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THE MAGAZINE FOR LINFIELD COLLEGE | FALL 2019 | VOL. 16, NO. 1 Firsts and lasts A View from Melrose Being first is never easy. It takes courage to step toward the unknown and tenacity to find the way forward. Some know this better than others – for example, our students who are DEPARTMENTS the first in their families to attend college. 3 A View from Melrose That takes guts. 4 Letters In these pages, Pulitzer prize-winning The Linfield launch pad 5 Linfield Digest author Tom Hallman Jr. tells the story of Linfield’s increasing number of first-generation students and the life-changing voices that have shown them 30 Worth 1,000 Words y father dropped out of high school in ninth are successful and position them for life after Linfield. what’s possible. That’s what the new Linfield First program, introduced this 42 ‘Cat Tracks grade. My mother graduated from Simon Gratz Gerardo Ochoa, special assistant to the president, has worked fall, is all about. It provides navigators, mentors and a community to change 50 Alumni Notes High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Soon hard along with others to make sure we have the infrastruc- the trajectory for someone who has no idea of what the future might hold. after graduation, however, she married my father ture at Linfield to allow first-generation students to live up People who offer a hand, who show a path. Read more about our amazing Mand gave birth to the first of four sons. Any path to higher to their potential. FEATURES students and the program in these pages. education was effectively cut off to my parents, as they worked In these pages, you will read about our new (and wildly 8 Family first While this issue is looking at firsts, it will also be my last as editor. I’m retiring hard to take care of and support a growing family. successful) Linfield First program, about alumni who were 20 Human-powered programming in the new year after more than 24 years at Linfield. Certainly, change has Despite the challenges they faced – or because of them – first generation and are now giving back, and about ways 26 Remembering Tiananmen Square been the constant over two decades. Early on, I saw the McMinnville campus my parents viewed education as transformative. Not that their you, too, can help. Linfield is a launch pad, rocketing students double in size with the addition of the Hewlett-Packard property. We’ve added 32 Custom medicine lack of formal schooling made them uneducated. My father, toward futures they and their families might not have majors and programs, an arts complex, a new library. Last year, we acquired 34 A century on stage in particular, read and found deep meaning in the writings imagined possible. Each one of us provides a little bit of the a campus in Portland and we are contemplating a change to university status. 38 Bringing the spirit of W. E. B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson and Booker T. Wash- fuel, and I thank you for it. I leave this college, a second family of sorts, with the warmest of memories 46 Science meets sport ington, to name a few. But my parents made it a point to tell and great excitement for what’s to come. And I look forward to reading future – Miles K. Davis, President 58 World-class winemaker us regularly about the ability of education to lift a person out issues of Linfield Magazine along with all of you. In the meantime, as of poverty and position him or her to have an impact in the always, we welcome your thoughts and conversation. community. They shared books with my siblings and me that Happy reading. reinforced the idea that we could be more than what society – Laura Davis, editor Linfield Magazine defined us as, especially if we pursued higher education. is published by Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon Now that I am president of Linfield College, I want to Fall 2019 Vol. 16, No. 1 make sure we offer the same opportunities for economic Editor Jeffrey Martin mobility, transformative education and social uplift. We are Laura Davis Travis McGuire actively engaged in outreach to first-generation students, Creative Director Kristine Oller ’93 and in this issue of Linfield Magazine you will hear some Liam Pickhardt ’20 Mission statement: Linfield Magazine tells bold, ambitious and entertaining stories of Linfield College. It strives Candido Salinas III of their stories. Catherine Reinke to explore pressing topics, in undergraduate education and the world, and inspire active participation in the Linfield Photography However, the stories you read here are only the beginning. Kristie (Patterson) Rickerd ’97 community by covering the people, places, teams, events, successes and challenges that make up the life of the Kevin Day It is one thing to reach out and bring students into Linfield; Tyrone Marshall President college. The magazine is published twice annually for alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college by it is another to offer support and services that make sure they Miles K. Davis Liam Pickhardt ’20 the Office of Communications and Marketing. Rusty Rae ’68 Vice President Timothy D. Sofranko for Institutional Scott Strazzante Advancement John N. McKeegan Contributors FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed Kelly Bird Director of forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits. Both President Miles K. Davis, right, and wife Naomi Pitcock, visiting Communications Kevin Curry ’92 and Marketing associate professor of nursing, are mentors in the Linfield First Laura Davis Scott Bernard Nelson ’94 Miles K. Davis program. Davis earned a Ph.D. from George Washington University. Director of Constituent Alexandra Feller ’21 Pitcock earned a D.N.P. from the University of Virginia. Engagement Leonard Finkelman Follow Linfield College on social media Joni Claypool ’06 Tom Hallman Jr. Douglas W. Lee Fall 2019 | Linfield Magazine - 2 Fall 2019 | Linfield Magazine - 3 Linfield Digest Linfield Digest Linfield Board requests mutations affect chemotherapy treat- In addition, Zippia, a Califor- ments. Andrew Baggett, assistant nia-based website helping people find university proposal professor of chemistry, will study a new employment, recently released its list way to stop or slow the spread of certain of the 10 best colleges in Oregon for job The Linfield Board of Trustees took kinds of cancer in the body. placement after graduation, and Linfield Thank you for “Forced to leave” (Spring citizen. She returned to WJC, graduating in 1965. a preliminary vote Nov. 9 asking college Further, the National Science claimed the top two spots. The School 2019), the story of Linfield Japanese-Ameri- Wakai was a welfare caseworker in Liberty with the state leaders to create a plan to change Foundation-Improving Undergraduate of Nursing and the McMinnville campus can student Mitsue (Endow) Salador ’45, of Missouri Dept. of Public Health & Welfare. Later, she moved Linfield College into Linfield University. STEM Education grant, featuring a ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. a U.S. citizen born in Oregon. back to Honolulu, where she died in 1975. When named Hawaii’s After reviewing the plan, the Board will budget of $1.99 million over five years, After World War II started in 1941, “Mother of the Year” in 1960, Wakai’s mother proudly noted her vote at a later date on whether to make began Oct. 1. Catherine Reinke, asso- Oregonian Japanese-Americans, including daughter’s government job and sons’ occupations: minister, two the change. ciate professor of biology at Linfield, A task force, led by David C. Hauge- Salador, and Japanese nationals were incarcerated in the Port- dentists, physician, research scientist and bank supervisor. co-authored the successful proposal to berg, Linfield trustee, and consisting land Assembly Center, a detention camp that had been a livestock Some brothers were in mainland internment camps before land the grant for the Genomics of trustees, faculty, staff and alumni is exposition facility. Salador and another Linfield student,Mary serving in the U.S. Army during the war. Education Partnership, a collective of drafting the plan. Kazuyo Wakai ’43, left, were incarcerated at the camp. I appreciate Mitsue (Endow) Salador and a member of 100-plus schools that introduces and If the change is ultimately approved, Wakai, a brother and parents moved from Japan, where all the Wakai family for reviewing this letter. supports research opportunities for President Miles K. Davis said Linfield were born, to Hawaii in 1921. Five other brothers – all named for – Tim Marsh ’70 students and faculty at diverse and will remain a small, intimate, high-qual- U.S. presidents – were Hawaii born. Her parents founded the Unit- underrepresented institutions. ity institution with a core foundation ed Church of Christ in Kapa’a, Kauai, in Hawaii, where her father in the liberal arts. Yet it would be able was the first pastor. Writing just to tell you I have really been enjoying the to expand by having more schools and College standings Her father died in 1936 and the Wakai family moved to Linfield Magazine of late. The spring issue, starting with the colleges within the university, starting favor Linfield Honolulu, where she graduated from McKinley High School in enigmatic cover photo of Dr. Davis, is a good sustained read. with nursing and business, the majors of 1937. She was a University of Hawaii economics and business The historic material is interesting. I’ll have to ask my dad, 65 percent of Linfield students. The uni- Linfield earned praise in a number major before transferring to Linfield, where she was a member of Don Rea ’49, if he knew Bruce Stewart ’49. Also, the article on versity would also offer master’s degrees, of college rankings this fall.