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Pride in Her People Charlotte Basch ’14 helps revitalize the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe

VOICES FEATURES spring 2012 11 Hearing the Call 23 Occupied with Service ii

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APRIL MAY JUNE JULY 14 Lu’au 19 Commencement 14–24 MFA in Writing 14 Pacific Night 18 College of Forest Grove campus Forest Grove campus Residence at the Timbers Education, College Forest Grove campus Jeld-Wen Field, Portland of Health Professions 18 Pacific Philharmonic 23 Portland Networking Commencement with Kansas Breakfast 22 PUB Series with 14-15 Concours calendar Forest Grove campus Roseland Theater, Multnomah Athletic Club Dave Boersema d’Elegance Car Show Portland David Hill Winery, Forest Grove campus Convocation Music in May 24 24–26 Forest Grove Forest Grove campus 21 Speed Networking Forest Grove campus 29–30 Legends Classic

events Forest Grove campus MFA In Writing The Reserve Vineyards & Fall Classes Begin Boxer Club Spring Social 23 27 31 Commencement Golf Club, Aloha Forest Grove campus Senior Projects Day 25 Kells Irish Pub, Portland Forest Grove campus Forest Grove campus *special alumni eventspacificu.edu/alumni | [email protected] | 503-352-2057 complete calendarpacificu.edu/calendar | 877-722-8648 pacificu.edu/magazine 1

SHANE YOUNG

editor’sletter It’s like coming home CONFESSION NO. 1 When I was a high school student looking at colleges, I didn’t hear about Pacific University. Though I grew up just 40 miles south of Forest Grove, Pacific escaped my radar entirely. I ended up attending another small, liberal arts school in the Pacific Northwest—an NWC rival, in fact. CONFESSION NO. 2 I don’t regret that decision. What a waste of time and energy that would be! Most importantly, because the experiences I had in college launched a series of adventures I have cherished, from my newspaper and public relations jobs in Alaska and Wyoming to personal ventures, like living in some of our country’s most amazingly scenic—and rural—areas; encountering bears, moose Nā Haumāna O Hawai‘i will present its and antelope in my front yard (usually not at the same time); meeting and marrying the love of my life; or beginning the endless voyage that is raising 52nd annual Lu’au on Saturday, April 14, a beautiful baby boy. at Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus. Last year, though, my family made the decision to embark on a new Students, often joined by families from the adventure and return to the Northwest. And, finally, I found Pacific. Islands, prepare traditional entertainment It wasn’t just the job that sounded like a good fit—though certainly and food that raises money for their club’s it did. It was Pacific as a community that drew my interest. service activities. Advance tickets are I heard immediately about the Center for Civic Engagement, about the B Street Permaculture project, about the sustainability initiative. And every available at boxofficetickets.com. day I learn more: Health Professions and Optometry programs providing direct service in the community, students volunteering at the winter pacificu.edu/magazine | Lu’au emergency shelter, staff growing crops for local food pantries, young adults mentoring in schools and community centers. This is a place where people care about their world—environmentally, socially and educationally—and work to make a difference. It made sense to me to focus my first issue of the magazine on community service and engagement, AUG SEPT because that is what first drew me to Pacific. I am so excited that my job is now to celebrate that work and to tell you all 18 College of 28–29 Homecoming about the amazing things that Pacific people—be they students, faculty, staff Education, College & Reunion or alumni—are doing to make this world a better place. My goal is to find of Health Professions Forest Grove campus more and more ways to share these great stories—in this magazine, on our Commencement magazine website, on our University website and in my new blog, to name Forest Grove campus 29 Football vs. Whitman Lincoln Stadium a few. Some you’ll know, but, I bet, like me, you’ll find there are new things 24 Convocation happening at Pacific every day. Forest Grove campus 27 Fall Classes Begin Forest Grove campus JENNI M. LUCKETT *special alumni eventspacificu.edu/alumni | [email protected] | 503-352-2057 complete calendarpacificu.edu/calendar | 877-722-8648 Editor [email protected] 2 contents

IN EVERY ISSUE

4...... president’s letter

6...... transitions

6...... by the numbers

7...... huddle

7...... line up

9...... honors & awards

10...... question & answer DISCUSS | Tell us why you believe FEATURES in giving back to your community. pacificu.edu/magazine 16...... learning experience 23...... occupied with service From a neighborhood school to an ...... alumni profile Pacific’s College of Education is taking a new 30 approach to teacher training, embedding orphanage half a world away, Pacific’s science and math professionals in the diverse, School of Occupational Therapy puts ...... class notes 31 high-needs Woodburn School District. community partnerships at the forefront SHARE | Let us know what you’re of student learning. | Former biology professor up to with the new, simplified READ & DISCUSS “Doc” Roberts was a scientist who loved Class Notes submission form. In December, Pacific conferred teaching. His son, John Roberts ‘63, honors also...... pacificu.edu/magazine that love with a new scholarship for students its first gerontology certificates to a class of seeking a science and math teaching degree. interdisciplinary health professionals. 35...... in memoriam Learn more and share your memories of Doc. Pacific’s first online-only program, the pacificu.edu/magazine gerontology certification is a spin-off of the School of Occupational Therapy and seeks to improve elder care. page 26

NEWS & NOTES

5...... a promise to help Students and faculty from the College of Health Professions join local service agencies in providing care for the homeless and underserved during the annual Project Homeless Connect. VOICES WATCH | Visit the one-day health fair with Pacific students and faculty. pacificu.edu/magazine 11...... hearing the call 8...... giving Darren Reiley ’96 didn’t realize his call to service until after he graduated. But the Henry Kaulia ’82 was a beloved Pacific alumnus and dedicated executive director of the Eugene-based teacher and coach. Now, his friends are honoring his memory with a Peace Village traces his journey back to his scholarship for students who want to follow in his footsteps. Pacific roots. DISCUSS | Share your memories of Kaulia. pacificu.edu/magazine GIVE | Contribute to the cause. pacificu.edu/giving pacificu.edu/magazine 3

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Your online edition of Pacific magazine has even more stories, pictures and videos, the chance for you to share your memories and connect with your classmates, and lots of updates, even between issues.

READ | Step back on campus through the eyes of Pacific editor Jenni Luckett and get sneak peeks at the next issue of the magazine with the new Editor’s Blog.

LISTEN | The Pacific University Philharmonic performs at the Roseland Theater with 20...... pride in her people classic rock band Kansas on April 18. Go behind the scenes during rehearsal Pacific sophomore Charlotte Basch started re-writing her people’s history when she for the show. was 12. Now, she is a leader in the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe and is studying ways to help bring her heritage back to life. VIEW | Check out pictures and stories from the annual Legends Classic in July. WATCH | Visit Carlotte Basch in her Seaside home and hear how Pacific is helping Hosted by Tommy Thayer, the star-studded her revitalize her community. pacificu.edu/boxertales event will be packed with world-class golf, musical entertainment and fun. Register now. pacificu.edu/legendsclassic

GALLERY COMMUNITY

14...... walking on [solid] glass 28...... civil discourse Walter Gordinier ’73 creates structural art Thirty years after it started, the out of glass in his Portland studio. Among Tom McCall Forum is remembered his creations are the glass panels on the as an opportunity to bring national second floor of Pacific’s library, built in 2005. conversations to Pacific’s backyard.

WATCH | Hear about Gordinier’s VIEW | More memorabilia. days as a Pacific art student. pacificu.edu/magazine pacificu.edu/boxertales DISCUSS | Share your memories of Forums past. pacificu.edu/magazine

LEARN | Today the legacy lives on in Pacific’s new Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation. pacificu.edu/tommccall 4

letters letter president’s

LESLEY M. HALLICK, PH.D. It was Tabitha Brown who gave us surpassed 171,000 hours of service in 2010–11. PRESIDENT our first cue.Arriving in Forest Grove penniless They are students like Charlotte Basch, who has after a rugged journey West at the age of 66, this worked since high school to revitalize the culture of “Mother of Oregon” dreamed of helping others. her tribe and who now is using her time at Pacific to explore the world for ways to give back at home. “Had [Providence] blessed me with riches, as he has many others…I would establish myself Young people today volunteer at unprecedented in a comfortable house and receive all the rates. Members of the Millennial Generation, poor children, and be a mother to them,” she born after 1981, are especially likely to say that it reportedly told the Rev. Harvey Clark in 1847. A is “essential” or “very important” to help people year later, they founded Pacific University’s roots in in need, finds the federal Corporation for National the Orphan Asylum, later Tualatin Academy. & Community Service. Since 2008, the greater Portland area has ranked second among all Pacific University has a long and rich tradition large cities in the U.S. for its overall volunteer of giving back to its community, starting with rate. Portland is first, however, among large Grandma Brown’s work with the orphans of cities in its volunteer rate for Millennials, with the Oregon Trail and California Gold Rush. That nearly 34 percent volunteering in some way. tradition continues today, when civic engagement is a cornerstone of our undergraduate, graduate Pacific’s commitment to our community is more and professional programs. All students in the than a tribute to our past; it also is an investment College of Arts & Sciences now complete at least in our future. I am proud of the students we attract one class or project related to civic engagement. with our dedication to civic engagement—and of Meanwhile, our College of Health Professions the staff, faculty, alumni and partners who support and College of Optometry students provide it—and I am proud that we can help them garner myriad health services to underserved people in the experience and skills to continue contributing the greater Portland area, and our College of to their communities throughout their lifetimes. Education students mentor, tutor and coach on Our University, our community and our world will their way to becoming teachers. be the better because of them. Our students contribute hundreds of thousands Warmest regards, of hours of community service each year, through their course work and their personal endeavors. College of Arts & Sciences students alone Lesley M. Hallick, President | [email protected] pacificu.edu/magazine 5

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A promise to help BY ASHLEIGH SIMONS ‘12

STUDENTS AND FACULTY from the College of Health Professions join local service agencies in providing care for the homeless and underserved during the annual Project Homeless Connect. WATCH | Project Homeless Connect pacificu.edu/magazine

arking lots overflowed and hundreds of people lined the hallways of Sonrise Church in Hillsboro, Ore., waiting for health screenings or a chance to talk with volunteers. The fifth annual Project Homeless Connect in January paired those in need with an array of free health screenings and other information. Tucked in a back room of the church, students in Pacific University’s School of Physician Assistant Studies and the School of Dental Health Science completed basic health screenings and oral exams. The experience, said dental hygiene student Monica Smith, was all about “leaving the patients with a good feeling, knowing that they are going to be helped.” 

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transitions by the numbers GIVING BACK Cassie McVeety joins Pacific University as Civic engagement is more than a requirement at Pacific University the vice president for university advancement. —it’s a passion. Students, faculty and staff contributed hundreds of She has served for the past three years as the thousands of hours of service to their communities in 2010–11, through vice president for college advancement at course work, cocurricular teams and clubs, and personal endeavors. Mt. Hood Community College and executive director of the MHCC Foundation. Prior to her current post, she was vice president for university relations at Portland State University. 171,561 She joins the University on June 1. Hours of community service by Pacific students

Lisa Carstens, Ph.D., has been The percent of students who committed selected as the next dean of the College 20 of Arts & Sciences. Carstens earned her more than 20 hours of service in one term doctoral degree in English from the University of California, Irvine. She joined Virginia 62 Number of undergraduate and graduate Wesleyan in 1997 as an assistant professor, courses that include community-based learning elevated to associate professor in 2003 and professor in 2008. She taught courses in theory and criticism, modernism, women’s 50 Truckloads of usable household items, clothes and food diverted from landfills to and gender studies, British literature and donation centers through Give & Go writing. In addition to teaching, she has authored several academic publications and made many conference presentations. 654 Pounds of food donated to local food box programs through Give & Go Dr. Christiane Brems has been named dean of the School of Professional Psychology. 281 Number of people screened at vineyards Brems is a distinguished professor and scholar and migrant camps by the College of Health from the University of Alaska Anchorage, Professions mobile wellness clinics where she is co-director of the Center for Behavioral Health Research and Services, $202,480 Value of services provided by as well as a professor of psychology. She is the CHP mobile wellness clinics an active researcher who has been extensively published. Brems joins the College of Health Professions in Hillsboro on July 1.

Ian Sperling joins Pacific as director of fundraising events. Sperling oversees the brieflynoted Legends Classic, the University’s signature fundraising event for student athletes. NEW BUSINESS | Pacific University welcomes Dr. Howard Smith as Sperling’s background is uniquely suited the newly hired founding dean for the future College of Business. The for the new position. He has spent the founding dean is charged with championing the development of a last seven years as tournament director business plan and fundraising for a future College of Business at Pacific for the Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in in the next several years. Once a plan has been created the proposal Aloha, Ore., where he managed close to will go through the University’s governance approval process. Smith 150 tournaments annually. has served as vice president of university advancement, dean of the pacificu.edu/magazine 7

huddle JUDY SHERMAN EARNS OREGON SPORTS AWARD | The longtime Pacific softball coach and director of athletics (1993–2004) received the DNA Award at February’s Oregon Sports quickfact Awards. The award honors those who have made significant contributions and shown great passion for sports in Oregon.

JOSH RHODEN DONS HIS CHAMPIONSHIP RING | A 2004 graduate and two-year wrestler for the Boxers, Rhoden coached Clackamas Community College to the 2012 National Junior College Athletics Association wrestling championship. He accepted the George Pasero Team of the Year award for the Cougars at February’s Oregon Sports Awards.

ALEC WEBSTER NAMED SWIM COACH OF THE YEAR | The sixth-year head swimming coach was named the Northwest Conference Coach of the Year at February’s conference meet. Webster GIRLS ONLY! led the Boxers to a fourth-place women’s team finish, fifth-place men’s team finish and saw HIGH-TECH CAMP 10 swimmers provisionally qualify for the NCAA Division III Swim Championships. Oregon Public Broadcasting produced a line up 10-minute video about Pacific’s inaugural Girls Gather for Computer Science day camp. The camp invites seventh- and eighth-grade girls to the Forest Grove campus

JORDAN KELSY DAN FLORA ‘14, AMANDA ERICA for four weeks of web FUKUMOTO ’14, TAKASHIMA ’12, CROSS COUNTRY CLARK ’15, SCHULTZ ’12, and 3D programming, FOOTBALL The VOLLEYBALL The The junior earned SWIMMING The BASKETBALL The Lego robotics and other two-year starting middle blocker Second Team senior forward freshman was science and technology wide receiver earned her fourth All-NWC honors named the was named to became Pacific’s All-NWC Team with a 10th-place Women’s Swimmer the D3Hoops.com fun. The second first First Team selection and her finish at the NWC of the Meet at the National Team installment takes place All-NWC selection second first-team Championships. NWC Championships of the Week this summer. Check out since 1984. nod to finish He followed that after winning on Jan. 9 after Fukumoto finished her senior year. up with a 22nd- conference titles averaging coverage of the camp with 844 yards Takashima finished place finish at the in the 200-yard, 29 points, later this summer. receiving and second in the NCAA West Region 500-yard and six rebounds, pacificu.edu/magazine eight touchdowns. league with a school Championships 1,650-yard 4.5 steals and He ranked 33rd record .323 hitting to earn all-region freestyle events. 2.5 blocks in a set among all NCAA percentage and laurels. The She swam of games against Division III receivers 326 kills. She led the performances were provisional qualifying Willamette and with 93.8 yards Boxers to a 13-win the best for a Pacific times for the NCAA George Fox. per game. season, their most men’s cross country Championships in since 2007. runner since 2006. all three disciplines.

College of Business and Economics MAJOR GROWTH | Pacific degree in business administration also and tenured professor at Boise State University’s College of Arts & Sciences will have the option of an accelerated University, as well as dean of the is expanding its degree offerings. three-year Business Scholars program. University of New Mexico’s Anderson Beginning this fall, students will be Both art history and dance began Schools of Management and School able to pursue bachelor’s degrees in as minors, with curricula that have of Public Administration. He begins applied theatre, art history, dance developed into majors. Applied theatre his appointment at Pacific on July 1. and public health. Those seeking a is a new program that links traditional Continues 8

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giving IN HONOR OF COACH K

quickfact Friends of Henry Kaulia ’82­—a popular director of admissions Pacific alumnus and Gaston (Ore.) High School at Pacific, Hand worked teacher—are starting an endowed scholarship with Kaulia as athletic in his name to be awarded to a junior or senior director, office manager Hawaiian student interested in pursuing a career and registrar at Gaston in education. Preference will be given to students Junior/Senior High from Leeward Oahu. The scholarship will be School in the late 1990s, renewable through the student’s enrollment in and all three of her Pacific’s master of arts in teaching program. children attended school there. Kaulia died in a car accident in 2006 at age Kaulia grew up on Hawaii’s Leeward Oahu Coast 45. More than 800 people came to his funeral and came to Pacific as a football player after at the high school gym, paying tribute to a being named the state’s High School Lineman GIVE ‘EM A LIFT man who many said coached as he lived: with of the Year. When he first started teaching at Pacific University staff discipline, teamwork and respect. Gaston, “he was so committed to teaching and psychologist Now, Kaulia’s friends, Kyle Kobashigawa ’87 of coaching that Henry rode his bicycle to and from Jeff Guardalabene Forest Grove and Bob ’64 and Sunny Iboshi ’67 Gaston while living in Forest Grove until he could (“Dr. Jeff”) gained of Hillsboro, Ore., hope to encourage others to afford his first car,” Hand said. attention this winter fund the scholarship because of “our love for He also quietly donated his coaching stipends when the active blogger/ Henry and our belief in his life,” Bob Iboshi said. to the “Special K” fund, which, to this day, Twitter commentator If you ask former Gaston High students about provides money for Gaston students who need launched a Holiday the effect Kaulia had in his 24-year career, the help for athletic fees or equipment. Fare blog to collect most common word uttered is “respect.” Today, the gym at Gaston High School carries donated TriMet mass “Coach K,” as he was often called by his Kaulia’s name. Each April 9, on the anniversary transit tickets for students, “treated everyone that he of his death, the morning announcements people in need. As encountered, no matter how great or small, at the school include the Rainbow Song in of mid-March, the with the utmost respect (and) expected the Kaulia’s honor. drive brought in some students he taught and coached to treat others $3,700 worth of tickets, SUPPORT the Henry Kaulia Endowed Scholarship with respect at all times, and to have respect which have been Fund—email [email protected] or visit for themselves,” said Tania Hand ’04, who donated to agencies pacificu.edu/giving.SHARE your memories of Kaulia. was a senior at Gaston High when Kaulia pacificu.edu/magazine serving those in need. began student-teaching there. Now associate By Wanda Laukkanen

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theatre skills with community service. minors: editing and publishing, master’s degree in speech-language Public health offers interdisciplinary indigenous studies and outdoor pathology, which begins in Fall 2012. studies in epidemiology (infectious leadership. Undergraduates also Meanwhile, the College of Health disease), health promotion, public can minor in communication science Professions launches a doctoral policy, cross-cultural work or and disorders, a course of studies program in audiology in Fall 2012, biostatistics. Also recently approved that provides the prerequisites for followed by a new master’s of athletic are new College of Arts & Sciences the College of Education’s new training in 2013. pacificu.edu/magazine 9

honors & awards

Tayari Jones and Sandra Pelham- Cathy Evans, Erica Findley, digital Ken Eakland O.D. ’74, Benjamin Percy, Foster received director of resources and associate dean faculty members in the Occupational ophthalmic services metadata librarian for the College the University’s highly Therapy Association in the College of at the Forest Grove of Optometry’s touted master of of Oregon’s (OTAO) Optometry, was named campus, was selected clinical programs, fine arts in writing highest honor when one of the Vision as one of 75 librarians was honored by the program, were each she was named Monday magazine’s across the country Oregon Optometric awarded $25,000 the 2011 Grace 50 Most Influential for the American Physicians Association grants by the Black Award winner Women In Optical for Library Association’s for his work on issues National Endowment at OTAO’s state 2011. Evans oversees (ALA) Emerging related to third-party for the Arts (NEA) this conference. As the the operations of the Leaders program. The and eye-care benefits. past fall. The NEA School of Occupational College’s five optical program’s aim is to He received the 2011 Literature Fellowships Therapy’s academic EyeTrends dispensaries, enable newer library Agost-Minnick Award. are awarded to fieldwork coordinator, teaches optics to workers to participate Eakland oversees published creative she has doubled second-year in problem-solving the management writers in prose to fieldwork placement optometry students, work groups, network of the College’s five enable them to set opportunities for and provides structure and have an community clinics aside time for students and developed continuing education opportunity to serve and is the externship writing, research, opportunities in for para-optometrics the profession in a director for more than travel and general six countries. and opticians leadership capacity. 100 other sites for career advancement. at conferences. optometry students.

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24-HOUR SERVICE FAIR Pacific students participated in 21 different service projects during the 24-Hour Service Fair on March 10-11. Projects ranged from clearing a Little League ball field of overgrown grass to collecting pajamas for orphans.

OT OUT FRONT | The School of therapy, and a professional track for fieldwork scenarios or taking long-distance Occupational Therapy is transitioning occupational therapists who hold a courses. The post-professional track begins from a master’s degree program to a master’s degree and want to advance with a short residency in Hillsboro, followed doctoral program. The School will offer their credentials. The entry-level track is a by distance-based course work. Pacific will both an entry-level track, for students three-year program similar to the current be the eighth of 150 occupational therapy with bachelor’s degrees who have master’s program, but the third year programs nationwide to offer a clinical not previously practiced occupational will be distance-based, with students in doctorate for entry-level students. Continues 10

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question & answer “Why are community service and civic engagement important?” quickfact BY ASHLEIGH SIMONS ’12

CARRY ON WITH PACIFIC, KANSAS The Pacific University Philharmonic will perform with renowned classic rock band Kansas at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, at the Roseland Theater, as part of the band’s Symphony DEKE GUNDERSON, JILL HERTEL ’98, ALLEN KIM ’13, STEPHANIE STOKAMER, Rocks Collegiate Tour. PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY MAT ’03 OPTOMETRY STUDENT DIRECTOR, CENTER Look for tickets online at “It encourages positive 2011 YOUNG ALUMNI “To me, community FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT www.TicketsWest.com, human interaction. LEADERSHIP AWARD service means putting “Civic engagement matters at any Safeway TicketsWest Given the way life “Community service my neighbor’s needs because the challenges and civic engagement outlet, at a Music is today in the U.S., before my own. It of our times are growing are vital to building Millenium location or by students need to learn matters because increasingly complex and communities. They offer phone at 503-224-8499. how to be aware of it bridges gaps cannot be solved by any their surrounds, which a sense of ownership between people of one person or organization Pacific magazine will includes interacting and pride to participants, different backgrounds or economic sector. In have behind-the-scenes with other humans in while empowering and strengthens order to address issues rehearsal coverage. a positive way. With future leaders to make a the solidarity of such as poverty or climate pacificu.edu/magazine all of the technology positive change in their the community. change, we need many around us, we forget local community and the Community citizens around the globe how to directly interact world. Community service service defines my who are informed and with one another and provides basic needs such involvement in the actively working together, how our actions affect as food, education, play optometric profession.” whether through service those around us.” and love to people in need. or through political systems, Community service and to create more sustainable civic engagement are the and just societies.” difference that makes our world a better place.”

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MAINE ATTRACTION | Pacific the University reaches out to the opening office space this spring in University’s School of Dental Health community. In 2011, dental hygiene Portland’s Pearl District. The offices Science was featured in January on students in the clinic served more will give the program a connection Tom’s of Maine toothpaste end- than 4,000 patients, and more than to Portland’s literary community and cap displays in Whole Foods stores 300 additional patients were served potential students. This summer, in Washington and Oregon. The by the mobile clinic. Pacific also will open an office in displays featured the University logo OUTER SPACE | Pacific’s master Honolulu to aid in student recruitment along with a message about how of fine arts in writing program is and support in Hawai’i.  pacificu.edu/magazine 1 1

voices Hearing the Call BY DARREN REILEY ‘96

DARREN REILEY ’96 DIDN’T REALIZE HIS CALL TO SERVICE until after he graduated. But the executive director of the Eugene-based Peace Village traces his journey back to his Pacific roots.

ooner or later, like it or not, we have to grow up. All right, we don’t have to. The world is riddled with examples of grown-up adolescents, after all. There is, however, something native to the human spirit that calls to us, from the earliest inklings of awareness, summoning us into the fullness of our power. The mythologies of the world all sing of this call; they all speak of this power. I don’t mean power as in political clout or the ability to control. I’ve come to believe that it is by discovering our power to uplift and inspire, to serve and connect, that we become our fullest selves. Continues 12

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As a fun-loving, fairly self-absorbed with on the coast this summer. You’ll love it. It’s called Peace Village. You can come help me teach undergrad, I was entranced by the mysterious conflict resolution.” world, growing wider and more mysterious with each new class at Pacific University, each new “Conflict resolution?” said I. “I’ve never learned friendship, each new day of dawning realizations. conflict resolution. How am I supposed to teach it?” I forgive myself that I was more interested in what “Just follow along. You’ll be fine,” she assured me. the world had to offer me than what I had to offer it And so I went. at that point in my life. It turned out that this Peace Village summer camp Much as I hate to generalize, there is something had been devised by a United Church of Christ particularly American about that attitude, as I pastor named Charles Busch in Lincoln City. Inspired discovered during my senior year study abroad in to offer an interfaith, intercultural experience where Austria, where the job of a college student is as much elementary-aged kids could learn about nonviolence, political agitant as hunter-gatherer of knowledge. he’d contacted the Peace and Conflict Studies Perhaps that’s unfair: Many of my Pacific classmates program at Pacific: Professors Dave Boersema, Mike were more engaged in the larger world than I. As a Steele and Ellen Hastay all got involved. slow learner, my awareness of the broader human Wintry had designed the conflict resolution family dawned as slowly as a foggy day in the Grove. curriculum as part of her senior project. Elizabeth My education abroad was an eye-opener and an Wilson, who had directed the Pacific Outback for experience that I feel now should be a standard years and organized the service trip to the Navajo graduation requirement. Nation, also played a hearty role. Even so, though the irises of my worldview had Here were people I knew and loved. certainly begun to bloom, my focus remained And it was here I first heard it: the call. constrained to self-service. New love and the apparently dubious utility in the job market of a There is something that happens to you when you BA in English lit and creative writing dominated my begin to turn your focus away from the imminent needs of the myopic self, when the question, “What attention after graduation. is my power?” becomes “How can my power It wasn’t really until after serve?” The overcrowded eyesight, so often filled “...my steering wheel I left the Grove that my with images of personal goals and resources, begins had been commandeered, spirit began to stir with the to relax and we begin to hear that call to become question: What was something more. It is the coming of age that all souls my vote had been proxied, I offering to the world? yearn for, the passage into the awareness that we my volition volunteered." Writing, story gathering have a purpose in the wider dance of life. and storytelling—these I found community at this Peace Village—an had always been my passion, my calling, my art. So incredible group of people, from richly diverse I vaguely launched into a folklore master’s degree backgrounds, united by the dream of a more hopeful, program at the University of Oregon with the idea of peaceful future for our children. gathering more stories, teaching at a small University I returned to the camp the next summer. And the next. like Pacific, and writing during the summers. After five years of learning conflict resolution from Fine. Wintry and helping her teach it to children—also Sure. ironic, since I now assert firmly that children have But in that context, my desire to teach was still self- far more to teach adults about conflict resolution— motivated, still essentially egocentric. Peace Village had begun to hum to me. It was during my first year in Eugene that Wintry I’d finished my folklore master’s degree, and since Whitt Smith ‘97, my good friend from Pacific, a teaching fellowship at the U of O was paying called me up and said, “Hey Darren! You should my tuition, I decided to add another in English. I’d come teach at this great summer camp I’m involved finished that one as well and was staying at home pacificu.edu/magazine 1 3

me that we could adapt the curriculum to a high school setting. Having taught at the university level, this felt natural to me, and so, with the help of other teachers, we began contracting with alternative high schools in Eugene and building a curriculum that integrates conflict resolution and nonviolent philosophies into the required course content Darren Reiley '96 is executive director of Peace Village, where he helps teach in social studies and language conflict resolution, especially for youth. arts. Our “Peace Out” high with my baby daughter, while her mother worked school program has since won several awards. We’ve full time, when, one day not long after the Bush brought both privileged and so-called “at-risk” teens invasion of Iraq, Elizabeth called me up. to meet Nobel Peace Prize winners, to hear the likes of the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, and to do “Hey Darren.” service work for Diné elders in Arizona. (That last, “Hey.” by the way, was inspired by my good friend Doug “You know how Charles has been wanting to make Uentillie, who has been guiding Pacific’s service trip Peace Village into a nonprofit?” to the Navajo Nation for 16 years.) (Charles Busch, the UCC pastor who’d dreamed If you had predicted that my life would look like this and run Peace Village, felt called to broaden the when I was graduating from Pacific, I would have vision, to raise funds to pay teachers to deepen had a few choice quips for you (and been smugly curriculum and bring it into schools.) impressed by my own cleverness, no doubt). “Yeah…” I said. There is simply no telling where the call will lead And that was it. you. It seems hilarious to me now that the two most It was the first time I remember being possessed prominent fields of my profession—service learning by an idea—which is to say, my steering wheel had and peace studies—were offered at Pacific and, while been commandeered, my vote had been proxied, I was there, I never gave them a second glance. And my volition volunteered. yet I keep finding these almost mystical threads of my life that trace back to Pacific. Everything is connected. I couldn’t not do it. I talked to Charles and began to put together the documents to form a nonprofit And perhaps the single most important factor in organization—again, something totally unrelated to discovering that, in allowing our eyes to widen to the my field of study. I called the Pacific group—Dave, wonder of the world, is taking those steps in offering Mike and Ellen—all of whom showed up to serve our power in service. Ultimately, what we give freely on the founding board of Peace Village, Inc. becomes the only thing that we truly get to own. That giving is not only the road from egocentric Long story short: Nine years later, Peace Village has childhood to true adulthood but also the road to the grown. Teachers and students from Hindu, Muslim, deepest kind of power. Christian, Jewish, Bahai’i, Native American, Sikh, Pagan and secular communities have added their DARREN REILEY is a 1996 alumnus of Pacific University’s song to the growing chorus. As of this summer, we College of Arts & Sciences. Today, he is executive director of have 18 camps in nine states. Peace Village, Inc., based in Eugene, Ore. peacevillageinc.org Somewhere in there, my own more native gifts TO SUBMIT a personal essay, opinion piece or letter to the began to insist upon attention, and it occurred to editor, email [email protected]. 14

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Walking on [solid] glass BY ASHLEIGH SIMONS '12 WALTER GORDINIER ’73 CREATES STRUCTURAL ART out of glass in his Portland studio. Among his creations are the glass panels on the second floor of the Pacific University Library.

ast glass art by Walter Gordinier can be seen nationwide in chapels, hospitals and even private homes. It also appears in Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus library, at the top of the stairs. Gordinier ’73 did not always work with glass. As an art student at Pacific, his interests lay in ceramics. When he began working with glass, though, he realized he could put art in front of people where they could use it every day. Now, his pieces serve as parts of structures: countertops, ceilings, bridges, even flooring. He works with interior designers, architects and building owners to create unique pieces. Each work is made by layering pieces of glass in a large kiln, creating new colors in a process Gordinier compares to painting. His art is tested and approved for normal weight and use as building materials, and instead of drilling holes, he affixes his creations with the same tape that is used on Boeing aircrafts. He cannot pinpoint a single project as his favorite, but Gordinier said the project at his alma mater was special; it made him feel like a student again.

Walter Gordinier '73 designed the glass wall on the upper level of Pacific's Library. Learn more about his time at Pacific and his artworks online.

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Professor Kevin Carr leads a high school math for a classroom filled with 20 teenagers. class in Woodburn, Ore., It’s too quiet to demonstrate teaching There are no whispered side conversations, no papers crinkling as notes are techniques to a student-teacher folded and passed, no tell-tale click of a texting phone. embedded in the school as part of Pacific University’s master There’s also nearly no participation. of arts in teaching program for For 42 minutes, Kevin Carr stands at the front of a classroom in Woodburn’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Academy of International Studies, teaching ninth- and 10th-grade students ways to visually represent algebraic functions. He wanders back and forth, projects students’ work on a screen, asks questions, tells stories and even cracks a few jokes. Chris Pokorny thinks about how to present a math lesson Carr is no stranger to teaching. Originally a high school physics teacher, he’s to high-schoolers. Pokorny has now a professor in Pacific University’s College of Education, teaching others to a math degree and is studying lead middle and high school classes. to become a teacher for middle and high school students. Still, the students here resist his charms. They remain stoic, respectfully attentive but unmoved by his prompts for class participation.

“You’re right,” Carr says after class, reviewing the experience with math teacher Brea Cohen, the teacher of record, and teaching candidate Chris Pokorny. “I’m still totally in the dark as to whether they get it.” pacificu.edu/magazine But this isn’t the traditional teacher preparation 1 7 program. Pokorny is one of six students in a Pacific pilot program that embeds potential science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching candidates in Woodburn schools for a year-long master of arts in teaching (MAT) program.

“The way the program is designed, because we’re embedded in the district, moments like this can happen,” Carr said.

Studies estimate that the United States will need some 10,000 to 25,000 new STEM teachers annually. President Obama has touted the need to Ibrahim Mesovich talks recruit and train math and science teachers as part about escaping his home of his education platform, and a public-private in Bosnia when it was partnership called the 100K in 10 campaign has ravaged by war in the drawn commitments and money from everyone early 1990s. A chemical from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to NASA engineer and chemistry to Google. teacher in his home country, he escaped to Germany, The National Science Foundation administers then the United States, the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, which and has spent years helps professionals in math and science go back learning new languages to school to become teachers. Many students in and working his way back Pacific’s Woodburn MAT STEM program receive into the classroom. $15,000 Noyce scholarships to help pay for their one-year program (a few MAT students at Pacific’s Eugene and Forest Grove campuses also receive the scholarship). In turn, they commit to working in a “high-needs” school district after earning PARRISH EVANS their teaching licenses. But Carr says it’s not enough to just recruit new teachers to old training programs. The teacher preparation model needs innovations, too, to The three teachers take time to talk about the attract qualified people away from science and lesson, to brainstorm ways to engage the students, math jobs. Changes also must attract more and to critique the delivery. women and minorities to the field, ensure Brea Cohen, one of long-term retention of teachers and, ultimately, Kevin Carr’s former Pokorny will try to mimic the morning’s lesson, students, teaches math provide the best math and science education adapting it to his own style—and a few less at the Academy of possible to the next generations. reticent groups of students—throughout the day. International Studies in Woodburn. She serves as a “We’ll see how it goes,” Pokorny tells Carr. “It mentor teacher for students gives me a few ideas.” Woodburn is one of the in Pacific’s STEM program. This kind of give-and-take with an instructor is fastest growing communities rare in most teacher preparation programs. Under in Oregon, as well as the most diverse. The the traditional model, Pokorny may have worked compact downtown area sits on the railroad that with Cohen, his mentor teacher, for some ideas. played prominently in the town’s foundation, He may have told Carr about the ultra-quiet class though no trains stop here anymore. One ancient during a once- or twice-a-semester evaluation steam engine is on display in a downtown park, meeting. He almost certainly wouldn’t have but most green space is devoted to soccer fields, been able to call his university instructor one booked every weekend by teams for toddlers and evening to discuss a challenging class and have grandparents alike. The storefronts downtown that instructor in the classroom demonstrating advertise predominantly in Spanish, and local teaching methods the next morning. restaurants are almost exclusively taquarias. Continues 18

Rule No. 1 for working in Woodburn is recognizing that language and culture differences aren’t a problem; they’re an asset. Woodburn is in its 15th year as a bilingual school district. That means students take classes in at least two different languages—not just language classes, but math, literature and science classes. By graduation, almost every student speaks two languages fluently, and many speak three languages. The original plan was for students to take classes in their native language and English, but parents saw more opportunity. Native Russian- speakers—a prominent group in the town that is home to a large group of Russian Orthodox Old Believers—often take their classes in Spanish and English, learning Russian at home, for example.

Recently, Woodburn started administering high-school level Advanced Placement language The community holds to its agricultural exams to eighth-graders, who are scoring as Rebekah Gomez, a former roots—its founder, George Settlemeier, was well as their 11th- and 12th-grade counterparts architect, helps students in a prominent nurseryman—with additional nationwide and earning college credit before a middle school math class economic boosts from the local MacLaren Youth starting high school. at French Prairie Middle Correctional Center and the 1999 addition of School in Woodburn, Ore. Woodburn commits to a professional learning the Woodburn Outlet Mall. Woodburn also She decided to change careers community model and, in the past five years, after her husband died and could be considered a bedroom community broke its large high school into four small learning has found a passion for for people who work in nearby Salem and teaching teens. Portland—each just 25 miles away on I-5. communities. Grants and a growing population The city’s unemployment rate, though, rivals also have allowed the district to retain some of the the state average, and poverty is high for a extras that so many districts have had to abandon Portland-area community. in tight budgetary years—Woodburn is the only district in Oregon, for example, to have free access The Woodburn School District easily qualifies as to high school sports for students. a “high-needs” learning community by federal standards. About 80 percent of students qualify These innovations make it a “high-needs” school for free and reduced-price lunch, and 50-plus district that doesn’t actually have the same trouble percent are classified as English-language learners. attracting teachers experienced by many of its ilk. The “high-needs” designation is a two-sided “We’re very well-known across universities in coin for Woodburn, though. State test scores Oregon,” said Superintendent David Bautista. are admittedly low, and students do have more “When a student has language skills, they want to challenges to overcome on their academic be with us. Teachers want to be in our district.” journeys. But, Woodburn also has benefited from a combination of federal grants and visionary Even with the ability to be a bit choosy, Bautista says educational leaders. he was anxious to work with the Pacific pilot program. pacificu.edu/magazine 1 9

“The philosophical understanding Dr. Carr has, the children’s classes, taught summer school and quality, fidelity and consistency of the program” home-schooled her own children for a time. made it an attractive partner, Bautista said. Teaching was the logical next step.

“It becomes a lab for STEM students to see the “A friend suggested the [master’s program] at complexity of what it is to teach our students,” George Fox,” she said, “but I had a 4-year-old, he said. there was no way I could do it. How do you move forward with five kids alone?” They become better teachers for diverse populations wherever they go, he said. And, Now that her kids are a bit older—7 to 17— though recruitment isn’t a big problem overall for she was able to explore, and she found the Woodburn, attracting upper-level STEM teachers Pacific program right in her own community. who are fluent in Spanish, Russian and, most “My kids go to school down the road...it’s recently, Somali, is a challenge. kind of a miracle to me,” she said. “The more From the 1940s to 1960s, Pacific biology professor “We’re talking about the level of proficiency...it I do it, the more I realize this is what I should John “Doc” Roberts takes to teach calculus in Spanish,” Bautista said. be doing.” presented a famous amoeba “You can’t be stumbling over the words.” Recently, the pilot program was extended for lecture each semester. Today, his son has started a second year, and Pacific has leased an office a scholarship in his honor, The needs of K-12 schools—and their in Woodburn for administrative and student remembering Doc’s legacy students—are changing, and that means teachers meeting space. and supporting the STEM need to change, too. Carr said he’s encouraged teaching program at Pacific. Carr said he hopes that the pilot will grow by the diverse backgrounds of prospective into a permanent part of Pacific’s curriculum, LEARN more and students who were drawn to the Woodburn MAT and that it will continue to build ways to SHARE your memories STEM in its inaugural year. of Doc online. attract nontraditional students. pacificu.edu/magazine “Each of the six people is out-of-the-box in some He also foresees a partnership with the GIVE to the scholarship. respect,” he said. “I’ve been doing MATs for local community college that would allow pacificu.edu/giving 14 years, and there’s always a certain number students to gain their core classes through the out-of-the-box, but not usually the whole group.” community college then take Pacific courses Ibrahim Mesanovic is a Bosnian refugee. In for an undergraduate teaching degree in Photo courtesy of Washington County Bosnia, he was a chemical engineer, then a high Woodburn. He said that there’s untapped Heritage Online. school chemistry teacher. He fled his war-torn potential in young Latina women in the home in 1992, and moved to Germany, where he community who don’t have a tradition of organized a school for refugees and also worked going away to college but who may pursue as a journalist. higher education if it’s local and connects to a clear job prospect. In 1997, he immigrated to the United States, and he’s been working ever since to gain the At the same time, he said, he hopes that qualifications necessary to get back to the some of the innovations of the Woodburn classroom. He’s learned English—his fifth fluent pilot will translate throughout the College language—and by next fall may at last have a of Education. master’s degree and teaching license. “It’s a bit of an experiment and model with “This program is just the program for me, because ideas we will apply in Eugene and Forest of my background,” Mesanovic said. Grove,” Carr said.

Rebekah Gomez grew up in southeast England “For me, I can only see a benefit,” said Ricardo and worked as an architect in London and in the Marquez, principal of French Prairie Middle U.S. She moved to Woodburn with her husband, School, where Mesanovic and Gomez are and they had five children before he died five among the student-teachers. years ago. “How they learn, see what’s going on, get to “One or two years after he died, architecture hypothesize and test; it’s more like how a was not working for me,” she said. She had doctor trains. It’s innovative. It’s different. taught and coached swimming, taught art in her ...I would see it as very beneficial.” 20

IN HER PEOPLE BY WANDA LAUKKANEN White waves lap the sandy beach. Seagulls squawk overhead. Eagles pose in tall trees nearby, watchful. Pacific University sophomore Charlotte Basch is at home, in her favorite spot.

It’s known as Neawanna Point, an on a combined major in anthropology 18.5-acre estuary just north of Seaside, and sociology and hoping to add dance Ore., off Highway 101. next year. She also is striving for minors in Spanish, political science and indigenous Today, it is part of a preserve established studies, a new minor that launches next fall, in 1968 by the North Coast Land thanks in part to some of her own efforts. Conservancy and others to protect a sensitive ecosystem and a place of Her passions go back to her childhood. cultural significance. Charlotte’s father, Richard, serves as the ABOUT NEAWANNA POINT Hundreds of years ago, it was the place Native American liaison to the National The 18.5-acre estuary that is Charlotte Basch’s ancestral home is located just north of Charlotte’s ancestors; a place where Park Service for the Lewis & Clark Trail at of Seaside, Ore., west of Highway 101. the Clatsop and Nehalem Indians lived Fort Clatsop. When she was 12 years old, A small graveled parking area holds a together in longhouses, where they Charlotte accompanied him to work and plaque noting a bit of the history of fished and hunted, where they weaved was shocked to see the historical video the area. Further west through the clothes and baskets, where they danced. that played at the fort. Sitka spruce is another stone monument It also is the place where Lewis and Clark honoring Reuben Snake, of the Winnebago The video depicted “the Clatsop-Nehalem tribe in the Midwest, who was known once stayed, not far from Fort Clatsop, people as just basically decimated—they as a visionary and activist. The plaque where, in 1805, they met Coboway, the looked horrible,” Charlotte said. “It said is in memory of his role in helping to Clatsop Indian chief who was Charlotte’s that they were extinct…but I always knew heal people, and he is widely known for great-great-great-grandfather. I was Clatsop (Indian), so I went back to a book he co-wrote titled: “One Nation my dad and told him about this and we Her mother, Roberta Wright-Basch, hails Under God: The Triumph of the Native sat down and wrote a big paper about from the Puyallup tribe in Washington. American Church.” Snake died in 1993. everything I didn’t like about the video Her father, Richard Basch, is from the and what should be changed.” WATCH pacificu.edu/boxertales Clatsop-Nehalem tribe. Charlotte has grown up with their shared ancestry and The result: Fort Clatsop received a grant to considers herself a proud member of remake the video, A Clatsop Winter Story, both tribes, one who wants to use her which plays every 30 minutes during talents and education to work with and visitor hours at the fort. for indigenous communities. “It tells the story of Lewis and Clark and An ambitious student, Charlotte is a the expedition, but through the eyes of Pacific University sophomore working the Clatsop, which is a side that not many pacificu.edu/magazine 2 1

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people hear very often,” Charlotte said. “I think it ended up For Charlotte, the future isn’t about recognition, so much pretty accurate, more or less, and I know that the fourth-grade as revitalization. classes in Clatsop County do go and watch the film every year.” “A lot of our language has been lost,” she said. “A lot of our The story is told through the eyes of Charlotte’s great-great- dances and our songs have been lost...we have a few grandmother, Celiast Smith, the daughter of Clatsop Chief of our stories.” Coboway. Celiast would have been 4 when Lewis and Clark She wants to use her education as a path to exploring journeyed to the area. In the video, Roberta, Charlotte’s mother, retention and revitalization of indigenous cultures portrays Celiast as a grandmother telling her grandchildren worldwide—including her own. about Lewis and Clark. Charlotte plays Celiast as a child. “I’ve had a really strong interest in indigenous people all over Charlotte and her sister, Lorraine, also served as models for the world, specifically in the Americas, because I their ancestors in a 60-foot-long mural in Seaside (on the believe we’re all related,” she said. corner of Broadway and Holladay streets) depicting scenes of early Native American life. When she was younger, she visited Australia.

The Clatsop-Nehalem tribe, like many Native American groups, More recently, she worked as a volunteer with a nonprofit is not formally recognized by the United States government. In agency, Cross-Culture Solutions, in Ayacucho, Peru, one of 1851, 19 tribes negotiated treaties at Tansy Point near Astoria. that country’s poorest areas, where she worked with mothers in a wa-wa-wasi, or “baby house” in the Quechua language. How ever, the government never ratified the treaties and, as the tribe’s website states, the Clatsop-Nehalem people “began “I really wanted to find more of the indigenous-based to fall through the cracks.” teachings for their kids, since almost everyone outside of Lima at least speaks Quechua…especially the elders,” she said. “So, Some members settled on reservations, such as the Siletz and I was really hoping to bring that home, the way they teach Grand Ronde in Oregon, or the Chehalis or Quinault Indian their younger community members about the past.” Nation in Washington. Others stayed in their homeland. Pacific has allowed her to continue her exploration. “We lost a lot of heritage and culture,” Charlotte said. “We were pushed out, mostly because the area is beautiful, rich and full of This winter, she visited Trinidad, in the Caribbean, through many resources—so many settlers wanted to go there.” a Pacific research class on culture. There, she got to meet 22 with the president of Santa Rosa Carib Community, a major organization of indigenous people in Trinidad and Tobago and to see how natives there maintained their cultures.

“I wanted to work with them and see how they’ve held on to a lot of their traditions, their culture and language, mostly because since my father’s tribe is unrecognized, we’re hoping to move through the process of restoration, which is an extremely difficult process.”

Last summer, Charlotte took another step in that process, as a coordinator for the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe’s involvement with canoe journeys held in the summer with many other Northwest Native American tribes. “My tattoo was originally painted by my mom. Her mother was of the Turtle Clan from the Charlotte’s group, which included both Clatsop-Nehalem and Warm Springs Coeur d’Alene tribe in Idaho. Also, there are Indians, traveled more than 800 miles by canoe and motor vehicles to the legends of the turtle carrying the earth on its back. Swinomish Tribe’s home near LaConner, Wash. Along the way, they camped That is why she drew the earth on its back with the animals around it representing the four- and shared songs, dances and stories with other local tribes, including the leggeds (bear), the sky animals (eagle) and the Grand Ronde, Quinault and Chinook. ones who live in the water (salmon). The small They started the journey at Celio Village on the banks of the Columbia River face on the back of the head is meant to represent the spirit of the turtle. in Central Oregon, with 12 to 18 people at any one time in the canoe. They paddled down the Columbia, using a trailer to go around the dams, and “Clan tattoos were most commonly on the shoulders continued on the water to Vancouver, Wash. From there, Charlotte and her and arms, also. Many native people do not believe in tattoos, but many Northwest tribes have had canoe family towed the canoe to the Makah Indian Reservation on Neah Bay the tradition for many, many years. I’ve heard at the very northwestern tip of Washington state, then paddled on the waters one more recent reason for this is the large trading of Puget Sound eastward to the Swinomish Tribe’s home. industry before and with early settlers. This allowed natives from the area to identify others.” At the end of the journey, said Charlotte’s father, Richard, she stood up before some 10,000 people, introduced her tribe’s canoe family, Ne-awahanna Yahanetty (Spirit LEARN about the Native American canoe journeys of the River), and talked about the issues in maintaining tribaljourneys.wordpress.com Native American culture. WATCH the video documentary Paddle So many people, he said proudly, told him that his to Swinomish Clatsop-Nehalem with daughter “has so much courage.” Warmsprings. bit.ly/PaddleClatsop 2 3

Occupied with Service BY JENNI LUCKETT

atalie Butz was in high school when her Nbrother suffered a traumatic brain injury. “I was with him in the hospital for three months and got to see him working with all the (care providers),” she said. “(Occupational therapy) was the one—my heart connected with it,” said Butz OT ’13. “I saw the implications it had in my brother’s life.” From high school through her undergraduate studies at Boise State University, Butz had a singular goal: a career in occupational therapy, or OT.

Continues PARRISH EVANS 24 oday, she is in her second of moved into the physical realm, Tthree years in Pacific University’s and today only 2 to 3 percent of occupational therapy program on her occupational therapists work in mental way to a master’s degree. health, said John White, director of Pacific’s OT program. She dreams of working with people who have experienced traumatic brain The possibilities, however, are limitless. injuries, like her brother, perhaps in an “We define ‘occupational’ differently acute care center or a community group. than the average person,” White said. Because of Pacific’s unique community- It’s not about a job, per se; it’s about linked approach to OT training, she’s any way in which people constructively already getting a taste of the life of an occupy their time. OT. She has connected with Bridge to Independence, a Portland-based day “Our primary concern is the full lifetime program for traumatic brain injury of occupations,” he said. “That includes survivors. She also has worked with taking care of yourself—showering, elderly patients in Nicaragua and with brushing teeth, eating. It includes rehabilitation services in Ireland— work—volunteering, schoolwork, taking without even starting her Year 3 care of friends and family. And all the fieldwork experiences. leisure activities you pursue—games, socializing, playing sports—all the It’s that connection to the community productive ways people spend their day.” and hands-on service approach that brought her to Pacific to begin with, In other words, said professors Sandra she said. Butz and fellow second-year Rogers and Sandra Pelham-Foster, it’s student Nicolé Wandell OT ’13 recently about doing. A family practitioner attended an enclave for occupational might tell a patient to exercise to lose therapy students across the country. No weight, or a psychologist might talk to a client about strategies to avoid other schools were as involved in serving direct services for people. By the second conflict; an occupational therapist helps the community as Pacific, they said. year, students are more involved in people implement that advice. “Nobody had that grasp of community fieldwork as part of their courses. And, involvement and nonprofit partners in “In many therapies, you come in for in Year 3, students are expected to OT. Some said, ‘We’re kind of working help and get instructions,” Pelham- complete a large project, often including in a nonprofit,’ but Pacific sealed that,” Foster said. “It’s not that you don’t developing a business plan to sustain Butz said. know you should do it, you just don’t an occupational therapist in a new or know how to get it done. existing program. “A lot of us were accepted to other programs. What drew us to Pacific was “We help people integrate new techniques “Pacific is amazing, for its size, for all the into their everyday life.” things we do,” said Professor Rogers. that community involvement.” And if ever there was an example of or example, she leads one of Pacific’s n its infancy a century ago, practicing what you preach, the School interdisciplinary, international occupational therapy was concerned F I of Occupational Therapy is it. The focus service trips. primarily with mental health—helping for students is on doing, while learning. World War I soldiers deal with Last summer, she took Pacific’s second shellshock, or what today would be Starting as early as the first year, group of students and faculty to China identified as post-traumatic stress classes are connected with a host of to work in a pediatric rehabilitation disorder. Over time, the profession community organizations providing facility. The project is a partnership pacificu.edu/magazine 2 5

left | Nicolé Wandell OT ’13 works with a resident at a hogar in Nicaragua. Pacific’s School of Occupational Therapy leads a multidisciplinary team from the health professions on an annual trip to enhance services for elders in the Central American country.

below, left to right | International, interdisciplinary service trips provide opportunities for occupational therapy students to team up with their colleagues from other fields and to experience healthcare services in other parts of the world while learning and giving back. In addition to the annual trip to Nicaragua, Pacific University also offers an interdisciplinary trip to China, where OT, physical therapy and education faculty and students work in an orphanage and rehabilitation hospital. Pictures from Nicaragua and China are provided by Nicolé Wandell, Tiffany Boggis and Sandra Rogers.

between Pacific University, the Chinese caretakers have taken ownership hogar where she worked to develop a international organization Fuling Kids of the new ideas. chair exercise program for residents. International, and the Chinese facility, One resident was so excited about the Meanwhile, second-year students Butz which includes an orphanage and program that the students created a and Wandell were two of four OT rehabilitation hospital for children guidebook for her and taught her to lead students who visited Nicaragua this with disabilities. winter on another international service the program after they left. OT, physical therapy and education trip. Students and faculty from OT, Butz also said she made a splint out of students worked with the medical physical therapy, physician assistant, a water bottle for a person who couldn’t professionals who provide pharmacy, dental health and optometry go to the hospital and, in another case, rehabilitation care in the hospital, programs work in hogars, or homes used a water bottle, a box and some as well as with the caretakers and for elderly individuals without family. foam to create a wedge to decrease a educators at the orphanage. For the first time this year, the Pacific patient’s hand inflammation. group split in half, serving two different “We’re giving them more tools, hogars in different parts of the Central “You figure out how to adapt what you information and ideas. To the extent American nation. need without everything. You don’t that they want that help, we’re trying have the fancy equipment we have to be helpful,” Rogers said, adding Butz said occupational and physical here,” she said. that she has been amazed by how the therapy students teamed up in the Continues 26 “It makes us better therapists, because we’re not thinking, ‘equipment, equipment, equipment.’” right and page 23 | Tiffany Boggis, the School of Occupational Therapy’s leader First-year students in the on the Nicaragua trip, said the efforts are making a long-term School of Occupational difference not only for the patients that Pacific students serve, Therapy spend the spring but for the system of care throughout the country. semester working one- on-one with middle- and Pacific students work with one of the Nicaragua’s five high-schoolers in Hillsboro’s occupational therapists, along with a local nursing school that Miller Education Center. traditionally hasn’t had the time or resources to focus on elder Students like high school care, Boggis said. senior Karina Soriano, right center, get mentorship “One result of our partnership with the nursing school is that and help developing life they have included a whole portion in their curriculum on skills that will serve them working with older adults and a lab portion where nursing through school and into students go out to homes for abandoned adults and work life after graduation. with individuals in hogars,” Boggis said. “That’s a really cool example of how our participation down there has really helped to spark some action in Nicaragua, for them to be able to take it on themselves.” t home, the opportunity to serve and learn is A even greater. Pacific partners with Washington County Community Corrections, where students work with inmates in an optional drug and alcohol treatment program. The inmates spend 60 to 90 days in AA and other treatment, and occupational therapy students help them implement the lifestyle changes before and after release. “That’s a key part of the program, because they go back to the community with the same people, the same problems with their family,” Rogers said. “How do they move their sincerity to stay clean and out of trouble into behaviors they can maintain over time?”

older adults,” said Linda Hunt, the Pacific Designed to be interdisciplinary, the program professor of occupational therapy who encourages students to work and talk elder care founded the program. together—digitally, of course—regardless NEW ONLINE GERONTOLOGY “It amazes me: Older adults are a huge of their specific discipline. It also focuses on CERTIFICATE PROGRAM HELPS population, and all the healthcare practical application. Students are required to programs have a little content on older complete several projects in their workplaces HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS adults,” she said. “There is a need for or in internships that apply their learning and SERVE AGING POPULATION all health professions to be focused on directly benefit aging patients. education on aging.” Kelly Green started the gerontology BY JENNI LUCKETT The gerontology program reaches out program in September 2011 and hopes In December, Pacific University conferred to students in Pacific’s College of Health to complete it in December 2012. Though its first set of graduate certificates in Professions, as well as to working her background is in chemistry, Green gerontology on a class of seven students. healthcare professionals from across the went to nursing school in Oklahoma, The new program, which launched in interdisciplinary realm. The first class hoping to get into a career field where September 2010, offers a 15-month, included many occupational therapists, she could make a difference. all-online certificate program for working as the program has a natural relationship “I kind of felt like what I was doing didn’t healthcare professionals or graduate with Pacific’s School of Occupational matter,” she said. “What you do in students interested in issues of aging. Therapy through Hunt. It also included nursing really matters. Not a day goes by “Our goal in designing the certificate was professionals in physical therapy, that you don’t go home and feel that you to improve the quality of care provided to psychology and dental science. helped someone.” pacificu.edu/magazine 2 7 The OT program also partners with Old Town Clinic severe disabilities that would trigger occupational therapy on Portland’s Burnside Street, working with professional services through their public school, all could use extra occupational therapists to provide services such as pain help in finishing school, planning for college or finding management to homeless and underserved populations. jobs, and establishing independent living skills to be successful as adults. Students work with the Kiwanis Camp that provides summer camp experiences for people with disabilities. They have Soriano transferred to Miller Education Center from her partnered with TriMet to help more people transition from traditional high school when she became a teen mother. driving or call-a-ride service to traditional public transit. They She has some support from her family, and from Miller Ed, have interned with Our House of Portland, which provides where she is able to bring her child to an on-site daycare. healthcare and housing services to low-income people living Still, the balance between school and motherhood is hard. with HIV/AIDS. She talks passionately to Frankamp about the pressure of Pacific also partners with Portland State University in working knowing that her decisions will directly affect her child. with AgrAbility, an organization devoted to helping farmers She struggles to figure out the right steps after high school return to the fields and continue their livelihoods after to build the best life for both of them. experiencing disabilities. She also talks about wanting other teenagers to know that Students helped found and continue to work at AntFarm, a parenthood isn’t a carefree babysitting gig; it’s permanent community center in Sandy, Ore., that uses outdoor activities and it’s serious. She dreams of making a documentary in such as trail-building to connect with at-risk youth. her school about the reality of teen motherhood, for her senior project—which she hasn’t quite started in February n a Friday afternoon in February, Hannah Frankamp of her senior year. OOT ’14, a first-year Pacific occupational therapy student, sat in a classroom, chatting with Karina Soriano, a senior at These are the kinds of things that she and Frankamp will Miller Education Center in Hillsboro, Ore. work on weekly until graduation. Throughout the school, about 30 other first-year OT students “I think it’s really awesome to get a chance to actually get out met one-on-one with middle and high school students in the of the classroom and start working on things we’re learning alternative school. The meetings will continue every week about in the classroom in real life,” Frankamp said. “I’m throughout the semester, as the pairs talk, play games, learn looking forward to just kind of learning more about Karina new skills and work together on the younger students’ goals. and what dreams you have that I maybe can help with— not necessarily fix or solve or whatever—but to just walk Most of the middle and high school students come from alongside you and be your cheerleader a little bit.” poverty, and many have a host of challenges outside of school that impacts their academic success. Though few have the Soriano nods and smiles, “Be there to help me up.”

She and her husband moved to person is facing when you’re Oregon about two years ago, when exchanging postings and stuff with she went to work for Legacy Health’s people coming at it from a different Salmon Creek Medical Center. point of view.” “I deal a lot with elderly people,” she She said she also likes that she’s said. “I was looking for a way to get already putting her learning more knowledge that would help me to work. In her second class— serve them better, better understand focused on communication—she their needs and help in their recovery developed a project to improve after surgery.” instructions for patients being She said the online program allows discharged from her hospital, and her to stay focused on her career the system was immediately put in while gaining valuable skills. She also place on her unit. said the interdisciplinary approach “I really feel pretty optimistic that I’m helps her learn more about the learning things that are useful,” she patient experience. said. “Obviously I’m learning things “We play off of each other,” she said. I can already apply and I’m able to “It gives you a bigger perspective of apply them. That’s how you know the problems that maybe an elderly something’s worthwhile.” 28

Civil Discourse BY JENNI LUCKETT

THIRTY YEARS AFTER IT STARTED, the Tom McCall Forum is remembered as an experiment that exceeded expectations, bringing national leaders to Pacific’s backyard to debate the hot issues of the day.

he legacy lives on today as the new Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation empowers Pacific University students to be active citizens and gives them a voice in local politics, campaigns and policymaking.

right | Caricatures promote the 1986 debate between Neil Goldschmidt and Norma Paulus. top | Russ Dondero, now faculty emeritus, cheers. pacificu.edu/magazine 2 9

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THE YEAR WAS 1982. “I always viewed the Forum as a large On the right: syndicated columnist Cal Thomas. classroom, not only On the left: Vietnam-era anti-war activist for students, but for Sam Brown. the larger community,” Dondero said. “It was a The topic: the Moral Majority, still in its infancy chance for people to sit lobbying for evangelical Christian values in down and think about American politics. important topics.” The debate—the brainchild of Pacific University THE YEAR IS 2012. Professor Russ Dondero—would become the first installment of the Tom McCall Forum. Today, the Tom McCall Center is working to The Forum ended in 2007, the same year that bring the focus back to Dondero retired. local issues that connect In its wake, though, Pacific founded the to Pacific students. The Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation. Center has teamed Carrying on the legacy of political involvement up with other campus and the memory of the late Oregon politician groups to sponsor the and journalist, McCall, the Center strives Tribal Leaders Lecture Series, and it hosted to build more campus-centered interaction “We’re going back to the a debate between between students and policymakers, said candidates for Oregon Director Jim Moore. early days...focusing on getting Congressional District 1. Thirty years ago, the Forum was an experiment, It supports student and students directly involved posited by Dondero in response to a call to faculty research around find new ways to retain students. It started politics and government, in policymaking.” —jim moore on a shoe-string budget, with a debate in the and it seeks to make gym, a banquet in the University Commons. Pacific a center for local By 1991, though, the event outgrew Pacific’s and regional elections. campus and moved to downtown Portland, “We want to make Forest Grove and Pacific a eventually drawing crowds of 2,000 to the definitive stop that every candidate has to make,” Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Moore said. For Dondero, the event was always about students: attracting them to Pacific, giving VIEW | More memorabilia.pacificu.edu/magazine them an opportunity to connect with political DISCUSS | Share your memories of forums past. leaders, inspiring them to internships and pacificu.edu/magazine lives of civic engagement. It also became an LEARN | Today the legacy lives on in Pacific’s new opportunity to bring the seminal policymakers Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation. of the time to Oregon. pacificu.edu/tommccall 30

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Bruce Fleskes ’87 hugs actress Jennifer Aniston on set.

On set It takes Bruce Fleskes ’87 a moment to remember all to help on the set of Cattahoochee, starring Dennis Hopper. the celebrities he has met during his career. In more than 25 years in the industry, Fleskes has worked Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Will Ferrel, Charlize on dozens of projects. Among his recent credits are work Theron and his personal favorite, Jennifer Aniston, “a real as a gaffer on the movie Twilight and a rigging gaffer on sweetheart,” make the list. the Portland-based television show, Grimm. He has worked closely with his brother, Brian, on three television movies, Fleskes, known on set as “Sarge,” has been in the movie and his best friend, Scott Walters ’87, has been his business and commercial business as a gaffer or rigging gaffer since partner for the last five years. graduating from Pacific. “Sarge” Fleskes still lives in the Portland area with his wife, Though he originally was pursuing a business degree, Fleskes Paula PT ’91, and his two daughters, ages 18 and 15, but was steered toward a television class by his now sister-in- his job also takes him all over the country, including a recent law (wife of his twin brother, Brian, also a 1987 alumnus). 10-year anniversary (and working) trip to Puerto Rico. He earned a degree in telecommunications with a minor in photography and spent time doing small jobs with the And, after more than 25 years, Fleskes said the career he Portland Trail Blazers. found through Pacific is still “what I love doing.” Then, in 1988, Fleskes had the chance to work on a larger movie set. He and a friend from high school set up scaffolding on the set of Breaking In, a Bruce Reynolds By Ashleigh Simons ’12 | Simons is co-editor of The Pacific Index comedy. That job led to an offer to go to South Carolina and editorial intern for Pacific magazine. pacificu.edu/magazine 3 1

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Meet the staff of the Office of Alumni Relations. Stop by the Abbott Center on your next visit to the Forest Grove campus, meet us at special alumni events, drop us an email or give us a call any time. 503-352-2057 alumni @pacificu.edu Christy MacPherson ’94 MARTHA CALUS-MCLAIN ’03, director of alumni relations is the program manager Martha recently celebrated five years with Pacific University. She manages the Office of Alumni Relations while of Family Promise of developing and implementing alumni relations programs. She grew up in eastern Washington and moved to Hawai’i, a nonprofit Forest Grove in 1999 to attend Pacific, where she earned her degree in media arts with an emphasis in journalism. that provides shelter, food

JESSICA GILES, associate director of alumni relations and case management Jessica moved to Portland in 2007 from Florida. She is excited to continue her career in nonprofit work and for homeless families admires Pacific’s commitment to civic engagement. During her time here, she hopes to engage more alumni with children. She also is with the University and to reconnect with those who have lost touch with their alma mater. involved with Faith Action for Community Equity. RACHAEL BURBANK ’09, alumni relations coordinator Originally from Massachusetts, Rachael earned her degree in creative writing from Pacific. She worked for the Office of Alumni Relations as the communications assistant when she was a student. She enjoys being back at the Abbott Center, working in an academic setting and remembering her college years. Outside the office, Rachael also is dedicated to managing social media communications for the Glenna Kohl Fund for Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to melanoma awareness.

DENISE BANH, annual giving and alumni relations coordinator Denise joined the team a little more than a year ago after earning her communication degree from Lewis & Clark College in Portland. She coordinates all student alumni events and supervises Pacific’s Phonathon and Bobby Harris ’70 was recently inducted into student giving programs. She also is the advisor of the student alumni organization, STAT, and coordinates the Portland Interscholastic student-based alumni events. League Hall of Fame. He coached men’s gymnastics, football and track, but class notes & profilespacificu.edu/magazine his most significant accomplishments came BY ASHLEIGH SIMONS ’12 | CLASS NOTES EDITOR as head basketball coach 1949 1959 at Jefferson High School William Baldwin ’49, 35 years. Though her Jerry Kalapus received school on request. He from 1976 to 1998, when his teams took three O.D. ’51 was recently sight is challenged due to the 2012 Oregon and his wife, Suzanne, inducted into the National macular degeneration, she Substitute Teacher of also celebrated their 50th league championships Optometry Hall of Fame. walks a mile daily and is the Year award from wedding anniversary and several state trophies, Baldwin spent 11 years active in two stock study the Oregon Substitute this year. including a second-place, clubs and church activities. Teachers Association at its three third-place and one as the optometry dean at 1964 the University of Houston. She fondly remembers her annual conference Oct. 15 fourth-place award. He was Carmen Julia He also spent time as days at Pacific, particularly in Keizer, Ore. He started recognized by the Portland (Michaels) Bryant the optometry dean at “Dr. Anna” Berliner and his teaching and coaching Interscholastic League with and her husband, Donald, Pacific University and the Dr. Harold Haynes, and career in Canyonville, Ore., two Coach of the Year now have a total of nine New England College she still marvels that she where he remained for awards. He also was selected grandchildren with the of Optometry. The Daily passed her geometric two years. For the next 33 to coach in two high school recent addition of two all-star games, worked with Cougar, Houston, Texas optics class. She is always years, he taught English adopted grandchildren, learning new things and and coached basketball the Portland Trail Blazers Katheryne Stout ’49, Ethan and Elizabeth. is particularly fascinated and tennis at Reynolds in their developmental O.D. ’50 recently Bryant recently became the recently by the new High School in Troutdale, summer league program, celebrated her 100th interim executive director information on brain southeast of Portland. and was a coaching assistant birthday. She resides in Des of ACMI, a Christian structure and function. Since his retirement in at several summer programs Moines, Iowa, where she networking association 1994, he has continued to in North America that at Oregon State University. practiced optometry for take over the classroom provides services to At Pacific, he played football for his friends at the high international students. and basketball and ran track. 32

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1969 1995 Ron Thompson was Todd Hamilton MAT Christine Pollard PT Michelle Savoie is in Amanda Moore and her inducted into the Forest is the superintendent is helping develop the her second year working husband, Nathan Shrefler, Grove High School Hall of of the Creswell School new bachelor’s degree on the Marbled Murrelet welcomed Madeline Fame for his 18 years of District. The Creswell program at Oregon State Project, which studies the Patience on Aug. 23, coaching softball at the Chronicle, Creswell, Ore. University-Cascades in population of endangered 2011. She weighed school. Forest Grove News- exercise and sport science. birds in the San Juan 7 pounds, 7 ounces Amy (Hylton) Nelson Times, Forest Grove, Ore. Pioneer, Madras, Ore. Islands region. The Journal and measured 19.75 has been promoted to of the San Juan Islands, inches. Madeline joins co-president and CEO 1975 1999 Friday Harbor, Wash. big brother, Henry. of Point West Credit Art Hiemstra is currently Christine (Marshall) Union in Portland. Michelle Stewart PA Melanie (Bethscheider) living in Lake Oswego Marks moved to Rabat, Previously, Nelson had works at Maple Street Pedersen and her after spending 12 years Morocco, in February 2012. served as chief operations Clinic in Forest Grove husband, Craig, welcomed in the Seattle area. After officer since 2007. Jeff Roberts MAT is as a physician assistant. Stella on Feb. 28, 2012. attending Pacific, Hiemstra the assistant principal at Since graduation, she Stella weighed 8 pounds, received a master’s in 1996 Seaside High School. Daily has mentored other PA 1 ounce and measured business administration Felicia Astorian, Astoria, Ore. students, including Joy 21.5 inches. from Stanford University in Gephart PA ’06, who Palo Alto, Calif. Currently, (Pranger) Bawdon Aaron Qunell O.D. has and her husband, Craig, 2000 now works at the same he works for the Bank of joined Center Vision and welcomed their son, Steven Beckingham clinic. Forest Grove News- the Cascades in Portland as Contact Lens Clinic in Raleigh Paul Bawdon, has been hired as the Times, Forest Grove, Ore. a senior vice president. Kennewick, Wash. In on July 15, 2011, at Canby High School’s new drama adviser. 2001 addition to attending 1990 12:52 p.m. at Overlake Pacific, Qunell was the Since graduation, he Kyle Bunting and Jill Randy Bloom has been Hospital in Bellevue, chief of optometry services has lived in London and Holleran were married July a teacher at Ilwaco High Wash. He weighed at Dover Air Force Base Brooklyn, N.Y., and acted 16, 2011. Kyle is a teacher School in Washington for 7 pounds, 1 ounce and in Delaware. The Tri-City in numerous productions. at Century High School. Jill the last 19 years. measured 19.5 inches Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Canby Herald, Canby, Ore. works for Wells Fargo Bank. He currently teaches an long. He joins big sister, David Tudor MAT array of history classes. Ariana, who is 4. Gina Bell recently Rhutu (Amin) Gharib accepted a new job became curriculum Chinook Observer, Long Mary Ann Button O.D. and her husband, Avikar, with the Portland director of the Washougal Beach, Wash. has established Cascade welcomed a baby girl on Development Commission School District on July 1, Optical and Eyecare in Nov. 1, 2011. She joins big in the neighborhoods 2011. Camas-Washougal 1992 Klamath Falls, Ore. The sister, Suhana. Richard McMaster division. Previously, Bell Post-Record, Camas, Wash. new practice comes after Scott Heuston and his O.D. was hired by the spent six years working working in a commercial- wife, Amanda, welcomed 2003 SouthEast Alaska Regional with Adelante Mujeres corporate optometric daughter Elliott May on JoyAnn (Fell) Book Health Consortium to as the farmers market setting for eight years. Feb. 7, 2011. is the president and co- create a new eye clinic director. The Oregonian, Herald and News, founder of ChatterPlug Inc. on Prince of Wales Portland, Ore. Krista Kennedy-Ho and Klamath Falls, Ore. in Scottsdale, Ariz. Island, Alaska. Alaska Phong Ho ’02 welcomed Tonya Macalino Kevin Larroque Journal of Commerce, welcomed Arianna son Jett Ho on Oct. 5, Naomi (Stucky) recently released her Anchorage, Alaska Andrea Larroque on July 2011. He weighed Brown and husband first novel, Spectre of 21, 2011. She weighed 6.6 pounds. Darrell welcomed their son, Invention. In addition 1994 7 pounds, 8 ounces and Kellen, on Jan. 28, 2012. was named to writing, Macalino Shani Moser measured 19 inches long. 2002 director of a newly-opened also sell soaps and other Jennifer DeJean is the Daphnie Carruth nonprofit, Labor Resource bath items at The Artfull Erin Miles is currently an assistant vice president ’03 married Rob Levine on Center, in October 2011. It Garden in Hillsboro. ESL teacher at Greenway and commercial bank Oct. 15, 2011. is one of two in the state The Hillsboro Argus, Elementary in Beaverton, manager at Home Federal Kim Clark married David of Virginia. She continues Hillsboro, Ore. Ore. She and her husband, Bank at the Silverstone James Hall on July 31, teaching Spanish as well Dolan, have two children, branch in Meridian, Idaho. 2010. Jenn Crowder ’03 as coaching softball for her 1998 Lauren, 3, and Owen, 1. Idaho Business Review, served as maid of honor James Hale O.D. is daughter’s team. She says and his Boise, Idaho in the ceremony. Both Hall now the president of Fletcher Ray she always loves to see wife, Alli Aaby, welcomed and Clark are graduates the Oregon Optometric Aimee Ault married Pacific-ites out East. Alexandra Sophia Ray on of University of Oregon Physicians Association. Jonah Elliott on Aug. 13, Oct. 20, 2011. School of Law. Clark is The Gazette Times, 2011, in Montana. now an Internal Revenue Corvallis, Ore. attorney. 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Katie (Martin) Lardy Erin Dustrude ’05, Whitney Vail Shannon McIntyre Alison Wan married and her husband, Paul PT ’08 and Joel has worked with the MAT ’10 teaches future Javier Perez ’09, Lardy MAT ’04, welcomed Lampert ’05, Psy.D. ’10 Oregon Youth Authority focus at St. Helens High MEd ’12, MAT ’13 daughter Bailey on Oct. were married Aug. 13, since September 2011, School. Chronicle, St. on Aug. 13, 2011, in 9, 2011. Bailey was 2011. Erin is a physical as a behavioral services Helens, Ore. Salem, Ore. Free Lance, born with a full head of therapist at Providence treatment director. In her Hollister, Calif. Tiffany Yabuta platinum blonde hair and Rehabilitation Services in position, Vail directs the and Ricky Shinn ’07 weighed 8 pounds, Newberg, Ore., and Joel state juvenile correction 2010 married on June 18, 2011, 3 ounces. She joins big works at St. Mary’s agency’s mental health Clay Foster MHA is at the Royal Hawaiian sister Bella, who is 3. Home for Boys in services and ensures the now the patient services Beaverton, Ore. Joel has Hotel in Honolulu. The manager at Rebound Annie (Wilson) Marske use of the best treatment joined a family legacy wedding party included Orthopedics and and her husband, Ben, practices. Previously, she of Boxers, including the groom’s brothers, Neurosurgery in Vancouver, welcomed a second baby served for two years as a Erin’s parents, Robert (Bobby) Shinn ’05 Wash. Business Journal, girl on July 14, 2011. Steve contract psychologist in the and and Randall (Randy) Shinn Vancouver, Wash. Roslyn Grace weighed 9 Dustrude ’73 Cyndy agency’s two largest youth ’06, MAT ’07, as well as pounds, 8 ounces. She Schlueter Dustrude ’74, correctional facilities. Liane Nakamae won a and her aunt and uncle, Christopher Lee ’08, Ashten joins big sister Scarlett. scholarship from Alexander Kawabe ’07, Traci Yamashita Pam Young Schlueter ’77 2007 & Baldwin Inc., which Jara (Doughten) Pakinas ’08, Tanya Pang ’08, MAT ’09 and Jon Schlueter ’78. Lindsay Prescott awards four children of and her husband, Jacob, and Aileen Yoshimura ’08. married Michael employees at Hawaiian welcomed baby Jameson Jane Sesser MAT Zaborowski on Aug. 22, Brittany Nelson O.D. Commercial & Sugar Co. on June 27, 2011. is a special education instructor at St. Helen’s 2011, in Seattle, Wash. received the Vistakon each year. She is attending Noah Powers and High School. Chronicle, St. Amanda Rutledge ’06, Award of Excellence in Pacific University’s physical Andrea Travers ’03 Helens, Ore. Natalie Walker ’06 and Contact Lens Patient therapy school. The Maui welcomed their second Stephanie Kraft-Terry ’06 Care from the American News, Maui, Hawaii son, Avery Read, on Christopher Thorsland were in the wedding party. Optometric Foundation. Aug. 11, 2011. He was a O.D. is now an optometrist 2011 Jen Ward has joined at Eye Styles in Tualatin. Kelly Padgett ’08 O.D. ’11 small baby of 10 pounds, Burlington’s Quality Chandi Bickford PT The Bee, Portland, Ore. has joined Jeffrey Nevitt has joined Walton Physical 9 ounces and 22 inches. Physical Therapy in O.D. ‘83 at Pacific Eye Clinic Therapy in ClubSport in Avery joins big brother, Bellingham, Wash., as 2006 in Raymond, Wash. The West Linn, Ore. A high Jonah, who is 4. an assistant in health Jill (Winger) Willapa Harbor Herald, school and college athlete and exercise. Northwest 2004 Gregg and her husband Raymond, Wash. who now runs half- and Business Monthly, welcomed their son full marathons, Bickford Lianna (Vernon) Bellingham, Ore. 2009 Roberts and her husband, on Sept. 21, 2011, is especially interested Adam Azril and Sarah Ethan, welcomed son at 7:03 a.m. He in working with active weighed 8 pounds, 2008 Grafton ’09 were Eli Michael Roberts on is the individuals and athletes 4 ounces and measured Robin Grossman married Oct. 29, 2011, Dec. 9, 2011. Eli weighed new assistant women’s to prevent injury and 21.5 inches. in Bend, Ore. 5 pounds, 6 ounces. soccer coach for the U.S. help allow full recovery following an injury. She Casandra Hart PT Air Force Academy. Julie Jochum O.D. 2005 recently married is an independent lives in Lake Oswego, Carol Cloakey Rick Reznic. Jerry McGill MAT recently doctor of optometry at where she volunteers Anderson and BJ had his autobiography, Target Optical, serving with Young Life. Noah Horstman is the Anderson welcomed Dear Marcus: Speaking to patients in Nebraska head golf professional at Aaron J. Crain O.D. ’11 daughter Rory Gale the Man Who Shot Me, and Iowa.The Lincoln Oak Knoll Golf Course in has joined his father, Brian J. Anderson on Jan. 15, picked up for publication Salem, Ore. Mail Tribune, Journal Star, Nebraska Crain O.D. ’78, in the Auburn 2012, at 6:53 p.m. by Random House, and it is Salem, Ore. is now Eye and Contact Lens Rory weighed 8 pounds, expected to be published in Mark Truax the Western issues Clinic. Auburn Reporter, 4 ounces and measured Chelsie (Bake) Rice April. His story was picked specialist for the Kent, Wash. 21 inches. and her husband, Shane, up after receiving a rave welcomed a second baby review in the New York National Association of Kevin Dennis is a Laura Beil ’05, OT ’08 boy on Oct. 13, 2011. Times. McGill was the victim Conservation Districts physician assistant with and Prabu Segaran ’05 Peyton Liam weighed 9 of a drive-by shooting more (NACD). He works with a focus on cardiothoracic welcomed their daughter, pounds, 3 ounces and than 30 years ago when 17 western states and surgery at The Oregon Leela Ramani Segaran, measured 21.5 inches. He he was returning from a territories on conservation Clinic’s Northwest Surgical on May 9, 2011. Matt joins big brother Parker, party on New Year’s Eve issues, including federal division in Salem. The Beil ’07, MAT ’08 and Kara age 2. in New York City. He has lands, forestry, grazing and Statesman Journal, Lanning ’07 are the proud been paralyzed since. Mail endangered species. He is Salem, Ore. uncle and aunt. Tribune, Ashland, Ore. based in Washington, D.C. pacificu.edu/magazine 3 5

Heather Gregory is a pacificu.edu/magazine physician assistant at in memoriam an Edmonds, Wash., clinic that serves families in need. Snohomish Cathy Stoller Amy Beaupre County Business Journal, Long-time Pacific Amy (Spelbrink) Everett, Wash. University supporter Beaupre ‘33 died Rebecca Hofmann is Cathy Stoller died Jan. 22, 2012, at the now an invoicing specialist Nov. 30, 2011, age of 100. for MyBinding.com, an at the vineyard Beaupre was not Internet site that offers she shared with only an alumna of customers the supplies her husband, Bill needed to bind documents. Pacific, studying Stoller ’74. She music in the 1930s, Krissy Luke MHA has was 60. A memorial she later became an been awarded the Legacy service was held on instructor in the music Health System Fellowship, the Pacific campus department and a which provides a two- on Dec. 9 in the Stoller Center, which was named year, paid management longtime friend and supporter of the University. after the couple who generously helped fund position. The award is Beaupre grew up in Minnesota in a musical home, multiple renovations of the athletic center. given to one person each surrounded by siblings and parents who loved year by Legacy. Cathy was born Aug. 6, 1951, in Portland. She to sing and play instruments. In 1922, her family Jennifer Hernandez graduated from Morningside High School in packed up an “old jalopy,” she said in Pacific’s 2008 was married to Khoa Los Angeles. She later returned to Portland, annual report, and headed across the Great Plains, Ngo on Aug. 21, 2011, where she was Bill’s first hire at Express Personnel first to Washington then to Oregon. at Elk Cove Vineyards Professionals, which he co-founded in 1983. in Gaston, Ore. In She attended Pacific, where she fondly Express went on to become an internationally attendance were maid remembered music flowing out of Brighton Chapel renowned temporary employment firm, with of honor, Rebecca (Lopez) and the music department. She graduated in Moua ’11, Maria Violeta Cathy serving as chief executive officer of the 1933 with degrees in music and political science. Blando ’14, Theresa Floyd Oregon offices. In the meantime, the Stollers also She later taught music at Pacific, where she also (Berglund Center) and became co-owners in Chehalem Wines, then performed on the piano for many dignitaries. photographers Reese purchased Bill’s family turkey farm and turned it Amy Beaupre was a faithful donor to her alma mater, Moriyama ’10 and Justin into Stoller Vineyards, as well as a home for the providing support for many different areas across McRobert (University couple and their twin sons. They also invested campus. Her love for music, however, was evident Mail Services). heavily in the revitalization of downtown Dayton. by her provision of start-up funds for the orchestra Kandy Rachwalski Cathy was actively involved in the vineyard and is the leader of in 2006. Her estate will continue her legacy with gifts MFA its events, as well as the American Vitacultural The Writers Group, which to the music department and a scholarship. Areas. She loved animals, particularly the horses, meets twice a month at Her husband, Herschel Beaupre, who she married on alpacas, miniature donkeys and pugs that live on the Grants Pass Library. Dec. 24, 1936, preceded her in death. Her parents the Stoller property. The group is comprised and siblings also preceded her in death. She is of all types of writers In addition, the Stollers have been staunch survived by close friends Gary and Betty Maxwell. and all are welcome to supporters of Pacific University. They have join. Daily Courier, Grants supported the baseball team, the Boxer Club, Pass, Ore. the Lincoln Park Athletic Complex, the men’s Irina Stignei O.D. has basketball team, the Legends Classic and the 1932 Lorraine Skene recreation and played joined the practice of football program. They made the lead gift to football. He also met his Scott Nehring O.D. in Santoro died Nov. 11, renovate the University’s athletic center. They also first wife,Patricia Hope Woodburn. Independent 2011. Hillsboro Argus, sponsored installments of the Tom McCall Forum, Modrow ’41 at Pacific and Press, Woodburn, Ore. Hillsboro, Ore. endowed scholarships and supported the Career later became the assistant Friends Development Center and other campus programs. 1941 director of admissions and Jim Craft, Pacific football Cathy is survived by her husband, Bill; their sons, Donald Stout Bryant B-squad football coach. died Nov. 16, 2011. He He is survived by his wife, offensive coordinator, and Kenneth and Kyle; two children from a previous was 93. During his life, Peggy, two children and his wife, Kelly, welcomed marriage, Jason Morgan and Jennie Schwenke, Bryant earned a degree a step-daughter. Klamath daughter Stella Marie Craft both of Wilsonville; and four grandchildren. on Aug. 31, 2011. She from Pacific in health Fall Herald and News, weighed 7 pounds. physical education and Klamath Falls, Ore.  36

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1944 1950 Robert Schlegel died John Hugill ’50, Melvin Susumu He is also survived by his Gillen and Jennifer Korff; Oct. 25, 2011, at age MSED ’56 died Oct. Takeuchi ’66, MST ’76 two sisters, Nancy Inmon five grandchildren and 89. Hillsboro Argus, 19, 2011, at age 86. He died Dec. 3, 2011, after Brakke ’70 and Paula four great-grandchildren. Hillsboro, Ore. spent his professional battling lung cancer. After Inmon and their families, Peninsula Clarion, life as a teacher and receiving his teaching including brother-in-law, Kenai, Alaska 1946 enjoyed traveling with his degree, Takeuchi taught Bob Brakke O.D. ’68. The MaryEllen wife, Joan, who survives at Cedar Ridge Middle Oregonian, Portland, Ore. 1973 Schwarzmann ’46, him. Independent Press, School in Sandy, Ore. The Richard ‘Dick’ William MSED ’52 died Nov. 25, Woodburn, Ore. Oregonian, Portland, Ore. 1970 Ripper O.D. died Oct. 2011. She was preceded Andrea (DeWald) 21, 2011, at age 63. He in death by her husband, 1953 1968 Barkley died Jan. 7, served patients for 37 Ward Schwarzmann. Patricia Jean (Orth) Janice (Wilson) 2012, at the age of 63. years at his practice, The Hillsboro Argus, Ball died Jan. 20, 2012, Greisch died Jan. 18, She met her husband, Columbian Eyecare of Hillsboro, Ore. at the age of 80. She 2012, at the age of 65. Richard Barkley ’68, at Medford, Ore. The World, attended Pacific in the Born in Australia, Jan Pacific, and they later Coos Bay, Ore. 1949 early 1950s, when she earned her degree in moved to California. She Arnold Harry met her husband, Jack music from Pacific, and worked in insurance 1978 Thogerson ’49, Ball ’51. They raised a later earned a master of before the couple Terry Kiefer ’78 MSED ’58 died Dec. 18, family in Yakima, Wash., arts degree in music from adopted their son, Brian, MST ’87 died Aug. 18, 2011. He was 91. While where they especially Wisconsin University. She and Andrea became a 2011, after battling cancer. at Pacific, he was a part of enjoyed tennis and travel. taught middle school stay-at-home mother. Kiefer, 57, worked in the the Alpha Zeta fraternity, She gave generously to music for 35 years, She enjoyed camping, Banks School District for was the student body many causes, cooked developed an after-school fishing, boating and his entire teaching career. president and played with enthusiasm and program to teach Native spending time with Forest Grove News-Times, football, in addition to loved to learn, taking American flute techniques family. She is survived by Forest Grove, Ore. other sports. Thogerson college courses into and built a world music her husband, son and taught and coached her late 60s. She was curriculum based on a granddaughter, Zara. 1989 football, basketball and collection of instruments Donald R. Ford OT preceded in death by her William ‘Bill’ Hayes baseball during his career. husband, Jack, and is from countries she visited. died Jan. 6, 2012, after McKillon died Dec. 20, The Hillsboro Argus, survived by her children, She is survived by her fighting Alzheimer’s 2011, at the age of 66. Hillsboro, Ore. Tamie Matsumoto, Doug husband, Charles. Lake disease for four years. He He was born in the Bronx, Ball and Jay Ball; seven Powell Chronicle, Lake was 58. The Oregonian, John B. Thomas ’49 died New York, and moved grandchildren and two Powell, Ariz. Portland, Ore. Jan. 7, 2012, at the age to Oregon in the 1960s, great-grandchildren. of 88. He was a long-time 1969 when he attended Pacific 1993 resident of The Dalles, Ore., for degrees in psychology 1960 Jack Inmon died Jennifer Celi died where he spent much of and sociology. He moved The Rev. David Roberts unexpectedly of a heart Oct. 23, 2011, at his career working for to Alaska, where he died Feb. 7, 2011, at attack on July 20, 2011, age 53. Forest Grove the city. Prior to his time worked as an investigator age 73. He lived with at the age of 64. While News-Times, at Pacific, he served in for Montgomery Ward Parkinson’s disease for at Pacific, he was a Forest Grove, Ore. the U.S. Army, entering and the Alaska public more than 20 years. member of Gamma France on D-Day. He was defender’s office, and Sigma fraternity. He Friends involved in numerous later as an Alaska State 1966 greatly enjoyed his work Jeannette Hamby community organization, Trooper. He was a member died Jan. 27, 2012. Mamo Kaupana as a software consultant, was Chamber of of the AMVETS, the She was 78. During Kuwanoe-Powers first for Baan and later Commerce Young Man Fraternal Order of Elks, the her career, she worked died Dec. 24, 2009, at for Oracle. He is survived of the Year in 1958 and American Legion, the VFH to better Washington age 65. Sun-Sentinel, by the mother of his Man of the Year in 1991. and the Moose Lodge. He County. The Oregonian, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. children, Elizabeth Varga, He is survived by his wife, was preceded in death Portland, Ore. and children Whitney Jean; children Catherine by a daughter, Lucinda Marie and David Jackson, Johnson ’79, Helen Thomas Peterson, and is survived as well as his wife, and James Thomas and six by his wife, Carleen, Lane Chow Inmon and grandchildren. The Dalles daughters Stephanie daughter, Jessica Chow. Chronicle, The Dalles, Ore. pacificu.edu/magazine i i i

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