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Vol. 39, No. 4, Arches Summer 2012
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The event was sponsored by university Dining and Conference Services, Greek Life, Puget summer 2012 arches 1 photojournal arches summer 2012 . DIGITAL PALETTE Among the many impressive and wildly diverse works on display at the annual senior art majors' show was this "painting" called "Paternal Wind" by David Pendleton '12. David told us the image was loosely inspired by art for the video game Halo: Reach. "I wanted to create a piece that captured that apprehensive feeling of standing in the evening sun while an incoming storm darkens the horizon/' he said. "I drew it entirely in Adobe Photoshop, using a graphics tablet and stylus." : ;ZS2SSJSI‘ and dark this year, but v ,, it lifted its gray scrim||P spectacular fashion during qy- a single day in February. ' Here's Assistant Professor of Religion Matthew Ingalls and his Religion 302 students in a "classroom" .witha^Wov.,,^^^ ' !- MAY 2: The day dawns to reveal the annual chemistry majors' senior prank: broadcasting big the retiring Professor Bill Dasher. Materials for this experiment: 182 letter-size tiles and who knows how many rolls of duct tape. The stunt reminded us of another like it a few years ago, when a surprised President Thomas looked out his office window only to see— himself (inset)! - 'Of _ - : • from the president Divine innovation I don’t think of myself as a foodie, exactly, although I have been so accused. I am a seri ous diner, though, and believe there is nothing more divine than a thoughtfully prepared meal at a great restaurant with someone you love. I also admit to being hooked on that TV cooking competition Chopped. But a foodie? I am afraid there is just a lot more cacciatore in this Jersey boy than cordon bleu. Last weekend I indulged my fondness for dining by attending a fundraiser for a nearby cancer research center. The featured speaker was Ruth Reichl, the distinguished food writer, longtime editor of Gourmet magazine, and food critic for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. I am a fan. She talked about why America now has the best restaurants and the finest chefs in the world. Which has not always been the case, she admitted, with Paris historically acknowledged as the sacred capital of haute cuisine and a number of other coun tries—Italy, China, Thailand—traditionally known for outstanding regional cooking. But cooking, like so many other things, is now a much more global affair than it has ever been, and America has become its center of grav ity. Why? The reason, Reichl said, is the same reason why American medicine is respected around the world as the very best. The reason is mentorship. What a concept. Reichl maintained that just as our finest physicians and researchers freely impart their knowledge in one-on-one mentoring relationships with medical stu dents, interns, residents, and postdocs, and among themselves, so do today’s great Ameri can chefs—young and old—commonly work as mentors for one another. They generously share knowledge, swap techniques, exchange young students as sous chefs, and often even partner to develop creative and innovative new restaurants and cuisines. Unlike the 8 arches summer 2012 old-world model of the master chef who jeal of adaptable American enterprise, which has and almost divine, like those occasions when ously guards his recipes and methods, covets enabled our economy to dominate the world the goddess became the man and appeared his Michelin stars, and performs the role of the through a series of economic upheavals—from to Telemachus and Odysseus to inspire great unapproachable and domineering maestro, the agrarian economy of the 18th century, to things in them. The true mentor conveys the American model of the master chef has the industrial revolution of the 19th, the man something wise and valuable to someone who become defined as one of a sharing and nur ufacturing economy of the 20th century, and needs it, which enables something entirely new turing teacher and learner all at once. In short, the information economy of the present era. and unprecedented to happen as a result: like a model of mentorship. And yet, despite these elements held in the callow son growing into a man of authority I don’t know if Reichl is right about the common with American business, and despite and wisdom, or the lost father triumphantly American food scene, but I like her point. And the worldwide recognition of the superiority returning home and setting things right. I think she is onto something in drawing the of American higher education and American On Commencement Day, as I see each analogy with American medicine. That night medical care, both are often seen as out of graduating student walk toward me in cap the case was dramatized in the testimonies step with economic realities, with costs rising and gown, with a sense of triumph, face full we heard from a number of remarkable can disproportionately and the price of their ser of hope, and hand outstretched to receive a cer researchers who embody the principle in vices increasingly unaffordable. As we face this diploma, I flash back on younger faces arriv the scientific breakthroughs they have made paradox squarely (and we have to), we must ing only four years earlier at this same spot in concert with their collaborators. As each spoke, it occurred to me that the constellation The challenge for us all is to determine how much innovation is worth of exemplary mentoring in American medi cine and cuisine should be extended to a third to us, and how we will pay for the mentoring that makes it possible. star in the heavens: American colleges. And nowhere is the ethos of mentoring more highly also bear in mind that the source from which in Baker Stadium, ready to set off to meet the valued or assiduously pursued than among the the lifeblood of innovation and adaptability challenges before them. And I think of all the faculty and students at the University of Puget in American higher education and medicine one-of-a-kind mentors they encountered here Sound. It’s so real here, you can taste it. flows—and the not-so-secret ingredient in on campus, mentors who brought them from We have heard a great deal about the rec American cuisine—is mentorship. Mentor that innocent time to this present moment ognized preeminence throughout the world ship consumes a great deal of personal atten of accomplishment. All, like Telemachus and of American higher education in terms that tion, thoughtfulness, and time. It is, therefore, Odysseus, have been tested, had wounds cared echo closely the ways we talk about the high expensive, but its first fruit—innovation—is for, and hunger satisfied by mentors. But true quality of American medical care. The two are, invaluable. The challenge for us all is to deter mentorship doesn’t just guide and nurture, of course, closely linked. Our great research mine how much innovation is worth to us, it creates the possibility of innovative action. ers and physicians are generally trained in our and how we will pay for the mentoring that Like in a young student realizing her real most prominent colleges and medical schools, makes it possible. potential and stepping out to take on the chal taught and mentored by their accomplished “Mentorship” comes from the mytho lenge of a productive and creative career she elders who are often at the vanguard of break logical Greek figure Mentor, the old friend of never imagined for herself. Or a young doctor throughs in medical care, in understanding Odysseus who served as the wise teacher and discovering the gene that cracks the code to a the mysterious etiology of complex diseases, guide to Odysseus’ son Telemachus when the killer disease. Or a young chef who opens up in developing treatment protocols, and in warrior headed off on his great adventures. a really great new restaurant with an inno discovering drugs and imaginative cures for Mentor took the place of father, teacher, and vative twist on an old dish. Which reminds previously incurable maladies. The achieve loyal friend for young Telemachus back in me of a little place on Capitol Hill in Seattle ments of American medicine and those of the Ithaca in the absence of brave Odysseus. It was where the pasta is simply divine. Time to make best American colleges and universities are one a divine calling. In fact, on at least two occa reservations. and the same. sions, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, made They are linked by mentorship, but also by this explicit when she assumed the guise of innovation. Innovation is often represented Mentor to inspire in Telemachus (and later as a characteristic quality of American medi in Odysseus) acts of courage and character. cal research as well as the principal advantage What real mentoring makes possible is heroic Ronald R. Thomas summer 2012 arches 9 letters arches Where we live, and why Aw, shucks Vol. 39, No. 4 Summer 2012 read with interest the latest issue of Arches TJ eing on the Arches staff must be like flying iand scoured the map of where graduates JDa supersonic plane. You are working on Chuck Luce, Editor are located in the world. As of June 12 you the next issue by the time the boom hits. Cathy Tollefson '83, Associate Editor, can put a red dot in the center of Kenya. My Boom ... I finally got around to reading Classmates wife, Rev. Sue Owen, and I are retiring as the spring Arches. My leather edition was most Julie Reynolds, Designer United Methodist pastors (from the Oregon- impressive; I picked the magazine up gently Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless credited otherwise Idaho Conference) after many years (39 for so as not to cause further wear. I always enjoy Kari Vandraiss '13, intern me). We wanted to do something other than Ron Thomas’ letter. I like angels and leather sit in rocking chairs enjoying the view, so we books. What can I say? I enjoyed learning Alumni Council Executive Committee volunteered to spend the next three years about North Star Glove and will go to “Steele” David Watson '92, President; Leslie Skin ner Brown '92, Vice President; Amy Ma in Maua, Kenya, working at a rural 250-bed a pair of gloves. I didn’t know they had a retail Winterowd '99, Secretary; Laurie Koelbel hospital that serves over a million people. store there. 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Salem, Ore. a publication she helped produce 14 years ago Postmaster: Send address corrections to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the to arches, Office of Communications, Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Conn. University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma WA 98416-1041. Editorial Submissions Story, art, and photographic submissions are welcome; however, the editors recom mend a written query. W AA 'K c/ 10 arches summer 2012 zeitqeistNews, trends, history, and phenomena fromjt campus the campaign A new endowed faculty chair in neuroscience "What gets you up in the morning?" "Brains. Especially snail brains." Siddharth Ramakrishnan is an educa tor and researcher in the Bioelectronics Systems Lab of the Columbia University Department of Electrical Engineering. A I® neuroscientist by training, he has focused [OF A KIND] on the hormonal modulation of neurons, THE CAMPAIGN FOR UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND embryonic brain development, and the use of microchips to record neural cell electrical activity. That said, the picture of Ramakrishnan your brain neurons just helped construct is likely a bit out of focus. No old-school, lab-coated science wonk, the 33-year-old native of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in south INTERDISCIPLINARY THINKING Siddharth Ramakrishnan's thing is bio- electronic devices, but he's also interested in the visual representation of east India, exudes a kind of gee-whiz wonder about his chosen field science and is working with artists to make research more accessible to and has collaborations with visual artists to share that wonder with the everyone. public. It is a metier that strikes a familial chord; Ramakrishnan’s father is a surgeon, his mother an artist. labs, and then investigated the neural circuitry underlying those behav When he begins classroom teaching in January 2013 as the inau iors. I was hooked. Neuroscience was exciting, so I decided to make the gural Jennie M. Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience, Ramakrishnan will shift and began focusing on using artificial neural networks to model bring a breadth of research and teaching experience and a mind-set pattern-generating neural circuits in snails—circuits similar to those that aligns nicely with Puget Sound’s established vision for the interdis that control rhythmic behaviors like feeding, respiration, and locomo ciplinary neuroscience program he will help guide into the future. tion in all animals.” “Neuroscience has been gaining critical momentum through the His initial sense of excitement has neither waned nor shifted. Last latest advances in imaging, the development of more sophisticated year Ramakrishnan took part in an art-meets-science forum at the genetic tools, and the use of hybrid neuroelectronic devices,” says National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and, prior to his Ramakrishnan, whose main interest lies in a branch of neuroscience presentation, titled “Looking within and without: NeurolScience and known as neuroethology—the study of animal behavior and its under ArtlScience,” was asked by the moderator, “What gets you up in the lying neural circuitry. morning? What gets you excited?” Only recently has the discipline of neuroscience—at its basic level, He replied, “Brains. Especially snail brains.” the study of the brain and nervous system—grown from its roots in Ramakrishnan’s conviction that science and the arts need to be biology to now encompass aspects of chemistry, physics, engineering, cross-pollinated is part and parcel of his work, including public out mathematics, health science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and reach and plans to tap into the culture at Puget Sound that spans dis computer science, the latter being Ramakrishnan’s field of basic train ciplines, breaks down language barriers between those disciplines, and ing. But while working on his master’s degree with an emphasis in helps create what he calls a “third culture” of art and science. artificial intelligence, his heart and mind began to stray from bits and “There’s a lot of exciting research being done by scientists, but bytes, sensing that such intelligence was too artificial, aimed as it was at laypeople are rarely able to enter that world in a meaningful way.... I boosting processing speeds rather than emulating brain circuitry. think that needs to be completely broken down wherever possible.” “I needed to understand brains better, so I took a class in neu Which is why Ramakrishnan’s current work at Columbia design roethology,” he says. “We studied animal behavior in the field and in ing a bionic chip that will harvest energy at the cellular level is summsr?m? nrrhm n I Zeitgeist counterbalanced by teaching at Parsons The New School for Design, a cross-disciplinary dialog and a constant drive to engage with students, private art and design college in New York City, as well as continued, scientists, and the general public outside our own comfort zones, is collaborative work on art installations with a scientific nucleus. To that what I hope to bring to the UPS community.” — David Sims end he is also a Fellow of the ArtlSci Center and Lab at UCLA. The Hox Zodiac project, on which Ramakrishnan has worked with The Jennie M. Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience is a new position at Puget UCLA media artist and educator Victoria Vesna, is an example of this Sound funded as part of the Campaign for Puget Sound by Marvin H. barrier-breaking tack, although it has no direct relation to neurosci Caruthers P'02, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, ence per se. Homeobox genes, Hox for short, are a set of eight “general University of Colorado Boulder, in memory of his late wife, Jamie M. purpose” control genes shared by all living beings—from snails to Caruthers. It was created to broaden expertise in the high-demand neuro whales to humans—that define the placement of body regions in a science program, which has been offered to students since fall 2007. developing embryo. That is, under the direction of the Hox genes, “the head goes here, two arms over there, the legs down below,” and so on. “We look around and see so much diversity, an abundance of ani mals that look so different, yet many of us are not aware that there is this underlying theme of a common body plan in all of us,” Ramak rishnan notes. “That fundamental concept is very important, very students simple, yet very profound.” Using the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac to represent the many A good year for scholarships different body types Hox genes define, the project is open-ended and nonthreatening (no scientific jargon, no chemical equations), conveys and postgraduate awards how all creatures are truly interconnected, and aims to invoke curiosity and spark dialog about an obscure scientific tidbit. As the semester came to a close, fellowships director Sharon Cham- On the more scientific side, the project notes that with the advance bers-Gordon reported that Puget Sound juniors and seniors had of genetic technologies, manipulation of many of these organisms is secured 16 national scholarships this year: among them two Fulbrights, already a reality and “it is not farfetched to imagine Hox gene altera six French Government Teaching Assistantships, two Princeton-in-Asia tions leading to changes in body plan and mutated, hybrid animals.” Fellowships, a Critical Language Scholarship, a Udall Scholarship, a Like dragons. Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals Fellow But Ramakrishnan and his students won’t be conjuring any winged ship, and three Goldwater Scholarships. beasts in lab petri dishes. His basic research will continue in the more All this amid tough competition from students across the country. down-to-earth realm of electrophysiology, small animal models, and For example, the Goldwaters, considered the top undergraduate sci brain-behavior studies. Specifically, he hopes to use imaging and elec ence award, were awarded out of just 300 available. Peter Russell T2 trical recordings to understand the effects of environmental pollutants received Puget Sound’s first Critical Language Scholarship, and Maggie such as PCBs and bisphenol A (both of which can disrupt hormonal Shanahan ’13 won both a Udall and a Goldwater. Rachel Hood ’09, systems) on neurons during the development of embryonic zebra fish, who is now in graduate school, landed a National Science Foundation and correlate that with the reproductive behavior and fertility of adult scholarship for her work in microbiology. fish. Such investigations can ultimately help decipher birth defects, The recent national awards include: developmental disorders, and subtle hormonal imbalances in humans. Fulbright Scholarship: Laura Lasswell ’12-Germany, Kat Schmidt “Many people are not aware that much of what we know about ’12-Germany neurons and neuroscience comes from simple animals like fish, insects, French Government Teaching Assistantship: Emily Strichartz ’ 12, and snails,” he says. Serena Berkowitz ’12, Emily Swisher ’12, Elizabeth Hughes ’12, Under today’s umbrella, neuroscience is an eclectic mix ranging Charlotte Cronin ’12, Molly Gibson ’ll from neuroeconomics to neuro-name-your-discipline. The potential Princeton-in-Asia: Max Honch ’12-Thailand, Max Heston ’12-China applications and benefits to humankind and society from its research Critical Language Scholarship: Peter Russell ’12-Arabic endeavors are equally as numerous and diverse. Udall Scholarship: Maggie Shanahan ’13 Our small world has some big problems, and the only way to Goldwater Scholarship: Kevin Halasz *12, Maggie Shanahan ’13, answer the most challenging questions is through true interdisciplin Vienna Saccomanno ’13 ary science. Neuroscience, asserts Ramakrishnan, lends itself to broad Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals exploration at any level—from probing how neurons communicate Fellowship: Jon Prentice ’12 and what consciousness is to how we appropriately respond and adapt National Science Foundation Scholarship: Rachel Hood ’09 to a changing planet. (University of California, Berkeley)—life sciences, microbiology “My work with a diverse group of researchers from a variety of North American Language and Culture Assistants in Spain: Sara fields allows me to understand the different languages spoken across Evert *12, David Pendleton ’ll, Sarah Rittenhouse ’09, Daniel the scientific and engineering community,” Ramakrishnan says. “This Watson ’12. 12 arches summer 2012 consecutive NWC Player of the Year honors for Bridget Stolee ’05. Stolee became a trendsetter as the Loggers piled up 15 NWC Player of the Year honors during the decade-long streak. This trio of new Log gers would not only continue the success established in 2002 but take the program to the next level. ‘‘Each year our goal was not only to win the conference but to win a national championship,” commented Kjar. “During my freshman year I quickly learned that this team had standards and that we were making a commitment to our coach and to each other to not settle for anything but greatness.” Their big dreams nearly came true in 2004. The Loggers breezed through the NWC and then bulldozed through the NCAA tournament. sports On November 27 they played in the Division III championship game against Wheaton (111.). The match wasn’t decided in regulation time, or in two ensuing overtime periods. Ultimately Wheaton prevailed on A decade of dominance penalty kicks, but the Loggers had left their mark on the national stage. Stolee, a senior in 2004, was named MVP of the tournament, with Kjar We don't want to jinx things by using words like and Elizabeth Pitman ’06 joining her on the All-Tournament team. 'dynasty' but perhaps it wouldn't be tempting The Kjar was selected as Division III Player of the Year in 2005 and Fates too much to note that the women's soccer earned her second All-American honor. Erin Williams joined her as program is on quite a roll an All-American, and both women left their names all over the Logger record book while leading the first of what are now seven classes to win Women’s soccer legend Mia Hamm once said that “success breeds suc a NWC title in each of their four years. cess.” That’s certainly been true for the women’s soccer program at Janece Levien ’09 burst onto the scene in 2007 for her first of Puget Sound. Last fall the Loggers won their 10th consecutive North three All-American campaigns. Bird Folsom ’08, now a Puget Sound west Conference women’s soccer championship. That’s the longest assistant coach along with Mendoza-Exstrom, joined the Loggers All- active streak of conference championships in Division III women’s soc American club in 2006. Meanwhile, the conference titles kept coming, cer nationwide. During this remarkable streak, the Loggers compiled and the 2007 season brought an appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals. a 178-21-14 record. They won more than 83 percent of their games, Perhaps the most impressive part of the streak is how success on completely rewrote the record books, produced 10 All-Americans, and the field evolved to become success after college. “The real thing is the came within a penalty kick of winning the national title. life-lessons learned here,” said Coach Hanson. “These players go out The success of the early 2000s under players like Laura Grinstead and make the world a better place.” Petersen ’01, Maya Mendoza-Exstrom ’03, and Beth Taimi Tiffany ’03 Take Maya Mendoza-Exstrom, for example. Her on-field can-do set the stage for what has turned into a women’s soccer dynasty. And ethic continued without missing a beat as she went on to study inter the success they found as soccer players a decade ago continues to national law in Scotland, earned her J.D. from the University of Wash inspire the success of today’s Loggers. ington, and joined her family’s business and real estate law practice. Petersen was the Loggers’ first NCAA Division III All-American. She somehow now finds time to volunteer for the Housing Justice Proj She anchored the Logger back line and led her team to the first NWC ect and King County Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinics, and title in 2000. Now an occupational therapist in Northern California, act as an assistant coach for her alma mater. Petersen helped change the culture of Logger women’s soccer in ways Tiffany has climbed the ranks of athletic administration as an asso that Tiffany and Mendoza-Exstrom noticed in their four years at UPS. ciate athletic director at Union College, a Division III school in New “Absolutely we saw a culture shift during my time at Puget Sound, York. Stolee is practicing marriage and family therapy in California. as we began to heighten our expectations for success,” said Tiffany. Kjar, the 2005 national Player of the Year, earned a Doctor of Pharmaq' “My class matriculated in 1999 as competitive athletes who hoped to degree and is a pharmacist in Utah. win some games along the way. By the time we graduated, we had cre “I learned a lot of lessons on the soccer field that apply to my life ated an expectation of success, and high-caliber athletes were choosing today. One of the biggest lessons I learned was about picking yourself Puget Sound with those expectations already in mind.” up after failure,” Kjar said. After finishing second in the NWC in 2001, Tiffany and Mendoza- Success has found a home with Logger women’s soccer. A decade Exstrom helped the Loggers reclaim the conference crown as seniors in has come and gone, and the Loggers are still the team to beat in the 2002 and started the streak that lives on today. Northwest Conference. Success continues to grow as the streak extends The 2002 season was also the freshman year for future All-Ameri into double digits and lawyers, pharmacists, and college administrators cans Cortney Kjar ’06 and Erin Williams ’06, and saw the first of three continue to emerge. — Steven Olveda summer 2012 arches 13 the campus Under construction: a new residence hall Moving fast on this one; the hole is already dug, and completion is scheduled for fall 2013 This summer the university broke ground for a new residence hall at the corner of North 13th and Lawrence streets, near the center of campus overlooking Commencement Walk. When completed it will provide a huge addition to campus housing options (which at present DOMESTIC HARMONY Soon to be rising near the spot where South include traditional and suite-style residence halls, student-led theme Hall (the ancient OT/PT building) used to be: A 135-single-bedroom resi houses and floors, and Greek houses) and accommodate 135 upper- dence hall built in the campus' signature Tudor-Gothic style. It will fea level students. This will allow about 70 percent of Puget Sound’s under ture suite-style living that allows students to connect academically and socially with their peers while providing privacy and independent living. graduate population to live on campus and to participate fully in the Top: the west facade. Above: the courtyard as seen from the east side. residential liberal arts experience. Beginning with the autumn of 2013, students will be required to live on campus during their first two years. There’s a good reason for social justice. The building also will have a 150-seat meeting room, a that requirement, says VP for Student Affairs Mike Segawa. Research student art gallery in the lobby, a seminar room, four study rooms, shows that students who live on campus generally have higher grade a pillared walkway, and an outdoor courtyard to support learning point averages, are more involved in campus life, and are more likely to themes. The design will meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s Lead graduate. ership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. Con This building will be a far cry from the old days of the college struction will be financed with tax-exempt bonds, and annual opera “dorm.” The five-story residence will be sectioned into 11 student tion costs will be covered by housing revenues. “houses.” Each house will contain nine to 14 individual bedrooms sur Tacoma-based Korsmo Construction is the project general contrac rounding a kitchen/living area, study and gathering areas, bathrooms, tor. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Seattle, home to American Institute of and laundry facilities. Occupying the “houses” will be undergrads in Architects Gold Medal winner Peter Bohlin, designed the new building. four residential academic communities: the humanities, outdoors and (The firm also designed Weyerhaeuser Hall, Puget Sound’s new center environmental policy, international education, and spirituality and for health sciences, which opened a year ago.) 14 arches summer 2012 THE WAY IT WAS The house at 1218 N. Lawrence, for nearly 40 years the university employment office, was removed in June to make way for the new residence hall (story on facing page). The "1218" address plate visible to the left of the front door was carved by the personnel department's first director, Mary Wortman Curran '36, P'61,'67 after she retired and now decorates a wall in the new human resources office. from the archives Mary Curran worked fast after becoming personnel director in March 1972. In May she hired Lynda Lott as assistant director. Later she hired a second assistant director, William Frey. By July the trustees A brief history of the human had approved an affirmative action program for the college. By Octo resources office ber the personnel department had taken over, from the financial vice president, responsibility for maintaining staff and faculty health insur We celebrate in 2012 the 40th anniversary of the creation of the person ance records. Mary drafted the college’s first employees’ manual by the nel/human resources department at Puget Sound, and we celebrate Mul end of the year. By April 1973 the personnel department had become lins House (as it was unofficially known), the building that housed the responsible for administering the college’s OSHA paperwork and the department for 39 of those years. The house was torn down in June to unemployment compensation program. And by 1974 a personnel clas make way for a new residence hall on campus. sification program was in place to help ensure equitable salaries and The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade employment discrimination benefits across similar types of jobs. All of these accomplishments and based on race, color, national origin, religion, and sex. In January 1972 more are described by former director Rosa Beth Gibson in her written Congress amended the act to include employees of educational institu history of the department. tions. In March 1972 Puget Sound established a personnel department In her capacity as personnel director Mar)' Curran also served as to ensure compliance with the act. affirmative action officer for the college. Mary was very much interested President R. Franklin Thompson asked Mary Louise Curran ’36 to in increasing the number of women and minorities hired in staff and be the department’s first director. At the time of her appointment Mary faculty positions. was the college’s dean of women and associate director of admission. When Mary retired in 1976, Lynda Lott took over as the second The personnel department was housed from the beginning in the director of personnel. Rosa Beth Gibson became its third director in little white house at 1218 North Lawrence on the corner of Lawrence 1977, serving for 34 years before retiring in 2011. Rosa Beth was a calm and North 13th streets. The house was given to the college by one Mr. ing guide as she led the department through a maze of ever more com Mullins and is known as Mullins House. plex institutional and governmental expectations to make it the profes Mary Thompson Turnbull, daughter of former President Thompson, sional operation that it is today. The department’s fourth leader, Cindy confirms as truth what has become campus lore. That is that Mr. Mul Matern, carries the tradition forward. lins, known privately by President Thompson and his daughters Mary During summer 1994, professional jargon caught up with the and Martha as “Moon” Mullins, due to the cartoon strip of the day, gave college when personnel became “human resources,” and the office the house to the college out of affection for “Doc T.” was renamed the human resources department. The role of director Mr. Mullins, it is said, liked to frequent the Sixth Avenue bars. Often expanded to oversee student employment, and career and employment at the 2 a.m. closing time Mr. Mullins was unable to navigate his way services, and the title was changed to associate vice president. home unaided. When the bartender or Mr. Mullins himself telephoned The partnership between Mullins House and the personnel/HR President Thompson for help, “Doc T” always provided it. Out of grati department came to an end in summer 2011, when, anticipating con tude for delivering him safely home on a regular basis over a number of struction of the new dorm, the department moved to the basement of years, Mr. Mullins declared that someday he would give his house to the Howarth Hall after the psychology department moved to Weyerhaeuser college. And that he did. Hall. — John Finney '67 summer 2012 arches 15 ; Amazinq journey—Follow the graduates along Commencement Walk OK. so the path seniors take on graduation day is a little more direct than what you’ll be tracing in this maze, but we hope you'll have fun finding the way. ^GRATULATIO/Vj, You are a scholar of superior way-finding ability, c \ \\\^ Bonus: Find the letters "UPS" in the grid of one of the buildings. Be one of the first 10 people to email [email protected] with the correct location and we'll send you an Arches fountain pen. The Class of 2012—a few facts: ■ May 13 was the university's 120th Commencement ■ Degrees awarded: 600 bachelor's; 107 master's or Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees ■ Speaker: Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -u ■ Honorary degrees to Lubchenco; Dennis Flannigan '61, former Washington state r^j legislator and Pierce County community leader; and Ruth Purtilo, professor emerita in ethics at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (Honorary degrees are awarded to commend people of notable academic reputation or 3 people who have contributed greatly to public welfare. Nominations for honorands are always welcome; contact [email protected].) .. . - 16 arches summer 2012 A couple of hints: You will wind through most of the LIBERAL arts buildings but not all. Keep off the grass. There's more than one correct route. Solution on page 38. X X X X X X X vWWWWW Aj, I I fa summer 2012 arches 17 ! ! • media Qatar and other wealthy Gulf states. One strength of traditional academic pub lishing is diligence: Proposals and manuscripts get sent for review to experts in the field. This peer-review process is often anonymous and guides the acquisition of projects and the edit ing of books and articles by the presses and journals themselves. The traditional way is not without its drawbacks, however. Peer reviewers often don’t meet deadlines, and sometimes professional jealousy intrudes on objectivity. Also, espe cially with budget cuts at private and public universities with presses, academic publish ers have become more cautious about what and how much they publish. And, as Gardner notes, academic books are expensive and often don’t reach nations with few bookstores and limited access to libraries. Early on in the project, Gardner and Watts discovered that academic publishing’s tradi tional ways would be too narrow for what they wanted to achieve. “In our conversations with [academic] publishers, it was evident that this book would be difficult to review—there is no analysis presented in the book, and it is not Going public a traditional ethnography in any sense of the word. The manuscript seemed an odd fit for 'The strict, regimented, slow (and occasionally unfair) process of most of the publishers we approached.” peer-review academic publishing should not be the only Jeff Matthews, professor of business and way for scholars to test their ideas. leadership and director of the Business Lead ership Program, recently decided to explore print-on-demand as the means to publish by Hans Ostrom Blacksheep Leadership: A Story About a Leader ship Challenge and the Nature of Transforma Few parts of culture have been affected more variety of ways. (The collection, Constructing tional Leadership (reviewed next page). by digital technology than publishing. Major Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of Matthews saw the nontraditional means traditional publishers still control much of the Global System, will be available later this of publication as good entrepreneurial expe the market for books, but the rise of e-books, summer.) rience. “Marketing the book will also finally print-on-demand, and the Leviathan known “One of the primary motivations for pub- push me into the world of social media—Face- as Amazon.com have altered the world of let- lishing this text electronically was the poten- book, Twitter, and blogging,” he added. “And ters as much as the Gutenberg Revolution did tial for global dissemination,” said Gardner, an I knew I could get the book to market more some 600 years ago. anthropologist. “We believe that the e-book quickly than traditional publishing would.” Not surprisingly, this digital revolution has format will allow us to reach components of Matthews worked with the print-on- also affected academic publishing, but several our intended audience that would otherwise demand company, Lightning Source, after Puget Sound faculty members have greeted be poorly served by a traditional academic getting several recommendations. When some the latitude created by new technology as an publisher.” one purchases the book on Amazon.com (for opportunity, not a problem. Gardner and Autumn Watts, a professor example), Lightning Source prints the book When Andrew Gardner, associate profes from Cornell, oversaw a small group of stu and fulfills the order. In traditional academic sor of comparative sociology, was assembling dent-researchers, who recorded the narratives. publishing, a set number of books is printed a collection of migrant narratives gathered Gardner and Watts hope the inexpensive and sold, and second printings or editions from men and women who work in Qatar, e-book format will help the book find its way aren’t guaranteed. In effect, print-on-demand the e-book format seemed advantageous in a to readers in countries that export labor to books remain “in print” indefinitely. 18 arches summer 2012 Both Matthews and Gardner value the chose a venerable four-word answer: “Only deal with followers in which purely financial traditional modes of academic publishing, time will tell.” compensation is traded for work effort in a including peer review, but they view non- relatively sterile commercial transaction. Mat traditional publishing as an important new Hans Ostrom is professor of African American thews goes beyond this, however, to describe I avenue. Matthews observed, “I believe senior studies and a professor of English at Puget a new, deeper, and more mutually beneficial faculty will be publishing increasingly via Sound. His most recent novel, Without One, “transformational” leadership model. In this alternative means. There is a large measure which concerns a bizarre epidemic that hits style, leaders see themselves as co-equal with of autonomy, and that alone brings intrinsic men where they live, is available for Kindle. followers and task themselves with creating motivation and satisfaction to one’s continued With colleagues Beverly Conner and Ann working environments in which followers work. For all of its validity and necessity, the Putnam, he published the collection of stories can grow (and leaders learn) as they pur strict, regimented, and slow (and occasion Nine by Three, with a foreword by President sue mutual goals. “Compensation” includes ally unfair) process of peer-review academic Ron Thomas. The book is published, via print- opportunities for learning, personal develop publishing should not be the only way for on-demand, by the university’s own Collins ment, and job satisfaction—not just pay- scholars to ‘test’ their ideas. I, for one, am [Library] Press, and proceeds from sales support checks—thus “transforming” both leaders and always encouraging my students to be creative the library. followers. and take intellectual risks, so it seems natural Matthews notes that currently there are that I should encourage my colleagues to do relatively few of these transformational lead the same.” ers—such as his example of Erin Gruwell, The autonomy, freedom, and efficiency renowned teacher of at-risk high school stu that Matthews values also appeals to expe Blacksheep Leadership dents—and they swim against the tide of both rienced creative writers who have paid their conventional authoritarian and transactional JEFFREY J. MATTHEWS, professor of busi dues by publishing in literary magazines for leadership styles. Thus Matthews considers ness and leadership, director of the Business years, find editors’ assistance less and less nec them to be “black sheep,” but in a highly posi Leadership Program essary, and have grown weary of the slow pace. tive sense, because the skills they demonstrate The same holds true for experienced teachers 192 pages, hardback make them the potentially successful “white and scholars in any field who get interested University Place Publishing hat” leaders of tomorrow. in publishing a textbook—as evidenced by Available at Amazon.com The book makes effective use of both mathematics and computer science Professor fictional stories and true events, such as Rob Beezer’s recent foray into open-source Review by Hal Eastman ’60 polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 textbook publishing (Arches spring 2012). expedition, to demonstrate the differences Although Stephanie Tong (Puget Sound Today’s leaders face between authoritarian, transactional, and assistant professor of communication) stud BLACKSHEEP unprecedented challenges transformational leadership styles and their ies social, not academic, electronic media, she LEADERSHIP in guiding organiza respective results. This lays the groundwork agreed to offer her views on nontraditional tions toward their goals. for Matthews to define black sheep leadership academic publishing: “I’d venture to say that Technology is moving at principles and required skills. These include the nature of online search has changed the warp speed, redefining such things as broad personal experience, research process. Since people are able to use markets and requiring adaptability, ability to think critically, and Google and other tools to conduct directed new business practices. willingness to take risk. Black sheep leaders Web searches for specific content, mate Cultural and geographic also need to be humble enough to give up rial that is in digital format will probably be boundaries are crumbling with the advent of some of their hierarchical power in favor of a more likely to show up in search results than instant communications and interconnectiv more egalitarian environment where mutual print material that is not accessible online. ity. Business cycles are increasingly frequent respect and shared goals replace pure author This probably means that this digital con and severe. ity as driving forces. Ironically, this gives them tent will be used more often and cited more Into this daunting arena steps Professor even more power in rallying people to a cause frequently.” Jeffrey Matthews with Blacksheep Leadership. than when they practiced more authoritarian Like Gardner, Matthews, and Beezer, Tong The book challenges traditional leadership leadership styles. appreciates the old ways. “One of the hall thinking and suggests a needed paradigm shift The book’s examples and principles sug marks of scholarly research is the peer-review to a concept of “transformational leadership.” gest the types of education and experience process (although it does have its flaws), and Matthews notes that past, more authori helpful in developing black sheep leadership circumventing this process raises concerns for tarian forms of leadership such as military qualities. This is valuable guidance for aspir some.” And when asked to gauge how much command have largely given way to today’s ing leaders as they consider their own educa the technological revolution will affect aca “transactional” leadership. This is often typi tional and personal development options. demic research and publication, Tong wisely cal of corporations, where leaders strike a My guess is that future leaders will have to summer 2012 arches 19 media increasingly possess many of Matthews' cur List Worlds of the 19 IS In fluenza Epidemic, female nurses, in one of the few professions rently too-rare black sheep transformational which helps us understand the social and cul open to women, were often exhilarated to be leadership skills to successfully guide their tural meaning of that calamity. useful because the rest, good nutrition, and “flocks” to green pastures. Bristow was drawn to the storv bv her warmth they provided patients were the best own family history. Her grandfather, John means to recovery. Hal Eastman ’60 enjoyed a 30-year business Bristow, was orphaned when influenza killed Bristow s final chapter explores the career, starting with Boeing and Ford, and his parents, and although Bristows family car “national amnesia” after the epidemic, argu later in industries as diverse as printing, forest ried the personal memory of that loss and her ing that a traditional American narrative of products, biotechnology, scientific supplies, and grandfather's struggles, she wondered at the positivism overcame a more “toxic narrative,” wireless communications. During this time he absence ot any public or national memory of enabling people to again normalize—domes was president of Fisher Scientific and McCaw the epidemic. To recover those stories, Bristow ticate—influenza and bury their grief. Recent Cellular (today AT&T Wireless), and founder of has mined historical archives, memoirs, and research into the nature, consequences, and two small businesses. He later served on several periodicals, providing the most comprehensive meanings of trauma warns of the dangers of corporate and nonprofit boards, including Puget view we have of American society as it fought suppressing horrific events: Post-traumatic Sound’s board of trustees. Eastman resigned the unseen killer. stress disorder among veterans of the wars in from his executive management positions at age Bristow s prodigious research brings Iraq and Afghanistan is an urgent reminder 55 to pursue fine-art photography. (See some of together all of the important players in the today. Professor Bristows book provides a his amazing work at www.haleastman.com.) epidemic: doctors and nurses; public health compelling cautionary tale of the dangers His new career-advice handbook, Get Hired, officials in federal, state, and local govern of ignoring such trauma, and her stories of Grow, Lead, Live!, will be reviewed in a future ments; Red Cross volunteers; and, importantly, the massive sickness, death, and grief during edition of Arches. patients. She uncovers the disease experience the 1918 epidemic will help us negotiate the of ordinary people such as the residents of the storms of future American tragedy and loss. small town of Wallace, Idaho; Native Ameri American Pandemic: The Lost cans in Oregon and New Mexico; and soldiers Carol R. Byerly teaches history at the University Worlds of the 1918 Influenza and sailors in military training camps across of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Fever Epidemic the country, as well as individuals such as avia of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. tor Amelia Earhart, evangelist Billy Sunday, Army during World War I. NANCY K. BRISTOW, professor of history and African-American physician John A. Ken 304 pages, hardback; also available for Kindle ney of the Tuskegee Institute. She explains that Oxford University Press “while the virus did not discriminate among Faith and Race in American www.oup.com/us/ its victims, American culture certainly did,” Political Life and illustrates how racism and ethnic and class prejudices often denied some groups access to ROBIN DALE JACOBSON, assistant profes Review by Carol R. Byerly sor of politics and government, and NANCY good health care and caused some people to WADSWORTH, editors One of the arts of his blame patients for their sickness. 328 pages, hardback; also available for Kindle AMERiSAi'i tory—if not its respon Bristow grapples with other complex issues PAKDEM!" sibility—is rescuing the concerning influenza. The very commonness University of Virginia Press past from oblivion. The of the flu, she argues, caused Americans to mw. upress. virginia.edu influenza epidemic of “domesticate” it as an annual, relatively harm Review by Dean J. Johnson 1918 was the most devas less malady, leaving society unprepared for tating pandemic in human the deadly viral strain that emerged in 1918. Faith and Race in Ameri history, but it rarely She also provides a panorama of medicine at can Political Life provides ______appears in books. Emerg the time, describing not only the activities of a long-overdue critical ing from the chaos of World War I, influenza mainstream physicians of the American Medi investigation of the rela claimed 50 million lives, four times the toll cal Association, but alternative approaches tionship between race of the war itself. Despite such destruction, such as homeopathy, osteopathy, and Christian and religion in the United the war eclipsed the epidemic in the national Science, and how sellers of patent medicines States. The editors have historical memory until the late 1900s, when exploited the epidemic for profit. Modern gathered essays that dem- new pathogens such as HIV-AIDS and SARS medicine before antibiotics could nonethe ______fonstrate how “religion and returned the threat of deadly disease to public less do little for flu victims, and Bristow deftly race do not just come into contact with each discourse. A powerful and poignant contribu shows that the predominantly male medical other; each actually creates the meaning of tion to this discussion is Professor Nancy K. profession experienced profound failure as the other through intersections in individuals, Bristow’s new book, American Pandemic: The their patients died by the scores. In contrast, 20 arches summer 2012 ■m institutions, and ideologies.” This book is a quintessential example of interdisciplinary scholarship and intersectionality, bringing together experts from such fields as the sociol ogy of religion, political science, women’s stud ies, history, and geography, as well as nonprofit and denominational advocates and practi tioners. The depth of knowledge each author offers from her or his area of expertise pro vides a critical perspective on the intersection of race, religion, and politics, without compro mising any of the analytical frameworks. Faith and Race in American Political Life also delivers a breadth of knowledge to readers, provoking them to consider the complexity and nuances involved in understanding the influence that religion has on racial politics. Eric Michael Mazur, Carlos Figueroa, Susan Gordon, Gerald Webster, and Jonathan Leib provide a foundation for understanding vari ous ways that race and religion have shaped constitutional law, immigration policies, and definitions of citizenship throughout U.S. history. At the core of these arguments lie the changing definitions of whiteness, which And a-one, and a-two have most often included being a Christian From the never-a-dull-moment file of year-end revelations: In 2011-12 the as part of the criteria. Robert Jones, Rob School of Music produced 110 concerts, and 42 workshops, clinics, master ert Francis, Jessica Hamar Martinez, Edwin classes, or other special events: 152 productions in 30 weeks. Energico! In the Hernandez, Milagros Pena, and Robin Dale photo: Jihae Shin '13 conducting Leonard Bernstein's Selections from West Side Jacobson analyze the ever-shifting political Story at Pops on the Lawn, May 2 on Karlen Quad. and religious attitudes and behaviors among Latinos, whites, and blacks. A central theme among these authors is the often-paradoxical political attitudes held by each racial and Initial caps! What else UPS stands for religious group, which complicates the all-too- OK, so we all know that the shorthand we often colloquially use for our col frequent polarization of racial and religious lege can sometimes get us confused with our friends in the brown trucks. But issues by the media and pundits. Catherine type UPS into the search bar on Wikipedia and you also get: Paden, Tobin Miller Shearer, Sangay Mishra, Uninterruptible power supply Nancy Wadsworth, and Antony Alumkal lead Ubiquitin proteasome system the reader through examples of how race and Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy religion have been used by some people and organizations to maintain the white status Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system quo and by others to create positive pluralistic Ups (the computer-code debugger) social change. The complex role of religious Medically "unexplained physical symptoms" life in racial politics is very apparent for these Universal Press Syndicate authors, who demonstrate that the beliefs of Union Philosophical Society any one religious group or racial group are not "Union Progressiste Senegalaise," the former name of the Socialist Party of monolithic. Such a determination manifests the deep divisions created by religion and race, Senegal and yet leaves the reader with hope for authen Universal Pantheist Society tic change. University Philosophical Society (Trinity College, Dublin) Faith and Race in American Political Life is USS Puget Sound likely to become the cornerstone for courses University of Phoenix Stadium summer 2012 arches 21 II media - - !• in college or congregational settings that take Lessons from the Securing Your Financial Future: seriously issues of race and faith. The editors <; Monk I Married Complete Personal Finance have crafted a groundbreaking text. KATHERINE JENKINS ’92 for Beginners Dean J. Johnson is an assistant professor of reli 225 pages, paperback; also available for Kindle CHRIS SMITH ’77 gion and director of international and global Seal Press, www.sealpress.com 340 pages, paperback; also available for Kindle studies at Defiance College. ii Rownum & Littlefield Publishers, Don’t be fooled by the www.rowmnnlittlefield.com title Lessons from the Aephemera Monk I Married. In each Chris Smith really only Book Two of the Apocrypha Series chapter Katherine Jenkins intended to talk to his own I writes about one of the children about finances. LISA MOWAT ’95 ■ 10 lessons, but their sim XJ.»tW 'S«-**-■ Being a longtime finance 504 pages, paperback MONK I MAKKIfcO plicity—“trust your inner SECURING professional—Smith is a CreatcSpace (available at Amazon.com) voice” or “know when it's YOUR“"*"* retired vice president of ii FINANCIAL time to let go”—belies the often excruciating Hewlett-Packard and a col- FUTURE Lisa Mowat’s Apocrypha and challenging life episodes the author expe lege finance instructor, and series is proving to be rienced to learn them. his Puget Sound degree is in economics—he ! i an epic work of fiction. Lessons from the Monk I Married is a mov was preparing materials to teach his college- l | Aephemera, published ing memoir of Jenkins and her spiritual, emo age sons the lessons he’d learned about money. *. earlier this year, picks tional, and philosophical journey to find inner A funny thing happened: When he told people up where the first in the peace, self-awareness, and, as it turned out, a of his project they were extremely interested. lisa mowat series (reviewed in the life partner. It’s also a heck of a travelogue, as Many bemoaned the lack of financial educa J the journey took Jenkins and the monk, Seong tion in schools and asked if they could use AEPHEMERA off." Things2011ArcMl are somewhatt i Yoon Lee, to places around the globe, from Smith’s materials to teach their kids. The ’ more challenging this time around for human major cities to remote regions way off the next thing he knew, Smith’s fatherly talk had i Sophie and archangel Michael. Their daughter beaten path. expanded into a 340-page book: Securing Your Molly adds several layers of complexity to this We knew early on this story would be Financial Future: Complete Personal Finance meticulously constructed tale of time, space, ;; quite a ride. The first line of lesson one is for Beginners. and spirit. “Let’s go bowling!” It was 1996; Jenkins was The main lessons of the book seem so . Aephemera includes four sections—For teaching English in Korea and wrote, “I just easy: Start saving when you’re young, and giveness, Trespass, Temptation, and Deliver never expected my search for peace would compound interest is a magical and wonderful ance—and runs on three different timelines. lead me to a bowling alley. Nor did I expect thing. Smith writes in Securing Your Financial Mowat interweaves this beautiful and fasci my first experience with a Buddhist monk to Future that there’s more urgency about money nating tale seamlessly. Like the first book in involve putting on tacky shoes and comparing today. Long-term employment with a single the series, it is marvelously illustrated with ball sizes.” company or a steady union position isn’t documents and ephemera from the story’s The title of the book is a giveaway that Lee nearly so likely as it used to be, pensions are characters. and Jenkins eventually get hitched, but they becoming a rarity, health insurance is a chal One doesn’t necessarily have to read Apoc had to overcome more and greater hurdles lenge, the future of Social Security is uncer rypha to appreciate Aephemera, but we think than a lot of couples during their courtship. tain, and so is the growth of housing equity. those interested in spirituality, mysticism, The cultural challenges alone would have Plus people are facing both deeper debt and a fantasy, or just a darn good tale should start scuttled most relationships. They fought dizzying array of investment options. at the beginning. We raved about Apocrypha, through lengthy separations, deep questions Smith writes that, despite the challenges, and you’ll be missing a lot of valuable and about who and what they were as individuals, there is hope for a secure financial future. He interesting background if you skip it. The the meaning and value of love, and what they gives simple lessons and backs them up with story is complex and compelling, and you would or wouldn’t do to be together. solid information to help the reader under don’t want to miss a chapter. Carve out plenty They have settled in Seattle, Jenkins teach stand net worth, budgeting, borrowing, credit, of reading time, though. Apocrypha was ing English as a second language at Edmonds taxes, insurance, and risk management. He nearly 700 pages, and Aephemera is just over Community College, and Lee running a yoga also walks us through the implications of big- 500. If you don’t start now, you may wind up school. Perhaps “settled” is a bit of an exag ticket purchases such as cars and homes. with even more catching up to do. Mowat geration; Jenkins’ blog (http://lessonsfromthe There is good information for anyone in expects Apparata, the conclusion of the series, monkimarried.blogspot.com) these days is all Securing Your Financial Future, but the book is to come out next year. — Greg Scheiderer about another journey: her book tour. — CS especially relevant for and geared toward those 22 arches summer 2012 just starting their financial lives. Decisions If you know Bootes or Lepus already you for future live performances. You can stay up made in their 20s could determine whether should proceed to a more in-depth sky guide. to date by bookmarking Tollefson’s website, they have to swim upstream or downstream But beginning stargazers should grab a copy http://jaspertmusic.com. — GS as they get closer to retirement age. — GS of Adams’ book and start looking up. — GS Reflections: 2008-2011 ! Stargazing for Beginners: The Sweet Dark, Part 1 ADELPHIAN CONCERT CHOIR How to Find Your Way JASPER TOLLEFSON TO Audio CD Around the Night Sky Audio CD Available from Puget Sound Bookstore (item LAFCADIO ADAMS ’00 Available at www.jaspcrtmusic.com number W41755) ! « 61 pages, e-book, available for Kindle Lulu Press, mvw.lultt.com I don’t want to put any Lovers of choral music pressure on Jasper Tollef will want to snap up a It can be tough for son, but his CD, The copy of Reflections: 2008- beginners to learn the Sweet Dark, Part 1, has a 2011, a recording released constellations. Stan certain witty, observant this year by Puget Sound’s dard star charts contain nature to it that reminded Adelphian Concert Choir, so much information me a bit of Bob Dylan. under the direction of Steven Zopfi. Stargazing Tollefson is a talented classical guitarist The Adelphians have been at it now for for Beginners that they are confus ! ing, and even a simple who calls his compositions “organic pop”— 80 years. (Hey there, Adelphian alumni, we planisphere can be a mix of pop, rock, and folk representative of note that there’s an 80th anniversary reunion intimidating to people not familiar with the the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other music planned for Homecoming Weekend in the 1 tool. Those who haven’t a clue about right he likes to listen to on the radio. fall.) This recording features students involved \ ' ascension or relative magnitude can still learn He gave me a rough cut of five tracks over the three previous academic years. The the stars with this marvelous new guide from from The Sweet Dark, and those five have a 21 tracks on the disc include a great mix of Lafcadio Adams. definite bluesy bent to them as well. Perhaps old and new. There are four selections from Adams is a teacher in the Portland, Ore., it’s because Tollefson is a native Northwest- Brahms, as well as compositions from the likes area, and astronomy is her favorite subject— erner, but there’s a lot of bad weather on of Healey Willan, Jean Berger, and John Payn- she has had a scale model of the solar system the disc. The title of one track, "Rain City,” ter. The selections also feature more contempo in her living room “since way back when speaks for itself. In “Broken Singer’s Blues” he rary composers such as Grammy winner Eric Pluto was a planet.” Adams wrote Stargaz sings of the “raindrops falling on my wind Whitacre, Paul Basler, and Lee R. Kesselman. ing for Beginners as a series of six lessons, shield.” The tune “For the Ones We Love” Renowned for their repertoire, interpreta each taking a look at a different part of the begins with a deep sigh and references “cold tion, and musicianship, the Adelphians live up Northern Hemisphere sky. She recommends nights and strong winds.” to their reputation with this disc. While the taking them in order, as each builds upon the Tollefson majored in music at Puget classical and sacred compositions are marvel learning of the preceding lesson. Each lesson Sound with elective studies in business, a ous, I particularly enjoyed the gospel and spir features numerous clear, simple illustrations combination he says is serving him well as itual tracks on the CD. “Hold On,” arranged and photos that help the reader identify the he figures out how to work and market in by Eugene Simpson, was especially energetic constellations, using the familiar to help today’s music business. While he’s played and upbeat. The classic “I Got a Key,” featuring point the way to the more obscure nearby. a number of concerts, including this year’s baritone Kyle Downs TO in an arrangement Adams published the guide as an e-book Relay For Life at Puget Sound (which he jok by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, is outstand for practical reasons. She figures a smart ingly calls his “first stadium gig”), he’s mainly ing. It is one of three Parker arrangements phone or tablet device is easy to haul outside focused on recording. He has a part-time included on the disc. The spiritual standard with you on a clear night. Set it on night- accounting job to pay the bills and frequently “Sinner Man,” arranged by Howard Roberts vision mode, fire up Stargazing for Beginners, gives guitar lessons, the revenue from which and with a solo by soprano Lana McMullen and find out what you’re looking at. If you’re he’s putting right into the production of The ’ll, puts an emphatic exclamation point on old-school, you can get the PDF version and Sweet Dark. His goal is to release part one the recording. print it out. by the time you receive this magazine. Ulti The Adelphians tour regularly and have The guide is appropriate for most ages, mately he’d love a music career that allows performed with the Northwest Sinfonietta, understandable by budding stargazers as him to teach during the day while he’s on Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Tacoma Con young as 7 or 8, but appealing to adults, too. tour playing shows in the evenings. cert Band, and Tacoma City Ballet. Now with Keep an eye out for the CD release or Reflections, we can hear them any time. — GS summer 2012 arches 23 rr as 3_- been the ,M.s:72^as d. 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He says he was not a particu o September 2011, university photogra Sr. and his family rode three trains and a boat to larly good student. pher Ross Mulhausen and I met George down at get back to the islands, where he set up practice “My head was on the docks, but Mom insist Day Island Marina. That’s where George keeps and soon became known for his pro bono work ed on at least trying college and made a deal with his old Boston Whaler. The plan was to motor with the native population and interest in com me to give it a shot for one year. After that, out onto The Narrows for a photo we would munity affairs. George Sr. once ran for lieutenant I could go back to the wind and waves.” print in the autumn edition of this magazine. governor (unsuccessfully) and was a Republican George picked UPS mainly because he was Navigating into deeper water that day it was state senator for four years. On the day he died in interested in the Sound, an inland waterway. pretty obvious to me, a sailor of minor experi 1992, the Hawai‘i House and Senate adjourned “I’d never sailed in fog,” he said. ence, that George was processing the tide and the with a moment of silence in his memory. And so he came to the university lacking a currents and the wind and about a dozen other George Jr. says he acquired a fascination with great deal of enthusiasm. But he was a curious atmospheric and hydrological influences. It was the sea at an early age; by the time he was 10 he lad, inspired by the outdoors and the creatures as if he perceived the aquatic environment in was making fishing trips on the ocean. His father that inhabited it, and as is so often the case with some sort of dynamic fourth dimension. I didn’t was not fond of water conveyances, so George our students, the faculty helped him find his know it then, but I think I was observing in started spending a lot of time with a friend’s passion. Eileen Solie A.B.’65, M.S.’67, Gordon George the traits that make him so good at what dad, one Charlie Winstedt, who owned a deep- Alcorn ’30, and Robert Sprenger ’40, P’67 were he does here at Puget Sound. sea fishing boat. Winstedt was a tinkerer. He among his teachers. That one year turned into a George H. Mills Jr. was born in Boston while taught George the intricate and durable art of degree in biology and chemistry. his dad, George Hi’ilani Mills, was studying to ships’ carpentry and the patience and precision After graduation George had intended to be a doctor at Boston University. George Sr. had required to work in a machine shop rebuilding enter Navy Officer Candidate School but flunked grown up in the seaside village of Keaukaha on diesel engines. And they fished—nearly every the physical. Since he lacked a Plan B, it was the wet side of Hawaii’s Big Island. He was one weekend and all summer. Alcorn who suggested that George work toward summer 2012 arches 25 “George never tries to ‘sell’ Puget Sound to a student. Rather, he tries to help the student and his or her family determine the ‘right fit’ for that student. Determining fit successfully year after year after year takes a lot of data analysis, instinct, and stamina—a tactician— and George got to be really good at it.” 26 arches summer 2012 a master’s. This he successfully did. Topic: the and reels, neatly arranged in an overhead cradle, Puget Sound needed and wanted. He developed taxonomy of the Canada goose. is denser than a bamboo thicket. a model program and in short order had it run “George can distinguish and describe for you ning smoothly. At that point the position of George says he wound up not spending as the subtle differences in the many varieties of director of admissions was open, and I immedi much time on Washington waters as he thought salmon in the Pacific Northwest,” says President ately appointed George.” he would. When he was a UPS senior he would Ron Thomas, “just as well as he can explicate So much for a couple of years and back to sometimes borrow a friend’s 26-foot Blanchard the exotic varieties of sea creatures from his na biology. By now George had a family. He had Junior Knockabout, a lovely day-sailer designed tive Hawai‘i—from ono and opah to opakapaka married Nilmah Gray ’69, M.Ed.’72 in 1971— and built locally; no motor. One day he was out and onaga. Once, I joined George on an early- the two had met on a “fix-up” double date with on the boat, tacking back and forth, making his morning fishing venture on Commencement Lowell ’68 and Dorothy ’69 Daun. George liked way upwind to the dock at the Tacoma Yacht Bay. George made it his determined objective to the Northwest; thought it was a good place for Club, and he noticed a man on the pier watch let me hook my first salmon—no easy task for kids. (The couple has three.) And President ing him. When at last George had tied up, the an inexperienced fisherman like me. Especially Phibbs had allowed him a little time off to fin man introduced himself: Dave Nielsen, he said. when he showed me the hooks that were legal for ish his dissertation: “Secularization in Private Nielsen was the owner of a well-known ocean salmon fishing in Washington—no barbs. Higher Education: The History of the University racer, Moonglow, and would George be interested “‘How do you keep a fish on one of these?’ I of Puget Sound.” The Mills family dug in, much in crewing? Moonglow was a Cal 40, a flying fish asked in amazement. to our good fortune and that of several genera of a sloop that was a breakthrough design for its ‘“Very carefully,’ George replied. tions of Puget Sound students. time and still wins races today. “We stopped for some live bait, George bait “It was a great experience to sail a boat that ed up my hook, and he took the boat out, with George has worked for four of the five lon was, back then, state of the art,” says George. He me trolling my line behind us, awaiting the elu gest-serving Puget Sound presidents. During that worked his way up from winch grinder (he’s a sive strike. There were lots of boats out there that time the college has changed—from a regionally big, strong guy—what a skipper wants on the day but very few fish. Very few. In our seemingly focused comprehensive university with a law winches) to tactician. endless quest for a good spot—up the Colvos campus and branch programs at Fort Lewis and In the wild and mysterious ambit of sail Passage, over to the Gig Harbor inlet, back to elsewhere, back to its original liberal arts roots, boat racing, the tactician advises the skipper Ruston, and all around the bay, we saw more this time not only as “Tacoma’s college” but also on how to sail the boat, and it is said that such eagles and seals than signs of salmon. But then, as a national liberal arts college drawing students duty must be assigned to the ablest grey mat suddenly, my line came alive. George took my from across the country and the world. All the ter on board. That’s because the tactician has to pole, set the hook, and gave the rig back to me to while, as the college’s status changed, so did the analyze a numbing amount of data—the course, ‘very carefully’ reel in whatever was on the other admissions scenario. tides, currents, waves, air and water temperature, end of the line. Which turned out to be a ‘silver’ George, being George, has a pretty cool way and the wind and everything that affects it, like salmon. Somehow we got it in the boat, and of thinking about this evolutionary process: points of land and other boats and the sun and George had made his goal (and made my day) admission as applied natural history. “A college clouds—and then the tactician throws in hunch through his exquisite combination of knowledge, is like a biological organism,” he says. “When the es based on stuff like how your boat behaves instinct, determination, imagination, good in environment changes, the institution must adapt under certain conditions, and reading cat’s-paws, struction, strategy, patience, and generosity. Just to meet its needs.” and knowing the physics and geometry of how like he always does in getting our new class of In Puget Sound’s case, in the early ’70s the sails work. Never mind that you’re doing all this students safely on campus year after year.” needs of society and the related demographic while on a vessel that is usually throwing you projections for potential students were shifting. around like you’re riding Space Mountain with And so we get to the job George has been The trustees determined that the West had plen out a safety bar, and if you’re too distracted from doing around here for 42 years. ty of large, comprehensive universities but not all the thinking and figuring and neglect to duck Still in Tacoma in 1970, he applied for a enough really good, small liberal arts colleges. when the boat jibes, the boom is likely to take position in the Puget Sound admission office. UPS had come a long way since it was little more your head off. Consider all that and you’ll get an “I thought I’d do it for a little while and go back than a finishing school for Stadium High, but to idea of what it’s like to be a tactician. to biology,” George says. “I was a terrible intro really thrive it needed to get smaller and increase Or the admission director at a college—but vert—still am—and I figured admission work its range, if you will. That meant extending the we’re getting ahead of ourselves. would help with talking to people.” search for students beyond Puget Sound’s tradi Practicing and competing on Moonglow took George was proceeding happily with tional markets of Washington and Oregon, and, up a lot of time—we’re talking ocean racing that plan, employed part time in admission with that larger reach, making sure applicants here, often out for days at a stretch—and George while working on a Ph.D. at the University of were a good match for the college. says he walked off the boat in November 1971, Washington, when Phil Phibbs took over as “There are two aspects of George s admis after he was married. He’s been on a sailboat president in 1973. sions work that I particularly admire,” says Phil maybe six times since, but the tactician experi “During that initial year," says Phil, “we Phibbs. “There is a difference between selling ence and his college-inspired interest in biology decided to reorganize totally the academic advis and fitting—an important difference. George gave him a leg up on what is still one of his great ing program at the university, and I felt George, never tries to ‘sell’ Puget Sound to a student. loves: fishing. The man is serious about the despite his youth, would be ideal for this as Rather, he tries to help the student and his or her sport. We’ve seen the storage unit where he keeps signment. He knew the institution, its students, family determine the ‘right fit’ for that student. his boat and fishing gear. His collection of rods and faculty, and he understood intuitively what If the fit isn’t right, George gently advises the summer 2012 arches 27 i young person about the direction in which he or Susan. “When the college became NCAA “I can think of no one more qualified, or she should look. I like that honesty” Division III, for example, ending athletic schol with a deeper understanding of and personal But of course determining fit successfully arships, George and I agreed to reallocate that commitment to Puget Sound, to assist us in tak year after year after year takes a lot of data analy scholarship money to improve diversity. And he ing the message of our campaign and what it sis, instinct, and stamina—a tactician—and doesn’t lose interest in students after they enroll. stands for—what we stand for—to Loggers far George got to be really good at it. During his ten He always keeps in touch ” and wide,” wrote Ron Thomas in a message to ure, SAT scores of enrolled Puget Sound students “I was particularly fond of George because the campus. increased by 25 percent, the acceptance rate he was a great worrier,” remembers Phil Phibbs. Sitting in George’s Jones Hall office, with improved from 85 percent in the mid-’BOs to 52 “Every year I would get gloomy reports from only about five square inches of free space visible percent last year, the percentage of students from him about the prospects for the class being ad on his desk but with the reading matter piled up outside Washington doubled, and the number mitted. Either fewer applications had arrived on in precise parade fashion, and with the sound of of students of color in each class increased from a given date, or the numbers were down, or the piano scales coming through an open window just over 5 percent to more than 20 percent. In quality seemed weak. As a new and inexperi across the quad from the Music Building, I ask the last 10 years alone, freshman applications enced president, I panicked and started worrying George what he has tried to do here. What were rose from 4,000 per year to 7,000. Not able to grimly. Then, each May George would bring in a the values that he looked for in the students who give up on-the-ground contact, he still makes full class and one of improved quality! I learned would come to define Puget Sound? recruiting trips—including Hawaii, of course, not to panic; I knew George was worrying so I “Openness to new ideas,” he replies after a the state with the fifth most Puget Sound alumni. did not have to.” pause. “Tolerance of difference. Willingness to work “George has a well-deserved reputation hard. The ability to doubt and question one’s self. as one of the smartest, most effective, and And now, after those many years of worry Multiple interests. Self-assured humility. Cares most admired admissions leaders in American ing, we learn that George is stepping down—but about authenticity; eschews facade,” he says. higher education,” says President Emerita Susan not out. In May, President Thomas informed the Not a bad collection of traits. And, as Resneck Pierce. “He was a longtime member of campus that a search for George’s successor is President Thomas notes, pretty good things for a the College Board and is frequently consulted by under way. George will stick around in admis place like a college to stand for. the media when an expert opinion is required, sion until a replacement has had time to get having been quoted in just about every national settled, probably by fall, and then will assist the newspaper and higher-ed publication. campaign fundraising effort as associate VP of Chuck Luce is the editor of this magazine. “I always felt like we were partners,” says university relations. George at home Lives near University Place, about 10 minutes runner and a longtime volunteer for Habitat for from campus. Humanity. Wife Nilmah (named after her grandmother) was In addition to fishing, George spends a lot of time a junior high math teacher for seven years and in the garden. He tends small rose and vegetable has been working in one capacity or another at gardens and takes care of the orchard on a prop her family's business in Tacoma, Gray Lumber, erty owned by Nilmah's family. since she was 12. He cooks. Often takes a day off from work before Children: Son George III (Tad), 35, lives in big holidays to spend in the kitchen. Southern California and works for Boeing in the Loves to read. George says he's not the type to commercial airplane division. He and his fiancee, read a book from cover to cover; he often has Malia Harris, will be married this fall. Tad and three or four books going at a time. Interests: Malia enjoy the mountains and come home often contemporary social commentary, higher so they can hike the Olympics or Cascades. Son education. Currently on the bedside table: Grayson, 32, lives in Fircrest, Wash., and works for Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class Commencement Bank. He and his wife, Tricia, are and How They Cot There by David Brooks, expecting the Mills' first grandchild in October. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, The Grayson is a rabid sports fan. Daughter Nilmah, Big Short by Michael Lewis, The Looming Tower the fourth in the family with that name, age 28, by Lawrence Wright, and Being Wrong by lives in Bellevue, Wash., and works at Microsoft. Kathryn Schulz. Liz, as the family calls her, is a very competitive ■ ...... ■ One on the difficulty of leaving and letting go, and one on the joy of coming bad i ugust 2008 When my son lost his umbili “Ive got it covered here,” he said, bending When he was little he announced, “I want to A cal cord I smiled and said to my husband, over computer wires. be a fire hydrant when I grow up!” But it seems “The next step is college.” And what seemed like We found the nearest coffee shop and ex his plans have changed. one day later, we took that next step as we deliv haled. We were exhausted, and it was only noon. On this visit he points out the new walk ered Max to the University of Puget Sound. That In truth, Target and stairways were the least of it. way winding through campus, its twists and day, under a beautiful Northwest sky, our tears It had been a long 18 years, and simultaneously turns like the route of a young man’s four-year f were the only raindrops. My son allowed me to wanting to leave as quickly as possible and stay journey. We go to Target. But this time we push ' hug him tighter than I had in years, as he gently together forever is a tiring dilemma. no carts, purchasing instead one small, white bent down to rest his cheek on my shoulder. The day continued with parent workshops toaster. I wish I could say the whole weekend was and wrapped up with Convocation, a word that “I really don’t need anything, guys. I have it 1 back-to-back tender moments, but as in the seems to be used only at college. As we sat elbow- covered,” my son reassures us. His cart is “full” previous four years, he spent a lot of time dodg to-elbow on stadium bleachers, I focused more as I watch him slip the toaster under his arm, ing me while I tried my best to keep up with the on the families around us than on President and I smile knowing that at least I can still pro two-step dance of parenting. Thomas’s insights. The red-haired young woman vide a warm bagel and butter. The walls of his “Mom, please stop bringing up the issue of next to me leaned into her father and whispered, dorm room are no longer empty but covered something to hang on my walls!” And, “Do you “I love you, Dad.” My son, wearing his backwards with postcards, pictures, and posters announc : have to talk to everyone?” baseball cap, was definitely not thinking about ing who he has become. His soft quilt is spread : Move-in day began with instructions for all how much he loved my husband and me. And in where a young man has made his own bed. i Seward Hall third-floor residents to arrive by 9 truth, at that moment, I wasn’t thinking about We have dinner with him and his girlfriend a.m. to reduce dufflc/box/suitcase congestion how much I loved him. I was thinking about at the same fish restaurant where just a few in the stairwells. I made my first error when we dinner and wondering if I’d be sad or relieved years earlier he hung his head in his clam chow were signing in next to a young woman who when we said goodbye. And if we’d gotten every der, preferring silence. We smile and laugh over coincidentally was from our hometown. I had thing on the list. wine, oysters, and horseradish. The conversa the nerve to introduce myself, which invited a tion flows between politics, roommates, food, and old friends. } glare from my son that quickly let me know I was completely out of line. Thankfully, when we It had been a long 18 years, We use the GPS on my son’s iPhone to make our way back to our Seattle hotel. I am reas opened the door to room 316 and were greeted and simultaneously wanting > by his new roommate and parents, introduc sured that no matter how advanced technology tions became acceptable as my son shook his to leave as quickly as possible becomes, the freedom, uncertainty, and beauty of navigating the college years remains in the roommate’s hand with a smile. As we all climbed and stay together forever over bedding and guitar cases, we thought that hands of our children as they find their own if we made the necessary Target trip right then it is a tiring dilemma. voices to provide the directions. i might make unpacking easier for the roommate. Late in the evening, after my husband and It seems a Target store materializes a few I fly home, I stir chocolate chips into banana- miles from every college campus. We drove three October 2011 My husband and I sit in a white bread batter, remembering how my son loved blocks, took a right, and saw the familiar concen rental car, just as we did almost four years ago, licking his sticky fingers. I still send baked tric red circles, which embraced a small family light raindrops moistening our memories. We goods and quarters for laundry, and know feeling a little lost. I clutched the list scribbled are visiting our son for a fall weekend, changing someday that too will change. But for now I’m on the back of the rental car agreement, grabbed leaves coloring one of his final semesters at UPS. thinking about that parking lot—where we two carts, and began our journey. Similar trios or We are retracing earlier footsteps, where in the spend our time coming and going, where on dyads surrounded us; the common denominator same busy parking lot we hugged our son good our final visit before Commencement I wanted was a son or daughter for whom shopping with bye his freshman year. A small parking lot with to stop time for a minute, just to figure out how parents was a necessary but irritating experience. so much feeling, its painted lines marking time to do and say the right Mom thing. My son I was reassured when I heard a young man an from there to here. turned to me, and as we looked each other in nounce to his mother, “I really don’t care what Our son no longer wears a backwards base the eye, holding one another’s gaze, neither one color the rug is! Just pick one!” ball cap but shows the bushy brown hair that he of us had to figure out anything. Our tears actu Piled high with hangers, a bulletin board, lets his girlfriend cut now and then. He may be ally felt like a beautiful “Hello.” rolls of two-sided tape, detergent, peanut butter, uncertain where he is going, but he carries the pens, notebooks, mugs, cereal boxes, and a trash confidence of a graduating senior who survived can, I happily checked things off—feeling in con Spanish, was enveloped by history, traveled to Priscilla Dann-Courtney is a clinical psychologist trol of at least something. faraway lands, and appreciated brief breaks to and writer based in Boulder, Colo., where she and After we hauled everything up three flights sleep under his childhood covers, only to fly her husband have raised their three children. She of stairs that felt like six, my son brought up away again—Skyping us on Sundays in between recently published a collection of essays, Room to lunch... for my husband and me. a catering job and calligraphy homework. Grow: Stories of Life and Family. summer 2012 arches 31 ■ 3 K>- M - ; .V^n : •. -v.? • Two Essays - « 'v*i$ ' .. ffeu* * 'l ■ Z: — | i _■ • .«• • mPP fSmrntmg■ - ■WBlSm&'if. I I m .. J Thai grov« ov«r ■ !' v I Returning for a 45th reunion to a stunningly transformed campus populated by peripatetic ghpsts $$}■ \ 1 by Richard Wiley '67 1 km®*mm ■ — —” ';‘>4 hile sitting in Memorial Fieldhouse wduring the final banquet of the Puget Sound reunion on the evening of June 9, listen ing to all the speeches, I started thinking that the place was beautiful. /y.l r I am a Tacoma native, and beauty (in any of X its forms) was never a word that anyone used for * the UPS field house. Useful—great for Shrine Circus-watching or basketball—sure. But beauti ful... no. Its exterior still looks like a thick loaf of bread that someone cut both ends off of. But the -r, i . *> interior, with its re-exposed wood ceiling curv ing in concave delicacy like the ribs of a Willits ■J Brothers canoe, now seems to give the place a beauty that carries within it grace, charm, and, of course, memory and history. Something along the lines of how Vanessa Redgrave looks to us these days, or maybe Robert Redford... that’s ' how the field house looked to me that night. I was in its boys’ locker room (I suspect it’s called ,, v the mens locker room now) on November 22, J'T * . 1963, just out of the shower and getting a towel • ■ •V •'«>V : •" - • .VyJ from the towel man (can you believe we had a towel man back then?), when word came of V nm * the assassination of President Kennedy. And some seven or eight years earlier, I sat in the field house bleachers listening to the great Louis Armstrong, only to sneak back into that same men’s locker room after the concert to get Mr. m Armstrong’s autograph plus the pen he signed - : ■ *v A*V V;- it with. And, like legions of other Tacoma boys, I headed to the field house on many a Saturday f# *5 :.kiw afternoon to shoot baskets. s /■,? § I guess I am starting this reminiscence with the field house because its beauty must be ex p V plained—like the beauty of a difficult novel— f. - ■ V‘ It. p>:kMt while that of the rest of UPS seems to stand there mm stunningly, showing itself off. The much smaller .. M campus I remember from my years of pretend ■ sfeMfi ing to study had beauty of course—from the quad formed by Jones Hall, the Music Building, and Collins Library, to all the residences. But now, with its abundance of proud new buildings, the place embodies the kind of quiet, under stated elegance represented best by, say, the Dale Chihuly ’63 glass that now hangs in the atrium of Wyatt Hall. By this l mean it doesn’t argue its mm beauty, it just is. V.' ■ -• iA i L*.: -Vm VvX summer 2012 arches 33 * 'The field house, with its re-exposed wood ceiling curving in concave delicacy, like the ribs of a Willits Brothers canoe, now seems to give the place a beauty that carries within it grace, charm, and, of course, memory and history. Something along the lines of how Vanessa Redgrave looks to us these days, or maybe Robert Redford..." I was also thinking about Apple Computer Apple stocks, many threw up their hands, saying, Memorial Fieldhouse, and I was thinking about stocks. Not while listening to the speeches at the “What’s the use of keeping this junk?” and sold it Apple stocks. But I was also thinking about then final reunion banquet, this time, but during the at around 12 bucks per share, while now, what’s and now, about my own peripatetic nature, and entire three days. Apple stocks, yes—weren’t we it worth? I just looked it up: $585.50. The Apple how nature itself isn’t peripatetic at all. (I just all thinking about them? I’d have to guess, but stock back then—the 12-buck stock—was a little looked up peripatetic, in order to search out its when I looked at the faces of my fellow returnees like our old UPS diplomas, when the school was origins, and it is Aristotelian: with reference to during the opening reception I got the feeling primarily for townies. We learned, sure, we had Aristotle’s practice of walking to and fro while that Apple computer stocks were on everyone’s good professors, perhaps even some great ones, teaching—like the ghosts of old UPS professors, mind. Well, OK, not on everyone’s mind. Some but we and our institution had not yet grown up. walking to and fro, the ghosts of old students sit were thinking, “No! You can’t be the guy I liked Unlike with Apple stocks, however, we couldn’t ting before them.) so much back in school!” but surely they were on sell our diplomas, and now, as we celebrate our the minds of those who graduated from Puget 25th or 45th or 50th reunions, they have ma Most people probably go to reunions to remi Sound up to, and a little beyond, my time. tured, making it seem as if we graduated from nisce or to get reacquainted with old friends. But By now you may be saying, “What’s this guy the wonderful, diverse, and truly rigorous insti what drew me at the reunion was place more talking about?” But let me massage the meta tution that UPS has, quite magically, become. than people. I met only three of my former class phor just a little bit more. During the infancy of So I was thinking about the beauty of mates, and only one I ever knew well. The expe- 34 arches summer 2012 wm. , : . 1 : -%:%K* — , t, ; • > v'\-:*\>T • • A V V' . .,Vv l . . 4 i v 1 •RstSfr'*3 ' ! i I WMIWSWIWIW At reunion, Richard and his classmates Dom Federico (left) and Sally Raymond Marts. 1 rience of seeing them again was delightful, but after, the world and all it had to offer, and adven “miles to go before I sleep” aspect to it. But what what flowed into me (and out of me) as I paced ture I found. Korea, Japan, Nigeria, Kenya—ev drew me more this time, and what I couldn’t around the campus was the sense that it, the ery time I moved somewhere I tried to dig deep, remember as being so magnificent when I was place, the buildings and especially the grounds, to know the place, and, in one way or another, to a student at UPS, was a second stand of trees, really knew me. Yet, back in 1967, the moment fully be there. perhaps a couple of dozen of them, located I graduated, l ran out of Tacoma at about the Yet all the time Tacoma was within me, and south of the Music Building. Clean at their bases speed of Joe Peyton ’67 running the 440-meter UPS was in Tacoma. and with no roots showing, these lovely giants dash. My sense that I would find myself in other There are two wonderful spots on the cam seemed to me to be the army that had been en parts of the world, that anywhere but home was pus that I found myself returning to time after listed to stand around delineating the older part for me, was so strong that I didn’t turn back for time during the three days of the reunion. One, of the campus from the newer, the part where at least a decade. I believed that in otherness, in I discovered, is called “The President’s Woods,” guys like me went to school, from the part that other languages and cultures, the man sleeping a stand of towering Douglas firs that one can had become, and is still becoming, a great small soundly in a hidden room of my boy’s psyche meander among if one exits the library and turns liberal arts university. {Great small works in that would stretch and yawn, throw back his blankets, right, off toward the president’s house. I liked sentence like giant shrimp does on a menu.) and come out into the sunlight like a groundhog. that spot back in the day, with its summer cool I stood among them maybe six different It was finding myself, but also adventure I was ness and its snowy winter dark, with a certain times during the reunion and got the sense both summer 2012 arches 35 Two Essays of being at home and of being in the presence of breathing, sentient creatures, whose memory of all of those who had passed below them is infallible, nonjudgmental, and lasting. In other words, though I didn’t remember those trees very well, they remembered me. I was so taken with them, in fact, so sure that 1 would mention them in this essay, that I asked a young woman whom I’d met and spoken to before, a graduate who also works at Puget Sound, “What do you call that grove of firs over there?” She looked at the trees, then at me, then back at the trees, and said, quite wonderfully... “Hmm, I think we call them,‘That grove of trees over there.’” I did learn later that the grove has a name (that no one knows or uses), but the name was so woefully inferior to the sublime label given to me by that young woman that I can’t bring my self to mention it here. As our lives wind up and then down, we find ourselves belonging to places and to people. Some of us stay where we always were, perhaps ! traveling internally, while others of us go to the : corners of the Earth. Time works its unwelcome magic, we age slowly and then quickly, as the years that pass represent smaller and smaller i increments of our days. The roof of a venerable I field house can become the ribs of a beloved childhood canoe, the degree one earned can gain in value because generations of industrious peo ple, from professors to presidents, have worked to make it so. We can meet again with smiles on our faces and glasses of wine in our hands, talking of the intervening storms. But for me, at least, nothing has the power to let me know that it is place that has always moved me... Nothing so much as simply coming back home, to stand for a minute in the middle of that grove of trees over there. Richard Wiley is a professor of English and associate director of the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a short-story writer and the author of seven novels, including Soldiers in Hiding (winner of the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction). His new novel, The Book of Important Moments, will be published in 2014. 36 arches summer 2012 i classmatesYour paper and ink social networking site since 1973 1 ! ! Alumni news and | Jon Matsubara ’95 : correspondence : Executive chef Jack McClary Inc. organized the 13-day trip, You hear a lot these days about restaurants going “green,” ism retired on May 2, which featured faculty speakers J but Jon Matsubara’s restaurant is going “blue.” after 57 years in the chemicals from Trinity College in Con Jon is the executive chef at Azure, a fine-dining seafood industry. His career began as a necticut. Despite a good deal bench chemist and progressed of rain and a case of bronchitis, restaurant in Honolulu’s Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and ocean to lab manager, area manager, Fran says she had a fabulous sustainability is an important part of his thinking. and general manager. He trip. Over the years she's taken “It’s all about taking care of our own backyard and real later owned and operated two more than two dozen tours ly featuring the freshness of what we have to offer,” he says. businesses and spent time in in the Road Scholar program. Fran will give a travelogue Jon makes sure the species offered on his menu are not the Gulf states, in the South western U.S., and in the Pacific presentation for members of overfished, and he collaborates with the United Fishing Northwest. Jack pioneered her retirement community and Agency to provide guests with information about ocean mobile recycling of industrial facilitate a discussion about the sustainability. solvents using vertical thin-film history and political climate “I’m like the Lorax of the ocean,” he says. “I speak for evaporation. He became the in that part of Italy. Fran con largest industrial solvent recy tinues to volunteer as a tour the fish.” cler in the Pacific Northwest. docent at the Seattle Public He’s also a multiple awards-winning chef, but it took a His plant in Washougal, Wash., Library. while for that talent to emerge. After earning his degree in also manufactured chemicals Native-American history from Puget Sound, Jon enrolled used in paper mills, sewage in law school in San Diego. treatment facilities, industrial boilers, and oil refineries— lair™ “I hated it,” he says. “At the time, for therapy and stress his high school diploma from shipping to points from Wyo Norwich Free Academy in relief, I would invite friends over and just cook for them. It ming to Alaska. Jack served as Norwich, Conn., in March—60 was my way of relaxing.” western regional vice president years after he attended. Harold A year in San Diego was all he could take. Jon returned of the National Association of left school in 1952 to enlist in Solvent Recyclers. He and wife to his hometown of Honolulu and applied to the two best the U.S. Air Force and fight in Sandi look forward to more restaurants in Hawai‘i at the time: Roy’s and Alan Wong’s. the Korean War. After his tour camping, square dancing, of duty, he earned his degree But since he had no experience or professional training, the and gardening. For several at Puget Sound and taught restaurants told him he had to start out washing dishes. He years Jack has enjoyed playing U.S. history. He went on to finally made his way up to cooking positions, working part French horn and trumpet in earn his master's degree at three local bands and in an time at both places for about three years. Pacific University and served orchestra in the Portland/Van When he felt it was time to explore prospects off the as principal of Maplewood couver area. island again, he applied to the French Culinary Institute in Elementary School in Puyallup, Fran Ellertson Trowbridge New York for a six-month intensive program. He worked at Wash., where he lives. was kind enough to call and Tabla and Jean Georges at the Trump Plaza (ranked third in share her recent travel adven the world), before again going back to Hawai‘i, this time to ture to Italy, touring the Amalfi mjm John Hughes was settle down with his future wife. Coast and Sorrento in April. the subject of an Jon is now an established culinary artist in Honolulu. The Road Scholar program extensive article in his home offered through Elderhostel town newspaper The Daily At Azure he oversees a kitchen staff of eight and enjoys the luxury of a beachfront view from his “office.” Patrons are people like Julia Roberts, Eddie Vedder, and Justin Bieber. For Clay Huntington "50, a memory lane When he is not working, Jon says he dedicates all of his On March 27 the Tacoma city council unanimously approved time to his three young daughters, who he loves to cook for. a proposal to rename part of South Cheyenne St. (from South Jon says Puget Sound alumni should definitely stop in 19th St. to the entrance of Cheney Stadium) Clay Huntington when they’re in town to sample one of his off-the-menu Way. Clay was the "voice of the Tacoma Tigers" and worked recipes: seafood pizza of Kona Coast abalone, king crab, for more than 70 years as a broadcaster on radio and televi sion. He died last June at age 89. Clay served on the Pierce prosciutto, arugula, and two different types of cheese, County Athletic Commission and helped found the Tacoma cooked in a special oven. Arrangements for the dish must Athletic Commission, the State of Washington Sports Hall of be made in advance. — Lan Nguyen '08 Fame, and the Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame. You can read more about Clay in the autumn 2011 edition of Arches. summer 2012 arches 43 ' alumni news and correspondence World of Aberdeen, Wash. The King's Books in Tacoma on and .attended Colorado State scores in math and reading in 1905. If you're in Chi-town and story chronicled his career at June 14. The book is written Teachers' College, although every grade in the district's el interested in the tour, contact oo QJ the newspaper starting as a for older teens and adults. she didn't obtain her teaching ementary and middle schools. Mary for dates, times, and cost paperboy and ending 42 years A review will appear in the degree until she was 50 years Before taking his current posi at [email protected]. (Z £ later as the newspaper's editor autumn issue of Arches. See old. Hazel taught first grade in tion, Alex had retired in 2001 oo and publisher. John was named http://theturnaroundbird.com the Federal Way Public Schools as assistant superintendent for jv I Susan Williams oo The Daily World’s Citizen of for more information. and retired at age 65. She then secondary education for the (Z [MJ was named artistic the Year for 2012, a sweet role taught in a Montessori school Tacoma Public Schools. Alex U reversal since in 1969 John until age 85 and continued earned his master's degree director for the San Juan Com Lorrie Cunning interviewed the first recipient to tutor students privately and Ph.D. at the University of munity Theatre on San Juan I ham Mickelson Island, Wash. She also studied 5 of the newspaper's award, then m until age 93. Of her three Idaho. called the "Man of the Year" '67, P'09 wrote to let us know brothers and four sisters, her painting at the Honolulu Acad Mary Kasperson Blevins award. He now is the chief oral that her husband of 25 years, oldest brother, age 102, and emy of Arts and acting at Free was named chief administra historian for Washington's Leg Howard, passed away last her youngest sister, age 88, hold acting studio in Seattle. tive officer for the San Juan acy Project in the Office of the summer. She'd love to recon are still living. Hazel has three Susan has acted, produced, Community Theatre on San Secretary of State. After nearly nect with her UPS roommates. children, seven grandchildren, directed, and been costume or Juan Island, Wash. She began set designer for numerous plays four years in his new role, John You can contact Lorrie at lorrie. nine great-grandchildren, and working with SJCT in 2001 as already has written six books [email protected]. one great-great-grandchild. on San Juan Island since 1975. a part-time bookkeeper. Mary and four lengthy online oral then became the theater's histories about some of the In April, Hazel business manager in 2009. Bob Jean M.P.A. state's most prominent po M Riverside was '75 was selected to litical figures, including Booth ESI' profiled in The Highline Times manage the executive branch Gardner and Slade Gorton. noted Alex Apostle's work fSSfj j Charles Lowery of Des Moines, Wash. Her bio as superintendent of Missoula of the San Juan County Council See www.sos.wa.gov/heritage/ was a 2012 induct noted that she was born on County Public Schools. The on a temporary basis. He served OralHistories.aspx. ee into the Peninsula Sports the day the Titanic sank, April initiatives he's implemented in a similar capacity for the city Hall of Fame in San Mateo 14, 1912, making her 100 in his nearly four years on the of Lake Forest Park, Wash. County, Calif. He was hon | Lucinda Seymour years old. Hazel has been a res job have resulted in the dis ored as "a prolific basketball ------HI Wingard's debut ident of Fernwood at the Park, trict having one of the lowest m scorer" at then-Ravenswood ITjj/ i Adriaan Niihn be- a senior living community in dropout rates in the state of m novel, titled The Turn-around High School in East Palo Alto. # came a member of Normandy Park, since 2008. Montana and the improve Bird, is set in Nigeria, West Charles also is a member of She grew up in Colorado the board of directors for Kuoni Africa, and was previewed at ment of academic progress Puget Sound's athletic Hall of Travel Holding Ltd. beginning Fame. He was a four-year start April 17. He also sits on the ing basketball guard and one boards of several international About classmates of Puget Sound's all-time lead consumer goods companies, ing scorers, with 1,523 points. including as chair of the board He played in the 1971 College of directors for the Macintosh All-Star Game and was drafted Retail Group since 2002, and The Classmates edi for style, clarity, and length. We put a lot of by the Seattle SuperSonics. as chair of the board of Dutch tor is Cathy Tollefson effort into making sure entries are accurate, He played for the Milwaukee food wholesaler Sligro Food '83. You can call her at but sometimes we slip up. Please let us know Bucks in the 1972-73 NBA sea Group since 2009. Adriaan was 253-879-2762 or email if you see incorrect information published in son as a backup for Oscar Rob the CEO of Sara Lee Interna ctollefson@pugetsound. Classmates. ertson. His number 23 jersey tional from 2003 to 2008. He edu. Scrapbook was retired by UPS in 1971. lives in the Netherlands. High-resolution digital photos or prints Where do Classmates Karen Robbins M.Ed.'71, preferred. Kindly identify alumni in the snap entries come from? author of numerous books and shot. Also, please, for baby pictures, include mf7/7/ li Steve Weh m hoff About half come directly magazine articles, has been jiiWte is director of label alumni parents in the photo. writing for more than 26 years. from you, either in letters or in email up management and classical Her latest picture book, Care dates. Some reach us when alumni volunteer Publication deadlines music at eOne Entertainment for Our World, was released by for the ASK Network and grant permission Aug. 15 for the autumn issue, Nov. 15 for Distribution U.S. He sends this Compendium Books in June. for the information they provide to be pub winter, Feb. 15 for spring, May 15 for great news: "Catching lightning See a review of it in the au lished in Arches. The rest are compiled from summer in a bottle is accomplishment tumn issue of Arches. a variety of public sources such as news enough, but doing it twice is To send Classmates entries paper and magazine clippings, and press Mary Kelton Seyfarth, extraordinary. The first time was or to change your address releases sent to us by employers when, for exhibiting artist, sculptor, back in my Sony Classical Days Electronically: www.pugetsound.edu/ example, a Puget Sound grad at the com and professor of ceramics when we had the soundtrack infoupdate or email Classmates Editor Cathy pany gets a new job. We publish Classmates and design at Columbia Col to the movie Titanic, which was Tollefson '83 at [email protected]. information both in the print edition of lege in Chicago, conducts number one on the Billboard Arches and on the Web in the online version. Post: Arches, University of Puget Sound, guided terra cotta walking charts for 16 weeks. Now, this It is our policy not to publish pregnancy or Office of Communications, 1500 N. tours around the Windy City's year, our record from eOne engagement announcements, or candidacies Warner St., Tacoma WA 98416-1041. internationally famous outdoor Classics Air: The Bach Album has for political office. However, we are happy to museum of architecture. Her spent 12 weeks in the top five print news of births, marriages, and elections When submitting a change of address, tours include visits to several on Billboard's classical chart— to office. Classmates submissions are edited please include your old address. commercial buildings designed half of that time at either num and built between 1883 and ber one (four weeks) or number 44 arches summer 2012 two. The record is unique in Inadvertence: Unwinding the ceived his associate's degree at On April 24, Tony Panagiotu |R|Vp| Dou9 Nichols that Anne [Akiko Meyers] plays Sociogenius Mind, in 2011. He TCC prior to attending UPS. He '81, J.D/84 was named the M.B.A/83 became the Bach Concerto for Two adds: "Although the books are later earned his master's degree University of Washington Taco- chief operating officer for Violins by over-dubbing herself fiction, begun in 2005 and fin at Pacific Lutheran University. ma Milgard School of Business Aerion Corporation in Reno, and playing each part on her ished with notes in 2011, they Dave has been a high school Small Business Leader of the Nev., in March. The company different Stradivarius violins. tell of the real situation with counselor for 23 years and cur Year at its 11 th annual Busi- was formed in 2002 to rein- She already owned the 1730 the political economy—how rently works with students as a ness Leadership Awards dinner. troduce commercial super- Royal Spanish and then pur we got in and how we can get counselor for both Gig Harbor Tony is president of Panagiotu sonic flight. Based on research chased the 1697 ex-Napoleon/ out of the current mess." Both and Peninsula high schools. Pension Advisors in University conducted by an advanced I Molitor in 2010.1 am one very books are available on Ama Congratulations, Dave! Place, Wash. engineering group more than I 20 years ago, Aerion's current happy guy!" Steve and Anne zon.com. Dave is a longtime Tami Lund Garrow an i focus is the design of a practi have been friends for nearly 20 member of the Nik Tesla Band, nounced her retirement after Janelle Stelson cal and efficient supersonic years. Her first recording with a group started with alums 11 years as the CEO of award was recently pro business jet. Doug previously eOne Music was an album ti Pete Grignon '78 and Drew winning Satsop Business Park filed on GetlysburgTimes.com was chief financial officer for tled Smile (the Charlie Chaplin Pliant '82. in Grays Harbor County, Wash. as the co-anchor of the 5:30 Aerion and was a senior execu song) followed by Seasons... According to KBKW News, she dreams. p.m. and 11 p.m. news for tive with The Boeing Company began at the park in 1999 and WGAL-TV, the NBC-affiliate for nearly 30 years. More at became CEO in 2001. Before television station covering the www.aerioncorp.com. IBKrir joining Satsop, Tami was ex pointed to the Thurston Coun Susquehanna Valley in Penn sucBolwiesis ecutive director of the Grays regional manager ty Superior Court by Wash sylvania. She's been at her Harbor Economic Development for Ancillary Care Solutions, ington Gov. Chris Gregoire on current position since 1997. Nancy Warren Council, business development covering California, Oregon, Feb. 29. Prior to his selection to Janelle's first job was writing and husband T.M. director for the Grays Harbor and Arizona. Earlier this spring the bench he had been a senior speeches at the Embassy of Sell were the featured subjects PUD, planning/real estate she was a faculty member for and managing partner at Dixon Egypt in Washington, D.C. She of a Bigfork Eagle article in director for the Port of Grays the American Occupational Rodgers Kee Pearson in Olym has had previous assignments May. The newspaper piece Harbor, and program manager Therapy Association's inaugu pia. Jim has been a trial at in Harrisburg, Pa., and in explained that the writing for the State Department of ral Leadership Development torney for more than 22 years, Miami, and is the recipient of duo has produced two play Community Development. She Program for Middle Managers. representing clients in family several Associated Press awards manuscripts per year since also provides leadership on She has more than 20 years of law and criminal law cases. He for reporting. 2001 —the year they opened several boards. Tami will retire health care management ex also serves on the board of the the Breeders Theater in Seattle. next spring. perience and previously served South Puget Sound Commu as the executive director of nity College Paralegal Advisory gift services at UCLA and man Committee and participates in aged the outpatient therapy the Thurston County Volunteer services at Cedars-Sinai Health Legal Clinic. System. Sue also has served on the faculty of Mount St. Help recruit future Loggers! !M Stuart Allison's Mary's College in Los Angeles book, Ecological and is a current part-time The Alumni Council Admission Committee (ACAC) Restoration and Environmental faculty member in the division Change: Renewing Damaged of Occupational Science and wants YOU. Share your experiences at Puget Sound Ecosystems, was published Occupational Therapy at the in the United Kingdom and with prospective students and provide them with University of Southern Califor Europe in May. The book nia. She earned her M.B.A. at was written during Stuart's invaluable insight into what life is like as a Logger. Pepperdine University and her Fulbright-funded sabbatical at recent doctorate in occupa Cranfield University in the U.K., tional therapy at USC. - Attend college fairs and "debates in detail how Crosscut.com interviewed coming global climate change ■ Interview prospective students Peter Orser, president of and the development of novel Weyerhaeuser Real Estate ecosystems will force us to ask • Attend regional events for prospective students Company, about the status new questions about what we of the local housing market. mean by good ecological resto Haven't done anything like this before? Don't worry! We'll He previously was president ration." He is a professor in the of Quadrant Homes, one of Department of Biology at Knox train you. Sign up today at www.pugetsound.edu/acac. Weyerhaeuser Real Estate's College in Galesburg, III., and subsidiaries. Peter serves as director of Green Oaks Field chair of the board of Forterra, Research Station. Stuart's book formerly the Cascade Land will be reviewed in the autumn PUGET Questions? Contact ACAC Chair Conservancy. 2012 issue of Arches. SOUND Mark Penaroza '02 and Sam Riggs '08 On May 23 Dave Burmark Al.l'MNI < OUNC II } (5jDave Hill has pub- was named Tacoma Communi at [email protected]. lished two books— ty College's 2012 Distinguished Admission Committee the first, Others' Mistakes, in Alumnus for "his positive im 2010, and the sequel, Unerring pact on student lives." Dave re- summer 2012 arches 45 alumni news and correspondence They were in Bigfork, Mont., The Municipal League of King National "A" coaching license Heather York was the sub Consensus Organizing Center this spring to see a rendition of County honored John Star- and "A" goalkeeping license. oo ject of an April article in The at San Diego State Univer 0> Prairie Heart, a play written by bard as Public Employee of the He also holds a NSCAA state Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., sity with its 2012 Consensus (Z T.M. The Breeders Theater is Year at its 53rd Annual Civic and regional goalkeeping along with her sister and fa Organizer of the Year Award. E currently on hiatus looking for Awards Celebration Dinner on diploma and is licensed as a ther. The story explained how Mo'olelo uses the consensus oo a new home. Find out more at April 5. The awards recognize youth goalkeeper instructor in Heather and her sister chose organizing model in its play 00 www.breederstheater.com. the accomplishments of elect Washington state. Kelly works identical career paths. They production process. Mo'olelo's rZ ed officials, public employees, with several youth teams, in both specialize in obstetrics board of trustees committed U Cheryl Sutton Woods citizen groups, news media, cluding the Washington State and gynecology, just like their to the process by creating a was reappointed director and individual citizens who Youth Soccer Development dad, a longtime physician in Consensus Organizing Com of Rehabilitation Services at make an "outstanding contri Program. Randy Hanson, Puget the Eugene area who helped mittee in 2011. Find out more Mason General Hospital and bution to the community and Sound's head women's soccer found the local Women's at http://moolelo.net. its branch clinics in Shelton, to better government." John coach, also will serve as as Care medical group in 1988. Wash. According to The Olym Brenda Longfellow is an as is director of the King County sistant coach for the Sounders Heather attended Michigan pian she is a licensed physical sociate professor in the School Department of Development Women. State University School of therapist and previously served of Art and Art History at The and Environmental Services. He Medicine. She is married and as director of the physical ther Tanya Kalby Padur is the University of Iowa. She is one led an initiative resulting in in has two sons. apy department for Mason. new regional manager and of this year's winners of the creased efficiencies and better Cheryl specializes in pediatric multiline adjuster for Sams & National Endowment for the customer service. therapy and vertigo. Associates Inc., an independent Humanities/Phyllis G. Gordan insurance claims firm. She has Post-Doctoral Rome Prize. mwas|oel appointedServa‘iu;, to worked in the insurance in Brenda has a book in progress ;!i mil* Jeff Ball is founder, serve on the Oak Harbor city | Sandra Sanders- dustry for more than 20 years, titled Past Lives, Present Mean ICEO, and director council on Whidbey Island, Jr-C^L-A-. Bailey sends this including as a senior property ings: Reused Statues in Imperial of Friendly Hills Bank in Whit Wash. He is the owner and good news: "I am thrilled to adjuster with Fireman's Fund Rome. tier, Calif. Jeff opened Friendly branch manager of Transam- have been selected to attend Insurance and as a claims Hills Bank in 2006 to provide erica Financial Advisors Inc. the 2012 Mickelson ExxonMo analyst with Safeco. Tanya's ter an alternative to larger banks. in Oak Harbor. According to bil Teachers Academy this July ritory will include Seattle and Lisa Herlinger Jeff has more than 25 years of the Whidbey News-Times he at Liberty Science Center in surrounding areas. Esco's Ruby Jewel banking experience and spent was appointed from a pool of Jersey City, N.J." The academy handmade ice cream shop on most of his career in commer 10 candidates. He has been is a one-week, all-expenses- Mississippi Avenue in Portland, cial and investment banking for a member of the Oak Harbor paid intensive professional de mm Lisa Willingham Ore., is expanding to include Bank of America. He is active Chamber of Commerce board velopment program for third- jixniJ Chissus, owner of a second location at 12th and in numerous community and since 2001 and is the current through fifth-grade teachers. Flex-a-lite Consolidated, will Washington streets in down civic organizations in the Whit president and a coach of the The program is designed to celebrate the company's 50th town Portland. Look for its tier and Orange County area, Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling provide teachers with the year in business this summer pink umbrella and ice cream including as treasurer of the Club. Joel, a father of three, knowledge and skills necessary with a 50-day motorhome cart at the Portland Farmers California Bankers Association also volunteers at Oak Harbor to motivate students to pursue tour. She plans to visit major Market, Saturdays at Portland and as chair of its Federal Gov Elementary School. careers in science and math. product distributors and attend State University and Wednes ernment Relations Committee. Sandy teaches fifth grade at automotive events throughout Julie Tucker M.P.T/93 was days at Shemanski Park. Jeff earned his M.B.A. at Whit the Midwest, focusing on the Palm Valley Elementary School featured in the "Ask an Expert" Faye Kommers Nelson tier College in 1989. in Goodyear, Ariz. fact that her company has section of Oregon's Statesman joined VISIONS Service Ad Krista Goldstine-Cole '86, been "makin' it in the USA" for Journal in February. She is a Martin Hale reports he is re ventures as its outreach and P'09 sends this fun update: 50 years. Lisa's traveling com physical therapist at Salem directing his career toward the communications coordinator. "After three years as the panion is a 2010 Camaro that Hospital Regional Rehabilita nutrition and wellness fields. She has more than 18 years Washington Senate Demo is fitted with a Flex-a-fit direct- tion Center. of experience in development Bryan Ohno, president of crats' policy analyst on human fit radiator and direct-fit trans for nonprofit organizations, Urban Art Concept, which services and corrections, I will mission cooler. According to a including The Children's Muse directs MadArt projects in and Konane "Koko" head to Harvard this fall to earn recent Business Examiner article, um of Seattle, Montana State around Seattle, completed Deryke was high my doctorate in education. Lisa is the third generation to University Foundation, Lewis The Spiral Project—a Spiral of lighted in the "Expert Advice" My youngest child, daughter lead the company started by & Clark College, American Hope in June. The project, in section of Hawaii's Midweek Jemmi, starts at the Pacific her grandfather. Wildlands, and Red Feather partnership with Seattle Parks newspaper coverage of Oc Northwest College of Art in Garrick Phillips '92, Development Group. Faye lives and Recreation and Seattle cupational Therapy Month in Portland the same day." M.A.T/93 is the head boys in Montana with her husband University's Project on Family April. She is the clinical special basketball coach at University and three children and enjoys Homelessness (supported by a ist for occupational therapy at High School in Spokane Valley, time off to hike, camp, and ski. grant from the Bill & Melinda Rehabilitation Hospital of the Wash. He was on campus with Gates Foundation), brought Pacific and is responsible for his team in March practicing together artists and volunteers Sounders Women staff as the staff training, clinical educa Mm Erln Hennessey for the semifinal game in the to assemble a 300-foot-long goalkeeper coach beginning tion, and program develop IjUgG] Guinup directed Class 3A boys basketball state sculpture using recovered tree this season. He continues as ment. Koko has spent her the Tacoma Multi Stake tournament. The Titans fin branches. The project's goal assistant coach and goalkeeper entire 17-year career in OT at Cultural Arts Committee of ished third in the tournament, was to help generate dialogue coach for both the men's and REHAB. The Church of Jesus Christ of tying the highest-place finish in and awareness about family women's soccer programs at Latter-day Saints in its perfor the school's history, and finish Seema Sueko Hlrsch, execu homelessness. Find out about UPS for a combined 22 years. mances of an Easter oratorio, ing the season with a record of tive director of Mo'olelo Per upcoming UAC projects at Kelly is a former All-Conference "Lamb of God: A Sacred Work 21 and 5. forming Arts Company in San www.urbanartconcept.com. soccer player and holds a USSF Diego, was honored by the for Choir, Orchestra, and Solo- 46 arches summer 2012 ists," by Mormon composer Rob Gardner. The production fea tured a 70-voice choir, 13 solo ists, and a 27-piece orchestra. Bryan Johnson '96, M.A.T. '97 once again received the Audience Choice Award at this year's Grand Cinema 72-Hour Film Festival in Tacoma for his entry, Film Esrever. Bryan first earned the Audience Choice Award in 2007 for his festival classic South 5. Catch Bryan's winning entry on YouTube. Janice Lwin was inducted into the Olympia (Wash.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame on April 21. She lettered in volley ball and track at OHS and holds the record of 23 kills in a single volleyball match in 1989. As a Logger, Janice earned a spot on the All-District team in 1993 and on the All-Conference team in 1994. While still in NAIA, Puget Sound won the National Championship in 1993 and was Denny Hinton '66 small agency in San Diego, where he worked as a copy runner-up in 1995. Janice also writer and associate creative director. He then set out on was selected as a third-team All- and Saxon Rawlings '65 his own in 1984 as a freelance copywriter, and for the American in 1994. According to next 11 years wrote on a variety of accounts. He finished The Olympian, Janice racked up Still doin’ the Puyallup the second highest number of his career in the marketing departments of two compa assists in a season, with 1,332, Here in Western Washington, with autumn comes nies: Mallinckrodt, a ventilator manufacturer, and GERS and ranked second in career the inevitable condition of having a little ditty stuck Retail Systems (now part of RedPrairie), a provider of assists, with 3,765. She also was in your head that brings to mind fresh-baked scones, retail software. Saxon retired in 2006. Shortly after he ar fifth in career serving aces, with big-name bands, carnival rides, a rodeo, and smells rived in San Diego, Saxon joined the contemporary wor 121. encountered only in barns. “Do the Puyallup” has been ship-service band at University Christian Church (Dis ■ part of local vernacular for 36 years. In May the origi ciples of Christ), and he played guitar, bass, and drums Jennifer Lane nal Do The Puyallup commercial was voted second for more than 30 years. He currently plays drums in an Miller was one of highest in a contest of the best commercials in the 60- area rock band and a local blues band. Saxon resides in five inductees this year in the McMinnville High School Sports year history of Seattle television. (First place went to Vista, Calif., with his wife, Denise Leger-Rawlings. Hall of Fame in McMinnville, Rainier Beer’s motorcycle classic RaaaiiiNeeeerBeeeer.) Denny got his copywriting start at his high school Ore. She was a member of three And that toe-tapper of a tune is still used in Puyallup paper, the Shelton, Wash., Highclimber, and wrote for state championship relay teams Fair radio and television ads. the Shelton-Mason County Journal Through high school during her 1989-93 swimming The idea of singing, dancing farm animals, as many he also was a freelance journalist for the then-Daily career at Mac. Jen won two individual NAIA national cham genius-level ideas are hatched, occurred to Denny Hin Olympian. While attending Puget Sound Denny worked pionships while at Puget Sound. ton in the shower one morning. At the time he led the nights on the sports desk at Tacoma’s News Tribune. He She also swam on two national fair’s advertising campaign in his role at Cole & Weber was hired out of college to be a writer at Cole & Weber, championship relay teams at advertising agency. Putting melody to the animals’ then the Northwest’s largest advertising agency. In 1976 UPS and was a member of the movements was the work of Saxon Rawlings, who also he and a partner started their own agency in Seattle, Logger women's swim team when it won the national title in worked at Cole & Weber. named Hinton and Steel. He enjoyed the ad biz for 1996 and on three national run “The inspiration for‘Do the Puyallup’ lyrics came nearly 40 years. Since retirement in 2005, Denny likes ner-up teams. As reported in the from drawings of dancing farm animals for the original to write tales about his passion for, and obsession with, Yamhill Valley News-Register, Jen campaign,” said Saxon recently. “I saw them in Denny’s of fly-fishing. He’s still “Doin,”’ too, as a volunteer for the and husband Joal Miller '96, fice one day and wrote the tune and lyrics that night. The Puyallup Fair board’s advertising committee. M.P.T/99 own San Tan Physi cal Therapy in Queen Creek, funny thing is, that wasn’t even my account at the time.” — Cathy Tollefson ’83 Ariz., and have two children. Jen Both men have enjoyed long and successful adver provides contracted OT services tising careers. In 1976, four years after writing “Do the You can see the original “Do the Puyallup” commercial at to a charter school group in the Puyallup,” Saxon was recruited to Knoth & Meads, a httpMit. ly/Lgn9UN. Phoenix area, working with stu dents in special education. summer 2012 arches 47 alumni news and correspondence . Mike Morris was promoted West Mathison mentally friendly products even Collins, Colo. The B)H Project compositions are published in to chief operating officer at during the current recession. 00 is president of provides no-cost legal services the 2012 PARMA Anthology of CD Pacific Retirement Services. He Wenatchee, Wash.-based Whole Foods provided a 38 to indigent victims of domestic Music: Student Edition. And his (Z started with the company in Stemilt Growers, a producer of percent return on Colin's buy violence, sexual assault, dating percussion trio will perform at 1998 as resident services coor Washington cherries, apples, rate last year. He has been a violence, and stalking. Nicole Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the E dinator for Rogue Valley Manor. pears, and other fruit. The stock analyst at Cowen & Co., will be handling civil protection premier contemporary music 00 Mike served as administrator Produce News covered the a unit of Cowen Group Inc., for orders, divorce, and custody festival of the Netherlands, 48 arches summer 2012 >. § Julia Schroder McCurley ’87 u c Matchmaker 2 A professional matchmaker needs to combine grace and discretion with the ability to instill trust. Throw in strong nerves, the eye of a tal ent scout, and—most important—a genuine desire to help singles find their match, and you might just be setting up what Julia McCurley calls “a last first date.” Talking with Julia at her office, with its tranquil view over a leafy greenbelt, it’s clear that she is far removed from the cattle calls of Patti Stanger, star of Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker reality TV show. Julia is also not running a Match.com-typc dating agency—in fact, none of her work is done online. At Something More, the business she launched in Austin, Texas, back in 2009, Julia personally screens and carefully matches the professional- and executive-level men and women who make up her client base. Privacy is a high priority—hence her decision to be offline. “It’s about quality, not quantity,” says the Vancouver, Wash., native. She is as much advisor and counselor to her clients as matchmaker. “I ask all the awkward questions about lifestyle, habits, and values. I take care of all the deal-breakers in advance so my clients can focus on chemistry.” Guided by a code of ethics from the Matchmaking Institute (yes, there is such a thing), Julia begins with a thorough interview. Not ev eryone becomes a client. It’s all about establishing trust, on both sides. “The first match has to be between me and my clients,” says Julia, smil ing at the pun. Yet much of the work she does is no laughing matter—such as tell ing someone their date doesn’t want to see them again, and why. That’s where the strong nerves come in. They’re also handy when it comes to approaching complete strangers—which Julia admits to doing, albeit with her trademark chuckle. “I will literally follow people out of res taurants, and I have recruited people at the grocery store. I even got a client in the Four Seasons ladies’ room after we started chatting about the dress I was wearing.” Safe to say, most of Julia’s contacts come from more traditional sources—she’s active in the local community and regularly chairs fundraising events. The avid tennis player (her license plate is “I Match”) also has many single friends. “I’ve been building my database for years,” she explains. Julia first dabbled in matchmaking back at Puget Sound. “I cut my matchmaking teeth in the Tri Delta sorority at Puget Sound. I was always setting up my sorority sisters. I even matched my own sister— CATCH ME A CATCH At Something More, the business she launched in who has now been married 16 years and has six children.” Austin, Texas, in 2009, Julia personally screens and carefully matches the But why matchmaking? “I believe everybody deserves love and professional- and executive-level men and women who are her clients. happiness, and that we’re meant to be with somebody,” she says. Julia’s own experience—divorced, single mom, now remarried with a happily blended family of six—helps her relate to and empathize with clients. She works with and has tips for singles from 20 through 70, but three are universal pointers. “Checklists are for the grocery store. Fire works are for the Fourth of July. And baggage needs to be left at the airport—don’t talk about it on a date.” So, what should people do on their last first date? “Build chemistry!” is the emphatic response from the woman who specializes in providing lonesome singletons with the elusive formula. — Julie Tereshchuk summer 2012 arches 49 alumni news and correspondence collected $920. A little further was accepted to the Univer Rainier Aliment Jasper Tollefson released part of Fiji and now reside in Bellev up the street he discovered an sity of Washington Medical ■ was offered a posi one of his first major solo music ue, Wash. Stephanie is an occu 0/ envelope with a receipt for a School. This update came tion with Google as a recruit project, an album series titled pational therapist at Harborview (Z cashed check from Walmart in from her very proud husband, ment coordinator in its Seattle The Sweet Dark. He's spent the Medical Center in Seattle, and it, and alongside the envelope Tom Glassman. office. He formerly was respon past year and a half writing and Dan works for Vanguard Interna £ was a pay stub. The pay stub Clay Ross '09, M.A.T.'IO sible for regional programs as recording original songs. Jasper tional in Issaquah, Wash., as an oo only had a name—no other (Z celebrates his one-year an an assistant director of Alumni also teaches guitar lessons and international produce exporter. information. Gregorio called and Parent Relations at Puget performs as much as possible U niversary as assistant director Walmart to see if they had of Annual Giving at Puget Sound. throughout the Northwest. A contact information for the Kyle Egerdal Sound. He heads up the Link, Patrick McDermott review of his CD is on page IE is organizing an am lady, but they didn't. When 25 of this issue of Arches. For a our student phonathon pro M.A.T/10 was highlighted in he couldn't find the woman's bitious after-graduation project gram, which is responsible for a March 14 U.S. News & World sample of his songs and more, telephone number, he said he titled 90 Bikes, 90 Days. The contacting more than 9,000 Report article about midcareer see http://jaspertmusic.com. did the only other thing he project will take place three alumni, parents, and friends professionals returning to Nlko Wacker '10, M.A.T.'II thought could get the money times in three countries. Kyle's of Puget Sound each year. graduate school. He went back and Professor Amy Ryken to the rightful owner, and that plan is to travel to Guatemala, Gifts received through the to school at age 53. A former in the School of Education co was to turn the money over India, and Zambia to fix bi Link help support financial independent bookstore owner, authored an article that was to the police. When Arches cycles, a total of 270 of them aid and other university initia Patrick now teaches English published in the Northwest As followed up on the story, in 270 days. To ensure a lasting tives. Clay also works with and social studies at Lincoln sociation of Teacher Educators' Gregorio said: "I can't believe impact, he'll take on at least UPS seniors as part of the High School in Tacoma. Northwest Passage: journal of the news spread all the way one apprentice in each country. Senior Class Gift Campaign, Educational Practices titled "Be up there. In the end the funds Francis Reynolds '10, Kyle also will be keeping a blog and with alumni in classes cause It's a Girl Cake!: Fostering were returned to the rightful M.A.T.'II "shattered" the and filming a documentary of 2001-12 as part of the Class Dialogue About Gender Iden owner, which is all I could have half-marathon record with a his project. He writes: "In my Agent program. tity in Elementary Classrooms." asked for." His good deed was time of 1:11.26 in the 31 st target countries, the bicycle has Niko teaches at Skyline Elemen reported in the Chico Enter Nani Vishwanath was pro annual Capital City Marathon proven it can make an impact. tary School in Tacoma. prise-Record, which mentioned moted to assistant director of on May 20. According to The Take Zambia. Owning a bicycle his employment with Wells Alumni and Parent Relations Olympian, his time was 36 Stephanie Workland increases the average family's Fargo since 2008. at Puget Sound, effective seconds faster than the former M.O.T.'IO married Dan Lil- income by 35 percent. In India April 16. She will head up the record set in 2008. Francis is lybridge in Chelan, Wash., on that number is 37.5 percent. regional club events and pro a former two-time NCAA Divi Sept. 10. The couple spent Guatemala is using bicimaqui- SffilJK Deanna Malikie grams. Congratulations, Nani! sion III All-American. their honeymoon on the island nas (bicycle machines) to help adafe-dj Glassman recently recover from a civil war. I will be volunteering for established organizations in each country. People in Guatemala, India, and Zambia know about these organizations. They just need more skilled mechanics—like me." Learn more and follow Kyle's fundraising progress at www.90bikes90days.org. Amy Polete recently was selected out of hundreds of ap plicants to tour the world with Up with People for the January to June 2013 semester. UWP has been operating for more than 40 years to provide young adults an international and intercultural experience that teaches service leadership and uses the perform ing arts to deliver messages of hope and goodwill. She writes: "I already have a travel blog up and running as I jump feet first into my insane fundraising efforts." Each cast member is responsible for raising the neces sary money to travel with Up with People. After her six-month tour, Amy plans to earn her mas RETIRING FACULTY Joining the ranks of emeritus professors this year: John Rindo, associate professor of theatre arts; David Smith, pro ter's in music education. Follow fessor of history; David Lupher, professor of classics; Mott Greene, John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values; Bill Dasher, professor of her adventure at www.amyUWP. chemistry; and Bob Matthews, professor of mathematics and computer science. blogspot.com. 50 arches summer 2012 _ >£>-* '± v wr v ( Steph, volunteering in the Providence Center for Faith and Healing, Arts in Healing Program, Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane. Stephanie Sammons ’96 lege was difficult. “After that car wreck, art and remember, and piecing them into the story of a theater classes were the only courses I could life,” she says. Artist, art therapist handle. I had difficulty reading, my short-term As a child, Steph learned to handle power If you hear strange sounds coming from Steph memory was impaired, and the medications 1 tools with her father in the wood shop at Gon- Sammons’ garage, don’t worry. She’s just in was taking made focusing impossible,” she says. zaga University. “I idolized him. I loved learning there with saws and drills, deconstructing stuff She “limped” her way to a bachelor’s in studio about the tools,” she says. “If I behaved, Dad let she’s found and using the parts to make some art and went on to work in jobs like drafting me choose pieces from the scrap bin beneath thing beautifully different. When it’s quiet, and graphic design. She made art to stay sane the table saw. I’d take them home, glue them she’s inside the house creating mixed-media and has completed a large body of work, mostly together, and paint them. I suppose that was portraits, or she’s volunteering at Sacred Heart for friends and family. the beginning of my fondness for power tools, Children’s Hospital leading art projects in the Her pieces could be described as fine-art and where I got the notion of assembling from oncology ward, or at Eastern Washington Uni scrapbooking, simply because the whole idea found fragments.” versity pursuing a master’s in art therapy. behind scrapbooking is to capture memories, Steph has exhibited her work at half a dozen Art, she says, saved her. Now she hopes her but her work goes many steps beyond. The focal venues in Spokane, including a show she or skills might somehow help save others. point is a portrait (or the occasional still life) ganized in which other artists were invited to While she was studying English and psy drawn in colored pencil; the hand-built “frame” donate work to benefit Sarah’s Covenant Homes chology at Puget Sound, a road trip to Califor becomes an extension of the subject and in in India. That brought in $1,350; a portion went nia during spring break ended up in a 10-car cludes parts of a guitar or a typewriter, shells, a for art supplies and the rest for facial recon pileup. She hit her head—hard—and memory spoon, wheels from a toy truck, or pieces from a struction surgery for an 8-year-old girl. spilled out, including how to read and write, favorite pair of pajamas. Steph says she’s going to keep taking com and “who in the heck is that standing in my “My current art series mirrors the way my missions (maybe even a pet portrait or two!) room?” mind worked after the accident, taking dis and work in the realm of art therapy because Photos and other visual stimuli helped similar fragments and ‘snapshots,’ flashes of she has firsthand knowledge of its benefits. reconnect the neurons, but returning to col- memory and incidents I’d been told I should — Jennifer LaRue summer 2012 arches 51 development department. was a longtime member of Dis In memoriam train travel remained his fa Thomas Porro '49 died at 86 uo Frank was involved with the abled American Veterans and vorite mode of transportation. years old on March 9. He was 0> Mary Ellen Painter Robert development of the Bavarian- Veterans of Foreign Wars. He Throughout his career and in born in Tacoma and graduated 52 arches summer 2012 I Radio Club. Bill was active in who expected the best from his church and in Bible study. her students. She retired from Wilfred L. McCarty '44, a member of the Army Specialized Training Program at the College Survivors are his wife, three teaching in 1991. Roberta was of Puget Sound who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust as a liberator of the Mauthausen sons, five grandchildren, and passionate about travel and Concentration Camp in the final days of World War II, passed away on Feb. 5, 2012, at the Wal two great-grandchildren. took many trips throughout the ter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was two weeks shy of his 88th country and abroad. In retire birthday and had been in declining health since Veterans Day 2011. Wallace Taylor '50 died on Born to Augustus and Gertrude McCarty Feb. 20, 1924, in McCool Junction, Neb. (popula Sept. 22, 2011, two weeks ment she pursued interests in outdoor sports, musical events, tion: 197) ,"Mac," as he was universally known, was the fourth of five children. The family had before his 85th birthday. He roots in counties Cork and Offaly in Ireland and were distant descendants of Cormac MacCar- was born in Aberdeen, Wash., and community action groups. Roberta was a longtime and thy, the Irish chieftain who built Blarney Castle in 1446. and grew up in the Ballard active member of the American Graduating from high school in 1942, Mac worked as an assistant cattle buyer before be neighborhood of Seattle. Wally ing drafted into the Army at Fort Crook in July of 1943. He received his infantry basic training served in the Navy and con Association of University Wom at Camp Roberts, Calif., and then joined the ASTP at CPS. When the ASTP was disbanded na I cluded training as a gunner in en and the League of Women Voters. AAUW honored her as tionwide in March of 1944 (to provide manpower for the impending invasion of Normandy), a PBY gun turret as World War a 50-year member in 2005. he was assigned to "B" Company of the 21 st Armored Infantry Battalion of the 11 th Armored II ended. He majored in chem Roberta was never without a Division at Camp Cooke (now Vandenberg Air Force Base), Calif. istry and went on to graduate camera and documented all Mac's division arrived in Wiltshire, England, in October of 1944 for two months of training from The University Arizona in family events. Survivors are four on the Salisbury Plain. He was assigned to General Patton's Third U.S. Army on the eve of the Tucson. Wally settled in Whit nephews and their families. Battle of the Bulge. Mac was wounded by shrapnel from a mortar shell fired by a German 88 tier, Calif., where he was in the gun in Jodenville, Belgium, on Dec. 30, 1944. He was operated on in the field and evacuated to adhesives business. In retire Clinton Gossard '51 died England for subsequent surgeries. Pfc. Mac was awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and ment he hiked in the Sierra suddenly on April 11. He was the Combat Infantry Badge. Mountains and other peaks 83 years old. Clinton was raised Mac rejoined his division in Germany in the spring of 1945. The unit fought its way through throughout the world. Wally in Enumclaw, Wash. At CPS he Austria and reached the gates of Mauthausen on May 5, three days before the end of the war. also was a marathon runner. was a member of the Phi Delta Mac spent five weeks at Mauthausen, assisting liberated prisoners and burying the dead. He Later in life he enjoyed repair Theta fraternity. After gradua spent the next 12 months at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, and on postwar occupation ing antique carriage clocks, tion he served in the Army for duty in Germany and France, before being discharged in 1946. collecting antique blunderbuss two years in Hokkaido, Japan, Mac returned to civilian life, but the allure of seeing the rest of the world as a member of the guns, and playing poker, then went to work for the Wey armed forces made him reenlist in 1955, this time as a technical sergeant with the Air Force. He which he said stimulated his erhaeuser Timber Company as served during the Korean and Vietnam wars, with intelligence and reconnaissance squads, special mind. His wife, Julia; son Al a sales trainee. He worked for investigative and aviation depot groups, the military air transport service, and the military airlift lan; and one grandson survive Weyerhaeuser until he started command. His travels included a five-and-a-half-year stint in Japan and multiple assignments in Wally. He also leaves three Gossard Lumber and Hardware Hawai'i, Guam, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea. stepchildren and 10 step- Company in Redmond, Wash. Due to service-related disabilities, Mac retired from the Air Force in 1967 to the U.S. Sol grandchildren. Clinton loved to ski and was an diers' and Airmen's Home in Washington, D.C. (now known as the Armed Forces Retirement early member of the Ancient Richard Wegner '50 died on Home, Washington). His room at the home afforded him a prime view of the Washington Mon Skiers club. He married his wife, May 13. He was 86. Dick was ument, and his many years there made his residence one of the longest on record. Beth, in 1955. She preceded a lifelong resident of Tacoma Although retired, Mac never stopped traveling. A self-described gypsy who always carried Clinton in death in 2010. Three and Gig Harbor, Wash., and a backpack full of papers, maps, and travel books, he used the "Old Soldiers' Home" as his base children and five grandchildren graduated from Stadium High as he wandered the globe on his own, hiking or camping well off the beaten path, and seeing survive him. School in 1944. He served in the wonders of remote and little-known places. Mac visited more than 150 countries—Russia the Navy and after college Virginia Wahlquist Searls twice, China three times, with numerous trips to Mexico and Japan. He was often mistaken for worked as a contractor in the '52 passed away on Feb. 21 Colonel Sanders (of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame) in Tokyo, what with his dark, heavy glasses, area for more than 40 years. after battling multiple myelo snow-white goatee, and bolo tie. Requests for photos with him standing outside the chain's res Dick enjoyed woodworking, ma. She was 81. Virginia lived taurants were always granted. boats, and living at the beach. in Yelm and Olympia, Wash., When travel became too strenuous, Mac turned to the Internet. He was a longtime contrib His wife, Gracia Barkuloo Weg until moving with her family utor to the Globetrotters Club, an organization for English-speaking travelers based in London. ner '52, preceded him in death to Bremerton, Wash. There she From a computer at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, Mac wrote a column for the Globe in 1996. Three children, 11 graduated from Bremerton trotters' monthly email newsletter and various articles for its quarterly hard-copy magazine. His grandchildren, and two great High School in 1948. After Internet prowess inspired a weekly blog titled "Mac's Ramblings," which covered everything grandchildren survive Dick. completing her undergradu from Washington politics, satire, and book reviews, to boyhood memories and life in the mili ate degree, Virginia began her Roberta Combs '51 passed tary. He also found time to write a reflection on his time at CPS, which can be found in the "Per teaching career in Bremerton. away on Feb. 22, just a month sonal Accounts" section of the ASTP website (www.astpww2.org). She married Foster Searls in prior to her 84th birthday. She Mac was instrumental in the creation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home's book Who We July 1952 and was active in was born in Eatonville, Wash., Were (a collection of biographies of AFRH residents) and, prior to his last illness, was gathering and later moved with her the Bremerton and St. Luke's stories for a subsequent edition. As a representative of the home, he met the prince of Wales family to the North End of Ta United Methodist churches. and the queen of England during their separate visits to the World War II Memorial in Washing In 1973 the family moved to coma, where she attended Sta ton. (See the spring 2006 and autumn 2007 issues of Arches for these stories.) Kirkland, where Virginia con dium High School. Following Mac's funeral mass was celebrated on Feb. 29, 2012, at the Rose Chapel of the Armed tinued to teach. She earned a graduation from CPS, Roberta Forces Retirement Home by Reverend J. Isidore Dixon, the home's Catholic chaplain. Mac was master's degree from Seattle began teaching in the Kitsap buried at Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors. He is survived by his siblings' Pacific University and became school district, later transfer children and grandchildren, and by his comrades-in-arms of the ASTP and 11 th Armored a school principal and later ring to the Clover Park school Division. an administrator in the Lake district, where she taught for Mac always said that life was a series of journeys, and that the journey from this life to the Washington School District. more than 35 years. Roberta next would be the ultimate travel experience. Happy travels, Mac! — Patrick Kearney '44 Virginia remained active in was known as a feisty teacher summer 2012 arches 53 in memoriam the Bothell United Methodist Arlette Terrien Laudadio particularly the UW Huskies, motorcycles, and pageant of ASUPS, and I was elected '55 died on April 23 after vo Church and was a district and and the Seattle Seahawks and coaching. He was active in the president. We had a great year o> conference president for the a short illness. She was 79. Mariners. Jackie's wife, three Fairbanks Kiwanis Club and as as student body officers, and M.A.T/99; and Diane Savage Linda Olson Juckett '71 retired in 2011 after 32 years settled in Tacoma and earned school for a short time but due M.A.T/06 and her husband; passed away on May 7, after of service to Tacoma Public his degree in accounting at to the arrival of his daughter two grandsons; and other fam 10 years of battling cancer. Utilities' water distribution de UPS. Mike had a successful Leo took a job as a tax special ily and many friends. She was 62 years old. At Puget partment. He enjoyed skiing, property management career ist in Daly City, Calif. He again Ronald McMullen '69 Sound Linda was a member fishing, and boating, and had and owned J. Michael and As moved back to the Northwest a passion for golf. Joe's wife, sociates for 20 years. He spent passed away on May 10 after of Alpha Phi sorority. She and to become a trust officer with one daughter, two stepchil his retirement in Clark Fork, a brave battle with brain can her husband, Lee, were high Seattle First National Bank, dren, one granddaughter, and Idaho. Mike loved animals and cer. He was 65 years old. Ron school sweethearts and cel later serving as chief internal several other family members was an avid Indiana Hoosiers review branch auditor with was born in Salem, Ore., and ebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary in January 2012. survive him. basketball fan. He enjoyed Madigan Army Medical Center graduated from South Salem gardening and reading and is High School. He was a captain Her husband, two children, Patricia Hall M.Ed.'74 died and with the Washington state and two grandchildren survive remembered for his kindness, Department of Transportation. in the Air Force during the on March 1 at the age of 69. generosity, and humor. An Vietnam War, then went on to Linda and are thankful that She was a two-time cancer sur Leo was asked to open the infant son preceded Mike in earn an M.B.A. at the Univer she's no longer in pain. vivor. Pat was born in Caripito, DOT'S regional office in Alaska death. His second wife, Cindy; and moved there in 1981. He sity of Utah in 1974. Ron was a Robbie Littles Beasley '73 Venezuela, the oldest of nine her children and their families; met and married Joan Ryan certified public accountant and passed away on Nov. 7, 2011, children. The family moved his two children; two grand in 1985. While in Alaska Leo served as controller for vari at the age of 73. She was born to Oklahoma, then to Billings, children; first wife; and many worked at Elmendorf Air Force ous companies in Oregon and in Palestine, Texas. In 1945 she Mont., and finally to Great friends survive Mike. Base and retired from the Fed Idaho. He enjoyed waterskiing, moved with her family to Taco Falls, Mont. Her family started eral Aviation Administration in golf, snow skiing, travel, fam ma and graduated from Stadi the Big Stack Potato Chip com Ernest Kleinheinz '75 1991. He enjoyed travel and ily activities, and dancing to um High School in 1957. Rob pany in Great Falls. The whole passed away on March 29. He was a member of numerous country music. Ron is remem bie first attended Wilberforce family worked in the business, was 78 years old and had bat fraternal organizations, includ bered for his quiet strength, University in Ohio but returned growing the potatoes, clean tled cancer for 17 years. Ernie ing the Elks Lodge, The Ameri sense of humor, and positive to Tacoma to be closer to ing, slicing, cooking, bagging, was fascinated with flying early can Legion, Knights of Colum attitude. His wife, three chil family. She loved children and and delivering to local grocery in his life and was accepted to bus, and the Fraternal Order of dren, and two grandchildren taught in the Tacoma Public stores. Pat graduated from the Air Force Aviation Cadets. Eagles. Leo's wife of 27 years, survive Ron. Schools for 32 years, retiring in Great Falls Central High in He graduated flight training as two children, and one grand 2005. Robbie was a longtime 1961, and the College of Great a second lieutenant. Ernie was Karl Giske 70, J.D/75 died daughter survive him. member of the Allen African Falls in 1967. For two years she a pilot in the Air Force and re on Jan. 3 at the age of 64. Methodist Church and served taught English at Malta High tired as a major and command Chris Okuhara '75 died He grew up in Seattle and School, Mont. Pat then moved pilot after 20 years. He flew on March 27 at 58 years old. graduated from Roosevelt on the senior usher board. She was a member of Zeta Phi Beta to Eugene, Ore., to pursue a a total of 7,355 hours—603 He was a self-employed real High School. Karl also studied Sorority since 1985 and be master's degree in education were combat hours. His wife of estate broker and a broker for international law and business came a member of the Tacoma while also teaching at a junior 35 years, Betty, preceded him Keeaumoku Group. Survivors at The Hague, Netherlands. Matrons Club in 1995. Robbie high school in Eugene. She in death. Ernie later married are his wife, two children, one He joined his father's real es served on the board of Phoebe held other teaching positions Peggy Clingerman, and the grandchild, and other family tate practice as a lawyer and House, a transitional shelter before finishing her master's two shared nearly 18 years to members and friends. broker in northeast Seattle. At at UPS. In 1974 she took a gether. Peggy, three sons, and Karl's request his ashes were for mothers and children im Helen Dickson '77 died at pacted by substance abuse. In job as a counselor at South one grandson survive Ernie. scattered on the Stillaguamish home on May 7. She was 86 addition to teaching, Robbie Kitsap High School and retired River. Family and friends sur Leo McGavick M.B.A/75 years old. Helen was born in kept busy with her family's ca in 1999 after 25 years there. vive him. died on March 28 at the age Pocatello, Idaho, and attended She and her family enjoyed tering business, Bob's Bar-B-Q, of 76. He was born and raised Charlo High School in Charlo, Judith Kane Shannon '70, their waterfront home on Lake started by her parents when in Tacoma and attended Mary- Mont. She worked in the M.A/72 was 64 years old Tahuyeh and many fishing and they moved to Tacoma from mount Military Academy and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as when she died on Feb. 9. Texas. She, her husband, and camping trips and vacations to Bellarmine Preparatory School. a 50-ton-crane operator during She was born and raised in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Pat's children worked many local He went on to Gonzaga Uni World War II. Helen assisted in Wenatchee, Wash., and gradu festivals and were vendors at husband of 37 years, Gerald versity for two years, then repairs on the battleships USS ated from Wenatchee High Hall; two sons; one daughter; Tacoma's Ethnic Fest for 21 interrupted his education to California and USS Tennessee School in 1966. After college two grandsons; and dozens of years. Robbie also found a pas enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard. after the ships were damaged she went to work as an English sion in selling designer hats. siblings and nieces and neph Leo served as an electron during the attack on Pearl and journalism teacher in the ews survive her. Her husband, three children, ics technician on the USCG Harbor. She was admitted to Olympia School District, from four grandchildren, and nu Chester Hibbert '74 passed Northwind icebreaker, which Washington State University 1972 to 2002. Judi helped merous nieces, nephews, other away March 5 after a long took him to Alaska for the but interrupted her studies to open Capital High School and family, and friends survive and battle with cancer. He was 68. first time. He later joined the raise her family. Helen later taught there for most of her miss Robbie. Chester was a resident of Lake- Navy Reserve and was an of achieved her educational goal career. She enjoyed travel and Joseph Eltrich '73 lost a wood, Wash. ficer at Naval Amphibious Base by finishing her degree at toured throughout Europe and two-year battle with pancreatic Coronado in California. Leo Puget Sound. She was a de Asia, into retirement. Judi also James Michael Hazel '75 cancer on Feb. 18. He was 62. returned to the Northwest and vout member of the Church enjoyed frequent visits to her died unexpectedly on May 12 Joe earned a second bachelor's earned his bachelor's degree of Jesus Christ of Latter-day condo on Maui. She volun at the age of 66. He grew up degree from Saint Martin's in accounting from Seattle Saints and served in numerous teered in her grandchildren's near Greencastle, Ind., and University. He was an air inter University. He worked as a positions at her church. Helen schools and was involved with graduated from Reelsville High cept controller in the Air Force, revenue agent for the Internal participated in her children's The Red Hat Society, a book School in 1964. Mike served and enjoyed a yearlong tour Revenue Service in Washing education as a volunteer in club, and an investment club. in the Navy from 1966 to with the Goodyear racing cir ton, D.C., where he met his their classrooms and as PTA One daughter and five grand 1970; he was a Vietnam vet cuit as a race-tire engineer. Joe first wife. He also attended law president at three North End children survive Judi. eran. After his tour of duty he summer 2012 arches 55 in memonam i schools. She was honored with old. She was an eighth-grade activities. His wife, three chil S) the PTA's Golden Acom Award teacher for the Jefferson School dren, other extended family CD for her service. In 1982 Helen District in Tracy, Calif., and is members, and many friends 56 arches summer 2012 I ▲ Chance meeting on Maui! From left: Alan Worden '63, Dorothy Ghylin-Bennett '67, Barb Botkin M.Ed.'94, and Alex. Bennett '63. It's a bit hard to follow, but we'll try to explain how their random encounter took place: Alex, and Alan knew each other while growing up in the Pacific Northwest, and A Sheldon Goldberg '67, P'83 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland commence their families were good friends. Alex.'s cousins, Alan Davenport ment ceremonies on May 20. From left: daughter Kerstin, Sheldon, wife Wally, and son Richard '64 and Donna Davenport McLain '63 (deceased), were the Goldberg '83. In honor of Sheldon's military service, the university presented the honor cord he children of Alex's mom's sister. The Wordens, the Davenports, wore. He is a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force. The title of Sheldon's dissertation is and the Bennetts took summer vacations together to Birch Bay, "Reversal of Policy: The Departments of State and Defense, and the Arming of the Federal Republic of Wash., in the late 1940s and early '50s. Zip ahead to the pres Germany, 1946-1955." During his hooding ceremony Sheldon's advisor said that his "excellent use of ent day—Barb was visiting friends on Maui and ran into Dorothy the files of the United States departments of State and Defense located in the U.S. National Archives and Alex, at Costco. Barb was Dorothy's daughter's fourth-grade offered a very significant amount of new information about the vast scale of the American program of teacher. The friends Barb was visiting just happened to be former the immediate postwar years [to disarm Germany]." He went on to state that Sheldon's exploration of neighbors of Dorothy and Alex, in Bremerton, Wash., and one of the "ins and outs of this complex history [entailed] a very significant contribution to our understand the former neighbors' sisters is married to Alan Worden. They all ing of American policy toward Western Europe in the postwar decade." Congratulations, Sheldon! happened to be on Maui at the same time—small world! i A Hal Neace '68, P'98, '02 recently retired after 34 years as a public school science teacher. He now works as a statewide mentor for first- and second-year teachers in Alaska. Both of his daughters attended UPS; Hal shared these adventure shots of them. Above left, from left: Sally Neace Drescher '98, Hal, and Sally's husband, John Dre- scher, on the 14,411-foot summit of Mount Rainier in July 2006. Hal previously had climbed Rainier in 1974. Above right, from left: Hal, son-in-law Jason Rosfeld, and daugh ter Heather Neace Rosfeld '02 at the end of the Bright Angel Trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon—a four-day hike they took in March 2011. summer 2012 arches 57 scrapbook [ i A Gamma Phi Beta sisters reunited for a weekend in Laguna A Jerry Wilson '70 and Jeanne Peterson were married on March 10 at The Chapel on Echo Bay Beach, Calif., Feb. 1 7-19. From left: Jan Johnstone Rosenquist on Fox Island, Wash. From left: Jim Mdnturff '70; Jerry's brother Bryon Wilson '79; Kathryn '75, Mindy Vokes Schenck '74, Laurie Hallwyler '75, and Schmidt Rawn '72 and husband Ned Rawn '72; the bride and groom; Rick Peterson '69, P'06 Linda Branson Osborn '74. The four hadn't been together for and wife Carolyn Hill Peterson '69, P'06; and Rick and Carolyn's daughter Amy Peterson '06. several years and traveled from various parts of the country for this Jerry and Rick were best friends at UPS and now are brothers-in-law—Jeanne is Rick's sister! gathering. A Big winners! Lani Bowman '74 was the mentor for the Kohala Middle School team that won A David Abbott '74, Teresa Carey '74, and Tom McCarter the national grand prize in the 2011 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge! The team, '75 have remained friends since first meeting freshman year at dubbed "6,000 n 60," took first place for a battery recycling project that collected 6,000 household Puget Sound, although Tom took a year off and Teresa finished her batteries (about one battery for every person in their town) in 60 days. There are no local opportuni B.A. at another college. In March they all went to see Elvin Bishop ties to recycle batteries in Kohala on the Big Island of Hawai'i. The team was the first from Hawai'i play with the James Cotton Band at Yoshi's in Oakland, Calif. From to be named a state finalist or grand prizewinner of the challenge. Each team member received a left: Dave; Tom's wife, Alice; Dave's niece; Teresa; Tom; and Elvin prize package that included a $10,000 savings bond, a Discovery Adventures trip to Costa Rica, and Bishop himself. Tom adds: 'The Elvin Bishop Band provided the a pocket video camera to record their trip. The group also was invited to the White House in January soundtrack for many of us in the '70s with songs like 'Party Till for a science fair of the top 100 science students from across the country and met and took photos the Cows Come Home,' 'Rock My Soul,' and 'Fooled Around and with President Obama. Pictured here in the Blue Room of the White House, from left: Lani with team Fell in Love.' Roger Hooper '76 was supposed to join us, but his members Genevieve Boyle, Mina Apostadiro, Isabel Steinhoff, and Lani's son Rico Bowman. Sandy back went out. I guess we're getting old, but we still know how to Horn '73, former housemate of Lani's from Puget Sound, knew the weather would be cold for the have a good time!" team in D.C., so she sent a care package of gloves, hats, scarves, and several yarn leis that she made. One of the team photos at the White House includes President Obama wearing a purple lei that Sandy made. As the team's mentor, Lani also won free registration and hotel accommodations for a National Science Teachers Association conference and a one-year membership to NSTA. Lani also is developing a sustainability group for young girls called SISTAS—Sisters Involved in STEM To Achieve Sustainability. (STEM is the acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) 58 arches summer 2012 I I t F A Several teachers and administrative staff at Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma are Puget Sound alumni! With organizational help from Laura Kiely Kukreja '96, we were able to wrangle a photo of most of them in April. Standing, from left: Mary Krawiecki Sigmen '83; Malcolm Davidson '91, M.A.T/95; Ross Aker '96, M.A.T/97; Jennifer Dominguez '11; Joy Phelps '76; and Susan Dooly Bauska '78. Seated, from left: Laura; Jean Young '78, M.Ed.'89; Jenny Siegle Graupensperger '87; Bridgette O'Brien McGoldrick '95, and Jeff Orr '88. About a half a dozen more alumni work at Annie Wright but were unable to make the photo shoot. I A From left: Teresa Carey '74, Nancy Codding Pate '76, Leslie Terzian '74, and Tom McCarter '75 got together in April to see one of the exhibits at the de Young Museum in A Tom McCarter '75 celebrated his 60th birthday in December and decided to invite friends to Golden Gate Park, Calif. Tom said the exhibit, titled 'The Fashion join him for some revelry throughout the day. His birthday festivities commenced with lunch at a nice World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," restaurant followed by bocce ball then a visit to a cigar shop. It concluded with a concert at a club. was amazing. David Abbott '74 joined Tom for lunch and bocce; Chris Gentry '73 connected for a cigar (Chris and Tom are second and third from left, respectively); and Carol Cummins LeGrande '74 caught up with Tom at the concert. Other friends and family, including his mother, brother, and sister, joined him for various parts of the big day. summer 2012 arches 59 scrapbook on QJ rz E 00 00 rz u ; ! 1 ▲ Loggers love baseball! Last month in Peoria, Ariz., at a Mari ners Cactus League spring training game, Houston Dougharty '83 just happened to be sitting next to (for two games in a row!) fellow Logger alum Karen Johnson Stay '60 from Olympia, Wash. That same night Houston ran into Brad Cheney '82, and A These alums have remained best of friends since meeting at Puget Sound. They take at least one rumor has it that Dean of Students Mike Segawa was in town, weekend trip together each year, along with their kids (five children between the three couples). In February they visited Seabrook on the Washington coast. From left: Matt Winward '86; Anne- Marie Chichester Winward '88; Dawn Umstot '84; Larry Cezelius '86; Greg Worden '86, J.D/94, P'l6; and Jana Smith-Worden '86, P'16 A Susan Bladholm '87 married jim Lewis on the Big Island of Hawai'i on March 27. Celebrating with them: Susan's son, Rob Schulberg '16 (left); her daughter, Haley Schulberg (far right); and Jim's daughter, Kylie Lewis (in front). Jim is in aviation sales and enjoys being a private pilot. Susan owns Sunstone Marketing, in Portland, Ore. A The OAR Northwest crew, including Greg Spooner '01, D.P.T.'IO, and Jordan Hanssen '04, undertook a counterclockwise circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in April, and Arches was there to see them off. Their 22-day voyage was a test for another upcoming ocean-rowing endeavor that will depart West Africa in December and head across the Atlantic to South America. The nearly 4,000-nautical-mile trip is estimated to take between 60 and 80 days. Follow their adventure at http:// oarnorthwest.com. 60 arches summer 2012 4 Kate Pipal '05 and Bryan Ho gan were married Oct. 8, 2011, at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Centennial, Colo. Alumni in at tendance, back from left: Liesen Ek- man Treloar '05, Scott McAmis i '05, Megan Stump '05, maid of honor Maureen Work '05, and 1 Colleen Jenkins Shipley '97. Front row: the groom and bride! Kate is the education and group sales coor dinator at the Downtown Aquarium A Chai Blair-Stahn '05 and Lan a in Denver. She works with Colleen, Nguyen '08 participated in the 101st who is the education manager at the Commencement of the University of aquarium. They hosted the June 23 Hawai'i at Manoa on May 12. Chai Denver Alumni Event at the aquar earned a master's degree in Pacific ium; it included live animal dem Island studies, and Lan earned her mas onstrations and behind-the-scenes ter's in Asian studies. tours for those who registered. Kate is the regional co-coordinator for the Denver Alumni Club and adds: "I was super excited to show the alumni around our amazing facility!" She will graduate with a master's degree in nonprofit business management from Regis University later this fall and is taking a trip to Peru for her final project. A Matt Perry '01 writes: "After six years working in steel fabrication an opportunity presented itself allow ing me to follow my passion for food and cooking. Last October we opened Savory Spice Shop in Bend, Ore." Here at the ribbon cutting for their new business are Matt, wife Betsy, and their son, Jack. Savory Spice Shop is a full-service spice shop that offers more than 400 products and 140 seasoning blends. Products are sold in bulk and are ground and blended weekly for freshness. You can order by phone or via an email message. Find out more at www.savoryspiceshop.com/aboutus/ bend.html. ; A Heather Herrod '04 and Andrew Doran were married on Oct. 1, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nev. Several Puget Sound alumni celebrated with the couple. From left: Stefan Thorn '03, Julie Voeller Thorn '04, Andrea Herrod '10, the groom and bride, Tyler Cooley '03, Nicole Both '04, Kayla Robinson McCain '04, Erin Carlson '04, Kasey Stanlslaw Aune '05, and Nikki Esposito '06. Heather and Andrew met on a blind date arranged by one of Heather's Gamma Phi Beta sorority sis ters. The newlyweds moved from Las Vegas to the Pacific Northwest immediately following their wedding and now reside in Bel levue, Wash. Andrew works for The Coca-Cola Company, and Heather is a marketing consultant for Microsoft. summer 2012 arches 61 scrapbook — —- g 0> (Z E oo '■>'1 i/i H3 : VJ 1 3 A Alex Twist '08 (at right in photo) sends this update: "I am writing to share my recent result at the 2012 Olympic Rowing Trials. My doubles partner and I finished fifth—we were racing to represent the U.S. in the Lightweight Men's Double Scull. The trials format is a winner-takes-all event, so we won't be represent A Alumni enjoyed a mini reunion during a sunset hike and ski on Snow King Mountain in Jack- ing our country in London. However, the result is one of which I son, Wyo., on March 9. From left: Emily Sabelhaus '06, Alana Hagney '05, Matt Herron '05, am very proud, and demonstrated much improvement and hard Stephanie Ferris '05, Kali Seisler '06, and Mira Copeland '06. They all were visiting Stephanie, work over my last four years of training." Alex raced on behalf of who will graduate from the University of Wyoming this August with her Bachelor of Science in Nurs Seattle Rowing Center and has been living in Seattle since 2009; ing. Other updates for the group: Emily is an occupational therapist at Seattle Children's Hospital and he trains full time and works part time to pay bills. He rowed all lives in Seattle with her husband; Alana is a dentist in Seattle; Matt lives in Jackson and plays fiddle in four years at Puget Sound and was team captain his senior year. three bands; Kali is living in Minnesota, finishing her master's in nursing at the University of Minne As a junior he joined the UPS men's crew that made the team's sota; and Mira lives in Portland and is the western region marketing coordinator for Milliman Inc. first appearance at the National Championship Regatta. Alex al ready is looking ahead to the 2016 Rio games! A Caitlin Holland '09 and Carl Sheasley were married on Oct. 14, 2011, in Concord, Mass. The couple live in Brookline, Mass. A Tessa Sylvaln '06 and Brad Herley '06 were married July 30, 2011, at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Wash. Puget Sound wedding guests (all from the Class of 2006 unless otherwise stated) were, from left: Ryan McAnlnch; Carlle Meader '07; bridesmaid Colleen Woodrow Gause; Jesse Zumbro; Karli Thorstenson; Shawn Baxter; the groom and bride; Richard Martin; Randin King; wedding officiant Andrew Miller '04, M.A.T/05; Kali Seisler; groomsman Noah Trubo '05; bridesmaid Kristi Hamilton; Lindsey Shaffer Rothwell '05; Brad Rothwell '05; and groomsman Bill Scammell. Brad works for Razorfish, an advertising agency in Seattle, and Tessa is a special-education teacher for Highline Public Schools. A Alums Lisa Jacobson '09 and Heather Jacobson '09 vis ited campus and found their graduation year plaque on the new Commencement Walk! 62 arches summer 2012 A Venessa Simmons '10 and Weston Wood '08 were married on July 30, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. The couple first met in 2006 in a strength and conditioning class. They now reside in Pullman, Wash., where Weston is working toward his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Washington State University. Venessa received her B.S. in kinesiology from WSU in 2011. She currently works as the director for WSU's YMCA after school and summer camp programs. Alpha Phi sorority sisters and former basketball teammates were there to share in the couple's celebration. In no particular order: Cassie Duncan '09, Sean Bayha '08, Ashley Branscome Bayha '09, and baby Lucas, Kyle Rusca 09, Jessica Scarsella 10, Natalie Johnson 'll, Melissa Maier '10, Diana Small '08, Tori Kendrick '09, Heather Carr '09, Carly Cruz '09, Kaitlyn Kubokawa 09, Felicia Perl '12, Brie Davis '10, Danielle Rainwater '11, Kevin Wright '10, Jeff Walker '08, Bryce Douglas '09, Conner Gehring '10, and longtime UPS staff member and basketball "mom" Paula Meiers. A Loggers dominated at the "Rep Your Undergrad" party for students in the Seattle University Student Development Admin istration master's program, last fall semester. From left: Heather Jacobson '09, Brandon Lueken '08, Nicole Juliano '08, Zeb McCall '08, Lisa Jacobson '09, and Nick Dietrich '10. Bran don won the Most Spirited title for his "extensive Logger attire and impressive ability to recall and sing various Logger songs." A Stephanie Senescall '08 and Doug Moore were married at the Sand Point Country Club in Seattle on Oct. 8, 2011. In attendance, back row, from left: Zeb McCall '08, the groom and bride. Logger Head Men's Basketball Coach Justin Lunt and wife Renee, Peter Yi '08, and Jeff Walker '08. Front, from left: Nicole Juliano '08, Lauren Gehring '08. Shelby Ramirez '07, Betsy Wan- less Johnson 07, Shawna Andersen 07, and Cassie Duncan 09. Stephanie and Doug are back living in Tacoma—very near campus. She works as a marketing coordinator in Seattle for Envirolssues, a communications consulting firm. summer 2012 arches 63 p Lately we had a couple of new reports of The Logger Handshake: A how-to unplanned meetings among Puget Sound GgJgggSjj 1. You're in a crowded place and alumni. Such encounters (we hesitate to call " '2^4 overhear someone talking about ■ !j how much they miss biscuits them “chance”) are happening out there j and gravy day, or you note in an 8 individual a marked indifference frequently enough that we here at Arches \ to precipitation along with a \ vocabulary that often includes the World Headquarters have begun calling them | words "hack" and "chop" when the * person is not talking about slasher Random Logger Gravitational Attraction 3 movies or food preparation. Phenomena, or RL-GAP. One of the stories we heard came from Alex. Bennett ’63, who almost literally bumped into a bunch of Puget 2. You are drawn toward the subject involuntarily by some Sound friends while vacationing in Maui arboreal magnetism. You extend a hand, grasping firmly. (photo on page 57), and the other was from Barrie Wilcox ’62, P’91, who happened upon classmates when he was in Ketchum, Idaho, on business and browsing the library (photo on page 56). This made us think there should be some sort of recognition-greeting when j~r3 3. You and your fellow shaker begin conditions for RL-GAP align. But of course p-' moving your forearms back and ■ forth in the horizontal plane in a f;/ IV there is: The Logger Handshake, which, if ■. sawing motion. you’ve never seen it enacted, goes like this: m i: [■ r f.,iA mil m 4. You do this until others in the vicinity start backing away with concerned looks on their faces. Never mind them; they cannot understand. It's a Logger thing. Our thanks to handshake models Kari Vandraiss '13, our phenomenal Arches intern, and Keila Meginnis '13, working this summer in Technology Services, who weren't all that thrilled with having their picture taken. 64 arches summer 2012 LOGGERS VS. LUTES and lots more! TF; '"jv* 8 'III; -4 [v. IIIf Enjoy the action on and off V] '5T>:!U M f4*>L the field with||e Adelphians' h '* J m « b 1 Mi i V r r 80th anniversary concert, a it I | // chemistry magic show, the I I Ilf | I / fj 1 i t opportunity to attend a class 111 ' ' # fr^ nnrl & •« . ;ssSHE HHmS Homecoming October 26-28, 2012 Family Weekend! ALUMNI • STUDENTS • PARENTS • FRIENDS Visit pugetsound.edu/homecoming for a preview of all the weekend's events. 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