in EEKING and conduct face-to-face interviews with nature. Growing up in the Pacific North- S detainees to understand their perspective. west, I had camped on the majestic, TRANSCENDENCE On May 11, 2005, Chandler returned to rocky Oregon coast and swam in tran- IN THE EW his Springfield, Oregon, home following quil California surf. N his fourth, but not final, peacekeeping I had backpacked OLD WORLD mission. into the deserts The walls and ceiling of Chandler’s of Colorado and Fifty years of dramatic changes have street-side apartment were cracking. Utah, and rafted transformed Europe — postwar The effects of the war had shaken this down river canyons rubble, Cold War brinksmanship, the building too many times to count. But and ravines that Euro, the European Union. What’s Chandler called this rundown apartment cut through them. next? UO Associate Professor of home. On September 23, 2004, he stood I had not, however, History George J. Sheridan Jr. casts in front of the apartment’s window over- experienced (or light on the future by examining the looking a row of businesses. At 10:30 even heard of) the past in this excerpt from his article P.M., there was little to observe on this possibility of the “A Story of Europe” from the book darkened street. sublime casually set in the middle of one Engaging Europe: Rethinking a But, suddenly, gunfire ripped through of the world’s most urban cities. Changing Continent (Rowman & the still air. The loud and rapid shooting I happened upon the Pantheon acci- Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005), lasted for three long minutes. Pressing dentally, while taking a stroll with a which he co-edited with UO French his hands to the glass, Chandler watched friend during my first evening in Rome. professor Evlyn Gould. civilians flee as several armed men barged We were heading to a gelateria when we out of a building directly across the rounded a corner and there it was, like it NOTHER ASPECT OF THE ALTERED street from where he stood. Impulsively, had been waiting for me. I was immedi- place of ethics in Europe since Chris- Chandler thought to race out and help ately and unexpectedly overtaken by the A tendom, to which it is less fashion- a wounded man lying face down on the force of the monument. I was suspended able to refer in today’s scholarly discourse, ground. Before he turned, the armed men in time as its powerful gaze rooted me to is the newly hegemonic understanding carried the wounded man to a nearby van the cobblestones on which I was stand- of ethical purpose itself that emerged as and drove away. Then, as it was before, ing. It had a presence, as old as the city a defining feature of modernity. Human- the air became still, marred only by the itself. As I stared at the columns and ism, (modern) science, pragmatism, and memory of this short, violent episode. shadowed dome, I couldn’t blink, sure democracy all contributed to a radical The next day, Chandler’s landlord that if I did I might miss them take a reorientation of ethical vision. This might arrived and explained that the previous breath. The Pantheon, bathed in the be described as a rejection of an ethics night’s shooting was unrelated to insur- evening light of lampposts, stood quietly situated integrally in heaven and earth, gent activity; it was only street crime. He but nobly, maintaining a life-like vigil in favor of an ethics embedded in earthly urged Chandler and his five CPT cowork- amidst unremarkable streets and tourists existence and reference alone. The high ers not to worry — the apartment’s secu- hurrying against the cold, some too busy point of these developments was the rity guard had plenty of “machine guns to look up. European Enlightenment, a time, perhaps to keep us safe.” Somehow, Chandler and In the piazza that houses Il Panteon, the last time, when all three elements the team found little solace in the idea of I discovered a different type of sublimity. of Europe’s self-understanding — order, more firearms at the ready. The thing itself, created by man, does expansion, and ethics — came together

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heritage had been Collection Murray of Warner Oriental Art, MWB51:B13. forged into that of The UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is presenting a traveling exhibit, “Inside the Floating liberal values and World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection,” which features 100 eighteenth liberal polity, car- and nineteenth century woodblock prints. Works from the museum’s permanent collection will ried forward with utter self-confidence also be on display in “Ukiyo-e Outside In: Western Impressions of the Floating World,” a beyond the shores of Europe as “civi- show featuring works created by Western artists influenced by Japanese art and culture. Both lization.” Always global by virtue of shows will be on display from October 8 to January 8, 2006. Above, a 1916 woodblock print, its cosmopolitanism and universalist Miono-Matsubara, (10 x 14-3/4 inches) by British artist Charles Bartlett (1861–1940). assumptions about nature — physical and human — the Enlightenment ethos became actively expansionist in the vari- �� ous explorations, adventures, enterprises, �� and — in curious liaison with what remained of the ethic of Christendom �� — missions of nineteenth-century impe- �� rialism. But forgetting heaven, or abandoning transcendence, did not remove from the ethical urgings of Europeans the quest for other-worldly purpose. Rather this ��

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otherwise noble efforts to recall the Thus Europe’s story ends, today, with fear, our inner confusion and outer chaos, long-standing ideal of peace; to reacti- a hunger. That hunger, textually at least, our groping for answers, for understanding, vate the traditional Enlightenment and is biblical in origin, even though Europe, for targets of action. And as for peace — the humanist commitments to “democracy, because of modernity, no longer perceives ethical leitmotif of the idea of Europe since human rights, self-determination”; or itself as a biblical body. Will that hunger its inception — we seek, we have not yet to celebrate Europe’s “diversities” and be satisfied? This is perhaps the greatest found, we hope. pluralities. Something more is needed, question for the future of Europe. even more than the recent affirmations of responsibility and global awareness September 11, 2001, and Aftermath CRIME SCENE in protecting the physical human “com- The hunger is now there for all the mons,” the environment. world. We are community in our agony, our From the story “Something About a Scar,” which won a 2005 EDGAR award for best short story from the Mystery Writers of America. The author, Laurie Lynn Drummond, is the fiction director of the UO’s �� Creative Writing Program, where she teaches undergraduate and gradu- �� ate workshops. The story appears �� in her book Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You (HarperCollins, 2005).

HE FIRST TIME I SAW MARJORIE LA Salle she was kneeling on her bed Tnaked, hands gripping the sheets to help support her weight, a nine-inch steak knife embedded deep just above the spot where the flesh parts to rise and become breast; the place where a child or lover would rest his head in grief, in need, in utter devotion; that place the tips of fingers caress and feel both implacable bone and sweet, full softness — a place of promise, of absolution, the center of ourselves. Her house was impossibly full of men, overly loud voices, and too much artificial light for 2:52 in the morning. All those police officers — five out in the yard, three in the living room, two talking in the hall- way, one taking pictures of the nightstand, another speaking into a portable radio by the walk-in closet — and not one touched �� her or sat by her or held a sheet to cover her. Only two paramedics hovered nearby, talking briskly and efficiently as they set �� up an IV and discussed how best to move her to the gurney. They eased her onto her �� back as I finally stepped into her bedroom, handling her body, it seemed to me, as �� though it were separate from her soul. There wasn’t much blood, and this �� small detail bothers me even today: a smear on the portable phone, the sheets wet with red in places, but not drenched. When the phone rang, wrenching me �� out of sleep, and the flat male voice �� said, “We got a VS request on a stab- bing and sexual assault in Southdowns,”

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OQ3 currents AU05.indd 10 8/16/05 4:31:29 PM I’d expected to walk into a small pond of WORLD WIDE WEBFEET blood. Half awake, I’d stumbled over Approximately 1,200 international students and more than 200 international scholars are my still slumbering currently studying, researching, teaching, and participating in cultural cross-pollination at the dog and put on old University of Oregon. The University’s international alumni number over 12,000 worldwide. stone-washed jeans The Office of International Programs also helps UO students go abroad by managing and a black polo 110 overseas study and internship programs in more than seventy countries. shirt with my name, CATHY, and VIC- UO International Student Enrollment By Region, 2004 TIM SERVICES embroidered on the front, clothing that da (88) ana could handle cold-water soaking and C heavy detergent. ia (740) t As as ) On the short drive into Southdowns, E Europe (133 I rehearsed the Victim Services’ list of

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A lost boot, a pot roast, and some lessons in kindness

I ate meat for the first time in eight years at the forest ranger’s house outside of Detroit, Oregon. My sister Monica and I sat at the broad wooden table, which was laden with her family’s traditional Sunday meal: pot roast, cooked carrots, Jello salad, biscuits, and Crystal Lite. I don’t know what was reflected on our faces — gratitude, dismay, or perhaps a mixture of both. We were lucky to be there. And the family’s easy generosity was something we would never have anticipated.

HAT MORNING MONICA AND I HAD WOKEN up to the chatter of mountain chickadees in Oregon’s Mount Jefferson Wilderness. We had been backpack- ing for a month along the Pacific Crest Trail, after strapping on our packs and waving our parents goodbye a little south of Mount Whitney in California. TThe dust that swirled beneath our boots at the start became mud a day later, and for the next two weeks we hiked through heavy downpours, fierce lightning, and hail. But by the time we reached Oregon, the storms had passed and the sun, so often taken for granted, was

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something we turned our faces toward eagerly and with I laced my boots around my neck, grabbed a couple gratitude. of stiff pieces of downed wood and carefully picked my The Pacific Crest Trail had been beckoning us for way across the creek. The current was strong, but not years. From Campo, Mexico, to Manning Park in too high. It reached my knees at its deepest, and by the Canada, the trail snakes its way through deserts and time I was midway across my feet were so numb that I Trail mountain ranges, past alpine lakes and snowcapped was forced to go even more slowly. I clambered over the volcanoes. The idea was first proposed by Catherine opposite bank with relief and smiled over to Monica on Montgomery in 1926 during an interview for a teach- the other side. ing position at Washington State Normal School at Monica did not sling her shoes around her neck or Bellingham (now Western Washington University). stick them in her pack. Instead, in a moment of tem- Her interviewer, Joseph Hazard, took her suggestion porary insanity, she decided to chuck them at me from Grace seriously and that very night he conveyed it to the across the creek. The first one made it over just fine, BY KIRSTEN RUDESTAM Mount Baker Club, which became the first of a slew of but the second bounced off a rock and ricocheted back mountain clubs and outdoor into the fast water. Both of us organizations that set about paused for a moment, horrified. A lost boot, a pot roast, promoting the idea of a long She flew across the creek and trail. we clawed frantically through and some lessons When Fred Cleator became the rapids, trying to find the in kindness the U.S. Forest Service super- boot, but we soon realized that visor of recreation for Oregon it had taken a one-way trip and Washington in 1928, down the gorge. he developed the Cascade We stared at each other Crest Trail, which carved a miserably. I didn’t need to route through Washington berate her; she was apologetic Jan Rudestam state. He later extended the Sisters Kirsten and Monica Rudestam. enough. “That was so stupid,” Oregon Skyline Trail so that she moaned. Neither of us had it stretched the length of Oregon and linked with the another pair of shoes. We were miles away from any Cascade Crest Trail at the Columbia Gorge. California road, and that road was probably miles away from any didn’t establish a formal, designated trail until the town or community. 1960s, but when Monica and I strode into the Oregon Luckily, we didn’t have to sit in paralyzed regret sunshine, we were walking a path that had been imag- for long. Ambling down the trail was James, another ined by another young woman almost eighty years through-hiker we’d seen intermittently after we had earlier. crossed the Oregon border. James was the most orga- It wasn’t just the weather that changed when we nized hiker I ever met. He studied all the maps and reached Oregon. Suddenly, the mountains were strik- bought the lightest pack and the most insulating, ingly different. Instead of the long, rippled spine of waterproof, and breathable clothing. His watch could the Sierra Nevada mountain range, lone, snow-capped not only tell the time, but reported the elevation, volcanoes seemed to sprout out of the ground like magic temperature, and his heart rate. Packed with his food beanstalks. They were enormous! The Three Sisters, was a neatly typed chart that displayed the number of Mount Jefferson, Mount Adams, Mount Hood — we calories he anticipated burning for every section of the spent days moving past each mountain, and then it was trail. It was with both relief and shame that we saw him replaced by a giant newcomer. approach the other side of the creek. The morning of the day we feasted with the forest “How was the crossing?” he shouted. ranger we had woken beneath the shadow of Mount “Fine!” I yelled back. Monica and I looked at each Jefferson and eaten our oatmeal as the sun dried our other. I snorted. She chuckled. In the meantime, James sleeping bags. We didn’t reach Russell Creek until the took off his boots and changed into Aqua Socks, thin afternoon, after hiking through thick Douglas fir forest, rubber booties. After he crossed and heard our sad story, peppered with chokecherry and huckleberry bushes. he offered Monica his Aqua Socks. His feet are a men’s The creek was wide and swollen, and tumbled into a size ten. Her feet are a women’s size six. She was in no steep gorge. Still, the crossing looked manageable, and position to be picky. we took off our boots to wade across. “Thank you, James. You have no idea how much this

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helps! What would we do without you?” His bemused expres- sion said it all. It would have been a painful hike. HAT WAS HOW WE ENDED UP AT RUTH’S HOUSE FOR We didn’t expect to see James again until that night, but as Sunday dinner. It was not an elaborate production. we neared Jefferson Park we began to smell smoke, and shortly There were six of us including Ruth’s parents and thereafter we ran into him and a young woman ranger on the her diabetic son, who was not allowed to have the trail. Monica glanced self-consciously at her feet. After giving JelloT salad. Monica a quizzical look, the ranger informed us that the trail After hearing that we had been hiking for more than a was closed due to a fire, and hikers were being asked to take a month, Ruth, with a firm kindness, had insisted that we share side trail out of the forest. her family’s ritual. Monica and I were stunned, and interrupted “What a day!” I exclaimed, and we told her about our each other with clumsy thank-yous. But Ruth briskly brushed recent escapade. She laughed, and then radioed the ranger off our exclamations of gratitude. When we met her parents, station in Detroit, reporting that three hikers would be arriv- they too insisted that this gift was nothing special. They gave ing at the trailhead in a few hours, one wearing oversized because they were in a place to do so, just as we were expected rubber booties. to receive because we were in a place to do so. “Great,” Monica groaned, “I’m famous.” Growing up with carrot cashew curry and lentil soup, Monica It was an eight-mile hike out, and we were in surprisingly and I had never eaten food like that before, nor had we bowed giddy spirits. As we left the smoke, the sky bloomed deeply our heads in a solemn Catholic prayer. And yet, that meal was blue, and the breeze smelled like spring, sweet and clean. one of the most nourishing I had ever had. Ruth’s parents talked Monica and I shared stories and laughed most of the way. We amiably about the weather and their neighbors. Monica and I are twins and had planned the trip to celebrate our college told stories of other mishaps and surprises along the trail. After graduations from schools 3,000 miles apart. As we followed I allowed myself to relax and receive their generosity, I realized Russell Creek alongside the trail out of Jefferson Park (every that this exchange was part of being human. There is nothing so often checking the water for a floating shoe), our present to do but give and receive, whatever is natural in the moment, circumstances felt comical rather than unfortunate. We were whether it is Aqua Socks or pot roast or simple kindness. lucky to be together, marching along one more timeless, roof- We had been surprised by gestures of generosity before the day less day, away from Mount Jefferson, whose flank was being we crossed Russell Creek. A fellow hiker replenished our empty scorched by fire. fuel bottle, and a group of school kids gave us a bag of grapes and Another ranger picked the three of us up at the trailhead in some brownies. But it wasn’t until meeting Ruth that I learned a Forest Service truck. As we drove through the outskirts of how to receive with grace. Ruth and her family made it clear town, I realized with dread that finding a pair of replacement that they expected nothing from us, that treating us to dinner shoes might be impossible. Detroit looked to consist of not that evening was as natural as breathing or as talking about the much more than a gas station, liquor store, church, and post early frost and its impact on their vegetable garden. office. The tiny ranger station was one of the most prominent Two weeks later we arrived at the Columbia Gorge outside public buildings around. of Portland. A friend, anticipating our arrival at the Lost Creek James had called his wife from the trail on his satellite phone, trailhead, drove to meet us with ice cream sandwiches. Somehow and when we stumbled stiffly out of the truck at the station we missed each other, and when we reunited later he told us, she was waiting for him with a Diet Pepsi and a package of Fig “The ice cream was melting, and then I ran into another couple Newtons. We returned his Aqua Socks and waved wistfully as of through-hikers, so I gave them the sandwiches instead. They the two of them sped off to dinner. Now that Monica was again were so excited! They hadn’t seen ice cream in weeks.” barefoot, we were sobered by a sudden sense of helplessness. Monica and I laughed with delight. In his story I glimpsed Ruth was the ranger at Detroit Station. A middle-aged again our part in the elaborate and immense play of giving and woman of considerable size, she had warm young eyes and a receiving that surges between us all. Though many of my memo- beautiful thick braid of long brown hair. She identified us right ries from hiking that summer have become blurred — the miles away. of humble and spectacular trail blending into one another — I “You’re the one who threw your shoe down Russell Creek!” remember with clarity those bright, sunny days in Oregon. They she chuckled. “But let’s see here . . . what size do you wear? warmed me completely. Stacy, who works here, has a pair of workout shoes she keeps for jogging.” She fished them out from behind the counter. A 2001 graduate of Brown University, Kirsten Rudestam just Amazingly, they were a perfect fit. completed her first year in the University of Oregon’s environmental “One problem solved. So, what are your plans now that the studies master’s program, where her research focuses on the relation- trail is closed?” She folded her hands, expectant. I could tell ships between humans and the environment, perceptions of place, that problems were a specialty for this woman. and environmental risk. This essay won first place in the student “Well, we were hoping to find somewhere to pitch our tent, category of the 2005 Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives and find a ride back to the trail farther north tomorrow morning.” Essay Contest.

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 16 8/16/05 4:33:41 PM Inset photo © Basel Action Network WasteNot The UO looks to take the lead in scrapping the throw-away society. By Rosemary Camozzi

uppose, just for a minute, that you governments and squarely onto the shoulders of manufac- own a company that produces millions of com- turers. puters — or cell phones or TVs. They’re full of In the European Union, laws passed in 2003 and cur- hazardousS and ever-more-scarce materials, but they work rently taking effect require electronics manufacturers to great and you have the technology to make and sell them take back their products at end-of-life and to finance the for a reasonable price. collection, treatment, recovery, and disposal of all waste. Every so often you introduce a model with new, even The new laws also mandate the phaseout of many toxic cooler technology, and a portion of your customers opts substances used in the products. to upgrade. It’s up to them to figure out what to do with In Japan, manufacturers of computers, refrigerators, the old one, and if they want to worry about the arsenic, washing machines, air conditioners, and TVs must take lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, bromi- back their products when consumers are done with them nated flame retardants, and other toxic materials it may and take responsibility for their contents. contain, that’s their problem. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that But what if, one day, your government comes to you this year alone 130 million cell phones will be discarded and says, “Guess what! We’re changing things. When by U.S. consumers, who tend to upgrade about every your customers are done with your product, they’re going eighteen months. And by the end of this year, at least to send it back to you! Now you have to figure out what 250 million personal computers — which now have an to do with it, and we expect you to follow every one average lifespan of only two years — will have become of our new regulations for disposing of hazardous sub- obsolete. stances.” Electronic waste is the fastest growing component of the waste stream, with twenty to fifty million tons gener- his scenario may sound extreme, ated every year, enough to fill a train stretching all the but it’s already happening in other parts of the way around the world. world, where new laws have shifted the respon- So what happens to it all? A small percentage is prop- sibilityT for electronic waste away from taxpayers and erly recycled. But much of the waste ends up in municipal

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 17 8/16/05 4:33:43 PM “You must think ahead in the design stage,” says Nagesh Murthy, assistant professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon’s Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. “Products must be disassemblable, recyclable. Companies will think twice about using toxics now because they will have to think about that at the end.” Reverse logistics is a fledgling idea in U.S. industry, but a few forward-looking companies are changing their practices to create a sustainable model for business. After consumers and environmental groups used protests and a letter-writing campaign to pressure Dell Computer to take responsibility for its electronic waste, the company took notice. Now Dell is considered a model for others with a program that allows its customers to send the company their old computer equipment (and they accept any brand). Dell has also committed to improving the energy efficiency of its products and to decreasing the amount of toxic materials they contain. Companies that are self-motivated to develop new technology will thrive in a world where new ideas such as reverse logistics change the way business is done, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter argues that it is not labor costs and economies of scale that determine competitiveness but rather the capacity to Taking apart a discarded video monitor in Guiyu, China innovate: to be the most forward-looking, the first to find new ways of doing things. © Basel Action Network Companies that change their practices before regula- incinerators or landfills, where it leaches lead, mercury, tions kick in will have a jump on everyone else, agrees and other toxics into drinking water supplies. (According Bob Doppelt MS ’75 and ’76, director of Resource to the EPA, computer monitors and older TV picture Innovations, which is a research collaboration between tubes each contain an average of four pounds of lead.) A the Resource Innovation Group (a nonprofit consulting huge portion — as much as 50–80 percent of American group that helps government, businesses, and communi- e-waste — is sent to developing countries such as China ties develop sustainable practices) and the UO’s Institute and India, where it either ends up in junk heaps or is for a Sustainable Environment. “We are in a carbon- haphazardly (and illegally) recycled, often by women and constrained economy,” Doppelt says, “and we’re going young children who use coal fires and dangerous acids to to have to run our economy by using and producing less melt down the computers’ innards. This method separates materials that release CO2 into the atmosphere. These out valuable metals but it also releases a smoky, toxic constraints are opening up opportunities that smart stream of pollutants. entrepreneurs are jumping on.” As manufacturers and regulatory bodies in the United There are many reasons for making a decision to run States struggle for solutions, a novel way of thinking a business more sustainably, he argues. Profitability is about the whole process is emerging. one. Murthy backs that up. The idea of sustainability “for his concept of “reverse logistics” the goodness of the heart” is nice, he says, but not suf- — manufacturers taking back a product at the ficient to create substantial change. Companies must be end of its life — is part of a new business model able to see that they will benefit financially as well. This calledT sustainable supply chain management, in which economic benefit will come both from having systems in companies take a holistic view of every part of their place to reuse materials in products that come back and operations: from design, to production, to marketing, to also from being the brand of choice for the increasing distribution, to end-of-life disposal. The closed-loop con- number of consumers who demand that companies be cept includes every part of the supply chain and means socially responsible. that companies must also require their suppliers and sub- Doppelt cites other benefits: reducing risk, lower- contractors — including those in other countries — to ing feedstock costs, and even continuing to conduct adhere to the same practices. business as regulations increase pressure to use environ-

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 18 8/16/05 4:33:44 PM mentally and socially nd that’s where the Lundquist sound practices. Also, he College of Business comes in. says, companies that are Always looking to maintain a competitive working to incorporate Aedge and differentiate itself from other schools around sustainable practices tend the country, the UO’s business school is in the early to attract the best and stages of planning for a Center for Sustainable Supply brightest of the younger Chain Management. generation as employees. The school is no stranger to innovation and forward “The era of old-style thinking, as evidenced by the James H. Warsaw Sports U.S. industrial dominance Marketing Center, the first program of its kind to be is over,” Doppelt says. endowed at a university. The Warsaw Center, which in “Other countries can 1994 brought a whole new field of study into existence, make things cheaper, but was rated by Sports Illustrated in 2002 as the best in the they can’t capture our country for sports business. David Loveall innovation or our abil- James Bean, Lundquist’s dean, sees a similarly Nagesh Murthy ity to respond. If we look dynamic future for the proposed Center for Sustainable into the future, we can see [environmental] restraints that Supply Chain Management. Oregon already has a are coming. We can see the opportunities they present, growing reputation as an economic cluster for sustain- and we can respond.” able business, he says. Organic agriculture is thriving, Green, from the bottom up

that can leach into the water table. “Man, there has to be something better than that,” Jason Graham-Nye remembers thinking. After learning about a company that makes flush- able diapers for distribution in Australia and Tasmania, the couple was so intrigued that they got a license to manufacture the diapers for distribution in other parts of the world. Then came the next decision: Where should they locate their new company? Again, the couple did their research, and they chose Portland. “It was a clear winner,” Jason Graham-Nye says. “Portland is the epicenter of eco-living in the world.” Their product, the gDiaper, consists of a fashionable cloth cover, a snap-in liner, and an inner pad made of Courtesy of gDiapers elemental-chlorine-free, farmed tree-pulp fluff, rayon, Disposable diapers — with eighteen to twenty bil- and a super-absorber that holds 100 times its weight in lion thrown away each year — are the third biggest water. The pad can be composted and will decompose contributor to landfills. A couple who moved to Portland in about 100 days. Or, it can be flushed. After process- last year has given that fact a lot of thought. ing at the local water treatment facility, the biosolids Jason and Kimberly Graham-Nye moved to Oregon that remain contribute to making soil conditioners that from Australia, where after first meeting, they went on in Oregon are used primarily in tree farms to help retain 200 dates and wrote a book: Great Dates: A Romantic’s water and reduce the leaching of nutrients. “It’s a Guide to Sydney. And then, as often happens to happy cradle-to-cradle product,” Graham-Nye says. “It starts couples, dates led to diapers. After marrying in 1998, and finishes in tree farms.” the couple became parents to a son, and their research The company plans to begin selling its diapers turned to more domestic issues, like baby waste. October 1, through the Portland-based New Seasons Children go through an average of about 5,000 Markets natural foods chain and online. “We’re like diapers before being toilet trained. Not only does the the Toyota Prius of diapers,” Graham-Nye says. “Not plastic in the diapers take up to 500 years to decom- everyone is going to get into it, but those who do will pose, but the diapers contain untreated human waste be passionate about it.” — RC

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Sorting through electronic components Smelting circuit boards over charcoal fire

© Basel Action Network © Greenpeace biodiesel production is getting underway, and the timber “Building proactive leaders who see how to make sustain- industry is increasingly dedicated to sustainable practices. ability a win-win proposition comes from molding those Many larger corporations that are either headquar- students as they enter the business world,” he says. tered or have a major presence in Oregon — Nike, Intel, Already, students who gain experience through their Hewlett-Packard, and Norm Thompson, for example — as involvement in projects in sustainable business classes well as government entities such as the city of Portland, and supply chain management classes at the business Oregon DEQ, and Multnomah County, have also dedi- school are in demand because of the expertise they have cated themselves to embracing a more sustainable model. gained, Murthy says. Numerous small companies are springing up as well [see sidebars]. “It’s beginning to happen as an ecosystem,” Bean he school is just beginning a capital says. “This is an opportunity for the University to step in campaign to raise money for several new ini- and be a convener to a more coordinated approach to sus- tiatives, including the center. Murthy uses a tainability as a real business issue. If we can get in on this footballT analogy to compare the strategy at the UO to soon, we can take the national lead.” the approach at some of the prestigious private schools or public schools with greater resources. “When we want n May, the business school held its to get something started at the UO,” Murthy says, “it’s first academic conference to discuss the idea, with not like at the big schools where they have the ability professors converging from universities around to throw one long lob and make a touchdown. Here, we IOregon to share their interests and areas of expertise. A spend in a measured way, much like moving the ball yard meeting between industry leaders and faculty is planned by yard in the trenches. But can we score a touchdown? for September to discuss what kind of support businesses I think we will. might hope to gain from the University’s research. “We’ll start off with what we do best — great research Collaboration with industry will be essential to under- and solid experiential learning for students — and we’ll standing what is needed, Murthy says. Research will create a viable niche.” begin with studies of what companies are already doing to The center’s cooperative research will unleash the become more sustainable. “We must understand the cur- creativity of business people in thinking of new ways rent situation and what drives it,” he says. The next step to design and make their products and services, says is to help companies create closed-loop supply chains. Doppelt. “There is a growing interest in sustainability “We will work on . . . solutions for how the companies in all sectors of the business community,” he says. “But might evolve if they are thinking about the end of prod- this is a huge paradigm shift. Businesses need help with uct life. research and technical assistance. “The regulations are coming, and companies that are “The center is the proactive, rather than reactive, will have a serious com- kind of thing we need petitive advantage,” he says. to take this to the next The intention is to provide research opportunities for level, and it will clearly faculty from all the Oregon universities and to offer expe- put the UO and the state riential learning — such as class projects, internships, and of Oregon in a leadership potential jobs — for UO students. role.” Concepts on sustainable supply chain management will be integrated into the curriculum in areas of man- regon is agement, marketing, and decision sciences. Students in already a the program would also have the opportunity to conduct leader when research for companies on topics such as whether their itO comes to “green” con- customers will pay more for an eco-friendly product. sumers, as evidenced by Murthy hopes that the new program will help develop things like the percentage Jack Liu future executives who know how to encourage the idea Bob Doppelt, director of of people who choose to of sustainability in all the processes of a corporation. Resource Innovations pay extra for alternative

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© Basel Action Network © Basel Action Network energy through their utilities, the number of hybrid cars most discriminating and demanding buyers and establish- on the road, and consumers’ demands to know how prod- ing norms that exceed the toughest regulatory hurdles or ucts are made and what they contain. product standards. Harvard’s Porter argues that demand conditions in And then, of course, there’s the legacy that we leave companies’ home markets push them to innovate faster for future generations. “Industrial progress happens at a and achieve more than their rivals elsewhere. “The size lightning pace,” Murthy says. “The damage is done at a of home demand proves far less significant than the char- large scale. With the environment, if you wait until you acter of home demand,” he writes. “Demand conditions are forced to make a change, you’ve already caused irre- provide advantages by forcing companies to respond to versible damage.” tough challenges.” Companies should not avoid, but rather seek out Rosemary Camozzi ’96 of Eugene is a freelance writer and an pressure and challenge, he says, including selling to the editor with Professional Trade Publications.

Shades of green As president of Hartmann & Forbes, a Portland more sustainable. “We are providing something that company that makes high-end, hand-woven window enhances the quality of life,” he says, “but do we coverings, Mike Jones MBA ’01 has run an environ- want to do it in a manner that is doing damage at the mentally responsible business from the start. same time? When you’re transporting something, Hartmann & Forbes grows rapidly renewable you are adding a negative to your whole process. crops such as bamboo, grasses, jutes, and reeds You’re burning fuel and wasting human energy even in sustainable ecosystems in Asia, and then work- if you’re only going five miles.” ers weave the plants into rolls on hand looms. The He has made a number of changes, including put- rolls are shipped to Oregon, where they are cut to ting Hartmann & Forbes’ weaving facilities as close size. The company, with about seventy employees as possible to where materials are harvested, ship- in Oregon and overseas, has exclusive distributors in ping to the United States from the nearest port even seventeen major cities across the United States and if it costs more to do so, and using as many hand Canada and sells tens of thousands of shades per tools and traditional methods of manufacturing as year. possible. This fall, when Sunset magazine collaborates With the support of the UO’s Lundquist College with California’s Sustainable Building Task Force to of Business, he is now working to create a cradle- construct the Idea House, a demonstration of the to-cradle system that will allow customers to return latest advances in sustainable design and used shades for composting or restoration. construction, Hartmann & Forbes It is not as simple as it sounds. Although he has shades will hang in the windows. found an Oregon recycling company to compost the “We are being recognized shades, getting them back from distant cities creates as a resource,” Jones says new problems. “If people send the shades back,” proudly. Jones says, “transporting them burns fossil fuels. But Jones is committed Maybe we can arrange with local recycling centers to making his company to take them. Or we could have the showrooms take ever them back. We are putting a lot of thought into it. “We don’t have all the answers,” he adds. “That’s why we’ve asked the University of Oregon to help us.” — RC Hartmann & Forbes

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1967, when Autzen Stadium opened, its 8,500 parking spaces were touted as giving it one of the “largest collegiate parking lots in the world.” At thatIn time, parking cars in orderly straight lines (think of airports and shopping malls) was probably what people had in mind. Tailgating still only meant following too closely a car in front of you. But even as the UO’s football teams struggled through the Seventies, intriguing aromas and bright colors began to emerge from those neat rows of parked cars. Pre-game picnics turned to parties. And as the football team started winning through

Left, Janis Ballard, Springfield; Dani Cagle, Eugene; and Cristal the Eighties and Nineties and the stadium filled, many of those Spangler,Junction City, share a toast next to Autzen Stadium. parties became elaborate green and gold extravaganzas of food Inset, Tom Finneran of Portland is ready for duty as a Duck fan. and drink. Athletic success has brought expansion of the UO Above, the door to the Ouack Shack, as seen on this magazine's cover. sports facilities north of the Willamette (the Casanova Center, the Moshofsky Center, Papé Field, and the new improved Autzen) and reduced the space allotted for parking. But in the area that remains, a festival blooms every football Saturday — rich not only in smells and colors, but also in the variety of ways people celebrate the UO, bonds to family and friends, and autumn in Oregon. Photographer John Bauguess captured a sampling of those cel- ebrations on a couple of Saturdays last fall. — Guy Maynard ’84, Editor

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 23 8/16/05 4:33:59 PM Top, Madison and Taylor Larson of Grants Pass are all smiles for the Ducks. Below, who knew the UO could inspire such head toppings as displayed by, clockwise from left, Dale Brown ’88 of Tigard, Steve Swartout of Springfield, and Gary Smith ’82 of Eugene?

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Top, UO President Dave Frohnmayer hosts a tailgating party in Mallard Park just east of the stadium. Below, clockwise from left, pregame show; Jayne Carroll ’69 and Lee Kell ’62 of Portland and their spread; Rick Ford and Sue Peterson of Springfield and their toys.

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 25 8/16/05 4:34:13 PM Top, Shawn Barton (number 53) of Springfield warms up for football with a ring-toss game. Below, clockwise from lower left, Donny Adams, Rosie Gravett, Sheri Larson, Terry Larson, and Sheila Barker of Grants Pass mug for the camera; Brock Smith and fellow Southern Oregonians fire up the coals; Ron and Dianna Maier of Hillsboro come to Autzen in their 1951 GMC school bus.

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Yum! Lower right, Dee Ford of Springfield keeps her table stocked.

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 27 8/16/05 4:34:29 PM Giants Literary luminaries at the University of Oregon by Kingsley Weatherhead

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things.

— William Faulkner Nobel Prize acceptance speech

From Old Oregon, April-May 1955

OQ4 features AU05.indd 28 8/16/05 4:34:30 PM was not here in Oregon in the Fifties now, but I was amused and a little surprised when the poet I when William Faulkner came to a packed auditorium turned to me, saying shyly, “Here, I’ve lost some of your trout to read passages of his fiction to the first two rows, beyond flies” and handed me a quarter. which he was inaudible. On one of the days of his visit, so What engaged him more than the trout that regularly the tale goes, there was a lunch at a beach place owned by ignored him was the sight of an aged salmon cruising by the a Lover of the Arts. And after the lunch a Creative Writing rock on which we stood, its body desiccated in its striving up professor led Faulkner out to the edge of the water, the distin- the river. Lowell listened as the guy who called him Cal out- guished visitor taking the precaution of carrying two highballs lined its life history. It appeared and disappeared and appeared Giants with him to keep up his strength. The professor expected, not again in the shallows. Then finally it appeared in a poem pub- unreasonably, that when the great voice of American litera- lished a few weeks later, “Waking Early Sunday Morning”: ture encountered the great voice of the Pacific some oracular utterance might be forthcoming: Byron’s “Roll on, thou deep O to break loose, like the Chinook and dark blue ocean — roll,” perhaps; or something like Isaac salmon jumping and falling back, Newton’s great ocean of truth lying all undiscovered before nosing up to the impossible him, maybe; even just Xenophon’s “Thalatta! Thalatta!” stone and bone-crushing waterfall (“The sea! The sea!”) would have suited nicely. But what that raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there, stopped by ten great voice of American literature, the famed author of the steps of the roaring ladder, and then longest sentence in American fiction, actually said was simply, to clear the top on the last try, “Helluva lot of water out there,” and commenced work on his alive enough to spawn and die. second highball. I wasn’t in Oregon when that legend was born. But later Some critics saw in these lines the death wish; others it was in fact in my living room that the poet James Dickey, found, of course, Freud in the image of the fish ladder. So be asked why he had not brought his wife with him, replied, “My it; peace to all such. For us it was enough that that poor bat- wife is uhgly.” This was long before the high tide of feminism tered fish, fighting its way up the river to its ordained death, had rolled on to the Oregon shore, but we disliked him for had had fame and immortality thrust upon it. Our own efforts saying that. First and last an advertising man (though not that day called for no further reward; the poet need not have about his family obviously), Dickey read poems that revealed bothered with the twenty-five cents. his great vocabulary. Some of them were derived from the genuine spiritual intuitions in the poems of the University of Washington poet Theodore Roethke. There was one enchanting informal evening when two  poets were together. The poems Canadian Earle Birney . H. Auden came here late in his read included that marvelous piece, “The Bear on the Delhi W career. He had made his name as a young Road”; and Bill Stafford, our own guy, read, among other poet speaking for leftist sentiments during the Depression poems, “Traveling Through the Dark” in that unassuming — what the British called “the slump” — in poems that voice, flat as a Kansas skyline. “Thanks for letting me read so embodied Freud and, quite incompatibly, Marx. In the late much,” he said at the end of the evening. For heaven’s sake! Thirties he became a confirmed Christian and used to bellow For me he could have gone on all night. out the hymns in church. He had settled in the United States in 1939. A little before he visited Oregon, he had published a poem about traveling from campus to campus to do his thing. It was  an activity subject to anxieties; one, which accosts him as the o Ralph Salisbury, poet and UO plane begins to sink toward its destination, is whether there’ll T professor, and to me, Robert Lowell was “Mr. be anything to drink. Or Lowell” when he visited here; to the other guy with us he was “Cal.” We had been told that the poet was in a nervous Is this a milieu where I must condition and must not be extensively exposed to students How grahamegreeneish! How infra dig! — a fine caveat to observe in a campus visit! We thus took Snatch from the bottle in my bag him fishing up the McKenzie, an activity that proved to be An analeptic swig? without even a ripple of excitement. He used my fly rod, and after he had lodged some six or seven trout flies in the willows The Eugene airport was smaller then than now, and it was by the river, we went into the little store by the gas station at not difficult to identify the greatest living English poet shuf- Vida that used to be run by an old fellow with some fingers fling along in his bedroom slippers in a near palpable vinous missing. In those days a Royal Coachman cost much less than aura.

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 29 8/16/05 4:34:30 PM “I’ve been at it all day,” he said. to wish him a happy birthday, with I said, “Oh,” and then, short, I sup- greetings from friends in Los Angeles. pose, on appropriate decorum, could She was Sonia Orwell, the woman on not forbear to blurt out, “How grahame- whom George Orwell had modeled the greenish! How infra dig!” character of Julia in his novel 1984, His laugh was like the bark of a and whom he had later married, liter- German shepherd, and his face, already ally on his deathbed. She carried a gift. creased (a feature, he told us, derived from his Icelandic ancestors, who were called Audun), creased further into a broad smile. “No, no, no. I mean  flying,” he said. Well, I guess he meant think Aldous Huxley what he said he meant. But all the same I was the most interesting of the fruity fumes of Château US Air still our visitors in the early Sixties. He was, tended to confirm my interpretation. after all, known throughout the world During dinner at the Eugene Hotel, as a social critic, a poet, and a novel- which in those days was where we fed ist. He must be, surely, one of the most visitors, Auden announced that he distinguished people who have ever had known three good poets who in come to this campus. He was born in their personal lives were disagreeable: 1894 to the son of T. H. Huxley, who they were W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, had championed Charles Darwin in the and Bert Brecht. “What’s wrong with evolution debate. He was tall; Cockney Brecht?” Professor Christof Wegelin kids used to yell at him, “Is it cold up wanted to be told. Auden answered there, guv’nor?” After 1937 he lived promptly. “He was a shit.” The word in California, where the strong light was not then in as common usage as it helped to compensate for the nearly is now, and Wegelin looked unhappy complete blindness that he had con- Register-Guard — he had on his face a look which said, tracted early in his life. “Please, Mr. Auden, this is the Eugene Speakers at the University were Hotel.” However, he was not about selected in those days by a committee. To pray is to pay attention to to let it go at that. Ex-students and Rumor had it that the chairperson, a colleagues will remember him as a scru- pipe smoker with a gravelly voice, had something or someone other than pulous scholar who never left any detail been a high-ranking officer in the navy, undocumented, who double-checked a rear admiral perhaps. She came from oneself. Whenever a man so all quotations, and never invented page the South and had little use for initial concentrates his attention — on a numbers in a footnote. He swallowed aitches or ultimate g’s. She was thinkin’ twice before asking, “What sort of a-er- Mr. ’Uxley might come, but we ’ad only landscape, a poem, a geometrical shit?” “Oh,” said Auden, “a complete $400 left in the budget. I was told to problem, an idol, or the True shit.” At which point Wegelin gave up write to see if he would come for what, and the conversation gratefully drifted even then, 1963, was a meager fee. God — that he completely forgets away on to other matters. He was an accomplished novelist his own ego and desires, he is There was something pleasantly and poet; he had written the popular boyish about Auden, a feature that was dystopia, Brave New World. He had praying . . . . The primary task more than a corollary of his superb wit. developed an interest in oriental reli- He said he once preached in a London gions and mysticism from which came of the schoolteacher is to teach cathedral and wondered whether he his book The Perennial Philosophy. He children, in a secular context, dared tell the congregation they were a had experimented with mescaline and lot of tight-assed puritans; he decided wrote a book about its effects, The the technique of prayer. that he did. He said in any group he Doors of Perception. always felt he was the youngest. He had been part of the literary — W. H. Auden Among us he was the oldest. It was circles of the Twenties and Thirties from A Certain World his sixtieth birthday that day, and and had been a close friend of D. H. during dinner a handsome woman Lawrence. In his various writings he unexpectedly appeared and commenced had brought new thought to an extra-

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OQ4 features AU05.indd 30 8/16/05 4:34:33 PM ordinary range of interests, as various I said “No,” instinctively I suppose. as architecture, religion, philosophy, Then, fear abating, I hurriedly added, history, the matter of blindness, hallu- “Unless of course you’ll talk.” And cinogenic drugs, world hunger. In every that was how it was. He told us all respect I have always thought of him as sorts of things about Eliot, the sort of a superb human being. things that didn’t or hadn’t then got I picked him up in Portland and into books, some trivial, some not. drove him down in a state car — what Eliot worked, he said, deep deep down a windfall for an assistant professor, a underground in Lloyd’s Bank. He wore neophyte hardly yet of the household sponge-bag trousers (he wears them still of academe: two hours to chat, one- in Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Years). on-one, with Aldous Huxley! As we At a showing of Eliot’s play Murder drove, there were a couple of amusing in the Cathedral, Vivian, his estranged matters that came up. This was the wife, stood up in the auditorium and season in which C. P. Snow had made shouted that Eliot wasn’t paying for her his name by declaring, in a lecture, that support. These and other gossipy details there were two cultures, science and students greedily recorded in their the humanities, and that the failure notes. The next seven weekly sessions of communication between them was of the seminar were a sad anticlimax. a significant factor in world affairs. I brought him home to meet col- “But didn’t my granddaddy settle all leagues over a drink. My old Pontiac that?” said Huxley. And indeed, late in had the habit of boiling after a mile or the twentieth century it wasn’t a very so, and when it did a dense cloud of original idea, as C. P. Snow himself steam would billow out over the front subsequently recognized. seats. It tended to inhibit conversation Then there was the controversy, between the passengers, and perhaps recently arisen, over D. H. Lawrence: a Huxley felt like Newton, “voyaging © g. Paul Bishop 1960 pitilessly cruel letter to a sick Katherine through strange seas of thought alone.” Mansfield, reputed to be from him, At any rate he was still there when we had been included in a collection. got to my place. He sat down in what F. R. Leavis, the Cambridge critic must have been rather a low chair. The finest works of art are precious, whose obsession with Lawrence was And then it seemed that almost all the virtually neurotic and who reserved a faculty wives present had had mystic among other reasons, because they special degree of ferocity for anyone experiences of which they very much who breathed a sigh or a syllable wished to apprise our visitor. Huxley make it possible for us to know, if against this idol, came out swing- lowered his head to listen, unaware, I only imperfectly and for a little ing, viciously attacking the editor of suppose, that in order for the ladies to the collection, insisting that what speak in his ear they had to kneel. And while, what it actually feels like to Lawrence wrote, with his “diagnostic thus, as they took their turns, there think subtly and feel nobly. intelligence,” could only have been developed a line of ladies coming up therapeutic: “no more cruel than medi- and kneeling, like at an altar. — Aldous Huxley cine would be.” Lawrence was a genius; And I thought then and think now from Ends and Means: “cruelty was not in him.” Hatred as that approaching him like this was not therapy apparently was. at all inappropriate. An Inquiry into the Nature “I wonder,” said Huxley, “how well Huxley died not many months after of Ideals and into the Mr. Leavis knew Lawrence? I knew this visit. His death drew little atten- Methods Employed for him quite well. And he could be very tion; it occurred the day John Kennedy Their Realization cruel.” “Quite well” was a substantial was shot. understatement: Huxley had known Lawrence probably better than anyone else among Lawrence’s acquaintances. Might he come, asked this famous Kingsley Weatherhead, an emeritus profes- visitor, to the seminar on T. S. Eliot I sor, taught English at the UO from 1960 was holding the following afternoon. to 1989.

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LEFT: The graphical interface of the Nolli Map Engine, as it appears online. RIGHT: The detail in the satellite map at top shows the remarkable accuracy of the Nolli map, shown below.

MAPPING A CITY NOT BUILT IN A DAY

HILE THE GLORY THAT WAS ROME The map has been called “architec- facilitated their codification within the may be of another day, a digitized ture’s Holy Grail.” city’s administrative structure — a struc- show your school pride Wversion of a milestone 1748 map Tice, now an associate professor of ture still existing today. of the Eternal City brings a detailed and architecture, has been intrigued by it for One of the first maps to move away interactive look at that glory to your com- three decades. Steiner, who holds the from the earlier standard of easterly ori- puter screen, thanks to a team headed by title of dynamic cartography researcher entation to one aligned with north on duck gear with a twist University of Oregon researchers Jim at the InfoGraphics Lab in the UO’s top, the map also is incredibly accu- Tice and Erik Steiner. Department of Geography, specializes in rate — an accuracy made obvious when The map itself, approximately seven interactive cartography. satellite photos, overlaid on the Nolli “O”-so-soft lux ﬂeece is light as a feather and the perfect cozy feet wide by six feet high, is the creation “The primary reason we were inter- map, show variations so minor as to be topper for a crisp fall day. This zippered poly/cotton jacket of eighteenth-century mapmaker Giam- ested,” Tice says, “is the brilliance of the negligible. projects duck spirit ever so subtly with its ﬂower and “Oregon battista Nolli. He and his team of a dozen map as a cartographic milestone and as a The work of digitizing this master- assistants produced in eight years a map resource that helps us better understand piece and creating the interactive Nolli Ducks” embroidery. Available in lemon, mint and charcoal. that includes nearly eight square miles of one of the world’s great cities.” Map Website (http://nolli.uoregon.edu/) the city and identifies 1,320 sites of his- “Most map designers after Nolli now allows students, teachers, and pro- torical significance — streets, theaters, either lifted directly or copied from him,” fessionals, as well as “Romaphiles,” to For this and other quality school clothes you’ll love to wear, look to arches, palaces, prisons, fountains; the Steiner says. explore the ancient city online. The map the UO Bookstore Duck Shops. Visit UODuckShop.com. face of Rome built up over the centuries, Nolli was the first person since antiq- will be especially useful to the twenty to the streets one would have walked in uity to represent the city accurately as a twenty-five students from the Depart- 1748 — and the streets one can, for the plan map, which has served as an indis- ment of Architecture in the School of most part, still walk today. And it all was pensable tool for architects and urban Architecture and Allied Arts who visit done with eighteenth-century technol- planners ever since. For example, he used Rome each year and study in the heart ogy — surveyor chains, compass — and a dotted line to show the administrative of the city’s historic center. exacting observation. boundaries of Rome. In so doing, he “The Nolli map,” Tice explains, “is

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NEWS IN BRIEF used as a way to supplement materials in says, “that we believe is true to Nolli’s the studio and help students explore and original intentions and presents the map study the city in both its historic and in a form that he would have approved ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED ARTS contemporary dimensions.” had he the technology at his disposal to NAMES NEW DEAN By clicking the “Launch Map Engine” achieve it.” Frances Bronet, professor and former button, one sees an overview image of the Allan Ceen from Pennsylvania State associate dean of architecture at entire Nolli map. The viewer may then University consulted on the project. Ini- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has enlarge any section of the map, bringing, tial funding for the endeavor came from been named dean of the School of for example, the small, oval-shaped Col- the NorthWest Academic Computing Architecture and Allied Arts at the osseum close enough to count the rows Consortium. The University of Oregon University of Oregon. Bronet replaces and seats. Other options enable the user provided additional financial support. Robert Z. Melnick, who has been dean to click on such selections as Gardens, — JIM MCCHESNEY ’90 since 1995. Melnick will be on aca- the Tiber River, Rioni (the regions of demic leave next year, serving as the the city), Fountains, City Gates, Walls CAMPAIGN OREGON UPDATE visiting senior program officer for the of Rome, Pathways, Map Icons, and the Getty Grants Program in Los Angeles. Satellite Image. By clicking, for example, on the “Walls of Rome,” one can see the MUSIC BUILDING TRIBAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE shift in the city boundaries from the days NAMED FOR MARABEL FOCUS OF GRANT of Empire to the barbarian-ravaged walls The University’s Child and Family of medieval times. FROHNMAYER Center has won a five-year, $3.7-mil- Future plans for the website include lion grant from the National Institute on adding current photos, historic engrav- THE BUILDING HOUSING THE UNIVERSITY Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to work ings, contributed writings, and other of Oregon School of Music and Dance with as many as 300 families from the interactive features to the website. will be named for the late MarAbel Colville Indian Reservation, the Warm “We’re looking to have a living, Frohnmayer ’31, a music school graduate, Springs Indian Reservation, and the breathing site,” Steiner says. longtime arts supporter, and mother of Klamath Tribe to slow the rate of ado- A crowning element to the digi- UO President Dave Frohnmayer. lescent substance abuse by rebuilding talized map is the photo of Rome taken Donor Lorry Lokey, who has given and strengthening traditional family by satellite in 2004, and acquired by the $4 million for a $15.2-million expansion structures. Nolli team with assistance from Space and renovation of the music building, Imaging and through the help of UO suggested the new name. Lokey is CEO of CLASS OF 2005 BREAKS RECORDS geography graduate Maylian Pak MS San Francisco-based Business Wire news A record 4,288 candidates received ’05, then an employee of the commercial service. He said he proposed the naming degrees at the Saturday, June 11 com- provider of satellite images. because Frohnmayer is well known in mencement exercises. Nearly 100 more “It was quite a coup to acquire that Oregon for her extensive public service students graduated this year than in image,” Tice says. and because “she loved and supported 2003–04. Also, 201 of the graduating This photo can be superimposed on music and the music school.” students earned multiple degrees. the Nolli map, then faded or brightened According to her family, MarAbel with the use of a slider bar, enabling the JOURNALISM ACHIEVERS viewer to see ancient sites beneath a HONORED contemporary layer — ancient pathways, The School of Journalism and for example, under current roads (and Communication has named its Hall of Achievement honorees for 2005. cars). Recognized for exemplifying the high- Tice and Steiner believe the Nolli est levels of career achievement are map has much to say to the practitioners Scott Bedbury ’80, author of A New of twenty-first century architecture and Brand World, who helped develop city planning. This map, they say, is as branding strategies for Nike, Starbucks, much about space as it is buildings. and Coca-Cola; Rich Jernstedt “This is what Nolli is about,” Tice ’69, executive vice president and says. “Nolli was interested in represent- senior partner of Fleishman-Hillard ing the city, as not only a series of build- International (Chicago); Robert Reed ings, but as a series of outdoor rooms. ’49, former president of Reed Brennan “Our contention,” he explains, “is Media Associates (Florida); Jack that if you don’t think in terms of space, Williams ’68, senior news anchor for chances are your city is not going to be WBZ- TV 4 News (Boston), two-time that humane.” Emmy recipient and founder of the Among other goals, Tice and Steiner adoption network Wednesday’s Child; hope the Nolli website becomes a spring- and Milly Wohler ’43 (1922–2001), board for study and interaction promot- travel writer and “Day” editor for The ing that humanity. Oregonian. “We are delivering a product,” Tice MarAbel Frohnmayer ’31

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MANY STUDENTS WHO SIGN UP FOR LINDA KINTZ’S INTRO thinking together. You get to to Drama class have never attended a play. “They come in watch them think.” thinking, ‘Oh, drama,’” says Kintz. But after watching a live performance, she says, they are drawn into the magic of the Name: Linda Kintz medium. “It’s so much fun to watch them just get turned on Age: 60 by theater.” Education: BA with honors, During her seventeen years in the UO English depart- Texas Tech University, 1967; ment, Kintz has focused on theory, drama, and performance. MA, Southern Methodist She intentionally sets a high bar for all of her students, University 1969; MA, UO especially the undergraduates. “I like to give them theory 1982; Ph.D., UO 1986. and really hard plays to work with,” she says. With her sup- Teaching Experience: She port, students learn to apply theoretical knowledge to drama, teaches introductory litera- literature — and to the world. ture and modern drama. “What one learns in the humanities — being trained Accolades: In June, Kintz won to read and think deeply and critically about literary and the UO’s Thomas F. Herman dramatic texts — is the very basis of citizenship,” says Kintz. Mark Bailey Faculty Achievement Award “It requires a student to depend on careful evidence to back for Distinguished Teaching. Two books published: Between up an interpretation, while accepting the responsibility to Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing reflect on it critically. . . . One must speak one’s mind, but America (Duke University Press, 1997); The Subject’s Tragedy one must also accept the responsibility of rigor and the prin- (University of Michigan Press, 1992). cipled refusal of easy, sloppy, uninformed thinking.” Off campus: Married, with two grown sons. She loves to In the past three years, Kintz has either directed or hike, ski, and garden with her husband. served on twenty dissertation committees, many of them Last Word: “What’s a university education for if you don’t involving students from her graduate seminars. “Working take it out and apply it to your everyday life and thinking? with graduate students keeps me alive intellectually — it’s You don’t just leave it in the library.” just so stimulating,” she says. “Directing a dissertation is like — KATHERINE GRIES ’05

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CAMPUS EVENTS ATHLETIC EVENTS The Jazz Café featuring UO jazz combos A Piece of My Heart Thurs., Fri. and Volleyball MacArthur Court Fri. 4 • 8 P.M., School of Music Room 178. Sat. 3, 4 and 5 • 8 P.M. Arena Theatre, UO vs. USC Thurs. 3 • 7 P.M. $5 general, $3 students and seniors. 104 Villard Hall. UO vs. UCLA Fri. 4 • 7 P.M. Law School Duck Dash Sat. 5 • 8 A.M. Campus Sign Contest Thur. 3 to Sat. 5 Soccer Papé Field 5K Run and walk from Hayward Field All Day. Greek houses and Residents Halls UO vs. California Fri. 4 • 5 P.M. through campus. compete for awards. UO vs. Stanford Sun. 6 • 1 P.M. Family Recipe Brunch Sun. 6 • 10 A.M. College of Education Tour Football to 1:30 P.M. • Carson and Barnhart Fri. Nov. 4 • 3 p.m. UO vs. California Sat. 6 • 12:30 P.M. Dining Centers. $7 buffet. Archaeological Lecture — An Indigenous Football Tailgate Parties 10:30 A.M. Woman’s View of Lewis and Clark: Alumni Pregame Party Moshofsky Sports Who are Those Smelly Men in that Center • Mallard Park Tailgate Parties Silly Dugout? Fri. 4 • Room 110, Knight Law School (541) 346-3970 • College Law Center. Museum of Natural History of Arts and Sciences (541) 346-3950 • reception immediately following. Free. Friars (541) 346-3216 • UO Parents Association (541) 346-3216 • School Fri. 4 • All Day Duck Spirit Day of Journalism and Communication Wear Duck colors and you may get a free (541) 346-3602 • Oregon Daily gift from the Student Homecoming Patrol! Your Lifelong Connection Emerald Alumni (541) 346-5511.

For reservations and information about the above listed activities go to uoalumni.com or call (541) 346-5656

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Frohnmayer infused the lives of those obtained degrees from the UO music Although the other Frohnmayer sib- around her with music. She played the school and are professional musicians. lings, Dave and John JD ’72, are lawyers, piano almost every day of her life, accom- Mira Frohnmayer ’60 went on to get a they are also amateur musicians and great panied sing-alongs for family and friends, master’s degree from the New England appreciators of music and the arts. John encouraged all four of her children to Conservatory of Music. She recently now lives in Corvallis where he is an sing and play instruments, and founded retired as a professor of music and vocal affiliate professor of liberal arts at Oregon or supported nearly every music and arts department chair at Pacific Lutheran State University. He also served as chair- organization in the Rogue Valley for University in Tacoma, Washington, a man of the National Endowment for the seventy years. position she held for twenty-five years. Arts from 1989 to 1992. She was married to the late Otto Philip Frohnmayer MA ’72 is a professor “My siblings and I are all extremely Frohnmayer ’29 JD ’33, a longtime Med- of music and vocal department chair at moved by Lorry’s generous and thought- ford attorney. Two of their four children Loyola University in New Orleans. ful gesture,” said Dave Frohnmayer. “Our mother was a proud graduate of the UO School of Music and would be gratified beyond measure to know that it carries on her legacy not only in spirit but in name.” We have a plan for college. The renovation of the music building is slated to begin in August 2006 and be completed by the fall of 2008.

PORTLAND JOURNALISM PROGRAM ALSO RECEIVES SUPPORT

AN ADDITIONAL $4.5-MILLION gift from Lorry Lokey will Saving for college may not be easy, but it helps if you have a plan. help create the University of That’s why families all over Oregon are investing with the Oregon School of Journal- Oregon College Savings Plan.SM ism and Communication George S. Turnbull Portland - investors enjoy these benefits - Center. Lokey’s gift and an State tax deduction up to $2000 per year 1 2 earlier anonymous gift of the Tax-free growth and withdrawals same amount from another Use your savings at schools nationwide donor will enable the jour- Call toll free today for your free enrollment kit. nalism school to open the Turnbull Portland Center 1-866-772-8464 this fall. The school plans www.oregoncollegesavings.com to offer degree programs by fall 2006. A faculty committee is reviewing program options, including a master’s program in management communications for working professionals and a “senior experience” that would combine senior-level coursework with internships in public relations for

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OQ5 univ AU05.indd 36 8/16/05 4:35:19 PM OUTDOORS Blanchard’s zeal for nature was fos- tered long ago by his uncle, outdoorsman THE NATURE OF Smoke Blanchard. In his memoir, Walk- ing Up and Down in the World, Smoke EDUCATION remembers taking Jim along on an ascent of Mt. McKinley, North America’s tall- The great outdoors serves as classroom est peak. After that adventure, Smoke for the Outdoor Pursuits Program. writes, “Jim came back, dropped out, and turned into the mountains.” And he FEELING A LITTLE SLUGGISH? IS YOUR DAILY hasn’t looked back since. routine turning into a yawn-fest? Drop Blanchard, sixty-one, has been semi- that remote control and kayak down a retired since 2002, but still works about white-water rapid. If rapids don’t float forty hours per week; he says that his your boat, maybe a rock-climbing course “retirement” has given him the time would add some spring to your step. Then to upgrade some of the existing OPP again, maybe a few days of snow camping courses. The program’s new director, would help you chill out. Michael Strong, says, “That’s just the The UO’s Outdoor Pursuits Program way that Jim lives his life . . . if he has an (OPP) offers students and community hour available in the day, he will cram members the chance to explore the three hours’ worth of work into it.” adventurous side of life in Oregon. “Stu- Ian Blanchard A self-proclaimed mother hen, dents come out with a different perspec- Jim Blanchard ’67 MS ’79 Blanchard is vigilant about safety and tive on the world around them,” says Jim adequate preparation. He tells students, Blanchard ’67 MS ’79. “There are social lenging, comprehensive training course “I go up Spencer Butte with a big- and personal psychological benefits from for outdoor leaders. Students who earn ger pack than some people take on an participating in outdoor activities. Our a certificate from the Outdoor Pursuits extended day hike.” Any outdoor excur- students have a different feeling about Leadership Training Program are snapped sion requires some safety planning, but the natural world around them.” up for jobs by employers such as Outward courses like Backcountry Survival give Under the guidance of Blanchard Bound and the National Outdoor Lead- students the skills that could mean the since 1979, the OPP has become a ership School. difference between life and death: mak- nationally acclaimed outdoor adventure and leadership program that draws several hundred participants — registration preference is given to UO students — each term. The OPP was named best overall outdoor program of the nation’s colleges and universities by Sports Afield magazine in 1998. The first outdoor pursuits courses at the UO were just a few classroom and outing experiences taught by outdoor- oriented grad students through the P.E. Service Program. In 1977, Blanchard helped to create an expanded series of wilderness skills courses while working on his master’s in the Leisure Studies and Services Department. He longed for an even better group of courses, and pestered the University to upgrade the outdoor class offerings. “They shut me up by saying, ‘OK, you run it then,’ which was just great,” says Blanchard. Accepting the director- ship, he integrated the Wilderness Skills courses with a Principles of Outdoor Leadership course he had designed as a final master’s project, and a new outdoor curriculum was born. Today’s Outdoor Pursuits Program has evolved from that basic group of outdoor recreation classes to become a chal-

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ing fires, using what nature provides for butes of the program. Students may seek We just use the outdoors as a medium shelter, staying warm without a tent or out the program to boost the safety and to develop those skills, but leadership sleeping bag. quality of their outdoor experiences, “. . . is leadership whether you are leading a Strong, who has logged a total of but everyone goes away with something group of kids in the backcountry, or put- eighteen years with the OPP, shares more,” he says. “By and large, students ting together a team to work on a project Blanchard’s feeling for the subtler attri- want to improve their leadership skills. in town. It all applies, across the board.” Through the OPP, students acquire the expertise necessary to explore the wilderness on their own, but Blanchard Changes in the Top Five knows that the lessons learned are invalu- 20% Undergraduate Majors able life-skills tools as well. “Learning to Business 18% be comfortable solo is a good thing, in Journalism general, for everybody,” says Blanchard. 16% Architecture and Arts The courses are also great training in Psychology case someone becomes lost or involved in 14% Education a natural disaster. “Students gain a level of psychological confidence that they’ll 12% get through it just fine,” says Strong. 10% “They know what to do.” Heather Brule, a sophomore at the 8% UO, has been involved in the OPP since 2004. “The program Jim put together is 6% a pretty incredible resource. To be able

Percentage of Undergraduates 4% to learn such a wide variety of skills so thoroughly has helped me along both as a 2% teacher and just to play,” Brule says. Blanchard still corresponds with 0% some of the thousands of students who 91-92 92-93 93-94 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 have passed through the OPP during his Academic Year decades with the program. Former students have climbed most of the world’s major peaks. “Many of them do keep in touch,” he says. “Those four years spent in college seem to be more significant than entire decades in people’s lives. The influence that we have here [at OPP] profile Mike Duncan, seems to stay with people disproportion- ately to some other influences.” • Graduated from Purdue 1991 Besides many dozens of outings and •Teaches Marketing, Communications, trips with OPP students over the years, Management and Finance Classes Blanchard has traveled extensively in • Loves German cars, but can only Europe and Japan. In the mid-1970s, afford VWs he began leading trips for various high- adventure travel groups. Soon after that •Crews on a sailboat racing team he formed his own company, Best of the • No one has ever been a worse golfer Alps Trekking, “when I decided that I - or had more fun playing golf could do it better myself,” he says. This summer, Blanchard started writ- • His dog is very important to him ing a series of guidebooks for hikers inter- • He is a sports fan. For him, the ested in trekking the Alps; it’s the first evening news is SportsCenter on ESPN summer in thirty-one years that he didn’t go there himself. “The dollar is low right • Northwest Christian College now, making it more difficult to acquire MBA Graduate 2004 clients,” he says. “So it’s a good time to do Classes Start August 25, 2005 some writing.” His upcoming Best of the Contact Mike Ryan 684-7282 Alps series will be geared toward the avid, www.nwcc.edu fit hiker who wants to get the most out of a one- or two-week vacation. “. . . and I’ll be back in the Alps next summer,” says Blanchard. — KATHERINE GRIES ’05 AND AIMEE FURBER

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INNOVATION

A NEW APPROACH TO NEWS

How a midmarket newspaper is changing journalism.

N EARLY MAY, A SENSATIONAL SCANDAL out of Spokane, Washington, captured Inational attention. The local newspa- Spokesman-Review per, the Spokesman-Review, reported that fifty-four-year-old Jim West, the city’s mayor — a conservative, anti-gay activist Amanda Smith, — was himself gay and that he had used Interactive journalism pioneers Ken Sands ’81 and Steve Smith ’73 the power of his office to curry favors from teenagers. He was also accused of abusing inviting readers to draw their own con- back from readers, Sands says, is using two young men years ago. Adding to clusions about the material. the newspaper’s e-mail database of some the intrigue of the story, the newspaper “Any documentation that we could 7,000 people. This way, reporters can had hired a computer expert to pose as a get our hands on in a form that was pub- involve readers in a story about every- young man on Gay.com, an Internet chat lishable on the Web” was posted on the thing from regional or national elec- room, to confirm West’s behavior. The Internet, says forty-six-year-old Sands. tions to “micro-local” happenings. For story and the controversial and unusual They also held several online chats example, when a sex-offender moved tactics used to report it shined a spotlight where readers had a chance to ask ques- in across the street from a junior high on the Spokesman-Review and its editor, tions — sometimes not so politely — of school, an e-mail was sent to about 200 Steve Smith ’73, who subsequently made Smith. The first chat lasted two hours. people in that neighborhood, eliciting many appearances on national media, Smith, fifty-five, answered more than 40 local response for the story. including ABC, NPR, and CNN. questions and left about 100 for another “There’s been a real, identifiable prog- Fellow Duck Ken Sands ’81, the time, a remarkable level of participation ress in their effort to bring everyday newspaper’s online publisher, has helped for a regional online event. citizens into the process of not only the Spokesman-Review develop a reputa- “I think it was a very good use” of consuming the news, but reacting to the tion for breaking new ground using the online resources, says John Russial, an news and enriching the news with their Web and citizen journalism: engaging associate professor in the UO School of own expertise,” says Jan Schaeffer, execu- readers in new and different ways, in Journalism and Communication. “But I tive director of J-Lab, the institute for essence, lessening the barriers separating still think this . . . is not typical. The Spo- interactive journalism at the University the community and the newsroom. kane paper is out in front of most other of Maryland. While the Watergate scan- In their own way, Smith and Sands papers in how it uses the Web.” dal upped readers’ interest in newspapers are a kind of Woodward and Bernstein, Unlike other news organizations, the in the 1970s, in today’s round-the-clock capturing people’s attention and bring- Spokesman-Review applied journalism to news environment, engaging residents ing in a whole new generation of readers, the technology, rather than the other in the news process at the local level, so much as the famed investigative report- way around. their names and ideas are reflected in the ers did in the Watergate era. “That’s where my niche is. It’s figur- reporting, might be the key to attract- “Spokane is definitely one of the ing out the best uses for journalism of ing readers. For Smith, the process of innovators, which is unusual for a midsize the technology available,” says Sands, innovation has helped restore credibility, market like that,” says Steve Outing, a who lectures about online journalism to reaffirm a commitment to hard news, senior editor at the Poynter Institute, a newsrooms and conferences around the and integrate the Web and its potential well-respected journalism research and country. In the midst of the West sex throughout the fabric of the newsroom. education center. scandal, the two men came to the UO to He says the overlay to all of this is The Jim West story is a good example participate in “Xtreme News Ed,” a week- an unflinching commitment to values of this new approach to news. Under end workshop that provided students a — which he says were instilled during his Sands’s direction, a team of Web report- behind-the-scenes understanding of a UO journalism school days. ers and designers did a lot more than breaking national news story. “We are a value-driven newsroom simply republish print content online, as “I naturally gravitated towards the with a set of clearly defined values that many newspaper websites do. They took Web because of civic journalism,” Sands form the basis for the many news deci- reporters’ notes, transcripts from West’s says. “The greatest opportunities to inter- sions we must make daily,” Smith wrote Web exchanges with the undercover act with people existed on the Web, the in a recent op-ed piece. “Our values are chat room participant, as well as other greatest opportunity for engagement.” deeply rooted in our profession and some information, and posted it on the Web, One of the best ways to solicit feed- go back to the founders who foresaw the

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NEWS IN BRIEF importance of an unfettered press in a reads “Travel Trailer,” the vehicle hasn’t free society.” done much traveling recently. Parked in Those values, the paper’s relatively the cemetery since 1988, it has witnessed small size, and a commitment to innova- many life cycles of lilacs and daffodils, JUMP INTO “THE DUCK POND” tion from the publisher allow the Spokes- intrusions of English ivy and poison oak, This fall an enhanced UO Alumni man-Review to pave the way for other, and the decay and weathering of head- Association website, dubbed “The much larger papers to follow in their stones and monuments. Duck Pond” will be launched at wake. For the past fourteen years, Pioneer uoalumni.com. The enhancements are “We’ve lost the spirit of innovation Cemetery’s caretaker George Dull has responses to the summer 2004 survey and experiment in this business; we’re way maintained the cemetery while residing results that indicated alumni want more too safe,” Smith says. “We’re not going to in this trailer, where tight quarters leave connection opportunities. Through the be that way in Spokane. We’re going to no room for a full kitchen. “I eat out a website’s dynamic components, users fight back to maintain our position as the lot,” Dull jokes. will instantly connect with thousands primary and most trusted source of infor- The top of a broken gravestone — of fellow Ducks, have an immediate mation in the community.” “Merril Gilbertson, 1893–1927” — rests network with professionals and former — JACKSON HOLTZ along the front side of the trailer, while classmates, and stay connected to larger pieces of headstones and monu- the University via online opportunities. ments, too heavy for one person to lift, The Duck Pond features an enhanced sit adjacent to the Holidaire, awaiting online directory, inCircle, offering social repair. networking exclusively to UO alumni; A native Oregonian and graduate of a Career Advisory Network; and a Springfield High, Dull spends his morn- searchable database to find mentors in ings working as a custodian at the local specific geographic and career areas. Bethel School District before returning IT PAYS TO GET A to his home and second job at the grave- COLLEGE DEGREE yard. He mows, weeds, trims, and disposes In Oregon, the median annual income of tree limbs in exchange for a place to of a high school graduate is $29,000, stay and a monthly stipend provided by compared to $46,000 for someone with the Eugene Pioneer Cemetery Associa- a bachelor’s degree or $51,000 for an tion (EPCA). The job calls for him to individual with an advanced degree. In work with the living as well as the dead: lifetime income, a typical high school When visitors come to the cemetery in John Bauguess search of a particular grave, Dull is their graduate could expect to earn $1.3 mil- Pioneer Cemetery caretaker George Dull lion. By comparison, a typical college man. “If people want to find out where graduate would expect to earn $2.1 Grandma Jones is buried, I take care of million, and someone with an advanced QUIET NEIGHBORS that,” he explains. degree, $2.3 million. In 1997, Dull’s sixth year on the — Compiled from 2000 U.S. Census The UO’s Pioneer Cemetery is job, Eugene Pioneer Cemetery was Bureau data by the UO Office of more than a final resting place. listed in the National Register of His- Resource Management toric Places, recognized for its architec- FOR MORE THAN 130 YEARS, PIONEER tural significance and landscape, which UOAA WELCOMES NEW Cemetery has rested in peace at the is demonstrative of a late nineteenth- BOARD MEMBERS south end of the University campus, century community cemetery. Ruth The Alumni Association Board of existing as a park-like paradox. Sunlight Lake Holmes ’39, a longtime member Directors welcomes eleven new mem- filters through the draping branches of of the EPCA, says that the cemetery’s bers this fall: Mary Campbell ’89, Jenny tall Douglas firs and incense cedar trees Civil War Veteran’s Plot [see sidebar, Cherrytree ’98, James Crowell ’60 MS and settles down upon grids and plots p. 41] is one main reason that the grave- ’66, Lynn Heislein ’82, Susan Jernstedt of gravestones. But while the 15.5-acre yard has been designated on the Register. Fulton ’78, Claudia Johnson ’80, cemetery entombs more than 3,800 bod- “It’s our centerpiece — our claim to Donald Klotter ’86, Anne Marie Levis ies, its natural setting also serves the fame,” Holmes says. “Well over 100 Civil MBA ’96, Julia Mansfield ’85, Nicole living. Despite a large sign at the front War veterans are buried in the cemetery Sagan Jensen ’91, and David Sullivan entrance to the graveyard that requests — many on the Veteran’s plot, some on ’79. Jeff Nudelman ’83, attorney and “No Trespassing, Parking, or Loitering in family plots.” partner at Garvey Schubert Barer in Cemetery,” students, faculty, and visitors When the moon sits high over Portland, was elected president at the often read, study, exercise, and play music Eugene, and the wind whistles through spring board meeting. Cheryl Ramberg in the shady haven. the trees, George Dull rests in the Holi- Ford ’66 is president-elect. Tim In the center of the cemetery sits an daire trailer alongside Civil War veterans Clevenger ’86 is past president, and aged Holidaire trailer sheltered by a can- and many of the early settlers who helped Thomas Herrmann ’85 JD ’88 returns opy that shields it from the heavy rain of build and create the surrounding city and for another term as treasurer. Oregon’s wet winters and the heat of the community. summer’s sun. Though the license plate — JESSE DUNGAN ’05

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These freshmen are attending the University of Oregon this year, thanks to members of the UO Alumni Association. Members support scholarships that make the difference between the brightest students attending Oregon or going somewhere else. University of Oregon If you would like to help Alumni Association students choose the UO, join John Bauguess your Alumni Association Your Lifelong Connection HISTORIC today. Call (541) 346-5656 or visit us online at MONUMENT http://alumni.uoregon.edu HONORS CIVIL WAR VETERANS

WHEN CIVIL WAR VETERAN John S. Covell died in 1903 he bequeathed $2,500 for the construction of a statue to commemorate the Civil War veterans buried in Pio- neer Cemetery. Family members con- tested his estate, but a judge decided against them. The Declare your money would be invested in the statue. devotion to the The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the found- Ducks while you ing society of the cemetery, had a twenty-five-foot statue fund academic scholarships. shipped from Italy. Before the end of 1903, the monu- (Warning: May induce nostalgia, chest-thumping pride ment was in place. Today, the statue still and constant whistling of the fight song.) stands tall, bearing Covell’s words: “I bequeath this monument in the memory of all Who are you rooting for this season? my comrades of the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Visit us at uoalumni.com for details. John S. Covell, Co. C. 8th Reg. Mich. Vol. Inft.” License plate illustrated for promotional purposes only. Vanity plates not available.

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ROBERT D. CLARK, PRESIDENT OF THE University of Oregon during the tumul- tuous years from 1969 to 1975, died at �� age ninety-five on June 28 following a short hospitalization. �� “The entire University of Oregon �� community is saddened by the passing of Robert Clark,” said University Presi- �� dent Dave Frohnmayer. “His steady and thoughtful leadership during some of the most difficult years in American higher education helped set the stage for this University’s current excellence. During his presidency, he understood that he had the responsibility to make the hard decisions and he understood the abso- lute necessity of freedom and neutrality. Robert Clark was a shining example of �� what one person can do — as teacher and student, speaker and leader — and ERB MEMORIAL UNION as a beloved friend.” Clark, a Nebraska native, came to Where memories of a lifetime happen everyday. the University in 1943 as an assistant professor of speech. He became chairman of the speech department in 1954 emu.uoregon.edu and the dean of the College of Liberal Arts (now the College of Arts and Sci- ences) in 1956. He founded the country’s first honors college at Oregon in 1959; it was named for him in 1975 upon his retirement as president. Clark received a bachelor’s degree from Pasadena College in 1931, a master’s degree in speech from the University of Southern California in 1935, and a doctorate in speech in 1943, also from USC. From 1964 until 1969, Clark served as president of San Jose State College,

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ROBERT D. CLARK WAS OFTEN a university president under siege in the early 1970s, but I think the way he handled our little campus uprising provides a small glimpse into a fuller measure of the man. In a move to save money, the University of Oregon physical plant had hired people off the street to prune Check out our newest locations, or call 541-606-2911 the plants on campus, and Springfield 4739 Main St. Suite 5 inside Ritnour's Originals they had cut and run amok, Eugene 575 Wilson St inside Eugene Glass School hacking the trees and shrubs www.universityglassworks.com unmercifully around our home Featuring Dichroic by Dichroic Alchemy in Lawrence Hall. We hoisted the larger limbs, formed an irate mob, and went waving them across the campus and into the president’s office. President Clark looked up from his desk in mild amuse- TEAM SPIRIT! ment and said, “My lord, it’s Burnam Wood,” and then went on to explain about Mac- beth, about needing to watch out for Macduff, and how Macbeth hadn’t needed to worry until the Burnam Wood moved toward his castle. Then he picked up the phone and ordered the end of the butch- ery and thanked everyone for caring enough about the UO campus landscape to come and see him about it. With patience, grace, and aplomb, he had reduced the adrenaline in the crowd, managed to teach a little Shake- speare, drawn everyone deeper into their common culture, and made us all feel proud to be a part of the University of Oregon.

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where he was known for his support State, saying ‘you are my hero.’ He was Odyssey of Thomas Condon (1989), a of the civil rights struggles of African- the hero of his family too.” biography of the minister and pioneering American athletes, including Olympians As a Guggenheim award-winning UO geologist. John Carlos and Tommie Smith. scholar, Clark published widely — arti- Memorial contributions may be made “For our family, Robert Clark has cles, essays, and books, including The to the Robert D. Clark Endowment at been the center of a beloved community Life of Matthew Simpson (1956) and The the University of Oregon Foundation. that reached out in widening circles to include not only his daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, but family members who joined by marriage ALUMNI EVENTS and by invitation — students from other countries, students and friends who also SEPTEMBER 22 Tucson 23–24 Eugene Duck Football vs. Arizona became ‘family,’ members of the Con- UOAA Fall Board Meeting Pregame Party gregational Church and the supper club, and, of course, his friends and students OCTOBER NOVEMBER at the University,” said his daughter, 1 Northern California 5 Eugene UO English Professor Suzanne Clark. Duck Football vs. Stanford Homecoming “For these people, my father was ‘my Pregame Party Duck Football vs. Cal professor’ or ‘my president.’ My father was always opening his door to the angry 8 Tempe 19 Eugene and saying ‘you may be right.’ This was Duck Football vs. Arizona State 8th Annual Tailgate Auction true whether the rebellious one was Pregame Party Lane County Chapter an eight-year-old or Vietnam protest- 19 Eugene For more information ers carrying torches. Recently, Tommie Evening at the Jordan and complete details on Smith, whose ‘black power’ salute at Schnitzer Museum of Art all UOAA events, check out the 1968 Olympics garnered worldwide Lane County Chapter uoalumni.com. attention, sent my father a picture and a message about the support he gave them while he was president of San Jose � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � ��

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WHOLE LOTTA SHAKEY GOING ON At work or at play, he puts it all on the mat.

HE SMALLER THE MEET, THE and political scientist Paul Dull, spe- bigger the trophy.” cifically, in a yearlong course called “T As a world-class karate The Far East in Modern Times. master, Tom Levak ’61 knows a lot “Dr. Dull was a spellbinding about trophies. But the sixty-six- lecturer, but he also taught his stu- year-old’s accomplishments extend dents to think for themselves, to be far beyond martial arts victories. creative in both analysis and expres- He’s also a veteran attorney, one of sion. No matter whether he agreed the nation’s premier labor arbitrators, with your written arguments on tests a cancer survivor, and, perhaps, the or term papers, Paul Dull graded world’s first Elvis impersonator. you on how effectively you communi- His more than 250 karate cated. I’ve since had to weigh tough gold medals and trophies in state, decisions in the courtroom and from regional, national, and international an arbitrator’s bench, decisions that tournaments — more than three can change another’s life. Thinking dozen world masters titles among creatively has really helped.” them — have earned Levak a spot Similarly, Levak maintains that in the U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame. the split-second choices on how to Often, he’s beaten men half his age. beat an opponent in karate involve What does one do with all that Levak Tom Courtesy outthinking them — creatively. Tom Levak ’61 gold? Levak’s given virtually all the But this button-down arbitrator hardware to neighbor kids, relatives, is often seen wearing a crisp white and fine-tuned athlete isn’t all work fellow athletes, and to his home gym, shirt, tie, and pinstriped business and no play. Put Levak anywhere Portland’s Multnomah Athletic Club. suit, appropriate dress for his day job Elvis Presley songs are playing, and At the MAC he’s been a three- as a labor arbitrator. watch one arm point skyward, his time finalist for the club’s Athlete of Levak’s wife Cotty handles the knees lock, and a sneer curl his lip, the Year. This year, he was voted the bookings for Levak Arbitration, Inc. as he gestures and gyrates to the MAC’s prestigious President’s Award. and is often amazed at her hus- beat — a hunk, a hunk of burning Early in 2004, Levak was band’s whirlwind business schedule. love. diagnosed with prostate cancer. “One week, he may hear cases in He perfected his moves in the Following surgery, he underwent Southern California and Alaska. The basement party room of his UO fra- a brutal round of chemotherapy. next, maybe Illinois and Georgia,” ternity, Beta Theta Pi. “I must have Such treatment would end the ath- she says. been the world’s first Elvis imperson- letic career of many, but just weeks And what does she see from her ator,” Levak says. “My Beta brothers after the chemo sessions ended, insider’s perspective? “Tom’s really watched me dance and called me he won the over-sixty U.S. Karate tough, often brutal, on the mat, and Shakey. Over the years, the nick- Championship at New Orleans. labor disputes are also usually very name’s evolved into Shakeyman. But the cancer returned, this bitter. I’ve been told, though, he’s an “I really like the name, but don’t time necessitating several debilitat- even-handed, fair arbitrator.” think I’m going to put it on my busi- ing months of radiation. Again, just He must be fair; Levak has arbi- ness cards. Creative thinking doesn’t weeks after treatment concluded, trated more than 3,200 decisions go quite that far.” he captured the over-fifty-five World since 1978 and to be selected for At an age when many of his Shotokan Karate title at a meet in such work both management and vintage are slowing down if not Las Vegas. labor must agree on the arbitrator. beginning to dodder, Levak remains Levak’s triumph over both cancer Levak attributes his success as quick with the karate chop, involved and karate opponents earned him both attorney and arbitrator to his with a career that keeps his frequent the Multnomah Club’s Loprinzi ability to think creatively and use that flier miles maxed out, acutely aware Award as their most inspirational thinking to arrive at decisions. He of the value and fragility of health, athlete in January 2005. suggests his ability to exercise cre- and always ready to shake, rattle, When not winning karate ative thinking was developed in the and roll. matches, the silver-haired lawyer UO classroom of the late historian — BOB WARR ’60

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Italy and Las Vegas. View his work at http://abso- 1940 1980 lutearts.com/portfolios/r/rossjerry/. ■ Wilbur Grant ’40 lives in Pasadena with his wife, Doug Dollemore ’80 MS ’85 is a senior science Harvard University selected Brent Walth ’84 Evelyn (DiGiorgio) Grant ’39. He retired in 1984 writer at the American Chemical Society in as one of twelve Nieman Fellows to honor his after a career in public relations and advertising as Washington DC. accomplishments as a working journalist. As the vice president of CNF Transportation. 2005–06 Louis Stark Fellow, he will study the ways ■ Jane Welp ’81 opened a new business, Ojala in which the media covers wealth disparity in the Language Services, which provides instruction in United States. Before receiving the Stark fellow- 1960 English as a second language. She and husband ship, he was a senior reporter at The Oregonian. Christen Welp ’71 live in The Dalles. ■ In Paris to view the finale of the Tour de Diane Baxter DMA ’85 received the 2004–05 Heidi (Schwartz) Maiers ’82 exhibited her bronze France, Alaby Blivit ’63 and his wife Sara Lee Mario and Alma Pastega Award for Excellence in and ceramic sculpture in the 2005 Carefree Ari- Cake ’45 were showered with bubbles from a Teaching from Western Oregon University for her zona Fine Art show. She is a sculptor and techni- methuselah of champagne uncorked during the work in the music department. The award honors cal writer in Mesa, Arizona. Published in 2003, victory stand celebration by seven-time Tour her efforts to speak both Japanese and English in her first book, Portrait Sculpture Simplified, is a champion Lance Armstrong. the classroom for the benefit of Japanese interna- complete instructional course book. Check out her tional students. She also helped create the Ma- ■ Jon Meyer ’69 was appointed Chairman of the work online at http://portrait-sculpture.com. kindu Children’s Program, a nonprofit community Military Transportation Committee on the Trans- ’83 and her husband, organization that directs the Makindu Children’s portation Research Board. He will work with the Molly (Koehnke) Zafiratos Kevin, own a pair of Line-X Spray-on Bedliners Center in eastern Kenya. National Research Council to advise the federal and Protective Coatings franchises. They live in government on national scientific and technologi- LeRoy Landers ’85 was named principal architect cal issues. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, and sunny Tampa, Florida, with their two-year-old son, with the Portland office of Mahlum Architects. works in Washington DC. Connor. He is known for his work in health care, housing, ■ Eugene artist Jerry Ross ’84 has received a and education. 1970 painting award in an Italian competition; along ■ Phillip Goodman ’86 is a vice president with with his gold medal comes a one-person show in Safeco Corporation in Seattle and directs Safeco’s Randi Martin ’71 has been named the first woman Milan in May 2006. He has exhibited often in corporate real estate nationwide. He recently editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learn- ing, Memory and Cognition. She is chair of the Department of Psychology at Rice University and CLASS NOTEWORTHY specializes in neuropsychology. She received her MS and Ph.D. in psychology from Johns Hopkins University and joined the Rice faculty in 1982. In July, Lee F. Snyder ’72 MA ’74 Ph.D. ’85 retired from her position as president of Bluffton University in Ohio; she was the first woman to lead any of the Mennonite colleges and universities. She served previously as vice president and academic dean of Eastern Mennonite University. Mary Alice Brown MS ’74 Ph.D. ’90 will soon celebrate her thirtieth year as executive director of the Laurel Hill Center in Eugene; the facility serves Lane County adults with mental illness. In May, the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association announced Brown as winner of the 2005 Irv Rutman Award, which recognizes exem- plary management and quality programming in the mental health field. Gaylord Reagan Ph.D. ’78 has been named manager of change management with the Corporate Knowledge Management Program at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He has published an article titled “Organization Learning and Knowledge Management Assessment” and is teaching a graduate-level university course. Courtesy B. J. Thomsen Thomsen standing in front of Marine One (Air Force One in the background) in Richard Reed Ph.D. ’78 gave a talk on “Serotonin Transporter Gene and Depression” at the Uni- Geneva, Switzerland, during the G-8 summit in 2003. versity of Washington in May 2005. He lives and practices clinical psychology in Seattle. BUSH PILOT President Bush has nominated Terence McCulley ’79 to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali. Lt. Col. B. J. Thomsen ’87 flew through a rigorous year-long A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, application, security, and screening process to land a prime position: McCulley currently serves as Deputy Coordinator He is one of four pilots assigned to Marine Helicopter Squadron One, for Iraq Assistance in the Bureau of Near Eastern President Bush’s helicopter unit. Thomsen joined the Marines soon Affairs at the Department of State. He previously after graduation, finished flight school in 1991, and has also served in served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Em- Bosnia and the United Kingdom. bassy in Tunisia, Dakar, and Lomé. He began his diplomatic career with the Department of State in Central African Affairs.

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OQ7 classnotes AU05.indd 46 8/16/05 4:36:59 PM received an MBA degree from the University of ■ James Hein ’02 graduated from Boston College Washington. Still a Duck at heart, he is looking Law School in May 2005. He will begin working forward to the next Oregon–Washington football as an associate at Tonkon Torp in Portland in the game! fall. �� Sheila (Beggs) Hoover ’89 married Jahn Robert Ivy Newman ’03 lives in Washington DC. She �� Hoover on May 23, 2005, in Kihei, Hawaii. The is working for the National Environmental Trust couple lives near Salem, where she is a Field Ser- as an assistant to the “Clear the Air” Campaign, �� vices Technician and State Coordinator for Deaf a national effort to combat pollution from power and Hard of Hearing Services. utilities. �� . 1990 In Memoriam

Robert O. Davies MBA ’91 earned his Ph.D. in Keith Ingalls ’29 died December 23 at the age higher education from the University of Buffalo in of ninety-eight. Coming west with his North March. In 2000, he was appointed associate vice Dakotan homesteader parents, he settled in president for alumni relations at UB. He previ- Eugene in 1919. He made his mark at the UO, ously served as executive director of the Boise photographing the around-the-world flight of State University Alumni Association. 1924, helping build Mac Court, studying business Andrew Clark ’92 was promoted from associ- administration, and joining the ROTC. Major ate professor to professor at Carleton College in (later Lt. Col.) Ingalls was a POW during WWII Northfield, Minnesota. Along with his work as and worked for Shell Oil Co. from 1930 to 1971. professor of physical education, athletics, and rec- He married Ruth Strauss in 1933 and had five reation, he serves as the school’s head swim coach. children with her. Brian Murphy ’92 and his wife, Amy, celebrated Laurence Austin ’33 died April 12; he was the birth of Abby Grace on April 5. The Murphy ninety-five. After graduating with a degree in family lives in Puyallup, Washington, where Brian chemistry, he received a congressional appoint- works with freight forwarding for Expeditors Inter- ment to become a pilot with a specialty in aerial national and Amy teaches fourth grade. reconnaissance. He became a fireman in New Jay Nusbaum ’92 JD ’96 is a regulatory attorney York City and served the city for twenty years. with Integra Telecom. He previously practiced law He and his wife, Blanche, started an antiques with Perkins Coie LLP. He lives in Portland with business, specializing in French cameo glass and his wife, Karla Zirbes ’91, and their three-year-old Rookwood American pottery. twins. Ruth Irvin Hartley Kenna ’34 died May 5; she ■ On May 23 Matt Palmer ’94 and his wife, Trae, was ninety-two. She graduated with honors from celebrated the birth of their first child. They hope the UO, going on to teach in schools around Camillia Brooke Palmer will be a member of the Oregon. She was active in Redmond community UO class of 2027. She already has a few great- organizations and served on the Redmond School Coaches shows, archived looking Duck outfits from the bookstore. Board. Her husband, Jack, shared her passion for games, post-game interviews, ■ Candice Dowler ’95 married Mike Smith on their children and nature in Central Oregon. April 12 on Magen’s Bay Beach in St. Thomas, player features, game audio, Gerald Gordon (Jerry) Scott ’35 died August 15, USVI. They sailed for eight days in the British great moments, highlights and 2004, at the age of ninety-one. He was a charter Virgin Islands. While there, they discovered Duck much more. member of Delta Upsilon fraternity at the UO. memorabilia on the island of Anegada and at Following college, he did architectural work on Foxy’s Bar on Jost Van Dyke. Timberline Lodge with the USDA Forest Service Thomas Kealy Ph.D. ’95 received the 2005 and worked on buildings all over Oregon with his Nancy Beyer Opler Award from Colby–Sawyer own firm. In 1950, he designed a new building for College for excellence in student advising. The his parish, Christ Episcopal Church in Lake Os- Anytime, award recognizes his support of students’ academic wego. Upon retiring, he loved to travel the world Anywhere and professional development as an assistant�� with his wife, Frances. As original sponsors when �� professor in the Humanities Department. He lives Autzen Stadium was built, Jerry and Fran adored and teaches in New London, New Hampshire. Duck football and sat in their sponsor section seats Jeff Weitzel ’95 of Eugene has received two public for more than twenty years. art commissions, one for the city of Eugene Fire Virginia “VaDare” Kuhn ’37 died March 25; she Station and one for the UO Moss Street Child- was eighty-nine. A member of the Alpha Chi care Center. His bronze sculptures for both proj- Omega sorority at the UO, she received her de- ects will be installed this year. gree in business administration. She and Army Lt. Jarrod Davis JD ’97 has been named Vice Presi- Lee W. Kuhn married in 1943 before he shipped dent of Corporate Development at JELD-WEN, out to Europe. After the war, the couple moved to a manufacturer of windows and doors. He lives in Corvallis, where Lee joined the faculty of Oregon Klamath Falls, where JELD-WEN is based. State University. She enjoyed sports at OSU and was a member of Good Samaritan Church in zzoonnee 2000 Corvallis. Gordon Kendall Clark ’38 died March 10 at the Ann Simmons ’00 is a senior account executive Stay connected with Oregon at Standing Partnership in St. Louis, Missouri. age of ninety-three. Clark married Elaine Ellmaker Athletics in the O-Zone at She is married to Patrick Smith and looks forward Clark ’38 the year before they both received BA to getting closer to friends, family, and Duck GODUCKS.COM games when they relocate to the West Coast in ■ INDICATES UOAA MEMBER the near future.

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degrees from the UO. He worked for the Portland Bureau of Planning for over thirty years as a city planner. He used his UO training in landscape ar- Tell us what’s happening. chitecture to advocate for parks, paths, and plazas in Portland. Archives and negatives of the Clarks’ Send us news of yourself, your relatives, your friends — second career as photographers of landscapes and anyone who ever attended the University. Please include current addresses as well. abstract patterns in nature were donated to the Attention Parents: Are you receiving your children’s copies of Oregon Quarterly? UO Library Division of Special Collections and If they now have a permanent address, please notify us. Thanks. University Archives. The Clarks’ photography has been featured in many past issues of Old Oregon Class Notes/Old Oregon: 5228 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 and Oregon Quarterly. Class Fax: (541) 346-5571 William F. Ehrman ’41 died February 15 at the (E-MAIL: [email protected]) age of eighty-five. At the UO, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and ROTC. Dur- Name, Class year: ing WWII, he served as a captain in the infantry in Africa and Italy and received the Bronze Star. Address: He was a business executive and owner of W.F. Ehrman, Inc. in Honolulu, Hawaii. He and his City, State, Zip: first wife, Dorothy Hayes ’45, had four children together. He married Frances Cox Wimberly ’43 Occupation: in 1981. Telephone: E-Mail: Marie (Weatherly) Selder ’42 died March 12 of natural causes; she was eighty-three. At the UO, News Item: she was a member of the Order of the Emerald. She married James Selder in 1942. She was a homemaker and volunteered for the St. Vincent Hospital Guild for thirty-five years. Robert Barr Banister ’43 died October 15; he was eighty-three. Graduating with a degree in art education from the UO, he exhibited his paintings of Northwest landscapes and flora throughout the Sent by (name, class year): 2005 AUTUMN country and Europe. He directed arts and crafts programs in the U.S. Army before founding the Lincoln Art Galleries in Lincoln City. He was married to Emma Jane for sixty-three years; they had two children. Suzanne Deverell ’44 died December 4 at the age of eighty-one. She was a member of the Chi Omega sorority and earned her degree in home economics. She and her husband, Robert, lived in Eugene. A homemaker, she enjoyed baseball, gardening, camping, traveling, and spending time with her children and grandchildren. Roy Lieuallen MS ’47 died in April after a long illness. He was eighty-eight. He married Barbara Wales in 1943 and served briefly in the Navy before becoming a high school science teacher and basketball coach in Pilot Rock. He served as registrar and coordinator of instruction at the Or- egon College of Education (now Western Oregon University) from 1946 until he became president of OCE in 1955. He then served as chancellor of higher education from 1962 until he retired in 1982, earning a reputation as a gifted conciliator between campuses and competing interests within higher education.

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WRITING @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT From humble beginnings to working side by side with Bill Gates, Collins Hemingway has written his own ticket.

OLLINS HEMINGWAY MA ’79 CAME The book will examine how the to the UO by chance and cir- brain functions and offer ways to Ccumstance. His career arc since apply that knowledge to improving graduation led from a copy desk at business practices. He says bad the Register-Guard to co-authoring a business behaviors are often fear- business bestseller with Microsoft’s based, occurring when people revert Bill Gates. He now leads a financially to their ‘survival brain’ modes. secure writer’s life in Bend. “‘Fight, flight, or freeze’ are the But it didn’t start that way. He three main fear-based behaviors,” learned the value of hard work he says. growing up poor in Arkansas, the Research suggests that people youngest of three boys raised by a acting on fear aren’t thinking their working mom. clearest. You might solve a problem “My upbringing gave me the in that mode, but not very creatively. ability to scramble, which probably “One study shows that people are caused me to jump into new areas Bob Woodward more creative in a relaxed setting, without a lot of preparation,” he says. the Microsoft account. In 1992, he and are more creative the day after “Meaning computers, back when few started a seven-year career with the they were relaxed,” he says. The people knew what they were about.” software giant. most creative thinking apparently While growing up, Hemingway He worked closely with top exec- happens after ideas have a chance always worked, culminating in a job utives Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. to grow during a good night’s sleep. at the Arkansas Gazette as a high Ballmer struck him as charismatic, Another study found that one school senior. He learned journalism energetic, and able to spot prob- of the major attributes of a suc- on the fly, covering high school sports lems in short order. Hemingway cessful company is having a CEO on Friday nights and weekends. He once spent a week preparing for with a sense of mission, beyond just took a sports correspondent job with a pricing strategy meeting. As he making money. One chapter exam- him to college at Fayetteville when began his presentation, Ballmer said ines the benefits to companies in the Arkansas Razorbacks football Hemingway’s figures were wrong. doing community service. team was a national contender. Flustered, Hemingway rechecked his For Hemingway, seeing the world Already a working journalist, he numbers and discovered that, indeed, as one of abundance is essential to majored in English literature. After the competition had changed their living well, both personally and as a graduation, he worked regular news price list shortly before the meeting. way of running a business. beats and copyedited at the Arkansas Hemingway collaborated with the He credits his UO experience Democrat. Significantly, he helped world’s wealthiest man to co-write for helping his working and writing the newspaper with their early adop- Business @ the Speed of Thought career. He found the academic rigor tion of computers. (Warner Books, Inc. 1999). Working helped his critical thinking ability. In 1976, he landed a copyeditor with Bill Gates required a special “In graduate school, there was a job at the Eugene Register-Guard. strategy. “If you came in with some- level of intensity, a sort of peeling off Soon he was heavily involved in their thing 70 percent done, that was the layers of the onion that I’d never conversion to one of the earliest all- perfect. He could jump in with ideas. done before,” he says. electronic newsrooms. Hemingway If you were about 90 percent done, A modern British poetry class even wrote some basic programming it wasn’t enough left to get him inter- with professor Kingsley Weatherhead code for the new system. The Guard ested. If you were only 40 percent [see “Giants,” p. 28] was especially also helped create one of the first done, you could almost see him meaningful. computerized spell checkers, and think, ‘Ohmigawd, this is going to be “I never really ‘got it’ until that Hemingway wrote the code that auto- like a 10-hour job.’” class,” he says. The poetic technique mated it. After months of getting the His current book on retail busi- of exposition through imagery had, bugs out, the entire system worked ness, Built for Growth (Wharton until Weatherhead’s instruction, been so well that newspaper executives School Publishing, 2005), is co- difficult for Hemingway to grasp. from all over the country studied it. written with Arthur Rubinfeld, a For all his writing success, he Word got out about his comput- former executive vice president of thinks of himself as a failed novelist. ing prowess, and an Oregon software Starbucks. The book is getting great He’s considered returning to the UO company hired him as a technical early reviews. But Hemingway’s next to improve his fiction-writing skills. writer. Then came work at a Portland book may be the one that defines his But first, he has some writing to do. public relations firm that handled legacy as a nonfiction writer. — SCOTT MACWILLIAMS

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OQ7 classnotes AU05.indd 49 8/16/05 4:37:05 PM William Pickens ’49 MS ’50 died of Alzheimer’s D U C K S IT E S disease on March 5. He was eighty-three. He mar- WEBSITES OF INTEREST TO OQ READERS ried Marian Galt in September 1947. He worked in education for nine years, then as a management consultant for L. A. J. Miller Consultants for GET CONNECTED twenty-five years. After his retirement in 1994, he enjoyed playing golf and traveling with his wife. Milton Chase ’50 died February 27 at the age of seventy-nine. He served in the Army Air Corps in Europe during World War II, and married Dorothy Thompson in 1950. He moved to the Portland www.dailyemerald.com area and worked as a trust officer and vice president for the Bank of California. Earl Elliott ’51 died of cancer January 17 in So- noma, California. He was seventy-five. He served in the Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, then earned a graduate degree in clinical social work from the

10006 University of Chicago School of Social Adminis- The independent campus newspaper for the University of Oregon tration. He worked as a clinical social worker for more than forty years in Chicago and in Carson City, Nevada. �� Raleigh Meyer Jr. ’55 died February 14 at age seventy-one. At the UO, he was involved with ROTC and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He married Diana Skidmore in 1955, and they had two daughters. As a military family, they traveled around the U.S. and in Germany. He moved to Portland after his Army retirement in 1986, and married his second wife, Versie Waible, in 1991. They shared many interests including racecars, boating, and travel. Jean Adams Davenport ’56 passed away October 31 in Klamath Falls. She was sixty-nine. An accomplished pianist and vocalist, she taught piano and voice lessons throughout most of her adult life. Jerome M. Pool ’57 died on June 18 at age sixty- Making a better home for tomorrow nine. A business student at the UO, he was also president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity his senior year and led his fraternity brothers to intramural �� sports titles. He joined ROTC in college and served as a captain in the infantry reserve. He �� worked at Jantzen Inc. for his entire career, eventually rising to the rank of president and CEO. �� The loves of his life were his wife, Carole, his chil- �� dren and grandchildren, and world travel. �� Jim Reding ’64 died November 25 at age sixty- two. He was high school sports coordinator of The �� Seattle Times and the Walla Walla Union Bulletin �� and a former sports editor of the Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer. After attending the UO, he worked at the Register-Guard, The Springfield News, and The Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. He helped to found the Blue Mountain Sports Awards to honor sports achievements in the Walla Walla area. Arnold Wolfe Ph.D. ’64 died November 5 at age eighty-seven. He served in the Army from 1943 to �� 1946 and taught high school in Waverly, Nebraska, and Grand Coulee, Washington. In 1944, he married Allene Gundaker. From 1957 to 1980, he was �� a professor at Southern Oregon University where �� campaign.uoregon.edu he taught business law, accounting, business education, and other subjects. Gary Curry ’66 MBA ’68 died January 23 of multiple myeloma. He was sixty-one. He attended the UO on a wrestling scholarship and also played rugby for the University. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and while attending the UO

OQ7 classnotes AU05.indd 50 8/16/05 4:37:10 PM he met and married the love of his life, Martha They lived in Las Vegas where he practiced law Chris Jones ’92 died January 20 as the result of an (Hunt) Curry ’68. He worked for Ford Motor Com- for seven years. They moved to Portland in 1977, airplane accident. He was thirty-four. He attended pany before acquiring Oregon Onions, Inc. (now where he worked for PacifiCorp until he retired the UO on a wrestling scholarship and wrestled in known as Curry and Company) in Salem. While in 1998. He never lost his love for basketball, Cuba as a member of the U.S. wrestling team. He developing the business, he continued to enjoy his coaching elementary and middle school teams for was an avid Duck fan and enjoyed attending games athletic interests of running, skiing, and mountain nine years. with his wife and children at Autzen Stadium. climbing. Mary Ann Bisio ’77 died of cancer March 30 in Tevina Benedict MA ’93 died May 7; she was Hartley Thorson Hansen ’66 died in November Seattle; she was fifty. She received her master’s fifty-four. She received her degree in public health following a battle with cancer. He was sixty years in music from Boston University in 1982 and and education. A passionate advocate for the old. After graduating from the UO, he served in was pursuing a doctorate in choral conducting at homeless, the mentally ill, and the uninsured, she Vietnam as a captain in the Marine Corps. He the University of Washington at the time of her touched many lives in the Eugene community. She graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in 1968 death. She was a music teacher for more than worked with many government agencies, includ- and practiced law in Sacramento. He served as thirty years in the Seattle area and had a twenty- ing the Oregon Governor’s Commission on the vice president of the California State Bar and was year association with the Oregon Bach Festival Uninsured and the Women’s Rights Coalition, and appointed by the Chief Justice as a member of the Youth Choral Academy. directed the Lane County chapter of the Oregon Judicial Council Commission. Diana (Netcher) Thurmond ’81 died suddenly in Family Support Network. She married Dave Barta Kathleen (Sand) Williams ’66 died from cancer April; she was forty-six. She was the secretary at in 1982, and they had one daughter together. on January 11. She was sixty-one. She was the first Harper High School in Vale, and will be remem- Stephen Sherman ’01 died February 3 in Mosul, woman president of the UO Alumni Association bered as an avid UO fan who decorated her home, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device ex- in more than one hundred years (1989–90). She car, and office with a distinctly Ducky manner. ploded beneath the Army Stryker vehicle he was was involved with numerous civic organizations Survivors include her teenage son and daughter, aboard. He was twenty-seven. After graduating in Portland and helped to establish a statewide who attended Harper High. from the UO, he managed a car rental agency in program for identifying and treating children with Jacqueline Romm JD ’81 died on November 8 of the Cayman Islands and joined the Army in 2003. special health needs. Her volunteer work included cancer. She was fifty-six. She worked as an English Hugh Howard Housen ’03 died of Ewing’s sar- helping children and families in impoverished teacher and a lawyer, and was a partner in the law coma April 9. He was twenty-five. He grew up in countries. firm of Walters Romm Chanti & Dickens, PC. Eugene and graduated from the International High David Printz ’67 JD ’70 died October 28 at age She was a member of the Lane County Legal Aid School at South Eugene High School. He moved sixty. He entered the UO on a basketball scholar- board of directors and the Metropolitan Opera to Portland after earning his bachelor’s degree at ship in 1962. While attending the UO, he met Guild, and served as president of the Southern the UO and worked in the golf division at the Lynda Dasher ’66; they were married in 1966. Willamette Private Industry Council. Nike Campus in Beaverton.

DECADES

Reports from previous Autumn issues of Old Oregon and Oregon Quarterly.

1925 In the week before the beginning of classes, new to Oregon. Students pay one dollar to be matched students participate in an elaborate pre-registration by computer with their perfect dates — after answer- process that includes physical and psychological exami- ing thirty-nine questions about such things as height, nations and an English placement test. Three freshman religion, attractiveness, dancing ability, and political pref- assemblies provide academic advising, an introduction to erences, a list of matches is generated, posted in the University rules and procedures, and a primer on student Student Union, and the matched-up couples dance the customs and traditions. evening away. 1935 The library staff launches a movement to promote 1975 In a survey of 4,300 students, male students are “unrequired recreational reading” by stocking small librar- found to be more in favor of coeducational physical edu- ies and reading rooms in fraternity and sorority houses cation than female students. However, men and women with classic literature. Librarians report being gratified to generally agree that certain courses — including basket- see students reading fewer virile adventure stories and ball, weight training, floor hockey, and a course exploring movie magazines. international wrestling — should be taught separately. 1945 The first post-war academic year shows an influx 1985 In preparation for Villard Hall’s 100th birthday cele- of veterans to the nation’s campuses, and Oregon is no bration, events coordinator Horace Robinson launches a exception. Fraternity houses, inactive during the war, are search for a portrait, missing since a spur-of-the-moment used as dormitories to house the blossoming student prank in 1973, of Henry Villard, the building’s namesake. population; the crunch is so bad that emergency housing Robinson pledges no retribution to the pranksters, hinting quarters are also set up in the infirmary. that “the Centennial would be a wonderful occasion” to 1955 In spite of a freak snowstorm that blankets the return the purloined painting. campus and sends students searching for hot cocoa, 1995 The campus launches a “100 Years of Duck Homecoming Week draws Webfoots from far and near. Football” celebration with a reception at the Eugene Playing in driving rain, the Ducks deal the heavily favored Hilton where alumni meet and mingle with their favorite Beavers a smashing defeat of 28 to 0! Duck players from the past. Quacker Backers plan tail- 1965 The computer dance, a national craze, comes gate parties for all season games, both home and away.

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WORMING FOR WALLEYE by Nancy Wilbur Woods ’72 MA ’86

’d been up since 5 A.M. and was on walleye. Kathleen hooked a bass and my way to take a class called Fishing a squawfish. I pulled in a pea mouth, a Ifor the Outdoor-Challenged Woman, tiny fish with a delicate mouth no bigger sponsored by the Oregon Department than its vegetable namesake. We let of Fish, Wildlife, and People Who Are them all go. Afraid of Fish and Wildlife. We were to But after that things moved pretty meet at the far end of Sauvie Island, just slowly. I noticed how green the river north of Portland. was under the trees and how blue it was Smiling ODFWPWAAFW employ- under the open sky. Invisible fish left ees handed me a water bottle, name tag, circles in the smooth-skinned water. For and assorted body-care goodies. Nearby, a moment, it was even possible to feel under a huge canopy, breakfast was being free from cars, phones, and faxes. Then served — hot coffee, fresh fruit, and it came to me. Fishing was an elaborate bagels. Hey, maybe fishing wasn’t going scheme. All that fishing tackle and all to be so bad after all. Then I spotted a those fishing boats, trailers and motors, woman I knew. rods and hooks, lines and reels, it was all “I decided to take fly-fishing,” Kristi an excuse to get to this point, to sit here told me, referring to another of the many floating on the water, enjoying the calm classes being offered, “so I wouldn’t have simplicity of nature. to deal with worms.” But by eleven the sun began to get Worms!? I thought. No one told me warm and at noon it turned hot. I rolled about worms. But it was too late to turn up my pant legs, pulled my hat down back. All the walleye people were meet- over my eyes, and gazed fondly at the ing over by a white van, which took me shady shore. When I checked my line, and eight other women to the beach. even the worm had gone limp. We were met by a group of good-looking “Would you like to put your own

male guides who’d brought their fishing Kate Pryka worm on?” Tim asked. boats and fishing gear. Before we piled “No, but I think I’d better,” I said, into the boats, Tim, one of the volunteers, explained the wall- trying to be matter-of-fact. Tim handed me a worm, and things eye. would have been okay if I hadn’t done the one thing you should “The walleye is a perch,” he said while handing each of us never do if you are hooking a worm on a warm day — I hesi- a new hat with a brass fishhook embedded in the bill, “a preda- tated. Not for long, just for a second, but long enough for the tory fish with teeth. They don’t peck; they inhale their food. worm to get really active and for me to realize how soft and alive The world record is twenty-two pounds, five ounces. Oh, and he was compared to the cold, sharp hook. The more the worm one more thing,” Tim added. “If you’re skittish about night wiggled in my hand the more impossible the situation became. crawlers, we’ll put it on for you — the first time.” Tim laughed. I was assigned to a small boat with one other student, “If I drop this, will you throw me out of the boat?” I asked. Kathleen, and Tim, the guide. Before we set out, Tim geared up Tim had, no doubt, been given firm instructions to not our poles. He attached a spinner, lead sinker, treble-hook, and make fun of his charges. He accepted the warm worm from my an earthworm — a very large earthworm. hand and quickly skewered a fresh one onto my hook. “The first hook goes through the dark part,” Tim said, skew- “The heat of your hand made him move even more,” Tim ering one wiggly night crawler. “The second goes just above the explained, trying to make it better, but the sad truth was I was collar, and the third” — here he had to push hard to get the never going to be a walleye fisherperson, not unless Tim wanted hook to go through — “goes through the other end. Leave some to be my permanent bait boy, and I had a sneaking suspicion he slack in the worm, so he’ll twist in the water.” When Tim held already had a life of his own. the frantically squirming worm up, I could see what he meant. Soon after that, we returned to the beach. On the way back The walleye boats followed each other in a large oval up to the cool minivan, I noticed that two women were actually and down the Multnomah Channel, trolling downstream until taking home walleye. The fish looked huge. Two were green; we reached the end of Coon Island, then gunning it back to the third looked very white. I realized how relieved I was that I start all over again. A quiet rhythm set in. hadn’t caught any walleye. I would have had to kill it and clean There was one moment of excitement when a woman in it — and that would be even worse than skewering a worm. another boat hauled in an eleven pounder. “It felt like a whale!” she called out. Nancy Wilbur Woods is a freelance writer and editor who lives in There was much whooping and hollering and taking of pic- Portland. She was assistant editor of Old Oregon, now known as tures before the walleye, a brooder, was let go to produce more Oregon Quarterly, in 1985–86.

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