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Reed welcomes letters from readers found on page 50. The grinding wheel from kindergarten to fifth grade, concerning the contents of the left Reed for parts unknown many and everybody knows exactly where magazine or the college.Letters years ago.] they are and where they’re going. must be signed and may be edited The most enthusiastic prosely- for clarity and space.Our email IS SUCCESS FOR ALL tizers of SFA are invariably teachers address is [email protected]. A SUCCESS ? who didn’t know anything about Reed is now on line.Visit the elec- best practices in the teaching of tronic version of this publication at From Io McNaughton ’90 reading or cooperative learning http://web.reed.edu/ community/ How ironic that the very same pro- before coming across the program. newsandpub/reedmag /index.html. gram that drove me away from the And in my experience, SFA is teaching profession was invented driving the most thoughtful, by two Reedlings. experienced, creative teachers THE DOYLE OWL IN THE FIFTIES Slavin and Madden’s Success For away from the schools that need All has indeed been a lifesaver for them most. Success For All is an From David Lapham ’60 many troubled schools, but not easy way out for districts that In the summer of 1950 I had been because of any particular charac- don’t want to train and pay their a Reed student for two years. I was teristic of the program itself. teachers to use their own smarts living in a two-room apartment Instead, the program’s success has and initiative to develop their with Gary Snyder. As I was moving to do with elements that could be own reading programs. out, Don Berry, who had been repeated using any combination of By the way, Mr. Slavin, don’t be waiting for space at 1414 SE teaching practices. Success For All so quick to compare your reading Lambert Street, moved in. I had works because of three things: lev- program to the “structured enjoy- been offered the heating plant job eling, consistency, and articulation. ment” of Disneyland. Remember at Reed: starting it in the morning, As your article stated, all children that the employees are throwing up shutting it off at night, keeping in Success For All schools are placed and passing out inside their Goofy proper temperature, and heating in reading classes according to their suits, and that the children are the swimming pool with the under- skill level, rather than their chrono- being told what and how to imagine. water pipe. The job came with a logical age (this practice is known sleeping space. I was living frugally as leveling). Give any good teacher THE REAL FALLOUT OF on the GI Bill and was happy to a group of 10–15 children whose WORLD BANK POLICIES have it. I was supposed to sleep skills are about the same for an hour upstairs at the gym. The previous and a half every morning, and the From John E. Peck ’88 occupant of the job had stayed in a likelihood that their reading skills I was rather dismayed to read small loft room in the heating plant will improve is extremely high. Marlaine Lockheed’s take on the itself, but that space had been con- Of course, no school would be recent protest in Washington, demned. I took a look at the little able to undertake the project of D.C. (“End Note,” November 2000), room in the heating plant, anyway. leveling without a high degree of especially since I was among those There in the top bunk was the commitment from school person- “well-meaning (but) poorly Doyle Owl. How long it had been nel, which brings us to the second informed” demonstrators below there and how long it remained point: consistency. In a Success For her ninth-floor window! I guess there I do not know. I never men- All school, everyone’s on the same my B.A. in economics from Reed tioned the Doyle Owl to anyone. page. They’re teaching the same College and my own (albeit brief) I was a history major and felt that way, using the same terms, having experience as a subcontracted such things should be left to people the same expectations of the kids. World Bank researcher in in physics and chemistry. As a side In this kind of environment, kids Zimbabwe didn’t serve me very note: I was pleased to find that the can move right to the work of well. More disturbing is the heating plant had a large sandstone learning to read without having thought that current World Bank grinding wheel. I used it to sharp- to learn about their teacher’s employees like Ms. Lockheed were en woodcarving and engraving management system (or person- either not allowed or felt too intim- tools for Lloyd Reynolds and his ality, for that matter). This saves idated to engage in actual one- students. (I had learned this in pat- a lot of time and structures the on-one dialogue with the taxpaying tern shop at Benson High School). kids’ learning very effectively. citizens to whom their agency is The wheel may still be there. Thirdly, Success For All is artic- democratically accountable. The I hope it is. ulated over the grades. There’s no “global village idiot” comes from [ Ed. Note. Don Berry ’51 died this overlap or redundancy from level media spindoctor fancy—courtesy past February; his obituary can be to level. The program takes kids (continued on page 52)  

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Periodicals postage paid at Portland, Oregon USPS 458-840, ISSN 0895-8564 Vol. 80, No. 2, May 2001.             Postmaster: Send address changes to Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland OR 97202-8199 FEATURES Published six times each year (as quar- terly magazine, annual report of donors, 2 JOSÉ BROWN: ARTE POVERA and as catalog) in February, May, July, Memories of a dancer August, October, and November by Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 10 MAKING VISUAL SENSE Portland Oregon 97202-8199; 503/777- Seven alumni artists and their work 7591; fax, 503/777-7595. It is distributed free of charge to its alumni, parents, 14 RAW DEAL faculty, staff, and friends. Reed Arts Weekend and how it involves students

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Design 35 CLASS NOTES Anderson McConaughy Design 53 END NOTE Founded in 1908, Reed College is a non- profit educational institution incorporated as the Reed Institute, named in honor of Portland pioneers Simeon and Amanda COVER: Professional dancer, choreographer, Reed. Reed is a private, independent, and teacher José Brown ’71. nonsectarian, four-year college of liberal arts and sciences. It has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students and awards the bachelor of arts and the The contents of this magazine are selected to stimulate thought and discussion, to master of arts in liberal studies degrees. demonstrate the range of opinion and activities prevalent at Reed College and in its broader community, and to provide news about the college and its alumni and friends. E reed is printed on recycled paper with soy inks.    osé Brown ’71 died May 1, 1996, in Portland, Oregon, of AIDS. He was a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher. He attended Reed for two years, then transferred to the Calif- ornia Institute of the Arts, where he majored in dance. He danced in the New York By Louise Steinman ’73 companies of Pearl Lang, Kei Ta kei’s Moving Earth, and Rudy Perez and Rael Lamb’s Dance for a New World. As director of his own company, Changing Dance Theatre, he choreographed and performed in New York, Japan, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and Greece. His last work in Copenhagen was King Lear, translated by novelist Peter Hoeg and per- formed in the National Museum. In Tokyo he per- formed in the Noh Theater of Hideo Kanse, and in New York his choreography was seen at Hundred Grand, P.S. 122, the Merce Cunningham Studio, La Mama Theatre, and St. Mark’s Church, where his production Satyricon 2000 was performed. His last performance in Portland was a solo dance concert, Soldiers, given on April 1, 1995.

—Reed, November 1996

   Dance is an ephemeral art: when his untimely death. Since I began “What if?”As his beloved Reed the dancer and choreographer this journey—interviewing some dance teacher Judy Massee put it, vanishes, what remains is the of his friends, reading his journals “José was really thinking about Big memory of the dancer, the memo- and letters, viewing videotapes of Things all the time. All the time. ry of the dance.I wanted, in this him dancing—I have been inspired What if? What if some angel had article, to celebrate the memory of and saddened, exasperated, elated, really come with some big founda- José Brown ’71, as well as consider and amazed. Most of all, I have tion grant? What if there had been some of the questions provoked by been haunted by the question a MacArthur grant for José?”

Program notes to José’s last performance The title of this program, Soldiers, was suggested to me by casting the I Ching. Soldiers at their worst are murderers and despots, and at their best they are defenders and liberators. In either case, a soldier risks his/her life in combat. Even a nonviolent soldier. My dance and my life are one. This program is improvised solo dancing. I would like to offer a program of choreography and dancers, but my economic condi- tion prohibits this. Coincidentally, I am black, gay, Native American, and HIV positive. Technically I have AIDS, as my T4 cell count is 9. I have been HIV positive for over 11 years. I do not expect to die of AIDS but I have come close to dying of poverty. Poverty is the greatest danger to our nation and to the world. Political organization is the only way to power. I am too independent to stay in an organi- zation. Religion has always been my support. I cannot give my faith a name any more than I can describe my dance in one word. I dedicate this program to Judith Massee, because she has remained my friend and encouraged me and because of the significant contributions she has made to the world of dance.

   In 1977, then a fledgling dance José was born in Gary, Indiana, and Letter, 1988 writer, I reviewed one of José’s came to Reed on a scholarship.His I shall be in Berlin from late June solo performances. In it I wrote, father died when he was seven.His into July. And after my perfor- “He begins a demonic counting relationship with his mother was mances here I believe I may be of an eight-beat phrase, push- never easy.“He was very lonely as out of this country. It is necessary ing himself almost into a fren- child,”says Akemi.His mother to earn money. I have earned zy. Up into the air and down refused to accept that her son about $2,000 in 10 months here. again—sometimes he doesn’t was gay.Among José’s spiritual, “Changing” is my group. I am the even land on his feet. I wonder, aesthetic, and political mentors director, founder, choreographer, how many lives does José were Gandhi, Martin Luther King, producer, et cetera. Two of the Brown have, anyway?” Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Berg- members remain here in New York. man, Fellini, and Marcus Garvey. Two are back in Copenhagen. We Akemi Masaki, choreographer plan to continue to work together and dancer, first saw José dance José had incredible loyalty to friends, but just now I am in limbo, as I in 1975, in Tokyo. “I was struck and they to him.Their kindness wait for funding. The last produc- by his passion. Technique is sustained him more than once; they tion cost over $10,000 for 7 days very important but passion is loaned him money and he slept on of performances. I owe $2,000. more important. He had power and he knew how to control it. His movement was like ice skating. No one in Japan had ever seen anyone move like that. He danced to Michael Jackson music. A three-year- old brought him flowers. He danced with her in his arms. He was a sensation in Tokyo. José was always running. He was always moving so quickly. He hardly slept. Just 2–3 hours. It made me think he would have a short life. He lived dance.”

Reed outdoor instructor George the floors of their apartments. Letter, 1988 Cummings’s first memory of José He also worked menial jobs— I remain homeless and penni- was in the Reed commons: “He dishwashing and clerking,usher- less. I have applied for money got up and started to dance. He ing—to survive.Homelessness was but it will be some time before was so fluid and beautiful. I not just a fear,but often a reality. I know. I still want a place in was entranced. I was just fasci- the Philippines to live and nated watching him. So fluid Journal entry, 1988 work and video tape. Perhaps and elegant. Young and vital.” Last dollar buying a bad coffee in a I shall perform “Where the bad coffee shop 6th and 14th street Moon Goes” here in New York Reed dance professor Judy sitting on a tiny uncomfortable in October and a festival of Massee first saw José in the stool. No place to live. No options. various groups here at a later dance studio at Reed. He Ridiculous but true. Must leave New date and in Denmark, Asia, returned to Reed several times York, but I have four performances and elsewhere. At the moment to teach dance workshops. “How scheduled. I have classes scheduled my life is poetry as each day awful that choreographers can’t too but . . . . April—cold still—some- is a surprise in and of itself make a living in America. He thing not correct. A struggle. What that I have lived at all. needed an angel. He had a con- do I do next? I have a job in Berlin Recently I have met strangers stant fear of being homeless. It’s in June. What do I do here? I must and become friends. Friends a shame how dancers who are have an answer. I cannot move. have become better friends. independent choreographers Hitchhike—where? Fight. How? But I remain plagued by the are treated in this country.” What action? lack of money.

   Letter, 1988 En Garde. I am jealous, but great deal, knowing so little For 10 months now I am without somehow it missed the mark. about it. But I wonder for how a home. I am tired. Since leaving The audience was grooving on many people of our time, in Tokyo I have only had instability. the decadence of naked bodies, Portland and at Reed, José’s life My heart does not want to be perverted sexuality, violence and functions as sort of a condenser here and only by working can I depravity. Instead of being sensi- or intensifier of our dreams, quiet myself. I am helpless here. tized people were mesmerized aspirations, and fantasies. He Yes, I may receive funding. But I and indulged in sexual fantasy. . lived out so many aspects of am being pulled through torture . . Without patronage I will travel our notion of the artist’s life. like vegetables through a juicer. solo for a time and try to get stronger without compromise. If Letter excerpt, 1988 there is anything I have learned, Hudson Street playground, bright it is not to expect to become part sun warm. Lovely young man on of the mainstream, ever. I have the bench in the distance, Fuji limited time, so I must do exactly blimp overhead. I’ve been up all what I feel and nothing else. night. The 24-hour porn movie house, $6—can stay until 7 a.m. Cummings: I would say that 7–8:15 walk by the Hudson to the José was incapable of dealing parks. To the bank, 8:15—draw with the physical world. He money. 8:30–8:45 breakfast. used and destroyed my record Engage man at the next table in of Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers.” He conversation about Greece, would pick up the needle and Denmark, and the play he is drop it onto the record over and writing. 10 a.m—visit Minet at over again. From his point of Vital Arts Studio where I was view, it was easier to drop the supposed to teach. 10:30 a.m.— needle on the record. At times Open mailbox—must return at I was very angry with him. He 11:30 to see if letter has arrived borrowed things from me, and from Berlin—money. Hole in my if he did, I never got them back shoes—shoes stink. Will take a in one piece—if I got them back table now. at all. Everything he touched ended up in shreds. He was In the spring of 1996 José came very hard on things. He paid home to Portland to die, though them no attention. The refriger- he never admitted he was dying. ator door handle was sticky He came here because there were with honey. That was how people here who loved him, José lived. He created chaos. offered to help him, and urged him to leave New York. He arrived Reed friend and classmate Mark in February, staying first with Johnson ’73: José just seemed to choreographer and teacher Vin have a faith that in leaping for- Marti and his wife, Anna, then ward without an apparent plan, moving to the home of his friends Letter, 1988 there would be arms there to Deborah Einbender, an artist, and The art climate here sucks. No receive him. And, from my dis- Brian Heald, an architect. On money, no art. Obscenity having tance, it so often seemed to be March 26 he moved to Our become a new cause is having true. . . . I find that my feelings House, an AIDS hospice. more success. Real and unique now for him and about him are work is very hard to find and even stronger than they were Heald: He was such a pain in without patronage such as the when I was in touch with him. the ass about food. At times Philip Morris company, a sup- Then it was just José. Now you’d have to trick him. I talked porter also of Senator Jesse there’s something of the Reed to a friend, a chef, who’d cared Helms—it’s an impossible situa- heritage of the Bodhisattva for people with AIDS for a long tion. I saw a fantastic perfor- about his memories. I’ve no time. I put the problem to him, mance of a theatre group called doubt romanticized his life a “How do you get someone to

   Journal, 1988 eat when whatever they see Train 49 on the plate is so unappealing?” Grand Central Station—have arrived in Chicago He said, “Hunger begins with $30 in hand, 4 bags, in two hours I meet my mother the eye. Food is actually a story. Sunrise Lake Erie—entering Cleveland There’s always a narrative peo- North American van—snow—every tree ple have behind their eating.” Stripped bare. Could be Denmark but So we’d take José to Nature’s. For the color of the sky, slag, airplanes It was his dinner. He could Cool water every object a tool of labor preside. He could choreograph No gardens here, no earthworks, smoke the meal. He would push the And fire. Trees without limbs. Toledo. shopping basket, so he could lean on it. He’d tell us what to 65 cent coffee. No person to be seen from this get, and we’d run around the window: frame houses, pointed roofs, square windows, store, come back asking “Is this silent cars, movie house, birds against the sky upon the water. the right kind?” His require- 6000 horses pull two city blocks of us over 1300 miles of steel. ments were very specific. The whole evening would be this Really, I am shocked at the squareness, the bareness, meal. Then we’d come back The ugliness. Have we no imagination? and cook his supper. We’d try Te rminal locks, transmissions, c-clamps to get it right. We’d bring it to Radial tires, fuel-injection him about done. He’d say, “Yes, Tools of labor men in nylon parkas, that’ll do.” It was a whole pro- Men in tractor trucks, men in insulated booths, duction, and he was the direc- Men in ice cream vendor trucks, men in tanks tor. Then it became the time Men in glass and steel offices, men in in the story for him to take his White-tiled rooms, men in sit-coms, role, time for him to pick up the Men in designer jeans tools of labor fork and put some food in his Organized tedium. mouth. It worked. Yes, it did. From this window, rusting sign: TOLEDO It was good having him here. Pigeon with a twig—nest building in the steel tree. He was good company. It was stimulating to be around him. What is a bird seeking: food? Seeking His perspective as a citizen of A mate, seeking a home? It breaks another the planet was truly singular. Tw ig to the right size, it grooms itself, it I just can’t imagine anybody Drinks, it is in no hurry. Why should else with his intelligence, his I feel superior? Sitting idle in this incredibly broad self-education. Two city block long train. If the engine From reading, from travels. Breaks, I could not fly these concrete He’d been in Tehran just before Bridges, these endless wires, these turning the revolution. He’d been to Wheels, these men protect me, serve me Afghanistan. He went to India Feed me, transport me. 79 miles per hour, to make a presentation to Kalu Could do 100 miles per hour. Cumulus clouds give way to Rinpoche on behalf of the Cirrus clouds, haze and blue expansion Tibetan group here in Portland, White concrete blocks, silos, aluminum mobiles which led to the lama coming Homes, just like the trailer trucks, rows here to reside. José was the Of automobiles, a camp of gas stations emissary and danced for Kalu Holland, Ohio, woods, windowless ware Rinpoche, a special dance that Houses, grocery store, gift shop, eatery was very well received. He had School the boxes of homes—dwellings insulated a great eye as a contemporary From the vacant prairie. Engines for hoisting anthropologist. He was outside Ta ll men, broad men, cropped hair. Blond women, of everything. There was no Easy voices, animated, black women fleshy quick eyes. scene that he was in anywhere A hawk—barns, the TV aerial, fields, the biosphere. that he wasn’t on the outside of In the summer the wind—the clouds in some way. He was an astute The thunder the lightning the colors of political observer. The sky at sunset, the stars. 2nd hawk. I have never had love or sex in the Midwest. Heald: He talked about America was no distinct line between as choosing the wrong dream. modern dance and jazz and He’d run the whole thing out Jimi Hendrix and Bach. José in dream terms. The heritage and I shared a dream early on, of vision, and letting it degrade of creating a traveling modern instead of kicking it up to circus—of dance and mime, the next level. The vision of of clowns and classical music. Thoreau and Whitman and Recently I saw Cirque du Marcus Garvey—all the people Soleil, which landed here in who had great vision. He’d Portland for a month along a talk about it in those terms. contaminated vacant shore of the downtown Willamette Letter to Reed classmate River. It was of the spirit that Aron Faegre ’71, 1994 José and I had imagined 29 Dear Aron and Kathy: Gary, years ago. It was about enter- Indiana, is devastated with every taining people, and surprising fourth house in ruin—burned out them, and mesmerizing them. or torn down. No economy. My His dance did that too. mother refused to open the door to me. So I returned to NYC. José’s professional career includ- Tired from bus rides and nervous ed holes in his shoes and home- Barcelona. First it was just him. exhaustion. From tomorrow I can lessness, but it also included per- And then there would be 10 of piece together my “new life.” Not formances all over the world: them on the street. And then all is clear. But the weather is Amsterdam, Florence, Greece, they’d get a studio. And then now in my favor to work outside Turkey, India. He performed for they’d rent a hall. And then if the police permit. the Queen of Denmark. He per- they’d get a grant. formed in Hamburg, Germany, Faegre: I think part of José’s and in the Philippines and in Heald: In Barcelona he was brilliance was his willingness Tokyo and in Copenhagen. trying to put a performance to approach and engage the together. He couldn’t pay chaos of the universe, at a time Einbender: To get started some- anybody. It was an ambitious when chaos was a word of little where he would dance on the piece, and the dancers weren’t meaning in our culture. Now streets. He would gather a quite good enough, but he’d we know that chaos creates troupe from that act. He would shuffle things around and El Niño and La Niña, which just dance. Put a hat out. I tweak it and provoke people in in turn perhaps drives all the remember him telling that’s key ways to get them to come world’s climates. For José there how he got started in out how they needed to be. And in the middle of this—he need- ed the right costumes. And he saw in the window of a bou- tique some special dress. So he went into the boutique and told the woman that, for no charge, she could get her dresses shown in a live performance. So he gets the dresses. And of course the performance is totally bizarre. Two of the key people blow up at each other and don’t show up, a big snafu, and he just goes and barrels ahead and the woman from the boutique came and José knew she’d be completely befuddled by the whole thing, but no less

   Journal excerpt In “my” culture dance was a form of worship. You can’t find that in the disco. You can’t find it on the stage. You can’t find it in the studio. Dance I love dancing I love what makes me dance even more, just like the dancers love the people they dance with, just as they celebrate their adornments, their odor, their features, I celebrate my “genii” I celebrate and I don’t want to do anything more than consummate my great desire in the arms of my angel my love my diva my exalted abstract philosophy my Tao my Buddha not the audience not my partner not myself I am sincere I love to dance I love dancing Dance is all

gave her the proper attention mind, the mind that was always the next weekend, he was as a patron of the show. Just exploring new ways of thinking, bedridden permanently. the gall that was required to new ways of moving, new ways implement the drive that he of dancing. Vin Marti: Talk about tilting at had to do these things. . . . windmills. He was talking about Cummings: José refused to take his next performance while From a review in Village Voice, protease inhibitors. He said he was dying in the hospice. September 15, 1987 they made people sick. He “Brown rings dazzling changes, never said to me, “I’m going to Cummings: Seven of us, includ- shifting in mid-phrase from bal- die.” He always denied it, in ing Akemi, took José’s ashes letic poses to Graham genuflec- fact. He was determined to get to Cannon Beach and scattered tions, from Indian classical better and carry on with his them in the Pacific Ocean at dance to the dreamy concentra- work. A few weeks before he the mouth of Ecola Creek. tion of the Japanese artist who died, he asked me to take him José had planned to go there assumes you can see into his to Mt. Tabor. It was a warm, to perform a ceremony. He mind. . . . Homo mobilis, an abo- sunny day. I parked about half didn’t tell anyone what it was.r riginal dancer, he carries in his way up, and then we walked on muscles imprints of thousands trails toward the top. José used Louise Steinman ’73 is the of years, thousands of miles of a cane and moved very slowly. author of The Knowing Body: journeying to be here now. The We stopped to rest several times The Artist as Storyteller in impact of his hour and a half of and turned back without reach- Contemporary Performance, exploring is to restore my confi- ing the top. José was very and her articles appear fre- dence in arte povera, in the sim- pleased with what he had done. quently in the Los Angeles plicity of materials required to It was a beginning, he said. He Times and L.A. Weekly. create theatrical magic.” was making his legs and lungs Her new book The Souvenir: work again. We finished our A Daughter Discovers Her Massee: Reed served José excursion at a coffee shop. Both Father’s War is forthcoming because it gave him a start, and of us hoped that we would soon from Algonquin in fall 2001. She that’s what college is for. It set be able to walk on a beach at curates literary and performing him on a path, and—for those of the coast. José wanted to go to arts series for the Los Angeles us who are artists—it’s a fantas- the beach more than anywhere Public Library and is a consul- tic path. At Reed he was encour- else. In the optimism of that tant and creative adviser to the aged to keep the open mind that afternoon, neither of us could Sundance Writers Fellowship he already had when he arrived have known that we would Program. Her last article for here. And to keep the inquisitive not walk together again. By Reed was about Lew Welch ’50.

  Making visual sense Seven alumni artists

By Nadine Fiedler ’89 Reedies are notoriously creative, and this is especially artwork in museums and galleries nationwide and true in the visual arts. In almost every city in the U.S. worldwide. Some are relative newcomers to the art you can find Reed alumni working in art, and many world, and some are established figures. They are Rare noted for their innovation, their integrity, and, in working in different mediums and in different styles, true Reed style, for the added cerebral content of from traditional to minimal and beyond. All have their work—that extra intellectual frisson. dedicated their careers and lives to art, although not The following is just a sample of the many notable all of them studied art at Reed. They all help us artists who have attended Reed College. The seven remember how much art adds to our lives—beauty, visual artists profiled here all have achieved national ambiguity, color, shape, richness, texture—and how or international reputations and have exhibited their its puzzles and questions keep us thinking.

Nadine Fiedler ’89, assistant editor of Reed, has been a freelance art writer for several years. Her last article for Reed was about Monica Serrano ’01, “The Engines of Idealism,” in the February 2001 issue. MELINDA HUNT

Melinda Hunt ’81 Melinda Hunt is a sculptor, an installation artist, a public artist; a woman whose work resonates with social concerns, a set designer, a producer, a teacher, a chronicler. Hunt worked for many years in public art projects that dealt with memory and land- scapes. Her extensive work in public parks includ- ed Letters to a Forest, wherein New York school- children asked authors to write a letter to Brooklyn’s last remaining woodland, in Prospect Park; the results were installed in the park. She became aware in 1991 of Hart Island, New York’s potter’s field, where the poor, unknown, and unwanted —mostly children—are buried in mass graves that are bulldozed every 25 years. This led AIDS Grave of a Child with Prison Documents, 1998 Hunt to research and commemorate the history and stories of the island. This art project—still England, and New York, where she lives. “I don’t ongoing—led to the 1998 publication of the book consider my work to be political activism,” she Hart Island (Scalo), in collaboration with photogra- said. “The image of the artist standing outside look- pher Joel Sternfeld. Hunt’s Hart Island installa- ing in on society and then placing oneself in that tions have been shown in Germany, Wales, context is both documentary and self-reflexive.”r

   Loren torical relationship of defense Madsen’65 spending versus social spend- Loren ing in the U.S. Previously Madsen’s Madsen mostly created large current sculp- sculptural works, using wire, tures look wood, metal, bricks, and stone; like formal experiments, but he still occasionally creates on there’s more to them than that. this large scale. He has been Madsen, inspired by the differ- commissioned to create perma- ences in the cost of living for nent sculpture installations artists now and when he first in the U.S. and Japan and has began working in art, began shown his work nationally and consulting the Statistical internationally in museums Abstract of the U.S. He soon and galleries—including the began translating data into David McKee Gallery in New graphs, and then converting York, where he now lives— them into three-dimensional since 1973. His work is in the laminated wood sculpture. collection of museums that He went on to investigate and include the Georges Pompidou HISTORICAL ABSTRACT: CPI, 1995 make concrete other topics, Laminated basswood, Center in Paris, the Hirschhorn including world population 44"h x 21"w x 26"deep Museum and Sculpture Garden over time, the murder rate in Each layer = 1 year (1960–1994) in Washington, D.C., and the Horizontal dimension = fuels costs the U.S. in contrast to the rate Vertical dimension = food costs Museum of Modern Art in of incarceration, and the his- Center line = housing costs New York.r LOREN MADSEN DAVID CURT MORRI David Curt California, site of his newest Morris ’67 piece. He was invited in 1997 Sculptor David to submit a design for the Morris began San Francisco Bay Bridge. A his career as defining feature of his sculp- an architect tures is the interplay of liquid after graduating with a master and solid, water and hard mat- of architecture degree from erials. “Water is a shimmering MIT, working in such backdrop, a distorting glass, renowned firms as Marcel or a glistening skin for his Breuer Architects in New York work; as palpable and vivid (where he now lives) and as polished steel,” wrote an Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Oregonian art critic. Morris was in Chicago. These experiences a mathematics major at Reed, gave him the tools he needed and his complex, mechanical for both small and large-scale work demands a high level sculpture when he moved on Columbia River Crystal, 1997 of engineering expertise. His to create and teach art. (Morris Fabricated bronze,12'h x 12'w x 4'deep work has been shown since (Commissioned by Mark Properties, grew up with art: he is the son Portland, OR, for Crown Plaza) 1970, most recently in cities of painter Carl Morris and including New York, where sculptor Hilda Morris.) He has created many he is represented by the Kraushaar Galleries; pieces of public art in locales that include Santa Philadelphia; and Portland, where he is repre- Barbara; Chicago; Portland; and Palm Springs, sented by the Laura Russo Gallery. r

   Robert Morris ’58 Artist and philosopher Robert Morris is one of the most influ- ential figures in art since the 1950s. Art In America wrote in 1995 that he “was a key partici- pant in the development of Minimalism, Neo- Dada, anti-form, earthworks, installations, and their various postmodern progeny; at the same time, his writings . . . did much to shape the criti- cal consensus which continues to dominate our understanding of these movements today.” During his immensely varied career he has been in the center of other movements as well, includ- ing dance and performance—both as a performer and choreographer—conceptual art, and process works. Morris has worked in sculpture, drawing, Untitled, 1996, felt and prints, always exploring and reformulating concepts of the meaning and purpose of art, the ous important national and international exhibi- way viewers experience art, and the role of the tions over the past 40 years. A major retrospec- artist. Morris’s work has been included in numer- tive of his work was shown at the Guggenheim Museum (both uptown and downtown buildings) Above photo: Robert Morris in 1995. Morris lives in New York and is repre- Photos courtesy Sonnabend Gallery sented by the Sonnabend Gallery.r ROBERT MORRIS DAVID REED

David Reed’68 “David Reed is one of America’s best painters,” wrote a critic in 1999 in Art Papers. The New York Times wrote in 1991 that he “has become one of the most respected abstract painters of his generation. . . . His best work is independent in its response to the history of art, fresh in its approach to such categories as nature and style, and mature in its ability to communicate ideas through a sensual response to paint.” Since then Reed, known for bringing the present into his work, has continued to update his paintings; Scottie’s Bedroom, 1994, bed, bedding, bedspread, lamp, most recently, he recreated the bedroom sets from videotape, Featured painting:#345, inserted into Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Universal Pictures 1958, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, installed them in the Max Courtesy Max Protetch Gallery Protetch Gallery, hung his paintings in the bedroom, and digitally inserted his paintings into key scenes flashbacks. He majored in art at the college and in the movie, which play on a continuous loop. often cites teacher Willard Midgette as a mentor and Reed says that he has always thought of his paint- a seminal influence. Reed has been represented ings in terms of film techniques—cuts, pans, and since 1977 by the Max Protetch Gallery in New York; his work has been shown continually for the past 26 years in museums and galleries in the U.S. and Above photo: David Reed, by Pamela Reed throughout the world. He lives in Manhattan.r

   Laurie Reid ’86 Although Reid began exhibiting only eight years ago, her work has been chosen for some of the country’s most prestigious shows, including the 2000 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Now living in Berkeley, she was chosen for the coveted SECA art award by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999. A French major at Reed, she studied at the California College of Arts & Crafts, then began her art career doing watercolor paintings. Reid became fascinated by and started to explore in her work the effect of water on the paper itself. From the catalogue for the SECA award: “Usually large in scale but nonmonumental, her paintings Mouthful of Rain (detail), 1998, watercolor on paper, 90"x 60" made of barely pigmented water on sheets of Photos courtesy of the artist and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco white paper evoke the subtlety of watermarks that are invisible until held up to the light. The work whispers. But it does so with a conviction represented by the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San that leaves us wanting to move closer for more Francisco, and her work is in public collections of the artist’s quiet meditations on beauty and that include the Philadelphia Museum of Art abstraction, metaphor and process.” Reid is as well as museums in California and Utah. r laurie reid arne westerman Arne Westerman ’48 Arne Westerman is one of the country’s best-known watercolorists and educators in the art of watercolor. Winner of many awards in his field for more than 20 years, Westerman has been featured in numerous books about the art, including two editions of Splash: America’s Foremost Contemporary Watercolors. His work, described by the Oregonian as “powerful” and “conveying directness and depth,” has been on exhibit every year since 1980 in galleries and museums nationwide and in Canada and is in 17 permanent collections in colleges and Kati and Friend, 2000, 21" x 28.5" universities, museums, and organizations. Westerman, a Portland native, began his career want to evoke. I want everyone who sees my in advertising and owned his own agency until paintings to share the feeling because the viewer he decided to make art his career at age 54. “I can connect my work in some way with his or was taken with watercolors for their spontaneity her own personal life experiences.” r and luminosity,” he says. “I am strongly influ- enced by what I feel and paint with a passion. Nothing leaves my easel without the mood I

      Left: Jamie Ford ’02 used streamers and the vent in front of Eliot Hall to make his Kinetic Motion Machine. Below: Karl Nelson ’01 placed his installation,Confronting the Migrant Worker Myth, in Eliot circle.

By Miriam Posner ’01 Photos by Orin Bassoff ’04

’ve never been I’d begun to feel like maybe it professional painters, sculptors, particularly artistic. My skill was time I put aside my cyni- dancers, writers, and musicians Iin that department consists cism and help shape Reed a little to display or perform their work. mainly of the ability to nod in return. Reed Arts Weekend Past artists have included the knowingly when people refer to seemed as good a way to do that writer Ntozake Shange, art col- artists I’ve never heard of. Still, as any. lective the Guerrilla Girls, and I wanted to learn. So when I Conceived in 1990 by profes- the singer Jay Clayton. Student heard there was an opening for sors David Schiff and Maeera artists are also awarded grants to a program writer for Reed Arts Schreiber, Reed Arts Weekend create pieces of their own Weekend, it seemed to make (RAW) has quickly become a design. Student artwork is invari- sense for me to apply. Reed institution as hallowed ably one of the highlights of the Even this small step was as, say, Paideia or scrounging. week, since artists and non- somewhat out of character for “Weekend” is something of a artists alike are encouraged to be me. In my three-and-a-half years misnomer—over the past few as innovative as they want to be. at Reed, my involvement in years, RAW has expanded to This year, the RAW commit- school-sponsored extracurricular include an entire week in tee was headed by Blair Saxon- activities has been close to February or March. Hill ’02, under the guidance of nonexistent. Compared Typically, a student assistant student activities direc- with, say, unraveling the organizing committee tor Kristin Holmberg. Five other intricacies of Russian his- convinces students, including me, tory, debating the fine care of every aspect points of student govern- of the event, which ment has never really took place February seemed that important. 12–18. We first met Still, in the past year as a committee in or so, I’d begun to feel late November, like I was missing out on some- thing. Reed is, after all, a com- munity as much as it is a college. It’s shaped almost every aspect of my life since I’ve reached adulthood.

   which didn’t give us a whole lot event-planning skill is to not shredded books and music. of time to prepare. book two bands for the same Eleanor H. Erskine, a Portland We soon discovered that time slot. State University professor, hung planning RAW is a lot of work. We chose “exposure” as our large, gently undulating sheets Budgets needed to be made, theme, hoping it would inspire made of sausage casings from rooms needed to be booked, thought about the imagery of the ceiling of the library. Keith artists needed to be cajoled— revelation and obscurity. The Goodman, a dancer and choreo- and all of us, even the program word also, we realized, had less grapher who has traveled with writer, had to help out. These intellectual connotations, which tasks were made a little harder is partly why we chose it. It did, for us by the fact that no one however, worry us a little. ❛❛ seemed to really know how RAW At Reed, the line between cul- had been planned in years past. ture and debauchery is drawn We chose “exposure” One of the coolest things about notoriously thin. It’s incredibly RAW is that it’s largely student- tough to drag work-obsessed as our theme, directed. That means, though, Reed kids from the library. But that we pretty much had to to what extent, we wondered, hoping it would make the rules up as we went should we use sensationalist art along. In my case, this turned as a publicity device? The theme inspire thought out to be slightly disastrous. I we chose, “exposure,” seemed to learned, for example, that a good lend itself particularly well to a about the imagery RAW that pushed the borders of acceptability. Still, we didn’t of revelation and want RAW to become a joke, or to neglect good artists who did obscurity. The word more subtle work. The solution, we decided, also, we realized, was to compromise. As our per- formance artist, we chose Karen had less intellectual Finley, a woman whom U.S. sen- ator Jesse Helms had labeled connotations, which “obscene” and Ms. magazine had named woman of the year. The is partly why we controversy around Finley was largely the result of a 1992 chose it. Supreme Court case involving her and three other NEA-funded ❜❜ artists from whom conservatives wanted to withdraw government anthropologists to Thailand and funding. Finley, whose mode of Latin America to study move- expression involves nudity and ment styles, performed with his canned food, became popularly company, Dance Gatherer. known as the “chocolate- Writing the program became, smeared woman.” That, we fig- I started to feel, an exercise in ured, ought to draw ‘em in. deception. How could I con- We also chose lesser-known vince my readers I knew what I artists whose work we admired. was talking about when I didn’t Stephanie Speight, an instal- even know the difference lation artist and between an installation and a painter from sculpture? I taught myself, Vancouver, Wash- ington, agreed to Left: Kit Macchi ’02 and Sarah display her work, Galligan ’02 created The Investigation of an Extinct Species graceful objects knit- from a number of discarded ted and twined from anamotronic teddy bears.

   though, as best I could. As I and ask perceptive questions fell from the student union ceiling. leafed through folders of pub- at lectures. After Karen Finley’s By that time, I was too tired licity materials, I even started controversial performance I to be giddy. I did feel something to feel a bit of a kinship with the was really excited to hear other akin to a warm glow, though, artists I was writing about. After students thoughtfully debating watching the festivities from my all, I had helped choose them. the merits of her work. I was vantage point up in the student I wasn’t the only one strug- overjoyed to see that students union balcony. It’s probably a gling with responsibilities. seemed enthusiastic about safe bet that a year from now not Michael Weinberg ’01, our tech- nical director, had to scrounge up a crane to hang Eleanor Erskine’s sheets, a wading pool for Karen Finley’s performance, and a truly mind-boggling array of other materials. Hospitality director Choul Wou ’02 was in charge of a task force that made centerpieces, arranged catering, and prepared green rooms. Student art coordinator Rebecca Morgan ’02 sorted through stacks of student art proposals, finally deciding to fund a Madonna- inspired performance piece, animatronic teddy bears, and 27 other pieces of student art. Alon Karniel ’02, our publicity coordinator, papered the school with beautiful, intricate posters and designed RAW’s program. Finally, Blair worked feverishly with Kristin to get contracts signed, budgets finalized, and Bridget Dubois ’04 and Simon Hilarides ’04 nest in Spiderweb, an installation every possible other detail by Anna Freundlich ’03. attended to. When the big week came, Portland filmmaker Vanessa too many Reed students will I reacted like a nervous hostess. Renwick, puppet theater Tears remember all the details of the I worried that not enough peo- of Joy, installation artists Pete 2001 RAW. Still, I felt, really for ple would show up to the events, McCracken and Jeremy the first time, like I’d helped I worried the students would Bitterman, and Portland band create something with and for hate the stuff we’d planned, I Norfolk & Western. And there the people I go to school with. worried that the artists would was student art everywhere— It was nice. r be dissatisfied. I felt as though it seemed like every corner my stake in this event was was jammed with an interactive Miriam Posner ’01 is a senior immensely personal. At most of ‘zine, a shadowscape sculpture, writing her history thesis the events I attended, I was too or a collaborative mural. on the relationship of film busy mentally ordering students The culmination of RAW celebrity and consumer culture to behave themselves to actually was the masquerade ball on in the 1920s and ’30s. She is pay attention to the artists. Saturday, February 17. Three an intern in Reed’s news and And they did behave them- DJs, all of them Reed students, publications office. selves, for the most part. took turns spinning records Students came out of the wood- after student performers sang, Orin Bassoff ’04 describes him- work to run a do-it-yourself danced, and improvised. self as an "exploring student art table in the library lobby, Costumed students danced as and photographer." He is from show up at artists’ receptions, hundreds of ping-pong balls northern California.

   JWhat doust students do when they want to ask! learn how to install an art show?

Assistant curator and preparator Silas Cook, left, cuts mats and works with seminar students Blair Saxon-Hill '03, center, and Meaghan Pierce-Delaney '01, right.

ast spring a years. Now they came to him techniques; they also talked group of students began looking with a more deliberate request. about more theoretical questions for advice on the components of Would he teach them how to of conservation and archival Linstalling a formal art exhibition. install a show? object handling. An entire two- They were art majors, mostly Cook agreed, and the informal evening segment focused on the juniors, and wanted instruction seminar began. He and the art of lighting, using the current on the nuts and bolts of how to dozen or so students met two gallery exhibition to practice show their work to complement evenings a month throughout what they had discussed. the formal theory and practice the semester. They began with Another evening Cook chal- they were learning in art classes. discussions about the conceptual lenged the students to bring in In the past many had lobbed decisions needed before in- a difficult object to display. One specific questions to Silas Cook, stalling a show. From then on brought in a glove, and they all assistant curator and preparator the seminar was broken down learned how to make museum of Reed’s Douglas F. Cooley into workshops where students mountings. Memorial Art Gallery, who has were introduced and encouraged Many of the discussions been working with art as an to execute such museum prac- focused on the installation of the independent fabricator and tices as frame building, mat gallery’s winter show of Bay consultant for more than 20 cutting, and 3-D installation Area artist Raymond Saunders.

   Students help with lighting design, left. Cook completes art condition reports (center), with (l-r) Saxon-Hill, Alon Karniel '01, and Rebecca Guber '01.

Some students participated in make the opening reflect some been personally rewarding. “I the installation, from image of the playful elements we saw hate to see good work that’s selection and exhibition design in Saunder’s work,” explains degraded by a lack of knowledge to helping hang the show. Guber. “Silas helped us create a or prepatory skills, and it is really According to Rebecca Guber ’01, hopscotch board in the gallery, exciting when you the see the the workshop quickly developed and we had jacks and marbles light bulb go off in the students’ into a collaboration between and cupcakes and other kid heads—for example, that ‘aha, I Cook and the students. “It soon food. Students loved it. I think can make a beautiful, inexpen- became less of Silas telling us more students went into the sive frame.’ I think these students how to do it and more of a dis- gallery that night than had been now have the tools that will cussion of what was the best way in it the entire semester. And help them refine their future to accomplish something. Silas they stayed and had fun.” presentations. Any time you was a wonderful guide and really The workshop will culmi- have a chance to work with valued our input.” When com- nate in many of the students students, it is enlightening. It’s pleted, the seminar participants installing their senior thesis art even more rewarding when it’s planned and hosted a hugely shows this month. Cook says at their request.” r successful student opening to the collaboration between the kick off the event. “We decided to gallery and the students has Paula Barclay is the editor of Reed.

By Paula Barclay / Photos by Fred Wilson    When I pushed the doorbell on the front porch, Although I had sung in church choir while a low roar, somewhere between a bagpipe and still in short pants, and had studied piano for a distant 747, filtered through the front door on several years, when I showed up at Reed in 1969 the white clapboard house. The source was a music was not even on my list of expected activi- homemade device that featured a vacuum cleaner ties. Based on my experience in high school, I blowing through organ pipes. The time was a foggy thought I wanted to be a math major. That lasted evening in the fall of 1971; the location, a house only a month, followed by (as I recall now) politi- on SE 30th Avenue, a few blocks south of Reed; the cal science, international studies, economics, and occasion, the party after the Christmas concert for a brief period, music. Eventually I decided that of the Reed Collegium Musicum, founded by John economics would be the profession, but music and Ginny Hancock only a few years earlier. would be the avocation. So I restarted piano My years at Reed in the late ’60s and early ’70s lessons (working furiously on Chopin mazurkas Ware much faded now (as the bellbottom jeans were in Prexy) and successfully auditioned for the tenor even then), but certain memories of the Old Reed section of the Collegium Musicum in the fall of remain, including the Renaissance Faire (not Renn 1971. That single audition began an association Fayre!): jousts performed by knights in the service that has endured for almost a quarter century. of the Society for Creative Anachronism, brief In the early years, the Collegium singers were appearances by the Doyle Owl as it disappeared directed by Ginny Oglesby Hancock ’62. John into a steam tunnel, T.C.P. Zimmerman preaching Hancock, then associate professor of chemistry, repentance in front of the old commons while oversaw the instrumental players. Singers and students wearing sackcloth and ashes lashed players each adjourned one evening a week to themselves at his feet, and of course that doorbell the Hancocks’ living room a short walk into in Eastmoreland. Eastmoreland. Concerts in the chapel every

   December and April were always patetic) academic. The repertoire Reynolds taught us in calligraphy packed, with some of the audi- is now much more varied, ranging classes, which applies in many ence spilling over to the stairs from Gregorian chant to the com- disciplines but most acutely, I outside the chapel entrance. The positions of R.P. Wollenberg think, in the arts: once you have repertoire then concentrated on Professor of Music David Schiff, learned the rules (and there are medieval and Renaissance music, and for the last few years the lots of rules in both music and which was especially in keeping group has entertained the gradu- calligraphy), your imagination with the nature of Reed’s spring ates and their families at com- can be unleashed. The older I imagination By Lon Peters’74 celebration. At one point, I fool- mencement. We now have ishly mentioned that I had spent a magnificent place to a few years trying to learn a brass sing, which all the Reed instrument in junior high school, choirs helped inaugu- and was promptly handed a zink, rate in 1998: the Kaul which turned out to be an espe- Auditorium. Along cially nasty combination of a the way, we’ve sung French horn mouthpiece and a in more languages recorder body. After one concert, than I have fingers to bruised on the lips and aching count and absorbed below the jawbones, I beat a lots of music theory quick retreat to the tenor section. and history. Currently, Playing the zink was silent tor- we are trying to keep ture; the krummhorns (medieval alive John’s tradition of kazoos) got all the laughs. bad puns: the first prize When I joined the faculty in going to someone who can the Reed economics department combine two languages, a sci- in the fall of 1980, Ginny and entific reference, and some arcane John were still directing the voic- tidbit of the current repertoire. es and instruments, and I was Why do I keep singing? First, Always the audience favorite—the welcomed back to the tenor sec- Ginny, back at Reed as professor late John Hancock and Collegium members practice the krummhorn, tion. It was partly a matter of the of music, has told me I can’t stop. or medieval kazoo. luck of genetics: tenors were so Second, singing cures headaches scarce that Ginny has even been (although some pieces written heard to encourage us to procre- after 1951 are an exception). Third, get, the more the powers of ate. (Some things cannot be con- rehearsals (and concerts) are a imagination become precious, trolled, however. Our younger great relief from the daily burden and the less all the facts seem daughter is a soprano, although of contract negotiations and court to matter.r our older daughter is sometimes appearances, conference calls and pressed into service as a tenor.) spreadsheets, voice mail and After John passed away in the email. (At one rehearsal we con- Lon Peters is an independent late ’80s, the instruments lost ducted an impromptu experiment economic consultant and is their conductor and now sit in a and determined conclusively that currently vice chair of the closet in Prexy, mostly unused. the vacuum cleaner outside the Independent Economic Analysis The vocal ensemble has con- rehearsal room in Eliot was operat- Board, advising the Northwest tinued, despite a few bumpy ing somewhere between a G and Power Planning Council on the years in the late ’80s when Ginny an F sharp.) Finally, I’m reminded economic effects of fisheries was out of town leading the life of a fundamental tenet that profes- restoration projects in the of a newly ordained (thus peri- sors Robert Paladino and Lloyd Columbia River basin.

   oris Desclais Berkvam Berkvam, a native of Paris, France, came to Reed AND Din 1975. She had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, at C.E.L.G., Gillcrist at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, where she earned an M.A. in French, and at Indiana University– Bloomington, where to retire she earned a Ph.D. in 1978. A specialist in medieval French lit- erature and society, she is the author of Enfance et maternité dans la littérature française des XIIe et XIIe siècles (Librarie Honore Champion, 1981). Before coming to Reed, Berkvam taught at École St. Marcel, in Paris, and at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota. She came to the U.S. after marrying an American, but when the couple divorced in 1979, Berkvam had to choose whether to stay in the U.S. or return to France. Although everything pushed her to go back home, and she had handed in an official letter of At the end of this year two resignation, Berkvam finally decided to stay. She received a longtime professors in the vote of confidence and an incen- tive to stay at Reed from presi- division of literature and lan- dent Paul Bragdon, who urged her to remain, asking her to wait guages will be retiring: Doris and reconsider. But she mostly stayed because she realized that Desclais Berkvam, after 26 years she had made a strong commit- ment to her students and that in Reed’s French department, teaching—teaching at Reed— was deeply important to her. and Thomas Gillcrist, after 39 Berkvam has spent all her summers and sabbaticals in years in the English depart- France, which she says has given her two completely differ- ment. Both have been notable ent lives. But when she’s at Reed, she’s been passionate and beloved teachers at reed. about teaching, giving all of her- self to her profession and to her students. “Reed is exceptional, it really is,” she said. “I’ve taught in other places, where you have By Nadine Fiedler ’89 to pull, carry, and prod students

   constantly to get them to think. lum, including a multicultural With Reed students all you have spectrum, Gillcrist notes that to do is say something that this has happened at Reed awakens their curiosity, and in a collegial department with they get going. Reed students “remarkably little friction or are more open minded, more disagreement.” curious, more tolerant.” Gillcrist, who earned a B.A. Her students have been from Duke University and an inspired by her as well. Graham M.A. from Harvard University, Jones ’98, now a graduate stu- was attracted to Reed largely dent at New York University, because of the humanities of English, the national profes- wrote that “Along with William program. He has taught sional organization for English Ray and Sam Danon, Doris humanities for all those 38 department chairs; during that Berkvam was a pillar of one of years in addition to teaching time he wrote a seminal paper the most extraordinary depart- courses in English. His favorite on the history and future of ments Reed has ever assembled. courses to teach, in addition to English departments (on the She added an earthy wisdom that Humanities 110, were courses web at http://www.adfl.org harmonized magically with Ray’s on William Faulkner and Toni /ade/bulletin/N083/083019. unassuming genius and Danon’s Morrison, on colonial and htm). He has also served on jaunty wit. Her indomitable, postcolonial novels, and on the executive committees of irreverent laugh endeared her the Bloomsbury group. the Western Humanities to countless students.” “I’ve enjoyed three things Conference and the Oregon Amy Suzanne Heneveld ’00 about working at Reed,” he International Council. was one of Berkvam’s thesis said. “Good books, good stu- Last year Gillcrist chaired students last year. She wrote, dents, and good colleagues. In two sessions at national “I could write a book of all the a larger sense that means other conferences: one on visions good advice she gave me about professors, both in English and of the afterlife at the Western writing a thesis. I pass it on other departments, but it also Humanities Alliance’s confer- to my friends who are still at means the whole community ence on religion and public Reed because not everyone is of people who work at Reed. culture, and the other on dis- as blessed to have such a wise It’s been a privilege to work rupted exchange at the Interdis- adviser. She also always gave me with the talented and dedicated ciplinary Nineteenth-Century good words about life in general, people here at Reed for a Studies annual conference. and some of my best memories common cause.” Kimberly Oldenburg ’99, a of my time at Reed are laughing In the course of his career, graduate student at Princeton and talking with her in her Gillcrist earned many national University and one of Gillcrist’s office. I really owe her thanks honors, including the Arnold advisees, said, “I learned from for more things than I can say.” and Lois P. Graves Award in To m that academic life need Berkvam intends to return 1970, given by Pomona College not be a high-stress race for to France after retirement, and the American Council of ideas, but can be whatever you where she will spend time Learned Societies to five West wanted it to be. For me, espe- with her family, including Coast professors; he used the cially as I pursue an academic her two grandchildren. award at Stanford University to career myself, this is some- study literary criticism and its thing I return to daily. I could role in contemporary liberal never thank him enough.” education. He was awarded a Gillcrist will spend time “It’s been an exciting time to Fulbright fellowship in 1973 after retirement learning digi- be in the profession,” says and taught that year in Kyung- tal photography and process- Thomas Gillcrist, speaking of Hee University in Seoul, Korea, ing, traveling, and finding the many changes in the teach- during which time he also gave meaningful volunteer work. ing of English literature since lectures in Thailand, Vietnam, He also plans to spend time he arrived at Reed in 1962. Indonesia, the Philippines, and with his two grandchildren. Although the decades brought Japan. In 1984 he was elected “Having grandchildren is the many changes and enhance- to the executive committee of one thing in life that’s not ments to the English curricu- the Association of Departments overrated,” he says.r

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Mark Pagon joins board of trustees arshall “Mark” Pagon is the third-largest direct ’78, president and broadcast satellite company, CEO of Pegasus providing the DIRECTV service Communications to more than 1.4 million cus- MCorporation, was elected to tomers in 41 states. Among the Reed College board of many other services, Pegasus trustees at its February board operates 10 broadcast television meeting. Pagon will serve stations affiliated with the a five-year renewable term. Fox, UPN, and WB networks A native of Philadelphia, and specializes in providing Pagon graduated Phi Beta advanced digital services Kappa from Reed with a to households in rural and degree in history. Pagon holds underserved areas. an M.A. in economics and Pagon is a member of the finance from the University in 1991. Under his leadership, Reed College National Advisory of California, where he was Pegasus has become one of the Council and was honored with a Chancellor’s Fellow. fastest growing diversified the 1998 and 2000 Entrepre- Pagon formed Pegasus media and communications neur of the Year awards for the Communications Corporation companies in the U.S. Pegasus greater Philadelphia region.r

Faculty news t’s a good year for Laura target audience is resource-poor tinuously pulled away from Arnold, who just received institutions and that the project considering any one part.” For tenure in the English is designed “to help teachers more about Knutson’s work and department. Arnold was teach better.” the exhibition, see http://www. Iselected earlier this year by marylhurst.edu/artgym/past- Oregon Public Broadcasting to Professor of art Michael profile-fm.html. In addition, be their partner in the devel- Knutson was one of four artists a show of paintings by both opment of American Passages, featured in Exponential: Four Knutson and his wife, Carol, a 16-part series on American Huge Paintings, an exhibition with one collaborative work, literature funded by a $1.5 mil- that was held this winter at the were on display in March at lion grant from the Annenberg Marylhurst University Art Gym. Portland’s Blackfish Gallery. Foundation. Arnold is serving Curator Terri Hopkins invited as academic director, oversee- Knutson and three other artists A composition called “Shtik” by ing the advisory committee to create a large work for this David Schiff, R.P. Wollenberg that will review all scripts for exhibition. Knutson’s painting, Professor of Music and noted the broadcast series. Each Tilted Tetra Coil, is 9.5 by 21 feet. composer, was performed in episode will cover a different Reviewer D.K. Row of the January in New York City as literary movement, such as Oregonian wrote that Knutson’s part of “A Great Day in New puritan, Native American, and piece is one of the two visually York,” described in a New York frontier literature, each juxta- compelling works in the show Times ad as “fifty-two living posing canonical and non- and that they “wouldn’t possess composers. One fierce festival.” canonical works. The proto- the same grandeur or achieve On the bill with Schiff at the type episode should be com- the same effect were they small- Alice Tully Concert Hall were plete by the fall of 2002. Along er.” Knutson says of his work works by Steve Reich, Wynton with the videos, the series will that his intention is to “create a Marsalis, John Corigliano, Peter include a study guide, and a pictorial space that is both con- Schickele, and others. Last year new Norton Anthology edition crete and elusive, in which all of Schiff was named by the New will be produced to accompa- the parts are wholly visible, but York Times as one of 52 great ny the series. Arnold says the in which one’s attention is con- living New York composers

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and was pictured on the “Great was released by Rowan & control the U.S. border with Day in New York” poster. Littlefield the end of November. Mexico. Peter Andreas has Although Schiff doesn’t live in The book examines the prac- caught the underside of the New York, his compositions tice, politics, and consequences NAFTA paradox perfectly.” often reflect his roots there and of building barriers against the city itself. In addition, the migrants. In July Cornell Bill Wiest, professor emeritus Seattle Symphony also per- University Press released his of psychology, edited and pub- formed works by Schiff in March, book Border Games: Policing lished a book about a tour he and he spoke at the University the U.S.- Mexico Divide. John and his wife, Thelma, took to of Missouri’s lecture series in H. Coatsworth of Harvard Paraguay and Brazil last spring. March on “What Makes Opera University wrote that “This The Wiests were part of a group Real?” in collaboration with the fascinating and thoughtful book of alumni and parents of alumni Lyric Opera of Kansas City and should be read by every citizen, from Tabor College, Kansas, that the Stravinsky Festival 2001. policymaker, scholar, and stu- gave choral concerts and visited dent seeking to understand Mennonite communities in Peter Andreas, assistant how the United States has so those countries. Wiest, who professor of political science, artfully managed to import retired in 1995, sang for many had two books published in the illegal drugs and undocu- years with Reed’s Collegium 2000. He is co-editor of The mented workers its consumers Musicum. He produced the book Wall Around the West: State and employers demand, with the help of Reed’s faculty Borders and Immigration Controls while its government gets multimedia lab and thanks staff in North America and Europe, credit for eye-catching but member Fred Lifton and student with Timothy Snyder, which ineffective campaigns to Billy Shipp ‘01 in his foreword.r

Arnold and Nicholson receive tenure he recommendations nization, poetry, and American B.A. from Oxford University, for appointment with Indian studies. She has begun where he won the Sunderland indefinite tenure of Nigel placing an emphasis on web- Prize for Greek literature. Nicholson and Laura based resources, working to Nicholson’s research focuses TArnold, effective in September, incorporate those materials into primarily on Greek lyric poet- were approved at the February her classes and teaching style. ry and archaic Greek culture meeting of the board of trustees. Arnold is active in writing pro- more generally. Recently grams at Reed as a trainer for he has been researching the Laura Arnold will become writing center tutors and author commemoration of athletic associate professor of English. of materials for the faculty on victories in the late archaic Arnold has been teaching at writing in Humanities 110; she period and the often problem- Reed since 1995. She received has also taught writing classes atic representation of marginal her Ph.D. and M.A. from the for Paideia. She was on the staff figures crucial to these victories. University of California–Los of Alumni College,”Defining Nicholson has taught classes Angeles, and her B.A. from the Culture,” in 1996. on Greek and Roman culture University of California–Davis. for local high school students She was a Fulbright lecturer at Nigel Nicholson will become and has participated in Reed’s the University of Panama in associate professor of classics Latin Day and symposia for 1998. As the current chair of and humanities. Nicholson has middle school students. He has the American studies program, been teaching at Reed since also been active with alumni, her professional interests lie in 1995. He received his Ph.D. having lectured several times American literature and culture from the University of to Reed alumni groups around to 1900, the literature of colo- Pennsylvania, and his M.A. and the country.r

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Campaign for Reed College celebration he Reed community gathered on February 9 for “an evening of ines- timable good cheer and T100 million thank yous” to cele- brate the recently completed Campaign for Reed College. The $100 million five-year campaign raised $112.8 million, primarily in support of financial aid, faculty development, and student research. The celebratory evening was filled with highlights, including a series of off-campus dinners From right, President Steven Koblik enjoys a spirited conversation with for faculty members, most of Brittney Corrigan-McElroy ’94, Thomas McElroy ’97, and professor of political them in faculty homes; a dinner science Darius Rejali. for trustees, donors, and other guests of the college that featured enjoyed a buffet dessert and all-community dance in the a multimedia campaign show merriment throughout the Gray Kaul Auditorium featuring with professor of theatre Kathleen Campus Center, which had been famed guitarist Duke Robillard Worley providing the leitmotiv as transformed into a carnival and his band. Amanda Wood Reed, Reed’s origi- (commons), brew pub (café), More photographs of the nal benefactor; and a late-night coffee house (meeting rooms), evening and a detailed look at sighting of the Doyle Owl. and jazz club (student union). the campaign’s success and Hundreds of college revelers— The evening concluded with Reed’s future challenges will be students, faculty, trustees, staff, a celebratory toast by Presi- forthcoming in a final Campaign and alumni representatives— dent Steven Koblik and an for Reed College report.r

The makeover of the commons into a “carnival” was complete with fire eater, juggler, mime, magician, popcorn, and cotton candy.

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Poet Robert Peterson dies gized poet, Peterson was one and traveling salesman . . . he of the first artists to win a grant developed a keen idiosyncratic from the National Endowment eye for human nature that for the Arts after its founding would later give his poems R in 1965, and one of the first to their particular style and edit an anthology of poems in charm,” said Joan Kloehn, opposition to the Vietnam War. his companion of 14 years. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet After leaving Reed Peterson Carolyn Kizer said that he lived in Taos, New Mexico, “possessed a faultless ear for where he wrote a collection the rythms of contemporary of poems, Leaving Taos, that speech” and praised his “mar- was named a National Poetry velously balanced lines.” Writer Series selection in 1981. He Leonard Gardner said “His is a then returned to the Bay Area, voice of man’s comic nobility where he started his own pub- in the midst of slow disaster.” lishing company, Black Dog Peterson was born in Denver, Press, and created artworks but the greatest influence in that were shown in local gal- enowned poet Robert his work was his childhood in leries. He also served as writer Peterson, who was San Francisco’s Fielding Hotel, in residence at Oregon’s writer in residence a Union Square hotel that his Willamette University from at Reed from 1969 adoptive parents owned. 1991 to 1992. Rto 1971, died of cancer in “If the great Japanese haiku “Growing up in the hallways September at age 76 at his and inner sanctums of the old poet Kobayashi Issa were to home in Fairfax, California. hotel, watching the passing resurface. . . . he would take the The author of nine books of parade of gamblers, race-track- name of Robert Peterson,” said poetry and a widely antholo- ers, jazz musicians, boxers, Oregon poet Clemens Starck.r

The northwest earthquake and Reed small bit of damage on was centered near Olympia, campus—a broken win- Washington. The epicenter was dow, a cracked beam, far enough away, and the and a fallen shelf— quake deep enough, so that Awas reported as a result of the Portland was spared the kind of 6.8 magnitude earthquake on shaking that was experienced Wednesday, February 28, that closer to Seattle.r

Reed publications win gold and silver wo Reed publications magazine, won a gold medal, calendar was conceived by the won awards from the and the Doyle Owl 2001 calen- news and publications staff and regional section of CASE, dar brought home a silver designed by staff member Laurel the Council for the medal. Paula Barclay, director Slater; it includes photo illustra- TAdvancement and Support of of publications, is the editor of tions by Aurelia Carbone of Education. Reed, the quarterly the magazine. The Doyle Owl Reed’s computer user services.r

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Hard hats are still de rigueur

STUDIO ART information, visit http:// EDUCATIONAL Construction began in February web. reed.edu/academic/ TECHNOLOGY CENTER for the 4,800 sq. ft remodeling departments/art/Studio_Art/ The educational technology and expansion of the studio arts expansion.html. center will follow the same building. In recent years the schedule as the library addition. number of majors in art has BIOLOGY It will provide for centralized increased dramatically, which The last phase of the biology computer staffing, sales and was not anticipated in the origi- project is well under way and on services, temperature-controlled nal 1979 design. For the past schedule. The faculty has moved equipment rooms, the writing two years, thesis students have into new offices and research center, the public policy work- been housed in a trailer. “I do labs, and common equipment shop, faculty offices, the faculty think students are considering rooms and a new greenhouse multimedia lab, classrooms, this an important area to major are under construction. The enhanced and expanded facili- in,” said Geraldine Ondrizek, project should be complete by ties for the information resource associate professor of art and August. To see photos, visit the centers, and student lounges. an actively exhibiting sculptor. biology department website at “The college’s commitment to http://web.reed.edu/academic SPORTS CENTER studio art is now clear to the /departments/biology/construct/ The sports center will be students. I have very serious bioreno-Thumb.00001.html. remodeled this summer. Work students in all of my classes will include renovation and and the quality of work is high.” LIBRARY expansion of the squash courts, A new structure will be The 23,000 sq. ft. addition and reconfiguring of the locker added to the east and south renovation of the southeast area rooms to make the men’s and exterior of the existing building of the library is scheduled to women’s areas equal in size that will increase space for begin in mid-May. This project and increase locker space, printmaking, drawing, painting, will allow for additional stacks for renovation of the cage area, computer graphics, darkroom, the expanding book collection as and expansion of the weight and exhibition and critique. well as additional art collection room, with new equipment Improvements include addition- storage, unified offices for the and daylight windows. The bus al faculty office and studio space library staff, classrooms, faculty garage and basket room will and additional student thesis offices, and a new computer be converted to usable workout studios. The project should study space. The work should be space, and a new classroom be completed by this fall. For completed by fall semester 2002. will be added.r

Organ transplant for Reed eed hasn’t had a usable the metal pipes are made of a organ since the 1960s; mixture of tin and lead—the the old Estey pipe organ same formula that has been in the chapel was used for organ pipes for cen- Rfinally sold in the ’80s. Thanks turies. It has no pedals and can to a gift to the music depart- be moved easily for perfor- ment from Reed trustee Sukey mances in different locations, Roth Garcetti ’61 and the Roth which makes it perfect for the Family Foundation, in memory many different performance of Pat Roth, the college now needs of the students and fac- has a new Baroque-style organ, ulty. The music department built by Bond Organ Builders, will use it for Baroque vocal Inc., of Portland. The wooden and instrumental music, and pipes are Peruvian walnut, and newer pieces as well.r

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The campus sprouted catapults... ne memorable Paideia building materials, and given a class this year was cata- brief lecture on catapult con- pult construction and struction. Teams were given Odemonstration. Students three days to build a contrap- were divided into teams, pro- tion; they then competed on vided with recycled home- the front lawn to see whose creation could propel an object the furthest. According to course instructor and Paideia signator Jamie Ford ’02, there was only one rule: students that they have a really good had to fire something that time building something from wouldn’t put holes in people, scratch,” said Ford. The buildings, or the lawn. “I hope Chronicle of Higher Education that students will get a func- featured the catapult class in tional catapult, and I also hope a January 19 article.r

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Renn Fayre Reed union n January 30 around expressions of responsibility. community safety reaffirmed 225 students gathered “Where is all the anger coming their commitment to protect, with faculty and staff from?” asked one student, voic- not persecute, students. Omembers, as well as ing an underlying question of The alumni offered sugges- several alumni, to discuss their the evening. Already, however, tions of fun and safe events reactions to last year’s Renn students expect a change. Many and were willing to work with Fayre and express concerns think last year marked a low current students to recapture about the future of this Reed tra- point and that an attitude of the friendly spirit of their own dition. Although tensions had increased responsibility will Renn Fayres. been high after last year’s report grow now that students have Suggestions included more of more than $15,000 damage, recognized the problem. restrictive passes, fewer guests, the atmosphere was overwhelm- The faculty members hoped fostering a tranquil night atmos- ingly positive. Speakers focused to see less dangerous levels of phere, moving events to decrease less on laying blame and more excess. They expressed unease damage, drug and alcohol educa- on constructive suggestions for at seeing students under various tion from students to students, improvement. influences and wondered increased volunteering for karma Student opinions varied wide- whether there was a place for patrol, creating more activities ly, ranging from safety concerns them at Renn Fayre. Staff mem- for faculty and staff members, and worry over “a bad vibe” to bers wanted to help students and heightened student responsi- definite hope for the future and with sensible planning, and bility for fellow students.r

NEWS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Alumni association president’s report his is a time for celebra- different factions of the Reed what’s happening there; Alumni tion. Seniors have finished community to achieve great College and reunions are a good their theses and, after orals things. Alumni played an way to do this. You should see and graduation, will enter important role in leading the what’s been, and continues to be, Tthe world ready to make their college as trustees, alumni created there. Then participate mark. Many alumni met with board volunteers, chapter in a chapter activity and meet Steven Koblik this spring, saw volunteers, and donors. I want other alumni. You might not the Campaign for Reed College to personally thank alumni know the others, but you share video, and heard about the con- director Marianne Brogan ’84 a past that allows you to strike tinued success of the college. for her able leadership in keep- up a conversation easily. The faculty has grown almost ing alumni volunteers focused, Volunteer your time at the chap- 10 percent, a strong endowment energized, and empowered to ter level or national board level. supports increased financial aid, further the creation of a vibrant We are always looking for people and new buildings are in use alumni community connected to assume positions of leader- for classes, student living, and to the college. ship. Finally, stay tuned as the research. These are good times We mustn’t get complacent, alumni board continues to create for Reed College and its students, though. There are still goals to opportunities for interaction faculty, staff, and alumni. be achieved, and I ask each of with students, recent graduates, It’s important to say thank you to think of how you can and alumni of all eras. We know you to the many people who contribute your resources to Reed College is a special place, have made this possible. A big the betterment of Reed College and we all need to make sure thank you goes to President (and I’m not talking money it continues that legacy.r Koblik for being such an able here, although I’m sure the col- leader during the past eight lege would like that too). First Sally Snyder Brunette ’83 years, bringing together the of all, go to campus and see [email protected], 425/562-2670

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Can you help us find these lost alumni? eed College does not have current mailing addresses for the follow- ing alumni. Please help us regain contact with the following “lost” souls, whose mail has been returned to us as undeliverable.You REUNIONS 2001 can notify us of their address or any clues to their whereabouts Rby phone at 503/777-7789, email [email protected], or post: Alumni Office, Reunion attendees will have Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland OR 97202-8199.r the opportunity to sample a variety of academic and other 1925 Jill Backes Cindy Feinstein subjects when members of the Zola Riches Eric Bender David Fink faculty present lectures Esta Miller Smith Helen Benedict Robert Fraser throughout the weekend. In Peter Berg Elliott Garufi 1935 Douglas Bernard Karen Hastings addition, faculty members will Anna Cobb Bruce Elgin Susan Hohl attend class dinners on Friday, Louise Gillette MacLeod Victoria Eskinazi Mary Hoover June 8. So come back to school! Robert Miller L. K. Doon Gibbs Patricia Kline You may appreciate it even Roy Noland Steve Haykin Timothy Lenderking Helen Peters Sloss more the second time around. Frank Hoppe Michael McGreevy Imogene Worland Stout Sherry Carr Johnson Jill Oerding Roger Porter, professor of 1945 Anne Johnstone Kendra Osborne Patricia Campbell Mark Kendziorek Jonathan Osterman English and humanities Kenneth Fleming Michael Kenney Susannah Rankin “Autobiography and Memoir: George Krueger Robert Levinson Randall New Directions for the Study Robert Maulsby Beth Lindahl Kenneth Rees of Life-Writing” Lucy Wee Jon Lonsbury Saiyid Rizvi N. Lani Pang M. Dale Shields 1955 David Griffiths, Howard Vollum Michael Peterson Rebecca Shier Nancy Hauff Brummett Professor of Science, Physics Robert Pettit Christopher Simpson Charles Graves Joseph Pjerrou Bill Stern “The Blackness of the Night, R. Thomas Harris Stuart Potter Emre Toker the Whiteness of the Moon, Roger Hough Stewart Purkey Robert Tyler the Redness of Sunset, the Carolyn Landy Johnson John Ranyard Caroline Van Hollen Blueness of Noon” Edwin Masland R. Stephanie Rick Sean Willard Michael Meriwether Joseph Rogers Brent Zupp Victor Novick Janis Shampay, associate Howard Rosenfield D. H. Pearson 1995 professor of biology Nancy Lundeen Savage Dion Reich Molly Benson Robert Schneider “The (Chromosome) End Lewis Robison Gesha-Marie Bryant Dagny Sellorin is Near! Telomeres, Aging, Tomio Saito Matthew Chambers Peter Simpson and Cancer” John Sibbald Kim Chan Todd Sjoblom Mary Pottinger Tarver Jeffrey Cheng Jerome Smith Jackie MacGregor Turner Nicholas Church Albyn Jones, Betsy Stewart Jefferson Crowder professor of statistics 1965 John Sutcliffe Evelyn Fraser “The Joy of Counting: Norman Adel Nancy Tivenan Ben Glickman Lawrence Baldwin Paul Trawick What Really Happened Last Katherine Hill James Carroll Gary Turley November in Florida?” Rachel Ihara Michael Kaufman Te resa Van Dilla Zachary Johnson David Leger Nadine Weisser REUNIONS 2001 Benjamin Kent Marianne Lundberg Kimlam Wong Tae Kim CONTACT NUMBERS Jane Ohare 1985 Geoffrey Kolstad Reunions 2001 information: David Ostwald Dina Alkassim Julianne Langley 503/788-6639 Anne Sinclair Myra Sloane Shanna Lorenz Phill Solomon Reunions 2001 registration Becraft Ivan Maluski A. Stanton-Barondess information: 503/777-7789 Michael Bess Sarah Clayton Mills Vera Hitoon Stasuk Or visit our website, Pamela Carter Michael Nelson Bruce Thelen http://web.reed.edu/ Christine Chism Russ Schneider William Tillman Paul Cohen Chris Spetzler community/alumni/ 1975 Eric Denton Christopher Howard Abrams Catherine Duvall Ta r nstrom

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Call for nominations he alumni association’s general alumni board positions Association, Reed College, nominating committee (three-year terms); and three Office of Alumni Relations, will soon begin work to seats on the nominating com- 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., fill vacancies for 2002–03. mittee. Alumni are invited to Portland OR 97202-8199. The TPositions to be filled are presi- submit names of potential nom- deadline for nominations is dent, vice president, secretary inees, along with supporting July 1. For more information, (all one-year terms); alumni information, to Nominating call the alumni relations office trustee (four-year term); four Committee, Alumni at 503/777-7789.r Westwind reunion ’01 rom the early ’60s to the are free) and includes food, lodg- is required for registration. early ’90s Reedies ing, and round-trip transportation Information packets will be enjoyed surf, sand, the tal- from Reed. Partners and children sent to registrants after July 1. ent show, and green eggs are welcome to attend this event, Please note: there is a minimum Fand ham at Camp Westwind. It’s but please note that no childcare registration of 100 people for time for a Westwind reunion! facilities are available at the this event; if this number is not Join the Portland chapter of the camp. Camp Westwind is not met and the event is canceled, alumni association from October wheelchair accessible. all money will be refunded. 12 to 14, 2001, for the first annu- To register, go to web.reed. A few spaces are available al Westwind reunion. edu/ community/alumni/ at a discounted price for alumni Space is limited to 150 people westwind/index.html, call willing to set up and clean and will be filled on a first come, the alumni relations office up the kitchen. If interested, first served basis. The cost is at 503/777-7589, or email alumni call Andy McLain ’92 at 503/ $110 per adult and $75 per child @reed.edu. Deadline for registra- 236-7351 or send email to aged 3 to 6 (children 2 and under tion is June 30, and payment [email protected] Online alumni SAVE THE DATE! CRUISING THE DANUBE RIVER directory A 12-day adventure with Virginia Hancock ’62, ReedLink, a collection Reed professor of music of services that allow JULY 18–29, 2001 alumni to stay in touch (A Prague extension has a pre-departure date of July 15) with each other and the Rcollege, debuted on the alumni Reed alumni, $3,645–$5,145 rates per relations web site last November parents, and person based on double and has proven to be a very friends are occupancy, including round- successful tool for alumni. The invited to trip international airfare site lists class notes, job postings, join Virginia Hancock, professor from Seattle, all sightseeing and of course, online contact of music, for a 12-day tour and and shore excursions, and information for Reed alumni. cruise of the Danube River. all meals during your cruise. All those in the Reed community Experience the beauty and Look for complete details in should have received their bustle of Budapest, the glory the mail, or for more informa- password and instructions of Vienna, the Bavarian charm tion please call the alumni for accessing ReedLink last of Passau, and wonderful views relations office at 503/777- December. If you did not receive of the rolling hills of Austria’s 7789 or send email to alumni this information or if you have Wachau Valley. @reed.edu. r trouble accessing ReedLink, please email the alumni rela- tions office at [email protected]

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Volunteer opportunities If you want to get more vice program, please phone the services office, please call them involved at Reed, note these SEEDS office at 503/777-7563. at 503/777-7550. volunteer opportunities: Spring always produces a The alumni association, I Local alumni interested new class of smart and eager admission office, and develop- in helping at alumni and stu- Reedies looking for intelligent ment office are always on the dent events such as the finals work. Alumni help throughout lookout for enthusiastic new week feeding frenzy (both in the year, answering career volunteers. If you appreciated May and December) should call questions, participating in your Reed experience and or write Joe Weisman ’65 at career panels, or attending wish to help current students 541/745-5265 or [email protected]. one of Reed’s informational get the most out of their years If you are interested in work- career fairs. If you are inter- at Reed, call the alumni office ing with Reed’s community ser- ested in assisting the career at 503/777-7589.r

Alumni association calendar

MAY 6 ...... Feeding frenzy MAY 11 ...... Reception for graduating seniors, with Portland alumni and President Koblik MAY 12 ...... Ice cream social for graduating seniors MAY 14 ...... Commencement JUNE 6–8 ...... Alumni College JUNE 7– 9 ...... Reunions 2001 JUNE 7 ...... Foster–Scholz luncheon, distinguished service awards: Gary Snyder ’51 and George Joseph ’51 JUNE 9 ...... Conversation with President Koblik JUNE 9 ...... Annual meeting of the alumni association, volunteer awards JUNE 24 ...... Reception with President Koblik, Chicago JULY 18–29 ...... Cruise on the Danube River with professor Virginia Hancock ’62 SEPTEMBER 21–22 ...... Alumni board meeting

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BAY AREA are in the Chicago area and particularly lively discussion A bowling evening at the want to be on our email list of Vikram Seth’s The Golden Albany Bowl is set for Sunday, for future gatherings, email Gate in February. Also popular May 6: call or write to Sarah David Perry at bonzodman@ are the monthly brew pub Scott Davis ’96 at sarahsd@ aol.com or Juliet Kim at outings sponsored by the pacbell.net, 510/559-2963. [email protected]. Reed College Urban Brewing Explore the wild side of the Experience (RCUBE), led by Bay Area at the Rancho San PORTLAND Erik Spekman ’91 and Jim Antonio Open Space Preserve Spring events included a McGill ’70. Newcomers are at a hike on June 17; respond show by folk dance group always welcome at both to Drew McCormick ’82, Balkanarama and a garden groups, and schedules are drew@tcmg .com. If anyone club seminar by Lucy available at http://eephus is interested in starting a writ- Hardiman, a national horticul- .com/rainierchapter. The ing group, please email tural consultant. The chapter steering committee is working Michelle Gallinger ’99 at spearheaded alumni involve- on plans for a theatre outing, [email protected] ment in Renn Fayre in April as well as the annual summer m. Join the Bay Area online and will be coordinating picnic. Check the web site alumni club, a place to partake a weekend at Camp West- or call Barb Carter Radin ’75 of discussions, chat, post files wind for the fall. The chapter at 206/ 523-2484 for more and photographs, and more. head is Robin Tovey ’97, information. For more information, go to [email protected]. http://members.aol.com/ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BarcaNet or email Drew RAINIER The chapter book group meets McCormick ’82, drew@tcmg The Rainier chapter was monthly, usually in the after- .com. Alumni and their friends pleased to welcome President noon on the second Sunday. enjoyed an April outing to Koblik to the Experience Alumni visiting from out of the DiRosa Art Preserve, Music Project in Seattle on the area are invited to call and William Abernathy ’88 April 25, when alumni and ahead for particulars, read had a successful party in friends enjoyed a reception the book, and join the discus- January at his place in south and a chance to say farewell sion. The annual chapter pic- San Francisco. to the outgoing president. nic is planned for September, Earlier in April alumni served probably the 16th, though BOSTON meals to about 100 homeless final arrangements had not Members of the Boston alumni people at a Seattle church, yet been made at press time. chapter went skiing in Maine, coordinated by Marta Smith For information, call Robert had a dessert-laden potluck, Franzen ’77. The Reeding Hadley ’53 at 310/391-1427 or and celebrated the Chinese Group continues to meet send email to BobPatHadley New Year with firecrackers, monthly and enjoyed a @aol.com. mah jongg, and food. We are now looking for events to hold in the summer; send sugges- tions to [email protected].

CHICAGO Chicago area Reed alumni gathered in February at a bowling party at Waveland INSURANCE AVAILABLE Lanes. Fifteen Reedies and a few significant others attend- The alumni relations office offers short-term medical insurance to ed. The bowling was, for the new graduates and other alumni who need temporary insurance. most part, not very good (Gil Interested alumni may call Meyer and Associates at 800/635-7801 was the best), but everyone or send email to info@meyerand assoc.com. r had fun and all are looking for- ward to the next event. If you

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Shirley Wright ’52 are Let your classmates know what you’ve been doing. Photographs are welcome, members of the San Luis although not all photographs may be printed. Please include an SASE if Obispo Symphony; they you want your photo returned. Be sure to include dates, class years, your full participated in an April name while you were a student, and your phone number in case we need to concert at Carnegie Hall reach you. that featured music by Post your classnotes online at administration.reed.edu/alumni/reedlink; mail California composer Lyour notes to Alumni Relations,Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland Craig Russell. They live OR 97202-8199; email us at [email protected];or return the envelope enclosed in Shell Beach, California. with this magazine. Our publication deadline for the next issue is May 22, 2000. This issue’s class notes reflect material received by February 22, 2001. 1951 – 50TH REUNION Gary Snyder gave a reading from his book- 1933 seeing Canterbury phy, ham radio, and visit- length poem, Mountains Georgia Dean Cathedral and the ing grandchildren with and Rivers without End, Kneeland celebrated memorial to Thomas his wife. They live in with three musician her 89th birthday last à Becket near the altar, Long Beach, California. friends last summer. November and wel- which brought back The event was in an comed the birth of her memories of a produc- 1944 outdoor amphitheater first great-grandchild. tion of T.S. Eliot’s play Sally Hovey Wriggins in the tiny Sierra town She and husband Paul about Becket, Murder in appeared on a National of North Columbia. will celebrate their 67th the Cathedral, staged Geographic television The reading and perfor- wedding anniversary while she was at Reed. show in February titled mance lasted until in December. She lives in Government “China’s Frozen Desert,” 2 a.m., and most of Camp, Oregon. one of a 13-part series the 400-plus audience 1937 called Treasure Seekers. stayed until the end. Marian Stevens Larson 1941 – 60TH REUNION The show was about lives in Tualatin, Oregon, Katie Baker Cooke was Aurel Stein and Xuan- 1952 where she is program given a lifetime achieve- zang, a seventh-century A novel by Elaine chair for the Tualatin ment award last May for Buddhist monk who was Miller Meuse, A Historical Society and a her contributions to the subject of a book she Cross in her Pocket, member of the outreach human rights, women’s published in 1996. She is due for publication committee at Tualatin equality, and child care. lives in New Hampshire. this spring. She lives in Presbyterian Church. She lives in Victoria, Seattle and is a retired She is house- and pet- British Columbia. Jesse 1946 librarian. Marvin sitting for friends and Lien had a heart attack Ethel Katz is busily Rogers retired in 1997 also likes to garden. last fall but is doing well birding with a friend all after nearly 30 years with cardiac rehabilita- over the U.S., Canada, of teaching political sci- 1940 tion. His fifth grandchild and Israel. She also ence, including compar- After living in the was born last spring. spends time with her ative government and Portland area for 60 He and his wife, Wilma, 15 grandchildren, who Southeast Asian politics, years, Neil Farnham is live in Pebble Beach, are scattered throughout at the University of moving to a new house California. Carleton the country. She lives Missouri. He lives in in Redmond, Oregon, Whitehead has just in Seattle. Lotus Simon Columbia, Missouri. near his home town of completed a year as Miller and her husband Bend. He plans to visit president of the El recently returned from 1953 Portland often since he Cerrito Democratic Club. Brazil, where he was con- Ron Cease retired from has four children and sulting and she did some Portland State University four grandchildren there. 1942 editing of English lan- last August but continues Laurita Abendroth Elmer Clark is retired guage abstracts for veteri- to teach a little. He was Leuthold and her daugh- with disabilities due nary and animal science chair of the division of ter traveled together to to strokes and living journals. They enjoyed public administration Europe last September. in Seattle. many trips to preserves, and interim director of They drove through parks, and ranches with the Hatfield School of southeastern England, 1943 experienced birders. Government until he took the Eurostar to Paris, Hulbert Sipple is They are back in Ames, retired. Frank Siegel and flew to Barcelona retired and leads an Iowa, and have a year-old has retired from his posi- and the Pyrenees. She active life that includes granddaughter. Marshall tion as professor of pedi- particularly enjoyed skiing, fishing, photogra- Wright and Virginia atrics and biomolecular

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chemistry at the Uni- that have become Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands, a small textbook as a versity of Wisconsin very popular. Bill Ure participating in preserv- result of the research Medical School. has been retired from ing and improving the and is seeking a publish- internal medicine “eco-tents” on a jungle er for a larger work. He 1956 practice since 1993 and hillside. He lives in New and his wife, Regina, are John Dopyera is cura- is involved in singing, York. After nearly 40 now back in Chapel Hill, tor of a traveling muse- Irish fiddling, and years away, Mary North Carolina, where um exhibition, Loud and making and playing Stewart Morrison and he is professor of philos- Clear: Resonator Guitars violas da gamba. He James Morrison ’62 ophy at the University and the Dopyera Brothers’ lives in Santa Barbara, have retired and moved of North Carolina. (See Legacy to American California. from Pennsylvania back also Reediana.) Music. It was initially to Oregon. They now displayed at the Erie 1958 live in Cornelius, west 1964 Art Museum, Erie, Carolyn Morton of Portland. In September Marlaine Pennsylvania, and has moved to Santa Fe, Lockheed became direc- been traveling for the New Mexico, in August 1961 – 40TH REUNION tor for education for the past two years to six 1999 and is enjoying World Bank’s human museums throughout the sunshine and blue 1962 development network. the U.S. Dierdre skies. She and her hus- Carolyn Nisinson is She lives in Princeton, Dexter Malarkey has band travel as much doing staff development New Jersey. retired as a land use as possible and have and mentoring to imple- planner and coordinator recently visited Spain, ment new intermediate 1965 for Deschutes County, Portugal, and Italy. level science standards in David Casseres has Oregon’s regional prob- (See also Unions.) an underserved New York been working at Apple lem solving project. City community school Computer since 1979 The project focused on 1959 district. Sandra Schwartz and describes himself resolving a variety of Stephanie Stolz Tangri received the as “the last of the self- land use and environ- Tomiyasu has been Carolyn Wood Sherif taught software engi- mental problems in the living since 1984 in Award, for contributions neers (all the rest are in southern half of the Japan, where she teaches to the field of the psych- management).” He lives county and received English conversation to ology of women, from in Palo Alto, California. state and national recog- small private classes and Division 35 of the Gerritt Rosenthal nition for successful col- corrects materials written American Psychological works with Adolfson laboration with involved in English by Japanese Association. She lives in Associates, an environ- agencies and citizens. people. She is learning Bethesda, Maryland, and mental consulting team She was recently various traditional has survived Stage IV lung in Portland. He has appointed to Oregon’s Japanese art forms, cancer for over two years. recently been involved Environmental Quality which has resulted in in a joint project with Commission. Karen her being interviewed 1963 Portland Parks and Renne recently retired by Japanese television Philip Mendershausen Recreation to determine after 10 years of law and newspapers about is still working as a the best way to make practice. She lives her interests. patient advocate at the Crystal Springs Creek in Pine, Colorado, Dallas Veterans Affairs “salmon friendly,” near Denver. 1960 Medical Center. Bill an effort that should Mark Gabor recently Pryor retired in enhance plans by Reed 1957 completed the research September as director College to improve fish Betye Carey is a clini- and editing of a forth- of adult probation, Marin passage to Reed Lake. cal social worker at the coming book, The Lower County, California. He Also working on the VA Medical Center in Eastside—Then and Now, lives in San Rafael. Jay project is Tim Brooks Palo Alto, California. a history and tour guide Rosenberg recently ’85. Peter Silverman Keith Miller is still of New York’s years of returned from spending works as a programmer, actively teaching immigration and cultur- 15 months in Germany, analyst, and technical and publishing at the al assimilation. Between where he was pursuing lead at Insurance Data University of Kansas freelance assignments epistemological research Processing, Wyncote, and visits Costa Rica from book publishers he with support from an Pennsylvania. Stephen every December. His spends much of his time NEH research fellowship Wax recently merged wife, Ocoee Peterson traveling, and he recent- and an Alexander von his film production Miller ’60, gives herbal ly spent a month on a Humboldt Research company, Chelsea medicine workshops work program at Maho Award. He has published Pictures, with Intelefilm,

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a publicly traded corpo- performed with the of the American the Froelick Gallery ration. The company long-established Los Psychological Society in Portland. produces TV commer- Angeles improvisation for his research on cials, films, and music group Off the Wall at artistic giftedness. He 1969 videos, and is branching the Edinburgh Fringe is professor of art educa- Judy Ricker is a volun- off into internet brand- Festival. He lives tion and art therapy at teer with the Westside ing projects. He lives in Sherman Oaks, Concordia University, Boys and Girls Club in in Brooklyn with his California. Montreal, Quebec. Santa Barbara, California, wife, Melinda, and Wetlands, a solo exhibi- where she serves as first two children. 1968 tion of new paintings vice president. She is David Pariser was by Barry Pelzner, employed as president 1966 recently named a fellow was held in March at of Courtland-Dane Jon Lauglo is working on adult education and vocational training for the Africa regional MICHAEL DENNIS ’69: SCULPTING SHADOWS department of the World As a biology major at Reed, Michael Bank, Washington, D.C. Dennis ’69 never would have imag- ined he would become an artist. 1967 After graduating from Reed he John Cushing has received his Ph.D. from Stanford been studying Korean in University in neural biology and did Seoul prior to assuming postdoctoral work at Harvard a post at the American Medical School. He then taught at Embassy this summer. the University of California for eight He recently did an inde- years before deciding to leave Ancestors II by Michael Dennis ’69 pendent study on the medicine to return to his initial Korean coal industry interests, art and nature. from salvaged logs, was commis- and visited several In 1985 Dennis moved to a farm sioned by the Washington State Arts mines, descending near- in Canada.There he constructed his Commission. Dennis feels that it is ly 400 meters below the home, which he also considers to important to maintain some of the surface. John Davies be his first sculpture.“I had never original gesture of the cedar trees, was recently re-elected thought of myself as a visual per- alluding to both our human ances- to his fifth term in the son; I had never studied art. I was tors and the ancestors of the wood. Alaska State House of amazed that I could build such a He has been continually inspired by Representatives, where lovely house,”he said.This sparked the theme of ancestors:“If we look he serves on the House his quest to explore the visual arts. back far enough, our ancestors lived finance committee. His formal artistic training in caves.They were much like us, less He lives in Fairbanks. began when he volunteered in the technological niceties; they ate Victoria Stern is still Nicaragua to help teach medicine. and slept, laughed and argued, sang happily retired in While he was there he took all the and danced, or stood quietly by the Saratoga, California, first-year courses at the national art fire.The firelight cast shadows of and is busy with her 16- school. At the time, the country was their lives on the walls. I try to sculpt year-old son’s theatrical suffering from widespread poverty. those shadows.” endeavors. She would According to Dennis,“There were Dennis has been exploring a new enjoy hearing from Reed no resources at all.The experience artistic direction, creating works that friends who were in taught me how to see without are entirely abstract. He wonders theater at Reed. To m fancy tools: my eyes and brains whether his new work will be Wasow is on sabbatical became the tools.”This initial artis- accepted and appreciated.“Part of from Stanford University tic exploration led to his full-time the artistic side is uncertainty and during 2000–01 and is a work as a professional sculptor. questioning. I’m in the middle of fellow at the Stanford Dennis most recently installed a that in a strong way right now Humanities Center. permanent sculpture grouping, because I’m experiencing some- Paul Willson appeared Ancestors,at the new campus of the thing new. All I can do is trust my in Star Trek: Voyager University of Washington in Bothell. instinct and know that whatever this season, playing “an The piece, consisting of monumen- propelled me to start is worthy inventive alien” in an tal abstracted human figures made enough to carry me on.” r episode called “The Void.” Last August he

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Management Group, a about her volunteer Stayton MAT has 1970 property and hotel man- work appeared in the retired from teaching in Ta mim Ansary is agement company that Santa Barbara News- Boulder Valley Schools, writing a column for manages large apartment Press on January 28. Boulder, Colorado. She Microsoft’s encyclope- complexes and smaller She is married and has has returned to Oregon dia web site, Encarta. hotel resorts. An article two children. Barbara and lives in Tigard. He is also editing a

THE POPE’S MAESTRO: GILBERT LEVINE ’69 GAINS SPECIAL ACCESS TO THE POPE’S EAR

Gilbert Levine ’69 was taken healing differences between aback when, in December Christians and Jews. A few 1987, the Krakow Philharmonic months later, in December invited him to be the orches- 1994, Levine was bestowed tra’s principal conductor. Not with a papal knighthood. that Levine wasn’t qualified— In May 2000, the pope he had served as assistant to turned 80.To celebrate renowned opera conductor the birthday and the new Sir Georg Solti in London and millennium, Levine led the Paris and had been a guest London Philharmonia and conductor throughout the Chorus in an interfaith event United States and Europe. But tion that Levine says changed that included representatives Levine was the first Western his life.“I felt a deep emotional of the Christian, Jewish, and musician, and certainly the first bond and concern on his part,” Muslim faiths.The groups American Jew, to serve as prin- said Levine.“He clearly wanted performed Haydn’s Creation, cipal conductor of an Eastern to put me under his wing.” a work chosen because it is European orchestra. After some Though Levine says that he’s based on the opening verses internal debate, Levine, whose “very much Jewish in my of the Book of Genesis and has parents were Polish-Jewish thinking, not just my back- relevance to all three religious immigrants, decided to take ground,”he considers the pope groups. After the birthday the job.“Before giving my “probably among the greatest celebration, Levine took the answer,”Levine said,“I consulted spiritual leaders in the last concert on tour to the United my mother-in-law, who is an huge block of time.To be States, France, and Israel.The Auschwitz survivor. She told associated with him is such series of concerts, said Levine, me to take the position and a tremendous experience. has “the capacity to be a great see it as an affirmation of our He’s such a remarkable leader.” occasion in an important Jewish survival.”Levine said That meeting led to Levine cause and at an important that he went to Krakow because conducting a 1988 concert at time in our national dialogue “it was a really tremendous the Vatican to celebrate the about tolerance.” position—not for religious or 10th anniversary of John Paul’s Though Levine transferred sociological reasons. All of the pontificate.That concert went to Juilliard after two years meaning really hit me later.” so well that Levine led four at Reed, he considers his The real surprise, however, other concerts in conjunction Reed experience, particularly came the following year, when with the Vatican. One of the Humanities 110 and professors Levine was summoned to most meaningful of these Roger Porter and Lloyd Vatican City to meet with the concerts for Levine was an Reynolds, to have been pope. John Paul himself is from event held in honor of crucial in shaping the way Krakow and was curious about Holocaust Remembrance he sees the world.“The first- the city’s new orchestra con- Day in April 1994.The Vatican year humanities program is ductor. Levine expected to be hosted the concert, which was something every student in part of a brief group audience. attended by the pope, the chief the world should have to go Instead, the pope’s assistants rabbi of Rome, and numerous through. It was really formative brought Levine to the pope’s Holocaust survivors. Observers in my educational program. personal library, where Levine hailed the event as an impor- I had a great experience of and the pope had a conversa- tant symbolic measure in a core educational kind.” r

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world history book for and romantic music for Glass magazine. (See Santa Monica, California. Barrett Kendall and is programs performed also Reediana.) Cynthia Susan Ransom’s daugh- writing his memoir. He on period instruments Whitehead is back for ter, Elizabeth Blake, is a lives in San Francisco in Oregon venues, a rest in Brussels after freshman at Reed this and has a daughter who including regular per- a year in Bhutan writing year. Susan lives in will enter college next formances at Reed’s Buddhist-rooted environ- Portland, Maine. fall. Victor Friedman Kaul Auditorium. Spouse mental laws to control has been appointed Diane Rosenbaum industrial development 1973 the Andrew W. Mellon ’71 was elected in in the fragile Himalayan Since 1994 Rich Frenkel Professor in the humani- November to a second country. has been building a web ties at the University of term as representative hosting business called Chicago. He is on leave for Portland’s District 1972 Infoboard, which was until December 2001with 14 in the Oregon Martha Allbritten is a merged into a larger grants from NEH and state legislature. wildlife biologist for the company, BiznessOnline, ACLS and will serve as Patrick Call is CTO Oregon Department of in October 1999. He chair of the Slavic depart- of Wadsworth Group, Fish and Wildlife. She lives in Swampscott, ment from 2001 to 2003. a college textbook pub- also rehabilitates birds of Massachusetts, with his Marc Lieberman is lisher in Seattle. He prey and releases about wife, Lenora, and two in the sixth year of the developed an internet- 25 per year back into the children. Jill Gay is Tibet Vision Project and based math assessment wild. In her spare time, working on environmen- continues to spend two system last year. He she is a freelance writer tal justice and sexual and months of each year in lives in Vashon, Wash- and has a music CD reproductive rights in the Lhasa, Tibet, where he ington, with his wife, due to be released in the U.S. and internationally trains local surgeons in Ellen, and their two near future. She lives with the Ford Foundation, modern cataract and young sons, Baxter and in Roseburg, Oregon. USAID, and Family ophthalmological surgery. Fletcher. Lisa Davidson Walter Barker has left Health Care of Alabama. He was recently appoint- lives in Sierra Madre, Japan and has returned She and Marie Reeder ed clinical professor of California, and is mak- to the Pacific Northwest visited the rain forests ophthalmology at the ing platinum and iris to “punish myself with in Costa Rica recently. University of California– prints; she recently a high school teaching Jill was divorced in San Francisco. (See also “crossed the line” into post in a small rural high December and lives in Reediana.) Henry Macintosh computing. school.” He currently Ta koma Park, Maryland, Millstein (formerly She has been doing a lives in Scappoose, with her two daughters, Henry Morrison) is a stu- variety of craft work, Oregon. Talbot Bielefeldt aged 16 and 11. Laura dent in the joint doctoral including sewing and was recently promoted Leviton has been program in Jewish stud- jewelry making. Last to manager in the re- appointed to the Institute ies at the University of October Clare Taylor search and evaluation of Medicine committee to California–Berkeley and Hastings was named group of the International evaluate the Metropolitan the Graduate Theological chief of nursing and Society for Technology Medical Response System Union.(See also Additions.) patient care services in Education, Eugene, program, aimed at pre- Michael Pollack is at the Warren Grant Oregon. Jeffrey Fox paring cities for chemical director of the South Magnuson Clinical has accepted a position and biological terrorism. Branch Watershed Center, the research at MCI Worldcom in Her presidential address Association in New hospital for the National Colorado Springs after to the American Jersey. David Raich Institutes of Health in five years as an indepen- Evaluation Association, recently let the alumni Bethesda, Maryland. dent contractor. He is “Building Evaluation’s office know that his life Matthew Kangas curat- working in network soft- Collective Capacity,” will partner, Laurie Glass, ed Bumberbienniale: ware architecture and appear in the American died last spring in an Painting 2000 for device control software Journal of Evaluation this auto accident. He lives Bumbershoot, Seattle’s for the long distance winter. She continues as in Oakland, California. annual arts festival. He company. Kathryn senior program officer of also assembled an art Hall had a show called the Robert Wood Johnson 1971 – 30TH REUNION collection for Ballard Things—Furniture as Art Foundation in Princeton, James Adams is presi- High School, his other at Seattle’s Mix Gallery New Jersey, and she dent of the board of alma mater, through a in February. Mark lives in Scotch Plains the Portland Baroque grant from the school’s Pomerantz has been with her husband, Orchestra (PBO) for foundation. He was promoted to senior vice Sheldon Hochheiser. its 17th season. PBO pre- recently named a president with Morgan Now in his 23rd year at sents baroque, classical, contributing editor Stanley Dean Witter, Public Citizen Litigation

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Group, Paul Levy has Rome, Italy. He is Ph.D. program in policy College. James Emery added internet-related preparing for the next history. John Hart works on African litigation to his specialty Earth Summit in 2002. recently prepared a economic development in rank-and-file labor Richard Wolin has friend-of-the-court brief at the International law, defending the free joined the faculty of the arguing from historical Finance Corporation. speech rights of con- Graduate Center, City evidence that the origi- His book on reducing sumers and workers University of New York, nal understanding of red tape for investors who use the internet to as a distinguished profes- the just compensation in Africa was published criticize corporations sor of modern European clause supports the last year. He lives in and other powerful enti- intellectual history. wetlands preservation Washington, D.C. (See ties. Alex Martinez is a laws of Rhode Island. also Additions.) William justice with the Colorado 1975 He lives in Chicago and Nicholson recently Supreme Court and has Wanda Beierle contin- teaches at the Chicago- received the distin- just been retained for ues to work as a child Kent College of Law. guished Hoosier award another 10-year term. abuse investigator for John Hedtke was for “great service to His oldest daughter, Los Angeles County as inducted this fall into the state of Indiana” for Julia, is a freshman at well as maintaining a his high school’s hall his service on the State Stanford. When Hewlett private psychotherapy of fame, an experience Emergency Management Packard split in July practice. In September he called “really big Agency team. He also 2000, Karen Hendricks she took her 82-year-old stuff.” He was also received the honorary Seaward went with mother on her first trip recently named an emergency medical Agilent Technologies, abroad, visiting Turkey, associate fellow of the technician award from which comprises most of Ukraine, and Greece. Society for Technical the Indiana Emergency HP’s original business. She and her husband Communication. He Medical Services She finds the work are busy building a new has been doing a lot of Commission.(See also atmosphere of the new house. Dan Radin is consulting and contract- Reediana.) Christina company refreshing, editor in chief of the ing and had a number Rizopoulos Valauri stimulating, and produc- 2000 edition of the of speaking engage- is associate director of tive. She lives in Palo Washington State Bar ments last year, and equity research at Ing Alto. Barry Shell won Association’s Family Law he was interviewed by Barings, where she a Canadian National Deskbook. He is an assis- Computerworld and co-manages approxi- Science and Engineering tant attorney general for Time magazines on mately 120 research Research Council the state of Washington. the topic of MP3s. (See professionals. She has PromoScience award also Reediana.) Neil spent 18 years as an to refurbish a web site 1976 – 25TH REUNION Jumonville has been equity research analyst (www.science.ca) he Andrea Frost is in the named the William focused on the health created in 1995 to profile process of buying the Warren Rogers Professor care sector. She and her Canada’s greatest scien- veterinary practice in of History at Florida husband, Frederick, live tists. The grant will pay southwest Portland where State University, where in New York City. for a professional devel- she currently works. he has been teaching opment leave of absence since 1990. Kevin 1979 from his position in the 1977 Kappler has recently Vera Boals Bustrum Centre for Systems Chip Brown works at received his diplomat has retired from the Science at Simon Fraser Credence Systems in in forensic psychology army as a major and University so that he Hillsboro, Oregon, as a from the American will be staying in the can work on the site. staff software engineer. College of Forensic Olympia, Washington, Carl Wiener has left Ana Marquez Brown Examiners. He contin- area. An audio installa- Bank of America to ’78 is at home with ues to practice in the tion at the Portland work as a clerk typist their son, Mark, 4, and Napa, California, area. Building by Merridawn for the Department of is involved with his He and his wife, Bonnie, Duckler invited building Consumer Assurance, cooperative preschool. have recently become visitors and workers to San Francisco County. Douglas Forsyth was grandparents. choose from a menu of granted tenure last poems for inspiration 1974 spring in the history 1978 and reflection and to Thomas Price is in department of Bowling Jeanne Brako has hear the poem privately the agriculture depart- Green State University, relocated to Durango, or in small groups. The ment at the Food and Ohio, where he is gradu- Colorado, to take a installation, Poetland Agriculture Organization ate coordinator for his position as curator of Building, was presented of the United Nations in department’s niche collections at Fort Lewis by the Regional Arts and

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Culture Council this the broadcast and cable concentrating on defense Milstead has accepted winter. Lisa Gillette has divisions of Fox. She of Spanish-speaking peo- a position as vice presi- been named vice presi- has been with Fox since ple accused of crimes dent and general counsel dent of on-air promotion March 1999, when she and defending foreign with Credence Systems for Fox Sports Television was hired as director of nationals against depor- Corporation, a leading Group, Los Angeles. She on-air production and tation from the U.S. He developer and manufac- is responsible for over- planning for Fox Sports. and his wife, Joanne, turer of automated test seeing the production of Peter Hill has a solo have two sons and live in equipment for semicon- sports promos in both law practice in Georgia, Dunwoody. Byron ductor testing. He will

HISTORIC SWAMPS AND REDNECK REALISM Stacey Breheny ’79 explores Florida’s hidden landscapes

It’s called redneck realism.While others pass by rusted mobile homes and sleazy motels, artist Stacey Breheny ’79 stops to admire the hidden beauty of American culture.With a strange melancholy, Breheny has begun transforming the garish and crude into celebrations of free- dom and warmth. Her subjects are the roadside billboards and weary Cadillacs, the mom-and- pop diners and old shopping malls, that litter the Florida roads. Under luminous skies, her paintings take on a sense of sad majesty,always reminiscent of years past. “There is a lot of humor and irony and sometimes pathos in the roadside environment,” says Breheny.“I’m very interested in the buildings and signs created by small business, below- corporate-radar-type people—so hence the ‘redneck’ category. Other artists also worked on the exhibit, “I actually started doing realistic streetscapes molding limestone caverns, directing water, and at Reed,”she says.“I still aspire to the same things meticulously creating countless trees, flowers, and I tried to achieve in my thesis, which was to even carnivorous plants.“Unlike working alone, capture a sense of light, space, and culture in a there are times when you have to compromise. painting of place.” But the benefit is doing something that would be Yet roadsides aren’t the only landscapes in beyond my scope in time, resources, and varied Breheny’s life. skills as an individual.” As senior artist at the Florida Museum of Currently, Breheny is about half done with Natural History, Breheny has recently painted a 165 feet long by 18 feet high mural of a three murals for the Waterways and Wildlife mangrove swamp.“The extra challenge in this permanent exhibit.The exhibit, started in 1996 exhibit is a dropped ceiling that’s a translucent and opened in summer 2000,traces the flow photograph of billowy South Florida clouds.The of water through five ecosystems in the Florida lights behind the ‘printparency’change, giving panhandle.Breheny used a hydraulic lift to paint the effect of the sun going in and out of the these giant 25 foot high, nearly 360 degree clouds.”This last mural will probably take about murals of cypress trees, swamp waters, and a year to complete. hardwood hammocks. Looking at the murals, “My styles are really very different.The murals it’s hard to see where the sculptures end and are huge and impressive; the paintings are sort the walls begin. of encapsulated,”says Breheny. ”The common “My goal is to transport the audience to thread is that I always try to create a strong mood another place,”says Breheny.“I try to create with light in both endeavors.”To explore the beauty and romance with the environment museum yourself, visit http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu, while including all the scientific details that and to see Breheny’s redneck realism, visit make it accurate.” http://drbukk.safeshopper.com/6/cat6.htm?564.r

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divide his time between October as the “feminist Rachel. She is a surgeon contemporary art at the the company’s offices talking head,” a result scientist at the Univer- Whitney Museum of in Fremont, California, of a critical book review sity of California–San American Art. He spent and Hillsboro, Oregon. she wrote on a house- Francisco. Joanna New Year’s Eve at the He had been in private keeping guide. She Bengel Pienovi has Reed ski cabin. legal practice for 18 lives in Cambridge, been named pastoral years before taking Massachusetts, with hus- associate to the auxiliary 1984 the position. band Robert Howe ’79. bishop of the Archdiocese Paul Edmonson is (See also Reediana.) Paul of Portland, Oregon, and finishing a residency in 1980 Webster recently marked she is co-owner, with pathology at the Univer- Carol Cummings is the 25th anniversary of her husband, and CEO sity of Washington. He still a captain with the his use of “the unified of Fujii Produce. She has lives in Seattle with his King County sheriff’s field-based technology a son and a daughter wife, Shigeko Ito, and office in Seattle, where commonly known as in college and another their son Michael, 3. she oversees a variety transcendental medita- son who is a junior in Jean-Laurent Rosenthal of crimes including tion.” He and Nora high school. and his wife, Paula Scott homicides, robbery, Hughes Webster ’80 live ’85, are preparing to sex crimes, child abuse, in Monroe, Wisconsin. 1982 spend the 2001–02 acade- and domestic violence. Jacob Allderdice mic year in Paris, where Beth Helstien volun- 1981 – 20TH REUNION works for an archi- he will be doing research teers for Friends of the Melissa Brown has tectural firm in Toronto, and writing while on San Juans, an environ- been promoted to Ontario. He recently leave from the economics mental group that has, managing editor of entered his proposal for department at UCLA. after nearly six years of Giving USA and assistant “North America’s largest Paula plans to spend the litigation, successfully director of planning car-free community” in a time there improving her blocked the develop- and assessment at the broadly defined interna- French and doing some ment of a 345-foot-long Center on Philanthropy tional ideas competition freelance writing while dinghy dock in the pris- at Indiana University. for revitalizing Toronto’s staying home with their tine waters of Westcott She has worked there waterfront. Although two daughters. (See also Bay. She lives with her on and off since 1991. the entry did not win, Reediana.) Kim Taylor husband, Marshall, Giving USA is an annual his idea was recently has a new job in the and two cats in a house publication that provides recognized by a local Calfed Bay-Delta program with a pond and garden comprehensive facts and news columnist as in Sacramento, designing on San Juan Island, figures on philanthropy one that could greatly an ecosystem restoration Washington. Chris in the U.S. She lives in add to Toronto’s “long science program. She is Hennessy is director Indianapolis. Jonathan odds” bid for the 2008 dreaming of taking a of medical technology and Stephanie Thomas Olympic Games. leave of absence to write evaluation at Group Guss live in northern and throw pots. She Health Cooperative in New Jersey, where he is 1983 lives in Berkeley. David Seattle. He also teaches CEO of Bogen Commun- Russ Haan’s greeting Thies is an internist clinical evidence-based ications International. card business, Max and and a pediatrician with medicine classes and They have three children. Lucy, continues to grow the Kernodle Clinic in does consulting for sev- Bogen Communications and is now in nearly Mebane, North Carolina. eral large biotechnology International, Inc., based 2,000 stores. His design He and his wife, Sue, organizations. Diane in Ramsey, New Jersey, firm, After Hours, is also have a son Kevin, 2. Vance Kearns earned a and Munich, Germany, prospering, and he is Molly Welch is still master’s in art therapy develops, manufactures, working on starting a happy teaching at PVPA, and is working as a and markets telecommu- new company called a charter school for the child development nications peripherals, “rphaus” that will com- performing arts. She is specialist in a Canby sound processing equip- bine business, science, now head of the English school district elemen- ment, and Unified and the arts as tools to department and recently tary school. She lives Messaging products address social concerns. completed a master’s in in West Linn, Oregon. and services worldwide. He celebrated his creativity in education Martha Nichols is a Kimberly Saunders 40th birthday in a villa at Norwich University freelance writer who Kirkwood is living in in Italy and lives in in Vermont. She lives in tries to promote pro- the San Francisco Bay Phoenix, Arizona. Larry Greenfield, Massachu- gressive topics in her area with her husband, Rinder moved to New setts, with her partner articles. She appeared Robert, and their two York City in June to take and two horses, two on a CNN feature last daughters, Rebekah and the post of curator of dogs, and a cat.

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1985 art classes in Sitka, Unions.) Michael students who tell her Sarah Austin has been Alaska. Wayne Turner Mercy is chairman that hers is their most teaching at Parkland is director of Act Up and medical director challenging yet most Community College in DC (AIDS Coalition to of the emergency room enjoyable class. After Champaign, Illinois, for Unleash Power) and is at the regional trauma eight years in Ithaca, New the last two years, but working to get a medical center in Boise, Idaho. York, Chris Marshall has expects to be laid off at marijuana initiative He serves on the board completed his doctorate in the end of this academic passed and implemented of the Idaho Black entomology at Cornell. He year. Karen Belsey in Washington, D.C. He History Museum and has accepted a one-year traveled to Costa Rica and his partner, Steve was recently elected postdoctorate position last year to visit the Michael, now deceased, a trustee of Albertson there to conduct research Monteverde Cloudforest co-founded the D.C. College. (See also on the comparative anato- Reserve, while her chapter in 1990. Additions.) Ann Muir my and phylogeny of the husband worked with Thomas “took a flying Cucujoidea group of bee- canopy researchers. She 1987 leap out of academia” tles. In the meantime, he had another successful Ken Belson joined in June and after six is using skills he learned year running the “Five Business Week last May months landed a job at Reed’s Paradox Café to Fingers of Fun” booth at as a correspondent in as a technical writer serve coffee at Stella’s Café. the Oregon Country Fair the Tokyo bureau, writ- at a network security and is currently serving ing about the internet, software company, 1990 a term of office on the the government, and Sandstorm Enterprises, Sarah Dougher was Reed alumni board. finance. Ellen Chapin in Boston. She had been named one of Out maga- She lives in Portland. Endress was rear-ended teaching behavioral zine’s “Out 100,” friends (See also Additions.) by a fire truck last fall sciences at Bentley and members of the gay Anthony Fenner relo- and was out of work for College in Waltham, community who “made a cated to Marin County, a month. However, since Massachusetts. difference” last year. She California, last fall, the car was totaled, she was cited for Ladyfest, a where he is now on the now drives a new 2001 1989 punky alternative to the rabbinical staff of the Subaru. She was able to Russell Fraker has Women’s Music Festival. Bay Area Jewish Healing attend the dedication a new job as a marine She lives in Portland. Brie Center. Gaynor Hills in December of a high liaison for TyCom, a Ducey has stopped writ- has been appointed school in El Paso, Texas, telecommunications ing poetry and now only director of institutional that was named after her company that is the writes fiction. She is advancement for the grandfather, who died largest manufacturer enrolled part time in the Intiman Theatre, Seattle. heroically in battle dur- and installer of subma- M.F.A. program in fiction She was previously exec- ing World War II. Tim rine fiber optic cables at San Francisco State utive in charge of major Flanagan was recently worldwide. He coordi- University and is working gifts for Seattle’s KCTS promoted to stats central nates with fisherman on a novel. She is also television station. Bruce manager with Microsoft and other marine indus- employed as a contract Howlett is currently in Seattle. He has joined tries to avoid conflicts, technical writer. She and working as a carpenter the Keith Highlanders and his purview is cur- her husband, Tom Gibbons, in Vermont, constructing Pipe Band as one of rently Latin America were married in August log homes. He returned three drummers. His and high seas fisheries. 1998 and recently bought from Australia and New wife, Julia Rudden ’90, He lives in Baltimore. a house in Oakland, Zealand in May, and is enjoying being a stay- (See also Additions.) California. Oliver since then has been at-home mom, maintain- Peter Goodman is writ- Laeyendecker is now looking for a position ing the Womynsware.com ing about technology working for NIAID on teaching forest ecology web site and “working for the Washington Post. HIV research with Dr. or conservation biology. sporadically” on a novel. (See also Additions.) Eva To m Quinn. He received Tim, Julia, and infant Lindgren is a CPA and an M.B.A. from Johns 1986 daughter Kiera spent the accounting manager Hopkins University. Rebecca Poulson a month last summer for the city of Ketchikan, Shouka Rezvani recently earned a traveling in Europe. Alaska. She recently Alagheband has been master’s in fine arts and Leslie Mehren has began teaching first- made a partner in the is still publishing a cal- been living in Manhattan year French at the law firm of Tonkin Torp, endar called “The Outer for the past year and University of Alaska, Portland. She is a member Coast.” She is busy doing a half, handling press Southeast Ketchikan of the firm’s estate art and book projects and public relations campus, and is “having planning practice group. and teaching college for Sotheby’s. (See also a blast.” She has five Stephen Scholz will

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receive his Ph.D. in Otter ’94, and Karen writing consulting firm other Reedies. David philosophy from the Leibowitz ’99. Van in Seattle, he moved to Lukas writes for Audubon, University of New Havig and Emily the Bay Area, where he Sunset, UTNE Reader, Mexico in June. He Headen have returned is a consultant with a Orion, and other national currently teaches to Portland from the East firm that specializes in magazines. He lives in a at North Carolina Coast. Van is the head providing support to remote cabin in the State University. brewer at Portland’s pharmaceutical and Sierra Nevada foothills, Rock Bottom Brewery biotechnology compa- where a handful of other 1991 – 10TH REUNION and Emily is telecom- nies in risk management Reedies have also settled. Amy Barg earned muting to Washington, and decision making in (See also Reediana.) a master’s in forest D.C., as the director of product development. Daria Eckhardt O’Neill ecosystem science the CLEAR Project, While in Seattle, he is a morning radio host and conservation from which tracks the envi- founded the Lake on KNRK, Portland. She the University of ronmental backlash Union Civic Orchestra. recently gave up her posi- Washington and has movement. Elizabeth Greg Barnes has been tion as television weather now returned to live Mitchell and husband named director of the woman for independent in her home town of Alex Krieckhaus live in American Safe Climbing station WB32 to concen- Mendocino, California. Primrose Hill, London, Association, a nonprofit trate on her radio career She is conducting with three daughters, organization that replaces and to spend more time forestry research for Hannah, Sophie, and dangerous old anchors writing. Matt Price is the University of Abigail. She is head of on rock climbs through- still teaching high school California–Berkeley public affairs for the out the United States. physics at Lakeridge High on the Mendocino Nuffield Trust and writ- He lives in Mammoth School in Lake Oswego, coast and is happy to ing her dissertation at Lakes, California. Oregon, and “seeking be back with family the London School of Wayne Bennett enlightenment the long, and old friends. David Economics. Arun Rath started a new job last hard, painful way in Tai Evers is still “slaving is now senior producer fall teaching literature Chi class.” Scott Ross away” on his Ph.D. for On the Media, an at Centennial Middle currently lives in New at the University of NPR-distributed show School in Portland.(See York City. He has spent Amsterdam’s Study produced at WNYC in also Unions.) Bryce the last two years working Center for the Metro- New York City. He had Gartrell has started as a program assistant for politan Environment. been a producer for an internet company in the National Commission Tracy Poe is now teach- NPR’s Talk of the Nation Salinas, California, with on Teaching and America’s ing at Barat College, in Washington, D.C. To Spencer French ’94. Future while pursuing Lake Forest, Illinois. “celebrate the end of a The company also has an Ed.D. in educational (See also Additions.) year-long pre-midlife a bilingual business site psychology at Teachers crisis,” Alex Veltman at www.zocaloco.com. College, Columbia 1992 sold an adult-oriented (See also Additions.) University. Lyon Terry James Allen has relationship game that Christina Kincaid has is a second-grade teacher joined the law firm he created, closed his been awarded a nine- in New York City public of Warner Norcross & Austin, Texas, law prac- month traveling fellow- schools and Sarah Judd LLP, Grand Rapids, tice of five years, and ship from the depart- Higgins ’94 is a refer- Michigan, as an associ- is moving to Prague. ment of architecture at ence librarian for the ate. He earned his law He hopes that old UC–Berkeley. She will New York Public Library. degree at the University classmates will keep be traveling through They live in Brooklyn. of Michigan Law School. in touch through his Russia, Iceland, and George Wright has com- Chris Hallstrom and Hotmail account. other parts of the sub- pleted the requirements spouse Nora Leibowitz arctic to study building for a doctorate in statis- ’93 celebrated Thanks- 1993 traditions in northern tics at the University of giving weekend with John Alderete graduat- regions. Steve Ko has Maryland and has begun seven other Reedies on ed from the University moved from accounting postdoctoral work at the Cape Cod for the eighth of Washington and the to the trading desk and biomedics branch of the time last November. Fred Hutchinson Cancer is employed by Bear, National Cancer Institute. The other attendees Research Center, Seattle, Sterns & Company, Inc., He lives in Takoma were Mike Corrigan with a Ph.D. in microbiol- Equity Capital Markets, Park, Maryland. Soofian ’89, Josh Finkler ’91, ogy in February 2000. in New York City. He is Zuberi was promoted to Kristin Jacobson ’91, After working briefly enjoying eating Korean a vice president at Merrill Matt Kocher ’93, doing business develop- food, playing volleyball, Lynch’s investment Chloe Mills ’94, Susie ment for a small technical and running into lots of banker capital markets

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group in Hong Kong. now works as a long- classical studies depart- Corporation, in Boise, He is playing squash range city planner for ment, University of Idaho. (See also and rowing, and he the city of Portland. Pennsylvania. (See Additions.) Kyle Napoli would love to hear from Ben Salzberg is living also Unions.) Luke has been in Cambridge, Reedies of the Sisson in Portland, working Weisman is teaching Massachusetts, for near- and Griffin dorms from on recording music, math and computer sci- ly a year, working at a 1990 to 1993. cooking, riding his bike, ence at Commonwealth software company “and dreaming of travel High School in Boston called Art Technology 1994 to exotic locales. “ and is also designing Group. She writes that Peter Bray recently computer games. she enjoys the area and sold CyberSight, an 1995 the job but would like interactive agency he Suzy Garren is teach- 1997 to start using her brain started while a senior ing middle school in Akesha Baron is now again. After graduating at Reed, to MDC, a the Bay Area and is the proud owner of a from Reed, Raymond To ronto holding compa- enjoying vegetable house and a fiancé. She Tsou worked at the ny. CyberSight now gardening and trekking is attending graduate University of Washington employs approximately in the Sierras. Greg school at the University for three years as a 150 employees. He Rohda reports that he of Washington, where lab technologist. He won a Clio for creative is married and “living she reports she is “coast- is currently in his first direction on the Molson well” in Cambridge, ing through on the glim- year of dental school at Canadian site. Peter is Massachusetts. Bear mers of knowledge” she Tufts University, School co-founder of Webridge, Wilner plans to start gained in the Reed SU. of Dental Medicine, an enterprise applica- law school at Lewis & She continues to be in- in Boston. tion software company Clark this August. terested in Mesoamerican in Hillsboro, Oregon, languages and studies 1998 employing approxi- 1996 – 5TH REUNION Zapotec in Oaxaca. Mark Jarvis is current- mately 200 employees. Smith Banomyong Courtney Jackson is ly a research assistant Aaron Feves received completed a two-year surviving her third year at Oregon Health an M.B.A. from the global management of medical school at Sciences University, Terry College of associate program and Oregon Health Sciences Portland. He is in the Business at the has relocated to Jakarta, University and expects process of applying to University of Georgia, where he is head of to graduate in June graduate school. After Atlanta, in December. corporate finance with 2002. She lives in north- a year in rural Japan (See also Additions.) Citibank Indonesia. east Portland. Kimberly and a year studying at Aaron Glass has been Ellen Broudy is work- Kubick is in the nurse- the Hopkins-Nanjing living in Vancouver, ing for a graphic and midwife program at Center in Nanjing, B.C., since graduating web design firm in Vanderbilt University China, Laura Peterson from Reed, during Manhattan and is plan- and plans to graduate is working at the security which time he earned ning to move to Jersey in January 2002. Leo firm Pinkerton (China) a master’s degree in City or Hoboken, New Macdonald spent the in Shanghai. Her work anthropology from the Jersey. Sara Frank is past three years working is in intellectual pro- University of British writing her thesis in for GE Research and perty rights protection, Columbia and a B.F.A. completion of an M.F.A. Development, inventing investigating and bust- from the Emily Carr in fiction writing at new parts and processes ing counterfeiters of Institute of Art and Columbia University. for jet engines. He lives consumer goods. After Design. He has recent- Chris Lovell and in Schenectady, New a stint as a professional ly moved to New Amanda Wilcox are York. Thor Mann is in singer, composer, York City, where he living in Austin, Texas, his first year in an orga- and summer camp is pursuing a Ph.D. in where Chris is continu- nizational psychology administrator, John anthropology at NYU. ing in the graduate pro- Psy.D. program at the Vogt started work on a He plans to return to gram in classics at the Graduate School of master’s in music edu- the west coast of University of Texas and Applied and Professional cation at the University Canada to conduct recently completed his Psychology, State Uni- of Colorado–Boulder, research. Stevie master’s report on the versity of New Jersey, which he expects to Greathouse earned catalog of women in Rutgers. He reports that finish next semester. a master’s in urban the Odyssey. Amanda “New Jersey is all its He hopes to teach in and regional planning is working on her Ph.D. cracked up to be.” Heidi a non-affluent, urban from Portland State dissertation on Latin Marcus is a computer junior high school. In University in 1997 and epistolography in the analyst for Albertson’s June Kristin Wagner

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will complete a master’s celebrated their 55th October 21, in an out- Benjamin, May 2000, in information science anniversary. An accident door ceremony on the in Washington, D.C. at Indiana University– of layout in the last issue Appalachian Trail at the Bloomington. She is made it seem otherwise. Tennessee–North To Steve McMaster working as an internet Carolina border. Reed ’78 and Kathleen Brock, project manager at the Carolyn Morton ’58 to guests included a daughter, Lois, born Journal of American James Karr, December Quincannon Murphy in Yangchun City, History. 11, 1999, in Santa Fe, ’92, John Tecklin ’91, Guangdong, China and New Mexico. Burton Callicott ’91, adopted in June. They 1999 Erica Kohl ’91, Eric live in Portland. Justin Campbell Natasha Dehn ’85 to Westervelt ’91, continues to pursue a Mark Skubik, May 22, Andrew Mason ’90, To David and Andrea Ph.D. in computer sci- 1999, in Los Altos, and Lori Weyand Brewer-Thompson ence at the University California. They live Mason ’92. They live in ’79, a daughter, Aine of Washington, Seattle. in Santa Clara. Marshall, North Grace, May 29, 2000, Greg Lopez is doing Carolina. (See photo) in Berkeley, California. graduate work at Johns Anthony Orkin ’85 She joins sister Sophia Hopkins University on announced his recent Wayne Bennett ’93 to Kaleia, 3. the correlation between marriage to Paula Nina Whigham, June structure and thermody- Bernstein. They live 17, in Portland. She is a To Roger Williams ’81 namic properties of car- in New York City. current Reed student. and Norma Coindreau, bohydrate-binding pro- their second child, a teins.(See also Unions.) Leslie Mehren ’87 Chris Lovell and daughter, Rachel Anne, Benjamin Nugent lives to Ilia Gorev, August, Amanda Wilcox, both December 27, in Austin, in Brooklyn, New York, in New York City. He ’96, May 27, 2000, in Texas. She joins a broth- and has been working is a former principal Amanda’s parents’ back er, Joseph Amado, born as an arts reporter for dancer with the yard in Overland, Kansas. December 21, 1998. Time magazine since Bolshoi and Boston They honeymooned April 2000. ballet companies. for two weeks in Italy To Lisa and Patrick before returning to their Locke ’82, their second 2000 Monica Wesolowska home in Austin, Texas. child, a son, Stuart Nicole Vasilevsky is ’89 to David Fisher, Scott, February 1, 2000, working on a master’s September, near their Gregory Lopez ’99 to in Beth-esda, Maryland. degree at the Univer- home in Berkeley, Mariweather Mersereau, He joins brother siteit van Amsterdam, California. November 7. They live Jeremy Ross, 4. the Netherlands. in Pikesville, Maryland, Thea Beatie ’91 to outside of Baltimore. To Beth and Charles UNIONS Barrett Troll, September Brod ’83, a daughter, 16, in Tiburon, Calif- ADDITIONS Grace, May 12, 2000, Correction: Laurens ornia. In attendance in Portland. She joins Ruben, Kenan Professor were Amanda Le Brun To Patricia Honchar sister Lillian. of Biology, emeritus, ’91 and Ghilia Lipman- ’70 and Richard would like all his former Wulf ’91. They live in Rothenberg, a son, To Fiona Harding students and friends to San Francisco. Cyrus, April 14, 2000, ’83 and David Atkins, know that he is still hap- in Atlanta, Georgia. He a son, Aaron, March pily married to his wife, Catherine Guthrie joins sister Roxane, 11, 12, 2000, in Mountain Judith, and they recently ’91 to James Bennett, and brother Leon, 26. View, California. They live in Santa Clara. To Henry Morrison Millstein ’70 and To Peter Liberman ’84 Rebecca Irelan, a and Sarah Soffer ’85, daughter, Kristen a daughter, Eve Soffer Rachel, May 21, 2000, Liberman, November in Santa Cruz, 20, at their home in California. New York City. She joins brother Sam, To James Emery ’78 now nearly three. and Alison Rumsey, Catherine Guthrie ’91 weds James Bennett their third child, a son,

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To Karen Belsey ’85 To Debra and Michael To Mary Wells Pope Empty Shells: The Story and Kevin Hillery, their Mercy ’87, triplets, ’93 and Bryce Gartrell of Petaluma, America’s first child, Amelia Cameron Alex, Paige ’93, a son, Samuel Chicken City by Thea Belsey Hillery, August, Leigh, and Blake Rhys, Starling, September 3, Snyder Lowry ’53 was in Portland. November 25, in Boise, in Salinas, California. published in December Idaho. Cameron died 2000 by Manifold Press. To Margaret Limm shortly after birth, but To Jennifer The book describes a ’85 and Dana Bartone, the other two children Rasmussen ’93 and century of successful a son, Xander Lee are thriving. Aaron Feves ’94, a son, family farming from Bartone, November Cameron Tyler, August 1860 to 1960 and has 1998, in Houlton, Maine. To Karen Maxfield 19, in Los Angeles. a foreword by her Starin ’88 and brother, Gary Snyder To Cathy Baker ’86 Nicholas Starin, their To Ethan Ladd ’94 ’51. She lives in Novato, and Rich Feldman, a first child, a daughter, and Johannah Raney California. daughter, Anna Abigail, Sabrina Helen, June 1, ’95, a son, Jude Djiril December 24, 1999, 2000, in Portland. Haven, March 2, in Cam- The Christmas Gift in Seattle. bridge, Massachusetts. by Jeanne Savery To Russell Fraker ’89 Casstevens ’60 was To Ginger Dowling and Daniela Barbosa, To Govinddass published by Zebra Miller ’86 and a son, Daniel, May 4, Goleman ’95 and Books, 2000. She Lawrence Miller ’87, 2000, in Baltimore. He Erica Lutz Goleman writes under the name a son, Wesley Thayer, joins brother Mark, 2. ’97, a daughter, Lila Jeanne Savery. January 20, in Randolf, Francesca, December Vermont. Four-year-old To Peter Goodman 29. She joins sister Zell. John Friedman ’60 sister Sarah is reportedly ’89 and Bettina co-wrote two new “more or less thrilled.” Adelberger ’89, a To Heidi Marcus ’97 works in 2000 with his daughter, Leah Simon and Jason Blamires, wife, Kristen Figg: To Colin Smith ’86 Goodman, March 20, their first child, a son, Trade, Travel, and and Ingrid Ghattas 1999, in Annapolis, Harrison Marcus Exploration: An ’88, their second child, Maryland. They live Blamires, November Encyclopedia, Garland daughter Celine, March in Washington, D.C. 10, in Boise, Idaho. Publishing Company, 26, 2000, in Berlin, Despite arriving five and The Princess with Germany. She joins To Jennifer Guyer- weeks early, Harrison the Golden Hair: Letters sister Adriana. Rojo ’89 and Mariano weighed in at nearly of Elizabeth Waugh Rojo, a daughter, Sasha seven pounds. to Edmund Wilson Claia Bryja ’87 and Marie, September 16, in 1933–1942, Fairleigh Rich Sposato announced Los Angeles, California. REEDIANA Dickinson University their adoption of Melissa Press in collaboration Madha Sposato, who To Keiko and David A new memoir by with Associated was born April 12, 2000, Kornhauser ’90, Violet Kochendoerfer University Press. in Calcutta, India, and their first child, a ’41, Growing up in Two other works by arrived at their home daughter, Clara Minnesota, was pub- Friedman were reprint- on October 22. They live Yurika, November 25, lished last year by ed in 2000 by Syracuse in Springfield, Missouri. in Washington D.C. the Winona County University Press: The Photos and vital statis- Historical Society, Monstrous Races in To Lorenzo Cohen ’87 tics are available at Minnesota. She is the Medieval Art and and Alison Jeffries, http://homepage.mac. author of several other Thought, and Orpheus their second child, a com/keimi. historical works based in the Middle Ages, both son, Luca Jeffries Cohen, on her life. She lives originally published January 14, in Houston, To Anne and Oliver in Duluth. in 1970 by Harvard Texas. Hs joins brother Laeyendecker ’90, University Press. He Allesandro, 2. a daughter, Sophia, Tattoo History Source is professor of English August 4, in Baltimore. Book by Steve Gilbert emeritus, University To Anne Laufe ’87 ’52 was published of Illinois, and lives and Mark McCarthy, To Tracy Poe ’91 by Juno Books in in Leetonia, Ohio. their second child, a and Peter Frankel, a January. He works son, Samuel Laufe son, Joseph Albert, as a tattoo artist at A new book by Barry McCarthy, September June 5, 2000, in Lake Abstract Arts Tattoo, Hansen ’63, Rhino’s 11, in Portland. Forest, Illinois. To ronto, Ontario. Cruise Through the

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Blues, was published Becker-Shaffer’s History, Classics, and Rosenthal ’96, in 2000 by Miller Diagnosis and Therapy Archaeology, which appeared in February. Freeman Books. The of the Glaucomas, supports teaching and The review presents book explores the histo- 7th edition, was pub- learning in United new poetry by ry of the blues from lished in April 1999 Kingdom universities. Americans and new classic delta to Chicago by Mosby-Year Book translations of poets electric and features a Press. He lives in San Motiba’s Tattoos: A from around the world. foreword by B.B. King. Francisco, where he Granddaughter’s Journey She is the poetry buyer Hansen, better known is clinical professor into her Indian Family’s for City Lights Bookstore as Dr. Demento, has of ophthalmology Past by Mira Kamdar in San Francisco. also written numerous at the University ’80 was published by liner notes and con- of California– Public Affairs Books in IN MEMORIAM tributed two chapters San Francisco. September. She lives in to The Rolling Stone Vancouver, Washington. Lennart “Ole” Benson Illustrated History of Matthew Kangas ’71 ’31, September 28, in Rock and Roll. published two books in Martha Nichols ’80 Portland. He attended 2000: Jim Leedy: Artist published a number of Reed in 1927–28 and Three Conversations Across Boundaries and articles in 2000, includ- later attended the About Knowing by Ryoji Koie, both pub- ing “Home is Where the University of Oregon. Jay Rosenberg ’63, lished by University Dirt Is” in the Women’s He was a public a work he calls his “first of Washington Press. Review of Books, June accountant for more Platonic dialogue,” was He traveled to Osaka, 2000; “Charter School: than 50 years. He was published by Hackett Japan, for the publica- CBOs Risky Pot o’ Gold” a member of the in 2000. He is seeking tion of Ryoji Koie. in Youth Today, June Masons and a Shriner a publisher for a “schol- 2000; and “A Package who volunteered as a arly main course manu- John Hedtke ’77 had Deal” in Utne Reader, guide at the Shriner’s script.” He is the Taylor several books released December 2000. Hospital for Crippled Grandy professor of in 2000, including Children. Survivors philosophy at the Peachtree Made Easy Priceless Markets: The include his second wife, University of South and MP3 for Musicians. Political Economy of a son, a daughter, two Carolina–Chapel Hill. He lives in Seattle. Credit in Paris, 1660–1870, stepdaughters, seven co-written by Jean- grandchildren, and Elsa Warnick ’64 has “The Costs of Delayed Laurent Rosenthal one great-grandchild. illustrated two new chil- Emergency Response” ’84, was recently dren’s books recently: by William Nicholson released by the Franklin Evenson Song for the Whooping ’78 appeared in Fire University of Chicago ’34, November 3, in Crane and Summerbath, Engineering in 2000. Press. He is professor Milwaukie, Oregon. He Winterbath, both by A second article, of economics at UCLA. attended Reed for two Eileen Spinelli and “Delayed Response years and then trans- published by Wm. B. or Failure to Locate a An interview of poet ferred to the University Eerdmans. She lives Patient,” also appeared Gary Snyder ’51 by of Oregon, graduating in Portland. in December, in EMS David Lukas ’93 was in 1936. He taught high Best Practices. He is published in the winter school English in Writing Across the general counsel to the 2000 issue of California Eastern Oregon for five Chemistry Curriculum: Indiana State Emergen- Wild. He published years before enrolling An Instructor’s cy Management Agency. two nature guides last in the Church Divinity Handbook by Jeffrey year: Watchable Birds School of the Pacific Kovac ’70 and Donna The Church in an Age of Great Basin and Wild in Berkeley, California. Sherwood was pub- of Danger: Parsons and Birds of California. He He was ordained in the lished by Prentice Hall Parishioners, 1660–1740 is currently revising Episcopal Church in in January. He is on by Donald Spaeth ’78 another guide, Sierra 1944 and served in the faculty of the was published by Nevada Natural History, several churches before department of chem- Cambridge Press in and working on two becoming rector at istry, University of 2000. He teaches histo- other books. St. John’s Church in Tennessee–Knoxville. ry and computing at Milwaukie, Oregon, in Glasgow University The inaugural issue of 1955. He spent 20 years A textbook on glaucoma and since January 2000 the new poetry review in the church’s depart- co-written by Marc has been director of from City Lights, Lyric, ment of Christian edu- Lieberman ’70, the Subject Centre for edited by Mira cation, retiring in 1977,

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and he served as inter- helped Goodwill grow Laboratories in Seattle. During this time, she im rector for several and achieve its mission. In 1959 he joined the was also a homemaker, churches in the Oregon He also enjoyed travel Rand Corporation in raising their six chil- diocese until 1990. In and golf. He is survived Santa Monica, California, dren. They retired to retirement, he and his by his wife, sons, six as a physical scientist Palo Alto in 1986, where wife traveled extensive- grandchildren, and six and served there in sev- she volunteered at the ly in Europe, China, great-grandchildren. eral capacities until Palo Alto Art Center Japan, and the U.S. His 1963, when he retired and was active in the other interests included Ruth Simmonds due to illness. He American Association singing, stamp collect- Tunturi ’39, December enjoyed black and of University Women. ing, art, and natural 25, in Portland. She white photography and Survivors include her history. He was a past attended Reed for one camping. Survivors husband, three sons, board member of the year and later attended include his former wife, three daughters, a Asian Art Council of the Marylhurst College. a daughter, a son, and brother, a sister, and Portland Art Museum From 1939 to the a brother. 12 grandchildren. The and was active in the mid 1950s she was a family suggests remem- Reed College Foster- reporter and editor of Joyce Stevenson Pyle brances to Reed College. Scholz Club. Survivors the women’s page for ’44, January 2000, in include a daughter, a the Oregon Journal. She Bellingham, Washington. Rose Neusihin Cooper son, a sister, and two later worked as a per- She earned a master’s ’47, October 11, in San grandchildren. His wife sonnel counselor with degree in library sci- Mateo, California. She died in 1997. Commercial Industrial ence at Columbia attended Reed for two Personnel Service, University in 1945 and years and transferred Edward Leigh ’38, retiring in 1970. She worked at the library of to the University of December 20, in San married Archie Tunturi Wellesley College for Washington, graduating Diego, California. ’39 in 1948. She was a three years. In 1948 she in 1947. She married Shortly after graduating volunteer counselor for accepted a position with Max Cooper in 1947 and from Reed he joined the the William Temple the library of the Uni- raised two children; the Carnation Company, House in Portland for versity of California– couple later divorced. where he was employed almost 30 years and was Berkeley as assistant She worked for for 44 years. His first a member of St. Mark’s head of the loan depart- Multnomah County, job, in Waverly, Iowa, Anglican Church, ment, and in 1970 she Oregon, as a medical involved crawling into where she edited the became head of techni- social worker in the large milk vats and church newsletter from cal services at the new early 1960s. In 1967 scrubbing them. As he 1962 to 1995. She was Hayward College Library. she earned a master’s advanced in the compa- a former member of She retired in 1980, and degree in social work ny, he was assigned to the board of the Oregon she and her husband, from Portland State 10 different locations Symphony and also Robert, later moved University and moved across the U.S. during served on the Reed to her hometown of to San Mateo, California, the first 10 years of his Women’s Committee. Bellingham, Washington. that same year. She was employment. In 1949 Her husband died in Her husband died in a clinical social worker he was assigned to 1990, and there are no 1992, and there are for San Mateo and Carnation’s world head- immediate survivors. no known survivors. Santa Clara counties quarters in Los Angeles, in California until retir- where he continued to Philip Goldberg ’44, June Herzog Wendel ing in 1986. Survivors work until retiring in November 24, in Salem, ’45, December 7, in include a son, a daugh- 1983 as CEO of the can Oregon. He earned a Palo Alto, California. ter, a sister, and two division. He married master’s degree in After graduation, she grandchildren. Florence Nisbett in physics from the Uni- married James Wendel 1940 and they had three versity of California– ’43 and in 1955 they Robert Parker ’48, sons. In retirement he Berkeley in 1947 and moved to Ann Arbor, February 5, in Portland. devoted considerable a Ph.D. in physics from Michigan, when he He earned a master’s time and energy to UCLA in 1953. He joined the faculty of the degree in economics serving on the board of taught physics at the University of Michigan. from the University Goodwill Industries of University of Oregon In Ann Arbor she of Washington in 1950. Southern California. He before becoming head founded and co-owned From 1950 to 1959 became chairman of the of the geo-astrophysics the Wild Weft, a weav- he worked for the board, headed numer- laboratory at Boeing ing shop, and she was Bonneville Power ous committees, and Scientific Research active in the arts there. Administration, Kaiser

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Aluminum, and Boeing California. Most of Aircraft Company in his career was spent Seattle. He returned working as a family to Reed in 1959 to serve practitioner and anes- as director of alumni thesiologist, and he relations, and in 1963 was one of the first was appointed director physicians to write and of campus facilities, pass the family practice supervising an exten- boards. His outside sive building program interests included fly that was under way. fishing, woodworking, In 1966 he became and leatherwork. He is assistant coordinator survived by his wife, two of the urban planning daughters, a son, and assistance program at four grandchildren. the University of Oregon, and in 1971 Kenneth Neiland ’50, he joined the Center January 15, 2000, in of Oregon for Research Redmond, Oregon. He on Behavior of Edu- earned a master’s degree cationally Handicapped, from UCLA and worked where he supervised on a doctorate there. programs for children In 1961 he was hired by and adults with learning the new state of Alaska disabilities. He joined as a wildlife researcher the Reed College staff for the department of again in 1975, when he fish and game. He was was appointed director a specialist in wildlife of administrative ser- diseases and parasites Don Berry ’51 vices. He retired in the and often worked from early 1980s but contin- field camps with his wife, firearms. He also played explorer Eldridge Trask; it ued to be involved in Bonita, who had a doc- the piano, composed blends historical research Reed activities through torate in plant ecology. music, and collected with Berry’s interest in the alumni association. They lived in Fairbanks books and stamps. Eastern philosophy. The Survivors include his from the 1960s until Survivors include his book won a Library Guild wife and a daughter. their retirement in the wife and a sister. Award and is still consid- late 1980s, when they ered to be among the Ronald L. Scott moved to Sisters, Don Berry ’51, finest novels written by ’49, December, in Oregon. He was recog- February 20, in Seattle, an Oregon author. In 1962 California. After gradua- nized for his research of complications from he published Moontrap, tion he earned an M.D. and many publications emphysema. He was a which won a Golden Spur from Washington on northern wildlife, writer who published award for best Western University, St. Louis, and he contributed to a three historical novels novel and was nominated in 1952 and completed number of national and set in the Oregon for a National Book a residency at the international wildlife Territory and in recent Award. His third pub- Sonoma County disease conferences. He years had published lished novel, To B u ild A Hospital in Santa Rosa, was among the first numerous writings on Ship, appeared in 1963 California. He married Alaska scientists to col- his own website. He and was based on a diary Elizabeth Bruce ’50 laborate with Russian attended Reed from 1949 written by pioneer in the Reed chapel in colleagues during the to 1951, where he was Warren Vaughn. He also 1947. They moved to thawing of the cold war, inspired by Reed profes- published a history of Sonoma in 1956, where and he made several sor Lloyd Reynolds and the Rocky Mountain Fur he had a medical part- research trips to Siberia. developed close relation- Company, A Majority of nership for four years. He was an outdoor ships with Gary Snyder Scoundrels, in 1961, and a From 1960 until his enthusiast who enjoyed ’51, Lew Welch ’51, and history book for children, retirement he was hunting, fishing, and Philip Whalen ’51. His The Mountain Men, in associated with Kaiser camping, and he first novel, Trask, pub- 1966. He later worked on Permanente in Napa, designed and crafted lished in 1960, is the a series of documentary Vallejo, and Fairfield, both fishing poles and story of Northwest films. He became fasci-

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nated early on with com- D.C., chapter of the Monastery since 1938. James “Jamie” Warren puters and the possibili- Reed College alumni She taught in parochial MacCalman ’78, of can- ties of the internet, and association. schools for 24 years cer, December 21, at his he developed a website before earning her MAT home in Seattle. After as a means to share his Wesley Dix ’54, of at Reed. As an outcome graduating from Reed he writings. The site, www. leukemia, December 12, of studying calligraphy earned a master’s degree speakeasy.org/berry, in Largo, Florida. No under Lloyd Reynolds, in mathematics from the known as Berryworks, information is available she became a master University of Virginia has contained a full about his life after calligrapher and taught in 1982. He pursued a length novel, short sto- graduating from Reed. calligraphy at communi- career in software devel- ries, essays, and artwork, ty colleges in Oregon. opment and in 1991 and included a system Murray Adelman ’58, Her work was shown in took a job with Hanzon of links to other web in October, as a result college art galleries, and Data Inc. in Bothell, sites that he called the of a fall while vacation- she wrote and published Washington, as a senior “Dombri Maze.” He once ing in Spain. After a series of calligraphy software engineer. In wrote of the internet, graduating from Reed, texts for elementary 1992 he began working “It has always been my he earned a master’s teachers and an instruc- for Microsoft, where dream to write exactly degree in Soviet region- tion book for adults. She he was a software design what I want to write and al studies from Harvard. was a member of the engineer until his retire- give it away to anybody He also pursued a Ph.D. American Association ment in 1999. He mar- who wants it. Cyberspace in political science at of University Professors, ried Carolyn Eastman makes that possible. . . . Stanford University. the Society of Italic in 1994. In addition to Cyberspace is the From 1962 to 1963 he Handwriting, Capital his wife, he is survived unknown, and it is chaos, was a lecturer at the Calligraphers, and by twin daughters, a and that is where I am University of Puerto the Western Italic stepson, his father and truly happy.” Although in Rico, Mayaguez, and in Association. She also stepmother, a sister, poor health in the last 1967 he was appointed enjoyed raising and a stepsister, two step- few years, he continued assistant professor of breeding cats. She is brothers, and extended to maintain the website political science at survived by a sister. family members. and to write until very Michigan State Univer- recently. Survivors sity in East Lansing. He include two sons and a relocated to California daughter. A memorial in the 1970s, and in service was held on the early 1980s owned March 10 in the Reed a business called College chapel. HomeSilk. In 1983 he earned an M.B.A. in THE FOLLOWING DEATHS Marshall Kolin ’51, finance and manage- WERE REPORTED AS WE January 4, of a massive ment from California WENT TO PRESS: heart attack while State University– traveling on business. Northridge. He was the Kenneth G. McGill ’30 He earned a master’s legislative coordinator Victor Hugo Todd ’33 in economics from the for the Los Angeles Charlotte Odgers Hall ’43 University of Chicago water executive office Kenneth A. Katten ’43 in 1953 and a Ph.D. in in the department of Louis Paul Varga ’48 1965. He taught econom- water and power at the Joyce Evans Mowry '52 ics at Chicago University, time of his retirement Amy Levinson ’54 Columbia, Harvard, in 1998. He traveled Phillip K. Murthe ’55 and NYU before joining extensively after retir- Vance E. Senter ’55 the U.S. Postal Service ing and also worked for Herbert G. Wilcox ’57 as an econometrician, the 2000 census. No Jay Grove ’80 where he remained information is available Kevin Buckley ’81 until his death. He mar- about his survivors. Rachel Susan Beimler ’99 ried Dee Ann Holisky Douglas Harden ’99 in 1976 and they lived Sister Grace Taylor ’68 in Arlington, Virginia, MAT, December 28, in and had a daughter, Mt. Angel, Oregon. She Geurina. He was active had been a Benedictine in the Washington, sister at Mt. Angel

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of Business Week, the Wall Street hundreds to the hospital. I would evidence of such. My suspicions Journal, and other corporate “free like to think that human develop- are raised even further when trade” apologists—not grassroots ment is at the heart of the WTO/ neoliberal technocrats resort to activist reality. World Bank/IMF’s global agenda, making decisions for the entire In case anyone is curious but I have yet to see any compelling planet in secret and under guard. about the real educational fallout of the World Bank/IMF policies in the developing world, CANYON DAY FORGES FRIENDSHIP let me offer the case study of Zimbabwe—though the same could be said about any country now facing onerous “cost recov- ery” demands for provision of essential social services. Under the 1990 World Bank/IMF economic structural adjustment program, Zimbabwe was forced to reinstate fees for previously free public schooling. This meant a 20 percent decline in female elementary school enroll- ment almost overnight, as poor families were forced to choose which child (most often male) would go to school. Since mini- mum wage legislation and union organizing rights were also In the fall of 1944 Reed students (r-l) Doreen Henricke Meussdorffer ’47, undermined (leading to a 60 Mary Jarvie Gourley ’46, Gail-Marie Bergheim Shearer ’47, Karen Vedvei percent decline in real income), Atiyeh ’47, Lore Caro Labby ’47, and Jean Ainslie Kalahan ’47 gathered desperate parents were com- for a Canyon Day cleanup. Mary wasn’t prepared to work, hence her pelled to send their dropout skirt and jacket, but agreed to a friend’s request to pose while he snapped daughters into the labor pool— the photo of them. The six were friends who had grown up in Portland mostly as migrant farm laborers, and who were among a population of “day-dodgers,” those students who sweatshop workers, and prosti- commuted daily to Reed from home. These women became friends at tutes. The latter “survival strate- Reed and have stayed friends for more than half a century. Four have gy,” of course, fueled Zimbabwe’s remained in the Portland area, and, without exception, all have lived current HIV/AIDS pandemic. fully. All but Shearer returned to Reed this past fall to recreate their Undeterred, in 1998 the 1944 photo. They say that their friendship has kept Reed a focal point World Bank/IMF went on to and enlarged their lives overall. It can be said that what one does for propose privatizing portions of the world at large is more often circumstantial than deliberate. But what Zimbabwe’s higher educational one does for and with others often has vast and unpredictable results. system (while cutting financial aid), in lockstep with the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). I will never for- get watching the Zimbabwean minister of education, clearly dumbfounded, appearing on national television to declare that education was no longer a right, just a “privilege.” A student walkout ensued, and the military shut down the university. At one peaceful rally I attended on March 9, riot police (trained and armed in part by the U.S.) went berserk, attacking students and their supporters, sending

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LUCINDA PARKER: A PAINTER OF EXUBERANCE

By Nadine Fiedler ’89

When the Portland Art Museum recently finished its unprecedent- ed expansion, it unveiled a new gallery of Northwest art. Pro- minent among their collection are works by Lucinda Parker ’66. “Lucinda is one of the region’s most important visual artists, with an evolving style and con- sistent vision,” wrote Willamette Week in February 2001. Parker is an exuberant painter whose colorful abstract works are immediately recognizable and whose paintings have been incor- porated into many public sites in the region. She is represented in Seattle by the Linda Hodges Gallery, which presented a solo show of her work in February. Parker’s work was also chosen for the Portland Art Museum’s 2001 Oregon Biennial, a presti- gious exhibition that focuses on a small number of artists who represent the current important movements and the state of art Lucinda Parker in her studio, January 2001. Large painting in background, in Oregon. Her artwork has been Ledge & Swamp (acrylic on canvas), measures 12' x 5'. in several biennials, a testament Photo by Jim Lommasson. to her importance to the state’s show’s catalogue that “She is an of Art, where she received a art community. abstract artist who is as com- dual degree with Reed (PNCA The museum held a mid- fortable discussing the content was then called the Museum career retrospective of Parker’s of her work as its formal quali- Art School). “The first two works in 1995. Art critic Randy ties; a painter who loves the years of my education at Reed Gragg wrote in the Oregonian act of painting and the lush were priceless,” she said. “I that she is “peerless in her glee physicality of her medium, yet look back on my experience for what she does, in her catholic calculates the effect of each with Lloyd Reynolds as my fascination with the visual world, individual stroke. . . . Parker’s adviser as being quite special.” and in the steel will of her focus. formidable intellect and fund She later earned an M.F.A. . . . Though movies are now our of knowledge about such from the Pratt Institute. grandest cultural expression, she diverse subjects as architec- To v i ew Parker’s painting still strives to make painting a ture, botany, music, poetry, Avid Diva, visit http://www. big event, fusing the macho per- and a host of other topics pam. org/museum%20plaza/ formance of making capital-A invariably find their way into collections/listing/nortwest Art with intimate, feminist her work, through the use of %20art/listing/listing.html. psychological symbolism.” titles, symbols, or both.” Other images of her work are on Prudence Roberts MALS ’98, Parker is an associate profes- the Linda Hodges Gallery site at formerly the curator of American sor in painting and drawing at http://www.lindahodgesgallery. art at the museum, wrote in the the Pacific Northwest College com/artists/parker.html.r

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