THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND PEOPLE AND IDEAS FOR AUTUMI — - ^ V; SI'.2t\ J A ; ^ •< !;-■ f* •I,: ' J it'.. 'SyCSM: ■ £ N ■■■ • :■■■ S ■ ■ W ■ ■ •. - f©© . jl ; ; ;■ • © M.. .le: m-- •' ■ . W. /e visit seven Northwest '®“f.'.iSiiHBas •*£3. aiHE ■s rr a 5r ^jriliTr W19VM9 jJiTR Autumn 2008 £s '■ til i ■.: . ■ ■ . V ■: . Cal v. I « & ' • » «■ 1 • * m people and ideas on the cover ■ • ■ - . A summer alumni road trip; that's the Olympics in the background. Story on page 23. Illustration by Michael Martin. 18 The Candidate Cometh this page ■u~un> ep'xi^J.-------- You say you On August 4, Jordan Hanssen '04 and Greg Spooner B.A/01, D.P.T.'IO, . S£ .. two of the four Loggers who made worldwide headlines in 2006 by winning an epic rowing race across the North Atlantic, took to local ■ • . : waters for another self-powered adventure. Beginning and ending in Gig Harbor, Wash., the two circumnavigated the Olympic Peninsula 5 h by rowboat. Their nearly 400-mile, 20-day, counterclockwise route took them through Puget Sound and out the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific Ocean. The guys then headed south along the Pacific Coast and into Grays Harbor and inland rivers, where they dragged their boat through a jigsaw puzzle of dinner plate-sized lily pads, ass islands, and beaver dams. Think Humphrey Bogart ■i;reds and leeches in African Queen. Jordan snapped this photo "reg launched their boat after spending the night on a ar the mouth of the Queets River. The grueling trip helped • :sr:ep. in shape for a planned 2011 rowing expedition through .merica from New York to Nome, Alaska-o from the president the U.S. Supreme Court against the govern­ ment on behalf of the Constitution—and won. It’s why we were recently ranked as the number one small university produc­ ing Peace Corps volunteers and are always up there at the top of that list. It’s why our faculty created the first undergraduate inter­ national political economy program in the country and then wrote the textbook for it when they couldn’t find one good enough. Where does this tradition of originality come from? T.S. Eliot, one of America’s most original poets and one of our most tradi­ tional, said that the two qualities are insepa­ rable. The most individual writers—the most original and modern—said Eliot, possess the greatest sense of the past and of their place in it. The truly original writer is the one who lives not merely in the present but lives with an appreciation of how the ghosts of the past live on in the present moment and help cre­ ate our experience of it. Which brings me to that Hatchet. I’ve never seen the real thing. But what 1 know about it makes it a perfect symbol for Puget Sound: It connects our present (and our future) with our past. Not just because of the marks that have been carved on it over ALREADY A TRADITION The Hatchet is displayed, top row, at a campus workday in 1913. the years but by its very nature and history. Story goes that students found The Hatchet in 1908 in an old barn they were helping to demolish to make room for a new campus Originals building. It was not just any hatchet. It was an old roofer’s hatchet. Those students intui­ We Northwesterners are an independent here, and the stories in this magazine tell that tively recognized the thing as a sacred Logger bunch. A little hard to figure. We’re not too tale all the time. Take a look at the features in relic, symbolic of their school. A hatchet is a fond of formality or routine or the expected. recent issues—some of our favorite stories. small ax, useful in trailblazing and log hew­ Neckties don’t rate high on our fashion list. From David LeSourd coming across the con­ ing to be sure. But this hatchet was a special We’re conservative on some things, liberal on tinent to establish this university in the wilds kind, designed to meld the past and the fu­ others, libertarian when we want to be. Some of Tacoma in the 1880s, all the way from a ture by shaping things as well as by joining might say we’re contrarians: I like “indepen­ small town in Indiana by way of Atlanta, them. dent” better. We’d rather blaze our own trail where he fought beside General Sherman in A tradition of originality still drives us than follow the one laid out before us. After the Civil War. Flash forward to two years ago every day and guides our plans for the future: all, we draw upon a tradition of pioneers— when four Puget Sound guys who met on the that sense of the living presence of our past, that determination to never rest upon what people in Conestoga wagons who ventured crew team decided they wanted a bigger chal­ has already been done but to build some­ west to settle the frontier; enterprising im­ lenge. So they rowed their boat all the way thing upon it—make it new, different, better. migrants who came across the sea to forge a across the Atlantic to be the first Americans Chop, chop, hack, hack, and make it bet­ new kind of life in a new world. to do it, returning the compliment to those ter. To me, that’s Puget Sound. We like to think of ourselves as originals. Mayflower pilgrims who came the other way And we are. some three hundred years before—and our That’s true in spades of Puget Sound peo­ guys did it without a sail. ple. Our students, our faculty and staff, our It’s a tradition here—being untraditional. alumni. We just do things in different ways It’s why one of our graduates argued a case in Ronald R. Thomas 2 arches Autumn 2008 letters Tgreatly appreciated the “PS” kidney donation arches -Lstory on Sandie Andersen and Annamarie Ausnes. Sandie’s generous gift is inspiring. Vol. 36, No. 1 Autumn 2008 Program and Ritual 0 for ftw My husband also has polycystic kidney dis­ Dedication of ease, or PKD. He, too, experienced the gift of a friends kidney, making it possible for him to Chuck Luce, Editor and Designer Leonard hptuarfhhall Cathy Tollefson '83, Assistant Editor, enjoy an active life. Classmates A documentary was made on this personal, Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless emotional process of organ donation in the credited otherwise hopes of encouraging others to give this gift of Lestraundra Alfred '11, Intern life. The 15-minute video can be viewed at www. Alumni Council Executive Committee DecisiontoDonate.com. David Watson '92, President; Leslie Skinner Hopefully, a UPS student will be motivated Brown '92, Vice President; Kekoa Beaupre '95; Arthur Campbell '50,P'75,'81,'84; by these stories to learn more about PKD, a ge­ Laurie Koelbel Chahbandour '84; Eric netic disease which affects 1 in 500 people. Herzog '94; Edward Horne Jr. '70; Shan­ There could be an exciting medical career in non Hughes '92; Ken Johnson '75; Michael LeFevre '00; Ken McGill '61; Brent Olson researching a treatment. '94; Aaron Petersen '82,J.D.'86; Steve Gina Soule Hietpas '69 Saalfeld '95,M.Ed.'07; Rod Smith '52; Peter College of PugetSbirad. Seqitim, Wash. Thompson '81; Michael Tierney '95; Paul FEBRUARY 19. 1932 Weigel '91; Edward Wilder '86; Amy Ma TACOMA. WASHINGTON Winterowd '99 Veterans' Club Contacting arches Circulation T) eading about the Students’ Army Training To be added to or deleted from the XvCorps [“In the Army now, but briefly,” sum­ arches mailing list, or to correct your address, call 253-879-3299 or write Office Howarth artifact mer 2008], reminded me of the Veterans’ Club. of Communications, University of Puget The university and the G.I. Bill brought this T) egarding the article on Howarth Hall Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma WA group together; a few pictures can be seen in the 98416-1041. XV[“From the Archives, spring 2008], I was 1958 Tamanawas. It’s been more than 50 years, Editorial Offices going through some old boxes of papers and Voice; 253-879-2762; Fax: 253-879-3149; came across this program from the dedication of yet I still benefit from the G.I. Bill and my uni­ E-mail: [email protected]; Post: Arches, versity experience. The Veterans’ Club dissolved Office of Communications, University of Howarth Hall in 1932. Leonard Howarth was my as G.I. benefits expired. I’m curious about what Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma, great uncle; his brother, William Howarth, was WA 98416-1041. my grandfather. happened to its members and how the ingredi­ ents of veterans’ rights and education played out arches unbound Mary Ellen Denman www.ups.edu/arches in their lives. Medina, Washington Paul Kimball '59 arches (USPS 003-932) is published Park City, Utah quarterly by the University of Puget The program, in remarkable condition, was placed Sound, Office of Communications, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma WA 98416-1041. in the university archives. — ed. Periodicals postage paid at Tacoma, Wash­ ington, and at additional mailing offices. Profs, fondly remembered PRINTED IN U.S.A. Amazing Annamarie n reading the summer 2008 issue of Arches and Postmaster: Send address corrections to the article on Bill Colby, I wonder if he knows rT"<hank you for such an amazing"PS” story in i arches, Office of Communications, Uni­ a work of his hangs in the Tokyo home of former versity of Puget Sound, 1500 N.