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Senior moment Senior day ceremonies prior to the final home contest of the season were a singular experience for Courtney Wetzel, the only senior on OSU’s record-breaking women’s soccer team, which went to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row after several years of frustration. Wetzel was given a shirt emblazoned with “SOLO SENIOR” to wear before the Oct. 31 game. Then, when her teammates removed their warm-up jerseys, she saw that they were all wearing shirts bearing a photo of her in action. A touched and inspired Wetzel went on to tie her career best for points in a contest, with a goal and two assists as the Beavers defeated Arizona, 3-0. For more on the team’s strong season performance, see page 50. PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON FROM WHERE I SIT Al Reser left behind a story well worth reading they warned me about people like Al and Pat finally opened the door and stepped outside ... located Reser before I took this job. the manager, offered him a taste of our salads, and OREGON STATER Beware the big donors, I heard from friends almost hugged him when he said that he would buy Winter 2011 Vol. 96, No. 1 who wondered why I wanted to edit an alumni twelve containers of potato salad and six containers Publisher: magazine. Watch out for the ones whose names of macaroni salad at thirty cents a container. I have OSU Alumni Association are on the buildings. made countless sales calls since then — some worth Christi Bass Kasten, ’86, interim Then, as I met many of OSU’s major phi- millions of dollars — but no sale stands out in my executive director lanthropists — including the couple with the memory more than that $5.40 sale in Oregon City! Penny Atkins, ’79, board president biggest name on the biggest building on campus There are stories of how Pat and Al met (and Editor: — I realized those warnings were silly. how many dates it took for him to decide he’d Kevin Miller, ’78 In five years at theStater , I’ve never heard a made an important discovery); of how OSU Associate editor: hint of Al or Pat Reser asking for anything in scientists helped the company; of Al’s battle Ann Cassinelli Kinkley, ’77 return for their incredibly generous donations of against a persistent and well-funded hostile take- Associate editor for photography: money, time and spirit. over attempt; of how and why Parker Stadium Dennis Wolverton, ’66, ’93 Certainly Pat, a co-chair of The Campaign became Reser Stadium; and of course, the entire Design editor: for OSU, didn’t pressure me to plug her late hus- “AL-phabet,” including “C is for customers. If Darrin Crescenzi, ’07 band’s memoir, No Small Potatoes: How a Family you don’t take care of them, somebody else will.” History and traditions editor: Potato Salad Recipe is Fast Becoming a Billion Pat said she still misses her partner of 53 years George P. Edmonston Jr., ’07(H) Dollar Business. but she knows he wouldn’t want any- Sports editor: It was at my request, not hers, one moping around in his absence. Kip Carlson that we talked about the book on She’s continuing her work for OSU the afternoon of Halloween. She and also taking care to make sure ADVERTISING was preparing to spend the evening Al’s legacy of integrity and generosity Ryan Amos with her grandchildren, one of gets passed down to younger Resers, Varsity Communications many first-time-without-Al mo- who will play a key role in the newly 12510 33rd Ave. NE, Suite 300 ments the Reser family has faced established Reser Family Foundation. Seattle, WA 98125 since he died on April 12. She said one of the most surpris- 206-367-2420 ext. 1222 No Small Potatoes is essentially a ing aspects of being a well-known [email protected] Reser family and business history, widow of a much-loved man is that CONTACT OSUAA authored by Al and writer Kerry she spends a fair amount of time toll-free: 877-OSTATER Tymchuk. A modest little book, it’s comforting others who miss him. (877-678-2837) a great read. That’s why she got herself up to the family [email protected] “I’m really pleased that the story is out there,” skybox in Reser Stadium an hour earlier than www.osualum.com Pat said. She noted that her husband succeeded usual before the first home football game this CONTACT THE STATER in life and business — and became one of OSU’s season. Al loved game days so much, she said. 541-737-0780 most generous and honored graduates — despite She knew the first game without him would be Submit letters and class notes to meager beginnings. He didn’t learn to read until tough on everybody. So she arrived early and got [email protected] the fifth grade and spent part of his youth in a her own emotions in check before it was time to Viewable at www.osualum.com/stater county labor camp. comfort friends and family. and at staterblog.com “I used to be a special ed teacher,” she said. “I Profits from Al’s book go to two of his Copyright 2010, 2011 by the OSUAA, worked with mildly handicapped students, and I favorite local charities: the Washington County Oregon State University, think some of them wrote themselves off far too Museum and the Virginia Garcia Memorial 204 CH2M HILL Alumni Center, early. Al’s story is one of those that shows that Foundation, which runs health clinics and is Corvallis, OR 97331-6303. we should never write ourselves off.” named for a little girl who lived, like Al once did, Oregon Stater (ISSN 0885-3258) The book is full of great anecdotes, including in a Hillsboro-area labor camp. She died for lack is a publication of the OSUAA. one about painfully shy, 16-year-old Al making of appropriate medical care. It appears in fall, winter and spring. his first face-to-face sales pitch: After I finished talking to Pat that day, I Postage paid at Corvallis, OR 97333 My mother and I pulled up outside a small thought of her standing alone up in that skybox, and at additional mailing offices. grocery store in the community of Oregon City. She getting herself together so she could help host turned the engine off, but instead of getting out, she her guests. And I thought of how great it would Printed at Journal Graphics, Portland, just sat in the driver’s seat. be for her to hear one day soon that the first Ore., with soy ink on paper certified “Are you going in?” I asked her. “No,” she replied. printing of No Small Potatoes had sold out. to contain at least 10 percent recycled “You are.” ... Any thought I had that she might be It’s available for $19.95 at www.resers.com, material and to have been produced bluffing was set aside when she pulled out a book elsewhere online and in stores. using responsible forest practices. from her purse and began to read. “The store doesn’t — Kevin Miller, ’78 close for a few more hours,” she said with a smile. ... I Editor, Oregon Stater

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CALL OF THE WILD OSU wildlife student and researcher Katie 10 Moriarty gained fame by happenstance, but her success in the field is no accident.

16 20 Researcher Katie Moriarty 24 wields a twig as a pointer while FARMERS ENDING PROVOST HAS SOARING ACTRESS describing the paw prints in HUNGER OSU’S BACK TOOK OFF FROM OSU one of the “traps” she uses to From a co-founder to many of the Provost Sabah Randhawa oversees Julyana Soelistyo got her start on collect marten tracks. volunteers who make it go, OSU the university’s day-to-day opera- the campus stage and now treads PHOTO BY MARK FLOYD alumni help power a small organizations and its academic affairs with the boards with elite players in tion that uses farm crops and com- a light touch and a penchant for top-notch productions. mon sense to feed the hungry. efficiency.

ON THE COVER: The campus was in its fall finery on Oct. 29, the eve of Homecoming, as a rugby DEPARTMENTS squad gathered on the intramural field Letters 4 north of Peavy Hall. More photos from Campus News 5 Homecoming weekend, page 28. Pop Quiz 7 PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON Ed Said 8 Giving Back 33 Membership Matters 42 Sports 46 Class Notes, Profiles 52

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Nifty in orange Moved to give ... and she was prepared On Sunday I was told what a great color my Somehow the most recent Stater publication Editor’s note: We recently received an unusual orange jacket is for me. prompted me to send a donation. Not sure death notice. It was precisely typed with blanks for On Monday I smiled when I opened the what areas your funds go to, but I think it the dates, and it announced the death of alumna Stater and read how difficult orange is to would be nice to give my money to one of the Chieko Otsuki Urakami, ’37, a retired professor wear. My orange and black silk suit has been scholarship funds. in Kobe, Japan. She had prepared it in advance, to several OSC/U reunions and many other I’m an old Home Economics grad. I would leaving instructions for a family member to fill it spring and fall occasions. Admittedly it isn’t give it to a Home Ec scholarship, but if I in and send it to the Stater. quite the official color but definitely brightens understand correctly, a student cannot even The notice was forwarded by her great niece. cloudy days. We’ve also established the habit of get a Home Ec degree anymore. In a handwritten note, she said Urakami loved wearing orange shirts when traveling because Anyhow, this Stater was really filled with art, had a good sense of humor and was a little bit they are easy to spot, a virtue at our age. wonderful articles. Good to see the stands at strict as a teacher. Princeton shares “our” colors and MIT our Gill getting a paint job — looks great! Beaver mascot. Does anyone know what other I was really a lucky kid to be born and Letters policy universities share either? raised just outside Corvallis, or I would NOT We love them. Our family recently said final goodbyes to have been able to get a college degree. It’s We might edit them for clarity, brevity or two Beaver alums: in May my sister Evelyn probably my greatest achievement as I paid factual accuracy. Larsen Boyl Ofstad, ’40 and September 1st virtually all of my own way. Many, many E-mail them to [email protected] or her son-in-law Jim Neill Jr., ’67. relatives including cousins, aunts, even my late mail them to Letters to the Editor, Oregon Lorraine Larsen Bauder, ’53 father and many friends either graduated from Stater, OSUAA, 204 CH2M HILL Alumni Sudbury, Mass. or attended OSU. My ties are deep! As the Center, Corvallis, OR 97331-6303. saying goes, “I bleed orange & black …” He’s a Buck, not a Deaver Kathy L. Smith, ’75 Portland Corrections policy Hi good people. I am a BS OSU 1972 and an Editor’s note: Thanks for the kind words and the MS UO 1979. I call myself a “Buck.” We want to know when we make a mistake. cash, but we would be remiss if we didn’t note Let’s face it, “Deaver” would never work! Please tell us of errors by e-mail at stater@or- that “Home Ec” was absorbed into the College of LOL. egonstate.edu or by mail at Corrections, Oregon Health and Human Sciences. The college is alive Norm Derouin, ’72 Stater, OSUAA, 204 CH2M HILL Alumni and well and offers a bundle of great degrees. Phoenix, Ariz. Center, Corvallis, OR 97331-6303.

4 O R E G O N S T A T E R CAMPUS NEWS ENROLLMENT BOOMS TO NEARLY 24K A record 23,761 students enrolled at Or- before — 17,178. an all-time high of 4,179. The 17.6 percent increase egon State University this fall — easily That’s a 3 percent increase over 2009, follows a jump of 16 percent last year. The majority of the institution’s largest class ever, univer- representing an additional 508 in-state that growth came from Hispanic students, whose num- sity officials recently announced. students. Oregonians now make up more bers jumped by 26 percent to 1,292. African American And while the university charted gains than 72 percent of OSU’s student body, enrollment rose slightly to 325, while American Indian in every sub-group of students, officials and its 3,853 new undergraduates from and Asian/Pacific Islander enrollments each experi- pointed to increases in the numbers of Oregon were the most enrolled this fall enced slight declines. racial and ethnic minorities, international at any OUS campus. Graduate student numbers grew markedly as well: students, graduate degree seekers and OSU-Cascades, the university’s branch Nearly 9 percent more are enrolled this year, with the domestic students from outside Oregon campus in Bend, also is growing. Enroll- headcount at 3,618 — 290 more than in 2009. as major drivers of the growth. ment rose to 678 this fall, an increase of Enrollment by international students grew by more OSU’s growth helped drive an overall 11 percent. FTE growth at the campus than 38 percent this year to a total of 1,548, the highest increase of 5.9 percent in Oregon Uni- was the strongest from a percentage ever for OSU and up markedly from the years following versity System enrollment. standpoint in the OUS — 15.8 percent. 9/11, when restrictive visa standards drove international Of the 5,380 additional students this “More students than ever before are enrollment down to roughly half this year’s total. year at the system’s seven institutions, choosing Oregon State over the many OSU’s “non-resident” population — students from 1,792 are at OSU, which saw growth other places where they might pursue the United States, though not from Oregon — rose of 8.2 percent. The university’s stu- their higher education career,” said OSU sharply, too, with an additional 1,284 students pushing dent “FTE” — measured by how many President Ed Ray. “We’re gratified by the the overall total to 6,583 — a jump of nearly 28 percent. full-time students are represented in faith they place in our university. And Even with its robust growth, OSU planned carefully credit hours — grew by 1,634, the most we’re particularly pleased with growth in to ensure that all students had access to the full range of any campus in the system. No other a range of student groups that makes this of academic and living services they needed to succeed university charted growth in excess of university a richer community than ever and thrive. 1,000 FTE. before, with tremendous cultural, ethnic Though OSU residence halls are full, classes are at More Oregonians are enrolled at OSU, and racial diversity.” capacity and parking spaces can be harder to find in the the state’s land grant university commit- OSU added 637 U.S. minority student lots, few serious problems have been reported ted to serving Oregon students, than ever students, expanding that enrollment to in accommodating this year’s largest-ever student body.

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WINTER 2011 5 MEMBERSHIPCAMPUS NEWS MATTERS ALUMNUS WINS U.S. SCIENCE MEDAL Warren Washington knows that science hasn’t always been so cool, even in the 1950s when the space race was getting under way and the “peace- ful atom” was seen as the solution to the world’s energy problems. As one of the 10 National Medal of Science winners in 2010 and as a leading climate researcher, the OSU alumnus remembers his classmates at Jef- ferson High School in Portland teasing him about his interest in science. “I had an early love of science,” he told an OSU audience in November. “One day I asked my high school chemistry teacher, ‘Why are egg yolks yellow?’ She was a fantastic teacher. She never answered those questions. She encouraged her students to find out.” Washington’s friends asked him why he took the hard math classes — trigonometry, algebra, calculus. “I said it was because I loved them,” he added. And he has this advice for students today: “Don’t let your peers determine what you do with your life.” Both of Washington’s parents lived that creed and attended college. His father, Edwin Wash- ington Sr., graduated from Talladega College in President Barack Obama congratulates Warren Washington on being awarded the National Medal of Alabama in 1928 before moving to the Northwest. Science at a Nov. 17 White House ceremony. PHOTO BY RYAN K MORRIS PHOTOGRAPHY; COURTESY His mother, Dorothy Grace Morton, studied music NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MEDALS FOUNDATION at the University of Oregon before she married Edwin in 1932. Jobs were hard to find during the Depression; Edwin Washington worked most of his life as a porter on the Union Pacific. Things went differently for Warren, who earned a bachelor’s in physics and a master’s in meteorolo- gy from OSU in 1958 and 1960. In 1962 he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he helped to develop some of the first global climate models. In his 48 years with NCAR, Washington continued to improve climate models and advised six presidents. At the heart of his achievements is his curiosity and love of learning. The high school student who learned that the yellow in yolks comes from sulfur compounds in chicken feed has devoted his career to one of the world’s pressing issues. Climate change “is a problem that is not going to face the present generation as much as our children and grandchildren. We need to preserve the Earth’s climate for them,” Washington told his OSU audience. Washington’s autobiography, Odyssey in Climate Modeling, Global Warming, and Advising Five Presi- dents, is available from www.lulu.com.

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POP QUIZ B O O K N O T E S

Pharmacists are most folks’ Bong Hits 4 Jesus: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska’s primary conduit to medications, Capital (University of Alaska Press) by James Foster, profes- and one of the OSU College of sor of political science, OSU-Cascades. An Alaska high Pharmacy’s principal goals is school student unfurled a sign reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” as to improve the quality of life for the Olympic Torch Relay passed his school, leading to his those who come to pharmacists suspension and ultimately to a Supreme Court showdown. for help. Faculty and students in Girl, Stolen (Henry Holt) by April the college conduct innovative Henry, ’83. In this young adult crime research that will contribute to novel, a blind teenager is accidently life-enhancing drugs of the future. kidnapped by a carjacker. OSU receives 700-1,100 Pharm.D. One City’s Wilderness: Portland’s applications each year, with 80 Forest Park (OSU Press) by Marcy seats available in each entering Cottrell Houle, ’82. This revised class. The Fall 2010 entering class and expanded third edition offers a was 62 percent female. Here are a comprehensive guide to Portland’s re- few questions pharmacy students nowned urban forest, including maps may encounter during their time and directions for 29 hikes. at OSU. Thank you to Theresa Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions) by Filtz, associate professor of Matthew Shenoda, ’99. The award-winning writer’s new col- pharmacology, for her help. lection of poetry dwells on the historical and contemporary culture of Egypt. Answers are on page 60. Seeking His Love (Steeple Hill Books) by Carrie Swain Turansky, ’76. The Christian fiction author tells the story of 1) Epinephrine is useful in treating a former teacher, haunted by false accusations, who tries to all of the following situations build a new relationship without revealing her troubled past. EXCEPT: So You Want to be a CEO … The Path from Middle Manage- A) acute asthma attack ment to the Top Job (Fortis) by Thomas Faught, ’51. Based on B) heart attack his 30-plus years of senior management experience, Faught C) severe high blood pressure outlines the requirements for management success in the D) severe bee sting allergy 21st century. The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind 2) Grapefruit juice should not be the Church’s Conservative Icon (HarperOne) by Marcus taken with which of the following Borg, retired OSU Distinguished Professor in Religion and agents? Culture, and John Dominic Crossan. The authors examine A) Lipitor (atorvastatin) Paul’s letters to show that the apostle was “deradicalized” to B) Zoloft (sertraline) fit Roman social norms. C) Procardia (nifedipine) The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) by Jon Lewis, OSU D) Neoral (cyclosporine) professor of English. Lewis looks at the role of “The God- E) All of the above father” in Hollywood’s box-office turnaround in the 1970s and evaluates 3) In psychiatry, the inability to “The Godfather’s” place within the enjoy things in life is referred to as crime and gangster film genre. ______. The Lumberman’s Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and 4) True or false: Beta blockers are Change in America’s Forests (OSU one type of treatment for patients Press) by Thomas Cox, ’55. Cox with high blood pressure. explores the history of logging and sawmilling since the European im- migration and considers the resulting social, economic and environmental changes. Reflections of a Pragmatic Economist: My Intellectual Journey (OSU Press) by Emery N. Castle, OSU professor emeritus of agricultural economics. Castle traces a journey that spans more than half a century and has helped shape the fields of agricultural, resource and rural economics. WINTER 2011 7 ED SAID MUSIC STIRS A PRESIDENT’S SOUL Ask OSU President Ed Ray what he Proud to be wearing abstraction. If that isn’t abstract, I would build on campus if he had a his new OSU Marching don’t know what is.” blank check and it was purely up to him, Band parka, President and his unhesitating answer provides Ed Ray waits for a cue About that building he’d like to see, the evidence that music and the arts have as he prepares to lead one that shows up nowhere on OSU’s had a firm grip on his attention since the band as guest strategic plan, if a donor walked up, childhood. For this edition of Ed Said, conductor in Reser gave him a blank check and said, “Here. we asked him to discuss the role music Stadium. Build the building you most want to see has played in his own life, and to discuss PHOTO BY DENNIS on campus.” its importance to him and to the quality WOLVERTON of life on campus. “I say this all the time. I’m still looking for a enlightened donor to “You want to remember that I grew up create a visual and performing arts in the age when everybody wanted to center on campus. I think it would be in a rock ’n’ roll band. I probably be transformational for the univer- sang like a frog, but I was in one or sity, because it would be a statement two groups that would sing at the about the other creative elements on school dances and other events. this campus that are just extraordi- “I grew up with music. My mother nary. I go to these performances, whether it’s a choral group, was always singing when I was a little or a theater group, or the orchestra, and the talent here is just kid. She’d have the radio on, and it wonderful. was the era of the big band sound, “This whole business of elevating the arts and sciences is not Sinatra ... many levels, he is especially enthralled calculated on my part. It’s not me being strategic. It’s at the “I’ve always loved all the arts. by musicians doing their best in live very core of who I am. I believe the arts and sciences are so Beyond popular music, the ability of performance. fundamental to who we are. music to talk to you at a very deep, “I think part of why I resonate with it is that it has been such spiritual, emotional level, without “One of the things that has always a profound process of discovery for me, that I think everybody words, has always resonated with intrigued me about musicians and should have some sort of relationship with the arts.” me as something really extraordinary. musical performance is that, when Why do we react to this the way we you listen to someone who really is He said he enjoys listening to OSU’s student musicians partially do? When you listen to a great piece extraordinary at what they’re doing, because he knows they are building life-changing memories. He of music, even when there are no or is having that one moment where loved his recent opportunity to direct the OSU Marching Band at a words, it’s almost like you’re mainlin- they’re at their very best, they’re football game. ing the message.” transformed. They don’t look like the same person. There’s something very “Really, all I was doing was keeping the tempo. What I told He took music appreciation in college magical going on that turns ordinary them at our rehearsal was that it was really important for them from a professor who wrote a popular people into something very special. to play it exactly the way they always play it, no matter what textbook on the subject. It was the only “You see somebody who looks sort I did. I said that even if I fell off the platform, they were not time he remembers asking a professor to of pedestrian, and then they act, or break concentration, and anyone who did would have extra autograph a book. they sing, or they play an instrument, practice. and you just go, ‘Oh my God!’” “It’s a hoot. You know, I don’t think I’m one who takes myself “I think I knew something transfor- too seriously, so you make a little bit of a fool of yourself, and mational had happened to me in that As a mathematician, he’s also intrigued it’s all for a good cause. class. I’d always had the sense that by musicians’ ability to turn written “It’s a way for you to let the students know how much you music could touch you. That’s not notes into such beautiful sounds. appreciate them. happenstance. There is a structure. “One of the things I admire about the students who do these There is a progression.” “You think about marks on a page, things is that — even if their fellow students don’t realize it — and turning them into music. I was I understand how important what they’re doing is to all of the Although he marvels at music on a math major in college, and I like students, to the entire university.” q

Regular readers of the Oregon Stater will notice that these “footers,” the colored bars full of text at the bottom of many pages, are larger than usual in this issue. We’re marking The Campaign for OSU’s success at blowing past its original $625 million goal this fall and resetting the target at $850 million. Read more about this historic effort in Giving Back, starting on page 33.

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Kelly Benoit-Bird will have $500,000 to spend as she wishes. PHOTO BY NICK KELSH

finally realized they were serious, it still took a OSU ocean researcher gets while to sink in.” prestigious ‘Genius Award’ The fellowship includes the “no-strings- attached” stipend, which is designed to provide Kelly Benoit-Bird, a pioneering oceanographer seed money for the recipients’ intellectual, in the OSU College of Oceanic and Atmo- social and artistic endeavors. spheric Sciences, is one of 23 recipients to win Benoit-Bird said the five-year support will 2010 MacArthur Fellowships. allow her to “take some risks in my research Popularly called “Genius Awards,” the fel- that otherwise would not be possible” as she lowships include a $500,000 stipend to further continues to advance the understanding of the recipient’s scholarship. They are granted hard-to-study marine life. annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Benoit-Bird, 34, studies the interrelation- NSF likes expert’s research ships of animals in different marine environ- enough to give her $400K ments, using acoustics and other sophisticated technologies. Hong Liu, an expert in converting organic “This is a well-deserved recognition of a wastes to energy, has received a CAREER tremendous young scientist who not only is award from the National Science Foundation. creative, but is an exceptionally well-rounded The award comes with a $400,000 cash person,” said Mark Abbott, dean of the Col- grant to encourage and support her efforts. lege of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Liu, an assistant professor in OSU’s Depart- Benoit-Bird is the second OSU marine ment of Biological and Ecological Engineering, scientist to have received a MacArthur award. received the award through the Energy for In 1993, Jane Lubchenco, a professor of Sustainability Program. zoology and now NOAA (National Oceanic In recent years, Liu has helped to develop and Atmospheric Administration) administra- “microbial electrochemical” systems that could tor, also was honored. convert biomass, including common sewage, “The foundation called me at 7:30 in the into energy. The process works either through morning and I didn’t answer my phone right the production of electricity or through the away — I need my sleep,” said Benoit-Bird. production of hydrogen, which in turn could She was nearly seven months pregnant at be used to power hydrogen fuel cells in a vari- the time of the announcement. ety of applications. “They called back again at 8 a.m. and when I She has been on the OSU faculty since 2005.

WINTER 2011 9 FEATURE STORY

OSU grad’s attention-getting discovery may have been a “fluke,” but her so-called luck is a product of hard work and determination

By Mark Floyd searcher trained in the nation’s top Baited with chicken, the track Katie Moriarty works katie moriarty casually slips wildlife program, she clambers over plate records hungry visitors almost near a Sierra Nevada a 40-pound pack onto her back, a ridge, spots a ribbon of yellow and as well as a camera. Moriarty notes lake to pick up a punches in a GPS setting for her pink flagging and swiftly maneuvers the small prints of a ground squir- signal from a tracking truck’s location and bounds up a through downed trees and windfall rel on one edge of the paper; the collar. hill into the piney slopes of Lassen to the base of a log, where a long, claw marks of a chipmunk on the PHOTO BY MARK National Forest. At an elevation of triangular black box open on each other. And there in the middle is the FLOYD 7,000 feet, the thin air challenges end holds the secrets to her research. unmistakable track of a marten, one the lungs of flatlanders, but a year of Shrugging off her backpack, she of the smaller members of the weasel acclimation and countless excur- pulls out a notepad and then slowly family, and the reason she has spent sions into the forest make panting a slips out the track plate from the box, the past year of her life in wooded non-issue. revealing several sets of footprints on isolation. With the proficiency of a re- the contact paper inside. “A male, likely,” she says. “You can

1 0 O R E G O N S T A T E R CAMPUS NEWS tell by the length of Moriarty checks a the print.” tracking plate from one Fifty meters away, of her marten “traps,” a second track plate which don’t detain the container, in a more animals but rather heavily wooded area, guide them to walk has multiple marten across a track-record- tracks, and a third ing surface. plate over the hill PHOTO BY MARK and partway down FLOYD the shaded northern slope offers even more. The frequency of visits is important. A major goal of her research is to determine whether martens will travel through thinned areas of the Lassen National Forest, or if they roam only the heavily wooded areas. The management implications are enor- mous.

two years ago, Moriarty accidentally found the proverbial 15 minutes of scientific fame. She had set out a series of trail cameras in the woods near Truckee, Calif., and was checking to see if any martens had tripped the motion sensors while scrambling up a tree for the chicken bait. What she found instead on a grainy image looked like a cross between a bear and a raccoon. It turned out to be a wolverine — the first one documented in California in 85 years. Overnight, this somewhat shy Oregon State University master’s student went from relative obscurity to Internet sensation. Even now, In the field: Investigating lingcod color variations off the Oregon Coast For three OSU fisheries graduate students, a research project that sprang from their inquisi- tive nature: Why, they wondered, is the flesh of lingcod a bluish-green hue? Their mentor, Selina Heppell, suggested they find out. And so with support from the Cooperative Institute for Ma- rine Resources Studies, they have undertaken a study at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. “We are conducting a diet analysis, manipulat- ing the diets of 36 juvenile lingcod to see if their pigmentation is affected,” said Jacalyn Zappa. Their working hypothesis is that lingcod may prey upon young squid, which affects their flesh tones. Left to right, Katie Borgen, ’10, Marybeth Head, ’10, and Zappa, ’10, work with lingcod at the Hatfield Center. PHOTO BY DAN BUCKOUT

1 2 O R E G O N S T A T E R plug the words “California” and never having really spent much time surveys to setting up DNA collection “wolverine” into any search engine outdoors,” Edge said. “You know traps, which aren’t as threatening Lugging gear from the and up pops the name of Katie Mo- that behind Katie’s discovery came a as they sound. Getting her samples truck to the woods and riarty. Her 15 minutes are stretching ton of hard work.” involves attaching a bunch of wire back again is part of into an eternity. Now a doctoral student at OSU, gun-cleaning coils to a belt, nailing the glamour of wildlife “It was,” she says, with obvious having completed her master’s this the belt to a tree, and strategically research. PHOTO BY discomfort, “a scientific fluke. It was year, Moriarty is clearly at home placing rotting chicken above it for MARK FLOYD pure, random luck.” in the woods. She lives in a small bait. When a marten climbs up to Dan Edge disagrees. The head old house in Chester, Calif., on the get the chicken, it rubs against the of OSU’s Department of Fisheries edge of the Lassen National Forest coils and leaves behind some fur, and Wildlife said Moriarty is a bit and some 200 miles away from her from which DNA can be extracted. of a throwback — someone who wolverine discovery. Several days Moriarty’s laboratory is breathtak- grew up spending time outdoors and each week, regardless of weather, she ingly beautiful. The Lassen National “developing a strong appreciation for makes the hour drive to the edge of Forest stretches across north-central wildlife and wild areas.” the Caribou Wilderness area, where California and the U.S. Forest “In contrast, a lot of our new she checks track plates, deploys trail Service describes it thusly: “Here students come to us after a lifetime cams, or leads other students on the granite of the Sierra Nevada, the of watching Animal Planet, but projects from conducting vegetation lava of the Cascades and the Modoc

WINTER 2011 1 3 Plateau, and the sagebrush of the for fire suppression and still maintain the connectivity that Great Basin meet and blend.” martens and other animals need to remain viable.” It is the Forest Service that is foot- ing the bill for Moriarty’s research “THEY’RE THE “martens,” says moriarty, “are just plain fascinating. They’re into the behavior of martens. District like the river otters of the woods. I’ve seen them run up trees wildlife biologist Mark Williams says and jump off into snowbanks time and time again — I guess, the marten is what the agency calls SIZE OF KITTENS just to have fun. But they can be vicious little critters, too. a “sensitive species” — a category that When you capture one and it’s growling at you from inside a falls below the “threatened” and “en- AND THEY ACT cage, there is no mistaking its intent. It will attack you if you dangered” listings of the Endangered get too close.” Species Act — and Williams wants to LIKE THEY’LL “They’re the size of kittens and they act like they’ll attack a keep it that way. pit bull,” she adds. “You’ve gotta love them.” “I don’t like the term indicator spe- ATTACK A PIT Looking like a cross between a fox and a mink, martens cies, but the marten is what you might can be found throughout the forested West and it is a tribute refer to as an umbrella species,” said to their resourcefulness that they are able to thrive in the Williams, who has been stationed at BULL. YOU’VE high-altitude habitat of Lassen National Forest. Despite Lassen for 14 years. “If we can success- weighing only one to three pounds, they survive seven-foot fully provide quality habitat for a top- GOTTA LOVE snowfalls by retreating to cavities or the subnivean layer level carnivore like the marten, a lot of between the ground and the snow, feasting on chipmunks, other animals will benefit as well.” THEM.” mice and other critters. In the spring, they poach eggs from Lassen National Forest has suc- the nests of birds and in late summer and fall, they dine on cessfully balanced timber harvests and berries. wildlife habitat, but Forest Service Despite their elusiveness, martens are not immune from leaders are struggling with how to animals move through thinned versus danger. Of the 10 martens Moriarty and her team have fitted blend fire suppression management wooded portions of the forest. with radio collars during the last year, four died from raptor into the equation. The clearing of “That’s why Katie’s work is so predation and one was hit by a car. brush is part of the strategy, but few important,” Williams emphasized. “I Moriarty says that martens are as small, industrious and studies have looked deeply into how think she will help us demonstrate we fearless. She may just as well have been talking about herself. that might affect wildlife and how can successfully learn how to manage On a typical December day, when former classmates are deep

In the field: Studying cougar predation in northeastern Oregon

Darren Clark, ’04, ’08, who is working on his Ph.D. at OSU under Bob Anthony, studies cougar predation trends in northeastern Oregon as part of a collaborative project between the university and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. His master’s degree work at OSU involved studying the impacts of fire on spotted owls. “Specifically, I am determining predation rates and the prey selection — deer or elk — by cougars,” said Clark, who lives in La Grande. “Then I will incorporate estimates of cougar density, predation rates, and prey selection into mule deer and elk population models to determine the impact of cougars on those populations.” In the photo, Clark has just placed a GPS collar on a cougar to help track its range. The cougar has been anesthetized but is unharmed. PHOTO COURTESY OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE

1 4 O R E G O N S T A T E R In the field: Tracking giraffes, other ungulates in Tanzania

Master’s candidate Rachel Crowhurst is working with faculty member Clint Epps, studying genetic variation and population Wildlife in Tanzania klas- “connectivity” of animal species in national parks and game reserves in Tanzania. Her research investigates historical patterns jf lkasfj aslk lksajf lksafj of gene flow in giraffes, greater kudu, elands and bush duikers — and can be compared with current patterns to determine the klsjdf effects of human activities. “We’re using GIS-based landscape data to identify landscape features that may act as a barrier to gene flow,” said Crowhurst, who is from Ontario, Canada. “This research will help inform managers as they prioritize land for conservation and attempt to design wildlife linkages to connect populations.” In the photo, Crowhurst is collecting a tissue sample from a giraffe that had been killed by lions in Ruaha National Park in Tanzania. PHOTO BY ADAM SETEMBO

into their holiday shopping, she’ll dress in her winter snow gear, load a snowmobile onto a trailer, drive her truck for an hour, and then snowmobile into the edge of the wilderness and head several miles into the back country. Then she’ll strap on cross country skis, put on her back-bending pack, and head off into the woods — often by herself. On most days, she doesn’t see another human. Even sightings of deer and bear, frequent in the spring and summer, are a thing of the past. Nothing else is out in the brutal Lassen winter; just martens and a few squirrels. Since her brush with fame, Moriarty is frequently sought as a speaker and serves as a reluctant, if inspiring role model for fisheries and wildlife students, especially women. get food poisoning and wake up puk- know, there’s a rule that we can’t Dan Edge says she represents OSU ing, or you have a sore leg and can’t permanently leave bait in the forest? Martens must be handled well and serves as a symbol of the walk. If it’s one of the scheduled days That means hauling out maggot- with care when captured university’s No. 1 national ranking to check the stations, you go into the infested carcasses in a backpack and for data gathering. in wildlife science and conservation woods.” coming into town smelling like ran- PHOTO COURTESY KATIE biology. She paused and looked into the cid chicken. I’ve chopped up dead MORIARTY But Moriarty’s success has not pines of Lassen National Forest. beavers with a machete and I’ve used come without a price. “A lot of young students think it’s a chainsaw to carve up deer for bait. “I’m lucky in that I have the greatest glamorous,” she said, softly. “They “That lifestyle,” she said, eyes job in the world,” she says. “But what don’t see the 17-hour days, driving twinkling, “isn’t for everyone.” q people don’t realize is that you have and hiking 100 miles through the Mark Floyd, ’78, ’90, is an assistant to go out there every day. It doesn’t snow, hauling skunk adrenal glands director in the office of OSU News & matter if there’s a snowstorm, or you and rotting chickens for bait. You Research Communications.

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Farm-centered organization with distinctly OSU flavor works to feed the needy

By Kevin Miller companies — to thousands of hun- production — could consistently be Farmer Ron Pearmine some things just make sense. gry households for about 35 cents a ranked high on lists of states with puts a lot of faith in When a Salem-area farmer pound. the most “food insecurity” among its the tractor driver — harvests a couple more large totes When Oregon farmers and their residents. his son, fellow OSU of fresh vegetables than he can get processing cooperatives say they can Youde often looks true hunger in alumnus Ernie — and to market that day, it just makes donate 40 tons of peas, it just makes the eye. When he and his wife Judith in the oncoming trac- sense that he can dial up John Burt, sense that Farmers Ending Hunger Atwood Youde, both 1962 graduates tor’s GPS guidance executive director of Farmers Ending can organize an effort — working of OSU and former OSU Alumni system as he checks Hunger and have the surplus picked with the Oregon Food Bank and Association board members and OSU to make sure wheat up and delivered — via a local food others — to get those peas flash- Foundation trustees, aren’t working seeds are being bank — to hundreds of hungry frozen, bagged and delivered to on behalf of Oregon State, they’re drilled down to the families within one day. households all over the Northwest probably working on the front lines right depth. When a dairy farmer and maybe even to Ari- at a food bank or helping raise nearly PHOTO BY DENNIS in far Eastern Oregon — zona, where they might be $4 million for a new food bank for WOLVERTON through routine culling of traded for much-needed southwest Washington, where they his herds — can donate fresh citrus fruit for hun- live in Vancouver. dozens of animals to feed gry folks in Oregon and Farmers Ending Hunger is shot through with Oregon Staters the needy, it just makes Washington. in agriculture and in the food-processing industry, and Youde sense that Farmers Ending What never made sense admits to a bit of partisan pride: “If you bleed orange like I do, Hunger can arrange to to OSU-trained agricul- what’s not to like about that?” he said. have the cows processed JIM YOUDE tural economist Jim Youde But he added that credit for the success of Farmers Ending into fresh hamburger that and other co-founders of Hunger goes mainly to the many farm families — be they Bea- can be delivered — again through Farmers Ending Hunger was how vers or not — who have jumped on board since the organization local food banks, and with help a state like Oregon — with such a was born in 2004. from a lot of generous people and diverse and plentiful bounty of food Now Youde and others hope people outside the food and

1 6 O R E G O N S T A T E R WINTER 2011 1 7 ABOVE: Scott Miller, ’73, donates cabbage when he comes up with extra. RIGHT: The Pearmine operation includes, left to right, Ernie Pearmine, ’08, Ernie’s dad Ron, ’72, Ron’s daughter Molly McCarger, “Western Oregon U — not a Beaver but might as well be,” and Ron’s brother Larry, ’69. PHOTOS BY DENNIS WOLVERTON agriculture industries will step up secretary. He uses skills and contacts and help Farmers Ending Hunger amassed during 33 years as an OSU expand its efforts by giving money extension agent — and help from vol- to an “Adopt an Acre” program, thus unteer board members and a growing forming a powerful and efficient cadre of friends of the program — to urban-rural partnership to get fresh build participation and troubleshoot food donated, processed and delivered anytime there’s a chance to get some to the hungry as cheaply as possible. farm production routed toward the Organizers, volunteers and food food banks. producers say Farmers Ending Burt’s focus lately has been to get Hunger works largely because it is more cash donations through the run by farmers, ranchers and others Adopt an Acre program. He offers who “get it” when it comes to farming some estimates of what the organi- and food production. The operation zation might do with donated food, is lean, flexible and — when its slim some donated processing, and $500 budget permits — responsive to op- in cash: portunities. It’s expressly not govern- mental, although agriculture officials Process and package over 1,400 lbs. of consistently endorse the group. hamburger, creating 5,600 servings. Burt, the organization’s only paid Package about 4,545 lbs. of pancake mix employee, does his job out of his into “food box friendly” packages. home and his truck. There is no fancy headquarters. His cell phone is his Process about 4,000 lbs. of vegetables.

1 8 O R E G O N S T A T E R HELPFUL FARMERS NEED YOUR HELP OSU graduates and lifelong farmers Ron Pearmine and his brother Larry have a way of getting to the point, so let’s let them: Larry wonders aloud: “Why would people be hungry in the United States of America?” Ron chimes in: “Farmers are something like two percent of the population. There are a lot of other people that need to get involved in this.” Although Farmers Ending Hunger gets its raw material donated by farmers and ranchers, and a lot of processing and transportation is also donated, Executive Director John Burt says a flow of cash has become crucial to capitalize on the organization’s Duane Ditchen, ’99, and his brother Dennis contribute produce to Farmers Ending Hunger when they can. Duane says he success among food suppliers. doesn’t even like to think about what it would be like to have no food to feed his children. PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON Retired after 33 years as an On a sunny morning on his include some of the best cropland one of the family’s fields. OSU extension agent, Burt is the farm north of Salem, Scott Miller, in the world, bearing broccoli, Just down the road another entire staff of the organization. ’73, took a break from wielding cauliflower, green beans, corn and Beaver and friend of the program He is based out of his home, a hoe to help his crew relocate wheat, among other food crops. was taking advantage of the great uses his truck as his office, and some cauliflower plants. Earlier he His brother Larry Pearmine, ’69, weather to spray a field. is not looking to build himself a had donated totes full of surplus was a student of Youde’s when he “I like that there’s not a lot of fancy headquarters or anything cauliflower and cabbage through taught ag econ at Oregon State. hoopla to it — you know, it’s like that. Farmers Ending Hunger, and they The Pearmines have pledged not one of those deals where the were already being processed for production from several acres to money goes from here to here to His problem is simple and — for delivery through the Marion-Polk Farmers Ending Hunger. here to here,” said Duane Ditchen, anyone who has contemplated Food Bank. The next generation of ’99. He and his twin brother Den- what it’s like to not have enough “The secret of this thing is their Pearmines is also enthusiastic nis help their dad and uncle in food to feed their children — organization,” he said. Farmers about Farmers Ending Hunger’s two operations — Golden Valley profoundly sad: “I didn’t go Ending Hunger makes it so simple approach. Molly McCarger, Ron’s and Golden Valley East — north looking for more acres of crops to to donate food that it’s hard not to. daughter (and a Western Oregon of Salem in the valley and near be donated last winter because I “My philosophy is that I think it’s University graduate who says she Hermiston on the east side of the didn’t have the money to process more my duty to help people than is surrounded by so many Beavers state. the produce and get it to hungry it is the government’s duty. This that she might as well be one) “I like the idea of people know- people.” is something I can do that doesn’t said it’s important to fight hunger ing, ‘This came from a farmer who cost me a lot. I’m just donating on several fronts. She has always sent it so you could have it,’” he That’s why the organization surplus.” worked on the farm, but she also said. is pushing its Adopt an Acre Across the road and up a bit used to teach in the nearby Gervais “A lot of people don’t have any program, seeking donations of from Miller’s place, Ron Pearmine, School District, where almost 9 of idea where their food comes from. any amount. To learn more and ’72, stood in front of a huge equip- 10 students qualified for subsidized People don’t even know what a contribute to Farmers Ending ment shed and agreed that Farmers meals. Seeing hungry kids is good combine is any more.” Hunger through its Adopt an Acre Ending Hunger is a fundamentally motivation, she said. A father of young children, program or in other ways, go to: sensible outfit. Her younger brother agrees. “I Ditchen said he doesn’t like to www.farmersendinghunger.com/ “We’ve lived here all our lives,” think it’s a fantastic idea,” said Er- think about what it would be like ways_to_help.html he said of his family’s beautiful nie Pearmine, ’08, son of Ron and to not be able to feed them. 1,000-acre spread, rising from the nephew of Larry, as he prepared to “I can’t imagine,” he said. “I just banks of the Willamette River to drill some winter wheat seed into know it would be terrible.” q

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“I WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY”

OSU’s provost might have the most difficult job on campus

By Kevin Miller also is the university’s chief academic 7,000 miles from his childhood home OSU Provost and the desk of osu’s provost and officer, which makes him, essentially, in Lahore, Pakistan — one of the Executive Vice executive vice president is impossibly king of the deans. He’s a highly 30 largest cities in the world — to President Sabah clean, like one of those ceremonial, trusted advisor and right-hand-man Corvallis, the largest city in Benton Randhawa has a list glass-topped, never-used governor’s to President Ed Ray as the two of County. His father was a phar- of duties that befits desks in a state capitol. them lead the university through maceutical salesman, his mother a the length of his title. Asked how someone with such an unprecedented period of growth, homemaker. Neither went to college. PHOTO BY DENNIS a complex and at-times messy job change and fiscal challenges. Randhawa had earned the equiva- WOLVERTON maintains such a pristine work envi- And he’s as loyal a Beaver as one lent of a bachelor’s degree in Lahore, ronment, Provost Sabah Randhawa can find, the highest-ranking OSU then worked as a chemical company laughed. graduate on the university staff and engineer in a salt mine at the end of “It’s just proof that I’m a really ef- one of few alumni to rise so high in a grueling 200-mile bus ride through ficient paper-shuffler,” he said. the modern history of Oregon State. the mountains. He wanted more Maybe so, but the university’s “That’s more than most people training and broader opportunities. second-ranking executive does a lot want to know about my job,” he said. Randhawa would eventually make lifelong friends at OSU, more than shuffle papers. “Usually when people ask, I just tell earn a master’s degree in industrial engineering in 1981, and He runs the day-to-day operations them I work at the university.” become a U.S. citizen. But on arrival he was quite alone in his of OSU in the way that a chief oper- None of this was part of the plan rented room near campus. ating officer runs a corporation. He in 1978, when Randhawa moved “My daughter Tanya (a junior at Crescent Valley High School

2 0 O R E G O N S T A T E R WINTER 2011 2 1 in Corvallis) was rolling her eyes one day when I was telling her that you couldn’t just pick up the phone and call home back then,” he said. “You had to call the operator and reserve a call, and then when your call finally came through, you might not be home or someone else on the other end in Pakistan might not be home. I wrote a letter home every week.” Tanya ought not roll her eyes at Dad’s phoning-home stories, because she owes her very existence to his persistence at telecommunications. He was introduced to his wife-to-be by their parents on a visit to Pakistan. It was a very long-distance courtship. “My phone bill was $1,000 a month!” he said. “I give my wife a hard time sometimes, telling her that we could have afforded a house a lot sooner if I hadn’t spent all that money talking to her.” His wife, Uzma Ahmad, is a clinical psycholo- gist who works with children with trauma and their non-offending parents. Her husband says that on days when things have been particularly difficult in the OSU executive suite at the top of Kerr Administration, “I will bounce things off her, but I tell you, I just have to think of her stories of the children she works with, and our trauma at the university is nothing. We are very fortunate.” In his current position since 2005, Randhawa is on the leading edge of most of the major changes underway at OSU. An expert in mathemati- cal optimization, he spends a fair amount of time trying to gain acceptance for changes in a university community that can sometimes surprises that pop up when impor- Told of Randhawa’s “25th time” abhor change. He tries to win the tant information is withheld and he rule, Ray laughed. He and his Although President Ed support of his academic and admin- finds out about it too late. second-in-command see eye-to-eye Ray is the university’s istrative colleagues, but he still has to “It’s not like everything has to go on all important issues, he said, but best-known public face, say no to a lot of them. through me, but if it’s a major thing, there are some obvious differences Randhawa’s job calls for “It’s difficult,” he said. “I don’t and especially if it might impact the in style. increasingly frequent know that I have a magic recipe. university, I want people to tell me “It’s like batters at the plate,” said public appearances at One thing I’ve learned to do is to sit and I want to make sure Ed knows,” the president. “There are lots of events such as football and listen to people, and to be opti- he said. ways you can hold the bat, but what games. PHOTOS BY mistic but honest with them. I might “The other thing that really gets matters is can you hit the ball or not. DENNIS WOLVERTON need to tell them what they’re asking me upset is when people who have Where Sabah and I are dissimilar, for isn’t going to happen overnight, been warned for the 25th time still sometimes I think I would be wise or that it’s never going to happen, don’t want to play on the team, or to be more like him, and sometimes but I can still hear them out.” they always have good reasons why he might be wise to be more like me. Randhawa is famously slow to they should be the exception, yet I think it might be to his advantage anger, but he says he does have some you’ve gone through the same thing to be more direct with people so he trigger points. He doesn’t like big with them a zillion times.” never gets to that 25th conversation,

2 2 O R E G O N S T A T E R and I think there are times when I need to hold fire and listen a little more and think a little more before I do something.” Randhawa admires Ray for his passion for public higher education, his problem-solving skills and his ability to get to the point.

“I WOULD PREPARE A LECTURE … I WOULD GO AT NIGHT WHEN THERE WAS NO ONE THERE AND I WOULD TEACH IT.”

“I appreciate his direct candor,” he said of the president. “I have seen this style before, in my dad.” Randhawa’s rise through the ranks to OSU’s top academic job started because he was forced to confront one of his phobias while earning his doctor- ate at Arizona State University in the In the provost’s case, a clean, shiny desk reflects a man who knows how to get a lot of work done very quickly. mid-1980s. His department head asked him many times to teach a class. teach it — presenting all my materi- Ray, a provost himself during his years at Ohio State Uni- “I really was quite scared of public als — to an empty classroom. At the versity, is among those who think it was a great day for Oregon speaking,” he said. “It’s not something end of it all I discovered that I liked State when Randhawa decided to try administration. that comes to me as easily, even today, teaching. “I’ve liked him since the day I met him,” he said of Rand- as it does to some. For two years this “One lesson from that experi- hawa. “He’s very thoughtful. He’s very analytical. He’s very task went on. He would ask, and I always ence was to not say no until I try oriented. He gets stuff done.” had excuses as to why I couldn’t teach, something out. So, fast-forwarding, Those who work closely with the two agree that they are a until one night he called me and told when a department chair position powerful duo with similar passions and focus and complemen- me he was having emergency surgery came up when I was teaching here tary styles. and I would have to take over his in the Department of Industrial and “It would never occur to me to wonder about his motives,” Ray courses. Manufacturing Engineering, I agreed said of Randhawa. “And I never knowingly let anyone do an end “I couldn’t say no, so I almost killed to do it on an interim basis and run on him. If people come to me — a dean or whomever — myself going into buildings at night. I see how it played out. That’s how I with something he should have been consulted on, I will always would prepare a lecture in the after- became an administrator. One thing say to them, ‘Have you talked to Sabah?’ noon and I would go at night when led to another, and opportunities “What I’ve said to him from the outset is that I’ve got his there was no one there and I would opened up.” back,” Ray continued. “And I know he has mine.”q

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IN ESTEEMED COMPANY

OSU-trained actress pursues her art in a most excellent way

By Angela Yeager The experience brought Soelistyo attorney Tim Barrett, and their two Alumna Julyana love of music brought Julyana full circle, for she first played the role children. She met Barrett, a 1991 Soelistyo won raves as Soelistyo to Oregon State Univer- of Ariel in “The Tempest” at OSU OSU graduate who majored in Ariel, playing opposite sity, but treading the boards as part when she was 18. Twenty years later, theater and science, in the theatre famed Christopher of OSU’s Theatre Arts Program is she reprised the role at one of the program. Plummer’s where the budding actress found her most respected Shakespeare festivals The couple recently celebrated Prospero in “The life’s work and passion. in the world, and the largest classical their 16th wedding anniversary. Tempest.” PHOTO BY Soelistyo, ’92, recently found her- repertory theater in North America. While performing with OSU’s DAVID HOU; COUR- self in esteemed company, appearing “It was completely different,” University Theatre, she also appeared TESY STRATFORD as Ariel in “The Tempest” alongside Soelistyo said. “When you are 18, in “Medea,” “Les Liaisons Charman- SHAKESPEARE acclaimed thespian Christopher you don’t have the same depth of ex- tes,” “The Misanthrope” and “Piaf.” FESTIVAL Plummer (known for films such as perience. Now as a mom, there were After graduating with a double “The Sound of Music” and, more aspects of the play I could connect to major in theatre and French, Soe- recently, “The Insider”) in the Strat- that I couldn’t possibly then.” listyo earned a master of fine arts ford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, A native of Indonesia, she lives in degree at the American Conservatory Canada, this past summer. Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband, Theatre in San Francisco.

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WINTER 2011 2 5 She moved to New York after Her mentor, OSU professor Char- receiving her master’s degree and lotte Headrick, ’82, said she could broke out in a major way in her tell that she was a major talent as an Broadway debut in David Henry undergraduate at Oregon State. Hwang’s play, “Golden Child.” She “Julyana’s voice is incredible, and was nominated for a Tony Award coupled with her passion and com- in 1998 for her performance in that mitment to her work, it makes for a production, quickly escalating what powerful force,” Headrick said. “It was already a promising career. She also helps that she has a brilliant went on to perform alongside Meryl mind.” Streep and Marcia Gay Harden in a Soelistyo said she originally came fund-raising play called, “SEVEN,” to OSU to study piano under music for the Women in the World confer- professor Rachelle McCabe. She still ence. That experience gave her the loves music and said McCabe’s teach- opportunity to work with director ing was invaluable, but she decided Julie Taymor, who won a Tony Award to change course after she discovered for directing the Broadway produc- theater. tion of “The Lion King.” “The music world is so difficult and For her most recent performance I realized I was mediocre at best at in “The Tempest,” Soelistyo was the piano,” Soelistyo said. “The music perched on a 36-foot high-wire for training has been immensely helpful. I can read music, which helps when auditioning for musicals. And that musicality — that sense of rhythm, “I NEVER ASKED timing and being able to project your voice to an audience — is essential. Those years didn’t go to waste.” IF I SHOULD DO However, it was the world of theater that gripped Soelistyo and did THIS. I JUST not let go. She said her early passion for the stage was in large part due KNOW I CAN’T to way Headrick and others in OSU theatre have structured the program. “It was very difficult not to fall in BE HAPPY love with the theater,” Soelistyo said. “Charlotte kept it so lively and vibrant. UNLESS I AM It was the one class where we came to class early. Whole groups of us would DOING THIS.” show up 40 minutes early because we couldn’t wait to be there, to get started. It was a priceless experience. It set the foundation for my deep love her role as the impish Ariel. for the theater.” With her hair fashioned into a Soelistyo said the small size of Mohawk and her body hand-painted the program allowed for an intimate an iridescent blue, she was unrecog- experience. It also gave her a chance nizable as herself. She trained with to train in every aspect of the theater a stunt coordinator for the role and experience, from set design and earned some of the best reviews of construction to acting in small and her career from critics at the New large roles. York Times and the Toronto Globe and “Everybody gets their chance to Mail, among others. shine, which you wouldn’t necessarily “It was a completely different look experience at a larger theater depart- for me,” Soelistyo said. “The first ment,” she said. time I performed as Ariel, at OSU, I Headrick echoed that sentiment, was in silver and you could see it was emphasizing that at OSU every me.” student majoring in theater gets a full Early on, Soelistyo showed a spe- experience. cial ability to connect with audiences. “Julyana had six major roles while

2 6 O R E G O N S T A T E R she was here,” she said. “That is “If my daughter asks me if she The role of Ariel required Soelistyo to fly with grace high above the stage. one of the aspects of our program should be an actress, I would never PHOTO BY DAVID HOU that is outstanding. Students can discourage her, but her question develop on stage here. There is tells me she shouldn’t,” Soelistyo OPPOSITE: Soelistyo, at top in a recent publicity photo, has made herself no substitute for that. And these said. disappear into many roles over the past two decades, including, in the middle, roles ran the gamut from serious “You’ll find great discouragement Arsinoe in a 1991 campus production of “The Misanthrope.” But her recent to comedic.” left and right in this profession. I turn at Stratford as Ariel in blue body paint and a mohawk required the most Next up for Soelistyo is spend- never asked if I should do this. I extreme makeup job. MIDDLE IMAGE COURTESY CHARLOTTE HEADRICK; ing more time at home with her just know I can’t be happy unless I BOTTOM PHOTO BY DAVID HOU; COURTESY STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE two young children, Coco and am doing this. You’ve got to push FESTIVAL Leon. She said she doesn’t like to yourself and be convinced that this look too far into the future and try is what you were born to do.” to predict what may come next. As Angela Yeager writes for OSU News for aspiring actors who want to & Research Communications. q know how to reach Soelistyo’s level of success, the graceful thespian gives the same advice she recently gave her 5-year-old daughter.

WINTER 2011 2 7 PHOTO ESSAY HOMECOMING 2010 ALL PHOTOS BY DENNIS WOLVERTON

TOP: What’s a Homecoming parade without a drum line and some cheerleaders?

ABOVE: Volleyball players (left to right) Tayla Woods, Natalie Morgan and Martie Massey took pies in the face for charity on Parker Plaza before the football game.

OPPOSITE PAGE: The bonfire followed Friday night’s parade, drawing a large crowd.

LEFT: Greek houses were challenged to show renewed interest in Spirit Week, and many — such as Delta Delta Delta — did.

2 8 O R E G O N S T A T E R WINTER 2011 2 9 ABOVE: We see orange people.

LEFT: Homecoming weekend means extra trumpet- ing for the Pac-10’s oldest marching band.

BELOW: Jacquizz Rogers and his teammates made life miserable for the Cal Bears.

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Freezing their flat-tails off Barely hours after they had watched the Beaver football team bounce back from two bad losses to trounce No. 20 USC in Reser Stadium, students camped out — staying in their tents to ward off freezing morning temperatures — to get tickets for the Dec. 4 Civil War game against top-ranked Oregon. PHOTO BY KEVIN MILLER

3 2 O R E G O N S T A T E R MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

“THIS TREASURED EXPERIENCE HAS ENHANCED PERSONAL FEATURES OF MY CHARACTER SUCH AS DETERMINATION, SELF-CONFIDENCE, PURPOSEFULNESS, AND COMMITMENT.”

Brooke Miebach, OSU-Cascades student, thanking donors whose generosity triggered an increase in the goal for The Campaign for OSU

WINTER 2011 3 3 MEMBERSHIPGIVING BACK MATTERS HISTORIC MOMENT FOR UNIVERSITY

Giving Back cover story times, is nothing short of incredible,” said By Cathleen Hockman-Wert President Ed Ray in a message to the President Ed Ray congratulates Kate, ’83, and John Stirek, ’82, October 22, 2010, was a banner mo- campus community. “What has made it who were among this year’s 16 new Harris Society members. ment in OSU history, as university possible is the tremendously broad support The Stireks were among several new members whose recent leaders announced that gifts from more for this amazing university.” gifts toward a new building for the College of Business qualified than 53,000 donors had pushed The Campaign gifts are having a transfor- them for membership in the donor recognition group. PHOTOS Campaign for OSU past its original mative impact on campus and beyond. BY KARL MAASDAM $625 million goal, almost a year ahead More than $100 million has been raised of schedule. for students, creating more than 400 new ON THE COVER: Senior Brooke Miebach told OSU donors about Energized by this tremendous mo- scholarship funds. In addition to other her experience in the Tourism and Outdoor Leadership program mentum and inspired by the univer- support for faculty, donors have created 32 at OSU-Cascades. More than 30 students joined OSU support- sity’s vision, campus leaders announced new endowed faculty positions (bringing ers in Portland for the 42nd annual President’s Dinner to share an increased campaign goal: $850 OSU’s total to 78) in fields ranging from stories of the university’s impact on their lives. million. The campaign will continue health span research and turf manage- through 2013 and will help propel ment to nuclear engineering and financial OSU to a new level of distinction and accounting. global leadership. Perhaps the most visible impact of The “To have realized such success, Campaign for OSU has been the recent particularly in such difficult economic building boom on campus. Funding is

“With our oldest daughter now at OSU, we are third generation Beavers, so our gift expresses how important our overall OSU experience has been. We hope to encourage others to join us to make a difference for the College of Business and Oregon for years to come.” — Kate, ’83, and John Stirek, ’82

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PRESIDENT’S DINNER CELEBRATES OSU “IT’S INCREDIBLE TO SEE HOW SUPPORT PHILANTHROPY

October 22 was a night to celebrate as OSU’s FOR THE UNIVERSITY HAS GROWN. philanthropic community gathered for the 2010 President’s Dinner in Portland. “There’s BUT IT’S NOT JUST THAT MORE PEOPLE amazing energy, momentum, and clarity of purpose at OSU today,” said Paul Lorenzini, ’70, ARE CONTRIBUTING. THEY ARE ALSO chair of the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees, in his words of welcome. “It’s abundantly MAKING MUCH BIGGER INVESTMENTS THAN clear that your philanthropy is having a transformational impact on our university, and on the exceptional students and faculty it EVER BEFORE — THE KIND OF SIZABLE brings together to learn and to lead.” GIFTS THAT, AS PRESIDENT RAY LIKES TO After President Ed Ray announced that The Campaign for OSU had surpassed its initial SAY, CAN MOVE THINGS FROM ‘ADEQUATE $625 million goal, the group honored some of the people who made this achievement TO EXTRAORDINARY’ IN SHORT ORDER.” possible: new members of the Harris Society, OSU’s highest donor recognition group, for those whose cumulative gifts to OSU have —PATRICK F. STONE, ’74 exceeded $1 million. The society is named for Milton Harris, ’26, who, after a noted career as a chemist, made the first million-dollar gift now complete for 16 facilities. Major construc- Endowed faculty positions and other support for to OSU and created its first endowed faculty tion and renovation projects made possible by OSU’s world-class faculty position. campaign gifts include the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Hallie Ford Center A new $50 million home for the College of Business, Harris Society members now number 141. for Healthy Children & Families, Kearney Hall, plus a new $15 million Sports Performance Center, Kelley Engineering Center, Linus Pauling Sci- to provide practice facilities for men’s and women’s NEW MEMBERS: ence Center, Student Success Center, Weather- basketball ford Hall, and the expansion of Goss and Reser Agouron Institute stadiums. “At the campaign’s public launch three years ago, I Marian C. & Stephen M. Bailey, ’70 The final phase of The Campaign for OSU expressed confidence in reaching our ambitious Marcia Wiseman Coats, ’53 will focus on investments that advance the goals goal; in fact, I said that if we work together, stay Susann, ’58, & Jim Coleman, ’58 described in the university’s strategic plan, and focused, and enlist all the people who love this ConocoPhillips support OSU’s drive to be recognized as a lead- university, we would succeed spectacularly,” said Pete deLaubenfels, ’62 ing international research institution. President Ed Ray, who announced the cam- Campaign donors will continue to help the paign’s success. “Today I am even more confident Bette, ’40, & Fred W. Durbin, Jr., ’41 university reach new levels of excellence, particu- that we will reach our new $850 million goal — Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. larly in three core areas: advancing the science of and that we will see benefits for our students, our Lobbato Family Charitable Trust sustainable earth ecosystems, improving human state, and our world beyond what we can now Jean Harris Loosley, ’48, & John Loosley, ’49 health and wellness, and promoting economic imagine.” q Margie & Jon Masterson, ’61 growth and social progress. James D. Mendenhall, ’79 Major initiatives for the remainder of the campaign include: Portland General Electric Kate, ’83, & John A. Stirek, ’82 Merit-based scholarships that help make OSU the Luana Kapuniai Whyte, ’72, & Jim Whyte, ’70 destination of choice for high-achieving, diverse students from Oregon and beyond

“I was a reluctant student to start, but my school [Business] helped me, and the university launched me into a career. We want to help students who are coming to OSU today to get on track and go out and succeed.” — Steve Bailey, ’70

WINTER 2011 3 5 GIVING BACK GIFT SUPPORTS STUDY OF LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN, ANIMAL HEALTH

By Mark Floyd deLaubenfels, ’62, will create an — infectious agents like anthrax, and Cathleen Hockman-Wert endowment to support programs for instance — are transferred to Pete deLaubenfels is glad They seem like natural partners, that focus on the interface between humans from animals. Also, food- to help OSU researchers OSU’s College of Health and Hu- human and animal health — and borne illnesses such as salmonellosis learn more about links man Sciences and the College of help people understand how they are and E-coli infection, which sicken between the health of Pharmacy. But add the College of tied together. thousands of Americans each year, animals and the health of Veterinary Medicine? “So many people only think of typically are traced to livestock. humans. PHOTO BY OSU is reorganizing itself to veterinary medicine as taking care The college works closely with the DENNIS WOLVERTON make a more powerful impact on the of Aunt Minnie’s little kittens, but Oregon State Veterinarian’s Office world, and one major focus relates to there is so much more to it,” said in responding to such outbreaks and improving human health. To this end, deLaubenfels. providing testing; its Veterinary Di- the colleges have been grouped into Human health and animal health agnostic Laboratory analyzes more new divisions, including the Division are intertwined in many ways, noted than 14,000 animal tissue and fluid of Health Sciences. Along with the Cyril Clarke, Lois Bates Acheson samples each year. colleges of Pharmacy and Health Dean of Veterinary Medicine. The A frequent visitor to the college, and Human Sciences, it includes vast majority of emerging infectious deLaubenfels said he is flabbergasted the College of Veterinary Medicine, diseases worldwide — swine flu, at the technology. which also is making important avian flu, HIV-AIDs and Ebola, to “Oh man, it is so modern,” he said. contributions to human — as well as name a few — have animal origins. “They have a treadmill for horses and animal — health. Moreover, 80 percent of pathogens an underwater treadmill for dogs. It A $1 million gift from Pete that pose a national-security threat is fantastic. I remember going there

“Higher education provides the means to fuel continual technological advances that will improve the well-being of our children and their children. Like those who helped us, we give back to OSU to enhance the opportunities for those who follow.” — Jean, ’48, and John Loosley, ’49

3 6 O R E G O N S T A T E R GIVING BACK once and seeing a llama that was hooked up to an IV, but they had this THE ENERGY OF GIVING mechanism that would allow it to move any way By Gregg Kleiner growing career field that requires programs that appeal to students it wanted to. It’s abso- When Amy Tykeson, president professionals to understand com- and serve industry are critical. “The lutely amazing the things and CEO of BendBroadband, and plex engineering as well as business more we can do to develop relevant they’ve got there. her team in Bend started planning concepts. educational programs that provide “I’m hoping that this en- to construct a new data center, Students in the program will a pathway for people to contribute dowment will act as seed she knew she wanted to optimize take classes in mechanical engi- in our economy, the better off we’ll money and encourage energy use by incorporating smart, neering, industrial engineering and be,” she said. “Education is really other people to contribute renewable energy systems to heat business management, in addition the solution to so many problems so we can build a fund and cool the building, including a to energy specific courses. They will we have — not only in our state but for some really significant 155 KW solar array on the roof. gain an understanding of complex in the world.” work down the road.” Then she learned that OSU- In 1960 deLaubenfels Cascades was about to launch an entered OSU’s education innovative, new degree program program as a 37-year-old in Energy Engineering Manage- “WE’VE SEEN THE OSU-CASCADES freshman. He taught sixth ment (EEM). Her company’s needs grade in Linn County dovetailed almost perfectly with her for 22 years, and has also desire to support higher education. CAMPUS GAIN TREMENDOUS been a farmer, a motorcy- A $250,000 gift from the Tyke- cle policeman, an amateur son Family Charitable Trust, es- MOMENTUM UNDER THE magician and an expert tablished by Amy’s father, Donald marksman. Tykeson (founder of the company LEADERSHIP OF VICE PRESIDENT His father, M.W. Amy now heads), was finalized deLaubenfels, taught within days of the new EEM pro- BECKY JOHNSON.” zoology at Oregon State, gram receiving approval from the plus he had a grandfather State Board of Higher Education. and uncle who taught at “The alignment of this giving op- — AMY TYKESON Oberlin College, another portunity with what we were think- uncle who was a scientist, ing about relative to our new data and a younger brother center just seemed to fit very well. energy systems with an eye to With students clambering for who was on the faculty of This is the type of degree program business and management concerns, degree programs in renewable ener- Syracuse. that will put OSU-Cascades on the and environmental issues. gy, and businesses looking for ways “I came from a pretty map nationally,” Amy said. Based in Eugene, the Tykeson to optimize energy use, the new science-oriented fam- The gift establishes the first-ever Family Charitable Trust has sup- EEM program — and its newly ily and I’ve been around endowed faculty position at the ported higher education since its endowed faculty scholar position — science all my life,” Central Oregon campus, which inception 20 years ago, including couldn’t come at a better time. deLaubenfels said. “So will fast-track the fledgling EEM gifts to Oregon Health and Science “If we had graduates right now, naturally, when I began program toward success by enabling University and the University of they would probably be helping raising chickens and had the campus to attract a top-flight Oregon. This is the trust’s first gift Amy and BendBroadband on their questions, I came to OSU. faculty member to lead it. to OSU. new data center,” said OSU-Cas- Once I ran into an Army In addition, the gift qualifies Both Amy and her father Don cades Vice President Becky John- officer at a pistol tourna- for the OSU Provost’s Faculty Tykeson are University of Oregon son. “This gift is a testament to the ment and he said he was Match Program, a new initiative graduates, but Don’s sister, her Tykesons’ leadership in Central an Army veterinarian, that provides an extra incentive for husband, and Amy’s husband are Oregon and to their understanding in charge of inspecting donors to endow faculty positions all OSU alumni. “I’m an Oregon of how important higher education the meat the troops ate. that support priorities identified in alum and a supporter of the Ducks,” is for any community.” q That’s when I found out the university’s strategic plan. said Don. “But I’m interested in our that veterinarians do so The new undergraduate program state and our country and things much more than simply is one of only a handful of its kind that are much larger than that.” treat animals.” in the nation and represents a Amy believes educational

“My college experience started with one person, a lady in Admissions who took the time to walk me around OSU in the summer and expedite the late paperwork necessary to get me in. It changed my life.” — Jim Whyte, ’70

WINTER 2011 3 7 GIVING BACK NEW TARGETS SET FOR EXTENDED CAMPAIGN FOR OSU

The Campaign for OSU TOTAL RAISED GOAL is the university’s first CAMPAIGN GOAL as of 10/22/2010 comprehensive campus- $850 MILLION 4-H $9,816,659 $15,000,000 wide fundraising effort. TOTAL RAISED $629,154,074 Agricultural Sciences $48,917,353 $85,000,000 With ambitious new goals Athletics $114,164,171 $157,000,000 for each college and $850 Business $47,430,666 $60,000,000 million other major programs, Central Initiatives $44,095,913 $60,000,000 the campaign has been Original Goal Met: $700 Education $3,045,860 $5,000,000 $625 Million extended through 2013 October 22, 2010 Engineering $126,401,389 $160,000,000 Oregon Staters who make an annual gift of and seeks to raise $850 $550 Forestry $31,842,151 $40,500,000 $1,000 or more to the OSU Alumni Association million to provide op- Health and Human Sciences $18,628,646 $22,000,000 to support scholarships, the alumni center, or Liberal Arts $9,627,725 $16,500,000 portunities for students, $400 Public Launch Linus Pauling Institute $34,833,661 $40,500,000 the excellence fund (or a combination of all strengthen the Oregon October 26, 2007 Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences $8,984,171 $15,000,000 three) are recognized as members of the Legacy economy and conduct $250 OSU Alumni Association $2,479,249 $5,000,000 Builders. Legacy Builders are also included in OSU’s research that changes Campaign Begins OSU-Cascades $854,758 $7,500,000 President’s Circle. the world. July 2004 $100 Pharmacy $5,354,229 $7,500,000 Science $71,040,426 $85,000,000 Veterinary Medicine $39,644,757 $45,500,000 Emerging Initiatives $11,992,290 $23,000,000 Total: $629,154,074 $850,000,000 e are Legacy Builders because we are friends of former alumni Wdirector Don Wirth and we watched the alumni center being built. We want to help keep it in great condition. I was on the alumni Debbie Bird McCub- association’s scholarship committee and I saw the quality of the students bin, ’97, (left) and Ann the association was helping. We wanted to ﬁ nd a way to say thank you for Asbell, instructor in the the work you’re doing. College of Health and Human Sciences, join — Suzanne Darley, ’59, and Jack Darley, ’58, founding members OSU a cappella group, Outspoken, in singing the alma mater at the annual President’s Dinner. PHOTO BY upporting the alumni association in any way is a good thing to do. KARL MAASDAM SThey’re the ones that keep the alumni involved with the university. We designate our Legacy Builders gift for scholarships, because we like the idea of supporting students in need. — Peggy Wood, ’61, and Joe Wood, ’60, founding members

he biggest reason I became a Legacy Builder is because I believe in the T association and what it does for students and alumni. Oregon State gave me a degree that beneﬁ ted me in my personal and professional life. Supporting the alumni association is a way to help make the university even better for today’s students. — Mike Macnab, ’77, founding member

“Oregon State has come a long way since I attended the university. My goal is to help keep it going in the right direction anyway I can.” — Jim Mendenhall, ’79

3 8 O R E G O N S T A T E R OSU Alumni Association • 877-678-2837 • [email protected] • www.osualum.com Oregon Staters who make an annual gift of $1,000 or more to the OSU Alumni Association to support scholarships, the alumni center, or the excellence fund (or a combination of all three) are recognized as members of the Legacy Builders. Legacy Builders are also included in OSU’s President’s Circle.

e are Legacy Builders because we are friends of former alumni Wdirector Don Wirth and we watched the alumni center being built. We want to help keep it in great condition. I was on the alumni association’s scholarship committee and I saw the quality of the students the association was helping. We wanted to ﬁ nd a way to say thank you for the work you’re doing. — Suzanne Darley, ’59, and Jack Darley, ’58, founding members

upporting the alumni association in any way is a good thing to do. SThey’re the ones that keep the alumni involved with the university. We designate our Legacy Builders gift for scholarships, because we like the idea of supporting students in need. — Peggy Wood, ’61, and Joe Wood, ’60, founding members

OSU Alumni Association • 877-678-2837 • [email protected] • www.osualum.com BACK IN THE DAY ROOTED IN ORAN WHEAT

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By George P. Edmonston Jr. ing it was. Surrounded by enough “experimental farming” and although not referred to as “research” on july 29, 2010, OSU went public political intrigue to warrant a movie, by name, in practice it clearly was. Students were involved and with a story that highlighted one of it would eventually bring down a this begins the tradition of student-centered research found the most impressive aspects of the president and trigger an atmosphere today throughout the OSU campus, where even talented under- university’s continuing success story. of suspicion and jealousy from around graduates get to work on research projects. From 2009 to 2010, Oregon State the state that would last the next 20 Qualitative analysis quickly joined the curriculum, introduc- received enough new research support years. ing field testing for alkalies and the effects of injurious insects to push the total to more than a quar- In 1868, Finley’s Corvallis College on vegetable gardening. Students were also exposed to instruc- ter of a billion dollars — $275 million was provisionally designated by the tion in mensuration — geometry applied to the computation — roughly double what the university state legislature as the land grant of lengths, areas or volumes from given dimensions or angles — attracted just a decade ago. school of Oregon under the provi- and land surveying. To say the very least, the first two sions of the Morrill Land Grant Act For the money to make this happen, Finley cobbled together presidents of the university, Wil- of 1862. The catalog for 1869-70 funds he had set aside to start a commercial department, and the liam Finley, a Methodist minister, shows two courses of collegiate study: savings he gained by closing the preparatory school for the fall and Benjamin Arnold, a Civil War the Collegiate Course or Classical of 1870. Supervision of the new science was put in the hands of veteran, would be impressed. No, Course, and the Agricultural Course, faculty member William Moreland, newly designated as profes- staggered. After all, they were the also known as the Scientific Course. sor of natural science and practical agriculture. Thus Moreland ones who started over a century and No one knows for sure if the Sci- became the first professor of agriculture in OSU history, a posi- a half ago the tradition and practice entific Course included research. This tion he held from December 1870 to June 1871. of research at OSU, launching the changed sometime during the spring The Morrill Act required all land grant schools to purchase school toward its current place as a of 1870, when the college introduced a farm of at least 35 acres on which to conduct instruction and Carnegie Foundation top tier research the subject of “How Crops Grow.” research. In 1870 Moreland found acreage only a few blocks to university, as well as the research Botanical field study and collecting the west of the original campus, owned by George and Elizabeth university of the state of Oregon. trips were required to complete the Jane Roberts. The sale was final in March 1871. At the time it And what an inauspicious launch- course. At the time it was known as was known as the College Farm and is known today as Lower

A $100,000 endowment gift made in 2001 would have grown to $135,000 today. The university’s endowment, managed by the OSU Foundation, had a 9.8 percent return last year.

4 0 O R E G O N S T A T E R Research at Oregon During private moments, Finley farm, it fell far short of what Wil- State had early if must have taken time to think back lamette Valley farmers needed. imperfect beginnings to five years earlier, and the condi- Critics noted that none of Ar- under first president tions under which he had been hired. nold’s faculty had any real training in William Finley. Trustees had proudly showed him agriculture, and all had come from PHOTO COURTESY the college’s charter and articles of areas “back East,” where farming OSU ARCHIVES P1:2 incorporation, in which the signers conditions were far different from had, in essence, formed themselves those in Oregon. Most Corvallis into a “literary society” to operate a College graduates during this period school that would “strictly be a liter- were leaving school to become law- ary institution.” yers, teachers and business leaders, He hung on but his low ebb came not farmers, which troubled many in 1872. His resignation came at the groups in the state, particularly the end of the school year. Publicly, he Oregon State Grange, a powerful stated that his decision was based farmer’s organization. on the health of his wife Sarah. Arnold was still president when Constantly suffering from the damp the Hatch Act of 1887 created Benjamin Arnold, of the Pacific Northwest, she was agricultural experiment stations Finley’s successor finally advised by her doctor to seek for land grant schools, legislation in the top job, is a drier climate. which over time would help ensure credited with firmly Privately, Finley was certainly OSU’s permanent place as a national establishing research feeling the weight of his job. A research institution. on the campus deep and energy-draining depres- Today, as one of only 73 land agenda. sion had settled into his normally grant universities in the U.S., OSU PHOTO COURTESY lively personality. Here was a man is also recognized as a sea, space and OSU ARCHIVES P1:3 clearly pulled down by the problems sun grant institution. Cornell is the of trying to satisfy the mandates of only other university in the country the Morrill Act but not having the to have all four, with OSU the only money or the training to do so. public university in the country to His replacement was Benjamin enjoy the distinction. q Lee Arnold, a chemist. The new chief George P. Edmonston Jr., is history executive went to work immediately and traditions editor of the Oregon to restore the school’s research activi- Stater, and is the retired editor of the ties. Reporting for the school year magazine. A graduate of Louisiana 1872-73, he said: State University, he received the Campus. Here OSU began its long “We worked with Oran wheat, a OSUAA’s Honorary Alumni Award journey to becoming a legitimate spring variety, and Yellow Scottish in 2007. research university, and here More- oats. The second year (1873-74) we land first took to the outdoors with made chemical tests and experiments his students in April 1871. Report- with spring club on white soils.” By edly, this may also have been the “white soils” he was referring to soils first recorded instance of scientific treated with soda, lime, potash and instruction in agriculture conducted other forms of primitive fertilizers, anywhere in the western United including “burnt bones.” States. Arnold had demons of his own. Unfortunately, research activity A vocal minority in Oregon on the farm ceased that fall. There wanted the state to take control of wasn’t enough money to pay for the Agricultural College and move everything, which forced Finley to it to another location. Among other revisit his priorities. The preparatory things, they voiced strong opinions department was reinstated and the that although much effort had gone college went about its business much into establishing a research program as it had before 1868. on the school’s new experimental

The OSU Foundation manages more than 1,700 donor-created endowed funds. Last year these funds paid out $15.4 million in support of OSU programs, with the largest portion going to scholarships, fellowships and other student awards.

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IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE KASTEN NAMED INTERIM DIRECTOR OF OSU ALUMNI RE-RECRUITED TO OSU ASSOCIATION i returned to my office late on an October af- could close the deal for students looking at OSU ternoon low on energy following a particularly busy and wondering if this could be the next important Christi Bass Kasten, ’86, has been day. As I checked my e-mail and wrapped up a few community in their lives, or for alumni wonder- named interim executive director of the things before going home, a message from Presi- ing whether to get re-involved and reconnected to Oregon State University Alumni Associa- dent Ed Ray, cryptically the OSU community. I know it energized me and tion and director of the OSU Office of noting that “This could “re-recruited” me to the great work we have the Alumni Relations. be a great year,” piqued privilege to do each day. She succeeds Jeff Todd, who my interest. I clicked Later in October, I attended a special dinner in accepted a position at the University of on the attached video Portland celebrating the success of The Campaign British Columbia. and discovered that the for OSU. There I introduced myself to a young Kasten has been associate director most delightful “flash woman in an elegant, brightly colored sari, and I for operations and board relations for mob” had unfolded a learned that she was Neha Neelwarne, a senior in the association since September 2009, few hours before on the finance and English literature, a fitness instructor and has been with the organization Memorial Union Quad. on campus and the marketing coordinator for the since 2005. She has led efforts to CHRISTI KASTEN Emerging one-by- Women’s Center. implement the association’s strategic Interim executive director one from the at-first A native of Mysore, India, she had organized the plan and keep OSU’s more than OSUAA confused, then boister- flash mob and choreographed the dance. She told 150,000 alumni connected to the ously appreciative crowd, me how much OSU meant to her, and that she had university and to one another. more than 70 students, faculty and staff of all types found her voice and her power during her time as a OSU President Ed Ray said Kasten’s presented a highly choreographed and completely member of the university community. experience in operations management unexpected dance performance from a Bollywood Neha knows she’s in the right place — this and board relations will help keep both film. The event was developed to celebrate Diver- amazing place — and I know that, with energy the alumni association and the alumni sity Awareness Month, and it did drive home why from Beavers like her, we at the alumni association relations office running smoothly. we ought not make assumptions based on the ap- can help her and others remain active members of “Christi Kasten has the experience pearance of a person standing next to us. But it was that community for the rest of their lives! and leadership to continue the momen- also a profound and simple expression of pure joy. To watch the flash mob perform the Bollywood tum these organizations have created,” I don’t think the video is part of the official re- dance in front of the MU, go to: Ray said. “She also will benefit from cruitment strategy for the university, but it certainly bit.ly/stater_bollywood. q the invaluable guidance of the alumni association board and the exceptional staff in the Alumni Relations office.” Kasten earned a bachelor’s degree Beavers, Beatles meet in April at Oregon Symphony in political science from OSU in 1986 High culture and pop culture will come together in OSU) will receive 50 percent off admission to the and a master’s degree in public admin- a special event for Oregon Staters in early April at concert. That means tickets will cost as little as $10 istration from Portland State University Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert or $15 a seat. in 1993. She lives in Corvallis with her Hall. It’s easy to select your seats online: husband, Jim Kasten, ’87. More than 40 years will slip away Go to www.orsymphony.org/mystery/ The association is a member-based, as the Oregon Symphony, Jeff Tyzik sat and enter the password “Beaver” to nonprofit organization that promotes conductor, and Classical Mystery Tour purchase the discounted seats. Or call OSU and engages alumni. Its offerings present the music of the Fab Four at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office include www.osualum.com, the Oregon their best. at 503-228-1353. Stater magazine, an e-mail newsletter, It may be hard to believe, but the Organizers, including the OSU regional activities, faculty lecture Beatles gave their last concert in 1966. Foundation and the OSU Alumni As- series, travel opportunities and other John, Paul, George and Ringo look- sociation, hope to turn the concert hall events. Ray has appointed a committee alikes will bring the ’60s to life again at orange and black for the evening. to conduct a national search for an a special celebration of “Beaver Night at the Pops,” And remember: Concert tickets make great executive director. where Oregon State alumni (and other friends of holiday gifts!

One of the most recent campaign gifts supporting OSU faculty — a gift creating an endowed professorship in the College of Veterinary Medicine — was made in honor of the family dachshunds: Millie, Sophie, Cindy, Winky, Ziggy, Ellie, Maude, and P.P.

4 2 O R E G O N S T A T E R MEMBERSHIP MATTERS OSU ALUMNI HONORED Six distinguished Oregon State on interactions of drugs in the University alumni returned to liver. She is chair of the Division campus in October for OSU’s of Pharmacotherapy and Ex- Homecoming as part of the Alum- perimental Therapeutics in the ni Fellows Program, sponsored by Eshelman School of Pharmacy the OSU Alumni Association. at University of North Carolina The honorees met with students, at Chapel Hill, where she is also staff and faculty, were feted at a the William R. Kenan Distin- President Ray luncheon and dinner, and joined STEPHEN BAILEY guished Professor. comes to Portland OSU President Ed Ray in the Carter, who earned a master’s Join fellow alumni and business lead- University Suite at the Beavers’ degree in education from OSU ers in Portland to welcome Oregon football victory over the University in 1974, made history as the State University President Ed Ray on of California, during which they first African-American woman January 19th, 2011 for his annual State were honored at halftime. elected to the Oregon House of of the University Address. This year’s OSUAA Alumni Representatives. She went on -- Find out the latest campus news Fellows are: Stephen Bailey, Hill- to hold the state senate seat in -- Network with fellow Beavers sboro; Kim Brouwer, Chapel Hill, District 22, and her legislative -- Enjoy a wonderful lunch N.C.; Margaret Carter, Portland; KIM BROUWER legacy is marked by resolute Walter Kortschak, Palo Alto, Calif., efforts to protect the state’s most and Richard Spinrad, Corvallis. vulnerable citizens. Her graduate This year’s recipient of the Young degree from OSU helped her Alumni Award is Jonathan Isaacs, transition from being a school- The Benson Hotel Portland. teacher — for 27 years — to $25 per person Bailey grew up on a dairy serving as a counselor at Portland RSVP early as space is limited. farm near Tillamook and gradu- Community College. She now *Includes lunch and on-site event parking ated from OSU in 1970 with serves as Oregon’s deputy direc- Visit www.osualum.com/events to a bachelor’s degree in business tor for human services. MARGARET CARTER register and for additional details. administration. He worked his Kortschak has served as a di- way up in the world of corporate rector of more than 40 companies accounting, in 2000 becoming — and has consistently appeared as chief financial officer — part of on Forbes Magazine’s list of the a new management team that was nation’s top 100 venture capital- Table sponsorship: $500 credited with saving Wilsonville- ists. He is a managing member based FLIR Systems and later of WMAS Management LLC, -- Includes seating and on-site adding thousands of jobs. In 2003 and is managing director in event parking for 8 he and his wife, Marian, went back the Palo Alto office of Summit -- Web site, program & event WALTER KORTSCHAK to their rural roots and purchased Partners. He received a bach- recognition -- Company logo on multi-media a vineyard. Today they own Bailey elor’s in civil engineering from presentation played throughout Estate Vineyard and are partners in OSU in 1981, and has a master’s the event Grand Cru Estates, and he serves in civil engineering from the -- 10% discount for OSU afﬁ liates on the board of advisers for the California Institute of Technol- and OSUAA members new Oregon Wine Research Insti- ogy and an MBA from UCLA. To purchase a table sponsorship, contact: tute at OSU. The Baileys recently He and his wife, Marcia, founded Michael Reza were inducted into OSU’s Harris the Kortschak Family Founda- Business Development Director Society after making a $1 million tion, and they recently gave the RICHARD SPINRAD at 503-553-3420 or gift to The Campaign for OSU University of Southern California [email protected]. to support construction of a new $10 million to create the USC Deadline for table sponsorships: home for the College of Business. Kortschak Center for Learning December 31, 2010 Brouwer, a 1978 graduate in and Creativity in Student Af- pharmacy, initially wanted to be fairs. It will serve USC students www.osualum.com a small-town pharmacist, but her with dyslexia, attention deficit own interests and her mentors hyperactivity disorder and other at OSU led her to focus instead identified learning differences. on a career of groundbreaking Spinrad had already estab- research. She is a worldwide expert JONATHAN ISAACS lished himself as an ocean

WINTER 2011 4 3 MEMBERSHIP MATTERS researcher and federal science ad- effort to lobby the legislature BEAVER AND BEAVERS TAKE PIONEER SQUARE ministrator when he agreed this against tuition hikes, he was year to return to OSU to serve hooked on politics. He won elec- as vice president for research. He tion as student body president Your Team Plays Here! left a Washington, D.C., post in his junior year and graduated as assistant administrator for from the College of Liberal Arts research at the National Oceanic in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree and Atmospheric Administra- in political science. He worked tion to return to Oregon State, for several political organiza- where he earned master’s and tions and candidates in Oregon doctoral degrees in oceanography and Washington, D.C., serving in 1978 and 1982. Prior to his Oregon House Democrats as work at NOAA, he served as a executive director of FuturePAC research director with the U.S. from 2004-06. He managed Jeff Navy, taught oceanography at Merkley’s successful 2008 senate two universities, directed a major campaign, the first in 40 years to national nonprofit organization, unseat an incumbent U.S. sena- presided over a private company tor from Oregon. He served as and worked as a research scien- state director in Merkley’s senate tist. Spinrad oversees a growing office for several months before research enterprise at OSU, with resigning to become executive annual research funding of about director of the Oregon League of $275 million. Conservation Voters. The Young Alumni Award The OSU Alumni Associa- winner, Isaacs, enrolled at OSU tion created the Alumni Fellows at the urging of friends from program in 1988 to bring distin- Rex Putnam High School in guished alumni back to campus Benny Beaver greets a young fan during a downtown Milwaukie, Ore., and at first had to be honored and to share their Portland rally that drew a large and enthusiastic crowd on no idea what to study. Once he experiences. The Young Alumni Sept. 17. PHOTO BY THERESA HOGUE joined the student government’s Award was added in 2006.

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By Kip Carlson — four as a player, 18 as an assistant Valenti’s 1966 conference champion- early november. A rainy, cold coach, six as the head coach, and 41 ship team. “It wouldn’t seem right After more than seven night in Corvallis. Inside Gill as an administrator. Throw in the not having him there, just like it decades as player, coach Coliseum, Oregon State prepares to spring he spent as Rook (freshman) wouldn’t seem right not having the and loyal supporter at tip off its season with an exhibition baseball coach upon returning from Beavers play in Gill Coliseum. Oregon State, Paul Valenti against Western Oregon. U.S. Navy service during World War “He’s just an amazing guy. … The maintains an office and a In the front row of Section A, II, and 2010-11 marks Valenti’s 70th school should name a building for strong presence in Gill immediately behind the OSU bench, school year on the OSU campus. him.” Coliseum. Paul Valenti greets acquaintances Now 90, he can still be found Valenti is one reason many PHOTO BY DENNIS and well-wishers. He was here the most mornings in his office in Oregon Staters have such deep WOLVERTON night they opened the building in Gill. Officially retired as associate feeling for their school. It’s not 1949, and sometimes it seems as athletic director for 28 years, he still just the longevity; it’s the honesty, though he has been in Gill Coli- performs a crucial function for the the pride in discipline and doing seum practically every day since. department: being Paul Valenti. things right, the loyalty to his play- It’s the start of Valenti’s 69th “He’s an institution,” said Ed ers and his friends — and his school basketball season at Oregon State Fredenburg, ’66, starting center on — that have earned him a place in

The College of Agricultural Sciences has more endowed faculty positions than any other college at OSU, ranging from professorships in vegetable breeding and turf management to fermentation science and entomology.

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on the front page revealed that stu- Rook baseball, then coach basketball in the winter. dent budgets for the previous school Bill Harper, ’51, played on Oregon State’s 1949 Final Four year had averaged $489.67. The Baro team and was later an assistant coach under Gill and Valenti. also contained a reminder that there He began his Beaver basketball career on Valenti’s Rook team would be a mixer that evening for the in 1947-48. freshman class on Coleman Field. “I had been in the service and everything, you know how One of those freshmen was Paul that goes, and I came out and played for him,” Harper said. “I Valenti. He had played basketball at thought, ‘Geez, I’m going to get the hell back in the service — Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, it’s easier than playing for Paul Valenti.’ Calif., where Ed Lewis, an All-Amer- “He was fair in everything, but he was tough. He wanted ica center on Oregon State’s 1933 you to do the things he expected you to do, and what you were Pacific Coast Conference champion- supposed to do. But it was great; I enjoyed playing for him ship team, spotted him and suggested very much.” that Beaver head coach Slats Gill give With success that drew overflow crowds, him a look. Beaver basketball outgrew the old Men’s A Tamalpais baseball player was Gymnasium (now Langton Hall) and being sought by Oregon, and that moved into its new 10,000-seat home for brought Duck coach Howard Hobson the 1949-50 season. into the picture. Valenti visited Cor- “Old Slats, we used to walk down here vallis and Eugene. every day and see how they were coming,” “And the personality and the in- said Valenti. “It’s still a wonderful place to dividuals, between Hobson and play basketball, boy — a great atmosphere Slats — as far as I was con- for basketball in my estimation.” This detail from a team photo shows cerned, it was not even close,” At various times, Valenti coached the Valenti in his warm-up silks during his Valenti said. “Slats was sincere Rooks and the junior varsity, and was varsity career. PHOTO COURTESY BEAVER and very serious about things.” a varsity assistant to Gill. When Gill YEARBOOK With freshmen ineligible for resigned after the 1964 season to varsity play, Valenti was the become athletic director, Valenti was RIGHT: Valenti poses for a publicity still leading scorer on a Rook team tabbed as his successor. during his playing days. PHOTO COURTESY that went 16-0. He was on Under Valenti, the Beavers brought BEAVER YEARBOOK Beaver teams that won Northern in their first-ever black player, Char- Division titles in 1940 and 1942, lie White, and he was a key figure thousands of Beaver hearts. only to lose Pacific Coast Confer- in the highlight of Valenti’s head OSU football coach Mike Riley ence championship series in 1940 coaching tenure. The undersized says it’s “because you know the quality to Southern California and in 1942 1965-66 Beavers won the Athletic of the person, and you know that per- to eventual NCAA champion Association of Western Universities son has put his life into Corvallis and Stanford. championship. Oregon State and the Beavers athletic Then he joined OSU faced Houston and star center department and sports program. So the millions Elvin Hayes in the NCAA Tournament having a guy like that around as a wit- of men going at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA ness to everything you’re trying to do off to war. campus. The Cougars were the just means a ton.” Home on first team ever to average 100 leave one year, points per game for a season; the Beavers SEVEN DECADES he met a young led the nation in scoring defense at 54 points per game. september 21, 1938. Corvallis had woman at a Christmas party, and Oregon State forced Houston to play the Beavers’ game, about 8,000 residents, Oregon State that was that. He and Fran have been winning 63-60. OSU lost in the regional final, but Valenti was an enrollment of 4,406. That day’s married since 1946 and have two named the West Coast Coach of the Year by United Press Barometer noted that “needy students” daughters, Jo Ann and Victoria. International. could sell concessions at the next day’s Gill had encouraged his players to “We were very disciplined and we probably spent more football game against Idaho to help come back and finish their degrees time working on defense than on offense,” Fredenburg said. purchase their tickets for the year. after the war, and he had a tempting “We didn’t have any individual superstars that we could rely The country was almost 10 years into offer for Valenti in the spring of 1946: on, so we knew that we just had to work together and get the the Great Depression. Another story Get here now, relieve Gill of coaching job done.”

The 105,000-square-foot Linus Pauling Science Center is OSU’s largest-ever academic building project. Its public/private funding includes $31.25 million in state bonds, a $20 million grant from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation, and a gift of $10.65 million from Pat Reser, ’60, and the late Al Reser, ’60. Take a live look at the construction site: webcam.oregonstate.edu/lpsc/

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Victories became scarcer, though, in the late 1960s, and Valenti 1938 resigned at the end of the 1969-70 Paul Valenti enrolls at OSU at season. In six seasons as head coach, the age of 18. he had a 91-82 record. “Well, in a way, it was a relief,” Valenti said. “The pressure. Fol- 3 years later… lowing Slats. You know, that was U.S. enters World War II; always in the back of my mind, too Valenti, teammates will serve. — the way he would have done it and Oregon State’s basketball, the 11 years later… reputation it had. It wasn’t easy.” Jimmy Anderson, ’59, was one First game played in of Valenti’s assistants at the time; at Gill Coliseum. any other school, his 53 seasons as a player, assistant coach, head coach 24 years later… and coach emeritus would likely Current OSU men’s coach rank him as the senior basketball Craig Robinson is born. eminence on campus. Anderson believes Valenti saw the changes in 26 years later… college basketball — more far-flung recruiting, more keeping tabs on Legendary Slats Gill steps summer programs — and felt he down; Valenti succeeds him. had to choose between time with his family and keeping OSU bas- 28 years later… ketball in its traditional position. Ed Ray gets B.A. in math from “And he thought the best thing Queens College, New York. for Oregon State — and not neces- Valenti was fiery during his Beaver coaching days.PHOTO COURTESY BEAVER sarily for himself — was to bring YEARBOOK 32 years later… in somebody a little more progres- sive and knowledgeable like Ralph re-establish connections with the just cool to see him.” Quarterback Mike Riley leads Miller, who understood how the program’s alumni, and Valenti — Seeing Valenti — the person, Corvallis High to state title. world of sports was changing at who admires how Robinson’s teams not the image on the wall — on a that particular time,” Anderson said. have played — is a welcome and daily basis gives Robinson’s team 40 years later… Valenti became an assistant frequent observer at practices. more than a look at their program’s Disco rules; “Saturday Night athletic director. He was also men’s “So he knows all the guys, he heritage. Fever” tops charts. tennis coach from 1971 until the watches the games, he knows what’s “I mean, he could be retired and sport was discontinued in 1975. He going on,” Robinson said “When I sitting in his rocking chair and 43 years later… arranged summer jobs for athletes talk to him, he gives me some tips watching television, or going fish- and helped stage events for the on what he sees. He’s been a great ing or doing something other than OSU men’s hoops team ranked department, even beyond his official asset to us.” coming in and going to work every No. 1 in nation most of season. retirement. Current players appreciate get- day,” Robinson said. Leaving never entered his mind. ting to know a flesh-and-blood “We talk about how everything is 61 years later… “Corvallis has been a great place connection to all those Oregon important in our program because OSU football has first winning to raise a family, and Oregon State State legends pictured on the wall you have to be a hard worker all the season in three decades. University is a great place to work,” high above the court. Sophomore time, and he just embodies that.” q Valenti said. “It gave me an op- forward/center Joe Burton appreci- 72 years later… portunity that I could have had at ates OSU’s tradition and those who other places, but I chose this place helped forge it and still care enough Paul Valenti continues to lead and that was the best choice I ever to come around. and inspire Beavers. made.” “You can see Coach (Valenti), and Valenti and Anderson helped he’s on the wall and stuff,” Burton current head coach Craig Robinson said. “He’s a famous guy, and it’s

Donors to The Campaign for OSU have given $114 million to support student-athletes, with gifts for facilities, scholarships and other programs. During the same period, many of these athletics donors also made gifts to academic units at OSU totaling another $132 million.

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Did you know? OSU scholarship athletes have roughly the same graduation rate as the general student body.

WINTER 2011 4 9 SPORTS WOMEN SET RECORDS ON WAY TO NCAA SOCCER TOURNAMENT Once again in 2010, Oregon State went into the final weekend of the fall with a chance to win the Pac-10 championship. Football? Nope — try women’s futbol, or soccer, which spent the autumn writing one of the better turnaround stories ever in OSU athletics while earning the best won-loss record in program history. Three years after going winless in the Pac-10, the Beavers won their first seven conference contests in 2010. That set up a nationally cable- cast showdown with top-ranked Stanford for the conference title on Nov. 5. “It’s the first time we’ve ever been in that type of a situation as a program,” OSU head coach Linus Rhode said prior to that game. “Stanford is the No. 1 team, they haven’t lost a game this year, so it should be a great environment to go down there and play and get a result.” OSU lost 2-0, eventually finishing men’s team at Portland for legendary somebody makes a mistake, you second in the Pac-10 with a 7-2-0 coach Clive Charles. know your teammates are going to The play of sophomore record and going 15-3-1 in the reg- “We had to change the environ- be there, day-in and day-out. I think Chelsea Buckland, No. 12, ular season. That earned the Beavers ment, the belief system and the ex- that’s the biggest thing.” was one of many important a second straight trip to the NCAA pectations,” Rhode told the Corvallis In 2009, the Beavers gave an factors in the team’s suc- Tournament. Before losing to the Gazette-Times this fall. “Our staff inkling of what was to come this fall. cess. Cardinal, the Beavers had won a made it very clear what our expecta- After a 12-7-1 regular season, OSU PHOTO BY DENNIS school-record 10 straight games. tions were to our players, on and off knocked off Florida and Ohio State WOLVERTON The 15th-ranked Beavers went the field. in the NCAAs, advancing to the to a tourney regional in Stillwater, “And they have responded.” round of 16 before losing to second- Okla., where they won a match Senior midfielder/defender seeded Notre Dame. against Memphis by a 5-0 score Courtney Wetzel, the lone holdover Oregon State had lost six of seven before losing a 2-1 heartbreaker to from the 2007 squad that didn’t win seniors from that squad, but Rhode their host, 6th-ranked Oklahoma a Pac-10 game, told the G-T the felt this team could sustain the State. That ended the Beaver season change hadn’t been limited to the momentum. at 16-4-1. head coach. “It’s been a complete change in the Rhode became head coach at “The team camaraderie is culture,” Rhode said. “Last year, we OSU for the 2008 season. He had completely different,” Wetzel said. started building a belief that we can been an OSU assistant for eight “Everyone has everyone’s back, you compete against, and beat, any team years, and he captained a Final Four don’t even have to question it. If in the country.”

“This is an amazing place. This is an historic moment. And you are the people who can make amazing, historic things happen.” — Jane Lubchenco, at the 2007 public launch of the campaign. She is on leave from her position as the Wayne & Gladys Valley Chair in Marine Biology to serve as Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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2011-12 PAC-12 FOOTBALL DIVISIONS PAC-12 BRINGS DIVISIONS, AS

NORTH DIVISION WELL AS TWO NEW MEMBERS For the Pac-10, many hailed it as to year, but the California schools Academically, Colorado offers a step forward: adding Colorado will all play each other every season. strong programs in business, engi- and Utah to garner two new media So, at best, the Pacific Northwest neering and integrated physiology. markets and turn the conference schools will play in Los Angeles Byron “Whizzer” White, a football into the Pac-12 for the 2011-12 every other year. The trade-off for All-American and U.S. Supreme school year. Northwest schools is greater equality Court justice, heads a list of alumni For those who remember the in sharing television revenue with that also includes Robert Redford Pacific Coast Conference, it might the larger-market California schools. and Hale Irwin. also seem like a step back to having For men’s and women’s basketball, the Beavers compete in an athletic there will be no divisions. Each utah: Oregon State fans well know circuit broken into two divisions. school will play its rival both home Utah’s women’s gymnastics program, Officials announced Oct. 21 that and away every year. There will also which has won 10 national titles. for football, the Pac-12 would break be home-and-away games with six The Utes also have an outstanding into North and South divisions. Or- other schools and single games with men’s basketball tradition, includ- egon State will be in the North with the remaining four schools, two ing a NCAA championship in 1944 Oregon, Washington, Washington home and two away. The two-game and a runner-up finish in 1998. In State, California and Stanford. The and one-game opponents will rotate football, Utah has a pair of Bowl South will include Southern Cali- each year. Championship Series victories in fornia, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona So who are Oregon State’s new the past decade. State, Colorado and Utah. conference playmates? Academically, the school prides In football each season, there itself on programs in architecture, SOUTH DIVISION will be five games against divisional colorado: Colorado’s men and medicine, law, computing, and life opponents and four inter-division women cross country have combined and agricultural sciences. games. A championship game will to win five national titles in the last Alumni include Karl Rove, author be played on the home field of one of 10 years. Skiing is another strength Wallace Stegner, and medical the competing teams. The inter-divi- athletically, while football and men’s researchers William DeVries and sion opponents will rotate from year basketball have struggled lately. Robert Jarvik. 2011 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 3 TBD (home game) Sept. 10 at Wisconsin Sept. 17 Bye Sept. 24 UCLA Oct. 1 at Arizona State Oct. 8 Arizona Oct. 15 BYU Oct. 22 at WSU (in Seattle) Oct. 29 at Utah Nov. 5 Stanford (Homecoming) Nov. 12 at California Though they won’t play OSU as often anymore, the ASU Sun Devils will get another Nov. 19 Washington (Dad’s Weekend) chance to chase Jacquizz Rogers next season when the Beavers visit Tempe on Oct. 1. Nov. 26 at Oregon PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON

“I have learned the secret of a marathon. It is the training, not the event. If you have not built the endurance to finish, there is no point showing up at the starting line! And today, at the starting line of our campaign, we know we can finish and succeed, because we have done the training.” — President Ed Ray, at the 2007 public launch of the campaign

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AWARDS

Connie Shelton Weaver, ’72, ’74, West Lafayette, Ind., was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is distinguished professor and head of Purdue University’s Department of Foods and Nutrition and an expert in mineral bioavailability, calcium metabolism and bone health, and deputy director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is a former president of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and is an elected fellow of the American College of Nutrition and Institute of Food Sciences. Three Beavers — the entire engineering division in the Yreka (Calif.) Public Works Department — won a Stormwater Attenu- Bill Castle, ation and Floodplain Restoration award. Receiving a 2010 Project of the Year award from the Sacramento Chapter of the ’75, was in- American Public Works Association were Darrell J. Hook, ’85 (business management), Steven D. Neill, ’77 (civil engineer- ducted into ing) and Jeannette Zanzig Hook, ’86 (resource recreation management). the Oregon Bankers ton Golf Course Superintendents California-wide education and ing a year as a Jesuit volunteer in Associa- Association and the Northwest public agency law firm. She is Gresham at JOIN, an organization Hall of Turfgrass Association. managing shareholder of the tion that supports the efforts of Fame. He Fresno office. homeless individuals and families is president Brenda M. Holdener, ’85, a U.S. to transition into permanent BILL CASTLE and CEO APPOINTMENTS Navy Capt., commands the USS housing. of South Valley Bank & Trust in Wasp, a multipurpose amphibi- Klamath Falls, has served as past ous assault ship with 1,100 sailors. chairman of the Klamath County Leon Johnson, ’71, a retired Air She is the 17th commanding MILESTONES Chamber of Commerce, and Force brigadier general living officer of the serves on the Oregon Institute of in Irving, Texas, recently won Wasp and its Technology President’s Advisory election to a two-year term as na- first female Estora Ricks Moe, ’33, ’65, Council. tional president of the Tuskegee commander. Corvallis, celebrated her 100th Twila Lehman, ’88, ’01, business Airmen Inc., an organization for The Wasp birthday this October with a ride instructor at Linn-Benton Com- African-American pilots, bomber is lead ship on a fire truck. She shared her munity College in Albany, was flight crew members, mainte- among the secret of longevity in the Corvallis named Post-Secondary Teacher nance and support personnel who Navy’s eight Gazette-Times: “It really was a of the Year by the Oregon Busi- fought in World War II. Johnson, Wasp–class matter of luck,” Moe said. “But I BRENDA HOLDENER ness Education Association. Airbus Fleet manager for the ships. They realized as I got closer to this, I’d The late Paul Backman, ’92, who United Parcel Service Airline, is are the largest amphibious ships better start behaving.” She taught died in April, won the North- the board chair of the Interna- in the world, with a length of 844 home economics at schools in west Golf Media Association’s tional Black Aerospace Council feet. Alsea, Jefferson, Philomath and Distinguished Service Award for and serves as a trustee for the Air Jim S. Clayton, ’92, Corbett, has Corvallis. Her husband, Hal 2010. For the 12 years before his Force Academy Foundation. been named Multnomah County Moe, ’35, ’52, who died in 2001, death, Backman was the executive Roberta Rowe Kinney, ’75, is an Surveyor. coached football and track and director of the Western Washing- attorney with Lozano Smith, a Lindsay Rundquist, ’10, is serv- field at OSU and was associate

The gift that took the campaign over its initial $625 million goal was a $30,000 scholarship gift by a 1948 home economics alumna who started giving to her alma mater in the early ’80s with about $5 per year.

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SHE MANAGES MARINE RESOURCES WITH A DISTINCTLY LOCAL FOCUS

Working as a Peace Corps volunteer in in policy discussions. the Philippines taught Laura Anderson, “My dad was a commercial fisherman ’00, of Newport a lot about community- and my business partner (Al Pazar) is a based management. highly respected commercial fisherman; “We had to rely on local knowledge in that made it easy for me to have credibil- the Philippines because no one had been ity,” she said. “‘That’s Roger’s daughter, doing scientific research and marine she’s got to be a good girl.’ My dad had surveys that would provide the data we great credibility. needed,” she said. “Because of the rigorous training you “The islands are not in communication get at OSU,” she said, she was able to un- with each other, so the government can’t derstand the technical issues, if not the manage nationally, just locally,” she depth of the data, and help communicate said. Learning to negotiate with different with all the stakeholders. groups — in order to preserve marine “I really believe in honoring the value of resources and their livelihood — serves these guys who spend 200 water-days a Anderson well as today she advocates year at sea — that’s a lot of experience,” for the fisheries industry off the Oregon she said. “You can’t discount that knowl- Coast. edge that they have — but they have felt After her Peace Corps service, she re- so disenfranchised from science.” turned to Newport and began volunteer- Today Anderson operates a popular ing at the OSU Hatfield Marine Science waterfront restaurant and fish market: Center (HMSC). Local Ocean Seafoods. But she still finds “It had been my dream since I was in herself traveling as far as Washington, high school. I always thought it would be D.C., to testify before Congress as a vol- the coolest thing to work over there,” she unteer advocate for the fishing industry. said. After a couple of days at the visitor’s Healthy local fisheries are the lifeblood of center, she was introduced to Gil Sylvia, her business. superintendent of the Coastal Oregon “My brand does not allow me to sub- Marine Experiment Station, who also stitute food that is not local,” she said. “I happened to have been a Peace Corps have to be involved in the politics — to do volunteer in the Philippines. the political advocacy — to try to make With financial aid and a research sure that we will have fish in the future.” assistantship to keep her afloat and an When asked for hints for consum- undergrad degree in pre-medicine, she ers regarding their seafood purchases, began a master’s program in marine Anderson is definitive. resource management, taking classes in “Number one,” she says, “tell people Newport and Corvallis. to buy wild, not farmed fish. I don’t know The funding helped but was not quite of any aquaculture with the exception of enough to pay the bills. “I was still driving oysters, mussels and clams, that could my 1970 Nova — and it was not a nice be deemed healthy for the environment one!” she said. So she did consulting or humans. I tell them to buy domestically, Laura Anderson catches a moment at her restaurant, Local Ocean Sea- for different conservation groups about preferably locally if it’s labeled as such. foods on the Newport bayfront. PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON salmon restoration, watershed manage- People should feel good about eating lo- ment and salmon marketing. cal seafood; the West Coast has the best People kept asking her — as the managed fisheries in the world.” daughter of a fisherman, a crab fisher — By Ann Kinkley herself, and a person with scientific background and good communication skills — to represent the fishing industry

A gift of $22,275 in gold coins helped create an endowed faculty fund in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Another donor gave several hundred pounds of silver coins: mostly dimes from the ’60s but some silver dollars from the 1880s. They had a face value of $3,500 but an appraised value of more than $35,000. The gift supports the College of Education and other programs.

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ALUMNUS CALLED FROM HIS AIRLINE COCKPIT TO SERVE IN AFGHANISTAN

Lt. Col. Richard Gulley was a freshman business major at Oregon State in 1983, wearing a military uniform for the first time as a member of the Army ROTC, when U.S. troops invaded the island nation of Grenada and Gulley got a taste of how separate and different a military life could be in times of war. “I remember giant rallies in the MU Quad against the invasion,” he said, interviewed by telephone from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. “I had to wear my uniform on campus, and at the time there were some jeers. As I wore it more and more, and talked with people, I found out that many people didn’t really know the military is people like me, like you, like the other people at Oregon State.” A native of Beaverton, he graduated from OSU in 1987 with a BS in marketing and a commission in the Army. He flew helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft on active duty until “It’s what we call a leadership challenge,” have guys who have seen more combat than 1994, when he became a commercial airline he said. “These are highly trained, highly anybody ever saw in World War II; they’re on Lt. Col. Richard pilot and entered the Army Reserves. skilled, highly motivated individuals, and their fifth deployment! We’ve been nine years Gulley has flown Gulley worked as first officer on a U.S. Air most of these people will retain their affili- at war.” many aircraft, Airbus until the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks ation with the Special Forces throughout Gulley kept perspective by staying in touch including the caused massive reductions in the airline their careers. So coming in from the outside with his pregnant wife and his young son. Apache attack industry and he was furloughed. — although I felt very welcome — it is an ops He cherishes his memories of Oregon State, helicopter. “Shortly thereafter, I was very lucky,” he (operations) tempo that’s very difficult to including his parents’ visits for Mom’s and PHOTO said. “I got employed by JetBlue, which at maintain. It is a very, very demanding job.” Dad’s weekends. COURTESY U.S. the time was a new entrant in the industry.” He stayed briefed on the entire combat “My parents to this day still talk about those ARMY He remained in the Army Reserves, “do- theater and had to be ready to deploy and four weekends,” he said. ing whatever jobs that came up. ... Then in support soldiers by air on the battlefield. “I often tell people that Oregon State is 2006, when the war in Iraq was very difficult Gulley flew throughout Afghanistan, which is almost a mythological place to me. I love the and they were involuntarily calling people a hazardous proposition. Even the big base location, I really enjoy the people. back to active duty, they called me up, so I at Bagram gets attacked by rockets and by “Really, to this day, my best friends and took a break of service from JetBlue.” direct assault from hostile forces. memories are the people I met there.” He served in Kosovo, Germany and the Working in such an environment takes In school he worked on the Memorial Union Program Council, Middle East, and helped with air support for its toll. which allowed him to meet Tom Wolfe when the famous author of a visit by President George Bush to Africa. “On a day to day basis, we file it away The Right Stuff made an appearance on campus. “Then I ended up in Afghanistan” in a (and you don’t see it) on the outside,” he As he contemplated the end of his deployment and yet another job that was important and daunting. As said. “Where it’s hard to deal with is on the return to civilian life, he said there was at least one thing on his aviation officer for Combined Joint Special inside. Recently we lost nine people when agenda — after being a good father and repaying his wife for being Operations Task Force — Afghanistan we lost a Blackhawk. You know those people, gone for almost her entire pregnancy with their baby daughter. (CJSOTF-A), he advised the task force you know what they’re doing, you know the “I plan to get back to Oregon State University as soon as possible,” commander on the use of any aviation details of what happened.” he said. personnel or aircraft. He also oversaw the He remains humbled and inspired by his — By Kevin Miller use of unmanned drones. It was Gulley’s fellow soldiers. first assignment directly in support of elite “The heroes to me are the 17- to 30-year- Special Forces units. olds we have stationed out there ... We now

All 50 states are represented in campaign giving — most from Oregon (surprise!) and least from Rhode Island. Donors in 51 nations also have given to the campaign, including Austria and Australia, Ecuador and Egypt, Kenya and Qatar, Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Thailand.

5 4 O R E G O N S T A T E R CLASS NOTES professor of physical education country. If you can help, contact Syndrome Type C. She recently Lucile Porter Ketchum, ’30, The until his retirement in 1975. Dennis Yiga at [email protected]. appeared on Good Morning Dalles. Thomas McClellan, ’44, profes- Marsh Busey Shadbolt, ’65, ’89, America to share the story of her Daniel W. Beatty, ’32, Portland. sor of civil engineering from and her husband, Mike Shadbolt, two-year-old son, Jonah Wood Clarence N. Parker, ’32, Burbank, 1948 to 1978, recently celebrated own Cherry Country in Rickreall, Weishaar, who was diagnosed Calif. Alpha Sigma Phi his 90th birthday with family selling dried and chocolate cov- with this incurable disease last John M. Poorman, ’32, Portland. members in Portland. While in ered cherries at farmers markets spring. You can learn more about Phi Gamma Delta college, Tom firmly established throughout Oregon. it at www.jonahsjustbegun.org/ Marian Dunham Elkinton, ’34, a life-long love of music in the Sandra Henderson, ’83, ’89, index.html. Newtown Square, Pa. Delta Delta OSU Marching Band. He contin- ’02, Erie, Colo., directs Project In the fall of 2006, many students Delta ued to compose, arrange and play Budburst, a national campaign began participating in the Beaver Howard A. Edwards, ’36, in many bands after retirement encouraging citizen scientists Emotional Intelligence Project Huntington Beach, Calif. Phi and recently donated many of his to share local observations of in Frank Bernieri’s psychology Kappa Psi arrangements to the OSU band. phenophases — such as first leaf, classes. He would like to make A. Stanley Gregory, ’36, Fox His Beaver children are Barb first flower and first fruit — of contact with former partici- Island, Wash. Alpha Tau Omega McClellan Gibbs, ’76, Steve trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses. pants. Send an e-mail to Frank. Maxine Jewell Stephen, ’36, McClellan, ’78, and Marge Mc- Other OSU connections include [email protected] to find Grants Pass. Alpha Gamma Delta Clellan Reinhart, ’74. Paul Alaback, ’81, lead science out why “there’s no more peanut Millard T. Jones, ’37, Troutdale. adviser; OSU Ph.D candidate butter!” Chieko Otsuki Urakami, ’37, Karl Clarke, who interned at the Kobe, Japan. OTHER NOTES project this past summer; and Solman Durbin, ’38, Corvallis. Patrick Breen, professor emeritus OBITUARIES Laura Huddleston Galbraith, of horticulture, who contributed ’38, San Diego, Calif. Alpha Chi The son of the late Francis X. numerous photographs for the Omega Lubega, ’64, of Uganda, requests Website. Identification guides and Dorothy Riggs Larsen, ’26, Leo Y. Kiyohiro , ’38, Spokane, help finding his brother who reporting forms may be down- Clatskanie. Kappa Delta Wash. was born when his father was loaded at www.projectbudburst.org. Catherine Carter Monroe, ’27, Howard E. McCurdy, ’38, Seal a student at OSU. His parents Jill Wood, ’97, Brooklyn, N.Y., Portland. Beach, Calif. Kappa Sigma were required to give him up for has created an organization Aili Enegren Knox, ’28, Portland. Robert D. Morris, ’38, Portland. adoption before returning to their to find a cure for Sanfilippo Kappa Delta Clyde K. Sherman, ’38, Seattle,

OSUAA Member Nights are as follows: Men's Basketball Nov 14 vs. Texas Arlington The OSU Alumni Association has added a new Dec 12 vs. Texas Pan American member benefi t! We are happy to announce that Women's Basketball OSUAA members receive a 50% discount* on tickets Dec 3 vs. Pepperdine purchased on game day for select athletic events. Jan 8 vs. Washington State *Some restrictions apply, visit www.osualum.com/2for1 for details. Mar 5 vs. Arizona State For details or to join, call us at 877-OSTATER Wrestling or register online at www.osualum.com/2for1. Nov 27 vs. Simon Frasier Jan 23 vs. Stanford Gymnastics SMARTPHONE USERS: Jan 14 vs. Ohio State What is this? Download a QR code reader app to fi nd out! Feb 25 vs. Washington/San Jose State Go to http://get.beetagg.com Baseball or fi nd the beetagg app! Mar 6 vs. Hartford

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Wash. Lambda Chi Alpha Harbor, Fla. Mavis Field Tuttle, ’44, Portland. McCall, Idaho. Alpha Gamma Frances Jensen Simons, ’38, Elaine Kollins Jones, ’41, Los Harriet Howells Hosley, ’45, Rho Urbana, Ill. Alpha Chi Omega Angeles, Calif. Kappa Kappa Spirit Lake, Idaho. Sigma Kappa Warren C. Hanchett, ’48, Dwightcontinued I. Baker, ’38, ’40, Lake Gamma Marge Andersen McClintock, Fortuna, Calif. Oswego. Phi Kappa Psi Antone J. Pavelek, ’41, Saint ’45, Vancouver, Wash. Lloyd D. Hayes, ’48, Redding, Enid Clifford Fisher, ’39, Salem. Helens. Alma Zwanziger Burtis, ’46, Calif. Kappa Alpha Theta Julianne Wise Phinney, ’41, Meridian, Calif. Margaret Kehrli McIntyre, ’48, Barbara Young Spencer, ’39, Portland. Deborah Buffington Collett, ’46, Chapel Hill, N.C. Delta Delta Boise, Idaho. Alpha Chi Omega Elbert Ragsdale, ’41, Monmouth. Eugene. Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Delta Leslie J. Sullivan, ’39, La Grande. Mildred Perman Bennett, ’42, Tau Omega Natalie Bunn Moline, ’48, Lambda Chi Alpha Portland. Roland E. Ott, ’46, Portland. Philomath. Theresa Varney Dill, ’39, ’42, Isabel Withycombe Boyd, ’42, Dr. Richard F. Stack, ’46, Harvey L. Moore, ’48, Bellevue, Bothell, Wash. State College, Pa. Alpha Xi Delta Meridian, Idaho. Pi Kappa Phi Wash. Sigma Nu Joan Bannister Bailey, ’40, Kathleen Moore Johnson, ’42, Don E. Lewis, ’46, ’48, Ashland. Charles R. Piroutek, ’48, Albany. Millville, Calif. Woodway, Wash. Lila Clark Beglau, ’47, Eugene. Richard L. Schuetz, ’48, John M. Graham, ’40, Bend. Phi Walter E. Ottmer, ’42, Beverly Ashton Crawford, ’47, Sublimity. Lambda Chi Alpha Sigma Kappa Sammamish, Wash. Delta Upsilon Tucson, Ariz. Bernice E. Stearns, ’48, Lake Ethel Zimmerman Johnson, ’40, Saul Rich, ’42, Hamden, Conn. Vernon R. Hill, ’47, Seaside. Oswego. Wilmette, Ill. Dorothy Nowotny Boehm, ’43, James M. Jackson, ’47, William W. Brawn, ’49, Medford. Evelyn Larsen Ofstad, ’40, Gresham. Gamma Phi Beta, Corvallis. Contributions may William L. Ean, ’49, Redmond, Portland. June Schessler Murphy, ’43, be made to the OSU Music Wash. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Frances McBroom Smith, ’40, Corvallis. Contributions may Department, 1-800-354-7281. Aleene Neely Gibson, ’49, Idaho Portland. Kappa Alpha Theta be made to the OSU Alumni Claude A. Phillips, ’47, Stayton. Falls, Idaho. Bert W. Udell, ’40, Lebanon. Association at 1-800-354-7281. Robert E. Stevens, ’47, Calistoga, Donald R. Grufke, ’49, Boring. Contributions may be made to Dorothy Flynn Ross, ’43, Salem. Calif. Phi Delta Theta Phi Kappa Tau OSU Extension, 1-800-354-7281. Delta Zeta Chugh L. Sun, ’47, Dearborn, Paul M. Henry, ’49, Placentia, G. Morris Barnett, ’41, Casper, Marjorie Chase Block, ’44, Mich. Calif. Wyo. Delta Chi Winston Salem, N.C. Sigma Alice Gerber Cushman, ’47, ’56, James R. Libby, ’49, San Diego, Frank E. Biasca, ’41, Los Gatos, Kappa Manhattan Beach, Calif. Delta Calif. Phi Kappa Tau Calif. Walter E. Jackson, ’44, Lancaster, Delta Delta Marion Jones Mason, ’49, Lena Mutti Harrison, ’41, Palm Calif. Donald L. Benscoter, ’48, Coquille. Chi Omega MAY 19-21, 2011

GOLDENGOLDEN COME HOME TO OREGON STATE JUBILEE AND CELEBRATE YOUR REUNION! JUBILEE

Invitations will be mailed in February. If you would like to participate on a reunion committee please contact the OSU Alumni Association toll-free at 1-877-OSTATER. www.osualum.com/reunions

REUNION FOR CLASSES ’61, ’56, ’51, ’46, ’41

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COMBAT VETERAN AND HIS MOTHER, BOTH ALUMNI, REACH OUT TO IRAQIS

His day job in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2008 was to determine the needs of the locals. Then a captain, Josh Mater, ’03, (now a civilian contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense) had noticed that the engineering department at Thi Qar University was “badly beaten up and most of the textbooks burned or destroyed. A young engineering faculty member called me up later and said, ‘Can you help us get new books?’” He wondered if folks at the OSU College of Engineering would donate textbooks, so he turned to a familiar contact. His mother, Cath- erine Galati Mater, ’75, ’84, president of Mater Engineering in Corvallis, had just been named director of sustainability for the college. “He called me and said, ‘Mom, do you think OSU would be interested in helping here?’” Josh Mater graduated from OSU with a double degree in geography and international studies. He was commissioned as an Army officer in December 2002, with his bars pinned It snowballed into a donation of more than plans for the Maters’ efforts on by his mother and father, M. Scott Mater, ’71, $30,000 worth of new books, many of them The alumni mother-son include installing wireless shortly before his father died of cancer. His mili- textbooks that publishers had sent to OSU for team of Catherine Galati communication between tary work in Iraq ended when he was wounded in review as possible classroom texts. The effort Mater and Josh Mater universities; having as many a rocket attack. is helping to encourage an initiative by the Iraqi have worked to bring as 500 Iraqi faculty members “He had no protective gear on because he was government to include sustainable engineering practical help to war- over time visit OSU for training inside the Green Zone,” Catherine said. “The in reconstruction plans for the nation. torn Iraq. After Josh was in engineering, forestry and bomb went into an underground bunker below In 2009 professors from 22 universities in wounded and left the agricultural practices; and him and he was hit with shrapnel. It shattered Iraq traveled to Oregon for two weeks of training service, he and an Army providing donated lab testing his eardrum but he had no head wounds even in sustainable engineering. buddy formed a founda- equipment to the universities. though he was not wearing a flak jacket or “This is the first time these men and women tion to do good works Efforts are managed by helmet.” had heard about sustainability,” Catherine said. in the U.S. and abroad. the foundation co-founded by He recuperated at Ft. Bragg, N.C., before re- Because of the poor infrastructure and dan- PHOTO COURTESY U.S. Josh and fellow soldier Jesus turning to Iraq as a civilian worker. In his spare gerous travel conditions, most had never worked ARMY Quispe. Along with the work in moments he manages the Michael Scott Mater with anyone outside their own universities. Iraq, the Michael Scott Mater Foundation, named in honor of his father. “It was wonderful to see their joy in meeting Foundation seeks to bolster “We began the foundation to make it easier to each other for the first time — in Oregon,” she international relations and donate the books to the Iraqi university,” Josh said. They formed an Iraqi coalition for sustain- economic growth with initiatives such as loans for small, said. able engineering education, partnering with OSU energy-efficient businesses and cross-cultural experiences Books given directly from OSU would be con- to bring modern labs to key institutions in Iraq. for students in the U.S. and Peru. sidered to be coming from the U.S. government, When the Maters visited the universities this “We never thought it would take off like it did,” Josh says. which would not go over well in Iraq. “OSU could past May as guests of the Iraqi Ministry of High- When he returns home to Charlotte, N.C., he will work on not execute it on the ground,” due to politics er Education, “the people of Iraq were stunned new domestic and international outreach programs. and red tape, Josh said. “Also, the Book Wish that we would do that,” she said of their travel He is inspired in his work by the Iraqi people. Foundation contacted us and wanted to donate in civilian clothes, with Iraqi security forces as “The real heroes,” Josh says, “are the Iraqis working with some English as a second language books at the their guards. “They kept saying, ‘You’re so brave, us. They are putting themselves and their families on the same time — so that the students could better you’re so brave.’” line.” understand the engineering books.” In addition to donating textbooks, immediate — By Ann Kinkley

The College of Engineering has the single largest campaign goal at $160 million or 18.8 percent of the overall campaign goal.

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Mark K. Miller, ’49, Friday Edmund J. Bucknall, ’51, Fort Charles M. Porfily, ’53, ’66, Ariz. Harbor, Wash. Phi Delta Theta Bragg, Calif. Eagle, Idaho. Donald N. White, ’58, Cheney, Charles O. Newell, ’49, Lacey, James D. Cotter, ’51, Sacramento, Jerry A. Bauer, ’54, Milwaukie. Wash. Wash. Calif. Delta Sigma Phi Sigma Chi Delbert J. Fickas, ’59, Denver, Warren F. Schneider, ’49, Edward R. Cox, ’51, Columbia, Thomas J. Hensler, ’54, Albany. Colo. Portland. Mo. Richard M. Justus, ’54, San Bob D. Kingsbury, ’59, Benicia, Ralph L. Worstell, ’49, Eugene. Millie Darling DeGroot, ’51, Antonio, Texas. Phi Kappa Psi Calif. James D. Addison, ’50, Virginia Burien, Wash. Gamma Phi Beta Francis C. Kettleson, ’54, Salem. JoAnne C. Klaus, ’59, Beaverton. City, Nev. Phi Sigma Kappa Kathryn Kerrick Dille, ’51, Gwendolyn Mitchell Lounsbury, Glenn E. Pelt, ’59, Camarillo, Earl D. Allen, ’50, Martin, Ga. Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Alpha ’54, ’59, Junction City. Sigma Calif. James R. Beck, ’50, Olympia, Gamma Delta Kappa Kenneth A. Strong, ’59, Wash. Richard H. Forsythe, ’51, Salem. Roger K. Davis, ’54, ’66, Richland, Wash. Douglas W. Berwick, ’50, Salem. John A. Ielmini, ’51, Patterson, Wedderburn. Sigma Nu Roxanne Wilson Anderson, ’60, Glen E. Brogoitti, ’50, Lyle, Calif. Theta Chi James A. Leslie, ’55, Portland. Klamath Falls. Wash. Helen M. Jorgenson, ’51, Tinton Joyce Herigstad MacKenzie, ’55, E. Lawrence Caldwell, ’60, Stanley R. Christensen, ’50, Falls, N.J. Kappa Delta Happy Valley. Portland. McMinnville. Donald A. Miller, ’51, Oak Ronald J. Moreland, ’55, West Fred D. Fisher, ’60, Richland, Harvey D. Christensen, ’50, Grove. Phi Sigma Kappa Lafayette, Ind. Sigma Nu Wash. Tucson, Ariz. David E. Munro, ’51, Phoenix, James R. Bovingdon, ’56, Pasco, Sally Hussey Thompson, ’60, De Ferris G. Gilkey, ’50, Carmichael, Ariz. Wash. Pere, Wis. Kappa Alpha Theta Calif. Albert F. Pongracz, ’51, Dewey, M. “Keith” Tannehill, ’56, La Harold H. Armstrong, ’61, Howard F. Griffin, ’50, Boulder Ariz. Grande. Alpha Gamma Rho Albuquerque, N.M. City, Nev. Richard H. Russell, ’51, Live C. “Ted” Dyrness, ’56, ’58, ’60, Robert W. Bennett, ’61, Robert A. Hart, ’50, Sequim, Oak, Fla. Albany. Lakewood, Wash. Phi Kappa Tau Wash. Patricia Kelly Swan, ’51, Cannon Thomas A. Aguer, ’57, Ontario. Roger S. Brassfield, ’61, Jack E. Hemphill, ’50, Panama Beach. Pi Beta Phi Sigma Chi McMinnville. City, Fla. David D. Woodbridge, ’51, ’56, Suzanne Frei Cleary, ’57, L. “Bud” Goodman, ’61, Lacey, Donald D. Higinbotham, ’50, Satellite Beach, Fla. Corvallis. Wash. Sigma Phi Epsilon Grants Pass. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Marjorie Dahlgren Adolphson, Kaino Ojala Leethem, ’57, Michael K. Inman, ’61, Portland. Ralph H. Holcomb, ’50, ’52, Lincoln City. Damascus. Elaine Ohman Mallery, ’61, Sutherlin. Rudolph E. Erickson, ’52, Marshall K. Miller, ’57, Portland. Cloverdale. Audrey Jarmin Jacobs,’50, Vancouver, Wash. Beta Theta Pi Beta Theta Pi Joyce Jeffers Osternig, ’61, Ontario. David J. Genz, ’52, Windham, Hugh A. Seppa, ’57, Warrenton. Eugene. George R. McCormick, ’50, Los Maine. Sigma Pi Sigma Nu Siegfried A. Vogt, ’61, Potlatch, Osos, Calif. Kappa Delta Rho Jack F. Johnston, ’52, Portland. Martin D. Walker, ’57, Green Idaho. Dorothy Sharpe Meece, ’50, Kappa Sigma Valley, Ariz. Donald C. Chambers, ’62, Canby. Chi Omega Leonard L. Kleinhesselink, ’52, Gvido E. Zakovics, ’57, Lake Milwaukie. Charles H. Messenger, ’50, Roseburg. Oswego. Rick R. Colver, ’62, Yakima, Woodburn. Bryan E. Nixon, ’52, Peoria, Ariz. Robert B. Ladd, ’57, ’62, Laguna Wash. Sigma Nu Mohamed M. Oloufa, ’50, H. “Pat” Sawtelle, ’52, Lake Woods, Calif. Nancy Lundgren Ellis, ’62, University Place, Wash. Montezuma, Ariz. William J. Cooney, ’58, San Jose, Portland. Maurice W. Rea, ’50, Macon, Ga. Asa W. Armstrong, ’53, Calif. Eldon L. Johns, ’62, Montrose, Rolland L. Rowse, ’50, Scottsdale, Woodbridge, Va. Theodore Corbett, ’58, Colo. Sigma Pi Ariz. Frank W. Godsey, ’53, Walnut Ellensburg, Wash. Judith Lage Lambert, ’62, Hood D. “Mike” Sievers, ’50, Portland. Creek, Calif. Charles R. Demory, ’58, Costa River. Delta Zeta George A. Weston, ’50, Santa Eldon “James” Layman, ’53, Mesa, Calif. Douglas B. Scofield, ’62, Barbara, Calif. Chi Phi Yuba City, Calif. Thomas E. Gebhardt, ’58, Portland. Alpha Gamma Rho Frederick A. Williams, ’50, Robert G. Macdonald, ’53, Clackamas. DeVere L. Anderson, ’63, Sweet Tallahassee, Fla. Venice, Fla. Phi Kappa Psi Joseph R. Harada, ’58, Aiea, Home. William G. Wolford, ’50, Ernest B. Madsen, ’53, Roseburg. Hawaii. Othniel R. Chambers, ’63, Las Wenatchee, Wash. Phi Delta Theta Karyl Seedborg Robbins, ’58, Cruces, N.M. Benjamin M. Wright, ’50, Canby. Robert J. Robertson, ’53, The Cupertino, Calif. Alpha Phi Donald C. Edinger, ’63, William L. Bennett, ’51, Canby. Dalles. Thomas L. Vincent, ’58, Tucson, Sykesville, Md.

More than 2,700 current and emeriti faculty and staff have given more than $10.5 million to the campaign. This includes gifts of more than $600,000 from OSU’s senior administrators and deans.

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W. Lee Edwards, ’63, Springfield. William A. Groman, ’69, David G. Arbuckle, ’78, Brian L. Arbogast, Corvallis. Richard McCanse, ’63, Salem. Goodyear, Ariz. Sacramento, Calif. He was a researcher at the OSU S. Wayne Terry, ’63, Camino, Wallace M. Skyrman, ’69, ’73, Richard A. Henry, ’78, Olympia, Agricultural Life Sciences Mass Calif. Central Point. Wash. Spectrometry Facility for 36 years. Clifton M. York, ’63, Portland. Bronson Burdick, ’70, Happy Gary L. Evans, ’78, ’81, He won the OSU Outstanding C. Robert Young, ’63, Bountiful, Valley. Vancouver, Wash. Alpha Tau Faculty Research Assistant Award Utah. Joel Hirschman, ’70, Tucson, Omega in 2009. John W. Inman, ’63, Salinas, Ariz. Richard W. Skeean, ’80, Ann Helen MacDuffee Berg, ’73, Calif. Alpha Tau Omega John C. Kreitzer, ’70, Vancouver, Arbor, Mich. Portland. She became the director Eugene R. Royer, ’63, Merritt Wash. Sigma Nu Lisa Paul Watters, ’81, Happy of OSU’s Survey Research Center Island, Fla. Audrey Schluender Buhl, ’71, Valley. Delta Gamma in 1975, retiring in 1993, and was Cathie Nelson Kortge, ’64, The Saint Cloud, Minn. Matthew D. Ellingson, ’82, mayor of Corvallis for 12 years. Dalles. Rose Sinsel Gilmont, ’71, Toledo. Boise, Idaho. Wesley Behring, Flagstaff, Ariz. Francis X. Lubega, ’64, Mykono, Lorraine Frostaad Topping, ’71, Sarah Dorr Hoffman, ’85, Bruce K. Briggs, Roseburg. Uganda. Portland. Corvallis. Elaine Brodkin, Paramus, N.J. Nancy Dougherty Pallathena, Marvin D. Anderson, ’72, Douglas B. Dunaway, ’86, San R. “Bob” Brogoitti, La Grande. ’64, Malibu, Calif. Kappa Alpha Corvallis. Diego, Calif. Leo Bryan, Shady Cove. Theta Asa R. Daily, ’72, Saint George, James M. Knotz, ’87, Portland. John D. Bunnell, Astoria. Paul D. Entler, ’65, Portland. Utah. John W. Lengele, ’87, Renton, R. “Dick” Boubel, ’53, ’54, Bend. Carl A. Forss, ’65, Walla Walla, Ralph D. Hess, ’72, Gainesville, Wash. Alpha Sigma Phi He specialized in the field of air Wash. Fla. Barry A. Long, ’87, Loveland, pollution control, teaching in Edward V. Lengacher, ’65, Robin D. Preston, ’72, Portland. Colo. the Department of Mechanical Vancouver, Wash. Kappa Sigma Douglas J. Watkins, ’72, Michael D. Lent, ’88, Winston. Engineering. Delta Upsilon J. Frank McKay, ’65, Keizer. Bainbridge Island, Wash. Jon S. Bach, ’89, Laveen, Ariz. Jerry L. Brower, Kennewick, Stuart K. Merlich, ’65, Yuma, Laura J. Cook, ’74, Rickreall. Amy Fortune Langler, ’91, Wash. Ariz. Sheldon D. Cross, ’74, Tacoma, Portland. Jeffrey B. Case, Seattle, Wash. Elizabeth C. Rader, ’65, Forest Wash. Douglas W. Emery, ’92, Great Beta Theta Pi Grove. Alpha Chi Omega David B. Eastham, ’74, Falls, Mont. Beverly A. Craig, Chattanooga, Sharon L. Walsh, ’65, Portland. Albuquerque, N.M. Setsuko “Susie” Kao, ’92, Tenn. Loren W. Ambers, ’66, Alturas, Fred J. Girt, ’74, Coos Bay. Portland. John A. Crawford, Bend. He was Calif. Marilee Ellis Harrington, ’74, Steve M. Newman, ’94, Newberg. a professor and research scientist R. Hugh Vibbert, ’66, Wenatchee, Portland. Kermit A. Schott, ’95, of wildlife ecology at OSU for Wash. Donald G. Hook, ’74, Cumberland Center, Maine. 27 years. Contributions towards Michael D. Campbell, ’66, ’67, Bentonville, Ark. Dr. Kristine E. Weaver, ’95, Los student scholarships in fisheries Pilot Rock. Alpha Gamma Rho Richard P. Johnson, ’74, ’83, Alamos, N.M. and wildlife may be made at Clarence H. Lamping, ’66, ’67, Burns. Lemma W. Mengistu, ’95, ’99, 1-800-354-7281. Lebanon. Anita Haitsch Curry, ’75, Saint Paul, Minn. Roy Cook, Yachats. Sigma Nu Dorothy I. Judd, ’67, Salem. Corvallis. Drucilla Bartlett Aitken, ’96, George H. Corey, Pendleton. James K. Neill, ’67, Portland. Richard A. Granger, ’75, Cupertino, Calif. Cecilia L. Cotter, Corvallis. Sigma Phi Epsilon Clarkston, Wash. Alpha Tau Bette Davis Nelson, ’97, Lake Jim Craver, Lake Oswego. William A. Olsen, ’67, Omega Oswego. Renwick Dayton, Gig Harbor, Monmouth. Diane L. Jennings, ’75, Bonney Lukas P. Thomas, ’97, Wash. Alex Riazance, ’67, Potomac, Md. Lake, Wash. Gamma Phi Beta Huntington, Texas. Leona M. Deardorff, Portland. Frances Thomas Ashley, ’68, Troby Zbinden Kelly, ’75, Larissa L. Moore, ’01, Portland. James A. Dinkel, Madras. Portland. Portland. Dawn E. Bittner, ’02, Eugene. Marvin L. Durham, Philomath. L. “Van” Egan, ’68, Campbell Steve J. Upton, ’75, Manhattan, He advised international students River, B.C., Canada. Kan. beginning in 1970. Alan L. Miller, ’68, Portland. Helen Ballew Wagner, ’76, FACULTY & John S. Ferrell, West Linn. Phi Nancy Farrand Shafton, ’68, Springfield. FRIENDS Delta Theta Vancouver, Wash. Gamma Phi Marjorie Anderson, ’77, Lillian M. Fischer, Corvallis. Beta Lebanon. Darrell Friend, Ashwood. N. “Bud” Smith, ’68, ’73, Leo J. Heilman, ’77, ’79, Sweet Gertrude M. Albro, Eugene. Jay W. Glasmann, Bethesda, Md. Tualatin. Sigma Chi Home. David N. Andrews, Eugene. Almom N. Goldmann, Hillsboro.

OSU’s most significant group of leadership donors are the dedicated volunteers serving on the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees. Current, former and Lifetime Trustees have committed almost $100 million to the campaign, more than 16 percent of the total to date.

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Marilyn Gouwens, Miami, Fla. Raymond P. Matthew, The Wash. Merle E. Greenstein, Tualatin. Dalles. Arthur E. Strauss, Columbus, POP Donald L. Greenwood, Salem. Ronald “Mac” McBride, Ohio. QUIZ Diane Griggs, Corvallis. Lebanon. Richard M. Surface, ANSWERS Ruth M. Guenther, New Glen E. Miller, Kent, Wash. Gresham. Smyrna Beach, Fla. Ardath Sneed Montelius, Edith Sichel Terrill, Questions are on page 7. Gordon A. Graber, Woodburn. Bandon. Wilsonville. Robert G. Gourley, Frank Nicolas, Klamath Lawrence Toliver, Klamath 1) C. Corvallis. He was a laboratory Falls. Falls. Epinephrine (also known as adrena- technician for the College of Janice Herigstad Noller, Happy Rosamond Gaines Walton, line) is not appropriate for severe high Forestry for 38 years. Valley Shelbyville, Ind. blood pressure because it increases Ruth A. Haas, Oregon City. Danny Nudo, Gresham. Joseph A. Weinberg, Henrico, heart rate, contracts blood vessels and Fred Haddock, Ann Arbor, Robert G. Oliver, Salem. Va. dilates air passages. Mich. Barry B. Ostrom, Monmouth. Dick Wendt, Klamath Falls. Ralph Hannan Jr., Boring. John T. Page, Vancouver, Pat Carpio Whiting, 2) E. Ray S. Hansen, Denton, Wash. Portland. All of the above. All of the listed Texas. Charles R. Palin, Lake Charles E. Wicks, ’50, medicines could be affected by the Hazel P. Hart, Atlantic Beach, Oswego. Corvallis. He was the head of consumption of grapefruit juice. It is Fla. L. W. Pennell, Saint Helens. the Department of Chemical one of the foods most likely to cause Vickie Powell Heath, Piedmont, Frank G. Phillips, Engineering from 1970 to 1987. problems with drugs, because it is Calif. Kappa Alpha Theta Redmond. Contributions may be sent to metabolized by the same enzyme in Helen Scruggs Horvath, Larose Bowman Phillips, Coos the Charles E. and Miriam D. the liver (cytochrome P-450 3A4) Corvallis. She worked at the Bay. Wicks Scholarship Fund or the that breaks down many drugs. No OSU Valley Library from 1965 Raymond D. Pittman, Wicks-Street Fellowship, OSU interactions have been observed with to 1987. Beaverton. Foundation, 1-800-354-7281. non-prescription medications and Trudy Wittorf Jacob, Corvallis. Lucio Premi, Modesto, Calif. Phi Delta Theta grapefruit juice. She was a Student Health Lorraine Pullman, Salem. Lyle T. Wilcox, Bend. Services nurse for 21 years, Venita J. Putman, Corvallis. She Virginia P. Wilcox, Henderson, 3) A. retiring in 1987. was a medical assistant at the Nev. Anhedoni. It is the inability to John E. Jaqua, Eugene. student health center. Edith R. Willstatter, experience pleasurable emotions from Lulu L. Johnson, Madras. Helen M. Read, Medford. Ashland. normally pleasurable life events such R. Bryce Jones, Newberg. Claudia Reeve, Corvallis. Max K. Wilson, Foster City, as eating, exercise, social interaction Robert M. Keil, Midland, Luella Reynolds, Eugene. Calif. or sexual activities. Researchers theo- Mich. William W. Robertson, Anton Woboril, Locust Grove, rize that anhedonia may result from William King, Astoria. McMinnville. Va. the breakdown in the brain’s rewards Lois J. Kise, Prineville. F. B. Rosevear, Cincinnati, Clifford R. Yadon, Gold system involving dopamine pathways. Larry Knight, Salem. Ohio. Beach. William Kun, Kentfield, Calif. Wilfred “Bill” Rush, Jerry A. Yamamuro, ’76, 4.) True. George P. Lamborn, Huntington. Corvallis. He was associate Adopting healthy lifestyle habits Nottingham, Pa. June Sandahl, Salem. professor of geotechnical (healthy food, physical activity, healthy Mina O. Launt, Santa Barbara, Kenneth W. Sarf, Corvallis. engineering at OSU. weight, quitting smoking, managing Calif. William B. Schaeffer, Glenelg, Helen Youngdahl, Lebanon. stress) is an effective first step in Janet G. Leovich, McKinney, Md. both preventing and controlling high Texas. Robert F. Schneider, Blacksburg, blood pressure. If adopting healthy David B. Lowry, Talent. Va. habits does not keep blood pressure Sherman Lynch, Ashland. Janice J. Schuette, Vancouver, controlled it may be necessary to Zella E. Mack, Sacramento, Wash. add medications. Along with beta Calif. Earl W. Schulz, Redwood City, blockers, other medications prescribed Jacob Maddox, Georgetown, Calif. may include diuretics, ACE inhibitors, Texas. Solving Storkersen Sieberts, vasodilators and calcium channel Fay Madison, Winchester. Portland. Kappa Alpha Theta blockers. Betty Worden Mathews, Bothell, Betty Silbernagel, Stayton. Wash. Elizabeth Strandberg, Bellevue,

This fall more than 400 OSU students participated in the Student Philanthropy Program’s “thank you booth” on the MU Quad, writing notes of appreciation to donors.

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Dedicated footprint Those who turned out in 1926 to dedicate the site on which the Memorial Union would rise arranged themselves to mark the footprint of what would become a preeminent campus landmark. So named because it is a memorial to those who gave their lives in war, the building opened in 1928 and was formally dedicated on June 1, 1929. PHOTO COURTESY OSU ARCHIVES HC0034

The 2007-08 fiscal year — the year of the public launch of The Campaign for OSU — was the best year for fundraising in OSU history at $126.8 million. At the start of the decade, giving totaled just under $20 million.

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