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Accomplishments REPORT TO THE CommunityVancouver Public Schools JULY 2006 • VOLUME 16, ISSUE 4 accomplishmentsCelebrating alumni, staff and students Ann Kao is saving the world, one person at a time In a remote refuge camp in the hills of northeast Kao’s mission to improve the world began when and I don’t have any money,’ she said. ‘Where is Rwanda, Dr. Ann Kao is doing what she can to save a she was a young girl growing up in Vancouver. She your money?’ I ask and she tells me, ‘I gave it away.’” two-year-old child. The baby lies motionless, other attended the Challenge program at Truman Elemen- than a slight twitching of his arms. His breathing is tary and Shumway Middle School. At the age of Following the deadly tsunami that hit Southeast shallow. 16, she graduated from Hudson’s Bay High School Asia on Dec. 26, 2004, Kao joined Project HOPE as both a Washington Scholar and a National Merit (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) Kao works in a tent. She has no running water Scholar. and the U.S. Navy in the relief mission. She was and only a few basic medical supplies. This young in the forefront, doctor, who has not yet reached her 30th birthday, Ann Koa’s parents, Annie and Ken Kao, have saved providing urgent is the only physician for 5,000 Congolese Tutsi mementos from their daughter’s childhood—her medical care from Obviously refugees. She is helping survivors of the 1994 poem that won a national contest when she was 13, the USNS hos- “we’re here for a genocide. It is too late to save many of their family copies of The Bay Window when she was editor of pital ship Mercy members—their wives, husbands, children and par- the school paper, programs from the Portland Youth for survivors in purpose. It’s not ents—the nearly one million people slaughtered by Philharmonic where she played the violin. A copy Indonesia and Sri the Hutus in 1994. Most in this camp are younger of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust 1992 Annual Lanka. Her case necessary to win than 18. More than 1,000 are younger than five. Report contains an article about 16-year-old Ann study of a 17- the Nobel Peace and this quote from year-old girl who her: “I really believe developed “tsu- Prize or cure a you can make a differ- nami lung,” an disease; but on ence. Obviously we’re aggressive disease here for a purpose. that moves from a smaller scale It’s not necessary to the lungs to the win the Nobel Peace brain, was pub- I want to have Prize or cure a disease; lished in the New an impact on but on a smaller scale I England Journal want to have an impact of Medicine (June people’s lives. on people’s lives.” The 23, 2005) and ” Ann Kao article concludes: “Her covered in the at age 16 dream? An idealistic Wall Street Jour- one—to be a physician nal. The study is attached to a United discussed by doctors across the globe. Nations Peacekeeping force.” In honor of her work, Kao was awarded the 2005- 2006 Durant Fellow in Refuge Medicine, which gave Kao earned her her the opportunity to continue humanitarian efforts bachelor’s degree at somewhere in the world. Yale University and her medical degree “I chose Rwanda because I wanted to see for myself Dr. Ann Kao bathes a premature newborn in Rwanda. from the University this place where the most brutal and unspeakable of of Washington Medi- horrors were committed a decade ago,” wrote Kao. cal School, then did She was unable to accept an invitation to be honored In the medical tent, Kao is assisted by a Hutu nurse, her residency at Harvard University. Now Kao is an at the White House, because she already had been who comforts the boy’s mother, a Tutsi. For this internist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General scheduled to begin her work in Africa. On July 18, child, Kao directs the nurse to place drops of sugar Hospital (MGH) and a faculty member of Harvard 2005, she left Boston for Kigali, Rwanda. From solution slowly under the baby’s tongue, while Kao Medical School. inserts an IV. Before long, the baby’s seizures stop. there, she went to the refuge camps of Gihembe He opens his eyes and calls for his mother. It’s a When she was in residency, she took it upon herself and Nyabeheke in the Congo border region. moment of joy. The mother speaks to Kao in dialect to go to Vietnam and Romania to do humanitarian When possible Kao records her experiences on a and the nurse translates, “If we were in the Congo, work. Her father recalls the time she returned to blog site. She describes the horrible conditions, the my child would not be alive now.” the U.S. and called him. “‘Daddy, my car won’t run Ann Kao, continued on page 2 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY • VANCOUVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS A beautiful mind continues to teach Among an elite circle of the best engineer- measuring devices, screens on windows In 1979 Ericksen was the recipient of the accomplishments ing minds in the world, Jerald L. Ericksen that turn from opaque to transparent,” he Timoshenko Medal, conferred in recog- Alumni is a hero and teacher. Ericksen has made replies. nition of distinguished contributions to major contributions in the field of contin- the field of applied mechanics. In 1987 uum mechanics, particularly with his work Oh, yes. Highly practical applications, he was awarded the Engineering Sci- on finite elasticity, non-Newtonian fluid now commonplace in homes, schools and ence Medal in recognition of a singularly flow, and liquid crystals. He has produced businesses throughout the world. important contribution to Engineering theories and written several papers on Science. In 1993 he was inducted into Ericksen entered Vancouver schools at the liquid crystals and crys- the National Academy of Engineering in age of nine and graduated from Vancou- tals, non-linear elasticity Washington, D.C. He also received the ver High School in 1942. His favorite theory, and the twinning Bingham Medal from the Society of Rhe- teacher was Dutch Shield, coach and theory of crystals. ology and was made an Honorary Mem- biology teacher. Ericksen left for Oregon ber of the Royal Irish Academy. “When I started my work, State University, but World War II put there was hardly any his education on hold. Following a stint As recently as 2000, he was made Hon- practical application of in the Navy, he entered the University ored Member of the International Liquid liquid crystals,” he said. of Washington where he earned a B.A. in Crystal Society. Then, in 2003, he was He speaks in a language Mathematics followed by an M.A. from awarded the Panetti-Ferrari Prize and foreign to most, using Oregon State, and a Doctorate from Indi- Gold Medal by the Academy of Science terms like “velocity vec- ana University. in Torino, Italy. tors” and “continuously Ericksen’s career has taken him to re- differentiable non-vanish- From the young boy in Vancouver schools search labs and universities around the ing functions.” His papers who learned algebra at Vancouver High world. He worked at the Naval Research are page upon page of School, Ericksen has become one of the Lab in Washington, D.C. For nearly 30 mathematical computa- most esteemed engineering scientists in years, he was on staff as professor in me- tions, interspersed with the world. His work has led to inventions chanics at Johns Hopkins University, and Jerald Ericksen, hypotheses and citations from physicists that changed the way we live. he was a professor at University of Minne- Vancouver and mathematicians. High School, sota for seven. His research and teaching At 81, Ericksen now lives on the Oregon Class of 1942 When asked, “So, how does this help also took him to the National University coast with his wife of 60 years, Marion. mankind?” he chuckles. of Ireland and Heriot-Watt University in Through the Internet, he continues to Scotland where he was presented with teach and mentor some of the brightest “Oh, the development of PC screens, honorary doctorates. young minds the field—students who digital displays for clocks, temperature could take his theories and research even farther and discover things we have yet to imagine. < Ann Kao, continued from cover rampant cases of malaria, and the lack of medical supplies. At Now, Kao is back in Boston to work on another degree at the one point she writes: “This camp is as far removed from the Harvard School of Public Health. Massachusetts General Hospital as one can imagine. I have no medical safety net here, there’s no directory of specialists Kao’s mother and father emigrated from Hong Kong and Taiwan, to dial up, although e-mail has been a powerful tool, when it’s respectively, and ran the Lotus Café in downtown Vancouver for working. There is no oxygen, no ventilator, and until recently 25 years before retiring. Their two sons, graduates of Hudson’s not even a basic laboratory. It is medicine as artistry more than Bay, also have impressive resumés. King Kao (class of 1990) is as science.” a West Point graduate, Major in the U.S. Army and holds a law degree, an M.A. in Public Administration, and a M.S. in Interna- On Thanksgiving Day 2005, she wrote: “I’m tional Relations. Tim Kao (class of 1992, the same year as Ann) Vancouver School District homesick, exhausted, temperatures are swel- is a distinguished graduate of the U.S.
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