Vol. 43, No. 4, Arches Summer 2016

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Summer 2016

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UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 2016 ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS

Winners of the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards were announced at Summer Reunion on Sat., June, 11.

SERVICE TO PUGET SOUND Presented to a volunteer who has demonstrated extraordinary service to Puget Sound. Whether their alumni service includes involvement in the Alumni Council volunteer network or with academic or other university departments, these alumni have left an indelible mark on the university.

Thomas Leavitt ’71, J.D.’75, P’10, trustee emeritus | Seattle

(On the front cover) Tom has been an active member of the After completing his legal studies, Tom worked in private Puget Sound community since arriving on campus in 1968. practice for several years before leaving to devote his ener- As a student he organized campus discussions around end- gies to entrepreneurial ventures. He is the founder and prin- ing U.S. involvement in Vietnam, abolition of the draft, civil cipal of Leavitt Capital Companies and a founding member rights, and student involvement in university governance. of the board of directors of Puget Sound Bank. He is past He was the first ASUPS president to serve as an ex officio chair of the board of the Caroline Kline Galland Center for member of the board of trustees. He also was a member of the Aged, and he has served on the boards of the Epiphany the first class of the Puget Sound law school. School and the University of Washington Diabetes Research Council, among others. Later, Tom served on the inaugural UPS School of Law board of visitors, and as a member of the university’s board His son, Alex Leavitt, graduated from Puget Sound in 2010. In of trustees for 25 years. Over the course of those many 2014, Tom, his wife, Darcy Goodman J.D.’75, and their chil- years Tom served on every standing committee and was dren established the Leavitt Family Endowed Scholarship to selected for the search committees that hired presidents support students who are committed to community service. Pierce and Thomas.

YOUNG LOGGER SERVICE Recognizes a current student or recent graduate (within the past 10 years) whose contributions have resulted in programming that inspires young Loggers (alumni and/or current students) to engage more deeply in the rich alumni traditions and spirit of Puget Sound.

T’wina Franklin ’06, M.A.T.’07 | Fircrest, Wash.

T’wina exemplifies the phrase “always a Logger.” A current tan Development Council’s College Bound program, a board class agent, admission volunteer, and volunteer for the member of her children’s Parent Teacher Student Association, Tacoma alumni club, T’wina is also a founding member of a member of The Fund for Women and Girls board, City Club the Black Alumni Union. She has a passion for connecting of Tacoma board, and a cheerleading coach. She co-founded with students and has participated in the annual welcome Ladies First, an in-school and after-school program dedicated walk during orientation and served as a career mentor to to empowering and encouraging young women. students. T’wina helped plan youth events for the 2014 Race and T’wina is also incredibly active in the Tacoma community, Pedagogy Conference. In 2014 she was awarded the Wash- devoting her career to helping students prepare for college. ington Association of School Administrators Community In addition to her day job as director of the University Place Leadership Award for volunteerism with students in the School District, T’wina is also an instructor for the Metropoli- Tacoma Public Schools.

UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 2016 ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS

SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Recognizes alumni whose commitment, skill, and dedication have had a significant impact in their communities. Through voluntary service in artistic, recreational, educational, human service, or other worthy organizations, recipients of this award better the quality of life around them through service.

Teva Sienicki ’97 | Denver

For the past 14 years, Teva has served as president and is most proud of recent efforts to empower members of the CEO of Growing Home, a nonprofit the mission of which is community to work for systems changes that address root to build equality of opportunity and close the achievement causes of inequity. gap for low-income youth in suburban Denver. When she started working at Growing Home at age 28, the organiza- In 2015, Teva was awarded the Livingston Fellowship, a tion was a community shelter program for homeless fami- program that provides emerging nonprofit leaders with a lies, with two employees serving 30 families a year. Under $25,000 fellowship to further their education and profes- Teva’s leadership, Growing Home has become a leader in sional development. Teva was also one of 10 local leaders dual-generation, anti-poverty services in the Denver area, selected for the Full Pantries, Full Lives Leadership Institute, now with 32 employees serving more than 5,000 families a two-year fellowship project to encourage hunger-issue each year. During the past two years, Growing Home’s reforms in the Denver area. Teva served as chair of the neighborhood initiative has focused on high-needs elemen- governing board of the Early Childhood Partnership of tary school communities, to increase school readiness and Adams County for four years. She volunteers at her two reduce high mobility rates. In past years, Teva added a food sons’ schools and as a YMCA soccer coach. From 2003 to pantry and early-childhood intervention programs, but she 2005 she was the founding board chair of Civil Rights Now, a Colorado marriage-freedom nonprofit.

UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 2016 ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS

LIFETIME PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Recognizes alumni whose professional career and work exemplify the intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence that a Puget Sound education develops. Recipients have gained national or international recognition in their careers in a manner that reflects positively on the university.

Larry Gill ’60 | Seattle

When Larry was a Puget Sound student, Professor John Court of the United States. Larry worked directly with Prins signed him up for a debate tournament. Despite Chief Justice Warren Burger to design and implement a fear of public speaking, Larry showed a pronounced the first computerized case management system in any aptitude for rhetoric and went on to earn a J.D. at appellate court in the U.S., all while administering the Gonzaga University School of Law. He furthered his clerk’s office and managing approximately 10,000 cases education during two years in two different positions at per year. Next, the Supreme Court of California chose the Washington State Supreme Court: As chief deputy Larry from 300 applicants to be its chief clerk, the highest clerk he worked with Clerk Bill Lowry, managing and ranking judicial branch administrator in California. modernizing the operating procedure of the court. As law clerk to Justice Frank Hale, he participated in the research In his second career, Larry was selected by the National analysis and decision-making process of the court. He Park Service as one of 17 planners to work with U.S. then joined Peoples National Bank of Washington as a House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to systems analyst. develop the Presidio of San Francisco as a new national park. These days if you happen to spot a distinguished These experiences led to six years as chief clerk of court looking gentleman vrooming around Western Washington of the Washington State Court of Appeals–Division II, in a British racing green MG-B convertible it’s probably newly created by the Washington State Legislature. Larry Larry, enjoying the car, now restored, that he first bought found himself confronted with the unique opportunity to when studying in England in 1966. Or he might be found design and implement the procedures of a new appellate on Puget Sound piloting his sailboat, Gone with the Wind; court. In addition to these duties, Larry continued to or giving living-history programs at Fort Nisqually in Point design and implement other court-efficiency projects that Defiance Park, where he portrays pioneer lawyer Daniel lead to state and national attention, and this notice led Bigelow; or just playing in his garden. to an appointment as chief deputy clerk for the Supreme

(Interested in nominating someone for next year’s award? You can do that at pugetsound.edu/alumniawardnomination) photojournal by Ross Mulhausen JULY 1

First day on the job. Look for an introduction of President Crawford in the autumn edition of this magazine.

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SWING TIME

Seen late in the spring semester in the West Woods (near where the old A-frames used to be), when the weather at last turned warm and sunny after the seemingly interminable winter of 2016. In hand: James Watson’s The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. summer 2016 arches 3 photojournal

4 arches summer 2016 CAMPOUT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Students were active throughout the year in protests raising visibility and demanding action for social justice and climate change concerns. On April 28, members of Puget Sound ECO set up an encampment on Jones Circle to help emphasize their call for divestment from producers of fossil fuel. Following two years of study and discussion with students, investment managers, and others, the trustees shared with the campus community in May a statement on divestment and a commitment to six actions it will take. (You can read it here: pugetsound.edu/divestment.)

summer 2016 arches 5 the quad Four pages of thoughts, news, trends, and phenomena

THE COMMUNITY A fair chance Puget Sound has joined with the Obama administration and colleges and universities across the country as a founding partner in the Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge, which calls for the academic community to help eliminate barriers to education for people with a criminal record and create a pathway for a second chance. Puget Sound’s individual pledge con- firms “fair chance” practices already in place or in development at the college, including:

• Considering criminal justice questions only in the later TWINS! At Commencement this year there were not one, not two, not three, but four sets of twins in the part of the admission review graduating class: Rachel and Rebeka Glover, from Hawai’i and California; majors: German international studies, and giving all prospective and German language and literature. Nihal and Dina Mustakim, from Nevada; majors: psychology and art. Joshua and Alissa Nance, from Oregon; majors: computer science and English. Elaina and Samuel Friedman, students an opportunity to from Oregon; majors: English and economics. explain any criminal justice involvement.

• Continuing the Freedom Education Project Puget ALUMNI THE WEB Sound, in which 23 profes- Staying in touch with Archives of The Trail, sors are teaching college- other Loggers just now online: level classes at the Wash- got easier ington Corrections Center soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ The college has enhanced its online for Women in Gig Harbor. thetrail offerings for alumni with two new FEPPS was founded in 2013 In continuous publication since the 1890s, ways to help you keep in touch: by UPS profs Tanya Erzen, The Trail offers a wealth of information Stuart Smithers, and Robin not only on campus life but on local and • Find friends in the Logger Alumni Jacobson, and The Evergreen national news events. John Finney 67, Directory—now with new features State College’s Gilda Shep- P’94, retired university registrar and a like search options and the ability pard. Currently 140 women volunteer college archivist, said, “During to update your contact and profile at the prison are enrolled in much of its early existence, The Trail information. college classes taught by circulated not only on campus but throughout the City faculty from Puget Sound of Tacoma. This wide readership drew strong advertising support from • Free @alumni.pugetsound.edu and Evergreen-Tacoma, throughout the area, allowing the historic Trail collection to serve as a cat- email address. Pacific Lutheran, Tacoma alog of Tacoma businesses and commerce through the decades.” Community College, and Not yet signed up? Have ques- UW Tacoma. Credit toward Other university publications now clickable include The Puget Sound tions? Contact Haley Harshaw in an associate of arts degree Alumnus alumni magazine (from the 1930s to the 1970s), a number the alumni office at 253-879-3451 is granted through TCC; the of historical texts written by former university presidents R. Franklin or [email protected]. first four incarcerated women Thompson and Edward H. Todd, and early editions of the course catalog. Check out the many ways to stay to earn A.A. degrees gradu- Also in the collection are more than 70 recently discovered short films connected by visiting ated on June 14. shot on campus and in Tacoma over the past several decades. pugetsound.edu/alumni.

6 arches summer 2016 STUDENT RESEARCH off the island. There was no indication that the animals Playtime were running off to hide, and they did not increase anti-predator “sentry” behaviors, so a large audience This past spring students in biology prof Stacey Weiss’ was not particularly stressful for the animals. The stu- Animal Behavior class designed an enrichment item dents also wanted to see if a large audience increased for the meerkats at Point Defiance Zoo: a kiddie pool social behaviors, as has been observed in captive prai- full of whiffle balls (no water) that was presented rie dogs. A big crowd did not increase social grooming to the animals with and without mealworms. When or play. In terms of keeper effects, the students found mealworms were included, the worms haphazardly fell that the keeper on duty does affect meerkat activity from an elevated plate into the ball pit below. and location preferences, which was interpreted as a good thing, since it provides more variation in the The students conducted 20 one-hour observation meerkats’ experience. sessions and noted that the enrichment item success- fully increased meerkat locomotion and investigation, Kaylana Patterson ’17 is presenting the class’ study among other behaviors. It drew them away from the results at the national Animal Behavior Society meet- THE CAMPUS “island” in the exhibit, which tends to be a place of ing in Columbia, Mo., in August. rest. One to four meerkats were in the enrichment Welcome to item at any given time, and their interest in it lasted Thomas Hall the entire hour that it was made available. At first, the The college made it official meerkats played in the “pool” whether or not meal- during Reunion Weekend: worms were offered, but later their interest dropped The former Commencement off unless the worms were present, which suggests Hall, the 2013 building that is that long-term effectiveness will require using the a hybrid living/learning space, enrichment item with a food reward of some kind. was renamed Thomas Hall, in honor of President Ron and Students also investigated the effect of human-animal Mary Thomas. The building interactions on the meerkats, including the effect was a signature project of of visitors at the exhibit windows and whether the President Thomas’s tenure. keeper on duty affects meerkat activity levels and location preferences. A larger crowd drew the meerkats The trustees also passed a resolution honoring Ron Thomas with the titles of SEEN AND HEARD president emeritus, trustee emeritus, and professor of “One of the dominant themes running through [Thucydides’] text is the English emeritus. President notion that human beings are motivated primarily by three factors: fear, Thomas completed his ser- honor, and self-interest. Especially during wartime, when faced with a vice as the 13th president of Puget Sound on June 30. choice between doing the right thing and doing what is in one’s own

interest, states invariably choose the latter. … War brings passion to OUR TOWN

the fore, and the more difficult things get during war, the more people Seen on Facebook: “Stadium respond with anger, rather than with reason. Indeed, in Thucydides’ High School is the closest thing to view, people who attempt to use reason in wartime are at a disadvantage, Hogwarts in the U.S.” because others will act, often treacherously, while they attempt to think about how to escape from danger.” — Eric Orlin, professor of and chair classics, from his essay “Why Thucydides Is (Sadly) So Relevant Right Now,” which compared today’s international political landscape with ancient Greek thinking, in History News Network online, April 11

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AT COLLEGE but to me the fact that I wasn’t silently screaming is AWARDED further proof that I am coming into my adult self. Funded undergrad What doesn’t kill ya … and postgraduate Coming home after your first My new confidence and maturity are the hard-won fellowships for 2016: year of college is like mea- results of surviving some difficult experiences at Miriam Cook ’14, Fulbright suring your height against a school this past year. One challenge I overcame was English Teaching Assistant pencil-marked wall—it’s only the dreaded math core requirement. I have dyscalculia Award (Mexico); then that you realize how much (like dyslexia for math), and math has always been my Marika Proctor ’14, Fulbright you’ve grown. Back home in personal kryptonite. In a bid for self-preservation, I London Academy of Music and Humboldt County, Calif., this chose to take Intro to Contemporary Mathematics, a Dramatic Art (U.K.) (alternate); summer, I keep finding unex- basic course filled with English and art majors. Even Amy Bodner ’16, Critical pected markers of how far so, I spent hours struggling to make sense of equa- Language Scholarship (China); I’ve come. tions through frustrated tears. The professor once Nathan Bradley ’16, Boren actually paused mid-lecture to say, “Maya, don’t look Fellowship (China); As I drive down the country roads where I had my first so scared!” Despite my efforts, for the first time in my French Government Teaching wobbly experiences behind the wheel, I am reminded life, I got an F on a test. Thankfully I was able to get Assistant Award: Piper how much my driving has improved since I was 15. some tutoring to help me understand the concepts and Gazeley ’16 (Poitiers), Now, as I round the tight curve of a freeway off-ramp, Galen King ’16 (Montpel- rescue my GPA. lier), Ryan Quinn ’16 (Lille), there is only a faint memory of those terrifying seconds Karina Vasavada ’16 (Lille), when I stalled there during driving lessons. Late in the semester, I came down with a fever, chills, Ashley Malin ’16 (Greno- headaches, a sore throat, and utter exhaustion. When ble), Maddie Grossan ’16 In high school the thought of job interviews terrified I dragged myself to CHWS a week before finals, they (wait-listed); me. But in May, when I walked into an interview with diagnosed me with “mono.” I thought my semester Meghan Bacher ’17 SCRAP Humboldt, an organization that promotes cre- was doomed. I talked to my professors, however, and and Chili Johnson ’17, ative reuse, I was almost too distracted by the bins of Goldwater Scholarship for they extended the deadlines for my final papers and test tubes, lace remnants, and circuit boards to worry senior-year studies in science, tests so I had more time to recover. mathematics, or engineering; about making a good impression. After the interview, I Sarah Mueller ’17, Goldwater was happy to be offered the job at their kids’ summer This summer I plan to challenge my comfort zone yet Honorable Mention. camp. again by traveling to Japan with my family for three weeks. While I have always dreamed of visiting (and Another area where I noticed my growth was at the have relatives in) Japan, I have never been there. My dentist’s office. Ever since a painful tooth extraction family and I plan to visit the 320-year-old Makino family STATS when I was 7, I have dreaded going to the dentist. This sake distillery and family temple, hike in the Japanese Number of UPS alumni despite the fact that my childhood dentist played Disney Alps, and eat a ridiculous amount of ramen noodles. by decade: movies on a screen above the chair and offered me plastic rings and temporary tattoos. The trip may be difficult at times, but I am looking DECADE NO. OF forward to more challenges and the growth they bring. GRADS This summer I was too old for the children’s dentist. But Even though my wall tells me that I have been 5 feet 1920–29 2 during my first appointment with the adult dentist, as I 9 inches since the 10th grade, it feels like I’ve grown chatted with the friendly hygienist, my stomach stayed 1930–39 23 several feet since I left for college a year ago. free of anxious butterflies. It may seem like no big deal, — Maya Makino ’19, Arches intern 1940–49 313

1950–59 1,301 SUMMER SPORTS 1960–69 3,304 Alexis plays with the U.S. team SAVE THE DATE! for the second consecutive year, 1970–79 6,915 We note with pride that Alexis Noren ’17, Samone Jackson while Coach Payne takes the 1980–89 6,953 ’19, and women’s basketball helm of the squad. This is the Homecoming + 1990–99 6,772 Head Coach Loree Payne third consecutive summer the Family Weekend were in Brazil with the Divi- Loggers have been represented 2000–09 6,625 A weekend for students, alumni, parents, and friends. sion III Women’s Basketball on the USA D-3 women’s basket- 2010–16 4,662 Team starting on July 19. ball team. OCT. 20–22, 2016

8 arches summer 2016 RETIRED SEEN AND HEARD Doug Cannon, professor of philosophy “We don’t know where that Duane Hulbert, professor of conversation could have come from.” music — Erin Colbert-White, assistant professor of Judith Kay, professor of religion psychology, on the website LiveScience, in an article Betsy Kirkpatrick, professor of about whether an African grey parrot that allegedly biology witnessed a murder in Michigan can give spoken Martins Linauts, clinical evidence at a court trial. Professor Colbert-White’s associate professor of research interests include animal cognition, the occupational therapy origins of language, and language-like behavior Bruce Mann, professor of by nonhumans. She has written about how parrots use speech to regulate and manipulate social economics relationships with their owners.

Heidi Orloff, professor of The murder case involves Martin Duram, 45, who was found dead from five gunshot wounds in May exercise science 2015. His wife, Glenna Duram, 48, is a suspect. The Duram family owned a parrot named Bud at the Don Share, professor of politics time of the murder. Several weeks after Duram died, Bud was heard speaking in both male and female and government voices as if having a conversation, the Detroit Free Press reported. The parrot, in a man’s voice, said, “Get out,” followed by the woman’s voice saying, “Where will I go?” The man's voice answered, “Don’t f---ing shoot,” the Free Press reported. At issue is whether a parrot can learn a phrase that it has heard only once.

Loggerhythms by Roger Dahl ’75

Made in 3D: The elephant came off the printer complete with movable legs and trunk.

COOL GIZMOS Beyond ink on paper When the college Print and Copy Services office acquired a 3D printer we were eager to see what folks around here would dream up to make with it. A year later we’re beginning to find out. Ginene Alexander ’77, manager of PCS, says the MakerBot 3D printer has landed a mixture of jobs from faculty, staff, and students. Among them, presentation “touchables” such as a magnified ice crystal, a molecular model, a prehistoric sea creature, and a prosthetic hand. Personal-use jobs have included a bracelet and bicycle parts. The print shop charges $5 per hour for the service, plus a small fee for the media.

summer 2016 arches 9 from the archives The campus carillon Bells of one kind or another have been tolling on the Puget Sound campus since the 1930s

he vessel Heather carried the college’s first bell across the waters of Com- mencement Bay from Browns Point onT Nov. 29, 1933. Cast in Pennsylvania in 1855, the bell had served in coastal stations on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and on Puget Sound until, with the automation of the Browns Point lighthouse, President Edward Todd acquired the bell for the college. The bell was placed prominently in the Jones Hall first-floor foyer and was dedicated during Founders’ and Patrons’ Day celebrations on Feb. 20, 1934. Speaking about the history of the bell on that occasion was longtime Browns Point lighthouse keeper Oscar V. Brown. After the excitement surrounding its arrival and dedication died down, the bell languished for 13 years as a static object of admiration only in Jones Hall, although it was sometimes struck for effect on special occasions. Then during the winter of 1947 “PLC [Pacific Lutheran College] students called attention to [the bell] by trying to steal it,” according to The Trail. They failed because the bell weighed 1,100 pounds, but the next summer a heavy wooden gallows structure and small enclosure, located along the wooden sidewalk between Jones Hall and the Music Building, was built to house the bell outdoors. A mechanism was attached to regularize the bell’s tolling. Sometime during 1948 the bell house was painted with graffiti alluding to its resemblance to an outhouse. For a few short years the bell regularly pealed across the campus, but early in the In November 1953, Dean of Faculty and Professor 1950s, when water damaged the electrical of Philosophy John Regester and Professor of mechanism and the bell cracked beyond Music J. Bruce Rodgers examine the campus bell, repair, it was relegated to ignominious stor- here sitting in a corner of the carpenters’ shop age with other campus detritus beneath the in the former South Hall. The bell was cast in carpenters’ shops in South Hall. During the Pennsylvania in 1855 and warned ships of danger 1980s Puget Sound returned the old bell in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and in Puget Sound to Browns Point, where it resides today in until 1933, when the college acquired it. This Browns Point Lighthouse Park, watched over image appears in the 1954 Tamanawas. by the Points Northeast Historical Society.

10 arches summer 2016 Jeff Strong ’76

The first bell stucture stood along the Arthur Lynde Bigelow, bellmaster of The five cabinets containing the 61 wooden walkway between Jones Hall and Princeton University, plays the dedicatory “carillonic bells” from 1954, the 1982 the Music Building and housed the campus concert of the new Howard R. Kilworth Schulmerich digital tape carillon, and the bell between 1947 and 1953. Memorial Carillon, Nov. 12, 1954. keyboard console for the 1982 carillon.

In November 1954 Puget Sound acquired dedicatory concert. The concert began the difference. Today’s carillon resides in the a magnificent set of bells, thanks to the gen- with Puget Sound’s alma mater and ended upper reaches of Collins Memorial Library. erosity of trustee chair William W. Kilworth with “Old Nassau,” Princeton’s alma mater. It rings the hours of the day and for many (for whom Kilworth Chapel is named), when George Schulmerich himself traveled from years played various tunes at noon and at 5 he gave to the college the Howard R. Kil- Pennsylvania for the carillon’s installation and p.m. There is no longer a keyboard console worth Memorial Carillon, in memory of his dedication. for live concerts. On May 9, 2016, the tunes brother. The 61-bell Arlington model carillon While a marvel for its time, the carillon at noon were replaced by the daily playing of was manufactured by Schulmerich Carillons had mechanical properties that allowed it the alma mater, which had not pealed across Inc. of Sellersville, Pa. Still selling carillons to be fiddled with. In 1975 Jeff Strong ’76, campus for many years. today, the Schulmerich company remains P’11, P’13 figured out how to increase from But what about that other bell on cam- proud that “founder George Schulmerich 12 to 13 the number of times the bell tolled pus, you ask, the one in Kilworth Chapel? discovered that tiny rods of cast bronze at noon. It was the perfect campus prank, as It rings occasionally, for some services and struck with miniature hammers produced the carillon tolled 13 times every noon there- weddings. Kilworth’s bell is ancient. Made barely audible, but pure, bell tones, and after for several years. (Read the whole story in 1718 in Sheffield, England, the bell has that these sounds could be amplified elec- in the spring 2006 Arches at pugetsound.edu/ rung on ships and in churches and was used tronically to produce a rich, sonorous tone.” chimeagain). as a dinner bell by the Henry Vollmer family Schulmerich called these small, cast bronze Then, about 1979, the carillon fell before the Vollmers gave it to Puget Sound. bells “carillonic bells,” and these were the abruptly silent, apparently unrepairable. A few months ago I teamed up with bells in the college’s new carillon. No bells or chimes marked the passing of Jeff Strong—yes, that Jeff Strong, he of The “bells” and electronic mechanisms the hours and no joyous live concerts lifted 13-chimes-at-noon fame. Jeff is now well were housed in cabinets in an unfinished campus spirits until 1982, when a newer- into his fourth decade as a Puget Sound space at the north end of the third floor of generation Schulmerich carillon mechanism employee in the technology services depart- the then-new Music Building. The electroni- replaced the original. The 1982 carillon con- ment. When I showed him a 1954 pho- cally amplified “pure bell tones” were broad- tinued to use the bronze “carillonic bells” of tograph of George Schulmerich with the cast from special horns on the roof of Collins the ’54 model, but the “instructions” to ring original carillon, Jeff said, “I think it might Memorial Library. The carillon chimed the the bells came from digital tapes rather than still be there—that old carillon—in the hours and, in addition, was an instrument the earlier mechanism. A new keyboard con- Music Building!” We had to go see. Jeff and of the music faculty. Each Sunday at 2 p.m. sole replaced the original. Through the 1980s I found archaeological gold in room 301, a music professor John Cowell sat at the caril- and 1990s, music professor Edward Hansen large, secure janitor’s closet. The five cabinets lon’s keyboard console in the Music Building performed occasional live concerts, including containing the original 61 bronze “carillonic and gave half-hour live concerts. The Sunday for the university’s 1988 centennial. bells” hang on the wall today as they have concerts continued well into the 1970s. The After almost two decades of use, the since 1954. The 1954-era mechanical control carillon also played prerecorded music, much 1982 carillon became unreliable and ceased cabinets that Jeff reprogrammed in 1975 are like a player piano, from the 150 vinyl rolls operations for days at a time. In the fall of gone, but the 1982 digital tape control cabi- in the music department’s collection. The 2001 the college acquired a newer-generation nets remain, as does the keyboard console on alma mater played every day. Schulmerich carillon, the Campanile Digital which Edward Hansen played live concerts. At the Nov. 12, 1954, dedication cere- AutoBell Instrument. This carillon is what All of this equipment is obsolete, unused, mony the carillon’s keyboard console was we hear today. It is essentially a computer. and dignified in dusty repose. That it is still moved to the Music Building’s recital Bronze “carillonic bells” are no longer struck. there is to me amazing and fantastic. It’s why hall, where Princeton University bellmas- Nevertheless, the music made sounds just I do this. ter Arthur Lynde Bigelow played a live like real bells, and most people cannot tell — John Finney ’67, P’94

summer 2016 arches 11 commencement

What is it, to have a mind? Judith Kay, professor of religion, retired this spring after 23 years at the college. She gave this address to graduating seniors at Academic Convocation, May 14, the afternoon before Commencement.

As you and I each bring our years at Puget endings to old tales. Minds channel the flow helped you examine. Think of the progress Sound to a close, I thought it appropriate of information to craft a unique response to women have made in asking the question, to reflect on the life of the mind we have every situation. what is true about us as women and what is shared here. What is it, to have a mind? In a Embodiment, embeddedness, and open- not? And yet look at how much confusion minute I will examine three signs of having ness are characteristics of all minds. One sign remains! Your generation has been asking one: knowing one’s mind; making up one’s of having a mind is knowing one’s own mind. related questions—what is true (or not) mind; and changing one’s mind. But first, I We at Puget Sound have wanted you to about transgender people or those who iden- invite you to ponder three characteristics of know your mind—one that is precious; one tify as queer? It is not that we have to know all minds: embodiment, embeddedness, and worth fighting for. We have wanted you to the answer to such questions but rather to openness. know what you think, and to express your- keep asking. As we leave the university, I The mind is embodied, but is not encased self with sound evidence and argument. We hope you and I can remain fierce in asserting in the skull. We academics tend to think of have sought to regard your mind as uniquely the liberatory potential of distinguishing ourselves as minds from the neck up, but yours alone and deserving of respect, not as between reality and pseudo-reality. in actuality the mind includes the extended an object to commodify, exploit, or pacify Many of us at Puget Sound have wanted sets of neurons around our hearts, down our with addictions. you to come to know your minds in yet spines, and in our intestines. Minds receive Knowing your own mind requires another way. Where is your mind vulnera- a flow of sensations, from the feel of our feet courage—to think for yourself, to refuse to ble to prejudice or powerful emotions from on the floor to the movements of emotion fall for seductive fantasies spun by global the past? Where does your mind hit road- and memory. It is with our whole, integrated capitalism. blocks, grind to a halt, and stop thinking? body that we do our best thinking. The Knowing your mind is not the same as Fortunately, the answers to such questions embodied mind is not static but a process respecting every thought. Aristotle reminds are different for each of us, so that rarely do always in motion. Things that stop a mind us that the mark of wisdom is being able to we all cease thinking at the same time. But dead in its tracks are antithetical to its inher- entertain a thought without accepting it. commonalities exist among various groups. ent dynamism. Some thoughts are tailor-made for the cir- Academics are not immune to occasionally Our minds are embedded in external cumstance; others are like fruit bats that have losing our minds. We have been trained webs of relationships. We are designed to taken up unwanted lodging. Knowing your to use our minds as weapons against weak connect with other minds. We thrive if we mind requires distinguishing fresh thinking arguments or inadequate evidence. Yet we are seen by another’s mind and learn to see from fruit bats. But how to do this? academics are vulnerable to the bad habit theirs. Perhaps you experienced this in class One way is to ask the question: Is there of using our minds as weapons against peo- or in a discussion late at night—not neces- a distinction between what moves things ple—to belittle, humiliate, or defeat. We sarily a meeting of the minds. More like the forward for yourselves, all humans, and the in academia talk, too often, about bright sense that your mind was appreciated and planet, and the confusions, misinformation, minds and dull minds as if there really were understood by someone in tune with you but and practices that harm and maim? It is inherent differences. We refer to the alleged distinct from you. Our embeddedness pulls up to your mind to discern the difference “best minds” as if everyone’s mind were not a us out of our preoccupations and prepares us between reality and appearances, between thing of wonder and power. As you go forth to engage fully with others. truth and semblances. But first you have into your next adventure, do not mimic our Our minds are open systems, like our to be committed to the idea that there is a habits of arrogance and exclusion. Notice the beloved planet. This openness creates room difference, and then be willing to ask the next time you regard someone as less intelli- for novelty, unpredictability, surprise, and question. gent, and stop. innovation. Thus, minds are more than Puget Sound has sought to create the We each need to know where minds embodied and embedded networks trans- conditions for you to embrace the impor- are tied down by the past rather than fully mitting energy. Minds create associations tance of this question. Take, for example, engaged with the present. When we know and symbolic patterns; they make meaning. any group that has suffered from oppres- where our minds are tempted to stop Minds can weave coherent stories from vast sion—which includes everyone in this room, thinking, we are more likely to resist those amounts of complex data and envision new a claim I hope your education here has forces that might otherwise snare us into

12 arches summer 2016 cooperating with the squandering of our divide into one or more basic kinds? If Puget come to accept a perspective that countered planet. Knowing your mind is the first place Sound has led you to ponder such fundamen- deep, early training. How had this change come of resistance. But thoroughgoing resistance tal choices in your orientation to the world, about? I could not retrace the steps in this pro- requires decision. we have done well. found reorientation of my mind, but there it A second sign of having a mind is making A mind made up is a powerful thing. was. And I am still glad for it. up one’s mind. John Keats once said that the It is among the most formidable powers Many of us at Puget Sound have encour- only means of strengthening one’s intellect is humans have. Making up your mind requires aged you to change your mind intentionally, to to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let integrity—to act on your core commitments pour attention on those stubborn spots that do the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. in the face of adversity. Action is how we learn not yield easily to reason. Sometimes there are Keats presumes that making up one’s mind whether we are moving forward or sliding things we’d rather never think about, such as brings constriction or limitation. He suggests backward. And if we find ourselves oddly our personal defeats, or the history of our peo- that it means an inability, or worse, a refusal, aligned with forces of fear, reaction, division, ple defeating another people. Many of you have to entertain new ideas. I mean something and greed, it is up to us to self-correct. And had your minds changed by studying geno- quite different; something closer to Hannah self-correct, we can. cides, enslavements, or how gender boxes are Arendt, who wrote: “The sad truth is that A third sign of having a mind is changing it. ruthlessly enforced. Isn’t it interesting how our most evil is done by people who never make George Bernard Shaw quipped that progress minds are changed when engaged with reality, up their minds to be good or evil.” Not is impossible without change, and those who no matter how harsh, whereas we get nowhere making up your mind usually means flowing cannot change their minds cannot change ruminating over fruit bats, fears, and fantasies? passively with the status quo. One choice anything. A mind made up need not be a In conclusion, our minds need minding. point about which we should make up our mind that refuses to notice that new circum- Lifelong learning is a battle for your mind. Be minds is whether there are one or more kinds stances require fresh approaches. vigilant. Greedy profiteers would love for you of humans—those born innocent and those Education often changes our minds with- to lose your mind to the fruit bats. Don’t be born evil; those who are smart and those who out deliberate intention. During my junior seduced. Attention is a precious resource. Invest are not. Yes, we are all different and unique year of college, I recall vividly almost falling it wisely. Know your mind. Make up your and wonderful—but do we as a species out of my chair when I recognized that I had mind. And don’t be afraid to liberate it.

summer 2016 arches 13 by Mike Veseth ’72

Illustrations by Chandler O’Leary

14 arches summer 2016 felt right at home when I walked through the doors of Book Larder, a culinary bookshop in Seattle’s Fremont district, even though I had never been there before. High on the wall I saw a poster for Oysters, Puget Sound alumna Cynthia Nims’ (’86) new cookbook. Clearly I was in Ithe right place for a gathering of Seattle-area Logger alumni organized by Deb Bachman Crawford ’80 and Conner Gehring ’10 and their friends. “Wine Is a Liberal Art” was the title of my talk. Wine can be studied as history, as culture, as art (think wine-label art), and from the standpoint of religion. Growing wine grapes involves geology, geography, and biology. Making wine is both an art and a science, and selling it is an important business. Opening a bottle of wine and sharing it with friends is like opening a door to a world of ideas, expressions, and experiences, which is what the liberal arts do as well. Maybe that’s why so many Puget Sound graduates are drawn to wine as enthusiasts, and a surprising number have chosen to make careers in wine—growing the grapes, crafting the wine, distribut- ing and marketing the finished product, and helping people enjoy it now or collect it for the future.

Discovering a career in wine left Gallo to be CEO of Earth20, a leading Oregon water Joe Davis ’82, for example, fell in love with the Pinot Noir company, but not before he led Gallo’s invasion of Euro- wines of Burgundy when he worked at a local wine shop as pean markets in Ireland, Germany, and the U.K. Jeremy a Puget Sound student. Thus inspired he co-founded Arca- Soine ’96 is another Puget Sound-Gallo alumnus. He led dian Winery on California’s Central Coast. Holden Sapp the team that made Gallo’s Barefoot wine the best-selling ’10 also discovered wine in college (he took a class from brand in the U.S. before joining with one of the Sebas- me), and now he works in wine tourism in Napa Valley and tianis to make Krave Jerky a great success. collaborates with his college buddy Kylor Williams ’08 on Puget Sound graduates are everywhere in the wine various wine and cider projects. Wine is in Kylor’s DNA; world, but unsurprisingly the greatest concentration is both his mother (Julie Johnson of Tres Sabores) and father in the Pacific Northwest. Peggy Reinhart Patterson ’73, (John Williams of Frog’s Leap Winery) are prominent M.Ed.’74 is considered a Washington wine pioneer, for winemakers. example. Her Hoodsport Winery was part of the early Patrick Egan ’03 didn’t so much discover wine as it (in renaissance of wine in this region in the 1970s. I think the form of Burgundian winemaker Jean-Charles Boisset) she is the only winemaker who still uses the Island Belle discovered him. Jean-Charles tells me that when he met grape variety that was grown on the islands of Puget Patrick a few years ago he immediately recognized his tal- Sound before Prohibition. Her surprising dry rhubarb ent and creative potential (no surprise to his Puget Sound wine was a hit with the Seattle alumni crowd. classmates and professors). Patrick is now director of mar- David Rosenthal ’01 had just been hired as an assis- keting for Boisset Family Estates, which includes Raymond tant winemaker at Chateau Ste. Michelle when I saw Vineyards in the Napa Valley and De Loach and Buena him at a conference called Riesling Rendezvous eight Vista wineries in Sonoma County. Patrick helped organize a years ago. Since then his responsibilities have grown, fantastic Puget Sound alumni gathering at Raymond a few and he was recently named head of white wines at Ste. years ago. Michelle, which is a remarkable achievement. He makes For many years the world’s largest wine company tar- the largest volume of white wines in Washington and, I geted the University of Puget Sound in its search for its think, the most Riesling wines of any winemaker in the fast-track executive program. Steve Emery ’87 eventually world.

summer 2016 arches 15 16 arches summer 2016 Hitting the alumni wine trail Red Mountain: Corvus, Hedges, So those are a few UPS grads who are work- and a secret ing in the wine business, but there are many Next, we’re headed for Red Mountain, Wash- more. Why don’t we go on a virtual alumni ington’s smallest and most distinctive wine winery road trip, I asked my Seattle audience? area and an important Logger wine destina- We can’t possibly visit them all, but we can hit tion. As you head onto the mountain keep a few of my personal favorites and see how our your eyes peeled for the Corvus Cellars sign. fellow alumni have combined their passion for Corvus is the project of Randall ’89 and Jen- wines with their liberal arts backgrounds. nifer (Moore) ’91 Hopkins, and their vineyard The alumni audience was ready to roll, so on Red Mountain supplies the grapes they we motored off in our imaginary van out of make into wine at their cellar and tasting Seattle headed east on I-90. We drove along room in Walla Walla. Randall fell in love with until we arrived in Ellensburg, which would wine and Red Mountain and got training at (including wine) in Asia. While in Taiwan have been our first stop, to see Amy Griffin WSU to make his dream a reality. The vine- he got a call from a Swedish connection. Mumma ’89 until she moved to the south yard includes a house (“Casa Corvus”) that Systembolaget, the Swedish national liquor of France. Amy founded and for 15 years you can rent for the weekend or longer if you monopoly (and at the time the world’s largest directed the global wine studies program want a memorable vineyard experience. Hard wine retailer), was interested in sourcing a at Central Washington University, which to imagine anything better than watching the Bordeaux-blend-type wine from Washing- trains professionals for Washington’s dynamic sun go down over the valley sipping a glass of ton. Could Tom help out? A few phone calls wine industry. But then in 2013 she was Corvus SPS (a Syrah-Petite Sirah blend). later Tom had become what the French call a approached to teach in France, and her love Drive further along the road and you will negoçiant, arranging for quality Washington of that country carried her away to Provence, find yourself in the vineyards of Michael ’82, wine to be blended and bottled under the where she now has a perfume business called P’13 and Lauri Corliss P’13, which supply Hedges name. The wines were a hit—pav- Fragrances of Wine. grapes for their wineries in Walla Walla and ing the way for other Washington wines in Now we have to make a choice. North or for many other producers, too. Some of European markets—and pretty soon Tom and south? North takes us to Lake Chelan, where these grapes go into a new wine called Secret Anne-Marie were planting vines and building Robin Wade Hansen’s (’09) family has built Squirrel—something of an under-the-radar their chateau on Red Mountain. a spectacular winery and tasting room. Their hit in Seattle and Tacoma because of its great Fielding Hills wines are some of the best in quality-price ratio and, of course, because it’s, Walla Walla is Logger wine country the state. When wine critic Paul Gregutt made well, a secret, which is just plain fun. Michael Back on the freeway, we have set our GPS his selection of 20 “five star” Washington and fellow alumnus George Matelich ’78 for Walla Walla, another Logger alumni wine wineries, the list included Leonetti, Quilceda partnered a couple of years ago to purchase hotspot. Winding through the Tri-Cities, look Creek, and Fielding Hills. Tasting these wines, the legendary but badly neglected Blackwood for Highway 12 heading east. As you pass looking across Lake Chelan, is too good to Canyon vineyard on Red Mountain and are Lowden, watch for the spot where the road miss. The Cabernet Franc is my favorite. working to renew and restore this important splits, and get off the sleek new highway and Looping back, we head south past Yakima. resource. onto Old Highway 12. It is the slower but There, a few miles north of Grandview, you Keep driving on Red Mountain and you better route for us, and before you know it will find not a winery but a vineyard that was will arrive at last at Hedges Family Estate, the you’ll see a couple of repurposed potato sheds planted by Dick Boushey ’73 in 1980. It is first Logger winery here. Tom Hedges ’73 and and a sign that says Reininger Cellars. one of 20 “grand cru” vineyards in the state, his French wife, Anne-Marie, were pioneers Chuck ’82 and Tracy (Tucker) ’81 according to Gregutt, and Boushey is a lead- on Red Mountain, and their Hedges and Reininger didn’t start out to create a winery ing figure in Washington viticulture. He was value-priced CMS wines are well known any more than Tom Hedges, but that’s what named Winegrower of the Year by the Wash- to wine enthusiasts in the Northwest and happened. Chuck was a mountain guide after ington Wine Commission in 2002 and U.S. around the world. If you stop at the winery, leaving Puget Sound, but soon he and Tracy Grower of the Year by Wine & Spirits maga- which really looks like a French chateau, were drawn back by family ties to Walla Walla, zine in 2007. If you see the Boushey Vineyard make a point to taste the Syrah that honors which back then was nothing like the boom- designation on a bottle of wine (his customers Anne-Marie’s family, and ask about the new ing wine destination that it is today. Chuck include Betz Family, Chinook, DeLille, Bun- biodynamic Cabernet Sauvignon. became a talented winemaker, and together nell Family, and other top wineries), you can Tom Hedges didn’t start out to make he and Tracy have grown a business, a family, bet it is good. They say that wine is made wine. A business major at Puget Sound, he and a community here. Their Reininger wines in the vineyard and if that’s true, then Dick got an international M.B.A. at the Thunder- are known for their elegance and have received Boushey is responsible for some of the best bird School in Arizona and started on a career top ratings from famous critics. The Reininger wines around. selling Washington agricultural products Carménère is one of my favorites.

summer 2016 arches 17 Reininger’s Helix line of wines are great the weeds under control in the most values and have a loyal following. Most natural way possible. Tranche is a growing people think the name derives from the little concern, with beautiful vineyards and a new snail on the label, and it does—the Burgun- production facility and tasting room. The dian snail comes from the Helix genus. But wines are all distinctive. I recently tasted a it really pays tribute to Tracy’s grandparents delicious Tranche Rosé, and my particular who met, married, and farmed in nearby Tranche favorite is their Celilo Vineyard Helix, Ore. Love of family and respect for Chardonnay. It just might be the best the agricultural traditions of this region are Chardonnay in Washington. part of what makes the Reininger Cellars Now we are heading west into and Helix wines so special. downtown Walla Walla, which is full of Now double back to the new road and tasting rooms these days (including one that look for the Waterbrook Winery sign. pours the Precept wines). The Cadaretta Waterbrook is part of Precept Wines, Wash- Winery tasting room is easy to spot, and the ington’s largest privately held wine company. wines are delicious. Cadaretta is a project Precept was founded in 2003 by Andrew of the Middleton family, who have too Browne ’91. Andrew, who is president and many Puget Sound connections to name. CEO, has had an impressive career in wine, The Middletons have been in the natural working for Southern Wine & Spirits, Cha- resource business at least since 1898, when teau St. Jean, Associated Vintners, Corus the firm of Anderson & Middleton was Brands, and Constellation before starting founded in the Aberdeen, Wash., area to Precept. Waterbrook is the flagship winery harvest timber and ship it south to San in a portfolio that includes Canoe Ridge, Francisco. One of the steamships that they Sagelands, Washington Hills, Pendulum, operated in the 1920s and 1930s was called Browne Family, and the very popular “bag- the Cadaretta and provides the name for the in-box” House Wine series among other winery. labels. I am a particular fan of the Waitsburg The Middletons’ interest in agriculture Cellars Old Vine Chenin Blanc. eventually led them to make vineyard Precept is an important producer in investments in California (Clayhouse wines Washington and Oregon and, through its are part of the family there), and now they Ste. Chapelle and Sawtooth wineries, in are important in Walla Walla’s wine scene. Idaho, too. In fact, Precept is the largest They own a beautiful vineyard on a hillside vineyard owner in Idaho, with about 40 over on the Oregon side of the border. If percent of the total area under vine. The you are ever invited to an event at the “glass rise of Precept Wine is an amazing story, house” be sure to say yes. The glass house especially given the intensely competitive sits at the top of that vineyard hill, and market and the presence of giant the view over the valley is spectacular— competitors. And the story is far from over! especially if you are sipping a glass of If you stay on Highway 12 and follow Cadaretta SBS (a refreshing Sauvignon it east a few miles past Walla Walla to the Blanc-Sémillon blend). airport you will come to the Corvus Cellars Look closely as you stroll downtown winery and tasting room. You might be and you’ll see the Corliss Winery, which is surprised at the number of wineries you find housed in an old bakery just off Highway here, including famous names like Dunham. 12. Michael and Lauri Corliss remodeled Corvus recently graduated from a spot in the building into a dramatically beautiful a winery incubator complex to its own home for their wines. But don’t look for attractive facility. a big Corliss sign, because there isn’t one, Head south from the airport and follow and there’s no regular tasting room, either. the signs to Tranche Cellars, one of two Production of these award-winning red wineries here that Michael and Lauri Corliss wines is too small for the winery to be open have created. My wife, Sue, loves to visit except on special occasions, although you Tranche, both for the wines and to see the can get them at several local restaurants and sheep that roam the vineyards, keeping at some fine-wine shops.

18 arches summer 2016 There’s another Logger winery to visit which explains why he ended up working downtown called Result of a Crush. The white for a high-tech Oregon semiconductor firm, label shows a deep red lipstick “kiss” that is but his passion is Pinot Noir, and he learned instantly recognizable. Amanda Reynvaan the winemaking trade the old-fashioned way, Carvalho ’00 and her sister Angela Reynvaan helping out other winemakers during harvest Garratt have been making these wines since and crush, eventually graduating to a spot 2011, and their flavors are as memorable as in a shared production facility in Carlton, have to look for Donedei wines, but they are the label’s glorious kiss. The Reynvaan name Ore., and finally moving into a beautiful mid- worth the hunt, which is true about many is a familiar one in Walla Walla. Reynvaan century-modern building in Portland that has good things in life, don’t you think? wines and the family’s In the Rocks vineyard been the site of several alumni gatherings. in Oregon have a devoted following. (Wine Stewart and Athena are a great team, The tie that binds Spectator gave one of the 2013 wines a but they have very different tastes and With that, my alumni wine road trip comes to 97-point score.) Result of a Crush wines are personalities, and this shows in their an end. We couldn’t visit every alumni winery much more affordable than the family’s cult winemaking. If you visit the winery, try to (not enough time, not enough space), but it’s wines, but they bear a resemblance in their sample the popular Willamette Valley blend a start. And so, I asked my Seattle audience at balance of grace and intensity. and then the individual wines that Stewart last, what do all these stories have in common? Now head out of town toward the and Athena each make. See if you can sense “Wine?” came one tentative suggestion, and Oregon border. This is prime Walla Walla the people behind the wines and how they are that sure was true. “The liberal arts?” Yes, the wine territory. Many of these vineyards were different (and why they are so harmonious particular way of seeing and knowing what developed by the McKibben family, which together). the liberal arts represent has surely attracted also owns two wineries here. Eric McKibben The Anne Amie Vineyards winery and our alumni to wine and helped them succeed ’92 is a partner in the vineyards and Pepper tasting room sit high atop a hill near Carlton, in their various projects. And then someone Bridge Winery and general manager of Amavi in the heart of the Willamette Valley. When in the back of the room offered another idea. Cellars. Amavi is inspired by love (amour) of Sue and I first visited this region years “Passion.” We all smiled because we knew that life (vita), and the wines benefit from both the ago it was called Chateau Benoit, and we was the answer we were looking for. grapes that come from the Seven Hills and Les remember it as an early producer of sparkling Growing grapes, making wine, selling Collines vineyards and the skilled winemaking wines as well as Pinot Noir. The winery was it, building a business—these are all of Jean-François Pellet. I am a big fan of the eventually acquired by the Pamplin family, difficult things that take thought, planning, Amavi Sémillon and Syrah wines, along with who upgraded the facilities and expanded knowledge. We use the mind this way, but we a Bordeaux blend from Pepper Bridge called the vineyards, and named them in honor of do it because of the heart. Passion. And wine Trine. Anne ’93 and her sister Amy Pamplin ’90. I inspires that passion. No wonder people are am particularly fond of the Müller-Thurgau, willing to work so hard and sacrifice so much On the Oregon trail a white wine made from grapes planted in to bring their passions to life. We need to get back to Seattle, I told my the early days and nurtured through the And it is the same with our Puget Sound alumni audience, but why retrace our steps years. Amy and her husband, Art North liberal arts education, I offered. Passion. when we can visit more alumni wineries? ’90, have embraced the food and wine We came to Puget Sound to fill our minds So we head south and then west, through culture of this region. Art is president of the (and we did), but at the same time it filled the beautiful Columbia Gorge, which has Pamplin Family Winery. He and Amy are co- our hearts, which is why we were gathered a surprisingly long wine history. There is a owners of Bugatti’s restaurants, which offer together that May evening in Fremont to Zinfandel vineyard here, for example, with Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. learn about wine, to enjoy tasting it, and vines more than 100 years old. As you drive Well, it is getting late and time to to celebrate our large and growing alumni past Hood River be sure to look over toward head home, with one last stop in Tenino, winemaking family. the Washington side of the Columbia. There, Wash., to visit Donedei. Carolyn Lakewold on Underwood Mountain, is Michael and M.Ed.’93 gave up her work as a college Lauri Corliss’ Celilo Vineyard, one of the English professor to pursue her passion for Mike Veseth is a Puget Sound professor oldest in Washington and the source of the wine. She apprenticed with Doug McCrea of emeritus of international political economy, a grapes that go into their Tranche Chardonnay McCrea Cellars and then got to work on her Washington state Teacher of the Year, a member We are headed to the Willamette Valley— own project. Carolyn and her husband, Fred of the Puget Sound board of trustees, editor Pinot Noir country—but our next stop is just Goldberg, have been crushing grapes and of The Wine Economist blog, and author of west of downtown Portland. That’s where you making wine since 1998. The name Donedei more than a dozen books, most recently Money, will find Boedecker Cellars, the winery of (“gift of God”) comes from a farmhouse Taste, and Wine: It’s Complicated! winner of Stewart ’90 and Athena (Pappas) Boedecker. in the south of France that holds special the 2016 Gourmand International award for Stewart was a physics major at Puget Sound, memories for Carolyn and Fred. You will “Best in the World” wine writing.

summer 2016 arches 19 A Logger’s guide to affordable food-and-wine pairings in Tacoma by Kelly Frank ’16

Sure, we Loggers generally operate on a BYOM (bring your own mug) basis, but sometimes the coffee and spring water just won’t do it. How does a college student staked by meager biweekly work-study paychecks indulge herself with a favorite local dish and a nice bottle of wine to go with it? Here are 10 possibilities, with wines that WHEELOCK TAKEOUT STUDY BREAK can be found for less than The food: grilled cheese from the SUB ($3) The food: Rock & Roll specialty roll from Trapper’s Sushi ($12) $15, meaning a meal for $20 The wine: 2014 Charles & Charles Rosé ($12.99 at Safeway) The wine: Kirkland Signature Pinot Grigio or less. Hack, hack! Chop, ($5.99 at Costco) Let’s be real. Grilled cheese isn’t just a Logger chop! Save, save! favorite; it’s a classic. A loyal staple of the We don’t just “roll logs” here at UPS. We also American diet. A food that travels with us roll sushi. Well, I mean, we don’t, but Trapper’s through childhood and remains by our side on 6th Ave. certainly does a good job of it. through college, encouraging us as we seek Particularly worthy of mention is their Rock & comfort after that bio textbook chapter. A Roll specialty roll. Packed with cream cheese, grilled cheese sandwich doesn’t have to be shrimp, and crab, rolled in tempura crumbs, and piled high with $20 cheeses to be loved. And topped with avocado, French fried onions, and the wines you pair it with don’t need to be mouthwatering sauces, this roll has everything overly expensive, either! The Charles & Charles you could ever need. Except a well-paired Rosé is made in our very own Columbia Valley. glass of wine, that is. Logger-recommended This wine boasts a universal friendliness, with is the Kirkland Signature Pinot Grigio. This hints of wild red fruit and strawberry, without pairing works magic from two angles. One, sacrificing the complexity of interwoven grass it grants you an excuse to break free from and citrus undertones. The cramming for a quick trip to cheesy, gooey, savory center the Disneyland of the adult of the grilled cheese paired world: Costco. And two, the with the sweet, fruity, and crisp, fruity tones of the Pinot sippable Rosé provides not Grigio humbly complement only a satisfying combination, the sweetness of the shrimp but warmly invites even the and crab. Big-picture idea, shyest of wine drinkers to join the citrusy lightness of the the party. wine effectively highlights the overall freshness of the sushi itself in a way that doesn’t risk overpowering the meal. Win- win! And did I mention you get to go to Costco?

20 arches summer 2016 NON-TRADITIONAL CRAVINGS COLLEGE CLASSIC The food: “The Tacoma” from Red Hot ($5) The food: chicken teriyaki from Joy Teriyaki The food: The “Herbivore” from The Cellar The wine: 2010 J. Lohr Bay Mist Riesling ($10 & Wok ($6.50) (small $5.25; medium $8.75) at BevMo!) The wine: Kirkland Signature Columbia The wine: 2012 Bogle Vinyards Pinot Noir Valley Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon ($8.99 at ($8.99 at Safeway) You know the routine. You make it through a Costco) long day at the Puge, Red Hot tempts your Ahh, pizza. A key contributor to the infamous mind on the way home, and inevitably you Chicken teriyaki, we salute you. Your meatiness freshman 15 and the average college student’s find yourself in the midst of your squad and a gives us energy, and your sweetness warms closest frenemy. A meal in which the serving savory hot dog piled high with mustard, relish, our hearts. You’re the answer to our cravings size goes blissfully unmeasured and topping and all that is good in the world. You’re one bite and a loyal friend to our wallets. But what the options are seemingly endless. A representation in, maybe two, and you reach for your beer, heck are we supposed to pair with you? Once of freedom at its finest. Pizza and wine. Classic. right? Wrong. Now it’s wine. Plot twist! Beer again, Costco saves the day. Tucked within We know this. But with so many topping and hot dogs: It seems logical. Natural, even. the warehouse’s never-disappointing wine possibilities, it can be tough to know exactly Wholesomely American and not meant to be assortment is Kirkland Signature Columbia where to start. Logger-recommended is the messed with. But there’s something beautiful Valley Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 78 Herbivore pizza from our very own Cellar, that happens when that salty, savory dog is percent Merlot, 22 percent Cab, and aged for 16 paired with a glass or three of Bogle Pinot Noir enjoyed instead with a well-paired wine. A 2010 months in French and American oak. With this 2012. Pinot Noir is one of the J. Lohr Bay Mist Riesling, to pairing, the sweetness of lightest red wines out there, be more specific. The wine’s the teriyaki sauce is matched and its slight sweetness and faint herb and floral notes by the richness of the lush, earthy tones will complement hug a base of green apple ripe fruits and toasty oak- the flavor of the mushrooms in and melon aromas in a soft, tinted aromas. The moderate the pizza. summer kind of sweetness tannins of this blend don’t that practically high-fives overpower your palate but your taste buds after a bite of play a supportive role to the that Chicago-style hot dog. meal, amplifying the flavors The satisfying crispness of we already know and love the Riesling matches the to a whole new level. Game acidity and salt of The Tacoma changer. toppings, and a nice, bright finale leaves your mouth feeling fresh and happy. Before you know it, you’ve forgotten all about that beer. It’s a Logger way of life, a means of survival— after a 10-hour, shorted-out- synapses paper- writing enduro, at 2:30 a.m. you bribe your only non-sleeping FRIED FOOD … GOOD TIME TO CELEBRATE? The food: beer-battered cod from The food: bacon avocado omelet from housemate The Spar ($10.95) Shakabrah ($11) The wine: Barefoot Chardonnay ($6.99 The wine: Cook’s California Champagne with “I’ll love at Safeway) ($5.42 at Safeway) you forever’s” if In college, anything and everything fried in batter Are you a senior? Are you graduating? Is your is right. It’s an unspoken rule and a universal friend graduating? Is your friend’s sister’s she’ll drive you understanding. So it’s completely sensible that boyfriend graduating? Time to celebrate! we would find ourselves at The Spar down the And there’s not a second to waste getting to down 6th Ave. hill in Old Town requesting an order of its beer- Shakabrah because you’re probably gonna be battered cod. Not only will you catch a nice waiting a solid hour to get a table. Once you for sustenance: glimpse of Commencement Bay from there, and your team finally find an opening and cram you’ll also leave with a box of some serious yourselves into the restaurant, though, it’s go a carne asada comfort food. Your next stop? Safeway, where time. So let’s cut to the chase. Normally you’d you’ll grab a bottle of Barefoot Chardonnay. order one of the mattress-sized pancakes, but burrito. Mmhmm. Barefoot is often classified as this is a special occasion. One that calls for something of a starter wine brand, and its eggs. Avocado. And bacon. Especially bacon. smoothness makes it a common favorite for And what’s a celebration without Champagne? casual social drinking or nights in with Netflix. A sad one, that’s what. So yes, we’re here. Less known, however, is that when paired with We’re classin’ it up. We’re poppin’ bottles and foods like beer-battered fish, those fruity mellow splurging on avocado. But we’re not looking to but pleasant aromas add a hint of citrus to the break our bank. Celebrating, but still college dish (almost like a squeeze of fresh lemon!). The students. Everyone calm down. Cook’s might medium body of the wine not be Krug brut, but it’ll get itself works to balance the the job done. The sippable textures of the meal, and the sparkling white wine will heaviness of the fried batter enhance the flavors of the is curbed just enough by the omelet and make your taste crispness of the zingy fruits. buds dance. It may also make you dance, depending on how much you celebrate. At that time it might be a good idea to also order a pancake.

2222 archesarches summersummer 20162016 BURGERS GOOD, TOO POST-PAPER-WRITING REWARD DESSERT The food: bar burger from C.I. Shenanigans The food: carne asada burrito from Memos The food: “The Cookie” from Met Market (happy hour only, $5) ($4.89) ($3) The wine: Bodega Tamarí Reserva, The wine: Bogle Vineyards Old Vine The wine: Greystone Cellars Cabernet Argentina ($11 at Tacoma Boys or Safeway) Zinfandel ($10 at Safeway) Sauvignon 2011 ($10, across the street at Safeway) The picture alone says it: Burgers are good. Any true Puget Sound student knows this like Cheeseburgers are even better. But a the back of her hand. It’s a Logger way of life, Write your first and last name on a piece of cheeseburger and a well-paired wine truly a means of survival, and a guarantee in a world paper. Now cross out your last name and write tops the charts. And the best part? C.I. where Yelp commonly lies in its listings of “open “The” in front of your first. Stare at it for a Shenanigans on Ruston Way offers a pretty hours” for local restaurants. It’s why, after a second. How awesome is that? That’s how sweet deal (Monday through Friday from 3 10-hour, shorted-out-synapses paper-writing awesome The Cookie is. And lucky for us, it’s to 6 p.m., and 9 p.m. to close) that lets you enduro, at 2:30 a.m. you bribe your only non- only a few short blocks away. But how, you achieve exactly that, even on a tight budget. sleeping housemate with “I’ll love you forever’s” ask, might one possibly begin in their attempt For just $5 the Shenanigans bar burger is well to drive you down 6th Ave. for sustenance: a to properly pair a wine with such a powerful worth the requirement of sitting in the bar of carne asada burrito. From the one, the only, and majestic staple of the Logger culture? Fear the restaurant to enjoy it. Still not sold? It also Memo’s. (Well, there’re actually three locations.) not, my friends. The answer lies with Cabernet comes with fries. The Logger-recommended By the time you roll up to the window for this Sauvignon. Though Cabernet is typically option here is a Bodega Tamarí Reserva. gem, chances are that places to pick up an classified as a full-bodied wine, Greystone Malbec is a full-bodied red wine. It is not appropriate accompaniment won’t be open for Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 is categorized particularly sweet, as many red wines are, but several hours. So try to keep a bottle of Bogle as a “lighter red wine” for its uniquely bright it has a slight hint of raspberry. The smokiness Vineyards Old Vine Zinfandel handy at home for acidity, mellow tannins, and dash of sweet of the wine plays well to the savory and well- the next time you find yourself carefully picking baking spices. This combination works perfectly spiced burger patty, and should you choose your way up the porch steps in the dark with in unison with The Cookie, as it allows the to splurge for the bacon addition (an extra $2), your barely functioning head hung low and your Belgian chocolate and toasted walnuts to shine well, everything is better burrito held high. Whether though as the deserving with bacon. you’re able to tell or not, stars they are. Shine on, little the jammy, dark-berry cookie, shine on. sweetness of the Zinfandel will bring out the spices and herbs of the meat in the burrito. Just trust me on this. scrapbookclassmates Your paper and ink social networking site since 1929

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43 Scrapbook WHAT WE DO: Nola De Caro Tresslar ’63 Artist

Tacoma native Nola Tresslar studied art at Puget Sound with the ineffable Professor Bill Colby. She now is a contemporary of his as a longtime member of Puget Sound Sumi Art- ists. Nola is a Tacoman born and bred. She attended high school and college with Dale Chihuly ’63 and is quick to commend his efforts with young people in their hometown, such as Hilltop Artists. After Nola’s first marriage ended she was determined not to uproot her children from their home and schools. She needed a “man’s job,” she said, in order to make ends meet. She studied hard and became the first woman in the state of Washington certified as a real estate appraiser. Nola started out working for Pierce County, then formed her own appraisal company. Now, after 10 additional years as founder and head designer of a gift manufacturing company, Nola has been working on her art full time for 20 years. She describes her art as “intuitive,” working in sumi-e, mixed-media collage, and what she calls “Zen art.” Since 1998 her art has been displayed in more than 180 shows (10 of them one-woman), nearly all of them juried, throughout the Northwest, and in Arizona, California, New York, Japan, and China. Nola is the recipient of numerous awards and is represented by galleries in two states. Her art is held in both private and public collections. See her wide-ranging work at nola.nobullart.com.

Here’s Nola at home, standing next to her painting Love, Energy, and Friends (mixed-media collage, 49.25”x 39.75”), done on a recycled canvas— repurposing materials being a big part of her art. It was one of the first pieces Nola completed, and she says she’ll never sell it. On this spread: Flinging Hope I (monotype diptych print with chine-collé, 18.5” X 11.5” unframed).

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The Devlin brothers: Patrick, Michael, and Dan.

WHAT WE DO: estimated $22 million a year. And we’re just getting started: By 2020, Washington’s legal Dan Devlin ’71; Michael Gordon ’10 marijuana industry is predicted to gross more than $1 billion a year, generating tax revenues of roughly $369 million annually. Marijuantrepreneurs That’s a lot of money for an industry that’s still figuring itself out, and such an by David Schmader unprecedented opportunity captured the business imaginations of two Seattle Puget Sound grads. It’s not often that completely uncharted ter- earned the support of 56 percent of voters. ritory opens up in business, but over the past Along with legal sales came substantial After graduating from UPS, Dan Devlin head- decade the legalization of cannabis—first as tax revenues; the first year of commercial sales ed to Harvard for an M.B.A. and embarked on medicine, then as a recreational substance— generated a whopping $67.5 million for state a 40-years-and-counting career as a serial en- has created just such a brave new world of coffers. Legalization also brought substantial trepreneur, founding his own workspace design opportunity. In 2012, Washington state voted savings for public agencies. Relieved of track- company (an early champion of open office to legalize the possession, sale, and use of mari- ing and prosecuting marijuana crimes, state spaces) before creating and running the Inter- juana for adults. The once-radical proposition and county law enforcement stand to save an net service provider Central Oregon Wireless.

26 arches summer 2016 One of Db3’s two grow rooms, which together house about 840 plants. In the extraction lab, an oven used for product testing and development.

Then came Thanksgiving 2012, when the products. Key Zoots ideals: consistency (with each tin of ZootRocks is shrink-wrapped in extended Devlin clan gathered for its annual each serving of a Zoot product delivering an plastic thick enough to require a supplemen- celebration at Dan’s house. Weeks earlier, identical dose of THC) and quality, via all- tary tool (scissors, a box cutter) to open, thus Washington voters had passed I-502, legalizing natural and organic-whenever-possible ingredi- making the product childproof. Inside the the sale and recreational use of marijuana—a ents. (The aforementioned ZootBites brownies shrink-wrapped tin, each individual mint is historic development that came up in con- are both gluten-free and delicious.) again shrink-wrapped in its own thick-enough- versation after dinner. “My brother Michael, Dan’s delight with his bold new venture is to-require-a-knife plastic, and before being the manufacturing genius, said, ‘We should palpable, but press him on the challenges of distributed, each box of shrink-wrapped mints get into this,’” says Dan. “[Michael said,] ‘I the legal-weed world and he’ll lay out evidence in shrink-wrapped tins is quarantined for 24 know how to make products; it’s a wide-open suggesting the key trait of a successful cannabis hours under video surveillance, lest anyone try market.’” Dan agreed, plans were drawn up, entrepreneur is bureaucratic tenacity. Nearly to tamper with the untamperable products. and together with his brothers, Michael and every step of getting Db3 up and running has “Our number-one complaint from custom- Patrick, he launched the cannabis production been “a bureaucratic nightmare,” Dan says, cit- ers is about all the packaging,” says Dan. It’s 3 3 company Db Inc. in 2014. (Db = Devlin ing, for example, the conundrum of operating easy to believe. Imagine if liquor were sold only brothers to the third power.) a state-legal business that’s federally prohibited in individually shrink-wrapped mini-bottles 3 In 2016, Db is best known as the pro- (a fact that complicates banking and credit that required knives to open. America might ducer of Zoots, a line of cannabis-infused possibilities) and the intricate, sometimes ar- be a nation of furious drinkers with severed products ranging from brownies to tinctures bitrary, demands by the Liquor and Cannabis fingers. and energy drinks. Sold at state-licensed mari- Board, which oversees the production and sale juana dispensaries throughout the Puget Sound of marijuana products in Washington state. But blade-reliant packaging is only one of the region, Zoots products are made in Seattle, in a “They considered requiring us to put a Mr. challenges facing consumers of legal weed, 25,000-square-foot facility in the Sodo neigh- Yuck sticker on our products,” Dan says, refer- especially those who travel to Washington in borhood that formerly served as a processing encing the “this means poison” cartoon recom- hopes of experiencing our state’s legal weed plant for produce and chicken salad products. mended for toxic substances. “We would’ve for themselves. Such would-be weed tourists Greeting me in the Zoots factory foyer, been the first all-natural product to come with find themselves in the unusual position of hav- Dan readily acknowledges his unlikely stature Mr. Yuck.” ing access to legal marijuana, but few places as a burgeoning marijuana magnate. The Liquor and Cannabis Board even- to legally enjoy it. Hotels forbid smoking of “I’m 67!” he says. “I’m on Social Security!” tually downgraded its demand to creating anything, making the only place to use weed a After setting me up with a hair net and lab packaging that doesn’t appeal to children (no private residence. coat, Dan gives me the factory tour, from the cartoons, no brightly colored products, and no Noting this discrepancy between legal huge, hot, blindingly bright “grow room” to visual mimicry of existing products) and that is access and available venues to ingest it was the automated packaging lines, to the on-site difficult for young children to open. another Puget Sound grad—Michael Gordon, testing and research lab. In an industrial freezer To understand the extraordinary hoops co-founder of Kush Tourism. sits the inventory of high-quality marijuana, all marijuana entrepreneurs feel they are being “We all know someone who’s been to Am- of it due to be dried in a Hobart baking oven made to jump through, there’s no better exam- sterdam for the legal cannabis,” says Michael. before being distilled in organic alcohol, creat- ple than ZootRocks, the small, THC-infused “Still, Amsterdam’s not always been friendly to ing the proprietary Cypress cannabis extract lozenges that are packaged in a tin similar to travelers, and I thought we could take the op- that is the crucial building block of all Zoots Altoids. In accordance with state regulations, posite approach.”

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Michael says he chose the guy on the banner because he’s a typical Kush client. “Our target audience is educated upper middle class couples between the ages of 28 and 60; 70 percent are regular folks curious about this historic new industry.”

The result: A national business offering Like the Devlins, Michael has a list of empire is built on persuasive engagement specific services in specific states, depending regulatory grievances: “Everything you think and full-on proselytizing. “We’re very much on their marijuana laws. In Washington, Kush should be simple and easy, isn’t. We lost our pro-marijuana,” says Dan. “We want to Tourism aims to help weed tourists with list- bank accounts. Our insurance company didn’t bring people back into it. We think this is ings of personally vetted, weed-friendly hotels know if they could insure a cannabis tour. I a product that once people try again, away and B&Bs. have worked on Kush Tourism for two and from the stoner image and the idea that Beyond tourism, Michael has a deeper aim a half years, and we still struggle to be ac- you have to get loaded, many of them will for his business, which he hopes can help break cepted as a legitimate business. Quickbooks, love it.” Even now, in the legal era, the old the social stigma around marijuana. Key to this for example, just dropped us from their pay- stereotypes hold sway. “I’ve got grandchil- mission: the Kush Tour, a three-and-a-half- ment portal. We don’t even buy, touch, or sell dren,” Dan says. “You think, do I want my hour journey that brings attendees face-to-face cannabis.” grandchildren to look at me as a dope king? with the legal-weed world, from a grow opera- Now, though, Kush is flourishing. Its tours You just have these connotations. But by the tion to a processing facility to a retail outlet. draw an audience that Michael estimates is “30 time they’re old enough to understand, at- “It’s designed to show people exactly what percent people who are really into the legal titudes will have changed. They’ll realize that the industry is,” says Michael, who believes cannabis business and take it as a consulting marijuana was wrongfully demonized and direct contact with the industry can only di- tour,” and 70 percent regular folks curious that what we’re making is a natural product minish the marijuana monster myths that have about this new industry. “There’s lots of new that is much safer than alcohol. Our goal is been in play for so long. “When you talk to a interest, now that it’s legal,” Michael says. “We to create, hopefully, a national brand. There master grower in a grow operation, you real- get a lot of non-consumers who just want to are very, very few people who ever get the ize it’s not people with AK-47s or a cartel,” learn what’s happening. We provide access to opportunity to do that.” he says, noting that the growers his tours visit the information.” include such unsavory types as former butterfly While Kush Tourism focuses on “the Seattle writer David Schmader is the author of tenders, arborists, and soccer moms. information,” the Devlin brothers’ Zoots Weed: The User’s Guide.

28 arches summer 2016 WHAT WE DO: Allen Petrich ’65 The shipyard project

For the past 10 years, Allen Petrich Jr. a grandson in the family that founded the Western Boat Building Company at the foot of Starr Street in Old Town Tacoma in 1916, has been busy researching, and interviewing families and historians about the history of boat- and ship- building on the Pacific Coast. He calls this work the Shipyard Project, and it will culminate in a Allen on the Thea Foss in Tacoma, with the Murray Morgan Bridge behind. Below: Allen’s dad, Al- book that includes the builders of every vessel len Petrich Sr. ’33 and SAE fraternity brother Bill Cleveland ’35 (c.1936) in downtown Tacoma with ever constructed on the Pacific Coast. Quite an one of the Petrich race boats. undertaking. Here’s what he has learned: Ever since humans arrived on the Pacific ing as an adjunct, to Humboldt, Calif., and barges and scows built to harvest the silver Coast of North America they’ve been building Coos Bay in Oregon, then Astoria, and finally horde surpassed the number built for the Gold boats, crowned by the great war and whaling to the Salish Sea, with George Anson Meigs Rush. canoes, up to 60 feet long, of peoples of the and the Mary Woodruff in 1863 at Port Madi- The development of the gasoline engine Salish Sea. son, on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The majority for marine use made possible perhaps the most The Spanish were next, using the forests and of early vessels were built to transport lumber effective fishing vessel of all time for pelagic, the skilled native woodworkers of what is now to the markets of San Francisco, but they soon schooling fish: the purse seiner. From humble Guatemala to build and repair their ships, be- began traveling to the Asia as well. beginnings in 1903, the shipyards of Puget ginning with Balboa at Panama in 1517. Within several decades boats and ships for Sound turned out large numbers of these craft, The British were the first to assemble a com- transport and freight on the rivers of the West the use of which spread to the rest of the world. plete ship, the Northwest America, in 1788 on and, especially, San Francisco Bay and Puget Allen Petrich’s work will document the trek Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. In an early Sound became an important impetus for local of builders north up the coast, recount incidents example of the globalized workforce, they em- commerce. Coincidentally, as lumbermen went of their lives, and cover the three great migra- ployed a party of Chinese shipbuilders brought north to procure lumber to satisfy the demand tions of builders from outside the United States from the Pearl River area of China. spurred by the Gold Rush, another “mother to the Pacific Coast. — Larry Edlund ’64 The first ship built of native Northwest lum- lode” was shortly thereafter discovered: the ber, the Phoenix, was constructed by the Rus- “silver horde” of the seemingly endless runs of If you are interested in learning more about the sians in 1794 in what is now Seward, Alaska. salmon. Advances in canning made the entire shipyard project, Allen welcomes inquiries. Write Until Alaska was sold to the United States, the North American continent a market, and the him at [email protected]. Russians were said to hold the finest shipyard on the Pacific Coast. The first vessel launched in the western U.S. may have been the assembled, iron-hulled steamship Mint, in 1849. The first serious ship- building (not merely assembling) on the Pacific Coast began in San Francisco in 1850, with Petrich family collection Petrich the shipyard of Domingo Marcucci. For the next half-century the whole of the Pacific Coast north of Baja California was really subsidiary to San Francisco, with San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver serving almost as outposts. While San Francisco produced a variety of ships, as its supply of local lumber ran out it was rapidly determined that lumber mills be placed on the water close to the seemingly endless supplies of timber in Oregon and Washing- ton. The mills marched north, with shipbuild- classmates Anna Reed/Statesman Journal Anna Reed/Statesman

Carolyn at the Kettle Foods Innovation Center in Salem.

WHAT WE DO: As careers go, people don’t often plan for about a year working for a frozen foods com- a job in snack food. Carolyn majored in biol- pany, then was hired on at Kettle. She’s been Carolyn Keatts Ottenheimer ’92 ogy at Puget Sound and intended to go to there now for 17 years. medical school. When she wasn’t admitted Anyone over the age of 50 can probably she landed a job in public health as a restau- remember when we had just three television Chipster rant inspector in the Tri-Cities, Wash., where channels and two potato chip flavors: salted she grew up. and barbecue. Carolyn says it was part con- “Snacks make people happy,” says Carolyn Ot- “That is where I made the connection sumer demand and part industry innovation tenheimer, and as chief flavor architect (how’s between my science background and food,” that gave us so many other flavor choices. that for a job title!) at Kettle Foods in Salem, Carolyn says. She quickly realized there was a “At Kettle it became a thing that differ- Ore., Carolyn is a spreader of joy. She leads the downside to the regulatory nature of her job. entiated the brand,” she says, noting that the team that has come up with red curry, maple ba- “I was spending a lot of time with people company had several flavors even before she con, jalapeño jack, and the more than two dozen who didn’t want to spend their time with arrived. “Consumers like variety. They have a other flavors of Kettle chips and other snacks. me,” she recalls. She started to think about desire for more flavors, so we keep providing “When people learn what my job is, they al- other ways to work around food, eventually them.” Carolyn and Kettle create at least two ways ask, ‘Have you tried this?’” Carolyn laughs. earning a master’s degree in food science at new flavors each year, typically retiring existing “We probably have!” Oregon State University in 1998. She spent ones to make room on grocery shelves.

30 arches summer 2016 While Carolyn is a scientist, she says that there’s a lot of art that goes into your bag of chips. “I’ve always approached it as if I were creating this product for myself or family or friends; that’s the starting point,” she says. “We have the consumer in mind when we’re developing new products, but as individuals, I’m developing a product or my staff is developing a product, and they’re putting themselves into it. They’re going to be proud of it. That becomes a huge part of the creative process.” They have few limits to what they can try. Kettle uses only natural ingredients, and they start out with a basic toolbox of flavors to use. Carolyn encourages her staff to try far-out combinations. “The weirdest one that was still quite delicious was strawberries and cream,” she says. They also tried coffee flavors. “We couldn’t do it with natural ingredients in a way that tasted at all good on a Kettle chip,” Carolyn says. Neither made it to market. Good taste is not just one person’s decision. Carolyn says each proposed new flavor gets tried by Kettle employees and a panel of community tasters. Sometimes they do more formal consumer testing. They never throw out a rejected recipe— the public may one day be ready for strawberries and cream—but it’s reward- ing to get the thumbs-up on a new flavor. “It feels really nice when you see your The author, casting a spey rod into the Rio Limay, one of Patagonia’s most fabled waters. product in somebody’s grocery cart,” Carolyn says. Kettle doesn’t look like a typical manufacturing plant. The company man- WHAT WE DO: ages a wetland on its property next to Mill Creek in Salem, and the grounds include How Cameron Chambers ’04 got his book out there a community garden for employees and nice creek-side paths and picnic tables under big trees. It’s a pleasant setting, and Publishing Patagonia after 17 years, Carolyn still finds her work fulfilling. The only thing I knew about the publishing So I spent months tuning up sample “The rapid growth of Kettle brand and industry I got from a library book: How to Get chapters, dredging up demographic data for the changing tastes of consumers keep the Published. It said I needed a market analysis, a marketing plan, and creating the polished job challenging. Even after 17 years it’s reader demographics, sample chapters, an au- book proposal that How to Get Published sug- still a lot of fun.” she says. thor bio, and a marketing plan, and it stressed gested. Off the proposal packets went, in neat Carolyn and her husband, Tom, the importance of the first interaction with a manila envelopes. Six months passed. Nothing. love living in the Willamette Valley and publisher, noting that something as small as a Not even a form letter thanking me for my enjoy the outdoors, where favorite activi- misplaced comma may cause your proposal to submission. This was during the low point in ties include skiing, biking, and paddle- find the round file. Nowhere did it mention the recession, though. Perhaps the publishers boarding. — Greg Scheiderer Facebook. had been forced to lay off their thank-you-for-

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your-submission-letter person. Not hearing might get six new pages. On a bad day I’d de- book and flipped open the front cover. Pub- back should have convinced me to move on, lete the six pages from the day before and start lisher: Patagonia Books. but the manuscript, like the adventure itself, over. I’d read someplace that you’re not sup- At the time I had sent off my manila pack- had become too much of a passion to walk posed to delete or edit until you’ve written the ets, the books division of the Patagonia cloth- away from. whole thing. My brain must not work like that. ing brand did not exist. And while there wasn’t Back in 2006 I had shipped a Nissan I could not leave at the end of the day until I a fishing book in their small collection of titles, Pathfinder and an inflatable fishing raft to the felt like everything from the first word to the my first thought was, who better to publish a Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile with last was ready for print. book on fishing adventures in Patagonia than a the intent of finding the mythically large trout It took years of editing as I went and manufacturer of outdoor clothing and fishing for which the area is famous. Having spent a working around seasonal jobs to get enough gear named Patagonia? season as a fishing guide in Chile and having of a manuscript together to send that thick As soon as I got home I searched the Inter- devoured the available literature on the area, manila packet to the publishers. Like most net for an address. Patagonia Books was so new, I arrived at the beginning of the fishing sea- projects of such scope, finding the stamina to Google had yet to find its bricks-and-mortar son full of anticipation and armed with a list continue was the toughest part. But as I sat at location; the only appreciable hit directed me of rumored fishing hotspots scattered across the keyboard, thinking about the adventures to a Facebook page. I clicked through, hoping thousands of kilometers of the Andean land- shared with amazing people, the words found the page would lead to a little information and scape. I filled notebook after notebook with my themselves. I recall several mornings on which a physical address. I clicked every conceivable adventures—and more often misadventures. I forced myself to a coffee shop to get started tab without so much as finding a phone num- Accounts of beautiful landscapes, environmen- only to leave in the afternoon well after I’d ber. I sat staring at the screen for several min- tal injustice, near disaster, and the emotional planned, my fingers having tried for hours to utes. And then my eyes focused on one word: swings of a six-month solo journey. More than keep up with the memory replaying in my Message. these were the stories of the people I met along brain. Sending a note through Facebook wasn’t the way: poor farmers, fishing legends, a exactly the carefully crafted first impression modern-day Thoreau, and fellow travelers in Only writing groups and mothers read manu- suggested by How to Get Published. I stared at search of their own experience. scripts. Sharing your story with a real audience the screen, thinking about the manuscript and I came home from Patagonia to a room in requires publication in some form. In the digi- all the people and places now collecting dust my parents’ basement with my journals, a stack tal era there are plenty of ways to get your work on a bookshelf. Then I clicked the message tab of college-ruled notebooks. Many of the stories out there for others to see, but I clung to the and began wondering just how one starts a seemed borderline unbelievable, as if the hand romantically antiquated idea of a book printed professional-sounding Facebook note. of fate had neglected any form of subtly direct- on paper, marketed by a traditional publish- Chasing Rumor: A Season Fly Fishing in ing the outcome. To me, there were just too er—not a vanity press. That dream faded into Patagonia was released by Patagonia Books last many good stories to leave them collecting dust the dark abyss dreaded by unappreciated writ- summer. The book received high praise from at the bottom of a bookshelf. ers, though, as my frequent visits to bookstores critics across the outdoors spectrum. Tom Bro- I started writing at the public library in to scan fishing books inevitably revealed one kaw referred to Chasing Rumor as “a helluva Helena, Mont., a few miles from my parents’ of the three main publishers that had received entertaining adventure,” while the Chicago Sun- house. I liked one particular desk tucked in a copies of my manuscripts and rejected it. Times said, “It’s a fly fishing tale the way Moby back corner of the first floor. People didn’t wan- Things changed one sunny fall day in Se- Dick is a whaling tale.” der by often, and it sat close to the small sec- attle. I stepped into the Patagonia store down- So much for following publishing advice tion of books on South America. I spent three town to work on my Christmas wish list of found in library books. days typing and deleting the first paragraph ridiculously expensive fleece. I circled the store, before feeling like I found the right words. arriving at a small row of shelves sparsely popu- Chasing Rumor was a finalist at the Banff Over the course of three months I ham- lated with a handful of outdoor titles. As much Mountain Film and Book Competition for Best mered out about 100 pages. On a good day I from habit as anything I picked up a climbing Adventure Travel Book of 2015.

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Here’s Amy (at the left end of the pic, in a denim jacket, holding her son) at a Families of Color Seattle brunch play date in April. FOCS (focseattle.com) just received the 2016 Ron Chisom Anti-Racism Award from the Seattle Human Services Coalition.

WHAT WE DO: FOCS began consulting and providing groups usually meet in participants’ homes and workshops and training for public schools and partner facilities. Amy Moline HyunAh Pak ’97 preschools. Now the organization serves more Amy’s biggest challenge leading FOCS is than 1,000 families in its mission of “connect- having more work than staff capacity, although A place to thrive ing parents to build a loving community of Rainier Valley Corps has supplied a full-time families of color.” It partners with the Vietnam- fellow for two years, a huge help. Support comes ese Friendship Association, Open Arms Perina- from the Satterberg Foundation, Helios Foun- Amy HyunAh Pak saw an unmet need and tal Services, and Hoa Mai, the first Vietnamese dation, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, filled it when she founded Families of Color bilingual preschool in Washington state. FOCS Women’s Funding Alliance, family foundations, Seattle. A social worker and University of brings cultural arts education to its partners and individuals. Washington Office of Minority Affairs stu- through fun activities such as break dancing for Amy is married to musician Daniel Pak, a dent advisor who stopped working outside toddlers and West African dance and drum- fourth-generation Korean and fifth-generation the home after she gave birth to her first son, ming. New parent-group programs will serve Japanese American born and raised in Hawai`i. Amy craved a community of like-minded queer families of color, transracial adoptive They have two sons, ages 7 and 4. She often mothers. parents, and anti-racist white parents of children speaks Korean to their sons. She self-identifies as The group started in 2010 with 10 fami- of color. an immigrant transracial Korean adoptee. lies gathering monthly. “We’re intercultural and interethnic,” she Raised by loving white parents in St. Peter, “Within the next few years, Trayvon Mar- says. “We’re growing, and our needs outweigh Minn., a town of 10,000 where she “wasn’t giv- tin, Tamir Rice, and Black Lives Matter hap- our current capacity.” en opportunities to see people of color be proud pened,” Amy says. “Families wanted to talk to In late 2014, FOCS opened Cornerstone and self-aware,” it wasn’t until she arrived at each other about racial inequalities and learn Café in the Hillman City Collaboratory at Puget Sound that she understood what it meant how to advocate for their children. If you can Rainier and Orcas streets as a community cul- to be Korean American. Later, as a professional, open that dialogue, it’s incredible, the human- tural base for children and parents. she discovered Seattle’s International District ity, communication, and connection that take “We provide entrepreneurial opportunities and community activism. During the summer place. Complicity and fear lead to racism.” for women of color, immigrants, and fathers following her sophomore year, she studied in Amy says demographers expect whites in as teaching artists and parent educators. It’s Korea and started to relearn her native language, America to be in the minority by 2042. exciting! We’ve hired more than 30 parents as which she had lost at age 6, when adopted. “Conversations about race will be totally contract employees,” Amy says. “College was a time for exploring my place different then. When my kids are in their 30s, Cornerstone Café has since evolved into in the world, my story as an American, a Ko- different identities will be celebrated. There a program called FOCS Arts, supported by a rean, a Korean-American woman. I continue to will be less violence. Our shared experiences successful $15,000 crowd-funding campaign. work with another UPS alum in Seattle, Aileen will benefit all,” she says. “If we start early FOCS has expanded further into a new office- Balahadia ’97, in social justice work. Largely due with our children to teach about equity and share arrangement in the Columbia City and to her leadership at UPS, I received a four-year undoing racism, their worldview will counter Mount Baker neighborhoods, with the Viet- discourse in consciousness around being Asian- the systemic oppression and disparity that our namese Friendship Association and Hoa Mai Pacific American. I’m so grateful for the awaken- generation struggles with.” Preschool for FOCS Arts programming. Parent ing,” she says. — Sandra Sarr

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Dale Lien ’51, employees when he was called house in Renton I had 32 differ- Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Ex- Luis Obispo Symphony on May M.E.D.’54 is a re- to accept a gift acknowledging ent types. I still have the ones hibition in June. His work also 7. It was her final performance tired elementary school teach- 45 years of service. George has in pots. Thanks to Professor was on display at the Bryan after 32 years as a professional er. He and wife Polly Griffith been working at Puget Sound Robert Albertson [’44], who Ohno (’85) Gallery during the singer. In an article in the San Lien ’51 live in Olympia. Dale longer than anyone, first in made me aware of Eastern month of April. Take a look at Luis Obispo Tribune, Jacalyn says he worked at a die cast- admission as vice president of religions, I studied Shinto, for reidozaki.com. talked about her career: She ing plant and in a grocery store enrollment, and, since 2013, which trees are a primary sym- has performed at the Metro-

classmates while attending the college. He as associate vice president of bol. I began self-studying shap- politan Opera, with the Los joined the Marines after gradu- University Relations. ing, pruning, and the history In March Korsmo Angeles Philharmonic, the San ation. of Japanese maples. When I Construction an- Francisco Opera, The Seattle started working part time at nounced that it had hired Pat Opera, and with opera compa- Larry Yok ’69, the garden center at Home Riggs ’75, M.B.A.’78 to lead nies and symphonies in Bar- A February 2016 M.B.A.’80 writes to Depot, people would ask me the company’s finance depart- celona, Berlin, Geneva, Paris, article in the News tell us he finally has something if I knew someone who could ment. Pat has more than 25 and Prague. Her focus started Tribune reported that Mary to report in Arches’ “Class- help them with their trees. I years of experience in the shifting from performance to Mosley funded a weeklong mates” section. “Last year I wasn’t allowed to solicit busi- construction industry in roles education in 1987. In 1995 she symposium on racism and retired from Highline College ness directly, but I did offer the ranging from analyst to CFO. began teaching applied voice sexism, at William Woods [in Des Moines, Wash.], where people a number. (Which just at California Polytechnic State University in Fulton, Mo. I was vice president for admin- happened to be mine!) I now University. “Performing has Barron’s magazine Titled “The Equality Matters: istration, ending more than 35 have clients from North Seattle made me a much better teach- named Paul Ried a Conversations on Gender and years of public service. I also, to Maple Valley.” er because I understand … top financial advisor for 2016. Race,” the symposium as- this past April, earned my doc- the terror that you go through Paul is president of the Bel- sembled academic speakers, torate in development studies to get out there and deliver as levue, Wash.-based Paul R. activists, artists, and writers in the Faculty of Business and Gary Thomsen perfect music as possible,” Ried Financial Group. The list from the Midwest to help in- Economics Sciences, Nelson was the subject of she said. She is the founder appeared in the March 7 issue spire a conversation on issues Mandela Metropolitan Uni- a May 17 article in the Kitsap and producer of the Cal Poly of Barron’s and presented the that have caused sometimes versity, Port Elizabeth, South Sun about his “Legends of the Student Opera Theatre and top 1 percent of advisors in violent upheavals recently in Africa.” Road” project. Gary played has a private practice as a vo- America. The magazine con- communities across the nation. baseball for Chief Sealth High cal coach. She will continue to sidered assets under manage- Mary is an assistant professor in Seattle, at Puget Sound, and teach at Cal Poly. of Spanish at WWU. In May, The Olym- with semi-pro teams. He then ment, revenues generated, and pian reported that returned to Chief Sealth as the quality of practices in its Jim Meyerhoff was one of 13 teacher of a sports event and selection. Fred Grimm is James Jones regional athletes inducted into marketing class. Gary’s stu- one of the executive retired at the end of the Washington Interscholastic dents were interested in learn- producers of Mother’s Day, Carolyn Humphreys the 2013–14 school year after Activities Association Hall of ing more about black ballplay- the new Garry Marshall film has published Liv- 34 years as a professor at the Fame. Jim is a Puyallup, Wash., ers who roamed as barnstorm- starring Jennifer Aniston, Julia ing Through Cancer: A Practi- Kansas State University Col- high school graduate and was a ers in the West. In 2000 Gary Roberts, Kate Hudson, and cal Guide to Cancer Related lege of Architecture, Planning, wrestler while at Puget Sound. and some of his students spent Jason Sudeikis. Writing in Concerns (Create Space; 140 and Design. After graduating He coached the wrestling team six weeks bicycling 5,200 miles The Wenatchee World, Rufus pages; paperback). Carolyn from Puget Sound Jim re- at Tacoma’s Franklin Pierce to find the small towns where Woods ’80 said that Fred, a says after her own journey ceived a Master of Architecture High School, was assistant black players—the Legends of high school classmate of his, through cancer treatment she degree at the University of executive director of the WIAA, The Road—had played baseball got into the movie business tried to write a Washington in 1971. Prior to co-director of the Mat Classic before crowds of thousands. through a series of coinci- practical, under- joining the Kansas State faculty (the state wrestling tourna- “We mapped out over 600 dences. Fred said he left the standable book in 1982, he was principal of ment), and founder of the first towns in the U.S. and Canada real work of making the movie that addresses James S. Jones Architect Ltd., girls’ wrestling invitational tour- that nobody knew these play- to the producers and director, the concerns which specialized in residential nament, which led to the sport ers had ever gone to,” Gary but the exec producer job did of people who design, facilities for the elderly, being sanctioned by the WIAA. said. One of the things they have its perks: Fred’s daughter have cancer and and commercial interiors. Jim learned while working on the Gabrielle has a small part as those who love is also a noted watercolorist, project is how influential black a pizza vendor, and another When Vern Van them. The book summarizes and his paintings are in private players were on the modern daughter, Morgan, worked on Houten ’71, the tests to expect, available and public collections. Jim tells game. “A lot of baseball today the set. M.B.A.’73, P’00 went onto the treatments, and hurdles to be us that these days he is still started in the Negro leagues,” university’s website to update surmounted, and it advises on painting, building, and writing. Gary said in the Sun story. his alumni record we learned ways to think positively and He is at work on two books: an “That is where the drag bunt, In March, Margaret that he is a master pruner of foster a more serene response illustrated children’s story and double steal, suicide squeeze, Payne ’80, M.A.’86, Japanese maples. Interest- to cancer’s trials. Carolyn is an a lesson book for architects on and the hit-and-run, which are B.Ed.’89, president of the ing, we thought, so we asked occupational therapist and the how to render images in wa- common today, came from.” Orcas Island (Wash.) Library Vern to tell us more. “My wife, author of From Ash to Fire: A tercolor. Take a look at some The Legends of The Road proj- board, wrote a guest column Connie [Archer Van Houten Contemporary Journey through of his stunning watercolors at ect is in book form now and at for the Islands’ Sounder. In it, ’72], gave me my first maple the Interior Castle of Teresa of strecker-nelsongallery.com/ the editors. Soon a documen- Margaret noted that libraries when our son, Brian, was born Avila; Carmel, Land of the Soul: james-jones. tary of the same name will be have always been a big part in 1975,” he wrote. “I put it Living Contemplatively in To- completed. of her life, from the commu- in a half whiskey barrel and day’s World; and Mystics in the nity libraries of her youth in At the college’s moved it to Mississippi in 1979 Making: Lay Women in Today’s University Place, Wash., to 42nd annual staff and back to Renton in 1983. I Master potter Reid Church. the academic libraries of her recognition luncheon in May, began collecting maples, put- Ozaki showed some Mezzo soprano Jacalyn Bower college years and career as an George Mills ’68, M.S.’72 got ting some in pots and some in of his new wood- and soda- Kreitzer performed Mahler’s English professor and college the ground. When we left our a standing ovation from fellow fired ceramic vessels at the Symphony No. 2 with the San administrator. She concluded

34 arches summer 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] by reporting on the fundraising responding to requests for pier Kinsale Insurance helps.” We also learned in the Realtor of the Year. Julie works and construction process for improvements from the cruise Company an- journal article on Curt that he out of the RE/MAX River City the Orcas library expansion. line industry, and aggressively nounced in April that Greg likes racing things. “I used to office in Hood River, Ore. She Call will lead its Management play around racing sailboats,” has been a licensed realtor Pat Scofield wrote to tell us he expanding Sea-Tac airport to Liability Division. Greg has 15 he said. “I raced vintage since 2005, after she retired has a new part-time career as meet the surging demand for years of experience in manage- sports cars for a few years. I from a career as a professional an audiobook voice artist. His increased capacity. ment liability underwriting. am making life simpler these kiteboarder on the world tour. first two titles are Newshounds, days racing mountain bikes and Julie took up kiteboarding in a ’50s pulp fiction title, and The The JBLM Northwest Guardian Jeff Austin retired cyclocross.” 1999 while in Maui. Back then Cowboy Detective: A Matter reported that James Johnson, from the U.S. Navy, the sport was new, and she of Terror. “I live in sunny Lake a U.S. Air Force major general after 30 years of service. His and her now husband, Chris Chelan,” Pat tells us, “happily and director of the Air Force’s final duty was as deputy direc- Dana Bostrom is Gilbert, were pioneers. In 2001 alone with three dogs on the Sexual Assault Prevention and tor, Joint Exercises and Training, the new executive Julie was the women’s world 3,000-acre Bear Mountain Response Office, was back at with the U.S. Strategic Air Com- director for the Orbis Cascade champion in both of the sport’s Ranch,” which was developed his old post, Joint Base Lewis- mand, Offutt Air Force Base, Alliance. Orbis is a consortium disciplines: freestyle and hang over the course of 20 years by McChord in late April to lead Neb. During his career, Jeff was serving 39 libraries at colleges time. She still holds the world his recently deceased father. an electronic countermeasures the second annual McChord and universities in Washington Field Sexual Assault Legal record for hang time (sus- officer, spending nine years in (including Puget Sound) and pended airtime) for women. Workshop. After graduating Oregon, and at the University Alexey Rudolph three EZ-6B Prowler squadrons Julie told us: “Kiteboarding in from Puget Sound, James had of Idaho. Root is the author at Naval Air Station Whidbey Is- the early days gave us the huge land, Wash. During that time he been assigned to McChord in most recently of Prepare With various capacities from 1992 The Mid-Columbia Association honor and opportunity to be conducted four carrier deploy- some of the first to kiteboard in Chess Strategy (130 pages, pa- to 1999. James told the Guard- of Realtors named Julie perback, Mongoose Press). The ments to support operations in Prochaska Gilbert its 2015 countries that had never seen the Mediterranean and the Mid- ian that his goal was to inform book is a step-by-step guide to airmen of changes to the Air help beginner- to intermediate- dle East. He was commanding officer of Training Squadron 86 Force’s SAPR program and to level players learn the common get a better understanding of This just in … elements of chess strategy. at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., and also a plankowner and the culture of McChord Field Players can practice chess with airmen. the book’s exercises and test first air boss of the USS George themselves with its end-of- H.W. Bush. He won three Navy Air Commendation Medals, two chapter quizzes. Prepare With Bill Dyer received Navy Achievement Medals, Chess Strategy is licensed by a Doctorate of Musi- the Boy Scouts three Strike/Flight Air Med- cal Arts in Music Education of America for als, three Meritorious Service at Boston University’s Com- scouts pursuing Medals, a Defense Meritorious mencement on May 14. He the chess merit Service Medal, and a Defense received a degree in music badge. Alexey Superior Service Medal. Jeff performance at Northwestern earned a Ph.D. and his wife, Rachel, have three University in 1990. Bill is direc- in education at children. tor of music at Grays Harbor UCLA. She is a In February, George Holmes College in Aberdeen, Wash. senior lecturer at The University was named to the newly cre- Sandra Skiff has opened of Texas at Dallas and was U.S. ated post of chief commercial Skiff Physical Therapy in Ska- Women’s Chess Champion in officer at Resonant, a maker of neateles, N.Y. She is an athlete 1989. radio frequency filter designs and longtime ski coach, back- REACH HIGHER Kellie Slater is founder and for mobile devices. George has ground that she draws upon for president of Two Terriers Inc., a more than 30 years of experi- her specialty in rehabbing diffi- Noah Baskett ’05, senior program officer for the Bellingham, Wash.-based busi- ence in sales and marketing in cult or complex knee injuries. Northwest Leadership Foundation, was on campus the electronics industry. Prior ness making locally produced May 6 in support of the 12th annual Washington to joining Resonant he was products for dogs, such as pure Latino Youth Summit. More than 300 students beef nutritional supplements, chief commercial officer at Curt Anderson, from across Washington state attended this year’s pumpkin peanut butter biscuits, Tigo Energy, CCO at Energous, CFO of Chef Soft- and Castile-soap shampoo. and vice president of sales at ware, is the Puget Sound summit, organized by Proyecto MoLE and titled Kellie says Two Terriers uses SolarBridge Technologies. He Business Journal’s winner “Stronger than the Struggle.” Launched in 2006 by only natural ingredients, and the earned an international business in the small private company the Northwest Leadership Foundation in Tacoma, diploma in Puget Sound’s Ny- company is committed to sus- category for 2016 CFO of the Proyecto MoLE aims to promote confidence and a enrode University, Netherlands, year. Chef is a software prod- tainable packaging and manu- positive self-concept, increase Latino attainment of facturing. Check its website at exchange. uct that streamlines the task of post-secondary education, and challenge Latinos twoterriersinc.com. In a May article, Forbes pro- configuring computer servers. filed biotech investor Robert Curt previously worked at De- to be catalysts for change through lifelong civic en- Nelsen. The article noted his loitte, Amazon, and Microsoft. gagement. As part of Puget Sound’s Tacoma Schools Ted Fick M.B.A.’84, investments in companies like Words of wisdom from Curt, Initiative, sophomore Amairany Bautista ‘19 is a recently appointed Aviron, which helped bring to courtesy PSBJ: “There is no first-generation college student and Proyecto MoLE CEO of the Port of Seattle, substitute for experience. Ap- market the now ubiquitous “emerging leader.” Last July she and Proyecto MoLE was, in March, the subject of a plying what you’ve learned nasal-spray flu vaccine, and in director Melody Rodriguez were invited to the White Seattle Business article on the Illumina, which made personal by solving problems, having House by first lady Michelle Obama to attend the daring innovations he is bring- DNA sequencing affordable. successes and failures, is what ing to port operations. These Robert made the No. 16 spot on gives you the foundation to be 2015 Beating the Odds Summit, part of the first lady’s include adopting private-sector Forbes’ Midas List of best ven- a strong manager and leader. Reach Higher Initiative. practices in the public agency, ture capitalists. Also a healthy dose of humility

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the sport: Helgoland, Germany; Perez-Verdia as its new presi- The Star Democrat Christie Gove Berg Lisa Poole Ford Morocco; France; Poland; Swe- dent and CEO. The Humanities of Maryland reports has a new book out, earned an associate den; the Dominican Republic; Forum supports artists, writ- that Talli Croker Oxnam was Maggie the One-Eyed Pere- risk management designation, Venezuela; Rarotonga. It was ers, historians, filmmakers, and named to the Chesapeake Bay grine Falcon (32 pages, paper- the knowledge from which will an incredible time in my life, other creative endeavors with Maritime Museum’s board of back; Adventure Publications). assist in her work managing being involved in an extreme a budget of more than $2.5 governors for 2016–17. Talli’s It is a book for children, telling accounts for the food sport that was brand new.” million. Kameron was raised day job is senior vice president how a rescued falcon, Maggie, processing and real estate

classmates in the Inupiaq village of Point and manager of Wye Financial became practice groups of insurance Barrow. After Puget Sound & Trust. In that role she man- part of a broker Parker, Smith & Feek. Tanya Saine he received an M.B.A. at the ages business operations and program at Lisa lives in Bellevue, Wash., Andrews, executive Daniels College of Business at development of Wye’s broker- the Wildlife with her husband, Damon, and director of the Children’s Mu- the University of Denver. He age and trust businesses. Her Center of their two children: Carson, 9, seum of Tacoma, was named previously was senior director other volunteer commitments Virginia and Kendall, 7. Non-Profit Business Leader of of education impact at United include board memberships that teaches adults and children the Year by the UW Tacoma Way of Anchorage. He contin- with Junior Achievement of about falcons. Christie’s other Milgard School of Business. ues to serve as president of Talbot County, the Women and books are Esther the Eaglet and The Daily Courier of Prescott, Ariz., re- In March the Alaska Humani- the Anchorage School Board. Girls Fund, and Talbot Country Must-See Minnesota for Fami- ports that Damon Sage moved ties Forum named Kameron Club, and she serves on the lies. his acupuncture practice to Finance Committee at Christ Sara Shininger Deboy is the Church in Easton, Md. She the Synergy Wellness Center new principal at Lake Oswego in Prescott. Damon received lives in Easton with her hus- (Ore.) Junior High School. She This just in … band, Geoff, and their children. a Master of Acupuncture and started work there on July 1. Oriental Medicine degree at Previously Sara was principal the Oregon College of Oriental At its June 7 meet- of Hallinan Elementary in Lake Medicine in Portland, Ore. ing in San Francisco Oswego. In addition to her the National Diversity Council UPS degree in writing, Sara named Nancy Hur-Crabbe to earned a doctor of education From the website its list of the Most Powerful degree at the University of Or- for Barron’s Editing and Influential Women in Cali- egon, a master’s in educational Services we learn that Julie fornia. Nancy is vice president leadership and administration Potter and her crew are in of sales at PeopleFluent, a at the University of Portland, business to spiff up the spell- human-capital management and a second bachelor’s, in ing, grammar, and comprehen- technology company. Over the education, at Western Oregon sion of anything anyone puts course of her career Nancy University. into words: school papers, has helped create companies business letters, blog posts, books, whatever. Real humans and has led three companies In January Steve through the acquisition pro- reading to improve human Bacon advanced communication. Way better, cess. She has in addition built to the position of managing and donated 16 computer labs your persnickety Arches editors director in the Dallas office of think, than autocorrect. See for West Coast schools, pro- Slalom Consulting. Steve has moting STEM education. barronseditingservice. worked with Slalom, a busi- wordpress.com. In March, Jon Matsubara was ness and technology consulting the subject of a profile in the services company, for most of Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Jon is his career, starting back when From a tweet by HOW THE MEDIA SHAPE OUR at present culinary executive Slalom had only one office, in Jeremy Briggs we director for Bloomingdale’s at Seattle. UNDERSTANDING OF RACE learn that he and the BuzzFeed Ala Moana Center in Honolulu. In May, Ben Johnson was news crew were at the White Maegan Parker Brooks ’03 teamed up with her un- Jon majored in Native Ameri- named director of sales at Hot- House in May with President dergraduate advisor and Puget Sound chair of Com- can studies while at Puget Wax Systems. HotWax is an Obama for his first-ever Face- Sound, entered law school, book Live interview. Jeremy munication Studies, Jim Jasinski, to spearhead the e-commerce platform provider and then withdrew to pursue based in Salt Lake City. is head of BuzzFeed Motion first Race, Rhetoric, and Media Symposium, held his passion: cooking. But with Pictures in New York City. on the UPS campus March 31 and April 1. Students no experience in the restaurant The Vail Daily, in Colorado, and faculty from the Northwest 5 Consortium col- business he had to start at The Salt Lake reported that Mikayla Curtis the bottom, as a dishwasher, leges presented their perspectives and research. Tribune reports that received a sustainability lead- coming in early to learn from They plan to make the experiential student learning Tim Gardner has returned ership certificate at Colorado the sous-chefs. He attended opportunity an annual rotating event between the to his old high school, Judge Mountain College in May. The the French Culinary Institute in Memorial Catholic in Salt Lake, Daily said that Mikayla has a NW5C schools—Whitman will host in 2017. Maegan New York and studied under to be its head basketball coach. master’s in negotiation, conflict is a tenure-track assistant professor in Willamette numerous celebrity chefs at After playing at Puget Sound, resolution, and peace building University’s Civic Communication and Media depart- restaurants in New York and in Tim was the first boys basket- from California State University, Hawaii. Now he has achieved ment. She is the author of two books about Fannie ball coach at Juan Diego Catho- Dominguez Hills. She is the fame of his own, having been Lou Hamer, and she is a regular contributor to sev- lic High School in Salt Lake manager of strategic impact at featured at the James Beard eral popular and academic journals. Maegan has set when it opened in 1999. He the Eagle River Youth Coalition House, in Travel magazine, in coached there for seven years, up a website with resources on Mrs. Hamer at in Edwards, Colo. Arches (summer 2012), and winning a state title in 2004, maeganparkerbrooks.com. on the Food Network and the then signed on as assistant Anthony Fioretti graduated Today show. coach at Weber State. with honors from the UCLA

36 arches summer 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] School of Dentistry on July 5. Kristi Hamilton completed learned that Adam completed a Kevin Staehly tells us that were gluten-intolerant, I began He told us: “I will commission her Ph.D. at the University of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine the Staehly family farm in East to experiment with alternative as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy California, Davis, in 2015; her degree at the University of Haddam, Conn., entered five types of baking. I now have on July 10 and will commence dissertation was titled “Gut Mi- Pennsylvania last year. After of its fruit wines in the 2016 tons of recipes that are gluten- my service to the Navy with crobiota and Barrier Function: graduation he began working Finger Lakes International free, refined sugar-free, dairy- general practice residency at Using Prebiotics to Understand at a 24-hour clinic in Portland, Wine competition, and all five free, vegan, and Paleo-friendly. the Naval Hospital at Camp the Early Consequences of a Maine., to get experience in won medals. That’s a huge While I do still post decadent Pendleton in California.” He High Fat Diet.” She is now a emergency and acute care deal. FLIWC is an international desserts, I know how difficult it and wife Victoria Trotta post-doctoral fellow at the Uni- veterinary medicine. “Next, I’d wine competition that last year is for many people to find des- Fioretti welcomed three versity of Oregon. like to start my own business drew 3,700 entries from 48 serts and baked goods that they children to the family while as a relief vet,” he said in the U.S. states and 23 countries. can eat guilt-free, while sticking Anthony was at UCLA. article. The Staehlys make their wines to their strict diets, that don’t We learn from taste like they’re gluten-free/ A story in the Tacoma News from apples and other fruits Playbill that Holly sugar-free/Paleo/vegan.” Tribune in March told how the grown right on the farm. See a Coombs was production stage Thaedra Brondum Lincoln High School men’s and selection at staehlys.com. On May 1, Justin Higa won the manager for the Broadway pro- earned an M.B.A. women’s basketball programs Tacoma City Marathon half mar- duction of Tuck Everlasting. at the Thunderbird School of have evolved into making regu- athon, with a time of 1:17:34. Global Management at Arizona Rachel Conners lar appearances in the state SeafoodNews.com reported State University in 2015. She is has made her blog, tournament. The Lincoln men’s that Brett Veerhusen stepped now a business development bakerita.com, a fulltime job. squad has been coached down as executive director of Maia Raeder is a associate with the UK Consul- Rachel says: “I’ve been baking, by Aubrey Shelton ’05, Seafood Harvesters of America summer intern at the ate-General in Boston. writing, recipe developing, and M.A.T.’06 for nine years. on April 30, after two years in Sitka Center for Art and Ecology that role. Brett returned to his photographing everything you in Otis, Ore. Sitka tries to ex- Jess K Smith is founder and family’s fishing business. Sea- see here since August of 2010. pand relationships between art, Mary Krauszer was co-artistic director of ART- food Harvesters is a national … While Bakerita started as nature, and humanity through chosen, in May, BARN, which creates original, advocacy group for commercial a full-on sugary, gluten-filled workshops, presentations, and from among 80 applicants to site-specific performance work fishermen, established in 2014. baking blog, after my sister research; sitkacenter.org. in nontraditional spaces. This be Point Defiance Park’s first and dad both discovered they year’s piece, We Remain Pre- park ranger. She’ll be encour- pared, was inspired by and per- The American aging compliance with park formed in the historic George- Academy in Rome rules, working closely with the town Steam Plant in South announced in May that it ambassador crew, supervising This just in … Seattle. Jess tells us: “Our awarded Danielle Simon an the all-volunteer Park Watch company chef, Kate Baker 11-month Rome Prize in Mod- patrol group, and leading inter- Linsley, and former producer, ern Italian Studies. Dani will be pretive nature walks and talks. Alex Peterson, are both Puget provided with room and board Mary says she is particularly Sound ’03 graduates. Last at AAR’s Rome campus and excited about a future junior year Zoe Levine Sporer ’15 a $28,000 stipend during her ranger program, which she and Tim Strauhal ’07 interned year of study. She is a Ph.D. plans to model after the Na- with us. This summer, Robin candidate in the Department of tional Park Service version. Macartney ’05 will serve Music at UC Berkeley. as our props designer, and a The San Jose team of current UPS students Mercury News in and recent alumni will join our Hannah Calkins May reported that Madison ranks as interns, assistants, tells us she gradu- Genovese was playing the and ensemble members.” ated from Georgetown Univer- lead role of Clara in Altarena’s There’s a swell Seattle Times sity on May 20 with a master’s production of The Light in the review of We Remain here: in communication, culture, and Piazza. pugetsound.edu/satorigroup. technology. Her thesis, “Queer Embodiments, Abstract Drag, and Derek Jarman’s Blue,” From the online The Daily Ranger was awarded Distinction, the version of the of Riverton, Wyo., highest honor for M.A. theses THE PLAY’S THE THING Colorado Springs Gazette we ran a feature on Courtney Kjar at Georgetown. learn that Eric Hopfenbeck is Evan Leiser ’08 recently moved to Sisters, Ore., Butterfield, who is volunteer- South Sound magazine As- helping to set up the website ing as an assistant coach for where he finished playing a leading role as Spike sistant Editor Lauren Foster for the National Cybersecurity the Riverton High boys soccer (pictured here in full costume) in a production of interviewed Puget Sound’s Center, which will open later team. Courtney was an NCAA Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike staged by new president, Isiaah Crawford this year in Colorado Springs Div. III National Soccer Player in the publication’s May/June as a cybersecurity, research, the Cascades Theatrical Company of Bend, Ore. The of the Year and two-time All- issue. education, and response facil- play, which ran March 11–26, paid homage to Chek- American when she played for ity for businesses, nonprofits, hov. Evan currently is rehearsing roles in a modern Puget Sound. “We are so lucky In its May 26 edition, the Ban- and government agencies. to have her,” said the Riverton gor, Maine., Daily News ran twist on Hamlet, in collaboration with Thoroughly Eric recently completed a two- head coach. “She brings a new a story on how veterinarian Modern Productions and Dionysus Presents, playing year leadership-development perspective, especially on the Adam Stone diagnosed a rare Bernardo and Guildenstern. The cast will perform fellowship program at the El attack, that we don’t have. She tick paralysis case in a sheltie Pomar Foundation, an organi- in several inside and outside venues in Central Or- played at the next level, gives just minutes before the dog zation that provides grants to egon. Evan invites UPSers to drop by if they’re in the pointers to the guys, and they was to be euthanized. Once nonprofit organizations in area. Contact him at [email protected]. respond.” the tick was removed, the dog fully recovered. In the story we Colorado.

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Faculty, staff, and Dame. Don returned to the of 55 years predeceased her. when Lloyd was promoted to Hall, becoming the only man friends Northwest to coach Blanchet Survivors are her daughters regional vice president of First living in an all-women’s dorm. High School’s undefeated and sons-in-laws Barry Smith Interstate Bank. Sherley quick- The couple led active lives on Bill Hobson, who taught po- boys basketball team in 1963. and David Hildebrand ’75; four ly made many new friends and campus and enjoyed intellec- litical science at Puget Sound He then coached basketball grandchildren, including Robert grew to love the area. Lifelong tual and playful opportunities for five years beginning in for the freshman team at the Hildebrand ’08; and a great- Methodists, the couple joined alike. One such playful oppor- 1974, died on March 4 at age University of Washington grandson. Chehalis Methodist Church, tunity was the Senior Sneak, 76. After a personal struggle before joining Puget Sound’s classmates where Sherley sang in the when the seniors would try to following a divorce, Bill gave program in 1969. The Loggers choir and was active in many slip away for a springtime pic- up teaching and in 1984 be- made it to the national tourna- Alumni capacities at the church. Sher- nic without being caught by the gan work as an advocate for ment in 1970, losing in the ley’s husband of 72 years; five underclass students. In previ- the homeless in Seattle with Frances Shelhamer Robin- semifinals. After losing in the children, including son Glen ous years the juniors had easily Downtown Emergency Service son ’40 died on Nov. 1, 2015. West Regional finals in 1975, Baisinger ‘69; and 12 grandchil- caught on and crashed the Center. He retired from DESC She was 96. Frances was a Puget Sound returned to the dren survive her. party, so Troy and Helen, with in 2015 after 31 years, 27 as resident of Wilsall, Mont., at tournament the following year, classmates Rosa May Monger executive director of the non- the time of her passing. Doris Becker Lundvall ’46 this time advancing relent- and Peggy Rough, were de- profit agency. Under his leader- Sherley Day Baisinger ’46, died on Feb. 10 at the age of lessly to the finals. The team’s termined to devise a strategy ship the Housing First model P’69 died on Mother’s Day, 93. She was born in Kirkland, upset win over Old Dominion for a successful Sneak. They was introduced, providing May 8, 2016, at the age of 93. Wash., and graduated from made UPS the first college recruited drivers without telling dignified housing for long-term Sherley grew up in Tacoma and high school there in 1940. from Washington to win an them the date or destination. homeless individuals. At first graduated in 1941 from Sta- In 1942 she married Ralph NCAA basketball title at any They secretly set the date controversial, the approach has dium High School. At CPS she Lundvall ’44, and they were level. The News Tribune article earlier than usual and waited become the dominant service was active in drama and with together for 72 years before announcing Coach Zech’s until the night before to notify method promoted in national Spurs and was a member of Pi Ralph’s passing in 2014. They passing stated that he was too seniors through a system of policy regarding homelessness. Beta Phi fraternity for women. celebrated their 70th wedding ill to make the on-campus 40- notes shown quietly to them. Bill realized early on that a lack She married Lloyd Baisinger anniversary with their family year anniversary celebration in The next morning, while ju- of a stable housing arrange- ’45 in 1944. As with so many on Whidbey Island, Wash., March, although he was able niors were heading to chapel ment aggravates other difficul- others of her generation, where the two resided. Sur- to talk to his former players via in Jones Hall, seniors got into ties such as mental illness, World War II interrupted her vivors include three children, Skype. Survivors include Don’s cars and headed to a desig- addiction, and developmental education, but she returned five grandchildren, two great- wife, Carol, and six children. nated waypoint where they disorders. His vision trans- to Puget Sound to graduate in grandchildren, and her twin would learn their final destina- formed an emergency shelter Aileen Albertson passed 1946 with a degree in sociol- sisters. tion: Lake Goodwin, northwest in Seattle’s Morrison Hotel away on Feb. 26 at the age of ogy. After Lloyd returned from Helen Solid Strong ’47, of Seattle. “Teach” Jones into the most comprehensive 93. She was the widow of Pro- the war, he and Sherley settled P’69,’72,’76, GP’94,’11,’13 inspired them to participate in homeless services provider in fessor of Religion Robert Alb- in Tacoma, where their first died at her home at Wesley the choral reading group and the region. DESC now serves ertson ’44. Aileen was beloved three children were born. Mov- Terrace on March 5. She was perform in the The Skin of Our more than 8,000 individuals by generations of Puget Sound ing to Kent in 1952, the family 97. Her parents grew up on Teeth. After graduation, when a year, along with providing students who took part in the was completed with two more Whidbey Island and raised Troy became a Methodist min- 1,000 units of supportive Pacific Rim-Asia Study Pro- children. Sherley was active in Helen and her three siblings in ister, Helen enjoyed the cama- housing at 11 sites throughout grams that she led with Bob, the Kent community and was Seattle. She attended Queen raderie of other ministers and Seattle and King County. Bill beginning in 1973. She also involved in elementary PTA for Anne High School and gradu- their spouses. She sang in the often said: “There is no such served as an advisor to Mortar more than 20 years. She also ated from the University of choir and helped bring wit and thing as a throwaway person.” Board on campus and was a was a dedicated volunteer for Washington School of Nursing, humor to various programs in A memorial was held on June longtime member of Women’s the March of Dimes and the later serving as chief surgery the church. They raised three 30 at Seattle City Hall. League. After Bob’s retire- Children’s Orthopedic Soci- nurse at Swedish Hospital. She children, John ’69; Barbara ’72; ment in 1987, he and Aileen ety. Family and friends were Don Zech P’84 died on March was active in Seattle’s then- and Jeff ‘76, P’11, P’13 and remained active in campus ac- a delight to Sherley, and she 22. He was 83. Don coached First Methodist Church, where enjoyed many camping trips to tivities until his death in 2007. had a wide circle of both. From the 1976 Logger men’s bas- she met Troy Strong ‘47, who the mountains and beaches of At that time Aileen moved to family gatherings at their cabin ketball team to the NCAA Divi- had arrived from Kentucky to the Pacific Northwest. Helen’s Maryland to be closer to her on Fox Island, Wash., to fish- sion II National Championship. work as a draftsman at The connection with the college daughter and her family, who ing vacations with family and According to the college’s Boeing Company during World remained strong throughout survive her. friends at La Push, Wash., she Hall of Fame information, he War II. Their friendship deep- her life, as an alumna, donor, managed to have fun wherever amassed a 405-196 career Phyllis Glenn Rutherford ened as they worked together and parent. She was active she found herself. In addition coaching record in his 21 years P’74, P’76, GP’08 passed in the church’s young-adult in the Women’s League. Her to being a wonderful cook, she with the Puget Sound program, away on April 14 at age 95. group. They married in Sep- three children and three of her was a tireless reader who was including 11 20-plus winning She was department secretary tember 1943. At the conclu- four grandchildren attended never without a book, and an seasons, 11 post-season ap- in the college’s sciences offic- sion of his Boeing work, Troy Puget Sound. pearances, and two Great es, after first raising her daugh- avid bridge player. At age 40 was drafted into the Army. Northwest Conference titles. ters, Carol Rutherford Smith she took up golf when she and During this time President He coached 10 NBA-drafted ’74 and Theresa Rutherford Lloyd joined Meridian Valley Thompson, invited Helen to players. Don was a four-time Hildebrand ’76, P’08. Phyllis Country Club. Her happiest enroll at CPS and, to assist West Coast Coach of the grew up in Raymond, Wash., golfing moment was when she with expenses, housed her Year, twice awarded GNC and moved to Tacoma, where made a hole in one at Riverside in Anderson Hall and put her Coach of the Year, and was she graduated from Lincoln Golf Club in Chehalis, Wash. to work as the college nurse, the NABC National Coach of High School. She married Wil- Sherley remained an avid assisting Charles Trimble, the the Year in 1976. As a youth liam Rutherford in 1941. She sports fan until late in life and campus physician for whom he was a three-sport standout enjoyed cooking, entertaining, rarely missed a broadcast of a Trimble Hall is named. When at Sumner, Wash., and went painting, singing, dancing, Mariners game. In 1975 Lloyd Troy returned, he joined Helen on to the University of Notre and travel. Phyllis’ husband and Sherley moved to Chehalis in the basement of Anderson Troy and Helen Strong in 1942

38 arches summer 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] Troy Strong ’48, Hon.’69, ginning as associate pastor at Washington, D.C., for many ucation, launching his 29-year She spent time in Sun Valley, P’69,’72,’76, GP’94,’11,’13 Seattle First Methodist, where years. Marj later volunteered career as a teacher at Manitou Idaho, enjoying the summer died May 25 in Des Moines, he had met Helen years before. with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Elementary School in Tacoma. symphony and jazz programs Wash., at the age of 93. He His mentor there was Cy Alb- Research Center in Seattle, Through a chance encounter and skiing nearby Bald Moun- was raised in Kentucky, and ertson, whose son, Bob Albert- using art therapy with children on a McNeil Island beach, Jim tain into her 80s. Gwen was after he attended the Univer- son, would later launch Puget undergoing bone marrow met Tacoma General Hospital active in Junior League, the Ta- sity of Kentucky College of Sound’s Pacific Rim study transplants. When her own nursing student Jeannette Mae coma Art Museum, the Tacoma Engineering, The Boeing Com- program. As Troy’s ministry children were in high school, Smith, whom he married in Garden Club, the Aloha Club, pany recruited him in 1942 to progressed, he developed a she began to study sculpture at 1949. He passed along his love Lakewold Gardens, the Wash- design the equipment needed variety of programs focused on the University of Washington. of the outdoors to his young ington State Arts Commission, to mass-produce the B-17 family life, including a six-week Back problems made work- family, and he constructed two and the Lakewood Republican aircraft. His workstation was School of Family Living and an ing in bronze and stone dif- family retreats, one a beach Women’s Club. Gwen’s hus- on display until recently, in the annual Family Camp at Sea- ficult, so she turned to paper. getaway at Pirate’s Cove and band of 65 years, Stanley Carl- Red Barn at Boeing’s Museum beck. He also appeared weekly Arches featured Marj’s work the other a cabin at Crystal son ’50; three children; and five of Flight. Upon arriving in Seat- on a Seattle television pro- in a profile titled “Paper Trail” River Ranch. His family en- grandchildren survive her. tle, he visited then-First Meth- gram, responding to viewers’ in summer 2004. She made joyed beachcombing, water Coral Venske Luzzi ’50, P’86 odist Church and found the questions on love, marriage, paper pulp from every imagin- skiing, snow skiing, puzzles, passed away on March 24 woman he would marry and and family problems. Troy able material, from flax to blue and games. A granddaughter at age 87. She was born in a world of ideas that became was pastor in these United jeans. Marj’s work ranged from preceded Jim in death. His Manhattan, N.Y. Coral came the foundation of his life’s Methodist Churches: Seattle tribal-type masks to large-scale beloved wife of 67 years; two to Tacoma with her family and work. The church’s “university First, Skyway, Tibbetts in West folding screens made from children, including James All- graduated from Lincoln High of life” program was a far cry Seattle, Mason in Tacoma, layers of paper produced using phin II ’76; two grandchildren; School in 1945 as her class’ from the repressive fire and Vancouver First, and Shelton. a pulp-spray technique and a and one great-grandson sur- secretary. She also was a Lin- brimstone he had experienced He also served six years as sandblasting gun. Gallery Mack vive him. coln Letter Lassie. She earned as a boy, and Troy was delight- district superintendent of the and Melolini and Amici, both Hazel Butt Wallace ’49 died an RN degree through the CPS ed to find thoughtful insights Columbia River District. Troy in Seattle, represented her art- on May 12. She was 91. Hazel program with Tacoma General into all aspects of life: mental, was elected a trustee of the work. Her husband of 64 years, was a Stadium High School Hospital School of Nursing. physical, spiritual, and social. University of Puget Sound, and Robert, predeceased her in graduate and attended Knapp’s She met and married Jim Luzzi Among the many friends he at Commencement in 1969, death. Two children and five Business College and CPS. ’50, with whom she had five made was Helen Solid, who then-President Thompson con- grandchildren survive Marj. She was employed with the St. daughters. They raised their shared his enthusiasm and ferred an honorary Doctor of John Tollefson ’48 passed Paul/St. Regis Paper Co., Cari- children in Fircrest, Wash., and knack for leadership. They Divinity degree upon Troy. Mo- away on April 4, one month bou Pacific Forest Products, later divorced. Coral’s greatest were married in September ments later, Troy awarded the shy of his 91st birthday. John and later at the Tacoma News joy was her daughters. She also 1943. Troy became involved Bachelor of Arts degree to his served in the Navy during Tribune, retiring from there in liked the outdoors, dogs, beach with the Pacific Northwest son John. Over the years, Troy World War II. He was a long- 1991. She and husband John combing, the theater, reading, College Congress, an organiza- also handed parchment to his time member of the Fircrest “Jay” Wallace ’52 traveled and arts and crafts. Coral was tion of students representing son, Jeff ’76, P’11, P’13 and to Golf Club and Redeemer Lu- a lot in retirement and also an accomplished pianist and 34 colleges tackling concerns granddaughters Jenifer Strong theran Church. John was proud enjoyed gardening, the beach, enjoyed music and singing. She for lasting peace in a postwar Norwood ’94, Emily Strong ’11, of his Norwegian heritage and crossword puzzles, and playing enjoyed living at the Tacoma world. Troy was one of two and Laura Strong ’13. valued his family and many cards. Her family and friends Lutheran Home for the last sev- delegates selected to bring the Special thanks to Jeff Strong friendships. Two daughters, remember Hazel as a com- eral years of her life. Survivors organization’s resolutions be- ’76 for providing these remem- four grandchildren, and two passionate, caring, and witty include her five daughters, in- fore the American dele-gation brances about his parents. great-grandchildren survive person. Her husband preceded cluding Cindy Luzzi Gier ’86; 14 to the United Nations. He was John. her in death. Two sons, six grandchildren; and five great- present at the opening session Wilbur Barker ’48 passed grandchildren, and eight great- grandchildren. of the United Nations and be- away on May 12. He was 92. James Allphin ’49, ’60, P’76 grandchildren survive Hazel. came acquainted with Eleanor Wilbur was born and lived passed away on March 12 H. Bruce Rector ’50 died on Roosevelt, who later hosted most of his life in Lakewood, at age 92. He spent his early Gweneth Roberts Carlson April 4 at the age of 89. He was him and his group in her living Wash., graduating from Clover years in Aloha, Ore., before ’50 passed away at home in born in Bagley, Iowa, and came room. Shortly after gradua- Park High School. He proudly moving to McNeil Island, Lakewood, Wash., on May 7. west with his family as a young tion from CPS, Troy and Helen served in the U.S. Army during Wash., where his stepfather She was 88. Gwen was a 1946 boy. He served in the Navy and headed for Hope, N.J., where World War II. When he reserved as a custodial officer graduate of R.A. Long High then attended UPS, where he Troy earned a Bachelor of Di- turned from the war he worked for the corrections center. Jim School in Longview, Wash. met his wife, Patty Voshmik vinity degree at Drew Theologi- in the paper industry until his graduated from Clover Park She earned her degree in ’50. The two were married in cal Seminary and served retirement. Wilbur enjoyed High School in Lakewood, journalism at Puget Sound and 1950. Bruce was employed as as pastor of two Metho- hunting, gardening, and fish- Wash., and then attended went on to attend the Univer- an underwriter in the insurance dist churches. He also earned ing, and he was an advocate Washington State University. sity of Oregon. Gwen worked industry for most of his life. a certificate in marriage and for salmon protection through His studies were interrupted by in advertising in Olympia, He liked working so much, he family counseling from the Uni- enhancement organizations World War II, during which he Yakima, and Aberdeen, Wash., ended up retiring three times. versity of Pennsylvania School and activities. His wife pre- served in the 275th Engineer before settling in Lakewood. Bruce enjoyed time with his of Psychiatry. This was a new ceded him in death. Survivors Combat Battalion. When he re- She realized her heart wasn’t family and in retirement spent field at the time, and it fit nicely include a son, a stepson, and turned from the war, he earned interested in advertising and most of his time with his with his view of the church as five grandchildren. a degree in business admini- began helping her friends with grandchildren. In 2002 Patty stration at Puget Sound. Jim interior design needs. This led predeceased Bruce. Survivors a nurturing place where people Marjorie Venter Hurlow ’48 then worked for eight years to her owning and operating include his two daughters, two are empowered to improve died on April 9 at the age of 88 as a credit manager for B.F. Antiques and Interiors. Gwen grandchildren, a great-grand- their own lives and the world on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Goodrich Co. in Tacoma and had passions for art, travel, daughter, and two siblings, around them. Troy joined the She worked as an occupa- Spokane, Wash. He returned to tennis, hiking, skiing, and most including Clark Rector ’59. Pacific Northwest Conference tional therapist on Long Island, UPS to earn a bachelor’s in ed- of all, her family and friends. of the Methodist Church, be- N.Y., and in Baltimore and

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Jack Shaughnessy ’50 died alumnus. Chuck was married their dream home on Fox Is- Service Medal, Air Medal with longtime member of Fircrest on April 23. He was 90. Jack to his first wife, Bette, for 25 land, Wash., and enjoyed more One Oak Leaf Cluster, Com- Golf Club, where he espe- was born and raised in Tacoma years, and the two had three than 30 years working in their mendation Medal with One cially enjoyed playing with his and was drafted into the Navy children. His joys included time garden. Don was a master gar- Oak Leaf Cluster, and Legion brother-in-law and best friend, at the beginning of his senior at his beach house, antique dener and grew dahlias, peo- of Merit. He retired at age 50 John Sinkovich ’53 (deceased). year of high school. He served cars and telephones, skiing, nies, and fruits and vegetables. to Dockton, Wash., on Vashon Joe was an avid supporter of as an aviation bombsight and and especially time with family He also enjoyed raising mason Island, where he was a mem- Quota International of Tacoma,

classmates fire control specialist third and friends. Chuck volunteered bees as pollinators. Don’s wife ber of the Vashon Golf and a nonprofit empowering wom- class. Discharged in 1946, with many service organiza- of 65 years, three children, six Country Club for more than 30 en, children, and hearing- and Jack received his high school tions. Survivors include his grandchildren, and four great- years. Chuck enjoyed traveling speech-impaired individuals. diploma from Lincoln High partner of 28 years, Marilyn; grandchildren survive him. and was an avid boater. He Survivors include his wife of 62 School in Tacoma. He contin- three children, including Liza Albert “Ted” Vaughan ’53 was the proud owner of a 1973 years, two children, two grand- ued his education at Puget Jorgenson Lane ’83; 18 grand- passed away on March 25. He Chris-Craft and was a member children, and sister-in-law Mary Sound, earning a bachelor’s children; and a large extended was 85. Born and raised in Ta- of the Quartermaster Yacht Vlahovich Sinkovich ’56. degree in geology. Jack’s family. coma, Ted invested his entire Club. Survivors include his William Howard ’56 died on career as a geologist took him Van Lowry ’51 died on March life in the Tacoma community. companion of 12 years, Nancy April 19, 10 days prior to his and his family to Wyoming, 29 at age 86. Born and raised He was a graduate of Lincoln Berry; four children; six grand- 88th birthday. Bill graduated Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, in Tacoma, he attended area High School, and he was a children; and his former wife. from Stadium High School and Alaska, and Texas. He enjoyed schools and graduated from member of Sigma Nu frater- Royal LaPlante Jr.’54, joined the U.S. Air Force, serv- 59 years as a private pilot, Stadium High School. Van nity while at Puget Sound. M.Ed.’59 passed away on April ing as a tail gunner on B-29 owning five airplanes over the went on to earn a D.D.S. from Ted worked part time through 29, at his home in Point Defi- bombers. After the service he years. Jack’s wife of 66 years, the University of Washington high school and college at ance Retirement Village. He earned his degree at Puget Shirley, whom he met at a School of Dentistry. He prac- his family’s lumber business, was 86. Roy was raised in the Sound and worked for the next skating rink; three children; six ticed dentistry for many years. started by his father. Ted later fishing community of Salmon 25 years in the Clover Park grandchildren; and three great- Van’s wife predeceased him. purchased the lumberyard and Beach, Wash. He was a 1947 School District as an English grandchildren survive him. He is survived by two children operated it on South Tacoma graduate of Stadium High teacher and later as vice princi- Stanley Worswick ’50 passed and their families. Way until 1996. Vaughan’s School. Roy then enlisted in pal at Hudtloff and Mann junior away in February 2016 at the Wilson Plummer ’51 was Building Materials expanded to the Marines, serving on Guam high schools. Following his ca- age of 88. He grew up during 88 years old when he passed four separate locations under from 1947 to 1949. He met his reer in education, Bill managed the Great Depression and left away on Dec. 23, 2015. He Ted’s leadership. He was ac- future wife, Joanne, at a frater- condominiums on Maui before high school before graduating. was a graduate of Stadium tive in professional organiza- nity party on George Washing- retiring to the Oakbrook area of After his honorable discharge High School and was a mem- tions including the Tacoma ton’s birthday, Feb. 22, 1952. Lakewood, Wash. Bill’s wife, from the U.S. Army, he earned ber of Sigma Chi fraternity Lumbermen’s Club and Hoo The two were married on Oct. Gloria, predeceased him. Two his GED and was the first at CPS. Wilson served in the Hoo International. Ted also 3 that same year and traveled children, seven grandchildren, member of his family to gradu- Navy during World War II and was a craftsman and built two the world with Roy’s work as and five great-grandchildren ate from college. Stan went later was employed in the homes. His interests included an educator with the Depart- survive Bill. on to earn a J.D. from Harvard golf, travel, and big band and lumber industry in Oregon. His ment of Defense schools in Dennis Heinrick ’58 died on Law School and enjoyed a jazz music. Ted was a lifetime wife, Donna Lee; four children; Italy, Germany, and Spain. March 3 at age 82. He was distinguished 40-year career member of Fircrest Golf Club sister Charlotte Plummer Med- In 1968 he earned a Ph.D. in born in Tacoma and attended as assistant secretary of state, and enjoyed meeting the “soup lock ’47, P’78; brother-in-law education at Washington State Stadium High School. Dennis adjunct law professor, Pierce group” for lunch each week. Robert Medlock ’46, P’78; and University and worked as an served as an Army M.P. during County Superior Court judge, His wife, two daughters, three nephew Gary Medlock ’78 administrative assistant for the Korean War. He returned and as a Division II judge with grandchildren, and five great- survive him. the Longview, Wash., school to Tacoma and attended CPS the Washington Court of Ap- grandchildren survive him. district. Roy then served as to earn a degree in education. peals. He married Ann Geer Richard Carter ’52 died in Charles Goforth ’54 died superintendent of schools in Dennis taught in Kent, Wash., ’72, his wife of 62 years. Stan March at the age of 90. He is on June 24, 2015, at age 86. Chelan, Concrete, and Fair- for two years before moving to enjoyed many outdoor activi- remembered as a kind, loving, He was born in Seattle and field, Wash. He completed Blaine, Wash., where he taught ties, including climbing all the and generous husband, fa- graduated from Lowell High his career with the Depart- for 28 years. He had a success- glacial peaks in Washington ther, and grandfather. Richard School in San Francisco. At ment of Defense in Spain and ful coaching career in Blaine state, including Mount Rainier enjoyed playing golf with his Puget Sound he was a mem- Germany, retiring in 1992. In and led the basketball team to five times. He also enjoyed friends. His wife of 56 years, ber of Theta Chi fraternity and retirement Roy pursued his- the state tournament twice. sailing and cruising inland wa- Marjorie, preceded him in a cadet in the ROTC program. torical fiction writing, including Dennis also coached football terways in the region and snow death. Two daughters, four Chuck graduated as a second his Myrtlewood Grove Trilogy. and track during his time in skied into his 80s. Stan was grandchildren, and a great- lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Joanne preceded Roy in death Blaine. He worked as an im- a drummer in various musical grandchild survive Richard. Chuck and Joanne Olson were in 2012. Three sons and five migration officer at the U.S./ groups, among them a Scot- Donald Maitland ’52 died married on campus by then- grandchildren survive him. Canada border for seven years. tish pipe band and jazz trio. His at age 86 on Feb. 17. He was President R. Franklin Thomson Joseph Marcelia ’55 passed Dennis’ second wife, Patricia family remembers his determi- born at home in Orting, Wash. in 1954. Chuck’s military ca- away on April 16 at age 86. preceded him in death. Two nation and spirit. His wife and Don graduated from Stadium reer spanned 31 years. In 1975 Born in Tacoma, he attended children, two grandchildren, three sons survive him. High School, where he was he was chosen for Air War Col- Bellarmine Preparatory School. two great-grandchildren, two Charles Jorgenson ’51, P’83 active in sports. At Puget lege in Montgomery, Ala. His Joe met his wife, Beverly stepdaughters, two stepgrand- died on March 14. He was 86. Sound he played basketball final assignment was as direc- Sinkovich ’51, through a neigh- children, and his former wife Chuck was a Tacoma native for four years, and he had the tor of equipment, electronic borhood friend. The two were survive him. great good fortune of meeting and graduated from Stadium warfare, and munitions at Air married in 1953. After college Larry Josties ’58, P’93 and marrying Ruby McIntosh High School. At Puget Sound Force Logistics Command in Joe had a long career with passed away on March 5. He ’53. He had a 45-year career as he joined Phi Delta Theta fra- Dayton, Ohio. Chuck received Sears, Roebuck & Co. His was 79. Larry was a retired an insurance agent with New ternity and remained an active many service awards and hon- two favorite activities were teacher. His wife, Maria; two York Life Insurance Co. Don member of the group as an ors, including the Meritorious traveling and golf. He was a stepsons, including Marco Beal and Ruby designed and built

40 arches summer 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] ’93; two grandchildren; two his coaching career were two University and Texas Christian stores in sales and creating dis- of her Puyallup, Wash., home. sisters; and other extended back-to-back state 4A football University before being drafted plays. Cynthia Ann’s husband, Linda’s husband, Jon Hepfer, family survive him. championships in 1979 and into the Army. In 1959 he was two daughters, and two grand- survives her. 1980. He was the first coach Keith Phillips ’60 died on stationed at then-Fort Lewis children survive her. Tommy Brown ’67 passed in Washington state to ever near Tacoma, where he met his Feb. 17 at the age of 79. James Terada ’65 passed away on Feb. 11 at age 70, win consecutive titles. George future wife. They were married He was born in Great Falls, away on Aug. 21, 2015. He was after a long struggle with pan- was active in the Washington in June 1960. Nathan was dis- Mont. Keith married Barbara born in Tokyo in 1930. Jim’s creatic cancer. He grew up on Interscholastic Activities Asso- charged in August that same Brooks in 1956. After college life was shaped by World War a fruit orchard near Monitor, ciation and the National Inter- year and enrolled in the busi- he worked as a manager for II, after which he was hired as Wash., and graduated from scholastic Athletic Administra- ness administration program Dun & Bradstreet before es- an interpreter for the U.S. Army Wenatchee High School. At tors Association. He was also at UPS. He then went to work tablishing his own executive Occupation Forces. Sponsored Puget Sound Tom affiliated a six-time past president of the for the W.T. Grant Company, recruiting business in Portland, by Army officers, Jim came with Theta Chi fraternity. Upon Tacoma Pierce County Chapter managing stores in Washing- Ore. He moved to Vashon to Tacoma in 1959 and earned graduation he earned a com- of the National Football Foun- ton, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Island, Wash., in 1992 to be his bachelor’s degree at Puget mission in the U.S. Air Force. dation, and a two-time past and California. Nathan also with Andrea Wall and her two Sound. He went on to earn Tom flew fighter and trainer president of the Tacoma Athlet- was a corporate trainer for new sons. Keith and Andrea moved an M.B.A. at Pacific Lutheran aircraft for nearly 30 years, ic Commission. George’s wife employees. After 12 years with to North Bend, Ore., in 2002. University in 1968, and a Ph.D. accumulating 4,000 flying of 55 years, three children, and the company, he went to work Keith was a master gardener, at the University of Colorado, hours, including more than six grandchildren survive him. in his father-in-law’s fishing and he enjoyed fishing, wood- Boulder, in 1979. There he also 400 combat hours in Vietnam business in Hoquiam, Wash. working, and sports. Survivors Charles Longen ’62 passed met his wife of 43 years, Rose in 1969. He earned several When the buildings were ac- include Andrea; her two sons; away on March 29 at age 77. Marie. Jim taught management awards, among them the Le- quired by Cascade Floral, Na- Keith’s two children; four He received the Boys and and finance at Front Range gion of Merit, Distinguished than worked for Cascade until grandchildren; and his former Girls Club of Tacoma award Community College for 27 Flying Cross, 11 Air Medals, the company ceased operation. spouse. for outstanding achievement years. He was honored in 1987 and fiver Meritorious Service in 1950 and graduated from He enjoyed golfing all of his Medals. Tom’s final assign- Eugene Adams ’61 passed as community college Teacher Stadium High School in 1956. life until health problems kept ment was with the Air Force away on April 19. He was 81. of the Year. Jim served as the Chuck then joined the Marine him off the course. He also survival school at Fairchild Air Eugene was born in Bridge- first president of then-Teikyo Corps. After military service spent much of his time with Force Base near Spokane, port, Calif., moving with his Loretto Heights University in he earned his teaching degree his children and grandchildren. Wash. He retired with the rank family to Tacoma, where Denver before returning to at Puget Sound and taught in Nathan’s wife, Twila; three of colonel. Tom married his he attended school through his teaching career. He also Pierce County for 30 years. sons; three grandchildren; and high school sweetheart, Mary junior high. His family then co-founded a consulting busi- In retirement Chuck started three foster granddaughters Jane Roberts. The two enjoyed moved to Graham, Wash., ness for corporate executives, two businesses but finally survive him. living in Arizona, where they where they owned and oper- providing cross-cultural training ceased working to travel more. wintered each year, and they ated General Mercantile and David Atkinson ’65 passed for those wishing to do busi- He enjoyed horses and was traveled extensively. Tom was Hardware. Gene graduated away at home on Feb. 26, one ness in Japan. He served as an involved in thoroughbred rac- a life member of the National from Kapowsin High School month prior to his 74th birth- adjunct faculty member for the ing for many years. Chuck is Rifle Association, Air Force in 1952. He served in the U.S. day. From UPS he went on to University of Denver in its Un- remembered for his generosity Association, Military Officers Army, returning to Tacoma to earn a Ph.D. at the University derstanding America Program and eagerness to help others. Association of America, Order attend college. Gene worked of Maryland in 1972. While and the Japanese Exchange His partner, Janet Larson; her of Daedalians, and the Veter- for several hardware compa- working on his doctorate, Da- and Teaching Program. Due to family; Chuck’s two children; ans of Foreign Wars. He also nies but found his passion in vid clerked for U.S. Supreme prominent family ties, Jim was and one granddaughter survive volunteered many hours as sailboats and sailing. He was a Court Justice William O. Doug- instrumental in helping create him. a guardian ad litem and with longtime and active member of las. He became a professor of the sister-statehood relation- Honor Flight. Survivors include San Juan 21 Fleet 1. Gene and John Nofzinger ’62 died on political science at the Univer- ship between Colorado and his wife of 45 years. wife Liz cruised extensively April 8. He was 75. John was sity of Arizona and then taught Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. through the San Juans and Ca- born in Seattle and was affiliat- at Pacific Lutheran University In 2001 he received the Order Thomas Burwell ’67 passed nadian waters. His wife, three ed with Phi Delta Theta frater- for 17 years, eventually becom- of the Rising Sun Medal, Gold away in March 2016. He was children, two grandchildren, nity while at Puget Sound. He ing dean of the graduate school and Silver Rays, awarded by 72. Tom was born in San and three great-grandchildren began his career in the grocery at PLU. He completed his the Japanese government for Francisco and graduated from survive him. products industry with Nalley career in education as dean of distinguished achievement Olympia High School in 1962. Fine Foods in Tacoma. John the School of Economics at the in international relations and Tom was a member of Kappa George Nordi ’61 died on moved on to the Carnation University of Helsinki in Fin- promotion of Japanese culture. Sigma fraternity at UPS. He March 9 after 24 years with Company for 23 years and then land. David’s interests included Jim’s wife, two daughters, enjoyed outdoor activities and congestive heart failure. He went to work for Con-Agra, hiking, biking, and travel. His one granddaughter, two great- is remembered for his devo- was 78. George was a native retiring in 2005. From a young wife, Dixie; two children; five grandchildren, and other ex- tion to his family and friends. Tacoman, graduating from Bel- age John enjoyed boating, wa- grandchildren; and one great- tended family survive him. Tom’s wife of 37 years, Jenny, larmine Preparatory School in ter sports, and salmon fishing. grandchild survive him. survives him. 1955. He attended Gonzaga Linda Ellefson ’66 died on In retirement he spent sum- University, the University of Cynthia Ann Anderson Jan. 16. She was 72. Born and James Burg ’70 died on April mers on Fox Island, Wash., and Washington, and graduated Jonasen ’65 was killed in a raised in Tacoma, Linda gradu- 1 at 69 years of age. He grew Septembers in Hawai`i. His from UPS. George earned a car accident near her home in ated from Franklin Pierce High up in Tacoma and attended son, John Jr., preceded him master’s in physical education Davis, Calif., on Feb. 24, nine School in 1961. She earned her Wilson High School. After in death. Survivors include his at Oregon State University in days prior to her 72nd birthday. degree in occupational therapy graduating from Puget Sound, wife of 53 years, a daughter, 1963 and spent his entire 35- Cynthia Ann worked as a social and served as an occupational Jim enjoyed a career in em- and three grandchildren. year teaching and coaching worker in Seattle and later as therapist in the Sumner School ployee relations, during which career at Mount Tahoma High James Nathan Lewis ’63 died a juvenile probation officer for District for 20 years. Linda is he developed many deep and School in Tacoma. He coached on April 17 at age 80. Nathan Yolo County in California. After especially remembered for her lasting friendships. He was boys’ swimming, tennis, wres- was born and raised in Knox retiring from the county, she successful efforts to preserve passionate about community tling, and football. Highlights of City, Texas, attending Baylor worked in downtown Davis the large artesian pond west and volunteered his time and

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talents at the Broadway Center 62 years, Lillie Moody, pre- Army, earned his degree at than 70 years. Annie was a Lin- sity, Long Beach, for 12 years. for the Performing Arts, Rotary ceded him in death in 2014. He Puget Sound, and then worked coln High School graduate;she Carl then taught at the U.S. Club of Tacoma, and the St. leaves three children and four for The Boeing Company. At earned her degree in education National Defense University for Charles Food Bank. Jim en- grandchildren. retirement he was working at Puget Sound. She taught 14 years. Throughout his teach- joyed reading, especially about Donald Clark ’72 passed away for the federal government in in the Tacoma Public Schools ing career he also maintained American history and the Civil on May 9. He was 86. Don Washington, D.C. Doc took for more than 40 years. Annie an IT program management War. He also enjoyed cooking was born in Shelton, Wash., pride in his Irish heritage and especially enjoyed teaching consulting business. He was a classmates and listening to Bob Dylan, and and served in the Army for 25 marched in the St. Patrick’s kindergarten-age children. She member of Rotary and Kiwanis he was a loyal Oakland Raiders years. He married his wife, Day parade each year. He also was active in the community International and supported the fan. Jim and wife Ann Polluck Jean, after a two-and-a-half- enjoyed Christmas and dressed as a member of Zeta Phi Beta Boy Scouts and the American Johnson-Burg ’69 enjoyed trav- month courtship while sta- up as Santa Claus. Two siblings sorority, the Matrons Club, Cancer Society. Carl’s former el and entertaining. Survivors tioned in Georgia. They were and numerous nieces and Order of the Eastern Star, The wife, four daughters, and two include Ann, his four children, together for 67 years. Don nephews survive Doc. American Legion, and the granddaughters survive him. and eight grandchildren. Martin Luther King Progres- served in Korea and Vietnam, Greg McCollum ’73 was 65 Brian Threlkeld ’83 sends sive Women’s Club. Annie’s Byron Stauffer ’70 passed retiring at the rank of major. years old when he passed this remembrance about his husband and youngest son away in March at age 74. He After retiring from military away on March 17. He grew former classmate: “Zachary preceded her in death. Four grew up in Tacoma and gradu- service, Don began a second up in Lynnwood, Wash., and Hill ’80 passed away Feb. 25 children survive her. ated from Wilson High School. career as a sixth-grade teacher graduated from Meadowdale at the age of 58. Zach was a He was Washington state’s in the Clover Park School Dis- High School in 1969. Greg was Audrey Hori ’76 died on Logger football captain for the first All American swimmer. trict at Parkway Elementary on a standout athlete in football, April 18 at age 86. She was 1980 season (my third year). Byron was a retired school- then-Fort Lewis Army Base. basketball, and baseball, earn- born and raised in California, He was a stalwart anchor end teacher and swim coach, and While teaching he met Phil, a ing All Western Conference and earned her degree in oc- in the 5-2 slant defense, a he worked for Metro Parks student in foster care. In 1979 recognition in basketball for cupational therapy. She lived tremendous leader, and just a Tacoma for 21 years. He also Don and his family made the two years, All Western Con- in Tacoma for nearly 40 years great guy. Zach was also a star was a talented carpenter and decision to adopt Phil. In retire- ference in baseball for three while raising her family. Audrey (with future Logger standouts artist. Survivors include three ment Don helped Jean with years, and All State in baseball is remembered for her wit Wyatt Baker and Keith Brown) children, three grandchildren, her rhododendron and azalea for 1968 and 1969. He also and beautiful flower gardens. on Henry Foss High School’s and two siblings. business. He was past presi- was awarded Athlete of the Survivors are her two children, 1975 4A state champion foot- dent of the Olympia, Wash., Mary Morency Means ’71 Year his senior year in high four grandchildren, and former ball team. He was a kind and chapter of the American Rho- passed away on March 24. school. Greg attended UPS spouse. gentle man off the field, but dodendron Society. Don en- She was 87. Mary was born on a baseball scholarship and Nancy Ragon ’77 passed on it, he was a ferocious com- joyed fishing, hunting, bowling, and raised in Oak Park, Ill., played first base for four years, away on April 3. She was 61. petitor who hit like a wrecking listening to music, and reading. graduating from high school ranking among the best NCAA Nancy was raised in San Ber- ball. Zach had a tremendously An infant son and his wife pre- there. She obtained her private Division II college batsmen. He nardino, Calif., graduating from generous heart; he was greatly deceased Don. Three children, pilot’s license while she was was drafted by the Boston Red San Gorgonio High School. She loved by his teammates and seven grandchildren, and one a teenager. Mary’s college Sox and played in the minors earned her degree in occupa- people all through the com- great-grandchild survive him. education started out at the in Florida for two years. Greg tional therapy, retiring from San munity. Zach was strongly in- University of Washington; she Heinz Fitzgerald ’72 died on also played baseball in Tacoma Bernardino County as an occu- volved with the Afifi Shriners in completed her degree at Puget Feb. 2 at age 68. He was born for the then-Cheney Studs pational therapist in 2014. She Tacoma, serving as potentate Sound. She enjoyed hiking, in Germany and served as a for many years and served as enjoyed gardening, decorating, in 2013. He also held member- canoeing, camping, gardening, deputy with the Army. Heinz coach of the Studs from 1981 Lakers games, house hunting, ships in Kiwanis International, travel, bird-watching, playing earned his bachelor’s degree to 1984. He was a dedicated and cooking. Nancy also was Rotary Club of Tacoma, Free- cards, and especially spending in business administration at dad and loved coaching his a pet lover. Survivors include masons, and the Elks Lodge.” time with family and her many Puget Sound. His wife of 48 daughter’s basketball and soft- her mother, a brother, and two Zach was born in Freisen, Ger- friends. Mary was a longtime years, Andrea; and three chil- ball teams. Greg met Jennifer nephews. many. His career in sales began member of St. Leo Church in dren survive him. Clark in 2002, and the two with Johnson & Johnson. He have been together ever since, Carl Clavadetscher M.B.A.’78 earned salesman of the year Tacoma. A son predeceased Jean Corn ’73 died on March died at his home in Ridgeland, Mary. Five other children, 17 enjoying family and friends, multiple times. He found his 11. She was 84. Jean was and traveling to the Oregon S.C., on April 14. He grew up passion working for medical grandchildren, and 24 great- born in Lewiston, Idaho, and in Billings, Mont., earned his grandchildren survive her. Coast, Maui, and Arizona. Sur- equipment company KCI Inc. married Dale Corn in 1950. vivors include Greg’s daughter, bachelor’s at Montana State and helping patients improve Eugene Morris ’71, M.Ed.’75 She attended then-Northern Jennifer; his significant other, University-Bozeman, and their quality of life. Zach took died on April 17 at age 86. Idaho College of Education Jennifer; and her son. went on to earn a master’s in over his father’s catering busi- He was born in Boston and before finishing her degree at communications at Southern Robert Rohrer ’74 died on ness, Papa Eddie’s Catering, retired from the U.S. Army UPS. Jean worked as a teacher Illinois University, Carbondale. when Eddie passed away. He Air Defense Artillery after 20 in the Auburn, Wash., Head May 19 at age 76. He served Carl then completed a Ph.D. in the military and later worked also followed his father’s tradi- years of service. Gene then Start program for 25 years. at the University of Oregon tion of feeding the underserved earned a master’s degree at She and Dale enjoyed travel- as a police investigator. Robert before earning his M.B.A. at was a resident of Sun City in the Tacoma community. Four UPS and served as a counselor ing and wintered in Arizona Puget Sound. He later earned children, two grandchildren, at Lincoln High School until he each year. Jean was known West, Ariz., at the time of his a master’s in management passing. other family members, and retired. He was active in the for growing beautiful roses. A information systems at Cla- close friends survive him. community as a member of son preceded Jean in death. Annie Bruce ’76 passed away remont Graduate University. Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Iota Survivors include her husband on April 8. She was 87. Annie Carl served in the Army and John Michael “Mitch” Sim- Mu Lambda Tacoma Chapter; of nearly 65 years, a daughter, was born in Greensburg, La., was awarded a Bronze Star for kins ’81 passed away at age Mason’s Egyptian Lodge No. four grandchildren, and three and moved to Washington at bravery in combat in Vietnam. 57. He was born and raised in 44; Allen A.M.E. Church; Ivy great-grandchildren. age 12 to live with her older He was a professor and depart- Bozeman, Mont., graduating from Bozeman Senior High League Bowling; and Buffalo William “Doc” Kiley ’73 died brother. She joined the Allen ment chair of finance, produc- Soldiers, among many other A.M.E. Church in Tacoma and tion, and operations manage- in 1977. He participated in on Feb. 10 of heart failure. football, baseball, basketball, organizations. Gene’s wife of He was 73. Doc served in the served in her church for more ment at California State Univer-

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track and field, and golf, and he chef in Seattle, on cruise boats excelled as a wrestler. Mitch to Alaska, and at resorts in enjoyed the outdoors and North Carolina. He volunteered was an avid water and snow with the Great American Beer skier. He earned his degree in Festival and for the Brewers accounting and stayed in the Association in Boulder, Colo. Tacoma area after graduation Survivors include his parents, to become a partner at the his sister, and numerous other Dwyer, Pemberton, and Coul- family members and friends. son accounting firm. During Cindy Adams Craver ’90 college he met Sheri Bollinger died on March 27 after a long ‘81. After a 12-year courtship, battle with colon cancer. She they were married in 1990. The was 48. Cindy graduated from couple moved to Bozeman in Sequim High School in 1986. 1992 to help run Simkins-Hallin She earned her degree in oc- Lumber Co., Mitch’s family’s cupational therapy at Puget business, as well as family real Sound and worked for Phoenix estate holdings. Mitch and his Children’s Hospital for nearly brothers expanded the busi- 20 years. Cindy was an avid ness, employing more than rower and could be found on 150 people. Mitch also helped Tempe Town Lake every week- realize his father’s vision by end. She volunteered at her developing Big Sky Town Cen- children’s school and with the ter. Mitch was active in his chil- p Phoenix Girls Chorus. Cindy Sheldon Goldberg ’67, P’83, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, received a dren’s lives: He coached Little was also a Girl Scout leader citation from Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, League baseball and attended and enjoyed her work with in honor of his “distinguished and meritorious service to the people of Maryland and all of his kids’ sporting events. children and young adults. She his commitment to civics education through the Military Order of the World Wars Youth Mitch was an ardent runner, is survived by her husband of Leadership Conferences.” Sheldon, who is MOWW’s Commander of the Department competing for years on a relay 21 years, two daughters, and of Maryland, has been holding one-day “law and order” Youth Leadership Conferences team in the Puget Sound area. her parents. for junior and senior high school students in Maryland since 2012. The program presents He ran the Seattle Marathon, speakers from Maryland’s Supreme Court and various legal agencies and police depart- Jason Buxell ’96 died on and at the age of 44 completed ments, which, according to the citation, “fosters appreciation for the rule of law, ensures the 20-mile Bridger Ridge Run, March 20 at age 47. He was that young people understand the role of the judiciary, and equips future leaders with carying on after spraining his born and raised in Golden Val- civic understanding and citizenship skills.” Here, from left: Lt. Col. John Hollywood, re- ankle in the first 1.5 miles of ley, Minn., graduating from tired U.S. Army and a national vice commander-in-chief of the Military Order; Sheldon; the race. Mitch generously Breck School in 1986. Jason supported and participated in married Stephanie Frey in and Judge Barbera. many causes in the Bozeman 1998. He worked as a sales community. After his father executive in the oncology and died, Mitch spent Sundays pharmaceutical fields. Jason with his mother, Jean, who and his family enjoyed spend- survives him. His wife of 25 ing time together bird-watch- years, two children, and other ing, eating sushi, snuggling,

family survive him. and hanging out on their new The News Tribune porch. He excelled in soccer Ronald Adsitt ’83 died at age and loved playing and watch- 77 on March 12. He was a ing other sports. Survivors decorated U.S. Army engineer

include his wife of 17 years, Lui Kit Wong/ who served three tours of two daughters, and his mother duty in Vietnam. Ron retired and brother. after 22 years of service at the rank of major. He then worked Debra Owens ’96 passed for the U.S. Postal Service in away exactly one month prior Tacoma and Parkland, Wash. to her 55th birthday. She was Ron enjoyed meeting people born on Governors Island, and dogs, traveling, cooking N.Y., while her family was and trying new foods, studying stationed at Fort Jay. When history, and tinkering in the ga- the Army moved the family to rage. Survivors include his wife then-Fort Lewis, Debbie at- of 56 years, three children, and tended schools in the Clover p Starting this past January and continuing through May, presidential historian Mike a grandson. Park School District, graduating from Lakes High School in Purdy ’76, M.B.A.’79 (right) and visiting Puget Sound political scientist Michael Artime Robert Curt Jennings ’89 1979. After earning her degree led a series of lectures on campus offering analysis and historical insights into the 2016 passed away 12 days prior to in political science at UPS, presidential campaign. The series, titled “Who Will Win the White House?” addressed his 49th birthday, on Jan. 15. she earned a degree in educa- overflow crowds with talks on “The Long Road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” “Who He was born in Dallas, Texas. tion and was employed in the Wants to Be President?” “What do the Candidates Believe?” “What Voters and States After Puget Sound Curt con- Clover Park schools until her Will Elect the Next President?” “How Accurate Are the Polls?” and “Media, Marketing, tinued his education at then- passing. Debra is survived by and the Making of the President.” The lectures were recorded and are available online Western Culinary Institute in her mother, brother, and other at pugetsound.edu/2016election. Follow-up sessions have been announced for Sept. 19 Portland, Ore., and worked as a family members. and Oct. 24.

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p Wayne Storer ’96 and Megan Fleming were married on April 2, 2016, at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Ore. Several Logger friends came out to join the celebration. From left: Eric Bacher ’96, Courtney Ferguson ’97, the groom and bride, Todd Starkweather ’96, Will “Fritz” Humphry ’96, and Michelle Melrose Wagner ’96. The couple live in Seattle, where Wayne teaches English at Raisbeck p From left: Proud mom Susan Bladholm ’87, Aviation High School in the Highline Public Schools. P’16 with son and newly minted Logger alum Rob Schulberg ’16 after this year’s Commencement ceremony on campus, May 15. Susan reports that Rob has a job waiting in San Diego as an account coordinator with NextGen, a global recruitment firm. Congratulations, Rob!

p Mike Rottersman ’99 and Hannah Aoyagi p Gwynne Kuhner Brown ’95 was in Boston in ’01 returned in May from a three-week trip to March for the national meeting of the Society for Japan to introduce their 10-month-old son, Akira, p Lacey Chong ’03 married Drew Hayes in American Music. She was out walking one evening to his Japanese relatives and to attend Hannah’s Kailua, Hawai`i, in a beachside ceremony on March and heard, “Dr. Brown!” And there was the smiling grandmother’s 100th birthday celebration! They 19, surrounded by their families. They spent two face of Dustin Damonte ’10, who completed his report that Akira got his cheeks pinched by aunts, weeks on Oahu followed by several days sight- master’s in vocal performance at the New England cousins, and countless strangers, and he caused a seeing on the “Garden Isle” of Kauai. Lacey is a Conservatory of Music and is now building a career number of schoolgirls to point and shriek over his business process improvement consultant at Booz as a performer. Gwynne reports that Dustin was blue eyes and blond hair. Mike continues to work Allen Hamilton, and Drew is a software engineer at selected as one of this summer’s young artists at as an associate director for Puget Sound’s Office A3AS. They enjoy spending their spare time volun- the Seagle Music Colony, the oldest summer vocal of Admission, and Hannah recently moved to an teering for Spa Swag for Warriors (spaswagforwar- training program in the U.S. and the premier opera operations and organizational development posi- riors.org) and playing with their adopted animals: and musical -theater producing organization in the tion on the management team for the Washington cat Hoku and puppy Kainoa. Lacey and Drew live in Adirondack region of upstate New York. Department of Ecology’s Toxics Cleanup Program. Washington, D.C.

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The Classmates editor is Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17. You can call her at 253-879-2762 or email ctollefson@ pugetsound.edu.

Where do Classmates entries come from? About half come directly from you, either in letters or in email updates. The rest are compiled from a variety of public sources such as newspaper and magazine clippings, and press releases sent to us by employers when, for example, a Puget Sound grad at the company gets a new job. We publish Classmates information both in the print edition of Arches and on the Web in p McKenzie Mortensen ’06 and Cameron Ross were married on the online version. It is our policy not to publish Aug. 22, 2015, in Napa, Calif. The celebration took place at Twisted Oak pregnancy or engagement announcements, or Ranch, which has been in the groom’s family for four generations. From candidacies for political office. However, we are left: Anna Green, Charlotte Clegg, Amanda Corbyn ’06, Paige Che- happy to print news of births, marriages, and elections to office. Classmates submissions are noweth Allen ’06, Andreia Chan, matron of honor Whitney Mortensen (sister of the bride), the bride and groom, best man Evan Ross (brother edited for style, clarity, and length. We put a lot of effort into making sure entries are accurate, of the groom), Anthony Rodriguez, Erik Nelson, Andrew Kerns, Ryan but sometimes we slip up. Please let us know Kerns, and Ronnie Exley. Curt Sanders ’04 also was there. (See below.) if you see incorrect information published in McKenzie and Cameron moved from the San Francisco Bay Area in May Classmates. 2016 and purchased a home in Gig Harbor, Wash. Scrapbook u Curt Sanders ’04 and his daughter, Lily, traveled to Napa, Calif., to High-resolution digital photos or prints preferred. help celebrate the wedding of McKenzie Mortensen Ross ‘06 on Aug. Kindly identify alumni in the snapshot. Also, 22, 2015. During their weekend trip, father and daughter enjoyed the please, for baby pictures, include alumni parents sights in wine country and visited old friends in Concord. Curt says Lily in the photo. is a champion traveler and was an angel on the plane, both ways! Curt and Lily live in Sandy, Utah, with their dog, Tux. Publication deadlines Aug. 15 for the autumn issue, Nov. 15 for winter, Feb. 15 for spring, May 15 for summer

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A note on names and abbreviations Undergraduate class years appear after names as numerals preceded by an apostrophe (e.g., ’73). “P”= parent. “GP”= grandparent. “Hon.”= honorary degree. For graduate degrees, “M.S.”= master of science; “M.B.A.”= master of business administration; “M.A.T.”= master of arts in teaching; “M.Ed.” = master of education; “M.P.A.”= master of public administration; “M.M.”= master p Dana Wikstrom ’08 married Erin Doepel (Illinois State University grad) near Scottsdale, Ariz., earlier of music; “M.S.O.T.,” “M.O.T”= master of occupa- this year. “Grandpa’s House” Loggers, friends, and spouses celebrated the occasion. From left: Danielle tional therapy; “D.P.T.”= doctor of physical therapy; Runfola Melin ’08, Mike Melin ’08, Brett Veerhusen ’08, the bride and groom, Patrick Moyle ’06, and “J.D.”= doctor of law. Peter Yi ’08. Dana and Erin now live in Naperville, Ill. (“Grandpa’s House” refers to most of this group’s shared off-campus house, named for its non-renovated appearance dating back to the ‘70s!)

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On her 20th, Stacey Wilson Hunt ’96 considers:

Why come to Reunion?

There’s a certain, excitable romanticism I’ve and I first met as dormmates in Phibbs in

classmates always loved about school reunions. The old 1992, Trimble is a lovely, newer building that wooden gymnasium draped in streamers, as an- boasts “suite-style” rooms (think: apartment- tiquated pop songs blast through fuzzy speak- like common area with multiple private rooms). ers; the awkward hellos from classmates as they However, in the summer, when the student res- struggle to remember that guy’s name or when idences have been stripped of door decorations was the last time they saw that girl; and the and second-hand rugs and ratty old chairs, nervous reintroductions and banal questions and when bookshelves are empty and walls are that follow: How many kids do you have? Where naked, the rooms offer up an atmosphere not Together again: Stacey with her old dormmate do you work? How long have you been married unlike what I imagine a 28-day detox facility Eric Akines ’96. (or divorced)? What overpriced McMansion-y to be like: sterile and echoey and spare, with neighborhood in the Seattle suburbs do you now uncomfortable beds and abrasive towels. (Al- call home? though there were two individually wrapped SUB, to take a campus tour, or squeeze in a run Yet in the wake of Facebook’s reign over Almond Roca candies included to soften the on the track, I was overcome with something (and curating of) seemingly every moment rough edges.) bigger than nostalgia—a bittersweet feeling that of our collective consciousness, the reunion Also not lost on us: the anachronism of college was the last time in our lives when our experience as we once knew it is no more. We Internet and cable TV ports in every room, only job was to experience joy. already know who’s gotten bald, skinny, fat, and charging our iPhones in a space that for us Joy through learning; joy through discov- successful, rich, and divorced. Nearly all the more than two decades ago was free from the ering connections with people with whom glorious awkwardness of The Reunion Experi- shackles of portable technology. We didn’t have we thought we had nothing in common; joy ence has gone the way of dial-up. So what’s the email addresses until our senior year, let alone through breaking away from our parents; joy point of even going? cellphones that weren’t the size of the Encyclo- through choosing a field of study that may or The answer is: People and Place. Even the pedia Britannica. But we were all there. Togeth- may not have any bearing on our future careers; most addicted social-media lurker is forced er. And we were enabled to do what many of us joy through feeling protected—sometimes too to acknowledge that nothing could supplant rarely can these days: converse leisurely with old much—from the harshness of real life; and joy the feeling of spending a weekend on the very friends, undistracted by text messages, schedul- through making the kind of friendships that, campus that sprung us into the ether of adult- ing kids’ swimming lessons, worrying about our as we grow older, we learn can never be made hood 20 years ago. This is why two of my aging parents, managing crazy bosses, and in again—no matter how much time we spend on friends—Eric Akines and Elise “Lisa” Anderson my case, tuning out the utter absurdity that is Facebook. Olson—and I decided to do the only thing that living in Hollywood. made sense on such an occasion: spend our We spent both Friday and Saturday nights Stacey Wilson Hunt is the Hollywood editor for 20th reunion weekend inside a dorm on the in Tacoma reminiscing with classmates, some of New York Magazine. She previously was an edi- UPS campus. whom had landed in another dorm across cam- tor for The Hollywood Reporter and for Port- From the moment we picked up our rain- pus (and with whom we drank $40 chardonnay land Monthly in her native Oregon, and she has soaked name tags and keys to Trimble Hall, the out of plastic cups in the common area, an act written for People, US Weekly, numerous other novelty of our accommodations choice filled us that somehow still felt gloriously defiant). As I magazines, and many times for Arches, starting with equal parts nostalgia and hilarity. Nestled strolled back and forth across the grounds, even back when she was working on her master’s at the alongside Todd Hall, not far from where Eric more lush 20 years later, to eat breakfast in the Columbia School of Journalism.

AIR FORCE ROTC REUNION

Nearly 40 Air Force ROTC alumni were back on campus during reunion. The group met to share stories and photos of their time in the service, talk about accomplishments of their post- active-duty civilian life, and they toured a C-17 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Several AFROTC alumni also were on the Alumni Leaders Panel as part of Alumni College, sharing their experiences and insight about the future of military leadership.

46 arches summer 2016 THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE ’66 class reunion enjoyed a weekend of fun. The high- light was the Friday night performance by Beth Pederson ’65, who shared songs from our college years. Each of the 60-plus attendees received a CD of music from our era, which was produced by Chuck Cooper and his daughter. Special thanks go out to our committee members who made our weekend so successful: Mark Beales, Meladee May Beeson, Chuck Cooper, Daniel Coulter, Mary Franklin, Peg Greiwe, John Gruen, Mark Honeywell, Rod Johnson, Judi Lindberg, Mary Prine Metzger, Laurel Frahm Reilly, Marilyn Alexander 50-YEAR REUNION Members of the Class of 1966 came out in large numbers for their 50-year re- Riddick, Ardith Oldridge Pierce, John Ullis, union as part of this year’s Summer Reunion Weekend, on campus June 10–12. Front, from left: Marilyn and Joan Platt Welch. Alexander Ridlick; Lucretia Donato Mack; Rebecca Blair Helm; P. Ann Petterson Amies; Leotagail Heads up: The committee had so much Copstead Kramer P’91, P’92, P’97,’97; Linda Federico Pearn; Joanie Platt Welch; Maureen Finley fun organizing 50th reunion activities that it Hurst; Julia Benke; Peg Greiwe; and Carolyn Whitford. Second row, from left: Harold “Skip” Grover P’92, P’97; Margaret Carlson Callahan; Janice Nichols McLemore; Mary Prine Metzger P’90; Lilian has been declared a permanent committee. The Loehrke Crawford P’98; Sylvia Shaw Hagmann B.A’70; Kittie Zittel Marrone P’02; Ardith Old- committee is always open to new members ridge Pierce P’94, P’97; Lucinda Seymour Wingard; Judy Fry Helsel; Jeanne Patterson Mazzoni; who would like to volunteer. If you are a ’66 Lesley Tash McKnight; Jane Kennedy Kelley; and Rod Johnson (standing). Third row, from left: Ord- graduate, please contact the alumni office, or ing Nilsen; Cathey Hunt Bauman P’93; Doug Alling; John Gruen P’00; Christy Trip B.S.’67; Philip Maureen Finley Hurst or me, class co-presi- John; Marvin McIntosh; Mark Honeywell; Bill Tindall; Dennis Cooley P’94, P’96; John McKnight; and Clint Kelley. Back row, from left: Russell McCurdy; Russell Heglund; Tom Callahan; Dennis Hin- dents. We will notify you of class information ton; Al Benaroya; Mark Beales; Chuck Cooper P’90; Vernon Trevellyan; Ed Kosnoski; John Jewell for fall Homecoming Weekend and Summer M.Ed.’69; Andrea Watt Jewell; John Ullis; Dan Coulter; Phil Frick; and Steve Crane. Reunion Weekend. — Linda Federico Pearn

GREEK REUNIONS

Carol Headden Reid ’80 tells us: “We had a great time at Summer Reunion. Five of us stayed at the Gamma Phi house!” Here at a luncheon on Saturday at the home of Beth Jensen Chew ’79, J.D.’85 Back: Jody Bredeson Callan ’79; Kathryn Muel- At reunion, President Thomas joined the men of Sigma Nu for the announcement of a successful cam- ler Robertson ’79; Sandy Creek Baker ’79; Susan paign to fund an endowed Zeta Alpha Sigma Nu scholarship at Puget Sound. The alumni chapter raised McElroy Plunkett ’79; Wende Walker Carroll ’79; nearly $60,000 in contributions and pledges. Seated, from left: Richard Johnson ’66; Tom Brennan Teri Rideout ’77, J.D.’84; Linda Lothrup Schrott ’86; Vince Vonada ’83; Vaughn Sherman ’79; Bruce Titcomb ’80, P’13; Bruce Reid ’78, P’12; George ’76; Madeleine Wiley ’78, M.B.A.’80, P’12, P’14; Kirk ‘86; Jamie Will ’69, P’97; and Ray Jones ‘64. Standing, from left: Ryan Mello ‘01; Dick Peterson and Beth. Front: Carol Headden Reid ’80; Sally ‘67; T.J. Robinson ’76; Gary Vander Griend ‘62; Dale Schultz ‘65; John Ratko ’62, M.Ed.’68; Bill Schad Giffin ’81; Barbara Headden Tall ’79, P’06; Nelson ’69; Bob Beale ‘58; Bill Baarsma ’64, P’93; Steve Green ’65, P’94; Paul Johnson ’64; Jerry Krista Pearson ’80; and Caroline Smith ’80. Boos ’77; President Emeritus Ron Thomas; Dennis Stergion ‘63; Denny Hinton ‘66; John Ullis ‘66; Dave Campbell ’62; Ordy Nilsen ‘66; Mark Honeywell ‘66; Chuck Cooper ’66, P’90; Brian Knutson ’66, M.B.A.’72; Jim Pierson ‘68; Bob Oldright ‘77; Ralph Bauman ’64, P’93; Tom Jobe ‘62; and Jeff LeVeque ‘66. In attendance but not present for the photograph: Dirk Jameson ’62; Barrie Wilcox ’62, P’91; and Chuck Fowler ’60.

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u At Arches’ request, Darrel Frost ’04 kindly provided his impressions of the alumni regional club event in NYC, held April 15: “Sixteen Log- gers gathered for happy hour at New York City’s Rubin Museum, a center for Himalayan art that, every Friday classmates night, takes a cue from the hip surrounding neighborhood and turns its cafe into a lively club called K2. (Though for any museum not to call its lounge “Culture Club” just seems like a missed opportunity.) Over red wine and under azure lights, we chatted about theater and the election and which neighborhood would be next to gentrify. And we got to know each other a little bit—which is, after all, rather the point for these events. As at many similar gatherings around the country, the alumni who attended our Rubin excursion represented a range of years, a range of occupations—and, as we New York- ers are fond of discussing, a range of apartments. Yet these differences tended to be more intriguing than insurmountable, probably because, amidst the peaks of the DJ’s beats, we kept returning to our base, Puget Sound. And that’s what really made the evening, of course: spending time with people who had shared our traditions, shared our professors, and shared our love of—with all due respect to K2—the world’s best mountain, 3,000 miles to the west of us.” From left: Houston Dougharty ’83, Nicky Combs ’94, Nicky’s husband Mike, Daniil Davydoff ’07, Lynee Bradley ‘94, Derek Rainey ’13 (in hat), Anne Lenzini ‘06, Asha Sandhu ’13, Josh Anderson ’06, Kim Pine Dougharty ’90, Aimee Rawlins ’04, Monica Williams ’12, and our reporter Darrel.

p Tristan Orford ’08 and Andrea Kussman were married on Aug. 22, 2015, at Timberline Lodge near Portland, Ore. Loggers in attendance included, p Amy McDonell ’10 and Jake Berenbeim ’09 were married on May 6 at back, from left: Marty Whittle ’08, the groom, Matt Bonniwell ’08, Hart Cold Spring Tavern in Santa Barbara, Calif. Loggers in attendance (behind the Edmonson ’08, and Joe Adamack ’08. Front, from left: Chris Sheppard ’08, bride and groom), from left: Shaheen Shingu ‘09, Stephanie Eisele ’10, Ariel Ryanne Filbey ’08, Alicia deBoer Adamack ’08, and the bride. As part of the Scholten ’10, Graham Klag ‘09, Kyle Morrill ’09, Julian Stone-Kronberg ’09, reception festivities, everyone engaged in a hearty Logger handshake! The and Kayla Kurisu ’10. Jake is a Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry at the couple live in Santa Monica, Calif., where Tristan works for Riot Games, and University of California, Santa Barbara, and Amy is a printmaker and illustrator, Andrea works for UCLA as a primary-care doctor. with work appearing in Taproot magazine.

48 arches summer 2016 Send Class Notes to [email protected] p Nani Vishwanath ’09 and Matt Hoffman ’08 were married on Aug. 15, 2015, at AXIS in Pioneer Square in Seattle. Lots o’ Loggers were in attendance! From left: Sarah Jackson ’07; John Zager ’07; Erin Lewis ’10; Brittany Hadley Marshall ’10; Matthew Jackson ’10; Pooja Bhattacharyya Zager ’07; Amanda McLaren Wilson ’09; Shannon Forbes ’09; Emily Smith Carrington ’09, D.P.T.’13; Cori Gunkel Palmer ’09; Lydia Thompson Patterson ’09; Lionel Granillo ’09; Stephanie Henerlau ’09; Kerala Hise ’09; Skylar Willson-Ko ’09; the bride and groom; Anne Kreider ’06, M.A.T.’07; Mollyrose Sommer Dumm ’07; Ryan Dumm ’07; Danya Clevenger ’07; Nicole Juliano ’08; Zeb McCall ’08; Sonia Ivancic ’08; Derek Robbins ’08; Adam Knight ’09; Marta Palmquist Cady (Puget Sound assistant dean of students and director of Student Activities); Rainier Aliment ’10; Elliott Largent ’09; Clay Thompson ’09; Alex Leavitt ’10; Jordan Conley ’09; and Justin Harvey ’09. Matt is now a staff scientist at Nion Co., and Nani is a program manager for the Husky Leadership Initiative at the University of Washington.

t Alex Morray ’08 and Bethany Scinta ’09, M.A.T.’10 were married on July 19, 2015, at Lionscrest Manor in Lyons, Colo., near Boulder. Loggers in attendance, from left: Ella White ’09, Tristan Burger ’09, Ian Jaray ’09, Emily Hearst ’09, Taylor Anderson ’09, the groom and bride, Vanessa Shafa ’08, Brian Stone ’08, Emily Hoke Stone ’08, Sarah Mirick ’08, John Harrison ’08, and Becca Davidson ’10. The couple live in Lafayette, Colo., where Bethany is a fourth-grade teacher, and Alex is an arborist.

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Chuck Luce, Editor Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17, Associate Editor, Classmates Julie Reynolds, Designer Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless credited otherwise Maya Makino ’19, Intern

classmates Alumni Council Executive Committee Leslie Skinner Brown ’92, President; David Watson ’92, Past President; Andrea Tull ’02, Vice President; Darrell Frost ’04, Vice President for Communications; Eric Herzog ’94, Secretary; Isabelle Dupont ’10, Admission Chair; Allison McCurdy Kalalau ’03, M.A.T.’04, Affinity Groups Chair; Heidi Winkenwerder Schooley ’97, Alumni Fund Chair; John Hines ’05, M.A.T.’06, Athletics Chair; Ted Meriam ‘05, Class Programs Chair; Joe Kurtis ’87, P’17, Career and Employment Services Chair; Deb Bachman Crawford ‘80, Regional Clubs Chair; Ken McGill ’61, Student Life Chair; Alana Levine-Gorelick ‘17, Student Alumni Association President

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arches (USPS 003-932) is published quarterly by the University of Puget Sound, Office of Communications, 1500 N. Warner St., p These 2012 graduates got together at a cabin in Gig Harbor, Wash., over Memorial Day Tacoma WA 98416-1041. Periodicals postage paid at Tacoma, Weekend 2016, celebrating their four-year reunion. This is the second time they’ve all gotten Wash., and at additional mailing offices. together since graduation! Front, from left: Ruby Aliment, Amy Roll, Mike Dooley, dog Zoe, PRINTED IN U.S.A. and Caroline Aubry. Second row, from left: Spencer Kadas, Harrison Diamond, Adam Leuin, Fallon Boyle, Becca Foley, Ollie Napier, Ben Zedwick, Megan Chambers, Nora Wahlund, Postmaster: Send address corrections to arches, Office of Emma Thier, Johnston Hill, and Sean Rice. Third row, from left: Kyle Thackray, Jon Prentice, Communications, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Sterling Ingle-Mead, Rachel Gnall, Zane Muller, and Maggie Culhane. Fourth row, from left: Tacoma WA 98416-1041. Jim Weber, Pieter VerHaar, Emily Swisher, and Albhie Mahon. Back: Mike Knape. Honorable mentions go to Skye Pascall, Eric Laukkanen ’14, and Madeline Ranstrom ‘13, who joined Editorial Submissions the reunion but didn’t make it for the photo. Story, art, and photographic submissions are welcome; however, the editors recommend a written query.

©2016 University of Puget Sound. All rights reserved. No portion t Zena Toyama ’10, M.S.O.P. of this publication may be reproduced without written permission. ’13 married Aaron Arii on May The opinions expressed in arches are those of the authors and 28 at the Hale Koa Hotel in do not necessarily reflect official policy of the university. Waikiki. The rains cleared just in For the sight-impared, a PDF copy of arches that is time for their garden wedding. readable by JAWS software is available by writing Puget Sound OT and PT grads [email protected]. in attendance, from left: Tara Arches is printed with soy seal approved inks on paper that Curtis M.O.T.’13, Marcie contains at least 10 percent post-consumer waste. The paper Okumura Kaai M.O.T.’07, is certified by the Rainforest Alliance to Forest Stewardship ™ Sheryl Ito Nakanishi Council standards, and it is manufactured 20 miles from where arches is printed and mailed. M.O.T.’97, the bride, Wendy Toguchi Kondo ’97, Stephanie “Like” arches on Facebook and get e-class notes when Okubo D.P.T.’14, Phuc Tran news of your classmates is too timely to wait for the print edition. For example, when Chef Jon Matsubara ’95 was on the D.P.T.’13, and Dawn Yoshimura- Today show and when Cheryl Hackinen ’89 was on Wheel of Smith ’83. Zena works as an Fortune we let Facebook fans know in time to tune in. occupational therapist at Pali Momi Hospital with a few other UPS OT alums. The newlyweds make their home in Mililani, Hawai`i. 50 arches summer 2016 ps

SPLASH!

Ready for when classes begin at the end of August: The new Wallace Pool—bigger, more versatile for community and therapeutic programs, and, we are betting, faster. (Campus rumor has it that now-President Emeritus Thomas, the man who was a surfer dude before he was a college professor and administrator, couldn’t help sneaking in a couple of laps before heading out on June 30.) To be added to or removed from the arches mailing list, or to correct your address, use the arches online form at pugetsound.edu/ University of Puget Sound infoupdate, or call 253.879.3299, or write Office of University Relations Tacoma, Washington Information Services, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., pugetsound.edu/arches Tacoma WA 98416-1063.

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