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THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND PEOPLE AND IDEAS FOR SPRING 2016 -_____ •— k ' riT*~T'Ji- MM. sPr'ng 2016 arches

: t. ■ . mm r As our 13th president gets ready to depart on June 30

we ask a few people to tell Ron Thom stories

A farewell

A place called home

MIKE VESETH '72

There’s a poster that you might have seen around campus. At first glance it appears to be one of those Barack Obama “Hope” posters that the artist Shepard Fairey created back in 2008. (One of the early versions of that poster is now in the National Portrait Gallery collection.) But on closer inspection this one is different. The subject is a different president—Ron Thomas— and the tagline is different, too: “Home.” The poster pays tribute to a speech President Thomas makes at the fall Convocation cere­ mony for first-year students and their families. The freshman orientation schedule is always packed, and the atmosphere is very intense and emotional, so you might not expect anyone to actually remember anything in particular about that speech or any other speech. Do you, for example, remember much of the substance of your high school or college commencement

8 arches spring 2016 speakers’ talks? If you are honest, you might have noticed over the years is that Puget Sound steam and grew in strength and contribution. even struggle to remember the speakers’ names. presidents pick up something of the feeling The committee and all who met him were grav­ But the “Home” talk is different. I used of their new home and give something back. itating toward Ron as the choice for the next to teach a first-year seminar class called The Slowly and in various ways the campus shapes president of the University of Puget Sound. Beautiful Game, and there was a point in our itself to and around the character of its leaders. And then we met Mary—and as the saying discussions where it made sense for me to ask This can be a good thing or not, but it is part goes, that clinched the deal! As impressive as the students what if anything they remembered of how home works, I guess. Ron was, with Mary by his side, he shone all the about the “Home” speech. To my great surprise And so the campus has acquired some of brighter, spoke all the better, and the two were they could recall everything about it vividly, that same intense focus, sincere interest, and an engagement powerhouse with every person including, in recent years, the count of how unquenchable thirst for answers. That’s a good who was fortunate enough to meet either or many times the word “home” was used. thing for a liberal arts college, don’t you think? both of them. Why was the simple message that instead It was always here, of course, but Ron and During his 13 years as president of Puget of leaving home these first-year students were Marys attention has strengthened the force. Sound, I have had the good fortune to work all really coming home so powerful and endur­ Students sometimes struggle a bit to deal with Ron professionally as his board chair, past ing? I think it was the genius of Ron Thomas with the flood of emotions that run through chair, and now board member. His fingerprints to understand that upon entering college our them at Commencement, and I suspect that are on all aspects of the institution; they are students become a little bit homeless in the Ron and Mary will feel the same way this May. lasting and omnipresent. From the inspiration sense that they are leaving family, friends, and It’s not just leaving friends and colleagues, it’s and potential he has kindled in thousands support networks behind. Facebook friends are leaving home. But on their last day on campus, of students, faculty, and staff, to the vision, great, and they follow you wherever you go, students and their families can draw strength funding, and building of the physical campus, but no one has ever called Facebook “home.” from the message they heard on their first day Ron is now embedded in the soul and DNA of The “Home” speech tells them not to worry. here. It’s home. It really is. You can leave home, Puget Sound. This is where you will make your home for the but it never leaves you. Yet it is his impact on our family and me as a next four years, and this will be a place to call friend and role model for which I am most grate­ home evermore. You can leave home, but it will Mike Vescth is professor emeritus of International ful. Thanks to the Thomases’ highly effective never leave you. Political Economy and a university trustee. recruiting skills, the next-gen Oppenheimers The content of that speech is what makes (both of our children) graduated from Puget it memorable, but the speaker is part of the Sound. John [’80] and I have spent countless equation, too. Over the years I have found that Friends, and more hours with Ron and Mary marveling at the people who have a chance to talk with Ron world (if only every would-be political leader Thomas tend to remember everything he said DEANNA WATSON OPPENHEIMER '80, could have mastered the civil discourse of the to them. Its the intensity and focus of the man, P'11, P'14 liberal arts), observing the gradual continental I think. When Ron talks with you he talks with drift of influence on Ron’s dress from East Coast you. But the arc of the conversation must have When I first met Ron it was during his initial to West Coast (most notably when I suggested something to do with it, too. Ron is always so interview with the Presidential Search Commit­ he lose the cufflinks as a newbie Northwest- interested and so curious. You start out wanting tee in 2002. He walked in and sat down, a bit erner), and laughing and learning on our to ask Ron a question and soon find the tables nervous (as evidenced by a slight shaking of the adventures together (when visiting the Tower of turned. Why? What? How? When? Who? paper he held), yet with a polish and gravitas London with him, Ron educated John and me Ron really wants to know the answer, what that commanded all corners of the room. Ron in the vagaries of English aristocracy). Together, you think, how you got there. It’s flattering, had been an acting president for a year, during Ron and Mary epitomize the best of friends. energizing, and occasionally unnerving. the very challenging time of 9/11 at a college In the true Scouting tradition, Ron Thomas When students and families hear that with many New York residents. So he was tested has left this Puget Sound campground, and all “Home” speech they are both listening to the but not honed as a president. who have and will continue to pass through words and sensing the person behind them. His confidence and engagement grew it, all the better for his time as our leader and Ron and Mary Thomas were themselves a little through that first interview, and we quickly friend. bit homeless when they came to Puget Sound saw we had a presidential candidate with at the start of Ron’s presidency, and now the potent potential. Like an engine, throughout Deanna Oppenheimer is a member and past chair place is their home, too. One of the things I his many visits and interviews, Ron picked up of the Puget Sound board of trustees.

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You can take the teacher out college for 35 years. In 2007 she was chosen by of the classroom, but the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as Washington State Professor of the Year. NANCY BRISTOW

Aware of my research interests, Ron shared with The prez as host me that he had traveled to Chicago to the funeral of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969. So a college president spends a lot of time keep­ When I taught my course on the history of the ing the place running and representing the school United States in the 1960s, I asked if Ron would on boards and commissions and inspiring us all consider visiting and sharing that experience, and to do our best work, but the job also requires any others he might be willing to offer. Of course that the boss do a lot of entertaining at home. he said, “Yes!” Ron could have taken the easy Between fireside dinners with students, and rout< -shown up, said a few words, answered a receptions for campus and community groups, few questions—and easily won my students’, and and dinners for visiting lecturers and perform­ my own, deep gratitude. But this is not the Ron ers, Ron has acquired a reputation for being Thomas we all know. Instead, Ron did die pains­ an exceptionally attentive host—not exactly a taking work of preparing a remarkable presenta­ foodie but for sure a guy who cares about good tion of images from the 1960s that he used to tell eating and setting a gracious table. the class about the 1960s he saw. My students Observations by Brian Sullivan, university were spellbound, so engaged by this opportu­ executive chef: nity to talk with someone who remembered the He likes his meat rare and his fish just barely history they had been studying. It was clear that cooked. You’re never going to get blue cheese or Ron’s presentation deepened their understanding goat cheese at the president’s house. He’s not of the period and allowed them to see anew the fond of berries in salads. He loves Washington young people of that decade through a more wines, and Burgundies. He always samples the empathetic lens. But this was only one small hors d’oeuvres before the guests arrive, and he part of what that day meant to them, and to me, sneaks back into the kitchen to taste-test before for Ron also told us about the Ronald Thomas the main meal goes out. Before die dinner begins the 1960s saw. Put simply, he shared of himself, he asks the chef to explain to guests about the telling us about what that decade had meant to meal’s ingredients and how it was prepared. He him, about his experiences of both the traumas has a weakness for freshly baked macadamia nut and the triumphs it contained. He told us sto­ cookies and homemade ice cream; in fact Dining ries that made us laugh, that made us shake our Services bought an ice cream-making machine heads, and that made us reckon with the terrible just for him. losses the decade included. In doing so, he made the past come alive. By putting himself in those stories, allowing us to know him in a new, and Dylan very personal, way, he instilled in my students a sense that they mattered. The president of their LIZ COLLINS '81 university had made the time to come and visit with them, and then had come to them not as Once, when I first started working with Ron, their president, but as a human being, willing to over lunch I think it was, I mentioned that I share of himself. The power of those moments thought Bob Dylan was way overrated. will surely stay with my students forever. I know I stand corrected. it will with me. Liz Collins is board of trustees secretary and director Nancy Bristow has been teaching history at the of the Office of the President.

10 arches spring 2016 A conversation in the garage Thomas, who is a Springsteen nut and an old them collectively. But I can say with an editors surfer and the man Mary Thomas said yes to rude honesty, here at the end of the page, that BETTY POPENUCK '14 when he proposed marriage, let alone being only one among them is such an able essayist, a noted professor and scholar and very fine That would be the estimable Ronald R. Thomas, In the first few weeks of my freshman year I president of a very fine university. But, with worked on the recycling crew on campus, and total respect for these things, I admire him Brian Doyle is the editor of Pordand magazine one of our pickup locations was the presidents particularly for his essays. at the University of Portland and the author of garage. One rainy October day, while carrying They have both range and detail. They are many books, among them most recently the novel an armload of glass to the cart, a wine bottle personal without ever being self-indulgent and Chicago, fell through my arms and shattered all over the self-absorbed and self-reverential. They are floor. I was frantically picking up the glass, piece often wryly funny. They reveal an unabashedly by piece with my bare hands, when the garage eagerly curious mind. They are written with Called On the Carpet door opened, and President Thomas himself grace and cadence and conversational rhythm. appeared. After I nervously explained why 1 They always say something deeply about the BRUCE MANN was crouched in his garage surrounded by a pile University of Puget Sound without hardly ------of glass, President Thomas stepped inside and ever using those five words. They are about I think my first encounter with Ron and Mary returned with a broom and dustpan. He started what the university is about under its halls and was at a charity auction, soon after Ron took sweeping the garage floor, casually talking about walls and trails and trees. They arc about the office. A small Persian carpet came up on the how the leaves blow in during the fall and how dogged search for humility and wisdom and block. My wife and I liked it and wanted it. We excited he was for the football team’s first home grace and creativity amid the thrash of loss didn’t think anyone else would be interested. So game of the season. and pain and violence. They are about insisting we opened the bidding—nice low offer. A few on community and service and inquiry in a odier bids pushed ours up. We kept bidding, Betty Popenuck is an assistant in the Office of Cor­ national culture that often seems addicted to but still one person on the other side of the porate and Foundation Relations at Puget Sound. greed and arrogance. They do not lecture, nor room kept raising our offer. 1 was annoyed and do they inflict sermon and homily. Often they took a look to see whose paddle was interfering brilliantly allow one story to carry many stories with my efforts. There was Ron, smiling, bid- The best-writing college on its lean shoulders. Often the story is about ding higher. My wife said, “I think that is your president a University of Puget Sound person. Often he new boss. You best stop raising our paddle.” I let convinces me that the person he is telling me Ron and Mary “steal” our carpet that night—all BRIAN DOYLE about somehow is the university, is the product for a good cause. For years, whenever I went and the purpose of the place, is the throb of to the presidents house, that rug was right out Listen, I have been reading Letters from Univer­ innovative relentless energy that the university there for me to see. Ron would smile and tell sity Presidents in college and university alumni so much wishes to be. And often he convinces me what a good deal he got. magazines for 30 years now, in my capacity me, does Ronald Thomas, that perhaps no as editor at two university alumni magazines, university and no university president were ever Professor of Economics Bruce Mann retires this and I can tell you without the slightest fear of so lucky to find each other as the University year after 41 years at the college. contradiction that those letters are with few of Puget Sound and the man who has been its exceptions awful beyond imagination. They smiling president. are not personal and intimate and fervent and There are many excellent university presi­ Your job as president: honest and genuine and blunt and funny and dents in America, as I can attest; I have met one student's observations thoughtful and challenging and humble letters several of them and they are a remarkable spe­ from one human being to another. They have cies, tall handsome beings with sonorous voices IAN FOX ' 14 no wonder or prayer or fury or laughter or awe. and good shoes, men and women who do not ------Happily this is not the case with Ron sleep, riveting souls whose days are spent creat- Welcome incoming Loggers to their new Thomas, who is, in my view, a deft and able ing chances for lanky brilliant children to heal “home” too many times to count. (Just kidding, American essayist and has proved it in every this bruised and blessed world. There are many, We did count: You said the word “home” 61 issue of Arches for the last 13 years. Now, there and for all I tease them for their perfect hair times in 20 minutes.) In that speech tell them are many reasons to admire the estimable Ron and their orotund rhetoric, I respect and salute that you look forward to handing them their

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diplomas (true) on “whats sure to be a sunny The president lets loose Thank you, Ron day in May” (false). Chat with timid tea-drinkers during Diver- MARY THOMAS LYLE QUASIM '70 sions office hours no matter how hard they try ------to avoid your gaze. Ordinarily, Ron appears reserved. In control. As a scholar your brilliance has informed me. As Selfies with undergrads. So, so many selfies. Calm. Situations that might make me anxious the University of Puget Sound president your Guesr-Dj on as many KUPS shows as the or excited he greets with equanimity. He is the leadership has guided me. As a humanitarian station manager will allow. ultimate multitasker, but from his demeanor your moral compass has comforted me. Most Shake hands. Of people at ever}' kind of you’d never know the extent of the “tasking” he’s of all as a friend your grace and kindness have commission, confab, and cocktail party imagi- always batting around inside his head. Deadline embraced me. nable. Of teary graduates, steps away from for writing an Arches column approaching? In the unknown abyss. And of that prospective he goes to his study and out he comes with a Lyle Quasim is a Puget Sound trustee. He is an student’s eager parent who, knowing full well draft of a dream of an idea. Board of trustees Air Force veteran; among many public service that you don’t work in Admission, insists that presentation to prepare? Tap, tap, tap on the positions he was secretary of the Washington State my child would just be an exceptional fit here, computer, and there it is. Speech to give to Department of Social and Health Services, and don’t you think? alumni and parents? Inspiration arrives, and he is former president of Bates Technical College Host monthly “fireside dinners” in your an inspiring message emerges. (And forgive me in Tacoma. home for poor scholars and lost souls, though if I oversimplify: Each of these tasks usually is the eponymous blaze hardly made an appear- considered and revised over and over again.) ance. Like most Loggers, it must have been All of this while attending to the day-to-day Questions and challenges- seconds too late to get on the sign-up sheet. business of running Puget Sound. like a good friend Talk about Woodstock whenever possible. So is there ever a time when Ron lets the Insist that you had no hand whatsoever in calm give way? Of course. He likes a good bottle DARREL FROST '04 orchestrating the T-shirts and tanks, soon to sell of wine. He adores my spaghetti and meatballs, out, that exhibit simply a picture of your face We all know how much he loves Dylan and Think of President Thomas and you proba­ and the caption “HOME.” Springsteen. But does he ever really let loose? bly think of a smile. Maybe his enveloping Smile fondly at nothing in particular as Picture Ron in the presidents box at Baker handshake, maybe that laugh. It’s all of a piece you and Maty stroll hand in hand through the Stadium (the so-called “president’s box” being a anyway: You’re thinking of the joy he evinces President’s Woods, surely walking back and few seats distinguished only by their location up anytime there’s a game to be cheered, a student forth and back and forth just to confuse the high in the grandstand and the fact that they’re to be lauded, a faculty member to be treasured. cooped-up thesis writers in Collins Library. somewhat sheltered), watching a Loggers An editor looking at the occasional email I’ve Meet with young people one-on-one. Hear football game. A late-game touchdown to win. received from Ron over the years would cringe their stories and their hopes and their dreams. The roar of the crowd. And then a thunderous at what might seem like hyperbole, but the joy Then do anything within your power to help pounding of metal folding chairs on the ledges he expresses about Puget Sound is no exagger­ them realize their potential. of the “box.” Heads turn our way. Is everything ation. It’s real. Change lives. Be true. Care a lot. all right? It’s just Ron, going crazy, cheering (I like to imagine the humor editors of The Caught in the rush between classes, look the team on. Trail coming up with ways to roast President across Karlen Quad toward the grove of You can extrapolate from this: Billy Rathjc Thomas, one of them saying “Let’s Photoshop Douglas-fir behind your house, at the students T5 being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship; a him as a cheerleader,” and others responding, passing through the morning mist, and for a faculty member delivering the Regester Lecture; “Too obvious. ”) moment—just a moment—pause to savor your the finishing touches being put on the Center Since we all know the story of Ron’s joy, part in their climb, ever higher, to the heights. for Health Sciences, or Commencement Hall, though, let me share another: the time he spoke or the Athletics and Aquatics Center. The to me, shall we say, in italics. Ian Fox is a former Arches intern. He now works thunder is deafening. I was a senior then, involved in student at the Pew Charitable Trusts but says hes still got government, and possessed of some plan about his heart set on writing for NPR. Mary and Ron Thomas will celebrate their 25th how to improve alumni connections to the wedding anniversary this summer. university. President Thomas had agreed to meet with me about it, after I’d been turned

12 arches spring 2016 Alas, a farewell, too, to Mary administrative understanding from her role as cultural events. She is an enthusiastic reader, dean of students at Trinity College in Harford, from her beloved Greek classics to current CHRISTINE KLINE Conn., where she and Ron met. literature across cultures. Included in that While at Puget Sound, Mary has worked range is food writing, as Mary loves to cook. in multiple roles, all with skill, fluidity, and a Friends can testify to the magic of her risotto, Imaginea 13-year winning streak! Imagine two generosity approaching magic. She has opened the sublimity of her braises. Most Valuable Players on the same team! We her home to students, staff, faculty, trustees, The Thomases are singularly devoted to have had that miraculous good fortune at Puget and community guests, and to visiting scholars, their accomplished kitty, Coco. And Coco’s Sound with Ron and Mary Thomas. Mary has artists, activists from around the world. She intellectual development shows the influence of been most valuable in so many ways, contrib­ has been an active and eloquent representative Ron and Mary’s knowledge of culture and pro­ uting intelligence, skill, and insight to “Team of the university, prodigiously working in the tocol. Not only does Coco recognize holidays Thomas.” As affirmed early on by Ron: “Team arenas of alumni relations and fundraising. like Christmas, she also knows the protocol is a good way of describing our relationship. Mary’s contributions to the community of placing her “gifts” of toy mice under the We are quite different, and we complement have been extensive. During her 13 years in Christmas tree. each other so well. I couldn’t play in this league Tacoma, she has served on multiple boards, Friends await news of kitty feats on other without her.” including that of the Museum of Glass, at holidays. And we all await news of the further How true. Her contributions to Puget which she chaired the search committee for adventures of our two Most Valuable Players, Sound have been immense, fueled by love of the director of the museum; and the YWCA who have worked for Puget Sound in one of the this liberal arts institution and honed by her Pierce County, where she has been active in most successful team efforts ever. Thank you, own academic accomplishments in teaching, supporting programs for adults and children Mary, for your invaluable role on that team; we scholarship, and administration. Mary is a fleeing abuse. Mary has served also on the will long remember the magic of Mary. classics scholar, with her undergraduate degree boards of Northwest Sinfonietta, the Greater from Bryn Mawr, and master’s then doctorate in Tacoma Community Foundation, and the Chris Kline is dean emerita of the Puget Sound comparative literature from Princeton. In addi­ Tacoma Public Library Foundation. School of Education. For 11 years she and Mary tion to expertise from her subsequent university Marys personal interests also run broadly, Tljomas have been meeting weekly in the same teaching, she has brought institution-wide whether reading, cooking, dining, or attending book club.

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down politely by a few other staff members. (A G ratef UI look more like the bricks on the older campus generous description of me at that time might buildings. Why not make Commencement Walk have been “dogged” or, um, “tenacious.”) JILL NISHI '89 a winding path, he asked, weaving like a river ! The plan was so obvious, I explained to him between the great fir trees, rather than the parallel as we sat in Diversions Cafe, and so simple; if For me and many others Rons greatest legacy straight lines the architect recommended? Have the administration would just do what I was will be opening up this place to those of us who we considered combining the graduate clinical suggesting, alumni participation would triple, did not feel the full embrace of the campus corn- programs with the undergraduate programs in donations would skyrocket, and Bono would munity during our time as students, to those psych and exercise science? How about a neu- play at ever)' Reunion. (U2 was pretty big at forced to abrupdy leave as our country was at rosciencc program? Lets be sure you can sec the the time.) war, to Tacoma’s unsung heroes, and to those Logger logo in the tower of the new aquatics President Thomas raised a number of students yet to come who will be the first in center through the trees from Karlen Quad, thoughtful questions and pointed out some their families to earn a college degree. He made Sometimes he drops by Arches World Headquar­ glaring problems with my idea. Never one to this place—the University of Puget Sound—our ters when an issue is nearing completion to take a let logic interrupt a good monologue, however, university. And for that I am forever grateful. look at the wall where we display the page spreads. I plunged ahead. So after about 20 minutes of He might look at a photo and say something like lopsided back-and-forth, as I explained once Jill Nishi is director of strategy, planning, and “Hmm. Have you tried tighter cropping on that?” again how I’d already given him a perfect plan, management, and chief of staff— U.S. Program So we do, and danged if it isn’t better that way. Ron did what any good teacher would have at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Now, reading these examples and not know­ done. He interrupted me: “No, Darrel—you she is a Puget Sound trustee. ing Ron, one might suspect a wee tendency have not!” Firmly. Italicized. Just a few words, toward micromanaging. Thats completely not but enough to get me to stop talking. Enough the case. His observations are presented as obser­ to get me to listen to what he’d been saying RonThom Style vations—from a man who is always asking “What all along. if?” and we listen because, like I said, he’s got the Like the best leaders, like the best profes- CHUCK LUCE eye. And, especially, he’s got a way of making you sors—like the best friends—Ron questions want to ask “What if?” too. A way—because he and challenges as much as he inspires. He We all know that our boss, the New Jersey and is interested in helping you reach new realms of demands we stop and consider our path. He Chicago guy whose daily uniform is a nicely cut understanding—a way of making you want to try pushes us to look farther. I think it’s because Italian suit, hasn’t exactly embraced the personal something harder than you’ve ever tried, he wants our joy to be like his: not shallow fashion of the Pacific Northwest. I’m pretty sure In preparing this magazine for press I spent and uninformed, but born of deep inquiry I’ve never seen him in an REI quilted down vest quite a few hours over several days talking with and confident discovery. And thus, richer. He or Carhartt carpenters pants. Blue jeans on occa- Ron about our University of Puget Sound: what knows the greatness that comes from difficult sion? Sure. Flip-flops and cargo shorts in winter? he’ll remember, what regrets he might have, work. He wants us to see the beauty of new No. Which is cool because there’s a style to the what’s next for him. But he kept turning the vistas after a difficult climb. man that is totally him, and we Northwesterners conversation away from himself. He was much Perhaps that’s one reason he trumpets our admire a little distinction of character if not more interested in talking about the dynamics motto so often: “To the heights.” expressed too boastfully. of this special place for us all. “The tremendous “To the heights”—it’s a powerful idea. But But about that style. It goes way way beyond vitality, excitement, hope, drama, fear, passion,” when it comes from the mouth of President the Milanese sport coats. This is a president who he said. “That mysterious magical chemistry that Thomas, after 13 years at Puget Sound’s helm, sees. He’s got an artist’s instincts and a restless happens when amazing people make amazing it doesn’t feel like a command so much as an relentless eye for detail. For Ronald R. Thomas, things happen.” invitation to join him where he already is. perceptual nuance—and how it affects what we That wonder. That great imagining. Being think and feel, and how we function—matters, summoned by the future, not driven by the past. Darrel Frost was ASUPS president during the It is his style to want the best for this college and Creatinga reputation, not living up to it, he said. 2003-04 schoolyear He now is a creative con- its people, and his influence is everywhere. If the That, my friends, after everything, is Ron sultant living in New York City, and he is vice facade on Weyerhaeuser Hall looks more like Thom style, and we are going to miss it. president for communications on the Puget Sound its been there for 75 years than for just five it’s Alumni Council Executive Committee. because our prez wondered if there was anything Chuck Luce has been the editor of this magazine the contractor could do to make the brick pattern for the past 18years.

14 arches spring 2016 The Thomas years One of the first things President Thomas did after he took office in 2003 was work with the campus community to draft a 10-year strategic plan and a master plan for development of the physical campus. Ron would be the first to deflect credit for the accomplishments that rose from these plans, preferring instead that any distinction go to the hundreds of 20 items of note people who collaborated to make them happen. Which we applaud. But still, Boss, your administration gave us the vision, the encouragement, and the resources. A few highlights:

COLLEGES HANGE LIVES During the ONE |of a Kindi lit: wru Ml Ml Ci«NCf war rou fundraising campaign. ffi* b> . 4 l*lHt MOW’ COUIOII - 3 S Bin j'll i •. b i'Uin i LOREN POPE I «-r— mm okiii 0 scholarships Construction of Weyerhaeuser Puget Sound faculty are named HairT^Tnt^OcSupationa) are established, with Puget Sound is consistently In 2012, Puget Sound is chosen Washington State Professor ranked among the top 15 therapy, physical therapy-/ to appear in Colleges That of the Year by the Carnegie additions to 141 more. small colleges producing psychology, neuroscience, and Change Lives: 40 Schools That Foundation four times (2007- Peace Corps volunteers, tied exercise science are united in Will Change the Way You Think ID. Professors Bristow, Evans, for first in 2016. a single location. About Colleges. Veseth, and Fields ■f ; a Ari i. H In 2010, the college establishes its Office of Diversity _ Harned Hall construction and and Inclusion and Puget Sound is Endowed faculty chairs are Commencement Walk Thompson Hall renovation hires its first chief recognized as a created in neuroscience and (2011) With the removal of the (2006-08) Doubles the size of diversity officer. top-10 producer biophysics. New academic well-past-its-prime South Hall the college's science facilities of Fulbright Scholars and programs in biophysics, a winding stone walkway and The university's first and updates Thompson labs a top producer of graduates environmental policy and event lawn are built, connect­ and classroom facilities. The Diversity Strategic who go on to earn doctoral decision making, Latina/o ing the north and south ends Slater Museum of Natural Plan is approved. degrees. And it graduates studies, molecular and cellular of the campus. History gets a spiffy new home. its third Rhodes Scholar biology, and neuroscience. E Athletics and Aquatics Center (2015-16) In phases, Commencement Hall (2013). 28,493 Memorial Fieldhouse and donors contribute The college's 12th residence Pamplin Sports Center get a hall is composed of 11 smaller makeover and a 38.000-sq.-ft "houses" so that students live Wheelock Student Center $131.6 million addition, including a much- needed new swimming pool with others grouped by aca­ In 2015, Forbes names Puget addition and renovation to the ONE [of a Kind) for competition, instruction, demic theme—and have use Sound a top-20 most entrepre­ (2014-16). The SUB gets campaign for endowment, and rehabilita­ of a large event space, neurial college, and MSN's IT a two-story addition, with facilities, and annual tion therapies. classrooms, a screening room, Insider says Puget Sound is a additional seating for 160 support. and seminar rooms. Call it live top-20 college for getting a job and expanded space for the and learn. in the tech industry. kitchen and servery. E Partnering with the community: The college Puget Sound becomes helps create the Civic Engagement: Scholarship Initiative, Race The Alumni Council is formed, the Posse and Pedagogy Initiative. Sound The college commits to meet­ now with more than 1,600 Pugel Sound makes (lie Policy Institute, and Freedom Foundation's ing the full demonstrated volunteers. The Parent Council Kiplinger's Personal Finance Education Project Puget Sound. financial need of graduates is formed, now with nearly 500 2016 list of best-value private first partner in from the Tacoma Public volunteers. And 89 percent of liberal arts colleges Princeton Schools who enroll at Puget board of trustees members are Review lecoynizes Puget the Northwest. Sound. Puget Sound alumni or parents. Sound for its accessible faculty and beautiful campus From Ron

Homecoming and going

Somehow, for me, it was like coming home. In March, during a 32-hour layover in Seattle between trips to the Midwest and California, I came home—to the Key Arena. To hear Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play for about four of those 32 hours. I’ve made this rock ’n’ roll homecoming before, I don’t know how many times, across more than four decades. From a theater in Boston to a stadium in Chicago. From the streets of Philadelphia to the backroads of Kentucky. I lost track of exactly where and when and how many somewhere along the way. It was probably that sultry summer night in the late 1980s, when The Boss and band showed up unannounced and played a rousing set at the local Jersey Shore bar where he’d gotten his start way back when. Right there at the Stone Pony on the boardwalk on a night I just hap­ pened to have taken the 1,000-mile trek from Chicago to visit one of my favorite old haunts in my hometown. I always dreamed about that hunger of the heart. The desire Waiting for me there this time was van he might show up sometime when I was there, that surrounds the search for a real home: It Gogh. Right at home. In his bedroom. The but I never dared hope he would. Greetings draws us and it drives us away. It promises and curatorial staff had mounted an intriguing from Asbury Park, indeed. Heaven, it was. disappoints. It ties us to the ones we love and exhibition based around the painting the artist That’s a part of it. Bruce is a Jersey Shore breaks us apart from them. It’s a place to rest considered his best work—his rendering of the guy, like me. Tie E-Streets laconic bass player, and a scene of struggle. It’s the promised land simple bedroom in Arles where he lived during Garry Tallent, was a classmate of mine at Nep­ in which we always believe and can never quite the most prolific and tumultuous period of his tune High. So was Tie Boss’s original drummer, reach. You have to leave your front porch and life. Three paintings, actually, since he rendered “Mad Dog” Vini Lopez (nor laconic). But Tal­ travel down the thunder road to get there. And the same scene three times, all within one year, lent sat right in front of Thomas. So close, then. its a risky ride. This exhibition is the first time all three have Before Bruce became Tie Boss he even played 1 called Chicago home from 1982 to 1990. been together in one place, each now calling the occasional junior prom in our school gym. Sweet home Chicago. It’s where my career as home either Paris, Amsterdam, or Chicago, But his melodies, his lyrics, his spirit, his soul, an academic began. It all came back to me last You’ve seen the painting, or one of them: his energy, they all come from the sands of my week when we visited the Windy City to host that simple, almost primitive rustic room with beach, the waves of my ocean, the dark, empty an alumni club gathering there, now at the end a bare wooden plank floor, a single bed adorned streets of my downtown: eloquent expressions of that career. It was an uncharacteristically with some sketchy paintings on the wall around of the dreams and longings of my imagination. balmy (for March) 60 degrees. Otherwise, it, two wicker-seated wooden chairs to the side, I know them. all so familiar. Soaring skyscrapers loomed a little table with a pitcher and bottles and a Springsteen is the poet laureate of my youth over burly brownstones. Big wide-shouldered vase on it, a yellow window, a blue door, a red and my adulthood. We grew up together. streets stretching out in a perfect grid from the coverlet and two sad sallow pillows on the bed, Tiose legendary marathon “concerts” that are infinitely flat plains in the west to the almost and some clothes hanging haphazardly on hooks his signature have always been way more than unreally brilliant aqua of that endless and beau- behind the arched headboard. A mirror, brilliant performances (and endurance tests) of tiful great lake to the east. A forest of Cubs hats, The case the exhibition makes is that this rock ’n’ roll. They are that. But they are also a White Sox hoodies, Blackhawks jerseys, and simple interior—in its three versions—is van sacred ritual, a spiritual experience, a religious Bulls tees dotted the streets. The savory scent of Gogh’s defining work. It embodies all his aspi- revival, an undying expression of infinite desire deep-dish pizza floated freely everywhere. And rations as an artist, as an intellect, as a human and unremitting commitment. If you’ve been a guy on Michigan Avenue played a perfectly being. That bedroom in the little yellow house there, you know. For me, they are also always cool jazz improv on the trumpet with his case he rented in Arles was the very heart of the home a homecoming. open at his feet. Coins tinkling and popping he always sought, the place to rest he forever On this Seattle night the band played some random percussion. longed for. The show opens with galleries con- “Hungry Heart” toward the beginning of The next morning the temp plunged. And taining scenes of houses painted by van Gogh’s what was at once a draining and exhilarating it even snowed on the day we left. That’s it, all predecessors and mentors (like Millais), side masterpiece that included (just for starters) a right: sweet home Chicago. by side with the artist’s own versions of similar nonstop performance of the entirety of “The And then there is the Art Institute. With domestic scenes. His many early drawings and River,” the double LP he debuted with a 1980 the possible exceptions of Wrigley Field and paintings of birds’ nests are there, as well as tour by that name—shows I attended several Regenstein Library, I spent more time at the Art the images he painted of simple, cozy country times in Chicago’s Roseland Arena back when Institute than any single place in those years. It houses and domestic objects that resemble those I first moved there and was trying to make that was a haven of refuge and a zone for relaxation, simple but ingeniously built havens for birds. hard land my hometown. A culture fix, a maze in which to get lost, a visual One gallery even contains an architecturally “Everybody wants a place to rest/Everybody archive to do some research. It was work and play perfect (and technologically enhanced) re­ wants to have a home/Ain’t no difference what ar once. A beautiful box full of beautiful things, creation of the Arles bedroom itself. Another nobody says/Everybody’s got a hungry heart.” So I took our one free morning on this trip to displays the originals of the landscape and Springsteen’s songs are always ultimately return to it. Another kind of homecoming. portrait paintings (one a haunting self-portrait)

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Honolulu. One thing is clear as 1 meet and talk with you in your hometowns: Wherever you are now, when you think of home, so many of you still think of Puget Sound. Me, too. At every August Convocation (as first-year students and families gather to start their Puget Sound careers) and at every May Commence­ ment (when they gather again, as seniors, to complete them) I speak of that quest for home. I cite Homer and Tennyson, T.S. Eliot and Charles Dickens, Frost and Twain, Martin Luther King and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elea­ nor Roosevelt and Toni Morrison. But I imag­ ine I always also have Springsteens “Hungry Heart” and “Promised Land” humming in my head, too. The point of all those references to home in all those voices: to try to learn some­ thing at these threshold moments of our lives I about leaving one home for another, about the I universality of the idea of home being not so £ O much a destination as an aspiration, a dream, a quest, a goal. Its a promise that’s always out that van Gogh produced while he lived there that cemented his place as a pivotal figure there. and can be seen hanging on the walls in each between impressionism and expressionism. So it seems right that in the academy we of those three bedroom paintings. The selec­ Those images also manifested the hallucinatory should call the end of all our labors a “com­ tion and character of these paintings-with- exile in which van Gogh found himself when mencement,” a beginning. And it, too, is a in-the-painting change from one version of the the dreams of home in the “Bedroom in Arles” sacred ritual—like a Springsteen concert. In bedroom to another, like pictures in a revolving faded away. He still suffered from a hungry our end is our beginning, the starting point exhibition. heart. He still wanted that place to rest. for all that comes next. The continuation and This was the place where van Gogh imag­ On the very night Mar)' and I returned to renewal of the quest for home, and the eternal ined he would do his best work (he did), where Sea-Tac from this homecoming, we headed refreshment of the hunger in the heart that other artists would gather (some, like Gauguin, up to Seattle for that Springsteen concert. moves us forward, presses us onward, lifts our did), where he would finally feel at home (he More memories flooded back and invaded my eyes to the heights, calls us home, and offers a did, for a while). It would be perfect (it wasn’t). own lingering dreams of van Goghs bedroom place to seek a newer world. We know the rest of the story. The artist as we drove to Seattle Center, mixed with the Now, as I approach my final Commence­ soon ended up in a different home, an asy­ warm memories of meeting familiar friends ment, my last new start at Puget Sound, I lum, one ear and a million dreams down after and former students and their families in two am reminded of the advice I have dispensed an argument with Gaugin and an emotional memorable alumni events in Chicago and through 13 years at convocations and com­ breakdown from which he would never quite Minneapolis during that trip. This spring, as mencements, comings and goings, beginnings recover. Van Gogh never painted another bed­ I have been making these final visits with you and ends. Like a senior about to graduate, room or dreamed of going to the perfect home all, has been quite a trip, for sure. L.A. and San I have a heart that is hungry still: “Always again. But he did succeed in creating some Francisco, New York and D.C., Tacoma and roaming with a hungry heart,” as Tennyson spectacular, even visionary haunted landscapes Seattle and Boise and Portland and, finally, said of Ulysses.

18 arches spring 2016 I think of the longing in those paintings of van Gogh’s bedroom and the dreams he dreamt of the home it might become and, finally, might have been. 1 think of every Springsteen concert I’ve ever attended, and all his heartfelt affirma­ tions of the promised land to which we are all drawn. Of Chicago, and how I hated to leave it in 1990. Of the paradise within Hartford, happier far, named Mary, who awaited me On Feb. 26 the Puget Sound board of trustees announced that there. Of the City of Destiny that would draw ISIAAH CRAWFORD, PROVOST OF SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, us and raise our eyes to the heights in 2003 WILL BECOME THE COLLEGE'S 14TH PRESIDENT ON and offer us a new beginning. 1 think of all of JULY 1. you, every one, and of your families. 1 see you Following an extensive national search, Crawford rose before me, gathered in a vast stadium, starting through a competitive process to be the clear choice for Puget out again, with me, as the sun, off to the west, Sound. He was recommended to the trustees by a search is shining in my eyes and bathing you all in a committee comprising trustee, faculty, staff, alumni, parent, and golden glow. Forever young. student representatives, and was introduced to a jam-packed “We shall not cease from exploration,” Eliot Rasmussen Rotunda on Feb. 26. said, "and the end of all our exploring will be to "Puget Sound’s remarkable success under President arrive where we started and know the place for Thomas's leadership put us in a very strong position to attract the first time" That’s the ultimate homecoming, top candidates," said search committee chair Robert Pohlad I guess. It requires us to leave the place we P'07 of the nine-month search. "This is a special moment in thought was home, and the family and friends time for Puget Sound to take its next step—a very important who make it the familiar place of rest we desire step—inspired by a new leader who will build on our mission as above all. And to set out to find the next one. a liberal arts college and meet the many challenges facing higher That’s the moment when we really know “the education today. We have found that leader in Isiaah Crawford. place” for the first time. “Be always coming His appointment is a natural extension of our mission and values, home,” as Ursula LeGuin put it. and is as exciting a next step as we could ever hope for." The road is dark, thunder road. And it forms "As a college that derives so much of its identity from the a thin, thin line that stretches out beyond the culture, values, and opportunities of the Pacific Northwest, horizon. But those two lanes—well, they can we are especially pleased to have found Puget Sound's next take us anywhere. Thanks for riding that road president so close to home," said board of trustees chair Rick with me for a while and for letting me ride Brooks '82. "Dr. Crawford's experiences as a scholar, teacher, along with you. It’s been like coming home. and administrator, combined with his strong connections to the Really. region, make him uniquely suited to provide strong leadership for Puget Sound." Crawford plans to make the short move from Seattle to Tacoma later this summer with his partner, Kent Korneisel. A formal installation and other events to welcome Puget Sound's 14th president to the South Sound are expected to be announced after President-elect Crawford assumes office in July. Watch a video of the campus reception for President Elect Ronald R. Thomas Crawford at pugetsound.edu/presidentialsearch.

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THE CAMPUS I Low-cost light ' I i-i In January the college began . J i changing streetlight bulbs on S3 g> & ■ ■ the grounds from high-pressure sodium lamps to low-energy, i'yW long-life LEDs. This change to

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LEDs emit a bright white light TSS that provides more visibility at night, so they also make outdoor spaces safer. Tacoma Public ' . * l Utilities supported the retrofit through an energy-efficiency ! Q rebate that covers 70 percent of PUGET SOUND IS A NO. 1 PRODUCER OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS among small schools in the the cost. The college also will 2016 rankings of U S. colleges and universities UPS tied with Gonzaga University for the top spot, continuing continue switching its indoor its pattern since 2001 of ranking among the top 15 small colleges that send graduates on to Peace Corps lighting to LEDs, as buildings and service. Currently 18 Loggers are volunteering abroad, in 15 countries. Seen here with President Thomas, spaces are renovated. Last sum­ Peace Corps regional staff members Amber Gomes, Sarah Kassel, Erin Carlson '04, Mike McKay, and mer Marshall Hall, in Wheelock Stephanie Klees. Student Center, was renovated, and inefficient halide and halogen lamps were replaced with LEDs, RIDE MORE reducing overall energy con­ sumption by about 77 percent. File this under things-we- wish-they'd-thought-of- back-in-our-own- college-days: A bike-repair station. We first noticed it just after winter break, back there near the bicycle racks at the southwest door of the SUB. The nifty bike pitstop has a high-volume hand pump for inflating tires, tools for making adjustments, and a stand for getting your wheels up off the ground while you wrench away. Thank Puget Sound Outdoors trips coordinator Chris Eichar '16 for the idea and ASUPS for funding it as part of an effort to support cycling ecology on campus. PSO bike shop mechanic Patrick Johnson '18 will be giving workshops on how to make use of the station. That's Sloan Strader '18 in the photo.

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AT COLLEGE SEEN AND HEARD Creating community “Most prisoners will be released. And r As I was walking back from a house party around 1 a.m. one Saturday in February, my do you want people returning, living friend Keala convinced me to audition for Rep­ r ertory Dance Group with her the next morning. near you who have no education and This is how, regardless of my notorious lack of coordination, I joined this student-led club in who have been punished endlessly?” which students choreograph and teach dances for an end-of-semester performance. Despite said Erzen. “Or do you want someone accidentally kicking someone during the audi­ tion, the experience of plunging feet-first into unexplored territory has returning to your community who is been more rewarding than scary, and it's a lot of fun when we chat and laugh together. working toward an education?”

I had a rocky first semester, and one of the things that I missed most as — Tanya Erzen, associate a freshman was a sense of community. It was shocking to come from professor of religion, the small, friendly town where I grew up, to a place where I knew almost interviewed on KING 5 no one. Another reason I was especially focused on forging connections Television for a Feb. 3 story this semester is that over winter break I broke up with my high school about a bill in Olympia that boyfriend of two years (a freshman-year cliche, I know). Last semester, would allow state funding for college studies by prisoners i with him studying music in L.A. and me in Tacoma, it seemed like I was spending more time on the phone than meeting people in person. Though the breakup was upsetting it was all part of the transition to life after high school. Now I feel that I am able to be more present in my life here. COOL GIZMOS

One of the biggest developments in my search for community this semes­ Faster element IDs ter is that I joined a sorority. I was a bit surprised to find myself rushing Thanks to a $347,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, because I had a preconception of sororities, fueled by movies like Legally a quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer has taken up resi­ Blonde, that involved a lot of interpersonal drama, academic indifference, dence in Thompson Hall. The instrument will be used by research­ and spray tans. I hadn't pictured myself, a granola-loving California hippie, ers in the chemistry and biology departments to identify and quan­ going Greek. tify a broad range of molecules in complex samples. High school students in Tacoma's Science and Math Institute also will be invited However, during rush I met a lot of really cool people. Rush week was to use the QToF spectrometer. It is the only instrument of its kind crazy and exhilarating. It was the most socializing I've ever done in my life, and capability at any Pacific Northwest liberal arts school. which is saying a lot! It was only thanks to honey-lemon tea that I didn't lose my voice, but I really enjoyed it.

At the end of rush I was thrilled to receive a bid from Gamma Phi Beta. I found a group of strong, welcoming, and down-to-earth women—some wearing neon-colored hair and tie-dye. The morning after I got my bid, G Phis I had hardly even spoken to stopped all over campus to say hi to me. Those small acts made the campus feel more like my home.

This semester I got a "happy light" with a full-spectrum bulb, and a seri­ ous raincoat. While these tools are necessary for survival here. I have learned that there is another important aspect to thriving. It's the friends I can celebrate with when I earn that hard-fought A, or commiserate with on the 10th consecutive day of rain. It's becoming evident that, for me, a sense of community makes all the difference. — Maya Makino ’19, Arches intern

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RETIRED 38 YEARS AGO THIS SPRING Randy Hanson The rogue bovine incident

After complet­ When Mike Mixon '81 posted a note on the univer­ ing his 20th sity Facebook page about how. as a student security season with patroller, he encountered a cow on campus, we asked Logger wom­ him to elaborate: en's soccer and earning the Back in the late '70s student "patrollers" worked two program's 15th Northwest Con­ days a week, alternating between swing and grave­ ; ference Championship in 2015 (14 yard shifts. I was in the security office (one of the old of them consecutively). Coach A-frames that used to be in the West Woods near Suspect is approximately 13 hands high and 1,100 to Hanson retired at the end of Jan­ Thompson Hall), and Ron Hudspeth '81 was on patrol 1,200 pounds, proceeding west down 19th Street." uary. His lifetime record was a at about 6 a.m. when he called in saying there was a Dispatch: "This is udderly ridiculous." remarkable 303-74-36. Hanson's cow on campus. My first reaction was that he needed successor was named as Arches some sleep. About then one of the custodians came During the summer, most graveyard shift summaries went to press: Joseph Vari comes in and told me the same story. for the security logbook read: "Shift begins. Shift to us from Rhodes College. ends." So we filled up a whole page describing the Ron came back to the office, and I went over to the incident and making ourselves look like heroes. Turned President’s Woods, between the Music Building and out that a student who lived in a house behind Frat THE STAFF Thompson Hall. And there I found a guy with a motor­ Row had been transporting a cow to Vashon Island and Our behind-the-scenes cycle who had been sleeping under one of the trees stopped for the night It escaped from the backyard. hero of the laboratories and a cow grazing about three feet from his head. The guy's eyes were as big as plates When the cow After several days of digging around in records boxes saw me, it took off. Safety and Security used Tacoma stored in the attic of Security Services, our friends there Police Department-band radios to communicate, and produced the June 18. 1978, shift sumary in which the TPD heard us talking about the cow. They responded, incident is reported You can view it on the Arches resulting in this discussion: Facebook page. (Warning: really bad puns.)

Meet science support engineer AFTER GRADUATION Bob Peaslee, who designs and builds equipment specifically for 2016 Commencement looms. What did last year's class do post-May 17? individual research projects and classes. Some of the things he has Volunteering created in his five years at Puget AmeriCorps Employed AmeriCorps—Washington Sound include a fish racetrack Amazon Service Corps Hitachi Consulting with a simulated water current Justice Leadership Program Russell Investments to help students study herring Notre Dame Mission Sherwin-Williams Volunteers SurveyMonkey schooling; special wind tunnels Peace Corps Tableau Software large enough to test how bird 1 wings function; and a Ferris wheel Continuing Education to test how light and gravity affect Cornell University Industries Education plant growth. Bob's background Minneapolis College of Art and Design Health Care makes him perfectly suited to the Stanford University Research Technology job; he worked as a chemist and University of Oxford University of Minnesota was self-employed as a builder of custom homes. He also held a top- Raaulta b»Md on 60 ptretnt knowledge rate* ooi the secret position at Boeing, working National Association of CoVogos and Emoloyors (NACEI Standards and Protocols to make the B-2 stealth bomber Still Seeking ’Knowtodgo rato is a torm coined by NACE and "dofinos the porcont ol g'oduaios for which tho institution has lightning proof by coating its plastic roasonao’e and verifiable Information concerning tho graduates postgraduaiion activities.' body with copper and nickel. Travel/Other

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LEAP YEAR More complicated than you think ASK THE PROF 2016 is a leap year, and most folks have a Why do dogs love i rough idea of why we have leap years. But sticking their heads out of car windows? FEB it’s a little more involved than just adding a day in February every fourth year. We Robin Foster, psychol­ 1 asked Eli Gandour-Rood, science liaison ogy research professor, librarian, for a couple of sources that give responds. Among her the details. He dug this up in Science and research interests are Its Times and the McGraw-Hill Encyclope­ biological perspectives on dia of Science & Technology. animal behavior:

Each trip around the sun takes 365.2422 days. If we counted a year as an It's not just the breeze. Dogs receive more olfactory information even 365 days, the extra quarter days would accumulate, and we would about the environment with their heads outside than inside the car. soon find that the seasons were occurring at the wrong time of the year. This problem was recognized in antiquity. The Julian calendar, named for "The air being forced into the dog's nose may intensify the odors." Julius Caesar, was established in 46 B.C.E. and was used subsequently Professor Foster told thedodo.com in January. "Even a dog who throughout Europe. It had 365 days in a year and added one extra day can't get his head out the window will spend a lot of time sniffing every four years. Under this scheme, the year was assumed to have at a gap in the window—probably gathering real-time intel on the 365.25 days. Although this is very close to the true number of days in current location." a year, 365.2422, even this small difference amounts to an appreciable error over a few centuries. The most recognizable problem with the Professor Foster said that, based on smells alone, dogs can recog­ Julian calendar was that the vernal (spring) equinox began falling a few nize familiar locations and even driving routes. days before the traditional date of March 21. Which might have been a trivial problem had the people of Europe not been Christian. In the fourth century, a church council had decided that Easter would fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Because calen­ Loggerhythms by Roger Dahl 75 dars could not be mass-produced and distributed over all of Christendom every year, church officials created tables that allowed local priests to figure out when Easter should fall in any given year. The tables, however, Seduced by modern, consumerism, Bunyon. Spring for assumed that the equinox fell on March 21 But because the equinox the Makeover started falling earlier than that, it was feared that Easter was being cele­ brated on the "wrong" date, and thus calendar reform was needed.

The Gregorian calendar fixed things. It was designed by a commission assembled by Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century. The main author of the new system was the Naples astronomer Aloysius Lilius, who insti­ tuted a minor change in the Julian calendar: Century years not divisible jr.zso by 400 would no longer be leap years. Thus, three out of four century years are common years, giving a cycle of 400 years containing (400 x 365) + 97 = 146,097 days and an average year length of 146,097/400 § = 365.2425 days. Pretty close to the actual figure. Catholic countries followed his rule, but Protestant countries resisted. Great Britain and its ; colonies held out until 1752; Russia held out until 1918, after the Bolshe­ p9? vik Revolution. Different parts of what is now the United States changed oner ft I- over at different times; Alaska, for example, changed only when it was T?r»d» ***** purchased by the United States in 1867. Turkey did not switch to the Gre­ \ p sqoemd fc Of HfcfT* gorian calendar until 1927. $6SQ vA Art ^ While we're on the topic, as near as we can tell there's only one student on campus who was born on Feb. 29: Kayla Lovett '18. mi

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Vienna 1966

This spring it will be 50 years since the colleges first-ever student study-abroad semester. Our “From the Archives” columnist, John Finney ’67, P’94, was on that trip—during which he saw a lot of great opera, ditched the Kindberg cops in a VW microbus, and was detained by Russian soldiers for photographing Cold War military maneuvers.

On Feb. 2, 1966, President R. Franklin Thompson and religion pro­ was less than impressive, and the food was, well, at times pretty terri­ fessor and honors program director Robert Albertson ’44 drove to Sea- ble, we were in the heart of Vienna, within walking distance of all the Tac airport to witness a significant event in the life of the university. famous places. Bright red trolleys carried us into the hinterlands. Forty juniors and seniors, along with history/foreign language professor Professors Tomlinson and Magee taught our degree-credit courses. Warren Tomlinson and philosophy professor John Magee, boarded the We had regular class sessions in the Pension Andreas—taught in the ;i Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 jet clipper Viking to inau­ morning, leaving the afternoons free for study and exploration. There . gurate the colleges first semester-long study-abroad program. Among was only one typewriter in the whole pension, so we mostly wrote our the 40 were newlyweds Karen Peterson Finney ’67, P’94, and me. Pan papers longhand. Several of us registered as students at the University Am prepared a large welcome banner that we held up for photographs of Vienna. Some attended Holocaust survivor Viktor Franld’s class on : before boarding the plane. My mother mailed a bon voyage card logotherapy, called by some the third Viennese school of psychotherapy. addressed to us at the airport. The Viking took us via the polar route to Frankl autographed our copies of his book Mans Search for Meaning. London. Our ultimate destination: Vienna, Austria. One weekend Professor Magee disappeared and returned from i After spending a week in London, a week in Paris, and a week in Munich with a brand-new ruby-red Volkswagen 1600 squareback that Rome, our group arrived in Vienna on Feb. 24. We took up residence cost $1,700. in the Pension Andreas on Schlosselgasse, near the center of the city. Professor Tomlinson lived with us at the pension. He regularly set Karen and I were assigned room 25 on the “girls’ side” of the third up shop at his “money table” and dispensed allowances for the five floor. Room 25 looked onto an inner shaft filled with live and dead meals we ate outside the pension each week. Our food allowance was pigeons and decades of their droppings. Although the Pension Andreas 20 Austrian schillings, or 80 cents per meal.

A photo op for Vienna semester-abroad st nts and faculty prior to leaving for London, Feb. 2, 1966. Our man Mr. Finney is one of the guys holding the banner at right, above the letters "ME." Karen is seated on the floor at left, her arm covering the "U" in university.

arches spring 2016 It was Professor Tomlinson who rescued Cal Peterson ’67 and me when we were detained by Russian soldiers after we—as the Cold War raged—stupidly photographed Soviet military maneuvers in Hungary on a bus trip to Budapest. And he worried about us when he had to. When one of our number failed to return from spring vacation on time and he had no idea where that person was, Professor Tomlinson expressed the degree of his worry this way: “I now know what it feels like to be standing naked on a mountaintop during a blizzard.” Outside of class there was a lot to do in Vienna. We quickly learned to love opera. You can’t help it when the stories, the acting, the singing, the music, and the setting are the best in the world. The Vienna State Opera House, or Wiener Staatsopcr, was the first Viennese building reconstructed following World War II. Sometimes we got stehplatz tickets for 28 cents and stood throughout the performance, as we did on May 6 for Giuseppe Verdis DieMacht des Scbicksals (The Power of Fate). Other times we splurged for actual seats, as we did on March 19, spending $2.60 to see Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermatis. Vienna 1966 semester abroad students David Wagner '68; Isa Werny '67, M.S/71; and Dee Dee Dressel Curran '67 wearing her dirndl in the Volksgarten We saw ballet, too. On April 20 a bunch (People's Garden), in Vienna, May 21,1966. of us stood in line at the Vienna State Opera for six hours, beginning at 4 a.m., to get Vienna 1966 semester abroad students eat lunch in the Pension Andreas. tickets for the April 25 performance of Swan Identifiable students in this photo include John Johnston '68; Jim Nelson '66; Lake, choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev and Karen Peterson Finney '67, P'94; Dee Dee Dressel Curran '67; Anne Alworth '67; starring him as Prince Siegfried. Those tickets Betty Giblett Blanchard '68; Diane Garland Lenzo '67; Steven Bradley '67; Jean were expensive, $2.88. Crosetto Deitz '67; Gary Birchler '67; Georgia Depue Birchler '67; Doug Smith One Saturday, 10 of us rented a VW bus '66; Mary Margaret Hillier Boardman '67; Al Nordell '67; Lexi Roberts Mason and drove three hours to Graz, Austria’s sec­ '67; Al Campbell '67; Bob Sprenger '67; David Wagner '68; Isa Werny '67, ond-largest city. On the way back we passed M.S/71; Janet McLellan Cochran '67; and Gordon Cooke '67. Professor Warren through the town of Kindberg, which seemed Tomlinson sits at his "money table" just right of the chalk board. friendly enough until a policeman informed us it was illegal to carry 10 persons in a VW bus and that one of us would have to get out.

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One of us did, bur rather than taking up ceremony and banquet at Palais Palffy, a palace Above, left: Students lean on a haystack permanent residence in Kindberg, he started located in Vienna’s inner city. A representative in Morbisch in the Burgenland, in the walking. After the rest of us admired Kind- of the U.S. ambassador to Austria attended. eastern part of Austria, Apr. 23, 1966. They berg’s maypole for a while, we picked him up The semester ended, and May 31 was our are, from left: Betty Giblett Blanchard '68; on the way out of town. A few miles down last day at the Pension Andreas. Most of us Anne Alworth '67; Kathy Magee; Karen the road we ran out of gas. Although the VW spent some or all of the summer traveling in Peterson Finney '67, P'94; Jean Crosetto Deitz '67; Dave Johnson '67; and Diane lacked a gas gauge it did have a reserve tank, Europe. Karen and I financed our travels by Garland Lenzo '67. or so we thought. We never found the reserve cashing in our return airline tickets. Airfare tank, but a kid on a scooter came to our aid. was expensive in 1966, and the $700 we got Jim Nelson '66 and Bob Sprenger '67 set He fetched us two liters of gasoline, and we for our tickets was sufficient to fund several up a movie camera in the Rathaus town were on our way. more weeks of travel in Europe, passage (for hall park to record memories of our last Most of us were juniors, but we also $145 each) on the student ship MS Aurelia days in Vienna, May 21,1966. had five graduating seniors in the group from Le Havre to New York, 10 days with (Russ McCurdy, Rodney Johnson, Victor relatives in New England, and a cross-country Nelson, Jim Nelson, and Doug Smith, all rail trip home on New York Centrals New Class of ’66). On May 27 we held a genuine England States and Northern Pacific’s North University of Puget Sound commencement Coast Limited streamliners.

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■ summer study-abroad programs for college credit, including several trips to Sweden led by Professor Tomlinson and German professor/former registrar Christian Miller. Vienna 1966 demonstrated that full-semester group study abroad worked. The university continued to sponsor such programs, in Vienna, Rome, and Breukelen (Holland) early on, and then in the 1970s in other places such as London, Dijon, and Granada, under the umbrella of Independent Liberal i Arts Colleges Abroad, a consortium of Pacific Northwest independent colleges. At the same time our signature yearlong Pacific Rim program began. (Its next travel-abroad year is scheduled for 2017-18.) Nowadays most study-abroad opportunities fall under the umbrellas of the national study-abroad consortia with i which Puget Sound is affiliated, such as the Institute for the : International Education of Students and the Council on i : International Educational Exchange. In most cases students live with host families, not all together in a group, as we did.

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Southeast by Northwest:

Puget Sounds Love Affair with Southeast Asia

by Gareth Barkin, associate professor of anthropology

The first time I led a field course to Indo­ Asian Studies program, which has historically new opportunity, we crafted a proposal nesia, some 10 years ago, a small group of focused on East Asian cultures and languages, focusing on the expansion of our existing students pulled me aside during our time but recently we’ve started to see a number of field-course model. This model, about which in Yogyakarta to relate their concerns about new offerings related to a less-represented area I recently published an article in Teaching terrorism. of that vast continent: Southeast Asia. This Anthropology, involves a full semester of study “Ever)' person I see walk by wearing a region—more populous than the continent on campus, including beginning language backpack, I think they’ve got a bomb in it,” a of North or South America—is known for its instruction, combined with an integrated student confided to me. It was his first time multifarious diversity, ranging from diversity study-abroad trip over the summer that lever­ outside of the United States, and he knew of religion to its unrivaled biodiversity. ages research conducted at home to focus field very little about the country he was visiting. To provide students with the back­ activities and make the most of time spent in Indonesia is the worlds most populous Mus- ground they need to fully take advantage of Southeast Asia. lim-majority country, but its religious prac­ these experiences, my field journeys quickly But the Luce Foundation didn’t under­ tice is generally considered quite moderate by became integrated into the curriculum back write our Southeast Asian studies plans on Westerners, and Yogyakarta is the country’s in Tacoma, where we study Southeast Asian this basis alone. It wanted a proof of concept, center of higher education, so there are a lot cultural, linguistic, and environmental topics which became the course Logan took: Indo­ of students walking around with backpacks. before continuing our coursework abroad. nesia and Southeast Asia in Cultural Context As an anthropologist specializing in the And of course we study religious practice as (SOAN 312). Although I’d been improving region, I had never expected that everyday well. The integration of semester-long class­ my course-trips for years, this time I had the life in a college town could elicit fear in the room study and field research abroad has support to create a really effective program: minds of young Americans. It was among since become a popular model on campus, We hired a native speaker to teach the class my first indications that short-term study with Politics and Government, Environmen­ Indonesian language; we held a workshop for abroad, especially to regions like Southeast tal Policy and Decision Making, and Latin faculty' on experiential learning abroad; and Asia, needed to be integrated into a broader American Studies undertaking similar hybrid we brought out guest speakers to engage not educational program and not conducted as a courses. I’ve even worked with Professor just the class but the whole campus commu­ kind of educational tourism. Nick Kontogeorgopoulos in International nity in a discussion about Southeast Asian Fast-forward to 2014, and I’m in Indo­ Political Economy to do a joint Indonesia- environmental topics. nesia with a new group of students. Logan Thailand-focused field course. So when I This pilot course went so well that we Day, who is captain of our baseball team and heard about an opportunity to apply for a were even able to integrate a small-scale on his first trip outside the U.S., approaches grant from the Henry Luce Foundation that symposium, providing students like Logan me with a question about Muslim students in supported Asian studies and environmental with an opportunity to present their research Yogyakarta. He’s not afraid of terrorism, but initiatives, I immediately thought of the work to the campus community. The Luce Foun­ he’s wondering why they’re in the minority we’d already begun and the transformative dation must have liked our work, because at the university that’s hosting us, since he student experiences I’d witnessed in the field. they awarded us the full, four-year grant, wants a good sampling of interviews for his which we’re now hard at work implementing. research project about anti-Muslim narra­ What is the Henry Luce Foundation? Our new Southeast Asia Program will offer tives among Indonesian Christians. A lot has The Luce Foundation was created by pub­ a lot of great opportunities for students and changed in 10 years. lisher Henry R. Luce to promote (among faculty, including: Since I began teaching at Puget Sound in other things) Asian studies, particularly in • More Southeast Asia field-school courses 2008,1 have been taking groups of students smaller, liberal arts institutions like ours, — intensive, experiential student learning on summer-course trips to various parts many of which mightn’t otherwise have the abroad, conducted with Asian partners of Indonesia, where my research is based. resources to develop such important area-stud­ and integrated into a full semester of Our university has long been known for its ies programming. When we learned of this on-campus study.

28 arches spring 2016 Clockwise from upper left: Logan Day '15 presented his research on anti-Muslim narratives at the first annual LIASE Southeast Asia Symposium in October, 2014. Logan went on to use his Indonesian research as part of his senior thesis in the sociology and anthropology department. Students on the 2014 Luce Foundation field-school course, after learning to perform a Kuda Lumping dance in the Ponggol district, outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Thai music and dance troupe Chaopraya Ensemble perform at the second annual LIASE Southeast Asia Symposium in October 2015. Gareth Barkin in front of the Luce Memorial Chapel, on the campus of Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. Professor Barkin visited the chapel in 2015 while directing the PacRim program.

• Phased introduction of new Southeast course. The symposium featured participants was taught during both the fall and spring Asian language courses, including Thai, and Southeast Asianist scholars from univer­ semesters, and Indonesian will be offered in Indonesian, and Malay, which are rarely sities around the Northwest, a Thai music 2016-17, firsts for the university. taught at U.S. universities, much less at and dance performance, and talks by stu­ Logan Days research project, his presen­ liberal arts colleges. dents who had conducted research as part of tation at our first symposium, and the rela­ our latest field course in Malaysian Borneo. tionships he built in Indonesia are fine exam­ • An annual Southeast Asia symposium i The keynote speaker was Professor Philip ples of the cultural context and background that draws international speakers as well Dearden of the University of Victoria, whose we provide students in our field schools, and as scholars from around the state, and widely acclaimed talk, “Highlands to Islands: the opportunities we’ve helped create. Think­ is becoming a collaborative resource for Insights on Conservation and Culture from ing back on how much he learned about Pacific Northwest partner colleges. I Thailanddrew an overflow crowd. Future anti-Muslim narratives and their subversion symposia will continue to showcase student through daily, interfaith collaborations in Bringing it all together research abroad and also provide a forum for Yogyakarta, I’m reminded how important it The first symposium went so well that we world-class scholars to address the campus is not just to read about and discuss cultural decided to make it a centerpiece of our pro­ community while offering a taste of South­ difference, but to experience it. gram moving forward. Our second annual east Asian arts and culture. Southeast Asia Symposium focused on topics For more information, visit the Southeast Asia related to conservation and biodiversity in What's next? Symposium and Programs website (pugetsound. Malaysian Borneo and throughout Southeast Our focus this year is on Thailand, as Pro­ edu/liase), and feelfree to drop Professor Barkin Asia, while highlighting Thai culture and fessor Kontogeorgopoulos leads a course-trip a line if you'd like to get involved (barkin @ conservation in anticipation of our 2016 field to Chiang Mai this summer. Thai language pugetsound. edit).

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When she was a Puget Sound undergrad, Megan Taylor Morrison studied in Australia and France. In both places, she says, the only local people she felt she connected with were musicians and dancers like herself. Which gave her the idea for Dance Adventures, a business that leads trips abroad, using dance as a vehicle to bridge cultures. “We work with local dance instructors and trip leaders, so we know where to take travelers to > *. v'r/v make sure they have an experience that goes far i beyond the typical tourist spots,” she says. Clients take dance lessons, attend performanc­ V r ' ^ es, and social-dance at locals’ favorite hot spots. At present Dance Adventures leads trips to Guinea, lifer** Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia, with plans to add Cuba and India as destinations. Originally from Fresno, Calif., and now living in Arlington, Va., Megan centered her own dance career on the swing era. She teaches, performs, and competes in Lindy hop, blues, collegiate shag, and Balboa at competitions across the U.S. More at megantaylormorrison.com and danceadventures.org.

Left: Sarah Lee Parker Mansare—founder of Dance Adventures' partner trip to Guinea—dances with Mamadama Bangoura, a principal dancer with Les Ballets Africains. Below: Megan practices zouk with a local dancer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. time. I had to expand the house to make room every city I go to, I find an image of Mickey WHAT WE DO: for everything.” Mouse. Some of it, yes, commercial, but I will Pierre Odier ’67 We descend into what he calls his office, always find that someone painted a Mickey which is an odd term for what appears to be a Mouse, either on a wall, or a business, or kids museum and a private library both fighting for have done it, and so 1 pride myself to tie that The explorer the same real estate: a stack of clay bowls, each together, and so its haunting me—I came to one labeled with a handwritten tag, rests atop a Los Angeles for Disneyland and now I see the Dozens of grapefruits hang heavy on a tree in pile of ancient paperbacks, beneath which is a Mickey Mouse everywhere I go. I should tell Pierre Odier’s backyard, which looks and feels very large filing cabinet stuffed with (certainly you a story ...” like it is owned by a hobbit. thousands of) photographs. If the evening we spent talking (I’d in­ Pierre himself, jolly and bespectacled, miss­ “I’ll never make it through all this,” he says, tended to stay for part of an afternoon and left ing a few nonessential buttons on his shirt, surrounded by the evidence of 60 years of world sometime around 9 p.m.) had a single theme, it resembles some lesser-known Tolkien hero, the travel. “I’ve been to 180 countries. There’s so would probably be “I should tell you a story. kind whose name you’d win free beer for know­ much—look at this,” he says, sweeping his arm Four days ago, Pierre returned from a vil­ ing at Triva Night. Then he opens his mouth. across a table littered with handmade musical lage in a remote and impoverished region of “You know, sometimes I wish I’d break instruments. He speaks with a strange cadence in Cambodia where, some years prior (through both my legs,” he says, looking up at the tree. his light accent (a blend of European sounds fil­ his work with the Adventurers’ Foundation, What? I ask him to clarify. tered through the American South), abbreviating of which he is president), he built a childrens “I wish I would fall down and break both of one sentence to make room for the next. “I don’t school. Now he visits it regularly, bringing gifts my legs,” he says, a twinge of frustration in his comb my hair a certain way” becomes “I don’t for the kids. voice. “That way I’d stick around here, I’d have comb my hair.” “I didn’t have anyone to fall back “The boys, they got Matchbox cars. Seven- rime to take care of things—the yard, and—let on,” becomes “I didn’t have anyone to fall on.” dollar cars; I got them for 99 cents,’ he says, me show you what I mean.” It’s quirky, but you get used to it. You have to. happy at the bargain. “The girls, they like I follow him inside. He walks quickly, more Talking to Pierre is like drinking from a fire hose. fingernail polish, glitter, all that stuff. So I m like a man in his 20s than one in his mid-70s, “Ah!” He sees me noticing a Mickey Mouse sitting there on the stoop and they’re playing and talks even faster. “It’s a mess; I hope that toy above a packed bookcase devoted solely to around and a girl takes my hand, and the next doesn’t bother you. I’ve lived here such a long the Gulags. “In every country in the world, in thing I know she’s painting my fingernails. In

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CD ural to me because that’s the vibe I gave off. | I didn’t freak out or say ‘That’s not for boys.’ n It was a gesture of connection, and you just accept it as it happens.” For just about anyone else, this sort of character-defining anecdote (acceptance/chil- dren, building a school in a country ravaged by civil war) would be exactly the kind of thing we writers use to close out a biographi­ cal article. It’s tidy! It’s easy to grasp! But

with Pierre it hardly scratches the surface. ' .".V V.V' S What about his 37 years as a teacher in the Glendale (Calif.) Unified School Dis­ trict? “One day, some kid was talking about hot air balloons, so I brought one to class and we launched the kids. It’s a miracle I was PRIORITY ♦MAIL* never fired.” How about the time, prior to enrolling at UPS, when he owned a nightclub in Tacoma and met Joan Baez and Bob Dylan? “We mostly had American jazz, which I loved and knew backwards and forwards; folk music was just for the weekdays.” He once drove a car from Venice, Italy, to Beijing, China, avoided capture by drug smugglers in Burma (“I pretended to tie my shoe, and because I looked like I was ignor­ ing them, I wasn’t abducted”) and terrorists WHAT WE DO: in Afghanistan, and learned to speak English in the U.S. Army, starting with the swear­ Lacey Chong ’03 words. (He follows that last part with a string of expletives before trailing off, laughing.) How then to close out a piece on Pierre Spa swag for warriors Odier, former double-major in art and lan­ guages, current explorer, a man whose chief When Lacey Chong was corresponding with received that Lacey decided to expand the goal, at age 75, is to search the globe for dis­ her friend Becca, a Marine Corps officer de­ effort and founded the nonprofit Spa Swag for appearing peoples and cultures? Who has to ployed to rural West Africa during the Ebola Warriors. Since its creation in January 2015, estimate when you ask how many languages crisis in 2014, she learned that Becca didn’t Spa Swag has sent packages of high-quality he speaks? (“About eight.”) have regular access to bath, body, and femi­ items to about 300 women posted in hardship The full title of Tolkien’s first novel, nine hygiene products. There was no shortage locations across the Middle East, West Africa, about a traveler and his many adventures, of organizations sending items either men or East Africa, and Southeast Asia. is The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. If women can use, but none served the needs of Now makers of health and beauty products anything, a book about Pierre’s life would be women specifically. are joining in. Donations have come from called There, and There, and There, and There Lacey reckoned that sending items like companies like Cate McNabb, Tom’s of Maine, eye creams, skin care and beauty products, Estee Lauder, Kiehl’s, Drybar, and Arbonne. “When I was teaching I was going 100 and hair products to deployed female service Lacey still has a demanding day job as a percent. As soon as summer hit, boom, I was members could help them stay prepared for freelance national security consultant, but she out the door. Now that I’m retired, I’m going the conditions under which they worked and hopes Spa Swag will continue to grow. “We 150 percent,” he says, halting to think for boost their morale. aim to send every woman overseas a spa swag a quarter second before blasting onward. “I “So I collected a bunch of bath and body bag,” she said. never understood that you wait to do some­ stuff from my friends to mail to Becca and her thing. No! You just go. Put one foot in front female colleagues,” Lacey said. “It was a simple Got a medicine cabinet full of beauty products you of the other? Now you’re two steps closer matter of cleaning out our bathroom cabinets.” know you ll never use? Spa Swag eagerly accepts than you were before.” — Bryan Bernart Those packages were so enthusiastically donations-in-kind. spaswagforwarriors. org

spring 2016 arches 33 At their Fremont headquarters, the Loggers of Tableau: From left, Tom Friedlander '05, Ben Bradley '08, Jason Schumacher '10, Max DeLawyer '14, Cameron Ford '13, Courtney Drake '10, Andrew Barker '10, Ray Randall '10, Patrick Green '14, and Wyatt Lewin '06.

PLACES WHERE LOTS OF LOGGERS WORK: assists nonprofit organizations in figuring out and representing their data. There are at least a couple of dozen Loggers Tableau Software, Seattle at Tableau, and Arches spoke with 11 for this article. Among them they had 13 different ma­ A picture is worth a thousand words—so goes the pictures that we’re producing is that they’re jors, just one of them in computer science. The the old saw. A sizeable cadre of Puget Sound not static, they’re interactive infographics. In rest had studied everything from business to alumni at Seattle-based Tableau are aiming to this case a picture is worth 20,000 words.” English to history to politics. So when some­ drive up that value considerably. In the era of big data everyone from scien­ one asks what you’re going to do with that Jason Schumacher TO works on the social tists to business people to sports teams has a lot humanities degree, refer them to Aaron Frein impact team at Tableau, which creates data- of numbers to crunch. Jason has worked with ’08, a philosophy major who helps fix software visualization products. “The big thing about colleges to help them use Tableau and now bugs and who says he learned a lot from Des­ cartes. “Forensic deconstruction of conceptual systems, which is basically what you learn to do when you read a text in a philosophy course,” Aaron says about what he does. It turns out that software companies are not just cloisters of coders. They need people in sales, product analysis, quality assurance, and a variety of business functions. Liberal arts eatles majors are well suited for such positions. B AAAIloverover■ barAIn *cc details Writing Percentage By Album YaOoa WimTha * Kart Oa,» SglPappar* Magical Myalary Abba, Road La* b Ba “The humanities background is becoming BtaEes For Sala Halpi tour ISM 1863 IK* 15G4 ISC4 IKS *scc 1607 1867 ISM 1W8 1668 1879 more and more desired within the tech field VJ.. j-s; because of its holistic way of being able to an­ 111 ll. I. II II. II. II. ll. ll.ll.lll II.JIi swer problems and learn things,” says Jason. U f f f 3 £ f U £ f U £ f I 3 | fi 3 £ f U f f 13 f f 13 £ f i 3 £ f f 3 £ f i 3 £ f 13 f f Tom Friedlander ’03 is in sales at Tableau. He majored in politics and government, and business administration, and figures the former Writing Percentage by Artist Over Time 1KJ ISM IKS IK* has helped him articulate arguments while the latter gave him the nuts and bolts of reading ■■■■■■■■ business reports. “The blend of those two things has ben­ efited me in the long run,” Tom says.

SAY IT IN PICTURES On this page and the PIMM VMI 7R» A BMQR Daft Uv facing page: These infographics on the Tableau website caught our interest.

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He is forecasted to vacate the art, and music, and says his time playing football seat during the next president's term in 2018 at the age of 82 for a total tenure of 32 years. 1 taught him a lot about time management, team­ work, mental toughness, and, alas, dealing with Age at Retirement Justices by President if disappointment. Obama •• 90 Age i! The alumni at Tableau speak glowingly of the GW Bush • • . Clinton • • supportive culture at the company, where they 80 0 GHWBush •• find a sense of community. Their job satisfaction Reagan ••• r! seems off the charts. 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Retirement ■■ 32% that all of that stuff resonates pretty well with the Independent (^9% Resignation 117% type of people I see coming out of UPS.” Federalist ^ 394 The History of the Supreme Court Whig 2% Andrew Barker TO says a lot of his classmates 1740 1760 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 weren’t sure they wanted to go corporate. ! Elena Kagan ©Qi “But this is not the stereotypical corporate Obama Sonia Sotomayor ©3 ii■ environment,” Andrew says ofTableau. “It’s a lot The 11 years between Stephen :...... Samuel Alito ©A: GW Bush Breyer's andJohn Roberts' II ------• John G. Roberts ©U; of fun!” apointments is the longest in ' Supreme Court history Stephen Breyer ^ While a few of these alumni found their way Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg ©iTTilsSilEji to the company on their own, Puget Sound con­ Clarence Thomas ©T -'' ""li GHWBush nections brought several others into the fold. David Souter ©pBBL^ | ! Anthony Kennedy ~~~ ’ ii The class of 2010 is well represented, and former - Reagan Antonin Scalia ©- ijjr roommates Jason, Andrew, Courtney Drake, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor ©■■■■ : was the last justice to die in of­ Ray Randall all work together. Ben Bradley ’08 Ford fice (2005). He was replaced by John Paul Stevens had an inside edge; he worked with Career and John Roberts. William Rehnquist Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Employment Services at Puget Sound and met Nixon Harry Blackmun ! some Tableau recruiters when he brought them to Warren E. Burger ■ Thurgood Marshall was the NAACP’s chief counsel Thurgood Marshall campus for a career fair. The company sounded LBJ during the Brown vs. Board of Ed racial desegra- Abe Fortas ©] interesting to him, and it turned out to be a . . non case in 1953 during the Warren Court..He lat­ er became the first African American appointed to Arthur Goldberg © Kennedy good fit. Others appreciate the information they the court. Byron White received through the Alumni Sharing Knowledge Potter Stewart* Charles Evans Whittaker ©| Network. Ike William J. Brennan, Jr.* “There’s a never-ending connection between John Marshall Harlan II i? From 19S3-1969 Earl Warren presided people who go to UPS,” says Max DeLawyer ’14...... over one of the most impactful courts in Earl Warren* ( Jason takes that concept even farther. history. Warren led a liberal majority Sherman Minton ©| presiding over major issues including Tom C. Clark Truman racial segregation and prayer in schools. “They are my family in life,” he says of his Fred M. Vinson alumni colleagues. “I didn’t think that I’d end up Harold Hitz Burton ©Hi keeping these relationships for so long and that Wiley Blount Rutledge ©f FDR Robert H. Jackson they’d mean so much to me.” — Greg Scheiderer

spring 2016 arches 35 Faculty check in on their former students affordable housing investment in a city with sky-high rents.) Prescott continued to cobble Meghan Cleary Harvey ’05 and Prescott Harvey ’04 together work in film, and Meghan got a new job as the first social media manager for the 50-50 American Sailing Association (ASA). Together, they refurbished their floating home, learn­ ing all kinds of skills along the way. Meghan’s by Julie Nelson Christoph, professor of English Facebook posts from this era feature some odd updates, such as: As faculty we are privileged to catalyze criti­ Level-by-Level Strategies for Mastering Reality, Meghan “is thinking about the hauling cal moments in young people’s lives. We see by one Prescott Harvey, with the acknowledg­ force required to lift a 100 pound load with a glimpses of what students will become, but ment: “Thank you, Julie Christoph, for catch­ single block runner rove to advantage if there is those glimpses are rarely meaningful except in ing me at the end of my education ... and 10 percent friction on the sheaves.” retrospect. In spring 2004, in our Rhetoric of taking seriously my quest to bring video games Meghan “is learning the ancient skill of Literacy course together, I would not have pre­ into the literary canon.” Meghan was listed on finding exactly where she is, using only the sun dicted that I would one day be sitting and talk­ the copyright page as the books editor. They and a pencil.” ing about the value of an English degree in a had met again in Seattle several years after “Commuting by bike is badass. Commut­ changing world in the living room of Meghan graduation and had been surprised, themselves, ing by foldable bike in Los Angeles is circus and Prescott’s new house, with their napping by the attraction. shit. I get whistled at a lot, and not in the good toddler nearby. Thanks to the wonders of Facebook, I was way.” In college Meghan was a star student—a back in touch just in time to follow some big “Can’t believe Prescott fixed an engine peer tutor at the writing center and a scholar moments in their lives. With the early-career problem that the ‘L.A. Yanmar specialist me­ who combined interests in sociology and an­ experiences from their first few years behind chanic’ couldn’t figure out. I picked the right thropology with writing and culture. Prescott them—Prescott’s in various film production chief engineer for Velella, it seems :-) chafed at pure scholarship and was always jobs in California and Meghan’s as an editor Velella, their boat, is named after Velella looking for ways to apply concepts to everyday working at a publishing firm in Seattle—they velellay hydrozoans of a beautiful blue color life, advertising, and popular culture. were about to embark on some really exciting that live on the surface of warm ocean water Meghan and Prescott each held a special and surprising adventures. around the world and that move by catching place in my heart, but I would not have espe­ Meghan and Prescott moved in together prevailing winds on their small dorsal “sails.” cially connected them to each other until I re­ on a 35-foot yacht Meghan had purchased as In September 2009, Meghan and Prescott ceived a book in the mail from them in 2010: housing while she was in Seattle. (Living on a set off together for a trip that they chronicled The World ofWarcraft Guide to Winning at Life: yacht sounds glamorous, but it also can be an in ASA publications and on a Wordpress blog

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§ (velellasdrift). Meghan had gone from tak­ ductions, and Prescott as senior copywriter for think where people fail in business is where I ing a phys ed. sailing class her senior year Portland advertising firm Juliet Zulu. you start talking to yourself. The more you’re l at Puget Sound to becoming a U.S. Coast I recently had the pleasure of spending an making connections with people who don’t Guard-certified captain with a 50-ton master afternoon catching up with them. Star Wars think like you, that’s where big ideas move license. And Prescott had become not only an was on our minds because Prescott had been forward.” analyst of digital technology but a mechanic much in demand as a Star Wars commentator. Both of them acknowledged the impor­ of all manner of life-supporting sailing tech­ J.J. Abrams, the films director, actually called tance of teamwork in creative work. Meghan nology. For almost two years they lived on Prescott in 2013 as he was making the film, af­ said, “I think that English majors sometimes the boat on a shoestring budget and sailed ter Prescott’s beautiful 2013 open letter to J.J. get into the mindset that a creative field has \ •I together from Seattle to southern Mexico, up Abrams went viral. (Google it, if you haven’t to be literally creative—like you’re the one !! to the Sea of Cortez, and back to the Pacific seen it!) generating the ideas—but the whole team is :: Northwest. As we drank our tea and watched the rare so critical and highly creative also. It’s super Back on land, they were married in 2011 Portland snow fall outside, our conversation interesting to read about famous author-editor - and moved to Portland. In addition to their turned from Star Wars to the value of English relationships. It's like they’re married, you know? day jobs, they realized Prescott’s concept of degrees in an increasingly STEM-oriented It’s totally a 50-50 result. ” an impressively nerdy interactive comedy world. Prescott commented, “I think that As this couple reflected on their work from Web series called The Monday Knights (about if you’re an English major and you’re good, the “idea-generating” and “feedback-giving” a group of role-playing gamers who go all-in there’s going to be a huge demand for you.” ends of the creative spectrum, I marveled at for their fantasy world), thanks to a successful Meghan agreed and added that she’s seen the what they’ve accomplished separately and Kickstarter campaign and a lot of late nights. value of interdisciplinary thinking in her work together in the short decade since their gradu­ ji Their son was born in 2013, and Meghan is and has sometimes found herself able to make ation. I’m always happy when my students sur­ now working as director of publishing part­ contributions because she wasn’t trained specifi­ prise me in class, and it’s nice to see how those : nerships for editorial agency Girl Friday Pro­ cally for the career in which she’s working: “1 surprises develop in the longer term. ; i!

Why context counts ii on board with your vision. If you can't articulate the why, you're just ; Normally we don't spend too much time in this magazine talking : about how great the liberal arts are. UPS alumni already know that. another passionate blowhard. In college, the ability to articulate that 1 You live it. But sometimes what our grads have to say about the kind way is called 'critical thinking.' In the business/creative world, it's of education they got really moves us. Such as this: called 'leadership.'" Make us the stewards of human history. "I look back at the origi­ When Professor Christoph interviewed Prescott and Meghan, both nal episodes of The Simpsons and see allusions to Dickens, Edith ri affirmed the value of their liberal arts degrees—which, for example, Wharton, Stanley Kubrick. Twenty-five years ago, the writers were •j had made them confident to bone up on physics for their sailing ad­ drawing upon 'the canon,' centuries of literary and artistic works. ventures and unafraid to delve into sometimes-dense historical re­ I look at episodes of The Simpsons today (along with Family Guy, search. Prescott said, with a liberal arts education, "Having a rough South Park, etc.) and they're filled with allusions to the Kardashians, outline of history—all these subjects in your head—is kind of like Donald Trump, the legalization of marijuana. We are becoming the having everything sitting on a shelf that you can then access when culture that ate itself, obsessed with consuming and regurgitating the need arises. That is valuable, especially in a creative field." For pop ephemera. example, to: "One of the biggest challenges for any creative is to be original Foster good taste. "In the advertising world, taste is everything. and avoid cliches. Knowing the canon gives me an advantage over The higher you rise in advertising, the more important good taste peers. When I come up with ideas, I can look beyond what's happen­ becomes. You are essentially selling your clients your good taste, ing on Twitter, grabbing inspiration from Melville or James Baldwin and your good taste becomes the face of their brand. Some people or Shakespeare. Building on the canon is increasingly a lost art, and are born with good taste. I, unfortunately, was not. But UPS helped having a frame of reference beyond social media gives me a unique me cultivate taste by showing me the canon of narrative works, and tool set. helping me understand why it was important. From there, I could "It also helps to make sure that these great works are not forgot­ start deciding which pieces in the canon spoke to me, and help me ten. With the constant bombardment of information, it's easy to dis­ refine my own 'taste.' As a writer, this is invaluable." miss classic literature and art as irrelevant. But the storytelling tech­ Help us articulate the why. "Opinions are like assholes. Every­ niques used by Faulkner and Joyce still influence today's best mov­ one's got one. What's important is the ability to articulate the why ies, games, novels, and television. Knowing and using these tools behind those opinions. If you can explain why, you can bring people can mean the difference between a craftsman and a hack." — JNC

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After World War 55th Reunion Jon Pokela has spent the considered essential, however. I II, Army Specialized past 25 years working on the Sue wouldn't leave without June 10-12, 2016 2016 Alumni Training Program recruit John exterior styling and the interior him, so the two stayed on Fague went on to graduate design of large, private, and for an additional month while Awards winners NinWI Smith s from Penn State and studied production yachts. He recently a new CEO was recruited. ; book. In the Wake These distinguished veterinary medicine at the returned to the world of fine They barely slept, listening for of Lewis and Clark: From the grads will be honored : University of Pennsylvania He art. Jon did postgraduate sounds of gunfire and trying Mountains to the Sea. was at Reunion June 11. : practiced as a veterinarian in selected by the editors at study at the ArtCenter Col­ to figure out what to do if an lege of Design in Los Angeles. attack on the hospital were Watch for extensive his hometown of Shippens- Amazon.com as a "Best Book burg, Pa. For more than 50 to materialize. The threats of coverage in the sum­ of 2015.” Through stories Throughout his career of de­ signing yacht interiors, he's violence finally subsided, and mer edition of Arches. years John has been writing gleaned from journals and a weekly column for his local included his fine art as part of James and Sue traveled to the letters, and vintage photos the decor package. His work U.S in June 2015, settling in newspaper titled "Do You Re­ of the landscape before it member." was forever changed by hy­ has appeared in several one- Sisters, Ore. But James found man and juried shows in the himself again in a hot spot. He droelectric dams, the book Northwest and nationally. Jon joined the board of directors for 65th Reunion helps readers experience the is a member of the American the Great Basin Society, which journey in the same way the June 10-12, 2016 oversees the Malheur Field Corps of Society of Marine Artists and the Peninsula Art League. Station, a research and educa­ Janet Williams Discovery View Jon's work at tional facility adjoining the Mal­ Steadman's art did. Mark's i pokelamarineartist.com. heur Wildlife Refuge that was l quilts are displayed in mu­ ■ • other books occupied by armed protestors. seums and galleries around Jp'j are Raising In January the Malheur Field Professional the world, including a piece UB Cain: The ,1 (PS Jerry Thorpe was Station director was evacu­ Achievement (Lifetime) hanging in the U.S. Embassy I Life and elected assistant ated. He moved in with James Larry Gill '60 in the Ivory Coast. In Febru­ I Politics of secretary of the Tacoma Sons and Sue until it was safe to ary a friend's granddaughter ■Bi Senator of Norway. Norden Lodge No. return. James told us: "It has took one of Janet's quilts to be Harry P. Cam, about one of 2. He says he is looking for­ been interesting being in what hung in Palmer Station, Antarc­ Tacoma's best-known may­ ward to the 2016 International should be a peaceful part of tica. With this development, ors; and Community Godfa­ Sons of Norway Convention, the world—a wildlife sanctuary Janet can say her work is dis­ ther, which tells the story of I which will be held in Tacoma at that—and being surrounded v ^ ■> played on all seven continents. community activist Sam Vol- Aug. 22-27. Jerry has been ap­ by armed personnel carriers, She lives on Whidbey Island, pentest and how he used his ij. pointed parliamentarian for the FBI hostage rescue teams, Wash , and continues to work political connections to shape convention. U.S. Army demolition experts, in her studio for an hour or the Hanford Nuclear Site and I and forensic specialists, many two each day, creating her art the neighboring Tri-Cities ! of whom are based out of the quilts. communities. The Tacoma 7. Donald Edgers Malheur Field Station." Service to Historical Society recognized mjLl published his fourth Puget Sound Mark in 2015 with the Murray i book. The Evolution of a Tom Leavitt '71, Juris Macs'58, Morgan Award, presented to Teacher, which chronicles 52 In a unanimous J.D/75, P'10, Trustee P'87 has retired an individual who has "sig­ years of his life, beginning as a election. Walter Emeritus from the surgical staff at Grays nificantly contributed to the student through Nolte '72, M.A/75 was cho­ Harbor Community Hospital efforts to preserve and com­ his 30-year sen to become interim presi­ after 46 years. After graduat­ municate local history." career as a high dent of Umpqua Community ing with a UPS double major school teacher College in Roseburg, Ore. Last in biology and chemistry. Juris of 17 different year Walter retired from the David Campbell earned his M.D at the Univer­ subjects. As presidency of Casper College .. 1 sity of Washington in 1962. was elected 2016 a teacher Don in Wyoming, after serving in Accompanied by his family, he president of the Washington commuted that post for 11 years. During moved from Minneapolis, to State Fair—one of the biggest nearly 500,000 miles and went his tenure at Casper, in 2012, a Chicago, to Bakersfield, Cailf., fairs in the world, drawing f through 16 different vehicles. gunman took the lives of two finally settling in Grays Harbor more than 1.6 million people Don is a third-generation Fox people on the campus. UCC to practice general surgery. each year David also served Island. Wash., native whose officials believe that Walter's as board president in 2007. Service to Community According to graysharbortalk. past writing has focused on experience in dealing with that Teva Sienicki '97 com. Juris was 14 when he According to The News Tri­ local history, especially that of tragedy will help UCC recover and his family emigrated from bune. the Washington State Fox Island. from the mass shooting that Latvia to the United States, Fair has long been a Campbell occured there in October. narrowly escaping the concen­ family undertaking; his father, It was following this attack tration camps. In Grays Harbor. Robert, served on the board A retired UMC that Walter reached out to Juris has enjoyed being part of of directors and also as board pastor. James the presidential search com­ a small and close-knit commu­ president in 1962. 1970, and Monroe served as CEO for the mittee to ask if he could be nity. He has a special interest 1981. David, who was born Maua Methodist Hospital in of any help. Walter began his in medical advances and for and raised in Puyallup, Wash., Kenya beginning in 2012. Just teaching career as a graduate many years traveled to Harbor- where the annual fair is held, before he and his wife, the Rev. history instructor at UPS and view Medical Center in Seattle has been in auto sales for 50 Sue Owen, were scheduled to as a history instructor at Pierce to teach trauma courses to years, currently as the gen­ return to the U.S. last spring, College and Tacoma Commu­ Young Logger Service aspiring surgeons. eral manager of Harnish Buick Al Shabaab activity led to the nity College. He will serve as T'wina Franklin '06, GMC in Puyallup. He and his evacuation of all nonessential. interim president of UCC until a M.A.T. '07 wife, Lani, have four children non-Kenyan personnel in the new president is named. and 11 grandchildren. area. James' role as CEO was

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■r.: Mike Veseth began The |l George Bryant Steven Webb. America's 2016 Meritorious serves as the executive and i began coaching Roots" at the University Place at Seattle University, where he '88, P'18 received the Pa­ Sequim. Wash.. Democrat, will analysis of the 2016 campaign Civic Center on Nov. 20, 2015. earned his M.B.A. Glad to have cific Northwest Section of the spend the next four years work­ and its "hot-button" issues. According to a News Tribune you back in town. Tim. Mathematical Association of ing on a governing board that article, her performance

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i comprised songs and words by Commission, the city of Port­ fMljpj Back in college. the Year while designing and eight years. She was previ­ I her very distant relatives Ralph land's economic development Angela Cashman implementing a comprehensive ously director of programs for Vaughan Williams, Emily Dickin­ agency. He managed the Keefe and Courtney Ludwig sports performance program the Fort Vancouver National son. Elvis Presley, and Samuel Business and Industry Divi­ Marshall's '03 dreamed of for Husson's 18 athletic teams. Trust in Vancouver, Wash., Barber Erin is fascinated by sion and led Portland's efforts running a coffee shop together, where she worked with com­ genealogy and enjoyed finding to support entrepreneurship, Now that dream has become j & Cara Evans munity partners and volun­ a way to connect with her musi­ innovation, and trade. Previ- a reality. In March. Angela and B Cantonwine began teers to produce numerous cal heritage ously, Chris was the director Courtney debuted their bu- work as the new executive large public events, most of Economic Analysis for the sines. Gig Harbor MarKee Cof- director of the Portland Sym­ notably the Veterans Parade North Carolina Department of fee Shop and Wine Bar. Open phonic Choir earlier this year, at Fort Vancouver, the General ]!iSK}7/j Gre9 F°*was Commerce and a senior budget seven days a week, the shop after singing with the choir for George C. Marshall Youth and one of nine elected analyst in the North Carolina serves breakfast, lunch, and fellows of the American College Office of State Budget and dinner. It also hosts live music of Commercial Finance Lawyers Management. on Friday and Saturday nights. for 2016. The ACCFL promotes Both women have experience This just in ... the field of commercial finance in the restaurant industry, law through education, legisla­ | Dan Abrams and which is evident in the rave tive reform, and recognition Greg Steen found­ reviews pouring in. Accord­ of distinguished practitioners, ed the Denver outdoor apparel ing to The News Tribune, the jurists, and academics. Greg is company Flylow Gear more duo is donating $3 back to the currently the chair of Lane Pow­ than 10 years ago. The com­ nonprofit Fish Food Bank of ell's Bankruptcy and Creditors' pany is known for its winter- Gig Harbor for every pound of Rights Practice Group weather technical and lifestyle coffee they sell. Joanne Warren M.A.T/97 clothing, but in April it launched a line of warm-weather is the new assistant principal Beth Taimi clothes. About 40 of Flylow's at Hawkins Middle School in Tiffany was chosen Belfair, Wash. According to 250 distributors agreed to sell the clothing line, particularly to be one of 23 senior-level the Kitsap Sun. Joanne's first athletics administrators to par­ teaching job was in 1996 at mountaineering stores. Its larg­ est sales footprint is the Rocky ticipate in the 2016 NCAA Cedar Heights Junior High in Pathway Program, the NCAA the South Kitsap School Dis­ Mountain region, followed by New England, the Pacific announced in January. The trict. She taught language arts Pathway Program (formerly Northwest, and California. for four years, then moved on known as the NCAA Fellows to teaching social studies at According to businessden. com, Dan was born in Boston Leadership Development Pro­ South Kitsap High. In her new gram) is a yearlong experiential role Joanne will be in charge of but moved to Denver at age 7. After graduating from UPS, he learning opportunity that pro­ student discipline and support, vides exposure to every facet worked as a ski instructor at teacher training, and staff evalu­ of an athletics department. ation. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort SMILES ACROSS BORDERS in Wyoming. He then returned Beth is associate athletic direc­ Last year Jeff Berndt '91, a North Carolina-based to Denver and studied market­ tor at Union College in Sche­ nectady, N.Y. dentist, was in Bakong, Cambodia, as part of a team Last winter, Gig ing at the University of Denver. Harbor, Wash., native After graduating in 2004, sponsored by Global Dental Relief. Over the course Michael Buchanan was back he and his ski partner, Greg, Chris Wood was of six days, the volunteers saw 998 children ages 6 to in the Pacific Northwest on founded Flylow. named head cross 16 years old, and provided examinations, cleanings, tour with The Book of Mormon. Nearly two years ago, Arches country coach and the first di­ fluoride, sealants, composites, and restoration and the popular Broadway musical. reported that Theo Smith's rector of sports performance at extractions. This past November Jeff was back at it He has been on the road with wildly successful Missoula. Lynn University in Boca the show for three and a half Mont., based Indian food cart. Raton, Fla. According to in Nepal, and he will return to Cambodia in July. It years as an ensemble member. Masala, was looking to grow lynnfightingknights.com, in his will be Jeff's 11th time volunteering with GDR. Michael caught the musical into a restaurant. On Feb. 22 last position, at Pfeiffer Univer­ Global Dental Relief was established in 2001 theater bug after a sixth-grade Theo opened his authentic sity (Misenheimer, N.C.), Chris to provide free dental care and oral health educa­ trip to New York, where he saw Indian and Southeast Asian started the Falcons' men's and tion to families in Nepal, northern India, Cambodia, Phantom of the Opera and Cats. restaurant in Missoula, retain­ women's indoor and outdoor He was excited to have the ing the name Masala. He trav­ track and field program from Kenya, and Guatemala. GDR returns to see the same opportunity to show his fellow eled throughout India in 2012. scratch for the 2014-15 sea­ children every two years to provide continuous care. cast members around Seattle When he returned home, he son. During his tenure there he Its dental camps have up to five dentists, several hy­ and to see the New Year's Eve began recreating the meals he led the Falcons to consecutive gienists, and five to 10 nonmedical volunteers who fireworks show from the Space enjoyed while traveling. The NCAA regional appearances. treat upwards of 100 children per day. Needle. majority of the ingredients on Prior to his time at Pfeiffer, Jeff grew up in Yakima, Wash., and earned his Chris Harder assumed the post Masala's menu, come from Chris ran the track and field of director of Business Oregon the western-Montana area. For and cross country programs D.D.S. at USC and an M.S. in orthodontics at The on March 22. He was appointed example the restaurant serves for two seasons at Husson University of North Carolina. He provided public University in Bangor, Maine. by Gov. Kate Brown. Business a small plate and pint pairing health dentistry at the Yakima Valley Farm Workers during happy hour, of Tibetan He guided the women's cross Oregon is the state's economic Clinic for eight years before going back to complete development agency. Chris, an Momos (potstickers) made country team to a pair of North an orthodontic residency at The University of North Oregon native, has served as from local grass fed beef. Find Atlantic Conference Champi- economic development director out more at facebook.com/ onships (2011-12) and was Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. at the Portland Development masalamontana. named the 2012 NAC Coach of

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Fxytfrz starscapes; cereal boxes cut on his work for more than Munch. Business major Sean from nuts and seeds." he said ,v, j , j Jared Trecker'15 and arranged into a map of the two years as an independent said in the article that most in the story. Sean experimented IsBIfil joined the Admis­ solar system; and big, wildly salesperson for the company breakfast foods presented with his Muesli Munch for sion staff at Puget Sound as a detailed cutaway rocket ships Passion Parties, performing as healthy are anything but. about a year before bringing the programs and reports special­ constructed from plywood as his alter ego, drag queen "Granolas are made with product to market two years ist. Welcome back. Jared! and recycled cardboard. Really Lulu Luscious. That was until cheap filler oils like canola ago. At present it's sold in Samantha Wilk was highlight­ : visually arresting. Photos at rival Pure Romance, whose that have little nutritional health food stores and co-ops ed in the Skagit Valley Herald alexanderkeyes.com, under business model doesn't allow value. ... But Muesli has a in central California and online in February introducing her as "work." Alexander earned his men to be consultants, pur­ natural sweetness from the (mueslimunch.com); Sean a retail clerk at Forte Artisan M.F.A. at the University of chased the company. In the dried fruits, and the oils are hopes to eventually be in Whole Chocolates at their Mount Oregon in 2014. article James said he liked the healthier because they come Foods stores nationwide. Vernon, Wash., location. In January the Lake County flexibility of freelance work, Examiner of Lakeview, Ore., often referred to as the "gig economy," but independent reported that David Lev was This just in ... hired as youth library assistant contractors don't enjoy legal for the Lake County Librar­ employment protection equal ies. In his new job David is in to that of traditional workplace & E charge of weekly story times employees. James has hired E in Lakeview, the summer read­ the same lawyer who fought C/5 ing program, and helping with to overturn Oregon's gay-mar­ 1 E front-desk and patron services. riage ban, with the intent to be He received his master's in at the cutting edge of employ­ o ment law in the state. a Library Information Science 32 at Emporia State University's s Portland., Ore., campus. f 3 i )i \ We report with £ o An article on Nov. 19, 2015, - j pride that Peter in The Elm, the student news­ Bittner's story for the sum­ ul paper of Washington College mer 2014 edition of Arches, in Chestertown, Md., profiled "A Nomadic State of Mind," f Dylan Poulsen, who joined won a Merit Award in the the mathematics and computer 2015 communications awards science faculty at Washington for the Northwest district of this past fall. Dylan completed the Council for Advancement his Ph.D. at Baylor University and Support of Education. : in 2015. in February Olivia Weitz Tanya Rogers is a Ph.D. joined the staff of The Idaho student at Northeastern Uni­ Press-Tribune as a reporter on ' versity. She’s contributed to a the paper's "watchdog team," number of papers in marine bi­ covering Canyon County A CURRENCY FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS ology journals in recent years, and the cities of Nampa and In February we learned that Nicolas Cary '07 was a speaker at the World Govern­ I but we also note from her bio Caldwell. Olivia should have ment Summit in Dubai. His paper, "Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the Circular : on Northeastern's Marine Sci­ no trouble orienting herself ence Center website that the to her beat; she is a native of Economy Potential," appeared in the World Economic Forum Agenda, along­ versatile Tanya is a scientific the area. side contributors like Bill Gates, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, UN illustrator and a birder. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. 7^)]Mi! In early March In it Nicolas wrote: "Imagine a world in which a Berber guide in the Sahara 5th Reunion we Arches editors can instantly send a payment to anyone in the world, at near zero cost. Imagine a June 10-12, 2016 were delighted when Ian Fox stopped in to Arches world where your intelligent refrigerator detects that you are running low on eggs World Headquarters to say and automatically orders them from Amazon with expedited drone shipping. Your |Mj jj | The News Tribune :* reviewed Aaron hi while he was in town. Ian fridge escrows the funds with a geolocational trigger, and when the drone arrives Badham's "Inflated Fabrica­ was an Arches intern during the payment is instantly done. Or better yet, imagine a world where you are run­ - his senior year, and we've tions," which was on display ning late for a flight and the Heathrow Express is severely delayed. Well, good in the college's Kittredge Gal­ been following his advancing news, you can order your self-driving, self-repairing, and materially refurbished : lery in February. "From the career. He told us that he'd : doorway the objects on the left his contract job at NPR car and pay a surcharge fee to negotiate with all the other self-driving cars on the floor—all a few feet wide and in Washington. D.C., to take road to get out the way, automatically. high—look exactly like brightly a full-time job as donor rela­ "Unfortunately, before this can happen we have to completely reinvent the colored inflatable plastic," the tions associate in philanthropic way payments work and leverage a recent, critical innovation in computer science partnerships at the Pew Chari­ paper observed. "Surely if you known as the Bitcoin block chain. Credit cards and other payment systems are table Trusts. Really interesting kick them they'll float around." inflexible channels for the age of the Internet," Except that up close one real­ experience, he said, but he's Nicolas is co-founder of Blockchain, a database "wallet" that keeps track of izes the playful-looking objects still angling for a job in the are powder-coated steel. newsroom at NPR. Bitcoin transactions. He is also co-founder of YBUSA, a youth entrepreneurial accelerator for young adults, and he is a partner at PipelineDeals, a Seattle-based James Luu was the feature The San Luis Obispo Tribune subject of a March 2 article in February ran a story on software company that employs a number of Puget Sound grads. in Willamette Week focusing Sean Swift's creation, Muesli

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Alumni erator for Army combat engi­ and Betty raised three children school and throughout college. Tacoma. He served in the Air neers during World War II. Jim and moved to Oregon in 1964. In 1945 he joined the Navy cn Esther Mann Luehrs '44. P'69 Force from 1945 to 1946. Bill Q) saw action in the Battle of the Robert was an active member and served as a naval aircrew- passed away on Nov. 13.2015. was a retired captain from the c Ruhr and the Battle for Cen­ of St. Luke Lutheran Church in man for two years, returning She was nearly 92. Estie was Tacoma Police Department, tral Germany. After the war. Portland for many years. Rob­ to the Northwest to attend c born in Pasadena. Calif., and with more than 30 years of raised in 'Wenatchee. Wash. service, and he was a Medal tribution to ‘world peace and brother, Kenneth Langlow ’49, 1950 Jim and Joan Thomp­ cz She was CPS senior class of Valor recipient. He was a justice. Jim attended Puget preceded him in death. His son son '51, whom he had met o president. In 1945 she mar­ member of Rotary and the Sound and earned his degree passed away on Feb. 10. Two in seventh grade, wore mar­ Masons, and both he and wife ried Lev/ Luehrs. In 1959 the in political science. In 1949 he daughters; six grandchildren; ried. Jim went on to study at Pat wore active in the Order of two built a home in Vancouver. married Olive "Bansy" Tuttle two great-grandchildren; broth­ the University of Washington the Eastern Star. He served as Wash. Later, in 1970, they built '51. Jim continued his educa­ er Stanley '50. P'75; and other School of Medicine, graduating president of the Puyallup Valley a home in Union, Wash., at tion, receiving his master's family including nephew Scott with honors. He worked as an Daffodil Festival, and he was Alderforook Golf & Yacht Club, degree in U.S. foreign policy Langlow '75 survive Robert. OB-GYN doctor and delivered instrumental in starting the and retired there in 1973. The and international relations at thousands of babies. He was Fourth of July air show tradi­ couple enjoyed travel, golf, Rolland "Ron" Upton Jr. '49 the University of Washington. a member of the Pacific Coast tion in Tacoma. Bill also served dancing, and singing in church passed away on Jan. 12, just Jim held leadership positions Obstetrical and Gynecologi­ as the chief security officer choirs. They spent their winters shy of his 88tn birthday. He in numerous human rights cal Society and served as the at the Western Washington in Pahrump, Nev. Estie lived at was born in Seattle and grew organizations, including the group's president. Jim was Fair for many years. He and Glenwcod Place Senior Living up in Southern California. Ron National Conference of Chris­ issued 33 patents for various Pat moved to Leavenworth, in Vancouver for the past eight returned to the Pacific North­ tians and Jews, the World medical products and devices. Wash., more than 25 years ago years. Lev/ preceded her in west to attend Puget Sound, Affairs Council in Seattle, the He authored and co-authored and became active in local gov­ death in 2009, after 64 years followed by graduate school at Urban League of Metropolitan more than 35 scientific papers. ernment and service groups. of marriage. Survivors include Columbia University on a Carn­ Seattle, and the National Urban Jim served on the board of the Bill was elected mayor of Leav­ three children, including Greg egie fellowship. He became League Washington Bureau in Polytechnic School for 10 years enworth and served as chair Luehrs '69; six grandchildren; superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C. He lobbied Livonia. Mich., a town experi­ and was past president of The of the Aging and Adult Care of and four great-grandchildren. Central Washington Advisory Congress for the Civil Rights encing unprecedented growth Valley Hunt Club. He also was Ruth Behrens Cootsona '48 a member of The Twilight Club Committee, among other posi­ Act of 1964, and. as part of at the time. Thirty schools died on Dec. 29. 2015, at the of Pasadena, the Economic tions. His son preceded Bill in President Johnson's War on were opened in the district age of 90. She was born and Poverty, helped introduce anti­ during Ron's administration. Roundtable, The California death. His wife, Pat, followed raised in Puyallup. Wash., and Club, and The Athenaeum at Bill in death on Jan. 15, 2016. poverty programs including As the chief administrator for after receiving her degree the California Institute of Tech­ Survivors include a daughter, VISTA. Jim served for 16 years a top district in Michigan, Ron nology. Jim's wife of 65 years, a sister, and numerous nieces in French literature, married in the Office of Economic Op­ was nationally sought after for three children, and 10 grand­ and nephews. Thomas Cootsona '50 in 1949. portunity in the Southwest speaking engagements. He They made their first home in children survive him. Region. Late in his career he also taught at Michigan State Robert Wolf '50. '51 passed Seattle, later moving to Port­ was a special assistant in the University. Ron bred and raced Gale Force '50 died on Dec. away on Nov. 18. 2015, the land. Ore., and then in 1961 the district offices of U.S Rep. Standardbred horses for many 29, 2015, at age 91. Raised in day after his 87th birthday. Bob Cootsonas left the Northwest Tom Foley and U.S. Rep. years. After leaving Michigan Bremerton, Wash., he gradu­ was born in Tacoma and raised for the San Francisco Bay Area. Jim Wright. In retirement he Ron became a consultant for ated from high school there in in Yelm, Wash., where he was Ruth raised their two sons and volunteered with recreational school districts in Menlo Park 1942. Gale then served in the active in school, church, and wrote for local publications. programs for youth and the and Irvine, Calif. He retired to Navy during World War II. He Scouting activities. He gradu­ She also participated in several American Red Cross, and he Orcas Island, Wash., and sold attended both CPS and the ated in 1946 as salutatorian philanthropic organizations. In assisted disabled individuals. real estate there for several University of Washington and of Yelm High School. Bob at­ 1981 Tom and Ruth purchased He also worked on political years. Ron was a member went on to co-own a Union tended DePauw University and a tennis specialty shop. Top campaigns. Jim served on the of the Screen Actors Guild service station for eight years. then transferred to the College Spin Tennis, which they oper­ boards of the Friends of the and performed in community Gale then worked at the Puget of Puget Sound, where he ated until 2004 with the help Library, supporting The Univer­ theater productions and on Sound Naval Shipyard, retir­ earned degrees in speech and of their sons. They continued sity of Texas, Arlington librar­ commercial television. He was ing as an electrical planner in education. On campus he was to work with their oldest son in ies, and the Youth Orchestra involved in community im­ 1984. He married Betty Jane a member of the Adelphian his pro tennis shop until 2008. of Greater Fort Worth. He en­ provements wherever he lived. Otto in 1956. Gale was a life Concert Choir, and he partici­ Ruth and Tom then retired to joyed singing in church choirs His wife of 66 years, Jane Star- member of the Bremerton pated in theater productions as Chico, Calif. Tom predeceased for many years, had a passion key Upton '51; two daughters; Upton Naval Masonic Lodge an actor and student director. Ruth in April 2015, after 65 for fishing, and enjoyed Fris- six grandchildren; 10 great­ No. 206. He also held member­ Bob also was a member of the years of marriage. Ruth is re­ bee golf, computer games, grandchildren; and one sister ships in the National Active Tamanawas yearbook staff. He membered for her kindness, repairing cars, and visiting with survive him. and Retired Federal Employees earned the Robert Brandt Me­ elegance, and creativity. Two family and friends. Jim's wife Association, Kitsap Old Timers morial Award and was named James Caillouette '50 passed sons and three grandchildren of 66 years, six daughters. 10 Association (baseball), and the to Who's Who in American away at home in Pasadena, survive her. grandchildren, and one great- Kitsap Square Dance Associa­ Colleges Bob worked for the Calif., on Christmas Day 2015. James Johnson '49 passed granddaughter survive him. tion. Gale enjoyed woodwork­ Puyallup School District as a He was 88. Jim was born in away on Nov. 15. 2015, at age ing and spending time with teacher and drama supervi­ Robert Langlow '49 died on Los Angeles but moved with 91. He was born in 1924 in a his grandchildren. His wife of sor. He met his wife, Kathryn Jan. 30 at the age of 93. He his family to Lakewood, Wash., log cabin in northeast Washing­ 59 years, one daughter, two Helwig, while teaching in was born and raised in Tacoma at age 12. He attended Clover ton state. When he was 12 his Puyallup. The two married and and married Betty Yenne in Park schools and served as grandchildren, and three great­ family moved to Alaska, where moved to Yelm to join Bob's 1944. He served in the U.S. president of his junior and grandchildren survive him. he developed a love of the out­ family's business. They raised Army during World War II, re­ senior classes and as student William Luebke '50 died doors. Jim graduated from Ju­ turning to Tacoma after military three children in Yelm and body president. Jim played at the age of 88 on June 6, neau High School in 1942 and service to complete his college participated in numerous civic drums in high school and was 2015. Bill was a graduate of soon after enlisted in the Army. degree. Robert worked in retail and booster organizations, part of a dance band in high Franklin Pierce High School in He served as a field radio op- sales and management. He including the Yelm Planning

44 arches spring 2016 Commission, Yelm Tree Advi­ nity symphony and orchestra of Alpha Phi sorority and Beta a pastor and member of the Medical Arts Center. Glen sory Board, PTA, and Scouts, groups. He also enjoyed build­ Sigma Phi International. She New England Conference of practiced family dentistry until among many others. Bob and ing things, including a good was a longtime board member the United Methodist Church. he retired. He was a longtime Kathy were passionate about portion of his house. His wife for the Silver Bow County Fair, He returned to the Northwest member of the Fircrest City education and established a preceded him in death. Three and she tutored adults. Kathe Conference for a short time as Council and was mayor for one Dollars for Scholars chapter for children survive Carol. was an avid non-fiction writer pastor of the Redmond. Wash., term. Glen was active in the Yelm High School graduates. In and published many works UMC from 1959 to 1964 Back Association of Washington Cit­ Gary Salzsieder '53 passed retirement Bob put his love of in the Chicken Soup for the in Maine, he presided at vari­ ies. serving on the executive away on Dec. 2, 2015, at age history and storytelling to work Soul series, along with other ous churches until 1993, when committee. He was a long­ 84. He grew up in southeast as a tour guide for the Wash­ anthologies and publications. he became the founding pastor standing member of the Pierce North Dakota, and came to Ta­ ington state capitol. Bob's Husband Ken preceded her in of Union Church of Belgrade County Dental Society, the coma to attend the College of wife of 53 years predeceased death in 2005, after 53 years of Lakes, a United Methodist Washington State Dental Asso­ Puget Sound in 1949. Before him. Three children, a foreign marriage Their grandson died Church. He served in several ciation, the Fircrest Golf Club, graduating, though, he joined exchange student "son," and serving in Iraq. Three children, capacities in the New England and the Tacoma Elks. Daughter the Navy. After his military nine grandchildren survive Bob. 10 grandchildren, and numer­ Conference, including as con­ Jody preceded Glen in death. service, Gary went to work for ous great-grandchildren survive ference chaplain and chair of Survivors include three chil­ Henry Semmern Jr. '51 died then-Lockheed Corporation Kathe. the Maine Conference Board of dren. five grandchildren, and on Dec 30, 2015. He was 88. in California. He returned to Higher Education and Ministry, three great-grandchildren. Hank was born in Tacoma and Washington to purchase and Clyde Cooper '54 passed among many other commit­ graduated from Stadium High operate Gary's Dairy Queen away on Nov. 24, 2015, at age James Healy '56 passed away tee and council appointments. School in 1945. He played franchise located on the corner 89. He was born and raised on Dec. 23. 2015, at age 81. Peter was vice president and baseball in his younger years of Meridian Street and River in Morton. Wash., where he He grew up in Tacoma and at­ president of the Boston Univer­ and in college. Hank was a Road in Puyallup, Wash. He lived his entire life except dur­ tended Saint Patrick Catholic sity School of Theology Alumni member and former president was active in the Puyallup Li­ ing Army service and his time School and graduated from Council and a member of the of the Tacoma Athletic Com­ ons Club, the Full Gospel Busi­ enrolled at Puget Sound. Clyde Bellarmine Preparatory School. school's board of advisors. He mission. He was an avid sports ness Men's Fellowship, and met and married his wife of 60 After earning his bachelor's participated in the National fan and golfer and was a mem­ the Greater Tacoma Christian years. Sally McLean Cooper degree in English, Jim went Council of Churches, as an ber of the Fircrest Golf Club. Laymen's Outreach breakfast. ‘52. at CPS Over the years he on to obtain a law degree at ecumenical delegate in West Hank spent his career in auto He also was involved at Life worked as a teacher, business the University of Washington. Germany, and he was chaplain sales, first as co-owner with Christian Church in Tacoma, owner, dog trainer, and logger. He practiced law for 51 years, to the Maine state legislature. his father of Semmern Motors and was known as the "danc­ Clyde was active in the Morton retiring in 2012. When he was Peter also was active in local in Tacoma and later working for ing usher" Gary tutored ele­ community as president of younger, Jim backpacked all Rotary and Kiwanis Interna­ then-Osborne-McCann Cadil­ mentary students in Spanaway, the PTA and as a member of over the world, climbed Mount tional clubs, as well as on the lac. He was a life member of Wash., for 20 years, receiving the Chamber of Commerce, Rainier, and sailed in the Vic- University of Puget Sound St. Paul Lutheran Church. Hank the Volunteer of the Year the Morton Husky Scholarship Maui International Yacht Race. Alumni Council. He co-wrote is survived by his brother, Don. award in 2008 He is remem­ Committee, and the Morton He enjoyed reading, yearly trips Words for Your Wedding with bered for his generosity and Planning Commission. Clyde to Maui with wife Mary-Jo. and Carol Otterson '53. M.A/59 David Glusker, used widely by joyful spirit. Numerous nieces also volunteered his time to spending summers on the Key died on Jan. 31, a little more couples, clergy, and others. and nephews survive Gary. the Morton United Methodist Peninsula with his family. His than a month shy of his 89th Former Puget Sound President Church. He enjoyed hunting wife of 45 years, a son. and a birthday. Carol attended Ta­ Kathleen Childs Campbell R. Franklin Thompson married and fishing in local lakes and in grandson predeceased Jim. coma and Puyallup schools, '54 died on Nov. 19, 2015. Peter and his wife of 60 years. Alaska. Clyde found joy in cook­ Two children and three grand­ graduating from Puyallup High She was 83 Kathe was born Susan Rausch Misner ’54. The ing for friends and at family sons survive him. in 1944. He enlisted in the in Tacoma and graduated from Franklins hosted the wedding gatherings. In his later years he Navy and served in World War Stadium High School. While at their residence on campus. Jean Williams Mazzei '56 taught himself woodworking, II and in the Korean War. After a student, she met her future The Misner Room in Collins passed away on Jan. 9 at the building clocks, tables, chairs, completing military service. husband. Ken Campbell '50. Memorial Library is named for age of 83. She was born in and desks for family members. Carol ran into his childhood who was Puget Sound’s as­ Peter and Susan. The Misners Portland, Ore. Her father was His wife, four daughters, seven friend June Sabol. The two sistant registrar at the time. also supported the construc­ a civil engineer working on grandchildren, and one great­ fell in love and were married The two were married in 1952. tion of Rausch Auditorium on construction of Highway 99. As grandchild survive him. in 1954. Carol was a math and They fell in love with the Butte, campus, named in honor of sections of the road were com­ music teacher in Rochester, Mont., area and moved there The Rev. Dr Peter Misner '55 Susan's father. Susan, their pleted the family would move Wash., and at Jason Lee Junior to raise their family of three passed away on Christmas five children. 10 grandchildren, to another town along the High and Wilson High School children. Kathe was active in Day 2015. He was 82. Born and two great-grandchildren route; as a result Jean attended in Tacoma. He later became her children's activities, includ­ in Pasco, Wash., Peter grew survive Peter. 28 schools before graduating Tacoma Public Schools' direc­ ing as a Girl Scout leader and up in the Tri-Cities area and from J.M. Weatherwax High Glen Dugger '56 died on Dec. tor of budget and data process­ as the country's first female graduated from Kennewick School in Aberdeen. Wash., in 1, 2015. He was 88. Glen was ing and was key to introducing coed explorer executive with High School in 1951. After 1951. Jean excelled at tennis born in Centralia, Wash., and computers to the district. Carol the Boy Scouts of America. graduating from the College of throughout her life and was a raised in Tacoma, where he was active in the community Ken and Kathe established Big Puget Sound, where he met longtime member of the Taco­ graduated from Lincoln High and served on the boards of Sky Adjusters Inc., an indepen­ and married his wife. Susan ma Lawn Tennis Club and the School. He was a varsity foot­ Good Samaritan Hospital and dent insurance claims office, Rausch '54, Peter completed Lakewood Racquet Club. Jean ball player in high school and the Educational Employees and worked together for 30 a Master of Divinity degree at taught history at Franklin Pierce met his wife, Dolores, at LHS. Credit Union. He also served years. The two homesteaded Boston University School of High School for 25 years. She After a short stint in the Army. on several committees as a property, built a log cabin, and Theology in 1959. He received particularly enjoyed teaching Glen returned to Tacoma and member of Immanuel Lutheran raised a herd of mammoth don­ his Master of Sacred Theol­ courses in world problems and attended CPS. He went on to Church in Puyallup and later keys. The American Donkey ogy in 1975 and his Doctor of was concerned about develop­ the University of Washington Peace Lutheran Church in and Mule Society honored four Ministry degree in 1979, both ing events, especially in the School of Dentistry and in Tacoma. Carol enjoyed boat­ of their herd with hall of fame at New York Theological Semi­ Middle East. Jean and her hus­ 1962 opened the Fircrest ing and fishing, and commu- status. Kathe was a member nary. Peter served churches as band of 53 years. Sandy Mazzei

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! '52. M.Ed/58, were honored two great-grandchildren; and Jayne Dahl Jueling '58 died Benjamin Bedzis '61, M.A/64 Max Wills '61. P'81 died of a to with Lakewood's Bill Harrison numerous nieces and nephews on Jan. 20. 2016. She was 89 died on Nov. 27, 2015, three Q cardiac arrhythmia on Jan. 21. Volunteer of the Year award in survive Meg. Jayne was born and raised in days past his 96th birthday He was 77. Max was born in TO 2007. They were recognized Johnnie Louderback '57, Tacoma. She taught in Tacoma He grew up on a dairy farm Bocholt, Germany, and lived £ for taking down signs illegally Public Schools for more than in Amsterdam. N.Y., and was in Germany and Austria be­ t/) M.Ed.'73 passed away Dec. CO posted on telephone poles 2. 2015, while on vacation in 30 years, retiring in 1988. inducted as a private into the fore moving with his family to TO and trees. The two were cred­ Sydney, Australia. He was 80. Jayne was married to Helmut National Guard in 1940. Ben Tacoma in 1949. After Puget ited with removing more than O Johnnie was born and raised Jueling '39 for 18 years before served in the Pacific Theater Sound he earned a doctorate 10.000 signs over 10 years. his passing in 1990. Survivors during World War II and was in organic chemistry at the i; in Willapa, Wash., graduating Sandy survives Jean. as valedictorian from Willapa include Jayne's son, James awarded a Bronze Star. Purple University of Washington in Anna Margaret "Meg" Horan Valley High School, where he Dahl; Helmut's daughters, Jill, Heart, and Silver Star. He later 1965. Max worked for the Names '56. '58. P'88, GP'17 played football and basketball. and Julie Neff-Lippman, former served in Germany on oc­ Shell Development Company passed away on Feb. 13. At the College of Puget Sound, Puget Sound English instructor cupation duty and at various in Emeryville. Calif., before be­ She was 81. Born and raised Johnnie was a member of and director of the Center for military posts throughout the ginning his career at California in Wenatchee. Wash., Meg Sigma Nu fraternity and played Writing. Learning, and Teach­ U.S. In 1950, while stationed Polytechnic State University in graduated from Wenatchee varsity basketball. He also met ing; and three granddaughters. at then-Fort Lewis near Ta­ 1967. He was instrumental in High School and attended his wife. June Baker '58. at Robert Strobe M.A/58 coma, he met and married developing the polymers and Washington State University CPS The two were married on died on Dec. 3. 2015, at age Eleanor Nemac. She preceded coatings program at Cal Poly before transferring to the Uni­ Dec. 22. 1957. After earning 83. He grew up in Shelton, him in death after 47 years of and was internationally recog­ versity of Puget Sound, where his degree. Johnnie joined the Wash., earned his bachelor's marriage. Ben saw combat nized for his work developing she met her husband and Air Force. He was assigned to degree at Western Wash­ duty during the Korean War new methods of analysis of love of her life. Tom Names the navigation school at James ington University, and spent along with duty in Japan. He volatile organic compounds. '59. P'88. GP'17. Meg was a Connally Air Force Base in his entire career as a teacher retired from the Army after 20 Max retired as professor emeri­ f longtime substitute teacher in Waco, Texas. He returned to and principal in the Tacoma years, at the rank of lieutenant tus more than 10 years ago but the Tacoma Public Schools but Washington and was stationed school district, from 1954 to colonel. Ben then earned his continued laboratory research found her job as mom to three at then-McChord Air Force 1985. Bob was admired for teaching degree and taught until his passing. Outside of daughters most important. She Base before a three-year tour in his ability to solve problems in DuPont, Wash., and in the work he enjoyed swimming, was a member of University England. Johnnie then taught at the various schools where Tacoma Public Schools for 20 gardening, train travel, river Place Presbyterian Church and math and navigation at the Air he worked. In retirement he years. In retirement he trav­ rafting, and t'ai chi. Max also former longtime member of Fir- Force Academy in Colorado for many years was a case eled extensively, enjoyed golf, loved eating salami, stinky crest United Methodist Church. Springs, Colo., where he and manager and adult literacy and volunteered at the VA golf cheese, and pie, and spending Meg enjoyed eating breakfast his family became avid hikers coordinator and instructor at course at American Lake for time with friends and family. with her church friends every and campers. He also enjoyed Tacoma Community House 14 years. Ben was a member His wife, Susan Currier, profes­ Sunday. She worked for many watching the Air Force Falcons Bob also volunteered his time of the Elks for 34 years, the sor and associate dean in the years as a member of the Holi­ participate in numerous NCAA as a guardian ad litem. Bob Military Officers Association of College of Liberal Arts at Cal day Orthopedic Guild in support appearances. Johnnie navigated played, coached, and officiated America and the Washington Poly, preceded Max in death. of Mary Bridge Children's Hos­ a C-119 plane in Vietnam from sports throughout his life. He Retired Teachers Association. Two children, Max Wills, and pital in Tacoma. Meg and Tom 1971 to 1972. After that military loved his family, fishing, golf, He moved to Panorama retire­ Anne Wills Lindquist ’81 and ment community in Lacey. looked forward to the hospital’s tour, he returned to Tacoma and football. His second wife, a her husband. Jay Lindquist Wash., in 1998. There he met '82; seven grandchildren, four Festival of Trees each year and earned his M.Ed. at Puget son, and a grandson preceded great-grandchildren; and Max's and attended the event for 25 Sound and taught in the ROTC him in death. Three children, 11 and married Orma Stout in 2001. Survivors include his brother, Klaus Wills ’62, and years. As a longtime member program at Willamette Uni­ grandchildren, and his furry pal, wife, her son, and two grand­ Klaus' wife. Karen Walker Wills of the Fircrest Golf Club. Meg versity in Salem, Ore. Johnnie Clyde, survive Bob. daughters. '62. survive Max. served as captain of the 9-hole completed his 22-year Air Force John Wilson '60 passed away group and played bridge and career with tours in Montgom­ on Dec. 14, 2015, after a short Robert Donnelly '61 passed Wilbur "Luke" Lucas '62 Bunco with her friends at the ery. Ala., and San Antonio, battle with an aggressive form away on Dec. 31. 2015, at age passed away on Feb. 2, at age 76. He was a lifelong Washing­ 80. He enjoyed his career as a club. She also was a member Texas, working in Air Training of cancer. He was 77 John teacher and coach of football, of a women's investment club. Command. He again returned attended Lakeside School and tonian with strong affiliations golf, and swimming. Luke was Meg's love of travel took her to to Washington state, where he Roosevelt High School in Se­ and friendships in the Tacoma area Robert graduated from an avid gardener and grew Ireland. Scotland, the Panama taught and was principal in the attle. He was a member of the dahlias "the size of dinner Canal, the Virgin Islands, and Vader public schools for eight Air Force Reserve for six years Stadium High School in 1957. plates" to share with friends. Hawaii. She and Tom enjoyed years. In retirement he contin­ following his college gradua­ He served in the National He is remembered as a sto­ each summer at their home at ued to enjoy hiking, camping, tion. His career with The Boe­ Guard as a young man and ryteller and for his "wacky" Lake Chelan, where they took boating, gardening, and cutting ing Company spanned more later in the U.S. Air Force Re­ sense of humor. Luke and his grandkids on walks to Fields trees on his property and mill­ than 30 years, including three serve, retiring as a chief mas­ wife of 57 years. Donna, volun­ Point Landing to buy them ing lumber with his sawmill. (In years as procurement man­ ter sergeant. Robert developed teered for many years in Mar­ candy. Meg was a die-hard autumn 2009 Johnnie wrote ager of the Airborne Warning many friendships through his riage Encounter and Engaged Cougar fan in a house full of Arches about a mistake in the and Control System (AWACS) varied interests and his career Encounter weekends, and at Huskies, and she loved to go magazine, in which we called program in England. During at Madigan Army Medical Holden Village, a Lutheran re­ to the Apple Cup with sister the new Memorial Fieldhouse that time he and his wife. Ben- Center. He was an avid cyclist, Colleen. The two sisters and treat near Lake Chelan, Wash. door handles double-bladed jamine. traveled throughout traveler, and reader Robert their husbands were thrilled to axes. He correctly informed us Europe. John was an avid skier enjoyed history and listen­ Survivors include Donna, three attend the 1998 Rose Bowl. that loggers would call them and artist. He loved to collect ing to and telling stories. He daughters, and four grandchil­ Tom predeceased her in Feb­ double-bitted axes. We were automobile memorabilia and liked meeting with "the lunch dren. ruary 2015. Three daughters, happy for his help.) His wife of is remembered for his ability bunch" from Stadium High. Thora Holden Wagner '62 including current Puget Sound nearly 58 years, three children, to fix most anything. His wife, Robert's wife. Marilyn, preced­ passed away on Feb. 4. She trustee Erin Names Shagren 13 grandchildren, and seven three children, and eight grand­ ed him in death a year ago. His was 92. Thora was born in '88; 10 grandchildren, includ­ great-grandchildren survive children survive him. two children, other family, and Tacoma and was a 1941 Sta­ ing Sammie Griffin M.Ed.'17; him. dear friends survive Robert. dium High School graduate.

46 arches spring 2016 She married William Gregory also enjoyed time with fam­ Phoenix, where Jim attended Kenneth Lee White '67, dation animal rescue. She was a in 1945, and the couple had ily and friends at the Tacoma the then-American Institute M.B.A/68 died in Bangkok. resident of Beverly Hills, Calif., three daughters. In 1961 Thora Rainiers baseball games. He for Foreign Trade and became Thailand, his home for 29 at the time of her death. married Jack Wagner '47 and volunteered for many years at an American citizen. He began years. He was 69. Ken's child­ Ardra Lablond Barbee '69 moved to Kent. Wash., for a The Oregon Trail Center. His his career with Dun and Brad- hood was spent in Latin and passed away on Jan. 28. at age combined family of five, includ­ wife of 48 years, Kate; two street in New York City, where South America and in New 86. She was born in Minneapo­ ing Jack's two sons. She was children; and five grandchildren he and Ann lived for a year Caledonia before his return to lis and enjoyed many years as active in the Kent community survive Jim. before Jim was transferred the U.S. in 1955. Ken started a special-education teacher in at UPS in 1963. majoring in and gave generously of her George Grobins '65, P'01 to Paris. They spent two and Puyallup and Richland. Wash. business administration. He time and talents. Five children, passed away peacefully at a half years there exploring Brother Dale Lablond '56 pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon seven grandchildren, and six his home in Yelm, Wash., on the city, learning French, and preceded her in death. Two and served as president of the great-grandchildren survive Dec. 10, 2015. He was born enjoying museums during low children, a stepson, six grand­ fraternity during his junior year. Thora. in Latvia, and his family came tourist season. Returning to children, and four great-grand­ On the advice of Prof. John Sue Jones Walgren '62 died to America and to Tacoma the States in 1971, Jim began children survive Ardie. his long career in banking with Prins, Ken spent his senior year on Jan. 9 at age 85. She was in 1950. George graduated at then-Netherlands Business Greta Husveg '70 died on Dec. raised in Colorado, graduating from Stadium High School in Seattle First National Bank. He School, Nyenrode, launch­ 1, 2015, at age 67. She was from Wheatridge High School 1959 and from the University earned an M.B.A. at Seattle ing the exchange program involved with the Adelphian in 1949. For two years, before of Puget Sound in 1965, and University in 1975, and he between it and Puget Sound. Concert Choir and the Madrigal transferring to Puget Sound, furthered his education with a was a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School. Jim Ken returned to Tacoma for his Singers when she was on cam­ Sue attended then-Colorado Doctor of Dental Surgery de­ joined the international division M. B A. in 1968. He later at­ pus. Greta was a resident of A&M University, where she gree from Creighton University of Seafirst Bank and handled tended a management-training Lakewood, Wash. was a member of Delta, Delta, in 1969. He founded Health business relations with Canada program in Saranac Lake, Delta sorority and was chosen Centered Family Dentistry in Joel Medlicott '71 passed in Vancouver, B.C. In 1979 he N. Y., where David Rockefeller sweetheart of Sigma Chi frater­ University Place, Wash., and away on Jan 28. after a 10-year and his family moved to Mount recruited him into Chase Man­ nity. She earned a bachelor’s practiced there for 35 years battle with congestive heart fail­ Vernon, Wash., where for three hattan Bank's management degree in occupational therapy until his death. George was rec­ ure. He was 72. Joel was born years Jim was the first presi­ program for overseas execu­ at Puget Sound. The summer ognized as a pioneer in holistic and raised in Tacoma. He gradu­ dent of the former Valley Bank. tives Ken rose quickly through after graduation. Sue married dentistry and the use of mercu­ ated from Lincoln High School Jim returned to Seafirst for one the ranks at Chase, with posts Gordon Walgren, an attorney in ry-free materials. He had many in 1961 and was on the football more year in Vancouver before in the Caribbean, Panama, the Bremerton, Wash. Sue enjoyed passions in life and loved riding and wrestling teams there. He settling permanently in Mount Bahamas, and Pakistan prior to boating and international travel, his horses, hunting and fishing, also played clarinet, saxophone, Vernon and commuting to Se­ settling in Bangkok in 1986. In and she loved the arts, includ­ and cooking. George's three oboe, and bassoon. During the 1992 Ken left his position as ing creating her own collage, sons, including Jon Grobins '01; attle for work, the last 10 years summer Joel worked on his as senior vice president and Chase's senior vice president photography, and painting com­ his daughter; three grandchil­ grandfather's farm in Yakima, regional manager of Skagit and for Southeast Asia to start Wash., and during college he positions. She served on the dren; his two brothers, includ­ Island counties for Whidbey Pacific Siam Strategic Consult­ Bremerton Arts Commission ing Andy Grobins ‘77; and many worked at Mountain View Cem­ Island Bank. Jim retired in 2012 ing Company. As his career for many years, and she was friends survive him. A son and etery. He served in the Navy at age 70 He was a longtime evolved his attention shifted a member of the Bremerton his parents preceded George from 1965 to 1969, stationed member of the Skagit Golf and to promoting corporate gov­ at Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Sons of Norway and the library in death Country Club, and was involved ernance and transparency in in Monterey. Calif. During off council in Bremerton. Animals James Stewart '67 died on with Skagit Rotary Club and a Thailand, as a director of many hours Joel enjoyed body surf­ also were important to Sue Nov. 21, 2015, after a long board member of the Rotary prominent companies as well ing at the beach in Carmel. throughout her life. Her hus­ battle with cancer. He was Foundation. He also served as The American Chamber of Calif. Returning home after the band of 53 years, two daugh­ 73. Born in Canada, Jim spent on the Mount Vernon planning Commerce in Thailand and The ters, and three grandchildren service, he earned his degree at his early years in Saskatoon, commission for six years and Siam Society. He recognized survive her. UPS and taught physical educa­ Saskatchewan, before his fam­ was on the finance commit­ the importance of working tion and coached at Sumner James Andrews '64 died at ily moved to Calgary, Alberta, tee of Skagit Valley Hospital with individuals on a one-to- High School for 31 years. Joel home on Dec. 17, 2015, after where he graduated from until poor health forced his one basis, and he coached was football defensive coach battling lung cancer. He was high school and was one of resignation. Jim supported and mentored young entrepre­ and head wrestling coach at 73. Born in Portland, Ore., Jim Calgary's top junior golfers. youth programs and coached neurs, giving them tools and Sumner, his teams earning moved with his family to Lake- After high school Jim moved his children's athletic pursuits. guidance that would help them numerous league and regional wood, Wash., when he was to Ames, Iowa, to live with Ann and Jim took several trips professionally and person­ wrestling championships and 5. He graduated from Clover extended family, during which to New York and Paris over ally. Between his consulting the state football champion­ Park High School in 1960. Jim time he was drafted into the the years and finally ventured work, board seats, mentoring, ship twice. Joel enjoyed time was affiliated with Theta Chi U.S. Air Force and stationed at west to Hawafi a few times, coaching, and being sought with family and friends, golfing, fraternity at Puget Sound and Malmstrom Air Force Base in too. His wife of 48 years, three out by many for advice. Ken snow skiing, fishing, hiking, remained active in alumni activ­ Great Falls. Mont. He received children, and six grandchildren was a friend and confidant and boating, and running. He once ities throughout his life. After the Strategic Air Command survive him. always willing to offer counsel finished the Sound to Narrows serving in the U.S. Air Force, Educational Achievement Adelaide Benson Thompson to those who asked. Ken is sur- footrace in under an hour. Joel’s he continued his academic certificate for completing two '67 was 101 years old when vived by his wife. Ann Osborne wife of 37 years. Maggie; three pursuits at Pacific Lutheran years of college credits. Upon White ‘70; children Monique she passed away on Aug. children; and two grandchildren University, earning his master's discharge Jim attended Puget and Travis; and grandchildren 17. 2015. Her family said she survive him. in law and justice. Jim retired Sound, where he met his wife. Lauren. Liam, and Reed. "personified women of the Denis Nadeau '73 passed from the Washington Depart­ Ann Schneider '66. He was Greatest Generation." She is Diana Cole '68 died on Jan. away at his home in Fircrest. ment of Corrections after 30 affiliated with Sigma Alpha remembered for her warmth, 13, her 70th birthday. She Wash., on Jan. 11. He was 67. years of service. He enjoyed Epsilon fraternity at UPS and grace, intelligence, and abiding earned her degree in home His wife of 47 years. Lorraine; family camping and bowling, played on the golf team. Jim love. Adelaide was a resident economics at Puget Sound and their five children; and 10 grand- and he served as a youth bowl­ and Ann were married after of Welcome Home assisted liv­ was a teacher for a time. Diana children survive him. ing coach for many years. Jim his graduation and moved to ing at the time of her passing. was involved with Lange Foun-

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Bayard Johnson '74 died on Yvonne, predeceased him. A effected his loved ones and his Survivors include her husband, was 37. He was born in New­ to Feb. 10 after a long battle with son and daughter survive Vern. community was evidenced by Alex; children Ashley and Evan port Beach, Calif., to Johnny 0 cancer. He was 63. Bayard was Maryann Batt Reinert 79 the more than 700 people in at­ Rose; her mother; and two and Hilary Daggett, and was CD born and raised in Seattle and passed away on Jan. 20 after tendance at a memorial service brothers. bodysurfing under his daddy's E enjoyed studying philosophy battling Huntington's disease. held at his place of worship in Donald Maskell '85 died on arm by the time he was six CO and writing at Puget Sound. Federal Way. Wash., last Octo­ months old. He was a shy CO She was 68. Born and raised in Jan. 11 at age 52. He was born cs He was a screenwriter and pro­ Tacoma. Maryann was a gradu­ ber. The several-mile-long mo­ in San Bernardino. Calif. At age kid but a humble athlete who o ducer in Los Angeles. Bayard ate of Wilson High School. As torcycle procession to the ser­ 4. Donald moved with his family could surf, mountain bike, wrote and produced feature wife and mother, she devoted vice was a sight and sound to to Tacoma, where he graduated and shoot guns like nobody's films for Warner Bros.. Disney, her life to her family. Survivors behold and brought tears to the from Stadium High School business with no need to brag Sony Pictures. MGM/US. and are her husband of nearly 50 eyes of onlookers and partici­ After college he worked for the about it. Everything “N" did 20th Century Fox. He wrote years, two children, and a pants alike. Irish's smiling eyes Washington State Department was full of grace, quietness, screenplays based on the clas­ grandson. and wisdom will be missed by of Agriculture for a year before and a cadence that brought sic Tarzan character. Tarzan and all who had the great privilege peace to everyone who was Remembrance compiled by being hired at The Boeing the Lost City in 1998; and The to know him. He is survived by Company. Donald worked on blessed to hang out with him. Second Jungle Book: Mowgh Julie Coleman '12. family friend: his wife of more than 30 years, He came out of his shy spell Irish McKinney *80 died from proiects such as the B-2 Spirit &Baloo in 1997. Bayard made a daughter, two stepchildren, Stealth Bomber, the F-22 when he spent a semester two feature films in Africa, the injuries sustained in a motor­ and seven grandchildren. abroad studying English and cycle accident on Aug. 17. Raptor, and the P-8 Poseidon in first, Damned River, released in Brenda Horie Cole '82 lost the configuration management history in Oxford. England 1989. is among the top 20 ac­ 2015. He was 64. According There he became passionate to a California Highway Patrol her battle with adenoid cystic section He was a member of tion movies of the 1980s in the carcinoma on Dec. 13, 2015 Elks Lodge No. 174, the 28th for the words and ways of the Netflix database, according to news release, the accident past. He had a photographic took place near Needles. Calif She was 55. Brenda was born District Republican Club, and an article in Variety magazine. at Tripler Army Medical Center the Towne Family Association. memory, and anytime anyone Irish and wife Marjorie Billings tried to remember a piece of He co-wrote a television series in Honolulu and was raised on Donald's interests included McKinney '66 were on a cross­ world history, or anything for for HBO and produced a feature Oahu. After earning her degree travel, art. aviation, reading, hik­ country road trip visiting friends that matter, N would calmly film about the HIV epidemic in occupational therapy at UPS. ing. jogging, history, music, the­ (Cover. 2007). Bayard co-wrote and family when the rear tire of intervene with a correct date, their motorcycle failed. Marjorie she married Brian Cole 79 on ater, and wine, and he enjoyed the film Man in a Cage in 2015 May 22. 1982. at Hickam Air animals. He is remembered for story, or anecdote He had was badly injured and airlifted a sharp sense of humor and with son Colter, who also di­ Force Base in Hawai i. The his sense of humor and quick to University Medical Center was famous for innocently rected and produced the film couple then moved to Kadena wit. His sister. Cecilia Maskell in Las Vegas. She is now back cracking up an entire room Bayard also co-wrote the fea­ Air Base on Okinawa. Japan, '83, and other family members home in Western Washington with his unexpected wit and ture screenplay Wounded Knee where Brian was stationed. survive him. and recovering well. Irish was nuttiness. His dream was to 1973, and the book If You've While there, Brenda worked as Forgotten the Names of the a passionate supporter and de­ Dana Swanson Nicholls '90 be a professor of English lit­ an occupational therapist in the passed away on Dec. 24, 2015. Clouds. You've Lost Your Way: fender of the biker lifestyle. He erature. but that was not real­ was an ambassador to the Na­ U S Department of Defense She was 47 Dana grew up in An Introduction to American schools there. After their two ized because his health took Indian Thought and Philosophy. tional Coalition of Motorcycles Tacoma and graduated from a sharp downhill turn after children were born, the Coles Bellarmine Preparatory School. Other projects include co­ and A Brotherhood Against graduating with a B.A. in Eng­ went back to Hickam Air Force She attended Washington State writing. producing, and direct­ Totalitarian Enactments, organ.- lish literature After years of Base for five years before University for two years and ing the award-winning short zations dedicated to promot.ng going to doctors all over the moving to Southern California. then transferred to UPS, where film Looks Twice, based on fair motorcycle legislation. His West Coast and in Mexico, Brenda continued to work she graduated with honors in a traditional Lakota story. As involvement with NCoM and N was finally diagnosed with as an occupational therapist occupational therapy. Dana the band's founding member. ABATE brought him and Mar­ advanced Lyme disease com­ throughout the Los Angeles worked at Mary Bridge Chil­ Bayard released several albums jorie back to the UPS campus plicated by aplastic anemia area. She was an active mem­ dren's Hospital and other com­ with Mother Nature's Army. in the fall of 2010. when Irish and advanced osteoporosis ber of Saddleback Church in munity clinics in the area Her He also produced LSD: Leary/ acted as the biker community's During his illness, N changed Lake Forest. Calif., and enjoyed area of specialty was working Stokes Duets (1997) with Timo­ photographer for a public event his life course to studying ho­ her hula sisters. Brenda's great­ with children, and she received thy Leary. Survivors include associated with a student-led listic nutrition and alternative est joys, outside of seeing her additional training to best serve his wife. Lyndal; two sons; two Arts and Humanities Summer medicine but was too sick children grow and graduate them. In 1993 she married grandchildren; and his parents. Scholar research project. to complete a degree. In­ "Bikers: Who Are These Peo­ from college, were her two Heath Nicholls. By 1996 they stead. he used his incredible Richard and Virginia. grandchildren, Jett and Jax ple?" Following this event. Irish had three children, and Dana memory and understanding of Vernon Thomas '74 died on and Marjorie were featured in Brenda's husband, children, was a stay-home mom. She de­ integrative medicine to help grandchildren, and many dear Jan. 30 at age 88. He was born Arches' "One of a Kind" issue cided to homeschool all three of him and others find alterna­ and raised in Port Angeles. (autumn 2011). A gifted fund­ friends survive her. her children; her oldest son is a tive ways to treat complex Wash. Vern served in the U.S. raiser and longtime advocate Sondra Siegel Turkins '82 freshman in college, her daugh­ health issues. Nathanael was Navy before joining the Seattle for the needy. Irish worked passed away on Nov. 25, 2015. ter is a senior in high school, a strong man who suffered Police Department in 1951. tirelessly to raise funds for the from pancreatic cancer. She and her youngest is a sopho­ greatly for many years, but He retired in 1982 as assistant White Center Food Bank in was 55. Sondra grew up in more in high school. Dana lived through it all his faith in Je­ chief. In 1983 Vern was ap­ Seattle. The local community the Denver area and gradu­ a life strong in her faith. She is sus as His Savior was never pointed King County Sheriff called upon him frequently to ated from Cherry Creek High survived by her husband, three shaken. He was a tenacious public safety director, and in encourage others to donate to School in Greenwood Village. children, and other family fighter who outlived the odds 1984 he formed the Green Riv­ worthy charitable causes as Colo. She earned her degree and blessed many people er Task Force. He retired again well. Professionally. Irish was in English literature at UPS Remembrance by Roxie Devine along the way. He is sur­ in 1987. and served as the vice an enrolled agent with the IRS and worked in the commercial Daggett '00: vived by his soulmate, Roxie president of security for the and a skilled tax preparer who health industry for 30 years. Nathanael Daggett '00 passed Daggett (a.k.a. Rockobean); 1990 Goodwill Games. Vern en­ helped many people prepare Sondra is remembered for her away on June 16, 2015, in Se- his father and mother, John joyed time with his family and and submit their tax returns strength and independence and dona. Anz., with his best friend and Hilary (a.k.a. Mr. Bear and riding his Harley-Davidson mo­ each year. How dearly Irish will her love for her family, friends, of 27 years by his side. Roxie Cho); little sister, Theodora torcycle. His wife of 57 years. be missed and how deeply he pets—and the Denver Broncos. Devine Daggett '00. Nathanael 48 arches spring 2016 scrapbook

(a.k.a. Feebird); mother-in-law Jamie (a.k.a Franco); English Staffordshire Bull Terriers Paco and Flora; and many beloved family members; and amigos He is remembered best by his confident and beautiful smile that made even the darkest days full of light. Nathanael's life story is written on a memorial website created by Roxie at sweetnathanaei.com Elizabeth "Betsy" Catlin '01 lost a long battle with depres­ sion on Dec. 27, 2015. She was 37. Betsy was raised in Mont­ pelier, Vt, where she began lifelong passions for sports, animals, and the environment. She also raised sheep and heifers, with her siblings on the family's farm and was an accomplished equestrian, com­ peting on a national level as a junior rider. Betsy graduated as valedictorian of Montpelier High School in 1996. She con­ tinued as a riding instructor and developed as a trainer with the ▲ On March 12 the 1976 Puget Sound men's basketball team returned to Memorial Fieldhouse to celebrate the 40th St. Lawrence University riding anniversary of its NCAA Division II National Championship. Twelve players were in attendance, along with former athletic program. Betsy completed a trainer Zeke Schuldt '68 and former athletics director Doug McArthur '53. (Head coach Don Zech P'84 passed away double major in philosophy March 22 at age 83.) More than 125 friends and family of the '76 team were there, too. President Ron Thomas welcomed and chemistry at Puget Sound, the team and commented on what a special occasion it was to be "dining with giants." In their final three games of the graduating magna cum laude, 1976 NCAA Tournament, the Loggers defeated North Dakota 80-77 in the quarterfinal game and then upset defending and she was elected to Phi national champion Old Dominion 83-78 in the semifinal. The Loggers entered the title game against the University of Beta Kappa. During her college Tennessee-Chattanooga, whose waggish fans had made "Puny Sound" T-shirts. Those fans were shocked when the years, she took a year off to do giants from Puget Sound won the title game handily, 83-74. Following dinner and several speeches. Saturday night's atmospheric research aboard reunion concluded with a film of highlights from that big game. The champs, from left; Curt Peterson '76; A.T. Brown an icebreaker off the coast '76; Matt McCully '78 Mike Kuntz '78; Mark Wells '76, P'05, Phil Hiam '79; Zeke Schuldt '68; Tim Evans '78; Rick of Alaska After graduation Walker '78 Rocky Botts '78, Brant Gibler '76; Mike Hanson '78, and Steve Freimuth '78 Mike Strand '79 and she began a Ph.D. program in Jimmy Stewart '78 were missed. philosophy, later deciding to attend Vermont Law School, with a focus in environmental ◄ Erica Schurman '99 and law Betsy earned her J.D. in Aaron Applegate were married 2008, summa cum laude. She on Sept. 19, 2015, in Golden. served as a Supreme Court Colo Erica's sister-in-law. who clerk for Vermont Justice Brian was Aaron's dental hygienist, Burgess before becoming an introduced the two! Loggers attorney at Dunkiel Saunders in attendance were Kristin Elliott Raubvogel & Hand, Rollins Menzie '99, Diana an environmental law firm in Kawulok Franklin '99. Marcia Burlington, Vt. Betsy's work as Lovegren Kinne '99, Rhett an attorney resulted in some Bernstein '99, and Jessica of Vermont's largest wind and Waters Davis '99. The couple solar facilities. She served on the board for the Vermont honeymooned on Maui and River Conservancy and kept a Kauai. They live in Westminster. farmhouse in East Montpelier, Colo., where Erica is an where she cared for retired occupational therapy manager show horses from St. Law­ at Children's Hospital Colorado, rence University. Betsy en­ and Aaron is an operations joyed gardening in the summer manager at Remotely, a Denver- and cross-country skiing in the based tech startup. winter. She was an avid reader and enjoyed movies and listen­ ing to music. Betsy's parents, two siblings, and other family members survive her.

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A Alika Antone '00, D.P.T/05 is pictured here with a client at his new clinic, A2 Physical Therapy, which opened March 1 on 6th Ave., just across the street from Gray Lumber. After practicing physical therapy in Tacoma for more than 10 years, he says, "I am thrilled to open a P.T. practice in my hometown. We believe in our community. Each visit will leave you with less pain and on your way to a healthy lifestyle, with many memories ahead with family and friends." A Rachel Quisenberry '02 and Matthew Bennett invited their friends and family to one of their A2 Physical Therapy provides holistic health care favorite spots in the High Sierra for their September 2015 wedding at Mammoth Lakes, Calif. They were with a specialty in lower back and neck pain, elated to have so many Loggers in attendance, including fellow communication major Dave Avramovich ergonomics, and corporate wellness. The clinic '03, who married the couple. Rachel and Matthew live in sunny Pasadena, Calif., where Rachel is an offers individual and group wellness packages, account manager with Lundbeck pharmaceuticals, and Matthew is a project manager with Rudolph and too, with a mission to "provide the highest level Sletten, general and engineering contractors. Front, from left: Sara Sabelhaus Lutz '02; Ali Hummels of physical therapy and wellness services with a Daniels '02; Heather Mahoney Skagen '03; Erin McGillivray '02. Lindsay Smith '02, Sarah Parker commitment to form authentic relationships, earn Winkler '04, Ashley Allen Gill '02; the bride and groom; Courtney Ludwig Marshall '03, Melissa trust, create customized wellness plans, and by Kelly Vieira '04; Feather Robles Billings '00 Brian Billings '99, and Sarah Gross Gradis '01 Back, never prioritizing profits over people." Alika and from left: Brooke Cornett Magnusson '02; Caitlin Prueitt McFeron '02; Kathryn Ross '02; Emily wife Jenilee live in the North End with their three Weber '02; Anna Marsh Fitzpatrick '03, Adriane Ougendal Friedman '03, Tim Friedman '02; Megan sons. Find out more at A2pt.family. Photo by Erinn Apperson Gallegos '04, Michael Vieira '02; Karen Thomas '02, Robin Davis Case '68, P'02, Dave Spencer Hargis '03 (erinnhargisphotography.com). Avramovich '03, Bret Burton '02, Tyler Case '02; Jenny Kalbfleisch Leitzinger '03; Anne Crase Jones '00; and Sarah Hesseltine Templin '02

► Travis Anderson '04 and Kendra Gurnett '05 were married on Aug. 22, 2015, at Crockett Barn on Whidbey Island, Wash. In attendance, back, from left; Patty Pike Britt '73, Susan Lord Krutzsch '74, Jim Britt '73, Chris O'Donnell '05, Shawn Brady '04, Olin Wick '04, uncle of the bride Tony Kiriluk '76, Mason Bowman, Elle Smith Miller '06, and Alana Hagney East '05. Middle row, from left: Mary Baker Maybee '74; Cate Hamilton O'Donnell '05; Andy Sloan '05; Morgan Stone Sloan '05; Jenna Watts Brum '06; the groom and bride; mother of the bride Stephanie Kiriluk Gurnett '74, P'05; Robin Francis Brady '05; Laura Kukulan '05; and Dorothy Schafer McGatlin '05. Front, from left: Mari Takamura '05 and Alicia McConkey Bowman D.P.T/07. The newlyweds live in the Ballard/ Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle. Kendra is a senior marketing manager at Nordstrom, and Travis is a sales representative at Paycom.

50 arches spring 2016 About classmates

The Classmates (1 editor is Cathy Tollefson '83. ?' 17. You can call her at I-L.O. 253-879-2762 or •VI email ctollefson® pugetsound.edu.

Where do Class- \ mates entries come H|{ from? Hm About half come directly from you, either in letters or in email updates. The rest are compiled from a variety of public sources such as newspaper and magazine clippings, and press releases sent to us by employers when, for ex­ ample, a Puget Sound grad at the company gets a new job. We publish Classmates information both in the print edition of Arches and on the Web in the online version. It is our policy not to publish pregnancy or engagement announcements, or candidacies for political office However, we are happy to print news of births, marriages, and elections to office. Classmates submissions are edited for style, clarity, and length We put a lot A Marianne Tweedie '05 married Jeff Norris on Oct. 24, 2015, at the National Gallery of Australia in of effort into making sure entries are accurate, Canberra. From left: Jeremy Zegas, Megan Stump '05, the bride and groom, Katie Rose '05, and John but sometimes we slip up. Please let us know if Ramsey. Jeff and Marianne live in Canberra. They both work for the Australian government. you see incorrect information published in Class­ mates

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To send Classmates entries or to change your address Electronically: pugetsound.edu/infoupdate or email Classmates Editor Cathy Tollefson at [email protected]. Post: Arches, University of Puget Sound. Office : of Communications. 1500 N. Warner St.. Tacoma WA 98416-1041. When submitting a change of address, please include your old address.

A note on names and abbreviations Undergraduate class years appear after names as numerals preceded by an apostrophe (e.g., '73). "P"= parent. "GP”= grandparent. "Hon." = honorary degree. For graduate degrees. “M.S." = master of science; "M.B.A."= master of business administration; "M.A.T‘= master of arts in teach­ ing; "M.Ed." = master of education; "M.RA.''= A Jacques Plaa '04 married Lauren Bonds at Beldi Country Club in Marrakesh. Morocco, on Oct. 9. master of public administration; "M.M."= master 2015. Puget Sound friends and "948" housemates (the address where they all lived together as students of music; "M.S.O.T.," "M.O.T"= master of occupa­ in off-campus housing) joined them in Marrakesh for their wedding celebration, along with family and tional therapy; “D.RT." = doctor of physical therapy; friends from 22 countries. Jacques and Lauren met while living in London and currently reside in Hong "J.D."= doctor of law. Kong. From left. Kyle Lunde '04; Erin Carlson '04; the groom and bride; Anna Marsh Fitzpatrick '03; Elizabeth Rankin Sadak '03, M.A.T/07; and Drew Stefan '04.

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A Becky Larsen 03. right, and Cindy Pease recently celebrated their three- year wedding anniversary. The couple were married on the beach on Maui. Jan. 16, 2013. Becky and Cindy live in Austin, Texas, with their four small A Ben Lee '06 and Jen Salisbury were married on Sept. 6, 2015, on Vashon Island, Wash., where they now dogs. Becky recently accepted a position live. It was a barn wedding, with lots of fun and friends and dancing! From left Anna Price-Meader Waldman as a production artist at Apple, and Cindy '04. Andrew Marsters '05, Baird White '05. Tyler Thirloway '05. Professor of Biology Peter Wimberger, the works for Lennar Homes as a new-home bride and groom, Brenden Goetz '07, Brad Vickers '05, Brian West '05, and Dylan LeValley '05 consultant. In their free time, they enjoy

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Program at UPS. He also teaches choir at A Andrew Parker '08 and Chelsea Zarnowski '07 were married in Chimacum, Wash., on July 25, 2015. Life Christian Academy and is very active They were happy to share their big day with many friends and family members. In attendance, from left: Carlie with local opera companies. He'll make his Meader McAninch '07; Nick Vasilius '07; Anastasia Vasilius; Emma Donohew '08; the groom and bride; Liana Seattle Opera debut in The Magic Flute Campus '10; Eric Delacorte '09, M.AX'11; Liz Hoffman '09; Aaron Danno '09; and Jess Rothfus '09. There next year! but not pictured: Ryan McAninch '06. The couple live in Seattle, and both work for The Boeing Company.

52 arches spring 2016 r#4 ▲ Ben Ahlvin '08, M.A.T/12 and Bill Gifford M.Ed.'80 tell us that at 5 a.m. on June 23 they will begin cutting through m the seas of the Inside Passage in the Race to Alaska, from Port Townsend, Wash., to Ketchikan—about 750 miles of vraikl 50-degree water. With abundant luck and fair winds our all-Logger crew will sail and row (no motors allowed) their 17-foot Montgomery across the finish line five days after they ▲ Mary Ann Valentine '07 and Daniel Nelson (UW '06) were married on July 18, 2014. start. First Prize is $10,000; the runner-up gets a set of steak at DeLille Cellars in Woodinville, Wash. Puget Sound friends in attendance were. Scott knives. Last year there were 53 entrants in the race. Fifteen Valentine '07, Annie McCullough '07, Betsy Walker '07, Renee DeVoursney Hendricksen finished, one of whom was Bill. Racers carry GPS trackers, so '07, Nick Kiest '08, Megan Kiest-McFarland '07, Nell Shamrell-Harrington'07, Evan fans can follow their progress on a live-streamed map that is Tucker '07, Tamara Baker-Wagner '07, Carly Campbell Meadows '07, Kat Sorensen updated every 10 minutes (r2ak.com, and check out the fun Misrack '07, and Dan Gonzalez '07 Mary Ann and Daniel live in Seattle, where Mary Ann is and informative FAQ section of their site). assistant director of Continuing Medical Education at UW School of Medicine, and Daniel is business director for the Law Offices of James Egan

SUMMER REUNION WEEKEND

June 10-12,2016

Once a Logger... #alwaysalogger

A Chelsea Taylor '08 and Wing Liu celebrated their marriage with friends and family in San Francisco on Dec. 31, 2015. Chelsea says: "Happy Liu Year!" In attendance, back, from left: Justin Harvey '09, Jordan Conley '09, Ellie Wolf '08. Walker Cahall. and Derek Robbins pugetsound.edu/reunionweekend '08. Front, from left: Tessa Wix '09, Sonia Ivancic '08, the bride, Natalie Whitlock '08, and Erik Lind '08. Also in attendance though not pictured: Ryan Bettinger '08, Alex Lichty 253.879.3245 I 800.339.3312 Heisel '08, Zack Stoddard '08, and Valarie Barone Toda '08.

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▲ David Mensonides '08 and Kalli Kamphaus '10 were married on Sept. 12, 2015, at Champion Orchards in Manson, Wash., near Lake Chelan. Logger attendees included a dozen former football players and lots of friends Back row, from left: Kainoa Higgins '08, M.A.T/09; Molly Gibson '11, M.A.T/12; Brian Eggers '09. Stefan Berglund '09, honorary Logger Morten Bruhn; Miles Murphy '10; Conner Gehring '10, and John Elam '11. Third row. from left John Oppenheimer '80, P'11, P'14; Deanna Watson Oppenheimer '80, P'11, P'14; Scott Lelli '08, Rachel Ridings '06; Eddie Behringer '08, Spencer Crace '10. Erika Greene '12; Haylee Jenkins '11; Stephanie Harvey Carlin '10; Cory Dunn '10, Darrell Stewart '09; Lindsey Denman '10; and Jeni Oppenheimer '11. Second row, from left. Diana Small '08, Katie Stock Eggers '10, Ginny Steinbach '08, and Nicole Berglund '10. Front, from left. Lindsay Stratton '10; Erin Cronshaw '06, M.A.T/08; honorary Logger Sam Bathurst; Danny Mensonides '09; the bride and groom; Tim Mensonides '06; Rory Lee '07; and Emily Hogan '08. Kalli and Dave live in Puyallup, Wash., where they bought a house in May 2015. Kalli is a paraeducator for the Tacoma Public Schools and also helps Dave at Comeback Sports, where he's general manager (comebacksports.com).

► Kartar Khalsa '13 was married in Sur­ rey. B.C., on Sept. 19, 2015, at her husband's family's home. More than 500 people attend­ ed the traditional Sikh wedding! The ceremo­ ny was held in the backyard, and the recep­ tion in the front yard. Kartar grew up in the Sikh faith, and her husband, Attar, grew up in Canada as a Canadian Indian Sikh. Many UPS alums were able to join the celebration: From left: Morgan Hellyer '14, Lauren Hektner '13, Kartar, Kariann Lee '13, and Kyle Lee '14. Also in attendance though not in this pic: Maggie O'Rourke '14, Sadie Boyers '14, Daniel Akamine '16, Amy Stromme '14, Nikki Polizzotto '14, and Bailey Gilmore '14. The couple live in Portland, Ore., where Kartar is a nurse at Oregon Health & Science University, and Attar works as a home reno­ vations contractor.

54 arches spring 2016 ◄ Lauren Fries '11 and Christian Brink '11 were married on Oct. 11, 2015, in Seattle, with friends and fellow Loggers in attendance. From left: Alex Feldman, Eli Ritchie '10, Andrea Ritchie, Spencer Sheridan '13, Irene Ziemba '11, Luke Jesperson '12, Daniel Mozell '14, Julia Miller '11, MaxTweten '11, Walker Bohannan '14, Katie Hamachek '11, Abby Visser Schaller '10, Lauren. Dylan Harrington '14, Christian. Robert Schaller '11, Ky Lewis '12, Kevin Chambers '11. Henry Funk'12. Lacy Clark M.A.T/14, Kip Carleton '10, Marina Balleria '12, Cead Nardie- Warner '11. and Lizzie Cook '10. The newlyweds live in Seattle.

▲ Kristen Anderson Murphy 88 and Kendal Freyer Keyes '10 met up at the annual conference of the National Guild for Community Arts Education in Philadelphia. Nov. 11-14, 2015. V Kendal was representing Music Center of the Northwest, a Seattle-based community music school where she is administrative coordinator. Kristen is the director of Puget Sound's Community Music program. The two first met A Jen Baron '10, M.O.T/13 married Jonathan Colwell on July 18, 2015, at Titlow Lodge in when Kendal was a music-business student at Tacoma. Puget Sound friends were on hand for the celebration, from left: Jenny Ikard '11, Puget Sound. Kendal later taught violin and viola M.S.O.T/13, Sarah Lewis M.S.O.T/13; Katie Thierry M.S.O.T/13; Aimee Brison Karani '11. lessons for Puget Sound's Community Music the bride; Amanda Fischels M.O.T/14; Jenny Klassen Burke '03; Tara Curtis M.O.T/13; Malia Department in the School of Music. Delacruz '09; and Olive Oyango M.S.O.T/14. Jen works as an occupational therapist in the University Place School District, and Jonathan is a physical therapist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.

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A cool subtle pleasure of living in a college residence hall Philip Sousa. That young man, a senior who had earned is the chance to wander down the corridors and hear ev­ the right to live alone, was so seldom seen corporeally in ery sort and style and speed of music trickling or blasting our hall that we speculated he actually lived elsewhere and from rooms as you pass, such that a casual stroll is not just used the room for band practice. only a remarkably varied musical education but a substan­ The thought occurs to me now that wandering along tive hint at the nature and character and provenance and the floors of a residence hall is not unlike listening to the habits and customs of the inhabitants—for example the radio, by which you are presented with many sorts of room that always plays the Grateful Dead, and the room music you would not ordinarily choose for yourself, but that always plays heavy metal, and the room that always which occasionally startle you with a strange beauty, for­ plays wheedling country, and the room that always plays eign to your usual predilections and proclivities; and now thumping rap, and you see what I mean; you and I just that the eclecticism of commercial radio is a thing of the made some swift assumptions about those residents, did past, and specialization both on the airwaves and in our we not? iPods is all the rage, perhaps we have lost something that The room that specialized in soft rock like the Eagles we did not know we liked—the chance, every 10th room, and John Denver; the one room from which I ever heard or once a day on the radio, to hear a song you would opera (mostly Bizet for some reason, why would anyone never hear in the normal course of your musical adven- listen to opera all the time and never listen to Puccini and tures; a rap song that for once is not about drugs and sex Mozart and Verdi?); the dark room upstairs that played and power and sneering, but about courage and endur- only dirges and requiems and hymns, as far as I could tell; ance and camaraderie; a country song that for once is not the room that played hardly anything but the Beatles (and about trucks and sex and loneliness, but about shy love the members’ later solo records, and even God help us all or a mother s defiant courage; a folk song that for once is the shrieking records of Yoko Ono); the fine distinction not an inane repetitive whinny but a piercing connection between two rooms that played Southern music, the first into the old wild weird of the land from which it arose; a playing only plaintive classics like Hank Williams and song from another country, another race, another ancient Conway Twitty, and the other playing only country rock story altogether different from the one you know, or think like the Marshall Tucker Band and the Allman Brothers; you know; a song played by strange instruments, sung the one room occupied by men that seemed to play noth- from a different place in the throat; the song that seems to ing but women, from Joni Mitchell to Laura Nyro to Joan have been waiting for you patiently for years, until finally Jett to the late, great Dinah Washington; the room from you walk by the right room, at the right moment, and which I seemed to hear nothing but crooners from the you stop cold, arrested, fascinated, absorbed, intrigued, ’50s; the room from which I heard a preponderance of enthralled, puzzled, riveted; and then, if you are like me, mariachi and ranchera and banda music; and even a room you knock gently on the door and ask the shaggy tousled where I heard, more often than not, the music of John mammal within, Say, what is that song? — Brian Doyle To be added to or removed from the arches mailing list, or to correct your address, use the online form at pugetsound.edu/ University of Puget Sound infoupdate, or call 253.879.3299, or write Office of University Relations Tacoma, Washington Information Services, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., pugetsound.edu/arches Tacoma WA 98416-1063.

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