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aTHE ALBANYte SOCIETYh’S NEWSLETTERo usFOR SENIOR ALUMNIe G FALL ISSUE 2013 Looking to Find a Classmate? Here’s How Want to reconnect with a Lewis & Clark classmate you haven’t talked to or seen for 50 years? It may not be as hard as you think. The college has a web page on the Internet specifically set up for its alumni. One of the features of that site is an alumni directory that may yield the information you are seeking. “It’s a great tool,” said Angela Torretta, associate director of Alumni and Parent Programs. “We often get alumni calling our office in hopes of making contact with past college friends,” Torretta added. “Due to privacy restrictions, we can’t give out that information. The online directory, however, puts it at your fingertips.” You get to the website by typing in mylc.lclark.edu. First-time users will need to register. It may take a day or two for your information to be verified by the college. GOLDEN REUNION Once you have access, you will be for the Class of 1963 during Reunion Weekend in June produced a lot of hugs and story able to find the directory on the telling. (Top left) Years and miles disappeared when classmates Karen McKay Wallace and Joanne Bourne right-hand side of the screen under Weah got together. (Top right) Checking out yearbook pictures helped Bill Barber, Bert Lundmark, and Dr. Carl “myLC.” Howard reconnect. (Below) More than 37 members of the Class of 1963 and their spouses gathered at the Continued on Page 2 Cooley House for a reunion dinner hosted by President Barry Glassner and his wife, Betsy Amster. Senior Social Hour Launches Holiday Manor House Event Here’s an opportunity to kick off the p.m. holiday reception, a traditional concludes Saturday’s events. holiday season with old friends and gathering of the extended college Don Floren ‘55, chair of the at the same time revisit the Manor community in the Manor House Albany Society’s board of directors, House in all of its seasonal finery. hosted by President Barry Glassner says the social hour that replaces the This year’s Albany Society winter and his wife, Betsy Amster. society’s holiday luncheon gives event for senior alumni is a social An 8 p.m. choral performance in senior alumni a special opportunity hour starting at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, featuring to join the rest of the community in December 7, in the Manor House. seasonal music by Cappella Nova celebrating the season. The free event precedes the 6:30 and directed by Kathy FitzGibbon, Stafford Centennial Continues Connecting The yearlong centennial celebration of William With Classmates Stafford, beloved Lewis & Clark professor and Continued from Page 1 one of Oregon’s greatest poets, continues. You can make a query by entering A number of events, exhibits, and readings are the name of the person you’re on the schedule in the coming months, including a looking for. If a match is found in the February 7-8 symposium, You Must Revise Your directory, you then will be able to Life, at locations on campus and throughout the access additional information by city. clicking on the matched name. The symposium, sponsored by the Northwest The site also provides other Writing Institute and led by Bill’s son, Kim, will alumni information, including news look at his influence on the arts as a whole, his about Albany Society and other work as a photographer, and the impact he had on upcoming events. You can register music, art and the written word. For an up-to-date listing of scheduled events, for events online through the site. go to lclark.edu/william_stafford. For those who don’t use com- Stafford, who taught at L&C for more than four puters, the alumni office can be of decades, was Oregon’s poet laureate, poet-in- help in making contacts, according to residence at the Library of Congress, and a National Book Award winner. He Torretta. passed away in August of 1993, at the age of 79. “We will contact the person you are looking for and either forward the query or get permission to pass Medallions Honor Graduates on the phone number and address,” Torretta said. Throughout the seal. It is used by the college in a The telephone number for this centuries special variety of official presentations in service is 503-768-7950. achievements addition to the 50-year class If you haven’t yet accessed have been recognition. mylc.lclark.edu, take a minute to go recognized by The seal on the medallion depicts in and check your own profile under awarding in abstract the natural Pacific the “myLC” heading, and, if medallions. The Northwest landscape. It bears the necessary, update it or add 2013 Golden year 1867, the year the college was Reunion lunch- founded, and the words explorare (to information. eon was no explore), discere (to learn), and sociare exception. (to work together). The words “The Black & Orange Parties Twenty members of the Class of Albany Society” are stamped on the Breaking Out Worldwide 1963 in attendance at the luncheon back of the medallion. were presented medallions by Dean Class of 1949 members who On November 6, Black and Orange of the College of Arts and Sciences attended their 50th reunion luncheon Parties will be breaking out Tuajuanda Jordan on behalf of Lewis in 1999 were the first to receive the simultaneously all over the world. & Clark. The presentation com- medallions. The presentation The locally hosted parties that memorated their commencement 50 ceremony became a centerpiece of attract alums young and old as well years earlier. subsequent Golden Class Reunions as parents and friends of Lewis & The bronze medallion they and serves as a symbolic welcome of Clark take place in a wide variety of received was cast in 1999 and bears the entire 50-year class into the venues. the official Lewis & Clark College Albany Society. The intent of the parties is to bring alumni together, welcome alumni from the class of 2013, and make new Charitable Annuity Can Boost Cash Flow connections for the college. You can increase your cash flow and reduce your taxes at the same time with Last year more than 1,000 college a charitable gift annuity. Through a simple contract, you donate assets to alumni and friends attended Black Lewis & Clark. We reinvest your contribution and provide you with fixed and Orange Parties in 40 cities in this annual payments for life. At the end of the contract, your contribution will country from New York to Hawaii benefit the L&C program of your choice. and Alaska to Texas. Black and For a couple between the ages of 75 and 80, the rate is 5.3 percent. As an Orange celebrations also had an example, a $10,000 contribution would allow the couple to receive a $3,670 international flavor with nine parties charitable tax deduction, a $530 annuity for life, and the satisfaction of going on in six different countries. leaving a legacy for Lewis & Clark students. If you are interested in exploring If you want to learn about a party a charitable gift annuity, please call Sharon Bosserman-Benson at 800-753- near you, visit go.lclark.edu/black/ 9292. and/orange. BACK ON THE HILL 1963 Golden Reunion Weekend The College: “A Lasting Experience” A 1956 alumna writes about the impact of of making music, especially when you her experience at Lewis & Clark. are sharing it with your dear friends. “I’ve always been proud about “Somewhere along the way, perhaps being a music major and a member of because of my Shakespeare professor the Class of 1956. I just checked my at L&C, Ralph Allen, I was bitten by the calculator and that tells me it’s been 57 writing bug. years. “I just finished my first book, Salt “My memories are rich in gratitude and Pepper, the story of a 12-year-old for having teachers and mentors such girl and her horses. The small-town as L. Stanley Glarum, Reinhard Pauly, setting somewhat resembles my Robert Stoltz and Boris Sirpo, just to hometown of Hood River, Oregon. Now mention a few. I am working on a sequel. “They gave me reason for my life’s “The best part of Lewis & Clark is path. Little did I know at graduation that it was where I met my husband, how much they had influenced me. Peggy and Hal Swafford Hal Swafford ‘55, who has a bachelor’s “Not long after graduating I joined and master’s degree from the college. the Oregon Symphony as a violinist. I taught strings in the David Douglas We were married a couple of years after and Beaverton school districts, and meeting when we were in the L&C then became an associate professor of orchestra. music at Portland State, teaching string “He played trombone and I played Remembering methods. violin; music was fun for us. We have Classmates who have passed away in recent “It was there that I found my true two sons, both musicians, and four months, based on information gathered by Lewis interest: composing. grandchildren. It has been a wonderful & Clark College. “I’ve written and arranged num- life together. Virginia Smith Poling ‘34 erous pieces for our string quartet “For me, the college was and is a July 19, 2013 “Tapestry.” We play a concert each year special and lasting experience. Thank Althea Brown Dorman ‘42* at The Old Church in downtown you Lewis & Clark.” Spring, 2013 Portland. It is the most satisfying way Constance Hendrickson Robinson ‘45 --- Peggy Jakku Swafford ‘56 Spring, 2013 Bryce Hanning ‘51 Summer, 2013 Shirley Reynolds Klingbeil ‘51 March, 2013 Joel B. Krausse ’51 Spring, 2013 James O. Ward ‘51 May 16, 2013 James E. Annala ‘52 March 7, 2013 Robert G. Hilken ‘52 January 14, 2013 Ted N. Moore ‘52 April, 2013 Richard C. Balsiger ‘53 April 22, 2013 Milton G. Hagen ‘53 July 1, 2013 Allan B. Popp ‘53 Spring, 2013 Dr. James H. Schell ‘54 July 17, 2013 Dr. David Etter ‘55 August 18, 2013 Joseph E. Kordic ‘57 CLASS OF 1953 May 5, 2013 members pose during 60th reunion celebration at the Albany Society luncheon during Ronald Dean Gray ‘59 Reunion Weekend in June. From left, they are Don Floren, Jean Goodman Cauthorn, Jim West, Eleanor Hunt- Spring, 2013 Park, Brian Teller, Pat Blakely Louge, and Dick Voll. Donald D. Palmer ‘59 April 18, 2013 Norman J. Wetzler ‘59 The Gatehouse is a semiannual newsletter published for senior alumni by the Albany Society in May 23, 2013 cooperation with Lewis & Clark College’s Office of Alumni and Parent Programs and the Divi- Dr. William J. Culp ‘63 sion of Institutional Advancement. Chuck Charnquist ‘58, editor. Editorial staff members are May 26, 2013 Dolores Willey Chenoweth ‘62, Curt Copenhagen ‘55, Don Floren ‘53, Ardis Bowersox Mangels *Heritage Society member who left a bequest ‘58, Bill Mangels ‘55, Sharon Bosserman-Benson, and Angela Torretta. to Lewis & Clark. Howard Eyerly ‘57 is retired and lives in Elizabeth Lowell Sims ‘62 taught school Bend, Oregon, with his wife, Barbara, for three years, took time off to raise her Senior Alumni Notes but continues to keep a hand in space daughter, and worked at Tektronix exploration management and technology. before helping her husband build a home Craig Singletary ‘55 hangs up his For 37 years until his retirement in 1998, in Beaverton. Since her husband of 39 microphone at the end of this season Howard was an engineer at the Jet years passed away, she has lived next after 35 years as the stadium voice of the Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, door to her daughter, and has enjoyed Linfield football team. Among the proud California, with a variety of project watching her two grandsons grow up. memories is having his daughter Diane management responsibilities including She enjoys traveling, working with as his spotter for more than 180 games, the 1971 Mariner exploration of Mars, stained glass, sewing, and painting with including two NAIA national cham- the Gallileo and Ulysses spacecrafts, and watercolor. pionship contests. Craig, an emeritus the 1990 space shuttle. His engineering professor of communications at Linfield, and managerial responsibilities were enjoys travel with his wife, Fae, and wide and varied, including serving making travelogues of these trips jointly on the staffs of the Jet Propulsion throughout the world. Lab and the California Institute of Sharon’s Technology. After Lewis & Clark, Judy Smith Huddleston ‘63 is retired Howard was a range engineer in the Corner and spends a month or more every year Navy’s anti-submarine armament in Florida collecting shells. She uses the By Sharon Bosserman-Benson technology. He holds a master’s degree Director of Planned Giving shells creating mosaic art, trading and in business administration from giving to the Oregon Shell Club. Her Pepperdine University. worldwide travels have taken her to Turkey, Israel, Jordan, the Scandanavian Karen Galbraith Hicks ‘63 retired in countries, Russia, the Philippines, 2003 as public services librarian at Panama, and Mexico. Judy’s first Concordia University in Portland, husband, Bud Smith ’63, is still missing ending a 36-year career in various library in action after his Air Force plane went positions in elementary school through down in Vietnam in 1968. college. She earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Lee Altig Beach ‘63 and husband Byron Denver. Heritage Society members Donna Macklin Beach ‘62 followed job paths to New Lawrence ’52 and Eloise Hannah Cole ’54 Jersey and Chicago before settling back Bob Backstrom ‘59, a retired CPA, lives with Sharon Bosserman-Benson, Lewis & in Oregon to run a lodging facility in in Palm Desert, California, with his wife Clark Director of Planned Giving Camp Sherman for 12 years. Lee then Verla. Bob’s twin brother Dick went to work full-time as a reporter for Backstrom ‘60, who also lived in Palm Do you have highly appreciated the Klamath Falls Herald & News. She Desert for many years, passed away stocks today? While we are all tried to retire four years ago but still earlier this year. glad to see the stock market helps out at the paper. Byron came out of rebound, the increased values retirement to take a dream job at the age Kay Jansen ‘55 and Jeannine Stanenko can pose capital gains tax of 60 at the Amtrak depot in Klamath ‘55 are off on a late summer cruise of the challenges. Falls. A train enthusiast, he now has a Black Sea and up the Danube River from Recently I worked with a 1945 garden railroad in the couple’s backyard. Budapest to Bucharest. Both Lee and Byron are grateful to the graduate who transferred to Bill Bitar ‘53 is still going strong after 55 college for opening so many doors of Lewis & Clark stock she had years in property management and knowledge to the world. purchased decades ago. development as president of Wm. Frank Bitar Associates in Portland. After In exchange for her gift, she sign- graduation, he worked briefly in the ed a simple agreement called a Keep in Touch grocery business before joining his dad “charitable gift annuity” whereby and uncle in a property development Lewis & Clark agrees to pay her an Share with your fellow alumni what you’re up to and where you are. It’s a great way firm that started in 1922 as Bitar Bros., annuity for life. selling groceries. That business has to renew friendships. Your submissions The donor avoided the capital may be edited and may be published in developed a number of McDonalds, gains tax, and received a con- The Lewis & Clark Chronicle, The Plaid Pantrys, Arbys, Chuck E. Cheeses, Gatehouse, and on the L&C website. siderable income tax deduction Send your Class Note to: business centers, and warehouses in the Portland metro area. In addition, the as well as a fixed 9 percent U.S. Mail: Office of Alumni and Parent Bitars’ Empire Construction Company annuity. When she is gone, the Programs - MSC 77 has built roads, sewers, and water remainder will go to support Lewis & Clark student scholarships, her favorite 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. utilities in Ketchikan and St. Petersburg, Portland, OR 97219-7899 Alaska. He is past president of the cause at Lewis & Clark. Web: go.lclark.edu/college/class_notes Parkrose Business Association, his If you have highly appreciated Rotary Club, and the Providence Child Phone: 503-768-7950 assets and want to suport your Care Center Advisory Board. Bill and his favorite Lewis & Clark program, Please remember to include your class wife, Margaret, have been married 49 please phone me at 800-753-9292 year and your address, phone number, and years, reside on Portland’s eastside, and to discuss tax-smart options. email address. have four daughters and six grandchildren. Memories!

Classes were dismissed and more than 200 students and faculty packed the departure gate area at the old Portland Airport on N.E. Marine Drive for a rousing sendoff for the 1950 football team. The undefeated Pioneers were boarding a chartered DC-3 airliner for a flight to Medford to face San Francisco State in the annual Shrine Pear Bowl game Thanksgiving weekend. The California team was 7-1 and the Far Western Conference champions. The Pioneers were 8-0 and had outscored five NWC foes,173-6. L&C won the Pear Bowl in a rout, 61-7.

Alumna Authors, Illustrates Book on Oregon Treasure Jan McNeil Boutin ‘63 will be “There are no words to adequately before the magnificent manor house among authors autographing books thank Jan for this beautiful creation,” and grounds became the college’s at the annual Oregon Historical Frank said. “I am in awe of her campus. Society Holiday Cheer celebration masterful storytelling and beautiful “Gerry Frank has a proud Sunday afternoon, December 1. sketches which capture the pride, American heritage,” Jan Boutin said. Jan will be there to sign her latest passion, dedication, and emotion of a “His family began as itinerant book, Oregon’s Own Gerry Frank: His fascinating chapter of Oregon peddlers and in two generations Family, Friends and Fond Memories. history.” built the largest department store in The book is the first biography of The stature of the book is under- the West and achieved the highest the gregarious and much-loved lined by letters of introduction by all office in the state.” His grand uncle, fourth generation Oregonian from five living Oregon governors. Julius Meier, was Oregon governor. the Meier & Frank department store Lewis & Clark alumni will find a Jan and her husband, Jim Boutin family. special connection in reading about ‘63, first team All-American basket- Jan, a fine arts and art history Gerry’s uncle, M. Lloyd Frank, who ball player for the Pioneers, split time major at Lewis & Clark, did all of the built the Fir Acres estate 17 years between their homes in Salem and at research, writing and illustrating of the beach at Neskowin. the book that tells Gerry Frank’s Her first two books were Historic story and much, much more. Neskowin Village-by-the-Sea and A It includes pages of stories about Cottage Walk through Historic and illustrations of the Meier and Neskowin Village. Frank families and traces the The Gerry Frank biography is evolution of the department store available at the Lewis & Clark that bore the name of both of Gerry’s Bookstore; Macy’s in downtown ancestors. Portland, Washington Square, and Frank, who served as U.S. Senator Salem; Made in Oregon Shops; and Mark O. Hatfield’s chief-of-staff for the Oregon Historical Society. In more than two decades and is an addition, it is on sale at the Capital accomplished writer and author in Bookstore, Willamette Heritage his own right, gave high praise for Center, and Gerry Frank’s the book. Jan and Jim Boutin Konditorei, all in Salem.

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College Pays Tribute to Former President Howard Lewis & Clark will recognize the consider- Room. able impact John R. Howard had on the “His legacy of intellectual and physical college during his two decades as president expansion of the college is quite noteworthy,” in an event Friday afternoon, November 1. said Dell Smith, professor emeritus who taught Howard, who passed away June 16 at the at the college during Howard’s presidency. age of 90, served as Lewis & Clark’s presi- “But his personal warmth and genuine dent from 1960 to 1981. feelings toward everyone connected with the A formal program in Agnes Flanagan college gives added impetus to this recogni- Chapel at 4 p.m. will be preceded by an tion.” exhibit of the Howard era in the Diane Gregg Smith, who is helping put together the Pavilion, opening at 3 p.m. recognition, said alumni, former faculty, staff, A reception will follow in Stamm Dining and friends of the college are invited to attend.

Wednesday, November 6 Saturday, February 22 Dates of Interest Black and Orange Parties around Annual Alumni Honors Banquet, To Senior Alumni the globe, 6 p.m. Stamm Dining Room. * Saturday, December 7 Tuesday, October 29 Thursday-Sunday, June 19-22 Holiday in the Manor House. Senior Alumni James W. Rogers Concert. Music of the Alumni Weekend. * Pacific Northwest, performed by Lewis & Social Hour, 5:30 p.m.; President’s Holiday Reception, 6:30 p.m.; followed by choral Clark’s choirs, wind symphony and Friday, August 2 performance in Agnes Flanagan Chapel, 8 p.m. gamelan, 8 p.m. Agnes Flanagan Chapel. Ninth annual Albany Society Barbeque, Friday, November 1 Friday-Saturday, February 7-8 Smith Hall, Albany Quadrangle. * President John R. Howard tribute William Stafford Centennial Celebration * Pre-registration is necessary and remembrance, Diane Gregg Pavilion, symposium, You Must Revise Your Life, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, 3-5 p.m. sponsored by the Northwest Writing Institute.