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Vol. 41, No. 4, Arches Summer 2014
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Commencement Day. Blue skies and big smiles all around.The procession begins. "Pomp and Circumstance" plays. Except that suddenly circumstances change. Dramatically. Like, wind-blowing-the-flower-arrangements-off-the-stage, thunder, lightning, and sideways rain kind of circumstances. And then, then it turned wonderful. RonThom tells the story, page 1.
PLUS: In Mongolia, trying to explain English • Book excerpt: Microsoft Is My Neighbor Now m.. ■
from the president
Beauty is truth
It wasn’t pretty: The torrential rain that as they were, bless them, never seemed to broadcast journalist and host of NPR’s seemed to burst without warning through lose their grit or enthusiasm or good spirits. Weekend Edition Sunday, a poised and game what had been a brilliant, sunny sky. The As they finally heard their names called and Rachel (eight months pregnant) stepped to sudden, bone-chilling drop in temperature walked across the stage, many now barefoot the podium as she had stepped before live that shivered through every cap and gown, because their fancy shoes had been ruined, cameras and microphones so many times— high heel, and sports jacket. The mysterious they reached for my hand and for their on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan swoosh of wind through the stadium that diplomas, their faces shining in undiluted joy covering those conflicts as national security swept the mortarboards off the graduates’ through their matted hair and amidst cheers correspondent for NPR, and in our nation’s heads and lifted the pages of the speech that from rain-soaked family and friends. They capitol before that as White House corre was being delivered (with such indomitable had made it. They had triumphed. The glow spondent for ABC News. spirit) by our student speaker, Haley Andres, on their faces was—truly—beautiful. And Rachel reminded us toward the end of into the air and out of sight. The orchestra then the sun came out. her address about her own journey through playing “Pomp and Circumstance” nearly There was a lesson here. Two things had life and war and about what she had learned drowned out, literally, by the tent’s bulging happened between the ugliness of the storm from it all, and from her own mother, about roof above, filling with water, threatening to and that moment of pure beauty, which, at negotiating the inevitable storms of life. “The burst upon them. Nor pretty. least for me, had sparked a transformation. It happiest people I have known have all had a Then, the rumble of thunder and a flash was only after the whole thing was over and I deep ability to see joy where it’s hard to find,” of lightning. We had to clear the field— looked back on the field of battle that I could she said. And continued: almost 700 graduates and a couple thousand see things for what they were. Those secret We often think about the joys and pains of family members abandoned the field and sparks had arrived in two inspiring pieces of life happening in cycles—we talk about them were led to refuge in Memorial Fieldhouse, wisdom. Wisdom issued by two Muses about as ups and downs, like a roller coaster. Highs while thousands of other stalwart family the journey on which we all were embarking. and lows. But my mom told me once that she members bravely held to their seats under the First, while warehoused in the field house saw it differently. It's like train tracks, she said; stadium roof, as the almost-apocalyptic storm (crammed to the rafters with wet graduates each side represents either joy or pain ... and we blew through. The heavens issued to the Class in black gowns along with their allies in what ride them simultaneously. There is no such thing of 2014 a chilling welcome into the cold and was once their Sunday best), the crowd in as ‘I'll be happy when I just get over this one cruel world. It wasn’t pretty at all. retreat had a chance to hear, through the obstacle—when I get the right internship or job, Until it was. That was after we had finally din, ^ inspiring Commencement address by when I get the right relationship, when 1 lose 10 reassembled the troops back on Peyton Field, Rachel Martin ’96. It was projected for them pounds, when 1 have this much in the bank. * arranged again by department and in alpha in the field house on a large video screen by Because there will always be something else. betical order, after their time of retreat into live feed from the stage outside, where the As if channeling Aristotle along with the field house. The students, wet and cold platform party remained. An accomplished her mother, Rachel was recalling for us that
Cover photo by Ross Mulhausen. happiness is not a feeling we have, but a series she was interrupted by the howling wind, lue never had before at RDG; andfought for a of things we do, choices we make in develop thunder, lightning, and rain that erased her cure over countless miles during Relay For Life. ing a purposeful, even virtuous character that notes as if written in disappearing ink. But Then Haley returned to her title and the leads somewhere: Haley carried on. I can still see her standing fact that each one in the graduating class (and The key is to make the decision to lean a there, the rain-drenched, crumbled sheets of all of us) is metaphorically holding a blank little hea vier on that joy track. To mix meta her ruined script (the few that hadn’t been sheet of paper in our hands, a paper that is phors—ivhich Vm sure is making my UPS Eng swept away by the wind) still in her hands, awaiting the map we will draw upon it, that lish professor cringe a little, but indulge me her fists lifted toward the threatening heavens will chart out how we will get from where we here—to me it’s like skiing... because when as she shouted her message, her classmates are to where we are going. “Although, on this you lean further on one side, that becomes your cheering her courage and determination, day, we have begun a lifetime of continuously compass; that becomes the direction you will go. drowning out the thunders roar. That image arrested falling,” she said, “that movement ... When it seems life is pushing you into a pain- was beautiful, too. And there was wisdom in may be backwards, to the side, or forward; fid place, push back—lean into the joy. See it in the scene. it may be fast or slow; the point is that we others around you, and it will grow in your own But her words also were wise. Like are moving, making new maps, and actively life—and it will take you wherever you want Rachel, she spoke to the idea of moving for engaging with the spaces around us.” to go. ward, quoting the phenomenologist Erwin Beautiful, right? Two Loggers from two So that’s the first piece of wisdom. The Straus, who described the act of walking as generations, at different stages of their respec mountain road on which we are traveling will “continuously arrested falling.” As we walk tive journeys—on different coordinates in present us with often-surprising conditions from this place, after four years of prepara the maps of their lives—reminding us in the we cannot control. What we can control tion, into the world that awaits us, Haley midst of a storm to choose to lean into joy is the choice we make about how we will said, “we are all throwing ourselves into a when the rains come and to recall that every embrace and manage them, and in what state of continuously arrested falling that will step forward is a determined interruption of spirit we will do so, which will by definition last for the rest of our lives—strangely fright falling down. take us where we want to go. That choice ening.” Then she added: Maybe it wasn’t pretty, that Commence becomes our compass. Rain or shine. But it is not all scary. ... The falling that ment Sunday. But it was beautiful. And so The second piece of transformational wis Straus speaks of is arrested; it stops. We are the eminently true. As Keats put it, beauty is dom came earlier. In fragments. It came from ones who stop it. As a class we have already truth, truth beauty. That is really all we need the aforementioned Haley Andres T4, whose proved ourselves capable of continuously arrest to know. address to her class was as visually inspiring as ing our falls. We have defied expectatiom and it was conceptually profound. Ironically, the dazzled audiences by putting on magic shows speech was called “A Blank Sheet of Paper,” with the Wiz; supported our peers ivho felt pow the very condition her script assumed when erless, with groups like Peer Allies; danced like Ronald R.Thomas
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100 VOICES In Schneebeck Concert Hall on April 25, members of the university Symphony Orchestra and the Adelphian Concert Choir, the Dorian Singers, and the Chorale performed Gabriel Faure's Requiem, which originally was written and performed in Paris in 1888. It was one of, get this, 166 performances put on this year by the School of Music. Wow.
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ATHLETICS
It was with mixed feel ings we learned that Puget Sound's very successful baseball coach Brian Bill SB ings '99 resigned to take the head-coach position at |W L ft Pacific University. But the gjLi -Mm college didn't have to look far for a replacement. Jeff V •r J Halstead *00. M .A.T03. iHS -4 a veteran member of the V5 Logger baseball and football Mi M coaching staffs and a former two-sport standout at Puget a * I m ■*, Sound, was appointed coach on June 13. Jeff's name can ADVENTURE OFTHE CARDBOARD BOX On a mercifully sunny April 25, during Earth Week, be found all over the Logger students joined a nationwide contest on college campuses to see who could build the largest baseball record books. He "castle" out of old packing boxes.The contest aims to raise awareness about waste reduction on ranks second in career hits; campuses and has been wildly popular in recent years. Puget Sound is the first small school to sixth in hitting, with a .356 take up the challenge. Staff and students collected about 1,700 boxes for the big event. And when average; second in games it was all over, the students did what Loggers do:They hack-hacked, chop-chopped their creation and hauled it off to be recycled. played (148); and fourth in runs scored (105); and he's the program's all-time • leader in steals, with 66. Jeff began his baseball head POSTGRADUATE STUDY Therapy in a Diversifying World." She coaching duties on July Two, count 'em, will be investigating whether it is possible to help victims of trauma— 1 but will remain on two Watsons the football coach- anything from child abuse to a natural Who would plunge into the rain for disaster—by fusing individual-oriented v- ~ Jk ing staff through est of Borneo to question whether the 2014 season. clinical methods used by Western art endangered orangutans have more therapists and community-oriented rights than impoverished humans? methods used by developing-nation / V: Who would suggest that traditional healers, such as dancing, theater, and Tanzanian dance has the same drumming. (We note, too. that Haley therapeutic effects as contempo Two of 26 Loggers who have won was this year's student Commence Watsons since 1993: Andres (right) and rary Western art therapy? Crutchfield-Peters ment speaker.) Haley Andres '14 and Kelsey Kelsey will travel to Chile, Mada Crutchfield-Peters '14, that's who. This summer, the women, traveling gascar, Borneo, and New Zealand In March the seniors were noti alone, will each live for several months on a quest she has titled "ItTakes a fied that they each will receive a in four countries. They will shadow and Village: Placing Biodiversity Conser $28,000 award for a year of study interview researchers, government vation in the Context of Native and answering these questions. The officials, professionals, and local inhab Indigenous Communities." Her idea two are among 44 Thomas J. Wat itants, and. following the tough Wat for the project arose after she learned son Fellows chosen for 2014-15 son rules, will not be allowed to step about "conservation refugees"— from more than 700 candidates back on American soil for a full year. people who were forced to leave their in 21 states and six countries. Haley will travel to Australia, homes when they lived in threatened Puget Sound is the only Pacific Japan, Bolivia, and Tanzania, pursuing ecosystems. She hopes to learn how Northwest college with students a topic she titled "Art, Trauma, and locals and conservationists can coop selected this year for the award. Creative Healing: Understanding Art erate to achieve the goals of both. I
SEEN AND HEARD THE FACULTY Retiring this year (from left): Bryan Smith, professor of mathemat “Some people still ics and computer science; Tim Hoyt, instructor in chemistry; Chuck Hommel, instructor in mathematics and computer science; Doug Goodman, professor of economics; and Leon Grunberg, professor find it hard to believe, of sociology and anthropology.
but, yes, China is
now one of the largest
producers of wine by
volume in the world.”
— Pierre Ly, assistant professor of international political economy, in a story in WineCbina magazine. (Article first appeared in Alternative Emerging Investor.)
GLEANED FROM OUR FAVORITE BLOGS STATS What this past year's freshmen said ... Bio puns for everyone We are regular viewers of the blog written by Associate Professor of Biology Mark Martin. expected to Puget Sound "All Creatures Great and Small: Preaching was among their spend 11-plus hours a week Microbial Supremacy!" (microbesrule.blogspot. top 3 choices for 87% 96% preparing for ( com). In it he writes in his entertaining style college classes about things like his philosophy of teaching, scientist heroes, and, often, his family. But we also get a look at what his students are up to, and this one made us smile. The extra-credit are receiving were 8-plus assignment he gave his introduction to cell and 97% grams and/or hours away molecular biology class was to come up with scholarships 70% from home creative ways to demonstrate material covered in lectures. Boy, did they ever. What he got back was a comic book about Johann Mendel; mitochondrial love poems; a mitosis rap video; a mitosis and meiosis cross-stitch; and what when they attended started out without you see here. It's by Kayla Au '17 and the "screen" of this "cell" phone is were unsure of 72% knowing anyone a super-magnified look into a cell, complete with DNA, vacuoles, mitochon intended major from home dria, centrioles, ribosomes, and Golgi apparatus.
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Neukom Family ARCHES UPDATE statement for the University of Colleen Gallagher M.F.A.79, Reid Foundation makes Puget Sound Alumni Ceramics Ozaki 73, and Miles Struxness "Feats in Clay" gets legs $500,000 gift for Exhibition that was on display at M.F.A.75. scholarships to students The cover story for Arches' spring Clatsop Community College in We were mighty pleased from Pierce County 2013 edition was about the succes Astoria, Ore. "We contacted as here at Arches World Headquar sion of influential ceramics teach many fellow graduates as we could ters to have had some small part ers at the college and the artists think of. ... Within this group, there in the inspiration for this stun they have sent out into the world are the studio potters, and there ning exhibition, and just before over the decades. Reid Ozaki 73 are those who have been involved the show closed in early May Jfe was one of the grads we featured, in teaching art and ceramics. Some your Arches editors made a day and he was curious about what have combined the two. There are trip down to Astoria to check * * others who had studied under the those who have chosen careers it out We must say, we were great profs were doing these days. in other fields yet find themselves impressed by the terrific treat "It occurred to some of us drawn back to the medium. We ment our alumni artists received involved in the article that there all share a foundation in clay that at CCC. And were proud to note are many other graduates of the has served us well in the years that about half of the pieces in program throughout the coun since we first decided clay was our the show had sold! try doing fine work, and that it passion." might be interesting and timely to The show was organized by You can see the art at reconnect," he wrote in the artist Matt Allison '93, John Benn 78, pugetsound.edu/ceramicsshow Bailey Edwards '17 is the university's most recent Neukom Scholar. A gradu ate of Stadium High School inTacoma, she plans to major in exercise science and is a member of the soccer team.
The Neukom Family Foundation has made a $500,000 gift to its existing endowed student scholarship fund. First awarded in 2001. the scholar ships provide financial assistance to underrepresented students in Pierce County who demonstrate academic excellence and financial need. The continuing support of the foundation, through several gifts in recent years, has produced 13 Neukom Scholars to date. This new gift moves the fund to a level that ultimately will support full-tuition awards for future recipients. The foundation's gifts to the scholarship fund also have played a significant role in helping Puget Sound raise $44 million for student financial aid as part of the $125 million One (of a Kind] campaign for Puget Sound. At the opening reception for the University of Puget Sound Alumni Ceramics Exhibition were alumni exhibitors, back row, from left: Reid Ozaki 73, Colleen Gallagher M.F.A.79, MikeTopolski M.A.76, Jill Smith 73, Don Sprague (not a UPS grad), Rob Jackson M.FA/82, Rob Beishline '91,Tad Deming M.EA/77, Richard Rowland (Clatsop CC ceramics instructor and host for the THE CAMPAIGN show), John Benn 78, and Assistant Professor and current Puget Sound ceramics instructor Chad Gunderson. Front row: Erin FOR UNIVERSITY McCoy '08, M.A.T'09; and Rosette "Posey" Gault M.F.A79. In attendance but not pictured: Emma Magee Ozaki 75 and Miles ONE Struxness, M.EA.'75.The pots in the photo were made by Emeritus Professor of Art Ken Stevens M.FA.71. Ken was not able to [OF A KIND] OF PUGET SOUND attend, but the group wanted to be photographed with his work to "include" him.
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENCEMENT Discovered right under our noses: The Mason Union “We often think about the joys Loop Trail zmigii rmi So we're crossing Union Avenue on and pains of life happening in our way back from a lunchtime walk to the Metro Market in Proctor, and, cycles—as ups and downs, like gazing down so as not to trip on MX* the curb, our eyes fall on this. The Mason Union Loop Trail? Never heard of a roller coaster. But my mom it. Back at our desk we fire off a note to Justin Canny '90, head of Puget Sound Outdoors, wondering if he has any information. He doesn't, but he told me once that ... it’s like gets in touch with a colleague who works for the city and finds out that the Mason Union Loop is an urban walking/jogging trail that's about three miles long. It was a project of the North End Neighborhood Council. The train tracks; each side represents reason we've never noticed the trail before is that, while it is marked with a few curb badges, the city is not keen on signs. Hard to find perhaps, but. either joy or pain • • • and we the NENC tells us, parts of it are quite well used. The route, starting, say, on Union Avenue across from Thompson Hall, is: Walk north to 28th Street. ride them simultaneously.” Turn left on N. 28th, then at Mason, turn left again. Follow Mason past Jef ferson School and turn left onto 9th. Back at Union it's left again until you're — Rachel Martin ’96, host of National Public Radios Weekend Edition at Thompson Hall. To give the hike more of a trail-like feel, we suggest walk Sunday, in her address to graduates on May 18. The complete speech ing the grassy medians along Mason and Union. Could make a pretty good is here: pugetsound.edu/commencementaddresses route for a 5K sometime, we think.
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Book excerpt
Unrestorable Habitat,
Microsoft Is My Neighbor Now by Lois Phillips Hudson '49
INTRODUCTION BY ANN PUTNAM, INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH
t's late September, and the leaves are just beginning to turn. I’m walking from one end of the University of Washington campus to the other, searching for the building where I'll be taking a graduate fiction work shop. I am completely lost. I see a woman up ahead who looks like she knows where she's going. She's shorter than I am, with close-cropped silvery hair and a wonderful stride. Do you know where Schmitz Hall is? I ask. I'm late for my fiction seminar. But she's as lost as I am. And she is, in fact, the professor of the workshop I am trying to find. Weeks later I write a story for that class called "The Bear," prompting dozens of bear jokes between us, On her last day of the workshop, which is also the day before she retires, I borrow a bear suit and walk into her class and hand her a bouquet of roses. Thus begins our 20 years of losing and finding each other. Lois Phillips Hudson graduated from the very university where I'm now teaching creative writing myself. I take her to a conference where she's the featured speaker. She begins by talking about the process of writing her book The Kindly Fruits of the Earth, which pairs the work of the abolitionists in the Northeast with the decimation of Native Americans by California gold rush settlers. She circles her topic, as is her way, and the audience is only mildly attending. Then she begins her reading. It was considered entertainment in gold rush days to capture a black bear and let it loose into a corral with a bull and watch what happened. You can imagine it. The audience doesn't breathe until she comes to the very last word. The heavy silence is broken by astonished applause. She could do that. Her words could do that. As I said, we lost and found each other many times over 20 years. Her daughter died of cancer. My husband died of cancer. Then one morning I woke up with a strange feeling that Lois had died. Later, I received the manu script from which you are about to read an excerpt. She'd sent me parts of it over the years, but now here it was, complete. Lost and found. At first I wondered, why did you leave fiction to write about Microsoft? Her novel, The Bones of Plenty, captures the tragedy of the Dust Bowl more acutely than Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. I remember a knot in my stomach when I finished The Bones of Plenty and thought, this is the most powerful book I have ever read. But in this new manuscript there was a strange urgency, as though she somehow knew her time was running out, just as it was for the new world that is Microsoft's legacy, a world transformed by blindness and greed, where clear salmon runs have become “algae-clogged, herbicided, pesticided, too-warm water in a nearly dry stream bed" She asks. "How do you turn an asphalt parking lot back into a wetland, a ditch back into a river?" Publisher Susan Taylor Chehak describes the uniqueness of the book like this: "Her notes and thoughts are also exposed here ... you can see the way she went about working on the book. What an amazing document this is, of a writer's passion and her process." So here you have it—with all the little dips and turns that trace my friend Lois' mind and heart in the process of bringing to light the vision she had carried so close for so long: her glorious, pas sionate plea to save the Earth.
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rom our house in the hills of river into a deep canal. Cows in the pastures fallen into the blackberries—“Himalayas.” our “stump farm” above the Sam that are now Paul Allens golf course ambled Their name tells the story: a fierce exotic mamish Valley we looked down to the rivers edge anywhere for a drink of that quickly and ineradicably takes over dis F on bottomlands looped with the clean water. What once were riverbanks are turbed earth in the Pacific Northwest. To our willows and cottonwoods fringing a little now steep dikes brandishing eight-foot-high credit, Redmond is genuinely trying; at this river. The river wandered as it pleased, with tangles of inch-thick blackberry canes stud late date we’ve managed to restore a bit of a out so much as a single boulder for an obsta ded with half-inch thorns—real Sleeping- curve between the NE 85th and NE 90th cle—what you might call a calm spontane Beauty thickets. I accidentally rode over a street bridges, and public works depart ity. Seemingly aimless as the river, but with dead twig on the Sammamish River Trail ment heroes like Peter Holte, the habitat none of its spontaneity, the world in 1938 and a thorn pierced a new bike tire and its stewardship coordinator, plant native species was becalmed in bottomless night. Our supposedly puncture-proof inner tube. The and, rather than pollute the river with herbi family—my father, mother, younger sister, river still connects Lake Sammamish to Lake cides, doggedly dig out blackberries, root and I—went without things few Americans by root—and someone does cut back the would imagine going without today. We briers that never stop twining around the didn’t go hungry: Our 20 acres fed us well, The river wandered City of Redmond sign, which undauntedly but when the school started showing movies declares “The River Returns.” on Fridays (mostly Johnny Weissmuller- as it pleased, without Sixty years ago, my friend Juneau and Tarzan), you still had to ante up a nickel. so much as a single I spent our 14th summer working on the I had to stay in my sixth-grade classroom, Aries Brothers’ truck farm on the valley bot along with two or three of the worst boys, boulder for an tom. During our lunch breaks from thinning because I never had a nickel. and weeding, crawling along endless rows obstacle—what you We lived two miles north of the village, of carrots, lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers, we where we bought flour and sugar and pre might call a calm would sneak across the fields to the nearest cious little else. That village nobody had ever meander, strip in a willow-grove dressing heard of was Redmond. Today were “the spontaneity. Seemingly room, slide our hot bare feet through the world headquarters” of the richest human aimless as the river, cool grass, squish balms of mud between our on our planet. As the jazz lyric puts it, “Bill toes, and skinny-dip in water cold enough to Gates is my neighbor now.” but with none of its get us through the endless afternoon. In those days I would gaze out our spontaneity, the world Two gigantic spawning salmon heave into kitchen-dining-living-room window over the air above the Sammamish River, a stone’s in 1938 was becalmed looking the valley and dream of being rich throw from Redmond City Hall. The pair is enough to buy a little wood boat and row
made of stainless steel heads, tails, and fins, in bottomless night. the whole length of the river, to feel the mys which grow from rusting chain-link bod tery of the ways it chose its digressions across ies reddening, like their living counterparts, the plain, to find out, like any other curi in the oxidation of doom. The title of the Washington, but its length has been cut in ous river animal, what was around the next sculpture, ‘The Last Test,” evokes classic half, and you could drag your canoe along its bend, to watch the clouds floating through images of salmon heroically leaping moun bristling banks for miles without finding a the willow boughs, to look up at the five hills tain torrents and rainbow-mist waterfalls, path to get the boat into the water. of our farm and all the other hills that made but it may be more ironically appropriate A couple of years ago, the corps, King our valley, and to glimpse beyond them the right here on the nearly stagnant river, for County, and the City of Redmond began white and purple peaks of the Cascades and the fish homing up the Sammamish now “restoring salmon habitat.” They posted the great gleaming cone of Mount Rainier. might find that the crucial test for them signs describing the new mission of the Kenneth Grahame just about said it is simply struggling through algae-clogged, trucks and bulldozers as they scraped the all in The Wind in the Willows: “The river herbicided, pesticided, too-warm water in a banks and river bed and dumped boulders, chattered a babbling procession of the best nearly dry stream bed. logs, and dead trees to recreate meander stories in the world, sent from the heart of In 1964 the Army Corps of Engineers like eddies in which spawning fish might the Earth to be told at last to the insatiable made the crooked straight, bulldozed miles rest. Now, some of the corps’ signs have sea. ‘So—this—is—a—River!’ exclaimed of willow-shaded meanders, and ditched the been removed and some have rusted and Mole. (The River,’ corrected the Water
12 arches summer 2014 Rat.” Coming to a backwater, they sculled series of managers, let alone what we have seem to be seeing is a starving salmon lost in “into what seemed at first sight like a little already done to our other streams and wet a culvert. land-locked lake. Green turf sloped down lands. Chinook and coho fry, for example, The mall is built—where else?—on to cither edge, brown snaky tree-roots must spend their first year of life in saltwater what were wetlands along the river. With gleamed below the surface of the quiet estuaries before heading out to sea, but 90 a couple dozen other diehards, for years water”—such perfect habitat fora tiny percent of Washingtons coastal estuaries I yawned through city council meetings kingdom that “Mole could only hold up now generate factories, warehouses, docks, in a stifling small room in order to speak both fore-paws and gasp, ‘O my! O my! O and subdivisions. My microcosm, the Sam my piece against the New York-based mall my!’” Then “with his ear to the reed-stems mamish, was 34 miles long before the building corporation’s plans for the soggy he caught, at intervals, something of what industrious corps lowered it seven feet and defunct Redmond public golf course. The the wind went whispering so constantly obliterated nearly 20 miles of its meanders. old golf course adjoined our King County among them.” To the corps the Sammamish isn’t even a parks systems’ “prime jewel,” Marymoor Many years after I dreamed my rowboat river any more; it is a “conveyance” or a Park, at the northern end of the lake, dream, I was rich enough to buy a 15-foot facility. and it constituted a natural addition to Grumman aluminum canoe. My daughter, How do you turn an asphalt parking the park. With each exhaustive council Lucy, and I put the boat in at the northern lot back into a wetland, a ditch back into deliberation on each application to add on end of Lake Sammamish, the rivers source, a river? University of Washington geol to a garage or enclose a shed, I would see and paddled the 14 miles to the rivers ogy Professor David R. Montgomery says the briefcase full of student papers bulging mouth on Like Washington. We were too bigger—bigger than the hassock on which late, of course. We voyaged through none I had dumped it before deserting my of the elfin provinces I had set my heart How do you turn an young-teen daughters, then bigger than the on exploring; if, indeed, those provinces coffee table, then bigger than the La-Z-Boy had ever existed, the river was now sunk asphalt parking lot lounger. Ail of us protesters had full-time so deep in the corps’ ditch that we saw back into a wetland, a jobs, but when the council’s agenda finally nothing but the same bristling dikes and the got to the issue we were all there for, we same blank slit of sky. ditch back into a river? had to confront the New York lawyers Now I ride my bike along the Sam whose only job, year-in, year-out, was wear mamish River Trail every afternoon, and ing down hinterland yokels. (“Globaliza the more “RESTORATION” signs I see, the in King of Fish, “Salmon returns to Pacific tion” is not new to us folks out West.) As more I fear that, like jaunty explorers float Northwest rivers are just 6 to 7 percent of I drove home to the long night with my ing down an unmapped river, we are about historic levels.” We can only try to imagine briefcase—kids already in bed—I seethed in to plunge over a brink we won’t see in this river so thick with wild salmon that old-West helpless rage and dreamed of old- time. When an unimaginably deep and dis before Luke McRedmond homesteaded West vengeance, of tarring-and-feathering tant tectonic plate rams itself under another among 200-foot cedars in the Squak Valley, and riding-out-of-town-on-rails. 51 plate, the sea swells over the concussion and, this little settlement was called Salmonberg. for an instant, pulls the breakers away from “The Pacific Northwest is any place some roaring shore. As the tsunami sweeps salmon can get to. By that definition the Unrestorable Habitat: Microsoft Is My toward them at 600 miles an hour, people region has been shrinking for 150 years,” Neighbor Now is published by Foreverland on the suddenly silent beach look out over says Jim Lichatowich in Salmon Without Press and is available for Kindle or in miles of sea-bottom that no one has ever Rivers. One last run of kokanee struggles other digital formats here: foreverlandpress. seen before. In that moment they might back to Lake Sammamish, and as the “liv com/?page_id= 1685 imagine that the universe is granting them ing symbols of the Northwest” go extinct, “anew frontier.” replicas proliferate. On Bear Creek Drive a The Lois Phillips Hudson website We often pretend we have no inkling spotlighted sculpture marks the entrance to loisphillipshudson.org/wordpress is an outgrowth that a species is on the brink of extinction the “Center” that brought Redmond into of the Rural Lit RALLY Initiative (rurallitrally. till—surprise, surprise—it crashes. I am not the mall world; it’s a very thin fish made of org), ivhich houses her papers, donated by Lois' convinced that any “salmon restoration” many steel rings suspended in the centers of daughter, Lucy Hudson, and her partner, Mary efforts on the Sammamish will ultimately three consecutive large rings. No explana Snow, and watched over by editor Cynthia survive even the changing politics of its tory title helps me out on this one. 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I Puget Sound students over the years, we asked our resident volunteer god of the archives, John Finney ’67, P’94, to look back at old copies of Ye Recorde and The Maroon (the alumni publications that preceded f: Arches), The Trail (the long-standing student-produced newspaper), and Tamanawas (the yearbook), and pick a few ads that tell stories. Heres what he found: The Maroon, April 1904 Single Fare 50c; Round Trip 75c. left Predecessor to today'sTalgo Cascades i trains? No, the Flyer and the Athlon were Fly on the FLYER two of the many passenger steamboats making up the Mosquito Fleet that Tacoma-Seattle Route operated on Puget Sound—the body of water, that is.The Flyer carried students Four Round Trips Daily and faculty the 28 miles fromTacoma to Except Sunday . . . . Seattle in about 90 minutes. Leave Seattle — 7:30, 10:30 a. m., 2:45, 6:15 p. m. 1 Leave Tacoma — 9:25 a. m., 1:00, 4:30, 8:30 p. m. The Maroon, Oct. 1,1910 Table Service Unsurpassed. below Not even ballpoint pens existed in 1910, let alone iPads.The Puget Sound Fridays* * Flyer or Athlon student needing to write had to use a Leave Seattle — 7:30 a. m., 12:00 m., 6:15 p. m. Leave Tacoma — 9:25 a. m., 3:00, 8:00 p. m. pencil or a fountain pen full of liquid ink, ; and leakage was always a possibility. U. SEELEY, JR., Agent Seattle Phone Main 176 Tacoma Phone Main 211 i
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TF you have ever had experience with a leaky fountain pen there is nothing I new that wc* can tell you about the endless opportunities it offers for trouble, X annoyances, irritation, inconvenience and generally complete dissatisfaction. ^ : Cf *J It is not necessary to carry Moore's in an upright posit .on. Its construction is such u ** 'J J tht* when the cap is screwed on the pen is as tight as a corked bottle, making leakage \U. absolutely impossible. Upside down or lying flat it^won’t leak, because it can’t. tit the factory and shipped in that condition to all parts of the world with- I out even a hint of leakage. <1 When not in use the pen rests in ink, and - y k always being moist, writes with the first stroke; no shaking. \ V f| ^ . CHAS. W. BLANPIED, Agent 2704 6th Ave. summer 2014 arches 17 The Trail, June 1912 RIGHT The Albers Brothers Mill is still a fixture onThea Foss Waterway in Tacoma, not far from the Museum of Glass. Added in 1984 to the National Register of Historic Places, the building now features lofts for lease. Start The Day With The Trail, Feb. 20,1925 Oatmeal below left Among these 1925 businesses, only the Blue Mouse remains ---- -AND MAKE IT THE MOST ECON1MICAL as an ongoing concern in the Proctor District. In fact, at 90 years of age, i AND THE MOST NOURISHING MEAL Ol the Blue Mouse is the oldest continuously operating movie theater in THE DAY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Washington state. Proctor Pharmacy was operated by Wilmot Ragsdale (1879-1951), the father of the other Wilmot Ragsdale (1911-2009), a Albers Rolled Sals prominent journalist and University of Washington professor who, in his IN TIIE NEW FAMILY 1‘ACKACI. Will. ■•LEASE YOU IN COUNTLESS WAYS IT .. third career, taught journalism at Puget Sound for more than 10 years, until CONVENIENT. SANITARY AND CLEAN EACH PACKAGE CONTAINS THE VERY 1992. Proctor Shoe Repair continues in business at the same address as CHOICEST SELECTED WESTERN GROWN OATS-PLUMP. RICH GRAINS. FLAKED IN A MODERN MILL AS CLEAN AS YOUR OWN Lang Shoe Store.The marcelling treatment available at Sanstrom's Grace KITCHEN Shop, performed with hot curling tongs, waved one's hair to complete the 1920s flapper look, as seen in the third season of Downton Abbey. ! 44b 25c m The Trail, Oct. 10,1932 A I YOUR CHOCCRS below RIGHT You can still see movies at the Blue Mouse Theater. But at 11:15 U';J p.m? At least you got free coffee and cigarettes, and all for only 25 cents if you were a Puget Sound student.This Blue Mouse in the Proctor district was the little brother to the big first-run Blue MouseTheater in downtown ALBERS BROS. MILLING C®. TACOMA Tacoma and was known as the Blue Mouse Jr. Later, in 1932, the theater SEAT Tit. ponruxo .VIA fKH.VC/.HO was sold and renamed the Proctor Theater. The Proctor eventually became CEREAI.MILLERS ALL ALONG THE COAST The Bijou and, in the early 1990s, the Blue Mouse once again. By then the downtown big brother was gone. I*AIItONIZF. OUR ADVKK I IS! .!!> PROCTOR ST. DISTRICT W The— Sanstrom’s Grace Jack 0’Lantern CINEMA GUILD 2615 No. Proctor * Shop Marcelling — Bob Curl ■ again presents CANDY Phone for appointment UNUSUAL MOTION CONFECTIONERY No. 27th & Proctor—Proc. 179 PICTURES OF THE LIGHT LUNCHES •ItlllllllimHIINHHIIIIIMIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllHlIIMIfllllimilllH s. 1 WORLD Come here after your col lege affairs Sanstrom’s at the I Mrs. Metsker, Prop. Department Store Blue Mouse Theater Proctor 229 North 26th and Proctor every Saturday night Proctor 903 ! i —11:15— PROCTOR STREET BLUE ! Next Saturday, October 15 MOUSE Lang Shoe Store February 25, 26, 27, 28 E. W. LANG “Schuberts Harold Lloyd in New Stock—Fair Price ! r HOT WATER Flue Repair Shop 3817% No. 26th Proctor 3254 Freuhlingstraum” (Schuberts Dream of Spring) Proctor Say It With Flowers Viennese Light Opera Coffee and Cigarettes Free Pharmacy TACOMA FLORAL CO. Phone ub your order Your student body membership W. P. RAGSDALE We deliver card admits you for 25 cents ! North 26th & Proctor Sts. Proc. 2932Y 2609 No. Proc. i .iS L U 18 arches summer 2014 The Trail, Feb. 18,1944 LEFT This was one of a series of war- related ads published in TheTrail during the World War II years. Tamanawas, 1951 below left Brown & Haley has been in business inTacoma for more than a century. One of the co-founders, Harry Brown, was a longtime Puget Sound trustee. He provided endowment funds for sidewalks and the Brown Family Courtyard between Harned and Thompson halls. The Trail, Dec. 6,1955 below right This appeal to Puget Sound students to see a film and then interview in Jones Hall to become a United Airlines stewardess would not fly today. r * v»V £1* A CAREER i FOR COLLEGE ■WOMEN! fie a United Air Lines Jor the One and Only Stewardess BROWN & HALEY CHOCOLATES Here’s your opportunity for a wonderful career as a United Air Lines’ Stewardess. You'll meet interesting people, travel For a gift that says, "Only the best is throughout the country and receive excellent pay plus full employee benefits and paid vacations. good enough for you,” choose Brown Contact United now if you meet these qualifications: & Haley Chocolates. For a gracious re Candidates must be attractive, unmarried, 21-27 yean; under 135 lbs., 5'2’ Io 5'7', good vision. You must have membrance, for a welcoming or farewel l college training, be a registered nurse or a Jtigh .school gift, choose Brown & Haley’s fine graduate with related experience in public contact work. chocolates. Made by the creators oi famed Almond Roca. FILM—11 A.M. LIBRARY BROWN & HALEY, TACOMA, WASH. INTERVIEWS — J-21 WED.. DEC. 7 12-3:30 P.M. summer 2014 arches 19 The Trail, Sept. 18,1967 facing page With branch banks near campus, both the (National) Bank of Washington and Puget Sound National Bank vied for student business, as evidenced by these ads two pages apart in the same issue of TheTrail. PSNB was acquired Skate Your Date at by Key Bank in 1992. TheTrail, Oct. 1,1971 RIGHT Norton Clapp, longtime Puget Sound trustee, opened the Lakewood Ice Arena on Steilacoom Lake in 1938. Generations Lakewood of Puget Sound students used the facility, and some earned college credit there in PE ice skating classes.The arena was demolished in 1982. Ice Arena The Trail, Nov. 20,1987 below left An actual fire station until 1965, Engine House No. WED. - 8:45 - 10:30 9 was preserved and became a pub in the early 1970s. On the National Register of Historic Places, the Engine House was and THURS. - 6:15 - 8:15 is a favorite hangout of Puget Sounders. FRI. SAT. SUN. - 8:15 - 10:15 STUDENT RATES TheTrail, Nov. 12,1992 Admission .90 below right The Peace Corps was more than 30 years old Skate Rentals. .45 when this ad ran in 1992. Since 2001 Puget Sound has ranked in the top 10 every year among small colleges in the number of 7310 Steilacoom Boulevard S.W. graduates volunteering for Peace Corps service. JU 8-7000 FOR 30 YEARS, WEVE BEEN EXPORTING AMERICA'S MOST Wi VALUABLE RESOURCE. mom1 r. •r i I riv ENGINE HOUSE N99 The men and women of the Peace For 30 years, being a Peace Corps Corps. Dedicated Volunteers who put Volunteer has been a chance to stop their valuable skills to wort. helping dreaming about a better world and start | TACOMA. U.S.A. people in dev eloping countries live doing something about it. better lives. resl«iiir;iill \ pul) It's tough. And it takes more than i just concern. 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Here's what he sent, in which you will learn about the Mongolian concept of time, why public singing is important, why it's not rude to barge in unannounced, and why a nip (or two) before a staff outing is highly encouraged. C C Where do all the naked Americans live, teacher?” i “Excuse me?” “The naked people,” she enunciated, very clearly. “Who?!” “You know. The ones with the feathers.” “No, no. The naked people who ride the horse like Mongolians,” another student quipped. “Oh, Native Americans! Yes, they sometimes ride horses. Right, those are Native Americans!” “Neative ‘mericans,” the class chimed. A few pupils still looked puzzled. Using my laptop, I image-searched the term “Native American” and showed the class. “Yes! That!” Nemekhee, the question-asker, confirmed. She paused, deep in thought. “Teacher, what does naked mean?” “Naked means no clothes.” “No close?” She pointed to the open door to the classroom. “No, not like that. No clothes'" I pantomimed taking my shirt off up over my head. “Oh, no!” The class erupted into laughter. Turning beet red, Nemekhee covered her mouth in embarrassment. After nearly a minute, students recovered enough to speak again. “Teacher, I never forget this word now. Naked!” “Neeked,” echoed fellow students, stifling giggles. These are the moments I wont soon forget from my experiences teaching English in Mongolia, the ones full of confusion, hilarity, and small epiphanies for my students. Still, reflecting on my nine months as a Fulbright teaching assistant, I admit I probably learned more about Mongolian culture than my students did about Amer ica and the English language put together. Of course, I worked to improve my curriculum design, lesson plan ning, and classroom management skills to deliver the best lessons possible, but there was a lot to learn, living summer 2014 arches 23 English class at the Rajiv Gandhi Polytechnic School of Production and Art and working in such a different nap necessitated by late-night con whatever was to come next prob culture. struction on the room next door to ably wasn’t going to be good. My assignment was at a voca mine. Why is she calling me now? “I’m in the office making a les tional school in Ulaanbaatar, “The students are ready. We son plan for this afternoons class. the capital city of Mongolia. I are waiting for you in Room 203! Where are you?” I asked anxiously. co-taught English classes with Run, please!” “The office? No, no. No classes teachers whose levels of English “Wait...” I glanced at my today, Peter! Don’t worry about the were quite low. But then, that’s watch then looked at my schedule lesson. Come to the city center. why I was there! Only a few years on the wall. “We don’t teach until Teachers and students all here!” ago most of my co-workers were 4:30 p.m., right!?” So that’s why its so quiet here Russian-language teachers, a prod It was just after three, and my this morning! uct of the long Soviet occupation. lesson plan wasn't finished! My “OK, I’m on my way. What’s My supervisor and colleagues were alarm had been set to go off in 10 happening today?” I began to pack forced to learn English late in their minutes. up with my free hand. careers as a third or even fourth “No, no. You teach now! “I will see you on the street and language. Making things even Schedule has changed.” tell you.” more complicated, my school was “OK! I’ll be right there ...” “Where—?” in the midst of a massive adminis Hurriedly putting my clothes “Special day! Bye bye!” trative transition. Due to linguistic on, I created a mental plan for She hung up. and cultural barriers, communicat class. Introductions, greetings, ing, coordinating, and collaborat vocabulary activity, spelling competi Mysterious surprises like these ing with my peers was difficult: tion. In less than two minutes, I were regular occurrences. Without “Peter, where are you? What was out the door. an alternative, I learned to be flex are you doing!?” my co-worker ible—and at the same time devel asked frantically as I answered To my co-workers, it seemed I was oped an irrational fear of answer my cellphone. (This was a ubiq often in the wrong place at the ing my phone. More often than uitous greeting used by my fellow wrong time: not, the “schedule changes” turned teachers.) “Hello, Peter! Where are you?” out great! On the “special day” “I’m in my room resting,” I Seggii Teacher inquired. I gri my co-worker had referred to, my replied drowsily, rousing from a maced, knowing by her tone that school participated in a massive 24 arches summer 2014 The school students creative hair-design fashion show exhibition of technical schools at to happen spontaneously and Year’s singing competition,” my Chinggis Square, the national mall. immediately: supervisor explained in a matter- I spent two hours photograph “Peter! Saturday, school New of-fact tone. ing demonstrations put on by Year’s party. You come!” my super “Oh! Wow! Thanks. It’s an vocational catering, construction, visor told me after class one Thurs honor ...” cosmetology, and fashion-design day in December. They're serious! schools. Not a bad change of plans! (New Year’s parties rank among “Very important,” she affirmed. As a Westerner, I’m used to the most important events in the “Did you prepare?” arranging meetings, appointments, Mongolian calendar. A corpo “Sing for us now!” the third co- and class times well in advance, rate executive told me once that worker demanded with a smile. according to a schedule. But time given the choice between holiday “Well, I—I don’t have one pre was a nebulous, fluid, cyclical bonuses and a lavish party, his pared yet. You just told me! Give concept to many of my Mongolian employees unanimously voted for me a minute to pick one!” co-workers. 1 quickly learned not the celebration.) “Do you know Mongolian to take it personally when no one “OK, sounds great! What songs?” the third co-worker asked. showed up on time to meetings, time?” I asked, excited to attend “No, I can’t sing in Mongolian classes, or events I had organized— the upcoming gala. for the whole school on two days’ or at all! There are historical and “Evening time. I call you.” notice! I can barely introduce cultural reasons for this “time “Peter, you must wear a suit,” myselfl” warp.” Among nomadic herders, another co-teacher in the office “It’s OK. English is OK, but who today still make up roughly advised. Mongolian better.” a third of Mongolia’s population, “Yes, a nice suit,” my supervisor “English. I’ll sing in English.” agreeing to convene in advance is confirmed. Two days and several vodka not generally necessary. In their “OK, no problem. I have shots later I found myself danc worldview, seasonal rhythms and one,” I replied, relieved that I’d be ing on stage singing U2’s “(This fluctuations are more significant prepared. Christmas) Baby Please Come than weekly schedules or daily “Your song ready?” a third Home” in front of more than routines, which can be adjusted teacher nearby asked. 100 Mongolian faculty, staff, and on a whim. Yet, once things are “My s-song?” I stammered. administrators from my school. considered important they tend “Represent department in New In retrospect, the opportunities summer 2014 arches 25 Lunar New Year’s celebration. The big cake is called an ul boov. that such cases of extreme adapt other common tasks. After that exasperatedly locked the door to ability offered, and occasionally initial experience, I thought I had prevent the interruptions. This forced upon me, were memorable a fair grasp of the lifestyle and backfired when the curious indi glimpses into the local culture. values of Mongolian nomads. I viduals tried their hardest to tear it Singing is incredibly important only truly began to understand the open, resulting in even more of a to most Mongolians. Its histori broader picture and nuances of scene. In one instance I unlocked cally been a means to pass down the culture once I started working, the door, the teacher on the other stories, romanticize the herding however. In search of answers and side looked in, and then immedi lifestyle, and pay homage to the antidotes to my daily confusion ately left without a word. spirits of the elements and of ones in the office or classroom, I asked After a month, I gave up ancestors. Singing is also virtually questions about traditional cus attempting to prevent these visits, mandatory at any contemporary toms, etiquette, and beliefs when which my students and co-teachers ceremony or event, and few Mon ever I could. It was through these never seemed to mind. Like many golians shy away from bursting conversations that I was able to cultural mysteries, I figured out into song at a moments notice. uncover layers of meaning below what was going on much later, It was only natural that my co the surface activity around me and after talking with a friend about workers expected me to be willing to divine more fully the context in his childhood in the countryside. and able to perform. which I was operating. I learned that nomads commonly The most important thing I During my first weeks of teach drop by their neighbors’ gers, or learned during my time teaching ing I was perplexed by a strange yurts, unannounced. Knocking is that nomadic culture, while and distracting phenomenon. Ran on doors isn’t culturally required, not immediately visible, is omni dom teachers, students, janitors, and locked entrances are rare and present even in urban areas like administrators, and even outside can even arouse suspicion. If you’re Ulaanbaatar. Before the school visitors would open the door to my curious or looking for something year began I stayed with a nomad classroom while I was lecturing or or someone, there’s no problem family in the countryside for three leading an activity. Roughly five whatsoever if you fling a door open days, with the aid of an excellent times per class a different person momentarily to investigate. Tradi translator. I helped my hosts herd would pop in briefly, look around, tionally the required greeting for sheep, slaughter goats, and make and abruptly close the door. After these surprise visits literally trans fermented mares milk, among several days of these intrusions, I lates to “hold the dogs!” which 26 arches summer 2014 On the bus to a faculty outing. 10 a.m. Genghis Khan vodka. For you, Peter, two. is shouted as one approaches. “Your turn!” she said excitedly. acceptable, for example, led to In my school, though, like most The art teacher looked at me mis momentary shock, frustration, places in the city, no one yells this chievously and began to pour. and, at times, anger. This was espe beforehand (thankfully!). One day “Two for you!” said the vodka- cially the case when preconceived I followed a co-worker around as wielding man with the topknot, notions colored by my own cul we burst into nearly 15 classrooms showing off the cup to the 50-or- tural bias didn’t match the reality in this manner within 10 minutes, so onlooking co-workers, who of a very different context. On the looking for a colleague to help us cheered. other hand, I’ve never traveled any with a technology problem. Some faculty outing! where else where incredible experi While some things I came to “All right! Number one!” ences seem to reveal themselves understand with time and by ask Whew, this is stronger than I in surprising ways, often out of ing the right questions, many other remember it! the blue! Later, during the faculty things I’ll never fully comprehend: “Number two. Number two. outing to the countryside (which “English teachers! Vodka! Number two!” my fellow English I had been convinced was a hik Vodka!” an art teacher shouted. teachers chanted as he refilled the ing trip), there was a phenomenal He waved a paper cup in the air, cup for me. banquet in honor of my school’s a gigantic bottle of Genghis Khan “When in Rome!” I shouted to former director, fully replete with in hand. the teacher sitting next to me, rais traditional songs and a dance party. “It’s 10 a.m.!” I turned to my ing the cup. Conversely, sometimes I was supervisor across the school bus “No. When in Mongolia!” she surprised to understand unfamiliar aisle from me, reluctant to join in. responded, beaming. things as they were unfolding. “Drinking time,” she said with “Hello, Peter! Where are you?” a wry smile and took the cup with There was no shortage of moments my co-teacher asked over the two hands, downing its contents in in which I was pushed out of phone. one gulp. my comfort zone, nor dearth of “Hi, Badmaa Teacher! I’m here Not bad for a grandma! opportunities to cultivate patience, in class with our students. Where One by one each co-worker flexibility, or perseverance. More are you?” accepted the Dixie cup from the than anywhere else I’ve traveled, “Ah, Peter. I’m very sorry! I generous art teacher and swiftly firm expectations and assumptions, cannot come today. My cow is drained it. like when and where drinking is melting!” summer 2014 arches 27 With co-teachers (some wearing traditional deels) at the school’s opening ceremony “Oh, its melting! Well, you Looking back, its these unpre Year, Women’s Day, and Soldiers’ should put it in the freezer then!” dictable episodes that I’ll simulta Day with friends and co-workers. I said jokingly without the faintest neously feel relieved to be rid of I’ll not soon forget wrestling herd clue what she was talking about. and look back on nostalgically. I ers, meeting shamans and tradi “Yes, good idea! I will put it wont miss the unreliability of road tional healers, hiking, horseback in the freezer now. Sorry, there is conditions, public transportation, riding, or rafting in the country blood all over my house.” electricity, running water, toilet side. But it’s the kindness, generos “Ooh! OK, you clean that up! facilities, or Internet access. I’m ity, and down-to-earth, fun-loving, I’ll teach, then! No worries!” thankful I survived the terrible pol easygoing attitudes of my friends She's serious! lution and minus-20-degree winter and co-workers that I will miss the “Peter, I bought-shared a cow temperatures. I’ll rejoice in the most. IsH with my sister, and my half was availability, quality, and familiarity inside the house for many weeks. of consumer products and foods in Because it was very cold in the the U.S. Peter Bittner, a 2012 international winter! But, you see, spring came Still, this past year here has political economy major and Pac early!” been worth it for so many rea Rim alumnus, is currently writing “I’m sorry to hear that! No sons. I’ll fondly look back on the a tmvclogue and compiling a coffee- problem at all. I’ll continue with amazing opportunities for cultural table photography book from his the lesson, then.” exchange, like sharing Thanksgiv experiences in Mongolia. He's got a “OK! Thank you! Bye bye!” ing and Christmas with students Kickstarter page: peterswanderings. and celebrating the Lunar New com/kickstarter-info. 28 arches summer 2014 To the Height(s)? i \ l The mystery ofPuget Sound's errant Greek motto by Brett M. Rogers Assistant professor of classics his year marks three significant events in the history of the In classical antiquity, texts were written exclusively in majuscule most prominent graphic representation of the University of (No. 1), typically on media such as animal skin, stone, or papyrus. Puget Sound, its seal. First, it is the 105th anniversary of the Plato and Plutarch would never have known Greek written in a form T seal’s adoption, including the first appearance of its signature other than majuscule. In the second to fourth centuries A.D., there Greek motto. Second, it is the centennial of that Greek motto wan came into existence a new medium for the recording of writing: the dering in its course, with the result that it has contained typographi codex, the ancestor to the modern book. One consequence of this cal errors for almost 100 years. And third, well ... hang on till the end new idea was that eventually, in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., of the story, if you will. Byzantine scholars developed a new script, minuscule (No. 2), in Yes, you read that first paragraph correctly. Our Greek motto has order to record more information in less space. Since that time, texts I been errant fora century. To be fair, I mean “errant” here in both its written and printed in ancient Greek have regularly used the minus modern sense (“erring or straying from the proper course or stan cule script. l dards”) and its archaic meaning (“traveling in search of adventure,” Note that, in the example of the minuscule script displayed here like “knights errant”). The story of the origin of the seal and the sub (No. 2), there are marks above some of the letters. These are called sequent “straying” of our Greek motto is a compelling and previously diacritical marks. These include three pitch accents, which indicate the untold tale in the annals of Puget Sound. tone used in pronouncing ancient Greek (originally a tonal language like Chinese), and a smooth breathing over the first letter in ctKpa to It's all Greek to me represent its pronunciation as ‘ak-ra’ (not ‘hak-ra). Diacritical marks As a scholar of ancient Greek, I take great delight in teaching at a were developed in the late third or early second century B.C. by a school with an ancient Greek motto. Whereas Latin mottos are com scholar in Alexandria named Aristophanes of Byzantium. mon, only 12 universities worldwide—nine of them in the U.S.— Greek speakers living in the archaic period (c. 800-490 B.C.), have ancient Greek mottos on their seals. Unfortunately, of these 12 such as Homer, or the classical period (490-323 B.C.), such as universities, the University of Puget Sound is the only one whose seal Herodotus and Plato, had no need for diacritical marks, since they has not made correct use of an accepted orthographic practice for learned Greek as a spoken language. However, in the wake of the ancient Greek. So what do I mean by that? conquests of Alexander the Great (died 323 B.C.), Greek became the The history of ancient Greek writing and its subsequent graphic lingua franca of the Mediterranean world, used by both native and presentation is long and complicated, but in short there are three cor non-native speakers. Moreover, Greek was shifting from using a pitch rect ways to write ancient Greek: accent to a stress accent (like modern English); we typically refer to this later form of Greek as Koine (“common” Greek, since it was shared in common). Aristophanes added diacritical marks to texts 1. In majuscule (uppercase) letters: written in majuscule as a means to help both native and non-native nPOETAAKPA Greek speakers properly pronounce archaic and classical Greek texts. Therefore, by the time the minuscule script came into use one millen nium later, diacritical marks had long been considered an indispens 2. In minuscule (lowercase) letters: able part of writing, reading, and pronouncing ancient Greek. 7rpdq Ta aKpa When I arrived at Puget Sound in 2012,1 asked my colleagues how our motto, written in minuscule, came to stray from having dia critical marks. No one knew, so I devoted myself to solving this mys 3. Transliterated into the Latin alphabet: tery and plunged into the archives with the incalculable aid of Puget pros ta akra Sound staff archivist Katie Henningsen. summer 2014 arches 29 r T»« fVCfT if4 NT) TX*T A Christmas Message ]•*» o r—•• *,«*^** rCOI.|.tUE> lS« T«* »-. -. ruf IW^OVXU v^.r.'.rr.r «T»«* ww «Un t I rot< All •»# rJ f»rix^sSSr/ •A cl ••tot. »V* <1 ^ •* U'(«« k0“ "C iT.r,* k.UV^a-l |W %1| 'Z.'izi - Am t-.„ ct.J^TT.r. '7Tj .. l«lf ll« *««h Kern's Y**j *ti« «Ln««a •■••m *1 ------M ! M v d MsEKSgl S-rdFI & 5> SSySS SKSSi j ia-.T..r. /».•? rv p~*~* «*'•‘ fmrrm i — «i- *mhi...« i»4 W.U fcf'l M Iwntt Vk'Z^stt l«n •»*«4r «»••*! ^ »t»» •»! 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Interestingly, just a few years later, the 1909 aKpov ver devised Greek motto. The Greek motto 7rpo<; to aKpov was written sion of the motto was resuscitated for the cover of the 1925 Bulletin in minuscule and correctly included the diacritical marks (Figure 1). and used for the next three years (Figure 3a). However, a new aKpa Interestingly, the motto was not originally plural, “to the heights,” version of the same seal—also without diacritical marks—replaced it but rather singular, “to the height” or, more precisely, “to the top.” on the cover of the 1929 Bulletin (Figure 3b). The disappearance of As President Julius Zeller (1909-13) remarked to the trustees the the diacritical marks on this revised seal may have been inadvertently following year, on Aug. 16, 1910, the new seal and motto were both due to the physical condition of the seal in use; by 1928, the diacriti distinctive and ingenious, tying the mission of the college to its sur cal marks on the aKpov version of the seal seem to have become hard rounding landscape and Mount Tahoma (Rainier) in particular. As to recognize, and it would be unsurprising if the designer or printer Zeller told the trustees, “What could be more inspiring and sugges who refreshed the design for the 1929 Bulletin mistook the diacritical tive to the ambirions and aspirations of youth than a mountaintop?” marks for blemishes and thus did not think to include them in the This new seal, with its Greek motto, subsequently appeared on the revision. cover of the Bulletin from 1910 to 1914. In 1914, however, due to financial troubles, the university reorga Disappearing Greek nized as the College of Puget Sound. With the change in name came How could an institution of higher education have the ingenuity to a change in the design of the Bulletin, and the 1909 aKpov seal no devise an ancient Greek motto that captures its unique physical, spir longer appeared. No references to the seal appear in the trustees’ min itual, and intellectual environment, only to end up “misspelling” that utes or the surviving correspondence of the next president, Edward very same motto within two decades? No clear answer presents itself. Todd (1913-42), so it is unclear what the official thinking was Nevertheless, a couple of additional details may offer some insight. regarding the seal and the colleges self-representation. As previously mentioned, the original 1909 version of the seal The trail goes cold until December 1917, at which time we find was prepared by M. Elinor Riley (1883-1982). (Census records from an escutcheon (Figure 2) that seems to be a modified version of the 1900 suggest that the “M” stood for “Matte,” but in all other surviv seal. The escutcheon appears in an article in The Trail (“A Christmas ing documentation she is listed as “Elinor”) Elinor was an interior Message”) written by religion professor John Onesimus Foster. In decorator in Tacoma who later worked up and down the West Coast this article Foster discusses the meaning of the escutcheon, includ before moving permanently to New York City in the 1930s. Data ing its “little Greek words.” Interesringly, these Greek words are no from the 1910 census show that, around the time she prepared the longer Jtpoq to aKpov (“to the top”) but now npoq za aKpa (“to the seal, Elinor lived with an older sister, Mabel Riley Simpson (1874— heights”)—still in minuscule, but now plural and lacking the appro 1956). Mabel was a biology professor at UPS, hired in 1908 and spe priate diacritical marks. In short, Fosters article is the earliest datable cializing in botany and zoology. Elinor and Mabel were both clearly example of our current motto. Surprisingly, despite the change in the well educated, and Elinor may have known Greek. In one lecture on Greek, Foster refers to the motto as still meaning “to the top.” Per careers in design, delivered at Washington State University in 1913, haps he was merely careless in this translation, although one wonders Elinor stressed the importance of “the study of history—with special 30 arches summer 2014 i IlMi 9\j903^ FIGURE 3A FIGURE 3B FIGURE 4 1925 Bulletin 1929 Bulletin Now in use (Marks above (Marks above (Marks above Greek motto Greek motto Greek motto mindistinct.) missing.) restored.) attention to architecture and court fads and scandals.” At the very it remained on the books as a minor. Various stalwart professors in least, there is both evidence that Elinor was a history aficionado and religion and English—and even Frank Danes in physics—intermit circumstantial evidence that Mabel could have helped Elinor get the tently taught Attic or biblical Greek, and it was possible that a suf job drafting the 1909 aKpov seal. ficiently ambitious student could take Greek as an independent study. Perhaps Elinor or Lee Benbow knew ancient Greek and came up Nevertheless, ancient Greek would only make an institutionally with the motto for the 1909 seal, but there is one more important sanctioned return to Puget Sound in the fall of 1982, when classics figure to consider for our mystery. When Mabel arrived at UPS in professor David Lupher, who had been hired the previous year, taught 1908, her incoming cohort included a recent alumnus by the name his first Beginning Greek course at Puget Sound. (The students in of Arthur Lyman Marsh (1882-1972). Arthur had been at Puget that first ancient Greek course dubbed themselves “The Hellenophile Sound since 1899, graduating from both the academy and university. Five.”) Thus, in the gap between 1918 and 1981, when Puget Sound While an undergraduate, Arthur also worked as lecturer in ancient incorrectly modified and regularly used the seal with its distinctive Greek and Latin. Upon graduation he was immediately hired on as Greek motto, there was no “official” or regularly supported Greek pro professor of ancient languages, also serving as the university’s first fessor on campus to help correct the then-errant motto. registrar (1908-19) and dean (1913-19). Arthur and Mabel seem to have quickly become fond of each another. They married in June That third thing 1911 just after Arthur returned West from a one-year leave to com This year marks the 105 th anniversary of our seal and its motto 7tp6q plete his M.A. in classics at Hie University of Chicago. If Elinor did to aKpov (“to the top!”), as well as the centennial of that motto’s first not devise the original, orthographically correct aKpov motto on disappearance and the (more-or-less) birth of our current errant motto her own, then she could have been strongly influenced by Mabel or, 7tpo<; xa aKpa (“to the heights!”). Nevertheless, Commencement 2014 through Mabel, aided by Arthur, a decade-long presence at Puget witnessed the inauguration of a new era, restoring the diacritical marks Sound and UPS’ first (and, at the time, only) Greek professor. to our Greek motto (Figure 4). That’s right: We have finally fixed our In 1918-19, Arthur took a sabbatical to attend Teachers College seal, with a revised design researched and prepared by college designer at Columbia University, which seems to have signaled his imminent Julie Reynolds. It’s been a long path with much adventure and stray departure from Puget Sound. (Arthur and Mabel moved to Yakima ing, but as the University of Puget Sound takes one more step to even County in 1919, and Arthur went on to serve as the first executive greater heights, with eyes firmly fixed on both past and future, we can secretary of the Washington Education Association.) When Mabel now write for the first time in our history: Ttpoq id aKpa. SI tendered her resignation from the college in February 1919, the trustees, seeing that Arthur was also likely to resign, simultaneously The author wishes to thank Frank Danes, Katie Henningsen, David debated whether to restore the ancient languages program and/ Lupher, Phil Phibbs, and Ellen Whiting for their generous help in or to establish a new department of business administration. Upon exploring this mystery. Arthurs official resignation the following June, the trustees voted both to establish the Department of Business Administration and Want your very own To the Economics and to fold the instruction of biblical Greek and Latin Heights button? We'll send into other departments. Most important, the trustees opted not to one free to 25 people drawn replace the ancient languages position. at random from all those who Consequently, Greek had a somewhat precarious existence within make a request by writing to the Puget Sound curriculum for the following six decades, although [email protected]! summer 2014 arches 31 WHAT WE DO: Kelsey McCornack ’12 Dressing for success ne way to break into show business is to do an attention- grabbing project for a medieval studies course, put in long hours on five unpaid internships, and, of course, earn a bachelor s de gree in comparative sociolog)' and Chinese. That’s how Kelsey McCornack found herself with a gig in the costume shop at Taproot Theatre Company in Seattle. You may have guessed that a career in theater was not Kelseys original plan. She first came to Puget Sound intending to become a physical therapist. “Then I met chemistry, and that dream died very hard,” she laughs. Plan B came to Kelsey at the end of the aforementioned medieval history course with Professor Denise Despres. Students had the option to do either a final paper or a project. Since Kelsey has been sewing for about as long as she can remember—her father taught her when she was little—she opted to cre ate a gown of the type worn by Eleanor of Aquitaine. Professor Despres was impressed with the project and suggested that Kelsey mine her talents in the Theatre Arts Department’s costume shop. She did. And the theater bug bit. “It occurred to me that this was something I could actually do for a career, which I’d never even considered,” she recalls. Encouragement from Mishka Navarre, the costume shop supervisor, also helped. “She made it seem like something that was actually doable,” Kelsey says. She dabbled briefly on stage, taking one course in acting as an elective during her senior year at Puget Sound, but it freaked her out. “I kept thinking, ‘Heath Ledger, Heath Ledger, I’m going to end up like Heath Ledger! What if I go too deep?!’” she laughs. The experience gave her a measure of respect for actors—and a notion to avoid the boards, even though backstage work is a challenging field to break into professionally. “There’s always someone who will do it for less or do it for free, and that’s something I’ve just sort of accepted as part of the arts,” Kelsey says. She did it for free herself, working costuming internships with Seattle Public Theater, Seatde Opera, Seattle Childrens Theatre, and The Seagull Project before land ing the job at Taproot. A network of mentors and recognition of her skills were the returns for all of that free work. “I feel like I have built myself a litde bit of a reputation, which is why I’m happy I’ve worked at so many different places,” she says. “I’m known to a lot of people now.” After all of the bouncing around, Kelsey hopes to stay at Taproot for a while. She’s considering graduate school but says this isn’t the time. Her ulti mate dream is to go back to college for a job like Navarre’s. “Ideally I would run some kind of small, liberal arts costume program and design their shows, and then do either freelance design or stitching as well,” she says. “It seems like everybody who makes it has a patchwork of different |Rere's Kelsey with the dress i jobs that they do.” ishe made for the character of 1 Mrs. Malloy in TaprootTheatre , Kelsey is driven to succeed and calls herself hardworking and self-critical. 'Company's 2013 production of i She’s also open to following the path, wherever it leads. iThe Matchmaker. Kelsey said | “I’ve got a direction, but I just focus on the next logical step,” she says. “It lit took her and a cutter/draper , doesn’t do to think too far ahead.” — Greg Scheiderer 'about 20 hours to make the 1 idress, and she broke four needles' itrying to hurriedly affix the trim , 'in time for a fitting. 32 arches summer 2014 smateYour paper and ink social networking site si i Alumni news and correspondence 38 42 46 WHAT WE DO: boy Capital of the World. The community of He was the leading tackier for the team in roughly 20,000 in the foothills of the Sierra 1976, and one of his favorite memories is of de John Clymo ’78 Nevada Mountains gets its nickname from at feating rival Pacific Lutheran University in front one time having been home to more world- of 15,000 fans at the Kingdome in Seattle. He champion rodeo cowboys per capita than any still has a photo displayed on a wall of his Oak Versatile cowboy other city in the country. It is still home to dale home, showing him clad in his No. 44 jer one of the earliest rodeos of the season, one sey, celebrating with teammates. All of this, he in which John often competes. He also re says, wasn’t something he could have imagined cently competed in the Tule River Rodeo in growing up. Born in Vallejo, Calif., he lived in f you didn’t know better, a look at John Porterville, Calif., and won the steer wrestling the Napa Valley until he was 10. Then his fam Clymo’s resume would make you think he title, bringing home $2,000 and a shiny new ily left California and moved to Washington. can’t hold a job. He’s a world champion in buckle for his efforts. John celebrated his 58th “I was raised on a pig farm. I didn’t expect rodeo on the professional and senior cir birthday in June and says there’s satisfaction in to go to a private, four-year university,” he cuits, pilots his own plane, and is a certi continuing to compete in the rodeo, even if it admits. fied open-water SCUBA diver. He’s crossed the is on the senior circuit. The offer from UPS was too good to pass UPS graduation platform twice: once for his “The good news is, I still win them,” he up, though, and, for John, his education here bachelor’s and again in 1990 for his J.D. He’s says, with a smile. was the start of an intriguing life path. worked in 14 different countries. He’s kept a The divorced father of two adult children “These are opportunities that likely I would house in Singapore for six years. During Desert is an enrolled member of the Shawnee Band not have had without the broadening experi Shield/Desert Storm he ran a NATO base in of the Cherokee Indians, since his mother was ence of attending UPS,” John says. the Indian Ocean. He has set up joint-venture Native American. In high school John was an It was his hall-mate in Harrington Hall companies in Malaysia and Thailand, worked AJl-American football player who was heavily who got him interested in flying and enrolling for Pan Am World Services, developed renew recruited. He decided on the then-NCAA Di- in private-pilot ground school at Puget Sound. able energy projects for the Northern California vision II University of Puget Sound, eventually He took his first SCUBA lessons here, too, and Power Agency, and oversaw a $200 million-plus taking on the role of captain for the football became interested in the world outside the walls annual budget for National Security Technolo team. of the university. gies at the Nevada Test Site. “When I was recruited, the football sched “It shapes your brain to go out and do dif Phew. ule included teams like the University of ferent things,” John says of the university. “I And now he has achieved a lifetime dream: Hawai‘i, Sacramento State, U.C. Davis, and think I’m a good example of that.” Living in Oakdale, Calif.—the so-called Cow- Montana,” John remembers. — Marg Jackson 34 arches summer 2014 WHAT WE DO: Sue Anderson Mauermann ’76 Force for nature ometimes, it seems, what you were meant to do was right in front of you from the start. Sue Mauermann grew up on a 14-acre farm in Issaquah, Wash. When she was young, Issaquah was still a small stown, not the Seattle/Redmond-commutcr ex- urb it is today. Sue played on Issaquah Creek, fishing, tubing, chasing frogs and snakes. Mi grating salmon splashed past in every season. “It was a foundation,” she says. But she didn’t yet know how important a foundation it was. When it came time to apply to colleges, Puget Sound grabbed her like no other. She loved the size—the easy access to faculty—and it was just far enough away from home. She felt she could be independent here but could always step back if things got too overwhelm ing. Plus, before she even got to campus, she After 30 years working for the Washington state ecology and commerce departments. Sue Mauermann was convinced by the Port ofTacoma to oversee its environmental responsibilities—and knew she wanted to be in a sorority, just like : there are a lot of them. her mom and older sister. So UPS it was. i She entered thinking she wanted to be a into executive-level jobs, which she says were diesel-powered cargo-handling equipment, ! doctor, would follow the pre-med track, then more political. locomotives, trucks, and, of course, the ships, maybe transfer to the UW after two years. But “It was fascinating participating in the evo all of them hard at work in a relatively small Professor Jeff Bland’s environmental science lution of laws. Politics isn’t necessarily bad. It’s space. Then there’s protecting waterways from class changed her mind. She started wonder how we get things done.” Sue learned to work stormwater, especially metal contaminants ing about all those things she’d seen back on with people—understand what motivates them. leaching off cargo containers, and cleanups of Issaquah Creek. She got good at listening and understanding soil contamination and toxic sediments left It sure is nice when satisfying one’s curios where people are coming from and why. behind by previous property owners. And also ity can turn into a life’s work. Jobs were scarce After 27 years at that she had a hankering to habitat mitigation—as port growth affects wet back then in environmental science, but she try something different, and she got her chance lands and salmon habitat the port always miti got lucky and landed work right out of school when she was appointed deputy director in the gates such expansion by creating higher quality in the water quality lab of the Washington Department of Community, Trade and Eco habitat elsewhere. State Department of Ecology. nomic Development. For three years she held It was, Sue says, the favorite job of her ca “It helped having had experience with the position, which was, as they say, the hardest reer, and a perfect way to bring that career to high-end equipment in Thompson Hall,” she job she ever loved—until she was wooed away a close. She retired last October and promptly says. “All those afternoons staring down into by the Port ofTacoma. That turned out to be a moved from Olympia to the North End of petri dishes in the lab while my friends were job she loved even more. Tacoma, which was kind of poetic after having out there playing Frisbee turned out to be The port needed someone to oversee its en worked in T-town for almost seven years. worth it.” vironmental responsibilities, and her experience “I fell in love with the community while She quickly moved up at DOE: doing with the state was a huge asset. The port has a working here,” she says. “In Tacoma, things get air- and water-quality monitoring, then to lot to manage when it comes to the land, air, done.” Olympia in 1978 to work in shoreline man and water, and it takes those duties seriously. Its great to have you as a neighbor again, agement, then to wetlands management, then That includes reducing particulate matter from Sue. Welcome home. — Chuck Luce summer 2014 arches 35 CO 0) cz E n an era when robots are driving around “The console does everything you need it ing set up Yachtworld.com, an online broker on Mars, Neil McCurdy is helping to ex to do,” Neil says. “Its powerful, reliable, and age for big boats. plore the last great chunk of undiscovered people get it.” “That’s how I ended up in the marine in territory on the home planet. Since last Neil says a public-private partnership dustry—through technology!” Neil says. fall he has been chief operating officer of works well because universities and research After Yachtworld he worked for 10 years Woodinville, Wash.-based OceanGate Inc., a organizations need the tools and expertise for Singapore-based shipbuilder Grand Banks company that is developing the next genera OceanGate can provide. Yachts before joining OceanGate. Neil doesn’t tion of submarines for research, exploration, “They’re not in the business of owning and think of his work there as boatbuilding. Ocean- and commercial use. operating submersibles,” he says. “They’re in Gate is an operator of manned submersibles. “I kept my head above water for years, and the business of education and outreach and sci “There is a marine aspect to it that I have now I’m literally under water!” Neil quips. entific exploration. We can be an agent to help a real affinity for, but really it’s a technology OceanGates new sub is the Cyclops—its them do that.” company that’s faced with all the challenges of glass-dome front looks like one big eyeball and Neil has at times been accused of having growth and start-up and development, find gives operators a 180-degree view of the briny seawater in his veins. His ancestors, from Eng ing its true course and mission,” he says. He deep. A first version of the Cyclops should be land, Denmark, and Scotland, were seafarers calls himself a serial entrepreneur and likes that ready for test dives late this year. The company who made their way to Nova Scotia and then environment. has lots of partners in the venture. Engineers Boston before heading to the Northwest. His Neil enjoys sailing as a hobby, and also is an at the University of Washington Applied Phys great-great-grandfather built boats in Port avid skier and ski instructor. A serious bicyclist* ics Lab are helping with design, and folks at Townsend; his grandfather turned a small ship he is a registered rider with the United States Boeing and General Dynamics are offering building firm into a major operation that also Cycle Association, is on a local racing team, materials expertise. Neil says the Cyclops will constructed bridges and docks, and did other and teaches a cycling class. Fitness is a big Part be made with the latest composites so it can marine work. His father ended up in the fam of his life. withstand intense, deep-ocean pressure; they ily business, too. “If I’m strong physically, I can be strong ultimately want to dive it as deep as 3,000 Neil took a different direction. An English mentally,” Neil says. “I would rather wear out meters. It also will feature off-the-shelf tech major at Puget Sound, his first job out of col than rust out.” nology, including laptop computers and a Sony lege was in banking. He was attracted to sales Rusting out doesn’t seem likely for Neil» PlayStation 3 gaming console that will be used and marketing, and did some work in telecom even with all of that saltwater around. to steer the vessel. munication, media, and high tech before help- - Greg Scheiderer 36 arches summer 2014 4 it gave me so much.’ It wasn’t just money—I wanted to give myselfbacV.!' Which is no small feat, especially given the other commitments to which this extremely energetic Logger devotes her time. A partner at Carey Perkins LLP and parent of two daughters ages 5 and 9 and a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Leslie and her husband take full advantage of life in Boise, Idaho. “Were a ski family,” Leslie says. “The girls are on a ski team, and we ski every weekend in the winter, camp and bike in the summer, and I play on a tennis league. Were a very active family, and everything we like to do is right outside our door here in Boise. I wouldn’t choose to live anywhere else in the world.” Born in Los Angeles, Leslie grew up in Colo rado and loves her home state, but when it came time to choose a college she knew she wanted a small liberal arts school and an environment that would offer new adventures. After considering all her options, “It was an intuitive decision; I knew Puget Sound was the place for me. You get more than academics here, you learn a way of life. You learn who you are and how you’re going i to go out into the world and impact it.” A double major in economics and Japanese studies, she became a loyal Pi Beta Phi mem ber and an ASUPS senator, and says she never missed a football game. After graduation she worked for two years at Sumitrans, a Japanese shipping company, then obtained her law de gree at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Leslies advice for Loggers who have lost touch with their classmates and their alma ma WHAT WE DO: ter? “The easiest first step is to come back for Leslie Skinner Brown 92 Reunion, because you’re going to be blown away by what’s happening here. What was already a stunningly beautiful campus is even more If you build it, they will come beautiful. “But most of all, it’s about the alumni— and not even necessarily the people you knew t worked for Kevin Costner in Field of hometowns, helping current students with ca but just the opportunity to meet other alumni Dreams, and it’s definitely been true for reer advice and internships, assisting with the who have shared this experience and love this Leslie Skinner Brown ’92, one of a group Alumni Fund, planning regional get-togethers university. It’s amazing to hear and learn what of alumni leaders, including past presi and Alumni College opportunities, and hosting the alumni from this school are doing in their dents Ken McGill ’61 and David Watson some pretty spectacular gatherings at Summer chosen professions, adventures, and lives. Of all ’92, who have been working hard over the past Reunion Weekend and Homecoming, the different volunteer opportunities I’ve had several years to build a program to reconnect “What inspired me to reconnect was that throughout the years, this is by far the most alumni with the college and widi each other. I always felt a longing,” Leslie says. “You hope fulfilling.” This month Leslie succeeds David Watson that college is one of the best experiences of as president of the Alumni Council. The coun your life, and I can truly say it was. Every time Learn more about what the Alumni Council does cil is an ambitious cadre of 1,200 alumni who I got a phonadion call I would think, ‘I really for you and how you can participate by pointing are interviewing prospective students in their want to give back to the university because your Web browser to pugetsound.edu/alumni. summer 20H arches 37 alumni news and correspondence The work of sumi the Northwest keeping up with citizen communities. He takes at Jiyu Gakuen. Mike is an Air Maua Methodist Hospital is tru if) artist Fumiko their grandchildren. seniors on a "joy ride” bus tour 03 Force Lt. Col., retired; Vietnam ly a remarkable, life-giving force Takahashi Kimura '54. M.A/77 every Monday and occasionally John Delp '64, P'92 will be veteran; retired attorney; and in this part of Kenya—if any fel CD is on exhibit at Childhood's substitutes for local pastors. visiting campus during the currently president of Capstone low Loggers ever feel the urge c End Gallery in Olympia, Wash., In 1985 Jerry retired from the Manufacturing LLC. if) month of September! He'll be to come and volunteer their through July 27. Her lovely Tacoma Public Schools after if) taking in student life in the U.S. services, medical or otherwise, 03 mixed-media works are part of 30 years of teaching, the last and return to Japan, his home please don't hesitate to contact o a four-person show there. More 10 at Stadium High School. He for 50 years, to share his experi us!" Jim anticipates continuing at childhoods-end-gallery.com/ received his M.Ed. in teacher ences with his students. Since as CEO until December 2015, at Exhibit.html. training from the UW. and he University's 2014 distinguished 2011 John has been teaching which time he and Sue will re earned his Ph.D. from Columbia professors. She is an associate 6-. 7-. and 8-year-old students retire and return to Goldendale, Pacific University in economic dean and professor in OSU’s inTsukuba Science City, where Wash., build a home, and enjoy After Rick geography curriculum develop College of Public Health and he now lives. Recently he ap their grandchildren. Anderson graduated ment. Jerry also taught part Human Sciences. Marie joined plied for a job with the Japan from Puget Sound, he worked time at Pacific Lutheran Univer the OSU faculty in 2003. Previ Aerospace Exploration Agency, as a buyer of 737 airplane sity for 14 years. He has a new ously she spent 20 years at Japan's equivalent of NASA, j The Rev. Dr. James wing parts until 1972. During book in production, too, with the University of Oregon as a and. beginning July 1, is the w—__ S. Brewer retired that time he received Boeing's the working title British History professor of public health. Her June 30 after a career serving English-language coordinator Suggester of the Month award, of Puget Sound and Pierce research focuses on prevent for astronauts aboard the Inter United Methodist Churches in which helped provide the mon County, 1832-1850. Jerry and ing unintended pregnancies national Space Station. John Nebraska. He and his wife. The ey for a down payment on his wife Elaine Perdue Ramsey in young women and sexually Rev. Dr. Carol Roettmer Brewer, quips: "All thought out. I better first house in Renton, Wash. He '62 now live in University Place, transmitted infections in young are living in Lincoln, Neb. take this job and enjoy the side and Diana, his wife of 46 years, at The Cottages at Peach Creek. adults. As a social worker for moved to Yakima, Wash., where effects of earning a decent the Los Angeles Department Steve Kimberley joined the they raised three children and living ... like taking a cruise, or of Public Social Services, Marie Mount BakerTheatre board of now have seven grandchildren. something grand ... but more The UPS student saw the consequences of directors for a three-year term. important is having beaten out Rick adds: "We enjoyed and Prelaw Society in unintended pregnancy, which According to The Bellingham were proud of our kids in the all those young people who vited Mike Lantz '68, J.D/77 to motivated her to go into her Herald announcement, Steve sports they excelled in. We now thought they could grab the its March 27 meeting to speak field She earned her master's attended dental school in enjoy watching our grandkids in job away from a 71-year-old ap on the practice of law and degree and Ph.D. in public Portland and after a residency sports. I remember John Prins plicant!" See you in September, things to study before applying health at the UCLA School of in pediatric dentistry at the class in sales management and John! to law school. His primary sug Public Health. University of California, San his term, ‘put Man in salesman gestion was for each student Francisco, he and wife Margie ship.' It was true in my success to arrange with one of their Widdifield Kimberley '72 lived MW Asa'ongtime in sales and sales manage professors to present a lecture James Monroe in Japan, where Steve served '.r-J'.S'M ; volunteer at the ment. I sold complete apple- in their class. "This is an invalu and wife Sue moved in the Navy for four years. He and fruit-processing lines for Tacoma Historical Society, able opportunity to learn how to to Maua, Kenya, in 2012, to practiced pediatric dentistry the Food Machinery Company Jerry Ramsey was honored research, prepare, and present work as volunteers at the in Bellingham for 32 years, on April 14 with the Murray (FMC). I also worked for Marq a subject as a lawyer would," Maua Methodist Hospital. Jim retiring in 2013. Margie is a Enterprises in Yakima, selling Morgan Award "for significant Mike told us. Mike also recently became CEO of the hospital on retired schoolteacher. They have packaging machines. I received achievement in preserving and made significant financial com Jan. 15. He tells us: "Immedi two grown children and three communicating local history." a patent for an innovative por mitments to the Jiyu Gakuen ately after my years at UPS I grandchildren. table refrigerated in-store dis Jerry currently serves on the College in Tokyo. Japan, for was stationed by the U.S. Navy THS Collections Committee at then-Balboa Naval Hospital in i play for 600 lbs. of fruit in ’tote' students to obtain scholarships containers." After 35 years and writes articles for the City to attend graduate school in the San Diego as a corpsman/den- Reid Ozaki is partici of Destiny newsletter. He often pating in an art ex in sales. Rick retired in 2007. USA. Mike lived in Japan from tal technician. Now I am here gives lectures on local history hibit at Childhood's End Gallery He and Diana continue to live in 1947 to 1951, and his mother finishing my active work life at at THS and at various senior in Olympia. Wash., through July Yakima and travel throughout assisted in teaching English another hospital. Something about life coming full circle. 27 His ceramic works are part THE CAMPAIGN On March 29 more than 75 Loggers got together for a One [of a Kind] evening at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Parents FOR UNIVERSITY and alumni heard presentations from trustees Bob Shishido '72, P'09 and Guy Watanabe '75, M.B.A/76, Hawai'i Alumni Club ONE Coordinator LesliAnn Kikuchi '07, D.RT/10, and Grace Youn '13.The following day more than 30 Maui-based alumni and friends [OFAKIND] OF PUGET SOUND gathered at Maui's Winery at Ulupalakua Ranch for an event hosted by owners Sumner Erdman '88 and wife Angie. Guests mingled with President Thomas while sampling local cuisine and wine. The events marked the official start of the Hawai'i regional campaign, an initiative focused on increasing support and participation among Islander Loggers as part of the One [of a Kind] campaign.These folks below were brave enough to step into Ross Mulhausen's photo booth in Honolulu. From left: Donna Inamine; Robert Isonaga '76; Bob Shishido '72, P'09; LesliAnn Kikuchi '07, D.RT/10; Deanna Kikuchi P'07, P'10; Robert Badham '63, P'85; Jarfeth Badham P'85; David Jennings '61; Chuck Comeau '61; Guy Watanabe '75, M.B.A/76; Dawn Farm-Ramsey '75; Gordon Kane- maru '75; Kyle Paredes '96; Elaina Malaki Paredes '96, M.A.T/97; Brad Carter '75; Daryl Jean Pang Carter '81; and David Carter '78. of a four-person show. More division. He testified in May at about his role as chief operating J.T. Wilcox '85. P'12 has at childhoods-end-gallery.com/ a Congressional subcommit officer for the Kalispel Tribal served as a Washington state ALUMNI AND Exhibit.html. tee hearing on capital markets Economic Authority. According representative since 2011. The and government-sponsored to the article he developed an Nisqually Valley News reported i PARENT EVENTS David Rastovski is the new enterprises that enhance capital expertise in Indian law after that he was the featured speak head football coach for Rio formation for small and emerg serving as counsel to former er at the Yelm Area Chamber September 13 Rico High School in Arizona. He Washington state Gov. Mike of Commerce forum on June Los Angeles ing growth companies. i also teaches physical educa Lowry. In his current position 10. J.T. currently serves on the One [of a Kind] tion there. David's coaching Paul Jona was appointed senior Kem oversees a„ of the busi- House Republican leadership experience includes coordinator vice president of Cobham nesses operated by the tribe, team as floor leader, and he's Evening positions at Pacific Lutheran SATCOM beginning March 3. He the largest being Northern on the Appropriations and California Science Cen University, San Jose State has 30 years of experience in Quest Resort & Casino near Finance committees. ter. Wallis Annenberg University, and California State tech industries, including CEO Spokane. He also is one of the Building. 6 p.m. University. Northridge. He and chair of CoActive Technolo attorneys for the tribe. also was a graduate assistant gies in the Netherlands. During Ray Conner September 20 responsible for the defense his career he's lived in the M.B.A/86, vice chair Portland scout team at Stanford. He's Netherlands, the U S., Switzer Judith Anderson of The Boeing Company and held head-coaching positions land. Denmark, and Germany. in Bender has spent president and CEO of Boeing One [of a Kind] in several Washington state Paul earned his master's in most of her career as a physi Commercial Airplanes, was Evening high schools. David earned his international management at cal therapist in Eugene, Ore., named an outstanding alumnus Flex Space. 6 p.m. master's degree at Stanford. theThunderbird School of Global specializing in outpatient of Highline High School in Bur- Management. orthopedics and spine care Her ien. Wash. The award winners More information at: work inspired a book titled Back were honored at the Highline pugetsound.edu/ ! i]jQ)K. Patrick Castro, to Health, the Twenty-Minute Schools Foundation Gold Star oneofakindevening retired Snohomish Lisa Stenseth Dow Workout: A Complete Program Breakfast in April. High School choral director, has is______i joined the board of for the Treatment and Preven October 10-12 hosted an annual fundraising trustees for the School of Piano tion of Back and Neck Pain, Ernie Donehower retired from concert since 2007, this year Technology for the Blind in which was released in April by teaching at Vaughn Elementary Homecoming and on March 30. Proceeds support Vancouver, Wash. She has been Tate Publishing. Find out more School on Washington's Key Family Weekend the Patrick Castro Excellence in the banking industry for more at backtohealth.tateauthor.com. Peninsula. According to the ar pugetsound.edu/ in Vocal Music Scholarship than 30 years and currently Judith says she's lost touch ticle in the Key Peninsula News homecoming through the Snohomish Educa serves as senior vice president with most of her classmates. about his retirement, Ernie tion Foundation. Featured of credit administration at Contact her at judben2000@ didn't start his teaching career performer at this year's concert Columbia Bank. Lisa oversees yahoo.com. until he was in his 40s. Prior to was Megan Parker Chenovick commercial credit approval in that he worked in research as a Journalists Association annual '02, who appears in leading op Oregon and in southwestern Wendy Rolfe Evered produced Pacific Islands specialist for the meeting on March 27. He also eratic and musical-theater roles and Eastern Washington. She a short film titled Out. It pre state of Hawai'i. He earned his won his fourth Hirsch award for throughout the Northwest. Pat earned her M B.A. from UC, miered in April at the Newport master's degree in geography photography. Tom's writing has earned his master's degree in Berkeley Beach Film Festival. She tells at The University of Hawai'i and appeared in Freeskier and Pow voice at Central Washington us: "I am very proud of this little spent two years at the East- der. and has been featured on University. He retired in 2005 gem—especially because our West Center for cultural and ESPN and in Skiing and The Ski after nearly 25 years as a music 0k°/2 summer 2014 arches 39 alumni news and correspondence Purification. & Characteriza with the Evergreen Chamber committee chair. She previously co Loggers in the news tion Conference, which will Orchestra and the Jefferson worked at Tahoe SAFE Alliance 40 arches summer 2014 ! Western Washington chapter's in the state of Alaska He hopes she is principal flutist. The Los Naches. Wash. Many Puget Laurel Alyn-Forest annual Excellence in Journalism to put his musical talents to Angeles Times reviewed the Sound friends were in atten- sends this update: competition in the magazine's use in a series of recitals to concert, which was part of the dance, including several Pi Phi "Since graduating I've sung sports-reporting category. help increase public awareness Los Angeles Philharmonic’s sisters who sang a traditional professionally part time in about epilepsy Green Umbrella concert series. wedding chant. Carrie's favorite addition to other jobs in Nick Lucey will take over "Minimalist Jukebox: Maximum professor. Renee Houston, and professions more related to as the head football coach Renee Parr Meland just re Minimalism." her family also joined the cele- my economics degree. In at Squalicum High School in leased her first book, a young- bration. Carrie is working toward November I self-published and Bellingham, Wash. Previously adult dystopian coming-of-age a Registered Nursing license. released a CD titled Green. It he was a graduate assistant in novel titled The Extraction : EHk c°nnen i°ined and Patrick has worked as a is comprised of classical songs the football program at Wash List. It's available on Amazon, the Seattle labor law materials engineer at The Boe- about nature." The CDs were ington State University, then Smashwords, iBooks, and firm Vick, Julius, McClure. PS. ing Company for 10 years. The created from recycled bottles had college coaching stints at Nook. Congratulations, Renee! as an associate attorney. newlyweds make their home in and the covers from 100 Western New Mexico State and the Greenwood neighborhood in percent post-consumer waste Simon Fraser University in B.C. Jean Gibb earned her M.D. North Seattle. paper. Each CD sold will plant The Bellingham Herald article Tom Campbell was from the Medical College of a tree through the Colorado announcing Nick's new position named to Wisconsin on May 16. She's Brittany Hodgson '08, D.RT'11 organization Trees. Water & also said that Nick's dad, Bob Wenatchee Valley Business now in an internal medicine was included in a News Tribune People. She adds: “I loved Lucey '71, played football at Worlds 30 Under 35 list of residency at UCLA. article about South Sound run being in the School of Music Western State College and at community leaders. He is the ners who qualified for this year's Jesse Proudman was the win and having the same resources Puget Sound before starting his food and beverage manager Boston Marathon—her first! ner of GeekWire's 2014 Young as music majors. Having that longtime teaching and football at Campbell's Resort on Lake Entrepreneur of the Year award. Emily Noel Caldwell is the high level of instruction and coaching career at Curtis High Chelan Tom |oined his family's He's the founder of Blue Box, director of product management opportunity led me to musical School in University Place. 113-year-old business in July a company he started while at a new venture that helps peo- achievements post-graduation 2012. Previously he spent six at Puget Sound that features pie save time, decrease stress, that I wouldn't have imagined Estevan Munoz-Howard. years as a commercial real OpenStack-hosted private save money, improve health, at the time." Find out more at development director for Social estate appraiser with CBRE clouds. Check out bluebox.net. come together, reduce waste, laurelalynforest.com. Justice Fund Northwest in Hotels in Seattle. Seattle, was interviewed for a and eat better meals. Find out Chris Van Vechten married Joseph Colon became the Seattle Times article about inno Elizabeth Fly joined the South how at gatheredtable.com. Jenilyn Drake (Walla Walla new coordinator for Access vations in philanthropy. Find out Carolina Sea Grant Consortium University) in 2009. Although Walid Zafar was the featured Programs on campus in April. more at socialjusticefund.org. as a coastal climate extension Chris was originally from speaker at the Students Rising See pugetsound.edu/access. specialist. She earned her Ph.D. ! Portland and Jenilyn from the Above gala this spring in San in biological sciences at the Ellen George is a graduate Ozark Mountains of Arkansas/ Francisco. SRA assists low- Michael Allen is University of South Carolina research assistant at Cornell Oklahoma, they decided to income, first-generation college an assistant profes and completed a year as a University's Biological Field HI) make Tacoma their home; they students who have demon sor in the political science pro John A. Knauss Marine Policy Station. She is interested in purchased a house in the Hill strated a deep commitment to gram at Boise State University. Fellow in Washington, D C. Visit the rehabilitation of threatened top neighborhood. Chris went education and strength of char He was profiled in the school's scseagrant.org for more on the and endangered species in the on to attend Seattle University acter. Walid currently works for a student newspaper in April consortium's work. Great Lakes. Ellen's research School of Law; he subsequently political nonprofit in Washington, about his use of models from addresses the restoration of T'wina Franklin '06, M.A.T/07, worked as a Rule 9 prosecu D.C., and is on the register game theory to explain difficult Lake Ontario's population of a teacher at Stadium High tor and externed for a superior for assignment with the U.S. concepts. Michael earned his cisco, an important native prey court judge. He operates his Department of State to work as master's degree and Ph.D. at- School in Tacoma, received an fish species. Unrelated but honorary Washington Associa law practice. The Law Office of a Foreign Service officer Binghamton University (SUNY). cool: she took third place in the tion of School Administrators Chris Van Vechten, in Tacoma's Student Conservation Associa Kyle Mohagen '05, M.A.T/06 (WASA) Community Leadership Dome District. Find him at tion's 2014 I Love Snow photo is the new principal at Kings award for volunteerism for chil soundlawyering.com. The Rotary Club of contest! Beach Elementary School in the dren in Tacoma Public Schools. SMmfj Renton selected Tahoe-Truckee Unified School She also is an instructor for Shea Judd-Hume M.A.T.'09 District of California. He most the Metropolitan Develop as a Teacher of the Month in SandraRosa Bryant March. He's a special-education recently was assistant principal ment Council's College Bound ■xr. was accepted to at Manitou Park Elementary program, and she serves as a Skis, was featured in a Free teacher at Griffin Home in Louisiana State University's School in Tacoma. community outreach coordi Skier.com article in May. His Renton. School of Library & Information nator and grant writer at the business hatched on the corner Janece Levien is back on cam Science. She plans to become Ben Morgan hosted a violin Tacoma Urban League. T'wina of N. 13th and Proctor streets in pus as an admission counselor a children's librarian. concert on April 5 in his home is a leader in the Tacoma African Tacoma when he began think beginning July 7. She worked as town of Fairbanks, Alaska, American Leadership Forum, ing about building his own skis. to raise money for epilepsy a Peace Corps volunteer in rural and she co-founded Ladies Check out on3pskis.com. Brian Ernst is research. In an article written Guatemala before returning to First—a girls' empowerment t2013! back on campus for the Fairbanks Daily News- Brycen Bye '08, M.A.T/09 the Northwest last year to work b group. She is a board member working as an admission coun Miner, he explained how a is the new football coach as a bilingual youth counselor for her children's Parent Teacher selor beginning July 7. He was serious brain infection at age at Clarkston High School in with Friends of Youth in Renton. Student Association and the a student coordinator for the 11 put him in a coma and has Clarkston, Wash. He most Wash. Welcome home. Janece! Statewide Poverty Action Campus Visit Program before caused him to have seizures recently was the head football Network. Trevor Wadleigh plays viola serving as ASUPS president ever since. Ben went on to at coach at Wahluke High School with the group Well-Strung, an his senior year. Brian worked tend Purchase College (SUNY) Erin McKibben, debuted in in Mattawa, Wash. all-male singing, string quartet. as an admission counselor at and earned a graduate perfor the Walt Disney Concert Hall Came Clark '08 married Patrick The fellas mixed it up with Haverford College this past mance degree. In 2007 he was in April with Wild Up (wildup. Buffinton on Sept. 14. 2013, at season-one winner of American year. honored as the outstanding la), a Los Angeles experimental Fontaine Estates Winery near Idol Kelly Clarkson on the Today young musician with a disability classical ensemble in which show March 18. summer 2014 arches 41 in memoriam He was a member of Phi could. And that he was devoted go so fast. I was always one of A memorial service at cn Beta Kappa, the American to his mother. 0) the fastest cashiers." St. Patrick Church in Tacoma Physical Society, the American Jim Champa '80 sat next to Fast, perhaps, but that al was attended by more than TO Association of PhysicsTeachers, me at the service. Jim said his lowed her time to chat with 300 people, and a service on E and several honoraries in phys old professor was simultane cn students. She made a point campus in Kilworth Memorial ics and math. CO ously quick-witted, humble, and of calling each one by name Chapel also was well attended TO Bert was an avid outdoors- magnanimous. Bert spoke in and making a brief friendly Arlene's family wishes to thank O man, a world-class mountain measured words. Jim told me. exchange with everyone who the Puget Sound community for climber, and a climbing instruc- and in all circumstances he was passed by her station. When their condolences and support. tor. His first and only ski instruc- unflappable and offensive to she wasn't talking with custom Arlene is survived by husband tor was legendary Northwest no one. ers she was talking to herself; Tom; children Pam '86, Mark mountaineer Lou Whittaker in Bert was a friend and oft-ad- you always knew what Arlene ’91, Matt, and Paula; and two 1956. He hobnobbed with the visor to this magazine, and he was thinking because she said grandchildren. —CL likes of William 0. Douglas (the will be missed — Chuck Luce it out loud. former Supreme Court justice Professor Brown Arlene was famous for her Alumni and wilderness advocate), Jim Staff big, sparkly broaches (she wore Whittaker (the first American to Faculty one almost every day, adding a summit Mount Everest; Lou's touch of elegance to the SUB Professor Emeritus of Physics brother), and Dee Molenaar uniforms) and her colorful, Bert E. Brown died April 12. He (who in 1965 helped lead Bobby dangly earrings. Once, the row was 87. Kennedy on the first ascent of ing team sang to her after they Bert was born in The Dalles. Alaska's Mount Kennedy, which came in from practice very ear Ore., on Sept. 27, 1926, to Bert was named after President ly one morning. Another time a B. and Anna Pickering Brown. John F. Kennedy). He was in male student dressed up as her He earned his bachelor's volved with the American Red for Halloween and dropped by degree at Washington State Cross, The Mountaineers, and to show her his outfit. University in 1949. When Bert the Wilderness Society, and he “He had my apron, my started out in college it was was a founding member of the name tag, a wig, and he stood as a foreign language major, national Mountain Rescue As at my cash register!" Arlene but one day he saw a film on sociation. He taught Winterim told us. an atomic bomb test. He was and physical education ski and Her daughter Pam Taylor '86 transfixed. He wanted to learn alpine-hiking courses at Puget Arlene said Arlene always did what more about the forces that Sound. In January 1974, with she thought was right, even if could cause such an event, university physician Lon Hoover Arlene Kirishian Holt '56, it bent the rules a little. Some and he changed his major to ’52. he led a Winterim study- P'86, '91. cashier in the SUB times students would arrive physics. After his undergradu travel course in Nepal believed for 39 years and beloved sur before the food service was ate work at WSU he earned to have been the first organized rogate mother to us all. died on open (at 5.30 a m ), desperate Lon Hoover trekking expedition to the area March 28. She was 79. his master's at the California for a bite to hold them over With his family at his side, Lon by any American university. In Arlene was a North End Institute of Technology in 1953, for the morning. Arlene would Hoover '52, P'88 passed away 1980 he trekked the western neighbor, and when the last of and his Ph.D. at Oregon State sneak them in and ring them on May 8. He was 83. region of Nepal to study culture her four children were to enter through. University in 1963. His first job Lon graduated from Sta and climate. At age 68 he re grade school she applied for an was as a naval architect and In 1992 Arlene was the dium High School in Tacoma in turned to Nepal for a 140-mile office job at Puget Sound. This physicist at the Puget Sound Puget Sound Staff Member of 1948. At Puget Sound he ma trek. required a typing test. Thinking Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. the Year, and in 2012 she re jored in biology and minored in Bert inspired considerable the test would take only a few Wash. ceived the W. Houston Dough- chemistry. He was a member interest in photography at the minutes, Arlene drove to the Bert joined the College of arty '83 Hearthstone Award, of Knights; secretary of the college, including astrophotog- college and left her children Puget Sound faculty in 1960 as presented to an individual or pre-med club; secretary of Phi raphy lab exercises for use with waiting in the car. But the kids an instructor of physics. That group who has contributed to Sigma, the biology honorary; telescopes in the Thompson grew impatient and went to same year he began recording enhancing life in the student and president of the Indepen Hall tower, and time-lapse find her. They succeeded, and meticulous daily weather ob center. dents. He also played in the servations for the Tacoma area. photographs and films of cloud interrupted her timed test, so Arlene's parents. Harry and school band. After graduating He was promoted through the formations. instead of the office job Arlene Victoria Kirishian, owned the with honors. Lon went on to college ranks, serving for many At his memorial service took a position in Dining and Kirishian Rug Company next to the Chicago College of Osteo years as department chair until on campus April 25. Kilworth Conferences Services. The 6 the Temple Theater in Tacoma pathic Medicine. In 1957 he his retirement in 1983. While Chapel was packed with former a.m. to 2 p.m. shift worked out for more than 60 years. Arlene returned to Tacoma to take over at Puget Sound, he developed students, and it was attended perfectly, since she could be met her husband. Tom, when the family-medical practice of atmospheric science courses, by a who's who of the North- home when her children got they were in middle school. his father, Harold V. Hoover. In obtained weather observation west climbing community. For out of school, They married in 1960 and cele that role he became known equipment for Thompson Hall, an hour, they took turns telling For an Arches article in brated their 50th wedding an for his care and compassion, and helped develop the col stories. From his friends we 2013, Arlene recalled her first niversary in October 2010. frequently seeing patients even lege's computer facilities. Fol learned that the boys in Tacoma day on the job at the cash reg- Over the course of her though they could not pay. He lowing the eruption of Mount Explorer Post 515, for which he ister, with the snack bar man life Arlene was a member of brought a lot of Tacoma babies was a longtime leader, called St. Helens, Bert published a ager looking over her shoulder, Job's Daughters International into the world. Until Parkinson's him B2. That he never owned saying. "Faster! Faster! Get study on the effect of ashfall on (a Christian service organiza disease made it impossible, he a TV. That he hated driving those kids through faster!" snowmelt at Mount Rainier, and tion), the Stadium High School took his treatment table with but would instead put on a he researched the atmospheric "I got so nervous I didn't Tigeramas marching team, the him everywhere, laying healing backpack and walk where he think I was going to make it," pressure pulse of the St. Hel Armenian Christian Youth Or hands on anyone who needed needed to go whenever he Arlene said, "Later. I was thank ens eruption. ganization, and Puget Sound's his attention. ful, though, that he made me Delta Delta Delta sorority. In 1977 Lon decided to 42 arches summer 2014 step away from private prac ni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) It was there at age 17 he met a poultry farm. At age 17 he living room window. She is sur tice and joined the faculty of volunteer and an officer of the his bride-to-be and lifelong part left high school to join the U.S. vived by her son. Her husband. the Michigan State University Tacoma alumni chapter. In 2002 ner, Ester. The only time they Marines and serve in World Chuck, preceded her in death. College of Osteopathic Medi he received Puget Sound's ever were separated was dur War II. He survived the inva Frederick Bowen '52 died cine, Department of Family Service to the University alumni ing Harold's World War II mili sion of the Mariana Islands in Port Townsend. Wash., on Medicine. There he became a award. In 2005 the Hoovers tary service. He was wounded but was severely injured while March 14. He was 83. Fred i favorite of students, perpetually established a fund to bring pro in the Battle of the Bulge and training for the Battle of Iwo worked at The Boeing Com winning the school's Teacher of fessional musicians to perform received the Purple Heart. Jima. He spent many months pany, rising through the ranks the Year award. Several of his on campus. After the war Harold and Ester in hospitals in Hawai'i and Cali to the position of vice president former students flew in for his Lon is survived by his wife, married, in 1945. Harold then fornia. Following his discharge of human resources. He wrote memorial service on campus Lyn; their daughters, Carol attended the Illinois College of he returned to Puyallup High, a book titled I Am Third for his in Kilworth Chapel on May 25. Hoover Kulbeck ’88 and Susan Optometry, eventually settling but when a teacher confronted children, and he was an avid Lon retired in 1996, and he and Hoover Danielson; and a grand him for reading comic books in on Chicago's South Side. There golfer, an accomplished poker his wife of 55 years, Carolyn, daughter. He was preceded he had a long career as an op class, the combat vet walked player, an adventure seeker, a moved back to the Puget Sound in death by his sister, Regina out and never went back. About tometrist. He is survived by two devout Catholic, and a jokester area, toVashon Island. Hoover, and his twin brother, sons and seven grandchildren. that time he met Naomi Beyler; who loved to laugh. In retire Lon valued relationships Larry Hoover '52. — CL Ester preceded him in death. they married in 1949 and were ment he and his wife of 58 and loved fellowship. He was Jack Field '48 passed away on together for nearly 65 years. years, Barbara, wintered in a leader in the Tacoma First Thelma Melsnes Betchart '35, Jan. 31. Jack was born in Taco Charles earned a GED, studied their condo at Desert Braemar Congregational Church. He was M.A/36 died on April 5. She ma in 1925 and graduated from sociology at Puget Sound, and in Rancho Mirage. Calif. Late known to burst spontaneously was 101. Thelma was born in Stadium High School. After worked in a series of jobs, in life, Fred checked off several into song, usually off-key but including at the Washington Tacoma and attended Stadium Puget Sound he attended the items on his bucket list: renting never lacking in exuberance. He High School. After CPS, Thelma Washington University School Employment Security Depart a houseboat on Lake Shasta, was said to be an outrageous received an M.B.A. in retailing of Medicine program in physi ment and for the U.S. Navy. traveling to the Grand Canyon, dresser not noted for his skill at at New York University. She cal therapy, in St. Louis, Mo He then returned to school to fishing in Alaska, and returning color coordination, and he wore worked for a year and a half He opened a physical therapy earn a Ph.D. in sociology at to the Oregon Coast, where clothes until they fell off his at The Emporium department practice in Longview, Wash., the University of Washington. he and Barbara had spent body. When the family was in store in San Francisco, but her in 1950. Jack was a member Charles taught sociology and their brief honeymoon. He is Michigan they lived on a 30-acre aging parents and the chal of the Longview Community demography at Western Wash survived by seven children, 10 farm. Lon built a pole barn on lenges of the Great Depression Church, Longview Early Edition ington University until he re grandchildren, and eight great the property, the construction drew her back to Tacoma. There, Rotary, Shriners International, tired in 1991. Charles' interests grandchildren. His wife prede of which was lacking in right were wide-ranging. He liked she was reintroduced to an old Ancient and Accepted Scottish ceased him in 2009. angles. This, he told anyone college friend, Arthur Betchart Rite of Freemasonry, and the photography, playing the piano, who questioned his carpentry, astronomy, drawing, painting, Gerrett "Jerry" Bryant '52 '36. The two were married on Grand Lodge of Washington, was on purpose, "to make it motorcycling, tinkering with died on March 13. He was Dec. 20, 1941. Arthur's work Free and Accepted Masons. more wind-resistant.” He woke 85. Jerry was born in 1928 in took the couple to Idaho, New He was a gifted athlete, known shortwave radios and comput his granddaughter from naps by Taylors Falls, Minn.; his family Brunswick, and Colorado, as "Jack the Giant," and he ers, and hiking and camping. tickling her feet. moved to Tacoma in 1941 He before they retired to St. Au enjoyed golf, snow and water He was a voracious reader and He was an avid hiker, skier, left Puget Sound to serve in gustine, Fla. Thelma is survived skiing, and tennis and hand a rescuer of animals. His wife. and trip leader, and he was an the U.S. Army in Korea from by three children, five grandchil ball. Jack's first wife, Jeannie Naomi, and their two sons sur accomplished mountaineer who 1946 to 1948. He completed dren, and four great-grandchil Miles Field '49. preceded him vive him. climbed and trekked on several college at the Colorado School dren. Arthur predeceased her. in death. He is survived by Lorna Hill Montague '50 died continents. At the memorial of Mines, where he was his wife, Marjorie, her three in Vancouver, Wash., on April service, his daughter Carol led Betty Cheney Ester '42 died president of Tau Beta Pi. the on March 26. She was born in children, his four children, eight 15. She was born in Mineral. engineering honor society, and the assembled in his favorite grandchildren, and 11 great Wash., in 1928 and graduated Tacoma in 1919 and graduated where he developed a lifelong Himalayan war call. Loudly. In grandchildren. from Morton High School in from Stadium High School. She interest in mining and miner his mid-70s Lon successfully 1946. While at Puget Sound married John Ester '43 in 1943, Patricia Blumenstein Smith als. He worked in exploration completed the three-day, 173- Lorna studied home econom and the two lived in Tacoma '49 died on March 22 in Boise. and the development of mines, mile Courage Classic bike tour, ics. She was a member of a fundraiser for Mary Bridge and Yakima, Wash., before fi Idaho. Pat was born in Elgin. mills, and production facilities. nally settling down in Eugene, Ore., in 1927. She met her hus SPURS, the Adelphian Concert As owner and president of Children's Hospital over Sno- Choir, and the Lambda Sigma Ore., in 1965. Betty worked for band, Frank Smith '50, while Resource Exploration and Min qualmie, Blewett, and Stevens Chi sorority. In 1950 she mar The Bon March6 department attending Puget Sound; the two ing. Inc., he employed nearly passes; and he summited ried Chuck Montague *51, store for 14 years. She was a were married in 1947. Pat was 250 people in drilling, mining, Mount St. Helens and Mount whom she had known since member of the Daughters of known as a fierce bridge player and real estate interests. Jerry Baker. third grade. Later, in 1960, she the American Revolution for 70 and a passionate quilter, and loved spending time with his Lon was a longtime officer earned a Bachelor of Educa years. She enjoyed all types of she was a rabid recycler. She family, playing tennis and golf, of the American Academy of tion degree at Puget Sound. music and was a huge fan of was a lifetime member of the skiing, hiking, boating, and trav Osteopathy and the Washington She was an elementary school the Seahawks, the Mariners, American Association of Univer eling. He was an avid fisherman Osteopathic Medical Associa teacher in Washington in the and University of Washington sity Women. Pat is survived by and rock hound. Jerry is sur tion. He was an alumni repre Castle Rock, Ridgefield, and teams. She is survived by her four children, seven grandchil vived by his wife of 56 years. sentative to the University of Evergreen school districts, retir son, two daughters, and two dren, and three great-grandchil Beverly; two children; four Puget Sound board of trustees ing in 1990 from Marrion El granddaughters. John preceded dren. Frank predeceased her. grandchildren; and five great from 1967 to 1973. He served ementary School in Vancouver, her in death. grandchildren. on the National Alumni Board Charles Gossman '50 passed Wash. Lorna sang for the Van from 1999 to 2002 and on the Harold Weinberg '44 died on away in Lynden, Wash., on couver USA Singers and in her Carroll Clifton '52 died March Legacy Society (donors who Dec. 12, 2013. He was 88. Har April 2. Charles was born in church choir. She loved knitting, 16 in Greenville. N.C. He was have included the college in old was born in Chicago in 1925 Petaluma, Calif., in 1925. When quilting hospital blankets, flow born in Tacoma in 1922. During their estate plans) board from and attended Roosevelt High he was 9 his family moved to ers. attending the symphony, World War II he served in the 2004 to 2006. He was an Alum- School on Chicago's North Side. Puyallup. Wash., and started and watching wildlife from her European Theater, and it was summer20i4 arches 43 in memoriam there that he met his wife of 63 1953 to 1955 as a member of University in 1950. He went on and was a lifelong Washington in Tacoma, and he taught com to years, Lydia. After graduating a survey team in Europe that to become a high school teacher resident. His career was in pub puter programming for 28 years CD from Puget Sound he earned a performed duties at numerous and administrator, beginning lic education. Russ is remem at Bates Technical College. He cu master's degree in social work Air Force bases. At Puget Sound his career atTolt High School in bered for his integrity and unfail is survived by his wife, Ruth; E at the University of California. he studied pulp and paper Carnation. Wash., then returning ing politeness. He is survived by two sons; a daughter; and two to to Clover Park in 1959. His ad to Berkeley. He then had a long technology. He was employed his wife of more than 66 years. grandchildren. career as a county administra as a chemical engineer with ministrative career continued at Margaret; a daughter; two sons; 03 James Lavaty '65 died in o tor for the Washington state Longview Fibre Paper and Pack Lakes High School (Wash.) until eight grandchildren; 13 great Sanford, Fla., on March 14. He aging Inc. from September 1957 he retired in 1980. In retirement grandchildren; and sister Joanne Department of Social and was 70. He was born in Port he served on theYelm School Neff Jurin '53. Health Services. In his free to January 1996. He married Ev Chester, N.Y. After graduating Board and the Washington State time he was fond of camping elyn Brown ‘57 in 1958. George Jerry Cowling '62 was born from Puget Sound he enlisted Board of Education. He was and fishing. He was an active was a member of the Rose Val in Tacoma and graduated from in the Army and was com a volunteer supervisor for the Rotarian and enjoyed traveling ley (Wash.) Fire Department for Stadium High School. At Puget missioned as a lieutenant. He Thurston Conservation District, internationally to conferences. 31 years, and he was fire com Sound he was a member of Phi served in Vietnam in the Green a member of the Lakewood Carroll's wife preceded him in missioner there for a time. He Delta Theta. He majored in polit Beret Special Forces from 1968 First Lions Club and theYelm death. He is survived by his is survived by Evelyn, four sons, ical science, but his career was to 1969 and was awarded a Lions Club, and a member of daughter and two grandsons. and four grandchildren. as a teacher, starting in the Cen- Bronze Star. In 1970 he married the Nisqually River Council. Nancy Mandell Lind '52 died Denis LeMoine '57 died on tralia, Wash., schools. He began Ceni Wheatland of Sanford, He also volunteered with the on Feb. 15 at her residence in Nov. 11. 2013. He was 84. Denis teaching in Tacoma in 1988, Fla. Jim worked for the Jordan American Red Cross’ Service Home. Wash., just one month was born in Hoquiam, Wash., retiring in 2003, with 18 years Marsh department-store chain to the Armed Forces Giving past her 85th birthday. She and attended grammar school at MountTahoma High School. and in 1978 became manager Programs. Prior to his death he was devoted to the care and there. In 1947 he graduated Jerry's father also taught at of the Jacobson's department signed a conservation easement preservation of natural spaces. from Lincoln High School in Tahoma; they were the first fa store in Longwood, Fla. He on 230 acres of the family farm The Key Peninsula Lions Club Tacoma. Denis is survived by ther-son team to retire from the was an avid sportsman and with the Nisqually Land Trust, honored Nancy as its Citizen of his wife. Claudia; two sons; and Tacoma schools and were both delighted in his children and preserving the habitat there. He the Year in 2002. She was pre a daughter. inducted into theT-Bird Legends grandchildren. Jim is survived loved a good glass of wine and ceded in death by her husband Hall of Fame, a distinction for by a son and two daughters, six William Gerard Banks III '58, telling stories with friends and of 60 years, Robert Lind '56. exemplary educators at Mount grandchildren, and his longtime Hon.'73 passed away on Feb. family. Harry is survived by his Tahoma. Out of the classroom, partner, Marcia Brewer. Three sons and their families 18 at age 77. After graduating wife of 64 years. Jerrilee Hjelm Jerry attended Life Center survive her. from Puget Sound. Gerry ob Petersen '69; their four children; John Bushnell '67 passed Church in Tacoma for 25 years, William Wallace Erwin '54 tained a commission in the U.S. and seven grandchildren. away on Feb. 20 at the age of and he also was a member passed away in Mesa. Ariz., on Navy. He served for 10 years 86. He was born in Portland, Theodore Asberg M.Ed/60 of the Band of Brothers bible Feb. 21. He was 84. Wally was before returning to civilian life Ore., in 1927 and graduated passed away on March 20 at study. He was an avid hunter born in Los Angeles in 1929 with his family in Vancouver. from Clover Park High School in the age of 96. Ted was a Taco- and enjoyed fishing, boating, and graduated from Bremerton Wash. He worked as a quality Lakewood, Wash. John served man born, bred, and educated. photography, and working on (Wash.) High School in 1949. control manager for Ross Island in the Navy for 14 months, He graduated from Lincoln his computer. He and his wife, He was a standout athlete at Sand and Gravel Company for then was employed by Sears High School in 1935 and Pacific Lyn, vacationed in Mexico for Puget Sound, receiving varsity 23 years, retiring in 2002. He as a credit manager. After Lutheran University in 1938 and 15 years, and they liked taking letters—12 in all-in football, loved dogs of all kinds, boat that he went to work for the 1944. He was a well-known cruises and traveling along the basketball, and track and field. ing, music, and dancing the Washington state auditor's of photographer of weddings and Oregon Coast. Jerry is survived After CPS he earned a master's jitterbug with his wife. Jeanette fice, retiring from that position school events in Tacoma. After by Lyn; a son; three daughters; degree in physical education at Berry Banks '60. He lived in Gig in 1985. He was a member of retiring from the Clover Park and six grandchildren. the University of Washington. Harbor, Wash., for the last 10 Saint Michael Parish in Olympia, schools in 1979. he sold real Beginning in 1954 Wally served years of his life and enjoyed the Arthur Crowley '62 died on Wash., and for many years was estate and promoted cruises in the Army, then he returned to community there a great deal. April 29 He graduated from a volunteer for the Washington through Gray's Travel. He was a Puget Sound to work as head He is survived by Jeanette, two Bellarmine Preparatory School State Employees Credit Union member of the Central Baptist and St. Vincent de Paul. John baseball coach, head basketball daughters, and two grandchil in 1954, then enlisted in the Church for more than 50 years. enjoyed family gatherings and coach, assistant football coach, dren. U.S. Marines. He entered Puget He was preceded in death by his working on puzzles and com and head athletics trainer. He Sound following his military Harry Petersen M.A/58 died wife of 41 years. Mabel. Ted is service and majored in busi puter games. He was an avid also was a physical education on April 6. He was 87. Harry survived by his son and daugh ness administration. He began reader. He is survived by his instructor at CPS. He continued was born in Tacoma in 1926. ter. and five grandchildren. his career with IBM and retired wife of 66 years, Violet; six chil his career at other colleges In 1933 his family moved to a Ernest DeRosa '61 died April 14 from Xerox. He loved fishing, dren; 12 grandchildren; and five and even started a successful farm on the Nisqually River near at the age of 81. He was born golfing, and. especially, spend great-grandchildren. drywall business. While director Yelm, Wash. He graduated from in Tacoma to Italian immigrant ing time with his children and Jeanne Dillard M.Ed.'68 died of physical education for the Clover Park High School in 1944 Clover Park, Wash., school dis parents. He graduated from Sta grandchildren. He liked the sun, on March 31. She was 91. and enlisted in the Navy, where dium High School, served in the and he passed many hours Jeanne was born in Sistersville, trict he started the Clover Park he was a hospital corpsman. Af Army in Korea, and studied busi outdoors gardening with his Ski School. He loved spending ter World War II he continued in W.Va. She received her B.S. time in the outdoors, skiing, ness at Puget Sound. Ernie had wife of 55 years, Gerry. She sur the Navy Reserve, retiring as a at Lander University in Green golfing, and fishing, and he was a long career at Boeing, retiring vives him, as do their two sons captain in 1986. He was a Blue wood, S.C., and completed all proud to have summited Mount in 1994. He loved people and and two daughters, and seven and Gold officer and coordina but her dissertation for a Ph.D. made friends easily, and he liked grandchildren and three great Rainier. He is survived by his tor for the state of Washington, at the University of Maryland. son and daughter, and five traveling, gardening, photogra grandchildren. counseling and interviewing stu She taught in public schools grandchildren. phy, and golf. He is survived by dents who applied to the U.S. Donald McLeod '64 died on throughout the U.S., ending her his wife of 48 years, Vera; three George Hoyer '57 died on May Naval Academy. He attended March 1. He was born in Loon career in 1985 in elementary children; and two grandchildren. 2. He was 82. George was born the University of Washington Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, schools in Montgomery County, in Chehalis, Wash., in 1931. but completed his undergradu Russell Neff M.Ed/61 died on in 1938. Don worked at the old Md. Jeanne enjoyed traveling, He served in the Army from ate degree at Pacific Lutheran March 2. He was born in 1926 Day's Tailor-D Clothing factory playing bridge, attending her 44 arches summer 2014 at Puget Sound. He worked at the Washington State Employ dedication of the former UPS at age 18. After his military church, and cooking. She was service he took a job at Boeing. UPS in technology services until preceded in death by her hus ees Credit Union, including law school in 1980, for which Chief Justice Warren Burger He was active as a commit- his retirement. Al was an Eagle band, George. She is survived as an elected member of the Scout and was active in scout supervisory committee and on was the keynote speaker. Mary tee member at Harborstone by two sons and seven grand Credit Union, retiring as an ing for many years. He also was the board of directors. He also is survived by two sons, Paul children. involved with Loners on Wheels volunteered with The Sand Man and John '85. emeritus member of the board Thomas Link '68 passed away of directors. In adulthood Gene and other camping clubs, Foundation, which is restoring a William Erickson '74 passed on April 18 at the age of 75. He eventually lost his eyesight He Mary Se (r) Reunion 2014 Q) 03 E More than 700 alumni and their families gathered on campus June 6-8 for Summer Reunion Weekend, 03 O celebrating classes ending in 4 and 9, and PacRimmers. The picture-perfect weekend included a night out on the town, engaging Alumni College presentations, the ever- popular Logger Picnic, and plenty of time to catch up with old friends! See all of the weekend's photos on Facebook at facebook.com/upsalums. ▲ It isn't a party without a photo booth, and this reunion had two! Alumni from all generations hopped in front of the camera during Reunion Dinner and into the back of a Volkswagen bus at the Greek-hosted after-party, where they let it all hang out. dfr’ ◄ Has it really been 10 years? Members of the A Time to celebrate! Hundreds of Loggers gathered on the Class of 2004 event lawn on a beautiful Friday evening to catch up and kick off enjoyed a special the weekend's events. toast with President Thomas in Oppen- heimer Cafe. 46 arches summer 2014 ▲ Happy 50th reunion Class of 1964! Front Row: Elizabeth Erickson Bailey, Carol Rapp Wilson, Susan Stone, Carrie Farman Boulet P'02, Andra Dekshenieks Gannett, Mary Krehbiel Mosley, Karen Ristvet Vialle, Donna Reed Myhre, Sheri Zabel Fulton, Mary Sue Olding Bergeron, and Rick Anderson. Row 2: Ginny Clinton Lovett, Sandy Seyler Wall, GeorgeJean Erickson, Diane Peterson Schultz, Lisette Shaw Meyer, Alan Davenport. Lois Mohler Okrasinski, David Biddison, Janice Smith Stegeman P‘94, William Stegeman P'94, Roberta Whinery Brasier, and Gordy Pfeifer P'90. Row 3: R. Peggy Piety Smith, Jim Montgomerie, Dulcie Van Slyke Schil- linger, Mike Mayes, Carol Strobel Colieran, Larry Edlund, Rob Roy Wilson. Allen Stohl.Tom Cooke, Norm Reilly, Ken Cox. Phil Knobel, Jane Reavis Knobel, and Elaine Hazleton Bolton Row 4: Bill Baarsma P'93, John Meredith, David Richards, Jack Sather, Ralph Bauman P'93, Rich Hurst, David Stambaugh, David Peters, Gary Fulton, Charles Hunter P'87, Jerry Kaija, Mark Ritchey '64. M.S'71, and Sally Hanson Flaherty P'99, P'05, P'09. Back Row: George Deitz, Daniel Melton, Galen Willis '64. M.B.A'70, P'02, John Whalley, John Taylor, Eileen Schubert. : A Come one, come all! And boy did they! The Class of 1964 took advantage of the sun during a special reception in President Thomas's garden. That evening, alumni packed the field house for Reunion Dinner, where awards were presented to seven accomplished alums. including recent grads James Oppenheimer '14 and Gabe Davis *14, who posed for us with outgoing Alumni Council President David Watson '92. ◄ Back where it all began Just a few of the more than 100 PacRimmers who came from as far away as Japan to reconnect with their program directors, re live amazing memories, and celebrate the 40-year-old program. summer 2014 arches 47 scrapbook co a; co E CO CO CO o A As part of the KUPS 45th Anniversary Pledge Drive (March 31-April 4), A Erik Makhanov '15 tickles the ivories as a thank-you to Kathryn "Kay" alumni DJs and former general managers for the station were invited back to Haley '43, P'68, P'76, who donated the baby grand piano that now resides in host a radio show. KUPS General Manager Kim Clancy '14 organized other the Regester Hall lounge. Kay's daughter Anne Haley '68 was on hand for the events throughout the week, including a Boom Box March around campus with concert. Erik treated them to a number of selections, including Rachmaninoff's current students. Here (at left): Former G.M. Elly Henriksen '11 and her DJ co Concerto No. 3, which is reputed to be one of the most technically challenging host Josh Bomstein '11, and (at right) DJ Erik Prang '12. concertos in the standard classical repertoire. Kay had purchased the piano as a young woman. She played it, and her children (including Anne) learned to play on it. Kay's recent move to the Narrows Glen retirement community, however, made it necessary to downsize, and none of her children could take the piano So Kay decided to donate it to the college. She wanted it to be used, and it looks like that's what is happening. One of the resident assistants in Regester Hall said, "It's played all day. every day.” ■rr y; ': JTpOS TCt CUCpCt : A On May 10, longtime and beloved instructor of chemistry Tim "The Wizard" Hoyt was honored at a "formal" ball to celebrate his retirement. Duded up for the event were former and current faculty, staff, family and A A new rowing shell was christened To the Heights at the 51 st Annual friends, and especially those he holds most dear—his students. The venue Meyer Cup and Lamberth Cup races against PLU on April 12 at American Lake was the mezzanine area of Harned Hall, classed-up with a quartet to entertain in Lakewood, Wash. Graham Tash '79 (left) performed the traditional naming guests and to play Tim's all-time favorite tune "Blue Moon." Born and raised ritual, in this case, though, pouring rather than breaking a bottle of champagne in Puyallup, Wash., Tim was originally hired for a one-year position at Puget over the bow. Head Crew Coach Aaron Benson shared a few words about the Sound in 1989 but was appointed a permanent instructor in 1990. He has boat's name. The women's varsity eight crew won the Lamberth Cup, and the been teaching and preparing lab sections for the college's first-year (general Logger men's varsity four crew "soundly" beat their rival Lutes in the Meyer chemistry) and second-year (organic chemistry) courses ever since. Throughout Cup. At the end of April, Logger rowing teams finished their best Western Inter- bis career, Tim has been passionate about "chemical demonstrations," a kind- collegiate Rowing Association (WIRA) Championship Regatta in five years. And of art form mixing science and entertainment. His annual chemistry magic in May the teams topped off the season at the Northwest Collegiate Rowing show, in which he takes on the role of his alter ego, "The Wizard," has been Conference Championships by winning the men's team title and placing sec a delight for both Puget Sound students and the greater Tacoma community for ond overall among women's teams. In the NCAA Championship Regatta, the more than 20 years. Tim says he is looking forward to enjoying more time with women's varsity eight boat took eighth. his dog, Sammy, and his grandchildren. 48 arches summer 2014 a f. . -iH r-1 tSffej A Paul Kelly '52 sends this update: "I'm the sole survivor of the original a cappella quartet that was featured with Puget Sound's Adelphian Concert Choir back in 1950-51. We sang lots of songs together on and off the stage-all of us members of the Delta Kappa Phi fraternity. [In 1952 Delta Kappa Phi became the Washington Delta chapter of national Phi Delta Theta frater nity.] I became an engineer after joining the Navy, going around the world, and upon discharge I graduated from Northeastern University with an associate's degree in electronics. I then went A Organist Joseph Adams (here, at left) presents organ build- on to get a second bachelor's in business administration, rather than in art. which is what I stud- : er Paul Fritts '73 with this year's Outstanding Music Alumnus ied at Puget Sound. I never lost my love for painting, though, and did some 'rather good stuff : award at the 23rd Annual Bethel Schneebeck Organ Recital in in my spare time later on. I ended up in New Hampshire after wedding a lovely wife and raising Kilworth Memorial Chapel on April 27. The School of Music rec three great children. My wife passed due to cancer in 1996, and I moved to Destin, Fla., where ognized Paul's contributions to music as the creator of "some I now live quite happily. I just got back from a 2,870-mile solo trip to see one of my grandsons of the most graceful and inspiring modern pipe organs in the graduate in Cookeville, Tenn. Then I drove to see relatives inTulsa, Okla., for a couple of days world," among them the Schneebeck organ in Kilworth. Accord- before I continued down to Dallas to attend another grandsons wedding. Just wish the other mg to a press release, Paul has overseen the construction of members of the quartet could have been with me to enjoy my trip. May James Ernst '51, Neal more than 40 custom-designed organs in churches, residences, Miller '52, and RayTurcotte '51 rest in peace.' Paul is pictured here near his home in Destin. ■ ! and universities in 13 states and Korea. The Paul Fritts & Com The painting at right is one he did of the Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester. Mass. pany organ builders are inspired by historical organ building traditions and by Paul's travels to the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and France, and in the U.S. Plus they make their world-class organs right here in Tacoma I Find out much more and take a shop tour at frittsorgan.com. A Edward Amet '65 (here, at center) is the 2013 recipient of a Sigma Chi Significant Sig Award. The ceremony took place at the Sigma Chi house during Reunion on June 7. Ed joins more than 1,500 brothers who have been similarly recognized since 1935 for "impressive pro fessional achievements that have brought honor and prestige to the fraternity." Ed received a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1969 from Northwestern University, and in 1974 he earned his Master of Science in Dentistry at the University of Missouri, with a certificate in prosth- A The School of Business and Leadership presented its odontics. Ed has practiced dentistry in Kansas City, Kan., since 1973 and contributed to his field 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award to Jim Haven '91 (here, at through numerous published works and presentations. He is the only Puget Sound alumnus to center), co-founder and chief creative officer of Creature in Se- have received a Significant Sig. He joins honorees such as Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David attle, and Matt Peterson '92, co-founder and CEO of Creature, Ashenfelter; baseball greats Bill Buckner, Tom Seaver, and Jim Palmer; former Chicago Bears at the SBL 29th Annual Scholarship and Awards Program on coach Mike Ditka; former White House Press Secretary James Brady; and actors Warren Beatty. April 11. Creature is a creative agency that provides design and Brian Dennehy, Brad Pitt, and Woody Harrelson; as well as several U.S. senators, representa- advertising for its clients. Matt and Jim were honored for their tives, ancj state governors; and three U.S. astronauts. Good company! Here, at the on-campus service to Puget Sound students—mentoring, presenting sem- ceremony, are, from left: Dan Mathewson '86, Sigma Chi Grand Praetor N.W. Province and a inars, and hosting students at Creature. Presenting the award member of the Sigma Chi International Executive Committee; Dave Beers. Puget Sound vice was Professor and Business Leadership Program Director president for University Relations; Ed; Bruce Sadler '83, secretary of the local Sigma Chi alumni Nila Wiese (above, left). chapter; and Jeff Jarmon '83, president of the alumni chapter. summer 2014 arches 49 - 1 • scrapbook A On April 17, C. Mark Smith 61 was back on campus to present a talk as part of the Behind the Archives Door series. Mark’s subject was the life and times of iconic Professor A The Third Annual Gamma Phi Spring Reunion took place on May 17 in West Seattle. The Lyle “Stan" Shelmidine, who taught Middle Eastern history "progressive" party started at Amy Ford Andersen's ('79} house and moved on to Jody Brede- son Callan's ('79) for dessert! Here, back, from left: Carol Headden Reid '80, Jody, Karen at the college from 1936 to 1966, and for whom the special Perry '77, Sandy Creek Baker '79, Joan Segale Albee '78, Kathleen McCarthy Duncan '82, collections room in the library is named. The presentation Carol Sherfy Parsons '77, Wende Walker Carroll '79, Caroline Sias '80, Amy, and Janet Elzey kicked off an exhibit titled "Stan!" that was curated by '77. Front, from left: Sarah Patrick Waller '78, Krista Pearson '80, Muff Eising Jacox '82, and Brendan Balaam '14, Liana Hardcastle '14,Tosia Klincewicz Janet "Jaj" Peterson Garnaas '79. '14, and Margaret O'Rourke '14. ◄ Here are Professor Emeritus of Business and Leadership John Dickson P'84 (left) and Chuck Reininger '82 at Reininger Winery in the Walla Walla Valley in May. John first be came acquainted with Chuck in the summer of 1980 before John started in his position at Puget Sound as the first George F. Jewett Dis tinguished Professor in Business. John had decided to climb Mount Rainier and wanted to take a refresher climbing course with Rain ier Mountaineering Inc., where Chuck was working as a guide. Chuck helped John and a good friend successfully summit Rainier That fall semester, lo and behold, Chuck was a student in the consumer behavior class John was teaching at UPS. John says: "I always remembered Chuck because he shared my passion for hiking, climbing, and sailing. I had lost track of him, though, until I noticed some of his wines at a recent National Parks fundraiser. I decided to visit the winery, which is a very successful family-owned business." Chuck and wife Tracy Tucker Reininger '81 own the winery. Independent of his connec A Don Anderson 75, J.D/78 is serving as mayor of Lake- tion with John, Chuck has agreed to join the wood, Wash., while he continues to practice law at Eisenhow Business Leadership Council, which serves er Carlson PLLC in Tacoma. The 4/2 Stryker Brigade Combat as an advisory board to the UPS president Team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord recently presented Don, and Puget Sound board of trustees. Also a center, with the Order of Saint Maurice for his outstanding member of the council, John adds: "I look for support of the infantry. Don also serves as co-chair of the ward to working with Chuck again." South Sound Military & Communities Partnership. Great work, Don! 50 arches summer 2014 223 * *- • k * • <* .-" «« r* ▲ Matt Ferchen '93 was a guest lecturer on campus on . April 8. His talk was titled "Capitalism with Chinese Character istics: Appraising China's Development and My Own Career . - ^ Path from Puget Sound to China via Latin America." Matt is the first and only full-time non-native faculty member in the ▲ Puget Sound and the greater Tacoma community were treated to an evening with Darby Department of International Relations atTsinghua University in Stanchfield '93 on April 21. Darby's talk, "From Puget Sound to Hollywood," examined her ca Beijing. He earned his master's in Latin American and Chinese reer path and the perseverance required to get where she is today. Darby currently co-stars in development at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Interna ABC's hit series Scandal and was featured in season two of the Emmy Award-winning period tional Studies, and he received his Ph D in Chinese politics at drama Mad Men, among many other notable roles. Here, she is talking with students (from left): Cornell University. Trail reporter Nichole Hine '17, and Career and Employment Services student-staff members Christy Kondo '15 and Sarah Balaz '14. ▲ Susanna Selig Abrahamson '97, M.A.T.'OO finished first in her age class in the U S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle race in Bend, Ore., on May 17. It was the first time she'd entered the event as a solo competitor. The race has six stages: alpine ski ing/snowboarding, cross-country skiing, biking, running, canoe/ kayaking, and a half-mile sprint to the finish. The start is at the ▲ Associate Director of Admission for Puget Sound Mike Rottersman '99 tipped us off to the top of Mount Bachelor, and the finish line is in the Les Schwab numerous Loggers who are teachers at Punahou School on Oahu. Here, from left: Cullen Pang Amphitheater near downtown Bend. Proud husband Patrick '01, a Punahou grad, teaches AP chemistry and chemistry honors and has been at Punahou for Abrahamson '96 reported the results to us here at Arches. four years. Jonah Kaakua '01, also a Punahou grad, teaches ninth-grade guidance. AP psycholo He and Susanna live in Bend and are happily raising their two gy, and intro to counseling psychology. Jonah's been a teacher at Punahou for eight years. Chad sons, Andrew, 11, and Reid. 8. Nishikawa '01 teaches algebra and has been at Punahou for 10 years—he’s also a Punahou grad. Trisha Kawamoto Caley '02, M.A.T/03, yet another Punahou grad, teaches geometry and advanced pre-calculus and has been at Punahou for eight years. Micah Pavich '99. a Punahou grad, teaches geometry, algebra II. and sports psychology. Micah has been at Punahou for eight years. And Matt Endo '10. an lolam School grad, teaches geometry, algebra II. and advanced pre-calculus. Matt's been teaching at Punahou for three years. Special thanks toTrish for wran gling this photo and info for us! summer 2014 arches 51 scrapbook (/) CD CD £ ▲ Elena Boer '07 and Dave Kelly were married on a beautiful, snowy day in Alta, Utah, on Oct. 12, 2013, with lots of Puget Sound friends in attendance The two were introduced through UPS alumnae sisters—Elena lived with Jenn Tanner '07 during college, and Dave has been good friends with Bridget Tanner M.S.O.T/12 for years Zo Manfredi '07 played the violin during the ▲ Brett Stratton '06 and Chelsea Hayden '06 were married in Seattle ceremony, and the bridal party included four of Elena's closest college friends on March 23, 2013. Several UPS alumni were in town to celebrate. Back, and roommates. There were reportedly plenty of Logger handshakes to go from left: Parker Stratton '07 and Taylor Diggs '06 Front, from left. Ben around! All Class of 2007, from left: Rose Delles, Allyson Feeney, Becca Engler '06, Mira Copeland '06, Barbara Kennedy, Clare Magee '06, Melissa Goe, Micaela O'Leary, Katie Plumb, Robin Fay, the bride and groom, Zo, Snyder Block '06, the groom and bride, Keely Mcllwain Moos '06, Cara Lauren Whaley, Bridget, Jon Gately, Jenn. and Jeff Bale Elena is going Del Vecchio '06, Bethany Fisher Spam '06, Andrew Spam '05, Marilee into her sixth and final year of a Ph D. program in oncological sciences at the Randall O'Connor '06, Elle Smith '06, Rebecca Lynch Baretz '06, Mike University of Utah Meade '06, Steven Baker '06, and Jeremy Briggs '05. The couple met the first day of freshman orientation in 2002. They currently live in Chicago, where Brett is employed at the Northern Trust Corporation and Chelsea works at The University of Chicago Medical Center. r ... A Samantha Gray '07, aka Samantha Sunshine, was on campus in May and demonstrated her A Megan McCarthy '08, left, was part of the technique of AcroSage, an anti-gravity massage Crystal Mountain, Wash., avalanche control team that decompresses the spine and loosens the that made news when they inadvertently set off a joints, on Andy Davis '04. who is an adjunct fac charge that demolished the High Campbell chairlift. ulty member teaching backpacking and mountain A Hart Edmonson '08, former ASUPS president Crystal Mountain owner and general manager John eering courses through the athletic department. and now chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Denny Heck Kircher took this photo, which he called "The Three The technique combines meditation, reflexology, in Washington, D.C., was the featured speaker Shiva Destroyers.” Megan told us: "We watched and stretching for overall pain relief. Samantha is on campus at the April 22 class for sophomores from the ridge as the powder cloud from the ava a certified AcroSage instructor and practitioner, participating in the Leadership Development and lanche disappeared into clouds below. All we could trained by AcroSage originator Benjamin Marantz Engagement Initiative, sponsored by the college's do was listen to the rumble of the slide moving on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Samantha now loves Division of Student Affairs. These students are in down the path, the snapping of timber and finally turning people upside down! Find out more at their first year of a three-year experience focused the crunch of metal. We all knew at that point we samanthasunshine.org. on strengthening their skills as leaders in the cam had hit the chairlift. As we continued on with the pus and global communities. rest of our mission, the radio traffic from below began to paint a more clear picture of the damage. It's an incredibly humbling experience to stand safe above something that powerful and massive." 54 arches summer 2014 ◄ Puget Sound Associate ■ Professor of Music Theory J| and Music History Gwynne || Kuhner Brown '95, left. H completed a weeklong artist \ residency at the Sitka Fine jj£ Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska. k3 Rhiannon Guevin '12. the 'm program manager for Sitka Fine Arts Camp, organized the residency. During her stay b| Gwynne gave a talk about the H] music and culture of the mbira, I an African metal-keyed musical yLl instrument, sometimes called a "thumb piano." that has camp since March 2013 and had worked at the camp as A Johanna Root '08 and Jacob Heller were married on Aug. 16. 2013, in Spokane. Wash. In summer staff since 2010. attendance, from left Katie Barton '10; Debbie Daniels Barton '75, P'10; father of the bride Charles Root Jr. '71, P'08, P'10, uncle of the bride Lee Root '74; Johanna; Head Swim Coach Chris Myhre; Leesa Cotton '08, D.RT/11; Kelley O'Dell '09; Jeremiah Root '10 Maxwell Vincent '12; Elizabeth MacAfee '10; and Katie Wilson '08 The two make their home in Spokane, where Johanna is a clinic administrator for the Community Health Association of Spokane and Jacob is an air traffic controller at the Spokane International Airport. FRUITY ZEny Like A Megan Janes 12 teamed up with Professor lynnette Claire's senior business seminar course last fall Megan worked with students Katie Bailey '14 and Shelby Senaga '14, who put in lots of hours to produce a well-researched report that helped jump-start Megan's gourmet frozen popsicle business, Seattle Pops. Making it a family affair at a recent farmers market are. from left: Megan, dad Dave, and sister Lindsey Janes '09. Seattle Pops uses only fresh, local, and all natural ingredients in its frozen treats. Find out where you can A In what has become an annual tradition, the University of Puget Sound Postmen alumni get yours at seattlepops.com. Ultimate team united to play at the annual PLU BBQ Ultimate Tournament in Spanaway, Wash., March 15-16, and took first place in the unsanctioned division. This year's team included, back row. from left: Kevin Chambers '11; Luke Jesperson '12; Peter Geertz-Larson '13; Sam Berkelhammer '13; Jerry Keister '93, M.RT/96; Eli Ritchie '10; Christian Brink '11; Bruce Hart '09; and Kip Carleton '10. Front, from left: Liam Rosen '09, Ky Lewis '12, Jonas Cole '13, Adam Restad '09, and team mascot "Broom Martin,” which is an effigy of Martin Co chran '03, who has won two world championships as a member of the U.S. National Men's Ultimate team and several national championships with the San Francisco Revolver Ultimate team. Martin has a demanding work schedule at Google and hasn't been able to come to the recent reunions. The Postmen decided to nab one of his replica Team USA jerseys and parade it around as "Broom Martin." summer 2014 arches 55 scrapbook arches Vol. 41, No. 4 Summer 2014 Chuck Luce, Editor ◄ Mariflo Martin Hudson '97 sends this Cathy Tollefson '83, P'17, Associate Editor, Classmates cr> update: "A recent Southwest flight from 0) Julie Reynolds, Designer Oakland. Calif., to Orange County, Calif., CD was greatly improved by sitting next to Ross Mulhausen, Photographer, unless credited otherwise E Marc Magstadt '86. Either it is a very small Contacting arches Circulation To change the address to which your copy of arches is mailed or to remove your name from the mailing list for the print edition of arches, please call Cathy Tollefson at 253- 879-2762. or write [email protected]. Editorial Offices Voice; 253-879-2762; Fax; 253-879-3149; Email, arches® pugetsound edu. Post: Arches. 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